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the other. Today the congres* is ad ding to the tariff burden* of the farm- «r. The last reduction in general freight rates was six years ago. To day the interest late and credit condi tions arc harder than for years. To day the national and local taxes still climb. Remedy imust come from aroused jrablic opinion. This awakening will result from the full understanding of the f^cts that it is our purpose to bring about by persistent, pitiless publicity, for publicity of the truth 'will correct error and points the way to constructive building. Respond ing to this awakened public opinion will come legislative action by the State legislatures and by the congress. To thig end we urge all farmers and other land owners and allied inter ests in each county throughout the country to organize for the purpose of studying the facts, deciding on definite remedies, and bringing their decision to the attention of members of congress and State legislatures. The remedies will follow when these decisions are urged with all the vigor, and determination, and earn estness and persistence their import ance warrants; when they are cham pioned by word and deed by the mass of farmers assembled in frequent, meetings and through the press; when the ingenuity of their leaders is exercised in devising means t$ at tract and hold the attention of the nation; and when voterg require com pliance from their officials. I^et us repeat—publicity is our hope. Relief must come both from the State government and from the fed eral government State Issues. Relief that only the State can ren der ia reduction of all State and local taxation. Wo urge that their reduc tion include the abolishment of all OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY DIRECTORS FOR THE QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1930. PERRY B. BUSH, Clerk, Board of County Directors ‘1 Kiri'nniifinrir*r‘IB : s PELHAM F. WAY OUTH CAROLINA farmers again have the chance to demonstrate their ability in economic crop production. Six official crop production con tests have been recently announced In the State. These include 5-acre cotton and corn contests for adult farmers, junior vocational cotton and corn contests, and cotton and corn contests for 4-H Club boys and girls. Application to enter the contests should be made at once, according to the announcements. The rules may be obtained from county agents, vocational instructors, or the agricultural extension service of Clemson College of Agriculture. “Through friendly rivalry, the crop contests hive proved an effec tive means for Improving the farm practices In the State," says H. E. B. R..SMITH mm «i iin i iiiiiiirrrif'iinr^iiaiiiif'iTOiTiiMTr'iii NASH GRAY Pslham F. Way, Parlert, woa the Jasior Vocational Cora Contest with as average prodaetloa of U8J& hashels cora per acre and Nash Gray, Owlags, led the Vocational Cotton Contest with 7t8 poands lint cotton per acre. B. R. Smith, Johnston, woa the l-acre cotton contest with an aver age production of 11M poands of lint per acre, while J. Bjaa White, of Hamter, was Arst la the S-acre cora contest with aa average yield of 118 hashels per acre. d. R.YAN WHITE Savely, South Carolina manager of the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educa tional Bureau, which Is cooperating In conducting the contests. 'The winning of the prises is Incidental to the bigger objective which, after all. Is tbs Increasing of the farm Incoms by means of lower costs and larger acre-yields. “As a result of the contests, hun dreds of farmers," he declares, “have been thoroughly convinced ef the advantages of pedigreed seed, liberal fertilization, thorough culti vation, and disease and Insect con trol methods. They have discov ered that ths practices employed In producing a high yield on a three or five-acre Held may be profitably applied to the entire farm." 1 a» a means of producing credit. Putting the land bank* in the hand* of their farmer stockholders to the extent of giving them an impor tant share of its management. In auguration of policy by the federal { farm loan board which shall include a SUt, .ml county t.xr. on home. »nJ| wdKUo . of th , rate of t0 on agricultural land being used by bona fide farmers. These reductions can be brought abcut by cutting down the State and county appropriation bills; by finan cial teforms ba*ed on constant pub licity of the financial condition of the State and the counties; by putting on the tax books stocks and bond« and notes which amount to over $300.