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Kaolin Soon be Great Industry. Kaolin-a derivation of the Chi aiese word Kao-ling meaning a high ridge. How many people in Augusta know what kaolin is composed of, where the bulk of it comes from, or what it is? And further, how many Augusta folks know that the Kaolin mines of Aiken and Richmond counties are the greatest in the world? Yes, it is a fact that what promises to become one of the truly big indus tries of the world is right at Augus ta's door. Some interesting* facts about kao lin were divulged by John D. Twiggs at the weekly Rotary meeting Tues day. Here are some of them- . There is enough kaolin in Aiken ' and Richmond counties to supply the entire world a hundred years. The finest grade of kaolin in the world is found in Aiken and Rich mond counties. The kaolin in these counties con tain from 38 to 44 per cent of alu minum Fortunes have been made in the mining of kaolin. Seventy per cent of the kaolin mined in Aiken and Richmond coun ties is used in making paper. The other 30 per cent is used in pottery, paint, drugs, automobile tires, shoe polish, cosmetics, etc. The revelations of Mr. Twiggs in ?his talk Tuesday were positively amazing:, not a member of the Rotary Club, much less the public at large, being informed as to the quantity and value of kaolin in this section. Plan co Extract the Aluminum From Kaolin. .Experiments are now being made whereby the aluminum in kaolin may be extracted, and this accomplish ment alone will no doubt revolution ize the industry. Mr. Twiggs pointed out that the kaolin in this section is pure white when mined. It is shipped away in some instances in bulk and in sacks while in some cases the local mines pulverize the kaolin before shipment is made. Kaolin, which is nothing more than a white clay substance, can be pulverized finer than wheat flour. By this process about 25 per cent of the clay is lost in the form of a mist substance passing into the air. About 500,000 tons of kaolin are consumed in the United States each year, Mr. Twiggs told the Rotarians. About 50 per cent of this is mined in the United States, the bulk of it coming from mines in Georgia and the Carolinas. There are several mines south of Columbia and others around Macon. In Aiken and Rich mond counties there are six mines. The kaolin as shipped from this sec .tion is of the crude variety, while that in middle Georgia is of the wash type, which means that it must be washed to remove thc. grit that is im 'bedded in it. North Carolina Pottery is Worth Millions. In North Carolina the kaolin is used entirely for pottery. From this is made the rough types of earthen ware as well as the finest grades of china. The value of china products for 1918 was $65,000,000, about four times that of 1908. The bulk of the kaolin that is ship ped into this country comes from E.agiand, according to Mr. Twiggs, and is found in Japan, China, France and Germany. On this country kaolin is found in Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia and the two Carolinas. Mr. Twiggs told of a pottery es tablishment on the edge of Aiken and Edgefield counties by his great .grandfather prior to the civil war. He said this pottery was made to pay at one time, but the business was bank rupted by the war between the states. After the war the mines were bought up by a Mr. McNamee, who operated them with great success, and left an estate valued at several millions of dollars when he died. When the Twiggs' of the '5O's op erated the pottery across the river there was no local market for the ohinaware the mines turned out. The product, though was sold to eas tern houses and then reshipped to Augusta and this section and sold in the same form as when it left the fac tory. Kaolin Beds Around Here of Great , Depth. The kaolin beds in this vicinity are to be found in solid layers o? great depth, Mr. Twiggs pointed out. They were probably washed down into the ' valley millions of years ago, and in this movement the clay caught up' many impurities. For this reason it has to be mined by hand and select ed in order to get absolutely pure kaolin. One big tire concern is now mining kaolin in South Carolina for its own use. Mr. Twiggs also went into the mat ter of making high grade brick from kaolin. He told of a test that he and other? associated with him had made. A burnt brick that sells at $J each was placed in an electric oven along side one of the kaolin bricks. After a period of seven hours the burnt brick broke down under the heat pressure of 3,000 degrees, while the kaolin brick maintained its shape and was intact. The kaolin brick was then put under 4,000 degrees of heat pressure for three hours and was even then unchanged. Aho Used for Making Fine Plate Glass. In addition to the many uses of kaolin, Mr. Twiggs pointed out that high grade plate glass is also made of this clay, and that glass linings use'd in places where heat is severe are also made of kaolin. After his talk Mr. Twiggs passed out among the Rotarians for inspec tion a small brick of kaolin in the form of which it was taken from the mine. The kaolin was pure white. He also exhibited a half-filled jar of pul verized kaolin for the Rotarians to examine. They not only looked it over, but tasted it, and all pronounc ed it "good."