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WWII" 1111 A Judge BpeakN Out Judge Marvin M. Mann, addressing a grnnd Jury in Spartanburg county few days ago, made some observations so disquieting that many editors have inveighed against the evils which he cited. He remarked that unless there it an abatement South Carolina will in a few year* be overcome with anarchy. Hut it is only with the conclusion of Judge Mann's charge that we are concerned in this article. We read; However, a warning wa? issued in regard to law enforcement on the public roads. He declared unless stepd were taken to protect the traveling public, South Carolina woull be in bettor circumstances not to have a foot of paved roads. "Several days ago a drunken driver sideswiped my car and 1 was in the ditch at the time trying to avoid a Such uractkas .JUL., UliM must be stopped. Other states havo laws protecting travelers as the license laws and ample police protection. I am recommending no particular method or protection, but something ought to be done, and done soon. "The highways are property of the public. That is where a large percentage of tax money goes. I believe it is the best possible investment. But the property ought to bo protected. With the exception of schools o?nd colleges nearly all the money paid in as taxe* goes for this purpose and the project is well worth giving sufficient police prptection. There is a total of 100 deaths on the highways in this state a year and 400 Injuries. These facts say that protection is needed." We agree fully with Judge Mann that the public should be protected against the irresponsible driver. What we need in South Carolina is a well organized highway patrol similar to that of Pennsylvania. The indignity which Judge Mann suffered is by no means uncommon. Last Hunday a week gone, the writer was returning from Columbia via Saluda. A few miles beyond Leesville a car swerved around him going at a frightful speedy The driver evidently stopped in Batesburg or I>eesville for about midway between Batesburg and Saluda thfe overtook us again.' Dashing pp close behand, the driver blew and ifre turned out immediately.* He cut back onto the pavement so sharply that his renr fender hooked our front bumper, causing our machine to run off on the shoulder and to careen dangerously. The offending car pitched dangerously but the driver never slackened his speed. With cut out wide open, he dashed on without so much as looking back. How many lives, we wonder when we had recovered our complacency. had that criminal lout endangered since he started on that Sunday afternoon jaunt? Our highways ,-houid be freed of such runiians. And along with them coulii be -wept fruin the highways other law breakers who infest it. The money cost of our highways is burdensome enough, but is unavoidable; how long shall we continue to .pay the present assessment in lives? The answer can come only from the legislature.?'Newberry Herald and N e w s. Crowded Java The little island of Java over in that scattered string that reaches from southeast Asia to Australia is one of the strangest places .in the wo rid. Hrnpfr-murnpty TheTe" Tike flie^T" Java has about 130.000 .square miles | f t.-ri Cuba, "the Pearl of the Ar.t.ia another long and narrow | -la- i. '-.a-. . ludir.g the key- aroun 1J . *.. 1 i.ooo s.jU ire miles. Cubal : a ___ ; ..at. :. <.f about 2.500.000. t f .7;-. >- i ; ..lali < !' W.noO.OOC;. - . y t -.1.. UP.es i ma** .- fa. a' : i ' .1* n n.u-t hue. g: .." 7 W < : ? _o.aiiiii.iHMV jv.'W U unit' d. \ei ;--; u.at? ?i. I'.ut it van -upp<>:t a ft a m.ll'. : - m re vet. About ." *? per . r.t --f the 1:i fi?i :- :. iw beuig, UUiiZcti. It i.-> bei.e'.eii that ~U pertent *>f it *n Ik* made productive. | Anil it :< all ft r the Javanese. The Dutch government will not allow a Dutchman, or any other foreigner, to buy any land in Java. It can only be rented from the natives?to raise the 2.500,000.000 metric tons exported in one year. Joseph 11. Defreea, chairman of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States died in Washington on Tuesday following an operation for appendicitis. Pneumonia followed the operation, lb was 71. One of the greatest inventions is the revolving door. No two women, one going in and the other going out, can stop to talk.?Toledo Blade. Farm Relief Bill * Finally Passed Writing from Wunhington under date of February 145, P. H. MeGowan, correspondent for the Columbia State sends out the following: "After a flghl U?,yongreae and out of it that has been going on since the terrible storm of last September to get action soine way that wogld place farmers in the Southeastern states where they could begin to make their crops, those behind the movement today saw success crown their efforts. This was when the house passed the resolutions of Representative Fulmer of South Carolina calling for $6,000,000 with which the farmers might purchase seed, fertilisers and feed for stock, the Senate having previously made it $16,000,000. The matter now goes to eonference wh^re^ 1t' wttt retnain $0,000,000, and the money will be lent just as soon *as the necessary machinery can be put in motion which should b^ within the next two weeks. "While all member# of the delegations from Georgia, South Carolina i and Florida have worked faithfully to get this money for their constituents, it is generally