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THE CARNIVAL MENACE.
Danger to Small Communities
Pointed Out.
The ffopular mind judges civic
' morality largely 'in terms of density
ox population, and in a measure
it is right, says a writer in
Henry Ford's Dearborn independent.
However, there are
some things for which the moral
consciousness of the big "immoral"
city won't 4'stand" but for
which the small town or small
city or rural community will.
.Recently, tor examplc, ten men
were bound over by a New York
city court tor trial 111 a higher
trtuuiial oil the churge of operating
an improper amusement
venture. Vet the kind of amusemeiu
for the production of which
they were held as criminals is not
oiny permitted in the vast majority
of small towns and cities
out is welcome at places, such as
agricultural fairs, where rural
people come chiefly lor diversion
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The ten men operated what is
known as a "carnival show."
inspector llenry stated that
both me governor and the mayor
had directed thai such affairs be
prevented. He declared that 99
per cent of the attendants were
children under 17. "As a result
01 tins condition," the inspector
aaiu, "carnivals are a great menace
to any community for they
are invariably improperly conducted."
"Hie reason why traveling
carnival companies always come
to a town under the auspices of
some locul popular organization
is because they all violate one or
more sections ol the State laws
which prohibit lotteries, games of
chauce, gambling and indecent
snows, and they need the infill^euce
of some local organization
to protect tliem lrom police 111tericrence.''
That statement ih
lrom O. K. Miller, superintend*
eut oi the New York Civic league,
which has made extensive investigations
of "carnival shows"
ana as a result hus been endeavoruig
to have them outlawed?as
they have been in a great many
communities and, partially, in
one State, Parenthetically, it is
interesting to note that that
State, South Carolina, outlaws
them except when they operate
at agricultural fairs, where, all .
agree, their worst features generally
are in greatest evidence 1 'l^ie
law protects the "boobs" of the
town and city, leaving those of
the rural districts to the tender
mercies of the sharps who operate
the "concessions'1 which are
inseparable leatures of traveling
carnivals.
"In our long experience in
fighting these*evils we have never
known ot a traveling carnival
company which was not largely
a combination of gamblers and
lewd women," declared Mr. Miller.
"The demoralizing effect
of such carnivals is seldom realized
by the people of the town.
The disastrous . results to the
moral and physical health of the
young men, where one of the carnivals
spends a wetk, cannot be
eradicated by the efforts of the
churches in a whole year.
"in a Pennsylvania town,%is is
stated, the physicians traced 342
cases of cerium types ol disease
to a traveling carnival company 1
"How often you have known
or read of some girl being enticed
away by. a carnival or fair
show," says an exconcessionaire
in the "Confessions of a Fair Faker/'
published in The Country
Gentleman. "Hundreds of farm
girla have disappeared that way,
swallowed up iu the unhealthy,
degrading lite of the lowest type
of carnival show. .
Last year in Chicago, a carnival
show operator was fined
> $4,000 and given a 20 year sentence
iu the penitentiary for violating
the Mann (white slave)
act. Four girls, all from small
towns in the Middle West, were
involved, all being with the'man
at the time of the arrest. I
"Men of your type are a "men-}
aoe to the community at large,"
said the judge in passing sentenoa.
14 You should not be per- '
kitted to come ito contact with
society and it is only too bad that |
the law covering your offense is
not moro drastic. The death pen-1
READY FOR THE FOURTH.
All arrangements have bean j
completed by Eli Bailes post,
American Legion, for the biggest
celebration of the Fourth, of July,
next Tuesday, Fort Hill has ever *
known. Hundreds of visitors are
expected to come from other sections
of York county and from
Lancaster and Chester counties to
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juiu uic ojl-3cx yicc men ana we
citizens of the town generally in 1
making the celebration a success. 1
A feature of the day's exercises
will be an address at. the
picnic grounds, in the rear of the
residence of Mrs. Mary Ardrey,
by the Hon. W. F. atevennon,
member of Congress from the <
Fifth congressional district. At i
10 o'clock in the morning a reception
will be given for Mr. Stevenson
at the Legion club rooms. ,
f ollowing the picnic dinner, a ,
competitive drill between the
Fort Mill and Rock HUI National
Guard companies will be held on
the picnic grounds, where there
also will be athletic contests for
which cash prises will be given:
In the afternoon a ^baseball
game will be played between -the
Fort Mill and Waxhaw teams
and boginning at 4 o'clock in the
alternoon and continuing until
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. IU. HUB {inuiuub TCM pily- .
ture, "Lafayette, We Come,"
will be shown at the Majestic
theater.
