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_ _ " Wear Cotton" Drive Now Under Way Gastonia, N. C., March 7.-^CIiwi?xl ijjg an intensive Ootton" c*mI paig" inaugurated here several I months ago, to stimulate the uae of I all kinds of cotton goods, there was I held here yesterday and today;.'a Cotton Festival, perhaps the most I unique of its kind ever staged in I the South. Thousands of people from I the Piedmont Carolinas ' carme 'last |j if night to witness a style show which j|)f consisted of a most elaborate dis;|if play of the latest and most fashion:|| able women's garments, modeled by !$| more Chan seventy beautiful Southern I girls who acted as mannikins for the merchants and manufacturers. Special features of the -style show : were uddresses made by Dr. W. H. Frazer, D. D., L. h. D., a native of I Alabama, but at present the PresiI dent Queens-Ohicora -College, Charlotte, N. C.,f and Dr. David R. Coker, L. L. 1)., J*h. D., of Hartsville, S. C., I who is known over the entire South :is having done more to help the farmer than any living man or organizaI tion. Cooperating with the Gastonia Woman's ("Hub in presenting this Cotton Fashion j?Show ^ere the Cotton-Textile Institute of New York and the i Durene Association of America, head quarters New York, and a large number of Carolina -merchants. The above I organizations sent personal representatives to assist in preparing disI plays and putting on the Cotton Fes tival. At the suggestion of the Gastonia H Woman's Club, which inaugurated I and is now aponsoring the "Wear I Cotton" campaign, about 10,000 let ters from various business organiI zations in Gastonia, N. C.}/fvave been sent within the past ten days to the I twelve Southern cotton-growing states I telling of this Campaign and asking I that the same idea "be used to forB .ward the use of cotton in those B states. The Gastonia Woman's Club I has also written a personal letter to I the President of every woman's or| ganization in these twelve states. I Kach letter sent out was accompan- , J ied by a pam'phlet exiplaining the objects and details of this "Wear Cotton" campaign -and urging the re! cipient to help the South become ; "cotton-minded." | This is the first genernl South-wide I campaign ever put on by any organiI zation to -boost the uses ahd beauties I of cotton fabrics. It is being done I as an educational feature to, jgive "some idea to. the consumer as to the uses of cotton, the beauties of cotton I fabrics, and their manner of style and charms. It is expected that b& fore the season has gotten well unB der way the effects of this campaign B will not only have rpaohprt ?v?ry ^'Blxdntirithe South, but will have B penetrated the Northern and Eastern resorts, where styles are always the predominant, note among fashionable society. B Senator Dill, of Washington* a., I Democrat, is favorable to the subI --mission of the prohibition question to I the voters of the nation as to wheth e r t.Kc ?l ??<_vt ? L r .pealed or not. However/ he is feported as opposing the yeported intention of Chairman Raskob bringing the .matter before the National I>emocratic executive committee at. a meeting to be held in Washington <-n March 5. < for ANY BABY V\TE can never be sure iust rM V makes an infant restless, bat be remedy CM ttlWaV* be the same. (?ood old Castorial Tnere's comfort in every drop of th? pure vegetable preparation, and not the slightest harm in its frequent use. As often as Baby has a fretful spell, is feverish, or cries and can t ?Wep, let Castoria soothe and uuiet him. Sometimes it's a todch of coiic. Some* 1 times constipation. Or diarrhea -7 condition that should always be checked wkhoot delay. Just keep Castoria handy end give it promptly. Belief will folloja promptly; if it doesn't you should I An Agricultural Program For Kershaw County, S. C., 1931 Poultry, Dairy Cowl Vegetables, Legumes and More Cotton on Leas Acres Will Bring Prosperity to Kejtshaw County * The present acute agricultural depression emphasizes the necessity as never before that evbry farm, whether it t>e operated by tenant, resident landlord or ajbsentee landlord, be operated with fur less outlay In cash for .provisions for both man and beast, rarm operations in 1991 must have closer supervision, be Snore thoughtfully planned, and every possible risk of failure eliminated. I>ue to the fact that there is a