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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
Cotton is Growing.

With an abundance Of boil weevils
in the community and practically
every farmer out With every hand on
his place picking them off the plants
and destroying them, cotton is making
satisfactory progress and farmers
are hopeful that they are going to
make a pretty good crop in spite of it
although they realize that it is a long
time until the harvest. Besides pick
ing up as many of the weevils as they
can, the farmers are pursuing a policy
of working their cotton hard and fast.
While the general outlook because of
the appearance of the weevil is not as
bright as it has been in former years,
still the farmers are not at all
panicky; but are determined to fight
the insect as best they can, confident
that IL they put in the best work they
know how they will make n fair crop
any way.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
Broad River Roads.

Superintendent j. r. Gambrell and
his road forces are making good pro-
gress with Broad River townships
good roads programme made possible
through a bond issue voted by the
people of Broad River some time ago.
The road forces are engaged on the
Sharon Hickory Grove road and are
fast approaching Hickory Grove. The
road that they are building is the best
that that section of York county has
ever known and it's building Is going
to mean much to- western York coun-
ty. The money is holding out well
and Broad River citizens are confident
that they are going to get value in
road work for every dollar expended.
While the work has been under way
for some time now, the greatest ex-
pense so far has been for road build
ing machinery. The township Is the
owner of the best equipment that it
has ever had and is in position to not
only build roads but to keep them up.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
Shealy Will Return.

Prof. ]. w. Shealy of Leesville, for
the past two years superintendent of
Sharon school has notified the board
of trustees that he will return here.
Prof. Shealy was reelected before
school closed in May; but he did not
officially notify the trustees of his ac-
ceptance until recently
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
Ball Park in Shape.

Sharon has a real baseball park for
this summer and lovers of the great
American game are hopeful that they
are going to see some fine exhibitions
of the national sport in the months
ahead. A field in the heart of town
near Youngbloods stables has been
cleared off and put in shape for a
baseball diamond and is now ready
for play. The idea is to let small boys
and large boys and in fact any size
boys use it and the indications are
that il will be used
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
Sifford Locates.

=. Macon Sifford, surveyor and
mechanical craftsman has decided to
hang out his shinglc in Glover his
home town for the practice of his
profession. Mr.. Sifford who is the
son of j. Il. Sifford, completed the re-
puiremcnts in surveying ana mechan-
ical drawing at the. University of
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
Turtles Were Strong.

Sam Hope, well known citizen of
Sharon accompanied by several others
went fishing in nearby Stream sew
eral days ago. Among other deniZens
of the water his party caught a
couple of large couters or turtles. Mr..
Hope remarked to several people who
were teasing him about his fishing
trip that the couters were the strong
est he ever saw. According to his
story on the return trip to Sharon he
and his party met man driving a
large automobile which was stalled on
a hill nearby. The motor in the car
just couldn't pull it. Seeing the mans
predicament he hitched the two
couters to the front of the big automo-
bile and they carried it over the top
without any effort. Whereupon one
of the auditors remarked that the de-
vii himself wouldn't believe fish story
like that.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
Personal Mention.

Dr. Joe Sims, well known pharma-
cist of Sharon is still confined to his
bed as n result of injuries to his leg
received several days ago when he
was run over by an automobile driven
by Paul White. DR.. Sims was cross
ing main street at the time he was
struck and knocked down. 1t will be
several weeks before he regains COM
plctc Use of mis- leg
Messrs. Charley Hope of Camden
and Saye Hope of Denmark, visited
the family of their father Mr. r. w.
Hope i'm Sharon this week
Miss Isabel Arrowood, who has been
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
Congress Goes to Aid
of Agricultural Industry
List of More Important Measures Written,
Introduced and Passed by Republicans
To Assist Farmers During Crisis
o, s. REPRESENTATIVE J. N. TINCHER (KAN-
sAs), MEMBER HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
AGRICULTURE

