Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y TO FIGHT Willing to Meet Jess Willard Again or Caipentier ? JParis," ^\May i~Jack Dempsey. heavyweight champion, declared that "hje would be, glad to meet Jess Willard again.. ?He is also ready to meet the winner of the Cajqpentier-Lewis bout in London. IKEK NEGRO CONVICTED ?eorge Rivers Accused of Wrecking A. C. L. Train Alken, .-"May 3'.?-The court of .'rgeneral.. sessions which . convened - here Monday morning with Judge /JEL\ Rice of Aiken-presiding is holding*'' a .very busy., session. .-The court ; is scheduled for two weeks and it is quite likely ?ha& it will run the full time and that- the docket .will not then' be::d?ared. A. number of 2den s. of gJjUhy. have ~-.*3?een-. taken. The rirst jury case * iwas that of Platt Moseley, for vio lation of the prohibition law. Judge " \ Rice sentenced Moseley to live ^rffi'ottthg/qp. the chaingang"without -t*?i3si?e--?^4erii;itive of a tine, lie was IV. tried uy/a jury. -ic^^Fhe :oase of George Rivers con .*^Sxm^dt"nearly, two days. Rivers was ?^jgj^rcd with wrecking the A. C. L. itAw^roh^'-xm the morning of May 20, when Engineer Joe ?xiifs: was- killed a short dis pk&aee. from -Augusta, on the South ^^boEna -side of the river; on the - Augusta and.Sumter line.. It will BS^^iUocl that the spikes., for the length of a rail "were removed with a bar and the rail was pushed in :~ about IS inches, causing the train roil down and an embankment, t?rhing over a couple of times and, . killing the engineer. The defense ^ i^ras; an' alibi, but the Jury did not -Tt'.^ee it that way and Rivers was " jTotuad guilty of murder with rec - ,'pmmefcdaiion to mercy/ . which " means life imprisonment. "The jury' in .this case stayed in the room * only about ten minutes. '? The case of H. P. - Dyches, charged, with the killing of one of the -Craigs in this county; is sched J s ujed to come up tomorrow morning. --?it is expected that this case v.dll .?>. .- consume a couple of days. A great " ^ deal of interest has been manifest - ed and the court room was ; crowded today in anticipation of - this trial heginning. The grand jury yesterday found -a true bill against W. R. d~)emore of Augusta, charged With murder in the shooting of Mrs. Essie Hays . of Augusta. Dem ore is out on bond and the trial-is expected to come up next week. Mount Etna in Eruption Catania. Sicily, May 4~*-Mount ? Etna has broken out ;wiih . erup tions; of increased violettfQg. ?...-, And if wrestling doesn't prove a better defense than b&xi*ig perhaps some professional will get Demp . sey's goat.in a foot race. KAVANAGH TO SPEAK ON LAWLESSNESS 18? Boted Jurist and Cnminclogist Has Important Subject * Will Deliver Great Lecture, ?Traft?? .to Justice/' at Cominc Chautauqua Here. Ose of the notable lecturers at the coming Redpath Cbantauqua will bf Jtidge1 Marcus A. Kavarjagh, eminent jurist and criminologist. . He will JUDGE MARCUS A. KAVANAGH delrrer a great challenging address. ^Traitors to Justice." dealing with the important and timely problem of ?recurbing of lawlessnfgs. Judge Kavanagh is a member of the American Bar Association's special committee on law enforcement. He has been on the bench if 1 Chi cago for more than twenty years and has made a thorough study of the ways of criminals and the causes and prevention of crime. Judge Kavanagh is both a rare stu dent and an eloquent speaker. His lecture, "Traitors to Justice"' will be \m% remembered by Chatitauqua an 'THE G. 0. P. ECONOMIES j ARE FALSE - ! Republican Adminis I tration i s Falling Down On the Job All > ? Along the Line BY WALLACE BASSFORP (Special Correspondent). Washington, D. C. April 29.? I When the Arms Conference gath- ; I ered in Washington, as provided by i j the Democratic congress and presi i dent in the naval act of 191$. re I vamped by the Borah resolution, j 'President Harding said: "In sob-i j crest reflection, the world's bun- j j dreds of millions who pay in peace ; j and die in war wish their states I men to turn the expenditures for J i destruction into means of construe- i : tion, aimed at a higher state for} j those who live and follow after." i ] A noble sentiment, endorsed by j j everyone who had no personal poc- j j ketbook to fill 'through a big army j or navy, and would have entitled! ! the president to the credit due forj j its utterance, if events had shown i j that he meant it. When the naval { } bill was reported to the house it j I provided for 67.000 men to handle ; j our diminished navy, and Chair I man Kelly demonstrated that the j I number was sufficient. Then came j i Nick Longworth with a letter from j { Harding asking that the number j j of men be increased by 19,000 and! the house, with Harding's words j ?at the arms conference still ring-! {ing in its ears, voted the increase! j ; What is the result? It is that the; j navar* expenditures