Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SCOREBOARD IS HIS DIAMOND Most Hopeless of Fans Is the One Who Can Enjoy Game With out Seeing It. We never see him at the game, not even in the bleachers. He stands be fore a checkered frame with scores of fellow creatures. He cannot hear the crack of bat or see the rival flingers. but yet he visions all of that as on the curb he lingers. He cannot hear the batters "beef" or hoot in wild derision, nor can he raise a cry of "thief" when peeved at some decision. He cannot watch, with features set, his diamond gods em battled; he cannot start a din to get the other twlrler rattled. But jet he groans or whoops with Joy, looks glum or starts to grinning, when now and then the office boy chalks up the latest inning. The board dissolves before his view as do thc street and alley and fancy speeds hin? quickly to that dear old Rainier val ley. In fancy he Is with the birds thai perch upon the railing, with "empties" and assorted words the robber "umps" assailing, and though the scoreboard'* potent dope portends a sad disaster, he sticks around in dogged hope his heroes yet will master. Most anyone can be a fan who owns a season ticket; it takes another sort of man to be a scoreboard picket. He swarms around the boards in packs he's not aloof or clannish. If he were charged a sidewalk tax bow soon our debt would vanish.?Carlton Fitchett In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. LAND WAITS ON RECLAMATION Water and Modern Methods Will Make the Desert of Turkestan Bloom ' Like a Garden. Turkestan Is, of course, primarily agricultural country, and cotton, the major crop! The other Industries still await development. There is a tre mendous field for the cultivation of | vineyards and rice ai}d other cereals. At the same time, the development of agriculture will greatly stimulate the sheep-raising industry, which is now in the hands of primitive natives, i uninstructed in modern methods. The fruit Industry awaits the guiding hand .1 of modern science. With the help of | California specialists, Turkestan could he transformed into an eDormous fruit garden. There Is at present only one factory for fruit preserving. Similar ly, tlie fish teeming in the lakes and j rivers need only the introduction of j modern industry to place them upon j the food markets of the world. The | silk industry, if ,properly organized. IJ would easily become one of the most | Important in the world. The mountains J of Turkestan are rich In unexploited | minerals. Gold, Iron, copper, coal and j many rare and precious stones and | metals await the pioneer. There is an old legend in Turkestan | that the Eden of the first man was j placed In the valley of Ferghana and | that for his sin Alluh laid a curse upon ] the country and transformed It into | desert. The qulckenl*-- touch of water j n ?V? r\onc on/1 for. | restores uie uvsrn tu > uiuun , tlllty surpassing all legends. Who will .j boild Eden anew? Dome6day Book. Domesday Book, or Doomsday Book, Is the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England mad* by order of William the Conqueror un der special commissioners about the year 1086. It consists of two volumes a large folio and a quarto, and gives the name of every proprietor of hin'd rrd the extent of his possessions. All of England, except j Northumberland Durham, part of Cumberland and part of Westmoreland, was Included in the survey. The Domesday Book was for merly kept In the 'chapter house of Westminster, but is now In the public record office. Taxes were levied by this book un til 1522. when a more accurate sur vey was published at national cost In 1783, In two folio volumes. Two sup plementary volumes were published In 1816. , Where Life Is Longest. Which Is the healthiest place in the world? If the Index is the death rate, as It presumably must be, we have to go to the unlikely neighborhood of the antarctic to find it. In the last colonial report from the Falkland islands the death rate for 1917 and 1918 was 5.31 per 1,000. During ten years the death rate In England and Wales did not drop below 18.8, and was as high as 17.6. Yet the climate of the Falkland is lands Is vigorous and the country is more bleak and barren than .the Shet lands. High winds blow almost con stantly, but there Is no scarcity of sunshine. To these, Natures' two great disinfectants, is probably due the longevity of tne sparse population. ?London Tit-Bits. Measuring Colors. An English scientist has, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine, worked out a method of taking exact measurement of color. Black, white and gray are photometrically com pared with standard white, and their composition expressed In percentage of black or white. A color, such as red, is compared with a white surface In a pure red light. If the red ap pears darker, it is matched with a gray surface under a red light, the percentage of black then being the same in both. Assigning the number 25 to red. such a composition as cin nabhV T,ould be signified by the fig ures 25 .0-1 18. meaning red with 4 pei cent of white and 18 per cent of black. CALL ON FARMERS TO CUT ACREAGE i Hold it Folly to Grow Big Cotton Crop?Bankers Have Key Executive committees of various organizations, meeting yesterday at the Jefferson Hotel, went on record ' I as favoring a reduction in cotton1 ( acreage, according to the Memphis plan, and also adopted a resolution calling upon the bankers of the state to meet in Columbia at an early date and discuss the agricultu-| ral situation and outline plans for( meeting it. The appointment of the committee to inform the executive ? committee of the South Carolina Bankers' association was left in the ( hands of Bright Williamson of Dar-j lington. The. committees meeting to-1 gether yesterday were those of the South Carolina division of the cot ton association, the bankers' asso ciation, commercial secretaries' as sociation, the development board the press association and the automotive' trade association. i The meeting was characterized by comment on the outlook for the fu ture of this state, gloomy forecasts being made as to future conditions unless the farmers of South Caro lina reduce their acreage sharply and raise more food crops, for which some system of marketing must be1 provided. "We can not exaggerate the seriousness of the situation fac ing the South," sad R. I. Manning, president of the American Products Export and Import corporation. "All who have the welfare of the South at heart should insist on acreage re duction. If the banks should change their policy and call for cotton to be sold, it is impossible to say to Cwmfci 192a TW Hm 4 markets now, chandise at tb are down to \ In meetir past fall and t and thus wer< of a season b New Spring Styles in You'll be 1 5r5J2[2^2HH2EISEi?B5JSfSJ5JBI5f5JBJ5JSEI5JBJi what point it would descend in price The next 60 days, I believe, will tell the tale; if cotton is sold in any quantity the farmers will not be able to settle their obligations with bankers and merchants. If they hold on to their cotton, they will likely be able to settle their obligations. If cotton is sold, it means that more will be planted. If it is held, the acreage will be reduced.' Bankers Hold Key The banker, the land owner, the share cropper and the lien merchant and the part they \have to play in acreage reduction were discussed at length, it being finally brought out by J. P. Stribling of Uconee County that acreage reduction is purely a financial question. "If the banker furnishes the money, the cotton will be planted," said Mr. Stribling. "If, he refuses the money, the farmer can't plant cotton." T. B. Stackhouse of Columbia held that the banker was helpless, saying that the banks in New York would call on the banks in this state for loans, and that the banks in turn would be forced to call on the pro ducers. He held it was up to* the land owners to bring about the re duction. The bankers in New York, who have done all that the Southern farmer has a right to expect will show preference to the farmer who cuts his acreage 50 per cent., he said, if the indcations are that the farmers are going to plant a full crop again this year, then'the bank ers will call for their loans, which will force the Selling of cotton now being held, he (argued. Mr. Stackhouse said the textile manufacturing plants have their warehouses full of manufactured products; that there is no< demand Sic selecting our new sp ie same moment whe vhere they should be lg the unsettled cond vinter, we revised ou 5 able to reduce our y any merchant. Kuppenhei delighted with the nc mat 3 ARKE 0 3iaMSMSJSMBJSISM3I3J3MSI3MSMSJSISJ3."