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''"X L BEMI. WKIK^^^^ ^ ? ???????rr^ i i n i l. M. grist's SON*. pubiMura. $ ^amitg Uemsgager: ^or Ih^ promotion aj ihe political, facial, 3gricultui;al and Commercial Internals u)f % $eogl$. TER^ff^~?- "-~AWC* ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK. S. C.. TUESDAY. APRIL 4, 19'3'2. NO. 27 - . " VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Uriel Local Paragraphs oi More or less Interest. PICKED IIP DT ENQUIRER IEPBSTEBS Stories Concerning Folks and Thingo, Some of Which You Know and 8ome You Don't Know?Condonsed For Quick Reading. "If a man is going: to plant cotton at all," says Mr. W. M. Gettys, a hardworking and Intelligent young furmer r\t EMlhort Ma 1 "I (fim't AAA WVlV hfi does not plant the Improved varieties. It seems to me that everybody ought to know by this time that the ordinary old .time 'Just cotton* varieties do not bring1 as much on the market as good varieties'* Highway Commission Projects. "No we have nothing to do with the State Highway projects except look on," said John S. Hartness of the West Road Commission to Views and Interviews, when asked about the matter. "The fact is I do not see what our commission . is for anyway. The engineers are running the whole thing. They don't ask us about routes, grades or anything, and I don't see we have any way of helping ourselves. I can't say that I like it either. Looks to me that the bond commission is ui -- ..?V. nrnrlr KtHllIlK UUUUl imw on juuvii n ? ? done as we are getting with the same money, and it is ebout as good too. We have only about $5,000 now, and how we are ever going to get the road finished between Hickory Grove and Sharon unless the bond commission comes in and helps us out I don't see." Idle Labor Plentiful. "There is more real distress among the mill workers than the general public has any knowledge of," said Reg P. Jackson, of Yorkville, to Views and Interviews a few mornings ago. "There are lots of people who are literally begging for work; and they are willing to work at anything too. "I had a man come to me, for a Job a few days ago. He claimed that he had been around Bessemer and Gaston la, looking for work and had not been able to And a thing. Said be had been out Of employment for quite a while, and was willing to do anything. He asked me for a chew of tobacco, and I gave ltlm hfcif a plug I had in my pocket and also a half a dollar to got his dinner with. Had I not believed he was honest about it, I would have given him nothing; because you know very well I cannot keep up every fellow wlo is out of work. I sent him over to tho Lockmore, with the sug ge8tion that he might get something to do over there as they are Just starting up again; but I do not know how he came out. t "But there are lots of people hunting work now," continued Mr. Jackson, "and they are in earnest about it too." Ht Didn't Stop. Rev. D. L. Hill, thd new pastor of the First Baptist church of Yorkville, arrived in Yorkville with his family on last Thursday night, driving through in a Ford from Paxvillc, Clarendon county, a distance of 125 miles or more. Mr. HU1 said he had a very pleasant trip coming up until after he left Rock Hill. He had been directed as to the road by a gentleman in Rock Hill, but the night was foggy and with the light of his Ford he could only see very short distances ahead of him. The fog was so dense that he could not see any of the houses along the way and he began to think he was on the wrong road. Finally he met a train coming * 11? ?i* ? -3 In lhat I irom ine> uppusiie uunuun w ??. which he was traveling and he was then suro he was on the road to Charlotte, but decided to go a little farther on. Finally he decided to stop and wait for an automobile going toward Rock Hill, hail it and ask for directions. Pretty soon the expected automobile hove in sight, and with his car lights on full, he stepped out in the road in the glare of the oncoming car's lights and waved his hands for the driver to stop. But there was nothing doing. The driver of the approaching car, evidently thinking he was in for a hold-up, put on more speed and passed right on without so much as a "hello." Mr. Hill and his family decided to try it a Httle-farther and shortly afterward came to one of-J. H. Carroll's roadway signs, "Five miles to J. H. Carroll's Service Station, York." He then knew he was ort the right road and reached Y-orkville about 10 o'clock. Couldn't Keep It Back. "That npgro, Milus Tate, told about it after Magistrate Black sent htm up