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I (Slip Hamburg foralb \ $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921. Established in 1891. ========= | Death to Boll Wt Mollassi PROF. A. C. MOORE MAKES IXjj* TERESTIXG EXPERIMENT. MAKES FURTHE RTEST. Results, However, in Preliminary InF vestigation Warrant OptimisR tic View of Outcome. From time to time I have iroted | accounts of poisoning the boll weevil by the use of a mixture of cal-j cium arsenate wun oiacKsirap inolasses. Knowing the general unreliability of the observations and conclusions of those who have had no training in scientific experimentation, I have placed little faith In these' reports. However, to satisfy a nat- j ural curiosity and perchance to add to our too meager knowledge of the [ | boll weevil, I have just completed J > a preliminary experiment, which is j striking in its results, so much so [ that I hasten to report on it with [ the hope that it may even this late I. day enable farmers to check to some ~ extent the ravages of the boll weevil this season. The experiment was conducted as [ follows: Under each of four large glass jars a stalk of cotton was placed. The jars were numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. Into each three live and active boll weevils were introduced. The latter promptly entered * the squares and fed freely upon them. A few drops of poisoned molasses were then placed upon the leaves upon the plants in 1, 2 and 3. As a check, the plant in jar No. 4 was left without poison. The next morning "one weevil in jar j f No. 1 was dead and two in jar No. 2 i During the several following days others died, until on the fifth day all three weevils in each of the three (poisoned jars were dead. Of the j three weevils placed in the unpoisoned jar one was well and active, one j was accidentally crushed in removing j the jar, and the third could not be found. The observed facts, therefore, are that in each of the poisoned jars all the weevils were found dead, I I while none in the unpoisoned jar deid a natural death. T6 make sure of the cause of death, Dr. G. F. Lipscomb of the department of chemistry made a chemical analysis of the bodies of the dead weevils and found that they contained arsenic. It would therefore, seem positively \ certain that the boll weevils did find and eat the poisoned molasses. 1 I am getting up a second experiment to test the matterp more thoroughly, and I believe the results soj far obtained justify their publication at once. v ANDREW CO MOORE, Professor Biology, University of South Carolina.?The State. GAS PLANT AT ORANGEBURG. City Council Decides to Sell $100,000 in Bonds. Orangeburg, July 24.?At the regu. " - *1 ? 1 r ir} o V ! lar meeting 01 ci IV CUUilWU i I lua,' i night the city passed a resolution to sell $100,000 worth of bonds for'the building of the proposed gas plant. ^The city council further decided to buy another pumper with a hook and ladder attachment, to cost approximately $13,000. The city purchased a pumper some months ago and it has been one of the greatest aids a number of times, and another is needed, it is thought, with the hook and ladder attachment. Rye Success in Allendale. A return of $80 per acre from Abruzzi yre, with a crop of cowpeas following to pay land rent and cost of production of both crops, is the record of J. S. Rice, an Allendale county farmer who has recently harvested 92 -bushels from 4 acres. At $3.50 per bushel, which has al ready been offered, the returns from the rye will be $322 or $80.50 per acre, and Mr. Rice says that this is one crop grown on his farm this year that is sure to bring fair money. The! peas, sown broadcast following the! I rye, will not only pay rent of land! * ' * " l\/\l V. ovArvc I f and production cost iui ?uui uupc but will help to make the land more productive for next year's crop.? Journal and Review. A petition containing demands for equal political and civil rights has j been sent to the senators and deputies by the Crusade society of Spanish women. i levils By es Poison Method WEEVIL WORSE THAN EVER. Cotton Crop of South is in Serious l>anger at mis nine. | Memphis, Tenn., July 23.?Hot. dry weather this month and August ' is necessary to save the South's cotton crop. This is the concensus of opinion among the agricultural extension es of the cotton belt. The boll weevil is damaging thousands of acres. Agricultural ex! perts of the Mississippi delta predict destruction of the crop in many sections if damp, cool weather should develop in the next two months. The weevil multiplies rapidly and spreads over vast territory in cool, damp weather. Hot. dry weather re {tards the