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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE Editor Registered at the Postoffice in Union, S. C.f as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. LEGAL NOTICES The regular legal rates are charged foi all notices published according to law, which rates are as follows: Matter to be set in 8 point, solid type?first insertion per inch $1.00; each subsequent insertion per inch 50 cents. Citation to Kindred and Creditors, 3 inches, 2 times $4.50. Final Discharge, 1 3-4 inches, 4 times, $4.50. Administrator's or Executor's notices, 1 1-4 inches, 3 times, $2.50. ;Obituary notices, tributes of respect, resolutions and cards of thanks strictly one cent a word. FRIDAY JULY 2, 1915. ARE CORPORATIONS DOOMED? I do not feel shivers up and dowr tne spine because or tfte manifest injustice too often done to legitimate invested capital; for I believe thai such injujstices will prove their owr folly, and thus work out a better condition. I feel sure that the great majority of the people need but tc understand the facts, and understanding them will deal fairly. The trouble has been that for some thirty year? now, newspapers, magazines, politicians and would-be reformers have so persistently cried out against corporations that the average man has come to think that a corporation is worse than a "highland mocassin," and should be smitten to death. The very word "corporation" has become a "stench in the nostrils" of the vast majority of our people. This hatred is manifested at every political gathering; it is most clearly shown in almost every court. The corporation has become the easy mark of the "damage suit" lawyer. One has but to attend civil court anywnere in the State to he convinced of this attitude towards the corporation. Cases, that if brought against an individual would be thrown out of court, are seriously considered when the defendant is a corporation, and frequently the corporation is mercilessly bled. I am not questioning1 the right to make the corporation pay when the case is just. Hut it often happens that justice is violated. I have reached the deliberate conclusion that a man is quite much of a fool to, at this time, invest money in a corporation; and that many others have reached the same conclusion, is. I believe, at the bottom of the abnormal stringency in money matters. I believe this attitude of the public mind has more to do with "hard times" than does the low price of cotton. Men are becoming more and more afraid to invest in incorporated enterprises. , This naturally causes "tight money." We have few individuals who have capital sufficient to launch an enterprise. To have many individuals put their money together is often the only possible way to launch an enterprise. When such an enterprise is started it is too often mercilessly hied. That is the reason that the "small man," the man with limited capital, has come to be slow to invest. I do not blame him. There is another phase of this subject that frequently escapes notice. orporated capital is -? ' > speetion. It is held to strict accountability. Laws have multiplied regulating invested capital. It cannot escape taxation. It has come to be a fact that such working capital, capital involved in carrying on the industries of the country, comes in for a larger share of taxes than is just. Take our banks for an illustration. They are constantly held to strict account ability by State and Federal governments. They are harassed hy required reports; they are taxed heavily. So soon as the State Tax Commission is created for the purpose of equalizing taxation, the Commission makes a dive for the banks. They were already required under the federal laws to pay income tax, not only upon net earnings, but upon every dollar of dividends paid to stockholders. And they are now the very first mark of the tax commission. Not one movement to get at the manifest injustice in returns made by large landed estates. Not one move to set at the private capital often loaned at 10 or 12 percent. The corporation, the legitimate prey of all reformers and of the public in general, must needs be attacked first thing. I may be mistaken, but I have come to the conclusion that legitimate, invested capital in this Stat' is well-nigh doomed. The present oppression put upon honestly invested money puts it in an impossible competition with private capital. It matnot be the popular thing to write an aricle like the above, but when an editor reaches an honest conclusion, he is a coward if he does not express it. What this country needs is less "taffy" and more sane thinking. The newspaper owes a debt to its constituents. One obligation is that of being honest. I shall write more along this line. In the meantime, our columns are wide open to one and all, provided the writer is willing to sign his article. JONESWLLE Jonesville, June 29.?Farmers are irettinc their rrons in irnnrt rnn#litinn and a Rood rain is now in order. Mr. Robert A. Black is moving today from our town to Union where he has accepted a position with the