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f hr Lilian itjrralii SUBSCRIPTION* - 82.50 Per Y.. IMllon, S. C., September 80, 1920. In taking a wallop at the tax rate most of usually strike out. There are no Babe Ruths when the State Tax Commission pitches. Have you ever noticed that all the big industrial upheavels begin just about the time the farmer begins to f market his crops? The kaiser even bad to wait until August the 1st to start the world war. Betting on the election favors Harding 4 to 1. The betting is in Wail street. Democrats will remember, however, that in 1916 Wall street asked about the same odds on Hughes. A physician cannot prescribe liquor for his own use when ill, says the law. He must get another physician to prescribe it, and no druggist is allowed to fill a prescription of a physician for himself. The law is very ( clear. The druggist, in other words, is summoned to sit in judgment on the necessity of the physician's needs. There is no use getting panicky' over the big decline in the price of} cotton. The bulls had control of the market for a long time and they made i the bears sweat, and now the tables, have turned. The bears are having their day and they are making the i most of it, but the picking won't last long. Cotton is due for a big re- i bound, regardless of what the Big Interests or Liverpool do and think, and if the farmers will sit ( steady in the boat the pendulum will, swing the other way. The homely j saying that "it doesn't rain in the same field all the time," applies with \ equal force to either side of the mar-j ket and when cotton takes an upward turn the rise will oe jusi as iasi *o was the decline. The bears and other powerful interests working in con- J junction with them will find that the south cannot be stampeded. I In another column is reproduced a communication by Mr. T. W. Berry, State Executive Committeeman from Dillon county, to The State newspaper in which Mr. Berry explains why he voted against the appropriation of $500 by the State Executive Committee to the national campaign fund. The position Mr. Berry takes in this matter is sound and logical. We do not believe the State Executive Committee has the right to appropriate funds raised for a specific purpose to A*\ nr? ho. anotner purpose, i^cuuci vi? lieve it is right to make the candidates for county offices pay the election expenses of candidates for State offices. The only part of the election expenses borne by the candidates for State offices is the printing of the tickets for State offices and the entire burden falls on the shoulders of the candidates for the county offices. This is a matter which should come before the next State Convention. j ' Maybe we are growing old and the world is getting ahead of us, but somehow our better sense revolts at many of the things we see going on around us. The time was in our youthful days when we could slip off ; into a quiet corner and read a dime i novel and enjoy it, and even at this 1 day we can get a whole lot of pleasure out of a well-written detective j story. The world used to frown i down on the dime novel and when a boy read one he felt like he was com- j mitting a little sin, but the old dime i novel with its rough-and-tumble heroes is a prayer book compared to 1 the average picture the youth of this ' generation sees spread out on a j movie screen. Many of them have i gone far beyond the bounds of de- ! cency ? lewd, lustful, lascivious 1 bhings of a highly suggestive charac- ] ter?and they are no doubt largely i responsible for the wave of immo- 1 rality which seems to be sweeping ! over the country. A few days ago we ] picked up the dramatic section of a j widely read paper, published in a i leading southern city and here is 1 what we saw advertised as the com- ' Ing week's attractions at the motion picture theatres: "The Discarded Woman," said to be true to life, with the following foot note: "Js-ven tnougn tho soul of woman may be crushed By the treachery of man, there is still Hope for revenge and redemption." "The Leopard Woman," "A Story of Passion and Love," "The Invisible Divorce," "portraying the suffering of silent separation and its results." "The Tiger Rose," with the following explanatory note: "A gripping story of love, youth, passion." "Crooked Streets," and last but not least. "The Woman in Room 13," illustrated with a suggestive picture of two coarse looking men facing each other in a belligerent attitude, one of whom holds a pistol in his hand, while un derneath we have the following insinuating