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I ?..........?? ??? " P j ? "" ' E SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ L. M. GRIST'S SONS, pubii.h.r,. & jfamiill |inrefa|>:r: 4*t lite promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of flic jJcopIe. TERMs^fcoPTf?RvicNc?n*^c" ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1919. ISTO. 98 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED IIP BHNgUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. i? nnitn a ohanere in the at titude of York county jurors and people generally toward the railroads and railroad employes in matters pertaining to damage suits as compared with several years ago," said a young railroad man who was in Yorkville last / week as a witness in a railway damage suit case in the court of common pleas. "I have heard Jurors say right here in York county that they wouldn't believe the testimony of a railroad employe who wsb in the witness chair because he wus paid to lie for the railroad anyhow and it has made me fighting mad a many a time. But now they appear to regard railroad men as human and truthful and just as reliable citizens as anybody else." > People Paying Taxes. "This is about the first trip I have made to Yorkville in a year," said Mr. Ross Parrish, well known citizen of the Clover Mill village at Clover who came to Yorkville Saturday to pay his taxes. Several of us came down today to pay our taxes," said Mr. Parrish. Almost Got Away With It. "Speaking of having cotton stolen from the field," said a York county farmer Saturday, "I came near losing 750 pounds that way this morning. I was moseying around the place and in a selected spot I found 750 pounds carefully hidden away. The thief evidently expected to get away with it to-1 night or maybe Sunday. But he won't because I took It away from there right quick. I'll say I did." Didn't Like the Job. "Sitting on the Jury is almost as mean a job as standing at attention in the army," said C. O. Castles, well known young man of Smyrna, who was in Yorkville all last week as a juror attendant upon court of common pleas. "This is my first jury experience," said Mr. Castles, "and I didn't miss service og qoany cases tripd. You've heard about a continuous seat not padded making corns, haVen't you? Well I almost got 'em." / Few Apple Wagons Will Come. "There will be comparatively few apple wagons from the mountains of ** ^ ~ <^Aurn qo fa r OH IX or in uaiuium w 6CI Uvn.< York county this winter," said an automobile dealer from Boone, Wautauga county, N. C., who was in Yorkvllle the other day. "The North Carolina apple crop is as good this year as usual, if not a little better, and the apples are bringing a fancy price. The apple wagons have been going out in as large numbers this year as usual; but the demand for apples has been unusually heavy and their supplies have been purchased by people in towns closer to the mountains that Yo. k county towns. It will probably continue that way until all are gone." Where the Mules Go. "York county horse and mule dealers are selling so many animals this fall that one wonders where in the world they are going to be used and where those animals whom they succeed will go," remarked a prominent York county farmer Saturday afternoon. "Oh, that is easily explained," said another farmer who was in the party. "If you'll just take a look around the back lots in Yorkvllle and Rock Hill and Clover and Sharon and Fort Mill on any trading day anu see the old plugs that are offered for any kind of price, and are then carried 10 tuner counties you'll see where they go. And then lots of York county horses, like York county people die every year." ( Used Karo to Make Booze. "We've known for some time," said Horace Johnson, state liquor constable that the moonshiners in York county were using homemade molasses in the manufacture of liquor as well as sugar or almost anything; but I found twenty empty cans that had contained the well known "Karo" brand of corn syrup at a distillery which George Sparrow and I tore up on Mr. Galloway * Crawford's place in King's Mountain township Thursday. Along with the i empty syrup cans we found a quantity of Jugs and other containers which had 1 evidently been placed there in anticipation of a big run. We broke up' the distillery and poured about 1,000 gallons of mash, which was nearly right for making liquor, into the * fm.na nnhnHv nresent Dranuu. i? c ivuuu ^ a__ when we discovered the plant." Potatoes Destroyed. "I had expected to have plenty of sweet potatoes to feed the inmates of the county home on this winter," said Superintendent I. P. Boyd of the York county home a few days ago; "but I had the misfortune to lose about seventy-five bushels by fire several days ago and that will reduce the supply a I greut deal. I made a special house to keep the potatoes in, you know, and I have been having the best of luck with them for quite a while, keeping the house at temperature of about SO degrees. A spark from the heater caught the boards of the house some days ago and the