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Navy Perfects Device for Finding
Bottom of Oceans.
Kxplorcrs aiul geographers who
have Im?ii sighing for new lands
i?> conquer may find their best
field oi endeavor, paradoxically,
hi ilie sea. Now that the United
'-ales navy has perfected a device
for measuring the depths of
water by sound waves without going
through the tedious process of
lowering sounding lines it should
be possible to add greatly to the
r?luli\oly little we know about
tin- under-water portion of the
earth. The importance of this little
explored region is brought out
i:: the, following bulletin issued
by the National Orographic society
:
"When it is realized that nearly
three-fourths of the surface of
the globe consists of water it is
rather remarkable how little we
know of the vast surface of the
I vnli.l v t * 11 14 * 11 linu iiiiilitr li iu I
k si i-t'fii of liquid. The grcuterporr
lions of our continents are mapIn
.1 even to the smallest details,
and our harbors and the shallow
waters off shore are fairly well
charted, hut once the edges of
the continental shelves are passed
the features of the sea bottom are
represented by only a few somewhat
vague contour lines laid
d?>w n between rather infrequent
points of soundings.
"We know without doubt that
the highest point on the earth is
the peak of Mt. Kverest which extends
above sea level for 2JMH)2
feet, or 138 feet less than 5 1-2
mdes. On the other hand, we can
only speak of the deepest abyss
'yei discovered,'for the one great
pili hidden in the depths of the
ocean, lias scarcely established its
' it le to first place in recent years
' when it has been surpassed by a
deeper one; and it can hardly he
believed that the deepest of all
has yet been discovered.
"School children were taught a
ft w years ago that the deepest
depression in the earth's surface
w..s near the Fiji islands and that
it was ilO.litit feet deep. Since
then the 'deepest hole on earth'
has been successively Kermadec
deep, northeast of New Zealand,
itO.biiO feet; Nero deep, southeast
til (Suum. ill.GIG feet; and the
present holder of the record, Philippine
deep, east of the Philip-"
pine islands, ( 112,081) feet. The
greatest known depth therefore
lies (! miles and 401) feet below
the surface of the sea.
"The greatest range vertically
of the earth's surface is between
the bottom of Philippine, deep and
the top of Ml. Kverest, a distance
of approximately 11.t? miles. This
so his a tremendous distance until
it is Compared- with the diameter
of the earth, which, near the latitudes
of these great physical features,
is approximately 8.000 miles.
On a globe with a diameter of
eight inches, this maximum range
of depressions and heights would
be represented by a scratch little
more Until a hundredth of an inch
deep. The smallest division on a
household ruler is one-sixteenth
of an inch. The scratch would be
less than a fifth of such a division
in depth. On a billiard ball
one could hardly scratch lightly
enough with a pin to represent
the great Philippine deep, and a
few grains of talcum powder
would stand for Mt. Kverest. The
smoothest orange that grows has
much greater irregularities on its
- skill in proportion to its size than
those given to the earth by all its
peaks and valleys.
"One who studies the earth
comes to realize that in a sense
the eontinets are subordinate to
the great ocean basins. The total
volume of these depressions below
ysea level is many times greqter
than the volume of the land that
rises above the sea. If the entire
lund surface were leveled down
anil ocean nearly two miles deep
would sweep over every square
foot of the surface of the globe. .
The condition of the continents |
might ^it first glance be cosidered
precarious, but dry land has form- j
ked a considerable part of .the surface
of the earth for thousands 1
of years and will probably re- '
main for a long time to come. It
has been estimated that less than
four cubic miles of solid material
is carried into the sea by water
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SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS.
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Baptists Soon to Hold Convention
in Olover.
The 14th annual session of the
York Baptist Sunday School convention
will be held with the Baptist
church at Clover, Tuesday
anil Wednesday, May 9 and 1U.
The convention will be composed
of delegates from the Sunday
schools in the York Baptist association,
about 18 in all, and a full
iu <>viwwltu<l At till! liPU.
urir^a i IUII in ITAJ/ivivu UI. I??V "
sion. Dr. J. W. H. Dyches of
Fort Mill is president of the convention
and W. A. McAfee of
York is vice president. The removal
of W. G. Reynolds, formerly
of Rowling Green, to North
Carolina leaves the office of secretary
and treasurer vacant. Resides
the workers in* the convention
territory who will deliver addresses
other speakers will be the
Rev. G. C. Epps, the Rev. A. L.
