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No. 112.
Entered at the postottlca at Fort
Mill. S. C.. as mall matter of the
second class.
THURSDAY. SEPT. 1. 1921.
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Times are terribly out of joint
it: the United States when men
who served this country on the
battlefields of Erope find it nee
ronuij IU eiiusi III lilt* socaueu
Spanish Legion to fight the Moors
to keep from starving. Yet that
is what is happening in New
York city ami perhaps other big
cities in the North. For going
thousands of miles to face an enemy
with whom the Spaniards
recently have shown their inability
to cope, these Americans art*
to be paid the munificent sum of
$100 as bonus money and 90
cents per day for their service in
the Spanish army. Could anything
more convincingly illustrate
the unworthy attitude of the
United States government toward
the World war veterans than the
condition of these men? Denied
the small annuity the American
l.cgion has asked Congress to extend
?ln ex-service men generally
these soldiers, homeless ami
jobless, with nothing to eat and
perhaps no one upon whom to
Jill fill* iivuiuliin.,.. 1..
- Hu..ioiun? c in uirii uiMi'C^,
are forced by hunger to offer
their lives under a foreign flag
thousands of miles from home.
Of eour.se many of them will take
their last look at their native
luml when tin ship on which they
sail puts out to sea. But what
difference does that make so long
a:, there is money in the United
States treasure to pay the railroads
millions they have not
earned and war contractors other
millions they are not entitled to?
For the time being nothing can
be done to right the wrong the
Republican president and the
Republican Congress are doing
/ the World war veterans, but 14
months hence there will he a nationwide
election in this country
and if after March 4. 1933. the
Democratic party?the only party
in America with enough appreciation
of its obligation to the peo
pie to conduct the affairs of the
government honestly?does not
again come into its own in tin
national house of representatives
it will be because the country is
\\illing to be robbed that the
profiteers ami treasury looters
may continue to rake in the millions,
while the people, including
the former soldiers, convict them
selves at the ballot box of deserving
nothing better.
Now that several Kuropean
governments have accepted Pres
ident Harding's invitation to hold
a disarmament nartv in Wuul>.
ingtou. beginning November 11,
entertainment of the distinguished
visitors is giving the state department
considerable anxiety.
The foreign delegations probably
will include scores of experts ami
clerical assistants who must be
properly housed und fed. Precedent
indicates that Uncle Sam. as
the host, will be called upon to
pay the entire bill, which promises
to exceed the amount Hellenmaria
Dawes of the budget commission
proposes to take from
government employees. This extraordinary
expenditure comes at
an inopportune time for the ad
uiinstrution. which is working so
earnestly in the columns of the
daily papers to reduce the high
cost of government. Then, again,
there is no telling how long the
giiests will remain in Washington.
They may like Washington
lodgings and food so well that
the bill will run into the millions.
The item of printing alone i& estimated
at around a quarter of a
million.
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TBS LIT! or A TBEB
(United State* Senator Tom Watson.)
A number of the house of representatives
made a speech last
week on the subject named in
this headline and he sent me a
copy of it with the request that I
read what he said.
There are some reasons known
only to ine and the trees why 1
will never read this speech. However
much 1 honor and understand
the feeling of the congressman
who made it.
The tree of life and the greeu
fields in which it is blooming
used to be the burden of the song
of my mother in her widowed old
age. When she began to croon
the line?
"In the green fields of Eden.
Where the Tree of Lite is
blooming.
There is rest, rest for me."
1 would pick up my books and
walk out of hearing, for the tones
were those of one who was living
with the deud.
Being less than 21 years of age.
and firmly bent on lighting m\
o\\ n way upward in the world, it
did not discourage when inv
pocket had no money in it, but it
did depress me to listen to this
hymn of the men and the women
who lived in the past.
Kveu Napoleon said that the I
time comes when nothing interests
us. and when that time
comes we are virtually dead and
buried.
Keep the old folks busy at
something, no matter what it is;
kiep them believing that they are
doing useful things?if you truly
love them and wish theui to I in - 1
ger with you yet a while.
As to trees. they waved in
Paradise and lleuven cannot be
imatfiiied wit limit tlw?m
Oih? great soldier is commeuinn.ted
throughout the world by
etlttiligs of the willow under
whit'll lie used to rest, as lie meditated
upon the world lie had
lost.
