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??%tftdi Mmmt. tstablial?p?i 1S35. J. L. MIIV?S.Editor. Publiihed every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield S. C. No cummunications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the ? writer's name. - Card of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday March 1, Do Lands Deserve No Relief? If any member of the senate be lieves that the taxss now levied on lands and houses, farms and farm equipment, are not, in the present crisis, too great, now is the time to stand up and say so. That is the issue. That is the ques tion. . ? , . To reduce the land taxes substan tially, two ways are open. One is close the University, Win throp, the Citadel, the state hospital, the college for negroes, the medical coliege, to cease paying pensions, abolish the health department and other activities, shut up the various reform schools and to cripple the common schools. Remaining to pay would be the salarie; of the govern or and a few public officers, expenses of the legislature and the courts and the other cost; of administration in the simplest form, together with in terest on the public debt. The other is to raise revenues by taxing other objects than land. Sales taxes may be imposed on certain ax* ticles that men can live without. The people can not live without food, clothing and shelter. A tax on lands is a tax on food, clothing and shelter. Who doubts it let him try to dig. them and the where .with to get them out of land. If, in this crisis, the taxes on lands are NOT TOO GREAT, the true thing, 'he square thing, the right thing, s to STAND UP AND SAY SO. If tV i land tax is too great, some i?niig " ?e should be taxed in place of lane The motion picture people object -^o'a . :. s tax. Ca' 'e live without motion pic ures The beverage people protest. Without beverages shall we perish? The tobacco people remonstrate. Is a cigarette a necessity of life? The motorist and the gasoline deal ed complain. Is life with less joy-riding life all joyless and desolate? The producers cf hydro-electric power and these who would be sub ject to an income tax murmur But what is to be done? That all luxury sales taxes are un just and destructive is nonsense. Such taxes are not new under the sun. What objects should be taxed and v/h*.it should be exempt is wholly a matter of expediency; a matter of selection. On the plans proposed and pending able and honest mer. have labored the test two years. As for objectors, objectors we shall always have with us. If th? pending bills are imperfect, let the l?gislature amend them, if it takes all winter-and summer, too. If the legislature is unwilling to close the state's institutions and is unwilling to tax sales to raise reve nues, it follows that the legislature thinks that lands, in this crisis cf agriculture, should have no relief from taxation-and it is time for them to STAND UP AND SAY SO. -The State. Long Branch News. Mr. Mike Huir and family attended the funeral of Mr. Sam Hair near Sa luda last Friday. The B. Y. P. U. will hold their regu ular meeting with Misses Azilee and Farra Falter next Wednesday night, and on Friday night they are planning to have a social at Mr. G. W. Scott's. Rev. G M. Sexton had an accident with his car on his way to Phillipi last Sunday morning. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt, but had a very nar row escape. Misses Chloe Rhoden, Alma Clark and Miss Harvey spent las: Saturday night with Misses Mertieand Pansy Der rick. ' Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Clark attended the funeral of Mrs. Jules Sanders at Mt Pleasant. Misses Farra and Azilee Salter spent the day last Sunday with Miss Nellie Scott. . " Miss Pearl Claxton spent the dav with Ruth Scott last Sunday. Mr. Irving Reames and family of Johnston were guests of .Mrs. Joe Clark last Suuday. Mr. Joe Clark and family and .Mks Harvey spent the third Sunday at .Mr. Luther Yonce's. Methodists Plan for World Sunday. Another significant step in the u-ogress of Southern Methodism is he appointment of a day to be mown as "World Sunday" through jut its entire connection. This decis ion was reached at the church-wide conference on. world program and missionary advance recently held in Memphis, Tenn., and came as a cli .nax to what is said to be the most notable meeting of Methodists ever assembled. "World Sunday" as adopted by the 400 and more Methodists leaders in Memphis, proposes to secure for the church as brilliant a record in .the matter of payment of pledges as it has already attained in subscribing to the centenary movement which has claimed the attention of that denom ination for the past three years and through which something like $50, 000,000 was subscribed for misions and other causes of the church. In a review of the work of the church through centenary channels it was shown that 60 per cent of the entire amount pledged is now due, whereas, only 40 per cent has been paid, and that unless church mem bers in arrears come up with their payments before the meeting of the general conference in May, the church will be hindered in carrying? on the enlarged program as planned under the centenary movement. In order that at least $4,000,000 of unpaid centenary pledges be se cured within the next three months, plans have been well made to call back into action all of the forces of the church in an effort to bring