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New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
Miller or Tanmany
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40 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The character of our municipal
administration is vividly portrayed In
the exposure of city supervised bus,
operations. What would happen II
aH public utility service in the eitys
were under municipal ownership and
an administration like the present ons
given free hand?
Our safeguard rests with state,
government, courageous and able.
Would AL Smith be free TO take the
initiative at crucial tinef No one
will dispute his personal courage asa
ability to do so IL he were Governor,
but ii his loyalty to the organization
TO which he is indebted for political
advancement were to be brought inte
question, would he exercise the moral
courage to oppose his benefactors and.
stand by the peoples = !.
The safest thing for voters TO dss
is to disregard political preferences
and re-elect Governor Miller for the
simple reason that he has demonstrated
his will power and wisdom to disresf
gard political pressure IN his deter
nlination TO serve all the best ins
terests of the stste.
HENRY C. BuCKH0uT. u
Brooklyn, Oct. rs, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
The Floater Re-emerges

New York thought it had said
good-by to the floater ten years or
more ago when personal registration
and two signatures on the poll book
were required Of every voter. Prior
to that time colonizing had been a
flourishing Tammany industry.
Every Wigwam district leader below
Fourteenth Street was expected to
do his bit in planting transients in
the lodging houses and in voting
them once or oftener as one-year
state residents. Impersonation, an
older trick, was also practiced. But
it was simpler and easier to billet
the floaters and then use them for
repeating purposes.
The Identification requirements of
the amended election laws scared
most Of the oldtime colonizers out
Of the business. The downtown dis
tricts lost heavily in population.
They also lost the Sullivans and fell
away from the Sullivan standards
Of clan rule. 1t seemed as If even
downtown New York had accepted
the ne-man-one-vote theory.
But Special Deputy Attorney Cen
eral A. S. Gilbert says that in the
18th Congress District, comprising
the lower East Side Assembly dis
tricts, conditions are once more Gin
describably rotten" He reports the
discovery of twenty-six Tammany
floaters registered from q single
house. Because of the ;ncapacity or
indifference of election officials old
abuses have revived. "False registra-
ton, perjury, neglect of duty by
public officers, false information bv
occupants Of dwellings," says Mr..
Gilbert, "are as common as flies in
summer"
In most uptown election districts
crime. ruffianism and disorder have
disappeared. The election booth is
rs safe and presentable as a school
room. The count is fair. But in
Tammany-ridden lower New York
tl11every seems to be lurking around
the corner. 1t is significant that the
1st Assembly District is the only
enc in Manhattan this year to show
registration exceeding that of
1921.
The fight for honest elections is
not over and will not be over until
Tammany's grip on the city is bro
ken.
Mr.. Gilbert will have every good
citizens support in trying to stamp
out the gross election offenses to
which Tammany in its desperation
has returned.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
A Question

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent, C. v.
Hartzell's, analysis of the great in
crease of crime since prohibition needs
no comment. ! should, however, like
to have Mr.. Hartzell, or any one else
fayoring the present prohibition law.
answer one question: If the prohibit
ton law is such good one why is IL
that 30 per cent of the alleged v;o-
iators Of the law are being defended
by former prohibition enforcement
agents or former United States dis
triet or assistant district attorns
FREDERICK SCHWARTZ
New York, Oct. 2s, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
What Readers Are 7hinking

around Fairbanks; the products are
used for local consumption. What
tney 40 raise is extremely good, only
the poor transportation and rough
character of the soil make progress
slow. HOWARD B. MACDONALD.
New York. Oct. 2s, 1922.
I'VE thank number Of our read
ers Tor calling attention to this error.
Fairbanks is right.--Ed.l
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
Josephus' s Afterthoughts'

