tv^N*iag Held 1b Mocvceo.
Retirement of Katsuli from active
banditry Id Morocco is only one more
taxation of the sudden impact of
Western ideas upon a 'Mohammedan
I. stronghold which remained untouched
toy outsule influences up to ten
yen* ago, says a bulletin of the N?tion&i
Geographic society.
"Such contact displays amazing
Incongruities to the traveler through
this region, which Loaly yesterday
was 'lorbidden land' th the Christian.
Jirass bedsteads and grandfather
clocks are set Uli>\BlBiiiwt stalls of
exquisite moBaic and intricate araJ|..
beaquo patterns. Arabs pitch their
tents at the toot ol great wireless
stations. Veiled women of the harem
ride through new made streets in auPtomobiles.
The streets themselves
are indicative of rapid change, for a
few years ago no roado^ran into Fez,
and even yet some of the roads are so
narrow that not even an animui,
much less a vehicle, could squeeze
through them.
| "If one looks down upon Fez from
Ian airplane, as flyers now do, it
seem to be a streetless city.
M Many of the narrow, aisle-like streets
aro latticed over to protect the hooded,
ghost-like pedestrians from the
sun. Others burrow Under great estates
by tunnels.
"Conspicuous figures on the business
streets are wator carriers with
goat skin water bags. The stranger
ia Vvilire 1 r\t\ mhan v* a *?/v#ao *knf
y wfc.?*uu nuvu uc uwvco vun? vu?ow
carriers ,glvo freely of their supply
to eveery one who asks without demanding
a fee. Later he learns that
the merchants along the street pay
the carriers and, recalling that any
American department store provides
a drinking fountain, he gains an inkling
that trade carries its burden of
service into far away places. Thirst
for this water is somewhat assauged
Pr when the visitor learns that the pots
In which the water is collected are
made by the lepers who live in fanlike
caves just outside the city walls.
"Perhaps the gayest-sight of a Mox
roccan city is a funeral. The wife
hidden to the world in
-wprjr bonor in death.
in uumu aiuiii. in * sioiu car voir
bci of xnmyr-colora * on* > fr^hlnd her
ains choral societies organized to
ow ^niuora^ A ^*re man is
fhlulj C;t^0 with him for so1
ace in hi' exU?- The moro Pretentious
hoii GR buUt around
a eourtyar<*' wltb rooma opening
out upon U|W9^^5Pe*nbling the
setting o } ln ?omP lltUe thJ j
^ of ci uc^t to
^ stream* *o
true that alHHHBflKfee
whterway ber
-. ." 9 PHi
average American
ffiftjgfrtevc. by virtue of
- Fee Moroccan
BMtfidM^llhe, of the moat lnof
the city
HoUjOVOA Q*tt rocks. resemU*
Heroes section of a honeyHwhicit
leather is dipped ffe'
l ot lime by natives who.
Wmmtii#*** in the mix'
JB M8WBa^ja>aietB without inBj|l|
Morocco pay
tb?r?. la
HHICilaoai, vrbft,
Hha eioet AjQriBK
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Delation Meeting In Bock HilL
A meeting of the York county legislative
delegation, composed of Senator
John R. Hart and Representatives
W. R. Bradford, Erwin Carothers,
J. E. Beamguard and J. L. Spratt,
is being held to day at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms in Rock H111 to
give citizens of the county an.opportunity
to express to the delegation
their wishes respecting matters they
want brough up for consideration at
the session of the General Assembly
to begin on January 8. Heretofore
the delegation meetings held in Rock
Hill have been attended by few citizens,
but thiB year there is said to
do consiaeraoie interest in tne kock
Hill community and other communities
in the eastern section of the
county over several matters of public
concern, and as a consequence the
meeting today was expected to be attended
by a largo number of people
The annual meeting of the delegation
at the court house in York will be set
for Wednesday, January 3, it is understood.
L. I. Xaesey Worshipful Master.
At the November communication of
Catawba lodge, No. 66, A. F. M., L.
