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Re-writing Tax Revision Bill Majority Members Will Take Up Question of Additional Revision in Pending Measure Washington, Oct. 7.?Amend ments to the pending tax revision bin agreed to by Republican lead ers in the ^senate were made public today formaUy in advance of their, consideration tomorrow'by majori ty members of the finance com mittee. They would provide for: A maximum surtax rate of 50 per cent, on that part of incomes in excess of $200,000 in lieu of the committee plan for a 32 per cent. ; maximum on the excess over $66, 000. Repeal of the express, freight, ~ passenger and Pullman transporta tion, taxes effective at the passage .: t>f the bill. An increase from $2.20 a gal l-ion to $4 a gallon in the tax on distilled spirits produced, imported - or withdrawn from bond for use for industrial, medicinal or other purposes. Restoration of the capital stock 'tax of $1 on each $1,000 of invested * capital. Estate Tax Rules. A graduated increase in the es tate tax rates to ? maximum of 50 per cent on the excess over $100, 000,000 in lieu of the present maxi mum of 25 per cent, over $10,000, 000. . i 1} Repeal ,or the excise on sport goods, chewing gum, perfumes, es sences, tooth and mouth washes and pastes, dentifrices, toilet pow- I ders and soaps, and soap powders and other miscellaneous taxes suf ficient to make up a cut of $37, 000,000 annually. Elimination of the proposed tax on hotel accommodations. Reduction in the tax on candy to 3 per cent, tax with elimination of the committee proposal for a 10 per cent, on candy selling at whole sale for more than 40\ cents a pound. ?g.The other excise previsions of the senate bill would stind includ ing repeal of the excess profits tax next January 1, a flat tax of 15 per cent, on corporation incomes and increased exemptions for heads of gpEtmilies and on account of depend ents. \ While repal of the $2,000 exemp tion allowed corporations is not in cluded in the program as announc ed, leaders, were endeavoring to work out a plan which would : protect small corporations and at the same tinie remove the exemp tion from large corporations. The suggestion ineetlng with the most favor was to aUow the exemption In the case of corporations having . net incomes of less than $20,000 or $25,000. . ' Opposition to the proposed in - crease in the surtax rates develop ed today among a group of sena tors from Eastern states and they were understood to be preparing to wage an active fight against a 50 per cent maximum. There was also some opposition among these .senators to increased estate tax f rates. House leaders also declared against increasing the surtax rate beyond the 32 per cent, maximum I fixed in the bill as it passed the 'house. Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican leader, and Chairman Fordney of the ways of mears committee expressed themselves very frankly on 'this '.subject before goirg into a con-. Terence with Chairman Penrose of the senate finance committee to! discuss' the changes as agreed upon by the senate leaders. In * making public the proposed senate amendments, Senator Pen rose said they were offered by cer tain senators "in a patriotic and amicable spirit" and that he did not understand that they were ar bitrary or final. Declaring that he i did not regard them as constituting j radical innovations, disturbing the j structure of the committee meas- j ure, the finance committee chair- j mail said many of them were in no ) way objejctionable to him. "I have no objejction," he said, "to repeal I of the nuisance taxes, transports^ j tion taxes and hotel tax. I have ! not had time to study all of the j other proposals." ? The net change in th eestimated i revenue as a result of the amend- j ments as proposed was placed by treasury experts at an increase of $11,000,000 in the $3,324,000,000 total of the pending bill. The surtax amendment provides a wholly-new schedule beginning with 1 per cent, in that part of in comes between $6,000 and $10.000 and increasing 1 per cent, for each additional $2,000 up to .47 per cent, on incomes between $98,000 and $100,000. Then the rates would be 43 percent. Between $100,000 and $150,000 and 49 per cent, between i $150,000 and $200,000. . The com- j mittee proposal is 1 per cent on I $6,000 to $8,000 and gradual in- | creases up to 32 per cent, on $66,- i .000. " Under the amendment to the es- i t?te tax the present 25 per cent j maximum would apply on the | amount of estates between $10,000. 000 and $15,000,000 and then the j rates would be 30 per cent, between $15,000,000 and $25.000.000. Thir ty-five per cent, between $2">.o00. 