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r\ SPt * SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ot» Y«ar -yltW Six Month* — Throe Month* —- >M) (Strictly in Advance.) AUGUST MARCHANTS AND BANKERS RETURN FROM PILGRIMAGE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) supper. Apparently as full of energy aa though he had not been entertain ing throughout a long day, he then and there gave us a summary of the extraordinary dairy accomplishments of his county, a few of which have been mentioned in the last paragraph. Wo disbanded for the evening with the suggestion to get upon the streets of Starkville early the next morning and see the hundreds of farmers coming to town with their milk checks; to meet them and to ask them questions. Did anyone before over see such a sight! By eight o’clock e main thoroughfares were crowded with au tomobiles and the streets were filled farmers both white and colored. Jovial, carefree farmers anxious to tell of their cows, their crops, their farms and their families, aryl the amount of money they were making. Colonel Hbiry D. CfcJhoun, the party’s emi nent spokesman, and a gentleman al ways partial to the negro, engaged first an old darky in conversation. Uncle Jonah, he called him, and he tried at once to buy his six cows. Un cle was willing to trade has car, his “critter,” his cotton patch, his bull calves and the bulk of his fifty-eight acres, but ’lowed he would keep his -milk cows. Emmie, his wife, felt the same way about it and to (dispose of the cows, she too, would have to touch the pen. Space will not permit recounting the inUrviews which the party, now divided into several groups participat ed in. Experiences, all fell along the same general lines differing only in the number of cows, the pounds of milk and the size of the check. - Later ‘divided groups found thtir way into the three banks, and with difficulty pushed through the crowds. Imagine three bankers, presidents of their respective banks, setting aside all work on this, the busiest day of their month to inform and encourage business men from a country six hun dred miles away. That is but an ele ment in the chana^ter of these sturdy business men of Starkville, Tuscaloosa and Tupelo. They have thought and fought their peoplta way to economic independence, and not satisfied with local accomplishments are reaching their influence from South Carolina to. Texas. They believe the cow to be the first salvation of the South and back that beilief with their time, ener- jry and resources. They speak of the cow as the mother of the human race. Her 366 day productiveness, besides providing ai continuous revenue sup plies the tcble with the most impor tant food for old and young alike yet discovered. Aiyl how badly that fooff is needed in this Southland of ours where there are still thousands of un dernourished children who know little else but com bread and sweet potatoes and rice and fat pork. Mr. Carpenter, one of the Stark ville bankers, bo'yi us of his tenant who in 1926 raised eleven bales of cottfln. In 1927, a poorer cotton year, this a&me tenant raised 19 bales of cotton on the game land with the help of the compost and produced besides enough fflesh milk to supply the table and carry the cotton to maturity. He told of anoth.X dairymran with five chil dren all consuming fresh milk who sold 12,241 pounds of milk for a net return of $337.84. Another example wa* a negro tenant yrho realized $9.00 per month per cow on three cows brought down from the hills, hereto fore used for cattle purpose only. Mr. W. H. Suddeth, preefcknt of the Peoples Savings) Bank bias 197 cows distributed’ among eight croppers. Af ter all feed bills were paid last year bis share amounted to $5,708.00 and tenants’ share* amounted to the same figure, augmented by th't returns from the other crop*. Mr. Suddeth leave* the management of his cows entirely .to hit tentntafc A n«*ro tenant with 39 cows received $3,761.85. He purchas ed $1.111.61 in feed and therrffore net ted $2,650.24. Had he done the cor rect thing and raised his own feed he wonlfl have saved a laigo portion of the $1,111.61. These ere but a few of the represen tative figures. Mr. Green of tbs third, hank gave othena, and docens of farm ers including Mr. White and Mr. W. L. Cook added to the list At ten oVdock the South CaroQina gentlemen oame again into concert and Mr. Jones led them to the Borden Gorydensery. There Were men desir ing and machinery capable of handl ing 200,000 pounds of milk each day without the direct contact of human hands. The unfloading, the testing, the weighing, the sterilising of the cans for their return