Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-20

of q memorial building In hOnor OF the
white soldiers, sailors, marines and
others who served in the world war.
Another commission to have charge
of the erection of memorial to ne
gros will soon be appointed. The joint
resolution provided further that $780,
900 should be available from the
state treasury for each memorial,
when popular subscription should
have reached a figure considered ade-
cuate and that some of the members
should be women. The commission
follows: First district, j. H. Holmes,
Charleston and Mrs. Joseph Sprott,
Manning; second district, Mrs. c. r.
Wilson, Allendale, and P. F. Hender-
son, Aiken; third district, A. Foster
McKissick. Greenwood and Mrs Frank
Colonel w. w. Lewis. Yorkville, and
Mrs. Leroy Springs, Lancaster; sixth
district, w. B. Fletcher, McColl, and
Colonel ]. NJ. Johnson, Marion; sew
enth district, Mrs. Fred S. Munsell,
Columbia, and DR.. Red Smith, Colum-
bia-
Rev. A. N. Frazer, D. D., Of
Staunton, Va, was elected moderator
at the afternoon session last Thurs
day Of the fifty-ninth General AS
sembly of the Southern Presbyterian
Church in New Orleans. He sue
ceeds Rev. James 1. Vance, D.
wards evangelization Of the world was
reflected in the report of the commit
tee on foreign missions submitted to
the general assembly. The church now
has 1S5 organized congregations in the
foreign field, II was reported, working
amid a population estimated at 3D.
S46,127. The amount contributed by
the Southern Church during the year
was s791, ,440, the largest on record.
Cost of carrying on missionary work
exceeded the receipts Of S77,327, due
China, high rates Of discounts and
necessary increase for salaries Of
missionaries and native workers. The
committee on home missions Of which
Rev. 8. L Morris, D. D., of Atlanta, is
secretary, submitted a report regard
ed as reflecting encouraging develop
ments in that work. The amount
subscribed for this work was s303,386,
also the largest amount on record. The
total number of home missionaries,
who work among people on the from
tier and in the mountains, among ne
groes. foreigners and other dependent
and exceptional classes in the south
Is 701.
Prevention of cotton growing for
one year to eradicate the cotton boil
weevil, which causes not less than
s100,000,000 damages annually, is pro-
posed by Representative Eli Futch,
who introduced a concurrent resolu-
ton in the Florida house of represen-
tatives last Friday, with that object
In view. The resolution provides that
the federal secretary of agriculture
be requested to recommend to con-
gress and to the governors and legis-
latures of the cotton growing states
the enactment of legislation to carry
out the plans for a Sabbatical year
for the cotton growing industry. The
plan Is endorsed by prominent cotton
experts, scientists and economic en-
tomologists. To carry out the propos-
al legislation would be necessary to
prevent planting of cotton east of the
Rocky Mountains in the boil weevil
infested territory for a year, to finance
the project, to provide for the accum-
ulation Of supply of cotton and cot
ton products to meet market needs
during the eradication year, and to
provide against induction of the boil
weevil into the United States after the
eradication. The magnitude of the pro-
tect makes it essential that it be under
government jurisdiction, with the cot
lOu RTOWluS SIdlcS 1HS
date would be set some years in ad-
vance so that enough cotton might be
raised to tide the world over the Sab
batical year. Stringent laws would
be necessary to prevent growing of
cotton in that year. Arrangements
would have to be perfected for accu-
mutation of large stores of seed, pro-
perly fumigated to climate the boil
weevil. Plant Commissioner Newell
Of Florida, leader in the fight against
the citrus canker, which has been so
successful, has endorsed the plan. Ex-
perts declare unless the boil weevil is
eradicated the United States may
have to depend on Egypt for long sta
pie cotton.
j. S. Wannamaker of South Caro-
lima was chosen president of the new
ly formed American Cotton Associa-
ton at a convention of the members
at New Orleans, last Friday. Other
officers elected were: John T. Scott,
Houston, Texas first vice president
and w. c. Barrichman Of Dallas, sec
retary. The treasurer will be chosen
later, it was announced. An executive
committee to work out details con-
nected with the functions of the asso-
citation was appointed as follows
Arkansas, George L. Sands; Aiai'ama,
II. c. Allgood; Georgia, j. j. Brown:
Mississippi. p. J.. Garner, Missouri,
s. S. Barnes: North Carolina, L. Tom
linson: South Carolina. r. NJ. Nixon;
Tennessee, ]. 2. Matthews; Texas, j.
A. Thompson; Oklahoma, DR.. j. A
Whitehead; Louisiana, j. P. Ardis, In
his Inauguration speech Mr.. Wanna
maker charged that the millers OF
New England have reaped enormous
dividends" from their cotton products
while the south was left to starve on
the crumbs that it might pick up
from the industry" THE south has
vision and will never perish" he as
serted. This section is going to be
the salvation of the nation. Are you
going to be for the dollar or the man?
By this I do not mean that we should
attack legitimate enterprise and cap
ital and know we have no sympathy
for the wave Of unrest and anarchy,
fostered by the foreigners OF other
lands. Prices of cotton crops in the
past have been based on slave lapor.
The industry has blessed every section
of the land except the south. Labor In
the southland has been so low that
n almost has been forced to steal 10
exist. Cotton today is worth 40 cents
a pound. During last year 1t should
have been rs cents for the first six
months and 40 for the remainder or
the year." Mr.. Wannamaker declared
the New York cotton exchange was
responsible for much Of the distressing
conditions of the cotton industry in
the south" "The cobwebs are being
raised from our eyes," he said. I'VE
are entering on a new era and it is up
TO us to work out our own salvation.
The south may now see before it the
dawn of freedom"
One of the three American air.
planes-flying boats-that left New
foundland last Friday evening on the
third leg of their historic attempt TO
cross the Atlantic ocean reached the
harbor Of Horta, in the Azores at $40
o'clock Saturday morning. 1t was the
NC-4 in command of Lieut.. Command
er Read, of New York, that made the
trip successfully. The NC-1. in com
mand of Lieut.. Commander Patrick n.
Belliger, Of South Carolina, lost her
way in fog and was compelled to
alight in the ocean at l1.4O o'clock on
Saturday morning. Her crew of five
,.-a, 1yos nicked I'D by the steamship