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^ ^ ^SSUCD SZMJ- J ^ L. M. GRIST'S SONS, Pubii.her^ & 4amilB S^s^er: J;or th$ gromofion of ih^ political, ?nqial, Jgrirtfltinpl and (Tommmial Interests of th< jpeopty. TER^S^^?^.E^iNcwrr^ WC# ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, ^C.7FH1DAY,J A'0 ~192Q. NO. a" VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brie! Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things,! Some of Which You Know and | Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "Nope, there is no meeting of the pension board 'in session today," said Mr. S. II. Kpps of Fort Mill township, when asked what he wus doing in town Wednesday. "I just camo today ilninir" Mr Enns went on to say. He attended the meeting' of the legislative delegation. Going After Board of Charities. "Will there be a fight made on the state board of charities and corrections this year at the meeting of the general assembly as there was last year?" the reporter asked Senutor llart, Wednesday. "There will if I am living/' replied Senator Hart. Back In Germany. "Well, sir when that axe struck me I was knocked plumb loco and somehow or other I imagined that I was back in Germany," sAid Jim Robinson, guard of the chaingang, who was attacked yesterday morning by a convict. "It just seemed like," said Robinson, "that 1 could hear the biir German Berthas pepping around me for a little while." - , Eggs More Plentiful. "Sow that the Christmas holidays are over we are having no trouble getting a'l the eggs we need for our trade," remarked a dealer:-yesterday. "Funny thing about eggs getting so scarce Just before Christmas every year. Really 1 don't know whether the trouble is that the hens go on strike to such a great extent or whether the reason is that many people hold them oft tl.o market in order to get a better price just before Christmas. * Good Christmas for Poor. "Well, the old folas at the county home had the best Christmas Just passed that they have ever had or rather that they have had sinco 1 have been there," said Mr. 1. I*. Boyd, superintendent of the institution yesterday. "A number of chureh societies sent boskets of fruits, cakes, candies and other good things and nunieryus indl- , ?- l- 1. J . . tUnl vimutjs seni pieacuis. 11 uiuui: mv hearts of the paupers glnd to bo remembered so bountifully. They still haw a goodly quantity of the Christmas foods left." No Luck for Her. Every onee in a while somebody either brings or sends to '1'fte Yorkvllle Enquirer a copy of a letter which was claimed to have been written by the Savior after his cructlixton. The letter hns been published in The Enquirer time and again and will hard'y be published any more. In the letter Is the statement that the person having a copy who does not publish it, will have bad luck. Tho last receipt is from Mrs. Hlackwell On King's Creek No. 2, who writes: "I have got a letter here that I would like to get pubMshcd to the world, for 1 have had this copy about ten years and I huvc not had any good luck." Mipht Eat tho Pot. A colored man whose reputation for; paying his debts is none too good.; walked into the place of a Yorkvllle j dealer me omer uay ana iiiquiicu. "Cap is yo* all got any wash-pots?" "Oh, yes," returned, the salesman, "we have them. They are. up in the warehouse." "Well, I'd like to look at them if; you ain't too busy," replied the negro. I "I'm never too busy if there is any. cash in sight," replied the salesman. "But boss, ah want to pay fo* it mxt fall," replied the negro. "Nothing doing," said the salesman. "We might as well not look at them. Why don't you know I'm afraid the bo'l weevil might carry that wash pot off before next fall if I sold it to you j on credit." Work of Incendiary. That the destruction of Harmony Presbyterian church which was being used as a school house by the pupils of Miller school in District No. 4S was the work of an incendiary, is the belief of Mr. J. M, Briee, who lives nearby and who was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the fire Monday night, "f found a bottle on the north side of the building.that smellcd of kerosene," said Mr.' Bricc Wednesday. "Yet whyanybody should want to burn that! nn<1 n lcn Iwmcn ii'ltiph i was burned several weeks ago is more than I am able to figure out. The traeher lir.d had no trouble and thoj trustees have had no trouble. Wc are al a loss to understand it/' Believes He Is