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BETTER LIVE STOCK. ore and Better Corn" Should bc Followed and Supplemented by 'Nore) and Better Live Stock." Columbia, S. C., Jnne 27.-The cry. "more and better corn," sounded throughout t'he length and breadth ol South Carolina with the result thai the State has developed into one 0i the great corn producing States oi he Union. is now to be supplemented with another, believed to mean ever Flmore for the prosperity of the agri cultural interests of the State, "mor( and better live stock." This is th( slogan of the South Carolina Liv( Stock association, which is under taking a vigorous campaign for mor( cows and hogs on the farms and t< this campaign will be given the en thusiastic support of the State de -artment of agriculture. As a result, it is predicted tha ousands of acres of idle pastur4 ds will be converted into grazing unds for cattle and that in a fev s South Carolina will not onl: ving the millions annually sen estern markets for - live stoc] live stock products, but will bi ing live stock, and meats t er States of the South. This mov ent on the part of the State de artment of agricultur% and thi South Carolina Live Stock associa tion is in line with the efforts of , number of agencies interested in thi development of the agricultural re sources of the South. The Southeri Railway company, through its lan< and industriil department, has fo years urged that more attention bi given to live stock, a large portioi of every issue of. its publication 9"The Southein Field," being given t .this subject, and President Finley ii 'his speechas and in other ways hai repeatedly called attention to th, great opportunities open to the far Mers of the South in this particula: line, owing to the great increase ii the prices of all food products an4 consequent enlarged profits in thei production. i 'That'in its last analysis, the pro blem of soil cngervation and soi improvement must find solution ii the increase of domestic- animals oi the farms is9 the conclusion present 'ed by W. J. Spillman, agriculturis in charge of the office .of farm man agement in, the bureau of plant in dustry of the United States depart ment of agriculture, in Farmers' Bul letin 406, on "Soil ConservationV lust issued by the department. Thi: interesting bulletin recommends th< raising of leguminous crops and the ~ e in the .number of animal: farms as* the best means t4 to bring unproduc-tive soil tF state of fertility. The use o Itural lime as a supplement ti re and commercial fertilizers i~ 'urged by many farm expert stantial aid in this work. n. 1900 to 1909 South Carolina' k increased in value fron 29 to $45,780,000 according t4 gures reported to the Statt lIer general. As a result o paign now being inaugurate< ped in th-a next few years. t< an increase which will maki e figures look small. What is done in this work in Sout] arolina will doubtless attract wid< attention throughout the South, af did the rise of this State in import ance as a corn growing section, ani the growth of the live stock industra will be sure to have great effects foi good in all other Southern States. SUBSCRIBE TO TROLLEY STOCK Peizer and Belton Mills to Aid Pied, mont Enterprise. Greenville, June 23.-The director! of the Pe!zer Manufacturing corn pany at a meeting today, decided t< 'su.bscribe 25 cents per spindle to thi capital stock of the Greenville-Spar S'tanburg-Anderson trolley line. The Pelzer Mills has 135,000 spen dles, and the subscription will tota: about $33,000. The Belton mills also subscribes on the same basis as Pelzer, theil subscription, amounting to aboul "$14,000 based on 59;000 spindles. AUTO PARTY REACHES LAURENS Xany Courtesies Extended Highwaj Inspectors From Charleston. Laurens, June 23.-Messrs. Ran dorph, Robertson angl Paine, r apre senting the Charleston Automobile club in an official capacity, spent lasi night -in Laurens. They are traveling by easy stages, and left 'this morning for Greenville, thence to Asheville. Traveling in a splendid white steamer these gentlemen, made tha run yesterday from Oranbegurg, vis Columbia and Newberry, reaching this point late in the evening. Man3 courtesies were extended the visitors by the local automobilsts and citzens, who are themselves interested in ths HOW TO BUILD UP THE CAROLINAS. Extracts From Address of Clarence Poe Before the South Carolina Press Association. Both Carolinas need and must have a larger proportion of white people. The whole South, in fact, is still too ,sparsely settled. Our eleven South ern States. excluding Texas, support only 16.000,000 people -of both races, and only 10,000,000 white people?, while the same area in Europe sup ports over 160,000,000 white peOple. And it must be remembered that up to a certain point which we shall not 'reach for centuries yet, and other things being equal, prosperity de pends upon density of populatien. !Population makes wealth, provided that it is normally intelligent and ef ficient. The Sort of Immigrants We Need. Of course, we do not want the lower-class European immigration. If we can get immigration- from Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, Germa.