Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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In remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD i Foreign Adrertiainf Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921 The Planter and the Wage-handjS. (From the Columbia State.) Mr. Coker's illuminating analysis of the cotton growers' troubles printed a few days ago, stresses the plight of the tenant farmer or sharecropper, who, even when producing the ideal yield of a bale per acre, received for the labor of his family and himself less than half the average wage of a single farm laborer for the year 1920. Equally as d-plorable is the debit account of the planter ^ho mployed wage-hands cr day laborers o.dy. If. according to Mr. Coker, a sharecropper received a maximum of $1.07 for the labor of himself, wife and three children, how much per day on the basis of actual production, was the wage-hand worth to the planter who paid him more than $2 cash per day? The share-cropper, hard-hit as he is, received all he actually earned? all that what he produced sold for By the same computation, the wagehand or day laborer received two oi three times more tnan ne proaucec and this excess wage came out of th* pocket of the planted. It may be augured that these scores of millions of dollars paid to South Carolina farm labor, in excess of whal that labor actually produced, were not wasted because they went into thf hands of labor, but probably only a small part of these excess millions went into permanent investments oi in improved standards of living. Oui farm laborers are proverbial beggarson-horseback in the expenditure oi earnings in excess of the requirements of their long established standards oi living. True, the money speedily got into circulation, but the large profits * made by the merchants who received the patronage of the wasters, will be taxed out of them by the Federal government and add little to the property values of the state. The cotton planter of the South, caught in a cruel trap between the jaws of high production costs and low markets, has fared far worse that the wheat grower, the corn grower or the live stock grower of the West, for in no other extensively growa crop in this country is the labor cost for manDower and horse-power even -approxh mately as high as for cotton The State, like other newspapers, has preached diversification for a generation, but the truth is that South Carolina farmers are better organized for growing cotton than for any other crop. Practically all our lands can grow cotton; part of them cnly can grow profitably corn, oats, potatoes or tobacco. Cotton, under intelligent management that returns to the soil stalks, leaves and the seed, or its equivalent in cottonseed meal, takes practically no fertility from the land, and the crop fits ideally into farm rotation. TTrose who think the cotton planter to blame for his heavy losses of last year, should consider what other market crops could have been grown at a profit in South Carolina during 1920, How much have our tobacco growers , realized? A recent report puts the , price of day labor of South Carolina farms at $2.30 a day for 1920. Un 1 1 ? ) l;?.L der tfcis laDor cnarge ana vne m^i price of fertilizer, could we have grown 75 cent corn profitably? Hard as it is to face, the problem of the cotton growers of South Carolina this year resolves itself into a question of how much they can afford to pay for farm labor. The sharecropper divides the hazard of weather and market with the owner of the land but the planter who pay^wages must risk it all. The planters of 1920, riding high on the hope of 40 cent cotton, willingly paid the $2.30 wage imposed upon them, but as notj even 30 cent cotton warrants the payment of such wages, and as no sane man will plant cotton this year with the expecta. -V. tion of receiving materially highe prices that those now obtainable, ii the face of Mr. Coker's estimate o the earnings of share-croppers wh< must be assumed to work as hard a cage-hands, how much can grower of 13 cent cotton afford to pay fo farm labor in 1921. i o i The Passing of Wilson ? , (From the London Round Table) On November 2, by a cowincini : vote, the people of the United State repudiated Woodrow Wilson?his per ! sonality, his idealism, his administra tion, his conduct in and out of office his treaty of Versailles and hi League of Nations. The great an ; solemn referendum" which he plan red and promised has destroyed hirr i The prophet has been dishonered b; his own country. He has been swep bv the tide of aversion down from th highest pinacle ever momentaril, attained by a statesman of moder: times. 