" 3EM1. WEEKLY. U M. GRIST'S SONS, Pubii.h.^ .' $ ^amitjjDtirspaptr: jfor the promotion of the political, Social, jjritaiimpt and irommer.ciaT Interests of the geopl*. TER"^?"opi." o*^AN" established 1855 7 " YORK, 8. C.7t^RII>AY, DECEMBER 16, 1921. ' . NO.lOcT VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest., PICKED DP BY ENQDIKER REPORTERS ! Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. ... - ... * ?..* fr\rt 1i I "I'd UKe lo see some euun i>u> , now having1 as its object the building | of a good road from Rock Hill to Great Falls over in Chester county,'" said Peter Ihrie, well known business man of Rock Hill, who was talking roads with Views and Interviews the other day. "In my opinion such a road would means thousands and thousands of dollars in increased business to Rock Hill every year. I have talked with scores and scores of people living down that way and I know that they would like to trade in Rock Hill. A good road j is all that is needed for the city to get J the business." Foxes on Allison Creek. "There n,re still plenty of foxes In the vicinity of Allison Creek," said Mr. F. H. Moore, enthusiastic fox hunter of Rock 21 ill. who was talking about fox hunting the other afternoon. "I haven't had opportunity to enjoy the sport out that way myself recently," Mr. Moore went on to say; "but a number of other hunters have and they tell me that there are plenty of fox signs there. Dr. J. S. Beattv of Winnsboro has promised to bring his big pack of dogs over this way in the near future and his pack together with the doge belonging to hunters in this section . will make a pack that should worry the foxes very considerably." Where Has Business Gone. ? "While holiday business is picking up to some extent it is nothing like it should be now that Christmas is right at hand," said a Rock Hill merchant yesterday. "Just what the trouble is i don't know. It either isn't oeing done or else it is being done in some other town. . , "I am reminded of the Jew whotx friend told him that he didn't believe there was a hell. .. i.,,11,,,,^. ihop? is n hell?' in LJKJll c ucucrc bt?v* v w ? quired the Jew. " 'So,' replied the friend. " 'Veil den,' inquired the Jew, 'where ^ has business gone?'" Freight on Fruit. ".Maybe you didn't know it but the I freight on a ear load of oranges and ! grapefruit from the shipping point in; Florida to say. Rock Hill, for instance is greater than the cost of the fruit in Florida," said E. Bamford Garrison or the Philadelphia section the other day. j Mr. Garrison is engaged in the wholesale fruit business and. has recently j sold car loadi of grapefruit and! oranges in Rock Hill, Gastonia, Hickory and other towns in the Carolinas. "Because of the fact that I go down to Florida and buy the fruit myself 1 am able to sell it at a pretty good price," he went on to say; "but if the freight rates were not so high I could seij it, at a much cheaper figure." Dog Tags. l.'p to Wednesduy morning County j Treasurer Harry E. Xeil had sold 7' ; dog tags to owners of canines in York ! county. That is a number far in ex-, cess of more,than the counties up to this lime, Richland county for instance, not having issued more than1 _ i 200 licenses thus far. "Of course I can't tell how many dog licenses I wi'l issue this year," said the county) treasurer the other day. "I have 4.000 lags. There were about 4,000 dogs returned for taxation in the county last) year and calculating on that basis I j h ive sufficient tags for that many dogs 1 this year. But of course there js no; way of correctly estimating the number of licenses that will be sold this year." Rabbits in Fort Mill. v Babbit hunters would find a paradise i along the banks of the Catawba river | and country adjacent in the region of the cherry bridge, according to Edgar Jones, prominent Fort Mill farmer who was among the visitors in Yorkville last Wednesday. "I don't hunt any myself," said Mr. Jones in talking about gam"; "but 1 notice an over j abundance of rabbits in my section th's' year. I don't keep a dog and they i come up in the yard and play around. They are very numerous along the riv?V bottoms and in fact all over the whole country." Asked about ducks, Mr. Jones said that he had noticed very few ducks along the river this year. "Most of the ducks,' 'he said, "are to be found in the hack water from the Southern Power; Company's dam which is not a great way from my house. The ducks don't j stay in the vicinity of the bridge because they are very wild and timid and traffic across the bridge frightens tll< m. However, J IliUC uvruu) V.. served some rather largo specimens J flying toward the backwater." Making the Government Pay. "My brother Fred who is a patient in a. government iiospital at