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NEVER NEGLECT DAIRY HEIFERS Matter Considered Too Easy by Some Farmers in Horry WHAT IS THFBEST FEED Good Feeding Will Produce Better Stock for the Stock Raisers Clemson College.?Raising dairy heifers from weaning time until ready to calve is generally considered easy?so easy, in fact, that they are often neglected. Another reason tor neglecting the heifers is due to the fact that they are unproductive. Dairymen should become more farsighted in raising their young stock, for the quality of the future herd depends largely on their breeding and inherited productive capacity, say the - - Tf fVi n Viaifar lfi tliliry n vuc u?n stunted by poor feeding and neglect, she will not become transformed into the kind of animal we want when she calves. She will be lacking in capacity, and as the consumption of roughage is necessary for economical milk production, it will be found that in the end it does not pay to neglect the young stock. The importance of the influence of theration on growth and dairy qualities of cows has been studied extensively by the Missouri Experiment Station. Some heifers in this experiment were fed heavily and some lightly. In almost every case where the heifers were fed heavily it was noticed that they looked from three to six months older than the others at the same age that were fed lightly. It was found that those on the light ration and underfed, showed a strong tendency to reach normal size by continuing to grow for a longer time and mature later; but there is a limit beyond which they will not go. One cause for the marked difference in the size of cows of the same breeding as found in different herds is due partly at least to this factor of the ration when young. This brings up the question of what to feed the heifers to secure best results. During the summer, on good pasture, little if any grain Jg needed if the heifer is at least ten months old; but when pastures are poor or dried up a little grain is necessary. In winter, however, to get the most rapid growtn ,t Js necessary to supply a considerable proportion of the nutrients in the form of concentrates. Where even the best roughafire is fed alone, the growth will not be as much as where grain is fed in addition. | i | All the WA | Real and per H before Janua I FOUR I No. 1 For $300.00 F All and singular that tract of land known as ^ the Isaac McCray land, of lan or Brunson land, contain- . /of ing one hundred (100) ' acres, more or less, in less, Simpson Creek Township, Horry County, ~ountSouth Carolina, and Towns bounded on the north by North the public road leading forme: from Red Bluff, South p>av: ' Carolina, to Pireway, N. C.f on the east by Simp- 'y by son Creek, on the South Charlc by a line commencing at South1 the I. J. Parker line, pranc and running thence his line South-east to Wen- Westv ley Bamhill's line; knowr thence Barnhill's line tract; Westward to run of WQr,i' Todd's Swamp; thenco the said run to the pub- of " lie road. lands. | PER I One tractor engine and boil< M One mortgage on the gas boa n I have also the W. K. Holt tir I will dispose of this property RH W aist- Entirely Out of Style aftergrown i8 on* ot t*e !*tw*t J'aris creations A? -svlii bo aeon, rhe dressnmkera ;rb i.\ylr.K no attention to ^rot^ats th?j k-nftthentnjr of tho skirt, ta renewable ;>V?o that the srown . uito -VNiti'-ont. ts?o sutt^tstfon of a ' ' line. It isn t olone that the W>. * isn't tljcJjt-?thei*?'ii' p.imc At all Analysis of the Kiss. In analyz'ng the psychnphyslologj of the kiss, Professor M U?spine says: "The kiss is the first atiimal mnnlfestatlon of love. The passionate look is nothing hut desire. The handshake <s full of reserve, of constraint, or full of hope. The kiss Is simply another and more exquisite manifestation of the sense of touch than the handshake. A.nd it is from the sense of touch that all other senses are derived." HYMAN-WARD Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Hyman arrived in town last Thursday and are at the home of Mr. Hyman's parents, Mr. i vr n nr? ti ciiiu mis>. d. 1. nyniitii. Mrs. Hynian before her marriage was Miss Blanche Ward, of Little Rock. 1 - o Legal Blanks of the better kind for aale at The Herald office. Will Se remaining pro; RD-BATE sonal. Must b< ry 1, 1923. I TRACTS OF 1 m. t ft % f No. I No. 5 or $400.00 For $1,320 that certain tract an<? s*ngu^ certain piece, par d containing twen- tract of land sitl >) acres, mere or the County of Hoi lying in Horry State of South Ci y, in Conway and being i hip. and bounded wa^ Township wardly by land ?ast