the payment of pledges up to date. The idea of a "World Sunday" for Southern Methodists, when through out the bounds of that denomination a simultaneous effort will be made for collection of centenary dues, origi nated with Dr. Charles C. Selecman, pastor of the First Methodist church, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Selecman has al ready demonstrated the practicabili ty and efficiency of this plan, using Easter Sunday of last year as "World Sunday" for the church of which he is the pastor, with the re sult that the missionary offering for that Sunday amounted to between $5,000 and $6,000. "The real result of the movement," said Dr. Selecman, "could not be es timated in cash. Many who had been backward in their payments were re minded of the sacredness of the claim and came forward in a few weeks with their money, while the zeal of the church for missions was quickened by the campaign." Urges Reduction in Cotton Acreage Columbia, Feb. 26.-Convinced they say, that any increase in cotton acreage this year would be absolute ly ruinous to the state, officials of the South Carolina Division of the Ameri can Cotton Association today issued a statement setting forth the facts in the situation as they see them, and urging every inerest in South Caro lina to unite in an effort to hold the acreage down at least to that of 1921. A further reduction would be strong ly advisable the association says, four major reasons are given by the as sociation why the agreage should not be increased and it says there are nu merous reasons, the four principal ones are: "First. An increase in cotton acre age would cheapen all collateral held by Southern banks. Second. Under boll weevil condi tions an increase in acreage means an increase in possible disaster by the boll weevil. "Third. An increase in cotton acre age means a decrease in food and feed crops. Let's make the Southern farm seif sustaining before we again undertake to raise a surplus of cot ton. "Fourth. After bearing the brunt of deflation neither our bankers, merchants nor farmers are in a posi tion to finance a large crop. Under existing conditions we ought not to run the risk of a crop failure and thus embarrass banks, merchants and farmers. Plant only such crop as can be financed with comparative ease." The association in its statement takes the view that while "a large acreage this year would not by any means insure a large crop, it would certainly very greatly depress the price for the next eight or nine months anyway. If we overproduce prices will be l-uinous, if we over plant and the boll weevil repeats her 1921 performance, ruin is certain, either way you look at it our only salvation is in a very small acreage." The association says that it feels it to be its duty to sound this note of warning to the farmers of the stare and it reminds them that "it is better to be safe than sorry." WANTED: We will allow 82.25 per bushel for Peas on account. YONCE MOTOR CO. /'Camp Branch News" By the weather being so warm and the sun shining so pretty it makes us feel like Spring is here again) hope it will continue tb be good until the land gets a little dry. There hasn't been much gardening around here so far, .but the gr?in is growing and looking pretty. We hear of a great deal of sickness through the community. Sorry to hear of Mrs. Genie danton being on the sick iist also Miss Irene Mc Daniel, hope they will soon recover. Mrs. J. B. Holmes and sweet lit tle daughter spent last week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. R. DeSaughter. Mrs. 0. M. Burnett and Mrs. Annie Seigler spent Saturday night ?and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. |W. A. Burnett. Miss Mae Peeler from Lawndale, N. C. has been visiting her brother, Mr. Ellis Peeler for several weeks. The young and lonely bride Mrs. Hugh Seigler spent last week with hW parents Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Bartley. Misses Lena and Lou DeLaughter spent several days last week in Red Hill with their sister Mrs. J. B. Holmes. Miss Carrie Langley was the guest of Miss Margaret Bartley Saturday I night. Mr. Willie Thurmond and Mr. Billie,McClendon from Augusta, Ga. was welcome visitors in our . com munity last Saturday and Sunday. Mr and Mrs. J. iH. Reed also Mrs. 0. M. Burnett spent last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. R. De Laughter. A crowd of Huntsmen from Johnston came up last Wednesday and went rabbit hunting with Mr. Capers DeLaughter, and enjoyed a delightful stew cooked by Mr. Clark. A large number of our young peo ple attended the Box party at Mr. R. H. Christie's last Friday night and enjoyed it very much, the boxes, brought a hiigh price, the proceeds being over $60.00 for the benefit of the Sunday School. An Appeal to Democrats To Democratic Loaders, State of South Carolina, Gentlemen: Democratic prospects and oppor tunities are daily increasing provid ed the necessary funds be secured immediately to take care of a deficit of the National Democratic com mittee and care for the expens e of National Headquarters in Washing ton. You served well in the campaign last year and South Carolina made the best record in the country. I am writing to ask that you again come to the aid of the party. For the sake of a few dollars we can not allow Democratic hopes to I be broken. Let me urge that you get in touch with leading Democrats dn your) county and