Southern Railway. Mrs. George Wood and Hamilton Hill are attending a house party at the home of Mrs. W. B. May at Carlisle. Mr. G. C. Wood was a visitor i to Carlisle on Sunday. Mr. William Jeffries and Miss , Mamie Gettys spent the week-end at Carlisle. Mr. R. B. Smith spent Sunday at the home of Capt. F. M. Farr in Union. Mr. B. F. Webber, with some other , friends, who have been giving a free barbecue and dinner out at Mr. Webber's home on Fairforest have con' eluded to cut out that function on the t coming 4th. i Mrs. Janie McWhirter of Union is . the guest of Mrs. Crissie McWhirter. Before this communication is read by the patrons of the Times a mod' ern, fashionable wedding will take " place in the Methodist church in ! Jonesville. The contracting parties ; are Miss Kathrin McWhirter, of our town, and Mr. Samuel Milton Lipscomb of Perth Amboy, N. J. The ' happy event will take place Wednesday evening, the "eremony to be performed by Rev. Warren Lipscomb, a j brother of the groom. > On next Sunday evening a bevy of young ladies will leave here for the great Panama exposition at San FrAnrisPH thr*v nr? Miccnc MnriAn ; Elizabeth and Lucile MeWhirter and I Miss Inez Spears. The party will go . to the Rockies and through the earth} quake zone. Hope they don't get swallowed up by another quake. Mi'ss Marie Blair of Spartanburg, ! is the guest of Miss Pearl Lybrand Mrs. Marvin McNeace of Union was the guest of Mrs. J. F. Alman last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Reid and | daughter of Spartanburg, are 'in town to attend the funeral of Mr. R. I .1. Kirby, an uncle of Mr. Reid's. Mrs. W. (5. Coleman, Miss Lela Coleman and Mrs. R. ('. Coleman are in High Point visiting relatives. Mrs. Fugene Lipscomb is the guest of Mrs. Crissie MeWhirter this week. | Miss Mattie Glasgow of Newberry, I is the guest of Miss Kathleen Mc! Whirter. Mrs. M. W. Chambers and little daughter Mary, are spending sometime in Atlanta visiting relatives. Telephone. PA COLE T, ROUTE 2 I I'acolet, Route 2, June 29.?The farmers of this section are well up with their work. Crops are looking well l>ut are needing rain hadly. We have not had a real good rain in this section for four weeks. Mr. .J. T. Gladden has accepted a position with the Pacolet Ginning Co. They are installing an electric plant and the gin will he run liy electricity hereafter, which is hoped will he a great improvement over the former system. Rev. Mr. Peeler of Pacolet, preached at the Mahry school house on Sunday afternoon. A large crowd being present. Messrs. .lames Ward and Wilton Tweed have organized a Bible class for the Mahry Sunday school. Mrs. 1 >. M. Black and children spent Saturday with Mrs. J. T. Gladden. Mrs. G. A. Black visited relatives in Pacolet Sunday. Mr. Wallace Story visited relatives at Sulphur Springs Sunday. Mrs. W. II. Evans and children visited at Mr. B. F. Mabry's Sunday afternoon. Mi sses Minnie, Pearl, and Nannie Johnson and Mr. Dave Coleman of .lonesville attended services at the school house Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Watt Page and children of near .lonesville, spent one afternoon last week with Mrs. J. W. Cunningham. Miss Alllia Kl'P#? nf naar attended thr? services at the school house Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Bland visited relatives near tilenn Springs Sunday. ( Mr. and Mrs. Sam West of Whitestone, were visitors on this route Sunday. Mr. Ij. H. .lone.s and little son Madden, of Whitestone visited in this section Sunday afternoon. Solo. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININK and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cents. BUSINESS MEN OF THE STATE < DECLARE FOR PROHIBITION Columbia, S. C., June 22, 1915.? > An address to the people of South ^ Carolina, signed by a number of ^ leading prohibitionists, was made ? public Saturday in Columbia by J. K. J Breedin of Manning, secretary of the 1 Business Men's Volunteer Committee ^ for Prohibition. Fellow Citizens of South Carolina: Jj "The question of prohibition is the j big issue before the citizens of South Carolina at this time and it is a ques- ^ tion of such moment as to call for ^ the most earnest consideration on *4 the part of the men and women of ? the State. Jj No linger Debatable j "Prohibition is no longer a debat- +4 able issue in our politics, because it f is now seen to be a factor of first \ importance in the promotion of the < industrial efficiency of our people and the fullest development of our ^1 resources. 1 "The idea of a stable commercial prosperity being based upon the sale ? of liquors is contrary to a propel- J conception of business, as well as 1 being incorrect from an economic standpoint. The highest development J of business proceeds from economical utilization of all the resources of ^ the State, the greatest resource being ? sober, vigorous, productive citizens. ^ Aiconoi as a Deverage nas been { prohibited by some of the nations at ^1 war because their armies must have ? the highest degree of alertness to be J efficient. That being true of war, why } should not the business of achieving *4 happiness or wealth, or both, have the J same consideration ? J Economic Argument ^ "The use of liquors unfits a man < for business, impairs his health, be- ^ clouds his mind, shakes his resolb- \ tion, loosens his moral fibre. We es- *5 pecially urge young men to contem- ? plate this, not only as we represent J it, but as it is illustrated in number- } less instances. Such indulgence being ft without benefit, and in almost cer- V tain obstacle to advancement in the j competition of business, they would % be wise to abstain absolutely. 