Another greut soldier said wilh
his last breath. "Let us pass over
.he river and rest under the shade
of the trees."
Still another greut inaii. whose
monument towers above all others
on earth, spent his last afleruon
of outdoor life marking
the inferior trees which were
to be felled in order that the ]
grandeur of .Mount Vernon might
not be marred.
Napoleon said that the most I
beautiful sight to his eyes was a ,
lovely girl, clad in white, walk- j
ing on the green grass, under the I
trees.
Byron's poetry never reached
i higher, purer mark than when he
pictured the clump of trees under
which he and Mary Chawworth
plighted the vows which a
change in the dream of life
brought to nothing.
There is ?or was, not many I
years ago?a rose tree at Cologne
which for ten centuries had bios ]
soined for every generation of
lovers, and hud given its flowers
and its fragrance to every tourist
of the Rhine.
There is?or was. not many
years ago?an oak in Kngluiui
w hose foliage screened the fugi
tiv** rrinee Charles Stuart when
Cromwell's squadron of Ironsides
were seeking him and his life.
There are yet living Some of
the trees that sheltered liohin
Hood and some of those which
formed the bower of Fair Rosa
niond.
The immortal sermon of Chrismt
was preached under a tree,
and these noble words of a lofty
minded mystic are strangely like
those of our Sermon on the
Mount.
Men become attached t?? trees,
having for them a peculiar affection.
and the youthful dreamer
dreams under the trees; and. under
them, the old men see visions.
There is no music like that of
tin* wind in tin* trees, the weird
dirge of the pines, the wild flutter
of the maples, the whisperings
of the white birches and the
I hoarse roar of the oaks.
Nothing more beautiful can be
seen than the red beech bursting
into its tviwtrtr./li-.icu .
I Vtivno, UUIIUU^
more regal than the hickory's
blaze of yellow-gold in the autumn
sun; nothing more gorgeous
than the Tyrian purple that
| the Spanish oak wears?wears
: proudly when other trees are
| reefing their sails for winter and
i their sere leaves have come siglt,
ing to the ground.
Spring and summer and au|
tumn have power to glorify the
' trees and winter is powerless to
I strip them of their beauty. The |
FOBT1PLL THO&8
sleet may come, but it armors
| them in silver; the snow may
{come, but its winding sheet does
not enshroud the dead; the winds
may toss their leafless limbs pack
and forth, but there are voices in
the winds and we hear bur names
called in the night?called by
voices we will not otherwise
hear.
The merciless treud of * our
struggle lor existence has played
havoc with the trees, fc'crests
have disappeared; annual fires
sweep over the barrens andf den>
to uature her right to renew
her favorites; the old-tiiue shade
trees near the home have been
ruthlessly cut down, to add an
acre of fresh land to the cotton
patch; the natural enemies of the
trees have not been combatted;
the deadly caterpillar hangs cut
Ims sign and nobody pays any attention
or will take the trouble to
destroy, the pest ; the pinkhead
cuts olf limb after limb and no
one will burn the brush, much
less pursue the foe to the tree.
We lose the trees, and thefi we
stupidly wonder what has be|
come of the birds.
Many of the kinds that Were
eoiuiiiou when 1 was u boy are
' no longer to be seen: they lived
on the eggs of the enemies of the
trees; or upon the borers which
sought to kill the trees; and inasmuch
as we ourselves have allowed
the grand old trees to perish
the birds have become extinct.
When Byron penned those exquisite
lines to his sister he could
j think of no simile more tender
| than the fountain that sprang in
the desert; the wild waste that
still treasured its tree; and the
| bird that sang by the fountain,
amid the leaves o! this tree.
When Aristotle and l'lato
' taught the subliiuest lessons of
antiquity, they walked with their
students under the trees.
W hen .Julius t aesar wished to
i win forever the love of the Komun
people he gave them his garj
dens ami his groves on the Tiber.
When the liuby Ionian king
j wished to deeply please his bride,
| a mountain gin, lie built for her
| the Hanging Hardens?one of the
seven wonders of the world? in
winch every tree and flower
grew; and the wise men tell us
| iliat at least one of those trees
|.still flourishes, when the king is
forgotten dust, when his queen is
forgotten dust, when his empire
is a vague memory, and when his
onee lertile fields have become
sandy wastes or marshes laden
with the fever which struck down
Alexander the Great.
