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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1922 |
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WORK TO BE DONE.
Sometime ago the Press and Ban-'
ner urged on the people about Abbe-J
ville the planting of a sweet potatoj
crop as an additional money crop. As.
is usual good advice in Abbeville j
goes unheeded. Though, it must bei
said, that a good many people are)
thinking along the lines which we!
discussed and there is interest in
potato growing. Only recently two or
three enterprising citiaens had speak
ers here to discuss the matter.
In this connection attention is
called to an article in The State of
today sent from Fort Mill, which m
part is as follows:
"About a year ago the Fork Pota-j
to Growers' association, composed
principally of farmers in the lower i
section of Fort Mill township, was!
formed with the purpose of growing
curing, and marketing sweet potatoes
and, with the sale of the last of last1
year's crop, Ladson M. Massey, sec-j
retary of the association, has made a
report of the operations which in
clude the sale to dealers of 900
bushels and to seedsmen of 200 bush
els, while the families of the mem
bers were bountifully supplied
throughout the year. The sales were
made in Fort Mill and Rock Hill,
Winhrop college 'being supplied from
time to-time, and the average price
obtained was around $1.50 per bushel
"The beginnings were on a small
scale, a storage house of 2,500 bush-i
els being built, in which were stored
during the year 1,800 crates for cur-1
ovnorimoTif ic /*AriciHprpH SO i
6uccessful that planting on a much1
larger scale will be done this year I
and to care for the product another
storage house of 3,000 bushels capa
city is being built, and still another
of 2,500 bushels capacity is in con-'
templation. It is the intention of the
local association to join the state
association as soon as the production
is sufficiently large to make car;
load shipments. The Puerto Rico'
variety is grown exclusively, and con
sumers testify the superiority of the
"cured" product over that of former,
days when the potatoes were kept!
under hills. S. C. Armstrong, presi-'
dent of the association, is given
much credit for the success of the
past year, and he is satisfied that po
tatoes are a very much more profit
able crop than cotton, even at 20
cents per pound, under boll weevil
conditions."
If the people about Fort Mill can
make money out of potatoes there is
no reason why we cannot. If we plant
and grow potatoes and cannot sell
them, we can at least use them in
feeding- the neonle on the farms who
do not grow potatoes and who must!
be fed every year out of the stores. !
Nor is it too late to take active '
steps for a potato crop in Abbeville
township this season. Just now the
County Demonstration Agent is busy
with Cooperative Marketing. As soon
as the the bend has been turned in I
that fight he will be ready for some-!
thing else. Why may he not appoint]
himself a leader and arrange for the |
growing and curing of 10,000 bush
els of sweet potatoes in this neigh
borhood the present year? There is
plenty of time for planting the po
tatoes. Farmers may yet shape their
planting operations so as to give anj
acre or two on every farm to this i
crop. We can build the curing house
in the summer while the potatoes are
making, and in the fall we can house
a crop of potatoes which will bring
into this neighborhood at current
prices about $15,000.
The matter is worth consideration.
It is worth more than that, the plan
should be adopted. We have a live
county agent now. Why may He not
lead the fight and get the Abbeville
Sweet Potato-Growers Association in
action, and that within the next ten
days?
AN OFFICER WHO SCORNS
THE KLUX "ASSISTANCE"
The Ku-Klux Klan is not confining
its grotesque and silly "publicity
stunts" to the South altogether. It is
"pulling" a lot of that sort of stuff j
here and there, at other points]
throughout the nation?wnerever ;i
can get together an audience of one
sort and another.
The other night, "on top of a
mountain visible from Patterson,' N.
J.'" one of its "flaming cross stunts" j
was held. The idea in "the flaming
cross stunt" is to get on a high hill
somewhere and wave these things a
round so as to give as much mystery
and spectacular effect to whatever it
is that is going on as may be?and
then start the solicitation crew out
to see now many new memuen may ^
be rounded up at $10 each?don't
forget the $10 each.
The New Jersey "stunt" was ac
companied by a proclamation, circu
lated around the neighborhood, to the
effect that the Ku-Klux Klan is an
organization that would not for a
minute "tolerate religious or race
hatred"?but leaving it up to every
one to believe that or no, just as he
might elect, until he got on the in
side and found out the real truth.
