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, 1922-06-02

We do recall indeed that there have been literary
cabals and literary jealousies- Swift attacked
Dick Steele. So serene a character as Macaulay
fell with such violence upon an editor who had the
presumption to criticize Mackintosh's history that
he got himself sued and even had to Glide his re
marks IN subsequent editions of his works. Pope
charged Addison with presiding over a literary
senate and sitting attentively to his own applause.
Byron charged the Scotch reviewers with trying to
put him down.
But in democratic America, we have under
stood, everybody is an author. Successful manu-
facturers are besieged by publishers TO write their
views on international politics. Prize fighters
are best sellers. How should there be a literary
senate in a country where the literary suffrage is
so widely held and universally exercised? But
Greenwich Village knows what it knows. 1t SAYS
art has no chance in competition with the com
mercial product puffed by the al-powerful clique.
These literary log-rollers blurb for each other,
turn and turn about, until the public is convinced
the whole world must be buying and reading the
books so puffed.
"If all this is true it seems to bear out what We
just another example of quantity production. II
writer's can employ the methods of industrialism
and put out mot books indeed, but praise of books,
in what manufacturers would call volume. why,
results that attend that system in other lines. We
hardly know what the outsiders can do about it,
unless, inded, they can manage to join the insiders.
1--WE have recently heard of a publisher who
bought the Arcrican rights of a foreign book that
he believed to be highly promising; he translated
IL lit was a French book, and printed five hun
accounts, all but two hundred and is wondering
why: To us the rason is plain enough. We have
reason that never satisfies either an author or a
publisher. They retort that lots of books that are
no good sell like good ones. Maybe so, that's where
the clique falls under suspicion. It's a comfortable
thought to unsuccessful writer's that they are the
victims of a conspiracy. At least it's more COM
Portable than to conclude that they do not deserve
of their own they might get somewhere. But We
don't know"
, 1922-06-02
Letter From Jim.

James B. Griffith, superintendent
of the mechanical department of The
Tribune, who started on an overland
trip to Venice. California, more than
g week ago has arrived safely n
writes the office as follows:
Dear Tribune-Arrived Friday even
ing and found the wife greatly improv-
ed in health-so much so that I hardly
knew her.
Had good trip having a little tire
trouble and a broken front spring
when 1 plunged into a water wash on
the desert in an effort to jump across
so I wouldn't get tied, up for several
days. The Essex made it all right, but
she sure got an awful jar, and broke
two leaves in the left front spring.
1 never saw so much desert in all
my hfe-traveied for two days across
Utah and Nevada with nothing but
sand and alkali on all sides.
This is the route 1 took: Casper
to Rawlins, to Rock Springs, to Green
River, to Evanston, to Salt Lake City
via Coalvilie; from Salt Lake 1
plunged into the desert, headed for
Ely. Nevada, went 124 miles at a
stretch, over sand and alkali, no wat
err IN sight, no Gus SGtIoho' hohhihe
but horned toads and spotted lizards;
from Ely to Tonopah. New, to Gold
field, New. Their more desert for 100
miles or more. Then over the Sierra
Nevada mountains via h Westgard
Pass into California. stopping at Big
Pine, Cal. Then down the valley be-
tween the mountains, and 100 miles
more through h great Mojave desert,
which skirts Death Valley county,
on the east: some desert, with a little
oasis now and then, where you could
get a sandwich and a glass of goats
milk. Say. boys. goat milk is all
right, but I don't think I would ever
have learned to drink it except on a
desert where there was nothing else
with which to wet your whistle.
VII write you a detailed report to
night or tomorrow. which will be real
interesting. Now L am going out II
the beach. only a block away. to see
the girlies 'disport themselves in
their one-piece bathing suits. Good
bye. JIM
, 1922-06-02
Improvement In Iron and Steel.

DEMAND in the iron and steel trade reported
~ from Pittsburgh and other centers appear to
have settled to more stable basis and while it is
maintained, it is apparent that progression will
be on a more orderly basis but such as is likely to
keep steel mills employed for many months at good
capacity. Steel prices are very firm all quoting
advanced, or premium prices, for early delivery.
The regular market on bars, shapes and plates is
now SLIGO, or about So a ton above the low point
OF some three months ago. Deliveries of these and
other steel commodities are chiefly at lower prices
than those now ruling. 1t has been the common ex-
perience of the steel trade that it requires several
months of heavy demand, after a depression to en-
able the mills to work off old and low-priced orders
and get into really profitable production. Accord
ingly the prospects for next autumn's demand are
being canvassed with particular interest. Actual
consumption is believed to be increasing from
month to month, and such increase may take up the
slack involved in some of the present deliveries
of steel. being for replenishment of stocks, together
with the differences between the present produc-
ton rate, between 20 and 70 per cent of capacity,
and the production of which the industry wit be
capable when the coal strikes are all over.
, 1922-06-02
Flapper Preparedness.

