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TAX COMMISSION BEGINS ITS WORK Occupies Suite in the Palmetto Building DERHAM ON THE BOARD Letters of Instruction are Sent to County and Township Tax Boards. The State. Machinery tor the reform of South Carolina's tax system was set in motion yesterday at the organization commission, which will take the place of the State board of assessors and the State board of equalization. Three rooms on the 13th floor of the Palmetto building have been rented for ofTicos. E. R Wilson of Columbia has been appointed chief clerk. Chairman Jones said thai it was the intention of the commission to go about the work in a careful manner. Other members of the commission in Columbia for the organization meeting were: J. P. Derham of Horry conn ty and W. G. Query of Spartanburg. Instructions Issued. Qfveiiii cuiuuiuiiicaiiuiis iilive oeen j sent out to the county auditors,! county boards of equalization, township boards of assessors and special boards of assessors, outlining the work for the present year. The following notice was sent to the auditors and assessors: "The legislature at its last session passed an act to create a tax commission and to define its powers and duties (copy of art inclosed) in or der effectively to carry into execution j the equitabl assessment of property for taxation in South Carolina. All county auditors, boards of eqilization and boards of assessors and equalization and taxpayers are hereby urged to cooperate with the cornequalization to the end that all taxable property in the State may be discovered and placed upon the tax duplicates at its propcr taxable valuation and all inequalities in assessment of the property now on the books may bo remedied." The following letter was sent to the county auditors of the State: "Prepare at once to lay before the township boards of assessors and spei _i' ? uiu uuurus o i assessors returns oi property made to you for the fiscal year, 1915. In case any person, firm company, association or corporation neglects or refuses to make returns for the current year for property appearing on the county duplicate for last, year, you will make the assessment, entering* on the usual 'tax return' in red ink the valuLc of the prop erty, both real and personal, with the penalty of 50 per cent, upon the personal property: indorse the same as 'neglected to iist' or 'failed to make returns' and such returns so made shall also be laid before the township boards 01* special boards of assessors. Township boards of assessors and special boards of assessors shalil meet as soon as practicable at the call of the county auditor at some convenient place designated by him. The county auditor may call one or more boards to meet 011 the same day, provided that all assessing boards shall meet and complete their work on or before March 25. County boards of oqraliration will meet on the fourth Tuesday in March, and at such othe.. ns as the tax commission shall direct." To i cai Hoards. The commission sent the following letter to the tov hip or local tax district assessors: "You are instructed to meet at tin time and place named by the auditor of your county, who will lay before ! you the tax returns of your township or tax district for the purpose of 1 assessment. Your duty is to consider I carefully the return of each taxpayer QTt/1 if 11 il iivtcoBtuy, compare mo same with the tax duplicate of preceding years, and if from your own knowledge or reliable information you know of any taxable property not mentioned in the returns, you shall proceed to assess it. You are required to raise or lower any item of personal property of any tax payer in order tosecure equality in assessment according to value. In equalizing or fixing the assessed value of any class or item of property, you must apply the same rule. This is necessary to secure uniformity and equality." Are You Rheumatic??Try Sloan's. If you want quick and real relief from Rheumatism, do what so many thousand other people are doing-? whenever an attack comes on, bathe the sore muscle or joint with Sloan's Liniment. No need to rub it in?just apply the Liniment to the surface. It is wonderfully penetrating. It goes right to the seat of trouble and draws the pain almost instantly. Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for 25c. of any druggist and have it in the house ?against Colds, Sore and Swollen Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica and like ailments. Your money back if not satisfied, but it does give almost instant relief.?adv. SOUTH HAS PLAN TO PEED HERSELF Diversified Farming to Keep Money at Home, Agriculturists Believe. By Charles M. Carroll "The South will feed herself." These significant words, full of action and determination, have been chosen as a motto by many of the cotton-growing States which have come to realize the words of warning spoken by the far-seeing humanitarian and statesman, Henry W. Grady, nearly forty years ago. Mr. Grady said: "To mortgage our farms to New York for money with which to buy meat and bread from outside sources is not good business. "When every farmer in the South oats bread from his own holds, meat from his own pasture,vegetables from his own garden, fruit from his orchard and butter and milk from his own dairy; caring for his crops in his own wisdom and growing them in independence; making cotton a surplus crop and selling it in his chosen market in his own time, for cash and not for a receipted mortgage?then the South will begin to realize the fullness of her opportunities." Have Ready Market. The South has many advantages as an agricultural and live stock counttry. There is a ready market with high prices for beef, dairy and poultry products and grain; land is cheap; the climate mild; the South has a longgrowing season?two and sometimes three crops can be produced on the same soil in a year; the South is adapted to the growing of a variety of hay forage crops, root crops, corn, 1 cum inner j;rnni5 tan ue produced more cheaply than in the northern Stales, In the South the rainfall is abundant evcrywhrre there are streams and springs which are of great benefit to the stockman. The people of the South are awaken ing to the opportunities offered by these natural advantages. Farmers, Bankers and merchants arc engaged in organizing plans to meet the problems which are confront ing them. The cattle tick, the enemy of diversified farmig, being successfully controlled by the United States department of animal industry in cooperation with the people. The boll weevil is giving way to tin introduction of pratical systems of crop rotation. Millions of acres of hill lands are being seeded to Bermuda and other grasses which serve the purpose of providing pasturage for live stock and preventing the soil from washing. Lespedcza, bur clover, Japan clover, soy beans, cowpeas sweet clover, alfalfa and velvet beans are grown in abundance. Recent dem onstrations show that Sundan grass is an abundant cron in nwivlv #?vr*vv srr tion of the South. South Learns Lesson. As the quarantine line moves South scrub and tick-infested cattle are replaced by thoroughbred breeding stock. The people have begun to realize the great economic saving in the production of foodstuffs at home; in other words, raising a living at home instead of buying from outside markets. It is the old lesson that experience teaches better than example. It took insect enemies and crop failure to make the people of the North realize the errors of a one-crop system; it has taken the boll weevil and a war of nations to impress this fact upon the people of the South?-that a one-crop system will improvish any country. It is only through divi> ification of crops and the using of our "energies every day in the year that we can make a great rich, country and a strong prosperous people. It is difficult to change old, established mcth| ods, but the people of the South arc I changing rapidly from the one-horse j system to that of diversified farming ?the growing of legume crops to cnrih the soil and give it life and humus, the production of live stock, ' grains and other crops as well as cotton. The production of cotton in the i South will be increasing under a system of diversified farming. Alive to Resources. This great forward move merit in agricultural development is emphaseized by activity of all interests in the South. Many State have affected permanent campaigns for the improve ment of agricultural and commerce. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas have been unusually active. Mississippi realized the great need of real constructive work along agricultural lines more than a year ago, and a "Grown in Mississippi" campaign coverign th whole State, was the result.' A "Grown in Mississippi' 'week was set aside 8,000 schools of the State, , and for one week in November 750,000 school children studied grown in Mississippi products. Louisiana was covered with a "illion bushel" corn train; with thirty agricultural lecturers. Oklahoma cov ^ ered seventeen counties in the eastern portion of the State, reaching 2^,000 farmers and business men; Alabama j is now conducting a state wide crop ] divisitication campaign, which will i be continued for thirty-live days, reaching 100,000 persons. Holden Lead Campaign All of these activities have boon great co-operative movements directed by P. G. Holden of the agricultural extension department of the International Harvester Company. These educational campaigns revealed an impressive lesson. The "turning of the worm" in At* kansas brought the people of that State face to face with a most astonishing economic problem. Early in November 1914, Governor Hayes of Arkansas, the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce of the United states Department of Agriculture, i railroads, the state department of agriculturc, the state department of agriculture and many other interests invited Mr. Golden to come to Arkansas and direct a state-wide educational campaign