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Ston Crop Will Be Smallest Since 1878 The Government estimate of 1,286,000 acres of cotton in cultivation in South Carolina on July 1 is a decrease {W peivent froim that in cultivation " July 1 laiit ywttr 1,111 itJ only ul,out j percent below the 1,379,000 acres ^vested in 1933. V The 424,000 acres removed from cultivation under contract with the Agricultural Adjustment Administrate i? tlie summer of 1933 accounts principally for the difference of 24 rreceot between that in cultivation in July iasty ear and the amount finally jurveated, and the small acreage thiti ear is due to the continuation of the gr?age adjustment program. The present acreage is the State's jmallest since the year 1878 when 11^3,000 acres wero harvested, and torn pa res with an acreage of 1,915,000 Kres i" cultivation on July 1 for the yfars 1928-1932. South Carolina's largest acreage was that of 2,849,000! planted in 1918. The acreage of cotton in clutivat-l ion in the United States on July 1 is estimated by the Crop Reporting Board to be 28,024,000 which la 31.** j percent less ?han on July 1, 1933 and ' 32,4 percent less than the average J acreage for the years 1928-1932. The decrease ranges from 25 per- I cent in Georgia and North Carolina to 36 percent in Oklahoma Arizona ana California are the only states showing an increase. The western states show a higher reduction from 1933 than the eastern sate3 due to a relatively larger acreage planted in the west last year. The droip in acreage is due chiefly to the reduction program of the Farm Administration combined with the rejtrictive influence of the Bankhead Production Control Act on planters who did not sign a voluntary reduction contract. -v The present acreage is the smallest ?ince 1905 and about 1,700,000 acre& Wow 1921, the only year since 190t> Vlow 30,000,000 planted acres. It is tiro about 1,964,000 or 6.5 percent bekw the 29,978,000 acres harvested tat year. The acreage of Pima Egyptian long-staple cotton in Arizona is estimated at 29,000 acre? this year compared with 27,000 acres in clutivation July 1,1933. No report on probaJble production *ill be made by the Board until Augart. Foe Of White Plague) Wants New Members With Dr. George II. Cromer, Newberry, us chairman, the membership committee of the South Carolina tuberculosis asssociatiou mailed its annaul appeal for members yesterday to a list of interested citizens in counties that havq no tuberculosis associations. In order to reach prospective members whoso names are not on the association's list, editors of newspaper^ in j the unorganized territory, which includes Kershaw, have been asked to help by making an appeal through their -papers. The funds derived from memberships are used to supplement the Christmas seal funds for the support of a field nurse who works in the counties in which the appeal was made. Tho following story from tho nurse's June report gives a picture of one of her many problems. "I am greatly Interested in Joe", the nurse writes. "A year ago his hoano was broken up. 11 i3 father, mother and nine year old brother were sent to a sanatorium. The other children went to live with the fatleer's parents, but Joe, who is sixteen now, has drifted from one relative to another, and has gained the reputation of being 'hard to mange'. When his mother heard that I wan going into their county, she wrote to ask me to be sure to have Joe examined. I inquired about the family and was told that 'it was no use to try to do anything with that boy'. The neighbors were wrong. When I told Joe that his mother wanted him to be examined, he responded eagerly. Later, He "Told me that he would be willing to walk all tho way to the i sanatorium to tell his mother that he j had had a negative reaction to the tuberculin test. I drove him to the sanatorium, 150 miles from here. If you could have seen Joe with his mother and little 'brother, you would agree with me that he is not yet a 'hard case', and that there is still a chance to save some of the members of this home that tuberculosis has wrecked." S. C. Tuberculosis Association, 1218 Senate Street, Columbia, ?. C. i , | I enclose $ to help carry on your program of education and prevention of tuberculosis. Enroll me as a member. (Individual membership $1.00; organization membership $5.00; sustaining membership $10.00). Name I Address I suggest the following as possible members: The sheriff of Pickens county, John B. Craig, said by the Pickens chief of police to have been very drunk, was being taken home by his son, Arthur, 22 years old, when the sheriff shot the son seriously in the thigh and twice in the leg. He then started for a Greenville hospital with the wounded young man and wrecked the automobile on the way. Local persons took the wounded man on to the hospital. The sheriff went back home to Pickens and next day resigned his office. The coroner took over the sheriff's officii, Governor Blackwood was notified and said he j was .shocked, and the solicitor said i no warrant for the ex-sheriff was contemplated. The sheriff says he has no memory of what occurred j when he shot his son, but next day ; checked up on the affair and found! he had made a mistake. Outwitted The Ghosts "Ah had to go through dat grave- | yard all alone las' night but Ah walked backward all de way." "Whut youall do dat foh?" "So no ghos' could sneak up on me fum behind." MURDER IN