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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWSBrief Local Paragraphs of More or

Less Interest.

PICKED DP BY ENQIIIKER REPORTERSStories Concerning Folks and Things,Some of Which You Know andSome You Don't Know.CondensedFor Quick Reading. .

'"Sam Woods and Sam Wylie, wellknown colored 'possum hunters seem

to be running: a race to decide whichwill catch the most 'possums this season,"commented one yesterday. "Eachhunter hac r«pii!?ht more than thirty'possums this season; and it would appearthat the race between them has

only begun."A '"Warm Rag."

"Dat new Solicitnh Speahs am sutainlyor warm rag." commented a coloredattendant upon the court of generalsessions yesterday morning. "Ahtinks dat of ah wus In do prisoner'sdock an' had de least idea dat dey hadmuh numbah ah would plead guilty an'not tak' no chances wid dat white man.

Yas, suh, dat's whut ah'd do."Officers on the Job.

"Looks like the moonshiners "hadcome to the conclusion that this wouldbe a good week for them to get in lots

of work in the belief that all the prohibitionofficers would be in court,"commented Magistrate R. E. Love of

Clover Wednesday. "Several stillshave been taken over the county thisweek by officers who were releasedfrom court duties Monday and Tuesdayby reason of the absence of the

judge."Scarcity of Eggs.

"Never did know eggs to be so

scarce as they are just now," commentedMr. Wyche Elder, proprietor ofthe Cash and Carry Store of Yorkvillethe other afternoon. "I don't knowwhether or not it is because the hensare just simply not laying or becausefolks are hoarding their eggs for saleabout Thanksgiving and Christmas. I

don't think there have been more thantwo dozen eggs offered for sale at mystore in the past two weeks. Ofcourse we are getting plenty of coldstorage eggs for the trade; but thereis no question of the fact that there isa difference."

Wasn't Satisfied.Several petit jurors souirht to be excusedfrom jury duty for various reasonswhen the November term of the

court of general sessions convenedWednesday morning. One petit jurorwho had no physician's certificatesought to be excused on the groundthat he was hard of hearing. "Judge,when several people get to talking atonce, I can't hear," he explained. "But,"replied the judge, "in court we don'tpropose to let several talk at once.

Now if several get to talking at once,

why you just let me know about it."And the juror did not pursue his reasonfor excuse any further.

Long Time Between Visits.Mr. J. A. K. Garrison who lives in

the neighborhood of the Catawba damwas in Yorkville Wednesday, and inconversation with Views and Interviewssaid that it was the first timehe had been here in thirty-one years.He is 72 years of age."The last time I was here before today,"he said, "I came after a tombstone;but having no business here

since why I just have not come. I amhere this time as the guest of myneighbor Mr. Gaston, who is a memberof the grand jury and who insistedthat I come along with him. I havenever been a witness in court or even a

juror."Mr. Garrison enjoyed his stay very

much; but when Views and Interviewsexpressed the hope that he would notallow so long a time to elapse beforehis next visit he replied:"Well, I cannot promise but I hardly

expect to be back again soon unless thesheriff comes after me."

Procedure is Different."The procedure in your courts in

SSfiiifh Pfii'fiUnn i« nuito fTiftVrr-nt from

ours in North Carolina in a pood manyrespects," commented Hon. John G.Carpenter, solicitor-elect from Gastonand Mecklenburg counties who was a

visitor in Yorkville, attendant upon thecourt of general sessions. "For instance,"Mr. Carpenter went on to say,"you can try a man in his absence inSouth Carolina and such a thing can

not be done in North Carolina, and 1notice many other practices and customsthat are quite different from ours

iii the old North State." Speakingabout South Carolina courts Mr. Carpenterwent on to say: "There is a

certain d'gnity and decorum relative tothe conduct of your courts and attachedto the demeanor and behavior of allcourt attaches that is pood to see andthat goes a long way toward helping touphold-the majesty of the law." Mr.Carpenter takes ofiice as solicitor forGaston and Mecklenburg counties on

January 1. having been elected by an

overwhelming majority on November8."Drowth in Texas.

Speaking of Texas, from which statehe returned last week after n visit tohis brother E. F. Aycock. Mr. S. V.Aycock of Sharon No. 2, said he couldnot see that the farmers out that way,especially in the country through whichhe passed, had been especially prosperousthis year.

