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FOOD CONTROL BEMNS KY (iOVERNMKNT SEPT. 1 I Hoarding and Speculation I'rofcioiica ?Regulations Arc Kri'ectivo Si*j?tember i ! Washington. Aug. 12.?Herbert C. Hoover, the food administrator. a:\? ? .I i ^ ^ . + V,Q rwlnili fnr tho cnri nuuiiceu IUUCS-.V nit trcl of wheat, flour and bread. They are specific and comprehensive They have been worked out fully In . view of the disrupting and disturbing conditions of the European war and j the part this country still has to play.! They provide: First, for the vigorous prosecution of all persons who hold more wheat or flour than is required in their nor- 1 mal business. Second, for the maintenance or a! fair price throughout the country, r?y j -seizing, if necessary, the entire 1917 I harvest and .determining the cost to the consumer. Third, for food administration agencies at the principal wheat terminals throughout the couitry. Fourth, for ths restriction of storage to 30 days, unless special permit Is given by tne iooq aamiueiuauuu. Fifth, for the elimination of specula tion by compelling all mills and elevators with more than 100 barrels daily capacity to take out a government license. The regulations will go into effect or. September 1. I Mr. Hoover believes that by rigid application of the regulations the -i-trine nf wheat can be established throughout the year. With the price of wheat stabilized it is believed that the price wil conform and thus a stabilized price of bread will be maintained In announcng his plans, Mr. Hoover j says: ' ' " Markets Disrupted . i The disturbance of the world's coai-j xnerce and short supply has caused a greater disruption of the normal mar- j kets for wheat than any other cerear. As a result of the isolation of certain xirrkrM'c whpat nroducing coun- I VI r?w* W .. ? r - r . _ tries, by either belligerent lines or short shipping, he says, *he normal <2e-1 termination of the price . wheat by the ebb and flow of commerce is totai-l ly destroyed. "In order to control speculations and to secure more equitable distrlDuI tion of the available wheat and flour between meir countries, ae o.uuvuuvt.i, the allied government has placd the whole purchase of their supplies m the hands of one buyer. Also the European neutrals are now buying their wheat through single government j Bgents instead of in the normal course of commerce- Therefore, the export price of wheat and flour, and thus the Teal price, if not controlled, will oe subject to almost a single will of the foreign purchaser. "Injnormal times, American wneAt moves largely to Europe in the fall -months. This year the shortage of spring wheat necessitates its distribution over the enure year. Therefore. there is danger of a glut in our warehouse system over a considerable period. Large Stocks "There are large stocks of wheat which, can not be drawn upon by the allies during the war. But in the event of peace or defeat of submarines these would be available and might seriously demoralize the demand for American wheat. "It must be clearly understood that .r- t 1 I HBHBBHBHHUHBHHHH The same satisfaction, same wear, ?ame good tailoring, same prompt service as always ? that's why YOU should wear Scotch Woolen Mills' tailored to measure suits?it's true economy. REMEMBER E\ \ i_?_ / . ^ ! the guaranteed minimum price cr >2 ! per bushel for wheat set oat :n tne ; food bill does not apply to the i!>I" harvest b;it only to the H'lS harvest and then under con J;:iGiis whica must 1 be elaborated, There is therefore no ! .'Viermined price for the l'.UT harvest." il is cle.uiv pointed out that as the i | result of thi- situation the noriai ! p: lea-making machinery is entirely I broken down unless some efficieir. j government action is brought :n:j ' t.l&y. These points are made: { "First, the .American producer may 1 face a slump in wheat, possibly below h:s production cost. "Second, the export price of wheat which ultimately determines the real I price is at the will os a single angency. | "Third, some one must buy the sur| plus wheat at any given moment an:l j if the surplus passes into speculative honrtc if w?il hp held for higher prices I later in the year. j Fourth, with stabilized prices, extra hazards are introduced into al! distribution links which must be paiil for by the consumer. It must be evident that the United States government can more justly deal with tne situation than any of the agencies mentioned. Therefore, the food administration has determined to take the following course: >'o Speculation "In order to eliminate speculation in wheat and Hour, all elevators and mills over 100 barrels daily capacity will be required to take out government "cense and the conditions of this