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IDEAS RFOM EUROPE.
That the European business mar.
can do a surprising amount of work
and still give the appearance of leis
ure is a statement made by a writer
hi "System."
In the first place, a man of any im
portance whatever has a plan for
each day's work. He does not allow
this to be interfered with by casual
callers or by telephone talkers. He
is protected from the latter just as
he. is.from the former.
In Holland, the typewriter is used
much more expediently than with us
Instead of waiting for a girl to be free
from, dictation, any man who has a
moderate amount of correspondence
tor take care of has his own ma
chine , beside his desk and writes his
half-dozen or so letters a day, and
the job is done.
Some o* the examples of meeting
business callers as if they were in
a drawing-room, and of having spe
cial reception rooms for business
guests, strike the ordinary American
as extreme, and more punctilious than
effective. The idea that a big execu
tive should have his office away from
his factory or workshop so that he
may not' be called upon for details
which .his subordinates could settle
seems superfluous. A big executive
is superior to his environment.
, But the last of these European
? models deserves emulation everywhere
in America. The writer calls it
"courtesy at the front door." Abroad,
he says, someone who does not think
it extraordinary that you want to see
some one in the offtee, or talk with
someone on the telephone, will take
your-name and errand and see that
yo? are waited upon. To have a boy
or girl merely say, "No, he ain't in,"
with immediate disconnection of the
phone or withdrawal of attention, is
rather the rule than the exception in
business offices in this country. This
is neither good manners nor good bus
iness.
.. THE DESPISED AMEN.
It has become the usual thing late
ly to attribute nearly ali of this
country's industrial troubles to "for
eigners." Immigrants are berated
for their ignorance of American in
stitutions, their un-American modes
of life, their alien notions of politics
and economics, their tendency to sup
port socialistic or anarchistic propa
ganda. Those already here are treat
ed as unwelcome intruders, and the
prospect of another immigration wave
is looked forward to with alarm and
horror.
It, is a natural enough attitude, in
view" of the trouble that the nation
has had with some of its foreigners
lately. But is it not largely unfair?
Are these foreigners altogether liabili
ties^ And are they altogether to
blame?
How did they happen to come here?
Nearly .all of them were lured to the
United States by American promises.
Those-promises may have been un-1
authorized, so far as .the general pub-J
lie was concerned; they were made
'-largely by ? the representatives of j
steamship companies interested only
in passage money; and by the repre
sentatives of industries that wanted
cheap labor. Still, they were Amer
ican promises. Without that bait
most of the foreigners wOuld have
stayed at home.
Arriving in America, they were
hired as cheaply as possible, for the
hardest and rou^est labor. They
were worked long hours. They were
allowed, and even practically forced,
to live in colonies of their own. They
were treated with indifference and
contempt. Precious little effort was
ever made to stow them what the
America of our ideals really is: until
the war had waked up native Amer
icans to the unassimilated mass of
alienism clogging the life of the na
tion. Little enough has been done
even up to the present time.
These foreigners have made money,
many of them. But what they have
made they have worked hard for.
Most of it they have made by doing
work that older Americans would
not do, and will not do now. And the
profit is far from be'ng all on one side.
They have also made money for their
employers; and in a broad way they
have made money for the nation.
American industrial prosperity 5~
been based largely on this great sub
stratum of unskilled, low-priced labor.
The value of that labor is being
more clearly appreciated now when
it has become scarce, and able al
most to command the price of skilled
labor.
Economically the alien has played
his part in the American scheme of
things, and a big part it has been. He
may play his part socially and po
litically, to the satisfaction cf the
older Americans, if he is treated here
after more as a human being, and
is given a chance to do what he has
probably wanted to do all the time?
become a real American.
136 PER CENT INCREASE.
The coal miners are demanding a
straight 60 per cent increase in pay,
based on a week's work. Along with
this, they are demanding that the
working week of 48 hours be cut to
30 hours, divided among five working
days of six hours each. See what
this means.
If a miner were getting 50 cents an
hour under, the old scale, he would
be making $24 a week. The SO per
cent raise asked for would make his
pay $38.40 a week. This higher pay
would be for only 30 hours' work.
