VOLUME XXXVI. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1920. NUMBER 2
FARM[R URGED
TO ORGANIl
Speakers Address Farmers
Here Yesterday
GROWERS MUST
STICK TOGETHER
Spukers epresentIng Cott11 Aso.
'elation, Wa reho use S ystem anid
('4elnson Extension Service Tlell
1hnrmers to Organize nnid muild
wnreiuses.
Farmers and business men of the
county gathered in the court i house
yesterday morning to attend the meet
Ing held under the joint direction of
the American Cotton Association, the
State Warehouse Commission and the
extcnusion Service of Clemson college.
The meeting was ooened by .\1r. C. A.
Power, chairman of the anurens coun
ty branch of the Cotton Association,
who made a few explanatory remarks
.And turned the meeting over to Mr.
,,D. W. Watkins, of Clemson college,
who presided., Speeches were made
by 11. Harris, Commissioner of Agri
culture, R. G. loneycutt, representing
the state warehouse commission, and
Mr. T. M. Mills, farm demonstrator of
Newberry county, who represented
Clemson College.
Mr. Mills made the first address of
the day in which he pointed out the
advantages of having a government
cot ton classer, saying that the cotton
grower' and the cotton buyer both pro
fit by his presence The cotton grader,
he saidi had saved the farmers t hous
ands of dollars, citing the instance of
Orangeburg county where he said that
nearly all the cotton was sold on th'
nlasser's grades without tile purchas
er ever seeing the bales Mr. Mills
said that he understood that the
grader here the past 'season had giv
en general satisfaction and expressed
the hope tht the community would
sectire one this year .
,ir. Honeyeutt spoke on the needs
of more warehouses He said that the
farmrs of the Sout were losing mil
lions of dollars thlough the lack of
proper storage facli-ties Ile advocat
ed the erection of individiual ware
houses by farmers, using the speclfl
eations furnished by the warehouse
conImission. le showed drawings of
-these plans and said that they would
be available to any farmer desiring to
make use of them. Mr. IHoneycutt said'
the farmers should be prepared to
hold their cotton off the market at the
lowest expense .in order that the mar
kets would not be flooded by too much
cotton being sold at one time He said
the farmers can make their own price
on their product if they use business
methods in disposing of it.
.\ir. >Ilarris spioke along the general
lines of farm improvement and urged
organization as the means of securing
an Pdequtate price for cotton. Blefore
going into a d~scutssion of t'ie Cot ton
*Associatioen, he uarged the cult ivat ion
of varied crops, especially food crops.
Foodl, lie said, woutildie still higher
next year and1( the farmer who does not
plant anything but c'ot ton wvll be at a
loss. Is address dlealt principially,
however, with th e general subject of
oirganizat ion and par'ticumlarly the ort
ganizat ion o)f the. American ('otton
AssocIa t ion, lie said( that the Cot ton
Association had al ready put mil1lIons
of dlollars inlto thle p)ockets of the
farmers amid that it would 'put millions
moire If they wvould( stand biy it. Tlhere
is not enouighi cottont in the world to
day, he said, to supply tihe mills unt i
November 1st and the farmers have it
in their handls to make wvhat. the eprico
shall be. Speculators ar'e makIng a
dosiperate fight to i'ob the cotton
farmers of a fair' price, but If the
farmers will standl together the~y will
realIze a -bIg pirice for thie comIng
cr'op. Cotton is cheap, lie saId, at 75
cents per' lpoundl as compared to other
commodlities
9During the meeting It was decided to
appiolnt committees throughout the
coulnty to make an aggressive cam
paign for membership In the, Cotton
Association.
Another meeting 'was scheduled at
?linton at 10 o'clock in the morning
und at Oray Court at 3 o'clook'lin the
aftononan
ENGINEER MAKES
ON HOW TO US
Autoists Asked Not to
Follow in the Beaten I
tion is Asked.
or The Advertiser:
I would like through youtr colum1
to briiig a matter before the travelin
public, wiltch I belleve is of great hm
portanIce both directly and indirectly
to it, as well a to the subject to b<
mentioned, that Is, of tle traflic use
ot tle new topsoil roads completed Ir
this county.
