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jjljs leralD und Jots. KaUrMl at tk? PoatcScs at N?w-: "wry, 9. C.? at 2nd class matter. E. H, AULL, EDITOR. - - ? j Tuesday, January IT, 1922 UNDER DISADVANTAGES This issue of the DaDer is printed under very great disadvantages. If, something: should be left out or some error should occur you will please tear with us. We dislike to make apoliges or state for a little while, (but hope soon to be organized a little better, and then our linotype operator was called to Edgefield on account ot tne aeaui of a relative and we have to do the i best we can. We dislike to make apologies to excuse but under the present conditions in the office feel that we should. ??? - - - -? ' "To do the thing tna& is rignt, mc thing that you know is right. You can always afford to take your stand on the side of the right whatever your line of work, or the responsibilty laid upon you.-' This is a quotation from an article ? ? ? - we read in the A. K. Jfresoycerian ui recent date. It struck us as being so true that we can not help passing the sentiment on .to the readers of The Herald and News. It sometimes takes a little moral courage to take the stand, but it is the only true position to take, and when you do there is no doubt about results. And then sometimes you may have to stand fierce ?i-inor cnr?V? a stand, but CrilrtClS>IIi XVI ? , "when you feel and know you are right the only true course is to stand up and take the criticism and it will all end well. ! A REMINISCENCE The death of my old friend Mr. Geo. P. Griffin at Prosperity the other day calls to mind the days of the lor.g ago, and somehow I jus-: can not keep from writing a line 3r two about it. Maybe it will be of interest and bv some of the many readers cf The Herald and News. Now and again my mind wanders back to the days when we lived down at the Aull hills, and to the scenes that were enacted during: the happy days cf childhood. And I recall the faces cf the men who then were young, 'out to me seemed old men, and Mr. Griffin is one of those who was an actor aired those scenes that come to me. I do not say, and I am not one who is all the time preaching, that the old days were better than the days of the present. Human nature has been very much the same all through the ages. There are good men and women in all the eras of the world, and there are those who are not so good. There are those who make life the better for their having lived, and sometimes I wonder if there are not those who seem to have pleasure in imakng those around them unhappy, and life seems - - ^ -L- , to be a ouraen 10 mem. Those old days were pleasant days, and the people were not in such a hurry, it seems to me, to go somewhere and then come back, and in a great hurry in both directions and not accomplishing a great deal either. But then there were no automobiles and no trucks and electric pdows and many of the other things that we have today. But it was a time when men and boys like Mr. Griffin had just returned from a bloody and hard fcught war, and one which had not been waged on such scientific plans and with such long range deadly guns and deadly gas as were used In the great world war, but the men from the south who fought it suffered many hardships and piivations. There were no first aid and second aid hospitals with all the trained nurses and the other conveniences and contrivances to make even the hardships and dangers of war more pleasant. There were no airplanes and no fighting in + np air nr with the manv other things now used in war. TLe people and the civilization have advanced in the method? and instruments of destruction just as they have in the comforts of life. When these boys came home from that struggle at -the beginning. of planting time they came home to | empty larders and barren cribs and a ' country devastated by the march and destruction of the enemy. They did not ccmplain and grumble about the hard times but they went to work to restore their land and their homes and to 'build a new South. A very great proportion of the man power of the country from the boys on up to the old men had been engaged in the actual war and only women and the slaves had remained at home, me slaves had been faithful and true, and but for this there may have been even greater privation than these men in their torn and tattered uniforms