serious depression V"V-P?ices every few years, a one-crop system is hazardous to the extreme- especially so under present conditions. We can erttertain small hope of Improving our general, conditions under the prevailing farming system. In every county we find individuals, although all too few, who, by practicing a more balanced system of farming, have weathered these depressions without much undue economic , concern. The perplexing problems of the moment are of such critical nature that some unified program of procedure in 1981 and the future is imperative, The program herewith proposed has been arrived at only after the most mature thought and judgment and has proven sound wherever it has been consistently employed either by committees or individuals. It is not new. It is essentiftlly the sanie program that has been practiced by some of Pur people for years which, had it been sfoUpwed by all of us, would have forestalled the acuteness of the distressful agricultural conditions we now find ourselves in. It is a program just as fundamental in its application to the present emergency as it is a program which can be and must be the basis of our future development. The extent to which it will bring immediate relief will deoend solely upon the extent of its immediate and universal application. It is realized that there is no one best program suitable to every farm in Kershaw county and in order to arrive at one best suited to both farm and farmer there musU-necessarily follow a thought-' ful planning for individual conditions. In general, however, a sound and safe program will involve the following factors: '' The Program 1. FARM MUST BE SELF-SUSTAINING. This applies not alone to the landlord. Every farm family' engaged in agriculture must be self-supporting as to food and feed for man and beast whether it be landlord or tenant. Landlords should frequently visit the tenants' or share-croppers' premises to see that these things are carried out. (a) Summer and winter gardens. fb) Sufficient number of dairy cows, hogs and poultry, fed and managed to supply home needs. (<c) Home orchards of sufficient size and varieties to meet the demand for fresh fruit, canning and preserving. (d) THsteellaneous crops such as Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, sorghum, peanuts, etc., should 'be planted abundantly for home consumption. (e) Sufficient acreage in corn, oats, wheat, barley, forage crops, hays and permanent pastures for needs of man and beasts. (f> Sufficient forage crops such as sorghum, velvet beans, soy beans, cow peas, oats and vetch should' be sown. Adequate temporary and permanent pastures should be provided. 2. CASH INCOME. (a) The farm should have more thhn one cash income. This is absolutely necessary to minimize rsik, to better balance farm business and operations and to increase the farm income. In* addition to cotton as the main cash crop more of our farmers should market milk, butterfat. poultry, poultry products, hogs, shfep and in some instances beef cattle, and goats, and where markets are available, fresh vegetables and fruits, also vegetables for the Camden cannery. (b) The development of some specialty such as: 1. Good country sausage. 2. 'Bacon. 3. Hams. 4. Quality butter. . 6. Sale of plants, high quality seed, honey, preserves, soup mixtures, etc. 3. ECONOMIC PRODUCTION. (a) Cotton should not be planted on land unless it will produce one-half bale or spore per acre in normal years. j Cb) Labor should be efficiently utilized by the use of two-; -T horse cultivators and other improved farm machinery. (c) The efficiency of labor can be greatly increased by the propOr terracing and arrangement of the fields. I ? I (d) Judicious use of commercial fertilizers and proper hand -.. ling of barnyard' manure. (e) The use of the best seed obtainable of varieties of proven merit. (f> For profitable livdstock production the use of pure-bred niror. of improved breeding and the culling of unprofitable females. (g) Preservation of the farm wood lot by fire prevention an<T intelligent cutting of timber. Reforestation of marginal or un- . productive farm lands. Cooperate closely with the Kershaw County Forestry Association and our county forester. 