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THt PAGELAND JOURNAL "~^|?^!!^gg!g ~ ^g^=^^~-g-a ~ Vol.7 NO. 30 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1917 $1,00 per year i America Calls for Food Crops. Bis Gardens and Heavy Fertilization A great war authority has said "every nation fights on its belly," that is to say, no army can fight unless it is fed. It is strong only in proportion to its food supply. And the truth of this statement finds emphatic illustration in present international conditions. The supreme test of endurance alike for Ger s r* s i ? I many ana n,ngiana is concemea not with men and munitions but with food. With war declared, therefore, and a war in behalf of the sa cred principles of liberty and democracy to which America is dedicated, every man who right ly tills our soil may feel himself as surely a defender of the nation as if he were fighting with musket, cannon or battleship. But remember that we say, provided this farmer rightly tills the soil. The cry of America today is for food and feed and plenty of it. In all the other fighting countries of the earth there is a ; deficiency of food, and with uiftold thousands of men going to war from our American farms. American capacity for production will decline and both the demand for and the prices of food are likely to exceed anything we have yet known. Patriotism and self-interest ?i:? .1 1 -? uu&e (uerciore snouia prevent over-planting of cotton and to bacco and encourage the heaviest possible production of food crops in every Southern state. Soldiers cm put up with worn L?ivggeh ihrni \ without food. As some one has B said, aYou cannot darn your breakfast, mend your dinner, or patch your supper.** Food and H feed crops must therefore con tinue relatively higher than m cotton. We are fortunate in that war I comes while there is yet time to f chance our nlans so as to mnkp acreage conditions fit the plain mandates of the market and ol patriotism. No one knows how much it will cost to buy war priced corn, meat and flour with which to make cotton, and the only safe policy is to make the farm first feed itself. We musi have ample food and feed crop} and gaidens twice the usua size. We are also convinced tha conditions justify the heavies use of fertilizers the South hai ever known. With the excep tion of potash, prices of fertil izers have not advanced much as prices of the food cropi they help produce; they ar< therefore relatively cheaper thai usual. The aim of every farme should be to make a maximum crop on every acre, and to d< this heavy fertilization is neces sary. Labor, too, will probabh be higher priced than ever be fore in Southern history, and w< cannot afford to waste it on low yielding acres. It takes abou as much labor to cultivate ai acre making fifteen bushels o corn as to cultivate one makinj lifty, or to cultivate an acn making six hundred pounds o lint cotton as one making tw< hundred. And because of high priced labor there will be mon urgent need than ever before fo | using modern labor saving ma chinery, owned either individu allv or cooperatively. Let every Southern farme aim at food and feed crops, bic ger gardens, heavy fertilizatioi and ample use of modern an labor saving tools and macbin ery.?Progressive Farmer, The War, Etc. I have never been called on to make a Woman Suffrage speech, perhaps could not have made one if I had been, but I feel now like I could make a perfectly, tremendous effort to make a speech on that momentous subject if I only had the opportuni ty. I have been and am still bitterly opposed to the coming war, I had hoped that our rulers would manage in some way to keep from following the example of the European rulers by plunging us into a war against our wish, (as they have been saying that was the case over there.) But as it is on us now it is too late to argue the right or wrong of it as any of us see it. We shall have to submit to whatever shall come, and do so with the best grace possible. But what I started out to talk about was this: Some one has culled Miss Rankin, the only woman congress member weak because she wept when she was called on to vote for the war. but I say it was not weakness. It took more courage to stand there and vote against such an overwhelming majority than it would have taken to vote the popular way, and I for one thank God that a true hearted woman had the strength and courage to do it. God bless her! And as for the tears, was there ever a war that while man was shed ding blood woman was not shedding tears? And now as this war has been launched out bathed in a woman's tears where. j*-?Aicre will tins CKu dfihem be? I stood at a railway station once and saw