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SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION ^Banner to Be A!warded Sunday School Having Largest At r : tendance at Oswego A county-wide attendance con tes thas -been announced in con ^ite'ction with the approaching Coun ty Sunday Sch?bt'Association Con ' .vention to" be xhWid at Oswego Methodist Church' cfcu Tuesday, July - 2 5+ .according tc th> County Asso ^'"cjation officers in1* fcharge of ar rangements. ' ? I At" this convention a banner is to [-be publicly- ^awarded to the Sunday sch?o? ^having the largest ; n?jhber of person*sr (over 16 years 0"f age) present' at? the convention in,' proportion to the distance trav eled. Under thiiS plan, ten persons , coming ten miles' each to the con vention count the same as twenty who come only, only five miles each thus making it fair for all. both near and far. ' There is no limit to the number1 who may attend from any Sunday school. The banner becomes the prop erty of the Sunday1, school winning it and may be taken home for per-, manent display ['Hi the. Sunday school room . ? ? e . " - - . Has It Soaked In? Ute Careful Crossing Canv ! Despite the , wide publicity that has already been given the subject of grade crossing accidents since June 1st, the date on which this* campaign was.ioaugurated, quite a ' number of fatalities have occurred. In one case aloner!?ix human lives were snuffed -oatifosimply because the ""driver failed to? stop, look and listen before attempting to cross the tracks. v' A motor vehicie in the hands' of a careful driver nan agency .for * safety^. It ca&: fee-T driven up close * to the railway track and stopped in perfect safety;-?-^differing from horse-drawn ve*hic3es in this re ' s^ect. But if an: improper person is at the wheel, driving a car is more dangerous than making dynamite. Recently ah *airtomobile driver tried to beat a railroad train to a ^ ;<3Tpssing.The result was a wrecked train, a smashed up automobile and a number,of people killed. And until safety .becomes the uppermost thought in the minds of persons driving care, no improvement in the situtaion vqan.vtye expected. ^.;ICobody can. jread the daily ac ? counts of fatal.,accidents at cross ings; without, bein^impressed ..with .the fact that in a y^ry large major ity of cases, the means of preven tion lies in rea^bftOX the person-at the steering, wheel. JCew Position ?or Joseph M. Mc 1 St. Matthews,:. .July 15.?An nouncement has>.3iust been made of^tlie resi^natios. of Joseph M. -.McCabe, asHS&uit-u secretary and : treasurer of ther rAmerican Cotton Association,, who : has accepted a ^ .very responsible;.and promising po sition as priyateTsejcretary and as ^-afctant to W. :-M. -Hanes, president ..of thee P- H: Hanes. Knitting Com pany of Winstonr.SaJ.em, X. C. .The '. Hanes Knitting Company represents -tone of- the largest) manufacturers of men's and boys' underwear in * the world. . 1. -... * ? Marriage Licenses. White: Mr^;Belhe D. McDonald of Kershaw and , ?. Miss Ruby T. Fowler, of Manning* Colored: Eugene Johnson of Sumter and Hattie.<Clark of Rimini. -,?&lf? "Hagood" Betbea* on Pleasure Trip.i ? Belton, S. ,C~, July 17.?My last; to your excellent.p^per was headed "Legs, Bootlegs-awi Other Things" ?for which I>thanlv,you because it was calculated to zna.ke folks "sit up and take notice." I fear the "Other Things*' are;..more than the VLegs and Bootlegs." One or two observations about; the first pair ?nd I am through^ God covered -them, both, even with skins, nor ever after did .he tell them to un ocver. He did this .when there wasj the one man ^nd.-the one woman, the husband and.the wife, all be-! cause he knew, , xjot guessed or! thought it best. ? ? Here we are..uaa;;: old Anderson ? county, .a fine-eougitry with splen-j ' did people. Ibenhains are quite j <^e?e??.l throujghoufc: the. state. It, rained in Columbia last Friday, j ?and on Saturday we passed through j three rain storn*^;Jn coming here.! where it rained most of the after-j ?noon into the ra#ht; but at no time very heavy. Crwp*. all the .wayj ?looked promising*..but corn not so; advanced as. with ;us. Politics is little discussed ia ttae country, the topic of general; conversation be i*ag the boll weevil. You remem ber the damaged*rom this pest in the upper, counties of the state fast year was inconsiderable but from reports they appear to be more abundant here this year than with us. Talking about politics, from what I-can gather the tight for govern or is between McLeod and Cole Blease. There is. a general spirit of- discontent the*?country over on account of taxes, and this we be lieve wiil be the. determining fac tor in the election.. Left Miss Emma Allen cf Co lumbia visjtmg in -our community with Mrs. Anna. Alexander, and her daughter of the -same place to fol low in a day or s?/ The week-end found Mrs. Gon zales at the Y.. W\?:C A. camp. .The health of ...the community was fair. ?<- "Hagood." Birth of .a Stm. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom S. Rich ardson, of Ptnewood", announce the birth of a son. July 9th. :??nty news Rettenberg is .Reappointed Magis trate for Ten Years. (New. York News). Magistrate Moses R. Ryttenberg. 50 E. . 