to the farmer, the evaporation, the canning and the packing (with the automatic machin ery) were all impressive scenes. The party then visited the Co-operative Creamery and the Mississippi A and M. College and after a farewell dinner .returned to Birmingham that night. By eleven thirty next morning they reached Mitchell Dam,, one of three hydroelectric plants on the Goose River just north of Montgomery. Here Mr. O. C. Thurlow, Chief Engineer of The Southeastern Power and Light Company has, under economic neces sity, put into use a new principle in hydro-electric design. He has con ceived and used the “suppression prin ciple” which finds the power housn in mid-«*tream rather than at one side of the river. After a splendid dinner prepared by Mr. Bosworth and his staff, Mr. Huey and Mr. Easter who had from the start made fast friends with the party mtumed to Birming ham, and the party itself started for South Carolina. The only other points of interest was the passing through of several of the twelve little Alabama towns which have lately succeeded in locating a ten to fifteen thousand spindle cotton mill. This was accomplished in each case by raising locally $150,000 which re presents a fraction of the total invest ment and which gives them an equity in the mill up to that percentage. With the party were: S. W. Cope land and J. Wei^fley Crum, two rrnim- bers of the committee making ar rangements for the trip. The third X j Hotc Thai Baby Ho* Grown OL— By Albert T. Reid > V ] flumer hit i vision of the Size to which, his Mhy Beef grew iAtr he. Sold him,. —— • * -T V three brothers, Prof. Isadoro Ussery, principal of Houghton school, Augusta LeRoy Ussery, of Douglas, Ga., and Burdell Ussery, of Washington, D. C. t all of whom were here for the funeral. CANDIDATES’ CARDS. Municipal Primary Election. For Alderman. I hereby announce myself n candi date for the office of Alderman for the town of Barnwell, and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic municipal election and to support the nominees of the party. G. Malcolm Anderson, x ______ I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Alderman for the town of Barnwell, and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic municipal election and to sup port the nominees of tht party. _ E. E. Goodson. ika, Alabama. Riding sinco early morning, in fact, going almost con tinuously for five days, these sturty representatives of a quarter million people, believing this to be their la*t night together before leaching home. Death of E. M. Ussery. met for the purpose of deciding upon member. A. M. Kennedy of the Willis- 1 concrete actions to be taken in the tor. Bank, was call**d to New York on future. Williston, Aug. 18.—The niany a friends of Elbert Milton Ussery, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Ussery, were greatly shocked to hear of his death at his home in, Batesburg at 6:20 o’ clock Monday morning, August 13th. urgent business. The other members who rode in the bus w<re: J. Z. Brook- er, P. S. Green,H. H. Kearse. J. B. Guess, S. S. Ray. H. .D. Calhoun. W. H. Ramsey, Chester Matthews, Frank Moye, F. V. Ji?mes, G. M. Neeley, J. A. Mitchell, A. M. Brabham, Aaron Rice and W. H. Ginn. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Easterling and their daughter, Julia Mae, and R. L. Zeig.'er rod<i in Mrs. They represented there the spirit of their people at home an4 the spirit of the time honored families from which they came. Theso people consciencious of the leading part their for-bears took in the formation of American Institutions. They ane proud of that, but they are living in the present and they are looking to wards the future. It will not be'their his membership to Batesburg, assisted in thi« funeral services. The deceased was a loyal Mason and church mem ber and a citizen that will be missed. He was a 32nd degree Mason and plan ned to take his Shrine at Florence this week. For a number of years Mr. Ussery was connected with the Williston TeU> phone Co., leaving here several years For Commissioner of Public Works. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Commissioner of Public Works for the town of # Bamwell, and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic municipal election tfnd to support the nominess of the party. T. J. Langley. