Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 31, 1922, Image 1
k />/ .,. -, *
LIE semi> wfeCKLY> ^
l. m. 6rist'? sons. pubii(i?r>. % ^attiilji Iteicspnptr: J'or (hi; promotion of th^ golital, Social, ^grirultu^al and Commercial Jnterests o)[ Ihe gtopli;. TER"5S^toPTEm*NoEra^r
ESTABLISHED 1855 ~~~ YORK, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH81, 1922. NO. 26
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
t
Brief Local Paragraphs of lore or
Less interest.
PICKED DP BT EJV9UIKEB KEPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
8ome of Which You Know and
8ome You Don't Know?-Condoneed
. I
For Quick Reading.
Drug on the Market.
Cordwood which Jast winter a year
ago sold freely on the Yorkville market
at from $8 to $10 a cord in four foot
lengths, has become a drug on the
market at almost any price, and
parties who have it to sell are advised
not to bring it unless they have it engaged
before hand.
Man came into the office of views
and Interviews yesterday and offered
a load of stovewood for sale. He said
it was dry forest pine cut to stove
length, and there was a full half-cord.
"Don't need any my friend. Have
enough to do me until Christmas.
"I brought it from near Bethany,
and have been trying to sell it at almost
any price, what will you give?"
"Don't need it, and don't want it."
It was such a load as should easily
be worth $8.00. It was more than half
a cord.
"You may have it for $3.
"I would not mind giving you $5 but
I don't need it."
"You may have it for $2.50. I think
I would throw it off before I would
haul it back home."
8ick of Credit.
Had a talk yesterday with a certain
business man who has a large number
of accounts on his books that he cannot
collect, and who is resolved that he
will never again sell anything except
for cash. \
"Yes, I am done with it," he said,
"and I have quit, I've Just simply been
a fool, letting theqi take away what
I've got like taking candy from a baby.
x am awaic mav 1 nave ovine; viovvmers
who Intended to pay and who would
pay if they could; but there are others
who have had no idea of paying, and
who simply wont pay. I've quit before
they get all I've got. If I have to bust
I had better bust with something, rath/
er than just give it away.
"This credit business is a terrible
thing and we are to blame for it ourselves.
We are just a pack of fools.
Just let business get a little dull, and
we get impatient and want to do something.
Out of the desire to do something
we sell apd charge and sell and
charge. Bills come due, and we pay
until we have nothing to pay with.
Then we go to the bank and borrow on
the collateral of what is owing us.
Then -before our notes come due we
realise that we cannot collect, and we
have to renew.
"We say cash 'from now on. Most
peeple appreciate the situation and pay
cash or do without. * Some come along
and tell ub how, If we don't credit, we
will lose business. They want us to accommodate
them only to the first of
the month, promising, by all that is
good that they will pay then. But we
have been. It has been our experience
heretofore that promises of the first of
the month would be settled with the
explanation that 'the money I expected
did not turn up,' and we are left in the
lurch. No, I have come to the conclusion
that the fellow who tries to do a
retail credit business in my line is simply
a fool, and I am not going to be a
fool any longer."
A Tanglefoot Road.
One does not stop to wonder why a
fly gets caught in tanglefoot. It has
no better sense. It does seem however,
that any traveler, when he comes
upon a sign warning him of bad road
ahead ought to have sense enough to
go back far enough to learn how to
get around it. But many of them
don't.
Because of the tearing up of the
King's Mountain road, 'incident to
proper surfacing, and the continual
rains that have been passing, parts of
the road between the corporate limits
of Yorkville and the turn off toward
Filbert have been in a bad way since
last fall; in spite of the most strenuous
efforts of the road force to get it
right.
During several days of last week the
supervisor was able to do a lot of work
toward filling in the gap; but he was
not able to complete it by Saturday
afternoon, when he had to take the
chaingang off, and rains of Sunday and
Monday night softened things up as
badly as before.
' The worst place now is a stretch of
' about two hundred, yards between the I
residence of John Q. Hall and the
Qulnn old place, to the north. A representative
of The Yorkville Enquirer
went up Tuesday afternoon to look
at it.