IM. Massey was elected worshipful
master for the Masonie year beginning
on December 27, to succeed Dr.
J. B. Elliott, who had been worshipful
master of the lodge for the last
two years. Mr. Massey is one of the
yccnger members of the lodge and
has shown much interest in its work
since he became a member several
years ago, having gone up to the
chair through the successive stations.
Other officers elected at the
November communication were: F.
M. Mack, senior warden; W. H. Minis,
Junior warden; A. L. Parks, treasurer;
C. S. Link, secretary. The apnointivo
nfflrnrs nnnnnnniul at V
vember communication were: A. C.
Lytic, senior deacon; S. A. Lee, junior
deacon; J. B. McCandleis und R.
E. McKibben, stewards; J. L. Liles,
tiler. All the new officers were installed
at the November communication
of the lodge.
HERE AND THERE.
Next Sunday night at the Fort Mill
Presbyterian church members of the
Sunday school and of the Christian
Enueavor society will Join in presenting
a pageant, to which the people
of the community generally are
invited.
^Yesterday was decidedly the coldiT>t
and otherwise the most disagreeable
day of the fall. Rain fell during
most of the day and freezing almost
as fast as it fell, made it difficult to
get about over the streets without
danger of losing one's foothold.
The Fort Mill graded school dosed
at noon today for th? Christinas holidays
and will reopen Wednesday
morning, January 3. All of the teachers
who live in otber sections of the
State are leaving today or tomorrow
for their homes: Miss Vivian Ellis
tor Silverstreet, Miss Mattie Matthews
for Rock Hill, Miss Emma Anderson
for 'Rock Hill, Miss Dorothy
Buzhardt for V?wh?rpv ??i*h au??
Florence Lawrence for Florence.
Dr. J. B. Elliott Monday received a
report from the State bacteriologist,
whose hosd^usrtsjH ?r? !? Columbia
-stating that the dog which ran amuck
in Fort Mill Sunday afternoon, December
10, and bit the seven year old
son of Furman Wells and a negro
man was suffering from rabies. The
dog was killed a short time after tht
boy and man were bitten and Its head
Bent to the State bacteriologist fo>
examination. The boy is now being
given the Pasteur treatment by Dr.
Elliott.
While there-h&a been a diminution
In the number of cases of influenza
in Fort Mill this week as compared
with the number of cases last week,
the disease Is yet to be found in numerous
homes in the town. In several
families there have been a number
of cases at the same time and the
town's two physicians have been
hard pressed to respond to all tne
calls for their services. The effect of
the presence of the disease in the
community has been particularly no
ticeable In the decreased attendance
pupils at the graded school, which
has been more than 60 per cent during
the last ten days.
The continued rains of the last ten
days have caused the roads of Fort
Mill township and the streets of the
town of Fort '\HU to become all but
Impassable In many places for either
horse-drawn or motor vehicles. * Tom
Hall street, one of the principal
streets of the town. Is literally a mud
hole from one end to the other, and
the country roads leading to the Gold
Hill and Pleasant Valley communities
are In equally as bad condition/ One
result Off the condition of theee'roads
will be that many people who would
naturally come to Fort Mill to do
their Christmas shopping will be unable
to gat here and their trade will
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FORT MILL, S. C., THURSi
BO AD BONDS SOLD.
Chicago Concern lays Premium for
Fort Mill Township Issue.
Seventy - three thousand dollars
worth ot the $75,900 Fort Mill township
highway improvement bond issue
voted in June, 19111, was sold by
the highway commission Y>eduesday
to the Hancliett Bond company 01
Chicago tor par, accrued interest ahu
a premium ot $1,375. The bonds were
^old at auction at the hirst National
bunk in tort Mill to the highest bidder
and were knocked down to the
Chicago concern after spirited bidding
on the part or ten or more concerns
who had representatives at the
sale. The F1r3t National bank of Fort
Mill was the only local bidder.
It is stated that the delay in disposing
of the* bonds was due to the
i.act that the highway commission,
the members of which are Col. T. B.
