Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Commissioner of Agriculture Gets Reports From Inspec tors of Cotton Mills. A slight decrease in the number of cotton mill employees in the state (is noted hi the reports of the inspec tors of the department of agricul ture, covering the period from Jan uary 1 to June 1 the reports being jgiven out by Commissioner B. Harris. The exact decrease is 2,152 from 1920 and the reports of the inspec tors show that one June 1 that a to tal of 185 textile plants in the state only 15 were closed down. "A majority of these 15 have re sumed operation since Junt 1, the date of the compilation of the sta tistics." Commissioner Harris says in statement about the condition of the mills. ? The statistics as compiled by H. W. McCreight, chief clerk of the de partments of agriculture, show that during the period from January 1 to j June 1 a total of 50,276 people were employed by cotton mills against 2, 428 in 1920. The statistics show that in the pe riod covered 29,020 white men were employed, a decrease of only 534 from 1920. The number of white wo men was 15,086, a decrease of only 039 from 1920. Negro men employed number 2,883, a decrease from 1920 of 512. Negro women numbered 1, 290 ,a decrease from last year of 552. White boys from 14 to 16 number ed 1,290, a decrease from 1920 of 290 and the number of white girls from 14 to 16 was 1,272, a decrease of 206. Fe>? Plants Idle. The following facts and statements were given out in connection with the statistics by Commissioner Har Tis: 'Of a total of 185 textile plants only 15 were closed down on June 1 and a majority of these have since resumed operation. Many mills re port that business conditions have improved recently to the extent that it is difficult to keep progress with or ders and it is necessary for many to fill orders from reserve stocks in stor ' -age. A superintendent of a mill told an inspector that his mill does not ex pect to reduce wages as present con editions are satisfactory. . "On e inspector who has been in close touch with cotton mills for 26 years stated that he has never be fore known sanitary conditions to be agreeable as at present. Many im provements commenced and stopped some time ago have been resumed and optimism is now 'running in high gear.' Sanitary drinking fountains inside and outside, are being install ed and other improvements for the .comfort and pleasure of the work ers are being made and planned. "There is not much demand just now for cheap grades of cloth but orders for the finer qualities, print ?cloths, etc., are constantly increasing. A new plant, an addition to the Winnsboro Cotton mills, Winnsboro, is just about completed and is ex pected to start operating about July 1. This plant is as up-to-date as any in existence, with modern machinery, equipment and sanitary arrange ments. The walls and floors of this plant are of reinforced concrete. Also a modern carries system has been in stalled. Schools Improving. "There is a wonderful improve ment in school facilities and interest in mill towns and mill superintend ents give hearty support to the schools. The Graniteville Manufac turing company has completed a school building with equipment at a cost of $175,000 with an enrollment of 497, having only three delinquents. These delinquents were denied swim ming pool and other recreational priv ileges by the mill superintendent and no delinquents are expected next term. "The superintendents do not like to employ children under 16 and do :so only in extreme cases when it is necessary to the existence of per sons dependent on these children. The foregoing statistics show a decrease of children employed from 14 to 16 in 1921 as compared with 1920 as ?follows: white males, 290; white fe males 206. The department has experiencel less trouble in enforcing the labor laws, including-sanitary conditions, this year than ever before and has noted with gratification the coopera tion given by mill authorities and the pride shown by them in going be yond the requirements of the state laws in working for the betterment of mill conditions from all stand points. "A federal inspector stated, recent ly that South Carolina ranks high in Washington in complying with la Dor and sanitary laws and that the "health record of employees is not sur passed by any state."-The State. FOR SALE: One Ford truck, worm drive. See 6-15 LYON BROS. President, Urges Camp At ted ance. Washington, June 12.-President Harding urges every young man who can possibly arrange to do so to at tend one of the citizens' military training camps to be conducted by the war department this summer. In a statement made public today, ha expressed the hope that during his administration arrangements will be completed for giving military training to at least 100,000 young men each year. The text of the statement said : "I hop ;? every young man who can arrange it will attend one of the cit izen's military training camps, to be conducted this summer by the war department in each of the nine army corps areas. "In this way he will increase his worth to the nation and obtain in dividual benefits of priceless value to himself and to the community in which he lives. I hope to see established during my administration a comprehensive system of