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ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C? TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1932. 3STO. 97j I
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brie! Local Paragraphs of More cr
Less Interest.
PICKED DP BY ENQDIREH BEPQRTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
"Unless there are more trials by
jury in the common pleas court for
York this week than there were last,
Judge Peurifoy might as well let the
jurors go home," observed a court
attache yesterday. "There were not
more than a couple of cases tried by
jury last week. On Friday the attorneys
in two case3 agreed to a verdict
while the jurors-were out considuing
u^v n/vufa Iqqiia Thorp wns TlOtll
IIIVJ 1HM I I IO at IOIJUVI * ?
ing for the jurors to do except to return
a verdict in the two cases in accordance
with the agreement of the
attorneys."
Gastonia Bound.
"You'd be surprised to know the
number of negroes of our section who
have recently moved out, and gone to
Gastonia," remarked a Sharon man
who was in Yorkville yesterday. "I have
no idea of the number but 1 want to
say that I have been living in Sharon
a good many years and f have never 1
observed anything like so great an
exodus from my town at one time be- '
fore. Most of them arc being employ- 1
cd on road construction and other '
forms of construction work. Others
have gone to Gastonia without any 1
particular job in view. They have
heard that there is a great deal of '
work going on now in Gastonia and 1
Gaston county and have simply left '
without a job in sight, confident in the 1
belief that they would get one."
1,400 Hunting Licenses Sold.
"So far this year about 1,100 hunting
licenses have been sold in York j
county," said Dan T. Woods, York
county game warden when asked
about the matter the oilier day. "I '
V.l.,1, (hot r>ntitn.>ilT? fjlVOrahlV With
salt's up to tliis date last year," Air. '
Woods went on to say. "The only 1
.record that I have on the matter just '
now is the bank deposit slips given '
mo by the various sub-agencies for 1
hunting licenses that I have over the 1
county. While I sell a good many licenses
myself direct, the great ma- J
jority of them are t old by my sub- 1
agents over the county. I might add, *
too, that while we hrve sold about as 1
many licenses as we generally do up
to this time, there has been mighty 1
little weather lit for hunting and those 1
hunters to whom I have talked report 1
that they haven't had a lot of luck." '
Business Already Better.
"Unless 1 miss my guess," remark?
-t 'lov T W Snopk*. \vl>ll '
1VI IIIC V i 11VI uu?, * . I? .
known jeweler of Yorkville, "business 1
in going to be mjich better this Christ- '
mas than it was last. Believing that '
such will be the case I have bought '
a much larger Christmas stock than I
bought last year and many other merchants
to whom 'I have talked have '
told me that they have done the same
thing. "While the county's cotton crop
is not so large this year as it was last,
still it is bringing a fair price. The
crop has been riade cheaper than that
of last year and I notice that lots of
folks who had no money last year (
have some money thin year. So far as .
Christmas business is concerned,
numbers of people have already begun (
to look around and some have already :
done at least a part of their Christmas ;,
shopping. 1 believe that all of the
merchants are going to experience ^
better business this year than they
did last."
Protest Surtained.
"Well," remarked yesterday a Yorkville
football fan, "it would appear
from the decision of the high school
football committee relative to Douglas
Xiins, star player of Rock Hill that
Supt. E. A. Montgomery of Yorkville
High has been sustained in the row he
raised. "It was l'rof. Montgomery,
you know, who started the fuss about
alleged 'ringers' being allowed to play
high school football in this section,
ivnf Muntmimerv nromtitly refused to
allow Vorkville High to play ltock Mill
in Vorkville several weeks ago when
Koek Hill persisted in a determination
to play Nims in a game against
the locals. Of course since there has
heen so much discussion in the news- !
papers about it all much 'dope* has
come out with the result that Fort
Mill and not Koek Hill is regarded as
the champion team of the Catawba
Association. I am glad that I'rof.
Montgomery made the fight that he
did and I feel that when ail the 'hot
ldood' of the various par'isans lias
cooled down all interested in football
will feel that h<> did the right thing in
making the row that he made."
