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0 SSE X THE NEGRO IN DIXIE. Northern Paper Discusses Progress of Race in Last 60 Years. It is now close to 60 years since the negro of the South became a free man, says a Northern news% paper. What has the negro done through the years following vhis release from bondage to prove his worthiness to become not only a free man but a citizen of the * American republic? Certainly the flight of more than half a century has brought about u considerable change in the character of the negro as well as in U18 conditions oi living. Tiie old time negro of the South, with his courtesy and his devotion 1o his white people, has-almost entirely disappeared. Only here and there does one now come upon one of the old time maumas about whom still lingers the - charm, the atmosphere, of the "quality" negroes of the old plantations. Two generations of negroes? of the "new" negro?have ap, peared upon the scene and grown to maturity since the close of the Civil war. So, too, they have arrived to meet far different conditions to those surrounding their ancestors in slavery days. While thousands of the "new" negroes have realized their opportunities and eagerly seized upon them, other thousands have not, show ing an apathy, u shiftlessness al. together unaceountahle save that it must come from an inherent strain running back to the old days of childlike dependence. Yet the facts show that the race has made great progress mentally, economically and' spiritually in lhe years since freedom was given them. Events have demonstrated clearly that the uplift, the salvation, of the negro, has lain in his recognition of educational, industrial and religious advantages and his readiness to lay hold upon them and make best use of ^ them. A thirst for knowledge,' an insatiable ambition to grasp the best within his reach, has been plainly manifested in the attitude of the negro of the last two generations. Not only has he tried _ to obtain an education for himself, but he has seized upon every enducated. Negro children do IW.t ItntrA t/v 4?"1 1WI HUT VI L \J UC VII 1 > I'll iu Sl'IIUUI ? they go eagerly. Statistics show that the illiteracy of the negro race has dc1 creased at least 75 per cent since their freedom was proclaimed. The "new'^iegro has shown, too, that he can be both industrious and thrifty. Fully 1100,000 negroes of the South today own the farms they cultivate. The "new" negro, too, has made creditable, seme of them remarkable, advance in industrial progress. Yet despite these gains, there are throughout the South thousands of idle, shiftless negroes, devoid of ambition, living amidst the most degruded surroundings and born to criminal tendencies, as the cess pool breeds-flies. It is this class of negroes, insolent, insubordinate, enemies of law and order, with vicious instincts mi. bridled, who have been the cause of most of those horrible occurrences that have shocked a nation and placed so dark a blot upon the fair name of the. South. A most distressing feature of the negro question in the South is the appalling conditions .of poverty and the utter absence of cleanliness and sanitation in the midst of which so many of thcra live. The figures of the latest procurable census report give the death rate of the negroes of the South as 31 in every thousand, while for the whites it is 17 in each thousand, but little more than half as much. Profiteers, like the poor, we have with us always. Many a romance has been spoiled by a kiss flavored with talenm powder. l^I Young, Wol ii Funeral Dl Embe MOTOR E< ; | Day Phones 144 anc :: PORT MILL, < I Meeting of Town OovndL . At a special meeting Tuesday night of the town council of Fort Mill an appropriation of $50 was > made to reimburse Thos. R. Gari rison for the loss^of a cow, which died several weeks ago as a re; suit, is was claimed, of eating i grass ,which council had hau i treated with a liquid "weed i killer. It was stated after the > meeting that council denied any legal responsibility for the death i of the eoworthatanydefinite noiu , of the cow or that any definite i proof had been produced that the i animal had been poised by eating : the grass, the reason given for makiiur the ai>Droai>riation heinur that the body was not disposed to work a hardship on any citizen where there may have been t even a semblance of responsif bility. George Fish was elected public works commissioner to^. succeed W. B. Ardrey, who resigned a few days ago. It is expected that the commission will meet this week and reorganize by electing a chairman to succeed Mr. Ardrey. Council decided to continue for the present the service of a night policeman and J. O. Hammond was elected to fill the place, i His salary was fixed at $60 per month. Tirzah Picnic Minus Politics. With the Filbert picnic a thing! of the