Spratt. W. B. Meacham and W H
Crook, has been unuble until recently
to get a bond attorney to approve the
entire amount of the issue..
Some sixty days ago the commission
let the contract to a Winnsboro
concern for $25,000 for approximately
eight miles of top soil roads leading
from the town limits to the North
Carolina line and from the .western
limits of the town to Bailes* bridge,
the two local banks ugreeing to finance
the projects until the receipt
of the proceeds of the bond sake.
As soon as the money is paid in for
the bonds sold Wednesday the contract
for the asphalt road which ' it
is proposed to build through the town
irom the river bridge will be let by
die State hlghwuy department at Columbia
and at the same time and to
the same contractor the street commission
of Fort Mill will let the contract
for the paving of Tom Hall
street.
It was stated yesterday that it has
Leen impossible for the street commission
to do anything toward expending
the $20,000 received from the
sale of the street bonds last September
since twn-thlrcln nf thla mnnav
will be expended under the supervision
of the State highway commission,
end the whole project was therefore
held up awaiting the sale' of the
township bonds.
The township bond commission expects
that the hard surface road from
the river to Fort Mill will be bnllt
during the spring, and the balance of ,
the road fund, consisting of approximately
$82,000 from the bonds, |20,000
federal aid and ' $10,000 from
Vcrk county, will be expended during
the summer in improving variouc
roads in the township.
Effort to Revive Local 1. 0. O. F.
The Times is informed that an effort
will be made within the next few
weeks to revive Fort Mill lodge, No.
60, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of which no meetings have been
held for several years. At one time
there were 115 members on the rolls
ui ute iuuge, many 01 wnom are sun
living in Fort Mill, and it is thought
that a number of these, as well as
other citizens of the community, will
welcome the opportunity to become
connected with the order. Hon. Eugene
S. Blease of Newberry is the
present grand master of the order in
South Carolina and Dr. F. 8. Killingsworth
of Columbia is grand secretary.
The Independent Order of Odd
Fellows is one of the oldest fraternal
societies in the country. In South
Carolina it has grown rapidly during
the last few years and numbers in its
ranks many of the leading citizens of
the State.
Hecalls Battle of Brainsvllle*
A. H. Merritt, Confederate veteran
of Fort Mill, thi3 morning recalled
that yesterday yas the 61st anniversary
of the battle of Drainsville, Va.,
in which he received a wound that
necessitated the amputation of Jils
left arm, the battle having been
fought on December 20, 18G1. So tar
as is known by Mr. Merritt, he and
James P. Epps, Sr.. are the only surviving"
Confederate veterans living in
this section who participated In the
battle of Drainsville. f Both wero
members of Compahy- B, Sixth South
Carolina regiment, which was made
up largely of Fort Mill men.
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llO "flMEl^ NEXT WEE$n .
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The Fort Still Times will not
f beipabllshcd next weak. The next
Issue of the p*|for will appear
Jlnrlpg the first week In January,
either on 'Tuesday. January J. or
on Thursday, January 4. The decision
to omit next week's Issue
\ of The Times was reached re,
mmA ?-IJ Si i. *
m ** *> MiW wt vwi? HV? MAW
kMB reached at all bat for thf
probable trrhal within the next
few htyi of a sew tyaotype which
the paper ordered sereral weeks
80 and which cannot be installed
. without the lots of a few days.
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VIlLL
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DAY, DECEMBER 21, 1922.
MILLIONS SEEK NEW HOMES.
Great aUrnv of People Migrate In
Stricken JS'eax East.
The greatest migration in ceutu- j
ries is now in progress in the Neai !
East, with more than 2 million human
beings seeking new homes. The
movement pres* nts some of the k-h\est
problems or relief, adustmcnt and
re establishment ever known in the
time of peace. It is said that more
than 1 million Greeks alone are fleeing
from Asia Minor and e&s'.oru
Thrace into Greece proper, parts of
the two former countries now passing
buck to Turkish power.
