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H THE UNIOP||. TIMES 1^1 J* " EXECUTE VOL. LXV, NO. 10. UNION, S. C.. FRIDAY, MARCI^pfl^oxs. Pv0\*w- _ ITINERANT PEL MUST A Measure to Tax All Itinerant Peddlers was Passed During the Recent Session of the Legislature?The Bill Defended by Hon. L. L. Wagnon, One of Its Authors. ohall the tarmers of Union county pay 25 cents per ton to Clemson College on every ton of cotton seed meal they use? And 25 cents per ton to Clemson College for every ton of commercial fertilizer they use for the support and upkeep of Clemson College? Shall every farmer in Union county pay taxes to keep up the roads of Union county? Shall every farmer of Union county pay regular and special taxes to keep up the schools of his county and special school district? Shall the farmer of Union county pay taxes to keep up the State government, and the sheriff and every officer of the law that we find necessary to enforce the law in this county? And other farmers from other counties, and from other states, he allowed to come right into Union county, come right to the door of Union county farmers, take his own home market away from him and make it impossible for him to sell his produce, many times at any prico, and force him to sell his stuff for less than it is worth, because the far* mer of Union county is taxed for r all purposes and causes above referred to, and the farmer from other counties and other states is allowed * to come into Union county, without ^ a cent of tax or cost, that the home * * man has to pay?shall the outsider *. < * take the markets away from the home ' * man because he does not have to pay 'jR a cent to keep up the county, and can fT sell his produce cheaper than the . home farmer can sell his, and then -m T^^tajake a bigger profit on it. This is *3R?P?he condition that the farmers oi ^UrUni'on county are facing and have *'%" *%P?d for the last year or so. Your * markets are monopolized and glut7 *'T. wi(h e"erythi?ig< you raise trii-l have for sale, by farmers from adjoining states who don't contribute one cent for any of the purposes for which you are taxed, he us?s and abuses your roads with teams and wagons by the dozen, he monopolizes and peddles from door to door, every day in every town in your county, and he sells everything you sell, and because it does not cost him anything whatever to support and keep up every institution of the State. County and Town that you are taxed to keep up?he is creating the impression all the time that he can sel' cheaper than you can sell, and that you are charging too much for your stuff, when as a matter of fact after you pay all the regular and sn^cial taxes you have to pay, even if you do charge more for your stuff than he does, you are making less profit on it than is the stranger and alien from another state, who comes into our midst and is allowed free privilege and protection that you pay fo>directly and indirectly. Ts it fair, is it right? I don't believe you are willing that a man living outside the State of South Carolina and outsidyour county should have free and for nothing what you and your neighbor pays for every day in the year. Shall every business selling good" to its home people in Union county be held up as robbers and as people who charge more for their goodthan they ought to charge, and more than others charge? Because ever;, concern in business in Union countv is taxed by the State, County, Town and Federal Government on everything they have and on everything they sell, to keep up the Federal Government, the State Government, the City or Town Government, and the County Government, the Schools, the Electric Lights, for fire protection and every other convenience and r.