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THE SOUTH AND THE FUTURE In Broader Industrial Develop ment Lies the Prosperity of AH Southern Interests G. L. Miller & Co., of Atlanta, * who ha vie for years been placing bonds on southern building opera tions, have decided to move their executive offices to New York in order to broaden their field of work and come in closer touch with capital. Writing "to the Manufac turers Record on the reasons for this removal Mr. Miller says: "I cajanot hesitate to use this ad ditional opportunity of again em phasizing the need of the south to day. - Our work in moving our ex ecutive offices here does not mean we are iiv any way divorcing our selves from southern activities. In . deed, it is primarily for the pur pose of increasing and diversifying those activities. You" no doubt know that a great share of invest ment funds coming into the south do so from this section. By our lo cation oh the ground, we find we are able to double our activities and our value to the south. So I wan: to emphasize once more the need of all southern trade and ' commercial organizations, business houses, magazines, and everybody^ else walking up. getting into their best clothes, so as to make good appearances, using extensively and persistently printer's ink and let ting these northern people know more about that section of Amer ica especially endowed by na ture." * There is an awakening^ all over the south to the need of broader activity in development work. The depression brought on the agricul tural interests by unwise deflation can be overcome, so far as the south as a whole is concerned, by the ex pansion, which is within its power, of the industrial interests of this section. New markets for agri cultural products can be increased by the development of manufactur ing enterprises, creating a home demand for everything the farmer can raise. 9 The South is as yet in the infancy of its development. It can increase to an almost unlimited extent the utilization of its resources. Its wa ter powers, as yet unharnessed, furnish a large field for expansion and every hydro-electric develop ment made broadens the field for creating industrial enterprises. Ev ery hydro-electric power company in the. south should be aggressive ly seeking to dra-vv^ capital and in dustries into this section. Every railroad, every development agency in.the south, should take a broad er view of the potentialities of the south and of its responsibility to co operate in building up the south than has ever been taken in the past. An awakening'of that spirit of enterprise which lifted the south out of the mire ?f reconstruction days, ending with 1876, and gave to this section the wonderful im pulse of the 80's, should be quick ened into new. life and new energy and new broadness of vision and new readiness to spend money to make known the possibilities of the south. * Agriculture throughout the na tion has received a hard blovv. It is greatly depressed*?more so in the west than in the south. But through the upbuilding of manu facturing:' enterprises, the expan sion of railroad facilities, ?.};<? er iargement of port facilities, there can be created a prosperity in the south, which will far more than overcome the loss occasioned by the depression in agriculture, and w.ll be a sure means of - hefping to bring prosperity back to the fanr. ers.?Manufacturers Record. OLD AGE ?-* Every once in a while we pick up a ?aper and read about some expert telling how you cam live Jo.be a hundred years old or more. The . though*< often comes to the mind' of people of what the kid an swered when asked how to live long. He replied: "Don't quit breathing." " One .man will say never to use tobacco, and another will say to use it, one is an abstainer, the other always took his nip. Such is life. Rockefeller, who seems destined j to reach this great age, seems an example of play as weli as work. This seems the most logical point to commend to those who wish to live to an old age. Exercise in the open, air, change of environment, and the absence of worry, should, if any thing can. make for a long life. The disease of^orry carries more people to an early grave than, any other one cause, other than sickness itself. Abuse of nature and the laws of nature will undermine and take away from the body more material good than all the doctors and right living in the world can repair. So the main issue to live to be a hundred is to take care of your self and not quit breathing.?Ex change. ? ? ? Marriages In Germany Show De crease. Berlin. Oct. 9.?The number of marriages and births in Germany for the first quarter of 1922 show a large decrease over the same period for 1921. According to statistics just issu ed, the number of marriages dur ing these' three months was 8.4 per thousand persons as against 10.4 for last year. The number of births was 25.6 as compraed to 27.7 and the number of deaths was 18.5 as against 15.6 in 1921. The corresponding quarter for the year H?3 showed marriages were C.2; births 28.8 and deaths J6.8. Wiseman: "Self-praise is no recommendation." Saynor: "That's right. Many fellow rises f in his own estima tion without getting any nearer the top."