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?Ideal gtwjtytytc la %>w?hj?atp\m 1? VOL. 86 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1921 No. 4:? ?i JOHNSTON LETTER. Ordination Service Second Sunday in September. Re vival Closed at Har mony, Tobaccoo Barn Burns. On Sunday morning, at the Bap tist church, plans for the ordination to the ministry, of Messrs. James Edwards and Ed Johnson, were ar ranged for. This occasion Will take place on the second Sunday in Sept., and in all probability, will be an all day service. The pastor appointed as a committe to arrange for this, Mr. S. G. Watson, Mr. Lucas Walker, and Mr. Will Sawyer. In resolutions, concerning the or dination which were passed on by the hoard of deacons, and read by Mr. S. J. Watson, the churches of Red Bank, Ridge, and Phillipi, were to send represenatives to examine the two young brethren, upon their taking this great step. A special sermon will bev. preach ed -during the morning, and the or dination will take place during the afternoon service. This will be a great day for the church, this setting aside of these two. young men to be lab'orors for God. Rev. Daniel Kellar has just closed a revival service at Harmony Method ist church, which has proved a great blessing to all. There were many that were brought into the fold and the entire membership was spiritu ally strengthened. Mrs.* P. C. Stevens has gone to Perry, Florida to visit in the family of her son, Mr. Willie Pierce Stevens. Mr a.nd Mrs. Newton Broadwater have returned from a stay at Pine Hill, N. ?. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo .? Horne, of Columbia and Messrs Guy Horne, of Porthmouth, Ohio,, and Fletcher Horne, pf lPittsbough, Pa., have been for a visit to friends. Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming Marsh, of Columbia, spent last week^^here with Mr. and Mrs. John Mars?T*""^ ' Miss Minnie Kinnedy, of Augusta, has .been visiting her Aunt, Mrs. Eu gene Thrailkill. Mrs. G. R. Jones has returned from Abbeville where she visited rel atives. , Every one here deeply regrets the fact, that Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lott contemplate making Augusta their home, and will probably go in Sept. Wherever they go, Johnson will claim them as her own. Mrs. L. C. Latim?r has gone to Macon, Ga., to visit Dr. and Mrs. Ed ward Latimer. This is her first visit in the home of her son, Dr. Latimer, since his marriage a few weeks ago. Misses Isabel and Bessie Bean are at home from visits to class mates, who resided in the upper part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Strother, Harry and Josephine are visiting in Newberry. Miss Mary Walker entertained very pleasantly on Friday evening with a water melon cutting. Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Tarrant and little son, who have been residing at Ridge, have returned to make John ston their home. Miss Leda Gall has returned to Leesville after a few weeks visit here with friends. Miss Ruth Harris, of Albany,Ga., is visitinng her grandmother, Mrs.P. N. Lott. Mr. and Mrs. Pender and Miss Pender arrived last Thursday from Panama, annd will spend awhile here, before going to the mountains for a^ three weeks stay. Mrs. Pender is very pleasantly remembered here as Mrs. Octavia Rushton, and her friends are delighted to see her after an absence of nearly two years. Mrs. Frank Landrum and children, of Florence, are guests of Mrs. A. P. Lewis. Mrs. J. Howard Payne, Margaret .Helen, and Mrs. Wallace Turner and Billie, spent the past week at Ninety Six, with Mrs. George Galphin. Dr. and Mrs. Horace Wright, of Georgetown, are guests of the Misses Sawyer. The choir of the Baptist church is planning to have a sacred concert during the first part of September. Mr. Paul Perry and Children, of Peak, are guests of Mrs. Alice Cox. Miss Fannie Turner entertained the club on Thursday afternoon, and besides the members, the visiting young ladies were also guests. As all arrived they were served with punch out in the pergola, and later were seated at tables on the piazza,- for the game. Four hands were played, and Miss Maud Sawyer received the score prize, a set of table markers, and the consolation, a set of tally cards, fell to Miss Gladys Sawyer. Later all enjoyed a dainty salad course with iced tea. Mr. Mark Toney had the misfor tune to lose his tobacco barn by fire on Thursday hight. The barn was well filled, and Mr. Cullam, who was firing, left the barn about 1.0 o'clock* with practically no fire. About an Jiour later Mr. Toney returned from Augusta to find the building/falling in. It is supposed that the building caught from the pipe, which had been red hot. There was no insu rance. Mrs. Alvin Wright and children of Anderson, are visiting in the home