4. SOIL BUILDING. - / (a) A definite soil-building program should be followed. Ro- ' tation of crops, planting summer and winter legumes, rye and other cover crops, and the use of farm manures all play, a vital -part in increasing yields, thereby reducing the cost of production, resulting in greater profits. (b) All corn should be intercropped with soybeans, velvet beans or cowpeas. (c) The continuance of the. county's hoc pr-ocram^? ^ T>. <?KW&K.LiY 'MAK IVF/ITINCi. (a) Orderly marketing of hogs, sweet potatoes and* poultry i ' through cooperative carlot shipments to markets which offer t continuous market for unlimited quantities, after home needs and home markets have been supplied. (b) Orderly marketing of other special crops or products grown ' generally in the county should be taken care of by community or countyiwide cooperative effort, (c) The element of "Quality Production" should be rigidly adhered to in order that markets may be more easily gotten and held. 6. STUDY. (a) Greater and broader study of our agricultural problems especially the fture demand and price outlook for the products we produce. ^ (b) Close cooperation with _C51em6qn Extension Service, and. 1? County Agfcht. (c) Securing and studying more Government Bulletins. Attend farm meetings. (d) \Study so as to purchase, mix and use commercial fertilizers most efficiently. 7. 4-H. (a) Greater development of the county's 4-H program. (b) Close cooperation on the part of .parefits. Although we must honestly admit that conditions are critical ^ and must be met with deliberate and immediate planning, this is not the time to lose heart, to assume a pessimistic attitude n?r to become depressed in thought and action. Rather does the * ^situation call for the greatest optimism for the future. Out of conditions just as these are will grow a more safe, a more sane and less hazardous agriculture which should reflect itself in the most .substantial, permanently independent and satisfying rural life our country has ever known. This is a time for deliberate planning, close supervision, conservative spending.and hard work. The following number of government bulletins may be had "by calling .at the County Agent's office: Vegetable Gardening. . . -The Farm Orchard ? T. Sweet Production. "\' Poultry Production. Hog Production. Rat Control. ?. . . Cream Production. Better Pastures for South Carolina.- / Pasture Top-dreasing With Fertilizer and Lime in the Hay and Pasture Belt. Poultry Houses and Equipment. ' The Fertilizer Problem in South Carolina. Home (Mixing of Fertilizers. > ZTZli' Soy Bean Forage for Hoga. _ ^ ..... Forests and Forestry i* South Carolina.. - ? Feeding and Manrtgem^f^of^J^jj^Cattle. ? MaKh Yellow corn meal 200 pounds > r flt Mill food * 200 pounds * c 'Fish meal or meat scraps 100 pounds ' Grain Whole yellow corn fed at rrtutZlR pounds par day lor each ?j'jrOQ Xstfhorn hens and 12 pounds par day foe sfceh 100 of the . CHICK STARTING RATION 1 to 1* WB8KS ^ All ltash rations vitk dried milk I Ground yellow com 400 pounds Wheat bran .c.....? 100 pounds Wheat Middlings 100 pounds Meat scraps (50% protein) or fiph meal 100 pounds Dried buttermilk ^ 25 pounds Sal^^^TTTTI 7." 7 pounds Water available at, all times. GROWING RATION 10 to 20 WEEKS Mash Ground yellow corn 100 pounds Wheat bran 100 pounds. ^ Wheat middlings .100 pounds Meat scraps or fish meal:. .. .2$ pounds . _ Salt 3 pounds ~ DAIRY CO^y RATIONS ' Grain mixture to be fed with medium quality roughage co-mposed fo not less than one-half legume hay. . "Corn-and-cob meal .. 100 pounds ; a Ground oata 100 pounds Velvet bean feed or wheat bran 100 pounds Cottonseed meal * *. \ 100 pounds Salt .... j A pounds-. Corn and fUh Steal self-fed, separately, fre choice. Breeding Hogs .Corn 70 pounds Ohwts 20 pounds Fish meal ., > 10 pounds ^- i' :-f ' y ~ 1 1 : Tl' ' .. , "> . - i - * *5. . . .V '' " * / _ , f.A- , , . , . Electric Chair Claims Six Negro ? By Ashley HalH?y in Columbia Record Lives of six negrods were blotter* *>ut thi* morning in the largest series of electrocutions ever demand' 'by South (Carolina justice. * All six died quietly ami prayer-1 fttily as the electric current swept thiough their bodies to expunge n .trail of crime they blazed through the Carolina*. All Jay dead witmn two hours. Mrs. B. W. Hendrix, widow of the merchant shot down by five of thoj negroes near Lexington, January 6, sat mutely through the electrocution of John Ackiwright. She peered fascinatedly andv-almost tearlessly us Ackwright died first