The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 18, 1915, Image 2
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
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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
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1 remedy for Rheumatism, Blood Poi II
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len. Has been manufactured for
At all Druggists, $1.00.
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