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V \ \ * / VOLUME LVII., NUMBER 10. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1921. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR MARKETING EXPERT ADDRESSES SOLbNS r ____i AARON SAPIRO TELLS HOW CALIFORNIA PROSPERS 5iy? Marketing Associations Must Be Organised by Commodity and Not Locality j . . Tfce State, 1. 4, : One of the most informing and at the same time heartening messages delivered to the general assembly in years was that last nigh: by Aaron Sapiro, prominent lawyer o~* San Ifriinciseo, who spoke ci? "Coope-ative Marketing," during which he gave the principles on which successful cooperative marketing asociations are organised, told of the benefits to be derived from such organizations ar.d warned against certain errors into ,J. 3^.L ? >?! nwMTn'ToHnne nr*> TlTftT!(* WHICH WU.11 vigauiwv.uiu tofalL Mr Sapiro is the general counsel for 22 cooperative marketing associations in California, knows the copoerative business from the ground up and spoke with that authority that comes from intimate knowledge of the workings of such organizations and Was heard wifti much interest and attention, being: accorded a rising vote of thanks by the house of repre sentatives at the close 01 nis aumcss. Says Movement Growing In #?e introduction to his address, Mr, Sapiro told of the rapidly growing power and influence of the cooperative marketing associations, of the spread of the idea of cooperative marketing and of the work which has been done in Denmark and in Cali, fornia, saying that there is not a field agriculture in California that has not been touched by t ie idea. He said th^t $250,000,0(KK\K0rth of products had been handled in one year by purely cooperative undertaking in Califerni&jH^jpgt the cooperative idea was ifcttiattjr being put ifito practice ana that the farmrs of California were the v sah? type of farmers as tkose of South Carolina. l^e first principle of successful cooperative * marketing he said was to organize the commodity, not the locality. Local cooperative associations, * ' he said, tore the fundamental blunder of the cottott growers. Twelve years, he said, required for the orange growers to learn that the commodity, not the locality, must be organized. The whole > thing, he said, must be organized, and he remarked in this connection that 80 per cent, f of the prune crop, 82 per cent, of the raisins and 97 per cent of the strawberries raised in California were marketed through one office for each fruit ana that 73 per cent, of the entire orftnge crap ,were sold through jae instructions of one office. Strictly For Business The second principle for successful cooperative marketing, Nhe saidf was that the organizations* must be Heal business concerns, without political and without social features. The membership "of the California associations is composed exclusively of growers or men who receive the product ; ' from their rented farms and the members sign up a legal contract that ^ they will deliver thdir products to the ' association duririg a certain number of years, averaging about five. In Oklahoma, he said, 9,000 farmers have signed ud a contract* binding for nine years, to deliver their cotton to their r association. The associations in California, Mr. Sapiro said, have absolute title to the member's produce, though the contract says that unless I a certain per cent of the acreage is (tied up the contract is not binding. He said the members of the poultry cooperative marketing association owned 2,300,000 hens, i If members break their contracts, V sell a part of their products to others i or fail to live up to its terms they are gone after by legal process and compelled to abide by the terms of the contract. Members share fairly, he sa^d, in the proceeds of the sale of the products. N 4 Employ Experts TKo thirH TvrinrMn'le was that mar J. uv x x--keting experts must be employed. "W?e have learned that no farmer in the world knows how to market his ? product. We have individual production. We