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VIEWS AM INTERVIEWS
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Brie! Local Paragraphs o! More or
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQ01KER REPORTERS
8tori#i Concerning Folks and Things,
8om? of Which You Know and
8oms You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
"Farmers are beginning to make inquiries
about fertilizers," said a fertilizer
dealer yesterday. "In fact we
hfcve received quite a number of in???IHaa
hkla wnnlf \fAfit fArtlHfFTfl ftrfi
a little higher in price this year than
last and most of the fertiliser companies
and the local dealers don't care
much whether they sell or not unless
they sell for cash. There isn't much
profit in fertilizers for the local dealer
?only about 12 a ton, and in many lnx
stances not that much."
Look Out For Them.
"How about sounding a warning to
folks especially the housewives rela- i
tive to agents and peddlers?" inquired 1
a Yorkville man this morning. "It's I
getting to that time of year, you know
when book agents and newspaper
agents and other kinds of agents flood
Yorkville and other towns of the
county. In fact they have already begun
their tour of York county. Watch
out for the girl who wants to sell you
a magazine on the plea that she is trying
to raise money to go to college.
Six out of ten of them arc crooks and
underworld denizens who never got
through the first reader.*'
Show Was Pleasing.
"I'm feeling good this morning," re
marked J. Frank Faulkner, manager
of the city hall opera house, "over the
show 'Rose of Washington Square'
which played here Tuesday night.
"The show was characterized by local
people who have seen musical comedies
appearing 4n towns many times as
large as this, as one of the best they
have seen. It was clean and wholesome
and provefi a most, pleasing entertainment
In every way. Geo. Donahue,
manager of 'Rose of Washington
Square' expressed himself as being
pleased with the box office receipts
which totaled I384.&0 and gave me assurance
that the show would seek a
return engagement hore."
Poatoffica a Poultry Farm.
"The postoffice will resemble a poultry
farm for the next couple of months
or so." said W. Frank Putnam, chief
clerk In the Yorkville office the other
afternoon. "People have begur. ordering
baby cHicks from poultry farmers
over the country and the chicks are
beginning to arrive. On Washington's
birthday which, of course was a postoffice
holidry, we had a shipment! of
fifty chicks from Virginia, consigned to
a man on York No. 1, which shipment
remained with us all day because of
the fact that the rural letter carriers
had a day off. That didn't hurt the
chicks, however since they can go for
seventy-two hours without food or
water and without any harm, coming
to them. We handled many shipments
of baby chicks last year and no
doubt we will do so again this year
since the business has already begun.
Under the rules of the postofflce department
live chicks must not be more
than one day old at the time of shipment.
The local postofflce has been
doing quite a good business in chick-,
ens and eggs since the parcels post
system was inaugurated several years
ago. There are a number of poultry
men around town who ship a lot of
chickens and a lot of eggs and the
number that come in here from other
sections is quite large. Last year a
Yorkville lady got a shipment of
chicks from away out in Missouri. All
of them arrived here and were delivered
to her in good condition. We did a
good business in live alligators last
summer and very likely we will do so
again this spring. The alligators were
shipped from Jacksonville, Fla., to several
young boys here who wanted the
'gators as pets. Whether any of them
are still living or not I don't know."
Says Peanuts Unprofitable.
Hon. James Henry Rice, Jr., of Wiggins,
S. C. farmer, author, lecturer,
naturalist and great South Carolinian
whose nature stories are read with interest
by hundreds of readers of The
Yorkville Enquirer does not think
much of the peanut as a money crop.
In a letter to Views and Interviews Mr.
Rice says of the peanut:
"I am amusbd to see how true to
form the windjammers function. Here
is the peanut craze, the same old
panacea offered from Texas straight
on here and discarded everywhere. Two
years ago peanuts wero stacked in
every field and by every roadside in
Pnllntnn rnnntv Thnv nnH in im.
presslve piles, cleanly harvested, neatly
stacked, all directions complied
with.
