Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 24, 1919, First Section, Image 1

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. . *?*> <WO4<M<IM * ? ?? ? , . . ... . ^ ^ ISSUED SEMI- WEEKLY. l. m. grists sons. Publishes. % <$amilg gewspager. $or promotion ojj ih$ ^dlitiqal, ?ni<iat, Jgrirultotial and C[ommft[rial <gn7msts of th$ f)fopl$. TERMsJ^^c^.E^No*sT^Nct i ' " = : i =^= v ,Jj ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919. . NO. 85 a g- ; 8 I,?L lull#'-. I( ?' VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS ; a Brief Local Paragraphs of More or I! less laterest. p PICKED DP KY ENQUIRER REPORTERS [ , 1 ? Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and t1 Some You Don't Know?Condensed 0 li for Quick Reading. Colored man walked Into a sto?ts up a - .w- -.1 1 XJa Kofi d at t-iov?r ui? uuiei uiviume. ?? with hln* a couple of his womenfolks t( and he was Just "lousy" with money, having sold a couple of bales of cot- n ton at $5 cents. That smile and gen- 0 eral air that can generally be recognized in some people when they have ^ money was wrapped all over him. He p grinned like a 'possum oft a dry day " and in spite of his dirty, ragged over- tl alls he looked like a congressman who q was well satisfied with the* speech he fti had Just delivered at the county fair I somewhere in advpeacy of Jthe League " of Nations.* "Hurry up and git a move 01 on yo* Joe," said one of the females, T evidently his wife. Joe's .eyes were at- w tracted to a box of cheese, some pot- te ted ham and a loose box of crackers. bl "Mistah," ^ie said to the clerk, "gimme 01 a box o* dat ham an' a half pound o' ai dat cheese- an' er dozen er dem ai crackers." Then turning to his wife he said, "woman, ah is der man ob a B de house, 'cause I totes de cash an' ah " ain't gwlnter trade er bit 'till ah satis- u> lies mah stujjlmlck." t}" p * Sure Enough Roads. a* W "I drove a cdr 700 miles without n< ' touching dirt," said Mr. 8. L. Court-' ** - ney, well known automobile dealer ot, pi * YorkvUle, who returned to YoravHle ot recently after a trip to Detroit, Mich. A] Mr. Courtney made the return trip by d< automobile and for. 700 miles of the 1 th distance of more than 1,200 miles I from Detroit to Yorkvllle, he traveled pi altogether on concrete . and asphalt roads. Thus his statement that 700 1)1 miles were traversed without touch- ni ing dirt. "People In the' northeast e> know nothing but good roads," said 5e Mr. Courtney, "even as I am hope- 01 ful that the day is soon coining when w the people of the south will know of ci no other kind. These good roads in ,n Michigan and the other states that I 111 traversed cost more than 125,000 " a * mile to build but they are worth it 1 and more as all the people will testify." bl Stew S^fRopu'Tsh Olfh. m "Maybe you never thought of it," W( obsen'ed a well known citisen to Qr Views and Interviews as the two feak pi in a restaurant in a York county town al a day or two ago; "but it is a fact ec that no restaurant in this county that bf did not serve stewbecf could do busi- ei ' T1 ness. A great majority of the people 11 who patronize restaurants in this dr - ?M tit ottrhp.f to pn t lieCK UL nuuuo nuuv own -w ' and nothing else. Personally I don't bt see why. I wouldn't eat a plate of fr the stuff if It were served' with peach nc brandy sauce and brought in bt the er prettiest waitress between Kalamazoo and Omaha, Nebraska. Hut they surely go for the stuff. Just count is the people in here now that are eating sc m stewbeef." The count was made. There were eight people in the place at and six out of the eight were eating er etewbee*. A Bit of Luokf ca "I made a lucky deal in connection fr> * with the buying of the fixtures for the ar bank," remarked'? V. Q. llambright, ar cashier of the First National Bank of Clover the other day. "It was prac- cc tlcally impossible^ to buy new fixtures cc for the bank at the time I wanted er them and I was at loss as to what to 'f do. One of the Slfford boys who was k working in Orangeburg, happened to P overhear a remark that the fixtures of ' a bank down there were for sale and I bought them from a Charlotte concern. ? The next day the parties from whom I purchased informed me that they were sorry they had sold to me since in the following day they had an offer M to sell them for twice what they sold ol them to me." ci Increase in Taxes. v 11: "Believe me, therp has been some w increase in taxes since I came to la Clover in 1906," remarked a prominent Clover citizen last Tuesday. He m was engaged in hunting up his regis- ir tration certificate and other papers in ai order that he might vote for the good tl street that Clover is to have. Tax Ii receipts from 1906 to 1918 were all le ? * * 1 TKio will irivr. !;i msicucu iv^umci. x 11.o ??