Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-08-24
Wednesday, August "a.
Keep a diary of your dairy.


Unlike Old King Cole, King Cotton is
not a merry old soul.
With thirty men pledged to estab-
fish diaries, the farmers of Johnston
and adjacent communities have madea
good start toward Investigation.
The State has an editorial on "Pro-
hibition's Weak Spot" Prohibition
may have a weak spot, but it has help
ad to strengthen the weak spot in many
a man.
The man-surely it must have been a
man-who stole the copper still from
the Office of Greenwood county's sher-
if vas evidently a seasoned criminal.
A novice wouldn't undertake such a
deed.
A few more cases like the attempted
lynching in South Carolina and the big
strike riots in North. Carolina may con-
vince the governor that Summer capt.
tals'' are out of place!-Newberry OBJ
server.
The fact that a Greenwood county
woman shot her husband dead when ne
called her a lie shows that women are
c~ontendlng for their rights all along
the line, including the right of self
protection.
Lexington county had another horri-
BILE homicide yesterday. A negro shot
"a white farmer as the result of a dis
pute e a settlement for cotton seed.
Lexington county needs an electric
chair all her own.
Girls who cast a wistful eye toward
cigarettes should ponder the statement
sent out from Paris to the effect that
cigarette smoking causes q growth OF
hair on the upper lip. What woman
wants a mustache?
The human heart seems not to have
grown one whit better than it was
when one of the old prophets exclaim-
ed: ''The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked"
Crimes more atrocious and more diabol-
zeal are being committed to-day than
eve before.
Personally, we like the Hon. Henry
Herbert Evans but the platform upon
which he has announced his candidacy
Tor the legislature from Newberry
county is horrid, and it ought to defeat
him. He seems to be "agin'' every
thing that every progressive citizen
should stand for.
..v.
ANONYMOUS Letters.
Unless the omissions made through
thoughtlessness, the failure of the
writer to sign a letter intended for pub
iication usually indicates that there is
something pernicious or Objectionable
about it. For that reason, almost with
out exception, newspapers refuse to
publish communications that are not
accompanied by the name of the writer.
The following from the Saluda Stand
ard will illustrate the Importance of
the editor having the name of the ,au-
thor:
"a young lady at Ward writes US
that we have recently published in The
STANDARD news items pertaining to her
that are false. We are not in q posi-
ton to deny the charge, and our only
excuse for so doing is that the items
were sent in by an anonymous cores
pondent from that ~postofice.
"Some one has taken a mean advan-'
,tage of this young lady, and has no
doubt caused her, as it does US, a great
deal of embarrassment. However, there
is an effective means of guarding
against such trickery, and that is by
consigning to the trash basket every
unsigned communication. This is a
standing rule in many newspaper Of
fces. and one that cannot be safely ig-
nered.
Correspondents whose handwriting
we are familiar excepted, it will
be necessary hereafter for every writ
ing submitted to us for publication be
signed. There will be no departure
from this rule.
eve wish to assure the young lady
that the part we took in circulating
+heee netty rumors was due to laxness