58th. St.. was reappointed a city magistrate by Mayor Hy lan, the other day, for a full term ! of ten years. Magistrate .Rytten ] berg, has been on the bench for j three years.and bis term .expired Friday. When Magistrate. Ryttenberg ap peared Friday at i the Yorkville court to hear various cases he was notified to- gp to City Kali and see Mayor Hylan'. "After hearing sever al -cases* the. magistrate was re I lie'ved by Magistrate Jean Norris and he proceeded to. the office of Mayor Hylan. . " Arriving there he was greeted by the mayor and a few minutes 2ater was joined by Magistrates Smith and Siberman. Shortly alter May or Hylan announced his purpose of sending for them, and, in the presence of a number of city offi cials, swore them in as magistrates, j After the trio had ;taken .oath* of office they were. congratulated by the mayor and officials. News of the ?ppointmentof Mag istrate Ryttenberg spread through Yorkville with great rapidity. ? Be fore he had returned to the York ville court a number of his friends were on hand to extend their felici tations. Those who were unable, to come to the court teiepbQnedi..Im?r mediately after his , reappointment Chief Magistrate McAdoo^ assigned Magistrate . Ryttenberg . to the Yorkville-oourt for ten days. Magistrate Ryttenberg was. born in Syracuse, N. Y. He was edu cated at the Baltimore . City Col lege and was an honor .graduate.' He is a graduate of the Johns Hdp-; kins University and,studied law at the University of Maryland Law School and. graduated from, there. After his graduation the mag istrate took . up the practice of law and later was appointed trans fer tax expert. In 1916 District Attorney Edward Swann appointed him an assistant. The Bureau of Commercial Frauds was organized ^ in the district attorney's office and; Mr. Ryttenberg was placed at the! head of it. While engaged in this branch of work. Magistrate Ryttenberg un- j earthed a number of commercial 1 frauds and brought the offenders to I trial, and through his able prose I cution he secured a large, number [ of convictions. Because of innova tions .inaugurated by Magistrate I Ryttenberg the Commercial Fraud [ Bureau has become one of the most i important branches of the district I attorney's office. Later Magistrate Ryttenberg > was transferred to. the Indictment ! Bureau. In this department he also distinguished himself and as a result of hi:/ efficient work Mayor .Hylan appointed him to' a three-r year ? term fn- .1919. aJudgeRyttenberg is president of 'the Jewish Probation Society, a member of the .Osceola Democratic Club, 78th St. and Park Ave., and is a member of a number of charitable organizations. Magistrate Ryttenberg is a broth er of Mr. Abe Ryttenberg of this city;. ; \ , ... ... ; m* m> m> Retail Merchants* Association. . Columbia, July 19.?Discussion and action on matters affecting all South Carolina merchants, such as taxation, fire insurance, freight rates, bad checks and luxury taxes will occupy the attention of ?. dele gates to the first annual conven tion of the South Carolina Retail Merchants' A?ociation. t?> be held in Columbia July 26 and 27. Sev eral, hundred merchants, are ex pected to attend the convention. Merchants of every line are be ing urged to attend the convention, whether they are members of the association or not. Matters of in terest to them.: will be taken up, such as the equalization of taxes. Hon. W. G. Querry, chariman of the state tax commission, will be one of the speakers. "It is propos ed," states L. H.. Wannamaker, executive secretary of the associa tion, to take definite steps to bring about equalization in tax as sessments, so. that the merchants ?will not continue indefinitely to bear a tax burden five or six times as heavy- as that borne by other property owners. The Jefferson Hotel will be head quarters for the merchants. The first meeting will be held at 3 o'clock next Wednesday afternoon, the last at 4/ o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mayor W. A. Coleman will ex tend the initial welcome to the convention delegates. Several so cial affairs are or the program to inject "pep" into the convention. Among the speakers on the pro gram are Major G- Heyward Mahon, Jr.. of Greenville: J. Betts Simmons, of Charleston; E. M. Foul not, Jr.. of Charleston; A. L. M. Wiggins, of Hartsville; Frank P. Anderson, of Aiken: J. Paul Leonard, secretary of the North, Carolina merchants*' association, and others. A well known fire in surance expert, his name not yet announced, is also to be one of jy?e ! special speakers for the convention. | The enrollment books show that a great many have not registered, including both men and women, j The following i*s a complete record of the four wards up to date: Ward 1?Mr. R. S. Hood's office ?Women, 43: men. 93: total, 136. Ward 2?Harby. Nash & Hodges' office. Women, 211; men, 461; to tal. 702. Ward 3?O'Donnell Dry Goods Co. Women, 67; men. 237; total. 304. Ward 4?DeLorme's Pharmacy. Women. 39: men. IIS; total. 157. So the books show that 3!>0 la dies bave registered and 90'J gen tlemen, and a grand total of 1.299. Wo makes it 1.300? Only a few more days are left. The books close on July 2.5. Standing on your hend is the quickest weak-end trip. A BASEBALL CLASSIC Rotarians Go Down in Defeat Before the Kiwanians Kiwanian-President Lee Scar borough, who was scheduled to re ceive upon his panoplied person a baseball pitched by Rotarian-Pres ident Sam Edmunds, was absent from his post yesterday. He says that his exacting: duties at court now in session prevented his at tendance. The Rotarians as the hosts of the occasion accepted his statement in good faith. One thing is certain and that is that he was not there. This duty devolved, therefore, upon Vice-President Har ry Shaw. By some fortuitous con catenation of circumstances the ball went .over the plate right into the hands of the catcher, where it stuck, and the two officials .left the field arm-in-arm, congratulat ing each other iupon the efficiency that had been shown?as great a surprise to themselves as to the spectators. This baseball game was not a burlesque.. Every member on each side appeared, to be doing his best, and, if he were not. his lack of strenuous effort was skillfully con cealed.. .To one who saw the score board for the .first. three innings, it ap peared that up ,to that time there had been a . scoreless and an. error less game; but there is some reason to suspect that this-score .was made possible by. collusion with the score keeper. }io protest was made and the.score stands. . ... ; . .