-, Holland, Sweden, etc.-the countries whose blood. has gone to make up our vigorous American stock-it would be of great help to us. We are all of us such immigrants ourselves or de i scendants of such immigrants. From - some countries of Southern and East ern Europe, on the other hand, immi - gation is of a decidedly lower order and objectionable because of a low standard of intelligence and effi ciency. ever, iminigration of a normal or high standard of intelligence and ef ficiency ir desirable. Such immigra tion can be had, and ought to be had -in some measure perhaps from. our English, Scotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk across the sea-but chief I ly from our Northern and Western ; States. For years now hundreds of thousands of the most enterprising and progressive farmers in the Mid dle West have been going into Can ada with its long hard winters and bitter climate, not only giving up American citizenship, but actually oavAig two to three times as much -fJr land in that inhospitable region. 1,as land of the same fertility doA 1 mands in the South. We ought to have brought these men to the South. -They know our institutions, our lan tguage, they are industrious, thrifty, -wide-awake, and many of them are of Southern ancestry who should na -turally come back home. Let's bring - tem back. Immigration to Solve the Race Prob lem. If there were no other reason for advocating such immigration from the North and West. I should favor it as our surest deliverance from our race problem. The proportion of ne groes to whites is too large in every Southern State, and my hope is that ultimately the tides of migration and immigrat4ion will equalize popoul& tion until the proportion of negroes in no State will exceed 20 per cent. jWe must train the negro-the more !ignorant he is the greater the burden on the South-but at best the process will be slow, and at present .it would probably not be too much to say that in considering our whole population, including our great constructive leaders and captains of industry, the Vaverage negro in the Carolinas in economic worth and efficiency is only half as useful as the average white man. In other words, in rating gen eral average of efficiency we should put the white man at 100 and the negro at 50, so that a county half *white and half negro would have an average efficiency of 75 or a handicap of 25 per cent. as compared with a county with an exclusive white popu lation of a normal degree of effi ciency.. Whether or not the difference is as much as I have indicated, certain it is that the larger the proportion of whites, the higher the average of ef ficiency, the more prosperous will be our every industry, and the better it will be for every individual citizen, including the negroes themselves. Two Ways to Build Up the Carolinas. There are just two great ways to build up the Carolinas.- First and of paramount importance is education of all our people; and I should only supplement this by- putting mor'e earnest emphasis upon practical education. . education that trains for efficiency, not education suited to the great urban centers of Europe and the North, but education suited to the needs of a great, awakening ag ricultural citizenship such as ours is and must be. And second only to education, is immigration. 3,000CO0 Instead of 600,000 White South Carolinians. Now let us start /right-not by seeking immigrants from Southern Europe, but by advertising our re sources to the thrifty, enterprising and progressive farmers of the North and West-men of our own stock who now only need an invitation to make them co.me. Emerson was right when baid that "evryr man who comes ent or skill in him gives to eve man's labor in the city a new wort] and if an ignorant negro slave in t old days was worth $1,000, certail we may assume that a thrifty and telligent white Wdsterner, bringi not only himself, but in most cas substantial accumulations as wE should be worth many times as mu as an asset to the State. The last census year North Ca: lina had only 1,200 white people. should have 4,300,000. South Ca: lina had less than 600,000 whi when it should have 3,000,000-a would then be even with its 800,4 negroes, only one-third as thic] settled as Massachusetts! Consit for a moment how much more fluential our papers would be, h much more important every insti tion in the State would be, how mu more varied would be our industri how much easier it would be to tood roads in counties in which white population is now too small maintain them, how easy it would to double the usefulness of our pi lie school, how quickly we sho build railroads in sections wh must otherwise remain dormant a backward for long, long years, h important our cities should becox and how much more attractive wo be country life in our thickly sett communities, and how much eas it would be. to get telephones water-works and trolley lines and cal libraries and all the advantal of twentieth century rural life! Let us take as our watchw "Education and Immigration-B of the Right Sort." A Dream of South Carolina's. Futu - In the last census year 234,062 tive sons and daughters of So Carolina were living in other Sta (to say nothing of the million s and daughters of South Carol emigrants), while South Carolina I received from tPther States and co tries only 60,744 settlers. For 70 years now our Carolini, have been going West to build up new States of that great empire. 