Naturally a new and smooth sur
faced topsoil road is enticing to any
one driving an auto over It, and espec
ially so to those who are inclined to
speed whene'ver an opl)ortunilty is of.
fe red, and perhaps at. times when at
opportlinity Is not offered.
A;:art from the fact that. speeding
ieyoid the legal limit of 2.,i miles pei
hour is unlawil, it Is very dangerotu
to tlie ordinary travelling public
whet her it be pedestrian, horse and
nuggy, teams and wagon, or the slow
er driving autoists.
There is another feature connected
with speeding which the ordinary au
toist does itot think about, and i
most cases does not kiow about, and
that is, that lie is doing what. may be
ternied an irreparable damage to the
topsoll surface. The rubber tires of
a fast moving. high powered car has a
strong friction grip on the surfacc
of the road, an(] the consequence Is
that the smaller hindiig materials
wlieh go to form the component por
tion of the surfaced area gives way to
this terriblIe friction and suction, and
is dislodged and blow away from It's
original location. The effect of this
Mort f thing. i, that th9 .1rfaciU&Ati&
readily and rapidly begins to disin
tegrate under this and heavy trafic
i:)assing over it, especially when sub
Jected to the unavoidable and frequent
on-slaughts fron the elements.
Those topsoll roads that have been
constructed, so far In tilis county
have b(eei built with the view of tak
Ing (are as near as possible, not only
of the present trailie but of tile pos
sible increase of same for several
yearis to colme. both In tlie matter of
the width and the thickness of the top
HO,3 WEEVIL, IN TlE (01'N'T'Y.
County Agent .ioore Finds Ihe ieal
Article Near Cross 11111.
loll weevils in considera ie quan
les were Identified by County Agen
\I. ). Moore near Cross 11111 after I
visit to that section by Mr. loore last
week. The pesky little bugs were fount
on the place of Mr. John Neel, about
four miles below Cross Hill, and ap
ieared to be congenially located fo,
tile season. M\r. \Moore said that the3
hadl app~arenitly comlo up from a dlitcl
conltainlng manly weedls -where they I
biernateud during thed winter and hai
spreadl over ab~out an acre of groutnd
WhIle relasonably pilentifuil, h~e saidl
t hey would hiarudly do any dlamage thiis
year hut would likely spread to ot hei
stetions of thle colunty.
Althlough lie has lheard several re
ports of the weevil heing ill thie coun
ty tis yearu and1( a few last yearii, Mr'
M\oore saiud that these were thle firal
that he hlad seen and thlat somec of ti<
othier so-calledl weevils that ihad beer
brought to his notice were not 1bo1
weevils at all. Some people, he saidl
hiad mistaken the corn weevil for th<O
b)o11 weevil andl becomne mutch' coin
cernedt over thlem. TJhese corn weev.
ils, lie saidl, are companitively harm
less to cotton andl will disaappear ver3
50oon, thir~ only3 reason for bing ori
the cotton being that the farmers hatl
grown so little corn that the weevils
haven't enough of their regular dicl
to feed on and hlave taken to cotton as
a last resort.
In New Quarters.
The Vincent Motor Car Company
'which has been occupying theO stor(
room next to Wilkes & Comipany sinc<
last year, finished moving into Its now
garage and store room on East Mair
street bielow the old Robertson Hotel
last week. Extensive qiuarters havt
been provided theore for work of all
kInds and plans are .being laid for ii
considerahin nxnansinn o ts usiarns
PUBLIC HEARINGS
ON HIGIIWAYS
Highway Department Calls for Hear
ings on State System to be Held it
vreenvile ani Spiartanburg.
