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1 Office No 61
Residence, No. 17
Wednesday, February 1.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mr. Bettis Cantelou motored to
Aiken on business Tuesday.
Miss Mae Tompkins left Friday for
Washington, D. C., to visit Mrs. Lucy
Dugas.
Mr. J. M. Mays, Jr., motored to
Aiken yesterday to visit his father,
Mr. John M. Mays.
Miss Hortense Padgett came down
from Greenwood to spend the week
end in Edgefield with relatives.
Hon. M. P. Wells and Hon. James
0. Sheppard came home from their
legislative duties for the week-end.
Mrs. W. C. Madden, Miss Margaret
Madden and Miss Mattie Saunders
will leave for Columbia this morning
to spend a few days.
Mr. J. M. Wright bas definitely
. stated that he will not be a candidate
for the office of clerk of court in the
campaign this summer.
It will pay farmers more than, ever
to give thought to their seed selec
tion, especially in planting cotton.
An early maturing variety should be
planted.
The Corner Store announces that
it has just received a stock of stamp
ed goods and thread for the ladies
This popular store also has ? large
assortment of valentines.
Judge J. W. DeVore will soon be
gin the erection of a modern resi
dence on his beautiful lot in Bun
combe. His new home will be located
in the grove near the street.
Miss Sophie Nicholson is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Johnstone in George
town and from there she will go to
West Chester, Pa., to visit another
sister, Mrs. Wayne Darlington.
Sunday Mrs. E. S. Johnson gave an
elaborate dining in honor of Miss
Zeleme Yates, a beautiful young lady
from Trenton. The occasion was one
of unusual pleasure for all present.
Mr. William Bouknight advertises
Wannamaker-Cleveland cotton seed
in this issue for planting. Read what
yield was made on the Bouknight
farm last year, in spite of the boll
weevil.
Mr. Edwin Folk is making a fine
record at the South Carolina Univer
shy. He was recently chosen as edi
tor in chief pf "The Game Cock,"
the university journal published by
the student body.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will hold their February
and Frances Willard meeting on
Monday at 3:30 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. J. R. Scurry. All members
are urged to be present.
Maj. W. A. Collett has engaged
Mr. M. D. Lyon, Jr., and Mr. P. P
Blalock, Jr., as additional salesmen
Two better selections could not have
been made. Mr. Lyon will be in the
drug store and Mr. Blalock in the
grocery store. .
The rain wiH refresh the wheat
and oats after the recent severe
spell of weather. Some farmers who
failed to sow large acreage should
risk a few acres in spring oats. Some
times almost as good oats are har
vested from spring sowing as from
fall sowing.
The students of the high school will
give ia minstrel in the school audito
rium Friday night. The curtain will
be raised promptly at 7:30 o'clock.
The proceeds will be divided between
the athletic association and the piano
fund. The entertainment deserves to
be largely patronized.
Messrs. Warren and Cantelou is
the style of the grocery firm which
has opened a new stock in the store
formerly ocupied .by Mr. L. T. May.
These two very popular young men
will carry a well selected stock of
heavy and fancy groceries and will
leave no stone unturned in their ef
forts to make a success of their new
enterprise. Success to them!
Major W. A. Collett, encouraged
by the success he has achieved with
his drug sto. e in the Dixie Highway
hotel block, has rented the store
next door and has opened a first class
stock of groceries. Everything is fresh
from the mills and jobbers. In addi
tion to the usual stock of groceries.
Maj. Collett will make a specialty of
garden and field seeds. Make your
wants known to him.
The recently organized Edgefield
Produce Exchange has opened the
:yes of a number of 'persons to the
tdvantage of co-operative buying and
ve belive that co-operative selling
;hrough the Exchange will prove to
)e as helpful to those who avail them
?elves of that means of selling.
Mr. John Bartley, a son of Mr. and
V?rs. S. A. Bartley, is enjoying his
furlough of thirty days. He enlisted
'or service in the army for one year
?oon after the close of the war and at
;he expiration of the twelve months
ie re-enlisted for a term of three
fears. He is stationed at the Walter
Eleed Hospital in Washington, D. C.
f?e will return to his post of duty
ibout the middle of February.
Strong and Timely Sermon.
A large congregation assembled in
;he Methodist church Sunday morn
ng and all who were present were
ibundantly rewarded by hearing the
iarnest, forceful and timely sermon
iy Rev. G. W. M. Taylor .The uncom
promising life of Daniel, one of the
nost pronounced Old Testament char
icters, was held up as worthy of eniu
ation by the people of this' day and
reneration. Just as Daniel was un
compromising before the court of the
ting, never lowering his stardards,
lor swerving from the path of recti
;ude, so Mr. Taylor urged his hear
ds to be as uncompromising and as
nsistent upon the right.
In making local application, Mr.