The committee on arragements
is in correspondence with one of J
the best bands in this section and
expects to secure its services for
the day.
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Locals Defeat Great Falls.
Saturday afternoon for the
first time this season the Fort
Mill bull team showed a flash of ]
its old form and took the Ureal
Falls boys into camp, 3 to 2, 011 ,
the local grounds Fort Mill
scored twice in the first inning j
and againv in the third, which (
ended their run-getting tor the j
afternoon. During the remaining (
six innings the home team boys
tried hard to put other runners
across, but there was always a '
Great Fulls man in the way to
block their efforts.
Up to the ninth inning Great 1
Fulls had been unable to score, 1
but in that inning, thanks to an 1
error by a Fort Mill player and,
.three hits, was able to stave off |
the scoreless defeat which it
appeared was headed in their di* '
rectiou. The miscue and the 1
safeties produced 2 runs for the
visitors.
Andrul Ferguson pitched a '
good gaiue for the locals up to ;
the ninth inning, when he seemed
to weaken. Carson and Cooper 1
did the box work for Great Falls. \
The next game between Fort 1
Mill and Great Falls will be
played at Great Falls Saturday ;
afternoon. i
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Commutation road tax must be \
paid by July 1. There are only a i
tew more days. 1
Misses Elizabeth and Frances
May Mills and Martha and Evu
l>ell Dyches were visitors in Rock
Hill Monday.
alty is none too good for men of
your ilk and caliber. Hut it '
might be a lesson to men of your '
vocation and business who have
bten plying this nefarious trade.
"You go into communities, fill
up young and unsuspecting girls
with embellished tales of the
wonders of the opportunities of
the carnival show business; you
tell them how they will make
money in abundant quantities
and how jewels and fine clothes I
will be showered upon them by
the thousands of admirers they
will meet in the towns they \isit.
They listen to your tales, do not
know any better, fall and then
come into the trap to be held at
your mercy.
will sound a warning to men :
of your business in the most dras-!
tic terms 1 know, and that is by
giving you the limit under the
law, and I hope that this warning
will echo throughout%the carnival
world and that it will be heeded
to the extent of keeping these
men away from this part of the ,
country unless they want to take '
the consequenees which may be
worse thail those you have to
take."
NEWS OF TOE* COUNTY.
[terns of General Interest round
in the Yorkrille Enquirer.
Friends of Dr. 1. J. Campbell
i?t L lover are trying to persuade
him to be a candidate for the
House of representatives.
People wbo have building- in
mind should get at it without
further delay. Prices are quite
reasonable uow and they wid be
Higher before they are lower.
Not more than 60 bales of cotLon
were sold on the local market
last week, according to- Kobert E.
Alct'lure, public weigher. Mr.
Mel lure said Monday that indications
were that there would
not be a great deal of cotton sold
this week.
"I hope,"said Secretary Fewrtl
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cu vi inc i via vvuuij a- mi aosv'
inuiion, the other day, "that
lurwers in- ihe county will think
10 save unusually good shocks ot
wheat and oata lor display at the
York coumy lair this lail. The
way 10 do u is 10 save ihe shocks
alter they are cut aud tied by
putting tueui 111 some sat'p place
where ihey are sale from rats and
inice. lleretoiore the lair has
been short on exhibits of this
kind .because the larmers have
not taken the precaution to cure
lor them, i am hopelui that they
will keep it 111 mind."
Interest in county and State
politics is beginning to warm up
in .Kock iiill. Around a number
of the stores the principal topic
of conversation is politics these
days. Enrollment at the five precincts
in Kock Hill is progressing
steadily now, although the women
are not showing much inclination
to put their names on the
rolls. Candidates for county obities
are spending quite a bit of
time iu Kock HiU and vicinity.
