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THE FORT MILL TIMES |ljk, Thursdays?Democratic. W. R. Bradfqrd. Editor and Publisher. IHB l' *-y ? Th* Times invites contributions on live -?. ??? uwri? nut ukiw iu puc'imn more than 200 wordn on any subject. The rlgh t ia reserved to edit every communication aubmltted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertlsliiK ratca are made known to those interested. Telephone, iocai and long . dtatance. No. 112. Entered at the poatolTlce at Fort Mill, B- C<> as mall matter of the second cUaa. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922. Into New York harbor the other day came an old-time Hailing ve;>,?el, a three-masted schooner. She brought a cargo of mahogany logs irom Africa and it took her 121 days, three months, to make the trip. This is like a page fro n the past. A modern steam freighter would have made the trip in one-tenlh the time. Yet it is only a few generations since the three masted schooners were the fastest ships afloat. A few more generations and the captains of gigantic freight and passenger 'airplanes will laugh at the few steamers lift upon the seas, survivors of 1922. It is the same in everything. Ten years from now the world will look back amusedly at the old foshioned ways of 1922. The 20th century is cutting the oh o/ilrtuu f ? 'I oaiuvniua ui iiuir aiiu njincr. In the year 1600 the world had 60 million people who professed the Christian religion. By the year 1H00 the number had grown to 200 million. Now the-Christian religion has 500 million followers. covering more than 85 per cent of the habitable globe. In the last century Christianity grew two and a half times more than in the combined 18 preceding centuries. In the last 20 years Hie number of Christians has increased more than in any 20 years since the time of Chrisr. The forces of religion are stroii-*n today than ever before and are being strengthened every hour. Josephus Daniels, former secretary of 1he navy, told the North Carolina Press- association in an uddress the other day that so long as the Russians are starving ami German currency is gelling by the peek the world cannot get baek lo normal. With these two great countries in distress, he said, the effects will be felt in every quarter of the globe and by every citizen of every country. And he is right. The effect of conditions in Russia and Germany are being felt today by the 1. 1.1 4- I !- 1 *1 II IIWI11IUCM IllflMlilUIC H1H1 I IK' SIIUIIIost farmer in the United States, not to mention men of larger affairs. It is good business policy for us, if we are moved by no higher motive, to do what we can to aid in the rehabilitation of ii u rope. Premier Brian of France resigned because he was "tired of being shot at front behind." lie had a majority of the people of France and a majority of the Chamber of Deputies with him, but a certain element had been fighting him at every step, fighting him most unfairly, and Brian. worn out hihI sick at heart, finally resigned. There is nothing more cruel or more disheartening than unjust criticism. It will sap the life and courage of the strongest man. There are times when criticism is in order, but we should be sure (hut a man is dishonest or is not doing his best before we begin criticising him. "It doesn't matter whether you are in favor of prohibition or not," said a federal judge the other day. "Prohibition is now the law and you must decide Whether you are going to stand for the enforcement of the law." The judge was right. The law, whatever it is, must be enforced if we are" to have deceut government. Whenever we permit a law to be openly and notoriously violated, then our government is a failure. This is what "Billy" Sunday had in mind when he said the bootleggers were working hand in hand with the anarchists and the 1. W. W. for the overthrow of the government. A text in the Bible that is misquoted "perhaps more often than ft?lt* AtltikV* iri ?"1 " viij uiiiui in ivint iriaiui^; iu money. Many people quote it. '"Money is the root of all evil." The Bible doesn't say anything of the- kind. The quotation is, "The love of money is the root of all evil.?' It is not the amount of money a man has that counts against him. How he got his money, and what he is doing with it, are the main considerations. The love of money is the curse. A man may go wrong for a dollar as quickly as for a thousand or a million dollars. Some of the stingiest, meanest men we ever knew jaever had more than $50 at any one time in their livea. f:' / * /. ' : . ' * - .. * J LEGISLATIVE NOTES. , When the Legislature adjourned Friday night for the weekend the indications were that the session would last at least two weeks longer. The regular 40-day session ended a day or two ago and many members, especially of the house, are becoming restive under the prospect of having to stay in Columbia 15 days beyond the time for which they are paid. Nor is their dissatisfaction without reason. If the worthwhile business which confronted the session when it opened early in January had b?