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INFLUENZA AND QUARANTINE j Though the influenza swept over the whole country a little more than a year ago, and took as a toll many lives, and it has again appeared, the H&.- doctors and the scientists and every one else is puzzled and does not know j just what is best to be done to check the spread and stamp out the dread disease. The physicians and eminent men are widely different in opinion' as to quarantine, and just what the I quarantine should cover. We heard aj man say the other day he would like j to see congress pass an act to close | all places of business and everything for a period of two or three weeks, and do so as soon as the people were ' t given notice to lay in asufficient suppvfcf of rations to last for the period of the quarantine ,and that no one be permitted to leave their premises during that time, excepting physicians and nurses we suppose. We notice that the medical society in Columbia held a meeting the other day, not to criticize the board of, health, but the situation being rather 14 Ji 1 ! I serious it was tnougnt tne meaicai fraternity would be in position to advise and take counsel as to what was best to be done. There was such divergence of opinion among the doc> tors that the meeting adjourned without taking any action at all. On a vote it was the opinion that the children were better off at school than at home. On another vote it was I the opinion that the churches should j Inot be closed. No vote was taken asj to the closing of the picture siows.' and the meeting adjourned wi~.hout| making any recommendations. It seems that the attack comes sud- j denly and without any premonition,; and no one seems to know whence comes the germ or what the germ is, if it be a germ that is floating around. Fortunately so far while there sems to be a number of cases I all over the country there have not I been as many pneumonia cases following and the attacks have not been so serious this time as a year ago. At the time of the meeting of the doctors in Columbia the health officer! stated that 237 cases had been re- j ported at that time. A gentleman j who came from Columbia on Sunday i afternoon said there were more than I * 400 cases in the city. Certainly our quarantine seems to I be of little avail. Maybe we started too late. Some one remarked that we should close the non-essentials such as the picture shows and the pool rooms and ' the schools and the 'bhurches. Somehow we do not feel that these are any more non-essential that some other places, when we consider the ehalth of the community. In fact, we think a picture show or a church or a school is just as essential1 as a store or a bank or any other in- { stitution. But if the closing will help to prevent the spread of the disease then we say close any place that would .help to check the spread by being closed. But so long as people travel in the stuffy trains and crowd! in other places, if crowding helps to) spread, the closing of these ? other places is not going to do very much good. But every good citizen is willing and anxious to cooperate in any measure what will be beneficial in the present crisis. Dr. Copeland health commissioner j of the city of New York says: "One who has a constant and un-j controllable inclination to cough orj anoo-To cVini'fM nnt romnin in n crnwH; 1 ?"v-v"uv- ? * I ed public place. Unless the face is covered with the handkerchief, coughing or sneezing is dangerous to. every neighbor reached by the spray.' "Well 7:r;,ons will be benefited by' the diver, ion of the theatre; sick per-1 sons should be at home?for their1 own good and for the public good. 1 "Fear is a great factor in lowering resistence. Go about your affairs calmly and unafraid. As to the schools Dr. Copeland says: "If every school teacher in the city were taken ill I would hire entertainers to keep the public schools open." And so there you are. We think the best thing we can do is to meet the situation calmly and unafraid as T)r CnnplanH savs. anri tskp rarp of - L j ? oneself and cooperate with one another as best we can. If the authorities say quarantine then let all the people cooperate, and in the quaranj* * tine there should be no selfish motive or selfish interest to govern our action or the action of the officials. The welfare of all the people should be the controlling motive, as we have , no doubt it is with our board of health. The board is as much puzzled over the situation as the people, and is desirous of doing whatever may 8k " I best conserve the health and life of the people. But let us repeat, not in i any pharisaical spirit but as a truism, ] that in whatever we do we must not i rely