Kock Hill politicians are beginning
to talk up their favorites
snd the old political pot which
las been simmering is now beginning
to show signs of percolation.
Construction work has been:
started on the community house
being erected for the benefit of
the residents of the Hawthorne
mill village, Clover. The commu*
nity house which will be a brick
structure is located in the rear of
the iiawthornc athletic field on
the southern outskirts of town.
The understanding is that the
building will be used for all kinds
of community activities at the
Hawthorn and religious services
will also be held' there. It will
tilso be available for employees of
the Hawthorn mill, it is stated.
While no steps have been taken
in that direction yet, it is expected
that a community worker will
be employed later on. +
Interviews with leading farmers
around Clover develop the
information that the boll weevil
is not numerous in that section
and while a few have been found
in some of the fields, it takes a
pretty diligent search to find
them. While the farmers arc
keeping a sharp lookout for weevils,
most of them are confident
that unless he appears in much
greater numbers later 011 in the
year than he has developed so
far, his hosts are not going to do
uny great amount of damage to
the crop this year in this section.
Mr. J. E. Lodrry has returned
to his home in xorkvdie, after
attending the Confederate reunion
in Hichmoud, Va. Mr. Low
ry reports a pleasant trip and a
general good time. "I guess they
were there, but I didn't see a single
York county veteran," said
Mr. Lowry. "Veterans attending
the reunion were quartered
in the homes of Richmond people
this time aad were not located in
tents as had been the custom at
a number of former reunions.
The veterans were accorded the
finest of hospitality by Richmond
people and everything possible,
wasv done to make them have a
good time. All was quiet and sober
and there was no evidence of
liquor."
Solicitor J. K. Henry of Chester
is expected to be a candidate
at the next session of the General
Assembly for judge of the 8ixth
judicial circuit to fill the vacancy
created by the recent death of
Jurin Moore of I winlw.
0HUB6H 80CI*TY MEETING.
Christian Endeavorers in Session
at Presbyterian Church.
More than 100 delegates, from
various Presbyterian churches in
York, Lancaster and Chester
counties, are attending the seventh
annual convention of the
York District Christian Endeavor
union, in session today and tomorow
at the Fort Mill Presbyterian
church. Among those 111
attendance are a nuiyber of men
and women prominent^ in Christian
Endeavor work in the State
and district. ?
The first session of the convention
was held at 10:30 o'clock
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1U AO Uiuiuiu^ anu HOB J/ICBIUCU
over by J. Arthur Flunnagaii of
Bowling Green, president of the
State union. The Rev. John C.
Bailey, pastor of Ebenezer Presbyterian
church, is taking a promient
part in the work ot the coie
vention and at each session is delivering
a talk on 44 The Endeavorer
in the Home, the Community,
the Church and the World."
At the' session this morning inspiring
addresses were delivered
by the Rev. 11. D. Corbett of
Bowling Green, the Rev. R. C.
Long of Gastonia, N. C., Miss
Alice Bettys of Tiricah hnd J.
Clyde Plexico of Sharon. At the
session this afternoon the Junior
Christiau Endeavor program will
be given, at which a feature will
be a debate between intermediate
Fndeavorers from the Ebenezer
and Bowling Green societies.
Thia evening the convention
will listeu to an address bv the
Rev. R. A. Lapsey, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Columbia.
Mr. Lapsey's subject will
be, "The Christian Endeavor the
Training Ground of the Church."
Another feature of the session
this evening will be an address
by S. Wilkes l)endy, one of the
C. E. field secretaries for the
South.
.. Mr., Depdy will again address
the * convention Friday morning
and the McConnellsville society
will present a missionary program.
The final session of the
convention will be held tomorrow
afternoon, at which the election
of officers will take place and an
address will be delivered on "The
F.ndeavorer as a Steward" by
the Rev. W. II. Hudson,, D. D.,
missionary to China.
Tried to Save Girl Friend.
Local interest was added to the
story recently sent out from St.