'Public hearings on Connecting liigh
ways in the Fourth Congressional dils
trict have been called )y the State
highway department to be held at
Greenville and Spartanburg on August
4th and 5th respectively according to
notices sent out by the department the
first of this week. All those interest
ed in county to county roads ar
vited to attend these hearings. Te
notice as senti to the press is as fol
lows:
Underi thle recent Act of the Legis
lature creating a State IlIighway De.
oartment, therq Is contained the fol
low-ing provision:
"The said State hlighway Commis
'Sion shall, under the advice of tle
State iiighway Engineer, lay out a
system of connecting highways
throughioutI the State, connecting ev
ery county seat within the State and
covering such main avenues of travel
and traflic as tihe sild liighway Con
mission may deem advisable."
'iefore Complying with the above
provision of tlie Act the Deaprinent
deems it advisable to hold a public
hearing in each of the seven Congres
sional Distrlets of the State, to which
will be invitedg all parties who may be
Ilitereste din lie matter. -A tentative
State System was laid out by the forum
(r .iighway I)eparitment after long
study and careful consideration, and
as a basis of discussion this tentative
system will be used. Maps of this 1a3
out may be obtained at the ofilce of
the County Supervisor of Roads of ev
ery 'ounty..
In purstuance of tlie above pur-pose
the State Highway Commission will
hold a hearing in the County Court
House in the city of Gireen'vile on Wed
nesday, August 1, 1920, from 10 A. M.
to 1 P. M. and a further hearing at the
Chamber of Commerce in the city of
Spartanburg on Thursday, August 5,
1920, from 10 A. M. to 1 P. M. and any
one in the Fourth Congressional dis
trict who belleves that the roads in
that District as laid out on the said
map ought to he changed Is invited to
appear at saidlittle tiilt places and
state to the said Commission tile
change proposed, giving tile reasons
therefor.
Inasmiuch a the I)epartment is
charged with the duty of laying out a
State System connecting the county
seats and the roads of adjoining slates,
only such roads as evould consistently
andll properly be incorporated in Suchl
a system can be taken into considera
tion.
F.AN('. IONORS 1'. S. HEROES
OF MAIN E hA.VI"TLE
'ihe' iBatttletleld at (hilateau iThierry
('onseerated by Preseaiil(on of
Diecoratitns at 11111 No. 201.
Chateau Thlerry, July 20.-Tlie bat
tiefheldl at Chateau Thtierry, wvher'e
American t roops tell with the lFrencht,
was conescratedl todlay 1by the priesen
tation or the Legion of H onor and the
Croix dle Giuerre upon the' town of'
('hateau Thiterry1 The decorations
were given in honor of 11i11 204 whl'e
the Americans and French army of
Geenral Mangin on thelir left, launch
ed t heir at tack in the se(onda battle of
the .\arne, July 18, I1918.
hlugh C1. Wallace, American Am
b~assadior. in thbanking the French~'i for
heirI tributte to American valor, die
5cibedl'( the scene as "tihe valley (If
vict ory3." The ceremnolly of ,iresenita
tion 'wats held on thme tolp of 11111 201.
at thle foot of the monu ment er'e(tedi toI
the men wvho fell in the battle. (Coun
try people from ilies ar'oundl lined the
mtudd~y, tortuous road, dlrenchied by tih'e
rain stormi, andl salutedl the arrival of.
Ministeir of War' Lefevre, Ambassador
Wallace, Ghenerals Mangin and ileg
onette andl othier notable plersonages.
The storm ceasedl wvithi the playing
of "The Miarseilaise" and "The Star
Spangled1 Ilanher." As the ceremony
began a r'ay of sunlighbibroke thrloiugh
the clouds andl fell across the village
of Chateau Thierry, lying below.
M. Lefevre paid a tribute to the
American soldliers who, ho said,
"brought their youlth, their enthuisi
asm andl their braver'y" to the alad of
France andl gave token of American
friendship in blood.
