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The Washington times., 1921-11-03
THEY'RE HUMAN
AthertOn Du Puy-

Victor Murdock Of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion wants to assert that having learned from
given individual does not necessarily prove
intimacy with that person.
He once in the old days. learned a good lesson
from a bartender he says This bartender from
the fullness of his experience, stated that II you
were with crowd of fellows and there was
treating to be done. 1t was the part OF wisdom
buy first. 1t would get around TO you any
way, you could not save money by procras
tinating. But when il was all over the only pur-
chaser who would be remembered, who could get
asting credit for liberaity in the minds Of those
present was the man who bought first
The same principle can be applied anywhere
he says. Everywhere you 60 people travel in
flocks. II you come to a gangplank, or are to
be baptized. the music is striking up for
one-step. everybody hangs back.
The who steps right out on such occasions
will become the cynosure of all eyes. He may
be chicken hearted, a mouth breather, have
broken arches, but he will travel far
Col. John Temple Graves OF Georgia. silver.
tongued orator, advances the novel theory that
public speaking is better physical exercise than
golf floor rolling.
He recently returned from an extended tour
during which he spoke for an hour and half
every afternoon for hundred DAYS He started
out enervated and dyspeptic and returned with
his chest out like West Point cadet.
He invites any one who disagrees with his
theory OF public speaking exercise to
anime himself in the process of eocution, take
note Of the stunts that are being put on by mis-
diaphragm. stomach muscles, his pipes, bellows
and Adams apple
Medical authorities admit, he cites that WON.
an God bless her has always been healthier than
man Mayhap this scientific fact IL due to her
more frequent exercise through vocalizaton.
The Hon. Charles H. Burke. now Commissioner
OF Indian Affairs. has been mixed up in the de
v-lopment OF the somewhat new State of South
Dakota since back in 1882. When States
plastic and taking shape the influence upon
geography that single individuals may exert is
quite remarkable. II il had not been for Charles
H. Burke, for instance, the star which appears
on all the maps indicating the capital city OF
South Dakota would have been over at Huron
instead OF at Pierre, for Burke in 1890 secured
the designation of the latter town as the seat of
state government.
Copyright 1921
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
BtTTER THF JouS YoU HAVE.
By !. j. M'\DN.

II is given to most OF us to feel rebellious al
times because the every day routine Is 40 hard
to make a living.
Won compare your workaday life with your
neighbors or your prosperous friends and add
10 your discomfort
You feel that YOU ought 10 make n change i'm
ynur life and seek an ca ser calling and so YOU
lot M on vow efforts in the place YOU now hold
II is pretty unsafe line OF thought and your
slowing up on present Job may put YOU out
Of a ioh entirely.
This is poor time TO he Obliged to look for
another job,
than ever.
The chances are that II YOU knew the hard
work that your friend does to keep his place you
would not want II.
II is because ~ hard work and tireless effort
that the pinnacle is gained and there Is time TO
look around
n YOU have = good job YOU should consider
Yourself fortunate.
You must expect you will have 10 make effort
and apply yourself every day in order to retain IT,
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
By HARRY GREENWALL,
Universal Service.
PARIS Oct 90

PARIS. Oct. 20.
-HE other day | was talking to
French detective about the
Seine murder mystery-the
story OF the headless body OF
Young woman found in the river.
"oh. yes" he said, you may be
sure we shall unveil the mystery.
Ninety per cent Of the authors OF
this kind of crime are discovered
1t now appears, however. as If the
mystery of the headless body in the
Seine will go into the limbo OF other
unsolved crimes. All clues have
been abandoned, there is nothing
more to be done. But, just as heavy
firing is said to bring the bodies OF
drowned persons to the surface of
the waters, so the announcement
that a poor girl had been foully done
to death brought forth news Of hun
dreds OF unsupported oJ."csttc
tragedies.
From north. south, east and west
came mothers, fathers, and hus'
bands bringing information concern.
ing the mysterious disappearance of
women. Women. old and young,
lgl.,al,ied Uuj Of their homes, and
had never been heard from. Men.
too. were missing. within Il few
ds,s tho Paris police investigated no
rew,r than one hundred and eighty
two cases OF missing women, and
they satisfied themselves that not
ono of them was the girl whose body
WAS Cished out of the river.
For some days they thought tn"
body was that of Mime. AmIc
sin,ounet. girl ur seventeen. Who
had only been married three
months. Then one morning a friend
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
Keep 1t Up,
Senator Kin0

