Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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k. * MASSACHUSETTS AM) S. C. ^ R The Libel on Our State.?From The Columbia State. * w-v - . The State. "What is South Carolina, anyway?" asks a certain Fred M. Merkle of the Philadelphia Bulletin, and proceeds to answer his own question in his own way. P We have had this little jibe, this little bit of booberv, before us for some time, as a "lingering fragrance," undecided whether or not it should be reproduced in a South Carolina paper for the delectation of the "poor whites" with which Mr. nortnios thp sand and marsh ut,,uv ^? of this commonwealth. But we think it is about as well as not to take a glance at ourselves, now and again, even as the Merkles see is. Here is the portion of his letter published in the Bulletin that refers to this jfc,-.' state: t What is South Carolina anyway? No one ever boasts of South Carolina, except a bigoted / native. The people are the most gj* ignorant and poorest perhaps in ' America. No great man or thing fcy . has ever come from there. It has no great industries, cities, univV / versities or anything else worth ' r' v mentioning. It is merely a space rm thp man The women have S * less rights than most any other i.-", , state and the state swarms with negroes. The class of \ people there is very low and the rank gp* - as a state corresponds. We leave to history, certainly not too partial to this state, the portrayal of South Carolina as she is, or .may be. When Massachusetts > was assailed, Daniel Webster was jrt- . content to say: 'T shall enter upon no econiums of Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The |?:. 1 past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain." If . Simple, sufficient. And yet it means as little as it says. ManifestT .YV . ly, the effort is To represent MassaT T Chusetts* as launching and winning jfe./- s. - the revolution. That war was fosterj?v f ed and fought and won in other f states. South Carolina did, perhaps, twice as much toward the winning, of the revolution as Massachusetts SpY' did. Kings Mountain and Cowpens, the great campaign in Sout? Carolina that broke the invasion "and the -power of the British armies, were first"'. ,v far more important to the success fe" * of our independence than the halfmythical things to which Webster points. ^ " ' And we are not without honors ^ that will compare with those won or wished on other states.; In statesgSY't :< > ma^ship, we have some as great E^-".r' names as aaorn iue ie? wauoui ' pages of our national history?John C. Calhoun, Gadsden, Laurens, Pinckney. The constitution owes much to Charles C. Pinckney?far more than certain sectional historians care to admit, but which is becoming more clearly established at each study of the history of that instrument. And in politics, one of our specialties, there is Old Hickory, proud to have been born in South Carolina, and proud to proclaim the .fact. Jackson's type of politician is somewhat out of date, but even as gH, / ? ^ American political ideals and leader '* ship go, Jackson still remains a tre irendous type and exemplar. And?of course it is unkind to refer to it?but there is Fort Sumter, the outstanding supreme military achievement in American history. THAT ranks with Gibraltar and Saragoss*. :nd outranks them. That - , > ^ cne e"ent or unequaiea neroism ami fortitude vives to South Carolina P .... an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. pf As Webster remarked, "the past, ? at 1 ast, is secure." V South Carolina made history, oth: st;' .ave manufactured and ofU u distorted it. She did probably as much as. perhaps more than, any of her sister commonwealths in win.< ring ..id naintaining the indepen1, dence <,f this people from England. And she d.d more than lier share in that extension of the public domain io the Til,: Grande and to the Pacific which has really made the present greatness of the nation. In all these great movements, most of the states that devote so much time to abusing Sou.l Carolina stood silent or even ant. gonistic. "There she is" . . . and, as Broning* says, "same . . for our love or blame." Her history is, apparently, not '"known by heart"?but the world will learn more of it and appreciate it more year by year. Time to Rise. A birdie with a yellow bill * Hopped upon a window sill; Cocked his slr'ning eye and said: "Ain.'t yr a 'shamed, you sleepy head?" \ Here is Some Sound Money Sense. Dearborn Independent. Thomas R. Marshall, who retainer his good humor through eight year as vice president,, has recently re turned from a tour of Europe. I Washington, he called at the whit house and told of his trip. In his stories there is ground fo reflection by the American public. / For one thing, Mr. Marshall sai that he had'just received at. report c the last year's operations of his IOC acre farm in Indiana. His net pro! it was $2.36. The former vice president was a a loss to understand the financia tangle in Europe. The people wer working and bhere was plenty o crops, but money was a mystery. Mi Marshall went to the bank to cas' a check; the cashier had not hear the exchange rate for an hour am called on the telephone to get it ^ A f ? ? 