Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-03
ESTABLISHED 1855
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brlef LEGAL Paragraphs OF More OF
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some OF Which You Know and
Some You Don't know-condsnsed
For Quick Reading.

Some you Donr Nn0"-SS"eshsS
For Quick Reading.
Detective in Yorkville this week
looking into the Miller school fires.
He is Mr.. Holland, of the Pinkertor
agency, and a pretty level headed kint
Of a man, too. Evidently knows his
business.
But it seems to me-" said Views ant
Interviews, that you would be at
very serious disadvantage in country
like that where everybody knows g
stranger"
YES, you are right about that. II
were looking into a similar case here ir
town, l might remain for some weeks
hunting On the quiet; but under the
circumstances there is nothing for II
but to go at it open and above board
I have talked to good many people;
but 1 am not able to tell you that
have got hold of anything worth while
and l am not making any brags as to
what may run across. am persuad-
ed, however, that have very difficult
case"
Impatient of Credit.
NO more credit business for me,
said n Yorkville business man who has
large sums out for goods, and who does
not make much headway collecting.
81 have made up my mind that had
better keep my goods on my shelves
than to let them out with such slim
chances of getting them paid for. OF
course there are people who will pay
Everybody has not lost the sense OF
moral responsibility, not by great
deal. There are people to whom you
can charge goods with a reasonable
certainty Of getting your money. But
the trouble is that If you do credit
business at all, you cannot discrimi-
nate sufficiently. While there are
some who mean TO pay and who Will
pay, there are others who think, If they
think at all, that you are just simply a
sucker, and have been convinced that
they are more than half right.
Looks to me as If the country would
be better off IL it would simply aban-
don the open account business alto
gether, and drop credit completely ex-
cept where credit is secure,l by ade-
quate notes and mortgages.
There are plenty of people who don't
pay but who could pay If they wanted
to. They have the means with which
to pay; but they simply will not pay
They work you for all they can get out
of you on credit, and then spend their
cash with the other fellow
We Got It.
"How's this 'pome' from the Omaha
World Herald At the present stu
ation?' inquired one this morning:
We were getting dollar six bits for our corn
We could sell every hide from the hoof to the
We wanted change and we got it.
Now we're getting a quarter for our corn
That we burn it for fuel. our toes warm to
keep.
We can't sell the hides so we bury them
deep
But we wanted q change and we got it.
The poor working man pulled down eight
bucks a day,
Now he's darned glad to work for half OF
that pay
But we wanted change and we got 1t.
There was work and plenty for every mans
son,
And warm food and shelter when that work
was done;
Now millions are idle, heretofore there was
But we wanted change and we got it.
Mr. Wilson spent quite long time over
there"
For peace 'he was fighting, but what did We
care
We wanted change and we got it.
Now all that we read is of gold and vacations
Cav week-ends at summer resorts and planta'
tions:
Not what we expected from the head OF ma
ton
But we wanted change and we got it.
We were prosperous and happy. we'll fed ant
gay.
Now millions of children go hungry eacf
day
We wanted a change and we got it.
Meanwhile we hear this: 1T was certain u
come
Reaction from war time," and war thre
years done.
If we wanted lemon we sure did pick one
But we wanted change and we got It,
Mail For Tirzah.
OF all the hundreds of bundles o
copies of The Yorkville Enquirer tina
go into the post office twice a week
some of them containing a hundred
copies. and some only one copy, tn
little bundle of exactly twenty-five
copies that goes to Tirzah gives tn
most trouble. In fact, this bundle give
more trouble than all the others pu
together.
And with the exception of Filber'
Tirzah is the closest post office I
Yorkville in the whole county-onl
about eight miles away.
There has been complaint after com
plaint about the failure of the TirZa
bundle to arrive on time, and thes
complaints have been taken up wit
the post office authorities in the regu
lar manner.
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