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rr ' . S" g ibt jottnta Mrforfl. g1 VOL. 35 KINGSTREE, SOUTH'CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919. NO? ?>" Hi W SYSTEM.? j FOR CAROLINA! I GOVERNOR AND HIGHWAY COM-! \ MISSION PROPOSE MEASURE TO LEGISLATURE Providing for a system of State highways and authorizing a license tax for their construction and main. tenance, a proposed bill, to be prek sented to the next General Assembly, V has been drafted by Governor CoopI er and the members of the State i Highway Commission. It is an amendment to the present law and differs fundamentally from it in sev era] particulars. & The greatest change is the taking over of the arterial highways of the i State and placing them under the direct supervision of the highway department. This department is em\ powered to construct a system of State highways, connecting eacn county seat with the main highways i of continuous States. The State highway engineer is to designate what the arterial roads are to be and is . allowed to enter into condemnation proceedings. All bridges over streams and rivers on the system are placed under the supervision of the commission. To Offer Assistance. The State highway engineer is in structed to give advice to the county authorities in the constructing of county roads, when requested, and to give expert assistance whenever, in his opinion, it is necessary or expedient. The State highway and bridges are to be maintained by the State highway department, and it likewise is permitted,to keep in repair the roads leading through towns of 1,000 pop-. ^ ulation or less, upon the consent of the authorities of those municipalities. The material of which the roads are to be constructed is left in the j discretion of :ne nignway commisMun, but they must be so constructed as L to "take care of the traffic which | may reasonably be expected to develop upon it." The license fees in the bill for the ymr 1920 are the same as under the , present law?25 cents per horse-pow-! er of motor-driven vehicles and a dealer's license of $15 per annum for! each and every different make of motor-vehicle handled. However, under the proposed bill, the license for 1921 will be 50 cents per horse-power for every automobile i and motorcycle, and the following annual schedule for trucks: One-ton, $12; two-ton, $20; three-ton, $30; i four-ton, $60; five-ton, $125; six-ton, $200; seven-ton, $350; and eight-ton, and over, $750. Dealer's license will be $50 per annum for each and every make of motor vehicle sold by him. License Money Prorated. Under the present law the money derived from licenses sold from the various counties is prorated. Twenty per cent goes to the highway com^ mission. Under the proposed act, 25 per cent goes to the State Highway Commission and 75 per cent to the individual counties. This latter amount, howver, is to be expended in the counties on the State system, and not on the county roads. Should any county have surplus, it will be allowed with the approval of the State highway engineer, to expend it on county roads, upon the appropri ation by the county of an equal amount to the surplus. The 25 per cent going to the State highway department is to be expended by it for if| expenses and for aid to the counties in the construction and main' ' ?'!? ni'oiloKlo tn tenance 01 oiau; iuuus a>auau.v ?v the State Highway. The pro^sed act provides that the roads and bridges will be maintained by the highway department after, they have been approved and taken over into the State system and that "no salary of $3,000 and is allowed to Commission for maintenance of highways or to the several counties for construction or improvement. L shall be expended in payment of claims for rights of way or surface j materials, both of which shall be supplied by the county authorities." Salary Not Named Under the present law the State j highway engineer is givcn^^n annual ^ aries of $3,000 and disallowed to B^tploy two assistant engineers at a yearly salary of $1,800 each and sufficient clerical assistance. The proposed act does not name the salary of the chief engineer or his assistants, but leaves the amount to be i paid to the highway commission ant there is no limit placed on the num ber of assistants or amount of cleri cal help necessary. The bond of tht State highway engineer is increaset from $5,000 to $25,000, and the mem bers of the commission, the person nel of which remains unchanged?tht heads of the engineering department of The Citadel, the University o1 South Carolina and Clemson Collegt and two other members appointed b.