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Bishop Gue rry on Divorce 1 Much interest throughout I Carolina attaches to the positic Bushop Guerry, of the Epis church on the question of dh as expressed in an interview him recently published in the During the month of August the op filled the pulpit of Trinity ch New York. The Boston Herald published following dispatch from New "5 "The Right Rev. William A.( ry, Bishop of the Episcopal Dh of South Caroina, in an interview cently pointed out that the Ang episcopate throughout the world placed itself on record as agains vorce and against the remarriag a person divorced for any cau? "He preached Sunday at Tr Episcopal church, where he is preacher every Sunday this mont By Invitation of Bishop. "I am the preacher in Tri church for the month of Auugsi 'invitation of Bishop Manning, Trinity is still his own church for me to express my opinion al this very delicate matter of Dr. Gi would be entirely improper and & a lack of consideration for my fri? fellow bishop and class mate, Bis Manning, he said. "Bishop Manning is perfectly c petent to deal with this very delic question,' he continued. However, gave an interview on the question marriage and divorce in general J said that not only was his church : state against divorce on any groi but that he as bishop would not any of his clergy perform the ce mony for any marriage in which t of the contracting parties had b( divorced upon any ground. "?* The house of bishops at the 1 ennial general convention of the Er copal church, held in Detriot, t years ago,' said Bishop Guerry, 'vol in favor of the indissolubility of t marriage relation. But the house deputies refused to concur. The] fore, it did not become a law. " 'He recalled that from the tn she became a state, South Caroli in the days of the colonies wrote into her law forbidding remarria; after divorce on any ground. " ' You can't get a divorce in n state on any ground whatsoever,' ] said. South Carolina will, grant a 1 gal separation, but-the husband h _ to sunnort t&e chil?en^"j^amLai wife can get this separation but. th? cannot marry another. Universal Approval. " 'I believe that there is not a la on the statute books placed there i the last 150 years which meets wit such universal approval. And I don believe there is any state which h? a purer home life than ours. The S Cecilia Society of Charleston, whic is the oldest social club in the stat? a very exclusive and much sought al ter organization, gives three 'bal] every winter and their standing rul ? . is that no man or woman divorce and remarried can ever be invited t one of these social functions. It is th only institution of the kind " that know of in America which maintain that standard. " 'We find from actual experienc? that it acts as a deterrent and ha: even greater influence in preventing divorces outside the state than anj law on the statute books. Socia ostracism people dread almost mor< than any other punishment. " 'Bishop Guerry then spoke ir more detail of the growing desire in the Episcopal church to make the re marriage of a divorced person foi any reason against the canon law. " The question came up before Lambeth conference in England lant .summer,' he said, 'and after long and earnest debate, which lasted for sev eral days, the bishops voted by a large majority in favor of the, indis solubility of the marriage relation, on any ground.' j Christ's Ideal of Marriage. " 'They were careful to say that Christ's standard and ideal of mar riage was an indissoluble union of one man and one woman to the ex clusion of all others until death part ed them.' " Tn regard to the single excep tion mentioned in St. Matthew's gos pel, chapter xix, verse 9, they said that it would be competent for na tional and regional churches to make such provision as they saw fit. " 'My own policy, although the American church . allows remarriage after divorce for one cause only, is one of absolute disapproval of di vorce. In South Carolina the stan dard of the state is higher than tin at of the church. " 'I, as bishop, have refused to give permission to any of my clergy to re marry persons divorced on any ground whatsoever. " T am not willing to undermine public sentiment in South Carolina regarding: the indissolubility of the marriage tie by giving permission to any of my clergy to remarry a di vorced person. In St. Matthew's Alone. " T do not believe in divorce on any ground and therefore I do not be lieve in remarriage. The fact that the single exception in St. Matthew's gospel is found in that gospel alone, and that St. Luke does not make an exception nor does St. Paul in his epistles has led many eminent schol ars to look with suspicion on the sin gle exception. " 'The verse in St. Matthew's is : 'And I say unto you, whosoever shall .put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery; and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.' " 'It it the 'except' in the above verse that canon 42 of the 'constitu tion and canons' of the Episcopal church permits if the bishop of the diocese approves, the marriage of the innocent person if the other per |son was unfaithful. One year, how ever, must elapse before a marriage can he contracted.' "-Charleston American. Pick Rapidly, Destroy Stalks and Clean Fields Thoroughly. Clemson College, Sept. 19. The earlier the cotton stalks are destroy ed, the fewer the boll weevils that will survive the winter and conse quently the smaller the damage to the next crop, says Professor A. F. Conradi, entomologist, who advises that as far as possible the stalks be destroyed at least two weeks before the first killing frost, for the early fall destruction of cotton stalks is practically the most important single J step in any system of fighting the boll weevils. In other words, clean ingof the fields, destroying the stalks, and the planting of cover crops con stitute most powerful weapons fori the farmers, who by efficient fall farm management can dictate to a great extent how many weevils shall pass the winter on his farm. This fall cleaning program is also of the greatest benefit generally in destroy ing the winter homes and the winter j food plants of other injurious pests J of the farm. Boll wevils multiply in cotton un til frost kills it. Many thousands of them may occur in each acre of cot- J ton. Weevils hibernate, that is they pass "the winter, only in The f?ll