Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 18, 1919, Image 1

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- m . i ?????^^^mmmm - ; ^ " . u m. grists sons, p?bu.ber.} % #mitg feicsgagei;: ^or thit promotion nj the jpotiticat, Social, ^grieullur^l and Commercial Interests of thij f)eogl<. J TER"?^?f^^^M0?IJ?MC' ElTAMjiHEP 1855 YORK, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1919. ^^NTO. 57 FACTS ABOUT FRANCE American Soldiers Had Little Opportunity to Form Unbiased Opinion. GREAT LOVERS OF THEIR COUNTRY ' American Soldier* Depended Solely On Own Country For Support? French Best Cooks In The World? ? "? I Much United otaies van From French. By Lewis M. Grist. Many of we soldiers, and I guess I am in the lot, are not competent to do justice to France as a country and the French as a people. Located as we were mostly in isolated communities for long periods and coming in contact 'principally with French men and women of the lower classes and in sections of the country where industry was at its poorest, it is but natural 9 that our view of the land and its people is somewhat biased. One great characteristic stands out however, no matter what the mental, moral and physical condition of the people. That is the love of the Frenchman for France and for the country's greatest city?Paris. To the Frenchman, Paris is the Jerusalem, the most - beautiful, most wholesome city in all the world. Paris to the Frenchmen's mind is the super-perfect. And it must be Indeed a wonderful city. I was never there although stationed within forty miles of it for a long time. This zealous love of country on the part of the French is ample to cover many of their failings and shortcomings. The thing that had a tendency toward the repellant in the French from what I saw was their apparent Insatiable greed and covetousness. The average Frenchman of the lower class appeared to look on the American soldiers as so many multi-millionaires; and themselves as leeches whose business it was to suck the financial blood of those multi-millionaries. The French people appeared to be ever trying to get money -out of the American soldiers. If they were not begging money from them they were attempting to sell them various articles at fifty times their worth. And yet there is something to be said in their defense. Suppose the United States had been involved in a terrible war like the European conflict on its territory for four years and had been hard put ' even as the French were up until the time of the American's coming. Perhaps we would have developed similar characteristics. The French soldier is paid the equivalent of five cents per day for his services and the American private in France was paid in excess of $1 a day. The French therefore had some right to look upon their American ally as a millionaire, eh? Their Love of Country. But their love of country is something wonderful and beautiful. Of course there were a few French traitors?a number being convicted and executed as spies. But they were 1 very, very few. Up in Belgium it-used ' to be said that there were almost as ' many traitors as there were people ' loyal to their country. And it is a 4 fact that hundreds were executed and imprisoned by the Allies for traitorous 1 acts. Quite different with the French. Hardships counted nothing with them, 1 numerous disasters did not matter. ( Their spirit was ever undaunted, ever 1 courageous. The French soldier cared ' jp nothing for Germany, nothing for the 1 Allies. His whole thought and energywas ever centered on the fact that he ' fought for France. Of course they were appreciative of the assistance of the Americans. But in the areas in * ?t r.taa inroicH thprp was little 1 WI11CI1 X nuo avvM>??%? -? ? if ever any demonstration of that ap- < preciation although the French are ' commonly conceded to be the most 1 demonstrative and affectionate people 1 in the world. The only illustration of 3 ^ demonstrative appreciation I ever wit- 1 nessed was one day when an American 1 hospital convoy carrying wounded 1 French soldiers started from one sta- ' tion to another. 1 Numerous old 'French peasants i lined the road and they cheered the I Americans who were caring for French i wounded. And there were many tears ! mixed with the cheers of those honest, 4 man onH i Para worKinB uiu ricuvu > ?? women as they watched the convoy go < by. Depended on Nobody. i American troops in France didn't i depend upon their Allies for anything unless it was for the benefit of their exper'ence. But the other Allies did depend upon them a great deal. Why if we had depended upon the French to feed us, we would have starved to death. Hardly anything in the way i of edibles was purchased from the ?* ' French, though occasionally some vegetables were bought from the French government. Canned goods , flour and cold storage stuff from the good old states were the food we depended on and there was always plenty of it even if it was a wee bit old. Why the French could not even furnish us enough water to drink. The finest cooks in the world are to be found among the French and the Germans. No wonder they call fried spuds "French fried." The French know how to fry 'em better than any body else on the earth and I have eaten other foods cooked by them that almost tied with the biscuits that ] nourl ?n main " Thpv f>nn COOk | all right; but the trouble with them is i that they haven't a great deal to cook, j The>^ were never used to much, however?that is the common herd, and yet they are hale and hearty. Incidentally their conditions set me to think- i ^ ing that the folks back home could get along on a great deal less and get along just as well if they only knew how. They are a most economical people. It is said that the Japs are the most economical fo.Ks in the world?they and the Chine-e. There were thousands of them o *er in France employed ! by the French