Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-12-15
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs Of More or
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Some You Don't Know-Condensed
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Talking the other day to Fred NJ.
Allen, secretary Of the Gastonla
chamber of commerce, and if there is
anybody who thinks Mr.. Allen is not
some live wire, that is because they
don't know him.
Among other things the conversation
drifted onto the road question. 1t is
hardly fair to say "drifted." 1t would
be more accurate to say that the con-
versation was directed to the road
question.
After explaining that Castor county
was building black surface concrete
roads from Gastonia to each adjoining
county line, with view to later turn
ing these roads over to the state for
maintenance, Mr.. Allen said among
other things:
"Oh yes, have heard hat argument
as to the levying the bulk Of the road
tax on abutting property; but that's no
account. You don't have to levy the
tax on the abutting property. All you
have to do is to build the road, and the
proposition will regulate itself, and do
it most equitably. Does not the build
ing of I. good road enhance the value
Of the property through or by which 1t
runs? OF course it does, and with this
enhancement of value comes an in
creased tax assessment, and there you
have the solution of the whole thing.
There is nothing arbitrary about the
matter at all. 1t regulates itself.
Too Much For Their Nerves.
IF they are going to tell it at all,
they will tell it at the clanking of the
bars that unfasten the Jail door" said
Deputy Sheriff T. D. Quinn to Views
and Interviews last Wednesday morn
ing. 81 have noticed it for a long time
and it has been my observation that
more of them break down at the jail
door than anywhere else"
They had arrested a little negro
named Anderson on the street for vio-
lCtion of the prohibition law, The boy
had approached a white man with an
offer to sell him liquor. Pretending
that he must have a check cashed be-
fore he could buy, the white man
walked through the courthouse and
nut the sheriff wise. On arresting the
negro, the sheriff found an empty pop
bottle on his person; but no liquor. In
q barrel nearby, however, was found
another bottle full of whiskey.
during the search, and the boy was
protesting his innocence with tears;
but the circumstances were such as to
lead the officers to put the fellow up,
and when the deputy began unlocking
the Jail door, the boy came clean with
it.
"Yes, I am going to tell the truth
about it," he said. that was my
whiskey that they found in the barrel
and l was trying to sell it to that
man."
'T have hardly ever known it to fail"
repeated Deputy Quinn. IF they are
going to tell it at all, they will tell 1t
while we are unlocking the doors to
the cells. There seems 10 be some
thing about the process that makes
them break down and come across"
judge James E. Peurifoy.
1t was my singular good fortune to
ccme into pretty close and intimate
contact with Judge James Z. Peuri-
foy the several weeks his Honor has
been presiding over the November
term OF the circuit court for York
county. In Il way, Judge Peurifoy is
an old acquaintance. l first met him
some seventeen or eighteen years ago
when he was editor and proprietor of
the Walterboro Press and Standard,
and although he did not continue long
in the newspaper business, because
Of his subsequent prominence as
lawyer. legislator and circuit judge
have been able to keep track of him
pretty well ever since. These con-
siderations naturally added to the
pleasure of a renewal of his acquaiIt-
ancc, and the splendid worth of the
man made renewed association with
him especially enjoyable.
The talks | had with Judge Peuriioy
were not for publication Of course, no
more so than any ordinary converse
ton between friends, and what | am
printing here is on my own response
bflity and discretion, without his per-
mission. But he said some things tnat
think ought to be made public, and |
am going to make it public. II the
iuGgc wants to call me down about it,
why | will just accept his reproaches
with due contrition. and try to be more
careful next time.
Speaking of conditions one night as
he saw them in this county, Judge
Peurifoy said:
MY dear sir you ought to be proud,
and you h2ve right to be proud, OF
the superior citizenship you have in
this county. ! have been all over the
state now. and / know probably better
than you can realize. l have been i'm
pressed with the character, quality
and sclf-reliant intelligence of your