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Be, iamino Gisli Makes Debut
with Opera Record :

The first Victor Record by this new
tenor whose initial American appear
ance this winter with the Metropolitan
Opera Company places him very high
among the worlds great living tenors,
is his March Observation-Disclosures
-Dai campi, dai pratt" His voice has
thrilling beauty, strength and sweet
ness by natural endowment. He is a
native Italian trained in the world
famous Schola Cantorum of the Sistine
Chapel at Rome. He passed easily into
the domain of opera, and has already
won fame and distinction.
Nine. Louise Homer sings this month
the lovely and seductive spring song
from Saint-Saens' Samson ct Della"
The music is among the most suave
and delightful that ever flowed from
the brain of any composer, and sung
with magnificent power and splendid
purity and variety of tone.
"Lassie O. Nine" song we'll calcu-
lated to repeat his successes of the
present and past, is Edward Johnson's
latest contribution to recorded music.
1t affords full opportunity for the
splendid masculine emotional power
with which he seems to infuse every
song he gives the public. "Lassie O.
Mine" brings in a. few bars of Annie
Laurie set to strange, moving modern
harmonies. .-.
A wonderful eighteenth century air
10 ha
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STOPPED HIGHWAY WORK
IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY
All Hired Help, Over 400, Thrown
Out Of Employment-To
Use Only Chainganxs

approximately 42O laborers VINO
save been engaged in working upon
the roads of Spartanburg county
win necessarily be thrown out OF
c4nployment as a result of the ina
bility of the county to provide sutfi-
cient funds for its maintenance of
pead construction. Attorneys have
IEised the county that it has its
hit of bonds now and cannot issue
mere without amendment to the con-
ssitution of the state of South Caro-
Hna.
The legislature at is last session
authorized two bonds issues, one of
$9a0,OOO and the other Of $125,0oo
In addition, the legislature appro-
priated $4,000 for highway pur-
pBes, this amount to be divided
among the various township commits
aioners and the county supervisor.
The total bonded indebtedness Of
Spartnaburg county, including city,
road and school bonds, will exhaust
the amount permitted by law when
the issue of $685. 900 for back in
asbtedness is sold. The law fixes the
smount that any one department Of
a single unit may issue at 8 per cent
however, the total for all depart
nents may not exceed II per cent.
This leaves the county highway COM
naission without sufficient funds to
prosecute the work now under way
IN Spartanburg county.
AN hired help will be discontanu-
ed and the county roads will be
maintained only by the county
chaingang.
At a meeting of the Spartanburg
county delegation yesterday the
borrowing of $4,000 was authoriz-
ed, his amount to make possible the
maintenance of the chaingang.
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Ohio where Billy is going to marry
a country girl-so says the song.
Down by the Ohio" is story in
march time swith special effects, such
as B. & o. whistle and the wall of
imaginary offspring. "Marimba" by
Billy Murray is about girl from Chilli
who does enough odd things to make
this an interesting and amusing song.
Charles Hart and Elliott Shaw have
a Victor Record of exceptional artistic
finish and emotional power. Beautiful
Annabelle Lee" is not musical setting
of Edgar Allan Poe's poem, but is about
an Annabelle who did much the same
as Poe's. Some wonderful touches of
harmony are introduced in Louisiana"
which is beautifully and sympathetically
sung.
The pleasure of hearing these March
Victor Records is not confined to
Victrola owners. Any Victor dealer
will be glad to play them for you at
any time. You will find in them a
wealth of music from the most exquisite
classical and opera selections to !hc
latest dances and popular soaas.
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Graeeland cemetery for cremation.
There we're no funeral services
another request Of Mr.. Lane's-and
only The immediate family attended
the cremation.
LAND OF THE SKY"
SCENE ON HANDSOME
NEW POSTER

