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?? II I ?i????, TOtPME Lin, SWBEK 13. M-WBKRKI, S. C, TI ES1.AY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918, ' , TffIC? A ^ ^ ~ ^ ' This Week Wi End Leg 1 SENATE WOULD DRIVE THE SOUTMt ASIERN OUT SENATE WOULD DRIVE SOUTHJ EASIER^ OUT. .New Judicial Circuit Created?Senate to Dispose of Appropriation .Measure Tliis >H*k. Special to The Herald and Xews. Columbia, Feb. 14.?This week will probably witness the final adjoudnment of t'ne legislature of 1916, though there is a possibility ihat the session may run into next week. The finance committee of the senate is expected to repodt the appropriation bill to that body early in the week, and the appropriation measure ought to be ready _ k,t lattpr nart ol ror tne goveiuui uv , ^ the week. Idles Chaining Bill Tlie Liles cnaingang bill, as it has ^ CGme to be called is ready for ratification. The senate amended the bill ^ so as to make it apply only to convicP* tions on selling liquor, eliminating transporting and stoding. The house concurred in tne senate amendment so that the act as it will go on the Prv y statute books makes tne pena* l> 1UI > selling liquor a straight chaingang . sentence without the alternative of a fine, and the punishment for trans-porting and storing remains as a1 present. As was stated in the last issue oi The Herald and News, the senate has voted to cut down the amount ol liquor which may be ordered in any one month to two quarts, but would all-jar 60 pints of beer in lieu of the t wo quarts. The house has yet to act /-vrvc on this amendment, ine UUUSC uui. night last week decisively voted down a bill to except beer from the provisions of the gallon-a-month law. Directs Against Southeastern. A good deal of the legislation ol rhe session has bee$i revolving arounc the State warehouse system, and the insurance feature in the system. A i* resolution was intdoduced in the sen*ate to require the commissioner *c ? fnrnfs.h nanes of the companies from I which he has secured his low rates F on State warehouse cotton. The reso| lution was emphatically voted down I deceivin only six votes. In his annual I report the commissioner charged that > the insurance trust, of which the 1 Southeastern Tariff association is a I part, waited the information for pur, -poses not friendly to the system, and | condemned the Southeastern Tarifi -- iM/\lotinn I association as a comume m of the federal anti-trust laws and oi the constitution of the State. On Saturday morning the senate passed a bill, introduced by Senator Laney tc prohibit insurance combinations in the State, which would have the effect ol ? dissolving the Southeastern, so far as South Carolina is concerned. There are bills in both houses tc authorize the warehouse commissioner io act for parties in the State seeking insurance on any kind of property f These insurance measures have created wide-spread interest, and are causing a great deal of activity among the insurance people. Employers' Liability Measure. The house has given final passage to the senate bill defining the liability of railroads for injuries to employes. The house amended the bill so as tc ft exclude the recovery of punitive lamages under the act. It now goes to the senate for concurrence in the amendment. The measure conforms to the federal statue. New Circuit Created. This legislature has created a new judicial circuit, and if the act is approved by Gov. Manning, South Car clina will have 14 judicial circuits, inBj stead of 13, as at present. 'The ac; leaves Charleston in a circuit by herself. and puts Hampton, Beaufodt. : f Colleton and Jasper counties in a new 14th circuit. A motion to strike out C the enacting words, made by Senator Wrightman of Saluda, was killed by H r: vote* or 10 to 21. Ir Inheritance Tax Killed. The bill by Mr. Dixon providing for II Possibly islative Session I an inheritance tax, which is in ef- 1 feet in all but six States in some form 1 i 1-niorl ivi t\io linnso rvn a vpa and I | U ao *11 CA.4.V/ liV/MUV V*i *.+, -W nay vote of 65 to 44. i , It was held out in *ain that the in- ' j heritance tax was just in that it would j levy a tax on intangible property. 1 such as stocks ana .bonds, while t'ne ( "poor devil with a mule and house1 hold furniture'' is taxed out of pro' portion. The bi.l. in substance in- ' dorsed by the State tax commission, [ provided for tile exemption from taxation of a widow's inheritance to the amount of $i0.000 an 000 for each child. ' There ought to be~ an inheritance [ . tax law in Soutn Carolina, and it is ; hard to understand why some measure ' > of this kind can not get through the ' -general assembly. The late Mr. Geo. 1 R. Rembert. as a member of the ( house from Richland coun.'y, made : an earnest fight several years ago for a law of this kind. Such a law 1 '1-rmiri rAnph iidonertv of th wealthy ' ; which ou^ht to be reached and would! 