The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-30

The Greenville News says that the
Greenville Horse Show Association
has now become stable" organiza-
tion. Why not make it stock" com
pany?
Garland ould might operate a train
from here to Columbia via the inter
urban, Greenville, Laurens, Little
Mountain and Ballentne, returning
same way.-Anderson Daily Mail. This
whole problem of better schedule
between Anderson and Columbia would
be solved If an Interurban connection
were made between Bolton and Lau-
rens. This would reduce the running
time between Anderson and Columbia
at least two hours.
Indications from all over the south
are that large acreage in cotton will
be planted and that the season so far
has been more favorable than last.
With this knowledge at hand, it seems
TO us that now is the time to begin
organizing to market the crop in the
fall. 1t will be too late to organize
after the crop begins to come upon the
market. In the meantime wise farm
ers will be planting something else
than cotton IN order to have some timing
to fall back on in the fall while the
price is low.
While we have no desire to refer
TO any section of the county as be-
ing the most lawless, we will correct
the impression made by The Fountain
Inn Tribune that the lower portion of
Laurens county is moreso than the up
per. AT the time that this is written
there are fourteen prisoners in the
county jail and of this number seven
are from Dials and Youngs townships,
four from Laurens township and three
from ell other sections of the county.
Thus one half Of all the prisoners in
the county Jail at present are from
TWO townships within the area want
ed In the proposed new county Whue
these figures were taken from the rec.
ords in the sheriffs office without ex-
amining the records of any previous
month, we are informed by the court
officials that the charge that the lower
portion of the county is more lawless
than the upper is without foundation
in fact.
We have no patience with those
from within our own state who are
always crying Poor Old South Caro-
lima" and those from without who are
gratuitously Offering us pity. While
it is too true that some have come to
occupy the high positions Of honor
and trust whom we do not recognize
as representatives of the highest and
Roblest among the people of the state
and while our progress at home and
reputation abroad have suffered con-
siderably thereby. still the state hasn't
yet gone to the bad. The temporary
setback will serve to emphasize the
fact that even before this we have not
kept abreast with the times in many
things and this realization is bound to
give such an impetus to progressive
legislation in the future that our ad-
yancement will be SO great as to make
up for the temporary backwardness
of the present, Bleaseism will then ap-
pear not only as necessary misfor-
tune but even as a blessing in disguise.
THE THREE MILL TAX.
Without any reference to the mo-
tiyes of The Advertiser or The Foun-
tain Inn Tribune in the discussion of
the proposed new county question and
without bothering ourselves about re-
plying to some little more or less per-
sonal remarks indulged in by The
Tribune, which we do not consider of
sufficient weight to bother ourselves
about, we will direct the attention OF
our readers in the upper portion of
Laurens county to certain phase of
the new county proposition which has
been very prominently, If inaccurate
Iy. brought before them by The Tri-
t,,nas we refer to the question of