Asheville, N. c., May 19.-West-
ern North Carolina, the far-famed
Land Of the Sky" will be given
wide advertisement by the distribu-
tion of a strikingly handsome poster
just cotton out by the Southern
Railway System. ..ar
The poster is At to 27 inches done
in colors which produce a pleasing
effect, and shows vista of noun
tain scenery with a Southern Rail-
way limited passenger train on
double track, and modern resort
hotel in the background. A sketch of
one Of the well paved automobiles
roads which add so much to the at
fractions Of the North Carolina re-
sort section is also shown. +.
Five Thousand copies Of this post.
er will be distributed from the Sou
thern's Offices all over the country.
They will be placed personally by
representatives Of the Southern in
public places where they will be
sure to attract marked attention and
will constitute a permanent adver-
tisement of Western North Caro-
lina.a Il, :.
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of any of the grades they might Sc

of any of the grades they might Sc
lect.
The amendment differs from the
Dial amendment only in that the lat
ter stipulates that the buyer and
seller must select their halves on
the cotton from two of the ten
grades.
Mr.. Stevenson states that the
representatives from Mississippi,
Louisiana and Oklahoma, where low
grade cotton is produced have found
no fault with either his or the Dial
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THE NEW EVENTS in MUSIC

Murphy sings Roses Of Memory" on
the other face of this Victor Record.
Around his tender yet manly voice,
violin weaves delicate, clinging coun-
ter-melody-like \the twining of the
roses themselves in the consciousness
of the singer.
Two popular love songs by John
Steel, Rose of My Heart" and When
! Looked Into Your Wonderful Eyes,
power and beauty far beyond the or
dinary.
Gems from Jimmie" and Gems
from Honey Girl make up the de-
lightful March contribution of tie
Victor Light Opera Company. - ...
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SEEKS TO AMEND
COTTON MEASURE

Washington, May 1s.-Represen-
tative Stevenson of South Carolina
introduced to the house toaay m
amendment to the couron futures
act under which a boyer on the cot
ton exchange would have the right
to select one-half his purchase in
any of the legal grades desired by
him, and the exchanges would have
the right to deliver the other half in
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sound fascinates the ear so completely
as the gradual unfolding of musical
visions that throng the brain of a
genius-and Mozart's genius was never
more perfectly understood and inter
preted than by 'Toscaniri. The La
Scala Orchestra which Toscanini leads
comes from the home of grand opera,
La Scala Theatre in Milan, Italy. 1t is
probably the worlds most famous mu-
sical organization.
With when Chloris { cps" Nine.
CALI Curci issues the frs. record since
4, a = -, q rr;aoe n
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written 10 De sung
by a lover at the
grave of his dead
beloved is Nina"
played for a
Victor Record by
Hans Kinder on
h e violoncello.
The beauty of the
melody, the deep,
strong tone of the
instrument, a n d
the refined reserve
of the artist make
it a thing to hear
and to i.member.
Billy Murray
and V j c t o r
Roberts have TAX
en- the B. & o. to
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ALL CLASSES AFFECTED
IN RAILROAD WAGE CUT