1.-THE AVERAGE FLAPPER does not care for
l. privacy in the various details of making her
toilet" observes the Los Angeles Times. She can
rouge her lips in the midst of the Broadway parade
and comb out her bobbed locks while nibbling her
eclaire lunch to the music of a jazz band. Her
womanly idea of preparedness is to have her vanity
box chained to her arm at all hours. She carries
a makeup box instead of a prayer book or a nurs-
ing bottle. We have seen a broiler dab her nose
five times with a powder rag while traversing a
single city block. Before the stenographer goes
out to lunch she holds active communion with her
vanity case. She takes this essential equipment
with her. When she finds her chair in the restaur-
ant out comes the powder rag for another caress.
When the lunch is concluded there must be more
powder and rouge, and possibly a call for the
manicure tools. No girl ~hesitates at makingup in
a crowded street car or in the rush of traffic. She
can cold-cream herself in front of the Grand Army
of the Republic. She has about as much privacy
as a snake charmer. She will not hesitate to
change ~nighties in the presence of the Archangel
Gabriel. She will paint her eyebrows in honor of
the American Legion, and roll her stockings in the
company of the wide, wide world. She has learned
to use a comb in the theater and her nail-polisher
in church. She can sit on the window sill and tint
her lips while the firemen below are waiting for
her to jump. She is not easily Disconnected, and
the guy who kidnaps her is getting some kid.
, 1922-06-02
N. H. S. y

From the day when first you went
I o school,
BY fighting up through ev'ry grade.
Obeying tmost times) the teachers
rule.
You've made the goal for which
o played
You are Graduates,
High School Graduatesi
Now you enter the School OF Life
Each day must meet what that day
brings
Alert and ready to face Int strife
II you would win success, do things.
You are Graduates,
High School Graduates!
And while onward h years shall roll
Pleasure and pain. sorrow and joy
You will find writ upon LIES Scroll
May none of these your soul destroy
You are Graduates,
High School Graduates!
Juno 2. 1922. e. Richard Ship.
, 1922-06-02

even sanitary. until forced to do SO.
by city authorities and this is the
class Of property holders opposing
the paving.
Now, I as n rem payer and pro-
duccr OF the community think It time
for every man paying rent to find out
how his landlord and merchant stand
on this question and II he is against
1t. move out and cut off his revenue.
until he decides to give us something
for our money. I know two landlords
in the vicinity OF Tenth and Chest
nut streets who have derived $40. 900
in rents. in h last three years, who
ere the chief kickers in this progress
sive movement. One invests all his
profits in a foreign town. One prop
crty owner in the neighborhood OF
| Spruce street lives on a paved street
In the eastern section of the city to
: evade the mud and says he will not
! even put in the sidewalk unless fore
ed to by the city.
Now as a citizen and voter / ask
the city council not to consider this
sort of opposition. as the rent payers
arc the back bone of any community
and shonld be entitled to some consid-
GRAFTON.
THOMAS ]. LEAHy.
, 1922-06-02

been used over cold.frnne cucumber
beds by Mr.. Peters and were given to
the boys because they had brought
him SO many good fish, was put at
each end. as shown at f. These at
each end. with the door open. gave
plenty OF light. Any old boards were
used for the top part of the walls OF
the slope from A to b to c. Both
the roof and h porch" were covered
with old tarred paper and tho place
was as snug as any expensive cottage.
No more worrying about rainy days"
said Tee as he began to build at +
what he called an emergency fire
place"
"Now when II rains the smoke will
just float out the end of our porch,
but the rain won't put out our fire
and we can eat out of tho wet under
shelter"
The little camp proved SO comfort
able. that on the following season the
boys wen back there for a month.
And then they painted it and mad<
a really worthwhile place out OF 1t.
(Saturday-"A Giants Bow and Ar
row.
, 1922-06-02
The Litcrdru Trust.

