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t ... . \ . . ' . * 4 ' ^ __ ???? g ; mm ^ = ^ ^ ^LL-? i \a^ ^ ^ ^^^3 "^4ir^ SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ ^ ^ L. M. GRIST'S SONS. Publishers. % c^amltg gtespaper: 4 or thc |Jroin of toa nf the JMitical, Social, Agricultural and OTommerriat Interests o{ the f)co#ty. TER^i^fco^iV^cKs^^ ' ESTABLISHED 1855 YORKTS. C.s FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921. ISTO. 4;- ' VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. i PICKED UP BY ENQllIKER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. ".Mules belonging to the estate of the law? Fields Kirkpatriek of the Lowryvillo section, were recently sold at auction at Chester," said W. E. Ashe or McConnellsville, who was in Vorkvillc Tuesday evening. "There were fifteen mules in the lot and they brought an average price of $7" each. Included in the lot were two mules for which Mr. Kirkpatriek paid $4:~0 each." Matrimonial Market Off. Tlinm'o !i clnmn in ltlf> lYlfl 11*1 - monial market, according to a number of ministers who have recently been anked about the marrying business. "I notice unite a slump in the number of marriages I perform," said the other morning, Rev. B. H. Waugh, pastor of the First Baptist church of Yorkvillc. "My wife gets all the receipts paid me for the performance of the marriage ceremony and she notices a considerable falling off too." Not So Easy. Said a Rock 1 Jill man in Yorkvillc the* other morning: "1 read regularly your column of Views and interviews; and methinks its no easy job getting up this news: stories of this thing and that; men and women, dogs, rabbi in and cats; various fluctuations in prices; folks everywhere and their caprices. No doubt it really makes you hump and from morn till night keeps you on ; the jump. It might look easy hanging | around; visiting each and every town. | Hut I'll lell you because you might not ; be aware, it is a job that would make j mo swear." Cost More Than Proceeds. "Just to give you an idea of what the J farmers are up against with cotton i selling at present prices." said the oilier morning a farmer of the Filbert section. "I am going to cite you this case: A farmer in my section recently had picked a bale of'cotton, which being the last was of course of a low grade. He had it ginned and sold it. After paying for the picking and ginning lie found that the cost of the two items alone was $1.50 more than the amount received for tin- bob-." Weather Has Interfered. "T.ittle grain has been sown si nee j Christmas because of the weather.") raid Wednesday County Farm Demon- | juration A fie nt John K. Blair, who was j among the visitors in Yorkvilh*; "hut ; j good majiy tanners in various sections j of the county tell mo that they are contemplating sowing grains and forage crops as soon an the weather permits lust today 1 saw a farmer hauling our, to his homo a load of western liny, j There hi no question of the fact that 1 the more forage crops grown hy tiefarmers of York county the less viM he. 1ho amount of western hay brought in- | to the county." Many Tenants Movimj. Information conies from all sections of the county that there is as intim moving among tenant farmers this year as usual and prohahSy a little more. "What's the log idea in this' moving every year?" Views and luler,.0 ..ui.-fi,imirtv- of land owners who . were discussing the 111:1 ttcr ?>tit :it Slia- 1 1 on tin* other afternoon, anil tin? reply J of inn* was: "Well, it is a custom ilia? has boon common with landowners and tenants even before my day. Tim average landowner does not think it good policy ordinarily to keep a tenant on his place more than a couple of years at best, for the simple reason that lie believes a change after that length or time is to his best interests and Ibe i tenant l'eels about the same way. < >1" course there are exceptions l?> this rule: but ordinarily a tenant farmer does not remain on the same place: more than two years. There are plen- , ly of exceptions, however." Tiie Restaurant Business. "Sun* a lirst class restaurant wil* pay here," said W. Ij. Jamison, propria- ) - * ?--. V....I., si:,, i tor or the tsnanuon .-i llSVllSSillJi' I lis proposed lieW Whittle j with Views ami Interviews. "Some of, my friends have Iteen kind enonrvh " j advise aicaiast the umlei lakiii'V on the ' Kt'ouml thai the restaurant Imsinesa, has never paid here and they do not ; think it van ho made to pay. This! adviee has all.heen well meant, and 1 ii.i.ri'i-ini<- it: hut 1 am not in the least convinced l.ty il. "It' :i >;unij. restaurant will n>>t pay here, it is tin- only town of its si/.r in 1 tin- Ihiiled stall's in wldeh s"!