The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 22, 1921, Image 2
BILL IN CONGRESS
Fight In Congress on Number of
Soatii?South's Total to Re?
main aa at Present
Wellington, Jan. 17.?Lane* were
?narpry drawn tonight for a tight
Vomerro? to defeat the reapportl?n
?sent t?t ? ertrich w?i.? increase the
saembaruhtp of the ? ouse of repre
s ntnttves from 4SS to 48?.
After i final check up, leader* an
aounced that the measure an report
ad would be voted down decisively
aad tha. a substitute plan, holding
Stats to the present total, would be
adopted by a big majority.
There seemed little sentiment for
a larger house. Members from states
which wjuld lose .?epre*entation un?
der the ahtfting of 12 seat* from '1
es> eight states, declared they would
vote agstaat adiing 41 representa?
tive* at i coat of approximately II.?'
eOo.000 s year, when thefe la a cry?
ing dethnnd from all quarters for
govern m< ntal eoonomy.
An snapped eat today the program,
ander which the bill will be called
up tomorrow provide* for five hours
?f, debate. While there was some
?ejection to so much oratory, it was
sgflrssrt to permit members to express
their vtesr* at length, and then by a
rail call vote let the country know
that the house is big enough aa It
The Republican steering commit
was :*eported solldry agatn.it the
ease, not as committee, but as
ivfdualn South.?in Democrats, it
sgid, were not expected to op
the lower total ae a body, as
Che shifting of seats would leave
their present number intact.
Under provision of the bill house
aspect to be adopted the in
wii) a* as follows:
California t. Michigan f, Ohio 2,
Connecticut, New Jersey. Vorth
Carotine, Terns and Washington 1
aa**. To make up this number with
e%t Changing the 4SS total. Missouri
Wauag do**, two seats and the follow
Ms; States 6ns esch: Indians, lov a.
stanaas. Kentucky, Louisiana. Maiae
SaaaSSppt Nebraska. Rhode Island,
d Vermont
By thf* arrangement the Sou h
sseuHl gsMn la North Carolina and
Texas and lose In Louisiana and Mis
lesippi. '
tAXItETURNS ON
MERCANTILE STOCK
CofnsAissiorter Harris Issues
Report on Year's Business
f'olumhi*. Jan. IS. ?Every mer?
chant In South Carolina is this week
raoaivlns frcrm the state tax commis?
sion, with offices in Columbia, a
blank form on which to make a re?
port of the value of the stock of
geed? eairh-d Those ?1)1 be the basis
Of .the tax assessments for 1921. There
are. approximately fifteen thousand
mar?'bants In the state, to all of whom
the tas oomrnlaeion is sending the
blank stock statement
The merchant* are required to give
information as to the nature of their
bualasss; the amount of inventory;
merchandise received and sale* made
sine* last Inventory and prior to Jan?
uary 1. 1911. The value of goods on
consignment, the amount of notes
and accounts recetvabls at actal val?
ue; the amount of notes payable and
, accounts payable at actual value; the
true value of merchandise and fix?
ture* January 1; the amount of in?
surance carried; gross sales fer 1920;
the name of yartners In a partner?
ship and the names of omeer? In a
corporation, the capita) stock and the
sdrplus aocruod. All of this informa?
tion Is swQ-n to.
The tax nommlsslen will fix aseess
msats on the betals of the information
furnished by the merchants them?
selves. If any fall to fitrnlsh the
neuassnry data, it la stated, the com
miavton will take legal steps to re*
K- a> them to produce their records,
law requires this.
Th?? tsm oom mission to advising all
merchants that the fair market value
will bo the seal* of aaset*men*.*. Each
merchant I* asked to advise the com
Sttsgton whether he makes his state?
ment on the husts of cost or market
tiiIues. The assessment* for taxa
tla gare made on the basis of forty
tve per cent of the true talue of prop?
erty.
WOMAN PRO
BATE JUDGE
Greenville County Elect? Mrs.
Fannie C. Scott to Succeed
Husband
Greenville. J*n. 17?Mrs. Kanni? Q.
Scott, wklow of Probate Judge Walter
M. Scott, who wa* killed In an au?
tomobile accident on December :!6, Is
the only Candida e In the election to
1 g hetd in this county tomorrow to
t a aaoesSSCr to the lute Walter
M. Scott Tmhaaj for tht? election
have alt been distributed to trie man
jgers snd r-o fur her announcement*
beyond that of Mrs. Scott have been
mad* up to toroaht. Mrs. Scott will
therefore be elected tomorrow to sSc
ceed aer late husband and tbhi will
he tha Srst ttme in the history of
South Carolina thai a woman has
Leen elect od to a putillc office.