Farmers Of the United States not
only comprise the largest single class
Of producers but they are the largest
single class of consumers Of finished
products of all kinds, and the largest
class of shippers. In view of all
this, it is essential, in order that the
country as whole be prosperous, that
the farmer as class be prosperous.
When the Republican Party came
into power in March, 1921, the agricul-
tural sections of the country were in
the midst of the greatest depression
they had ever experienced.
In response to a general demand
from the agricultural interests the Re-
publican Congress, on May 27, 1921, 40
days after the session convened, en-
acted the Emergency, or Farmers
Tariff. This stopped at once the influx
of agricultural imports and saved to
the American farm producer his home
markets.
The best proof that the tariff really
protects the American farmer is the
fact that since it's operation Canada
has renewed her efforts to negotiate a
reciprocity treaty that will admit her
agricultural products into this country
free. AS a further proof of the effect
iveness of this tariff it was renewed
November Is, 1921, by the solid vote
of the congressman representing the
AGRICULTURAL States. The enactment
of this tariff was opposed by the solid
Democratic minority in both House
and Senate, with few notable excep
tons.
For more than a quarter of cen
fury there has been demand from the
producers and consumers fer control
of the packing and allied industries
Responsive to this demand Congress
enacted such law. 1t cannot be gain
said that the livestock industry of the
United States has had better treatment
from the very day that this law begaI
to operate. This bill was drawn By
Republicans, introduced in bott
branches Of Congress by Republicans
ard passed by both branches of Con
gress controlled by Republicans.
For more than 4C years there he;
been pending before Congress, in one
form or another, legislation to contra
grain exchanges and to stop the manip
ulation of prices of farm products
Such a law has been enacted by thi:
Republican Congress. Like the pack
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27

we farmers sta-d, divided we fall"
/ would bring the high schools within
home distance of every country boy
and girl. | would put rural sociology
in every freshman course and con-
tinue the study throughout the four
years. | would have our Agricultural
Colleges leach marketing as well as
production. reaping as well as sow
ing.
/ wish that there might be instilled
in the minds of all country boys and
girls a feeling of responsibility for
the farm-a feeling that no matter
what work they might take up they
owed a return to their country COM
munlty IN service-that they We're
not free from obligation until they
had paid back to country life the in
terest on the capital they took-that
the members of the family who go
out to be lawyers and doctors and
merchants and bankers realize that
they were indebted for their success
to the training and strength and ideals
they received from their rural en-
vironment and that even if they are
temperamentally and naturally un-
suited to take the lot of the man who
stays behind to feed the rest, they
have a debt of honor to pay the one
who does, and that to the soil and the
community they must give back. The
tree take food and sap from the
ground IN the spring, gives service
to the world in the summer, and
then in the autumn drops every leaf
balk to the earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27

er control law, it was written by Re-
publicans, introduced by Republicans
and passed by Republican n.ajorities.
One of the immediate and urgent
needs Of the farming communities was
credit to tide them over their irnme-
date crisis. In order to furnish this
credit the Republican Congress amend
ed the War Finance Corporation Act
so as to enable that organization to
have a revolving fund of $1,O0O,O0O,
900 to be used exclusively in makine
loans to livestock and agricultural in
terests. Since that body began func,
tiOning under its newly acquired pow
ers it has been loaning money to the
agricultural and livestock interests of
the United States at a rate in excess
of S1,000,000 a day.
One Of the earliest acts of this Con-
gress was the appropriation of $4,000
900 to be used in the purchase of seed
for the drought-stricken farmers of the
northwest. Since that time legislation
and appropriations have been made to
assist drought-stTicken farmers in
other sections Of the country, and also
to relieve the settlers upon reclama-
ton and irrigation projects.
Still another act of this Congress
was the increase Of the available cap
ital of the Farm Loan Banks in the
sum of s25,000,000, giving the Farm
Loan Banks total revolving fund Of
! s56,000,0OO This bill was written by
Republicans, introduced by Republi-
cans and passed by Republican major
| tiles in both branches of Congress-
Modern methods in the mmerclal
| world have demonstrated the neces-
sity of the farmers being permitted to
sell his crops under cooperative sys-
! tenn, and that this might be done legal
| ~ and without interference or irrita-
! ton, the present Congress enacted the
Cooperative Marketing Bill This is
another bill written by Republicans,
| introduced in both branches of Con-
gress by Republicans and passed by
Republican majorities.
Honorable Henry C. Wallace, secre-
tary of Agriculture, truly summed it
up when he said:
Never in the same length of time
| did Congress give more serious atten.
tipn to farm needs. All Of the legisle.
ten is Of constructive character and
VIII be more helpful than is now
realized.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
the family homestead is the one to
be cherished.
A Swallowed Picture.

| DG CISElSu6U.
A Swallowed Picture.
And by this time there is a little
less hope for the future Three or
four generations of unfulfillment is
not very conducive of the virility of
hope. The old homestead is rented
to a class Of people not quite pro-
gressive enough to get away. The
community Immediately loses much
of its stability. There is no COM
munity pride for these people except
to move again in year or Sc and
naturally do not feel responsibility
in their temporary arrangement. And
where the profits of the land must
be shared between two families, the
landlords and the tenants, there is
nothing left to devote to the ideal
community center. The taxpayers
live away from the land and are
therefore not personally and subjec-
lively interested in the church, schools
and social phase of their neighbor-
hood. There is such a constant shift
ing of residents that organization is
difficult There are no local allure
ments and ties and as soon as mem
Der rises above the level of his en-
vir0nment he goes to the city where
more is promised him, even if it is
mot always given.
In the meantime the descendants
of the first farmers have either lost
out in the demands of city life and
are finding there mess of potage as
day laborers, or they have prospered
and forgotten the farm from which
they received their birthright And
most of them do prosper. It has
been said that "a per cent of the
leading citizens of one of our large
Eastern cities were brought up on a
farm. Of a group of 100 representa-
tive men, commercial and professions,
al, in Chicago, | found that IS per
cent came from the country More
than SO per cent of the men and
women listed in "Who's Who" are
likewise from the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27


