Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, February 21, 1922, Image 2
THE FORT MILL TIMES
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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...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
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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
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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.
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"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.
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possible for their money,
of depressed conditions.
Our customers are always
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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.
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Treasurer of .-nty
Pyramid Paint Shop
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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.
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E. S. PARKS, Manager.
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