of Mr. Joe Wright. Rev. W. S. Brooke has closed two fine meetings, one at Wards, where twenty-two made profession of faith, and one at Bethea, over thirty unit ing with the church. A notable fea ture of those. joining at Bethea is, that many/ were heads of families. During this week he is conduct ing a meeting at Chestnut Hill church. County Chairman Issues Call To Women Voters Ladies of Newberry county should avail themselves of the opportunity to enroll in Democratic clubs: I desire to call attention of the ladies of the county that the Demo cratic executive committee desires all. ladies qualified to do so to call upon the secretary of the club in their precinct and sign the club roll on or before August 23.. The fact that you are registered does not al low you to vote in the primary on the 30. You cannot vote in this primary unless you sign the club roll in your precinct. You have been given the ballot and it is your duty as good citizens ion'. It matters hot how you feel a bout it, it ie a duty you owe your country, and the Democratic organ ization wants you to avail yourself of the privilege. Do not fail to put your name on the club roll on or hefore the 23d instant. You cannot vote in the pri mary election of the 30th unless you do J. B. Hunter, Gounty (.Chairman. The foregoing has been clipped from the Newberry Observer.. Political Campaign On In Newberry. An election has been ordered in Newberry County to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives caused by the death of Col. Mower. Already several candidates have an-, nounced for the place and the follow ing taken from the Newberry Obser ver shows that already things are getting pretty lively: "A ripple of excitement was caused on the street Thursday af ternoon about six o'clock by a per sonal encounter between Sheriff Cannon G. Blease and H. H. Evans, in which Mr. Evans struck Mr. Blease in the face and Mr. Blease attempt ed to draw his pistol, when bystand ers interfered and stopped the trouble. "The difficulty arose over some thing Mr. Evans said in announcing his candidancy for the house of rep resentatives in the newspapers. In his "platform", published in the town pa pers that afternoon, he said, among other things, 'If the voters want the fearful expense of the sheriff's of fice, don't vote for me.' "The two men met on the street shortly after- the papers came out, and in the course of discussing the language above quoted, the sheriff used the short and ugly word "lie", with a handle to it, and it was an swered by Mr. Evans with a Mow. Mutual friends took the matter up and brought about a reconciliation." Cuts Out Most Expensive Crop. Well, it's not so bad as it might be. The weevil are only making us cut out our most expensive crop. Of our cheapest crops, the cereals of all kindsy we are yet permitted to make a maximum harvest at a minimum of labor and expense. Everybody knows that it requires more money and labor to make cotton than any other crop. To The Churches of The Edge?; field Baptist Association. Dear Brethren: With the end of' our associational year practically upon us, l?t mej make a final appeal to your farfcn and loyalty on behalf of the most he-| roic endeavor that our Southern Bap.^ tists ever entered .upon, the seventy five million campaign. In rece??? numbers of the Baptist Courier you have doubtless read the letter fron? Dr. Burts, as to the very serious e-? mergency confronting us. Our de nominational institutions, the State> Home and Foreign Mission Boards; the Orphanage, thc Aged Ministers Relief, and other benevolences are entirely dependent on a pro-rata dis tribution from the ' Secretary-Treas urer of this fund, and this board is now badly hampered by the slowness'; of some of our people to pay their; pledges. Of course no one doubts that our'churches will in the end re deem every pledge they have made. But it is of the utmost importance that the pledges should be met as they fall due, if our boards are to be spared sositive humiliation. We ought as far as is possible keep up with our pledges, because it is th^e Lords plan "to pay as we go", and paying doubly next year will not off set our failure to pay this year. Two or -three weeks ago Dr. Jamison wrote to the. Baptist Courier that his cash funds had been so exhausted that he could not even pay small . charges- such as telephone bills and express rates. Our denominational work is constant, daily. It cannot be carried on by spasmodic jerks; we cannot possibly sustain our denom inational enterprises hy offering in alternate years. We might as well recall our, missionaries, /as toT fail them for a single year. They need promptly, month by month, their sacrificially small salaries, in fact our work cannot suffer retrench ment. We must back up, and