Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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REED LEADS FIGHT ON THE PACIF^g TREATY . jffissouri Sesaior Charges Re publieaiij Ir^concilables With' Desertion Wa^ington^?fiarch 16. ? The campaign o? t&e?- irreconcilables against the? feu*;- power Pacific treaty continued without abate ment in the-*se?a4e today despite *dgns of wam'^gr^. interest and the disposition" of leaders to ? regard ratification of the past as a foregone "* conclusion. For more, then'three hours, in a' senate. chamoer'\vhich most ?f the: time was all but tfeserted. Senator! Reed (Democrait^/of Missouri as-j sailed both the four power and na-! val treaties, which "he said would fit together to " iiit the United! States in a position of helplessness j in the Pacific: Tie charged that the facts underlying the 5-5-3 na . val settlement ;ha?2 been raisrepre-j sented* and piit into the record; figures of his o\fn designed to s-how - the ^superiority of speed armament ano^ auxiliary craft would greatly- increase the relative strength of' the'''British and Jap '" ab ese nav ies- .'' ~ a J ? ? The Missouri"' senator's address was inferruptetff!%y senators who questioned rrftr/'cJ? minor pionts of mformaiion regarding the naval es\Lnates he f.??Tnitted and when he ^finisheff the debate drifted try other subjects: The administra tion leaders'made-no effort to reply to the attack; ? : maintaining that yesterday's ' agreement to vote finally on the'treaty on March 24 irad. craisiic-d fUr* possibilities of an adverse vote. . ' j Toward tlie end of his argument} Senator Heed tra'iried- his"fire on thej apparent dimintrBbn of interest in the debate,'' noting; for the record that only two Republican senators were present Saying the Re publicans who hdd stood with him against the Versailles treaty but now were support ing. the four pow er pact. Thermen, he said, had heard the - coroJganding voice of their political; par^y but kept away from the debate^n the senate floor because t&ey/eitese "ashamed." In view .ofe^esators who have ?canvassed the situation carefully. ?se* two big iasuftSi-KemaiTung to be settled in the ..-four power treaty Slight revoke.;: : a&out the foreign relations conM&jfctee's "no alliance" reservation jaad^fche compromise .reservation, :that.ri^t to.be proposed regarding paj&tfkipation of outside powers iii conference over Pacific questions. si ^ 'TTTJTT Washingtonv.oM.arch 16. ? The Japanese ^eaabaSjSj:. announced to night it . bad received a cablegram from Tokyo,^ting that the Japa-j , .nese government, without wait ing ratification of the Shantung treaty negotiated during the ar mament e?n*fe?e1fce here, has in structed ih^iJap&nese minister atj Peking to^arra-ftSFe with the Chinese j government- tor-the replacement I according - to td*e. terms ofmthej treaty, of. Japanese troops and gen ... darmes with Ciwnese forces along] u _tfee..Tsijigta;i,-irs4nanfu railway. The ?Japanese government, it was add ed, has dv>cid?yd..^o begin the with drawal of :jcherri: railway guards .early in April and.to complete that . withdrawal en$v?cly by May 4. . ? / T;he treaty profiles that the rail-' ? "wayguards ,sfeallj be withdrawn if ? possible, within .three months from the date -of sfeping of the treaty t* and -at the oujside within six 'Months. The .Japanese govern ^ibent. it was pointed out, plans to .,' meet .this requirement in the short - er period. ,.. .. WESTS $li#00 : : VERDICT Florence. Maroth IS.?A jury in the United Sta*e? court this after noon awarded. Mrs. Annie ^. Shir . .-er..: ot Charleslap; a verdict of S 10,000 damages, for the death of her husband. T. Drayton Shirer, who was killed-by. a SouCnern Rail way train at Kingville February 24. 1920. -TffrST^ire.sued for $50, 000. When the case was called a motion for non-suit' was refused. At. the time ot his death Mr. Shir ?? was acting- iil the capacity of flagman oiv a^rssenger train. It was alleged^tSiat his death was due *o the care^^Hiandling of the i traiu. D ALIVE i Tallahassee, ?kv, Miss E?fcftfo Fl ; I March 17.? j Boyd, a vocal teacher at the Florida State Col- [ lege for Women here, was buried j alive while "renrching for historic! relics in an Indian mound, seven miles from here, today. Recently'Miss- Boyd, it is under- j stood, and *;th>>r-:young women of j the college, had engaged workmen j to excavate ? tHt^mound, and while] the men-we re-still engaged Miss! B?yd, accompanied hy two other extrio ?hunters'- went there today. While -standings in . one of the ?fc-arings lateral earth suddenly gave way and bnried her. Physi cians who arrived after the body { had been recovered said her death j had been .caused by suffocation. | Mists Boyd w...4 it native of Iowa, j and^had'hden'n. inember of the col-, fege faculty ter, four years. j 'The immigrant soon eatches the. American spirit, and denn up."] And the celebrity soon Catches the American sucker und cleans up. : - . - Yot> caji^j^u^ ^rood breeding by .