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Estableo 1B35. J. L. MIMS,_.Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at S2.00 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub ished at advertising rates. Wednesday, March 17. Mr. Bryan looks longingly at the. ""presidential plum," being about as "willing as Barkis to enter the arena. | * * * * This thing of planning and an nouncing June commencement pro- j .grammes in March is the acme of pre- ? paredness. i * * * * I If the servant problem becomes more acute many Edgefield homes .will have to be turned into piggly, wiggly establishments. * * * * There'll be a lively time in South Carolina politics this summer, as everything will be elected from presi dent down to coroner. * * * ? The express company is already asking for a rate increase of from 10 to 75 per cent. Maybe we'll all be praying for a return to government control yet. * * * ? Women are gradually comin' to be men. We see by the papers that the women were invited to the Chamber of Commerce smoker in Columbia. But we hope they didn't smoke. * * * ? It has been announced that 150 Texas farm boys will visit South | Carolina in July. Well, we'll wager a goodly sum that they will go back ' dissatisfied with Texas. * * * * ? In reply to some adverse criticism anent equal suffrage, a leading suf fragist said : "Men have ruled the world since the day of Adam and we all know what a mess they have made of it." * - * * * Japs a Progressive People. Although the Japanese gained rec ognition as a civilized people but a short time ago, comparatively speak ing, yet they are now in the forefront in the world's progress. They are a wonderful people and are achieving great things. Not satisfied with importing cot ton goods for their needs and, fur-, thermore, not being satisfied with the ' manufacture of cotton goods at home j on a small scale, the Japs are over- j coming great odds and will embark upon the manufacture of cotton goods upon a larger scale. Not being j able to obtain deliveries of new cot ton mill machinery for two or three years, the Japs are purchasing ma- . chinery already in operation in American mills and are shipping it ; to Japan to be placed in their mills. A number of such sales have been re- ' ported from the North but not till within the past few days have the Japs entered the South as n?ll ma chinery purchasers. Just a few days ago they paid more for the machin ery of a Georgia cotton mill, secon- : hand machinery, mark you, than the entire mill cost. Is not that overcom ing obstacles with a vengeance? In ( this particular field, as in others, the Japs are proving themselves to be people who do things. Think of pur- I chasing machinery actually in opera- j. iion in cotton mills and shipping it to the other side of the globe to be in- j stalled in mills there! That's just,' what the Japs are doing. Not in one ? instance, but in dozens of instances. * * * * Wealth of Our People. We know of no better or more ac curate index to the prosperity of our ! people than the bank deposits of the | county. While there are thousands j ^ipon thonsands of dollars distribut ed over the county that have not found their way into the bank vaults, . yet the tremendous increase in the j visible cash assets of our people de serves more than passing notice. Not many years ago when the aggregate bank deposits of the county reached a million dollars it was a subject of .considerable comment. Now, in this good year of 1920, the cash deposits .of the seven banks of the county amount to more than two and three quarter million dollars. Johnston leads with deposits of $1,334,549.10 end Edgefield is second with deposits j cf $1,226,099.59. The Bank of Tren- j ton also makes a splendid record of ' steadily increasing business, having! deposits of $204,504.94. While the figures herein quoted ground for gratitude and congrati tion, yet having such an enorm sum locally at their command it [somewhat of a reflection upon j people, especially of Edgefield ? Johnston, that more local indust: enterprises haye not been establi ed. The criticism, which is by means expressed in an offend spirit, does not apply with the sa force to Trenton, because of the 1; of a proportionate uninvested lo wealth. There are only three towns Edgefield county and they are depi dent for their cash support aim altogether upon agriculture. When if they were to establish more lo industrial enterprises, with weel cash pay rolls and giving employm? to scores and hundreds of peop there would be a steady flowing cash into the tills of the merchai every month in the year. Under pr ent conditions, the towns are ainu entirely dependent upon the far and if they fail everybody else si fers in proportion. Furthermore, t income from the farms, under a 01 crop system, extends over a period only about four months. While ag 'culture is the parent industry, t one from which all others spring a are dependent in a very large mei ure, yet when towns can suppleme their support by a diversity of i terests and enterprises it is the wi thing to do. Agriculture is the bi gest and safest basket, but it is bett for towns to have at least a f( "eggs" in some other basket. It behooves the people of Edg field, Johnston