Johnson City, Tcnn., and who was home on a visit not long ago was telling how disubYd men at the hospital there get their compensation front the goverif nient," said Grover "\\\ Brown, well known young farmer of the Hickory Grove section, who was in Yorkville' recently. - "According to Fred, the ex-J soldi! rs at Johnson City, have long* ago! j gotten disgusted with the lethargy of ! government officials there in adjusting i monthly compensation for disabled [ men. There is in Johnson City, an exs?rvice man who is a sort of a lawyei and who knows all about the workings of the U. S. Veteran's bureau which is I supposed to look after compensation for disabled men. A man who feels that he has compensation coming to him pays this fellow's expenses to Washington. The 'military* lawyer goes to the office of the Veterans' bureau in Washington and he sits right there until he finds the proper official to take the case before. He doesn't leave until every thing is straightened put and he has every guarantee that the monthly check of the disabled man is going to come regular. -The scheme ] is pretty expensive to some of the I boys; but it gets" results." Liquor Not so Plentiful as Formerly. -"It is all bunk about there being as much drinking now as there was when we had a dispensary, or when we could get liquor legitimately by express," said the barber, as Views and InterI views was getting shaved the other day. A fellow who had had a drink of white lightning, and who wanted another; hut did not know where to j get it had made the remark that called forth the barber's declaration. "Of course it ijs all bunk. Who is in a better position to tell than me? Don't about all the people who drink liquor com? to the barber shop, and is it not a fact that there nee some who never come unless they have a drink? Of course that is so. I have been in the business more than fifteen years and I have had ,'v chance to- observe some things. "Yes, I lake a drink occasionally and sometimes I pet drunk; but I t^on't make a habit of it. It will slip up on any man who drinks'once in a whi'e. Of course there are-those who say they never get drunk; but all I have to say is that if he drinks at all I don't believe him< when he says he never gets drunk. "But I was talking- about liquor drinking'before and since prohibition. There is plenty of drinking now; but not nearly as much as there used to be. It used to be that more than fifty per cent, of the men who came in to have worjt done smelled of whisky, and now we often work all day, somctinfes: even all day Saturdays, without getting! a whiff or it. No I do not mean that i is a regular thing. Very often we have [ a run of customers who show sings of liquor; but I do not hesitate to say that where ^ one __man is .drinking "white lightning" these days there are| a half dozen drinking this "Peptone"; stuff or "Predlgcsted Beef" or "gin - 1 ger," or something of that kind. You \ don't often get the old corn whisky smell, and rye whisky is rarer still. But counting nil that, there is not near as much drinking as there used to be. and I don't mind saying that while 11 like a drink myself I am glad of it. I j have got more respect for myself when I I am sober anyway." Talking Boll Weevil. There were three of them In the. smoking compartment of the South-1 hound C. & N.-W. when Views and In- i terviews entered last Tuesday aftei'- J 1100:1, on his way to Columbia. They were unknown to each other as well as to Views and Interviews. But it turned out that one of them was a farmer, the other two traveling men. One of the traveling men was selling, or trying to sell fertilizers. The other was from Charleston. He did not say what he was selling. The farmer was from Cleorgia. "The merchants are not buying anything," said the fertilizer man, "ana although it is rather early, I am going in, No use to be out on expenses, with nothing doing." "These people up here have made good crops of cotton," remarked the, Charleston man. "but the merchants are not buying. They seem to be in the shadow of the' fcoll weevil." "That's tih- fellow that broke up my business and put mo to working for a salary said tiie fertilizer salesman. "1 t had a good trade, had lots of goods in; the country; couldn't collect anything and had to give it up." "That's what's the matter with me,"| volunteered the fanner from Georgia.j "I expected to make 200 bales of cotton ^ this year and got IS. I'm bankrupt.' I'm going where there is business to! see if I can't get a now start, and it'j I make it I expect to go bark to my. farm and take a new start. "Y;"uik m min-v.. t to these people up here next year?"