WYE trust that Senator King will
wv vigorously press his resolu
ton for an investigation of
the oil situation in the West.
Exactly as The Times predicted
in these columns, the Royal Dutch
Shell Ga British company has as
sumed control of the Union Oil Com
pany of Delaware. The Union Oil
Company Of Delaware never was
anything but smoke screen to hide
the identity and the manipuations
of the British concern.
As we explained while ago, the
Union Oil Company was obtaining
ownership of large part of Pacific
Coast oil production, with no other
object than to turn the properties
over to the British concern for
which the Union was and is the
smoke screen.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
Leading Homecoming
CitY of America
BY BILL Il RI G f..

The Census Bureau finds that Des Molnes, Iowa.
leads all other cities of the United States of 100000
population or over in the percentage of citizens owning
their own homes. In that city 5l1 per cent of the
people have fear of landlords and enjoy the real
"home life" that is priced highly in this country
Grand Rapids, Mich comes next with percentage of
SOL.
The national percentage of renters increased between
1910 and 1920 due, of to the trend of population
to the larger cities and the housing in apartments,
flats, ETC., where babies unwelcome, and poodles
Persian cats and canares in for the affection be-
longing to children
Next spring should the beginning of a wonderful
of home building for the District. Thousands of
people merely awaiting what they regard as pro-
pitious time for home construction They have held off
pending developments and now everything points to
real boom in this city. Every true Washingtonian will
welcome these prospective building activities for the
desire of all Washingtonans is to the Federal Capt.
tai spreading in every direction its inhabitants owning
their domices and beautifying them to the fullest
extent possible
Many hotels office buildings and apartments will
be necessary to for the steady increase of popua
ton, and these will be erected by the alert, wdeawake
builders who have done much to develop this city,
but the type of building that will be most welcome is
the private home, where and women settle down
to rear little Americans to manhood and womanhood
in the finest capital of the finest nation in the world
and to fight the battles of life under the most whole
conditions
Washington is the ideal city of America for the home
owner Its suburban streets and being
stantly improved and all convenences accessible
Within the city proper there vacant properties that
offer tempting sites for home construction.
Real estate will never again be cheaper than it is
The brought depreciation in values of unimproved
properties owing to the difficulties of building The
shrewd investor in District real has wonderful
opportunities before him. The same thing is true of
improved properties. They getting toward rock
bottom in price Many wise believe they have
struck bottom
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
American Valuation Folly
AN Effort to Make Bad Conditions WOrse)

ton TO he met at the present ~
stagnation at home and want abroad.
We need the European market and
the European market needs our
goods. The expedient proposed is
the Fordney bill with the American
valuation plan, which is practically
a prohibitive tariff measure, Ex-
change is mutual. No trade is pos
sible where one party is excluded
from participation. We cannot in
duce Europe to buy if we forbid her
to pay. We cannot collect by max.
ing it impossible for her to settle.
We cannot force our goods through
a channel stopped by ourselves. If
we don't want a foreign market, let
us be frank enough to say so and
destroy the means of securing it.
If we do want one, let us be frank
enough to say so, and remove as
best we can the present distractions,
and see to it that no future ones
are placed in its way"
What you have just read affects
the man working in an iron foundry
or harvester factory. Five million
men are out of work in this country
because we are not shipping goods
to Europe. Ten millions of men will
be out of work if that continues.
Our customers live abroad, those
that take up the slack in our labor
market.
If we don't arrange to deal with
those that live outside of the United
States, there won't be enough work
for those that live inside of the
United States.
Prof. John B. Clark, of Columbia
University, says Of the American
valuation plan:
"It is a vicious system which i'm
poses duty calculated upon an
original American price plus an en-
hancement which the duty itself
will cause. If the whole of the duty
were added to the American price
there would be duties on duties
which it would puzzle one to com
pute. The pending bill threatens
to cause such compounding of
duties and to carry them to a high
and at present uncertain level.
Neither in the theory nor in prac-
tice is this justifable. The basis
which is right in both respects is
the price of articles in gold in the
country from which they came"
The American valuation plan
would injure American business. 1t
would cut down trade with Europe
and thus cut down employment in
the United States. 1t would puzzle
and bedevil merchants, making bad
conditions infinitely worse.
European valuation can be OBJ
tained accurately and without cost
by the mere reading of an invoice.
The intention is to twist the tariff
here in America, to suit those with
special interests. 1t is a plan to
add enormously to the number of
unnecessary public employees.
American valuation, which can
have no stability or uniformity. will
involve thousands Of unnecessary
employees. graft and manipulation
unlimited and hard times.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

TROOP OF dismounted
L cavalry met distinguished
immigrant at Union Station.
Flock OF army trucks was on
hand to transport baggage to
alien enemy custodian. Same
consisted OF brief case and
extra stand-up collar.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered U. 9. Patent office.
BY X. c. B.

