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I S," - btos??ORT GAM IN NUMBERS LAST 14 YEARS THEY HAVE ADDED OVER MILLION MEMBERS IN SOUTH. WILL MEET IN CHATTANOOGA 'Many Matters Rc'tted to Future Work _*^Vill Come Up fcr Cons.deration at the Annurl Convention May 12 to 18. | 1! f yT* >:; DR. E. Y. MULLINS President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Who is Touring South. Following the close of the second year of tho Baptist 75 Million Campaign April 30, several thousand messengers from the local churches are expected to a?6emble at Chattanooga, Tenn.. for the seventy-sixth annual session of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Convention met in Chattanooga last in May, 1906, and during the interim there has been a marked growth in every department of the Convention's activities and in the numbers and work of the local churches aB well. Tho total number of "Baptists reported to the Convention in 1906 was 1,S5'5.7S4, while last May, fourteen years later, when the body met in Washington, the total member ship of the local churches as reported was 2.961 348. or a gain of 1,105,564. 'The returns for this year are not yet available, but inasmuch as it is known there were practically 175.000 additions to the local churohes last year by baptism alone, there is every reason to helievg the showing for 1021 will be even harper. Growth shown in All Lines. At the same time there has been a marked increase in the membership of the churches, there has been a distinct advance in all. departments of local and denominational work, It Is set out. The total number of local churches has grown from 20,129 in 1906 to 25,303 in 1920; the total number of Sunday Schools from 11,332 to iters* ^ 17.686; and the number, of Sunday inch weftob??l pupils from S57.244 to 1,835,iters lefL^&i cn increase of more than 100 per r exgr"'cent. The value of local church propha||f erty has mounted from $4,501,122 In Wf 1906 to $74,273,728 in 1920, an increase of more than 1600 per cent, while contributions to missions and benevolences in 190C were $1,501,369.67, as nntnnoi-arl In *7 771 Ofifi SK in 1 OOA on advance of practically 500 per cent. Fourteen years ago the contributions to all purposes in a year were $5,941,283.44. as against $21,327,446.67 for 1920. Next Meeting Important. The approaching session of the Convention Is regarded as vitally Important to the future of the denominatA's work. It Is hoped that by the 1 Cmlvention two-fifths of all subscriptions to the 7?'Million Campaign will have been paid In cash and that the program for the completion of the remainder of the campaign task can tyj formulated at *hls time. Dr. J. B. 4(j?)hroll, president of the Convention, . Dr. E. Y. Mulllnr. who recently completed a tour of Europe, where they carried frate'-tiul pieetings to the Baptists of that continent, will give their impressions of Baptist opportunity in tha' country, while Dr. Oeorge W. Truet and Dr J F Love, who rep> resented the Foreign Mission Board at the London Coofe-ence last summer when the mission fields of Europe were considered, will tell of the newterritory of Spain. Jugoslavia. Hun gary, Tloumania and Southern Russin. ? v which Southern Baptists are asked to ^occupy. Thin territory is as large as V the Southern States and has a population of 12S.000.000. ) All the boards of the Convention will report the largest year's aceonipllsmments In their history, the Home Mission Hoard being scheduled to report the completion of its million do! lar loan fund for church building, in addition to the aiding of a thousand churches during the year with gifts and loans for the erection of new houses of worship. The Sunday School Board will report more than $1,000,010 In sale? ?or the year and with collections as well as sales better than at ?*ny previous time in its history. k,. THE DILLON HERALD ECONOMIC CROP YIELDS NECESSARY j CHEAPEST YIELDS ARE THE LARGEST YIELDS PER ACRE, ! SAYS SOUTHERN AGRICULt TURAL AUTHORITY ? L _. ? It Take a Greater Amount of Crop Re- | turns to Cover Production Cost Now; Therefore High Yields t ; Per Acre Are Necessary if 4 the Farmer Is to Ob- s tain Profits j ^ r* ^ui^octo^ j. ^N. | ly said that de- i J. N. ilAtti'KU flation of prices t had hurt the farmer more than any ' other class, and that ott thia account ' the farmer is entitled to every consid j eration within reason. , > At such a time as this when the j farmer is facing the problem of which ] crops to crow, and how much he can ? venture to spend in their production, j Mr. Harper says, that he, as a farm r.t himself, knows that it is the most dif- t ficult situation of the kind lie has ever I confronted. 1 This is the way this agricultural | authority figures out the proposition j of profitable crop production in 1921: ( "Grow enough food and food crops ; to supply as far as possible the needs i of the family, the tenants and live- t stock. Then pick out the kind of cash t crops that seem to offer the best pros- >s pects. | i "Cotton will always be one of the beBt cash crops that a Southern farm- ( er can grow. No cotton farmer can . afford to throw cotton aside alto- , gether. , "But cotton should not be the only , I cash crop. It would only be another j 1 caec of carrying all the eggs in one Jt j basket. It is better to go to market i 1 with more than one crop. Among I' j these other crops are peanuts, legume \y hays, tobacco, sweet potatoes, sugar j' cane, sorghum, rice and perhaps other 1 crops. In addition there should be * 1 a gradual adding, us means will allow. , j of more livestock, beginning with hogs .preferably and taking on other aui- , mals as soon as possiblo. . |j "In facing the problem of profitable J crop production for the year 1921, two facts must be considered. (1) Crop prices are Vow. (2) Crop producing expenses have not fallen correspond ingly. "The farmer must remember thai 1 : when crop prices are low. it takes I more of the crops to cover the production cost. This narrows the mar; gin of profits. Therefore, if a farmer does