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Mil J, WKliFAHK WORK IMPORTANT MOVEMKN <Written for The Rock Hill Recon by Miss Mary E. Frayser, Stati Agent for Mill Community Work. Tou ask what has been done fo' heme and community betterment ii t^ mill villages of South Carolina Much that is fine is going forward Citizens of greater opportunity havi ?ome to see that opportunities mus "be made for citizens of lesser oppor tunity if the average level of citizen ship in South Carolina is to be rais ed. There is responsiveness all aloiu the line which ii is good to see. There is an experiment being trie< out in South Carolina which is uni que. The United States depart men of agriculture has set aside a smal portion of the Smith-Lever fund foi use in stimulating mill village com Ttiunity work. This work is a par of the extension service of Winthroj College, co-operating with Clemsot College and the United States depart ment of agriculture. This fund is used to stimulate th wo k in mill communities hy olYerinc oue hundred dollars toward the salary of a local agent in a given mm xnuuity. The rest of the sum necessary to pay for her services is raised. Usually the mill president bears the expense of the salary of the worker, i the cost of maintenance of the work, all but the above referred to. In one single instance the mill operatives have formed an or jrv Ization and contribute their due1-' towards a portion of the salary ot their worker. This is the ideal way -.it: t we hope ere long to have every mill village do likewise. The work in the village takes the following lines: Instruction in cook cm and sewing for children, the girls who work in the mills and grown women: this instruction includes teaching how to cook foods commonly katen: what foods are best for us, and why: the cost of foods in time and money, and the cost of garments made, from the same standpoint. \\> intend that this work shall play n< small part in vanquishing pelitgra from the mill villages in South Caro 1 i II n n to ht?1n tVio follro - spenddig. ami be a factor in brine injr to pass better health conditions In every instance the mill presi dent gives quarters for the work for much of it must he done indoors and :n every instance he also give? ground to be used as a playground Now usually it is a mill cottage whict is ->et apart, for the community cen ter and, if possible, it is the geog raphical center of the community, a: well as the spiritual one. In evert instance the mil! cottage is remodel ed to suit the work which is to gr forward. Usually it is a four-roon cottage. The partition is taken ou in **\e side between the front ant back rooms, and this large room i; fitted up for in-door games, with ta hies and chairs and window seats and parchesi and croeonole hoards dominoes, etc. The young folks takt to these games as ducks do to water Th's room is usod for club meeting? .also The colors for the walls of tho co* Inge -up chose?) with cave. l,o\"'?'} coi'fs {n paints cost no more thai <3rude ugly oaes. TI?o front room on the other sic ?f the cottage is used for a readinr too ill. It has its hook tables wit' magazines, and built-in hook shelves Usually some, books are given by th? company, and after the work is start cd. others are contributed by variouentertalnments by the folks tnein selves. , T o bach room is the hub o! 'hi building, for it is the kitchen, and a v.ell-eqnipped kitchen is a joy to all ages and sizes. In it Is a built-in kitchen cabinet, which any one of the husbands in the community can copy. In it is its tireless cooker and Ice'.ess refrigerator, its zinc-covered lab!' and sensible equipment In the xiuall things which may be brought tiom the five and ten cent store, vliris and women surely enjoy the work done in the kitchen and the to -n and boys enjo> the results of ft p wo^k done there and all profit by It. ' . The playground surrounds the community renter building if conditions are ideal. Much that is fine receives an impetus from the playground work. Folks ran not play on the volley bail team together without being healthier and that leads to iteing wealthier. They can not have a good game together out of doors When Croup Comes Treed. Externally The old method of dosing delicate little -stomachs with nauseous drugs is wrong andcharioful. Try the external treatment ?Tick's "Vsp-O-Kub" Salvo. Just rut) a tittle over the throat and chest. The vapors, released by the body heat, loosen the choking phlegm And ease the difficult breathing. A bedtime application insures sound sleep. 2r?c, oOc, or $1.00. wks^smm 1 without having the team spirit der.veloped, and when the team spirit gets going many things are possible! I which, without it. are impossible ot ? realization. > The agent for community work visits the sick and gives instruction r in home nursing. She is the friend ) and neighbor of every one in the vil. lago; she works with tlie village . folks, not for them. She helps them ; f* to utilize their leisure for improve- i t raent. Show me how a man or wo-j - man. boy or girl, invests their leisure, -'and I will tell you what sort of man - or woman, boy or girl, they are. : If there is no night school in the community, the local agejit co-oper-1 i ates with the school authorities to1 - open one and teaches in it two nights t a week for six months in the year. 1( During the'time she teaches she is r amenable to the constituted school - authorities. If there is a nighf'J I t school