last Thursday," said Chief Steele to Views and Interviews on Friday. The chief had reference to a negro who had been arrested by Deputy Sheriff Quinn, Constable Johnson and himself, charged with breaking and entering the store of another negro, and stealing some groceries, etc. On tips from other negroes, the officers had found the stolen articles hidden in the barn of another negro with whom Tate was staying. Tate had given some of the articles away and sold some at stolen goods prices; but when questioned he denied all knowledge of the goods. At the preliminary a clerk in the store identified the recovered goods ns being of the same brunds that were being handled in the store, but could go no farther thah that. The officers had testimony Oku,connected Ia\e with the goods, and put the case up to Tate to a point where he thought he had to explain, so he voluntarily claimed that he had bought the goods from Cash & Carry, but Mr. Elder, when asked about the matter, said he had not carried tho brands in question. Still the negro held to his plea of not guilty. Byt as the officers were taking the negro back to jail he gave it up and made a clean breast of everything. He admitted that he had stolen the goods, "Wo had nothing but circumstantial evidence," said Chief Steele; "but w6 felt reasonably certain that w/e had the right negro. However, his confession makes things easier. I am pretty sure now that we will get him." Echo of Dollar Day. "It gives me pleasure to hand it to The Yorkville Enquirer as an advertising medium," said Mr. W. Mason McConnell, of the McConnell Dry Goods company, to Views and Interviews last Friday evening. It was at the close of the last Dollar Day. The store looked like it had been struck by the proverbial cyclone, and Mr. McConnell was busy arranging things for the morrow's business, interrupted from time to time by the customers *who were still dropping in. Yi?ws and Interviews had called In to ask about the success of the day. "More than satisfied?delighted, in fact," said Mr. McConnell, "except I have myself to blame for one thing, and that is my failure to get the necessary help to wait on the trade. I had figured that we would do very well if we had as much business as our regu lar iorce couia lane care ui; uui uc.iv/itj yesterday had pased away I saw that I was mistaken. I could not help myself, however. It was simply too late to meet the situation. Numbers of people left the store to go elsewhere simply because they saw that they could not be waited on, and of course I did . not like to disappoint them. "We did all the business we had the force to do, and of course we have no kick; but right here I want to hand it to The Yorkvilje Enquirer. It is nothing but fair that I should. We did not advertise this anywhere except In The Enquirer. Some people suggested that we have some circulars printed, or use some kind of means to reach the classes of people who might not take the paper. But nothing of that kind was done. We depended upon the newspaper alone for our advertising and only one issue at that. But nevertheless the people came from the town and from the country. They Included people1 who take The Yorkville Enquirer, ahd they included people who, I would say, don't read any newspaper. They were certainly here. I don't believe there is a newspaper In South Carolina that could have given better, quicker or more efficient service. Of course, I have known this all along; but I want to hand it to you that if you have something worth while for the people to know, all you got to do is to tell them about it through The Yorkville Enquirer." Dunning Through the Mail. "Unless you have had occasion to look into it personally, you can have no idea of the extent to which the local postoffice is used in the collection of local bills," said an experienced business man to Views and Interviews, in general conversation a few days ago. "This is a development of the past dozen years or so. I do not mean that the custom is no older than a dozen years; but it has been within the last dozen years or so that it has becoftie so general as to be a factor in the postoffice receipts. "I can very well remember the time when for one local man to have sent | another a 'dun' through the postoffice | would have been an insult. hTe man receiving such a dun would have reasoned. 