-?Observer. A Pica to Kx-Scrvice Men to Join the American Legion. Editor Daily Item: 1 do not know what your person al feelings are regarding the American Legion but. regardless of what they are. I wish to let the reading public of Sumter know that you have been the benefactor of our local post in the past and have jalways sought to give us the ad vantage of any space we asked for and I feel it due. you that we ex press to you publicly, our sincere gratitude. We have no other way, except through the press, of sending a message to the many ex-service men in Sumter county. We are on the verge of starting a drive for membership in 1923 and would like, if you will permit us, to put one final plea in your paper, to the ex service men. before the drive starts. Men, who have fought the good fight, you "who have won for your selves the undying gratitude of a fond nation, do you realize for an instant that it would be very neg ligent in you -after having accom plished your deeds of valor not to affiliate with some organization whose purpose it is to perpetuate with a monument eternal the glories of the heroic actions of our living and the supreme sacrifices of our dead, of this recent world war. Financially there can be no objection, raised as you are asked to contribute the sum of $3.00 per year, which sum includes a sub 'scription to the American Legion Weekly and this magazine alone is well worth the sum asked. If your father or grandfather wore the gray of a Confederate soldier, you want to know it. It is your rightful heritage that you should know it and the society *known as the United Confederate Veterans is one of the principal means that has been made use of to transmit this knowledge to you first hand. Your son or grandson has the same right to look back with pride upon your record, in the yjars which are to follow, and what better means will you be able to offer in 20 or 25 years hence, to show where you stood in the war of 1914 to 1918. than by showing bona fide membership in the Le gion, which is the only recognized national society of veterans of the world war? If on the; other hand you are a young man, strong and active and at the time of your country's dire need you did something that you are ashamed of, if you sought by every means possible to keep out of the fightT in other words if you are a slacker and your conscience will not permit you to* forget that fact, then I warn, you fairly, the Legion doesn't need you and it would be 9, very bad place to seek forgetfulness and sweet oblivion, for the men of the Legion are de termined that our people shall nev er forget the fact that in Flanders field today under a bleak and win try November sky lie buried thou sands of our buddies. These boys were your school mates, friends, loved ones. They gladly paid the price called for and the very least that we, who are left, can do is to commemorate their brave deeds in song and story, un til nowhere within the borders of our land will there remain a group of people who have failed to hear it. How can we do this any better than by banding ourselves together into a society and meeting occa sionally to talk it over. The Le gion is already well established. It fulfills our every need and desire, then why not come into the Lo gion ai.d bring some one with you or maybe brAncli out and start a society of your own? I've, talked to a good many men i in the last few days about member ship. Only one of them has said j he didn't wish to come in, but j many have had some form of com plaint to enter. I know that their complaints are justifiable. We have made errors In the past and all of us, looking to brighter and better days, hope to rectify them but we are all human so put your I hammer on the shelf and help boost our post. Membership in the Legion is on merit. You cannot come in except j it be that you can show sufficient | service in the army, navy or ma- j rine corps. Our post should have ' at least 250 men. We have or- j ganized this year with the deter mination of going over the top in every way. The first of the big guns will be fired on Tuesday night, November 28th with*a banquet at the Claremont Hotel. 125 cards will go out to ex-service men to- i morrow announcing this banquet. I Now if you don't get a card come anyhow because you are cordially i invited whether a card was mailed j you or not. We do not know ev ery ex-service man in the county but. if you should know one or two who did not ?eceive cards kindly extend them an invitation. Every man who was a member ! last year and who desires to renew j his memberhip this year is urged j to make out a check for $3 pay able to W. H. Bowman. Adjutant, and mail it right away. If you I wish a button send one additional j 50 cents and the buttons will be ordered right away. If you have] never belonged to a post but, are eligible, ask some Legioner. and J they will assist you in getting j straight. Hoping all will see fit