for the next; ? fiscal year, instead of being dc-j creased from $410,000.000 the fig-] ures for the present year, will run i : about ten millions higher. This is j . due partly to the increase in per- | ; sonnel above Chairman Kelley's j j figures, and partly to "authorized" j j expenditures, not actually appro- \ j priated in the bill, amounting to j ! about $07.000.000. This is a pc-! ! culiar legislative device used to [make larger funds available while; j showing "economies" in the bill. The outcome at Genoa seems se- j j riously threatened by reason of this j j government holding aloof from this j i effort to pacify the .turbulent and: ; unsettled conditions in Europe, t j Harding has allowed Lloyd-George, i i the greatest statesman of his time j i and probably of all times, to tackle I 1 the tremendous problem alone and tunaided; if he succeeds it places; ! him upon a high pedestal of glory i j from which all time will not take j j him down. The best theory put ' forward in Washington to account j ; for Harding's non-participation is I : that hie feared he would be accused I j of doing the thing that Wood row j j Wilson would have done under the i ; circumstances. ! The coal strike has been allowed i i to run on several weeks, with noth- j ! ing done by the administration ; I looking toward its settlement. More j I *han 700.000 men are directly - af- ? fected by it, without taking into j i consideration the industrial plants; daily shutting down because of coal j j shortage. The best figure^- obtain- j j able indicate that 3.800.000 work-; ers are out of employment in the j I United States. While Wall street j gambles in stocks at the rate of; j millions of shares per day on \ j money borrowed from the banks at 3 1-2 per cent., able-to-work young j men are begging a dime for food | within a stone's throw of the j White House grounds in Washing- I t ton. - ! I The Republican congress still j j haggles with the soldiers over their; bonus, with the outcome as uncer-j ? tain as th?* weather, while the I business world awaits with like un certainly the new tariff bill. Last ! winter the leaders talked of ad- j journing congress the first day of'' May; the month is here and ad-; journment is one of the events so j far in the future, that it is not I e en discussed in Washington. And ; i the country waits, and waits, and waits, while this "business admin - i istration" does business in a very ; unbusinesslike manner. Former Senator Beveridge seems to have split the Republicans of Indiana into two warring camps. Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis; is firing office-holders - under the: city administration if they do not j come to the front for Deveridge. i while the Harding administration i is lining up the federal crowd for! Senator New. An amusing inci-! dent occurred at the district build ing in Washington the other day] when a darkey messenger went around to all the offices in the! building with the statement that I "de boss wants to git de names of; all de clerks what votes in India." i it was linally made clear to him that the boss probably meant In- j diana The Hoosiers back home can prepare to keep open house for the former residents of tin- statt around the date of the primary. ii It has long been thought by or-J dinary folks that one of the prin-J cipal missions of our state depart ment is to keep us on friendly terms with other nations of the world, thus making for peace and friendly commercial intercourse of a profitable sort. Representative rates of Illinois, .sou of the fa mous war governor, Lincoln's friend, has vigorous opinions on tin success of the administration i along these lines. Remember that Yates is a Republican. On the floor of the house he said, ?m page ?lost of the Congressional Record: "There is not a nation in th<- world today that is our friend. They are all suspicious and unfriendly." The president is reported to be getting ready to remove Commis sioner Blair, of the Bureau of In ternat Revenue. Blair is trying t<# ( ran :;:? Burvnu properly, and he i ? j can hardly do this if he remove:; i the hundreds of experts trained ! under the last administration, dur | ing which period the work of the' j Bureau increased with tremendous j strides, but the president' feels that i he has to yield to the thousands of j importunities for jobs for the [ smaller political leaders by putting into Blair's place a man who will j use the ax on the experts and put in the inexperienced fellows who voted on the Harding side in 1920. Of course the work of the bureau and the interests of the people will suffer, but these are secondary considerations; the politcial ma chine has to be kept up. INCOME TAX TIME IS EXTENDED Commission Will Receive Re turns to May 15 Columbia, "May ?,.?Because many persons did not receive state income blanks and did not make