Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 13, 1922, Image 1
SEMI* WEEKLY.
l. m. Crist'# sons, phmmmn. -A <J?amilij gtirspaptr: Jf'or the promotion ?(the political, Social, .Igrirultufal and (Commercial ,?ntrfesjs of the fJtop^.
ESTABLISHED 1855 ~ YORK, S. C.. FRIDAY, JANtJARY 13, 1922. NO. 4
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Uriel Local Paragraphs ol lore or
Less Interest.
PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning FoIVa and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
8ome You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
Speaking of automobile speeding:
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1 lit* ^i'ttuuiuv ict caiu vu iiitivo
hour.
The policeman said it was 90.
The citizens said it was a crime.
He said it was the life.
llis friends said it with flowers.
Weevils and Partridges.
"Here is more evidence that the partridgo
is an enemy of the bolt weevil,"
said a farmer yesterday. "A friend lias
sent me a copy of the Oheraw Chronicle
which contains the following:
" Mr. A. G. Grant, from Teals Mill
section, told the Chronicle man Wednesday
that partridges recent'y killed
near his home were found to h;.ve eaten
boll weevils. Mr. Grant said, one of
the birds had as many as 1!7 weevils in
its erop. He wants to see some measures
taken to protect these birds which
will mean so much to the farmer if
tlicy will destroy the pest.'"
Want to Go to Cherokee.
"Quite a number of land owners living
in the vicinity of King's Mountain
Hat tic-ground want to move into Cherokee
county," said J. Q. Wray of Yorkville,
who owns 130 acres or more of
land in the vicinity of the battle
ground. "The complaint is tnat intic
or no attention'is paid to the people of
that corner of the county by the Vork
county authorities. They havo no
rouds. Some of the little children have
to walk three and a half miles to the
nearest school and Cherokee is offering
them good roads and good, schools if
they will move. I will sign a petition :
mysef today requesting annexation to
Cherokee county."
Annual Possum Supper.
"Sam Wyllo and Hubert (Moots)
Hart, well known Yorkvi'lo negroes,
gave their annual 'possum supper to a
number of their white friends of the
town and vicinity,-, said Percy Perry
Wednesday morning. "Every year the
wives of these hunters prepare baked
'possum and potatoes and chicken salad
and rabbit and the men Invite their
friends. The supper Tuesday night was
up to standard. There were about j
twenty men present and all of them enjoyed
the feast. Sam and Mopts make
no charge for the supper, but if the
guests see fit to leave a dollar slicking
under their respective plates there is
not the slightest objection."
Hurting Business.
"All this talk about the coming of!
the boll weevil is certainly playing |
whatey with business throughout this
section," remarked II. Ernest Heath,,
traveling salesman of Monroe, N. C., |
and formerly of Torkville, who wasj
discussing the situation the other j
morning. "Merchants are afraid to buy |
goods because so many people have the;
idea that the boll weevil is going to j
clean up the entire crop. People are ]
afraid to buy for the same reason. In- j
stead of trying to arrive at ways and j
means to fight the weevil lots of folks
are just sitting around and holding!
their hands and talking about it. What
they should be doing is to destroy tlie j
trash around the cctton fields along,
with the cotton stalks in an effort to j
kill llie weevil. This calamity howling!
isn't going to help things."
Fair Enough.
"What's wrong with this'.'" inquired1
the foreman of The Yorkvillc Enquirer,
as he handed Views and Interviews the
following clipping this morning:
"Charles Harris, Fort Worth, Texas,
printer, got slightly peeved at a letter
front a doctor who wanted bids on several
thousand letter heads, different
sizes, different grades and different
colors and wanted the printing form
held standing. So Charley took his
typewriter in hand and wrote:
"'Am in the market for bids on onoperation
for appendicitis. One, two
or five-inch incision?with or without
ether?also without or w ith a nurse.
If appendix is found to be sound, want
quotations to include putting same
bark and cancelling order, if removed,
successful bidder is expected to hold
incision open for about CO days as i expect
to be on the market for gallstone
at that time and want to save the extra
cost of cutting. "
Has Caught Eleven Minks,
\\*. Urown Ciuuld.cn, well known trapper
and farmer, who lives with J. C.