s^e 0* the rly owned by W. ^piing road, a Moore, Eastward- tween ,the fiftl lands claimed by s,xth miIe Posts? is R. Scarborough nin* at. a stake wardly by lands of eas* s*de of sa' es Stalvey, and SPrin* road and hardly by lanci ed North by la i as the Rollinsori ^rs* being the South- East b*. land ?1 v>oi-p /v/ iAi \ta Qr Ella Smith, So half of lot No. 95, )jmd of B F omewood Colony and west by | JSprinfr roan. SONALPROPI ' ) V 4J*/ ir, on Dog Bluff Road fotf^ft",000.00 as t "Norman" for $225.00. nher near Loris, just now under optio ' before January. Soe me if you wan [.Wood Attorney-at-Law THE HORBY HK&ALD, 003 MURDERS'DONfe AT HERRIN, ILL. ************************** , 1 The people of the United " * Stages stood horrified at the > t X news of the wholesale murder j \ J done by union miners at Herrin, j c J 111., in the month of last June, jj 2 After a truce had been struck a { * between the striking- miners and** J the strike breakers and minejj * owners, and the strike breakers jt t and owners had come out of the J J X mines, the latter were driven,t * enmass against a barbed wire" S fence and told to run for their Jj * lives. Only a few escaped these * leaden hail of bullets from theJJ jje pistols and rifles of the union* ists. Read how it all took place j ? and what lead to this wholesale J * murder in this article?Editor. * . ************************* In a wooded grove midway between the mining towns of Herrin and Marion, in Williamson County, 111., a crime was committed on the morning of Thursday, June 22, that stirred the indignation and aroused he horror of America as had not been done since the stories of war ceased coming across the ocean. Nearly fifty men?the exact num-^ ber is uncertain?who shortly before had been taken out under a flag of truce from the strip mine of the Southern Illinois Coal Campany, a few miles away and who had been nromised that they would be furnished safe escort to the railroad tation whence they could entrain for their homes, were lined up in front of a barbed wire fence, and hemmed in by union miners in military formation. Scarcely before a plea of mercy could be made, shotguns, rifles and revolvers in the hands of 500 men arrayed in a semi-circle about the miserable group, poured a storm of lead into the bodies of the captives. Many fell at the first volley. Some got through the fence only to be shot down in flight. Others escaped the fusillade to fall victims ' later to a savage man hunt that harried the fugitives for hours through the surrounding countryside. Some of the multilated, the dying were kicked and beaten, the captured were tortured and then slain. When the ghastly woric was over, nieteen of those who were -working in the mine were dead, several died later of the 34 wounded and a number are still unaccounted for. Sucli was the outrage committed in a union district upon men who were merely exercising the universal law of the right to labor and who had been employed by William J. Lester, president of the coal company, to if 1 >erty of 0 c?. e disposed of U LAND No. 4 I .00 For $6,000.00 U ir that " . All that certain tract U eel or late in ^an<^ in said County n *ry and and State known as tho U arolina, Hammond and Red fl n Con- Bluff lands, containing U on the one thousand acres M i Cool * M ind be- more or ^ess? boundea I l ana North by the Conway M begin- and Pireway road; Ea&t I on the jjy ^he Todd and Simp n ^ son Swamps and Wacca- I bound- B nds of maw River? Soucn by M Spivey, lands of T. W. Livings- I f Mr? ton and lands of T. J. M uth b> Cox, and West by the I Moore. H Coo1. Conway and Pireway N road. I iRTY | it "tands. I n, hut it may be open later. H ward >rif u X SWAY, 8. 0, NOV. 9, 1922 I operate the strip mine from which tne members of the United Mine Workers of America had walked out. An Attack on Government This organized murder of American c tizens was the result of the determination of a branch of the United Mine Workers of America to maintain as an absolute stronghold the supremacy of the Miners' Union in Willamson County over and above the law of the Nation. It was anarchy; it was the placing of the aim of the union as the i supreme law of Williamson County {It was a vicious attack upon the . fundamental principles upon which ' our Government was founded. The right of any American to do his? work, a basic principle of our Constitution which guarantees liberty and protection is an issue, far above any question between the United Mine Workers and operators, and it concerns not only the coal miners and coal operators, but every man and woman in this country. It