<'h an III- ' nlittttion will not pay. "I have heen in the restaurant hlist-' ni'ss a nil I think I know sonn'tliiii?r j a hunt il. W'hen I say a paid restaurant. I would not ho understood a> making eonipnrisnn willi any rostaui a til business heretofore established or now established in this piaee. Tie- I restaurants already lien* have their: palronaye. and so far as I know are i nioasiirin:; np In rei|tiirements as fully as eould he oxpeeted. Hut I have In mind a different kind of a plaee that will eater to a different kind of pat-; innate. I shall expeot to give lirsl < la sit serviee, of ennrse. at priees in keepim: with the serviee and of the Ipialily of the food served. I I'Xpeol lo furnish the **tliriin;i room with latdrs and with a lunch counter, and 1 <><:: to cuter to the patronage of business people, traveling people, social people and others?whoever wants a first class meal, plain or elaborate, inside or outside of regular dining hours. This town is in sore need of such a place, It is not a question of maybe so but of certainly so, and when I get thq place i started there will be no further ques- i lion of the need to which I refer." George Koestcr Says: j Petrogrart is now Inhabited by crip- I pies: at least the population has been reduced 71 per cent and it is assumed that everybody who could walk left. Congressmen evidently think the eighteenth amendment lias failed as a discourager of immigration. Many famous men drank liquor, but I that doesn't prove thai alcohol made Hum great. There's something dubious about the grief expressed by a man who spills soup on the Christmas necktie his wife gave him. A couple wcit rn.iniot! su mo nnse 01 i the Siatue of Liberty. Howcum, Lib- | erty? Twelve pall bearers were required at a California funeral. Must be wonderful elimale that makes folks crow so big there. Pullman porter restored he found in a berth. Six months ago he would have thought it was a tip. Chicago janitors and landlords .have formed an alliance. Heaven help the tenants now. It's called income tax, but its more like outgo tax. With Christmas come and gone father has nothing to worry about but the bills from the butcher, the linker an<t UK' COIlI m:ill?anu nix new iiiwi.wk; uia, Now is the time for sixteen managers to claim (lit.* J921 world's bnseliall cha mpionship. lie who steals another man's purse very often steals more than trash. He somitiinis steals food from babies' mouths. Traffic On the Roads. While the ohniiKo has come about so gradually that, few people noticed it during its progress, it is Kenehilly recognized that during the past ten or twelve years there has been a complete revolution in the character of the Ira file thai is vine.' en over our public highways. It has been less than twenty years since the tlrst automobile made its appearance in Yorkville. and this car was 0:1 its way from Charlotte to RpartanIniriv. It hail to he pulled out of a ditch twice between here and Charlotte, and il never did quite complete its trip tn SpuriatihtirK. The driver. , ? ' ' -? 'el.'* ?"I... II ..flii-i. Ill Willi Mll|l|li II ,11 I ... . explained that In- had caused severaI inure or less serious runaways ami that In- had met with other more I or less exeitimf eilvenlares, lie was treniemlously proud of his achievement ia bavin;.; reaeiieil Ill's point over roads that were rallies mure ilil'lieiilt in that day than they are in this: hut In- was ( tilled with anxiety as to how he would fare lie I wee 11 hero and Kind's Mounlaiu. > ( It was several years after this ineitleiit thai tiie next ear eaiue. to Yorkvilie, and it earn" from Koek lliil. Then gradually the ears began In j multiply; hut it was ten years or more | before their number had ineroased to twenty-live in I lie whole county. The lirsl serious problem to eotifront Hie autoinobiie owners was not so mueli I he condition of the roads as to what rights I hey entiiu fiaun mi r>m n as wi re then in use. .Mas! c?l" Ilia highway Iral'tie of liaise days relied fur molive |ui\ver an mules ami horses. ami as mules and liarses were mure ar less int u I lei ui uf auluinuliiles. il lieeaine a seriuiis question fur :l while as to whether the aulumoliiie was In lie al- | luwed In travel the roads at all. Now 1 one m -els as few mules and horses in ' a Iwenty mile trip as lie met autoninhiles fifteen years a;;o, anil the u'.il- j lime lYieliuii lias entirely disappeared. The eharaeler uf the traflie on the j roads has under;','mi' a eomi^eto i eliaii;re. U. S. IIOGPITAL FOR PARIS It Will Have Forty Beds and he U:ed for American Citizens. I'Yi'inis uf the American Hospital! in I'arls on hnlh sides uf the AI Ian tie i snliseril.ed mure Ihan Ill.aao.iMiO Cranes ; last year Inward the Ili.linii.iHXi I'ranes I uirctl for the construction of n j hundred hod ;k111 iti<>ii nnd the im- j provomenl ssiitl muiul'-nnm c of the j I>r< ::?