> Chicago, May ia general re-
5nction of wages for unskilled rail-
road employees effective July l,
which was forecast by the railroad
labor board in an announcement last
right will be made the basis of re-
ductions extending to all classes Of
railroad employees, it was under
stood today. ".. . 81
Although only the Chicago,
Great Western, the Chicago & Alton
and few other carriers have re-
quested that the wage reductions
be- extended to,all classes, provision
was made by the board in its an
nouncement for the filing Of other
petitions up, to June and it was be-
lieved> others of the 180 Class A
roads would amend their applica-
tions to include shop, train service
and other classes Of employees. The
new application filed up to June 6,
the boards announcement said,
would be decided to take effect also
on July 1.
The June / decision, it was an
= nounced, will cover applications
filed prior to April 1s, and those
6led since will be decided June 6, all
to take effect July l.
Nearly half of the 1s0 Class A
roads in the country fled their dis
putes in time to have them locket-
ed before April 1s but only a few
requested that the wage decreases
apply to all classes.
No Insimation as to Extent
No intimation was given in the
boards announcement as to the prob
able extent of the cut. Last July
the board increased wages of unsklA
ed labor and some other classes 70
per cent, making it retroactive to
May 1, 1920.
"The general effect of the deci-
sion will he to retard track work.
said S. M. FELTON,, president Of the
Chicago Great Western. Railroad
executives said track maintenance
and repair crews had been kept at
skeleton strengt hoping for wage
cut effective April I. Disappoint-
ment was expressed that the. cut was
to be delayed until July /, as by that
time, it was said, the heaviest part
Of track rehabilitation work is gener-
ally completed.
The decision last July affected ap-
proximately two billion men and
Granted increases totalling nearly
$500, 1000, 900 a year. The average
raise then was 20 per cent. The nor
NAL number of unskilled employ
ees on Glass A roads, railroad execu-
tives said, was 5o0,0O0,000, but in
anticipation of a wage cut, the num-
Der bf maintenance employees has
been kept considerably below that
figure.
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Mr.. Homer Sam
uels, who COM
posed the song.
An odd original
theme, rendered
with faultless vo-
calization and a
certain. individual
quaintness of ut
teranee, is h a n
died in musicianly
fashion, beauti-
fully rounded, ar
tistically perfect.
Colleen o My
Heart" is Wer-
renrath's offering
this month. 1t
has a lightness and
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song, is 10 h n
McCormack's new
Victor R e cord
"The Next Market
Day" and "A
Ballynure Ballad"
POLITICALLY a n d
musically they are
Irish to the last
note. The great
tenor sings them
as freely and skill
fully as any wan.
dering balladist Of
his native land.
&" A Y ou n g
Mans F ncy''
sung by Olive e
Kline, is in a light
whimsical strain.
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ARTURO TOSCANlNI
AND LA SCALA
ORCHESTRA PLAY
CLASSIC SYMPHONY
Uher Famous Artists Heard in
Tasteful Selections OF Music
Old and New :

'turo Toscanini,
one of the great
est orchestra con-
ductors living or
dead, in two Victor
Records for March
gives the Third
Movement and the
Finale of Mozart's
Symphony in z
fiat. T h e S e two
magnificent works
arise from the ST.
lence like two vast
t e m pl S rising
amid the | a n d.
scapes of the hu-
man soul. No
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amendment. They defeated the Com
er amendment last year because Of
their belief that it would eliminate
market for low grade cotton.
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supposed to be sung by the Dresden
china shepherdess who stands on an
old-fashioned music box. Lambert
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-23