concurred that the bulk of the fight has been on the shoulders of Mr. Fulmer. The resolution first went through the senate with the aid of Senators Smith and Rlease of South Carolina, Harris of Georgia and others, with little trouble. It was in the house that difficulties were met. These came first in the committee on agriculture. Then in at the White House, then at the budget bureau. Those behind the plan never lost faith or. hope that they would eventually be successful and today's result is sufficient to make them feel not only well satisfied but happy over what has been accomplished. The burdens were especially heavy on Mr. Fulmer being a member of the committee on agriculture and directing the fight on the house side. Now the fight is over and the $6,000,000, though not as much by half as was wanted, will help to just that extent. House members and senators alike from the storm stricken area said after the vote was taken that their farmer friends can now go to work feeling that the federal lAithorities are behind them in the effort to get on their feet again." Missionary Society Meeting A meeting of the officers of the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union was held at the home of the president, Mrs.* George A. Creed, on Tuesday afternoon, February 12. It opened with the reading of Psalm 101.1 The following officers were present, j Mrs. George A. Creed, president;! Mrs. M. L. Mcl.eod. vice president; Mrs. James Clyburn, treasurer; Mrs. Joe Ga.-kin?, general personal service chairman; Mrs. Elma Drakoford. chairman cjn'.e Number One; Mrs.! N. R. Goodalu. chairman of 'Circle' Number Two; Mrs. Joe Gaskins, | chairman Circle Number Three; Mrs. | I. I. Durfee, chairman of Circle Number Four. The associated persona! service chairman of each circle. Mrs. J. K. Ross, Number One; Mrs. Myers, Number Two; Mrs. Billy Rush, Number Three; Mrs. C. E. Webster, Number Four. Every officer being present excep' ; the secretary. Mrs. John Wilson, who ( was kept away by illness. Mrs. C. ? L. Norman, personal service chairman j of lvershaw Association. Mrs. F. N. j McCorkle and Mrs. Little were in-! cited guests for the meeting. It was a very enthus.astic meeting.. , ,u \ lady -eemed deeply interested; :. the work. It - h?.ped that more k will be a.. a,pi;<hed th.- yea- ; ".an ever bef-o.t Splendid report.-' ' :e by t n? . an.-a- c?.?mmitt?-es. l'r.i ? i. (?' wn- greatly en* vi | - * ?t in J a delicioui ur-e. Tht meeting wa? ! ;. .ye- by Mrs. C. L. NV :.?i!.. Buy Scout News I.a-t Friday evening the Boy of Camden d.-trict gathered the Masimic .banquet hall : > celebrate the nineteenth birth-iay of scouting. By eight o'clock the whole of troop three and about twentyeight of troop two had arrived. Mr. J. K. deLoach called the meeting to order and announced that Mr. | R. B. Pitts, who wns to speak to us could not be at the meeting. At 811.6 we all repeated theh sc<<ut oath it company with all scouts .n America About five minute- '.rtU-r troop on< arrived twenty-eight -trong and w( were al^ sorry that they arrived to. late to join in n ;x ating the oath Mr. delx>ach ther. called on the dif ferent scoutinaste: - to report on thei troops and the reports were favor able. , The mobilization which was to tak , place Saturday was called off on ac count of raih. ?George Rhame, Scrib OLD BLUB BAQK 8PBILBR ' ? Hu Been Great Help To Editor of Nearee Kuquirar When a j,mall boy, my mother, who wiia an old-timo teacher, required me to memorise in Webster's Blue Back Spelling- Book "words nearly, but not exactly, alike in pronunciation." At the tiling It wa# u "pill" to learn, but in later life I've found the drilling more thmf worth while. Communications received from high school boys and girls and even college students, indicate that they, too, should have memorized the following: Accept, to take. ^ Except, to* take out. Affect, to impress. Effect, what is produced. Accede, to agree. Exceed, to surpass. Prescribe, to direct. Proscribe-, to banish. Access, approach. Excess, superfluity. Allusion, hint, reference. Illusion, deception. I . * Ellusion, evasion. Acts, deeds. Ax, a tool for cutting, Assay, trial of metals. Essay, to tyy. Affusion, a pouring on. Effusion, apouring out. Allowed, admitted, granted. Aloud, with a great voice. Errand, a message, Errant, wandering. Addition, something added. Edition, publication. Bailad. a song. Ballet, a dance. Ballot, a ball for voting or a vote. Chronical, of long continuance. Chronicle, a history. Clothes, garments. Close, conclusion. Consort, husband or wife. Concert, harmony. Decent, a falling, or slope. . Dissent, a differing1. Decease, death. Disease, sickness. Elicit, to call forth. Illicit, unlawful. Immerge, to plunge. Emerge, to come forth. Fat, fleshy, I \ at, a tub or cistern. Gesture, motion. Jester, one who jests. Idle, not employed. v Idol, an image. Impostor, a deceiver. Imposture, deception.. Naughty, bad. Knotty, full of knots. Ingenuyus, frank. Ingenious, skillful. Eine. extension in length. Loin, part of an animal. Loom, a frame Cor weaving. Loam, a soft, loose earth. Medal, an ancient coin. Meddle. to interpose.