The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 22, 1923, Page Page No. 4, Image 4
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The Horry Herald
CONWAY, S. C.
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H. H. WOODWARD, Editor.
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THURSDAY MAR. 22, 1923
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I HORRY HERALDING
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The writer of any unsigned note, or letter either, is a coward.
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Virtue once lost is always lost when applied to certain things
in this life.
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A man who is ashamed to sign his name to what he writes
ought not write it.
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We want to see the Horry farmers win a complete victory
over the boll weevils. 1
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Things are plain to the mental eyes which cannot be observed
by the physical eyes.
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Kindness and cooperation often count for more than brute
stenrgth can possibly accomplish.
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Lawlessness must be stamped out in several dark corners.
It is being done. People are tired of it.
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Ag the tobacco and cotton associations increase in membership,
they will irrow stronger and isttrnnoror.
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A man or woman may reform but they cannot replace the
feeling they once had of never having gone wrong.
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Shad were plentiful fifteen or twenty years ago. They are
scarcp now because they are not allowed time to hatch and grow.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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; 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
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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
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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
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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\
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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used in Alaska is cut from the nation
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Service, United States Department of ,
Agriculture.
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