The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 06, 1914, Page 6, Image 6
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I NOW FOR FOOD CROP j
Atlanta Journal.
When the problem of caring tor
this year's cotton crop has bem
solved, there will remain the very
lm?< -rtiiiit task of readjustment and
preparation for the future. Through
government aid and tne loyal co
i I'i'ulio \if is owl. interests, tli**
South no doubt will pass safely
through the present emergency, but
l! it is to escape a recurrence of < 1 iITicullies
j.nil dangers in tlie seasons
a'H'Pu i? must adapt its agricultural
ui?.t!ious to chan\ id oeonoinu
ditlcn: .it must c? .etc to .1
upon a r.nglc crop i i must tu. : ttho?
. roducts fo -v li'ph there is a
varied ri d steady o< v.iand.
Should tiie Kuropean war be prolonged,
the cotton market would
continue to shrink. True, we have
assurance of uu American merchant
marine to carry our material abroad,
and there are indications that Knglish
mills will keep going. Hut in
the most favorable circumstances
to lie expected, the demand for cotton
ii twplvpninntli *i?ll
less than it is today, and still less
in 1!>16, if the war keeps up. This
is no cause for present discouragement,
for the plans to protect the existing
crop are adequate; hut it is
urgent cause for vigorous and farsighted
action. If the South continues
staking its fortune upon cotton,
adding to the supply of a commodity
In the face of a decreasing
demand, it must reap the consequence
of its folly.
Our need for diversified farming
and for the production or more food
stuffs has long been manifest; today
that need is thrust upon us as
a matter of self-preservation. A
few seasons ago The Journal presented
figures showing that Oeorgiu
lacked more than thirty-seven million
dollars annually of making
enough money from its cotton crop
to pay for the food supplies its
people purchased in distant markets.
It has been estimated that
this state spends approximately one
hundred and seventy-two million
dollars a year for corn, oats, hay,
meats and other necessaries, which
could be produced easily and cheaply
at home. These conditions obtain
largely throughout the South.
They ought to have been improved
long ago; they must be improved
now, if we are to escape heavy misfortune.
The European upheaval has
brought warning and opportunity to
many fields of American Interest,
but to none has it brought sharper
warning or richer opportunity than
to the farmers of the South. And
if they profit by the lesson. Southern
agriculture will gain strength
and prosperity beyond measure. The
South heretofore has been like a
giant, endowed with sinews to move
montains and possessing the treasure
of vast kingdoms, yet content
with using but a puny tithe of his
strength and with enjoying a scant
corner of his wealth. The resources
of the South are capable of yielding
food harvests sufficient to supply
its own needs and those of the entire
Union besides: thev an. ?.i?
of producing enough moat and
beef to create a new national industry;
they can furnish tin- material
and motive power for more factories
than New Kngland ever built or
imagined. A land so wondrously
gifted cannot afford to enslave its
thought and energy to a single field
of interest which is so beset with
uncertainties as is that of cotton.
An expert in the national department
of agriculture ha^ said, after
thorough investigation, that in tie
Atlantic and (lull states m the
South there is land enough and climate
sufficiently favorable to produce
the vegetable and fruit supplies
required by mani time.' the
present population of tin- entir
country "Lack of suitable lands,"
be declares, "is eliininat< d for manv
generations, and further development
waits only upon the solution
of eeonomieal problems, not tipon
the discovery of vuit.nhlc oils."
Kxperts in the federal bureau of
animal industries declare Ifhat the
South is exreptlonally well /suited to
euttlo raising; and soin/ students
believe that this is the only section !
of the country on which the nation
may count for its future beef sup-i
ply Certain it is that live stock of!
nearly all kinds can be raised most
cheaply in the mild, equable climate
of the South. The Southern states
have thousands of acres which are
not needed for agriculture and
which can be profitably used as cat- j
tie ranges. They have direct and
comparatively short routes of shipping
to the great eastern markets,
fly every natural circumstance, the j
South should become a national
center of beef production.
Blest with these rich and varied
resources, the South should regard |
the necessity of reducing its cotton
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acreage, not as a hardship, but as a i
I piece of excellent fortune. Under
the changes now forced upon us, our
agricultural energies will And a
wider range and more substantial
rewards. Happily, too, the trend j
toward diversified farming has already
begun. We can go forward
with the new order, not as an ex- j
periment but as a well proved op-1
portunlty. In Georgia, for example,
the average acre yield of corn has i
notably increased within the last
few years. The value of Georgia's
corn crop for ibid was lifty-seven
million, three hundred end llfty-one
thousand dollars as compared with
forty-live million, eight hundred and
sixty-four thousand dollars in lb 12.
