Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, 1919. i extravagance at 1 Atta Bay I Put Him Out of the Game With W. S. 8., ~ 1 The Shrinking Whet (Country Gentleman.) i system of grn; The optimism of spring gives way I Grain Corpora to the hard cold fart of harvest, outspoken diss; Early estimates of a bUlion-and-a grain-grading quarter bushel wheat crop must now and unquest bo toned down to something like a should be mad billion bushels or less. The psychol- tnuch of the l<i ogy of crop reporting, as a professor 3 brings tli would state it, is such that 50,000 P?r bushel as farmers reporting upon the prospects ^or ^?- ! of wheat in May will estimate a A study of l greater crop than will be threshed in wheat such as July and August. The green fields tion now befor look like more bushels than are ever tremendous va yielded. Early spring estimates are serve the douh quite often overestimates, yet we sel- the consumer t dom discount the actual crop reports regard to brea enough to meet the actual measured ducer what th< yield. next year's ero] The great Kansas wheat crop, es- ago indicated i t'mated in June to be 229,000,000 the exporting bushels, has shrunk in a month, by harvest shrink the estimates of the same correspon- world over as dents, to a crop of only about 159,- America there 000,000 bushels, which will bring spare when th< that state's crop below the 1914 re- ail fully suppli cord of 180,000.000 bushels. Secre- This is a cai tary Mohler, of the Kansas Hoard of tional Institu Agriculture, says: "Never before per- through its woi haps have the growers been so gre- service, should viously misled by prospects just pre- comprehensive reeding harvest as has been the case with the report this year." Only the weather can #be is that they cor blamed, since the sudden period of of much value t high temperatures is responsible for1 casting anothe the shrinkage in some sections. Wet thing should be weather which fostered the develop- machinery. It ment of plant disease also worked it goes. . groat havoc. . Along the Atlantic Coast an excel- KOREAN IN lent crop of wheat was just being DFCJ \I harvested when the constant rains of middle July came on and millions of i bushels were damaged beyond recov- I?'"?rl. mint Ion > ery by sprouting in the shock. Farm- gain Ilee, ers in this section lost not only their' wheat and rye. but early potatoes I sprouted in the ground and began to j Washington. dependence wa The consuming public whose short ,.|a,na(jon memory clings to big figures will re-' .... ' ^ world, issued member the earlv estimates and fail ,. the -'overnme to correct its impression v Ith the ... , .. republic ot K Kansas crop at fioo.ooo.oou bushels . I tion was signei and the grand tot 1 as over a billion. ., . .. ., president of tl and will forget those thousands of ... . ? ... Kiusic S Kin farmers who have lost all or part of Knronn Cnmmh their crops and must wait a year to retrieve the situation. They remember only the guaranteed price, which' "'i biting tli they think of as a guaranty to hold ^r'' 'bwlopnin up the price to the farmer rather i'*' autonomou than a fixed price to hold down rather s''" 1 price to the consumer, which it really l"l!'1 " i o v . . .it in . meant onlv a n Is. Home wheat is actually selling at n premium of'twenty-eight runts over! nil,,ona"/'nK the government basis. showing the j Pro,'?*Srt uodei eager demand for tiie very best wheat f(' n"sP' u <abl? In the Western market; lint snrh premiums are the rare exceptions rather Pr"<''ama,'on 0< than the rule. j of ?',r heredlt ? . 'historic rights. On the other hand, the situation of , , x , ... . dependent stair last year is being repeated in that the . . ? ,, than 4,000 yeat wheat grower is not receiving the full I ... . 0d Korea s in guaranteed price in most rases. I*ar. .... . . treaty up to ai mers have lodged vigorous protest, , 1 !# o 4 r i 11 ;i 11 v against the srhedule of discount for , , ... . .. . , . .. induced to ante Ihe lower grades of wheat under the . \ j Japan against \ \ j ed as the Itussl Ws are proud /of tho confidence treaty we neve doctor*, druggists and the public ? . ,... We ta 0?6 ChAl and Fever Tonic. PrP<1 nny of OUI ?