The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 12, 1923, Page Page No. 8, Image 8
Page No. 8
WRITERS OF
FALSE ITEMS
Would Bring Embarrassment I
to Their Neighbors if
They Could
ONE RECENT INSTANCE I
Such Writers May do it Once 3
But May Never
Again
It appears that a writer sent in for
publication #weok before last an item v
that is said to be absolutely false. \
The Herald invites the bringing:
and sending1 of news items to its office.
They come in by hand and by 1
mail every week. Now and then there 1
is some man or woman who evidently !
wants to get off a joke on either the '
paper or on some neighbor. When '
the H^raM knows this or suspects it, '
there is not a line of the objectionable 1
stuff that ever goes into the columns c
cf reading matter.
Tt is often impossible to discover the j
imposition and an item will get slip- ,
ped in to the delight of the person /
wno nxea it up. it is not otten, out
now and then it may happen.
Such thing's makes it embarrassing
for the paper and every man connected
with it. The paper wishes to pub-( <
lish the truth and nothing but the ]
truth. When the paper has unbounded
confidence in some writer and learns
later that the writing contained a
false and misleading statement of j
some neighborhood matter, it is :
enough to make the management of
the paper declare that it will never
again publish anything which is sent '
in by a correspondent unless the truth'
of the facts stated can be first verified.
The one who puts this kind of thing
over is <ruiltv of a wrong. They are
putting themseVes in the vnrs* position
they could he in. Not only the
newspaper but the communitv at
large will mark t^em down as being
liars and incapable of telling the
truth even in situations where the
would know that they
were telling lies.
It never Happens but once in regard i:
to anv particular writer who would <
send in something that is false to fool 1
t>e Herald and its readers with. A
jnan or a woman either who does this
oncp i? forever marked by the paper
and they need not suppose that any
confidence will ever be placed in what
they say by the editor or any of his
assistants.
We repeat that we want the news
sent in to the paper. Such assistance
is necessary to make the paper beter
and of more interest to the readers of
it . 1
The item which slipped in last week
was maliciously done. It was intended
to spite others who were entirely innocer.t
of any intent in the matter. It
is an offense which the Herald would
punish without the benefit of doubt if
there was anv criminal statute under
which it might be brought. As it is
this instance must be allowed to pass
with this writing of a short article
calling it to the attention of others'
who may be inclined to play the same
trick on the paper, and on their neighbors.
Those who will do such a thing
are unworthy of having good neighbors.
They have not the least idea of
decency and good breeding. Of such!
people the Herald wishes to steer perfectly
clear and it will hereafter.
A correspondent who thinks it is
nice to publish something that will
cause embarrassment and bring disrespect
to somebody is not welcome in
any way at the Herald office nor within
its columns at any time.
HEAVY RAINS
,, CHOKE DRAINS
Sunday Afternoon brought a
Heavy rain in This
Section of county
The outlets for water provided in
the l>asin which has always given
more or less trouble in the business
section of the town, had been given i
scant attention during the dry season,'
as of course they were not needed at
that time.
The heavy fall of rain last Sunday
afternoon filled the basin and as it
could not escape it had to run out
slowly; and for some time there was a
pond of water in rear of the main
business buldings between Main
Street and Laurel.
There was also some trouble at the
corner of 3rd Avenue and I^aurel
Street where the drains had been
stopped up during tne dry weather
with trash and debris and the water
which comes down Laurel Street could
not escape except by running over the
cement sidewalk for a distance of
about two hundred feet. The passing
of the water over the walk left a coating
of mud on it. It was on this slippery
surface that men and women had
to walk in passing along that way later
in the evening and on the next
morning.