Woman Kteci^l I*mbu4< .lodge.
Oreenvllls, Jan. IS.?The first wo?
man in Basjta Carolina Slooted to
public ofhW was elected here today.
Ifta innin? C Scott was named as
Jadaa of r*r"baie in Oreonviiie
< ountv srtd had no opposition She
auceeesjs h r hi sband, who wss kiu
evf recently in an automobile gacl?
-1. Bj|
Wither immien. n Belgian priest,
devoted hfi life trr the iphltgsjl care
ef the leaarii on the Hawaiian island
of Molokai. He died from leprosy.
IMMORAL AND
DISHONEST
A Vicious and Ignorant Attack
on the Emergency Tariff
Bill
(Manufacturers ltecord).
The Now York Herald is not usu
airy grotesquely uninformed on thi
subjects it undertakes to discusn. It
does not always reason well, but in
general It takes the trouble to find
out something about the facts in gay
situation. Unfortunately, it has re?
cently insisted on discuwaing the emer?
gency tariff measure in a puerile and
childish vi ay. as if the fonts of
knowledge had run dry or their in?
spiration had never been invited.
The Herald declares that it is in
favor of reasonable tariff help for
the American farmer. Maybe so, but
when rt comes to a specific case, it
reasons thus: "As for a duty of V
cents a pound on cotton when 'cotton
was king" for decades at a minimum
selling prloe of 7 cents and when, at
the outbreak of the European war,
10 cent cotton seemed an unattain?
able gool until peace should come,
such a tariff schedule must look more
like crass political buffoonery than
serious legislative workmanship."
The Forney emergency tariff bill
does not propose a duty of 7 centa a
pounc. on cotton. It provides for the
duty on a special kind of cotton, the
long staple cotton, the highest grade
cotton. The Herald will search its
records many, many years and never
find that such cotton ever sold for 7
cents a pound. That has not happen?
ed since the Herald was published.
It never has happened. Indeed, while
the Herald was a struggling babe,
South Carolina sea island cotton was
selling nku'-aily at more than $1 a
pound, aid often for double that
amount.
The Arunk-an long staple market
was broken a foW months after the
armistice when this government per?
mitted Egyptian cotton to be import?
ed by the hundreds of thousands of
Jxifes. A great experiment in the
production of long staple cotton was
and Ly under way in Arizona. They
are producing thsre under irrigation
um tine ootton as is grown anywhere
in the world. Much of it is being pro?
duced under the best possible seien -
tide direction, by a great tire cor?
poration, which plants 23.000 acres
and does it with cheap Mexican labor.
The Herald will be amazed to learn,
we suppose, that the actual cost ef
production of this cotton in Arizona
this year has been more than 70
cents a pound. Impossible? Weh,
the records happen to be available
and they are correct In every detail.
Indeed, we know of long staple cot
tun that has been produced under gov?
ernment direction during the past
year at a coat of considerably more
than $1 a pound. We doubt if it has
beim produced in Egypt for less than
30 or 40 cents a pound.
To promote the production of high
grado (rotton is surely wise. The time
will come, we hope, when scarcely any
ordinary cotton will be produced in
America. To put a premium on he
production of long staple cotton is so
wholly commcodable an undertak?
ing that wo venture to say the Her?
ald would not undertake to ariue
otherwise.
When the Herald saya that cot?
ton was king on the basis of 7-cent
cotton, it In equally stupid. Wild
ducks sold at lb cents the dosen In
southern mark Ms at one time. Sev
> rx cen a went a long way. Even *o,
we doubt if any cotton ever sold in
this country at 7 cents a pound and
showed a profit. The largest holder
.of slaves in South Carolina, in 1869,
{stated that the average return from
his Investment, over a term of years,
was less than 3 per cent.
but the qheer ignorance of the Her
sld is convincingly established whin
It. is understood that the cost of
picking end ginning a bale of cottoa
alono is today more than 7 cents a
pound! There are thousands of
acres of cotton lying unpicked today
because It costs more to pick and gin
tho staple than the staple 1S worth
in the open market. The ?ertld
charges twice as much for itself to
subscribers as it did when the war
broke out. It does so properly, en
account of the additional cost of white
paper. Moreover, it would indlgnau:
ly repulse my effort to compel it 13
rn dally a", a loss. Vet it has tho
I positive Impertinence to attempt to
!arouse prejudice among its readers by
suggesting to them that prices for
cotton represent rank profiteering and
that a reasonable, even a too low, tar?
iff on long staple cotton is Indefen?
sible. What is the sens*.' of beln*.;
an intellectjal nincompoep?
