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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.
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THURSDAY DEO. 21, 192 2
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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.
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W><?lth of #?r*?rv Vir?d is the product
of some form of labor.
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Siprns of fcood feeling so often seen
may be the result of bootleg rum.
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The man who saves is the one to'hc
succeeds and never the man who borrows.
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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
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what can be produced in the world
as in what can be saved. Accumulation
means saving, not producing*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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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meats were signed up and all action*
and prosecutions withdrawn with the
consent of Solicitor Wells.
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.
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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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