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; .,;' -:" " '' ^ \> * j/i THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic?Published Thursdays. Wdi. R. Bradford. Editor aad Publisher. The Times invites contributions on live subjects but does not agree to publish more tliuu 200 words on an> subjtcl. The right is reserved to edit \eiy communicat ion submitted for publication. < ?n application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to Telephone, local ar.d Ions distance. No. 1 111. I'jr.tri'f^ at the postotttce at Fort Mill, S. C.t as mall matter of the second class. THURSDAY. AUG. 25, 1921. 1"IS ' ? *"? The announcement n few tlavs ago of former Governor HI ease that lie will he a candidate for governor next year unless a younger man of recognized nliililv enters the race to advocate his ideas of economy in the eonduel of I lie Slate government nway have been surprising to many, following the statement ai.rthuied lo ilie former governor at Kilhert a few weeks ago. in which In* was quoted as saying iliat he had no idea of offering for the office next year, hut to those who are acquainted with political conditions throughout the State and the apparent opport unity for success at the noils oi* tlu? candidate who promises the people relief from the tax burdens they are now having to bear, there was nothing in the announcement to marvel at. None save the uninformed will undertake to discount the fact that there is more or less general resentment against both the Legislature and the executive officers ii: Columbia for what is believed t< have been unnecessary appropriations, especially at the last session of the Legislature, when the Slate was passing through the disastrous financial depression which is not yet^behind us. j As The Times has before observ- I ed, the people?that is. the fairminded section of the people? do not often complain of having to pay the taxes they have voted upon themselves for the improvement of the roads, for the betterment of the schools and for other tlltlkli'* _ ? - * t...uiiv |?iieposes, nut i hey do complain of the big increases in the appropriations of the last fewyears for the State government. Nor is the average citizen so unthinking as to contend that the cost of government could be kept down during the war period and since, with everything else at prices above peace time levels, lie i? willing to concede that more uioncy was necessary to operate the State government ; but after making the concession, he is on certain ground if lie thinks it worth while to present a fewfigures to rebut the arguments of the friends of the current State tax levy by asking why. in 191.">. the Legislature was able ?? finance the State government on a tax levy of t> mills and in 1921 it was necessary to increase the levy to 111-2 mills, exclusive of the :i mill levy for school purposes and the levy for the improvements now under way at the military college in Charleston.' Ami if it he contended that in efficiency the State government i.?- n...:. - - - ...... IXI-JM *iep WHII MM' llll'IVilKCtl appropriations, the citizen might v ask for specific proof to boar out the contention. Mr. Ktc:i*v s"iises the opportunity to m.tki politic. J capital out of a comparison of governmental conditions in South ' ( aroliua today with those of yesterday. He may or he may not be electeil governor. If he is elected it will be due to the legislature's eotnplance with the im% port unities of State officials ami th?'heads of State institutions for big appropriations. At one time we were of the opinion tha* his opposition to the World war. after the 1'nited States had entered tin war, meant his elimination as a factor in South Carolina polities; hut having seen what han . pened in Georgia last year when^ I " * y \ \ Tom Watson was elected Uniteu States senator and Hardwiek was swept into the governor's office, and having noted that both were aR match opposed to America's participation in the World war as was Blease. we are not now so certain that we were correct in the conclusion that the former governor was all in politically. ^ The Newberry Observer of Monday prints an unusually interest- j ing editorial in reply to the ob- j servot ions pf The Times last week 1 [oiiesliouiug the necessity for a |compulsory military law in South ('arolina. Lack of space prevents | * lit* publication of our eonteinpoirary's editorial, otherwise it would be