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TOPSOIL ROADS
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If any argument were needed to ^
support our argument of Monday
for care of the roads now being
built in this county, it could be (
furnished by the roads from Ware
Shoals to Greenville. These roads
were constructed just as the roads
of this county are now 'being con. j
structed. They were evidently wel^
built To a person who was doubt-j
ful of the value of the topsoill
roads they furnish evidence that
these roads are of a more perma
nent nature than some have
thought. The conditions of these
roads leads us to believe that by
the expenditure of a reasonable
amount of money each year, and
by constant care and attention,
these roads may be made very sat
isfactory.
Without this care, however, the
roads will not be satisfactory. On
the way from Ware Shoals to
Greenville one strikes stretches of
these roads which are badly wash
ed, and where the wheels of the car!
jump out of one hole into another, |
causing a constant bumping. In
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Otner places wnere wie iuaua
been cared for, where they are
scraped and kept smooth, the roads1
are as satisfactory as when first i
built.
As suggested, they present a
study in the upkeep of good roads.
Those charged with this duty might
well take a ride over the roads in-1
dicated. The time would be well
spent. Lessons can be learned
which will be of immense profit to
him who undertakes to keep up the
roads here or elsewhere.
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According to the Anderson Trib
une the judges of the state should be
selected from the younger lawyers,
rather than from older lawyers at
the bar. And Anderson has about four
whom the Tribune would like to see
performing judicial duties. |
The Tribune overlooks the fact1
that most of the judges who now
"have one foot in the grave" went
on the bench while they were still
young men. The fact that they are
now old is not because of their
years only, because few of them have
reached their "three score years and
ten," but largely because of thc(
exacting duties of the office of circuit
judge. The ju^dge of the Anderson !
Circuit has been on the bench a good
many years. He was an active mem.1
ber of the bar when he was elected
circuit judge. He is not an old man 1
in years now, but the work of the
circuit bench, we believe, is largely
responsible for his present physical'
infirmit:es. (And while we are saying
that we may say too that no man in
South Carolina deserves better of the:
state than does Judge Prince, be
cause in spite of infirmities which!
would have caused many other men j
to have quit work and deemed them
selves a confirmed invalid, he has
continued to do the work assigned
him, and with credit to himself and
rai-fVi rrvn o + V? ol Q ctofo \ I
Another thing the Tribune over
looks. A man at thirty-five, if he is
married, likely has a family of
small children. To them he owes much
more than he does to the public. At
the bar he is enabled to be at home,
to assist in the rearing of these chil
dren, and by fair opportunity he
may be enabled to give to them a
college education and to start them
on the way of life. But not so with a
circuit judge. The duties of that of
fice take him away from home and
from his family; the income from the
position is about sufficient to keep
soul and body together, if he lives
frugally and with due regard to his
position, with the result that the
young lawyer who goes on the bench,
neglects his family, throws away the
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opportunity to accumulate a little
perhaps for the infirmities of old
age, lives a life of unceasing toil, if
he does his duty, cuts ten years from
his allotted time on earth in almost
every instance, and when he has
about run his race is discredited by
the people whom he has served be
iio ic nM and infirm, and is
spoken of as a kind of pensioner of
the public.
No, neighbor, the young lawyer of
fair promise, with family ties and
with some regard for the future will
not be found who is willing to serve
the state for the salary now offered
3 circuit judge. Besides men of ripe
experience at the bar, who have
learned to serve, and who are not be.
;et by schemes for personal advance
ment, are the men most able to dis
aense justice on the bench. We may
relieve them firom some of the bur
iens of the office by allowing them
:o live at home and to preside in
;heir own circuits, and after ten
^ears on the bench, we might even
fViA^r Ka licfo/1 QC ClinPT*
VTIU^ lliab bti^jr Kf\+ i<OWVk wv.^_
lumerary on the bench, and be al.
owed to retire on full pay, subject
:o the performance of such duties as
;hey are able to perform.
There is nothing quite so unsatis
factory as a cheap brand of justice.
Harvey Appoints Cooper.
Columbia, July 11?Governor Har
vey has appointed Governor Cooper
is the South Carolina member of the
special committee organized by the
Washington headquarters of the
Southern Co-Operative League, to
draft a bill aimed at the destruction
of lynch law, which will be substitut
ed for the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill,
now before Congress. The Southern
league opposes the Dyer measure on
the ground that it is unconstitutional
and in taking the lead for a bill that
will more clearly meet the special
Southern committee, one member
from each Southern state. The aim is
to have the South take the lead in the
new anti-lynch law promulgation.
