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I TACTag 4 \ I :J / J- THURSbAY, AUGUST a, Secrecy Guar^ : ^ Cotton E^iniate Orop Reportinc Board Win Pub- Usii Its First 19S5 Figaros To- di^. ExpecUntly^ Awaited. Washinfton^, Aua* 8.—Cotton grow- «r8 and speculatora are expectantly aiwmiting ^ official government estir mate of the 19S5 cotton crop. The close-guarded figures which the department of agriculture expects to mi^e public at 11 a. m. Thursday,wjll IS V PROPAGANDA — Tainted ^he good old word “propaganda” being tossed about pretty loosely. i4aaa ' “BIL4 STONE FOR: NO / By W. P. Cnlbeit^n *^um urrah for ^o^g, Culbertson for Hi^ Sheriff, John Smith for Low ShdViff, and, Bill Stdhe for No Sher- ifft” V yoiin^ man and xy bMn' paying his respects to a certain young girl^ daughter of Samuel Boyd, who [ lived |)e wsed in determining this year's cot-i People uap it as if it denoted some ton loan policy, and for final prepara tion of 1986 adjustment contracts. Some private estimates have pre dicted a production of 12,000,000 bales, compared with an allotment of 10,- 983,264 bales under the Bankhead act. This law provides for a tax of six cents a'pound of each bale ginned in. excess of individual allotments. thing wicjped, whereas it really means only an effort to convert other people lo the propagandist’s point of view, which is entirely legitimate, so' long as the facts and argments used are truthful. ' ' Undoubtedly there has been more lying and misleading propaganda in ciixrulation- these past tWb* years than lAst year’s allotmiQnt was4d,460,251 ever before in ^America., Most of it bales, but only 9,636,000 were pro duced. Tense excitement annually sur rounds the release of the government estimate, which is quickly reflected in the cotton, markets of the world. Since, advance information could b^ used profitably by speculatorik both the crop reporting board and ils re port kre closely guarded. Several years ago, when the board predicted a crop far above private es timates, the pridfe of cotton tumbled heavily. Last year the market was said to have risen somewhat because of tlje small crop. \ Board mmebers will meet Thursday Tnoming for a final check of their fig ured. Policemen will be on hand. None, includlpe 'board members, can leave the dep^ment of agriculture room until the iWprt is completed. Then a pdliceman will e.scort the board chairmauNto a large conference room, where new^rnCn and telegraph ers will be waiting.^Th^ Chairman will distribut^copies of th^estimate to re porters. They will standHn a line well away from waiting telephone and tele graph instruments. ITje chairman will watch thk^large second-hand of an observatory-tkned clock. When he shouts “go,” the porters will race to their instruments to flash the figures across the country. Heavy penalties can be inflicted in case of “leaks.” Once a* secretary of agriculture en tered the board room and attempted to leave before the report was re leased. He was compelled to remain. has been political, some of it «ttack- ing; bhe i^ministration at Washing ton, some of it^ emanating from the administration. iThe truth about any controversial question has never been so difficult to arrive at. Most of-the misleading propaganda do^not deceive any intelligent per- n- who knows anything about the .^Tlurnh fpr me and Jiml^ These shouts were heard over in Wateroo township at Hamilton’s old fiekl, muster ground back in the 1850’s before the Civil war, where large crowds from all over the county were gathered one day for a general mus ter. We are told that before the war qur people frequently ..assembled on di:^erent fields in the country for mili tary Hraining by expert officers. We recall One other muster gn’ound, Biy- son’s old field, near Mountville. At one time G. W. Culbertson was major of a whole battalion and B>-W. Ball held some high official position, per haps a colonelcy. These officers, drhss- nearby. So he was desirous of mak^ r to himself quite intimately_,friendly Uncle ^m. Up in the day, when ev erything was full of enthttdasm from the drilling, the music, cider, and oc casional dram, Billy, apparently by accident of course, ran up with his prospective father-in-law. He ap proached the old'" gentleman,'as polite ly as he knew hofr, saluting him in his very bdst glad-to^ce-you effort. When Uncle Sam responded in a very sur prisingly indifferent manner, Billy queried, “You don’t know me do you, Mr. Boyd?” “No, and don’t want to know you,” was the Sullen answer as the elderly man :walked away. Well, when the day had been fkr ed in the finest unifprnm and with!spent in the manner described, about glitterii^ side arms,'-were mounted lli^idaftemobh,'Tom Burton and little j u Jinj Eiied^e, who |iad beep imbibing rather freely of the several candidates’ so realities of human affairs and under stands human nature. Men vfho ought to know better tell us that business anti industry have al ways been based on the inhuman ex ploitation of wage workers and of children. That sort of tklk is^ pure propaganda. Joanna Mill News Mrt-Medlock Returns Rev>M. K. Medlock, Methodist pas tor, has returned from Saluda where be has befn -assisting in a meeting at Bethlehem church. In Hospital Friends of Miss Evangeline Duke will be sorry to know she is a patient at the City hospital in Cohimbia. ’ Birthday Party Mrs. J. I). Odell entertained a num ber of little folks at her home Mon day afternoon, celebrating the third birthday anniversary of