1 . help the i.oor man in a just way. [ For Board of Conciliation. Gov. Manning has sent a special 1 r message o the general assambly urg- 1 ; ing the enactment into law of the ' pending measure to create a board of 1 > conciliation to deal wth disputes be- : . tween capital and labor. The adI 1 : ministration bill alon& tnis j^ne pass-j L ed the house wthout opposition or j ! . debate. It provides for a board of ! three mebers to b appointed by "*e governor, one for two, one for four ! ? and one for six years which will tnere- i . alter be the term of service. The per!1 > \ j 1 diem is fixed at $10 and the board can , .be called into session by the governor ( I or attodnev general or either of the i lggrieved parties. ( ; The duties and "functions of the : 1 > board shall be the "conciliation of in- j i dustrial disputes or strikes or lock-,, outs and the removal of cause for in-! dus'dial dispute's- or strikes or lock- j j outs." The board is given power to ', < I summon witnesses and compel them 1 j [ I to testify, to compel the production | . I of books and documents, to inspect! . property and to examine into workL * < . ing conditions and sanitary condtons. ] , Agriculture in Rural Schools. H L Without opposition the house pass- i t ed the Toole LeGrone bill, providing i for an appropriation of $5,000 for the j, teaching of agriculture in the common J ( schools of the State under certain', . conditions, involving the cooperation I j . of the schools and the kind of schQjii^!, , This is one of the measures t'ne pass- , . age of which was urged by Gov. Man- f ^ ning in a special message. > The bill provides tha: State aid to the i . i1 extent of $750 will be given when > three or more school districts rase a similar amount; ihe aggregate *"ill j provide for the teacher's salary. Any , } public ^ school, however, cooperating j ? n this work must have an enrollment . ; of at least three dooms, a Gneshrdl , . attendance of at least 40, three teachl% ^ f~ a lr\r?ol ers, a. term 01 en mumug, ? } lax cf eight mills, a sanitary building |' of at least three rooms, a plot of not less than two acres, satisfactory equipment and use of the adapted textbooks. The biil also provides for the free enrollment of a pupil more than ^ 14 years old who desires 10 pursue the agricultural course. The bill does . not prevent school districts from receiving State aid for term extension. Rural Credits. j Debate on several bills in the sen- j ate was discontinued until Monday 1 night. Leading these is tne group of three bille introduced bn Senators Mc- , | i Cown. Nickels and Sbedard. An amend ment has been offered by Senato.- , Williams of Lancaster to sirike out the enacting words of the Sherard bill, which hlds the rignt of way over the ( other two. and -o subscitrte therefor the amendment providing for a com- * misson of four members to study exi isting rural crelits laws and to make { certain recommitvi.* as to the expediency of the venture. Two other bills on which debate was adjoudned tl fonight were that w'nich would allow C-lemson college to print the analyses of fertilizers on tags rather than on basfs, ard ;he Sherardfihristensen bill to provide a com- I mission to investigate the need for a | J State traning school for the feeble I f *. I k nnded and to provde certain informaion with dglinte reconimandation as to necessary buldings and site to next general assembly. (?radcrs' Bill Killed. The senate IiilL^d the Lanoy-Bpaili': r.easure fo arloyt :ho r'ederal grades :or cotton in South Carolina and to icense cotton yrai-'rr. Tbe friends cl he measure pomr"i out tne immen.-" oss to the fadmers of South Carolina mder the present system. For instance under the revailing system, jvery bale of col o:> LO'd in South Carolina is graded a: least one ^rade mder the grades adopted by tne fedMai government. The c-ottor, of *ourse is sold on the federal grades, rhe loss to the far.nc^ on eacn bale, mder the present system, is from ^ * A" "A - 1 1 ~ >T1% a }> I. ? ) cO 5>^.0U ci 111c l- mi v^u States government has adopr?.l coram standards, and the Laney-Pi-aitie Jill would have enforced thes.? standirds in this State, and prevented t ;is uinual loss to the farmers. Th?? bill, low over, went to the grave yard where )tlier good bills have pdecedtd it. rutting Out Fee Patients. The senate has uassed and sest to lie house the Wightman bill to disconinue tne practice of collectng expenses from i-Ttan patients in the lospital for the insane who were able o pay. The bill would admit all parents free to the hospital. During