000 and $50,000,000 and 40 per cent between $50,000,000 and $100.000, 000. The senate went ahead with consideration of the committee bill today, but four hours of the ses sion was taken up with addresses and only a few of the committee amendments were acted upon. These related to administrative pro visions. "Her mother had twins thrice, three of her sisters had twins twice, and she herself has had twins three times." writes a doctor regarding one of his patients. The bull-head, a small fish with a large head, found on the English coast, barks to frighten off its ene mies. j Story of Yankee's Second Victory New York Americans Play Too Fast Ball For the Giants . New York, Oct 6 (By the As sociated Press).?The New York Americans made world series his tory here today shutting- out the Giants, 3 to 0, in the second game of the struggle, leaving the New York Nationals Tunless after 18 in nings of play in the first two days of the city clubs' conflict. They did it by lively work on the bases and the best possible use of their hits I supported throughout by the bril J liant twirling of Waite Hoyt, their i young right handed star. The score was the same as in the first game j yesrcrday, Hoyt allowing the Giants j only two puny singles, i Unlike the opening encounter, i today's game was played before a I crowd that taxed the capacity of the Polo grounds and let itself loose at freo.uent intervals to zipping outbursts of enthusiasism. It had plenty to enthuse over for the con test, while a pitchers' battle be tween Hoyt and Art Nehf, who twirled stellar ball for the Giants, was replete with rattling plays and tense moments. Possibly the thing that most encouraged the followers of the Yankees, looking forward to the ultimate outcome of the series, was the splendid game pitched by Hoyt, who held the Giants to one hit up to the ninth. Never before has a world series opened with two straight shutouts of- the same con testant. So airtight was Hoyt's pitching I that the Giants never had more j than four men at the plate in any i One inning. The nearest they came ! I to the home base was in the ninth inning when Frisch with one down singled to right and went (o sec ond when Young was given a base on ballr. He was on his way home from Second ar a fast double play on Young and Kelly ended the in ning and the game. The only oth er man to get to second was Nehf, who was' given a base on balls and went down on an out. Aside from Hoyt's marvelous twirling the game revealed "Babe" Ruth in a new role, that of a de mon base stealer?a role that seemed just as popular with the crowd as his familiar one of home run king. The great bambino stole second and third in rapid succes sion in the fifth inning, and his clean pilfering of the far corner was greeted with the wildest dem onstration of the series to date. ! At the bat Ruth's record wa\s colorless. He did not once connect safely. Nehf appeared to pitch to him every time, but in trying to cut the corners succeeded in issuing i three passes to the big' fellow, much to the disgust of apparently the greater portion of the crowd. Ruth scored a run, however, get ting on the bases once through a fielder's choice and finally tallying, j Ruth's base stealing feat was j j performed late in. the inning and j I didn't result in a run. Not so, how- j ! ever, the surprise sprung by the ! next most justly celebrated slugger of "Murderers' Row"?the lanky "Bob" "Meusel. This lithe Cali fornian did nothing less than exe cute a clean steal of home in the ; eighth?duplicating McNally's feat of Wednesday. He didn't have to slide for it either, for the pitch on I which he tore in was wide and Earl Smith, the startled x-atcher, let it get away from him for a pass ed ball. The Giant rooters got their chance again today to grow en thusiastic over the playing of the remarkable Frank Frisch. This stellar performer undoubtedly pre vented the score taking on a de cidedly more lop-sided aspect. For one thing he made a great catch of a sizzling liner by Meusel, la belled for two bases, with two on, in the Yankees' first inning, turning the smash into a double play. Then in the third, he brought the crowd to its feet with his brilliant per formance in grabbing a difficult j grounder from McNally, throwing himself at the ball, and then, while flat on the ground, reach up and tagging Walter Pipp, who was tear ing for third. Much of the excitement of the (game was crowded into the Yan kees' third inning. Schang started by ending a high fly to Bancroft. Rawlings squirmed and twisted to get under Hoyt's Texas 'eaguer but was unable to hold the ball. Peck inpaugh walked and the crowd yell ed to Ruth to "hit 'er out" as the Babe came to bat. Coach O'Leary of the Yankees here ran out from the dugout and drew Umpire Mo riarty's attention to the ball. The umpire examined it and threw it out of the game. Pitcher Nehf took no chances with the home run hitter and passed him to first, fill- I ing the bases. This brought up I Bob Meusel. another hard hitter, j but the best he could do was to ! send up a short fly to Bancroft, ! j leaving the three base runners ; stranded. The Yankees scored their first j [run in the fourth inning. After I Pipp had sent a high fly to Young. ; Ward got a hit on a slow bounder to right. McNally hit to Nehf who ; in trying to throw out Ward at j ; second, shot the ball wide and both I runners were safe. Wally Schang drew a pass, filling all the corners. Ward tallied the first run as Hoyt I went out on a grounder, Rawlings to Kelly. McNally tried in score ' as the play was being made at ; first and was nipped at the plate ; by Kelly's good throw to Smith. Except for Ruth's base on balls. ; and his two steals in the fifth noth ing further happened in the scor . ing line until the eighth when the \ Vank<-?