"They did not pay for hnuling them
out of the field. They may be fed to
hogs and the hog meat is unfit to eat
and unfit to sell.
"Twice as much hay can be got from
pea vines and four times as good; and
with one-tenth the trouble.
"It may be that some man has made
money at the business. Men make
money out of all sorts of things; but
it is a safe gamble that the ordinary
farmer won't make a thing but more
losses.
"Raising lima (or butter) beans to
hull out and sell dry is a vastly better
proposition.. There is a demand for
nil lint can he grown. Raising grnpes
is also a good business and if followed
up properly will pay.
"But raising peanuts! Holy smoke!
It is enough to make the mules laugh.
Try it; try It; try it; by all means try
it. This is a golden season for learn- i
ing new tricks. Wade it.
"But if there is a grain of sense left
in York county, they will shun the I
peanut business like the pestilence.
"And yet some men may make I
moncv at it. Who knows? {
"I have known men to make money
selling early onions; but all these men
had lost their front teeth and chewed
like rabbits.
"What Is the connection? I never
knew. My facts were gained by observing
the men that made money selling
early onions; and they were all
that way.
"This convinced mc that unless a
man had lost his front teeth and
chewed after the manner of a rabbit
he would fail at selling early onions.
"Watch the kind that succeed and
note their physical make-up.
"Seriously, there should be a splendid
field for farmers in York county in
growing seed for grain. My father
made a great deal of money after the
r?l?ll War rninlnc need oatS. Your
father can tell you about Nlnety-81x
Red Rustproof oats. They had a reputation
once all over the country. I
have picked out many a bushel of seed
by hand?picked until my fingers were
raw. These oats were sown on
specially prepared ground and the product
fadld for seed. It paid. They
clean heed now by machinery.
"Sheep raising paid big money and
sheep sold for less then than now; wool
sold for less.
"As to goat raising, I am assuming
that men have some character and self
respect left; and that they are above
taking a man's money for so disreputable
an animal as a goat.
"The forecast for a huge emergence
of boll weevils this spring is reassuring.
They are doing a grand work for God
and humanity. Some day men will see
enttnn was blastine. devastating,.
ruining the country, taking the manhood
and morals out of us. God is
setting us free, and freedom is usually
bought with pain and hardship."
GAMBLERS IN COTTON
Rival "Exchanges" Threaten War
Against Each Other.
The American Cotton Exchange, Inc.,
at SI Broad 8L New York, is under investigation
by the district attorney's
office on a complaint that it is a bucket
shop. Officers of the exchange have
been questioned and the books are being
examined by an auditor from the
prosecutor's office.
A. W. Graham, better known as
Judge Graham, who formerly was
United States cotton futures attorney,
is president of the exchange.
Randolph Rose, who operates two
brokerage companies here, is vicepresident.
The name of the exchange
up to two months ago was the Ameri
can Cotton and Grain Exchange. Upwards
of 2,000 seats on the exchange
have been sold, according to the Globe.
In certain quarters In Wall Street
the view was taken that the investigation
marked the beginning of a fight by
the New York Cotton Exchange
against a so-called rival organization.
It was denied by members of the New
York Cotton Exchange that they or
their organization were interested in
the inquiry in any way. No charge
was made by the American Cotton Exchange
that the older exchange was
behind the investigation.
The two exchanges cannot be said to
be competitors in a business sense. The
New York Cotton Exchange is fiftyone
years old, its seats sell for around
$15,000 each, and the minimum unit in
which trading is permitted is 100 bales.
The American Cotton Exchange is four
years old, its seats have a "par value"
of $1,000, and the minimum trading
unit is ten bales.
It is alleged that the younger exchange,
which was promoted by Joseph
C. Cooper, secures by irregular moans
the quotations of the New York Cotton
Exchange and posts them on its
board for the information and guidance
of members.