-nt institution. n.iriny, next yenr tin* Imspitnl liiinl otlirinl:; will e<>n-| c< hii':cto their efforts lownrd ohlnin- ! in^ l.tMm.in.Ml frnncs noeessnry for the; new win-rss nnd will :ii>; ]v nil ilonnlimis ! I to tins purpose. The directors linve decided to mniilt.'iin forty flee hods for the use of . Antericnn citizens nnnhle to pny for i core in privnte words. Admission wns refused to scores ol persons Inst . . 1 yenr owin.*: to Inch ol pro|;er nccoin- . i modn t inns. I ---Three white men were nfrosted in l.nncnster I hi-; week chnivieil witli sell- ; ! i:c. .Inmnin y.inyer. A lnr,;e ipinn- J til;, of jpie.;er wns seized l?y the slier- ' i ill' nnd nlso the nuioiiiohile in which : I I he tllle.ojil l.ioot I.l : w e.V tl'MVel. I >')o- I AS SEEN BY THE SPEAKER Hun. T. P. Colhran Talks to Members ui the House. TAXATION QUESTION IS UPPERMOST On His Reelection as Presiding Officer of the House, Greenville Man Warns His Colleagues That the White Light is on Them and Summarizes the General Situation. Following is the address that Hon. T. P. Cot!)ran made to the house on assuming the speakership last Tuesday: I appreciate very deeply the high honor which you have conferred upon me and I trust that my earnest efforts to discharge the duties of that position which I sincerely pledge to you. will he supported by the same kindly consideiation. "He to my faults a little blind And to my virtues very kind." I have never known the light to beat more tiereely upon you than it does at litis particular'time. The eyes of the whole state, are upon you. It is true, oven though unfortunate, that in discordant times, in the discontent and depression of circumstances, due to causes which you can not control, the people turn to the lawmaking power for relief, at least for exemption from increased burdens. There is little of relief that we can give, little we can do to restore the era of prosperity in which we basked only a few months ago. and whose blessings \yt flung away as a spendthrift would; tliere is mueli that we can do in preserving the state from greater burdens. Many New Men. The great majority of this house are new men. whose conception of the difficulties that lie ahead of them is necessarily immature and which the retrospect will show strangely inudei quate. The most, serious problem that will arise will ho to decide between the logically unanswerable demands of the stale's educational and charitable activ- i itics and tin* aliilliy 01 uic peopic respond to those calls. No one wants I In cripple them; every one recognizes < the reasonableness of their requests; i we are drawn by the conllicling emotions of responding to them and the ; expediency under present conditions of i doing so. i Wo can run the state upon -loss 1 money if we are snlisthd with the con- 1 dition which will result tlicreby. \ If we adopt the niggardly policy of t appropriating just as little as these in- t stiltilions can subsist upon we very 1 naturally reduce the present appropria- ' lions but there will be no progress and I if no progress there will be decadence, t If we adopt the more liberal policy l of advancements, of improvement, of i progress, we can not hope to aceom- < plisli a sensible reduction. > If we adopt a policy of preserving I the status quo. of marking time for a i period, we still can not hope to acecm- t plisli a sensible reduction. < These three valises tire open to you: ' personally I d<> not believe that we will 1 or should take a backward step. I Contrary to Constitution. I In my opinion the state has enntinu- < ed for years a policy that is condemned 1 ' 1 ?o?