to! join, who are eligible, we are al- j ways at your service. Sumter Post Xo. 1.";, American i Legion, W. II. Bowman, Adjt. Fire at Tindals. Tindal, Nov. 1C.?At an early! hour Monday morning the dwelling | house on the plantation of Mrs. Ella J. Jones, near here was com- ! p!et?ly destroyed by fire of an un- | known origin. The tenants who had occupied the house during the year had recently moved out and there had been no fire in the house for days, so far as known. The house was comparatively new, hav ing been built only a few years ago by the late A. J. Jones. It was valued at $8,000 to $10,000 and was insured for $6,000. I 1 Revenue Under New Tariff; 'import Taxes May Reach ! $445,000,000 This Year? Greatest in History * j ; Washington. Nov. .0 (By the As- j sociated Press).?A federal reve-j nue of approximately $445,000,000 j this fiscal year from import taxes.! I or about $100,000.000 more than! ever before in the nation's- history, j was forecast today by customs of- j [ficiais on the basis of returns un-j der the new tariff act for a month < and a half of its operation and j the almost unprecedented income i which-immediately preceded enact- i ment of the measure, when there j were heavy withdrawals from1 bonded warehouses and a rush of imports to avoid the higher duties carried in the new law. The actual reverie for the first month was $40.86S,2?C, or at the, rate of nearly $500,000,000 a year.; Officials said this was the first j time that custom's receipts had j reached $40,000,000 in the month! after enactment of a new tariff, j j They expected some recession from! i this monthly total, but said there} j was little or no indication of the j ! slump- in imports which usually | has occurred during the "first six< months or year of protective rates.*) Two explanations are offered, j One is the abnormal foreign ex-! change, and . world economic con i dition and the other the recovery of the country before passage of the Fordney-McCumber act from the after-the-war industrial depression and attendant buyers' strike, j Were there to be any great de | pression in import'trade it would ! be manifesting itself by this time, i j according to these officials. In- j I stead of any. such manifestation, j j they declare that foreign goods are j j reaching the country in increasing! ! quantities as evidenced by the con- j gestion in the appraiser's stores at J j the port of New York.v j - While imports are holding their! j own in volume, customs officers I ! are unable to say now whether! ! new rates affecting certain lines' have had the effect of shutting but; such goods from particular foreign j countries as was predicted by op-1 ponents of "the Fordney-McCumber; measure. Treasury officers view the im-' port situation with much satisfac- j tion. As it now7 is developing the government is getting a greater; revenue even than was estimated > would be yielded and at the same j time.the country is absorbing for- j eign goods in such volume as in j their judgment should assist for- j egin nations to liquidate their debt to the1 United States. Followers of General Petlura Sen tenced to Death. Kharkov, Sept. 25.?Twenty in- j surrectionists accused of operat-' ing under General Petlura during the time he was active against the; Soviet government, have been sen- = teheed ro be shot. They were tried her by an extraordinary revolu-; tionary tribunal of the Ukraine, j Twelve others, all.members of the' Don. Basin partisan committee J charged with antr-Soviet activities were given prison sentences. Of the 42 persons placed on trial, 15 were acquitted. General Petlura himself is said to be in Galicia,; outside the jurisdiction of the Bbl | sheviki. They are pulling wires to get a, monopoly on wireless. ' ' The man about town is seldom about anything else. Mrs. Philip J. Fitzpatrick, wifo of a lieutenant in the 107th New York regiment, is accused by her husband of having a love affair with Colonel Wade H. Haynea ! (above). The lieutenant has sued \ his commanding officer for $100, 000 for alleged alienation of Mrs. Fitzpatrlck'8 affections. Haynea denies the charges. Baroness Won Baroness Thais Lucander, her . War, is studying stenography at Bo tunes la the business world here.. Dangerous Tendencies and a Land of Scrub Pines and Oaks. (By X. L. Willet in Augusta Chronicle). j Our Sole Living In spite of the fact that the be low areas have no surplus of wocd to spare yet in a trip' to Charlotte, X'. C. last week I found lumber and logs piled up practically at every station on the read and the same condition exists largely on the Georgia railroad. These wood and lumber exhibits indicate that the people along these railways are to day living off of their already too! limited forests, which means, in'. turn, that the sawmill and the pulp wo'od man are literally skimming all of our woods and leaving'hoth-' ing there but bare stumps: it means that our agricultural activities are( decreasing and that necessarily our ; land values are also decreasing and j it-means that a serious exodus; of. our farm labor is obtaining