p? ^ jalftMBaL ftdg- \* r V f gj BSmbU State a Slipping'-^! ^ Jfareace Times orUloll {nv -SLC.Li? ?A?t Kav? ha/1 I ym > ? 'F W ' / WH URIC "?*U are i probably would * prac on the cultivation dH Hh? boll weevil, nor do n l3 BaperU know much bow i'i intvorth while for d money oh thes9 nior knows more about the MnS^Pot ?uy of the States wbijch kihj Men Invaded by the boll wefsv^. < that have a Bandy foi , ffik^^H-soil, in a high state of the cotton will grt t^HKr with 600 or 600 pounds *of flH and meal per acre, can / be ^ fcatfeyegularly in wet weather ami m. sand has a tendency to j hill -IfyiPwung weevils in the fallen / Bq|bar?pc::fjBut in the stiff red clay f lauda? .tlj&f slaty and late white lands, wt> canonf produce much cotton, and these lands include about 75 per cent /, of all the lands in the Btate. There/are not 25 per cent of the farmers of the State who can finance thero?e|rea and they can't get help otd0i?Pbe. The bank man says they hafWjjpip much money out and can't '* - put oat any more; the gnano man bBTWhsI* plenty of fertiliser and thus beat the weevil, but they must sell for cash; the''merchant can't help, and tbo experts teli us to plow under f talks well. That will ki}l a few weeviis, dui won i Kin out tne oreeu ----^fUtlyss thr-whole State is turned over. If every farmer plants only one acre It will keep the boll wedvti-going. As long aa we plant cotton every year we ortll 'diave the pest with us. They say" make cotton under weevil conditions; I say remove the condition and let all make cotton in that way?by not allowing any cotton to grow in South Carolina in 1923. If the federal government does not put a (quarantine on all the cotton States la 1923 and If S^outh Carolina did not plant anypptton next year and other States planted, and this 8iate returned to cotton in 1924, we would ; cotton i? tlut year than by planting^ in both 1923-24. My motto it, starve the boll weevils, or they will starve the farmers mostly, end. also starve business and the cotton mills, for If'we go on planting cotton every year in about ltfi we mlS be down to 6 million Oo back over the weevil's qfdi and ypn will see that where they tepjHtd. planting cotton for a few years they are now making cotton, but are raising more weevils to deittOjr thatr- future crops. The weevil lMMt\ covered practically all the. cotton producinar lands and I suppose will stay as long as the farmer can be focted int# planting and . feeding them and providing a place for them to ratee fheir young, which Is in the cotton ' squares and holla. Another thtne. by continuing to. plant cotton tot&t We art ao ued to thinking ol Mr. John D. Rockefeller and Mr. Henry Ford an the richest men in the world that it Is a shock to read that a ; speaker in the British parliament has : asked whether that distinction does not belong to Sir Basil Zaharoft Probably no one knows what is the truth of the matter, but it is unquestionable that no one in Europe, unless it he Herr Hugo Stinues, has . anything ike the fortune of Sir Basil nanaron, says tne routes vompan- { ion. , How many of .our readers have < Over heard of him? Probably few. He i is not widely advertised by a talkative press, as his American rivals are. He- is Indeed a figure of mystery. No one knows Just where he was born. Some say In Constantinople, some say In Athens, some say in Russia. His father was certainly a Russian and his mother a Greek. He inherited no money to speak of. He is a naturaized citizen of trance and his home is in Paris; but he is in brltish business and finance up to the. shouders, is a doctor of civil laws of Oxtord, and was knighted by King . George. He is the head jot the great munitions firm of V letters-Maxim, and the war vastly increased a fortune already large. He is interested ! in some valuable oil properties in the Near East and is a rival of the great { Stanard Oil and the Royal Dutcu i Shell compauy. He has millions in- , vested in shipping, is prominent in j some of the largest banking institu- ; tions in France and is a half owner i of the gaming palace at Monte Carlo. He is said to have financed the mill- < tiiry activities of Greece while Veni- i zelos was in power, and there are < many who say that his influence < with Ldoyd George, always 'strong, , though carefully concealed, was one j of the mainsprings of the British pol- j icy in the Near East. In his charac- < tcristic secretive way he is generous. He has given largely to Ox'ford uui- , versity, the University of Paris and , the University of Petrograd. He gave the money for the meeting of the < Interparliamentary commission in Purls, and he has given a great deal to charitable causes. In spite of all that, few