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President Harding's Inaugura Address. Washington, March 4.-Presider Harding in his inaugural addres said: My Countrymen: When one sui ? ,veys the world about him after th great storm, noting the marks of de struction and yet rejoicing in the rug gedness of the things which withstoo it, if he is an American, he breathe the clarified atmosphere with strange mingling of regret and nei hope. We have seen world passio spend its fury, but we contempl?t our republic unshaken and. hold ou civilization secure. Liberty-libert within the law-and civilization ar inseparable, and though both wer threatened we find them now secure and there comes to Americans th profojtmd assurance that our repre sentative government is the highes ^expression and surest guaranty o both. Standing in this presence, :,mindfu of the solemnity of this occasion, feel ing the emotions which no one ma; know until he senses the great weigh of responsibility for himself, I mus utter my belief in the divine inspira tion of the founding fathers. Surel] there must have been God's inten in the making of this new world re public. Ours is the organic law whicl had but one ambiguity, and we sav that effaced in baptism of sacrifice and blood, with union maintained, th? nation supreme and its concord in spiring. We have seen the world rivel its hopeful gaze on the great truths on which the founders wrought. Wi have seen civil, human and .religious liberty verified and glorified. In th? beginning the old world scoffed al our experiment, today our founda tions of political and social belief stand unshaken, a precious inheri tance to ourselves, an inspiring ex ample of freedom and civilization to all mankind. Let us express renewed and strengthened devotion, in great ful reverence for the immortal begin ning, and utter our confidence in the supreme fulfillment. Progress Proves Wisdom. The recorded progress of our re public, materially and spiritually, in itself proves the wisdom of the in herited, policy of non-involvement in old world affairs. Confident of our ability to work out our own destiny and jealously guarding our right to do so, we seek no part in directing the destinies of the old world. We do not mean to be entangled. We will ac cept no responsibility except as our own conscience and judgment in each instance may determine. Our eyes never will be blind to a developing menace, our ears never deaf to the call of civilization. We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which prog ress has wrought. We sense the call of the human heart for fellowship, fraternity and cooperation. We crave friendship and harbor no hate. But America, our America, the America builded on the foundation lend by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations or subject decisions to any other than our own authority. I am sure our own people will not misunderstand nor the world miscon strue; we have no thought to impede the paths to closer relationship. We want to do our part in making of fensive warfare so hateful that gov ernments and peoples who resort to it must prove the righteousness of their cause or stand as outlaws before the bar of civilization. Association for Counsel. We are ready to associate our selves with the nations of the world, great and small, for conference, for .counsel, to seek the expressed views of world opinion, to recommend a j way to approximate disarmament and relieve the crushing burdens of mili tary and naval establishments. We elect to participate in suggesting plans for mediation, conciliation and arbitration, and would gladly join in that expressed conscience of progress which seeks to clarify and write the laws of international relationship and establish a world court for the dispo sition of such justifiable questions as nations are agreed to submit thereto. In expressing aspirations, in seeking practical plans, in translating human ity's new concept of righteousness, justice and its hatred of war into recommended action, we are ready most heartily to unite, but every commitment must be made in the ex ercise of our national sovereignty. Since freedom impelled, and inde pendence inspired and nationality ex alted, a world super-government is contrary to everything we cherish and can have no sanction by our re public. This is not selfishness. It is sanctity. It is not aloofness. It is security. It is not suspicion of others. It is patriotic adherance to the things . which made us what we are. Today, better than ever before, we know the aspirations of humannkind and share them. We have come to a new realization of our place in the world and a new appraisal of our nation by the world. The unselfish ness of these United States is a thing proven, pur devotion to peace for ourselves and for the world is well' established, our concern for preserv ed civilization has had its impassioned and heroic expression. There was no American failure to resist the at tempted reversion of civilization, there will be no failure today or to morrow. Rests on Popular Will. The success of our popular govern ment rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, in telligent, dependable popular will of America. In deliberate questioning of a suggested change of national pol ity, where internationality was to supercede nationality, we turned to a referendum to the American people. There was ample discussion and there