!SI3 'ior their goods; that many of them j have closed down, and thai othfrs ! are running on part time/ and that it would be folly for the farmer to grow a full crop under present con ditions. The state would be bettei off he said if no cotton were grown, The lien merchant was discussed ( at length and the land owner, too, I was mentioned, though it was finally i agreed that the banker holds the I keys in his hands, hence the resolu tion to have the bankers meet in Co lumbia and discuss plans for reduc ing acreage. Cooper Opens Meeting Governor Cooper made the open ing address at the meeting, saying that it -would be little less than criminal for the state to produce as much cotton his year as it did last, Bright Williamson of Partington presided after Governor Cooper had retired. Among the speakers were; R. C. Hamer of the State Cotton as sociation, R. I. Manning of the ex port corporation, J. S. Wannamakei I of the American Cotton association, T. B. Stackhouse of the Standard Warehouse company, J. H. Claffey, of Orangeburg, flarvie Jordan oi Monticello, Ga; A. B. Joidon of Dil lon of the State Press association, A. B. Gibbes of the automotive asso ciation, W. W. Long of Clemson col lege, B. Biarris, commissioner of ag riculture; J. P. Strlbling of Oconee and several others. J. S. Wannamaker of the1 Ameri can Cotton ^association in stressing the importance of reduction, said that when farmers were asked to cut \ _ _ . i A their cotton lands something else must be suggested to take its place, He said a three-fold plan should be arranged. The first will call for The mo 1 EVEP new more s young men t The reason merchandise ring stock; and we ? :n the clothing marke itions which existed r prices to even less stocks to a point, s imer and St) :w models?the grace erials; and the low pi D fi , 1\ ot jaJSJ3iafa?SISI3?elJSJSISI5I3J3J5J3MSrEf3f3?Sfi i acreage reduction; the second for j the establishment of markets for other crops; the third is for the leg i islature to throw protection around . j the cotton crop, Mr. Wannamaker -. had suggestions for putting these , plans into effect, and his plans were I adopted in toto by the meeting. After expressing itself as favor r ing the plan of having but one-third , of the cutivated land in cotton and , I calling on the bankers to meet and further consider the situation the meeting adjourned. SLEEP'S MARVEL ' A marvel I looked upon, /"PVmn -ivnlrincr Viifl 1! Born of sleep, and gone ! With the lifting lid. Was it the loveliness Of one white flower That mourns a dead Princess On a rock by a tower? ^ Or lit my sleeping eye Ofi that far country \ Where fierce reel parrots fly On a bright green sea, And, touching1 with ruby wings That emerald main, v Their passage round them flings A jewelled rain? , C Or vague was the delight As the summer air That shakes in and out of sight, Yet is ever there? Ah, just as I'd win it clear, Straight was it hid, Dimmed in the mist of a tear j On the lifting lid. ?Iolo A.#Wll liams. st important a nteresting spi nouricemen >s ev< / . [ in our History have season in a conclitior satisfying clothes-servic Kan this spring season i: The decks < are cl , and our buyer is in ire able to present fre :t has become stabilize in the clothing indust than the downward i eldom, if ever reache rtarJuc r. nnrl iV/jyiuu : and smart lines?the rices. ? REESE 3JaiaM3JSMSfSMSJ3MSf2M3JS13l5ISJ3?aiSJSMSJ WILLIAM S. HART TO RETIRE Los Angeles, Cal., Mar. 2.?WB liam S. Hart, internationally crie> brated two-gun hero of movie IndL today announced that he wonld re tire permanently fronl the silver sheet in the very near future. His retirement will take place after the completion of the picture on wluda he is now working. He will derate his time to writing stories for bojx, stories of the great West as he knew it before it was overrun by tonrirfi with golf sticks and flannels. The present generation of pi goers has almost forgotten that Hart had a long and successfid career on the lejrititmate staee ia Shakesperean roles and others be fore he went into pictures. GOOD EYESIGHT. "That fellow charged with 'm'A ing' says it's all a mistake," saii Smith. "Why?" asked Jones. ( "He's near-sighted." "Did you see the young woman who preferred the charge?" "No." "I did. His eyesight's pretty good.* ' ??^ BIG VERDICT UPHELD New York, Feb. 24.?Damages of $600,000 awarded by a trial court to ^ the Hotel Woodward company agaiast ttfe Ford Motor company were np held here today by the United States court of appeals. Failure of the Fori company to complete a 1 contract which called for the leasing of a pro- - posed addition to the hotel at Broai way and Fifty street was the ban for the suit. ' . ind most :ing an it we've 3r made we entered a 1 to render a :e to men and ,1921. eared of old the northern mRr . } OAi, ed and prices ry during the market trend, d, at the end Clothes splendid