! asked ^he fertilizer man. "They arc going on planting eotton another year and they are going broke. One of the( merchants up here at Yorkville toid) m" that he had traveled all over his county during the growing season;! that although tlie government reported cotton condition in August at 52 ptr cent, he knew it was closer to 70; that during the last of August lie saw the eotton tiields while except at the top and that the top was all green; that! there eame a scorching hot spell about that time and killed all the top crop. I "My. my, hut that story sounded; pitiful. 1 told that fellow that it was the same o!d story of the 'ust twenty | years, ever since the weevil came out mvm./v.r,...*, ~ crably during the year and is going into another year expecting to continue its progressive policy. Clover nnd Fort Mill' lndfr-a are about e?n?nl in membership and each lodge Las had a most successful year. Hoodtown, the smallest lodge in the ccainty in pclnt of membership- is no slouch in the matter of general interest and good .attendance upon regular meetings. In fact, it would not bo surprising if Hoodtown's attendance on lodge meetings is not larger than that of any other lodge in the county in proportion to the membership. Othor Fraternities Grow. Hut while the Masons have grown and prospered during the good year 1921, other fraternities have done likewise. There are two lodges of Odd Follows in the county?one in York- j ville and the other in Hock Hill. They | have gone forward to a remarkable j degree, especially the lodge in York- I ville which has its headquarters in the fraternal hall in the Cannon Mill village. The lodge has a flr.e 'degree team and the majority of its members are men who try to sec to it that noth- j ing prevents their attendance upon! every regular meeting. New Lodges for County Seat. Two new fraternities have ' broken into" the county seat field during the ; year Just coming to a close. They are j the Loyal Order of the Moose which j was organized in September and which ! now lias a memnersmp 01 nuee uiau 100 and the Junior Order United American Mechanics organized only a , few weeks ago r.nd which already has : a membership around forty with every j indication of rapid growth and pro- j gross during next year. Whi'e it is not generally known, the Junior Order is I one of the strongest fraternities in | York county. It ranks right along I with the Masons if it is not ahead in i membership. One of the largest coun- j ells of tlie order in the entire state of | South Carolina is located at Clover, j while Itock Hill also has a Junior lodge with a large membership. Growth of the Loyal Order of Moose j in Yorkville is considered really re- j niarkable. Organized at a time when money began to get "real tight," it , was predicted then that it would lie impossible to organize a large lodge1 ( here. However when the principles of; ] the order were explained to men of!. tho town and community they began ; , to show immediate interest with the j . result that each succeeding meeting j f has seen new candidates initiated and i ( the indications are that this growth is : going to continue during 1922. At the;, head of the fraternity* are a number of j men who are devoting much time anc! j thought to the fraternity and who have x pledged themselves to do even more in c the future. The Moose lodge in Hock Hill which was organized several years ago was L recently reorganized and according to j, Moose in that city, is rapidly getting , on its "feet" again. Tin- Moose Lodge ' in Hock Ilill, !>;< the way, is housed in the most commodious <|iiurtcrs of any 1 j iriiitrmiy m iu?* ruuit' wum.*. ; i An attempt to organize a Moose1 lodge in Fort Mill some time ago was . not shccessful for ii^ne reason or j , J other; but it is stated from headquarters of the district supervisor of the Order in Greensboro, N. C. that such an organization may be perfected even yet. Woodmen Grow. The several camps of woodmen of the World in York county have gotten along nicely, during the present year and reeords of the clerks of the several camps show "membership increases. _ . / Red Men Hold Own. The Improved Order of Red Men is holding its own. There are strong lodges of the fraternity in Rock Hill and in Clover. In liock Hill dnly recently somo thirty pale fr.cea were initiated* into .the mysteries of the order and were made good Indians. The Clover tribo -has. gained a few members during the year. Big Chief Tribe No. G1 of Yorkvillc has been disbanded. Just why nobody seems to know and there has been talk from timo to 1 time during the year of reviving tho tribe: but nothing..has bpen done about it. ?T Elks Havo. Grown. Thcro is only onomlk lodge in York county whlcli is loA^cd in Rock Hill * and liko the other fraternities the B. P. O. E. have been gating oh fine this year. The RockiHiR Elks are housed in- handsome quarters on Main street In that city and tho club feature appeals strongly to nttiny members. 