lines: "Great screen success that lays bare the temptations of ( woman and the application of the un- t written law. Was she in room 13? t If not?who? For she was seen at the door when the fatal shot was fired?fleeing into the night?a ter- ' ror-stncken thing of fear." And on i another part of the page we find the d brazen-looking, highly painted female creatures who took leading parts in ^ the pictures. How much longer is the i decent, self-respecting half of the C human family going to tolerate this 1 kind of filth? Years ago a certain publication which carried lewd pic- c tures of women of easy character, c with suggestive foot-notes, was ex- F eluded from the mails, and at the present time it is a violation of the $ postal laws to send through the mailsj obscene matter, yet the government permits these lascivious stories to be ? told by word and picture to millions t of credulous young girls and boys n every night. The producer takes particular pains to create the impres-' sion that the characters represent 0 men and women who move in the * "higher circles*' and the scenes are & laid in an atmosphere of wealth and i luxury. What then is the effect on1 the minds of the youths and maidens b who move in a lower circle? When jt< one stumbles and falls she becomes ^ an object of scorn and contempt.) But who's to blame? The moving r picture has come to stay. ' It has be- s It come the world's most popular form f of amusement, and for that very reaP son it should be subjected to the^ strictest censorship. All pictures are not bad. Many of them are elevating n and instructive, but one bad picture negatives the influence of a dozen g good ones. Where is the end? Who k will raise the voice of protest? Or( shall we sit down supinely and let the world sink to still lower levels? n t. DEVELOPS A WILT COTTOX. jl Point Is Reached Where Seed Will, Ra Thrown on Market. i ^ type, combining in proper propor- a tion the characteristic of each of the ^ the originals. The result today is an 11 early variety, of medium size stalk,!>v exceptionally large bolls for wilt re- 1' sistant cotton, and a good yielder. |1' All these experiments and breed- 0 ing have been conducted on the place F of the late J. C. C. Brunson, about ^ three miles from Florence. Mr. Brun- e| son tended to the growing end of the, business till his death this spring.; Incidentally Mr. Brunson achieved 11 such noteworthy and commendable results in cotton improvements that j Clemson college conferred upon him ii the diploma of merit, of which it lias li issued less than half a dozen, in recognition of the benefits he had produced for Southern agriculture. Dr. Wat-Itl =011 handled all of the breeding work. j\v Of late, he has had associated with him E. E. Hall, of Clemson college. | in 11117, when the breeder made s, his first general tests of his new breed ti in South Carolina, his seed were, planted on 409 acres of wilt infected i lanas. At 288 cents per pound, the; users of these seed estimated, by care-'C ful check on their crops, that the in-,0 creased production alone brought >' them in $127,120.12. Dr. Watson! has not tabulated any more recent reports on his seed in this way. How-;ei ever, he has had them tried out in tj Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas and ti Texas, where both weevil and wilt have been most damaging, and the! general results reported have been! increased yields of from double to f' four times any other varieties. Clem-.t' son college has tested the new variety f< and highly recommends it. a In instance and typical of the per- t< foruiance of this variety, when Dr. j. Watson began his experiments here 10 years ago, the land on the Brun-i son place which he elected for his! work was yielding less than a quarter ! of a bale to the acre and some sea-. sons the production was only one1 bale to 10 acres. Today he is picking: a bale to a bale and one-half to the: acre and is striving to increase this yield even more. In this connection,' Dr. Watson selected the place of Mr.' Brunsou because it was so uniformly! and severely infected with the cotton wilt. o A transformer on the street next; to The Herald office burnt out about ( 6 o'clock Wednesday eveninu. cutting off thP current that drives Th<*i Herald's machinery, and the paper is a day late this week. NEWSY BRIEFS September 9th was celebrated hroughout California as the sevenieth anniversary of the admission 01 hat state to the Union. The Dutch government will ofter a arge money prize to the first Dutch viator to fly from Holland to