whole thing was turned. However, we still have some potatoes. Population of the county home is now about as low as it ever gets," Mr. Boyd went on to say. "We have about twenty-five persons in the home at present and they are all getting along nicely. All are looking forward to Christmas. People are mighty good to them at that season, especially ladies of the First Presbyterian church of Yorkville who always bring them baskets of good things to eat and little articles of clothing and other comforts at that season." Beautiful Sentiment is This. "You know," said a Yorkville man yesterday, "as the holiday season approaches almost everybody is so busy I amid the hustle and bustle of it all that I few stop to think about the real meaning of Christmas and its significance. Of course everybody knows the origin ( of Christmas and art about the festival. But they are just too busy it seems. 1 ran across a little piece of poetry the other day, captioned "Bethlehem," ar.d written by Wilber Underwood, that is [not oniy Deauuiui in us siiupuuuy um | is a most correct interpretation of the occasion that we are about to celebrate. Here It is: Cold was the earth and all the stars. But Mary Mother smiled Where in the manger of an inn Lay warm the Holy Child The ox was host upon that night Unto the King of all; He gave for incense meadowy breath, For shelter his rude stall. j Not all the cold of earth and man Can pierce the heaven mind, Where warm against her leaping heart , A Mother clasps Her Child. i O miracle of utmost love, , How God grew greater when He stooped to be a helpless babe Beside the hearts of men. Long ages since?and still in joy, I In loneliness and tears. We kneel unto a Little Boy Who smiles down through the years. 0 , I SHARON NEWS LETTER. ' ( Correspondence The Yorkvllle Enquirer \ Sharon, Dec. 8?Sharon's city fath- s ers are determined to protect Sharon j horse and mule dealers against dealer? j who would come into town with a car- ? load or two carloads of stock for sale t at auction and then go quickly out ; again. Local dealers want a license ? tax of $500 placed upon those outside a dealers who would do business for a % day or two every once in a while here, g J nsnhnhln thnt n liPAn.ctP unu II in vri.1 Iiiuuauit ? ... tax of such proportions will be im- j posed. A member of the town council said Saturday that there had been some discussion of the matter among j members of the council and that ir. j all'probability*an tax for non-resident horse and mule t dealers who would do business ir. 0 Sharon will likely be passed within the ( next few days. t Sharon merchants are beginning tc feel the pressure of the Christmas E trade which may be said to have fair- r ly. opened up last Saturday. The f crowd in town Saturday was not quite ^ as large as has been the average Sat- ( urday crowd for the past sixty days r but still there were many peeople here r and they bought much holiday goods t Most of the Sharon merchants have j special Christmas offerings and now a have these goods on display. The> c are anticipating a good business anc* t in fact most of them are worried because they have not been able to got ; larger stocks of holiday goods thar c they have been able to get. It is estimated that 4,000- hales of ( cotton or better have been ginned this c season which is about nearing its end. This is the largest amount of cotton a\-ar p-innerl in Sharon perhaps, and local ginners are well pleased with Hitseason's output- There are two gin- . nerles within the town and despite th< s fact that both of them have had inort t or less serious setbacks because of trouble with their respective plants, j still they are well pleased with th< j season's work. ^ Pupils of the Sharon school are , looking forward with keen interest to the closing of school on account of j the Christmas holidays.. It has rot been definitely agreed upon 41 x yet; but very likely the school will be closed for two weeks on account of the Yuletide season to the extreme joy and satisfaction of every pupil of the school to sa> the least. liev. Carl McCully of Mecklenburg county X. C. who recently accepted a call to the pastorate of Wood lawn and Salem Ihesbyterian churches expects _ to take up the work of his pastorate ( here as soon as he is able to get a , residence to live in. Rev. McCully will very likely move his family here ( fore the finst of the year. 1 Mr. W.'P. Whitosides who is teaching school at Derida, X. C. visited Ins brother Mr. (!. W- Whitesldes here last Saturday. Several Sharon Nobles, members of the Masonic Order of the Mystic Shrine went to Charlotte last week to attend a meeting of Shriners at Oasis Temple. A monk* those who went from I here were Messrs. \V. T. and J. \V. | Sims. A. M. ISrwin and James Hank> head. Dr. and Mrs. C. O. Burruss. j ?Alexander Berkman and Emma. |(!oldman, America's two most notor- ' ious anarchists, spent Friday night at I Ellis Island. They were surrendered j to the immigration authorities at noon i upon demand of the department of labor to await deportation to Russia I after preaching their doctrines in the I'nited States for thirty years. 