she does her part in increasing' | > its enrollment. The community agent i can tell you just how many children - there are in her village who should be in the day school, but are not. She knows, too. the number eligi, bio for night school. She knows who is sick and ministers unto them.! Above all things the community agent in a mill village is a "promo-j tor"?a promoter of activities which . are worth while and an inducer of the "get-together" spirit." Rome of the mill presidents are good social workers themselves. Many of them are ready to Invest in community work: they consider it good business as well as philanthropy. for the work outlined helps ' to make the mill village a good placrto live in. and therefore helps the mill management to secure and re-; tain efficient. high-class operatives. In every community the people themselves man their communities fot the various activities. They grow to oe move seit-reiianl as time poos on.! The people are availing themselves of the doors ot opportunity, whicn are opened to them. The result win ( he an increase in the health, intellT , genre, efficiency and spirituality o4 ( one-fifth of the white people of South ( Carolina. THJK lit M.I. WKEVIh SCARE. The newspapers, daily and weekly of the State, have certainly got folks' ' scared oft on the subject of the boll ] weevil. So effective- has the scare he- , come that some land owners are will4 ing to sell farm lands for less than ithey could have received two years 1 ago and some few folks who have 'jmoney loaned on farms are talking i about wanting to call in their loans or. account of the boll weevil, basing ' their action on the ground that the. value of the land will fall below the > face of the loan when the pest comes. I All of which is some ways if very I good. We like to see our farmers stirred tip. Anything in the world that makes them realize that there is something more to farming than planting cotton is worth while. The I hell weevil may not be an unmixed evil. , But. our good friends must not, lose their heads. When you an to r.ivinc away your land, it shows you | . are not worthy of your land. Over one thousand years ago this old proverb came into being: "Keep your land and your land will keep , you." It is as true now as it was j , then, as it hud been a thousand years' before that and as it will be a thou- gr . sand years from now and then some, jilt A man of sense, energy and deter-.an . mination simply cannot be starved to] death on a piece of land which he de owns. He may have to live a preea- U u . rious sort of bfe, may lack finej,.ej clothes, an automobile and several jS other things, but he can live and he jnl cc- do better if he only will. no "j Remember this: There are mil- of lions of acres of farming land in ed these Cnited States, the owners of br ! whirh never saw a cotton stalk 'n'co ^their lives and yet these farm lands u(l j sell for from one hundred to two ev hundred dollars the acre. 'tu The boll weevil is had. And cotton | is our money crop, no mistake about (pn that. We ran do better with cotton an Ithan with anything else in this sec-lth tion as well as the South as a whole, j(!a but it is not all. People h ive to be pa fed before they are clothed. They w< have been ever since Adam and they (>u iwil 1 be till Clabriel blows his horn. g, Get ready for the holl weevil. IIe ()| 1? coming. He is cominc to Green- ca |wood county as sure as fate. He will mj 11appear here possibly the last of next Hh 1 year, though a full crop will probably be made. He will be worse the 11' year after, 1918, and the crop will he hurt hadly and by 1919 he will be fi(1 a* bad here as he will ever he. n( 1 So you have ample time. You know on what is coming and you know how pJ) Ito prepare against it. I)o it now. j ( But for heaven's sake do not give hf| away your land!?Greenwood In nu To Cure Cold In One D?y Take LAXATIVR BROMO Quinine It stops the 1 U Cough and Headache and works off the Cold, 'gi' ' Drueglils refund money if it fails to cure. I , K. V/. OKOVK'8 aiguature on each box. 25c. ah J 'HE I?ANCASTER NEWS FRIDAY, DEC. 1,1916. CHRIST PI 111 i i ? onouia be planned with the same pr? other requirement. A few suggestions, at No. 1. Order a suit or overcoat for yourself, paj and have your Father, Son, Brother, Uncle, Cousin ured for a pair of pants the value of which range frc No. 2. Have your husband measured for a suit or tra pair of pants or order the extra pair of pants fo: mas Gift. No. 3. Give your employee an order on us for a with every puit or overcoat ordered an extra pair made of the same cloth or grade, upon the paymei lional. Have others measured for for these pants mas Gift. No. 4. Give the suit and extra pair pants to one him the cost of two suits. No. 5. Be just to yourself and sec to it that you a with clothes for the Christmas and New Year Holid Parties giving us more than one order, their own Christmas clothes v/ill be given a 5 per cent discoii raent. Each suit or overcoat carries with it an ex for $2.00 additional. Value of these pants are from $6.50 to $13.50 a p nnirrc r mtit ^ ?1 ^ riuita lor dull VT "I \J II f \ or OVERCOAF <|) 1 D J U Fit, Workmanship and Durability of 1 Guaranteed We Have no Dissatisfied We Please You, And Keep You Pleased, No Matter W PLACE THE ORDER NO Every Order Given us From Today Until December 1 Remember, That Novelties And Knick Knacks Carr ; Our suggestions are practical, last and money ; you are assured of receiving