1 let us welcome bach their child and neighbors to help us build I great. prosperous and populgus C( inonwealths, where the masses of people trained to as high standa of efficiency as anywhere in #orld, shall develop a symmetri and well-rounded civilization; splendid and forceful democracy trained, intelligent and thrifty hoi owners from among whom shall cc not only a Jefferson and a Marsh not only a James J. Hill and a Th< as A. Edison~ and a. Seamran A. Kna not only men whGtm all the he shall know as leaders in fndtd~ and in public affairs, but poets seers, sculptors and artists-if no Titian at least a Reynolds or a i let, if not a Michael Angelo at leas St. Gaudens or a Ward, if not Shakespeare at least a Browning o fennysion, if not a Savonarslas, least some great religious leader v shall put the church into vital re tions to modern thought and give a new baptism of spiritual powe all these until our long and tra years of war and struggle and biulding shall find their fruitage an outburst of achievement such our fathers yearned for, and it is n our high privilege -to help br: about. GORE CHARGES BRIBE ATTE3I Oklahoman Creates Sensation Amt Congressmen-Fees Aggregat ing $S,000,000 Involved. Washington, June 24.-Sena Gore, of Oklahoma. disclosed in senate today what he interpreted an effort to bribe him in connect with legislation affecting the fort in attorney's fees, claimed by J. McMurray, of Oklahoma, for servil rendered to the Choctaw and Criel saw nations in land and' town-i cases. The charge created a sensation the senate, whichi la-ter extend ed the house. The latter body, in C< sequence, sent back to conference general deficiency bill, in the it relating to contracts between the dians and their attorneys. As the result of the denounceme Senator Gore finally involved a ma ber of the senate committee on: dian affairs, a member of the hot committee on Indian affairs, two f mer Senators-one from Nebras and the other from Kansas-i whose names were not made pub in debate. It is not improbable that an inv tigation will be ordered. Mr. Gore was compalled to addr4 the senate three times before ti body was fully aroused to the: riousness of the charges which made. His first effort was in conn tion with the conference report the deficiency bill. As passed by senate that measure contained amendment which would render n and void contracts made by the Ch< taw and Chickasaw nations, and individual members of these trib ry 1," he kly ng ;es ch: .0-* .0 'es nd 1001 Rambler ter 34 H. P., $1,800, with 3 Ln DW LU-! t ech THE new $1,800 I he quality and materi be models. In fact, it is ib- size of the new 45-ho: ild [ch Built for the man wh .nd I what smaller size, yet ow ne, extreme power; a car led ier THE nd 1o-: es With 34-horsepower engin )rd shaft, straight-line drive, >th tages of clearance-Spare re. aluminum front floor and aa- what better than other c ithl May we give you a demon tes mns ina .ad Newberry In tns Newben the ow ren wo the i rds tracts were approved by congress. was made yester the i Enornmous Attorney's Fees. the house of rep cal This provison~ was in accordance ' Ex-S"nat a with a resolution introduced by Mr. Mr. Gore also < ofGore, on May 4, last. It was design- senator from Ne ne- ed to prevent Mr. McMurray from ob- Isenator from Ks me taining fees, which it .is said wou'd Iin these contrac all, aggregate $3,000,000 and which Mr. that a -large lot Gore complained had not been earn- in Washington ii 9'ed by the attorney. . ~ said that he felt trn The conference report had been continue the effo tryd adopteti by the esnate when Mr. Gore -steal from those mentered the ohatfi1ber. He announced in Oklahoma." that he had i-ededd fr6mr th amend-' Learning that 1 tment, requiring tha apjirdvai by eon- yet acted upon ti tgress of tribal agreenients, but Mr. Mr. Gore hastene' a Hale assure him that the fiatter liad bar, where he to rbeen promperly safeguarded. He ad- Iefforts that had b ato ded that, as agreed upon in the Cori- the members. ~ rference, these agreements would re:- report was broug uieapproval by the president and representative it the secretary of th interior before called attention i gbecoming effective, declared that an rec- Mr. Gore accepted the explanation, lobbying in the re but said if the contracts were to be time in the intel areccognized, Mr. McMurray would re- which 'would vai asceive $3,000,000. It wa in this con- the