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irV * * VOLUME xxxin I SON OF G.N.CAUSEY " SUED FOR PENALTY I' Aiding Violations of Various i M' Provisions of/Law About Hi i -% i i ivioior boats ; r I \) DEFENDANT UNDER AGE j1 AND ACTED IGNORANTLY ! 1 % ^ I Other Motor Boat Owners Are ] j Said to be in Similar ( % Trouble. A Deputy Marshal \va?) here re- ( I < ? ami serve i it Summons and ^ R Cemplaint on C. B. Causey, a son of i F C. N. Causey, demanding judgment ( Ej foi the penalty of $100.00 for violajL tion of the Federal Act of Juno 9th, V 1910, regulating the equipment of : L^notor boats. ? * ^ -This motor boaf is the one that is ' U named "Gadabout," and has been JI used by Mr. Causey for some time in : fd Roing to points on the Waccamaw liver, but was not used for carrying J passengers for hjre. Some time in / December an Inspector reported C. i\ li. Causey for the violation of vaX nous provisions of the above Stated Act. One was in regard to life sav- ^ ^ ing devices carrying a penalty of , $100.00, another was for not having f pilot rules posted up in the boat un-j dei the Act of June 7th, 1897, pro 1? vicing a penalty of $200.00, and Another was that upi^n which Mr. | I Causey was sued, a violation of SccL tion Si:; of the Act of June 9th, 1910, |t requiring that every boat shall carry ij *Vhc moans of extinguishing burning ?! gasoline. As to all *of the violations r! except the one relating to ga.>olihe \4 the taw .allows the Commissioner of I Commerce and Labor to remit or rc/\t <luce the penalties and under this . piovision Mr. Causey compromised ^ for the sum of $10.00 the two penally ties regarding life- saving devices ? f and jiilot rales; as to the gasoline [ ' regulations the Act does not allow ft j i i ine commissioner 10 maKe any com9 } promise or to remit the fine and this If' v?as referred to the District Attornkj <*y, who has "brought suit for the sum I t r.f $100.00 against Mr. Causey in the If United States Court. U It is stated that other owners of motor boats have b<en reported for fiolations of this law and it is .ought that several other suits are ow brought or will be in the near uturc. C. B. Causey is under age and has eon operating this boat for the conenience of his father's family and c acted in total ignorance of any wk which required these things, 'his r^ws item is published with the lew of informing others about the emulations so that they may comply rith the law and avoid trouble. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO .TEACHERS AND TRUSTEES K The spring term of the TeachcrHMp.Taining School will begin in the ^Tclsssroom of the Burroughs High H School on Monday, March 17th. B (There are a number of applications for cnffance and we hope to have R a large class before long. The work R will mean so much more to teachers B* vho come at the beginning and take k the full course of work as it has been outlined. B The Training Teacher will be glad help any touchers who wish to se55 cure board if thoy will com mimical0 W with her. \ M. J. Bullock, ' Co. Supt. of Education, .f! Mrs. M. J. Bullock, M .x Training-Teacher. JjS XA'V HORRY INDUSTRIAL. W "Six Cups of Chocolate" will he yS playi ?l by the np)>er grades at the Mw Horry Industrial School at 7:30 |H o'clock, Friday evening, March 15, FK 1010. Refreshments will he sold. The public is cordially invited. 1 ? Bertha T. Morris. i \ ' (tllf BIDS FOR HORRY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL I y i/Vill be Made by Important ' Towns of County Including Conway. 1 < ~ Somo limp since it was news here * hat Ay nor had put in a bid for the , Horry Industrial School to be moved < o that town. Within the last few weeks it has becomo known that Loris | wants the school to be located there ind business men are willing to go lown into their pockets to get it loatod there. Within tin* last week it has be omo known that Conway people have become interested and that it is likely that Conway will be a strong competitor for the institution. If "he school is to be moved why should it not come to the county seat is the :ji ostion being asked by several. Up to this time the Herald cannot learn that the movement to bring the school to Conway has taken any decided form hut from remarks that have beenf made here lately a movement like that may be started very Soon. ... n CAUTION ON TOBACCO. Clcmson College.?"Don't plunge in tobacco," says It. E. Currin, Super ir.lendent of the Pec Dee Experiment Station. Mi-. Currin is an experienced tobacco man and lie advises South Carolina farmers who are running from the uncertainty of cotton under boll weevil Conditions not to run into the equally uncertainty of large tobacco planting at the expense of safe diversification. Tobacco is a new crop with hundreds of farmers,. and because ol their ignorance and inexperience so far as tobacco is concerned, it is wiseto plant small crop; at first an 1 let-.rn to grow and cure it before risk ing too mu'-h. "Plunging" is not "safe farming" in tobacco or any other crop. But there is another strong reason for caution. The war time prices rereived for tobacco in 1918 will probably not hold so high. Three large crops of tobacco have been produced in succession, and present indications are that no more tobacco was consumed in domestic manufacture in 1918 than in the preceding year, while stocks on band show