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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12
GAMBLE PUT IN PERCENTAGE.
Farmer May Know from Averages His
Crop Chances in 100.

Crop Chances in 100.
A single farmer in a single year is
in a gamble with nature, but all the
farmers in a long period of time can
depend on a certain average of exper
ience, just as the life insurance COM
panies do. This aspect Of the farmers
efforts to produce a crop has been
made a subject Of investigation by the
Bureau of Crop Estimates. The OBJ
servation with regard to yield per acre
cover fifty-two years for eight promin-
ent crops and shorter periods for five
more crops Of Importance. To show
how susceptible to variations this yield
| is, percentage Of increase or decrease
from year to year have been computed.
The most stable crop of the thirteen
is sweet potatoes, for which the great
est change in yield per acre from one
year to the next in the whole period
under examination is Is per cent, as an
average for all states. Above this
crop are rye, with % per cent. as the
maximum; hay, 20 per cent; rice, 80
per cent; Winter wheat, "a per cent,
| Gncluding acreage abandoned on ac-
count of winter damage; barley Al
per cent; buckwheat AZ per cent. /;
cotton, AZ per cent; fiaxseed, SO per
cent; oats, SO per cent; corn 81 per
cent; potatoes, IS per cent and Spring
wheat SO per cent.
! Turning from the greatest variations
from uniformity in yield per acre in a
single year to the average change OF
all years, it appears that the average
for sweet potatoes is 5 per cent, after
which follow in order rye, hay, rice
barley buckwheat, and cotton, the
last with an average of 13 per cent
After cotton and corn, Winter wheat
faxseed, potatoes and Spring wheat
the last with an average of 24.5 pei
cent Of change in yield per acre from
one year to the next, or one quarter OF
the previous years yield.
/ The experience of some individual
states is worse as well as better than
the average for the United States
The corn crop of Kansas is an extreme
illustration. In deviation from unifor,
nifty the yield per acre of this crop IL
Kansas has reached the extraordinary
figures of ATS per cent of increase ant
sc per cent of decrease. The average
of 50 years are SO per cent for in
crease and 30 per cent. for decrease.
Greatly interesting are the compar.
isons among the thirteen crops will
regard to deviation of average yielt
an acre from uniformity The differ.
ences are not inherent in the crops bu
are caused mainly by climatic condi.
tions and partly by insects and plan
diseases, and also are determined b!
the comparative geography of the
crops. The more dependable crops
under all the circumstances. are swee
potatoes. rye, hay and rice: of medium
dependency are barley, buckwheat, cot
ton, oats, corn, and Winter wheat o.
less dependency are f1aXseed. potatoes
and Spring wheat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12
PRESIDENT AND THE PROBLEM
Social and Economic Situation Die.
cussed Before Congress.

Social and Economic Situation Die.
oussed Before Congress.
President Wilson laid several spe.
cific proposals before congress last
Friday for checking the high cost o.
living, but at the same time de-
clared permanent results could not bt
expected until peace time bases were
fully restored by ratification of th'
peace treaty.
High prices, the president told con
gress, were not justified by shortage
of supply, either present or prospec'
tive, but were created in many cases
"artificiaIly and deliberately by wi,
cious practices" Retailers, he said
were responsible in large part for ex'
rortionate prices.
Strikes, the president warned TIT
labor world, would only make mat
ters worse and those who sought Il
employ threats or coercion were onl!
preparing their own destruction
Leaders of organized labor, the pre-
sident said, he was sure would pres
emily yield to second sober thought
"Illegal" and criminal were
words of the president used IN char.
acterizins the methods by which
some present day prices have beer
brought about.
Present laws, he said, would be en-
ergetically employed to the limit tc
force out food boards, and meet the
situation so far as possible, but tc
supplement the existing statutes he
specifically urged the following:
Specific Recommendations.
Licensing of all corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce, with
specific regulations designed to Sc
cure competitive selling and prevent
"unconscionable profits" in the meth
cd of marketing.
Extension of the food control act
to peace times and the application
of it's provision against boarding tc
fuel, clothing and other necessities
o. life as we'll as food.
A penalty in the food control act
for profiteering.
A law regulating cold storage, lin
iting the time during which goods
may be held, prescribing a method
of disposing Of them If held beyond
the permitted period and requiring
that when released goods bear the
date of storage.
Laws requiring that goods released
from storage for interstate com
merce bear the selling prices a.
which they went into storage and re
quiring that all goods destined fol
interstate commerce bear the prices
at which they left the hands of tn,
producer.
Enacting Of the pending bill for tn
control of security issues.
Additional appropriations for gov
ernment agencies which can suppl
the public with full information a
to prices at which retailers buy.
Early, ratification of the peac
treaty so that the free processes Q
supply and demand" can operate.
Immediate Steps Promised.
Immediate steps by executiv
agencies Of the government promise
lby the president included:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12

