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Special Children's Entertainments Popular Chautauqua Feature Four unique children's entertainments will be given at the coming Red Chautauqua in addition to the regular programs for adults, each of the entertainments for the youngsters being given on a different day. Mary tfkson with her Marionettes wili give one^entertainment and Duval Brothers, well-known magicians, another. The other entertainments will be "Characters from the Story Books" presented by Kathleen Scott and Cather ine Denny, and a pop-alar concert by the Cramei Kurz Trio. The children's programs will be given either in the morning or in the afternoon. TARIFF BEFORE THE SENATE Democrats Join in Discussion of Administration Measure -r-: 4 Washington, Af"r!T123.?Increas ed "dirties, on drugs, dyes, inks and paints proposed in\the administra tion tariff bill came under fire to day from senate Democrats in the "second day of general debate on the measure. Reviewing the raies in the first schedule of the blil Sen ator King (Democrat) of Utah said the increases proposed ranged from 130 to 600 per cent.; pre sented statistics to show that im ports of the commodities under dis cussion were negligible, and charg ed that the result of enactment of the proposed duties would be to in crease the "already swollen for tunes of drug arid chemical manu facturers at the expense of the American people." Attacking what he characterized as the dye monopoly. Senator King declared that the propaganda which he charged that it Jiad circulated was "false, deceitful and designed to misiead the American people i'c?r' the purpose of; paving enacted. the embargo which it succeeded in obtaining." In this connection he warned corporations and business men generally that- unless they treated the consuming public fair ly the people would "rise up in their wrath and pull dowu the temple of business/* Senator Jones -i tDemocrat) of Xew Mexico served??*otiee on the senate that there would be votos "oh each of the- hundreds of rates In the MIL ' Senator Harrison ^Democrat) of 3irsSissip'pi offered a.resolution call ing on the tariff commission foSin \ formation as to the* result of the operation of the emergency tariff bill. He asked for immediate con sideration, but .Senator Smoot ob jected, saying it could be acted .upon tomorrow without displacing the tariff bHL vWe were told,"' said Senator I Jlarrsion, "that the emergency tar iff was to be the panacea for all agricultural ills. We knew that was largely buncombe. The tariff -*oinmission has gathered the facts ,,nd congress and the country are entitled to know what they are. The facts will help in a wise eon sjderation of this'bill." BATTLE IN IRELAND -iful?ngar, Ireland, April 27.? Fighting broke out today between regular and irregular Republican s army forces stationed here in an ticipation of Eamond de Valera's anti-treaty meeting to be held Sat urday. Hostilities continued for two hours and one was killed on each side and^six wounded. GERMAN AND RUSSIAN AMBASSADORS London, April 27.?Diplomatic * relations between Germany and Russia will be resumed immediate ly. Prof. Wiedenfeld has been appointed German ambassador to the Soviet and Leonid Krassin rep resents Russia In Berlin. Boys* am! (.iris* Agricultural Clubs. Chicago, 111., April 27:? Exhibits from Koys and Girls" clubs will lie a special feature of the Fourth Grain and Hay Show to be held in connection with the Internationa? Live Stock Exposition. December 2-x The United States Department of Agriculture and the state agri cultural colleges will make large .educational exhibits, it is announc ed. The International Live Stock J"x- ->s:;b :. is <x\? teil to assign larger space than formerly to this show. The Chicago Board of Trade has contributed sin.00a in cash pre miums for exbibts "i corn, small grain and seeds, hay. legumes and other farm crops. When summer breezes are fit thf ?ats are not. STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSN. Pageants To Be Held in All Counties of State j - j Spartanbttrg. April 24? Interest . is being aroused over the state in ! the series of community child lifd pajre-:nts which are being promot ed by the South Carolina Sunday ; School Association and* which will i.;?e hold in practically every coun j ty in the state. In most of the j counties from five to a dozen of I these pageants will be held. Co operating with the South Carolina j Sunday School Association in the j work which is something entirely ! new in this :>tate are the State : Board of Health, the State Depart - j ment of Education, the State Home j Demonstration Service and the ! State Federation of Women's Clubs, j Miss LAura Blackburn of Colum I bia has been, engaged as secretary ! of the Pageant Committee and has ; already begun her work. She is i eminently fitted for it and is now I engaged in visiting a number of the j counties that are contemplating ; putting on the pageant. ; The theme of this educational ; pageant that is to teach a state ! wide lesson is, "The Rights of the ; Child.'