11 ?v> rt rl /> CCA TMoy?lrc< H TT -MI . -Mcilbilctil rnauc <J V iiiai ng UJ vu precaution. Mr. Marshall contracted one day for an umbrella at 60,00 kronen, or $2.50. He returned tw days later, and found that meantim the article had fallen to a value equi valent to $1.83. From Mr. Marshall's 100 acres i] Indiana to the printing press mone; of Europe seems a long way, bu there is something that bridges it That is the plentitude of crops, wit] the futility of money to exchang' r them. Presumably, Mr. Marshall' farm was planted in a reasonabl manner, yet it failed of a profit. I] Europe, Mr. Marshall reports plent; but it fails of distribution sufficient ly to provide for the wants of all. We hear despairing pleas for hel] I fiiwnnft Tr?r\TV, Wall ctroof IfldTTl 1U1 uuiupc. X' 1 urn II Hi! Uiivvv, u ed financiers give out statemen after statement to show that we mus go to the aid of Europe. Earl Bal four recently invited a rebuff frdn this country by a suggestion of can cellation of the war debts owed us France is constantly suggesting, al most demanding, debt cancellation Russia wants financial aid. Except for a comparatively fev pleas for real help for remote impov erished districts, these pleas fron and on behalf of Europe are purel; financial pleas. Europe, alread; gorged to its fill with its excess sup ply of socalled money, wants mor< of our kind of money, the supply, o which is too limited here to. permi adequate returns to agricultural en terprises. Wall street financial in terests, bubbling over with sympa thy for stricken Europe, would lik to take over the proposition of mar ketin? debt refunding bonds, oi > which they would collect a handsom commission, and which the publi would "absorb." Financial systems in Europe an< in the United States are inadequate In lands of plenty there is want. Fo production there is little return. Fi nancial interests profit hugely by th inadequacy of money, and fight bit terly and attempt to disturb the fi nancial currents. It lies with thos who do not profit from the mone; tangle, the producers and the con i cjiimore tn pnmnpl the revision of th money system. Building and Keeping Good Roads Charlotte Observer. North Carolina is already profit ing from her good roads not onl; through the use of these roads, bu also from the large amount of goo< advertising she is getting as a re suit of her ambitious road program The Tar Heel state is leading th< entire south in the matter of goo< roads, and is well in the front rank of the half dozen most progressiv< states in the union in this matter Down in Georgia at this time th< legislature is sweating over the goo< roads problem, bonds in an amoun of $5,000,000 or $30,000,000 beini advocated by the two groups in th< legislature, while there are othe groups who are holding back fron the advocacy of any road buildini program at all. In discussing the road situatioi in Georgia, the Greenville, S. C. News remarks: "Qrite singularl; Georgia called 'upon Frank Page chairman of the North Carolina roai commission, to come down and tel what North Carolina was doing ii the way of building roads. 6eorgi; is better able to build roads than th Tar Heel state, but she doesn't do it And as a consequence North Care lina is forging "ahead of the Empir state year by year.' When Mr. Pag told them must have made them ope " - ? tlioir r\ntV?C NTnrti me:r evcs?emu ui&u mvu^uu. ..u.. Carolina issued $50,000,000 bond last year and proposes to spend $10 000,000 a year until the state i thoroughly covered with a systen . of improved highways. At presen the state is spending $82,000 a da on her roads. In 1923 it is propose to float another $15,000,000^ bon issue and later on more if necessan North Carolina now has 0,000 mile of public highways and will hav 3,000 additional miles before th work is completed, 1,000 of whic ' will be hard surfaced." The News quite properly observe / v that good roads are not to be looked 1 upon as an expense, but that they J are as vital a part of a state's econod mical equipment as the looms of a * s cotton mill. "North Carolina is go- ^ ing to reap big dividends from her ; n highway development," observes the e News. "And Georgia will lose if she does not develop hers, for this is r a matter in which no state can afford to be recalcitrant. Not even d South Carolina:" ,f a wpII known Georgian told the i- Observer a few days ago that regard> less of the size of the road building program put over in Georgia that t there will certainly be provisions for .1 taking care Of the roads after they e are built. There is an object lesson f in this matter immediately at hand \ at Atlanta. A few years ago a splenh did hard surfaced road was built d from Atlanta to Roswell, Ga., a disd tance of 22 miles. A jitney line and ; also a heavy truck line for handling e express and freight were immediated ly established over this route. The 0 , Southern Express company had been o operating a little branch line bee tween Atlanta and Roswell, and it - lost so much business to the truck line that it abandoned all service ovn er the railroad. Today the road bey tween Atlanta and Roswell is pract tically impassable. There is no truck service, and no railroad service. The h last state of Roswell and the highway e is worse, than the first, s This is a matter which should have e careful consideration in North Cara olina. The expenditure of $80,000,- . y 000 on the highways of North Caro lina by the state and counties will add several times that figure to the p value of North Carolina real estate, - but no state can afford to invest such + on am mint nf mnriPV in ffOOii mads t unless they are to be preserved. The - North Carolina system provides for 1 the maintenance of highways, and - there are also safeguards concerning i. the use of excessively heavy trucks. - There is danger, however, that the . safeguards are not sufficient and this situation, particularly in the matter 7 of operating heavy truck lines for - profit, should be given consideration l and recommendations made to the y next general assembly. y ? 