The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, May 26, 1915, Image 3

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The Pageland Journal Published Wednesday Mornings C. M.;Tucker, Proprietor / Subscription Price - - $1.00 Entered as second class mail matter at the post office at Pageland, S. C., under Postal Act of March 3, 1879. ? May 26. 1915 Italy has entered the war. No, we can't tell you why, nor can we tell you who can. It musi nave neon lor about the game reason that the others entered?but when we come to think of it, we can't tell you that. Do you know, or does any other man living know? Pulling corn fodder is an ex pensive practice. The man who prepares now to have plenty of hay without pulling corn fodder is the man who makes most money. The value of fodder is lost in the yield of corn. Winnot sow peas, cane, etc. and have an abundance of feed that is better and cheaper than fodder? From the dispatches from the theater of war we are led to believe that Germany will try the same tactics against Italy that she tried against France in ^ the beginning of the war, name 1y that the first blow shall he a Wb decisive one. Unless we have uvt-r esuinaieu me strength and skill of the Italian army, Gerv many will fail ana in to crush a nation in a day. Appeal to Reason, a socialist paper published at Girard, Kansas, thinks the question of de claring war at any time should be submitted to a vote of the people and that those who vote for war should be called out i first. It is seldom that we agree k with opinions of the Appeal, but A somehow that idea strikes us PL^ favorably. There would ho less . said about going to war, and the fellow who did open his mouth would be in line for the first battle. In other words, let the fighter do the fighting. Too many farmers use the roads through their farms for ditches to carry the water away. 1 .1 ii111:1111 v uu we sou roaus washed and gullied because of too much water brought into them from adjoining fields. Then there is a practice of plowing right out into the road, and especially is this noticeable in the sandy sections. The man who plows up his roads from week to week and makes of them a place to drag chunks, roots, etc. has not learned to regard roads in their proper light. He forgets that his roads are an index to his enterprise and progressiveness. Flies cause a large per cent of the cases of "summer complaint" among children by carrying desease germs from the deposits of filth near so many homes to the food, drink and playthings of the little ones. Other cases are caused by these disease germs in the shallow surface wells so common thoughout the whole Southland. The rains carry filth from lots, stables, closets, etc. right into these surface wells. We stand idly by and see these things go on, and then when death claims his annual toll of infants and adults we shed crocodile tears and say we can't understand why the Lord has taken the dear ones from us. Now is the time to clean up and screen all closets and pro vide receptacles for the discharge of human excretions. There is positively no excuse for the unsanitary conditions existing in Pageland, and in almost every other small town and in the rural districts. God hqa given us ti Knowledge of Daughter Born to Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo. Washington, Ma> 21?A baby girl, the second grandchild of President Wilson was born tonight to Secretary and Mrs. William G. McAdoo. She will be christened Kllen Wilson for the late Mrs Wilson. The Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo, who is the President's youngest daughter, were married at the White House just a year ago. Mr. McAdoo went to his office at the Treasury Department for the first time since he was operated on for appendicitis nearly two months ago. The President was at the McAdoo home when his granddaughter was born. You Will Never Be Sorry For doing your level best. For being kind to the poor. For hearing before judging. For thinking bofore speaking. For standing by your principles. For stooping your ears to gossip. For being generous to an enemy. For being courteous to all. For asking pardon when in error. For being: honest in business dealings. For giving an unfortuhate perscm a lift. _ _ For promptness in keeping vour promises. For putting the best meaning on the acts of others. Good Advice. A woman ran her husband's paper n week while he was away, and said, "We also feel the trouble and woes a woman undergoes when she marries a country editor. They are as snakes and wear more patched clothes than a railroad hand. Their darning is enough to keep two women busy, while to share their lives you must exist on soup, and burn knotty wood that comes in on subscriptions. Take my advice, girls, and don't marry a country editor."