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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1919-07-24
CROP Report OF
SOUTH CAROLINA
-ATH CORN IN SOME SECTIONS
sufreRiNa FROM roo MUCH
RAIN AND GRASS.
lOBsCCO AVERAGE INCREASED
1enetri Average Of Other Grain and
Forge Crops Are Around ss Per
Gent Of Normal; Fruit Poor.

li.A SOlumDld.
A report issued by B. B. Hare,
South Carolina field agent Of United
States Bureau Of Crop Estimates,
shows an increase of a per cent of
corn acreage in South Carolina over
( that Of last year, the estimated acre
age being 2,340,000 acres. Condition
on July l, was 81 per cent of nor
NAL, equivalent to an average yield
of " bushels per acre. The early
paintings range from "fair'' to
good" Intermediate paintings are
generally "good," while late paintings
in various sections are suffering from
too rnuch rain, many fields being foul
with gress and very much in need Of
cultivation. Considerable damage is
reported to bottom lands from over
fowEo creeks and rivers, caused by
recent excessive rains.
The acreage in Irish potatoes
shows reduction of per cent as
compared with last year, while the
acreage of sweet potatoes remains
the same. Condition of the former is
S5 per cent and the latter 80 per cent
of normal.
Acreage in tobacco has increased
from 86,400 acres in 191 to 1000 in
1919, Condition on July !, is report
ed at 85 per cent of normal, equiva-
lent to an average yield of 765 pounds
per acre.
Acreage N peanuts has been re-
dnced 10rper cent as compared with
last year, and per cent reduc-
tion in acreage of sorghum cane (for
strip is noted. Condition of both
is 50 per cent of normal.
The apple and peach crops are both
reported at 4S per cent, or per cent
less than one-half of a normal crop.
The condition of other crops is as
follows: Rice SO per cent of normal; (;
wheat 75; oats 80; rye SO; hay 80; al
falfA 85; millet S5; cowpeas 85; toma-
toes 85; cabbages So; onions S6;
grapes 80; pears So; watermelons 80;
cantaloupes and muskmelons IS.
The estimated production of corn
for the entire United States is 2,S15,-
O00,0s0 bushels, as against 1858, ,000,-
900 bushels last year. The production
of cotton in round numbers is estimat-
ed at 11,000,000 bales as compared
with 100000 bales in 1918. The
production of wheat will approximate
1,160, 100000 bushels, or 244 100000
bushels more than last year and $780,
100000 bushels more than the five
year average from 1918 to 1917 inclu-
sive. The prices of wheat per bushel
on July 1, was 1922 as against $2.03
on the corresponding date Of last year.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1919-07-24
sherIff. orIeve for Rector.

Resolutions on the recent death Of
the late Sheriff Hendrix Rector of
Greenville were adopted by the South
Carolina Sheriffs' Association, which
met Immediately after the conference
of solicitors, sheriffs, magistrates and
foremen Of grand juries with Cover
nor Cooper. The resolution was Offer
ed4by Sheriff Cannon G. sBlease Of
Newberry and was adopted by ris-
ing vote. The association sent a
beautiful floral wreath, costing $50,
at the time the Greenville sheriff was
killed July 4. a3Eile-A I
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1919-07-24
Invited to New London.

s. M. Wolfe, attorney general, has
been invited to deliver 80 minute
address before the National Associa-
tion Of Attorneys General, which holds
its annual meeting in New London,
Conn, September 2. Mr.. Wolfe will
discuss "The Abuse of Law Making
and It's Possible Results" The Amer
lean Bar Association meets in Boston,
September 3, 4 and s, and Mr.. Wolfe
win also attend this meeting.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1919-07-24

Cooper Catches cooter.
Governor Cooper has returned to
Columbia from fishing trip to Hilton
Head In Beaufort county. Fish in
abundance were caught and also a
large turtle Weighing between 500 and
600 pounds. The turtle could hardly
be lifted on sled by two stalwart
negroes.
In the party with the governor wsre
Senator Neils Christsnsen Beaufort; !;
8. NJ. Guess, Denmark: w. q. Peter.
kin. st. Matthews: r. w. Dantzler, st,
Matthews. and Y. q. Smith. warU
house eommtssioasr. Columbia.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1919-07-24
Lever on Farm Board.

