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THt PAGELAND JOURNAL ^ - - - - ? ?- 1 Vol.7 NO. 30 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1917 $1.00 per year i America Calls for Food Crops, Big 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 illlicfraimn in rxrocnn* tn#A?*nnft/\n Iiuanuitwu iu luiciuauuu' al conditions. The supreme test of endurance alike for Germany and England is concerned 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 tood are likely to exceed anything we have yet known. Patriotism and self-interest nlike therefore should prevent over-planting of cotton and to bacco and encourage the heaviest possible production of food crops in every Southern state. Soldiers can put up with worn bitt -Uwtf* I without food. As some one hat B said, "You cannot darn youi I breakfast, mend your dinner, 01 I patch your supper.** Food anc feed crops must therefore con tinue relatively higher thai W cotton. u We are fortunate in that wa I comes while there is yet time t< ' change our plans so as to maki acreage conditions fit the plaii mandates of the market and o patriotism. No one knows hov much it will cost to buy war priced corn, meat and flour will which to make cotton, and th< only safe policy is to make th< farm first fppd itcol# m,,o ? BVVM ??WU| *T V IUUO have ample food and feed crop and gardens twice the usua size. We are also convinced tha conditions justify the heavies use of fertilizers the South ha: ever known. With the excep tion of potash, prices of fertil izers have not advanced s< much as prices of the food crop they help produce; they art therefore relatively cheaper thai usual. The aim of every farme should be to make a maximun 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 making fifty, or to cultivate an acn making six hundred pounds o lint cotton as one making twc hundred. And because of high priced labor there will be mor< 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, big ger gardens, heavy fertilizatioi and ample use of modern am labor saving tools and machln 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 opportunity. 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 called 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 U/.J 41. 4 iiuu iuc sirengin ana courage 10 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 bathr| I stood at a railway station r once and saw two men fight and 1 one of them drew the blood in a - stream from the other, and i though I did not know either ol them, I just thought if it was r such an awful thing to see just ) two men do that kind of a thing 3 what would it be to see hundreds i of them doing it? I Now it is the nature of man v to destroy life, Oh, perhaps not - all of them, but even when a 1 boy he delights in chasing a cat 2 with a dog or in killing birds. 2 Even then that shows the desire t for destruction there is in him. s While on the other hand it is a 1 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 s i sees threatened harm for them, and though of course she does not then realize why she is ere> ated that way yet wp know thai s she as a woman knows what e life costs. Life is a precious i thing to her and she tries to r Cliorrl it C* 11 hor ftairc - I ? - MV* UUJ Of WlfU wau i you imagine a congress where d there were many women mem i bers voting a war on the people? v Well I cannot. There is a prediction thai l' reads like this: "They shall beal their swords into plow shares t and learn of war no more." i And when will that come true? f My answer is when woman is * allowed as much voice in the 3 governing of a nation as man t has. When she will ever be 1 ) do not know, but that time will - come and those who oppose il i will have to bear it like we who r didn't want this war are doing. X.T ? inuw i wonuer 11 an ine cnns - tian people would pray as the people of Nineveh for God to r stay even yet the threatened de vastation of our country. 1 say 1 1 wonder if it wouldn't keep the 1 trouble that is now hanging ovei us be lightened. pdna V. Funderburk. Protection of Shipping Against Submarines First Duty of Navy Washington, April 12.?With high British and French Naval officers in conference here with American Naval officials, defi line seeps nave oeen taken toward participation of the American Navv in the war against Germany. Patrol of the entire Atlantic seaboard, reaching southward to the Panama Canal Zone and possibly northward to include Canada, will be the first duty of American warships. With that goes the necessity of guarding against the probable extension of the German submarine campaign to include approaches to major American ports. British and French ships now on this patrol duty will be withdrawn as soon as the American forces have their lines established. The American squadrons will operate from*British and French bases in the South Atlantic wherever necessary. Commanders of the British and French forces off the American coasts, it is known, have expected that Germany would extend her snhmarine nnprolinnc to these waters. Arrangements to patrol vigorously the approaches to the chief American harbors have been made and will be carried out by American ships. It has been expected that Germany would formally