-s added two. Frisch muffed I Peckinpaugh's easy fly b;i( k of j third base. Ruth smashed a grounder to Kelly who threw out : Peckingpaugh at second, Bancroft : taking the throw. Ruth sprinted to third on Uob Meusel's single to cen ' ter and came home as Pipp was : tfoing out on a grounder, Rawl ings to Kelly. Meusel took third j on the play. Then the unexpected j again happen?*]?Meusel's ste al of home amid cheers that shook the grandstands. Ward ended the in ning by fouling out to Kelly. In addition to establishing a new world's series record of two con secutive shut outs by the same team in the first two games. -Ju gate receipts record established yes terday also went by the board. The 34.939 spectators who witnessed the Yankees' second victory paid $115. 320. This was more than six times the gate receipts in the sec ond of the 1905 series, which was the first played at the Polo grounds under the national commission I rules. Ey a strange coincidence the j Giants lost that game to the Phil adelphia Athletics on the same j field and by the same score as that ! of today's contest. Chief Bender [ did the hurling for Connie Mack i and it was the only game won by 1 the Athletics in the famous shut out series. At that game the first of the series in New York, 24,992 persons paid $1S,9SS. Of the $115,320 paid today the! players will receive $58,813.20, the j clubs $39.2OS.SO and the advisory j board Si7,29S. If interest in the series continues and the play ; should extend to six or seven ? games, a new total receipts record is almost certain in view of the i high prices being charged for both i reserved and unreserved seats at ; the Polo grounds. The present rec- j ord for gate receipts is held by the ! 1919 series between the Cincinnati! and Chicago clubs when $722,414 j was taken in during the eight j games. Inquiry by British Government Asks About Im migration Rules London. Oct 6 (By the Assoeiat- j ed Press).?The British govern ment is taking up with Washington j the entire question of the entry of j British subjects into the United j States, it was learned today. British government officials point out that an individual may obtain the necessary vise but finds upon hip arrival at Xew York that the to tal monthly number from the geographical category to which he belongs already has been admitted j and he, therefore, would be detain ed at Ellis Island with resulting se rious discomfiture. It was stated that a. number of such cases re- ' cently have occurred. Verdict Against State State Must Pay $4,000 Forj Violation of Hosiery Mill Contract Columbia, Oct. 7.-.?A verdict of ; $4,000 for the plaintiff was the j decision in the famous "hosiery milt" case decided in court here ! Thursday aftrenoon. The case was ! brought against ,the state by John j M. Graham of Columbia, who at j one time operated the hosiery mill in the state penitentiary. His con tract was broken by the legislature, when the mill was abolished, and he sued, under act of the general i assembly, for $24,300. The case j has been tried several times, and j was taken to the supreme court j where there was a reversal, in Mr. i Graham's favor. This is the first ! verdict for the plaintiff in circuit ! court. <J> ifr <fr i Tenny on Marketing _ i Bureau of Markets Specialist] Urges Organization Clemson College. Oct. G.?Speak- j ing here today before Extension . Service forces and members of the j legislature from a score or more ( counties here by invitation at the j opening session of the annual meet ing of the extension forces, Lloyd j S. Tenny. assistant chief of the ! United States Bureau of Markets | stated that there is no short course to solving the marketing problems of the farmer: organization leading j toward standardized production j and orderly distribution is the only way out and that takes time. The individual farmer hasn't a look-in when it comes to marketing, and since growing cotton has been too ? easy in the past for our farmers ' to know anything about co-opera- j tion. an intensive educational cam paign is therefore needed to in- | form and interest farmers as to the need, nature, and purposes of | organization. Speaking specifically regarding [ marketing of truck, Mr. Tenny j said that truck growing in South i Carolina will not become a success- ! ful and permanent farming indus- j try until the growers organize so as to standardize, merchandize, and I advertise the truck crops pr?duc ed. With sou and climate in cer- I tain sections of the state adapted to successful production of such crops as asparagus, cucumbers. melons, cantaloupes. Irish and sweet potatoes, etc.. it is a question j of getting together for production j of uniform or standard products and for proper merchandizing of these products instead of dumping them on the market. Mr. Tenny expressed great hope for the successful outcome of the organization of cotton growers of the state and tin- south for co operative marketing of cotton. Another number on tlx first I day's program dealing with co-j operative marketing was the talk by T. B. JToung on the work of the [South Carolina Sweet Potato As-, [ sociation in selling potatoes co-op eratively for the storage houses and farmers composing the association. '. Paris. Oct. 7.?The international . chamber of commerce has adopted a resolution calling on the United ; States to join the allied powers in t plans to solve all problems grow , ing out of reparations and payment of alli<-d debts. -o ? ? Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Md.. ! Oct. 7.?Xew weapons developed ; since the world war arc being test ed here before the army ordnance j association. How the Giants Came Back Third Came of Series Won by Score of 13 to 5 New York. Oct. 7 (By ili^ As sociated Press).?The Giants awoke from th? ir two days of lethargy to day and sprinkled the green sward at th<- Polo grounds with such a shower of hits that the Yankees were swamped under a score of 13 to "> >h the third game of the world's series. The National leaguers had gone runless for 2(i innings up to the third session of this afternoon's struggle. Then the outbreak of hit ting started. Stealing the Yankees' thunder as the latter had stolen theirs in the previous games of the series in speed and daring on the bases John McGraw's men, after spot ting their American league oppon ent to a four run lead promptly cancelled this advantage by driving Bob Shawkey, who started for Mil ler Huggins' team, off the mound in the third inning. Then after the i score had run along in a tie for three more innings, they broke out ' with an orgy of hitting against sec- ] ond string Yankee pitchers in the j traditional "lucky seventh" in- j ning, putting over eight runs in this chapter and piling up a total of 13 I runs and 2u hits in their eight in- j nings at the bat. Despite its onesidedness, the game was of the sort that tickles the fancy of the average baseball crowd, and today's throng, despite the partisan leaning of a goodly portion of it was no exception. The game was full of thrills, brilliant catches, darir base running, and, on the Giants' side, long distance hitting. The crowd, with perfect baseball weather to bring it out. was a rec- I ord breaker for this series. More j than 36,500 fans jammed the stands and bleachers. They broke the series record for noise and en thusiasm as well. The turn of the Yankee adherents came first but the hubbub they kicked up was as nothing to that let loose by the Giant fans when their opportunity arrived. With the McCraw men riding roughshod over their opponents the National league partisans un- ; limbered their vocal chords, their j cowbells and rattles, heretofore I subdued, and played the game as | hard from their seats as their fa vorites did on the diamond. At ' times whole sections of the stands seemed to be composed of seething * waves of yellow humanity. The! Yankees' supporters were dumb af- \ -.er the third inning and the close of the conflict became a Giant car nival. The Yankee fielders stood up | well under the bombardment. of ! i j hits and incidentally turned in ! some notable defensive features. One of them was a jumping catch j in the second inning by Aaron | Ward, the Yankee second sacker," which resulted in a double play. I It was George Burns, the Giants' ! center fielder, however, who turned j: in the most remarkable feat of the !: game and also of the series. In the seventh inning he started back ! with the crack of Pitcher Quinn's ? bat against the ball and while still j on the run hauled down the drive j over his shoulder, close to the con- j ter held fence. It was a marvel- | ous demonstration from the crowd. ! All the Giants with the exception | of Toney and Kelly figured in the i hitting. Toney was taken from the \ game before he had a chance to bat. Burns and Snyder divided the j batting honors, each making four j : hits. Burns' hitting included aj double and a triple. Young had a j double and a triple while ?'Irish" Meusel had two singles and a j double. Babe-Ruth had another colorless! day compared with some of his j work during the season. In four j trips to 'the plate he struck out twice, made a single which scored two Yankee runs and drew a base on balls. He left the game in the eighth inning after he had receiv ed a base on balls, Fewster run- j ning for him and scoring a run. It j was said the home run king was i suffering from an infected arm. In ; the tieluing side, he had but one ; chance, capturing Bancroft's sac- j rifice fly. The game, which ended so lop- j sidedly, started as if it might be j another like the pitchers' battle j of yesterday. Toney. who started I for the Giants, breezed along com- j fortably for two innings. The ; Yankees got to him in the third, j however, and he was taken out ; with the bases full, none out, and j three runs ni. Another run was | scored by the Yankees before] "Jess" Barnes, who relieved him, ! could retire the side. Shawkey met his fate, like Toney, in this same inning. His wildhess was responsible. After > he had forced two runs over the ' plate by passing batters. Jack ! Quirin was called to the mound. ! Two of the Giants Shawkey left on ; bases subsequently tallied but there was no more scoring off Quinn un- ; til th?