*en attended to as expeditiously as the stress of the times demanded, the calendars of both 'houses would have been cleared itwo weeks ago and both the peoIple and the members would have been the gainers. But there are men in the Legislature J his year, as there have been men in perhaps all the preceding Legislatures, who like to hear themselves talk and who waste time in discussing relatively trivial matters. Not only is there much talk which leads to nothing substantial, but to this may be added'the weekend adjournments and the sluggish uttitude of some of the com mittees in reporting bills referred to them us further causes of the .lengthened session. The average member is not responsible for this condition. He is anxious to get through with the business of law-making that he may return home and'attend to the business of making a living for himself i and his family. Perhaps there are 110 schemers in the Legislature. One prefers to believe that , all the members are bent upon serving the people in the most patriotic way; but it sometimes hapIpcns nevertheless that this or that member looks with favor upon the prospect of having the session run into extru days, and he works to that end, seeing in jit an opportunity to "get by" jwith some pet measure which lie knows will be considered bv few members, as is always the case jwhen the session is 011 its last I legs. Much money has been unwisely expended and many questionable laws put in the statutes in recent years as a result of eleventh hour legislation. Only last yeur the soealled efficiency and economy commission was erejated on the lust day of the session. The commission spent about 1 $15,000. most of which went to 1 experts" from the North, fetch led in to tell the people of the State how miserably they hud failed for 140 years to run their government along scientific lines. ,'ihe beneficial results of the work of the commission, if one may judge from the attention ils recommendations have been accordjed by the Legislature, arc microscopic. The "new revenue" legislation which the people were assured a few weeks ago by the house ("leaders" would revolutionize !the lax system of South Carolina 'has about gone to smash,'and jthere now seems little likelihood I that more thun a million dollars at most will be raised from these sources to relieve the levy 011 real jproperty. The first of the "newrevenue" bills to strike a snag was the proposed tax 011 gasoline. The house bill provided for a tax of 1 cent a gallon 011 John D.'s product. The senate thought the >1 mount iiisiiitVu'W'nl lirnl in creased it to 2 cents a gallon. 1 cent to go |to the counties and the other cent |to the State. This difference belt ween the house and senate lias not been smoothed out and one guess as to what the outcome of the deliberations of the commit! tee representing the two bodies! will be is perhaps as good as another. The senate killed outright the proposed tax on power gen- i .prated by hvdro-eleet rie plants \;hich it was estimated would (bring in several hundred thousjand dollars a year. The inheritance tax measure, should the senate agree to it in its present form, which seems .unlikely, will produce little revenue this year. Nor will there he much revenue forthcoming; from the corporation licence tax measure or the foreign corporation license fee hill?not more, perhaps, than $250,000 from both, an amount that will not go far toward meeting the annual 6 million appropriation. The luxuries tax measure, on which the house "leaders" were hanking principally to cut the levy for the year, apparently has gone up Halt creek, the senate committee to which it was referred having given it an unfavorable report. One is safe therefore in predicting that the tax levy this year will he little, if any, less than 10 m'lllc 1 ool O ""'o -?-11'- I . .no, i.um ^ v.ii ii i>r.? i - ilium. I.r*r Fridac night the house passJed tho appropriation 1?iH. which I carried about a million dollars less than the appropriation hill of 1021. The bill undertook to fix the levy at 5 mills. A mill on all the property in the State raises about a half million dollars. Since 1921 there has been nc marked increase in taxable values to produce many more dollars. If it took 12 mills to raise 6 million dollars in 1921, howwill 5 mills on practically the same property in 1922 raise 5 tmillion dollars! The house seems" I to have indulged its appetite for : |J?rr * HrT*f>T*V "iTl'IH I iti fli IF HI'iTiF'i' / / ** jc^r^lP^VV'--' ' '* v " 1 bunk. The socalled new sources of revenue may euuble the Legislature to reduce the levy to 10 mills, depending upon the amount the "senate adds to the appropriation bill. The York delegation decided definitely a few days ago not to put in -the county supply bill au item of $1,500 to employ a "boll weevil expert/' Representative Carothers was the only member of the delegation who favored the proposition. Not one simon pure farmer had requested the delegation to employ such ah "expert." it. is worth stating in this connection that the employment of farm demonstrators and other special county agents to "teach" the farmers of South Carolina things they already know will be a thing of the phst in most couiuties of the State in a few years. Already a number of county delegations have cut off from the pay roll their demonstration agents. "We found, upon investigation," said a few davs nirn a ri?nr??seiitative from a low-country county, "that our demonstration agent did next to nothing to earn his salary; he loafed around his home most of the time and seldom went out in the county in connection with the work we were paying him to do. All such agencies are fancy adjuncts of government that produce little." To John E. iswearingen, State superintendent of educatiou. may be charged an indiscretion one seldom hears of iii the history ot the South Carolina Legislature. Last Friday morning Mr. Swearingen was in the house gallery when the education section of the J annual appropriation bill was up for consideration. Taking offense at something a member had said about the amount of money asked for the public schoois. Mr. Swearingcn interrupted the speech of the member to say in a loud voice, "1 wish 1 could reply to you." Nothing came of the incident further than general criticism of Mr. [Sweariiigen for violating the rule which forbids visitors to the* house from interrupting the proceedings. There will be a number of new faces in the South Carolina dele-? gat ion in Congress ufter March 4. 