The road was passable under considerable
efforts for Fords, and much
more efforts for larger cars and
trucks.
"Been pulling a lot of them out
haven't you?" was asked of Mr. Hall.
"Yes, several. It is not so bad now;
but it is getting worse. The small
cars have been going over without
much trouble until yesterday; but the
large cars have been cutting the ruts
deeper and deeper until now it is difficult
for them to get through.
"Do you ever tell them to go
.... a round?"
"Sure, I have been tilling many of
: them thnt they could not get through;
but In most cases it is the same as if
I don't. They go right ahead.
"And you have the fun of seeing
them stuck up? was suggested.
"I don't know that there is any fun
in it," said Mr. Hall, with a good
natured smile, "but if a fellow persists
in going on after I have advised
him not to, it Is his funeral and not
mine."
JUDGE AND JURY.
a* ? ^ -r
Ml#o oome neBiun or uriun ?<nviiy>
to the Solicitor.
There has been just one acquittal of
a person charged with crime in the
court of general session in thic circuit
since last November, yet there have
been five solid weeks of court.
Who are responsible for this remarkably
fine and inspiring record of law
enforcement which is a credit not only '
to the circuit* court, but also to the
Palmetto state?
Solicitor David W. Smoak in an interview
with The Piedmont yesterday
declared:
"The reasons are just two?first,
Judge Gary; second, good jurors. '
"Courteous, courageous, firm as a i
general at the front, one of the best )
lawyers on the bench in the South, a .
gentleman of the old school, Judge
Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, is in my 1
opinion the ideal judge. <
"He is decidedly a law enforcement j
judge, too. He did more to arouse the
conscience of Greenville county in one c
hour's talk to the grand jury last January
than I was able to do as solicitor
my whole first year in office. In theoe
piping times men of his type are worth
their weight in gold; almost by him- t
self Judge Gary would stop the reign <
of terror in the Thirteenth circuit. I (
see "him leave the circuit with genuine
regret and if the time ever comes {
while 1 am in office that a law should i
be passed rotating the solicitors in the t
state like judges, I think I shall be
asked to go around with Judge Gary.
''As for the jurors their record of the ?
past few month speaks for itself. In i
my opinion the names of the men who
have so faithfully served tne peopie
this year both as grand Jurors and petit
Jurors should be written in marble and i
placed in the courthouse as an example 8
of the highest type of South Carolina
citizenship." 8
It is unusual for a solicitor thus to r
pay tribute to a Judge, but it is in this 8
case thoroughly warranted. The Pied- 8
mont is glad to concur in all that is
here said of Judge Gary who is indeed,
to use a Shakespearian phrase, "an upright
Judge, a learned judge," whose
conduct of his high office is worthy of
the best traditions of the South Carolina
bench.
In addition the Jurors deserve the
warm praise accorded them by Solicitor
Smoak. The strength of the state
lies in jurors who will justly, intelligently
and honestly do their duty, so
that justice is maintained through the
punishment of the guilty. All honor to
these men, who at sacrifice of time and
money, have thus well and truly served
their county and their state.
In his statement Solicitor Smoak has
failed to mention a public officer who
is entitled to as strong commendation
for the enforcement of the law through
the courts as anybody else?and that
man is Solicitor Smoak himself. It has
been only a little more than a year
since he entered upon the duties of his
office, but in that brief period he has
made a record of successful convictions
which will compare favorably
with that of any other solicitor in the
history of the state. Without fear or
favor, he has done his duty, knowing
neither friend nor foe in the discharge
of the responsibilities committed to his
hands by the people of this circuit. He
has not been puffed up and made arrogant
and overbearing by his authority?to
all persons he is equally considerate
and courteous. He has not prosecuted
his enemies and freed his
friends. -He has ?iven all a square
deal, without reference to personal or
political considerations. In the power
and eloquence of his arguments in the 1
courtroom he can be compared with "!