There is plenty of political and S4 >
nomic buffoonery in connection with
the pending emergency tariff bill, hut
It happens to come entirely from the
I ignorant, diseusaions of such papers
'as the Herald. Because such lglio.
ance is inexcusable, the comment
based on it can fairly be character?
ized as viciaus.
i When a paper says It is in favor of
|7-eeai oattoa, it says that it is in iu
i'?r of industrial slavery for every
[.farmer, black or white, who produce?:
OtSOn, tha the children of such
farmers ought not to be educated,
that th?y oufht not to have shoes,
that they are entitled to no religious
trslning and that their lot in life
should be to labor end to live in pov
er y for the enrichment of others. All'
newspsper n America that Knowing?
ly stain's far a program of that sort
> mi moral and dishonest.
Columbia. Jan. 18.-? V\ I he mid
jdle of Janu try the stale Mihway de?
partment has OollOOtad for I9S1 rno
I tor vehicle Heinsen, more than one
third of the total amount ti d looted
hist year. The Iff] lleoasoo, to Jan?
uary II, have brought In $199,149,
i"' i ill of feat year the total was $SS7,<
Igg, LI Onag fees ere higher this
roar, however, gradusted according
u, rar weigit
-. ? i . i .
The Island of Caan van In the Phil?
ippine group was sold by Spain to the
L'nlted Scutes In IH0 for 1100,000.
having been Inadvertently excluded
'Crom the terms o? tUe treaty of peJSjSSi
PRICES OF COTTON
GAIN DURING WEEK
Improvement in Dry Goods Sit?
uation Regarded as Con?
structive Move
New ( ??'<xins, Jan. 17.?It was a
week oi" advancing prices In the cot?
ton market, mainly b oca use of the
strength of the Jnnuary position and
the marked improvement in the mar?
ket for ftnlfhcd goods. Highest prices
oams at the middle of hte week, when
the trading months were ill to i 54
points over the* last prices Of the
preceding week with January up to
15.75 ml March up to 16. Last prices
for QiO week showed nOt gains on con
tracte of OH to 107 points, with Janu?
ary at 1C.32 and Maroni at lt-.lt. In
the gpot dv partsaonl pricos gained 100
points cn middling in the no* results,
the last quotation being 15.
The spectacular feature of the week
was ti e movement of cotton from the
8outh to Now York to bo entered on
January con/tracts there.
The improvement in the dry goods
situation wan generally regarded as
the most constructive development of
the woe*. Many southern mills were \
repoite 1 to bnve started upon Mon?
day on full time soheduV'S. New Eng- I
land cloth markets reported the larg?
est sah? in Wholesale markets of the
country.
Thi: week the January dt?al will be ]
watched with increasing interest, for
as the expiration for the prosent apot
pos'.ti n draws near more or less es>
citement is anticipated.
MADE A MASON
AT SIGHT
Columbia, Jan. 1$.?Piehop Wil?
liam A. Uusry, of the Episcopal dio
gosn of South Carolina, was made a
liaaon at sight hore today at an oc
Qggional lodge This is the first time
in |hi history of the state, so far as
is knov n here, fur sutii u ceremony
to tagt Pisco.
?'Hut They Rode."
least spring when cotton
Wv selling ho high,
You rou d gee some farmers
"Fh . ting" in the sky.
(Mut they RODE)
The) rods in sun,
The) rode in rain,
Horn" even rode
in an aeroplane.
(Bllt they KODE?
'Fluy rode all night,
lhe rode all day,
Thny kopi oh "riding'
Till I ha devil's to pay.
(Lut they 1101)1")
If it wni an auto,
it v is u otamod old mule,
I he) ? > vtl " ridins"
TJ!. I i . V? t.ut the toot.
tHilt they RODE)
Soiue rode hurd,
Horn? rods well,
but th > kept on "riding"
THI th- y've sure played h?,
(But they RODE>
Some doctors spent the whole yeair,
restituting pills,
And can t collect enough money
To pay their gasoline bills.