* 0..^ ? an idea as to the way taxes have increased in just a few years," he said, ti "My taxes in 100G were slightly over p; $7 as you see here and last year they ol 4 were oveV $43.** And when asked if fi W the value of his stuff wasn't a darn tr I site more than it was in 1906, he said g he guessed it was. cl Collections are Good. n That collections among York county g merchants who do a "time business" s< has exceeded their more sanguine ex pectations is the consensus of opinion a * of a number of leading: York county d merchants who have recently been o asked about the matter. "It beats a anything I ever knew before," said a 3 well known merchant Tuesday. "I ! li suppose my firm has something like d ^ $50,000 worth of stuff out on time this j year, and over half of it has already ' a been collected." . o Mr. Johnson Was Much Interested. ju "I had my eyes opened somewhat t by my trip to New Orleans." said Mr. I I J. E. Johnson, of Yorkville to Views t and Interviews, shortly after his re- n W turn from the World's Cotton Confer- i; \ nee. "I had gathered the idea someiow from somewhere that there was great deal more wealth and proserity dowp In the AJhbama and Missssippl country than there was up this ray. I had pictured in my mind as ming the railroad, a succession of alatial country homes sucjh as you ead about in the old time novels, and (though I was prepared to see great elds that had once produced immense uantities of cotton now devoted to orn, hay, velvet beans, peanuts, and lie like, still my imagination insisted n demanding spacious white twolory houses with rows of columns long their wide piazzas. But I was lsappointed and surprised. .From time > time, while rolling through the lowring flat lands, I saw a stately old lansion that had no doubt seen days f importance in the past, as a rule le houses, barns and surrounding? own that way do not begin to eomare favorably with the farm improvelents in this country. And I had louglit that the J people had about uit planting cotton; but not so. All long the railroad in Alabama and [ls8issippi you still see great cotton elds just the same as in this country; aly they are not white like our fields, hey are green mostly, with only a hlte speck here and there. The irmerr had planted and cultivated; lit before the cotton has begun to ?en the boll weevil had settled down id cleaned things up completely. .You re soon oppressed with a sense of le childlike foolishness of people who though they have lost crop after op, persist in -keeping up what they ied to do, possibly in the vain hope lat maybe things would get right rain, only to see all their work go for )thing. Of course, there are many K>ple down that way who have appelated the situation and turned ' to her crops but not nearly all of them, s for New Orleans, I found it a wonsrfully interesting place to visit; but don't think I would like to live lerc, not for long. All my earliest im-essions of New Orleans, were sugistive of unsanitary conditions that ed yellow fever and other diseases id of a kind of second-flddle cotton [change. Of course I was aware that sllow fever has at last been stamped it, at least for the present; but, I ar hardly surprised to And the old ty so cjean, pleasant and generally vitlng. You know it is commonly iderstood that New Orleans is lower lan the bed of the Mississippi river, do not know whether it is or not; it I noticed that wherever they were a king excavations -for buildings, ater was rising from a depth of two three feet and they had lo keep imps working to get rid of.it. But so I noticed that concrete had workI a great change. Now they have dry isements and dry lower stories genally through the use of concrete, he remains of old time cysterns, now y. are to be seen, and there is a lend id water system, one of the st in the world, that Is supplied om l^ake Pontchartrain. There is > discount on sanitation now. Genally the mdre important buildings are to. three and four stories, and but \v of them are higher though there at least one eleven story skyraper in the city. The old St. rtarles hotel fills a city block with ores all around it, and it may be itered from all sides. There is np ohibition down there either. You in buy any kind of