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I land Value f actors B Subject of Study i (|em3on College, August 5.?The ' t important factor determining I Rvalue of farm real estate as its I nHitf capacity as measured by the I of cotton it produces. This is I ^ . at least in Anderson county, I fc!ith Carolina, as shown by a study I ruiIc llie South Carolina Expert^B " ,?t station. I The results of this study, made by I \ Kusscll, assistant agricultural t ioncmist. are published in Station I Circular f?t>. entitled "An Invostigai 0f h?rni Heal Estate Values in I imlrrson county, South Carolina," I i<hich i* for free distribution upon rMUCSt. I Kegarding the three points of farm |\,1 e8tate fluctuations, the imporB unt factors in land value, and the I Ration between value of cotton and I ulue of land, Mr. Russell's concluI #ions may be thus summed up. I farm real estate in Anderson counI ly 'fluctuated greatly In value during I the last hundred years, e&pecially duI 'ring tho latter part of this period. I The average sale price of farm land im! buildings was $2.60 per acre in I 1830- $4.11 1" 185?; in 1870; I $11.16 In 1880; $41.03 in 11)10; $37.49 the economic value of farm real J I estate is determined largely by its B present and future earning capacity, I |[Uj by anticipated future return in J the form of unearned increment. ^B bind values are influenced also by I the kind of people living'in the comB mnnity, the location of schools and I churches, the amount of property tax levied, the kind of rp.ads, the distance I and accessibility, to market, etc. There is a direct relationship beI ween tho value of cotton and the ^B value of land per acre. Land values I follow cotton values; the lag be lmn these two commodities depends upon the degree of increase or deI crease of the latter . In some inI stances this reaction was''immediate, I that is. it was only one or two years I before the land curve, followed the H - cotton curve. I Judge Richardson I Dies From Injuries [ Judge of Probate Thomas E. RichI ards-n died in the Tuomey hospital I here last night from injuries sustain fd Monday morning when he fell on the court house steps, fracturing his I skill! in two places. The end came ^B peacefully shortly after 11 o clock. ^1 Judge Richardson never regained I consciousness after his fall. | Judge Richardson was 86 years I old. He was a son of Major William I E. Richardson and Sarah Ann MayI rant Richardson. He was born at Stateburg. His father served as sheriff of Sumter county from about 1839 to IS.15 and some years later he served as managing clerk in the ofJ fice of Sheriff T. J. Coghlan. i Judge Richardson was engaged in I the life insurance business for some years prior to his assuming the posi| tion <if .Judge of Probate. He succeed} ed to the office in 1907, when Judge 1 Thos. V. Walsh died after serving { for 27. years. Judge Richardson servI ed as Judge of Probate continuously B from 1907, a period of more than 26 j years. I Judge Richardson was never married. He is survived by several nieces and nephews. He wbs a Confederate veteran and took a prominent part -in B the activities of Camp Dick Anderson B U. 0. V.?Friday's tSumter Item. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Ar, kansas, was given a state-wide recepj tion at Little Rock on Wednesday in recognition of the completion of thirty years in ccfngTess. Renew Your Health By Purification Any jhysieian will tell you that '!' r:< Purification of the System l' Nil! it 's Foundation of Perfect Bfair!;," Why not rid yourself of ' ' ailments that are under* y -ir vitality f Purify your ftitio- },y faking a thorough f(i ,r"" 1 ' (.'iilotahs,'?once or twico * *'" ?: :-r several weeks?and see , 0 w N.it are rewards you with health. falotnhs purify the blood by aeti^atintr liver, kidneys, stomach h'.w,.is. In 10 cts. and 35 cts. . packa^ s. All dealers. (Adv.) 66 6 klQl'II) - TABLETS - SALVE Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds first *y. Headaches or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, fine laxative and tonic '^?st Speedy Remedies Known ft KERSHAW LODGE No. 2% A. V. M. V^QH^Regular communication of /^./^^\this lodge ia held on the \r first Tuesday in each month *t 8 p m Visiting Brethren are welded. N. R. GOODALE, JR., J; W. WILSON, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-ti mtii II IMI III! f " London Fizzle Forces Declaration On U. S. The mountain has. long been in labor, anil a mouse has been brought forth. The League of Nations, with its headquarters in Geneva and its hind quarters trying to spread all over the earth, has had to add one more to the long list of its tragic failures. The League had been dangling an "economic conference" before i the eyes of the world for a long [ time. The nations were told that if; they would only get together around a conference table and'have a heartto-heart talk, difficulties would melt .away like' hailstones in a summer sun. . i The long-advertised "conference,", as we