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PART OF LEVER ACT
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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 .
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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 )(
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npnnln yah nn annvanvlof 5am
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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
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nHH oovok\ to fw o'
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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.
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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
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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
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Because it worts when all' other
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Is Life Insurance
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Five Minute CH&ts
on Our President*
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By JAMES MORGAN
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(Copyright. 1910, by Ji?dm Monraa.)
a Clir.iTivp pnpqinFNT
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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.
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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
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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