- It presents five rights, j namely, "The Right to Health; the I Right to Education: the Right to i Protection; the Right to Home ! Training and the Right to Religious } Nurture." It is announced by Leon C. Pal \ mcr. superintendent of the South ; Carolina Sunday School Association that no admission will be charged j at any of the pageants sintre. they I are being promoted in the interests : of the children of South Carolina ; and not as a money-making enter \ prise. i BARN DESTROY j ED BY FIRE 1 One Mule Burned to Death, Another Badiy Burned, Pro vinder and Farm Utensils Are Demolished in Early Morning Fire Messrs. R. E. Lee and L. D. Brown, prominent farmers of the Oswcgo section, had the extreme j misfortune of losing their barn, ; with its contents, wagons and farm i implements, and one mule when I this barn was burned at about 2 j o'clock Thursday i:>orning. It is not ; known how the lire started. One j mule saved was found to be too ; badly burned to be of service In the barn was stored about 300 bushels of corn, hay. and peas nil ' of which was destroyed. There was no insurance. Americans Gel Concessions in As iatic Turkey Adana. Cilicia, April 1?Signs of the coming economic regeneration of Asiatic Turkey grom more abun : dant as United States companies j through their representatives here announce new jncessions obtain ed from tin- Nationalist govern j mem ;it Angora for t tic exploita itioir and development of the coun try. Three important concessions have been announced by American cani , t.:!isis within recent weeks .-1n< 1 [others are under consideration. One American company an nounces that it bus obtained a 75 tyear lease in tin- port of Mersina ] which is to involve extensive works in the construction of the port and i town: Another American company has j secured a concession to construct two important railway lines. A third company has arranged ? exploitation of the Anatolian with the Angora government for the ; mines and electrical pmyvr for rhe ! lighting and industries of the vil ayets Of Adana, Angora and Kenia. All the concessions are subject I to demands that Turks only !?<? [employed and the Angora govern ment to receive: a share of the j profits. When a woman kills somebody and is freed she ha*, a great movie furore. Wonder what Arbuckle thinKs about equal rights? COURT RULES OUT DISHON EST LABELS Decision is Said to Broaden Jurisdiction of Federal Trade Commission Washington. April 24.?Labels or brands under which articles are sold, when open t"> construction in the mind of the. purchasing public I that they describe the component ingredients or materials used in the manufacture of the articles, must clearly end definitely describe, them, the Supreme Court today! held in an opinion delivered by j Justice Brandeis in a case, brought | by the Federal Trade Commission against the Winsted Hosiery Com-j pany, ot Connecticut. ^Justice Mc- j Reynolds dissenting. The opinion of the court, while | confined to the particular issues j presented, will, it is stated, have | material effect in broadening the j jurisdiction of the Federal Trade j Commission in such trade practices. Chairman Gaskill. of the commis sion, described the decision as a great victory. Explaining that the Winsted company for many years had man ufactured underwear for the retail trade bearing the brand "natu ral merino." "gray wool," "natural wool." "natural worsted." or "Aus tralian wool," Justic Brandeis de-j clared "none of this underwear is i all wool," but "much of it con tains only a small percentage of wool: some as little as 10 per cent." Cannot Accept Contention. In this connection he said that while the Winsted company labels, particularly that bearing the word "merino," have long been used in the trade, "the court could not ac cept the contention thai they are generally understood as indicating goods partly of cotton." He declared it "unsound." assert ing that the labels in question "are literally false" and except those; which bear the word "merino" are j "palpably so." All are calculated ; to "deceive," Justice Brandeis j added, "and do in fact deceive a J substantial portion of the purchas ing public." Defining the words used upon j the label's of the company. Jus- j tice Brandeid said "a substantial : part of the consuming public, and j also some buyers for retailers and j sales people, understand the words \ . . as applied to underwear to i mean that