<x,.Aaaif ir * Unttnnln Kav<? ? A twi w.?v men from other states are allowed to come into our midst, sell from house to house, in the town and to even canvass all over the county, and not pay a cent of the taxes and expense of keeping up the roads or schools or for state or county government. Shall the home merchant, the citizen, who lives in your midst who is taxed to support your schools, who stands by and supports the churches ana every other gooa worK tnai noes on in the county, who spends every dollar he makes at home, with his people and for his people; whose home and everything that he acc a mulates is right here to hear its part of taxation for every form of frovernmcnt, who employs your boys and girls when he is able to employ any at all. Who contributes in a thousand ways to the welfare of the community and town in which he lives; shall this man, your home merchant, be made to pay and contribute to all these things and other men \form other states, who do not contribute a dollar to any cause in your f ' city, town or county, who even bring what they live on along with them from the states in which they live, 7DLERS PAY A LICENSE I be allowed every privilege that the home merchant is allowed and many j that he is not allowed, and not pay a cent to the county, state or town to help run schools, or anything else. This is the condition that the merchants of Union and Union county have faced for the last several vears, men living outside the State of South Carolina, bearing none of the expenses that the home merchants bear, are allowed to go from house to house all over the county, and because they do not have to bear a cent of the expense that must be borne, and that the home merchant and farmer has to bear, offers his stuff cheaper and creates the impression that he can sell cheaper than the home merchant and farmer can and would overcharge his own home people for his goods. Every body knows when he stops to think that a hotel can take boarders cheaper if it does not pay for the supplies it buys and uses on its table than one who buys and pays for what it serves on its table. Not a mill in Union county but that can make and sell cloth cheaper than any other mill, if that mill gets all its labor free and all the others have <o pay for labor like they do now. No a farmer in Union county but can make money and sell his stuff cheaper than his neighbor too, if you take all fertilizer taxes, all County, Stave. Road and School taxes off of him and let all his neighbors continue to pay. Not a merchant in Union county but what can undersell his competitors, if you lake all County and Town taxes off of him, while his fellow merchants have to pay these. If you will take all the cost of fire protection, police protection, State and Federal licenses off him, let hi'm stop contributing to every church and good cause in the county and require all his fellow merchants to pay right on to all these things. These are the conditions that have existed in Union county for a lont. time as compared with the home merchant and others who live outside the state and come in here from time to time, and for this reason and this reason only, that the stranger and , alien, who lives beyond the bordeis of this state and county, who comes and V-axes fit at the expense of our people and of the home merchant, and the home producer, getting free of cost to him what the home people pay for, I have this reason and this reason only, had passed a County License Law, not to stop any man from selling, not to raise the price of any article of food or anything iu ciiiy man in tins cuunty or anywhere else, but to see that some do not enjoy for nothing what every producer and merchant of this couin-j has to pay for, to see that the stranger and citizen of another state and county, who comes here to do business pays a small share of the cost of roads, schools and county, state and town government that ever" home merchant and producer has to pay. I am willing and glad for the people of this county to get every article they consume at the lowest possible cost, and the fact that I have distributed practically a million dollars worth of food stuffs in this county in the past ten years, is proof positive (that in spite of unfair competition like that referred to in this article), that we are not only willing but that we do contribute to the efforts of the people to get the most value for their money, and if there is a farmer or producer in Union county, or a merchant in Union coun ty who does not endorse and approve in full the county license law produced below in full, or who does not agree with me that we want every article that the people of this county consume at the lowest possible price but not at the expense of allowing one man or set of men to do without cost and without taxes, what all the rest of us pay and are taxed for, I would like for him to tell me so in person or by letter and wh<\ Very truly, L. L. Wagnon. Author