When the traveler in the desert
becomes dizzy from thirst and
fatigue, the mirage mocks him
from the far horizon. lie sees
running waters; he sees the spray
let" fountains; he sees green trees;
if he perishes, his last vision will
be that which most refreshes the
physical mail, and which almost
any of us can enjoy, if that sort
ol music is in the soul.
| RAIL RATES TOO HIGH.
And Production of Wheat Suffers
Accordingly.
High freight rates have slackened
farm production, according
to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
and, if the present situation
continues, production from the
farms will be reduced materially.
"We cannot afford to let. our
agriculture he destroyed," Mr.
Walare declared. "In attempting
to relieve the distress of the
farmers, we are dealing with
! fcreat economic forces. All our
people ought to share the burden
j of the present depression."
, The farmer is now bearing
I more than his share of the eeo
noiuic load, Mr. Wallace continued,
because the purchasing power
of farm products is below the
average of other commodities,
i Reductions in freight rates on
I farm products, especially on hay.
' the ho rotary said, would be reflected
in a larger volume of
traffic ami therefore in greater
revenue for the railroads.
In .reply to questions of attorneys
for the railroads. Secretary
! Wallace said that wheat from |
Argentina could be laid down !
at Atlantic ports and in foreign
pofts at less than the price Amer- |
ican wheat must bring under >
present conditions.
1 The boll weevil is no longer a
novelty in Fort Mill township.
During the last ten days the pest I
has been discovered on a number
of farms it had not hitherto j
reached and it now seems practi- :
er.llv certain that it will have in- |
vaded every cotton field in this
section before the end of the
summer.
' An Ii
(Continued from I'age 1.)
had shot himself accidentally and
was lying beside the railroad
track too weak to move and all
bnt unconscious when lie was ar- 1
rested.
' "Is your name .lames Howard .
as stuted in tin- indictment." a "iked
tile judge.
" 'It is not." answered the prisoner.
" 'What is your name, when is
your home and what were you
doing in this community 011 .lie
night of the hank robbery." lie
was next asked.
" 'At present I refuse to an- j
swer either of the questions, hut
if you care to have uie answer ,
them in writing later and p.iss :
the answers to you. I shall be ,
glad to do so." j
"The ease was quickly elos mI,
with practically nothing having
been said in behalf of the boy ,
other than his own avowal of iunocense.
Then the jury retired
and the youth was seen to \vi ite |
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ODD BANK ROBBERY.
some!I)ing on a slip of paper 11
which was handed to the judge.
The message it contained was .00
much for the aged jurist. 1'ieseutly
he leaned forward 011 his
desk, his hands in his face. Then
it was noted that his frame sunk
ii: his chair as his face did
on the desk. Ity the time court |
attendants reached him lie was
dead. The court room was thrown
into confusion and the jury never
reported a verdict.
"The boy was taken hack to
jail, hut tin' following night lie
escaped and no serious effort was
made to rearrest him.
"A few months afterward the
deputy sheriff who had arrested
the hoy admitted in a sworn j
statement that it was he and not :
the hoy who rohhed the hank.
'*11 ?*? ? is the message the boy
wrote the judge: '1 am your own '
grandson, .lames Morris. I had I
I* ft father's home to spend the j
holidays with you. At the station
two miles north of here 1 .
missed the train and was walking!
to your home when I accident-ij
ally shot myself."
"Years before. Judge Morris'
son had moved to the Southwest,
lie had never before seen his
grandson."
Country Road Tonnage.
The necessity of keeping country
roads in good condition is
shown by a report recently com
piled by the department of agri
w i - >
runurc Knowing i n?* extent to
which they are useil in hauling
farm products to market. According
to the report, which shows
the tonnage of 11 products hauled
on country roads, giving the
yearly average for the period
from 191to 1919. there were 'J7 j
tens of these 11 crops hauled for
every 100 acres of land. The av- ;
erage tonnage of the 11 crops
hauled on the country roads each
year for the period mentioned
amounted to neary 87 million
tons. The 11 crops refrrcd to in
the report are corn, wheat, oats, |
barley, rye. rice, flaxseed, cotton
(including seed), tobacco, potatoes
and cultivated bay.
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