their re turns by May 1. the South Carolina Tax Commission this afternoon adopted a resolution extending the time for making returns until May 15. The commission gave out the following statement: "When the time tor making re- : turns was fixed an ending May 1 the commission was of the impres sion that the federal list would be available for the year 1921. How ever, it was afterwards ascertained that the federal list for the year 191*0 was the only one obtainable j at that time, and that list was used j in mailing out blank forms to both j individuals and corporations. The j list used was necessarily inconi- j plete, because the names of many persons appearing thereon were not required to, make returns this year j and many persons making returns | covering 1.921 were not required to j make returns so as to have their [ names appear on the list of 1920. The 1921 list, however, will be j available to the tax commission by July 1 and it will be used in the! process of checking up delinquents, i "It is necessary for. every person ! or corporation who made a return j to the federal government to make' a return to the South Carolina Tax Commission regardless of whether cny tax was paid. The tax commis- j sion will send blanks to all persons within its knowledge who were supposed to be liable to make an income tax return. But it is not to be inferred that a person or cor poration not receiving a blank will be relieved of u. unities for failure j to make returns. It is the duty of : persons liable to moke returns to comply with the law, whether they i received any notification from the' tax commission or ??ot. "It is the purpose of the tax com-1 mission lo send blank returns to] the various banks in the state for! distribution. Blanks will also be j sent to any person upon applica- | lb n therefor." LENINE MAY ACCEPT Soviet Delegates Take High and Mighty Attitude - i I Genoa. May 4?Soviet repre??m- j tatives announced that the termsi of the allied note to Russia have] been telegraphed to Moscow, says! an Exchange telegraph, adding that Premier might accept, de manding simultaneously full recog nition of Russia. -?? ? m* Philadelphia's Old City Hall Philadelphia. May 2.?The old j city hall, one of the Independence j Square grout) of buildings was re-j dedicated today as a prelude to a ; series of historical celebrations which will culminate in the Scs-i qui-Centcnni.-.l exposition in 1!<2';; commemorating the 150th aimiver- j sary of the signing of the Declara tion of Independence. The building, completed in 1791 and once us?.o. by the United States Supreme Court, was erected from! the proceeds of a lottery instituted in 17S9, ordered by the mayor.! Twelve thousand five hundred tick ets were issued ?.GST of them draw ing prizes amounting to $50.000. It was provided that one-fifth ofj the profits be devoted to Dickinson j College. The city hall has just j been rebuilt as part of the restor ation of the Independence Square J buildings. The United States Supreme Court: occupied the back room on the first floor, while the fust floor was given over to municipal offices. The] first session of the court was held i February 27, 1791. John Jay pre sided as chief justice, having i chosen that office when Washington asked him to tak?-* any post in the t new federal government, he pre-] ferred. .lohn Rutledge, William Cushing. .lanes Wilson. John Blair and James Iredell were asso-j ciate justices. Later John Rutledge 4n?l Oliver EUsw'orth siit in this' room as chief justices, and Bush-] rod Washington. Samuel Chase, j Thomas Johnson. William Pater son and Alfred .Moore as asso ciate justices. Mayor J. Hampton .Monte, under] whose administration the biuldiug I was re-dedicated today, covered tin-; old city hall when he was a young ' reporter for news from tin offices] occupied by tin- mayor of that day und by gome ol his staff. Another thing tin- British lion's ;ubs seem to be short of i> filial de motion. As tic- small fruit season ap proaches, thirsty gentry see a star of hope in t tie yeasl. if Lenine ever is assassinated, he'll probably take i; for another of t hose da rncd rumors. Our own opinion i-; that even tually prohibition Jokes will cause more insanity than - hootch ever GREATEST FLOOD ON MISSISSIPPI i 11,000,000 Acres of Farm Land Under; Water?People Are Hungry. Congres- j sional Delegation j Sees Pitiful Sights in Floded Area Vicksburg, Mis?.. May 3?One ; million acres, 2.") per cent under j i cultivation?inundated to a depth '? of from three to fifteen feet of wa- i ! fer. covered and rapidly disinten grating farm buildings, refugees : housed in bos cars, tents and rail- i J road stations and here and there; a more persistent householder : sticking to his dwelling despite the [lapping of the water against I thresholds, viewed from the win-1 i dows of a special train which I ploughed its way through more' than two feet of back water for a distance of twenty-five miles from Carey to Vicksburg, gave the con-! gressional delegation surveying the; ravages of the swollen Mississippi.! a vivid insight today into the trag-j cdy of the river Hood. Today's journey, the third day j I of the tour begun at Memphis I Monday, was through the back! water spreading over the Yazoo; basin from Brunswick Gap?an un-> completed stretch of the Missis-1 sippi river levee system north of Vicksburg and through the Yazooj river. From Carey, .