'What's the mater with him, anyway? He sees me every day, and why couldn't he have usked me for it? Is he afraid I would cuss him or what? Surely this is an exclusive kind of a fellow who wants to write me a letter through the postoffice right here in his own town.' "But it is not that way now. While the old plan of canvassing the town with a bunch of bills along about the first of each month is as popular as it has ever been, there are a number of business concerns which each month send hundreds of bills through the mails. I suppose I send out a couple of hundred each month myself, and the results are generally satisfactory. "A certain per centage of my customers pay promptly, returning a check immediately. Others wait until the 15th of the month and still others take full thirty days. And then, of course, there are others who don't pay at all. Worse than that they pay no attention to you. "And these are people who are most irritating. At least I find them that way. When 1 send a bill to a man I want to hear something. I want him to either pay, or let me know why, and if he will do neither I feel like going after him in another way. Sometimes I write him a sharp letter, sometimes I turn the bill over to a magistrate and sometimes I content myself with waiting until he wants more accommodation, when I tell him there is nothing doing. Yes, the fellow who ignores ycu is always provoking." it# An airplane equipped with runners in place of wheels for the "take off," , has completed a successful trip from Cochrane, Ontario, to Moose Factory, on the south shore of Hudson Bay, and return. On the return trip three landmado In riiffnrpnf forms of snow, but the ship took off with the ease of n flyinp boat on open water. NO CHRIST IN THE PACT i Christians Protest Chaplains Peace Conference Prayer. i OMISSION DESIGNED, NOT ACCIDENT Because the Body Was Composed of Heathen, the Diplomatic Leaders < Thought That America 8hould be Heathen Too. The Rev. W. S. Abernethy, pastor ( of Calvary Baptist church, where President Harding worships, has admitted in a letter to a fellow-Baptist, says a Washington letter, that he was requested to delete the name of Jesus Christ from his prayer opening the Arms Conference. Copies of his communication and others that follow ( are now in the hands of five or six ( senators. "Had I been left to my own lnitl- ( ative, I am very sure that I would , have olTered the prayer that I did in ( the name of Christ,' declared Mr. Aber- | nethy. "I was reminded, however, , that the conference was not a Christian ( body, that there would be Buddhists ( and Confuclanists present, and was told that it was the feeling .that a simple , ronfwynlHAn r\f thn Hnl \r ttrAiiM All t Vtn a vwgmvtvu vi mv jurvavj tt vuiu 1111 IUV ^ requirements. I remembered that the prayer that Jesus taught and which we repeat from Sunday to Sunday did ] not contain his name, and yet it had the Bpirit of Christ in it, as we ail agree. ( "Better Than No Prayer." , "I felt that it would be better to of- I fer a prayer of recognition of God Al- ] mighty and a petition for guidance i than to have no prayer at all. I therefore offered the petition as it was pub- i lished in the papers. I do not believe 1 i crucified my Lord, as 'I have been ac- l cused of doing. ] "I am sorry that my brother minis- < ters have spoken as they have. I feel < very sure that if they had known everything they would not have Judged me as harshly as they have." Ever since the opening of the Arms | conference, preachers and "others have criticised Mr. Abernethy for leaving ] out all reference to fchrist. Efforts have been made to ascertain the truth y about the report tha. he had been ask- ] ed to make no reference to Jesus. A week ago a local paper printed an al- \ leged statement from Mr. Abernethy i saying "there was absolutely no cen- ] sOrship of the opening prayer at the ( Washington conference on the limitation of armaments. No one of the high y officials connected with the conference < attempted to dictate such a policy." f Senators Dug for Facts, ' It was this statement that started ^ senators digging for facts. During tne ^ debate of the Versailles treaty one ot the arguments against tne pact was that it nowhere referred to God and no prayer was offered at the conference that brought it forth. President Wilson was charged with neglecting his duty to the Christian church because he did not insist on a prayer At the opening of the Paris Peace conference. The spirit of Mr. Abernethy's prayer is shown by the beginning and conclusion of it, which are as follows: . * "Almighty God, we thank thee for j the coming of this eventful day. We j have seen it from afar and now we re- i Joice that it has at last dawned. May i it bring forth untold blessing to a j troubled world. O thou, Omnipotent < One, today, as in other days, we be- { lieve that thou dost guide in human ( affairs. Thou hast made of one blood i all nations that dwell upon the earth, , and though we are of many races and many tongues, yet the interests of the few are the interests of the larger 1 number. I "May we walk softly and humbly be- ( fore thee this day and throughout the fateful days of this great conference. 