Indians. nnection that he first announced that "Name -the ai imprperinfluences had been exerted several members. by a representative of Mr. McMurray "' . cu >in an effort to defeat the provisions Murphy. requiring congressional action upon Th atonY the ontrcts.gallery at the tifr ing th onrct.Rejected "Conceived inCorruption."Thhosal Characterizing the McMurrayjetdhecnr claims as having been "conceived iIff We h ci tor corruption and brought forth in cor- rpre otes he ruption," Mr. - Gore said that he had rted t the sa as been approached by an outsider, who ed ta themenate oni desired to interest hi min the McMur- onsk o aenfur :ne ray conference. He lost no time in Mr. Gore re-er F. returning to the senate chamber, at this juncture a ses where he moved to reconsider the nition reiterated ma- vote by which the conference report th-.e provision ins< ite had been adopted. The presiding of- Another sensa ficer informed him that the report Iwhen he declared ihad passed out of the possession of need" had told b to the senate. Mr. Gore then .moved to versation of May )m- recall this motion upon the table. A of this senate, a :e rule against debating the Gallinger dian affairs comi em motion was enforced and Mr. Gore's bro h os [n oinwstbe.-dian affairs were Mr. Gore explained that on May 4cotas" nt, last he had offered a resolution, sim- cnrcs -ilar in terms to the amendment ha [n,. had placed in the deficiency bill in CORN .E ise the senate, and that it had been re >ferred to the committee on Indian Secretary of Col ka affairs. On the following day Sena- Commerce and mut tor Hughes had been directed to Hold C4 lic make a favorable report on the reso lution, he said. Clmi,S - "Inmproper Suggestion" Made. frteSuhA S "On May 6," exclaimed Mr. Gore,exoionwr ss "a man came to me with an improperfenctoabe at suggestion. He was a representa-ofteClmi -tive of Mr. McMurray, a resident of P '"a' h he my home town and had been mypoiedb th cfriends in time of need. He assuredchreote f on' me that it would be to my financial frteepsto he interest if I would call on the sena-tinwlbehd an tor from Colorado and advise him not Dcme oD ll to report the resolutions. There was Sae,Goga >-a suggestion that $25,000 or $50,000InandSuhC by would be available if the contracts eeed Thr ~s.w~~ nt roibied Ad Iamin r'nfrColmia. C - -- -. "')PCSt f the: Columbia:~ Fifty-three dagneto, Lamps and Tools lambler is the same in als as the higher-priced i reproduction in smaller -sepower Rambler. o wants a car of some of exceptional but not easier to get about with NEW e, the Rambler offset crank 36-inch wheels-the advan Wheel, engine accessibility, magneto included, is some ,rs selling at a higher price. stration? Motor Co. y, S. C. iay to a membr 0f esentatives." 1 a o r N l ars Involved? harged that an "ex braska and an ex nsas, are - interested I ei~ an ts," and declared iby was mairitained tthat interest. He in honor bound to T JtJa ! rts to "prevent this defeflceless Indians he house had not TeBs a nteM re e onfere'nce report, ~j~ 7c urs9c hi to he rienrs ofam ednthederiondsroft We also have Lightning and . hen the conference Mason Fruit- Jars, Caps and ht up in the house, urphy, of Missouri, Rubbers, and Jelly Glassas. o the situation. He cattorneyo habe est of legislationJ late his cause withI NtwherryS C ;torney,'' demanded AIa ,uy Tees a ReaSON. ray," replied Mr.J vas seated in the . '1 Lot Cuff' Pins 9c. st unanimously re-1 iL R41e 1 c ence agreement. lA .~Lzu.m n of the house was ~nate Mr. Hal moy Lot of jewelry just receiv rt ton thenbill and tered the chamber nd obtaining recog his protest against rted in conference. M s E m a r :ion was created, that the "friend in im during the con- kins, D. W. Barrow, of Clemson col 6 that "a member lege; A. D.. Hudson, president of the member of the In- South Atlantic States' Corn exposi nittee and a mem- tion, and the Corn Breeders' assocla committee on In- tion and Commissionar Watson of the interested in these State committee. It was stated by Mr. Hudson at ________the conference that all of $5,000 to be POSITION-ered in prizes had beenwsecure -~~be asked of the citizens of Columbia. umbia Chamber of This amount may be given in cash or State Committee ,farm machinery. A canvass of the nerence' merchants of the city will be made within the next few. days for the -pur ,June 24.-Plans pose of raising the necessary $500, lantic States' Corn which is needed for the success of iscussed at a con- the exposition. ween the secretary At the conference the matter of chamer com-eh~ securing a hall foz. the exposition Megciste ap- was discussed. The committee will egilatre o hvetry to secure Craven hall. The .mat undsh approprae ter of decorations was also discuss in Columbia from ' cember 8, and four A committee will take up the mat lorida, North Caro.J ter of securing reduced rates over rolina, will be rep- the railroads of the South. vere present at the It was decided to inaugurate a ary Hamby off the publicity campaign throughout the