weevil's progress and dej stroys the young. The weevil is now worse than ever before in history, says Dr. E. R. Lloyd, director of the Memphis Farm Bureau, who has just completed a forces of the cotton belt. Dr. Lloyd found the cotton crop three to five weeks late in some localities. In sections of Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama hundreds ~nnt + rm aro hp in ? nlowed I Ui cltico Ul VVfcWVU a w 0 ^ up by the farmers and fall seed planted. These farmers have been advised to take such action by the agricultural extension forces of the various states, due to the small stand of cotton. Southern farm life today is far different from one year ago. Last year A)tton prices were good, but man/ farmers held their crops for higher prices. Today barns-shelter hundreds of bales that last year would have brought 40 to SO cents a pound, but today could not be sold for 15 cents. This year's cotton crop will be the cheapest raised in history. The country schools were closed early so the children might enter the fields. There is plenty of labor at $1 per day compared with $3 "per day last year. JAIL DELIVERY IS ATTEMPTED. Two Keepers at Grefnville Thwart Plan of 20 Negroes. Greenville, July 22.?An organized attempt of twenty negroes to effect a general jail delivery was thwarted at the Greenville county jail this morning. When Keepers Batson and Black stepped inside the door ojf the ward where the negro men are kept they were attacked by two negroes, who jumped from their cells just as the keepers unlocked the door. Keeper Batson floored the negro who attack- 1 ed him with a blow to the stomach and Keeper Black managed to push the negro who attacked him back to his cell door and to hold him there while Keeper Batson locked the door. In the meantime Jailer Christopher, who was armed, arrived on the scene and the attempted delivery was put down. Vice-President Coolidge Says: Large profits mean large payrolls. Self government means self-support. Laws do not make reforms. Reforms make laws. The classic of all classics is the Bible. Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Works which endure come from the soul of the people. Transportation cannot prosper if manufacturers decline. Good government cannot be found on the bargain counter. Employment can be had only if someone finds it profitable. There will come out of government exactly what we put into it. Superstition and sham cannot stand before intelligence and reality. The hope of tomorrow lies in the development of the industries of today. The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope. The United States will be represented at the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom, to be held in Vienna, by twenty delegates and ten alternates. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The Herald has made this statement before and we now wish to repeat it: The Her| aid does not consider itself under obligations to print publicity matter for any organization that elects to carry its paid matter elsewhere. There is ! nothing narrow minded about \ this; it is nothing but simple justice. The Herald rather feels that if rhp rolnmns are useful for promotion purposes, the office should likewise receive | whatever paid patronage there may be. If The Herald cannot command the appreciation of its friends to this extent, it feels that its services in affording publicity are not worth much and may as well be dispensed \ with. It costs money, and a ; great deal of it, to give space to the- publicity of the various organizations of the town, but it is a service we are glad to render. In return ^ V\n f n*A /I A n Af VV C d ^ iv 11U pa?> y UUC >> C uv/ UUl | think it is unreasonable to expect whatever profit there may S be in printing and advertising. | Anyway, it is nothing but right that the fellow who does the paid work should do the free work. Publicity writers should bear this in mind. FANS SEEK UMPIRES. Baseball Followers Wait at Gate and Then Search in Vain. Winston-Salem, X. C., July 23.? About 200 fans dissatisfied with decisions by Umpire Dick Monahan, especially his removal from the field of E. Padgett, local shortstop, gathered about the gate this afternoon after the game between WinstonSalem and Durham had ended, and there ^waited the appearance of Monohan and the'other umpire, Tom Clark. When the umpires failed to show up, the crowd searched .every available spot, even invading the players' dressing room. President E. K, Shore, of the local club, telephoned to police headquarters and a force of patrolmen was -sent out hurriedly to reinforce the three or four officers already on the grounds. From their place