Cominy. Mr. Sam Bycrs of Bcthcsda township was among the visitors in York-1 ville last Wednesday. He was accompanied by his son, Mr. Bolivar Dyers. Discussing the agricultural out-; look in his section, Mr. Dyers said that, people were very much puzzled as were the people in oilier sections or tnc county and hardly knew what to do. "Personally I believe that tlio boll i weevil is going to do about as much damage in York county this year as lie did in some of the other counties down state last (all and the outlook is not very encouraging. Just now," Mr. By era went on to say, "I am about as; much interested in seeing the price of( cotton go up as anything else. I have two year's crop on hand and it is beginning to hurt." Out of tho Ordinary. "Well the appearance of that company of ladies before the county legislative delegation in the courthouse Wednesday seeking re-enactment of [ the appropriation of $1,200 for the , support of the county demonstration | agent makes one realize that the women are really beginning to lake sunte inivrrni in puuiu aimus uiuuuv* here," remarked,a citizen following the meeting. "I think that was the first time in the history of York county that a number of ladies have appeared before the legislative delegation for any purpose. Well, it is a big old world. Let the women run things for a while. They am do no worse than the men." Dog License Tax. ( "That dog license tax certainly surprises me," said Treasurer Neil Wednesday. "I have not got all my mail ( worked up yet; but so far I have issued about 3,600 dog tax tags and right now , it looks like it may go up to 3,800 tr 4,000. / "I have known as many as four thousand dogs to be returned to the auditor in the regular manner in times past; but invariably some Ave or six , hundred of thern would be stricken off as nuua uuiiu. "I?ut there is lots of trouble about j this dog tax?getting it properly dis- ( tributed among the school districts. In spite of all the talk and all the advertising that has been done, people occasionally give us the wrong school districts. They may have lived In one district last year and although moved to another, give us the old number or. leave it to us to do the best we can in locating them. "It is going to lie a tedious job to an-' swer the questions of inquiring trustees in some cases. Wc have Issued . the receipts and have the stubs; but alphabetical arrangement lias been impossible. In fact we can't get them ar- s ranged alphabetically until after the t books close and that will bo in March, you know. Most of the licenses are distributed among the pi^opcr school districts; but until we can get the opportunity to make an alphabetical list | of all tax tags we*cannot tell to just what districts they belong. "Don't misunderstand me, however," concluded Treasurer Neil. "There has been nothing like general confusion. I t doubt whether there are as mutiy as ' twenty-five license laxet credited to r other than their right districts; but 8 you can see, no doubt, that it is'going to lake a lot of tedious work to get them straightened out." BANKERS OPTIMISTIC J Prospects for 1922 Hopo ul They Say 8 In Statement). Business prospects for 192" are, in ; general hopeful, aufcording to state- v merits' by prominent bankers, made public recently by the An crican Bunkera' association. . c The future of business and finance * In the United States is encouraging," 1 said Thomas B. MeAdaias, president ^ of the association. 1 Ho emphasized the ii lportance of * this country interesting itself in the f pioblems of Europe in order that * American prosperity may be maintain- s ed. He said that, although some lead- 3 ii.g politicians and ncv spapers op- 1 posed extending aid to E irope at this time "future prosperity lepended on the way financial Amelia answers the call." "The time for anxiety se "ins to be entirely past and the middle :>f 1922 should see recovery well esta'dished,' . declared John C. Lonsdale, president of 1 the National flank of <'nmmerce of' St Ix>uls. 