found when they reached their homes. ( They were to he home once more, but their ranks were very muc broken. Many of the flower of th young manhood as well as th strength of the old man-hood had bee left on the field of battle. But thi is not intended to oe in any sense ; reminiscence of the war or war time: .'because 1 have very fiint recollection of those days, but of the scenes jus following those times. My father had a mill at the ol< hills which ground wheat and corn an sawed lumber, and which had been ii the service of the Confederacy during all the war times. The old mill house a two story building which stood alonj side the branch at the foot of th hills, is no more, and he had two bur mill stones or rocks, and he groum wheat during the summer, beginning as soon as the grain was dry enoug! to turn into flour after the harvest ana the mill never shut down excep for Sunday from the time the grind ing season began until about the firs of September, and he usually groun< up from 20,000 to 30,000 bushels o wheat each season. There were bus; times around the old mill in thos days, and men who raised their owi bread would engage days way ahea* for their grinding days, and the; would come from miles around an< camp until they got their flour. Ant on Friday he would put one of th< mill stones to the grinding of corn because in those days the farmer would eat their own home raised con bread as well as their Jiome raise* wheat bread, that is the farmers win made any sort of success of the bus iness of farming. And we wou!< grind from a hundred to a hundrei and fifty bushels of corn each week Of course that was after the first yea: when the men who had been in thi: great war had had time to make j crop. They came heme in April an; went to work with what they had am made a crop. There was not mud that they had with which to work but they soon managed to get some thing oecause they worked and thei worked some more. Well, what has all this to do wit) Mr. Geo. Griffin. There were n< trucks and autos in those days follow ' ' i 1? -C ? mg tne war, dui neariy eveij lauuc who did any farming to amount ;to an; thing had a good team of mules an< wagons, and my father had in thos< days fine mules and well groomed an< good wagons. He Lad to have then in order to carry on the business, b? cause the old boiler he had at the mil in those days was one of the bi; things about four feet in diameter an< some sixty feet .Ion? and wiihou tubes and it had a smaller joile along side this big: one called 'In heater. It took about three hours t< get up steam and about a cord o wood but when you got up the stean you had some steam. And then i burned about three or four cords o wood a day, and so it took seme con wood to keep the thing hot and steam ing. And Mr. George Griffin, a your; man inst. back from the war, came t< work at the mill and he drove one o the teams and he was considered on of the best wagoners in that sectioi and took a great pride in keepir. his mules looking well and in gco< condition and he could haul a loa< with that team and I used to thin] if I could drive a wagon like Mr Grifim why my whole ambition woul< 'be satisfied, I mean a four mul* team. And then my father had an - ? r> nfVo + j oiner wagoner in muse uajs, <* ?.uk. man, Mr. Boland, "who was also i good man, but my recollection is tha it was the impression of me and th< negro boys that Mr. Boland could no always get his team to pull the loa< that Mr. Griffin could from his team In other words there was a sort of ar and science in the driver by whicl his team would be all goud pull to gether -mules, or if some of then would balk now and then or stall, reckon that is a good -word in thi connection, at any rate that is wha we would say, that is me and the ne gro boys \vho were my playmates ii those good old days. The old hill then were alive with the activities o the times and it w*as a public placi and the mill was off the public roai though my father in his day usuall; kept the road pretty well worked si that the wheat and corn wagons coul< get 10 ine mm wun uieir gum <an< get away with the flour and meal. There may not be as much whea grown in this section now as ther once was. In fact soon after the oL mill was taken down and moved t Greenwood county, then Edgefield the Prosperity wheat mill, "VYheele and Mosley, owners, or Brown am Moseley, was established and it pros perea for awhile, but soon the rolle mill process came along- and it mad white flour and many of the goo' housewives preferred "bought flour as they called it, and of course tha V?o/l o tonflonrir rn srnn thp frrowin of wheat, because tiuve were no rolle mills in this section tho.