SOUTH CAROLINA . ' Palmetto Editor Puts Vitriol on Ilia Typewriter Ribbon and Write? Mr. Johnson, the mild mannered, golf playing, poet appearing editor of The Marion Star, has had hi a, attention called to homicide in South Carolina, and forthwith sat down and wrote about it thus: When this writer was a baby?before he was born?we do not know exactly?three negro men were hung in the Marion jail, after having been convicted for killing a Marion business man, Some years later one Somerset, negro, was hung for the slaying of the uncle of the present day professional man of Marion. Since then hundreds of people have been murdered in Marion county, many of them in cold blood, and not one killer has pftid for his crime with his life. Is it any wonder that men feel that they can slay with impunity? That they calculate that they can rid thornselves of their enemies and suffer, at the worst, a few years in prison? For the hundreds of killings in this county a paltry few men arc in the state penitentiary, and practically every one of them are negroes? Our citizens worry about prohibition, taxes, legislative and' congressional delegations, and really organize and fight to put over their wishes in these matters, which, after all, are of small moment in the scale of life values. What do we do about murders, and murderers? There is not now and there nevei^ has been a serious demand on the part of the public to punish men for "toting" guns. The ji^ry says "not guilty," as to the killer, and nothing is done about making him pay for having packed a deadly gun in his hip pocket and having gone out into the world, ready to kill at the slightest provocation. The truth is, we. are not interested in murders and killers. It matters not to us that our courts are jokes and that even when juries convict shyster lawyers and llop-kneed governors find a way to undo the work of the courts and the jurors. We get excited about all kinds of things, but take cold blooded murder for granted just like the tides, the sunsets and the measles. The blackest mark against the state of South Carolina is her murder record, and the futility of her courts and her officers to do anything about it. Our public views murder with apathy?and the killings continue to blur the pages of our newspapers and fill the dockets of our courts. What is needed! js a speeding up of trials of men charged with murder. Do away with postponements of trials on flimsy excuses. Force killers to face juries of their peers, speedily V i and certainly. Cut out the! red tape of the court room, which permits a.ppeahs and reversals of verdicts on sheer technicalities in the laws. lieform court procedure in many respects, in order that the truth may be ascertained in any fair manner. Tf^te away the pardoning power of the governor and let the verdicts of juries stand. Enact laws which will hold a killer, even when acquitted of the murder charge, if the killing be done with a lawless weapon. Life in South Carolina is very, very ' cheap, anil it will remain cheap as1 long as our last desire is to do something about it. We hate liquor, but we South Carolinians dearly love a ruthless, colUv blooded killer! We are going to be dry, even if wo have to kill the wets, for murder is a lighter offense in this state than drinking or bootlegging! The bootlegger is ostracised by our best citizens who calmly view the killer as an unfortunate man who felt that his neighbor had reached the end of the trail?and aided him in getting away from his earthly trials. l>own with liquor?long liVe the ""killers! (. range Meet a With Mt. Pisgah The ffrst regular meeting of the recently organized Pomona or county grange will meet with the Mt. Pisgah grange on Thursday night, August 2, at eight o'clock. All fourth degree members of the county are invited to attend this meeting. New members will- be received at this time. The Kershaw County Pomona Grange is the connecting link between the community or subordinate grange and the state grange. Join your subordinate and Pomona granges and strengthen the best farmers fraternity in America. Death Kay Now a Reality Ever since the war there have been rumors of tjie discovery of a "death ray" that would instantly wipe out all life which it comes in contact. Such a ray actually has been perfected and is now in possession of the U. S. government as told at the recent Inventors' Congress in Omaha by A. G. Burns, president of that organization. The death ray machine was invented by Dr. Antonio Longoria, physician and electrical engineer of Cleveland, Ohio. "I witnessed a demonstration of the machine in Cleveland last October," Mr. Burns said. "Dr. Longoria turned the ray on rabbits, dogs and cats. They fell over, instantly killed, their blood turned to water. The same thing happened to pigeons, i turned loose and allowed to fly quite, a distance. They fluttered to the ground and were dead when picked up." | ?