'All of the Hiings neces- j sary to commercial betterment scan to liuvc beer, set in motion, so that 1922 should see the beginnin; of the ora of our greatest and most golden prosperity." , Prosperity among our tinners, man-| ufneturers and merchants is directly i affected by tho unsettb d conditions, of finance and politics it Europe, according to J. A. House, president of the Trust Company I dvision and Guardian Savings' and Trust Company of Cleveland. "This must bo remeclic I," he added. "It is apparent, also that strikes for higher wages aro ccrU ir.ly not in keeping with the present order of things. Enbor must bear its fair share in future deflation. Mr. House emphasized the need of rehabilitation of the railroads and said that congress should pust equitable Lax laws to encourage tic flow cf capit:.1 through channels vhich would moan investment. John S. l'uslicher, vici president or 1 tln> American Hankers association, 1 said the t rend was to vards easier ' money i;ates and there was nothing to 1 in die.".to that this would not coutlnuo. "The stroiigf-st factor hi the present situation is the grov ing strength |' of the banks." ho declared. "It is our belief," declared It. S. ' lleeht, president of the State Bank ' Division of the Anierirui Barkers as- 1 soeiatioti, "tliut we will n d again have ! real prosperity in this country until 1 sonic kind of economic r st oral ion has ' been accomplished in I urope and a 1 stable basis for intern itiunal trade 1 worked out." ? Judge, It. C. Watts, <<r the supreme ' court, underwent an op -ration in a Columbia hospital a few days ago for I kidney derangement. The. understand- j ing is that he will havj to undergo another and still more serious opcrai tion. I BEAUT1UFL BEAUFORT Long In Baekguound Now Forging to the Front. SOME OF THE SCENES! ALONG THE WAY Truck Farmer* Are Growing Rich Through Intelligent Cultivation? Coast Country Offer* Opportunity to Thousand*?Some Lands Worth More Than $1,000 Per Acre?Climate Ha* no Superior?Negroes Make Little Progress?Fish, Oyster* and Game in Abundance?Some Places of Interest ?Other Impresaions of Land of Sunshine and Flowers. (By a Staff Correspondent.) En route on the South Carolina Coast?It was about 2 p. m. on the afternoon of December 26, that our party left Wiggins for Beaufort, about thirty miles, by boat, giving us opportunity to see a number of the semitropical Islands surrounding Beaufort ind a four hour glance at a country, most of which although still undevel)ped, possesses the niQst wonderful opportunities. Senator Noils Christcnsen >f Beaufort county, one- of the best tnowp men in the state, sent his sturdy gasoline tow-boat up to the home of Mr. Rice in order to take us to Beaumrt. Mr. H. H. Lake of Beaufort, one >f the. leading business men of the fair Ittlc city and a Beaufort booster from .ho word go, accompanied Mr. Christenlen's boat to Wiggins and Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., also accompanied us >n the riwr trip to Beaufort. The jilot was an old experienced rivcrman. i negro named Williams. wno .borough1}' knows his business and his xssistant in looking after the engine md tilings generally was another experienced negro sailor. "Have no fear of the pilot," assured ilr. Lake, upon leaving the wharf of he .Savannah River Lumber Company it Wiggins.- "Ho is thoroughly reliable ind you'll not go aground." Weather a Bit Raw. Tho afternoon was clear although a >it raw and the party made themselves jomfortablc on deck in order that a jotter view of the country might be iffordfd. There was Mr. Itice and Mr. !>ake to direct attention to points of nterest and there was so much of real ntcrcst that the raw winds didn't run he party be!ow until just a few ninutes before the tow-boat drew up it the dock at Beaufort. The thoughtful Mr. Laknjtfuibrought pith him it bounteous luncheon, consist ng of sandwiches, fruits, fruit cake, 3eaufort grown pecans and plenty of oflfee which the assistant to the pilot [own below soon had piping hot. And iu the boat chugged-chugged her way o Beaufort through tho winding vi ithing, meet-yourself-coming-back vatcr courses to Beaufort. The Route. Starting from the little lumber town if Wiggins, over the new Chec-ha river lie party passed on the left Boulder's aland, Warren Island, Beef Island and Vshe Island, each ono with an interestng history and about which of each dr. Rice had a graphic story to tell. )n the right was Wulnilt Point, Field's 5olnt, Mqrgan Island and the old Coolaw fertilizer plant put out of business ears ago in the mining of phosphate ock because the general assembly saw It to place a heavy' royalty upon the ndustry, thus rendering it unprofitable.! Into Combahee River. Then the boat chugged her way into j Combahee river, rounding Hangman's| 'oinl, at the head of St. Helena Sound. <Yom Coinbahee the