tive Committee Of the International
Of Communist Youth is busy regist-
ering new affiliations. Formed in
November, 1920, with only about
250,000 members, the International
of Communist Youth now numbers
nearly million young proletarians
in the various lands where it pos
scsses national sections. There are
Young Communist Leagues in forty
different countries; and even China
sens its young revolutionary dele
gates to the international conference!
Glasgow, Scotland fBy mails.- =
Great demonstrations were held in
this city, and all over the British
Isles, on March 27th, to protest
against the governmental peYecu-
tion Of the working class movement.
The following British Communists
and revolutionary unionists have
been sentenced to prison terms: G..
L. Malone, NJ. p, six months; Sylvia
Pankhurst, six months; e. vclthimc,
six months; Taylor, six months ;
Scott, six months; Paterson, six
months; Steele, three months; Har-
-. 49,. ..-.4l.. nr.tt sL..>
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fused everything at thu peace conference At
the present moment The Nationalist -revohl-
tionary movement is Having much success.
The student youth are at its head. They or
ganize strikes, and have close contact with
workmen, who often Strike ON their appeals.
Sometimes even the snhall traders also strike
The day of the Japanese ultimatum ito Chi
Ma, May A. 1915, has eeen proclaimed day
of national shame industrial Shanghai is
the leader of the revolutionary movement,
and carries ON struggle against the South
ern and Northern Governments. Sun-Yat-
Sen, who was formerly in the Southern
Government, left and took with him only
generals als-adventurersl
A Socialist printed bryan is published in
Shanghai; there also 1 Left Party is active,
and calls itself Matxist Parity; it stands
for alliance with Soviet Russia against ia
pan, and for assistance to Korea. All Pro-
vinces are in the hands of governors gen.
efal; the finances are also in their hands.
Therefore the Central Government is con-
ducting systematically selling out Of Chi
ma to foreign robbers. Shantung and much
more was ceded to Japan. The overwhelming
majority of the population are agricultural
The majority of the poor of the cities are
small artisans. The Chinese army numbers
about 100000, but these are hired soldiers
who serve those who pay the money. In
China there are no large estates (China is
one big kitchen garden). There is great
shortage of land And therefore Sum Yat-
Sen himself energeticay supports the poll
cy of colonizing the border Provinces. The
rural population is very much stirred up
over the high taxes. An industrial prole-
tariat is just beginning to grow up. 1t re-
presents an extreme revolutionary element.
Korea (Comrade Pak) To 1914 the
nobility and the prosperous elements were
the only standard bearers of the national
movement A mass revolutionary movement
has begun Ito develop only in the last year
and half. JapagA bps Korea in colonial
slavery. and theref6fS trade capital only is
| to be found there In the north of Korea
there is small land tenure But to the south
there are exclusively part-day laborers and
tenants, who have to give up 70 per cent Of
their CROP AT first some hope was put in
the League of Nations. However, Left So
cialists Immediately raised the question
squarely- Moscow or Paris. Talking advant
age of the support of'the Rights, Americs
has tended Ito speculate on revolution ir
! Korea But Socialists have definitely un
masked this deception.
Comrade Frid This report was trans
mitted to Moscow by telephone and an ap
parent error made in the name of the dele
gate who was inquest tionably John Reed. Ed
dwels particularly on the condition of tn,
negroes in America. In TINS famous "democ
racy' there are three categories of oppres
sed people: First, the immigrant workman
second, the colonial and half-dependen
peoples-Filpinos, Indians. and such; ant
third, negroes. The negroes number abou
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ten mllllors. They are concentrated in the
large industrial centers. They are absolutely
without rights, and, in spite of the Constitu-
tion, have not the suffrage Inequality as
to rights with respect to everything. In
South Carolina, for example, while $35
year is spent in schoos for each white child,
anly 81 is spent for, black one. Instances
of mob violence and lynching are particularly
frequent. Till recently many traNde-unions
did not take in negroes. AT one time there
was among the negroes movement to re-
turn to Africa, but this movement was not
successful. The negroes feel close tie with
America. On the labor market they compete
with the whites. The return from Europe
of 100000 American soldiers led ito whole
series of street conflicts over jobs in the
factories But the negroes have become quite
different since the war. They are easily in
flamed by revolutionary propaganda and
many call themselves Bolsheviks. The or
ganization of the Industrial Workers of the
World has already begun to work among
them. SaiHgea
The Situation in India-Report of C0mrade
Roy.
(Petrograd Pravda, July 20, 1920)
Among the reports submitted to the COM
mittee on national and colonial questions,
the report of Conrade Roy on the situation
in India deserves special attention:
"The nationalist movement in India be-
gan to take more or less concrete form in
the eighties of the last century, and found
it's expression in a national congress
''This movement has embraced in it's de-
velopment large circles of the student youth
and of the middle classes, but the appeal of
the Natienalists for struggle for the in
dependence of India found no response in
the masses of the population.
| THE popular masses of India are not
reached by the nationalist spirit; they are
| interested exclusively in questions of a
social-economic character. The conditions OF
life of the population of India are extremely
hard.
"Since 'English capitalism became estab-
lished in India 80 per cent of the population
of the country, who live by The tilling of the
soil, have lost their property and become
agricultural laborers. These millions Of
people literally go a-begging. Although they
till the soil, they go hungry, because all they
produce by their labor is exported. These
tens of millions of people take absolutely ne
interest i'm the bourgeois capitalist watch
words; the only slogan that will interes
them is: the land to the land-tiller.'
"In comparison with the rural proletaria
the industrial proletariatj is numerically very
small There are about five million workmel
in India. Among these wora1men the trade
union movement is spreading rapidly. Dur
ing the last years the strike movement ha
been spreading intensely in the working
class of India. The first important strik,
occurred in 1906. 1t took in the railroai
workers and assumed the form of genuine
uprising.
! There are elements in India to form /;
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to protest against the imprisonment
of their comrades and to demand
their immediate release.
Dublin, April 0. Details Of the exc
cution by the British government Of
the six Irishmen at Mountjoy should
be Of some interest to the workers
Of all lands. The six men who were
so brutally done to death by the
great capitalist imperialism of the
Old World, were all working men.
Four Of them were members Of Trade
Unions. On the day of the execution,
the workers Of this city abs,ained
from work until II a. m. The appeal
to the workers was carried only in
one paper, and appeared in the col
ums of the extra edition at z in
the evening Of the day previous to
the execution. Yet the result, with
so inadequate warning, was
splendid demonstration Of working
class solidarity. The city was rend-
cred powerless and lifeless by the
unanimous stoppage of work. Labor
tasted Of its power. 1t removed It's
hand from the levers Of production,
and the town was dead Only the
motor lorries Of the military moved;
industry had ceased. Only the ma.
chinery Of the imperialist capitalist
state stirred. When shall that also
cease to function, and the revolution
be complete?
Unemployment in the little rcpub-
lie Of Switzerland is spreading. Al
ready the number Of workless reaches
nearly 100000 in a national popula-
tion Of only Z million. Most Of these
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INTERNATIONAL HAPPENINGS.