They have been having a good deal

of drouth this year," said Mr. Aycocfr,"and many of the wells having gone

dry, many of the farmers are having to

haul water for drinking and other purposes.They have not made much cotton,and the corn crops also seemed to

be short. But of course, that is the

section through which I have been

only that I refer to. Texas, you know,is a tremendous state, and from one

end to the other there is ro<5m for allkinds of conditions."No there is no cotton to pick out

that way. It has all been gathered. I

saw a little cotton in the field out inArkansas; but not enough to amountto anything."

About Oats."If it had not been for oats, I do not

see how I would have ever made it

farming."That is what Mr. J. Frank Ashe, of

McConnellsvillc, one of the best all.5 v.h Ij (innnlv thinksilUUJIU xaillivin ill AUin WV...VI

of this important feed and cover crop,as declared in a talk with Views andInterviews yesterday.

"Yes, I think oats is one of the most

profitable crops that can be grown. Itwill make you more and better feed tothe acre than any other crop, and itwill help to protect and build up yourland. That is my experience."Continuing Air. Ashe went on to remark,that he had been raised with

the idea that oats was not much of a

crop. His father followed the old ruleof "Dust in wheat and daub in oats,"but he has long since found that thisold saying is no good; it has livedmore because of its being so easy toremember and repeat than because ofits value.

"I do not know of a crop that willrespond better to good preparation.You prepare your land properly and itwill always pay you."

In reply to a question as to the besttime to sow oats, Mr. Ashe replied:"My answer to that is September. I

always prefer to get my oats in duringSeptember if possible; but the bestcrop I ever made in my life wa3 sowedon Christmas day. The thing is toselect good land, prepare it well, use

a liberal amount of fertilizer and getyour oats well rooted so as to betterwithstand the winter. Then in thespring about-the last of February or

the first of March put on your nitrateof soda. Many people profer to waituntil later; but my experience is thatthe soda should be applied.about thetime I have said to get the best advantage."No, it is not too late to sow oats,

Your danger is in having them frozenout in the winter; but if you sow inan open fuirow there is not muchdanger even of that."But whatever you do, you must

properly prepare your land."

COLLEGE MEN AND WORK

Thomas A. Edison Makes QuiteSerious Charge.

"The main objection I have againsta college graduate," said Thomas A.Edison in an interview, "is that heobjects to work, especially if it is

dirty."Mr. Edison expressed his views at

his laboratory in Orange, N. J., to hePrincetonian."The college graduate does not

want a job with work in it," continuedthe electrical wizard, "and when hedoes get a position, he expects to be

appointed ioreman at me eiiu m o»jv

weeks. Most men working for me

never attended college. The collegemen I have usually show lack of imagination.They scarcely have anysuggestions to make in their daily routinewhich might load to improvementin the various departments.

"College is no place for a man whowants to work, but, unfortunately,there art very few of this type nowadays.Yet, if a man wants to succeed,it is not necessary for him to go to

|college. He will broaden himself withloutit. We have enough lawyers,doctors and literary men. Also we

have many $100,000 jobs, with no one

capable of filling them. The main

quality for success, in my estimation,is ambition with a will to work."

DEMAND FOR CASCARA

Late Infant Industry Grown to LargeProportions.

A half ."illion dollars was the valueof this season's cascara bark, harvestedby Grays Harbor (Wash.) folk. It

is the peeled leather-like skin of thebarberry tree, stripped by settlers andcity dwellers who spend six weeks each

spring in the swampy forests near IIoquiam.Six years ago this hark gathering

industry was a babe, the few who attemptedto c.ill the peeled bark gettingfrom 3 to 4 crnls per pound for it.not knowing just how to properly cure

and pack it.Then came the drug famine. The

wholesale price which has graduallybeen rising is now 15 cents per poundand skiliful strippers make $10 to $15per day. With a knife an incisionis made near the ground and a pieceof bark once loosened there may be

pulled from the tree upward for tor

to fifteen feet. Taking but a part o!

J the bark does not injure the tree.

. S. S. Hale, chief of police of Williamson,who on May 15. killed Rior

ijCox, was acquitted at Anderson Tues,day, on a plea of self-defense. Tin

jury remained out on the case flv<

hours.

;| CLlEMS MESSAGE»

Tiger ol France Rewlews Situaiion inEurope.