(Mut they RODE)
Some rode fast
The dust rose like a morning fog,
They tell us that hi* true name
V\ is oat Kent Hog.
(Hut they RODE)
The r? al estate business
V* it the best of all.
tint ? laiae my skin
if I" d ln't fall.
(But they RODE)
j Borni bought Kords,
t 1 ut ear led them back,
(And U'VomlaeVl) th0 difference
i'cr a Cadillac.
(But they RODE)
The farmers and merchants
Are broke, Lha/t's true,
((And it looks mighty like
'Ihe banks are too.)
I (But they RODE)
The a\>ove was written
J?8( for a Joke,
Cut dntrn my hide
If the country ain't "Br?ks."
(But they KODE)
lie form lUllh lo Legislature.
Columbia, Jan. is.?Representative
M H. Cooper, of MeauCort. mtrodue
led m the house todoy a bill to pro
IhlM Ihe e::hibltlon of certain carni?
val shows at uhy point in the stale.
Representative V. C Harris of Bpar
(jLfsburg Introduced s bill lo prohibit
the operation of pool rooms for com
m irotai purposes. The bill would
impose a fine Of from $25 to $1.000
for Imprisonment foi not more than
Mhtrty days for each violation. The
houae passed the resolution alread)
passed iy the senate, urging congress
to continue federal aid lor post roads
in South Carolina
y. den City* Jon. IS.?Call for a
spvcml iwsslon of the Mexican eon
gresH ii tinning Fshrnary seven is Is
I sued i y President Qbregon. Aftlcli
187 of the eonotitutlon whloh govern .
! |?' i i < i'fi deposits will he uue 'tiff the
projoeta to be oonsldorsd.
Toi ?Hu, Jan. ?Husbanda are to
he placed in th' ?tatviM of employers
with wives as employes in their hore,"
und i i dited ?o recover damages for
Inj ?*??;. ?! received wl lie performing
houiiehold du Use, under the tern t; of
in bill Introduced 10 Kansas house of
I representatives by one of His two
[wemru members nf the ho use.
Purported uo,pi es of correspondenci
i?e'w.n Angar, fourteenth prince of
Bdeasa, is Meaopotarnia, and Jesus
Christ uaiae to Ughi in lyuu.
MANUFACTURES IN ;
SOUTH CAROLINA
State Tax Commission Sending
Out Blanks to All Merchants i
in South Carolina
Columbia* Jan. is.?Tha manufac?
tured product of all Industrial in
South Carolina increased fifteen per
cent in 19 20 while wages increased
more than thirty per cent, according
to the report of B. Harris, com mis
ptoner of agriculture, submitted, to
the legislature thin week. The manu?
factured product in 1920 was $405,
239,000, an inorease of fifty minion
o\er the high figure of 1919.
Production fell off with fertilizer
factories, eil m!ils, foundarles and
machine Ehops und grist mills, but in
cr ased with textile mills, from $228,
912,000 to $280,158,000, or'a net of
$57,250,000.
"Wastes increased from $58,619,003
In 1919 to $75,172.372 last year, an
increase of over 30 per cent., or of
$16,053.000. Textile wages Increased
from $36.677,000 to $51,032.000.
Capital invest( 1 increased from
$201,451,000 to $233,127,998. The
number of employes fell off from 81.
807 In 1919. to I0.S10 In 1920. There
Were fewer employe^ in cotton mills,
by 938, though wages showed a big
increase. Male employes increased,
females decreased.
Trxtlle Figures.
Mr. Harris* r< port flhows that the
number of spindles' in cotton mills in
the stats Increased in one year from
4,947,644 to 4,977.40?; number of
looms, cotton consumed, coal consum?
ed, value of product, horso power and
Wagag all showed increases. Since
1D14 the number of spindles had in?
creased by more than a million.
Wiiges in cotton mills have Increased
sifted 1*14 from $12,4;8,4?2 to $51,
032.998.
Bill to Create >fovic Censorship Board
Columbia, Jan. 19.?A bill to pro?
vide a moving picture consorship in
South CatnUno, With a board of re
VH V, was introduced in the senate
today, by Senator Hogers, of Spartan
burg. It was referred to the judic?
iary committee. A similar bill was
defeated In the legislature last year,
1? rig unfavorably reported by u
he USe committee, be tore Which a
Streng presentation wos made by the
racing picture interests.