Judge Graham maintained that the
exchange was conducted along lines
"similar to those of the larger exchanges."
He said:
Members are held to strict accountability,
and if convicted of violation of
either the rules or by-laws are summarily
disciplined. The buying and
selling on the exchange is conducted
under the supervision of Col. George
W. Pratt, its secretary, in exactly the
same way as on other exchanges. The
hour and date ot every trade is recorded,
together with the price. The
contract is that approved by the United
States Cotton Futures Act, Section
5. The sheets are stamped and put
into the Clearing House, and monthly
returns made to the United States Cotton
Futures Office in the Internal
Revenue Department. The Clearing
Association also makes a monthly return
similar to that made by other
clearing associations, so that the government
has a complete check on all
transactions made on the floor of the
exchange.?Commerce and Finance.
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free conference report on the gasoline
tax bill. The committee provides for
a two cent tax on gasoline, with its
combinations and substitutes and no
tax on kerosene. One half of the
funds are to be turned over to the
state government for use In the general
fund and operating expenses and
one half to be returned to the counties
for use on the roads. The payments
must be made by the 20th of each
month, penalties are provided for violation
of live act.
PAPER AS MONEY
Interesting Story of Guernsey Market
House.
METAL BAST IS' NOT NECESSARY
Century of Progress Under Conditions
Which Have Promoted the Greatest
Good to the Greatest Number Without
Resulting in 'Immense Weath at
the .Expense or uire roveny,
Gladstone, we are told, once said;
"The surest way to get into an insane
asylum is to study the money question."
I have asked American Journalists
why they do not write on sound
finance. In reply they hold up their
hands in holy horror exclaiming: "Too
deep for me!"
These more or less intelligent gentlemen,
who do not hesitate to discourse
on international questions, analyze
labor controversies, lash transgressors
of stupid laws, or apotheosize a Grand
Marshal of Finance, cannot, or will not,
or dare not dig to the tap root of most
of our social ills; our perverted money
system.
If they but would, they would find
the fundamentals of finance as simple
as putting on their hats?it is the cunningly
devised superstructure of abuse
which is so difficult to understand.
The elemental simplicity of this very
necessary adjunct to a convenient exchange
of commodities appeals to com
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mun ociiBc mu u^.,6....u
artificial intricacies with which it has
been surrounded hinder* penetration
and discourages the mind. The first
step in extricating ourselves from financial
bondage is to comprehend the
elements of exchange and taxation. It
requires no iutense study; the story
of^the Guernsey Market House will at
on6e enter your understanding, will
you but read:
It was after the close of the Napoleonic
wars, that the "States of
Guernsey" resolved to build a market
house at St. Peters Port, the capital
city of the islar.d. The object was to
provide a shelter for the farmer and a
convenience to the citizen on market
day, which was, and still is, Saturday.
Wealth Without Money the Gauge.
The problem was, as usual, "to get
the money." There was no money in
ciculation; in fact, the war had drained
the island of its coin, so there was
none to circulate. In other words, there
had been a "contraction of the currency,"
as now, after the World war.
A committee was sent to the govern
or, to ask if he could negotiate a loan
for the city in Paris or London. The
governor thought he could; but, said
he, you will have interest to pay. Of
course, they did not expect to borrow
money without interest.
But, said the governor again, do you
conceive that when you have built the
market, you will wish to do other
things; build the sorely needed seawall
or repair your almost Impassable
roads, and that such projects would necessitate
additional loans, meaning a
continuous increase of debt and interest,
from which you will never be able
to free yourselves? Well, yes, they
fiupposed so?but was there any other
way ? ,
Before answering your questions, the
governor replied, I wish to ask you a
few:
Have you any granite for the foundation?
Yes, at St. Sampson (another city of
the island).
Have you brick for the building?
We have the clay to make it from.
Have you the lumber for finishing?
YeB.
KHUblovora Q nH I
nave you iimauno, unvmaj v.u
carpenters to do the work?
