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KEPT PLEDGE I TO SEND BREAD American Nation Maintained Al-: 1 lied Loaf Through SelfDenial at home Table. AVEfttED EUROPEAN DESPAIR. \ With Military Domande Upon Ocean ! Shipping PWIIev*d, World Is Afcle to Return to Normal Whit* Whoat BraadL Blare the advent of the latest wheat crop the only limitation upon American export* to Europe has been the | shortage of shipping. Between Jnlj 1 and October 10 wo shipped 0,980,803 , bnshrts II thfe rate should continue ' until the eed of the fiscal year we will have famished the Allies with store ! than 297,BOO;000 bushels of wheat and floor In lenao of wheat The result of Increased production and eowervaUen efforts In the United ! fciim with tha i ?r?a tion of hostilities we are able to re- J torn to a mertaal wheat diet Supplies that have accumulated In Australia, Argeatlae and other hitherto inaccessible marhefe ma y be tapped by ships j reieaoed from transport service, sod j Eurapeaa deaaaad for American wheat j probably wHI not exceed our normal surpta& There la wheat enough a rail- | able to have a white loaf at the com- j moa table. ; Bot last year the tale was different j Only by the greatest possible saving ! and sacrifice were we able to keep a 1 steady stream of wheat and flour mot- j * Ing across the sea. We found our- j selves at the beginning of the harvest ; year with an unusually short crop, j Bvea the most optimistic statisticians i figured that we had a bare surplus of i 20,000,000 bushels. And yet Europe ! was facing the probability of a bread i famine?and in Europe bread is by far j the most important article in the diet j All of this surplus had left tha j country early in the fall. By the first j of the Year we had managed to ship a i little more titan 50,000,000 bushels by 1 practicing the utmost economy at j home?by wheatless days, wheatless ; meals, heavy substitution of other j cereals and by sacrifice at almost every meal throughout the country. In January the late Lord Rhondda, ! then British Food Controller, cabled that only If we sent an additional 75,- j 000,000 bushels before July 1 could he take the responsibility of assuring his | people that they would be fed. j i The response of the American peo- ' pie was 85,000,000 bushels safely dellv- ! ered overseas between January 1 and ! July 1. Out of a harvest which gave 1 j us only 20,600,000 bushels surplus we , actually shipped 141,000.000 bushels. j j Thus did America fulfill her pledge j that the Allied ^read rations could be | j muuuuijeu, ?uu uicau; uie aiuciikau people are demonstrating that, with ; an awakened war conscience, last year's figures will be bettered. +++ ++4,++ + + + + +t+ + 4, + + + + + Our exports since i?Is country 4* 1 4? entered the war hare justified a 4* i + statement made by-the Food Ad- 4* ; + ministration shortly after its con- 4* 4* ceptlon, outlining the principles 4* + and policies that would govern 4* !. 4* the solution of this country's 4* , ' 4* food problems. 4* 4? "The whole foundation of de- 4* j 4* mocracy," declared the Food Ad- 4* 4* ministration, "lies In the lndi- 4* ! 4* vldual Initiative of Its people 4? ; 4* and their willingness to serve the 4* j 4* Interests of the nation with com- 4* ; 4* plete self effacement In the time 4* . 4* of emergency. Democracy can 4? j 4? yield to discipline, and we can 4* : 4? solve this food problem for our 4* j 4? own people and for the Allies in 4* j 4* this way. To have done so will 4* ' 4? have been a greater service than 4* j ] + our immediate objective, for we + J fr have demonstrated the rightful- + 1 + ness of oar faith and our ability + ' + to defend ourselves without be- + , 4? ing Prussianized." + + + | + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + + ! 4* + + Sending to Europe 141,000,000 bush- j els of wheat from a surplus of appar-' ently nothing was the outstanding exploit of the American food army in the critical year of the war. GREATEST OPPORTUNITY WOMEN EVER HAD. j It was given to the women of this | country to perform the greatest serv- j Ice in the winning of the war vouch- j gafed to any women In the history of ! the wars of the world?to feed the \ warriors and the war sufferers. By i , the arts of peace, the practice of slm- . pie, homely virtues the womanhood- of , a whole nation served humanity in lta ', profoundest struggle for peace and i. froedom. J, * FIRST CALL TO FOOD ARMY. * This co-operation and service + I ask of all In fnll confidence *, that America will render more * for flag and freedom than king * ridden people surrender at com- 4? pnlslon.?Herbert Hoover, An- + gust 10, 1917. *j 4?, A year ago voluntary food control , was a darinfl adventure In democracy; ! daring the year an established proof , o? democratic efficiency, . ... ?