1 * " j ?Three thousand assistants employ-j ed in the most important stores of Lon- 1 don are on strike for increases in pay, j shorter hours and various other con-' < cessions. J COUf vSfHOfll SURVEY.. Tiiorqugb. CenjJS .Is Just Belnj WlBM,|j^yipp OFFICERS Misses Garrison and Saunders Have More Information About York County People Than Law Required? Young Lady Official Tells of Her Work. If Uncle Sam's eighty odd thousand enumerators who are to take the decennial census of the country next year do anything like as complete u job as havo Misses Relva Saunders c and Alice Garrison, York count)' [ school attendance officers who have just completed Iheir census of the 3 school chikn-en of the rural districts j of York county, the county generally j will have all the information thai n could possibly be desired in regard to s its population. Misses Saunders and b Garrison in their exhaustive survey j of the county's school children, have tl not only gotten all the information i, about those children that the Com- j] pulsory sahool laws of 'the state re- a quired them to get; but at the sug- ^ gesfion of the Co inty Superintendent ^ of Education John E. Carroll, they w have gone further and gotten much ], information about people who are not a yf school age and which makes an in- 8I valuable record. Incidentally, the y York county school attendance officers w ire the only officials in the state who 0 nave done this additional work. tl People Gladly Aided. t< "We have completed out task of :aklng the school census in the rural Jlstricts," said Miss Ajice Garrison, C] county attendance officer, "and the 8( vork has been accomplished without S) i great deal of trouble. We have ir 'ound a tendency on the part of peo- 3j )le throughout the county both white md black to give us all the informa- j |r ,lon required by the Compulsory at- 81 endance law promptly and accurately ^ o the best of their respective abilities, e; md they have heartily co-operated 8( vith us in getting the facts that we a, lought about people generally in ad- ai lition to that information which the ty ict requires. w "The information required/by the CJ ompulsory School Attendance law nduded: color, full name, date of >v >irth,. including the year, month and m lay; age on last birthday*sex; scUdd! Lttended last year and grade; nanu g) if parent or guardian; postofflce ad- fj. Iress and the number of the school listrict in which the child resides. fc, "Our inquiry, however, has developd many additional facts including the noider. name of the mother of every amlly, the birthday of both parents, he dale of marriage, the names of all hildren ^ind the birthday of all childen regardless of whether or not they ire of school age or over or under; he names of hubsands of those in -- if laugniers or a lainuy who uip uiarucu i ind the names of wives of those son.' ?' ?f a family who are married and their 3' hildren. "The census as we have taken It," " diss Garrison continued, "also in- " 'ludes the information as to whether ^ very family both white 'and black ?wn the premises on which it resides 31 >r whether or not it is rented and if he family are tenants we have the lame of the landowner and his address. C( Physical Statistics. "We have also paid careful atten- ni ion to th^ matter of collecting phy- ^ :ical statistics not only in regard to he children of school age; but all nembers of every rural family. We ^ rave information that is almost entire- ^ y accurate as to the number of blind 0l hat there are in York county both "( imong whites and negroes- We have a ecrod of the number of epileptics of joth races and a bit of the history of ach individual case. There are other p ecords of this kind that rfre of value. " "We have not yet had time to compile Ci ill of this information as we expect to lo. It is a great task, you know, and 81 considerable time will be necessary to 01 complete it in detail. Still, from more >r less careful perusal of the records 01 ve have been able to form a fairly a jood idea as to the number of illiter- lr ites in the county, the number of phy- " hcally defective and other information. " The number of defectives?physically defective, by the way, is surprisingly< s' Tew, the great population of the coun- ? ty being taken into consideration. "Now since we have completed our b ;ensus," said Miss Garrison, "Miss ^ Saunders and I are devoting a corisid- " erublc portion of our time to inspec- ?r ting the various schools of I he county v and seeing to it that the pupils are ri living up to the terms of the ,com- ? pulsory attendance act which requi res that till children between tlie ages of S and 11 attend school eighty c consecutive school days each year. Few Violations. "The law is being strictly obeyed 11 throughout the county and so far very few violations have been reported to us. There have been no prosecutions. 