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| 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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A Get-Rieh-Quick Schema.
''If you have a plan for savin? a
thousandrlollars a year, please unfold
it." implored Terry.
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"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.
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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
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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
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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.