1 The man whose pen splintered th swords of Prussia, the man bcfor whose image the peasants of Ital burned candles, the man who gav form to the loftiest political ideal tha ever captured the conscience of th world, is broken and beaten by th ' rods of his own people. There is no need to dwell upon thi , personal tragedy. It is clear, it i complete?and is as old as time. There is no need to dwell upon hi faults. They have been well adver tised. Woodrow Wilson's egotisir i his mistakes of judgement have bee mouthed by spellbinders during th ; campaign to the joy of crowds. o The Child Phenomenon. (John Holloway in a Letter to th New York Herald.) How can we explain the extraor dinary ability of the eight-year-ol I chess player. Is it an instinct or does he per . form in the same mechanical wa; . that a spider does when it weaves ( web, or as a little insqpt does whe: i it sets a trap for an unsuspectini , enemy? Surely the child hasn't ac , quired his ability through experienct How, then, can experence conquor ex , perience? Wherein lies the source of his gift are we to seek an answer in the con . struction and grouping of the brai . cells actuated bv the blood supply I Or does he possess a "soul" or "ego ? or "physchic" superior to yours o mine that gives him such extraordi , nary perception? Does he know any L thing about chess? Is he generall t intellectual or is he ordinaray in mos , respects? > The theosophists will tell us tha t it is a case' of reincarnation; tjh , the spirits will tell us that the chil . is a medium controlled by Zipto o . the planet Mars; but what has th . student of mental phenomena to say o j Begins Second Term. ; Governor Cooper on Tuesday begs: ; the second term of his administratior [ He was inaugurated before a joint ses , sion of the assembly. Lieutenant Gov . ernor Wilson G. Harvey, of Charles . ton, was sworn in as president of th senate, and Walter E. Duncan o Aiken, only new state officer electee , was sworn in as comptroller. Th governor's inaugural address wa , largely devoted to education and to : , review of school work in the state. ( o 'Possum in Pipe Organ. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 10.?Weiri moans and strange discords shockei the congregation of the Clayton Bap ' tist Church last Sunday when the or oranict trtiirhprf hiss kevss for the ODen ing hymn. A hurry call brought j corps of first-aid piano timers to th scene. The organ continued to giv 1 its own version of sacred music an an expert from the factory was sum ' moned to doctor it. He extracted i ' nine-polpd possum yesterday frori one of the big pipes. o The cornerstone of the new admin ' igtration building of the Horry L.dus trial school, Agnor, S. C., will be laii at 12 o'clock noon, Wednesday, Jan uary 19, 1921. All former student ' and other friends of the institutioi will be welcome and are cordially in ' vited to be present on that occasior S. C. MORRIS, | Agnor, S. C., Jan. 7, 1921. ~ o 1 Said to have been led by his lov frw V>ov anrl Komikp nf Wrp 1' 1 peated refusals to marry him, K. 1 ! Bouknight, a young salesman of Col umbia, shot and .nortallyreduceotet 1 lumbia, Monday, shot and mortal!; " v,ounded Mrs. Clara Duvall, of Hen 1 dersonville^ N. C., who was visitinj ' her friend, Mrs. Grace Gallamore ii ' Columbia and setft a bullet througl his own brain. Both died at a loca ' hospital shortly after the shootini which took place in a darkened hall way of the Gallamore home. o $50.00 FREE! The Opening Day, at 10 a. mn w< will give $50.00 away to the first 5i people entering the store. STEELE FURNITURE COMPANY The Man in Charge. y ^ ' r ^ ^^ r1 Says Negroes Wronged, i Atlanta, Jan. 13.?Wrongs are bef ing perpetuated against negrccs in 0 Georgia that "run all the gamut from s the meanest of petty cheating to des liberate and plotted murder." Unit1 ed States District Attorney Hooper Alexander declared in a statement made here today in connection with announcing sendee of peonage indictments against three residents of Henry County. g Mr. Alexander indicated that fedcrs al officers will begin a State-wide in vestigation of the situation. .- j "Comparatively little effcrt is being i made by the proper onicers 13 er.a s these conditions." the district attord'ney said. "In a large proportion of - the cases judicial processes are issued I by magistrates that are used in the y most shameless manner in the aid of II crimes and the attendant circume j stances are such as should call for in y | dictment for malpractice. Case? have n; occurred in v. hich there is the gravest 1 reason to fear that other officers of e the law have been active participants e in the gravest kind of wrongs. The y things of which I speak run all the gae mut from the meanest of petty cheatt ing to deliberate and plotted murder, e Ninety-nine per cent of our people e would utterly deplore and condemn what is going on, but something more s is demanded of a civilized people and s their government than mere sentiment. If the pecple of the State pers mit the continuance of conditions that - now prevail, sooner or later, and in 1, some way, we will suffer a dreadful n retribution." e The peonage indictments were ordered served on Erwin Morris, wellto-do farmer and two of his tenants, one a neero. all three of whom are in jail at Jortesboro according to the e district attorneys office, in connection with the killing of another negro. 