Thus under the new plan the miner
would be getting $1.28 an hour. That
is an increase for actual working
time, of 156 per cent.
No other industry has demanded
so great an increase as this. It is said
to be more than all the increases to
gether in any American industry in
the last six years.
CAMP CONSTRUCT
ION INVESTIGATION
Criminal and Civil Prosecutions
May Result From Inquiry at
Camp Sherman
Columbus, Ohio, Oct 29.?Both
criminal and civil prosecutions may
result from .. testimony given before
the congressional sub-committee
which is here investigating the con
struction of Camp Sherman, accord
ing to members of the committee. Al
leged promises of graft, orders, of su
perintendent and bosses to slow up
work under threat of discharge and
general charges of inefficiency, mis
management and extravagance was
contained in evidence furnished by
witnesses, many of whom had been
employed in different capacities in the.
construction.
' The only witness who said he did
not consider there had been extrava
gance at the cantonment was Maj.
Gen. Edwin F. Glenn, commanding
the camp. He added, however, that
he was only acquainted generally with
the construction.
Carl M. Watts, Columbus, a team
foreman asserted that at the end of
his first day's work with about 30
teams under his direction, General
Superintendent C. H. Mollingsworth
of A. Bentley & Sons Company, To
ledo, called him into his office and
told to "slow up." Watts testified
that the men "learned they were not
expected to work."
As many as 500 men at a time
could be hidden in gravel pits from
the eyes of government inspectors,
according to Watts. Time keepers
came twice a day and checked the
men as being at work, Watts de
clared. The witness declared that he
brought down four saddle horses and
that a foreman told him he would
put the horses on the pay roll if
Watts would split the money with
him.
Members of the committee tonight
said they would not subpoena mem
bers of the Bentley company, which
built the cantonment on a cost-plus
basis. The hearings will be continued
the remainder of the week.
ROPER ASKS AID
IN ENFORCEMENT
Washington, Oct. 28.?Law-abiding
citizens, churches, civic organizations
and welfare societies were summoned
tonight by Commissioner Roper to aid
the bureau of internal revenue in en
forcing the prohibition enforcement
law.
Any flouting of the law, Mr. Roper
declared would bring into disrepute
the American form of government.
While the bureau is made the agen
cy directing the enforcement of the
measure, with the Department of Jus
tice conducting prosecutions on evi
dence obtained by the bureau's men,
responsibility. is not confined to fed
eral officers, the commissioner said.
State, county and municipal officials
are expected to do a full share in
stopping and punishing any violations
and the succesful administration of
the law. Mr. Roper said, will be meas
ured largely by the manner in which
these officials meet their requirements.
Cotton Market
(Corrected daily at 12 o'clock by
Chamber of Commerce.)
Good Middling 37 1-2.
Strict Middling 37.
Middling 36 1-2.
Strict Low Middling 34 1-2.
NEW YORK COTTON JBARKFT.
Tet'td'yt
Open High Low now Close
Jan . . 35.61 35.87 35.30 35.75 35.61
Mch . . 24.85 35.18 34.50 35.17 34.85
May . .34.28 34.76 33.88 34.75 34.28
"~>ec . .36.5$ 36.56 32.10 36.49 36.50
Jan
Mch
May
Dec
NEW OKI;
L0 36.03
35.21
!6.00 35.86
i.17 34.90
34.23
1.84
MEMORIAL CHAPEL
FAVORED BY LEGION
Rejects Resolution Recommend
ing Hospital as Substitute
Vote Almost Unanimous
Columbia, Oct. 28.?Following a
somewhat extended debate, the initial
annual convention of the American
J Legion of South Carolina; which met
here today in the hall of the house
j of representatives, by an almost
: unanimous vote rejected a resolution,
introduced by J. Hertz Brown, a del
egate from Spartanburg, providing for
j a^memorial hospital, commemorative
of those South Carolinians in the ser
vice of the nation who made the su-1
preme sacrifice in the world war, in
stead of the memorial chapel pro
vided for by an act of the general
assembly.