County License Rill. The following is the bill referred to by Mr. Wapnon in the above article: A BILL To require a License Fee from Itinerant and Nonresidents and Nontaxpayinp Dealers. Peddlers or Venders in Union County, and to Provide for the Collection of th? License Foes and Penalties, and to Provide a Punishment for Failure to Pay or Avoid the Payment of Said License Fees. He it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina : Section 1. That each and every dealer, neddler or vender, whethei individual, firm or corporation, who is not a hona fide resident and taxpayer and residing within Union county, who shall sell or offer to sell, at retail, or to any consumer by anv method, in Union county, any merchandise, wares, fruits, produce of i any kind whatsoever (whether manufactured or natural), shall pay a lieense fee of fifty dollars to the Clerk of Court of Union county. (Continued on last page) PARK 1MPROY The City Council Will at On< So as to Be Ready for Si] Base Ball Park Wil The city authorities have begu the work of improving the publ park on Tosche's branch. The fir work will be that of grading the ba park. This will be completed in foi weeks. The next work will be th; of laying a conduit pipe for th branch. This is necessary to get tt grounds in shape and will impro\ the sanitary conditions. The fwih ming pool will be constructed at a JAS. A. WEST DIES VERY SUDDENLY Mr. West was 65 Years Old an One of the County's Best Citizens?C. M. Bogan Stricken With Paralysis?Other Mews of Interest. West Springs, March 2.?Mi James A. West, died suuuenly at hi home near West Springs on last sat uruay morning. iur. west had bee connned to his bed for three or fou days witn grippe, but his conditio] had not been regarded as being se nous at ail. On hriday atternooi he sat up and read tne newspaper for sometime. About 4 o'clocK Sat urday morning the members of hi family heard him maKing a Strug gling noise and ra nto nim. hut. n only lived lor a moment or two afte being reached. Air. West was G3 years of age. Hi was a member of West Springs Hap tist churen. For nearly the entir period ol nis connection witn tn< church he served as a deacon. The funeral and burial was a West Springs on Sunday afternooj at 2 o clock. There was a large con course of relatives and friends ore sent. Many were unable tn gpt Jit in the cnurch. The ? mrvi'c^S 'SwiOpaducter! by P. Sfhith. peg tor of tljb church. ?. Mr. WeBt is survived by five daugh ters as follows: Mrs. W. J. Johnson of Spartanburg, Mrs. C. C. Alexande of West Springs, Mrs. Linder Carrie of Greenville, Mrs. Thomas F. Mc Carrell of Greenville etaoi shrd sn Carrell and Mrs. Stacy Burnett, botl of Spartanburg, and one brother, Mr John M. West of West Springs. Mr. Charles M. Bogan was strickei with paralysis on last Saturday am has been in a very precautious con dition every since. Mrs. Harry Pickett of Greenville attended the funeral of Mr. James A West at West Springs on Sunda; afternoon. Mrs. Fannie M. Lancaster is vis iting friends at Spartanburg thi week. Mrs. Linder Carrier of Greenville is the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. C Alexander, this week. Hon. It. C. Williams of Union, wa tho irnput nf (hp frimilv nf Mr .Inh M. West, on Sunday. Mr. James E. Minter of Sedalit was the guest of Mr. D. H. Mille one night the past week. Miss Sailie West has returne from a week's visit to the family o her brother, Mr. C. G. West at Jones ville. Miss Annie Anderson of Spartan burg, is the guest of Miss Carri Smith this week. Rev. W. B. Justus was the guea of Mr. J. N. Rogers on Saturda night. Mrs. II. S. Williams of Cedar Blufl spent the week-end here with he mother, Mrs. Janic E. Smith. Miss Mollie West is spending th week with her sister, Mrs. R. C Williams, at Union. Mr. Boyce Hyatt is visiting th family of his uncle, Mr. C. M. Ilyat at Walnut Grove this week. Messrs John L. Johnson and Her ry Cunningham went to Spartanbur Friday on business. Mrs. Pernicia Smith has bee quite sick for the past week, bu*. i now somewhat better. Mr. J. A. Lancaster of Jonesvilh spent the week-end here with re:r tives. Dr. D. Herbert Smith of Glen Springs, was here Monday on prt fessi'onal business. Mrs. J. W. Pickens and Miss Lilli Bright Lancaster of I.ockhart Jun< tion, spent several days here th past week with relatives. Mrs. H. M. West