Pickens ami Miss Elizabeth Nuckols,
all of Statewide prominence.
The program of the convention is
as follows:
First Day.
10 >10 A. M"?Opening exercises,
Rev. N. A. lleihrick.
10:45 A. M. ?Roll call of
churches, enrollment of delegates,
etc.
11:00 A. M.?Address, "The
Two Hemispheres of the Sunday
School," Rev. A. Ij. Pickens.
11:00 A. M.?Addresses, "Why
Some Superintendents Fail ami
Others Succeed," A. M. Grist,
Rev. T. A. Snider.
12 M.? Discussion, "Solving
Teacher Problems," Rev. .1. D.
Croft.
1M 1* M ?AiMri'Kv "Stew
ardship" Rev. (J. C. Epps.
1 .00 P. M.?Dinner.
2:00 P. M.?Session of devotion,
11 1). llarkey.
2:15 P. M.? Diseusion, 44How to
Have a Hundred Per Cent Teachers'
Meeting," Rev. 1). L. Hill.
2:45 P. M.?Address, 4 4 Let the
Children Hrow," Miss Elizabeth
Nuekols.
3:15 P. M.?Address, "The Sunday
School Worker's Library,"
Miss Willie K. Barber.
3:30 P. M.?Discussion, "The
Neglected Teen Age," Rev. A. L.
Pickens.
4 :00 P. M.?Miscellaneous business.
4:15 P. M.?Adjournment.
7:45 P. M.?Addresses, Miss
'Nuekols, Rev. (1. C. Epps.
Second Day.
10:30 A. M.?Praise service.
Rev. T. A. Snider.
10:45 A. M.?Address. "The
Teacher Before the Class," Rev.
.1. R. Smith.
11:00 A. M.?"The Standard of
Excellence," Rev. A. ft. Pickens.
11:15 A. M.?44 Avenues of Approach
to the Chilli's Mind."
Miss Elizabeth Nuekols.
11:45 A. M.?"Adult Department.
the Keystone of the Sunday
School." Rev. C. E. Thomas.
12 M. ? Address, "Stewardship,"
Rev. U. C. Epps.
12:30 P. M.?Open conference,
44Problems of Superintendents,"
Rev. A. L. Pickens.
1:00 P. M.?Dinner.
2:00 1*. M.?Devotional service.
Rev. Mr. Bedford. 2:15
P. M. ?44 A Successful
Home Department in the Rural
Sunday School." Miss Klizabeth
Nuckols.
2:45 P. M.?"Saving Souls, the
Supreme Test of the Sunday
School," Rev. N. A. Hemrick,
Prof. R. 0. Burts.
3:15 P. M.?Reports of departmental
superintendents.
3:45 P. M.?Election of officers,
announcemtnts, adjournment.
An entertainment will be given
in the Fort Mill Baptist church
next Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock by 16 children from the
Economy home at King's Creek,
of which J. H. Spaulding is superintendent.
A cordial invitation is
extended the public to be present
for the entertainment, which will
be unique in character.
Many prospective heirs had
rather have a deed than a will.
annually. At this rate, leaving
out of consideration upheavals
and subsidences due to earthquakes
and other causes, it would
require more than 6 million years
for all the present -4and,. to; he
washed into the sea."
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NEWS OP YORK COUNTY.
Items of Oeneral Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer. N
People of this part of the country
?rc notirOHhlv irrowimr more
careful in crossing railways in
automobiles, which speaks well
for the intelligence of the people
of this county.
Former Supervisor Thos. W.
Boyd of Lesslie was among the
visitors in Yorkville Monday. Mr.
Boyd said that he had not decided
whether or not he would be a
candidate for county supervisor
this year.
Governor Cooper has set aside
April 25 as 44Cooperation Day."
He wants the farmers who have
not yet signed the cooperative
marketing contract to do so. And
to the end that the matter may
he intelligently presented he asks
that farmers ami business men devote
the day to a general canvass
of the entire field.
Mrs. Kttie Huggins, under joint
indictment with Alfred Zimmerman
charged with the murder of
Pink Huggins, her husband, November
7, last, gave birth to a
baby boy at the county home Friday
morning. Mrs. Huggins was
up Saturday morning as usual;.