secure small contribu tions. South Carolina's quota is $9,600. This will mean only a small allot ment from each county. A letter from Hon. Cordel! Hull, National Chairman, states that funds are urgently needed. Please get the Democratic or ganization in your county active to the end that South Carolina Demo cracy may do its full duty at the earliest possible moment. Please address all communica tions to me in Columbia. Gen. Wilie Jones, State chairman and Hon. John Gary Evans. National committeeman, join in this appeal. Ypurs faithfully, N Joe Sparks, Finance Chairman, Columbia, Sv C. HMBONE'S MEDITATIONS PARSON 3AY AH OO'GHTER? MAKE UP A RE5LUT10N T" GIT LONG WIP DE OLE 'OMAM FUM NOW ON, BUT TAIN' No USE - 5HE DONE RES'LUTED T" 6IT. L0N6, 'DOUT MEL I! ( CopyrlgM, 1920 by McClure Newtp?p?r Syndic* tc Milady's Plans are now being formed as to what she is going to wear this spring, and we want her to know that we are in a position to help her decide her problems in the sewing line in such materials as Patterns, Threads, Laces, Buttons, Snap Fast eners, Hooks and Eyes, Belting, Needles, Thimbles, Tape Measures, Pins and other items. The Pictorial Review Pattern is the best pattern to Be had, and you you will find that it it cheaper than other patterns. THE ROYAL SOCIETY STAMPED GOODS HAVE NO PEER Just received the Royal Society Initial Transfer books. Over 500 initials and monograms for only 15c. Also a supply of Embroidery Transfer books just receieved at 15c. YOURS FOR SERVICE THE CORNER STORE Overproduction Never Brought Prosperity. Interests of a more or less selfish nature have started a campaign to increase cotton acreage in the South. They allege that cotton is the natural money crop in the South aod there fore the more there is produced the greater the measure of prosperity. Among the stock arguments used is that there is an overproduction of corn and that this gi*ain is a drug on the market in Iowa at 20 to 30 cents per bushel, therefore Texas farmers should devote acreage to cotton. They neglect to say that corn was given a value of 50 cents p?r bushel in Texas by Government statisticians and that it has been selling at a much higher figure, nor do these big cot ton crop advocates tell the farmers ?what Iowa corn would cost them if shipped to Texas. Texas corn is more valuable because there was a short crop. An overproduction of cotton never brought prosperity to the man who sells gin machinery and the man who buys with a certain stipulated rake off per bale probably enjoys added prosperity, but the farmer who sees prices forced down below cost of pro duction would have been better off had tie raised no cotton at all. Tthe Southern fanner has been in bondage for more than fifty years because he has confined himself al most wholly to cotton. Until recently he has never learned to grow any thing else, or at least has never found as ready a market for other products. For years he was discouraged from making any attempt to produce any thing but cotton and was taught to believe that nothing else would grow. Only in recent years have bankers and merchants realized progress and prosperity lay in another direction; that the soil and climatic conditions of the South invited intelligent di versification combined with livestock raising and that all cotton, or an over production of cotton will lead to dis aster. Southern farmers are beginning to appreciate their opportunities for bet ter living conditions and in this they are being encouraged by all progress ive citizens not blinded by prejudice. Those who urge returning to the one crop system ar.d to the old days of G to 10 cent cotton with no possible chance of other commodities selling at comparatively smiilar levels are a generation behind the times. There are going to be fewer slaves to cotton every year as time rolls on. The day will come when every Southern far mer will produce a large part of his own living on the farm and make cot ton his money crop. With a smaller acreage, better seed, rejuvenated soil he will produce cotTon that will sell for cost plus.-Farm & Ranch. Your Prescription Business We solicit a share of your prescrip tion business. Prescriptions compounded with utmost care and only fresh drugs used. Large assortment of Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Stationery, Candy and Drug Sundries to select from. COME IN TO SEE US Mitchell & Cantelou Pharmacy Samuel A. Derieux Dies in New York. New York, Feb. 26.-Samuel Ar thur Derieux, 40, of the staff of The American Magazine, died early today at No. 41 Washington square, West, of appendicitis. He was a native of Richmond, Va., son of the Rev. Wil liam Thomas Derieux; a student of Wofford college, Spartanburg, S. C., for two years, and was'graduated from Richmond (Va.) college in 1904 with the degree of bachelor of arts. He also studied at Johns Hopkins from 1906 to 1908 and received .the degree of master of arts from the University of Chicago in 1910. . He was successfully assistant pro fessor of English in Richmond col lege, Missouri State Normal school and Wake Forest college between" 1910 and 1917. Since the latter year he had been on the editorial staff of The American Magazine. He was the author of a number of short stories and magazine articles, a member of the Authors' League of America and a Baptist. In 1911 he married Mary Ida Wiley of Grinnell, Iowa, who sur vives him; The body left*New York