0 New Rolling Stock for A. C. L. " Contraacts for new rolling stock ^ costing 56,220,000 have been recently a let by the Atlantic Coast Line Railn road Company, "The Standard Rail? road of the South." Announce to this effect was made Monday by John R. * Kenly, president of the A. C. L. at his office in Wilmington, N. C. , o Dr. Theobald Von Bethmarn Hollweg, former German imperial chanR cellor is dead after a brief illness on ? his estate at Hohenfinow, near Berlin. o 5 West Va. Gapitol Burned. Charleston , W. Va., Jan. 3.?The capitol building of West Virginia was ^ destroyed by fire late today. One laborer was killed, a fireman seriously t injured with several other fire fighters when a section of roof under 0 I which they were standing caved in. t 0 p Just received another car of nice ? Mules and Horses. Ham Live Stock Co., Hemingway, S. C. o If anybody v,an insure it, n Wm. W. Boddie can. ' o BUY! Satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded. Come. J STEELE FURNITURE COMPANY The Man in Charge. ?f ? e NOTICE OF APPLICATION s FOR FINAL DISCHARGE, a Notice is hereby given that at 11 o'clock, a. m. on February 21st, 1921, I will apply to W. E. Snowden, Judge of Probate for Williamsburg County, . at his office in Kingstrse, S. C., for Letters Dismissory, discharging me J as Administratrix of the estate of - John S. Fulton, deceased. SALLIE W. FULTON, Adia;nistratratrix of the Estate of John S. Fulton, deceased, a l-20-5t-lwg. e e NOTICE OF SALE. i r . STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Williamsburg, a 1 Court of Common Pleas. Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Lake City, a National Banking corporation, Plaintiff, against a Louisa Thompson and Nelson Thompson, Defendants. s Notice is hereby given, that under and by virture of a Decree issued out n of the Court of Common Pleas for - Williamsburg County, South Carolina, t. signed by his honor Judge John S. Wilson, dated January 17th, 1921, to me directed, I will sell at public auction before the Court House door at Kingstree, S. C., on Monday the 7th e day of February, 1921, the same being - colnr. Katu'oon fho lpcrnl hours Of 7 oaico VI?J j wv?> we* *??v - - o ? ? sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate, to" wit: t "All that certain piece, parcel or y tract of land, situate, lying and being in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, containing fourteen (14) acres, % more or less, and bounded as follows, n to-wit: On the North by lands of ?. h Foxworth; on the East and South by i lands formerly of John Reed, and on _ the West by the run of White Oak ? Swamp. This land conveyed to Lou isa Thompson by John Reed by deed dated July 17th, 1914, recorded in Book "A-ll" at page "61", office Clerk of Court of Williamsburg County, as by reference to map or plat e made by P. G. Gourdin, Surveyor, will 5 fully show." Purchaser to pay for papers. , J. D. BRITTON, Clerk of Court Williamsburg l-20-3t County, S. C. ' . ? * liWi^Biiiiiaii^H^Jiiicmura nia^:? it i... i:;:i:if'E!iiixft;i iriiliiaanHB ^ i *rfu^-? cml^v' ^j^b ^vsl,4^ ?rk V H, T 4 M 4 | O-l l^N - 1" I I THAT IS TO SAY, WE HAVE CENiRAL- , . 1 IZED OUR THREE STORES IN KINGS- J TREE UNDER ONE ROOF?THE CEN- I TRAL WAREHOUSE BUILDING AT THE 1 CORNER OF MILL STREET AND HAMP- J TON AVENUE, WHICH WE HAVE USED " FOR STORAGE FOR SOME TIME. '? A 1 A A 1 A 1A Larsest Stock in South laroona " IN THIS SPACIOUS BUILDING YOU 1 WILL FIND THE LARGEST AND MOST | COMPLETE LINE OF FURNITURE AND ^ HOUSFURNISHINGS TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE IN THIS STATE. NOTWITHSTANDING ^THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SUCH A TREMENDOUS STOCK j OUR UNUSUALLY LARGE FLOOR J | SPACE MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR UjS | TO SHOW YOU THROUGH THIS STOCK I WITH THE LEAST INCONVENIENCE. || Hi Offered at Very Atrracthre Prices 1 WE WANT ONCE MORE TO IM- S PRESS UPON YOU THE PACT THAT IT ^ WILL BE TO YOUR INTEREST TO IN- , I SPECT THIS STOCK BEFORE YOU BUY 1 FURNITURE, AS THE QUALITY OF OUR 1 . GOODS COMPARES FAVORABLY WITH I . I THE BEST TO BE FOUN DANYWHERE | * a?m nrm tjtjtnines atjf nnwhtstpwr ? Alll/ WAV A XVAVAJW CM*AJ vvAiwAMXMi ? t, WITH THE TIMES. _ Assembled Under One Roof v REMEMBER, OUR BUSINESS IS NOW CONSOLIDATED UNDER THE ONE pnm?_TWli! rneWTRAT. WAREHOUSE I f BUILDING?WHERE WE WILL Blf | ' ] UGLAD TO HAVE YOU CALL ON US AND I LOOK THIS BIG STOCK OVER. J ingstree Furniture Co. Warehouse Building, irihirCTDCr C r dill Street^nd Hampton Ave. lUllUulIuirL, u. v.