A number of business men complained
about these conditions and
said that they would be^in a movement
to petition the town council and
insist on having 'hi * condition remedied
so that it may not be repeater
.when the next heavy rain comes down
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WHY WAITTILL
ELEVENTH HOUR
Before Starting to Plough up
The Roads Impeding
Travel
NOT ALL OUR FAULT
Notice of Effect on Outsiders
may Result in
Change
The Marion Star in its issue of last
veek contained the following' editorial
ii relation to the plan of working- the
National Highway in this county:
"We have never been able to figure
ust why Horry County waits until
nidsummer to plough up the road
Yoiu Gallivants Ferrv to Mvrtle
Seach. At this season people are
locking to Horry's beach resorts and
>ne trip through the dust and sand
iow found on that road is enough to
nuse one to enjoy the surf in his own
mth tub, at home. Horry gets more
idvertising and makes more friends
;hrough Myrtle Beach than through
my other agency, and just why her
road officials select July 4th as the
proper time to scarify her roads is a
nystery beyond our knowledge. A
wealthy banker, from a city in tnids'.ate
was heard to say the other day
I like Myrtle Beach very much, but I|
hate to go there on account of road
londitions.' "
The Horry Herald is not taking
<ide^ against the Horry people who
are in charge of this work, and hates
very much to see them criticized in
any respect by outsiders. Yet there
appears to be some justification for
this complaint by visitors to our
shores.
It may be that this could not be
helped this time. Even if that be so it
is no reason why they cannot see to it
that this does not occur any more. It
may be too that the State Highway
Department is to blame and we suspect
that it is to a large extent.
For a long time it was in contemplation
that additional work would be
done on the Myrtle Beach road from
the steel bridge to the Red Hill, making
that road high enough to be out
of reach of a sudden freshet, and
making it wider in several places and
a smoother way to go. Just why this
work was- put off until the season at,
Myrtle Beach was in full swing is |
more than has been explained. It
would cost no more to do it in advance
of the season than it would after the
season had commenced, perhaps it
would have been less if the work had
been undertaken several months ago
and plenty time had for getting right
materials and equipment for doing the
work. As it was the work was done at
the opening of the Summer travel,
and if it should set in to raining the
condition of the added clay will be
certain to create a bad state of affairs
until the season is entirely over.
In the meantime, while the weather
has been dry, the condition of the
road bed from the bridge to the hill
has been bad enough, and the dust has
been awful to behold.
Let us thank The Star for calling
our attention to the fact that this delay
in working the roads has been noticed
by travellers enough that they
have complained about it. This editorial
has been clipped and published
here f^r the sole purpose of bringing
it to the attention of all those who
have anything to do with the improvement
of these roads. We want them to
see nnd know that this thing is operating
against us and by that means
we hope they will take time by the
forelock hereafter and do this work
at the right time to suit the convenience
of those who will want to visit
us during the vacation season. Why
wait to do the work until te Fourth of
July comes round? We who live here
all of the time can put up with the
plowed roads as well at one time as
another.
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kept for sale at The Herald office is
the very thing for the vacation trip,
when you will not be anxious to drink
out of all sorts of things and run the
risk of getting disease germs. The
cups lie flat in the baggage, and a
handful easily fit into the pocket. Ruy
them and use them and feel better
'satisfied when you go ofT to the mountains
or the seashore.
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ENVELOPESIN PLENTY
I here is a* large stock of envelopes
in commercial size just received at
The Herald Job Printing Department.
The envelope is an important thing
in business and pleasure. The Herald
believes in keeping plenty of
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OPTICAL WORK
DONK ON CREDIT.
Don't worry with or about youi
eyes. Come to see us and let us solv<
your problem for you. It is better t<
know that your eyes are all righ
than to guess. We have the lates
styles in glasses.
We will be at Horry Drug Btor
every l?t and 3rd Mondays of eacl
' month.
Yours for service,
L. A. WOODRUFF, D-Opt.
Eye Sight Specialist.
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THE HORRY HK1MT.D, CO
DOES GAS KILL
BOLL WEEVILS
Florence, July 2.?As a result of
tests just completed here at the Boll
Weevil Control Division of Clemson
College and the United States Deinrtment
of agriculture, Dr. N. E. Winters.
who is in charge of the work, announces
that the average results
would seem to indicate that Cox's gas,
used in the tests over a three day period,
did not kill any weevils.
