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Br i - -* ? \ ' * ?bc County VOL. 36. ~ KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1921. NO. 49 ! TAX LEVY REDUCED i 3 1-2 MILLS1 PROVIDED FOR IN THE APPROPRIATION BILL SUBMITTED MONDAY. % Carrying a total appropriation ofj $6,563,086.71 for all state departments I and a reduction of the state levy of 12 1-2 mills of 1920 to 11 mills and a ^ suspension entirely of the special ' state-wide 2 mill levy for the constrution of hi eh wa vs. the general appro pnation bill was reported out to the lower house by the ways and means committee Monday. If the measure is passed as introduced then a total reduction of 3 1-2 "Ttjnills will be made in taxes of state, firl 1-2 mills coming from the general ^ levy-'and 2 mills from the special 2miu tax levy for the construction of ^"'highways. This 2-mill levy would be suspended for the present year. Some large reductions from the requests of the departments are noted in the bills as reported out by the ways and means committee and also as recommended by the governor in his bud ' *1- i.L. .4L get recomenaaoons, wnne on uie ow-. er hand some increases are allowed.] The total requests of tlie state departments were $9306306.59 and the Governor recommended $7,111,688.86. By ~ these figures it is seen that the bill reduces the recommendations of the chief executive by $548,602.15. The University of South Carolina is trimmed from a request of $465,154 to $211,755, this however, being a few thousand above the Governor's recommendations. The Cidadel is given a ' decrease r from a request of $623,015 to $452315 and Winthrop likewise shares a trim from $833,005.17 to $416,083, this being a little above the recommendations of the Governor. The committee adops the bill to again place the payments of Confed erate Veterans by the comptroller General and provides for, a total of ^v*$790,270.34 for this department. This is a big increase from the request, but is due to about $600,000 for pensions to veterans. The work of the committee was largely to reduce the tax levy to show some appreciation of the financial and economic condition of the state at this time and at the same time trying to make sufficient appropriations for the current operation of the government. Chairman Hughes of the committee said tonight. "In doing this it was necessary to suspend all permanent building programs, with the exception, of course of the old programs for the building provided for by the Legislature last year and years past. The only new building carried in the bill is an appropriation of $84,000 for improvements at the school for the deaf and blind. This item is the only one for buildings or improvements not already provided for by law, Mr. Hughes ^ said. "The public schools are well cared ^ lor, tne 0111 apprupnauug for the State Superintendent of Edu- J cations's office against $931,290 last ?IK year, but a reduction from $2,154,650 ^^Ifrom the request of the department ^^Eand $1,973,950 as recommended by the BH Governor. "We got right down to an actual operating basis, allowing no salary inGBr creases." said Mr. Hughes. T A basis, the same as of 1920. is carV ried in the bill, r Highway Department Suffers. I A large number of departments are ft. cut and a few increased, among the ft big prunings being the commissioner f of agriculture's office from a request of $135,940 to $77,743.40 the highway commission from a request of $452,243 and a recommendation from the Governor of $216,693 to $119,490. The highway commission suffers the biggest cut proportionately, to any department. No provision is made for the increased work of the public service commission, the amount in the bill being $2,000. The bill would carry a levy of 11 mills on the total taxable property of the state of approximately $448,000,000. k;ii comec fnllowinor aD A UC Vlii ...v Q propriations for the various depart-1 H ments and institutions: 4 The executive department. $103,t 566.20. The Governor's office $28,150. Secretary of State's office, $11,225. Comptroller General's office, $790,270.34. Attorney General's office, $20,000. State Treasurer's office. $258,212.27 j I PRINT PAPER PROBE ASKEE Senator Harris' Wants Federal Tra Commission to Inquire A resolution requesting the Fede Trade commission to inquire into 1 price of print paper during 1920 a to ascertain whether or not "the nev papers of the United States are 1 ing subjected to unfair practices in the sale of print paper" was rece: ly introduced in the United Stai Senate by Senator Harris. ' The Senator explained that he * anxious to ascertain why present hi prices continued to be charged i print paper "when all other prices manufactured articles had suffei big declines." He charged that nev papers in contracting for their 1$ supplies were forced to make contra in which paper manufacturers rese; ed the right to fix their own pri< subject to quarterly readjustments o Applicants to Teach Fail The report of the state board Examiners which has just receni been received by Superintendent Education J. G. McCollough, and i Lative to the October examinatio held for teachers in public schoc The report shows that of the 14 wh teachers taking the examinati< one passed for second grade and fi for third grade certificates; of t seven colored applications none pa: ed. Canoral's nffifp. $4 Xlie nujiiKuit ? 