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* I? llgp SEMI* WEEKLY. 1m m. grists sons, Pubiiahcrt. ^ Jpea7spa{rer: <^or th^ ^romotioir ^oem!t J|^ricnltui[al and dTommcircial interests of ' TERMs^^^P^f^iNc??t^NCC * ' ? ' | i. " ' ?y ^ ^ m i .' ' 'Sm i ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C.s T UE8D A.T,' OCTOBER 21, 1919. NO. 84 ' - - VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS! \ m ii? 4 i 0i m i Brief Local Paragraplis et More or Lest Interest. 1 PICKED IIP BI ENQUIBES REPOKTEBS; Stories Concerning Folks and Things ' Some of Which You Know v and ' 8ome You Don't Know?Condensed , for Quiok Reading. 1 "You know we are going to have to i put some kind of a check on scnwi 11 teachers so far as holding" them to ] contracts Is concerned," remarked a ] York county school trustee in talking i it over with Views and Interviews last i Friday. "Some time ago, in fact, 1 back in the summer, the trustees of 1 my district employed a young lady to < teach our school for both the summer t and winter terms. There was no t written contract but a verbal under- i standing fair and square that she was to teach both the summer and winter ^ terms. She taught the summer term 1 all right; but at the end of it she < ' received an offer to teach a winte^ r term in a school in another county At ? an increased salary of $10 a month. Wo couldn't afford to pay her that in[ crease and do you know she threw *is ( I down cold and now we are without \ I a teacher. I have heard of a number | K of cases that are similar. yOf course r B one can hardly blame the teachers for c B wanting all the money they can get r B ' and the Lord knows they get little a B enough. Still, a mans' word Is a g V man's word and a woman's is a wo- e v man's. 1$ seems to me that there a I should be some means whereby the r 1 teachers should be held to their ] | agreements." a k Bale Will Buy a Wagon. t "Despite the Increased cost of liv- t ing the high prices for cotton now * prevailing means more real money S than did prices several years ago when everything else was lower," remarked Mr, John C. Dickson, well ? known farmer of Yorkvllie No. 1, who t waf talking about conditions generally I In jkhe store of 8hieder-8neliingr urug i Cc^npany the. other afternoon. VA few f y?ur*?go," said Mr. Dickson, "the re- n ceipts. from .a bale of cotton were t not sufficient to buy a good two-horse c wagon. Now one may buy a good c wagon, from the proceeds of a single S bale of cotton and, have a little change t left oyer. Of course prices are high a but give me high prices every time as t ' ? compared to-ehe otd oria* of things.'* t . . r Lancaster Leading. 1 I "I can't understand why it is that g Lancaster can IJtbrd to pay so much a more for cottoh than Yorkville," said h a local merchant last Saturday. "Lan- 1 caster is being quoted as the leading r cottson market oi the state and there r isn't any doubt about It. The York- * Hie cotton market is the best iy>w 8 that the town has ever known:''but r Still we are far short of Lancaster." 1 - - . t In this connection the rouowing iruni fhe W&xhaw, N. C., Enterprise is in- v teresting: Much comment has been occasioned recently by the Lancaster cotton' buyers paying much mot-* for i: cotton than buyers at Waxhaw, Mon- * roe ifir CharlotUL The writer was in "5 Lancaster one day last week and * asked several pf the business men 0 there (he reason for^ this, and they a said that Col. Springs returned from a * trip to New York a couple of weeks * ago and issued orders to his buyers a to ktock up on cotton at whatever I price it took to get it. Accordingly a bis buyers began paying a little more 1' than other marketi and they have ? kept a cent or two ahead of the market ever since. The condition is only temporary and when it is past the C Lancaster market will probably slump b back to its normal place of a little Ii below Wax haw and Monroe. But c while it lasts it is a bonanza for the i farmers and they are hauling: it from \ All over mis set'iiuii w v day last week Lancaster paid out about $75,000 for cotton. Banking Business Booming. : "York county's banking business has reached proportions which It never attained before," commented ft well . known York county banker yesterday," and the clerical force in practically every bank in the county that I know anything about is taxed Jto its utmost capacity and then some. Several