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$2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBEEG, S. C., THTJESDAY, SEPTEMBEE 22,1921. Established in 1891.
I S. J. KIRBY SAYS HE
| WISHES IT WAS OVER
CONVICTED TRIO WILL DIE ON
OCTOBER 21.
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Famous Prisoners.
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Relatives of Condemned Excite Symf
pathy?Not Likely to
Appeal.
Columbia, Sept. 15.?"I wish it
/ were all over with." The speaker,
with a drawl in his voice, sent these
i words through grated bars. The
I words came from the lips of a man
who is spending his remaining days
on earth in the penitentiary's death
cell. The speaker was S. J. Kirby,
one of the three, sentenced to die in
the electric chair on October 21, for
the murder of William Brazell, Columbia
taxi driver, who was stabbed
to death on one early Monday morning
in August.
Kirby and his two partners in
crime, C.xO. Fox and Jesse Gappins,
are three of the most famous prisoners
the state has ever held. Their
careers have been marked by remarkable
events, the murder of a young
hoy to steal the car he drove, chased
by a mob for several days over two |
states, held in Charleston under heavy i
guard to escape lynching, secretly
brought to Columbia under much
heavier guard, the three men are now
stoically awaiting the day of their
doom, and their loved ones cry about
them and plead for mercy.
The three men are very talkative,
for men under sentence of death.
Through the bars of their cells in the
death house they talk to their friends
and talk to officials, and they even appear
slightly cheerful at times:
Mr. and Mrs. Fox, parents of the
young man sentenced to die, have
4 been frequent callers on their sen at
the state prison, since the trio was
brought Tuesday from Lexington
court house. They are nice looking
old people and their loss excites the,
- sympathy of on-lookers. Mr. and i
Mrs. Gappins, the father and mother I
of Jesse Gappins, ,have called on
their son, too. Mrs. Kirby and Kirby's
little daughter have likewise seen
the man -to whom they will say goodbye
on October 21.
Gappins is a Columbia boy, Fox
came from Stahley Creek, N. C., the
home of -his parents. Kirby came to
Columbia from York county. His
first visit to the capital was as a prisoner
in 1917, when he was sent to the
pen under a two-year sentence for a
crime committed On a man of York
county, whom, it is said, he beat into
insensibility and robbed. The victim
pf the crime was left in the woods, apparently
dead. However, he regained
consciousness but could hardly
move from the ground. He reached a
small sappling, and bending it over
hung his coat on it. This he waved,
until a passer-by saw the waving coat
and rescued the suffering man. Kirby
served a year of his sentence and
was pardoned by Governor Manning.
Gappins's wife, whom he said at the
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last time he saw her, was at his side
Tuesday, as was his father and sister.
The mother and sister attempted to
get at the boy to kiss him, at one
time, but court officials interfered
and prevented a scene. Fox's aged
father attended part of the trial, but
he had given up hope several -days ago
and had told the lad good-bye. Kirby's
wife and small daughter were
also present. Today they are .at
their homes and their men folks are
in the death cell.
Never before, it is stated, have
three white men been electrocuted
for the same crime on the same day.
The case in this instance will not be
appealed and it is expected that Oc
tobed 21 will see the passing 01 me
perpetrators of one of the worst
crimes South Carolina has ever
known.
BUCKINGHAM PRESIDENT..
Elected Head of Bank1 of Western
Carolina.
Aiken, Sept. 16.?At a meeting of
the Bank of Western Carolina held at
the head office, P. M. Buckingham,
president of the branch at Barnwell,
was elected president of the Bank of
Western Carolina in place of the late
Henry M. Dibble. W. B. Turner, of
Ellenton, was elected first vice president.
P. F. Henderson was elected
president of the Carolina Light and
Power Company.
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SMITH GIVES PLAN
FOR WEEVIL YEARS
EXPERT STATES IDEAS OX FUTURE
FARMING.
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Still To Be Principal Money Crop.
More Hogs To Be Raised.
Plant Peanuts.
In response to a request from former
Governor Richard I. Manning, as
a citizen interested in the future of
South Carolina under boll weevil
conditions, Alfred G. Smith, agricultural
expert, has written a letter
giving .his views as to the kind of
farming that should be followed in
the lower part of the state when the
pest has hold.