/ii?Alrn/] I S by lilt? I'llllKUUlUtljl <11)11 Him nutch of the evil til' an excessive Hp- I propria lion lull, and Dial is, to pay for J permanent improvements out of the > current taxes. Venr after year vast sums of money have been appropriated for m-w buildings at the hospital, WinIhrnp college, the university, the t'iladel, the institutions for the blind, the feebleminded institutions. Do la llowe and others. During the last five years the appropriations for peimanent i improvements paid out of eurrent taxes ' approximate ! The eonstitution provides, in my i opinion, the Kencral assenildy to appro- I priate money only for tin* ordinary i current expenses of the stale. I have more than once railed attention to this I i and at the last session prepared a I resolution providing for the submission j of a proposition to issue $t!.0titi,t)<iu of i i bunds to provide for stieh improve- 11 m.'iits, as might be necessary, lor a 11 period of tin years; it was deflated by I < a I a rye majority in this house. I stili I think tliat this should lie done. Hears Many Complaints. It is unfortunate, perhaps unmerit- j i eil, liut 1 state what I believe to be a fact, that the people are distrusting ; these representatives in the. matter or 11 nis. I have never heard as ??!'!'? great <-<mi|i!;ii>its in my life, from tin* < people ii|> >ii this subject as :iit? nmv i coming lip from all parts nf tin- state, ? ami while 1 speak, a iinetintr i>f taxpayers is being lield iii this city to i protest against further inereaso. It seems like a dream to recall the fact that in Ittox I introduced a reso- t lution providing for a constitutional; limit of the amount of appropriations j to Sl.L'ihi.iMHi, which sum at that time had not hceii exceeded. It -died in theji committee. In lUL'tt the appropriations | amounted to over $ti,otiiMiii(l and re- 1 11nests are imw in for over $!l,0liti.0()li. | It is not too late cow to put a check ; upon this outlay, and if the limit |i should In' placed at $.i,imiii.iniii mr hum i next Ifii years, we could live wilhiu il , ami rest ere a feeliiiK ol' eiiiilidi'.'ice iiihI j rest f illness. As to Taxation. I believe tun tluit such a cause would secure a fairer ami more ei|'.?itali!e re- i turn ami assessment of |irii|u rty fur taxation. *1'!inui - uiidi'i'ly ing roasnn I why men do not return their property at full value-is the fear that with a full assessment, the psychological effect upon the general assembly would be to increase appropriations and it seems reasonable that if these appropriations continue to pile up as they have done upon a scant assessment the result would be appalling upon a full one, unless there were a constitutional limit. I Any plan that will secure equality in the burden of taxation will be welcomed, and the natural and logical basis of this equality is the actual valuation of the objects of taxation; that therefore which tends to secure this valuation necessarily leads to equality. I believe further that the matter of valuation of property for assessment is essentially a local one, where it can be accomplished, by those who are not only familiar with the property but directly interested in its bearing a just proportion of the burden. Should I he assessed at $100 for property worth $1,000 and my neighbor at $500 for similar property, the deficiency in my taxes would be made up by the entire state, not by my neighbor? hence his interost in forcing mc to come up to his standard would he so remote as to be ignored .by him. Hut if the township, school district or ward in which we both live was required to raise a certain amount of money as its fair proportion of the slate appropriation, my neighbor's interest in my delinquency woul^ be immediate and substantial to the extent of enlisting his active vigilance in bringing me up to his standard. I believe therefore that the entire amount appropriated for state expenses should be apportioned to each county, requiring it to raise a certain amount of money as its just share of I he burden: then of each county's proportion let each to\Vnshlp be required to raise a fixed amount. Localize the assessment and localize the interest of each tax ' payer in what other tax payers in his district pays. For Survey of State. In 1017 with the assistance of Colon! Johnson of Marion, I prepared 'a . ..i !