Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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R ^ - ?HIBI III l' I' fcl.l? l4^?J L-U?i to Cboteikld Advertiser S Pial H. and Fred G. Hearn Editor* PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SubacripLcm R ites: $1.50 a Year; Six 75 eents.?Invariably in advance. ' Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Chesterfield, South Carolina. s A STRONGER STAPLE > In every county of the State of South Carolina where meetings have c been held to organize the cotton farm t ers telegrams have been received b> local cotton buyers telling them that good middling cotton can be bought ' in Mississippi from the Co-Operative I Marketing Association of that State for less money than the same grade 1 can be bought in South Carolina it i the open market. That is true, and it is also true thai 1 the farmer member of the Mississippi Co-operative Association is receiving I $15.00 more per bale than the non- 1 member. '< Why is this? 1 Grades of cotton are supposed to ' be uniform everywhere, and they are 1 as to color and length of staple. 13ut ' there is one respect in which much 1 of the South Carolina Cotton is the < best in the world. That is the I strength of the staple. j i That is why South Carolina cotton : sells for more in the open market < than does Mississippi cotton when I marketed to the best advantage. s When South Carolina cotton is 1 sold properly and no longer dumped t on the market regardless of market i conditions, it will indeed bring a good t price. I t WHAT IS THE FARMERS' ttLOC? ] The papers lately have had a good < deal to say about the agricultural, or J farmers' "bloc" in congress, the sig-! nificance of which is not generally I unuersiooa. 1 no word moans [ "block" and might as well have boon | spelled that way, but evidently some- ' one thought they would do better by I * going outside the English language! 1 for a name. The farmers' bloc is composed of i Democrats and Republicans in Conpress who have combined to support ( that legislation designed to give the farmer a square deal. I An exchange commenting upon this organization of congressmen says: "For a time the cry of distress that went up from agricultural sections was like the cry in the wilderness. In the wild scramble business men overlooked the historic analogy?that agricultural prosperity and business prosperity and agricultural depression and business depression have always gone together in pairs. "Real prosperity will not retur.i until the purchasing power of the farmer returns. The purchasing power of the farmer will return when his product can pay transportation charges and marketing charges and leave him enough to supply the humble wants of his family. In its final analysis,the problem is a simple one. The lessons for the "agricultural bloc" are sound and we nope it will have all the power it needs until the abuses that called it into existence have been abolished." A REVIVAL OF COUR1ESY The Christian Index, a good Bap tist paper, has this very goon suggestion and practical sermon in a few ^ words: "There ought to be preached in j the pulpits and taught in the schools t and above all, lived in the homes, a j revival of the old-fashioned courtesy and modesty of the old south. If our boys and our girls are not to be ? modest any more, then most of the ( liope and the happiness of life are ^ gone." t YAP AND JAP 21 f Yap is a little word and it is the name of a little island in the Pacific, s but enough words have been said 1 about it to (ill a book. The long controversy is over now and Yap may " rest. The treaty which defines the rights of the United States in Yap " and other islands mandated to Tapan under the treaty of Versailles, was signed by Secretary Hughes, for tho r r? United States and Baron Kijuro 1 Shidehara, for Japan. a STUPID AND IDIOTIC v Senator Jim Red, of Missouri, nev- * er used his sarcastic tongue to better 11 purpose than when he made in the ^ United States Senate this true statement: 1 "The Senate resolution seating f* Newberry and at the same time do- n nouncing the methods by which he '' reached the Senate was a 'miserable, v stupid, idiotic thing.' " MICKIE/THE PR INTEl 1 a \r OUTHEAST ALAB PROSPEROUS 1 BOLL By Jameo A. Hollomon j r Printed by permission Atlanta Con-1' titution) | Troy, Ala.,?The farmers of south ast Alabama, as a whole, have maj? f ered the boll weevil problem better ( han they have in anJ oth*r section of < he cotton belt?better than in the A Brownsville and Corpus Christi ter- j ritories along the Texas Rio Grande, .vhere the weevil first made his op- ' pearance many years ago. tUSo .. V. .. 