Java, "hree entries have been made to ate. The Japanese government polic6 ave placed a ban upon labor meetngs designed to stir up feeling in the California controvery over Japanest mmigration. Peter Vidovitch, registered as a harity guest at the New York mumipal lodging house, died on a pau-, ier's cot. Then it was discovered hat he owned Liberty bonds, jewelry,! noney and mining claims totaling 125,000. Argentine has a cute way of recoe izing large families. When a seventh on is born to an Argentine family he president of the republic autolaticaly becomes the godfather. Boston girls have made a comfortble camping lodge in the hulk of the Id pilot boat Columbia which was rrecked on the shore at Scltuate, lassachusetts, in 1898. On the same day that he was warded the Croix de Guerre foi ravery in the war, Frederick Ches?r Ladd, former captain of American [arines, died in Switzerland. While American papers were carying front page photographs and J tories of the Lord Mayor of Cork,! luropean newspapers devoted short :ems in obscure positions of the' apers. The American speed record for . ! aval destroyer was made by the Sa ! ?rlee in a standardisation trial ovi ' measured course off Rockland. Me he made a mile at the rate of 38. nots an hour. I Florence Times. The successful breeding: of a wilt ? resistant cotton, which will meet bold j* weevil conditions, is announced by. Dr. L. O. Watson, of Florence, who11 represents the United States govern-j in scientific research, experiment and effort covering the past ten years., ' After a decade of work, this expert.! who, at one time had charge of all. the wilt resistant investigation and control work of thp United States,; has produced a plant which has been proved by trials In any western and southern states, on wilt infected lands| under severest boll weevil conditions ^ to meet all of the requirements of ? these two-fold pests. As briefly described by the breeder. this new cotton is a hybrid of the(? famous Triumph cotton, which en-(a aDiea lexas 10 continue growing ctu-j ton after the appearance of the boll, weevil in that state from Mexico, and, ' of the Dixie variety, which was one,:1 of the eariest and most successful strains developed by the government, b to overcome the cotton wilt. It is*; named the Dixie Triumph. The first,^ attempts at breeding were made bv,n Dr. Watson 10 years ago, on this, cross. Since then all efforts have: been centered on a production true to b For the tenth time in a year M. L.: rransberry has been officially pro-j ounced dead by physicians at Housjn, Tex. On several of the former ine "demises" Gransberry revived ust in time to escape burial. Tuesday, September 14, was the 06th anniversary of the "Star! pangled Banner,'' written by Fran-I is Scott Key, while he was held on oard a British warship during the ombardment of the forts of Baltilore, Maryland, December 14, 1814. A conference of delegates looking 5 a union of the Central American epublics opens this month in Sa. alvador. The Central America, tates which may unite are Guate lala, Nicaragua, Salvador, Hondura nd Costa Rica. During 19 months 126,000 persons rere killed in automobile accidents i the United States. This included 1,000 children. Estimates place the eath rate higher than battle rates t the recent war, and show an averge of a death every 35 minutes. The Italian workers, who have iken over the factories in Northern taly to run on the communa plan, lunched a destroyer with red and lack flags flying. Siguora Pietro lascagno, wife of the musical conioser, acted as godmother for the ew ship. Six thousand farmers met in a' ullring at Granada as the result ot n attempt by the steward of the1 ?uke of Wellington to evict peasants rom the land of the duke. The grant' as made to the Iron Duke after the j eninsular war against Napoleon, but! ie peasants and their ancestors had ccupied the land for hundreds oij tars. It was proposed that the panish government acquire the prop-, rty by redemption. Chile produces 1,800,000 tons of it rate of soda a year. The latent power of the waterfalls 1 Iceland is estimated at 1,000 rail-' on horse-power. i Fifty years ago England had almost' iree times as much acreage under1 heat as at present. South Africa is soon to have the ?cond largest plant in the world for le manufacture of fertilizers. It is predicted that within ten years anada will be producing at least 2,00,000 tons of newsprint paper a ear. It is estimated that every year forst fires in America destroy more tan $200,000,000 worth of standing mber. When the war cut off Welsh coal om Argentina, the experiment was ried of using corn as a fuel. It was Ml n H fa hov. tho oom? ndlnrifirt valnn. VV u? ? ^ lliv VUIVI IUV I W4UV I s hard wood, or about 2.5 of corn ) one of the best Welsh steam coal. J ^ E. T. Ell Dillon, Soutl The world's largest crane is in . the Philadelphia Navy Yard. It can I lift a load of 350 tons. \ The telephone lines in the United, I States aggregate 28,827,188 miles1 ?enough to girdle the earth at the; Equator 1,153 times. Last year year Germany grew 4,500,000 tons of beet, but only 3,500,-! 