is a public mandate in manifest un derstanding. America is ready to encourage, eager to initiate, anxious to partici pate in any seemly program likely to lessen the probability of war and pro mote that brotherhood of mankind which must be God's highest concep tion of human relationship. Because we cherish ideals of justice and peace, because we appraise international comity and helpful relationship no' less highly than any people of the world, we aspire to a high place in the moral leadership of civilization and we hold a maintained America, the proven republic, .the unshaken temple of representative democracy, to be not only an inspiration and ex ample, but the highest agency of strengthening good will and promot ing accord on both continents. Mankind needs a worldwide bene diction of understanding. It is needed among individuals, among peoples, among governments, and it will inau gurate an era of good feling to mark the birth of a new order. In such un derstanding men will strive confident ly for the promotion of their better relationships and nations will pro mote the comities so essential to peace. Trade Ties Bind Closely. We must understand that ties of trade bind nations in closest intimacy and none may receive except as he given. We have not strengthened ours in accordance with our resources or our genius, notably on our own continent, where a galaxy of repub lics reflect the glory of new world democracy, but in the new order of finance and trade we mean to pro mote enlarged activities and seek ex panded confidence. Perhaps we can make no more helpful contribution by example than prove a republic's capacity to emerge from the wreckage of war. While the world's embittered travail did not leave us devastated lands nor deso lated cities, left no gaping wounds, no breast with hate, it did involve us in the delirium of expenditure, in expanded currency and credits, in unbalanced industry, in unspeakable waste and disturbed relationships. While it uncovered our portion of hateful selfishness at home, it also re vealed the heart of America as sound and fearless, and beating in confi dence.unfailing. Amid it all we have riveted the Ejaze of all civilization to the unself ishness and the righteousness of rep resentative democracy, where our freedom never has made offensive warfare, never has sought territorial aggrandizement through force, never has turned to the arbitrament of arms until reason had been exhaust ed. When the gov?rnments of earth shall have established a freedom like our own and shall have sanctioned thc pursuit of peace as we have prac ticed it, I helieve the last sorrow and the final sacrifice of international warfare will have been written. The Supreme Task. Our supreme task is the resump tion of our onward normal way. Re construction, readjustment, restora tion-all these must follow. I would like to have them. If it will lighten the spirit and add to the resolution with which we take up the task, let me repeat for our nation, we shall give no people just cause to make war upon us. We hold no national prejudices, we entertain no spirit of revenge, we do not hate, we do not covet, we dream of no conquest, nor boast of armed progress. If, despite this attitude, war is again forced upon us I earnestly hope a way may be found which will unify our individual and collective strength and consecrate all America, materially and -spiritually body and soul, to national defense. I can vision the ideal republic where every man and woman is called under the flag for assignment to duty, for what (Continued on Page Six.) I PAtNT g By VIRGINIA BAKER. (?. 1920. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) They were jost at that stage in the affair when other people were say ing: "When do you suppose they'll announce it?" and they were saying to each other all sorts of sweet unrepeat able things. But, between you and rae, what he said was really quite conservative, for he was Scotch. Added to this native clrcumspectness was an undemonstra-; tlveness fostered by a mother who came from old New England stock. Sq, because he Inherited e conscience and old-fashioned ideas, one of the .tilings he had to whisper to his girl was : "Philbie, dear, I wish you wouldn't put so much of that red stuff on your Hps and cheeks. You really don't need lt, you know." This was Just a mild protest But, as Philbie had no Scotch or Puritan blood in her veins, rather quite a spir ited mixture of Irish and French, she replied with a mischievous toss ??Tier bobbed brown curls: "How do you know? Do you know If you've ever seen me without lt?" "Well, really now, as you put It that way, I couldn't exactly say." Angus sidled down, rather embarrassed, be cause he had only seen Philbie 12. and a half times. The half was when he had first met her"-in the paint and varnish department of the Armstrong Hardware company, whe?e Angus was clerk. Philbie had given him quite a large order for white and greenland black and red paint She and her mother were fixing up the little house the*- *iad bought with part of dear papa's insurance money. They had never had a real home before because they had traveled around with papa, who had been an animal trainer with Buys Sinko circus. It was this environment which was responsible for Philberta's pernicious practice of rouging. Then, as lovers always do at least once, they quarreled. He even went so far as to say that he didn't want to kiss her any more il' she smeared that stuft* on, because his lips never touched hers-they Just tasted that paint ? At. first Philbie was furious. ! "I guess you'll never get the chanco again, after that" she flung at him. Angus took his cue and his hat ) But the animal training Instinct, which she had inherited from her father, made Philbie stop him when his hand was on the knob of the screen door. "Angus," she said, "I won't put lt on any more." And she meant lt, bet cause she saw the truth ?14 his^irutal speech. She wanted/ hlxa^o k$s now, quick"*! 