The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 28, 1922, Page 2, Image 2
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
Entered as second-class matter April
1891, under Act of March 3, 1879.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Volume 31. Number 38.
Thursday, Sept. 28, 1922.
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Mr. Blease can not again point to
the fact that an opponent did not
carry his home county. Mr. Blease
came from Newberry, and that county
gave a majority against him
^ in the second primary, as did also
his adopted county of Richland.
A striking and particularly pleasing
feature of the recent primary
election was the failure of the Grace
faction in^ Charleston to dominate
the vote in that city. Blease carried
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1116 CUUllly uy <X lev* * UISS) VUl;,
the backbone of Grace's strength in
Charleston appears to be well nigh
broken, if not quite so.
Someone ha9 proposed toput Edge- i
field county on the honor roll for its (
splendid vote against Blease in the
primary. However, as attention, was
called in The Herald last week, the
signal honors of the primary belong
to Sumter county. We do not discount
the good county of Edgefield
in the least, but Sumter's majority
against Blease far exceeded that of
any other county in the state. Edgeiield
comes next. Bamberg comes
fourth. '
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It is to be hoped most sincerejy
that the efforts of Governor Harvey
to ferret out the murder of the two
Southern railway guards at Hamburg
and run down the murderers will result
in the apprehension of the guilt
ty parties and the proper punishment
meted out. This was one of the
worst crimes in the history of the
state, being, apparently, a cold blooded
murder. That it was incident to
the railroad strike seems entirely
likely, although that fact has not
been ascertained beyond a doubt yet.
The 1922 cotton crop will soon be
all gathered. As soon as the cotton
is out of the fields, according to boll
weevil experts, the stalks should be
( cleared away and either turned under
or gathered and burned, in or.
der to kill off the crop, of/weevils.
Our farmers, here in Bamberg coun
?ty, are thoroughly convinced that in
so far as this county is concerned,
we must continue to make cotton, in
spite of the boll weevil. The planters
here are fa?t learning the proper
methods of producing a fair crop of
cotton under weevil conditions, and
they have also learned that, with very
few exceptions, they have little hopes
of profit in any of the substitute money
crops.
TTip "Ramhere' Herald did their
readers a splendid service the
morning after the recent primary.
The Bamberg people
I . had to depend entirely upon
their local paper as the* early
morning train had been taken '
off the railroad. The Herald,
in cooperation with the News
and Courier, of Charleston, issued
theft regular weekly edition
earlier than usual and had
it delivered to its readers Wednesday
morning with full returns.?Orangeburg
Times and
Democrat.
Thanks for the compliment. In
turn-, it gives The Herhld pleasure to '
compliment^ the Times and Democrat :
on the excellent election service it j1
rendered at each of the primaries. '
The editions of that splendid paper :
reaching Bamberg the morning after
the primary carried a full report of
the primary results, and the carrying 1
of these reports entailed much more 1
work than The Herald had to exper
ience, as the vote in Orangeburg 1
county far exceeds that of Bamberg, *
and there were many more offices and '
candidates in the running.
Generous to a Fault.
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A congressman was in the office of i
a friend, a justice of the peace in an <
Ohio town, when a couple came in to i
be married. After the ceremony the !
justice accepted a modest fee and :
handed the bride an umbrella as she <
went out.
The congressman looked on grave- :
' ly and asked, "Do you always do that, i
Frank?" i
"Do what? Marry them? Oh, yes." <
"No, I mean bestow a present upon i
the bride?"
"A present? Why, wasn't that her <
umbrella?" gasped the justice. <
"No; it was mine," replied the con- 1
, gressman. ]
1,00 Acres of Seed Melons. j
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" For twelve years a Florida farmer "
has raised watermelons on 1,000 ac- ,
res. In all that time he has never
shipped a melon but let them spoil in i
the fields, except those he and his j
'neighbors eat. The melons are grown s
exclusively for their seed, which, are ,j
sold to planters of Florida, Georgia (
and other southern states. (
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Out of the red hills four miles
south of this city has been carved a
farm, the making of which comprises
one of the brightest pages in the romantic
and agricultural history of
Anderson county, says an Anderson
special of Friday to the Greenville
News.