The letter, which is self-explanatory,
follows:
"In response to your request of
yesterday, I will give you my ideas
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as lO l.lie KlilU Ui U11U1U5 (.aai juuuiu
be followed in the lower part of the
state under boll weevil conditions.
In fact, I will go a little further than
this and state to you the kind of
farming that will be followed, for,
though I am no prophet nor the son
of a prophet, I am an analyst and
my conclusions are based upon investigations
in economic agriculture,
made while I was connected with the
office of farm management of the
United States department of agriculture.
"The kind of farming followed in
any considerable area is rarely of the
farmers' own choosing, but it is;
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definite economic forces. Farmers
gradually adopt the system of farm-j
ing to the most profitable type,^.and
this type is usually determined by
economic forces over which the farmers
have little or no control. So in
the lower part of South Carolina, i
with the boll weevil rampant, the
farmers will gradually shift their
gives them the best kind of living,
gives the mthe best kind of living,
regardless of whether at this time it
is the kind they would most prefer.
I should state that the chief economic j
forces that determine the type of
farming are such things as soil, climate,
adaptability of crops, competition
of other areas, the capabil-|
ities of the farmer, nearness to mar-j
ket, insect injuries, plant disease, j
etc. I
"Without presenting a complete
argument to fully support my statements?that
would require too much
space for a letter?the type of farming
that will be followed in this area
five or ten years from now will be
aldng the following lines:
Ctton Still to Lead.
"First: Cotton will still remain i.he
leading crop in those counties like
Lee, Sumter, Orangeburg, etc., that
onmnriea the nntlPr tier of counties
in the lower part of the state. The
proportion of the cultivated land
planted in cotton will be around two-J
fifths, ranging generally from onefourth
to one-half, save in those
sections where tobacco is the dominating
crop. The proportion of the
land planted in cotton will decrease
with the nearness of the coast, and
but very little, in fact, practically
none, will be planted in such counties
as Horry, Georgetown, etc. -In the
upper tier of counties, one year with
another, cotton, on the average with
the probable exception of tobacco,
will remain the most profitable crop.
The ohief reason why it cannot be
planted so extensively as in the past
is because of those knockout years
like this year when warm winters
and rainy summers give the boll weevil
his best chance. The risk of such
years will keep the average of cotton
down, for many farmers can not
stand the financial strain of such,
times. Offsetting these years, however,
there will be other years when
the boll weevil damage will be almost
negible and this will encourage
farmers to plant more cotton, but
they will get setbacks in such years
as this one. You, of course, also
understand that reduction in the production
of cotton over the whole belt
as a result of the boll weevil makes
a higher price for cotton which will
be one incentive to plant more tian
if the price remained at pre-boll weevil
levels.
"Second: The chief substitute for
cotton will be peanuts. Both the
Spanish and the running rarieties
will be planted, but the tendency will
be to plant the largest average in
the running varieties. The reason
for this is that the running varie
Carlisle School B
Session 1
The opening exercises of Carlisle
school were held in the auditorium
of the main building at 12 o'clock
Wednesday. The exercises were largely
attended by friends and patrons
of the school, the patrons in many
instances coming from other parts of
the state.
Col. W. C. Duncan, the efficient
headmaster, conducted the exercises
with dispatch. After prayer had
been offered by Rev. George P. White
of the Baptist church, short talks
were made by Rev. Peter Stokes,
chairman of the board of control;
Rev. S. O. Cantey, pastor of Trinity
Methodist church; Dr. L. A. Hartzog,
member of the board of control, and
Hon. J. Carl Kearse, member of the
board and member of the house of
representatives from Bamberg county.
The speakers were cordial in
their remarks to the old and new
students alike. The necessity of earnest
effort in this time of finanical
depression was the appeal made in
eloquent words by Hon. J. C. Kearse.
Immediately after the exercises in
the chapel, the old and new students
feu in line in front 01 me neaainaster's
office and the 1921-22 session
of Carlisle began with the registration
of cadets. The enrollment this
| year is only slightly below that of
j last year, some 200 young men putj
ting their names on the rolls.
The faculty this year is one of the
strongest the school has ever had.
Col. W. C. Duncan is headmaster, and
he is being assisted by Lt. Col. W. J.
Snyder, Major E. 0. Watson, Major
Wm. R. Watson, and Captains M. G.
Gault, L. B. Stabler, M. W; Lever, P.
K. Carroll, J. H. Pitts, Jr., and Captain
John C. Lanham is again connected
with the school as bandmas.
ter.