announce a submarine blockade of Boston, New York, the mouth of the Delaware, the mouth of the Chesapeake, Charleston and Sa traffic in foadstuffs and war sup plies for Europe. Unless a blockade is declared Germany would be under the necessity of giving warning be fore attacking merchant craft under neutral flags. ' Many Navy officers doubt that any considerable number ot German submarines can be spar ed from the task of blockading the British Isles for work on this side of the Atlantic. Sporadic operations within such prescrib | ed areas are looked for, and nc precaution to guard against ' tkom W? 1 ? *--- 'L lUCili Will DU UVCIIUUKtU uy uit Navv. The Navy Department has a considerable supply of submarine trap nets already available and more will be delivered with in a few days. It is assumed that the approaches to Ameri ; can harbors will be fully pro ' tected in this way, and the fleei of submarine chasers now being assembled, equipped and man ned, distributed to comb the seas night and day. The conferences with the vis 1 iting officers have dealt wit! many subiects. It is understooc t that not only will the Naval ba sesand other British and Frenct ( ports on this side of the Atlantic be opened to American Nava vessels, but that whenever neec | , arises ports on the French ?nc , British coasts will be placed a their disposal. An America? naval port probably will be es tablished at some future time ol ! the Irish coast, when the meas j ares of co operation have beer | extended. Bolivia Breaks Off La Paz, Bolivia, April 13 ? t The German minister and hi: 1 staff have been handed theii passports by the Bolivian gov ernment with a note declaring . that diplomatic relations be tween Bolivia and Germany have been severed. Mob Gave Spencer Negro Rough Handling Spencer, N. C., April 13.?Friday, April 15, came near being an unlucky day for Gene Russell, colored, and some tactful work of cool headed citizens is believed to have saved his life from the hands of an infuriated mob of some 300 to 400 sturdy workmen at the Spencer shops during the noon hour today. It is alleged that Russell made some remarks to the effect that if the white men go off to war ho would live in their homes. His statements are said to have been even stronger than that, and it was like placing a match to a powder house. Instantly several hundred white men were on his trail. He was chased from one place to another in | and about the yards. The mob gathered strength and the negro was in imminent danger. Sev eral times he was caught and blow after blow from the brawny lists of the railroaders landed in his.face, on his head and about his body. His clothes were al most torn off and he was badly beaten by the infuriated white men. He was finally chased to the kitchen of the Y. M. C. A. building, where a few citizens succeeded in holding the crowd back until Mayor W. H. Burton and Chief of Police J. R. Cruse arrived and took charge of the man. The blowing of the work whistle about this time also serv ed to turn the attention of the em&oves at the shops from the thqMiit ofbattle to that of work. Imlygg tO 1 take tn|b place of those torn ~r the tioay of the negro, he was carried to the county jail ic Salisbury to await trial. 5 Up to the present time there have been no arrests and nc t warrants for the white men whc composed the mob. In fact, ii 1 is difficult to secure evidence f against any of them if indeed 11 ' is desired to cite the combatants ' to trial. Sentiment appeared tc 5 be entirely with the crowd. " First S. C. Regiment Ordered Tc Mobilize | Columbia, S. C., April 12.? Having in view, "the necessit} t of affordin g a more perfect pro tection against possible interfer ence with postal, commercial ' instrumentalities of the United in Qn 111 fnrrvlinn " | AU l^VUIAl V>? lUlllld, C W ton D. Baker, Secretary of War late this afternoon issued a cal t for the First Regiment, Nationa r Guard of South Carolina, com ' prising about 1,050 officers and . men. Immediately after the receipi of the telegram from the Secre i tary of War. Governor Man I ning tonight at Spartanburg authorized his private secretary ^ John Elliott Pucketie, to issu< an order for the immediate mob j ilization of the various compau I ies at their headpuarters. At 11 I o'clock tonight orders for the j mobilization of the guards were j issued to the Adjutant General's office and immediately after Maj x John D. Frost, Assistant Adjutan General, began to get in toucl 1 with the companv commander! | over long distantce telephone The system arranged bv th< Southern Bell Telephone Com pany made it possible to react " every officer in a very few min 5 utes. r P. K. McCullv. of Anderson . lieutenant colonel, command ing the regiment, was notified ' Col. E. M. Blythe, of Greenville resigned recently. The electioi r for colonel will be held at at early date. Kill Flies and Save Lives Kill at once every fly you can find and burn his body. Observers sav that there are many reasons to believe there will be more flies this season than for a number of years. The killing of just one fly NOW means there will be billions and trillions less next summer. Clean up your own premises; see and insist that your neighbors do likewise. Especially