1T WAS my birthday. = WHERE SHE'D
found two seats.
AND I'm getting on.
| TOOK the quarter.
'G matter. . "' AND NERvoUsLY.
IF still feel young REACHED my
hand
AND ANYWAY.
IN SEARCH of hers.
IN THE afternoon. -
AND FINALLY
BECAUSE MY wife. found it.
is A movie fan. AND INTO it.
IsAlD I'd go: SLIPPED the COIN
TO picture show AND THEN and
AND SO we did 'NeFs: :.
ANN ,yurpr MO- IN THE inky dark
THEY HAVE OF THE picture
usherettes. mouse.
OR FEMALE ushers. THE USHER lady.
OR YOUNG lady SQUEEZED MY
ushers. hand.
OR WHATEVER you AND NOT just once.
will
SHE SQUEEZED it
AND WE went in. twice.
FROM THE bright AND WENT away.
sunlight.
AND AFTERwARD.
AND COULDN'T see.
WHEN THE lights
EXCEPT THAT Were up
form
AND WE went out.
- -, LOOKED them over.
PkEN Us.
AND COULDN'T tell.
DOWN THE center
aisle. WHICH ONE il was.
AND iooh great BUT ANYWAY.
ro p,>.nl .- SHE HAS my thanks
AND felt in my 'om - y coru'al wei
pocket.
AND cor two bits. TO HER picture
house.
AND WHEN she
stopped. ! ! THANK you.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
PARIS WOMEN VANISH
AT RATE OF so A DAY,
Girls BODY Found i'm River Leads to Discovery
That One Hundred and Eighty Women Sim
ply Walked From Home Into Thin Air During
One Week.End-Police Are Poweress

of the family met the woman in the
Underground.
Don't you know that your family
and the police think you are the
woman whose dead body was taken
out Of the seine?" asked the friend.
The woman answered that she
never read the newspa pers," and
so did not know anything about the
case. She wanted to divorce her
husband, so she disappeared"
The police are still receiving in.
formation concerning vanishing peo.
pie. Official figures show that fifty
people disappear every day in
France. Where do they go?
out Of every ten persons arrested
for vagabondage three refuse to give
either their names or addresses.
They are not criminals. and the
police Rave to let them go some
uf ne men are deserte.s ume have
cu Iaity 7uOd reasons iUr refusing to
nr ty u.i. ia, IN othars1
i.aJegIaiiN ,he " men.
II Is a curlOus fact tlat many Of
the women vino are yoped in by the
police STATE that they are the daugh.
trrs of office : o o., 't'aj".. when
he y lice knu, 1t this
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