two men fight and one of them drew the blood in a stream from the other, and though I did not know either ot them, I just thought if it was ' such an awful thing to see just > two men do that kind of a thing 1 A 1 J *1 ? - A . ? ? : wuat wouia 11 De 10 see nunareas i of them doing: it? I Now it is the nature of man p to destroy life, Oh, perhaps not all of them, but even when a > boy he delights in chasing a cat i with a dog or in killing birds. J Even then that shows the desire t for destruction there is in him. ? While on the other hand it is a I girls nature to protect life, even when a mere baby she carefully t guaids and protects the doll baby t [or her pet kitten and cries if she 5/ sees threatened harm for them and though of course she does not then realize why she is ere ) ated that way yet we know thai s she as a woman knows whai i life costs. Life is a precious i tning to ner and she tries tc r guard it all her days, and car I you imagine a congress when 3 there were many women mem bers voting a war on the peoplei v Well I cannot. i There is a prediction tha l? reads like this: "They shall bea their swords into plow share: t and learn of war no more.' II And when will that come true f My answer is when woman i ? allowed as much voice in tin e governing of a nation as mat t has. When she will ever be a do not know, but that time wil i- come and those who oppose i e will have to bear it like we win r didn't want this war are doing. i Now I wonder if all the chris i- tian people would pray as th< people of Nineveh for God t< r stay even yet the threatened de \ vastation of our country. I sa; a I wonder if it wouldn't keep th d trouble that is now hanging ove i us be lightened. Jixlna V. Funderburk, Protection of Shipping Against IV Submarines First Duty of Navy Washington, April 12.?With d high British and French Naval a officers in conference here with s< American Naval officials, defi- v\ nite steps have been taken to- b ward participation of the Amer- f, ican Navv in the war against n Germany. v, Patrol of the entire Atlantic d seaboard, reaching southward to js ?V.Q Pnnnmn 1 T J iuv x auaiua V/UUUi ZyUllU HI IU I g| possibly northward to include h{ Canada, will be the first duty of b American warships. With that goes the necessity of guarding b against the probable extension a of the German submarine cam- n paign to include approaches to g, I major American ports. o British and French ships now ft on this patrol duty will be with- a drawn as soon as the American g forces have their lines establish- v ed. The American squadrons e will operate from*British and b French bases in the South At- jj lantic wherever necessary. n Commanders of the British b and French forces off the Amer- n ican coasts, it is known, have 5 expected that Germany would n extend her submarine operations to these waters. Arrangements ^ to patrol vigorously the ap- j, proaches to the chief American c harbors have been made and b will be carried out by American a ships. a' It has been expected thut Ger- n many would formally announce a submarine blockade of Boston, v New York, the mouth of the e Delaware, the mouth of the e Chesapeake, Charleston and Sd: t) vannsh, Th^\f u If through which flows the main t traffic in foadstuffs and war sup- t plies for Europe. ( Unless a blockade is declared, < Germany would be under the necessity of giving warning be | iuic aua^aiug uicicuaut uail \ under neutral flags. ( Many Navy officers doubt j that any considerable number of { German submarines can be spar- j ed from the task of hlo^kaHina . the British Isles for work on this ] side of the Atlantic. Sporadic operations within such prescrib- j ed areas are looked for, and no precaution to guard against ; them will be overlooked by the ! Navy. The Navy Department has a \ considerable supply of submarine trap nets already available, ! and more will be delivered with 1 in a few days. It is assumed ! that the approaches to Ameri 1 J can harbors will be fully pro * tected in this way, and the fleet of submarine chasers now being assembled, equipped and man ned, distributed to comb the seas * night and day. The conferences with the vis1 iting officers have dealt with ' many subjects. It is understood j that not only will the Naval bases and other British and French ports on this side of the Atlantic t be opened to American Naval vessels, but that whenever need Q ? arises ports on the French <md Rrilich nnct etc ??; 111 1m> r\1n/>a/1 rit I p f ? inuii VVTUUIU T? III l/V |M?VVH M? their disposal. An American naval port probably will be es e tablished at some future time on j the Irish coast, when the meas . ares of co-operation have been extended. Bolivia Breaks