- The - Rotarians, .according .to re sults announced, were. overwhelm ingly defeated. The Kiwanians were l the. undisputed . victors.. ... Thirteen i to two seems like, a decisive? vic tory... The Kiwanis admit it. The Rotarians. have tried to. explain it. The game was. handled by two experienced baseba 11; players, Eu gene Purdy of. the Carolina Law School umpiring balls and strikes and Stanley Weinberg, of The Cita del, the bases. There were no kicks registered against their deci sions.* i Manager and Captain John.Riiey for. the Rotarians and Manager^ Captain John Duffie for .the Ki wanians did their part well and 'deserve the credit .that a classic game of bail always -gives to. those responsible for its roper, conduct. . -.- It was noticed that the batteries were frequently changed. This may .have been due to..the desire to give the .other fellow a chanpe. There may have been another rea son. For the Kiwanians the bat-r teries were: Chandler and Plow-? den; Hughes and Edwards; for the Rotarians; Riley. and Propst; Green and Moise. . .?, ? It was a very interesting game in spite of the one-sided score and 'the enthusiasm was . overflowing. There was some excellent playing, some that was very indifferent, and some that was execrable. But every player .has a complete reason for every play that he made and why he made it as h.e did. Every- . body, therefore, is perfectly satisfied1 with the whole game. j The game throughout wasenliv-j ened by the capital singing of the Kiwanians. Under the . inspiring leadership of their song, leader Ki wanian Pierce the members of this organization kept things moving from the very start and. they did, not stop until the last ball wa5 thrown. The Kiwanians have just reason to claim. a complete victory and they, are claiming it. The Ro tarians, on the other hand, set up the counter claim that the Kiwan-* ians were their guests for the af ternoon and evening and that the Kiwanians were completely de ceived by their courteous conceal ment of intentional errors, In jus tification of this counter-claim they refer the Kiwanians to Rotarians John Buck who broke his glasses in order hat he might not be tempted to turn his back to break a rule of courtesy; Perry. Parrott. who preferred to turn his back to a ball rather than be discourteous to an invited guest; Henry Moses, j who .forced himself to forget the j number of outs and deliberately walked into the arms of the op posing third baseman. What bettter reason can anyone ask for than che demands of courtesy, when it pomes to winning a game or treat ing a guest as he should be treat- j ed. The Rotarians, therefore, feel no chagrin over their defeat. From the field of baseball car- ! nage to the halls of feasting the j Kiwanians and Rotarians went, the j friendliest of enemies. But this is another story. Aftermath: It -has been noticed that as. the j Kiwanians go limping throughout the city today they are saying to : the ? crippled Rotarians: "In the J words of the renowned Wellington, | 'There is nothing sadder than a ? great victory, unless it is a great i defeat.' " Snmler County Survey About j Ready. . . The Young Men's Business; League has been informed by the j printer that the Social and Eco-1 nonn'c Survey of the county is now on the press and will be ready for delivery the latter part of this' week. This survey is an account . of | Suruter county along the lines the name implies, and contains valu-; abie information. The survey was prepared by Messrs. Aaron Green and Ralph Ramsey, S?mter coun ty student's at the University of South Carolina, and was published I under the auspices of and by the financial aid secured by the: league. The league has made ar- | rangements with the extension dc- j partment of the University to mail out copies. AH members of. the ; league. ;md all those who con- 1 tributed to this fund arc privileged to have copies sent, and (he league wilt b?.> prlrtd to mail as far as pos- j ^iolc copies for any S?mter coun- 1 ty people who wish to send yut j this information to other interest- j ed people. All addresses for mailing should I be handed to Mr. Herbert A. Mo- j ses. IN?RRIS' REPORT ON FORD'S BID BEFORlSENATE Condemns-Ford Plan of Operation and Lauds Proposed Government Owned Corporation to Ope rate Muscle Shoals Washington. July 20.?In a com prehensive report-submitted to the senate today by Chairman Norris of the ?enate agricultural com mittee, Henry Ford- s offer for the purchase and lease of the govern ment's, war-initiated projects at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is con demned m unusually strong lan guage, -while the Nebraska sen ator's bill, proposing development of the properties under a govern ment owned and controlled corpor ation, is described as "the most wonderful plan" that has ever been J proposed in the history of the country. .. On the question of the Ford bid, the report says, Senators Rage; McXary, Keyes. Gooding, Nerb'bck, Harreld. and i McKinley, Repub?V j cans and Kendrick, Democrat.