\ the Governor for two years?but the} are allowed a yearly salary of $1(K each and expenses. The present law only allows them their actual ant necessary expenses. The proposed bill orginally had : two-mill levy on all the taxable prop ertv of the State, but the farmers oi the measure decided to eliminate thi: feature. Under the proposed bill th< revenue fo* 1920 remains as at pres ent except, of course, the increase ir the number of motor-driven vehicles but for 1921 there is an increase ol over 100 per cent. Governor Cooper, in discussing th< bill, said that he hoped the Genera Assembly would pass the measuri but if the members had other idea! as to permanent highway improve ment, that they would adopt the fun damental provisions of the measur* as a basis of highway legislation. The Governor has had the propos ed bill printed and is maibng copies along with a letter of explanation to each member of the General As sembly. Advocates of beiter road; in South Carolina believe that thi: method will awaken an intelligent in terest among the legislators, am they will come to Columbia nex' January ready to pass some sort o: wise highway legislation. o PLOTS BEING UNCOVERED Trial of Radicals Leabs to Un-earth of Violent Scheme. Chicago, Oct. 14.?Military authori ties and federal investigators assign ed to follow the trail of radicals wh< have been spreading their propagan J- M'ifVi thp strike o' ua in cviiiKibiun . ? the steel workers announced Tuesday their discovery of an anarchistic plo to destroy abandoned army canton ments and other government property The plot is said to have been un earthed in connection with the dis covery at Gary, Ind., of Anton Gor ski, alleged radical leader, who is sai< to be under surveillance in connec lion with the explosion of a bomb ii the Chicago postoffice in September 1918, when four persons were kille< and thirty injured. Information gained by the military authorities indicated that the radical: have plotted against governmen property in States ranging from Wes Virginia to Colorado. During the day 500 of the federa troops on duty at Gary entraine< and, it was said, they were beinf dispatched to protect endangere< property. Drastic measures to combat th< "Red" plots are said to have been ar ranged by the military leaders. Col. Mapes announced that no con f^cairtn hurl hppn obtained from Gov ski in regard to the Chicago boml plot, but it was intimated that Gor ski would be a federal witness. The federal officers are nov searching for Alexander Ivanoff Gary steel worker and electrician who is said to have been implicate* by Gorski as a maker of the thirty six bombs which were sent to promi nent men throughout the country ii forged wrappers May Day. Intelligence officers continued thei raids at Gary in search of radica literature. They reported finding i quantity of radical propagand; printed in German and a large Ger man flag made of silk. A platoon of federal troops wa stationed near the steel mills in Gar; yesterday after reports had beei made that bricks and horseshoes ha< been thrown through the windows o the steel plants by strikers. Thi strike bulletin issued by the stee workers disavowed the proclamatioi issued by the "communist party o America" calling on the workingmei to establish a "distatorship" an* ~ - *1 / - 1 wrest control of (iary irom tne ieu eral troops. o The board of missions of the Meth odist Episcopal Church South, wit) headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., i calling for 735 new missionaries to b sent out during the centenary pro gram for which millions of dollar were subscribed last summer. ?. / FARMERS ASKED TO j ORGANIZE AT ONCE MrLEOD URGES THEM TO HOLD COTTON FOR 40 CENTS IN OCTOBER. 51 ^' H. F. McLeod, state manager of 'r i the South Carolina Cotton associa' tion has issued an earnest appeal to ( all of the cotton growers of the state to enroll as members of the asj sociation at once, i "Merchants, bankers and all other , business men and professional men i should join the association also," said PjMr. .McLeod. "because the prosperity ,: of the South is dependent on the ; prosperity of the cotton grower. "Organize. That's the big message, 11 expressed in one little word, the South Carolina Cotton association ^ sends South Carolina cotton growers. "Organize, for the preservation of business in your community and j state, as well, by withholding your cotton from the market until the a " price reaches a level that will assure J a prjce above the cost of production, ! plus a* reasonable income for hard i.work. ? I ' j "Get together and unite upon some i plan for. the perfecting the holding j movement of the South's chief com'! modity?cotton, which is the back' j bone of business and prosperity in the South. The American Cotton s association has prepared the soil, and now, you, Mr. Farmer, sow the I seed, and let it bear fruit. You have t the grit, and business sagacity toac^ complish this job in a clean, legitimate way. "It will be but a short while before : the American Cotton association is in real harness, and you see the wonderful