The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 11, 1917, Page 2, Image 2
THE NEGRO MIGRATION. I
Movement Has Become Generally Noticeable.
Hundreds of negroes "have left
South Carolina for the North where
they have been promised higher
wages for their labor.
From almost every community
there has been an exodus.
The migration from Greenwood
has been noted there. A prominent
woman of that city returned to her
home the other night to find supper
on the stove, but her cook departed
for Northern parts unknown. He l
was lured away by the promise of |
higher wages. It is said an immigration
agent has been at work in
Greenwood, but has been operating
under the cover of darkness, so that
he has not been apprehended and
nnripp the criminal law of
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South Carolina.
The Yorkville Enquirer reports
that "several Yorkville housewives
have been complaining of late because
their cooks have been lured to
New York, and other Northern cities
by attractive offers of employment as
cooks and housemaids and in other
domestic work." It is understood
that others are thinking of leaving
as they are promised $13 per month
and board in Northern cities. The
Enquirer thinks that "there is nothing
to be done except to let them go
and profit by the experience."
The News is just in receipt of a
letter from the Indianapolis Ledger,
which styles itself "the peerless orL
gan of the colored people of Ameri.
ca," and asserts that in its opinion
the present influx of the Southern
negro to the Northern States is a
mistake and will inevitably work vto
the disadvantage of the negroes already
established in this section of
the cc mtry." Moreover, the Ledger
proclaims that "the move is the result
of misrepresented and magnified
stories of actual conditions." The
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ern negroes to stay at home, and, by |
. stating the fact, is enabled to put
quite a different light on the matter
from that sent forth by persons who
hare selfish ends to serve and who
doubtless will be willing to let the
\ ; unfortunates who are beguiled from
their homes and friends by their
false sophistries, 'root for themselves,'
when the war is over and
matters resume their normal state
up here.
The negro paper has sized up the
.situation exactly. The people who
are luring the negro labor to the
North and exploiting it care nothing
about the negro and do not warn him
that, when the war has been concluded,
>he will have to give way to European
cheap white labor. They do
not tell him that the climate of the
North is very much to be dreaded by
him and that a great number of these
imported negro laborers have already
died from the diseases induced
by the rigors of the Northern clim"
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ate.
.. .For its part, the News agrees with
the EnQuirer that, if the negro wants
to leave the South to try the North,
it is best to let him go and profit by
the experience. The chances are
that, sooner or later, he will come
back home. The only preventive
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measure that ought to be taken is
to arrest immigrant agents who operate
in this State and make them'
either take out the $5,000 license rev
quired by law, or send them to jail,
if they cannot pay the fine of from
$1,000 to $5,000 for unlawfully soliciting
immigrants.?Greenville
News.
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A BUSY MAX.
M&S- '< -
He Gets More Mail Than President
Wilson.
In
the January American Magazine
a writer says:
"Spillman is the chief of the office
of farm management in the bureau
of plant industry at the department
of agriculture. It all sounds
inconspicuous enough. But Spillman
gets more mail than the president of
the United States. His province is
to answer questions. He knows more
than any other man in the country
about how to make the farm pay.
And so he doesn't run a farm, but
tells others how. There may be
others who know just as much as
Spillman about how to run a farm
in a given locality, but Spillman
knows just what to do in any part
of the whole United States. Take a
map of the whole country, shut your
eyes and jab a pin into any place on
the map at random. If you happen
to stick it into farm land Spillman
could go there, take charge of the
place p.nd make it pay a profit."
Two Bets.
Teddy, aged 4, was looking out of
the window. A storm of sleet and
snow was raging.
"I bet I could get outdoors if I
wanted to," he said. Then, with a
glance at his mother's face added:
"But I bet I don't want to."?Child
Betterment Magazine.
Read the Herald, $1.50 per year.
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GREATEST OF ALL IS CHARITY.
Xew York Paui>ers Contribute to European
Relief.
On Blackwell's Island the city
houses 3,000 human wrecks in the
institution known as the Home for
the Aged and Infirm, says Commerce
and Finance of Xew York. Broken,
bent, crippled men and women pass
their lays there having no other habitation.
Some of them are childless,
friendless, hopeless. Nearby is Potter's
Field for them to look upon.
There in unmarked graves they
know they soon are doomed to rest.