considerable increase, indicating a tendency toward lower prices. / , The situation with reference to Hue-cured tobacco is of special importance in view of the extraordinary large crop of last year and the possibility of a further large increase in the crop this year, particularly in ea-stern North Carolina and in South Carolina and Georgia, where cotton is the chief competing crop. The situation would seem to be one calling lor exercise of caution by farmers. * KEEP STAMPS SEPARATE. Purchasers of 1019 War Savings Stamps should not place them on 1918 certificates. If the 1918 certificate has blank spaces, just put the Certificate away without, filling it in with 1919 stamps. The same Thrift stamps and Thrift raids are used this year as were used > last year, and when a thrift card It* t , A i*Ml 1 ! noming sixteen stamps is jiiicm, 11 will be exchanged for a 1910 War Savings Stamps on payment of the additional cents, which represent.; j the difference between the price of the War Savings Stamp, and $4, the value of the sixteen Thrift Stamps. K'?on vniiv Thrift stnmns and vour I i ^ . * War Savings Stamps firmly identified in your mind, The Thrift stamps are worth a quarter. The War Savings Stamps will be worth five dollais in a few years. If any question arises about your stamps or how you should handle them, go to your local post office and ask the postmaster. o Conscientious objectors have returned to the war department, the Friends Society, the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Cross approximately $20,000 ef the money paid them. % "V. %mx CONWAY, S. P., THURSDAY ARMY TO RETAIN MANY SOLDIERS Washington.?Retention within the [umy of about 200,000 men, obtained [)r ginally through the drafts and by transfer from the National Guard, is planned by the war department in Duilding up the temporary military Establishment of the nation. This ivas definitely made known here tolay by General March, chief of staff, ivho announced the decision of the i?ar department that the army would | 'not be reduced under any circum- I stances" below 500,000 until some j law was passed fixing the permanent j f o ices. "All the military problems that confront us have been carefully con sii'ered, determining the number ot ruen necessary," General March said, and we can not .get along without thai number?509,1)09?and they will be held." Under existing legislation, the. maximum war strength of the permanent army is around 298,000. The exact figure, officers explained, can not. be stated since some of the staff corps, as the quartermaster corps, for instance, are permitted wide latitude in their expansion. Voluntary enlistment to fill the regular army has been reinaugurated both in this country and in France, General Pershing having been authorized to transfer recruits obtained from the expeditionary forceos to the regular o. ganizationx and to release an equiv alent number of drafted men. There will remain, however, a deficiency _ C n AA AAA f* ? 1 i ' > ' ' ? * 1 01 iuu.uuu i rom me iouu aociarcu dv j the military authorities to be the i minimum consistent with the re- j sponsibilitics of the United States. These men therefore will have to come from the forces which the war department had planned to demobilize. Large Number Detained. Secretary Baker several days ago in explaining the position of the war department as a result of the failure of the Sixty-fifth Congress to pass the army reorganization and appropriation hill, raid his greatest regret was that "a large number of men will now have to be retained in the soi vice. WON'T SUBMIT TO ALLIES' COERCION Paris.?At a meeting of the German cabinet on Monday attended by party leaders and dcslegatcs of ship owners, it was agreed unanimously, t is understood, that Germany could not submit to coercion from the Entente nowers. either in the armistice negotiations or in the peace pourparlers proper, according to a Zourish dispatch to Lc Journals. The German govecrnmcnt declared it will decline all responsibility for possible consequences if "the Entente tries to speculate on German impatience." Demands regarding the requisition of shipping are held to be absolutely inacccptable because, it is said, it would definitely "paralyze the country's economic future." Germany also will oppose the dismissal of German crews from ships requisitioned, it being pointed out that this would throw 42,000 seamen I out of employment. A press campaign has already been started against the armistice and pieliminary peace conditions. PRESIDENT SAILS ! AGAIN FOR FRANCE Now York.?President Wilson sail<?