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THURSDAY, FEIB. 24, 1921.
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Hudbl's Cabinet.
One of the things about which this
paper has hot been losing any sleep
is the personnel of Harding's cabinet.
We do not care a picayune
whether he selects a bewhiskercd
g<nt or a clean shaVen guy for this
or that portfolio. Charles Evans
Hughes, for instance, will make as
good secretary of state.as Ellhu Root
would have made. Both arc of a
kidney, and neither cares a continental
whether the great mass of people
b'nk or swim. They ure out of touch
with the aims and aspirations of humanity,
but it is gratifying to recall
that each has always had a keen
ear for the jingle of corporation coin
when there was a fat legal fee ready
to be grabbed. As for the Ohio party
named Daugherty that the presidentelect
has said he will name for attorney
general, if reports be true concerning
his stock of legnl learning it
is to be hoped he will Improve upon
the opportunity that will be ufforded
Mm after he reaches Washington to
attend one of the excellent night law
srhools the city boasts. Not one man
in a hundred thousand ever heard of
Daugherty before he became the Friday
of the Harding campaign last
year, but for all that he may muke
a very good attorney general?good
to the extent of always having at
hand an immunity bath for some big
trust that ought to have the screws
put to it for profiteering or strangling
a weak competitor. Ana with
the richest man in America, next to
old John D. Rockefeller himself, for
secretary of the treusury, truly there
is much mod nlclilnir I n ulirhf for
the plutes that make a specialty of
, exploiting the people. Hut it will be
^ a typical ltepubllcan cabinet, and
that is what the country last fall
voted for.
No Alternative.
There Is but one thing that can
save the South from ilnanclal colic
pse. This is the consensus of opinion
of bankers and farmers who have
made a study of the situation now
confronting us. The one hope lies
in a drastic cut in the cotton acreage.
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The most conservative estimates of
the carry-over of American cotton
from last year's crop place it at from
7 000,000 to 9,000,000 'bales, or almost
a one-year crop. If the crop
this year amounts to over 6.000,000
I bales, cotton experts predict that cotton
will be bringing & and 6 cents i
pound next fall.
This is not hot air or propaganda,
i It is a statement of fact. A Now
York bank last week sent & noto of
1 warning to its correspondent banks
I in South Carolina telling them that
unless the acreage was reduced 50
per cent this year, the South would
be in the midst of a bad fix next fall.
The warning is timely, but will tl
be heeded? We hope that the farmem
of York eounfv will inkn tr
I the farmers of no other county in the
[ State or South do. Kvcn If no other
I county In the South doss, the farmers
f of York county will be better off for
f having cut this year's cotton acreage.
If all take heed and only a half
ki crop is raised,, they may be able to
I get a fair profit on what they do
raise. The farmer who plants much
1 citton this yoar, however, is fllrtifig
I with danger. /
When the Ijnw 1>Ich.
A mob last week stormed the coun.
| ty jali at Athens, Oa., took therefrom
a negro charged with tho murder of
a white woman und burned him at
i the stake. Many of the good people
io." that State are naturally and justly
[aroused oyer the occurrence.
The most terrific arraignment of
the mob's action that we have seen
came from Andrew J. Cobb, formerly
a Justice of the Ueorgiri ytnte su!promo
court. After declaring that
['the life of an excellent woman had
peon destroyed by a fiend," former
Justice Cobb asserted in a signed
statement that the negro burned was
lot shown to be guilty and asserted
Ipat "the murder of the law is a far
^graver offense than the murder of a
lituman being."
"Organised government," said Jus<9|pe
Cobb, "has survived, and can suragain,
tho murder of human bows.
When the law dies, govern.
*mt dies; all things desirable die;
' Is reigns and anarchy is encll^ed.
Choose you this day whom
you in serve, law or anarchy."
Jiu^ce Cobb declared that there
was a legal way In which tho negro,
if k'ullty, surely would havo been
I punished.
I The dnngri* of inob law was strlkI
liiRly Illustrated In South Carolina i
several years aia In a county In this |
8>ate xS mob made a determined j
fort to remove from the county Jail a <
euro who was charged with attempt- i
e?. assault upon a white woman. The <
sheriff stood his ground, however. j
and the Jail withstood the assault. (
made upon it. i
When tho negro came to trial a I
few months later he was proved in- '
r.? cent of the charges against him
and was acquitted. ft the mob had |
succeeded In Its efforts an innocent
negro would have been cruelly put
to death.
The case against mob rule was
jlcarly stated by Justlcp Cobb.
Stopping anil Thinking.
The parents of the country, or 1
rather It should be said koine of the
parents of the country', seem to be
waking up at last to the dangerous
social conditions that now prevail.
The preachers are beginning to take
note also and there is hope that the
awakening will become general.
There can be no doubt but that
this old country hus been traveling
at a mighty fast clip during the last
two or three years. The parents in
some sections seem to have thrown
restraint to the winds and permitted
their sons and daughters to do as
they pleased. The results been
shocking.
Let us hope that the worst is over
and that there will be a return to
normalcy along social lines as well aa
along other lines. The safety of the
cf-uhtry in the future depends upon
the safety of the girls and boys of
today, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow.