The case against the two was formally
continued Monday until the
next term of court, presumably
on account of the birth of the
child.
"One of the best kept cemeteries
in the county," remarked a
gentleman who is well acquainted
with the subject, "is Laurelwood
in ltock Hill. Some years ago the
Yorkville cemetery rather had it
011 Laurelwood. but now there is
noticeable some change in favor
of Laurelwood. Of the country
cemeteries perhaps Ebenezer leads
the list. The graves are more
generally marked with suitable
stones and the whole place is
pretty well looked after."
It takes the people a long time
to realize the change in *the law
as to working the roads. For instance,
the county board of commissioners
110 longer have anything
to do with the main road
from Chester to the Gaston county
line or the main road from Catawba
Junction to Yorkville. The
same is also true of the Saluda
road out of Rock Hill to the Chester
line. All the roads are now
under the maintenance of the
State highway commission, but of
course York county is still paying
the expense of upkeep.
It is going to take a good many
thousands of dollars in road work
to make that Boyd's Ferry bridge
on the Catawba accessible to travelers
between York and Mecklenburg
counties. There is practically
no approach to the bridge
from the York county side at the
present time. There is a kind of
a trail that might be?followed on
foot, or possibly with a strong
two-horse wagon, running empty
or pructically so, but it is not safe
f/.K LVa.,1 .. * I. 4 ill
iui f ui ti cam, a i irani nui nil ill
many of the ruts ami holes are
leveled up somewhat. If . the
bridge were completed at this time
the traveler from Yorkville or
Clover to Charlotte would fare
better by Belmont or Fort Mill
than by the new bridge. And to
make the trip at all practicable it
is going to bo necesary to make a
new road not sonly from the
bridge site to the present ridge
road, but the ridge road itself has
got to be worked on considerably.
One sees five times as much
wheat and oats and rye and clover
growing in the fields along
the road between King's Mountain
and Shelby as one would see
on any road in York county for a
similar distance. There are hun
dreds of acres of it, looking heal*
thy and green, and folks familiar
with all sections of the county say
it is that way all over. Jn fact,
such a little bit of feedstuffs for
animals is shipped into Cleveland
county, N. (\, that few if any
folk* get rich out of it up there.
In the barnyard at every farm
house there are not a few chickens
walking about the yard, but
scores and scores of them?pure
bred chickens, mostly Buff Orpingtons
and A^hite Leghorns and
Rhode Island Reds. There are
< large orchards, the trees lnxuri
ant in-foliage* and there is a-general
atmosphere of prosperity- and
every indication of successful life.
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UBSDAY^APJtTL 20, 1982.
(SOUTH PULLING FOB FORD.
Wants- Muscle Shoals Turned Over
to Detroit Man.
If anyone north of the Mason
and Dixon, line is of the opinion
that anyone but Henry Ford
would be welcome at Muscle
Simula uu nmirutap nf tho bavohi.
Vf/w V* *i?v
iment's huge waterpower and nitrate
plants there it would not require,
more thau 15 minutes in any
community in the nearby States
to convince him .that he was
wrong, says an Atlanta press dispatch.
Sentiment, in favor of the Detroit'
manufacturer has taken
place, it is asserted by those interested
in the efforts being put
forth in his behalf, for several
reasons, among which are:
Ford's known ability to get the
utmost from a working man and
pay him exceptionally good wages,
and his known inclination to
sell his products at a low market
price.
Farmers, business men and just
ordinary citizens believe thut unless
Ford gets the nitrate plant
and electric plant on the Tennessee
river, the South is going to
lose the greatest opportunity for
advancement it has ever seen.
They believe that if anyone else
gets the - plant possible failure
faces the enterprise.
The uveruge man knows little
of Muscle Shoals, lie hears that
Henry Ford wants it, that the
Alabama Power company also is
after it, and that severul other
bids have been made for the property.
But he does not know that
at Sheffield ami Florence, Ala.,
on the Tennessee river, which
lies south of the supposed industrial
center of the United States,
there exists the greatest waterpower
project in the world. It
ranks greater than Niagara itself
tti nntoniiul nAtifiii*. uiul nil
Charlotte. The milk is sold in the
main in quart bottles at 15 cents
each and is delivered at the doorstoop
of his customers.