who has been i for sometime is now much improve* Mrs. J. B. Lancaster has returne to her home at Union, after an e> tended visit to relatives here. Mr. James H. Hyatt spent Mor day with the family of his brothe Mr. C. M. Hyatt, at Walnut Grov< Mr. J. B. Lancaster of Ix>ckhai Junction, was the week-end f*uest c Mr. W. T. Barnett. Cheerfulness lubricates the axl< of the world. Some people ?o throup life with a continuous squeak. It sometimes costs more to neprlei a duty than it does to perform it. EMENg^ BEGl ce Press WOiTovk of Building i immer?Swi0^ciining Pool and 1 Be Constro^e ? First. in early date c frill be of rcinf< j, concrete. N* ' -y* ,L. G. Young is engineer in crftrge of the cons tion of this , work. The city purp dl investing ar^ small sum in fitting lr the park vcj,7:th benches, swings, it other inexp ;ipr.|'ve furnishings for ic park. ,a^* le Mayor V^-arton says the i ro work is to ^ e pushed vigorously i that the p?'yublic will get the bei in this sprint'^ and summer. I STRIKI NG ADDRESS if ?0N ALCOHOLIS i d Dr. E. fJM. Poleal, of Furm University, Presents Startlin* Facts ?and Figures Against Alcohol as a Beverage to a Large Audience. r. Dr. E. M. Poteat, president c s Furman University, delivered a stril ing and appealing address upon th n whiskey question Sunday night i r Green Street Methodist church. i n large concoprse of people gathere* - to hear th address and were heh 11 in close atantion for an hour. s Dr. Potfl t dealt with the per sonal aspc; of the question pris Vnarily, sh ving the deleterious of - fects upot the human body of the e habitual c nker. The action of alr cohol upoi ;he blood and the resulting effect upon the body were e enlarged Jon. The speaker told i- how as a ild, he remembered when e there wa no conscience upon the e question ? strong drink. Neighbors drank "n juleps" with neighbors, t Christmas me was a time for egga nog and te and wine. He stated - that C. T. U. of America, v Ar/i J k?tfa ed public conscience, and P x Wol"k had gone on until p sj sul of the population and rtil "-^TSf-the area of the United \Sv-,1lvad voted out the legal sale of liskey. He predicted that ere i, lorAhe whole country would go r agit the legalized sale of whiskey, r "1 lecture of Dr. Poteat was one - of *feries planned for Union county, r It Understood that Dr. Clickscales a of \fford College would be the nexipeiker. It is probable that Dr. 'Itlscales will speak in the f a Sect Inptist church the first Sun- ,1 1 day in April. I Mr. ddrs. Easterling Entertains. c Man' Mrs. R. A. Easterling * ,, enteina* the young set at their homonv'Douglass Heights'-' last Satiay vening at cards and a ? danc Th ...u_i tviiuiu lower tloor was ^ n I thro opt to the quests and ar- c, , I tistiy Atorated with pink Kil- Q I larn rot* and ivy. The lights " I weroftljhhaded with pink and n, s I bash oftoses and ferns were tJ1 n 1 placji e?-y available space. ^ I Ts wk? placed in the paiior ex t 1 for ds in the dance was held r | in trecefon room. The favors jpj 1 werdainta Cinderalla slippers un j I laceith ?en ribbons and part- Q? t I nersfe mikhed for cards and the U{J( , 1 danty thi different ways the co| 1 slipiwereUced. At the close of th{ ( I the ling j old fashioned "Vir- j e 1 giniel" \vfc danced, led by Mr. jia 1 Tomes anfMiss Julia Faucette ant , 1 of *>n, anfit was like a scene res v I fronthe p?, to hear the strains Kal I of *.ey in the Straw" and the f 1 call le fiRUBi. ^1 Aicious v alad course wai. 1 ser\?d Mr. Wd Mrs. Easterling T c I wersted byidr. and Mrs. T. L. low . | Est< Mr. ar^Mrs. Sam Harris, wai 1 r lata letter C^inty Club" tne ?T? they 1-1 Msie SmiV is organizing a stie, I "Beounty ClW' for the ladies wjjj *" I of tnty and the purpose is for lhe I the ding and betterment of the ttie I com. The members will be f10Ir n I givstructions from Winthrop ^e n, s 1 Col> the U. S. Department of 1 Age, just as the Tomato Will 1 Clu given. Any one wishm* 1 1 to a member of this />1?iK ,pu A II win or write to Miss Alsie the 1 n Smrity organizer, for infor- tune >* mute wishes the cooperation three androm ladies representing requi ? the sections of the county, agree 1 1 nis o ie le Charity Pupil 1 1 school girls will present j ! they Pupil" at the audito- Mr. a ,(| I riufch 12th and will publish have c_ 1 a tof the characters in the umbia I papiext