Radio Interest Growing.
"Interest in radio telephony is growing
locally," remarked \\\ \\\ Karron.
electric al contractor and plumber, last,
Saturday. "For instance today 1 sold j
one radio outfit and I have a number
of other prospects here in Vorkville.
1 have been giving a number of radio
concerts at my place here in Vorkville
thi:-r week and you would he surprised
at the number of telephone subscribers
w'10 have told me that they have been
listening in. All that is necessary to
do that is for the telephone subscriber
to have 'central* connect his telephone
place with my telephone. I leave my
receiver down after the connection i;
made and the subscriber also leaves
his down. Then they may listen to
the radio concert as long as anything
is coming in to my receiving set. Although
this week has really not been
good radio weather because the warm
atmosphere is believed to be responsible
for the great amount of 'static' in
the air, at the same time there have
been numbers of listeners in. Still we
got in communication with radio stations
giving concerts in San Francisco,
Cal., Davenport, Iowa; New York, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, Houston, Texas; Atlanta
and numbers of other cities.
And by the way," Mr. Barron went on
to say, "I am making arrangements
to give a public demonstration of the
practicability of radio in the city hall
here soon. I have gone so far as to
employ an expert from the General
Electric Company to have charge of
it. Included in the programme of the
evening will be several local artists as
well as those from over the country.
I haven't exactly decided upon the
date; but it will be announced in the
advertising columns of The Yorkvillc
Enquirer."
Found His Hog.
In "Jedge" Black's office the oilier
lay several gentlemen were talking
things over. The conversation finally
turned to the tendency of animals to
return to the haunts in which they |
were raised. One man told a story
about taking a cat away from the
place where it was raised in Yc-rkvllle
lit night. He took it to his home a
mile away and t. e next morning bright
tnd early the cat had gone back to its
original home.
"I remember," recalled Mr. C. M. Inman
who was a member of the party,
"that several years ago I heard my
brother K. F. Inman tell about taking
a. cat from his home in Bullock's
2reek township over to Hickory Grove,
it was only a short time until the cat
aad found its way back to Bullock's
2reek. And in this connection I'll tell
mother story about a hog that got
iway from my farm. It didn't come
back but I located it all hough it had
it rayed eight miles or more. Some
roars ago I liad a nelgnoor wno aiuu 11
think a lot of nic and I wasn't on |
erms any more friendly with him. One
morning 1 missed a hog when the
ithers came to feed. I remarked to one
if my negroes, Eph Leech that I supX)sed
the neighbor got him a hog last
light.
Well some months after that tliis
legro, Kph Leech, happened to be out
n the vicinity of the home of Mr. Milt
iaekson in the Belli Shiloh section. He
ecogmsed there a hog which ho was
sure was the hog that I had Inst
months before. There were certain
marks on him that the negro could
identify him by. Well Eph told me
ihout it ami the next time I saw Mr.
Iaekson I asked him about the hog. lie
said that it had rome to him as a stray
ind he had been unable to locate the
iwnor. He agreed it was my ling, all
ight; but 1 thought that since he had
fed him and eared for him a long time I
tie was entitled to an interest in him.
We agreed to each take a half interest
in Mm. And the hog, or rather my
. e it,,. r?;imo hnpk."
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OUTPUT OF THE GINS
York County 10,000 Bales Short of
Same Period Last Year.
Tho Department of Commerce, |
through the bureau of tho census, has '
tnnounced the prelimlnery report on j
cotton ginned by counties in South J
Carolina, of the crops of 1922 and 1921,
prior to November 14. The total for j
the state was made public ' Tuesday j
November 21. Quantities in running
bales, counting round bales as half,
bales:
County 1922 1921
Abbeville 7,972 15,115 |
Aiken 13.635 13,232
Allendale 5,999 4,207
Anderson 34,982 5?i,S30
Bamberg 5,544 3,Sl(ij
Barnwell 8,262 7,724
Beaufort 934 3S7 j
Berkeley 330 S23 j
Calhoun 3,i:S5 4.H-141
Cherokee 10,9-10 12,900
Chester 16,782 22,577 j
Chesterfield 16,400 21,251'
Clarendon 2,924 7,970
Colleton 2,790 1,972!