Hinge on York No. .1, said Wednesday
that he had caught eleven minks so far
this season and that lie had sold the
liidis at prices ranging from $6."?0 to
5libra). All these minks were caught
within three miles of Yorkville. Talking
about trapping various animals,
Mr. Cauldcn said Wednesday: "Minks
are much harder to catch in traps than
are raeeons, for instance. To catch a
mink one has to hide tin- trap. H must
he located in some p'nee frequented by
the mink and hidden so that lie will
step into it purely by accident. Not so
with a coon. The coon is an inquisitive
sort of an animal. Ho will play around
a trap and will just naturally step into
it in order to find out what it is. Ilut
the coons are not nearly so plentiful as
the minks, according to Mr. (lauldcn,
and the minks are not nearly so numerous
as they were years ago. Mr.
((gulden sells most of ltis hides to a
\
concern in St. Louis, Mo., and he has
several ready for shipment now.
Taking Warrants for Them.
. "Speaking of worthless checks," said |
a Yorkville merchant, "I have been getting
my share of thetn lately and believo
me, I am going to collect them by
sw earing out warrants for those who is- i {
' sue them. In several instances I have
actually sworn out warrants before I
, collected them and In other cases I have
written the parties who pave mc bad
checks telling them 1 was going tu
swear out warrants if they didn't come
across. That has had the desired effect
in several instances. After such a
threat I collected a check for $6 from a
man in western York county last week.: c
He paid the check, but grumbled that it *
was mighty small on the part of the c
bank to turn down his check for such '
a little amount. I told him it wasn't 1
nearly as small for the bank to do that '
as it was for him to issue a check when (
he did not have the money to cover and
knew it at the time he gave tho check. 'J
So far as losing the business of the
man whom I force to come across with ithe
money for his bogus checks, I don't
worry about that. The business of the
man who will do stunts like that isn't
hardly worth having anyhow."
Shipping Cream.
Convinced that cotton farming is a
risky business at best, and especially
risky in the actual presence of the boll'
weevi' H. (J. Brown, Esq., supervisor
of York county, is giving his attention j
to the cattle business.
"I am not posing as a model for anybody
else." said Mr. Brown, when ask-1
ed about the matter Tuesday, "but of,
course if there is room for me thoie is
room for everybody else, and if I don't
make pood that does not decide the ?
practicabi'ity of the thing- as far as
anybody else is concerned.
"As I see it, I am not willing to run
any further big risk trying to raise j
cotton, and 1 am going to see what 1
can do shipping cream.
"No, 1 am no expert in the business;
but I figure that if I can get the ma- <
nurc clear, without losing anything on
the investment in the cows, I will have t
a fair profit. Of course, I know that j
good b* coded cattle are better than arc i
scrubs, and that I cannot get the be3t.
dairy results from a beef type and al!
that; but I am not claiming any expert
knowledge along that line. I
"My idea is to buy good cows as
cheap as 1 can. I have known a $3.~>
cow to prove more profitable than a
$60 cow. 1 believe in the proposition of
giving a cow a fair trial for cream, and
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if she is no good, 10 ueei nor. i ucu ? ,
believe in breeding upward with th"' |
best sires to be had. That is the policy I
I am trying to pursue."
Tho Jewish Wedding. i |
That story that Miss Marie Fewell, J
secretary of the Itock Hill Chamber Oi
Commerce to'd of the Jewish wedding
she attended in New York, proved entertaining
reading, especially for wo- (
men readers of The Enquirer, and it J [_
has brought out still another story
along the same line, as told by a Jewish
bridegroom. This other story comes from
Miss Alice Hare, expression
teacher, of Yorkvlf.e. She was re- "
minded of it through reading Miss a
Fewell's story, and information of it 1'
came to Views and Interviews through ?
one of her pupils who was present at '?
thu telling. Hy request, Miss Hare '?
kindly repeated the story for pub'ica* "
tion. She explained that so far as she b
knows it lias never been printed be- I'
fore: that it came to her through a 1'
lady entertainer in the Chatauqua, who
got it first hand from the bridegroom |
in question. Here is the bridegroom s i '
[ story as repeated by Miss Hare, with a "
) fidelity of expression and accent that 'i
! necessarily suffers in cold print: '
I
"Veil, 1 got married the other day,
I
land I rented a dress suit for the occa- w
sion; but all that fit me was the neck- "
I tic. Veil, ) ha 1 been going to see Itosic, 1
: the younger daughter; hut vun day her "
I father railed me in. and we had a long
| t&'k. and ven I eame out I had a eheek ]
j in my pocket for a thousand dollars, ''
and i saw it would he better to marry '
liis older daughter, Eliza-. Vc rented a
i hull for der uvea sion. They liad had an v
j Irish party up dcre the night before. ?'