for faring the shot which killed her husband, Thirteen kinsmen of the dead Hendrix accompanied his widow. They lined two sides of the crumped death chamber as the total complement of spectators' .present. Q. L. Hendrix, brother who witnessed the murder, three other brothers, and six nephews were among them. Mrs. K. E. Nason and Mrs. D. J. Vargeson stood calmly near their husbands to watch the electrocution of Tillman Poozer. Poozer killed their father, Watchman C. I). Mills, in a brutal axe murder January 3, with the motive of robbery. Clanking of chains preceded the appearance of Ackwright for the first electrocution about 5:15 o'clock. The last electricity-wracked body had been lifted from the chair by 7 o'clock. Fewer than 100 spectators saw the electrocutions, including four women, i no one fainted. Nearly a score of the witnesses were relatives by blood or marriage of the negroes' victims. Ackwright, tall bronze native of Ben Hill, Ga., entered first through the green iron door behind the electric chair. The deep, doleful hum Of a negro hymn arose-from the depths of the death house behind -bim. Has head was Shaven smoothly, and the right trousers leg rolled above the knee, to make room for the electrode. Attendants bared his breast for the convenience of doctors to examine him after the shock. "The officers all have 'been good to me and treated me like a brother," Ackwright declared when Col. J. N. Peatman, penitentiary superintendent, asked for his last words. "Nobody. had any hard feelings toward gpe, and I have none for anybody. "I'm ready to go." The negro lowered his eyes and began to pray, "Lord have mercy on my soul, and forgive me my sin; Lord, I pray you to give me everlasting life; Lord, save my soul. Amen!" he ended breathlessly. Attendants clamped the brass headgear oyer his naked skull, and blindfolded him. A gong rang once 'beneath the hand of Capt. J. Olin Sanders of the penitentiary. Current crackled into Ackwright's stiffened body, as Sergeant Matthew A. Wallace, state executioner, turned the switch at the signal. Ackwright'd body quivered and his hands clenched. Life passed out. The chair took its toll of .him in one minute, announced Sa~* Gannon, state electrician. A charge of 17 amperes raced through his body for one minute, at voltage varving from 2,800 to a drop to 500 volts. Ackwright never once pleadfd for jthsrey after hia arrest, and seeiffled cognizant of his-impending doom long before trial. The Hendrix group watched his end soundlessly. A smile lit the face of Sim Hendrix, brother of the slain. Removing his stethescope after ? minutes and 83 seconds, Dr. P. Eugene Payne, prison physician, pronounced Ackwright dead. The dead negrols face was reposeful, and his mouth gaped open, as though asleep in the sun, when negro con vie ts~re. moved his. bodx-fcQm-^h^obairv jvexr eame "Tinman I'oozer, - powerful Columbia negro, whose axe beat out the life of Watchman C. I). Mills in a Cayce lumber yard three nights before Hendrix was shot by the other five. Both daughters of Mr. Mills, their husbands, and David Harmon, a cousin, filed in with the group of spectators to witness Poozeris death. A bearded man stood prophetically in one corner of the death chamber. "No, sir, I haven't anything to say," Poozer replied after taking his seat in the gaunt chsdr. say? -Mrs. Mary Nason, daughter ofj the negro's victim, questioned in a clear, high voice. .She leaner! over the railing about the chair. The other daughter stood behind her. "No," the negro answered. "I fray to meet Mr. Mills in heaven, 've got my soul right." He jerked bolt upright as the electricity crackled through his body. The broad brown chest heaved with a deep sigh, as sweat roller! down it. "Nineteen amperes," Electrician Cannon announced after five minutes and 11 seconds. Poozer relaxed with a quietly mournful face after receiving the largest charge of the six I executed. A larfe and more diversified audience trooped in for the third eloc-1 trocution, of George Bird. Mrs. Gray Raines, of Hartsville, tripped smilingly in, f?nd left later with the continent that ''it ought to 'be a lesson to everybody; yes, I'm glad 1 came." <^hief of Police Alfred Dreher, of l^exington,' who w?? prominent in the arrest of the negroes, watched Bird die, and two university of (South Carolina football players were present "Bird's mother, Rosa