THE a CHARGE is made that in New York
l. a wicked clique of writer's has taken possession
of the temple of liteary fame and laughs demnibly
at the expiring agonies of unrecognized geniuses
before the door they howl without" mourns the
Kansas City Star.
"f what is said is true the combination formed
by. these conspirators comes dangerously near to
being in violation of the Sherman law.
"'Tis said the members of this clique have power.
full and mysterious influences by which the literary
output of outsiders is smothered like the young
princes in the Towers of London. The public
never hears anything of these infants, except per
haps their last gurgles under the holsters. But
books and plays produced by those authors who
have been admitted into the mysteries of the trust,
if it may be called by that opprobrious name, are
hailed with every helpful acclaim and conducted
TO a rapid and blurborious success.
"Can such things be? Is the literary character
subject TO the f~railfsies that beset common flesh?
, 1922-06-02
Queer Questions With
Hidden Answers
II You Can't Answer Them, Look
Among the Want Ads.

Which has more inhabitants-Es.
thonia or Borneo. 81.
What child in order of birth has
the best chance to live?
What was the last territorial &C.
QUESTION of the United States?
Where is the geographical center
of the United States?
Jay Gould is a ennis player. Is he
a good one or not?
What is h meaning Of Texas7
Who wa the first ruler OF the Ger
mans?
What nation has the largest army
What is the longest days journey
of a sailing vessel?
How much will n dollar yield al
s per cent compound Interest. for 100
years?
, 1922-06-02
Another Tenants Tiew.

Editor Tribune: In reference to "a
Tenants" communication in Mon
days Tribune. concerning the paving
question. I too would like to say a
word. I have been a resident of this
city for two years and has paid In
rent more than 81 900 for the privilege
of wading in mud. My work necessi-
tates my living in the southwest sec
ton of the city. as do many of my
co-workers.
"a Tenant" says, so per cent of the
district involved is kept up by rev.
enues obtained from rents. Now
should not these tenants DO entitled
to some consideration in this matter?
I know several landlords who have
never added any improvements. not
, 1922-06-02

the powers of congress and mask a destructive in
vasion of the sovereignty of the states.
"The child labor tax case is a landmark in con-
stitutional law, not because, as those who seek to
deceive may say, it permits the industrial exploita-
ton of children, for that it does not. 1t clearly
places upon each state the responsibility of local
legislation TO meet the vital issue. a responsibility
, 1922-06-02
The Tax Case.

TAMES A. EMERY of the National Association
81 of Manufacturers in speaking of the recent
supreme court decision holding unconstitutional
the child labor tax law says it has been made "for-
, 1922-06-02

which f~ortyfive states already have met
in the matter of taxes one of the greatest needs
OF the industry is q decentralized tax administra-
ton to permit within reasonable limits practical
appeal and adjustment in order that the overhead
of excise may be definitely determined and not in
definitely estimated to lag as an uncertain charge
and an embarrassment TO Indispensable credit
, 1922-06-02

Can you afford to pay rent wher
you can get 3 per cent money to build
or buy? United Home Builders asso
citation. Phone $780,. 6-2-2i
, 1922-06-02

IT, Insisted Ned. But he cid sec whe,
;he framework went up. as shown IN
Figure ?
Now I understandF- Ned exclaimed
We can put our hunks back under
the sloping side. and our boxes ara
supplies. and we can stand up in The
front side"
Right" answered Ted; mot op,-
our hunks, but the table. and this
gives the whole front side clear whsrs
we can stand erect and walk about e
When they had finished their
"Island Palace" ms they called Il. 4,
looked something like Figure .. One
of the we small windows. which had
, 1922-06-02

Bauer's Denver ice Cream. Choco'
late, Strawberry and Vanilla for Sun
day. Pops News Depot. 6-s-ii
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Commencement at Vox School.

Hemingway, April 24.-The Vox
graded school will have it's regular
commencement exercises in the audi
torium and will present the following
program:
Thursday evening, April 27, at 8:3G
the high school will give an operetta,
"The Bells cf Folderol."
Friday evening, April %, at $3.50
the intermediate end primary grades
will present ''The May-Day Pageant"
On Sunday morning, April 80, at
II O'Clock the commencement sermon
will be preached in the school audi
torium by Dr.. J. G. Clinkscales, Of
Wofford College.
On Monday night May 1, at $3.50
the, graduating exercises will be held.
The literary address will be deliver
ed by DR.. ]. G. Clinkscales, of Wof-
ford College.
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A Happy. Easter at Corinth.