An additional 300,000 Greeks must
move westward and southward mto
southern Thrace' and Macedonia under
the decision of the l/iusaune
conference, recently reached. This total
of 1,300,000 men, women and children
does not include the hundreds
of thousands of Armenians who, ???i
the theory apparently reached by the
conference that it is impossible for
Armenian and iU-k. to dwell s de l y
oiuc iu |icnv,t3, uiuai move on, ' jui
where, the .:onterence did uc^ apper.r
to have a clear Idea.
The inevitable solution of this mod-.
em problem of mass migration,
which recalls the great migrations of
history, was conceived by statesmen
ou all hands within, the disturbed
urea, to be the United States, hitherto
the greatest absorber of immigrants
in the world, llut the barrier established
by the percentage quota .Interfered
with these calculations.
In addition to these movements
from Asia Minor into Europe and
from Constantinople westward, a
heavy movement, including hundreds
of thousands of Bulgarians, Is under
way from western Macedonia to
southern Thrace into Bulgaria, already
seriously harassed by Succes sive
influxes of refugees from Macedonia
and Lodrudja. In addition, half
a million Turks are on their way
from Greece, southern Thrace and
Macedonia. The problem of rehabilitating
the peoples involved in this
great movement affects vitally at |
least three governments, Groeco,
Turkey and Bulgaria.
Most of the people to be repatriated
are to be distributed throughou
Anatolia, to till the fields that are
being abandoned by Greeks and Armenian*.
For Greece the proble n is
much more difficult, amounting to a
critical situation. The depleted condition
of the Greek treasury after a
crushing military defeat at he hands
of the Turks is a serious element in
the situation.
To meet this situation in part,
Greece is expatriating thousands of
Bulgarian farmers who have lived in
Macedonia and southern Thrace for
centuries. The Greek prossure upon
the Bulgarians, like the Turkish pressure
on the Greeks, is reacting tragically
upon Bulgaria.
It is estimated that at the end of
tho second Balkan war Bulgaria, with
its population of & little more than
about 400,000 refugees from Greek and
about 400,000 refuges from Greek and'
Serbian Macedonia. Bulgaria had
hardly absorbed that first influx of
immigrants of her. own race when the
intrance of the Greek armies into western
Thrace sent another wave of
immigration fleeing across the eastern
ironuer.
As in the case of migrations of
oldon days, when great numbers fled
before approching conquerors, the
present day migrations- is a story
of death, starvatiou and suffering.
Little children and aged men and
women in particular are the victims
to the greatest extent. Added to the
horrors of disease, pestilence and
starvation is the fact thai many families
were broken up before the wandering
began.
Why Owls Come Out at Night.
The habits of the members of the
animal kingdom are governed to a
large extent by their surroundings or
those of the prey upon which they
live. Seagulls, for example, can dive
a tuuHuerauie uisiance unuer water
end catch the fish which form the
principal part of their diet, while a
chicken would starve if forced to depend
upon this method of obtaining
food. So it is with owIs, which generally
make their appearance only
after dark. Owls feed mainly upon'
mice and other small creatures which
arc active at night. Therefore, the
owl, which has developed a soft plu
mage that makes its flight almost
roiteleas. comes out after sunset in
search of its food. It is also because
of this habit that the owl's eyes,
like the catfs, are so made that the
pupil can be dilated until the bird is
able to make use of every particle of
light available and while owls cannot
see In absolute darkness, the/ are
able to utilize the faintest rays of
light to such an extent that they can
spot and catch their prey unerringly
m m m
The automobile driver who crashes
intc a telograph pole always claims
he blew els horn.
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TIME?
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Banquet (or Xasons.
.Members of Catawba lodge, No. 56,
A- P. M., aie looking forward with
pleasure to the annual banquet ol
the lodge to be given next Thursday
evening, December 28, In the auditorium
of the Port Mill high school.