In the same time, the value of its
wheat crop advanced from a million,
four hundred thousand to two mil-I
.ion and lifty thousand; its Irish
potato crop, from etgfit hundred and
fourteen thousand to a million and
twenty-one thousand; and the value
of its hay and oat yield Increased :
approximately a million each. (Seor- ,
gia truck farms have steadily grown !
in number and prosperity during the 1
last few years. Fresh vegetables
from this state are now found in ,
large quantities in ea&tern markets. |
Ity no means are we yet producing '
tlie volume or the variety of food j
stuffs we should, but the right tendency
has begun so that our agricul-,
tural interests ean adjust themselves
without great difficulty to the
extraordinary conditions brought on
by the European war.
That this adjustment must lw ef- |
fected, if the South is to avert serious
danger in the future, no one
will deny. The protection of tin
cotton market itself demands that
'less cotton and more fond stuffs be i
produced. There *re cheerinp
omens that the South w ill meet these
conditions with wgor and foresight.
The Georgia Chamber of
Commerce is now arranging for a
Southeastern Food-Crops Conference
at w hich agricultural and '
business leaders from this and
neighboring states will organize a
broad campaign to increase the production
of food supplies. Similar
movements are being planned by
other agencies; and before another J
year has fairly begun, we may hope, 1
the South will have turned to a new I
era of resourcefulness nmi in,u.?>?>?_
dence in its agricultural affairs.
Rising Generation.
For one. I like to believe that the
young people of the coming generation
are not less able or less earnest,
not less willing or leas devoted, than
those of our own young dayH. Those
men in buckrain whom we boast of
having fought, were they indeed so
much more formidable than the giants
in the path of the youth of today?
Were we never "cowards on instinct."
pluming ourselves on our "discretion?"
I feel that we, thA talking generation.
might suffer in comparison
with the youth of today, did not our
memories so often play us false. Certainly
not all of us have achieved even
honesty and courtesy and common human
kindness. Did we all once have
learning and wit and zeal? Where
are our zeal and wit and learning
now9 A r?. ' J 1
. ..u. owun Uliu UltUglMCrH HO
much our inferiors* No, by my halldom!
And we know it! ? Punnio H.
EckBtorm. in th?? Atlantic.
Chinese Market Expanding.
Now that the Chinese in many
provinces are adopting foreign -dress,
foreign food and foreign style houses
they are demanding a larger quantity
of foreign merchandise. The sale of
foreign clothing, shoes, hatH and jew
i? rapiuiy increasing Foreignmade
furniture also is coming more
and more into use, and while a great
deal of it is being made in China there
is a growing demand for foreign locks
and hardware of all descriptions. A
considerable increase is noticed in the
consumption of foreign food and
canned provisions are enjoying a
wider snlo. Fore Inn food is displacing
Chinese food to such an extent
that a local guild of Chungking which (
formerly made huge profits by sellllig |
sharks' fins and other Chinese delicacies
has suffered heavily of late
on account of tin growing preference
for foreign food.
Bird Pocketed the Diamond. I
AX tile Pittsburgh poultry show the I
other day a Madagascar crano sud> .
denly changed fts own valuation from <
$3A0 to $1?00. The crane, the property <
of Willium Cook & Sons, of Orpington.
Kngland. snatched a diamond
?uio rrom uui nocJiUe of P. A. Cook,
who was In charge of the Cook exhibit,
and hefore it could bo interfered
with awaJ lowed the JoweL
The crane la an especial pet of Mr.
Cook. Whenever he passes near the
bird seems to recognize him and in- '
sists on being made much of.
Shortly after noon, Cook, while 1
passing the lake, stopped to speak 1
with the secretary of the poultry ex- 1
hibltlon. The crane, Ignored, set up
a terrific racket and began pecking 1
at Cook's coat front. Then, before 1
it could be restrained, it grabbed the 1
stud, tearing '.t from the necktie and
swallowing it. 1
The bird Is valued at $300 and the
diamond at $200.
T11K LAXrASTKR NKW
I'hoto by American Pre.se Assocl&tlc
Kaiser After ^
This striking photograph of the w
Just nfter the kaiser had concluded a
his war board. The photographer cau
his automobile.
