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LETT A CONTENTED PEOPLE ALONE. Columbia Record. In these days when in places of large population many are hunting for work, we feel that it is a little short of criminal for meddlers to be going around interfering with labor that is contented. The world at large has a distorted idea of the condition of the people who work in the mills. Mill workers are about the healthiest, happiest, best cdnditioncd people in the South. The man who would disturb their contentment is an enemy to them and a destroyer of their happiness If the people had wrongs or grievances, it would not be right to let them be iniposed on. But what wrongs have been inflicted upon them? They are better paid than clerks in stores and some of the young women get higher wages than stenographers, have lighter work, art not subject to so many mortifications in irointr and rnminir frnm utai-1 and are able to dress neatly and, in | fact, prettily. The mill girl of today j is a type of Southern womanhood that | will compare well in appearenct.in education, in mind and in character with the best classes anywhere. The mill people have but little rent to pay; in some communities get water and lights free; have free schools, and church buildings and lodge rooms given to them; have their delightful flower yards and prolific vegetable gardens. These are our mill people of t oday. Sober, honorable, honest, ambitious, neighborly, charitable likeable people?and contented. People of whom we may be poud. Some mills for a stipend of $4 per month let their operators have com- I fortable homes and furnished the mule I power to plow the garden; and fur- j nish the fertilizer at cost?and the j consequence is that the mill operative may have a good garden all the year round. In some communities we have known mill operatives to save enough to buy their little farms. In Columbia the workers have their own cooperative store, operated by mill workers, and we are informed that in the first year of operation a dividend of 25 per cent was declared?for the mill workers. We do not believe in oppressing such a virtuous race of people. We believe in giving them opportunity, and all of these things they have? freedom opportunity and a fair wage. On the other hand, consider the mili manager. These men come in for all sorts of criticism and abuse and it is undeserved. We know that the mill managers have a hard time of it. They have problems that are vexing and full of worry and responsibility. Like good soldiers, they put on a bold front ever in the midst of the ever wearing cares. The mill managers a year ago were confronted with the most serious problems that has effeted the South. The world must eat, but the world can wear little of clothes. It is the cotton manufacturer who suffers in case of great international controversies. The situation was evolved to the full credit of the nation, and the manufacturing enterprises of the South have pulled through the crisis, but it was a great battle for the valiant and the strong hearted men who are on- | deavoring to handle the financial re- j sponsibility of the industry. Every man in the world has his burdens, cares and sorrows, his responsibilities. The humane mill owner has his own and the cares of many others. We here lay down one broad proposition?To whom should the mill ! people stick in case of disaster? To i the office hunter who comes around every year or so with the most guileful and at the same time, most plausible lot of talk? Or to the mill manager who will stand by his people, or at least those of them who are deserving? We hope that the issue may never come, that the great war will never cause the mills to suspend, for even one day; but if the day should come, we venture to say that the mill management Nvill 'in every community spare no pains to see that the opera- i tivcs are cared for in the best manner 1 possible until the time for resuming 1 operations. < Suppose all of the mills should be blotted out of existence tomorrow? > Then, what suffering would there be The unthinking people of today do not appreciate the great boon of the cotton mills. They have given employment, education, preaching and . in fact, burial aid to many industrious ' people, who, if they had been left as < hired labors upon the farms might have been living in drudgery and un 1 happiness. I In case of the mills being forced to i suspend operations temporarily we i believe that the operatives could go < on living in their homes at no expense and to some of them ritrht here in Columbia one spot has been home < for 16 years. j We believe in the mill managers ( and mill workers understanding each , other, sympathizing with each other, , aiding each other. The industry is | yet in the formative period. Tt is the main dependence of perhaps 