- 000,000 and now escape direct taxes; amd by shifting the tax burden by ex- . the farmer, and a return of the ays- ' tern to purpose* for which it was in tended. Refraining from foreclosing mort- ' gage* held by the Federal I-and ! Hank* and the Intermediate Credit I Banks, until such time as relief meas ures shall restore the fanner’s abili- i ty to pay, and protection of the bonds of these bank s by the federal gov ernment. We ask each Democratic club, and the several county Democratic conven tions and the State Democratic con vention to endorse this manifesto at theia next meetings; and we recom mend that at the primary campaign meetings each candidate be aakecf'to declare hi* opposition to, or his sup port of. this manifesto. We cemmend the efforts made by certain members of the South Caro lina congressional delegation to se cure federal relief and we petition and pray the whole delegation to use their every effort to support the leg islation asked for herein. Noth ing contributes more to our • State than its homes. They consti tute the foundation of ita freedom. UuJin* Couib Carolina's present sys tem of gales taxes; and further ex- rralned farming of foreclosed lands tension of the general principal that um l rr * chain syxtem of farming all taxation should be proportionate financed by the federal government, to the earnings of the taxpayer. | (internment's Obligation to Act. These last two proposal* require ; Fourteen years ago the federal constitutional amendments one of government !*egan to encourage farm- which is placer on next fall’s ballots by the last legislature. Other amend ments are necessary to cure a tax assessment system that is rotten to the core and hazed on fraud. The State should not take on new the very bulwark of itz prosperity, Wr oppo-t any plan propcin, rl „ dr , of , ti virtlw >Bd th , , oorr , of it* patriotism. ‘The homes of our people ig the ark of the covenant on which rests our government,** and when one is lost the fact should be brought strikingly to the attention of the State snd federal govern ments. To that end every home owner against whom foreclosure proceed- wph dew or rain.. A powdered Bor deaux used as a dust is not recom mended since it it considerably more expensive than the copper-lime dust ind somewhat le** effective. “The fungus esusmg Iste-blight at tacks tubers, leaves, petioles, stems and blossom-pedicel*. The lesiona u*ually first appesr on the lower leaves, though occasionally first on the fiower-pedicels. The infected leaflet shows along the margin, a water-soaked spot, enlarging rapidly to include the whole leaflet. It may then dry, blacken and shrivel up, or if there U plenty of moisture in the air, it may rot away entirely and while doing so emit the characteristic potato odor by which the late-blight may be detected in the field. As the lesicn is enlarged recurring wefts of white mold appear adjacent to the healthy ttstue on the underside of the leaflet. The lesiona on the stems, pedicels, and petioles are similar to those on the leaves.** activities until it* fttimer* and others ernment failed to establish conditions reach an American standard of 'iv- I un( i t . r which agriculture could succeed, ing. It is « time fur economy in Today the government ruthlessly de- State and county government, and m ands payment and i s driving him consolidations, eliminations and j n t 0 (he highways adrift and impov- changed methods can bring economy, erished. We are ready for sweeping change*,! He ha* done his part. He has made fundamental consolidations of hj s acres more productive. He has xjur departments, bureaus and com- increased the output of his animals, mission*. He has increased in skill and adopted We declare for democracy as op- improved machinery and methods, posed to bureaucracy as the eontroll- g U ( (here are conditions he cannot ing force of our government. | control and that the government er’s to borrow on long time mort gages with the assurance agriculture would be protected and nurtured by j ing* are begun i« requested to report the government. The farmer respond ed and borrowed 2 1-4 billion* from the federal land banks. But the gov- that fact and all the surrounding cir cumstances to hit county chairman of this league, who in turn will report it to the State chairman to be report ed by him to the congressman of the district and to the senators of the State. This movement it based on the pro position that in the economic system of • the nation there is necessity for the independent, individual farmer; and that from hi s prosperity will come an increase of the prosperity of the aver age man, of what ever vocation, of the State and the nation. We call on a machine made nation, We will ask the oppoitunity to pre-! control. Government