Mrs. John Bomar and children, of
'Charleston, are spending the summn
with Mr. and Mrs. M. 'L. Smith,.me
SUGGESTIONS
E TOP-SOIL ROADS
Break Speed Records nor
)aths. Spirit of Co-opera
soil surfacing. But everyone knows,
who has had any)- experience witi top
soil roads, that at best. they have a
traile i linit inusofa r as their standing
the wear and tear of traflie. I have
noticed as I pass uI and down the new
road::: that everybody hianimters along
Iin one beaten patl iln the center of
the road. This applies to traflic both
going and coming. As a matter of fact,
if every auto driver would take the
right precaut ion in the 1proper spirit,
and drive itljst a foot or two to the
right of the center of the road, he
would thereby unknowingly render
great assistance in the maintenance
and itl)-kee) and life of the road. It
Is plainly seen that tratlic regulated
in this manner Would be doing only
one-half of the hammering and dam
age as It no1w does, with everybody go
ing and coming in the center, except
when passing other vehicIes, and the
life of the road would be almost dou
bled by such procedure.
I would therefore, like to appeal to
all autiUist and t ruck I dlivers to (o'n -
Sider this proposition and give it at
least. a try-out. I feel sure after stich
a system has been given a fair trial
they will begin to notice the difference
In the condition of the roads. It is
'hard enough, with the limite(l means,
labor and machinery available to
maintain the roads in proper shape,
and especially so when the travelling
public has a tendency to thoughtless
Iy abuse the privilege of riding with
ease and smoothness over the new
roads In the same rut, instead of ex
ercising judgment, and doing all they
can in assisting in their maintenance
in the manner above suggested.
I might add also that the use of cut
outs is very harmfur to top-soil as
well as any other soil roads. The cut
out acts like a bellows in dislodgling
and scattering the oi!l and its con
tinued us' will mater-aly shorten the
life of the roads.
Yours very tritly,
N. C. HUGHES, .r.,
Chief Engineer,
Laurens Co. Highway Commission.
1RS. LAURA PHl[ILPOT.
WIfe of Capt. .1. 3f. PhIlpjot DIed at
Home Here Saturthiy 3Morniui
Mrs. Laura Philpot, wife of Capt. J.
M. P1hilpot, died at the family resi
dence here Saturday morning. Mrs.
Philpot had not been well for several
months and at times her condition had
been critical, but recently she had
shown sIgns of Improvement. Hecr
deth ecaeo Saturday after abrief r
curenc ofillness and was a shoek to
the community.
The funcal services wer~e held at
the hou1se' londiay morning, being con
(luteted by her astor, Rev C T,
Sq utires, of the Fi rst Presbyterian
church, assisted by Rev. Samuel HI.
TemC~fpleman, pastor of the First Bap
tist. lhulrch. F'ollowinug the services rt
the house the hody was borne to tile
Lautrens Cemetery where a bief com
mittment service with prayer was held.
Th'le deceased was a daughter of the
late Dr. C. A. Saxon of the Bethany
sect Ion of the county, andl was twice
marriedi. tier first marriage was to a
.\lr. Kern, of thle county, and of this
union thItree chiildren siurvive, M\essrs.
Jlohn and Charl Ic Kern, of Atlanta, and
.\i's. M. F". M\edlock, o' this city. A bout
2G years ago she was married to Capt.
P'hilpot and of this union two chii
dren survive, Miss Mario Philpot andl
\lir. Lautrens Philpot, of this city.
Three step-sons also survIve, Messrs.
J. E. Philpot, of this city, J. C. Pih-l.
pot, a raiway conutctor with head
quarters In Atlanta, and Berry PhIl
pot, who is in the navy. All of these
nereC -at the ftuneral except Berry Phil
pot, who could not be reached in time
for tihe funeral.
The active ipall bearers at the fun
eral consisted of her sons and step
sons andl the honorary hall-bearers
were as follows: Messrs. C. W. Tune,
W. P. SullIvan, A. C. Todd, Arthur
1Taylor, L. L. Moore, A. D. Gray, Ralph
Terry and Dr. Clifton Jnna.
COUNTRY CLUB
PLANS DISCUSSED
(o Initt1(ees frontii 11,11 i1a1rens and (I In.
ton l1 et In Chamber of commerce
Rlooms Laast Nhrht.