>h'c length ?Qi'^?^ lingers, perhaps; j ?Y?nt The ??^?HFK??frthe tongue is even j more conclusiv* Youyrtfffi'&f why people with 1 Wads Fttce t3Ta?are permitted to live] but most piano keys are made of IL R. COMMISSION BEGINS WORK Assignments of ; Various Phases of Work Made to Members Columbia, Marcb 17.?The South Carolina Railroad Commission,' re cently enlarged to seven members, by a new act of the legislature and , entrusted with regulation of ser vice of municipal public service "corporations as well as those oper ating throughout the state, has been in session in Columbia the last two days for the first time sine* its enlargement, and in adjourning announcement is made that the commission will at an early date adopt a set of regulations govern ing operation of street railway and other 'public service corporations throughout the state. The regulations will cover mar.y phases of the operation of public .service corporations, it is said, and will be aimed at the maintenance | of satisfactory service. They would prevent, it is said, such shut down in service as is now in effect in Columbia, due to the strike of car men. i The. regulations will also look to maintenance of such necessary ser vice as can be supported by the corporations* business. "There's no use in a street railway, for ex ample, being forced to maintain a service which is not necessary or which is not supported by the rev enue earned. Where an adjustment of service can aid in the rendering .ot the best service to the public, on the' least possible cost,, it will be the function of the railroad com mission to act." The railroad commission an nounces assignment of various phases of its work to the new com missioners^ and to the old as well. Cases involving operation of bus lines, truck lines and steamboats will be handled by Commissioners Arnold, Coney and Perirman. Cases involving electric railway, electric power, gas and other municipal corporation service, wiH be handled by Commissioners Cansler, Wade and Ellerbe. General railroad and traffic rate will be handled by the commission as a whole. -The commission is planning to institute in a few days a rate de partment, to handle rate matters for the shipping public. The commission voted to have regular semi-monthly meetings, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. When necessary, calls "will be held. A call meeting may be held next Wednesday, when the Columbia Railway, Gas & Electric Company answers the commis-i sion's order regarding resumption of car service here, in case- it fails by that time to re-establish its service. Efforts are being made today to resume operation of the cars. GIRLS' BASKET BALL CONTEST State Championship to Be De cided in Columbia Columbia, March 16.?The state' championship girls* basketball team will be decided at a series of games in Columbia next week, Thursday and Friday, March 23 and 24, on the University floor. Tlie teams entering this final contest are Mem- ] minger High school, of Charleston and McColl High school, McColl, representing the lower half of the state, and Woodruff and Anderson high schools from the upper half of the state. Memminger plays McColl Thurs day night; and Woodruff plays An derson. The winners in the two games meet Friday night, to de termine the state championship among high school girls' teams. The losers in Thursday night's games play Friday night to de termine who will be in second place. The four teams are all ex cellent .playing aggregations and the games promise to bring forth much interest. Miss Sara Godbold, of Chicora College, Columbia, will be referee. J i>. V/. Carwile is chairman of the girls' basket ball division of state j high school league. ? m ? ? FRAUD IS DISCOVERED Railroad Employees Involved in Big Thefts Buffalo. N. Y., March 16.?The decrease in merchandise from New York Central Railroad cars on an enormous scale resulted in the in dictment here today of railroad de tectives, saioon keepers, merchants, chauffeurs and farmers, who are alleged to have made up a ring of thieves and fences that handled goods worth $2,000,000 a year for the last three years. The indictments were reported , by a federal grand jury which for I ten days has been hearing evidence gathered by a ?oi*ce of New York Central investigators, j With the alleged connivance of railroad police, detailed to guard the trains, yard mast e-rs. switchmen and other railroad employees, it wa? possible for thieves to remove goods for a car and reseal it that the looting would not be discovered until the ear arrived at its desti nation. The car selected for a job. Mr. Beut ley said, w'ould be taken out of a train and put on a switch easily approached by automobile truck. After the car had been rohbod and' the contents loaded iirto trucks, the seals would be re placed and th?