her little grandson, Jimmie Templeton. After ah hour of games Mrs. Odell and Mrs. Templeton served delightful refresh ments. education — Long Procesa The great mass 6f mankind has al ways believed ^hat there are malicious enemies lying in wait for human be ings at every corner. Primitive races still believe in a ‘multitude of evil spirits; even today in' so-called civi lized countries the belief persists in a personal ‘Devil lying in wait to[ trap the unwary. ~ People who have discarded those superstitions seem to find it''necessary to believe in some other kind of evil spirits. They have to have something to hate. That is why so many people jsten credulously to demagogues who t^them that all employers are ras- cal.s^d everybody who owns anything is the epemy of every pian who owns Owen D.AYqung put his finger on the only remCdy for such mass delu sions, the other day at St. Lawrence I university. Education, free to every body, is the only answer, he "pointed out. It is a alow process, because edu cation seldom “takes” in one gener ation. Free education for the masses is a peculiarly American institution, but we have enly had it for a little more than a hundred years. While we have achieved a higher average level of in telligence than any other nation, we probably have two or three hundred years to go before the general run of people will be intelligent enough to di.scriminate between the plain truth and glittering fal.sehoods. v- Returns From Camp Miss Annette Moorhead has return ed to her home here after spending several weeks at _ Camp Greystone, near Hendersonville, N. C. . PHILCO Radios & Tubes Smth’s Pharmacy INSURANCE We offer expert service and protectipn; -Agent for some of the strongest Fire Insurance Compani^ in TAmerica*.^ _ REALESTATR Town and country prop' erty. Prices attractive* Clinton Reklty & Insurance Co. B. H. BOYD, Agent on fine, spirited horses. Major Cul bertson rode a large fiery animal call ed “Fox,” beautifully decorated from head to tail with tassel trimmed bridle, saddle, and crupper. Other officers were similarly mounted. At these pe riodic drilling parades ginger cake and apple cider stands were as common as lemonade and ice cream stands are to day and pure, unadulterated liquor flowed freely. Drunkenness was the exception, but sometimes a tippler would get “tight” by imbibing too freely at the accustomed “treating” board. On election years t;andidates would take advantage of these meetings to solicit votes and it was a custom among them of long standing to “treat” pro.spective friends. A candi date who refused to observe that cus tom had just as well drop out of the race, for drinks were too cheap and good to be neglected in those days. On this particular occasion, if we remember correctly our informant’s story, there were three candidates for Sheriff—Culbertson, Smith and Stone, as mentioned above. Stone was a made for high-speed trains, but the principle, which works successfully on the New York subway,, mijfht re.sult in giving the railroads ^ore passenger revenue than they have ever had, apd in starting more people traveling thail^^muscullar force of his weakened voice. treats, decided they had better get in home before' their legs became too limber to support them on the,.way. So, they started down the road tod- l^ling along, sometimes oh this side of the road and 'then on that, and oc casionally entirely out of the road. When they had gone only a short dis tance and were still in hearing of the laughing, shouting crowds behind, they heard a voice loud and distinct abbve the din of the clattering tumult. Whether, this outcry came from /the lips of Uncle Sam Boyd, we never knew, hut its clear shrill notes strwpk the ears of stoggering Tom and Jlto like an old-tirhe Indian war-whoop as it shoutod, “Hurrah for Young Cul bertson for High Sheriff, John Smith for Low Sheriff and Bill Stone for No Sheriff.” Tom received the sudden out burst as a challenge to him and felt that it demanded a respon.se in like passion. But his brain was so addled with a surplus of peach and cdrti that he could hardly collect his thoughts sufficiently to recall the’ name of his favorite candidate to whom he felt himself under special obligations. However, he just must make the ef fort, hit, miss or bust. So, turning his face towards the assembled hosts apd ihtensifying every nerve to muster’the Tax BiU Faces , Fif^t In Senate Measure Rammed Thn^h the House By Hn^re Democratic Majority. Plan Amendments. Washington, Aug. R — Rammed f)QQ0,000.000 in new money, through the bouse todqy by ths^jiuge Democratic majority, ^ admlMstra- tion tpx bill tonight headed into trou ble,\and probably much rewriting in the senate. ' roll call vote whieh'^piled The ho up a 282 tp^ margin for passage of the have ever traveled before. I don’t know whether anything will come of it or hot but it will be inter esting to watch. hP^ stammered out^_“Hu-Hurrah-for- for-«r-Hurrah for, me and Jim!” W. P. Culbertson. Cross HiH, July 27, 1986. bill was jhst a formality. The re^ suit had been s^ '^rtain that Repub licans failed to ask even a atahding vote on their prriimiaary motion to send the bill back to the ways and means committee and pigeon hole it there. The senate situation was less clear. LaFollette, Progressive of^Wisconsin, imm^iateiy served notice he would seek to amend'the bill to “get more revenue” by broa<^juhgrtbe base of the income tax «;hed There was senate talk of other amendments and