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Automobiles in 1921. The registration of automobiles ii South Carolina during the year 192 totalled 90,546 autos and trucks. Th number in 1920 was 93,843; and ii 1919 there were 70,143 auto licens es issued. Between 1919 and 192< there was an increase of 23,700 reg istrations, or approximately 34 pe cent. However, a decrease of 3,29' or approximately 3 1-2 per cen marks the difference between 192? and 1921. The 14th census of 1920 gives 1, 683,724 as the population of Soutl Carolina. Simple division shows tha during the year 1921 there was a ca: for every 18.6 persons in the state In 1920, similar figures indicated on< car to every 18 people; and in 191. there was an automobile for everj 23 inhabitants. Density by Counties. Greenville county leads with ai automobile for every 11.8 persons Richland is a close second with -m< car for each 11.9 of its population Anderson ranks third with 13.2 in habitants per auto. ' In 1920 Marlboro was at the to] of the list with 12.3 inhabitants pe: auto; Anderson came second, ant Darlington third. As shown in the ac companying table, sixteen countie: rank above the State average. Dilloi county, with 18.5 inhabitants pe: auto is closest to the average for th< State, thirty-one counties ranking be low this figure. Berkeley county ha: approximately 60 inhabitants pe: auto, the largest number in any coun ty in the state. Greenville county ranks first in th< total number of cars, the figure be lng 7,508. Richland is next with 6, 571 autos and trucks; Spartanburf third with 6,078; and Anderson witl 5,782 occupying fourth place. Value of Cars. Though cars have declined ii prices considerably during the pas year, p?rhaps $1,100 would represen a conservative average price. At thi: valuation, there is in the 90,546 cari a total investment of $99,600,600 The corresponding figure for 192( was $103,227,300. That numbers of new cars wer< bought last year, replacing thos< worn "out is undoubtedly true, but n< estimate of these is possible from th< data available. Operating Expenses. Figures secured from the State De partment of Agriculture, and basec on the eighth of a cent a gallon tas on gasoline, gives 36,737,715 gallons %s the amount used in South Caro lina in 1921. At the average value oJ 25 cents a gallon, this item totals $9, 184,428.75. The most of this was .used by automobiles and trucks. Th? number of gallons consumed in 192( was 41,225,067, indicating a decreas ed consumption of approximately five millions of gallons in 1921. Rating the average number oi miles per gallon at 13, there were 477,590,295 miles travelled on thi: gasoline. ' It would perhaps be conservative to estimate the operating expenses oi a car at 10 cents a mile. This woulc include gasoline cost, tires, repairs and depreciation on car. Such an es timate would indicate approximate^ $47,760,000 as the cost of operating the cars in South Carolina last year Some Comparisons. The total production of cotton ir South Carolina in 1921 according tc thc- National Ginners' Estimate oi January 16, 1922, was 772,000 bales The New York spot quotations oi December 1, 1921, was 17.55 cent; per pound. On this basis the value ot the 1921 cotton crop Was $67,743, 000. After the automobile expend? tures of 1921 were accounted for, i little less than twenty millions re mained for other purposes. The report of the State Superin tendent of Education estimates thi value of public school property ii South Carolina at $19,965,267. Th< value of automobiles in 1921 was ap proximately $99,600,000, or abou five times as great. This is the sam? ratio as prevailed in 1920. The total expenditures for all pur poses connected with public school for 1921 was $10,029,444.45. Balanc? against this the $47,760,000 spen for operation and maintenance o: automobiles last year and we discov er that we have spent more than fou times as much for the operating o: our public schools. The State Bank examiner give $17,970,000 as the total amount o capital stock in State banks on Sep tember 6, 1921. Compare with thi this $99,600,000 invested in automo biles and draw whatever conclusion that may seem logical.-Universit; Weekly News. FOR SALE or EXCHANGE: Reg istered "Hereford beef cattle fo milch cows or mules. 