4>1 "We hone the men of the State will consider this question carefully } in its relation to the happiness, pro- *4 ductiveness and efficiency of our peopie on the one hand and the preven- J tion of waste of great sums of money ^ and the toll of unhappiness which at- i tends it, on the other. ^ David R. Coker, S. G. Mayfield, * Bright Williamson, Charlton DuRant, *4 John McSween, C. K. Henderson, C. B. Bobo, W. E. Richardson, R. F. J Bryant, Charles E. Danner, F. H. 1 Hyatt, W. W. Sullivan, J. D. Ham- *4 mett, Joseph Sprott, T. W. Boyle and W. J. Murray. 4 "That the demand for prohibition *4 is not sentimental altogether may be seen from such statements as that J which is published after it had re- } ceived the consideration and approv- *4 al of the distinguished men of affaire . who signed it," said Mr. Brcgd/-f IJ "The chief impulse to prohibition tS-"| < day is the attitude of business men. % Efficiency and drink do not go to- 4 pether, and this is the day of effic- < iency." ^ Mr. Breedin has been in demand as ^ a prohibition speaker, havinp been ^ invited not only to churches, picnics J and chautauquas, but to a tent meet- ^ inp where a revival was in pro press 4 Mr. Breedin says that the appeal that a poes farthest is that based on the < pround of business and social wel- \ fare, without abuse or exapperation. 4 This appeal he has made in many < parts of the State. The Barnwell Sen- > ti'nel and the Union Times refer to his 4i arpument as lopical, dispassionate j and convineinp. J THE CITADEL J The Military Collcpe of South < Carolina 4 Announced as "Distinpuished Mili- 4 tary Collepe" by U. S. War Department. 4 Full courses in Civil Enpine< rinp, J Sciences, Enplish and Modern Ban- *4 puapes. . Confers Ii. S. and C. E. deprees. J All expenses pay cadets from j South Carolina $282 a year. *4 A scholarship worth $300 a year ? is vacant from Union county, and will J] be fdled by competitive examination ^ at the County seat 011 the 13th day of ft Aupust, 101f?. J For necessary information and j blanks, apply to Col. (). J. Bond. The Citadel, Charleston. S. C. :] New Market!:] :< I Have Opened as Meat Market I Next door West of the ^ Express Office. Try Me ior Fresh Meats \ ? I will strive to please ^ you. Our prices will appeal to you. 'i J B. E. Teaguei Phone 189 % jlco ..The Ch< I If words are terms o I we want every man in Union County to the word Challengi for yourself, that its I expressed by a visi t learn for yourself. \ SATURDAY t We will inaugurate one [ will positively close this C leges in sale prices on Jn [ every business house in [ prices if they can. It is C press ourselves so pos \ what we are talking abo : we say. I : NOTE THE CHAL o All $2.50 Silk Shirts, Chj All fancy Jno. B. Stetson > price ? OUR CHALLENGE PR r - BOY'S All $ 8.00 and $9.00 Suit ? All 10.00 Suits, Challen All 15.00 Suits, Challen [ All 13.50 and $12.00 Sui ? All 16.50 Suits, Challen j? All 17.00 and $18.00 Sui [ All 20.00 Suits, Challen. ? All 22.50 and $25.00 Sui j? ALL BOY'S SUITS f ALL STRAW HATS : OUR CHALLENGE 1 All $1.50, Challenge price | All 2.00, Challenge price I All 2.25 and $2.50, Chall ' All 3.00, Challenge price All 3.50, Challenge price All 4.00, Challenge price * All 4.50, Challenge price All 5.00, Challenge price All 6.00 and $6.50, Chall This does not apply to c I line of Palm Beach Suits Use this opportunity summer vacation. 1 are included in our G A visit to our store that we mean just w J. vu The House of A'AA A. A A- ^ lf.ff.fMWW?T*.f.?.f.Vif.ff.fJ HEN| illenger.. | f expressions, then x l, woman and child i grip fast and tight i ? in its truest sense > definition is truly it to our store and f f, JULY 3rd I week of Bargains, and | iweek of special privi- | ily 10th. We challenge X the State to beat us on ? not often that we exitivelv. hut we knew Y ? ? 7 * ?' ut, and mean just what ? i LENGE PRICES: | illenge price $1.75 ^ $3.50 Hats, Challenge $2.50 > Y ICES ON MEN'S AND * SUITS T s, Challenge price $ 5.50 ge price 7.50 V ge price 10.00 & ts, Challenge price 9.00 * ge price 10.00 ts, Challenge price 12.00 ge price 13.50 I I ts, Challenge price 15.00 | 25 PERCENT OFF ONE-THIRD OFF f > E>RICES ON PANTS 'i* V i $1.25 1.50 Y enge price 2.00 s 2.50 _ __ t 2.7;) 3.00 A 3.50 Y 4.00 ,1, i enge price 5.00 ?? i i i x >ur splendid and nobby % { which sell for $5 to $8. ? ? to prepare for your ? Vacation necessaries ? reat Challenge Sale. X n tin I I /r ? t-i * win ^uiiviiiue yuu hat we say. IHENI Satisfaction. 2 ^ a A A- A A * A A A A, A, A A