ration that the American soldiers were
fed; but corn beef, prunes, peaches,
fat hack, potatoes and other stuff
tasted quite different when the Ger
mans cooked it.
French fried potatoes cooked by the
French are quite different dish from
the French fried potatoes cooked by
American chefs; but the Germans can
prepare a dish of French fried pota-
toes that are far and above the pro-
duct of either the French or the
Americans.
If the Germans could have fought as
well as they could cook and could
have kept at 1t long enough, don't
know whether the Allies and the Unit
ed States would ever have licked them
or not.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12
SUNSHINE ON MooNsHINE.
Correspondent Says Whiskey is Being
Made In Sight of Two Churches.

Made In Sight of Two Churches.
Editor Yorkville Enquirer.
1 am asking little space for few
tice for some time.
have been watching what Broad
River township has been doing to
clean out set of vipers, and l am
thinking that If Kings Mountain
township will wake up, her citizens
can find as much to do as Broad River
has done.
The branches of this township are
lined with blockade dist!lleries, and
the country Is filled with almost open
bar rooms, and men who do little less
than ride the roads in rubber tired
buggies and automobiles.
If you will take notice a little, you
will see these men and their work in
the town of York, as we'll as in their
own neighborhood.
am not talking about the battle
ground section. l am talking about
q thickly settled country with three
churches in almost hollering distance
Of one another, and by people who do
Lot know 1t. is counted a gooC coun-
try.
The boys are brought up in a
KnOWleuSS VI lHeSe lulu5S dtlu SCSii
to think it big to be let in on the
the knowledge and be asked to keep
1t a secret.
In this same country you can find a
store with doors wide open on Sum
day with crowds around 1t tie same
as through the week. The boys and
older men stop there as they go to
church or go there after preaching,
and yet the officers, and I can whisper
the pastors, or a part Of them, know
of the facts. And yet, one of these
churches is wondering why its Sunday
school is almost dead.
Between two of these churches
there is now a blockade distillery, just
ready to begin operation, and olo or
the churches IS to start big meeting
next week. The other will start a
meeting soon. If it were not for the
trees YOU could see from one church
to the other. This is not the first
time this has happened around these
churches.
I do not know why the people allow
this kind CT thing to go on; but sup
pose the moonshiner likes it, as he can
hear the chcirs singing, and the
preachers praying and maybe hear
whether anything is said about him
and his business.
I am not upholding other neighbor-
hoods in the same situation, not far
away by not saying anything about
them for it would be hearsay.
If anybody wants to despite what
am saying I can furnish the proof for
the biggest part of 1t.
Edgar L. Hanna.
York, R. F. D. No. l.
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Germans Best Cooks.

Although the French are fine COOKS
the Germans in my opinion are the
best in all the world. If they could
lust cook biscuit like mother makes
'em, l would have to admit in truth
that they have mother beat at her own
game.
In an area in which l was stationed
for a long time was a German prison
camp. There were some several
thousand German prisoners confined
there.
Fame of their cooks soon spread to
American kitchens and more than once
some of my buddies and l Sneaked over
to the German kitchens to'taste of the
viands that were cooked there.
German prisoners of the Americans
were furnished practically the same
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12