The banquet will be prepared and
served by the domestic science class
ot the school, under the direction of
Miss Emma Anderson, and a general
invitation has been extended to .Ma-,
sons who aro here at the time, whether
they are members of Catawba
lodge or not, to attend the banquet. Decision
to hold the banquet on December
28 was reached at the November
meeting of the lodge and a committee
was appointed to arrange the details.
The regular December communication
of the lodge also will be held on
the evening of December 28, beginning
at 6 o'clock, and after the transaction
of business, including the conferring
of degrees, the members will
tnnrch from the lodge rooms to the
auditorium for the banquet.
Recalls Burned Building.
"It would be interesting to know
what percentage of the people now
living in Fort Mill know that prior
to the erection of the old brick ginhouse
on Academy street, about two
blocks from Main street, the site it
occupies was formerly the site of a
large frame building which was U3ed
as a your mill and which was burned
about 35 years ago," yesterday said
a Fort Mill citizen. "The flour mill
was the property of the late Capt. S.
E. White and was built when the
old White mill on Steel creek, two
miles from town, was abandoned
many years ago. I remember distinctly
that the flour mill caught
fire one day about noon and was in
a few minutes reduced to ashes At
the time I was a pupil at the Fort
Mill academy and Prof. Banks allowed
us to leave the building to watch
the blaze."
Order Against Speeders.
Horace Johnson, State constable,
a few days ago received a letter from
Governor Harvey instructing him to
keep a sharp lookout for speeders on
the concrete road between Fort Mill
and Rock Hill and to arrest every
person caught violating the speed
laws of the State. Numerous complaints
are said to have recently
gone to tiie governor regarding the
fast and reckless driving of automobiles
on the concrete road and the
governor has therefore given Constable
Johnson orders to see that It is
stopped.
Under the State law the speed limit
on public highways is 25 miles an |
hour, the statute also requiring that
drivers of motor cars slow down to
10 miles an hour in passing other vehicles
and to come to a full stop
should an animal attached to a vehicle
show signs of fright. It is said
that most of those driving motor vehicles
on the concrete road violate
tho State speed law.
Power Curtailment at End.
Presumably, the Fort Mill cotton
mills stood Tuesday for the last timo
for the present on account of shortago
of electric power due to low wator
in the Catawba river, the Southern
Power company Tuesday night
having announced from its head offices
in Charlotte that the curtailment
of electric power for mills In this section
put into effect on November 27
was discontinued yesterday. Under
the curtailment plan the various cotton
mills operating on power furnished
by the company had been suspending
operations one day each
week, the local mills on Ttitedays.
The shortage of eiectric^power at
fected mills in York, Spertanbuhg,
Cherokee, I^ancaster, Chester, Neutboiry.
Greenwood, Anderson, Oreenville,
Pickens and Oconee countieo in
South Carolina, besides numerous
mills in North Carolina.
McLendon'* Father Dead, j
Thomas A. McLendon, father of the
Rev. B. F. McLendon, better kdown
as "Cyclone Mack," the evangelist
who has held many meetings In this
State and in North Carolina, died
Tuesdav at his homn in Bennettsvllie.
Mr. McLondon was 71 years old and
had suffered for the last six months
from cancer of the stomach, to which
his death was attributed.
Ice Mile and a Half Thl< J .
Oreenland is a land of ice. 'c;** has
been accumulating in the intnric# of
Greenland since the dawn of history.
It is estimated that at present 1 lid lee
fields cover an area of 600,000 nsUes j
and are on an average of a mile aSi
a half thick.
Permission has been granted by\ -as I
authorities of Fort Mill for the dla? j
charge of fireworks in the tc^iv My
December 25 and 26. It is autre! that!
the police officers have been i.?
sd to make cases against perfiHH
who discharge fireworks in to*n |t<
fore or after these dates.
5.
$1.80 Per Year.
URGES SOBER CHRISTMAS.
Correspondent Hopes People Will
Forego Whiskey Drlnflng.
