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Page No. 4 The Horry Herald CONWAY, S. C. Entered at the Post Office at Conway, S. C.? as second class Mail Matter. H. H. WOODWARD, Editor. Published Every Thursday Morning by Conway Publishing Company. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Copy, One Year $1.50 One Copy, Six Months 1.00 One Copy, Three Months 75 TELEPHONE 21. Make all Checks or Drafts payable to The Horry Herald or H. H. Woodward, Conway, South Carolina. THURSDAY MAR. 22, 1923 rtWMVVS\%V\VWV.VAVVVV.%%V.V.V.%W.V.S\W.V.W.V I HORRY HERALDING X^WAV%VSV.W/A%V.W.V\W.V.WA*.V%V.W.VWiV/.%V The writer of any unsigned note, or letter either, is a coward. o Virtue once lost is always lost when applied to certain things in this life. A \J A man who is ashamed to sign his name to what he writes ought not write it. o We want to see the Horry farmers win a complete victory over the boll weevils. 1 f - o Things are plain to the mental eyes which cannot be observed by the physical eyes. o Kindness and cooperation often count for more than brute stenrgth can possibly accomplish. o Lawlessness must be stamped out in several dark corners. It is being done. People are tired of it. o Ag the tobacco and cotton associations increase in membership, they will irrow stronger and isttrnnoror. o A man or woman may reform but they cannot replace the feeling they once had of never having gone wrong. o Shad were plentiful fifteen or twenty years ago. They are scarcp now because they are not allowed time to hatch and grow. o Every witness in the court is sworn to tell the truth and . nothing but the truth, but what are we going to do with the man who does not know how to tell the truth? o Many men oppose the prohibition law because they do not be lieve in its principles. Still if it is the law of the land it must be obeyed by every good citizen and that is the reason why whiskey stillers had better beware. o One of the ugliest things that came out at the recent term of the criminal court was the case of shooting up the home of a widow. The .jury convicted the parties and they were sentenced. May it be a lesson to others. The next offense might not get off with a hundred dollars fine. Indeed it ought not. o There is profit to be made from readincr the news in the Hnilv and weekly papers of this country. The profit, however, is only to those who know ?how to use the knowledge that may be obtained in this way?knowledge that is concerned with now and not with times that have gone into the past. o V.VV.W.WdWJV.VAV .W.W.WMV.V.W.V.W.V. ; MAKING THINGS INCONVENIENT J In the course of his remarks in passing one of the sentences during court week, Judge Townsend said that the purpose of punishment is to make things hard for the one to be corrected, and that it. cannot be fixed so as to avoid inconvenience to the defendant. It was after the sentence had been imposed on Jim Gibson, Ossie Horn and Emory Hayes, when the attorneys moved to put off the sentences until Gibson and Hayes could make a tobacco crop and get the money with which to pay their fines of one hundred dollars each. It had been stated that Gibson had a houseful of little children and was poor with only a tenant farm to work on which belonged to another, and that he could not possibly raise the cash to keep out of the chain gang. The court, out of sympathy, no doubt, in view of the defendant's condition nnJ Uin ? ' --- oim ino puur uvue cnnaren ana blameless wife, said that in Gibson's case the sentence would be suspended until November 1st, Then the same thing was asked for Emory Hayes and in this the court refused, making the remark that we have just referred to. The court is right in this idea. Punishment is not punishment unless it makes trouble and inconvenience for those who are to be punished. Its purpose is to deter others from getting it into their heads that they can violate the law and then manage to make things easy in the paying of the penalty. If a man could violate the law and then take his own good time about paying the fine or serving the sentence of hard labor, every man would do just as he pleases and we would have anarchy in the truf sense of the term.v This draws attention to the subject of the State penitentiary. There seehis to be a sentiment growing in some quarters to snake things better and better, every day, and in every way, with THE HOBBY HERALD, OONWAY, 8, O, MAR 32, 1923 ?agBSBgggW^?f?i?m?f??? ! those who have;violated the laws and gone to do their time in the State pen. Just why some people in high places