Romance and energy are so blended
that it is impossible to tell where
one ends and the other begins, for
where huge gullies once held sway,
a farm that is among the most productive
in the state and a rural home
with every modern convenience now
greets tne passersDy aiong ine general
road.
J. Wade Drake has forever earned
a high place among the builders of
the Palmetto state, if the expressions
obtained today from the 400 farmers
of this section who visited the Drake
farm may be taken as an indication.
The state of South Carolina has produced
a number of illustrious sons,
but probably none have so effectively
blended energy and brains as has Mr.
Drake on the farm which today was]
visited by 400 farmers from the counties
of Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson,
Pickens, Oconee, Laurens,
Union, Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormick,
Cherokee, Newberry and Chester.
Ten years ago a rolling tract of red
hills, as full of gullies as a vaudeville
show is of ragtime, was purchased
b^ Mr. Drake. At that time
some of the neighbors are said to
have expressed the opinion that Mr.
Drake was "off" in his^ mentality as
the farmers of that immediate sec*
tion were having a hard time of it
making a living on the farms which
they possessed more by circumstance
than by choice.
From the outset Mr. Drake made
things hum on the tract of several
hundred acres. He worked almost
dey and night, rotating his crops and
endeavoring to bring down from the
air and out of the earth the fertilizers
which would take the place of
those made in factories and shipped
in sacks to the consumer. And the
adventage of nature-made fertilizers
over chemicals has been demonstrated
by the waving fields of corn and
the white fields of cotton, tang with
the spirit of Dixie, that have been
grown where clover and velvet beans
once grew.
To ^etr^down to the meat of the
story, Mr. Drake's methods have succeeded
so well that N. E. Winters,
specialist in soil fertilizers and farm
crops of Clemson college, has pointed
out the D/ake farm as a model in his
trips over the state. Some time ago
he started a movement to have the
farmers of the Piedmont visit this
farm and to see for themselves what
could" be accomplished out of what
once was a mass of washing ditches
and poor red hills. 1 - ...
Four hundred farmers, not from I
the valleys of Hall or the hills of
Habersham, but from over the entire
Piedmont of South' Carolina,
came here today and witnessed a
fight that has been going on for ten
years?a fight made more difficult by
the presence this year of the boll
weevil. But in spite of this insect,
Mr. Drake has* conquered and the
yield on the Drake farm is expected
to be from three-fourths to one bale
per acre this year?with the cost of
fertilizers kept down to about $6.00
to the acre.
With megaphone in hand, Mr.
Winters today headed the procession
3f interested spectators that wended
their way over the Drake farm. Each
point of interest was explained in
detail, including the methods of cultivation,
the time of planting and other
information.
Cotton on the Drake farm was
planted on April 3 and April 27.
Twenty-four days doesn't make much
difference in the calendar, maybe, but
t will mean a difference of one-fourth
of a bale of cotton per acre, according
to Mr. Winters's estimate of Mr.
Drake's crop. Cotton planted on April
3 is expected to produce a bale of
cotton to the acre, according to Mr.
Winters, while that planted on April
27 is not expected to produce but
ihree-fourths of a bale. With the exception
of the planting there was no
difference in the treatment of the
two fields of cotton.
Crimson clover, velvet beans, and
ether cover crops have been used liberally
to make fertile the soil on
this farm. They have takem the
place of fertilizers that most farmers
buy in sacks and for which they pay
?ood money obtained from the sale
pf cotton. Mr. Drake has stopped
his outflow of money by growing his
Dwn fertilizer.
Where no clover preceded the cothn
crop the difference in production
is also expected to be one-fourth of
i bale per acre. In other words, the
Selds where, cloyer was turned un3er
are expected to make a bale of
20tton more to every four acres than!
onquers Boll
ishing Soil, Etc.
the fields where no clover was grown.
Mr. Drake dusted his cotton with
calcium arsenate four times during
the month of July, the total cost being
$2.50 per acre. He would have
dusted during August "also but there
has been no rain on the Drake farm
since July 7, making it impossible
to use dusting methods to any advantake.