voluntary military train ing for at least 100,000 men each year. Every young man who is will ing to prepare himself for the de fense of his country should be given an opportunity to do so. "Our present national defense law established an economical and demo cratic military policy thoroughly con sistent with our national traditions. It provides for a small regular army to be augmented by great citizen forces in the event of a national emergency. This is our traditional military policy. But whereas in the past three larger war forces have been extemporized after the occur rence of an emergency, the new law wisely provides that the framework of their organization shall be estab lished and developed in time of peace, in so far as this is pracitcable through the voluntary service of our patriotic young men. The army of the United States as defined by the new law, comprises the regular army, the na tional guard and the organized re serves. Every patriotic citizen should encourage the development of these forces each within its proper sphere." Melon Acreage Large This Year. Saluda, June 18J-According/ to report of B. B. are, agriculturad sta tistician in charge of the crop report ing service in South Carolina for the bureau of crop estimates t)f the United States department of agricul ture, the following estimates are noted which show the condition of the following crops on June 1 : Wheat 80 per cent, of normal; oats, 84; alfalfa, 91; hay 85; cowpeas, 83; rye, 86; cabbages, 90; onions, 91; peaches, 52; pears, 60; apples, 65; watermelons, 75, annd canteloupes, 70. The report shows that the com mercial acreage planted to water melons this season will approximate 11,000 acres, canteloupes 1,200 and cucumbers 1,500. Barnwell county appears to have the largest acreage of each of these crops and Blackville is one of the largest, if not the larg est, shipping point. Other shipping points for melons are as follows: Barnwell, Lena, Furman, Allendale, Cave, Kline, Denmark, Ulmer, Scotia, Sycamore, Fairfax, Esrtill, Luray, Barton, Dunbarton, Hattieville, Bal dock, Appleton, Hilda, Olar and Till man. The indicated production of wheat in the state is 1,848,000 bushels against 1,785,000 bushels last year. The acreage of oats is shown to be 455,700 acres, or 5 per cent, more than last year. The condition of 84 per cent, forecasts a production of 10,481,000 bushels or 65,000 bushels more than in 1920. Peaches in centnral and western counties were seriously injured by frosts in April, while in the eastern par tof the state, especially Chester field county, condition and yields are more satisfactory. Apples and pears did not suffer so much from late frosts as peaches, though consider able injury is now being reported on account of blight. During the early part of May rain fall was abundant and farm work was delayed to a considerable extent. During a greaterportion of the month nights were too cool and crop growth generally was very poor, except the last week of the crop reporting pe riod when there was seasonal growth and development of all crops. Dr. M. Ver Melle Huggins OSTEOPATH -AT Dixie Highway Hotel Monday-and-Friday Room 10 Phone 125 Hours: 10 to 1 A. M.-2 to 7 P. M. CONSULTATION FREE Grow Into the Dairy Business. "Don't go into the dairy business grow into it," is the advice given farmers of several counties around Moultrie, Georgia, recently by Mr. Morgan Richards, secretary of the Selma Chamber of Commerce. "Try dairying on a small scale at first, and gradually learn the business if you want to make a success of it. Raise calves and thus increase your herd." Mr. Richards has helped to make Dal las county, Alabama, the greatest dairy center in the southeast. Mr. Richards briefly referred to the financial situation at Selma in 1914, when Dallas county produced a 62,000 bale cotton crop and related how it was decided to try dairying. "We induced the ice" plant at Selma to put in a small creamery. This in vestment cost $2,000 and a number of farmers bought several head of dairy cows each. From this nucleus the dairy industry in Dallas county has grown until the county's dairy prod ucts in 1920 sold for $2,450,000. And in the meantime the ice plant that in vested $2,000 in a creamery now has an investment of $300,000 in a creamery that covers practically an entire city block." Selma has one oth er creamery almost as large, Mr. Richards added. There is no danger of over-devel oping the dairy business, he said, but there is real danger of over-develop ing the creamery business. The thing to do is to ship milk from the dairies to a central creamery. Plants have been built in some Alabama towns before the dairying industry got go ing and they couldn't live. The Selma section had not entirely escaped the financial depression, but .thanks to the dairy industry it is much better off than any other section in the South. "We still have farmers that stick to cotton and plant nothing but cot ton and the other afternoon when I picked up a local paper I saw a full page containing tax sales-forced sales of farms. I checked the list and all of the farms advertised were the farms of men who had refused to di versify.