Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 15, 1922, Image 1

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^ r -V,? . ... SEM| WEEXLY^ ^ ^ L. M. grist's sons, Pubii.h.^ $ #mil5 Jfleirspaper: |>r th^ firomotion of the political, Social, |gricultui;at and Commercial Interests of the jpeopl?. TERMs^|SWc^F^,E^.yiNc^^MANC, ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, 8. C., TUESDAY. AUGUST 15, 1932. . ISTO. 65~ VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs ol lore or Less Interest. PICKED UPBTENpiiiriEPOIITEBS Stories Concerning Folk* and Things, Some of Which Vou Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. "While we huven't checked up yet I am pretty sure that we made expenses from the sale of refreshments at the I Filbert picnic recently," said John Q. Hall, a member of the picnic committee the other day. "We had more expense this time than heretofore, however," said Mr. Hall. Having Summer School. "Allison's Creek summer school opened this morning," said Mr. J. Alex Bigger, well known farmer of the Allison Creek section wlio was in Yorkville yesterday.. "Miss Grace Hitt of mil s C.. is in charge." Mr. Bigger said the summer term of the I ( school would probably be in session for two months. Road Labor Plentiful. "We are having no trouble in getting all the hands we need for road work at $1 a day each," said Mr. J. Darby Smith, a member of the King's Mountain township road commission the other afternoon. "I don't thin c I ever knew so many people to be as anxious to work and we could easily get several ' s- hnth times as many nanus uo wc white and colored for road work at $1 a day if we would try and if they were needed. The reason Is plain. So manypeople Just now are without money and they are keen and anxious to get hold of the money." A Business Man's Prayer. Teach me that sixty minutes make one hour, sixteen ounces one pound, a id one hundred cents one dollar. I elp me to live so that I can lie down ?t night with a clear conscience, withi ut a gun under my pillow, and untaunted by the faces of those to whom * u" * " no in 1 I1U.VC uiuufjui Grant that I may earn my meal ticket on the square and that, in earning it, I may not stick the gaff in where it does not belong. Deafen me to the Jingle of tainted money and the rustle of unholy skirts. Blind me to the faults of 'the other fellows, but reveal to me mine own. Guide me so that each night when I look across the dinner table at my wife, who has been a blessing to me, I shall have nothing to conceal. Keep me young enough to laugh with my children. And when come the smell of flow"* 11? A*---J **r\f f ctona n nri J ers, ana me treuu ut oun ?? the crunching: of wheels aut in front, make the ceremony short and the epitaph simple?Here Lies a Man, The Storm in Bullock's Creek. "I went to see what the creek had done to my bottom corn just as soon as I could see after ('aylight the other morning," said Mr. John L. Stephenson of Sharon No. 2, on Turkey creek, to Views and Interviews Saturday afternoon. "It was a^powerfully hard rain .and wind storm, and I was afraid the creek would be so high that I would lose my corn. But when I got there I found that the creek channel had not been more than half tull and the wind j hadn't damaged me any to speak of. But if it hadn't been for the fact that i the creek had been dredged my bottom | corn would have been destroyed. As i nvtro npntinnrt for bottom corn. But others in Bullock's Creek township did not fare so well. 'Many of our farmers had their corn blown down flat ard practicully ruined. 1 heard this afternoon that a Dodge car that was in the yard at Mr. Porter Good's, was found next morning a hundred yards away, having been driven across the field by the big wind." Mixed in Names. Three old men of Sharon were sitting under some trees in the town the otTier day talking politics. Two of them were bitter anti-Blcasites. The third was just as great an admirer of Coleman Livingston Blease. "Well, I'm going to vote for Coleman this year," commented one who had never voted for Blease. The Bleaseite said nothing trot looked at the sneaker hard and long. "I thing I'll vote for Coleman too," said the second m: n who had never voted for Blease. "That's right," said the strong Blease man, "I've never voted for anybody else in recent .year.' "Who you talking about?" inquired the first man. "Why Coleman Livingston Blease of course." "Oh," returned the first, "I mean William Coleman of Union." "That is who I mean also," sltid the second man. "Humph," retorted the Blease man, "I didn't know there was but one man running who had a Coleman in his name." And the three old men parted company then and there, two of them going the same direction and one of them plodding along by himself. Learn a Little. 1. Who announced the "open door policy" in China and in what year? Secretary.of State Hay on January 2, 1900. . 