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The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-08-31
Home, Demonstration Column

September 15.-Boiling Springs
home demonstration club.
September 16.-Saxe-Gotha cook
ing club.
September 17.-Ofice.
September 19.-Calvary home
demonstration club.
September 20.-Oak Grove sewing
club.
September 21.-Ofhcers council
meeting. 49, .>.--....'. .-'>,'
September 20, %, 24.-District
meeting, Aiken S, c.
September 26.-St. Johns cooking
club.
September 27.-Providence home
demonstration club.
September 28.-Pelion cooking
club.
September 2s.-Sharp's Hill cook
ing club.
September 3O.-Sunny South sew
ing club.
ANNIE c. CAUGHMAN,
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-08-31

August "a, 1921,
Evening star., 1921-06-24

scale Of compensation. A big job Is to
be done in hurry, the whole pro-
cedure Of estimate framing and sub
mission revised in five months. An
experiment Is in process and its sue
cess depends upon the skill with which
the first budget preparation is accom-
plished. There is possible danger In
getting too much outside advice and
aid. And when the budget Is prepared
and submitted, according to the most
scientific lines perhaps. Congress must
assume the full and final responsibility
for following it and putting it into law.
Governmental tunnels have been dug
with toothpicks for a good many years.
The marvel is that such good, sub
stantial, dependable work has been
done by the public service forces dur
ing the more than half a century in
which the compensation scale It the
government departments has remained
unchanged. while the pay rates in
every other branch of work in this
country have mounted.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
The Crowded Court Calendar.


The figures presented in The Star
yesterday respecting the congestion in
the District Supreme Court are plain
proof Of the urgent need Of additions
to the court Bills for two more
associate justices have been pend
ing in Congress for several years, but
have been Systematically pigeonholed
Other judicial districts have been ere
ated and additional judges have been
voted for other jurisdictions, but the
District has been permitted to remain
in the same condition as to court serv'
ice as for forty-two years.
In 1879, when the District Supreme
Court was enlarged to six justices, the
present number, there were only 177,'
ga people in the District. Today there
are more than two and half times as
many people here. The court .busl.
ness has increased far more than two
and a half times. The court in 1873
was just about able to care for the
business Of that time. and for some
years after, without congestion or un'
due crowding or unseemly haste. To-
day the court cannot keep up with the
cases, with every justice working at
high pitch. At this time there are
no less than 1900 criminal cases pend.
ing for trial in the office Of the dis.
trict attorney. and 373 equity cases,
which, during the summer, will be in
creased to fully 500, which will await
court action upon the opening Of the
fall term.
Congressional attention is apparent
ly not arrested sufficiently to the fact
that this is not merely local court.
attending to the domestic affairs Of the
District solely. 1t is federal court.
having jurisdiction over a great num-
ber Of cases affecting the United States.
Most of these cases, tried here, are
prolonged. The interests involved are
weighty and every expedient of delay
is utilized to insure the fullest pos
sible hearing. These United States
cases are the chief cause Of the con-
gestion on the court calendar.
The spectacle of 1 400 persons out on
bond waiting for trial in the District
Supreme Court, with no prospect of
action for anywhere from six months
to two years. is calculated to cause
doubt as to the effectiveness Of the law
in this community. The addition OF
two justices to the bench will permit
a clearing up Of the calendar in prob
ably two years, unless one OF the
court branches is choked with a
months-long trial of federal char.
acter. By the time the calendar is
cleared and the work brought up to
date the natural growth Of the Dis
trict's population and the volume of
government business in this jurisdic-
ton will so swell the normal work of
the court as to keep eight justices
busy constantly.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
Water CONSUMPTION.