Subsequently another resolution en- j
dorsing a nonutilitarian building or
monument as a fitting memorial was
adopted by the convention.
The hospital resolution asked the
general assembly to make the neces
sary amendment in the existing law.
so that the utilitarian building instead
of the memorial chapel be built. The
resolution said that the building, if
the general assembly was favorably
disposed toward the idea "shall be a
great memorial hospital where suf
fering may be relieved, disease eradi
cated, and the citizens of this State
made more fit foi her service."
The last session of the general as
sembly passed the act providing for
the erection of the memorial chapel
on the ground owned by the Univer
sity of South Carolina. The measure
.carried an appropriation of $100,000
with the stipulation that it was to be
augmented "v public subscription
from among the citizens of the State.
It is a created commission, of which
Governor Cooper is chairman, and ex
Governor Manning, vice chairman, to
carry on the campaign and provide
for fthe memorial. The commission
decided that the people of the State
would be asked to contribute $400,
000.
Almost from the first meeting of
the commission, opposition to the idea
of a nonutilitarian building was ex
pressed. A campaign bolstered by
a deal of publicity, has been waged
bringing to the fore the hospital
idea, the underlying plea being that
the ex-soldiers wanted something
which would be of service, instead of
ornamental, by which their fallen
comrades could be remembered. A
petition was presented to the memo
rial commission asking for considera
tion of the hospital idea but the com
mission took the position that the
Legislature had spoken and it was
mandatory upon it under the act to
go on with the original project for
a memorial chapel. So the solicita
tion for funds was commenced on
September 29.
The campaign for subscriptions has
met 1th indifferent success since
the "drive' begun, thought principally
to be due to the propaganda in favor
of the hospital project. However, the
friends of the present memorial
chapel idea are now confident that
the solicitation for funds will take on
an impetus as the voice of the''South
Carolina world war veterans, the
American Legion, they contend, has
spoken for it and has demonstrated
what the wishes of the ex-soldiers
are.
The resolution adopted by the con
vention reads :
"Whereas, the Legislature of South
Carolina in its wisdom and after ma
ture deliberation appropriated the
sum of $100,000 and created a com
mission for the purpose of erecting a
suitable memorial building to our
comrades who fell in the recent great
war: and
"Whereas, there has been since
that time considerable agitation de
signed to change the form of memor
ial from that design contemplated by j
the Legislature to a hospital; and
"Whereas, we believe that a me
morial building or some suitable mon
ument is a more fitting type of me
morial than a hospital, and that all
agitation at this time as to a change
served only to create uncertainty and
to hamper the Bafsing of the fund;
now. therefore, be it.
"Resolved, by the American -Legion
of South Carolina, representing the
white soldiers of South Carolina and
speaking for ouv fallen Comrades that
it is the sense of this convention that
the most fitting memorial would not
be a hospital hut some building- or
monument which would be primarily
a memorial.
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ST. MATTHEW'S
PROVES EASY
Sumter High School Football
Team Scores 10 to 0
In a game of football which was
played here yesterday in baseball
weather, Sumter won from St. Mat
thews by the score of 18 to 0. The
visitors' backfield w;>s an unusually
good one, but their lines wereu nable
to hold the savage rushes of the
Sumter backs. The St. Matthews
backs could not gain consistently
I through Sumter's line, which was.
heavier and more experienced than
I their opponents.
Burns, the star of the game, did
not make his presence known until
the latter part of the first quarter
when he commenced the line bucks
that were to sew up the game and put
the visitors out of the running for
1 the high school championship of the
State.
The vistors received the kick-off
and then made their best gains by
forward passes, and end runs. The
first play of the game netted the visi
tors 26 yards and was a forward pass.
Smoak to GreSseite, an end run net
ted 12 yards and placed the ball on
the 26 yard line. Short gains by end
runs and losses by line bucks failed
to give first down and St. Matthews
punted over the goal line. The ball
was Sumter's on her 20 yard line.