Bird, wanted to see the electrocution," Colonel Penrmnn said, "but I couldn't let her. She's outside waiting for her son's body." "1 want everybody to pray," Bin! mumbled. "And don't ever do as 1 did." . The exposed portion of the negro's face convulses! terribly as electricity seethed through him, Blood bubbled from his mouth, sparks glinted uround his forehead beneath the brass skull-cup, and his body lunged forward uguinst the straps. It took 17 Vii amqreres to strike life from the huge black negro. Hi* head did not loll back lifeless until seven minutes, 26 seconds after charge, doctors said. Two sad-eyed negro convicts helped Robert Eldredge across the threshold of the death chamber. They eased his meningitis-twisted form into the electric chair. W.ords 'burbled from the frail negro. His statemont was the nearest a will of any made, ending with the commitment of his soul to Cod. "Detective W. W. Rogers has my watch, and a brown and a bluck suit downstairs belong to me," he murmured weakly. "I'd like to put on the black suit after the execution, and give the watch and bro<Wn suit to my father." The negro's belongings, including an automobile, weapons, the watch and other articles, are in possession of Deputy .Sheriff Wingard of Lexington, Mr. Rogers stated today. "I ask God to take charge of my soul," the negro in the chair intoned cfearly. The gong rang out the signal for his life to halt at 6:19 o'clock. The slender body in the engulfing chair stirred, tensened and collapsed limply. Steam sizzled from under the head and -knee electrodes. Eighteen amperes of electricity tore the frail frame for t^ree minutes, 61 seconds. r\ James ("Snow") Hlcktrmn followed Eldredge. It took only 16 Knnperes before his body lay deathly still at 6:44 o'clock, seven minutes, 44 secafter the charge sank home. While his right hand grasped t-he chair arm like a talon, the left index finger pointed to his heart , then turned symbolically upward as a second charge of electricity swept through him. "All of you pray for me," he had asked a moment earlier. "Im thinking about my Lord, Jesus Christ.' Dawn had crept into the world as darkness covered Hiclflman, and a faint light filtered into the death chamber as the last of the six negroes entered alive to join within ten minutes hiB five dead fellows on tables in the ante-room. Ernest ("Tee") Thomas, who also shot Phillip Smoak at Blloree, came last into the death chamber. It was 6:66 o'clock as he limped in with a wary glai>ce. "All you people pray for me*, he instructed. "I'll try to meet you in heaven^ and ovav forgivcntiKii-Ior sins." He was declared dead in 5 minutes, 26 seconds, after receiving a charge of IS amperes. Four Southern states were represented by the electrocuted negroes. Bird was born at Goldville, S. C., and Poozer nea**Columbia, Eldredge claims Richmond-, Va., as -his. birthplace. Ackwright leaves a mother aftd father with 15 other children at-Hill*?.Chi._ Hickman and Thomas were born at White-ville and i UonHoira/???iilL "" Only' Eldridge knew how to read and write. The six said they cared to eat no breakfast before gonig to the chair. They wore the same costumes, blue shirts, blue denim coats and pants and thick brown socks on their shoeless feet. . . The two actual killers of Hendrix and Mills died first. The others were taken alternately from the leftand righ-hand cells of the death house until Thomas stepped last from his cubicle, farthest from the chair. Four of the six negroes electro-eoted?at-the-penitentiary"this my idling will be buried in the prison graveyard. Tillman Poozer's wife claimed the body of the local negro, and the mother of George Bird, took away the remains of her son. The four other negroes, Ackwright. Thomas, Hickman and Eldridge, are to be interred at the penitentiary, after funeral services over their white-shrouded bodies in the death house this * afternoon, Rev. T. H. Broadus, negro assistant chaplain of the penitentiary, officiating. . Eight -relatives of the negroes mst ! Set eyes on them alive last night i when they visited the death house. I Poozer's wife, sister and brotherI in-law were among five relatives -who I bade him farewell. The father, mother and brother of Thomas c&mc fStfi?r said hi* <wn'? unabbreviated name -wma Thomaeon. "All mix seemed to give evident* of aonrwr for their crimes when I held my h?t conversation with them at 4:80 o'clock .this morning," Rev. a^^K.