-it present the! north limits of the inland over flowed, to Vicksburg it was much the same sight- abandoned farm houses, here and there a knoll of] high ground, crowded with cor- i raled livestock, a raft moving to! the neighboring hills, or railroad right of way with piled up housc-1 hold good-; and refugees, and at in-, tervals a house built on "stilts"! with the occupants holding their! ground making the best of the sit uation and apparently determined to stick it out. Box cars, top floors of cotton gins, railroad stations and loading platforms and tents pitched on the ridges which dot the generally flat low lands, now arc housing several thousand refugees, with the num-j bcr expected to appreciably in-: crease as the waters rise and spread further. Approximately 2.000 are being! cared for in box cars, ?uu of which have been distributed on sidings J at central points along the line of j the Yazoo and Mississippi valley! railroad in the overflowed area'. Members* of the congressional party left the river commission . steamer Mississippi, aboard which! the greater part of the tour is be-; ing made, at Greenville early today! and after an automobile ride to i Leland for a view of neighboring! plantations, curtailed by a heavy j ranistorm, boarded a. special train j at the latter town for the rail trip, through the fiooded sections to! Yioksburg. ! After a visit to the national park here and a luncheon, the party re- j boarded the Mississippi for a con-j tinuation of the southward journey, j Natchez, the next stop in the. itinerary, is expected to be reached late tomorrow. i in its spread over the farm .andsj in the Yazoo basin the water ulti mately will inundate sec; ions Qf live counties?Issaquena. Sharkey. Humphreys, Yazoo and the north-; ern part of Warren. In many parte of the area al ready overflowed, seed was plant ed several weeks ago. Joseph C. Logan, Red Cross rep- , resentative, who is directing relief work in conjunction with state and \ local officials, issued a statement today indicating that approximate ly 16.000 persons, mostly negro) tenant farmers, already have been reported as in need of relief in Yazoo basin and several other I counties of the south. "Rationing" began a week ago in some sections. Thus far th.isi week subsistence for 3,000 persons 1 for a week h:-s been distributed. ! It was eetimated from reports made by field agents to the Vicksburgi Red Cross headquarters that up wards of 40.U00 persons ultimately ' will be in lov-d of aid to tide them j over until the water subsides and food crops can he raised. In addition to farm damage,; monetary losses to the railroads; operating through overflowed sec-' lions is expected to be heavy. T. I.. Dubbs, superintendent of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, csti-j mated today that the cost of keep-! ing traffic open through the back j' water between this city and Carey was approximately $3.000 a day. ' Crevasse and back waters from the Mississippi river and its tribu-j' taries continuing i<> spread its de- ' st.ruction in eleven parishes of Louisiana, relief problems were ' augmented today as the floods in- 1 vaded territory far removed from 1 tin- spillways in the embankments 1 of the great river. ; Points in Rapides and Avoyelles ' parishes, sixty miles distant from ' the Mississippi river, reported that 1 water coming through the crevasse 1 at I'erriday had joined with back waters of the Red river basin and 1 were encroaching upon rieh farm ? la nda in that 1 ? n itor\. 1 Below New Orleans water pour ing through the break in the levee f ;ii Poydra.s has driven everything ' within mile- of the levee north 1 past the Lake Borg 11 c canal at Vio- 1 let tonight and was creeping into .