are evidently tdking this view of. the matter, we cannot explain. We have read the reports of Superintendent Sanders, and his answer to somebody in the Senate when it was said that his explanation sent to the Senate in written form was an insult to that body. We see good reason in all of the arguments made by the Superintendent. It is absolutely necessary to enforce the rules and regulations of a prison in some way. The prisoners must know that they must obey or punishment will follow swift and strong. They are a set of criminals of the worst sort, and this is a self-evident fact to anybody. Then why is it that some men would lighten the burden that they diave placed on their shoulders by their ownxunlawful acts? When punishment fails to punish then crime will increase even over what it is now said to be in all sections of this land. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT TO BLAME IN PART FOR HIGH PRICE ON SUGAR Some of the responsibility for the present high prices of sugar 1 in all parts of the country is being imputed to the Department 1 of Commerce, which, in the face of protests, issued an announcement that there would be a relative shortage in the supply for 1923, thus giying stock-jobbers and profiteers an opportunity to gpuge consumers for about $200,000,000. Sugar is now selling at retail for 9 and 10 cents a pound, with a prospect that it will go higher. It is believed that there will J be no decrease in the price through the summer and the preserving season. The American housewife will have to pay dearly for the sugar that she uses for the next half year, it is predicted. The heading on the bulletin issued by the Department of Commerce asserted that "Production (of sugar) for 1923 only 125,000 tons higher than last year. Consumntion needs eatimAt ed at 725,000 tons above production." In the body of the bulletin there appeared statements that there was only a small "carry-over" in Cuba and a decrease in the production of cane and beet sugar in this country. Frank C. Lowry, of the firm of E. Atkins & Company, New York, learned of the Commerce Department's intention to "release" the "bullish" bulletin and wrote to Secretary Hoover ask125,000 tons higher than last year. Consumption needs be estimating him to withhold it, explaining that it would bring about "a hectic situation from which consumers, manufacturers and other sugar interests would later suffer." Notwithstanding this protest, which the sequel has justified, the Department of Commerce issued its bulletin. The wild orgy of speculation and manipulation began and prices flew upward until millions had been mulcted from the public. I The Republican tariff of 1.7648 cents a pound on Cuban sugar and 2.206 cents a pound on all other imported sugar had previously given the profiteers a chance to advance prices, which they promptly did. * . yr',0 ?o r\ r~"? ??\r-* r-? r ? i ? <* * - -?- ?? - - - ?? ? ? - - - ? U?,fKtA,lA i 1UIN UK I HE DOLLAR Advances in the prices of nearly all commodities have tended to depreciate the dollar compared with its purchasing power in 1913 until it is now worth only about 61 icents. The rise in prices, it is predicted, will continue, due to the tariff and other artificial factors. Farmers and wage-workers are the first and worst sufferers from this depreciation of the dollar, since they can not mark up their product to offset increases in the cost of what they buy. The farmer is finding difficulty in selling his products for prices that cover the cost of production. Wage workers are confronted by a downward tendency of wage scales. The big trusts and monopolies which control the manufacture of food, clothing, and other consumers' commodities are reaping all the gain from 'the ascent of prices. It is these interests also that are favored by the Republican profiteers' tariff. CURRENT COMMENT No legislator, no reformer, no zealous moralist, will admit that he is intolerant. Yet there is intolerance in this country; intolerance practiced bv cood anH PflrnP5+ mor? or?d ummDn \xrUr\ m ? ^ 0 v -? w. v? ww* v tiivii uiiu If VlllV 1 1 *T AIV/ OA 1 A"" cerely believe that what they think is wrong because they think so, and who, therefore, feel called upon to make the rest of the country believe as they do! An earnest group in Massachusetts is trying to pass a law making any Sunday activity illegal, whether it be bread selling or checker playing. Utah is jailing men who smoke cigarettes in public, v Kansas has long had an anti-cigarette selling law, and now is discussing whether it isn't a crime even