1 There has been some misunderstanding about various sections of the law. hut all the kinks are being rapidly P straightened out. For instance, a few 11' weeks ago in the southern section of j the county I came across a school IP trustee engaged in picking cotton inia one of his fields. One of his children v of school age was picking with him. I b inquired why the child was heir.g kept ti out of school and the father informed t; me that it was absolutely necessary tojir keep him at home that day becaus< his services were needed in the field.' dnce it was impossible to Jure cottor flickers. 'I then inquired of the trustee il he was hot aware that he was violatng the terms of the statue in so doing ind his reply was that he was nol iware of any such violation becauw Ma understanding was^ that the law onl> required that the child attend foi >ighty days of the year. Then I ln'ormed him that the law said the child nust go eighty consecutive school lays. He immediately saw the dlffer>nco and he gave nic assurance that he law would be strictly complied vith hereafter. Thus the Incident was Must Mind the llaby"I came across a rather pathetic :ase some time ago. A mother works n a York county fiottoi mill. She las several children and it is necesary that they work- in '.he mill also n order that all the,family might have >read. One little Ijoy of school age leither works in the mills nor goes 10 chool. His job is tc^nind the mother's aby at home while, the others work. called her attention to the fact that his boy should go school and she nmediately informed me that It was mpossible because |ome one had to ttend the baby while she worked and here was nobody ayallalde save the oy. The 1 .w exerigrts children of ddow s whose livelihood hi in whole or l part dependent upofc those children, nd I have discretionary power In uch cases. It occurred to me that the ttle lad's work of minding the baby 'as certainly necessary to the suppprt f the mother and other members of le family. Therefore he will not go i school?not this year at least. The Reason Why. "I came across another interesting ase recently," said the York county 2hool atendance officer. 'In a certain action of the county- thare l:ves .a Lan w ho is reputed to be. rather headlong and quick tempered. I was >ld that I would likely have trouble i gett ing his children to school and, jre enough, they were not present le opening day. I^djrectcd him to tplain why his children were not in ihool in accordance with the law. If ny children need an education his e surely in need, and he can send iem. Several days age his children, ho had not been in attendance ime to school and brought to "the tacher a note of explanation about lefr rionattendance- It was sent to :e- HJi?e l}18 fc&yjvrote "I have beerf sic*- "rid not able to ?ther the crop and i thought Monty was the first day. I thought so la got- fore month it was all write I tgo to be excuse if I was rong.'" IF YOUNG AGAIN. ow Would You Make Your Life Different from What It Is. The Philadelphia Public Ledger re ntly sent inquiries to several promcnt men as to what they would do they were young again. Very few ' the men replied that thoy would fain engage in the sane line of cnjavor in which they are now engaged, early all of them' thought of someling else they would undertake if ley were to start over, and this espite the fact that all of them ar< iccessful men. Tho u?n no r> f Dip rpnlies WHS SUf cientiy broad, however, to be enjuraging, for it leaves no doubt as > the desirability of entering Lany lines of endeavor. Had all of tern been of one opinion as to a vocaon, it would have indicated that >ung man's opportunities are limited, ut here we find many learned men iving it as their opinion that any one f a dozen occupations is the most usirable, if that is the way to exress it. The truth is it doesn't make a great sal of difference what business or rofession a young man engages in. he is successful in his chosen voltion, that is all that is essential or success in one line is as good as lccess in any other line, providing rtly that the line ii respectable. Further, it doesn't seem to mattei laterially what a young fellow thinks bout it; he is likely to find himself i later life engaged in something he ever dreamed of engaging in in the rginning. That is to say, the average lan doesn't select a career for himslf and follow it to the end. Most f the men of today have literally been J need into the occupations they are in-suing:. The boy gets the first job e can secure and it leads to someling else, often to many things, and i the end a man finds that he is demoting his life's efforts to a trade 01 ailing or vocation he never thought f when he secured his first position, s men grow older, and in looking ack upon the thousand and one inidents that influenced their lives, they oconie fatalists to a greater or less egree. No thoughtful man, review lg his own past can get away from he idea that he has had not a great oal to do with his success or failure a life.?Columbus Dispatch. ? Tiie governor on Saturday issued a roclamation designating January 7. 