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To Decide on Pie Slice For Negroes. Washington, April "17.-The pres ent month, will, in all probability, de termine the fate of the negro in the South to profit from the Harding ad ministration in the way of federal pie. Nominations of every variety from that of ambassador to the great est nations in the world down to the little post offices which are giving so much trouble, will come pouring into the -Senate for confirmation. So far there has been not the least ink ling from the White House that Hard ing was inclined to pay much atten-| tion to the colored members of the G. 0. P. one way or the other.. In fact since the date of the inaugura tion there has been a decided air of I tranquility and quietness noticeable about the Chief Executive's abode. A strong reason to believe that Mr. Harding does not intend to dispense much of his patronage among the negroes became known here today | when copies of an appeal to him to j recognize them were distributed here and there-among the people in and around Washington. This appeal is a printed statement] entitled'"A reply to Mr. Taft on the negro in politics." "Among the many cherished hopes | for the better things to come from the restored Republican power" these wishers for federal pie say "is the hope of millions of negro citizens that Mr. Harding will live up to his pre election platform promise to them of j justice and the square deal. Political ly, this promise can have no value unless it means that the President is going to protect the electoral rights | of colored, as well as all other Amer ican citizens, and insure to them fair representation and participation in the government. "Now Mr.- Taft is saying that the negroes of the South must xepect; nothing of the kind. He thinks it ? necessary to state to the incoming ad ministration- the southern point of, view, and by implication, embraces j that view himself. "It is hard to understand why Mr. Taft should^feel called upon to hold a brief for the Pourbon South. That South has never lacked couraged to make plain the meaning of its policy of keeping'the negro in the place of the non-participating menial. These destructive times need clear voices on the other side of the argument, that is, on the side of representative gov ernment. "The Ex-Presidewt says, in effect, that the South has strong objections to the appointment of negroes to po- J litical offices',' and that, therefore, Mr. Harding would do well to give ne groes appointments only in Washing ton, or elsewhere in the North, so that j they may have a sense of "official participation in the government." It I ?will be a great mistake, he thinks, if J Mr. Harding appoints negroes to of fice South af the District, as this will "be out of harmony with "lily white" Republicanism. It is his judgment that southern Republicans will reward this policy by an equitable distribu tion of school taxes, and by the re-j pression of lynching. "The determination of the majori ty of the southerners to keep the negro in his place seems as strong to- j day as it was ""before the war. The re- j organization^ the Ku Klux Klan and the bold menace of that organization in the North'are ready proofs." This document has been spread broadcast over the country with the effort in view of getting recognition for the negro, but whether or not it j does so is another matter. How to Break up The Liquor Business. The number of people who are making intoxicating liquors in multi plying. For awhile there was little of it being made in this country, or, if so, it was not generally known. Now the officers -count it a poor day for them if they do not destroy two or three liquor^wmaking outfits in this country eaeh day. Everybody", who gave the matter .any thought^expected that when li quor could tw> longer be bought le- j gally this Tery thing would happen. And the haw has made provision for taking care ?of this situation. But it cannot be taken care of unless the judges of thetstate and federal courts administer tije law in such way as | to give punishment to violaters of the law according to their guilt. Collar Galls. Clemson College, April 16. This! is the time ?? year when collar galls are likely to develop on work stock. Collar galls are very common among horses and mules and are caused by uneven pressue of the collar, which causes the skin to become abraded and the hair td fall off. Large inflam matory swelling appear, which mayi form into abscesses, or the skin may | become hardened. We will cleac your Ford motor and j put in fresh oil -tfor $1.25. YONCE & MOONEY. Sound the Charge. "Beat a retreat," said Napoleon to a drummer boy, when in one of his battles he felt that he was losing and that his army must retreat in order to be saved. i "Sire," said the drummer boy, "I have never learned to beat a retreat, I but I can beat a march that will make the dead arise and fight." He received permission from the General to beat a march, into which he threw his very soul. The tired, weary, almost defeated soldiers caught the inspira tion of the charge, and with new en ergy and quickened fire of body and spirit, rushed once more to the bat tle and won a great victory. The people of this country feel that they have been almost defeated; discouragement fills their minds and hearts. The power of the enemy has almost reached the limit of their en durance. They have been beating a retreat, but the time has come to beat a march and catch that new inspira tion which Napoleon's soldiers felt at the stirring music Drought forth by the indomitable drummer boy who knew not how to beat a retreat. Every man who is a pessimist, or who permits the discouragements of the hour to dominate him, is beating a retreat. He is not only beating a re treat for his own business, hut he is beating a retreat for all with whom he comes in touch. The time has come to beat a march, to sound the charge, to quicken the life blood of the na tion once more, and out of the appar ent defeat of the last twelve months rally for a new. charge, a new crea tive period of work