Darlington 11,048 20,334!
Dillon 13,624 31,223
Dorchester 1,802 1,535
Edgefield 5.222 0,977
Fairfield 5,919 9,339;
Florenec 5,932 20,042'
(Jreenville 28,043 37,122
Greenwood 5,213 12,540
Hampton 4,195 2,706
Horry 518 3,0661
Jasper 1,411 681'
Kershaw 10,947 11,181 j
Lancaster 10,148 13,40Si
Laurens 16,817 32,236!
Lee 13,134 18,500 I
Lexington 5.409 7,90S
AleCormick 1,503 4.008!
Marion 3,476 10,790'
Marlboro 31,281 44,630 I
Newberry 9,258 16.372
Oeonee 12,789 10.7431
Orangeburg 12,937 17,014 j
Pickens 14,".S7 19,399 |
Itichiaml 5.759 7,710 j
Saluda - 5,223 8.152;
Spartanburg 49,519 60,219 i
Sumter 9,299 17.791 i
Pnion 9.986 14,529!
Williamsburg 2,562 7.027
York 22 4o3 33.967
All other 4'?6 521
The State 462,917 684,633
HOODED MEN ACTIVE
Terror Is Brought to Several Men
In Horry County.
MAN'S EARS ARF. CUT WITH A RAZOR
One Man Told to Attend Sunday
School ? Another Warned About
Grinding of Too Much Meal.
The following story Is from the
Horry Herald of last week concerning
the activities of a secret order recently
organized in that county:
The activities cf w lite robed bands
said to indicate the Ku Klux Klan, so
far as reported in this county to dafe:
Mace Horn, cars clipped, made to
tell" what he knows of Bailey shooting,
and firaintrer whisky case.
mash. Whether or not this story is
confirmed by,Mr. Anderson, could not
be learned wlier this article was
written. ,
<t ? ?
MILITARY TRAINING URGED
Gen. Pershiny Wants Nation to "Look
Gold Facts in the Face."
An appeal 4(i th3 nation to "look cold
hard facts hi the face and not forget
our oblignlicjjiis in the blind hope that
we may, npL again engago jn armed
conflict," marked an address delivered
it Minneapolis, Mnn., last Tuesday, by
General Pershing under the auspices
of the American Defense Society.
"Jf we knew no.v to a certainty that
armed conflict wculd 3ome in twenty
years, there would be an immediate
demand for preparations," General
Pershing said. "Yet that is the approximate
interva that we have had in
the past between major wars. Tiicre
G. B. Shelley, taken to a grave yard
and made to kneel. After measuring
liirn on the ground, he. is warned
against several things.
J. C. Grainger, warned by a note to
change his way of living.
E. B. Sarvis, warned by means of a
letter to go to Sunday school, etc.
J. D. Anderson asked to limit amount
of meal ground each Saturday at his
mill.
It was en one of the nights of week
before last that masked men, robed in
white went to the ho nc of Grainger,
where Mace Horn was calling and
handled him in a mamcr which was
only partially explained in .the last
issue of The 1 lorry Herald.
The acts of the white robed visitors
did not cease with the Marc Horn incident.
News of other instances kept
coming to Conway during last week.
Before detailing the facts, so far as
they have been brought to light, concerning
the subsequent arts of the
masked figures, momucrs aounuoss 01
the new secret order known as the Ku
Klux Klan, at least holding out to be
such, the Mace Horn matter will he
again mentioned in order to bring out
some facts that were apparently over- 1
looked before.
Mace Horn Case.
After being taken out, Mace Horn
was asked to tell the truth about the ,
shooting scrape in which the Baileys'
Jim Gibson and his brother, Ossiellorn,
had been concerned, and which was
aired in the court of Horry county, at
one of the terms of criminal court recently.