and Trenton to bes! themselves and derive the fullest pc sible benefit from the wealth that h accumulated. Much of the money d posited in the banks stands to tl credit of farmers, but we have ? ways found them willing to have part in progressive measures. Wid awake, prosperous farmers are ge erally not self-centered men, but b long to that patriotic, public-spiritf class who are always willing to pi their shoulder td the wheel. Let's use fo the best possible a vantage the millions, that are deposi ed in our banks. The banks will ni suffer if it is checked out and wise invested. In a very short time it wi find its ways back into the bank carrying an increase every time it "turned over." Therefore, the bani will be benefitted along with indivh uals. * * * * Look to The Future. While the nations of Europe, a most without exception, are in th midst of great turmoil and strifi threatening their very existence, w of America congratulate ourselv? upon the stability of our goverr ment. After returning to their ow clime the Russian Reds and others c their kin, we are racher disposed t feel that we are absolutely safe an altogether immune to the epidemi of strife and unrest that prevail overseas forgetting that no natior or people, can be safe that does no look to the future of its citizenship The people, the men and women, o a nation make that nation. Like ai individual, unless a nation' be God fearing and God-honoring, its civil zation is established upon sand. That 26,861,000 young people ig nore ? the Sabbath school a: shown by the following figures, ii sufficient to cause grave apprehen sion as to the future of America. Thc Sabbath school is a firmly establishec institution that no individual can neg lect without injury to himself anc no aggregation of individuals car neglect without serious injury to thc nation. Study the figures contained in the following: "Oneof the most significant facts developed by the religious education survey of the International World movement," says R. E. McGill, "is that there are in the United States 26,861,000 young people under 20 years of age, yet untouched by Protestant Sunday schools. "Of this number 13,160,480, or 50 per cent., are in the South. Divid ed by state lines, the problem is as follows: Alabama, 1,091,340; Geor gia, 1,326,180; Florida, 379,430; Ar kansas, 882,360; Kentucky 812,450; Louisiana, 616,090; Maryland, 225, 580; Mississippi, 750,220; North Car olina, 874,640; Oklahoma, 1,019,030; South Carolina, 662,790; Tennessee, 961,800; Texas, 1,355,890~; Virgin ia, 851,330; West Virginia, 465,140. "Turning to the religious illiter acy of the whites in the South exclu sively, we face the fact that over 8,000,000 white young people await the ministrations of the evangelical churches. "The Southern Presbyterian church has set out to gain 40,000 new Sun day school scholars as a part of its great progressive program. A total of $80,000 has been appropriated for Sunday schools as a part of its $4 000,000 the church is raising in 15 Southern States." Return to Economy. Fortune is smiling upon the nation and upon its people. There is scarce an individual to be found who is not riding the crest of a wave of unusual prosperity. Just how long this will continue, it is impossible for the fi nite eye to see. It is generally conr ceded, however, that soon or later, a reaction will come, and only those who have anticipated and prepared for the season of depression will be able to withstand the counter cur rent. The wise and prudent man and wo man will not continue in reckless ex travagance but will lay by in store for the season of adversity. Gen. Wood has aptly expressed the excess es and extravagance of the present day by saying "We have been spend ing money like a drunken sailor." Let us all "sober up" and act like sensible folk again. It matters not jvhat most people make these days, many of them two-fold more than they ever made before in their lives, they spend the last penny, taking no thought of to-morrow. It's the best time in the world to pay debts and the poorest time in the world to make debts. The Advertiser has, by line upon line, counseled and urged a return ' ? to the ways of economy. While liv- j i ing expenses are high and seem to 2 grow higher, yet most people can j : save a part of their earnings. A good \ rule to adopt at any time, and es- ? ? ?pecially during the abnormal condi- J tions through which we are passing, ' jj is to save a portion of every dollar j j made. Happy is the man, as we have Z said before, who makes one dollar1 - and spends ninety cents, and miser able, very miserable, will become the man who spends one dollar and ten cents to every dollar he makes. 