Another Pleasant Valley farmer
who also is operating a dairy and
like Mr. Elms iinds his customers
in Charlotte is Arthur Hall. The
milk from both dairies is delivered
by motor truck and notwithstanding
the distance of about 20 1
miles to Charlotte, good roads to i
that city insure prompt deliveries,
regardless of weather eon- i
ditions. ^ ^
??t pv vv ittmi punt i <niiu un ni in (lit
other enterprises.
Those in the South who know
about the river realize that their
bread and butter depend in the
future mainly upon such developments.
The South is a network
of high tension electricity transmission
cubles. The mountains of
Georgia, Tennessee and the Caroliuas
abound in excellent waterpower
sites, and the electricity developed
from them serves the
South, but not as it should be
served. To add to this service
the South wants llenry Ford to
get hold of Muscle Shoals. It has
faith in llenry Ford, because of
his success in other enterprises.
Therefore the South has enlisted
in the Ford cause, and in Georgia
and Alabamu at least politicians
are being told that they
needn't come round next election
day unless they are doing their
best to hand over Muscle Shoals
to Henry Ford. There isn't any
mistake about where the South
stands, and, what's more, the
South wants the world to know
wher it stands. Unless Mr. Ford
gets control of Muscle Shoals the
South is very likely to vent its
wrath somewhere is the neighborhood
vof a good sized bunch of
congressmen. The fact thut the
Ford offer contains some features
that some congressmen do not
like doesn't influence the folks
of the South.
Outwitting the Boll Weevil.
John W. Klins, Pleasant Valley
furiner, does not purpose that the
boll weevil get the upper hand of
him as it has many farmers in the
sections of the State where it apparently
has taken up a permanent
residence. Realizing that
sooner or later the weevil would
become active in destroying the
cotton crop of his neighborhood,
Mr. Klins has turned his attention
from cotton growing to dairying
and now has a herd of 25 good
cows, from which he delivers
iImiIv xhniit 7R vullnnu nf milk ill
Time;
WOULD FOOL FARMERS.
R onuMinan Tariff Will Tlroum i?
MV|fHI#UVWU A H* M A Will Jk/4 WTTU AU
the Interest of Profiteers.
It should be understood in advance
that the Democrats in Congress
have had no hand or part in
the framing of the tariff bill recently
reported in the senate, says
a Washington dispatch to The
Times. They were not called in
until the tinkering on the bill had
been completed, and were then
permitted to casta vote on reporting
the bill, but having had no
opportunity to see it or study it
they naturally voted against it.
It is a profiteers' tariff from
start to finish and if enacted in
its present form will greatly increase
the high cose of living. It
displays throughout an ignorance
of even the elementary principles
of economies. The rates of the
bill are higher than under1 the
Payne-Aldrieh act against which
the people revolted in 1910 and
elected Democratic congresses for
the following eight years.
In this bill, as in the emergency
tariff act, passed by tin* Republicans
last year, another effort is
made to fool the farmer by placing
high duties on agricultural
products, but the opponents of
the hill contend that the experience
of the farmer following the
passage of the emergency tariff
act was that prices of all his prodnets
declined to v point at which
it was unprofitable to ship them
and compelled him to burn his
corn while millions were starving
in Europe for lack of his unsaleable
products, which has taught
him for all rime that what he
nerds is rot tariifs but markets.
Although t; l>ill itself lias not
been published and only its most
glaring defects .ere yet apparent,
it is already manifest that opposition
to the bill is not to be confined
to Democrats, but that the
Republicans themselves are divided
anil opposition to it may be
expected not only from Republican
senators but from a large section
of the Republican press.
Many He..r Noted Speakers.
The meeting at the Fort Mill
Baptist church last Friday morning
in the interest of the 7"> million
campaign was well attended,
not only by local members of the
church but by a number from
Flint Hill and other churches. Inspiring
addresses were made by
tlie Rev. Dr. 11. A. Bagby of
Greenwood, former pastor of the
First Baptist church of Chester.
and l)r. J. \V. MeGlothlin.
president of Furman university,
who is also president of the Baptist
General Board of South Carolina.
Before the hour for the service
at the church l)r. McGlothlin
spoke briefly to llie Fort Mill
graded school, lie stressed the
cultivation of brain power and
urged the pupils to hang on to
every problem confronting them
like a dog to a snake till all the
resistance was shaken out of it.