results that are bound to spring from its operation. "At the meeting held in New Or! leans recently the association fixed 36 cents a pound for cotton during " I September and added one-half cent a y i pound for each following month un"' til it reaches 40 cents. Are you, Mr. ^! Farmer, merchant, business man and ' banker, commanding that price? If 1 j not, then do it Or else, take your " j staple to your home, or to some bond ; ed warehouse, and let it remain in tact until you ao get it. "The cotton that is being sold today is being gobbled up by mills and * i placed in storage, or being made into goods on the basis of about $1 a 1 pound. It requires from three to '' four pounds of goods to make a pound * of cotton. "The demand for spot cotton is f daily increasing. Mills are begin5: ning to come to their senses. They 1: see a famine in the most needed pro1 duct in the world today, and they see ; on their books orders for goods that ', wift keep their machinery humming * for months ahead without the solici? tation of other business. But in their ' I store rooms they have only a small supply of staple?the cost of the anaicient hand to mouth policy; a policy " I used for years, for a generation, or , more, to depress the price of cotton ? !A -- no nnc_ * | in order to secure n as i-ueap a.^ "! sible. And they see appearing from JI abroad, representatives from prac*' tically all European nations, coming here to arrange for the purpose of v buying textile machinery and cotton. "The unprecedented foreign and domestic demand for cotton, which * has been talked of for some time, is " ^beginning to make itself heard. Of " course the cry is soft and everyone 1J of those craving for cotton naturally ' are going about it as easy as possir ble, buying in quiet ways, for fear ' that the South will rub its eyes and 1 become stubborn. It's time to get 1 stubborn. "Slap on the brakes and make them bid for it. Make them bid for it uns til they are willing to pay a price V that will pay for our hard labor; pay 1 for the education of your children, ^ pay for the food that you feed your f family, for your taxes, for your e clothes?everything that it costs to ' produce the staple they want. Won't 1 they make the same demands of you f and of your merchant for the goods? 1 Absolutely. i ovej-vthinc nowadayses Vl^aiii<.<., v.v.,, ?" organized from hornets to your groceryman." o ^ Col. Edward M. House, chief advis ser to President Wilson and represene tative of the president in Paris for - several months, returned ' from Eus rope Monday on the transport Northem Pacific a very sick man. [SEPTEMBER SALES : SET RECORD ! REPORTS FROM FORTY-EIGHT : WAREHOUSES, REPRESENTING 20 CAROLINA MARKETS According to a report issued Saturday by the State Department of Agriculture, Commerce and indus' tries on the tobacco crop, 11,823,768 pounds were sold for the producers in September, netting $2,199,105.19. an average .of 18.51 cents a pound. This is the largest amount received j in September since 1910, when the department commenced to keep to1 bacco statistics for the crop. The reports are from twenty markets, containing forty-eight warehouses. Following are the total amounts 1 cnlr>? and resales for producers, i dealers and warehousemen for the month of September, this year, at the various markets: , Grand Total Sales. Markets Lbs. Sold. Amt.Pd. Andrews 198,686 19,234.13 I Ayner 61,420 2,315.40 'Conway 743,431 100,670.34 | Darlington 2,716,827 490,062.46 I Florence 412,466 69,368.37 | Hartsville __ 629,023 92,093.73 Hemingway 200,583 26,028.16 | Johnsonville 487,388 75,568.62 Kingstree _ 1,175,607 204,637.69 Lake City __ 2,003,886 400,043.02 Lamar 449,994 80,432.85 Latta 57,208 7.889.67 Loris 397,838 *91,092.66 j Manning 230,214 29,857.34 Marion 376,729 63,526.33 McBee 21,562 4,769.51 ! MulKns 2,296,454 380,890.09 Nichols 352349 60,662.86 Pamplico 2_ 335,155 48,823.45 Timmonsville 2,188316 428,754.29 % Total 15,336,136^2,666,720.95 o?1 A TIMELY WARNING To Merchants and Manufacturers who Made Erroneous Tax Returns Washington, October, 15.?A special drive to locate merchants and manufacturers who have followed erroneous methods in making their inventories for the taxable year 1917 and 1918, such methods tending to reduce tax liability, is about to be * *1 n Tnto>-nal Rp. made oy tne duicou w ? venue, it was announced today. In cases of voluntary disclosure before investigation of failure to make proper return and payment, the policy of the bureau, it was stated, will be to forego penalties except where there is intentional evasion of the tax. Where- discovery is made by government officers heavy penalties will apply. In sbme cases inventories have been found to have been taken on the basis of average costs, though it was possible to identify the articles re' maining on hand at the inventory period, and