2. What is carborundum used for |tt'J ? ' '* and how is it made? Carborundum, nn exceedingly hard substance, is used to make grinding wheels. It is made by the combination of carbon and sand in an electric furnace and was discovered as a result of experiments to produce artificial diamonds. 3. What coast in Europe does the coast of Alaska resemble with its many islands and inlets? Coast of Norway. 4. Which is the longest river of Scotland? The Tay, flowing into the Firth of Tay and thence into the North sea near Dundee. 5. What are five synonyms for the word absence? Want, departure, failure, separation and distraction. 6. What country is famous for its mnncn trpps? For what are mamroes used? India. Mangoes are used for jam, pickles, relishes and by the natives of India as medicine for sunstroke and other ailments. 7. Who was the French dramatist nind politician who entered into negotiations with the American* colonies, before recognition by France, and sent shiploads of war munitions to them? Beaumarchais, author of "Figaro." 8. For how many years is a patent issued? Seventeen years. 9. What and where is Big Ben? The large clock in the tower of Westminster, London. It measures 23 feet across each of its four faces. 10. What is Dorothy Gish's married name? Mrs. James Rennie. "WILLIAMS' LIVE OAK. " Declared By Tree Specialists to Be an Amazing Specimen. In my recent articles I told of two national shrines in Beaufort county which are,, in some respects, the most remarkable of all ;our American shrines?namely, the 15G2 Charles Fort marking tho first Huguenot lsndtnir. which took place on l'arris Island, and the old Sheldon Parish church, with a history of at least 400 years, writes N. L. Willet In the Charleston News and Courier. These two old shrines today are in ruins, but nearby and a contemporary perhaps of Charles Fort and possibly 200 years older, is a living and seemingly immortal live oak tree which is equally worthy to be named a nationa* shrine. Experts pronounce this tree, known as the "Williams' Live Oak," on Bray's island near Sheldon, as being one of the most remarkable trees in all this country. Davey, the tree man, visited th is tree end -aid that it amazed Mm. Winthrop Packard, the naturalist, sum of it: VI have never seen a tree so dignified and so beautiful." Rich In Shrines. Beaufort county is not only rich in her history, her soils, her climate, her crops, her wild animal life, but is especially rich in being the possessor of three most notable shrines?Charles Fort, Sheldon church and live oak tree. The Williams' live oak is, of course, an evergreen tree. It is heavily clothed or draped with gray Spanish moss. It occupies a beautiful spot on the bank of the Pocataligo river and is on one of the richest of the sixtyfour islands that make up Beaufort county. There are three or four famous live oak trees in the county that have been visited and public attention called to them by our national tree men, but the finest and most remarkable of this group is this amazing one on the L. J. Williams place. The Williarm* Live Oak. The tree carries about thirty long limbs. The spread of these limbs from tip to tip shows a diameter of 133 feet, which is practically the distance between a store front on the north side and a store front on the south side of Broad street, Augusta. The tree itself one foot above the ground is fifty-five ?? oi?'on m fat?onr?o on/1 cnmiithinf like eighteen in diameter. Four feet and seven inches In circumference above the ground it is twenty-three feet in circumference and something while at six feet above the ground it is thirty-six feet and four inches in circumference, which means that at this height the tree is twelve feet in diameter. Between this one foot and this six-feet height the tree narrows to about eight feet in diameter. Live oaks are often said to have waists like women?that is, narrow. The tree at ten feet puts out four immense branches of about fifteen feet in circumference or five feet in diameter. Unusual Root System. The root system is as amazing as the tree itself. To look at it you would think that its whole root system was above ground. These immense roots of three to four feet in diameter coil in and fold among themselves as if they were so many snakes. The root system spreads out under the tree 99 feet in circumference. Expert tree men have declared that possibly not in the whole of America could he found any such amazing' root system as obtains in this Williams' oak. Is there another tree in all of this big land, 400 years old, eighteen feet in diameter, with an amazing root system practically all visible and carrying limbs which in themselves are more than five feet in diameter? Is there another tree comparable to this tree in the United States? And, we must remember that other shrine trees are not evergreen, they are not draped with Spanish moss nor do they stand on the banks of a noble river. What would not other states where history and beauty are more revered give for these three old Ueaufort shrines? BELGIUM AND HOLLAND