At first he hesitated to say he did
not know much about t, it was something
in which he was not concerned
from the way he acted. Thfn, it is
reported, questioners took out some
tools and laid them down. lie took (
up a sharp knife, perhaps a razor,
and began cutting Horn's cars. Soon
thereafter Horn agreed to toll, and he
has said that he did, and that he
told the truth about who shot Bailey
and what connection Ossic and Jim
Gibson had with it. He was also
questioned about Rob Grainger and
the whisky stilling case,, and he says
he told the truth abou: that. Tie was
then required to come off the bond of
Jim Gibson and he did. Jim Gibson
at last accounts had left and gone
to North Carolina, it is supposed in
answer to a warning or perhaps because
he feared he could not furnish
another bond. Rob Grainger is no
longer to be found in his usual haunts.
After warning Horn to-tell the same
tale in court thereafter that he told
them about the Ilailey case and the
Grainger case, he was left alone and
then went to Mullins, where he sought
medical attention.
As above stated there were other
incidents occurring last week. One
concerned G. It right Shelley, a son of l
the late Jim Shelley, and not so far
from the Horn neighborhood. Here
Shelley lives, on the old home place of
his father, with his wife and several |
children, llis wife is the daughter
of I. p. Minccy.
Apparently the same crowd of fifty
or sixty men, riding in six or seven au- I
tonioblles, and robed in white, went to J
Shelley's home at about 8 o'clock on '
the night of November 22, rapped on
the door, calling Shelley out. When
Shelley was told to go with them he
refused and in his efforts at resistance,
he tore one of the robes from a Kluxer,
exposing, his face; but lie- did not
know the man, had never heard the
voices of any of them, and could not
remember ever having seen any of |
those men before. He was overpowered
taken by the men in one of the cars
one and a half or two miles away to
the grave yard. Rofore proceeding
with him from his home place they
placed a cap over his nee, completely
hiding' his sight. They stopped with
him by the sid<- of his mother's grave, t
Taking off the cap they told him to (
heboid his mother's giavo. Then he I
whs irmcio to kiicci ny me grave aim i
prayer was held. After this he was I
made to lie down by the side of the ;
grave and emblems placed at iii.s feet i
aiul at Iiis head. They explained to )
him that lie had been called ollt to be
warned on account of drinking, reckless
driving on the highways, and
shooting thereon, as well as the use of
profane and vulger language thereon,
and on account of mistreatment of his
wife; and they warned him that without
a change he would be in bis grave
soon, or words to that effect. Then ho!
was taken back home and warned to i
live the life of a good citizen as his ;
! father had lived before him.
I Hither the night before or the night j
after this oeetirrenep, H. M. Holmes,
while on the road to or from Mul|lin?,
met a group of s :c or eight cars
A
is no reason to hink that the immediate
future will bring about a
cessation of war, even though it was
said that we entered the World War
to bring about the end of war."
General Pershing devoted most of
his address to discussing the value of
military training as a school of good
citizenship. The findings of the recent
educational conference in Washington,
he said, were that the training given in
reserve elements of the army and at
civilian training camps "constitute an
effective machinery through which
much can be done not only to benefit
the individual from the standpoint of
his physique and self-discipline, but
from the standpoint of his relations to
the government which he is under obligations
to defend.
Draft statistics, lie said, show 50 per
cent, of the young inon called out during
the war to have been physically
sub-normal, largely due to defects curable
by proper training, and that onefourth
of the persons examined were
unable to read and write our common
language, and that more than 10 per
cent cannot even successfully speak
English.
"1 do not suggest military training as
i euro for all eivir ailments, but I llnnP
ly believe that it inculcates ideals of
honor and duty in our young men that
must constitute a most valuable national
asset."
tionernl Pershing said that if the
army was to succeed "in spreading iho
benefits of tlie training offered, it will
bo only through the cooperation and
support of the people."
FOR THE D. A. R.