Senator Rogers' bill would create
u board of three members, appoint?
ed by the governor, the chairman to
receive a salary of $3.000. the othor
members $2,f>00 each, all to he citizens
Of the state. Tlio mombers would
Strve for six, four ~ A two years.
*nd thereafter for six years each.
'.he bUb in outlining the work of
the proposed board, specifies that it i
shall ' .\amino all films and reels in- i
tended to be used or exhibited inj
StKlth Carolina, and ehall approve
im h reals ?r Alms as are denied
al ?a?d pr>per, and shall disap
. "OVe such us an doomed cruel, ob?
r. ( ae, indecent or Immoral, or such
end to debase and corrupt mor
Uis.
1 he bill provides that a t:ix of live
cent? per annum against each sea<
In a theater h1uj.11 be Imposed on the
moving picture theater! of tho state,
with rebate to those theaters opcrat
ngj less than six days a week. There
would also be a tax of two dollars
on each reel of film examined, nuns
i/.sued by religious, charitable or ed?
ucational organizations to be exempt
. 1 All ftlinH in the state would be
rovlOWOd before they could be exhibit?
ed. Appeal from tho rulings of the
hoard could be taken to the courts.
Every film approved by the board
(WOUld be Stamped "Approved by the
Vocth Carolina Hoard of Review,"
and this would show on the film it?
self.
Violation of the law would be con
sidered a misdemeanor, punishable by
Imprisonment for from ten to thirty
da.,?, or by fine or from ten to one
huhdied dollars. A second offense
Wpuld niake the violating exhibitor
subject to revocation of license, Bach
thtater in the state would, be granted
a license by the board of review, al?
lowing it to exhibit films, this li?
cense to be poBted in a conspicuous
place near the theater entrance.
The bill would also make it unlaw?
ful to exhibit Indecent posters, or
por.ters depicting matter that was cut
out of the film, which it was Intend?
ed to advertise, fanes for violation
would go to the county treasuries,
aalf to bo forwarded to the state
treasury.
Mil to Allow tVomno i'uil Suffrage.
Columbiu. Ian. 19.-? A bill to con
\r on the women of the state the
right to vote In all elections ?raa In?
troduced today in the house of rep?
resentatives by Representative Claude j
\\ Sapp, of Columbia. This makes
he laws of the state of South Caro?
lina conform to the recently ratl
lled nineteenth amendnv nt.
The new bill would-allow ail women
over tho age of 21 to vote In all elec?
tions, on their complying with the
provisions of the constitution de?
nning the rikhin of qualified electors
: >r men. The Mil would also make
j tho same disqualifications apply to
I he Women aa the the men. The bill
will be considered by the judiciary
committee of the house before it gets
on tho calendars for a vote, but Ihe
Buoccss of it^ passage is not doubted.
Columbia, Jan. 19.?The South Car?
olina Railroad commission today re
nucuted A tome) Cic?n ?.' Wolfe to
\ki legal action to force the South?
ern Railway to erect an overhead
lirldgo ? c Mile Post No, 10. threo
miles from Chester, General Supt
\v. C. Hndeon, and Supt. \v D. Post,
>f the Columbia division of the South?
ern, sppeared before ihe comntission
i few days aim and submitted th?
toad's refusal to build the bridge, re
? ently roQuested by ih commission.
The peremptory order issued today
followed. Tho attorney general will
start his action within u few days, it
?? stated.
The Invention of beer 1m ascribed to
Cambfinun, g mythical king of Flan?
ders.
SUGAR GROWERS
NEED PROTECTION
Appeal Comes From Puerto Rico
Along With That From
Louisiana
Washington, Jan. 18.?Criticism of '
th'.* government's methods of sugar
distribution during the war together '
with a practically unanimous appeal
of cane sugar growers for a pro?
tective duty marked consideration by
the house ways and means commit?
tee to sugars, molasses and syrups, j
Practically the entire day was given 1
over to testimony of conditions of th-.*
cane belt of the south but represen
tatives of the several refiners, among
them Former Representative .lohn J.
Fitzgerald of New York, were in?
cluded in the witnesses and they stir?
red up the old time strife between
producers and refiners.
Mr. Fitzgerald declared that the
I government's policy during the sugar
shortage last year had been such as
? to ^penalize the whole nation In order
to favor Louisiana producers.