want group marketing. The faimer is the one man against whom (Continued on Page 6.) ELECT ATKINSON ] SPEAKER OF HOUSE SPARTANBURG MAN SUCCEEDS THOS. P. COTHRAN I T. S. McMillan of Charleston Mad: J I Speaker fro 1 em?Nersftaw v Delegation Divided The State, 2 ! J. Buford Atkinson, representative from Spartanburg county, was yes-' terday elected speaker of the house to succeed Thomas P. Cothran, who was recently elevated to the supreme bench to fill the vacancy cau3cd by the death of Associate Justice Daniel E. Hydrick. Representative Atkinson was holding the ofiice of speaker pro tem. wjien elected to preside over the sessions of the house. Thomas S. McMillan, representative from Charleston county, was elected speaker pro tern., to succeed J. B. Atkinson. These two elections and the calling of the roll on a number of constitu *-" ? -1 /?nri<;nmp^ the LiUIIili aiiicauiucuwi v \s greater portion of the time the house | was in sessiop yesterday. } ; j When the hour for the election* of 1 a speaker arrived, Representative S. i T. D. Lancaster nominated J. B. Atkinson; Representative Jovsiah J. Evans of Marlboro placed in nomination the name of Representative Jennings K. Owens and Representative . ,v . j R. M. Cooper, Jr., of Lee nominated I Representative Claud N. Sapp of j Richland. All of the nominations were : seconded generously and the ballot ing began. j The first ballot resulted as follows: J. B. Atkinson, 59; J. K. Owens, 10; C. N. Sapp, S8. As 54 votes were necessary for an election, "Representa; tive Atkinson was declared elected and was escorted to the chair by Rep i resantatives Lancaster. A. G. Kennedy and E. R. Ellerbe. 1 Mr. Atkinson, ihe new ^speaker, is , : well known in the state and is now \ I serving his third term In the "house. . He was born in Chester in 1872 and i i I j was graduated from Furman univer-1 sity with the A. B. degree in 1894.) ; j For a time he was principal of the ] ; graded school at Anderson. He was I graduated from the SouOh Caroling ; college in 1897 with the LL. B degree and moved to Spartanburg where , he has been practicing law about 17 years, being for a time with Thomas j S. Sease. He was instrumental in put-; <i r> i aaa ann ?nq/1 KAnd i.<_ i . ting- on me ?]> l jU'.'li.U JU iV/civt sue in Spartanburg county, and also |. gave yeoman sen'ice in the Spartan-!, j burg: hospital matter. Ke is a mem-j. I ber of the joint special committee on ,, i revenue and taxation. j Speaker Atkinson is a man of fine j appearance and his friends predict j that he will make an excellent* pre- 1 | siding officer. 1 McMillan Easy Winner j When this election, had been dis-. I posed of, Representative R. J. Wade, 11 i Aiken, made a motiqfi that the house ^ " - -I--*:? I 1 I proceed at once witn ine eiecnun ui J a speaker pro tem. ! Representative E. R. Buckingham j ] nominated Representative Thomas S., ] I McMillan of Charleston; Representative J. J. Evans nominated Represen- ' j tative J. K. Owens of Marlboro; Rep- ! l resentative W. A. Counts nominated 1 ; Representative George S. Mower of j Newberry. j Representative McMillan was elect- J i ed on the first ballot, the vote being : as follows: i Mower, 14; McMillan, 63; Owens, : i 26. Representatives Buckingham, E. j1 j H. Barnwell and Owens escorted Mr. i McMillan to the chair. x j Both Speaker Atkinson and Speak- 1 | er Pro Tem. McMillan made brief adi dresses, in which they expressed their ' ! appreciation of the honors conferred : : upon thein, discussed briefly some of the matters before the legislature ^ i and told of their desire to render ac- ' : ceptable service. Hear Frcm Kershaw j The morning- session was enlivened ! somewhat bv a verbal tilt between i - ,1 ! Representatives ueorge is.. AicAicm:: j i and Murdock M. Johnson, both of j | Kershaw county, when a senate bill j I came up for consideration. The bills was to amend a section of an act to J j abolish the office of? county supervi- ; j sor of Kershaw and to provide a sys-) | tern of county government for that . county by making provision