The limiting and controlling Of
wheat shipments and credits to fac
ilitate the purchase of wheat In such
a way as not to raise, but rather to
lower the price Of fotr at home.
| Sale of surplus stocks of food and
clothing in the hands Of the govern
ment.
| The forced withdrawal from stor-
age and sale Of surplus stocks in
private hands.
| General Recommendations.
General recommendations included:
Increase Of production.
Careful buying by housewives.
4, Fair dealing with the people on the
part Of producers, middlemsn and
merchants.
That there be no threats and un-
due insistence upon the interests of
a single class.
Correction Of many things in the
relation between capital and labor In
respect to wages and conditions Of
labor.
In concluding the president made
plea for deliberate. intelligent ac-
ton, reminding congress that an ua-
balanced world was looking to the
United States.
I'VE and we almost alone" he said,
now hold the world steady. Upon
our steadfastness and self possession
depend the affairs of nations every
where. 1t is In this supreme crisis
this crisis for all nankind---that
America must prove her metal"
Pertinent Points Of Speech.
The prices the people in this coun-
try are paying for everything that It
IFS necessary for them to use in order
to I've are not justified by q shortage
In supply. either present or prospec-
tive.
They constitute a burden upon us
which Is the more unbearable because
we know that 1t Is wilfurly imposed
by those who have the power.
A process has set In which Is like
ly, unless something is done. to push
prices and rents and the whole cost
Of living higher and yet higher in a
vicious cycle.
The strike only makes matters
worse. 1t checks production, It af-
fects the railways 1t prevents distri-
button and strips the markets, no
that there b presently nothing to
buy
All the world is waiting-with what
unnerving fears and haunting doubts
who can adequately say?-waiting to
know when It shall have peace and
what kind.
There can be no settled conditions
here or elsewhere until the treaty OF
peace Is out of the way. There
can be no peace prices 80 long as our
whole financial and economic system
Is on a war basis.
In the case Of many necessary com-
modities effective means have been
found to prevent the normal opera
tion Of the law Of supply and de-
mand. E
There was q greater supply Of
foodstuffs in, this country. on Junss1 Of :
this year than at the same date last :
year. And yet prices have risen.
There can be little doubt that re-
tailers are in part-somstimes In
large part-responsible for exorbi-
tant prices.
We need light, not heat, in these
solemn times Of self-exantnation and
saving action. There must be no
threats.
Threats and undue insistence upon
the interest Of a single class make
settlement impossible.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12

Buster Cooker, eight years old OF
Woodruff, Spartanburg county is in
Jail at Spartanburg, charged with the
murder Of his five-year-old brother
last Wednesday night. From the
evidence brought out it appears that
the two boys were alone in the home
OF their aunt, the balance of the family
having gone off to church. The
younger Cooker boy dashed a glass OF
water into the elders face whereupon
the elder brother went up into an attic
got shotgun and fired, killing the
younger brother instantly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12

Gaffney Ledger, Aug. 7: Sixty-six
pupils, 81 at Cherokee Avenue and 15
at West End, have enrolled in the city
adult illiterate schools organized here
by Miss Mary Bramlett, who was ap-
pointed for this work by Superintend-
ent Of Education ]. L. Walker. This
was the number that reported at the
first session Monday. 1t is desired to
have at least 100 pupils in these two
schools and further efforts are being
made to secure additional scholars.
Teachers for this increased number
are available. The following are serving
as teachers at Cherokee Avenue: Miss
Mary Bramlett, Miss Alma Hamrick,
Miss Jessie Lipscomb, Mrs. Oliver
Byers and Miss Hattie Loe Littlejohn.
The West End teachers are Miss Amy
Gaffney and Miss Louise Tolleson.
The meeting at Cherokee Avenue Mon
day night was very enthusiastic one.
The Gaffney band furnished music for
the occasion and ice cream given by
the Gaffney Manufacturing Company
was served. Addresses were made by
L. G.. Potter, DR.. w. c. Hamrick, 8.
R. Chandler, the Rev. ]. M. Hamrick
and E. R. Cash. While these schools
are being conducted for the adults, a
majority of the pupils enrolled in the
city schools are between the ages of
16 and IS years. Anyone above IA
years of age can attend, but 1t Is the
desire of the authorities to have more
older people enrolled.--..-..1t occurs to
us that it was rather improper thing
to do to attempt to work up a senti-
ment against Prof. Witherspoon while
he was away from the city. How was
it fair? Is it the manly thing to stab
man in the back? Is it brave to
seek to take advantage of man DUR
ing his absence? No wonder the whole
miserable attempt is meeting with no
success. Most people are brave and
honest, and If they have grievance
against a man they are going to fight
him in the open and not assault him
in the dark. The methods of the mid
night assassin are not approved by
right thinking people.......Clerk of Court
T. M. Caldwell yesterday said that
there are large numbers of Cherokee
county soldiers who have not yet had
their discharge recorded in hisaoffice
in the book secured for that purpose.
Cherokee furnished more men in the
recent war in proportion to population
than any other county in the United
States with the exception of one, ac-
cording to official records. The regis
tration book was secured for the pur-
pose of making a permanent record of
the service given to the country by the
men Of this county.......-The One Price
Cash Store on Granard street was
robbed Wednesday night, the change in
two cash drawers, amounting to s5, be-
ing taken. 1t is thought that some ar
ticles of clothing were taken also, al
though this could not be definitely as
certained yesterday morning.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest Gathered From 4
Sections of South Carolina.