Into the house someone carried a
paper the othe^day that told of men
and women, children and babies of
the land where Christ was born and
where Christ died being driven from
their homes by the Turks and of fleeing
over hill and desert half naked,
half starved. The paper told of a
fund being raised by the Armenian
and Syrian Relief committee for
[ them. Around the Home the paper
went. Old, feeble men clenched their
weak, shaky hands and cursed the
Turks. Old, wrinkled women cried,
cried for the babies of that far distant
land. Then someone, possibly
it was,the aged woman who now is
but a human shell but who forty
years ago was an actress of prominence,
suggested that they should
help, that out of their hearts and out
of their hands aid should go to the
sufferers of Arabia.
The city's helpless decided to help,
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to neip oy a wean or sucn sen aemai
as is rare indeed. A woman of 70,
a slave to a drug, gave up the drug
for 7 days that the money it represented
might go to the sufferers beyond
the sea.
Cripples ran errands with an eagerness
that made up for tottering
steps. One woman who is feeble
minded, and almost sightless, and so
maimed that to walk across the room
is a painful process ordinarily requiring
deliberation and concentration,
earned 30 cents in this way.
"I'll make it an even fifty," she
mumbled, and kept doggedly at her
self-imposed tasks until she had 11
cenfcs more.
Men by the score refused the
weekly shave that is the cherished
privilege of the island. Each shave
thus cashed in netted five cents, and
bristling chins became the hallmark
of the righteous. From one woman
who has been in bed for seventeen
years came unexpected treasure?a
quarter she had been hoarding for
months for some hidden ambition. .?
The pennies and the nickles and
j the dimes and the quarter given by
the bed-ridden woman were finally
gathered together and counted and
i per leaves tne less easny auaciveu
metals in a spongy form that ^offers
little resistance to abrasion. In new
coins the rapid loss of weight that occurs
is doubtless caused at first by
abrasion, but when the rough edges
have been removed chemical action
may prove to be of the first importance
in the succeeding deterioration.?Youth's
Companion.
Judge J. \Y. DeYore told the Richland
county grand jury the other
day to go after the "big fellow" in
the whiskey traffic. He also urged
special attention to the question of
concealed weapon carrying.
recounted. There was just $27?a
sum that will make this a bleak winI
ter indeed on the island.
If it is true, as we are assured, that
of the three graces of Christianity?
Faith, Hone and Charity, the greatest
is Charity how can the surpass|
ing charity of these most unfortunate
of the city's millions be measured?
Comment on the Curious.
"The fellow who stops his paper
because he becomes offended at some
item that does not suit his fancy, always
imagines he is getting even
with the editor, but he is never
missed," is the reminder of the Macon
County Citizen, \ which paper
adds:
"This only happens occasionally;
for there are only a few people in
any community who imagine a paper
should contain nothing but what they J
approve of."?Augusta Chronicle.
Why Coins Wear Out.
In the latest report of the British
mint Sir Thomas K. Rose, a well
known metallurgical expert, calls attention
to the effect of grease derived
from the sweat of the fingers,
or from other sources, in accelerating
the wear of coins, which is usually
attributed entirely to abrasion.
Sir Thomas says that the fatty acids
of the grease have a corrosive action
upon the metal. Copper in particular,
even if present only in small
quantity as an alloy for gold or silver,
is concerted into an oleate, sterate
or other salt. Haagen Smit, of
the Utrecht mint, found by analysis
that the dirt on a bronze coin contained
36 per cent, of copper in the
form of powdered compound of the
fatty acids. When the coin is handled
the dirt is in part detached and
the coin undergoes a loss of weight.
Gold or silver is not readily converted
into salts, but removing the cop*
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TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th clay of October, 1916, until the
15th day of March, 1917, inclusive. I
From the first day of January,
1917, until the 31st day of January,
1917, a penalty of one per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1917, a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st]
day of March, 1917, until the 15th
day of March, 1917, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
Pnr nnmnsps fi 1-2 mills
For county purposes 7 mills
Constitutional school tax 3 mills
Total 14 1-2 mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Colston, No. 18 . 4 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills
Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 4 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
'Heyward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills
Lees, No. 23 4 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills
Olar, No. 8 9 mills
St. John's, No. 10 2 mills
Salem, No. 9 4 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate soldiers and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1916, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1917.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1916, until
the 1st day of March, 1917.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
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