government in manual labor. I watched them closely and compared them with the French and while the former made a dollar do its duty all right it appeared to me that m the Frenchman always insisted upon his doing double duty. Certainly it is that the average Frenchman can live off what the average American throws away. I knew more than one French man who practically lived oft what was thrown away from our mess hall. Little Mingling With French. But as I said at the beginning, I don't consider myself a fair judge of them. We soldiers were almost always up against the poorest class of them and the most illiterate and vicious elements. The better class of French women, for instance, are hardly if ever seen walking on the streets. They always ride. And It is so with the men. They had mighty little to do with the Americans any time or anywhere. Of course, the higher officers and an occasional first or second loot with a string of credentials as long as the courthouse might get an occasional introduction among the bon tons; but there was nothing doing for we buck privates. There is hardly a more methodical people in the world than the French. They have system for pretty much everything and a pretty good system at tnat. AU Dnages ior instance, uu matter how large or how small are constructed of stone. Practically all the houses are of stone. Rock ballast is always placed between railroad ties. The Frenchman ha3 certain times to eat?certain times to drink, certain times to do almost anything. A most methodical and systematic person he. Is. For instance before the Americans came the French soldier in the lines had certain times to wash his clothes. He did no fighting at that time and Fritz desiring to wash his own dirty duds was content to jbserve the truce in his own interests. The Americans put an end to that, however. I wouldn't want to be a Frenchman if I were not an American and I wouldn't want any French wife either. Still there are many lessons for us to be learned from them at a profit. NEW FEDERAL JUDGE. Sketch Of CapL H. H. Watkine Appointed to District Federal Bench. Capt H. H. Watkins of Anderson, nominated Monday by President Wilson to be Judge of Federal court for the Western district of South Carolina, is well known in the district and his selection generally is considered a wise one. He is in the 54th year of his age and a member of the la^w firm *f Bonham. Watkins & Allen of Anderson. Mr. Watkins entered Furman University at the age of 13 years and was graduated from that institution a few days before he was 19. He taught school for eight years, four in the public schools of the state and four In Furman University, where he Berved as principal of the preparatory' department and secretary of the faculty. He read law in the office of Wells & Drr while in Greenville and then under Murray & Murray in Anderson, taking a summer course at the University of Virginia and was admitted to the bar in 1892. Mr. Watkins formed a partnership with MaJ. E. B. Murray of Anderson, which existed until Major Murray's death in 1894. He then formed a partnership with Gen. M. L. Bonham under the style of Bonham & Watkins, ind this partnership has continued for 25 years, with the addition of Thomas Allen to the firm. Mr. Watkins was one of the organizers and directors of the Savannah River Power Company and also a director and vice president of the Anderson Water, Light & Power Company, until these companies became ronsolidated with larger electric power companies. He is now a director in the Belton Savings and Trust Company and Brogon Mills and is vice president of Peoples Bank of Anderson. He has tfways taken an active interest in ed - - A * U?? ucauonai worn, was on Ui? moi uumu )f trustees of the Anderson graded jchools, was for several years a trus:ee of Furman University, of Greenville Woman's College and Connie Maxwell Orphanage. At the organization of Anderson College in 1911 he was elected president of the board of trustees and has served in that capacity ever since. He is also trustee of the Anderson County Hospital and of the Anderson Library Association and is a member of the board of education of the State Baptist convention of South Carolina. From 190:^ to 1906 Mr- Watkins was chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Anderson county and from 1906 to 1910 was state executive committeeman of his party from Anderson County. He served as presidential elector n 1904 and in 1908 was delegate at large to the national Democratic convention. He was a caplain of the company * 4V!? iw fho Rnflnish irum tins v.v'um.1 1*1 vi.v ?...? American war and was a member of Governor Keyword's naff and war made quartermaster general. In 1332 Mr. Watkins was married to Miss Maude Wakefield, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wakefield. Nut Trees For Shade.?The Michigan legislature recently passed a law to encevrage the planting of nutbearing and other food-producing shade trees along the state trunk highways and other roads built in that state. The law makes it the duty of the State Highway Commission and the State Commission of Agriculture to look after the setting out of such trees and of the State Agricultural College and the Public Dominion Commission to distribute stock at nominal cost to local officials and private individuals who will set it out. Trees are to be planted at intervals of 20 to 40 feet along the roads. Injuring roadside trees or affixing notices of any kind to them is made a misdemeanor punishable by fine of $1 to $25 and imprisonment of not more than 30 days. This law is in keeping with the policy of encouraging tree planting announced by the United States Department of Agriculture, the department of the Federal government that administers the Federal and road law in co-operation with the states. A crowd which taxed the capacity of a local theatre heard United States Senator James