Why, yes, your excellency; why do
you ask these questions? You know
that we have all these things and that
starting such public work would be a
god-send to our idle workmen.
They Have Money to Burn.
Well, the governor said, I merely
wanted to impress upon you the fact
that you have all that is needful to
build a market house.
Yes, the committee assented, all except
the money.
Exactly so, said the governor; now
suppose that \ye print the money?
Can that be done? asked the citizens,
in astonishment.
Would you be willing to try? inquired
the governor.
But would there be no danger of an
ovec-lssue and consequent "depreciation
of the currency?" counter-queried
the citizens.
No, said the governor, we will make
a careful estimate of the cost, and issue
money to the amount of the estimate;
then we will levy a tax in the
same amount and spread it over a convenient
period of time. By the payment
of tbls tax, the money will be returned
to its source of issue; and, having
performed the function for which it
was printed and issued, it may then be
destroyed.
The idea of the destruction of the retired
currency seemed a satisfactory
safeguard against inflation and the
committee requested the governor to
put his plan into execution.
The money was printed and issued in
payment of material, labor and supervision
and the market house was built.
Meantime, the money circulated from
the quarry owner and brick maker to
their laborers and from these, as well
as from the workmen engaged in
building the market house, it passed to
the grocer, butcher, tailor, and dry
goods merchant; nil of whom paid
their share of this money to the government
In the form of taxes.
At the end of the stipulated period of
circulation, when the market house issue
was returned to the treasury, the
governor proclaimed a holiday?to burn
the money as per agreement with the
committee.
The people assembled In the market
house square, where the governor made
a speech, reciting the conception of the
plan to finance the erection of the marA#
UAHCD nnH ^Ynlftinincr tho onrvlAA
which this paper money had performed.
Thereupon a fire was kindled, and
the governor, after sprinkling incense
on the money, consigned it to the
flames.
When the charred flakes had curled
and rolled away, the governor asked:
Well, citizens, what do you wish to do
next?
Tear down the old houses along
Fountain street and rebuild, responded
the people.
Said the governor: Too bad that we
burned the money, we could have used
it again, could we not?
That's so, assented the citizens.
Well, said the governor, it is all
right; I merely wanted to demonstrate
to you that there is. no danger of an
over-issue or in a re-issue of currency
if honestly done for honest purposes.
We will print another issue; the loss,
after all, is only the cost of paper and
priu uim.
And so, Issue after Issue wan made of
this paper money, without a gold or
silver reserve behind It. It rebuilt
Fountain street; erected the sea wall;
built a fine harbor; maintained an extensive
network of splendid roads; and
performed other works of necessity,
utility and beautiflcaitlon.
For a hundred years this .paper money
has continued, to} circulate, without
a metallic basis, and yet has perfprmed
all the functions which human need
and progress require of it.
The Bank of England's notes have,
except for the period of suspicion
which followed the first issue, generally
been regarded "as good as gold"?
whether they are, is merely a question
of convenience and utility. To ascertain
what the Guernsey man thinks of
his money, you may offer him payment
in his own currency and he will be satisfied
with 20 shillings to the pound;
offer him Bank of England's note and
ho will demand an extra shilling for
each pound sterling. I do not say this
to discredit the Bank of England's note
Issues (they are as good or as bad as
any other promisory actes); I merely
wish to demonstrate that the Guernsey
money is entirely satisfactory to the
Guernsey man. By a /ittle story, I will
show that it was deemed good enough
also for the inhabitants of another island.
Prosperity Not Built Upon Gold.
In 1913, on a trip to Europe, I landed
at Cherbourg, whence ! took a local
steamer for Guernsey, making an intermediary
landing at Alderney, another
of the British Channel isles. The
object of my visit to Guernsey was to
observe the general conditions prevailing
on the island and thereby determine
the effect of their money system,
at least on appearances.