Washington (SpeciaD.-South Car
olina must shortly have new MEM
ber of the house from the Seventh
congressional district, Representative
A. F. Lever having been nominated
for commissioner Of the federal farm
loan board by the President at sal
ary of $4,000 year.
Ten days ago it was stated in this
correspondence that this nomination
would be made, and although there
were few persons who were skepti-
cal, there were ample facts upon
which to base the story. fa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Tracing Anarchism's BEGINNINGS

was an intellectual one. He desired
such a condition Of society as would
expand the understanding, remove
whatever impedes, and fill men with
generous consciousness of their
independence. Law seemed an in
stitution of the most pernicious ten
dency. The worlds commodities
should be distributed to insure to
every one the means Of life, not
merely in the interests of justice
but because the accumulation Of
private property has done most to
establish the empire of force in the
affairs of man. Goodwin deprecated
any resort to violence in tho real.
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way back to the village and after thew
reached the hotel. They disagreed as
to the size or arrangement of doors
and windows, and this led to an inter
estlng and characteristic sequel.
"Bill," said John, otis absurd for
US to come clear up here to Owego
and not go inside of the old home. Let's
settle the point we were talking about
by going up there and getting inside"
"All right" said William. Soon a
car was ready. Through the assist
ance Of Miss La Monte they got what
they supposed was key to the old
house, and in less than half an hour
they were again wading through the
deep grass and at the front door But
the key didn't fit
John looked at William and William
looked at John. The memory of a
hundred battles In the realm of finance
and oil probably stirred their blood.
we'll get into this house somehow
even If We have to bust something"
said the richest man in the world. and
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few weeks my lame leg was as good as
ever That was pretty close call for
me and I never liked DR.. Phelps after
ward"
When a photograph of DR.. Phelps
was shown to him, Mr.. Rockefeller ex-
claimed:
THAT'S he-looks just as he did
when I saw him last. No, sir, never
quite got over disliking that man."
Mrs. Life and her niece, Miss Susan
La Monte, motored with the Rockefel-
lers to Hiawatha, three miles above
Owego, to the old Rockefeller house.
On the way out John D. Rockefeller
recognized many of the houses and
gave to his brother the name of the
family who had lived in each when
they were boys together. He pointed
out the Hollenback house, now occu-
pied by Clarence S. Mallory. He called
attention to the house formerly occu-
pied by Stephen B. Leonard, now owned
by James A. Archibald. He remem-
bered the Alexander Yates farm onno-
oieo lic I1lCKOTle6, and several
others.
| When the party reached the weather.
beaten little old frame building on the
La Monte farm where the two aged
captains of industry had spent three
years, walking the three and a half
miles to school in good and bad
weather, in spirit they indeed we're
boys again The dwelling is not &C.
cupied, but 1t is in fair condition. and
there had been but minor changes in
! the sixty-nine years.
The brothers strobe through the
deep grass, and soon were "prowline"
around the old cottage. The building
was locked up, with the key in Owego.
and the oil kings were disappointed at
not being able to get inside.
over there" said John D., pointing.
to his secretary, William Inglis. "is
the way William and 1 used to drive
the cows to pasture"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Famous Graduates

The. Rockefellers were not the onlv
ones who became prominent in national
affairs. Some of the others who were
in the academy either just before or
just after the Rockefellers were on
the school roster were General Benia-
min F. Tracy, Secretary Of the Navy;
Senator Thomas c. Plat, General Isaac
S. Catlin, Bishop George Worthington.
of Nebraska, and Frederick Hewitt.
who left 100000 to Yale and s2,000.-
900 to the POSTGRADUATE Hospital Of
this city, and whose will was contested
by disappointed relatives. Hewitt, at
the time he entered Yale, was said to
be the youngest student that had ap
piled for entrance there. He was an
unusual pupil, in whom PRINCIPAL
Smyth took great interest, and when
he tried to enroll at Yale he was COM
PEELED to wait year on account Of
his age.
William Smyth, the famous prin-
cipal, was Of Scotch descent, but came
from County Derry, in the North Of
ireland. He was educated at Edin-
burgh University, pupil, it is said, of
the famous DR.. Chalmers, and studied
for the ministry. On reaching New
YORK he became for short time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
John ID. Rockefeller