Capetown, South frica.-Slowly
the various scattered sections Of the
revolutionary movement are getting
together here. Recently, several con-
ferences have been called in this
city, under the chairmanship Of that
stalwart for revolutionary unity,
Comrade E. j. Brown, late Secretary
of the Belgian Congo Workers
Union. Among the organizations par
ticipating are the Capetown Com
munist Party, the Social Democratic
Federation, the Socialist League and
others. The debate has centered
around the twenty-one points Of nd
mittance to the Third (Communist)
International, and It is expected that
soon strong United Communist
Party of South Africa will emerge
from these discussions.
Moscow, April lO-onI March 2lst
the Central Penal Department Of the
Tartar Republic, under Soviet rule.
has decided that all It's prisons shall
DC at once Transformed into work
SHOPS theatres, libraries and similar
institutions.
For communist with a correct
understanding Of his own ends, the
art Of politics lies in cbrrectly cal
culating the conditions ind the mo-
mcnt when the prolctarIsh vanguard
can take over power successfully."
--Nice1u Lehlh
Rarlin H. -fs -.
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workers were employed in the ex-
port trades.
0dessa.-The Greek steamer Ma
rietta has arrived here with large
cargo of manufactured goods and
coal for Soviet Russia. An Italian
steamer, with cargo Of copper, has
just arrived at Novorossisk.
Stockholm.-The steamer Helm
dahl, loaded with 1O2 tons Of various
goods, including telephone material,
motors, saws ETC., left for Reval last
week. The cargo is destined for
Soviet Russia, and has value Of
100000 Swedish crowns.
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workers gathered on Glasgow Green
to protest against the imprisonment
of their comrades and to demand
their immediate release.
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Bsrlin.-The office Of lAs Execu-
Daily picayune., 1921-06-04

R. D. Allen of Centerville, is in town today.
 Geo. Ware of Union is visitor here today
 Carl Purtle of Rosston is in the city today
 Henry Shackelford of route 6, is in the city today. webber Skinner of Rosston, is Pres colt visitor today.
  Dorsey Riley of Curtis is visiting his sister, Sue Graham. MT. and Mrs Ed Gladden. of route 9, are visitors here today.
  Ralph Routon of Hope, is among the Prescott visitors today George and sam Westmoreland of Weaver. are here today on business.
  " II McBrvde of Prescott, is Hope business visitor today.-Star of Hope.
  Miss Belle Walters is home from Jonesboro where she tanght The past year. She will spend her vacation with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. c. P. Wal ters
 N0TIGE-There will be no services a the Baptist church at the morning or evening hour tomorrow. Mrs. Fannie Galloway is expected to arrive from Philadelphia tonight to vis- it her brother T C Maher.
  T. O. Mum of Prescott. drove down in his car today 10 have q new top put on same-Star of Hope. We are sorry to report that the con