Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-06

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Dr.. T. N. Dulin read a paper at the
Bethel Improvement association meet
ing last night in which he rated to-
bacco as second only to whisky In its
harmful effects on the human system.
The license tax proposition Is meet
Ing with considerable discussion and
the majority Of opinion Is that there
Is no objection to the proposition pro-
yided the license Is equally apportion-
ed.
Now when il comes to taxing news
papers, that bunch knows just how to
go at it. They can levy a tax Of 800
il they want to and then give their
own newspaper enough advertising at
legal rates to get 1t all back in an issue
or two.
II anybody wants to see York coun-
ty as she really is-people-sure
enough people-let them attend these
country picnics. People taking this
advice, Of course, will help to make
the picture; but If they have any pride
in a fine looking, high class citizenship
they a have that pride highly graf
flied.
mo, we didn't get all the help from
the county board we would like to have
gotten" said Mr.. John s. Rainey OF
Sharon, in conversation with an En-
quirer reporter Wednesday afternoon
in discussing the Pinckney road pc
tition, but still that which we did
get will help a great deal. 1t Is a
great deal more than nothing and we
are going to make 1t go a long way"
The local folks who borrow other
peoples Enquirers and then claim that
they have not had an Enquirer in their
hands for years, were the object of
a good deal of fun last Tuesday after
moor Some of them were caught In
the act Of reading that article on bor-
rowing that was published for their
particular benefit. b. they did not
blush. No, not they. However, they
are hardly to be blamed for borrowing
The Enquirer, for unless they could
get access to it, they would be simply
miserable.
Several local checker players will
likely attend the eighth annual tourna-
ment Of the Southern Checker associ-
alton which will be held at Chick
Springs August "a, 25, 26 and q. The
South Carolina contest will be played
August "a. Capt. F. B. Fishburne Of
Columbia, who IL now state champion
as we'll as one of the most expert play
ers in the country, proposes to give
blindfolded exhibitions in checker
playing during the tournament, play
ing six expert players at n time.
Numerous checker artists from all
sections Of the south will attend the
tournament.
This thing of using the towns funds
to support an opposition newspaper
is not new. 1t has been the custom
since the writer can remember; but
in the old days they used to try to
make some show Of fairness, by max
ing a pretense of letting it out to the
lowest bidder. Once many years ago,
The Enquirer was notified to put In a
proposal as to what 1t would do the ad-
vcrtising for. There were no specifi-
cations by which to establish values
and as the supposed competitor was
unable to get more than half as much
for its advertising space as The En-
quirer, the representative Of The En-
quirer asked as to how the thing vas
to be managed. He was told that the
advertising was to go to whoever
should offer the lowest rate per inch.
OF course The Enquirer did not put
in a bid. At another time some years
a%fterward, The Enquirer was asked
by the hen mayor, q very slick gen.
tleman, to put in a bid on a basis like
this: Say what you will give US a col
umn for by the year with the under
standing hat we are to have the right
to change in every issue, so that we
Inlay use IL 1OI IlC pupliSdllo3 VI
nances, when we have them, and for
booming the town when we have no
ordinances to publish" The PROPOSE
ton was too transparent even to do
credit to the ordinary smoothness Of
the mayor who proposed 1t. The game
was to let both papers bid at m
thing like their regular rates. If The
Enquirer should happen to get the
award, then it would be required to
give the whole service bargained for
and If the other paper should get. II,
il would be required to print only the
ordinances, amounting to possibly one
twentieth Of the whole service bar
gained for, and the balance would be
clear profit. OF The Enquirer
never put in a bid on any such basis.
During the long periods when there
was only one paper in town, the policy
was 10 print as few ordinances as pos
sible, and our books. as we'll as the
books of the town, If the town has the
records, will show that in most years
the total receipts from the town for
advertising and job printing have
hardly been sufficient to pay the town
taxes on the plant and the homes Of
the owners of the paper. Although
we have always understood that we
could get about everything we wanted
if we should make 1t a rule to consult
the authorities" about what we
should print and what we should not
print, we have never squealed. We
have never been willing to betray the
confidence the community has in us
in any such manner, and we have not
been willing to use the paper for MAX
ing a row to promote what might be
only our selfish interest. We are tell
ing this story 10Y simply because we
want our readers to know the facts.
WITHIN THE TOWN
Real estate agents, IS; renovat-
ors of feathers, 80" This is the mu-