and a labor that will never return. Our people do not all realize that these j dangerous tendencies are with us< nor do they understand their true, meanings. Would that some'angel! could trumpet it out of tht ; skies, j saying: "Conserve your standing wood; hold on at all hazards to your labor; continue your normal farm activities. Senilis Pim*s and Scrub Oaks From a car window today in the Augusta territory one sees?all other tree types gone?nothing on the landcape but useless scrub pines and scrub on Its. Xo part of this wooded tragedy is so serious, perhaps, as is the passing of the . Iongleaf pine. There are millions and millions of acres today of cut over lands where once these trees that give us our best lumber stood. It is a forest, that is greater in beauty than any other of our American forests or any too of ourj European forests. These vast cut- j over lands represent just so much' that is idle, waste and valueless.I We have no greater question thanj this: Is it possible that there shall ilot be renewal or resurrection for; these once exceedingly valuable! lands? Second Growth. Here and there throughout the] country we find, though not in, large amounts, natural second growth long leaf young pines and! lumbermen are eagerly buying up f these tracts and are biding their i i time. The cost here is not much [ and i: is the safest and soundest investment today in this country;'; The Iongleaf pine is. a tree of re-J markabie economic value. The treei grows 7<i to U'O feet high and its! trunk is Clean and bare of limbs { o tie-half to two-thirds of its height, making it a remarkably wondrous commercial matter. Its lumber the world over is the J standard. The tree. toe. has im portant side issue values in its turpentine and in rosin?these two! products being, exceedingly high-' priced and continually increasing! in price. The tapping for turpen- j tine of the tree continues, too, for a long serif s of years?and does not destroy its lumber value. Lessens In Forestry The great lesson in all forestry is to learn that by wise lumbering, a given forest may be continually'; used and yet perpetuated. It is only ignorance and indifference! thai totally destroys a forest. And j the lesson in long-leaf pine forestry,} :;vi<i" from its conservation through.) right cutting, is to know that it. is j a crime in forestry to born off land j and that it is a crime to turn in, !?.<? razor-back hog on young long i leaf pines. While blooded stock do j not seem i?? hurl young pines yet. the razor back i< capable of tear-j ing up and eating the roots of from! 200 !<? ??'?(; young seedling pines per ; day. !:i other word.';, we do not s to understand that the use of | timber and the production of tim-j bcr uo hand in hand :it the same, time, and <o: i he same land and that ! in this way we <;ui iz<-\ not only, ;i continuous income from these) wooded lands but we can keep a perpetual supply of the raw mn-j terials: and equally true is it that even when our young pine forests j naturally spring up and are going j forward we are utterly indifferent Id Be Typist Finnish estate swept away by the ?ton. Shell try to recoup her for te the menanee of-woodland fires and of the razor-back hog. Rcforcstration. The long-leaf pine matures seed about every two years. The seed or mass are imbedded in the cone, ihese cones being six Or eight inches long. These seeds are winged. They germinate easily?best in the fall, but possibly, too. -in the spring. To transplant seedlings from a bed of long leaf pine is not always a safe" matter. In reforesting this pine it is best* to sow seed in plowed fur rows or in hills. Planted S feet apart-we have-GSO trees to the acre and ten feet apart 430 trees. There are 7,500 seeds in one pound of seed and it takes about two pounds'to reseed an acre. Planted this thickly these trees can be thinned out every five to ten years and the product can be used for railroad ties, cordwood, poles, pulp wood, etc. ? Turpentine and Lumber Every turpentine\face cut yields one pint to one quart in turpentine and four to five pounds in rosin. Ten thousand face cuts yield 30 to 45 barrels of turpentine and 90 to 130 (500-pound) barrels of rosin. As to lumber, a 23-year old stand of 210 trees per acre, 7$'feet high, will yield 23 cords.' of bark, wood and 17 cords of peeled wood for. the pulp man, or 5,oOO feet bf lum ber. A 20-year-old tree should be 50 to 60 feet high. Tree diame ters grow approximately 1 inch a year. Good Security Reforestation in long leaf or Slash pine is practical. It is a vi tal matter to landowners, to our government and our states. These lands would increase in value every year and would make a sound, safe bonded investment. There is a rich field in reforestation for our rail roads for our railroads in south Georgia are buying up and reforest ing cheap acid water-logged lands with the slash pine. This, pine grows very rapidly. It grows, un like other trees, in acid lands and it is a pine, strange to say, that transplants easily and safely. WHAT IS NEWS? What is news?