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CAN EASILY REDUCE
< HIGH LIVING COSTS
Prices Will Come Down When Everyone
Putt Shoulder to Wheel and
Increase* Volume of ProductIM.
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"Past history has proved Quite conclusively
that you can no more legislate
the cost of lin*g up and down
than you can stop the tide by build
teg a sea wail/' says Roger W. Bab-!
boo, national expert in finance. "The
basic economic law of supply and dei
mand always has and always will de;
tannine prices," he declres, "in spite
of articifioial restrictions which may
seem to interfere temporarily."
"When demand exceeds supply,
. prices are bound to rise. With three j
hungry men with 'one loaf of bread, j
< , but one thing oan happen. When sup- j
ply exceeds demand the reverse is
true. Three loaves of bread to one !
man bring prices tumbling down.
"The real oause for the present high
tevel prices is apparent when you;
realise that the United States is ex'
porting at present twice the foodstuffs
that it exported a year ago, and three
to four times the amount exported in
normal years. We are feeding Europe,
what's more we mast continue to feed
- Europe until it gets hack on its own
feet again.
"Their crop of 1919 will help some,
but we must wait until the harvest of;
1920 before tfaey are wholly ind9pend-;
ent of this country. If the general,
public can be educated to an appre-;
elation of the situation as it is, and |
ean be made to see that the well-be- j
Jag cf every one ef us depends upon j
very man producing as ne has never;
produced before, supply can be hi-1
creased to meet and exceed this unI
precedented demand and we shall
weather the storm with everybody
ahead.
"Under the circumstances, it is1
^ore of a r^Vligicu'? question than an
eonomic one. Maximum production
on the part of every individual must
be made a moral issue. ? * De
C* vaOCU uvuiauu lucano uc^icooivu) i
and employment and hard times for
everybody. Increased production will
meet the situation and solve the }>rob-i
Jem."
*But that can only be accomplish-!
ed by every man putting his shoulder
to the wheel, and producing as he
never produced before. * * When;
the majority of the people were made j
to feel that slavery was wrong, It was
abolished. When the majority of the.
people were made to feel that drink- j
tag was wrong and were ashamed to j
be seen going into a swoon, we got;
prohibition
"In the same way, when the people
begin to look down on the man who is ;
? not a producer, or who curtails his j
production, shall strike at the tap j
root of the cost of living problem*. |
We must go on a 'producing campaign'."
The only road to independenea? i
thriftiness and economy.
The power a man puts into saving
measures the power of the man In !
everything he undertakes.
There are 1,440 minutes in every:
ir you use n?e 01 tu?xii w vuj ,
War Savings Stamps, you still have j
1,435 left for other things.
A. quarter saved a day means $91.26
la a y-ar. or more than 3100 if put in
War Savirgs Stamps.
Rain w -n't mnke crops grow unless j
Med ."s in the ground. Interest can't j
make VT-*r Savings Stamps grow unless
y>ur money is in them. Put your
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STAMPS FOLLOWING"!
FUG AROUND WORLD
ThHfl Campaign Goes On Wharavaf
Old Glory Wavas?Chearing News
Comas From Faraway Constantinople.
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AJODg WlUl me men 01 me nai/, i
the War Savings Stamp Is following
the flag round the world. In the
ditezranean squadron, the government
savings securities are as much a part
of the battleships and cruisers that
are aiding in straightening out the
tangled affairs of Asia Minor as the
ammunition hoists.
For American thrift has not stopped
at home. The savings campaign
organized by the Sayings Division o!
the Treasury Department is being carried
out by both officers and men
through War Barings Societies, Thrift
Stamps, War Savings Sfimps and
Treasury Savings Certificates.
A letter Just received by the Sir*
ings Division from Captain David F.
Boyd, commanding XJ. S. S. Olympia
at Constantinople brings the info*
mation that the thrift campaign on
that vessel has been placed in charge
of Lieutenant H. K. Koebig. Captain
Boyd gave as?aranee of the co-operation
of himself and his men in the
work.
PAID FOR FUNERAL I
War Sayings Stamps are as ineritable
as death and taxes, and
they benefit the dead as well as the
liylng.
Recently John Kirkiras died In
Dayton, Ohio. He left no relatives
and two who sought to give him a
proper burial were confronted with
difficulty in financing the funeral.
Kirkiras bad dil*d leaving no ready
cash, and the solicitous friends
were afraid that public charity
would have to be charged with the
burial expenses.
They discovered, however, that
before he died the man had invested
in about $100 of War Saving
Stamps. A trip to the Dayton
postoffice and the observance of
the necessary formalities enabled
them to pay the undertaker's bill.
THE SOBERING BUNDLE
When you have a bunch of boodla
in the bank just up the pike, youll
stand for Yankee Doodle, law and order
and the like. Then no creed of
devastation, sucn as .rvub3ia.ii vuuaws
shriek, will receive your confirmation
?you'll denounce it like a streak.
When a man is broke and busted, with
no package laid away, he *s evermore
disgusted with the laws we all obey.
