/. L. MIMS, Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year IQ advance. Entered as second class matter at be poatoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published aptess accompanied by the writer's dame. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, R?solu tif and Political Notices published at advertising rates. Wednesday, April 25 Germany is now having her Ham burg riot. _ John Barl?ycorn is falling back fas ter than Hindenburg. The Germans seem to be in need of forty years more of preparation. When it takes two nickels to buy a loaf of bread somebody is going hungry. _ _ In making a selection from the va rious forage crops, think of the V's in VelVet beans. If the average dinner pail were weighed, it would be found wanting in variety, if not in quantity If you can't do guard duty for your country, you can do gardening duty, which is almost as important. Dr. W. T. Kinnaird will officially hang out his sign this morning. Won der who will get prescription No. 1? It is to be hoped that the severance of our relations with Turkey is only temporary and that the normal status will be restored by Thanksgiving. In the first half of the war MIGHT predominated but in the latter half RIGHT will prevail. However, we can not say" All is well that ends well." If our congressmen can fight as well as some of them can debate and d?lay legislation, every man of them should be sent to the front. As President Wilson can do almost everything else, we wonder if he can converse fluently with Premier Viviani and Marshall Joffre in their own tongue? Do not allow an idle plot of ground on your premises in 1917. Make every available spot produce some life-sus taining crop. Better grow vegetables than weeds. Relief ships, hospital ships and war ships all look alike and meet alike fate at the hands of the Germans. Their heartlessness permits of no discrimina tion. Some of the wise ones say the war will last for years and years. But here's hoping that "Uncle Sam" will find a peace proclamation in his Christ mas sock. Some automobiles claim to be blue blooded and turn up their noses at other machines. But, if we mistake not, all of them descended alike from them wheel-barrow or jinrikisha. The latest type of submarine is an L-boat. Have we got to run the en tire gamut of the alphabet with sub marines before the war closes? If so, hasten the christening of the Z-boat! The slump from four quarts to one will make only one drink possible in future where four were taken before. Yet the whiskey people say prohibi tion does not curtail the consumption ? of whiskey. The high coat of living seems to have brought a new word, kitchenette, into existence. It probably means a diminutive kitchen, which is better .suited to the diminished supply of our Apantryette. Distillers admit that they have 211, .900,000 gallons of intoxicants stored in ?bonded warehouses. Then why make more grain into whiskey when the entire world is suffering from hunger or high prices of foodstuffs? As much as the old Kaiser appreci ates the firm resolve of; the German people to "stand by him" to the end, we have a sneaking notion that he pre fers for them to stand in front of him in this emergency. The people of the goodly town of Anderson never do things by halves. For example, an Anderson lady re cently purchased the entire bond issue of a school district, amounting to $8o, 000. As for that, the people of Spar tanburg never do things by halves either. For example, Col. Harold Booker of The Journal never stops at a half-gallon of buttermilk. Wonder what the old moss-backs, who seem to want women to hide their light under a bushel, will say of Gov ernor Manning's act of selecting some intelligent women to work along with the men, some of them effective speak ers, in the campaign for food pre paredness. Should Close Distilleries. In advocating and legislating in fa vor of national preparedness, by both conserving and increasing the food supply of the country, President Wil son and Congress will be inconsistent if they fail to close the distilleries and breweries of the country that are an nually destroying, rendering unfit for food, enough cereals to feed nearly 8,000,000 persons an entire year. According to a statement given out by the distillers and brewers them selves, the enormous quantity of 050, 000,000 bushels of grain is annually made into beer and whiskey. Why urge an increase in the production of foodstuffs and then not stop this wan ton waste? Granting that the people need and must have intoxicating li quors, which is not true, there is now stored in government warehouses suf ficient quantity to supply a normal de mand several years. Therefore, the closing of distilleries and breweries du ring the period the war lasts will not work a hardship on anyone. Those who are now employed in these plants can readily find employment in other lines. The cry is for men everywhere; not only by the government for ser vice at the front, but by corporations all over the country that have more orders than can be filled. By diverting the grain that is now consumed in making intoxicants into other channels, prices can be held at a lower level through this increase of grain available for food. Let's stop the making of corn into liquor, - in or der that the people may have more meal for making bread. Unless the government places an embargo on grain consumption for this purpose, as one of the first war measures enacted, it will be grossly inconsistent and grievously negligent in safeguarding the people's interests in this time of unprecedented strain and stress. Corporations Often Misjudged. It used to be said, more than now, that corporations have no souls. But the making of a sweeping charge or statement, including all corporations in one class, is manifestly unjust. Cor porations reflect the men who manage them, being altogether what these men make them. Those that are man aged by men who are unreasonable in their requirements, arbitrary and un scrupulously exacting in their dealings with men, deserve to be classed as hav ing no souls. But we believe only a small per cent, rightly belong to this class. Most corporations of to-day are conducted upon broad, generous lines which cause them to deserve, and there fore should receive, favorable rather than unfavorable criticism. The very generous aid that cot ton mills are giving their employees in the various phases of welfare work shows that these corporations have souls, or at least their manag ers have more than "a spark of di vinity" in them. The aid that railroads give in free transportation and in various other ways when human suffering is to be relieved at home and abroad indicates \,bat many of these large corporations are not altogether devoid of the milk of human kind ness. The way in which some banks and other corporations are co-ope rating in the food preparedness campaign likewise disproves the sweeping assertion that "corpora tions have no souls." Unfortunate ly, some corporations are manned by men of dwarfed and shrivelled souls who take no thought of the welfare of others, their greed for gold, and then more gold, shutting out everything but the advancement of their own selfish interests. Such corporatins are never helpful to any except their selfish owners. How ever, these are in the minority. Card of. Thanks, We tase this privilege of ex pressing our sincere thanks and ap oreoiation to our friends and' rela tives for their many acts of kind ness, during the recent illness- and death of my husband and our father. Mrs. S. L. Roper, Mrs. J. G. McKie, Mrs. W. H. Moss, Mrs. Joseph Ripley, Mrs. W. E. Ousts, Mr. A, H. Roper, Miss Lula Roper, Miss Sue Roper, Miss Lila Roper, Miss Anna Roper. Your cash money will go a long ways toward supplying your needs at our store this week. Special values in dry goods and slippers. Do not miss these bargains. The Corner Store. A Trip to old Gilgal. It was on the occasion pf the burial of Mrs.Clarissa Strother (Cla rissa Bowles she was), who died yesterday. She was the daughter of old Major Isaac Bowles, who years ago surveyed and made a map of the entire county of Edgefield." The writer remembers to have often sppnt the night at their hos pitable home, before Miss Clarissa's marriage, when I was their pastor, the pastor of old Gilgal. There, it was my privilege to marry her to Mr. Strother of Saluda county. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Dean in South Greenwood, and her remains were taken today to Gilgal. While the occasion that called me there was sad, yet it was a plea sure for me to go with the bereav ed family and to meet so many old friend*, many whom I had baptized and married. Mr. Pomp Cheatham was