-con i cur with the chairman. With .ref erence to the government owner ship proposal, the report gives* the names of five senators, Norris, McNaryT Gooding. Norbeck and McKinley, who favor its passage by the-senate for the -solution of the Muscle Shoals problem. Because of this line-up of the committeemen, ? the . report is characterized as a minor;ty opinion insofar as k expresses approval of the government-ownership bill but, is. presented as. a majority opinion insofar as it deals with the re jection - by the committee of all proposals for* Muscle- Shoals de velopment. The Ford offer is dealt with in unsparing terms. Its adoption, the report says would put "the govern ment of the United States into business with a venegeance," add ing that "those who ask congress to accept the Ford offer ask us, in effect, to lease this property .to this corporation without any real con ! sideration, and the? in addition thereto, guarantee to repair and keep and maintain it in good condi tion for a period of one hundred years." "It is. difficult to harmonize our idea of Mr. Ford'? fairness." the re port continues, "with his silence* ojn' ! this subject, when his name is so often used in exaggeration and misrepresentation as to ?ost what he does offer to do. The country has been given to understand that Mr. Ford has guaranteed to reduce the cost of fertilizer by one-half. He has done nothing of the kind. He has made no guarantee of any kind, in the way of the reduction of the cost of fertilizer. ; The country has been given to under stand that he pays the . govern ment four per cent interest on its ( investment in. the two dams. He does nothing of the kind. He has: not made .any such offer and no [ euch ^proposition is included in his [bid. Giving his corporation cred ! it. for every dollar that it pays, .he1 ' will be paying to the taxpayers less i I than three per cent on the money I I which - he uses out of the treasury of the United States, and when we ; ! consider that this loan runs for one i hundred years, it requires even the ! j stretch of the imagination to un- i derstand the enormous profit that; this corporation secures in this \ one item alone. .."Assuming that a fair interest J I rate in the commercial world is i six .per .oent interest, this would; give his corporation during a nun- j dred year period, a total gift of j \ cold cash of $236,250.000 and if this money- were compounded as j Mr. Ford asks the government to ; I compound what he pays, the- profit j ; to the corporation at the end of the j one hundred year period would be j I $14,500,000,000. This is more i than half our total cost of the | world war. j . "The country has been given to I \ understand that the Ford offer | provides for the repayment to. the! j government within the one hundred' I year period, the entire investment j that the government has made. I His offer does nothing of the kind, j On the other hand, the total pay I ments included in the offer of j both interest and amortization. I amount to less thani'three per; j cent on the ? investment and he j (never pays one dollar of the prin cipal. The people of the country I have been led to' believe that the j i Ford ol'ier means a reduced price I j for electricity to the consumer. It j means nothing of the kind. He j j has not agreed to furnish a single! j kilowatt to any home or to any manufacturing concern except i his own. The mighty power at j I Muscle Shoals will be devoted en tirely and exclusively to the use of the great corporation which \ Mr. Ford will organize. "\\ hen we bring together the re^ ; suits that must follow from these two divisions of the Ford offer, the mind is dazed at the unreasonable- ! ness of the proposition, at the j enormity of the gift. With the ex penditure of no money there is to be turned over to a corporation property of the value of more than $100.000.000 and the right and privilege to extort unjust profits j from the citizens of this country without limit. "There is nothing in the history of * the world with which this can be compared. -Civilization is with out a precedent. If the Ford of fer is accepted, then the tisht for conservation that has been waged by public-spirited and patriotic men and women all over the coun try is not only lost and given away, but thos<- who an- unwillingly compelled to make the gift are to j be taxed one hundred years to ! make the gift mure profitable. It ! i:-? the greatest gift ever bestowed upon mortal man since salvation was made free to the human race." 1 Other features of the Ford pro posal are vigorously attacked. That proposing the hundred year lease of the water-power ?projects, the report asserts, ? would make the federal water-power act, in effect, "a scrap of paper." "There is very little, if any. dif ference, "the 'document declares, "between giving a deed outright to this property and giving a lease for one hundred years." In the event the 100 year lease should be gi\ren Mr. Ford, the report -says, it is practically certain that every cor poration that has made a lease under the Water Power Act "will be clamoring at the doors of con gress for a modification of their leases and the extension of the time from irO to 100 years. * * * If we make a 100 years lease to Mr. Ford's corporation, are we not in ! honor bound to make a 100 year lease to Mr. Rockefeller's corpora tion? It cannot be claimed in de fense that we .cannot afford to do this because of the confidence which the American people have in Mr. Ford, and the lack of confi dence they, have in-some of-his