150,000 j persons in South Carolina. As long as ( the wheels are turning, they make the , shutters hum a song of thrift and the ( looms roar a deep diapason of con- f tent. But when the hush of inactivity ( falls upon an industry, it is the deep { silence of death in the house. \j We repeat that the mill managers j have their problems, their burdens, r and they need incouragemcnt in t fighting the fight upon which depends . so much of the prosperity, happiness { and hope of the South. What a man would call "enthusi- * asm" in himself he is very apt to la- * bel "gush" in others. ( Shoplifters should go into a drug ( store and take something for what's ^ the matter with them. I LIQUOR LITERATURE, ETC. It is not wise for any man to reply to anonymous circulars affecting th? public, but so many liquor dealers have sent to our office by our Prolu bition friends with inquires for explanations, etc., that we have decided to write an article dealing with tht false statements that the unwar^ reader may not be decieved. Sorm things are unreasonable, in thest circulars, that it is not worth wink to lose time or energy in denying We are told by one of the liquor advocates that 200,000,000 families have wine, beer, or spirits always on theii tables in Continental Europe, and that there is no drunkenness in all thai land, and that the people live longei over there than they do in the United States. The writer surely was addressing his remarks to the lunatics confined within the wall of the asylums. When we read such stuff, a thinking man at once begins to ask, "Why has France declared for Prohibition during the war?" "Why lhas Russia declared for Prohibition during the war?" "Why has LloydGeorge, one of the great leaders of RnrrlnnH nfKof 4-V* enemies to fight?Germany, Austria, and Rum?the greatest enemy to be conquered is Rum?" Just for the sake of giving the public a little information, 1 will statt that during the year 1912 the gov eminent of JRussia owned and managed 2,983 distilleries and 26,01G bars. In other words, they had a bar for every 5,922 of their population. During the same year England and Wale~ had a dram shop for every 571 population, and 250,000,000 gallons of liquor were sold through these shops. These liquor shops paid more thai. 70 per cent, of the total revenue of the kingdom and more than twice the total of revenue of the United States Government. And yet the people of this country are told that everything on the othqr side of the Atlantic Ocean is happy and sober. Financial Scarecrow Another great scarecrow brought into the open by the liquorite circulars is that the United Staes Government is in danger of becoming bankrupt, and that a financial panic is fcure to come if the bars of this nation are closed and the revenue from the sale of intoxicating liquors is cut off. It is surprising how few people stop to think of the actual facts in regara to this revenue issue When we are told that the liquor business pays to the United States Government $226,000,000, some people reach thj conclusion at once that it would ruin the nation if this should cease; but with they are shown that this liquor revenue amounts to but very little when compared with the whole, they can scarcely be made to believe the statement. The editor of the Vindicator, 'a newspaper published in Franklin, Penn., and which has a nation circulation, put in an expert accountant on the job and got the facts for his paper. The following is part of his cA^n s reports, puDiisnea April iotn, 1915: "Taking first the broad, national view of the subject, we find that in the year 1913 the total revenues of all States, counties and incorporateu places having a population of more than 2,500 \yere$l,845,901,128, a per capita average of $19. We also discover that the revenue from 'liquor license and other imports,' which, it is to be assumed, includes all forms of revenue from liquor traffic received by the State, county, and municipal governments, amounted to $79,51(5,989, or a per capita of 82 cents. "In other words, the enormous revenues which the liquor business is supposed to pay for the support of the State, county, and municipal .government, as revealed by these statistics, amounted to 4.3 per cent of the total revenue. "The general property tax included in the total revenues of the States, counties, and municipalities amounted to $1,082,971,4(58, a per capita ol $11.15. From this we see that in the year 1913 it had been necessary to raise every dollar of the sum paid by the liquor business for the support of the State, county, and municipal government by direct taxation uqon the property it would have required an increase of only 7.3 oer cent. Or, in other words, a man who did pay in that year $10 taxes would have paid $10.73, or a man who paid $100 taxes would have paid $107.73. "There is another consideration which has its place right here. In 1913 the per capita drinl: bill of (he American people was in excess of $'23. Therefore, the avrag prrson 'bneiitL>d" by the liquor revenue under consideration parted with $23 ( j the liquor business as a tax collector and trot Pack S3 cent in the way of revenue collected, somewr.erc in the rtcighboi hi cd of 3 1-2 cents uqon each lollar the traffic took him. "Considering the liquor traffic a tax eollecetor, commissioned by the State and municipal governments to ... * 1 tL -- iunici me peoples contributions to .he common expenses, the collector was keeping a 'rake-off' or receiving i commission of 2,704 per cent, upon ,he revenue which he turned in " The greatest of the revenues from .he liquor traffic goes to the fedora. ?r national government. I.et '.i? see what are the figures, taking this government also into consideration and so jiving the liquor traffic the most fnvnable showing possible. In 1913 the ,otal revenues of the national govern nerit were $724,111,230, of which the iquor revenue was $230,260,989. The total revenues to run all our govunments?national, State, and local ?in 1913 were thus $2,012,358, and of his total the liquor revenues equaled n 1913 $309,522,378, or an amount ?qual to 12 per cent, of the total revalues. Estimating the population of the United Staes at nrcsent at 100,000,>00, the liquor revenues for 1913 equal 53.09 per capita; the national drink )ill equals more than $23 per capita. Hence, in "saving" a revenue of $3.09 per capita through the liquor traffic, r the American people spend in a s way that incalculable destroys their i efficieency an amount equaling more than $'23, or a net loss of $20. Death Rate Spectre I I notice that the liquor sheets deals ? with the number of prisoners and insane. This is done very adroitly, s The uninformed reader, of course, s would not understand the reasons for s such tabulation. The liquor people . represent Kansas as having a higher death rate, for instance, than Nebras> ka, which is a liquor State. The peo pie do not know that this is taken ; from cities covered by the registra, tion. It must be remembered that in Kansas twelve cities are covered by I the registration, while in Nebraska there are only two?Lincoln and i Omaha. However, when you com: pare Kansas not as a State, but with i the other cities, in regard to death , rate she shows up as follows: Regi. stration cities in other States, per - 1,000 inhabitants, in 1913, 16.3, Kani sas, per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1913, . 14.3. Any one who cares to examine this ; matter will find that there are only , two cities in Kansas with a higher > rate than cities in other States covered by the registration. These two are Leavenworth and Topeka, and their increase is only fractional. The . explanation of this is thatTopeka is . the seat of the State Hospital for In, sane, and Leavenworth is the sear, of a federal prison, a military post, and . also of an Old Soldiers Home. This i (explanation is valid is shown by the . following facts: Illnois has eight ' cities on the registration list; the , total death rate is 15.5 per 100,000. The dry city of E'vanston shows up ' with 10.2 while Jacksonville, where ; the State Hospital for the Insane is, , shows up 25.5. Kentucky has eight ? cities in the registration list. The total death rate is 17 (per 100,000). : The lowest death rate is shown up by Newport, 11.6, while Lexington, with its State Hospital and open bars, ; show up 23.5. It might be mentioned . that every city in Kentucky except . Newport, has a higher death rate . than any city in Kansas. It must also [ be remembered that while Kansas has L 98.3 for violent deaths that Nebras. ka cities show up 156.5 per 100,000. , The city of Omaha, Nebraska, shows i n a n I up JL 14. I # 1 Criminal Bugbear . Dealing with the criminal proposii tion, the liquor sheets are trying to make it appear that Kansas, the Prohibition State, does not compare fav! orably with the liquor States; that i Kansas has more prisoners than her . fcister State of Nebraska, where they i have open bar rooms. This is true, i and yet it is a terrible falsehood. When a writer records something for , the purpose of deceiving, of course, he does not explain the facts. They falsely claim that their figures do not include United States prisons in the l federal prison at Leavenworth; but i their figures are taken from the fed, eral leports, and every one knows that< all prisons within the State of Kansas are included in these reports. But there is yet another reason why Kansas has so many more prisoners than her sister State. Kansas does not ir.flict capital punishment l'or anv crime whatsoever. All convicts are sent to the penitentiary. A man convicted of stealing a chicken is sen! in the penitentiary, and if convicted of selling whiskey the second t?me he is sent lo the penitentiary, it is t o wonder tlm* n.. o. ? - W..VV tvunouo nan miMC priS'U.