BOUNDARY DINE EXPLAINED.
A. S. Sal ley Tolls Wliy Fort Mill is In
South Carolina.
A. S. Sal ley, secretary of the South
Carolina historical commission, has
furnished The Times wth a copy of
the following letter which he recently
Wote to former State Senator W. H.
'Stewart of York county explaining
what brought about the "Jagged"
Statclind between portions of the upper
section of South Carolina, including
York county, and North Carolina.
Mr. Salley's letter was written in response
to a request of Senator Stewart,
who is now making his home in
Charlotte, for authentic Information
on the subject:
t "I was very glad to hear from you
and am very glad to be able to give
you the facts as to that wedge in the
boundary line. The story about the
still is like a great many other tilings
that people who don't know write
about. These people see something
that puzzles them; they haven't the
explanation; they Invent one.
"When North Carolina and South
i Carolina were officially separated by
the crown of Englnnd In 1730 the
boundary line was tlxed by royal Instructions
to the two governors appointed
for the two provinces. Immediately
a controversy arose as to
(he construction of those Instructions,
but In 1735 the dispute w.ns settled
and a surveyor was told to go to a
. certain point on the Atlantic ocean
and run a line in a certain course
until it intersected the 35th parallel
of north latitude and there to place a
marker. The royal instructions were
that from that point the line should
follow the said parallel due west to
the South seas (which indefinite
body of water was by treaty with
Spain about 176 3 tlxed upon as the
Mississippi river).
"In August, 1763, the governors of
the several Southern provinces and
the commissioner of Indian affairs
for those provinces met in Augusta
Mid arranged a grand treaty with
many tribes of Southern Ifidlans.
among them the Catawbas. Under
the terms of the provision relating
to the Catawbas they were to have a
tract, of land 15 miles square on the
river of their tribal name. I,ater in
the year this reservation was laid
out for them and extended both
nbove and below the 35th parnllel, so
that each of the provinces of North
and South Carolina contributed to the
Indian reservation a portion of the
land thereof.
"In 1764, the white people having
begun to Hettle in the. vicinity of the
35th parallel. Governor Bull directed
a party of surveyors to go to the
marker set up in 1736 at the point of
intersection of the line of that year
with the 35th parallel and run a line
duo west to the eastern boundary of
the Catawba reservation. These surveyors
soon located the marker of
1735 and proceeded to run the line
due west on what they supposed was
the 35th parnllel. After running and
blazing out the line about .. miles
to where It struck the Charles TownSalisbury
road they failed to tlnd the
eastern line of the Catawba reservation,
which had beee run out the preceding
year, and sat dawn to calculate
the position of the 35tl/ parallel
and found they were between 11 and
12 miles south thereof. The surveyor
of 1735 had stopped short of the 35th
parallel.
"Thoy reported their trouble to
Governor* Bull, who ordered them to
stop the survey. He stated that the
line which they had Just completed
und a straight line connecting the
western end thereof, whereat the sur
veyors had set up a stone which la
there today, with the southeaatern
corner of the Catawba sereryatlon
wculd bo considered temporarily as
the boundary between the two provinces.
"In 1772 each province appointed
commissioners and surveyors to meet,
agree upon and run out the line from
the end of the line of 1736. Theao
commissioners. In accordance with Instructions
from the crown, agreed
that the line of 1764 be a part of the
ofhetnl line; that the straight lino
from its westtyn extremity to the
southeastern corner of the Catawba
reservation, the eastern boundary of
the Catawba reservation, and the
northern boundary of the reservation
to Its Intersection with the Catawba
river be an additional part of
the official boundary and that North
Carolina take the strip of land between
the line of 1764 and the 36th
parullol and west of the Catawba
river, thereby also allowing tho entire
Catawba reservation to South Caroll- '
na Frt>m the tnterflectton of the 3?th
parallel with the Catawba river, the
middle of tho river to Its confluence
of its two principal forku was fixed as
tho line. From this last point du^
west to tho intersection of the Cherokee
boundary line was fixed as the
| rest of the line.
"This arrangement, produced prl
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xiarily by the trlfllnlneea of the surreyors
employed In 17*5. caused the
|t(f*d appearance- of the line be- i
:ween the present counties of Lancaster
and York, In 8outh Carolina,
ind Mecklenburg and Union, In North
Carolina. The territory acquired from
Worth Carolina now comprises those
portions of the coupties of York..
