Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 08, 1921, Image 2
T HE FORT MOLL TIMES
Democratic?Published Thursdays.
Win. n. Bradford, Editor and Pa k I taker.
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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.
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A railroad has bomi
built from Ba^daol to Basra, a
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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.
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