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?&ge No. 4 The Horry Herald *j CONWAY, S. C. Entered at the Post Office at Conway, S.v C.i 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 MAY 1923 ?-=>? rV.\VVV.%V.%V.V.V.VV.VVVAV\\%W.WAVAVW.V.V.V.' HORRY HERALDING ? AP.V.VAW.W.VWAV.V.V.VV.V.V.V.WANW^W.V.VAV Thp One* will"! I1COC all Itic f mo\r r?/\4- /l/\ n.-. ..t/.1l -^ it v<wvu u>i 1110 viniv IIV;L viu cVO WC1I ?l?> UlllUI'S but he will do much better than if he had thrown his time away. o The young: tobacco crop is worse than a new-born babe when it comes to requiring attention. o What one man will throw away as entirely useless another will pick up and make much out of. It is a difference in the men. o The good tobacco land of Horry County is all in a class by it , self. It is making a good weapon against the boll weevils. Success means rolling stones up hill instead of down. o A little made here and a little made there is what adds up the sum total of the success of any farmer. He cannot depend on any one thing to bring him through. o The planters of this county do the best when they take advantage of all there is to be had in the way of producing bigger and better crops and as great a variety as they can.. o Most farmers do not regard it as good practice to strip fodder $s their fathers did before them. It is better to raise provender some other way. o Amusement is all right when taken in the right way. Carried too far it becomes a menace to good morals. There are extremes in this as in other things for everybody to avoid. o It is true that the rain falls on the just and on the unjust alike. The difference comes in the use of the rain by the two classes of people o #? Going in debt for thincs is onlv an pffnrt in 0 w va j. v* v VV/ A Vl%VI 1 V/VI t CVI ICAVi and take in the profits before the work is done on the job. It usually brings disappointment. o Ambition should go far enough to make every man want to improve the work which he undertakes. Nothing short of the best that is in him should be the aim of every worker, no matter what kind of work he is engaged in just so it is useful and good. o The man who can do us the most good in Legislative Halls is the man who knows the most about what we need. A Legislator should be a man who is keeping up with things as they are and ought to be, and who has studied the situation and kept, up with it from the standpoint of the masses. o ~ The revival meetings held in this section ought to come oftene1 than they do, and they would if the people had the time to de vote to them. These meetings have a powerful influence in turning the people away from the things that are bad and starting them along the highway of good works. o WWWAVAV/.V.V/.\VAV.,.,.V.,.V.VAVAW^AV.V.V.V | TURNING GRASS INTO MONEY ? .According to an editorial contained in oni cr the papers published in this State, last v. eek, grass means wealth anr. ?h3 people have not yet fully realized the fact. At first it is hard for a farmer to see how grass can mean wealth for grass is the bane of the cotton, grain and tobacco fields, from the time that the young plants come through the soil to the time when the crops are laid by in June. On account of th# grass and weeds that have been springing up all over the "face of the PArth ainntx * ' ? _ - xiviaiu o nme, iarmers nave had to keep on the. move from morning until night in order to keep the grass and weeds cleared out and let the good plants grow. It was in another sense that the editor was speaking when he said that grass means wealth. He had in mind the turning of this grass into money by means of hogs, chickens, horses and cattle?live stock with which grass can be made a l)ig producer of wealth on the farm. In this sense it is true that there is "wealth in grass. With it farmers may raise their beef and bacon cheaply and by the aid of some of the cereals to finish up the job they can make good money out of the grass. This is especially important in view of the coming of the weevils into this section of the State. Some planters make plenty of money to keep up a good bank account by planting and selling tobacco and on many farms there is not much thought taken of the weevils. Why should they worry when they do not wish and do not need to plant cot THE HORRY HERALD, CONWAY, S, C. MAY 10, 1923 i ton as a money crop ? But no matter how touch money a farmer can make out of his tobacco crop, no matter if he never has to plant another hill of cotton, he wants to make money out of the stock that he can raise on his farm. His hogs and cattle will increase apd grow while he is asleep. In this there is truly a way to turn grass into money. Free grass ha snothing to do with this matter. It has been tried and found wanting. Although it seemed to .be a great thing that every man might let his cattle and his hogs wander out at large and eat any man's grass they came to, yei this plan, after being tried for long years in this county, was found wanting in that it let the farmers raise stock without looking after them, and hence it was stock that nobody wanted even after it was