of the banks are greatly in need of additional clerical help which Is hardly to be had at anything like the wage that the banks can afford to pay. 1 have never known such a demand for bank clerical workers in this section aa there is now." Completely Out of Debt "Well I am completely out of debt for the first time in several years and X' nave mure cssn inuue; uiau * >.? had at any one tinie in several yeafs 1 and still I have some :cotton," c<jsn- 1 mented a York County farmer the 1 other day as he put six cents down * on the soda fountain counter and called for d "dope." While I don't think that we farmers are getting ali 1 that is coming to us for cotton, still we are getting nearer a fair profit for ! it than we ever did before and things * are sorter booming." He drank his "dope," and in a few seconds fished 1 another six cents from out of a long, lanky purse. "Gimme another one of them things," he told the soda jerker. < "First time I have felt able to drink < two of 'em in one week, much less the i same day, in years." i No Strikes for Armstrong. 'Gastonia is going into the throes of a textile strike and it is beginning to Ipok like most of the mills of the city and county will be affected but not all of them will be. in my opinion." said the best informed man in Gastonia in talking it over with Views and Interviws Friday afternoon. "From all I have been able to learn, none of the Armstrong chain of mills here which are under the control of Col. C. B. Armstrong who controls your Lockmore Cotton Mill In Yorkville, are :onteraplating going on any strike ai any time in the near future. Relations that are most cordial exist beGel. Armstrone and his em- I ployes and I don't believe they would think of striking. He pays his employes wages that are as high in proportion as the wages of mill workers inywhere else in the country. He rives his employes almost anything in he world that they want. He afees to t that the houses in which they live ire most comfortable and up to date md. he is interested himself in everyhing that they are Interested in- and n fact, there Is such a spirit of.harnony and good feeling between hU vorkers and himself that I don't beieve there is a ghost of a chance of my trouble. In fact, he is a renarkable man, Is this Col. Armtrongj' Turner Still at Large. "I guess the negro Joe Turner who tilled the iwo policemen in Greenrille, and who'got away rrom o.llcers n Charlotte is gone for good," comnented Sheriff Fred R Quinn the >ther day. "If he has succeeded in caching Winston-Salem, N. C? it is t pretty safe bet that he is gone for rood because it has been my experlnce as an officer ranging^over a conlderable number of years, that If a iegro wanted for crime ever gets to .Vinston-Salem, N. C., he is pretty -Til? 1 In thai. *U?7. J UC J UCCU IIV51 WO *** kiivu tuslness there and little effort is made 0 apprehend them for any crlnrte. For tegr0 criminals of the south, Winstonlalem, is a sort of Mexico." Will Bring it 'to Thom. "Squire" Robert Laban Abernethy iralth, magistrate of Broad. River ownshlp and president of the Broad Uver Township Improvement associalon, Is just a little worried because he ears that some of the makers of noonshine are not aware of the fact hat the sentiment of the best people if the county of York and the state >f South Carolina and the United Itatcs ic opposed to liquor. He is >reachin? the doctrine gU right and nd so is the Improvement associate; but he says the trouble is that he people he would reach don't end the association meetings. "I am x>ing to arrange for a meeting of the ssoclation some of these days," he aid, "and have, it on Saturday aftertoon right out in the middle of the oad in Hickory Grove. There will be to reserved seats and everybody /hether he be moonshiner or moonhiner's friend or against 'em both nay pass along the street and listen 0 the speakers. I believe I can get he message to some of them that iruy. Doing Good Business. "Some folks In York county ahe dong a pretty good business in second land Ford automobiles," observed a Cork county automobile dealer j^eserday. "They are buying up Fords f 1916, '17 and '18 models, giving 'em . coat of paint or a bath, and selling hem right along for fancy prices. 