Dr. McConnell Tells of the Sights by the Way. GREAT GOUNTRV FOR BICYCLE RIDERS Wonderful People are the Dutch? People are Prosperous?Lesson in Forestry ? Waterloo Battlefield ? The City of Met* That Was Taken by the Americans. Correspondence of The Yorkvillo Enquirer. Metz, Lorraine, July 24, 1922. We are now in Metz, the stronghold of the German army, captured from the French In 1870: retaken by the French and Americans in 1918 and now again a part of France. Since my last letter we have been in Holland to a market day in Middleburg, the quaint city on the Walcheren island. "That beats the Dutch" is our way of expressing a superlative, for they jjre narci 10 oeai ai iannwig arm building dikes. And don't think they nro poor. I had difficulty in petting' a $20.00 American gold piece changed into Dutch money, whereas in France and Belgium they would have been eager to do it. The French and Belgians have only paper money now, except in rare cases, the Dutch and Swiss have gold and silver in plenty, for the countries got very rich during the wrjr. Holland formerly owned Belgium and the latter still think the Dutch favored the Germans throughout the war. Don't worry "over the poverty of the Europeans except right in the devastated district, for while there it is pitiable, the others have more to eat and to wear and drink than most people at home. Tti. DMn|. UnllanrJ Speaking of the Dutch, they are the greatest people to scrub I ever saw. I thought all the baskets and bicycles were new until I saw how they cleaned them. The women who come to market with their flowers, fruit, etc., to sell, look just like "old Dutch cleanser" pictures. Each community has a different style lace headdress and gold ornaments which are stuck in the hair or bound around the forehead. Necklaces of gold coins are popular. They wear about a dozen petticoats which stand out like a hoop skirt. I can remember the days of the bustle, but my boys were convulsed with the appearance of the Dutch women, and wondered why they had 3uch small waists. It is a great bicycle country, and it is a sight to see a woman with these dozen petticoats bellowing out, peddling along, a big market basket strapped to the handle bars, one or two children in a seat behind the saddle. The men are tall strapping fellows, wear ear rings? big silver plated belts, smoke their pipes upside down and look like Long John Silver of Treasure Island. Business is Dull. Business men and manufacturers with whom I've talked all say that business is very dull with an occasional short spurt for the better. An English drummer who sells electrical supplies, told me that there was a lot of idle labor in England, but the worst feature was that the output when they uiu wuiiv wud ui'iuw Manual u. 1 lie shorter hours with increased pay had only made matters worse. He' travels In Belgium and Germany and says the Belgians have made the best progress of any. Since they are to share first in any money Germany pays, they obtained credit, mostly in England, by the way, and went right to work, built many new factories as well as repairing the damaged ones and have a good output and can undersell anybody in the world. I'm inclined to believe him so far as my observations go, and I go in stores, ask prices and bargain a little almost every day. Take Care of the Forests. Brussels is a little Paris, about a million people, beautiful boulevards uuu. jjuuiic uuiiuiiigs, ai present cncap j to live in for you get 12 francs for a dollar, and 5 is par. We drove out to Waterloo, through the finest beech forest I ever saw, some 600 acres covered with big beech trees, no other tree in it, until we came to another I section which was hemlock. It is a public forest, they cut the trees carefully for firewood and lumber and it is an example of what intelligent forestry will do. Any ordinary timberland in the Piedmont will grow 4 per cent, of timber on its value if handled right and be better forest 50 to 100 years later than now. Our people clear too much land. The Helgians some times clear land, esj pecially a spruce forest which grows all trees to the same size. They cut as clean as if it were mowed, gather every brush, then set it all out again. Visit to Waterloo. It pays to take the auto ride out to Waterloo. It is about 17 miles each way, costs $3.00 and you visit Wellington's headquarters, the furniture is still in the room, with many other relies. Hougomont from where some of the hardest fighting was, is just about as it was on the day of the battle in 1815, the farm house was burned then but the barns and orchard are the same. Victor Hugo who wrote such a wonderful account of the battle lived near the battle field (not at the time) and his account is quite accurate. It is a beautiful rolling country and a cannon then shot only 1,100 yards, you can see almost every bit of the battlefield at one time from the monument. Napoleon would have won had his Marshal Grouchy held the Prussians In check a bit longer. The