Mr. Winters explained that Mr.
Drake did not leave the dusting operation
to ''some negro" but that
the owner of the farm, with the aid
of a son, did the work. Twelve nights
during the month of July the dusting
operation went on, the owner and
his son attempting to catch a little
sleeD during the day. that they might
fight the weevil by night.
The weevil came but it did not
stay.
It might have been that far away
the fields looked green, as they some
times do to humans, and the insects
left. But the more probable reason
is that the dusting method literally
smothered the boll weevil out of
house and home, causing the invader
to throw up the sponge and quit in
disgust. Today the Drake farm is
said to have less weevil infestation
than any other farm in the Piedmont
if not in the entire state.
The corn crops grown by Mr. Drake
have been equally as successful as
the cotton crops. There has been
no such thing as need on the Drake
farm and the cribs have been filled '
with the healthy ears of red and
white corn. The methods used have
been similar to those used in cotton,
crops being rotated to bring out the
best that is in the land.
A cotton gin in the front yard takes
care of the fleecy staple grown on
the Drake farm. Silos 'and corn
cribs, to say nothing of fat porkers,
take care of the yawning crops of
corn and grain. A bank in Anderson
is said to find one of its best depositors
in the man who has brought
it all about, showing that the game
of cooperation has worked to the
good of all concerned.
When Mr. Drake acquired, this
farm there were seventeen huge gullies
on the place (for the benefit of
those not familiar with the farm
terms it can be said that a "gully"
is a ditch chat nature rather than'
man has dug, by the constant wash
ingway or tne son.j sixteen 011
these have beei* filled up and today I
crops are growing where a man once
could be hidden as he stood upright.
The seventeenth is also being filled
in, velvet beans and other cover crops
helping sand and soil in this battle
to reclaim Anderson county land.
There may have been other causes
than intelligent farming in the upbuilding
of the Drake place. In the
front yard, on a conspicuous sign,
is the warning that aj^y and all agents
are forbidden to come on the place
and that any agents delivering goods,
etc., will be prosecuted. Mr. Drake
believes in living at home and buying
from the home merchants' as
one would infer from the sign in the
front yard, and he does not propose
to have the fruits of his laborers go
! for the upkeep of unknown agents.
Those who have doubted that
farming could be made to pay in
South Carolina should visit the Drake
farm. The skeptics and doubters who
have continually said, "I told you
so," upon hearing stories of abandoned
farms and deserted homes
would be put to utter confusion.
J. Wade Drake may never attain
the place in history that others of
his native state have but in causing
two blades of gras3 to grow where
none did before, he has gone a long
ways towards solving the problem of
the rural southland.
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Misunderstood.
He was in his first week at college,
g,nd when he went to the stationer's
to buy a fountain pen he felt desirous
that the young woman who waited on
him should* know that in spite of his
youth he was no high-school boy.
When she handed him a sheet of
paper he wrote on it with many
flourishes, in a large, bold hand,
"Alma Mater, Alma Mater," eight^or
nine times.
The clerk watched him with a
simper, and at last she spoke.
"Why don't you let her try it herself,"
she suggested, "and then if it
doesn't suit, of course, we'll change
it for you."
Miss Helen Shellemberger, of Lewistown,
Pa., has been licensed to
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Queen Wilhelmina has been made
a honorary member of the Huguenot-Walton
Tercentenary commission.
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Miss E. M. Robinson, an English
>girl, recently walked from London
to Brighton, a distance of thirty- .
five miles, in eleven hours.
Bootleggers Prey
0/ " Knockpff" Men
Washington Post.
Criminologists believe that all
crimes are old. They admit, however,
that new angles to standardized
crimes have been developed by master
minds of "specialists" of the criminal
world. That admission has been engendered
largely since the beginning
of the Volsteadian days in the District
of Columbia by the activities of
the Washington bootleggers and the
organized gang of "knockoff men,"
who term themselves confiscators."
and steal another man's liquor open-j
ly and with less fear than such noted
bandits as Jesse James ana tne Tracy
outlaws, who had the broad prairies
to effect an escape in.