-Augusta Herald. Women Students vs. Men. Women's and men's colleges have not up to now attempted to compete with each other in athletic rivalry, owing to the fact that women are considered a weaker sex physically. The time may come when the girls who are fast growing in physical abil ilty may be ' able to cope with the boys in both baseball and football. Already girl swimmers are showing remarkable power. When it comes to the field of men tal ability, women students are fully able to compete with men. Back when women's colleges were first started, people scoffed at the idea that the girls could do equally severe mental work. But they long since found out that the girls were just as good scholars if not better. An instance of women's tendency to assert themselves in competition with men in all activities is seen in the joint debate soon to be held be tween a team of girls from Smith college and a team of boys from Dart mouth. The time has come when the girls can't be kept down. They have confidence in their mental powers and want to test them out in com petition with men. The students of men's colleges have had some tendency to look down on girls' colleges, regarding them as a little inferior. But such claims are like to be attacked. The girls will not be content to be considered oh a lower intellectual par. If the boys claim any mental superiority, they will have to accept such challenges or see their assertions discounted. It will be interesting to see which will come out ahead when such de bates become more common. Women have sometimes been considered in ferior in logic. But they are hard workers and very practical, and would marshal many instances out of actual life to prove their points in such a competition. The boys will have to quit so much football and pretty girl talk and get down to bus iness if they are going to win such debates.-Augusta Herald. Beautiful Pictures at Small Cost. What a glorious thing it would be if it could be said with simple truth that every farm home in the South, no matter how simple, had at least one picture by one of the world's great artists! I don't mean of course that we should buy a picture just be cause it is by a great artist, regard less of whether or not it appeals to us as beautiful. But there are so many wonderful pictures by world famous artists from which we can make a selection, buying only those of which we know that each individ ual picture will be indeed "a thing of beauty and a joy forever" in the home. If you will send 5 cents to the El son Art Publication Co., Belmont, Mass., or 10 cents to the Perry Pic tures Co., Malden, Mass., you will get a catalog containing hundreds of miniature reproductions of famous pictures. With such a catalog, you can then take your time to decide which of these pictures in larger size you would most delight to have; and you will find that you can get these really beautiful and artistic pictures for less than the tawdry, botchy, splotchy daubs of color which travel ing agents and furniture store have so often palmed Dff on the unsuspect ing.-Progressive Farmer. Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. MIMS, Optom etrist-Optician, Edgefield, S. C. Says 5 Million Children Are Starving. Washington, Nov. 2.-Five" mil lion children are starving in the Vol ga basin in Russia and one-half to' two-thirds of the entire population of fifteen million will die before the next harvest, unless far greater re I lief than the charitable organizations I are now able to afford is extended. Five million more children and ten million additional adults in the prov inces surrounding the Volga district" also are in dire straits although not actually facing starvation as yet Asks for Aid. These startling official statements on conditions in famine-stricken Rus sia were made by Secretary Hoover, as chairman of the American Relief Adminsitration to the House Military Affairs Committee today. Secretary Hoover urged that legislation be en acted to turn over to the relief ad minsitration surplus army medicines, surgical and hospital supplies and used blankets, originally values at four million dollars. The committee in executive ses sion, instructed Chairman Kahn to introduce a joint resolution granting the desired