concerns every industry, every home. What does this uprising mean** It is the concern of every citizen of the land. Every American must view this crime with the utmost concern, for the issue involves the very foundations of our Government. What happened in Williamson County may happen in almost any community i\\ the country, if every effort is not put forth to bring the assins to justice. Indeed, it was the boast of the organized band who committed this murder that in Williamson County, at least, America would be shown that the law of the union was supreme . These murders grew out of what has every appearance?from the bare facts collected?of a well-organized conspiracy to stop the operation of the strip mine. The investigation indicates that the conspiracy was developed over a period of four or five days during which the sentiment of the members of the mine workers' union in William- 1 son County was intesively developed against the strip mine workers. Plans for attack were carefully laid. Then the assault began. This assault *was interrupted by a truce arranged in accordance with the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, and the County officials acquiesced, as did the owner: of the mine, who agreed that no | attempt would be made to reopen % 3 me mine during tne strike. The facts - relating to the whole affair have been assembled here in order to give a picture of the situation in Williamson County and a comprehensive story of what happened. A UNION STRONGHOLD Williamson County 111., which has a population of 61,038, is one of the most strongly unionized centers of , America. Marion, the county seat, has a population of 9,582, and Herrin, a population of 10,986. It is conservatively estimated that 85 per " cent of the residents of the County are miners or connected with them by family ties or otherwise, and reflecting unionized labor sentiment. All business conducted in the County is dependent to a vital degree upon the patronage of the mining element. The mining vote elects or defeats candidates for public office. Many of the public officials holding elective office are miners, have been miners, or are in strong' sympathy, with union labor whose! strength is such that, without question, it is its vote that elects or defeats any candidate for local or county office. The most outstanding local figure in the events leading up to the massacre, is Sheriff Melvin Thaxton, who persistently refused to swear hte deputies or call for the Illinois National Guard, as he was urged to do repeatedly by Col. S. N. Hunter, representing Adjutant General Carlo Black, of Illinois, for three days before the surrender and butchery of the strip miners. Colonel Hunter had arrived in Marion on June 18th, to keen an eve on the situation. The sheriff is an ex-miner and was elected by the miningvote, and is now a candidate for county treasurer. There is ample testimony that Sheriff Thaxton is physically not a coward. In times past he has been cooi, courageous ana vigilant in supporting the law. Singlehanded he stopped thirteen prisoners in a iail-breaking attempt two years ago. He has to his credit successful intervention in a number of attempted lynchings. The Judge and the Mob. County Judge Hartwell draws a picture of the mob which shows its calibre when met by a determined spirit. A crowd went to the Judge's home. They demanded that he deliver over to them his collection of firearms. He dared the young fellows to come and get them, at the same time directing his wife to load as he fired. The mob faded away. Prominent also in the three days preceding the attack on the mine was State Senator William J. Sneed, president of the Sub-District of the United Mine Workers of America?a resident of Herrin. He appears to be the leading politician of the County, insofar as the labor vote is concerned. me lanor vote which in a previous election had been led by Sneed in the interests of another political faction, was reversed under Sneed's control and ''support thrown to Len Small, successful candidate for governor. The State's Attorney of Williamson County is Delos L. Duty, whose family has been slightly indentifled ?vith mining interests. Duty, who was elected by miner's votes, is on record as. expressing very serious doubt of his ability to convict mob conspirators, leaders and members of the mob. "T^get a jury imbued with the ideas of the labor unions , will be impossible, I believe," he CRONE'S BALEFU CAUSES Greenwood Negro Has Series counter With "Evil Eye." Cannot Shake % Greenwood, Nov. 1.?Swearing in terror that a cross-eyed crone in Richland