1 vDo Much CH rrity Work. ' \Vhilo of course 1 :tle is known of it 1 cr should be kr.o? h to tKe outside world?certainly no specific cases, the 1 various fraternal or ers in York county have done mucl i charitable work 1 this-year and not ajl of It was among I their respective ificmbcrs by any i V?..t Un* iiio mn a ono _ 1 son approaches there will be more of < this thing and many a Tiny Tim will 1 haw. a happy and, merry Christmas < his season, little .dreaming that the l vherewithal was provided by the s members of some flfaternlty who love 1 little children and f^*own ujis who are i 3own and out and unable to do for < themselves. 1 , t , < MARCH GIVES WARNING 1 ?? < Military Man Would Have Army of 'l Not Lees Than 200,000. Warning against a permanent reduc;ion of the regular grmy below 200,^)00 ] :nllsted men is sounded In the last an- y lual report of Major General Peyton i 2. March, now retired, war-time chler < >f staff of the army.' The report covers ] the twe've months' i period preceding .he generpi'3 retiugjpent from the chler! ^ rtaff on last July 1, when he was sue- I 1 :ecded by General Pershing, with 1 dAJor General Harboard as deputy i thief of staff. < General March declares in his re- ( ort that the Idea that ait army or s 150,000 men, the strength now author- I zed by mandate of congress, furnishes 1 T5 per xent. as much national defense is a force of 200^000 is a fallacy." t "The 50,000 men above the 150,00' i todays, "is the combat part?in instant t eadiness to meet whatever wnergency i hat may develop. Tho reduction to < .50,000 will almost annihilate the force, j t ;onstantly needed in peace, and provid-! ng the life-saving first line to hold, s nick the enemy in time of war until l he second line elements of defense are t mobilized." , j ' General Marsh asserts that now that j i he war has been won there is "grave j lunger" that the American people will' ? ose sight of "the fortunate escape; c Yom indescribable calamity that ordi- i I larily is the fruit of unpreparedness." j j _.et it not be forgotten, he adds, that it t equircd seventeen months for the 1 Jnited States to put an independent^ trmy in the field in France, and asks t vhat would have happened had France i equired so long a time to put into Jine ho first fighting unit. " j s "And yet wo hear," he sa*ys, "a niif- t ion men can spring to ar\ns over 1 light." | i Turning to the question of universal t nilitary training, the general says that r 'if that portion of the manhood of the lation yvhlch would serve with the col- i < >rs in timo of war could appreciate t vhat it means when untrained men's nust be hurried into .battlo they prob- > 1 ibly would vote overwhelmingly for t he training in time of peace that c .vould fit them for their duties in war ! i md would Insure them a d to the front in our armies," he adds, I 'must pay a fearful toll in needless loss i it lire oecause oi meit iui n. m na...- . ng." r Tho former chief of staff reviews the i ictPvities of the army and the staff c luring: his last year of service at great c ength and declares in conclusion that i 'the general staff as now organized .inder the provisions of the act of Juncj I, 1920 (army reorganization act), is r functioning smoothly and with a high s lrgrce of efficiency." I 1 "In the face of criticism, undeserved j ( ind unwarranted," he adds, "their work! t las continued on a high plane of excel- i DC ill uwt'u lit icm r i/ii | May J, 192.1, his Gist birthday. This is Lti< r? iruiur retiring age, according to precedent. Dr. CuitcII has been presi- * [lent of the university since July 14. i i 1'M-t Tin- t 'v action as toj f In- request of lTesidenl Currcll, further i ? i.an to postpone consideration to a fu-j" are and more fully attended meeting.j ' ROUNDING UP VETERANS Some of the Experiences of Government Clean Up Spuad Men. MORE THAN 500 CLAIMS,ARE FILED Many Vets Appear lo be Ignorant of Kignts?une r-eiiow wants mass Eye to Replace Stolon Optic. By Frederick J. Has kin. Washington, D. C.