* Pint, half a quart. Point, a sharp end. Radish, a garden vegetable. Reddish, somewhat red. iince, at a later time. Sense, - faculty of perceiving. | Tenor, course continued. Tenure, a holding. Talents, ability. Talons, claws. \ alley, low land. \alue, worth. ?Monroe Enquirer. Don't Like Carnes Verdict Norfolk, \ a., I-eb. 11.?The verdict ;n the vase of Clinton S. Carries, dc-~ faulting treasurer of the Baptist Home Mission board was character.zi-d as a flagrant and outrageous ihisearriage of justice" in resolution? adopted and signed by 27 member; ministers conference at their meeting here today. The resolution censured" the boar 1 :<>r agreeing to the sentence impose., nil -.iggeslcd that a full statement . of una.'.- w j? needed to overcome the impression that much information was h r.g withheld by the board. , There was opposition to air: i part of the text and all the ministers present confirmed their attitude toward the affair by signing their names. Death of E. B. Snipes Edward Blair Snipes, aged 66, die! at his home in the mill village Wednesday after an illness of three months. He was a native of Kershaw county, a son of the late Pete ' Smpes. The deceased is survived by i the following sons and daughters: . Mrs. ( arrie Vincent, Great Falls, Ed. i Snipes, Ke--naxr;-Y. Lc Snipe*. Ker. i shaw; M Palmes Catoe. Kershaw: ) Mrs. Etta Beckham, Lancaster; Mrs, | lx>is I .i.'.e. Lancaster; Mrs. oh - i Bailey. l;< d River; one sister. Mrs r | Annie 1 a.ilkenberry, Kershaw. f r - , neral >, i \ aes were held Thursday i in the S cond Baptist church of Kir" o I shaw, K,.v. b. S. Broom, officiary : j and interment wm in I^aurel H c I cemetery.?Lancaster News. KW8HAW NBW8 NOTJB8 - . t IpumUai N?w? NHM Gitkerd Frt* The Era of That Place Fire, which originated iit the Williams Grocery on Eaat Marion street was discovered about 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning by 11. Melntyre, who rooms in his store diagonally across the street. Mr. Melntyre gave the alarm immediately, but the lire had gained such headway by the time the fly# department reached the scene that It was beyond control, and all efforts were centered on saving the places of the Kershaw Candy Kitchen on the east side, and the Hose Tea Room on the west side. All these, together with L. D. Hilton's cotton office, compose one building, being separated from each other by a fire wall. The building is the property of J. C. Cook. The Williams Grocery^ operated by Oscar Williams, was a total loss, not * thing being saved nor left unburned, that fire could destroy. The front of the Candy Kitchen was burned through and the stock was badly damaged by fir^, smoke and water. The fropt of the Tea Room was damaged, ond of the plate glass windows and the glass in the transom being badly cracked by the heat, and the wood Work being scorchea by the fire. The building, and the stocks of the Williams Grocery and the Kershaw Candy Kitchen were insured. Our information is that the contents of the Tea Room were uninsured, and it was indeed fortunate for owners, Mrs. W. W. Horton and Mrs. A. B. Whitaker, that the fire did not reach the inside of their place. It will be remembered that this room was just recently rebuilt, having befen destroyed some time ago when it was5 operated by Elliott Mothershed as a cafe. The following announcement, came as a genuine surprise to the many friends in Kershaw of the happy young couple whose marriage is announced therein. Best wishes for a happy and prosperous matrimonial voyage attend them: "Mr. and Mrs. James Virgil Hilton announce the marriage of their daughter, Doris, to Mr. D. Reece Blackwell on Thursday, January the thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, Kershaw, South Carolina." Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Plyler and children, Edward Lee and Jean, spent Sunday with Mr. Plyler's father, R. P. Plyler, in the Bethel section of Lancaster county. ft&n Killed Saving Child Augusta, Ga., Feb. 11.?-An unidentified woman driver and two, men companions believed to be from Springfield, S. C., last night were sought as occupants of an automobile which struck and killed Will Broadmaster, about 65 years old, near Clearwater, S. C., just across the river from here. The aged man's neck was broken today when the machine struck him as he attempted to snatch his young son from its path. The child was not hurt. B The girl driver of. the automobile I and her two men companions stop- B ped at the scene of the accide^ f?B a few rhinutes, but drove on beforjfl police arrived. 'Bystanders said the fl car has a South Carolina license -**yB Sheriff Howard of Aiken tiountJ and a deputy left tonight for Spring. held in an effort to locate the trio, fl - ?? < ( * The North Carolina legislature on Saturday killed a bill which proposed^! to reinstate the whipping post far taw punishment of criminals in that stateL^| Saving Helps I in Many Ways I I Saving provides you with actual cash in hand; it enables you to get the materials of success and the as- I sistance of books, teachers and- the experience of I ethers; it develops prudence, persistence, courage and ;l - other qualities necessary for success. | Loan and Savings Bank I CAPITAL $100,000.00 [AUTHORIZED DEALER I PRESTO-LITE BATTERIES I EVEREADY RADIO I HASTY'S BATTERY SERVICE II The More You Save the letter You will be more careful about your savings when you fully w realize that they will take care of you if you keep on saving long enough and deposit your money in a good bank like this to earn compound interest. 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