county over a year ago had cast a "hoodoo' ispell over him, Tom Javers, negro transfer driver, last night accidentally backed his car through a $90 plate glass win- j dow, and once more cut a notch on hii tally stick of misfortune. The negro asserts that nothing but misfortune has been his lot since the baleful glance of the cross-eyed hoodoo women in Richland County. Returning through Columbia with a party of Greenwood fishermen, he passed the women in the back of a wagon. She gave him a piercing look and since that, Javers declares, His Misfortune. He has had his house to burn from over his head and barely escaped with his life, he has been said, and added, "the killing was unhuman beyond words." Brundage Infers Conspiracy. William McGowen, of Marion, the Coroner of Williamson County, was a union miner and is admittedly n union sympathizer. The principal business of William son County is digging coal from deep mines, of which there are thirty-two There are also four strip mines where huge shovels scrape the earth from thick veins of coal which run near the surface. Other shovels ther. lift this coal into cars. It was against the strip mine, owned by the Southern Illinois Coal Company, of which William J. Lester is president, that members of the United Miiu* Workers of America directed an attack. As an operator, Mr. Lester played a lone hand and was not a member of any coal operator's as sociation. Strip Shovels Continue to Work. When the deep mines were closed by the U. M. W. of A. strike April 1st, last, the stripping shovel of tin I/ester mine did not cadcp nn#?rn tions. The stripping- shovel wa.kept at work, meantime, and no objection was made by the strikers as long" as no attempt to mine coal wamade. Men manning this shovel, o rather the crews operating it, wer< members of the Steam Shovel Men': Union, an organization not affil iated with the American Federatioi of Labor. About June 10th, Lester made pre parations actually to dig and load coal and additional men, some oi whom were rated as track layers and others as guards, were put on the property. This development was instantly resented by the union miners and the question arose as to the status of the men employed at the strip mine. There was also th* openly voiced feeling of resentment that armed guards were on duty at these strip mines. As early as June 13th, it bacame manifest that a plot against the mine was brewing. Robert Tracy, I of Chicago, a locomotive engineer, reported to the mine for duty, and in examining the firebox of the engine, found ten sticks of dynamite and two cans of powder therein. Two days later, says Tracy, picketing of the mine began. The sheriff and state's attorney and U. M. W. of A. officials protested to Mr. Lester and his superintendent, C. K. McDowell, against the employment of these armed guards; said that they were trespassing on public property and holding up traffic. The strip mine people were told that they were court?ng destruction, if they continued to dig coal. There is on record the statement that McDowell declared 11 i : e i.. il, ? uiut ii any yuurus were uuusiue tnu mine boundary they were disobeying his instructions. It was also said by some who conferred with him that he promised to disarm the guards, but this is not verified. There was talk of boycotting stores which were supplying the men with provisions, and the union miners also were sent t*> watch railroad stations where additional workmen for the strip mine might arrive. Colonel Hunter notes that two of these workers, detraining at Marion, were intercepted by union miners and ordered away, and did leave. The Telegram From Lewis ml .1? it. mere was discussion among uie strikers as to the status of the strip mine worker. On June 18th, Senator Sneed wired John L. Lewis, International President of the U. M. W. of A., asking for an official ruling on the status of the strip mine workers. Sneed received the following reply: William J. Sneed, Pres. Sub-District 10 District 12, U. M. W. of A. Your wire of eighteenth, Steam Shovel Men's Union was suspended from affiliation with American Federation of Labor some years ago. It was a|so ordered suspended from the mining department of *he American Federation of Labor at the Atlantic City convention. We now find i that this outlaw organization if permitting its members to act as strike breakers at numerous strij pits in Ohio. This organization i.furnishing steam shovel engineers tc work under armed guards with strike breakers. It is not true that an> form of agreement exists by anc between this organization and th< mining department