-< ? f +y,f, 1)111 proVJUlHK iur ?i aui *v) state. It does seem to mo simply an net of business judgment to ascertain I he assets of any business in which you may be intrusted. The greatest asset of the state from an income producing standpoint is the power of taxation. It has some property, most of which is i liability rather than fan asset. Its income must come from taxes, and the [imount of these taxes is governed, by the value of the pirflfe ty to be taxed: " Hence an inventory of this property, Lhe source of its income, appears to me simply a work of plain business judgment. not only for the purpose of vmoving what we now have hut of assuring us that it will continue to be lilaccd on the book* as an asset, anlunlly to be drawn upon. I had at the time the assurance of- competent engineers that they wou'.d do the work for my county, platting county, township, school district and private property ines at C cents per acre and that they vault! take their pay only out of the .axes which by their efforts were placid on the tax books; not a cent of cost Lo the state, not a cent to the county, lot a cent to the property owner. In the anguage of a former representative from flrccnville county the hill "wenl lown under the ldoody tomahawk of egislative warfare." The trouble with ill lax reforms Is that we flinch, and a'opose to abolish the whole system iust as sunn as it begins to accomplish aimelhing. . ? MONEY FOR NEGROES Baptists to Spend $100,000 Financing Institutes for Colored Ministers. The Baptist centenary fund, will give ,renerous aid to colored Baptists. [)vcr $ JO,ooo a year for f? years will be spent in financing institutes and Bible schools for colored ministers which wiij jc (aught by picked men of tlie white hurch; but the main appropriations, following the usual policy of this denomination. will aid. work dune by the negroes themselves. Twelve thousand : year for live years is set aside for olored missionaries in the home field; and over $400,000 will be given to np vfhi.niti livened and oiierated by i r " ?-* ? . colored Baptists. in addition to this, one of the best men in the white ehureli. Dr. O. D. Ilailey of Texas, has lieen made scerctary of the eonimission on negro theological edueation. A fund of at least $2(10.(10(1 is to hi- raised for a seminary whiuli the white church will present to the colored communion. One feature of this movement is the "coed-fellowship meet intra" so successfully held in n number of cities through the south. At these meetings. which are largely Blended by both races, white and black discuss the application of Christian principles to daily living which ilone can insure permanent and peaceful racial adjustment in the south or elsewhere. It will be recalled that in tho great concerted move in Atlanta a few years ago for a. revival in every Baptist j ehureli in the city, while and. colored j pastors served on the same committees, preached and prayed in one another's I churches, and worked together for the j revival in which they all had so much | at stake. I ? ? The second annual convenlion of i I he South Carolina Swine Crowes' Association was held in Colunihia Tuesday. Zed L. Williams of Columbia. was elected president of the association. SPYING ON BUSINESS ~ ? > ' ' rjh How England Keeps Up Witli American Tradp. READS COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS - r? {I; ji; Sensational Information Developed As the Outcomo of the Contrpvprsey Now on Between the State Department and the Western Union Telegraph Company. Washington, Jan. 10?Charges that the British government exercises surveillance over American cable business, official as well as private, passing through the British Isles and that the state department had extended its controversy with the Western Union Telegraph & Cable company to bring in the Cuban government came up to .try ... nay before a senate oommmce considering: cable legislation. "Norman H. Davis, acting secretary of state, and Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union, conducted a cross-table argument over tl& Cuban allegation when Mr. Davis flatly denied it. Chairman Kellogg ended the hearing by questioning Mr. Carlton as to the English practices. Clarence H. Mackay, head of the Postal Telegraph-Cable company, another witness, told the committee that English secret service authorities were obtaining copies of all cable messages. Mr. Carlton several times expressed reluctance to discuss the subject of English surveillance because it would make trouble," but at last yielded. "Ten days after messages have been transmitted," Mr. Carlton explained, "our copies of them are turned over to Hritish secret service, which keeps them for a few hours, and then returns them. "No exceptio.n is made, and the American official dispatches, like the dispatches to all other countries to. and from England, are included, but I nave reasun iu ueuevu uiui iiu caamination i6 made of them.