co-multimillionaires. We are not dealing with men, we are dealing with a corporation as unrestrained and as unlimited and as unregulat ed as any pirate.that ever sailed i the seas. Mr. Ford. will have at best but a very few years of con nection with this corporation, but notwithstanding this fact, why should we be more lenient with a corporation organized by one man i than another?" The document asserts that Mr. Ford is -not claiming any things claimed in his behalf by many of "those who are spreading the wonderful propaganda over the country demanding that, congress shall accept his offer." "If there were . no other reason for rejecting this offer," the docu ment adds, "it ought to be rejected for .this one provision ...alone, . and j if it is accepted with this provis j ion in it. then congress ought to lay down the bars and permit any or I ganization organized by any other person to have the same privilege and the same right of a lease for 110.0 years of complete, and unregu Jlated control of power developed j fsom our navigable streams." It is cstinaated that a total I amount paid by the Ford corpora tion by amortization during the 100 year period would be only $4, 368.398,*and the rate of interest paid by Mr. Ford on the money provided by the treasury is shown to be 2.79 per cent rather -than 4 per cent. . The statement is made that the government cannot afford to enter into "the loaning business at the expense of the tax. payers and for the enrichment of a great corpor ation that under the very terms of its offer will be beyond the regula tion of either federal or state au thority." On the question as to whether the steam plant at Gorgas, Alabama, should be included among the properties to be disposed of at; Muscle Shoals, the report says, in part: "It is quite apparent that sincej ample power now exists at Mus cle Shoals there is no object in the government retaining its interest in the steam plant at Gorgas. It has no connection whatever with the permanent use and oper ation of the . plant at Muscle i Shoals. * * * It would be wise for the government to reclaim, that part of the transmission line that runs from Waco Quarry to Muscle Shoals, in order that power may be transmitted from Muscle Shoals to the Quarry for the operation of the machinery there. : Outside of this, there hasi been no reason giv en by anyone why the Gorgas j plant should be retained by the j government. It ought to sell its] interest in that plant and it is quite ( apparent that the Alabama Power company can afford to pay- more for the government's interest in this plant than any other concern* and it is immaterial whether , that part of the contract with the Alabama Power Company, provid ing for a sale to that company, is illegal or not. The government should make the sale and should insist on securing a fair price for the value of its interest." Regarding Senator Norn's' bill proposing government development and operation for the Muscle Shoals projects, the report con-j tains a reference to the attitude j of senators who, it says, are seem- | ingly "determined to turn thisi property over to Mr. Ford or ab-; solutely prevent its development' by anyone.* Seven members of | the agricultural committee who voted for the favorable report of J the Ford offer and opposed a f?- ; vorable report on the Norris bill are mentioned in this connection. "With them," the report says, "it seems to be Ford or nothing. When we take into consideration the: wonderful development that it pro vided in S. 3420 (The Norris bill),] particularly for the South, it is dif ficult to understand how senators; from that section can assume such an attitude. "In this bill there is offered toj the country and particularly to the, southern states, the inost wonderful j plan for the development of power on the Tennessee river and its dis- j tribution over the southern states,! that has ever been proposed in the history of our country, and it is j difficult to understand how repre- j sentatives from that section could j block any progress of this kind and j insist that this great property should be turned over practically I without consideration to one cor poration, and that the power on the great Tennessee river should I be leased for 100 years without regulation and without restriction." Pointing out that only five of the 1i; senators on the committee ac-1 quiesced in that part of the report, commending the Norris plan, the report continued in part: "In comparison with its Uhej Norris plan) provision regarding] fertilizer, the Ford offer sinks into absolute insignificance. It offers j the greatest hope to struggling j agriculture, it frankly recognizes that improvements must be made! if we would cheapen the produc tion of fertilizer, and it provides! for the use of the government property and funds to make the necessary investigation for such improvements. In advocating its passage we hold out no will-o'-the wisp to deceive and mislead the people. We face- the fertilizer proposition without practicing any deception upon the farmers. We believe the extraction of nitrogen from the air can be cheapened, but we. cannot guarantee it.. Fertilizer can be produced at Muscle Shoals, but- if it is cheapened to the farm er we must have cheap power and improved processes. Nothing can be gained by deception. The de sirability of cheapening the cost of fertilizer is conceded by all. "We believe that the government is justified not only as a war measure, but as a peace propo sition,, to expend all of the money that may be necessary in chemi cal experiments with the