^?? ?i It's a Good Story; J True or Untrue From Chesterfield comes the story of how h man carried the star route mail from Jefferson to Chesterfield several years for less than no pay on account of an error in his contract. There is probably some foundation (or the story, which is a good one, I true in whole or part. After Lee surrendered, Pink Brant|ley, who had been a scout in lioncrul Wade Hampton's cavalry, rode a ' horse, which had been captured from | a federal soldier, and reached his home three miles from Chesterfield, which was directly in the path of i Sherman's army which had passed ! some three mo lit lis earlier; Sherman's men had taken everything from the small farm', j The mail service in the county had i been discontinued with the collapse of the Confederacy, and the federal t government was taking stops to re1 store the service and advertised for hiils for transporting the mail?three times a week between Chesterfield | and JetTersQii?20 miles. Brantley I wps the successful bidder?his bid being $300 per year. The contract specified that the payments for the service would be made quarterly, and that should the service be increased or decreased, or if the route should be lengthened or shortened that the puy would be>adjusted in accordance with the stipulated price. The road was a sandy one, and Brantley carried the mail oji horse back, making the round trip each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. After three months the check arrived from Washington and it was for seventy-five cents whereas it should have been $75. In due course he got a reply that seventy-five cents was correct?that his bid was $3.00, and that the contract had been awarded him on that basis?investigation showed that in making out his bid Brantley had put a period after the 3, so the bid was $3.00, instead of $300. Brantley then wrote that he was going to quit?but was reminded that if he did his bondsmen would have to pay to have the contract completed, which ran for four years. The bondsmen were Brantley's friends; in those days personal bonds were given as the bonding companies of today were not doing business down this way. | So Brantley, to protect his bonds! men continued to make the trip three times a week; then he was notified .that the service would be daily?so his next quarter he got a check for $1.50?it now to6k two horses to maintain the service?then another l.'-l.'-l 1 .? - ... II nw?? July Livestock Notes Sent Out By Clemson Clcmson. College, July 2.?In midsummer livestock need careful attention, say specialists in timely notes: Animal Husbandry.?-See that hogs | have all green forage they will consume. Plant soybeans for late summer grazing ? it is not too late. | Fence fields and be ready to hog down corn in the glazed or dent stage. 1 Provide hogs some animal protein, such Ash meal, skimmilk or tank' ago. Wean late lambs and get ewes j bred as early as possible. Change i cattle on pastures every three weeks I if possible. Save food by using permanent pastures while horses anil [ mulest are not working. lhuiying." Mow pastures frequent-* I ly. Destroy breedmg places for Hies, and use skimmilK-formahlghydo poi! son in shallow pans to kill Aies. As i milk production fulls off, supplement : pasture ? with balanced grain mixture. | Feed up to two pounds of grain daily to growing stock to maintain normal growth. Keep market cream container in barrel or tub of cold well or spring water. If ' retail milk producer willx surplus ut this season, dry otr all lowiproducing cows that are v , bred for fall freshening. Poultry.?Keep mash before laying hens; it helps to keep their bodies cool and stimulates egg production. Reduce feed cost by culling nen-layers and not by reducing feed. Keep a grain feed before the pullets and don't start feeding a laying mash until the birds are at least Ave months old. If troubled with roup or chicken pdx in past years, vaccinate pullets when two to four months old. At Gaffney, an uutomobilo thief was not expert enough at driving to drive through the other cars in the alley down town where he took Guy Kirby's automobile, and when he tried to back out of the alley, he smashed into a pole. Also, he could not run fast enough to get away from a crowd chasing him and was caught and jailed. He is a white man named Graham Johnson. post office was established 7 miles beyond Jefferson and the service was extended to this one?it bearing the unattractive name of Catarrh?three horses were now necessary?and the check for the quarter was now $1.98 ?at last the four year contract expired, and the congressman from this district got a bill through congress to pay Brantley the balance of the amount due him on basis of what ho had intended to bid. Mark Twain heard about the incident and in one of his humorous stories wrote it up, using fictitious names.?Lancaster News. WYNDHAM M. MANNING Candidate For Governor It is -.t i that the real cause of the catn ( :' time. Curie, the world's best flour. M.an scientist, was the acumuia* . of radium rays in her sys'* injured the organs produc ? ' - [' iscles. ( mmty Campaign Dates Mrr . August 13, 10 a. m., at ker>hav. . TV-;..., August 14, 10 a. m., at let h u * . ;aVt August 15, 10 a. m., t Ra - Stiil. Tr*- y. August 10, 10 a. m., at 6 s s a t ft/. .. . August 16, 2:00 p. m., f'.'.ay. August 17, 10 a. mat nt:o : Ta?-. August 21, 10 a. m., at lar.oy ' lay. August 22, 10 a. m., ITVa 1 loss Roads. , August 23, 3:00 p. m., * ' i\ y. * August 25, 5:00 p. m., at F- > ' >'ate Campaign Dates g'ay Friday, July 13 re?Saturday, July 14 Fifth Week \lJ'' Menday, July 16 f ,af- I'uesday July 17 ft..Cr " v ' ?W ednesday. July 18 *h' ; .i.c?Thursday. July 19 Jm,. . Sixth Week 1 * to 2;?. rest period t._ Seventh Week wn-u-.T-Monday, July 30 b/*'/'?Tuesday. July 31 ThiiJT*** 'u.v:"e?Wednesday, August 1 r0l?r~"Ttuirsday, August 2 Coaway?Friday, Aurust 3 Ger.rc . 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