past, the next big York county event is the agricultural picnic that will be bold at Tirzah Tuesday, August 15. J Skottowe Wannauiaker oi' St. Matthews, president of the American Cotton association, will be the principal speaker. Short talks will likely be made by one or two other well known exponents of agricultural thought. The Tirzah picnic is unique in this section of the State by reason of the fact that it is strictly an agricultural affair, politics being taboo there. From Stable Boy to Peer. From stable boy 111 America to peer in England is the remarkable story of Lord Ashfield, baron of Southwell, lie began life as plain Albert Henry Stanley, and as.: a boy started to work in the stables of the streeet railways in ? Detroit, Mich., when horsedrawn cars were in vogue. Promotions came rapidly and eventually he became superintendent of the lit ?H. Suvwi'iil I I... ... ^/V.VIUI JV.I4IO ldll'1 UC went to London us director of underground railways. In 1913 he renounced his American citizenship to become a British citizen. In 1914 he was knighted by King George and in 1920 was elevated to the peerage.. Eskimos Liquor Crazy. The northeastern Siberian coast from Anadyr north to the Arctic is m a state ol' chaos us a result of the manufacture by the Eskimos of raw alcohol, which they drink as fust us it can be made, according to v special dispatch from the Siberian correspondent to the Nome Nugget. "The whole region is a vast distillery," says the corresponu ujii, who uuus tHat 70 children have died recently from laek of food and medical attention and that the older natives are drinking, fighting and killing each other in their orgies. Hitting the Bullseye. Another thing that civilization needs is to become inore civil. Marriage often proves that two can live just as miserably as one. The man who has a single track mind has to work mighty hard to keep it fired up. The maiu trouble with radio concerts is that the concert usually is lacking. Something is always wrong. Just as automobiles begin to drop in price gasoline goes up. It doesn't make any difference, of course, but what do you supnose has become of V?ttv A*. I buckle? Ife & Parks j \ o rectors and jj timers JUIPMENT ; | , I 34; Night Phorte 34 |; , SOUTH CAROUNA o < \ \ ~ rax FOET MIL asaaessssKseaaasaRsasssasssa ISEASONAE (1*1 * I Mere are a tew almost compelled summer: Refrigerators Ice Chests Screen Do< Screen W Screen ^ Porch 1 IPorcii Pore If' you would see us before you | Young i I .A-. O. vTC GOOD TH Groceries, Market, Country Produce. Phone Fourteen. ,. ?gg? EAT ELECTRI] "The Bet1 If for no other reason, El Better Bread" because it i retaining the natural flavo it from your grocer and "TASTE THJJ ] ELRrTPiK mi a ______ -W m mmmmm nan R. A. Wilson, Prop. It stands to reason that poets are born and not made. No man nonld deliberately make a poet >f himself. Some men are gentlemen, and >thers aet the part during election year. _ h (8. p.) times ? ILE GOODS I . things you will be to have during the I I - : .1 I Endows | Wire a Chairs | 2 Swings | h Shades | practice economy, ? buy. I fe Wolfe j - ii DUST IBS INGS TO EAT t gBSSgSgSrrT5u5EEuuF?_aiMi_j- < ft MAID BREAD tar Bread" ectrik-Maid would be "The s electrically baked, thereby r of the ingredients. Order t DIFFERENCE" ID BAKE SHOP ROCK HILL, a C. ! BRanBaMwananiBa READ THE TIMES . XVZKT WIU FOR HOME NEWS ? ^ vv QCf)e Jftrsit J T. B. SPRA1 J. L. SPRATT, vice president OS. BARBER,!vice president WE WER In better Bhape to take financial needs of the pat are today. And in addit all the good new busineE this bank. With ample < bership in the Federal Res< financial connections in are able to take care of proposition. Many of 01 t.Vlftir POnnonfiAn rci + V. Bank is one of their best First Nati Operated Under the Si United States BIG BAR Second Hai We are offering ces on a number steads, Washstai bles, Oil Stoves, t B. C. FEI PHor 'm Always' You will always fi Store the freshest thing in GROCEF We are in busines .. _:-L i_ . -i? gei ncn in a aay, c and are satisfied profit. BRADFOi HALI. STREET .* % JOB PRI AT THE TIMES OFF1C > / - : ' ==============^================5 * V . ; ? National Panfc * "t, president W. T. BARRON, cashier S. A. LIGON, asst. cashier V # J". E NEVER care of the legitimate rons of this bank than we ion to this to take care of is that may be offered to capital and surplus, memerve System, and excellent large money centers, we any reasonable banking ir coustomers tell us that istrong growing National assets. onal Bank trict Supervision of the i Government % f J I GAINS IN id Furniture unusually low priof Bureaus, Bedrids, Chairs, Taste. t IGUSON >JE 29 1 rhe Best nd in stock at this and best of everyLIES. s not expecting to i week or a month with a modest RD & CO. t - PHONE 113 v . I J1 ?L_. J U_. _l 1 LJIL? INTING E - PHONE 112