> ear put on an out hound train with tjo records of the .delay on the yardmasfer's books. ? ? ? "Men should walk on all fours." says a prof, who must be backed by the shoe makers. ! WATCHFUL WAITING IN POLITICS ?? Premier Lloyd George Wait ing For Enemies to Make Next Move London. March 3C.?The Earl of Derby's rejection of ihc Indian sec retary is coming after failure of the Unionistss' meeting on Tuesday to give Prime Minister Lloyd George a vote of confidence, forms the chief topic of conversation in political quarters, where the effect on Lloyd George's tenure of 0--cej is warmly debated. The refusal of Lord Derby to enter the government is believed to have been final, and even the most ardent coalitionists are. manifestly anxious in view of the failure of Tuesday's meeting and the obvious hardening of the determination of many conservatives to cut loose from the coalition. The premier's political enemies declare it is impossible for him now to retain his position as head of the administration while depending mainly upon Unionist votes, and { say that it is time he recognized the fact and made his threatened resignation definite. Meanwhile no word comes from Criccietb. Wales, regarding the pre mier's intentions. He is spending his time in resting, golfing and gardening and. as his friends say, "thinking things out," while cur rent decisions are left to Austen Chamberlain, and. as is widely as serted, that disintegration of the coalition proceeds apace. It is stated in some quarters that Mr. Lloyd George has decided to prolong his stay in Wales to see how far the ferment will work be fore he declares his hand. The question whether after all he will go to Genoa also is debated in political circles, and it is sug gested he is less eager than here tofore to participate in the con ference. It is also thought that, if . the report that Premier Poin care of France will not attend proves true, Mr. Lloyd George will be still less reluctant to abandon the trip. It has been repeatedly stated that it was his desire to attend the .Genoa meeting that mainly held him to the premiership, and it is thought that if he now resolves to forego the visit his resignation wiH soon be made final. MILLIONAIRE SENT TO JAIL John D. Dodge Sentenced to Five Days in Prison Detroit, March 1G.?John Dtt val Dodge, millionaire son of the late John F. Dodge, the Detroit au tomobile manufacturer, was sen tenced to five days in the House of Conviction and fined $100 by Judge Charles L. Bartletr. in recorder's' court here today, when he admit ted driving his automobile twen ty-three miles an hour?three miles in excess of the speed limit. He was immediately taken to jail. Judge Bartlett also recommend ed that Dodge's driver's license be revoked for a year. Mrs. Dodge wept when sentence was passed. As Dodge was being escorted to the county jail to spend the night, preparatory to being transferred to the House of Conviction tomorrow, he was served with summons in a damage siu't for $10,000 insti tuted in behalf of Edwin Schubs, twelve-year-old newsboy, who is said to have been run down by Dodge's automobile several weeks ago. The speeding charge was filed against Dodge March 5. His coun sel today asked for a continuance, saying his client was unavoidably detained in Kalamazoo. where he was arrested .Monday, charged with driving an automboile while intoxicated and illegally transoort ing liquor. Judge Bartlett refused, ar.ounc mg a bench warrant would be is sued for Dodge if he failed to ap pear. The Kalamazoo ease is the out-! growth of a ride from a dance, early Sunday in which Dodge. Bex Earl, of Kalamazoo. and three girl students of Western State Normal participated and which resulted j in Emmefine Kwakerneck. on.- of the girls, jumping from the auto mobile and sustaining serious in juries. Dodge is under $7,000 bond to appear for hearing there March 21. . ! MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Dr. H. D. Guelick of Winthrop Heads Organization - J Columbia, Marc?. IS.?One of the important accomplishments of the 1 State Teachers' convention v.as the !organization yesterday of the Music Teachers' Association ot South ( Carolina with a charter enrollment i of 62 members. Tin- association will be a member of the South Car otine Teachers' association and j work as one of its departments. ! Tito officers elected yesterday I were Dr. fl. D. Guelick of Winthrop I college, president; Dr. [?