A. Reed, Democrat, speak in Rirmingham, Ala., Monday night against the league of nations. Premier Venizeloe of Greece has taken the initiative for formation of a new Balkan league. FRANK MOORE CONVICTED ? . m Party to Killing of Policeman Pen- ^ nlnger Guilty of Manslaughter. ca * of SENTENCED TO TEN TEARS IN PRISON " th Jury Recommended Defendant to the I Mercy of the Court?Moore Will b: Serve Sentence in Penitentiary? tli Scores of Sharon People Heard the P' Trial. tv Frank Moore, 28 years of age tried b( in general session court Tuesday for the killing of Policeman T. R. Penninger of Sharon on September 30, rc 1918, was convicted of manslaughter j with recommendation to mercy Tues- t day evening and on Wednesday morn- cr lng was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by Judge Ernest Moore who took occasion to tell the defendant je that he was getting off very light for C{j his part in the heinous killing of the pl Sharon officer. ? Trial of the case occupied all of Tuesday. Each juror was placed on his voir dire as he was called and about an hour's time was required to E] select a jury, which was as follows: W. W. Gill, foreman; G. F. Grant, H. cY B. McCleave, W. H. Dickson, W. A. Stine, H. R. Merritt, R. W. Barnett, S. H. Epps, Jr., J. B. Love, J. R. Ferguson, R. T. Beamguard w Moore, a neat.y dressed, weak-faced af voune man. prdBerved a calm demean- th or throughout tnc trial, and during bc moat of the day held his three-year- jg old child in his arms. His wife and of sister were with him during the trial, He broke down somewhat when the m judge pronounced sentence, evidently (l0 expecting a lighter term than was giv- Qr] en him. T. P. McDow, Esq., represent- w ed the defendant and Solicitor Henry, CQ the state. dl Many people from Sharon and com- aj munity came to Yorkville Tuesday to hear the trial of the case, among them bf being the widow and children of the m slain man. Immediately after sentence q, was pronounced Moore was taken back pj to his cell in the county jail. He will probably be taken to Columbia today. of Trial of the case was hard fought jn by both the defense and the state, al- w. though the only witness for the de- ^ fense was the accused man himself, tb and he undertook to make no defense of his admitted act in striking Mr. CQ Penninger over the head with a pistol. b(J The prosecution, however, admitted je, that it was not this blow; but a pistol shot fired by Mills Moore, brother of av Frank, that caused the death of Mr. wj Penninger. J. L. Whitesides, who was mayor of N) Sharon at the time of the tragedy and de who had deputized Mr. Penninger to br act as marshal on the occasion, was th the first witness for the state. He told j_j( of having words early Monday mornu ing September 30, 1918, with Frank Moore, because Moore objected to the ev I holding of a Ford car for bond required ,.e of his mother, Mrs. Brown, because of her alleged disorderly conduct. Moore gc, had told him later that he would raise ^r| the required bond?$25. Shortly after *h, 12 o'clock, one of the two Brown girls who were living in Sharon with their 1 mother, Mr. Whitesldes said, came to f(^ him and told him that her brother <111 Frank Brown wanted to see him at ge( Pennlnger's blacksmith shop. Upon his W? arrival there, Frank Moore said, "We l1, thi I've got the money; that settles it don't It?" Mr. Whitesldes replied that wf one case was settled but there was th( another warrant for Frank Moore be- co cause of alleged disorderly conduct tr the previous night. Mr. Penninger Md hh been deputized to serve the second t warrant and proceeded to read it. ^ Frank Moore said something about the warrant being "a damned outrage," and Qn struck Penninger behind the ear whh { his pistol. Both Mills and Frank Moore or Porter Brown and Frank Brown as rifJ they were known in Sharon drew their pistols and ordered him and Marshal j Penninger to hold up their hands. The ^ Moore boys backed them into Mr.. Penninger's shop where Mills Moore fired j twice, Mr. Penninger falling dead. The two Moores then backed out of the shop, still covering the witness and , fled. ne The Brown girl, Mr. Whitesldes said exclaimed "Mills, run you've killed that al) man" and the three ran off toward the ^ house in Sharon occupied by the wo- hn men. jTe Mr. 'Whitesides testified on cross ex- nQ amination that he had never seen . Frank Moore before the morning of the tragedy. Moore's pistol wfth which ^ he struck Fcnninger was a blue-steel vi( 38. The pistol was offered in evidence p by the state. He said that Penninger rf^ had nothing in his hands save the warrant at the time Frank Moore struck him one time with the pistol. James Shannon testified that he was on the opposite side of the shop when 'ni the shooting occurred. Both the Moore boys were cursing and both had their pistols drawn when he first became bo aware of the difficulty. He saw Frank is Moore hit Mr. Penninger with his pis- 1 tol. At that time the witness left and kll he did not see the actual shooting, al- Br though he heard the two shots and re- <ju turned shortly thereafter. Mr. P(n- 1 ninger was dead when he returned. pli S. A. Hope was standing on Main tin street of Sharon about 100 yards away da when the shooting occurred. He could not say whether the man who struck an Mr. Penninger with the pistol was the da same who fired the two shots. He saw jer the two men back off following the shooting and he saw the Brown girl is peep into the shop after the shots and ch then trot off. all John T FWmster testified that the Moore boys came to his house about ja 10 o'clock on the morning of the shoot- a ins1. They said they came to borrow of $15 and Frank Moore offered to pawn si.' Mr. Feemster his pistol as security tlj for the amount. Mr. Feemster agreed to the transaction and the pistol was ca tendered him. A few minutes later sa Frank Moore said he couldn't pawn an the