The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1915-03-24

al! eyes are now turned on the
county school fair which is to be held
April 9th. Get ready and come with
the children
With a seventeen million bale crop
OF cotton raised and hardly eleven mil
lion bales sold, we have six million
bales to carry over until next season
Will it be good business policy to
plant heavily again and increase this
surplus?
The educational spirit in the county
is not daunted by the war situation.
The county's school system is moving
forward rapidly and surely. Large OBJ
staclcs are being met with and over
come. No backward, but forward stcps
are being taken. Evidence of the
continued forward movement NAV
be found in the annual county
school fair which is to be held as
usual this year. on April 9th. Pro
parations are going on for it all over
the county and indications point to a
very successful fair
II has been said that Il fly killed IT,
March is equal to killing millions iii
September, and most likely this is
true. .\nti-tly campaigns, to be most
Il, ,',.
while the number OF the insects is
smallest. Allow them to breed at the
frs, opening OF spring and their Off
spring VII multiply at such rate
materially reduce them. 1t is doubt
ful whether or not flies can be com
plctcly cXtcrmnatcd, but it is easier
to reduce the number by beginning
early than by putting it of until they
have already begun to multiply. The
greatest weapon against the fly is
cleanl' $, particularly in the yards,
stables, tic. Poison can be used TO a
good advantage, especially early lin
the spring "hc two methods used in
numDc" Of the insects and thereby les
sen the liability Of disease spreading.
There are many people. homes. peo-
pie, too, who are not doing their part
in helping along in this present iinan-
cial Stringcncy. We refer to those,
many OF them. who are delaying the
matter Of settling accounts made in
the spring OF last year. From one
cause or another it seems that many
people are afraid to turn loose what
money they have, even though they
honestly owe it to someone else. They
have gotten the idea that credits arc
going to be restricted and that there
is danger Of their suffering thereby
Probably credits will be restricted
and certainly they ought to be in num-
erous cases, but the honest man need
have little fear so long as the mer-
chants and bankers are able to accom-
modate them. But where the financial
strength of these is being weakened by
do as much as they would like. Mer-
chants carrying huge accounts over
from last year cannot be expected to
be in a position to give credit this
year and consequently their ability to
help along is greatly lessened. There
has been a great deal said as to CO. |
operation between the merchant, bank
er, farmer, artesan, etc, and we have
endorsed most of it, but when refusal !
to pay honest debts when in position
to do SO Is included in the program
of cooperation, we think it Is time
to call halt This Is an important
matter, one which 1t should not be
necessary to direct attention to, and |
should be remedied in the proper way |
by those who are guilty This country,
this state and this section have with
stood the conditions brought on by the
war much better than most people
thought they would and the future
need not be feared If everyone does
his duty.