-Adv. * aut?craHc * THE LANCASTER I> ^?T?7^ T> A rwi 'ernment of Japan deliberately br.> AAAIJ JJxx a !that solemn pledge and by cruel a plication of military force made en tlve our rulers and government o rials, and after declaring a prote U^m orate over our country, finally i * " 8,,n,e<' to annpx the empire of Kor to the empire of Japan. But we ret'u ?mSP to become an intergal or compone i M J t ? J part of the Japanese empire in a From the dawn of history to t present time, the proclamation c rW^ clured, Japan has exhibited "nothi Pjfmr i*- but a spirit of aggression and cupl r Asserting that the Japanese ernment "is wholly unfit" to act HQigjO leader for the Korean nation, t Hkv 'proclamation declared that Japan " j making mere brute force the sole i | strument of her imperial progrt r-v A'E has emphasized the merely destru? v ive agencies of society in direct co j I trust with the peace loving and fund ?* \)' mentally con constructive principl ^ ^ lU'hlph V nwnnn - 1 1 strated to be at the foundation f their system of culture." x ? "V PUBLIC OUGHT TO HAVE ^ C X VOICE IN VITAL AFFAIF /fj \ # . One of Four Factors Involved in Fr ?' noinic Problems, Suvs Secretary fm=S> J ? " TWT i v Washington, Sept. 1.?Preside i\ y/70\ Wilson should call a conference ^7 Vt\/ 1 ' representatives of capital, labor, i jfrfr? \ ' I dustrial managers and the public meet in Washington in the near f I ture to discuss perplexing econon And Make 'EM Faat! problems confronting the natic ! Secretary of the Interior Lane dec If I ed in a statement made here. Hei tofore only capital and labor ha m been considered in discussion of vit J J" I Y Qyy economic questions, Mr. Lane asse ed, but the time has come when t public must be given a voice as w ding followed by the as the busin<'8s rtianagers and exec lion. There is quite ,,VR8 who are "lhe bra,ns of mode atisfactlon with the in,hl8,ria> organizations." law in some sections. "There are four sides to the table ionably adjustment Hni(1 v,r- *?ane. "and it is time that t e. As an examnle public was given a seat in the <mm lansas wheat rated as r',am'),'r an'* vo'ce '? 'he proceedini io producer only $ 1.45' Th?- problems confronting the I'nit compared with $2.20jStates today vitally threaten the w :fare of the nation and the situation . , 'growing worse daily, I believe that :he world situation in , , , . . President should call immediately is proposed by resolu-' ... . , conference of representatives of t e Congress, will be of . , . ... ,. ... four great factors involved ?n t lue this year. It will , , , present economic situation, labi le purpose of showing ..... , , . . .. .. ... capital, business executives and t he true situation with . ... public. Such a conference would go 1 d grains and the pro-,*' , . ... . .. \ toward solving the perplexing a s prospect will be tori , . dangerous problems the nation tod y. A summary a month ^ ,t 8 surplus of wheat in countries, but if the Thp Proposed conference, the i age is as serious the ''retary held, should take up the qut it has been in North t'OI,s relations between employ will be no wheat to an<, employe, of labor's proporti 2 world's markets are' ?' earnings and of improving indust e(j ' \ al conditions by calling in executiv . .... who have solved these problems s\ Be where the Interna-, . ... . , cessfully in their own organizatioi te of Agriculture,, ... , . .... , Mr. Lane declared that the wo Id-wide crop reporting, ...... , . . capital had come to be consider IftVA n nrnmni ??'? ' , as representing the actual govern! report. The difficultyI ? * , , , ... . forces of modern industry, when as s from this institution matter of fact the business executiv ne alonx too late to be: 0 the producer in fore-j floo has moip imitations than ai r year's needs. Some- other Chill and Kever Tonic ou t 1 done to speed up this market, hut ri\> one wants Imit ,? excellent as far a, """ i 1)EPENI)EN('E IED IN ADDRESS \ The next time signed lly l>r. Syn- _ \ _ ivci.1,.m o? ,i,. you buy calomel ask for\ i \ / 1 , \ / r Sept. 4.?Korean in-, is declared in a prothe peoples of tin* \ here in the name of Mm I nt and people of the K I \ / 1 urea." The proclanm- H I 1 dlOt;3DS hi* "ronnliln' . ?.? i int. chairman of the-1 islon to (ho peace con- j \ lit Korea was denied, lit as "one of the alleg! tl -c^a h e- t .... . lhe purified and refined s, the proclamation , . T ^ eeent promise of re- calomel tablets lhat are Korean government nause&lcAs, safe and sure* ew form of "cruel de Medicinal virtues retainand dechlrstianizing ed an<j improved. Sold which vs.