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THIS AND THAT President Roosevelt reached Warm Springs, Ga., Sunday night and will spend two weeks there. As in the past. the other States of the South join Georgia in welcoming him to other home." The president had just spent three days inspecting the great power development in the Tennessee valley He expressed pleasure over the progress of the work and is reported to have said It was only the beginning of what the government will do to free the country of the extortionate rates of the power companies Already this and similar developments have opened the eyes of the power companies to the fact that they cannot go on charging the public the rates they have had in effect since elec tricity first came into general use In a few isolated communities the power companies. seeing what was in store for them. have made some reductions. mostly inconsequential but, thanks to President Roosevelt the day is not far distant when these companies will make drastic reductions or there will be no market for their product. Last winter an informed member of Congress who had made a close study of the whole power situation. said there wasn't a big power company in the entire country which did not make from 500 to 1000 per cent profit Government national State and municipal owes the public protecprotection from such greed In South Carolina there probably isn't a city or town of consequence which would not contribute to the prosperity and happiness of its people by operating its own power plant. gentleman came into The Times office Tuesday and said he feared. from numerous threats and warnings he had read, that York county would have one-man leg islative delegation in Columbia next year He wanted to know what the editor thought about it. He wa told "the editor' had not thought about it at all and was advised to consult Senator Walter M. Dunlap and Representative R. B. Hildebrand. The Chester Reporter says the Republican party "now has the chance it has long been needing to clean up, and the indications are it will take advantage of the opportunity The Chester paper might have gone a little further and said who, in the past. had withheld from the Republicans the "opportunity" it now facing them. There isn't the least prospect of the Republican party cleaning up It will continne to be the guardian angel of the money power as it was from the day Harding entered the White House 14 years ago until Hoover and his mythical "chicken in every pot demned by the highway department and the owners paid what the department considers fair compensation. For a part of its length the highway will run through a negro section known as "Paradise." ET The law making no provision for the removal of the tax books from the court house in York, it is stated that County Terasurer W. D. Thomasson will not be able to somply with the request of number of Fort Mill taxpayers that he come here for the collection of State and county taxes. This does not mean however, that Fort Mill property owners will have to go all the way to the court house to pay their taxes. They may go less than half the way and pay at the Peoples Na tional bank in Rock Hill, which has secured from Mr. Thomasson a list of the amounts due by each of the taxpayers of Fort Mill township. T. B. Spratt of Fort Mill, financial agent of the Union Central Life Insurance company for South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, is now finding it nec essary to be in the latter two States a considerable part of the time in connection with his official duties Col. Sprait has been the South Carolina financial agent of the company for about 20 years A short time ago all of North Carolina and Vir ginia were added to his territory pastor of St. John's Methodist church, succeeding the Rev S. H Booth. was given a hearty welcome by the congregation at the morning and evening services last Sunday Mr. Brown and his family consist ing of Mrs. Brown and two children, a son and daughter moved into the church's parsonage Tom Hall street last Thursday Mr Brown is 48 years old and is a native of Bamberg county Prior to moving to Spartanburg in 1931 to become secretary of the Upper Methodist conference's board of Christian edneation, Mr. Brown held pastorates at Langley, Great Falls, Lyman Station and in Newberry He was educated in the public schools at the University of South Carolina and at the Biblical institute Mr. Brown is greatly interested in Sunlay school work and is expected to issist materially in the work of St John's Sunday school. Besides hold. ng the phstorate of St. John's church. he is also pastor of Philadelphia church in upper Fort Mill township and of Pleasant Hill hurch in the Pleasant Valley section of Lancaster county were unceremoniously thrown out last year, The action of Capt. E. W. Springs in advancing depositors of the defunet Savings bank of Fort Mill 50 per cent of their deposits. to be re. paid him in the event dividends to that amount declared by the bank's receiver. probably is without precedent in this section and dence of the very high regard Capt Springs has for the welfare of his home community. Capt. Springs had no financial interest in the Sav. ings bank. He owned no stock in the institution. On the contrary, his company. the Springs Cotton mills, had on deposit with the bank when it closed several thousand dollars on which he will bear the same percetnage of loss other depositor sustain. The generosity of Capt Springs has been of great help to the community and is universally appreciated here There is no reason to doubt that Governor-elect Olin D. Johnston meant exactly what he said when he told the people during the campaign last summer he intended to see that they got an economical State government Unless he has changed his mind, and there nothing to indicate that he has, the State departments and institutions which are asking for largely increased appropriations are on cold trail. The Fort Mill post of the American Legion is to be congratulated upon the election of Capt. S. W. Parks as its com mander Capt. Parks has long been interested in military affairs He was one of the original officers of the local National Guard company then it was organized more than a third of a century ago. He WAS with the company as its captain in the World war and his bravery in the attack on the Hindenburg line netted him a severe wound from which he suffered long after the way closed. The friends of the post are confident will do well under Capt. Parks' direction. H. Hutchison, manager of the Simpson dry nate enough to be able to spend sev eral days in Glasgow as soldier during the World war. Mr. Hutchison then took advantage of the one portunity to visit many of the an cient building and other places of interest in the old Scotch city, from which his paternal forbears came to America many years ago. A Cincinnati coal company is exercised over the apparent success of the government power development in the Tennessee valley and is hol lering about it. A day or two ago it sent out booklet entitled Debunking the The company is afraid the development will cost it the sale of some coal and is frightfully distressed over the plight in which the miners may be left, but perhaps thinks more. though saying nothing about it. of its own pocket book The booklet contains two or three pictures of mining villages, in which the houses appear neat and comfortable. It does not contain pictures representative of the thousands of other mining villages will their most inhuman apologies for "homes" to be found on the American continent. The writer of "Debunking the TVA" tells pathetic story He "It is not our bat tle alone it is your battle and your funeral as well as ours Such battles and such funerals are beneficial. Now let's turn to something more encouraging than crime and scandal Chester county has sold $120,000 worth of bonds to finance improvements to the road between Chester and Lowry