AMERICA DOMIMATES THE SITUATION

Says Militarists of Europe Are PlottingAnother War for the Overthrow cfDemocracy.Germany Making Cannon.Russo-Turkiah CombinationSerious Menace.The militarists in Germany already

are preparing another war. GeorgesClemenceau, war prenierof France, declaredin New York Tuesday night inthe first address of his American tour.

"Don't you read the newspaper?" hedemanded. "Don't you know what thatmeans*"' ,

The Tiger of France, speaking ferventlybefore a packed house at the

Metropolitan opera house, reviewedthe situation in Kurope, pointing to an

approachmcnl of the Turks and SovietRussia as ominous war clouds. ,In the meantime, he declared, Luden-

dorff and other German militarists .

were planning a coup against the i

democratic government. ^Describing the present as a time of

"greatest crisis," he urged that theUnited States should renew conversa-

tions with France and England which,without definitely committing thiscountry to any set program, wouldpresent to German eyes a picture ofthe three unpleasant folks who facedher in the war. <

He said sooner or later America ,

would have to interest herself in the

post-war affairs of Europe, because

she could not continue to be comfort-able and wealthy if Europe was coveredwith blood. ,

lie expressed hope that the UnitedStates might establish a plan as towhat was to be done in carrying outthe terms of the peace treaty and joinwith England and France in imposingit on Germany. i

Frank in Criticism. ,

He was frank in his criticism ofAmerica's post-war attitude, declaring ,

America had had a large share in im

posing the peace terms and had a l.ity (

to see that they were enforced.Challenging the worth of Germany's (

signature to a treaty, the Tiger de-claredthat if France had known in (

1918 that reparations would have been (

unpaid four years later, she would ]have gone on to Berlin. ^The Tiger received a great burst of

applause for the assertion. (

M. CIcmenceau, who protested mat

he camo to America on no official missionbut as a private citizen to presentthe truth as he saw it, declaredthat reparations was an American idea,because President Wilson had come

forward with his famous 14 points andthe armistice represented essentiallythe American point of view. At mentionof Woodrow Wilson there was

another great burst of applause. Expressingthe hope that America couldfind some way of renewing conversationswith France and England lookingtoward enforcement of the peacetreaty, Clemenccau said:

"I don't want to speak of the leagueof nations. But I might, I might."The Tiger said he did not believe in

the league as a means of preventingwar, but he believed in it as a means

of arranging matters, deferring war

and giving people time to think."You have seen one of the greatest

dramas in the world," he said.The Greatest Crisis.

"We are now in the greatest crisis.Nobody knows when it will end andwhat effect European misery may haveon American prosperity."He asked what America had made

war for and what she had gained. Hesaid America had cotre to the lastpoint where she was granted time to

(think. No sacrifice was demanded ofher except the will to assert herself as

,

the people she had vanquished were

unable to do anything just at the prcsient moment.M. Clemenceau, showing little sign

(of fatigue, spoke for nearly an hourand a half.There was only one hit of disturb-

ance. That was when a heckler in the (balcony screamed a few words."Put him out" came cries from variousparts of the house.The speaker never hahed, continuing

as if the heckler had been a mute. TheTiger of France faced his first audi- jence on his tour of America to expoundhis country's post-war needs.To the strains of the Marseillaise

^land "The Star Spangled Banner"Clemenceau, oft time premier of France,who now proclaims himself a simple!"citoycn" stepped upon the stage of |,the Metropolitian opera house andfaced an audience that packed the hugeauditorium from orchestra circle to

topmost gallery.He entered the building by a side

entrance, dodging a crowd that wouldhave filled the auditorium severaltimes over, and that, denied ndmit1tnnee, lingered anyhow in hope of get1tine n 'limnsn nf ttio nietnrosiilio R1

year old statesman.When ho stepped from the wings j

[ there were cheers and cries of "Vivele Tiger" and "Vivo la France," min-gird with the more polite handelapping.Clemenceau took his place behind a

low semi-circle of palms and chrysan1thomums that obscured bis squat fig.ure almost to his waist.» Chair for Simple Citizen.; The chair provided for him was a

small, cane seated affair, appropriate,

as the Tiger said, for "a simple citizen."The management had providede big throne clmir but the Tiger, visitingthe auditorium late in the afternoonfor a final inspection, had orderedit out, declaring it would make him"look like Queen Victoria."Above his l/ead hung a cluster of

amplifying horns to carry his voice totlte big audience.Flags of the'two nations which the

Tiger hopes bjl his tour to weld more

closely, were intertwined over thestage. The fatnous golden horseshoealso was draped in French and Amcri-can colors.

