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FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1922
THE NEGRO IN THE NORTH
the negro for several decades. But in
the last ten years other states have
"begun to have their negro problems.
In that time the negro population in
many Southern States has decreased,
in others there has been but only a
small gain, while in several Northern
states the numbers of negroes have
The South has been the home of
rapidly increased, t or instance irom
1910 to 1920 in the state of Mis
sissippi there was a decrease in the
negro population of 74,303, while in
the state of Pennsylvania there was
an increase of 90.649; in the
state of Tennessee there wa^
in that period a decrease of 21,330^
while there was an increase in Ohio
of 74,735; in Kentucky there was a
decrease of 26,118 while in New
York there was an increase 0^64,
292. There were corresponding in
creases in Illinois and and Indiana.
With a negro population of more
than 8,000,000 in 1910, there was
an increase in the South in ten years
of only 113,419, or less than one
half of one per cent. During the
same period the number of negroes
in the Northern states increased from
one and a half milliWs to a little
more than two millions, a net increase
of 521,949, or thirty-three per cent.
These figures indicate* that the
South is not always to be the home
of the negro. The negro problem will
in a few years be as much a problem
for the^North as for the South. A
great many negroes have gone to
Northern states for one cause and
another. There are other causes
which will take them there. The ne
gro has been the great cotton raiser
of the South. As long as cotton grew
in spite of indifferent cultivation, a
want of fertilizers, and from a mere
planting of the seed, the negro was
a cotton producer. But unless we
mistake the times, the negro's days
on the cotton farms of the South
have been numbered, that is as a
farmer on his own account. If, as we
are told, the time has come when cot
tan can *>e produced only by the
adoption of scientific methods, by
the proper preparation of the lands,
by intensive cultivation and proper
fertilisation, all v of which means
.twelve months of work on the farm*
in each year, then the hegrd may
not longer be depended on to make
cotton. Here and there a negro will
be found with enough industry to
succeed, but by far the larger per
cent, of the Southern negro popula
tion desires to plant cotton about the
middle of April, gather it in the fall,
live from the seed money during the
winter and plant again next April,
obtaining the means of subsistence
during the .work months from the
stores. That day has passed.
It looks to us like the only way by
which negroes on the farm are to
be worth anything is by employing
them for day laborers, or for month
ly or yearly laborers. In that way
they will work under the direction of
men who may be able to farm and
know how to farm successfully.
Otherwise they are about to become
useless on the farms.
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ine negro iik.cs iu ue inuepenueui
as he sees independence. He likes
rather to be trifling. He wants tc
work when he feels like it, and tc
loaf most of the time. For these rea
sons he will not desire to staj
on the farms and worl
every ' day in the year. Thi?
means that the lancftwner will nc
longer want or need the negro or
his farm, and the latter will nc
longer want to make his home or
the farm. We expect, therefore, t<
see more and more of the negroe;
the next few years quitting the cot
ton farms of the South and settlinf
in the Ufljjstrial centers of the North
: The figures from Mississippi indicate
that this is to be the case.
' It will take a long time of corn's*
: for the population to decrease evei
one-half in the South, but the num
jbers will multiply in Northern state
I l/i tha next ten years, and many o
us will live to see the North as bad
' I ly perplexed by the negro questioi
" as the South has sometimes been.
MUCH DEBATE IN HOUSE
j Reject# / Proposal Not To Ta:
Municipal Plants *
rnlnmbia. March 9.?The Housi
! of Representatives consumed th(
f' whole of its night session with de
bate on the bills requiring an edu
cational survey of the State and ex
emptons excluding municipally own
ed ice, electric light, water and ga:
plants from taxation, both of whicl
were rejected.