to own a cigarette. The New York Assembly is considering a bill to supervise dancing in hotels, and has a civic league which wants legal sanction for certain holds in dancing, with all others made offenses against the law. Kentucky tried to abolish evolution, but was saved by some common-sense legislators, and Texas is working out the mighty problem of whether one scientific doctrine may be taught in the public school and another excluded. A bill has i rv nnn/vrl i-1* ^ CI 1 * ** ^ i v*oocu wic ouum Carolina nouse 01 Representatives prohibiting the playing of pool or billiards at any place at any time. The question of moving picture censorship we have always with us. i Doubtless all this is harmless enough; the "blue law" makes I little headway against the hard common sense of the United States as a whole. Yet the same spirit of intolerance which de clares, because one man finds rolling ivory. balls over a green i cloth a crime, therefore other men should be made to hold the same views, could easily consider that striking a white ball over a net is a crime, or batting a base ball over a grass lot is a crime. The spirit of intolerance, like a fire, can spread rapidly from small beginnings, and also like a fire, its effects are wholly destructive when unconfined. 1 It may be wise to remember that this country was founded because the inhabitants could not stand intolerance of those who, abroad, legislated for the colonies; that certain Pilgrims carved New England from the wilderness because they could not stand the intolerance of religious persecution!?Selected. t BIG STILL IS TAKEN BY MEN Deputy Sheriff H. G. McKagen, and Revenue Officers J. L. Youmans, J. C. Baskins and G. P. Stacy returned last week from a successful raid in the lower Pocataligo swamp, in Sumter county, after a chase after illicit distillers that was full of excitement for them. However, in the end they got a bag of eighty gallon copper still; 600 gallons of mash; six gallons of whiskey and the complete outfit of the whiskey makers, including worm, empty barrels and a case of empty two-quart jars for holding the whiskey as it was made. The officers had expected to search certain houses, but ppon parking their cars they saw two men making off across the fields on muleback. and they followed to and into the swamp. Here they could hear the men going through the bushes ahead of them, and could hear the sound of the still when it banged up against trees and bushes. After a few minutes the men carrying the still opened fire upon the officers, probably to scare them off, it is thought, but the officers returned 4.1 /5 - lit % m% - - wie lire, aunougn tney could not see anyone in the dense swamp. They then heard a heavy splash and could see the water in the stream splash up. The bootleggers had thrown the still and whiskey into the stream and made off. Investigation by the officers, made by wading into the water, showed where the still was hiding and the Gasoline i Get our prices before buy as we are in a position to fi CI kl | tflUAV/ Each day observe the sigi next to town hall, for price* 0 Free Air and Wat > PEOPLES FILL W. A. Stilie) 3|l|23-4t m SED New 111 DETROIT ipi At the new low Sedan represen ue than has ev< It provides enc fort in a depei product at a i) I ' Your order pk insure reasonal livery. Terms i: BUCK M( Authorize I CONWA % # 0 E-1 1 bag of bottles. full of whiskey was alj so found. These were destroyed with an axe that had been found, and the mash and other equipment also found was destroyed, as it was to% difficult a job to bring them out of the swamp. A hundred pounds of sugar was saved and given to one of the raiding party. . . In a raid Friday, the same officers found and captured one forty-gallon still in Big Bay. Two hundred and fifty gallons of mash was destroyed and the still carried to Sumter. Later on the same day a second still of eighty gallons capacity was found in Bush Branch near Bush Bay, where so many stills have been found. Four barrels of mash were found buried in a trench in the ground, with the complete distilling outfit, all of which was destroyed, except the worm and copper container, which were brought back by the officers. o About 86 per cent of the lumber used in Alaska is cut from the nation al forests, according: to the Forest Service, United States Department of , Agriculture. HOW'S THIS? BALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE) wtll do what we claim for It?rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. 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