for the | (Contmnte<l on siO wmmmmmmammmmmnammmmmmmMaKaamur3eKmrn*.k*!8m tSMtxpzoMMmaxmamam I rr-in ir T ? he ri Complete In i Is the < % / WILL SOON OPEN |; FOR BUSINESS!; ' . t EVEI^Y DETAIL CAREFULLY ( V WORKED OUT. ( t Stretches From Street to Street. Aple Room and Plenty for Park- f ing Cars for Customers. ^ . \ A building that" is a credit"to any town is the handsome and commDdi dus garage t!iat :s aoout compie*.eu j in east Main street for the large and j growing automobile business of Mc-.i * Hardy Mower. He hopes to get every-j ' thing installed in a few days and then je lie will be in fine shape to ta!:e care of j* his repair business and also to store I * the cars which he is selling. There is j1 not a more complete building in the j " state for the purpose for which it was. ] erccted than this building. It has cost some money to build it, L especially in these t:ire3, but when, _ it is finished he wiii be -fttic to serve!* his trade in a way that will be a : c pleasure to him and a delight to the; trade. It is commoriius and complete : ? in pverv detail. When it is opened it , ** " ? %J _ svill be worth your while to go around , * r C md look through it. I The picture of the new sales and j; service fetation now nearing ccmple- j j tion which is being erected by Ivlc-! x Hardy Mower io give the proper t housing and equipment for his auto-!" mobile sales and service business j r ?ives only a faint idea of what 'fae'a building really is. This building is so'a near complete that Mr. Mower ex-; -j pects to be able to move into it with-: , in about two weeks. v The building is ideally located kt j the" Head of east 'end of the business n section of Main'street, the chief ar-jf teiy of automobile traffic local, coun-j( ty and state, at the corner of Holman! t * ? - 1 * 4- I street, on a !ot Having: a iciai irvui-;s age on Main street of about 215 feet, j v all of this lot extending through the c block along Holman street about 200 feet to Friend street, except 75 feetj,of the lower end which only extends c back 100 feet. As the present struc-J0 ture is only 75x190 feet there is?* available ample space for the use ofj^ the patrons of the concern for park-j^ ing their cars off of the streets in alv safe place; and also room for the fu-!e ture enlargement of the building to! * take care of the growth of business. | ( Also located on this lot will be ait iL "Drive In" gasoline and oil station jp equipped for the efficient and rapid ji. dispensing of these items to the mo-ie toring public. ! c The building is of the modern de- j j 1 1 -L- :i- wroir 1n!_ sign wmcn adapts u ;n e?ci> ??.? wV)JS best serve the business it is to house. jV It is two stories 75x00 vfeet of ware- j house tvpe reinforced concrete ccn-t * * f struction, finished on the three J e street sides with li<d)t grey pressed t brick with all window sills, decorations, inserts, and massive top cop-jc in<r of Inidiana limestone, and is as it n<vn* fireproof j>r??s~dhlc?; cvpry rf-'-v i mma?? m i wammmm?mtmm rt1m-n ??a i mm?? andsorne New He V 411 Its Devari M Garage of Mc 'ort having been used to select, even, :or the interior, only such materials' is would not burn. The frontage of; he lower floor on Main street ?nd: hat part of Holman street which, is; icvoted to the display rooms is en:losed with plate glass. The rest of I ,he walls, both of the first and sec- j )nd floors, are almost entirely of j flass fitted in Trnscon steel sash?a?