course lay into roosaw river with St. Helena and. Island on the left. St. lleleual slund* by the way, Is, a most interest-j ng Island. About fifteen miles long, ind six miles wide, extending1 from; 'oi*t Royal Sound to St. Helena Sound ind swept by the Atlantic on the cast, I t hus a population of perhaps a little [ ?vtr 6.000, of whom all hut 100 are; legroes. Imagine that, will you? One! lundreds whites and 6,000 negroes! And, oday ll is an island of poverty, alhough there are perhaps no richer auds on the coast. The lands belong! o the negroes. Beaufort people will ell you that the negroes won't sell forj ovo or money. A few years ago the s'and was exceedingly prosperous, alslng long staple cotton, but the boll vecvil luis long since wiped out the I Sea Island cotton Industry and the St. Ielena Island negroes are in a position if poverty. They have not turned to rucking as have the intelligent white 'armors of Beaufort, and the sea isands have done and they are living 11 squalid poverty. The tide-water eglon in which he lives is teeming vith all kinds of fish, oysters, crabs, lawns and shriinns. Yet few of them iftVi; tl 10 energy ami get-up to llsli orj o tako oysters. Not Proficient in Agriculturo. Not proficient in general agriculture >r in truck farming it is v.lio contensus of opinion nrouml Itoaufort that ho negroes on St. Helena I -la.n<J are ;oitig to have to either Bell their lands, 50 to utilizing the food of the sea. dart truck farming or starve. Some ivill very likely starve. Poor people! Poor and proud, with the wealth of the ivorhl under their feet and in the water it the edge of their island if they vould only bestir themselves. Vet their very lingo is never heard outside this incient habitat. It would seem that they are tied !o Iho region l>y a rendition that has no! parallel in America. After tlie War Uctwccn the States and freedom came, Lhc rice planters who owned St. Helena and other islands of the sea were sa poor they could not pay the taxes. The district was represented by Eob Smalls, a negro congressman. Largely through his -influence the sold?for-tax lands were divided by the I-'ederal government into tracts of from ted to fifteen acres and sold to the helpless and dependent negroes for something like a dollar a tract?just a nominal sum to make a legal sale. And yet some lands around the cltir of Beaufort less than twenty miles off I bring ?1,000 nn acre and even mure and this land of St. Helena is just as rich. It Is said that forty per rent of the splendid land in Beaufort county today?land so much wanted by white truck farmers?is owned by negroes. Such is St. Helena Island, dark Africa of the South Atlantic coast and the conditions there are like those of other coastal is'es. And yet some day, i it is predicted, it will bloom like the country in the rear of the historic old city of Beaufort is blooming?the country that is becoming know as "Little1 Florida." -Brickyard River. Churning her way Jut of C?osaw, leaving St. Helena Island behind, the ' ChrlstenBcn boat plo\?s her Way into Brickyard river. Mr. rltico- calls attention to the fact tifet there on the right is Chlholm Island where the late Dr. Robert Chiaolm ruado a fortune growing olives before we War Hewtecn the States. 7'he olive industry is no longer carried on tlierfe,' but with the new awakening that Incoming over the wonderful coast country may rc" vived because it is i>oiistble to produce dlrnost any fruit in that wonderful semi-tropical climate.. Rut the scenic beauties of that country?numerous palmettos?at one point a regular forest of palmettos; stretches of wood'and, long festuons of Spanish moss, graceful and pointed, hanging from the trees arc befrond comparison. Tho marsh grass lines the river banks for miles and miles, flocks of wild, duck fly up froep the grass and pass neur the boat. If one had had a gun and could shoot*1-well, It ?would havo been an. easy matter to supply half of YorH county with the tine meat In short order. ? Herring gulls sported around the boat. Interesting pa#time on the trip was to throw1 a bit Of bread or other food into the water.. The gull appears to have eyes all aroupd. I|e sees the throw and he flies along over the spot and Jives for the morsel. Perhaps he misses his quest, Tbi herring 'gull, one IcarnS, is a bird of grlSt patience. Loin of persons might learn a lesson from him. Ho swoops again and comes up with the bread and flies