Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-24
Scraps and faets.

vi O0O,olV III
ON the roll July l, 1926 less than Il
year ago. Payments to Civil war pen
sioners during the ear totalled $l56,-
66S,77l, compared with S172,4lI,540 IN
1914. Pension office records show the
total death toll since the close OF the
war has been 1,S16,995. In that period
the Federal government has PAID 10
veterans, their widows and children
$4,614,643,267.
"A German estimate Of the physical
results of the first year of h Europ-
can wal was received by the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce last
Wednesday in a report from the
American association OF Commerce
and Trade of Berlin. The report sala:
TT is Of interest at the close OF the
first war year to record the amount
Of hostile territory occupied by the
belligerents. In regard to prisoners
taken, only German data Is available.
The territory occupied by the Allies
consists Of: In Galicia, 1851 square
miles. in Alsace Lorraine, 400 square
miles, a total Of 1926 square miles.
This territory is about the size or the
state Of Connecticut. The territory
occupied by the central powers con-
sists Of: In Belgium, 11,l97 square
miles; in France, S,10S square miles,
in Russia, 50,193 square miles; a total
of 69, 49S square miles. This territory
is about the size Of the state or MIS-,
souri, and about one-third the size OF
the German empire" The estimate
fixed the number Of prisoners taken
by the central powers at 1,694,S6s, OF
which $3.50 are officers, and the num-
Der Of guns captured at 5000 field
pieces and 5000 machine guns.
The commission on industrial re-
lations, after two years of work. says
a Washington dispatch, was unable TO
agree on any programme of social
legislation to be submitted to congress.
The life Of the commission expired on
August %. Two reports have been
prepared-a majority report signed by
the three representatives Of the capital
and by Prof. John r. Commons and
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman and a mi
nority report signed by Chairman r.
P. walsh and three representatives
of labor. One Of the rocks on Whlcn
the commission was hopelessly split
was a recommendation in the report
drafted by Chief Of Staff Basil M.
Manley and fostered by Chairman
Walsh that congress enact laws con-
fscating, upon inheritance, all great
fortunes in excess OF $1,000, QUO. In
other words, Mr.. Walsh and the three
labor members Of the commission
proposed to forbid heirs Of wealthy
Americans from inheriting more than
5 ,OO0,0 900 from any n estate: All
in excess would go to the Federal gov
eminent. Prof. Commons, Mrs. Har-
riman and the three OF tne
commission representing employers,
refused to give serious consideration to
such a proposal.
The killing of three wild ducks by
Harvey c. Shaver Of Arkansas, Is to
be made the basis for seeking a su-
preme court decision OIL the constitu-
tionality Of the Federal law authoriz-
ing the department Of agriculture to
regulate the killing Of migratory wild
game. Although the law was enacted
in 1907, this is the first case involv-
ing it's validity to reach the supreme
court. Shaver killed the ducks on a
day prohibited by the department,
but when the government sought to
prosecute him, the Federal district
court in Arkansas held the law to be
an unwarranted interference by the
Federal government with powers In
vested in the states. On Wednesday ne
filed a brief in the supreme court at
lacking the law. The brief to be filed
within the next three weeks. There
is no decision by any court, Federal or
state, that supports a Federal right OF
property, in migratory game" Shau-
ver's attorney urges in his brlef, ana
there is nothing in the Federal con-
stitution authorizing congress to as
sumo superintendency, authority or
control over such. Game and fish, by
the English common law were the
property Of the crown, and in the sew
eral states Of the United States they
a-o tho nrNnnrfy Of cIINh CtatpC and the
states individually may exclusively
control their taking in the same nan
ner as it may control any Of its prop
erty."
Economic conditions in Germany
after one year Of war are described IN
a report compiled by the American
association Of Trade and Commerce in
Berlin and received last Tuesday at
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce. 1t says the financial record
has shown the results Of rigid or
g~anization and discipline" n draws
particular attention to the fact that
Germany has raised $2,25O, 600, 600 IN
war loans, and the Imperial Reich
bank has accumulated a gold reserve
Of $500, 600, 900. The change of the
entire economic activity from its peace
conformation to one of val, says the
report, has with the aid Of the Reichs-
bank taken place rapidly and tho
roughly. The establishment Of the
official loan banks and credit institu-
tions has provided credit accommoda-
ton in abundant measure. 1t is sig
nificant that in the past war year,
when Germany was not only in a mill
tary, but also in an economic sense
confronted with superiority of hostile
forces, the issue Of industrial securi-
H. 80 90 N fnA PnCldaG
the official new corporations, organized
as purely war measures, quite a num-
Der of new corporations having no
wal connection have been established.
Many existing concerns have increaS-
ed their capital stock. From the out
break of the war up to August l, 1915,
altogether 1925, 900, 900 have been in
vested in new and existing industrial
undertakings, as against new ssues
of $3.50, 000, 900 in 1913. During the
month Of July, 1915, $40, 000, 900 were
invested in industrial undertakings.
This result is ov~erShadowed by the
amounts reached in subscription for
the war loans, as after seven weeks Of
war, 81, 125, 600, 900 were paid in, and af-
ter nine war months $3.50, 900, 900 had
been paid. The enlarged field Of the
Reichsbank activity was followed by e
healthy strengthening Of the gold
cover, and at the end Of the war year
the gold cover reached $500, 600, 900,
as against 1912, 900, 900 on July 81, 1914.
- Charlotte Observer, Wednesday:
IF the presidential election were held
tomorrow, l am persuaded that Wood
row Wilson would be reelected by the
largest majority that any chief exc
cutive ever received" declared Con-
gresham E. Y. Webb of Shelby, yes
terday, who is spending several days in
the city with friends. The discussion
centered about the national situation
apropos the great struggle abroad and
it's multitude of veXatiOus diplomatic
questions arising therefrom, and Mr..
Webb paid a high tribute to President
Wilson. The manner in which he
has held true the ship of state on an
even keel, varying neither to the right
nor to the left, mid h shoals Of in
tricate diplomatic tangles, has been
the admiration of all disinterested
persons and the great statesmen Of the
world. If the war should close tomor-
low, his would be the one figure in
this country looming large upon the
worlds horizon. And you tell me that
his fellow citizens would turn him