that other brilliant young solicitor of 1
this circuit nearly a century ago, Wa> i
ren R. Davis. At a time when there <
was much crime, the Thirteenth cir- 1
cult is fortunate indeed that it has f
such a vigorous, unrelenting, uncom-'
promising and able public prosecutor i
as David W. Smoak.?Greenville Pied- i
mont. 1
5
City Within a City.?Occupying an 1
entire city block on West. Grand "
Boulevard Detroit's noted driveway, ]
the 15-story office ,bui!ding and re- l
search laboratory of the General )
Motors Corporation ranks as the larg- <
- 1 * i 1 ? umtilrt ,
est structure or us kuiu m mc nv,.?. ,
The building1, recently completed at i
a cost of $15,000,000, has a floor area i
of 30 acres and will accommodate 6,- i
000 workers in its 1,760 offices. i
The structure is a city within itself l
as it contains restaurants, ,swimming i
pools, gymnasiums, bowlinsr alleys, i
and other amusement places, as well i
as a fully equipped hospital and a i
bank.
The building of steel frame construction,
has four miles of corridors
remilrprl two veai'S tO build, dUT
ir.g which period 2,000 men were employed,
constantly.
The research laboratory, one of the
distinct features of the building, occupies
five floors of one wing and is
equipped for work along mechanical,
electrical and engineering lines. In
this laboratory the future mechanical
problems of the corporation are to be
worked out by .experts in various lines.
An auditorium seating 1,500 persons
is provided. This will be used jn caring
for some of the conventions that
come to Detroit.
? The reason men brag about the
bee's industry is because men get the
honey.
NEW TAX LAW
Chairman Query Talks to Representative
of Yorkville Enquirer.
ENFORCEMENT WILL WORK SMOOTHLY
State Can Get Names of Income Tax
Payera and That is All it Needa?
Gas Money Comes in Freely?Organization
of Field Forces Under
Way.
Correepondence The Yorkville Enquirer
Columbia, S. C., March 30?W. G.
Query, chairman of the South Carolina
Tax Commission which has in charge
the work of collecting the state Income
tax in accordance with the income tax
law passed by the recent session of the
general assembly feels confident that
the commission will be able to collect
the tax without any great difficulty,
[n an interview with the correspondent
of The Yorkville Enquirer today,
Chairman Query said that at the time
the income tax law was passed the tax
commission felt that it had an almost
Impossible task to perform; but since
then the commission has thoroughly
familiarized itself with the law and is
low working on the necessary machinery
to carry out the measure and
is confident that the law will be
carried out without any hitch,
jjo Raise Large Amount.
l am noi prepared 10 say now mucu
cvenue will be raised for the state
ihrough' the income tax law," said Mr.
Juery in reply to a question. "Within
hirty days the commission will know
Lbout how much revenue is to be exited
from individuals and corporatons
but not now. I have heard va ious
estimates?some as low as $500,100
and some as high as $2,000,000; but
lobody knows certainly Just now.
Federal Liat of Names.
"Since the Federal commissioner of
nternal revenue has ruled that a
itate may not have access to the
Lmounts paid the Federal governnent
in income tax how are you going
ibout collecting an income tax for the
rtate?" Chairman Query was asked.
"Well, we never did expect that the
I ' '
The above picture shows the family
ind home of Mr. T. E. Harper, of
fork R F. D. No. 8. The group pic;ure
was taken more than twenty years
igo. The insert over In the right-hand
sorner is a photograph of the venera)le
Mr. Harper, taken within the past
ew weeks.
Sitting on the porch at the top of the
steps is Mr. T. E. Harper, and to his
ight is Mrs. Harper, his second wife.
The lady in the foreground to the left
s Mrs. W. R. Currence, deceased. To
:he right are Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Har-'
Federal government would allow us to
lave their records showing the amount
?aid by individuals," replied Mr.
Juery. "The Federal government does
iot object to furnishing us with the
[tames of persons, firms and corporaLions
who pay an income tax to them
and that is all the information we
really need. The governor has written
the commissioner of internal revenue
requesting this list of names for South
Carolina and we are confident that his
request will be granted. In fact, we
are assured that we will have this list
within the next few days. It includes
more than 40.000 names.