so determine their "exact cost. In others, because of conservative accounting methods, flat percentage have been deducted after determining inventory values. Others used a fixed average, based upon costs i of prior years, or failed to include all merchandise to which they have ti| tie in their inventory. All of these methods, which have the effect of reducing tax liability, are contrary to the regulations of the bureau and are illustrative, it was said, of numerous irregularities which have been found. A warning issued by the bureau advises taxpayers who have followed such methods to file correct returns without notice and without investigation. Some taxpayers have voluntarily notified the bureau of the employment of incorrect methods, and are filing amended returns. It is only fair to these taxpayers, the bureau states, that their competitors who have made similar errors should be located. o The town of Dillon increased its size several times last Saturday by a vote of 20 to 8. The vote in town was unanimous in favor of the extension of the town limits. The limits ovtomieti one-half mile, and will give the town much additional and valuable property from which to draw revenue. Many improvements, such as paving the streets and enlarged light and sewer system, will be undertaken shortly. o More than five hundred delegates from 32 nations are in attendance at the World Cotton Conference which opened at New Orleans Monday "ffr f MEMORIAL TO SOLDRIERS . Governor Asks For Four Hundrec Thousand Dollars The General Assembly at its lasl session passed a joint resolution provic ing for the erection of a building as a memorial to those who died in th< service of this country during th< world war, and to all others whc served, whether as soldiers, sailors i marines, nurses or members of kin I divd organizations devoted to th< cause for which the war was fought Under the resolution the sum ol $100,000 is made available from the i State treasury whenever, in the opin ! ion of the memorial commission i which also was created by the reso ! lution, a sufficient sum shall have I ^ ! been raised by ^popular subscription ; This commission, of which the Governor is chairman, has decided tha I $400,000 is the proper amount to be j given by the people of the State ii , elirect donations. , The building, which will be erectee | on lands now held by the trustees o: the University of South Carolina will have an alcove for each county and in these alcoves will be preserv ed in marble or bronze or other im perishable form the records of thi sons and daughters of the State wh< gave all, or offered all. The memo rial structure will be held by th< I South Carolina Historical Commis ! sion. The building could easily b< j made to house the records of all th< | wars in which South Carolina ha; participated, and thus, in the coursi I of a few years, to become an admir | able historic museum and library i Records and relics of the Revolution the war of 1812, the Seminole war the Mexican war, the war of Seces sion, the Spanish American war, am finally the great World war could b< assembled and forever preserved. In this building may be held meet ings of Veterans, various histdrica and educational gatherings, and oth er assemblages which have for thei purpose the betterment of our State and the honoring of those who hav< served and died in the days of din need. The structure will be an in spiration to patriotism, courage, jus j tice and gratitude. South Carolinians have been some j what careless as to the preservatioi of their historical records; a prope respect for gallant deeds and grea sacrifices has not always been evi denced. This neglect of historical informa | tion has continued to the present day , and unless we do something speedil; (for the collecting and safekeepingo i nnr latest war records, the genera tions to come will be deprived of ma terials of great value, of inspiratioi and of a complete understanding o operating factors in the lives of thei forefathers. Men -of this State fought splendipl ly in the Thirtieth, the Eighty-first the Rainbow and other divisions, ii the navy and in the marine organiza tions. These men dedicated thei lives to the great cause of universa justice. It is due them that th memorial be erected; it is necessar; for the rest of us that we erect il else we shall suffer because of dut; and appreciation neglected, of inspir ation lost. Those who suffered th untold miseries of muddy fields an< battle perils, those who traveled ove the treacherous seas will ever be re membered gratefully by us all. Thi memorial is but one token of this re membrance. The work and sacrifices of ou women have made a brilliant page ii our history. Without their unifies assistance, their sympathy, prayer: and courage, the morale of our fight ing men would have fallen, and bat ties won