He would see our courts all leveled,
and the Judges on the rack, and the
plutocrats bedeviled till they gave up
all their stack. Ho would see all things
upended, justice be would render
mute; then his chances would be
splendid to accumulate some loot. I
have seen some agitators stirring up
the people's souls, and they all wore
cast-off gaiters and their pants were
full of holes. And they said their
chains were clanking as they damned
the plutocrat; If tkey'd only do some
banking they would soon get over
that. I have heard the spielers thrift- [
less putting up their weary song; I
havo heard the weak and shiftless saying
everything is wrong.| But the
man who oaves his. money thinks the
Russian creed absurd, and be thinks !
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COUNTY AGENT MJA A.
H. Ward, Darlington <.ou?*.t.y.
With Mr. D. R. Hopkin assistsn<.o,
orders for more than th.ee ea. 'o-! is
of wire fencing- have be :n taker, n
this county.
Mr. W. C. Rogers at Society Hill |
has a twelve-acre field of alfalfa
which is now ready to cut the fifth
time this season. The total yield
per acre will amount to more than
I three tons. A part of the field has
been in alfalfa for seven years ,and
still gives as good yield as ever, j
Mr. A. H. Rogers of this same section
has twelve acres of alfalfa
which is doing well. Another farmer
is planting two acres this fall,
i This demonstrates that alfalfa can be
successfully grown in this section
of the state.
A. B. Carwile, Edgefield County.
During the past week I arranged
five meetings among the farmers
who were interested in more and
better fencing. "Fence out the boll
weevil'' was adopted for a county
slogan. At these meetings no one
came except those who mean bus-!
mess. Among' xne inings we xaiKeu,
were cooperative buying, getting the
very best fences, creosoting posts,
marketing conditions, and establishing
line fences between farms as a;
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neighborhood project. In the Red i
Hill section the farmers are talking
of drawing up contracts to this effect
and having these recorded with
the clerk of court.
T. M. Mills, Newberry County.
I have many demonstrations in
Newberry County showing 50 to 100
per cent, increase in yield of crops
following bur and crimson clover. Mr. j
E. Lt. Sease has a field that has had
bur clover growing on it for 3 years
that will average something like 1 1-2
bales of cotton per acre this year.
Three years ago it did not produce j
more than 3-4 bale per acre. This!
increase is wholly due to bur clover.
W. F. Howell, Lancanstcr County.
As a result of the fencing campaign,
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during the three days devoted to it I
received orders for 21,678 lbs. of
wire fencing representing a cost to
the farmers of $1,017.90. This wire
is to be bought co-operatively and in
car lots. Educationally this cam|
paign will have at least two important
results upon the farm practice
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of the farmers: It will teach them i
a lesson in cooperative buying, and j
it will get them to thinking about |,
diversifying their crops to meet boll
weevil conditions.
S. C. Stribling, Cherokee County
The Chamber of Commerce hcs '
made arrangements to secure daily '
the New York Cotton Market reports.
We are keeping this for the use of the
farmers.
NEAR 3 BILLIONS
BUSHELS OF CORN
i Yrt SuDidv on Farms is Far Below
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That of a Year Ago?Food Supplies
in Sight.
Washington, Nov. 8.?Crop produc- ,
tion estimates issued today by the department
of agriculture in its November
crop reports include:
Corn 2,910,250,000 bushels.
Buckwheat 20,120,000.
Potatoes 352,025,000.
Sweet potatoes 102,946,000.
Tobacco 1,316,553,000 pounds.
Flax seed 9,450,000 bushels.
Pears 13,628,000 bushels.
Apples (total) 144,429,000 bushels. !
Kafirs (six states) 123,343,000 i
bushels.
Cranberries (three states) 546,000 j
bushels. j
' Onions (14 states) 10,784,000 bush- |
els. I
Cabbage (nine states) 388.000.
Sorghum syrup 33,668,000 gallons. f
Clover seed 967,000 bushels.
Peanuts 44,966,000 bushels.
The quality of corn was anonunced
as aa.i per cent compared witn ao.o
last year.
Weight per measured bushel this
year is as follows:
i Wheat 56.3 pounds; oats 31.1 and
barley 45.2.
Stocks of old corn on farms November
1 are estimated at 72,263,000
bushels compared with 114,678,000
j bushels a year ago.
Constipation.
Most laxatives and cathartics afford
only temporary relief and should be
used only for that purpose. When
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you want permanent relief take
Chamberlain's Tablets and be careful
to observe the directions with each
package. These tablets not only
move the bowels, but improve the apI
petite and strengthen the digestion.
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One of the finest constructive activities of the American Red Cross in
the war was Home Service in the United States, the friendly connecting link
between the soldier far from home and his loved ones. This branch of the s ;
work which under the peace program of the Red Cross will be expanded to
benefit all who need the assistance it can provide, is directed by scientifically
trained social workers. Since instituted Home Service has assisted 800,000
soldiers' and sailors' families. This photograph shows one of the innumerable
Home Service information bureaus where service men and their families
could bring their problems for solution.
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