The audience was a select one. Eveningclothes predominated, even in theupper gallariesi An army of plainclothesmen lilted the corridor throughwhich he entoied. Notables on thestage included General Pershing, AlvinOwsley, national commander of theAmerican Legioh; Acting Mayor Hulbert,Maj. Gen. R. L. Bullard, commandantof th<}' Second army corpsarea, and Maj.jpcn. John F. O'Ryan.Clcmenceau aat between Pershing

and John W. Dftvis, chairman, smilingat the cheering audience. When thelpplause that greeted the notedFrenchman ceased, Mme. Peralta of

the Metropolitan, sang a stanza ot

"The Star Spangled Banner." ThenRothier, another Metropolitan artist,9ang the Marseillaise. Clemenceaustood facing the singer, his eyes sparklingwith emotion.John W. Davis, former ambassador

to Great Britain, introduced the war

premier, the grizzled veteran of statecraftwho had a finger in the historyjf the world, as "Le Pere la Victoire."Explaining that the council of foreignrelations, under whose auspices

the meeting was held, believed thatnothing was of more consequence to

the well being of the American peoplethan the relations they entertainedwith distant countries, the chairmanpaid tribute to the service of France

in the World war, and the man who,'when the hearts of men grew faint

in 1S17, breathed fresh life into tnivenryhosts of all the allied armies."Clemenceau began his address with

in allegory in which he contrastedhimself with a Buddhist monk whocalled his disciples together in an

Indian village, a thousand years ago,;o hoar him preach.But instead gf a human voice me

lisciples heard only the golden voice

>f a beautiful bird, perched on a

oranch above the monk. That was

:he sermon.

The "Tiger" expressed regret that hecould not thus convey his messagevithout speaking, saying "in fact youmay have heard It, I came here on

jurpose for that."First he said, he wanted to say he

vas "more accustomed to grinning'aces than the smiling faces of ladles"ind that on this night he was "rather,ilthough it has not happened very)ften.rather timid."

"Really Wonderful Welcome."Then he expressed his gratitude for

he "really wonderful welcome which I

lave met in this country which is mostmarvelous since only 57 years ago I

:ame fresh from the imperial Jails of

Napoleon III to find there was anothervay of living and a much better way."As an immigrant he brought to this

:ountry a fresh outlook but he said helid not know "whether it had been apireciated,"that he had never been assuredas much. He has looked aroundn America and "learned what Europelad not taught me.to help myself.""And now, like the pupil who comes

>ack to his teacher, who had gainedxpericnce, I come back and it is very

liffcrcnt," he continued. "I come hackvith changed ideas and to express myhanks for the good practical educationhat I received."He came, he said, "with the Americanspirit and ready lo find fault in

lifferent ways."I must confess that I did not find

is many faults as I expected. Andoday, having been taught through independence,I am trying to find adLice.I have no mission; I did notomc with a mission from anybody."Clemenceau sat in his "pleasant Utilehouse by the sea" in his native

country and there lie said, "I heardhere had been bad words for France.

[ did not like that at all."At the same time there came peopleand hard critics, one a very distinguishedEnglishman, and I said

'Well, now, if England misjudgesFrance, and the Americans misjudgeFrance, what are we going to do? Ihad better go and sec what is thematter,'"Thus, he said, he left France "withoutreally knowing whether I was goingto plead against you or to defend

you."In a challenging rumble, the "Tiger"

then dared "any one to te'i me that Ihave a personal end in this trip toAmerica and that I purpose any design,political, personal or any kind."