Petersburg, Fla., telling of the
heroic efforts of Miss Mary Brunei
of that city to save the life of
Miss Dorothy McClatchie in Tainpa
bay when it was recalled that
Mils Bruner is a niece of George
Ainr.ey, who had made his home
in Fort Mill for several years up
to. a few mouths ago. Miss Bru-~
nor visited at the home of Mr.
Ainsley here about three years
ago. Miss McClatchie was attacked
by a sea tiger, a vicious
specie of fish, and Miss Bruner
went to her rescue and for 45
minutes held the liuiD form of
Minn McClatchie above water uu-!
til a boat could arrive. Miss McClatchie
died of her injuries.
Will make it look like a NEW
Chance to Enter Clemion.
* The attention of young men interested
in a technical education
is directed to the Clemaon college
announcement which appears in
another column of The Times this
week*
York county is entitled to five
four-year scholarships and one
ene-year scholarship. Last year
the following young men from
this county were at Clemscu on
scholarships: J. M. Cook, Ht E.
Robinson, L. E. Horton, W. G.
Gordon, W. H. Barton and H. 8.
Glenn.
For the session of 1922-23,
there are two four-yeAr scholarships
and one one-year agricultu
rnl source scholarships vacant
for ambitious York county boys.
"Mac" Altar the DeviL
Declaring that he intended to
conduct such a revival as will
give the devil high blood pressure,
"Cyclone" MaoLendon last
Sunday afternoon opened a four
weeks' revival meeting at Rockingham,
ti. C., before an audience
f P?*pW.
BUSINESS MEN NEEDED.
Senate of United States Well
Supplied witp rine Talkers.
Writing to The Times trom
Washington, where he is now
making his home, Zueli Spratt,
hort Mill- man, expresses the following
opinions relative to the
sort ox men needed 111 the United
States senate:
"The senate of the United
States is well siinnlied with ex
cellent speakers, who never have
an audience. There seems to be
a lack of constructive action and
leadership. "
South Carolina needs the services
of a level headed business
man to represent her in the United
States senate.
"Senator Dial has been successrul
in the cotton mill business
and other business enterprises.
Jus counsel, in committee, will be
heeded, lie should be reelected."
Along with his letter to The!
Times, Mr. Spratt sends the following
clipping from the Washington
Times of last Thursday:
** An advantage which England
possesses over this country is '
that she hus a Parliament of bus-1
incss men, while we have a Congress
of lawyers.
"Lawyers by their training and j
experience are too likely to be j
obstructionists, devotees of / pre- ;
cedent, worshipers of the past. I
Lawyers are not to be depended
upon to supply leadership 111
a changing, progressive world,
where the past must be put behind
and new precedents must be
made.
"This is a business country. It
ought to have, a business Congress.
It will be u great thing
for America when our ablest business
men feel ail obligation to
devote 'to the service of their
country the leisure afforded them
by their large share of the country's
prosperity."
Death of Mrs. Jas. T. Young.
Following an illness which had
extended over two years, during
much of which she was confined J
to. her room, Mrs. Frances Lee
Young, wife of Jas. T. Young,
died at her home in Fort Mill
Friday morning at 1 o'clock. Mrs.
Y'oung had returned to her home
only a few weeks ago from
Koehester, Minn., where she was
a patient for some time at a hospital
and it was thought that the
treatment she received there had
improved her condition* but for
the week preceding her death she
had continually grown weaker
until her family realized that the
end was not far off.
Mrs. Young was 44 years old
and was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. D. A. Lee of Fort Mill. She
and Mr. Young were married 27
years ago and to them four children
were born, one a daughter,
who died in infancy several years
ago. She was a devoted wife and
mother and a kind and obliging
neighbor and her death is greatly
deplored in the community. Mrs.
Young joined the Fort Mill Buptist
church many years ago and
had taken an active interest in
church work. She was a teacher
in the Sunday school alid for ten
years was the secretary of the
Woman's Missionary union.
Besides her husband, she is surived
by three sons, Jas. T. Young,
Jr., Arthur Young and Kenneth
Young; her father and mother,
and five brothers and one sister,
as follows: J. II. Lee of Texas,
Capt. T; K. Lee of Birmingham,
the Rev. R. G. Lee of Chester, 1).