* tempestuous seventh. Mean while Barnes was twirling a steady, heady game, and holding the Yan kees safe, as he did t > the end. Then came the Yankees third in ning. Schang drew a base on balls i and reached third on Shawkey's single to right. Miller hi; for :i base scoring Schang and moving Shawkey to second. Toney gave rVckiivpaugh a base on balls and , coriu rs were filled: Cheers of the Yankee fans sounded as the home run king walked t<> the plate. Ruth slammed Toney's sixth pitch and dro\'e ii t<> 1 ent? r for a single, sending home both Shawkey and Miller. Peek took J bird. Here : Toney was waved off the mound and 1 In n res was I? rough i out of j tie- bull pen. Ruth went out try ing i<> steal: Boh Meusel walked and IVck scored on I'ipp's out. This embed the Yankee scoring in the inning. The four run h ad looked big to the Ciants as they went to bat. Barnes, first man up. poked ?'> single to left. i ?urns went out on a fly to center bui Captain Bancroft] laced a single to right. Barnes stop ping at second. Shawkey threw wide to Frisch who walked, tilling tin- bases. Shawkey appeared to lose control and passed Voting, forcing home Barnes with the Giants* first run of the series. Shawkey then passed Kelly, forc ing home Bancroft. Quinn re placed Shawkey with the bases still loaded. Frisch scored while "Irish" Meusel was being put out at first. Young and Kelly moving up. Young came home with the tying run when Rawiings hit a grounder to Peck who could not handle the ball in lime to throw out the Giants' second baseman. Snyder fouled out to Pipp and left the. score tied in n knot until the Giants' hectic seventh. Tlie Natinoal league leaders mad'.- mor?- hits in the seventh than in the two previous games of the series. Frisch began the attack by slashing a single to center and went to third on Young's two bagger to right held. Kelly walked and the j bases wer?"* filled. There was tre mendous cheering when "Irish" Mcusel slammed a double to right. I sending home Frisch and Young. \ Kelly stopped at third on the hit. \ Rawiings came through with a sin- : gle to center, scoring Kelly and i Meusel. Here Collins took up the pitch- ! ing burden for the Yankees, but was unable to sweep back the at- j tacking Giants. After Rawiings \ went out trying to steal. Snyder, ' Barnes and Burns hit out singles j amid frenzied rooting. With the i bases full, Bancroft lifted a sacri- ! fice fly to Ruth, scoring Snvder. I Frisch walked and the National; followers broke into tumultous cheers as Young swept the bases j with a tremendous three bagger to j left center. Collins then waved j good night to the crowd. Pitcher' i Rogers, his rescuer, threw out Kelly at first, ending the slaughter; to the great relief of Yankee root- ' ers, some of whom began to "ride" the American league champions. Twelve Giants were at bat in the inning, getting eight hits and two j bases on balls for a total of eight i runs. One man. Young, was left on base. Each team added a run , to its total in the eighth. Frank Bauer, home run king of j other days, was given a chance { when he batted for Pitcher Rogers! in the Yankees' ninth, but the best he could do was to give "Irish" Meusel a long fly. The o.'Tleial figures showed an at tendance of 30.509, with gross re- I eeipts of $111?,007. the latter again j a new record. The advisory board's J share of the receipts is $17,851.-; 05, the players' share, $60,693.57 j and the two clubs' share $40,412. Labor Situation in South Carolina Condition Not at All Serious! in This State, Says Labor Departments Columbia, Oct. 8.?There is noth ing serious in the unemployment j situation in South Carolina, accord ing to figures received in Columbia from the department of labor at Washington. The greatest unem- j ployment problem is in Charleston, according to the government's re- j port. Building activities are on the j increase and the number of unem- j ployed is growing less. All of the cotton mills of the j state are running on full time, ac- | cording to the report, and it is said j the textile outlook is hopeful. Eighty-three cotton mills of the state report a total roll of employes for September of 33,513. an in crease of 152 for a month. Lumber mills of the state em- j ployed in September 3.292 men, an j increase over Aujust of 420, with j expressions of hopefulness as to j the outlook. "Charleston reports very serious unemployment among building} trades, fertilizer factories and com- j mon and unclassified labor," says j the report, "and there appears to be no immediate outlook for im provement in conditions in Char leston until the fertilizer factories .'tart up with full forces." Reports from Greenville, the government statement says, indi cate a very small unemployment situation among textile workers, building trades and common labor, j Spartan-burg shows practically no unemployment, except a few build- j ing trades workers, railroad men j and common laborers. No reports are made ?