000 tons were converted into sugar,1 the remainder being left to rot. j ' I . The total world production or cork-! wood is estimated at 396,832 pounds,! of which 45 per cent is produced in I 'Portugal, 30 per cent in Spain, 20 perl |cent in Algeria and Tunis, and 5 per! cent in France and Italy. I i The discovery of a new dye-stuff in sorghum waste is announced. From 'the huske of sweet sorghum and those I [of sorghum with black seeds the col'oring gum is obtained. It is stated to have many very fine shades of color. o PATHETIC STORIES TOLD BY PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD Columbia, Sept. 28.?The State Board of Public Welfare in its inspection of the institutions for the c poor of the state finds some pathetic stories. The halt, the maimed and the blind; those that are racked with 1 disease and are forgotten by the out- 1 side world; folk that are ager, chll- < dien that are feeble-minded?paupers a and wrecks of our social order are t gathered into city almshouses to drag I out a miserable existence that lead! down to Potter's held. Recently one of the officials of this office visited an almshouse in this state. This is the story of the inmates that he gives: "Of the eight inmates two have tuberculosis. They are cared for by a negro woman who is nurse, cook laundress and housekeeper. The food supplied consists of salted bacon, gilts, bread, syrup and such vegetables as are produced on the farm. Occasionally fresh meat and eggs are added to the bill of fare. This food | is prepared in an unscreened kitchen i where no precautions are taken to prevent the spread of disease by means of hies and soiled dishes. "As a result of vinereal diseases an inmate is partially crippled, and anotner is totally blind. One woman claims to be one hundred years old; she may not be that age but she has almost reached the period when she cannot care for herself. Another pauper Is a paralytic old woman who can walk but a few trembling steps even with the aid of a stick. She has no crutches, and complains that the coarse food makes her sick. "Another pathetic case is that of a half-crazy man who has been upon the farm for many years. He is now obsesseu with the idea that the farm belongs to him and bitterly resents the county's failure to pay the rent long due him. Much of his time is spent in reading a stray copy of the "House Journal" for 1908 and muttering fragments of sentences of protest against his being made a slave for twenty-five years and not being given anything to wear but "these old y torn up things." "in a darkened room was an oid| woman dying with innumerable cancers. The wall of the cottage supported her in a half sitting position upon her pallet spread on the floor. Beside her was an untouched tin pan of rice and boiled meat. She explained that nothing tasted good to her but she wanted to try some sardines and crackers. She had once enjoyed them and hoped that they would arouse her failing appetite. For hours she had no one to care for her, although her body was twitching with pain. She begged piteously for another supply of some medicine that had once helped to ease the pain thai was torturing her through the lonely Y\ ni 1 rc " ' The State Board of Public Welfare finds only one solution of this state of affairs, and that is the district hospital home. Should a group of counties be induced to erect a home-like and comfortable building and equip it for persons that need medical treatment und careful nursing, the poor of that district would not be forced to foregather in a miserable haunt. Such a hospital home would not only be in keeping with a kindly spirit, but it would also cost little more, if any, than our present system of county almshouses. ? Phone Us for Blnilng' ! MIHIH "v"" PRINTING Our plant it complete for everything 6 you need in the line of printing and c we can assure you first grade work * on Hammermill stock. Ask ui <J ~ !B? % 1 FOXI) OF XATTY SHIRTS? ? r You can indulge your fancies here | to