1 May we be intent on knowing thy will; and knowing it, may we have the i courage to do it. And may it be that < the findings of this conference shall be ! wise, so far-reaching and so beneficial t that all mankind may take new hope t and fresh courage. And to thee shall 1 be the praise and the glory forever and 1 ever, Amen." I, The entire correspondence over the Abernethy prayer has fallen into the 1 hands of Democratic and Republican / senators. For a week or ten days most ? of the talk in the cloak rooms has been I over the claim for Mr. Abernethy that ( his prayer was not censored or dicta- I ted and the letters written to him < about it and his answers. < A prominent Baltimore business man i wrote to Mr. Abernethy on January 6, j saying in part: j "On the morning after your prayer at the opening of the Armament con- , I ference many ministers, including my own pastor, Dr. A. C. Dixon, criticised the omission of all references to Christ i in the wording of your prayer. Other | Baltimore ministers expressed the , same thought, and this has become so generally a subject of discussion that I am taking the liberty of asking you i I whether vour omission of all reference to Jesus Christ was accidental or intentional. "If it was intentional, was it due to any suggestion or request to that effect? And if so, by whom made, or if , you decided of your own volition to omit all reference to Christ, was it because heathen nations who do not rec- < ognize Christ were in attendance upon the conference?" This letter brought out the admission of Mr. Abernethy. In the way of explanation he said: "If I could have the .opportunity of talking with you on this matter face to face, I am sure I could convince you I did not have it in my heart at all to dishonor my Lord Jesus Christ in the offering of that ( prayer at the conference. I have been | very severely criticised for it by people 1 from all parts of the country, but they ' did not know the background of the situation." On receipt of Mr. Aberaethy's reply the writer of the original letter wired: f "Questions raised in my letter of January 6 are so vitally Important I am compelled to asl? that you give me the privilege of publishing your reply of c Janfiary 9, for sooner or later facts will Inevitably come out and I am sure it is better that thley should be pub- ? lished now. I cannot conceive that the Christian people of this country are willing at the request of any one that the name of Christ should be omitted from an opening prayer of a World conference merely because there were < it the conference representatives of non-Christian lands. ' Calls It Insulin God. i "The request to omit the name of < Christ could only, it seems to me, be < construed by Heaven Itself as an in- 1 suit to Almighty God. If the omission ' of all reference to Chrtpt has been ac- 1 cidental it would have'bcen regretta- 1 ble and the country has hoped that 8 that omission was accidental, but that 1 It was not accidental but purposely 1 lono at somebody's request, is a start- 8 ling and amazing development which * this country must consider. I beg, ' therefore, that you will wire me collect 8 the privilege of publishing your letter." r In response to thin Mr. Abemethy t wired: "My letter expressly stated that ? lontents were confidential, cannot ror < i moment agree to your proposal that It be mado public. I believe you will not betray my confidence." This wire was followed by a letter In which Mr. Abernethy said: "I believe that I can pray in tMe name of Christ without mentioning the word. It was In that spirit that I offered the prayer [ did. I am willing to bear the entire eaponslbility for It myself." Notwithstanding Mr. Abernethy's insistence that his reply be held confllentlal, it was given to senators and necame the talk of the cloakrooms. Fteference to the matter was made in lebate by Senator Watson (Ga.)f 31ass (Va.) and others. APPEAL TO THE SCHOOLS. President Riggs Wants Help for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Sditor of The Yorkvllle Enquirer: The schools and colleges are called jpon to assist