re|N'oduccd in these columns. Hut interesting as the edi- j torial is. we are unable to find in il soflieieiit I'l.'u-.m. ?i Imiv ??.? ! (juiriny militiii*y service of the citizens of tin- State. As to trou- \ J hh The Observer fears will conn* when (Sappins a lit I fox are taken from Charleston to l.exinylon to In- tried for tin* murder of younjf lifa/.ell. and in which I'e. r it sees j ihe necessity for every citizen within certain ayes haviny to he 'a militiaman. Tlie Times lias this to say: There is a National tlnard company in fort Mill, about KM) I strony. Included in its membership is a seore or more soldiers ; '.vim faced the (iermans on Mho I!indenl?nr?r line. The other 70-' odd yuardsmcn are South Carolinians of the same spirit and pa;riotio impulse which made possible tin' hroakiny of the hoche stronyhold. If there is danyer of tSappins and fox falliny into the hands of men who will murder I them as they are believed to have murdered the helpless youny ransfer driver, let tlie syovornor of South Carolina order the fort Mill company to Charleston, hex inyton or arty other point in the, State where hodilv harm threatens these prisoners and this com- ' pany will stop any audi that may ! form for that purpose. The fort ; 'Mill militiamen are not supermen. II ... i iuit tnev know how to shoot ami | if they should ho ordered to pre| vent the lynching of the law tin* ! I law will not be lynched. lTniversaI military service brought ahout tin- downfall of Germany. There is enough iu that fart alone to condemn any sueli law for South *'arolina. "The Times" Gives Offense, j Kditor Fort Mill Tnijps: All along I have been your | friend, but last week1 you put i something iu the paper I did not like. I don't believe in eountrv I editors getting smart and trying! to show off. You done both of these things last week and I heard ' three different people 'aiknig about it. One said lie would slop taking the paper if it happened again. The seeund man said he had not been taking the paper Out had been borrowing his neigh bor's every week and read:n\; it and that lie would not even bo kind enough to you to do thai | again if we all agreed tb.i> \oii , deserved the punishment. Tin third man spoke up and said In , had been getting the paper.- long time and that lie was glad lie was WUV VOIutel* l..*li in. I ** ill. script ion that lie haul good reason now for refusing to ever jeiy U|-. There are some things K"- e! headed people ought not to have to st.iiul for?condone. I mean. The ideal of ai country editor us ir.g sneli ai word ais " unilaiterail!" The clianecs are you did not know whait-the word meant. Of course I knew wliait you \\er? diiving ait. hut that is another maitter : people expect me to know hig words. Mut don't you get smart again it injures your staiuding in the community and hurts your paper. Now. hut for l:iis friendly aulviee. I feair thai: pretty soon you would have hcen spouting out something ahoui " hehetude." Don't do it ; I found the word first. '(iood Counselor.'' J Thomas B. Black ami Miss Minnie Mac Jacobs, both of Fort Mill, were married Satunlav af t? rnoon by Magistrate J. U. llaile. Spot cotton sold on the New N'?srk market Wednesday at 14.1f>. W e sec u ret I some special bar- I grains in Bugs. Art Squares and ('unsolemn that it will pay you to sec if interested at Massey's. |L ? ? > -v - t f TORT MILL TIMES, ' tii \m I I "Didn't wo take a y< to liiako it, Kid?" j * "Betcha life we did!' A m TIM Buffalo . X Next Mon< The Shows Begin 4, 5:45, r FOBT MILL, 8. 0. ? V J )SlW>A .? EK The daylight trials of mother in this super-comedy. He we he sure became a good son, ft abtad breaking windows Ch? And yet there's a sob now ai ( ucre s wnere you get somethii Added Att Bill's West 1 TWO DAYS day and Ti Majesti 7:30,9:15 P.M. - - - * : ' ' - V y V <?/ 0 Ssfi .2 * ^ ^p|8jp | |j| iJ'' '* u 0 i 11 the si u jj world's ti*re been workii year. Iir hood, the midnight trials of is a good mother to the Kid, or Charlie is a wanderi.g gla irlie was always at hand to id then. Never expected tha ng more than laughs. raction Pawnee E ONLY? lesday, A ic The< - Admission 1 I ': ?W < % m s eels* >ff jov 1 * 0 i . . H iiuous picture the ntcsf comedian has n? on for an entire paternity arc all for Chaplin and when that Kid grew up y.ier, and while the Kid went get the job of mending them. it of Charlie, did you? Well, # Ull's East ug. 29-30 y itre J Prices, 25c and SOc I