Taylor related an incident which re
cently came under his observation
vhich was a strong arraignment of
ridgefield. Not many months ago a
foung man came to Edgefield and
?ccepted a position. He fell into bad
company and yielded to the tempta
;ion of strong drink. This grew upon
lim to such an extent that his em
>loyer had to prevail upon him to ab
>tain from drinking. Finally it be
came necessary for his employer to
nform the young man that unless he
changed his manner of living he
vould be asked to give up his posi
;ion. Then the young man frankly
;old his employer that he could not
.emain in Edgefield and keep sober.
Nhat a severe arraignment of a com
nunity! Has the often-boasted
'strong arm" of the law become weak
md impotent? Has established au
hority been deposed and a surrender
nade to violators of the law? Our
jeople should hang their heads in
?hame when it is said by a young
nan that he can not keep sober and
.emain in Edgefield. We need a bet
;er enforcement of the prohibition
aw in the town of Edgefield and in
he county of Edgefield. Fathers and
nothers, if a young man who came to
Edgefield to make his home could not
:eep sober and remain here, what
ibout your boys who are now or will
>e exposed to the same temp'cation?
Something should be done and done
peedily to improve the situation.
Mr. Taylor also referred to the
ale of cigars and soft drinks in
Sedgefield on Sunday. He said no bus
ness man should violate the Sabbath
n order to reap the profit from the
ale of merchandise, the sale or pur
:hase of which is not necessary on
he Sabbath.
Mr. Taylor has been very generally
?ommended for /the sermon cn Sun
lay morning. Would that every man
md woman in Edgefield could have
leard it!
Church Notices.
Rev. G. W.' M. Taylor, the Metho
list pastor, will preach Sunday morn
ng at~ll o'clock at the Trenton
Methodist church,- Sunday night at
r:30 at Edgefield.
Mrs. L. P. Hanner, Elementary Su
?erintendent, Sunday School Work
or the Upper South Carolina Con
erence, M. E. Church South, will
told an Institute for Sunday school
yorkers, at the Edgefield Methodist
:hurch Thursday, February 2. There
viii be three sessions. One at 10:30
i. m., 3:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. The
norning and afternoon sessions will
>e devoted to special phases of the
Sunday school for officers and teach
es only. At night the lecture will be
pven on the general work of the
sunday school and the public is in
rked. We would be glad to have the
eachers in the various Sunday
ichools of the town attend this insti
ute and hear Mrs. Hanner.
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Spartanburff, S. C.
Went for Wrestling Match and
Got Religion.
Spartanburg, Jan. 27.-One of the
most beautiful of stories that has yet
come out of the Sunday tabernacle
took place last night when Mr. Sun
day called for people to come up and
take the stand for a newer and better
life. The story is of a young man
who was raised in a Christian home,
who gradually took up evil habits
and companions and then last night,
came back to Jesus Christ, follow
ing Mr. Sunday's invitation.
Yesterday morning there came to
this city a young man, boastful, criti
cal of Mr. Sunday and his methods,
and with the confessed intention bf
promoting a wrestling match here,
wagering money on one of the wrest
lers. It was a framed match. In a
pool room yesterday afternoon the
conversation versed to Mr. Sunday
and the young man sneeringly stated
that he would go to hear him and
that he would see "what that duck
had to say." . ,
He went to the tabernacle with the
idea in mind of criticizing Mr. Sun
day and his methods. Toward the
end of the sermon he was seen to be
in deep thought. When the invitation
came to "hit the trail" a personal
worker went to him and asked him to
go up. The young man with tears in
his eyes and his voice trembling then
told the story of the wrestling match
the critical viewpoint and the follow
ing :
He had been educated for the -iin
istry at Wake Forest college, after
graduation he had fallen in with evil
companions and had gone down the
route. In his own words to the per
sonal worker, a minister of the gospel
and another person. "Is there any
hope for a man like me? Can I be
saved? I have committed every sin
but murder." He then told of a
Christian father and mother, who had
never done an evil thing in their
lives and pf the wasted life he had
led. The worker promised him salva
tion, the minister gave him all the
consolation he could and then the
young man went up, head high, a
new light in his eyes and a self-made
promise to live a new and cleaner
life.
Gave Outline of Plan for Ship
ping Cotton Direct to -
Europe.
Having learned that Mr. J. J. Fret
well, one of the leading farmers of
Anderson county, shipped 800 baies
of cotton direct to Central Europe,
and believing that there are great
possibilities for the. cotton growers
in this direct shipment of their staple
to foreign spinners, eliminating the
profits of brokers and other middle
men, some of our business men ex
tended an invitation to Mr. Fret
well to visit Edgefield and lay be
fore our people the details of the
new plan of selling. Mr. Fretwell ac
cepted the invitation and Tuesday
morning met with some of our farm
ers and other business men. He is a
practical farmer and business man
who has made a success of life and
at once inspires confidence on the
part of his hearers.
Mr. Fretwell stated that on Decem
ber 17 he shipped 510 bales of cot
ton abroad and that on January he
made a second-shipment of 300 bales,
all of which he grew upon his farms
in Anderson county. The cotton is
consigned to the Warrant Export
Corporation, whose president is Mr.