\ Sat w'ne tpey did come, as thev did of course that 50 it or rut thr >1 I hr. j i,.*' i h'stones out of the busino?.?. ei e I should sa>-, of course, tl.n! u*e had n'a let of "bought corn' tc prind in s|those days, hut it was t:\'-? I'tJ.i. just a as the diveisification propaganda is 5,' tr.i - today, that the far.uer who had ? "hono-nt ?orn:' to grin 1 to get hi- corn ;t bread as i rule was in cleot, and hal ; poor mules and no waj?o:i woth | speaking about, and the lesson learni ed in this way at that time has made d me as editor of The Herald and News i 'for the past thirty-five years a strong - ? ' r?oraistent advocate jf the raising ? "* ' ? >, on the farm what was needed for the t farm, and then all the cotton you can e grow regardless of the price, and the r farmer who has followed that rule is d not today feeling the pinch of hard r times, oecause he does not owe any1 h one for what he has eaten and can j 'get along very well even if he does] 1 nf pntton. as he has ? IT13K6 a great u^cw ^^? 7 - not been in the habit of making much j t cotton. Tut diversification to that' i extent is an old song for The Herald f and News, and has been sung for ma-.' y ny years in these columns. It is a e pleasure to have so many good people i join in the chorus and help to carry i the tune. May be it will come. This y diversification we are talking about,' i and have been for so many years. 11 ^ 1 J ?Ml m?]] 0 -1 116 01Q mill >vaa iivw w* - but made mighty pretty and good s flour. On one of the cloths he had 1 what he called first quality and then I 3 second quality and then middlngs and 3 shorts and bran and he usually got . k'cout 40 to 45 pounds of first quality i flour from the bushel of wheat, bell sides the other grades and the bran and after the toll was taken out, r which in those -days was the tenth lor s wheat and the eighth for corn. Why i more toll for corn I never could uni derstand, because there is less work 1 in the ginding except that it was not 1 worth as much as wheat. Flour sold then from ten to twelve dollars the . barrel. The same old mill is standing i up at the new home in Greenwood (nuntv. but it has never done the ser I " ' jvice it did down at the old hills. The i people up there never grew the wheat ;> they did down 'here, and then they . would take it to the mill all the year r round just like we used to grind corn, f and it never seemed the same mill afj ter it was moved away. The eld mill ; house and the dam in the creek and i the long box that brought the water i to the mill, and all the evidence of . the old days at the hills has disappear1 ed, and there is nothi/ig left there r of the other days as evidence of what i they were except the hills and the old t house and the branch and the oines, r and the spring of clear and cool and r. sparkling water that comes through 3 the rocks at the foot of the everlastf ing hills. 1 T have Ion? had a desire to return f there and end my days among the ] scenes of my booy'iood, jut have nev. er been able financially to build so t that I might live in some sort of com3 fort, but if I had the money to build f a bungalow even, I would go back g right now. But this feeling too is ! nothing but human nature as it lias ever been. And it is good that iti ] should je that way, because this love of native land and home and birth0 frtiinHnfinn fnr patriotism ? [JitVwC iO I'.IV X. V W?A&V?*? w.. ~ jC and love of country and t'.iat which' j makes us ready to give up life even * in its defense. E. H. A. 2 IMPRESSED WITH MEETING TO DISCUSS FUTURE PLANS ' 2 J ~~~I I _ I was very much impressed with that meeting- held in the court house ; on Saturday, the 7th. Dr. Brown I should feel very much complimented. 1 He called the people together in a business like manner, not as a farmers' meeting, not as a bankers' meetj ing, not as a merchants' meeting, not as a lawyers' meeting, not as a meet* ing ordered by the board of commerce, but a meeting of the" whole commonwealth. 