Athletics Promising.
I The prospects for a winning foot
ball team are brighter than in any
previous year. Captain Marvin G.
Gault, former Erskine star, is again
in charge of the athletics, and he is
expected to put out winning foot ball,
basket ball and base ball teams.
Many of the foot'ball regulars from
last year's team are again on the
ties make more peanuts and more
hay and will remain in the ground
for a much longer period without be
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good hog feed until late in the winter.
The Spanish variety is an early
variety and is suitable for the beginner
for it requires less skill to
grow than does the running type.
Peanuts will be planted in fields by
themselves and harvested, the peanuts
going to the oil mill and the
ha,y being used for feed purposes on
the farms.
"Third. Farmers will plant a mixture
of corn, velvet beans and peanuts
all in the same field, gathering
; the corn as soon as possible and pasturing
most of the beans and peanuts
left in the field. The acreage
of these mixed crops will exceed the
i acreage now planted in corn.
Will Raise More Hogs.
"Fourth. The production of hogs
will greatly increase. This will undoubtedly
become one of the best
hog producing sections of the country.
This will be brought about by
the production of peanuts and velvet
beans and more abundant and cheaper
corn. Hogs will constitute a balance
wheel in the system of farming,
for, when peanuts go down in price,
they can be hogged off. Hogging off
peanuts and velvet beans greatly increases
the fertility of the soil. Hogs
will also make use of any cheap and
surplus corn and they furnish meat
for family use. The slogan of a "sow
to the plow" is in exactly the right
line. Farmers making good yields
will have more than one sow to the
plow.
"Fifth. Tobacco will come in as it
has already done, the acreage being
determinedly the price and the la
bor supply.
"Sixth. The production of oats and
cow peas in the upper tier of counties
will not increase. The prospect
is for a decrease, for, with peanuts
mnra anrn n n rt VPl\'Pt hpatlS. these
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crops will not be needed for feed or
soil improvement as?they have been.
Toward the coast, where the cotton
acreage decreased still further, more
oats will be planted but there will be
few of these threshed and sold on
the market, except for seed.
"Seventh. Family cows will increase
in number as the supply of
J feed will be increased under the new
egan New
/zsterday Morning
field. "Jake" Smith will call the
! signals for the second time during '
j his Carlisle career. Otto Large is
j running iasier ana Detier man ever
I in the backfield, as is also Glenn
. White, the shoeless wonder. Other
j backfields from the 1920 squad in!
elude Braxton Lewis, Johnnie Thomp|
son, Neil Lewis, Peter Stokes, Milton
! Hawes and others* The line will be
! unusually heavy and fast this year.
"Little Boy" Durham is again on the
job with his enormous bulk. Proctor
j Gordon is leading the charge down
| the field. Jack Massebeau is.show!
ing up better than ever. Joe Cantey
! is practically sure to hold one of the
| wings. These together with the large
I number of new men will no doubt
j make it hot for their gridiron oppo;
nents.
Foot Ball Schedule.
Mairtr William P Wntsnn fflfMiltv
manager, has arranged a heavyschedule
as follows:
Oct. 7?Orangeburg high in Bamberg.
Oct. 14?Batesburg-Leesville high
in- Bamherg.
iOct.' 22?Academy of Richmond
i ?
cqunty in Augusta.
^Oct. 29?Benedictine school in Savannah
(pending.)
Nov* 5?Charleston high in Charleston
(pending.)
Nov. 11?Porter in Bamberg.
Nov. 18?Bailey in Greenwood.
Nov. 25?Wofford Fitting school
in Bamberg.
Campus Improvements.
Numerous improvements have j
been made on the campus during the
f vacation period, one of them being
j a large and attractive drinking foun- .
! tain. The barracks have been tm
proved and new furniture supplied.
I A large new range has been installi
I ed in the kitchen. The modern steam !
j laurfdry on the campus will be suj
pervised by "Professor" Charlie Moye:
: and this will insure even better ser{vice
to the cadets than has been giv
en in the past.
While there are a few vacancies in
i one of the barracks, it is expected
; that these will soon be filled, and that j
I the best yehr in the history of Car-]
' lislp will havp hearun.
system. Fatter mules, due to the
i peanut hay, will be noticeable.