?Ex. To Close at 7 O'clock We, the undersigned, agree to our nienpfiii"* nlnm" I business at 7 o'clock p. m. except on Saturday: Pageland Mercantile Co. A. G. Caston & Co. G. C. Mangum & Co. W. T. Edgeworth Mungo Brothers T. E. Cato H. I*. Smith Carolina Supply Co. 1). K. Clark & Co. Pageland Hardware Co. II. H. Evans H. B. Sowell The Cato Co. Mt. Croghan Items. Route 1. The Cross Roads church will observe Sunday, June 6th. as Baptist hospital day. A special program will he rendered. Service begins at 9 o'clock' Mr. B. B. Steen will preach at Bethlehem school house the second Sunday in June at 3:30. A new .Sunday school has been organized at New Hope school house. Mr. Bayard Smyth is superintendent and Mr. Thlirlow Walls is secretary. these preventable diseases and has given us the means with which to combat them. If we fail, -the fault is ours and not God's. The blood of our loved ones is upon our hands, and we dare not charge it to God. I lorsc manure is the favorite breeding place of the nasty fly. An ordinance should force all owners of horses to clean the stables regularly and frequently and lo use borax to aid in preventing flics. Another ordinance should force every prop erty owner to keep his prem lses ciean anil to screen his closet. The time for action has come. ?=4 Pageland Route 1 Itent*. g Mr. Ellison Mills has been m the sick list the bast several divs but he is able to be out again! Mr. Baxter Mills, who refSMH home in February from S. Army, was conted^HftB re-inlisting for seven a<?iig|Hfl VPflrs .hilt iir?r?n nrnlnn." recruiting station at CbdsBBj recently, his heart failed 3S therefore he has decidqfiflj believe, to remain at honstigH&i h* Mr. W. N. Knight. wS | been residing in Cam<iiHI9 several months, has retunfojRB this community, where he*?H make his home for a whitejjgfl Rev. A. J. Crane spenir*TiP past week in this and adjoinia? sections visiting his flock. - , Mrs. H. G. McCall spent . Saif urday night in Pageland. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Faulkhc* spent one day the past weel with the latter's parents, Mr. antji Mrs. John Richardson. Mr. and Mrs. C. F.--Green arl all smiles. A boy. \ Missej. Lela and Dora Wall lace, of near Mt. Croghan, visit] ed in this section recently. Mr. D. P. Home is still on thtj jod, but is at present taking f little much-needed rest. \ Almost everybody speaks in the highest terms of the Sundajl school at Salem, but friends lei us not be satisfied with schoolt though it- looks so promising, but rather that we work and pray for its further progress. CHURCH NOTES / METHODIST PROTESTANT Jno. W. Ouick, Pastor Rev. C. A. Cecil, President <JT the North Carolina Conference,j will preach at Rose Hill the firsti Sunday in June at 8:30 o'clock.' Be with us. | METHODIST EPISCOP AL j j. 7T. jviciritiu , pastor"^'?"-^ On next Sunday we will preach at Mt. Croghan at 11 o'clock. We will be with the Pageland children's day exercises at 4 nr?/l ot Q .7 A -!! T. -v u viwiv nuu til 0.1W IV U Will UC with the union service at Pageland Methodist church. All denominations are requested by the several pastors of the town to come together next Sunday evening at the M. E. Church for a union service, at which some Bro. Pastor will oc cupy our pulpit, and all the pastors who can will be present. BAPTIST, J. M. Sullivan. Pastor. Mothers' Day was a grand success in every way, we are under many obligations to the Mothers for conducting the Sunday school, exercises. The attendance was the best c?n.r.<i m.r t ?? ? oiuvc ?ui ujiuiiiK ucre. iwacning the goodly number of 149. Tho we ought to have this number every Sunday. After the Sunday school came the mothers' day program which consisted of recitations, special songs, addresses by Mr. L. L. Parker and the pastor. Bro. Parker's address was the best we have heard on an occasion like this at any time. We hope that the exercises proved a real bene-* diction to every mother present.] We desire to thank one and allf who helped us in^ any way to; make the day a success We ard especially grateful to the memi?? ?.i? ut-isui miiL-i congregations tor helping us in ihe song service. In the afternoon hour we were pleased to have so many present in our services at Liberty Hilj despite the threatning weather] Our union meeting meets with the Pine Grove Church 2 miles East of Chesterfield next Frida\] and Saturday and if any one from Pageland church can go please let it be known tp the pastor at once, as wo overlooked thin matter last Sunday, : V y i THE PENALTY OF ' CARELESSNESS L By 8. W. IngllsH, r Fire Prevention Kxpert. Every time you hear the cry of Tire!" you cah be almost absolutely ftfe in thinking that someone has been careless. Fires don t happen, n'hey are the inevitable result of Combinations of preventable things. Btyhen analyzed to the last equation K will be found that carelessness is Khe root whence spring nearly ull igWhat a penalty industry pays to Bfcrelessness' Fire is the great deBfcroyer. The wealth of a generation Ho U'lnnH nut tn V?nt ? K ? ??