To Let Contract For Road
Contract for construction of the
improved highway from Greenwood
to Abbeville will be let Monday by
thef sjtate highway djepartment.
Contracts for both the hard surface
portion, extending about one mile
out from the city limits and for the
remaining top soil portion will be
let at that time. Actual construc
tion work is expected to begin
within a few weeks after the con
tracts are let.?Index-Journal..
DEFENDS TARIFF BILL
No Excuse For Increase in Price,
Says Willis.
Washington, [July 11.?Clothing
manufacturers and dealers would
not be justified in increasing their
prices because of the wool rates in
the pending tariff bill. Senator Wil
lis, Republican, Ohio, declared today
in a letter replying to a protest
against the tariff.
"If any such increase in price
contemplated by manufacturers and
retailers of clothing," said Senator
Willis, "consumers ought to under
stand that there is not the slightest
justification or excuse for it in any
tariff rate in the pending bill. T|e
unfairness and absurdity of claim
ing that the new tariff rate on raw
wool justifies an increase of $5 per
suit of clothes is illustrated by the
fact that the total amount on raw
wool, if it were added to the pri?e
of the suit, would be ninety.nine
cents."
DOLLAR MAKES JUMP
ON PARIS EXCHANGE
Paris, July 8.?The dollar made
a tremendous jump in value over
night on the -Paris exchange mar
ket, opening at 12.75 francs as
compared with yesterday's closing
price of 12.26 while the pound
sterling sold at 56.50 francs a
gainst 54.85. The exchange market
was feverish and there was heavy
selling of francs which were the
weakest of the lot.
STEEL TANNAGE
*1 SHOWS DECREASE
New York, July 11.?The month
ly tonnage report of the United
States Steel Corporation made
public today showed 5,635,531 tons
of unfilled orders on hand June 30.
This is an increase from May's un
filled orders which totalled 5,254,
228.
Watch the label on your paper
STATE'S LIVE STOCK
SURPASSES COTTON
Several Causes of Changed Con
dition, Says Dr. Lewi?, Head
of Department
Columbia, July 11.?The live
stock industry in South Carolina
during last year exceeded in total
value that of the state's cotton crop
The interesting, ^ and somewhat
startling statement, was made yes
terday toy Dr. W. K. Lewis, state
veterinarian and inspector in
charge of livestock, which includes
cattle, hogs, sheep horses and
mules, total $84,000,000 while the
cotton crop, taking the state de
parcmeni/ 01 iignvuii/uic a gouui?w
of 776,000 bales and allowing the
high average price of 20 cents per
pound, values $77,600,000.
The above statement will come
as an eye-opener to many South
Carolinians who had no idea that
the live stock industry in this state
had grown to such proportion.
Dr. Lewis who represents iboth
the federal government and the
state in the control of disease
among animals,, attributes thSs
condition to three things: Tick
eradication, hog cholera work, and
the advent of the 'boll weevil He be
lieves that the solution of the boll
weevil problem is in live stock rais
ing and sees for South Carolina
great possibilities in this industry.
Since 1914 wnen tne legislature
made an appropriation to fight the
cattle tick, thus eliciting federal
support to the extent of giving
South Carolina a separate district,
great work has been done in elimi
nating the principal drawback, the
tick. The federal government has
raised its quarantine entirely and
the state quarantine rests only on
the Coastal plain. Hog cholera, too,
has been gradually cut down
i through the preventive treatment
; until today the loss through this
disease is estimated to be only
$50,000 a year. Dr. Lewis has been
in charge of the South Carolina 01
s fice since its establishment and to
I the untiring efforts of him and of
' his force, South Carolina can attri
bute an actual and potential saving
! of about $2,000,000 a year, not to
; speak of the increase noted in live
! stock. In 1914 the farmers of the
i state took an actual and potential
loss from the cattle tick of $1,
i 500,000 and from hog cholera of
- i$500,000. Gradually these items
have diminished.
Referring to that strip of coastal
plain' which the state holds in cat
tle tick quarantine Dr. Lewis was
asked what could be done to eradi
cate the tick, there also. "Obser
vance of the statewide stock act
will hasten the entire eradication
more than anything I know" he
said.
Dr. Lewis' department is known
as the Clemson College live stock
sanitary office. In 1921 it was
made a part of the college with Dr.
Lewis as director of the depart-*
ment.