too strongly upon human skill, < and we must not forget, if we believe ] the religion we profess, that there is i an overruling providence who directs 1 the affairs of men, and in all our do- 1 ings his power and his guidance i should be sought.?Newberry Herald and News. i I a DCTTC AITTrt AQQTQ Plfl A P WU/HV1..IL, | AS THE NATIONAL SMOKE j Cigar types of tobacco are pro-(j duced in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, the Miama Valley in Ohio, Wisconsin, Georgia ,and Florida. Of the entire tobacco crop of 1,389,000,000 pounds in 1919, the cigar types constituted about onesixth ,and the chewing, smoking, snuff, and export types most of the i-emainder, according to the Bureau of Crop Estimates, United States Department of Agriculture. The cigar types are heavy producers per acre, the average for 1919 being 1,265 pounds, while the other types had an average of 679 pounds. Before 1919 the average farm , price of the cigar, types of tobacco was always above that of the other ( types, as a whole, but in that year , the extraordinaryEuropean demand!; for tobacco other than the cigar , classes and the immensely increased | use of tobacco for cigarettes raised the average farm price of the com- ', posite chewing, smoking, snuff, and,, export types to 41.3 cents on Decern-1 ber 1, or greatly above the price of i, 21.9 cents for cigar tobacco. Indeed,!, the latter class of tobacco had a' lower price than in either 1918 orj 1917, not because of increase of; production, but because of weaker1 demand. The cigar has been over-; taken and passed by the cigarette. THE PRODUCER Newberry Observer. The great man of the day is the | producer. It is he that keeps the world alive. Way back in some old: schoolbook, maybe it was Webster's! blue back speller, was something like/ this: "I am the doctor, I cure all."| Then came the lawyer, who defends; all, and the merchant, who sells all, j and the preacher who saves all, andi the last the farmer, who "feeds all." [ And so it is ,and ever has been, and ever will be, that the farmer feeds all. He is the primary necessity in every community among every peo-: pie. Everybody else can be dispensed 1 with except the farmer. We were impressed with this more than ever a day or two ago when reading Robert Quilen's "Small town : Stuff" in the Saturday Evening Post.' First, though about Robert Quil-!1 len: Perhaps he is not known to our; readers he deserves to be. He is a! country editor; a genius, and of^ ourse is unique. He runs a weekly i newspaper up at Fountain Inn, a lit- j: tie station in Greenville county, on the C. & W. C. railroad ?and he writls for The Saturday Evening Post. He has a queer and original knack of saying things. Reading his "Smal Town Stuff" in the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post we j came across this: "He was old and bent and his j hands were gnarled by six decades, of labor with the soil from which he i dug a living. He stood by my side asj I fed sheets of paper into a printing j press, and marveled that such won-^ ders could have existed without his; knowledge. As I finished the run and threw the belt on the idle pulley he touched my sleeve. "I am an old man," said he, "and, yet this is the first time I have seen a printing press. I am very ignorant.", Million Packets Of' Flower 8eed Free ! We believe in floweTs around thaj homes of the South. Flowers brighten up the home* surroundings and give: pleasure and satisfaction to those who have them. We have set aside more than one' million packets of seed of beautiful, yet easily grown flowers to be givac; to our customers this spring for the j ; beautifying of their homes. ; Hastings' 1920 Seed Catalogue is j now ready. Brilliant cover in natural I colors, 100 pages of garden and farm I information. Drofusely illustrated. It'a' j the one worth while seed book for southern gardeners and farmers. This catalogue is absolutely free to you on i request Your name and address on ! a postal card or in letter, will bring it to you by return mail. This 1920 Catalogue will show you : just how you can get five packets of ] flower seeds (five different sorta) absolutely free of cost this spring. Send ' for this catalogue today without fail, j No obligation to buy anything unless | you want to. H. G. HASTINGS CO., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Ga.? (Advt) "As I looked at him it occurre me that he had been plowing harrowing and planting and rea al these years in order that I n iat. From him and his like I go living, giving in return a few umns of reading matter to fu; them an hour's entertainment. j. ! J.L. was a coiaoorator wiui naiuie a and I a court fool." Nothing we had ever read