' * n oen»>*»xrl 1*/-* Un /I Knnn luttV)ill lUtl, iiu aooi;i iuu, 11 u imu uuvu nv* v

long enough to decide he "was not goingto have much trouble in establishinga basis of common thought on a

very important matter." Of the oppositionin France to his visit, he said:"When a man with his own naturetries to aim as high as he can it is

encouraging to hear the raging shrieksfrom below." He came provided withsuch encouragement, he declared.America and France, he said, "have

a great deal in common in some ofthe greatest events" seen in war. Andhe expressed particular pleasure in

(Continued on Fage Six)

FAMES TRIAL TODAYNoted Clover Case Is Set For Trial

Friday Morning.PLEA OF "NOT GUILTY" ENTERED

Alleged Slayer of Four One of CoolestMen in Courthouse When ArraignedWednesday.Farics Looks AroundCourt Room for Friends and Kindred.Crowd Leaves Following Plea, ApparentlySatisfied for Timo Being.Calm and collected, his gaze taking

in the entire court room from thejudge's bench to the front entrance,one of the coolest men in the Yorkcounty courthouse when he was

lirrmirht in shnrtlv hefnre noon Wed-

nesday to answer an indictment charginghim with the murder of little NewtonTaylor, aged 12 at Clover on

September 6, last, was William C.Furies. A little over 60 years of age,grizzled and gray, with a clear, blueeye, his general carriage and demeanorinforming 'he world that so far as

moral or physical fear is concerned,he knows it not, Faries came into thecourt room in charge of several deputies,his wrists manacled. He bowedhis head in the direction of his handcuffedwrists as he strode into thecourt room in charge of his keepersand there appeared just the shadow ofa smile on his whitened face as helooked at his bound wrists. There was

no threat in that look. There was

nothing that would warrant the suggestionthat ne even entertained theslightest semblance of an idea of tryingto escape from custody.He took a seat among several negro

prisoners who sat in the row of seatsJust inside the enclosure reserved forcourt attaches. Attired in a coat ofdark grey texture and trousers of

lighter gray material, he held his blackslouch hat in his hand. He wore a

dark blue work shirt and he had hotie. People who have known him foryears say he was never in the habitof wearing a tie.As soon as he had gotten his bearingsin the court room it appeared as

though he wanted to look around tosee who was there. He wanted to sec

those of his own folks, it seemed, whowere there. Asi his glance went to thefront door of the courthouse he musthave seen James M. Taylor,.four mem-uers ui wnuae iciiiiuy nu ia uiuikcu

with slaying. It would appear that hecould not have missed the glance ofthe bereaved parent. Taylor is an unusuallytall man of dark complexion.His is a gaze of unusual piercing andconcentrating continuity. He had beenunable to obtain a seat and he andFaries must have exchanged glanceswhen the alleged slayer glanced backthat way.

Indictment ReadThen Solicitor Monroe Spears in his

brisk and straight-to-the-point manner,proceeded with the reading of theindictment charging the defendant withthe murder of Newton Taylor. Thesolicitor had hardly concluded withthe words: "What say you, William C.Faries, are you guilty of the murderwhereof you stand indicted or notguilty?" before Faries spoke out: "Notguilty of wilful murder."Nothing more was said publicly by

the prisoner. There was nothing more

for him to say. He looked at hiscounsel, mutely asking, "what is nextto say?"And there was no answer to his

question.Trial Set for Friday.

Then Solicitor Spears wanted toknow if the defense would be ready togo to trial Thursday. Thos. F. McDow,chief counsel for the defense repliedthat the prisoner would be readyto answer Friday morning at 9:30o'clock. Defense counsel, however,reserved the right to make any motionsin the interval that might beadvisable.

Taken Back to Jail.Then Faries was released from the

prisoner's dock where he had been arraignedand again for a few momentstook his seat among the swarthy,stenchy, negro prisoners. In a fewmoments. Deputy Sheriff Tom Quinninformed him that ho was ready totake him back to jail.

It appeared that it was all the same

to Faries. He held up his wrists together.The handcuffs were againadjusted and in company of deputieslie walked back to jail. The largecrowd which was present principallybecause of the fact that they expectedsomething to be said about the Fariesmatter, appeared to be satisfied and ashe left by the rear door, they left bythe front door, apparently satisfiedwith events for the time being.Numerous other cases engaged the

attention of the court during Wednesdaybut there was no case to hold thegeneral interest of the crowd who hadgathered for the Faries case; most ofwhom with others are expected to bpback again Friday morning when itwill again engage the attention of t"hccourt for a little while whether it istried or not.

Will Plea Be Insanity?In view of the fact that Faries

promptly denied the charge of wilfulmurder when indicted Wednesday,there was considerable speculationyesterday as to whether the defensewould stick to the plea of insanity as

already outlined. It was suggested

yesterday that the defense would probablyrely on a verdict of manslaughteror at worst, guilty with recommendationto mercy, which carries a life sentence.