pistol because some people had pr it in for him down at Sharon, "and if ho that peg-leg fellow fooled with him he would knock his peg-leg off," or Ti words to that effect. He explained to tit Mr. Feemster that his car was being re held by the authorities at Sharon and Pt he wanted to borrow the money in or- al der to get his machine. ca J. M. Bur lis, clerk in the employee th of the York Hardware company testi- oi >d that Mills Moore and Frank Moore irehased cartridges from him on the orning of the tragedy. The men ( >ught 75 cents worth of .78 special trtridges and 25 cents worth of .38 ilibre cartridges. , Dr. C. O. Burrus examined the body j the deceased shortly after h? was lied. Mr. Ponnlnger was shot In the , ick and the bullet In his body was at from a .38 special revolver. There as a bad cut over his left ear. Death . i testified, might have been caused / either the wound on the head or le pistol bullet and he would not-ex- c efts an opinion as to which of the ro wounds caused death. . Dr. J. H. Saye also examined the wiv of the slain man. He described ? lick behind the ear which appeared * hare been done with the barrel of a volver, the sight of the weapon layg open the flesh. Describing the pis1 wound, he said that the bullet had ? itered the body at the back between ie eighth and ninth ribs. No autopsy as performed. Either the pistol bult or the lick on the head might have * Lused death; but in his opinion the c stol bullet was responsible. It ap- * ?ared from the position of the bullet at Mr. Penninger was stooping atth? 1 me he was shot. ? Testimony of W. M. McCloud, S. 7. * aloe and Sheriff Fred E. Qulnn whom 1 e defense undertook to introduce as ' laracter witnesses was ruled out by I o court. * Moore's 8tory. i * The defendant himself was his onl^ E Itness and he gave his version of the c fair in considerable detail. He Is In * e 28th year of his age, having beep * >rn near Shelby, N. C., October 16, * 91. He is married and the father * two children. His father was killed a ay, 18, 1916 and his mother again ' arrled a widower with two grown I lughters. They were living in Shar- t t under the name of Brown which 1' as not their right name and upon ming to visit tham, he was intro- t irod n?j Frank Brown, hence hi* I s [as. o He was a mill hand by occupation, t ! -said, having worked at the Lock- ^ ore Mill in Yorkvllle, Bowling Green, t istonia, King's Mountain and ottjer v aces. He was living in Greenwood s hen he came to Sharon at the time d the tragedy. From a sister living Gastonla, he learned that his mother c is living in Yorkvllle and was sick, pon arrival here he learned she and e two girls had moved to Sharon. He went there, he said, and dls- f vered his brother, Mills Moore at the ime of their mother. He said he lrned of the charges against his r other and desiring to take her a ray, had consulted Mayor Whltesides c iiom he said at first offered to let li em go; but later changed his- mind, h )t having the money to pay the fine n manded of the mother, he and his e other Mills Moore tried to borrow p p money from "Mr. .1* T. Feemstor.'' 2 offered Mr. Feemster his pistol g security, promising to redeem the t n the same night at 9 o'clock. How- p er he decided not to let Mr. Feemster v ep the gun when advised by his ti other Mills that "you are a fool to p II that gun for $15." He said he told w :. Feemster, "I can't let you have e it gun because they have it in for u > down at Sharon." ii I'pon the return to Sharon he of- h ed the money to Mayor Whitesldes a d Mr. Penninger whom he had never g ;n before informed him that there c is another warrant. He explained f, it he doubted whether or not a ?ssrs. Whitesldes and Penninger tl :re regular officers, that he had given tl sm every cent he had and he lost ntrol of himself. He thereupon c uck Mr. Penninger a light lick with u ? pistol. The lick, he said, did not t] igger the dead man. Then his i other Mills fired at Mr. Penninger t| ling him. He then held his pistol ^ Mr. Whitesldes and backed away. Dn cross examination Moore denied t] mhrisintr cartridges from J. M. Bur- c, at the York Hardware company. g] ! said he had cartridges In his pistol ? len he left Greenwood. The car n it the authorities had at Sharon for n :urity for the bond was not his car t in possession of his brother, Mills >ore who had for some reason claim- tj that it belonged to the defendant. The defendant said that he had ver been in trouble before in his life. ; knew nothing of the present where- Js outs of his brother, Mills Moore. y s brother, lie said, had been at his ^ me in Greenwood about ten days ^ fore he came to Sharon and he did ^ t know that Mills was In Sharon j ion he (Frank) came there. His other Mills Moore, he said, was at ^ ? time of the killing an escaped con?t from the Mecklenburg county, N. j chaingang and had a long criminal ?ord. e' . p CURRENT EVENTS. 11 teresting News Happenings Gather- u ed from All Over the World A The regular summer meeting of the *1 ard of trustees of Clemson College & to be held on July 23. ? Twenty-six persons were reported ? led Tuesday In an explosion on the " ltlsh tank steamer Reseleaf off Car- a T, Wales. c Three men were killed when a sea- 0 ine plunged Into a back channel at n e Philadelphia navy yard, late Mon- n ,y afternoon. c The Georgia Press association at its nual meeting at Monroe, Ga., Tues-' n y adopted resolutions endorsing the Q igue of nations. c' T. L. Davis, a plumber 70 years old r under arrest in Concord, N. C., Q arged with attempting to crlmln- h y assault a nine-year-old girl. n Practically all laundries operating in v ckson. Miss., have been indicted by tl Mississinni circuit court on a charge n violating the anti-trust laws of Mis- ti ssippi, following a grand jury inves- F ration of an alleged fixing of prices. Eighteen million dollars for the votlonal training of injured soldiers, ilors and marines is provided by an ^ nendment to the sundry civil approiation bill tentatively adopted by the uise Tuesday by a vote of 120 to 119. h Governor Hobby of Texas was on h jeeday asked to resign in a resolu- a in introduced in the Texas house of h presentatives by Representative 5 >pe of Xeuces county because of his b leged connection with an attempt to o ncel the state's option to purchase r e Blue Ridge prison farm upon which I has been discovered. n WILLIS SUCCEEDS RECTOR. )versea?