Off [ La Paz, Bolivia, April 13.? e The German minister and his ft ctaf f hairn Lnn/I ili/.ir ? utMxi ajut v wwii uaiiu^u tiiv.ii 1 passports by the Bolivian gov. y ernment with a note declaring r that diplomatic relations be tween Bolivia and Germany have been severed. lob Gave Spencer Negro ' Rough Handling Spencer, N. C., April 13.?Fn- fj, av, April 15, came near being n unlucky day for Gene Rus- m jll, colored, and some tactful w rork of cool headed citizens is tfa elieved to have saved his life T>m the hands of an infuriated ^ 10b of some 300 to 400 sturdy 1( workmen at the Spencer shops m uring the noon hour today. It t alleged that Russell made sme remarks to the effect that * ' the white men go off to war o would live in their homes. His statements are said to have aI een even stronger than that, . nd it was like placing a match 1S. > a powder house. Instantly 2veral hundred white men were !< n his trail. He was chased . ;om one place to another in nd about the yards. The mob athered strength and the negro fas in imminent danger. Sev , ral times he was caught and 1 low after blow from the brawnv ? ists of the railroaders landed in ^ is face, on his head and about is body. His clothes were allost torn off and he was badly 1 eaten by the infuriated white ?. - 8? JVUt He was finally chasea to the itchen of the Y. M. C. A. build- a lg, where a few citizens sue- . II eeded in holding the crowd ack until Mayor W. H. Burton , nd Chief of Police J. R. Cruse nived and took charge of the a lan. . The blowing of the work ' /histle about this time alsoservd to turn the attention of the , mproves at the shops from the ftQtfkt of battle to that of work. J' ake thjfe place of those torn he tboay of the negro, he was c :arri|ed to the county jail in Salisbury to await trial. Tlt~ 4^ ?U_ . u (i iu me preseni ume mere iav^ been no arrests and no warrants for die white men who r ;omposed the mob. In fact, it ? s difficult to secure evidence j igainst any of them if indeed it s s desired to cite the combatants j, ,o trial. Sentiment appeared to f ae entirely with the crowd. t First S. C. Regiment Ordered To c Mobilize ^ Columbia, S. C., April 12.? p Having in view, "the necessity of afiordin g a more perfect pro a tecticn against possible interfer- s ence with postal, commercial 3 instrumentalities of the United ti States in South Carolina," New c ton X Baker, Seeretarv of War, li late his afternoon issued a call 1: for the First Regiment, National s< Guatl of South Carolina, com ts prisug about 1.050 officers anH fi men, p Inmediately after the receipt of tte telegram from the Secre- c tary of War. Governor Man k ning tonight at Spartanburg, a autlurized his private secretary, o John Elliott Pucketie, to issue g anotier for the immediate mob u ilixtion of the various com pan si ie^at their headpuarters. At 11 p o'lock tonight orders for the c tobilization of the guards were b isued to the Adjutant General's \* oice and immediately after Maj. a Jon D. Frost, Assistant Adjutant o Gneral, began to get in touch n wh the company commanders d o*r long distantce telephone. s< Te system arranged bv the bi f? M -I" t ? ,juuiciii null i ^'lo^iione uom m piy made it possible to reach tl e;ry officer in a very few minus. Dl \ K. McCullv, of Anderson, s? lutenant colonel, commandir the regiment, was notified, ol 0. E. M. Blythe, of Greenville, ss rigned recently. The election in f colonel will be held at an st tly date. fli Kill Flic# and Save Lives Kill at once every fly you can ad and burn his body. Observers say that there are any reasons to believe there ill be more flies this season lan for a number of years. The killing of just one fly OW means there will be bilons and trillions less next sumler. Clean up your own premises; *e and insist that your neighors do likewise. Especially clean 4<out-of-theay-places," and every nook id cranny. Flies will not go where there nothing to eat, and their prinpal diet is too filthy to menon. The fly is the tie that binds ie unhealthy to the healthy! The fly has no equal as a erm "carrier"; as many as five undred million germs have een found in and on the body f a single fly. It is definitely known that the y is the "earner" of the germs f typhoid fever; it is widely bepVpH that it ie oIoa tlia w ? w tuHft *% ao ?A?A/ lilC CfllllCL f other diseases, including posbly infantile paralysis. The very presence of a fly is signal and notification that a ousekeeper is uncleanly and lefficient. Do not wait until the insects eein to pester; anticipate the anoyance* April, May and June are the est months to conduct an anti y campaign. The farming and suburban istrict8 provide ideal breeding laces, and the new born