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i P?? p<n? The Horry Herald CONWAY, a C. Altered at the Post Office at Conway, 8. CM as second class mail matter. H. H. WOODWARD, Editor. Published Every Thursday Morning by Conway Publishing Co. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: /\ A V. < PA v/fie V/opy, viie i cur ^i.ou One Copy, Six Months 1.0Q One Copy, Three Months 76 TELEPHONE 21. Hake all Checks or Drafts payable to The Horry Herald or H. H. Wood ward, Conway, S. C. THURSDAY DEO. 21, 192 2 ************************** | BUILDING ON SAND | it************************* The private business that is run with borrowed money has but little promise of permanent establishment and success. The business that is founded on . capital that the owner had saved for that purpose has every promise of' lasting through time. Where the merchant depends entirely on credit that he can get to keen his shelves filled with goods, will sooner or later strike a hard season that will force him into the court of bankruptcy: while the retailer who has saved his money has enough to buy the goods he needs and pavs the cash for them, is able to tide himself over th#? ''"ll season that puts others to the wall. Tabor tbo basis of all wealth. The ^3>asis of wealth cannot be fixed on the borrowed money that is used in conducting affairs. The business that finds a steadv growth and permanent -success is the one that is exnanded carefully from the saved up profits of past transactions. Th^re hps come about in this country the habit of voting bonds for almost everv form of public improvement, including the cost of building paw cohonl ho"^es and maintaining the schools in th^'n. Instead of levying a tax and taking care of the proceeds until the" public treasury has the ready money of its own to make the improvements, the neon'e are advised to ro in ^eht for the things that they w;'nt. and thus leave, when they die. a i"?'g debt that their children must pay. This wav of o-ninor in by voting bonds ha? increased to a great extent t^o inro?n<? from such securities i? no* taxable nnder th#? tax laws of th<? rountrv. Men of financial strength *??*e anxious to nut tV>**ir monev into intere<*t-bftarinpr securities that will not he taxed. This makes it pasv to sell such bonds h#?nce the public is taking advantage of the occasion to increase the bonded debt of almost everv communitv to the highest li*v?it. allowed hv the constitution. In this State, at this time, everv town. ev?*rv count v. and almost every school district is under bonds for one purpose or another. The worst idea about it all that it is .all in violation of tb#? TtibliVal iniunction to owe no man. The advantages brought by the funds con<?e as the result of the bi^ debts contracted. This great increase is going on at this Mm#* in face of an ever increasine tax h"vH#?n. Not o?lv do we "have to pav higher taxes than ever before in nvrfov M rvw the increased exnenses ot ru^'^o- tne eovemment. "but there is a *>i?? increase due to the various bond issues that have been made from time to time in the quite recent past. In our opinion this plan of raising money has already irone too far. Alreadv the people of the State are goaninr unde>? the increased burden of taxation. Every year there is some new deficit to meet. Larger and larger vn'H grow the bill until we leave our children nothing except a burden of debt to meet. In the matter of education, it is possible to carrv the matter of expenditure to^ far while reflecting the mntt.cr of encouraging the trrowIner boys'and girls in grubbine- out what thev learn bv their own efforts. I The fir?!t thin"* to do in the matter of education is the awakening of a desire on the prrt of the subject for learning. Once this desire is awakened and made keen enough, there is Tto powpr on earth that cm 1 keen down the gaining of knowledge. On the other hand, useless money can be spent in wavs that will encourage laziness- in the matter of study and create in the boys and girls a tendency to have thinfs drilled into them instead of f"r>spiner these things eagerly without being pushed to it. A political structure built on debt is like a home built on sand. Tt is 'bound to fa11 at some time and the fall may be hard. ^*?