Tourists Complain to Police.
This new crime against society has
developed here to such an extent that
many automobilists touring to the
capital and even after they arrive here
complain to the police that they have
been stopped on the roads leading to
the city or on the streets by the men
who force their machine on the curb
and flashing revenue badges compel
them to submit to their machines I
being searched.
The local police are in a quandary [
just how to proceed against the well
known whiskey "confiscatory' who
have been plying their trade against
bootleggers as well as motorists who
take their family for a ride to the suburban
districts. .
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The bootleggers and "knockoff"
men seem to fully realize that the authorities
can not molest them other
.than to take them in custody on an
investigation charge which terminates
in a swift writ of habeas being issued
and the supposed charge of robbery
dropped.
Cars Searched for Liquor.
More 'than two score cases 6ave
been reported to the district and
Maryland authorities during the last
two months by motorists who have
been held up at -pistol's point by the
"knockoff" men and their machines
searched for liquor. A tourist coming
to the capital from Philadelphia, told
the local authorities that when the
whiskey confiscators 9toppei: his machine
just outside of the district\limits
that they went about their business
in such a quiet and thorough
manner that he really believed they
were revenue agents:
Internal revenue agents say that
the "confiscators" or "knockoff men"
have practically run well known
bootleggers from the Baltimore boulevard.
They lie in wait for a machine
that has been to the Monumental
city for whiskey and being tipped
off from a confederate at the distributing
center that the whiskey car
had left for Washington, patrol thfe
roads, and?when the bootleg machine
comes in sight, the "knockoff" men in
two highpowered cars sandwich their
victim between them and force the
bootleg machine to stop. After taking
the whiskey from the'bootleggers
with threats of death they start the
machine in an opposite direction and
themselves speed to the city and safe- j
ty.
Transferred to a 4'Fence."
It is said that all of the whiskey
that is confiscated on the roads or
on the streets of Washington is
transferred to a ''fence" in the southwest
section where it is distributed
to local bootleggers on a small scale.
The authorities seldom hear of the
bootleggers that have been held up
and robbed of their whiskey by the
knockoff men on account of the fact
that to inform the police that they
had been robbed of whiskey would
mean the confiscation of their machine
for illegally transporting whiskey
and also that they were bootlegging.
A daring holdup and robbery occurred
on the much traveled thoroughfare
of Rhode Island avenue and
Fifth street northwest shortly after
8 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Five
men in an automobile furnished excitement
to government employees
and automobilists, when Vith drawn
revolvers they forced another machine
to the curb and under threats
of death took six cases of whiskey
from the machine and drove away.
The affair was reported to the potnfrpthpr
nrith the fact that the
victim had been robbed of $90 in
bills.
Baltimore Man a Victim.
Investigation by the police, who
thought that it was a bootleg deal,
wa9 made when the victim told the (
police, they say, that he had been
robbed of the whiskey. The victim,
a Baltimorean, told the authorities
that it was his first trip to Washington.
He said that he had heard from
inside bootleg circles that it was almost
impossible to get through the
lines Of the knockoff men who patrol
the roads with the assiduity of an army
of France.
After the. confiscators had taken
the whiskey, the victim was told, he
said, that in the future he would be
allowed to come into the district unmolested
by the rest of the members'
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of the organization.
Several arrests were made in the
robbery, but they resulted in the suspects
being released.
Legislation Needed, Grant Says.
Inspector Clifford L. Grant, chief
of detectives, speaking of the conditions
created by the "knockoff" men,
said yesterday that legislation was
needed to combat me evergrowing
evil. "At present we are powerless
to act," he said.
Meanwhile, the bootleggers carrying
imported rye and Scotch from the
Bahamas, near rye and prescription
rye from nearby cities and Virginia ]
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A large number of women in England
are in business than ever before. ^
Women athletic directors in some
of the girls' schools in England are
paid as mucl as $2,500 a year.
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Passengers on the Atlantic liner
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