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial in to-day's Trib-
une shows second attempt by Mr,
Daniels TO make Woodrow Wilson the
hero OF the submarine warfare.
About three years ago, in his testi-
mony before q Senate committee, Mr.,
Daniels stated that 1t was the presf.
dent himself who first pointed out the
way TO success against the U-boats
when he stated in speech, early in
the war, made on one of our battle
ships, that the way to get the sub
marine was to destroy 'the nests Of
these rats No mention was made at
TINS time BY Mr.. Daniels about the
convoy SYSTEM.
COMMANDER, u. 5. N.
New yOrk CcS or 1000
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
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New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
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Al s.shia d sorusleaion c all other matter
k4ren also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
Doomed to Failure

Henry Ford can never hope to have
more money than John d. Every
flivver he builds means more money
for the Standard Oil Company.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
Too Bad

Because of the establishing of
the fuel dictatorship the coal oper-
ators were robbed of the fruits Of
the miners strike.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
His Other Name Being Bonar

For time, at least, the affairs OF
Great Britain will be conducted ac-
eording to Law.
Copyright by James j, Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
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New-York tribune., 1922-10-30

Aunt Prudence represents a
minority But it is not a negligible
minority by any means. All the
current restrictions, and ATTEMPTED
restrictions, on our national life
e1nanate from this minority. It is a
| minority that is becoming more and
more conscious of itself and it's no.
litical power, and it has tasted ono
victory. 1t may not be altogether
conscious of its own ultimate aim,
but IS perhaps being carried on by
It's instincts and prejudices; 1t has
not avowed an ultimate aim and
may never avow it.
Ihere are persons now supporting
Aunt Prudence who will be shocked
INTO thought, perhaps, if they will
take the trouble to observe carefully
where she is leading them. If thew
think, comfortably and indolentIy
that it Is impossible for her In
change the country, the answer ;s
that she has already begun to
change it. ~
We started to write a gentle Josh
VI AuhI frue. But it suddenly &C.
curred to US that perhaps the gentle
JOSH IS not the sort Of thing that
the situation demands: but rather
a more serious look at these ten
oencies Which are crystallizing so
rapidly into concrete situations.
Il
Aunt Prudence Hecklebury has
ne,, nen own virtues and her many ex-
celiene,ies, no doubt, and it may be
that the people in general wish To to
see her Empress of America. :
| II SO, they are in a fair wav To
get her. There is deity Of mega. ,.
sion. q little god of suppression and n
sssnsesslon, q SNUG deity of re-
strlctlon and self-complacency and
atrophy and spiritual death and and
aunt Prudence Heeklebury is his
actlve and intolerant prophet. -
Don MARQUIS.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30

It seems to us that the only solu-
tion for the whole mix-up is for the
United States to cease entirely all
communications with the rest Of the
world, in any sort of ships.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30

American ships cannot clear from
British ports unless they carry at
least gallon of brandy for every
hundred British subjects in the
steerage.
Aunt Prudence Heckleburys and
Wayne B. Wheeler will probably de-
clare war against England unless
this iniquitous ruling is repealed.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
American ships are forbidden by
American laws to carry this brandy

French and Italian ships are for
hidden by American laws to enter
American ports with the compile
ments of wine for crews and pas
sengers which French and Italian
laws require.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Gradual Marketing of Cotton
Urged.

Atlanta, Ga.-Economic conditions
in Europe, outside of Russia, are
gradually improving, according to re-
ports received by manufacturers IN
obtaining general market conditions
for cotton, especially as bearing on
the prospective demand for the
American product. Reports indicate
that the consumption of American
cotton may be expected to show a
considerable increase perhaps 10 to
13 per cent over that of last year.
Visits were made by representa-
tives in touch with Georgia inter-
ests to England, France, Switzerland
Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden
Denmark, Germany, Poland, the free
city of Danzig, Czecho-Slovakia, Aus
tria, Italy and Egypt. In addition,
some of the representatives visited
Palestine.
At all the cotton marketing and
manufacturing centers conferences
were held with government officials,
cotton men, bankers and others, and
mach valuable information concern
ing conditions affecting American
cotton, it is stated, were secured.
"The recent advance in the price
of cotton has greatly relieved the
cotton merchants, spinners, and bank
ers of Europe as we'll as similar lines
of industry in this country" said
John K. Ottley, president of the
Fourth National Bank of Atlanta,
which has received detailed reports
of conditions in Europe.
according to the best informa-
ton obtainable," continued Mr.. ott-
ley, "the cotton manufacturing
world begins the new season with a
clean slate, there being no large
stocks of cotton or cotton goods held
by manufacturers in any European
country In the judgment of those who
are making study of the situation
Europe must of necessity follow a
"hand-to-mouth" policy in purchas-
ing its supplies of raw cotton, and
American holders should adopt a
gradual marketing policy to conform
to Europe's requirements"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Build House on Hill.