'AH For Edgefield; Edgefield ! For All." High Prices Preferable. Even if very .little of the larger than-usual sum of money that passes ? through our hands sticks, high prices ? are preferable to low prices. Nobody 5 wants to see a return of starvation ? prices. Speaking of high prices re- S minds us of a little clipping from a I farm paper which was handed us by ( I Mr. M. W. Hudgens a few days ago:, (j "Comparing prices paid for farm > produce twenty-four years ago this j ?month and now, a 'buyer recently produced interesting figures from his books. Some of them follow, the | prices being respectively, those ol? 1895 and 1919: 1" "Wheat-40 to 60 cents a bushel, | $2.08; corn, 20 cents, $1.35; oats, 14 F ?cents, 67 cents; butter, 10 cents, 50 a cents; eggs 6 cents, 80 cents; pota-;(^ f f d d v \ I t toes 40 cents, $2.00; hens, 5 cents, 23 cents; roosters, 2 cents, 15 cents; steers (corn fed) $2.50, $17.50; hogs, $3.25, $15.00." Your Orders Solicited. When in need of any of the fol lowing, remember us: |^ Corn, Corn-chops, oats, hay, alfal fa, feeds, wheat bran, wheat shorts, mix feeds, corn or cotton seed meal, dairy feeds, chicken feed, both the scratch and lay mash, or most any 'ching in heavy feeds. Also remember we carry a com plete line of fancy and heavy gro ceries. Will appreciate small as well as large orders. J. D. KEMP & CO. Velvet Beans Ninety-Day Speckle Velvet Beans, grown by myself, at Ellenton, S. C. $3.00 per bushel, cash with order, f.o.b, Ellenton, S. C. H. M. CASSELS, Ellenton, S. C. FOR SALE: 150 acres of land, ?2% miles of Edgefield, two tenant houses; well watered and wooded, $20 per acre. JOHN RAINSFORD, Edgefield, S. C. 2-ll-6t Frost Proof Cabbage Plants. For immediate shipment, extra fine stocky plants. Early Jersey, Charleston Wakefield, (Succession, Flat Dutch. By express 1,000, $2.00; 2,000, $3.50; 5,000, $7.50. Prepaid mail 300, $1.00; 500, $1.50; 1,000, $2.50. Send for price list Sweet Po tatoes, Tomatoes and other plants. 2-25-4t PARKER FARMS, Moultrie, Ga. To Prevent Blood Poisoning ippljr at once the wonderful old reliable DK PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HFALING OIL. a sur. srical dressing that relieves pain and heals it the same time. Not a liniment 25c. P^Kui Twc Eve Are yo mg the pari crosses the in Spring. Christ aros? custom to si after suffer this day it 1 day Best," ; ists, which ' If you not come i wherein yoi price, whic] of the "Hi" We ar< Hats, Shirt ooks (color hams, Mad cloth that i $1.50 per j convince yo m. - .? Oxforc these here Children's ] The" iomething New for Edgefield. We have installed an electric clip ler, which enables us to do faster nd better work, and in order to ren ier satisfactory service to the Edge ield public, we have increased our orce of barbers to three regularly luring the week, and four on Satur lay. Our patrons will not have to irait hereafter to be served. Mr. L. V. Smith is at first chair; Mr. C. E. lall, the second; Mr. Ed Corley, the hird and Mr. John H. Miller, the ourth. PALACE BARBER SHOP. To the rear of Bank of Edgefield. FOR SALE: One milch cow fresh o pail. Dry cattle also. S. W. MILLER. -10-2t Notice of Final Discharge, 'o All Whom These Presents May .Concern: Whereas, T. J. Briggs has made pplication unto this court for final ischarge as Administrator in re the state of Dr. Wm. T. Briggs, late of ;dgefield County, S. C., deceased, on his the 27th day of February 1920. These are Therefore to cite any nd all kindred, creditors or parties iterested to show cause before me t my office at Edgefield Court House outh Carolina, on the 3rd day of Lpril 1920 at ll o'clock a. m., why aid order of discharge should not be ranted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. [OTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The undersigned will make a final 2ttlement as administrator of the state of John McCarty in the office f the Probate Court at Edgefield, . C. at ll o'clock A. M. on Satur ay, March 20, 1920, and ask for a nal discharge. All parties owing lid estate will present same itemized nd verified to the undersigned. j. s. MCCARTY, Administrator. -18-4t COTTON SEED! Record 4 bales per acre. Free from isease and weevil. It's a boll weevil nasher. Write for facts. HEAVY FRUITER CO., Royston, Ga. nts Are Near >u going to follow Fashions' trend in look ; when they arrive? On March 21st, the sun equator on it's northward march, ushering On April 4th, the glorious day on which ? from the dead. On this day it has been the how our joy that Christ rose from the dead ing death in redemption of our sins, and on las also been our custom to wear our "Sun and always will be, long as Christianity ex will be as long as the earth exists. haven't made your Easter purchase, why n and let us show you through out stock, ii will find a great many items at last year's h will be a real saving to you in these days Cost of Living. ? well stocked in Dresses, Coat Suits, Skirts, Waists, Underwear, Dress Goods, Nains ed and white), also Voiles, Percales, Ging ras, Linen Suiting. Nearly every piece of ve have in stock has advanced from 15c to rard, a close inspection of our prices will u. ls, Pumps and Hosiery-a complete line of for your inspection-and a chick line of [)ress Ankle Pumps. Corner Store ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Seeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. Distributors of Marathon Tires and Tubes. None better, but our price is less YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED ?JSF" See our representative, C. E. May. t-i FRESH SHIPMENT OF MULE Attention Farmers: We have just received a fresh shipment of mules-just the size and kind that are needed by Edgefield farmer. Now is the time to equip your farm with adequate power. Prices reasonable. Bettis Cantelou