would have been battle lost. Shall this chapter of our his tory be neglected? The memoria building will keep the facts fresh ii mind. South Carolina as a State is bet ter; we as individuals are better fo having had the soldiers, sailors, am marines as friends, brothers, sons fathers, husbands. We are bettei too, for having had the noble womei workers as friends, sisters am mothers. Those who served in the mobilize forces of the nation did their dut; well and willingly. Shall we not d ours to the fullest. While they wer fighting, we supported them fror our positions at home. Their fight ing is now ended, but we have ye another task before us. It is for u now to keep animated the high-soul ed ideals which inspired the armie and the fleets; it is for us to sho\ ji 1 . COLORADO GIRL 1 WANTS HUSBAND J AND GOVERNOR'S SECRETARY UNDERTAKES TO FIND ONE FOR WESTERN LASSIE Columbia, Oct. 13.?Any bal i head' ed, sentimental millionaire bachelor ' or widower who wants a pretty, t I brown-eyed little darling to help him ' I spend his money and play sweet lul^ labies to him, has only to apply to the office of the Governor of South Carolina to eet the address of a Western maid who is just "dying" to ' commit matrimony, providing there a is -plenty of coin in the offing. While there has been no advertisement to the effect that Governor t Cooper is heading a matrimonial bu^, reau, yet a Colorado girl evidently thinks that he can put her in touch with some South Carolina swain who j wants to be loved. The Governor's ^ office received a letter today postmarked Pueblo, Colo., in which a re' quest is made to find a pining maiden ' "of one of the best families of Colorado," a helpmeet in the turbulent battle of life. ? ' The maid is easily satisfied; all she J wants is a "hubby" she can love with all her heart and who will love her? ' and can show one million dollars. In ~ her set of specifications she says that any candidate that applies should be s fifty years of age. This is interpre*J ed as a gentel hint that she does not " want him to live too long; she prefers to :pend the mill.on as a "mer- . * ly widow." I' i Governor Cooper 's in New Orleans ' attending the World Cotton Confer~1 cnce and his secretary, James C. Dei rieux, is handling the matrimonial e end of the executive office. Mr. De 1 rieux,. however, has m t had much * I if iMr.iAniol CApcncuu; aivsug JiMHi'mmu. as he has so far failed to annex to himself a wife. In his desperation he r called the capital newspaper men in!* to consultation, but they could not e apply; the majority of them aremare ried and all were penniless. However, they suggested a handsome scribe of the Piedmont section, whom i they thought might be interested. ' He is unmarried, but fails under the a age limit, and he has not yet, so far r as is known, amassed a million * : "scads." " |\ Mr. Derieux requests the bachelors of the State, who will fall over each other's necks in an effort to capture '*' the Western peach, to apply to him v for the name of the fair one, and not * j to send photographs, autobiographical sketches and financial statements to the Governor's office. He has no n appropriation for the hiring of an ex^ tra stenographer and, in his opinion, r the Colorado maid would prefer to receive ajl documentary evidence direct. '', The epistle to the Governor, which 1; is captioned "Hunting for Happiness," "! follows: r "I am looking for a tall Blue eye 1 1 II II 1 I TT _ , I " i ou year om nusoanu. ne must nave e | a million $. I am small. Called Pret^ ty. Brown eyes. Music Teacher. I " never did a bad act before God in my life. If I find a person I can love with all my heart and soul better than e life and am sure he loves me, the same I will marry. We are one of r the best families in state of Colorado. Please send photo and full pars ticulars. "Please give this to the best looking Bachelor in your State. Thank r you." 1 The letteris signed by a woman who purports to ilve at Pueblo, Col. s i o The plant, equipment and lands of * Winthrop College, a state institution s! for ladies, at Rock Hill, are invento ", ried at $2,029,366.76, according to the ' 1 report made by Dr. D. B. Johnson, 1 president of the institution to the South Carolina budget commission. Of this amount $1,181,500 is for col' lege building, $424,645 for lands, ' $401,721 for equipment and $21,500 '' for farm buildings. n appreciation. i Ingratitude will never be used as an adjective to describe South Carod lina. This is not an appeal, because y 1 no appeal to the people of /'South o Carolina in this connection should e be necessary, but merely a reminder 1 1 +-U/* nvirilAcro nf malf a inai you na*e mv ?r. ;- ing a contribution to this very worthy t cause ' on or before November 11, s 1919. I-) Robei-t A. Cooper, Governor and s i Chairman. v Richard I. Manning, Vice-Chairman. I