in raising South Caroina's quota of 130,000 to the Woodrow (Vllson Foundation. The appeal should >e particularly strong to the school joys and girla of this state, because Mr. Wilson spent aTpart- of his school lays in &oum warumia. It Is not the amount contributed ( which counts so much as the number it individuals who* show interest by riving even small amounts. It the average contribution from the school ihildren of the state-wcre as mr-h as :en cents their obligation would be fully met. It is proposed to raise one million lollars as a permanent foundation. vVlth the income from this foundation iw'ards will be made to individuals and poups who have rendered distlnguish;d service "to democracy, public welare, liberal thought, or peace through lustice." Governor Cooper is the chairman of .he foundation in South aCrollna, and writes me thus in regard to it: "It seems to me the purpose of this foundation ought to appeal to every jerson who believes in peace through justice. By this means it is hoped that we may keep constantly before the \merican public the ideals for which Mr. Wilson stood during the greatest :risis of the world's history. It gives i in opportunity to every individual to :ontrlbutc some amount and thereby recoine a charter member of this founJatlon" The state superintendent of education, Mr. J. E. Swearingen, to whom :he school system of South Carolina is sverlastingly indebted, sends this mesrage: "The Woodrow Wilson Foundation is worthy of the cordial support and cooperation of all Southerners and Southern Democrats. Public school ;eacher8 and pupils can very properly * * 4 I :ake an active interest m i?G t. 'or funds. South Carolina cannot af- , ,'ord to omit her part of the work or c tier contribution to its success" * Each school should organize a com- f nittee to collect money and send it, to- 1 gether with the names of the subscrib- , ?rs, to Gen. Wylie Jones, Palmetto Na- ' tional Bank Building, Columbia, 8. C. r Ceneral Jones is treasurer of the fund | 1 for South Carolina. The national ' committee will send to each subscrib- s ?r a certificate or come other formal 1 icknowledgment constituting the sub- { scriber a charter member in the found- * ition. y I cannot address an individual letter ' to each school in South Carolina, I ' trust that this published appeal will be f sufficient. I am sure that this effort to ' honor a man so well known in South Carolina, and so well loved, needs only to be mentioned to get a prompt and generous response. I hope that every school teacher who reads this notice will take the initiative ' In oiganizing the work and carrying it f to successful completion within the next ten days. Send the money and list of subscrib- ' ers to General Jones in Columbia?not t to me. Very sincerely yours, |< W. M. Klgg:;, rresiwn , Clomson College. Chairman Education- 1 al Section in South Carolina, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Clemson College, March 27. ( t A toy balloon, released in Wauke- ( gran, Illinois, was found 11 days later ( in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as it descended into the street. The distance 5 between the two cities is about <550 I Tlilea. \ CAPITAL NEWS GOSSIP hanging Seasons And Changing Conditions. . . . i iTREET CARS ARE RUNNING AGAIN John Gary Evans Will Probably Run Against Blease?Claud N. 8app for Congress?Wife of the Safecracker ?Municipal Campaign la In Full Swing. Correspondence The Yorkvllle Enquirer Columbia, April 3.?Richland county icasons are between three and four veeks ahead of York county. Several lays of the past week were real warm, causing' men to chuck their vests and jeavy underwear and to make & beeine for furnishing stores to buy B. V. D.'s. Great galliniper mosquitoes, for vhich Richland county and Columbia ire about as noted as Charleston, have >egun to make their appearance, while he crickets and katydids have been linging at night Just as thtough it were nld-summer. Columbia people who lave gardens have been eating onions ind radishes and lettuce of their own alsing. The farmers are well along vlth their planting and in fact there is every evidence that the winter is a long vay past. The kids have abandoned he winter game of marbles and have rone to talking and playing baseball, hats have made their appear mce hero and there, while the ladies vho promenade along Main street in he afternoons are arrayed in the latest ate spring and early summer crea;loiis. The Greek ice cream venders >ush their carts over the city, finding jusiness good every where, and