"The new state income tax law requires
every person who makes a return
to the Federal government to
make a like return to the state government.
Since we will have a list of all
those who made return to the Federal
government you will see that our task
will be comparatively easy."
Cost of Collecting Tax.
Chairman Query estimates that it
will cost the state of South Carolina
J-D.UUU lO CUlieUL IIIC Blaic IIIV.UHH
the first year. The state appropriation
bill this year carries the sum of $25,000
to be used in effecting an organization
to collect the tax, the "overhead"
cost to he taken out of the
revenue collected. A director and
eleven assistants will have charge of
the work of collecting the tax, these
to be appointed by the governor.
This organization will Include about
six field agents whose duties shall consist
in traveling over the state,
examining the county records and personal
records to sec to it that none are
escaping fhc tax who should pay even
as the field auditors of the Federal
government are now doing. Blank
forms for use in filing state income tax
rofiirna ore now being orenared in the
office of tho state tax commission in
the Palmetto National Bank building
in Columbia.
May Contest Law.
Asked, about rumors that are current
In the capital and other parts of the
state to the effect that the state income
tax law may be contested in the courts
on the ground that it is unconstitutional,
Chairman Query said that he had.
heard these rumors; but he had no official
notice that the law would be
contested. "I do not believe that it
will be contested," ho said; "because
I do not believe any Individual, firm or
corporation in South Carolina would
attempt to escape its Just share of taxation.
"You might be Interested to know,
however," said Mr. Query, "that we are
receiving letters not only from a number
of South Carolinians but from all
? -*? noflrtn nrntAQtlncr nMlnist
!*?'?> "? "O"? -..-r. -r,
the state income tax law which is
identical with the Federal statute. The
authors of a dumber of those letters
state that surely it cannot be possible
that the grand, old state of South
Carolina has departed so fur from
Its history and traditions as to pass
a law identical with a Federal law.
Some of the letters are very amusing."
The chairman of the state tax commission
said that no*- since South
Carolina has passed a state income
tax law, practically every state in the
Union now has puch a law; but that
South Carolina is the only state in the
United States to pass a statute identical
with the Federal statute.
Gas and Inheritance Laws.
Asked about the gasoline tax measure
passed by the last general assemb
ly ana tne innenlance lux mw, ivii.
Query said that revenue from the gasonffl
#$: v * . W , - .
f '-* Vf. -<
^ , > . ' x ' - ?
T. E. HARPER AND FAMILY
per and child.
Mr. Harper was born In the Point
section of Bethel township on June 17.
1835, within a quarter of a mile of thesite
of the house shown above, and has
lived thero all his life. He served
through the Civil war as a member of
the company of Captain R. H. Glenn,
Col. W. B. Allison, regimental commander.
He was twice married, first
to Mary S. Dameron, who died March
17, 1876, and to his second wife, Elizabeth
Boyd, who is still living, a year
or two later,
j line tax law was coming into the comI
mission in a steady stream, and that
the machinery for this collection was
running smoothly, despite the fact that
the measure had been on the statute
books only a short while. He also
said that the probate Judges over the
state who had in charge the work of,
collecting the inheritance tax had been
given their instructions and furnished
with the necessary blanks and that
every thing was in ship shape for its
collection.
"We saved the income tax to the last
believing that it would give us more
trouble than any of the other tax
measures passed by the assembly,"
said Mr. Query in conclusion. "But we
now have practically all the machinery
for its collection well oiled and in
good shape and we feel confident that i
we will be able to collect every dollar
to which the state is entitled under the I
terms of the act."
? Some thirty families overcome
poverty and some have occasional
twins.
? About the only man who can pet
tight at the same old place is the tight
wad.
? In a small town the art of conversation
consists in speculation concerning
the sum various relatives will get
when the village Shy lock dies.
i,
\
BLEASE IS RUNNING
Former Governor is In the Race to
Win.
nu Dl 1TFHDU OF DFTBFKir.HMFNT
Uil 1 L/l 11 Uiiira i#k uii
Too Many Commissioners to Spend the
Peoples Money?Will Run His Own
Race and Avoid'Personalities Unless
They are Forced on Him?Will Run
His Own Race and Leave Others to
Do the Same.