1023. if the plans of a trio of members of the Lesrisla-tuiv do not mcft with obstruction. In the Gtli dint riot. E. L. Hughes, represent ativc from Marion county, will undertake to out Congressman St oil. Sam Sherrard, member from Greenwood county, has decided that the time is ripe for someone to take the measure of Congressman Fred Dominick and ihntjie is the man to do it. Claud V. Sapp has reached the same eonelusion respecting Congressman Fulmer and will try to dislodge the Orangeburg man. Landing a seat in Congress is easy to talk about. Governor Cooper Thursday intimated to the house and senate committee which had in charge the bill extending the time to September 1 for the payment of State and county taxes' that he might use his veto power in an effort to defeat the measure, which has passed both houses and is now ready for his signature. Should such action be taken by the governor, a determined effort will Kn mu<lo iiimir iu uvri'rmr i in* veto. Tlie provisions of the bill are for a penalty of 3 per eent in March, 5 per cent in April, 7 per cent in May. atfd 8 per cent in June. July and August. No property is to be sold by the Sheriff for non-payment of taxes before September 1. Presbyterians Plan Canvass. In common with the other churches of the Southern Presbyterian general assembly, the Fort Mill Presbyterian church is plan- j ning a week of prayer during the month of March in which the "every member" canvass will be h<ld. March 12 or as near that date as practicable was fixed for the canvass, so that church officers would he given sufficient I time to report results before the annual meeting of the general assembly in Charleston, W. Va., in May. Final reports are expected to be made to the synodical manager by March 110 and the reports | will then be submitted not later will be forwarded to the general assembly so thai the various committees may know what to expect for benevolenl causes next year. The week of prayer will "begin on March 5 with a sermon on the 44Stewardship of Life." Monday, March 6, there will be a prayer for foreign mission work, March 7 for home mission work. March 8 for aged and infirm ministers. ...:j ---? ?? ...vii nhiuwk auu orpnans, Marcn 9 for the 9 million people in the South who do not attend Sunday school, and Friday, March 10, a rededication prayer service. On the following Sunday there will 1 e a special sermon on "The Stewardship of Possessions" and the canvass will then be made. Canada has voted for reciprocity with the United States. We j are not sure that we know just! what reciprocity is, but we think j we are for it. The word sound?. good. 1 a . ' ? ' .J*' * t * V*- > . 11 FOM BLL (8. 0.) wm Hbf Ordinance to Court? it is said to be uot unlikely that the courts will be called upou to settle the differeuces which have arisen between the town council of Fort Milt and the local board of health over the repeal of the antfhog pen ordinance passed by the council in office last year. A j special meeting .of council was held last Thursday night at which the final stamp of disapproval was put upon the action of the former council in passing the ordinance making it an offense pun- | ishuble by a fine or imprisonment to raise a hog in the corporate limits of the town. -Several members of the board jof health were present at the meeting to protest against the anticipated action of council in repealing the ordinance but their protests went unheeded. Instead, council passed a new ordinance providing thut hogs may be raised in Fort Mill in pens of certuin dimensions, built according to specified plans and not to be located witlnn 75 feet of a residence. Following the meeting of council, a member of the board of health stated that nbg pens could not be maintained in Fort Mill tinder State statute and that the bourd of health would forthwith take the matter to the courts. The ututPiiudit liuu Knioi ntnilp that both the town council and the board of health have arranged for counsel in unticipution of the court proceedings. It also is stated that a number of citizens of the town have gone to Mayor Lytic and volunteered to contribute to a fund to employ counsel to assist the regular town attorney in defending council's position. Magistrate A. J. Quinn Dead. Andrew ?J. Quinn, magistrate of King's Mountain township, York county, for the last 18 years, died suddenly Saturday morning at a hospital in Qastonia, N. where he had been undergoing treatment for several weeks for high blood pressure and complications. Recently his condition had shown marked improvement and he had arranged only a short time before he wus fatally stricken to return home Saturday morning. He was it years oiu ana nau uvea in * lover for many years. Mr. Quinn was widely known throughout the eounty as a leading citizen of his community and as an officer diligent in the discharge of his duties. Besides his widow, to whom he was married only two months ago. Mr. Quinn is survived by several brothers, two of ! whom are Sheriff Fred K. Quinn and Deputy Sheriff I). T. Quinn. his father Felix Quinn of the