-mi area hitherto thought safe from 1 the hood. Kive miles above the 1 crevasse, mar New Hume, bade wa- ' tcr has encircled from the rear ui that place and submerged the j: highway *o Violet. K'very effort was being made to \. rif\ reports rec? ived yesterday ? at the refugee camp at fclarrinson- 1 burg that 6.000 people driven from! their homes in St. Martin Parish ?] were suffering from luck of food. ; but up ti> tonight the report re mained unconfirmed. Relief parties working out of: E-Iarrisonburg continued today to bring in flood victims scattered throughout Concordia nod adjoin ing parishes, if is estimated that I n thousand persons are being J cared for al thnt camp. There are probably 2,000 more at other! camps and board in the flooded j zone affected by the Ferriday break and back waters from the river:- i in that part of Louisiana. I With flic exception of Helen;?,; and Arkansas City, which recorded: a rise oftone-tenth of a foot in ! the Mississippi river today, all points showed declining stages. Ai Xew Orb-ans, the guage registered ; 20.8, a fall of two-tenths of a foot compared with twenty-four hour? ago. METHODIST CONFERENCE AT WORK Address of Bishop Atkins Out- j lines Questions For Discussion Hot Springs. Ark.. May 4?The j ninetenth general conference of the I Methodist-Episcopal church, South, j got down to business today with | the views of the bishops before del- i egates, as presented in the Qu;id- ! riennum episcopal address of Bish- j pp James Atkins, of Nashville. The i message-dealt with divorce, con-i demned lynching, advocated strong- ! er state laws to curb it. declared j that Christian education secondary to Christian character upheld the prohibition act. and declared that too much ragtime and too little sacred music is encouraged in the homes. Paris Police Make Arrests i Paris. May 4.?Three arrrsts have been made of what the po lice claim is a. vast organization for espionage of French arsenals for the benefit of Russian Soviets. Babe Ruth in Hospital! New York. May 4?Babe Ruth. ! the homo-run king, had his tonsils removed today. The nurses said he was doing nicely. Mrs Ruth ! expected to be operated on later in i the day at tiie same hospital Horrors of Wood Alcohol Told by ; Noted Physician "I have seen men die of wood al cohol poisoning. It is a frightful death. "Even when it is diluted as sn ingredient- -mistaken for grain al- j eohol?in liquids sold as whiskey wood alcohol is a very terrible poi son. "A drink of wood alcohol brings internal hemmorrhages, blindness, convulsions, delirium?and usually death. "'Hemorrhages occur in the brain and in other parts of the body. Wood alcohol acts on the blood vessels, especially the small ones. The capilliarics burst. "That is what causes blindness, j The tiny arteries of the retina are j ruptured, destroying the sight. "Very few recover from wood al- I cohol poisoning. It does not de- i pend so much on the amount taken.; for one person may be able to stand i more than another, as it does on | whether the poison acts on blood vessels in fatal spots. "Action of the poison, however.! depends on the amount taken, j Usually symptoms appear within j four or five hours. \ "When the victim comes out of | his coma and stupor he has voi lent convulsions. In his delirium! he acquires prodigious strength and j to prevent injury to himself or oth-1 ers he frequently has to be tied; down. "Delirium tremens is an entirely: different thing?a mild thing com-i pared to the convulsions and de-1 lirium of wood alcohol poisoning. The victim is too sick to have hal-j lucinations. "A man blinded by wood alcohol: poisoning does not usually recover j his sight, even if he, a fortunate j exception, does not die. Sometimes i the brain is affected permanently.**) -mm* The Art of Adverlising Chicago. May 1.?Extensive dis-l plays of advertising material will! mark the semi-annual meeting ofl the Association of National Ad-j vertisers here May ?!-?!. The mem-; bership includes '! l." large manu facturers who arc- large adver tisers. At the gathering, the motive of j which is announced under threei distinct heads?the market, the! method and the umcUin??will bej exhibited copies furnished by nat-j ional advertisers of the most pro-: ductive advertisements used during j the last year in general periodicals.! newspapers, class, technical, trade I md farm papers: specimens of the most potential direct mail advertis ing pieces: copies of unique issuer! of house organs: sketches made for| striking and effective posters and j outdoor bulletins: and samples of' d'fective street car bands. The | foregoing will come under the head j jf the "method. ' In dealing with the "market." j market analyses, investigations and; surveys carrying information on narketing conditions will be shown i I 'nder (he head of ' machim " sides promotion department organ-j Ization charts and advertising de-j i?arimein systeii forms of all kinds ivHI be displayed. Ltluc. red and white. ribbons will | i.