your heart's content, for we have a large array of summer styles in negligees, also neckwear of high degree in many styles. No profiteering at this t shop, but only fair and square r treatment and come-back service. ' u iott, Jr. ; b Carolina * ALL USE ABLEST j BRAINS III STATE EXPERTS TO SERVE ON SPECIAL COMMISSIONS FOR GOOD OF SOUTH CAROLINA. UN APPEALS TO LEADERS NviltfmiM Board Hm Thu? Far Bm+ HUM Proaaeutlon of 11 Separate Matter*. Mainly Agrlout* tural. Naaid for the iUt? of Its oriels, the Death Carolina Pisa" lor the derel pmeot of ear natural resources sad idrantagei, Is attraetlag wide-spread AteaUea. laqalrlee regarding It kiTl imss from several southern its to* sad rom Oregon, where preparations tor v movement o( similar purposes ua teimg msdo. Ths South Carolina Pisa is that rfclch has boon devised by tho South larollaa Development Board. Its out itandlag (oaturo Is the use o< apoolal iommlaaloas (or tho prosecution of articular uadertaklnga. Theao coranlaalona will bo compoaod of men peluliarlj aultod to handle the specific aska given them, by reason of their aaowledge, Interest and ability. The whole theory of a apeclal fomnisalon la that a group of men who irant a particular thing done will work larder and mora intelligently for that hing than would thoae whose Interats might lie In other directions. Special commissions which hare >een suggested partly aa a result of he year's actirlty of the development ioard and largely in meeting a demand or a comprehensive program for the mmodiate future are the following: Markets. Live stock and live stock credit* Live stock sanitation. Grains, grasses and forage, Rates and transportation, Farm labor. Land settlement. , Community life. Publicity. * . Legislation. Assessment and taxation. education. Health and sanitation. Drainage and drainage project* Civic-commercial organization* later-racial relatione. Oood reads. i VH AT ORGANIZATION CAN DO IN SOUTH CAROLINA. '' \ Michigan has 18,000 'abaadoeed1* arms; there were sdld to be 14,000 nocoupled farms In New Tork state L few years ago we heard much about he abandoned farms In New England. New England has largely solved IU jroblem through an organisation calld the Eastern States Exposition, rhioh has made farm Ufa attractive - * Wow Tnrlr throusrh Its arm bureaus began two years ago t4 nduce people to return to the farms, rlth marked successes In some counies. Now Michigan has formed a 1 eml-ofTlclal organization called the Western Michigan Development 3ueau, which Is going to try to bring ts unused lands Into use. Organization with a big O la the nethod being employed. New Eng- i and has proved Its value, New York 3 proving It and Michigan Is going to ry It. South Carolina has taken a long I top In the Bame direction. For more ban a year the South Carolina Devel>pment Board has been doing a contructlve work for the agriculture of he state. In fact, it has dona so nuch, in the opinion of a largo num-1 tor of the leading men. that it is now elng urged to equip Itself with the netnbership and resources which will inable it to carry through a state-wide irogram of natural resource develop neat. It fcng ana^ared tbe call by antounolnc aa expansion campaign from una SI to S6. The headquartara ?I he board li In Columbia. Ne "CyoTonee" on Land. Of late years it has become common 10 call every violent storm a "cydone," which is plainly erroneous. A ryclone never occurs except on the icean, asserts a weather observer, be> ause a cyclone is a violent, whirling torra of great area, and no such storm ould occur on land. The so-called 'cyclones" of the West are "tornaloes," which are whirling storms of [rent violence, but contracted in area, ["ornadoes have been known whose [reatest width did not exceed a few ods, and those which exceed sevtial Jloa In width arw vorv Tiniiittiul The Swedish Almanac. The Swedish name jdmanae differ* rom English almanacs in giving, be Ides the usual Information, a Chrlsian name for each sex for every day >f the year, says London Graphic. The i mines set forth have to receive the ipprovnl of the king. The object aimed it is to secure si greater choice of isitnes for parents and to avoid the ndless repetition of a dozen 01 so , lames, a similar name nlmnnac is Is- : ued under royal authority iu one of br Gerinau : tatea. WHEAT AND OATS THE OUTLOOK ? COME FACTORS OF 8UCCE88FUL I 8MALL GRAIN PRODUCTION I IN SOUTHERN STATES* J 'Ju ' C. A. Whittle, Southern Soil m Improvement Committee. Wheat is too closely related to hnman hunger ever to suffer a serious lump in demand. At this time the great wheat producing areas of Europe give no signs of getting immediately back to normal production. 