Appeals emanating from the water
department of the District for reduc'
tion in the enormous volume of water
being consumed at this time by the
community must be needed and COM
piled with unless. because Of extrava'
CANT wastage. Washington is to be
brought face to face with a most grave
menace. Yesterday 100000 gallons
were used. The safe daily capacity OF
the single existing conduit by which
mated at from 65,000,00 to $4,000, 900
Elementary mathematics suffice to
prove that on such a basis it will be
but a short time before the reserve in
the reservoir is consumed. The Dis.
trict would then be entirely dependent
upon the daily flow through the single
conduit and should that flow be inter.
rupted. as it may at any time. a water
famine would ensue. Those are facts
and in their light any individual who
falls to play his part in Immediately
reducing water consumption-in com
plying with the regulations which the
water department deems essential at
this season-wantonly jeopardizes the
health and security of his family, his
neighbors and the community in gen
eral.
Thoughtlessness is at best but a
sorry excuse, and when it implies a de-
gree of reckless reconsideration which
endangers the lives and property OF
others it should be adequately punish
ed. Thoughtful and considerate men
and women, apprised Of the existing
danger. will conduct themselves ac
cordingly. A part of their responsible
ity must be to acquaint the police
upon whom rests the task Of enforcing
the water consumption regulations,
with such violations of those regula
tions as come to notice. In every com.
munity there is to be found a minority
to whom the interests of their fellow
citizens are a matter Of no concern
whatever. Such a minority-happily
small-exists in Washington. Persist
ence in their readiness to imperil their
own and others interests should bring
down upon the individuals concerned
swift punishment by the law, and the
unmistakable resentment of their fel
low citizens.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
Toothpicks and Public Service.

Gen. Dawes comments on the size
Of the appropriation for the work of
budget administration are in a familiar
vein. Undoubtedly not enough money
is provided to care for this immense
organization on the scale that a great
commercial or financial corporation
would establish. The sum is measured
by Congress in accordance with the
standard of values that has prevailed
for many years. Truth is, the gov.
ernmental valuation Of human services
is far lower than the commercial val.
uation.
Gen. Dawes may secure the assist.
ance Of a group Of volunteers who will
give their services-for q dollar a year
apiece-in the shaping Of tho budget
for the first year or two. Probably he
will find no lack Of help. But he will
also find in the government forces of
today a great many people who are
capable of doing the work required.
He has been controller Of the cur.
rency and he knows that in subor-
dinate positions in the Treasury are
many men Of high capacity who have
been proceeding for years with the
faithful discharge Of their duties.
though competent to go elsewhere st
higher pay.
This is not q matter merely Of the
Evening star., 1921-06-24
The President and the Bankers.

The bankers Of the country have
always been among the country's best
informed, and in times of pinch among
its most efficient. citizens. They rem
dered invaluable service in the time
Of the civil war. and, later, while the
country was recovering from the jolts
Of that terrific struggle. They rem
dered the same sort Of service during
the world war. and much is expected
Of them now that the country is head
ed for normalcy again.
1t is for this reason that the Presi.
dent Is consulting the leaders Of the
banking world at present on the ques.
tions with which they are familiar
are, indeed, authorities. Recently a
number Of eastern bankers dined with
him on invitation, and last night a
number Of western bankers were his
guests at dinner.
Business is the watchword, east and
west and all around. How to restore
confidence in business, how to stabil-
ize business, and how to send business
d6dAh LUZ SPCSA oiiSoN, may "Cii
engage the best minds in the country.
We may be certain, therefore, that
the President has profited by these
visits, and that his visitors have profit.
ed by meeting him. Exchanges of
opinions about conditions and what
conditions call for will inure to the
public benefit-make for teamwork in
a movement which cannot succeed un.
less all pull together.
Politics is barred. Bankers who in
matters political are republicans,
others who are democrats and still
others who take so little interest in
politics they are hardly to be classi.
fed, have like stake in promoting
financial activities looking to a pros,
porous and contented country again.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
Doesn't Like Money.

One cannot help admiring Charlie
Garland's nerve in continuing to re-
fuse the million dollar legacy Of his
father. Never having had the expe-
rience we rather suspect we wouldn't
look at the thing in the way he does.
But we would admire him more II he
decided upon some kind of serviceable
occupation to engage his time and re-
ouire his energies. A newspaper re-
porter went out to see this Massa-
chusetts wonder the other day and
found him puttering around in a field.
Garland himself admits that he hasn't
done an earthly thing for society and
still he refuses to employ his fortune
to benefit anybody else. He is an
unobtrusive sort of a chap who takes
things easy, talks about wanting to
do something for somebody else, but
a winter has gone and a spring and
the summer Is here and he still hesi-
tates. Many a man with a million at
his command at this time could build
houses for the homeless and help suf-
fering humanity in many ways II he
had a mind to. Il don't feel that am
doing the best possible for society at
present." Garland told the reporter.
or course he isn't. No man who will
fully is idle is helping society In any
way. Rather he Is adding to the So
cial problems Of the hour.-Springdeld
(Ohio) News (democratic).
Evening star., 1921-06-24
Republican Divisions.