Only those who have tickets, tw<
of which were allotted to eacl
memlber of the House, will be al
lowed on the floor of the House to
morrow when Mr. Cox will make ar
address. The gallery is free to th<
! public. Hundreds of applications foi
tickets were made tonight and the
estimate is that nothing like the
crowd to do honor to the dis
| tinguished Ohioan can be accommo<
j dated. The hall and lobby of tiu
House are handsomely decorated
| with the national colors in honor ol
Mr. Cox.
j The educational survey bill
(which was' rejected tonight pro
vides | for a commission of five
1 members, to be appointed by th<
j Governor, arid they were to serve
i without pay. They wfere authorized
j to employ expert assistance ancl ar
! appropriation of $10,000 was
I made for the work. Every school
! nr,A n/fiinofinnol inafitntinn in t.h#
| aim CUuvabivuat ?4wv*v%?w?wm --- w?-?
j state was to be surveyed and a re
! port was to have been made to the
! next General Assembly on .the edu
cational needs of the State.
! Mr. Beiser, the sponsor of the
'municipal exemption t bill, explained
that the measure was really local ir
its application, as it was aimed tc
-I relieve the municipal .tee plant al
Sumter. ^
j This morning an amendment tc
! the bill exempting fraternal orga
nizations having the grand lodge
J system and not'being supported bj
j insurance features were Rejected
J Some of the members said that the
J Masonic orders of the Stqc^ object
I ed to the amendment Mr.' Sapp oi
I Richland, said that the Masons at
I Columbia wanted the bill so that
j their temple at Columbia could he
relieved of taxes. . 1
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riIRR MARkTPT AND'CANNERY
Officers of the Home Demonstra
tion Clubs of Abbeville County met
Wednesday afternoon in the office
of Mrs. R. T. Gibbons at the court
house. On account of recent rains
and newly worked roads only six
officers were present. They discuss
ed the Curb Market plan to put on
the Curb Market here and decided
to have rules and regulation? foi
the market, and to try to get the
merchants to cooperate with them.
The probability of having a Com
munity Cannery in Abbeville Coun
ty was also discussed.- It was decided
to have Mrs. F. J. Kline the market
ing agent for the State come here
and make an address and have a
community meeting in the courl
house!. The following officers repre
senting the different clubs through
out the county were present: Mrs
W. P. Wham, Mrs. Manning Car
lisle, Miss Dollie Carlisle, Mrs
He>nry Carlisle and Mrs. H. P. Sal
ley.
NEW MILK RECORD
FOR JERSEY COW
Storrs, Conn., March 9.?A nev
record for milk production from i
Jersey cow was attested today by th<
Connecticut Agricultural Collegi
jjFauvic's Star, owned by A. V. Barn
ijes, of New Canaan, produced 20,61(
Jpounds of milk in a year against th<
. best previous record of 19,695, mad<
r(by Passport, owned in New York.
[I The sire of Fauvic's Star was Fau
5! vic's Prince, first prize mature bul
>;at the National Dairy Show in 1920
11 Eighteen daughters of this bul
>! averaged over 550 pounds of butte:
j fat two year olds.
>' Fauvic's Star lacked only 3!
; pounds of making a world's Jerse;
- record for butterfat, hei; productio:
j being 1,005.9 pounds. The average
. fat percentage was 4.88.
J STRIKE SITUATION
REMAINS UNCHANGED
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-j Rhode Island Board of Mediation
Conciliation Abandons At
s tempts at Settlement
f Providence, R. I., March 9.?The
state board of mediation and concili
1 ation today abandoned attempts at
settlement of the strike differences
and adjourned indefinitely. A state
ment issued this afternoon by Labor
n U W?kk -c?i
V_>UIIlIIA15S>lUIlUr ?. fT CUU, J.V/A
I lowing a lengthy session of the board,
* announced that the body /'consider
ed it useless to make furthe* attempts
e to persuade either side to submit to
e arbitration."
.J A little more than a week ago the
. | board gave up attempts to settle the
strike when textile manufacturers
.jand operatives refused to submit
s their differences to arbitration. On
i! Saturday the board met again in
I what was announced as a final effort
5' at mediation. A plan was drawn up
i' providing for a 10 per cent, wage
. reduction instead of the 20 per cent.
~ asked by mill owners, and for reten
i tion of the 48 hour working week in
. the mills, instead of the 54 hour
r | week, proposed by the manufacturers.