the underwear is all j wool." By means of the labels and . brands "part of the public is mis- j led into selling or into buying as i all wool, underwear which is in! fact a large part cotton." he added, declaring that the practice tended "to aid and encourage th<* representations of unscrupulous re tailers and their salesmen, who I knowingly sell to their customers as all wool, underwear which is largely composed of cotton."" "When misbranded goods attract customers by means of the fraud which they perpetrate, trade is di verted from the producer 01* truth fully marked goods," the justice stated, and the fact that "honest, ^manufacturers might protect their trade by also resorting to decep tive labels'* is no defense for such practices. Misrepentation. "Misrepresentation und misde scription have become so common ! in the knit underwear trade that most dealers no longer accept, la bels at their face value," the jus I tice continued, but that "does not prevent tr^ir u*e being an unfair i method of competition. A method inherently unfair does not cease to be so because those competed j against have become aware of the j wrongful practice. Nor does it erase to be unfair because the I falsity of the manufacturers' rep resentation has become so well known to the trade that dealers, as distinguished from consumers, are no longer deceived. The bon iest manufacturer's business may suffer, not merely through a com petitor's deceiving his direct cus tomer, the retailer. but also through the competitor's putting into the hands of the retailer ?.n unlawful instrument, which en abled the retailer to increase his own sales of the dishonest goods, thereby lessening the market for the honest product. That a person is a wrong doer who so furnishes another with the means of con summating a fraud has long been a part of the law of unfair com petition." The court pointed out that trade marks which decieve the public are denied protection, and found that the commission was justified in its conclusion that the practice constituted an unfair method of competition and that it was au thorized to order that the practice be discontinued. Body of Engineer Recovered Norfolk. Va.. April 2G?The body of t\ w. Hussey. of Elizabeth City. X. C, chief engineer of the Buxton Line steamship, Brewster, which was sunk in a collision on James river Friday, was recovered near Sturgeon Ponit. Story Hour at Grace Baptist Church. There will be a story hour i<>r .ill the children oi' the city at Grace Baptist chinch May 7th. at 4 o'clock. At this sovice an offering will be taken for tie- children's work of the state Sunday School Asso ciai h ?n. Ii has been stated that there are n boys .m<i girls in South Carolina thai are receiving no re ligious instruction wliatever. The Junior, Primary and i:<--.in ners No. 1 and No. 2 Societies of Christian Endeavor will meet Sun daj afternoon, April '?>", at live o'clock. Conan Doyle says ,,n women in the next world are 23. He has :i pretty sood idea of heaven aftei BETTER SERVICE FOR TRUCKERS Pennsylvania Railroad Will Merge Refrigerator Car Service With Fruit Growers' Express Philadelphia, April 26.?As a jmeasure to secure for the public the maximum service from its spec ialized equipment for handling perishable traffic. tin- Pennsyl vania Railroad will, effective May 1st. discontinue entirely the opera tion of its separate refrigerator car lines, and will merge all of its re frigerator cars, numbering r.,1'2", with those of the Fruit Growers' Express. Thereafter the Fruit Orowers' Express will assume all refrigeration and protective ear service on the lines of the Pennsyl vania Ssytem. Tin- Pennsylvania railriad man agement has decided upon this step as being in the hesi interests of the shippers and tin- railroads general ly. Its most important effect will, be to more than double the mini-; ber of refrigerator ears operated by tile Fruit Growers' Express. These now number 5.209. With the ad dition of tlie Pennsylvania cars, there will he u total of 11.1Zii available for service throughout i the territory covered, which em braces the Southern und Central) Western States easi of the .Missis-, sippi. the Middle Atlantic States1 and Xew England. The Fruit Growers' Express is a ? co-opera t ive organization owned and managed by the leading rail roads of the South and East. It has no individual stockholders and no distribution of earnings outside * the owning railroads. It exists solely for the purpose of supplying refrigerator cars and protective service on fruits, vegetables and other products of a perishable na ture. Traffic of this character is sea sonal, beginning during the winter in Florida und working North un til the late fruit crops of Northern New Vork and Michigan, and