I found the streets clean and in good'
condition; their houses in repair and
painted; the store windows scrupulously
clean, fronts painted, and in some instances
grained and varnished. The
combined hospital and. home for the
aged and Infirm was surrounded Dy a |
park and formed, the most beautiful
portion of the city. .There was apparently
no poverty and no vulgar ostentation
of wealth; for the elegant ladies,
with whom we dined at the government
house on Friday,, greeted us at
the market house, basket in band, on
Saturday. The road system of the island
was ample and in excellent condition.
In my quest for information, I approached
also those from whom I could
expect adverse opinions. One of these
was an Englishman.
"Mr. K.," said I, "what do you think
of your money system?"
"That," he replied, "is most remarkable.
I came to Guernsey 14 years ago
to engage in the cattle trade. To the
north is another Island named Alderney.
I was told the islanders had some
very fine cattle, and went there to look
it over. I found the island in a deplorable
state; no activity of any cind. Peter
owed Paul, Paul owed Thomas, and
Thomas owed Andrew. Everybody was
in debt to everybody else, and no one
had anything to pay with; all were despondent
and sullen.
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"You have some nice cattle bore, and,
if you will register it, so that k may be
pedigreed, I will buy It from yt u." Well,
they had no objection to that, if thereby
they could sell the cattle, and I helped
them open a register. I also bought
cattle to the amount of 1,000 pounds,
paying for it in Guernsey notes. I then
departed and returned in five days to
ship the cattle. But what a transformation.
The island was all activity. Pe- J
ter had paid Paul; Paul had paid
Thomas, and Thomas had settled with
Andrew; they were out of debt, everybody
was doing something and all were
happy. And the remarkable thing about
it is that these debts were paid and
the islanders set in activity by means
of the paper money of another island."
I am not sure that Mr. K. understood
the philosophy of it; for beseemed
to regard the manifestation as a
phenomenon. But he knew that it
worked.
I had several conferences with the
treasurer of the island, from whom I
(Continued on Fage Eight.)
BOLL WEEVIL MONUMENT
Real Facts And Not a Mere Joke,
According to Credible Witness.
HOW ALABAMA FARMERS WERE FREED
All Kinds of So-Called Remedies Wave
Been Tried, Like Drowning Man
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ijrad ing m a guiw ?nu nu
bailed?Only Diversification Brought
Prosperity.
Bennettsville Peoples Advocate.
Bennettsville, S. C.f Feb. 14, 1922
Mr. R. L. Freeman, City, .
Dear Sir: Find Inclosed letter from
Mr. R. O. Fleming, of Ala. Perhaps If
you will publish this letter it may be a
help to our farmers. Surely those peoole
know what they -are talking about,
end it looks to me like those speakers
ir. the courthouse had an axe to grind
when they said fertilize heavy in order
to keep the bolls green and tender for
the weevil to feed on. I think It would
be very foolish for us to buy fertilizer
to grow something to feed the weevil
on. Our only hope as, I see it, is to
plant the earliest cotton we can get,
plant early, cultivate fast, and make
some cotton before the weevil multiplies
and becomes plentiful. We want
our cotton to ripen in August and Sep4
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than to feed him. I don't think there
are many people in Marlboro county,
who are able to buy fertilizer to grow
something to feed boll weevils on. So
don't think it is a good idea to put all
your eggs in one basket. We will not
plant everything in -cotton this year.
Yours very truly,
H. H. Hubbard.
Mr. Fleming's Letter.
Enterprise, Ala.? Feb. 8th, 1922,
Editor Pee Dee Advocate, Bennettaj
ville, S. C.
Dear Sir: In a clipping from your
paper, which I hand you herewith, my
attention has been called to a statement
made by one Dr. Maloney, Director
of the Government Laboratory,
in'an address that he made recently to
a delegation of farmers and business
men of your community, stated that in
referring to a letter written by Mr. W.