1 ;noV of one man last week who sold , 1917 Ford for 9700 and a 1916 for 600, both cars having seen consider.ble service. The new Fords sell for ess than $700?that Is if one could ret them at all." ? Preliminary trial of lit. and Mrs. :iarence Bradstreet, charged with embezzlement in connection with the aleged defalcation of William B. Green, ashler of the Fairburn Banking com)ony of Atlanta, Ga., has been post >oned until October 27. Qreen is | harged with having embezzled about 160,000 of the bank's funds and spendng money on the Bradstreet woman, i pretty thing of twenty two years, who iaa beep thrice married and whose third tu8band, Bradstreet, has recently been lischarged from the military service vhere he served at Camp Gordon, Ga., is a sergeant in the medical corps. Jreen is a Sunday school superintendtnt, mayor of the town of Falrbuin md an all arcund "prominent citizen" >ecame infatuated with the _ young voman some time ago. He bought her in automobile and $5,000 worth of >lothes and paid her bills at an Atlanta lotel and gave her bank stock and :&lled her his niece and made a fool >f himself generally. The woman's lusband, Bradstreet was aware of it ill and wrote his wife to "work old nan Green for all she could." Green's vife who lives in Fairburn says she beieves he is innocent and that the only voman she ever saw her husband with vas "a blondine little thing with several coats of paint on her face." ? Mrs. Mary Clary Webb, wife of Dr. William A. Webb, president of Randolph-Macon's College, committed - - * * *r_ I a P.'. iuicute in L.yncnourg, va? iu?i rnJay, by taking poison. Worry over her husband's failing health is said to have caused the deed. ? Two aged white women were found operating a rum distillery in the heart of Wilmington, N. C., Friday. Both are on the county's charity list. One of them had over $600 on her person. They have given bond for their appearance in court. / AFFORDED DY A FORD 1#?' '>>> ? V- ,.;lf'.itiS t. f 4 t' Getting A Glimpse Of York, Gaston :i And Mecklenburg. I j '1 *. YORK COUWTY COTTON TOE BEST . ; U ?? ' ' Inside Information Intended to Inter* est Readei's of The Enquired?How Gaston Is Coming to York. Looking at it along the roadside from a Ford while en route to Charlotte, the other afternoon with Mr. Wistar B. Keller of Yorkville No. 1, it appears that the cotton crop on the York county side is much more fruitful than the crop in Gaston and Mecklenburg counties, although there is a lot of good cotton to be seen in both Gastop and Mecklenburg. The stalks in the York county fields however, appear to contain more bolls and the bolls of cotton, iook a nine longer mm whiter. paston and Meckleuburg bounties, according to several farmers who were asked about it didn't have the seasons that they needed, and therefore they are not going to make the crop they wo^ld like to make although they are going to make a better crop than they thought toe before they started picking. The Gastonla cotton market and' the Charlotte markets are holding their own with these down this way this year, as usual, and since cotton went to 35 cents a pound a lot of cotton has been , sold on both markets; but glimpses of outhouses and back yards of Gaston and Mecklenburg county farmhouse* beside the road afforded by a Ford every once in a while, showed many bales of this year's crop in storage against the time when cotton might be bringing 40 cents or 45 cents or 5<X cents a pound. Farmers up that way have devoted a good sized acreage tor corn this year and they are gathering a fair crop. The river bottoms are turning out pretty well. Construction work on the several mills being erected on the Gaston side of the line between Pleasant^ Ridge and Ga8tonia?South Gastonia, they call it now, is progressing very rapidly, all . things considered:' There is some labor shortage despite the' fact that they are paying good' negro laborers and trifling negro laborers ttorti |3 to $4 a day. Still there is a sufficiency of labor to keep- things a j humming and Gastonia people My of the south will be doing their full duty, provided the mill owners and the mill Workers can agree as to how much money each should make.. At the same time that the mills along this road are going tip, comfortable houses for the use of the workers are going up too, and it is being seen to that / construction i work on the houses keeps right up with construction work on the mills. Incidentally, Camp Greene or rather a part of it is being transferred frdm Charlotte to South Gaston la. There is a scarcity of lumber in