Divisions on Capitol Hill are multi
plying.
Take the tariff. The republicans are
united as respects the policy of pro
lection. But they are far from agreed
as to applying it in revising the Tn
derwood tariff law. Can they get to
gether? II not, and they do not, the
hereafter is to be read in the story
of 1909, when they divided. and re
manned divided, on the revision of the
tariff law of that time.
They are united as respects the
necessity for a revision Of taxation
Butt how shall the taxes be shifted?
There is the rub.
They are united on the subject OF
economy. The pruning-knife must be
applied. But where? Some say here
some there, some yonder.
They are united on the subject OF
preparedness. All are agreed that the
country must not again be caught un.
prepared. But how much preparation
is necessary? What provision should
Congress make for the national de.
fense? How much on land, how much
on the sea?
The latest division is over prohibi
ton. All are in favor of the policy
But the law for its enforcement needs
strengthening. How should that be
done?
True, the democrats are divided on
these questions, too. But the re-
sponsibility for legislation is with the
republicans, and If they do not act. or
acting, fail to meet the wishes Of the
people, they will pay the penalty at the
polls next year.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
votes calls for travel and all kinds of

votes calls for travel and all kinds Of
exertion.
After nomination will come the cam
paign for election. And that calls for
travel and exertion of all kinds.
Speeches. conferences with lieuten.
ents as to how it looks" and all that
eat up days and weeks.
Next spring. therefore. inpatience
will begin to show on Capitol Hill. All
the Houses membership and a third
Of the Senate's will be eager to scat
ter for home and build fences or
strengthen fences already built. And
yet unless the condition Of the card
warrants early adjournment it cannot
be taken. Uncle Sam has the first
claim on attention. His business must
not be neglected.
do it now''-as much Of it as pos
sible--has a persuasive ring, and the
adjuration is growing in favor.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
This Year and Next.

Congress has a choice as to work.
Tho more it does at this session the
less will be the pressure at the regu.
lar session. do 1t now" is the urge
from the more experienced quarters.
Nood politics calls for regular ses.
sia. ef mo6s-ate length-short if pos
sfble. Next yeeS will be campaign
year. A new Congress is to be chosen.
A great many members Of the present
Congress will stand for reelection. and
be impatient to get busy early.
First viii come the primary. And
primaries. be 1t remembered, are siren.
uous affairs nowadays. The man In.
and the man out seeking to get in.
~haye . ttme Of It." Canvassins for
Evening star., 1921-06-24
A Watchdog in Chief.

The selection Of Brig. Gen. Charles
G. Dawes to be controller Of the
budget is another proof Gf another
were needed) Of President Harding's
purpose to have the budget system
applied resolutely and energetically.
Gen. Dawes has shown vigor. direct
ness and contempt Of bureaucratic red
tape in his contact with government
business. He is a. man to enforce re-
spect for the law and for restrictions
on waste, which had come to be SO
generally disregarded under the last
administration. What is needed is a
watchdog" like Gen. Dawes, who can
keep an eye all the year round on the
ope erations of the department wasters.
New York Tribune (republican).
Evening star., 1921-06-24
The Attempt on Everest.