and energy. For getting the things that are behind, we much press forward with greater energy to overcome the difficulties which as a nation we have had to face. Every man who draws within his business shell, every man who cancels his contracts or pessimistically refus es to do business because of his fear of the future, is beating a retreat. Every man who goes ahead, who has the optimism of the drummer boy and a spirit whi?h dares to do things, is beating a march on to victory. If throughout the entire nation there can be rekindled the drummer boy's fire, we shall soon have opti mism and sunshine and prosperity, where today there is pessimism and doubt and despair. It was the drummer boy whose work inspired the great Napoleon and his troops. It must be the drummer boys of the business world, the far mer and the small merchant, and the individual business man, whor beats the march and sounds ' the charge rather than the great business lead ers who have halted so long. The ones who have suffered must be the ones who dare and do the most. The men who would beat a march on to victory over the threatened dis aster which they have so long faced will be the red-blooded men who know that the nation cannot stand still and who are determined to lead the charge. The pessimist is the shirker. The optimist is the burden-bearer. The pessimist is the man who heats the retreat. The pessimist is the man who sounds the charge. WHICH ARE YOU?-Manufac turers Record. Profanity by Young Girls. "A bevy of young girls recently as sured the editor of this paper that they endorsed . our recent editorial protesting against profanity, indulged in by members of their sex. They agreed most heartily, that it was an ugly, unbecoming practice, ever de tracting from the beauty of the girl or girls that otherwise, would be con sidered very pretty. No man has a real reason for being profane and every one addicted to that habit should take stock and see how much revenue such a practice has yielded him. It is foreign to us to understand how a pure, sweet, modest girl can profane the name of God."-Walton News. Profanity by a man is bad enough. There can be no real excuse for tak ing the Lord's name in vain. Pro fanity by a boy is worse, though it is true many a boy, thus sinning, be lieves he is doing something mannish. Profanity from a girl is nauseating. Surely no young man could care for a young woman who is profane. The forked tongue is frightful. The idle tongue writes one down a fool. The gossip tongue is next to criminality. The profane tongue is most horrible of all, and is death to the person, par ticularly the girl, who lowers himself or herself by indulging in it.-Augus ta Chronicle. Eggs For Hatching. Wycoff and Barron Strain White Leghorns, $1.5o per setting. $1.75 if by parcel post. Mrs. GEO. F. MIMS. 2-23-tf Medical Science Profits by War. t Cambridge, Mass., April 17.-Dis coveries made by Dr. Walter B. Can non of the Harvard Medical school and other American, British and French medical officers toward the close of the world war have brought forth new evidence regarding the cause and nature of the strange con dition known as "shock," a condition that led to innumerable deaths in war time and frequently has a simi lar result after accidents in time of peace. "Shock, or wound shock as it is often called, has ,long baffled the medical profession," Dr. Cannon said today to the Associated Press, on be ing asked to describe the results of his important work in Paris.'' "This condition, which by the way should not be confused with shell shock, an entirely different phenome non, usually develops some hours af ter a serious wound or accident. It frequently followed grave shell wounds in the war, and often comes on after a person has been seriously hurt in an accident in times of peace, after, for example, he has had a limb crushed in a railroad accident. "A man in a state of shock usually lies perfectly quiet, his skin is cold I and moist with sweat, his pulse is rapid and thready, his arterial pres sure is much reduced, he breathes rapidly and superficially, and al though not paralyzed he has little energy and his mind is dulled. He often complains of being cold and thirsty. This condition may be fol lowed by death or by gradual re covery. "There have been numerous theo ries of the nature of shock. Some doctors held that shock resulted from nervous collapse, others that it came from a clogging of blood vessels by fat from wounds, some that it was due to" a paralysis of the nerves con trolling the arteries, others that the adrenal gland was somehow affected so as to do the mischief, and so on. "Our work in France gave us op portunities to study shock in the ut most detail. One by one we threw out the theories advanced in former years. "We finally tested and established the fact that the condition results from the tearing or crushing of mus cles or other tissues by missiles mov ing with terrible velocity. The dam aged or dead tissue soon becomes tox ic, or in other words acts like a sort of p?ison. This -toxin causes., an in^ creased permeability of the smallest blood vessels, the capillaries, and thus there is lost through theirwalls quan tities of the fluid portion of the blood which should be in circulation. The result is somewhat similar to that of great loss of blood from the body." American, British and French medical and surgical officers co-op erated in the investigations, some of which were made at Bethune in 1817, some in London, and others at Dijon in 1918 in a laboratory of the Ameri can Expeditionary force under Dr. Cannon's direction. """Toward the end of the war we had learned much about methods of toeating such cases, finding that it was helpful to keep the patient amply warm, to give him quantities of water and if necessary to transfuse blood into bis system from somebody else's," he said. "The mass of information about shock which was collected during the war and will ultimately be published is going to prove useful in times of peace, for the condition often de velops after accidents of various kinds in which there is extensive tearing or crushing of tissues, and physicians will now be able to handle such cases more effectively than ever before." Dr. Cannon is now engaged at the Harvard Physiological laboratory in studies of the function of the thy roid gland, following his discoveries in recent years concerning the ad renal gland. One Estimated at Fifteen Mil lion Years. . Marlton, N. J., April 9.