flies a not remain at their birth place , njjna railmad&jmd. )ther means 01 transportation, fo owns and cities. Kill flies and save lives! RECIPES FOR KILLING FLIES The United States Governnent makes the following suggestion for the destruction of louse flies: Formaldehyde and odium salicylate are the two >est fly poisons. Both are su erior to arsenic. They have heir advantages for household ise. They are not a poison to hildren; they are convenient to tandle, their dilutions are sim ?Ie and they attract the flies. A formaldehyde solution of pproximately the correct irength may be made by adding teaspoonfuls of the concen rated formaldehyde solution, ommercially known as forma in, to a pint of water. SimilarV, the proper concentration of dium salicylate may be ob lined by dissolving 3 teaspoon ills of the pure chemical (a owder) to a pint of water. A container has been found onvenient for automatically eeping the solution always vailable for flies to drink. An rdinary, thin-walled drinking lass is filled or partially filled /ith the solution. A saucer, or mall plate, in which is placed a iece of white blotting paper lit the size of the dish, is put ottom up over the glass. The 'hole is then niiirlclv invortorl match placed under the edge f the glass, and the container is iady for use. As the solution ries out of the saucer the liquid ml at the edge of the glass is roken and more liquid flows ito the lower receptacle. Thus le paper is always kept moist. Any odor pleasing to man is ffpnsivp in thp flv onH ."? I - . W w ...V mm j UUU V IW V CI i, and will drive them away. Take five cents' worth of oil f lavender, mix it with the ime quantity of water, put it i a common glass atomizer and >ray it around the rooms where ies are. In tne dining room Curing a Community of the "Lawing Habit" "That old man has nearly stopped lawsuits among the farmers in his county," said a friend in our office recently, speaking of a demonstration agent we know. "He has gotten farmers to see the wisdom of arbitrating disputes instead of rushing into a court with every controversy." This is certainly a notable service for any demonstration agent to render his peopl e. By carrying on a lawsuit, the poor farmer takes money away from his own wife and children and gives it to the lawyer's wile and children?when Mrs. Lawyer is probablv already riding in an automobile and Mrs. Farmer possibly in a wagon. (She's lucky to have a wagon or even a wheelbarrow if her husband is of the "eternally lawing" sort.) And then instead of having a dispute quickly settled and good feeling with a neighbor speedily ? -? ? ' * icoiuicu, us siiuuiu oe tne case when arbitration is used, a lawsuit ineaus long delay in reaching a decision, and the bad blood between neighbors probabb7 getting more and more venomous all the time of waiting! What a foolish proceeding it is! Only today we heard of two farmers who two or three years ago got into a dispute over a piece of land worth about $25. Already each man has paid out about $200 in lawyer's fees; each disputant has embittered and soured his own life through the controversy; the neighborhood has been split up in factions sup . preme court of the state! tit ti s -no more timely now than at any other season, but arbitra tion is one form of cooperation worth practicing withyour neighbors this month and every other month when occasion arrises. Why don't country churches and farmers' clubs?each supposed to support peace and brother-hood?give more attention to this subject? In many a neighborhood the 4 lawing habit" is doing as much harm as the liquor habit, and ought to be as vigorously frowned upon.?Progressive Parmer. Thanks Words cannot express our many heart felt thanks to those that rendered service to us during the recent illness and death of our little girl, especially do we thank Dr. Duncan for his faith full efforts until the end came. May Gods' richest blessings rest with each . ul every one. H. J. Ogburn & family. spray it lavishly even on the table linen. The odor is very disagreeable to flies but refreshing to most people. Geranium, mignonette, heliotrope and white clover are offensive to flies. They especially dislike the odor of honeysuckle and hop blossoms. According to a French scientist flies have intense hatred for .1 * - ? ine color blue. Rooms decoraled in blue will help to keep out the flies. Mix together one tablespoonful of cream, one of ground black pepper and one of brown sugar. This mixture is poisonous to flies. Put in a saucer, darken the room except one window and in that set the saucer. To clear the house of flies, burn pyrethrum powder. This stupefies the flies, but thev must be swept up and burned.