persons outside his circle of business associates know the man even by sights He is a tall, slender, gray-haired man, 72 years old, who always wears a red carnation in his buttonhole. He has never married and is said to avoid women, but so little is he knbwn that in spite of his unquestioned power in international business and finance, and of his reputed power in international politics, he could walk the streets of Paris or London unrecognized. Perhaps he is not so rich and not so intuential as he is suspected of being. Ihe very air of mystery that surrounds him may lead people to exaggerate his importance and his power. But he is evidently a remarkable person whose story, it it could be told in full, would no dotfbt be crowded with ill-. UrMtint. not tn tnrl dents. Not the least of his achieve- < ments Is that ,in a n. age ot advertts- 1 lug he has been able to toll the press ? ag?nt. ' 1 j ' m m m ( Thomas N. Brwln Dead. i Following an illness ot exactly one ' week of grip and pneumonia, Thomas 't N Brwln died at his home on lower i Tom Hall street in Fort Mill Wed nosday afternoon. Mr. Erwln left his ' work at the Heath Motor company, ? wl ere he was employed as a machln- < i*t,_on the Wednesday afternoon pre- 1 ceding his death and went to his home with a sever cold, which de- l veloped into pneumonia within a toW \ hours. His condition became critical < the early part of the week gnd con- i tinned to grow worse until the end i came. Mr. Brwin was a member of i Pleasant Hill Methodist church and. 1 whs a good man. He came to Fgrt i Mill from Lancaster county to make J his borne.here about a year ago and i In that time had made many friends l In Fort Mill who heard of his deatbi l ?Uh regret. He vu a boat 87 year* i old and is survived by his widow gild 1 tour children, the oldest of whom is 4 a gtrld 10 years of age. Th9 inter*. 1 ment will be at Harrison Methodist > ohcrch this afternoon. t - ? ? 1 Woald Ban Women's Collects. \ "Of all the foor things in the world* I 1 ^hink a college for women is the 1 wofct," wrot# Alonso B. See, mflllof* hire elevator^, bnilder of New Tori city ia reply to a letter from Add* phi* college soliciting funds tor.gear t VWHW iNnv^a. II 1 ua ay H| 1 g wo?ld bunT all the womin'i ooito- J J^aald Urn aducatloa young woqM 1 Egf. ~ ', according 10 IQiu Liures, is 32,650 pounds. The annual convenion of the South -Molina Baptist association convened, in Kock Hill Tuesday morning. 1 he sessions are being held in the r.rst Baptist church in that city and Jie. convention is expected to continue through Thursday. vAbout 500 ieU-gates from all parts of the State ire expected. J. J. Law ton of Hartsvi.'le is president of the convention u:u W. C. Allen of Dillon is secretary. President Alulllns of the Southam Baptist convention is expected to lie present and address the convention/ Preparation of a list of registered sillxens from whom will be drawn those for Jury duty during the next year was the principal business to some before the York county registration board which held its regular ncnthly meeting Monday. Names of Women voters were not included in .ho list prepared by the board. Few registration certificates wore issued luring the day. Members of the regisation board are iN. J. N. Bowen of Yorkvlle, J. D. Gwin of Sharon and P. E. Clinton of Rock Hill. Senator Hart said this week that various representatives of the federal In artment of agriculture had already begun writing him requesting i bearing- before the delegation for York county relative to the farm bmonstration work for another year LI has been reported that taxpayers utboir annual meeting with .the deletion just before the legislators go o Courabia for the annual legislative icssion will probably request that *PI ropriatious lor the farm demon itratlon agent and the woman's home ion. onstration agent be discontinued ihis year. ^"So tar this year about 1,400 hunting licenses have been sold in York put nty," said Dan T. Woods, York ipt nty game warden, when asked ibout the matter the other day. "1 ihlnk that compares favorably with Mies up to this date last year,"' Mr. Woods went on to say. "The only record that I have on the matter lust how Js the bank deposit slips given me by the various sub^-agencies 'or hunting licenses that 1 have over tho county. While I sell a good many licenses myself direct, the great majority of them are sold by my subigi-nts over the county. I might add, >1U ?K_* n>V.ll. 1 n.