320 as the date for the election in the Greer area" on the question of that ortion of Spartanburg county being nnexed to Greenville. The election as to have been held December 23, ut because of vacancies on the elecon commission in Spartanburg counir, the date had been postponed one 1011th for the new members to qualify ; PRESIDENT TO* CONGRESS \ t r Outline Of Comprehensive Legish ' the: Programme. ? WANTS PRESENT TARIFF' REVISE Would Have Congress Extend the Wj I Time Food Regulations?Discussio I * of Railroad" Problem Reserved fc Another Message?No Discussion ( the Treaty. [ Washington, Dec. 2.?A diversifle i legislative program to restore a peace time business status, revise the ta system, curb unrest, reduce the cos of living and rectify labor and farm ing conditions was recommended b President Wilson today in his messag to the new session of congress. The president asked for new tarll laws based on the nation's change relation to the rest of the world, sug gested that the income and exces profits tax schedules be simplified, ad vocated steps to improve rural con ditions and promote production, am declared for a "genuine Democratize tion of industry" to protect both labo and capital. The railroad problem he reserve< for a future message, and he mad( no statement of his intentions re garding the peace treaty or Mexico Many of his recommendations wen the same as those submitted to th< special session last spring and severe of them are embraced in legislatioi already being formulated In the tw< houses. To Meet Cost of Living. To meet the cost of living the president asked extension of the war-tlm< food control bill, federal regulatior of cold storage, readjustment of foot transportation, and establishment of : system of federal licensing for all corporations engaged in Interstate commerce. He declared the causes of unreal to be superficial and temporary, and made his only reference to the senate's failure to ratify the peace treat} in saying that restlessness was dur largely to the nation's hesitation in determining its peace policy. The federal government, he declared I should be armed with Jfull authority to deal in the criminal courts with those who promote violence. In an extended discussion of laboi discussions he declared the workers had just right for complaint in many matters, and that there should be 0 "full recognition of the rlgh\ of those who work in whatever rank, to participate in some organic way in every drjijion that directly affects then welta're." He asserted that the right of individuals to strike must bo held inviolate, but added that there must he ft firm stand against "the attempt by any (Mass to usurp a power that only government itself has a report to exercise as a protection to all." Finally he suggested the establishment of a tribunal for peaceful decision of industrial disputes. For a Budget System. He renewed his recommendation for a budget system of national finances, asking for spapial protection to promote the dyestufis and chemical industries, and declared the administration bill providing farms for soldiers should be passed without delay. The message, about 5,000 words in length, was transmitted to the capitoi by messenger, the president expressing regret that his health would not permit his delivery of it in person. It was read separately in senate and house where u arew mixeu expressions of approbation and disappointment. The Democrats generally praised it as setting forth decisively a practical program of rerorm, while on the Republican side there were many complaints that it lacked definiteness and omitted mention of important problems. In all of the private discussions among members and in some public expressions regarding it, there was much speculation as to what extent the president's illness had handicaplied him in its actual preparation. Democrats declared that Mr. Wilson's vigorous beliefs on public questions were shown by the language of the message to be unimpaired by his long confinement and weakness, while in Republican cloak-room gossip there was evident a disposition to speculate on how far his advisers had gone in framing the details. Senators Compient. This disposition was manifest in a public statement by Senator Frelinghuysen, Republican, New Jersey, declaring the document failed to take up some important public problems. "The message," said Senator Frelinghuysen, "reflects the views of Attorney General Palmer, Secretary of I,abor Wilson, and Samuel Gompers, and undoubtedly they assisted in its prepuraiiuii. Senator Edge, Republican, New Jersey, said in a statement that it was rather academic and "certainly lacks j the usual Wilson punch." It was characterized as "a genuine unadulterated Wilson message," by 'Senator McKeller, Democrat, Tennessee, and Senator Underwood, Demo! crat, Alabama, declared it "up to the president's One standard." Senatoi Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the a' 'ins ! Democratic leader of the senate, said I that "few messages had pointed the way to more enlightened remedies for I existing evils." I Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republican senate leader, had no