{. II. Bella Imann of Chicorn college, vie- nrcs jidewt; Mrs. fl. M. Stuc^ey of Sum : ter, chairman of the mtisie dopart j mem in the South Carolina Feder ation of Women's Clubs, secretary treasurer. f. ^ - _ NORTH CAROLINA WINS RAILROAD SUIT Raleigh, X. <".. March North Carolina won its railroad tax case when the special court dismissed tin* injunction sought by the rail roads to prohibit tin- tax collection lor full valuation. . Like the Old There Is the least hint of the o of .the summer hats which are be slightly up toward the center of a \ (HOME DEM ONSTRATION DEPARTMENT The Sumter County Woman's j Council had a very good meeting Saturday. We regret that all thc club women could not bo here and take place in the discussions and hear the talk given by Mrs. Kline. She discussed the economic life of the country women and ga*. a an outline of the efforts being made by the extension service of the state to help relieve the present conditions. The following Sumter county women have signed up contracts for jelly, jam, preserves and rel ish: Mrs. Dwight Cain. Mrs. E. W. Dabbs, Jr.. Mrs. H. W. Bean, Mrs. James Pagan. Mrs. L. E. lieavell, Mrs. M. B. Matthews, Mrs. S. ' B. Fr?ser, and Miss Annie O. Keels. The total amount contracted for is 2,448 glasses of plum jelly, G36 containers of artichoke relish, S2S containers of blackberry jam, fit jars of Viz preserves. ! Products Which ai<e Being Stand ardizes! by Home Demonstra tion Women. One of the most significant pieces of marketing work being done in South Carolina is the large sale of 4-H butter which product is being sold tlirough the South Carolina '[Home Producers' Association. Most of this butter is being handled by the Palaee Market. Taylor Street. Columbia, S. C. It is shipped In from the different counties and in spected before it is put on the marker. It is made by the home demonstration club women who have- taken dairy work under the supervision of the home ^demon stration dairy specialist. ?" In the beginning only very small shipments were made. ; These shipments rapidly became larger as the demand became greater until j last week, when the shipment to j tailed 133 pounds. One customer [said that since she had been buying 4-H butter site could not keep any in the house. She laughed and re marked, "It is loo good to keep.", The home demonstration depart ment is trying to develop every possible home enterprise which will furnish paying products to market. In commenting on this feature of our work. Mr. O. B. Martin of the Washington department re cently said: "We are just begin ning to develop the resources of the farms and farmsteads. When the agents, the colleges and the de partment focus their attention on standardizing the products which i may he sold in winter as "well as in [summer, the dub markets ofythe state will be busy throughout the year. 1 am confident that there is mud: yet to do in standardizing and packing vegetables, fruits, meats and many other things which our people buy on the mar kets within the state." Gardening Suggestions as Given by Mrs. Dora Dec Walker. March is the active month for all garden seed sowing, viz: Garden peas in successive varieties, cauli flower, early cabbage, onion, cele ry, spinach, parsley, lettuce, radish. ! beet, asparagus, carrot, parsnip, salsify, Kohlrabi, mustard, tomato. ! pimento, eggplant, Irish potatoes, j cucumber, squash. Devil's Food Cake. 2 cups sugar. 1 cup bulter. 4 cups [flour, ! cup sweet milk. 4 eggs [(well he.i!? u), 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1-4 teaspoon salt. ! Cream butter, add sugar, and {mix well. Add the eggs and beat mixture thoroughly. Mix and sift Hour, ba!:iug powder and salt: add alternr-i dy tin- flour and milk: add flie vanilla. To this batter, add the [cooked syrup made from the fol lowing: l cup cocoa. 3-4 cup su gar, I cup sweet milk*, t-S tea spoon salt. May lie baked in lay ers or in funnel cake pan. If bak ed in latter need a very slow oven and bake for about an hour and !ift.-en minutes. Icing. 2 cups sugar. 3-4 cups water, - tablespoons white corn syrup, 2 e^rg whites, i-s teaspoon salt. i-J teaspoon vanilla. Make a syrup by boiling sugar, water and corn sy rup. When spins a siecht (bread, add one-third lo beaten whites, in which sab has been added. Add syrup very slowly, beating con stantly. Cook syrup again; when i spins good thread, add second third. Cook syrup again. When ; spins e brittle thread add. Acid [flavoring and beat until it has something of a d?\"- appearance and holds shape when poured from beater. Spr -a<. or cake. .M;i in Cake. 1-! cup'butter. 3-4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1-2 cup mi.'!:, 1 1-2 cup Hoar, Poke Bonnet* ld-fashioncd poke bonnet t:bout eome ing shown. This Idaire model ?lts tery wide brim. ) 2 t. baking powder, f grains salr, ! 1-2 t. vanilla. Cream butter, add j sugar, working ir into the butter thoroughly. Separate whites and 13'olks of eggs. Beat yolks unt" j? * i creamy. Add them ro butter mix-, hture. Sift Hour, sail and baking j powder; then add, alternately, milk and flour. Beat whites until stiff, cut and fold them into mixture, j Add flavoring. Pour in well greas ; od and floured cake pan. Bake in moderate oven for about thirty-five minutes. Sponge Cake. j ? eggs. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup flour, f juice 1-2 lemon. Separate whites j and yolks of eggs. Beat whites [stiff; add 1-2 cup of the sugar. I Beat yolks until creamy, add other half of sugar to them, then add j lemon juice. Combine white and yolk mixtures. Add the cup of flour slowly, whipping ? in lightly. Pour into an ungreased cake, pan [and bake in a very slow oven for j about one hour. Drop Cookies, j 2 tb. butter, 1-4 c sugar, I egg 1 l-t. baking powder; 1-4 t. salt, 1-4 c. I Hour. 2 tb; milk. 1-2 c. finely chop ped peanuts, 1-2 t. lemon juic?. I Cream the butter, add the sugar, [and egg well beaten. Mix and sift j baking powder, salt and flour; add jto first mixture, then add milk? j peanuts and lemon juice. Drop I from a teaspoon on an urbuttered j sheet one inch opart, and place I one-half 'peanut on top of each, j Bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a i slow oven. This recipe will make t twenty-four cookies. One pint. I peanuts when shelled should yield one-half cup. ?> ? * WORK ON NEW j BATTLESHIP j West Virginia To Be Complet | ed Under Treaty Terms j Washington, March 17.?Secre tary Den by today ordered work on j completion of the battleship Wrest i Virginia, building in the yards of ? the Newport News Shipbuilding and [Dry Dock company, resumed, that ! vessel having been selected for com j pletion instead of the battleship ! Washington under the terms of the i naval limitation treaty, j The special navy board, headed I by Rear Admiral MeElroy. which j investigated for the secretary the I degree of completion of the two [ships. Secretary Denby's announce ) ment said, found the West Virginia ! to Ixc So per cent finished as com i pared to the 6-9 per cent completed \ status of the Washington. { Work on the Washington will I remain suspended as is the case ; with other new battleships and bat tle cruisers which are slated to be ! scrapped or converted when the ; treaty has beer: ratified and rati i ficatioas have been formally ex ' changed; The Washington is un : der construction at the yards of j the New Vork Shipbuilding com ; pany at Camden, N. J. j By the terms of the treaty the j United States was authorized to I complete two ships "of the West j Virginia class" which were under ! construction when the conference j was called and on their comple I lion, to commission these with the j fleet and withdraw from the active : forces the older battleships North Dakota and Delaware which will I be scrapped. The third battleship of lhaL ? lass which will be in I eluded in the treaty fleet is the [Maryland now in commission. I The battleship Colorado, of the i same class, is under construction I at the Camden yards but so. nearly [completed that she was figured as j a complete ship in the treaty dis I cussions and these two, the Colo | rado and the West Virginia, will ; fie the vessels to be added to the i!< < t as the equivalent in the Amer ican nayy for Japan's retention of : I he bat tlesliip Mutsu. i Tho navy department lias not ; reached a decision as yet as to i which of the three battle cruisers j nearest to completion are to be j converted into airplane carriers. It is generally assumed, however, that the Lexington, building at the ; Fore River, .Mass., yards and the ? Saratoga, under construction at the j Camden yards will he converted, j-while the Contellation at Newport i News will be scrappy d. MILLIONAIRE LOSES BOOZE Miami. March IS.?Customs of ficials seized five hundred cases of tine liquors valued ai fifty thou sands dollars aboard the Patricia, a palatial yaclu owned by James Sh?-wan, New Vork millionaire. ?--<> ?? ?? Most musical comedies would be brier ? the curtain didn'1 go up higher than four feet. TEXTILE STRIKE MAY BE ENDED Mill Owners and Strikers May ! Be Brought Together in Rhode Island - Providence, R. I., March 1G.? I Hope or' early settlement of the j textile strike in Rhode Island, now I in its eighth week, was revived j today when the state board o? j mediation and conciliation, bas J ing its aetion on the passage of the Lavander 48 hour bill by the ! house of representatives yesterday, I announced that it would renew its j effort to persuade mill owners and strikers to compromise their dif j ferences. ! Passage of the Lavander bill, ac j eording to a statement issued by ! Commissioner of I^abor Webb, j "presented an opportunity for the . board to go back to the strikers ! with a hope of securing some con j cessions that might lead to a ter? ; m.'nation of the strike." The hoard will meet Saturday ? when the result of conferences to j be held with strike leaders in the ; meantime will be made public. j The previous attempts by the j state board of mediation and con j filiation