-Shells declared to be 15,000,000 years old have been discovered in the marl pits of this town by Prof. John H. Ruck man, federal geologist and engineer. The discoveries, it is said, give Marl ton the greatest range of such spec imens in the world, extending from the period when the shell fish rep resented the only animate life, until the epoch which probably directly preceded the appearance of man. Giant lizards and huge animals long extinct are among the speci mens which have been unearthed from marl deposits in this section. The most recent discoveries of Pro fesor Ruckman, it is said, upset the calculations of the age of the marl deposits in New Jersey, and are be lieved to be the oldest remains of prehistoric life on earth. USE PUREBRED BOARS Inferior Sires a Great Handicap. Clemson College, May 2.-With the Increased interest in swine in the state, there will be a large demand for breeding animals. On account of this demand, a number of persons will be tempted to use inferior boars and sows. While it cannot be hoped to ?have all'of the sows purebred at this time, yet there is no excuse for the use of grade or scrub boars. There are sufficient purebred boars, if prop erly distributed and properly man aged, to make every market hog in the state at least fifty percent pure bred. Why the Purebred Sire?. There are six goods reasons for us ing a purebred boar. 1. Larger and stronger pigs are j produced. 2. The pigs grow faster and make cheaper gains. 3. The pigs reach market weight sooner. 4. The pigs are more uniform.. 5. The pigs meet the market de mand, th?reby bringing a higher price. 6. Pork production is made more] profitable. On account of the increased value of the litters produced, any farmer with eight or ten sows could well af ford to keep a purebred boar. At least, several farmers in a neighbor hood can co-operate in the purchase and juse of a purebred boar. Through judicious management, a purebred boar for every twenty-five or thirty | sows is sufficient. At this time when every advantage must be taken to realize a profit from j farming operations, let no one handi cap himself by using inferior stock. Let your animals march with the purebreds." "BETTER SIRES-BETTER STOCK" I Livestock Lealas. -- . MW i. Prepare to Care for Animals and Manure. Clemson College, May.-Are you ready? It is saH that opportunity knocks at the door of every man some, time during bis life, and the question which you must ask yourself is, "Am I ready?" Are you ready to go Into the livestock game? Is your land well fenced ? Have you the right sort of pastures? Do you* raise your own feed or must you buy it? It pays to grind your ax before you start. If j you plan to go into the livestock busi ness be sure you are ready and then go in to stay. Animals make loads of manure. Are you prejm.rd to save it? The horse will nrodnce ?> tons, the dairy cow 13 .ton?, he p'teer 6 tons, the hog 2 tons, and the sheep 2-5 of a ton per year. Will you save this manure? The best international harvesters in the world for corn and velvet beans are cattle and hogs. The best inter national manure spreaders are hogs and cattle. The grandest fertilizer in all the world is manure. On the average a ton of barnyard manure will contain 10 pounds of nit rogen, 5 pounds of acid, and 10 pounds of potash. It also contains a large amount of organic matter which our South Carolina soils need and must have. Experimental Results With Manure. Did you ever stop to think that more than half the fertilizing value of manure is. in the liquid manure? The Ohio Experiment Station found out that enough manure was lost by seepage in twelve months' time, even where liberal amounts of bedding were used, to pay for concreting the floor. Ohio and Cornell Stations have proved that manure exposed in the barnyard will lose approximately 50 percent of its value. If it is allowed to heat, the loss runs from 10 to 15 percent greater. It ls a common practice to haul manure to the field and place it In plies. This ls not a good plan. It should be immediately upread over the soil, and the thinner it is spread the better. A ton of manure thinly spread will be worth more than one thickly spread. Thirty-five years' work at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station goes to prove that manure put on at the rate of 12 tons per acre re turned $3,29 per ton, while manure put on at the rate of 20 tons per acre yielded only $2.29 per ton. Pastures for Pigs. Clemson College, May.-We cannot make the hog business go in this state unless we make good use of our graz ing season. A pig in a pen is lazy arid expensive, while the pig on pas ture is happy, thrifty, and profitable. Every experiment station, every ex tension department, and every pros perous hog raiser in this country be lieves in good pastures for hogs. What can we grow in South Caro lina that hogs will pasture? Rape,, rye,, soybeans, cowpeas, Bermuda, les pedeza, velvet beans and many other pastures do well in this state. Sup pose we try some of these pastures and cut our grain ration in two. Will hogs do well on pasture alone? fro, it is best to feed a little grata while the hogs an on the pasture. Two or three ears of corn to each shote per day will work wonders. Th? pasture will maintain the animal axrf the grain will make gains in weight. An acre of good pasture will re turn from 300 to ROO pounds of pork. Forty dollars per acre is not bad when the pigs do the work. We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. Woodward Lumber Co. QUAUTY-SERVICE Corner Roberts and Dugas Sts., Augusta, Ga, Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tiling. 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