bro out so strongly and strikingly fact that the producer is the p necessity of mankind. All other < pations?all professions and cal no matter how worthy or how alted?depend on him. There was an old doggerel thz haven't seen so long we have fo ten how it ran, but it was some like this: "When Adam delved and Eve s That was the golden age of mi But the man of today doesn't to dig and delve and plow; am woman has forgotten how to s] but Solomon in all his glory wa arrayed like her. We have goni away from that golden age?too We have come to the place ii world's history where the proc is disappearing; he has been a] civilized out of existence. So i things pay better; so many thing easier; so many thing^ are more ored, that the tiller of the soi sought an easier and more lucr calling and the consequences ishigh cost of living. There are not enough produce mn lr a nr?/J *vi atiaii/*!* 4>sv (naive fc/icstu auu meat enuu^ii IU the world, and thousands and lions of people are going hungry starvation stalks through a large tion of the earth. Congress is 01 eve now of voting fifty milio buy bread for the starving peop European countries where foi not sufficient to keep the pi alive. The president recomme one hundred and fifty millions; congress feared to make the. an so large, for our own people feeling the scarcity of food; are in dire ristress in the cities, prices are very, very high e where. There are not enough produ They have gone from the farr the cities to look for easier job get into the bright light of the trie lamps; to enjoy the advani of convenient schools and chur to be near the movies and othe tractions, and nearer "then cent things." Every man that quits farm for the town takes one the producers and adds one ti consumers, as this has been goir a large scale for years, it is ea understand why living is high. Maybe a change will come. ! farming has become so profitable cry of "back to the soil" may i something. Farming is the ideal It is the most independent life, the most useful ife. In very ] respects it is the ea^.ost life . worst thing about farm life isolation, which is due to the ii venience of getting about thr the country. If we had good roai would be altogether different, telephones, electric or other mc lights, automobiles, ten miles or twenty counts for nothing; bi roads are now, and every winter a good part of the year besid farmer lives a lonesome life. ! had the same conveniences ii the country, and were?not act but practically?as near to neighbors and to schools and cl as in the city, he would ike the < try all right, with its purer, heal atmosphere, its quiet, its "c room" and its greater apportun Unless something is done country will become almost des in a few years execept by pe who are compelled to live there, men of agricultural means and and knowledge and enterprise move away and leave their farr tenants and to reduced product There is very vital connectioi tween the subject of productior roads. FARM WAGES IN 1919 WERE HIGHEST IN HISTORY 0 THE UNITED ST^ At no timg have the wage rat farm labor been as high in this try as they were in 1919, cert as far back as 186G, when the investgation of this subject was by the Bureau of Cri p Estin United States Department of culture. Averages for the U States are in mind, and not rates. For labor hired by th- r with board',the average rate ?0!>.S2, and anions: the eeon divisions the average was as 1< id to'$30.54 in the South Atlantic and a and high as $62.96 in the Western, in iping.eluding the Mountain and Pacifi lighi States. Without board, the averag t ny for the United States was $56.29 col- and the lowest was $44.03 in th rnish South Atlantic States and the high He est $87.12 in the Western Extras God, such as firewood, milk, etc., are no included. Ught Average for United States $3.15 the Per Day . \ 'rime Harvest wages per day with boar 3CCU" reached the top figure of $4.48 1 lings North Central States west of tn ex" the Mississippi River and the lowes figure of $2.28 in the South Atlanti we and the United States average wa rgot- $3,83 was most exceeded by $5.33 i thing former States, while the latte States had the lowest average $2.85 pan, Statements in similar form for da in." wages for work outside of harve: ; like with obard make the United State i the average $2.45, that of North Centra jin? States west of the Mississippi Rive s not $3.22, and of the South Atlanti e far States $1.85; the rates withoi far. board in the, same order, were $3.1! n the $4.03, and $2.39. lucer While the lowest farm wage rate Imost are in the South Atlantic States an nany next to the lowest in the South Cei s are tral States ,it is interesting to not hon- that the greatest