- i?IM SUGAR SHOWED ~ j OURjACKBONE American Willingness to Give Up Luxury Demonstrated Nation's War Conscience. STAND WITH THE ALLIES. ly Reducing Cenewnptlon People ef the United State* Averted a Famine at Home In Spite f Lew Supplier The fact that the people ef tfce Jnlted States were able to reduce by nore than one-halt million tow their fuly, August, September and October . onsumptlon of sugar proves coactoively that their war cenecleDC* was horonghly awakened and that the xrantry as a whole stood ready to fo4ow the Injunctions of the Government Our normal consumption of sugar In he four-month period beginning with ruly has been 400,000 tons par month, i total ef 1,000,000 for the quarter rear. In July, when our sugar stringency >egan to reach Its height, consumption as reduced to 200,000 tona. la August only 825,000 toss went into dl?rlbutlon and In September only 279,100 tons. In October the distribution ell to 230,000 tons. If the general public had failed to >bserve the Injunctions of the Food Administration this country would lave bees In the throes of a sugar .'amine before the end of August Our risible supplies were so low as to bring jreat anxiety to those familiar with :he sugar situation. They feared that t would be absolutely Impossible to reduce consumption to a point where ragar would no longer be a mere luxury In the American diet Few accomplishments of the Food Administration will stand forth so predominantly as this reduced consumption of sugar. By it we have been able to bridge over the period of stringency until the new beet ana Louisiana cane ragar crops wore In sight Now the nation Is In a position so 2iat if we choose we may return to rar normal home use of sugar, and Europe, with the release of ships to go ,'ar afield, can maintain Its recent restricted rations. If, however, those lations are to increase their use of tugar very considerably it must be by mr continued Bharing with them ihrough limiting our own consumplon. ? AMERICAN SPIRIT RELIED ON TO WIN. In the light of succeeding events it s Interesting to recall the confidence rith which the United States Food Administrator viewed the gloomy outoek in July of 1917, when this counxy had been in the war for less than tour months and the Germans were jteadily sending the western front learer and nearer to Paris. "Even though the situation in Europe may be gloomy today," he declared in a public statement, "no ynerlcan who has knowledge of the esults already obtained in every direction need have one atom of fear :hat democracy villi not defend itsoif in these United States." LOYALTY IN LITTLE THINGS LAST PROOF OF PATRIOTISM Americans without murmuring cut their sugar allowance from four pounds a month to three and then as long as need be to two pounds for loyilty's sake. Food Will Win the World. America earned the gratitude of allied nations during war by sharing food. America under peace may win the world's good wLl by saving to share. + J' + 4,+ + + + + <t??f i* + b DEMOCRACY VS. AUTOCRACY. + r + J* "There Is no royal road to + J? food conservation. We can only + i* accomplish this by the voluntary ?fr ! action of our whole people, each + ! element in proportion to its + fr needs. It is a matter of equality + ! of burden." + fr The truth of this statement, + i made by the United States Food 4* $ Administrator soon after we en- + f tered the war, has been borne + b out by the history of our ex- 4* { ports. Autocratic food control -fr V in the lands of our enemies has 4* broken down, while democratic + food sharing has maintained the -f f i .ealth and strength of thiscounf <"7 cud of the Allies. + 1* V H,fMH, + + + + + + ,H"i + + t GENERAL NEWS. Miss Ruth Barksdale has been elected sponsor for Co. B., of the Bailey Military Institute, and attended their reception Thanksgiving night. A real substitute has been found for gasoline and is to be named "Liberty Fuel." Kerosene is the base of the new fuel which was discovered by Mayor Zimmerman and his colleague, Capt. Weisgerber. The new fuel will cost less than gasoline. The Kaiserlne, wife of the former "aiser of Germany, has joined her husband in his retreat at Amerongen Castle. Her luggage is said to consist of twenty large trunks. The Senate Finance Committee has adopted hte Pomerene child labor amendment to the revenue bill imposing a ten per cent, tax on the profits of child labor. The Methodist Conference of Alabama, which is in session this week has passed resolutions memorializing the President to call an international conference to look into the condition of the Jew3 and to put a stop to persecutions which the resolutions say have been going on in Christian countries for centuries. Andrew Carnegie's only daughter, Margaret, is soon to be married to Roswell Miller, an Ensign in the Navy. Col. House, who is the President's | representative at the Peace Conference, is accompanied to Paris by his; wife. ' The Knights of Columbus, who1 are doing much work among the sol-1 Hers abroad, have ordered ten thousand pairs of overalls and will go into the work of reclaiming the de-j vastated portions of France. A professor in the University of! California, has hit on a way of con-! verting wine grapes into syrup. Seventeen dollars a ton can be profitably paid for grapes used in this way. Prince Max of Baden, is said to '- e stated as the first President of Germany. Carranza has announced that he will not be a candidate for a second! ';erm as Resident ol Mexico. Hose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister ( of President Cleveland, and mistress I of the White House for some time, i has just died of influenza at Lucca, j ! Italy. She was seventy-two years' ! >ld. Mrs. Wilson headed the list of, < boxholders