Michigan Hill, where the boys were
porn, were much disappointed because
the Rockefeller party failed to visit
the old farmhouse. AS already stated
the farm is about five miles from
hlchford village, on the road to Mara
thon. The place is owned, it is under
stood, by Simeon Rockefeller, third
or fourth cousin of John D. The pres
ent tenants are Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Ialcott and baby daughter. The house
originally seems to have been about
oo by 16 feet, and two stories. From
lett to right was the woodshed and
we'll, with an entrance to the k;tcben
Then comes the kitchen, and then the
sitting room and parlor combined, and
on this were two bedrooms, in one
OF which it is said by the neighbors
all the boys were born. Both the
house and the barns were fairly we'll
built, and doubtless were as COM
Portable as the average farmhouse
oome years ago the owner of the place
got tired of having the woodhouse
end of the dwelling where it was and
he carved the house in twain, moving
1T back, and built a better structure
In its place, leaving the old sitting
room section as part of the remodelled
dwelling, and facing the remodelled
structure quarter way around. Two
hundred feet down the slope is a
pretty brook, with plenty of suckers
and clubs in it. 1t is plenty big
enough for a swimming hole, but it is
doubtful If John D. Rockefeller moro
than waded through it. as he was on,v
four when his folks moved north to
Moravla. Close to the old house is
neat schoolhouse, the successor Of
one which the old residents saw stood
there when William Rockefeller, the
1ather OF John D., built the house
"here his boys were born. In the gar
ret OF the part of the old farmhouse
containing the woodshed, detached
from the sitting room part, and for
many years used as a henhouse and
storeroom, is a relic that perhaps some
Rockefeller will lay hands on one If
these days. 1t is an old, handmade
skelning reel, and a genuine antique.
1t Is about the only thing Of value
left in the old garnet, which Is
festooned with cobwebs. But still it
works. Peter Decker, stxty-nine years
Of age, who has lived nearly all of his
life next to the Rockefeller homestead.
says that it was in the Rockefeller
garnet when he first climbed into it
fifty years ago.
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A visit was made to the little grave
yard close to the old cottage. where
some Of the pioneers of the VALLEY
were at rest. The names on the head
stones helped to recall to the mind Of
John D. many whom he had known
as lad The district schoolhouse
short distance from the grave
yard, where he and his brothers at
tended before he went to the academy
IN town, was next visited. Of the lit
tie throng who were in school there
with the Rockefellers only three or
four are now living. Of these, Mrs,
Life is one, Miss Maria Frear, of
Straits Corners, is another, and John
Yates, Of Owego, is the third. Mr..
Yates is the senior Of the coterie, being
eighty-nine years old.
Failure to get into the old house at
Hiawatha ranked in the minds of the
brothers. They talked about it on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29

proofreader on 1.-THE New York Sum-
and an editorial writer for "The New
York Observer" He answered an I'D.
vertlsement for a principal for the
Owego Academy and got the place. his
letter being perfect in composition
spelling and punctuation, a point which
constituted the winning margin in his
favor against forty competitors. He
taught until 1858, and then founde ID
The Owego Times" now owned bv
his son. He was president Of the viii
lage of Owego, Assemblyman and State
superintendent of Insurance. His son
the publisher Of "The Oweeo Times i,
is the Republican leader Of Tioea
County, and during Senator Platt's
lie was one of his most influential
lieutenants. For several terms he was
postmaster of Owego.
Miss Nina Smyth, daughter of Will
lam Smyth, who many times talked
with John D. Rockefeller, in a recent
statement said Of him:
'one thing about Mr.. Rockefeller
That struck me as peculiar was that he
seemed little one-sided in his wav
of looking at things. For instance.
there were his religious views. So
Tar as he was concerned, there was
just one church in the world. and
that was the Baptist. He did wonders,
so far as giving goes, for the freedmen
and the Indians in the Baptist mis-
sions down South, but when l talked
to him about the Presbyterian mission
at Asheville he said that he had never
heard of it. But he had the name
and all about every Baptist concern
In the country at his tongues end, so
suppose he had enough to think of
without troubling his head about other
denominations"
The people Of Richford, twenty
miles from Owego, the nearest post
office to the Rockefeller homestead on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Over the Hills