KV' liPu fit ( 'litiutnr Si A T ii>? nl
fort Mill and Miss Fair Lee of
Fort Mill.
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The funeral services were held
at the home Saturday morning at
10 o'clock and were conducted
by Mrs. Young's pastor, the Itev.
J. W. II. Dyehes, assisted by the
Rev. R. O. Lee and the Rev. R.
H. Viser, in the presence of many
friends of the family. The burial
waB in the Fort Mill cemetery.
Few Women Register.
According to information received
in York up to Saturday
Hight, enrollment of voters in the
eounty for the Democratic primary
next August is proceeding
very slowly. About 200 had enrolled
at the two clubs in York,
of whom only about 40 were women.
ICS
WORKS IN WET WEATHER.
Weevil Busy Then as Cotton
Farmer Should Be.
The United States department
of agriculture .says that if the
cotton farmer expects to whjp
the boll weevil, he must show as
much energy as the weevil does?
which means that though the operation
may be both difficult and
unpleasant, uoisoninur must he
dene even when tlie plants are
wet and the ground muddy. The
department finds that, during
the critical stage, poisoning with
calcium arsenate should be done
at intervals of about four days.
Two or three applications, made
in good weather, may have got
the weevils under control. Then
there comes a rainy spell and the
former lets tlie time for poisoning
pass while he waits for fair
weather.
But that is exactly the time the
weevil is busiest. The numbers}
are likely to increase so rapidly
that the control already gained is
lost". In that event, the weevil inflicts
about as much damage us if
no poisoning hud beeiwdone, ami
the farmer loses, in addition, the
amount he has spent in poisoning
operations. The only way to prevent
that sort of thing is to let
wet weather interfere as little us
possible with poisoning operations.
Stick to the schedule, the
department advises, regardless of
weather conditions.
It is admitted, of course, that
tiie work of poisoning the boll
weevil cunnot be done successfully
in pouring rain, but the farmer,
the specialists urge, should take
advantage of the earliest opportunity
..to get back into the field
after the rain, that lie should
make every effort to get the cotton
again dusted regularly, even
though fair weather does not
seem certain. lie can afford, they
say, to put on poison even in unsettled
weather. It may be washed
off again shortly, but on the
other hand the weather, even
when it looks most threatening,
may stay fair long enough to allow
weevil control to operate.
Every farmer, it is pointed out,
must expect to lose some poison
by rain, but the operation is sufficiently
profitable to justify it.
Women Urged to Enroll.
The Times is in receipt of a
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cum 111 (micaiion irom Airs. Annie
Uaines Williams oi Greenwood,
chairman of the South Carolina
League of Women Voters, in
which it is requested to impress
upon the women of this sectiou
the necessity of placing their
names 011 the Democratic club
rolls, so that they may take part
in the Democratic primary to be
held in August for State and
county officers.
"The timidity and indifference
of the newly enfranchised voter
will, in many instances," says
Mrs. Williams, "outweigh her
sense of responsibility in the matter
unless she is matte to realize
that it is a moral obligation to
vote and that voting is not a
question of preferenee but a
boumlen duty."
Roses Principal Industry.
Although Bulgaria produces
the usual grains, fruits, tobacco
and live stock of its part of the
world, it is best known for its extensive
culture of roses for the
manufacture of the famous and
valuable attar of roses'. The number
of acres of roses cultivated
for this purpose in Bulgaria has
approached 20,000. An acre produces
about 4,020 pounds of rose
petals, but this great bulk of petals
yields only about 20 ounces
of attar. The .saleable product
from a whole acre is therefore
little more than a pound? This
much sought essence, however, is
worth from $60 up per pound in
JUilgaria tpid many times more
than that in foreign countries.
McGowan to Hold York Court.
Saturday, Governor Harvey oppointed
Frank P. McGowa.i of
Laurens to be special judge to
hold the July term of court of
general^sessions for York county,
beginning July 10, instead of
Judge Ernest Moore of Lancaster,
^who died a few weeks ago.
The appointment was made on
the recommendation of Chief Jtu^"
tice Gary. _ _ __ ,