* What does a per son hWan when they pick up a pa per and say there i3 no news today? What is news? ? Xews are items of public interest collected from the four corners of the earth?pertaining to all things ?and published in the paper for Lhe benefit of the readers and to in form people of the happenings in Lhis world. Some believe that news is mere ly the scandal and vieiousness that ?omp seem to delight in and which is used in their prophecies that the w orld is going to the dogs. One of the greatest virtues of the weekly paper is that it is not full of "riews", in the applied sense of some. The scandals and vices that fill up the pages of the cosmopolitan dailies are not seen in the week lies as a rule, for their space is L!sed for the betterment of its read ers. The average weekly paper editor is greatly more interested in lhe ten fancy pigs Jim Jones bought Lhau in the woman who shot her husband. Sallie Smith's baby hav ing sea riet fever is of more interest to him than that some celebrated person has a spell of tonsolitis. The notice of the weekly prayer meeting meeting contains more interest for the weekly paper than that the for eign offices are having great diplo matic conferences. The publishers of the weekly pa pers never become rich in this world's goods, but the richness of feeling and experience is something that money cannot buy. May the ilay never come when the weekly paper will be other than a message from home to the man who has left r li** old family fireside, nor to the ones who stay at home, and whose eyes are eager to see the happen ings around them which means to them a community gathering every day the paper is printed.?Ex change. Our Pacific ocean is so dry now a big ship burned. Better business is back but she certainly has fallen off. foul play is feared; Williamston Woman Missing For Ten Days Anderson, Nov. 17.?Fearing foul play the relatives of Mrs. Ger trude Rhoads, young Williamston j woman, are apprehensive as to her safety, it was reported here, when j several of her relatives ccwne to [ Anderson and announced that J Mrs. Rhoads had been missing for | the past ten days or more. Mrs. Rhoads is the widow of the late M. R. .Rhoads and since the death of her husband she and her several children have lived some distance from Williamston. It was reported that Mrs. Rhoads left her home on Novem ber ? for a visit to her brother's in Bassette, Va. Her plans in cluded- a return to her home on last Saturday, and her failure to arrive aroused the suspicions of her relatives, who immediately com municated witn her brothers at I Bassette. A telegram in reply' stated that the young woman had | not arrived there as per schedule j and they had ndt seen her. Officers in several cities have ' been informed of the disappear- j ance of the young woman and ev-j ery effort is being made to find i trace of her. ! trial date is fixed Charles W. Morse to Face! J Court in February Washington, Nov. 17.?Trial of Charles W. Morse, New York ship-! builder, his three sons and eight ?thers, jointly indicted here on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the I United States Shipping Board in : connection with shipbuilding con j tracts during the war, will begin j February* 6 in the criminal divi ;sion of the District of Columbia i Supreme Court. Justice Stafford 'today granted the request of Attorney Wilson T. Lambert for Mr. Morse that the February date be-fixed. United States Attorney Gordon, consented to the date suggested, i but advised the court he had not ; consulted counsel for the other de fendants. . Morse recently filed a request I for an. early trial, claiming that ] the government had failed to press i the charges of fraud in the civil cases at Alexandria, Va. problems' i of farmers New Y,prk, Nov. 10.?The na j tion must give more attention to j i.he problems of those who till ! the soil /or awaken some day to i realize that a. purely industrial and I commercial nation is an unstable j and precarious unit, Seymour L. Cromwell, president of the New j York Stock Exchange, said tonight at a conference of the American Country Life Association. A discontented rural popula ! tion can defeat the best laid pro ; gram of prosperity, he said, add j ing that the farmer, in relation to i politics, his demands for represen j tation in state and national legi? j latures and congress^ and on -gov | ernmental commissions and boards, j contributed a problem demanding i wisdom and study, j Mr. Cromwell . suggested that j investment bankers bend their ef i forts toward cultivating the con I fidence of the farmer. j Dan Murphy Dead iAged Life Prisoner in Peni tentiary Dies in Cell I Columbia Nov. 16.?Dan Murphy, i an aged life prisoner of the state j penitentiary here, who gained no 1 toriety recently when he announced i that he did not want a pardon, died I'in his cell at 3 o'clock this morn ing, presumably of apoplexy. His son at Millen, Ga., is being notified. Murphy first gained the public eye j when he took his first auto ride ; and saw the movies for the first time a year ago. He was sentenced 'in 