to restore peace in the i Rhode Island textile industry have j failed. The first move towards ar? j nitration fell through on February ; 2S when manufacturers and strik ? ers alike refused to submit to ar ! bit ration the cpuestions at issue. The manufacturers then declared I that they could not operate their j miils on a higher wage scale than ? had been offered except "at a ru ; inous loss." The wage scale offer i ed was a reduction of 20 per cent. in wages paid prior to the strike, i The strikers stood firm for "the i 4 8 hour week, no reduction to j wages, no discrimination against i strikers returning to work." ! A second attempt by the board j to settle the strike was based on a compromise plan, under which the j 48 hour week was to prevail, and j the manufacturers were to be sat j isfied with a wage reduction of 10 j per cent instead of 20. A six j months' agreement embodying these j terms was proposed, but the board j last week announnced that the j parties to the controversy would i not agree, on this basis. The present plan, it was under stood tonight, will be similar to the j last in that it will suggest a com promise in the matter of wages. I The Lavendar bill was not trans | mined to the senate today but will j go to the upper house of the. legis I lature tomorrow. Announcement by Governor San? ! Souci today that more than half the I troops in the Pawtucket valley j strike area would be withdrawn to I morrow was taken as indicating j that the strike situation there ? promises no further disorders. I Since the Xantic and Pontiac riots ! there have been no serious dis j turbances in the valley. ? ? o I Fish For Stocking Ponds. Editor Daily Item: { It has occurred to me that the j people of South Carolina are not j taking advantage of the govern ! ment's offer to supply them with j free fish with which to stock their ; ponds and rivers, that they are not ! only missing some good sport but ! some very good food, j I doubt very much if many peo j pie know that the government i maintains a hatchery at Orange ! burg. In talking to one of the j officials of the Bureau of Fisheries, j he spoke very highly of the Or j angeburg plant and they would I like very much to enlarge it but it seems that the people are not using j up the present output. Last season I this station produced about 200,000 j large mouth bass and 15,000 sun i fish. There were between 500 and j C00 applications received, about 50 , per cent of them being from South j Carolina, the balance from Xorth I Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, i For the information of those in j icrested in securing fish, I will say Ithat the Orangeburg hatchery j propagates large mouth bass and ? sunfish and fhat only one specie? j of fish is assigned to any applicant j during any one season and '.he I number supplied is based upon the ! water area to be stocked. Only j one application for any particular ! body of water will be considered, i The period of distribution extends j from the 1st of May to the 1st ot I September. Applications are acted imon in order of receipt and orders i I filled as long as the supply lasts, j so that the sooner an application j is made, the better the chance ot j securing the fish. i Applications require the endorse* ; meat of a senator or representative j in congress and I shall be pleased to hear from those in the Seventh I distict who desire to secure a sup j ply of fish. All applications should ' be in my hands before the 13th of ! April. j I hope that our people will not j overlook this opportunity and that I the waters of our State and espe cially the Seventh District will soon j be alive with fish. Very respectfully. H. P. FCLMER, M. C. j Washington. March 15. I STOCK SPECU LATORS BUSY N.-w York, March 18.?Trading ?>n stock exchange this week was characterized by the greatest ac-j tivity and the most varied opera?j tidns of any similar period this year, and price tendencies were j higher in vast majority of instances. More substantial gains were reg-j istered by low grade industrials and specialties. The investment situation was another source of en-j couragenient to banking interests. 