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THURSDAY, JAN. IS, 1921.
President-elect Harding Is due the
thanks of. the country for his gooJ
sense In putting a crimp In the plans
which were under way for his Inauguration
next March to be attended
by an unprecedented expenditure of
money. Thus are the Washington
crap shooters, card sharks, blind tigers
and hotel proprietors deprived
of .tho harvest of gold they hud expected
to reap.
There seems to be prevalent In somo
sections of the State an Idea that
bonded indebtedness should take the
place of direct taxation In financing
government. The speaker of the
house of representatives in his address
at the opening session of tho
Legislature Tuesday said that in his
opinion it was unconstitutional for
tho State government to divert revenuos
derived from direct taxes to
permnnent improvements ? puonc
buildings. He said money for such
purposes should be provided by bond
issues. At Indignation meetings recently
In several counties in the
State speakers have favored issuing
bonds to pay costs of local government,
to be attended with reduction
of the tax levy. Money secured by
the ttale of bonds docs come easier.
It is more quickly raised than by the
collection of taxes and taxpayers do
not . feel so heavily-the tax burdenThere
is a respite in the payment of
taxes, but it is only a respite. The
bonds must be retired at somo time
in the future?they cannot run on
forever. Against the time when they
shall fall due provision must be made
,/?or final paVnie'nC And the Interest
dividend to holders of the bonds
must be paid continually. The taxes
must be collected to provide a sinking
fund or amortisation payments
and the Interest. If bounds be continually
issued, from year to year, a
time would come when the securities
would be unsalable at a profitable
rato. This method of flnanco should
bo reserved, so far as possible, as an
emergency measure. It should be resorted
to only when a comparatively
largo and definite amount of money
la needed for a specific purpose. If
money be provided for a number of
purpoaese and in large quantities,
there will be an undue tendency to
extravagunce and laxity of disbursement.
Governor Cooper Wednesday delivered
hla annual address to the
General Assembly If there was In
hla recommendation* an insistent demand
for retrenchment and u consequent
lowering of the tax burdens,
we were unable to observe It. But
no one famtl'ar vlth the governor's
Idea that taxation makes for prosperity
wUl be disappointed.
Insistent demand for lower taxes
has made a hard problem for tho
General Assembly this year. The
clulm of the various departments
r and Institutions of the State government
have grown from year to year,
even faster than has been the taxblo
increase in the value of property.
- Previous sessions of the L<egtslature
have committed the State to a policy
of improvement and expansion in
keeping with the general progress?
a policy Its friends claim It would
be unwise to discontinue now even
in the face of advert conditions. The
constant drain of the purse in payment
of the federal luxury tax has
probably been largely responsible for
the, growing antipathy to all taxes.
So long* as the war kept before the
people there was cooperation, but
now that the demand. If present, is
no longer apparent, Irratlblllty and
dissatisfaction have naturally followed.
.A number of remedies have been
suggested by various authorities.
These range frpm a plan to discontinue
entirely for a or ear or two all
but the most necessary functions of
government to the suggestion that
all property be returned for taxation
at its true value rather than on a
percentage basis as at present, taxing
of incomes and inheritances, inoroaso
of licenses and small luxury taxes
|^|plfar to those now imposed by the
^WmI government.
; ?']Nnday morning in Magistrate B.
flMUfcs* oourt, Ralph W. Hood, forHnhrt
Mitt dttsen, was awarded
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GRADE CROSSING DEVICT.
R. M. Hood ?m invntka WMch He I
Thinks Hill Prevent Accurals.
R. M. HpodU Fort Mill shoe, dealer, 1
h?s been st work for aomt -tl?ue on <
a device to prevent glide eroMtng j
accidents dad la now confident he
has solved the problem and that if '
his Invention comes into general use ^
the toll of human- life In this coun- 1
try from this cause will be greatly 1
diminished. If not altogether prevented.