Correspondence The Yorkvllle En/juirer
Columbia, S. C. March 30?Cole L.
Blease, twice governor of South Carolina
will positively be a candidate for
governor in the Democratic primary In
August and is confident of election, according
to an Interview he gave p correspondent
of The Yorkvllle Enquirer
today. "You can say for me," said the
former governor, "that I will most
positively be a candidate despite ru
mors that have been spread in every
county in South Carolina To the effect
that I will not enter the race. When
the proper time comes I will pay my
entrance fee and file my pledge. It is
my intention to appear In every county
seat in accordance with the itinerary
fixed by the Democratic executive
committee. While I may make a few
speeches .in addition to those in the
county seat towns I do not propose to
make as many speeches as I have
done in my former, campaigns. I simply
feel tbat I cannot do so. I shall
not formally open my campaign until
the Democratic primary campaign,
opens. . i j I ,,
No Personalities.
"I shall not engage in personalities
unless such a policy is forced upon me
by some candidate of standing who
might be in the race," the ex-governor
went on to say. ( "Neither do I propose
to make any references to factionalism
unless the issue of factionalism
is dragged in by other people. I
have never yet nor will I ever attempt
to arraign class against class because
we are one people and we should
stand one for all and all for one.
Crt for? qc io Irnmvn Mr Hnrnpr has
the record of being1 the longest continuous
subscriber to a single newspaper
in the United States. He has been
taking The Yorkville Enquirer without
a break since January 1, 1855.
Mr. Harper has two living children,
Mr. J. Ed Harper, the son of his first
wife, and Mr. A. C. Harper, son of the
present Mrs. Harper. Four of his children,
two by his first wife and two by
his second wife, are deceased.
Stands for Retrenchment.
"If I am elected," said Mr. Blease,
"and," he added, "It now appears to
be a certainty that I will be elected,
I propose to use my utmost endeavors
with the legislature for retrenchment
and reform. If the legislature refuses
to give me its support and co-operation
I shall use the veto power as I
did when governor and thus try to
stand square between the people and
the legislature jn preventing extrava
gance and waste.
Blease's Platform.
"Have you decided upon your platform
fully?" Mr. Bleasc was asked and
the answer was made emphatically, "I
most certainly have. It is comparatively
short but it incorporates the
prime needs of South Carolina at the
present time. Still there are some
things that 1 do not care to discuss at
the present time although I will talk
them to the voters on every stump
when the time comes. ,
' My platform?in fact one of the
principal planks of my platform, fa
vors a reduction of taxation to be
brought about through a reduction of
expenses and extravagances in each
anil every department of state. There
is one of the greatest troubles with the
present government. T shall Insist
j upon the abolition of all useless clerk'
ships and I shall insist that nr<j' offi
ci.il who receives a salary from the
state shall be required to do a man's
work. Where there are five men doing:
three men's work I shall insist I
that the work be done by three men
and get rid of two. Where three ,mcn
are now doing the work that two men
should do I shall make it my business 1
to get rid of the unnecessary third
man If elected governor.'' ,
Opposed to Commissions.
"There are two many commissioners?useless
commissions spending the
money of the tax payers," declared Mr.
Blease. "I favor the abolishment of all
commissions that deprive the proper ,
head of any department from performing
his constitutional and statutory
duties. I would abolish the state \
tcx commission which is absolutely
unnecessary as at present constituted ,
and which should be abolished in the
interests of the ,tax payers. The prop- (
or place for the state tax commission
is with the comptroller general and
he should not only be requested but
made to perform the work that Is now
done by this commission.
For Law Enforcement.
"I stand now as I have always stood
for the strict enforcement of all laws
beginning with the requirement that
those in authority themselves obey the
law because no man In this country
is so high that he is above the law
and no .officer of the law should be allowed
to set the law aside.