the proirietors of soft drink places find that )usiness in that line is picking up. Jesse Perry young white man of FUchland county, who got himself in rouble in York county early this year vhen he held up an automobile in vhlch several Yorkville ladies were raveling to Hock Hill, is in trouble ignin. The young man was arrested it the home of his father near Blaney, leveral days ago, charged with the heft of an automobile, the property of i Columbia citizen. The automobile vas recovered. Perry is in the coun.y jail here. If there is any county in the state in teed of a new courthouse it Is Richail d, which has about the poorest :ounty building of any of them. . The :ourthouse here, which is located on Washington street, was built many rears ago. The offices are small and nadequate for the needs of the county ifflcers. The building needs painting, ind, in fact, it is in such condition that ittle could be done to It except to ear it down to make room for a new jtructure, as was done in York county teveral years ago. But according to Columbians, there is little probability hat the county will have a new courtlouse soon. Times are too hard. T e Vnnro wlf<> of ft safe-. 1UI 9. o V< rnwivf .. ... ____ iracker, who was killed at Trenton a 'ew days ago and who following the leath of her husband was arrested and ilaced in Jail here, has been released >n bond of $500. The Enquirer, It will >e recalled, printed an interview from k Columbia newspaper, which told her itory. While in the Richland county ail Mrs. Moore occupied a corner room >n the second story right next to the >olice station. A rather pretty blonde, ipparently about 25 years of age, Bhe ;pent most of her time gazing out into he street at passing vehicles. Nothng has been heard of her since .her recuse and it is quite possible that she ias "blown the coop," as safe-crackers ay. By the way, Columbia has been he home of numbers of safe-craokers ind safe-crackers' wives in the past. !n fact there are all kinds of people reading in the capital city. Claud N. Sapp, prominent Columbia ittorncy, may make the raco for conjress from tho Second district this lummer, in opposition to Congressman rl. P. Fullmer. Asked tho other day vhether or not he would be in the race Mr. Sapp said that he had not fully nude up his mind, but indicated that ?e would probably be in the race. "I lave just finished that two months' tession in the house of representatives is a representative from Richland county," he said, "and just now I feel hat I have my fill of politics for 6 vhilc." Mr. Sapp is well known in the Fifth congressional district, being a lativc of Lancaster, and was an unsuccessful candidate against Congress esvproi vears asro.. IlcX II oit ywiisjvn nvfv.?. w Can ex-Gov. John Gary Evans of Spartanburg', capture the Democratic lominatlon for governor? The "dope" iround the state house Is that the forner governor will again, seek the gubernatorial chair as the representa 1 * r,t-" nf fhp .1 vc or ine anw-oieaao iuiv? -? itatc. State house politicians argue hut Mr. Evans has been talking and .vriting of politics quite a bit during he past few weeks and that he is the strongest antl-Bleasite candidate that ;ould be put out. Formal announccncnt of Mr. Evans's candidacy at any ime would not be surprising. The municipal campaign for the dection of mayor and councilmen of lie city of Columbia was formally ipened last Tuesday night when the :andidntes met the-voters at Waverly ichool house, one of the suburbs of Coumbia. There was a . big crowd of rotors, Imih men and women, in at tendance upon the meeting and there | was quite a bit of fire works. Most of I the candidates for mayor took occasion to fire broadsides at Councilman W. i A. Coleman, who Is generally regarded as the strongest candidate in the race and who has been a power in Columbia politics for years. The charge Is made i that Coleman is- the candidate of Big Business and all the candidates and most Columbians are agreed that the man who beats Coleman will be the next mayor of Columbia. The street cars are running again, despite the strike of motormen and nnn^nntnm, mhlnh had h??n In nrncrPHH for about two months now. The thirteen cars that are being operated are in charge of non-union men, most of them sent here from Spartanburg. There has been no trouble between the operators and the strikers during the past few days and the local union heads have given the authorities assurance that there will not be. For more than a week policemen in automobiles were, detailed to follow each car