not look well to keeping up his acre yields, there will be no margin left above the cost of production. "Always, the most expensive yields i are the low yields and the most re- ! I munerative are the high yields. If there are losses to he sustained, as ; was the case in 1920, the farmer who i grew the greatest yields per acre lost j least. "A safe and sane policy that needs i especial emphasis for 1921, is: 'Guard your profits with high acre yields.' This involves good preparation of the ' se<Jd bed, the use of high producing seed, liberal fertilization and thorough cultivation. A neglect to employ any 1 one of these to the proper extent may ! mean that the farmer will find himself poorer at the end of the season than at the beginning. "Labor is the greatest item of cost in producing a crop yield. It must . be used to the extent of thorough culi tivatlon. Fertilizers are next in the j( list of cost items. Since high yields j per acre are so essential in times of ! ; low prices of crops, and since fertilizers increase acre yields more than any ' thing else, they cannot bo reduced in 1921. In fact, it may be that they will have to be depended upon more than ever, to make acre y'.elds that will ( be profitable. "An Investment in good seed is one I . of the best that a farmer can make | at any nme. I "In a word, this is a time for farm j' ' efficiency, faith aftd courage. Thest ' virtues exercised, the farmer will emerge from the post-war struggle vie , | toriously." CALCIUM ARSENATE TREATMENT , An idea of the benefit gained by !' application of the calcium arsenate j| treatment developed and recommend-' ed by the United States Department !' of Agriculture against the cotton-boll J' weevil is found in the expedience of ' a large planl?T at Tallulah, La. With .< the exception ol certain test plats, the- ,1 man's entire acreage was dusted with i' calcium arsenate, the cost being $').20 i an acre. He obtained an average yield of 1,215 pounds of seed cotton to the acre on the land surrounding the test plats, while these unpoisoued test ; plats averaged only 300 pounds, or about 25 per c?nt of the yield on the polaoned rot tor.. Thus his net profii from poisoning on these areas on sales made before declining prioea ot I cotton vaa about $120 an acre. e * i, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, TIM IIK.IIAM IIAS A CI-OSK SI IA VIC. 1 I'ciiitcntiary Ol'iivials I n t?? Thursday lla<J Xo Not ire of Stay of I ivwul it > 11. Columbia. April 8?Somewhat of a dir. was created ill Hi . liighum eas ."esterday aftm noon, win n Attorney \. L. King, of Florence, went to *h? villii-ntiarj to see his c!i< ut ami u.i old by nutImritie.s there that unl? lioy received sonie official order to i Tying them not lo electrocute Hit; lam Unlay that tliey would proceed i vith the electrocution, according to: dr. King. The penitent iat'y officials up until hat tune had received no order noticing theju of the appeal to the sii ireino court which automat it ;?t: lays the death sentence set for to lay. and they announced that utile :nt ... ni'ili.1* woe ?,.wn.; t tl? , ' \/i >i i u a? cvvi ? vu i H'' M'Cl r</lit Ion would come off a> .scheduled, -lowever, Mr. Kins served notic of ippeal on the penitentiary and it is extremely unlikely that tie death tenuity will ho inflicted today. Mr. King has play ,} safe all alonp md has served notice of appeal on j he solicitor, the sheriff of Florence) ounty, the court of Florence, th<* rovernor, the attorney pewial and hp penitentiary Governor Cooper I vill return to his office today and here is little chance that Biphntn' vill be electrocuted, as lie will doubt ss notify the penitentiary that the tppeal is pen din pMr. Kinp was here yestcrdaj i: crest of his client. Fdinund 1> Bip lain, who is in the death house a' he penitentiary for th.. tnurder il lis brother I.. Smiley Biphaui. Mr. Kinp talked freely of th,. ens.. *est<rdny and said thai h i ahso utely convinced that Kdmund l> B lain is innocent of ihi> crime "I mly 'an a^k that the public withhold, udPiuent on thi< rase until all th acts have been brought out and null the ease has been settled." \inp said. Il< h.-lieves he will pet a lew trial before the supreme court, lasinu his belief on several import nit points of common and statute aw. The refusal of .lnd-e Menwniup r to prant a chance of venue, when iccordinp to Mr. Kinp. evidence to, variant the judpe in prantinp a thanpo was produced and the continlinp of the court beyond the repular session by the judpe. which accordnp to law, are two points in the apical.. Mr. Kinp may take another step in ( he trial which Un thoupht may Rive mniediate relief io his client, but aould not announce what this step votild be when seen yesterday. A False Alarm. Information from Columbia today o the effect that the danper of Bip-i lam's electrocution was more of a 'alse alarm than anythinp clsce. It .vas stated that there was not a hance of anythinp of that sort hav-1 up occurred. The notice of appeal ;iven by Mr. Kinp. it was said, was n itself sufficient i?? cim- ?> > ion, but as it happened, Mr- King limsrlf, as attorney for Ttiuham ar ived in Columbia in plenty of time o formally file the appeal in the . Supreme Court. ~ P 01 | Cigarette j To seal in the delicious Burley tobacco flavor. ^ It's Toasted ; e E if*.; r< ? E Harding's inaugural cost but $1,500 n nit of an appropriation of $50,000. L i T~ Prepared to launch a terrific atack upon profiteering landlords,. [< ive carloads of militant tenants p i (fin Chicago arrived in Springfield ecently. Upon their arrival they for- r ued in line and paraded to thp cap-'L ial waving banners and placards de- [< lipned to produce the proper effect tpon the members of the legislature [< POINTS THE WAY. jE ?? 1 r I lie Statement of this l.attu Resident l Will Interest Our Readers- H IS Our neighboring town, 1-atta points !h he way in the words of one of its nost respected residents: E Mrs. P. O. Richardson, R. P. D. r So. 3, Latta, S. 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