*#********************" % ? * HORRY HERALDING \[ * *************************** K"?ry bad cold Ik a case of the - o W><?lth of #?r*?rv Vir?d is the product of some form of labor. ? o Siprns of fcood feeling so often seen may be the result of bootleg rum. O ' The man who saves is the one to'hc succeeds and never the man who borrows. -o Let's make the best possible use ol what we have and not pine over what we have not, and cannot expect tc get. We are not interested so much in TH what can be produced in the world as in what can be saved. Accumulation means saving, not producing* o It is crying shame that the dockets of the federal courts are now so crowded with whiskey cases that there is no time for trying the other kinds. o Horry County entered the spirit of Education Week and carried out the program as well as any county in the State, so far as we can see from the reports of our exchanges. o Harding deplores the fact that the prohibition laws are being violated by the American. Have such laws ever been kept by the people of any country where they were enacted ? Our own experience is no worse than others have had. o The best kind of help that one man can render another is to make it possioie tor tne other to help himseit. One man cannot feed and cloth the world. It is impossible. One man might do something that would enable another to earn his food and clothing". o In the course of time chemistry will learn mankind how to make anything that he wants out of any other thing'that he has, either by itself or in combination with other things that Ve can get. Celluloid is a hard substance that will catch on fire and bunv almost like powder; Chemistry discovered it and produced it and it be*' a useful substance for many things. WASHINGTON COMMENT Reverence for the flag'of our coim* try is the foundation stone on which patriotism is built. A child of six can learn to salute the flag, understand what its bright colors mean, and honor its starry folds, long long before it can understand what America is, or stands for. But you can't teach a child to reverence a Hacr unless you have the flag with which to teach. An American flag should fly over every public school in the land, and be draped nnon the walls of everv school room. It is the least expensive way of teaching patriotism, and the most m* * enective. Not nil municipalities nut patriotism above dollars. We have known instances where civic bodies Kid tr* come to the rescue of schools, and irive the flap the city fathers were too penurious to buv. And now we learn that in the Nation's Capital. the verv sent of Americanism, the home of the Government, more than ha'f of the elementary school rooms have no flnf*? and manv others have flairs in a tattered, torn, an^ dirfv ror>d'Hon. An American public school without a flae:. a church without a Bible, a child without a mother * * nitiful examnles of things that should not j he. B"t them is no wav to irive a I rtViilrl fn tfe tnnfliftl" tmi !?-? ii viiiim i/avi\ vv/ i v?r? iii\?viiv? And if there was ever a Christian "hureh too noov to buy a Bible, we have nev^r board of it. It remains for tbi? tlie vi**V?A?ff Wrtct r?vr?<-*^\<*rf?nc. supposedly most enlightened Government in the world, to deny to the schools of its own Capital Citv, the j few dollars necessary to teach its own i children to honor and reverence its j own flap! I Mr. Voter, has your child a flag in his or ber school? And if the answer is "yes." don't you think your Representative oupht to see that the helplees children of vour Capital City. M'hnsp fathers and mothers have r.o ami ip wh^t is snent rn fhpfv s^^olsfi thou eh they nay for hem. should also have flapx? Six women and fou v men. employees of the Bell Telephone Company. V<nvp iu?f received the Theodore N. Vail mednl for noteworthy public service and heroism on duty. One twer>tv-ye?r-old lad received a prold medal and five hundred dollars in cash: the others received a silver medj'l earh and two hundred and fifty dollars in cash. The men and women who received theae awards did their duty .stirkin?r to their posts during- fire and flood, rescuing others, warning imperiled neople, ravine: threatened property from robbers, rescuing companions f?*om electrocution. etc.. without any | idea of reward. Nor does the medal ' and the ca?h make the heroism any ereat/o4. But it does make it more valuable to the communitv. because example of those who put service above self, who risked their lives unselsfihly. for others, who practiced true brotherhood. fni a _ ? ? i ne teiepnone company honors itself in honoring these, its servants. Tt shows that a great corporation has a heart and an appreciation of the priory that is in that immortal sentence. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend." None of these had to lay down their lives; but they were willGOOD SHOE H (KNOWN A Marioi We rebuild your shoes. Leave youi Horry Ba tua.? .