The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 16, 1919, Image 1
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VOLUME XXXIV
ENFORCEMENT OF
FEDERAL DRY LAW
^Attorney General Preparing
Jpinion on Legality of
the Ar.t
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W ash i n y ton.?Antic i pati ng attacks
| on the constitutionality of the war
^time and constittutional prohibition
enforcement legislation, Attorney
General Palmer will prepare an opinion
which will be transmitted to the
White House before the bill becomes
a- law.
Enactynent of the legislation was
completed yesterday by congress and
the measure probably will be sent to
the White House Monday. Unless
signed by President Wilson within
ten days it automatically would become.
law.
There appeared to be some doubt j
at the White House today whether
the measure would come before the
President because of the disinclination
o f his physician to let him
transact any business. Should Mr.
Palmer hold the measure unconstitutional
it was expected that it would
be referred to the President for his
veto. Otherwise it might be permitted
to become a law without the executive's
signature.
CLEMENCEAU IS TO
i LEAVETHECABINET
A Paris.?Premier Georges Ciemen*
ceau has declared to a number of
deputies that he has made up his
fnind to leave the cabinet after the
, coming elections.
The premier, speaking on the controversy
which has arisen ovc?r the
government's plan to hold elections
for the chamber of deputies in adtance
of those for the senate, is
quoted as saying he knew fresh onslaughts
were being planned against
him with the object of bringing on a
debate as to the cabinet's general
policy.
M. Clemenceau said such a debate
would be useless and that he would
refuse to be. a party to it, adding he
would enter into no explanations as
to the future policy of the cabinet,
which would necessarily go out of office
with him.
FLYING PATROL
mi MCVIOAIJ I ILIC
f un mcAiuHii Line
Practically Whole Air Force of
Army Concentrated
There.
"Washington?Concentration of prac
tically all available army flying personnel
in this country at the air stations
along the Southern border was
announced by the War Department,
under "recommendation of the director
of the air service."
Four surveillance squadrons, five
purscgit, two observation and five
. bo groups are temporarily asitfrtgned
to the Mexican line with sta'tons
at Kelly Scott and Ellington
fields and intermediate points along
the international lino. The trained j
personal comprising these groups
and the headquarters now being organized
at Kelly Field is 860 officers
and 3,124 enlisted men.
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HAS BIG PICNIC.
Friday of this week, October 17th,
will be a big day for Aynor. Chief
among the attractions is a big picnic.
T?r>v V W. Hook, nrcsiding Elder <,f
Marion Pisrtiet and other speakers
will across the people of that section
on live, subjects of great interest to
Aynor people just now.
The business men of Aynor, as weii
as t.hc general public of that section
of the county, aro behind this great
occc den and will make it productive
of remits in the upbuilding of Aynor.
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NEEDS A DEPUTY
AND MORE PAY
The business in the office of Sheriff
of Horry County has greatly increased
durincr the last several vp?r?:
and this increase has been to such an
extent that one man cannot keep up
with it and stay in the office. Sheriff
Lewis is one of the hardest worked
men in Horry County, and the reason
that there is more for him to do than
one man ought to be required to do.
The interest of the people requires
I that the sheriff should be in his office
a great deal of the time in order
to attend to business that the people
might have there from day to day.
But how is the sheriff to stay in his
office when the business of seiving
process keeps him "on the go" all of
his time? It would be best for the
public if the Legislature would provide
for the pay of a good deputy '
sheriff, a man upon whom the sheriff
could depend to go anywhere in
his place and make arrests or serve
papers.
The present pay of the Horry Coun
ty sheriff is entirely inadequate for
the work there is to do, let alone the
extra pay of a deputy sheriff.
NEW MOVE C0MES~
IN PROHIBITION
"Washington.?Another move to end
war time prohibition was made today
in the house of representatives. At
the same timo word went out from
the White House that Attorney General
Palmer would render an opinion
on the constitutionality of recently
I enacted prohibition enforcement leg
isiauon before it was placed before
President Wilson for action.
The move in the house was made by
Representative John W. Rainey, Dom
ocrat, Illinois, and took the form of a
resolution which would declare it the
sense of congress that the conditions
necessary to the termination of the
war time prohibition act now existing.
Passage of this resolution, it j
was said, would give the president
authority to annul the law by declaring
demobilization of the army
completed. The resolution wc?nt over
under the rules and there was no indication
when it might be brought up.
I /Decision of White House officials t.)
have the attorney general pass on the
bill covering both war time and con- j
stitutional enforcement, enactment of
which was completed yesterday by
congress, was in anticipation of attacks
on its cnnstitutionalit.t, based
principally upon the right of congress
to define intoxicating beverages.