^Soldier Appointed Sheriff Of Greenville County by Gov. Cooper. Sam D. Willie, 29, formerly Captain >f Co. A, 118th Infantry, 30th division laa been appointed Sheriff of Greendlle county to succeed the late Sheriff ienanx Jttector. xne new snenn ih >robably the youngest in the state. There were a full dozen applicants or the place. They were: J. L. Balenger, Greenville; I. M. Wood, Greer; 3. O. Holtzclaw, Greer; J. W. L.ittle, limpsonville; J. Ben Watklns, Greendlle; W. A. Alison, Greenville; J- H. Bagwell, Greenville; Capt Sam D. Villis, Greenville; J. P. Charles, Sreenville; H. D. Capell, and Dr. J. R. P. Ne&l. In connection with the appointment f Captain Willis, Governor Cooper ;ave out the following statement: "It is a source of real regret to me hat it is necessary for me to dlsippoint the other applicants, some of vhom are very close personal friends if mine. Only one man eould be ap>ointed, however. "It is appropriate that I call attenlon to the spirit in which the various .pplicants have conducted themselves. Jot one of them has said anything to ne against any other applicant, and rblle each has very naturally and iroperly been anxious for the office, t has been the rule that each has said, n effect, 'I want you to name the nan who will be of most value to the :ounty, for that is the Important hlnff-' I do not recall having paricipated in any matter of this kind u A MI?MU ..Mt.AMrUv <VAA/4 vucio tucie wtw outu uuvat/iiis gwu eellng and sincerity. There was not .n applicant who showed himself unrorthy, and neither was there an apilicarit who would, In my opinion, tave made a failure in the office had t been given to him. "In this connection I wish to add his word: An officer is almost helpless ave where he is backed by public plnfon. I shall, therefore, expect hose men who have indorsed Captain Villis, and all other citizens as well, o create the kind of sentiment that ^ enable and inspire not only the heriff, but all other peace officers to io their utmost in behalf of the hapliness 'and Welfare of Greenville ounty." fRUIT OR VEGETABLE. tenewal of the Everlasting Question Concerning the Tomato. The season has arrived, as somebody eminds us, for the annual controversy a to whether the tomato is a vegetable r a fruit. We imagine that vegetarma and fruitarians become especially leated over this problem and that o&ny an excltlpg debate occurs whenver representatives of these two opposing Quits come into juxtaposition. Siffaktoffft-dm a broad but shi.llow ardcn experience, we slivuld say that his question does not really become a roblem until the fruit or vegetable or hatever it is comes to the able. In he intermediate stage of its i.rtan ex crlences, that is to say in the markets, ro And the tomato treated with all the xalted consideration that is bestowed pon the choicest fruits. It is put up 1 small baskets, like strawberries or ot-house peaches, and invested with n air of quiet elegance that commands reat respect If these chaste and dellate conditions failed sufficiently to inarm the curious consumer the price ffixed is quite enough to determine 10 matter. The price declares plainly lat the tomato is a fruit However, prices are not altogether onciusive in these days. It is difficult nder modern conditions to determine le status of anything on this basishere are various products of which he botanical status could hardly be ecided by the commercial evidence, here are cucumbers, for example. By le price one might be justified in asiming that a cucumber was some pecies of Imported melon. Structurlly, too, for that matter, peifcaps it light be argued that a cucumber is lore like a melon than it is like anyling else. Anyway, it has certain jatures that make it moro fruit-like lan vegetable-like. And certainly the rice, early in the season, approxilates that of grapefruit. It would seem plain that the tomato i not the only article capable of pro iding a controversy as to whether It i fruit or vegetable. We know how think of It when It is in the maret and classed with early peaches 1 the matter of price, and we know lso how the marketinen treat it, very snderly, as they would any fruit. You ever see tomatoes lying around careissly, as you often see potatoes, parnips, summer squash, cauliflower and vsu most of the asparagus. The peo- , le of the market treat a tomato decately. , Their attitude is due in a groat measre, of course, to ordinary prudence. . tomato that is treated roughly or isrespectfully is quite likely to rctalite. It is an exceedingly boomerangy bject, and if its blushing delicacy is ffendod it has a way of distributing self over the contiguous landscape in n altogether disconcerting way. The ffective radius of a bursting tomato Is ften surprising, and the efforts arc otcd for their high visibility. Marketlen are not inclined to take hazardous hances. And apparently the growers cf tolatoee are equally indifferent. The uestlon, It seems, does not become a ontroverslal problem until the tomato caches the consumer. Then, as freucnt'.y manifested, there is a tormontig uncertainty as to whether the toPfirronallv. :c have always been Inclined to split he credit fifty-fifty, and view tho tolato as a convient hybrid susceptible 3 either classification. F H. Ycung In , 'rovidence Journal. DRY MEXICO NEXT. lexican Board of Health Sponsors Bill Against Alcohol. The Mexican consulate at New Organs, announces that the national