Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER t K. ) »Columbia, Dec. 24.—Values of the tops grown ih South Carolina in the year now rapidly drawing to a close exceed the values of the crops of 1926 by more than $27,000,000, according to figures given out-yesterday by Frank O. Black, agricultural statistician, di vision of crop and live stock estimates, ted States department of agricul- re. The total values of the 18 principal crops grown this year in the state is ■ estimated at $155,300,000 as compared with $128,224,000 for the same crops last year, according to Mr. Black. The value of truck crops is not included in the figures given. v - “Only soy beans, wild hay, apples, peaches and pears show a decrease in value from last year,” the report of Mr. Black says. “Cotton, oats and - Irish potatoes,” the report continues, “have a smaller production but a greater value than in 1926, while corn, tobocco, tame hay, sweet potatoes, cowpeas, sorghum sirup, wheat, sugar cane, peanuts, rye, and rice exceed last year in both production and total value. “The increase of $27,000,000 in crop values does not fully express the money difference between the two years, for the farmers spent nearly nine million dollars less for fertiliser •this year than last, besides economiz ing on labor, supplies, etc:, so that the state is fully $37,000;000 better off than a year ago from agriculture alone, not to mention increased income from other industries. “The total harvested acreage of the principal crops this year is estimated at 5,430,000, compared with 5,214,000 last year, the increase in acreage of food and feed crops more than off setting the decrease of 227,000 acres of cotton.. The increase in total crop acres is due to recovery of the eowpea acreage for hay and grain from the comparatively small acreage of the last two years. Crops with a larger area than last year are, corn, with an bm&M 0 * 5 Per oats, with 7 per cent; wlieat, With GO per cent; rye, with 12 per cent; sweet potatoes, with 13 per cent; peanuts,.with 38 per cent; sorghum for sirup, with 18 per cent; sugar cane sirup, with 40 per cent; cowpeas for hay, with 110 per cent; tame hay, with 72 per cent; and tobac co, with 22 per cent. The acreage of Irish potatoes, rice and wild hay show no change from last year. Crops with smaller acreage and the per cent of decrease are, cotton, 9 per cent; soy beans, 20 per cent; and velvet beans, 14 per cent. • Lint cotton, estimated at $72,030,- 000, is $13,062,000 above last year, and 1 cotton seed with a value of $12,877,000 is $3,783,000 more than the 1926 val ue. The value of both lint and seed this yea? is approximately $85,000,- 000, compared to $68,000,000 last year. The 1927 figures are based upon the December 1 estimate of 735,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, the De cember 1 reported price of 19.6 cents per pound and., the $39.50 per ton for seed, figuring seed cotton as 35 per cent lint and 65 per cent seed. The value of corn is $22,904,000, compared with $19,893,000 last year, i Production was 25,449,000 bushels, compared with 22,103,000 last year, and 19,483,000 bushels produced in 1925. ? Tobacco, estimated at 75,920,000 pounds, has a value of $15,564,000. Last year’s crop was 66,780,000 pounds valued at $13,230,000. The estimated value of other prin- eipal crops for 1927 and 1926 follows: Oats $7,745,000 in 1927 and $7,024,- 000 in 1926; tame hay, $6,408,000 and $3,980,000; Irish potatoes, $5,765,000 and $5,472,000; sweet potatoes, $4,240,- 000 and $3,760,000; cowpeas, $1,701,- 000 and $750,000; sorghum for sirup, 1,384,000 and $1,270,Q00; wheat, $1,- 338,000 and $1,240,000; peaches $922,- 000 and $1,054,000; sugar cane sirup, $882,000 and $630,000; apples, $635,-' 000 and $906,000; peanuts, $315,000 and $281,000; rye, $205,000 and $196,- 000; soybeans, $152,000 and $184,000; rice, $117,000 and $102,000; pears $88,- 000 and $160,000; wild hay, $28,000 and $30,000. For the United States the total val- u ole about 50 crops in 1927 is esti mated at $8,428,626,000 compared to $7,793,480,000 for the same crops in 1926, an increase of $635,146,000. The prices are as of December 1, except for some crops sold earlier in the season. The greatest increases in value were, corn $285,268,000, cotton $330,- 714,000, barley $73,890,000, and oats $40,694,000. The only really large de crease in value was the $113,147,000 decrease shown for potatoes, although