1 ; I i I did not eet there at the beginning ^'of the meeting. Dr. Brawn had already made his speech and I was sorp ry that I missed 'hearing it. Mr. T. M. Mills, the county' demonstrator, ^ iwas speaking when I went in. He r\ ; # was discussing the sweet potato industrv along with other things. He ~ ^ VI A AA+AVAA ' 4" L" : xi u u ci era it: ui vc^v jmv uv^lum iuh1 en from the curing house which he ! explained was the only way of pret paring potatoes for shipment, savin? e that potatoes had to go through a dry- j ijing process before they could success-1 o (fully be shipped North. Mr. Mills 1, | said that the North h?.d only discovrjered the value of the sweet potato in d, the Dast few vears. And t!i-;re were - - T. >-1 only about one-iourrn ni ine p^opie r now who knew anything about them, e That there was a growing market up ri Vnrfh and while the farmer could not '' sell perhaps as much as 25 bus'iels of t potatoes in our home market i.i a day sr it would be no trou'ole to get sale for r a car load. He read a telegram that a he had received from the South Carolina Sweet Potato association giving 1 thi "wire of sweot potatn^s ' i1 < |per bushel, f. o. b. shipping point.) [Mr. Mills gav the farmers to under-! stand that the sweet potato business' I was a growing industry, and each one could feel safe in adding to his farm | an acre or two as a money crop. | At the conclusion of Mr. Mills'! speech Mr. John M. Kinard, president, of the Commercial bank rose and j made a ,e:y enthusiastic and pointed.! '.talk. Mr. Kinard said that while mon-! jey was not as plentiful as it was when | cotton was 40 cents per pound, yet | j there was plenty of money in the; i banks to take care of ihe farming- in-' , terests of the county. That there , was about three million dollars on de- j posit in the three banks of the city i and it was more the lack of collateral j that stood in the way of borrowing money than the scarcity of money. He said that we had ibeen talking about the situation for a long time, J but the time had come -when we had : to be plain with one another. That J the ?)ble bodied tmen who spent half i their time or more coming to tcrwn j need not think that the bankers and ! merchants were not taking notice j of them. He advocated diversified farming, urged the farmers to plant a limited amount of sweet potatoes as ! a money crop and raise all the grain, hops. molasses, rice, vegetables and all other food crops that were needed on the farm. And he also showed the importance of raising our own stock. Mr. Kinard said that his bank had made an effort about eight years ago to encourage the farmers to improve their cattle and hogs and TDecome -more interested along this line, and that he had ordered a nne reel roie 'bull and gave his service free to the farmers, and 'bought a shipment of fine heifers which he had sold just at cost and bought a number of fine shoats which he sold to the boys of the different corn clubs at cost. But, all these efforts :had proved of little: value as only one or two had come j back and had shown their apprecia?i tion. i Mr. Kinard in discussing the many things that stood in the way of our progress and prosperity had the Christian manhood to publicly denounce a common-evil of his town, that is, the bucket shop?the place where people gamble over our cotton. He said that this place had a great tendency to influence and lead cur ycurj men astray and into the ha'bit of gambling, that when the cotton 1 market stood this morning:, say at 18 cents, here would cc-me a flying report over the wire in a ifev/ hours from the ga.m'olers up North saying that some little dissatisfaction had occurred in the peace conference and down would go the market sometimes more than a hundred points. This 1_ _ 1 ! Was SO mucn ill aixuiu wicu cciic.ment until I 'couldn't keep my feet still on the floor and there was a feel- | ]'ng of the same kind throughout the audience. i Mr. T. K. Johnstone of the'National bank and Mr. Marcus Spearman of the Exchange bank were called upon ov>rl 4!-?ov hr?