cotp ment to make, but Representatlv Mondell, of Wyoming:, R publica leader of the house, issued i state 1* ment saying that while the incssag "contains much that we can approv< it does not make any marked con tribution toward the settlement c 0 the preplexing questions of the day." |r DRESS HURTS JEWS. n They Place Creed before Customs o ir' Poland and Poles Resent It. While I'oland is not engaged In th slaughter of Jews, and in spite of th d treaty protecting Jewish minorit i- rights, the Jews will probably hav x anything but an ideal existence i it Roland for a long time to come. That summarizes the opinions o y most of the Poles, Jews and America! c and British observers here. The Jews are not living in fear o Cf their lives. At the same time the; d are subjected to annoyances and then - is almost universal prejudice agains a them. As for pogroms, it' all depends 01 - the definition of pogroms. If pog d gronis means simply killing then then - have been pogromrf, just as there hav< r been pogroms of negroes in th< United States under that definition, d But if pogroms means wholesali e slaughter for policical purposes, 01 . slaughter condoned, plotted or counte >. nanced by the government, then then e have been no pogromsp The Jews of oland do not dress like 1 the Poles. They wear lorrg blacl i robes, long bushy whiskers and rounc 3 black skull caps. That prejudices th< Poles against them to begin with. The majority of them liv? in the "Jewish . quarters" of the towns. The poles say ; that if they would dress and Mve like i other people the prejudice would di 1 rcinish greatly. i But their dress is part of their creed, Another factor in the dislike of Jews . by the Poles is the fact that the Jews own much property; they are in many [ cases the hated landlords. I ' The Poles also charge that the Jews were too friendly with the Germans when the Germans were in Poland, and ? that they kept aloof fpom all things i Polish, though citizens of Poland, and did not join the army. And so on. ' The most common Polish cHtlcism i of tfie Jewish minority treaty Is that it gives the Jews separate schools supported from public funds; they claim i a parallel case would he support .of the Catholic parochial schools in America ffon) public funds. A Pole and an orthodox Jew are never seen walking down the street together, or chatting together, as in America it is rare to see a white man and a colored man fraternizing. The Jews form about 14 per cent of the population of PolandThe American and British investl; gations, by the Morgenthau and Samuels missions, were resented by the majority of Poles, principally because both were headed by Jews. These Investigations seem to have spurred the responsible Poles to a determination to do everything possible to prevent trouble in which Jews might be killed; to have brought home the realization that the other nations tv-ill nnf r-nnntena nee killines and to have increased the general prejudices of the Poles against the Jews. WOMEN ENGAGED IN WORK In Finland It Seems They Are Doing All Things. Ah astonishing sight for the stranger in Finland is the number of women engaged in almost every field of employment. In England during the war one became accustomed to the sight of women performing various kinds of work in which previously only men were engaged. But in Finland the visitor gets the impression that the women are doing everything. They even serve as porters on sleeping cars. Not only are they at heavy manual i work in fields and factories, but they ' have become skilled as mechanics and have invaded business offices to an extent that is probably undreamed of in any other country. In bands, the proportion of women employes to' men appears to be about 10 to 1. In the biggest financial institutions in Helsingfors, women hold 1 positions involving great responsibilij ty and calling for exceptional abill ty. At the Finnish foreign office, The Associated Press correspondent noticed that women were holding offices that would be entirely beyond the aspirations of their sisters in the state department at Washington of the British foreign office. This change has come about almost | overnight. Finland's man-power has j been greatly depleted, and a large part "f what is left is required for j military service. j The Finnish business woman is re1 Imarkably Keen and intelligent. She has a kind of masculine interest and absorption in her work that seems to ' admit of no margin for sentiment or I frivolity. She dresses simply and 1 smartly, as do the majority of the II city-bred women of this country. 