or any othei branch of the American Federatior of Labor permitting them to worl under such circumstances. We have LGLANCES "HOODOO" SPELL of Misfortunes Following EnIs Helpless in His Terror- Off "Conjure." in the toils of the law on .sundry charges, he has paid lines and haA seen the .Inside of the jail, he has had domestic trouble, he sent his cork leg to Atlanta for repairs and had it delayed in the mails to hia great inconvenience, his automobiie tires have exploded without provocation, his taxi has stopped at pnopportune times for no apparent reason, lie has lost money 'and has been unable to find lit, and now he has to face li hill for damages for breaking $90 worth of plate glass and he has not the wherewithal to pay. Javers is helpless in his terror; he has tried to find the hag wh<\ cast the spell but she has dropped into nowhere, it seems. Like ar> avenging Nemesis, the ill fortune ot Javers pursues him, *and he can only shudder and turn ashen-red. HOPES FAILING, NEEDING MONEY Section Held Out as Great But It {Needs Capital \ REASON F0R~ FAILURES Should Bend Every Energy to Induce Capital to Invest in uurnisning industries The section of South Carolina known as Horry County has attracted some attention within the last five or six years as being; a coming place. It has been held out to young _ men just starting out in life ta some particular profession, as besome partciular profession, as being a good place .where they might locate and gradually grow into successful men in the midst of a territory which is sure to become rich and full of opportunity. With this very thing in view many people have bought lands in the county with the impression that whereas the soil was cheap when they got their deeds, that the price would not remain cheap but would gradually rise in Vklue as the great development of the section got under way and they would become rich by reason of the pro.fits made on these lands. I In other cases young men have located and are doing the best they can to make what progress would be expected of them. While we do indeed live in a great section of the State, we must remember that it is a section when* progress and improvement to some extent have lagged behind for many, many years, while other parts of the State made great strides by reason of having the capital and the energy to appiy it that we did not seem to have, or for a long time want. In holding out our section in this way the \praise of it - as a land of opportunity should .have been coupled with a statement that along with all the rest we needed capital with which to establish ourselves as a great and '.growing section of South Carolina. I The truth js that the money has not been here to do the things., that should have been done. Or, if the money was here, it has not been spent along the right lines to help build our county and town as a great commercial and industrial cento*. We have rested idly by while other towns took the plum:*, that we needed to grow and ripen here. If we had any money we kept it concealed or invested in too mucn land, while neglecting to put out enough of it in the establishment of industries that would give employment to people. This is why we are prepared to say that the place has been a disappointment to many. If we could induce capital to invest here in the right kind of enterprises we could overcome the disappointments in a very short time. We should bend our energies to that end from this time on. We need things that will cause people who need work to do to come here to live and enjoy regular employment. The things we have are -good enough so far as they go. The trouble is that there is not enough of them. There must be more if ^e are to amount to as much as we thought we would and as much others thought we would. through representatives, officially taken this nuestinn un with t.h<* nf ficers of the Steam Shovel Men\* Union and have failed to secure any satisfaction. Representatives of our organization are justified in treating this crowd as an outlaw organization t and in viewing its members in the same light as they do any other common strike breakers. I (Signed) JOHN L. LEWIS, i Published in Local Press, i On Tuesday, June 20th, this tele> gram was printed in the Marion ? Daily Republican as that paper\s > leading article. It was given simii lar treatment the same day in the r Herrin Journal. There is every real son to believe that the contents of J this telegram became known to / r practically all of the union miner* / j i and their sympathizers over the c whole coal field on Tuesday of , (Continued Next Week.)