Poor Rich Man.
Ho wouldn't give the tramp a dime
Ho said ho didn't have tho tituo t<
linger by tho way and note the trou
bios of a follow goat. This might)
man had so much pelf thut if he tool
it frntn tho shelf to count tho'dollars
dne by one, hia lingers, ero tho tnsfc
was done, with corns and blister*
would bo decked His eonstitutior
would bo wrecked. He had to rise al
break of day to get hia business un
der way. IIo had to hustle to keef
tab on all there was that he couhl
grab. A tiny share of generous blist
was all ho did not fear to miss. Hit
breakfast was a soggy bun. He atr
his luncheon on the run. He nevei
really seemed to feel ho had a right tc
one square meal. He would sit down
and sign his name until his good right
arm grew lame. He had a wondrou*
wad of wealth, but It was Injuring his
health The tramp observed him with
regret. Extremes In these two per
sons met?a man with riches at hla
call; a man who had no coin at all
Ho couldn't give the tramp a dime
Ho truly didn't have the time.?
"Philander Johnson," in Kansas City
Star.
True Story.
"The hat is very becoming to you,"
declared the salesman in one of the
liroadway stores.
"I'm not sure. 1 can't maJie up my
mind," says the custonfof, studying
the mirror.
"Oh, but it Is. It suits your face
exactly. You have a face, if you will
jjuiuun me mr sayipg so, mat calls
for hats of a stylo few can wear. Now,
put that hat on anybody else, and
they wouldn't wear It with the distinction
you will."
"But Isn't It too wide?"
"No, indeed. With U straight, finely
chiseled nose like yours, and with your
eyes you can wear a w ide hat. That's
the very hat for you."
"Hut it isn't like the other hats."
"That's just it. If any one of a hundred
others could wear that hat as
you can they would be delighted. It
isn't everybody whose fuco is of the
exact typo for this hat. You'll take
It? Thank you."
No, gentle reader. This 1h not another
low down fling at women and
their senseless subservience to fashion.
This is a verbatim report of the
sale of a new hat to a man.
Japanese Titular Honors.
Ttiur,. am ,1...1- ?-_
? MVIV Uio umii wr^irrn ill nitooese
peerage marqAin, count, viscount
and baron. AdmlsHlon to the
last degree at the present tlrae costs
About $500,000 and to the next another
$250,000 Only the son of a baron or
viscount can he raised to the higher
degrees of the peerage. A commer
clal aristocracy has thus arisen In
Japan My many of the old feudal
lords the new aristocracy Is detested
but the commercial aristocracy In
Japan have become economically the
domiriwnt class, and with their development
the old aristocracy are ultimately
boifnd to disappear.
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Frugality.
The daughter of a HouUnTn ootvgr?;HHinan
had recently been a brides
maid at the marriage of a ooilfge
chum. On her return home she was
telling the family including the old
colored mammy, of tho ceremony.
"And just thilk. Aunt Comfort,"
the finished, "th^ bride wore the lace
veil that had belonged to her great
grandmother!"
"Law, Mi kb Sidney, chile," exclaimed
mammy, in tones of horror,
'that sholy am one aarlng fambly!"?
Judge.
S. OCTOBER (>, 1914.
?n.
IVar Conference
nr lord of Europe wns taken In Berlin
talk on war plans with the member* of
glit the kaiser a. he was about to cuter
I itnilrl Defeated by fieorgin, 12J-0.
Athens, (2a.. Oct. .1.- lTnlverslty
) of Ceorgiu won the tirst important
football pa ill e of the season here,
f
t hatnmeriuK through the stubborn
. < itadel defense for 1 points while
' their goal line was not erossed. The
i
, strength of the visiting team was an
expected, ana meir line neid well,
particularly near their goal line, i
Captain Folger bore the brunt of the
work for the Citadel and played a
spectacular game. The offense of
I oth teams was about equally of
open and close formations.
Suffered Twenty One Years!
?Finally Found Relief
Having suffered for twenty-one
years w Ith a pain in my side. I
finally have found relief In I)r. Kil- |
mer's Swamp-Hoot. Injections of
morphine were my only relief for
short periods of time. I became so
sick that 1 had to undergo a surgical
operation In New Orleans,
which benefited me for two years. When
the same pain came back one
day I was so sick that I gave up
hopes of. living. A friend advised
me to try your Swamp-Hoot and I
at once commenced using it. The
first bottle did me so much good
that I purchased two more bottles.