percentage of gai I has in raes in 1919 over 1918 among a ative the groups of States was in the la ?the ter group and that next to the grea est gain was in the former excel rs to that next to greatest increase i fee(j harvest day wages was in the Nort mjj_ Central States west of the Missi; , and River. The lowest percentage c p0r. gain in all classes of hiring ar 7 the found in the North Atlantic State ns to a region in 'which the rates are abov Ie of averaSes f?r the United States. Dd is Farming Operations Also Increase eople | *n farm^nK operations of 191 nded|*n country? crops were produce but that had a value at the farm thf iountlwas per cent a^?ve the value c are the crops of 1918 ,and animal pr< some!^ucts 9,9 per cent a^ove? ^ an(j gain in the rates of wages of fan very- kbor from 1918 to 1919 were r< latively greater than these. In hirin by the month, the gain was 14 pc icers. ^ ^ cent when with board and 15.3 pe , cent when without board: day wage is: to . in harvest gained 18.9 per cen whether with or without board, an t&gGS cheS.jday wa&es for work other than hai ^ ^jvest gained 18.4 per cent when wit . board and 18.6 per cent when witl er of| , , out board. the * \ i These figures indicate that th troni ?arm laborer is still regaining tli 0 e ground that he lost, relatively, earl on in the rapid upward movement c sy prices of farm products after 1911 v | This wage recovery was evident i 5ince il918 as well as n 1919, but full r< e covery has not yet been accomplisl mean , 1" f f"; For some reason or reasons th ^connection between the wage rate Tiany and the boarding of the laborers b . employers underwent a change froi iS its to wag t^e reverse c lcon* the change that occurred from 191 ough to 1919. In 1919, compared with 1J ^s>.13, the last full prewar year, fan ^^h ijirej labor with board was relativel >dern more jn demand or less in suppl eve" than labor without board, but, con ^ r,s pared with 1918, yabor withoi a,,(^ board was relatively more in deman es' a or less in supply. In these tw r# v * * w classes of hirings, labor withoi 1 board was somewhat at a premiui ually in 1919 as a result of changes th: took place since hirings of 1918. IU1VU >oun- " ? SAGE TEA TURNS ~ GRAY HAIR DARI , The skill it's Grandmother's Recipe 1 wiH Bring Back Color and ns to Lustre to Hair. ;ion. n be-1 That beautiful, even shade of dar , I glossy hair can only be had by bre^ i ann ! j? - nt Hum Tpa and Su | nig a- iiiuvuiv D - phur. Your hair is your charm. ; makes or mars the face. When fades, turns gray or streaked, just e ; [ application or two of Sage and Su phur enhances its appearance a hui h [ dredfold. VTES ' Don't bother to prepare the mi: , ture; you can get this famous o recipe improved by the addition i es of i other ingredients at a small cost, a ready for use. It ia called Wyeth coun- gage an(j Sulphur Compound. This ce ;ain]y! always be depended upon to brlr .. * i back the natural color and lustre < Iirst: your hair. made' Everybody uses "Wyeth's" Sage ar j Sulphur Compound now because iat?s, j darkens so naturally and evenly thi ^?rj_, nobody can tell it has been applie 6 You simply dampen a sponge or so nitec! brush with It and draw this throug lo??| the hair, taking one small strand at " time: by morning the gray hair hi :.o .'h disappeared, and after another appl cation it bocomes beautiruiiy aarK ai was appears glos?y and lustrous. Th 'aph'" ?"?i.idy-to-use preparation is a deligh iui toi'.et roquisite for those who d nv a? .il; c; cark hair and a youthful appea ance. It is not intended for the cur mitigation or prevention of disease. flHBHHHHHHHHBHHHHIlI d . ^SJBVflBk3hAAMU ?Xvk!iWUBESflBB3W * ~~ ~ dt it THE I !S il There are m sr daily service t ic, eighty per cent it There are man] 2, which is the six so easy to un< is operate; and n d other motor ca i- business and fo ,e the people, and n day. Let us h 11 j want one. I , HI* " '? you No Dni.l i r !r Success can be yc ;s new year in securing t. be ready to hold a d Year rolls around. rh Our New Term stt i- us in regard to cour; ie e , Greenwoo y 326 1-2 WALLER 4 ?f 5 Under Same Manage n EMANUEL BU8IN JMIItMranaMMMMNRMMHBHMMMMNMNMMMMMMMNMMMNWMV 1- x I Austin-] :1 fJ o H We are esseni m JS want to emphas lt M fine line of dru medicines, etc. | WE PAY SPE * | OUR PRES * j Among other * Ij be mentioned: | Stationery V. I Toilet Artich ? Toilet Paper tn m * t. j| We hand |;| NUNNALLY' ?? 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We carry a | gs and medicines, patent j CIAL All L.IN 11UIN 1 U m ICRIPTION TRADE. I items that we carry might jj Books Cigars B is Tobaccos I Cigarettes I le a complete line of S CANDIES?FRESH | -Perrin Drug 1 ompany I