+h rnsp arid in a brief wav indorced the speech of Mr. Kinard,: saying that he had about outlined the situation. Mr. Walter I. Herbert spoke in1 favor of adopting a creamery indus-i try in the county. i Mr. James W. Johnson, president rVio r?"hnmhpr of commerce, made a | very pointed talk upon the creamery j project saying that they had made a ( great effort to get the farmers to > take hold of the matter that he felt, sure it would be a profitable movement. But until now they have had very little encouragement. About the conclusion of the meeting Senator Alan Johnstone rose and in his usual way gave the farmers to understand that there was but one way to get out of this financial strain and that way was by the diversified plan of farming, that he had come to the point himself, and that he was feeling the benefit and he felt sure that the farmers had begun to realize more and more that somethirg else had to be done besides depending upon the all cotton system in the South. All together this was a very interesting meeting and I hope will prove; profitable to one and all. We are all I one people living under one common- j wealth, so let us restore faith in one i another and pull together that our! old Southland may prove to be one of j the greatest countries on God's green ! earth. | T. J. W. mB" At "The New Book Store'' to..day, j ht j a~n rj XK7fl/lnncr]n ^r ji i iuoiiuay, tujiiuiiyw auu n i.uuuuv.t.j ~ representative of the Dennison Co., .Miss Turner, will demonstrate the making of things from paper, wax and other things. Hal extends an invita.. tion to all the ladies to visit his store during Miss Turner's stay. The Ladies of the Improvement | Association of Burton School will serve a hot supper on Friday night jJan. 20th from 6..30 until 11 o'clock. | At Mr. Will Bakers. | The Piihlir i1? invited "to eomev Sta Condensed statement from re] Cone The Commercial Bai at the close of bi RESO Loans and Investments Overdrafts secured and unsec Liberty Bonds (Unpledged) ... Cash on hand and in banks LIAB1 Capital Stock I Q n v?Y"k Ino o "n kj Li J- jy 1 U.O CUiU X x vxaViu Dividend No. 49 due January 1, Bills Payable Deposits We wish our customers and New Year. It gives us pleasuri cellent statement of our bank a prosperous one., and we confii brine- pvftn greater 'orosnerity tc O ? JL >. The clouds of inactivity are rap to a very marked change for g< of endeavor during the good y< REPORT FII To the Stockholders of The Commercial Your Finance Committee begs to rei of the affairs of the Bank through the c that all accounts are in balance, as set : 10th, 1922, which is hereto attached and It is gratifying to report that a deta Bank discloses that they are well secured sures a high degree of moral obligation. Af+onfir>n iq ppIIpH to the stroncr oosi Banks and its large holdings of Govern: also that the correspondents of the Ban! country. These things put the Bank in i ing year in assisting the community thro In closing this report the Committee prudent and conservative course of the m flation and uncertainties, and wishes a* the Bank are in a splendid liquid condi judgment and careful management. JNO. M. KINARD, President. FLOYD BRADLEY, Asst. Cash. MISS TILLA WEST, Bookkeeper. HUNT, HUNT, The tomir Newbe "The Bank that ah A /VAA H fi'mo tft ATI' n guuu uiiiv va* i Tlio liarol ?111/ 11U UI tement: port to State Bank Examiner of the iition of ik of Newberry, S. C. isiness 31st Dec. 1921. URCES: $ 825,681.60 ured 732.06 140,950.00 I 2S2.057.98 7 I $1,199,421.64 [LITIES: $ 50,000.00 11 9 837 KK > ? * a. i v v/ , 1922 3,000.00 50,000.00 984,084.08 $1,199,421.64 friends a prosperous and happy 3 to call attention to the above exshowing that the past year has been dently expect the New Year to ) our customers and friends at large. * 1 ---J 1 _ i? 'iaiy passing, ana we iuuk ?urwa.iu sneral improvemnet along all lines ear 1922. ViAINUt CUIVIiyil I ILL. Bank: )ort that it has made a thorough examination iosa of business January 10, 1922, and finds forth in the Daily Balance Sheet January made a part of this report. " - - 1 J ~ v,? .lied examination 01 me loans mauc uj ,uc and that the personnel of the borrowers intion of the Bank as to cash on hand and in ment bonds which are unpledged, and note t are among the strongest and best in the i position to do its full share during the comugh what may be a very trying period. ? ~ -1 - -1-1 f nrv Vl 7 CrVl 1V flip 1C CIS Lllct L 11/ UClIlIiUv V/U111111 y w 44?^ At* j anagement through the period of recent derain to emphasize the fact that the assets of tion, which could result only from sound Respectfully, W. H. HUNT, GEO. W. SUMMER, F. Z. WILSON. J. Y. McFALL, Vice Pres. and Cashier. JNO. M. KINARD, Jr., 2nd Asst. Cashier. ? JNO. C. 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