1 ! i uv(y <a<?vv uvuv u?o unci (.nu uouai nerve-straining period of three or 1 four years of agricultural j panic through which they passed, by drastically cutting their cotton acreage,planting cotton only for a surplus crop, and going heavily into tho growing of grains and hay and especially peanuts and meat.. When they began to realize, by stern necessity that they could profitably grow other money rops besides cotton, and iive at 1 home and feed their stock at home ' in the meantime, they from year to : year reduced even the radical cut in 1 :otton acreage that they had been 1 it-r?tily driven io at first in order to iubsist, and as the boll weevil prob- 1 em was thus reduced to a more re- 1 itricted area on every farm they laturally fought out one of the essential solutions of control by in.ensely cultivating their cotton, thus mshing it away from the weevil as nuch as practicable. ' Small Acreage; More Fertilizer; In. tenr.e Culture; More Cotton With this reduced acreage they be? ran to fertilize more heavily, study ;he chemical dd'sndi of their soil nore inlelligently, and to apply more md better business methods in the ultural program than they had been enabled to do when practically ail he tillable land was planted to eot.un and cultivated on the old letvell-enouirh-alone nronosition of 'forty acres to a plow and a mule."' In the meantime a committee of ending farmers from several of the ' ounties in southeast Alabama jourleyed to Texas and studied the weevil vhere he iirst made his stand, and vhere he had already been mastered iy. the more progressive planters. There they learned the lesson of otation, field cleaning, perfect drainige separation of cotton plank.* from voodlands, thick spacing, liberal fer:ilizer and fast, shallow cultivating. They applied these methods, makng even more intense than they first .bought necessary, their cultural activities, reducing further to eight icres to a plow in many instances. With the Itesult that they began o get more net lint off of an acre lian they had formerly been getting iff of two, and many times off of hree acres. All the while they made from the najor part of their old cotton planations Spanish peanuts, for which hey found a ready market, by shellng plants following quickly in the vake of the '"goober fields," and from vliich they made millions of pounds if meat to use and to ship. To this they added liberal fields of urn, oats, wheat, rye, barley?folowing each harvest with cover crops, Tom which they made hay for home ise and to sell, and at the same time milt up and kept up their soils. So successful, therefore, were the esults of diversification forced by neessity, following the weevil advent mi mm- is mi section in me entire niton belt, devoted purely to field rops, so uniformly wealthy to day is the tier of counties in southeast Alabama that ten years ago raised carcely anything else but cotton, and mjxwted from the west practically all if the meat they consumed, and a ;reat quantity of the meal and Hour ml even a larger quantity of their ;rain and hay for the stock. In the meantime, too, the ?m?ller otton fie!ds are to-day producing nore cotton on an average per ncre han eVer before the boll weevil bong just as prolific as ever, and just s much a menace to those farmers /ho refuse to light him or who refuse o rise to the hard, fast working net hods of their progressive neighors. It. will bi- ropallo/l IK..! if "... his section of the cotton belt, over t Enterprise, not distant, where a lonunvnt was actually erected to the oil weevil, because it had been the weevil who had unwittingly taught, irsft.diversification, and iecond, the k'S DEVIL A0\ MO!! <? \ l | jfe 1UAX TIW \ l^Vt ?." j~ TJ* AMA MORE I: HAN BEFORE . WEEVIL CAME estriction of cotton acreage and the ntense cultivation of tka growing tlant. Farmer With 100 Plows Tolls of Weevil Mastery Perhaps there is no larger or more epresentative farmer in these parts ;han W. B. Folmer, of Troy. In adiition to his large plantation