in its intent on its factories, its commerce A Life iw His Heeds ' Tin* right thing la not always the easiest; hut <**mJ has Ills schools for training, and a life left In Hit h.tnda will never fail of Its highest develop tuent here and hereafter—Selected. t EXCURSION and its banks, to consider the condi tion to which it has reduced its agri- sent to the Budget commission and foreclosures give no consideration to to the legislative committee* our de- ( short crops, over production, nor un tailed proposals for cutting »PPro- f ore5een disasters of nature. Thig is'culture. priations, and our proposals for a t h e only leading agricultural country 1 We propose to bring home to every new tax system to free our homes and t h a ( ( |oe? not recognize in its farm man and woman in this country the| farms from the property tax. credit system conditions outside the | obligations of the government to the While the State can reduce our land control cf its farmer debtors. In farmers of the United States. taxes, we must look to the federal (hj s obligation the government has government for the most important fai i C(1 an(1 for t hi s failure exacts a relief. From Washington we ask: (errible penalty from it s farmers. We urge the enactment of a most Let the nation, so as it now can, stringent anti-lobbying act, as lobby- right this wrong at whatever financial ing about the State capita! has be- C o*t. There are tens of thousands to ‘come a public disgrace. National Issues. whom it can never restore the hard BORDEAUX SPRAY FOR LATE-BLIGHT Clemson College, April 26.—Late blight, the most spectacular and de structive disease of potatoes, did won wealth they have lost, nor their, muc h damage to the early crop in Equalization of the farm’s tariff shattered homes, nor make good the xrith industry’s tariff and to this end endorse the debenture plan now be ing proposed in congress. Reduction of freight, power and light rates with preferential rates for agricultural user*. establishment of marketing condi tions to assist stabilization of prices of farm products, and reduce to the ratoimoro present wasteful marketing three otheri who with the4e officers practices, ,o that the consumer will w j]] constitute an executive commit* more food for his dollar, and so encourage the forming of the farmer will get more of that county units, We chairman of which, ( acting with the executive committee, Beeonetruction of the Intermediate wil | forra , ot dirMUrt> #n , of heartbreaks of hundreds of thousands of the fathers and mothers and chil dren driven by a callous government from the farms of the United States. Organization and Action. To these ends we resolve here and now to form a permanent State or ganization by the election of a presi dent, a secretary, a treasurer and Bank under a separate board of a membership the ma- ot which shall be actively •»- I in farming and representing of the nation, and the farmers League the duties of zahl board being to adopt •och regulations and by-laws as they may deem necessary. The name of thi* organisation shall | be The Farmers South Carolina last year, declares Dr. G. M. Armstrong, plant pathologist, who now advises that if late-blight should appear during a period of cool nights and comparatively warm days, with dew, fog, or cloudy perid, R would destroy a large part of a crop in a few days, so a 4-4-50 or 5- 5-50 Bordeaux mixture spray should be applied immediately. "The frequency and number of ap plications will depend upon the weather, severity of the disease, and the stage of development of the pknts, a complete coverage of the plants un til maturity being necessary at all times,** explains Dr. Armstrong. M A 20-80 copper-lime dust, while some what lest effective, may be used in steed of the Bordeaux mixture If the ie dome when there te WASHINGTON, D. C. Friday. May 2, 1930. A fine opportunity to visit the Nation’s Capital. Wonderful Parks, Washington Monument, Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial, Zoological Park, Na tional Museum and Mt. Vernon. BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL St. Louis (Browns) vs. Wash ington (Senators), May 3-4. Detrot (Tigers) vs. Washing ton (Senators), May 5-6. ROUND TRIP FARES. From Fare Aikin, S. C. $15.50 Barnwell S. C. 15.50 Blackville S. C — 15.00 Denmark, S. C. 15.00 • Dates of Sale and Final Limit. GOING: Tickets will be sold to be good going on all regular trains (except Crescent Lim ited) Friday, May 2, 1930. RETURNING: Ticket? will bt good returning on all regular trains (except Crescent Limit ed), so as to reach original starting point prior to mid night of W’ednesday, May. 7, 1930. CONVENIENT