already know, was finally held i at London. All persons who are gifted with' even half wits .knew in advance that this .'conference was doomed to fail?but it suited the purposes of many to make believe it would do all that was claimed for it, President Roosevelt had to treat the conference seriously; he sincerely hoped that some good might come out of it, and so he picked a group of able and respected men to go there and represent the United States. For the last 20 years our diplomats and donferencergoers have been more like "the innocents abroad" whom Mark Twain wrote of than like statesmen prepared to uphold and rfkfeguard the interests of this nation. The Europeans feted them and flattered them; they "took them in" in more senses than one. With their hearts warmed 1 by physical good cheer and brotherly feeling, they were willing to sign almost anything that was, laid bef?re them. So every time Uncle Sam went into one of those "conferences" he came put like a skinned rabbit. The other nations owe us 11 billions of war debts?and have no notion of paying them. They have refused to follow our lead in reducing armaments; they want us to forgive their war debts so they can carry on more wars; they think we should be polite and lower our tariff walls so their products can come into the great American home market; they believe 1 we should "peg" our dollar to suit I them. In short they had fully expected j Uncle Sam would go right on being I the model uncle of all time, and that J he would not turn down a single re- j quest for cash or other aid, while getting nothing in return. So it was indeed a cruel shock to them when President Roosevelt sent word that j this country would no longer consent j to play the role of the easy going | dupe and butt, and that the United . States asserts the right to "run its j own affairs. The old jingle might well be up-to- j dated in this connection?"Will you i walk into my parley? said the spider | to the fly." The spider fully intended 1 to trap that fly and fatten on it?but j now that's all off. It is probably true that we Amer- ; icans are about the dumbest people on j the globe?as our friends abroad say , we are. We have been so "easy that j they have greatly underestimated our true character as a nation. They have resorted to some of the most 1 transparent and low-lived tricks that | slick card men ever thought of. For instance, they reported that Presidnet j Roosevelt intended to go to the London conference himself. Later they reported that our government was to stabilize the dollar at the rate of $4 for a British pound sterling. These bare-faced lies were spread broadcast and while they ought not to have deceived anybody, they did do a lot of harm. They helped to make it impossible for our representatives to treat the conference as a sincere effort to remedy the world's troubles. Undoubtedly it helped the schemes of the international bankers and others who had rich pickings during the halcyon days when Uncle Sam handed out money in bales for the asking, j ?The Pathfinder. Says Europe^ Girding jFor Another Conflict New York. Aug. 4.?Henry Morgenthau. Sr., United States delegate to j the Geneva wheat conference and lat- j er an adviser at the London economic conference, returned on the liner Ber- j engaria today with the belief that Europe is on the brink of war. "All European countries are con- j serving their resources," he said.! "and the unwillingness on the part of some of them to go all the way in the , matter of wheat curtailment, is be-1 cause of a feeling that they must prepare for war and in preparing for war they must have grains to tap and draw upon." "All Europe is ready for war, Morgenthau added. "Conditions are similar to what they were in 1913 all over Europe. All the countries are expending more f,,r armament. All distrust eac other." I i i;k"firar ^^ ^:rii i" jut~iir'"" Nobody's Business J c Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 1928. WHO'S WHO IN FLAT ROCK i judge withers i . . . .judge withers was borned in i allabamu after the civvel war and then his pa and ma moved to tennessee where he nreeehed a circuit till judge got big enuff to go to scholl and then they all moved to georgy where judge growed up. 1 ....judge withers rail name is jhon i withers, but he gained the name of 1 judge by rising from a plain plow- < hand to maggistrate in only 85 years, and ever since he held that important , job from one leggLslature to the next , one, when he was turned off, he has ancered to the name of judge. ; . . . .Judge withers has benn married three times and is now a widder as his last wife passed on in 1920 when land went down, judge likes sevveral of our town girls and tries to make up to miss jennie veeve smith, but she do not like whiskers android 5ge, so she says, and judge has not therefoar got nowhere with her. . . . .judge withers is one of our foremost eitizons and always does his part in times of distress ansoforth. he takes up the collection at rehober when