mortality was very high in this battle, they fought at close quarters and killed almost GO per cent In the crowd with us that day were some colonials from Natal, Africa, pure English of course, but it shows the long distance some people travel to visit the famous battle field. One man told me he had two sons in the World War, one of whom paid his own way to England, some 7,000 miles and enlisted as a private. Canadians, Australians and South African colonials ore much like our Texans?the same stripe and you can tell them where you see them and you will generally like them. Ancient City of Metz. From Brussels to Metz is a pleasant ride in a comfortable train and you are then in wh?tt was German territory. Metz is on the beautiful Mozellc river, famous for Its wines and fertile soil. It is un old city, naturally easy to defend and the Romans fortified It some 2000 years ago and built six military roads out from it?one to Verdun?another to Rheims. Notice that now, please, how well the Romans knew strategy and how history is always repeating itself. At the lower end of the city is part of a fine stone aqueduct which the Romans built to carry water some thirty miles, from a mountain. The arches still stand and the brick and concrete work are good. Don't forget that, the Roman was a good brick mason, a good stone mason and that he could also use cement. His posterity the Italians are still our best masons. Mctz was destroyed by the Huns when the Roman empire fell. The American army was in sight of Metz when the armistice came. It was considered impregnable by both Germans and French but we were going to take it, not by direct attack but by isolating it with attacks from the north and south. Many a buddy will remember those long rang2 naval guns we had on railroad tracks which were shelling Metz in November 1918. I saw today where the shells were falling. They were falling at a bridge in the lower part of town and the shell holes are still visible. They did no great damage, but they threw the fear of God into the German and he quit. The French have about 15.000 soldiers in Metz now and it presents a warlike appearance with its airplanes buzzing around, its tanks and artillery. The soldiers look much bettor than the average Frog soldier during the war, for they are young, well equipped and snappy and the officers look like very capable men. A niimber of colonial soldiers are there also they are Moropcans from Northern Africa. LaFayette was once governor of Metz and the Knights of Columbus from the United States recently unveiled a monument to him, with Mashal Foch, President Poincaire and other notables present. It is a fine monument and stands where the kaiser's monument used to be, but the funny thing is that it has on its base General Pershing represented as saluting LaFayette and saying "LaFayette, we are here." Pershing is represented as a short stocky fellow, giving a French salute, while every dough boy knows that Black Jack Pershing i3 not short and stocky and never gave a French salute. We will cover St. Mihiel and Verdun in next letter. John W. McConnell. SMALL TOWN SPEED LAWS i ne mi crea motor nogs onow wit Badly. Just why motorists, who iff their home cities recognize the necessity of traffic regulations and speed limits and expect to observe them, should become possessed with a mania for "burning up the road" when passing through country towns, and should resent efforts of small town officials to interfere with them, is difficult to understand. They want rural communities to construct good roads for their pleasure and benefit, but they discourage such construction by thdr lack of consideration and disregard of law. It may give a motorist a sense of exhilaration to astonish the natives by dashing through their towns at sixty miles an hour, but it certainly is a poor contribution to the movement for better highways. Laying aside the question of damage to the roads, dwellers in small places have children whose lives are as precious to them as are the lives of city children, and if they are forced to make choice between good roads and safety for their children they are very likely to choose the lesser of the two evils and let the roads go to pot. Of the many thousands of Washington residents who own cars and use them to drive Into the surrounding country it is probable that the heedless and reckless arc in a very small minority, but the law abiding and considerate majority are made to suffer for the misdeeds of the few. Residents of Virginia and Maryland know that if they came to Washington and "hit it up" through the streets they would be very promptly and very properly arrested and fined, and naturally they resent the attitude of motorists from Washington who seem to think traffic regulations in these small communities are a joke, and that it is "smart" to disregard them.?Washington Post. REVOLUTION PREDICTED Wannamaker Believes Movement of Farmers Will Sweep Country. SPOKE AT BIG TIRZAH PICNIC TODAY Cotton Crop Should be Worth Billions Instead of Millions?Lax System of Marketing Largely Responsible? President Says American Cotton A !