this country just as there is a scarcity of everything except ' strikes, and the mill magnates of Gaston county have purchased a number of mess halls, office buildings and other lumber structures at Camp Greene, where soldiers formerly ate slum and what-nots, and shipped the timber to Gastonia, to be used in the building of the new cotton mills. Gastonia always did want Camp Greene, like the progressive city she Is, and now she has got it. Farmers residing' on the YorkvilleGastonia road from Bowling Green on, haven't the slightest idea what their lands lying along that road are worth now since mills are springing up in a night. The talk in Gastonia is that there are other mills yet to be built in South Gastonia all the way .town to the South Carolina line perhaps and farmers who own lands along that way just simply don't know where they are. Some of them, it is said, are afraid to name any kind of price for their land if it's anywhere in the vicinity of the Carolina & North-Western Railway. A Gastonia man who bought some lands south of Gastonia a few years ago when conditions were under normal, and it looked like every thing was going to goodness knows where, sold out a short time ago for $500 an acre?land away out of Gastonia. He heard rumors that other mills were going up down that way and then he wished he hadn't shot off his mouth and he tried to rue back. There was nothing doing because the mill man to whom he sold handed him a check in part payment just as soon as he said "yes." And it has only been a few years since he bougv t his $500 lands for about $75 an acre and the man from whom he had bought, having a kind of guilty feeling 'that he had stung the purchaser, kin& o' put his hands behind his back when he took the money. They are building a road iu South Gastonia that is far superior to anything that York county has. with the exception of that three miles or so from Rock Hill through the Cherry farm to Catawba river. Quite a bit of the Gaston county road has been completed?at least they now allow automobiles and Fords to pass over it. At one place, however it is necessary to leave it and take to a man's cotton field. There is no use to say where because anyone who Fords that way will And out i The cotton field feels like the rods on a freight train as compared with a lower berth with nobody in the upper, after one has /been, riding on the new road they are Hi building. There Is some more good ,; road from Gastonla toward Charlotte, for a distance of several miles and then it gets Worse than awful for miles and miles. It was once mac- tl adam; but one who didn't know anything about macadam would think _ that possibly & Hun managed to drop bombs along there during the late war and had succeeded in bumping things aome. Work is tyow In progress on a brand new concrete road from Charlotte to Gastonla. The understandinsr Is that it will so all the way. and then with t,he good road Gaston la la N building- from her border* down to Bl South Carolina, It will bo Tork county*s own fault If the .children can't B] roll on skates all the way from Torkvllle to Charlotte. i ,n k* J m The Mecklenburg cobnty fair in Charlotte, which in North Carolina is ( generally considered about as big an event as the state fat* is in 8outh Carolina, was about up to standard. But really, it wasn't a bit better than was the Gaston county jislr and folks who attended both, and who know something about fair* 'say that the ,az York county fair/which:Is to be held ,or In R6ck Hill beginning tomorrow, is going to be as attractive and as large as elthert The Mecklinburg county El fair covered more ground and was m further away from ahywibere than was yr the Gaston county* fair; but there pr wasn't any more to it.; The Gaston fo courity exhibits of general progress ha were just as attractive and just as many and Gaston had just as many hum-bugs and faikirs jjust as adept plj in relieving the credulous of their wl nickles and dimes an? dollars, as pc Charlotte did. And were as many people In attendance on the be Gaston fair as thei^e. were on the M Charlotte fair and mpre from Tork 00 county. One of the racist attractive features connected with' the Mecklen- "" burg fair was the horfe racing. A ^ York county* horse, "Superman," the en property of Henry Neftly of Rock Hill a and formerly the prp|>erty ol James th Bros,, of Yorkyille, won \ practically ^ everything