"If the government had bought the
Louisiana crop," he said, "it could
have given it away, saved those peo?
ple whmo it need ns an excuse for |
the price fixed and saved 'he rest of i
the country millions of dollars.
R. K. Milling of New Orleans, rep- j
resenting the growers, restOrted that
the refiners had sought to get a grip (
on the sugar industry "and make the
people pay for it."
Earlier in the day the committee
had heard the request ot a delegation 1
from Puerto Rico for the tariff on
sugar that would enable them to con- j
tinno an industry, which they de?
scribed aH basic in the life of the1
island.
POW of the witnesses, representing
either the producers or the manufac?
turers of raw cane sugar attempted
to suggest a specific rate of duty. All
were content with asking the com?
mittee merely to five them "ample
protection." The argument advanced
was that cane sugar was an import?
ant addition to the national sugar
supply and therefore its production
should bo encouraged. Statements
were made to the effect that the in?
dustry would die unless some pro?
tection were granted,
j The committee also heard Frederick
J. Pales, chief of the sugar division
of the federal bureau of standards,
who urged a redrafting of the sugar
ehedule so that "archaic and old
fashioned methods" of assessing the
duty would be eliminated,
i Mr. Bales, who was called by tho
committee, declared that the method
now used was adopted among the
earlier tariff schedules of the nation's
hifjtory, and never had been changed.
The witness also suggested a pro?
hibitory tariff on rare sugars which
aro used almost entirely in medical
work. He termed as "infants" the in?
dustries manufacturing these pro?
ducts and warned tho committee that
Unless they were protected a revival
of the German production would
stitle these plants.
UNDERWRITERS
MEETING CLOSES
Columbia, Jan. 19.?The tenth an?
nual convention of the South Carolina
Life Underwriters' association came
to an end here today, after Frank
BrldnaX, of Columbia was ro-elected
president and Wilson Gibbes secre?
tary and treasurer. B. IL Fiance, of
Spartanburg, was elected first vice
president; J. V. Dillingham. of Char*
ieston, second vice-president; J. Boon
Alken, of Florence, W. R. Moody, W.
S. Hendley, T. L. Wardlaw, and J. R.
Rosenberry, of Columbia, are the
executive committee. Several hun?
dred insurance men have attended
;hc convention.
Bill to Enlarge service Commission
Authority.
Columbia, Jan. 19.?The already
heralded bill to enlarge the powers
Of the Public Set vice Commission,
giving it authority to regulate rates
and also service of public utilities,
wan introduced in the house of rep?
resentatives by Representative J. H.
Atkinson, of Spartanburg.
The bill would provide a salary of
$3.500 for the chairman of the com?
mission, and $2,r>00 for each of the
other members, the membership of
the commission to bo three, a term of
Office being six years.
The commission would be financed
by a ta> against utility corporations,
of more than one-fourth of one
per cent of the gross revenue of the 1
corporations, from the sale ot* service,
tho tax to be collected just as are oth
. v taxes. There would be tax for
th?. hale of service to a subsidiary or
auxiliary corporation.
The bill would make the powers Of
tho con.mission extend to all com?
panies selling gas. electricity, or Wa?
ter, or operating streit railways. The
board would also have power to es?
tablish a standard system of accounts
'.'or all Utilities.
A similar bill was introduced in the
legislature last yea: but was killed
near the close of the session, in the
si note, after a strong fight was waged
)>> the Southern Power company, es
peelo. lly.
Brasil to Expand Naval Power.
Rio de Janeiro. Jan. 19.?The com?
mittee on naval and military affairs
of the Braslllan Chamber of Depu?
ties wants a bigger navy. It lias call?
ed upon 'he president lo preaent bo
ihe ncxi aoaalon of eongress a pro?
gram of naval conatrutclon drawn up
by the general staff of the admiralty
and to be carried out for a term of
yea i s.
The reason given for this proposed
Incw a so i:-. that It is nooeaaary b<
raUBS Of Brazil's new position in the
world as a signatory Ot the Versailles
treaty and as an effective member
the league of nations. Another rea?
son ascribed is the necessity of de?
fending a long coait lin*?.
Those navy ballojonlsta \ showed
how far it is possthle to travel on hot
air.?Pittsburgh auu.