Cherokee and Spartanburg that lie
torth of the 35th parallel,- and Fort
Hill Just does fall within trie territory
>y the grace of the 35th parallel lyng
on the southern edge thereof,
rhe line from the fork of the Catawsa
to the old Cherokee boundary line
(the present line between Greenville
xnd Spartanburg countlesV was not
run due west, but veered somewhat
northwest and its western extremity
was fixed on Tryon mountain. Those
portions of Mecklenburg, Union, Anson
and Richmond counties. North
Carolina, that lie south of the 35 parallel
and west of the line of 1735 continued
to that parallel fell to North
Carolina by this trade.
viu*ci uui owmu ui v.urunna
once wrote a letter to a South Carolina
official on this subject and therein '
stated that. South Carolina got the
better of the swap. Most likely she
did so fAr as lands were concerned
and Governor Montagu of South Carolina
writing at the time stated that
South Carolina had secured about ]
5.000 additional population thereby,
but South Carolina got the Catawba
Indians and has had to pension them (
nearly ever since. Had the reserva- <
tlon remained partly In one State and 1
partly In the other It is likely that the J
general government would have had <
the wardship of them rather than J
South Carolina. ?' <
"If you will compare this statement <
with a map you will readily see how '
It all came about. It was all done be- <
fore the Revolution. When Great '
Britain acknowledged the Independ- (
cnce of North Carolina and South Car. <
olina 'along with 11 other States, ac- J
knowledging .the sepnrate sovereignty <
of each; the territory contained in 1
each State became forever fixed un- '
der the sovereignty of that State and <
only a revolution, such as the West
Virginia Yankees accomplished in
1861-1865 with the aid of the powerful
Federal armies sent to their aid, could
take a piece of South Carolina territory
to North Carolina.
"Knowng your fondness for a good
story I will close with one. Almost
from the beginning of our prosperity
those who have been jealous of that
prosperity have found first one excuse
and then another to damn us. The
earliest propaganda against us from
Now Rngland and elsewhere above the
Potomac was that South Carolina was
very unhealthy: that people could not
liv to old age therein. When it became
noised abroad that this strip '
above the 35th parallel, which became
known In South Carolina as The New
Acquistlon, was to become a part of
South Carolina an old woman who
lived therein exclaimed: 'I don't want
to live In South Carolina. I've alius
heered it was unhealthy in South Carolina.'
The Fort Mill people ought to
know better bv now."
Vnlfornw for the Asking.
Former Fort MIH soldiers read
with interest a few days ago Washington
press dispatches announcing the
offer of the war department to present
to each overseas veteran of the
World war a uniform, gas mask and
helmet ns service souvenirs. It is presumed
that every ex-soldier in the
community entitled to share in the
department's distribution of these
souvenirs will improve upon the opportunity.
There are between 75 and
100 overseas veterans in Fort Mill,
town and township.
"If you arc an overseas army veteran,"
said an Associated Press dispatch,
"and wnnt a uniform, gas
mask and helmet ns service souvenirs,
Just write the war department for
'em and don't pay anybody to make
out an application for you. Swindlers
are offering to prepnre such applications
at $5 per head, the department
warned Friday, and defrauding the
ex-soldiers out of Just that much, because
there's no red tape about the
business and 'it is well for the soldiers
to know that no money is to be
paid for the uniforms they arc entitled
to draw.' "
DR. A. L_. OTT ,
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Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
(Dr. Spratt's office)
Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C.
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MRS. ELEANOR JONES DEAD.
Motinr of Well Knoini Citizens
SacquDte to Dfame.
. Following an illness of several
reeks, due. to the Infirmities of ue.
tfrs. Eleanor Jones, mother of Messrs.
W. H. Jones, A. O. Jones, Edgar
Tones and Mrs. W. H. Crook, died
it her home on the riser road near
^ort Mill this mornlnfe Mrs.- Jones
tad been critically 111 for several days
ind hope for her recovery had been
given up. She was born in York
county on April 4, 1836, and was*
herefore In her 86th year. Mrs. Jones
vas the widow of John C. Jones, a
highly esteemed citizen ot the township,
who died on May 23, 1898. She
ir.d Mr. Jones were married in 1860.
Hcfore her marriuge she was Miss
Eleanor Aycock, member of the well
known York county family of that
name. Mrs. Jones had long been a
devoted member of Philadelphia
Methodist church and was a model
hurch member and devoted mother.
1'hc funeral services will bo conducted
at the home Friday aftei'hoon at 3
o'clock by her pastor, the Rev. W.
It. liauknight. and Interment will follow
immediately thereafter in the
Sort Mill cemetery.
We atill have some good Shoes that
we are almost giving away to make
room for new goodH coming in nt
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TAX NOTICE?1920-21
Office of tlic County Treasurer of York
Notice la hereby given thut the
Tax Books for York County will be
opened on Friday, the 15th day of
October, 1920, and remain open until
the 31st day of December, 3920, for
the collection of State, County,
School and Ixocal Taxes, for the liscal
year, without penalty, after which
flay One Per Cent Penalty will be added
to all payments made In the month
of January, 1921, and Two Per Cent
Penaty for all payments made In the
month of February, 1921, and Seven
Per Cent Penalty will be added to all
payments made from the 1st day of
March, 1921, to the 15th day of
March, 1921, and after this date all
unpaid taxes will go into execution
:ind all unpaid single polls will be
turned over to the several Magistrates
for prosecution In accordance with
law.
All of the banks of the county will
offer their accommodations and facilities
to taxpayers who may desire to
make use of the same, and I shall
take pleasure In giving prompt atten.
lion to all correspondence on the rub
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about taxes will always expedite matters
if they can mention the townshipor
townships if) which their property
or properties are located.
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Treasurer of York County.
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