wheat, hay; apples, peaches', and some other crops show decreases, ranging from ten to twenty million dollars. The acreage of principal crops in- » creased from 335,667,000 acres last year to 355,826,000 acres. Yields av- (Continued On Page Four) CHAIN STORE TO ENTER CLINTON J. C. Penny Company, a Nation-wide Institution, Gets Lease On Adair’s Department Store Building. The J. C. Penny Company of New York, the largest dry goods chain store in the country, will enter Clin ton the first of August. The concern has acquired a lease on Adair’s De partment stone building and will throw its doors open for business for the first time in Clinton, on the above date. Negotiations on the part of the J. C. Penny Company have been under way for the past two years with E. J. Adair. A complete map was made of the city and its trade area more than a year ago and Mr. Adair was ap proached for a lease on the building Recently while he was 4m New York, in October past, the deal was perfect ed an the store room leased with oc cupancy to be given on August 1st, 1928: The Penny chain store system is a nation-wide institution,.operating 885 stores all over the Ultfted States. It carries a complete line of dry goods, clothing, shoes, etc., and is operated on a cash basis with “where savings are greatest” as its national slogan. Their closest; store in this section is. in Greenwood, and their opening in Clin ton within the next few months will be an event of unusual interest to the buying public of this section. Mr. Adair will continue to operate his business until the first of August, after which he has announced no plans. He entered business in Clin ton in 1905 under the title of the Hot Hustler Racket. A few years ago the name of the firm was changed to Adair’s Department store and has en joyed an unusually large and success ful business during its history. While the general public wlil regret to learn of the passing of this well known con cern, the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Adair will be pleased to know that they will continue to make Clinton their home. The Supreme Need of America By Richard H. Edmonds, Editor, Manufacturers Record LOCAL CONCERNS PAY DIVIDENDS Semi-Annual Checks Go Out to Stock holders of Local Banks, Mills and Corporations. Saturday is dividend day—a glad day for stockholders of Clinton banks, mills and other corporations paying their usual' January first dividends. All of the corporations have just dosed a satisfactory business for the year and are looking forward to a prosperous New - Year. The following is a record of the Clinton institutions that are paying dividends this week, aggregating $34,500. The Commercial Bank, 4 per cent semi-annual on a capital stock of $50,- 000—$2,000. Lydia Cotton Mills, 314 per cent semi-annual on $500,000 serial notes— $17,500. The Clinton Cotton Mills, 4 per cent semi-annual on capital stock of $350,- 000—$14,000. The Clinton Bonded Warehouse, 10 per cent annual on capital stock of $10,000—$1,000. This dividend was paid in June. Young Bros. Live Stock Company is paying its usual annual dividend on a capital stock of $25,000. The supreme need of this country is a nation-wide revival of the old- time, genuine prayer-meeting religion. A religion that makes men realize that the same Divine authority that tells us that there is a heaven also tells us there is a hell. If we accept the belief in -a heaven, we must ac cept from the same authority the be- )g£ in'a hell— A religion that makes men realize that every act of evil is recorded op their conscience and that though it may sleep for a while, it can never die— A religion that makes an employer understand that if he is unfair to his employes and pays them less than fair wages measured by his ability and their efficiency and zeal, he is a rob ber—a robber of his employes and a robber of himself of honor— A religion that makes an employe know that if he does not give full arid efficient service to the extent of his ability he, too, is a robber—a robber of his- emloyer’s time and a.robber of his 6wn ctwrrartwM- w A religion that makes a farmer who packs bad fruit at the bottom, |o de ceive the buyer by the good fruit on top, realize that he is a thief just as much as the one who robs a hen roost at night, and is thereby destroying his own character— A religion that makes a man who robs a railroad of its fare or freight bill know that he not only robs the road, but that he also robs himself of