he last fiscal year $3,567 was collectd from th's source, n consequence of investigations conducted by the fiscal igent of the State board of charities. The Lane- t ill io increase the number of the board of -usitors to the Citaiel from five to six has passed the senate and been sent to the house. It ivill be recalled that during this session of the legislature, Col. W. \V - " ' - - nV.ninmon /-\f flip ' .6 WIS, 01 I OI IIJCT i iiail uiau vi w*x Doard. was defeated for reelection b? Representative Hammond of Richland county. The ho;.s'- leconve^ed at noon tolay, and the senate meets at 8 o'clock tonight. - (ieo. E. Hawkins. The State. Prosperity, Feb. 12?George E. H'aw kins of Prosperity died mis moriuug it the home of his brother, A. H. Hawkins, with whom he had lived for many years. Mr. Hawkins had beer in failing health for several months uid his condition became serious onlv four weeks ago and critical on Friday night. Mr. Hawkins was born in 1843 and was among the first to volunteer tthen the call of the South came. He erved his country faithfully the four years in the Thirteenth South Caroina regiment under Col. Lester, Mcbrigade. Jacksons army Mr Hawkins is widely known throughout :he State, having traveled for W. L A-ebb of Charleston for 25 years. Leaving the road, he entered the mercanLile business here in Prosperity and engaged in farming. He was a faithful member of St. Luke's churcn and ivas held in high esteem by all whc know him. Only one brother. A. H Hawkins, survives him. but he has \ wide family connection. He will be buried Sunday morning it the Prosperity cemetery at 11 s'c'ock with Masonic honors. The Daughters of\the William Lestei chapter will have charge of the flow?rs at the grave. County Touchers. The county teachers will hold a n etting in the high school building \t Newberry on Saturday. Dr. Josiah Morse, professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, will de liver an address. county aujierm* tendeni Barre is very anxious that ?very teacher in Newberry be present at this meeting. Suber-IMrror. Sunday afternoon, Feb. 13, at 6:30 )'ciock, Miss Laura Suber, daughter >f Mr. W. F. Suber, of Uomaria and VIr. Jno. Parrot also ot romana were narried by Rev. S. C. Ballentine at :he Lu:heran parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. Parrott will makeUheir lcme in Pomaria. Smith-Sease On Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Ur .Timmie Sease was married to Miss Lueile Smith, daughter of Mr. Mark Smith, keeper of the county home. j SEWS OF PROSPERITY. \! .' l$m hil 01' il aptiihi A. II. WheelerDeal Ii of Mr. Geo. E. HawkinsOther Happenings. I Prosperity, Feb. 14.?Mr. George E. Hawkins died Saturday morning at-' ter a lingering illness at the home of j his brother, Mr. A. H. Hawkins. For i the past year Mr. Jfawkins has been j in failing health and five weeks ago j I he was stricken with paralysis and! . j til is with Brights disease causcd his j death. Mr. Hawkins was born in 1S44. Ho j volunteered in the Confederate cause j iti August. 1S61 in the Thirteenth J South Carolina regiment, under Col. j I Lester, AIcGowan's Brigade, Jackson's) 1 army, and served through the entire! ? i war. He was a gallant soldier. Af- j j ter the war Mr. Hawkins traveled for J t W. L. Webb and company, a prom- j ' i. j ir.cnt Charleston firm and was well j ; known throughout South Carolina and ; j Georgia. I After leaving the road he engaged ' i in the mercantile business and farm-1 I 1 ing at Prosperity. The funeral servicse were conduct- j ed by his pastor, Rev. B. W. Cronk, ;! assisted by Rev. E. W. Leslie, after :! which the Masons took charge, buryi ^ ^ ~ h A To c* nn i n imnni'c j 1II? 1111X1 Willi ^UUOViliV uvuv?u, Only one brother, Mr. A. H. Hawkins i | survives him. The exceedingly large j - xowa attested the high esteem in which he was held. j The bodv of U r. A. H. Wheeler of i near Concord. X. C., was brought to I j Prosperity for burial on Saturday. Fori ; > a number of years f\*'r. Wheeler was a| ;! resident cf Prosperity and at .one timcj J was ccunty treasurer. The funeral! . | service was conducted at Grace church ;. by Rev. E. W. Leslie and Re. . .T. J. r: Long of Little Mountain. [j He is survived by his wife, two j i daughter. Mrs. Vivtor Xorman of Cb-j llumbia; Mrs. Lelia Moffet of Texas, j .' and one son, Mr. Clarence 'Wlheeler of Washington; one brother, Mr. Nathan Wheeler of Little Mountain an a ; host of relates. i ?! he old 'veterans are fast passing ' pany, the sdme regiment and served ed on the same day, for the same com' panf. the same regment and served through the entire war side by side 1 and buried within a day of each J ether. ' | "w-s. .T. M Werts friends will be j aorry to learn that she iias had a, relapse and is quite sick at her home j 1 cn MrtV'ary street. ' j Prosperity is very progressive, the' 'i noiv ornroor0 Viavinsr sold SPVPn auto-I | lit" S?? ?ov -?