The cottage in the dell is all very
poetical and furnishes a good de-
sign for the illustrated cover of the
popular ballad, but the house that
is built on the hillside is superior
in every way and particularly has
It distinct garden advantage over
other sites. Here in picturesque
levels the small plots of ground hang
one above another in starlike fashion.
Delphiniums in blue, violet and hello
trope may crown the tier of terraces
Mt the base Of which a plain bit OF
lawn borders on the street or road
way, edged with lockwood to give an
atmosphere of venerableness reminis-
cent of old-time gardens, fragrant with
lavender, southernwood and spicy
herbs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Harding Refuses to be Stam-
peded.

Washington, Dec. l6. TO the plea
of Socialists that a blanket pardon
be issued in favor of the 200 and
more "politicap prisoners, President
Harding has turned deaf ear. On
the contrary, he has asked the attor-
ney general to take up each case sep
arately, and on each make separ-
ate recommendation.
The effort of the Socialists is di-
rected chiefly in behalf of Eugene
Debs, whom they have repeatedly
tried to elect president of the United
States. He was declared by jury to
have been guilty of attempting to OBJ
struct the government in its effort
to defeat Germany on the battlefield.
The effort in behalf of Debs has
been consistently sustained. Former
Attorney General Palmer recon-
mended that Debs be pardoned. The
recommendation was returned to
Palmer with "denied" written across
the face of it, and the initials, "W.
W." inscribed as proof of the power
behind the denial.
When Harding was elected, Social
lists renewed their efforts. They
thought that they had won their case
when Attorney General Daugherty
permitted Debs to come to Washing
ton unaccompanied. But five months
have elapsed. And they now ask for
a blanket pardon.
The president has let is be known
that he will take his time before pass
ing on the Debs case and other cases.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
County Treasurer's Notice.

The County Treasurer's office will
be open for the purpose of receiving
taxes from the fifteenth day of Oc-
tober, 1921 to the fifteenth day of
March, 1922.
All taxes shall be due and pay
able between the fifteenth day of
October, 1921 and December the
thirty first, 1921.
That when taxes charged shall not
be paid by December the thirty first,
1921 the County Auditor shall pro-
ceed to add a penalty Of one per
cent. for January and if taxes are
not paid OH or before February the
first 1922, the County Auditor will
proceed To add two per cent, and
five per cent additional, from the
first of March to the fifteenth of
March, after which time all unpaid
taxes will be collected by the Sheriff.
The tax levies for 1921 are as fol-
lows:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Tome Town
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HOME OWNERS GOOD CITIZENS
Truth in Statement That Red Flag Is
Never Flown Above Abodes
of Happiness.

"It has been truthfully stated by
many authorities that the red flag OF
anarchy or Bolshevism has never been
found flying from mans own home"
says the journal, Material Facts,
Cleveland, Ohio.
"Agitators and disturbers are the
rolling population bent only on fo-
menting hatred. They believe in many
'isms' because they mean equal divi-
sion, and these wanderers, having
nothing are willing to divide. Cleve-
land, now the fourth city, has reached
her present position because her citi-
zens are home owners and are using
every effort to further Cleveland in
terests.
Downing ones home is beneficial
from an economic standpoint. The
future of our country depends upon its
citizens Crowding of families into
tenements tends to destroy the physi-
cal fabric, while the lack Of privacy
in home life leads to the breaking
uOnI VI luOl al piSNSoSAeS'
The archbishop Of Canterbury in a re-
cent message states: The overcrowd-
ing in some regions, both urban and
rural, ought to fill us with shame. 1t
is. of course, a fruitful source of i'm
morality, as well as disease. We are
absolutely bound to make genuine
and sustained effort to secure that
every man, woman and child shall
have such accommodations as will en-
able him or her to live in health and
honor
"To this end, then, of better citi-
zenry, a better city, more glorious
state, a most magnificent country and
for a sane and healthy people, let
every one cultivate the saving and
thrift essential to the ownership of a
home"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
A Joke.