Items of Interest Gathered From Al
Sections Of South Carolina.
J. A. Clark Of Clio. Marlboro county
killed 9. large wildcat while on
squirrel hunting last week.
Lieut.. Col. Joseph M. Cummins viii
again be commandant Of cadets Al
Clemson college.
| Robbers entered Effird's Department
Store in Columbia, Thursday night an(
escaped with $50 in cash and quaint
ty Of merchandise.
According to report Of James II
Craig, state bank examiner. the tota
resources Of the $40 state banks OF
June 80 were $14S,200,S09.74.
| Crop conditions in Lexington coun.
ty are said to be very unsatisfactory
Truck growers in that county, how.
ever, have had the best season they
have ever known.
Policeman Turner of Columbia, hat
running fight with woman or els,
man dressed in female clothip = at al
early hour in Columbia, Friday morn
ing.
Elijah Clinkscales a negro Of Ander-
son county, shot and killed his wife
wounded his child and then committed
suicide last week. Domestic troubles
caused the crime.
Major w. E. Duvall will be In.
structor in military tactics and science
at the University Of South Carolina
during the approaching school year
He is q graduate of West Point Of the
class Of 1913.
Mrs. James Ergle, a resident OF
Graniteville, Aiken county committed
suicide last week by drowning herself
in a mill pond. She had been adjudged
insane and was to be taken to the state
hospital for the insane within few
days.
P. b. Callison, Jr., twice reported
dead from spinal meningitis, while a
member of the American Expeditionary
forces, has returned to his home in
Lexington, very much alive. He had
long since been given up as dead by
members of his family in Lexington.
Three negro highwaymen held up two
white soldiers at the point Of revolvers
in Columbia, Friday night and relieved
the soldiers Of $40 in cash, watches
and personal effects. The soldiers
were also made to remove their shoes
which were also appropriated by the
robbers.
More than 1000 negroes Of Columbia
and Richland county registered to vote
in the general election since January
1. According to A. M. Carpenter, Col
umbia correspondent Of the Greenville
Piedmont, 1t is doubtful II that many
white men are registered in Richland.
Dr. E. L. Brown of Latta, was pain
fully injured last week when he was
struck on the head by bottle hurled
by a negro named Bethea whom the
|dootorshad ordered, out Of his store for
alleged oISnce ssfowds gathered
shortly after the occurrence and for a
time violence was feared.
A carload Of sugar will be distribu-
ted from Columbia to the people at cost
in the future. Governor Cooper has
received information from the Louisi-
ana sugar commission in New Orleans,
stating that fifteen cars of fine granu-
lated sugar will be distributed among
the fifteen states of the south. The
price will be 1882 per hundred pounds
t. o. b. New Orleans which will get
it to Columbia slightly under nine
cents a pound.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12