that waa 4rorth winning th In the racing. -'J GERMANs'wQifll-D JOIN Hun Officers Wari^Hjths in United t0l vrh^ch IhIti c^f^SoP^Unerica n' af- w fairs pending the ratification of the peace treaty has received so many th applications from regular German army w< officers who want to serve in the mi American army* that it has posted a ha big sign on the outer door announc- do ing that such application- will not be P* accepted and that it is useless to apply, says a Berlin dispatch. The hli number of applicants since has giadu- a ally decreased but still there, are jo some. f * ed Some of those seeking commissions be '*> Via 'AmoHpon ormv lircoH that W they could be of value In "teaching lithe Americans how to fight." co There has been a rush also of Ger*- by man officers to Join other former ene- co my neutral Armies. The applicants nv were ready to serve ih either the no American, British, Japanese, Argen- th tine or even the French forces. W Every correspondent in Germany, regardless of his nationality has been no bombarded with queries and person- nu al applications. In vain did they as- Wl sure the officers that their armies th would under no circumstances accept ha German officers. In vain the explan- W ation was made that all the entente ve armies were overburdened with offl- do cers and were making every effort to demobilize them. Argentina has be- th come more or less the mecca of the of would-be emigrants from Germany be- no cause it has advertised through Its st< consulate for agricultural laborers Ec and has offered inducements in the be way of free land. However, those who ed want most to leave Germany want least to go to farming. For those who &c really want to take up agriculture the th Argentine invitation is still attrac- ml tive. ' wi nthoro riptprminert to i reach the SU United States by a round about route &t see Argentina an opportunity to real- so ize their ambition by first going to all Argentine and then taking a chance ph of going on to the United States. un Those who contemplate this ruse af1 overlook the possibility of trouble both In Argentine and the first A.nerl- th can port they reach. A young Ger- mj man woman sat In a Berlin hotel lob- bl< by last night telling her companions v& In a voice loud enough for by-standers ha to hear that she intended to get to yo America through ,the Argentine If necessary by swearing that she had cr been in the United States before, She in admitted that this was untrue tut S* ^dded that '.'a little white He could do th no harm." 3P Many German writers on immigra- de tion urge that Germany can ill spare a single man, the taxes he pays or th -* JThnv alon nnInt th lilt? 1UUUI lie UUCO, X MVJ mou i^/inv out that hotel keepers of Belgium ki and Italy have resolved not to employ on Germans for 10 years and that 5 ,ej years must elapse before the Germans dy may live in China or Singapore. They declare that the American workmen will oppose German immigration of to the'utmost because of the pos3i- ni: ble effect of wages and say a similar to Inimical spirit exists in Australia and ye other British dominions. de f . J THE PRINCE OF WALES ow British Heir Apparent Came ntte-*; : v i.. i i . IAPTER FRON ENGLISH HISTORY , he English Conquered the Welah, ? -m rs :i; il. e.._ na oy way OT uonguiaii^n inv Sillyliih King Promised the Welshmen a King Who Could not Speak a Word of English. In connection 'with the visit to tnerlca of the Prince of Wales, the affonal Geographic Society has Jsied, from Its Washington headlarters, a bulletin relating how the rltlsh crown prince acquired that Lie, and also the origin of his famous signla, three ostrich plumes and the otto "Ich dien" (I serve). "The( story of the title borne by the sirs to the British throne dates back the days of Llewelyn, the last of e Welsh princes when that country III had a quasi-independent status," e bulletin says. "In Welsh legend, song and story, ewelyn Is a veritable King Arthur, id his brother, David, was the traltoub Modred of his court. Since snry III, of Engldnd, had invented s heir, 'after Edward I, with all the igllsh royal claims in Wales, it Ight have been supposed that Lieweli would try to placate the. young ince. The battle of Evesham, ught while Hemry III was j^t living, d resulted in many concessions to ewelyn. *n*_.a. t <!