_i! * f> i. _ .^>.1 Mssociation is oironyc^i rarm ganization in America Despite the Politicians. Tirzah, August 15?"An agrarian revolution is being horn that -will sweep the south, the west and the entire nation," declared Hon. J. Skottowe Wannamaker of St. Matthews addressing the farmers at the big agricultural picnic held here today in Oates' Grove. "We know that there is already great discontent throughout the country and when discontent is widespread, it is never without justification. This movement will have the alliance and support of the Great Commercial divisions directly dependent upon agriculture and the close cooperation and support of leaders of thought who realize the vital necessity of prosperous agriculture. "It is not known," continued Mr. Wannamaker, "where he that invented the plough was born nor where he died; yet he has effected more for the happiness of the world than the whole race of heroes and of conquerors who have drenched it with tears and manured it with blood and whose birth, parentage and education have been handed down to us with a precision precisely proportionate to the mischief they have done." Mr. Wannamaker spoke in part as follows: Southern Progress. Notwithstanding the # hardships, trials and educational disadvantages which have 90 severely handicapped the cotton growers of this and other Southern states from the extensive production of cotton and inefficient marketing, the South has nevertheless made an almost miraculous growth in all lines of industrial development. In 1870 there were only 200,000 bales of raw cotton manufactured in the Southern textile industry. At the present time the annual consumption of raw cotton In the mills of the South is larger than the combined consumption of the cotton textile industry of New England, the Northern and Western states. Southern mills now annually consume more cotton than the entire textile industry of Great Hrltain. Wherever cotton is grown it should be manufactur ed and the finished fabric shipped out to the ultimate consumers. No country ever grew rich from the production of a raw product and shipping it to foreig.i consumers for manufacture. Real wealth is in the manufacturing industry and this fact has been fully exemplified in the enormous wealth of New England, made from cheap raw cotton produced in the South while the growers and their families have floundered i.i poverty. There must be no stoppage In Southern cotton mill construction until the smokestacks of the factory can be seen from every cotton field in the entire belt and the aggregated value of fUo /if/vn - -1 ~ At me 111 u*11pili'u iifiii a uuscu limes each year by our own spindles and looms. The South should each year convert its cotton crop into billions of dolfars of value instead of a few hundred million dollars. In 1920 the taxable values of property in the South amounted to $29,000,000,000. This was $12,000,000.000 more than the eiitire taxable values of all the property in the United States in 1880. In 1920 the Southern states expended for public education $204,225,000 as compared with only $78,000,000 expended for educational purposes throughout the whole of the Union in 1880, In fact, the whole of the United States was not expending for public education a total sum in 1900 hardly exceeding the expenditures for the same purpose in the Uniilli in 111'in Rise in Manufacturing. In 1919 the value of the manufactured products in the South amounted to $9,800,000,000, and the value of farm products for the same year amounted to $9,365,000,000, the aK^regate value of the two industries in one year reaching: the enormous total of $19,165,000,000. In 1S80 the total vnlufes of the farm products amounted to only $2,212,000,000 and the value of the manufactured products of the United States for the same year amounted to hut $6,000,000,000, which shows that the values of farm products and manufactured products in the South for 1919 were more than three times in excess of the combined values of such products of the whole nation in 1880. I migrht say in this connection that the South produces 99 per cent, of the sulphur in the United States, and that without this sulphur and cotton, it would have been utterly impossible for this nation to have entered ii*to the World War. Boll Weevil Menace. Tn fact, with the present hazards of the boll weevil and the heavy expense attendant upon boll weevil control, together with the financial embarrassment of the growers due to drastic deflation in market values in 1920 and 1921, and the destruction of the crop by boll weevils last year, I feel that cooperative marketing has com to be r.n imperative riecesaity if the industry is to be preserved in this state. While the, subject of price fixing can neither be undertaken nor legally enforced by a cooperative marketing association, yet there are sound