from one end of tho line to tho other, in order to frustrate attacks upon the operators. The policemen were taken off the assignment this week. So far no effort has been made to operate the cars at night Whether there will be any fighting remains to be seen. In some quarters there is doubt as to whether the heads of the street car union can hold in check the most hotheaded of their numbers. Anyway, mighty few people are riding- the cars and many people, both men and women, are wearing a ribbon which bears the legend: "As long as street cars are operated by non-union men we will walk." These signs are fastened on the house of a man who lives on Taylor street in Columbia: "Plumbing and Heating; Notary Public; We Make Wax Flowers; This House for Sale." There are less than 60 veterans in the Home for Confederate soldiers here at this time. Most of them are very old men, weak and infirm. They come up town occasionally; but most of them content themselves with sitting on the Bpaclous porch at the home, basking in the sunshine and patiently waiting for the last Ro. Call. The state home for the old soldiers is a commodious building, painted white, and as neat and as clean as a pin. Everything possible is done to make the old veterans happy and contented and they appear to'be as rfter that <?ayl Atf men can be who are not In their own homes. Two colleges for colored boys and girls are located in this city.. They are Allen university and Benedict ,collegc, both of them supported largely through contributions from northern philanthropists. Both schools are equipped with all modern conveniences. The student body of each includes both boys and girls of all ages. Strict discipline is enforced at each institution and they are well regulated' in every way. The physical value of the two * ' ' ?? i?Uun/lrn^u f\t institutions runs up uuu uu..u.v.^? -thousands of dollars. "Louie," the Greek, runs a hot dog stand on Main street, across front the Imperial hotel. "Louie's" place is only eight feet wide, but very long?one of those holes in the wall, so to speak, that one sees occasionally between two larger buildings where an alley should be. "Louie" sells nothing but hot dogs or weinies and soft drinks. He'll give you a dash of onions, a dash' of Mexican chilli and a hot dog all for a nickel. Hundreds of people drop into his hole in the wall during the day for a dog. "Business heem- goot al.l time," says Louie. "Ze dog heem only a nickel? everybody got a nickel most" One hears and reads a lot about the girls wearing their stockings rolled at the knee. The fashion has been cussed and discussed at length in press and pulpit. A Columbia ladies' shop exhibited some in its show window the other day, already rolled?Just made that way. And in less than a couple of hours they were on the street MAH cuilDMPNTS GROW Parcel Poet Used for Fruite and Vege* tables. Shipments of fruits and vegetables in great quantities by retail and wholesale merchants to all sections of the United States was steadily increasing, according to reports made to General Superintendent W. H. Rlddell, of the railway mail service. As an illustration of the use to which the parcel post is being put by merchants, it was asserted by Superintendent Riddell that recently an entire freight car was loaded with individual cases of asparagus, and shipped by parcel post rates. Each parcel, j however, conformed to weigh regulations, and it would not have been pos*1? '.-.Minna o a a hlllk. It 31D1G lO snip IIIC lauuou ~~ -was explained. Department officials said that there appeared to be no reason why sufficient numbers of crates to make up a half car or a carload cannot be shipped in the future as parcel pos\ Parcels of a perishable nature, however, which are likely to spoil within the time reasonably required for transportation and delivery, will not, it was said, be Accepted for mailing. The rates for parcel post matters depend upon the zone to which shipped and the weight of the package. COTTON AND THE WtEVIL Memphis Farmer Gives His System .of Handling. y ? ' -'j: RALE TO THE ACRE STILL POSSHLE IfirrK Must Plant In Big Opan Fields and Oft a Full Stand?