liquor you call r and beer seems to be as common id as plentiful as it has ever been lywhere. The people, especially iose who had to do with us of the itton conference, were delightfully urtcous and hospitable, and tvheth1 any of us got anything else out of or not, all of us had a great time. DEFENDING THE IRISH 'Brien Makes Reply to John Sharp Williams. / The National Irish Bureau of Washigton has made public a letter from dchael J. O'Brien, ho3toriographcr ' the American Irish Historical Soety, of New York, to Senator Wilim3, democrat, of Mississippi in hich a reply was made to the senator st week. Referring to Senator Williams' stateicnt that he had received "threatenig letters," Mr. O'Erien said that if ly Irishman was responsible for iem, "they do not represent genu'ne ish feeling," and suggested that the itters originated with enemies of Lend. Taking up the senator's assertion lat the Irish had exaggerated the art their race had played in the revlutionary war, Mr. O'Brien quoted om official documents in the governicnt archives in London, photoraphic copies of which he said hv cniosed, to show that the British comlanders in the revolutionary war rearded the Irish in America their most ?rious antagonists." He also said he had found abundnt evidence to show that Irish soliers in the British army took every pportunity of deserting to the rebels nd added that he found that at leust 8 per cent of "the American army of iberty were of Irish birth or of Irish eseent." "Of one hundred surnames of an ncient Irish origin, I have counted n the rolls of the revolutionary army total of 12,293," he wrote, adding hat there were nearly 1,500 officers of rish blood and that General Washingon chose as his aides a. number of lativesof Ireland and sons of Irish imOlg rants." . NEWS ABOUT CLOVER Unguarded Preserves In Which Fishing Is Good. PEOPLE COMING AND GOING Long Reaident Thinks Virginia Will Suit Better?Important Public Highway Much Improved?Other Matters of Town and Neighborhood Interest. Clover, Oct. 24?-Stock salesmen rep?4 ?* R OK<M?IAO with ICOCI&tlllfS a liOHCi ICO vviivv* M ?* ? > headquarters at Wilmington, N. C., have" been doing a good business among farmers living in this territory within the past week or ten days. Several of these salesmen ha^e been working the Clover section and in fact a good, portion of York county, it is understood and have found it ,to be verily a land of milk and honey. The salesmen say that their concern has a flock of Ashing boats on the Atlantic coast. The Ash being caught nro to be used for fertilizer (that is the flnny Ash) and the fertilizer is to be sold to those farmers who buy stock in the concern at a grently reduced price over sales to non-stockholders. The game iseeps to be for the salesmen to learn wh&t farmers have sqld cotton recently in considerable amounts and then go to them with a lino of talk to the effect that "we understand you are one of the most prominent farmers in your community and we want you alone to take stock in this growing concern. Knowing that you are a man of means and of influence we wafhl to lntercsf you personally." It appear^ that they forget to say how much the fertilizer is going to cost the farmers who take stock and how much more it is going to cost them who don't. Fishing has been good around Clover. A couple of these stock salesmen took a north-easterly route from Clover one afterfloon recently a'nd sold $2,000 worth in a short time. It may be all nt>\nb 1m 11 nnnoarvof ivo 1 1511 If UH9 Obuvn, k/Ub Witkivk V Clover business men are leery of It and when their farmer friends with considerable cash and somewhat of an Itching to become bloated bondholders ask their advice in regard to It, they' are giving them a friendly tip to let It alone. New Physician for Clover. Dr. C. E. McLean, a well known physician of Gastonia has located in Clover for the practice of his profession. Dr. McLean recently returned after serving more than a year with "theJi^American' Expedtttonay fbf-ces where he held the rank of captain in the medical corps. He is a son of exShorifT J. D. U. McLean of Gaston county and has many friends and .acquaintances in hot* Gaston and the northern section of York.county. Mrs. McLean and child are at present making their homo, at Belmont, N. C., with Dr. McLean's mother and will , not come to Clover for some time. To Move to Virginia. Mr. Sain A. Robinson, well known farmer living west of Clover, who' recently sold his handsome home and farm to Mr. T. M. Allen of this