st*ength5n>( <lU jour. investments, lose them. A gain made but not held, becomes a loss. For our encourage ment let us remember, that though we have suffered from short crops and low prices, our burdens are not relatively greater than those of our brethren of other states. Compared with multiplied millie^-., of people in Continental Europe, and in Asia, we Baptists of South Carolina are still relatively- comfortably situated. We are not starving, we are not suffer ing for clothes, and I confess with a feeling of awe- that I do not be lieve we can yet plead "hard times" as am excuse to the Lord for failing to ' redeem pledges triumphantly made two years ago. Finally- if a. candid appreciation of our blessings does not impel us to give gratefully to the Lord, a prayerful study of His promises should inspire us to give sacrificially out of our limited means. Read and read again the third chapter of Malachi, and see if a God who challenges us to test him, does not offer the age-old remedy for hard times, hoth financially and .spiritually. If conditions are hard, with us, may they not be signs of blessings withheld until we do our part. If we believe him can vv. for a moment doubt that when with chari table hearts we give to Him our store He will return to us out of His bounty and abundance, that will crush us into humble amazement at its undeserved richness. I am afraid that the need is more acute than we realize. Our resources in spite of temporary depression, if loyally and trustfully considered are still ad equate to the needs. Let the re-' collections of the blessings we have enjoyed in the past; the great oppor tunities of the present, and the tre mendous possibilities of .the future inspire us to greater zeal and ser vice to the Lord, who has given us all these blessings. His promises are sure and steadfast, let loyalty and trust control us in this emergency and all will be well. 0. Sheppard. Moderator. Edgefield, S. C., Card of Thanks. To the relatives and Friends of Mr. H. W. Jackson: We take this opportunity to thank our friends and relatives in Augusta as well as at home for every deed of kindness shown us during our fath er's illness and ask God's blessing on them all. His Children. -?-: In Regard to Disable Ex-Sc diers of Edgefield County. il^ptie of the greatest proble 'Wich the United States has had facre'since the war ended has be JP&t of adjusting the compensati ?Bch the disabled war vetera Mf e entitled to. The Bureau of/W $?k 'Insurance has had the task |?$fending to this matter and from j.jw?f of the country there has be ?j?ch ' dissatisfaction at the mann j??&vhich the Bureau of War Risk I i'lujahce has dealt with the disabl |5yf|eran. There has been a lot of r< rape and much confusion and t r?gult has been that some f the d: aifed men received adequate co: pehsatioii, while on the other" hai there are thousands who are not r c&Ving what they are-entitled to r eeiye'and there are some cases whe: dj^Wed ex-soldiers are receiving i compensation whatsoever. The Go erarme'nt wants to do the rig t?npg and the confusion ar apparent unjust discrimination is. r doubt due to the vast task which hi confronted thei Bureau in that d< pairtment has had thousands ar thousands of claims to handle an when one takes the fact into consi< exati?n that no matter how ci?se! the rules and regulations of this d< partment may have been followed, : is such a huge task that mistake would have been made had the Bi r?||i';of War Risk. Insurence been hundred per cent efficient as an 01 ganizatio.n and from what I hav heard ano!; seen of its work in cor ne^Boh with the claims of men fror this' County, I feel absolutely no \he? itaiicy in saying that the Bureau o War Risk Insurance has been mis managed .and been absolutely ai organization full of chaos from with in. , Coi. Forbes, the director of th Bureau seems to be, cognizant of th? fact that thousamds of disabled vet erans are not receiving what is thei: due frorry-the hands of the riches an^;most .powerful Government ii ihg 'thc situation Col. Forbes has in augurated what has /been termed i "Clean up Campaign" all over th( United States for the purpose of get ting every disabled man, who is no1 already receiving as much as h( should receive, cared for by ade quate compensation. This clean ur. campaign begins in' South Carolina on August'the 15 and the F?d?ral Board has fixed an itinerary for the "Clean up Squad." s Aiken will be Headquarters foi Edgefield, Saluda, and Aiken coun ties. This Clean up Squad will be in charge of a representative from the Bureau of'War Risk Insurance and will consist of an experienced man from the Bureau, a Doctor to exam ine all claimants, a Red Cro'ss repre sentative and a .representative from the Natational Headquarters of the