The proclamation then went on to
say that fche organization proposed to
"stand four-square behind the offic
ers of the law in the fulfillment of
their duties"?but it failed to give
the names of the militant members
proposing. The idea seemed to be
that they would "stand behind" with
out disclosing ineir laenxity ana neipj
enforce the law behind masks, cowls,
shrouds, etc.
The prosecuting attorney of the
district, however, does not seem to
have been unduly impressed by the
proclaimed lofty and patriotic pur
poses of the organization. After the
"stunt" had been "pulled" he took
occasion to say that he has no knowl
edge of the existence, really, of a
Hon in his district: that the "sDec
tacle" held forth on the mountain,
top might or might not be a real Ku
Klux Klan affair; hut, whether it was
or no, He isn't looking for any such
assistance as that in the execution of
his duty. He says that he will look
after the administration of the law
in his community, as he has been com
missioned and sworn to do, prosecut-j
ing to the full extent ALL persons]
who violate it?including societies'
and organizations, as well as individ
uals.
To quote the prosecuting attorney
directly he says: "The proper place
for the punishment of crime by in
dividuals is in the COURTS, and not
in secret order societies. No individ
ual has the right to take the law into
his own hands." And, he might have
added, when the taking is effected in
secret, behind masks and cowls and
shrouds.
The reason why the Ku-Klux Klan
is going to pieces and the reason why
it is finding it necessary to resort
more and more to cheap forms of
spectacular "publicity,"' is because,
as The Georgian and American re
peatedly has said, there is no place'
for it, no necessity for it, no use for j
it in our present scheme of civiliza-!
tion.
We shall make more and swifter i
progress toward better things with
out the Ku-Klux Klan than we ever
may hope to make with it; and that
is the reason why it is on the verge
of collapse?that is the reason why it
is about to "play out" not only as a
money-making scheme, but as what
ever else its apologists loftily claim
it to be.?Atlanta Georgian.
Dr. Charles P. Stelnmetz of Sche
nectady, a scientist whose authority
is well established, declares that the
theory that light und sound are j
transmitted on waves of ether is no
longer tenable, being at variance
with Dr. Einstein's theory of relati
vity. As the conception of ether put
forward by scientists is almost as
hard for laymen to grasp as is the
theory of relativity itself this as
sertion will not trouble the rooters
in the baseball .parks.?New York
Herald.
DR. L. V. LISINBEE
0PT1METRIST
...Office Over...
McMurray'# Drug
Store.
5SJ ABBEVILLE, S. C.
DOTE DISCUSSES SITUATION
FOOLS THE BOLL WEEVIL
Deer eclditoral?as the munt is
bout out and i has not rit you a letar
in sum time i seet myself tonite at
niy mullit stand on S. mane streat
to tell you a few pints bout the sit
teration.
the boll weavuls is already here
and the flies is cummin; the tater
bugs in on tne taters ana me muss
eetars air gittin there bills sharped
to bite; the flees is growin on the
dogs and grass is cummin up; but
the wust sine i sea of trubble is the
poHertishuns cummin out. The bole
weavul may eat up the cotton and
the flies may spile the vittals; the
tater bugs may stroy the taters and
the muskeeters bite yore ankle; the
flees may git in the bed wiff you at
nite when it is hot and crawl a little
and the grass may eet up the corn;
but what is to be feered is that the
pollertishuns will tell the truth on
eech uther, in which case it will be
wuss then if they tole a ly.
I sea that they has cort a still on
the plais what jim Tullis has rented
and that jim and frend Self has been
in the jug but jim got out and left
Self in. well, that is whar jim made
a mistake if he war in it, bekos he
snood kno that Self will tell the
whole tail and a little more if he
think jim dun gone back on him. the
rool is that if you go inter partner
ship with a man in eether merchan
dize, coco-cola, or licker, is to take it
equl and bare yore part, mind you
i doo not say that jim and Self has
made enny licker, or is in it; if they
made enny all i can say is that they
has bii\ a little stingy wiff it on
South mane where it is badly needed,
But a cirkumstants not menshuned
in yore papar bout the whole cirkum
furnts is that the day they kort jim
and self and the still is that Col. Gor
dan White kort corp. Kerr, of the
dutch Kalone, plantin out a mint bed,
which do not say that the corp. wai
in the still but he war gittin redds
to git m it, it seam to mee.
