Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-05
"What's He Gettisg Four Payments OF
Thousand Pounds For?"

districts. regulated by population
rather than area, and each district mp.
pl.arcd To beiin charge of one director.
a varying number of sub-dlstrlcts in
every main division had each their sub
|. director and staff, and ut some of the
namcS Drummond rubbed his eyes in
! amaZement. Briefly. the duties of every
man were outlined; the locality In
which his work lay, his exact RESPONSE
bilities, so that overlapping was re-
luccd to a minimum. IN each case the
staff was small, the work largely that
Of organization. Put In each district
there appeared ten or Il dozen names
Of men who were cuphcmistically de-
| Scrihcd rs lecturers; while at the end
of the book there appeared nearly fifty
namcs-hoth of men and women-who
were proudly denoted as first-claSS lee
! turcrs. And If Drummond had rubbed
his eyes at some Of tho names on the
organizing staffs. the first-clnss general
lecturers deprived him Of speech.
"Why," he spluttcrcd after mo-
mcnt, "a lot of these peoples names
are absolutely housewold words in The
country. They may he swinc-thcy
| probably are. Thank God! I've very
rarely met any; but they ain't crlInI-
nails"
"No more Is Peterson" grinncd the
American; "at least not on that look.
Sec here, Captain, it's pretty clear
what's happening. In any country to-
day you've got all sorts and conditions
nf people with more wind than. brain.
They just can't stop talking, and as yet
it's not criminal Offense Some Of
'em believe what they say, like Spin
] dlc-shanks upstairs; some Of 'cm don't.
And if they don't, it makes 'em worse;
they start writing rs well. You've got
clever men-intelectua mcn-loOl ut
some of those guys in the tirst-class
g(upral lccturers-and they're the
worst Of the lot. Then you've gpt an
other claSs-the men With the business
brain. who think they're getting the
sticky end Of it, and use the takers
| 20 pull the chestnutS out of the fire for
them. AMI the chrstnuts, who are the
moor b'.mcd decent wOrliingnen, are
promptly dropped In the ashpit TO keep
'elu quiet. They all want something for
nothing, anu | guess il can't he done
They all think llcy'ru fooling one an
other, and what's really going ut the
moment is thar Peterson is fn0Iing the
| whole bunch. lie wants all the strings
in his hands and 1t looks TO me us II
he'd got 'rm there. He's got the money
| and We know where he got it from;
he's got The organizalinn--all either
rc,l-hOt reyolutiulrlrirS, or intellectual
wintlStur.lIS. or calculating KNIVES.
! He's amnlgalnatpd EN-, Captain; and
iile whole blamed lot, whatever they
nav think, IRE really working for
him."
Drummond 1houghtfulIy lit Gig
arctic.
"Wurking toward revolution IN
this country" he remarked quietly.
"S,lrr thing" answered tlle Alneri-
can. "And when he brings II Oft,
guess you WON'T catch Peterson for
dust. He'll packet the Doodle, and the
boulrS will Stew in their OWN juice.
guessed il in Paris; that book makes
it Il certainty. l'lt II ain'i crllllIliaI.
In Il court nf law he could swear il WAS
!n organization for selling lilrd-sced.
For Il while DrHmm0hd slnokeh IN
silence r.whiln rhe two SlennerS shifted