place, has purchased a farm near Chase uity, va? ana expecis 10 move 10 Virginia, with his family along about December 15. it is Mr. Robinson's intention to devote his energies principal^ to the cultivation of tobacco on his Virginia farm. He has purchased a farm of 37G acres near Chase City, which is in Mecklenburg county and while the soil of his new purchase is as well adapted to the cultivation of cotton he is attracted to tobacco production and will devote most of its acreage to tobacco. "1 have been thinking of moving to Virginia for some time." he said the other day in talking about, his venture. "I have a brother-in-law. Will Adams, living at Chase City, and I have been wanting to get out there for some time although my family didn't want to go. However I recently sold my farm here and purchased a hundred more acres of land than I had here, together with a good residence at n saving of several thousand dollars over what I received for my York county farm. Farmers growing tobacco around Chase City this year have averaged more than $500 per acre for their crops which enn he crown as cheaDlv as cotton. Lands arc cheaper in Virginia than in York county and labor conditions are better and I think I am going to be well pleased with my new homo." No Increased Influenza. No increase in the number of cases of influenza in Clover and the surrounding country have been reported within the past few days and local physicians and others do not anticipate any serious outbreak of the malady just at this time. Airs. C. H. Ferguson who was taken to her bed | with the malady last week, is rocu' peiating rapidly and several others ! who have been ill with flu arc g. tting along <juite nicely. Purchased Pursley Place. \\*. It. St roup of Clover has purj chased the Ida I'ursley plantation south-west of Clover. There are 176 I acres in the place and the understanding is that the purchase price was SI 1,000. Clover Methodist Revival. Local Methodists are much interested in a series of revival services which are being conducted in the Clover j Methodist church by Rev. A. V. HarI bon. pastor of the Methodist church at Holly Hill. S. ('. The revival, i opened Monday night and the understanding is that it will continue in progress throughout the week, services | being held each evening at 7.30 o'clock. A feature of the services Is \U the singing, the Clover choir being lejd H by Kcv. L. W. Shealy, of Chester. Rev. Harbon is a well knewn minister of the Methodist denomination and flj formerly served pastorates at San Luis Potosi In Mexico and in Texas and California. , . . Rapid Road Work. ui Good progress Is being made on the construction of the Faulkner road leading Into Clover. Although a good Ch part of the road work commenced in ^ | King's Mountain township some time < t ago has been temporally halted because most of the hands needed in *1' building the road were needed br ily ^ in the fields, work on the faulkner road had been going right afong and be has reached the point where the build- re< era are about ready for topsoijlng. no Other Matter*. W. N. Cooper of Kershaw, has fai moved his family to Clover,' and is Coi occupying a part of Mrs.' jDoreett's pa residence on Main street' Mr. Cooper rot is In charge of the construction work tal On the Hawthorne Spinning pMIIs an- in ne*. ; ' th< Friends of Mr. Brown Baird* former- No ly superintendent of the Clover Grad- hy ed schpol will be interested . to learn be that he has accepted a position with ' the Hill Banking A Mercantile Com- wo pany in Sharon. pai Mr. Hope Barnett has returned to cal his home in Moore county, N. C., after taV a visit to the family of his father, Mr. ter W. H. Barnett on Clover No. 3 . An Mr. p. M. Parrott of Cloven iwho ow recently purchased the J.' W. Camp- j bell home on Ring's Mountain street vol expects to move his family Into the nai residence early in December, u;, bet John Tillett, well knowi^ North acl Carolina cotton mill man is ta manage str the Clover (^otton Manufacturing tht Company recently purchased1 from the ml local owners by a North Carolina abi syndicate. ' Mr. Tillett has already taken over the management. * Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Smith have re- *iv turned to Clover, after a Visit to Mrs. bu Mary Clark Fain at Dandridgn, Tenn. ne^ They were accompanied by {Mrs. W. lor F. Marshall of Yorkvllle. F ' me | m t wa JERUSALEM UNDER ISLAM btu j He Mohammedans Hslctf Holy. Land we Through Many Centdrid* wo Gen. Lord Allenby .has Just1 been welcomed