< _ OUl JUlCWCiyii iiiwuucu u?v V???easure of Hdward by casting bis lot 1th tjne famous' Montfort family, and rpetrated what was considered a rect affront when he announced his trothal to Eleano* de Montfort. sreover he declined to attend the conation of Edward.' ') / "Within two years after that corotion?Just 500 years before the nerlcan Declaration of Independce was signed?Edward concluded vigorous campaign in Wales with e treaty of Conway by which ewelyn had to sign away most of e privileges he had won a decade rlier. "For five years Wales was quiet, ten David, who hpd aided the Engh king: against his brother, headed revolt against English rule, set a rch to Hgwarden Castle, and prepita ted a war in which Llewelyn was! lied, and Edward was conqueror of ales. ', ' ' ' *1 t' "There was an ancient prophecy at the Prince of Wales some day iuld be crowned in London. In sckerv of that. It is believed Edward ' f i \ A Llewelyn's head broi^ght to Lorw" n and wreathed in ivy to show the ople. "While Edward was making sure of s subjugation of Wales by building string of castles, Queen Eleanor ined him, and in the newly completCarnarvon a sen vfaa borr^, who dame the first English Prince of ales, and later was King Edward 'According to a popular story the nqueror exercised his grim humor ' promising the Welsh a prince who uld speak no English, construed to ean a native son, until Edward anlunced, upon the 4>irth of his son, at the Infant was the Prince of ales in question. "Whether that story be true or >t, the heir apparently was ndt forally Invested with the title u II he is seventeen years old., Ever since en the heir to the British throne s been known as the Prince of ales,'though usually he has been insted with the title, and not so en.wed upon birth. "No less romantic is the story of e Insignia and motto of the Prince Wales. Here again historians do >t fully credit the generally accepiea 5ry. Certain it la that another lward, known as 'the Black Prince' cause of the armor he wore, adoptthe feathers and the pledge. "The point of doubt Is whether he tually did stumble over the body of e valiant John the Blind, of Boheia, after the battle of Crecy, and ls bo struck with admiration of the thtless warrior who had his charger tached to horses of his companions he might not fail in loyalty to his ly, Philip of France, that Edward iicked the Insignia from his enemy's liform and swore to wear it forever ter. "At least Edward's own bravery on at occasion, and his chivalry upon any others, make it entirely pl&usli that he should acknowledge the .lor of an enenAy. It was the first .ttle of magnitude in which the ung prince had engaged, ami his ther, Edward III, watched from the est of a hill, holding reinforcements leash while his son fought against eat odds. King Edward explained at he wanted his son to win his urs in battle, nor did he wish to prive him of credit for the victory. "The victory was / most decisive; ough one may discount some.what e chroniclers who reported that the ng of France fled at nightfall with ly Ave knights and sixty soidiers, tvlng more than 40,000 dead and ing men on the field." Health is Wealth.?Employes In one New York's biggest business orgazations have been given instructions have their teeth examined twice a ar. The company has its own ntal department which offers free service to those not Insisting on goring to a private dentist For four years this dental department has been in operation, and it is said to have ob! tained marked improvement in the health of the employes. A This cofopany is doing many other things to safeguard the health of its employes, but it is not the only institution thus engaged. What it is s doing represents a growing tendency of the. American business world. Investing money in good health for employes Is considered a good investment. Employers today are taking more personal interest in the men and women on their payrolls than they did a few yeats ago, more even now than . thev did before the war. The scarcity -of labor in the last few 1 years has caused them to look at the value of help from at new angle. Pre- < viously they rented anothers* brains < and energy for what tljey were worth I without improvements.