1 Long engagements at least give; a fellow a chance to finish paying for the ring before making first payment on the furniture. TEST OF INCOME TAX LAW I Columbia Legal Authority Say Law Will Hold i Columbia. March 17.?Interest ; attaches throughout the state to j the outcome of The effort instituted j by J. W. Kirkpatrick. of Creen ' ville, president of the state retail : merchants' association, to test the I consitutionality of the new state j income tax Jaw. A leading author I ity, not connected with the state I government, is quoted as saying j that this effort will fail and that j the act is constitutional. At the ' same time, numerous business men ! and others contend that the law is i contrary to the state constitution. It is held by those that it taxes Ian income earned in another state. ^ ^ ^ I A Kotten Business. - (News and Courier.) Officials of the American Cotton i Exchange claim that the investiga ? tion of that institution in progress ! has been brought about by its eno j mies, including the New York Cot ton Exchange and the New <)r ! leans Cotton Exc hange. However ; this may be, the inquiry before j Chief Magistrate William McAdoo in New York has resulted already t in some exceedingly interesting dis closures. The conclusion is ines capable?if the witnesses arc to be j believed at all?that the trans ; actions in cotton which took place j among the members of the Amcri j can Cotton Exchange reeked with ! fraud and that customers were j fleeced in the most wholesale man j ner. Magistrate McAdoo asked j one witness whether the customer at a distance ever won. "He j might with an honest broker," i was the answer, "but he always loses twice as much. The broker always figures his customer as wrong." It was testified that when cotton went to 22 cents last September one concern received such a flood of buying orders that ihey did not have time to go through the for mality of putting their trades across the ring, but a member of the firm Simply sorted out the orders, filled in prices and sent confirmation to the customers. Ninety per cent of j the business, witnesses said, was j done by brokers with their fing j ers crossed. The New York Iler ! aid thus summarizes what is meant j by this finger-crossing system: "An- order comes in from the j so1' h to an American exchange j broker for the purchase of cotton, j The broker goes into the ring and ! looks at the New York Cotton Ex | change quotations and offers to buy j at the last posted figure. Getting no offer to sell he raises his bid successively until he feels he has i gone as high as he dare on his I customer's money?four or five ! points above the New York quo j tationS'?and on his next bid holds i aloft his crossed fore and middle j figner. Another broker with whom j he base a specific or standing pre ! arrangement catches that signal and in response holds up his cross ed fingers and cries 'Sold.' "At the end of the day's busi ness the 'crossed' orders are made out in 'bought' and 'sold' slipsf one transaction going into the broker's books as the execution of his cus tomer's order and the offsetting transaction being recorded in a dummy account. These registra tions make everything look all right in the records of the Ameri can Cotton and Grain Clearing House, so that the customer hasn't a chance to discover the bucketing of the order. "No cotton is actually bought, and,'according to testimony, none can be bought except in small quantities on rare occasions." The New York Globe declares that undoubtedly the criminal as pects of the situation which has been disclosed will be adequately dealt with by the district attorney and in the courts. However, while the law is adequate to punish such abuses as have been shown to ex ist this is not the only phase which is of importance. "The economic menace of the recent growth of houses specializing in petty cotton speculation is very great." says The Globe," even when the law is being technically observed. An inquiry conducted by The Globe has shown that the south is honeycombed with agencies of firms which appeal to 1 the gambling instinct of persons of, j small means. Speculation of that1 I nature is doomed from the start." j Denimciation of .the cotton ex changes has been a favorite pas time in the south for a great many years. Yet now we are told that j it is the south which has supported the crooked brokers. "The sequel of the finger crossing deals of the j American Exchange brokers lies | J souih of the Mason and Dixon i line," says the Herald. "Various j brokers, formerly memhers of the' American Exchange, told of how J the American Exchange special'?:'.- i es in southern clientele, one hrok-! er said of his hundreds of custom-i ers he had just two north of the Potomac river." How different in j this respect is the New York Cot ton Exchange? It would he very interesting indeed to know. It is to be hoped that the light will be thoroughly turned on the opera tions of New York Coitoa Ex change also. What has been! brought out should help cure a j good many southerners of the] j fever for gambling in cotton. If ' j the whole business could be thor-: [ oughly shown up in its true light j the cotton industry might be freed [of a lot of parasites which doubt-I i less have cost it far more than the ; I boll weevil ever did. I There's one thing about wireless 'typewriters, it they don't make.j I good a man won't be tempted toj I keep them on account of their looks. A little deflation of national as-j pirations might heb? some. Politicians know the ropes?they j smoke so many of them. DOUBT OVER j NEW BONUS BILL I Speaker Gillett Says He is ?