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COME! , t HURRY! COME! HURRY! All Selling Records Demolished Like THUN FROM A CLEAR SKY Wednesday, February 2 AT The Economy Store EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA Watch next week's Advertiser for the big double page advertisement. Wake up! Come on! Be here! Get here! IT'S GOING TO BB GREAT Woman Voters' League. A meeting of the Woman Voter League was held in the Court Hou: on Monday afternoon at 4 o'cloc called to order by Mrs. N. G. Evan .Mrs. W. L. Dunovant read the 271 chapter of Numbers and called upc Mrs. J. W. Peak to pray. Mrs. Dunovant read the purposi of the Woman Voter's League son .of the principles of which are as fo lows: What It Is. The South Carolina League < Women Voters is an organization c . -women who wishnot merely to vot< but to use their votes to the best ac vantage. Any woman interested in seein her vote count for the public goo may be a member. The organization has two purpose -to foster education in citizenshi and to support improved legislation. The program is educational an legislative, i. e., to get behind need ed reforms, to urge their support an< adoption in the platforms of the po litical parties and their enactment in to laws. The League of Women Voter hopes to accomplish its purpose ii two ways, first by education, as ti national and State human needs; sec ond, by the direct influence of it own members who are enrolled vot .ers in the already existing pol?tica parties. It is not partisan. It will no support or .attack national cand dates or national parties. To quot? from the Constitution, "The Soutl Carolina League of Women Voter! urges every woman to become ai .enrolled voter." Why It Is. Because women see definite thing; which are needed in our social struc ture and which men voters have nev er seen clearly enough to establish Because by organization certair great purposes and ideals of womer can be accomplished which individua! women or individual groups can nol bring out. Because these needed changes car be secured by the spread of infor mation, education of the public, pres sure brought to bear on Congress and on State Legislatures to pass the ne cessary laws and to arouse public .opinion to secure their enforcement. Because some progressive ideas have been enacted into laws in the various states and the great need is to secure these laws which have prov ed practical and satisfactory for all other States in the Union. How lt Works. First, by education. Directly in the form of citizenship schools and class es to make every woman an intelli gent voter, acquainted with process es of government and voting, inform ed as to citizenship rights and duties and aroused to the needs of certain national and state reforms. This in struction in citizenship will be con tinued until public sentiment has made such'a course an integral part of our public school system. Indirectly by spreading knowledge of great lacks in our social stricture and by suggestions for improvement. This method is developed in the work of standing committees which inves tigate, collect, and sort data as to existing needs and laws already pass ed to meet these needs, law enforce ment, etc. These standing committees, each one headed by a woman who is an expert in her line, are: Child Welfare. Women in industry. Social Hygiene. Food Supply and Demand. American Citizenship. Legal Status of Women. Election Laws and Methods. Research and Data Department. A quotation from Dr. John E. White, President of Anderson col lege was read as follows: "We are told that a great many women do not want to vote. There are also a great many men who do not want to vote. It has been considered a great evil that so many otherwise good men have stayed away from the polls. It will prove a great evil if otherwise good women shall follow their example. The exercise of the franchise is more than a right to be contended for; it is a.duty to be ac cepted and performed in good con science. "I hope that every good woman will promptly avail herself of the opportunity to discharge the moral obligation of voting. In the states of the north and west there seems to be no doubt of their doing so at once. In the south, and in South Carolina, especially, the failure to do it will work a great injury and a great in equality of political power. The soon er this new obligation of womanhood is taken up conscientiously and dis t charged intelligently, the better** will be for public morals and gooc government." Mrs. J. B. Salley and Mrs. W. B Duncan of Aiken \vere present anc Mrs. Salley made a very straight for ward and helpful talk on the presenl situation. She said the two main objectives now of the Woman Voter's League which is organized in every state oi the