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i ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C.s T UE8D A.T,' OCTOBER 21, 1919. NO. 84
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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS!
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Brief Local Paragraplis et More or
Lest Interest.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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AFFORDED DY A FORD
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Getting A Glimpse Of York, Gaston
:i And Mecklenburg. I
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YORK COUWTY COTTON TOE BEST
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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
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THE PRINCE OF WALES
ow British Heir Apparent Came
ntte-*; : v
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IAPTER FRON ENGLISH HISTORY
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he English Conquered the Welah,
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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.
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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
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BRITISHER FDR 'PRESIDENT
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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. _ ' / ,
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