interests vhich he personally superintends, Mr. folmer and his sons, who have been wrought up in their father's business *nu miming interests, conauct a large bank and other city interests. For yrears Mr, Folmer was a supply merchant in Troy, and no man has a better knowledge ef the evolution of Pike county from a buying to a gelling basis?from a debtor to a creditor status, "When cotton was the main product of the county," said Mr. Folmer to me, "I supplied hundreds of carloads of western meat each year to the farmers of this county. The same thing (s true of corn and oats and hay for the Stock, We bought meal and flour by the carload j even imported our syrup, lard?practically everything that we ate and fed. Then we were making from SO,000 to 50,000 bales of cotton a year, according to seasons, Everything was cotton, If a bad season came and the crop was materially curtailed locally, having no effect, of course, upon the general market, then our farmers couldn't pay out. And at best when the supply bills were paid' they were behind?-or at best, among the more progressive, it was merely a break even with hard work and a bare living, "Then came the boll weevil, about seven or eight years ago. It at first threw us into a panic. We didn't know what had happened. It was as if a great calamity, a great scourge had swallowed us up. Farmers looked nt each other, years would frequently come in their eyes, and they would shake their heads and move off in utter depression?buried in the shad Stories of Great Scouts Wmtson I ?. WMtirn N?w?p?p?r Union. LEWIS WETZEL, "DEATH WIND OF THE DELAWARES" Many of the great scouts did Mt become Indian tighter* until they were men, but Lewis Wetzel started early. He killed his first Indian when be waa only thirteen years old. Wetzel was born In Virginia In 1752. His father moved to the present site of Wheeling, W. Vn., and was killed there by the Indians before the eyes of bts sons. Lewis swore eternal enmity against all redskins. One day while he and bts brother were roaming In the woods they were attacked by Indiana. Lewis killed one of the savages and the next Instant was hit by a bullet which carried away a piece of his breast bone. Both boys were taken captive. That night while the Indians slept, Wetzel worked loose the thongs which bound blra and then unfastened his brother. After the boys had fled for about a mile they discovered that their moccasins were torn to shreds. Leaving bis brother In biding, Lewis returned to the Indian camp and, undetected by the sleeping savages, robbed them of two pairs of mocassins as well as a gun and some powder and lead. The next morning the Indians were hot on their trail and soon were dose upon them. Aa the Indiana approached, the boya stepped out of the trail Into a clump of bushes, allowing their pursuers to speed past, and then tliey followed. Boon tkey beard the Indians coming back and again they stepped Into the bushes and bid. Tbe tvtuzei oo.vb piayed tola dangerous I gnme of hlde-and-seek several times before they finally eluded the savages and returned In safety to their home. When Lewis Wetzel grew older be crossed over into Ohio and soon been me one of the best-known scouts in the country. Wetzel was called "The Death Wind" by the Delawares whom bs hated particularly. More than once a Delaware warrior trembled with fear as he heard a shrill, moaning cry echoing through the forest, for It usually was followed soon afterward by a shot from the scout's deadly weapon which ended the redskin's life. In his later years Wetzel lost the respect of muny people because he begun killing all Indians he met, whether hostile or friendly, and several timea he was Imprisoned for shooting members of peaceable tribes. In his last days he became a lonely, bitter' old man until death came to him In 180ft. By Charles Sughroe V?m NmwmIMM DAR.U OLE KlDO?R, ) ; > TRMIUG To Q\r [o&A. ' \ ?" J' " ' V? -I.J L ! twa through which they could see no rleam of light., 1 "At first we made nothing. On i>2 \ icres that I pers6nally considered the ' >est cotton land in any of my farms, [ took off four bales. Other farmers ' arge and small, had the same general 1 experience. We had as a whole made jut little feed or food stuff, and it 1 loes not take an imaginative mind to jicture the conditions we were in. "We tried