They must have had a. good time at dot I'
party, penalise dcre vasn't a whole
i chair loft in der place, li vas a good t
; tiling dot my heoplo vere strong i'"
' ' i.. i- irf.m.i,. were so rude r
: " "i> ' I-t-'I- V .. ..
j ilot uf my beoplc had not l?oen strong i <
j beoplc none ov dem vou'd. hat' got a v
seat. Ve had dor reception a ft or dor t
| vedding. Vc invited a hundrct, vo ox- s
ported eighty, .so v<- prepared for lifty; 1
hut a liundret and fifty oame,
"Mr. Stein couldn't come; hut he sent :
j ids six little S'teins, and <>i, Oi, how j |
I them kids oould eat! My fadder-in- j j
! law asked his vife vol if ve had i,
for the first course. Msadoro, dot is .
grape fruit," she said, lie said, 'Aw ,
go 01:, dot ish too heig for a grape.' |
"Del* vodding eake vos made like a j
ship, and dor upper story vas vippod ,
; great 11 and der steerage vas Itananus. ,
i My mot her-In-law said dot was such a i
j fine idea- to have a eake like a ship? I,
j a ship like a eake; and she vasn't going ' j
j to kud it. 1 cut vile ve vas upstairs |
J dancing, the six hello. Steins sunk I tic |
. ship. I
I "After it, vas nil over my fadder-in- ,
: law called nie. He :-iid, "Now Ikey, j
your segrets is my segrots and my j j
segrets is your segrets. Dot. cheek j |
t gif >uu for u thousand dollar iss noj,
i soot." ! i
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: ?Representative Cooper, of Deauf'crt.j
has introduced a bill to confer upon!
women citizens all the. rights ami privileges
of male citizens, but to exempt
them from all road and street taxes.
CITY HALL COMPLETED
Officers Have Moved Quarters loin
the New Building.
IflST COMPLtTt lBOIIT 522,000.00
(Auditorium Will Fill a Long Felt Want
In Community?Building of Substantial
Construction and Provided for
Citizens Without Increase In Local
Levy.
Yorkville's new city hall, erected at a
:ost of about $22,000, lias been com- j
ileted, steam heat having been turned |
>n hi the building Wednesday. Thej
ie\v municipal building supplies a want
hat lias been frit evci4 since the estab- j
islunent of the town in 1798, there nov- J
v before having been provided a city
ia!l suitable fur the needs of the mu-1
dclpal go\ eminent. Tho now building!
x.
gig i||
Y<
i all lli.it could be desired, tlie on'y
ling lacking about the building -being
tier of cells for the town's prisoners,
lie feeling of the mayor and couneilien
responsible for the erection of the;
uilding was lh.it town prisoners could;
e boarded at the county jail cheaper
inn they eould be taken euro of by the
nvn and tin refore the custom that has
it vailed for >enrs relative to town
risoners wi'l continue.
On East Liberty Street.
The city hall building, which is on!
,'aul Liberty street, next to tiie C'aro-1
na and .N'orlli-Western depot, is about
fly feet wide by DO fort long and is)
ui!t after plans of .Lilian S. Starr, ar-j
liiteet of itoel; Hill. W. L. Wallace
as tiic contractor. <*on#tructioii work:
i'as begun last June. The building is a!
w? story brick structure with a base-,
- 1 !?.. Ldi.nin lif'it illf lil.'ltlf
II III III villi' II III' .->"...>1 ... , ,
< loeatcd.
Ofijoos of the town oflieia'n are ! .?- j
ated mi l!ic* lies I IJoor. t Miari' rs '
nelude departments for the. town clerk
ml treasurer. tin' hoard of public J
forks. tlio chief of poliee and :t cotim-il '
Ii.inihor wlirro ordinary .sessions of
loli'-f court am held.