* - \ "Open to Argument" on Rules Question j - ! Washington Match 17.?Deyel | oproenis toddy in the soldiers' bo ; nus situation included: ! The return to Washington -of { Speaker Gillett with the announce j ment that he was "open to argu : ment" as to permitting the bonus I bill ro be called up in the house f next Monday under a suspension j of the rules. j An unexpected visit to the capi itol by Representative Kitchen, of j North Carolina, the Democratic ! house leader, who uged his party j members on the ways and means i committee to submit a minority re j port opposing certain features*of : the bonus measure. ! An attack on Secretary Mellon, ! Comptroller of the Currency Cris I singer. Wall street and others, de j livered in the house by Represen tative Frear. Republican, Wiscon isin. An announcement by Represen j tative Treadway, of Massachusetts j that he and Representative Tilson, [of Connecticut, both Republican ? members of the ways and means (.committee, would submit joint \rd j nority views on the bonus biit. I A disclaimer by Secretary Mellon J in a letter to Representative Frear j that he had attempted in any of ; his letters regarding the bonus legislation to "argue the merits of [the soldiers* bonus." i Returning from a trip to Florida ; with Presdiont Harding, Speaker j Gillett told newspaper correspond j ents he had brought no message on ! the bonus for house leaders from j the president. He said he was still j of the opinion expressed before^he [departed from Florida that- the t bonus measure should not. be tak j en up under a suspension of the rules, but added that he would not j make a final decision until after he j had conferred with his "friends. I NO INFORMATION ON INCOME TAX - . i Federal Government Can Not I Assist the State in Matter \- Washington, March 15.?W.- R. } Bradley, acting collector of inter I nal revenue for South Carolina, ! called at the trea-sury department ! here today to ascertain whether or i not state officials could be furnish ed with the facts as to the amount of income tax paid to the federal government by South Carolinians. The ? legislature has recently en : acted an income tax law which [ provides that South Carolinians i shall pay the state a certain per-; J cenrage of the amount of income I tax they paid the. United States. ; The commissioner of internal rev enue informed Mr. Bradley that the government could not give the in formation desired, and so the state will have to collect its income tax without it. MUSCLE SHOALS VISIT PLANNED _ Arranging Trip for Member of Cortgress \ Washington, March 17.?Work of arranging for Senators and mem bers of the House military commit tee to inspect personally the gor? j crnment's war initiated projects at Muscle Shoals and Georgas, Ala., in a body, were begun tonight by officers of the two legislative chambers. Joseph Rogers, sergeant at-arms at the house, to whom the. duty of making preparations for t the military committee was en trusted, opened communications with David S. Barry, the Senate sergeant-at-arms, immediately up on passage by the House of the resolution authorizing the visit and appropriating $2.000 for expense* of the House members. The decision of trie Senate agri culture comimttee to leave here. IMarch 23 was announced by Sen? !ator Xorris. of Nebraska, a few j minutes before the House passed the resolution. Several military [committeemen said the date would I be convenient for them while others ! favored making the trip at once so j they might return here and begin j immediate preparation of the re I port the committee will make to the House on the offers of Henry Ford, the Alabama Power company, and Frederick E. Eingstrum, of Wilmington. X. C. which have been under investigation for more than a month. The impossibility, however, of the Senators departing before their votes are recorded on the four power pact treaty was recognized by House members as a justifiable reason for waiting until March 25. Reasons of economy also were ad vanced by those who favored the joint visit. Both Senators and House committeemen, it was ex plained. could go as one delegation much less expensively than they could in two or more groups. TEACHERS ELECT OFFICERS Columbia. March 18.?Prof. A. Mason DuPre, of Wofford college, Spartanburg-, was today elected president of the State Teachers' association in the closing session of a great three day conventin. * W. J. McGharrity, of Aiken and Miss Eunice Wilson were elected vice 1 u-esidents: Secretary Burts and Treasurer W. E. Black hold office until next year. The matter of the idaee of meeting for next year was left '>> the oxeeutive committee. a- q> ^| , m & The only records a man with patent leather hair ever breaks are those Tom Edison invented.