of refuge under the grandstand, the umpires were spir-. ited away by the police through the centerfield gate, while the angry fans were hunting high and low around the main buildings. Monohan and Clark were conducted to their hotel in safety. \ DIAL NOT PERTURBED. Speech by Judge Landis on Bonus Not Important. Washington. July 22.?Judge K. 31. Landis is safe from impeachment for his speech to Fort Sheridan soldiers on the bonus bill so far as Senator Dial of South Carolina is concerned. Senator Dial said"today he couldn't see any reason for impeaching Landis because the latter told the veterans '"the whole bunch at Washington" ought to be fired for not passing the bonus bill. Landis also expressed the view he might be impeaceh for the speech. Senator Dial is anti-bonus and is also author of a bill to remove from the federal bench any judge who, like Landis, takes an outside job similar to the latter's place at the head of or. ganized ball. Senator Dial, though not out to impeach- Landis for the speech, gave notice he is going to call his bill up in the senate soon and push it to passage if possible. Income Tax Reports. Washington. July 24.?D. H. Blair, commissioner of international revenue, reports today a collection in 1920 of 1919 income taxes amounting to $1,269,630,1 04. Of that amount South Carolina paid $5,192,020.41. Thirtv-seven thousand two hundred and ninety-six South Carolinians or .21 per cent, of the population of South Carolina with incomes amounting to $142.6SS.S32 paid the taxes. Based on these figures the per! capita income in South Carolina was ( $ S 4.7 . The average net income per! return was $3,S25.$.j. The average tax per return was $139.21. In 191G only 1.204 South Carolinians made income returns. The number. however the following year jumped to more than 22,000. Xow it is nearly 40.000. In 1910 South Carolinian? paid income taxes amounting to $77,000. The amount now is in excess of $5,000,000. i HERALD ADVERTISING PAYS Orangeburg, S. C., July 23, '21. Editor Bamberg Herald, Bamberg. S. C. Dear Sir:?My not sending | you an advertisement was purely an oversight. I always found it paid me. Your paper is well edited and I think it one of the neatest editions I know of. Please find my copy for 15 inch space, single column. Will send copy each week. Very truly, W. L. MOSELEY. RAIN! RAIX! RAIX! Jup. Pluvius Has Raised the Floodgates Ihiring Past Month. The old adage that when the moon has its corner turned upward it is pouring out rain is all wrong. Because the moon has no corners at the present writing and the rain pours. Tuesday of last week was the "full of the moon," and weather prognosticators risked the prediction that this marked a change of weather. The forecasters qualified their prediction by saying that if there was no change l in the next day or so, on account of the full moon, then the rain will continue. They do not say how long, but this is probably due to modesty, and their inference was that it would last another month. The Herald de Clares most solemnly it is not pre dieting another month of rain. We merely tell what others say?or rather think without saying. The Herald is no foreteller of weather conditions; -if it were it would predict that the rainy season is near its end for tl#e present. We would make tnis prediction because it believes it has rained enough to last a while and for the further reason that it is most decidedly more popular to make such a forecast. However be that, be it said that Jupiter Pluvius is strictly on his job. If he is the god of rain, and Greek mythology credits him with that distinction, he has perhaps arrived at i the conclusion that Bamberg county has had too "much drought. J. Pluvius is not well posted on Bamberg though in respect to drought, if that is the way he looks at it, at least not the drought most often referred to, for, be it said frankly, the county has been "moist" throughout the past months with aqua vitae if not with ; plain rain water. The foregoing brings us down to the statement that rain has descended on Bamberg county for the past four weeks in torrents of more or less intensity, mostly more. Someone whc keeps tab on such things tells us that up to Monday it had rained either io Bamberg or a few miles around every day for 30 days and as it rained Monday, we can add another day to the record. And it rained, not merely drizzled. Vivo n-oote otbp nlnntprs were distressed because the hot dry days promised much damage to the cotton and tobacco crops. Xow the reverse is true. Cotton took on a wonderful growth during the wet weather, but is now suffering from too much water. Tobacco likewise came out encouragingly, but