*,:IV -?J.. I a ucy win uc icauy References: An 11-2 t/ i JlflflHMHHHHHBflHHHHHHHHMl fi i ing; they c^tirtted not life against service. ' ' Clubs, organizations, lodges, fraternities, looking for something to do which is not charity and yet is public service, can well consider whether a yearly award of a medal and a cash payment, to that man aiid woman, or those men and women, who have most inspired their fellows by unselfish heroism in their community, is not the answer to the problem they face. ?Contributed. GYPSIES DRIVE IN MOTOR CARS (Continued From Page One.) the clerk who waited on them claims to have been robbed of. the sum of $2.50. As the leader of the troop stopned nt a filline station on Front street to get gasoline, he was overtaken by the two storekeepers who had been robbed .and was placed under nrrrnt "A telephone message to the sheriff stopped five cars at Marion, pnd Cb'^f McRae, who was running down the bandits had a lively chase with two other cars," headed toward Florence They pot over the Pee Dee river and into Florence countv ahead of the officers and succeeded in. eluding them. "These foreigners are l>elieved to have carried on destruction in their tramping of the country, as several acts of their conduct has cpme to liirht shows that they have stolen from whoever thev could and wherever they could. They travelled, as stated, in the best cars made, in their journey from New York to Florida coast." There were news items in other panel's about the same efTect regarding their" unlawful acts in other towns as fhey passed along. These things brine Hack to mind the experience that Conway had with these GyDsies in the early part of 1012, while the camp was located in the vicinity of the town limits beginning in December, 1911, as before stafed. Thoy had come to Conwav from Wilmington, N. C., and to the last named place from somewhere in Arkansas. In Arkansas old Steve John, the chieftain of the tribe, lv*d been charged with the commission of a crime and a requisition had been obtained from the Governor of North Carolina requiring the arrest of old Steve, and his journey back to Arkansas. Steve had a son, another member of the tribe, who went by the name of Gregory John. Old Steve and Gregory borrowed the sum of eleven hundred dollars from Steve Kaslov, another tribsman. with which to put up bond in Arkansas, and on nlrir? rr f U 10 o opai%ia?a 4 i i - " rv i i k viiio cu i tllC n uuic tribe cot free and came to Conway. , But the Johns refused to pav hack to Kaslov the money that he had loaned them for the bond. The Kaslovs employed H. H. Woodward to bring- action against the Johns for the money. The Johns retained Hon. Robt. B. Scarborough to tV?n potion. Out this cnse there grew almost numberless charges and counter charges, both of a civil nature and charging crime. The complaint of Steve Kaslov has been unearthed from the musty records of the past and a copy of it is as follow?: 1st. That on or about the I5*h dav of December A.. D.. 1011. pt Wilmington. in the State of North Carolina, at the reouest of the Defendant. Steven John the Plaintiff. Steven Kaslov. paid over and delivered to ntid Gvpn-or^ John. the su*v? of 0r>e Thousand. Otip Hn^dred dollars gold coin of th^v United States of America, and of the proper floods pr.fi chattel*; of him the said Plaintiff; th.at the said defendnnt. Steven John, was then in trouble with the law. or authorities in said citv. and st-'t'vl to Plaintiff that he had to have said monev for the purpose of n>aVing bond in the sum of $1,000.00. and pavinc expenses to the amount of $100.00. making the tot^ sum needed bv him the aforesaid sum of $1,100.00. and as he v.n.s then in fail, or under arrest, plaintiff could pay the same over to t>e "?aid Gregory John, a son of Defendant, and that said Gregorv John would use the same for said purposes. 2. That in consideration thereof Defendant promised to repay the same to Plaintiff as soon .as he could see or communicate with his son, one Pedro John, then in South Carolina. 3. That Defendant has seen his son, Pedro John, twice since the time of said loan, and thereafter, the Plaintiff demanded payment before the commencement of this action, but the defendant has not repaid the same. Wherefore Plaintiff demands judgment against the Defendant for the sum of One Thousand one Hundred HaI lnro on/1 a o a/ fktQ viintn) uuu i vi lih- vuoko ui action. | On this complaint an attachment YEAR OSPITAL 5 THE BEST) ii? S? 0* We do not cobble them, r shoes with irber Shop for delivery next day. \7 Ana in j vnv ui iviaiiuiit HI I 8. 