-Cultivation Must Be 8hallow and Rapid, and There Should be a Liberal Use of Fertilizer. (By B. L. :Iocs.),? % In the beginning I may sajr that ,X am speaking from experience and from fairly successful experience. This year ? I averaged two-thirds of a bale per acre over 200 acres, with considerable acres making a bale per acre I ag convinced I can make a fair crop o? cotton In almost any year and that pn an average I can make profitable, crops. Below I am setting down. In what X consider the order of tbelr Importance, the four or five essential cotton grow- i in# rules under weevil conditions. Big Open Fields. Where tho weevil Is to be contended with a big factor is the over-wintered weevil?the weevil that livds through the winter in woods, thickets, dead trees and stumps, hedge and fencerows, and conies out In the spring, lays eggs in the young squares and produces a second generation to keep up the work and to multiply the destruction. In this section, in which is oft** seen over-wintered weevils so numerous they punctured all the square* and prevented any blooms until July 4.. In a case of such heavy infestation it is, of course, out of the question to males anything like a normal crop. [ Manifestly, then, our first Job i* to tackle the over-wintered weevil and to reduce his number to the greatest possible extent. In doing this I find* open fields?fields free from thickets, briar patches, stumps and old fence* rows?of extreme importance. We know that the prairie sections of Texas have rarely been o*rlouq)f]hprt by the weevil and I believe we pho^d, so far as possible, create "prajrff ccqiditloneon our own farms. Tha'{df|t#r sectlpns of Arkansas, Louisiana anff.'j^fslsslppi have suffered less from l^,|^*arll than have the hill farms In Alje same latitude, and in this a large, measure 1* , probably due to the blgr- open fisMs of the delta, compared with SOOfU flejds, patches and much woods got} thickets in the hills. .. On my own.Ujin the bul? of my cotton' is produced in a thick of some tf$6 acres of cultivated land belonging, to " -- - -ikktt myself ana neignour*,. tuu uu fields while the weevil Is present, It le a very small factor In effecting the yield I have my doubts as to t^e advlsablllty of attempting to frrow cotton, lit small patches with trees and thickets all around, at least in the southern half of the cotton belt,, where our wlntfTS are mild and where lafge numbers of weevils, If afforded some protection, survive the winters. Tear after yeof I see small patches and small fields so situated simply eaten up by weevils regardless of the best cultural methods, I would also, as tar as practicable put all of my cotton In a Solid, contiS^' uous block, with corn or some other' crop off next to the woods. The isolated patch of cotton Is always In danger! / Close 8pacing. The second point that I would emphasize, and the one that is hardly less important than big, open fields, Is closrf spacing. I am convinced that the? South as a whole gets along with, notf over one-half a stand of cotton, wha& we are losing from Imperfect stands' alone Is enormous; hundreds of mM-. lions of dollars Is not too big an estU mate. Under weevil conditions, on ahy C~ and all types of soils, It Is a proved1 fact that a perfect stand of cotton calls for a three foot row, cotton chopped to a hoe's width in the row and two to four stalks to the hill. Any wider spacing means a decreased yield. To get this perfect stand six or e'ght pecks of seed per acre should be planted. Such heavy seeding will almost instfre a stand, regardless of packing raths and cold winds. Liberal Fertilisation. On any thin sandy pine lands, mostly Orangeburg, Ruston and Norfolk types, my standard cotton fertiliser IS A- nhniinhale and 200' OUU |/VUIIUO UVtVI . pounds nitrate of soda per acre. This cost me about |9.00 per acre this- year and in an actual weighed up test it In* creased the yield 900. pounds of seed; cotton per acre, worth about $60.00, Ot course, it is a pleasure for me to swapi 19.00 for $60.00 and I hope to do the same next year. All this fertilizer is applied just be* fore planting. I have quit using any'' side dressing on cotton, because quick fruiting is what we are seeking, an4<to " "" 1 -1- ?U get this tne rerimzer nivuw m the crop rather than around It Doo?t worry about your nitrate leaching out or washing off; It will stay with you, unless your sub-soli la nothing but deep sand. I have seen plain resillta from it in the second year. I do not put my fertilizer in the water-furrow and bed out on It, but in ? ' fl-ot (hrnur In nnA flirTO*.*.' I reueuums * mov v* ? -? r.. distribute the fertiliser on this and' then finish bed.ling out. This puts th? . ] fertilizer at a moderate depth where , the roots of tl.e lit tie plants will quickly get in contact with it. I am extremely partial to nitr&te of soda for cotton. There is nothing like ft, at least in my experience, for fusti- j :(Contlmjed on Page Two.)""