~ e? ? 'j mobiles during ihe past week. Mrs. P. C. Singley has gone to the ' Columbia hospital. Tne Valentine party given under 3ncr>ices of the William Lesterj j chapter was a success, $20 being rais-! ' ed. Mr. F. X. Calmes has accepted a po^ siiicn with the Ethridge - Woodward Gprage. ' Mr. J. C. Taylor has returned to 1 Batesburg. A lttle colored boy on Col. N. H. ; Youngs place accidentally shot himself with his grandfather pistol. He - was carried to Columbia to a hospital by Dr% 0. B. Simpson. Mrs. T. Eric Barnes of Saluda, is spending the week with her parents ' Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kohn. " ' -i- ~ ? ! Mr. and Mrs. h'icKens uerncK. ui. attended the funeral Suni f day of Mr. G. E. Hawkins. 1 Mr. Burr Barnes and IMiss Mattie Barnes, spent the week end in Xew1 berry. 1 Messrs. W. T. Gibson and .T. H. Cros' j'on bnve returned from Saluda. The Misses Mayer of Little Moun; tain, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. l. ~ ouatmayer. , Mr. L. A. Black spent Friday In Saj ~ The many friends of Mr. Fred H. Schumpert will be surprised to hear of his marriage on Saturday, February 12 to Miss Georgia Carter, of 'Augusta. Mr. and IMrs. Schumpert are spend ing a few days with Mr. Schumpert's mother. Mrs. Fanny Schumpert. Death of Mrs. Ellis. Mrs. Annie Ellis died in Columbia Friday morning at the home of her j brother. Wl'r. Brock Davis. The re1 1 1 - XTy* nf V*. r\ ntr C!o f _ j mams were Drongm 10 .>cw'ucnj uoii urday afternoon and interred in Rosemont cemetery. Mrs. Ellis was about 55 years of age. / & THE IDLER. ^ <?> <?> My, my, Bob of The State?pardon me for my familiarity?but have you j seen that that there legislature is talking about reducing the allowance to two quarts a month and maybe only one. Have you written that there [ note to them about increasing the al- j 'owance of beer and wine? If not, j get busy, old pal?excuse me again, j If they are going to keep on reducing! it I think the best thing would be to j cut it out for all purposes and let the old State have straight and unadul terated prohibition?the real thing. ?o? j 1 was reading the other day in some | newspaper where a Rev. Mr. Diffen- j bach, a Unitarian minister, preached a sermon on "Our Debt to the Press.'' He declared, the article says, that the j newspaper men held the greatest pow- i er for good of all men not excepting ; the ministers of the gospel. Then the J article continues: He declared that the newspaper, if i well regulated, was an ally of religion ! and that it had contributed more than . anything else to the abolition of sects, though it occasionally would exploit controversies as it did comparatively j recently in Hartford. On the other hand, Mr. Diffenbach mentioned some of the faults of the average paper such as the "delicious fictions," "sacred cow," "twisting of j i'acts" and "exploitation of passsion j for the purpose of boasting circula-! tion.'' He declared further that finished in npursnaners had become! r r almost a arity. "Journalism cannot | flourish when money making is its { goal." he said. "You can't make money ! out of the big services to humanity, j I don't know why you can't but yoii | can't." Three periods in American journal- j wprp outlined bv Mr. Diffenbach. j :T.he first period, lie said, was that of the elder Bennett, who put the news- i paper on a business basis; the sec-, ond, that of Dana, who brought the I art of writing into journalism, and the third, that of Pulitzer, who introduc- j ed into journalism the age of exploit-1 ing the crowd and of stri-ving for sen-; sation. H'e quoted figures alleging that j of news investigated, 23 per cent, was | J ? 17 nor r?pnt unwhole- ! ueiuuicu 1&IU&, 11 ~ ^?, some, 21 per cent, trival, and 39 percent worth while. I quote this article to. call attention to one sentence or two in it. Listen to this: "You can't make money out of big services to humanity. I don't; know why you can't but you can't." j Now, had you ever thought of that? And isn't it strange, but if you will stop long enough to think about it for a minute, and of the men and the ?-T ? iio-ira Irnrvwn and women wuuui vuu no.?^ ..