>y the department of la bor as to the condition in Columbia or otiter cities of the state. For the whole southeast, the government's report shows slight improvement in the employment situation. In one month, the re- j port shows, the number of railroad men employed by the roads having ; headcuarters in the southeast in creased from 230,686 to 230,738. I an increa.se of 52. The employes in the 335 cotton mills increased from j 106.749 to I07,2?92, an increase of : 5 4 3. These figures are for Vir ginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. Farm labor is abundant, with j indications of increasing activity.! says the report. The report also; predicts a vigorous increase in i building operations in this section. - Georgia Bank er Drowned Conyers. Ga.. Oct. 7.?The body i of ('has. Begin, president of the ; I tank of Rockdale, who has been missing since his automobile was ; found with lights burning on a bridge las! night was found two' hundred yards low lodged on a trout line. Tax on Alco holic Liquor Washington. <??!. 7. ? A tax of j iour dollars a gallon on all alcohol- ; je spoils withdrawn from bond was : agreed irpon by the Republican' leaders. The proposal lo repeal the two thousand dollar exemption of corporations was abandoned. A Mat fifteen per cent corporation income I tax was agreed to. Bold Robbery at Detroit Four Men Held Up Canadian Mail Wagon and Cot Away With ?100,000 Detroit. Oct. 8.?Federal agents, state troopers and the police joined forces in hunting for the four men who held up a Canadian mail wag on and stole twenty-six mail bags, t wo containing registered packages valued at a hundred thousand d- '. lars. ? o ?? Quick Response Reported Community Co-operation in Program to Find Work For Jobless Promised Washington, Oct. S.?A quick re sponse to the national unemploy ment conference's request to com munities for cooperation in making effective the emergency program for relief of jobless is reported by the central agency here. Mail RobbeV Surrenders Carl Steitier of Chicago After Spending $45,000 Tells the Police Chicago, Oct. S.?Carl Steitier. Jr., who has been wanted in con nection with a two hundred thou sand dollar mail robbery in 1919 to day surrendered to the police. Steitier said he spent his share of the money, forty-five thousand dollars for airplanes and racing cars, travelled under his own name, lived in Chicago and was never questioned by the police. ? ? ? Favors National Pay-Up Campaign Farmers Urged to Sell at Least Part of Held Cotton (News and Courier). A business man of Charleston sends The News and Courier the following article from a Georgia newspaper and wants to know if a campaign of the kind which it pro poses can not be gotten under way. He thinks that if it could it would be a big thing for this state and would help nearly everybody. The article, which was written for the Jackson Progress-Augus, is as fol lows: "Of all the suggestions made to j bring about the restoration of nor- j mal business conditions none is more timely than that of a national pay-up campaign. Such a move ment if put into effect throughout the country, would help business and relieve conditions wonderfully. It would be the electric spark needed to fire the fabric of the na tion's business life. "The wheels are locked. They have been locked for months. No body has paid anybody else. Cred it has been extended to the limit. The country has done all the busi ness on paper that it can afford to do. Some ready cash is needed to unlock the wheels and start the I procession to moving. "The south learned a bitter les- j son these past 12 months. While Texas and the states west of the Mississippi river sold their cotton, the eastern belt held. The price fell from 40 cents to 10 cents. The ; banks loaned money to their ca pacity. They even strained them- | selves to accommodate the farmers i who wanted to hold cotton. Even j now the banks are loaded with j cotton paper. The merchants are j carrying thousands and millions of i unpaid claims on their books. '"Nobody who cares anything i about his reputation can afford to J give advice about holding or sell ing cotton. Naturally, in the face j of a short crop, the growers want all they can get for the staple, j On the other hand, remembering : the lessons of the past season, it [ seems to be the part of common sense to sell at least a part of the cotton crop and pay up some of the old debts. "Once a debt paying campaign is started it will have a far-reaching j effect >n all lines of business. Like . a stone thrown in a pond, the i waves will reach the furthermost | shores of business. Buying will re- i suit. The wheels will be started to moving. Better business will re sult. Everybody will feel the stim- ; ulating effect. The depression will ' be lifted and we will be on the road | to normal conditions. The Charleston business man i supplements the foregoing as fol- | lows: "There is no doubt about it. the j two things needed to put business I on its feet in this territory, are first, j a debt paying campaign, and sec ond, a buying movement. But these two forces to work, and everybody will soon be happy and smiling and business will be well on the road to normal." "One thousand dollars turned loose in any city in the cotton belt would settle many debts. From sunrise to sunset, the money would ; travel performing the useful mis sion of making easy many who are now hard pressed. A half million , dollars would settle still more debts and would go far towards solving the question of providing work for the unemployed. The S?0.000 or more bales of cotton which is estimated as being held in South Carolina, together with 1 the new crop estimated for this state at U5O.0O0 represents on to- j day's market a total of about $145,- | OiHK??O. The s.