and accepted rules of business in all lines of industry which can be well employed in this connection. The seller of any product has the legal right to ascertain the cost of production, the cost of nanajmg, ana aaa inereio an amuuni sufficient to realize to the owner a fair and reasonable profit above the cost of production and handling1. This rule in business is a well-recognized law and the grower of a bale of cotton is as clearly entitled to a fair and reasonable net profit as the hanker, the merchant or the manufacturer. If this rule is not recognized and enforced it means an unfair, illegitimate and unjust advantage of the welfare of the cotton producers whose labors and capital are employed in the hazards and hardships of producing a world necessity. These rules of business cannot, however, be righteously enforced unless the legitimate laws of supply and demand are recognized in the slow and orderly marketing of the staple. The cotton world has no legal ftp mnrnl rlffht Ia flv onrl molnialn tho price of spot cotton .at a value which is below the actual cost of production to the growers and then demand that the South shall continue to flood the textile Industry with full and ample supplies of the staple each year. Wasteful Systems. The fallacy of extensive cotton production and uneconomic methods of marketing have for the past fifty years kept the cotton growers In a system of agricultural slavery, poverty and Illiteracy, which is a blot upon the escutcheon of the nation and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon manhood of the South. The great solution of the problem lies in the future adoption of a sane and safe system of diversified agriculture and the economic production of cotton under an Intensive system of acreage and culture. Make each farm truly self-sustaining by growing supplies of food and feed crops as the first great lesson in this reconstruction Deriod. Plant a limit ed acreage in cotton per plow, fertilize liberally, cultivate energetically, combat the weevils with poisons scientifically applied and increase the yield of good quality cotton per acre as the second lesson of Importance. As the third and last great lesson of reform, combine together through the medium of your cooperative marketing associations and so market your staple crops as to force the consuming world to pay a price which will net to each successful grower a fair and reasonable profit on the industry. You owe the enforcement of such a campaign of rehabilitation to the future welfare of your wives and children, to yourselves as intelligent farmers, and to your state and country. Association is Influential. In this connection I wish to say that the influence of the American Cotton Association in its stand for national constructive legislation at Washington, regardless of partisan politics among senators and congressman, is today stronger than any other farm organization in the United States. Our efforts to improve the service of the Crop Reporting Bureau In showing the amount of abandoned cotton acreage earlier in the season, and the extent of infestation and damage of the boll weevils, together with reports on the Use of commercial fertilizers, the annual shipment of young mules in the cotton belt for the past two years, have all been adopted and will be complied with by the bureau in its monthly seasonable reports. Our further efforts to require the Census Bureau to Issue periodical reports on the amounts of the tenderable and untenderable stocks of cotton held In the United States and European countries, will soon become a law as the result of a senate bill now pending and which is certain of passage. W'e are also urging Federal cooperation in the important matter of seeing that ample supplies of calcium arsenate are manufactured and distributed to the cotton growers in 1923 at the lowest possible cost, in order to reduce the heavy expense of combatting the weevils and to guarantee to the growers ample quantities of the poison. The persistent efforts of the association during the past twelve months to induce the lowering of high rediscount interest rates by the Regional Reserve banks in the agricultural sections are gradually being complied with. 1 feel certain that the rediscount interest rate will be reduced to 2 1-2 to 3 per cent, in the agricultural sections and that the individual borrowers will be ; able to receive the full benefits of such reductions. Reconstruction at Hand. We have passed through the Gethsemane of deflation and its attendant sufferings and unparalleled losses during the past two years. The period for reconstruction^ and rehabilitation now confronts the mnnhood of the South. We must again present to the world that type of Anglo Saxon hardihood and bravery which so masterfully exemplified the South in the dark days of Civil War reconstruction. Our duty is to face the future fearlessly and with an unalterable determination to win in the peaceful struggle of rehabilitation which lies | ahead. In this crucial period I want to ap(Continued on Page Two.) PAINTED WITH BLOOD Candidate Tells of the Tint of Wall Decorations. VOTERS MEET AT ARAGON MILL All Candidates Were Prekent and Spoke to About 300 Voters?Bolin Would Dispense With Services of Farm Demonstration Agents?Says Game Warden is no Protection to Game?Audience Was Undemonstrative and Respectful Hearing Accorded to All. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Armn-nn Mill llnnlr Hill X11 AT- 11?A_ suggestion of the Bolshevistic?a figurative waving as it were of the red flag featured the county campaign meeting here tonight when the legislative and other candidates spoke to about 300 voters from a table placed under an arc light on the street in front of the home of A. C.* Clark in the Aragon Mill village. F. B. Cotton, executive committeeman for Aragon-Blue Buckle precinct presided over the meeting here tonight. The meeting was a quiet ond undemonstrative one, the audience squatting on the ground near the speaker's table and according each candidate a respectful hearing. Practically all of the candidates were present. Those seeking election to the legislature, superintendent of education, probate judge, treasurer and the office of magistrate of Kbenezer township In which this precinct is located made talks. James C. Dozier, a candidate for secretary of state was also present and. after the county candidates had. concluded, he addressed the voters in the interests of his candidacy. While there was little applause given any of the r&n?.idates W. J. Talley, union labor candidate got most of that which was given. "Unionism is right smart strong in this section," one voter told the correspondent and it seemed bo. A statement of Candidate Washington A. Bolin, seeking eletcion to the house of representatives was the only statement that appeared to border on the unusual and sensational. Pointing to the Aragon mill not far away which loomed large and brilliantly lighted, he said: "f like to look ut fine mills and fine houses and yet when I look at them I can not help but feel that,the walls of fine houses are painted inside and out with the blood emanating from the sweat of the brows of down trodden labor of the world. But "nary" & shriek or shout or hoop-a-la was echoed by the chilly atmosphere as the candidate concluded his declaration. House Candidates First. The meeting was called to "brder by Chairman Cotton at 7:46. Legislative candidates spoke first. They were allowed ten minutes' each as were the candidates for superintendent of education while the other candidates liad to be content with five minutes each. That lenath of time was much too TT long: for some of them. Porter B. Ken* nedy of Sharon was first up. .Mr. Kennedy said he had written an article for The Yorkville Enquirer several weeks ago relative to taxation: concerning county and state and the views he had expressed had met with the approval of numerous people who had insisted that he enter the race for the house. He had yielded to their I pleas that he throw his hat into the ring. He said that the people were suffering now and that .ie thought the government should be operated on less revenue as was the case in old Bible days when Moses was the leader of the children of Israel. James E. Beamguard. James E. Beamguard of Clover took advantage of the opportunity to congratulate the people of Aragon on arranging for a special campaign meeting1 all their own. He said that now was the time for strong men to comprise the crew of the ship of state and if the voters thought he was a i strong man he wanted their vote. The j state at the present time he said is in a condition perhaps without parallel since the days of 1876. People were demanding 100 per cent, service for every dollar taken from the public treasury and ho intimated that they were not getting this service now. ; Mr. Bcamguard spoke los appreciation of the services of former reprfc; sentntive E. Gettys Nunn while Mr. N'unn had served in the house when he was in the senate. If elected to the house this year he wanted the voters to meet with him and the other members of the delegation prior to the convention of the legislature to advise of legislative enactment desired and I promised to put the wishes of the voters through or else raise a big row in Columbia. W. R. Bradford. \V. R. Bradford of Fort Mill, spoke of his eight years' service in the house. He had been in position to serve the cotton mill people and had helped to serve them and if re-elect t*u nuuiu Lumiiiiie iu nerve uiein. no invited the voters to look into his record relative to cotton mill legislation. If that record was not favornbe to them he could not reasonably | expect their support. The matter of j taxation was uppermost in the minds ! of most people and he thought it time to_ cut loose many people from the public pay roll. He was aware that he had incurred the displeasure of some people in Columbia because of . (Continued on Page Three).