Since the war time prohibition act
went into effect, brewers have been
manufacturing 2.75 per cent, beer a-nd
actions begun by the government to
have the sale of such beer declared
illegal have resulted in appeals which
now are pending in the supreme
court.
If the war time enforcement legislation
goes into effect?and it will
automatically become a aw within ten
days after it is sent to tre Whito
House linlesQ vnfrwvl Iw I
i -?the sale of 2.75 per cent, beer would
I be illegal. As a consequence government
agencies which could be charged
with the enforcement of the law
are prepariny to wage an active campaign
against violators.
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Get legal blanks at the Herald
office.
STATE FOOTS LIST
IN NUMBER DEATHS
South Carolina foots the list with
regard to the number of deaths from
diptheria per 100,000 population for
the first six months of 1919, according
to statistics received by Dr. James
A. Hayne, state health officer.
In this state reports sent in show
that during the first six months of
iyiy eignt deatns occurred rrom this
disease, which is at the rate of .97
per J 00,000 of population.
In Mississippi for the same length
of time the number of deaths have
been 114 from diptheria, which is a
rate of 3.4 per 100,000 population.
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CONWAY, S. C, THURSDAY
OUR COUNTY JAIL
IS WELL MANAGED
State Board of Charities and
Corrections Makes Report
of Visit to Jail.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections recently sent a representative
to examine the Horry County
Jail, and the following report is the
result, showing up well for the present
good management of the county
jail:
Mr. W. J. Johnson, jailor. Visited
Sept. i3, 1919, by Assistant Secretary,
Broyles. Prisoners, 4 negro males, 2
negro females serving sentences, and
1 white boy, a Federal prisoner serving
a sentence.
The score earned by Hie Horry jail
has increased this year, due to repairs
to the plastering in the building
and to the roof. Last summer the
plastering was in very bad condition,
chiefly caused by the leak. We commend
the Commissioners for looking
after their plant in these items.
The Horry jail is a well managed
institution, the jailor being careful
to keep the place clean and sanitary.
The building offers rather poor facilities
for classification of prisoners,
but the jailor uses such facilities as
he has intelligently.
The chief need is for iron wall
bunks or cots in the cells. Canvas
hammocks have been used formerly
but most of them have been torn tc
pieces or have been worn out. We dc
not recommend the purchase of additional
hammocks, because the>
curve in such a manner as to compel
me prisoner using them to lie flat on
his back which is not the best way ol
sleeping. Probably the best type o1
bed for this plant would be heav>
i iron cots, double decked to increase
the capacity of the cells. They would
cost less than the iron wall bunk
When such cots are gotten, pud*
should be provided for mattresses and
the pads covered with heavy canvas
j slips which can be removed and wash
| ed when soiled. In addition to be
ing easily cleaned these canvas covers
will more than pay for themselves
in the saving on wear on the pads
themselves. We repeat our recommendation
of last year that a good
sink bo installed in the kitchen.
STATE HOARD OK CHARITIES
AND CORRECTIONS,
G. Croft Williams, Secretary.
MARION WILL NOT
PAY HER PART
The County Commissioners of Malion
County held a meeting on October
7th, and decided that they would
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??vv VUUV1 iuuic viu;ij Bliai'C VI UIU!-Ililll
towards the erection of a concrete
and steel bridge, across the Little Pee
Dee River at Galivants Ferry between
the two counties; but decided
that owing- to a lack of appropriations
by the Legislature, Marion
County would have to be content with
the wooden bridge which was decided
upon last Spring, and the work will
go ahead towards the erection of a
wooden draw bridge at Galivants
Ferry.
It is explained that Horry County
since the wooden bridge was decided
upon last spring, changed opinions
about materials, and offered to bear
one-half of the expense of a bridge to
be erected of steel and concrete; and
the Board here communicated with
the Marion Board of Commissioners
to try to get them to change their
plans also; but according to last reports
from Marion County some days
ago, there is no chance to change the
plans from wood to steel.
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Henry Buck was in Conway on legal
business last Tuesday.
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FOR TAKING NETTING.
Joss Holden was arrested recently
by constable H. N. Sessions, under a
warrant sworn out by D. C. Johnson
charging the theft of a lot of netting
worth about the sum of $165.00. The
defendant alleges that he claimed a
partnership interest in this material.
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r, OCTOBER 16, 1919.
CASES FIXED FOR
TRIAL NEXT WEEK
Court of Common Pleas to Convene
Here Next Monday,
October 20th
The Conway bar called a meeting
I luf ? ? ' i
.?..v mm mug av mo onioc ot
Hon. R. B. Scarborough and arranged
the following roster of cases for trial
in the order as stated:
Motnday.
Melson vs. Conway Lumber Company.