into the sky. He does not go far; becauso there might be another morsel thrown into the water. There is, and he Is there to get It. And no he and his brothers follow for miles and miles and miles. , This river country is a veritable paradise for birds and water fowl. We sec several species of tern. High above is a big niarsh hawk looking for some?vi? *... oe hu cast* hln sharn eves! LI11II? C\-r Vttt au m ? over the landscape. There on the right is a flock of red winged blackbirds. The belted kingfisher flies about. The solitary sandpiper flits along the river banks on the edge of tho marsh; noiseless and crafty and cunning. Out there to the left a loon1 or great northern diver, disports in the water, j diving with a grace and skill that lsi peculiar only to his species, the natur-1 alist of the party says. One sees a great, ug'y bird?in fact a pair of them, perched on buoys a mile ahead. Mr. Rlee, despite the distance away, identifies them as Florida comorants. The boat comes clocer to .the buoys and, the big water birds fly away into the distance, clumsy, ungainly looking fowls, flying low. A dozen species of ducks are scon in the marshes and on the rivers. The didapper is along the river banks; a flock of grackles parses overhead, the kildce crying his plaintive note is seen and heard; numerous crows pass by. On the uver bank <>n the right a great blue heron stands iji :i swampy place and thinking maybe that the boat Is coming toward him when it isn't, he stretches his great spread of wing. He rises like a great aeroplane and in a shorter time than a Hying ship could do it, he is lost in the heavens making for some oilier place where his! perch might not be disturbed. Porpoise Plays. Kearing Beaufort a great buttle noscj porpoise bobbed up just ahead of thci boat. Three times did he raise bis great bulk not twenty yards away from the prow of the boat, i>ausing for a J moment as he came to the surface as if to say: "You can't run over me.'' The passengers craned their necks to get another and closer view of him; but be bad evidently tired of bis stunt. Just as the boat was coming almost upon hitu he dived under the craft and was seen no more. And so amid numerous scenes of natural beauty and m the abundance of wild life and growing tilings that thrive without the care of man but. by the grace of the Creator, tho boat heads into Beaufort Bay and makes ready to tic up at the wharf. There arc a number of small craft in the harbor. A trim little revenue cutter Is along side. The beautiful .yacht of Mr. Ilarry Payne Whitney, millionaire New Yorker, a veritable floating palace is passed. The yacht has stopped in Beaufort .en route to Florida. She is manned by ncatly dressed sailors. Neatly painted, she presents an appcaraneo of clcanli(Continucd on Page Eight.) j \ DELEGATION HOLDS MEETING Citizens Discuss Many Matters ol More or Cess Importance. NUMBER OF WOMEN WERE PRESENT I Brie* Would Have Law to Require Lights on Buggies and Wagons. at Night?Additional Equipment Needed for Chaingang?Weet Road Wants Appropriation of $5.000?$30,000 Asked for Boyd Bridge?Opposition to Mecklenburg Project. I Much Idle and unnecessary talk, sporadic outbursts of fervid oratory, presentations of claims for appropria- . Ucns and tender of a number of suggestions worth while, featured the meeting of the county legislative deflation with citizens of York county held in the court house Wednesday morning. All of the members of the legislative delegation wcro present; but there were few citizens present , when Senator John It. Hart called the I meeting to order at 11 o'clock. However the number increased as the I meeting progressed and thero were a number of matters up for discussion. The presiding officer requested that J all remarks be brief and to tho point 1 and succeeded fairly well in keeping r folks down to issues. Linhts on Vehicles. Ifon. J. S. Brico asked that the dele- , Ration try to put through a measure ( requiring drivers of buggies and wag- , oiik In tho night time to show a light ( in the interests of the preservation of ( life. It was impossible, he said, for tho driver of an automobile to see a , wagon or buggy in the road until right | upon it and many accidents resulted. | Mr. Brico aJso discussed the matter of grade crossings and took occasion , to say that tho state should require ( the railroads to build either overhead ( or underground passes at all public ^ crossings