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V "f- ' v j - 'i. * : THE FORT MILL TIMES Dwmbcratio?Publlnhed Thursdays. Wai.lt Bmdforl. Mltw Mi PiblUitr. Pf. fkaSssx Ths Times invites contributions on live subjects but does not agree to' publish more than 200 words on any subject. The right , is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher,' advertising rates are made known to those interested. Telephone, local and long distant. No. 112. Entered at the postofflce at Fort Mill. S. 'C? as matr matter of the second class. THURSDAY. JUNE23, 192K , J-} 1JJLU.? -I Of the Rtnaller South^Carolina cities Fort Mill is in many respects one of the best, but it could be made a very inuch better place to live in tpul would prove more attractive to outsiders if there were greater evidences of civic pride to be seen here. > ? Citizens of McCorinick county Sunday took the lnw in their own liUtl/lu n % /) 4 M . 1 il. ^ ? QiKtn aim |iui iu lirttlll it liegru accused of attacking a white woman at her home near Plum Branch. There seemed little doubt of the guilt of the man and he might have known what was in store for him when he committed the erime which cost him his life. Northern critics of the .South will say that the lynching is further evidence that the * people of this section have little respect for law or constituted authority and that human life is held lightly by our people. Men are put to death outside the law iu Northern communities for crimes less serious than that the McCormick negro confessed he had committed, but this fact will be conveniently overlooked by those who uutke it their business to find fault with the South and there will be no condemnation of the crime which begot the lynching. So many big thiugs are happening in the world that it takes a momentous event to hold the attention of the people of thiseoun try as long as 24 hours. A few days ago Admiral Suns made an anti-Sinn Fein speech iu London which raised a furore for a day. Now the country has all but forgot what Sims said and when he arrives in New York a day or two hence half the people will wonder why the secretary of the navy ever considered what he said of enough importance to order hiin to return to America. Not so unimportant, however, was the recent Pilgrims' day speech of Ambassador Harvey, in wlfich lie said that the United States entered the World war for selfish motives and, that there was lacking the element of patriotism which usually impelled' countries to take up arms. For some years much will be heard of the Harvey speech and it is going to take a deal of apologizing and explaining on the part of the Republicans to convince the country that the speech was not a studied insult to every* man who entered the service in the World war and to every citizen who thought the country's cause in that struggle righteous. Somehow the public got the impression -a few weeks ago when the railroads of the country appealed to the railroad labor board to be permitted to reduce the wages of their employees that if the request were granted a corresponding decrease would follow in freight rates and passenger fares on the* roads thus favored. No such arrangement was contemplated, in our opinion. They wanted to take the loaf of hread from the laborer that cak?* might be given the capitalists owning the roads, as one writer expresses it. At this very time, instead of giving the public the advantage of the cut in wages ordered by the labor board, certain railroads are preparing to announce marked increases in freight rates fi*>m the West to points in North Carolina. If the r-' t . # v*- '. ' -Sir . * . . ? : ' : ' ;.' ; * " ' ' .. - ' ,f . railroads can increase freight rates for North Carolina, why not for South Carolina and if for South Carolina, why not for the entire country T There never waa a time in the history of the country when the people were being imposed upon as they now are by the railroads and other corabinations which control the price of I mahy of the necessaries of Itfe. The one hope for relief from the extortionate rates of the railroads lies in the system of publie highways now being built more or less generally throughout the country. When motor vehicles begin to do a considerable part of the freight and passenger business of the country, then the railroads will have to ireai ne puonc considerately or go out of business. ' ? ? ? ' \ THE OOUNTKY WEEKLY. The following tribute to the country weekly Was written by Prof. Bristow Adams, editor for the State College of Agriculture at Cornell university; "I am the Country Weekly. "I ^m the friend of the family, the bringer of tidings from other friends; 1 speak to the home in the evening light of summer's vine-clad porch or the glow of winter's lamp. "I help to make the evening hour; I record* the great and the small, the varied acts of the days and weeks that go to make up life. 441 am for ami of the home; I follow those who leave humble beginnings; whether they go to greatness or to the gutter, and I take to them the thrill of old days, with wholesome messages. 441 speak the language of the common man; my words are fittiiH tn tlic nni4ot>ofoniliiii? \fv congregation is larger than that of any church in my town; my readers are more than those in the school. Young and old alike find in me stimulation, instruction. entertainment, iuapirution. solace, comfort. 1 am the chronicler of birth, and love, and death?the three great facts of man's existence. 441 bring together buyer and seller, to the benefit both; 1 am part of the market place of Ihe world. Into the home I carry word ,of the goods which feed, and clothe, and shelter, and which minister to comfort, ease, health, and happiness. 4^I am the word of the week, the history of the vear. he rec ord of my community in the archives of State and nation. "I am the exponent of the.lives of inv readers. "I am the Country Weekly." Presidents Who Were Masons. Qedrge Washington belonged to Ferdericksburg lodge, Fredericksburg, Va., and was master of what is now Washington-Alexandria lodge. Alexandria, Va. .John Adams was a member of St. John's lodge, Boston, Mass. Thomas Jefferson attended the Lodge of the Nine Sisters, Paris. France. James Monroe belonged to St. John's Regimental lodge. John Quincy Adams was a member of St. John's lodge, Boston, Mass. Andrew Jackson of Philanthropic lodge. Clover Bottom. Tenn. James Madison was a Mason as were Win, H. Harrison and John Tyler. .f AllAPfi 1^" PaIIt mo?*ikiinev\in ? i ^ m %, m. vm ut mi iiirniirri in Columbia lodge. Columbia, Trnn. Jamt's Buchanan. in Lodge No. 48. Lancaster, Penn. Andrew Jackson, in Greenville lodge, Greenville, Tenn. James A. Garfield, in Magnolia lodge, Columbus, Ohio. Wm. McKinley, Hiram lodge, No. 21, Winchester, Va. Theodore Roosevelt, in Matinecoek lodge, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Wm. H. Taft, made a Mason at sight by the grand master of Ohio. Not only is Warren 0. Harding a member of Marion lodge, Mar| ion. Ohio, but the majority of the ! president's official family belong to the fraternity. It is claimed that President Taylor and President Pierce were Masons, hut owing to the antiMasouie political disputes of their day they made no public statement as to their connection with the craft. 1 fudge Shipp at Florence has refused Edward Bingham, under death sentence for the murder of j hia mother, brother, sister and I two children, a new trial. He will appeal ta the supreme court. , ' _ r' Sys( / In Your! Oj Make your show some heac I pay-day. 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