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I MRS. HARDING DEMOCRATIC. I
Present Mistress of White House is
"Good Mixer."
Mrs. Harding is the best "mixer";
who ever presided as mistress of the,
White House, according to the oldest
attaches there. They cannot recall
. a first lady who was so democratic.
THjF Many visitors going through the
east room and other public parts of
the White House have been given
an unexpected thrill by the sudden
appearance of Mrs. Harding on the .
scene. She takes great delight in I
coming downstairs unexpectedly and j
dropping in on sightseers wandering ,
curiously about.
Although they usually recognize
hrr in advance, she always walks up ;
and, extending her hand, announces
that "I am Mrs. Harding, and I'm
glad to see you here."
She usually asks what state the (
visitor is from and many times they j
discover mutual acquaintances. There j
is nothing formal about ihese little J
meetings, and if she is busy she says '
so and goes on. If she has time j
k often she shows them througli other
rooms.
1 t Despite the heavy drain on her |
B* energy, Mrs. Harding thoroughly en- I
H joys her life in the White House. j
I Ker only difficulty is in adhering to j
I the rest schedule which Dr. Sawyer
r insists upon. He calls every mora[
ing and watches her closely, because
in his years as the Harding family
physician, he has learned that Mrs.
Harding is too active for her own j
good, and his hardest jcb is to get
her to take sufficient rest.
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Audits to Recover Overpayed Aircraft.
Washington, Feo. 13.?It was learned
today from Honorable John H.
Bartlett, chairman of the Civil Service
Commission, that the War De%
partment had authorized further audits
of contracts for aircraft which
were terminated by negotiated agree-,
ments during the latter part of 1918 i
and early in 1919, with a view to
the recovery of overpayments estimated
at $25,000,000.00.
Mr. liartlett said that the Civil
Service Commission was interested
. in this matter ,n connection with the j
clerical work of the audits. He said ,
that he had been informed by the j
War Department that three audits'
recently completed established overpayments
for aircraft totalling $7,- j
871,000.00. He said that informal j
figures obtained from accounting firms f
indicate that it would cost the gov
ernment a sum close to SI,000,000.00 j
to complete the additional audits which :
are contemplated; that, by the use!
or* accountants obtained through the
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Civil Service Commission's examinations,
the three audits completed,
- totalling a recovery of more than'
* $7,000,000.00, had cost the govern- i
*.; ofahe audits, an ! that the War Department
further state: that the additional
audits could be perfoinicd by j
civil service employes far less than
$150,000.00. as against the $1.000,-;
000.00 asked by private auditing com
panies. to recover the estimated over-!
payments of *25,000,000.00.
Mr. Ilarlett said that the three:
audits which had been made by civil i
service employes had been placed in;
tfct hands of reliable public accounting
firms by the contractors affected. j
to determine the correctness and ac- j
curacy of the audits, with the re- J
suit that all the cases had been dc- j
clave I flawless fiorn an accounting;
standpoint, and could not be upset.;
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TO PROTECT BANKS.
Slanderous Reports Concerning Fi- :
nancial Institutions Punishable.
Columbia, Feb. 13.?The act proinhibiting
any person in the state cirV
culation false reports with intent to
injure any banking institution in
South Carolina, has been a law since
February 3, when it was approved
by Governor Cooper. The act carries
a penalty of from $100 to $500
in fines or imprisonment of one year,
or both, in the discretion of the trial
judge.
The South Carolina Banker's Association
will offer a liberal reward
foi the conviction of any person utk
tering or circulating such reports.
"That any person who shall falsely
K and wilfully and with intent to inH?
hire" cava the act. "circulate anv
f report, or make any false statement
as to the assets or liabilities of any
bank in South Carolina, or to its
solvency or ability to meet its obligations.
or as to its soundness; or who
shall make any other false statement,
calculated to effect the credit or standing
of said bank, or to cast suspicion
upon its solvency, soundness or ability
to meet its deposits or other obligations
in due course, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
jfW conviction thereof shall be fined not
^ less than one hundred ($100.00) dolv
lars, nor more thon five hundred
^ ($500.00) dollars, or be imprisoned
for not more than one year, or both,
in the discretion of the court."
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MUST REDUCE ACREAGE. .
Writer Says You Cannot Beat Boll
Weevil if You Plant Much
Cotton.
Jas. Hollomon, staff correspondent
ojs the Atlanta Constitution, is making
a trip through the cotton belt
interviewing farmers and writing
a series of articles for his paper. {
Ke began at Texas and will come on
through to South Carolina. His articles
are interesting and instructive.
The facts of his series are printed below:
As the result of my inquiries so
far on boll weevil conditions, I want (
now, to sound one keynote to the
farmers of the southeast as they are
pitching their crops for this year,
and that is as to the absolute necessity
of reducing the year's cotton
acreage to the limit.
I have r.ot seen a cotton grower in
Texas but who agrees that this is -i
prerequisite to overcoming the onslaught
of the boll weevil.