union, are first to educate women in the intelligent use of the franchise for which women have been working for the past. 80 years. She said that men had never stud ied to prepare themselves for citizen ship and this idea will be continued until every High . School includes this teaching as a part of its curriculum. Another objective is the urging of better legislation. One bill which the League is working for in. Congress is the Smith-Towner bill for child and maternity protection and wel fare. Mrs. Salley made the statement that more women had died this year in the United States with diseases coincident to child birth than had been our loss in men during the world war. In our state legislatures the women are pushing two important bills, one changing the primary law entitling women to vote in the primaries and the other to raise the age of consent to 18 years instead of 14 as it now stands. ' Mrs. Salley quoted from the Co lumbia State, which said in an edi torial recently that the greatest pow er in American politics today were women and the American soldier of the world war, and The State wel comed the women into the arena. Mrs. P. M. feltham was elected county chairman, Mrs. N. G. Evans, who resigned as chairman, was elect ed vice-chairman; Miss Sarah Collett secretary; Mrs. J. W. Peak, treasur er; Mrs. J. L. Mims, p.ublicity direct or; Mrs. Mamie N. Tillman, legisla tive chairman. It was decided to hold monthly meetings at which citizenship stud ies would be used. A number of the members will at tend the State Convention in Colum bia, February ll. Mrs. Duncan spoke of the impor tance of the Home and Demonstra tion work and of the pride South Carolina should feel in having origi nated the Home Demonstration work, Missal??r?e Cromer of Abbeville having organized it in Aiken county eleven years ago and now it has spread into every state, and France and England ara asking for our Home Demonstrators. The women of our state are in sympathy with this work. They also expressed themselves as favoring the poll tax for all women, as th* tax would add materially to the" school funds of our state, and said they were willing to serve on jury duty when proper conditions prevailed. Mrs. J. L. MIMS, Publicity Chairman. Teachers' Salaries. I have done my best to meet the demands of our schools in a financial Way, but unless the tax payers of our county come forward with their tax es, there is no way in the world for me to continue paying our teachers. A glance at the number of delin quents on the treasurer's book wiri i*eadily explain the cause. W. W. FULLER, Co. Supt. Education. Important Livestock Meeting. County Agennt Carwile has receiv ed the letter below calling attention to the very important livestock meet ing to be held in Columbia next week. Those farmers who are interested should see Mr. Carwile at once. "Please call attention to all live stock men in your county, to the meeting of the Southern Cattlemen's association that will be held in Co lumbia at the Jefferson Hotel, Febru ary 1-3. This will be the biggest meeting of livestock men that will be held this year. Livestock men, business men and bankers interested in livestock development, will come from all the Southern Stetes. In addition to having a good pro gram on livestock subjects, there will be sales of Angus, Shorthorn and Hereford cattle; a sale each day. "Please call attention to your men to the fact that this is a good time to buy breeding stock, for money is tight and the breeders must sell. Then too, pure bred cattle prices are lower than they have been for the last few years. I think that is the best time we will have to buy breeding cattle, for pure bred prices are bound to go up higher than they are now. It is not a good time to sell, but a good time to buy." FARMER'S PLEDGE I,.of the county of Edgefield, do certify that I am a farmer and cotton grower, and hereby solemnly promise and agree on my sacred word of honor thal: during the year 1921 I will not plant in cotton more than one-third of the lands cultivated by me during the year 1920. And I further promise that I will use whatever influence that I may have with my friends and neighbors to have them sign a like obligation and to co-operate with the county/committee in the organization and the work for the said cotton reduction. \ ' I. Witness: Drag Saws at Special Prices ,. As long as our Type "W" Drag Saws, which are equipped with Bosch Magneto and Lever Control, last and until February 15, 1921, we will make a special price f.o.b Columbia of $150.00 on these machines, which means a 25 per cut. Columbia Supply Company 823 West Gervais Street Columbia, S. C. JUST RECEIVED ONE CAR OF GOOD YOUNG TENNESEE HORSES CHEAP Some as Good Mares as Ever Wore a Collar I BEN. L. HOLSTON j