the potato crop Of New England, are reached. It is therefore evident {that the addition of the large num ber of curs owned by the Pennsyl vania system, to those already con trolled by the Fruit Growers' Ex {press, will assure a. better distri bution and a more flexible, effici ent* and economical use of the equipment throughout the season. I It was for this reason concluded by the Pensylvania Railroad manage ment that the shippers' needs are (better met by such an organization jas the Fruit Growers' Express than i by each railroad trying locally to l care for the crops in its own par | ticular territory and that of its i connections. I The new arrangement will also I secure professional attention to all i details of the protective service for all shippers. The Fruit Growers' i Express was organized two years : ago and has developed a working force specially trained in the ban Idling and care of perishable freight. Last year it made a particularly J successful record in handling Southern products, and it was (largely this fact which influenced j the decision of the Pennsylvania [Railroad management, j The Pensylvania Railroad was {the pioneer in the use and develop | mem of refrigerator car*, having ?established the first lines through j the South more than thirty years i ago. in order to bring frish fruits 'and vegetables to the Northern j markets during the colder seasons. TS CO?PERATIVE MARKETING WORTH WHILE Experience of One Anderson Farmer Shows in Dollars and Cents That It Pays j Clemson College. April 26? ! "Many farmers still seem not to j see the great advantage to be de j rived from joining the cooperative j association." says' Director W. W. \ Long, of the Extension Service, in speaking of the sign-up eam I paign in this state now nearing ? its close, "and yet we are fre t quently having just such illustra tions of the value of cooperative j marketing as is found in the story coming from S. M. Byars, county agent of Anderson county, concern ting some cotton belonging to an I a nderson farmer." Recently the county agent sc ? (aired samples of sonic long staple j cotton grown by Dr. .1. M. McKles : ky on his farm in Anderson county, j and for which he had been offered : L'L' cents per pound on the local ; market. The samples were sent to the Mississippi Cooperative Asso ciation, which is now selling thou I >ands of hales of cotton for the j farmers of that stale, and Mr. Byar has recently received a tele I gram saying that the association COUld sell the cotton for ."Pi to 4>i j cents per pound. This difference Of S to IS CeUtS per pOUnd between ?the price offered on the local mar ket and t!ie price which the Missis I - - ? Isippi Association would secure is some difference indeed, and illus Unites the tact that it it is worth ' while to secure prices as much as lifty per cent above the prevailing pre es then h is worth w hile to join ile- cooperative marketing as?*o ci.i i ion. It is reported thai one mill in Anderson county is now buying long staple cotton fronvthe Missis sippi Cooperative Association al though the same cotton is product U in this state; The reason is plain. The null i:< willing to for wba: u wains. As .t result the mill will buy from she assciation in ariothei stale because it can ?et ;i certain grade ot cotton in a quantity wh'u h it desires. -? ? ? Tie- difference between putting on a soft Collar ami putting on a .- r i;; collar is ten minutes. -o ? o The small boy thinks the worst thing about sister's bobbed hair i3 she has to wash her r.eck. NEW RUSSIAN DEMANDS UP Genoa Conference Thrown in to Confusion by Soviet Delegate Genoa, April 1A (By the Asso ciated Press).-?Another new twist in the Russian tangle again causes disquietude in conference circles Seemingly the Kassian delegates have developed a new set of pro posals. It is understood that at the meeting of the experts on the Russian question this afternoon the soviet delegates argued for the complete wiping oat. of the war debts and also relinquishment of all arrears on interest on pre-war debts. Simultaneously they ashed for assurances that the powers would grant loans sufficient to en able Russia to reorganize her nat ional life. ' As tlie sovie; had previously giv en the allies to understand thai a scaling down of the war debts would be accepted, the demand of the delegates for a protocol can celling these debts caused great surprise to :1a- representatives of the powers, who reported to the j chiefs of their respective delega tions that the trend of today's : meeting with the Bolsheviki indi cated the possibility of insuperable I difficulties in coming to some ar rangements wirb the soviet. The Russian request for exten : ftive loans caused dissatisfaction i because it is recognized