-._-d from this year's! crop will add thousands more to! this total. When this cotton is sold j it will wipe out many old scores."! ?c? *? ? Business falls before the charge of the railroads. Teachers Must Keep Contracts Those Who Fail to Comply With Contracts Will Lose Licenses Columbia. Oct. 7.?School trus tees over South Carolina will learn with gratification probably of a resolution which the county super intendents of education adopted at the conference h*dd in Columbia , this week when they recommended that the state board of examiners cancel the licenses of teachersj when they violate their contracts. Some teachers have a habit, judging from the resolution of figning contracts to teaeh a cer tain school and later cancelling their contracts "without cause" j thus inconveniencing school officials and causing loss to the cause of ed ucation. The state board of examiners, as is generally known, examines and grades all the examination papers turned in by applicants for licenses | to teach in the state, and for that; reason the resolution was directed to them. The resolution, as offered, by W. ! W. Fuller, superintendent of edu- i cation of Edgelield county, was; unanimously adopted and was as follows: "That wo may have the greatest efficiency in our schools, and con- : duct them in a businesslike man ner, it is necessary for trustees to employ teachers ?ome months be-; fore the schools open, and "Whereas, many teachers utter- ! ly disregard their contracts, and cancel them at will to the great in convenience of school officials, and to the detriment of our work. "Be it resolved, that we, the; county superintendents of South Carolina in conference assembled, do unhesitatingly condemn such unprofessional conduct, and recom- i mend to the state board of exam iners that when a teacher, without i cause, violates his or her contract, that certificates of said teacher be cancelled, said cause to be passed upon by said board of examiners. "Resolved further, that a copy of! these resolutions be furnished the I state board of examiners for its j consideration." Storing More Cotton j Farmers Are Selling and Cot ton Dealers Are Buying and Storing Columbia. Oct. 7.?A larger per centage of this year's cotton crop will be stored in the warehouses of the state warehouse system than last year, but not all of this is be ing stored by the farmers. This was stated by J. Clifton Rivers, state warehouse commissioner, in speaking today of the cotton situa tion as seen from the warehouse viewpoint. A great deal of cotton is being stored, Mr. Rivers said. We have today in the 960 warehouses in the system approximately 175,000 j bales. The largest amount ever; stored was about ISO,000 bales, he! continued, though the capacity of all the warehouses is about 250,000. But the farmers are selling a '? good deal of their cotton. A large amount of the cotton being stored is stored by cotton dealers. They are buying and holding for higher prices. The result, however, Mr. Rivers says, is that the farmers are getting money for their product. At the same time the cotton is being j held, without flooding the market, Mr. Rivers said. ? o ? Labor Law Violated Two Mills Prosecuted * For Working Overtime Columbia, Oct. 7.?The Saluda Manufacturing Co. and the Var- I dry Cotton Mills, both in Greenville ; county, have been prosecuted by j the state department of agriculture. ' commerce and industries, according j to announcement made today by ! the department, for violation of the law forbidding the employment of j operatives for more than eleven | hours a day. Both prosecutions re sulted in convictions. The cases were brought by I. J. j Via. mill inspector for the depart- j ment of agriculture, commerce and ! industries, who found in his recent round of inspection of the mills of Greenville county that these two mills were working their employes j overtime. In a statement issued today the department states that its inspec- j tors have been given instructions: to strictly enforce the law regard-j ing the hours in textile plants. -? -? -? Rewards For Booze Makers Nashville. Tenn., Oct. 7.?Copies of a resolution adopted by the; Benton county court offer fifty dol-: lars reward for every liquor man ufacturer tin re convicted in the federal court and twenty-five dol lars for the capture of every per son eomicted there of selling or. transporting liquor in a state court. -?