- I have been assured that the offlclnl messages arc not even inspected, but they are in the physical possession of the authorities while other messages are being inspected." Reason for Surveillance. The orders for surveillance were issued, Mr. Carlton explained, because | tff dlsfurlVecl conditions in Great Britain and Europe. lie indicated that other European countries took more complete control over American cable messages passing through their territory than did England. Mr. Davis and President Carlton argued with considerable heat over the state department's opposition to the Western Union's attempted connection with the British cable system in Brazil via the Barbadoes cable. Mr. Carlton declared the state department had "made threats to the Cuban erovernmcnt" to prevent connection going through that inland and that President Menocal now had before him the question of revoking a license already granted for landing of the Barbadoes cable in Cuba. "The state department has done nothing of the kind," Mr. Davis said and President Carlton promptly broke in to characterize this statement as "diplomacy." Wants Cables Restored. Mr. Mackay stated that he could not too strongly urge the importance of the United States government insisting on the restoration by England and France jof the former German cables which before the war ran between the United States and Germany and which were seized and diverted by England and France during the war. He stated that these two cables were great assets to American trade with Germany and northern Europe as is evidenced by the fact that 32 per cent, of the total cable traffic between the United States and Europe was with Germany and that by reason of the British and French governments cutting and diverting these German cables to England and France American trade was now deprived oj these cable facilities. He staled further that in the year 1913, Si'(>,000 messages passed over these two Herman cables between the I'nited States and Germany and that this figure would show what it means to American trade and commerce to be summarily deprived of these cables. While paying a great tribute to fcreat Hritain and franco for their work during the war he states that as a business proposition they should he given to understand that in all justice and equity these cables must lie restored, and that there was no situation in the whole field of cable communieations or in fact in the consideration of the resumption of our trade relations with Germany, which demands more urgent and forceful attention. Praises American Companies. Mr. Macke.v testified' further, that while Kngland was the center of the | submarine cable industry for many i years. both as regard cable manmactlire and transmission, because she saw the great importance of linking tip her vast, widely-scattered empire. Hint American cable companies have been making very rapid, strides in the last I'D years, until at the present time the total cable mileage owned and controlled by American companies in Tu.'Jll! miles; Kiitish com panies own and control 12S.97G miles and 23.S59 miles are owed and controlled by companies of all other nationalities. He stated further that all the cables between the United States and England are controlled by American companies. He said it will be seen that American companies own and control no small amount o^ the world's total length of privately-owned cables and that the enterprise of the American companies in laying such a great mileage of cables without financial support or guaranty from the government is to be coinmended and that this system of American cables was developed by keen, aggressive competition between the American companies backed in large measure by American capital. He stated that some of the English cables were laid under the inducement of large subsidies and guarantees but that American companies have built up their large system without subsidies or guarantees of any kind. He endorsed the proposed legislation to place the control of cable landings in the United States in the hands of the state department and recommended that the principals of reciprocity laid down by President Grant in 1875 be made a condition for landing foreign cables in the United States. . He endorsed the desire for the wide distribution of unadulterated American news and suggested that the only practical way in which the American ( press association can meet the advantages enjoyed by the foreign subsidized press associations, in addition , to the cables, to utilize the United ' States government wireless systems for the distribution of American news ] and trade reports. , WHAT "CHEAPNESS" MEANS J ] For the Laborer to do His Best, He 1 Must Have Good Pay, "A cheap coat makes a cheap man," 1 said President Harrison many years ago, when he stated a great truth ' which the world needs to learn. 