1 An American walking through the principal streets of Helsingfors might well I believe, judging from the costumes and 1 brisk walk of the Finnish women, that | he was in the heart of Chicago. , j ? W. H. Peft'ords, genera! manager of > the Columbia Cotton Compress com |Pany and a leading business man of Columbia for the past 35 years, died ! Thursday afternoon. ; TO BEAT BOLL WEEVIL n ? -j o Fertllze Well, .Space Close And Cultivate/fast. ESSENTIALS OF PROVED EFFICIENCY | 1)^:1 ' ,fir: ;;!? >ti ; The Idea of Wide 8pacing in and Bef tween the Rows is Palacioua?Poor Land is More Liable to 8ucceseful t> Attack Than Rich Land. v Progressive Farmer. e The boll weevil Is now . In every n Important cotton growing state, having this fall established itself in the t Oarolinas. Moreover, in nearly all sec;1 tions where the weevil has been present this year, the damage has been exf ceptionally heavy, In some cases runy ning as high as 80 or even 80 per cent e Damage has been severe in Texas, t where the weevil haB been for many years and where the seasons are favor1 able for the weevil It appears that the pest will always be on hand to take a , goodly share of the cotton crop. In ? other words, the weevil.is with us aps parently for an indefinite stay, and if we would make cotton, the sootier we , iearn the essentials in doing1 id"the r better for us. The following recommendations are based on ten years' ; study of this pest, plus years of acutal cotton growing under weevil conditions. 5 We pl^ce these esentlais in the order of j their importance: I 1?Plant on Rich Land, or Fertilise 5 Liberally. Beyond all question, rich land is tot i first importance in making cotton dea. pite the weevil. Our rich valley and . river lands are usually strong enough to make good cotton despite the weevil, if they are well drained. But even 9n these richer soils, fifty to seventvflve pounds per acre of nitrate of soda : at planting time to push the crop off rapidly will generally pay well On our thinner lands, fertilizers , should be used heavily If cotton is to do gro\yn at a pront. un sucn tnui lands,J# they have a good clay sabi soil, we would recommend 200 pounds per acre-of nitrate of soda and. 300 to 400 poimdrper acre of add phosphate all applied at planting time. On soils with a good clay subsoil, potash probably will not be needed, and the tight subsoil, prevents any material leach-. ing out of the nitrate. On deep sandy soils, 100 to 150 pounds per acre of kainit or Its equivalent should be us4d to supply the potash needed, and shift ^ 1 leaching is likely on such soils. It will be best to use one-third or on?-hal? the nitrate at planting time,'using'the remainder as a side application the latter part of May or early in June. N . Where it can be had at a less cost pejr pound Of. nitrogen, sulphate of ammonia may be used in place of nitrate of soda. .... ...? The applications recommended may appear somewhat heavy, but on our average thin sandy and loamy soils we have good evidence that they are highly profitable. n n il.. P-.i eu.ll..., /V.UluatlMM c.,?r~ ri^iibo rati wumiivw VWI?I * ? ?? The object of the heavy fertilization above recommended, of course, Is to .. push the cotton so that it "will rialcfc'ft*-* fair crop ahead of the weevil; . it is to be pushed to its utmost, rapid, shallow cultivation is scarcely less important than liberal fertilization, ft is hard to lay down any set rules for cultivating any crop, because methods must be varied to suit seasonal conditions. But the aim should be to stir the soil early in the season, so as to , . ; l Iff | kill all grass and weeds before they' get a hold. Later cultivations should be frequent and shallow, and grass and weeds should at all times be kept down. Ordinarily the clean, welh oot-? J < ton Held has a good chance to make a crop despite the weevil. 3.?Space Gotton uioseiy. The old advice to "space wide to let > t In the sunlight" has been proved worst. ' . than useless. Experiments all the way from Texais to Georgia, on pretty nearly every kind and grade of soil, have proved that close spacing uniformly gets the biggest yields. Generally, rows three feet wide and the cotton a hoe's width in the drill will be best. We doubt if under any conditions rows should be wider than three and one | half feet. This may seem like close spacing, but we have abundant evi- ' dence to prove that it results in bigger yields of cotton. Poor stands of cot-f ' ton, in our opinion, are very' largely responsible for our low yields per acre. Let "three-foot rows and a hoe's wKMh ' in the drill" be the aim. The three points named above wd consider of vital importance in mak-'* ing cotton despite the weevil, coming" far ahead of the matter of varieties;''" picking weevils and squares, or poisoning. All these Combined may not, in' I - \ . t T , | a year like this has been result in a 1 11 0 paying crop of cotton; out tney win; come nearer to doing so than any other methods, and in average years they will result in profitable crops in moat | sections of the cotton belt. j ?The report of the activities of the t division of venereal disease control of , the South Carolina health department; shows a remarkable growth during the I year drawing to a close. On Januiary 1, 1919, there were in the state only three clinics for the treatment of" ! these diseases while on December 1, there were eight well established ! Clinics in me sidle. mtrac viiuivs mo located at Columbia, Charleston, An* dorson, Florence, Greenville, Newberry,,? :r<; I Orangeburg and Spartanburg.