riders. Democratic leaders hoped to block them and some Republicans, eager for early adjournment, had expressed will ingness to cooperate. As the bill left the house, ^there were conflicting figures, qp its po#er as a rev^hue-produe^. Original esti mates were that the individual income surtax, corporation income tax, inheri tance, gift, and excess profits levies would bring .in 1270,000,000 a year. The house, however, overrode Presi dent Roosevelt’s wish and wrote in an amendment allowing corporations to 'deduct as much as 5 per cent of thdr taxable income for chasitable contri butions. j Some tax experts said that would reduce the total revenue by $20,000,- 000 a year^ Chairman Doughton,' of North Carolina, of the ways and means committee, conc^ed it would mean a reduction of “tensor fifteen the house bill gpe|^ beyond the presi dent’s suggestions in many rospects. Senator Borah, Reptdilieap, ^ Ida-*' ho, and others were plmming tenta tively to try to hook on, from the sen ate floor, a rider for immediate cash payment of the $2,200,000,000 henoa ' and the^,000,009,^ FVaxier-Lemke ^ farm mortgage reHnancisg^ bill through the iaaoe of more thah $6,- Cofl^e Jobs I Open To Students million.,” That was one thing around which some senate criticism centred, Indif^ cations were that if admuiiatratibn chiefs could prevail, the charity sec tion would ibe knocked out of the bill before it was presented opf^the floor, probably the first of npua week.* Th senate finance committee will resume its hi^riul's tomorrow aiid Chairmai^X^*fJ^^cn,’ of Mississippi, plans to comfjleto them Wadneaday. Harrison jdfeady has complained that j. Lercry Burns, county superintend ent of education, called attention yes terday to the opportunities availablef to boys and girls to obtain part-time Jobs unde^ the NationaL^fouth admin istration while taking collhgiate cours es. Students who obtain the benefits of the administration’s aid must be able to do high-grade coRege work and must hei.financially unable to go to college ^thout such assistance. Aid is provided in the way of jobs which pay. on the average of |15 A nth. Full information as to the aid ured by writing R. L. Coe, state directdiv-MYA. Columbia. 4.TtSianor^olis HAY FEVER Victim Writes - } "For 25 yesrs I had suffered with hay fever, with asthma during the last tv/q;, weeks. I began taking D(. Fugate’s scriptioo abwt five days after hav^er had developed. In abwt a we^kT was almoat entirely relieved." August 20, 1925 (3igDC^^. /. Clemens. Seven years Iater^^|Mrch,4, 1932^ Mr. Clemens wrote: “it is a pleg^ire to reaffirm what I said before,^Aftcr taking one bottle of Dr. Prescription I had all the relief T^onld wish tor and have never acMkd another drop since. It would ha^ been cheap at $100.00 a bottle if you suffer from either Itaji fever-^r kinn ' rnnchUl estbma symptoms; try the pi scription which has brought relief thousands of sufferers. re- t» ■ DC)( T OR fUG ATE'S JL PRESCRIPTION Sold UiidpiP a MONIY BACK OUARANTEE SNUB’S PHARMACY' STUNG! — Modern Bee I am always interested,when some body discovers that people knew about as much many years ago as they do now. In my boyhood it was a common belief that^bee stings would cure rheu matism, and many stories were told of elderly people who humped into a bee hive and discovered, after the pain of the sting had disappeared, that their rheumatism had vanished also. The other day my wife went to our family doctor to see what he could do for a rheumatic knee joint. What she needed, he told her, was to be stung by a bee. Modern science has proved that the old. folk remedy was based upon sound experience, and now an ex tract of bee venom injected with a hy podermic produces the same result that upsetting the bee-hive would in grandfather’s day. At least, the doctor gave my wife an artificial bee sting and her rheuma tism stopped. RUBBER STAMPS EFFECT^E Speed Uw The most ingenious plan for check ing reckless motor driving that I have heard of is the one which has been adopted by theiiighway police in Ser bia. When a motorcycle cop orders a speedster to pull to the side of the I road, instead of handing him a ticket, he orders him to get out of the car and let the air out of all of his-twes. This is said to have a much more , powerful effect upon the offending driver than a summons. He either has to pump up his tires before going on, or hire somebody to do it for him, per haps after walking a few miles before he can find a mechanic to do the job. After one experience of this sort, it is reported, Serbian motorists pay a great d4al more attention to the traf fic regulations. TRAVEL — “DeRgr Days The latest scheme to subulate rail- Any kind, to fit any business. 24-lioar ser- Tiee. Reasonable prices. Telephone 74. ^ The ChnHiicle PuUidimtf Co. Printem - StatloMn [l^y travel, which is <being\Mnou8ly indShe In- di'seussed by railroad men and terat^ Commerce comniission, ^ to chargf flat rate fares for any dia^ tance. The principle is the same as that of letter 'postage. A three-cent stamp carries the letter five miles or three thousand miles. The po.st office loses money on the long hauls but makes it up on the near-by deliveries. Under this new railway scheme any one could buy a ticket ^for a dollar which would entitle him to travel the entire length of the particular road that issued it. Bqt if he were only go- I ingi iOt the next ^tation the fare would also be a dollar. 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