7 He turned and saw her there .rub bing furiously at . her lips with a' bit of a handkerchief. But because he was Scotch he did not gather her In his arms and cover the red oh' the handkerchief as well as her Hps with penitent kisses, as a movie lover would have done. Oh, no. Becase he was Scotch, he said: "You will promise me, Philberta. never to use or have in your possession again this disgust ing red ointment." Philbie meekly promised, "Yes," be cause Just then he kissed her. Philbie was very busy finishing the I dressing up of the little house, be cause, on the afternoon of a certain r red letter day, ten of her best girl friends were coming to a tea party. And then one day, a week before c the date set for the party. Angus * called in the morning when Philbie "v was not expecting him. His call was c very Informal. j He almost had her In hls'arms, and s bent down-but he did not kiss her. He had seen her face. There was a red blotch on each cheek. He stared at her so long that Phil- c ble asked In a troubled voice: "So t early in the morning! What do you t want?" a "Nothing, now." Angus cut off the r words with cold finality. Then, as (an after-regret, and with deep reproach in his voice: "You said you wouldn't put lt on again !" "What?" asked Philberta. And be cause she looked at the can in front j of her, she put both hands to her cheeks. Thereupon she began to laugh an ever increasing crescendo of gur gles and trills. Finally, she struck her already slightly discolored finger into 1 the can before her, and with it she touched each of Angus' cheeks. That outraged gentleman had stood in motionless amazement at her mirth, but now he cautiously put up one of his own fingers to his cheek. It felt wet and rather sticky. He looked at his finger, smelled of the red smooch, and then he, too, began ( to laugh. When a Scotchman finally does see a Joke on himself, he can appreciate lt. "What the deuce were you doing, * anyway?" Angus asked. (? "Oh, just trying to paint up those c two old card tables to look oriental, a like some lacquered ones I saw In 5 town. Won't the girls think they're sporty when they see them on the veranda next Thursday?" "George! What a capable little wife J you're going to make!" and Angus laughed some more. The laugh did not last as long as lt, might have; it was very soon smoth ered against a daub of red on an other wise smooth, pink cheek. Yes, An gus not only kissed the paint on Phil berta's cheek, but he himself trans ferred some of lt to the place where i be had said lt was most especially tabooed. The State of South ' Carolina, County of Eogen^M. [n the Court of Common Pleas. The Farmers Bank of Edgefield, S. C., Plaintiff, Against Corrie E. Ow dom, T. A. Owdom, The Wolf Bros. Shoe Company, Leon Michael and Company, Ohio Pottery and Glass Company, W. A. Brown Tobacco Company and Fuller - Johnston Manufacturing Company, Defend ants. (Copy Summons for Relief. Com ?laint Served.) To the Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and re mired to answer the Complaint in bis action, of which a copy is here vith served upon you, and to serve a :opy of your answer to the said Com jlaint on the subscriber at his office it Edgefield Court House ,South Car dina, within twenty (20) days after he service hereof, exclusive of the lay of such service; and if you fail o answer the Complaint within the ime aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this iction will apply to the Court for the elief demanded in the Complaint. EDWIN H. FOLK, Paintiff's Attorney. Edgefield, S. C., Dated February 21st, A. D., 1921. Utest: W. B. Cogburn, (Off. Seal.) Clerk C. C. P., E. C., S. C. Po the Defendants, The Wolf Bros. Shoe Company, Leon Michael and Company, Ohio Pottery and Glass Company, W. A. Brown Tobacco Company, and Fuller-Johnston Manufacturing Company, above named: TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in this action, together irith the original Summons, of which he foregoing is a copy, was filed in he office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas in and for the County if Edgefield, State of South Carolina, it Edgefield, South Carolina on the ?3rd day of February, A. D., 1921. EDWIN H. FOLK, Plaintiff's Attorney. Lttest: W. B. Cogburn (Off. Seal.) Clerk C. C. P., E. C., S. C. Eggs For Hatching. Wycoff and Barron Strain White leghorns, $1.5o per setting. $1.75 f by parcel post. Mrs. GEO. F. MIMS. 2-23-tf ARE ECONOMICAL .i There is no economy in cutting expendi tures which bring you a profit That is extravagence. Royster's Fertilizer econ omizes for yon by making your land and your labor produce larger, finer, surer yields. See your Royster Dealer and place your order now. F. S. Royster Guano Co. Norfolk, Va. Richmond, Va. Lynchburg, Va. Tarboro, N. C. Charlotte, N. C. 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