The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 13, 1919, Image 1
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VOLUME xxxin
I SON OF G.N.CAUSEY
" SUED FOR PENALTY
I' Aiding Violations of Various i
M' Provisions of/Law About
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i ivioior boats
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\) DEFENDANT UNDER AGE
j1 AND ACTED IGNORANTLY !
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I Other Motor Boat Owners Are ]
j Said to be in Similar (
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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.
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BIDS FOR HORRY
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
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i/Vill be Made by Important '
Towns of County Including
Conway. 1
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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<?<!
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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.
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The house last week increased the
appropriation of Confederate veterans
from $350,000 to $500,000.
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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.
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A V ivrrupoTivn f a /vi.
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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
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mili-'.V it'll mi- ii^nv ti n i 1i.-> c vii.:
reads bill. Representative Riley
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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
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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
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'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.
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j. THE PRICE OF GASOLINE.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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
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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.