back to London arf the last hui of the Cruaaders. It was on tChris- the mas moaning, two years ago, that he bu entered J^^salero>aJodt?v JJ|ivtag da- th< Tho' \v6fcT? rma'dcTirlngs up'haunt in 4 Pr( memories of St- Louis of France, Richard Coeur de Lion, Godfrey de BouilIon and other true knights Pr< Tho First Crusade was preached in 1091). whf?n "Pi>fpr tho T-Tormlt rfrnvo Christian Europe into a frenzy against C01 the Turk. Princes, clergy, peasants, men, women,and children took part in it The chronicles tell us that 1,000,- 'ar 000 persons ariived in Palostine, of whom 600,000 bore arms, 200,000 being an mounted knights and men In coats of t? mail; probably an exaggeration. Jeru- cr>; salem was taken in 1099 and Godfrey Ev of Bouillon crowned king of Jerusa- thl lcm. It was a short lived kingdom. ^el The Second Crusade was preached by St. Bernard in 1147 and led by the th( King of France. Saladin proved - too Ml strong for the Crusaders, who were de: overthrown at the battle of Tiberias In bai 1187, and Jerusalem remained in the hands of the Turks. tic The Third Crusade was that of Coeur 8'd de Lion. Its date was 1189- Richard hc was twice forced to *urn back from ex Jerusalem, but he settled down at un Acre, and the chronlclera tell us that he and his knights spent much time In hli hunting and hawking, while so much fori wine was drunk that it altered the complexion of the English chieftains. Richard on his way hom? was held 3 prisoner for thirteen months by Duke' lui Leopold of Austria, as any, reader of thi "The Talisman" will remember. co The Fourth Crusade of French Barons wasted itself on the Dalmatlon Mi coast ar.d in Venetian politics In Con- "T stantinople in 1202-04. It never saw a Palestine. wc The Children's Crusade, in 1212, was m< a mad enterprise. Thousands of chll- thi dren made their way toward Msditer- frc ranean ports to rescue the Holy Land, rig but they nearly all perished by the roadside. ha The Fifth Crusade was undertaken bu in 1228 by the Emperor Frederick II., m( Barbarossa, to fulfill a vow He took ab the city, made a treaty with the Turk3 ba and crowned himself king with his Tli own hands. Fifteen years later Je- po rusalem was again lost owing to civil kn strike in European Christendom. Since foi then for nearly 600 years, the Turks mt * ! -- 1 * A Hon Kv Rp ruicci in ine nuij . ?v went in on foot, without the firing of a th< shot. ' The Islamic name of Jerusalem wan of Couduss-i-Sherif, in honor of Christ, mt the prophet whom they call Pciganiier, an predecessor of Mohammed. eai ? . tci ? Resolutions were passed by the vo Southern Unitarian conference in thi Charleston,, Tuesday to the effect that &P the conference "vigorously urgi-a mc ?m speedy ratification by the United foi States senate of the treaty of peace an j now before Its consideration, without va ! amendments or reservation." N^w an j Orleans was selected as the next wt [ meeting place. Ilk 9 , In ? Musicians of Asheville, N. C., have th< organized a local branch of the Ameri- of can Federation of Musicians. The vo musician's union is the first of its kind lo he organized in North Carolina. It lias a membership of 52. trj Ill STICK TO MINISTRY j Tf > fi flog Parson to Obey The Call ot ,\-'4 ""*1: , lYNMD WELCOMED BT HIS FAMILY i \ rildren War? Interested in Thair Father Course; But Were More Concerned About Thoir Pet Dog. frixie, Which Made the Wonderful rrip Acroaa the Continent and Return. If^a man feels that he is cut out to an aviator and if Providence so di:ts he ought to be an aviator and t a doctor, lawyer or preacher, lether he is married and has a nily or Is single. This Is th'o firm eviction of Lieut B. W. Maynard, rson-aviator, first to make the jnd trip flight in the transcontinenT aerial race. Conversely Maynard determine^ to resume his study for ? ministry at Wake Forest College, irth Carolina, next fall, and If the phen pursues him he is content to the kviator-parson. 'Of cburse if there should be another r I'd enlist ri&ht off," declared the I rson without hesitation. "But I feel lied to the pulpit, so aviation has to te second placd. I'll always be inested in it, but religious work comes it. Every man should follow his n calling, and preaching is mine." V deaf ear will be turned to the Ice of temptation onc^ Lieut. Mayrd comes down out of tne clouds sad jina to browse through the divine ence again, and no matter' how J ong the desire may be to return to ? old game in the air the studentnister asserts that he will not mdon his 'theological work. "Hard to Give Up Flying." 