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The Chesterfield Advertiser I Paul H. and Fred G. Heam tj Editors q PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY * ^ Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year; t six months. 75 cents.?Invariably in ^ advance. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Chesterfield, South Carolina. < Vi PART OF LEVER ACT I J UNCONSTITUTIONAL h The Supreme court has made a de- ^ cidion in a sujrar profiteering case from Atlanta in which the Lever act of Congress aimed at profiters is declared unconstitutional. In explaining " the decision Senator Hoke Smith says " the decision does not reach all of the u provisions of the Lever act. Accord- n ing to his statement it only reaches that provision that undertakes to v< make a crime out of charging un- P reasonable profits, the court holding that the term "unreasonable profits" is so uncertain that it does not put a|Jl defendant upon notice of what would ls or would not be a crime, and that therefore an indictment for making L an unreasonable profit could not be R sustained. What was an unreasonable c< profit, the act did not say, and the de- C fendant would not know, when he was le making a charge, whether the profit r< was or was not unreasonable. In that c< particular case parties sold sugar at c< 20 cents a pound which had been d< bought at 12 cents a pound, when at w the time they could not buy sugar on la the market nt 22 cents a pound. The *t court held that that provision in the cl act was unconstitutional, but the bal- _ ance of the Lever Act was left in o force, both that provision which ap- s plied to coal and that which applied to q hoarding-. -p HEFLIN HAMMERS THEM js Senator Heflin of Alabama, is an optimist and a plucky one at that. In cj Congress just before adjournment he ,j scored the Republican party severely. In defeating the good roads proposition and some of the river and harbor . appropriations the Republican hiajori- ^ ty came in for a good drubbing at the hands of the Alabama Senator. He . .. i . . b< talked right out in meeting. ^ Among other things he said: "Poor old cheese-paring, parsimoni- ^ ous Republican Party! You waste mil- ^ lions in useless expenditures and be- , come economical when it comes to doing something of a substantial na- "'a ture for the mass of the American )( T npnnln yah nn annvanvlof 5am ..' VX4 " * * Wl" IMV'X" ' |* that provided for building a great . system of public roads leading from 11 farm to factory and from rural distriets to the towns and market places, and now, I repeat, you refuse to pro- l( vide money sufficient to go on with the program of river and harbor im- , provement." 11 He then admonished the Republi- l>" cans that their rule would not last ct long. He gave this sketch of the up turn in politics that was brought about by such tactics as the Republi j e< cans have recently indulged in. The ol Senator said : I hi "I have seen the Republican party ( a before its recent victory carry the In country by a tremendous majority. I fi< saw your candidate, Mr. Taft, elected A in 1908 by a million majority, and tl: four years later go out by unanimous! ss consent. I saw you in that same year ri of 1908 carry the House and the to Senate ,and in 1910 I saw the Demo- j ei cratic Party carry the House when! is only two years had elapsed since you j sa i?uiucu juui great victory uncier mo ft leadership of Mr. Taft. In the election th of 1012 we carried the Senate and th elected a Democratic President, and o< if you keep on the unwise and un-'te American way that you have started of opposing every constructive nieas-'hc ure we will carry the House in the cc next congressional election and pluck te some of your members from this end t>i of the Capitol." cj WOMEN OF SOUTH CAROLINA ^ South Carolina women will be particularly interested in three measures ^ which passed the legislature of that A. tic state recently, the first, conferring on ^ all women over 21 the right to vote in the Democratic primaries; the second, exempting women from jury duty; and the third, raising the age of '* consent from 14 to 16 years. The first passed without any on- ^ position, or much comment in either house, in view of the fact that the * <: Federal Government has already conferred upon women the right to vote. 1 In regard to women being exempt- (>l e<t from jury duty, some of the sen a- (''' tors were in doubt as to its being con- tio stitutional, and it seems that this co' doubt is well founded, for according fif to the opinion of one of Augusta's most prominent lawyers,the legislature J. can only express its opinion on the . ; MICKIE, THE PRINTEl | 1 \uev& ouess ww nHH oovok\ to fw o' HH A GfcfcKT fc\G NViO' I . SwH I! latter,fand leave it to the courts t< ecide. We are not in position to speak fo le women of South Carolina, o eorgia, either for that matter, bu e venture