Legion. The Dr. will have all. facil ities for the filling of all claims with the government. The representative from the Bureau will be supplied with transportation and meal and lodging requests, which will be is sued to ex-service men so that they will have free transportation to re turn to their various homes and so that they may obtain meals and lod ging free, if they care to do so while in Aiken. This Clean Up Squad will be 'in Aiken on August the 31, and if there ^re any ex-soldiers in this county who believe they are entitled to more compensation than they are receiving at present, if they will send their names in, I shall be glad to give them any information in con nection with this matter. From what has come under my personal observation, it is certainly high time for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to put out a Clean up Squad to adjust the claims of ex s?rvice men, not only in those cases where men are disabled and need help, but also in those cases where men of full physical ability are re ceiving more than they deserve. There, are a lot of ex-soldiers of both the white and negro race are ?eceiving under the present system money unjustly, and this should he remedied. On the other hand it is absolutely a disgrace ta our civiliza tion that men from this county who were wounded and gassed on the fields of France are dependent on others because their Government, that they fought and bled for has not yet made adequate compensa tion for them. But from the propaganda that I . r '' '-' ; . ? , ' have received from 'time +o time I believe that the Bureau of War Risk Insurance has at last hit on the right plan toward- getting the sit uation cleared up. If these ex-ser vice men who should receive more compensation will take the matter up with the Clean Up Squad at Aiken it will no doubt be beneficial to them. . Claud T. Burnett. Commander of American .Legion ?; Post of Edgefield County. Restoring a Respect for the Law. John A. Boykin, Solicitor General Atlanta Judicial . Circuit, in the last issue of the Christian Index, has the following timely and forceful appeal for the return of a proper respect for law. He says: "Laws cannot be enforced without ari aroused moral sentiment behind them. This applies to any law. Laws are not invented, tout grow out of circumstances, that justify and often times demand their enactment. It is the public demand that creates laws. It requires a-powerful public demand to enact any good law. If the same force that demands and creates a law will back- it up, then it will generally be obeyed. But if those who cause the enactment of laws retire or rath er rest upon their oars and leave its enforcement to those who are indif ferent, su?h laws will not be enforc ed. The friends of a law must see to it that those who are charged with the duty of its enforcement do not fail to, discharge such duty. "Neither the enemies nor those in different to a law's observance can be relied upon to do this. The senti ment that creates laws must stand behind them and hold up the hands of those officers who fearlessly dis charge their duty. It is too often true that men who are fe?rless in the dis charge of their duty are defeated when they come up for re-election, because the enemies of the law or ganize, register and vote; while those who stand for. law. and order too ofr and well-meaning citizens to the fate of those public officials who dare to do their duty, -and in so doing incur the displeasure of the lawless, who, aided and abetted by corrupt politi cians, often encompass their defeat. "When public officers feel sure of approval and support they will re spond to duty more willingly. The public conscience should so support and uphold those public officials who, stand by the cause of good govern-' ment, righteousness and ]{?w en forcement that they would not be timid and afraid. The thing for the people to do is to make it popular for office holders to stand ort the side of good people, law and order. It has been stated that "law is the embodi ment of the moral Sentiment of the people." It naturally follows that the greater this moral sentiment the greater will be the observance of the law. "We need in this period of utter lawlessness a rebirth of respect for the law. The church is the moral force that must restore this respect for the law. When we fully realize how much law means to the individual and to civilization itself, and when we come to look upon law as the great Clar endon did as "the standard and guard ian of our liberty" then indeed will w ehave that rebirth of respect for the law that we now so sorely need.' -Augusta Chronicle. Should Drink Quart of Milk Daily. * Boston, Aug 10.