7 T417.50. University of South Carolina $2 775. The Citadel, $452,315. Clemson College, 226,147.15. Winthrop College, $416,083.50. State Medical College, $110,117.5( Confederate Home College, $2,000. State Colored College, $63,005.12. John De La Howe Industrial scho $17,448. School for the Deaf and Blii $161,333.33. State Superintendent of Educatio: office, $1,566,830. State Historical Commision, $4,7< State Library, $4,115. Confederate Museum, $100. State Relic Room. $1,000. South Carolina State Hospit $669,123.94. State Penitentiary, $102,093.08. State Board of Public Welfare, $2 351. State Board of Pardons, $300. State Training School for Feel Minded, $35,327. State Industrial School for Bo; $121,270. State Industrial School for Gir $19,015. State Reformatory for Negro Ch dren, $46,077/ Catawba Indians, $7,700. Committee on Deaf and Blind Ch dren, $500. Law Enforcement Department, $2 400. Board of Health. State Board of Health, 228,303.17. State Tax Commission, $38,000. State Tax Board of Review, $1,51 Insurance Commissioner's offi $20;745. State Bank Examiner's office, $2 225.08. State Railroad Commission, $2 141.20. Chief game warden's office, $10,371 State Board of Medical Examine $3,000. State Board of Law Examine $400. State Board of Fisheries, $10,500 State Board of Concilation, $1,0( Joint committee on Printing, $5 445. Commissioner of Agriculture's * fice, $77,743. State Warehouse Commissione office, $26,520. State Public Service Commissi* $?,000. State Pharmaceutical Board, $1,5< State Electrician and Engineer's < fice, $66,195. State Highway Commission, $11 490. State Sinking Fund Commissi* S9.fi92.50. Confederate Infirmary, $27,000. Confederate Veterans' Associate $1,500. Commission on State House a Grounds, $7,125. State Contingent Fund Committ $75,000. Committee on Approval of Clair $4,508.16. SifpreAf Court, $36,132. Circuit Courts, $120,066.66. Code Commissioner's office, $900. Grand totai, $6,563,086.71. \ \ \ \ ' ; COMPLETE COUNT * GOVERNMENT CAS1 ral hc ACCOMPLISHED IN REMARK/ nd BLY SHORT TIME OF THEEE es_ WEEKS. i>e in Complete ocunt of the government at- cash has just been made in Washinj tes ton for the first time in twelve year The total approximated thirte* a3 billion, five hundred million dollr. gh and included all cash and securitii for held as reserves against currency ou of standing. ed The count was made by a speci its- committee of three, assisted by eigl 121 accountants and by fifteen labore cts who were used to move around tl rv- heavy sacks of gold and silver. Tl :es men delved into great vaults in tl treasury building and took stock i gold, silver and paper money and & curities, many of which had not se? the light of day since shortly affc William Howard Taft was inaugura of ed president and a new treasurer < tly the United States appointed in 1909 of The accountants in entering tl re- vaults passed, grimvisaged guards wl ms day and night "sit on the lid" to pn ils. vent any possible attempts at an ui ite authorized r^id on thev treasury. Tl )n, vaults themselves are supposed to 1 we burglar proof and are of massive coi ;he crete and steel construction. The sto ss- age sections are kept under seal an this was the first time that some < ?- them had been-.opened in twelve year 9(. for when John Burke became treasu: er after President Wilson was first ii lr augurated he accepted the count < cash in the- storage sections which ha not been opened since the previoi count in 1909. The accountants handled money < ) every possible denomination from tl lowly copper to $10,000 bills. Many < the bills particularly those of tl ol, large denominations, such as $1,00 were in sheets of four each and he! id, as reserve against currency of small* denominations in circulation. Thoi n's sand dollar bills in circulation are fe' and each bank in the country is kei sn snnli#>H hv the treasury with a lis | of them with their numbers, so thi if perchance any are extracted froi the treasury' illegally the holder wi al, have extreme difficulty in realizin on them. , The count just finished was mad 7,- necessary by the retirement of Joh Burke as treasurer and was complete in the remarkably short time of thre )le weeks through the use of electr counting machines. Loose coins pas: ys, ed through these machines instead c being counted b^ hand as was neces: Is, sary in the olden days. Paper cui rency was counted by the jJiece, bi il- stored coins and currency were coun ed by the sack or package in cast where the wrappings were unbroke iil- and the seal on each intact. The main supply of the goven 8,- ment's money is stored in two larg vaults but there arc a number c smaller ones in the various divisior of the department as well as in tt cash i;ooms where cash payments a; )0. made by the government. ce. Gold coins stored in the vaults wei counted hy weight. The gold is kei 4,- in sacks, sealed with the treasurer wax seal and containing $5,000 eacl 0,- weighing about 18 pounds and 7 once First one sack was weighed ar 5. then the others were exaimned. 1 rs, both the seal and covering were four; intact they were weighed against tt rs, first or test sack and if the result ws the same, were passed and countei However, if a seal was broken or th 30. sack torn or there was appreciabl 4,- difference in weight the contents wei ennnted bv the piece. of- Standard silver dollars were coun ed in the same way as the gold coin r's They were stored in sacks containin 1,000 and weighing about 60 pound 3n, Work on the silver coin was lessene* officials said, by the government 00. melting 100,000,000 silver dollars ui Df- der the Pitman act for sale to the Bri i*L volipvp the silv< isn guvcimciii ? 9,- famine in India during the war. Paper money is stored in pap* in, packages making a cube of about 71 inches each way and containing 4,0C notes. On each package is stampin, the amount and the denomination i the notes inclosed. A wax seal is a' nd tached. Except where a broken sej or package necssitated an actu; ee, count of the contents the paper in tli vaults was counted by the package, ns, Sealed packages of paper money ai actepted from the bureau of engrrn ing and printing as correct when th wrapping are intact because the is sue division of the treasury maintair a| office in the bureau and in realit HARDING REQUESTS I SPECIAL SESSION" ] WANTS THE NEW SENATE TO lid CON.VENE ON INAUGU- at RATION DAY. Tu eig ;'s Washington, Feb. 8.?A request by ^ ?- President-elect Harding that Presi s. dent Wilsoji call a special meeting of guj in the new senate for March 4, was talc- , rs en to the White House today by Sena- ^ s tor Underwood, the Democratic leader. t- Senator Underwood said he convey- ^ ed the message at the request of Senal ator Lodge, the Republican leader. ^ ht He saw Secretary Tumulty who later g rs laid the request before the president. re It is stated the Senate would meet ' re to confirm cabinet and other appiont- ^ re men^ to be made by the incoming ^ >f executive. Such a session is custom- j e_ ary when there is a change of admin- jQ? :n istration and usually lasts only a week * ?r ~i- 4.1 r.* "* | at wiic uiuot, , r f Ma t- o >f News From Salters, Rt. 1. ^ firs le (Received too late for last issue) ani 10 Salters Depot, Route 1,' Feb. 2? n61 e- The weather continues very unsettled l- here, so cold and rainy generally that le farmers have not been able to do any *7e >e work scarcely. i- Most of them are undecided what r- to plant, or whether to plant anything * id or not circumstances are so unfavor- s >f able. s, Mrs. Frank M. Buddin has returnr ed to her home near Lake City, after r,er i- a week's visit with relatives here. >f Mrs. S. A. Scott is spending sev- jf? id eral days with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. e is scott. fr Little Miss Essie Prevatte is visit- f1" >f ing, the little, Misses JHelen and Eve- jns 10 lyn Scott. ^ >f fty-. Ben Hughes and family of ie Greelyville, .Mis. S. Scott, Mr. Le- ^a,< 0, Roy Scott, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pre- v* Id vatte weie guests of Mr. and Mrs. ^ ;r G. W. Scott Sunday. f i- Mrs. C. W. Cannon and son, Mr. f w Eugene, visited the former's mother >t near Manning last week-end. ;fr st We are glad to report Dr. I. N. it Boyd much improved, having been ^ n confined to his bed, with injuries re11 ceived from a fall last week during an g the freeze. We were sorry to leam ^ of Dr. Boyd's accident and hope that ff le in a very few days he will be perfect- .101 n ly well again. He is highly esteemed d by every one in our community. nes * Our regular Tuesday evening Mis- wai ic sion study class met last night at the i- home of Mrs. G. W. Scott, with good ?