"What about the women voters?"
"I am glad you mentioned that,"
said Mr. Blease, "because I have a
message for all the women of South
Carolina that I would like them to
have. I sincerely hope that all the
white women of South' Carolina will
put their names on the club rolls.
While I have always opposed woman ,
suffrage we now have it and as law
abiding citizens we must support it.
Every woman should register and see
that her name is put on the club roll.
Suppose that only one class of women
should register and place their names
on the club rolls. The time might
come when we would be in a bad condition
on account of it. Therefore
every woman should put herself in ,
position to cast her ballot whether she
ever does cast It or not.
"There Is nothing like precaution ,
and looking ahead of you. For instance,
every white womdn should
keep in her home a well oiled, proper- ,
ly loaded pistol at the same time
hoping and praying that she might ,
never have occasion to use It. Hut if
the necessity to use It should arise
she would have it- ready. So ? should she
be in position to vote. If she
doesn't want to vote she doesn't have
to; but she would hurt nothing by being
prepared. j
No Chance at Convention. i
"No there is not the slightest chance
of my friends capturing the state
Democratic convention," replied Mr. i
Blease in answer to a question. 'They t
simply won't go to their precinct meet- 1
ings and to the coynty conventions
where the delegates to the slate con- '
vention are elected. If they would do I
so it would be an easy matter for them '
to capture the state convention but experience
of past years has proved conclusively
that they simply won't take i
the time off from their .duties to do it. 1
No Bleaae^ Ticket. 1
"There will be no straight out Blease
ticket for state offices this year, so
far as I have anything to do wit It,"
Mr. Blease went on to say. "Any 1
White Democrat of South Carolina has
a right to run for any office that lie
sees fit to aspire. So far fis I am concerned
I shall engage myself with my
own individual race and I shall inter- 1
fere in no other race. As I stilted at
the outset I am making this race for
governor this year not for my own
sake hut at the request of hundreds
of citizens of South Carolina, Being
governor can mean nothing for me personally
since I have held the office
twice.
"All my friends and supporters of
former years with one exception are
rallying my support this year as never
before and in addition to these I have
received hundreds of messages from
influential men who have fought me in
the past stating that they are with me
now. I could give you names; but-1
shall not do so at this time.
Preachers Ask Him to Run.
"I have in my flies letters from a
number of ministers urging me to
make the race for governor this year,
stating that the state needs my services.
A Baptist minister up-state
who has considerable influence and
who has always fought me in the past
wrote me the other day aeklng that I
send him some of my campaign litera- ,
ture and stating that he not only exneeted
to vote for me but to work for
me. A number of senators and representatives
who have fought me in
the past came to my office during the
recent session of the legislature and
assured me of their support this year.
Busy With Fratamal Work.
Mr. Blease said that he would not
give much attention to politics during
the next few weeks for tho reason
that he would be busy preparing
speeches to be delivered before the
Red Men, Odd Fellows and other fra
ternal organizations in Georgia, Tennessee
and North Carolina.
"But when the primary opens," he
said in conclusion, "Cole L. Bleaae will
be in the race to the finish running on
a platform "of retrenchment and reform
and eage'r and anxious to be of
service to all. the people of, .South
Carolina in this hour of need."
JQBURG THE GOLDEN
fbe Largest City Sootb of tbe
Eqeator. *
rBE POPULATION OF TOUGH ELEIWJJ
Difficult to Got Efficient Satisfipd La*
bor?Economic Dispute# freight i
Houses Largely of American Arohi-.
taotura.
"Johannesburg1?or 'Joburg,' as tha
Initiated speak of It?Is among cities
the 'stormy petrel' of South Africi,
just as truly as it Is the city of gold,'"
says a bulletin issued by the National
Geographic Society in regard to the
region in which striking .miners and
revolutionists were recently opposed
by the infantry, cava'ry, tanks and
airplanes of the South African government
. % . . ...
