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I ' THE FORT MILL TIMES % Democratic?Published Thursdays. We. B. Bradford. Editor a ad PafcUafcey. The Times invites contributions on live subjects but does not agree to publish more than 200 words on any subject. The rltrht is reserved to edit vestment. So instead of losing money tho railroads are really making money and will continue to make it as long us this provision of the Each-Cummins bill stands. The trouble with the railroads is they are too greedy. They are not satisfied with the C per cent the people are being held up to present to them on u silver platter, but are hollering because the tribute everybody is paying them is not greater. If the railroads are not hauling as many passengers and handling us much freight as they formerly did, there is nothing in that for Mr. Average Citizen to worry over. On the contrary, he would have something to feel good over if it were a fact that, the railroads are losing money, for the usurious rates they are charging for. their service is inexcusable. Some days ago an official of an important railroad operating in the South said his company did not wish to put into effect the recent increase in passenger rates ordered by the interstate commerce commission. This very road had an army of lobbyists in Washington working night and day for the passage of the Kseh-Cummins bill; but they did not want to put into effect the provision of the bill directing the commerce commission to order the increase! Was there ever a more stupid suggestion made for public consumptiont Back of the claim of losses by the companies is an effort to fool the public so that when the decreased wages they are now contemplating for their employees is put into effect and the employees go out on strike rather than accept the decrease, the public will have been led to believe that it was abso-1 lutely necessary to pay lower wages or have the companies go to pieces. One is safe in guessing that if Tohn O. Richards had been a member of the South Carolina I railroad commission the authority recently granted the Bell Tele|| 'i every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those Interested. Telephone, local and long distance.* No. 112. Entered at the postofTlce at Fort Mill, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1921. - ? ' Depend upon William Jennings Bryan to say something'refreshing. Praising the work of Congressman Claude Kitehin of North Carolina as leader of the Democrats in the house of representatives. the Nebraskan a day or two ago observed that four years hence the country in electing the president will be more interested "in the direction the candidate is going than in the section he comes from." Take with a hig grain of salt the poor mouth put up by the railroads of the country. They ai'e not losiinr mniiAV an?l !??? I newspaper stories to the contrary are put out by " the companies to deceive the public for a selfish purpose. Under the Each-Cummins law?an iniquitous piece of legislation?put through Congress by Republican members about the time the railroads were returned to their owners a year or more ago, the companies were guaranteed (> per cent 011 their capita) stock, more than a third of which is said to be watered mill llliil'iifni'll niiiifiioaiifo ?"? ??? . ^ ' phone company to increase its rates in this State would have been withheld. Our recollection is that in the discharge of his official duties Major Richards could always be depended upon to look u{|er the interests of the people. But the railroad commission now is apparently dominated by a man whose -conception of his obligation to the public runs in another channel. This man is Frank \V. SShealy, with whom the Fort Mill community has had some experience. Two vears airo au effort was made by Fqrt Mill citizens to have the railroad commission 1 order the Southern railway to stop passenger train Nq. 32 here. Mr. Shealy's reply was that if such an order were issued it would have to include Ridgeway, town of 300 people. Fine reasoning from the railroad's point of view! There is food for thought in the communication The Times prints toduy suggesting that the people of Fort Mill erect a memorial to the soldiers who went from this community to the World war ami whose brave soids having "gone west." did not return with their comrades. "Greater love hath no man than this?that lie lay down his life for a friend." The half dozen and more Fort Mill boys who made the supreme sacrifice in the cause practically ovI'VlTvlim I V