onrd of health of Mexico has prepared hill for the elimination of alcohol leverages from the entire country of [exico, and that this measure probacy will be adopted by the next session f the federal congress, which will neet In December. The bill proposes: "First, to prohibit, after date of prorogation of the proposed law, the opening: of any new establishment at which is sold any beverage containing t alcohol. "Second, to prohibit absolutely, the manufacture and sale of any alcoholic beverage which contains wormwood (such as absinthe) or any beverage of analogous composition, immediately after the promulgation of the law. "Third, to prohibit, six months after the putting into effect of the two previous provisions, the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages in any public place. "Fourth, to prohibit the manufacture of alcohol from cereals, and to a prohibit the sale of any alcoholic bev- ? erage, one year after the date at which the preceding provisions are put into \ effect t "Fifth, to grant a monopoly for the ^ manufacture and sale of alcohol for t commercial purposes only, to a cor- ^ poration that shall agree to devote all ? its proiits to charity. t "Sixth, to deprive confirmed also- v holies of their civil rights, but to provide a properly maintained hospital c where they may be cured, if possible s at government expense, their civil ^ rights to bo returned to them on such ( cure being effected. c "Seventh, to prohibit Immediately r the maintenance of saloons within 10 j miles of the^border of Mexico and the ^ IJnited States." a * a AMERICA'S BIGGEST FARM. t t JOO.GOO Acres in Wheat and not a Single Horse Used. Farming two hundred thousand acres is certainly a regular Job. But f doing it without the use of a single horse is something else again. Yet, preposterous as it may sound, this feat i is actually being performed by a Mon- \ tana man, Thomas D. Campbell. This f huge farm, probably the largest in the j world, is a direct result of the gov- c ernment's efforts to stimulate the growing of wheat during the past two B years. The farm is devoted entirely to j wheat, and if it produces somewhere around the country's average of twen- ^ ty-eight bushels per acre, which is 8 practically certain, it will add approximately five million six hundred and fifty thousand bushels to the 1919 f wheat crop. At the government's guar- t anteed price of two dollars and twenty- ^ six cents per bushel, this represents ^ the tidy sum of twelve million six thousand dollars. Of course all this ^ won't be net profit But there should be enough left, after all expenses are paid, to make the venture worth while. Thomas D. Campbell is the man who conceived the idea of the world's * largest wheat farm, or any other sort of farm for that matter. Originally of Grand Folks, North Dakota more recently of Los Angeles, California, v and now a resident of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana, where he stands an excellent chance of being * elected chief of the Crows, Mr. Camp- a hell has astonished the wheat-growers of the country, as well as a lot of other c people, by the vastness of \the enterprise under his management. It was during the summer of 1917 that Mr. Campbell first thought of h raising wheat on a large scale on unused Indian lands, and wrote to the Indian Bureau at Washington outlining ^ his plans and asking how to proceed Q to lease some of the tracts. He was Q courteously informed by the sundry obscure clerks in the department that it couldn't bfe done. They cited certain ' T rules and regulations and laws to prove their assertions. But some thirty years ago Tom Campbell took them seriously when ^ they told him there was no such word ' as "can't" in the dictionary. It is ^ rumored that he doesn't even believe much in cantaloup or cantatas. So, ^ he tried again, the men higher up this a time, and the result was a long tele- ^ gram to President Wilson. Almost im- a mediately came back a reply saying that the president was much Interested a in the project and had referred it to w Secretary Lane, who would give the. w matter his personal attention. a The upshot of the matter was that a 0 week or two later found Mr. Campbell in the presence of the Secretary of the Interior. The firct thing the Secretary d asked him was what kind of contract he wanted. "Any kind," was the re- a ply, " Just so I get a chance to raise a L lot of wheat" "What do you want for yourself?" _ _ _ Q asked the Secretary. "N'othing," Campbell replied. "1 um w willing to enroll with the dollar-a-year u men if the Government finances the l? project, and If I finance it myself, all ^ I want is a chance to break even." The Secetary saw that he was deal- tl ing with a man and a patriot as well as b an ertra-size farmer, so he asked him r< why he didn't make it two hundred n thousand acres instead of twenty thou- f, sand. ir "Could you handle that many acres?' asked Mr. Lane. "Certainly," replied Mr. Campbell, Js "only it will require more capital than I had figured on." Secretary Lanu said he thought that C( could be arranged and told Mr. Campbell to go ahead and draw up a con- a, tract. The contract was drawn nnd in due time bore the signatures of Secretary Lane, all the bureau chiefs and e' Mr. Campbell. The Indians, of course, were well taken care of under the a' terms of the contract- They will re- a roivo one-tenth of the crop during the e< first five years, and one-fifth of the c( crop during the second five-year per- r? iod, at the end of which the lease expires. U The next step was to finance the w project, so Mr. Campbell hurried to C New York, presented himself at the tl offices of J. P. Morgan and sent in s< word that Secretary Lane had asked h him to call on a matter of business. N Whether Mr. Morgan had received advance information of Mr. Campbell's pi coming or not is unimportant. The c< fact remains that