thai it i would be extremely difficult to I guarantee credits to Russia with 1 out some reasonable assurance that J they would be handled by a truly I responsible Russian government. The allied chief-; tonight frankly [ expressed their opinion that an j arrangement with the soviet will ! be extremely difficult unless the Russian delegates show a reason ; able attitude. Thr experts adjourned sine die because of what they termed the ! excessive Russian demands, which proposed also that the powers ac cept non-restitution of the private j property of foreigners. The Russian delegates declared that the terms they were willing to j grant were conditional, first, on the ; recognition of their government, jand second, receipt mi a loan from ! foreign countries. I _ (lonoa, April 24 (By the Asso jCiated Press).?All the delegations' I free from the incubus of the crisis . which for a week threatened the i existence of the conference set themselves today to hard work, de ; termined to reach some definite ?and practical conclusion in the shortest possible time, doing their best to avoid further incidents. . The commissions and subcom \ Missions which met were so numer ous that the rooms set aside for ; the. purpose at the Royal Palace : were insufficient. The Russian question still consti tutes the most important item al j the conference. Prior to the meet ling of the commission entrusted : with the study of the Russian prob ; lern, at which the Russian dele gates Krassin, Litvinoft and Ra i vosky promised to give the expla j nation requested. Premier Lloyd George expressed the hope that the question would be satisfactorily concluded by the end of the week. The disappearance of last week's jcrisis was doubly celebrated at the Villa . de Albertis, Mr. Lloyd ["George's residence, because it coin Icided with tin- birthday cf his 'daughter. Megan, the coincdence being Interpreted as a good omen ! for the conference Mr. Lloyd George has received j many congraiulatons for his handl ing of the situation and preventing ;antagonisms and resentments caus ied by the Russo-German treaty ! from interfering in a ay great meas ure with the conference: in fact, las one of the delegates put it. mak ' ing the past clanger an added spur ' for speedier solution of the ques tions before the conference. <>n being complimented for his iachievement, the British premier [remarked that after the Paris peace conference and the negotia tions for the settlement of the ? Irish question. he- had been through many crises ?and threaten I cd crises he had learned that the | bile of the plenipotentiaries was as i!>ad a.-, t heir bark. I CHAUTAUQUA IS COMING Buy Your Tickets Now? Chautauqua Begins May 6th During the next week yen will likely have several boys coming to you trying to sell you a Chautauqua ticket. These boys are working hard to .help the V. M. C. A. meet its guarantee to the Chautauqua and also to gel a season pass to the Chautauqua. Every year people wait until the last day and make, it extra hard for the boys and also the committee who have the sidling of the tickets in charge. This year the program is extra good having two good plays which alone would cost the price of the season ticket. The mal" quartet will also he eiic of tin- main fea ture.--. A company of Hawaiian pl.i.v. rs and singers w ill undoubt edly be popular with the Slimier people. The entire seven day pro gram will he shown you by and of the boys selling tickets, [f for any reason the boys fail to see you it you will phone the V. M. <?'. A. No. .'IL'? and ask that :i boy he Sell! io you you will he served imm< diately. Tiie war tax is not on the li-keis^ this year an this brings the -pr.e** down some. The price ol tin- tickets tor the season: Adult vj.7.".: children. $1.50. Student ha \ <? not ( oi.,e 3 . : bat w ill lik? !> 1.?.. si.:?". Some no n t hink it's immoral i<? smoke. And some men ein ?moke w it hotit gel t i'l" sick. 1'ee.ple ale grOWing tired of ??Weeks." Why not eoleberate "Just A Plain Week Week" for a change? TELEPHONE RATE CASE Recent Act of General Assem bly Reducing Rates Point in Issue Charleston, April 2-.?A hearing ; was held in the telephone in- 1 junction case today by Judge M. A. M. Smith of the United States East -: em district court, and after hear-i ing arguments ef attorneys repre-j senting the plaintiff, the Southern j Bell Telephone & Telegraph com-! pany, and the various state au thorities, .Judge Smith took the I case under consideration.