today for Columbia, where the funeral and in terment will be held Tuesday. News Reached Here. The news of the death of Samuel Arthur Derieux in New York early yesterday morning of appendicitis was received in Columbia yesterday, coming as a distinct shock to his friends here, many of whom did not even know that he had returned to New York. Mr. Derieux spent the months of December and January in Columbia on a visit to relatives here and only returned to New York about three weeks ago. While in Columbia Mr. Derieux underwent a minor opera tion. Upon his return to New York, however, he discovered that he was suffering from appendicitis. Five days ago he underwent an operation in New York and for a few days ap peared to be making steady progress to ward recovery. Late Saturday night, however, hs suffered a relapse, suddenly growing worse, death .com-, ing early yesterday morning. James C. Derieux, his brother, owh recently moved to New York from Columbia, was at his bedside. , The body will be brought to Co lumbia today while the funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, thp funeral services hving conducted from the residence of his parents, 532 Harden street. Further announcement as to funeral arrange ments will be made today. Born in Richmond. Samuel Arthur Derieux, short story writer, a member of the editorial staff of The American Magazine and one of the half dozen best known South Carolinians engaged in literary endeavors, was born in Richmond, Va., November 5, ISSI. His parents, the Rev. William Thomas and Lottie (Bookhart) Derieux, later moved to South Carolina where Mr. Derieux be gan his literary education and ca reer. He was a student at Wofford college ,Spartanburg, during the years 1897 to 1899, and in 1904 re ceived his bachelor of arts degree at Richmond college. He then began his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins university, where he was a student from 1906 to 1908. In 1910 he won his master of arts degree from the University of Chicago. English had been his especial study in both his undergraduate and grad uate college years and after gradua tion he for a number of years served ? as a teacher, beginning in the Ander- ! son public schools. Hu then in suc cession served as a professor of Eng lish at Richmond college from 1910 to 1911; 'at the Missouri State Nor mal school from 1911 to 1913 and at Wake Forest' college from 1915 to 1917. Short Story Writer. In 1917 he became connected with ?the editorial staff of the American Magazine to which he has contribut ed a large proportion of his literary work. At the same time he moved to New York where he was living at the time of his death. Since 1917 he has continued his connection with The American Magazine, contributing se rials, short stories, and special ar ticles to many literary magazines and at the same time serving as a special lecturer on the short story at Colum bia university. The stories of dogs, published in various magazines, brought him national recognition and led him in a measure tb specialize in this field of story telling. His short stories are now being collected and Doubleday, Page & Co., is bringing out his first volume. This company, which had contracted to publish all his works is expecting to ? print a second volume some time during the summer. As a teller of interesting tales he had won for himself no small niche in the hall of fame of present day magazine writers and was one of the best known Southerners engaged in this field. He was a member of the Authors' League of America and in the estimation of Booth Tarkington, a fellow craftsman in literary labor, and the author of some of the most I distinctive of recent American short 1 stories,\novels and plays, was ranked among the foremost short story writ j ers of America. I August 23, 1911, he married Miss Mary Ida Wiley of Grinnell, Iowa, who as fiction critic of The Delineat I or assisted and worked with him in his literary endeavors. Mrs. Derieux survives him. He is also survived by his parents, the Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Derieux of Columbia; two sisters, Mrs. T. C. Hamby and Miss ?Minnie Derieux of Columbia, and two broth ers, James C. Derieux of yNew York and T. B. Derieux of Columbia.-The State. Pure Bred Hogs More Profitable. Batesburg, Feb. 24.-M. E. Rut land, one of the leading farmers of this section, shipped a '.-ar of hogs to day, making the second shipment this, season. In his efforts to beat the boll weevil Mr. Rutland planted consider able corn and velvet beans last year which were pastured off in hogs. The car shipped today was made -up of pure bred Duroc-Jerseys and scrubs. They all went on pasture in October. The pura breds went on pasture at an average of 91 pounds and went out at an average of 209 pounds, while his scrubs went on pasture at an average of 95 pounds and wen?: out at an average of 122 pounds. All of them had the same treatment and, the sama opportunity, ir? so far as feed was concerned. The results, how ever, are very favorable to the pura breds, indicating the possibility of profit in feeding, while the scrubs in dicate that there is little opportuni ty for profit. The same results were indicated in the shipment made four weeks ago after four months of pas turing. Do You Want a Job? If you are out of employment, or would like to make a change, consult us. Standard Employment S erice, Spartanburg, S. C.