1897 for the murder of County Treasurer Copes, of Orangeburg county. It took three men to rob a Buf falo Greek of 70 cents. Like iMother's : Party frocks for little girls have acquired the French habit of being sleeveless, very much like mothers* evening gowns. There's a charm ing yoke that caps the armhole giving the Frenchiest kind of a "dropped shoulder." Crepe de chine, georgette crepe, chiffon cloth, or the softest of silk muslins or dotted Swisses are used for these juvenile fashions, Transfer Ships to Panama Canal j _ Daugherty Dry Ruling Given l as Reason?Shipping Board Grants Permission Washington, Nov. 9.?The Ship ping Board today granted permis sion to the United American Line (the Harriman Line) to transfer the registry of the steamships Re liance and Resolute from the American flag to the Panama flag. It was said unofficially at the shipping board that the reason as signed wa sthe recent Daugherty ruling against sale of liquor on American vessels. The Resolute is scheduled to be gin a world tour November 15, and when the Daugherty ruling was made, there were almost imme diately fifty-two cancellations from persons who said they did not want to take such a tour on a dry ship. The Reliance will sail Feb ruary 3 for a six weeks cruise to Brazil touching: West Indian and Sqnth American porus. The two vessels were purchased by the Harriman interests about, a year ago from Dutch owners and under the terms of the agreement the United American Line reserved the right to transfer to other than American registry within three years if American registry was found to be unsatisfactory. _ - 9 ? ? A Tale of Two States j (News and Courier) The following editorial articU ! from the Greensboro Daily News j refers to a matter which has re cently attracted considerable at tention in the North Carolina [newspapers, where the experience I of the landowner to whom refer ence is made has been cited in justification of the North Carolina tax system, now under attack: the ! claim being that the -North Caro i lina plan is here shown, hy com | parison with that of South Car olina, to be immeasurably the bet ter. Says the Daily News. "Several times within recent months the Daily News has had occasion to refer to the plantation of Representative W. N. Everett of Hichmond county, which is spli: by the North and South Carolina ; line. * ? ! This farm is taxed by both J states. It is the same kind of jsoil and grows the same sort of ! crops. It is the same in every re 'spect. In South Carolina, where a fictitious system places on One half a valuation of $34,985, Mr. [Everett and his family pay $1,014. j 57, and in North Carolina, where 'the truth is spoken in the tax books (Richmond county never having repudiated revaluation), a valua tio nof $61,040 exacts a tax of only $392.80. South Carolina, therefore,, takes in taxes two and a half times' as much money from the Everetts -as , North Carolina does -and exacts it j on valuations 40 per cent less than ?North .Carolina's. And South Car Molina takes it without being able .to jshow any governmental achieve ?ments comparable to North Caro I Una's. In writing to Josephus ! Daniels of Raleigh, Mr. Everett j says: "It is not necessary for me jto go into an analysis of what we (get in North Carolina and in South j Carolina, further than to say that i in North Carolina the value of the I roads to our operations is worth imore than the tax we pay. This leaves out of consideraiton all other objects to which money raised by taxation is-applied. In South Car ! olina, or at least in .that part of j South Carolina where our farrjts [are located we have no roads, and ; get very little benefit either direct j lj- or indirectly, from either state ; or county government." I There is another thing in Mr. j Everett's letter which should shame ithe apologists for the old menda jcious tax system to which they : would return. He participated in jthe revaluation of North Carolina property and though he lives where lands went highest he says: "Although we are now in the midst of the ravages of the boll weevil, jour lands in North Carolina will jsell for at least as much as they 1 were valued at under the revalua i tion machinery." Afflicted, but heads up and un ' willing to tell lies in order to get j a little reduction in taxes. Verily.. ,that man Everett of Richmond I county, is a peculiar sort of citi zen." I Richmond county, North Caro i lina, is directly across the line j from Marlboro county. South Car i olina, long known as one of the i most fertile and in many respects i one of the most progressive coun j ties in this state or in the south, j It would be interesting to hear j from the Pee Dee Advocate of j Bennettsville with regard to the l statements made by Mr. Everett as to land values, taxes and oondi I tions generally. We should like to 'know in particular whether $392.80 i was all the taxes which this land I paid in North Carolina or simply j tht state tax: and in any event it ; would be worth while to have Edi jtor Freeman find out for us how jmuch of the North Carolina