- \ugusta Herald. Who is Sapiro? "Who is Aaron Sapiro, the Cali fonia leader of co-operative market ing who has been campaigning the South in this cause?" Aaron Sapiro (pronounced Sa pee-ro, with accent on the second syl lable) is one of the most powerful, effective, convincing, resourceful speakers in America today. He makes no attempt at eloquence, makes ho appeal to prejudices, and makes little! or no appeal to the emotions. He uses but few stories and but little humor. Nevertheless, he talks straight busi ness-the actual business of how to get better prices for farm products in such a way as to hold men practi cally spellbound for hours. And I be lieve nobody can see and talk with the man publicly and privately day after day, as I have done, without be lieving absolutely in him and in his devotion to a great cause. Said a thoughtful friend of mine recently: "I imagined .at first that Sapiro was probably capitalizing the interest in co-operative marketing to his own advantage. But after coming to.know the man, I became fully con vinced that cooperative marketing is a real religion with him and that he is willing to sacrifice health, strength, money, time or anything else to fur ther a cause in which he believes with his whole heart." This impression is also my own. I have seen Sapiro whole heartedly go ing ahead with his campaign for co operative marketing practically with out financial return, when his doctors told him he was going at the risk of his own health and when he had not averaged one day a month in his home? for several months previously. The cooperative associations he has organized pay him a good salary, it is true. They ought to, for he is one of the most able advocates in the United States. But I believe if he had chosen to serve the great manufacturing and corporate interests of the country, he could make $5 for every $1 he makes now-and with less strain and dis comfort than he is undergoing in the cause of cooperation. Early left an orphan and reared in an orphan asylum, educating himself later with the intention of entering religious work, he knows what pover ty means and yearns to help to a bet ter means of existence those now con demned to poverty. He is working in a cause in which he can throw his whole heart and soul, and when some great manufacturing interests recent ly tried to induce him to represent them in Washington^ he did not listen for a minute. Early in life he came under the influence of David Lubin, the great old California agricultural philosopher who founded the Inter national Institute of Agriculture in Rome. Ever since that time Sapiro has been giving himself whole-heart edly to the cause of rural betterment. -Progressive Farmer. The Zone Postai Law. A proposal is now pending in Con gress to repeal the postal zone law as applied to second class mail. This movement is backed by magazines and big national weeklies. If it pass es, a law will be substituted placing a flat rate on all newspapers and magazines. The news papers are op posing this proposition, on the ground that the cost of delivering their pub lications is not nearly so much as that of delivering big magazines and week lies. The' latter publications have to a large extent a national circulation. They often send as many to a distant state-as to their own near-by terri tory. Newspaper circulation, however, is mostly local. It goes into the coun try immediately around the place of publication. It costs more to transport a maga zine from New York to Texas or Cal ifornia, than to tr~'sport a newspa per from a city out into some outly ing town ten to twenty miles away. The cost of carrying magazines is thus much greater than that of news papers, since magazines have to be carried so much farther. A flat rate for both classes would be just as sen sible as charging as much for freight between Chicago and one of its su burbs, as between Chicago and New York. The magazines claim that they stimu" *e postal business in the way of mail orders, which helps out the postal revenues. But newspapers pro mote all kinds of enterprises which pay taxes. If you begin to weigh all these indirect conditions, the news papers can stand comparisons with the magazines in the service they ren der. The newspaper is one of the princi pal forces working for community progress, and a repeal-of the postal zone law would deal a heavy blow to the communities they represent; and business men's organizations every where, which depend so much upon newspaper co-operation, should pro test against a law that will injure the means by which they obtain pub licity for their work.-Roseville (111.) Times-Citizenn. Mexican June Corn. The safest corn at this time of the year and which can't be planted any Other time than during the next thir ty days, is Mexican June corn. It is .the tallest type of all corns, running twelve to fifteen feet high and with immense blades, grains are soft and it m-':es fine roasting ears until .frost L::? the whole corn stalks make fine green cattle food until killed by frost. It makes from one to two good 'ears. The corn can be pulled in DeT cember, not before, and can be used in the barn like other corns. I shall be glad to mail you literature about this corn. Mexican June corn is a tropical corn. It comes from near the tropics ,in northern Mexico. It is mid-summer corn and can grow under conditions not permissible for other corns. There is not a little corn in the fields today that are already failures. Even this space would do better if present corn were plowed up and Mexican June were put in. Where you are going to devote any new space to corn Mex ican June is the best proposition for June planting.