2-l-2tpd J. M. VANN. Trenton, S. C. Birth Rate for State Second in a Country? * When it comes to the baby crop of e 1921, the year of financial depres 1 sion, South Carolina is second to only '<- one state in the union, according to 0 the records in the bureau of vital sta '- tistics. The one state that outpointed t South Carolina in the matter of 7 births in 1921 was North Carolina, t In 1921 the total number of births 0 in this state was 49,342, which is at the rate of 29 babies per 1,000 popu - lation. This was next to the highest a rate in the registration area in the t United States, according to health r officials. Not only was the birth rate high, 2 but the death rate was low-the * lowest South Carolina has maintain ^ ed since she was admitted to the r?g intration area. This total number of deaths in the state in 1921 was 20, 1 162, whidi was at the rate of 11.9 ; people per 1,000 population. These ? figures "were taken from the records" ; of the bureau of vital statistics of - the state board of health. South Carolina was admitted to j the registration area not very long r ago. The admissions means that r.a 1 tional health officials recognize the - statistics furnished as approximately 3 accurate, and recognition was award l ed after an investigation had shown r that the figures and records kept at ? the office were accurate and reliable. - The bureau of vital statistics has s registered and indexed the 49,342 r births, according to the state health - officer.-The State. ? When Speculators Go to Work. For an inanimate, nerveless sub - stance, cotton, advisedly speaking, * appears exceptionally sensitive to l every form of influence, real or im aginary. According to the market let ter of a prominent New York bank l ing company, threatened financial |. trouble of a local nature, in the city j. of Chicago, caused a decline on the , cotton market of approximately $4 , per bale, but when the trouble did not materialize, the recovery was J only $1 per bale. Other farm prod ucts were affected likewise, but no one noticed a decline in the price of ' steel, of lumber or other building ma terial, or of any other manufactured } article. Occasionally world events will affect the speculative value of stocks, but seldom the selling price of the article produced by the company rep - resented by these stocks. ? Cotton is a fiber of many uses. It c represents real value. Yet, if the King ; Timbuctoo should have a bad night's ; rest or rain fall in the Sahara desert, * the cotton markets would respond * with a decline, in price. It would be J brought about by insistent selling in J the future markets of New Orleans ' and New York and >by a lot of "specu ' lators who pose- as honest business * men under the name of "Cotton Brokers" and who have no interest f in the staple, raw or manufactured, i except as the price rises and falls. 5 The socalled market influences are 99 per cent artificial and the alleged > business men who disgrace the staple I by calling themselves "cotton men". I merely bet with each other as to the 5 course the market will take. By so . doing, however, they influence the r welfare of thousands of producers r and create an unstable market for the . manufacturer. The man who sells fu tures pledges himself to deliver the cotton thus sold on a specified date and the man who buys promises to . receive the cotton, but the contract i is a mere form and neither intend to j fulfill its provisions. What they in tend to do is to get together through . their representatives on that speci ? fied day and settle the bet by one of them paying the difference between the price at the time the bet was made and the price on the alleged day of delivery. It is this speculative feature of the markets for agricultural products that has been instrumental in driving the farmers into commodity organi zations. Should their efforts to con trol the distribution of their products prove successful and thus' enable them to warehouse cotton, grain and other nonperishable or seminonper ishable products so that factories and 5 mills the world over can be supplied * regularly and as the demand calls, the men who maka a living or grow wealthy through the control of the market by fictitious and artificial in fluences, will have to seek another form of gambling or go to work. When producers also become dis tributors through co-operative agen cies there wili be no further need for anti-gambling legislation. Seats in grain and cotton exchanges will be come a drug on the market.-Farm and Ranch. ?Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grcve's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts od the Liver, Drives oat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and . Builds np the Whole System. 