Thursday afternoon when | I Walter Damrosch and the Symphony i Society of New York played to a j capacity audience in which were i many old friends of the leader, ! whose marriage took place twenty ; years ago on the exact spot from which he conducted today's performj ance. The present theatre occupied j he site of the home of the late J. GJ ; Blaine, father of Mrs. Damrosch. j AUNT LEAH THOMAS. I i Most of the heavy swells about j town know Aunt Leah. She never^ i works for anybody except rich peo-: pie, she says, and therefore, they all must know her. She is the widow of. j Henry Thomas, who ranked at least ' as top sergeant for Hon. Wm. Henry. I Parker in his day. Aunt Leah got a little worked up' j ->ver Thanksgiving. She has beenj | helping out at a home on Greenville: | Street, where there was no turkey,! land she said it made her lonesome , going home and returning, to hear ^ turkeys gobbling in other people's' back yards, when there was none where she was holding out. Mrs. Gordon White relieved her distress of mind, however, by invit-j [ ing her to come to her house on | | Thanksgiving and eat a big dinner | I in flia TirifVi fVio *?nnlr aa -nroll is to serve the rich folks who werej 'o assemble there on that glad day.j "They's my people, anyway," she! said. And then Leah got reminiscent, j She told of the time when she wasi married. She was a maid at the! home of Judge Cothran. Those were' i the days when a man did not have' to sell a bale of cotton and give a! mortgage on the cow in order to j raise money to buy a turkey ,to sayt nothing of the accessories. Thes made Sillabub and Gypsy cake bj the half barrel, and all the childrer had the right to pass back then plates for more as often as necessary. They roasted a whole pig cooked two turkeys if necessary gave everybody all the white meal that they could eat, and allowed all the little boys to feed the drumsticks to the cats and puppies. Leali remembers it all mighty well. She remembered too, the night when she and Henry wore married, It v.as at the old Cothran home a mong her own "White People." "All the silver was in the yard." and tht Wardlaws and the Perrins and t whole lot more people came to ee< the ceremony. There were mor< white people than colored people and there was apple float enough t< "bust" every nigger in the neighbor hood, all at which Mrs. Cothran hac prepared for the wedding feast, ai Leah tells it. "Them wub som< times." Leah also remembers Marse Wade Marse Tom and Marse Jimmie whei they were boys. "Marse Wade", sh< says, was one of the dirtiest boys sh< ever tried to wash. When you ha< finished washing Marse Tom an< Marse Jimmie you hadn't got the wa ter "het" for Marse Wade. And h< always had a sore on him and alway cried. "Them wus some times," to b sure. i The Joy Recipe I Take Cascarets Regulate liver and bowels, and sweeten the stomachspend 10 cents and see Enjoy life! Straighten up. You system is filled with an accumulatio: of bile and bowel poison which keep you bilious, headachy, dizzy, tongu coated, breath bad and stomach sou ?Why don't you get a 10-cent bo of Cascarets at the drug store an feel fine?Take Cascarets to nigh and enjoy the nicest, gentlest live and bowel cleansing you ever ej perienced?Give Cascarets to child ren also, they taste like candyNever gripe but never fail. Sici bilious children love to take this laa ative.?Adv. ???? j?j The Pre, | That K FineEngr B Alsi ??g Come In Let Us Shoiv Yo\ Now r COOPER'S SECRETARY. Governor-elect Cooper, who at 1 tended the peace Thanksgiving sei vices in Columbia Thursday, mad the announcement that he has ap ' pointed James C. Derieux, of Green ville, as his private secretary. Mi ' Derieux is the son of a Baptist min ' ister, Dr. W. T. Derieux, and was a one time editor of the Greenvill 1 News. He is just home from abroa< where he has been engaged in Y. M 1 C. A. Work. CHEAPER POSTAGE. I , Washington, Nov. 29.?The Senat k finance committee restored the ol , rate on first class mail and posl } cards. This does away with the thre cent rate on letters and the tw 9 , cent rate on post cards, j RED CROSS SPEAKER. 3 j The Abbeville Chapter America Red Cross has arranged to have' speaker here on December 11th. Th j speaking will be in the Court Houa at eleven o'clock in the morninj This hour was decided upon so ths j the people from the country coul j attend. We are particularly anxioi1 that people from all over the count B come?especially the committee who are appointed to help in tli Red Cross Christmas Roll Call, Dei 16-23, which is the membershi campaign for 1919. The committe appointments will be in the papers o Friday and notices will be sent oi to them during the week. We are counting on getting a bi membership in this campaign and m hope all the committees will co-o] erate with us to make it a success. J. S. Morse, Chairman. GOOD THINGS TO EAT. The Busy Bee Canteen of whit ?--- n "?- *mii t,?i lviisa ksaia iuuiac id vr*xx mv. r an exchange on Saturday, Decemb< n 7th, at the corner of Rosenberg s block on the way to the Post Offic e Cakes of all kinds, butter, egg r poultry, pickles, etc., will be on sal x Come and buy something good f< d your Sunday dinner, and also help it good cause. 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