Samuel C. Dobbs, a leading banker
of Atlanta. This corporation advances
$40 per bale on the cotton at the time
it is shipped and makes settlement
in full when returns are received
from the sale abroad, which will be
about six months after the cotton is
shipped. Mr. Fretwell stated that a
profit of from six to ten cents above
the price paid when sold through the
usual channel, will be realized.
Cotton that is exported from South
Carolina is first shipped to Columbia
to be compressed and then re-shipped
to Charleston, where it is loaded on
vessels for Hamburg, Germany. At
Hamburg it is re-shipped into
Czecho-SlovaUia to the Mautner
Kuffler Mills which operate about
750,000 spindles. The Warrant Ex
port Corporation has a contract with
Mr. Kuffler, who is reputed to be the
Rothchilds of that country, for 250,
000 bales. The cotton is not sold to
the mill but consigned to it to be
manufactured into cloth. The cloth is
shipped back to Hamburg where it is
put on the market by selling agents
of the Warrant Export Corporation.
Mr. Fretwell is very enthusiastic
over the direct exporting of cotton,
being of the opinion that it will ul-,
timately revolutionize the plan pf
marketing cotton and will also free
the cotton growers from the domina
tion of the New York Cotton Ex-<
change. Mr. Fretwell vail soon make
another shipment of 600 bales for
other farmers of Anderson county.
He stated that interest in the new
plan is now becoming state-wide. He
receives frequent invitations fr|om
individuals and organizations in dif
ferent sections to come and explain
the export plan to them.
Before making the initial shipment
of his cotton inJDecember Mr. Fret
well made a thorough investigation
of the Warrant Export Corporation
and found it to be headed by men of
great financial strength and of un
questioned integrity of character. In
deed he was so favorably impressed
with the corporation that he became
a stockholder and has since been
chosen a director.
Tax Levy and Assessed Value
of Property.
Editor Edgefield Advertiser: .
One of the most important .ques
tions before the people of our state
is the question of taxes. This article
is not being written for the sake of
argument for or against any plan
or suggested settlement of our tax
problem. The only excuse that can be
offered is the desire to call the at
tention of our people to a few vital
facts.
Everybody wants lower taxes, but
do we want to pay for lower taxes?
Low taxes mean low-grade ser
vice.
Low taxes mean a less efficient
state government. (Do you fhink
ours in South Carolina is too good
for us?)
Lower taxes mean lower health
rate and higher death rate. (Do you
think South Carolina has too few ep
idemics and too few dead babies?)
Lower taxes mean rougher, mud
dier, sandier roads. (Do you think
we have too many good roads?)
Lower taxes mean that the "door
of the school house will be shut in
the face of some child or adult il
literate who has not had your chance
at life's opportunities. (Do you not
know where South Carolina stands
in illiteracy among her sister states?)
Low taxes mean a low South Caro
lina.
?Can we afford it?
Did you know that South Carolina
has the smallest number of citizens
who can read, with the single except
tion of Louisiana?
That South Carolina spends the |
smallest amount per capita for the
education of children in the public
schools? That South Carolina has the
smallest percentage of boys and girls
attendnig the high schools, 2.2 per
cent? That in all educational lines
South Carolina averages the lowest in
the country, occupies 48th place? The
Palmetto flag flies over more mental
darkness to the square inch than ex
ists in any other state in the union,
save possibly one. f
Did you know that South Carolina
has the cheapest government in
America? which is just another way
of saying that South Carolina spends
less and less for its citizens than any
other state. In 1919 the average per
capita cost of state governments in
the United States was $6.05; the av- '
erage for South Carolina was $2.50.
Of the one hundred million people in
the United States the million and a
half in South Carolina1 pay least and
lowest of all. There is no reason to
be surprised or disappointed. We get
what we pay for. The truth is, our
tax system has broken down.
The state constitution of 1895 pro
vides that "all taxes upon property,
real and personal, shall be levied up
on the actual value of the property
taxed.' 'Our law requires" that our
property be'returned at 42 per cent |
of its value. According to the last
United States census the highest val
ue of land in South Carolina was
22.9 per cent. The average for the
state was 11.3 per cent. In Edgefield
county the census value per acre
(average) was $43.58. The assessed
value was $5.72, the ratio of assess
ed value to census value being 13.1
per cent, just 1.7 above the average
for the state, and 9.8 below the aver
age for Jasper county.
Therefore, the conclusion is reach
ed that it is not the mill levy, but
the return value of property that
chiefly matters. In twelve states of
the union property is returned at 100
per cent. In Ohio, one of the states
that require a 100 per cent return, a
3 mill levy will be exactly equivalent
to a 12 mill levy must be. The plans
suggested by the Joint Special Com
mitte'e on Taxation (a committee ap
pointed at the last meeting of the 1
Legislature) are in most cases practi
cal and offer relief in the future, but
it is not my purpose to discuss plans.
I would simply remind you that
"you can't get an automobile for the
price of a wheelbarrow," and leave
this question-What part shall South
Carolina, first among the states in
chivalry, honor and courage, assume
at the council table of the nation?
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