week. They have Wake; x_ 1 bettraining of their English shelbj r 1 *ea?. W. T. Beaty, and the ReV. 1 e' 1 pla| well worth your time for a rt 1 to ^ I 'k will welcome an ocI cast another play given by I thg>hool when they recall Thei >s I the success of the one last Hebroi -hi.Jut* Than Gold," so re- 6th, be 1 me date, Friday evening, 5 and ct 1 Ma the High school audi- the ch I tof vited t I JNTHE "WHITt Park F( HAS NOT SEIZED BELGIANS' FC )rcc<l Germany Observes Promise in Irvic- Respect?People Face Famin oses out London, March 1.?Herbert an(' Hoover, chairman of the Amci the Belgian relief committee, today sued this statement: )ark "n js desired that certain fact! and perfectly clear in the discussions lefit jn>, on jn thg American press with lation to the work of this commisi = "The German authorities agi with us in December that there she be no further requisitions or f chases of foodstuffs by the Gerr iJVl army in the occupied zone of 1 gium. The zone comprises the wh of Belgium with the exception of t ritory immediately adjacent, to fighting line. The German authc n ties have carried out this undertaki M with scrupulous care. There never V been any interference by them wi foodstuffs imported by this comm sion and the whole of these foe stuffs or their equivalents have go to the Belgian civil population. "There were awkard situations some localities, for instance, >vh< troops were billeted on r w.C ||t'OP and where German officers and so e diers were eating in restaurants; In n these difficulties were solved by :h ^ issue to this commission by the Gei ^ mans from the military stores of liberal 'quid pro quo.' "Without entering into any dis cussion of the right or wrong or re quisitioning foodstuff's from the eivi population during the early part o; ! the occupation of Belgium. I \vi<-h ' noint out that as Belgium normally imports five-sixths of her foodstuffs even had no such requisitions been ? <'p T'^'o-inrn would long since have been without food except for the imports of the commission. "Every Belgian is today on a vaticn from this commission. Food and money are not interchangeable. \ Belgian man with a million dollars in cash can obtain no more bread tha^ the man who is destitute and without any oninion of the justice or injustice of levies in the wav of forced issues of paner money. I can reiterate that the Belgians can onlv be save-1 from starvation bv the imports of this commission. The Germans cannot and will not sunply ten million rwonle north of the German line with food." Notice R. A. Masons. The regular convocation of Poinsett Chapter No. 10, R. A. M.. will le held at Masonic Hall, Friday. 1 Vlarch 5, at 7:ff0 o'clock. 1 Visiting companions cordially wel- ' omod. ? 2. W. Stone, J. W. Mixson. ? Sec'y. H. P. e * o Service of Song and Praise The csoug and 1'raise Service wn. v e held at tne hirst hTesuyceiiau u lurcn on ounuay axternoon at 4:do >' clock, and tne cnoir ol tne iiietao- ff st cnurcn will nave cnaige oi inv. b< usic. 1 lie service last ouauuy v.ua ir loiougniy enjoyeu L?y a luige nurn- U r ol people and the program wat si ceiieia. dc Rev. J. F. Matheson, pastor of the rst PresDyterian cnuicn, presiueu ,i * n Kavc snort sketches of tne lives tne hymn writuis. ine nynuis ed being laminar ones ana tr.e lgregation enjoyed singing witi. f?| > choir. Vlrs. K. A. Jones and Mr. Sam ins sang a uuet or unusual charm 1 Mrs. Jones sang u soio. ins t ol tne piogram being congre- *hi lonal singing. KIV ? for Listen! Children ant out 'he children wno have been al- hav ed to sitaic upon tne city side- "Fi ks will uo well to obey tne regu>ns stipulated by the Mayor and city council, it is hoped tnat ' will connne themselves to the R els tnat nave been designated and Chii in all other respects conioiiii to I Mi::! requirements. If they do not dr? s privilege will be taken away Sunt i them altogether and tnere win kins o skating on tne streets anywhere the l'ay For Road Machine Work. geco in# e city road machine went over t|,e -oad to iiultalo l uesday. I ne 7.