there. Investigation proved that Arkansas , was sending $75,000,000 out of the ' state each year for the purchase of food products. This amount was $11.000,000 more than the Arkansas cot' ton crop brought in 1913. Meeting en Farms Professor Holden with a staff of i thirty lecturers began organization! work early in November. The cam- j paign was inaugurated and car-' ried on for thirty live days Seventeen hundred meetings were held in forty-five counties, covering the entire cotton belt. The business men did not ask the farmers to conic i to town to hoar the lecturers, but ] j in 500 communities automobiles and i buggies were donated to the speakers to earr v them into the county to hold meetings on the farms. Th c campaign was carried to the people, t'ne people did not come to the campaign. It was the IIolden plan, too, of going to the farm homes, making a study of the conditions as they existed , ! * * 1 1 on eacn lann, discussing tne prooicms and assisting each individual according' to his needs. More than 1135,000 persons heard the lectures on diversified farming. After the campaign $10,000 was raised and hundreds of hoys and girls hav been financed by the business men cf Arkansas and arc puprehasing pigs, salves and chickens as fast as the transaction can be made. It is the first step into a practical sys- j torn of diversified farming, and it is beii g put into practice by the school children of the State. Talk in Texas. The activities of Arkansas spread rapidly into Texas where a fifteenday campaign was put on covering nearly all of the district from Fort Worth, Dallas and Waco, to Houston and San Antonio. Fifteen counties were covered and meetings were held. The campaign was inaugurated in Temple, under the direction of the Temple Chambeer of Commerce.Forty speakers were engaged in field work. These men were divided into twenty crews. In each crew was a school man who handled the rural schoools ' and educational institutions, and one pract'cal .agriculturist v ho spoke to the farmers. Two thousand persons ; kiid aside ail other plans and took ae j live part., serving on committees and otherwise devoting rhair time, money , and energy to the v/crk. More than ! 40,000 attended the meetings and 200000 pieces of literature were distributed. A careful analysis of the stations i . I j showed that Texas was sending $200,000,000 annually to northern and east cm markets for feed and food products. It was plain to the business that such an enormous drain on the ! wealth creating resources of the state greatly retarded its development. It was found that if every | farmer in Texas had a few chickens 1 on his farm and marketed fifteen ' dozen o1 eggs every week in the year the amount of money received annually in the combined sale at 20 cents a dozen, would amount to $100,000,000. Nearly as much money as the whole South asked in its appeal for federal aid to finance distressed cotton growers. Bankers in Texas agreeed to lend money at 0 per cent interest to boy* and girls to be used in their work of raising pigs and poultry under the direction of the United States governI ment agent. The result of these campaigns proves that the agriculture and commer-. cial possibilities of the South are almost beyond conception; that states south of the Mason and Dixon line can produce enough foodstuffs to meet all home needs with a surplus sufficient to feed a large part of the world; that Texas is sending over $200,000 annually to northern markets for the purchase of food products which can be produced more abundantly and ' more cheaply at home; that for the same purpose Arkansas is sending I away $7f>,000,000 annually Alabama | $00,000,000, Mississippi $80,000,000, Louisiana $80,000,000, Oklahoma $08,000,000 and the same condition obtain j in the other States. The South is sending $1,000,000,000 of hard cash away from the South annuallly, every dollar of which should be placed in its own banks. This is why the South is determined to feed itself. Health Promotes Happiness. Without health, genuine joy is impossible; without good digestion and regular bowel movement you cannot have health. Why neglect keeping bowels open and risk being sick and ailing? Vou don't have to. Take one small Dr. King's New Life Pills at night, in the morning you will have a full, free bowel movement and feel much better. Helps your appetite and digestion Try one tonight.?adv. FIRELESS COKERS ENTERING WEDGE In the Demonstration Work for the Benefit of the Woman of State. The principle of the tireless cooker is nothing new. When the white people first came to America the Indians were using it. They would dig a hole in the ground, line it with stones and make a lire. When the stones wore hot they would rake out the coals, put a piece of meat between the stones and cover the whole with earth until they were ready to eat the meat. One of the explorers of the upper Nile saw the natives wrapping elephants' feet, one of their great dainties, in plantain leaves and cooking them in