Quarter:, for the Ii? - department and
lio riwtuniohilc lire ttitek an- also lo-,
iitrd oil t!ir first floor.
l.ai^"' windows, ami the fart llial tin*
eilitm and walls on the lirst door, as
n il as tin- ;e< olid. am of rn ant color,
>rovido adi'inal'- lii;lil, while tins lirtd
c'dion is also equipped with a terra zz.n
lour Of the late: t design.
L.arf|c Auditorium.
The large aiiditoriiini on (lie second'
loor (ills a. need which the town has!
'rlt for a long while and the andito itint
and stage is sufficientIv large I"1
|rriil||tttod:t le tile lUS'ds of t lie OWI1 for;
rears to come. There are llij seals in
lie, auditoriuni and Hie floor it steeply j
nelined, each row of seals h< ng mn-j
> id era hly raised il \ e the former. The
stage is t'O hy t'-'i feet, with two dress-1
itiK re?oins on each side ami toih-t futilities
in the rear. The ceiling is
minted a cream eolor. like the groundloor
eeilimr, while wide mahogany
eatiis running across it elTeet a most
KiiiilsMno di.sign. \ stairway in mc
ear affords ;i. spacious )ir?' cactij>
<>n the li i't i'f tlii- vestibule hsidin;-.
into tin- auditorium there is :t lnrp*
Irunk rnnjii for the iijc i f theatrical
i inpjnii s iiml others wlio might from
lime to time* have mid for it.
The auditorium, it is understood, will
not be loosed by council to any theatrical
promoter, but will remain in
charge of the town authorities, who
will from time to time rent the. building
! to theatrical companies who might ap|
ply and to local people as they may
| deem advisable.
To Pay For It By the Month.
The building, it is understood, was
i erected with money advanced by W. I>.'
i Moore of Yorkvllle, with the under|
standing that it will within a short |
'while be taken, over by the Peoples'
j Iiui.'ding and Loan association. The I
| town council, it is said, will pay for the j
J building through tho building atid loan.
association, at the rato or il'ji.yz a,
month, these payments to come ftoin:
the ordinary revenues of the town.
Town Officials.
Credit fbr the building of the city,
hall belongs to the present mayor and j
the board of aldermen and the plan for
financing its construction was arrived
at after careful study of the subject.
Officials of the town are as follows:
E. A. Hall, mayor; J. m. Brian, J. W.
Marshall, Quinn Wallace, \V. M. MeConncll,
J. W. Quinn, J. If. Carroll. Mr. J
> . JS-,.
IBigiP.
:>RKVILLE'S NEW CITY HALL BUILC
Carroll is clerk of the council.
Other town officials are: J. Frank'
Faulkner, town clerk and treasurer; J.
E. Ltuwry, J. 1L Lindsay, A. Y. Cartwright,
tncitihers of tho water, light and
|iowcr commission, with J. Q. Winy as
superintendent; It. E. Steele, chief of
police; Sep Huey. night, policeman; S.
1\ t'iirrott, supervisor of street forces;
John It. Hart, attorney.
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IN INTERESTS OF FORESTRY j
Enthusiast:! Fr^ni AH Sections of J
Country in Washington.
Forestry enthusiast^ from all part*
of the country arc in Washington for
the hearings on the fsYiell-McCormick
forestry policy bi'l, which opened Monday.
The hil' provides an nppioprii - j
tion for increased lire prevention work. I
for i.<-forestiation. buying lar.dis and
other forestry work.
On (lie ]iy-i of those to appear before
the committee are Colonel Win. 1J.
'Jretdey, chief of Mm forest service;
CcnrRo H. Long. T iromri, of tJn? forcstry
committee of'the National Lumber j
Manufacturers' assoeiution. Hugh l'.>
Maker. American Paper act Pulp
elation; Klbort Jl. Jtaker, Cleveland'
American Newspaper Publishers' association;
i?. S. Kellogg. New York city.J
chairman National Forestry Policy j
coin i n it too.
Phases ?>f the subject to l>r> taken up
are ticlcl leadership and co-operation!
with the states; need of a survey ofj
forest, resources; wood utilization,
fore::' investigation; need of re-forest - i
ration; extension of national forests,
classification of government lands.
DOY SHOOTS SELF.
Grief Over tho Death cf His Doy
j Causes Act.
Nine-year-old Itussell Mueller, of!