Two committees of about. tel (acl,
represent iig tie to:wn I),, of I 1a urelns anld
Clinton, met in tlie ('hamber of Comn
merce rooms last night and laid planis
for the formation of a country club to
be locnted about mildway Ietwee'(en the
two places. Geo. M. -VWright, president
of Watts .\lills, acted as chairalin of
the ineeting, and] W. -W. I larris, of
'illon, acted as Secretary. 'T'lis
I"eting followed several informiiial
in"etiigs which had previoisly beei
held where tentative plans for the
cliui) had been discissed. A comin i it
tee "om13posed of the cbairman of tihe
meeting with .\lessrs. C. M. lBailey
and W. W. 'Ilarris. of Clinton, and D)r.
W. 1). Feriguson and Alison I'e, of
lntir:lens, as additional iembers wa.s
a.poillte( to draw ip by-laws and se
lect a name, this committeo to meet
in Clinton Thursday night and repoIt
its findings to a meeting of the full
committee in I'auirens on the night of
August !th.
It was brought. out. at the meeting
that an option had already been 4(
cured oil a favorable site of about
twelve acres on the new top-soil roal
betwcil laiaurens and Clinton and that
.\lr. GCo. Young, of 'Clinton, would (10
nate everal acres adjoining this site.
It was linalilously decided to exer
CiSU the option and buy the land at
once. It is hoped that work on the
building and grounds, e.Itimated to
cost around $10,000, Will commence
before winter Sets in.
While the (comiittee did not set a
definite limit on the initiation and fees,
the sense of the Iecting, as expressed
by a vote on the question, was that tile
initiation fee should he $100 per memi1
berI- and that dues should be $30 per
year.
TRICKElRY SEEN IN
RUSSIAN PIIOPOSAL
Red Offer for Conference With illIes
A tt~ei pt to (mltIn liIcle-ition, le.
lIef. United States 11111 Take No
Action Now.
Washington, .1ly p.--Russia's pro
posal for a conference with tlie Allies
in L.ondon was regarded ui notlicially
here today as a skilifil maneulver to
(ffect a quasit r1 ecogniiloln of the So.
viet regime. Ollieially the state de
partment. iwas without any knowledge
of the Soviet suggestion, but it was
clear that unless some more urgent
reason than onw is apparent is given.
the Inited Fttates will be in no haste
to aceept. an invitation to join in S(11
a confei'ence, even tlotughl one were
exten led.
It was assumed hero that tile Ini
ted States wotil(d be asked to particl
pate, but the prevailing opinion ap
peared to be that tile specific (Iu'stioil
at. isstie--the cessation of the war
vith Poland--mn ight better be consid
eredl firist by tile hirinc ipalIs. 'The I 'ni
ed States, It. was explained, has a
peculiar intel e'st ill the situaitloll,
aside firom thait of desiring stabil iza
ion of political (cond11Ions thlrouighout
'iiiur'p, btit thle met(1hod suggested lby
liussla wvas re(garded'( gen('rally as a
contiv~ance of thle Sov'iet au thorit ies
It) use thle Polish situtition to advannce
he in terna tional1 stat us of t heiri re
gime.
Piresiden t WilIsoni, it was sad 1(t1oday,
has kep'lt illfoimed r'egarid inig thle de
ve(lop men ts not only as to thie H usso
IPol ish si tuat ion but also as to theiC sit -
ilationl In its bi'oadcr aspect. The po..
sitloll the Presidenit iavill lake wa's not.
evein5Pi(i hpult ed upon01 by other('1 011ie
iats of the goverinmeint but1 It has been
inidientedl that, unless lhe otherwise di
rel'e'd, the attitudte of tile l'nited
observer and that for the lpreseint, nol
('xpression of "miiornl suipport" or' mlore
active aid wvouild be extended to tli
Poles.
Laondoin, July 23.- -A wIreless tmes'
sage from Moscow todlay asks the
P olIshi peace plenipotentilaries to ('ioss
thie lines along the .Baranovitchi lIrest
lAtovsk highway Jtily 30, wher'e they
will be' met. TIhie imessage, .howeveir,
docs inot fix the exact locatIon of the
armIstice meeting.