~ >u?v "unfl wo nun iota aoout as ouany licenses as we generally do up to this time, there has been mighty Ifttle weather (it (or hunting and Siose hunters to whom I havo talked tupoit that they haven't had a bit of luck." T ?1 ? ? MeLenden Jeias Baptist Church. ,The Rev. Baxter McLendon, evanKelist who' Is well known in FY>rt Mill, lias aflllated himself with Calvary Baptist church of Wilmington, N. C., according to a letter recenty written truths pastor of that church, the fter, J. A. Sullivan. ? f? It Isn't hard to guess who's boss ureund*ths house If you boo the old on sitting on the front porch with lis shoes aft ?9? Mill? ISDAV, DECEMBER 7,1922**** '==ga^=gBBgg^ iii' ii PtAY HT SPAJtTAXBUSCL Fort Mill to Meet Gaffney Friday far Championship Honors. The football team of the Fort Mill lugh School will go to Spartanburg tomorrow morning' to play the Gaffney high school team for the championship of the upper section of the State. The game will be played on the Wofford college field at 2:30 o'clock and it Ir thought that ( will be witnessed by a large crowd. A number of Fort Mil fans are planning to make the trip to Spartanburg toil orrow morning in their cars for the game. The winner of thie game will play the Thornwell orphanage team for the championship of western South Carolina and. will later meet a team from the lower section of the St) te, perhaps Charleston, for the high srliool championship of Soutn Carolina. Gaftney has a strong team, as is evidenced by the fact that last Thursday afternoon she tied the Hock Hill eleven. Local- football enthusiasts believe, nevertheless, that the Fort !> Ill boys stand an excellent chance of winning. The local team has an undefeated record for the season. They have scored 310 points to their opponents' 15 in seven games. It was realized that the Fort Mill team was a good one when the boys so completely outclassed the heavy Abbev.ilo team brougli here for the game lust Thursday by Major James D. Full), with the avowed purpose of "licking Fort Mill.' Although the Fort Mill team owes its present position as champion of the Catawba association to the action of the South Caroina high school committee in ruling out Kock Hiil und Chester, the team nevertheless deserves much credit for the clean g, me the boys have played. Coach Hct th belk also deserves much credit for the invaluabe assistance he has given the boys. Mrs. A. A. Young Dead. The funeral of .Mrs. A. A. Young, who died at the home of her son, Alex E. Young, in Hock Hill last Thursday n'ght, was held at the home Friday evening and the interment was in the Eort Mill cemetery a few hours thereafter. Mrs. Toung had been in declining health for several months ai.d for several days preceding be death it was known that the end was near. Prior to a few years ago, when she moved to Rock Hill to make her home, Mrs. Young had lived in Fort Mill for about 40 years and had many friends ivre who greatly regretted to hear of her death. The fneral services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. J. W. H. , Dyches, pastor of the Fort Mill Baptist church, and the Rev. Dr. R. W. Alexander, pastor of the First Baptist church of Roc^ Hill. Mrs. Young was a devoted member of the Baptist church and took great interest In its work. She was 78 years old and was born in Kershaw county. !\l?o V l- .? tuuug is survived oy inreo sons, J. T. Young of Fort Mill, Manly S. Young of Concord, N. C., and Alex F5. Young of Rock Hill, and four ; daughters, Mrs. J. B. Mills of Fort Mill, Mrs. J. E. Bruce of Winnsboro, i Mrs. R. V. Macon of Macon, Qa., and Mrs. E. E. Baker of Atlanta, and by a number of grandchildren. , Delegation to Meet Monday. A. A. McKeown, district farm dem- , onstration agent for upper South Carolina, came to Fort Mill Wednesday , afternoon to consult with Dr. J. L. Spratt and W. R. Bj-adfor I, York , members of the Legislature, relative to continuing for another year tho work of the demonstration agent in , York county. Recently there has been opposition expressed by taxpayers in different sections of the eouuty , to the work of both the county dem- < onstration agent and the woman's , home demonstration agent. It is not yet known what the attitude st the ( legislative delegation will be toward , continuing the work of the agents; , uui me maiier win oe gone mio at > ( special meeting of the delo-i itlon | which Senator John K*. Hart has c *11- , e?l for next Monday morning at the ] ciurt house in York, when .Mr. Mc- J Keown and perhaps others interested in keeping the work going will be ; heard. It is certain, however, that , the delegation will not reacu a decision until those who are op? *sed to- , the work have been given a hearing. < mMO for Strawberry Plant Frank EL Beatty, president of a ( nursery firm In Michigan, haa just , paid #60,000. for one RockhlU straw- ^ berry plant, gaining the exclusive , right to propagate the berry., The , plant was originated by