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T HE FORT MOLL TIMES Democratic?Published Thursdays. Win. n. Bradford, Editor and Pa k I taker. The Times invites contributions on live subjects but does not agree to publish more than 200 words on any subject. The right is reserved to edit oVery communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising: rates are made known to those Interested. Telephone, local and Ionic distance. No. 112. Entered at the postolhce at Fort Mill, S. C? us mall matter of the second class. 1HURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1981. It is ii regrettable truth that a great number of women are such slaves to fashion that ihey really think it would be better for them to be dead than out of style. If this should fall under the eye of any such, the following is offered for her consideration: No woman by immodest dress ever gained the affection of any man worth having as a husband. There doubtless are plenty of male cheap skates who would an nex a woman because of her physical charms, but there is nothing about these bos that would justify a real woman in having it in for herself to the ex n-ui nun sue wouiu be willing to sit across the table from oue of them for the balance of her life. One of the main purposes of the soealled "Made in Curolinas Exposition" to he held in Charlotte itliin the next week or two ali eady has been accomplished: 'l lie project hats produced a lot of juicy advertising for the Churlotie Observer. And as is the i tile in nearly ..II such undertakings. the promoters successfully )in,\c.l lt.r snaps a number u. \ eehly p..per.-. .i.at puolistied "news" the crap they sent out l.-oiit their publicity bureau. '1 here's many a slip 'twixt the i tip and the lip. Tom Harrison, t teh Oreenville county man who t.as recently convicted of killing Lis wife and sentenced by Judge .deiiimiiiger lo serve 15 years in the State penitentiary, doubtless thought his trial would prove more or less of a joke, depending upon his money and the fact thut he circulated in high social circles, albeit he had the reputation of being a libertine and a uebauehee, to get him out of trouble. In the face of the verdict recommending the mercy of the court. Judge Memminger did well in the sentence he imposed; but there is this criticism The Times would make of the verdict: From the evidence published in the daily papers, nothing was produced to justify the killing of the woman, and there was 110 earthly reason why Harrison should have escaped the electric chair. Had he committed his crime in Knglaud, where human life is sacred and where neither money nor position excuses a criminal, nothing would have saved him from the gallows. This country is overrun with murderers who have escaped the punishment they deserved and when there is the chance to legally rid society 01 a iresn one, the upportunity should he improved upon. Some years ago an old negro rusticating around the depot in Chester was asked what kind ot man his employer was. lie replied, "Why. he's jist a solucious sort of man." North Carolina seems to have a "solucious" sort or governor. And that may he saying much or little, depending upon the definition one finds to lit the word. As a general thing the people of the towns in South Carolina get the sort of town government they want. If it suits them to liaVe men in charge of their local affairs who take little interest in seeing thut the town is kept clean and made more attractive as a place of residence, they have no 5L*. right to complain if the advertising the town thus gets assures it the reputation of being backward and slothful. Streets and pavements overgrown with weeds and j made a dumping ground for rcI fuse matter of various kinds are not a good recommendation for any town. Lack of funds sometimes is given as the reason'why so many South Carolina towns are allowed to plod along year after year in the same old r*it of indifference as to civic condi-< tions, but most of. these towns . could put on a better front if ' their revenues were expended : more wisely. Many readers of the story recently sent out by a newspaper correspondent which began with the statement 441 have twice been shot at" doubtless regretted bef;..i .i... ... i ivir iiicj iiniaiiru (lie niuit> lliai the aim of the marksmen was so ! poor.' IRAK?BAtfV NATION. The impending addition of a new member to tlie family of nations?the kingdom of Irak?to function under a British mandate, is mentioned in recent dis ' patches from London, llow this ' 'new" coumrv is unreality one of the oldest and most historic patches of the north's surface is I told in the following bulletin from the Washington headuarters | ' of the National Geographic so- j 1 cioly: j 1 " irak has existed as a gco-j graphical name for ages," says ' the bulletin, "but .in recent cen- i tlines i? has had little more ofli- ; 1 eial sanction than 'Manhattan' 1 tor the American metropolis or 1 'Frisco' for a thriving Pacific j I port. Yet it covers more or less indefinitely a region known, and often famous. iii every age of man ' from the dawn of tradition to tin- ' pre .ent the fertile plain of the . .gris and Euphrates valleys. | ! ..here tin* (iarden id' Eden is sup ,.oM'd hy many students to have ! n n and where the first weak 1 not lets sprouted that have grown nt?? the worldwide eivili/ation i today. Strip lr..k of its alius i i ..It it Buhylou. Ninevali. Mesopo- < ainia. and it is known to every j < hool child. i "The country which it is proposed to erect into the practice liv independent 'kingdom of .rait was placed under the mandate of (Jrent Britain on the h.