"Eighth. The production of beef
I cattle, particularly on unused land,
| will receive an impetus, as on cultij
vated land there will be feed products
I in the way of velvet beans, stalk
| fields and peanut hay for wintering. |
| The largest and most progressive j
| farmers will feed cattle as the sup- \
I ply of velvet beans and peanut hay |
j will make this possible. Small farm-|
! ers will not feed cattle as cattle are!
j most usually fed in car lots which j
; is'more than the small farmer can j
! handle. The small farmer, however,
j will find a market for his surplus
! velvet beans and peanut hay with the j
i big farmer who feeds cattle.
Dairying Not Promising.
!
"Ninth. Dairying, aside from the;
family cow and the city milk sup-!
j ply, offers little opportunity. The j
north and northwest will be able to ;
| produce butter more cheaply than'
! your section and, as butter Is only a
| semi-perishable product, outside butI
ter in large quantities can be sold
here cheaper than it can be produced.
Dairying, too, unless highly profitable,
resolves itself into a family
proposition where the family does
| most "of, if not all, the work, and it
would take a great change to get
your people where the average family
could own and operate even a
small dairy. Cheese making is out
of the question because of the climate.
f "Tonth Thpre arp two thinsrs in
which I hestitate to make a prediction.
One of these is fodder pulling
and the other is the building of silos.
Where running velvet beans are used,
fodder pulling disappears, the vines
preventing it, peanut hay being used
for roughage. The supply of feed
and the difficulty of making silage
where running velvet beans are
planted act as a preventive in making
silage. Now, however, that bush
velvet beans are being planted, fodder
can be pulled and silage made
more easily.
"Eleventh. Sweet potatoes for home
use, of course, are advisable and they
can be grown in a limited way for
marketing purposes. The opportunity
with truck is very limited. It
takes only 2 per cent, of the culti(Continued
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WILL MAKE LOANS
FOP. AGRICULTURE
COMMITTEE ESTABLISHES HEADQUARTERS
IN COLUMBIA.
Matthews at Head.
Plan Outlined For Farmers to Get
Advances on Their Products.
Ready for Applications.
Columbia, Sept. 19.?Announcement
of the opening of headquarters
in Columbia for the loaning of money
for farming purposes in South Carolina
under the agricultural credits
acts was made Saturday by the committee
appointed for this state by the
war finance corporation. Temporary
headquarters will be located at the
Palmetto National bank and all application
blanks and other information
can be obtained from W. Latta
Law, Jr., secretary of the committee.
The committee to have charge of
loans in tms state is composed or tne
following: J. Pope' Matthews, chairman;
William Barnwell, vice chairman;
H. L. McColl, J. C. Self, W.
Latta Law, Jr., and C. L. Cobb.
Mr. Matthews is president of the
Palmetto National bank and a director
of the Federal International
Banking Corporation of New Orleans
and other large industrial companies
in the south. He has long been a
leader in advocating new methods of
financing the southern farmers.
Mr. Barnwell is president of the
National State Bank of Columbia and
is one of Ifce most prominent bankers
and business men in the state. Mr.
Cobb is cashier of the People's National
Bank of Rock Hill and vice
nro<ai/lonit nf fhp Smith Carolina Bank
ers' association. Mr. McColl is president
of the Bank of Marlboro, Bennettsville,
and a well known business
man in that section. Mr. Self is
chairman of the board of directors of
the Bank of Greenwood and president
of the Greenwood Cotton mills. Mr.
Law is connected with the Palmetto
National bank and was formerly with
the National City Bank of New York
in New York and Habana. Cuba.
Will Be Loan Agency.
This committee will function as the
loan agency for this state of the war
finance corporation and will have
charge of administering Section 24 of
the agricultural act, which authorizes
the corporation to make advances to
any bank, banker, or trust company
in the United States, which may have
oHvanpoc frtr a ericultural Dur
poses, including the breeding, raising
and marketing of live 9tock or
may have discounted or rediscounted
notes, drafts, bills of exchange or
other negotiable instruments issued
for such. purposes. The committee
will receive and pass upon all applications
for loans.
The committee Saturday made the
following statement:
"The method of procedure will
save a great dead of time to the local
borrowers and will give the war
finance corporation the benefit of the
experience and local knowledge of
the conditions of the bankers who
will compose this committee, as tne
administration of the act is almost
entirely a banking proposition, the
list of members consists of bankers,
both national and state, who are familiar
with agricultural conditions in
their sections. The names of the
committee were chosen on the recommendations
of the various business
organizations in the different districts
of the state. They are unpaid
for their services, realizing the opportunity
for public service.