SCHEDULES: Pullman Standard Sleeping Cars and Day Coaches. Consult Ticket Agents SOUTHERN RAILWAY Claims Paid January 7, 1930: G. W. Halford, highway - - 74 * 35 Irene H. Lemon, bpard of regents , 16.66 Max Bron?on, jail and chain gang 28.95 Town of Williston, highway 3,736.4 * R. L. Wooley, magistrate - - 25.00 O. W. Harley, magistrate 14.58 R. B. Harden, magistrate 12.50 L. S. Creech, magistrate’s constable 12.50 C. B. Parker, magistrate’s constable — 27.91 Charlie Hiers, magistrate’s constable 15.83 G. H. Harden, magistrate’s constable 12.50 Sarah C. Armstrong, treas. clerk — 50.00 B. H. Dyches, dieting prisoners — 1Q5.00 Brown and Bush, highway --— 250.01' G. M. Main, salary, jail, etc. 88.60 J. B. Armstrong, county treas. — 63.89 J. B. Armstrong, court expense 521.60 B. H. Dyches, salary, court expense, etc. 254.60 C. S. Buist, magistrate 25.00 Paul H. Sanders, magistrate 12.50 R. L. Bronson, salary 61.15 Mutual Ice Co., public buildings 1*53 H. J. Crouch, printing 8.00 The People-Sentinel, stationery and adv. 235.25 H. W. Sanders, public buildings c -- 65.22 Claims Paid January 7, 1930: 1 2 3— 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ** 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 'M 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 J. B. Armstrong, printing -- - W. M. Harris, postage Crow son and Growson, printing .$ 9.76 21.74 .. 2.50 12.50 50. 60. lOO.Ofh 8.50 181.40 22.40 4.00 36.45 80.04 14.75 8.80 . 12.50 5.00 9.00 12.00 38.76 8.00 4.50 16.66 7.50 3.00 107.48 21.00 13.90 80.50 16.00 8.50 10.00 10.00 31.82 24.05 360.80 R. L. Bronson, public buildings 15.50 American Surety Co., premium on bonds J. M. Caldwell, premium on bond* Carlisle Courtney Home, special A. H. Ninestein, premium on bonds Barnwell Ins. Agency, premium on bonds W. H. Manning, chain gang 1 G. L. Bragg, chain gang v— - - — Tom Blackwood, chain gang L. Cohen, jail and chain gang E. F. Woodward, chain gang — W. H. Black, chain gang - — G. R. Peeplee, chain gang G. P. Hogg, county home — — — W. E. McNab, county home J. R. Cheek, county home ...—.— J W. T. Hankinson, county home — — A. J. Owens, county home -—.— Trustee Hankinson, county home T. D. Creighton, Jr„ county home L. T. Claytor, county home ——— —- ----— O’Neal Moore, county heme — J. C. Baxley, county home .......— -—. Lemon Bro*^ county home — C. F. Molair, county home — R. A. treason, county home ... — J. E. Owens, county home — Preston Allen, county home ............ ........... Cornelia Butler, county home ......... I. W. Rountreee, county home — ....... Sarah Ray. county home ..—....... ..... People’s Water Service Co., public bldgs. Barnwell Fruit Co„ chain gang and county home Gulf Refining Co., chain gang ...— G. W. Black, chain gang — 3.75 Barnwell Filling Station, chain gang 81.27 Gilmore Harley, chain gang ... 46.98 Barnwell Motor Co., chain gang — 26.35 T. A. Holland, chain gang 14.14 Lemon Bros., chain gang 71.84 E. F. Woodward, chain gang ..1 76.44 Best Pharmacy, chain gang - 3.05 • J. H. Still, Jr., chain gang - 50.00 Williston Hdw. Co., chain gang 61.80 T. R. Pender, chain gang f — 4.70 Earl Furman, chain gang 9.50 Merritt Grocery Co., chain gang 1 112.12 C. F. Molair, chain gang and public bldg*. 11.80 R. L. Bronson, public building* 44 15.25 L. S. Still, county director ^ 16.66 J. B. Armstrong, county treasurer L. 26,476.40 S. P. Hartzog, chain gang 16.12 J. F. Sw’ett, chain gang 136.50 J. W. Patterson, county supeivisor 150.00 J. B. Collins, chain gang r - 11.50 Perry B. Bush, director’s clerk 133.33 « ’ Claims Paid February 4, 1930: Idis Brabham, county director 16.66 G. W. Greene, county director 16.66 R. R. Moore, county director 16.66 H. J. Crouch, county supt. of education 125.00 D. P. Lancaster, coroner 50.00 A. B. Patterson, county physician 50.00 Joe Baxley, chain gang 75.00 Smith Mfg. Co., chain gang 63.55 G. L. Bragg, chain gang 5.50 M. W. Morris, chain gang 115.62 E. D. Peacock, chain gang j___ 16.30 Perry B, Bush, chain gang 6.08 Bernice Still, chain gang * 75.00 H. Antopolsky, chain gang 51.05 Fulton Bag and Cotton Millsv chain gang 137.14 J. D. Adams Co., chain gang' 55.08 Auto Electric Co., chain gang 6.52 R. P. Sweeney and Co., chain gang j 26.50 Q. A. Kennedy, chain gang 35.19 Gallon Iron Works, chain gang 36.05 E. F. Woodward, chain gang 101.40 A. M. Anderson, chain gang 75.00 N. F. Sanders, chain gang 75.00 Henry Hartzog,* chain gang 100.00 B. W. Pee pie*, magistrate 29.16 G. L. Hill, magistrate 14.58 Paul H. Sanders, magistrate 12.50 R. B. Harden, magistrate .... 12.50 R. L. Wooley, magistrate 25.00 C. S. Hoist, magistrate ... 25.00 W. 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