Bill to Present Scadop's Silver Service
to Patriotic Women.
Representative llyrnes on Friday introduced,
at the request of officers of
the Daughters of the American Devolution,
in Soutli ( nrolina, a bill granting
to that, organisation for preservation
and display 111 their building in
South Carolina, t 10 silver service formerly
us<'d upon the battleship South
Carolina. The silver service has re- I
ccntly been loaned to the governor of ;
the state and by him placed in the
custody of the Daughters of the Ann r- :
ier.n Revolution in South Carolina, but !
there is no law authorising the secretary
of the navy to make such a loan
and at any time ;he governor may be
called up"n to return it.
Tim bill introduced by Mr. Byrnes
would place tlm silver service in the
permanent custody of the South ('arc-linn
Daughters r f the American Revolution.
The measure has the support
of all the house delegation.
with about six or seven men in each
car, all dressed in the white robes
which is the regalia of the Ku Klux
Klan. They were driving toward Mullins.
Holmes d d not talk to any of
them but remained by the side of the
road until the party had passed.
Ahout the ^saine number took part
in the Horn raicl.
John Rogers Case."
Another instance of visitation which
took place last week' and followed that
of the C5. ofight Shelley instance, is
said to have occurred on the night of
November 23rd, when a white robed
band went to Ki ikler.'s Cross Roads,
and called out J ?hn Rogers, constable
under Magistrate B. B. Harrelson. They
are said to have warned Rogers that
he was not doing his duty as an officer
of the law and that he must mend his
umvc wftivln fit thnt nffr?r?t
E. El. Sarvis.
It was reported here last Saturday
that a few days before that time that
E, 15. Sarvis had received a note supposed
to have 2ome from the same
source, containing warnings of what
he must do in the matter of his way
of life, or wort's to that effect, one
admonition being that he must attend
Sunday sctypol. It was reported that
Sarvis had con plied and went to
Sunday school.
J. C. Grainger.
J. C. Grainger received a warning
note to the effc. t that he must reform
in certain ways, and which was
along about' the same line as the one
written to E. B. Sarvis.
J. D. Anderson.
Some of tie activity displayed seems
to be concelncd with the suppression
of illicit whfcky stilling in that section
of Horry county. It was reported recently
that Inoml ers of t';o fraternity
had called ojj J. D. Anderson, a miller
in Floyd's township, and told him that
he must not grin I on Saturdays more
than enough meal to last a family unlil
the following Saturday. This was 1
supposed to have something to do with
the ability of the alleged whisky stillers
to obtain the meal for making sour
BIBLE THE BEST SELLER
Interesting Facts About Circulation
of the Scriptures.
MORE THAN 141,000,000 COPIES ISSUED
Now Publishod in Every Known Language?Scmi-Centennial
of Revised
Version Celebrated?Radical Change
in Publication Methods.
The Rev. Frank P. Parkin, D. D., is
a radio preacher, writes George N.
McClain in the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger.
He is general secretary of the
Pennsylvania Rible Society.
Dr. Parkin is also secretary for
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
of the American Bible Society.
A few Sundays ago he enjoyed the
unique distinction of preaching a sermon
in Philadelphia that was broadcast
over a radius of 1,200 miles.
Radio funs among the Florida Keys ,
heard him at the same time as "listeners-ln"
in St. l'aul and Minneapolis.
It was a historical sennon in colehration
of the fiftieth anniversary of
the first publication of the Revised i
Scriptures.
In the intervening fifty years millions
of Bibles have been published |
and distributed over the whole earth, i
That expression "the whole earth"
means what it says. i
There is today not a nation or tribe ,
in the whole world that Christian civilization
has not touched with its magic
wand or that has risen to the com- i
inanding dignity of having a distinc- i
tivc language of its own that has not
hud placed in its outstretched hands
a. copy of the Bible in its own tongue, i
It is a miracle of translation and
publication.
It is a literal fulfillment of the command
of the Nazarene, "Go ye into ]
all the world and preach the Gospel
to every creature." <
Talk about best sellers!
