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\ W\)t Bamberg Heralb! ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. I Entered as second-class matter April j 1891, under Act of March 3, 1S79. j 82.00 PER YEAR. Volume 30. Xo. 1.; i THURSDAY.. JAN. 6, 1921.! A year ago the people of this state concluded that there was nothing so serious as the cotton boll weevil, but one hears very little about the weevil nowadays. It's the price of cotton. The farmers have discovered an enemy more subtle and more mighty than the weevil. The weevil can be seen and can be fought. The influence that fixes the price of cotton can neither be found nor fought apparently. A Bamberg gentleman strikingly illustrated the tax injustice the other day. Two brothers, he said, may ^ each receive ten thousand dollars as their share of an estate. One brother decides to buy a fine farm with his money and invests in 100 acres of good Bamberg county land. The other brother, though, is not bent toward agriculture, and decides to in- j vest his money in a mercantile estab- j lishment. The farmer brother will | pay taxes on not exceeding $700, while the merchant will have to pay on $4,200, exactly six times as much taxes. The burden of taxes would not be nearly so burdensome of the burden were equally borne by all property owners. This is not the only ] inequality, just one of them. We are in favor of progress and do not want to see any of the state insti-1 tutions go backward. We do not believe that any increased appropriation j bill will be necessary to maintain the standard of the colleges or other in- j stifntinns nf flip stare In facr we ! do not see that it is necessary to make as large appropriations as last year in order to carry on all the work that has already been instituted. We think we are correct in saying j that there is no construction work that cannot be done this yeaiN for 25 per cent, less than last year. There-! fore if an appropriation is reduced I 25 per cent, the same amount of con-! struction work can be accomplished. J This same principle may be applied to practically all other appropriations, i It would not appear to be good policy j to reduce any of the salaries. The public officials, with some exceptions, have never received a decent salary, and inasmuch as salaries figure in'4ai very small way in public appropria-| lions, they may be allowed to remain j as "they are. j 5^. great many farmers are beseiging members of the general assembly to ; lend their support to a bill to curtail J the acreage of cotton. This is dis- j tinctly out of the jurisdiction of the legislature. This is a free country, j - and a farmer has the God given right | trv nlant what ho nleases and as much i ' - " I as lie pleases or as little. You may j as well pass a law requiring every citizen to attend the Methodist orj! Baptist or Presbyterian church as to j dictate to him what he shall plant in his own soil. All well thinking peo- i pie sympathize with all movements j to better the condition of the cotton j planter and they wish all such move ments well, but all acreage curtail- j ment movements must be voluntary; among the cotton planters themselves, j We are of the opinion that there must j be a reduction?a vast reduction?in j cotton acreage if the farmers are to ; protect the price of cotton, but the i legislature is not the channel through j which the reduction must come. Class j legislation is a dangerous thing any' time; even if the measure would be j constitutional, which we do not be-j lieve, it would be most unwise. M < <S?> > He Took the Pills. i j j The tramp entered the ceaconal j council. '"Gentlemen," he began, "your par- j don for disturbing you, but I am very sick." He paused after this announcement to note the effect. "I went to the doctor." he continu- j ed, "and he gave me the pills?see, | the pills/' and he held up to view a ! small bottle. "He said, take these j pills, three after each meal, and 11 would like very much to have some! assistance." "Well, why don't you take your | pills then, and not come bothering j here?" interposed a deacon. "Gentlemen," replied the tramp ! with much unction. "I cannot take' the pills: I have no meal." He got the meal. Simple Uemedy. t "Oh, Harold! That new house-! maid has dropped my diamond, ring j down the sink." "Never mind, dear, we must stop j it out of the next month's wages."? London Mail. I ? CLAIM XEGHOKS ALE ILL THEATER. j (Continued from page 1. column o.) chairman of the committee, that lie would have to sit down and keep I quiet. or leave the room. Pickens had stated that one white man in Virginia had been the subject of discrimination because he was "a Republican,*' but on being pressed for the name of the man and the town by Chairman Siegel, admitted his information was based on "hearsay" reports. Xegro women in Columbia, S. C., were denied the right to register and | some of them were disqualified under the educational clause of that state's constitution, Pickens told the committee. Thirty-two of these women have begun proceedings against the registration officials in the courts. he added. Walter F. White, assistant secretary of the association, charged that several thousand negroes had been prevented from voting in Jacksonville. Fla., although they were qualified. He declared that 1,000 members Of the "Ku Ivfux Klan'' had paraded | the streets there on the Saturday j night preceding the election in an, i attempt to terrify the negroes and; kept them away from the polls. Hej . if? mm iiyrnKM J < fi. iff 2* ^ \ ,"r. ffif *6 %^Sg|gi Mack's D: BAMBERG-, SOI (Money hoarded is idle , Money deposited in th< fnr Credits of several tin 1 These Credits help the Eeeonstruction plans, th the Manufacturer and IV g sential Business. I Besides being always funds are safer and pat] posited with us. ^RE^URCES OVE Wouldn't Pay Debts. j A party of baymen gathered round I | tlio stove in a little oyster shack on the Great South Bay started the old. old question as to what they would do if they suddenly came into possession of one million dollars. Some bought great ocean going yachts, others endowed schools, and one even offered to contribute his to help out the government. The question finally came round to * * old Zeb Banks, noted as the ne'er-dowell of the fishing neighborhood. "And now, Zeb, you've been keeping pretty quiet." one of them said. I "Just what's you do if you had a I million dollars?" "Well, I don't know -'zactly," responded Zeb reflectively as he spat at the stove. "I reck'n I'd pay it on my debts, 's far as it went." cited other instances of alleged discrimination in Florida and said they had been reported to the department | of justice. Southern members of the committee asked the witness why they had not maae mvestigauo^i mio me suu-i ation in the northern states also j instead of confining themselves to the southern states. \N LTTgcn-Ci vsjbjtss "3^ i Jpt ||^/^ I I v fc* saae^EjRiieaagaj \ PRODUCTJ I I II It Can 9t Leak, because It's Made in One Piece i KANTLEEK is built like a ^ bottle?all in one piece. Most hot-water bottles are ade in sections, then cemented gether. When cement dries id cracks, the bottle leaks. Every Kantleek Hot-Water ag is moulded of pure soft bber?one continuous piece. o parts, patches, cement. Even opper socket is moulded in. And guaranteed for a full two | ars' service?or a new Kantsk free. ( Don't wait until your old bag aks. 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