The successful ones return to the
country and build palatiaI homes and
estates, and constitute the highly
educated landlord class. Is the
country slowly differentiating into
this and the propertyless laboring
classes? If America becomes the
home of landowners and peasants we
will have failed our Pilgrim fathers
miserably and inexcusably.
A Good Example.
| have not been discussing the
United States on an average. [
have chosen the wornout community
and the wornout farm as signals of
danger ahead. Like we sometimes
go through the barrel and pick out
certain apples.
There is no doubt but that the root
of the evil is the prevailing economic
injustices dealt the farming industry.
The farmers themselves are the ones
who will have to change this system.
They cannot all walk off and leave
it. Moving to town may solve the
problems and better the finances Of
the individual but toll will be taken
later on national basis.
The farmers who deny their chill
dren the emancipation of liberal edu-
cation likewise drain the fertility of
the neighborhood. The physical
labor is returned with the personal
interest in the individual farm; the
wheat is usually properly stacked,
and the hogs we'll housed. But these
are the farmers who ride the pillow in
disgruntled objection to the world
market conditions with which they
are untitled to combat. Their vision
is as narrow as their lanes. They
are the farmers whose blind refusal
to join in cooperative marketing, be-
lieve in the Farm Bureau, and be in
dependent in politics, holds back
rural progress. By the hardest work
and the closest saving they usually
manage to get more or less ahead
financially, but they do not go about
it in the way that benefits the whole
community, and there is no margin in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
ADAPTATION

The old saying, Here's How" used
to refer to drinking the festive spirit.
Now it applies to making it.-Allith
Bulletin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
NEW TOUR
BOOK BOOST
FOR CITY

This city has particular in
terest in the 1922 Call of the Open
Road, published for motorists by
The Milwaukee Journal. Every Bad
ger city and town on a main trunk
highway is mentioned from one to
seven times in its pages, and care
is taken to laud our locality for its
work toward tourist comfort and it's
natural scenic advantages.
The majority of motorists are IA
miliar with the name of Brownie, The
Journals imam of many miles," The
Call of the Open Road is his handi-
work. Brownie travels at least $4,000
miles over Wisconsin roads every
touring season and his findings are in
corporated in the Call. He isn't
swivel chair driver, but really gets
out and makes a stupendous mileage
every year. He is the head of The
Journal Travel bureau, which last
year distributed almost $4,000 copies
of the Call and answered over 100000
inquiries for road information.
This book means something to this
locality. Whenever city Or town is
mentioned and praised by Brownie
every motorist accepts as gospel fact
that there is something about us
worth knowing. After looking over
the new Call we find several new fea-
tures-complete logs and mileage
tables to every Wisconsin city from
all main points; six-part map Of the
state portraying the soils travelled;
transcontinental trails and tours,
list Of over 200 free camp sites for
tourists; Badger hotels and summer
resorts and how to get there; scenic
and historic points of interest about
state and summary of Wisconsin's
outdoor program which will interest
every reader.
1t is noted also that Brownies lat
est automotive achievement is the
founding of Journal Tour club. This
club is devoted to Wisconsin motor
lists, promotes goodfellowship, and will
be big aid toward furthering touring
in Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
CUT THIS OUT;
IT is WORTH MONEY

Cut out tLis slip, enclose it with
Sc to Foley & Co., 2855 Sheffield Ave-,
Chicago, ILL.,, writing your name and
address clearly. You will receive in
return a trial package containing Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar Compound, for
coughs, colds and Group, Foley Kid
ney pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27

