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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-05-25


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Z ascQmpany manuscript. Ga,us ars u 'n"A' -
s The time draws near
We bithely wait
To greet the sweet
Girl graduate.
Meet your friends in Pickens June 8.
If George Washington could only see
us now!
We know q Parrott who is not green
and doesn't cuss.
Cheer up, fellows; every day'll be
payday by and by.
Has anyone seen that there feller
Pancho Villa loafng around the Texas
border lately?
There may be better people than
Pickens county people, but we don't
know where they are.
Some peoples style of religion allows
them to do things which an ordinary
mans conscience will not let him do.
We notice by the North Carolina pa
pers that there was some sort of a
celebration in the town of Charlotte
last Saturday.
cold COL Aftermath in Six Reels. -
York News. But how is the Colonel
going to get six reels out of four days
reeling unless he doubles up?
Press dispatches say Congressman
Aiken has blood poisoning in his foot.
4 prominent citizen says he's afraid it
will interfere with his running.
We suspect the entertainment COM
mittee of the press convention in York
next month will have to build room
around that there feller COL Joe Sparks.
The date for the meeting Of the Press
Association has been changed from
June 1915 to June I'll. I'll does
sound little more euphonious, doesn't
it?
Some people say there is no such thing
as luck, but it takes pluck to win sue
cess. But according to the dictionary
luck constitutes about four -fifths o.
pluck.
Another pathetic little incident O
everyday life, if Colonel Aftermath will
allow us, is the way some people wan
to be the conscience of the entire com
munity.
Some people are powerful wasteful
Now there's that Watson Bell of the
York News wanting another shirt. What
did he do with that speckled shirt the
good people of York gave him last
summer?
II Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin
IS dead sot'' on running for some Of
nee in order that he may have chance
to blow his on bazoo, let him 20 over te
Oconee and stand for coroner. We un
derstand that job about fits his descrip
tion of the lieutenant t-governorship.
Charlotte Observer wonders 'wha
would the paragraph crew do withou
their old stock phrase of what has be
come of the old d-fashioned-?' Why
neighbor, they would be compelled t,
do as many of our brightest exchange
do-use those wooden affairs whicI
come by freight.
We received two letters last weel
a. -
Evening star., 1916-10-01