* crs rhan ether States, and yot in the face of all this she show.? up very favorably when compared with sor-.t other liquor Staes. Another la*., which should be mentioned is this: The liquor people are taking their figures from the United State.; Federal Reports of 11)14. At that tirmOklahoma Territory was wet. and all her prisoners were sent to the prisons of Kansas. It was no wonder that Kansas was over run with prisoners at that time. But when we come to the latest report 1910, we find that Prohibition Kansas sent to prison 212 'people for each 100,000 inhabitants, a rate loyer than any State in the Union, except North Dakota and Mississippi, and both of these are Prohibition States; but wet Nebaska sent 493 people to prison for every 100,000, the same year. The liquor people are also having j something to say about the number of I Prohibition Kansas. Just a brief j comparison here will suffice on this i question: Kansas (Prohibition) 109 Nevada (wet) 111 Wyoming (wet) 113 Arizona (wet) 1201 Idaho (wet) 120 I Texas (wet) 131! Arkansas (wet) 13(5 j Indiana (wet) 142 Colorado (wet) ir>8 (Montana (wet) 1(57 Washington (wet) 184 It is plain to be seen from the above shooting in the dark, that when their figures are brought to the light they deceive no one. J. L. HARLEY, Superintendent S. C. Anti-Saloon j League. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Davs Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching Mind. ItlcedinRor Protruding Piles in 8 to 14 days. The nrst application Rives Ea.sc aud Rest. ?>0c. ~T. H. MUNRO" ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICE OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE UNION, S. C. MONEY TO LEND ON FARM LANDS I $300.00 to $10,000?Sevep years time. ?00 I JOHN K. II AM KLIN | Office 2nd door East of Postoffiee. ! tf. 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If pulled when three-fourths of the leaves were dry, the decrease in yield was about 10 per cent. Put this is not the only loss from fodder-pulling. Pulling fodder has a serious effect upon the next year's crop by lowering the vitality of the seed produced on stalks from which fodder is pulled. By pulling fodder, therefore, a man not only loses on his current crop, but also damages his chances of producing a good crop the following year. A good authority on the subject advises that a farmer feels he must pull fodder, he should leave at least (two or three acres of his crop unpulled and from this select his feed corn. In this way he can keep up the quality of his seed and not suffer the second loss from fodder pulling, that which through planting inferior seed. THE CALHOUN FAMILY Friends in Anderson of Col. John C. Calhoun, of New York City, will be interested, says the Anderson Intelligencer, in the report that his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Snyder Calhoun, has brought suit against him for $100,000 for the alienation of her husband's affections and also suit against her young husband for separation, alimony and a whole lot of other things. The Atlanta Georgian of yesterday carried the affair, together with a large photo of the young Mrs. Calhoun, a dashing looking youg woman: "The John C. Calhoun family, as well known in Atlanta as it "is in South Carolina and in the neighborhood of Broad and Wall streets, New York has come another matrimonal cropper. "This time it is James C., who is in the divorce court. His wife is blue-eyed and golden-haired, and has the other qualifications which go to make a stunning show girl, the which she was in Ziegfield's Follies. Her name was Mabel yes, Mabel Snyder. Mrs. Mabel Snyder Calhoun is suing her husband for separation and incidentally $200 a week alimony; to say nothing of several thousand dollar's attorney's fee. She is also suing her father-in-law John C. Calhoun, for $100,000 for alienation of her husband's affections. "I was a stage girl and that was too much for John C. Calhoun, my father-in-law," says Mabel. "He couldn't bear to have it said that his son married an actress. That's the I sum and substance of it. My, are acI tresses so dreadful ? Really he'd I never recognize me as a member of 1 the family. "Young Calhoun, s father is a I wealthy financier who has accumulated a fortune in railroad promotion in the south, a grandson of John Cald' well Calhoun, once vice-president, of ! the United States, and a brother of Patrick Calhoun, once a noted figure in Atlanta, and later in San Francisco. He married Linnie Adams, grandi niece of Richard M. Tohn.srm, also a former vice-president of the Unittd I States. 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