Arc you aware that the Bible is to- 1
day that best seller? I
It has always held first place in the I
world of books on the spore of popu- '
larity.
Printing presses arc busy every <
working day of the year and binders
are running full time putting out
copies of the Scriptures. 1
You can buy a vest-pocket edition *
of the Gospel of St. John for one cent,
of a complete New Testament for ten
cents.
Since the revised version saw the (
light something like 111,000,000 copies
of it have been distributed among the
children of men. 1
In Philadelphia, and in ovangelicnl
churches thioughout the United States,
the last week has been one of rejoicing.
It is a Bible jubilee.
Of the scholars, English and American,
originally engaged in the revision.
not one is living today.
There is a difference between the
English and the American versions,
although both bodies of revisionists
worked in harmony and acquiesced )n
results fifty years at'o.
Some, they said, were obsolete.
Others were not regarded as fully expressive
of the meaning Intended by
the sacred writers.
Omission of the "u" from such words
rrs honour, favour, labour; the use of
"who" in place of "which and that"
when expressive of personalities.
It was agreed, though, that the
American revision should be published
until the 'expiration of a certain nnm
her oL years alter ine rmgiisn puuu- i
cation. , i
Thus it came that the American 1
standard edition did not appear until '
J SSI, nearly ten years after the Eng- i
lish. 1
The first publication of the revised '
New Testament 11 fly years ago wit- 1
nessed one of the greatest feats of
journalism of that period.
The entire religious world of the
United States was intensely interested
in the new translation.
T*o New York Herald, as a piece 1
of enterprise, had its English corros- '
pondent ealdc the entire New Testa- '
merit as it appeared in the first 1
volume issued for publication on tins 1
side the following day.
The prestige of James Gordon Hen- 1
nott was enhanched mightily from I
that day.
It was a.shrewd but costly "beat."
There are three great world organizations
engaged in the publication
and dissemination of the Scriptures.
The British and Foreign Hiblc Society
has held the leading place heretop.re,
with the American Hibie Society
and the Scotish Bible Society in '
' *
I fit* orucr named.
The World War has sadly hampered
the work of the two foreijrn Bible organizations,
and the American so- 1
eiety and the Scottish Mible Society in
It distributed nearly 5,000,000 copies
of the l?H>lc in 1021.
The total distribution of the three |
societies for the last year was as fol- :
lows:
British and Foreign Bible Society, j
S.655,781 ropies; American Mible Society,
1,SG1,1S1; Xational Bible Society il
of Scotland, 2,119,651; a magnified total
of 15.666,616 copies.
A radical change in publication f
methods has taken place within the It
last year with the American Bible Society,
Dr. Parkin says.
Since its organization more than a
hundred years ago and up until a few
months since the society had been Its
own publisher.
It had a vast printing plant in Its
own building, Bible House, New York
City.
The strike in the printing and pressmen's
trades compelled it to take
stock of the' situation.
Contracts were finally mado with
several great publishing houses.
Its own plant was closed permanently
after a hundred years of operation.
All the Bibles now published by this
society p.re by/outside contract.
The traditions of Bible House and
its memories have disappeared.
The Bible, says Dr. I'arkin, is a
great aid to Americanization.
The work is performed unostentatiously
by it and almost unconsciously
to the alien.
The society issues what is known
as a diglottic edition.
As its name implies, it is printed in
two. languages..
In one column the verses are in
English, dn the parallel column they
ire in the foreigner's tongue, whatever
that may lie.
Heading the Bible in his own language
the immigrant begins comparing
it with tiie text in English.
Ultimately he translates in English,
and the first step in his progress as an
American citizen has begun.
While Thomas A. Edison is about
t in the matter of his qucstionaires
to college men, he might ring In a
few queries such as these:
Where is the Quichucan tongue
spoken ?
The Tschi, the Tcmne and the
*>
Who speaks Ibo, Kusaien, Mare,
Mnrrinyeri and I'wo-Karen?