<! AH iiwnn.l lrAvurn IA v??? > u^Wv.mi ' " i I determined, as he said in his Metropolitan opera house speech here, not t<? "come back 'till its over, over there." The. chief executive's departure was marked by simplicity which contrasted with the noisy demonstration given him when the George Washington carried Mr. Wilson from American water on his first journey to Paris last December. -o The house last week increased the appropriation of Confederate veterans from $350,000 to $500,000. K W*> r, MARCH 13, 1919. REFUSES TO WAIT FOR STATE FLAN Although the general assembly of South Carolina lailfl to enact legislation which would enable South Carolina to participate in federal good road fund, a number of counties in the State have voted or will vote on the question of bond issues for this purpose and will bo in a position to piocure an aid froiq the federal government. Sand clay top soil roads may participate in this aid. The cost of sand clay and top soil roads varies j in different sections from $2,000 to $0,000 per mile. County bond issues voted and pond ing in the State carry an amount i t excess of $5,000,000. Anderson oasib takes first Tank by an act of the, recent general assembly, authorizing j an election on the question of voting i an issue of $1,450,000 for road pur- ' poses. Charleston County, which issued $275,000 in bonds for road building last year, came forward! with anothoi issue of $100,000 :it ihr> recent session of the legislature, i Greenwood County will issue roads bonds to the amount of $(500,000 and Chester County $450,000. Horry County will also issue $200,000 in bonds for road building, without rcfeiendum, and will participate in the federal aid. Other counties in the State which have authorized bond is. ues for road building are: Cherokee, $225,000; Chesterfield, two town ships, $05,000; Greenville, $900,000; Laurens, $000,000; McCormick, $175,000; Pickens, $250,000; Union, one towsnship, $125,000; Spartanburg County has a million bond issue, which is already being expended m road building. :South Carolina's apportionment of ! federal aid, which will be available di ring the next 12 months is approximately $1,500,000. Unless this aid is absorbed within a certain period, lit reverts to the United States treaswry. o A V ivrrupoTivn f a /vi. -r??i in i ivuiiui iiui r - iv i. A Columbian who is interested m all constructive legislation has ohs< rved in looking over the journal of the House of Representatives that practically every man in the House who voted against tlie compulsory education bill, as passed, also voted against the good roads measure. There were tt.'t votes cast against the compulsory education bill as it final!) passed the house. Of this number twontv-se'ven voted against the gcod roads proposition, three did not vote at all and three voted for the good roads bill. The twenty-seven men who voted against the compulsory education hdi, as it was finally passed by the house, and who also voted against the good roads proposition were: R( prestntatives Anderson, of Florence; Ashley, of Abbeville; R. O. Atkinson, of Chester; Beachman, of Greenwood; Cade, of McCormick; I Dickson, of Anderson; Dreher, of Lexington; Dukes, of Orangeburg; j Faddy, of Williamsburg; E. W. Ellis, Jot Barnwell; Hall of Anderson; (Hamilton, of Chester; Harmon, of Saluda; Houston, of Barnwell; VV. W. Johnson, of Clarendon; Kelly, of Anderson; Lancaster, of Spartanburg; Langdale, of Colleton; Leopard, of Pickens; Miley, of Bamberg; Mishoe, of Horry; Moore, of Greenwood; Owens, of Marlboro; Pegues, of Marlboro; Pursley, of York; Rivers, of Chesterfield and Turner, of Chesterfield. Ths same Columbian also <luk out of the House journal the fact that Representative Miley of Bamberg differed with bis colleague Representative Riley on at least four important matters that came before tVm general assembly. Representative 1-1 4 i. .. <v ..1.4- : 4 i 1 ~1 mili-'.V it'll mi- ii^nv ti n i 1i.-> c vii.: reads bill. Representative Riley ... i^.i r.... ii.^ u:u.. i? vi'ifn MM tin. uiiim. iwiirra'iiiiiin 1 IVi iley voted against the compulson education bill, as it finally passed the house. Representative It le. tnod to have Reprseentative Kv nh' bill providing for a gallon-a-m nt1 ' of whiskey instead cf a quart. Rep 1 resentative Riley opposed it. Repr sentativo Miley led the light to pa\ the members of the last house move money and Representative Riley vol |x od against it. There are only tv members from Romberg in th House. They seldom voted t g- the 4 r raid. HORRY COUNTY IS I IN ACREAGE LIMIT Not Necessary to Conduce I Campaign for Signing of Pledges At tho farmers meetiitr1 on Fee. j 23th in interest of the cotton situation tho schedule of tho State Convention for the reduction of 3*1 1-3 per cent, in cotton acreage in 1919, ami the schedule showing the proportion the small farmer was asked to cut (which allowed him a maximum of 12 acres to the plow) was thoroughly discussed by the meeting. Figures from the farmers present showed that la t year an average of 5.G acres was planted per plow and that this year this acreage would he cut to 4.9 acres per plow The oninion of the meet intr wns tlv.it Horry County did not need to cut as she was already within tlm acreage < jasked for, and therefore it was not < to conduct the campaign for signing the* pledges. Acting upon the opin- < ion of the meeting Mr. MeDermott wrote the Central Committee asking permission to change the schedule of the State Convention for Horry County and do away with the signing of the pledges by the farmers and allow the Horry County Com11 ittee to pledge Horry County not to exceed the maximum acreage asked for. The following letter fwrn the Central Committee was received by Mi. MeDermott in reply: Columbia, S. C., Mar. 5, 19If). Mr. J. A. MeDermott, Coipvay, S. C. Dear Mr. MeDermott: Your* letter of Mar. ilrd received j the attention of the entire Central I Committed today. We wish very much | that oveiy county in the state could make the remarkable showing; you make as to the small number of acres of cotton planted to each horse. 