clean "out-of-theway-places," and every nook and cranny. Flies will not go where there is nothing to eat, and their principal diet is too filthy to mention. The fly is the tie that binds the unhealthy to the healthy! The fly has no equal as a germ "carrier"; as many as five hundred million germs have been found in and on the body of a single fly. It IS Hpftnitplv IrnAiirn ? ? uuvivu uiai me fly is the "earner" of the germs of typhoid fever; it is widely believed that it is also the "carrier" of other diseases, including possibly infantile paralysis. The very presence of a fly is a signal and notification that a housekeeper is uncleanly and inefficient. Do not wait until the insects begin to pester; anticipate the annoyance* April, May and June are the best months to conduct an anti fly campaign. The farming and suburban districts provide ideal breeding places, and the new born flies do not remain at their birth place . lyinor railmads and other means ui transporKTcionTT towns and cities. Kill flies and save lives! i RECIPES FOR KILLING FLIES > The United States Govern * ment makes the following sug 1 gestion for the destruction o J house flies: Formaldehyde am 1 sodium salicylate are the tw< * best fly poisons. Both are su * perior to arsenic. They hav< their advantages for househoh use. They are not a poison t< children; they are convenient t< handle, their dilutions are sim - pie and they attract the flies. r A formaldehyde solution o approximately the correc strength may be made by addin; I 3 teaspoonfuls of the concur 1 trated formaldehyde solutior commercially known as forms , lin, to a pint of water. Similai I ly, the proper concentration c I sodium salicylate may be ot tained by dissolving 3 teaspoor I fuls of the pure chemical ( powder) to a pint of water. I A container has been foun convenient for automatical! keeping the solution alway , available for flies to drink. A , ordinary, thin-walled drinkin ; glass is filled or partially fille with the solution. A saucer, c small plate, in which is placed 1 piece of white blotting pape cut the size of the dish, is pt bottom up over the glass. Th t whole is then quickly invertec . a match placed under the edg t of the glass, and the container i i ready for use. As the solutio $ dries out of the saucer the liqui . seal at the edge of the glass i ; broken and more liquid flow into the lower receptacle. Thu i the paper is always kept moist. Any odor pleasing to man i offensive to the fly and vice vei , sa, and will drive them away. Take five cents' worth of o . of lavender, mix it with ih , j same auantity of water, put i ! in a common glass atomizer ai> 11 spray it around the rooms wher ' flies are. In the dining rooi Curing a Community of the "Lawing Habit" "That old man has nearly stopped lawsuits among the farmers in- his countv," 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 demons! ration agent to render his people. By carrying on a lawsuit, the poor farmer takes money away from his own wife and children and gives it to the lawyer's wife and children?when Mrs. Lawyer is probably 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 restored, as should be the case when arbitration is used, a lawsuit means long delay in reaching a decision, and the bad blood ' between neighbors probably getting more and more venomous all the time of waiting! What a foolish proceeding it is! i 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 lawver's fpp?- paHi disputant has embittered and soured his own life through the i controversy; the neighborhood ^ has been split up in factions sup ^ . preme court of the state! It's no more timely now than at any other season, but arbitra tion is one form of cooperation " worth practicing withyour neigh?* bors this month and every other month when occasion arrises. * Why don't country churches and 0 farmers' clubs?each supposed to support peace and brother5 [-hood?give more attention to 1 this subject? In many a neigh3 borhood the 4 lawing habit" is 3 doing as much harm as the liquor " habit, and ought to be as vigorously frowned upon.?Progressive Farmer. ^ Thanks Words cannot express our many heart felt thanks to those that rendered service to us during the recent illness and death j ui our nine girl, especially do we i thank Dr. Duncan for his faitha full efforts until the end came. May Gods' richest blessings rest (j with each and every one. y H. J. Ogburn & family. 8 n spray it lavishly even on the g table linen. The odor is very d disagreeable to flies but refresher ing to most people, a Geranium, mignonette, helior trope and white clover are ofit fensive to flies. They especial e ly dislike the odor of honey1, suckle and hop blossoms, e According to a French scienis tist flies have intense hatred for n the color blue. Rooms decorad ted in blue will help to keep out is the flies. T Q '?*< 4.-1-1 ? itiia iv/^ciiici une liiuiL'spoonis ful of cream, one of ground black pepper and one of brown is sugar. This mixture is poisonr ous to flies. Put in a saucer, darken the room except one il window and in that set the sau e cer. it To clear the house of flies, d burn pyrethrum powder. Tliis e stupefies the flies, but thev must n | be swept up and burned.