* >f attendance and a very interesting a 1 5- program. "Owl" it Fire Destroys Lumber Plant. " t Re"v !S About three o'clock this morning "te n the lumber and milling plant located ? ii u 1 ^;i ;il ?,Qe Sco near ute site ui cue viu vn mm i- destroyed by fire, believed by the own- ^ ;e ers, Mr. Jake Rodgers and his son to >f have been of incendiary origin. The ^ is plant was in operation yesterady and ^ it when closed down at the end of the e days work there was no fire in the ^ j building and not even a hotbox to any e of the machinery was noticeable, -/t Quite a lot of flooring ceiling aH s other milled lumber belonging to path. vons of the mill was in the building. \ Nothing was saved. The plant bein/ <1 almost a total loss, only a few piles ^ If of rough lumber remaining in the id yard. No insurance was carried on the * - ^ ' Z is ? j a ^ 3- counts all the paper money before it tjor ie I leaves the bureau. SW? 'e Coins of smaller denominations? e quarters, dimes, nickels and coppers? -j stored in sacks were counted in the fen l~ same manner as the silver and gold one s- by taking the weight of a test sack for up ? each denomination and weighing the or , 3- other sacks against it. p ^ Upon completion of the count the ( s storage compartments of the vault*. ^ x* were sealed with the seal of the spe- ^ cial committee and a receipt w; s given vjgj ir 'to Mr. Burke, the retiring treasurer, ^er by Guy F. Allen, his successor for the ^ :r cash and securities 01 tr.e government v-jj - held in the treasury. When he signed per '0 the receipt the acting treasurer be- ^ ' came personally responsible for the ^ ^ safekeeping of all the cash and securi- ^ j ^ ties in the building. ^ The new treasurer was represented ^ t ^ on the special counting committee bj ' ^ ie K E. Reppert, vault clerk of the cash division of the treasurer's office. C. N. j McCroaty, chief of the division of ?at r~ loans and currency was chairman of ie the committee, and with John Moon, chief of the coupon surrender section IV 1 of that division, represented the secre- car* y tary of the treasury. The i. DEATH OF MBS. LOGAN sses at Advanced Age of Eigh! Three Mrs. Theresa Susannah Logan, j t of the late Col. R. C. Logan, di her home in Kingstree about no< esday, February 8, 1921. She v ;hty-three years old on January I all her faculties were strong i the last moment of her life. S nt out on her piazza to enjoy t llight; and while there sitting chair, fell to. sleep; passing ir i Beyond as peacefully as night f 73 day. 3ol. and Mrs. Logan were marri May 5, 1859, and had eight ch m, four of whom survive: Mrs. Thorn, of Kingstree, Walter gan, of Charleston, George P. 1 a, of Columbia, and Miss Mau Logan, of Kingstree. Col, Log d seventeen years ago. Mrs. Locan was the daughter leph Scott, who was born dnrr i Revolutionary war, and of Ma .tthews, both of whose ancestc ne two centuries ago among t it settlers in Williamsburg counl i her people have played a pron it part in all the history of tl tion of South Carolina. Each grandfathers was an officers i Revolutionary war, many of h smen have shown valor in oth rs of this country and have be tinguished for service in church a: te. Jereft of her mother in early li' s. Loga came under the care older sister, the late Mrs. Jol Brockington, from whom s rned many things that went in making of her sterling characfc ; was educated at home and at t lmerman school in Columbia, i titution famous in the fifties of t t century. Jol. Logan was long influential. I i the youngest man who signed ? linance of Seccession by which ti te of South Carolina withdrt m the Union. He established ai ted the first newspaper publish Williamsburg county. In all t! illintr davs for nearly fifty yeai ough which Col. and Mrs. Logi sed together, Secession, the w ween the sections, Reconstructs I Readjustment, and for the loi iod after his death, she showed he ! true to the most beautiful trac is coming to her generation, ma home her domain and the hapj s of her household her highest r d. 'or more than sixty years, Mi fan lived in the Presbyterian fait nember of the ancient William g church, and was buried in tl lliamsburg Presbyterian cemetar Rev. John W. Davis, assisted i r. E. A. McDowell, officiating in tl s. The pall bearers were: activ C. Scott, Jr., J. F. ScOtt, W. tt, B. V. Singleton, W. S. Gillai 1 W. E. Brockington; honora: n McClary, Louis Stackley, E. ?s, H. E. Montgomery, R. ith and E. C. Burgess. l large number of people, bringii rers, gathered to pay tribute ai owed the funeral car to her pla ong her fathers. God rest her. -o Farmers in Quandary lalters Depot, Feb. 7.?We ha n having some fine spring-lil ither the past week, with conri ble rain, and as consequence latter, the roads are getting 'ery sloppy condition in this se i, one place, the hill at Thorntr imp on the west side, being almo >assable. 