cotton again, however, but necessity forced a reduction in acreage, of course. We made no more general headway, the weevils literally i ?ating us up. Then necessity forced a fnrfther reduction of acreage in the third year of weevil infestation, and from dire necessity also?from the absolute lacking of money with which to buy moat and bread, many of the farmers began correspondingly increase their ' heretofore negligible acreage in grain and hay. And some put in peanuts with the only idea of raising the meat they were not able to buy. "At this stage many of us realized that cOtton acreage would have to be permanently and radically cut, and that the farmers would be compelled to make other crops for home consumption and for market. With the idea, therefore, of making cotton only a surplus money crop, a committee of us went out to Texas and to tho Mississippi delta and studied closely the methods used by the farmers who had been through the same ordeal and had mastered It, Lesson Learned From Texas Farmers "There we learned the lessons? "Radically reduced cotton acreage, early planting of early varieties rotation, perfect drainage, better and' more liberal fertilizing, and intense j cultivation, plowing every week until a month after the 'laying by' time to 1 which we had been accustomed since boyhood?.the late plowing of course, being shallow, usually with heelsweeps with short scooters ?n front to hold them steady, "Also we learned that big, open fields, separated from woodland, ar.d from stump aroas, and natural hibernation haunts for the weevil, meant a groat deal in running the weevil infestation a race. "Of course we realized that these rules, while simple, could only be followed by reducing the cotton acreage to the lowest possible amount? | "VAMPS" WHO ? MADE HISTORY | i Bt JAMES C. YOUNG. ??> by McClure Nawapapar Syndicate.) THE QUEEN WHO.. BECAME A -KING." WE THINK of little Sweden today as one of the vest-pocket nations. But the close of the Sixteenth and the beginning of the Seventeenth centuries saw Sweden one of the llrst powers of Europe. Several kings, especially Gustavus Adolphua, had overrun the Baltic mainland and penetrated far Into Poland. Then Gustavus died In 1032 and his six-year-old daughter Christina became queen. She was a strange dilld. She rode, hunted, swore and fonght better than any girl and most boys in Sweden. At | eighteen she took over control of the kingdom and broke off a match which had been arranged for her. She announced that she would never wed, and that instead of queen she must be called "king." To her other accomplishments Christina now added those of a heavy drinker and a ruler of light affections. Her choice fell on several diplomats of her court, but was just as likely to linger upon a handsome trooper or a strapping coachman. She liked -big men, the rougher the belter, and could carry on a driving bout with any army sergeant She slept fiva hours a. day, stayed In the saddle ten hours at a time and delighted in drilling her troops. Sh? bad military capacity, was well read with the politics of Europe at her fin ger tips. Christina evcelled in athletics, won the reputation of a crack shot and could handle a sword with the best of her officers. Although it would have taken a brave man to become Christina's consort, she received many offers of marriage which might have linked her throne with that of the first In Europe. But she declined all offers and persisted In her resolution to remain single. At first her rule had been wise, even brilliant, hut bj degrees she became Involved In difficulties and the power of Sweden began to wane. Christina found herself unable to stem the tide. She was a king In name only, lacking the mental balance or the true perseverance to overcome obstacles. Her nature Inclined to the Impetuous and not the devious ways of statecraft. Stricken by remorse and the difficulties of her country, Christlrta quit ' the throne. And. although she won no < longer r sing," her mode of life continued to be a series of truly royal revels. j OOif G T fcOfcH AWC> GAklT ' ... -! W" I" ji r " .. l i! "Therefor we developed the pea- t nut growing also to a science; and 1 last year, instead of buying meat, as ? in the old days, we shipped 700 car- 1 loads of pigs?as well as hundreds of * carloads of corn, oats, hay and