Cox's gas is a material supposed to
contain chloride of lime and arsenious
oxide in combination with copper, being
sold by the Boll Weevil Destroyer
Company, with main office at College
Park, Ga., and sub-office at Goldsooro,
N. C., and the test was put on by Dr.
Winters because of calls from influential
men in the Southeast who were interested
in the possible efficiency of
the material in gassing the weevil.
A. P. Petway and J. W. Daniel are
managers of the North Carolina office
of the Boll Weevil Destroyer Company
and E. W. Rutledge, salesman for the
company, brought the material here
for trial, states Dr. Winters in discussing
tl*e tests, which are explained
below by him.
"Twelve large screen cages, four
feet square and four feet high, wpre
placed out over cotton plants growing
in the field. In three of these cages
the plants were thoroughly treated
with Cox's gas material; in three
cages, the plants were sprayed with
pure water; in three cages the plants
were dusted with calcium arsenate;
and in three cages, tho plants were
untreated. Mr. Rutledge was present
when the treatments were made and
made the statement that the gas material
was thoroughly applied.
"Twenty weevils were introduced in
each cape at 10:45 A. M., June 10.
Plants were treated at 6:30 P. M. on
the same date. The plants were dry
when treatments were made. AH weevils
not actually on the plants at the
time of the treatment were removed
from the capes, as this condition was
requested by the pas salesman, Mr
Rutledge. Observations were made
C.:'0 A. M., il 'OO A. M., and 5 P. M.
on June 20 and 21, and at O.xV) A. M.
and 5:00 P. M. June 22, and (5 80 A.
M. June 23.
"Sometime during the night of
Thursday, June 21, before 1:00 A. M.
next morning, without our knowledge
or consent, the plants in all three of
the gas cages were thoroughly drenched
with gas material, by whom we
do not know.
"The results at the end of the test
on June 23 were as follows:
"With 20 weevils under no treatment,
30 percent of the weevils died;
with 20 weevils on the plants sprayed
with water, 25 percent of the weevils
died; with 15 weevils on the plants at
the time the treatment was made with
the gas', 26.7 percent of the weevils
died; with 21 weevils in the three
cages treated with dust, 61.9 percent
of the weevils died."
them. Leave your order there today
and have plenty of the fine, well gum
med envelopes that you need for business
and private correspondence.
CURING METHOD"
. ... WAS FOR SALE
(Continued from page one)
ed his labor to the growers.
He was not able to publish this information,
gratis, altogether. I am
sending out this information this season
and will discontinue the efforts in
the future. I find that the world is not
looking for a genuine thing?they
want a fake. This is a grand boon to
the tobacco men, and I shall not fool
with and contend with the opposition
that my father encountered in dispensing
the information.
If you do not care to publish the
letter, alright, but it will be more of a
loss to those of your readers who
might profit from it than to me. You
are the first one to hesitate to publish
Iuhhuui |
The Woman's Tonic |
,1 used two bottles before I could H
see any great change, but after ?j
that it was remarkable how ju
much better I got. I am now H
well and strong. 1 can recom- xj
mend Cardui, for it certainly Fj
benefited me." |H
If you have been experiment- H
ins on yourself with all kinds of rJ
different remedies, better get JH
back to good, old, reliable E
Cardui, the medicine for fwomen,
about which you have r"
always heard, which has helped ?
many thousands of others, and E
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La Ask your neighbor about it; she ?
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NWAY, S. C, JULY 12, IMS
the letter, and if you choose, may n*
fuse entirely. It makes very little dif- 1
Idereuce. I am not as interested as my
father was.
It appears from the reading of the 1
answer that this information is for
sale, and not to be given away free. i
Is the information worth anything?
As the Herald asked last week, is it
possible that certain dates are better
than others for placing tobacco in a
l>arn for curing? It does not look possible
to prove by any sort of reason- ;
ing that certain dates during the
weeks of the tobacco curing season
could be better dates than others for
the curing of tobacco, other things on
other dates being equal, or perhaps ;
better.