Since the automobile and 1
other mother > chicles came. Into
universal use about ten years ago
there have been annually thousands \
of fatal accidents at grade crossings
golnglerbgenpdeacEu cmf cmf cmff
by thoughtless or reckless persons
driving their ennf upon steam railway
tracks In front of approaching 1
trains and it was to warn others of
this danger that Mr. Hood several
months ngo began applying his inventive,
genius to a method to prevent"
Just such accMcrts. , 1
Mr. Hood has made a small working
model of his device and claims 1
that It Is simple, cheap, easily Installed
and kept In working condl- 1
tion and that It will automatically '
display an effective' signal warning
of the approach of a train. The device,
It Is claimed, will work with
trains approaching In either direction '
or when moving backward or for- 1
ward. Should the device be adopted
by the railroads. Mr. Hood says' It (
will eliminate the expense of Installation
of steam whistles on locomoatives
and eliminate the necessity of
sounding the whistle or bell when '
the train approaches a grade crossing J
Mr. Hood is the Inventor of a number
of useful patents and his Fort '
Mill friends will watch the develop- 1
ment of his latest idea with ^ntcrest.
DOUIITFUli OF CUT.
W. W. lx?nc Not Certain I'arnior Will
JtcdiM* Anvatfe.
"I confess that 1 am more or less
skeptical of the willingness of the
farmer to meet a situation by reducing
his acreage in cotton." says W.
W. I.*>ng, director of the Clemson
college extension service, in discussing
the uresont situation and the future
outlook for cotton prices.
"1 appreciate that the farmer is
entirely honest when he expresses his
willingness at this season of the year
to reduce his acreage," Mr. I^ong
continued, "but I very much fear
that when planting time arrives and
the cotton morket becomes stronger
and tho tendency is for higher prices,
tlint he will forget his good intentions,
expressed a few months before.
and satisfy himself with the
thought that tho other fellow is going
to jnake the reduction. I want
to emphasize this fact, that unless
the cotton acreage of the South is
greatly reduced* those farmers who
are now holding cotton will be forced
to sell not only what is on hand,
but this next year's crop at a price
that will not only be disappointing,
hut that this period of demoralization
will of necessity have to continue.
There never was a time when
thp siit lint inn na tn thn nrlcn r\f nr%f _
ton wofl so absolutely In the hands
of the farmer. If he will act with
that Intelligence and good common
sense that he has always been credited
with, this situation can be
solved."
VOTE TO JOIN YORK.
Citizens of Chester County Tire of
Present Home.
According to reports received in
Rock Hill Wednesday, the citizens
of the Fishing Creek section of Chester
county Tuesday voted to become
a part of York county, thereby nddlng
75.3 square mtlos to the territory
of this county, increasing the
population by nhout 4,000 and ndding
to the taxable values of the county
over a million dollars.
The vote was 14 7 for annexation
and 63 against, with 16 votes contested.
I.caving out the uncontested
votes there was a majority of 17 over
the necessary two to one vote. Of
the 16 contested 'votes it Is understood
inni some were ior and some against
annexation. Citizens from the section
of Chester county voting on the
proposition, expressed the opinion In
Hock Hill yesterday that the official
tabulation would show the result In
favor of annexation.
Indian Commission Holds Hearing.
Monday night a hearing wns held
In Rock Hill by the commission appointed
some weeks ago under authority
of a resolution of the 1920
General Assembly to inquire Into and
report to the present General Assembly
the advisability of the State making
a final settlement with the Catawba
Indians, whose reservation of
652 acres Is* in York county. Several
Fort Mill citizens and a number
from Lancaster county testified at
tho hearing. All save one Lancaster
county citizen expressed the hope
that the State would not discontinue
aiding the Indians In one way or another.
For years the General Assembly
has appropriated annually
$7,000 for maintenance of the Indians
and $500 with which to operate a
school on the reservation. A proposed
plan of settlement which
sefcmed to meet with more or less
favor wns for tho Stnte to buy an
additional tract of land for tho Indians,
employ a practical farmer to
teach them how to fnl"nn and gradually
decrease and finally withdraw |
an<J money payments tho General -Assembly
might see fit to make them.
During 1920 there were 128 Indians
who participated In tho allotment of
State funds. The members of the
Indian commission nre W. M. Punlnp
of Rock Hill, Roach S. Stewart of
Lancaster and W. H, Hope of Rock
'Hill.
Bank 11ns Corxl Year.