Because no man has ever reached
the summit of Mount Everest it lures
men on, as did the poles, as does every
other difficult and all but impossible
thing. A world still weary and per-
plexed from war turns with keen in
terest to this new endeavor to prove
man capable Of rising above the OBJ
stacles nature has put in his way.
There is not much glory in it. Ger
tainly there is not enough to pay them
for the risk and danger. Many Will
say there is not much use In 1t. That
is because they do not catch the gleam
which fires the world. Not glory and
tempting them, but the thrill OF hav-
ing measured themselves against ma
ture and won. Perhaps, indeed, 1t 1s
likely, all will not return. That Is
not the thing that matters; that Is
not why the world applauds. They go
to climb Mount Everest because the
spirit drives them that has moved man
upward through the oenturies-"to
seek, to strive. to find and not to
yield." Journal dnde-
pendent).
Even the seashore 10 dry. No sea
serpents this year-Bridgepor Tele-
gram
Do you remember when everybody
condemned dandelions as q pest!-Wti.
mington CDel) Journal.
Now comes the season when the Ills
of the world are cured. under the
chautauqua tent-Boston Transcript
If we are to have q naval holiday
let it be understood that the omcers
are not to go visiting and talk too
|much.-Baltimore Evening Sun.
The old writer's were considered
petition writer's have enow-Maga5ine.
The same thing can be said OF Jesse
Observation-Disclosures News.
|, If Georges Carpenter whips Jack
Dempsey the American Legion may
insist that he be given the congress
sionA medal. the thanks Of Congress-
and fourth.class post o6ices-Chi-
cago NewR
Evening star., 1921-06-24

Artificial eyelashes are suggested
by fashion experts. embellishments
quaintances may have to carry thumb
prints for purposes of identification.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

A burglar took $3O0,O worth Of oil
securities from Wall street brokers'
office. The old.time burglar who reach
ed fame by stealing a few thousand
dollars worth of diamonds from an
actress is no longer considered worthy
Of notice.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

Plans to honor Stephen Foster in
New York may be hindered by diff
Guilty in finding jazz band that can
interpret the simple sentiment Of his
melodies.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

Actors are now prominent in the
discussions OF labor organizations. The
question of who gets the center OF the
stage is likely to become mope compli-
Gated than ever.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

The kaiser. as a prudent woodchop
per. may be in a position to feel that
he Is at least luckier than the man
who neglected to lay in coal at sum
mer prices.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

The royal visit to Belfast is a re-
minder that kings and queens as well
as humber people have their days
work to perform.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

No indications arrive that soviet
Russia offers any encouragement to
Emma Goldman as a social unsettle-
ment worker.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

A number of Chicago women are
disappointed because they are denied
the right to do jury duty which many
men are only too eager to escape.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

The recklessness of some tinanciers
is shown by the ease with which a
newly employed messenger boy de-
camps with a satchelful Of money
Evening star., 1921-06-24

Monarchists in Berlin should at least
insist on having any future candidate
for a crown examined for symptoms Of
paranoia.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

1t, should be gratifying to Senator
Borah to find that some of his own
proposals do not encounter an immut-
able irreconcilability.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

Bolshevism's program Of terrorism
would not have been complete without
a little piracy on the high seas.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

The cost of living is never SO high
that a willing farmland cannot be
sure Of three meals per day as well as
a hearty welcome.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

1t is unlikely that any form OF pub
to respond with an extempore speech.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

German philosophers are held re-
sponsible for the war by many think
ers. A little learning is a dangerous
thing.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

misunderstanding between Greece
and Turkey is regarded as more or less
of a national custom of both.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

The figures in a truly modern scan-
dal are not content to let the neigh.
bors do the talking.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

Disarmament can hardly be complete
until arrangements can be made for
disarming the suspicious among ma
tionS.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
Relative Safety.

"You are as safe in an airship as
you are on the ground"
Maybe I am," replied the patient
citizen. II live in q town where they
have grade crossings"
Evening star., 1921-06-24
Enthusiasm Distrusted.

'Your audience applauded your
speech to the echo."
YES" replied Senator Sorghum; ut
made me little nervous to hear 'em
attach so much importance to some of
my ofhand remarks. I was afraid I
was saying something might have to
take back next day..
Evening star., 1921-06-24
The Homo Song.

Home, Sweet Home" is sure to bring
A feeling sentimental.
It's easier far the song to sing
Than it is to pay the rental
Evening star., 1921-06-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
,JeStS Long AGO.