BIG DAMAGE SUIT
AGAINST SEABOARD
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Estate of W. R. McDonald, Killed
December 12, Brings
Action
A damage suit for $30,000
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against ine oeauuaj u .ra.ii.
been brought by the administrators
of the estate of Wfc. R. McDonald
through W. H. Nicholson of the
Greenwood bar. Complaint in the
case was filed recently in the office
of the clerk of court in Abbeville.
Mr. McDonald, who was killed by a
Seaboard train here on December
12, was a resident of Donalds in
Abbeville county and the suit will
be brought in that county. J. How
ard Moore of Abbeville will be as
sociated with Mr. Nicholson in
bringing the suit.
The complaint filed alleges that
McDonald was seated next to the
track near the Pressley Street
crossing when he was struck by a
Seaboard train. McDonald died a
short time after he was struck.
The damage suit will probably
be heard in tKe September term of
court of common pleas in Abbe
ville^?Index-J ournal.
Ranchers in Arizona make the
prickly cactus edible for cattle by
burning off spines with blowtorches.
Freight traffic on the Mississippi
river is carried in steel barges 300
feet in length.
CRISIS IN GERMANY
TO BE RELIEVED
Payment of Gold Marks Reduced.
32,000,000 Will Be Accepted as
Satisfactory for Present.
Paris, July 11.?The reparations
commission decided today to relieve
the German financial crisis to tfte
extent of reducing the monthly in
stallment of 50,000,000 gold marks
due next Saturday on the schedule of
payment to 32,000,000 gold marks.
[Germany had announced her willing
ness to pay the whole amount but the
commission ruled that in view of the
crisis the smaller figure was all that
would be required.
Credit to the amount of 18,000,000
gold marks was given Germany on
her reparations account for deliver
ies of dyestuffs made during the last
I*-* mnnt.hs to the textile alliance of
rc"
America for all the allies and also
for deliveries of coal which had been
made to Luxembourg at the request
of the allied governments. These,
credits w<jre due Germany for some
time, and the officials thought that
jthis time was opportune to allow
them in view of the German difficul
ties.
A plant to manufacture alcohol
from molasses is being constructed
at Anaheim, CaL
Photo shows all that remained
where a number of strike break
not suiting the hiiners they appli
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SUPREME COURT DECIDED IV
60 CASES WEDNESDAY
Columbia, July 7.?Sixty cases
Were dccided Wednesday afternoon
by the supreme court, the opinions
being handed down at 6 o'clock.
several important cases were m- a
eluded in (the lot. S
In the E. N. Mittie manslaughter *
case an appeal from the verdict of 8
the circuit court was dismissed. s
Mittie killed J H. Patter at Orange- h
burg and got nine years. He asked 1
the supreme court for a new trial, r
alleging certain errors in the d
judge's chage. The new trial was j a
and flip a-nneal thrown out. I C
1CXU>7CU V4?*V* tra.w i
One of the famous J. O'Neal
Sandal cases was decided in favor
of the state. Mr. Sandal of Calhoun
county, sued the state in two cases,
each for $50,0000, alleging that
his two young daughters died from
the use of typhoid serum furnished!
by the state board of health. In
one case Mr. Sandal got a verdict
of $25,1500 and'the state appealed.
In the other case the state won, and
Mr .Sandal appealed. This is the
case decided in favor of the state
Wednesday atftrnoon.
In the case against J. C. Mar
lowe, a Greenville man who claim
ed to have been a Pershing Scout
in Mexico, who was convicted of
' iriiHncr a vouncr man named Mc_
SCENE OF KERRIN RIOT
1 of the supply house after the labor ri
ers were killed recently. This building
2d the torch.
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j relieve that hot, tired
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u' ingness to go on with th
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8ti ing a soda fountain on
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in the house the cooling
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IORSE AND SONS MUST
STANl/ TRIAL IN FALL
Washington, July 11.?Charles
V. Morse, his three sons and eight
thers must stand trial here on in
ictments charging them witk con
piracy to defraud the United
States government through, war
ime ship contracts with the Emer
ency Fleet Corporation of the
hipping iboard, the District of Co
umbia court of appeals held today,
"he applolate court's decision was
eached in denying a request by the
efendants for -nprmissinn to brinir
special appeal from an opinion toy
Jhief Justice McCoy of the district
upreme court over ruling demur
ers filed to the indictments.
United States Gordon announced
hat the case would he called for
rial early in the fall.
VETERINARIAN
Graduate Ohio State
University
DR. M. HARKAVY ,
FERGUSON'S STABLE
Phone 387 Abbevillei S. C.
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