?' The statement issued by the board
;: today was taken as indicating that
J these terms were not acceptable to
.'one or both of the interested par
> ties. '
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BASEBALL SCHEDULE TO DATE
IJ The following is the baseball
' nf t.he Errfkine 'hall rliiih
kto date:
j . March 25?Davidson at Charlotte
i or Davidson, N. C.
[!
March 28?Elon College at Elon
| i College, N. C.
March 30?Wake Forest, at Wake
^'Forest, N. C.
.! March 31?N. C. State at Raleigh.
i j April 6.?Wofford at Spartan
j burg. v
j April 7?Furman University at
5 j Greenville.
H April 10?.Newberry at Due
> j West.
j April 12?'Presbyterian College
'jat Due West. ' i
April 14?Clepwon College at
1 Clemson College.
; April ??(Presbyterian College at
! Chester (Pending).
r April 20?Wofford College at
Due West..
5 April 25?Elon College' at Due
West.
April 27?The Citadel at Due
: West.
April 29?Clemson at Due West.
* May 1?(Furman University at
Due West.
May 8?NeWberry College at
" Newberry.
May 9?University of S. C. at
Columbia.
May 10?The Citadel at Charles
ton.
' ^May 11?College of Charleston
at Charleston.
TORNADO TAKES NEGRO
WOMAN OUT FOR RIDE
Wilson, N. C., March -9.?Reports
from local hospitals where almost a
score of persons were taken yester
day for treatment of injuries as a
result of a tornado which struck the
little village of Evansdale, five miles
west of here, yesterday morning, in
> dicate that ,all will recover. One per
t son, a negro school teacher, was in
> stantly killed when struck by fiying
pieces of timber. The tornfedo, mov
ing south and north, struck Evans
dale about 9:30 yesterday morning
nnortfinollw fiUflTV
aim uciiiuiioucu
taring in its four hundred feet wide
path. About ten homes and probably
twenty barns were destroyed. The
property loss is estimated at between
$50,000 to $75,000.
' A negrd woman, whose cabin was
wrecked, suffered a broken leg and
arm when she was picked up by the
1 wind, carried a distance of between
sixty and seventy feet and landed in
- a ditch filled with water, narrowly
- escaping drowning. Funds are being
5 raised by various charitable organi
- zations of Wilson for the relief of
2 the people made homeless by the
storm.
' Rather Striking.
"But, Bertha, how d'd you make
1 the acquaintance of your second
r I
I "It was quite romantic. I waif out
5 walking with my first, when my sec
V j ond came along in an automobile and
31 ran him down. That was the begin
e ping of our friendship."?Bartles
jville (Okla.) Enterprise.
A SALUDA FARMER
TAKES OWN LIFE
Hodge Timmeraaan Blows Off Top
Of Head With Shot Gun. c
.Lived in Good Hope
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Saluda, March 9.?Hodge Tim- j.
merman, a white man, and prosper- ^
ous farmer between 60 and 65 a
years old, committed suicide yester
day at his home in the Baptist Good
Hope section of the county. Getting .
'up from the dinner table he went on
the front po*ch, seated himself in a *
chair, removed his left shoe andi^
sock, placed a shotgun to his fore-j'
head and pulled the trigger with his' t
toe. The load blew the entire top of!
his head off and he died instantly,'
however, the body did not fall out11
of the chair.
It seems that Mr. Timmermanj
tried to kill himself some few years j
ago by taking laudanum and it is
thought that he has been slightly
unbalanced mentally for a number
of years. He was in good fircum- jc
stances, according to reports, and j s
financial troubles could hardly have!c
'been the motive for killing himself.;
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Mi'. Weeks will preach Sunday at
11:00 a. ip.', on the subject, "What
Think Ye \of Christ." The Sunday
night, service begins at 7:30
o'clock. The subject will be, "More
Than Conquerors." This sermon will
have special application to young
.people.