Chicago. III., is in a hospital with a
self-inflicted t wound in his right!
j thigh. II- shot himself after his pet
1 Huston t'Ti ior "I'l-fw" dit 'I yosieranJ.
"I waul. tu die ( (?," I{iij's?:!1 sobbed toj
| Ins mother, .Mrs. Mario (.trover. I.a.\lj
niftl.t a policeman visited thsj lad'sl
lmiiH\ l|ij took his pistol from its
!iu!:i(i r and tucked it l>?*liiji*l a cushion
on a davenport. Then he, wit It the
boy's mother and other Kuests, wont
into tli" library. A moment later the
crash of a shot stopped their laughter.
They fouud the boy crumpled on the
tloor the bitt police pistol in bis band.
Doctors fear the lo? bones are shatter|
ed and that Ki.ssc'l will be crippled for
I life.
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! WHERE GAME ABOUNDS"
Wonderful Coast Country is Paradise
for Hunters.
? . . . #
DEER ARE REALLY VERY PLENTIFUL
People Becoming Interested in Pure
Bred Cattle as Well as Truck Farming
? Salkchatchie Swamp Where
Trees 1,600 Years Old Grow*?Some
thing About Tidewater Cypress,
Which Is Much In Demand.
By. Jus. 1). fjrlHt.
On the Houth Carolina Coast?Upcountry
sportsmen who occasionally
Ket a race out of a stray fox or a raccoon
and imagine they are having great
sport, would have real enjoyment did
th??y take a trip around Beaufort and
the wa islands in that vicinity?a country
that U'onis with wild life. Within
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>ING.
tlftcon miles of Beaufort or twenty at
most, deer are three times as plentiful
?aye. ten times as plentiful as are
foxes in the up-country. For one raccoon
found nlonj; the creek banks upthorn
iirn :l hundred in the won
dci'ful coast country. In tliis hunter's
paradise are to be found numbers of
almost every kind of animal, fowl and
fl>h that is to be found in any section of
the South. And yet comparatively few
conic liere to hunt. The natives hunt
very little, with the result that this
wonderful natural game preserve is Increasing
all th?- time. Strike a sportsman
of tills section who does go out in
the fields and along (lie water ways occasionally
and he'll tell you the most
fascinating hunting stories. TaJes of
encounters with b.'g alligators in Chocha
and other rivers. Stories of narrow
escapes from tho deadly fangs of the
dangerous diamond hack rattler which
thrives in this country, arc told. Stories
most interesting are told of wild
turkey shooting. I'crliap.t the hunter
\\ ill let! you that you ought not to shoot
a wiM turkey with buckshot. Use No.
7's 011 him. The turkey is a powerful
bird. X!)oof him with buck shot and
the eliances arc that tlit* big gobbler
will lly away with several holes in him
to die far away. Shoot him with smaller
siiot and very likely lie wor-'t go
far and you may he able to get your
game. All the black Inar have not left
this wonderful country and look around
and yon may meet up with some fellow
who his had an encounter with bruin.
Wild Duck Are Numerous.
WiM tlurk don't come into tho upcountry
very much. Let ;i report get
out that wl'd duck isuy six) have been
seen on this creek or that creek and
the chances are that there'll he a half
d"xeu sportsmen after them in short
order. Vet they are to be found in the
coast country by the thousands.
Georgetown js the greatest duck section
of the Carolina coast, hut dock arc
t to be found in countless numbers from
| tii* re to Charleston and along the rivj
its in the country hack of the coast for
j miles and miles.
1 As many as S.ttOO Mallards and Itlack
I ducks have been brought into Georgeluw
n in a single day for sale, all of
tl.em kf'led bv negroes. Tlte Woodcock,
j which is new ;i. very rare lord upj
state is< to be found in numbers in the
[ coast country, although not sj numerous
perhaps us was the case several
I years ago. Yet one reliable observer
informs mo that ho has scon a line of
I wheelbarrows loaded with woodcock
: brought to Georgetown by negroes for
(sale. The birds were so poor and emaf
ciated, however, that the dealers would
not buy them. They probably came to
to the sea coast from a higher or more
northern land seeking food. There are
still plenty of woodcock to be found In
Iho coast country, however. Of course
the sale of birds is prohobltt7 now,
but in the old days one Geor. etown
firm has been known to ship 240,000
rails in a single season and 720,000 bobolinks,
or ricebirds, as they are better
known.