If they spoko Ossetinian in the
Caucasus, where do the people dwell
who speak Wotjak?
Yet some of the Scriptures are published
in these languages that range
rrom West Africa to Siberia, and from
the Philippines to the farthest bounds
if the Australian hush lands.
Edward Rok and Edgar Fabs Smith,
of this city, arc vice presidents of the
American Society.
Dr. Talcott Williams, formerly of
Philadelphia but now of Now York, is
me of the managers.
WEEVIL EXPERIMENT STATION
Some Pertinent Remark* About the
Proposition.
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The whole scheme to establish a boll
veevil experiment station at Florence
vith alleged "experts" in charge to
;ivc the farmers advice as to the most
effective way to fight tho weevil is
jottomed upon the idea of increasing
he power of the college behind it and
)f providing easy jobs with good saliries
for a lot of men who will do
^radically nothing to earn the money
:hey are paid, because there will be
nothing they can do. So far as York
county is concerned, her members of
ihe legislature already have received
in expression of the people on boll
veevil "experts." The subject was discussed
in the campaign last August
md one of the candidates on whom a
Ight was mado because he refused to
hitter away the taxpayers' money by
igrecing to the employment for the
county of one of these "experts" was
e-electcd. Neither the Columbia State
nor the Spartanburg Herald, both advocating
the establishment of the experiment
station at Florence, has offered
a supportable reason why the
legislature should make an approprialion
for it. The proposition is one of
many which has been hatched by college
authorities and others who arc not
interested, even in those trying times,
n keeping down the people's taxes. For
the city papers to undertake to compare
the necessity for the services of
11 doctor for the man who is ill with
the call for a boll weevil experiment
itation in South Carolina is poor reasoning,
to say the most that can be
said for it. Admittedly, as its name
mplies, the only thing the station at
Florence could do would be to experiment.
Every cotton farmer in the
state already is experimenting along
Iho same lines, and is perhaps doing
so quite as intelligently as the "experts"
could. The Times would not
like to give bond that if the "experts"
it is proposed to employ at Florence
should discover a sure cure for the boll
weevil they would take the public into
their confidence, because it probably
would mean an end of their jobs. The
whole scheme is more or less a fraud,
but such a fraud as observant people
have learned to expect the State to be
asked to promote. It would be interesting
to hear The State explain why
llie people are still being taxed to support
the cattle tick eradication work in
certain coast counties of South Carolina.
after the federal government has
lifted the cattle tick quarantime from
the whole state. The Spartanburg
Herald probably lias no information on
the subject.
? In the United States district court
at Anderson last Friday, Judge Watkins
sentenced Tom Harrison of Greenville
to pay a fine of $.">00 or go to the
Spartanburg jail three months for violation
of the prohibition laws. Harrison
reached down in his overcoat pocket
and paid the fine.
FARMER RELIEF MEASURE B
Administration Program for Flnan-I
cial Aid. 1
SERIOUS PROBLEMS ARE CONSIDERED I
Proposed to Extend the Powers of the
Farm Loan Board So as to Enable it B-ifJ
to Deal More Directly With theMlS
Small Farmers.
The now administration program for Hg
immcdiato financial relief to farmer*
was formulated Thu??.Iz., ? .?. a confer- B||
once between President Harding, Sec- ;|ag
rotary Wallace and twelve Republican mM
senators headed by Senator Watson of W
Indiana. It will be put before congress will
at once with the full force of the administration.