0, DSC. *1, IMS mrnmaaammaamUammmmmKBeammBBsm was issued and SHfeWff B. J. Sessions seized a number of horses and wagons also a lot of gold and silver ingots which had evidently been melted and poured in some manner to destroy its original appearance. As soon as property would be seized from the one side in the contention, steps would be taken by the others to give bond and get the property back. After this first suit got fairly started, the parties began to steal from one another. This stealing led to another action in the Court of Common Pleas, this time by Frank Kaslov, a brother of Steve Kaslov, and the complaint in this action charged the stealing of a large sum, including a diamond pin, in the following style: "1st. That on or about the 20th day of January, A. D. 1912. the defendants. meting jointlv and together, pnn'ied to plaintiff above nnm*?d. and unlawfully required the plaintiff, ogpther with his brother, Steven Kaslov, to assist them, the said defendants, in obtaining from Reester Juarker. a Russian Gypsy, the mini of Six Hundred Dollars, in payment of a supposed debt, or if the said sum of money could not be obtained from said Russian, then to assist the said defendants in compelling the said Russian, Reestcr Juarker, to give up in marriage his- daughter, a young maiden, to the yc ung son of Steven i T'obn; and refused to enlist his said": brother in said unlawful causes and! purposes. 2. That thereupon the said defendants b#*came angry with the plaintiff. who then had in his tent, near Conway, in the County and State nforesaid, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars in gold and r.ilver money, and a diamond pin worth the sum of $150.00, .and also had in bis keeping ps custodian for his said brother, ni tr i it. * ? oieve ivasiov, tne sum or iMurnt nundred dollars, in gold and silver certificates, for which sum i?l:imiitF is liable and responsible to his said hiother; and forthwith proceeded to try to coerce and freighten the plaintiff, so that he left his said tent; and that during the plaintiff's absence from .said tent or dwelling, the defendants, acting jointly and conspiring together. entered plaintiff's said tent, where plaintiff had all of said money and diamond pin. in hiding, and feloneously took, stole and carried away the said sums of money, and the said pin of the aforesaid value, and then and now, have converted the said money, to wit the sum of $2,500, and the said pin of the value of $l.r>0.00, to their own uses and purposes, under fraudulent and unlawful claim, that they have the right to do so, and thus deprive the plaintiff of his money and property against his will. 3. That, the plaintiff has repeatedly demanded his said money and Jus 1 ? Can make iir i G1 Meadors AUTH West Front Stre ' mmtmrnrnrnmimmmmmmmmmmimmammmmm?mmmmm?mmmmmm wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm property from the Raid defendants, but the defendants refused, and still j refuse, to pay over and deliver the same, unless the plaintiff shall cause or make the Russian, Reester, pay the defendants the sum of $600.00, or otherwise deliver his said daughter to them; and the said defendant still unlawfully hold and convert the said money and property to their own uses and purposes.. Wherefore, Plaintiff demands judgment against'the defendants for the sum of Two Thousand, Seven Hundred, Fifty Dollars, and for the costs of this action." At about the same time as this complaint and the issuing of a warrant of attachment under it, and under which a large amount of gold and golden trinkets were taken by Sheriff Sessions, criminal warranto were served on the parties and they were ; put under bond for trial at the next , term of court. j Some of the old warrants in these Gypsy cases charge the taking of as much as six thousand doll&vs *rom the parties. This shows that tneir unlawful occupations must have netted them a lot of money in the course of their extended travels. There is not space here to detail the particulars of all the actions and cross actions that were filed, the warrants that were issued, the bonds that were given, and the nropositions that were made for settlement. During the first day of the court, at which these actions were to be brought up and tried, the different factions reached an agreement. Monies taken were repaid and agreeMOTHER! 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Instead of having long drawn-out law suits, as they apparently intended to have, the Gypsies left Conway and continued their wanderings, and they are wandering yet. o WILL INCREASE One reason why this section is behird some othe'j tl is country in the matter of education and training, is because this part of the United States was settled since those others were settled. In the course of time the people of the South will more than overreach those, who living in the North and Northeast, now claim to be ahead of us in the matter of education and culture. It takes time to bring: about such things as the*e, for we are obliged to feed and cloth the body. CATARRHAL DEAFNESS ?*5*n caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing. Unless the Inflammation can be reduced, your hearing may be destroyed forever. 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