other ? products, dairy products,being among ? the leaders. And we made in 1921 ^ around 16,000 bales of cotton purely * as a money crop, there i\pt being in this country a sure-enough farmer 1 who does not grow everything he eats < and feeds to his stock. i "In spite of the boll weevil, we are I averaging our old-time cotton produc- 1 tion to the acre, and in many instances, more than ever made before, and it is done by winning the race from the weevil by small cotton acre- ? age and intense cultivation along the ] lines I have set out." ' This concise, simply expressed and i wholly illuminating statement is here ( THE RE; Not what you get by chance or inh in life, but what you gain by hone I successful. What are you doing to funds for future ne<"ds by starting miwn ? a ? IHt f AKMLKSB j M. L. RALEY. J. S. McGREG President Vice-Pi DIREC F. D. Seller, J. S. Si . T. H. Burch, j $ke 9eopl< lof chest I Will Appreciate Your Busine : $200,0 Oar custodiers and friends hel need of accommodation or you | to see us. Guaranteed burgl J Let us show you this wonder. 1 ? R. B. LANEY, President | CHAS. P. MANGUM, Cashier ir? iBank X* The Oldest, Largt Bank in Chest ^ P*r Cent. Paid on Savings De| See I C. C. Dough R. E. Rivera, President. M. J. Hough, Vice-President. I The Best Family Ren Because it vror remedies have ce Is Li I N Chesterfield I ' ] D. H. DOUGLASS, President I ?j W. J. DOUGFjASS, Vice- Pres. ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, II /-;< ?insu W? Buy aid Sail* Rea j i'i, \iT" i nade by one of the largest dirt farmers of southwest Alabama/ It tpeaks for itself, and conveys a-lesson hot ought to sink deep into the hearts in<J minds of evely farmer in the southeast who has heretofore depend- ' ;d entirely upon cotton not only with vhioh to pay dbts, but buy the n'ecesjities of life. It is also encouraging to the bollweevil victim who will -profit by the jxperiences of those who have fallen ind then lifted themslves up in his path, that mor need los courng, or weaken in the faith. MASONIC MEETING Special Communication of Chester ?ld odge No. 220 A. P. M. will be held Monday evening, Fobraury 20, at 7 :30 o'clock for the purpose of centering F. C. and M. M. Degrees. By order of B. F. Teal, W. M. TEST icritance, not what _you start with sty is what will make you truly better conditions? Accumulate ? a savings account HERE NOW. ANK,RUBY,S.C. OR, MISS ALICE BURCH . 'pftirlonf Aoelafonf Po-u:* .W.V.V.... nOdObOIIb VO^IUCl TORS I mith, . J. S. McGregor ( j M. L." Rnley, j j e.i' Qank j ERFIELD ss. Total Resources Over i 00.00 I ped us to do this. When in ? have money to deposit, come - j at proof and fire proof safe. . j | V cordial welcome awaits you - ! . O. K. LANEX/Jy?President^* J J. A. CAMPBELL, * j Assist. Cashier : ~Tr-.rrjL^ZI ~i, 'hesteriield iSt and Strongest erfield, S. G. i i vomits. $1.00 Start* An Account Jin, Cashier. D. L. Smith, Assist. Cashier R. T. Redfearn, Tiller ? | II iedy j ks when all [other ased to work ife Insurance joan 8 Ins. Go. | C. C. DOUGLASS, Sec'y & Mgr. GKO. W. EDDINS, Treasurer. EALTH~ HAIL, LIVE STOCK RANGE " | I Eilut^?-Money Loaned I wiispiacea dytnpatny UNKGlVte HM\W Xo N4KSVS C.NR9 ?\A*M OAN AVY-\V\e>4 QT <aVX NO \>??E OUT Of ^ -xv\evK\ .True I; Detective Stories :: * * _ * If THE DOUBLE CRIME ;; txwotmtMiointmm Copyright by 1 ha WbNlir SyekUeete. In. IT WAS In, the late summer of 1908 that the New York police discovered the body of a man, evidently ao Italian, concenled In a barrel on the East side. Every mark that could possibly supply a clue to his Identification had been removed?even the labels had been clipped from his clothes?and the manner in utfrfch his face had been mutilated rendered him totally unrecognlzable.Rut, just ns the case was about to he entered upon the book of New York's unsolved mysteries. It was .cleared up through a coincidence so startling that no writer of defective fiction would hove dared make use of It. On the night of the murder, William J. Flynn, then chief of the Eastern division of the United States secret service, with heudquurters In New York, was working on one of the numerous counterfeiting cases wblchi occur so frequently In tb? Italian section of tnT metropolis. Flynn himself was elected to trail a pair of Italluus whom lie had reason ? to believe were working for or with