^?Providence 1 Journal. WEEVIU A CERTAINTY. Cotton Pest Now Here and Farmeri 1 Must Begin Fight. The coming of tfye boll weevil Is . no longer a vague probability to be viewed with the uncertainty of the coming o^ Judgment day. That which ' we have been anticipating so long has ( at last become a grim reality. The weevil, In keeping with his actions in , the past, has upset the "dope" again this season by already advancing ( farther than it had been figured he would go. Many who thought, "The weevil will never v do any damage 1 hero," must now see the falacy of . their position when the weevil Is advancing at a normal /ate .here in this . section which it seems was thought . of the cotton belt. But, as was really expected, we are, not receiving this promise of being a serious factor in the cotton growing business of this section during the years immediately ahead of us. The man who realizes this and acts accordingly la the man , who is going to win this fight . Last week a representative of Clemson college and the-county agent j made a survey of the county investigating the weevil situation. To the surprise of many, the weevils were found in evjry, section that was ex- ( amlned. They 1yere found scattertngly around the town of Saluda. The , next place examined was the vicinity of line Grove, school house, where .(hey were foufld .to .ba a little more , "m*r3pr, ; rxz zz Infestation was noted. At this place a farmer remarked upon hearing. the news,, 1 "Well, .tell the lilies throughout the county that'we are glad the weevil is here. He win help us vein our independence and dethrone 'King Cotton."' * This sentiment we win all Indorse after Wq have gone through the readjustment consequent to the advent of the Weevil. i The question , uppermost In the minds of. thfe farm era of the county at this time is ^rhat will pe the effect of this pest on next year's cotton crop. In answer to this it might.be said that oh account of the relatively small number ot weevils in the county at this time, and as but a small percentage of these will pass safely through the winter, it .is not reasonable to expect any appreciable damage to codie frotn the weevil next year. If the coming winter is mild, with no cold snaps, It will be in keeping with what has happened^ under similar conditions in the past t?? exnan* *n oas o*aht numKara t\f WAPvilv throughout the county at this season ( next fall. This main brood will comv too late to do Appreciable damage on the current crop. Then the next year If there la a late spring or wet July j the thing to be expected, judging from experiences in similar latitudes, is anywhere frott 30 to SO per cent. { damage, and more in some cases. Information that has been gained j through reading and experience in the boll weevil sections will be given in ? these column# In subsequent Issues. The county agent will be glad to go further and talk this matter over in ( person with any of the farmers at any time. This Is Without a doubt the j greatest, problem that has ever faced f the farmers and business men of Saluda county. Tet, others have trl- r umphed after the first few disastrous t years have put tnany unbelieving. f farmers out of business. We have the ^ expeViences of these, all the farmers f from hers to the Mexican border, by ( which we can profit We are indeed j sleeping over privileges that have ( come to us by being the last territory to become infested if we are to "be from Missouri" and have to "be shown" by bitter experience. Let's all start thinking about this problem, if we haven't already done so, and we will talk more of it in future articles. ?J. M. Eleazer, county agent in Saluda Standard. ? Congressman Stevenson has offered a bill to authorize J. L. Affdersafn and H. M. Duvall to construct a bridge across the Great Pee Dee River between Chcraw tn Chesterfield county and Society Hill in Jtyarllngton f county. , 1 - ? fi ? John McCracken, aged white man c of West Greenville, who was arrest- e ed last week charged with burning the ( West Greenville city hall has been j dismissed following a preliminary t hearing before a magistrate because { of lack of evidence. ' t i % \ * . y- ** '-'K.:' BRITISHER FDR 'PRESIDENT ? World's Cotton Conference Ferns Permanent Organlzalon. NEXT MEETING TO K ID ERSUND r t. U'' 77' , -?1?r Important Resolution* Passed Wednesday?A, Request to Cengre** to Finonoo the exportation of Ono Million Bales?Urgent Need for Storage Warehouses. ' The world cotton conference came into permanent organisation at New Orleans, last Thursday, when a report submitted by the committee on organisation waa adopted. Sir A. Herbert Dixon, of Hanebeater, England, chairman of