Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-01

II would hardly be safe to announce
that the cold season Is on; but never
theless 1t Is a fact that many people
sought comfort in artificial heat Sun
day, yesterday and today.
According to the United States CEN
sus bulletin, No. ia on cotton produc-
bales Of cotton in 1911. The total num-
Der of bales produced in the state was
1,64S,712.
The high price of beef is a hint to
York county farmers to commence
sheep raising. The country can be sup
piled with sheep very quickly II the
farmers will only try, and the demand
for mutton will be good.
YorkvilIe butter Is being sold in Co.
lumbia, Charleston and other towns,
and the supply Is not nearly up to the
demand. If the creamery patrons will
only continue to add on to their herds
Yorkville butter might some day be
sold all over the south. There Is a
splendid opportunity offered. The thing
Is to take advantage of it.
The Enquirer hears that Mr.. ]. M
Cherry, of Rock Hill, who has been ex-
perimenting with alfalfa for several
years Is so well pleased with the re-
suits so far that, at big expense he is
arranging to sow fifty acres Of this
crop. Those who know Mr.. Cherry, and
almost everybody knows him, under
stand that while he is a man Of big
ideas, those ideas are generally sound.
While there are very few who can af-
ford to keep up with him in his expert
ments anybody can afford to follow
him in his proposed achievements.
The now regulations as to newspa-
pers went into effect yesterday, when
all the newspapers in the country were
required to file with the postofflce de-
partment affidavits relating to editor
ship, ownership, business manage
ment, and financial obligations, and
daily papers were required to file affi-
davits as to circulation. On its face to
the individual who has not thought
about it, this regulation appears to be
| all right; but there are things about 1t
that are a little hard. AS we see II
there is no objection on the part of
any newspaper to giving the names of
its owners or even its, circulation, but
II does not look right to us that a
newspaper should be required to pub
lish to the world the names of all the
people to whom 1t might be under A.
nancial obligations. The theory Of the
law, we presume is, that If a newspa-
per should owe an individual or a
bank given amount of money, its
policy would be more or less influenc-
ed by the interests Of that individual
or bank. But that does not strike us
as fair. Newspapers frequently have
to borrow money just as do other bus
mess enterprises, and in the case of
most of them such transactions are
purely legitimate. 1t does not follow
that because the paper may borrow 1t
Is under any obligation to the person
or institution from which 1t shall bor-
row other than to pay back with inter-
est, and we don't think the law should
put newspaper in the position of hav-
ing anything like this appear. 1t would
not be right to thus expose the private
affairs of other business people, and
we see no reason why there should be
discrimination against newspapers.
The law does not involve any personal
embarrassment to The. Enquirer at
this time; but we are compelled to bor-
row occasionally, as we have a right to
do and we see no reason why we should
be compelled to publish the details of
such a transaction to the world. But
the law is in force and Of course we
will obey r. We have to-