eight or ten great transportation sys-
TENS. Control Of separate roads in a
system is obtained in several ways.
All of the stock may be bought. or only
certain proportion of the stock may
be purchased in the open market or
privately. from its owners. Again, a
line may be leased or practically taken
over under some arrangement as to
traffic.
Should the large corporations ac-
tually own all the tracks within their
organizations? is question that needs
to be answered. The combination of
small roads into large ones is desira BILE
and necessary. but it has been done
without proper control in many in
stances and law should recognize and
scrutinize all such adventures in the
future. There are still other items in
the program of the committee. In
word. we aim to learn what the rail-
roads need and should do adequately
to serve the public.
Congress has directed the commit
tee to report on or before the second
Monday in January. More time will be
required. 1 hope. however. that we
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The bonds could run to their maturi-
ties.
'In round figures, the railroads have
$4,000, 100000 of bonds and $4,000, ,000.0 900
of stock outstanding. 1t it unnecessary
to consider the bonds. They can re-
main as a charge upon the property. as
I have said, and need not be purchased
by the nation. AS they mature other
bonds, if that is desirable, can be is
sued in their stead.
Control of the property of the rail-
roads could be obtained simply by pur-
chasing their shares-the condemnation
would not be required. Only the shares
would need to be condemned-that is,
the owners, by law of Congress, would
be compelled to sell to the government.
The Panama railroad was bought by
the nation in that way and the pro-
ceeding, as / remember, was approved
by all the lawyers in the Senate.
81 am not saying that government
ownership would be wise at this time
or at any other time. ] am merely eX-
planning that it could be brought about
without much difficulty. Our commit
tee may take up the subject in detail
We intend to seek information from
the managers of railroads, from ship
pers, financiers and railway employees.
Owners of transportation securities
have become alarmed over the situation
and it is difficult for railroads to get
new money for extensions and other
ayers themselves, in describing their
troubles, have been SO emphatic and
impressive that they have frightened
their stockholders.
Railway bonds and shares ought to
be as safe as the bonds of the national
government and of the states. They
should be popularized and eagerly
sought by the rich and the poor alike,
but before that can be brought about
it will be necessary to regulate rail-
road capitalization.
Immense sums of money are needed
for new tracks and enlarged terminals.
When business is good and there are
crops to be moved, our transportation
system fails to functionate up to the
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may be prepared early next year to
state the facts and give our conclu-
sions on some phases of the trans
portation question, or at least to report
what we have learned. along with our
recommendations. as to the issuance Of
railway securities"
The other members of the committee
are: Joseph Taylor Robinson. senator
from Arkansas and a former governor
of his state; Oscar w. Underwood. SEN
ator from Alabama and the writer of
the tariff law bearing his name; Albert
Baird Cummns, senator from Iowa.
once railroad lawyer: Frank Bos-
worth Brandegee, senator from Con-
necticut and graduate of Yale; Will
liam Charles Adamson, representative
from Georgia and the author of the
recent eight-hour law: Thetus Will
rette Sims. representative from Ten
nessee: John Jacob Esch. representa-
tive from Wisconsin and a railroad
specialist; William Allen Cullop. rep
resentative from Indiana. and Edward
LaRue Hamilton, representative from
Michigan.
Copyright, 1916. by James B. MorTow)
Evening star., 1916-10-01
Before We are really
ochOoleA We must be ruled
and f0oled-cheated and
defeated. Through pain
we grow sane.
=f1erbert Kaufman's Weekly Message
Quit It!!.

E will lose all the ground we've gained and waste the
Wv profits of the past years don't quit this
seasonabe unreasonable squabbng Yankee
and adjust the differences which have suddenly sprung
up between labor and capital
This is hod-together, holdup time. similar op-
pounity to grasp control of international trade will
reoccur Keep busy The money is coming way-a lit
tie while longer and we'll accumulate surplus which will
warrant Americas prosperity for the century
We must strengthen ourselves for the inevitable industrial
challenge which will follow upon the close of the For
egn labor urged by hand necessities directed
powerful bunds, societies and alliances will url its
placaberanks against us-w neither efforts
hours-nor
strike in the harvest field means ruined crop. Big
headed employers and gheaded employees imper the full
fllment of mightiest promise.
First, last and always mutual corporator-n-
terdependen Duties may vary with capacity but
aim denca|to make the for and each other
The very state itself device for communal seshness.
Something out of ker up top when bodies of workers
and their chiefs both sides amicably
derstandngs
If the incapable the head of afairs-out with
them.
Both factions in the wrong when great interests
trucke the of struggle likely engage all the
sources of the country.
The wealth that poured into Rome destroyed her unity and
invited the nvasions which could have been readily epeed
by sngepurposed populace
Deadocks merely enervate the opposing groups The in
of ideess disspates such that funds
unavailable satisfy the demands of side furnish
cent capital for the entrepreneur his business
its previous scaleeverybody loses in the end. The fight
way is not the right way to insure prosperity.
Evening star., 1916-10-01
BY JAMES B. MORROW.