Moid ton vs. Conw ay Lumber Company.
Rollinson vs. Conway Lumber Company.
Holliday vs. Jordan.
Olia Porter vs. G. J. Holliday.
Harrelson vs. Dawsey.
Tuesday.
J. T. Mishoe vs. Trexlcr Lumber
, Company.
Barnhill vs. Bamhill.
Ward vs. Palmetto Grocery Company.
I Stanley vs. Thompson.
I Connor vs. Singleton.
McKcnzie vs. Stanley.
Wednesday.
, Ca-iro Milling Company vs. A. T.
i Collins Co.
Core v . Kailihan.
I Lewis G. I., vs. Lewis, W. R.
> Fowler vs. Woodward.
, Alexander vs. Montgomery Lumber
? Company.
? Allsbrook Bros. vs. Edge.
Allen vs. McNair.
Thursday.
1 W. L. Mi shoe vs. A. C. L. R. R. Co
* Stackhouse vs. Floyd.
Ford vs. Williams.
^ Bullard vs. Mills.
' Benton vs. Fowler. '
Rosco Thompson vs. W. P. Smith.
' Powell Supply Co. vs. McKenzic*.
Buckley Bros., vs W. R. Lewis.
5 Buckley Bros. vs. Conway Coca'
Cola Bottling- Co.
13. M. Mishoe vs. Y. M. Martin.
1 J. Albert Hardee vs. Avant.
Allen vs. Gasque.
Smith vs. Rabon.
> R. E. L. Graham vs. A. E. S. Grain1
ger, et al.
Rena Bailey vs. D. C. Duncan, et al,
' John Powell vs. Laura Powell, et a!
Friday.
Equity matters.
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T. L. Hooks, of Nichols, was in Con
way one day this week on business.
'AMERICAN SUGAR
IN FOREIGN HANDS
Senators Sav That Bici Stocks
Have Been Sent
Abroad.
Washington.?The sugar shortage
i was disvussed again today in the
Senate. Senator Smoot, Republican,
Utah, said he had been informed
that the entire Hawaiian sugar crop
of about 600,000 tons, has been purchased
by Japanese interests and thus
taken away from American markets.
Senator Sherman, Republican,, Illinois,
declared that 27,000,000 pounds
of sugar originally purchased by the
government for the use of the* army
was to be sold abroad, while Senator
Pomerene, Democrat, Ohio, read a let
ter from tho sugar equalization board
explaining that under an agreement
with foreign governments Cuban sugar
was being brought to the United
States to be. reiineii uefui't: slup
ped abroad.
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Navy Has Big Stock.
Norfolk. Va.?Because of the sugar
famine here local authorities today
urgently requested Secretary of the
Navy Daniels to authorize the immediate
release for nublic use of unit
of tho million pounds of su^ar report
od stored at the Hampton Roads naval
base.
Officials here are hopeful of securing
at least 100,000 pounds of the
navy's vast stock.
raid.
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REPORT ON HORRY i
COUNTY CHAINSANG
Mr. J. IT. Chestnut, foreman. Vis
I
ited September 5th, 1919, by Assistant
Secretary, Broyles. Camp locatI
eel about three miles from Conway.
I Fifteen negro convicts present, of
J whom 5 were trusties.
! The score of the Horry chaingong
I has increased this year IDG points,
I due to many improvements in manage
ment. The absence ot white men
from the gang, raises the score, because
last year the whites and in -j
groes were not properly separate.! |
while at work as is definitely requir-j
led by the State law. Most of the in-1
I crease arises, however, from caie oil
the camp by the new foreman, ana 1
1 we commend him heaitily for his elforts
along this line. It is very in
Icouraging to find such spleiulid cooperation
for our efforts as we reIceive
in Horry.
We desire to commend especially
the careful disposal of sewerage.
I This camp is the first one in South
I Carolina to earn a perfect score under
this subhead of our score sheet.
Mr. Chestnut has had a deep pit dug,
and into this pit the night buckets are
emptied daily. The waste is immediately
covered with earth, and once
I each week, the pit is filled with brush
or trash, oil is added, and the hole is
burned out completely thus destroyI
ino* iinu ??
? 0 j -viuj 5^11110 mat niiiy IIU'K
there. Consequently there are no
flies around the camp. The mules are
kept at a considerable distance from
camp, thus again lessening the fly
trouble. A pump is, put down for
drinking water at each camp site.
We recommend that the Commissioners
have the bunks repaired as
needed in the cage, and that some ad-,
ditional cotton pads be bought the
betiding having run low. The camp
also needs a new stove, and we suggest
the purchase of a new one of the
same type now used.