the opinion that the snm< easons which led the women to asl jr the ballot, will influence them als< > be willing, and ,in many instances ager to serve on. the juries. There are so many things which i lry has to decide which are of par cular interest to women and whicl e believe they will wish to have s iji uccminK, ana alter all, ther* ?ems to be no real reason, excepl \ special cases which could be easilj andled, why women should not servt n juries. In matters of investigation especialr, they would be well fitted, and ir jply to the charge that they lack th< idicial temperament, some of tht iir sex have already hinted that ju es composed of altogether men havt een known to be lacking in thai [ j desirable eharasteristic, when the laintiff was of the Cleopatra type ny way we feel quite safe in prophe ring that women will serve on the iry, if they want to, and feel that il their duty to do so. The thin! measure, which was in oduced by Representative Sapp, ol ichland county, raises the age ol )nsent from 14 to 16 years in Soutl arolina. This is a splendid piece ol gislation. Georgia has only recentlj jdeenied herself in the eyes of tht juntry, for having such a low age ol law nnH nnw ^AntU ? ?" oes still better. It marks a step for aid and we congratulate the legis iture of that state for such a con ructive step.?The Augusta Chroni le. RDER FOR SPECIAL ELECTION tate of South Carolina, ounty of Chesterfield, own of Chesterfield, WHEREAS, it is provided by the iws of the State of South Carolinr. lat it shall be the duty of the Muni pal Authorities of any incorporate ty or town of this state upon a petion of the majority of the freeholdrs of the said city or town, as showr y the tax hooks of said city or town, ) order a special election in said citj r town for the purpose of issuing jnds, for any corporate purpose set >rth in said petition. AND WHEREAS, a petition has sen filed with the Town Council oi ie town of Chesterfield, S. C., signed y a majority of the freeholders ol id town, as shown by the tax aoks of said town, requesting the own Council of the town of Chestereld, S. C., to order an election therei submitting the question of issuinp oiuls to the amount Not exceeding nrty thousand ($30,000.00) dollars >r the establishment and installing f a sewerage system for said town, aid bonds to mature thirty years om the date of same, to bear inter it at a rate not exceeding six pei :nt. per annum, payable simi-annualNOW, THEREFORE, Be it resolv1 by the Town Council of the towr ? Chester/.'eld, in Council Assembled id by the authority of the sap. , thai special eitction be, and the same is iibv '?led, in the townof Chestersld, to be held on the fifth day ol pril, 1921, according to thc laws oi i State of South Caroiin i respecting lid election, at which election thi gistered qualified electors of the iwn of Chesterfield, S. C., shall be ititled to vote on the question oi sue, "For the issue of thirty thou ind ($30,000.00) dollars in bond; >r installing a sewerage system ir ie town of Chesterfield" or "Againsl ic issue of thirty thousand ($30, 10.00) for installing a sewerage sys m in the town of Chesterfield. The said special election shall bt >ld in the Grand Jury room of tlu iurt house in the said town of Chcarfield and the polls shall be open at ghts o'clock in the forenoon and osed at four o'clock in the afterion. That at the said special election W. Hursev. T V. Whit* oml I l ivis, Jr., shall act as Managers. That e said Managers shall give due ne'e of tht. said election as required by L, II. Trotti, Mayor of town of Chesterfield, i C. Redfearn, M. S. Watson, C. C. >uglass and S. M. Jackson, ardens of the town of Chesterfield. Done and ratified by the Town uncil of the town of Chesterfield, C., this March 1, 1921. In pursuance of above Resolution, di nance and orders therein containwe will hold the said special elecn in the Grand Jury room of the urt house, Chesterfield, S. C., on the th day of April, 1921. A. W. Ilursey, T. E. White and I. Davis, Jr, anagers of Special Election for ? Sewerage System Bonds. Dated at Chesterfield, S. C.p this r March 1, 1921. r t ORDER FOR SPECIAL ELECTION e State of South Carolina, c County of Chesterfield, i Town of Chesterfield, WHEREAS, it is provided by the t laws of the State of South Carolina " that it shall be the duty of the Muni| cipal Authorities of any incorporated ; city or town of the state upon a petit tion of the majority of the freeholders * of the said city or town, as shown by 5 the U-tx books of said city or town, to order a special election in said city or t town for the purpose of issuing bonds, i for any corporate purpose set forth ! in said petition. AND WHEREAS, A petition has ' been filed with the Town Council of , the town of Chesterfield, S.C., signed . by a majority of the freeholders of * the said town as shown by the tax books of the said town, requesting ^ the Town Council of the town of Chesterfield, S. C., to order an election " therein, submitting the question of f issuing bonds to the amount not to ^ exceed forty-five thousand ($45,000) 1 dollars, for the establishment and in^ stalling of waterworks for said town, ' said bonds to mature thirty years af* ter date of same, to bear interest at ' a rate not exceeding six per cent, per 1 annum, payable semi-annually, ] NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Town Council of the town of Chesterfield, S. C., in Council Assembled and by the authority of the same that a special election be, and I the same is hereby ordered, in the town of Chesterfield, S. C., to be held on the fifth day of April 1921, according to the laws of the State of South Carolina respecting said election, at which election the registered, qualified electors of the said town of Chesterfield shall be entitled to vote on the question or issue "For issue of fortyfive thousand ($45,000.00) dollars in bonds for establishing and installing waterworks" or "Against teh issue of ' forty-five thousand ($45,000.00 dollars in bonds for establishing and in' stalling waterworks." That F. M. Cannon, Supervisor of Registration of the said town of Ches. terfield is hereby directed to open the : Books of Registration twenty days prior to said election, to wit on the fifteenth day of March 1921 and to ' keep them open for a period of ten , days in the Clerk of Court's office for Chesterfield County, in the said town of Chesterfield, from eight o'clock in the forenoon until four o'clock in the ' afternoon, for the purpose of regis' tering the qualified electors of the ' said town of Chesterfield and that he do give due notice of the opening of said Books of Registration. That the said special election shall be held in the Grand Jury room of the court house, in the said town of Ches-| terfield, and the polls shall be open ; 51 f pitrht n'olooLr *?** 1 | _v ? viuin in me iiirrnuun and j closed at four o'clock in the afternoon. That at said special election . A. W. Hursey, T. E. White and I. j.i Davis, Jr., shall act as Managers. That the said Managers shall give due notice of said election as required by j law Done and ratified by the Town Council of the Town of Chesterfield,' S. C., this March 1st, 1021. L. H. TROTTI, j Mayor of Town of Chesterfield Ira C. Redfearn, M. S. Wr.tson, C. C. i Douglass and S. M. Jackson, I t Wardens of Town of Chesterfield. In pursuance of the direction con. iuincd in the above ordinance I will open Books of Registration twenty > days prior to the special election > therein ordered. The said books will . 0e opened on the fifteenth day of March, 1921, in the Clerk of Court's I office for Chesterfield County, in the said town of Chesterfield for the pur>ose of registering names of the qualified electors of the said town. The said books will be opened from eight o'clock in the forenoon until A o'clock ill the afternoon. The books will reliain onen for ji ?i.-?rio#l I days. March 1, 1921. F. M. Cannon, Supervisor of Registration for the town of Chesterfield, S. C. In pursuance of the above resolutions, ordinances and orders therein contained we will hold said special lection in the (Jrand Jury room of the court house, in said town of Chesterield, on the fifth day of April 1921. A. W. Hursey, T. E. White and I. J. Davis, Jr., Managers Special Election for Waterworks Bonds. I Dated at Chesterfield, S. C., March 1, 1921. rs DEVIL ~ ) I ( VAfcfcfc KA? O ,\ UVj E.POT? \ NNOZ. KiO GOO! k tVVA\ NGSSfc\ VAt Y^VACED ' L feUUJcMS By Charles ? W?*?Tn Nn SO VAAO\ VAt \ i\X?X> ETM'ES ) Z. * ' times TTTe world seems nn unqualified success, Rnd the fact thnt I was horn Into It does not cause mt any remorse. If some prominent citizen hacked me I up against a fence and asked me what made me feel so pay, I couldn't give | him any helpful Information. 1 don't : know, myself, what causes the chlp; per feeling. I suppose It must he because my works are In good condition, doing their digestive stunts nt the old stand. "After a few days the glad feeling passes away, and instead of helng a Sunny Samuel I become a Mournful Moses. I have nil kinds of presentl| meats of evil. I have a firm conviction that the bottom Is about to drop out of everything, and that I'll he mixed up with the wreckage. I take a pessimistic view of everything, ami go grouching around until even the cows are sick of seeing me, and they give me a lift with their hind feet as a gentle hint that I should come out of my trance. "If a lending business man asked me to explain my melancholy I couldn't do it. The world seems to he moving along as though nothing had happened, the same old sun is shining on the day shift, and the scented zephyrs are blowing through my whiskers as of old. "Often a man begins the day wrong, through some accident or unpleasant experience. Then he knows why