i want to git up town sattidy nitc
to sine up on the cotton co-opera
tion. i think now that i will maik boul
a bail on sixtean akers and may bee
too bales if the bole weevuls don'1
find my krap too soon, i has tride a
new aoage on ine weevuis. au une
paipers has bin tellin how to man
nidge the bole weavil, and a good
menny plans has bin started but none
of-- them hits the nale on the hed.' the
thing to doo is to fool the weavil.
that is my game, so i is goner plant
bout six akers in cotan on the same
ole field and not wurk it mutch, but
to maik the bole weevuls think this
is my krap. but the biggest end of
my krap i is goner plant down on
long kane on a nue ground what i
cleered up this winter, the bole wee
vil has newer bin in that naburhood,
and he doo not even kno that enny
cotan is to be there this yeer. the
feeld is surrounded by the creak and
pine woods and i think i kin git the
crop made and gethered befoar the
boll weevil git wise, i has not pat
tented the plan and if alien Mer
kantie want to try the same gaim on
the weevil he kin go too it. but alien
will hafter doo like mee. I go to the
feeld befoar day while the weevul is
still sleep and don't kum hoam till
arter dark, so that he never sea me
goin nur cummin, and i walk back
wards goin to the feeld so the bole
weevul kinnot track me. I think i
got him fooled so fur and if nuthin
happens as i say i may have as
mutch as two bales to put in the co
operation; but i done give it in to
my leen as six bales, and gin a mort
gage on the crop and plan to fool the
weevil to boot, which will keap the
rashuns cummin till i kin git a little
ahed in the fish bizness, then if
things do not look prosperus in the
fall i will go inter bankruptcy, let
the kredditus have the krap and
clame homestid in the fish bizness.
there air more ways of riden a mule
besides bare back.
Yours till fall,
Dote.
AN OPEN LETTER
Tn thp crnnd Tvprmla n-f AMhpvillo
County
Today your state is calling on
you as she has not called since the
sixties. The future prosperity of
your state and of your county de
pends to a great extent on tho
stand you take on Co-operative
Marketing of cotton and other agri
cultural products. You have wonder
ful opportunities if you will but ac_
cept them.
The thinking man and woman
must put this proposition over. If
you get up your quota you will have
to s;gn up 800 bales every day this
week. The Pee Dee and the lower
.part of the State are calling to you
to come and join hands with them in
the breaking of the shackles of the
Wall Street gang.
If you desire to remain the slave
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Ol tilOSe money snarns ana gamoiers,
continue to market your cotton as
you have for the last fifty years.
You have the situation in your
hands, will you do your duty to
your children, to your wife and to
yorur State? Its up to you. If you
put it over, every one of you will
have to go out and work. It can be
done, will you help?
I wish to thank the people of Ab
beville County for th? courtesies ex
tended me during my work among
them.
Sincerely,
T. L. Manning.
Shipment of Refrigerators, Water
Coolers, Garden Hose, Lawn Mowers
and other seasonable goods just re
ceived.?The Rosenberg Mercantile
Company.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF AP
PLICATION FOR DISCHARGE
In the District Court of the United
States for the Western District of
South Carolina.
In the Matter of W. B. Hill. Lown
desville, S. C., - Bankrupt.
In Bankruptcy.
To the Creditors of the above named
Bankrupt:
Take notice that on April 20, 1&22,
the above named bankrupt filed his
, petition in said Court praying that he
I may be decreed by the Court to have
a full discharge from all debts prov
i able against his estate, except such
debts as are excepted by law from
, such discharge, and a hearing was
thereupon ordered and will be had
' nnAH nrtl/1 An TWqtt 00 1Q 00
uyva ooiu
before said court, at Greenville in
said District, at 11 o'clock in the fore
noon, at which time and place all
known creditors and other persons
in interest may appeaT and show
cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
D. C. DURHAM, Clerk.
Dated at Greenville, S. C., Apr. 20.
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