he is pressent, but he do r.ot a-tend verry reggular. he circulates partitions for the unfortunate whose nouse gets burnt down without insurranc-e and ha? raised as high as 2<>$ be.foar the depression. . . . .judge has a keen year for musick and can play a mouth organ to some extent and he is allso verry versatile with a juice-harp, and can pick a banjo ever now and then, he rose up I from the crowd to where he now ! stands, vizzly: at the top in flat rock, i as he do not work none, he gives a | graet deal of advice to the loafers j around the citty half and post offis. he has retired -on 23$ a month his I son sends him from detroit who works 1 for mr. ford. . . . .judge withers has the high re cord of newer being in jail but 3 J times and he come clear on 2 of them cases, he has newer benn in anny j serious fights, and has not mixed up j'verry much with dirty polliticks. he made a mistake while maggistrate of flat rock and failed to turn over the I ine of ">$ he levied on jim billings or truss-passing-, .but when they -heoked him up an<l out, and found t missing, he raised it from friends , ind paid it to the county treasure, vho will be next? s<v>id In yore , lames and life history?fW who's , ,vho. yores truly, mike Clark, rfd., corry spondent. THEY CAN DEPEND ONfttfftKE flat rock, s. C. Aug. 8, 1933 ion. hue jhorison, ndustrey dicktator, Washington, d. C. ieer sir:? i am riting to infarm you that i am :o-opperating 100 percent with you on the recovvery bill and have cut my beef market hours down to 40, and the pulblick do not seem to kick anny except they complain about the advance on livvers and porch chops. i do not work my help but 30 hours, i let him come to the market at 9 a. m., and while he is loafering around waiting on a customer to come in, i dock that time from his wedges and so far, he has made only *28 hours per week and his wedges have benn raised to a minnie-mum of 1*2$, but as he do not work the full 40-hour week, i pay him only actual. he pulled down 6$ last week, he useter cost me 11$. as soon as the folks get some monney that they wont need to buy ot- J termobiles and radios and gassolet n, ansoforth, i believe the need-cessity ( bizness, .such us bread and meat and tobaeker, will pick up and then i will j put on more help. j wish trade would justify 3 of us working full time instead of just me m<?st of the time, my wife hope us last sadday and she did not count on the new labor deal as i paid her nothing and that was more than she was worth. we must all pull together if we get over this depression which wall street started in 19*29. i farm some on the side and have plowed up 3 akers, and if you don't mind, plese step acrost the street to the treaure's offis, and tell hin to send my 33$ by first male, or i will get my car re-possessed, he has alreddy benn for it twiste, but jerry Clark was ofT somewheres in it both times. J my wife wants to put hei* house work on the 40-hours-a-week plan, but i told her mr. rooseyvelt did not include house-wifes in his program as verry few of same have ever got .r hurt by working1 too hard ansoiortn. was sent for our C> younghns, she she woulddent have nothing to do but cook, wash, iron, slop the hog, milk the cow, chop the cotton, pull the fodder, and clean up our little 6-room house, why, she has nearly nothing I a-tall to do. well, mr. jhonson?i just wanted you to know* that i had put my in- j dustry on the recovvery plan as out-1 lined by you and if you need some- ! thing else done to help the country,' just rite or foam me. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd ! beef man. The Motorists Who Take Chances. You see them on streets and highways every day?motorists who take * chances. You see them turning cor- t ners at high speeds. Or stealing an- t other car's right of way. Or passing * on hills and curves. Or driving on the i wrong side Of the road. Or cutting in 1 and out of thick traffic. Or coming ? roaring into intersections and road 1 junctions without looking to either side. Or operating at speeds which afe obviously higher than are safe i c under driving conditions of the mo- ? ment. And, every once in a while, ^ you see such a motorist cause an 1 accident. Perhaps there is little dam- * age done. Or perhaps a life is lost 1 and valuable property is needlessly ^ destroyed. The reckless motorist comprises * ten per cent or less of the driving 1 population. But he causes ninety per 1 cent of the accidents. If the reckless drivers simply injured each other it ( wouldn't be particularly important to . the rest of us. But they seldom do j that?they maim and kill the careful, 1 the competent, the prudent. And you never know who's g&ing to be next. | This year about thirty thousand j people are going to be killed because someone was careless, retkless, dis- 1 courteous. Not one of a thousand of | those deaths is really due to an un-j avoidable accident?an occurrence which is almost as rare as the dodo." They can all be prevented. And they J will be