E1EN lawyers from ten states
seasoned lawyers. the youngest
of whom is fifty-two and the
q eldest sixty-eight years of age
are getting ready to make legal
and financial survey of all the rail-
roads in the country.
They purpose, if plans are carried
through. thoroughly to learn every fact
ard every deIusion pertaining to the
transportation question. Politically. the
division is six democrats and four re-
publicans. Five are senators and five
are members of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
At their head and chief over all. be-
cause he is the chairman of their COM
mittee, is Francis Griffith Newlands of
Nevada, transportation statesman, if
there ever was one in America, whose
studies of the freight problem, whether
the carriage is done on land or water,
have begun at its roots and extended
upward and outward into all of its
Evening star., 1916-10-01
Washimgtom's Domed Buildings.

built the astronomers at the observa-
tory We're called in consultation with
the architects to calculate the meas
uremepts for the different pieces, as
very intricate mathematical computa-
tions were necessary.
x *
These are Washington's three ON
cial domes. In addition to them are
several church domes of large di-
mensions and varying ornateness. The
Jewish synagogues of the city give a
Byzantine touch to the capitals archi-
tectural horizon The synagogue at
the corner of 9th and 1 streets has the
true Arabian dome. The Eighth Street
Temple is adorned with smaller domes,
which do not actually rank as domes,
but are correctly designated as cupo-
las.
st. Matthews Roman Catholic
Church, on Rhode Island avenue, has
a very large dome; in fact, it is Il fea-
ture of the northwestern part of the
city. Its shape is somewhat analogous
to that of the dome on st. Peters
Church at Rome. With the exception
of the synagogue. it is the only church
in the city SO elaborately adorned.
The Franciscan Monastery at Brook
land provides an example of the dome
that is to be found the famous St
Sofia Mosque at Constantinople OF
course. it is well known that this
mosque was built when Constantinople
was the capital of the eastern Roman
empire, and was used as a cathedral
before the Turks converted it to their
purposes. The dome on the monastery
is ovoid in shape, and, unlike the true
Saracenic dome, Is not mounted with
a spire or fianked with minarets
Domes in churches are a fayorite
feature over the crossing of the nave
ana the tranSeptS, and they are dis
tinctly a characteristic of the renais-
sance style. They present many prob
lens of construction, though their
chief utilitarian purpose in any build
ing is to give light. They present so
many opportunities for the display OF
ornaments that they are used today
almost solely for beauty and not for
use
Evening star., 1916-10-01
The Stuhing.

~OL ROOSEVELT was condemninr n
" nature faker at a luncheon at
Oyster Bay.
Why" said Col Roosevelt. his eyea
flashing with scorn behind his glasses
"why. this nature faker is as ignorant
of animals as HanS Hurlingham was
Hank Hurlingham once visited the
Natural History Museum. The curator
said to him:
This collection of stuffed animals
that you see here is worth hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars.
lis that so?' said Hank. why. VAaA
the dickens are they stuffed wfthf&
Evening star., 1916-10-01
Magdal@m

TONIGHT I walk in the Dusk of Shame;
Is mine the blame
That may not return BY the road came2
You, who stand pitiless at the gate,
Deaf dumb and blind in your Puritan hate,
What can you know of the life lead?
What can you know of the tears | bleed,
When the wolves of anguish, full fanged, feed
When the daggers OF Memory dig and hack
And Conscience stands at the torturer's racko
Evening star., 1916-10-01

"And proper regulation, in my view,
must emanate from power that is
sufficient in itself to compel obedience
and measure out justice. With dozen
states and the nation all making laws
applicable to a single railway, there
are bound to follow inconsistencies,
evasions and abuses. The national in
corporation of railroads would also end
their activities in politics and, l go so
far as to say, would give the country
the benefits. if there are any, of gov
ernment ownership without any of it's
dangers"
But what would become of those per-
sons who own the bonds and shares Of
railway corporations:
mo attempt would be made to raid
the property of railroad investors"
Senators Newlands answered. THE
value of their securities should not be
impaired or destroyed. Nor would 1t
be. were the railroads given national
charters On the contrary, investors
would gain. and the public would gain,
because there would be unity of control.
simplicity, of organization, certainty OF
values, and, possibly, of dividends.
ment of taxes and an automatic reduc-
tion in freight rates.
Our lack of a systematiZed method of
controlling transportation increases it's
cost. The increase comes in various
ways, some of which are obvious. Com
plexity is invariably more expensive
than simplicity Take, for example,
our taxing processes. Forty-eight states
and the national government are taxing
the railroads of the country. The as
sessment in some states is based on the
value of the tracks and right of way.
while in other states the franchise, or
right to do business. is added to the
assessment.
ELSEWHERE it is argued that the total
market value of the bonds and shares,
as fixed on a certain day in Wall street,
really establishes just assessment for
taxation purposes. Indeed. the railroads
never know how much they are to pay
next year or the year after, and thus
uncertainty tends to keep up the rates
on freight.
'If the actual cost of transportation
were known. and the cost would in
clude operation. maintenance. interest,
dividends and taxes. 1t would not take
long to ascertain what the railroads
should charge for the services they per-
form. As 1t is, under forty -eight diff
ferent systems. taxes may constantly
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To Make Legal and Financial Survey of Railr0a