raised. They could not make any headway at the free grass plan, and so the Legislature, after a hard fight, made the general stock law apply all over the State of South Carolina. The stock law, as a State-wide proposition has now been tried out for two or three years and It is found to be better. I Itlflpr it tho farinQV V?qo V?ir* i-1? ~li 11 1 - v.?v *. C.V *. li ivi iicvo tu give i.u mo otuciv me ct i ten won tnftt it takes to produce fine stock. He can keep them away from other stock that is not the right quality, and in, this way the breed is constantly being improved. For grass to mean wealth it must be grass that is planted in the field. It must be planted like any other crop and used for the fattening of the hogs and the chickens and the cattle. The kind that grows naturally in the woods is alright for pasture uses when the stock is having an off day, but it does not do the work when the finishing time comes to make the stock ready for the market. o NAVY CUTS WAGES On the heels of statements by Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce and Secretary Davis of the Department of l abor that "prosperity" had at last returned, thousands of mechanics employed under the Secretary of the Navy, another of President Itarding's official family, have suffered a considerable reduction in their wages. The officials of the several laboi unions to which these employes belong are complaining against the decrease in yvages at a time when prices of all commodities are kiting skyward. About 2,800 men working in the Navy Yard in Washington, D. C., are affected by the order, which was issued following the submission of a report to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt by the Wage Board of the Nav> Department and its approval by him. Decreases have been made in the wages of six glasses of mechanics. The pay of those in three classes has been raised and the wages of the other classes remain stationary. The cost of living in Washington is higher than that of almostany other city in which navv vards are oneratpH. Tha now cr?aio ^ v ? X ? - ? V/ ??VTV WVMIV | means a decrease in pay for practically all of the employes of the | Washington Navy Yard, since it either diminishes their wages outright or compels them to work for their old hourly rates while food, clothing, fuel, rents, and everything they use is growing dearer. o HONEST MEN An Alaskan Indian was arrested for murder. His captor started with him upon a wearisome journey over snow, which stretched several hundred miles of waste between him and jail. During the journey the captor fell ill; so ill that he was helpless. Whereupon the Indian dragged him the remaining hundred miles to his safety and his imprisonment, or perhaps, death. A short time ago an American Indian, under sentence ot' leath, got a stay of execution that he might arrange his affairs and harvest his crops- for his family. At the end of the reprieve le voluntarily showed up for execution. Nor are these instances unique; there are many such.?Selected. , j STOPS FARM BUILDING Farmers in the middle West have abandoned all their plans for building and improvements this spring owing to the exorbitant prices of materials of all kinds, according to a dispatch published in the Business Section of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. There have been increases in the price of hardware of all kinds and further advances are in prospect. Hardware Age, a trade publication, reports a rise of 10 per cent in braces, tool handles and rules. "Rumors are heard concerning similar advances in >ther mechanics' tools," says the Hardware Age. o MAKING COSTLY WORK One of the most expensive things this county is now having to do is the suppression of illicit traffic in whiskey. The people who un stills contrary to law are making the burden of taxation leavier and heavier as it takes more and more to pay the ex>ense of hunting them; and while they are making taxes higher or thfimsftlvps in Hnincr it thov malfl ii inof oo ... ^...w mm mm v? vxa?? ^ A V VIA A lli*ltV A V J UP W tVO 11MA VI 1 VI l/l 1C rest of the people. o HE WHO STARTS LATE The man who comes out behind in the race for a living is often the man who started late. While others were at the task he >vas taking a little more time for sleep. He wanted to take in a little more pleasure before beginning his hard work. It is the *ame in the raising of crops on the farm. Some of the planters )ut off until too late the doing of things that ought to be done promptly for their own interest. o MAKING LICKS EFFECTIVE When a man starts to cut down a big tree he wants to go at the job with a good sharp axe.' Just so a man must use his brain in any undertaking so as to make his licks at the job count the most while he is at it: The use of both hand and brain is needed to make progress. \ ************************** i ? This is what Jake sez. I am J * his tother brbther. Jake noes & t more than I do, he went to col- t $ ledge. I didn't, but I rite the * * best hand. He does the thinking J J an' I does his riting. If yo say X je so we will rite