Bright and early on Monday morn
ing' June 1e, the Rockefeller party, in
a large Simplex and two Pierce Arrows.
with baggage car trailing, left larry
town for Binghanaton and Owego. In
the party were John D., Mr.. and Mrs.
William Rockefeller, relatives. secre-
taries and extra chauffeurs-fourteen
In all. They hit the state road-Trunk
Line 4, the Liberty Route"
Goshen, and the scenery was familiar
until they began to climb the Sbawan-
sunk Mountains at Bloomingburg. In
little while they had reached Liberty
ana whirled along over Young's Noun
tain, where magnificent view of the
lower Catskills is obtainable. At r.;v-
lngston Manor the state road carr;ed
them down the Willowemoc, and thew
were IN tho John Burroughs country
LOT twenty miles or so, as thew fol.
lowed 1t to the Beaverkill; then To m.
east branch Of tho Delaware. down
ina. branch to Hancock, where the
each and west branches jcin-Cheboc-
Ton, the Wedding Of the Waters. tho
indians called 1t; up the west branch
70 above Deposit; over tho "D;v;a.,
into the Susquehanna Valley at VIVA.
sor, and then over the hills to RIM.
hamton, where a suite Of fourteer
rooms was reserved for them at the
Arlington, and they stayed all n;cht
But their real objective wa, M,
binghamton, but Owego, the old home
and the story is not so much abon,
ithaca and Watkins Glen, where tbev
went from Owego, as it ia about tho
spot where they spent the three wears
OF their respective lives which ner-
maps Hhger most fondly in their memo.
ries. ''''
In the last quarter of century
1onn d. and William Rockefeller bay.
not visited oweeo often. Probably IN.
death Of William smyth, their old
academy instructor, in 1898, had much
10 DO with their long absences follow.
ing that date. During Mr.. smyth,s
"1es'ms one or the other Of the broth
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ization Of the new order. Ones
reason forbade the use of weapons
which might be employed with equal
prospect of success on either side.
Proudhon, 1809-'65, native of
Besancon, is interesting as the first
political thinker to call himself an
anarchist. His own contribution to
anarchism, however, is much less
important than his personal influ-
ence on other writers-and partic-
ularly on Bakunin. He rejected all
Individual laws except the one legal
form that contracts must be lived
up to. Hence the state must dis
appear also, for it frequently at
tempts to coerce those who have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29

get In they did. Miss La Monte after
ward said she didn't remember lust
how they got in, or where, but break
in they did. They settled the point in
controversy and came out jubilant, al
though they were little cobwebby.
OF the Owegoans who were in the
academy when the Rockefellers were
students few are now living. The liv-
ing include Theodore D. Geers, of Flor
ida; William L. Kingman, of Yonkers;
Mrs. John F. Steele, Mrs. ]. B. STAN
brough, Mrs. Mary Chesebrough and
Miss Eva Woodward, of Owego.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29

never entered into a contract at ALL
He imagined a system Of absolute
equality in which all existing in
stltutions, except that of property.
might be retained The change
would come about as the result of
conviction; thus law would spon-
taneously transform itself, the state
and property would drop away and
the new condition appear. AS a
means of popularizing his idea he
founded a Peoples Bank in Paris
IN ls49. Its aim was to insure
work and prosperity to all producers
by organizing them as capitalists
and consumers, too.-London Conn
mon SensS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29

John D. Rockefeller ALWAYS has heer
kind to his poor relations" said John
Wilcox, the harnessmaker and justice
OF the peace in Richford, whose wife.
now dead, was first cousin Of John
u. MY wife was an own cousin of
John. and about twenty years ago
simes were hard with us. l suggested
to my wife that man as rich as John
u. was reputed to be would help us if
we asked him. My wife replied. Il
can't write Cousin John for financial
help without giving you a black eve.
ana won't write Several years after
that, following the announcement that
Mr.. Rockefeller was giving away vast
sums for education, my wife said to M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
EQUATIONS of anarchis-
tic nature may be traced
in many Oriental writings.
Some there are. no donht

who, like Tolstoy, will see anarch-
ism in the bold, moral and intel
lectual insurgency Of Jesus Christ
and his immediate followers. But
that reasoned polity which in mod
ern usage is called anarchism made
it's first notable appearance In the
metaphysical school Of which Shell
ley was the great daring spirit and
Goodwin the ablest exponent.
The revolt Of Goodwin. 1758-1S8e.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
Where John d. Rockefeller
was born