"All applications for loans must
be submitted in triplicate and on
forms provided for the purpose by the
war finance corporation. These forms
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tained from the secretary of the committee,
Mr. Law, at the Palmetto
National bank, Columbia.
"The corporation's authority to
make these advances extends until
July 1, 1922. Advances will mature
not later than one year and loans
can not be extended beyond three
years from the original date of the
advance.
"Advances may be made against
the note of acceptance of the borrower
or other negotiable instruments,
making him primarily and unconditionally
responsible for the payment
of the advance. Application of the
borrower must be adequately secured
by indorsement, guaranty, pledge
or otherwise. The corporation shall
retain the right to require additional
security at any time, and in the evenl
of failure of the borrower to furnish
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SEA ISLAND COTTON
SPITES BOLL WEEVIL
GROWING PERIOD REDUCED BY
EARLY MATURING BREED.
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Profit Shown in Georgia.
Conference at Yaldosta Is Told That
the Scourage Can Be
Defeated.
Natural home of the finest cotton
in the world, the Charleston region
is always interested in forward experiments
with sea island, or long
staple. With the active coming of
that scourage, the boll weevil, sea
islands in this neighborhood 'have
been in a quandary, their bread
winning crop being attacked.
From Valdosta comes the report
mac sea isiana couon can oe grown
despite the boll weevil at a profit.
The growing period has been reduced
! by the development of an early mai
turing breed of cotton, while the
yield per acre is now placed at more
than half a bale, as compared with a
much smaller amount previous to the
advent of the boll weevil."
As published in the Savannah.\
Morning News, the report from Valdosta
says:
Visitors representing Savannah,
Jacksonville, Live Oak, Lake City,
Jasper, Jennings and all sections ot
South Georgia, numbering, perhaps,
100, met in Valdosta today to discuss
future cultivation and marketing of
sea island cotton. Farmers, cotton
factors and business men, all closely
interested in sea island cotton, composed
the gathering.
The consensus of opinion expressed
by all was that every reasonable effort ~
should be made to revive the industry /
on a reasonable and safe basis with
cultivation of such acreage as would 'm ^
permit growers to follow methods esj
tablished by entomologists who have
conquered the boll weevil.
State Entomologist A. C. Lewis, B. M.
Gaddis, local experiment superintendent,
and W. F. Turner, assistant
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entomologist, were all present and
delivered addresses. These experts
showed conclusively that sea island
cotton can now be grown, despite the
boll weevil, at a profit. The growing
period has been reduced by the development
of ad early maturing breed of
cotton, while the yield per acre is now
placed at more than half a bale as
mmnflrpH with a much smaller ,
amount previous to the advent of the
boll weevil. The only additional cost
is an average of $3.50 an acre for the
entire season's dusting, according to
the experiment farm records. This
farm has been in operation for seven
years, during which time the expeHe
! have worked patiently and carefully
breeding up the cotton and determining
the best method of dusting with
i calcium arsenate.
The visitors were carried to the experiment
farm and shown carefully
over the entire work in which they
. wprp dppnlv interested, minute rec
i ords bearing out every claim made
' by the state experts who have worked
i so continuously in an endeavor to
i produce long staple cotton under boll
weevil conditions.
) After all of the information had
been laid before the visitors together
. with the results, it was determined
that the growers in every section
, should be encouraged to again en.
gage in the staple culture on a reasi
onable scale. Leading factors from
Savannah and Jacksonville as well as
other places stated definitely that sea
. island would always bring at least
three and four cents a pound over
Egytian and Arizona long staple cotton,
because of the very fine texture
i of the sea islands as compared to the
; other and that there was no adequate
. substitute for staple cotton as pro,
duced in the sea island belt,
i Bankers and business men attending
the meeting will use their best
i efforts to get farmers to grow crops
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i furnish a supply of the early matur;
ing variety and will also give exact ini
structions for cultivating and dusting
j in order that the boll weevil can be
held in check to such an extent -that
the average land yield more than half
a bale to the acre. On the experiment
farm this year ten bales were gathered
from eighteen acres of land and
the entire season was regarded as a
most ideal boll weevil season.?News
and Courier.
| same upon demand, the loan shall
forthwith become due and payable.
"The rate of interest will be dei
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