- The ? plaintiff had petitioned for an in-j cerlociuory injunction restraining! slate officials from enforcing the j recent act of the general assembly: regulating the maximum price; wit ich may be charged by tele-j phone companies in the state, and j in the meantime Judge Smith had! granted a temporary restraining! order, and the defendants then pe-1 titioned that the plaintiff's com plaint be dismissed. Tin* following attorneys were on hand to represent the telephone! i company: drier & Park of Green- j wood. W. S. Xelson of Columbia.: j Hagood, Rivers & Young of Char-j leston. Henry E. Davis of Florence! and Willcox ?Sc Wlllcox of Flor-j ence. The defendants were repre-j sented by Attorney Gel e?al Samuel j j AT. Wolfe, F. A. Miller of Hart<-j 1 ville and Stephen Nettles of Green- ; j ville. The arguments before Judge Smith today were mostly of a tech nical nature. The plaintiff alleged, in its complaint, that the new lawi j regulating telephone rates is of a ! coniLseatory nature ami therefore unconstitutional, and in the hear ing today this point was stressed I as was the point that unless the injunction were granted the plan tiff, would be faced with a multiplicity of suits in the state courts, result ; ing in immense penalties and fines. Supporting its motion to dismiss I the complaint, the respondents claimed that the plaintiff had ade quate relief through appeal to 1 state courts. ! The question as to whether or not the motion for an interlocutory j injunction should be heard before I a tribunal of three federal judges 1 was also taken up in the hearing. The hearing commenced shortly j after 11 o'clock and lasted more than an hour. The railroad com I mission of South Carolina and I Samuel Wolfe, attornev general, r.... ? I are among the respondents. MORE FRICTION IN IRELAND Rupture Between North and South Seems Imminent Pel fast. April 20 (By the Asso ciated Pres:-;).?A breach between jthe Dublin and Belfast governments ; which Ulster political quarters de j clare may also entail a rupture of I the London agreement is indicated I by a statement issued by the pro i visional government in Dublin this j afternoon, announcing that it is j unable to cooperate with the Bel I fast government in an inquiry into j the Irish railways, j The seriousness of the general ! situation between the two govern j ments is indicated by a telegram j from Michael Collins, head of the provisional government, to Sir j James Craig, the Lister premier, i "All here are agreed it is im j possible to make any further pro I gress until the vital clauses of the ; London agreement are fulfilled by I you," said Collins, in his telegram i dated April 22. "They consider i your attitude regarding prisoners I as most unsatisfactory and enttre i ly out of accord with tin- letter j and spirit of the agreement, and j your failure to agree to investi j gation of cases under Clause V. as J most unreasonable." j Clause V of the London agree ment of March 30 provided for es I tablishment of a committee in Bel ! fast, with equal numbers of Cath { olios and Protestants, to hear and I investigate complaints of intimida j lion, outrages, etc. j Sir James Craig's reply to Mi ? chael Collin's telegram of April 2 j made public today, asserts that i there had been no cooperation on I the part of the provisional govern i ment, which had not even appoint ed its nominees on the advisory j committee called for by the London I agreement. i The Lister premier also com I plained that the provisional gov I ernment had not withdrawn the I boycott of Ulster and that hundreds j of thousands of pounds worth of j Belfast goods had been destroyed j in southern rreland. He declared ? the Irish Republican army was still committing grave outrages in ! Ulster and he asserted that .a gen eral there had been bad faith on ! the pan of tin- provisional gov ; ernment. 1 _ j London. April 20 (B> the Asso j ciaied Press).?Acting Comman dant Michael S. O'Neill of the I third Cork brigade of the Irish. I Republican army, was shot ami 'killed near Bandon, County Cork. J today, the Central News report.;. : Commandant O'Neill was accom I panying other officers and officials to a farm house some distance from the town and was tired at point blank without warning. A nu mb* r of the farmer's family was a rrested. Birthplace of (bant Point Plea- int. (duo. April 27.? Tin- eyes of the natior tinned to da\ io this little village snuggled ;,t the base of the hills overlooking 1 he Ohio river to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great military leader and president. Ulysses S Grant. Pres ident Harding is scheduled to make an address at <'.rant's former home. ?-? ? m Dispatches speak of "the Sultan's Foreign Minister, lz2et Pasha." We'll biie. Ii it'-' INCOME FROM EXTRA TAXES State Treasury Receiving Re turns From Income and Gasoline Taxes Columbia. April 25.?The state, income mx is beginning to come in. according to officials of the state! tax commission. Already many citizens of the state are paying up. The tax is due next Monday, and all persons who have not paid by j that date, will be liable, to legal ac tion under the recently enaetedj state income tax law. To*eaehj person who made a federal income tax return this year has been s.