better values fron because we are Wholesale Tailors Selling Din agjwggfo IHttOLl | 2nd Door Frc ^ ~ : Agricultural Appropriations. I Mr. Lever is the man who might |>e I jtendered the portfolio. It would by! The Charlotte. .V C., Observer, no means give him any more of ai ows very enthusiastic about Dr. jposition of usefulness, but some peo jusion. secretary of agriculture, pie seem to think that cabinet posi ! il says: ' tions are more to be desired than "No man ever held that chair un-'P>a<'?'S in congress. We endorse the r whose administration the agri-. remainder of the Observer's compliitural interests of the country re- "tent to Secretary Houston.?ColumIved so great an impetus. Houston i''a Record. an ideal secretary. When he wentl Lo office lie found that the govern->TO ASK AMKNDMK.N'T ?nt appropriations for the benefit OF LAW ON L1KXS the agricultural interests amount-1 to $24,000,000. Houston has Address lo Legislature is Prepared ought up the appropriations to the , u ... .. _ _ . by Hummervilie Man, J. J. mfortable sum of more than $36.10,000, and he has been making Contey. ( ery dollar ol it give a good ie- Columbia, Nov. 29.?Passage of rn- bills which would give every landWe think the Observer has full op- lord leasing land for agricultural rtunity to inform itself of the facts purposes a prior and preferred lien d is merely carried away by its on- j to the extent of all crops raised on usiasm for a North Carolinian who the land by the tenant or other perme to South Carolina to be pre- son, and also a lien to the landlord red to be a ereat man In Iha ?- ?n '? ' - - - ? v..v wu ai? nutu crupu iur Huvances maae >rld. The tacts are that the agri-jby the landlord or his assigns to such ltural appropriation hill for the persons, neither of which liens need eater part was the individual work be in writing, is advocated In and adCongressman Lever of South dress prepared by J. J. Cantey ol irolina, chairman of the house com- Summerville on behalf of farmers of Ittee on agriculture, and the credit that community. Mr. Cantey directs ould not be taken from him. his address to the members of the If It were a mere political honor. South Carolina general assembly ic Record would not waste time to Luring the 1916 session these proing this to the attention of the Ob- posed bills were introduced at Mr. rver, but so many congressmen are Cantey's request by Senator Charlton "rely ornamental that when we get DuRant of Clarendon, e who works and who puts his life Mr Cantey cites concrete cxamergy into a proposition as Mr. P'gs with the Idea of showing that ver has done, we think he should the act of March 4, 1909, which revo the credit for trying. pealed the socalled agricultural lien Indeed, so powerful was the In- law, put the white farmers of South lence of Mr. Lever in behalf of agn- Carolina more at the mercy of the ltural legislation. tha,t it has been negro farm hand than ever before mored that in case I)r. Houston Is In the history of the State. Mr.' ven some other cabinet position or.Cantey believes that protection ould desire to leave public life |should be given the white farmer 0 1 MAS GIFT) actical thought and deliberation as any : this time, on our part, we fee/, are in order. r $2.00 additional _7~ JmBL or Friend meas- 4XEH >m $6.50 to $13.50. wt I overcoat and ex- W ^ d v another Christ- Jf Al j suit or overcoat, f^rljmT&Wl\ of pants will be Ah: ' it of $2.00 addi- /?)'.l|: for their Christ- i rf^r i party and save y- n' ire well provided \ included, for . Hit on each gar- I'jb '.:\ll%!I' tra pair of pants ^ AND UP if lli 1 '* ivery Order m V I Customers |M I 'hat It Costs Us ^ A ^i/r*m 9th Inclusive, Will be Delivered Before Christmas, y Large Profits, Are Expensive and Are Not Lasting** Hiving to yourself and recipient and furthermore 1 us than from any tailor or clothier in town ?ct to You. mffTIT I Tin AfMiTn /1A i 1UBIA 1 AILUKINIj tU. >m P. O. Lancaster, S. C. F. BOWLING, Manager. Jjl f ! INSURANCE AT COST. the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company is the only oue that can furnish it to the Farmers of Lancaster County. Write to ! ?. E. HONEY AGENT YORK - - SOUTH CAROLINA ! that he might have complete contiol i of hia negro labor in order to stop i M[QNFY TC\ / f\ A Kj forever, he says, the negro farm j Mmm band from "giving innumerable chat-; tel mortgages which at the end of 1 sow prepared negotiate loans the year the white farmer must pay of money on inproved cotton farm* oft in order to get a farm hand fori ? Lancaster eoaaty ia iaH| 0f 1300. the next year." upwards at 7 per cent interest, repayable ia aaitable installments. ia SKNWTOIl'S l>A I OHTKIl WKDS. periode of live. seven or tea years. Miss Sallie .May Tillman liride of |f |7 \ir V I 117 John W. Hhuler. * I^Uip Trenton. Nov. 29.?Miss Sallie Attorney at Law May Tillman, daughter of United , j States Senator and Mrs. B. R. Till- ? man, was married to John W. Shulei, i>it|('K DOUBLED, of Hatesburg, in the Church of Our pmgjg OOPIRB Saviour here tonight. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 29.?All afSOLDIKK. BOYS EAT ternoon papers in this city anTUKKEY THURSDAY nounce that, effective Decembers. 1. Columbia, Nov. 28.?Col. IE. M. the "rke of the,r editions will^e Illy the. commanding the First regi- doubled and free copies will be die- .. inent, wired the quartermaster at continued. i Camp Moore today to purchase ^ i'ZuJSr; <?rrey ,or lhe We Do Firs! Class printing. I