Here a series of line bucks in the
following order, put the ball within
the shadow:.of? the goat, posts: De
Lorme took six, Burns netted 12
more. eDLorme took -3 and Pitts
ldded seven. Wheeler gained 4 and
I Pitts followed with six. Burns came
I across with eleven and then six. Most
of these, plays went through, center
and over right guard.
The local lads lacked fifteen yards
of a touchdown when the quarter
ended. As play was resumed the line
! of the visitors had stiffened considerr
ably and held the Sumter backs for
downs on the fourteen yard line.xBe
ing unable to gain on line bucks and
netting very little on end runs the
St. Matthews backs bega an aerial
attack, which had been expected and
prepared for by Sumter. Before the
aerial attack began, the Sumter team
had thrown the St. Matthews backs
for a sixteen yard loss. Burns began
his spectacular playing by intercepting
a forward pass and running 30 yards
for a touchdown, the initial one of the
season on the local gridiron. Goal
was missed by DeLorme and The
score was 6 to 0.
As play was resumed another touch
down was registered by Pitts after
I several line bucks by Pitts, Burns and
j Wheeler for consistent gains. De
j Lorme made one of the prettiest runs j
j of the game in the seconjd quarter for j
22 yards, interference being furnished j
by Burns.
J Wheeler was a consistent ground;
j gainer on line bucks.
! In the third quarter Pitts secured
I the third and final touchdown of the j
i game by a long end run after a reries
I of line bucks. Xo goal from touch- I
I down was kicked.
I In the line Wright did the best
' work for Sumter. Several times he j
i broke through and threw the visiting!
backs for losses.
For Sumter the playing of Burns j
was the best, both on offense and de
fense, however the work of Pitts and I
j Wheeler, also deserves mention. De
i Lorme did not play his usual game. J
I Sumter was weakened by the absence j
j of Captain Rhame in the line. -
j Gressette was the best man that
; wore the red jersey of St. Mat-,
j thews. He was a wonderful ground j
j gainer and either threw or received |
'the pass. He played quarter and is i
also manager of the team.
With a faster, heavier and more ex
perienced line the visitors would have
made a much better showing. The
?,'ame was very good and exciting. J
However, it did not receive the sup- j
port of the Sumter people that it
should.
The officials were:
Referee?Burns (Davidson).
Umpire?McKnight (Wake Foresc).
Head Linesman?Winn (Carolina).
Blaokman-Riokenbaker Marriage.
A marriage which will be of inter
est to their friends was thai of Miss
Eufaula Blackman. of Kershaw. and
Mr. Sidney E. Rickenbaker of this
city.
The marriage ceremony was per
formed by Rev. J. P. Marion at 8 p. J
m. last ni.crht in the presence of only:
a few intimate friends and relatives. I
Mariagc Licenses.
Colored?Arthur Dargan. Rembert ]
and Dela Wade. Rembert.
Willie Jackson. Wcdgefield and j
Maria Scolt,. Bi ,don.
Henry Wilson. Sumter and Eugenia
Richardson. Sinnter.
Singleton Green, Wedgefield and
Hattie Harrison. Claremont.
Gilbert W. Richardson, Stateburg
and Fanny Frances. Eastover.
COTTON SHIPMENTS
Atlantic Coast Line Moving Cot
ton More Rapidly Than
Last Year
.There has been considerable com
plaint in some quarters this season
on account of the congestion\of cot
ton on the platforms, and there has
been an impression that the rail
roads have not been moving it as rap
idly as they should. To remove this
misapprehension Mr. E. Boney, A. C
L. agent, furnishes the following
figures in regard to the cotton ship
ments over his road. Since the open
ing of the cotton season the Atlantic
Coast Line has shipped from Sumter
11,627 bales cf cotton, while for the
same period last year the shipments
totaled only 9.510. The total number
of bales of cotton loaded for shipment
for the past four days was as follows:
October 24, 396; 25th, 3S0; 26th, 336;
2Sth, 4S0.
Messrs. Hoy Jervey, George Wilson
and Stuckey left last evening for Co
lumbia to attend the dance and foot
ball game. _
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