- have suffer only ift sealed packages. ' tortnen." price 35c. this declaration," tli i mtinued, "on the basis' / y and un'iuestion illy ~~t Korea has been an in> and nation for nun PROFESSIONAL CARDS s. Japan has recneniz-j dependence in every 1)11. J. KKK( K FUM?KRIII HK, nd including the year I>ental Surgeon, however, Korea was Office Hours: r into an alliance wi-'i, 8:80 to 12:30 A. M. vhat was then regard- 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. an danger. Under i.ir.t And by Appointment, r voluntarily surronu- Office Phone 160. sovereign rights. Hut Residence Phone 52. and militaristic gov- Office over Lancaster Pharmacy JEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. 1 | ??? ko and managers who direct the destiniesI "people of th<> no tp- of great industrial organizations arel deratand conditio ip- men who stand between capital inj terfering with til- the strict sense and labor. I adopted by the et- "The concentration of workers in! the St. John's ijj- the great cities of the land is one of'Baptist assoeiatioi ea the chief reasons for the unprecedent- at a meeting her ise ed high cost of living prevailing to- and more than nt | day," said the secretary. called to discuss ny "If we are left HOPE FOR RATIFICATION ! resolution declare OF TREATY BY CANADA a(,just aU our ' le- good of all cone Special Session of the Canadian Par- ' ? 11 Id-1 which called the r liament Is Called for that bprRhin nf ,o nno >v"i I*ur|K?se. j ties in the vicini as: | A portion of tl hei Ottawa, Ont., Sept 4.- -Ratification I resolution declare yj of the peace treaty bv Canada was set) "Those maguzir in', forth as the chief object of the special Periodicals, i)ut?lis !K8 session of parliament which was magnify the wroni opened this afternoon by the govern- K??d, that publis 'n"j or general, the duke of Devonshire. In before the eye in 'a* his opening address he made felicit- time, is an ei k!S ous whose warm and sincere welcome, friend of the race n~he said, "emphasized the fact that the' Negroes here st ?f ties between the motherland and the in>-' 'be beginnl dominions were never firmer than movement to estal now." I standing between The urgency of proceeding inunedi- woub ts ately to the consideration of the treaty Marv Pickford" isigned at Versailles June 28. l!?lf>. Ihp nUv French ft ^ the governor general said, compelled "The French," .? him to summon the legislators to re- to bring the long : newed labor which, he hoped, would frowned sli not be of long duration. He had been P,M|ieed down at advised, he declared, that the docu- f,rmv c,earednt ment should not be ratified on behalf , ^ ^uld' oi of Canada without the approval of to the ground." n-j parliament. In addition, to make such - to financial provision as may be requir- New Kind o u- ed "in connection with th.? c, i'("j treaty and for other purposes." bly rooms hnve b ,n? by attaching to t ir-1 NEGROES DENOUNCE THE ting." fashioned re-1 ACTIVITIES IN NORTH about u third of ve' cross-section, wh .,] gethcr with tin-pl r( la'fl to Ourselves," Says Texas subsequently covt j Negroes, "We Will In Time Ad- plaster. Structur pH just All Onr Differences." PoP,1,,nP 1M,Thln1u c" | easily anu quickly *u" said to be useful rn Autsin, Tex., Sept. 4.?Resolutions declaring emphatic opposition to' Water and th , . / I The specific gr he the human body It ! F^ A *>ody In the W n? _iWI M equal pressure ?? ! ^ 11 more likely to he ?d ! Hunt'* Halre, formerly called Other C'rcpmstanC . : Dunti Cure It guaranteed to ... . ., l"! atop and pormaneotir care that six more I'hely that j terrible llrhin?. It la com- f ?... ci? I r?uyc? ikjm pucpo^e ana \ W' VUk waiu ? i ?i? h<' f,f"ndMUw^?hon?