a hole in the ground, using hot stones just as the Indians cooked their meat. These are proofs of the old adage "There is nothing new under the sun" Miss Katherine Richardson, Organ izer of Home Demonstration clubs for Clarendon County says: "1 find the Wireless Cooker the best means for interesting the women in Demonstration work. I have given a number of Demonstrations and nrom ised others. At those Demonstrations 1 have the stones hot, put a raw chick en in the Cooker and while it is cooking make another Cooker. At one of my meetings there were a number of peole present, but only seven house keepers. I organized these into a Demonstrator's Club. They elected officers; decided to meet twice a month and each promised to make a Cooker i and to get a new member by the next meeting. They called a meeting in a few days at which were twelve additional members. "They are also planning to have the Short Domestic Science School offered by Winthrop College and to work for i a Communitv Fail next fall. This of * course is helping the Demonstration ! work in eve ry way. "Th people in a widely scattered community heaving of he Demnnstra- ! I lioii asked what inducements they I must make to got me. 1 went to > them as soon as possible. A hug. crowd turned ou. and while they did not organize a C.ub, a ..umber of them are making coolers. A lady 'Vo. , that community lc:Jd me, a few <U.; rs ago, that six had ordered t%ve!v?stones. "I gave one Demonstration in a little mill village. A number of thi people did not believe in the Fi-xics: Cooker. One c i l.uly sai l, "I's from Mourissouri. Yea get la : V v ?oc\' She examined the raw chicken and ate a piece ai'tar i was rook d, 1:i h eor. vinced her. When I saw her last, si.. said she had r. >_ ma .e a Coo!:..?- vvi as her husband -lid not i.e-ievo in i but she wanted roe to persuade him to let her have it and let her daughter join the Canning Club." ODD BITS OF NEWS. Mrs. Helen Hart, who is past TO and the mother of five grown children has ci rolled a<5 a pupii in the Yeatman high scchool. Six years ago Mrs Ellen A Keim grubstaked Jeremiah Wilson, a prospector and sent him to Alaska Wilson struck it rich and a court rulinghas just been ordered an. Alaskan corporation to turn over to Mrs. Wilson and her 16 year old daughter, Mar io, their share in Wilson's discoveries. The share is $6,000,000. Hoopestow, 111., has made an AllProhibition administraton and in a further effort to make it the one "real dry" town of the county, interesting ordinances have been adopted. One measure provides that any member of the city council, the mayor, superintendent of the water plant ,police officer, city clerk, city treasurer or other city officer who shall have about his premises or who shall, whether in this city or elsewhere, partake of intoxicants, shall be removed from office. William Brown, father of 17 children of his own, was lonesome and has just adopted t\yo more children, at Cascade, Md., making 19 youngsters to play about his knees. COLDS & taGRIPPE S of 6 doses 660 will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGripoe? it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. Price 25c, CALOMEL IS MERC! ACTS ON UVI ' Colon's Liver Tons" Siarts Your Liver Btltcr Than Calomel and Doesn't Salivate or Make Ycu Sick. Listen to mo! Take no inoro nickeninp, Hnlivatinp calomel when bilious or constipated. Don't lose a day's work I Calomel is mercury or uuicksil ver which causes necrosis of tno hones. Calomel, when it comes into contact with 8onr bile crashes* into it. hvoukinp it up. This is when yon find that awful nausea and crnmpinp. If you are slup pish and "all knocked out." if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, di/./.lnoss. coated tonpuo, if l>re-nth is had or stomach sour just take a spoonful of harmless l)od* von's Liver Tone on my guuruutcu. ipll^ii] Ga a hSI^vIv I 3|f **ll? bL*.^ SjT '^S^iAKk^i '1 HOW SCHOOL GIRLS GOT THE WATER SUSt Shocking Report Made by Do partment After Investigating, New York School CONFIRMED B Y BOART Board of Managers of Stat< Training School Auiirts Meth cd3 Uricd. -Denics Barcarity. A statement from the bord man agers of the No-, Y i State Tiuin ing School for girls at Hudson, confirr cd a report of the department of of ficicney and economy regarding th type of disciplinary measures used rj the institution, but asserted that sue punishment is neither barbarous no unduly strict. Ages of the inmate range from 12 to 1 (> years. The report of the department, til ' d with the legislature., rccommcir.ictlie removal of Dr. Hortc nse V Bru< superintendent of the Hudson s:T.oo! The giris there, many of whom ha< corn mi tic I no legal ollYnse, were sub joctcd to more severe punishment fo mf.actions of rules tliar are the mos despc rate criminals, the report dec hired. The Wrier Cure. "Whore a girl has been impudent has refused to obey an officer or i unduly unruly, she is punished h, what might bo popularly termed th 'water cure/ " it was set forth in th