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*r" ' i \* r' / ? .) *' - \ THE FORT MILL TIMES Thursdays?Democratic. W. R. Bradford. Editor and Publisher. Tlio Times Invites contributions on live subjects, but does not UKi'ee to putdisti more than 2bU words on uny subject. Tlie right Is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those Interested. Telephone, local and long distance. No. H2. Kntered nt the postoltlce at Kort Mill, S. C., us mall matter of the second class. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1922. Tlu* doughboy with the bayonet is still the most important war device, army officers say. Airplanes, artillery, machine guns, rifles and tanks are important, but tliev are in the background. It is always the man that counts, not the job, conditions or equipment. The best bookkeeper the Standard Oil company ever had was John I). Rockefeller, lie did not merely keep books?he looked ahead ami made good use of bis opporiunit ies. A poem appears in one of the current magazines whieh purports to {rive the mental attitude of the liuweleuiue weed ill the garden as it enjoys, iis little hour in the sunshine before the gardener spies it and punishes lis oaring by uproot iiig it and throwing it aside to shrivel and die. What is the average weed's offense in the world If It is not merely in living, but in seeking 1o live in the garden. Virtually every soealled weed, the scientists tell us. luts a right to live and a real service to perforin, one deserving to win the gratitude of mankind, if the truth about it were known. And the offense for which so many weeds pay the penalty in human hatred and in untimely death is simply the offense of beihg in the wrong place. How many people are that way If How many lives capable of giving good service to the world are in the wrong niche and get only rebuffs, repulses and heartbreaking treatment because of it? Han ford MeNider, national commander of the Amcrcun Legion, in a recent address said: "1 pledge you that the American Legion is going 1 <? fight first for the man who is fighting the fight for his life. Our big fight is for the man who came hack lame 01* blind, who must live through the war Forever." The Amerieaii people, however much they may he divided upon the question of the soldier bonus, are with this aim of the Ameriean Legion. The first duty of the nation should he to euro for, eomfort and compensate as far as possible the young men disabled in the country's service during the world war. Those who are no longer able to help themselves because of their sacrifice for the nation deserve from it the most liberal treatment, and they should have it now. The American people will never protest or complain against whatever is done to alleviate the sufferings of the soldier who was disabled through disease of wounds or accident while in the service, either overseas or in a training camp in this country. Old and New Way of Travel. The difference in time it now takes to make the trip by automobile from Fort Mill to York ami back to Fori Mill over good roads compared with the time it took to make the same trin over ^ I -unimproved roads in a buggy some years ago was illustrated Friday morning when two Fort Mill citizens left here after 9 o'clock and at 12 o'clock were back at their homes, after spending more than an hour at the county seat. In years gone by, when horse-drawn vehicles were the principal mode of travel through the country from Fort Mill to York, about the quickest time that could be made between the two towns was five hours. ^ Then the round trip consumed practically an entire day and at its end the horse that had drawn , the buggy was almost worn out from pulling the vehicle over the rough, hilly roads. Now one may Club Meeings Saturday. Contrary to the general impression, the biuenuial meeting of the Democratic clubs of York county will be held Saturday, April 22, and not Saturday, April 2y. Misunderstanding as to th? date on which the cluos are to meet arose over the fact that there are five Saturdays in this month. The constitution of the party says the clubs shall hold their biennial meetings on the fourth Saturday in April. At the meetings Saturday each club will elect a full IXtlllltllttllutlt W?U|/*VIUVIli VTA. v/lliw A O, WV ?11V?V ?"? delegates to the county convention, which is to be held in the court house at York on Monday, May 1. and a member of the county executive committee. The county convention will be composed of about 125 delegates, apportioned among the various clubs according to the vote they least in the first primary in August, 1920. The plan of apportionment provides one delegate for each 25 votes east in the primary. Under this rule Fort Mill is entitled to only nine delegates in the convention, as the vote of the precinct in the August primary two years ago was less than d(K). against a vote of 500 cast by the town alone in the primary last December. The principal work of the county convention will be to arrange lor the nominating primary next August, the election of a county chairman and a secretary and the election of delegates to the State convention, to be held in Colum liia a Few days after tlit* county convention. The presumption is that this year for the first time ] women will sit as delegates in the county convention and that one j or more may he s? 111 as delegates < to the State convention. < Died in Columbia. The remains of Mrs. John Stevens arrived in Fort Mill Friday morning from Columbia, where she died at a hospital Thursday, and the interment followed in the i city cemetery. Mrs. Stevens was < 41 years of age and is survived i hy her husband, her mother. Mrs. < Sara Wright, four brothers, L. C. < Wright. Lester Wright. Baxter < Wright and John Wright, and i a sister. Mrs. .lohn Canuup. all of < whom live in Fort Mill. Another . sister. Mrs. ICmma Thrower, lives j in York. i MOI TO L We can arrange 1 any amount on v; for various period; We cordially invil the community i need of such ac come in and dis with us. This is just one v strong National our people. First Nati* Operated Under the St United States THE TORT MILL Hitting the Bullseye. A stock pool apparently is r. place where suckers are caught. The political pot will boil with no other fuel than hot air. "Who killed J no. Barleycorn ?" asks an exchange. Is he dead? One way to make a man hardboiled is to keep him in hot water. With inanv politicians patriotism and patronage are synonymous. mi i* ? '? i ne iarmer asked lor succor, and Congress treated him like a sticker. The man who lost his eyesight by drinking bootleg liquor can see his mistake. Kurops seems to regard the money we loaned her huring the war as a bonus. People who say that the world is getting worse probably are not getting any better themselves. You observed, of course, that, congressmen voted themselves a bonus?free seeds, with which they will try to round up the voters. Halt the people object to supporting the government ami the other half wants the government to support them. The trouble about securing movies lhat will not harm the children is that grown people do not want pictures of that kind. Some congressmen are still trying to find out whether the taxpayers or the ex-service men have the greatest number of votes. A Chicago man was sent to an insane asylum because he had a passion for circulating in circles without getting anywhere. Congress would have been the right place for him. Some of these days the English f?jr aaa VVU1U1 11115 Bank can serve ratal Bank ? rict Supervision of the ' ' t Government i ( (8. 0.) TIMES I | Summer Ui I Hosiery 1 ' We are showing ai 3 Ladies* Undergarments f'j Crepes, Nainsooks, Bat I tive prices. 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