Hemingway, April 20.-On Satur-
day evening before Easter, at 1890
o'clock the children began to gather
for an egg hunt that had been pre-
viously announced. After few songs
by the choir the youngsters were
formed in line and marched to 9
r.eck of woods where several hum
dred eggs had been hidden. The
word was given and the hunt began.
Soon the grown-ups joined the hunt
and we began to enjoy brief period
Of life, as if we were carried back to
childhood again. Soon the bushes and
grass was being shaken and searched
for eggs and a young rabbit scared
from its hiding place came bouncing
through the crowd of delighted chill
dren, there was a lusty yell and the
hunt was over, the happy crowd dis
pursed.
On Easter Sunday morning large
crowd gathered to hear the Easter
morning sermon by their pastor, and
at $3.50 p. m. the Sunday school gave
its Easter program, which began by
having the choir sing several songs.
Then the Cradle Roll speakers were
given the stage and though it was the
first attempt FOR most of them they
made a good impression on ell who
heard them. The Junior department
was given the platform next and for
an hour they entertained the vast
crowd. There were rany dialogues
and recitations ably delivered
Especially did We enjoy lit TOMS,
Prayer" by little Miss 6eellk May
Gordon; "a Warning to- Avoid the
COLLINS" by little Miss Louise Lewis;
"Easter Time by little Miss Meta
Parsons; song, "The Sksptic Daugh-
ter" by Miss Lurey Crib, which
brought tears to many eyes, and the
song, Mother is Calling" also by
Miss Lurey Crib and Miss Louise
Tunstall.
The Easter spirit seemed to per-
rade every nook and corner Of the
church. TIE yerdict of all was that
it was the happiest En- ter at this
church in mary years. This church
is located three miles from Heming-
way or tie Georgetown road in a
prosperous farming district and has
growing Sunday-school. Elder ].
H. Frier is pastor, he having re-
Gently moved here from Darlington.
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w. X. MCINTOSH
APPOINTED. MANAGER
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AT
FLORENCE BY T. C. WATKINS :
YESTERDAY.

Managers Of growers warehouses in
the various markets of South Caro-
lima are being appointed by T. C..
Watkins, Jr., Of South Boston, Va,
as warehouse head of TIE Tri-State
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Mar
keting Association. C.. o. Dixon, Of
Mullins, warehouse head Of this state,
and T. B. Young, director from the
Florence district in the association,
are assisting him in the selection Of
managers.
Yesterday afternoon 1T Florence,
Mr.. Watkins announced the appoint
ment of w. K. Mcintosh as associa-
ton warehouse manager ut Kingstree.
He is reputcd one Of the veteran
warehouserlen Of the state and a
very able man in this line Of business.
Conferences are still being: held with
representatives of other markets,
with the expectation of selecting To-
cal managers there.
Wherever possible, the association
follows the policy Of naming the best
local warehouscman to represent it,
so long as the, warehouscman is
available and stands well with the
members.
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PROSPERITY AND HIGH
PRICES NOT RELATED
Says Mr.. Mcintosh, President of AS
sociated Advertising Clubs
of World.

Washington, April 27-The Asso-
ciated Advertising Clubs of the World
is an international organization rep
resenting the best and most progress
sive element in modern business. It's
president, Mr.. Charles Henry McIn-
tosh, says that the relation of pros
perity and high prices is fictitious,
and that it is> perfectly possible for
the country as whole to be extreme
ly prosperous in an era Of low prices.
'If high prices meant prosperity,
Russia would be the most prosperous
country in the world today" said Mr..
Mcintosh. "Yet in Russia, where it
costs two thousand rubles to mail a
letter first class, men starve who have
money but no food to buy with it.
Economists in the government serv-
ice point out that the height or low
ress of a price cannot be measured in
terms of money, unless the worth Of
the monetary unit is also made part
of the measurement. Thus, German
mark, once worth about twenty
cents, is now worth a fraction Of a
cent. An object once to be bought
for one mark now costs two hundred
marks, yet the value Of the object and
it's relative price is the same. Only
when price increases faster than the
value of the purchasing unit sinks
can absolute price be said to rise.
Disparity in price Of goods and price
Of money is frequently caused by too
rapid rise or fall Of commodity prices,
which is the fundamental underlying
Mr.. McIntoshs warning that "those
who expect the return Of war time
prices or expect the lower limit of the
price decline within few months are
misguided optimists and speak Ger
tainly without intelligent knowledge
of the facts Of history"
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D. A. RS. Hold April Meeting.