authority to the war de partment. The resolution was offered and will be formally reported out by the committee tomorrow, Chairman Kahn stated. "The advocates of this relief legis llation presented the most pathetic ?picture the committee has ever lis tened to," said Mr. Kahn. Disease is Demon. Disease, sweeping over the strick en land, is finding a ready harvest among the millions weakened by the lack of food and is taking an enor mous toll of life, the committee was told. Medicines and hospital supplies are entirely exhausted in most com munities. Fifty per cent of the children in some -sections were declared to be suffering from malaria and quinine is not to be had. Typhus, typhoid fe ver, cholera and smallpox are racing and inevitably will spread to other countries unless means to check the epidemics are provided, Secretary Hoover warned. He said: Danger to America. "The greatest danger to America is lin the spread of Asiatic cholera and luther dread diseases." Secretary Hoover said conditions in Russian Armenia are vitually as had as in the Volga basin, aid will be ex tended in that territory as rapidly as possible, he explained. Vernon Kellogg, one of Mr. Hoov er's chief aides in relief work sinae 1919, who just returned from Russia told the committee the conditions in the stricken district were far worse than he had ever seen in his six years experience among destitute peoples. Cotton Prices Will be Higher. Boston, Nov. 3.-As a result of the present condition of the cotton crop, seriously diminished by the dep redations of the boll- weevil, buyer and consumer must not be surprised if cotton prices are higher, Russell L. B. Lowe of Fitchburg, president of the National Association of Cot ton Manufacturers, told the semi annual convention of that body here tonight. Speaking at a banquet that marked the conclusion of a two day session, Lowe asserted that the wee vil had destroyed more than $200, 000 worth of the crop and that the question of the raw .cotton supply had become serious. "Looking into the future," he said, the general opinion is that the cot ton industry is headed for prosper ity with a shortage of production when demand becomes normal. "The whole textile industry faces too much uncertainty in regard to the purchase of cotton. The price fluctuates to such an extent that the manufacturer can not plan his work nor can the garment manufacturer be certain of any price on which to base his product. There are few in dustries, if any, in which such a spec ulative feature is present." Shipping board efforts to procure for American ships "the carrying of a proper share of our imports of Egyptian cotton" were approved in a resolution adopted. "The possession by the United States of a merchant shipping of its own, rightly proportioned to the strength of other American indus tries, is essential to the security of jj our commerce and vital to the; na tional defense," the r?solution added. American diplomatic representa- ( tives abroad were called upon in oth er resolutions to be watchful "that I there be no improper discrimination | < against the products of the United States by any country." The convention also announced | \ in resolution that in view of the pres ent depressed condition of American industry, abnormally low cost of .pro duction abroad and the foreign ex change situation, it- entertains the "solemn conviction that it is impera tive that there be no further delay in the enactment of an adequate pro tective tariff bill." Prince All note i Talking about roi your own cigarettes, tell you right here Prince Albert tobaccc 'em all lashed to the r You've got a handft happiness coming you rection when you pal it P. 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The tax levies for 1921 are as fol lows: Mills For State purposes_12 For Ordinary County_ll For Past Indebtedness_5 For Constitutional School tax_3 For Antioch _8 For Bacon School District_14 For Blocker _8 For Blocker.Limestone_4 For Colliers _14 For Flat Rock_._8 For Oak Grove_3 For Red Hill_8 For Edgefield _10 For Elmwood No. 8_8 For Elmwood No. 9__2 For Elmwood No. 30 ______2 For Hibler _8 For Elmwood L. C._3 For Harmony _3 For Johnston_15 For Meriwether (Gregg) _2 For Moss_3 For Brunson School_4 For Ropers_2 For Shaw_4 For Sweetwater_T_4 For Talbert._8 For Trenton _14 For Wards _ 8 For Wards No. 33_4 For Blocker R. R. (portion_6 For Elmwood R. (portion_6 For Johnston R. R._."3 For Pickens R. R._3 For Wise R. R. __._3 For Corporation_30% All male citizens between the iges pf 21 and 60 years, except those sxempt by law, are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. All owners of dogs are required to pay the sum of $1.25 for each dog of the age of six months or older. 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