now it has too much sap, say the planters. There do not appear to be nearly so many weevils in existence as was expected. The dry ~J ? ^ T?oitirr coaenn flUL ua. \ 5 pictcuilig Lilt laiu; utuwtu evidently thinned out the ranks of the weevil appreciably. However, there is plenty of time for the damage yet' An encouraging thing about the rain is that it has made a fine corn crop, apparently. Most farmers say they have splendid fields of corn. To bacco curing has been interfered with considerably because of the rains, and in some places cotton has been "drowned." and it is quite evident that the cotton crop has seriously deteriorated in the past few weeks. The Wind. "Does the wind blow this way all the time?" plaintively inquired a tenderfoot as he tried to keen his hat mi his head and h^s feet on the s-oil di?ring a March gale. "Xope," cheerfully remarked the western pioneer. "Blows this way half the time and t'other way the rest. Knowed one feller, back in the early days, that started to town one day drivin' a yolk of oxen. One of 'em got overheated and died on the way in, and when he started home, 'long come a norther and froze t' other one to death. Xope. stranger, the wind don't blow the same way all V* s\ f i r\ i cue nine. I Growers Urged T RIGHT TO REGULATE RATES. Judge Smith Upholds Railroad Com-: mission's Jurisdiction Over Phones. ' Columbia. July 22.?Holding that' the state railroad commission has the right to regulate the service and rates of public service corporations coming under its jurisdiction. Judge Henry A. M. Smith, of Charlestion, j judge of the United States Court of; the Eastern District of South Carolina, has dismissed the appeal of Senator Frank A. Miller, of Darlington county, asking that the recent increase in telephone rates at Hartsville by the commission be reversed. A copy of the opinion was filed with j the commission today. The complaint of Senator Miller stated that a con tract was entered into between the town of Hartsville and the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com_ panv when the lines of the corporation entered the municipality in 191 6. covering the scale of rates and that the railroad commission had no auL thority to abrogate this contract. , The decision of Judge Smith holds | that if there were a suit between the town and the telephone company at the time the contract was entered | into, the court would be bound to hold _ that the company should perform the service and maintain the rates specified in the contract, but that where the state had created a commission to ^ protect the public interest the contract was subject to the right of the government in the exercise of its regt ulative powers. it is believed that the decision wiji cause the cessation of the efforts of t the South Carolina Telephone Subscribers' Association to bring the recent telephone rate increase all over the state to the attention of the courts . as the underlying idea of the effort was to contest the jurisdiction of the State Railroad Commission in promulgating the new rates. CLAUDE RAST'S SUCCESSOR. Four Candidates, Including Two Women, After Job. Orangeburg, July 23.?There are ' no further developments locally in the . Rast case. It is rumored that Sheriff Dukes may ask that a reward be offered for the arrest of Rast. His whereabouts are entirely unknown, not even his family knowing where | he is. There are four applicants for the job, W. Archie Schiffley, Mrs. A. ( C. Ligon, Mrs. B. B. Owen, of this city, and M. M. Riddle, of the East Orange section of the county. All of . the parties ^re well known and all working hard with petitions to secure the job. It is understood that | the state board will announce the selection next Wednesday. What Makes Prices. The experience of the public in the past year should have taught it, if it has not done so, that the chief influence in determining prices is buying power. Combinations of producers representing either management or employees may noia prices up ior a , time, but, as goods are made to sell. J . the willingness or ability of the buyer I to pay will tell in the long run. Wages are coming down, not because, as certain agitators claim, there is a conspiracy of employers to j reduce them. Few employers would j object to continued payment of high ( wages if market conditions and the I efficiency of labor would permit it. I They cannot, however, keep up the extreme rates of the past, few years, because business and profits have se?