Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07
ESTABLISHED 1885
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For Quick Reading.
Inquiry of Treasurer Neil last Satur-
day disclosed the fact that up to date
he had issued dog tags to the number
of 4,O54.
I'VE have never had more than $500
dogs returned to the auditor in this
county before" said Treasurer Neil,
but to make sure when began to pre-
pare for the new law 1 bought 1000
tags 1 had no idea then but that l
would have a good many left over and
l confess that am very much surpris-
ed at the requirements up to dates But
they are still coming in from time to
time. l issued one today"
Prices for Labor.
The ruling price of common labor
now is from S1O0 to s1.25 a day, ac-
cording TO local employer, who talked
to Views and Interviews few days
ago.
1--WE are not paying over $1.25 for
common labor, and there is very little
TO be had for less than s1.00. If it does
not come within the dollar limit we do
not want it, in fact.
Skilled labor runs from 40 to 60
cents an hour-75 cents for bricklay
ers. am inclined to think the price
for bricklayers is still too high and
may come down little; but I don't
know. The pay of bricklayers is fixed
largely by the amount Of work going
on in the nearby larger cities, and my
information is that numerous contracts
are being let in North Carolina and the
upper part of South Carolina at this
time.
with reference to bricklayers I will
say that the situation is much more
satisfactory than when the price was
$l25 an hour. Then with the best you
could get a man would not put more
than 700 or 500 brick in a wall in a
day, and now at rs cents an hour he
puts 1000 to 100 brick in the wall. 1t
is the same with common labor 1t is
much more efficient than It was when
prices were higher"
The Bonus Proposition.
Heard two soldiers talking about the
new bonus proposition which contem-
plates paying in cash all claims Of
fifty dollars and under and issuing
promises to pay in the case Of all
claims over fifty dollars.
One of the soldiers echoed the sug-
gestion in the last issue of'The En-
quirer to the effect that he's did not
know whether the Republicans were
contemplating a bonus to the soldiers
or to the money lenders and went on to
say:
"As see it, 1t is like this; The gov
say one hundred dollars. If you want
your money, something you can use,
the bank will lend you fifty cents
on the dollar, at 6, 7 or per cent. in
terest The interest the bank can
charge will depend upon the regional
reserve re-discount rate. If the bank
does not care to lend it's own money at
the prescribed rate, it will discount the
paper at the regional reserve bank and
get per cent. for nothing. The re-
gional reserve bank will lose nothing
because it will merely issue Federal
Reserve notes against the certificate.
This will stand until IS per cent. Of the
value Of the paper has been dissipated,
when the government will take it up,
and give the service man Is per cent.
1t means 65 per cent. for the service
man and 35 per cent. for. the money
lenders Yes, of course if we, keep the
paper until maturity we will get full
value; but who is going to do that?
Why have seen men compelled by
public opinion, pay for Liberty bonds
out of their $50 per, and then as soon
as they got the bonds, trade them off
for Is or 20 cents on the dollar
Made it Look Blue.
J. E. Latham, Of the Blairsville
neighborhood, was IN Yorkville yester-
day on business. Mr.. Latham is
farmer, and q good one He has never
been much of a 'cottontot. At least
he has never been an all-cotton farm
er; but for years has been practicing
diversifcation, raising lots of corn,
oats, clover, etc.
Asked about what the farmers down
his way were going to do this year, he
said:
We'll, this year, more than any
other year, l guess, they are going to
do as they can rather than as they
would like to do"
And what are you going to do?" he
was asked.
Pretty much as l have been doing;
but | reckon / could not plant more
than three or four acres Of cotton to
the plow if wanted to; because l
have not got the help.
II was over in Greenwood on the
United States jury not long ago. With
me on the only case l helped try were
eleven other jurymen, all from sections
that had been ruined by the boil wee
vii. They talked about the boil weevil
more than they did the case and the
ctOriac fLnv told vyara di re SSintr II