E. Hubbard of this county to his
brother H. H. Hubbard, one Of your
citizens, was entirely false and did not
carry with it the facts.
The remedy that Mr. Hubbard here
gave his brother residing there to combat
the boll weevil was absolutely correct.
The farmers in Coffee county are
among the most progressive to be
found in any section'of the state and
they are In position to advise the
farmers in Georgia and the Carollnas,
I if they 'really want some real results
in combating the 'boll weevil.' There
is one way and only one to play havoc
with the bug and in the end keep the
wolf from the door, and that plan is
to diversify.
Yes sir, the farmers In Alabama, like
all other cotton producing states, were
slaves to cotton until the approach of
the boll weevil, which first made its
appearance in the Wire Grass section
of Alabama in the fall of 1916. Going
deeper and deeper in debt every year
and nqt raising enough corn, potatoes,
cane, and meat for home consumption
featured cotton, cotton every year even
planting the fence jams, but after
learning an expensive lesson trying to
combat the weevil on through the
years namely 1915, 1916 and 1917, the
Coffee county, Ala., cotton crop was
cut from thirty-five thousand bales to
less than ten thousand bales, and while
I do not say positively what the yield
finally got down to, but It was slipping
fast to an outcome of 'nothing.' Not
enough raised to pay land rents.
After the farmers were completely
broken up and every thing mortgaged
trying to combat the boll weevil, they
conceived the idea of planting peanuts
and raising other farm products, such
as corn, potatoes, cane, although
featuring peanuts and raising hogs and
cattle and they went from one extreme
to another, as Coffee county, Alabama,
raised and marketed, I am told, more
than five million bushels of peanuts in
1918 and the same amount in 1919 and
they realized more out of these two
peanut crops than they ever realized
out of four cotton crops. The boll
weevil, which one time seemed to be
the worst peril that ever visited any
community, proved to be a blessing in
disguise. More than onco the writer
saw a solid train load of cattle and
hogs shipped out of the sidings at Enterprise
for the markets in the middle
west, and the whole country was a
rolling mass of prosperity.
Yes sir, the poison calcium arsenate
has been used here, and in fact all
other conceivable methods have been
tried out through this section, but the
results were that the boll weevil ate
| up creation right on. Tell your planters
to cut out cotton entirely for three
| years and then take on cotton again
gradually, and in the meantime mey
will find out that they can raise other
crops with half the labor and expense
and in the end they will have learned
a lesson that will help them to keep
their feet on the shores.
Now just a word about the monument
erected here on one of the principal
street crossings at Enterprise to
the boll weevil. After the farmers
through this section from actual experience
learned that they could raise
other crops and realize more money
out of them, the business men of Enterprise,
Coffee county, Alabama, called
a meeting and carefully laid out a
I plan to erect a monument to the bug
that one time seemed ".o be the most
devastating pest that ever cleaned up
any section of the South Land, but
which had finally proven a blessing In
disguise, so there was a beautiful
bronze fountain designed suitable for
the purpose and erected on December
the 11th, 1919, in honor of the boll
weevil, and you might be interested to
know that the day this monument to
the 'bug* was unveiled there was a
large delegation from Batesbarg, S. C.,
composed of farmers, bankers, manufacturers
and professional men that
witnessed the unveiling. The project
when undertaken was with the idea In
| view of erecting a monument to the
boll weevil and not a drinking place for
cattle and stock, as the Dr. Maloney
stated in his address to your people.
No live stock or cattle of any description
are allowed to drink at the fountain
and your people have been wrongfully
informed. On the base of the
foundation is found the following inscription:
In profound appreciation of the
Boll Weevil
And what it has done as the herald
of prosperity?
This monument Is erected by
The citizens of *
Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama.
Yours truly,
R. O. Fleming.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN
Monroe Editor Hand* Them Something
Worth While.
Rodger "Oolan says it takes us half
our life to find out what not to do, ?.nd
then we're too old to make our experience
count for much.