It is of course the best for the <
grower of tobacco, or the grower of
any other crop to use his good ci mmon
sense and wisdom in the handling
of the same. There are better days for 1
the curing of tobacco. Those days,
however, in our opinion, must be determined
by an examination of the
leaves in the field and the conditions
of the weather as to rain and sun.
There is no other test that we can
possibly think up and of course we do
not work in the tobacco fields every
day. as every reader knows.
Now, he says that his father had
opposition in trying to introduce his
plan of fixing the dates for the curing
of tobacco. You will notice that. Per
haps he sold his secret to many who
tried it out and never got any better
results from the practice or the innovation
that he tried to bring1 about.
We admit that there is yet something
to he learned about the curing1
of tobacco. We have no idea that any
grower, no matter how long his experience,
knows all that there is to
know about the work. It is indeed
true that the tobacco leaves must have
in them the sap that all plants have,
more or less, and the leaves have m
them the wax or gum which makes
them different from other leaves.
There may be something in choosing
the right state of maturity in the leaf
as the best time 'for placing it in the
barn and curing it for the market. But
in what other way can the right condition
of the leaf be determined except
by looking at it? Some growers
have better success, than others in
curing fine grades for the market by
watching the tobacco fields and picking
the leaves at just the right time
for ruling into a good grade. But they
do this by their experience in judging
when the leaves are ripe, and not by
some arbitrary method of fixing certain
dates beforehand on which they
are opposed to know what the leaves
will do when placed in the barns.
The Herald took the position that if
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the information itt fwf it could, do no
harm. If it \? something to4>e sold
then tho Herald wants to know what
(hetv \s to it before it is offered
through the columns for a consideration
that the author would no doubt
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ON KIKE CASE
(Continued from page one)
uway from the right of way of the
tram road and spreading .out to Mr.
Mishoe's lands where-his fencing was
destroyed, some houses and lumber
burned up and his strawberry patch
ruined.
The first action was not brought under
? statute law of this state which
makes a railroad company liable for
damage by fire originating on the
right of way and burning out to plaintiff's
lands, regardless of whether or
not there was carelessness or negligence
in allowing tho fire to do that.
It was brought for what is known as
negligence at the common law. In this
first action tried' two years ago, Ml*.
Mishoe lost out by a verdict of the
Jury. The case was lost after a hard
fight put up by summoning many witnesses
on both sides.
Immediately after the first suit was
tried and lost by the plaintiff, he
brought a second action, this last time
under the statute.
There had been some doubt, at the
time the first action was brought,
whether the statute applied to a private
company operating a tram road,'
and this was the reason why the action
was first brought under the common
law and not under the statute.
Before the first case was disposed of
however, and before the second suit
had been brought which is now pending,
the supreme court of this State
in the case of Crawford against Mullins
Lumber Company decided that
statute covered even private companies
or even individuals operating a line
of railroad.
This secon'd suit is the one which is
now pending. The defendhnt raises tlie
question whether he is entitled to
maintain this second suit after having
lost out in the first suit. Judge Sliipp
has taken the matter under advisement
and will render his decision later.
An interesting question was asked
during the course of the argument. If
Mr. Mishoe had won the first suit and
recovered damages could he now
maintain this second action ? The
plaintiff argues that he could not and
agrees, in that case, with the defendant
that he could not. The reason,
however, why he could not have maintained
it in that event is not far to
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find; Th?.v Ifcur would: not allow him*
recover twice for the same deficit. If
He had recovered any amount whatever
in the first suit it would havebeen
payment in full for all the damage
he suutbinvtL' by reason of' the fire,,
although he charged that damage as
arising by reason of negligence* instead
of liability created by the statute.
However, as he lost on the question
of negligent burning by the company,
he still has the remedy which
has been provided for him by the sta- i
tute which holds that the company is Z
liable regardless of whether negligence
caused his loss or not. In this
Jast case he seeks to hold the defendant
liable under the statute, which is
an entirely different remedy from that
which he sought under the commonlfcw;
It' is a different cause of action^
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