decide approximately "ha' Poi
centage of protection should be
given to industry, labor and IN
vested capital, in the United States.
competing in our home markets with
foreign labor, industry and invest
cd capital.
Having made up your mind what
protection is desirable, you add to
the price that goods cost in Europe
the amount of the tariff upon which
you have decided.
In other words, there is an Euro
pean valuation of merchandise. 1t
is a valuation easy to establish. 1t
may be seen on the invoice, it can
be established accurately. The
American consul can authenticate
1t.
Having established that foreign
value of goods, whether in England,
Italy, China, the Argentine, Ger
many or Spain, you say. "Before the
article is sold in the United States
here shall be addee to that foreign
Iuaton a certain tariff which the
States Government will col
s increasing it's revenues,
secting home industry, labor
pital."
extraordinary, entirely un-
ID of and dangerously vicious
...ture Of the Fordney tariff bill is
he effort to fix the tariff on an
American valuation of goods.
That is as stupid, confusing and
harmful as it would be, if we first
added tax to foreign goods and
then put a tariff on that. 1t is even
worse, because what business needs
above all, if it is to recover and go
forward, is certainty, simplicity,
freedom from doubt, in all impor.
'tant matters.
What is the use of talking about
an American valuation as the basis
Of a tariff.
The tariff is placed on what it
costs to produce goods abroad, that
is to say, foreign valuation. Is
the business of this country. the
most important business of all,
which is the distribution of goods
through retail agencies, to be kept
, in uncertainty, unable to purchase
with safety, constantly at the mercy
of an American valuation scheme
absolutely without limit, impossible
to regulate on a sound basis?
If a man in California imports
goods, will Government agent out
there put one American valuation
on the goods, and if a man in Maine
imports the same goods, will another
valuation be placed'
Shall we have people throughout
the country jockeying in valuation,
buying goods in one place to ship
to another place in the United
States taking advantage of a more
foolish American valuation in one
place than in the otheri
Who are the Americans that are
to place the American valuation on
goods abroad, whose normal foreign
valuation can be Immediately ascer-
tainedi
Not only the merchants of the
United States whose business would
be harassed and made uncertain by
this stupid American valuation pro-
vision, but all that consider with
intelligence the questions involved,
denounce this extraordinary plan to
which Mr.. Fordney has not given
the necessary careful thought.
Prof. Walter +. Wilcox, of Cornell.
says: "The American valuation
plan Of the pending tariff bill is
likely seriously to diminish the for.
eign trade of the United States and
thus to diminish the chance that
foreign countries will be able to
pay their American debts, govern
Al b.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
Antiquity Of Asbestos.

The silk like fibre derived from asbestos was
familiar to the ancient Greeks ana Roma ns
and was used by them to naka frsproof rope
and freproof cloth. These the uses to
which asbestos is chiefly put al the present
time
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
Dojup the impossible

Give a boy OF nineteen a
car that will make seventy
miles an hour, and he will
hit eighty the first time out.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
X. MILLER
HIS IDIOTORlAL
ON
DUMB DUKES.

ENVOY from skip,stop'
plan Islands escaped into
Washington today with re-
tinue Of six blood hounds,
five sheriffs, two lawyers
and one dozen accomplices.
THEY will try to make
the world secure for safe
blowers. Business has been
very tough for second-story
operatives and cellar sleuths
in the Skip-Stop hemisphere.
Civilization will be asked to
assist in bolstering the mar
ket.
OFFICIAL representative
" OF loose little isle started
the day wrong by paying his
respects to the chief of police
whom he interrupted in the
midst of an exciting craps
tournament.
CHIEF went through the
~ motions OF being glad to
see unshaven caller and got
him out of the way by slip
ping him the keys to the
town hoosegow. After in.
specting the gallows and
third degree chamber, visitor
decided to look for another
boarding house.
TROOP OF dismounted
L cavalry met distinguished
immigrant at Union Station.
Flock Of army trucks was on
hand to transport baggage to
alien enemy custodian. Same
consisted OF brief case and
extra stand-up collar.
TRAIN following diplo.
L matte special brought up
rear with seven car loads Of
important data. twelve bot.
lies to the dozen. Sidewalk
mourners bowed heads in sill.
once as Cortege Of juice
amblcd up street under mill.
tary guard.
As important government
"a buildings were passed,
ianitors dipped flags Inv HON.
age to prodigal corpse. Arm.
ed posse kept respectful pub.
lie at disrespectful distance.
Machine guns were mounted
on every third caisson. The
spectacle was distressing.
Respondent. Depressing
E\CH tardy train that
~ triCkles in'o Capital City
brings new ag ny for citizens
who spend half Of life serv.
ing on welcoming com.
nittees. Wheels Of Wash.
ington industry stop every
five minutes in dumb tribute
to newest arrival Which
makes II very appropriate.
Doing the Impossible.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03

OFFICIAL representative
" OF loose little isle started
the day wrong by paying his
respects to the chief of police
whom he interrupted in the
midst OF an exciting craps
tournament.
The New York herald., 1921-02-14

Eango 1927 Div. lDiv.l
iiiish.l Low. lYitld.lln 5 Sa
The New York herald., 1921-02-14
EXPORT $500 900, 900
COTTON GOODS IN 1920
Shipments From u. S. Gain
S349, 100000 Since 1913.