The Wednesday night prayer
meetings should be of special inter
est now to all the members of the
church. These meetings will have as
the devotional study of the service a
discussion of the parables of our
Lord. The sulbject for Wednesday
night, March 15th, will tbe "The
Parable of the Sower." Matthew 13:
1-23. \ ,
The Sunday school is planning to
enlist e+ery member of the church
in this important enterprise^ All the
men of the church are specially urg
ed to be present next Sunday at j|
10:00 a. m.
A campaign is to be inaugurated
in all the churches in South Caro
lina to get the members to make
regular weekly payments on thedr
pledges to the $76,000,000 fund.
This is about the only way now left
ti> our church by which our denomi
national work can be carried for*
ward without very serious loss. It ia
earnestly hoped that our members
may do something along this line.
TRUE BILL AGAINST MALONE
Indictc/d for Murder in Connection
With Killing of Mcllwaine
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Court of general sessions ad
journed Wednesday afternoon after
a two day's session, A true bill was
returned by the grand jury against
Con Malone, indicted for murder in
connection with the klliing of Will
Mcllwaine, a white farmer near Sal
ak. The case was continued until the
nefct term of court.?Index-Journal.
Just about the time you learn how
to live and have money enough to
try it, your hair falls out and youj
have to have your teeth pulled and
life isn't worth living anyway. /
SMITHVILLE
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vMr. ind Mrs. A. M. Tolbert were
in AIUwmtIIIa ati W
ill VM TV
day.
Robert Beauford visite5 Mr. and
I^rs. Clarence Williams in Green
wood last Tuesday.
Miss Mattie Tolbert is at home
having completed her term as
teacher at Hickory Ridge, Fairfield
County.
Sam Bruce and John Cromer
were guests of J. A. Beauford Mon
day.
Mrs. Joe .Davis visited Mrs. G. R.'
Tolbert Wednesday. S
Mrs. E. P. Jones and Miss Martha
Jones visited in the home of Mr. A.
IT
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Mr. C. B. Tolbert was a business
visitor in Greenwood Thursday.
W. A. HARRIS
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460,000,000 INCOME
TAX TO BE PAID MARCH 15
Washington,, March 9.?Tke i*
ome taxes to be collected by tke
:overnment March 15, in the first
[uarterly installment due on earn
ngs of 1921, will fall more tha?
1100,000,000 below the quarterly
verage last year, Treasury officials
am rnursctay.
The estimate of Treasury actu
iries that only $460,000,000 will be
aid on the first installment was
ased on the\ idea that large nuia
>ers of corporations and other tax
>ayers would avail themselves bf
heir legal right to defer payments
intil a later period. Officials expect
:d, however, that income taxes for
he whole year would not be less
han $2,500^00,000. ,
NEW HARMONY
There will he an ice cream and
thicken supper, and a negro min
;trel at New Harmony school Fri
lay night.?Fountain Inn Tribune.
A derailment near Polkton on
he North Carolina Division of the
Seaboard Air Line delayed No. *11
Thursday morning five hours.
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We also keep on hand
Bacon, Ham, etc., at
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Alawys a nice supply
Goods on hand. Phon
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CHARLES CHAPLAIN SUES
AN ALLEGED IMlllTAI
Los. Angeles, March 9.
ChapJin is the plaintiff ii a m
file in the superior c?nrt here
against the Western Features
ductions seeking to restrain Ac
ter concern from producing t#? \
[tion picture plays which Chaptia]
I leges contain a character seeki
imitate him. The actor, involTi
the suit is Charles Amador, hi
according to the suit in two
"Charles Aptin," and aiake
mannerisms and customs whiek '
comedian charges are wholesale
tations of acting by which feel
known. Certain ways and
isris costume, facial expressions.
characteristic movements of tin*
~ cxxi/iviicu as jjuinto 01
the suit.
Lady Astor Coni>|<
London, ' March 9.?Lady
says the Pall Mall Gazette;'
will go to the United States in
She plans to. attend the Pan-J
c^n conference of women, to btf '
in Baltimore, and the conventidi
the National League of Women/1
era in connection.with which the 1
American conference ie to be
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