I am reminded of this by the receipt
of a letter from a young man who
says he has just turned twenty-one
and wants some advice.
None of us are ever happier than
when giving out advice or information,
and I being no exception to the
rule, am glad to tell this young man
what I would do if I were twenty-one.
I would take care of my health. I
wouldn't overeat. I would go through
a few setting-up exercises, morning
and evening. I would get at least
eight hours sleep every night I would
confine all my drinking to waterlots
of it
I would read at least two hours every
day?mostly biography, history and
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economics. 1 wouia rcau, HIV
biography of Benjamin Franklin" at
least once every two years.
I would pay cash for everything. I
wouldn't corltract any obligation unless
I had the money in the bank to meet
It. Credit is a good servant but a bad
master.
I would try to do my Job a little better
than it wra ever done before. If I
were peeling potatoes, I would be the
fastest peeler in the city. If I were
keeping books, I would get out my
monthly balance promptly even though
I had to work overtime.
I would cultivate a hobby?something
to which I could turn in my
moments of leisure.
I would start a bank account and
deposit to my credit a definite amount
every pay day. I would Igt nothing
interfere with this habit. As my savings
began to accumulate Into a tidy
sum I would be cautious about Investing
it, without asking the advice of a
responsible person.
I would value friendships highly,
remembering that it is to ones friends
one must turn when one is in trouble,
o??h that friends cannot be created j
overnight. |i
I would organize myself, having a
time and a place for everything so far
as possible. When I made up my mind
to do a thing I would write down my
resolution and follow myself up to see
that I carried It out.
I would read the dally newspapers of
my town carefully in order that I
might know what was going on. I
would take an interest In civic affairs,
and try to vote Intelligently. I would
boost my town?or get out* Every
citizen helps to make a town what it is
?"good or bad.
I would always be a booster for my
employer?or get out. An employe who
knocks his employer is as bad as a
guest who steals from his host.
I would aim high on the theory that
what others think of us is determined
to a large extent by the estimate which
we form of ourselves.
AFTER CARNIVAL OWNERS
Law Requires Payment of Twice
Amount Lost if Convicted,
Taking advantage of a law which
provides that moneys or property lost
through swindling or cheating at a
game of chance, at least one resident
of the Williamston cotton mill village
hopes to recover money which he
claims he lost through swindling at a
carnival which recently played an engagement
near the Wllliamston mill,
says the Anderson Daily Mail.
Deputies Skelton and Clamp left this
morning for Enoree with warrants for
the arrest of two white men connected
with the carnival. W. B. Browning
of Williamston was deponent on one of
the warrants and charged that he had
been swindled out of a small amount of
money, some 17 or more, it is understood,
and he has brought prosecution
through Section 713 of the South
Carolina Code, which provides for the
payment upon conviction of cheating
or fraud in a game or device, of double
the amount of money lost by the person
bringing the action. The warrant '
was issued before Magistrate G. II.
Geiger, of this city.
CHRISTENSEN RESIGNS
Gross of Dorchester Succeeds as
Chairman of Finance Committee.
WASH SPEECHES ON THE SeBJECT
Former Chairman 8ayc Buainaaa Haa
Triumphed Over Agricultural Num^
?* Qam.aki and
MWI W! VVIIHWI V!? ?u? MVMfwnv
Resignation Aoeoptsd,
Following' dramatic speeches - by
Senators McColl, Bonham and Hamilton
in which they strongly reseated
what they termed implications, if nqt
charges, brought by Senator Chris tensen
in his resignation, that "busirfcss
had won in the senate," the senile
yesterday accepted the resignation of
Mr. Christensen as chairman, of the
finance committee and then elected
Senator H. H. Gross of Dorchester to
succeed him as the leader of the most
lraportaht senate committee. The
Beaufort senator made it plain that he
would Insist on his resignation, sdys
the Columbia State of Wednesday.