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the office of Com missioner of Public Works for the town of Barnwell to succeed T. J. Langley, and pledge myelf to a by the rules and regulations of Democratic municipal election and support the nominees of the party. W. C. Milhous. Easterling’s err. L. E. Turner of the children nor their neighbor’s children He had been ill for two wetiks with typhoid fever. The Masons of the Batesburg chap- ago, when he bought the Graniteville are fully ter ’ as8 * stet ^ by members of the Wil- Telephone! Co., which he owened at the liston and Graniteville chapters, had time of his death. Three years ago charge of the funeral services, which he moved to Batesburg and became a were* held at ML Calvary Baptist partner in the Twin City Motor Co. f church, near Elko, Tuesday afternoon, which he recently left to taka on the Rev. Tebow, pastor of Graniteville Chrysler agency. He is survived by Baptist church, of which the deceased his widow, two sons, Elbert Melbourne was a member until he recently moved and Preston LeRoy; his parents and T. B. Ellis J. B. Ellis ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Land Surveying a Specialty. * > LyndhursL S. C Camel City Bu« Line pleased the gen tlemen very much with his skillful driving a grind that few driver* would care to experience. B^ore dispersing to their (respec tive homes, the gentlemen unanimous ly selected next Friday evening, Aug ust 24th, at 8:30 p. m.. as the time for a general meeting to be h«4d at Bam berg. Those who did not make the trip a* well as those who did were earnestly enjoined to be present. | J. A. Latimer, Editor of “The Willis- I ton Way,” spoke of this trip at its i inauguration as “onm of the most im- who ara confronted with the great hazards and the crushing weight of a one crop system. Wood ward-Harrison. I _Williston, Aug 19.—A marriage that came as quite a surprise to the many friends of both contracting par ties was that of Miss Mabel Wood ward, eldest daughter of John B. Woodwarjd, of Williston, and B. S. Harrison, of Dtnm&rk. They were married in Bamberg Friday after- I noon, August 10. Mrs. Harrison was porbant tours ever made from South orh, Williston s most popular Carolina.” He ha* given voice to the y° un K women. The Mdegroom is a lenthntnt of tho small towns rn weft known >; oun * man of D-mark, “Southern Carolina.” To fully appre- they will make their home, ciate that fact one would only have to drop in on the meeting held late Thursday night in the hotel at Opel- OTICE! TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS. DcErank Crane Says IMPULSES __ Miss Jackson, after eleven years’ experience at San Quentin State Prison, declares that women criminals are the victims of uncontrolled impulse rather than of a physiological leaning toward crime. “There is no criminal type among women prisoners,” she says. “Crime among women generally follows an uncontrolled impulse in which women leave the usual path of life and make a detour into crime without thought of the results that follow.” It appears from this that self control in all emergencies is the virtue - most needed. The writer was once a prison official and frequently visited the State Prisons of Illinois. He was surprised to find that the class of convicts that gave the least trouble was the murderers. The reason is that murders are usually committed on a sudden impulse and a man need not be a hardened criminal to be guilty of this crime. Of course there are some people who are simply lacking in moral sense. Their whole tone of morals is low and all they need to commit a crime is the opportunity. But all of us are potential criminals when it comes to impulse, a sudden singing of passion or some overwhelming desire. Parents should learn from this that the most necessary lesson to teach children is self control. Children do not need so much to be taught obedience as to bf taugbg bow to obey their own better selves. Any one who finds h6 passion too strong for him and who loses his sense of restraint when under the influence of them is in danger^of committing any crime. Self discipline may be very hard; to people of strong emotions it is sure to be hard. But it is none the less essential. Most lawsuits would be avoided if people would control themselves and could learn to be good M»rts and take their losses fcitfttout yielding to ft-destre for vengeance During the past few months, we have repaired and im- proved our ginning plant, which consists of six 7 0-saw Contin- l , ’ ental gjjfe and two double presses. These repairs and improve ments make our ginning plant second jto none in the State, and we are in a position to give the public an excellent turn-out and prompt service. Charges: pounds, over five hundred pounds at the rate of sixty cents per hundred pounds. \ ' » ^ - ■ — New sugar cloth bagging and new arrow ties, \ $1.50 per bale. Mill 1893-Service and Satisfaction for 35 Years--1928 W. E. McNAB, Manager Barnwell, S. C.