-. rording the maximum of light and j entilation. . v. ^ The heat.will.be supplied by the! barren Webster system of steam j ie?.tinar, the most efficient type J mown, located in the cellar, where .i.? oIca r>1<-i^?r>rl 'J ]ir>f W5lt.P.1* holler of : IX -J CllZ,sJ ~ v W _ imple capacity to furnish an abund-1 mce of ho-t water, not only for the ;ho\ver and lavoratories, but also for, iS3 at the wash racks to take the chill )ff cf the water so that cars may be ' ashed at any time without injury to: heir finish. A powerful vacuum cleaning outfit 5 also installed in the cellar with iroper outlets provided To" U:-o in; ilennirs* the building, itself and for 1 : *f Vic^v linholfct jVV. ! unti ..j The electric wiring for the motors vhich run the machinery and for the ights is all of the most modern type,1 :onduits being imbedded in the con-: ret? a? the building was erected and ' 5 so ararnged as to give the maximum j f c/ficient lighting adapted to the j ises to which the different parts of he building will he devoted. The automobile show and sales! com is located on the corner of Main ' I nd Holman streets 40 feet on Main j md running back 50 feet on Holman. j ."'he rest of the Main street frontage ! 5 devoted to the display and sales \ oom for tires, accessories and such :indred items as are useful to the j lotorist. In this room, which is 35x50 ' eet, the general offices are located, j )pening off of this room is the en- j ranee to the ladies's rooms, a one ! tory annex to the main building j I'hich provides for the women patrons if the concern a place, which they! will naturally feel is their own and j irevent them from ever feeling out j 1 - ? rase in the! iX p.!3Ct!, ?t2> ir> su v/itkii Kitv w? . rdinary garage, while waiting for! heirs cars or their folks to complete I heir business in town. This woman's milding will consist of two rooms rith portico in front and will be quipped with many conveniences for he comfort and benefit of the ladies. )ne item deserving mention is the elephono located in this annex es-j tecially for their use. This telephone' 5 one of the number being distribute | d throughout the building in each | HifTprpnt departments connect- j ng with each other and with the out-1 i ide telephone lines through the pri-j ate branch exchange which will be j nrtalled in the office. t The rest of the first floor is devot-j d to the service and garage end of j he business. On the Holman street j ide are two entrances through which j ustomers can drive into this part of j he building, a room 75x140 feet, I I'here space is provided for storage! I J mie of Mower's ( a I I m?dCx?P??MBPMPMWWWi wmtrnm ? ^ inrar?? Iments Hardy Mower / of customer's cars, the battery sale and repair station, the vulcanizing and tire repair shop, and service man ager's office, together with ampl< space for making minor repairs an< adjustments to cars. In the rear o this room, are located the wash rack fitted for washing, oiling and greasinj cars. There are two doors opening in the rear end on Friend street which in connection with the door 'on the Holman street side materia!!; -i- - r 1 ?r ^ incruivotj Li;u irecuum \>l muvcuicui u cars in and out of the building. In this room a modern Otis electri driven special garage elevator wit] 24 ft. car and amnle power is prop erly placed to carry all cars or ma terial to the second floor where wil be located the main repair shop paint ar.d trim shop, parts stock room and storage room for stock of new o used cars cn hand. The repair shop wilt be equnpei throughout w;tn .Lruaen overijsai carrier track system and nil possibl labor and time saving devices am machines. The most noticeable fi/s impression of this shop is the aburs darce of liprhL ana ventilation a-ford ed by the Truscon steel and glas walls, this being especially strikin; on account of the contrast with th ordinary repair shop. - On the second floor is located th< dressing room for the men of the or ganization, equipped with lockers shower baths, lavoratories and toilets Mr. Mower*)ias been in the automo bile business in Newberry since 1^11 After several years experience, he de cided it best to devote all of hi time and the resources of his orga,ni 4-V* r\ l? .1 M / ! 1 1 r* r* A CQYnJ.ioin/ /j'dllUll iu Hie naiiuiiii^ auu fomviii; of one line of cars only, being: taugh by experience that in this way alon< could the best service be ^rendered tt the customers of the concern and real izing that the quality of such servic< was the controlling factor in the sue cess and growth of any business. He has been distributor for Stu ?..