50 cents GOOD HIGHWAYS ONE-MAN ROAD GRADER PAYS Profitable Plan for Farmers In Com munity to Get Together and Pur chase Implement. Once two teams of horses and at least two men used to be required to level and grade roads. Now we have the one-man machine, which does the Job In half the time and never gets tired. Like all modern devices of this nature, it is, of course, driven by gaso line. The single operator manipulates all the levers that control the cutting blades and also takes care of the en gine. All the controls are placed at his elbow. If you live In * community where .lt ls the custom for each man to con Gaaollne-Drlven Device Saves and Labor. Time tribute his share of labor toward keep ing the roads In condition, it will pay the men of the neighborhood to get together and purchase a one-man road grader and reduce the time and labor ordinarily necessary for this task. Popular Science Monthly. BETTER ROADS HELP BABIES Farm Is Made More Accessible to Doctor and Nurse-Danger in Travel Is Reduced. It may seem a long way from good roads to better babies, and yet the two are closely connected. America has a great rural popula tion, throughout which babies are be ing born every day. These babies and their mothers need care, the vlsi* of the nurse, the services of the physician, often of the surgeon, and how are they to have lt if between He miles of road impassable alike to automobile or buggy? Of what use ls the little hospital at the county seat if the woman whose life depends upon its care cannot be taken there swiftly and comfortably? What difference does it make that the town physician may be a very wiz ard at treating diphtheria, if long be fore he can arrive at the farm the lit tle throat has been closed by the deadly film, or the little heart stopped by the depressant poison? Medical and surgical honors are generally claimed for the city-when as a matter of fact the country doctor ls often possessed of a skill as com plete as his heart is big. Make the farra accessible to the doc tor and nurse, make the hospital and the health center accessible to the farm. Nature and skill will do the rest-Concord Monitor. THIN ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE Ordinary Rock Surface Under Motor Traffic Coming in Next Few Years. MacAdam was years ahead of .his age arid years behind this one. The builders of the Appian Way knew more about building a road for a mo tortruck than MacAdam. strnnze as it may appear. It ls the general opinion among road builders-an opinion greatly quickened and altered by the war-that the light stone road, be it surfaced or oil treated In what way you will, Is not the road to build in the face of an avalanche of motor trucks that Is coming in the next few years. The motorcar brought oil to the road as a necessity. The water bond, which worked so well with iron tires and iron shod hoofs, is useless against the suction of the pneumatic tire. But the oiled stone road that holds the 3,000-pound car with ease will not carry the five-ton truck-and last. The railroad builders have found that for heavy traffic lt pays to use the heaviest steel ralls^he finest wood for ties and the best broken stone, and plenty of lt, for ballast Vegetables in Fall Garden. It should be remembered that prac tically all vegetables grown in the spring garden can be grown also in the fall garden, and such vegetables seeds as were left over from spring plantings may be used la. the fall. No Doubt of Need. There Isn't .any doubt about the need fur more and berter roads when automobiles and trucks are the only means of bringing food no your cit}' or town. Cleora Dats. The weather has been' real cold, ub is much warmer now. Our school has had thirty-five cholars enrolled, but as so many ave stopped to attend the Harris chool it now leaves us twenty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reel have ioved to the Bunch Timmerman lace near Cleora postoffice. "We are glad to say that Mr. Clack eigler is better as he has been ill or about a month. We have organized a Sunday school t our school house with Mr. W. L. lellichamp superintendent. Mrs. C. L. Quarks and little Ro elle have been spending a while with i Irs. Quarles' parents at Plum j inm Branch. We are sorry to hear of the ill ess of Mr. Homer Williams. We ope he will soon recover. Miss Ruth Morgan left Sunday to ttend a business college at Green rood. Mrs. J. R. Griffis and little daught r, Lula, Mr. and Mrs. Fuller Griffis nd Mrs. Jack Griffis were the guests f Mrs: Stonewall Morgan of McCor lick Thursday, January 19. Mr. Osmond Williams of Belvedere pent last week end with his brother, lr. Herbert Williams. Miss Wilmath Seigler has been pending a while with her grand aunts, as they have been sick with lfluenza. WO BRUNSON SCHOOL GIRLS. Vhen Life's Sun Goes Down. rhen life's sun goes down .t the close of our day, Till God's stars abound b light up our way brough the gates of eternity? Till