he was immediately S invited in for a conference. q Mr. Morgan listened while Mr. 3, Campbell told his story. At the end of tI tho story Mr. Morgan asked how mueh . money would be required. tj "Five million dollars," replied Mr. Campbell calmly, as one might say, "I'll take another bag of peanuts." {, "Very well," said Mr. Morgan, "you w may have It. And If that isn't enough y as much more will be available." h And so the two-hundred-thousand- v acre wheat farm came Into existence, a with Mr. Campbell as president of the \ Montana Farming Corporation and t< general manager of the whole project, p But about the absence of horses on :he farm. All of the work Is being done with tractors. Lost fall, when the first rround was broken, there were fifty nonster machines at work tearing up he prairie sod. ThlA spring others have >een at work. They plow on an average >f one acre a minute for the working ime. A record was made o.<:e day of sighteen hundred and eighty acres :urned and broken. All the seeding, iarve8tlng, etc., will also be done by ractors, and then, of course, there are U A f O AV AA XT AMAA IVlA iiQ kill COUlUg - U1AVUIUCA AlOMVO W11V ibsolute no-accountness of horses ibout this place* One of the first problems Mr. Campjell had to solvo was the number of he various kinds of machines that vould be required to do the work on ;ho entire farm. He solved '.his by dividing the farm Into units of five thouland acres and then allowing a cerain period for each operation, on each init Mr. Campbell, as activo as he is, louldn't reasonably be expected to perlonally oversee and work on two hunlred thousand acres of land through>ut the season. So each unit is put in iharge of a foreman and a crew of nen. Each unit also has its group of jermanent and modernly equipped mildings. It Is a gigantic proposition my way you look at It And, lncidentilly, the man who Is behind It is only hlrty-six years old.?Robert H. Moulon, in July Everybodys. REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY rinal Presentment To Court Of General Session*. The York county grand Jury competed Its work at noon Tuesday and tras discharged. Before dismissal the ollowlng presentment signed by R. E. 3araett foreman, was filed with the iourt: The grand Jury fdr York county ubmlts the following report for the >resent term of this court: We have passed on all bills handed o us by the solicitor and returned the ame with our findings thereon. "We have considered the inatter 'our honor called to our attention In egard to cases being tried In court as he? come us regardless of whether lefendants are out on bond or not and ve recommend same to be tried, es>eclally those in violation of the proilbitlon law. "We have examined a^ew bridges nd find they need repairs as to floors, nd also that the main highways have lot been worked. We recommend hey be attended to. "We desire to thank your honor and he solicitor for the courtesies shown is and the assistance given us in the lischarge of our duties. 'There being no furtlior business at his term of the ggurt, we respectfully .sk that we be discharged from urther attendance of this term of , Curt." STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. < iappenings of Interest in All Sections i of South Carolina. < Camp Jackson ceased to exist as a i emobllizatlon camp Tuesday and no 1 lore overseas troops will be mustered . ut of service there. t Over 2,000,000 pounds of tobacco ! rere sold by farmers In Dillon, last j 'uesday at prices ranging: from four } forty-six sents a pound. Revenue officers captured a large 1 lstillery in Laurens county lest week. I 'he still was the first to be taken in ' aurens in many months. The controlling Interest In the Baldwin Cotton Mills of Chester has been J cquired by J. P. Stevens & Co., of 1 Tew York. Alex Long of Rock Hill, is < t present the president of the mills. 1 Mack Murray, a negro soldier was 1 rrested in Columbia, Monday, charged ( rith carrying obscene pictures which 1 rere made in Paris. Mixon Ramey, 1 lso colored was arrested for a similar J flense. * Mrs. Carrie Mc. Patrick, well known ewspaper woman of Anderson has the istinction of being the first woman to y in an aeroplane in South Carolina. , he took a flight over Anderson with Jeut Jesse W. Simpson Tuesday. President Wilson haj promised outh Carolina congressmen that he ( ill if possible attend the first re- , nion of the Thirtieth Division which . i to be held in Greenville in Septem- , er. , Rear-Admiral Victor Blue, ehief of . ne bureau of navigation, who has ] een ill for several months has been j ecommended for retirement from the ] avy. He was appointed to Annapolis j rom South Carolina and his home is y l Marlon. < An election is to bo held in Richland < ounty August 5, on the question of 1 isuing road bonds in the sum of $2,- i 00,000. The state highway engineers < stimate that the roads in Richland e ounty to be built from the proceeds 1 f the proposed bond issue will cost t bout 122,500 a mile. t C. C. Crouch, a motorman employ- 1 3 by the South Carolina Light & 1 ower Company at Spartanburg was ( ssaulted by unknown persons Tuesday 1 nd badly beaten. Crouch had refus- * i to Join a strike of motormen and T mductors of the Spartanburg street * lilway which has been in progress. c Robert Wicker, 35, a white farmer ving near Pomarla, Newberry county as shot and killed Monday night, larence Setzlcr, a negro recently re- K lrned from service overseas is being c >ught, charged with the killing and 1 is uncle, Manuel Setzler is in Jail in 1 'ewberry charged with complicity. * Citizens of Spartanburg county pro ose to resist the efforts or ureenvuie aunty people to annex a portion of ' partanburg county In the vicinity of reer to Greenville- A check for $1,00 has been deposited with the 1 easurer of Spartanburg county by an i ttorney of , Greenville, to guarantee ( le cost of a survey of