Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-11
Scraps and fatts.

walking together, tney dle lCe Sie.,
together-and the girl pretty g neraily
showed the home town boys tnat the
American visitor was her ideal. But
three boys--all between ten and
twelve-liked the little girl and they
didn't like Eddie's visit and his pop
ularity at one stroke. Friday men
passing a wood near the town heard
n bows cries. They smelled smoke
apd rushed into the woods. Tied 10
a':stake,, with a fire eating its way up
his legs, was Eddie Sanderson. They
cat the rope, threw water on his feet.
ard rushed him into the town. There
Eddie at first refused to tell what mad
Happened Finally he admitted ms
popularity and said the three poys
had chased HIM, caught him carried
him into the woods and there klndied
fire of paper and sticks, tied Linn TO
a. stake-and left him. Eddie's phy..
seal condition is not serious, but
there is no report yet on the condition
of his. popularity.
= The United States is "striding Wig.
orously toward Industrial prosperity,
according to the economic summary
for the month Of June issued Sunday
by the United States employment SER
vice of the department Of labor. En-
ployment is increasing, the survey
said, despite unsettled conditions in
the coal fields and cotton textile in
dugtry and the railroad controversies.
or the 65 leading cities Of the coun-
try, So reported increased employ
f.,ert, while 13 reported decreased en-
moyment during June. A noteworthy
feature of the survey the department
scid. was that all industries but the
stone, clay and glass products .indi-
Gated increases in employment. In
these three industries, ii was said, the
decrease was largely due to seasonal
Law offs. Director General Jones, OF
the employment service, declared the
country is steadily but surely forging
IT'S way toward a period Of industrial
prosperity in which it is possible that
the labor supply will not equal the
demand" A note Of optimism, he add
ed, pervades practically every in
dustry in every section of the country.
The survey indicated, according to
Mr.. Jones, that building activities
were developing so that q shortage
of skilled building craftsmen was be-
coming apparent in many sections OF
the country.
a. Since the recent assassination Of
Dir. Rathenau, the German foreign MIN
slS i,
going from bad to worse, and at the
ptesent time it looks as If complete col
lapse is matter of a very few days.
The mark has declined to point where
it is worth but little more than the pa
per ii is printed on and the govern
ment has practically no way to get the
gold with which to make the repara-
tions payment now due. without
means with which to buy cotton, cop
per and other raw materials there
seems no other way for II than the in
stitution of q. system Of barter under
which the raw material may be paid
for with the finished product, and this
probably will mean the stirring up or
the labor interests Of the countries 10
which Germany will barter he: goods.
Should German manufacturers be COM
PEELED to close their plants for lack OF
markets, innumerable workmen will be
thrown out of employment and that will
mean an unrest that cannot well de-
velop into other than revolution. The
only country that has the money with
w$firh:ro. Germany IS. the United
States. and the United States capital
lists are not itching to make loans on
such security as Germany has to offer.
Hance. alone, according TO expert
opinion, has the power to save Germa-
nv from collapse, and she can do 1t
only, by extending further credit as 10
reparations.
- Attorney General Daughcrty has
called for free for all hearing to be
held at the Department of Justice
Thursday on the legal question In
vofVed in the selling Of whisEey on
the high seas in American ships. The
right of foreign ships to have liquor
on board within the three-mile limit
of American shores will also be de-
termined. Senator Sterling (Rep., 5.
d. on Friday proposed an amend
ment to the Tariff Bill extending the
action of the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead act eighteen miles
out of sea. Should this become law
it would render liable to search, and
perhaps to seizure, by the United
States government, foreign ships
bound from Canada TO South America
or from Great Britain to Havana or
British Honduras If they happened to
come Within eighteen miles of Flori-
da, which they ordinarily do. The pro-
visions of the Sterling amendment fol-
low: Officers of the Customs, the
Coast Guard the treasury department
or other officers whose duty would be
to enforce the National Prohibition
Act may go on board any vessel at
any place in the United States or
within six marine leagues " the
coast of the United States and hail,
stop and board such vessel in the en-
forcement of the laws prohibiting reg
ulating. taxing or relating to the
liquoT traffic. The provision of the
National Prohibition Act and other
laws relating to intoxicating liquors
shall be in full force and effect within
six marine leagues of the coast Of the
United States and shall be enforced
by such officers"
= Senator Ladd. of North Dakota,
has introduced n bill providing for the
acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for
Muscle Shoals. ''The average impOr-
tations of Chilean nitrate for five
years, 1911-19l5 inclusive" Senator
Ladd said, amounted to 551,714 long
tons with an average value at the
Chilean port of $17,511,6 ,697 and with
an export duty paid to Chile on this
tonnage amounting to $G.91O,97S.92.
The cost of ocean freight. insurance,
commissions, etc, on this five year
period of Chilean nitrate importations
can be eonservatively estimated at $40
a ton. making a total cost at port of
approximately S29,9S9,S15,92. OF this
tonnage. during this period. there was
consumed as n fertilizer by the farm
er, about 250, 900 tons. Chilean nitrate