%Par???oa cXf! i *telr * 1 ? K.bUanc^^^',n?rmB V> / he ?hV"bro,?lhor ,kio ?UeM*- 760 \ v* / Ruh-My-Tisn^ i hp for mU lowuij It septic; it kills ' fmm infected rti I. V. UACKKY CO. tetter, et*?Ad*. he | t nd| :: he |p irlFi) Prn P a t > *n gtr [Ucr Touring Car ^hRHSUflR^ ' WBjB^^fiC r ';'J mth tvo ouxil. /*Th [Uc3 ?aryjr.u? fi?S3. xHE^ b. factory For Hands That R ns n'.'J 1TTOMFM can drive this rrvr Essentially a s cjrb' *V Lexington Touring Car with affords maxim tin perfect ease, confidence, and safety. enience, and rel C'T The pressure of one finger operates Sound investment , , } the emergency brake. . t (Uc! It is made for fi pit? The ea9V-riding qualities of this [i'TL'trn^0 c'/l car relieve driver and passengers tl! ( ' f-^nl from fatigue and make motoring * *" ? jjp delightful, regardless of roads, hiiis ?n a.tJeway betwe 4 ' j or traliic. The curtains, w! 4|| EVANS &WILSO ["j Lexington Motor Company ^ 4 PAGE THREE i " -1 Be a Joy-Walker, TZTi, "Bets-irjor Corns Negro Missionary __ __ _ , _ ?. r.. mud,. vui.il.' 2Drops,2Seconds?Corn I.Doomed! , ...... . "When you almost die with your e ol -.000 negroes shoes on and corns mako you almost 100 white persons. ~allt ?? **? to Bet away from * ths pain, take a vacation for a minthe race question. ut? or two and apply 2 or 3 drops neniy rather than a Cf worj^-fl maple and only gen> ulne eorn-pealer. "Oets-It." Then, and then only, will you be sure that iv the Austin meet-' your corn will fuosorx from vour toe np of a nation-wide , J . .. . JWUI ii iik cro. ilish a better untlt'r- Take no rhancfs cf continued rain .. And sorenesR?why use greasy, lrrlt lie races. fating salves, plasters '.hat shift. and press Into the "quick." razors Hn't Quit Wee and "diggers" that make corns bleed .. . . . end also grow faster? t'se painless, was talking snout easy, always Sure "Gets-It.'* There's mlilons only one like It In the world?that's ' , "Gets-It" f Millions have tried and "lie said, are trying o. K.'d It for vears It never falls, skirt back again." "Gets-tt." the guaranteed, money. ., . back corn-remover, the only sure ghtly. I hen, ns She way. costs but a trifle at any drug store, her little shoe, her M'f'd by K. Lawreuc? & Co.. Chicago. III. Sold i/i Lancaster and recommended jbt," she said, "that ?s the world's best corn remedy by suit some girls down J- Mackey Co., Standard Lirug Company.?Adv f Construction. $25.00 Reward he uprights a "net from wooilen rods |.-0,. (AI'TlltH ,\\I? IlKTl'ItX TO un Inch square In CHAIN GANG ()1 KSCAl'ED Ich are bound to- C'OXYK'T ated iron wire, and red with a durable James Dunlap. who escaped from cs of this sort, says chain gang camp in evening of Tuesice Magazine. are July 1st, It'll", was sentenced ira constructed and ure )as^ NIarch term of court to serve four In winter time. . . , , . years on chain gang for breaking into _ , i Bennett-Terrv Companv's store. Ho e Human Bo.. . ? avity of water and is about flve foot' four inch?3 ta,K ? virtually the same dark- *inSer rak" co,or: ,ooks as iter is supported by ho t have In,,'h sense; walks, all points It is talks and works very slowly; slight/y u t c n a<> ? Kn ?i ? - * ^ %4 4fyj\ - - ! ? ocked the Craclles r - il ervire car, it a'so folded in nn envelope suspended ; i comfort, con- neatly above the tonneau. fincment?it is a The Moore Multiple F.xhauat [ 1 w System, with whic h all Lexingtons p".'1' ere provided, conserves fuel by Jqfj) ve passengers, but producing more horsepower per .... ing auxiliary teats piston displacement. ,f This car includes many items e individual, with ordinarily listed as extras, even on 3If? en' the most luxurious cars. Let us ten not in use, are demonstrate. ; N, Lancaster, S. C. rv i Conneraville, Ind., U. S. A. ?8 tami UllUtfl ???*t IHJSM;. es. It is. therefore, A reward of twenty-five dollar* It may move with- will be paid for this convict's return pies are oft<n given to the chain gang camp at Lancaster, the water. g q JOHN P. HUNTER. ? a powerful antl , sheriff the (MiiNon caused ^ , ts, cures old sores " HESTER, t County Engineer.