and ended at state lines? 1t would be
impossible.
logically, then. railroa Is should be
legalized under proper restraints as to
capitalization and profits and by the
only sovereign, the national govern
ment, capable of dealing with them and
the transportation question. This
would not be 'centralization,' but
'unionization.'
'In the past l believed that the ma
tional government could and should
control commerce between the states,
but that the states ought to control
Evening star., 1916-10-01

fiuctuate, and thus constitute an un-
certain factor in rate determination.
And therefore the railroads are still
in politics." was asked.
ITO certain extent" Senator New
lands replied. 1T is utterly impossible
for them entirely to stay out OF pom
tics. Their property is between the up
per and neither millstones. and can be
ground to destruction between the rate
regulating power and the tax-taklng
power of the public.
Railroad officers are the guardians
and managers of sixteen billions of
property They must protect it and use
it wisely. They cannot stay out of
politics so long as forty eight states
are legislating restrictions on and are
taxing their property. 1 would keep
them out of politics by providing fair
and uniform system of taxation that
would be computable at all times and
would leave nothing to the discretion
of taxing officers. Nor would the states
lose any money by the change.
THE prices of merchant a manu-
facturer are governed by. the cost of
the goods he sells or makes. In all
lines. except in transportation. the as
certainment of costs has been refined
so that they can be figured down to the
fraction of a cent. When costs are not
known definitely, the seller. unwilling
to take chances, adds to, rather than
subtracts from right and defensible
price. Freight charges, in my opinion.
would come down of themselves were
our transportation system scientifically
adjusted to the facts. When that is
done. the railroads will disappear from
politics."
Gould the national government es
tablish a rate of taxation for rail-
roads?"
Under a national Incorporation law
Congress could prescribe a rule of tax
alton that would be uniform through
out the states on railroads chartered by
the federal government. A railroad
thus Incorporated would become a ma
tional instrumentality. The taxes, how
ever. could be collected by the states.
Some Of my party friends may say
that l am departing from ancient doc
trine and urging a Capitalization Of
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The committee, indeed, was created
by Congress at the suggestion of Sena-
tor Newlands, who says, as he has been
saying for many years, that the prop
er organization of a system of trans
portation is just as essential to the
welfare of the people as is the creation
of proper financial system"
No such system, he declares, exists at
present or ever has existed in the
United States. The situation now can
be likened to slovenly factory, with
wheels out of alignment, pulleys broken
and leaks in the Office as well as in the
roof.
Transportation by rail-" Senator
Newlands said to the writer. ''is at
skies and sevens. We are hauling more
freight than any other country In the
world, but we are not doing the work
scientifically. Terminals are choked
and tracks are congested whenever
there is a boom in business. Every man
pays for freightage. His coat. hat and
shoes, his butter. milk and bread are
brought to him by the railroads We
have good tracks. sound bridges, pow
erful locomotives and wonderfully able
and energetic railway managers, but
the system Is not as efficient az 1t
should be.
'sfhe transportation instrumentali-
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wv AsHINGToN possesses an unusual
Wv number of domed buildings. The
student or lover of architecture finds here
not only a great many but a great va
riety of domes 1t is extraordinary that
examples of all the donles of the favorite
schools of architecture are grouped within
the limits of this city. And such examples
as they are. One Of them alone would be
sufficient domical adornment for even the
nations capital.