taxes Lwent to the stat*? and how much to j the county. Mr. Freeman's views [Will be the more interesting for the I reason that he is to represent ; Marlboro county in the state senate ; next year and in that capacity will I be in position to do his part to I ward effecting such tax reforms as may be desirable for South Caro lina. i From the price asked we think I there are several hens that lay srolden eggs around these parts. Prosperity will never camp on our trail until we have something homeraised on our farms besides the dogs and mortgage. People will put up with a bad egg until he is broke. -? ? * % It isn't the baby's crying at night. It is the upkeep. BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL DISCUSSED BY EXPERTS I Memphis, .Tenn.. Nov. 14.-HCom [ munity cooperation of boll weevil control and federal action in de veloping new sources of supply of calcium arsenate, the poison which has been found most effective' in weevil eradication, were advocated in resolutions adopted here tbdnpy at a conference of farm experts and cotton growers of Tennessee, Ar kansas and Mississippi. Other resolution^ pledged the support of the growers to the in vestigations in weevil control, now. under way at the government ex periment siation at Tallulah, La? and expressed approvaLof proposed plans to have but one variety of cotton planted in each coreun ity. V. R. Goad, in charge of the Ta lullah experiment station, called attention of the cotton growers to the fact that only a small percent tage of the cotton acreage could be (treated with calcium arsenate \n j 1023 due to the lack of an adequate supply of poison, and sai<J that (much of the arsenate<,treatment in 1922 vi? of .little value, because improperly given, or given at the wrong time. He urged the employ ment of- experts in each commun fyt to superintend the treatment, so that the best results could be ob ained and the supply of arsenate conserved as far as possible. An Old Slander. ? (News and Courier). The New York Times in its' issUe of -^ast. Sunday quoted the PScTOrai Review as referring to South Car olina as a state which '-o^es a divorce and recognizes concu binage.'* If the Pietoral'Revjiew said such a thing it was guilty *t reviving a slander which is-.: the less absurd because it happe s : to be hoary 'with age. Away bsfe.. jin colonial times1, it is true -^bat j South Carolina did pass a' statute I which denied to a testator the ;*ight j to leave to his condubine or to if j legitimate children more than I one-t hird of his property. This w j the only possible basis for the sug-" j gestion made by <|he Pict?ral R* i view .and quoted^iby the Times. I The object of the statute in ques ! tion was to prevent a man-from, j cutting, off his wife and his legitl I mate offspfing in Jiis will, and tJie j difference, then between South C?r . olina and other states, was' that' in (other states and in England ? man. could leave all his property, to '.his j concubine or to his illegitimate j children. So far as . recognizing j concubinage in the. statute law of . South Carolina at present' is con jcerned,. living either in adultery,or j concubinage is a cause for fine >t?d j imprisonment, and this statute is properly enforced. - "~"'-? ? .? . Insurance Companies Mast Pay Penalties. . - - - ?' \ Jackson Miss., Nov. ',. 13.?The supreme-court of Mississippi today by a vote of 3 to 3, aflirmed.the de cision of Chancellor V. J. Stryke? imposing fines and penaltfes amounting to $8,055,075 on about 1130 fire insurance compamesHtorin jerly operating in this state and against whom the ?state revenue j agent. Stokes V. Robertson, two j years ago filed suit in the chancery court of Hinds county charging them with violating the anti-trust ilaws of the state by conspiring to : control rates. The supreme court in the state of [Mississippi consists of six members I and in ;the event of a tie, vote cus j torn 'makes such a vote an affirina jtion of the case* ' Attornej-s of the insurance com panies announced later today that they would file a sugjlesdori of error within the next few days. If this is overruled it was said an ^appeal would then be taken to the [supreme court of the United States. A' newlywed tells us he expected to be master of his house but finds jhe is only paymaster. A la-?f(yer advised his client to plead guilty and go to the peniten tiary. "You'll have plenty to eat there, with clothes and lodging. You can' sleep nights instead of roving around in the dark to find [an unlocked stable. The only I drawback about the penitentiary j is that sentiment is against it, but j what is sentiment to "a man who j steals horses for a living?"?Nor j folk Virginian-Pilot, ? ? * I When the cold wind blows and I hosiery shows, she blows her nose, she blows her nose. j! Giant Baby j This sLx-months-old baby girt j weighs 45 pounds and is 42 inches . tall. She is the daughter of. Mi> and Mrs. McClung of Bernice, La,; and physicians say that she is per fectly normal. Her rapid develop ment is most unusual as she weighed only six pounds wbe& I born. , ' .