( Dec". veteran of the World war who is petitioning the government to give him a new glass eye, because the first one they gave him was stolen whilo he was in swimming, and another man who had the most of his face blown away while in the service, but does not ask compensation because he dpes not consider himself a hero, are a couple of the curiosities revealed by the roundup of World war veterans which has just been conducted by the veterans' bureau here. Like many other varieties of government officials working in the field, the representatives of the bureau found themselves frequently handicapped by the fact that people be uevea mey were revenue omcers iooking for stills. The bureau sent its representatives Into all parts of the country, resolved to find every'veteran of the war who had a claim for r-oropcnsation and give'him his due. Over 06,000 disabled ex-service men have been interviewed since August. Evidence in the case of 56,334 of these veterans indicated that claims should be filed, and government representatives assisted these claimants to compile and prepare the necessary evidence. __These thousands of claims have been speedily acted upon, for out of the 56,334 claims filed only 4,398 are pending, the remainder having been adjudicated and notices of Settlement , forwarded to the claimants. As re- ( suit of this unique program of taking official Washington to the veteran, unusual cases from all parts of the^ country many of which the govern- i nent* is meeting with difficulty,- are ] coming to light of day for the first ' :ime. An Unattached Fighter. 1 There is, for example, the oase of C. H. Pearl, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, i veteran who lost his left hand and arm < is a result of a shrapnel wound in currcd in the trenches. Pearl is ap- ] parentis "a soldier without a cpuntry." ' It ?.ppears that this, unproven vet- ( cran 'enlisted in tho American ambu once service of the French army in 1917. After serving his enlistment he ] t^l^uvu iui uaiinici iu me rviiiciivati j ixpeditionary forces, but on advice of i lie attache, he re-entered the French i lervlce for three months. Six months- I ater he was wounded and sent to a , loppital. j t 1 Four weeks after his Organization vas transferred to the United States irmy, but Pearl was not sworn Into ;he United States service beqause he va3 in the hospital and was overlookid. Consequently, when released he vas a free agent and not a member of my army. The soldier obtained a portion with the quartermaster's de- , jartment, but his condition became , vorse and he reentered the hospital. L'pon liis release he worked in France j tnd last July came back to America. When the Michigan clean-up squad irrived in Grand Rapids to handle lo- ^ ;nl claims for compensation, Pearl' ap- j died to it for an award due to his inuries, but he was unable to show by i ifficial records that he had served the Jnited States during the war. Neither :ould he prove that he was actually in ^ he service of any country when he vas released from a French hospital, "j Nevertheless, Pearl is getting a .quare deal regardless of his inability . o prove that he was ever in service. His case is deemed to be one of those ( 11 which certain technicalities must be emporarily removed in favor of simile justice. ^ From Michigan also comes an uni- v jue demand of another veteran for a ^ lew glass eye to be purchased by the rovernment. The former soldier lost lis eye in service and among other { :ompensations was awarded a glass ;ye. A few months ago his glass eye . vas stolen together with his clothes vhile he was in swimming. He asked , lie Kim eriiuieiit mi u. uvu uuv luuuc I lately, but the claim was disallowed. Had the eye been broken, the ruling end. it would have been replaced, but nasmuch as it was stolen the govern nent could assume no responsibility n the matter. The veteran asked the lean-up squad to make an effort to >btain a reversal of the decision, vhich is now being done. Veterans Ignorant of Rights There are many instances of veterins having been found and compeniated by cleaning squads, who did not enow that they were entitled to gov rnment aid. At Stockton, Cal., a bat- I , le-scarred ex-service man desiring i :ompensation came before the clean- I ip squad. He said he had heart trou- J >le. So slight was his heart ailment j lowever. lliat the examining physician i , 'ound that it would not entitle him to lompensation. Hut to his great sur- f >riso he discovered that the veteran lad a scar about 10 inches long and 2 nehes wide on his hip where a muscle lad been shot off. f His chief complaint seemed to be ? hn lmil lu-.'ii't h'nnlilp l.nt li milj- mentioned the t'net that he hail! N his ugly Hhrajfnel wound in the hip j j mil besides a bullet wound in one arm. c -to almost forgot to mention the lat- t ter disability, the doctor said. It was also found that he had not fully recovered from a sort of paralysis of the.throat, arms and legs. The vet said he had always been too busy iu ini: a L iuiru jor compeosauun, oeiore, but that while working1 in the mountains he saw a postal announcing that the clean-up squad was coming to Stockton, so he decided .to go there for an interview. He" was rated as 50 per cent, disabled and therefore entitled to $10 a month compensation. "When the clean-up squad sat in Hartford, Conn., a veteran came