the counterfeiters. The trail led to nn Italian grocery, where, from tfco shadow of a doorway across the street, the government detective could see Into a lighted room In the suspected house. A few moments later a covered wagon drew up-In front of the house, a man got out, entered tha grocery, and made his way Into the very room thnt Flynn was watching. The light from the lamp fell directly upon his face, and the secret service operative realized that this must be a new addition to the gang, for he was eerln'inly no one that he had seen hefore. Then the curtains to the window were drawn, and Flynn abandoned his chase for the tltne being. The next morning the murdered man was discovered, nearly half * mile from the place where Flynn had hhbVn himself the ulght before. It was several <lnys later that the operative iind the otliclul account of the crime and noted thut the body had been" found in a sugar barrel, partly tilled with Mood-stained sawdust. The date ^ the murder, coupled with the 'use of a t^gar barrel, recalled to tlte operative's mind the fact thnt he had hc-en watching ar. Italian grocery at or about the time that the foreigner bad been killed. Merely to satisfy himself that there was no connection between the couutcrfelters and the murdered num. Flynn went to the morgue and examined the body. The peculiar shape of the forehead, the manner in which the hair splayed out above the prominent ears and the blood-stained green hat which had lieen found in the barrel, told the story beyond the shadow of a doubt. It was the stranger Whom Flynn had seen entering the store which he had been watching! Feeling certain that here wps a sign which pointed toward the operations of the gang which he was after, Flynn had the body photographed from a number of angles, while experts In physiognomy reconstructed the features to something approaching a lifelike appearance. Then, armed with these post-mortem pictures, Flynn took a trip to Ossiiilng to see If any *t?f the members of the Italian colony In Sing Sing could Identify the dead man. ? The Idea proved to he a good oos, for a convict whom Flynn knew?an Italian serving tline for another counterfeiting case?Identified the photo graphs as being those of his brotherIh-lnw, Maruona Benedetto, whom he described us being a jteaceful hardworking citizen who had never heeo implicated In any of the crimes of the Italian settlement, i Working backward from this clue, Fl.vnn and the other secret service operatives trailed the Italians whom the chief had seen In the grocery store on the night of the murder, and It was not long before they had made a complete roundup of the gang. As was to be expected In a crime of this nature, alibis were plentiful, but. as . was usual, these were none too well supported by (net, and It was a comparatively simple matter for the police to get at the bottom of the case, once the Identify of the victim had been established. A Judicious application of the "third degree" brought to light the fact that Benedetto had been killed because lie had gotten wind of the counterfeiting plot, and because be was tlia brotherin-law of the mnn who later tdentlfled the body?n mnn who had Incurred the undying enmity of his compatriots by turning state's evidence. The Inflexible laws of the society to which they both Itelonged?one of the societies which rules Little Italy with a rule of Iron and a hand of blood?demanded the 8acrlttce of the next of kin in the event of information being given to the police. Hut. If Flynn had not happened to . lie watching the grocery store the night of the murder, the chances are inni mi- i-i nut: Ytuuitl mill nP UllROIVeil. The leader of the murder Rang wns found to he Ignazlo Lupo, one of tlie very men Flynn was after, hat fTie government allowed the counterfeiting charge to ItaiiR Are until the expiration of Lupo'x lerm for manslaaghl r. ? Another Ltipe, brother to Ign&gxlo, escaped at the time, and was not oi.n. turcd r*.itll ten years later, although Flynn nnd hli. associates were on the v' lookout for hint all that 'line. Clever Fallow. "I Rot off something fine this morn InK" "What was that?" "The Aiauretunla."?LI fa. Taking the Fun Out of It. He?"I see iliis.4iotel has adoptad a rule permitting women to smoke" She?"I now VU hers te - It" Kaay Selling. along admirably with hie