Harlow , Rrekhlll of Iowa, and is almost ss t large as a bushel bosket Mr. Beatty says he will risk his reputation as , an expert that the new plant will j revolutionise the industry, producing ] more and bettor harries from early , spring aatU snow files. .? ; ' i i i sssm BOKM0BS OF EAJETH SHOCKS Tidal W?tm Also Force of Nature That Brlmf Disaster. "The United States has been singularly tree from recorded earthquakes, perhaps the 'most disastrous being in 1811, when a very severe shock occurred in the Mississippi valley south of the Ohio, which was felt in Mew York in one direction and the "West Indies in another," says a bulletin of the National Qeographic society. "This * earthquake changed tbc face of the earth. A vast extent of land was sunk, lakes were formed. and even the course of the Mississippi river was changed (or a time. "Most of the earthquakes occurring of late years can hardly be classed with the great ones of history, nearly all of the destruction being caused by uncontrollable fires. In the more stable tones long periods may elapse between shocks, as for instance, in Kingston, Jamaica, 216 years Intervened. "The cause of earthquakes and volcanoes is an elusive problem, not yet settled to the satisfaction of the scientist. Tremors of the earth may be caused by many things. The explosion of mines, falling in of caves, slipping in of rock strata, and many other movements of the earth may cause them; but for the great shocks which have occurred almost since the history of the world began we must look further. "Though many times there seems tc be an intimate connection between earthquakes and volcanoes, the law regarding them has not been established. Some remarkable coincidences have been observed in late years. The terrible cataclysm of.Mount Pelee, which, on May 8, 1902, almost Instantly killed 30,000 inhabitants, was preceded by the earthquake which in f? ? A II -A AU jui>uui y auu April ,ui me same year wrecked a number of cities in Mexico anu Guatemala- The distance between these points is at least 2,000 miles, showing how deepseated must* have been the disturbance, if, as has been mutgested, there was a communkatjnt between them. The great SinlM^clsco earthquake was precedHHBly two days by one of the rao^HfKtent eruptions of Vesuv^p reconKd in many years. * "The greatest of recent volcanic disturbances which blew the top off of Mount Katmai in Alaska and gave birth of the wonderful Valley of Ten Ihuosand Smokes waB preceded and accompanied by a series of severe earthquakes." Admiral Billings described the great tidal wave which he saw at Arica, then in Peru, some years ago. 1 He was an officer on the U. S. S Wateree, which was anchored in the her- 1 bor at Arica at the time of the cataclysm. "Some time after the initial tremor," he wrote, "the sea receded until the shipping was left stranded, while as far to seaward as our vision jvould reach we saw the rocky uouom 01 me sea, never Deiore exposed to human gaze, with struggling fish and monsters of the deep left high and dry. The round-bottomed ships keeled over on their beam ends, 1 while the Wateree rested easily on her floor-like bottom; and when the returning sea, not like a wave, but rather like an enormous tide, came sweeping back, rolling our unfortu- . nate companion ships over ahd over, leaving some bottom' up and others i masses of wreckage, the Wateree rose easily over the tossing waters unharmed. "From this moment the sea seemed < Lo defy the laws of nature. Currents I ran in contrary directions, and we < were borne here and there with a 1 speed we coud not have equaled had 1 we been steaming for our lives. At < irregular intervals the earthquake 1 shocks recurred, but none of them < so violent or long continued as the first. 1 "About 8:30 p. m. the lookout hail- 1 nv. the deck and reported a breaker < approaching.. Looking seaward, we I saw, first, k thin line of phosphorescent light, which loomed higher and > higher until it seemed to touch the < sky; its crest, crowned with the death < lipht of phosphorescent glow, show- I ing the sullen masses of water below. Heralded by the thundering I roar of a thousand breakers combined. the dreadful tidal wave was upon i un at last. Of all the horrors of this dreadful time, this seemed the worst.* i Chained to the spot, helpless to es* < cape, with all the preparations made i which human skill could suggest, ws i could but watch the monster ware I approach without the sustaining help I of action. That the ship could ride i through the masses of water about to 1 overwhelm us seemed Impossible. We < could only grip the lifeline and wait < the coming catastrophe. i "With a crash our gallant ship was ? overwhelmed and burled deep beneath I a semi-solid mass of sand and water, j For a breathless eternity We were i aubmerged; then/groaning la every j timber, the staunch , old Wateree < fUOPirYitr. SHOULD GBOW LESS COTTON. Mr. Lee Tkbki Bell WeeiO a Ffriead to bitten Farmers. Editor Fort Mill Times: Since the writer has received several requests for another article on the cotton situation, the farmer's n ????? 