^Phimps^ P*'i t^eS6^Rlor> General News Notes ( Mrs. Mary I* Watklns, widow of the late Rev. John S. Wutkin*, for years pastor efheritus of the First Presbyterian church at Spartanburg?, died there this week aged 71) years. She leaves five daughters and one son. Pneumonia and flu pc?v eases were more last week than ever before, but declining in number this week, and the epidemic' is now waning in this staU. New flu eases reported were 4,11)1 last 'week, with-about as many not reported. ..Andrew Jackson Bowers was elected by Ne-wberry county Tuesday as its representative vice Arthur K J bier, who <1 io<l recently. He uot a majority over three opponents. He served in the house in 1027 and 1028. Over 800 votes were cast. Greenville 'has replaced an epidemic of influepza by one of rabies, which is more prevalent potentially than at any time since the big scar# some years ago. The county health department has lid persons under Pasteur treatment, and the city health officer has Id cases of record, making u total of 52 persons taking preventive treatment after" contact with rabies infection. Two of the country patients had cantact with a mud cow. L. P. Graham Van Ness, whose relatives say he saw the murder cf Linglo, reporter for The Tribune i:\ Chicago, died from a slashed throat at Westminster last Saturday, and talk about his death has continued ever since. He though Chicago gangsters were after him and that he saw them on 'his trail at Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Asheville, his former home. His (brother took him to Greenville, where the man said he saw trailers again, and the two drove to Anderson and then doubled back to Westminster where he was hid in a small hotel. That night he was killed. Local officers said it was plain suicide, but in a few days the dead man's family insisted on more investigation and said they believed it was murder and the gangsters got him. No evidence to support this * theory has been foyjid, and evidently the man had a delusion of persecution and being hunted and killed himself. Union has notified all its school teachers that getting married will & automatically vacate their position# in the school rooms. ~~'-C ' Governor Blackwood this week appointed his predecessor, former GoverhtX: John G. Richards, a member of the Natural Resources commission o% this state to succeed the late Robert Small, of Charleston.- ? - ?? .Senator Blease was back in his. senate seat this week,.saying he had taken his office staff home and left the, red iiik sign on his office door to make sure of getting his mail, and 0 * then referred to "monkey business." Hurrying to the funeral of his brother, who committed suicide in a Methodist church at Conway, Robert Holliday, a freshman at the state ^university* was critically injured ~ .when .has automobile hit a hrlAr* o'clock in the morning, near Florence. James P. Carey, a prominent lawyer of Pickens, died at Chick Springs sanitarium this week aged 45- years. His reputation as a lawyer cpyered the state and he was a member of the legislature in ID 12. He had been ill tWo- years. A movement is on foot in Michigan to return to the state of South Carolina a Confederate flag now reposing in the statehouse at Lansing. Tho ~idea Is to present rt to the represent> atives of this state at the national convention of the American Legion at Detroit th^s jpmunaccw I Tony Petertoii anff-Frank Ciarsons, J giving their homes as Chicago, are being held at Hodgewille, Ky., on suspicion of having ntfmlefred Carl B. James, 58, of Louisvipfe.' Jirmes had picked them up on tfcp highway and one of them fchq^hkm/to dteath and the pair were later ntvftited after they had wrecked his car. Albert Ivooney, bootlegger, supplying the students of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, with liquor, pleaded guilty to the charge on Saturday , and wash' sentenced to servo . from six months to two years in the state prison* ?t/ith a recommendation thaf he be required to serve the full time. Oric Brown, freshman law student, arrested January 27, was sentenced to a similar term, with recommendation that he be required to serve at least eighteen months. Thirteen patients were removed from the upper floor of the Mount Regis sanitarium at Salem, Va., Monday after fire was discovered sweeping through the basement.