Senator Gross was the second ranking
member of the committee. Senator
Johnstone of Newberry betng trie
ranking member, but he declined to
serve, telling the senate that he did
not feel that he could bear the woflc
regardless of the honor and pleasure
it would bring to him to lead the conimittee.
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After the morning session had gone
for about an hour, Senator Johnstone
called the resignation of Hr. Christensen
to the attention of the senate,
declaring that Senator Chrlgjteiurtai
had made it plain to the finance committee
that he Wokld not withdraw
his resignation. ' 7
Exemption to Words* ' '
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senaiur jncvuu vi ?<u >w>. v
exception to the language used by Mr.
Chrlstensen in submitting big resignation,
declaring that this was the
third time in four years that the senate
had been conde"inqd by a person
in high responsibility.' He Sgjd the
statement that business was- dictating
to the senate was unjuefiflabta A*t>d
not true and put the seoate' inan lijrproper
and false light
pie of ^outh Carolina. Mr. JtcCOll
said because the senate ffdl^tt to Affefe
with the finance committee dr the
chairman was no reason Why the
chairman should withd/aw.'
Senator McColl said thel chairman
of a great committee had no rigjat to
withdraw on the eve of the'contiderotion
or the
went Into an ixplahatlon of how the
appropriations had ihare*g*d- in tt)s
last few years and how hd'hifd opposed
these Increases.- thfct
the senate did not sgrhh^ ffth ' 11^.
-" dimiXA tnr kin rW??
i;nri0iensen wao UV I va?v?? ** T ~
ignation, Mr. McColl Bald. To fkj
that the senate was servile to one in'*
terest was not true, Mr. McColl declared.
Senator Bonham said he agreed
largely with the remarks of Mr. McColl
and declared he couldn't see how
the senate could be made up of more
representative men. He said he resented
the statement that the senate
had forsaken the soil and surrendered
to business and thought this statement
meant that the senate "had sold
out to business." Mr.^Bonham said
that after such remarks and attitude
on the part - Of Mr.' Chrlstensen he . Jj5J
thought the only thing to do would be
to demand the resignation' of Mr.
Chrlstensen if he had not resigned.
Senator Bonham said when such discord
arose In a committee It was time
to seek a new leader and that he
thought there was more than one good
mind In the senate. "V.
Not for Business,
Senator Johnstone said he refuted
the statement Monday night that business
had won over agriculture afld
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that ho did noi mean uie nmuo ? ?
light they had been taken. He aaid he
agreed with Mr. Duncan that no one
man or committee could run the seriate.
He entered into an explanation
of paBt appropriation bills and said he
accepted his share of the 'responsibilities
in increasing the bills and did not
want to throw his part of the responsibility
on Mr. Chrlstensen.
Senator Hamilton said he was not
representing any class of business,
but the people of Chester county. He
said it looked to him like the senate
had not lost confidence in Mr. Chrlstensen,
but that Mr. Chrlstensen had
lost confidence in the senate. He declared
that he would not be willing
to swallow a tax program that might 6Q
be framed by just anybody, one that no
he didn't agree with, and that might
have been proposed by "somebody" In > 1
Chicago who did not know condition* -. ' '*
here. He declared thj^t he could not "
accept the statement that the senate
had been won by business.
During the remarks of Senator Me-/
Coll. Senator Padgett of Colleton suggested
that the remark* might be
more appropriate if Mr. Christensen
were present. Mr. McColl said* It wa*
a source of regret to him that Mr.
Christensen waa not present; and that
he had so stated at the outset tit.
McColl then reiterated that he thought,
the resignation a "slap" at the senate,
made unwisely, ill advised and when
Mr. Christensen was "under Are."
Prior to the speeches of Senators
McColl, Bonham and Hamilton, Sena*
tor Hart declared he did not want to
see the resignation accepted. He s?Ut<
Mr. Christensen had done a great
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