Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-19
Scraps and faets.

bonding advance in parcel posi- ra'es'
he is writing to large nuInper vi
parcel post users to get their views on
proposed changes. The chanses
which have been suggested, DR.. Work
saws. include proposals to fix service
charge OF one or two cents on each
pafcel mailed regardless of weight or
zone, and to readjust rates by welght
and zone. The postmaster general
points out that there has been practl-
cally no change in parcel post rates
since the service amounted TO SooO,-
OO0, 900 more in 1921 than in the year
it was started.
The house bill providing S5OO,OOo
additional for the department of JUS
tice for prosecution of, fraudulent, war
contracts was passed Tuesday by ths
senate and now goes to- .Presldenl
Harding for approval. There was no
ouposition and little discussion OF tne
bill. which was urged by the presl-
dent and Attorney General Daugherty.
Upon receipt from the house lne
measure promptly was given upanl-
NOUS approval by the senate appro-
priations committee, and was put
through the senate by unanimous con-
sent. Senator King, Democrat, otah'
said that the department OF justice
had not brought prosecutions under
the antitrust law as vigorously as ne
would have desired, and he hoped the
additional appropriations would bring
commensurate results. tReorganlZa-
tion of the department of justice TO
provide separate bureau for prosecu-
ton of war-fraud cases is under way.
DIR. F.. Y. Mullins of Louisville,
XIV, was reelected president of the
opening OF it's sixty sixth annual ses-
sion at Jacksonville, Fla, Wednesday.
The fonr vice presidents elected were
the Rev. r. NJ. Inflow of Sedalia, Mo-,
w w. Gaines of Atlanta, Ca, the
Rev. ]. j. Taylor, Leaksville, n. Co.
and. the Rev. w. d. Nowlin, Green
Vile, KY. MI Gaines is an attorney.
Geo. w. Norton of Louisville, treasu-
rer, and Dr.. w. II. Harvey of Har-
rodsburg, KY, auditor, We're elected,
and the convention then began the
first contest over officers. There
names were put up for the two posi-
= tions of recording secretary. Dr. II.
G. Moore of Nashville, Tenn, and u.
III. Burnett of Macon, Ga, were nom
mated TO succeed themselves, while
the name of A. S. Barnes OF Mont
gomery, Ala, also was placed in nom
ination. The convention voted by bal
lot and DR.. Moore and Mr. Burnett
were re- elected.
ALL products of the farm are on
the dutiable list in the McCumber-
Fordney tariff bill, Senator Gooding
of Idaho, chairman OF the republican
agricultural tariff bloc. announced in
the senate. "If any farm product is
on the free list, | do not know what
il is" he said. "If we find ii we Will
nut il on the dutiable list if it needs
protection" Senator Gcoding said the
average rate of duty in the bill on
farrA products was 81 $40 per cent.
and called, attention that only few
things produced by the farmer were on
the dutiable list in the Underwood
law. The Idaho senator declared that
the United States Ought TO pretty
near close its ports, ITO similar foreign
products when there was an overpro-
duction, of staple farm products. He
declared that when there was an over
production of manufactured articles
the manufacturers closed their factor
les with the approval of the public.'
but added that the farmer could not
cease production. He argued, how
ever, that what he described as the
Democratic policy of "free trade"
would drive the farmers to q curtail-
rlcnt of output. The tariff bloc chair
man asserted that "all this talk about
the McCumber bill being framed be-
hind closed doors is without founda-
ton" He said that when the doors
were closed any senator was welcome,
adding that he had been present with
farmers on several occasions. Declar-
ing that this was the first tariff bill
ever framed that gave the farmer
nta,. 1irNO- oh
ed that "all this delay in the senate"
was for the purpose of "molding pub
lie opinion to the idea that this bill is
infamous"
The Majestic, now the worlds
largest steamship, was docked at New
York last Tuesday afternoon, at the
end of her maiden trip across the At
lantic. The Majestic was built by the
Germans. as the Bismark. and turned
over to the English after the armis-
tice. She had never been out before.
She is said to have behaved beputi-
fully on her maiden trip, coming
across in five daYs and l6 hours,
breaking the record for maiden voy-
ages, but not for speed across. The
Mauretania was the largest ship in
the world before the launching of the
Majestic She was sailing. out of
New YORK narD0r as the Majestic came
In. The Majestic bid her bon voyage
and she replied with thanks. The Ma
iestic with her load weighed close to
$4,000 tons. The ship will accommo-
date 400 passengers-more than the
largest hotel in New York can put up
comfortably over night. There are
1,245 state rooms, 473 of which are
first class, most of them being at least
as luxurious as the rooms in the most
exclusive hotels. u the second cabin
are 212 state rooms, in the third. SCI.
Every room has electric lights, $4,000
bulbs are used. Most of the huge
liners now sailing the seas are bUilt
around the engines, that is they are
built in such n way that dining
rooms, quarters, cabins even stairs
are made secondary to the engine
room. On the Majestic it is the re-
verse. All stairs are on the side of
the ship. The smokestacks and venti-
lators are built along the sides, con-
Meeting in air spaces at the top of the
elevator shafts on the emergency
boat decks. There, are eight kitchens
on the Majestic. and five special din
ing rooms In the third class there is
a purely orthodox Kosher" kitchen
where such food can be prepared
solely for the use of Jewish passen-
gers. There is also an "a In carte"
dining room, n new departure in SER