1 Cheap labor cheapens the moral, i snirltnnl nnd nhvsleal nowei a of the underpaid man or woman, and in the ' end is the costliest labor. A cheap coat ' breeds ill-will and lessens a man's selfrespect; a good garment helps the inward. as well as the outward man. 1 Cheapness finds its most fertile field , :n India, where wages run from three to fifteen cents a day and where' indescribable poverty and suffering are j everywhere in eviden'ce;' Ifi Chind, where poverty is so great that mil- < lions starve; in Africa and in Japan, i But America has blessed the world by i high wages, for by introducing high- 1 wage schedules here it has gradually > lifted up wages throughout the world. There are, however, some narrow, shriveled, money-mad souls or others, i falsely trained in economics, who be- i lieve in low wages, in poverty for the 1 farmer and the laborer, and in the < cheap coat and the cheap man. They < cannot comprehend that "cheapness" I is a cheapness of soul In themselves, i and they measure humanity only by 1 what they can make their dollar buy of I other people's labor and products. 1 High wages, full salaries, high prices for farm products are a thousand times 1 better than low wages, low salaries and i losv prices for farm products. 1 Snrnn hankers and some business ( mep view things from a different < standpoint. They measure everything i by the dollar mark, and that is why i they praise the breakdowrj. of prices. i The only true and honest way is to ] measure by manhood and the influence ; of high' prices on the uplifting of man- ' hood and womanhood, the betterment | of homes, improved school facilities s and enlarged comforts for women and i children. We have the highest testi- i mony that Heaven can give that the t laborer is worthy of his hire, but in i these days, as in the past, the power of 1 the old fetish of "cheapness" is wor- ( shiped and is being invoked to break down the prices of the farmers' pro- i ducts and thus the wages of the labor- < ing man. The souls of all men ought t to be open to the light of Divine truth ] and to the teachings of history that a t cheap coat makes a cheap man, that i low wages mean poverty and anarch- j ism, that low prices of farm products t mean an ultimate famine in them, and ( that cheapness is one of the Devil's ] most efficient tools for working dam- ( nation to soul and bc-dy. But many, i having eyes, prefer not to see this < truth.?Manufacturers Record.* 1 YORK FARMERS GREW RYE t Total Value of the Crop In the County Last Year Was $14,850. Did you know that York county afrmers planted .450 acres of land in rye I . - . - . . . - J,,??,/! I last year ana mai me cruij pi uuuvci. was valued at 514.S50, at a value of $3 a bushel? 1 There were 24,350 acres of rye plant- < cd In the state of South Carolina in j t 1020 and the total production is esti- 1 1 mated at 296,650 bushels, the value of ' which is $880,950. ' Some of the counties of South Caro- ?' Una are given here with acreage and 1 value of the rye crop: t Acreage Value Anderson 1,000 539,000 i Abbeville 1.000 36,000 , Greenville 1.500 54.000 Greenwood 500 18,000 Laurens 600 23.400 Oconee 1,00 36.000 | Orangeburg .1 ?.1.000 36.000 , Pickens 800 2S.800 I Spartanburg 1,0(10 39,000 I 1 York 450 14,850 1 I PROGRESS OF DEFLATION Operation a Success But Patent Is Almost Dead. ,v ' HOUSTON'S STUBBORNNESS IS RUINOUS Mr. McAdoo Who Organized the Federal Reserve System and Who Knows More About it than Any Othir Man Sees the Mistake That it ' Being Made. Manufacturers Record, Baltimore, Mi The mass of misinformation being y ^ put out by financial writers as to socalled liquidation leads'to the suspicion that they regard the American uco pie as a nation of fools. It will require considerable more ingenuity than has been shown so far to convInce,.,tfie public that bankruptcy