/
Here and there a hilltop eighty
has worn out and lies beneath the sun
Indifferent to the seeds in its keep
ing, to the hungry who tramp over
it. Hills that never failed the buf.
falo for nobody knows how many
thousand years, are gray with the ex-
haustion of extensive production.
So long as the sod was unbroken
the fertility of the soil remained in
tact. The pioneers who broke the
seal found the soil richer than crea-
ton. For under the unhampered
government J of Mother Nature all
plants give back their surplus at the
end of every summer. The first
wheat field waxed golden on the
legacy of the frugal prairie grass.
The first corn fields spent riotously
the compounded interest Of centuries
Of the earth's careful savings Of plant
food. And the farmers fed their
crops on the soils store for so many
years before it became noticeable that
the principle was being touched, that
the supply was unconsciously sup
posed to be inexhaustible. We
sowed intensively, reaped bounteous-
ly, and then burned the straw and
stubble complacently. So long as
the virgin qualities Of the soil, under
a system of wasteful soil mining, sup
ported a relatively spare population
we were not worried about the future
And now many an anaemic field dots
the countryside in mute reproach.
There Is No Waste.
Fortunately, however, farmers are
awakening to the fact that soil must
be revitalized. Public opinion for
bids the burning of straw Legumes
have been put to making hay and
nitrogen. Fertilizer companies are
doing business. Phosphate and lime
stone deposits are being distributed.
The hilltop eighties are being re-
juvenated Just as the land has been
devitalized, here and there a farm
community has worn out. The church
door has been nailed shut. The
school house is out Of date. The
children of the old homestead have
moved to town and the farms are
now the obodes of transient families
who hope to get enough ahead to
move to town also.
No nation has ever risen above the
level of its agriculture and the dead
communities scattered through the
United States are comparable to the
white alkai patches on the hilltop
eighty. And if allowed to spread
will ruin our country just as sure as
blight will wipe out an apple orchard.
The worst of it is that the worn
out community is not necessarily the
one where the land is past produc-
ton. If that were the case the
building up of the soil would bring
a flow of new blood back into the
personnel of the occupants. It is
often in our richest sections that the
human force of agricultural produc-
ton is at low ebb.
We are used to thinking when we
speak Of agricultural production, of
grain and livestock, cotton and wool,
lumber and fruit. But the open
country has an important product in
boys and girls who constantly feed
our cities.
Replated History.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27

their profits for better community
conditions. And where silos make
proud the landscape while house and
church and school squat apologetical-
ly in their shadows there is no real
wealth.
IF sending our young folks away
to be educated does not gain US any
thing IN our own communities; If
ignoring the possibilities Of education
is dangerous, it must be the system
of education that is at fault.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
TO Retain Color.

I would not strike from the readers
the romance and the glamour of the
other worlds, but I would include
stories which throw little color
around the farmers lives. | would
include in the biographies studied in
the country schools bit more of
agricultural detail. I should like to
see the beginner trace through the
copy book some such sentence as, II
am proud to be farmer" or Omitted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
FARN(,HIILI,IlREy
THE SOLUTION
Agricultural Head Would Make Farm
Attractive to All Ages
and Thus
Solve a Problem That Is More Grave
Than the City Man Even
Suspects.
BY J. r. HOWARD
President American Farm Bureau
Federation.

Federation.
Editors Note-J. R. Howard is
president Of the American Farm Blu
reau Federation, an organization Of
American rural jewellers, of progress
sive, thinking farmers. What he has
to say strikes a note that may
sound alarming until one reads his
offered solution. The happiness of
children on the farm is q matter that
is of vital Importance to you.l
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
GREAT FOR FLU" AND GRIP
COUGHS

81 had an awful cold that left me
with a dreadful cough" says Mrs. NJ.
e. Smith, Benton, La. Bought Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar of our druggist
and it cured me completely" This
grand remedy should be in every
household at this time, when influ-
enza, grip, coughs and colds are SO
prevalent. Sold Everywhere. Adv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27

You can't keep a good man down OF
a bad one up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
Replated History.

The history of the pulseless COM
munity is well known. The pioneer
father who thrust his pillow into the
unbroken prairies was as vital as his
acres. He had come to the new
country to make a home. His neigh
bors were home builders The nom
interference of outside world, need
for protection and common ideals,
fostered social contact. They were
the best type of humanity, being the
kind who were not contented to be
poor in the state or the foreign
country from which they came. Since
they were in their new homes to
stay they set about making their
communities fit places in which to
live. They built school houses and
churches at the same time they broke
the sod and put up barns. The next
generation took up community build
ing at the point left OFF by their par
ents. The old homestead was kept
in the family, all members of which
started out equally. If anything, the
boy whose lot it was to stay home
and run the farm was considered tc
be bit better off than the boys who
had studied pedagogy or medicine, OF
letters. Fortune had not overtaker
the pioneer people yet, but they rea
Isoned that it was a new country, anC
the future was promising.
About three generations away
from the pioneers the real exodus be
gins. A little visiting back and fortl
with the members of the family VIII
had cast their lot in the cities an
the lot of the brother to remain o.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-04-27
Christian Science Church

Sunday Service-10:45 A. NJ.
Wednesday evening, Testimonial
meeting 7:45 O'Clock
Lesson Subject-Doctrine of Atone
ment.