The rice bird, by the way, isn't as
numerous in the coast country as he
onco was. The rice growing lndustry
is dead now. Few people In this section
undertake its cultivation any more
and the birds have gone. Many of the
old tice plantations have been made
into one unit, where general farming
is being done after draining.
Interested In Cattle.
The agricultural leaders in Beaufort
and vicinity are not Interested in truck
farming alone, but they are beginning
to pay much attention to eattle. There
are numerous herds in the county
whose value runs into hundreds and
thousands of dol'ars. Hogs are also
raised on a big scale?the finest breeds
of hogs. One of the largest stock
farms is the Buckfleld Stock Farm at
Yemassce, which comprises some 1.800
acres of well drained farm land and
carries 800 head of Angus cattle. Yemassce,
by the way, is the Junctton point
of the C. & W. C. railroad,which serves
Beaufort and the Atlantic Coast Line.
This Buckfleld Stock Farm also includes
about 13,000 acres of original
forest in which hunting and fishing are
not allowed, and in which there are
possibly more deer, moro quail, raccoons,
foxes, wild turkey and fish than
any other similar tract in the south.
This farm has tcu overflowing artesian
wells upon it.
Savannah Ri/er Swamp.
Tho Beaufort county town of Yemasscc,
which town is about half way
between Charleston und Savannah, is
not far from the edge of the great Big
Salkebatchie swamp, which is one to
two miles wide and one of the most remarkable
swamps in all the South, for
it contains perhaps the oldest red cypress
trees in the United States. Judging
by their rings, many of these cypress
trees arc from 800 to 1,200 years
old. Clearings have been made around
one venerable tree which is to have its
freedom for life on account of its age,
for it is known to be 1,600 years cid.
This great tree, known as "The Monarch
of Sulkehatchle Swamp/' is 100
feet in iieighth from the ground to its
first limb, while It is five feet in diameter.
There grows abundantly in this
swaiup and in other sections of the
coast country the red cypress tree,
known as "Tidewater Cypress.'* The
tidewater cypress which is only available
in the southern reaches of the
South Atlantic coast and on the guif
coast where tidewater runs over the
swamp land, is much in demand. It is
nationally advertised and trademarkcd,
every board carrying on its end its
hall mark. The wood does not stain,
taste, shrink or watp and onqe established
in its place, whether inside or
outside, it remains Just that way. It is
air dried and the process takes from
eight to twelve months.
Much Black Walnut.
Much black walnut is fo\md in the forests
of the coast country. A friend recently
showed me a quantity of black
walnut, about a thousand feet, that he
had cut from a single walnut log. The
boards were an inch thick and are now
in the process of drying. He intends
to have a dining room suite made from
it as a present for his wife. The boards
today are worth $1 a square foot.
Syndicated Bootlegging.?R. A. KosIoss,
prohibition director of North
Carolina, has reported to the Federal
government that two gigantic moonshine
syndicates are operating in North
Carolina.
It is alleged, he said, that they are
operated by men "who stand high in
their communities, in a business way,
and otherwise, while r.ot personally
engaged, they furnish supplies and
money to little fellows who are doing
* ' -- flrifl t >111 t while we
iiiu ?> ui rv, uuu it v * ?* .. _
often catch those little fellows, from
the magnitude and size of the operations
I am convinced that the fellows
\vc caputurc arc not the real brains
of the proposition."
When immense stills are found in
charge of poor, irresponsible wretches,
it is obvious that there is somebody
"higher up," but it seems to be almost
impossible to get at the backers of
blind tigers.
I^ast month an enormous still was
found in Aiken county in the custody
of two poor negroes. The apparatus
must havo cost a good deal of money,
supplied by someone else, but the men
would not tell who it was, and so they
will serve a short sentence while the
real criminals escape.
That bootlegging syndicates are
operating in South Carolina Is probable
yet the men "higher up" have
never b n caught. Some men who
have no obvious source of income and
who live in more or less luxury arc
suspected of complicity, although their
connection with the moonshine industry
has not yet been proved.
No easy task confronts the officers
who are trying to get "the big fellows"
who use others as their tools and who
get the biggest slice of profit from the
traffic.
The "big fellows" are elusive, but
they will be caught yet?Greenville
Piedmont.
OUR FORESTS
Unless There Is Prompt id* Resolute
Action state Will Lose Tinier.