1,1 m Not Now. e Whenever auntie moves around, f Her dresseTmake a curious sound; t They trail behind her on the floor, _ And trundle after through the door? In 1900. 5* e Never turn off the ignition on a hill or the car will drag the engine. e ** m ir ? 1 I H* cigarettes I Vff They are e GOODI 10 Bay this Cigarette and Save Money 7 t If you need money and wish it on . long terms in amounts less than ten 2 thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars, I can " make your application to the Federal Land Bank for such loans. For the s white people, the Denmark National s Farm Loan Association; the colored people the Edisto-Savannah River * National Farm Loan Association. 2 Come at once and sign your appliI cation. S. G. MAYFIELD. t ' ? 'To Stop a Cough Quick e take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, a r cough medicine which stops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. 1 A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE ? SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Ooup is enclosed with every bottle of * - A V T\T/> TTA\TT7\7 ryvL ^ ^ HEiiVLJJXUr IllsnE.1. me salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat ? ?f children suffering from a Cold or Croup. P The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey in, side the throat combined with the healing effect of ' Grove's O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of i the skin soon stops a cough. i Both remedies are packed in one carton and the 1 cost of the combined treatment is 35c. & Just ask your druggist for HAYES' a HEALING HONEY. ^ f 1 ffi [ TIRES &TUBES | y I As good onyour j * I automobile as they ? I J. COONER SONS ! Boxed Paper in all shades, 25c and 50c, at Herald Book Store Inn nil iai up I IrAlUU LUAlij We-Have Unlimited Funds to Loan for Terms of 5, 7, OR 10 YEARS INTEREST PAYABLE ANNUALLY 1 Inspection of property and definite commitment to loan can be made within a few days after application is ||? pK submitted. |gj I STATE AND CITY BANK AND TRUST CO. I Bj Formerly ||| S Old Dominion Trust Company ja n| Richmond, Va. H SEE OUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE |1 I CARTER, CARTER & KEARSEI ATTORNEYS, BAMBERG, S. 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It is the purpose of this Bank to help as | many people as possible. 1 Whether your problem he large or small, if can | I be of service, we want you to know that we WELCCfolE YOU GLADLY. RESOURCES OYER $1,000,000.00 i ... DR. THOMAS BLACK DENTAL SURGEON Graduate Dental Department Uni- , versity of Maryland. Member S. C. \ State Dental Association. Office opposite postoffice. Office hours, 9:00 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Plies. J Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get * restful sleep after the first application. Price 60c. The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of Philadelnhia \&1 Will pay you an "Income" if you live ?your family if you die?you ,< should know about this plan C. W. REXTZ, JR., District Manager, Bamberg, S. C. ?? ???? > . Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days "LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially, prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but . J should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days M to induce regular action It Stimulates and H Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c ^ per bottle. j NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF VICTORY ! BONDS. *1 1 The Treasury Department has called in all Victory Notes bearing the distinguishing letters, A, B, C, D, , J E. or F. preceding the number * | on bonds. These bonds are to be re- 4 deemed on December 15, 1922.' All ^ parties who purchased these bonds ! through this bank may hand us their bonds and we will forward them for redemption to the Treasury Depart- ' I ment. BAMBERG BANKING COMPNAY. ' \ Bamberg, S. C., Aug. 1. u Colds Cause Grip and Influenza \ fl LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the cause. There is only one ' Bromo Quinine," E W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30a RILEY & COPELAND I I Successors to W. P. Riley. ! fl Fire, Life j Accident , I INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store i BAMBERG, S. C. J P?I DR.G.M.TRULUCK j SPECIALIST ~M Eye, Ear, Nose, and < A Throat , | Barton Bldg. Phone 274 <|j Orangeburg, S. C. J I To Our | 'Customers I I How to Make Jams and i Jellies from Fresh, Can- \y ned or Dried Fruits,* f| with Only One Minnie's I Boiling. I ?? ' , y Tt'c cn oo cv frv malm lam IAW w wv VIMJ w moav juui from strawberries and other berries and fruits, jelly from bottled grape juice as well as ., from oranges and grapefruit, and wonderful marmalades, too by the new CERTO process th^t we want you to try it.* JUST THINK OF IT. Only one minute's boiling. ^ Fifty per cent, more jam or a > jelly from same amount of fruit. Better color and flavor. IXo failures. Costs less. I TRY THIS I Qt. grape juice, 3 1-4 It). sugar, 1 bottle CERTO. Makes about 15 six-oz. glasses of the most delicious Grape Jelly jrou ever tasted for less than 9c a A AND THIS X 12 Qts. strawberries, 3 1-4 lb. , sugar, 1-2 bottle CERTO. Makes 15 six-ounce glasses of really 1 wonderful Strawberry Jam at a cost of only 6c a glass, with , strawberries at 25c a quart. CSee full directions inside ? package for these and other re- < Phone 15 Turn Diiflfpr I A %W AAA M V AA W ? a QUALITY SERVICE I ,, JH