all right, to feel that he is an honest man— A religion that makes a an realize that by driving too hard a bargain with his servant, his employe or his merchant, he can be just as much a robber as the seller or purchaser who swindles by false weight, false pack ing or false claims— A religion that will teach church members who fail to contribute to the extent of their ability to the support of religion that they are robbing God and man alike, and compels them to recognize that if they are paying their pastor less than a living salary they also are robbing God and man alike— gA religion that makes the minister or the Gospel realize that he has not been called by Heaven to preach on economic questions about which he knows very little, but to preach in all its fullness “Christ and Him Cruci fied,” or else the blood of the lost will be upon him— v ✓ A religion that is active, not pas sive— A religion that gives a marr back bone to stand for the truth, however great may be the dangers'that he may have to face in upholding the right as God gives him the power to see the right— A religion that will make men real ize that the most stupendous event beyond all human comprehension is that the Creator of the vast universe, the study of which staggers the hu man mind, so loved mankind in all its waywardness that He “gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have ev erlasting life.” No finite mind can possibly grasp the full meaning of this love, nor of the death upon the Cross which followed for the salvation of the world— A religion that literally bums itself into the brain and the heart and the soul of every man who professes to be a Christian, arid makes him realize that the one supreme thing in his life andin'the life of thoae with whom he com&s in contact is by his life to up lift the Cross, that men may be drawn unto Him who, ripon that Cross, gave His life for sinners— In short, we need a revival of that soul-searching religion which COLONEL SPRINGS PLANS TO MOVE Prominent Manufacturer To Leave Lancaster To Go To Charlotte. Has Purchased Home. make men and women strive in every Springs act of life to do that which on the great Judgment Day they will wish they had not done, as with soul un covered they stand before the Judg ment Seat of the Eternal. Until the people of this nation ac he law violation where there should be law obedience; there will be hatred where there should be friendship and love. -With the Golden Rule followed in the fullness of the spirit of this kind of religion, there would be found a so lution for every business trouble. There would be created friendship be tween employer and employe. Capital and la&or would work in harmany and with efficiency—efficiency of the cap ital and efficiency of the labor, with profit to both. Religion of this kind is no^measured by the hope of heaven hereafter nor the fear of hell, but by the full frui tion now of “peace on earth to men of A religion that will make labor men £ 0 °d will ” It is not merely the chant- who by threats or by actual violence in f of h > Tmns or the offering of Phari- endanger 1 the lives of other laboring s&cisl prayers, but it is in the recog- «n'en or the property o£ others realize nition and ful1 application by rich cept and live this religion, there will! j ust across the line and can hear be strife where there should be har-|^ e Macedonian cry when he is needed mony; there will be strikes and lock- ‘ n his adopted town and the town outs and murder where there should ho has made be co-operation and peace; there will Slayer of Little Marian Back In Lon Angeles. Be Arraigned today. Los Angeles, Dec. 27.- safely back to the city where less than two weeks ago he brutally killed Mar ian Parker, 12-year-old school girt, arid dismembered 1 her body, William Ed ward Hickman was in the county jail here tonight awaiting arrai, Thursday on a charge of murder. Despite the intense public aroused ovtf the kidnaping and of the Parker girl, there was no out breaks today when Hickman was re turned from Pendleton, Ore., where he was captured last week. A crowd of about four thousand per sons had gathered about the county building when officers arrived with Hickman. The throng, however, see n- ed impelled more by curiosity than any intent to attempt violence. No demonstrations occurred al though there was a surge forward against police lines when the prisoner was taken from the motor car which bore him from the