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ONLY ?00,000 ACRES ARE NOV LEFT
Idle Lands Not Ueod for Bottor Pur*
poooo Should Bo Made to Grow Tim*
bor?No Substitute for Wood?Many
States Already Out.
Bv James Henry Rice, Jr.
Perhaps you have never thought se- \
riously of the forestry question. Very
few have. Most right-minded men love
trees. Washington Irving calls old
trees the real nobility, for it requires
time to produce a perfect tree. All the
money of the world can not get over
that.
Suppose you knew, beyond doubt,
that you were saddling a mortgage on
future generations for centuries, making
life harder for them; would not
you avoid it, If you could? Surely.
This is what we are facing. Unless
there is prompt and resolute action
South Carolina will lose all its forests.
Nine-tenths have already gone. Tim- .
ber is being cut just four times as fast
as it grows; and the loss through forest
Area is appalling, for the young '
growth, on which a future supply depends,
is being destroyed. On many
areas there are no seed left.
One thing the biologist is never tired
of impressing is that .the law of life is
one. Plant and animal are governed
by exactly the same law. The application,
the means employed, the habitat
for growth may differ;, but the law is
the same.
Now when seed trees, old vigorous
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had from Immature trees the future
growth will be Inferior. What makes
this more emphatic is the destruction
of the habitat. Note a burned over ,
area. Mark the twisted trees, the trees
scarred by Are, some of them eaten into
by Are. giving insects and disease an
easy entrance. ,
But right now I am going to lopve
this alone and come back to It later.
8tatas Importing "timber.
I was shocked the other day to read
that both Texas and Georgia were importing
timber. Both were great timber
producing states a few years ago,
paradises for lumbering. They have
fallen behind, used up so much of their
supply that timber has.to he iinported ? *
and people at homo ' pays/the freight.
Within my recollection New York was
the chief timber producing state in the
United States and Pennsylvania jvaa
next. New York now cuts less than 80
feet for each inhabitant annually, .and
ail the cut of Pennsylvania, does not
supp'y the one city of Pittsburgh.
Nearly half of all the timber produced
in the United States comes now
from west of the Rocky mountains, a
four thousand mile haul. What will
lumber brought from that region cost
here? It makes one dlxzy to think
about it.
I feel the impulse to use strong language.
It ought to be used and rubbed
in.
But, in order to be fair and reason*- -
ble, let the case be frankly stated.
There were 8,880,000 acres of timbered
land In South Carolina in the year 1898,
twenty-four years ago. There are barely
000,000 acres of timbered land left
today, most of it being in the hands of
a few people.
Right here, let us kill a viper that
- 1. th*
may get In aeaaiy worn, iiaiiivi jf
local legislation business. It Is the
greatest enemy of human liberty on
the earth today, one that sets at naught
the work of civilization.
Most Timber in Eastern Section.
Apply It to the timber. When the
people of Berkeley, Dorchester and
Colleton destroy timber wholesale, the
citizens of York, Union, Greenville and
Oconee pay more for their homes and
for everything made of wood. Most of
the remaining timber lies In the eastern
half of the state.
What is sought to be done? Merely
this: To see to It that idle lands, not
required for agriculture or grazing, be
made to grow timber; to which end the
wholesale destruction of timber by forest
flres or otherwise, be sternly stopped
by law. Our large lumber mills
are owned generally at the North.
Their owners have turned them over to
"hired help*' to run them, requiring
nothing but results.
Neither the owners of the mills, nor
the men operating them have the vital
interest that permanent citizenship
confers. There is no legal restraint.
. th.mMlimii- and
They are a mw umw
when people shut their eyes and turn
over their birthright to somebody els?
there is usually trouble coming. It has j
come.
It follows, of course, that the true interest
of the mills is in conserving
timber in order to have a future supply.
This is ordinary common sense:
but many of the mills do not look at it
this way. It is a gamble, a scramble,
a free-for-all-flght with them, with
"devil take the hindmost."
This country has passed the stag?
when the old saying can be allowed:
"A man may do what he pleases with
his own." Nobody denies the right to
cut timber and market it, when the
timber is of the proper size, and when
future stands are not destroyed.
A Good Suggestion.
Governor Harawick of Georgia, recently
said that he hoped to see a law
passed compelling every man that cut
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