JeStS Long ago.
Where are the jests Of long ago?
The man who stayed out late at
night
Remains at home and now doth show
Toward mother-in.law a mood polite.
The wandering breeze which might re.
Some hose unnoted sweeps the
scene.
None steps upon an orange peel,
Because the streets are now kept
clean.
The bunco men no longer wait
The rustic visitor to fool.
The cook stove does not conflagrate;
The flivver has displaced the mule.
The trifes which would once inspire
A laugh seem all devoid Of cheer.
The joyousness that we admire
Suggests a mood much more severe.
The merry outlaw pulls a gun
And on some stranger gets the drop.
We understand it's just in fun
And so nobody calls q cop.
A small boy grabs a club to hit
His good old dad a comic blow
And demonstrate precocious wit
Where are the jests Of long ago?
No Novelty to Him.
Hiram" said Mrs. Corntossel, "the
summer boarders are complainin' about
a lot O. things"
II heard 'em, but soon quit lis.
TENN. None Of 'em said anything orig.
inal.''
Jud Tunkins says what makes him
think prize fighting unrefined is the
way it tempts the man who sells tickets
to profiteer.
Evening star., 1921-06-24
M N0ve1tv tn Him

Jud Tunkins says what makes him
think prize fighting unrefined is the
way it tempts the man who sells tickets
to pro6teer.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

The old writer's were Considered
petition writer's have now.-Magasine
The same thing can be said OF Jesse
Observation-Disclosures News.
Evening star., 1921-06-24

| SenatorJ W. Wadsworh Jr, Says:
INFORMATION
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The New York herald., 1921-01-10
Delegates to Meet at Offices of
International Sporting
Club.
by CHARLES F. MATHIsON.

The outstanding event in the boxing
world to-day will be the gathering of
delegates here to form national body
for the control of the sport in America.
The Governors of seventeen States have
named representatives to attend the con-
ference, and they will be the guests at
luncheon of the International Sporting
Club at the WaidorfvAstoria. This Will
give the delegates a chance to get ac-
quainted, after which they will adjourn
to the offices of the International sport
ing Club and go into executive session.
The objects sought in the calling OF
this conference are of great moment to
the sport of boxing. Lack OF general
control has been the weak spot in the
glove sport for many years. and II a
central body can be organized that Will
exercise the same influence for good tha'
State commissions have the effect will
be salutary.
General recognition and enforcement
of penalties, regulation of purses and
ticket charges and uniformity OF boxing
rules are the chief objects sought, and
it is to be hoped the delegates will work
harmoniously and thus achieve the te-
sired results.
1t is not difficult to understand now
Pinkey Mitchell the lanky Milwaukeean,
has managed to get so many popular
decisions in his home town. His record
shows but three knockouts to his credit.
nearly all his bouts going the limit. Tac
reason he has not been defeated fire.
quently is that in the West he has been
permitted to clinch to his hearts con-
tent His method, as exemplified in MS
bout with Jackson, was to jab with the
Iaft n1i IN
favorite clutch being a strangle hold.
Although Referee Louis White warned
cautioned and threatened the tall youth
from the Badger State, Pinkey paid nc
attention to the referee and acted as
though he thought White was interfer-
ing with a scientific exhibition.
Mitchell would jab Jackson In the
face with his left, then rush in and get
a strangle hold on the Bronx man. He
would hold Jackson powerless till the
referee separated him from his prey
and then would repeat the operation.
That perhaps is regarded as scientific
boxing in the West, but under the rules
of the walker law 1t is foul, and the
referee is empowered to disqualify q
persistent offender The rule is ex-
plicit, and while it would require more
courage than is possessed by any OF the
present crop of referees to disqualify @
boxer for clinching, judge or referee
in making a decision should at least
penalize an habitual clincher for his foul
work. White had a golden opportunity
to serve notice on clinchers to leave
their Western ring manners at home
and he missed it.
1t Is quite evident that there is method
in the madness of the Britons in claim
ing that Herman did not lose his title to
Joe Lynch. Their arguments are alb
surd, the first contention being that the
Lynch Herman bout was mot at ringsidc
weight as demanded by the Interna'
tional Boxing Union" The rules of the
union are the same as those of the