-? T T^"?? ? f-tBWhy not fight fires before they Sirt? Why not so conduct your J^bits and so keep your premises nkat when tin- fire demon wants to Suffer your savings as a sacrifice he ^MU'pass you by, just as those of HKypt of old were passed over when Hpte' sign they had been told to place flyer their doors, were seen? Too often when those who are Fesponsiblo from fire cry out they lire the victims of bad luck, they are but paying the natural penalty for their own carelessness. r If you want to keep down your fire \insurance rates, wage eternal war"e against those things that ever b eed fires. RURAL SCHOOL TERM SHOULD JEJXTENDED By P P. Claxton, U. S. Comtnissioncr of Kducation In most States school -days for i country children are fewer than for city children. The average length of Bchool term in cities of the United States is one hundred and eightyfive days; in rural communities one hundred and thirty-eight days, a difference of forty-seven day^. In some States the difference is much greater than this^averuge. In many counties .the average length of the rural | rBchool term Is less than one hundred days, and In some districts it is less. On the other hand, in the States of California, New York and Connecticut, the country schools are .in ????ion one hundred and eighty days in a year, and in several other i States almost as long. The country dchools of Rhode Island are in sesIsion one hundred and ninety days in I ft year. If all children are to have an equal opportunity for education we must |e?e? up the school terms of the bgwntry and give to all country chilBiow given to city children. One rhundred and eighty-five days ot schooling a year for all children will not be too much. There are countries in which the schools, both for }City and country, are.in session from two hundred and twenty to two hundred and fifty days or more in the I year. American children need as much education as those of any other country, and this applies to the rural as well as urban districts. AN AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL By T. N. Carver, Professor of Economics. Harvard University. TCverv cltv has its rhamher of com merce or Its Hoard of Trade. The purpose of such an organization is > to study economic and business opportunities of the city and promote enterprises which will help tp build the city. Does any one know of a good and sufllcient reason why every rural neighborhood ought not have a similar organization? In Germany they already have such organizations. They are generally called the "landwirthschaftsrath" or agricultural council. Some students 'of the problem of rural organization are strongly of the opinion that such an agricultural council is necessary before much can be done for the bettering of rural credit or the marketing of farm produce. There is no object, for examplp, in having more capital In a farming neighborhood unless the farmers know without any guess-work just how to use that capital so as to increase the production and the profit of their farms. If all the leading farmers of a neighborhood would lay their heads together and talk over the situation and study the opportunities- for new Investment, they yould be loss likely to make mistakes than if they work secretly, as sepanjfe individuals. CIVILIZATION'S ^ GREATEST TRAGEDY. Extract from article by \V. I). Lewis, president Texas Farmers' Ptiion, opposing woman's suffrage: "We are willing to join in every effort to elevate woman but will assist In none to drag her down. The descent of womanhood is the most awful tragedy in civilization As she sinks she may, like the netting sun, tint the horizon wtih the rays of her departing glory. She may tenderly kiss the mountain tops of her achievement farewell; she may, like the sinking aun, allure the populace with her beauty as she disappears for tlie night but when she steps downward, the earth is as certain to tremble and plunge into darkness as death is to r \ i KNOW I?lntro< "Know America" is a slogan that should ring out from every school room, office, farm and shop in this nation. No man can aspire to a higher honor than to become a capable citizen, and no one can merit so distinguished a title