<- awarded by three judges whoj ivill pass "ii the relative merit cf lie exhibits. A series of talks by, prominent id\ crl isers w ill be given. -* * ? Si.me iii'-n are so cautious they; nn'i bw> ;i g?dd fish without wor ; .ing over it turning t" bi*ass. MEN BEHIND SCENE NOT YET KNOWN Attorney General Refers to Charges in Connection With the Release of C. W. Morse Washington, May 4.?Attorney General Daugherty referring to charges of Senator Caraway. Dem ocrat, of Arkansas, connected with the release of Charles W. Morse, from the penitentiary in I Mil' de clared the real people behind the movement aside from partisans interested have not yet shown their hands or their heads. PEKIN SUR ROUNDED Hostilities Have Disarranged All Plans For China Peking. May 4?The troops of Gen. Wu Pei Fu, the central Chi nese leader, have surrounded Pe king. Gen. Chang's army has scat tered and railroad traffic suspend ed. Owing to th? hostilities almost all the plans regarding China made at the Washington conference have been suspended. GENERAL WU DRIVEN BACK HaUIe Front Recedes From Peking Peking. May 4.?General Wu'a forces have been driven five miles further from Peking by the Feng tini^rs under General Chang Tsao Lin. The latter has acknowledged President Hsu's mandate calling in both sides to end the fighting. Greater State Fair Plans Columbia. May 4.? To make an all-year amusement park of the State Fair grounds is one of the plans before .1. W. Fleming, the new manager of the State Fair, elected at a recent meeting of the Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety, who arrived in Columbia and assumed his new duties yes tcrday. Mr. Fleming states that he and the Fair society have plans which he believes will make the stale fail- of South Carolina the greatest in the south. Plans are to he? considered at once for beautifying the fair grounds, and for removal of some of the more unsightly buildings. The new manager, was yesterday in consultation with Chas. IL Moore field, chief engineer of the state highway department, with regard to plans for paving the roadways within the fair grounds. Sweden Women .on Equality With Men Stockholm. April !"'.?Admission of women to nearly all public of fices on an equal footing with men is provided in a bill soon to be sub mitted to the Riksdag by the gov ernment. The principle of equality of the sexes in public service was virtually accepted by the Riksdag last year and the purpose of the present bill is to put it into prac tice from January i, 1 i*23. The measure provides that wo men shall be admitted to all gov ernmental posts except in the army and navy, diplomatic and consular service, which it is felt cannot be filled by women. They are also disqualified from occupying posi tions as officials of prisons and asylums for inebriates and of the customs and forestry service, in volving work which men can per form better than women. Women will not be called upon to perform guard duty nor teach gymnastics to classes of men. There will be nothing to bar women from other high executive offices in public life heretofore re garded as reserved for men alone. The Minister of Justice in dis cussing the bill favors admitting women to judicial offices. No dis tinction is made in the bill be tween married and unmarried wo men. Rut iho minister stated that no special discrimination would be shown to married women in pub lic office as regards her hours of work or fulfilling her duties. Winning Number. Raleigh. X. C April 2 7.?"The greatest meeting for cooperative i marketing ever held in Western North Carolina" was the descrip tion of a mass meeting of t.500 farmers at Dobson C. H. in Surry county, received today at associa tion headquarters in Raleigh from '? J. P.. Swain, field representative ofj he Tobacco Growers' Cooperative' Association. Although Surry County growers have already signed op more than $.000.000 pounds of" their tobac ??? with the cooperative organiza tion, Mr. Swain predicted that the association would gain 2.000.00" pounds more from that county in In- near future. Several other Western and Northern counties of the state are rolling up big memberships witn [In- marketing association, accord ng to the latest reports Iron; the field, and the contracts which are iow arriving at the rate of more han 500 a week at llaleigh head-' quarters. II. W. Winslead. Association warehouse manager at Koxboro. X. L\. visited the lialcigh headquar ters ot iio- Association <lds week n announce that Person county i.s ?ui to lead North Carolina in the percentage of tobacco signed up. With 7,000,000 pounds out of 11. i?00,000 pledged t<> the Tobacco Growers" Cooperative Association, i he citizens of Person county claim they are working under favorabb tuspiccs. '"Seven conn' eleven and v.