Needless to say. the Capitol dome is
Washington's dome par excellence. Its
size alone gives it pre-eminence, and its
beauty ranks it among the great domes
Of the world The framework of this dome
is Of iron and it weighs nearly 100000
pounds.
The keynote of its impressiveness is its
massiveness: its curving sides, encirciing
rows of columns, vari-snaped windows
and graceful segmental ornamentations
will always be only adjuncts to its inn
pressive feature-its size. In height the
Capitol dome reaches 2s7 feet INTO the
air: its greatest diameter is 135 feet.
Thomas Walter was its designer and
executor. and it was erected at a cost of
$1OO0OOO 1t represents the last portion
TO be added to the building. Seventy-two
iron brackets and ribs bolt and screw it
almost into rigidity. Allowance, Of course.
had to be made for contraction and ex-
pansion with the f1uctuation in tempera-
ture, for the dome, like the Monument,
SwayS to and fro.
Washington's most beautiful dome sur
mounts the Library Of Congress. This has
a diameter Of 100 feet. making it almost
as large as that Of the Capitol; but, Off
hand, one would certainly say that 1t is
a much smaller dome. This is due to its
shape The Library dome is an Italian re-
naissance type and is flattehed spherical
vault 1t is built Of stucco applied to a
framework of iron and steel. niied IN Wltn
terra Gotta The domed roof is sheathed
with copper and over this is laid the coat
ing of gold leaf, twenty-three carats nne
AS far as ornamentation goes, this dome
is the most exquisite in the United States:
The interior walls are superoiy panied
and adorned with arabeSques-
The National Museum posseSse dome
neither huge nor extremely ornate; yet
It Is one Of the most pleasing domes to
the architectural eye that is found in the
city. It recalls the dome on the Pantheon
at Rome in the matter OF contour they
are quite similar.
connects the three main divisions of
the museum exhibit-the geological
chronological and geological. 1t Is con-
structed of tile, covered on the ex-
terror with fine quality of slate.
Each row Of this slate. from the outer
edge OF the dome to the eye, at the
top. had to be exactly cut to flt the
spaces.
At the time the museum was being
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measure of our prosperity. There would
be no lack of capital for the improve
ment of our railroads if the people be-
lieyed railway bonds and shares to be
safe and solid investments. Our COM
mittee. possibly, may open the way for
the restoration of confidence in that
direction.
"Other matters, also, must be con-
sidered. have said that our railroads
in the main have been merged into
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"Your committee" I said, will also
look into the facts about the public
ownership and operation of railroads,
telegraph and telephone lines and ex-
press companies?"
'"The resolution of Congress SO in
structs u.s." Senator Newlands answer
ed. Our efforts will be to learn if the
regulation of railroads owned by in
dividuals grouped together in corpora
tions or the ownership and operation
of railways by the nation would better
serve the people.
Speaking for myself, I approach the
inquiry with an open mind. The public.
/ think, wants the facts. Once the facts
are known. the people. I am sure, will
understand what ought to be done. We
are trying regulation. but only crude-
ly. Loose regulation is not scientific
regulation. The committee, l hope, will
show what can be accomplished by
regulatory processes that fully meet all
of the conditions of modern society
and modern commerce"
Would national ownership destroy
Individual Investments"
''The only limitation upon the power
Of the American people over the high
ways and over common carriers, such
as railroads, Is that their legislation
shall not be confiscatory in character.
A man cannot get anything for MOTH
ing; neither can the government. II
the railroads are ever taken over by
the public, they must be paid for, and
they ought to be paid for. think. at
the market quotations of their shares.
Evening star., 1916-10-01
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