SHIP SUBSIDY IS NECESSARY.

President Says That ths Withholdingof Help Means Loss.

Enactment of the administrationmarine bill was urged upon congressTuesday by President Harding as necessaryto relieve the government ofpresent "staggering losses" in operationof the war-built merchant fleet, and toestablish a program of assured shippingto serve the nation in war andgive a guaranty of commercial independencein time of peace.Personally addressing a joint session

of the house and senate the executivedeclared an actual monetary saving tothe government would result from theproposed law. He challenged everyinsinuation of favored interests andthe enriching of the special few at theexpense of the public treasury. Thelegislation, he asserted, automaticallyguarded against enrichment or perpetualbestowal.

"If success attends, as we hope itwill," he added, "the government outlayis returned, the1 inspiration of opportunityto earn remains and Americantransportation by sea is maintained."

Foreigners Anxious.The president said concern about

the American merchant marine policywas not limited to "our own domain,"adding that the maritime nations of theworld were "in oomplete accord withthe opposition here to the pendingmeasure." He declared those nationshad a perfect right to such an attitude,but that he wished to stress theAmerican viewpoint, which, he said,should be the viewpoint "from whichone sees American carriers at sea, thedependence of American commerce,and American vessels for Americanreliance in the event of war/'Mr. Harding declared it would be

most discouraging if a measure of"such transcending national importance"must have its fate depend upongeographical, occupational, professionalor partisan objection. A commercialeminence on the seas and ample agenciesfor the promotion in carrying ofAmerican pommerce, he asserted, were

of no less importance to the people ofthe Mississippi and Missouri valleys,the great Northwest and the RockyMountain states than to the seaboardstates and industrial communities inland.

"It is a common cause, with its benefitscommonly shared," he said.If government aid is a fair term to

apply to authorization, aggregating*vo,uuu,uuu 10 promote gooa roaas ior

market highways, the president added,it is equally fit to be applied tothe establishment ai'd maintenance ofAmerican market highways on the"salted sens." As to present governmentoperation of the shipping boardfleet, Mr. Harding said, there was theunavoidable task of wiping out a fiftymillion dollar annual loss and lossesaggregating "many hundreds of millions"in worn out, sacrificed or scrappedshipping. He called attention thatthe government ships were being worn

out without any provision for replacementand that a program of surrenderand sacrifice and the liquidation which,he declared, would cost scores of millions.The cost of the proposed legislation,giving the direct aid, he said,with ocean carrying maintained at thepresent average, would not reach $20,000,000a year and the maximum directaid if American shipping were so promoted'thatit carried one-half the nation'sdeep sea commerce would notexceed thirty millions annually.

GHOULS WRECK CEMETERY.

Tombstones Broken That Had Stoodfor Years.

Complete wrecking of the Mill CreekCatholic cemetery, near Wadswojrth,111., by ghoulish vandals has aroused a

storm of Indignation in northwesternLake county. Scarcely a tombstonehas been left standing. Many of themhave been broken. Religious fanaticsare believed to be responsible.A rural mail carrier, passing the

cemetery one day last week, was thefirst to discover the vandalism. He reportedto officials of Wadsworth andalso of St. Patrick's Catholic church,of which Father J. B. Foley is pastor.There was a hur ied investigation.

The destruction scarcely could havebeen more complete had the littlecemetery, established more than seventy-fiveyears ago, been visited by an

earthquake. Many of the old tombstonesthat have defied the elementsfor many decades were broken. Eventhe larger stones were pushed off theirbases. There are indications thatsledge hammers were used.The first theory was that the van-

dalism was committed by boys, butthis is not given much credence, be-cause many of the monuments were

too heavy to have been overturned byyoungsters. Also, the investigatorsbelieve that the natural fear of boyswould prevent them from entering a

cemetery after dark.The police are working on the case,

but up tc the present time have beenunable to obtain a clew. Authoritiesagree that it is the worst piece of vandalismever perpetrated in Lake county.. Women and children constitute 42per cent of all immigrants to theUnited States.