view of cheapening fertilizer. This provis ion ought to be hailed with de light, not only by the farmers, but by all of the consumers who buy the products of -the farm. It will develop at Nitrate Plant No. 1, the greatest experimental lab oratory in the world. "Instead of turning over the surplus power to any one indi vidual or to one corporation, to be used for his or its financial bene fit, without regulation from any source whatever, it will be able to supply electricity to the people at large, and cities and communities, hundreds of imiles distant >from Muscle Shoals will receive bene-: fits either directly from thi3 source or indirectly, by the cheapening of electricity by men and corpora tions who will- be competitors of this governmental corporation." The report points out that elec tricity developed at Muscle Shoals should be furnished, to municipali ties at as near cost as possible and should be so distributed that all of the people, both rich and poor, wou'd receive a ? proportionate benefit to the cheapening of elec trical energy. That is the idea that the Norris bill seeks to ac complish, the report adds. "When the power on the Ten nessee River is fully developed it ought to be carried to the, cities all over the states of Alabama, Lou isiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky and given as wide a distribution as possible so that all of the people may get the benefit of the develop ment of the property owned by. all iOf the people." f Attention is invited to provisions of the senate ? bill directing the secretary of war to construct dams in the upper Tennessee River to equalize the flow of water through out the year and, the report says, more than doubling the power pos sibilities at Muscle Shoals. It adds that the. government is about the only one that can afford to construct these reservoir dams. The storage of waters in the Tennessee river, the report claims, would au tomatically assist to a great extent in lessening the- danger of over flow on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, thereby offering at least a partial remedy to flood control conditions. The only objection made to the passage of the Norris bill, the re port says, has been by those who are opposed to the government en gaging in any kind of business, adding that "a fair consideration of all the facts surrounding the Mus cle Shoals ? property ' will, we think, convince any fair-minded in vestigator that the government is amply justified in operating the government** property -at Muscle Shoals." . The document concludes with a detailed eomparison -between fea tures of the Ford offer and those of the . Norris - bill and emphasiz ing what it describes as the greater advantages the people will obtain from Muscle Shoals development under the latter - proposal. . "The weakest point in the pow er possibilities at Muscle : Shoals," I the report says, "is the immense variation in the flow of the river. At some? seasons of the year it is sufficient to produce more than one million horsepower, while at its minimum flow the horsepower is -less than one hundred thousand. Gauge readings of the river have been carefully taken for a period of fifty ? years. ? These readings show that if the dam. is completed power will be developed there as follows: 87,000 horsepower ? 99.4 per cent, of the time. 100,000 horsepowre?97 per cent of the-time. 141,4*00 horsepower?S3.3 per cent of the time, or about 10 montns. - 205,000 horsepower?66.66 per cent of the time, or- about 8 months. 306,500 horsepower?60 per cent of the time, or about 6 months. 600.000 horsepower?20 per cent of the time, or about 2J> months. 1.000,000 horsepower?7 per cent of the time, or a little less than 1 month. "Senate bill 3120 undertakes a new step in power development. It provides that the secretary of war shall proceed to make surveys of the upper Tennessee and its tribu I taries with a view of locating dams for storage reservoir purposes. In order to get all of the power possibilities out of the Tennessee j river, it is conceded by ail engi neers, this step must be taken. There are high water periods when there is too much water for use, and there are low water periods when there is not nearly enough. If the flood water could be held back and let out at a time of low water, the power possibilities at I Muscle Shoals could be more than doubled, and when we have once constructed a dam there, the changing of any part of the sec ondary power into primary power is all clear gain with practically no additional expense. Without equalizing the flow of the river there is more power going to waste than there is that is utilized. The j most profitable way. therefore, to develop power on any stream is to consider the stream and its tribu taries as a whole?to develop all of the power in its most economi cal form, and thus not only in crease the good that can be accom plished but very materially cheap en the product. The government is about the only one that can af ford to construct these reservoir dams. It cannot be expected that a private person owning a dam j will go to the expense of ? onstruct ' ing a storage dam, because as a rule, such people do not do this without the borrowing of money at high rates of interest and they realize at the same time .that when the dams are constructed and the flow of the river equalized, the. benefit would accrue to any person or corporation having a dam on the stream, and while these persons might be required to pay their pro portionate cost of the improve ment, the fact that many dams in good locations might be