President w. P. G. Harding, of
the Federal Reserve Board is out
with statement criticizing the banks
of the country for not making loans
to farmers in order to assist them in
marketing their products, or in hold
ing them until fair market may be
found.
This sounds to us like joke. No
body better than President Harding
of the Federal Reserve Board knows
who is responsible for the present
conditions. His acts since the repub-
lican party went into power in re-
taxing to some extent the iron-bound
rules of extending help to country
banks has shown where the trouble
lay. Criticism by high officials in the
Wilson administration of his acts
and proceedings in forcing the coun-
try to "defate" leads to the conclu-
sio that had Mr.. Wilson been well
man in the latter days of his admin
|istration, Mr.. Harding would have
been halted in his efforts to pauper-
ize the farming interests of the coun-
try.
We believe that bankers the coun-
try over, if they would tell the truth,
would testify that conditions under
Mr.. Harding's board are intolerable.
1t is stated that the much heralded
help which was to come from the
War Finance Board can not be had
even now by the banks because after
an application, with all the red tape
of treaty of foreign alliance, has
been approved by the local commit
tee, and then approved in Washing
ton, it is sent to the Federal Reserve
Board for approval or action, and it
sleeps. Bankers complain that all
kinds of 81" dottings and ct" cross
ings are demanded, which were never
before demanded of them by banks
with which they dealt with before
the creation of the Federal Reserve
Board.
Mr.. w. P. G. Harding is entitled to
the credit of visiting upon the farm
ing interest of this country one of
the worst panics in the history of the
country and his modesty shall not be
the occasion of giving credit for it
to others, nor his false assertions,
either.-Press and Banner.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
WOULD BOYCOTT SIGN USERS
New York Newspaper Advocates Dras-
tic Action Against the Disfgurers
of Beautiful Scenery.

Everywhere the motoriSt travels the
natural beautiful scenery is marred by
glaring signs, not only small boards,
but immense structures often hun
dred feet or more in length and twenty
or more feet in height.
Just at a bend in the road where the
tourist expects to have a fine view
sweeping over broad valley the scene
IS completely cut off by monstrous
and offensive structure covered with
a fiaring advertisement.
At some points both sides of the
road will be lined with these unsightly
and ugly advertising walls.
In England the disfguring of fences,
buildings and other places with signs
is prevented by law on the ground
that the good taste of the people is
offended and the landscape disfgured.
Some of the worst offenders are
manufacturers who are interested IN
the development of motoring. They
have boarded up the roadways along
the whole eastern part of the United
States, much to the annoyance of mo-
torists and Disagreement Of the land
scape.
If the nuisance cannot be stopped
any other way, motorists can at least
agree not to patronize any concern
aiding in detracting from the natural
beauty of our country and the pleas
IRE of the public.-New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Japan and China Agreed as to
Railway.

Washington, Dec. 16.-A tentative
agreement to return the Kiaochow-
Tsinanfu railway in shantung to
China within nine months was report
ed today during conversations be-
tween japanese and Chinese dele
cations An agreement was also being
approached on other points concern
ing the mode of payment, it was
stated by the Chinese.
1t was decided that the road was
to be paid for in installments, but no
decision was reached on the period
over which 59,OOO,O0O gold German
marks, the price agreed upon, would
be spread.
The Chinese offer to pay in cash,
made yesterday, was not accepted by
the japanese and the Chinese coun-
tered with a proposal that payments
be completed within time as short as
possible. The Japanese, according to
a Chinese delegate, tonight said that
period was too short, and suggested
what to the Chinese seemed "a very
long term"
The sudden turning back of the
railway, the Japanese are understood
to have said, would adversely affect
japanese trade interests. China will
not borrow from Japan and money
with which to meet the payments, the
Chinese said nor will any loan be
negotiated.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Max. the Home Attractive.