-nr ; by the state tax commission a.j blank affidavit form, on which: statement is to be made as to the amount of federal income tax paid. One-third of this amount is to be paid the 'state. The state's gasoline tax is also bringing in a large amount of in come already, though it is not pos-' sible yet to estimate what the taxi will net the state. Numerous large: checks have been received from the large dealers in gasoline. The state's inheritance tax has hardly begun to show results as yet. One phase of the inheri tance tax law, is the question of its application to personal property, left by persons who died before the enactment of tin- law but whose] estates are still in process of set- ; tlement. This question was argued before the state supreme court \ Monday, in the case of J. H. Bel-, ser, administrator for the estate of; .lohn E. Lowry, late Columbian, against the tax commission. The] position was taken that the tax Is I not retroactive and cannot apply to j personal property in estates not yet settled. The state takes the po- | sition that as the estate in question has not been settled, the personal property lias not passed to th.. heirs, and is therefore liable 10 taxation when the estate is settled. Considerable interest attaches to the outcome of this ease, which is now with the supreme oqurt. HIGH SCHOOL CONTESTS Rock Hill Debating Teams: Win Semi-Finals Columbia. April 2*>?Of the sev- j en high schools represented at the University of South Carolina to day in the debating contests inci- j dent to the annual high school debating, oratorical, expression and j athletic exercises, Rock Hill's two teams go into the finals tomorrow ! morning for the cup. The two teams are: Affirmative. ! Catherine Masey and Julian Star; ; negative, Katherine Hammond and | Anderson Bass. Other than Rock Hill, affirma- j tive and negative teams represent- j ing Rennettsville. Darlington. Ehr- j hardt. Honea Path, Rock Hill, j Kingstree and Conway engaged in j the contests. The teams other than Rock Hi:l. j were: Rennettsville ? Affirmative. Margaret Crosweil and B. D. Town- I send: negative. Louise Craven and ! Sarah Freeman. Darlington?Affirmative, Coker i King and Melvin Hyman; negative. \ Joynes McFarland and Wardlaw j Edwards. Ehrhardt?Affirmative, Adelaide j Ehrhardt and Vera Planer; nega- j live Eugene Brabham and Hilde- j garde Donnelly. Honea Path?Affirmative, Mary! Harper and Argyle Treynham; j negative, James Ambrose and Clyde < 'ompbell. Kingstree?Affirmative Alma Du- i hose and Lolo Anderson; negative,; Vardell Nesmith and James F. i Cooper. Conway (Burroughs High School*?Affirmative, Edna Daw-; sey and Frederick Bryant: nega-! live Evelyn Snider and Collins Spivey. The query discussed was: "Re-; solved. That the program of the: joint special committee on revenue and taxation offers the best solu- l. tion of South Carolina's tax prob lems." In the preliminary contest this morning the negative-teams of both ' Kingstree and Conway won and ' went into the semi-finals. This afternoon the elimination contests were held and Bennetts ville's affirmative team won over; Ehrhardt's negative team; Rock j Mill's negative won over Darling-: ton's affirmative; Bennettsville's j negative won over Rock Hill's affirmative; Ehrhardt's affirmative won over Honea Path's negative, and Honea Path's affirmative won over Darlington's negative. The judges selected the two Rock Fill teams and the Honea Path af firmative and Darlington negative' teams to go into the semi-finals tonight. In the contest tonight both of Rock Hill's teams won by a vote Of three to tW?. The oratorical contests will be held throughout tomorrow. .Mrs. Schwartz Entertains at Bridge Mrs. Raymon Schwartz ? enter tained on Wednesday afternoon at bridge. Tables were arranged for the game amid a profusion of sweet pea- and roses. The highest score was made l<y Mrs. Williard Court - right, who received a piece of lin- ? gerie as prize and the consolation was cut by Miss Martha Williams, who received a box of "tee powder. A delicious sweet course was serv - ed by the hostess. , Those playing were: Misses Martha and Louise Williams, las sie Mears; Medames (lus Samlets. Pringle Branson. Lynch Deas, Jack Skinner. Bruce Lynam, Eddie Tts dale, Williard Courtright, Xavey ot Savannah; Kershaw Skinner, Wil son (Jreen, Marion Zemp. Mr. IMison could earn the etern al gratitude of housewives by in venting a non-spillable cigar ash. Being down in the mouth is a fine way to get up in the air. SHIPPING BOARD JOINS . "RATE WAR" Not Only Meets Reductions of Lamport and Holt But Goes One Better Washington, April 24. ? The*' shipping board as a result of "the rate war" of the Lamport & Holt Steamship company in Soutl^ America, through the four ship ping board vessels of the Munson line, has nor only met those rates hur made a further reduction to $2'.'