con structed for many- years to come makes it necessary for the person or corporation making the im provement to wait indefinitely ior any recompense for the expendi ture. Since the government will own Dams No. 2 and 3. the greatest of all, and therefore has a greater direct interest than any person, or corporation, in equalizing the flow in the Tennessee-River, and since the government will not be com pelled to pay exorbitant rates of interest for the necessary funds, it seems very appropriate that the government, should build, these res ervoir dams." ? The report predicts that if the Norris bill is passed by congnress obligating. persons or corporations building dams on the Tennessee river to pay their proportionate share of the cost of constructing the reservoir dams, it will be at once known that the power possi bilities of the river -have been won derfully increased, and it will be an inducement to persqns and cor porations to take leases on the Tennessee because they know that the stream will be equalized and the amount of primary power% vast ly increased at all dams on the stream. ^ jj When that is done, the report says, "the most modem, .and the most economic development of power on the Tennessee river that exists anywhere in the civilized1 world" will have been made. -It means not only . increased manufacturing through the valley, but it means similar improvement through the South. It means the eventual cheapening. of electricity to the poorest of the people as well as to the well-to-do and the wealthy. It means the transfor mation to a great, extent of large portions of the United States. It ought to be welcomed by the en tire country, but most especially by the people of the South." In connection with this ? plan called for in the Norris bill, the re port says, "it is well to consider, , that* this plan if carried out would {result in another very important, ^improvement. The Tennessee river flows into the Ohio and the Ohio into the Mississippi. For more than one hundred years Congress has been appropriating money to save the low lands of the Mississippi J from overflow. It is conceded by j all students of the subject that one way to prevent this overflow Iis to construct storage reservoirs" on: the head waters , of the tribu-^ taries of the Mississippi. If the' improvement contemplated by this bill was,made we would have the maximum amount of electrical en-, ergy developed on the Tennessee at the. minimum cost and it would follow that by the storage of the flood waters? we would automati cally to a great extent aid in les sening the danger of overflow on the Ohio or the Mississippi. "It is one of the indicents that goes with the systematic'improve ment of any ; navigable stream. Ail these beneficial objects interlock and work together for the power, j the improvement of navigation, I and the avoidance of damage by overflow. In this way, we are set ting every possible benefit that can come through improvement, -:he entire South is interested in this j systematic improvement.'" Because of objections by com-1 mittee Senators, who .-insisted upon j favorably reporting the Ford of fer, the report declares, propon- j ents of the Norris plan have been deprived of the right to oiler j amendments in committee, or from j taking up the Norris bill for con sideration. It announces that j amendments will be offered, with respect to bringing about the re-> tention by the government. of r.he transmission . line from Muscle Shoals, to Waco Quarry, and prob ably in changing other provisions as they now appear in the bill, j Sale of the government's inter jests in the Gorgas Steam Plant to j the Alabama Power company is j recommended by the report on the j ground that there is no reason why j the plant should be retained by the ! government and that the Power j company's offer would give the gov | ernment a return for its investment ; of a much larger per cent than has ! been received from the sale of any j other war material. "If the government sold this, property to the Alabama Power company for $3.000.000" the re port points out. "it would be get iting a return of over 64) per cent I on its investment. It is well to }pause here and to compare this of j fer with the offer made by Mr. j Ford. Laying aside the enormous ! benefits he would get from the lease o? the- dam and the cheap money furnished by the govern ; ment to develop them, he offers to I pay $5,000.000 for an absolute j deed to property that cost the gov I ernment nearly J 1*0.000.000. In j other words, the government would j be getting from Mr. Ford less than i four per cent of its investment, j "In addition to that it would be j selling property that ought to be j retained, both as war measure and ! a peace proposition, while in :he ^sale of the Gorgas plant it would j be disposing of property for which it has no earthly use. However, 'we think the government ought to retain the transmission line from! 1 Muscle Shoals to Waco Quarry, or it ought to enter into some ar j rangement. if it makes the sale, by I which it could use the transmis j sion line that far. Beyond this, j the government has no interest in the retention of this property, I and neither would any private per son or corporation after Dam No*. 