* 1015 (,nr aeoaKer auwiiiuuuco sua^ in addition to the retail sales in New berry county," distributes these, car; in the counties of Saluda, Laurens Greenwood, Abbeville and McCor m'ick in South Carolina. This nev building, coupled with the organiza tion which will soon be housed there in, is a guarantee to the owners o; cars sold by Mr. Mower, not only ir Newberry, but throughout his terri tory that they will receive the great est possible service from their car; with the least delay and annoyanct - J fiiskV vnrvoivc orp nPP occasxuiieu Uy sum ^ essary to keep any kind of car in tht best running shape and that they car get such repairs as will be needed a the lowest possible cost. Mr. Mower is peculiarly fortunate in the fact that the most of the mer who are associated with him to forn the organization have been with hin continuously from the beginning, ant * *- - i- ' . J._, it is to them that n great pari is oui for the success of the concern. Mr. John Nance is in charge of the service Mini repair end of the bnsi lavage HWCT M ? LI 11 M OW?M??g?y?UM ^C??o ness, ably assisted by Messrs. Walter Davis, Douglas Hornsby, Oliver Dairtc utiA Willio \Tiivpr Mr. .T R. Har | t w unu tr i**?v v. ? I mon represents the concern as autoj mobile salesman. Messrs. J. B. Shack, leford and Forest Lominack, assisted Jby Miss ^ellie Adams and Henry ' Lominick, take care of the office and y 1 3 . accessory store and tire business. I Mr. Ellisor Adams is in charge of the ^ I battery sales and repair station. Mr. ^ I Thomas Hayes presides in the parts i stock room and sees that a sufficient s T! number of the needed parts are all' ways available for the owners of * ( Studebaker cars. Mr. Chalmers Brown ' ' I- r\-f +Via w!>cV>irior crrPflsittP' sj 13 Hi v/x a ! storage and miscellaneous wants in ^ general of -the patrons of the conj'cern. Ben Allen has long shown his c , skill in this department as car wash^ er/ painter ar.d general utility man. J The buliding was erected by the _i Newberry Lumber company under ] the direct supervision of Mr. J. E. ' Summer and Mr. McK. Hutchinson; ?, f with Mr. T. L. Drake as superintsndr ent in charge of the work. This building is one of the largest rein1 forced concrete buildings in the state 1 and is an enduring testimony to the 2 efficiency and skill of'the builders. -i The Newberry Lumber company nas j. been in business here since 1918, hav_; ing succeeded the firm of C. C. Davis _ and company, and having: erected the s largest buildings that have been built T here since that time. -s j The building was designed by Mr. I J. E. Summer. / l , e i The Newberry Electric company % ' f .! is making electrical installation and is i, putting in the vacuum cleaning sysi. tem, which is the Arco Wand manu1 (factured by the American Radiator 1 <-> n yvi m n v # tViuyuiij - i Mr. A. 'F. Bush, plumbing and heats, ing contractor, is installing the heat-I ing plant and all plumbing. Mr. Bush ? I has been located in Newberry for two t j years and during, that time has made 21 quite a number of large installations :> of plumbing and heating contracts, - in fact, has handled practically all of 2 such/jobs of any size since he has -, been here, and has made an enviable | reputation by his ability in this line. -, 1! Newberry Gets Game - J The State ? 31 Newberry, Feb. 1.?The Newberry ?j college quintet had little trouble in - j defeating Rollins college of Florida tonight by a score of 35 to 12. The - speed of the Indians was too> much -1 for the FJoridians to overcome. Sheaf lv and Thomas starred for the locals I * 1; while Fletcher featured for the vis itors. -j The lineup: 3 Newberry (35) Rollins (^2) i: Thomas LF Fletcher 1 * "; CzarnitzsKi r**r i awKi ; McPhes C Staar 1' Shealy LG Dow t Bender RG Warner P.eferec: Baker (Xewberry). 1 _____ 1 1 Chapter Meeting i The Dickert-Schumpert chapter, i Daughters of the Confederacy, will 1 meet Saturday, February 5th, with } Olive Burns. Everybody please bring ' dues. I 1; Abbie Gaillard, pres. ' Wheeler, sectv. | - i J A FEARFUL CAREER OF HORRIBLE CRIME GRIFFITH PROVES AN EXPERT IN CRIME i rrMt i rr_ii n C. i i*viiiea rcnow rruoncr id m?kiug *-?N cape from W. Va. Pen*?Several Other Murders to Hi? Credit J ! W. H. Griffith alias 0. B. Mays A ?lt a ?? ?