'The Committee feels that it has not I the authority to make any change in the schedule adopted by the State Convention which created said comm.'ttce and any change in said schedule would have to be made, on the responsibility of the County Committee. At the same time we do not hesitate to express our approval at jthu small cotton acreage in your iccuntv. and we feel that you will i 'handle this matter to the best interest of the fight that means so much i to us. | At the meeting today we decided | to make the Association as near | permanent as possible in conformity | with other Associations throughout 'the State and throughout the country. The entire Central Committees are giving untiring all their efforts and services, and the success will depend upon the backing they receive i from the farmers and business men of the State, both fiom the point of | carrying on the work of the State, land from the standpoint of assist-' a.rce, and we feel that our Association will not fall behind other sect ons of the country. We wish to express our high app?eciation of the splendid work you are doing, and beg to remain, Yours very truly, J. S. Wannamaker, Chairman. Acting upon this letter and the opinion 07 the Moctmp; on Fob. 28th, too Horry County Committor has decided not to mako tho canvas for the sij'-ninft* of the pledges, but to mako ono pledjre for tho entire county that ltorry County will not exceed the J acreage asked for. o j. THE PRICE OF GASOLINE. rtM i - l- ... ... ;.i 1.1 . . I i i IIVi c uin.Muciiimc win- | plaint during* the past few days in the upper part of the state of the high price op gasoline. In Anderson 1 I the price has gone to 28 cents and thr oil dealers are telling: the people that it is because II. Harris, com' niissioncr of agriculture, has insist nd on pre-war standai ; of gasoline hut that dealers can sell napitha as such. There have been so many ' complaints about the quality of gasoline that it is said the national de1 pj.vtmcnt of agriculture is going to hake the matter in band and pro I scribe a standard g rade. \. \ , Umm NO. 47. MO COMMON PLEAS COURT WILL MEET ror the Spring Term of 1919 the Last of This Month UNCERTAINTY AS TO INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC Pklso an Uncertainty as to The Correct Date for the Court Under New Act. The Conway attorneys met last ruesrlav morninii1 unnoi'l'v". V.V/ * VIIOIMCI tin* preparation of a Roster of eases to bo tried at the spring term of the Ccurt of Common Pleas; and to consider the question of putting off the Court on account of the epidemic of Influenza. Recently the Court of Geneial Sessions was about to eon- * vene on the last Monday in February when the Hoard of Health met on Saturday before and caused the Court to be put off. At that time the epidemic was raging in two or three sections of the County: Recently the bar communicated with the Hoard of Health about the advisability of putting off the Court of Common Pleas. The Chairman of the Hoard of Health stated last Tucs day that the Hoard could not at this time say that the Court could not be held as the Board could not tell what the conditions would be a week or two later when the Court was ready to convene, and he expressed himself fls being in favor of calling it off. The members of the bar decided that it would be better to ask that the Court will not convene and thus avoid the labor of preparing cases when the Hoard at the last moment r..ight put it off. It was the unanimous decision of the meeting to havein - term of the Common Pleas. There is an uncertainty as to the proper Monday on which the next term of the Common Picas would convene. A new act was passed at tin recent session of the Legislature fixing the spring term of the Court ' o! Common Pleas on fho fourth Monday after the last Monday in February. This Act goes into effect immediately upon ^ its approval by the Governor and under it the Court would convene on Monday, March 24th. The old law fixed this term for the fifth Monday after the last Monday in February, and if the Court were held tinder the old law it would convene Monday, March 1st. Senator Hal L. Buck says that the new Act. was duly passed, and it appears that the act has been appioved by the Governor, still there might be some uncertainty in case this term of Court were to be convened. As it is, there will not be any teun of the Common Pleas this spring. o NO EXTRA '"'".SSION. Petitions asking Governor Cooper to call an extra session of the Legislature to pass needed good roads laws; and for other purposes of (, renf imiv?rfr.!i n<?n vnou < ! f T . x.v .... . v?-. ?? v i i w? iuvt;u In t o during' the last week and obtain rd numerous signers. In the mean time (Jovernor Cooper has been interviewed in Columbia, and says that he will not call an extra session for the reason that members of the Legislature recently passed on this question and showed i .. 4. ?i. 4.1. , ?l. _ .- . w licit miii viiw.t me uii mi- ahujcvw, and he does not think they could have changed their views in this sliort titne. | In the minds of many if the subIjccl were brought up again before | the Legislature, even after this short time, that the vote would show a different result. It is reported that telegrams as well as petitions have gone in to the (iovomov's office from many sections of the State asking him to call an extra session for this purpsoe and for passing laws in relation to the control of cotton.