SENATE NOT
RUNNING WILD
Committee Make** Unfavorable
Report on Hills to Reduce All
Salaries
Columbte? Jan. 19.?In senate to?
day unfavorable committee re?
ports were hoard on Senator "Wight -
man's bill to abolish the state tax
commission and to reauce the salaries
of all .->;ate and county otflcers.
A a unfavorable report was also
maue on the resolution to limit state
appropriations to four and a-half
millions.
The resolution to postpone tax
penalties until April l v*i? reported
! avorably.
s? nator Wells introduced a resolu?
tion urging congress to reopen the
L'ederal land banks.
Representative atcDavid of Green?
ville today introduced s bill to regu?
late traffic On thf highways. He would
have the general assembly elect u
traffic commissioner to receive a sal?
ary of thr?><- thousand, to enforce
traffic rules. The bill also contains
rub s governing the use of brakes,
horns, rut-outs and speed of motor
vehicles, and making regulations re?
garding crossings, the care of persons
injun d in acc-idents. and the lllps.
The bill covers more than a dozeu
pages.
UNTERMEYER
MAKES CHARGE
Wants Department of Justice
and Alien Property Investi?
gated
New York. Jan. 18.?An immediate
congressional investigation of the de?
partment of justice and the office of
the alien property c ustodian was rec?
ommended by Samuel Cntermeyer, in
an address today at a testimonial din?
ner to Nathan Hirsch, prominently
identified with the campaign against
r.mt profiteering here. Mr. Unter?
meyer, who, as chief counsel in the
Joint legislative committee investi?
gation of the aliened building trust,
has obtained numerous indictments,
declared he had no direct legal evi?
dence against the two departments.
"But," he added, "if a fraction or
what comes to me is true, and I be?
lieve much of it to be true, such an
investigation will disclose to the
world a series of the most mortify?
ing scandals that has ever befallen
our country.
"There has never been a govern?
mental department, 'national or
state," Mr. Untermeycr said, "so ur?
gently in need of immodiate and
painstaking investigation as are those
of the alien property custodian and
the department of justice dating:
from the time of the enactment af
the alien property custodian law. But
the Investigation must be conducted,
it" at all, under skillful, searching and
strictly non-partisan direction, with
th<> aid of experienced counsel and
only after the same careful prepara?
tion such as that which precedes the
trial of c case.
"Our national honor is involved
here. The vast powers and patronage
of those great officers are said to have
been used, and it is the general belief
.hat they were incidentally used to
build up a political machine, which,
however, fortunately failed of its pur?
pose. Put the uses to which they and
their vast patronage were put was
nono the less sinister because they
did not succeed."
Mr. Cntermeyer declared that "for?
tunes in patronage are believed to
have been squandered among favor?
ites in the form of lawyers' and di?
rectors* fees taken out of the pockets
of citizens and aliens whose prop?
erties were seized, or unfortunately
came under the control of the govern?
ment.
"There is just one decent loop?
hole of escape for us." he added,
"and that is by B merciless exposure
of the facts by the congress."
SEAPLANE IS SUNK
BY GUNFIRE
San Francisco, Jan. 19.?The naval
enplane NC-.". Which was wrecked
dtiring its flight from San Diego to
fthe Canal Bone has been sunk by gun?
fire, according to a radio received
here. No explanation of the mes?
sage has been received.
Minder Connty Highways.
Suntter and Bumter county have
received a great deal of valuable ad
'l-iising in The American City, a
world-wide known magazine publish?
ed in New York opy through the
c< urtesy of that publication giving a
detailed account of the two and a
half million dollar hard surfaced road
bond campaign successfully carried
out in Bumter county last year.
The editor of that magazine wrote
Secretary Reardon of the Sumter
Chamber of Commerce requesting in?
formation as to the methods adopted
in Sumter county that put over that
proposition so sucoessfully. g
Permission to print was requested
of the secretary who of course was
only too glad to take advantage of a
free advertising proposition that will
give Sumter and Sumter county pub
leity thai could not be otherwise se?
emed except through the spending
of many thousands of dollars.
I The American City is a magan
that is widely read by thousands
municipal, county, commercial a
civic organizations, throughout
Cnit od S1a;es and Canada, and
thousands of private individuals
The fact 'hat Sumter cot
method of doing things attract"
n'-.on ol the publishers of
hiah c^|?ss magazine is a coma,
to Sumter and Sumter countf
x the second time that the
Chamlv r of Commerce husvtol
*d upon by that magazine t
they do things in Sumter
county, the first article
that publication about