Bethany community, and one sister. He was a member of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church. The interment was in the Clover cemetery Sunday. Graded School News. The teachers of the first and second grudes of the Fort Mill school were given a day off on 1A C .1.,? rrui unr^ lur uunrrvai um >vuii\ i>i llu" public schools of Charlotte. Misses Garrison. Mauney, Loft is. Armstrong ami Link spent the day at Elizabeth. Wesley Heights and Ward 2 schools in that city. Several of the Fort Mill teachers are planning to attend the annual meeting of the State Teachers' association in Columbia on March 18. A special program will be given at chapel exercises next Monday morning in observance of Washington's birthday. A game vof basketball will be played in Fort Mill Monday afternoon between the Fort Mill ami Pleasant Valley school teams. The Fort Mill team also is to plav Great Falls at Great Falls tomorrow. Few people seem disposed to take seriously the rules adopted by the disarmament conference at Washington as to the use of submarines in warfare. When a nation goes to war it goes in to win. If it does not try to win by any means that come up its leaders are foolish. They are untrue to their truHt. If a nation does not intend to try to win it should not go to war. And in the midst of war, when a battle or the life of the nation itself is at stake, nobody is going to pay much at- I tent ion to rules. Eggs for Sale?Purebred Rhode Island Red Eggs, setting of 15 $1. I Phone J. W. Hall, Fort Mill, S. ('. Economize! See the new goods at new prices at Massey's. Yard i wide ginghams 121-2c; Amoskeag 32 inch Ginghams 20c. , i "I Lost My Best Customers Thru Rats," Writes J. Amnions. "Used to have the busiest Restaurant in town until news snri-inl i that the kitchen wan infested 1 with rats; lost a lot of my best customers until I tried RATSNAP. Haven't a pest in the place now. Restaurants should use RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 135c, 65c, $1.25. Sold by Lytle Drug Co. and Hutchinson's 'Pharmacy. Economize! Save about half your money on "Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverwars, Cut Glass and China at Massey's. ? rif "-r-irnr m r s B " Il50 Su ' For M< % Way Belot ' / I We are offering days on a of 1 i the Suits are we! the lot you will I known manufactui country over as Come here and prices less than ha PAT THE TIME Your ? The constant endeavor ol possible for their money, of depressed conditions. Our customers are always be had and our service is ] solicit your patronage on t Fort Mill TAX NOTICE 1921-22. Office of the County Treasurer of York County. Notice Is hereby Riven that the Tax Hooks for York County will l>e opened on Tuesday, the 15th ilay of November. 1921. and will remain open until the 21 st dily of December. 1921, for the collection of State, County, School and Local Taxes, for the fiscal year 1921 without penalty, after which day one Per Cent Penalty will he added to all payments made in the month of January, 1922, and Two Per Cent Penalty for all Payments made in the month of 'February. 1922, and Seven Per Cent Penalty will he added to all payments made front the 1st day of March. 1922, to the 15th day of March, 1922. and after this date all unpaid taxes will go Into execution and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. All of the Hanks of the County will offer their accommodations and facilities to Taxpayers who made desire , to make use of the same, and I shall take pleasure in Riving prompt attention to all correspondence on the subject All Taxpayers appealing at my office will receive prompt attention. Note?The Tax Hooks will be made up by Townships, and parties writing about Taxes will always expedite matters If they will always mention the Township or Townships in which their property or propet""* aio located. HA It It Y IC. N h II.. Treasurer of .-nty Pyramid Paint Shop IttH K 111 hi.. 8. C. PAINTING t If your car needs painting wo will paint ll for you and do It in euch a way that you will he surprised at the difference It makes In the aooks of your old ear. ?>ur corps of painter* are the Oust that er.n be obtuiiied uml only thsse who are experienced In ear painting are on our force. Ths looks of your car la Just like the looks of your person. It kocs a lang way. JAMU6 A. JOHIIBOIT. rramrlctor. \ 'I ^ v . ]''' % its of CI s ^ ? en and Boys at 'F v Their Marl special inducements >0 Suits for Men and II made and of gocc ind many Suits mad ers whose product is e best to be had in Ai let us fit you out in ? / * ? It theii original value. t TERSO S DEMAND I loliars Stretch Ou F this store is to irive our ru That is why our business cont sure of getting the best and i arompt. If ycu are not alreud his basis. I Cooperative E. S. PARKS, Manager. A. O. J"0 GOOD THI ( rocrrii'.s, Mnrkrt, fouiitrj I'rmliKV. I'Iioiic t'ourtrrn. Garden We have a complete dreth's, Woods' and l;i in package and hulk. Llytl d The rexa; I ! , Ladies' Sb Nice assortment Lai and Cotton Shirtwaist i tan, real pretty styles. the casi PHCN S. a. LEE and t. 1 1^^??? othing \ >rices I, .. tet Value. I for the next few Boys. All of :1 quality, hut in 11 .11 le by nationally > recognized the merica. ? a new Suit at rs CONOMY I t Here stomers the best values inues to grow in the face reshest GROCERIES to y a customer of ours, we 3 Store arsrius NGS TO EAT Seeds i assortment ot Lanerry's Garden Seeds RUG CO. LL Store. lirtwaists lies' Crepe tie Chene s 111 white, flesh and Come and see them V STORE IE 8 ?. LYTLE, Mgrrs.