the territory. < The first White House of the Consderacy, located in Montgomery, Ala., , rill not be destroyed. The White , louse association of Montgomery, Ala. as purchased the White House which ras once the home of Jefferson Davis, mbassador to Italy, arrived at New rork, Monday and from there weat o Washington,,where he tendered hie esignation. GARNERED WITH SCISSORS News From Within and Without the County. , | CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Some Items of Fact, Soma of Commant and All Helping to Giva an Idaa of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Doing. Rock Hill Record, July 14: The J. L. Phillips Drug Co. has bought from Mrs. W. L. Roddey the store room now occupied by them. The consideration, we understand was $26,000 Little Miss Evelyn Bryant is spending sometime as the guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Hand of York Friends in this city will learn with much Interest that our townsman N. Q. Walker, will on tomorrow (Tues- fl day) be married to Mrs. Pauline Brad ley Lcfte at her home in Washington, D. C. Gaffnay Ledger, July 15. Edward Dobson, who served as a captain in the dental corps of the army in Prance and who had been at home on furlough, last week went to Camp Jackson, where he received an honorable discharge. Mr. Dobson has not yet decided where he will practice his profession Representatives of the Broad River Baptist Association, the First Baptist church, the First Baptist church Sunday school, the Buford Street Methodist church, the Limestone Street Presbyterian church, the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church' and Limestone College, paid feeling ^tribute to Dr. J. S. Dill in the farewell services held at the First Baptist church Sunday evening. The meeting was presided over by Dr. W- C. Hamrick. Each of the speakers referred to the cordial and pleasant relations that have been developed and maintained by the retiring minister. Each one also claimed that Dr. Dill's leaving is a personal loss as well as a loss to the civic and religious life of Caftney. Dr. Dill has served as pastor of the First Baptist church for the past eight and one-half years. He resigned to accopt the position of circulation manager of the Baptist Courier of Greenvllla Fred Mike was arrested bv Deputy Sheriff Joe Watklns, Chief of Police Bruce Bryant and Policeman Arthur Hopper Sunday evening in a railroad cut near the Rose place north of the city. Mike, who la one of the railroad negroes working at Blacksburg, was charged with having shot another negro. He used a pistol, the bullet inflicting a painful' wound in the negro's arm Sheriff W. W. Thomas was called to Wilkinsville, Sunday night by the information that someone had tied a mule to a tree and shot the animal. He found upon Investigation that the st^^y was correct, the mule having been shot three times, apparently with a pistol, after being tied to the tree. Although badly injured the animal seemed to have a chance to recover and the sheriff secured a negro to take care of it. The person doing the shooting has not been discovered. Major Robert T. Ferguson, of the Medical Corps of the army, spent Sunday night in the city with friends. Major Ferguson is spending a two weeks leave of absence from Camp Dix, N. J., having just recently arrived from overseas service. He expects to be discharged when his leave expires, and will then return to Qaffney. 1 Gastonia Gazette, July 14: Mr. Prank Brumley, of the Arm of Brumley & Walters, has demonstrated that i printer can do more than print Mr. Brumley reports a ripe watermelon from his patch Sunday. As far as has come to the knowledge of this office this is the first of the home-grown variety for the season Messrs. A. A. McLean, Jr.. of this city, and Frank Goldberg, of Atlanta, Ga., have awarded the contract for the ehectlon of a 4,000 spindle cotton mill at Bessemer City, a site having already been secured at that place near the Huss Manufacturing Company. The plant la capitalised at (176,000, Messrs. McLean and Goldberg taking the entire amount of stock. Plied yarns N'oa 8 to 14 will be manufactured. An order For the machinery has already been placed and work is to begin at once on the building- A name for the mill has not at this time been decided upon, announcement is also made of the removal of the waste plant of the American Metal & Waste Company from Coumbia, S. C. to Bessemer City, where i waste plant 160 by 260 feet and a varehouse 100 by 400 feet will be ;rected. Mr. Frank Goldberg Is the >wner of the company Rev. J. B. flood, pastor of Pisgah Associate Re'ormed Presbyterian church, left tolay for Ora, S. C., where he will spend l week conducting a protracted meetng for Rev. I. N. Kennedy, pastor of he Ora church Ground was broken his morning for the buildings of the kfvers Mill, which is to be located on he York road south of the city )n charges of vagrancy : nd disordery conduct, Lonie Cunningham, Min dorrow and Delia Eskridge, three vhite women of alleged shady charac:er, were sentenced by Judge . J. Jones in Recorder's court Saturday o 30 days in Jail on each charge with he privilege of escaping the sentence >y leaving the city before 10 o'clock Sunday morning. The women evllently considered the 1 tter punish- ? nent the easier of the two, having nade their departure Saturday night sarlyThere are a half million automobiles n use in New York state. Resumption of mall service between he United States and Germany ef'ectlve immediately was provided in an srder signed Tuesday by Postmaster jeneral Burleson. General licenses covering Import and export trading with Germany were issued in Washington Monday by the war trade division of the state department with the approval of Acting Secretary Polk. Except In certain limited cases, provided under the treaty of peaoe, trading between the United States and Germany may be commenced at once.