Following the annual meeting i
Tuesday of the stockholders of the i
First National Bank of Fort Mill, nt I
which L>. A. Harris presided, the old <
board of directors was reelected. 1
Wednesday afternoon at a meeting 1
of the directors, the report for the <
last year of theS^crtdent, Col. T. B.
Bpratt, was presented. The report
showed that th) year 1920 was the
best the bank (has had since It was j
organised ten years ago. A dividend
of 8 per cent was paid the stockhold- ,
era and a sulwantlal sum added to
the bank's r?ye account. It was J
shown that ^^^^ank's resources are '
about, $100^^^B>cater than at this
time lut^^^Vhe officers elected
by the B. Spratt, president;^^^^^^^Btarber
and J. L '
W. T. Barron,
assistant
Virginia's Mj??7
A centitry old mjrsttry te recalls*
by a tombstone In * ceip*t*r? *
w*ndtJ? Vs.. which *bears as tnssrtptlon
but no. name. .The mystery botan
06 July 2*,' llll, when the brlf
Four Sons, bound frdm Halifax to tbo
W??t India* anchored off Alexandria
Just Ions enoush to lower a
boat and sand ashore a man and a
sick "woman Wear*ng ? heavy v?!l in
spite of the stlfltns beat.
The husband, who never save his
name, engaged the best room at the
hostelry and then procured the services
of one of the leading physicians
n Virginia. But as the physician
later testified, the woman was always
veiled when he visited her.
After two months and a half of
constant Illness, the "female itnyijer"
died, and her husband's own
bands prepared her for burial, placing
her In* the'coffin still with the
veil over her face. For 12 years he
returned on the anniversary of her
death, laying flowers upon the grave.
Then he. too. disappeared and the
Brave was neglected until an old
gentleman and two elderly women
appeared and ordered that U be repaired.
They admitted that they
were relatives of the dead woman,
but beyond the fact that her husband
was an officer In the British
navy, they declined to give any Information
? nor has the century
which has elapsed thrown the slightest
light upon the mystery.
Sugar at Two Cents.
Sugar made from sawdust at a
cost of less than 2 cents a pound is
promised by Robert Hyde, a Pittsburg
chemist. Ho says that one
pound of sawdust will make threeluarters
of a pound of sugar. In
explaining his discovery Mr. Hyde
lays that while studying chemistry
n Germany an old professor made a
itatement one day regarding the
properties of sugar that left a lasting
impression on him. He set out to
ipply the statement to the extraction
of sugar from wood, but expermcrit
after cxxperiment failed. ~ After
eight years of research, by accilent
one day in his laboratory he
jpset a certain Mquld on some exceldor
nnd the peculiar effect brought
ibout the realisation of his dream.
Mr. Hyde says that If made by hand
he sugar will cost about 3 1-2 cents
i pound, hut if manufactured on an
extensive scale by machinery the cost
eat ho cut to less than half that
imount.
The trial of the case against J. -B.
Kerr, pccused of responsibility for
the denth of J. M. McCorkle on the
Pineville road between Charlotte and
Pinevillle several weeks ago, was
postponed in the superior court In
^horlotte Tuesday. Mr. McCorkle and
Kerr were riding in an automobile
lit tho time the accident occurred
which cost tho former his life, Kerr
being the driver of the car. A num- ;
uer or relatives of Mr. McCorkle live
In Fort Mill and considerable Interest
is felt locally In tho outcome of
the case against Kerr.
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MOTOR OILS
KEROSENE
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representatives of the
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by phone, call or letter.
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Young & Wolfe have added a picture
framing department to their
furniture store which doubtless will
prove of convenience to the peopjte of
this community.. For some tlmepfort
Mill people who wished to havW pictures
framed have had to send them
jut of town.
Save half your ^onoy. Winter
ihoes at HALF PRICE at Massey's.
Frost Proof Cajtt>age Plants?
Wakeflelds, Flat Dutch. 8ucee*islon,
prepaid parcel post 100 30c; 300 7Sc;
100 $1; 1,000 91.00; full count and
1 ell very guaranteed. Express F. O.
8. here 1,000 $1.00; 6.000 91.60;
10,000 up 91.26. D. F. Jamison,
lummervllle. 8. C.
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