2 is completed." . The report then says it would seem "that it is a perfect waste of time to propose any amendments to Mr. Ford's proposition "be cause" we are notified in advance by him that he will not aecepj anj amendment or any change." The offer* of Mr. Ford to'pay government $55,000 annually fc maintenance of dams Nos. 2 and 3, the report says, is made for the first time in history, adding that to the < present time no lessee has ever demanded, when the govern-, ment leased him the right to. dam a navigable Stream that it should, in addition, keep -the dam inrrepair during the term of the lease. Dam No. 2, the report adds, will be the largest- concrete. structure of its kind in the world. ?'There is .nothing is the history of the past in engineering**' it ">sa^ "upon which a fair basis can, be made as to what such a guarantee is worth. If some accident should happen in- 1?? 25 or. 75 years .-to either one of these dams, the gov ernment would be compelled to re pair it .at its own expense, and. it .it failed to do so it would belegajly liable for damages to this great, corporation. If the dam were de^ st roved by an earthquake, or, in: case of war, if some-enemy drop-, ped a bomb and blew a piece of it' out.' the government would -fee toot-, pelled at once to proceed -to make, the "necessary repairs and reeoh>;:' struct the dam. H it would- cost the government one or ten or? twenty-five million dollars to do this, it would have no way to bo recompensed for the expenditure^ This is putting the govern me^ in to business with a venjseajjce/v A long list of properties. owned by the government,. including two^ million dollars worth of,platinum, which would be turned over _tb.-Mr. Ford under the terms of ..has oiler/ is enumerated. "Why a warranty deed to the Capitol at Washington is not included in this great trans-1 fer of government property tq.this wonderful corporation," the re-/ port says, has never, .been ex-plain ed. , Real estate speculators, the. re- ? port asserts,, are organizing a prop aganda in favor of the acceptance oi Mr. Ford's offer. ? ? ? . - "Some of them,", it declares, Ssre. maintaining an oiBce. noer. in the? city of Washington for the psa> pose of disposing of their property.? They have flooded -. th^> -cwBtxy with their letters and circulars; particularly among the farmers, jin which they -falsely-represent ?hkt; Mr. Ford has agreed to make, fer tilizer at one-half iis present ^iostr? and thus have brought to the. aid of their real estate speculation,: thousand of honest farmers throughout the country. If their? propaganda is anywhere near true, there will be, if Mr. Ford gets this - property, a city spring up taetet which will make New. York lpofe like a country village.'* . Reterring to the omission of any - explanation to the .question;..-<*^^j why the Capitol was not ^jcteded among the properties at Mju?le? Shoals, the report says; "Notwithstanding this apparent neglect the .transaction.-still 2ntfi mains the most wonderful real es tate speculation since Adam and Eve lost title to the QBxAeiLt Eden." ? .., Taking up the question .of.: gation on the r Tennessee in 4ts fe lationship to Miiscle Shoals *d*ev?i- ; opment the.report says:.* ^>^t.:v "It would be a monumental stn; to make, the great development that we are making and not at the same time provide for tine JMtafig*.-. ikm of the. river. It* putting $R the locks it will to some extent -jh> crease the expenditure,, but this ftd- - ditional expense is entireiy .justified when we consider, the- fact that outside. of -the navigation -proposi tion entirely, the government will be justified .in making the mala improvement. The construction of dam No. 2 will make the Tennes see river navigable for all. time, from the location of. this dam to the location of dam No. 2, a little, over 14 miles up the river, and the construction of dam No. 3 wlH: make this river navigable for a>out; 65 miles more. <:This brings us to a considera tion of dam No. 1. Dam No- 1. is 'entirely a navigation proposkijwj^. It has nothing to do with the ni trate plants, or with the power pe* sibilities of Muscle Shoals. It be comes important only whetf 5*? realize that if dam No. 2 is." co.***.: structed, and particularly .4f .dams No. 3 is also , constructed, it. would? be necessary as a navigation, prop-r* osition to construct dam No. .??.&. order to get any benefit from the) navigation provided for by dams Nv>s. 2 and 3. "Dam No. l:is located three or four miles below dam No. . 2? .-It. will be a comparatively low-awd' inexpensive dam, and wHl back the', water up to the locks at dam. No..2^ When it is -constructed, together with dams Nos. 2 and .3? the:TTen nessee river will be navigable from its mouth tqf a point about ??*ty> five miles above dam No. 3, making a total mileage of complete perma*: nent navigation of 340 mBea. If dam No. 3 is not constructed tibiae distance would bo shortened by? 05 miles. ""'^sh "When we take into considera tion the fact that the Tennessee river flows into the Ohio,- which na tu rn flows into the Mississippi, it gives us an idea of the -importance, attached to dam No. 1. "All these improvements are ihus interlocked. The construction of one naturally leads to the other; By combining them all ?in., one plant we have at once reaped the* maximum amount of benefit at the* minimum cost." Wednesday. night at U: 3a o'clock an auto, with two or three younff couples, 'skidded into a telephone; pole on the corner of Washington* and Warren streets. None of-the?; young ladies were hurt, but Messrs William Bryan and Robert Wither* spoon did not- escape injury .al together: Mr. Bryan was knocked unconscious and was bruised some-? what. He was taken to the hose pital and reports are today that he is getting on nicely and w?fcseos? be all right. Mr. Witherpsoons face was right badly bruised, bui^ nothing more serious. He'is at home arid is also getting on nicely.