j grown stage. Hibernation usually be gins with the coming of the first killing frost. The weevils hibernate principally in cotton fields, and stand ing stalks make for them splendid winter homes. The most favorable condition for successful hibernation is found in fields where cotton stalks, grass, weeds, dead leaves, etc., are left during the winter. There are little prospects for successful cotton growing under such conditions. In some sections the .stalks are uprooted, piled and burned. This has a very serious disadvantage of destroying a large amount of vege table matter which should be turned under. Whenever the farmer is equipped with plows and mules to turn under the stalks five to six . inches after they have been cut down : with the chopper, it is a very effec- ; tive plan. A less effective method is to graze off all green cotton within j : a period of a few days. Whatever the method the destruction of. stalks . Some of the many advantages se cured from cleaning the fields and destroying the stalks are: (1) A great many full grown weevils are killed outright; (2) Many young stages in the plants are killed; (3) The full grown weevils not killed will be weakened by starvation if the J stalks are destroyed two to three I weeks before the first frost and these will not have sufficient strength to pass the winter successfully. The j removal of the stalks also facilitates fall plowing and the planting of cover crops. Gold Dishes and Democracy. President Harding's sound common sense has appealed very strongly to Americans since he was inaugurated and we might venture the ouinion that after six months of Harding no one can say that he is a flat failure, or that he is controlled by the sena torial oligarchy. Of course, his ad ministration is yet quite young and we will have to observe him under more crucial circumstances than have yet developed. The president takes more vacation trips on the Mayflow er, we believe, than any other man who has ever occupied the White House and life with him seems to be one week-end vacation after another. However, if he does nothing worse than this his critics will not be cap tious, in their remarks about him. The President has called a disarm ament congress, which is the next best thing after his party was swept into power on a platform of the re jection of the League of Nations. The President and his party have been quite considerate of the South so far and we hope they will contin ue so. However, we hesitate to say too much in his behalf for fear of having to take it back. We only hope that he will continu? to measure up. Illustrating his common sense and democracy is the story of his refusal to use a gold dinner sent at a hotel in Atlantic City. That stamped him as being opposed to the "royal fool ishness" which some would surround the president with. Of this incident the Detroit Free Press says: "When Warren G. Harding waved aside the gold dinner set in the Atlan tic City hotel and demanded, "the tools to which I have been accus tomed," he made a gesture of democ racy which will find indorsement in the heart of many a commoner, and which will keep him in good standing with the neighbors at Marion. "If the news has been spread abroad that the President had eaten his Sunday dinner on a solid gold plate and with a 14-karat knife, fork and spoon there would have been considerable talk back home. The crowd at the Marion club and the group in front of the postoffice would have been shocked a little and a little' resentful. There would have been sure to be misgivings. Marion is proud of "the senator," as' they -call him down there, and she wants him to be stalwart. Gold plate is a sym bol to Marion, as indeed to most of America, of effete and tinseled aris tocracy, if not of actual royalty. "So the presidential veto on gold dishes at Atlantic City will maintain "the senator's" standing as a good neighbor and a substantial citizen undiminished in Marion and will furnish further proof to the rest of the nation that our amiable, gre garious President is a regular fellow, who spurns the trappings of place and remains close to the sources of his authority."-Augusta Chronicle. County Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving taxes from the fifteenth day of Oc tober, 1921 to the fifteenth day of March, 1921 All taxes shall be due and pay* aUu . Kottt-o?n .tho- fiffcoonth doy-e?: - October, 1921 and December the thirty fjrst, 1921. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December the thirty first, 1921 the County Auditer shall pro ceed to add a penalty of one per cent, for January and if taxes are not paid on or before February the first 1922, the County Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent additional, from the first of March to the fifteenth of ' March, after which time all unpaid < taxes will be collected .by the Sheriff. . The tax levies for 1921 are as fol lows : Mills ' For State purposes_12 For Ordinary County_ll For Past Indebtedness_5 For Constitutional School tax_3 For Antioch _8 For Bacon School District_14 For Blocker_._8 For Blocker_Limestone_4 For Colliers_H For Flat Rock "._8 For Oak Grove_3 For Red Hill_8 For Edgefield _10 For Elmwood No. 8__8 For Elmwood No. 9_2 For Elmwood No. 30 ___2 For Elmwood L. C._:_3 For Hibler __.__8 For Harmony 1_3 For Johnston_15 For Meriwether . (Gregg)_2 For Moss _,3 For Brunson School_4 For Ropers_._2 For Shaw_4 For Sweetwater__,'_4 For Talbert_ .8 For Trenton _14 For Wards _ 8 For Wards No. 33_4 For Blocker R. R. (portion_6 For Elmwood R. (portion_6 For Johnston R. R._3 For Pickens R. R._3 For Wise R. R._3 I For Corporation_30% All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except those exempt by law, are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. All owners of dogs are required to pay the sum of $1.25 for each dog of the age of six months or older. This is not included in the property tax but a tag must be purchased from the County Treasurer for each dog be tween October 15, and December 31, of each year. The law prescribes that all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 55 years must pay $4.00 commuta tion tax. No commutation is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax receipt when you desire to pay road tax. Time for paying road tax will expire March 15, 1922. J. L. PRINCE, Co. Treas. E. C. 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