Editor Fort Mill Times:
It will be a tine thing tor Fort Mill
and vicinity it we get through the
holidays with a record ot no drunkenness,
no accidents, no tights and
every one loving each other January
1st. Let everybody try. It has always
been astonihsing to me why
some folks deliberately select the
day upon which the Savior of us all
was born to get drunk and fight and
get fined for various offenses. It's a
great honor to God?is it not??as
He looks down, or walks among us,
to see a thing, made in His iiuagev
staggering along some back alley
street or lonely muddy road in
(honor?) of the greatest day the
world ever knew or can ever know
If you must get drunk, and be a hog,
then go off in some dark corner 01:
the woodB and stay there with the
other "varmints" until it is over.
Whiskey has caused the tools who
drink it to murder each other?even
brothers kill each other, when drunk.
One dies and the other later goes to
tho electric chair. Whiskey has filled
our jails and penitentiaries. Did you
ever hear of whiskey getting a man
out of jail or off the gang? Whiskey
has made many a man lose a fino position;
did you ever know of it getting
this man another fine job? Did
ycu ever hear of whiskey restoring
the beauty and brightness of a young
girl's innocent face?
There has been enough booze guzzled
in Fort' Mill since the town was
founded to fill every mud hole in
town with $20 gold pieces. Yet they
are planning this moment?some of
them?"to git some likker fur Krisraus.
1 ain't had none in so long, I'm
gonna have me some, 1 don't care
what they say."' Yet some are so
poor they can't get their children
school dresses, and I hear them brag*
ging about how much whiskey they
have succeeded in getting from some
devilish bootlegger. Christmas morning
they'll get up early, holler a few
times, abuse heir wives aud kids,
and themselves worst of all, and then
dodge some merchant they have been
owing for months for groceries, and
get mad at the merchant 'cause ho
owes him, and go right on down
street and pass a blind Confederate
soldier playing sweet muBic for a
few pennies, without even seeing him,
and remark that "1 don't see why the
State don't take care of such folks as
hat."
Some folks don't know a chicken
would get bogged down on the Fort
Mill streets (I saw this near Nell
Bradford's store today), and neither
do they know that the whiskey bill of
the nation would pave 12 roads 30
feet wide- from the Atlantic to the Pacific
every year. So don't get drunk
this Christmas, but go home, kiss
your wife and baby (if you have
any), pat your dog on the bead and
don't act so the cat will run through
the window at your approach, and
see if you don't look out upon a fairer
and sweeter world January 1st.
I hope our law officers will be "on
the Job" to watch for booleggers this
ocaouu. a saw u wmie man in a
Ford car meet a negro in a buggy between
Fort Mill and the river two
days ago and the negro handed over
a bottle of some sort. 1 don't think
it was water.- That shows wha's doing
in that line all over York county.
I heard a man in Rock Hill remark
yesterday that there must be at least
1,000 gallons of whiskey in Rock Hill
"this moment.'' Is it any wonder that
our good old men are wondering
what is to become of onr country?
How we ahall miss theae good old 1
men and women?they are the salt of
the earth, they are the balance that
kappa things from running wilder
than they are. So let us all be better
ard kinder to each other thlB Christmas..
and remember that the moonlight
will soon shine on a gravestone,
and that gravestone will be yours or
mine. BenJ. M. Lee.
Fort Mill, December 19, 1922.
Hew Trains on Southern.
Two new passenger trains were
put into service last Sunday on the
Colombia division of the .Southern
railway. The new trains known
M Nos. 3 and 6, the former passing
Fort Mitt going south at 6:20 a. m.
land the latter, going north, at 6:17
I p. m. The new trains do not mean
Ian improvement In the passenger
laenrtce for citizens of Fort Mill. On
Ithe contrary, the schedules of the
Mv {rains are leas convenient for
C^.diinrnunity than were the sohedlolea
ef trains 31 and 32, both or which
nMgfipi In operation, but neither of
JwhilBitow stops at Fort tMlll to take
Ion or let off local passengers.
ISdymber the good old days when
n|iM| used the flour sacks to make
IdaderFear for the children?
I TlimlVoman who married old Bill
Ithi sjther day should have worn
ssoma.
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