To Clean Off Cemetery
Al'l of those who aire interested In
the cemetery at HIfghland Home
church are invited to assIst or send
help to clean off the cemetery on
jThutrsday. August 5,
RUSSIAN ADVANC[
GROWING SRIOUS
European War Feared on
Broad Scale
ALLIES WILL
AID THE POLES
l'essimism i elt Over seriois Sitti
1iIon Arislin Over lied Advatnce on
Polinit. l'rallce and nI-gland 31ay
Not be Abe to Assist In iTime.
Washington, Jutly 22.-Without of
ficial information regarding"' the deci
sion of' he Allied powerIs to fiu rnish
imiilitar y aid to Polandil in hier strugglo
with t li Iolsl(viki, govermllitient ollic
ialIs refiilled todly from formal ex
pression of o 1nioll, bult 1 11 nofficially
professed to see in the new situation
Imost of the elements of a European
war oil a broad scale.
Army ollicers and officials at the
state Ieia tm IIent generally were
frankly pessimistic as to the ability
of Prance and Great Britain to place
1111ies in Poland in timte to check the
ittissian advance before Warsaw falls,
and many of them were skeptical of
the power of either France or Great
Iritain to (rive tieitr war weary )o)u1
Iitiois int1o the struggle without a se
rious uniialancing of domestic affairs.
Although technially, the President
still is endowed with the specially
coiferred war powers, there was 110
diskposition ill oic'ial eireles to asstime
that he would I Involve the Unite'd
States iln a war between tle lBolshc
viki and the Allies. uiless action
Im ight. he justified by some overt act
aglilst the ariny of occupation on
tile l1hine. Reports to the state de
partment indicate increasing tension
between the conservative and pro-rad
ical groups In Germany, and it was
generally believed that. uniless the rad
ical elellent gained thle ascendancy
the chances of -the United States be
coming involved in the 'ew situationl
were slight, although a suggestion of
American cooperation from France and
Grteat Dritain was regarded as prob.
alble.
For the present, it was indicnted at
tIhe. state depiar'tilleit. ihe part of the
lnitied States will lbe that of anl inl
tireste(d observer. Steps already have
been taken to rmove from the war
area such Avm ricans as may wish to
leave.
Paris, July 22.---The Allies will take
me-astires prlparatory to giving illi
tary aid to Poland, if that should
prove niecessary, it was learned here
today.
A French mission headed by Jules
.1. Jusserand, French ambassador to
the United States, who is home oa
leave withI General Weygand, right
hand man of Marshal Foch, and M.
Vigon, a (lose collaoI)ratolr withl
P remier i\Milleran01d, will l eave tonlighit
for Warsawv to arranige for lpromtilt
sit ((01 to (lie 1Poles .
On the same trainl and with the
samie objlect there wvill be a Blritiish
i ssion hteade~d lby LorOd Abeirnon,
liadeliff'e and( .i r .\taitrice I lankey.
These missions11 it. is learnedC, go
with authority to say to thte P'oles that
what eveir a Id is nieededd w hether'n milI
itary or' tin ancial or ill the naturtle of
stuppilies, will be forthIicom inig if the
blslh(eviki persist ill aL designl to
march'el inito (list inctly IPol ish tellritory.
A\lready a larae numl~ber' of Allied
(itli cirs and siubal ternts arie with the
P'olishi armoy, whlich, it is declared,
will bie ini(reased1 accord(intg to circum..
stanlces withi as many dlv isions of in
falntry, tank (letachets, air forces
and1 artill ery as may be tranlfsported In
due11 time.
.lethiodist Plinic.
Theli yotung peCoplO of thle Methodist
churichl have planned a picnic for
Thursday eveninlg of this week. Each
young person connected with the
chuirch or -with the Epworth League is
askedl to meet at the chturch Thursday
evenling at seven o'clock. From thoro
the group wIll drivd to somo ' table
place, pr'obably to Davis ,J, a.nd
there enjoy the good ti '7 at
that have been prepared by Young
ladles of the church. The young men
are expected to se that cars arp on
hand with which to carry the young
'ladies, with' their well illled baskets,
to the pIcnIc destinatilon.