'I know It's going to be hard to re up flying and to go back to book^ t I'm going to stick it out, and have /er had any idea of re-enllstlng as ig as America is at peace. I just st one fellow In California?an old .r time friend of mine?who went ck to school and only stayed a week, i couldn't stand quiet life, so he nt back to aviation again. But it n't be that way with me." Mrs. Maynard disagrees with her sband in one respect She believes it a man who has "a wife and a ach of young ones" should stay on 1 ground until air navigation beites4M?And. although ^ehe is jud of her husband, she believes it it is the wisest plan for him to back to the little Carolina town and ipare himself to be a big city pastor. "I'm mighty proud of my husband d I never was so glad to see him ne home in my life as I was when finished this trip," declared Mrs. lynard, shortly after her husband ided Saturday. Dressed in a plan le serge suit, black beaver sailor hat d veil the 'aviator's wife motored the landing field in the Maynard r with her two little daughters, elyn and Roselyn. She explained it she was always her own chaufir. But in the midst of the honors and 3 applause that were accorded Lieut, lynard at the end of vhis unprecented race across the continent and ck, Mrs. Maynard, true to her usewlfely instincts, became pracally. minded and expressed concnnnpi'n nvf>r the fact that had arrived a half hour before she peeled him, and that she had been able to finish preparing the boun>us dinner that was in store for n as her contribution to the celeation of his triumph. Children Worried Over Trixie. "I thought he wouldn't get In until o'clock, so I gave the children a ich, and was getting ready someng extra for him, for I thought we uld have dinner together as soon he landed," she said, while Lieut, lynard was being Interviewed, hey all seem to have some kind of special party on though, so I guess i won't be able to have our quiet :al together. I didn't have any Idea it it would take so long to get away >m here, and thought we could drive rht home as soon as he landed. "The cildren have been eager to ve their daddy come home again, t I guesp they don't realize what it >ans. And they were more anxious out Trixie, the dog that my husnd took with him, than their father, icy thought Trixte was the most imrtant feature on the trip. I don't ow why my husband took the dog, the children have mi3sed it so ich. But Trixie is crazy about lvin, so that was why it got to take 3 trip." rhe two little fair haired girls, one whom sat on each side of their in the tent while Lieut. May j told his story to the circle of ger newspaper men, listened initly at the sound of their father's Ice for the first few minutes, and ?n continued to nibble the big red pics they held, wiggling and uirming restlessly. After gazing some time at the crowds of men d women, including officers, prltes, civilians, richly dressed women d others clad in sporting costumes, 10 were crowding outside the tent e newsies at a circus, peering under an effort to catch a glimpse of e racing hero, and to hear snatches his story?which 'was told in a low ice?Roselyn, four years old, asked: Trixie Wins New Collar. "Mamma, what ure all those people ring to get In here for? It's so hot. I want to go outside and' p1a I want to pat this collar on Trlxle she said, holding up a black leathi collar with a gold name plate, whlc the flying parson had brought acroi the continent with him to his lltt daughter. ''I didn't mind so much havin those men take our pictures; at first said Mrs. Maynard. "But' I'm like tt children and I get wlggley when lasts too long. I didn't like to ha% td keep kissing Belvin either, just f< show. I don't like to pose, either," Wm \fnvnorH Mm Mlllnr wlfp t Col. Archie Miller, commanding off cer at Hazelhurst Field, Long Islan and only two other women, had Otflcli passes into the interviewing tent. Tt only children permitted to enter wei the aviator's daughters anil Col. Mil ler's little son and daughter. When asked whether or not sli would approve of a second transcoii tlnental flight for her husband?i accordance with Incomplete plans < Col. Miller?Mrs. Maynard said ft thought the parson had had a Ion enough trip for one time, but addc that she could not express any 're< opinion on the matter until she ha talked to him. / TALKS FIFTY CENTS COTTON / Wannamakei' Brings Enthusiasm Fror New Orleans. Columbia, Oct. 19.?Returning todo from New Orleans, whore ne 'attend ed the