~o~? Would Investigate j Everything Washington. Oct. 7.?An investi gation of all secret organizations is called for in a resolution introduced by Representative Cpshaw of Geor Horrible Murder in New Jersey Madison. X. J.. Oct. 7.?Pierced < by twenty-five knife wounds the - body of Janet Lawrence, aged 12, was found concealed behind a log in the woods. Her throat had been slashed and her heart stabbed. Railroad Tax Compromise Agreemnt Made With Con sent of Federal Judges in North Carolina Greensboro. X. C, Oct. 6.?At torneys for the Southern Railway company, Atlantic Coast Line and Atlantic & Yadkin, the three rail road companies operating in this state resisting the assessment levied by the state tax commission on their property and attorneys rep resenting the state of North Caro lina today reached an* agreement before District Judges James E. Boyd and H. G. Connor and Circuit Judge Edmond Waddill. Jr., th - three judges hearing the case, whereby the railroad companies will pay taxes to the counties and municipalities on the valuation ad mitted by the railroad companies, while the question of additional taxes on the state's asessment will be fought out in the courts. Under the agreement the South ern will pay on $60,000,000 valua tion; Coast Line on $34,645,445, and Atlantic and Yadkin on $1, 973.906. The state has assessed the Southern at $96,000,000; the Coast Line at $51,000,000. and the Atlantic and Yadkin at $4,500,000. These three railroad companies be gan actions in the federal court here several days ago to have the 1921 assessment of the state com mission set aside, claiming dis crimination. When the hearing began today the state moved to dismiss the ac tion. This the judges refuser.. The state then moved to continue and the court granted the motion. It was then agreed that the railroad companies pay this year under ad mitteed valuations and that the state have until December 1, 1921, to file an answer to the complaints of the railroad companies. In the . event that the case should finally be decided in favor of the state the railroad companies will be required to pay the back taxes. - ? m> m> Resignation of Tolbert Wanted South Carolina Republicans in Conference With Adams Washington, Oct. 6.?Today at the offices of the Republican nat ional committee a conference last ing nearly two hours was held by Chairman Adams, Secretary MiUer and other officers of the committee with National Committeeman J. W. Tolbert, of South Carolina; D. O. Anderson, of Marion, and Dr. Wil liams, of Rock Hill. Messrs. Anderson and Williams represent the sentiment among South. Carolina Republicans who are working for a reorganization of their party in the state. The conference developed amicably af ter it was made clear that- those working for a reorganization are not seeking to humiliate Commit teeman Tolbert and not expecting to oust him as committeeman. The plan which is being suggested is that he resign as state chairman, thus permitting the selection of a new man to that position and af fording an opportunity to under take building the Republican party in the state by broadening the present leadership. It is under stood that no positive conclusion could be reached because some of those who had been expected to at tend the conference from South Carolina did not arrive, including Ernest L. Cochran, district attorn ey for the western district, who was detained by court business. Committeeman Tolbert and Messrs. Anderson and Williams seemed to be on good terms as they walked away from the "talkfest." It is presumed that the conference will be resumed at a later date, with more persons present from South Carolina. The key to the situation now as to reorganization appears to be whether or not Committeeman Tol bert will step aside as State chair man and give someone else a show. It is understood that the chair man, if the plan goes through, would probably be some person whose name has not been m on ed in connection with any ..on age. C. C. Campbell, of Columbia, a candidate for collector of internal revenue for South Carolina, was here today, but was not at the con ference with the national commit tee. NEW BUILDING FOR EPWORTH Columbia. Oct. 7.?The trustees of Epworth Orphanage, the Meth odist orphan home located here, wili meet next Tuesday, at which time contract will be let for the construction of the new adminis tration building of the institution. This building was made possible by the funds raised on "work day" last year, the day when Methodists, especially the young people, gave the proceeds of a day's work for the orphanage. Saturday of this week has been set aside as "or phan work day" for this year, the proceeds to go to the general or phanage support. BANKS INCREASE * CAPITAL j Columbia, Oct. 7.?Two banks were today authorized to increase their capital stock and a securities company was chartered by the sec retary of state. The Beaufort Bank r>:" Beaufort increases its capital from $25,000 to $100,000. The American Bank, of Greenville, in creases from $150,000 to $225,000. The American Securities company, of Greenville, was chartered, the capital stock being $75,000. B. E. -: Geer, L. H. Stringer, Rudolph An derson and Chas. M. McGee con stitute the official personnel of the corporation.