Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-11-22
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THE recent storm through Florida
surely ruined this section Of country,
writes E. Bamford Garrison Of York
No. 8, from Kissimmee, Fla, whore he
is spending several weeks. "The citrus
growers lost heavily" Mr.. Garrison
went on to say, land the crop is going
to be short-at least 25 per cent. Con-
ditions are worse on the west coast
than on the east coast"
Misplaced Charity.
Had an incident to occur the other
day that made me fighting mad" said
j. Clyde Ford, well known young bust
ness man of Glover. Fellow dropped
into my place and asked for money to
get something to eat. gave it to him.
A short time later l. had occasion to
go by the eating house where he had
gone for a meal. He had already eaten
and had asked for a ten cent cigar.
The proprietor had nothing but cent
cigars Do you know that skunk
wouldn't take a five cent cigar but
went somewhere else where he could
buy ten cent cigar. And pandhand-
ling me for money to get "a meal Say
what dye know about that anyway
The Bankrupt Law.
That the bankruptcy law is a mighty
unsatisfactory proposition there is
very little ground for dispute. In fact
no reasonable man who knows what he
is talking about will deny it.
Speaking of a certain concern of
which he had knowledge, a prominent
business man who is about as good for
all his obligations as any man ever
gets to be, and who knows whereof he
speaks said:
There was no sense in putting that
concern in bankruptcy. The owners
are good honest men who intend to pay
and who would pay if let alone. Phoy
had gotten into such shape that they
could not realize at once on their
assets; but if let alone they could get
more for their creditors than anybody
else. But now that they have been
forced into bankruptcy on the strength
of q collection of claims no one of
which amounts to more than a thous-
and dollars, their estate will be liter
ally destroyed.
But of course, il is Il difficult thing
to manage. l suppose ii is Impossible.
because good and bad men look alike
to each other, and with many people.
the temptation to plunder a good man
is as great as it is TO plumber baa
man.
There have been several cases of
bankruptcy in this section and so far
as have reason to believe in no case
have the creditors got as much or will
they get as much ag they would have
gotten had they left the matter alone.
The Liquor Laws.
In his charge to the grand jury yes
terday morning in opening the Nov
ember term of the court of generai
sessions and common pleas, Judge
Hayne +. Rice dealt at length on viola
tions of the liquor laws. here is no
question" said he, that the liquor
laws are b-ing violated extensively but
my judgment tells me that there is not
so much drunkenness through the state
and not so many violations of the Ii
quor laws and all laws as there were
during the regime OF our iniquitouS
dspensary system.
Our liquor laws are perhaps the
most drastic of any state in the union
The statute prohibits the handling of
liuuor or beverages used TO produce in
toXication in any shape or form. 1t is
up TO good citizens everywhere to as
sist in enforcing the liquor laws.
Whisky is the mother of crime. The
man who sells whisky is the lowest
order Of citizen. The man who runs
a country store and wh> sells any bev-
cragc that will produce intOXication is
violating the laws of the state and he
should be brOSSht before the bar Of
Justice. The drug store that sells
medicines for beverage purposes is as
ulICli VI a Spili'N ''SNh 60 - N''N $1,000
who sells liquor from Il jug or bottle.
There are many citizens who think the
courts should he light on the viOlators
Of the liquor laws. | do not agree be-
cause as | tod you | do not believe
there is Il lower order Of~citizcn than
the citizen who sells liquor.
The situation is much improved as
compared with the old days. My duties
as a circuit judge carry me to all Sec
tiOnS of the liquor laws. There is no
moro than three drunk men since the
advent of prohibition and my work and
my travels have taken me into places
where would have opportunity to sec.
a railroad conductor remarked ia
me recently that life had been made
tolcrablc for railroad employees since
prohibition came. 1t used tV bc that
drunken men got on the trains at every
station and often caused trouble
whereas now it is a rare occasion that
u drunken man gets on Il train on Is
seen in any other lace. There ar,
still many violations" said His Honor
"and il is up to the grand jury and Il
all good citizens TO assist in rounding