1 a**-- - - * ' ' ???/ iraiyiaAiuw ttuu ewryiuiag iu general, I have some slight hope oi doing- a little good; and if I do not state facts, 1 want some one to call me. This is a beautiful, sunshiny Thanksgiving day over the sunny South'B cotton fields, and the uppermost thought in my mind at this moment is, how thankful we should be for the boll weevil. It is the most astonishing thing to me why our experiment stations ^nd government agents are strugglng to exterminate the weevil. Is it not a-fact that previous to the entry of the boll weevil thul cotton sold ou the streets of Fort Mill and all over the heartbroken South tci 5 cents per pound? It is always the last 3 or 4 million bales of the crop that break the market. It is hard to imagine a race of people so foolish as to stuggle to kill something that God seut that row makes the price of cotton 25 cents rather than 5 cents per pound A 15 million bale crop means not ovei 10 cents per pound, or 75 million dollars; a 10 million bale crop means 1 billion 250 million dollars, and with lets expense?or certainly not more expense?or a difference of half a billion dollars. In other words, the boll weevil. causes the farmer to get for every It he got before the weevil came. Why struggle to grow two bales of cotton where only one Is required, and at he same time blight the lives and happiness of millions of bojsund girls over our Southland, while the millionaires In England and New England wake up at midnight tnd laugh at the crn*y fools down South? As I see it, the government is spending untold thousands to kill the weevil and thereby keep the South of our fathers crippled and down and out- Deny it If you can. No one has ever accused the cotton farmer of the ability to look out for himself, and already they are planning u bumper crop for next year and signiug their own death warrant to financial independence-1-!! the weevil lets it grow as the farmer plans. It has been one continual fight this soason to keep the cotton price up, even in the face oi two short crops in succession, and also a short % crop in Egypt and India- What will it be, friends, with a big yield all over the world? If they raise a bumper crop next year it will be funny to stand on the Btreet corners and in our stores and listen to to the cotton growers talk aq the price tumbles. It will be like a thief cursing himself for getting cuught. Remember that people must eat, but they can do with mighty little clothes. Adam and Eve got in trouble over eating, not dressing, and there's a lot of Adams and Eves in our midst today (apologies where due). The road to happiness and contentment points to less cotton than ever, more good things to eat, more good roads to ride over in Uod's sunlight and moonlight. And as we dream, the light of a wonderful day will dawn over the fair South. Behj. M- Lee. Fort Mill, Nov. 30. utrugged again to the surface, with ber gasping crew still clinging to the lifelines?some few seriously wounded, bruised and battered; none killed; not even one missing. A miracle it seemed to us then, and as I % look back through the years it seems doubly miraculous now. "Undoubtedly our safety was due to me design or the ship which permitted the water to run off the deck of the ship as it wouid from a raft or Floating plank. "The ship was swept on rapidly for & time, bat after a while the motion ceased, and, lowering a lantern over the side, we found ourselves on shore, but where, we knew not. Smaller waves washed about us for a time, but presently they ceased. "The morning sun broke on a scene of desolation seldom witnessed. We found ourselves high and dry in a little cove, or rather indentation in Lhe coast line. We had been carried some tbree miles np the coast and nearly two miles inland. The wave had carried us over the san dunes bordering the ocean, across a valley, and over the railroad track, leaving us at the foot of the soacoaat range of the Andes. On the nearly perpendicular frpnt of the mountain our iwiTifaiur uucvrarea in* mama 01 tie tidal wave, and by maaauramants found It bad baan 47 faat high, not Including tha comb. Had* tba wara carriad ua 200 faat furtbar, wa would luavttably bava baan daabad to plteaa against tba mountain Ida." \\ - ? * ' t ' V* ..v* : i. '* ! - / \'v " 'i / * ^ V., v" U