the British delegation to the conference, waa elected president, and the recommendation waa made ^aBjj that the next conference be bald in fmH England in 1921. Other officers elected "were: General % secretary, Rafus R Wilson, Bos. , ton; assistant secretary, Frank Nfcstnith, England; treasure^ for European members. Sir James Hope Simp- . son; for tbe United States, W. Irving Bullard, Boston; vice presidents: for \ the United Stats*. Fuller p. Callaway, LaGrange, Ga., England, Edward B. Orroe and John Smlthers; France, Seorge Badern; Belgium, Count Jean le Hemptlnne; Switzerland, Herman J. Buhler; Italy. Giorgio Myllu^ The recommendation by American members of the gronp on financing, foreign credits and exports, that oonrreas place at the disposal of the ear finance corporation suAoient 'unda to permit the corporation to fl~ iance the exportation of af least 1,000,000 bales of cotton -was adopted. [t was pointed out that the governnent had authorised the extension . ' it u.000,000,000 of credit to finance sxports through the agency of the / 'J war finance corporation and it recommended the purchase of foreign set mritiee' against debentures Wftfch * ? would be issued and sold in this I country In older to feet away from ihort term banking credits and eUWlze the rates of exchange. Vote Against Recommendations. Recommendations of ;be growers, jm bodying fourteen points, ware voled against in the objection of oertaln rrouns to several Of the point*. "H ?? agreed finally, however, that tfc4K'33H rules b? suspended and that points lib the growers jr?Comme-?attop, not pre- , > j viously killed at the ?enenU- dpmcaltte* meeting, be voted suit all points In thd growelV" rtwem* ' mendatton were adopted ,?& ?*- / option Of those condemning the sale J of cotton on call, favoring |ls compression, condemning gamblia# in eotLon a fid other necessities, reed in mending that tare should -conelst only of A the actual weight of the bagging- and Lies of the bald and urging clOeer cp- /operation between the grower and spinner. Foreign spinners objected to the !$v sondemhatlon of the sale of ootfoa on sail, declaring It was necessary that they should be allowed to purchase their cotton In that way. The gin- j iers group objected to the gin com- . presslon recommendation. Because gambling" was not defined the bank- ; | ;rs group voted against that feature of the recommendation, explaining . ,i4 that the future# market was a neces- , /(. lary part of the cotton industry and Chat dealing- In cotton futures had ^ jften been classed as rambling. Text of Reoomjnendatien. The recommendations of the grow-' irs' committee which were unanlnoualy approved after a suspension >f the rules follow: ' , .. *7; Diversification of crops urged. , County damage recognixed as an nexcusable economic loss. / Storage warehouses urged. Twelve month markettdg - systems 4 or farmers recommended. Formation of the American export , inanclng corporation endorsed. Tagging of each bale with the name ind address of grower urged. Opposed price fixing by government, SB Opposing embargo and restrictions m cotton in times of peace. J, Demanding a price for cotton coverng cost of produotioh sad allowing a air profit It was after an agreement^ was cached to suspend the rules that, a lumber of British delegates left the lall. The report that the delegates, rom England had "bolted" the coherence was circulated among the delpates but was later disproved when }r, John A. Todd, of London, explain-; : rjs id that only about six of the It dele- i 'h pates had left thq hail and that they rent out to cpnfer on a, matter per.' alning to a resolution. A recommendation, by the growersJ7ui hat all revenue taxes be remove^ . b rom cottonseed oil products, and narkets enlarged was rejected by (he , -. onferenoe, an adverse vote having . >een recorded by the textile maml- , ;r acturers who announced they fear* otton would be raiaed more for seed . ,, han staple upder .conditions urged n the recommendation. ? Roy A. Farmer and William Lewis, , ormer soldiers were seriously Injured n Greenville, last week When the $$,100 touring car they were driving crashed Into a street car on v;ouege itreet in Greenville. In front of the . Jrecnvllle Woman's College. The eung men are said to have been rying to flirt with some of the college rirte and were not wetcfltng where hey were going. _ ' / , j '> #5 I '' S'T-'Uflffl