"The city was born of the greatest
gold discovery known to the modern
world," continues the bulletin, "and
rose to the stature of a city in the
space of a few years practically 'on7
the digglns.' It is almost on the crest
of -the Rand/ (officially .WltwatertT*
rand) the 50 mile ridge of gold-bearing
conglomerate from which. the
world's greatest stream of gold has
flowed since 1909 when production
passed that of all North America. ( *
Half World's Annual Gold.
"Before the World war the annual
recovery of gold from the Rand reached
$175,000,000, and by 1920 the output
had again climbed to 4ll8,000,000?
an amount which represented roughly
half of the entire world production In
that year. In 1921 the peak so far attained
was reached when gold yalued
at about $200,000,000 was taken from
the Rand.
"Johannesburg 'is situated about
midway along the Rand, with a number
of suburbs strung out on the slopes
of the ridge. Much of the tremendous
wealth that has come out of the.reef
has flowed abroad! a fact incidentally,
which is responsible for ,much of ^the
bitterness among the white miners
and the Boer farmers. ,.But some of
the . millionaires and jub-miltymMpNfr
have spent lavishly in the country,
and these expenditures, as well aajtoe
millions spent In operation, hare .enriched
Johannesburg. Excepting: three
cities near the Mediterranean, which
may b? considered as bejo^ging to a
separate ctviiUatton, johwujejburf la
the metropolis of Africa. It haa a.
population ,of. more Uuw
which about; > .
An Up-to-tlis* Minute City.
"It Is a city of many subeUatlnf
buildings, sozhe of them pf many stor
I6s resembling more nearly American
structures than those of Europe. Wide
asphalted streets, theaters, luxurious
clubs, and the finest hotels south of
the equator are othef, features that, go
to make 'Joburg* in up-to-date, comfortable
city, tn the suburbs sure many
fine residences: and the courtry dub
will compare favoAhly with simftar
Institutions on any .0' the six con*
tinents.
"But despite 1th opulence Johannesburg
still has some of the earmat!mj?
a mining camp. In the sumptuous,
clubs booted prospectors are to .be se&t
side by side with Carefully manicured
financiers. ' The iron-roofed shsSjr ?f
the early days hah hot entirely disappeared;
gambling hells and grog shpps
can be fbund with ease by miners In
the city to spend their earnings In the
traditional way 6f the mining camp.
Nor is the city, (or all its public improvements
and architecture, entirely
a twentieth century .white man's community.
More than 100,000 AXrlcan
natives live within ita limits. Motor
cars predominate in the traffic, but
the heavy Boer wagon has not been
thrust entirely out pf the picture.
And one can ride over'the asphalt?or
could a few years ago?in a 'rickshaV
drawn by a feather-bedecked Zulu. .
City Has Hod Stormy Time.
"Turbulence has been the lot oC
Johannesburg since its birth in 1855.
and many of its problems have pivoted
around the mine owners and laborers*
The Boer war really grew out of the
discovery of gold on the Rand and the
influx of thousand* of Englishmen.
The Ill-starred raid of Jameson was
directed against Johannesburg; and at
the same time the city was seised;
from within by the British mine oper-./.
atlves. Just before the outbreak of
the World war there was on .uprising
of the white miners around Johannes*
burg very similar to the recent, one.
but the difficulties were patched up
because of the great conflict.
"The obtaining of labor for the Rand
mines has always b?en a problem, of
considerable proportions. With .the
mines working at capacity something
over 260;000 workers are needed. The
local negroes preferred work pn the
farms and among the livestock of the
Boers. White men in sufficient num.*
bers could not be obtained, nor could
the owners afford to pay excluajfyeiy
white men's wages.* At one timp.SQ,^.
000 Chinese coolies were .imported, tut
their presence caused much trouble
and in 1910 the last of them were {3"
patriated. In recent years tena of
thousands of negroes from Portuguese
East Africa have been brought in tQ
supplement the local negroea that
could.bc induced to work, and the 25,000
more or less skilled white workers."
? When a man loses his memory and
wanders from home the family usually
deserves less sympathy than ihe
Ul'llUlllg tlilU^NIl^t ^
i _ ; * uit I'&l'L*.-2*