world conference held last wee! J.' S. Wannamaker, president of th American Cotton Association, issued statement in wmcn qe aeciarea uu the consensus of opinion at the coi ference was that cotton was goir much higher immediately. He is coi vincod, he says, that the staple wl bo bringing forty cents within the neo few weeks and that It will be bringln fifty cents before the present crop disposed of. "I went to New Orleans," said M Wannamakcr, "believing that cottc was going to advance to forty ceni soon. I came away convinced that "would reach that figure very short!; I am further convinced that in th first months of 1920 we shall be scll'ii cotton for fifty cents a pound. Manufacturer Quoted. "Even the manufacturers1 thefnselv< admit that cotton is going much h'glu than it le now. A New Orleans ,pap< carried an interview with one of tt officials of vthe National Association < Cotton Manufacturers' in which 1 Jimuul fA'i> > SfltU umou ..HQtiL*. MP \ 1 i| n * SMB??? [ would provo greater than the SOpp and that^ the staple would go muc higher than at present time. "Prof. John A. Todd, a British at thority on economics in general ax co^on production in particular, wasi New Orleans for the conference ar gave out an Intendew to the New O leans paper in which ho said: 'We ai hopelessly short of cotton and Amcrh is the only producer which can ii crease production to any large exten He further declared that the Amer can farmer need not be afraid of t) orices dropping. Prof. Todd has Ju completed a tour of our cotton bel Ho spoke as an expert Throughoi the convention ho stressed the nece sity of the south increasing its pr< duction of cotton. Ho declared ti main need now is to get enough co ton and cotton goods to clothe tl world. Better Understanding. "I bellevo that as a result of tl conference at Nfew Orleans the rpli ners, both of this country and of Ei rope, have a better understanding < the situation of the south. I bellei that they have had their eyes ope.u regarding the cost of production < cotton. The result Is obliged to be b?i eficial to us We have seen the la of cheap cotton. Prof. Todd admittc that the probability Is. that cotton wi never again sell as low as twenty cen a pound. "There may be many who will I loath to give, us- credit, but I belles the organization of the American Co ton Association Is due the credit f< the fact that cotton is bringing whi It Is today. I believe firmly that the farmers had not undertaken in tt gloomy days of last spring the perfe< tlon of an organization, cotton woul be ut least ten cents a pound low* than it Is today. When we first bi gun to form our organization tt bears were in complete control of tf market. We were told that there wt a tremendous surplus of cotton, c hand and that there was little pro! pect of prices being bettered, but wil our temporary organization we'began fight for the righto of the farmer have fought hard and wo have r< suits to point to. * f "I received reports from all ovi the belt while in New Orleans an they were to the effect that the 01 ganization of the association Is pr< cecding splendidly everywhere- T1 fact that cotton is now bringing aroun thirty-five cents lias not chilled tt enthusiasm of the farmer for the oi ganizatiop. He has learned better. P knows that if tho association was no to disband, that the price of cottc would begin to drop. ./ "A better day is dawning for tt southern farmer. He is about to r< ceive rights that have been denh 1 ?? T VkQrtnv nv< him ail or nis uuj ?. x am " * the outlook. I believe victory is I sight for us. With permanent 01 ganlzatlon effected, we are obliged 1 win." ? Three negro convicts overpowerc a prison guard at Camp Creek, Fit last Monday and made their escape. / ?. EVANGELINE MOTH ar . , I ? facts About America LLeader Of Sdrattn I?y. -A-U ,e MEN MAT BE DOWN BUT NEVES OUT Daughter of Foundar of , Qraat 'Of* ganization, Carrying on th? Woifli ill. /Moat Satisfactory Manner?Reason for tho Drum* ?- I Other Msthfrie. * d~ Evangeline Booth is the daughter of J Qen. William Booth, who founded the |? Salvation Army fifty years ago and V whose death in 1909, caused genuine ! sorrow around the world. When only 14 years of age, Evangeline was taken ^ by her father, then a struggling clergy- . 