The only way to make city at
tractlve Is for the individual family
to insist on buying only attractive
homes, and particularly to take the
responsibility for making its home
grounds attractive.
Grass seed may be sown, shubbery
planted and cultivated. flowers pro-
vided for, and painting done. If every
person in a block makes his place
neat and trim, the whole block will
help the appearance of the city. A
single negligent home owner may spoil
the work of dozen neighbors.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Good in City Planning.

1t is easy to see how one phase OF
city planning relates itself to other
phases, and how desirable it is for one
part of a city or one business In
city to be developed with due consid-
GRAFTON to other parts and to other
business. City planning is nothing
less than community affair and
nothing more than a sensible and
businesslil,e provision for the best pos
sible development Of all the commu.
nity's interests.-Kansas City Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04

but a tag must be purchased from che
County Treasurer for each dog be-,
tween October Is, and December 81,
of each year.
The law prescribes that all male
citizens between the ages of 18 and
55 years must pay $500 commuta
tion tax. No commutation is included
in the property tax. So ask for road
tax receipt when you desire to pay
road tax. Time for paying road tax
will expire February 1, 1922.
j. L. PRINCE,
Co. Treas. E. C.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
Many Baptists Inhabit State.

There are $4,000 Baptists in the
state of South Carolina today, ac-
cording to survey that has just been
completed by DR.. E P. Alldredge,
secretary of survey, statistics and in
formation of the Baptist Sunday
school board.
The survey was conducted on the
Baptist development in the United
States since 1921, the year in which
the Baptist state convention of South
Carolina was organized, the first con-
yention tp be, organized within the
territory Of the Southern Baptist con-
vention. The survey reveals that the
Baptist gain in the United States for
the century was 7,716,563 or an ad-
vance of 2,967 per cent, while the
increase in population in the country
for the same period was only 925 per
cent. 1t is in the South, however, that
the Baptists have made their greatest
stronghold, the number in this sec
ton being 6,162,5O0.
In 1921 when the South Carolina
convention was organized, there were
only 2O4 Baptist churches in the state
with Ill ministers and 1908 men,
bers. These churches reported 759
baptisms for that year. BY 1921, how
ever, the number of white Baptist
churches cooperating with the South
ern Baptist convention had increas-
ed to 1,15O with 176,379 members.
Last year they reported $3.50 bap-
tisms, SS7 Sunday schools and an en-
rollment of 10000 and local church
property valued at S6,Ss0,01O. The
contributions of these churches to
home purposes last year amounted to
s1,276,774, and to missions and be-
nevolences $1,225,770, making the
total contributions for the year to all
causes S2,532,544.
The comparison of the present Bap-
tist membership in the state with the
total population shows that 23.S
per cent, of all the people of South
Carolina are members of local Bap-
tist churches. DR. Alldredge's survey
reveals further the fact that South
Carolina Baptists lead all others of
the South, not only in organizing a
convention, but that they organized
the first church in the South at
Charleston in 1852; they were the
first to begin systematic collections
for ministerial education beginning
in each of these directions being
made in 1875; they were first in max
ing contributions to Christian educa-
tion, beginning this in 1774; they
were pioneers in appointing stand
ing committee to work for civil and
religious liberty, beginning this in
1879. In addition, they were the first
to launch theological seminary, the
Southern Baptist Theological semi
nary now at Louisville, having been
launched at Greenville in 1850
The State.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-04
The Mystery of eodliness

Great is the mystery of godliness;
God was manifest in the flesh, justi-
fed in the Spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed
on in the world, received up into
glory.-I Timothy 3:16.