more. ? * ************************** OLD JAKE SEZ: Some of the people in dis town is to stingy to have an feed a cat, but Mr. Editor ef you go prowlin 'round in somebodys kitchen an dinin rume in the dak, fus thing you no you dun got you finger in one of dem little Victor mous traps whut 'Mr. Taylor sills, an dar you is. MAKE THE HOGS SOME COMFORT Clemson College.?"When the hot summer months come, hops must have an opportunity to make themselves comfortable, otherwise they may reduce rather than gain. The clay on which this is written is a very hot day and I have just returned from the forage lots. Some of these lots did not have sufficient shade and water. Two | of the alrge sows were at the point of heat prostration. They would have diec! in 20 minutes had the herdsman not gotten them into a cool place and turned the water on them." So says Prof. L. V. Starkey, Chief of the Animal Husbandry Division, in discussin; hog comfort. When hogs are suffering from heat prostration, water and shade are the best antidotes. Water may be dashed on the entire body but it is most effective when poured on the head. [teething babies J 1 need food rich In I 1 bone-building materials 1 ]Scott's Emulsion! J provides much-needed ^ J bone-food. I PREVENTS RICKETS jfjj 4 , FOR OVER 40 YEARS HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE has been used successfully In the treatment of Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE consists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces. thus reducing the inflammntlnn Sold by all druggists. P. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio. Iu jaaiiakisLi vm WTxmwmaaR Calco Automati |Turns Sw Into Fai jj i ^~~~^ ! f ^ ; *; ; V v'? v>-\ 'y " 1 . Gate it "absolutely a | water to flow off yo | flood or tide water !9 ? ? your i&na again. One plantation mat Gate converted 1,5( mosquito breeding tive farm land. WRITE DEPT. "cr FOR I The Dixie Culy< ATLANTA u i ,win;x i % 0 * Some people seem to think that if hogs live through the summer, that is all that is necessary. But it i^ not sufficient for a hog to live; it must make economical gains. Hogs suffering; fiom heat will not nvike cheap gains, und this loss is invariably paid lor with feed. The natural shades and ?he fresh clear water streams are probably the most satisfactory, especially if the expense of installing a water system is taken into consideration. A During the hot monhs it is fine if V. some pprmanent pasture is available because the permanent pastures are usually well watered and have abundance of shade. I ? nis 4 one to make the statement that the man who makes a busi |< ness of hog raising must be on the job. 1 In an hour's time on a hot day he may V lose some of his choicest individuals. - - .... ? n , ALFALFA SUCCEEDS UNDER WIDE RANGE OF CONDITIONS Alfalfa is one of the leading forage crops in this country; says the United States Department of Agriculture. It is also widely distributed throughout the world, growing in various soils and meeting the rigors of both heat and cold. It requires considerable moisture, but it does best in a rela, tively dry atmosphere where water i is available for irrigation. In the United States it succeeds at altitudes ranging from below sea level in the Imperial Valley, Calif., to 8,000 feet above sea level in'the mountains of Colorado. Alfalfa withstands hot weather well where the jitmosnhpr#* i? rlrv mnct v* 1 V ? ?* j y iiiv/UV v/i. the damage is done by very cold weather in winter and spring* It is not known to what extent cold alone does damage to the crop, but it is known that low temperatures combined with other winter conditions cause a high mortality among: the plants. Alternate freezing and thawing on poorly drained soils often does much damage by * leaving the plants out of the ground ^4. and breaking the roots. Deep loams with open teubsoils are best, but where other conditions are favorable the crop has a very wide range of adaption. It does not thrive on a soil that has an impervious subsoil, hardpan, or bedrock near the surface. However, it has been known to do well on soils with limestone ledges j 18 inches below the surface. Good sur- J face and underdrainage are necessary. * During the growing season complete submergence for 24 to 48 hours may do much injury, but when the plants are dormant they may remain under water several days without danger. The crop seldom succeeds where the water table comes close to the surface, ^ especially if it fluctuates considerably. o It pays farmers to plant their crops m i ' *< in ine koii ana not in tne nioon. * * * Let the Horry Herald do it, ^ After Every Meal WRtCLEYS, I Top off each meal with a bit of I sweet fn the form I of WRIGLEY'S. I It satisfies the # sweet tooth and m aids digestion. u Pleasure and combined. T1 c Drainage Gate 1 amp Latid f 4} rm Land '# . " < y ' V I utomatic, permitting { ur land but prevents from backing up on I ftU.I. - ? ww m inai n v^aico | )0 acres of -vorthless 4 swamp into produc* * n ' L SPECIAL LITERATURE [ srt & Metal Co. *w GEORGIA 8 iKiTJI' iM i!l !! I \ d .'Iv hi ,1 II. JU. I , || |3TTT^ | .