Dr. McGlothlin closed his helpful
address to the children by saying
that character was the main thing
i.nd that this could and shoul 1 be
developed by pupils while in
school; that while intellectual
training is very important, the
final test of a man is whether he
is good or bad.
"Sally" 3eason Opens.
The 1922 season of the South
Atluntic league opened Monday
with Charlotte winning over
Charleston, Columbia over Augusta
and Spartanburg over Greenville.
This year as usual many
Fort Mill citizens follow with in- '
terest the fortunes of the various
clubs composing the league and
at the opening guine in Charlotte
a number of local fans were present,
among them E. Springs
Parks, who said the game was
about the poorest exhibition of
professional baseball he had ever
seen, the score being 17 to 16 in (
favor of the North Carolina club.
Arbuckle Contracts Canceled.
Will H. Hays, head of the Motion
Picture Producers' associa- 1
tion, announced in New York ;
Tuesday that all contracts for the
Showing of films in which "Fat- i
ty" Arbuckle appears had been \
canceled. This action, Hays said, 1
af,ected
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CALL TO WOMEN.
Mrs. Williams Urges That They
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ntbcuu vtuu meoungSi
The Times is requested to print
the following communication, addressed
to the women of York
county, from Mrs. Annie Gaines
Williams of Greenwood, chairman
of the South Carolina League of
Women Voters:
"Please allow me to eall your
attention to the fact that the various
Democratic clubs are to
meet on the fourth Saturday of
this month for reorganization and
to elect delegates to the county
convention, which will be held on
Monday, May 1. Since the average
voter comes into direct contact
with the management of her
party only at the club meetings
it is urged that every woman who
has attained her majority, or who
will become 21 years of age before
the general election in November.
attend the meeting which
will be held in her precinct on
Saturday. April 22.
"Of course it is taken for
granted that each club in electing
delegates to the county convention
will provide for a fair representation
of women, but since
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IIII IIUII nil II ll'iin lilt"
custom to select men only, this
provision may he overlooked unless
women are present as a reminder
that they also are citizens.
Then, too, the delegation chosen
by the county convention to the
State convention should be coinposed
of both men and women,
and a woman as well as a man
should he selected to represent
the county on the State Democratic
executive committee. The
Democratic party now requires
that the national executive committer
shall comprise two members.
a man and a woman, from
each State, Mrs. Julian B. Salley
of Aiken being our representative.
"In conclusion let me say that
the liltli amendment gives the
vote alike to the woman who
wanted it and tile woman who
thought she did not want it. Neither
has the right to neglect it.
it now becomes just as much the
duty of every woman in South
Carolina to use her ballot for the
public welfare as it has for generations
been the duty of our men
to employ the franchise for the
best interest of the State. Shall
we prove less mindful and worthy
of the trust than they?"
Lawlessness Due to War.
J In* marked prevalence of lawlessness
throughout the country
during the last few years is part
of the war's aftermath in the opinion
expressed by Judge Bowman
of Orangeburg Monduy morning
at the opening of the April term
of court in York. Judge Bowan
said that the history of wars was
that they left demoralization in
their train and that the recent
conflict had proved 110 exception
to the rule, in his charge to the
grand jury, Judge Bowan urged
that the grand jurors use their influence
to bring about a sentiment
opposed to lawlessness.
Court faced a congested docket
when it opened Monday morning,
hut so large was the number of
defendants pleading guilty that
all eases ready for trial will be
disposed of before the end of the
week.
New Church for Rev. Mr. Bailes.
Fort Mill friends of the Rev.
Porter M. Bailes, pastor of the
First Bantist church of (4r??cr
who was reared in the upper sec- .
lion of Fort Mil) township, will
learn with interest that at a congregational
meeting of his church
held a few days ago it was decided
to build a new chureh to
cost $f?0.(X)(). Sunday the canvassing
committee visited the homes
of the members and $35,000 was
reported as the amount of subscriptions
secured. The congregation
voted to go into the building
and loan association to take
care of the payments of those who
arc not in position to make their
payments at once.
Forty-seven dollars was eon
tributed last Sunday by the Port
Mill Baptist Sunday school to the
Near East relief fund. ?Smaller
Hums given by the Senior B? T.
F * the. Junior B. Y? P? IL and
the y. m^tewchhiMM^np
to *5??&W tfcewertha & : '
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