- shall win." sa> tobacco grow r> et Person county. j FREIGHT RATE ON BRICK Railroad Commission Holds Hearing On Controversy Between Carolina and Georgia Manufacturers Columbia. May 4.?A contest be-j j twecn brick manufacturers of South Carolina and those of the eastern part of Georgia over freight; rate differences is waging, and at a ? hearing before the railroad'com mission of South Carolina here' yesterday afternoon the matter was; I discussed thoroughly. The South i Carolina rate in question is lower j [than the Georgia rate, and the] (Georgia manufacturers are trying; to have the South Carolina rate raised to a. basis, level with the] Georgia rate. The mat ter: is to be considered further at an other hearing before the railroad commission, to b<* called at an early da t e. Tin- commission decided to com ply with a request of the South-' era Railway and re-open Hip case involving the South Carolina, brick* rates, and a committee was ap-j pointed, consisting of A. Guig-1 nard. of Columbia. C. P. Berry, of. Summerville. and R. S. Stewart, of i Lancaster, to secure a rate expert and work with the rate expert of; I the railroad commission and the' entire commission to secure neces-! [sary data to be considered at the' [ next commission hearing on the! I matter. Attending the conference with : j the railroad commission Wednes- I I day were the following: J. W. i I Rutherford, of the Palmetto Brick \ Co.. of Columbia: ft. S. Stewart.; I of the Catawba Brick Co.. of Lan-; I caster: (J. A. Guignard, of the! I Guignard Brick Co., of Columbia; j i J. W. Brasington, of the Cheraw j j Brick Works and the Palmetto Brick Works, of Cheraw: W. R. 1 Funk, of the Santee River Brick ; ; Co., of Monyks Corner; J. L. Mo-1 f Mi Han, of the Dyson Brick Co.. of . Dyson: W. M. Dayton, of the: ; Layton Brick Works, of Marion, and C. P. Berry, of the Berry Brick Co.. of Summerville. ? ? ? Jealous Mother-in-Law. Paris. April 7.--A woman's at-; tempt to punish her daughter-in-j law for marrying again after her : husband's death in the war has just been exposed here. An elderly woman in Touraine informed the Ministry of War that ishe had recognized her son in one of six photographs published by! the newspapers of insane soldiers, former prisoners of war in Ger many returned after the armistice in a complete state of amnesia, j unaware of their identity. The wife of the missing soldier having long airo given up her hus-1 band as dead, had just been mar ried a second time and in the midst of her new honeymoon she was in- j structed to come to Paris and iden tify her first husband. Greatly perturbed. she visited the hospital accompanied by her mother-in-law who greeted "her son" effusively. "That is not my husband." shout ed the young woman and acquaint- \ a noes of the missing soldier sum moned also failed to recognize him. some of them even saying that there was not the slightest re - semblance, i The older woman broke down and told the officials: "I've known right along he wasn't my son but I wanted to teach his wife a lesson, she had no bus-1 iness getting married again." Books For School Library Chicago, May 1.?The best twen ty-five books for a one room coun try school will be selected by the I votes of several thousand librarians and teachers at the annual confer ences of the American Library As sociation in Detroit. June 26-.TuIy 1. and of the National education Association in Boston early in July. The winning titles will be an nounced after the conference "in ' order that people everywhere may know what books are considered by librarians and teachers as most in teresting and useful to children in I the elementary grades." it was stat ed by Carl II. Milan, secretary of' the American Library Association. ! "A recent study of children's, reading in one state showed that j sometimes scores of children ;n a given district do not read anything but the textbooks: and that not in frequently there are no readable | books in either the schools or the homes." Mr. Milan said. "In other districts school libraries are made' up of discarded books from dusty atti< s or of large sets of books, in near-leather binding which nobody ever reads. "It is flu- hope of the two asso ciations conducting the contest that the seh et ion of this list will serve to stimulate interest in good books for general reading, and to en courage the establishment and de velopment of small school library collections:. The desirg of the or ganizations is to interest not only the teachers and librarians but also the school boards, trustees, public] officials, parents and the children' t hemselvcs." You see. it is necessary t.<> op press tin- better classes in India to keep them from oppressing the lower classes. .Men seldom waste breath pray ing to be delivered from a tempta tion until they get a firm grip on it so it can't get away. It is well to remember, however, tli.-u the past occasionally pro duced a great man who hadn't a single million to his name. About the only way a girl can gel her shape in the papers now is to invent a way to attach a radio outit to her bathing suit. A surprising number o boys turn ?