More than S4OO.OooOOO in cotton
manufactures were sont out OF the
United States In 1890 against $1,000
Geo worth in the year Immediately pre-
ceding the war. Our exports OF cotton
goods OF all classes far exceed in value
those Of any earlier year and are ma
terlally greater in quantity than ever
before. The quantity OF cotton cloths
exported in 1920. says n statement OF
the National City Bank OF New Ypik.
Is about s50o0o.000 yards, against
32G. coo, ,000 yards In 1914, and the
values show much greater increase
because Of advances In prices. the aver
aya price a yard of cotton exported in
1890 being 20 cents In contract to Z
cents in 1914.
The United States continues the bank
statement, now supplies about Is per
cent. OF the cotton goods entering intcr-
national trade. against per cent be-
foi the war
The New York herald., 1921-02-14
TOTAL TRANSACTIONS IN HENEwYoRK STOCK EXCHANGE

WEEK ENDED FEBRUARY 7. 1921.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-03-23
SECOND WEEK JURORS.

. Following are the jurors drawn for
the second week beginning April ~
Of court of common pleas, which
.convenes next week with Judge Frank
3. Gary, presiding:
G. Jacob Lindler, E. Collie Clark,
Ed. W. Weaver. Thos. l.. Martin,
Job E. Roof, L. C. Cullum. Ernest G..
Shealy, D. 1. Cumalander. J. Dan
Porter, Henry D. Lowman, O. Fred
Hendrix, W. A. Moore. Pickens P.
Keisler, James l.. Floyd. Perry NJ.
Taylor, S. S. George, Andrew L. Cor
ley, Martin l.. Smith, George c. Price,
J. Arthur Harlnan. Olin D. kyzer,
J. W. Lewis, John +. A. Warren,
Joe B. Knight, Columbus e. Rawl,
Claude G.. SoX. G. E. Corley, Jr.,
Walter "A. Derrick, W. Talley Are
hart, J. Holley Cumalander, George
Rufus Hallman. H. NJ. Sawyer. Clyde
Gunter. Murray Gunnell. +. G.. Dre-
her. F. Lester CrOut.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-03-23
OUTLOOK
FOR 1921 IS GLOOMY

According to report Of 3. s. Hare,
agricultural statistician for the
Bureau Of Crop Estimates, United
States Department of Agriculture,
there remained on farms in South
Carolina of the last years corn crop
on March l, approximately 22,500,-
900 buhels, the quantity on CORES
ponding date Of last year being IT,
100000 bushels. The amount re-
naming on farms in the entire United
States on March / was 1,572,397,0 900
bushels, or 504,OOO,OO0 bushels more
than on the corresponding date of
1920.
The average value Of poor plow
lands in the State on March l, is re-
ported at $32 per acre, which is 50
per acre less than on March l, 1920.
The average value of good plow lands
was $6S per acre as compared with
$50 last year, the average for all
plow lands being $50 per acre. as
against $61 last year.
The report shows the average cash
rental paid for plow- fields in the
State last year was So per acre, the
average market value Of such fields
being $45 per acre. It would appear,
therefore, that the average value of
rented lands is about 10 per cent less
than the average value of all .plow
lands.
Speaking of the present agricultural
outlook Mr.. Hare states that one of
his crop reporters has summed up
the situation as follows:
The agricultural outlook. is the
gloomiest since the early eos. Farm
labor supply is about normal, but the
farmer cannot use this. profitably for
the reason that it is cotton field labor,
and the outlook for cotton: is too dan
gerous on account Of the low price of
the staple, cost Of, fertilizers. boil
weevii menace and inadequate
finances Credit resources were prac-
tically exhausted last year, and the
1920 crop barely paid one-half the
expenses. Hence, there IS a hkeli-
hood Of 4 very little cash or credit
supply from banks, and merchants
having exhausted their financial re-
ources will not be able to "cut any
figure" in the financing problem.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-03-23
LEXINGTON COUNTY BOY
TO REPRESENT UNIVERSITY

Friends in Lexington county Of
Prof. and Mrs. J. V. Smith Of the
CASTOR section, will be pleased to
learn that their son, r. Milo Smith,
who won q scholarship to the Uni
versity Of South Carolina, is forging
ahead and has won a signal honor in
being selected to represent the Uni
versity in u joint debate with Wof-
ford, which will take place at Colum-
bia at an early date. Mr.. Smith was
selected by a committee Of prominent
Columbians after preliminary trial
of students ct the university. He is a
graduate Of the Lexington high school
and is now in his freshman year.