until he is well informed of the resources, possibilities and achievements of our country. This is a commercial age and civilization is bearing its most golden fruit in America. We are noted for our industrial achievements as Kgypt noted for her pyramids; Jerusalem for her religion; Greece for her art^ Phoenicia for her fleets; Chaldea for her astronomy and Rome for her laws. Likewise we have men who will go down in the world'9 history as powerful products of their age. For, standing at the source of every gigantic movement that sways civilization is a great man. The greatest minds travel in the greatest direction and the mm. mercial geniuses of this age would have been the sculptors, poets, philosophers, architects, and artists of earlier civilizations. As Michael Angelo took a rock and with a chisel hewed it into the image of an angel that ever beckons mankind upward and onward. Hill took the desert of the Northwest and with bands of steel made it blossom like a rose, dotted the valleys with happy homes and built cities in waste places. As Outtenberg took blocks of wood and whittled them into an alphabet and made a printing press that flashed education across the continent like a ray of light upon a new born world, McCormiek took m Ho?What made you seem so upset the day we became engaged? You knew I was going to propose, didn't you? She? Oh, ves. Hut I had no idea I was going to accept you.?Hos ton Transcript. ^iecoQooooo; > 8 Come To Heat Paints, Varnishes, Stain Seed, Field Seed, Flow Rubber Goods, Infant Fo< Candies, Cigarettes, Pipe LTjt'JaaX'iwar^r I anndrj' Cream Tarter, Flavoring Complexion Beautifiers, Poison, Disinfectants. ' FR ICS 11 OR AT I PAGELANI o ICE DELIVERED AN I06OOSOOQO961! > Rams We are selling Armoui pounds, for 1 4 cents a pot Old Dutch Cleanser, F Hosford's Bread Preparatic in 10, 15 and 25 cent si/ The very nicest cakes in 1 0 cents. Ice Cream Powders. A 1 Co's goods, including Zuzu Saltines, Fig Wewtons, C Cakes, Graham Crackers a and crackers. Also shred( CAROLINA ! NEW M r I have purchased the market ardson and have moved them i business to stay and I shall he i anything in the market line. 1 PROMPT I will now deliver promptl thin}; in the fancy grocery line order for meats, and we giukai Yours l or C, W. F. RI 1 COUNTRY ductory a bar of iron and bent it into a reaper and with one sweep of his magic mind broke the shackles that enslaved labor of generations yet unborn, and gave mankind freedom from drudgery, and lifted tlio human race into a higher zone of life. As Nelson organized the English navy and made Englnnd mistress of the sen, enabling the Hritish Isles to plant her flag upon every continent washed by the ocean's waves, and to make footstools of the Islands of every water. Morgan organized a banking system that has made America master of the world's finances, brought Kings to our cashier's windows, the nations of the earth to our discount desks and placed under the industries of this nation a fltin noinl cvotnm no ??" . t! 1 utoivhi uo ouuu uo unj i\ui:r of Gibraltar. ? There Is no study quite so interesting as progress; no sound so magic, as the roar of industry and no sight so Inspiring as civilization in action. A full realization of America's part in the great events of the world past, present and future will thrill every human heart with pride, patriotism and faith in Republican institutions. Through the courtesy of the Agricultural and Commercial -Press Service, the readers of this paper will bo permitted to study America; her agricultural. manufacturing and mineral development, mercantile, banking and transportation systems which are the wonder of the world. The first article of the series will deal with transportation and will appear at an early dat'e. Attention Woodmen Pay your dues by ilie last day of this month. If not you stand suspended. J. W. Quick Clerk, 330. ^quarters For x s, Brushes, Putty, Garden ^ er Seed, Spring Tonics, ^ :>ds, Soda Water, Cigars. K is, Snuff, Tobacco, Old ^ Sn^p Sptrps. m;,r/ o;i-X Extracts, Toilet Articles Q Brushes, F ly Paper, F ly & s ?D COCONUT. X > DRUG CO. g YWIUCRK IN TOWN ^ SOOOOOQCOQOOd! for 14c * 1 I 1 I S . C\ s snioKca riams, o to 0 ind, same as rib meat, tumford Baking Powders, >n, Sweet and Sour Pickles :es. all flavors and kinds for full line of National Biscuit s, Lemon snaps,' Nabiscos, )heese Sandwiches, Anola nd the other popular cakes led Cocoanut. SUPPLY CO. l/\Ktit 1 fixtures fiom Mr. K. K. Kicli into my store. I am now in the pleased to have your orders for resh fish every Saturday. DKI.I YKKY y, not only your meat, hut anv . f m imic vou groceries in your nice prompt delivery. nick Service. '.DFEARN