tlimnrllt l?i trli t imiiu for every citizen of the community.. and it would Heeni us little as the community could do to show its gratitude in a substantial. enduring way by erecting to tlieir memory u statue of marble or granite, that the world about us might know that we are not i people who hold lightly the priceless service these brave boys rendered their fellow-man. Vance's Knowledge of Toads. The following is printed in one of the Charlotte papers as the first school composition ever written b>\ Governor Vance of North Carolina: "You told me to tell what I knowed about toads. Well toads is like frogs, but more dignity, and when you come to think of it, frogs is wetter. The warts which toads is noted for can't be cured for they, is cronick. but if 1 couldn't get well I'd stay in the house. My grandfather knew a toad that some lady had trained till it. was like folk's, when its ntuctur \i?K?oo1iwl >? ... 11 ?v .......... .. i innim II WlllllU I'linil1 for flies. They cetches them with their toil}; wich is some like a long red worm, but more like litenil*, only litenin hasint got no guin on to it. The fli will he standing a rubbin its hind legs together and a thinking what at fine fat fli it is and the toad a sit ten some distance away like it was asleep. While you see this fli as plain as you ever see anything at all once it aint there? then the toad looks up at you solum out of its eyes like he said : What become of that fli? but you j know he et it. Thats what I know about toads." ! Talk by Dr. N. E. Winters. i Prof. K. M. Smith, teacher of agriculture in the Fort Mill high school, has arranged with Dr. \T. 10. Winter, Clemson college expert on soils and fertilizer, to visit Port Mill on April 80. at 3 p. in., and deliver to the farmers of this community an address on agricultural subjects. Dr. Winters was in Fort Mill a few weeks ago and made a talk at the school but on account of the unfavorable weather only a few heard him. He is one of the best known agricultural speakers in the South. His address in Fort Mill on April 30 will he delivered in the high school auditorium. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our deep appreciation for the kindness and A * 1 * o.,...paiuv tJAifimea us during the funeral and at the burial Sunday \ of Private Clyde W. Stevens. We wish to especially than the local military company and the American Legion post. DALLAS STEVENS & FAMILY. - 1 Automobile Found ? Owner of abandoned Overland touring car recently recovered near Fort Mill can get same by proving owntrahip and paying ex pauses. V. I). PottR. Chief of Police, Fort Mill, S. C. ?rr?BDV . . ..tHWRK ? i.W KS " 0 ?' V ' t ' FORT MILL TOOSi IWe Received a i Norris' By ELxpress Toda^ $ Your Candy Want t m m _ M m I nuianson's I PHOf "" \ * A_. O. JC GOOD TH1 I (.'r(Kvrirs, Market, Fountr) I'nHlinv. IMiune Fourteerf. ^ Canned Gooc l'ure Apple Vinegar, quart ...... Breakfast Bacon, pouiul Sliced Boiled Ham, pound Kagle Macaroni package Tomatoes, can ! Sliced Pineapple, can Dessert Peaches, can !..... Other Canned Hoods of Interest?-\ Pork and Beans, Sock eye Salmon, eed Dried Beef, four kinds of good ton's Teas, Lye llomiuy. Corn. ( mentoes. Salad Dressing, Olives. CULP BR PHOl t THE CIT # Upper Main Street, Fort IN J serving meals or short ord a hurry. We make every ef f If you are in town for a si \ care to trouble to go home j a glad to have you try our se t JOHN 3.' BA . .? I ROCK HILL FURN I Funeral I I ^ C. K. 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Directors I Jcensed Embalmer ^ ; South Carolina License No. 141 US, Assistant ? t Phonos 212 and 12(5 SOUTH CAROLINA ; IUIPMENT || Cabbatre Planta f??r !?? /* | shipment. $1.75 postpaid. Medlin Plant Farm. Phone 125-B. Fort Mill. S. C. LISTEN! Baker's is the Barber Shop thut baked the prices, but it didn't do it at 1 lie expense of service. Hair Cut 25c Shampooing, plain 25c Singeing 25c Tonic 25c Shave 15c Massage, plain 25c Come and see us. We will save you money and send you away smiting BAKER'S BARBER SHOP. IE \ Roc RjiKci in pr< L?l?/AjliCT hard service. Vulcanite I Wl giving consie n of >'t'ars- 1 and Hexago You can't aipict durable and Z;;rJL"',"r. double thick trad*- mark ia on . . . ; llMrco/iaJjtwbajr Alld WlO with asphnll in either a d '* contribute j beat on the r =| Don't buy i lookod it ov< (Fort Mill I FORT Ml ^ II I {= =3 E i? Men's Pe $1 Come around anc in one of the new consist of coat an< T~V> O rl /J * r mauc, uycu UillC, are serviceable. B. M. 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