." to Ttio de Janeiro. $345 to Montevideo and $360 to Buenos Aires, chairman Lasker announc ed today. w The Lamnort & Holt rates were* reduced from $41." to $:H"? for Rio S.v. Janeiro, from s47? to $360 for Monteviedo and from $494* to $37;? for Buenos Aires, but these, ('hair man Lasker said, were for "their three inferior ships." Lamport & Holl also announced, effective July i, a reduction in the round trip rate to $-r?'t0 for Rio de Janero and to meet this the ship ping board has decided upon a rate of $455, effective the same date. ' chairman Lasker said the new "straight rates" would become ef fective immediately. The Lamport & Holt action, he added, was tak-* en without consulting the Munsoa line or the shipping board and could only he interpreted as "a declara tion of war" in the South Ameri can trade. NEW REMEDY FOR HOOKWORM* United States Department of Agriculture Discovers Safer and More Effective Drug Following the discovery by the United States department of agri culture that the chemical, carbon tetrachloride, is effective againsr hookworms in animals, numerous trials in various parts of the world have given strong indication that it is the longsousht remedy for this parasite in human beings. This important advance adds another discovery to the list of those that department scientists have contrib uted to human medicine, one of the most important of which is the fact that certain diseases may be trans mitted from one animal to another b> such external parasites as ticks, and insects. If it comes up to ex pectations, and all tests made so far have been highly encouraging, this drug will be a boon to million^ of people in many parts of the. world. The department has demonstra ted beyond doubt that this chemi cal is a remedy for hookworm and related bloodsucking worms in animals, and Its use for this purpose was first called to the attention of the medical profession in The Journal of the American Medicsi Association for November 19, 1921, by Dr. Maurice C. Hall, who made the investigations. According to u recent article in a London medical journal, natives-to the Fiji islands have been given thif treatment for hookworm with satis factory results. Ninety-eight per cent, of the parasites were removed with one dose of the carbon tetra chloride and no bad effects were noticed. The absence of harmful effects on the patients, in the test* so far, is very encouraging, as the danger attendant on the employ ment of the drugs most used - at present constitute a serious handi cap to the work of hookworm erad ication. The new treatment is. also, extremely cheap, the chemical being one that is commonly used for cleaning clothing. ~At the present time the depart ment's discovery is being tried ou$ as a drug for removing hookworms from people in the Southern states, on the Pacific coast, in India. Cey lon, Butch Guinea, the Fiji islandf, and Brazil. MINSTREL TO BE GIVEN AGAIN At the request of Dr. S. H. Ed munds, the members of the Old Home Town Minstrel are to stage another show at the Girls' High sehoo auditorium on Tuesday night May 2nd. The proceeds from the perform ance will be donated to the High School Athletic Association, which is badly in need of funds and it is hoped that a sufficient amount may be raised to help the boys material ly in financing for the coming sea son. The show went over in good style when given before at the Academy of Music and the members of^tlre company are working hard to make it a real evening of fun and enjoy ment *'11s time. M ? ie will predominate. Sever al so -,s have been added to the progr; mme. the Old Home Town ouari te which had to he left on; of * .? other show on account of th iokness of some of the mem bers is together again and pouring foj i some old time melody ar er 1 rehearsal. Practi? ally all oC * ? jokes and songs have beet* < iged for the coming perforr.i ie minstrel includes some O-' West voices and talent in town. x l>e the judge next Tuesday n it. -? ? ?- 1 The funniest thing about the average joke is the fact that the teller thinks it's u joke. m '? m * Our new demand seems to be for "life, lioerty and the pursuit or every fool fad that bobs up." ? ? ?? Lloyd George says he is a tired man on a cold mountain top: biii be ma\ just be up a tree. It is easy to get credit for beim; good; but hard to get cash. * The hold-up business isn't as big a crime ai the business hold-up.