>ni well in spite of ?.he re straining influence of their parents.; WAR PROFITS PURE "ROBBERY" A Chemical Company of New York Wants-Protection in Control of Cyanide Washington. May 3.?Charges that the Roessler Ha'-lacher Chem ical Company, of New York, a former German owned concern, made "unconscienable profit?" during the world war were made today in the senate by Senator Smoot. Republican. Utah, during a general crossfire of debate as to whether the company should be given a tariff protection of 3 0 per cent ad valorem on its pro duction of cyanide. "Robbery?if you please?for that's the only way to characterize the profits," declared Senator Smoot. Roth-he and Chairman McCum bcr. of the finance committee, con ceded that the company had a monopoly of the production of cyanide in the United States, and was the sole agent of the German cyadine cartel but they argued for, the 10 per cent duty proposed by the committee on the ground that without it the industry in this country would be destroyed- and Germany and Canada would con-* trol the American market. Senator Smoot said he had no doubt that if the American indus try were ruined, Germany would drive the company out of business and then make American users of cyanide pay dearly as they had made users of other products pay* under similar circumstances in the past. Senator Pittman. Democrat, Ne vada, declared the proposed duty was in the interest only of a single company and its subsidiaries and that with it in force,this company would charge "what the citrus fruit growers and the miners of this country can afford to pay." Reading from official records of the alien property -ustodian. Sen ator Pittman said the company had made profits as high? as 900 per cent and that one of its sub sidiaries, the Niagara Electric Chemical Company, had made even higher profits. He charged that some Republican senators were, willing to pass this monopoly so as to get protection for monopolies.^ their states. During the debate Senator Jones, Democrat. New Mexico, reverted to' the question of the relative costs of producing acetic acid in this coun try and Canada. Senator McCum ber remarked that if the senator? kept going back to the acetic acid paragraph, which already had been disposed of he was afraid the sen ate would "pickle, the whole tar iff bill with this vinegar item be fore we can dispose of it." THE COLUMBIA ELECTION W. A. Coleman Elected Mayor Over Richardson Columbia. May 3.?Bands play^? cd and people shouted, and the hottest city campaign Columbia has ever known came to a close last night with a parade through the* streets of the capital city, partici pated in by supporters of W. A. Coleman. member of city council, who elected him mayor of the cap ital city by a plurality of 513 votes Mofrat *DuPre. wholesale merchant, and Sam L.- Sweeney, head of a large sales stables, were elected to city council. The votes were: Coleman 2,540;* Richardson. 2,027; DuPre. 3,062: Sweeney. 2.550: L. N. Drake, 2, 011; R. <-*. P e rso h. 1. 0 8. Following the election, which brought thousands of people to the streets of the city, a parade was, formed and headed by a band, pro ceeded to the residence of Mr. Coleman. on Pendleton street, a block from the University campus, and here a demonstration took place. There was loud cheering and Mr. Coleman was called to the front steps. He made a speech in which he pledged himself to carry out every campaign pledge, for the* upbuilding of the city and for ths promotion of good governmenL He" challenged his hearers to recall him if he failed to keep his prom-, ise. He told the crowd that he had just had a conversation with Councilman-elect Sweeney, telling him that while he had not voted*, for him. he proposed that they work together for the city's pro gress and high standard. The two shook hands. The total registration for the city primaries was !.'?93: the total vote cast in Tuesday's second pri mary was L??>7, the heaviest vote ever east in the city of Columbia. Women look an intense interest in the campaign. In the first pri mary a week before, the total vote was LH4. Guest Conductors -for Orchestra. Minneapolis, Minn.. April 29.? For the first time since its organ- * ization 19 years ago. guest conduc tors will wield the baton before the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra n-xt season. Following the severing of con nections between the Minneapolis Orchestral Association and Emil Oberhoffer. the symphony's only ? conductor for almost a score of years, the guarantors of the mu sical organization decided to brins prominent orchestra leaders here to act as guest conductors. Musicians who have signified their intention of leading- the Min neapolis Symphony when the sea son K>pens again next October in clude Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony So- ? eiety: Ossip Gabrilowitsch. con ductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Albert Coafes. conduc tor o:* the Loodon Symphony Ol ? ^ chestra: Arth:;;- Bodansky. conduc tor ?f the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Henri Verbrugghehl conductor of the statt Orchestra of Sydney. Australia.