-~~1 -- Thciv must either 11UUS1J. UClllUCU. i UV.; lessen the pay of their helpers, curtail operations or shut down altogether. Production costs, both the wages of industrial labor and the profits of management, must be cut. The world has not the buying power to pay eith-j er the wages or the profits on the | scale that has been in vogue. Where? I labor insists on its present wage rates it will suffer through unemployment. Where prices are being held up the products will find a stagnant market.1 I _ ( A Get-Rieh-Quick Schema. ''If you have a plan for savin? a thousandrlollars a year, please unfold it." implored Terry. *<- - A- i t?~,1 "i am simpiy going 10 uuy m* uuu- | stuffs from the farmer at the price i he usually receives." explained Ber-! ry. "and then sell them to myself at the price I generally pay." o Hold Their for Higher Prices DEFINITE ACTION AT MEETING NEXT FRIDAY. MINIMUM PRICE IS LIKELY. Resolut ions Adopted at Indignation Meeting of Growers at Florence. Florenc. luly 22.?Definite action as to what is best to be done to obtain relief from the situation created by low priced tobacco will be determined at a meeting of the Tobacco Growers' Association of South Carolina in Florence Fridav, July 2y\ The Warehousemen's Association | was asked by the indignation mass meeting here today to meet a committee from the Growers' organization I : on Saturday, July 30, for the purpose | of fixing a minimum price at which , tobacco will be permitted to sell in this state. It was admitted that nothing was to be gained by demanding v ? better prices and that control of the crop by the farmers themselves in the acreage and matter of marketing was the only avenue of relief. Farmers are urged in resolutions adopted to offer only the better | grades, well cleaned and picked, and i not to bring any tobacco whatever to market until the meeting here on Friday when definite steps as to price will be taken for their guidance. Speakers urged today that tobacco selling for two and three cents a pound was worth more as fertilizer. There were probably a hundred present, representing all lines of business, and while the meeting opened slow it developed into quite a pyrothechnical display. Some delegations from surrounding counties brought in reports of such bad feeling in some sections against the presi ent low prices as to give l*ise to apprehension as to what might happen in their localities unless the people were brought to an understanding of all conditions. Discussion today was frank and free. Nearly all of the principal markets were represented. Some telegraphed they were water bound. E. C. Epps, a banker of Kingstree, j offered the following resolution, | which was.adopted: ! "Wheras, citizens representing various tobacco markets in South | Carolina, called * together in mass | meeting by the secretary of the tobac| co association by request of certain i local markets for the purpose of disj cussing the prevailing conditions of j the present markets and the prices of| fered thereon, after due deliberations and thought, do hereby "Resolve and recommend the foli lowing suggestions as the only practical means and methods whereby more uniform and more satisfactory prices may be abtoined. nrs x _ * r> l At*A.I Ol IfJIlS. "First. We recommend that farmers devote their best efforts toward harvesting and curing only better grades of tobacco, and that the same be cleaned and picked before being of; fered for sale on the warehouse floor.* "Second. That all such tobacco re! ceiving bids less than (this price to ! be determined next Friday) to be ! withheld from sale and be used as fertilizer upon the farm upon which grown. "Third. We recommend that the warehousemen of the state refrain ffom bidding upon offers for sale unless at least one bid is made by an authorized buyer not engaged in or in any way connected with the warehouse business. "Fourth. That all tobaccoes offered for sale that do not bring at least (price to be determined next Friday) be passed by the warehousemen and returned to the producer. "Fifth. That the warehousemen's A Kft O T-l /-3 ic V\crnKTT T* issutiaviuil auu 10 u^igu;, 4 v, quested to call a meeting of all warehousemen in South Carolina in Florence on Saturday, July 30, and at this time the said association', together with a committee, which will be appointed from the Growers' Association, which meets in Florence on Friday, July 29. will fix a minimum price at which any tobacco will be permitted to sell in this state. That it is the sense of this meeting that the farmers throughout the state be encouraged as far as possible to withooIdc nf frnm the ware IJU1VO \J * t V WUV.V.V ? ? _ house floors until after the meeting of the state Growers' Association on Friday and the meeting of the Tobacco Warehausemen's Association on Saturday, the 29 and 30, respectively.