-N. L. Willet in Au gusta Chronicle. Citation. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD By W. T. Kinnaird, Esquire, Pro bate Judge Wheras H. E. Quarles of said county and state made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Joanna Quarles, late of said county and state, deceased, These are Therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Joanna Quarles, deceased, that'they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate to be held at my office at Edgefield, S. C., on the 30th day of June, (1921) next after publication thereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 14th day of June, Anno Domini, 1921, W. T. KINNAIRD, (L. S.) Probate Judge. Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. MIMS, Optometrist-Optician, Edgefield, S. C. Cures Old Sons, Other Remedies Won't Cure. Thc worst cases, no matter of bow long: standing, are cured by tbe wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves pain and Heals at tb? same time. 2:\50c,$lJ? THE FARMERS BANK t OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Capital and Surplus Profits - - - $190,000.00 Total Resources Over.$800,000.00 SAFETY AND SERVICE IS WHAT WE OFFER TO THE PUBLIC Open your account with us for the year 1921. Invest your pavings in one of our Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit. Lock boxes for rent in which to keep your valuable pa pers, etc. i. All business matters referred to us pleasantly and carefully handled. We Solicit Your Business. ME mose Ami \H PILLS" I don't need them very often, but when I do, I need them quick. - One or two and the pain is gone." Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills will relieve you quickly and ! safely-no unpleasant after ! effects-no danger of form? ing a drug habit Next time you pass ? ', drug store stop in and get ' .z box. [Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills contain no, habit forming drugs. Your Druggist Has Than* Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing JJantels, Tiling, Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Doors. Sash, etc. FROM ?> * ' Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telphone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA BANKRUPT SALE. United States of America, District Court of the United States, -OF THE - Western District of South Carolina. In re J. Abrams, Bankrupt D. E. Howard, Bankrupt Abrams Brothers, Bankrupt By virtue of authority vested in me as trustee in each of the above bankrupt estate I will proceed to sell all of the personal estate of the above named bankrupt at Johnston, S. C., on the 16th day of June, 1921 at eleven o'clock, a. m. The estate of J. Abrams consists of a stock of dry goods, notions, shoes, clothing (both Ladies and Gen tlemen), total inventory cost of this estate amounts to six thousand, sev en hundred eighty seven and 46-100 dollars. The estate of D. E. Howard con sists of a stock of furniture in his store at Johnston, total inventory of this stock, one thousand four hun dred and eighty two 31-100 dollars. The estate of Abrams Brothers consists of a stock of dry goods, no tions, clothing (both Ladies' and Gentlemen), shoes etc. Total inven-1 tory of this stock' is one thousand, one hundred and forty one 87-100 dollars. Said sale will take place at the stores of the above named bankrupts at Johnston, S. C. Purchasers will "be required to pay CASH, or by certi fied cashiers' checks. If the terms of the sale are not complied with in thirty minutes, the same will be re sold at the former purchaser's risk. R. L. YOUNG, Trustee. Dated May 31st, ?921. Only One "BROMO QUININE" To sret the genuine, call for full name, LAXA* riVE BROMO QUININE. Lookioraipiatureof E.W. GROVE. Curea a Cold in One Day. Stops "ouch and headache, and works off cold. 25c Notice of Final Discharge. To All Whom These Presents May Concern: Whereas, J. O. Herin has made ap plication unto this court for Final Discharge of Executor in re the Es tate of M. E leanor Herin, late of said county and state, deceased, on the 4th day of June, 1921. There Are Therefore, to cite and and all kindred, creditors or parties interested, to show c^ise before me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the 7th day of July, 1921 at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of discharge should not be granted. At same time and place said executor will make a full and final settlement. . W. T. KINNAIRD, (L. S.) J. P. C., E. C. S. C. June 4th, 1921. Lombard Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works and Mill Supply House AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Grate Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing Hose, etc Cast every day. GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES Pumping, Wood Sawing and Feed Grinding Outfits For Sale. One thirty-foot steel tank; one one-horse electric motor; one Weston' & Brocker sewerage disposal ceptic tank; one pump and jack; 60 feet of galvanized pipe! 5-11. B. B. JONES.