The April meeting of the Williams
burg Chapter U. D. C. was held at
the home of Mrs. ]. F. McFadden
on Tuesday, April 18th, with Mrs.
Wallace, the vice-president presiding.
Committees were appointed for the
annual veterans dinner.
A committee consisting of Miss
Warn, Mr.. Boddie and Mrs. L. A. Van
Keuren was appointed to serve as
judges of the essays written by the
school children.
A letter was read from Mrs. ]. H.
West, State Historian, regarding the
histories and readers used in the
schools. The chapter voted that a
letter be written to the State Board
of Education requesting that books
be used that were fair to the South.
The chapter voted to postpone the
matter of tbs sale of ten books, the
chapters quota, as presented by a
letter from Mrs. Williams.
Letters were read from Mrs. Legare
and Mrs. Annie G.. Massey requesting
the formation of aAchapter for chill
dren. This was postponed until the
May meeting.
A request was then read from the
chapter in Seattle, Washington, ask
ing for contributions in their work.
A letter was read asking for contri-
buttons to the Matthew Maury Memo
rial. The chapter voted no contribu-
tions.
After the business meeting the
hostess served delicious salad course.
Mrs. Harry Britton,
Secretary.
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Resolution.

At the meeting Of the Kingstree
Democratic club, held in Kingstree,
S. c., on the 22nd day of April, 1922,
the following resolution was intro
duced by Mr.. F. R. Hemingway and
endorsed and adopted by the club:
Having the utmost confidence in the
statemanship, integrety and ability
of the Honorable Philip H. Stoll, con-
gressman from the Sixth Congress
sional District of South Carolina, and
Desiring to express the confidence
and to promote, and endorse his can
didacy for reelection to the said Of
flee, now,
Be it resolved, that we the Demo-
cratic club of Kingstree, S. c., in
convention assembled, on this 22nd
day of April, 1922, endorse the can
6idacy, and endeavor to promote the
reelection Of the Honorable Philip H.
Stoll, congressman from the Sixth
Congressional District of South Caro-
lima, to the office which he now so
ably fills.
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TOBACCO SALES
OPEN AUGUST 8
FROM VARI-
GUS MARKETS HOLD CONFER
ENCE AT FLORENCE.

The independent tobacco warehouse
men of South Carolina meeting held
in Florence last Friday afternoon, de-
cided 70 open the markets of this
state August 9Th, when the North
Carolina markets will be opened. Ac-
cordingly, both the North and South
Carolina markets will all be opened
the same date this year for the 1922
tobacco season.
J. w. Berger, speaking for the as
sociation, said there was no agree
ment between the two associations as
to the date. The South Carolina as
sociation learned that North Caro-
lima will open thel, and adopted the
same date. The purpose Of this is to
afford concurrent sales in both states
for comparison of prices in each.
North Carolina will open her mar
lsets about six weeks earlier than
usual and South Carolina will open
about three weeks later than here
tofore.
eve have absolute assurances from
the companies that they will have
their regular corps of buyers in all
of the state" Mr.. Berger said also.
"The independent warehouses will be
operated this year as they have al
ways been rum"
Warehousemen from Mullins, Con-
way, Nichols, Lake City, Timmons-
vile, Manning, Sumter and Florence
were present, or warehousemen who
have refused to contract their ware
houses to the Tri-State Tobacco Crow
ers' Cooperative Marketing sssocia-
ton. Fourteen representatives were
here for the meeting.
The warehousemen discussed also
plans for handling the tobacco this
year under the grading and tying
act, passed by the recent general as
sembly. This year all tobacco must
be graded and tied. No tobacco will
be offered in the loose leaf.
South Carolina will Lave an sppre-
cable increase in tobacco acreage
this year, according to the prelinlin-
ary survey from reports of tile ware
housemen in their meeting. The beds
were good, there was no late cold to
kill out the young plants, and the
farmers generally are turning from
the boil weevil infested cotton to
substitute crops, the ciiiGf of which
is tobacco.