Broadly the plan brings together In Mare
one administration measure the approved
portion of various relief meas- MjvS
ures already pending in congress and [iSS
. nnnlfiiiia nlun nrr\uloInrtu 4a rviu 1/a fFin ^Hf1
intended relief available to the small l||s
farmer as well as large cattle raisers I'^jl
and grain growers. ,/|||
The conference was arranged by Sen- l.yS|
ator Watson, who has been making l-)||
an active survey of the question of ag- I^Sr
ricultural relief. It was precedod by
series of conferences between Secreta-' 1m?
ry Wallace and department of agrlcul- |I3|
ture experts. 1'residont Hardlng/kept*
hia Thanksgiving dinner writing while WgR
he heard the perfected program out- W$m
lined and gave his goneral approval. *3 jMSfl
The Farm Loan Board. ;j||j
The plan proposes to utilize the Fede- f||?
oral farm loan board as the agency Km
through which lelicf is to be gi^en. fjs3
The details of the financing have been rJS
practically worked out. The general |:J]
purposo is larger and more liberal cred- |?y8
its and cheaper interest fates. The IMi
opinion of those participating in tbe^^H
conference was that while the finance, .*'|a
corporation had been of great value In iOvji
alleviating the distressed condition of p-l|
agriculture, its loans, because of t5er- ??
tain limitations, did not reach down to [?1?
the average small farmer who raises a
few cattle or has small quantities of Ujjg
grain to market. Ry using the Federal WM
farm loan board as the agency to carry
out the plan of financing, the new
administration plan proposes to make MiS
tho government relief available direct- '
ily to the small farmers who need it. |j||
| The whole subject of farm relief Ma
J work was discussed exhaustively, but
the marketing problem was touched jjjn
I upon only in a general way. f&j*
Financial Aid Needed. d$
The general opinion at the copfer- g/l!
enco was that to extend the program
now to include so complex and much,
controverted a subject as cooperative MS
marketing would only serve to delay
the immediate object'of relief.
The president was told that the .5
I pressing need was to provide at once
financial aid to thousands of farmers '"-.1
who feared mortgage foreclosure because
they are unable to dispose of -'|||
I their cattle and crops without t re mendo
us losses.
All the senators present gave their 3
approval of the program and pledged
their support for its immediate ctmsideration
in congress. r,:-.3
The following statement on the con- 'jg-1
ferencc was issued at the White House: .Wy
At the close of a White House conferencc
Thursday afternoon, Secretary 1&9S
Wallace and Senntor Lodge made the B
following statement: <.'?
"The president had in conference at
iihe White House Thursday afternoon
j the sccreatry o.' agriculture and Sena- J
tors Lodge, Watson, Capper, McNary, W$t
| f looding, Willis, Shortridge, McCumber,
McLean, Nicholson, P'ernald and Keys, j
The senators chiefly represented the
agriculture and banking and currency 3
comnmioes. two nours wore aevoica .3
to a discussion of a program for furthor
reliof of tho American farmer and ia
livestock growers, especially in the way | ?'S
of credits. The various measures pro- 1;|
posed wore given consideration and a
tentative program of legislation will be
commended to the house and senate j'/jjj
committees on banking and currency. .
Incrpasc Lean Limits.
"The legislation thought to be best
suited to the agricultural and live- ^
stock emergency contemplates provls- |
"Increasing the maximum loan limits
of Federal farm loan hanks from ten
thousand to twenty-five thousand. '< \
"Provisions for the voluntary crea- <, J
tlon of livestock and agricultural credit
associations primarily to deal with '
loans on livestock. ;"J
"Amendment to the Federal farm * H
loan act to provide for tho rediscount 1
of agricultural production and market- >3
ing paper. Also to add two members ';?jj
to the Federal farm loan board. ''3
"The program contemplates creation - I j
of a division in the Federal farm banks ifl
to drai specifically with production And ;]
marketing credits thus supplying a ,
means of discount to the farmer on
longer time notes than are eligible to H
discount by the Federal reserve banks. 2
"Credits to the maximum period of S
Uiree years are to he provided where
the turnover covers that period.
"The conference brought out a clc^r 1 A
determination to develop a workable ^
'plan of dealing with the relief of farm I
credits at the short session of congress ^
and will have the cordial sanction of
\ the majority in congress and the pres- t '?$
? J. II. C. Wulburn. a prominent busine'ss
man of Charleston, aged 54, drop- ?
pod dead in the city market ln3t Friday
while on his way to his office. ']