^ read about, you will conclude that it is true. It is a great consolation to me?pardon me. I am not vain?but I have been doing big things for humanity. and I know now why I have never made money. The truth is tliar those who are engaged in doing big things for humanity never stop long enough in their work to think about money, and, therefore, they never have any worth while. Especially is this true of the country newspaper man. "Journalism cannot flourish when money making is its goal." Well, I am not a journalist, but I know I would never get rich writing this column, because I have been doing it long enough now to have a little something, but the trouble is the editor never thinks about including me :n the weekly pay roll. Somebody j must serve humanity, and I reckon it just as well be me as anyone else. ?o? But this was not all that I quoted this statement for. Thing of statistics that the gentleman gives on the in-J rwf thn ripu-c that is nublished I nucuvyc; vi cue **v ? ^ ? A? and passed on for news. Only 39 per cent of it is worth while. Twentythree per cent demoralizing and seventeen per cent unwholehome. Wonder if he means by that.when he says that the press is more powerful even than gospel ministry to say that such ?-? __ a large proportion of the sermons are unwholesome. 1 don't think so. I am no newspaper person, but I have always thought tnat many of our papers printed too much crime and too much of the detail of crime. I reckon they do it because that is the sort of stui the people want, and the newspaper makers want to sell teir papers and. give their readers the kind of diet they want. But then I don't know much about it anyway, and I reckon I had better try to write about something of which I know. And yet if I did I reckon I would be like a good many others who try to write, I would not write i\ery much. Talking about newspapers reminds me that 1 read another article from some one else on the point that it would pay the churches ao advertise their services. Here it is. Read it. And then some of the merchants might take heed. "The time seems to be approaching when business men in churches will insist upon business methods in church1 work," says Xorcross in the "Church and Clergy" column of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. "Instead of a three, five or ten-line 'notice' in the newspaper, announcing the services and the minister's topics, they will nave 100-line, and often 500-line display advertisements, which ?very newspaper reader will see and read with interest. It requires no prophet to predict that within 10 years most - ^ i A M /v AC wrvll O /I OX our tiUlCl pi lOMJg *-Uu i wics ty ni a.u? vertise their services in large type,? "Some will ask the question: 'Does t it pay to advertise a church?' It does. Xo one can estimate the value of the souls that may be saved through the medium of this advertising; but there are more practical results which will appeal to practical church officials. A young minister of'North Philadel phia, who has astonished cnurcnmen by his publicity methods, brought two of the wealthiest families of his district into\his church by means of his newspaper campaign. These families make a handsome contribution to the current expenses of that congregation. And newspaper advertising did it." I ft ?O? Now I quote this because I think it is true, and because there are those among the ministry and among the laymen who do not think it right or in good taste for a minister or pastor to advertise his services, or even the services of the church. I am not one of those who believe any such thing. I believe in publicity of the right kind and in this age the man or the cause ?-1- fa nnK1/? ia Lna L IS ULOL ncpi ucivi c iiuuiv going to be lost in^the shuffle. The successful merchant is the one who knows how to advertise. THE IDLER. ?o? > P. S.?Say. please let me have anv other word to my stuff for this week. I have just* read in the News and Courier of (Thursday that the senate on Wednesday night passed an amendment to trie liquor bill and sent it to the house allowing a monthly stipend of five dozen pints of beer. Just think of that, it is sixty pints a month. Two every day. Now. Bob, you of The State, I am sure you wrote that note, though I see that my own dear senator from Xewberry lead the fight against that amendment. Just think of that, will you, and when I have been such a fool about them Johnstones all my life. Well, the point now is, write a note to them mem-' bers over in the house and see if they will agree to the senate amendment and the country will be safe yet. It is Just like one of the senators said, I believe t'ne one from Charleston, such an amendment is in the interest or real temperance. Way the members of the house come to their wits also. T. I. Death of Mr. TV. iC. Slice. Mr. iWilliam Calvin Slice died at bis home in West End Saturday afternoon was bured Monday afternon at 1 oclock at Wateree church near Chafin, Rev. S. P. Koon conducting the funeral yTt.. luafl a. mP'Tn'iWTT (U SCI V'XUCil.. .ui . UJ i 1_ v- iiiw ?.? cf Mayer Memorial Lutheran church, and was about 64 years of age. % , ^ *j _m t