% n /i vm'v.niA/J loflt W vviiu w<ia ancsbcu 111 ucii-ii?> uuu too* week on the charge of robbing Itpres M ; and the postoffice at Silverstreet 1 proves to be a much wanted criminal. ^ Mention was made of the robberies and the arrest of Griffith in a recent issue o4 The Herald and News. On Monday ni^ht January 24, the stores of H. C. Lake, J. C. Berry, J. P. Blair and company and the depot at Silverstreet were entered and rob Bed. The postoffice' was in the store of J. C. Berry. About 1100 pennies and some silver coin and a bo* of Joe Green cigars were about all^tftat was missed, amounting to about $15.30 in all. The robber walke4 UP to x : RopfJ's crossing some eight miles and > boarded the Southern train the next | morning and got off the train at I Greenwood. me oaggage master <m, j the train thought the passenger $a-. j ther suspicious looking fellow and ; notified the police at Greenwood / j such a person had gotten off at that , place. He was located by Policeman >" C. T. Nelson in a small store and Nel, son covered *him with his gunand j searched him. After relieving him of | three pistols his prisoner drew from . , his pocket another and handed it to the policeman. As the robberies were l in Newberry county, and thinking , I this was all, Sheriff Bleaie was notj fied and went to Greenwood and i brought the prisoner ft fche Newberry i jail. i It is said that in searching the prisi oner some papers Mettf foutid, if* his 1 possession wttic^. causea ronseman i Nelson to write /to Moundville, W. i Va., to make inquiry About one 0. B.. : Mays. There being another prisoner | in the penitentiary by that name- and j he and Griffith having, been some- ^ ! what chummy it was thought that possibly Griffith had been located and ; his picture *and a. description were sent to Mr. Nelson. '> Mr. Nelson came to Newberry with the picture and then Griffith admitted that his name was Griffith and tjiat . he had been in the penitentiary at Moundsville, but he denied the charge . that he had killed a fellow prisoner. ! in making his escape from the penij tentiary. It has developed that Griffith is ri-? i ther a notorious criminal and as soon as it va* found out in West Virginia ,that he had been captured the daily ' j newspapers at Wheeling began sendI ing telegrams to Newberry for the I details of the capture. j Captain Athey of the penitentiary ! guard came to Newberry on Wednes! day for the prisoner. Captain Athey told of the many crimes of which Griffith has been guilty. He Was serving a life sentence itii ferarder at the time of his .escape and When faced by j Captain Athey Wednesday afternoon ' admitted that he had killed a fellow j prisoner in making his fcet-away this last time. He only escfcped from the penitentiary about the first of Janu- * ary of this year. , It is said that in making nis escape he undertook to stop the machinery which runs the electric lights of the prison so that he might have the darkj ness and avoid detection and that in . so doing he aroused the man who was . attending to the machinery and that he failed to get the place dark, and when he saw that he aroused the j watchman and that he was caught he i ] cut the throat of the guard who was J ! n nrisoner. and also cut the fingers J I - * ' _ j of another who was attracted to the I j place, and finally stopped the big en- f j gine by cutting a big hole in the 12 inch belt which drove the machine, and made his escape over the walls of the prison. He claims that he had ! observed the watchmen on the towj ers and he selected , a place between ; two whom he sized up as men who ' would not shoot him, though he made ; his get away with only one seeing , ,;3 i him and this one claims he thought {it was an office^. Griffith had started I a fire before making his attempt to [ escape so as to attract attention* It | (Continued on Pa?re 4.) > ' 1