TOHN D. and WILLIAM ROOKIE
TELLER stepped from their auto
.A mobiles in front Of the Ahwaga
House, in Owego, on Tuesday fore
noon, June II, last, returned perfunctory
answers to hotel attendants who rushed
to greet them, noted that their travelling
companions with them were all right, and
then took good, long look at the Sus-
quehanna RiveA-looked up the river
to Hiawatha Island, opposite which,
sixty-nine years ago, as boys they
lived.
The island was bathed in radiant
sunshine, there was no breeze, and the
surface of the stream was like a look
sng-glass; robins were carolling in the
.plins, the countryside was at It's love-
lest.
ut hasn't changed any, William"
said the elder. "It's just like it used
to be-"
That's so, John" said William. "I
never saw the old valley looking so
fine as 1t does to-day"
Sixty-nine years ago John and Will
lam, lads Of eleven and nine, rolled into
Owego, along with their mother and
Frank and the two babies, Mary and
Lucy-over the hills from Michigan
Till, five miles out of Richford, twenty
miles away, on the road to Marathon,
from the farm where the boys were
BORN.
Sixty-nine years ago!
And on Tuesday John and William
were back in Owego-back to "shake
hands" with the splendid old river at
Hiawatha Island, where as lads they
learned to swim and skate and fish
back to see the remaining cold familiar
phantoms, might hear of their return
and greet them-back possibly for the
last time together to see the river, the
old farmhouse at Hiawatha Island, and
to hear the robins and meadow larks
and whippoorwills make music as they
did sixty-nine years ago.
They had lived at other places, where
the presence Of father and mother and
kinsfolk made it "home" to them-Mo-
ravia, near Auburn; Parma and Strong
Vile, and Cleveland, in the Buckeye
State, and later in the great metropo-
lis and Pocantico Hills-but none of
these places rose to the sweet dignity
of Owego, on the Susquehanna, where
the brothers attended the old Owego
Academy, under the principalship of
William Smyth.
And as they looked up the river they
seemed reluctant to go into the old
Ahwaga, where people were gathering
to catch glimpse of the two captains
of industry and of those who accom-
panied them.
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What Is the Overseas Press Saying About the

Bainville concludes that there is moth
ing in the plan in its present form that
would justify change in the system of
national defence
Pertinax, the famous anti-league
leader writer of "L'Echo de Paris" is
Of the same opinion:
eve are forced to the conclusion that
the twenty-six articles do not bring US
security. AS long they are not modified
we cannot afford to sacrifice the least item
Of our means of protection"
This pessmistic view is in marked con-
trast with the opinion Of Alfred Capus,
editor in chief of Gle Figaro" so far
one of the btterest critics of the league
plan. He says:
"rhe idea of the society of nations has
been purged, through it's contact with a
world of realities, of all its elements that
were too abstract and inapplicabe"
Georges Berthoulat, in "La Liberte,"
thinks likewise that "the important thing
is that the league of nations clips forever
the talons of the black eagle of Hohen-
zollernism."
"Le Gaulois" calls the proposed text
"a great ADVANCE" but confesses doubts
as to the final practicability of the plan.
The success depends on the good will,
not merely of the rulers, but also Of the
ruled. In other words, will feeble, un-
termined by the new obligations? "The
foundations of new world are laid to
such extent we greet the victory Of Pres
ident Wilson. 1t remains to- build up the
cdifice; it's strength will depend on the
skill Of the workers.
"L'Homme Libre," Che paper founded
by Clemcnceau, strikes in it's comment
the "wait and see" note. The league Of
nations is still mere project, it says, a
we'll formulated and serious project, it
is true, but one on which each dclcga-
ton has reserved it's ultimate stand.
Moreover, the text conceived by the
plenipotentiaries has to be ratified by
the peoples back home. "Idealism has
descended into reality, but it is up to
the peoples to see that it remains there"
The conservative "Rappcl," on the
other hand, denounces the plan vehc-
mently:
From now on, the biologists may be
satisfied theology is triumphant, and the
French poiIus know mt least what they
have fought for After winning the war,
nothing remains for them to do but to paw
it's expenses"
Marcel Cachin, one of the leaders of