4 man, who had espoused the cauaa of n the poor, and was shown the VlUTht of )f the most needy people in lower London, and Instructed, as to methods for helping them materially, while still-en- > , tending to them the proffer of Cbtiiit tlanUy's teachings. Well educated in d a private school of London, and carefully tutored by an inspired mother, Evangeline Booth grew up in the atmosphere of the Salvation Army work, , 1 When still in her girlhood, and before ' she could qualify to become a Salvation Army officer, Miss Booth sold matches, clad in rags and tatters, so ? *"" , that she might establish nb?hits con- , ^ '' ^ tact with denlsens of the rough Oct gpg ^ g toughest section of all London. a In the years thai followed, whilg the lt movement grew apace; Evangeline bet_ came the chief officer of a Salvation " g Army coyw, and while so serving with- s stood an attack from an organised .\4 II bapd Of hoodlums which attempted to rt run herVloup of rescue workers out g of a dark corner of London Bvsft gs ltJ her father had been repeatedly gfcmfd from hie soap box pulpits ln'the alleys r of the great city, EvungeUn* wgjfSet*. , -v'B n upon and roughly handled but bsr/folto lowers fought the mob, as they havfsllt ways fought under like conditions frith y the determination of fatalists, slid l0* while many were sent to hospitals, all [g survived. In later years Evangeline was commissioned to take charge of the JfelM vation Army work In Canada, end In ,r her service there endeared herself to jr the people of that country, r}o)i aodj le poor alike. Ten years ago she wso kg-< ,f signed to work in this oountry, and ? l9 der her leadership the Salvation Arm* f if ,h tabllshed in 830 cities and town* bt ' the United States. With a board of national executives numbering tffitrtj ld mostly men and veterans In the mOvein ment, and with provincial officers sup- , l(J ervising the work in the various tecr. tiona, this wom^n has lived to gee the re dubious sunrise and the glorious neoft:a day of Salvation Army work lh .this j. country. The, western states are handV led from a central office In Chicago un- '' j. der direction of a commissioner, who i, ; ie in turn fg supervised by the national st headquarters in New York city. .1 7'?jp it r 'It is ouly within the last two years Jt that America has awakened to a full appreciation of the Salvation Army. y. The old tlmo suspicion that somfie how, somewhere, there Was- fort elgn control of activities and fund* ie has been dispelled by the living trttyp that at no time has the Salvation Army , I n done more than follow the policy of tte )C founder, who happened to have started L the work in England. The -money j. I raised here' is spent here; the seiva- -v y e 5f tionlsts work for their bare subsistence, /e and not for profit. A military system .d has made possible the astonishing ef3, flciency of this Christian band, which, since the war, has been made the feat ciplent of such public praise and mp- ^ ,d preciatlon as to be quite unprecedented U in like ca^et>. ^ ts In sixty4ve countries the Salvation Army, numbering millions of worker* >e and aiding and caring for many milro lions of person* is entrenched to-day t- without a blemish on its escutcheon, >r and with a promising future. The ftch it and the poor seem npw to have com* If plete confidence In ^s practical me10 thods and Its integrity? although soma forty years ago Philadelphia, America's Id cradle of liberty, held 120 Salvationists 5r in its 'jails because they dared to preach with noisy drums upon the ie streets! iu The world has smco learnea .wiere w ? l8 reason for those drums?And for *11 m the homely and crude methods of t?{s 3. Band of Hope. And typfoal of all tfie h history and work of this Interesting a organization thero stands forth Svant< geline Booth, its leader In the United 8. States. Gifted orator, capable basiness woman, tireless /leadfer, she is a ir picturesque figure in the world's af? id fairs- At this moment she is lifting r- her voice, calmly but resolutely, to j. adjure those who are discontented to ie turn back to their churches and to ? .< \j, ,d reverse their mental process?to think ic about serving others, lnsto&d of tryr. Ing to get all they can from each [e other! w ' Her work is non-sectarian,; and ,n knows no color line. Her charges arc the infants and the aged?the in?h ie who is down, but never out And>tKe c. holds in a firm grasp the confidence >d of all classes?because there is no Such 9r word in Evangeline Booth's dictionary In as "politics." ' ? H r- ' ' . *< to 'tar A tree producing coffee said to be free from caffeine has been discovered in Madagascar. ., -d itir Florida led the states In the pro? . duction of fuller's earth - last year and Texas ranked next. * ?' ' 1 V / A