'he fertilizer condition is quite di ?nt here this year from last, on small carload having come he to this time as compared with eigl ten cars up to this time last yea 'armers are at a loss as to wh; lo. Some few have started to pic hardly know .what to plant. Ir. Philip Hamer of Oklahoma ting his sister, Mrs. Mattie Fern e. liss Damaris Stubbs of Bennett e, is visiting her aunt, Mrs Matt rell here liss Lula Ferrell who is teachir ool at Andrews spent last week-er tier home here. Ir. Richardson, of Sumter, spei unlay here on business. [on. J. C. Lanham was here < iday looking after the trade. . H. Montgomery was in Sunft< urday. o Ir. Longsuffer?I hang them i rfully and put on my pajama n I resume them in the mornin; * PRESENTING LOVING ' CUP GREAT EVENT re" BIRMINGHAM PAYS RESPECTS ^ FORMER WILLIAMSBURG Z COUNTY MAN. ras 2., ?? Nothing quite so characteristic of he the great loving heart of Birmingham ke has ever been witnessed in this com n munity, within the memory of The [t0 Birmingham News, as the services on 0j_ Sunday afternoon incident to the presentation of the New's loving cup to ^ Dr. J. R. Bryan. The capacity audjj. ience that filled Loew'a Bijou theatre p was like one great beating heart, g" scarcely audible, but whose very at* 0_ lence through most of the program jg testified to the reverence of the proan ceedings. Approximately three thousand men, women and children?all 0f that could be crowded in after though sands were turned away?came with InvA and Hevot.inn tn Rirmincrham jy ? O (rs honor herself by honoring this man he God. y( Nothing quite so nearly unique, so j|. impressive, so inspiring, so altogether ^3 marked by single-minded devotion to o* Dr. Bryan had been anticipated. The ^ News expected a great uotpouring, er true, but here was the whole city, high er and low, rich and poor, distinguishon ed and obscure, come to watch in tears acj and smiles our first citizen receive, in undisguised joy aid affection, the f6) rewaid for loving service. 0f But whatever distinctive service hn Brother Bryan may have rendered he during the year just closed?however to mightily his unselfish service m&j* ;r. have towered above other men's?this he first loving cup seems to have been an awarded for his cumulative work he through a period of mqre than thirty years. For it is difficult to conceive le that this man began work of loving he kindness just twelve months ago. The he eloquent tributes paid by local minis >w ters recounted incidents of tiond and unselfishness from the very beed ginning of his pastorate. Through he all these years he has been "drunk rs. with the Holy Ghost" He has under in stood the passion for gp? ar name. He has leaned down and lifted m up his erring brothers and sisters, jg He has known that mightier compasir sion of the Master, Jesus. Ii- One of the highest peaks of the imk pressive ceremonies was reached when >i- Dr. Middleton S. Barnwell, of the e- Church of the Advent, recalled the first announcement of The News that s. a loving cup would be given for the* h, most distinguished service to the city s- rendered by any citizen during the tie year 1920. He confessed that his y, mind rioted in vision of the great conIV spicous individual achievements of lie large deeds, such as gifts for the audi* pe, torium, of large bequests for physical R. development, such as a magnificant id chamber of commerce building, or ry some rare physical accomplishment . C. that would make Birmingham a more B. beautiful city or a more prosperous city. He confessed that a great spir lg itual and moral service such as Brothid er Bryan had rendered did occur ce to him at the time. But he was glad that tvip lovincr cud committee realized that for the first year the most towering service after all was that which liberated the human soul . and the human heart, and that fashre ioned a city's thinking more nearly ke after the example set by the Master, d- To the Birmingham News, for one, of the monstrous gathering of citizens in was most gratiying. If this paper c- has contributed in the slightest degree ee to the challenging this rich and opust lent and great-hearted community to loftier service, if it has pointed the f. way to larger living, to move unselfly ish neighborliness, it is abundantly re rewarded. ht Nor can (it refrain from thanking tr. the owner and management of the at Bijou theatre for the tender of the lW spacious hall and for the various courtesies rendered through the afteris noon. And to the judges, the minis,]) ters and to all others who took part in the program, cooperating so lovings_ ly and generously in making Brother ie Bryan's loving cup presentation one of the outstanding events in Birmig!g ham's history, The News is most grateful. Dr. Bryan, the subject of the above v editorial from the Birmingham (Ala.) m News is a native of this county. He is a son of the late John L. Bryan and er was born and reared in the Salter* community. He is a cousin of Mr. J. , x C. Davis of that place, also of Mrs. M. A. Brockinton. of Kingstree. He ip is now pastor of the first Presbytes. rian church in Birmingham where he g. located thirty years ago.?Erf. Note