charges against the institution's man age men t. "Her hands are handcuffed bchim her back, leg irons are put on he feet, and she is laid across her bed The assistant superintendent sits 01 the knees of the girl while the hos pital nurse dips a towel in water am holds it, sopping wet, over the girl' mouth for 10 minutes. The girl, be ing frightened, struggles and in th< endeavor to breathe through the we towl, draws in the water. This treat ment neither strangles nor suffocate her and is kept up until the girl give; in. Even Worse Than That. "For cases which require mon severe punishment than the 'wate cure/ solitary confinement in smal isolation cells is provided. A silence rule is in effect from thi time the girls arise in the morninj until 6 o'clock at night, the repor concludes. The statement of the board of man agers said: "Minor forms of correction arc sucl as are used in careful homes?a sor of moral suasion. All persons havinj charge of children know that smal uprisings must be promptly checked "'My goodness!" may be a sign o THE Gl Mg A successfu KUi K0 K0 and all Blood Br monftnc^ wob || past 35 years. F. V. Lll DRY! IT SICKENS! i ERUKE DYNAMITE] Here's my guarantee?Co to any drug I store iuu! get u 50 cent bottle of Dod- I son's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful to- 8 night and if it doesn't straighten you right up and mako you feel line and 8 vigorous l?y morning I want you to go ? ln\ek to the store and get your money, a Hudson's Liver Tone is destroying the & sale of eulomcl hcenuse it is real liver 8 inedleine; entirely vegetable, therefore it k enn not salivate or make you sick. t I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod- || m i nmc win put- your tuuggmn Hvor t?? work and oloan your bowels olll that ftOUr bllo and constipated waste wllloh in 0logging your SYBtoUl and inak-Wl ingvoti fed n>isi>rabl<>. I guarantee tliatfffl a nottlo of Dodson's Liver Tone willSfl keep your enlii" family fooling line forftl months. Qlvo i( to your children* Tt isll harmless; doesn't gripe and they like its? | pleasant taste. 'jfl il Lye in the Sic,:... II? '' It disease ??> caused by ftenns a (IB v into wcrmo. Stop it at die fa II go by feeding Rcd Devi! Lye. jfll^B rents disease and your hoys feed j!^H u\ See directions on the c. n. I cj / cans :.. y it -1 h: r. , | j Saves Hogc and Feed f Ml .1 V\ '.v . *''4>^ //v if' \ ;\ - / ,)1,1 ^IM^H ; Hi fV lkk&&:.:cv:..v.i insubordination to como. If a chloSM I persists in eating her mush with ifl|H n fingers any sensible parent sends lfl| Some Moral Suasion. ^B' "Washing out the mouth with " hitter ionic is an especially wise wJ^H chocking a careless tongue; ;? i putting a plaster across the lips emphatic, practical demonstration 1 what is to be remembered. It is comfortable and rediculous but -j in the least painful. It fits specS^^| cases only and most days not one c^^^J "Covering the mouth with a I towel is only for extreme cases of ri"d, violent extreme, and is ' curved by only 4-10 of 1 per cerd^kL^^H the pupils. As the nose is left fn^^H n strangulation r od suffocation are The process is merely jV I I | :ary in cases of uncontrolled, hystj^^H e nd ;-ddl I break all the panes of glass in window, cut her arms with it, or dash her head against the wall." IT.'- managers have requested hi I v State board of charities to invesUcjjj^^B Course in Home Economics. i^hi II There are many girls in South J^^B I olina enrolled in Home-keepers' 1 TllOSe ai'-s ;< iv? !iw .. v i'T i the in their co.'nnuo'.i^^l Tiic we rk of these clubs is guidcij^^H . hui'oiins issued by Winthrop Colli I Th'-re .nIie tins outline lessons in cH I r ing and I rving and give simple, online principles underlying both. clubs keep in more or less close ,j with Winthrop Colleg. 'A I In order to stimulate the work*^^^| these gilds' Mome keepers' Clubs chrop Colleg invites the Clubs to its star member to a short cour? I , Homo Economics for girls which . be given during the summer sclH^^f session. This short course for t> will last live days, June 27 to 30, like the course for worrmn form part of th Country Life Cot4|^H| s once of Winthrop of me summeJ^^^B The girl's course will follow TO,.- :? " m * vine L'jtuiiuiiurs course i or each to last five days?each to meet the special needs of the j Each Homekeepers' Club is in^^HH to send one delegate to Winr^^^H College. The girls will be enterti'^^^J by th College during their stay. * club should name an alternate. , is wise for something may happJM^^ keep the delegate from coming.BUfl thus her place may be filled by B^B choice of her club and no confusicjffB^ |9 I u To Prevent Blood Prison I ipplv pt one* the Wonderfulv/.d ?< < -?l [I . PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HKAMNG f rical dressing that relieves pain and the same time. Not a liniment. 25c. REAT BLOOD PURIFIERj^H 1 remedy for Rheumatism, Blood Poi II Diseases. A wonderful tonic for len. Has been manufactured for At all Druggists, $1.00. PPMAN CO., Savannah,