-caking up of the Turkish empire following the World war, and was generally spoken of as the mandate of Mesopotamia.' It includes approximately the old' Turkish vilayets of Basra, Bag- j duil and Mosul, which cover the I delta of the Tigris and Euphra- j les and a considerable part of the 1 upper reaches of those streams, j lying between the Syrian desert on the one side and the hills of i Kurdistan und western Persia on tin other. To the southeast, at the mouth of the rivers, is the navigable Persian gulf. "It is difficult to exaggerate the agricultural paradise that might be built up in the lower valley of the two rivers, supplemented hy the mineral wealth tak? i from the regions farther north, if the country were under a strong government, und if the micssary capital and modern machinery were available. Even with the factors as they are, the British, who will continue to hold tlx mandate, ami the Arabians, 1 who will be in immediate charge; of the government, are counting on the rise of a great state which may be compared without disad- ; vantage with some of the great governments that have occupied i the land in the past. "To gain an ideat of what j wonderful development can be ' brough about in Mesopotamia one need only look into the past. At the beginning of history the plain of the Tigris and Kuphra- ' tes was a garden spot teeming with a well fed and wealthy people. If there was a 'grandeur that was Greece ami a glory that : wa? Rome' there was truly a splendor that was Babylonian. And the splendor of Babylon was made possible ti.000 years ago largely by the wealth that sprang from the intensive cultivation of the river plain under a gigantic system of irrigation which even the most ambitious systems probably have failed in many ways to surpass. "Great canals crossed the region between the rivers and ran for miles on the outer sides, while smaller canals spread the witter to every corner of the couuiry. \ TORT MILL TIMS! Some of the ancient canals were practically artificial rivers with two and three parallel channels, the remains of which may be traced today for scores of miles. Watered by these countless slreaiuR. nearly every square toot oi the country produced its crop of dates, figs, grain and other products, and the population we4 many times that of today. "Babylon's agricultural Utopia was not a short-lived affair. bu\ continued for nearly ten times as long as the period which has passed since white men settled in America. The country throve with only minor interruptions under Babylonians. Assyrians. Chaldeans, Greeks and Romans. But always the settled civilization of the agriculturists was threatened by the turbulent hill people to the north and east. Finally the Parthians captured the country and were followed by the Persians. Under these more barbarous rulers the great irrigation systems, even then much less efti ctont than during the golden age of Bahvlon. ranidlv deteriorated. 44 Under the Abassid caliphs, wmIi a combination of Arabic and Persian culture, Bagdad was founded on the Tigris in the \4ery center of the river plan?the sj lendid. gay. wicked Bagdad ot The Arabian Nights.' Mesopotamia's prosperity, though much less, was still relatively great and Bagdad was for a while the metropolis of the world, its inhabitants at one time numbering '2 million souls. 44When the Turks got possesdon of the caliphate and carried its seat on to the west. Bagdad withered, and under Turkish rule the Tigris and Euphrates valley entered its darkest period The few canals that had continued to function joined those that had long before fallen into disrepair, becoming clogged or breaking their banks and causing floods. Much of the incomparably 'ertile soil became and has remained until today bare plain or oozy swamp. Only a small percentage, id the rich valley has for generations produced any crops. 44After the Young Turks came into power in 1908 reclamation work was undertaken in the Tigris and Euphrates plain ami | some lU'imwHy was made. Since ilii' licit ish occupied Bagdad in 1H17 this work has been carried much farther. An appreciable acreage has been drained and Back in Busi I have opened a complc the old postoffice building friends have done for me i have their support in the f weights are always right. 1 am still agent for the 1 and I send off packages 1 turned Saturdays. R. F. Gi I; Boll Wee ii on Cotto 25c E ii Weighing Stee ;j ty 200 lbs, pa THE CAS, :; S. A. LEE and T. I 1, FORT MILL, 8. 0. | ?ii *^3 - Ill |^|W|pM XauHHfl&Knv 1=K= =j i : Jams uml i-aiuils haw bwn constructed. A railroad has bomi built from Ba^daol to Basra, a | VI I II\ ??I ?II?- I ri Milll glllLt (> UlNts?i!* * of several hundred miles, uiul another line lias been laid up the Tigris half way to Mosul. Connection with the Cons'..??tiuople-to-liagdad (ouee the li'ilinloltagdadi railway will probably he effected in the near fnturt. "It is planned under the new Arab state and the inandate to ceutimie the work of rejuvenating the country's ancient irrigation system. Hut there is a Herculean task to he aceouiplishe I before 'The Garden of I'Mer' blooms again. It was estimated before the World war that th ambitious project of the Tt rk to reclaim 11,500.000 acres would cost 1:U) million dollars. The tot*;I area that might be irrigai" ! is placed at about ll2.5lHl.tHM acres. Grocery ness ite line of Groceries in I appreciate what my in the past and hope to uture. 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