^0 used on the road work was ^ hours, and was done at the | (St of Mr. J. r. Storm, wno |japtj d to pay for the work out of wn pocket. Of Interest Here ? nd Mrs. M. H. Wakefield, who ann0li been spendintf a month in Colwith their son, the Kev. W. 1). field, returned to their home in on fl /villc, ky., yesterday. The fifth, VIr. Wakefield went with them two week's visit?The State. ^ An Entertainment East I Mr. c will be an entertainment at and M 1 church Saturday night, the Mr. an ginnig at 8 o'clock. Admission and ht 10 cents. Proceeds will go for friends urch. Public is cordially in- hcartie o attend. | wishes $1.00 A YEAR. : WAY" OR MAIN STREET >01) an<* Commissioners Have Done Their Part, Now This ie- Property Holders Should Do c Their Part, and Union Will lean 1S" Then Have a Modern and Well 5Ko- Lighted Business Street. i re sion have been informed that the *eed Commissioners of Public Works and )U'd the City Council expect to take steps )Ur" to complete the "White Way" along aa" the business section of Main street, extending from Peoples Supply Co.'s l?'e store to the Postoffice and this will be e*"~ a great addition to our city. A man ^ . is judged by the clothes he wears, ,rI" the house he lives in, the business nK in which he is engaged. He creates !a* the impressior _.he makes, therefore . the impression ''is an index of his 'j* character. So too, is a citv judged a" by impressions. It may have the n0 finest climate in the world; and it may be fortunatelv si'""1-1 in j ... ?,vac?tcu in a prosperous manufacturing section 'n like ours, yet if the unattractive and ',P gloomy, its developments will be " slow. There will not be a person 1 that will visit our city that will not f have a pood impression of it when he comes from the depot and find*. a that we have an attractive and upto-date business street and we cannot have this unless we have the "White * Way." P Aside from the attractiveness and beneficial first impression made upon p visitors, our "White Way"' will pay in attracting business for the mer1 chants and will pay by enhancing the real estate values. Last fall the Commissioners and the Council agreed to each pay onethird of the cost of the installation of the "White Way" providinp the merchants and property owners alonp the street would pay the other third. Before the tarvia pavinp wa? nut down on Main street the lighting system was laid off and the conduit for carryinp the wires underground was put in at a cost of about $1000.00 and the City and the Commissioners each paid half the cost of this work. The Commissioners and the Council stand ready and willing to do their part and the Commissioners have agreed to furnish power lo? operating the system and to maintain same without cost. One of the surest indications of civic pride, municipal prosperity and modern pregressiveness is a well-lighted busness section of a city and as the -.ituation now stands, it seems an issured fact that we will, at an tarly day, have the "White Way" n Main street. The work of improving the city fater works system will soon be nder way. The bonds are now bcig advertised for sale. It will reuire some thirty days to seil the onds. The extension work and other nprovements will then begin at on*e ni'on is beginning to shoA many irns nf 1 )/ unpt-riiy. What are you >ing to help? Notice to l'ublic Schools A number of prizes are being ofred to the schools of the county r the best exhibit shown here on 'ield Day," on April 9th. The first prize of $5.00 will go to ? school with the best exhibit and i second prize is $3.00 and the rd is $2.00. Ribbons will also be 'en. This money is to be used replenshing the school libraries I it is hoped the schools throughthe county will be interested and re a number of fine exhibits on eld Day." Missionary Exercises ev. J. E. Herring, Missionary to la, under the Baptist Foreign sion Board, will deliver an ads at the First Baptist church, day morning. Rev. W. E. Wilwill deliver an address there in evening. ;v. Mr. Wilkins will speak at the nd Baptist church Sunday mornand Mr. Herring will speak at same place Sunday evening at o'clock. .3 o'clock Sunday afternoon Ierring will speak at Mon-Aetna ist church. Interesting Announcement 4iss Annie Laura Bridges inces the marriage of her sister Cathryn Louise to Mr. John Morrison Rice lursday, February the twentyNir.eteen hundred and fifteen. Moultrie, Georgia, home after March r,,>r ? ?YO Cighth Street, Jackaonville, Fla. Rice is the only son of Mr. rs. Jno. Rice, and grandson ot id Mrs. Jacob Rice of our city, is numbers of relatives and i here who extend to him st congratulations and good for a long t.nd happy life.