the night be short, ?Till our dreams be sweet, ? fith good things fraught rom the mercy seat o cheer when the morning we greet? . . Hil the sun in glory bright pread around us soft rays, efreshing memory of light hat has hallowed our days s we struggled thro' earthly ways? rill the new da> bring o us sweet joy and peace hat will tune our hearts to sing ed's praise for his release rom worldly cares that now cease? es, we will be happy; od's promise remains true. '. we live as He shows the way ; means rest for me and rest for you hroughout endless eternity. W, S. G. HEATH. J. S. BYRD Dental Surgeon Office Over Store of Quarles & Timmerman Office Phone No. 3 Residence Phone 87 Profit by h DID you get a bale of cott generally known that a s Plenty of fertilizer, plus plent; crop diseases and adverse we< that plenty of complete fertili: boll weevil conditions. If you have no cotton to sell y? than 10 cent cotton. Your job is to decide the exter to make sure of a crop at the using Swift's Red Steer F?rtil Fertilize peanuts and other cr crops must be produced at lov Buy Swift's Red Steer Fertili: us direct. Swift , (FER' Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte, N. C. / S?lecte FOR LIMITED quantity SELECT Cotton Seed. $1.00 per bush fifteen bushels. TERMS CASH. Average yi for total acreage of eighty-foi cotton; 409 pounds of lint cot Mulberry Hi W. M. BOUKNIGHT Governor Signed Marketing Contract. - Columbia, Jan. 30.-Governor Cooper has affixed his signature to the cotton cooperative marketing con tract and given out a statement ex pressing the earnest hope that the organization Of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Asso ciation would be successfully complet ed. i "Now that the boll weevil is upon us it is going to be necessary for the farmers of the state to do three things," said the governor. "First, they must diversify their crops; sec ond, they must cultivate intensively the cotton they do plant, and third, they must market their crop intelli gently so as to get the best possible price for it. "I am convinced after a study of the matter that the solution of the marketing end of our problem lies in cooperative marketing! It is our K---B Fresh G We have just opened a Fancy Groceries in the stor< L. T. May under the opera ronage of the people. As we will buy for cash make very close prices. ? Come in to see pleasure tc WARREN & ist year's lesso] on per acre last year? It is becomi miall percentage of Southern farmers c y of hard work, overcame the boll wee ither conditions. Last year's lesson prc zer at planting time is essential uni su are no better off with 20 cent cot it of your farming operations and then lowest cost per pound or per bushel izers. , ops as well as cotton and tcAacco. /est cost to make the most profit. - sers from your local Swift dealer or wi & Company TILIZER WORKS)' New Orleans, La. Albany, Ga. \d Seed SALE TED Wannamaker-CIeveland iel (bulk).in lots of more thar* eld for year 1921 (last year) ir acres, 1183 pounds of seed ton per acre. il Plantation JOHNSTON. S. C. only hope for a stabilized market. "A campaign is now beit?g conduct ed for signatures to the contract in South Carolina and I earnestly hope that the organization committee will' be successful in securing contracts representing 400,000 bales so that the organization of the association may be successfully completed. I would admonish every farmer who ex pects to grow a bale of cotton in 1922 to get a copy of the contract, study it carefully and when he has made up his mind, as I believe he will, sign the contract so that South Carolina will sell her cotton coopera tively next fall as will the farmers of Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Ari zona and other states of the cotton belt. "I am informed that good progress is being made in the sign up in this state." roceries fresK stock ot Heavy and e formerly occupied by Mr. house and solicit the pat ; and sell for cash, we can us. It will be a ) serve you CANTEL0U Make cotton in spite of boll weevil Swift's Rpd Steer Fertilisers aro the resuis of years of re search and practical experi ence. Swift's Red Steer Fertilizers for cotton are prepared espec ially to get ahead of the boll weevil. They contain the rijjht amount of quickly available plant food to C?,use a quick start and a sufficient amount of moro slowly available plant food to insure continuous jrrowth and eariy. complete maturity. Use Swift's Red Steer Ferti lizers and play safe. Use brands containtr g more than l4'r of plant food and save money. Use the amount per acre that has proved the mwt profitable in your locality: vii, /es 1er ton try. by All rite