Iv cannot possibly bo none in any
other way, and any effort to plant j
and to cultivate a normal acreage of i
cotton spells ruin before a seed is
put in the ground.
Last year's cotton acreage was far |
shorter than that of the year before.
This year's cotton acreage must be
far shorter than that of last year.
Otherwise the boll weevil will go
or with his destructive work.
The man who planted for five bales
last year should plant for only half
as much this year, for by having
that much less to cultivate, and be- *
ing enabled thereby to give better
attention to his reduced acreage, the
probabilities arc two to one that the
yield of this half acreage will be
greater than the yield on double the
acreage last year.
I have found many things about
the boll weevil so far, and I am going
to find out many more things before
I quit his track.
But the first and foremost thing
that I have ascertained to be absolutely
necessary in dealing with the
vicious little pest is that it must be
fought in restricted quarters.
Will Whip Fight Every Time if
Fought on! :>.!! Weevil's Way.
The boll weevil asks nothing better
than that he be given opoortunity
to fight his way over big farm
carinnt nnccihlv hp rillti
vated on the intensive plan. He will
whip such a fight every time.
Restrict him. however, to fields
that can be covered every day by the
human hand, and in which every
plant can be under constant surveillance
and the fight against him is
made just that much the easier.
Later on, I am going into full de-;
tails showing just how much land j
per plow has been put into cotton in j
the bool weevil section over here, and !
I am going to give instances of the
results accomplished. > !
Hut it is safe here to say that six
acres to the plow is enough.
If one man can take care of a certain
acreage keeping his eye on every
stalk, ten men can take care of just
ten times that much.
But if one man plants and tries to
take care of the acreage that >equires
the attention of ten men then his crop
goes to the pot in the very beginning
and he will have little or nothing
left to stand for his time, energy,
his effort and his money?that is
nothing hut debt, for as sure as the
sun shines he wi.l wind up his crop ;
- : - * : tl
year in debt.
So early in this series 1 send an
urgent word of caution to hold down
the cotton acreage this year.
Man Who Plants Increase Acreage j
this Year Needs a Guardian.
The man who plants more than he 1
did last year needs a guardian. He 1
brings trouble to himself and worse
than that threatens ruin to his neigh-:
bors.
This year it will be the man who j
plants the short?the very short acre- J
age to the plow that will stand the j
best chance of winning out.
There is no other possible way to
do it
Every cotton grower with whom I
have talked in Texas says this is true.
They have tried every way out here
and this is the only way by which
Texas has been able to meet the boll
weevil on the same platform and to
fight it out with him to a finish.
Do not let anybody mislead you
this year into the planting of a large
acreage to the plow upon the assumption
that this, that, or the other kind
of treatmen can be applied to do
away with the boll weevil as the pest
develops.
The only possible specifics that
can be used to advantage are those
that can be applied on the intensive
plan, and to give this the required
attention it is absolutelly essential
that there be a short acreage to each
plow?the shorter the better.
I want this lesson to take deep root
right now, for only when this is understood
and our farmers are brought
to a full realization of its importance
then the way to the solution of the
problem becomes that much easier.
I am just in from a long and tyesome
trip and this is all that I am .
sending tonight, but the importance
of my observations as above set forth
is such that I do not wish a day to
intervene before sounding this note
to those who are watching for the
publication of the result of my investigations.
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Last Days of the Russian Court.
(From The New York Herald) .
A truly dependable and miost human
document is added to our knowledge
of the last days of the RcmanofTs
by the recently published book
of Piere Gilliard, a former tutor of
the Czarevitch. M. Gilliard became
instructor to the children cf the Russian
imperial family in 1904 and continued
with them until he was forcibly
separated from them at Ekaterinburg,
where they are believed to have
been murdered. The last five years
of his sendee was with the young
Czarevitch, for whom he had much
affection and whom he accompanied
into banishment and captivity.
M. Gilliard's intimate association
with this unfortunate boy and his
kno\vledge?of the home life of Czar
and Czarina permit him to write
with authority upon the Czarevitch's
illness and to explain the maleficent
influence of the impostor Rasputin.
The disease from which the youth
suffered was haemophillia, a tendency
to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage.
This is generally considered
a herditary disease, and the belief
that it had been transmitted from
her family caused the Czarina aeep
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anu uivi miiv(iv*viii her
son with the greatest devotion,'
and she believed that Rasputin had;
saved his life.
Nicholas had little faith in the
man and mistrusted him, yet M. Gilliard
says he did not wish to send |
him away, "for if Alexis Nicolaievitch
died, in the eyes of his mother !
he would ha\*e been the murderer
of his son." Writing of seeing the;
Czarina just after Rasputin was
killed, H. Gilliard says: "Her ag- (
onized features betrayed in spite
of all her efforts how terriby she
had suffered. He who alone could j
save Her son had been slain; any,
misfortune, any catastrophe was now'
possible."
Or. the day the Czar sent tc the
president of the Duma a telegram
telling of his intention to abdicate
in favor of his son he called in Professor
Fiodorof and asked him if the
boy's malady was incurable. The
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