I am now on my second bottle and am
feeling like a new woman. I !
Ii:iuu<wt irr-. . ,.l 1 -
,? na u vi on/nr an Mil ?.H <1
red bean and several small ones. I
have not had the least feeling or
pain since taking your Swamp-Root
and I fo *1 it my duty to recommend
this great medicine to all suffering
humanity. Gratefully yours,
MRS. .IOSK Pll CONSTABLK.
Rapides I'ar. Kcho, La.
Personally appeared before me,
this lath day of July. 1 !> 1 1, Mrs.
Joseph Constable, who subscribed
the above statement and made oath
that the same is true in substance
and in fact.
VVm Morrow, Notary Public.
I/Otter to
|)r. Kilmer A Co.
Itinglitimton, \. V.
I i
I'roxe W hat Sw nm|>-l(oot Will Do
For You.
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer A.Co.,
Minghamton, N. Y., for a sample
size hot tie. It will convince
anyone. You will also receive a
booklet of valuable Information,
telling about the kidneys and bladder.
When writing, be sure and
mention the Lancaster Sentl-Weekly
News. Regular fifty-cent and onedollar
size bottles for sule at all
drug stores.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
"Premier Currier of tli? South."
I'ASSKNCKK TRAIN SCHKDULLB. ,
Trains arrive Lancaster from:
S(j. 118?Yorkville, Rock 11111 and
intermediate stations 8:31 a. in.
No. 1 13 -Charleston. Columbia and
intermedial stations In: 0 6
a. m.
No 114 Marion, lilacksburg, Charlotte
and intermediate stations,
1:35 p. m.
No. 117?Columbia, Kingsville a.id
intermediate station*, 7:48 p. m.
Trains leave Lancaster for:
No. 118?KingsviHe, Columbia and
intermediate stations, 8:31 a. m.
No. 113- Rock Hill, Rlacksburg,
Marlon, Charlotte and Intermediate
stations, 10:05 a. m.
No. 114 Kingsvillo, Columbia.
Charleston and intermediate
stations 1:35 p. in. ,
No. 117- Rock Hill, Yorkv'.llo and
Intermediate static..7:48
p. m.
N. B. Schedule figures are published
as Informa. .n only and nre
not guaranteed. For Information as
to passenger fares, ete., call on
W. B. CAUTHEN, Agent.
W. B. MeGEE. A. O. P. A.,
Columbia, S. C.
W. H. CAFFEY, D. P. A., ,
Charleston, 8. C.
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Don't Overlook It ,
The PONY Contest^is nearly half out and HE who
works will be sure t<) win. The DOLLAR spent with us
gets the VOTES./ If you pay account. CALL FOR
VOTES. If you jf>end the CASH, CALL FOR VOTES.
we imiKe no tut thence in prices. Our prices are the
LOWEST that QUATTtTV^will afford.
We have SEEDS of all Winds and now is the time to
sow Crimson Clover, Vetera Rye and Grasses.
New goods of the seasof are coming in, Quaker Oats,
Olives, Cheese. Macaroni, |New Syrups, etc.
Bennett-1 erry Co.
Don't forget the NEW WHITE SEWING MACHINE.
We Have It.
Fresh Cocoanuts
Celery?Cranberries
Silver Sliced ) each
Pound Cakef
Chocolate ckke ) 10c
Fresh shipmeht twice each week
17 J, 1~ VP_ U x
juuwai us uc i iunun
Get your coal (rom us before the weather
turns cold. We sell brick and shingles also 4
For Results?Try a News Ad.
Have You Seen Florence? I
If not, waste no time. She is very beautiful. ^
Take her into four home, she will give you cointort,
keep your cool, and the cheapest cook you can
find, you caniW, afford to be without her. Automatic,
valveless aiVl wickless. The Florence Oil
Stove is one of thJ wonders of the world. Guaranteed
to cost yon less money, give out less heat,
and to give you less tr >uble than any stove made.
My guarantee behind every one sold. And just
to think, you don't l^ive to go in that old hot
Vitclinn wlmn u/m Iiotta ? -i' 1
? tv, ? xificuuc, uuiLiier ao you
have to wait on the fire to start as you get the heat y'
you want at once, saving that fuel and that heat
to stand while you are waiting on the other stove
to gat hot. Come and investigate, it won't cost
you anything to see for yourself.
J. B. Mackorell