he has a grouch, hut that doesn't help him to get rid of it. This morning I was lying in bed dreaming that I was the only original white hope, and that I was making a heroic effort to bring the laurels back to the Caucasian race. I was Just administering an uppereut that seemed destined to bring home the bncon, when I fell out of lied and practically ruined my head against the floor. "I'came downstairs in a beastly humor, and after breakfast I went over and picked a qunrrel with old Doollttle, so that he had to shin up a tree to ocjonoo vln,wl ?ll T I was feeling ornery. It wouldn't have boon wife for any man to tell me that In order to begin the day right all a man has to do la to begin It right. "I have gone out from the liouae to milk the rows In the morning, many a time, feeling as blithesome and glad as a dlckeyblrd, and quite satisfied that the day was going to be one round of pleasure. Then a row would give me a poke In the ribs with one of her celluloid horns, or push her big splay foot Into a brimming bucket of milk, and the Joyous stuff was all off. and I'd be so sore all day that Aunt Julia would hand me my meals with a pitchfork. "The other morning I got up feeling so mean that I was ashamed to look In the mirror. I went downtown nfter hrenkfaRt, In the mood to rob a blind organ grinder of his few plugged nickels. Then I went to the post office and got a registered letter. A man who had owed me $2 for five years had an Ingrowing conscience at last, and sent the money to me. When I left the nost offloo everybody commented on my winning smile and wild I was the little sunbeam of the town." Twins Strangely Linked. Albert Orlerson and Walter Grlerson, St. Louis twins, were members of the same company, and each wore a small diamond ring and a watch and chain In France. ^Ihert lost the stone of his ring and a few days later Walter lost the stone of his. Then Albert lost his watch and chain and soon afterward Walter's disappeared. Then Mbert was wounded and Walter followed suit. And now they Intend tc marry twin sisters, Geraldlne and Itlondlne Smnlley of Sheldon, 111.?In dlanapolls News. Thoroughbred Stallion? Services $20. Two miles north of Middendorf or. Scotch road. J. W. Moore. 2tn Sughroe "J" vapjpo Union uopfc \ "" N0V3 D\pvir \-fiT \ ( -gag 1 HV5 TOMTOfcOUSi )v C?F VJTTE^^Vi^eS J yv | vjueufcusuGt&V j\^\\ " M .!>! I Ml I Ml liiltfi'i i I niTil ? ? ?^ ~~ Uncle Walte BEGINNING THE DAY 4(T F A MAN begins the day in n good A humor," observed the professor, "everything will prosper with him." "You tnlk as though beginning the day in a good humor was as easy as /nllUr. ~ t IJ 1 1 -> n i??n. oniu me luw-uroweu man. "I suppose Innl Sunny Samuel, and I just naturally go around shedding light Into the dark places, and HUlklnc i?vr*rvl>nrlv i>lnH At cnnl, ToMy Customer sAnu Friends You will find me in my ware house back of the old Swinnio house. Bring me your cotton and seed. I will pay you the highest market price for same, and will sell you bagging and ties, flour, seed oats and shoes, household and such other goods as I will have room to carry until I can build my new store. I will sell them cheap as any oner Don't expect to carry very much on these declining prices, 3A O O f A 1\A o Klr? 4-^v -? 1 -1- * ** ' 1 * ?,? wc auic in give you uesi prices an tne time. iNo war prices will hold, and you may expect them to decline. John T. Hurst 9he Weepies9 OF CHESTERFIELD Will Appreciate Your Business. Total Resources Over $?nnnnnnn II V v/jv/v/v/.V/VZ Our customers and friends helped us to do this. When in i need of accommodation or you have money to deposit, come I to sec us. Guaranteed burglar proof and fire proof safe. ' | I Let us show you this wonder. A cordial welcome awaits you ! R. B. LANEY, President G. K. LANEY, V.-President CHAS. P. MANGUM, J. A. CAMPBELL, Cashier Assist. Cashier t ii = I! Rank of 'Cke.iterfield !; I The Oldest, Largest and Strongest Bank in Chesterfield, S. G. 4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings Deposits. $1.00 Starts An Account See Us C. C. Douglass, Cashier. R. E. Rivers, President. D. L. Smith, Assist. Cashier M. J. 1'ough, Vice-President. D. H. Douglass A*sist. Cashier A VALUABLE ASSET One of the most valuable assets of this bank?an asset that cannot be estimated in dollars and cents but which is most important in enabling us to understand the banking needs of the people of this community and to furnish them absolute security and satisfactory service?is the continuous success which this institution has enjoyed. We will appreciate an opportunity of placing our facilities at your disposal. THE FARMERS BANK RUBY, SOUTH CAROLINA I\ H. BURCH, R. M. NEWSOM M. L. RALEY, President. V.-President Cashier. SPER CENT ON THE BANK OF SAVINGS COURTEOUS SERVICE ~ ? IThe Best Family Remedy Because it worts when all' other remedies have ceased to work Is Life Insurance 1 Chesterfield Loan & Ins. Co. D. H. DOUGLASS, President C. C. DOUGLASS, Sec'y & Mpr W. J. DOUGLASS, Vice- Pres. GEO. W. EDDINS, Treasurer. ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, HEALTH, HAIL, LIVE STOCK INSURANCE W? Buy unci Sail Real Estate?rMon?y Loaned hese Foreigners Gotta Leave Our Country /Hone * HliSliP J wot K*e\ \ sex, 1 NOV) OOVtr UKE'TVtfS ) / \ \ OOOVrCRN, GO fckfcVC I bt, ^v) V Nooi.cwt y . : I /oN- FttOKAV-1 y 1 "i Five Minute CH&ts on Our President* >???#??#? By JAMES MORGAN ? 1 " > (Copyright. 1910, by Ji?dm Monraa.) a Clir.iTivp pnpqinFNT O I 1809?James Madison, Inaugurated President, aged fiftyseven. 1812? (June 19) War declared. 1814?(Aug. 24-27) In flight from the British. (Dec. 28) treaty of peaces 1817?Madison retired from Presidency. 1826?Rector In University of Virginia. ^ 1829?In constitutional convention. 1836?(June 28) died, aged eighty-five. O i =Q BUT for the smiles of his bloom* Ing Dolly, Madison's administration would be a desert without an onsls, over whose dreary expanse the weary biographer would wander athtrst for human anecdotes. Her bubbling spirits relieved the austerity of Jeffersonlnn simplicity and won her a popularity that has been equaled, If at all, among the mistresses of the White House, ofcly by Mrs. Cleveland. Unless Grant must be excepted. MflHIann la flin nnl? n^nn(/l?n? ?,.Ka M.uvHvvt mkp iuo vui/ |u?;oiucui u i iv/ found the presidency an anticlimax to his cnrepr. One of the really great law-givers of the nation, he was without executive force. With a weak cnblnet, this gentle, sweet tempered, pence loving scholar found himself adrift on the turbid sea of the great Napoleonic wars. Perhaps It was no longer possible to keep us out of the war when at last the United States wns tire only neutral left in the civilized world. But certainly It was no time for a fair-weather sailor. After 20 years of kicking and cuffing from both sides In the European conflict, bullied by England and lied to by Napoleon, the country was sore all over when the "warliawks" of congress, under the youthful Henry Clay, seized the tiller of the ship of state James Madison. from Madison's Irresolute hand and recklessly pointed the vessel straight Into the teeth of the storm. The seaboard East was more for peace and at that time the military section was the new West, where the Tennesseans and Kentucklans, Indlanlans and Ohloana were lustily shouting "On to Canada I" Overborne by their rnsh counsels, Madison consented, as he said, to "throw forward the flag of the country, sure that the people would press onward i nnd defend It." Without competent civilian military lenders, without financial credit, with| out war equipment, the people could not press onward, as any history of the dismal war of 1R12 will *?n Even the capital was left undefended, and Madison, "In a little round hat with a big cockade," ran about In helpless bewilderment aa the British marched upon Washington. ^ With the Invaders entering at one side of the defenselesR town, the president lied at the other. As he turned he saw the flames shooting up behind him. he fled faster and farther. While the British commander was blowing out candles on his dinner table that he might feast In the light of the burning White House, Its fugitive master was .hiding In a forest but 25 miles away. After an absence of three days, a heavy-henrted, shattered, houseless president returned to view the charred walls of his official residence and of the capltol. At every turn hp was greeted by ugly mutterlngs of the general disposition to make him the scapegoat for all the national shortcomings l'? a war that had been thrust upon him. But with victory at New Orion nc o rwl tKn ** Ilir iciurii ui iH*nce, ine voice of the faultfinder wan drowned In the hum of sudden prosperity. And In the closing days of hia administration Madison was cheered by many assurances that his countrymen were not forgetful of the 40 years that he had served them In pure devotion. Like John Adams, he emerged from his retirement to sit In the constitutional convention of his state, whf?re the aged statesman closed his active pn'ollc life, as he had opened it, with a sentiment of humanity for the slnvos. mmm Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There la Dnly one way to cure catarrhal deafness, nml that U by a constitutional remedy. I'ittarrhal Deafness Is caused by an tannim-tl condition of the mucous Unlna of the ICustachlan Tube. When ?ui- ?..w_ - inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It U entirely closed, Deafness Is the result. Unless tbs inflammation can be reduced and this tub* restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Many eases or Irafness are caused by catarrh, which Is an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces sf the lystem We will give One Hundred Dollars fee _ iny case of Catarrhal Deafness that aaanst