-Milk is rich in vitamines, says Dr. M. J. Roseneau, professor of preventive medicine at Harvard, in an original article just published. Furthermore, he says that milk is rich in calcium in a readily available form-and that children need five times as much calcium per pound of body weights as adults. "In order to supply this important salt to growing bones and developing teeth, as well as to furnishing vita mines for the utilization of food," says the article, "a child should drink a quart of milk a day. It will not then suffer from a deficiency disease. Our health, as well as our power to utilize food, depends upon the daily intake j of these vitamines. Life itself is threatened by deprivation of them for any length of time. Hence, the vitamine problem is of daily and uni versal interest to all persons.' Bores OM Sores, Otfiei ?emeifles Won't Ctn* rh e worst cases, no matter cf how loop standing are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dt, Porter's Antiseptic Heuling* Oil. It relieve* *^ cad Beate at the ?asirtisc. 25c.5Qc.aL0? \ Cooperative Extension Work In Agriculture and Home Economics. To The Legislative Delegation Of Edgefield county: In checking up on the weekly re port of your County Agent, Mr. A. B. Carwile, I find that he made 83 visits to farmers in* various' sections of the county and traveled 1021 miles in the interest -of demonstra tion work. Assistance was given with 8 meetings with a .total attend ance of 870 people. Two articles on timely agricultural subjects were published, 8328 circulars mailed out to interested farmers. The month has been free from live stock diseases. No calls for assistance for cholera among hogs and black leg among cattle. Edgefield is one of che few counties where there has not been some out break during the month of July. 87. men called at Mr. Carwile's of fice to consult him on their prob lems. 88 letters were written and 49 bulletins mailed in response, to in quiries. 9 Specialists and administra tion agents from the college visited the county and gave assistance in marketing cotton and tomatoes, boll weevil control, budding of pecans and. soil building. Mr. Winters was with Mr. Car wile at Trenton, Meriwether, and Johnston meetings where soil fer tility and fertilizers, were discussed Arrangements were made by Mr. Car wile to have a commercial pecan bud der come into the county and do bud ding work for the owners and com mercial growers. * Assistance was given farmers a round Johnnston in organizing a new ' Farmers' Club at that point. A delegation of represenatiye far mers and business/men was directed to the Blackville meeting where the cooperative marketing of truck crops was discussed and a temporary or ganization formed. In company --with-' farmers Mr.. <<5??wile-..niade~visite-ta Greenwood,:. Abbeville and Augusta in the inter est of marketing tomatoes. The cot ton grading work has been arranged for another year and the services of Mr. Bramlett secured to fill the place vacated by Mr.-Gordan. Mr. Schmolke, specialist in dairy ing, spent Some time with Mr. Car wile making a study of the dairying situation around Johnson and an ef fort made to see if a commercial creamery should be established some where in the Ridge section. One of the most interesting pieces of work was that in the connection of the State Board of Health and the County Superintendent of Edu cation. Six meetings were held and a moving picture shown on typhoid fever and tuberculosis control. These meetings were attended by 700 peo ple. Criticism and suggestions for the development for efficient County Agent work in Edgefield County are most cordially invited. Very truly yours,. , District Agent Aiken, August 10, 1921. Saluda Adds Inspection Officer H. G. Crouch, clerk of the Saluda county board, yesterday wrote L, H. Thomas, secretary of the state high way commission, that a special in spector had been added to the coun ty's forces to look after the violations of the automobile license and other laws and that the* first two days the inspector was at work he rounded up 50 machines that were violating the law. A. T. Davis is the inspector, Mr Crouch says, and, according to his letter Mr. Davis lost little time in. making his hop after the violators. The inspector will work with the sheriff's office and the state highway department, but will be paid by the county. All money collected from the sale of licenses will be divided, 80: per cent to Saluda county and 20 per cent to the state, while all fines, go to the county treasury. -Secretary Thomas said yesterday that the department was well pleased with the efforts being made by Sa luda county.-The State. Attention farmers: If you need a tractor, now is the time to buy. We will accept Liberty Bonds in pay ment, making it easy for you. to buy the machine you most need op your farm. Yonce and Mooney.