when there is a concerted pub- , lie drive against thi>se who make j places of carnage out of public high- ! ways. The Colorado Irun &. Fuel company with headquarters in Denver, Colo., and a $50,000,000 corporation, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. To Preach at Kerahaw. Rev. A. V. Smith, of the Beulah section, has accepted an invitation . ? ' rom Rev. R. R. Tucker, of Kershaw, o preach at Kershaw on the second Sunday in August at 11 in the morn- ? |] ng and in the afternoon at 4 o'clock le will preach at Damascus church it Westville. Rev. Tucker will be on lis vacation at that time. The police of Jamaica, L. I., have a urious crime on their hands for idution. Several days ago the dead >ody of Henry F. Sanborn, 44, rail oad executive, was found buried * 4s c )ead down with one foot left slightly ibove ground in a vertical grave. Examination showed that he had (been ihot and his skull faractured. San>orn had been missing since July 17 . ?^ antil his body was discovered Satarday by berry pickers. jt* The New York stock exchange was :los?d temporarily about noon Friday just after two tear gas bombe had been exploded in the ventilating system and flooded the building with the gas. No one was seriously injured, but many went to hospitals for temporary relief. New Orleans policemen had been tipped ofT as to a probable attempted bank robbery and were on guard at every bank in the city Friday. When three bandits attempted to hold up a branch of the Hibernia bank, a pitched battle resulted and the bandits were driven off. Rev. Willie Wilson, 2G, Holiness -J preacher, was to have performed his first baptismal ceremony in the Arkansas river at Van Buren, Ark., Sunday. He stepped off into deep # water and was drowned, with the nine persons he was to have baptized witnessing the tragedy. Mrs. Lorens Williams, of Kllerton, in Anderson county, was shot in the abdomen, and her brother-in-law, Raymond Grimes, was jailed for shooting her. Police said he came home from an absence in Mississippi and quarreled with his wife, and when he threatened to shoot his wife, Mrs. Williams stepped between the two and told Grimes to leave, in time to receive the pistol bullet. Charles Peas, 22, shot and killed his father-in-law, Henry Stanter, 69, at the latter's home in Kannapolis, N. C., Sunday evening. Dcas was later arrested after he had wrecked | his automobile while trying to es! cape. - ' #\? . J."1*'-'.1J1.'LL-?'. - A''.? >? ? ; 1 . ' : * a. v;y/^ ^O&nr&sjfcixC ",|| Q)e<l<9*dwntiyf6oA/. :' -S UNTIL WE LEARNED BETTER * Until we learned better, wo used to mioc wood and steel in our car bodies and wheels. m , It was the best way to make bodies?then. But the stato of the art || has advanced. , >| Of course, it is more expensive to make an all-stool body than to make a VnfircIeYl frame and nail stool panels on to it. Tho better way involves an initial expenditure of several millions of dollars for now dies, which renders a change very costly. Cars, .especially large exponsivo cars which are produced In small volume, cannot afford this, bocauso tho dies cost as much for one car as for a million. That alone explains why allsteel bodies are not used in all cars. But our basic policy from the beginning is to make a good car better, regardless of cost. * For example,^hen we discarded wood-steel body construction,, it was not because we lacked wood. We still have some thousands of acres of the best hard wood in America. Economy would urge us to use up the wood first, and then adopt the better all-steel body. But we decided that quality was more important than expense. i \ j We weighed the reasons, for and against, before we made the change. k We could see only one reason for retaining a mixed wood-and-steel body ?nailing the metal on, instead of welding an all-steel body into a strong one-piece whole. That reason was, it would be cheaper?for us. Our reasons for adopting an all-steel body wore these: A wood-steel ( body is not much stronger structurally than its wooden frame. In all' "VJ American climates, wood construction weakens with age. Every used car lot gives evidence of this. 'Rain seeps in between joints and the wood decays. A car may have a metal surface, and yet not be of steel construction. Under extreme shock or stress the steel body remains intlSct?dented per- ^ haps, but not crushed. . Steel does not need wood for strength or protection. Wood is fine for furniture, but not for the high speed vehicles of 1933. In therFord body there are no joints to squeak, no seams to crack or leak. " '::M The all-steel body i_s more expensive?to us, but pot to you. . v; By all odds., then, steel bodies seem preferable. Wheels also have become all-steel. No one argues that an electrically ; welded one-piece steel wheel, such as the Ford wheel, needs to be "strengthened" by adding wood to it. The one-piece all-steeL body is the strongest, safest, quietest, most i durable body made. That' is our only reason for making them. I August 7th, 1933 | 1 .