before^:. Ho showed the doctors of the squad a wound in his left side that made them ste.nd aghast. Tli^ head of the clean-up squad was called into the room and he, too, admitted that in his crowded experience in the department with disabled ex-service men, he had never seen any such a ghastly wound. This soldier had not received a :enny of allowance since his disNa-go over two years ago. An explosive bullet had opened a wound across his left side, just above the hip, over 14 inches long, and hod forced the hip out so that the cavity was from 4 to 6 inches deep. It had not yet fully healed and the veteran applied for compensation Inasmuch as he was unable to work. Humorous incidents come to light in connection with this work as the unemployment situation leads some of the ex-service men to strain a point, in order to obtain compensation. In Knoxville, Tenn., a young man presented himself and told of his affliction. ^rhich he was Informed w^s not compensable. The young man was taken aback by this prompt dismissal of his argument and paused a moment Suddenly his Ijand began to tremble while resting on .his knee as he said, "I am also very nervous." In some parts of the hill country of Tennessee and West Virginia the government representatives with the clean-up squads were mistaken for "revenooers." In other remote districts they were mistaken for draft officials who the less literate portion of the population believed were searching for draft evaders. ' One agent of the Veterans' bureau who had preceded the squads for the purpose of making tho advance arrangements was picked up by a group of men in an''automobile who offered to take him to hisdestination. He. accepted the offer nr.d got in the car but he had to rest bis heels on several demijohns of "corn likker." The trip was interrupted in several 'places while deliveries were beihg made. In Buchanan, Virginia, a man who had his face almost blown away by a gasoline explosion In France told the :lean-up q/ficers that he did not know Lhat he. was entitled to compensation because "he*" wasn't any hero soldier \nd didn't get shot, but. just got blew up trying to put a Are out in camp." PEACE ON EARTH The Disarmament Conference Promisee Great Things for the World. The arms conference furnished Suniay reading which is increasingly tatisfactory as the weeks pass, writes IV. J. Hryan for the papers of last Sunday. The argument in regard to the isand.s of the Pacific marks a milestone >n the road of world amity; not .so nuch because there is likelihood of var over the disposition of the islands jut because the spirit embodied in the igreement is a pacific spirit It only 'equires two points to fix the decision >f a line and that decision once fixed :he line can be extended indefinitely n both (Jirections. The scrapping of battleships, cstabished one point, the four-power agreenent established a second point and t will be hard for the conference to each any conclusion that \$1U be out >f harmony with this fixed line.' Sees Freedom of China. Japan's agreement to turn over to 2hina the public buildings in the Shantung district is another indication )f the reaction against war and war nethods. China is on the road to independence and that independence is o be recognized by all the powers. The doctrine of self-determination s the working hypothesis which ex^loino who f f ha nnnfornnpn ia rlrvJn p* tVhen nations, big and little, are left o work out their own destiny under governments of their own choosing ind subject only to their own control, hey cause as little friction as suns, danets and stars. Invites Lloyd George. Great Britain and Ireland seem to )e coming together on the same basis o the relief of the world, as well as to he satisfaction of the immediate >arties. If Premier Lloyd George suc eeds in solving the centuries-old dis>ute between Great Britain^nd the Smerald Isle, he will just have to ome to the United States to celebrate. rhoro is no place where he would re- 1 eive a more joyous welcome. And it nay be that he might be able to give in impetus to disarmament on land, he only thing needed to complete the 'circle of our felicities." Come, Lloyd George, and the Ameri- 1 an people will make your/fetr-.y "one ! ;lad, sweet song." ? Governor Cooper has been quite ill 'or some days. He became indisposed ; ihortly after his return from the con 'ention of governors at Charleston last! veek and was ill when he attended the <'oeh reception at Greenwood on De:ember 9, but was hoping to be able to )e but yesterday. ... P * YORK COUNTY ROADS Need lor lord Surface fllgbways Is Evident Says Sapervbor. I |l | ^ , ArA'Vj jJ| ?mn niv Will WIT tTAHB TVAtnf unuu uuii nibb nui umnv im?ii w While Hard Surface Cast* Much Mora to Build 8uporvioor Believe* It Moat Economical in Long. Run?