train and was hur ried into, the, building. Precautions taken by the police left little chance for any possible mob ac tion to succeed. The train which brought Hickman from the north was stopped in the downtown district at Jackson and Ala meda streets and he was hustled into a police car manacled to two detec tives. Convoyed by other police cam, the automobile in which Hickman rode took a roundabout route to the county building and the caravan attracted lit tle attention. While squads of police kept a lane opened in front of the entrance to the county building, the two detectives to whom the youth was shackled made a dash for the doorway, literally drag ging their prisoner. In a moment Hickman was safely within. i Within less than two hours rafter r his arrival, the youth was brought be fore Superior Judge Carlos Hardy for arraignment. Upon motion of District Attorney Asa Keyes, however, a post ponement was granted until 2 p. m. Thursday. ' The delay was granted to permit the arrival of Jeroine Walsh, Kansas City attorney, retained'by the defendant’s mother, Mrs. Eva Hickman of Kansas City, to direct her son’s defense. Walsh, the son of Fi*ank P. Walsh, prominent attorney of Kansas City, and New York, is 25 years old and the youngest member of the Missouri leg islature. After facing Judge Hardy, before whom he appeared last summer on a forgery charge, Hickman was sent to a cell on the 12th floor of the hall of justice building. Crowds intent oh catching a glimpse of the young slayer gathered at sta tions and cross-roads as the train on In a short interview Colonel Springs. w hich Hickman was returned neared said he had bought a home in Char-1 Los Angeles. All wftre ^orderly, lotte and was establishing an office About 1,000 persons at Glendale Lancaster, Dec. 24.—Like a bolt out of a clear sky came the announcement this morning that Lancaster would lose its outstanding and most beloved citizen and benefactor. When the news became known that Col. Leroy Springs, South Carolina’s greatest captain of industry, had purchased a home in Charlotte and that he and his beautiful and talented wife would make that city their home, coming in the midst of a joyous season, never before in the history of Lancaster has there been such a feeling of gloom among his thousands of friends in this city and county. The inscription on the tablet to Sir Christopher Wren in St. Paul’s ca thedral, London, reads, “If you would see his monument, look about you.” Leroy Springs came here 45 years ago in his youth, when Lancaster was nothing but a struggling village with a population of a few hundred. Now a tft/ of 7,500, thriving with industry, made so by him, and him alone, through his indefatigable ener gy, his sterling business integrity, his unbounded love for his adopted home, will Lancaster stands today a monument to The state of North Carolina and the city of Charlotte are to be congratu lated on the acquisition as a resident of South Carolina’s leading citizen and while Lancaster regrets to lose him, there is a consolation in knowing that there because of the convenience to his mills in Lancaster, Chester, Kershaw and Fort Mill. But it is understood cheered Tom Gurdane, chief of police of Pendleton. Ore., and Buck- Lieuallen, Oregon state traffic officer, who cap- that as his textile and other financial i t U red Hickman interests are all in South Carolina, The confession obtained fronv. Hick- naturally Colonel Springs is vitally in-! mnn District Attorney Keyes, in terested in everything which concerns South Carolina, his native state. He which the youth admitted .he had no accomplices in the kidnaping and slay- that at heart they ar4 murderers, for they are seeking to murder the liberty of their fellow men, and are murdering their own best individuality and char acter— A religion that will make the poli tician who yields principle to his party politics, who worships at the feet of any class to .secure votes and sells his soul for preferment, not only knows that he is a toward and a poltroon and unworthy of the respect of any decent man, but also will make him see that llickmah’s train came down the rail- wav vards about half an hour late. has recently completed a waterworks j n g. 0 f Parker girl, probably will be for the town of Port Mill, a p'pe line j p resen t, e( j a t, the arraignment Thurs- extending from the Catawba river. He day. " is now building a extensive water sys tem and filtering plant from the Ca tawba to the town ot Lancaster and \\,t a hint as to where tlx: pns ner contemplates other extensive enter- wou i ( i be taken off preceded its ar- prises, including a large bleachery | r ; V al.