Great Britain proposes to reward
Field Marshal Haig and Vice Admiral
Beatty, each with an Earldom and a
grant of 100000 pounds. Field Mar
shall French and Admiral Jsllicoe are
to receive $4,000 pounds each. In all
600, 900 pounds are to be distributed
among various commanding officers.
Premier Lloyd George was proposed
for the same however; but the premier
positively declined to accept anything
whatever.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12
Ipassed off most pleasantly for all who

passed off most pleasantly for all who
were present.............Mr A. H. Wherry,
Jr. closed a trade Monday for the Mel
ton property opposite the postoffice'
now rented to Mrs. Martha Russell for
a boarding house, and when he gets
possession on January 1st expects to
build a large and up-to-date garage.
Mrs. Bersha Holley Walker. one OF
Chester's most estimated women, drop
ped dead Tuesday at the supper table.
Mrs. Walker was seemingly as well as
usual and had just partaken OF a
hearty meal, when without any intima-
ton whatsoever the summons came,
and she passed away. Funeral SER
vices were held at Bethel NJ. E. church
yesterday afternoon by the pastor,
Rev. C. C. Herbert, followed by inter-
ment in Evergreen cemetery.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12

- Richland county has voted for a
50, ,O00, 900 bond issue for road pur-
poses by a majority of about two to
one.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-12
EXPERIENCES OVERSEAS
York Soldier Relates Incidents OF
France.
LORD and MOSES were SOLDIERS
Germans are Great Cooks-Some
r rench Soldiers Good English Stu
aents-How French Woman Came
to Walk Away With a Box.

BY Lewis M. Grist
Names is Names" says Luke Nc
Luke and the membership Of the
American forces overseco contained
every name known in the United
States and then some. Among the
fellows in my company was lad who
bore the name of Moses. His prinei-
pal job was driving truc,i used in
hauling supplies for the company and
doing other hauling about camp.
Orders came one day for him to give
up his place temporarily, in order to
drive a truck in convoy which had
been ordered to carry ammunition and
supplies to a station several hundred
miles distant.
In the company was another lad
who bore the surname Of Lord. The
company commander directed that he
abandon his duties in the shop in or
der. to substitute on the camp truck
for Moses, who had been directed to
90 with the convoy.
Accordingly he reported to the
orderly room for duty,
who are you?" inquired the top
sergeant.
II am the Lord" replied the lad,
come to take Moses's place."
Many French Could Speak English.
In the French army were as many
Frenchmen who could speak English
as there were Americans in the Ameri-
can army who could speak French and
more too, suspect. 1 learned that by
experience. Like the most Of the 9TH
er American soldiers overseas, picked
up little smattering Of French after
got over. Had I devoted myself to 1t
and taken advantage Of every oppor-
tunity 1 had to learn the language,
might have become an accomplished
speaker Of French. However / didn't
and / am sorry 1 didn't. That meant
work and like other soldiers over there
1 didn't want any more to do when on
duty than could help, so devoted no
time to- learning French except what /
could pick up easy like.
With a party of friends was walk
ing about the country one day. Our des-
tination was a certain little French viii
lage which we had an idea was only
a few miles away; but just exactly how
far we did not know.
On the road we passed several
French ssoldiess Their clothes were
dirty,ands mud ddy 20 fhsif appearance
slovenW ,aaf Hscnf stas gensra sapaear
ance them x6ns 3Dtld sApt hays
thou IA 49, z,kl ". hon To- olxpeak their
own language and certainly not the
language of any other country.
How far is 1t to....-------?" l inquired
of them in my poor French.
The French soldier whom l had ad-
dressed looked at me with an amused
smile and then he replied in excellent
English:
''I will not be positive sir; but 1 think
it is about two miles and half"
You may imagine that I felt like
thirty cents with hole in it. My COM
panions chided me numerically and
ever afterward when off duty and like
ly to come in contact with the French
people, l was always careful to be with
some lad or lads who could speak
nt
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sidering the matter they walked out
at 9:15 p. m. Tuesday night until
further adjustments are made by Mr..
Long.
Concerning the people Of the Ara
gon mill village, they all seem to be
happy and gay, fishing, playing base
ball and volley ball and having a
good time They are not looking for
any trouble. We have watchmen on
duty at the mill to see that there Is
no damage done to any Of the prop
erty.
In conclusion we are glad to say
to our brothers of the Textile Work
ers of America that we are 100 per
cent, with no 'scabs.'
"(Signed) w. Jones,
H. C. Rains"