80vlet Russia, the greatest of all, offers oo signs of growing wheat beyond?if even equal to?-the neede of Russia. Roumania, Austria, Hungary and the Balkans are so depleted in men and means, and so disturbed with war and International politics, as to grow not1 even enough small grain (or their own hungry and starring millions. Other leading European countries are lm- 4 porters and not exporters of grain. The Americas wilt therefore, be the hope of Europe's bread. In fact, the demand will continue to be very argent , LABOR?The labor requirement* per acre of wheat Is less, of course, than for cultivated crops. Where labor's scarce wheat and oats are, theretore, to be looked upon with favor. But the labor problem involved in producing wheat will not be completely solved unless the farmer goes In for large yields per acre. It requires no more preparation, and seed, to grow a big crop of wheat than a small one. Therefore, the Intelligent farmer will look well to hie soil treatment so that maximum yields may be made at a minimum cost per bushel. Farm labor Is too expensive to neglect thla precaution. nnr r? a n a -ri am _Tirka?s An4m rntrnnn i ivn? n ucat auu uaio do best on upland soils. The stiffer, firmer soils are preferred. But it does Qot pay to sow these crops on eroded, thin soiled slopes. If the crop is to follow cotton, corn or other cultivated crop, the soil may be disked. Deep breaking Is not necessary. After drilling In the seed, the soil may be firmed ind smoothed with a roller. FERTILIZATION? Intelligent fertilization will pay on wheat and oats. Fertilizers will create a good root derelopment and thue protect the plant against winter-killing; they will hasten U the growth of wheat that has been ' town late on account of the Hessian fly; It will increase stoollng or tiller tng, and make plumper grain and fullsr heads; and well-fed plants are also nore resistant to rust and other dls- ( tasee. ^ An application of nitrogen In late winter or early spring will prove very lelpful in giving the grain crops a vigorous new start. GOOD SEED? variety of wheat nay be good, but the germinating power of the seed poor. A farmer ihould give more attention to his wheat and oat seed. He should find out their yielding record. Different: itralns of a variety will have different i rielding ability. Get only the beat?! !t pays. Good seed includes clean seed. Make I them smut-free by a dip into blue jtone. Use only the varieties that have rust resistance power. Farmers of the cotton belt would do well to go into the growing of cereals on a broader scale. Small grains fit in with a well arranged crop rotation. They provide necessities, and thereby add to the independence of the farmer and to his power to conserve the returns from his money crops. BENEFITS OF RYE AS A WINTERCOVER CROP. ^ Southern soils are much in need of organic matter or humus. An excellent opportunity for providing it is afforded by rye ?own in the fall and turned under in the spring. Not only will it increase the organic contents of the soil, but it will conserve platftfood and increase the yields of subsequent crops. It usen nitrogen that would have leached out and would hare been lost during the fall and winter. It also utilizes the phosphoric acid and potash that becomes soluble during the winter. All these and ther elements of plant food go into the ground with' the spring plowing and will be releas ed for the subsequent crops. Winter legumes are excellent where they can be grown with success, but It is much easier to get a stand of rye on all kinds of soils and under various climatic conditions. Rye ia In fact the most dependable crop for poor soils, and It is the poor soil, of course. which needs a winter-crop moat. Mistaken are sometimes made in a \ failure to plow under rye at the right time, ir the spring is ary 11 snouiai be turned under early, no matter whati Its stage of growth Is. The danger, of course, is that rye will pump out too much soli moisture, rendering the soil hard and lumpy when plowed and ? giving the following crop a poor show. If the spring is wet or normal, of course, the rye should be allowed to grow as long as possible, since It will be adding benefits to the soil. Rye being such a good soil helper ought to be giver, a better show than is usually accorded it. The seed bed should bz- well prepared and fertilizers should be applied, to both of which It makes ready response.