Illl Willi III IIHl.B

PLAYERS DISQUALIFIEDCatawba High School Athletic Asso

elation Cleans House. IDOUGLAS N1MS ELIGIBLE TO DEC. 22Had Received Money for Playing

Baseball Previous to Formation ofAssociation.Cases of Steele, ScHultxand Tollison Reviewed.The housecleaning so long needed In

the Catawba High School AthleticAssociation because of the playing ofalleged ineligible men by Chester andRock Hill was done thoroughly at a

meeting of the football committee ofthe utntn a o<cnr»i» t inn hold in Andf>l*ilOH 'J9

Wednesday. Player Douglas Nims,star half hack of the Rock Hill teamwas "whitewashed" in a measure bythe committee, although it was shownthat Nims had received money for engagingin athletic contests on a numberof occasions. He got by on theground that he had not f>layed formoney since the association was organized.The following dispatch fromAnderson of Wednesday, tells of theaction of the committee:The football committee of the South

Carolina high school league met at the ;high school here this afternoon to (decide on the eligibility of certainplayers on the Rock Hill and Chesterhigh school teams. J. D. Fulp, superintendentof the Abbeville schools, chairmanL. L. Wright, superintendent ofthe Honea Path school and L. L. Hanna,principal of the Anderson highschool, the members of this committee,were all present.The first case taken up was that of

Douglas Nims, a player of the RockHill high school, whose eligibility toplay on a football team in the stateleague was questioned because of havingreceived money for playing sum-

mer baseball. The mass of evidence 5|submitted, pro and con, did show thatKims had from time to time received Ismall amounts of money for playing Iwith the Fort Mill cotton mill team s

during 1921 and 1922, but not sufficient |amounts to prove^ to the committee be- 8yond a reasonable doubt that more Ithan expenses were received by Nlrae. IThere was produced on orders from §the manager of the Fort Mill team in |1920 on the treasurer of the team or- 3derlng the treasurer to pay Douglas jjjNlms 130 for three games and Nlms |acknowledged both the order and cancelledchecks further fulfilling tne paymentof the amount, but in view ofthat fact this transaction took place in1920, prior to the adoption of the highschool league constitution, the committeeruled that the constitution was

not retroactive and this evidence couldnot be admitted. The committee, thereforedeclared Douglas Kims eligible toplay with Rock Hill until December22, 1922, when he becomes 21 year* of .

age.J. D. Fulp asked to be excused from

acting on Kims' case, as both are nativesof Fort Mill, and have been more

or less closely associated for a numberof years. JThe next case taken up was that of

William Steele, of the Rock Hill school,formerly captain of the WlnlhropTraining school team. Steele attendedthe training school for five days, thefirst week of school, was made captainof the football team, registered on

morning of the fifth day of school withRock Hill high school, yet attendedthe training school the same day. Itwas a clear case of double registrationand as Steele did not enroll in the RockHill school the first week of school thecommittee declared him an ineligibleplayer prior to October 25, so the

games played by Rock Hill before thisdate, in which Steele pari-rlpated, were

thrown out by the committee. Thegames thrown out were* with Port Milland Kershaw. In the case of GlennO. Schultz, of the Rock Hill school,alleged to be over 21 years of "age, thecommittee uccepted without questionthe affidavit submitted by the boy'smother, stating that Schultz was 20

years of age on November 6, 1922. TheWinthrop Training school's protest ofthe game with Yorkville last Friday.was turned down by the committee.This was a protest on a decision of thereferee relative to an off-side and thecommittee, as usual, ducided that If a

team assents to certain officials beforethe game starts they must abide bytheir decisions.The case of Herman Tollison, of

Chester high school, who was reportedto the committee as being ineligiblebecause he was receiving board andsimilar compensation in Chester, was

taken up next. The committee appreciatedSuperintendent Brockman's removalof Tollison from the Chesterteam the same day he received word/».. A/tmmUtAA hot Tnlllann'o in_II UII1 Ull* WUHillllUVt kliUV A V«»«vu w

eligibility was doubtful but in view ofthe fact that Tollison admitted to superintendentBrockman that he did notknow who was paying his board, thecommittee ruled that the games inwhich Tollison participated were

thrown out. They were with Fort MTU,York and Clinton, Any further penaltyto these teams will have to come fromthe executive committee of the leaguewhich has the power by a two-thirdsvote to suspend Rock Hill and Chesterfrom the league under the provis-ions of article 12 of the constitution.

* * A. Pennsylvania's League of WomenVoters has a membership exceeding30,000.

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