tslnco it was impossible to ? make all travelers "stop, look and , listen."" , Opposition to State Insurance. | W. S. Wilkcrsou voiced his oppoai- | tion to the state sinking fund commission which charges $15 per $1,000 in- | suranca on rural school houses where- ( as private companies would givo the j same amount of Insurance and in- , surar.ce Just us. good at $4 per thou- j aand. Tliia matter of insurance, Mr. j Wllkerson argued was n, big lt^m in a .1 community where it is riefcesaary to raise much money for common school j education and rigid economy should i be practiced. He scoffed the claim of the sinking fund commission that at ] tho end of ten years it will be in posi- i tion to insuro school housed freo of ] churge, claiming that the profits it Is n.aklng will be appropriated for somo j other purposo before tho cud of that ] period. Mrs. J. M. Williams of McConnells- j ville, a member of tho Woman's Coun- , cil of the York County House Demon- ( stration Work as the spokesman for a ( delegation of farm women of the coun- ( ty, asked the delegation to continue tho appropriation of $1,200 to pay the t salary of Miss Juanita Neely, woman's home demonstration agent for York. ( The balance of Miss Neely's salary is paid by the Federal government. Mrs. W. R McKellar of Sharon also ( endorsed the work of Miss Neely as ^ courtly agent and said that she had ac- J complished great things and "we want the work to go on." ^ Bethel Has Debt to Pay. I Mr. Bricc called attention to the fact j that when the present hoard of town- ( ship road supervisors for Bethel took | charge Inst winter they found on hand j a debt of nearly $1,000 on tho to.wn- ( ship vvWen their predecessor left office. The debt had not been paid and he ( was sure that as a matter of law the j township was liable. R. S. Riddle sug- ?] gcslcd that the delegation increase t tho township levy for road purposes i by two mills in order to take care of { the Indebtedness. t Equipment for Chaingang. t Supervisor Hugh G. Brown asked ( for additional equipment for the coun- ' ty chaingang and for an additional ap- ' proprlatlon for maintenance. The T number of tho convicts on the gang at < present, he said, was 63 and the aver- ' age since last April has been about 50, ' whereas* tho old average was about 30. 1 Naturally more money was needed to t run the gang. 1 He estimated that the needed additional eqipmcat would cost $M50. Koiii-tfon mules are needed which will cost about $175 each, eight whcelors ' at $75 each; six wagons and extra feed. Tic wanted to swap off six of the chuiugong'H mules and ho estimated that ho would have to pay a dif- ' ferenee of $100 with each mule. Dr. J. H. Sayo ^thought the county ' should buy a small steam shovel instead of the extra mules and woclers as an economic measure. Tho super- ' visor didn't think, however that tho shovel would be economical on short 1 hauls which the ehaingang wjll have ; during the next eighteen months. Bridges Need Painting. , W. \V. Miller, county engineer call- ] ed attention to the, fact that tho Iron , bridges of the county needed paint- | ins necessary to the preservation of ] their life. He suggested an appro- j priation of $3,000 for the purpose and j premised to make the money go as far i ay possible. t Tlio county engineer also asked for t an appropriation of $3,000 to build a t mile and a hair of road from the Boyu Bridges over the Catawba river in Bethel township to Boyd's store. No matter which way the road from the | county seat to the bridge went that tnuch of the route was settled. There is no road at all on the York county uido of the bridgo now and some , means must be provided immediately to get the bridge in order to carry on the work. The engineer also called attention of the delegation to the fact that appropriations must bo made to take care of bridges at Black's mill, a branch just beyond and Bullock's creeK on me; West Road project. Boyd's Bridge Road. ' There was a lengthy discussion relative to a road leading from Yorkville to the new Boyd's Bridge over the Catawtoa and a request for a county , appropriation for the road. Advocates of the two proposed routed?the old Charlotte road- way and the Lincoln ^ road were present In large numbers. Mr. Brice stated that what was wanted of the delegation was authority to have a survey of the two routes with ( estimated costs authorized. Then the delegation would be asked to provide