- which vvill be built in South Carolina' Virtually no attempt at a demon- and will be one of the largest in the i st rat ion was made at any point on the state - 10 or 12 block route from Al'nedft and poor, by learned and unlearned, that each one is indeed his “Brother’s Keeper,” that we can bring this coun try and the world back to safety. A nation-wide acceptance of this, in heart and in life, would bring peace and world peace, where there is now turmoil, and men would then cease t<5 seek to gain their ends by lawless acts of immorality, but would, in spirit and in deed, follow the Divine com mand Negro In Laurens Is street to Temple and Broadway. When the long line of coaches stop- tt i at J a(, kson street, about opposite Held After Shooting ; the hall of justice, there was pr.xcti- - cally no one about. Quickly the pris- ty— A religion that makes every news paper worker feel the tremendous re sponsibility of tho prfess to help mold and shape for good the people of this land in this day of wild turmoil in thinking and acting that he may ap preciate his high calling, or prove recreant to God and humanity— A religion that will make every man who professes to be a Christian realize , . M ithat if he violates the laws of the land, v V f? Whether it be the prohibition l.»s or Christmas holidays. The Presbyterian Laurens, Dec. 27.—Man Hill, negro tenant farmer "living on the John Young place about three miles from Clinton, is in jail charged with shoot ing a 13-year-old white girl at her : home in the Lydia Mill village. Hill was arrestpd in connection with the “All things whntsover ye would that ; r hooti , n,t J’y U.e sheriff after he had he is helping to murder human liber- men^ should^ do unto you, do ye even ! pgriSon ^ of the empty 5he)| pick . ed up near the house and the one in Schools Re-Open Next Monday The city and orphanage schools will re-open next Monday morning after college will resume Tuesday mdming. > -• classrwork on Mr. and Mrs. Ben Martin of Fort Mill, are the guests of the latter's sis- tit, Mrs. R. E. Sadler. others^ merely to gratify his own views' or desires, he is to the extent of his influence breaking down all law, and has no right to expect that his family and his friends will not violate any law, moral or statute, which does not suit their convenience— WHO'S WHO Due to the Christmas rush in the office, the feature under the caption, “Who’s Who In Clin ton,” has been omitted for the past two weeks. This depart ment will'be resumed next week and continued du&hg the year. Judging from the number of comments, and inquiries received, ' this has proven an unusually in teresting feature to the readers of THE CHRONICLE and for this reason will be resumed. the double barrelled shot gun which he is alleged to have fired on the lit- 1 tie girl. The officers have other evi dence connecting the negro with the shooting. Hill denies it. The little girl ( was standing on the porch of her home when she was shot in the right arm near the shoulder, but it was too dark for her to be certain as to the color of the assailant. It is said today that the arm probably will have to be ampu tated. BANKS TO CLOSE The banks of. the city will observe Monday as New Year’s holiday and will not-open for business as usual. onen»was placed in a waiting automo bile. Officers from the police and dis trict attorney’s office, who .returned the youth from Oregon, accompanied the procession to the jail. Beyond a little pushing, mostlv of persons seeking better vantage pi nts, Hickman was led through the crowd surrounding the hall of justice without incident and taken into the steel bar red elevator at the rear of the bund ing. Scores of newspaper and m n picture' photographers awaited e party’s arrival on the 12th f r, where the official booking took p Hicikman, led by ’Eugene Bisca !, under-sheriff of Los Angeles, ste d indifferently to the counter and wered questions put to him by J. t Frank Dewar in a clear voice. From the booking office Hick was taken to the identification bu two floors below where he wws m ured, photographed and put thr< routine similar to that which c\ prisoner must submit. Though only a few minutes adw notice had been given that Hick (Continued On Page Eight) x h f 3 1