is preferable,to solvency and that conditions are-stable only when suffering is acute. " One Willian Justus Boies, who whites every Monday in the New York Herald, rejoices as he observes that "it takes everywhere much less bank credit to ft-, nance trade and industry at the opening of 1D21 than it took 12 months ago, which means that every $1,000,000 of borrowed money will do the work which required $1,300,000 to do a year ' , ago." That is intensely interesting, but why not follow it through to the zero hour? By breaking up-,' alL trade and industry there would be'rio need for any bank credit at all. We have the great bank industry apparently boasting that it was not strong enough to' carry on legitimate business, but now, by grace of the Federal Reserve Board; it has put business in a stupor'anid cati handle it. Oh finance, what crimes are committed in thy name! From Washington there comes a .-.Vpress dispatch to the effect that "of (Icials did not conceal their grave con- ; cern over the probability that otbfcT millions may join the ranks of the unemployed." Also the Federal'Reserve . Board again repoi ts that t the geher&l business situation is fundamentally ex- " eellent and the banking structure strong, but production in some lines has been cut 40 per cent, to 75 per cent. The patient is dead but the operation was a success. During the sumine? treasury pronouncements w'ere under- ' taking to tell the people that the de- ' flation program had actually. increase^ production. If one read enough;,of':'t6e treasury propaganda' he might almewt fr? get ready to believe it to be a fact that ample credit has been '.available 'RjjjjK legitimate business jTurpose^. " even be encouraged thereby to Jry\to negotiate a loan. Then he would learn the truth, as so many thousands of men have learned it by personal experience luring the past few months. But we have good reason to suspect that not even all the members of the Federal Reserve Board either believe or ipprove the statements which the boavd issues. Mr. McAdoo is not a financial sutlaw who stands in a desert by himself. When he says that deflation ;K&&. been carried too far and that an easing-up process is absolutely essential/ he is expressing/ views, we dare say; that are not without an exponent within the board itself. Mr. McAdoo was head of the trdarfijiEKf: svhile the war was being financed. Mr.' VIcAdpo organized, the Reserve system. Mr. McAdoo knows more ' about how that system can be employed - td'^en-? ;ourage or to depress business than my other man in the - county * Mr. McAdoo is not deceived by clever phrases intended to conceal the truth. He can tell a spade when, he sees orje; ind that is why he .emerged fronyprivate life long enough to warn th;J nation that the Federal Reserve Board la ill wrong on deflation, is engaged in a uinous programme and ought to call i halt while there is still time. As be:ween the textbook verdict of Secre- . lary Houston and the practical decision of former Secretary McAdoo, the :ountry prefers to follow McAdoo. There will be easier money in the United States because there must be ;asier money. Some private instltii:ions are already making their own money and it is passing current in heir communities. If the 'Federal janking system cannot supply essen ini prod it. the neonle will find a way ;o create their own credits. The pres;nt policy of the Federal Reserve Board is more dangerous to the welfare )f the country than all the anarchists within our borders. It has more than. 12,500,000,000 in credit that it could egally release without endangering the nherent strength of the banking sys;em. It is deliberately depriving the jusiness of the United States of necessary life blood. HICCOUGH EPIDEMIC Many Suffer In Budapest and Physi- . cians Unable to Stop Them. -t An epidemic of hiccoughs' with : ivhich the physicians are unable to :ope has caused much alarm among he Budapest population, says a Buda- . lest dispatch. The patients arc unible to sleep or eat and some of them lave remained in the grip oi the malidy for two or three weeks, until the iffection had run its course. As yet here have been 110 fatal results. Professor Benedict, of the local nedical faculty, has sounded an ilnrailst note in connection with the "I am afraid," he said, "that this niccoughing is a forerunner of the in- >' lucnza, but it is possible we should >e visited by an even more terrible dague." ,1^.;.. .-"a; , ST