for the cost of the route to be deslg- 1 nated by the county commissioners. R. 8. Riddle stated that the distance ' to the bridge by the so-called "Upper Route" or Lincoln road, was 18 miles ' els measured with an .automobile speedometer and that by the lower route it was 17.4 miles. He wanted a 1 survey of the two routes made before i the general assembly adjourned, the f cost of each ascertained and the dele- i gatlon to appropriate for the cheap- < sst way. I Engineer Miller stated for the Infor- { m&tlon of the delegation that It would be Impossible to make such r. survey j before the general assembly adjourns. ] J. A. Tato wanted, to know if the , road to the Boyd bridge could be built < For less than 930,000 and the engineer | aid not think so. Mr. Tate then asked < the delegation for an appropriation of , ?30,000 to build a road to the river t with tho understanding that if the imount be insufficient a request would be made twelve months hence to complete the project ( A. L. Black stated that if tho dele- ' nation was going to appropriate money for*a road to Boyd's bridge then ho wanted on appropriation for the Adair's Ferry rood and he argued that 1 he had just as much right to ask for ?uch an appropriation as the Bethel 1 und York towqshlp people had. J. Darby Smith was opposed to an ' impropriation for the Boyd's Bridge road by the cotmty. * -'? f D?in*v ihnnirht York and ' JIM III O. . Bethel townships should vote bonds to build tho road to the Boyd's Ferry bridge connecting with Mecklenburg, Want Aid for West Road. Dr. J. H. Saye asked for an appro* priation of $5,000 to complete the West road from Bullock's Creek bridge to Sharon. Money novr on hand he said ivculd complete the work to Bullock's Creek bridge and no further. Unless :he road is constructed on Into Sharon It will be of no value. Discussing the survey of the West -oad into the county seat whlqh would five entrance Into the King's Mounlain road Instead of the Howell's Ferry road past the county Jail, he said he was much opposed to such an entrance because it was so much further. Ho understood that entrance would lot be into Yorkville by tho jail be:ause the town did not have the money :o build a road within the incorporate imits connecting with the West road. f this was the case he wontca me lelegatlon to give the supervisor au- ^ hority to use the chalngang on that >art of the road within the incorporite limits of the town. W. S. Wilkerson Indorsed the plea )f Dr. Saye for an additional appropriation of $5,000 for the West road, rle called attention to the fact that luring the thirty years the chalngang lad been In existence Bullock's Creek ind Broad River townships had the >cneflt of Its services only about eigh,nen months in all. The western side )f the county had been treated shameully with reference to road matters. ie said and that $5,000 appropriation vas just right. He spoke of the $50,- . 100 bond issue for roads voted by 3road River last year showing the efort of the people to help themselves. . n conclusion he took a friendly fling it his Bullock's Creek neighbors, inciting them to do likewise. CORN FOR RUSSIA 1,000,000 Bushels Purchased for Relief * of Starving People. More than 3,000,000 bushels of corn * lave been bought by the purchasing y commission for Russian relief and one ' ?hip load of 240,000 bushels left Sew ' 3rleans December 31, the American ' [''arm Bureau Federation said It had * ? - - . ?? c oeen informed by Don Livingston, :ommlsaioner of agriculture of South ' Dakota. The corn has been bought, it ^ ivas said, for delivery on shipboard at S'ew Orleans, Baltimore and New ' fork. The corn is being purchased on a * 'frec-on-board ship" basis, it was ex- * ?li-incd, to eliminate the necessity of organizing a large buying organlza- ' lion and to expedite its movements to 1 [tussla, where it is needed within six- 1 :y days. It is being shipped unground. ' ind will arrive in prime condition, it 1 s said, as long as the weather con- ^ lnues cold. The Soviet authorities r lave agreed to transport the corn from 1 he porta to the fcanine areas. INDIANS AKt KtSlLtSS Would go oa War Path Except lor Aeroplanes. rilElTEIWIMi CONDITIONS IN 1ITAI , White Men and Red Men Do Not Got On Amicably?Governor Wants the Federal Government to 8t?p In and Help Keep Down Trouble. In the romance of building up the wild places of America developments Df the pant few weeks prove that the days of euch romantic white and cop per-coiorea cnaracters as uncu, nea Cloud. Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Sitting Bull. Custer and Gen. Hugh L. Scott are not wholly past aa yet. In New York Is a governor of a fur western state who left his native heath to visit New York only after he had put his state troope in readiness to entrain on a moment's notice on a chase after wild Indians. More than that, this governor had himself gone to these wild Indians in el desolate country beyond the white Iff man's frontier and had met ihem in a, sacred conclave, at which they came In full ceremonial robes, with a medicine man at their head. Held a Peace Powwow. The powwow was to decide upon war or peace. The governor who made the journey insists that fear of the American airplane, which con..I -M T?ai_? ,k.? it... .A..M ' vimm llie 1 l*ulUlin Llioi um) vvuw inn carry on their warlike depredations 'rom coyer any longer, alone swung the balance In favor of peace. - ?i It is expected, however, that the * peace will be short, and one of the most certain expectations of the executive Is that before* <he three remaining years of his term have expired he will have to meet in a final combat the lact band of America's tin- q tamed, pillaging and marauding redikine. \ ? /,' 6 wS Belong To No Tribe. The governor ia Charles ,R. Mabey, v nfl it Utah. The Indian* still existing In that country have as interesting a history as any Indian band in America. Unlike Brant'a Mohawk's who aided the British in the Revolutionary war, *nd the Sioux of this wee tern plains, who fought under Sitting Bull again at the opening of the road# into the Dakota*, these Indians have never beonged to any tribe. They are a sort qf ''dre&f western tribea Among them irreconcilable who refused "sserva-^wg lion life among jlhe Sioux, Shoshones, Bannocks and Uise. As each of these tribes in turn gad tamed a few of the bolder and more warlike pints nea Into the rocky lands along the San luan River In Southern Utah. [ They had a great stretch of wild $ :ountry. It was well filled with wild fij leer, turkeys and antelope, but was il?o Infested with mountain Hons J a-hich had sate breeding places over :he rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. For a long time the tadians got Into little trouble with the whites, as their country was 140 miles rrom the nearest railroad. At least, however, the venturesome^ Mormon pioneers built a city called Bluff on the banks of the San Juan iver. There were about five nunaen teres of tillable land In a "pocket" val- ./ ey by the river bank and iformore lerds were sent to grate upon the fer:l)e river plain. That was a chance to pillage and ;he Indians could not resist. Governor Mr.bey insists that in a mere spirit of naraud the Indians swooped down jpon this farthest south outpost of sivllized life in Utah. The Indians itole cattle, killed sheep and raided jornfleldi- They even frightened the j| imid settlers to a more settled counry. Finally one of them, a bold lad mmed Tea-ne-gat. killed a farmhand, tn Indian war broke out. This was he struggle that Gen. Hugh L. Scott lettled two years ago as an emissary rom the "Great White Father." Gen^ >rai Scott rounded up Tea-ne-g*t. and ook him on a journey to Salt Lake 3lty. There he taught the Indian to ealize the power of the whites and tent him home to carry the message. Che peace lasted for u time. Then :attle stealing and killing were re umea. All Wintsd Trip. A curious slant on th? Indian situition. was obtained when Governor dabey met the wild and warlike aslociates of Tes-ne-gat in the desolate Cottonwood Wash country. A sadly leather Jbeaten Indian boasting the tame of Old Poke acted as chieftain . 1 or the powwow, although the other ' r.dlans were careful to explain that hey acknowledged no chief regularly ir.d acted "on their own" In all their aids. But Old Poke put the case for res>ne-gat this way: "Tes-ne-gat kill em boy. Get heap big ride on choo:hoo. Have heap big food. Come back. ? Tell 'em heap big story white man's :ity. Other Indians think maybe beter kill 'em boy." But Governor Mabey wasn't the tlnd of governor who took to peacenaking methods by nature. In the Irst place he had pursued Tagulogs o and fro across Luzon as an artllery officer in the Spanish American car. In the world war he had comnanded a battery of artillery at one irae and was, much more at home (Continued on Page Three). U