We recommend that the foreman
give each new prisoner clean blankets
for his bunk when he is committed
which can usuaiiy oo done by requiring
each released prisoner to wash
his bedding thoroughly before allowing
him to leave camp. This will fur
nish a few clean ones on hand most
of the time, to be given to newly committed
men. Although the cook keeps
the kitchen slop bucket inside the
SPi'ornofl pn o'<> if oVinnl/l l... f f
V. v , IV ttllMUUl UU IYVTJ.ll. YI^IIVly
covered over, to prevent it attracting
flies to the kitchen car.
1 STATE HOARD OF CHARITIES
AND CORRECTIONS,
G. Croft Williams. Secretary.
BANKS CAN LEND
MOREON COTTON
The pasage by congress this week
of a bill permitting national banks to
lend 25 per cent of their capital and
surplus to one customer on warehouse
receipts for cotton stored in warehouses
under either state or federal
control is regarded as a great victory
of the American Cotton association by
officers of the latter. Incidentally, it
is claimed by officials of the association
that the first suggestion of this
change in the banking laws came in
the adoption of a resolution by the
South Carolina Cotton association
early last spring. Later the fight was
taken up by the American Cotton association.
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HAS NO ELECTION.
The general election ordered by the 1
r.MMlOTlSYY* CnnU, *..1?
VJVf vi IIVI \71 uv/n til \jai U1 UUl IU I
place in each of the counties of the
6th District for member of congress,
did not come ^ff nrcordinir to schedule.
Several Conway citizens who wanted
to do their duty and vote for the
nominee of the Democratic Forty,
Philip H. Stoll, of Kingstree, failed .
to find any place in Conway last
Tuesday at which the means had
been provided to take their ballot-;.
Whose fault it is that the election
precincts were not provided with the
necessary managers and boxes and ,
tickets, the Herald is unable to say; ,
but it is certain that it was somebody's
neglect. i
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FARMERS ORGANIZING
FOR COTTON HOLDING
American Cotton Association
Removing the Wool Fmm
_ _ WI Will
Farmers' Eyes
OUR S. C. ASSOCIATION
OFFERS OPPORTUNITY
Appeal is Made to All the Farmers
to Come Within the
Fold.
Columbia, Oct. L4.?"The movement
to organize* the cotton growers of the
South is on in full blast," said B. F.
McLcotl, state manager of he South
Carolina Cotton Association today in
an appeal to those people in South
Carolina who have not yet joined the
association to do so. "The American
Cotton Association is removing the
glue from they eyes of every farmer
in the bolt and today they are organizing,
organizing for something
that they have been denied for more
than half a centurv?for ? 1
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just price for cotton, the most difficult
and most expensive product
grown from American soil. They are
organizing for their very freedom.
They are organizing for prosperity
and happiness, something practically
unknown to many of them. They arc?
going about it in a- broad and co^opeiative
manner, willingly, gladly and
enthusiastically. They are being
; given the fullest help by bankers,
newspapers, merchants and professional
men.
"Messages daily arc pouring into
the offices of the American cotton as
sociation telling of the organization
of county after county. The movement
is swooping the belt like a- burn
ing sage field. We hope soon to be
able to report every county in South
Carolina thoroughly organized.
"No doubt the realization on the
part of the gamblers in the cotton future
markets, spinners, spot merchants
and foreigners that the farmer
is waking up, coming into his own,
has been responsible for the more
aggressive demand for the spot article
and the subsequent rise in the*
price of cotton of nearly three cents
a pound in about that many days.
Cotton merchants from all sections
of the belt report the heaviest demand
for cotton in years for this
season of the year. Why ? Because
they realize that the world faces an
unprecedented shortage in cotton and
goods and that unless they hurry it
will all be gone.
"Let me urge the farmers to command
their price or refuse to soil.
The one such way to dictate the price
for your cotton is to organize. The
South Carolina Cotton Association,
division of the American Cotton As
sociation, offers you your opportune
ity."
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AEROPLANES TO COME.
Effort is being made to have some
aeroplanes in Columbia during the
week of the state fair, and it is likely
that some planes will be brought 10
Columbia from Charleston. Should
the machines come to the fair they
will take part in the night attack
which will be staged by opposing
"armies'1 from Camp Jackson, Thursday
night at the fair grounds. Four
tanks, four field pieces and all other
weapons used in the recent great war
in Europe will be brought into play.
This is to be one of the big, spectacular
events of the week.
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ivionutiy aiu'rnoon, uie opening aay
of the fair, the soldiers will have an
athletic meet at the fair grounds., In
this there will be 24 events, some of
which will be Roman riding, one
rider mounted on four horses
abreast. An Indian race of onefourth
mile schedule as well as a
one mile race for officers from the
:amp. The camp authorities are
working industriously to make the
soldier events varied and attractive.