*Vhe North Road Will Bo Turned Oyer to Btata Highway Commieoion in March, Ai| cording to Plan*. f * A That sand-clay roads are not sutflciently strong to take care of the ever fl increasing and heavier automobile traffic in York county and (hat there will be no remedy until hard surface roads are built over the mail) thoroughfares, was the opinion expressed bif Suprevlsor Hugh G. Brown in an interview wnn a reporter tor xav ^ YorkviUe Enquirer. 'The sand-olay BH road simply won't hold up and that is all there is to it,** the supervisor Went on to s*y. "It has been tried out thoroughly. Fifteen or twenty years a^o JK the sand-clay road was the very thing. But with an ever increasing number of automobiles and trucks op the roads carrying heavy loads, it is plain the sand-clay road won't stspd up to ft "As matters go nw we are spending hundreds and thousands of dollars each year trying to keep these roads In repair. As soon as a repair Job ished it is almost time to start all over again. Take the Rock Hill rtfod for instance. s I suppose the road from the county scat to Reck Hill is the roofct * extensively used road In York county. In fact I know It is. "I haven't the exhet figures; but I should guess that something like fl.000 has been spent in dragging and Otherwise repairing that road this year. It has been a case of coping the same ything over and over again. "Hardssurface or concrete roods are the only practical solution of the road problem. Take the Cherry road, for UU stance, that stretch of hard iswrftce road from Wlnthrop college to tie Catawba river bridge, between Rock Hill and Fort Mill .; * h Several years have elapsed now since that road was completed, hjtti It la practically as good tgday as Jtwap the ifav if nraa flnlihiui TIim Via a .Van n/i big repair bill there and th^M Vttl not be for sevefal ye^rs to come. True/it is expensive- to build?-much more expensive trtan the sand-day reads; but the difference cotne/ fn'tllff podtof upkeep, to say- nothing o? the pleusursand satisfaction of dalektr travel oa a good road. Costly, But EeOflSmioaV ' ' K "As well as I recollect, that road cost about I It,000 a mile to build, plus the chain gang labor, which rtrbs the total cost away up around the 121,000 mark* But as I remarked there has been no repair bill. Suppose we had a hard surface road between the bounty seat and Rock Hill. It would not have beets necessary to spend that $5,00? for upkeep, that 1 mentioned. ' "Just think how much more business would be developed between the towns. Think of the wear and teas that would be saved on automobiles." The North Road. Asked if he had any idea when the North road project to the'King's:Mountain township line, on which the chalk gang Is now engaged, would *be completed. the supervisor said that he could not tell exactly; but that It might j be next March before the road is turn** ed over to the state highway commission. "We'll probably finish the worjt of grading and sanding?4>y the end pd next week," he said; "but of course we can't complete the work then. One can't build a road In a few days, you know. There is much shaping up ^ be done. Then after the road settles as It were we will have to go back andJ fill up the holes and uneven places that' * appear from time to time. Don't gel the idea that the chain gang^wtU be engaged steadily on that road from nnw nnMl n#?*t Mnreh: but I believe I that it will be that time before thg road is in proper shape to turn over to the state highway commission.'* Way Into Yorkville. Supervisor Brown said that the town authorities had never informed the. county authorities relative to the entrance of the new West road into Yorkville?whether it will be Jby jvay'of the town pumping station and the Jail or whether It will be carried out ifo/tfte King's Mountain road. Business peb-' pic of the town are apxious that the road lead Into Yorkville by the watei* works and Jail. "There Is really rio hurry about the town's letting us know about the matter," he said. "Any time next summer will do becauso we will hardly be able to come into town before that time." Getting back to the subject of hard! surface road again, the supervisor said that one good thing was beihg done for the future in connection with the .. . building of sand-clay roaas ana wax was that when the opportupp time did come for the building of hard surface roads the sand-clay roads already constructed would furnish an admirable base or foundation. One Kir^ Wordrr-"Can't you find anything pleasant to say about the members of my family?" her husband demanded hotly. j "Well," returned his wife In a; coldly j soothing tone, 'I can remetfcber end j thing: They were all opposed to our j marriage."