license must be: | "Tl:at only reasonable and cus:o| mary charges shall be made for warehouse^service; thai no wheat shall be stored for more than thirty days with t out the approval of the food admini istration; that certain information as ; to receipts and shipments shall be , supplied regularly. Grain exchanges i are "being asked to suspend all deal' ings and quotations in future wheat, i These regulations will come into force 1 September 1, and the licenses will be prepared this week. While farmer co-operative-elevators are expected by the food bill, this however only *p' plies to mutual concerns and not t? j stock companies and in any event un| der the advantages of joining the plan, none are likely to stand out. "In substitution of the broken-down marketing machinery the food admin| istration proposes to open agencies for | the purchase of all wheat ^t the prln| cipal treminals, carrying on its transactions with the usual dealers and is prepared to take the whole harvest if necessary In order to maintain a fair price. It will re-sell wheat for export in such quantities as we can afford to part with in protection of onr own people on one hand and to sell on the other to the millers for domestic consumption. The administration will make no charges except a normal percentage to cover cost* of operation and arrangements will be made which ^will assure tHe govern, ment against low. j "In order tha| nothing sihall be | left to miseharge we are setting up a j properly constituted and independent : auditing committee which will chect all transactions at every point. Fair Prices For Wheat "Tho fVvvi ?flminsitr2LL*on under ! these arrangements would have i large influence in effecting the price ! of wheat. With a view to determining a fair price, the president has ap I he bame The Same STRICTLY C f T ALL WOOL U MADE TO YO ki Than W 'ERY SUITING 1 300 ST' SLACK'S DRY Prosperity, Sout ( i roved the appointment of a comiii.'iiee to be selected from representative of the producing sections ana crns':mi:i.? ei- ments in the comniunTSi." r-<\' : *> > i r I -.? > U'' I i.r? - bied under the chairmanship of President Garfield cr' William "olio..;.- and ii v.;u be the duty of this cmiamror 10 fr^ternrne n fair price for tiie 1917 harvest. I'pon the determination ' r r1.is fair !>a>:s. it is the intention c! 'o fo~d administration to use every, v civen it under the bill and the control 01 exports to effect tne universality of ilr's fair basis throughout the whole of the 1917 harvest year ; i without change or fluctuation. rt i j should thus be clear that it will not to tiie advantage 01 auv i.iuuucci hold back his grain in anticipation of i further advance, for he will do so only . at his own cost 01 storage ana nut;:- j est, and if it is necessary for the srovernment to buy the entice whe'itj harvest n order to maintain thia fall i price in protection of the purchaser ! we intend to do so. , No Hoarding"Furthermore, declares Mr.. Hoover, ! ' I i ?- + Via VirkMitior nf R'hpat f*r finilT COn- ' j UiO UVlUiU^ VI '* w w* ? J tracts by persons not engaged in the j trade, and even when n the trade, in; i larger quantities than is necessary for the ordinary course of their business is unlawful under the act, and i ?uch cases will be prosecuted mia, j vigor. And we would advise such: 1 : . holders to liquidate contracts at once. | I ' The universal endeavor over zne country to reduce consumption," con- j eludes Mr. Hoover, "of wheat, breaa- I : stuffs, that we may have the :requi3-| ite exports with which to carry tne Allies over the forthcoming winter,! will result in a largely increased amount of wheat available ror export. ! if it were exported, as wheat, it would ; result m aiimuuuuu yi tiiipiuj'ujcut m j our mills and of equal importance, j ' curtailment of supply of mill feed for I ; our dairy cattle. Therefore, the food l administration will stipulate for a large proportion of export of flour - instead of wheat and as the export orders for flour wil be given subject j to the approval of the fod adminis-; | tration, those mills which co-operar.t 1 with the food administration will be; given the benefit of the exports em-' ployment. By thus encouraging tlie j home production of flour the manurac-! turing cost will be reduced and there- j ! fore the American public will receive j indirect benefit in lowered margin of cost in distribution." I Mr HnrtTPP malrM t.he concluding reflection that it must be evident to all thinking persons that unless the price' of wheat flour and bread can be re- i duced materially, the country cannot expect to maintain the present wag's scale and that it must lose efficiency at a time it cannot afford such a sacrifice. I \ LAD FROM TRENCHES NOW AT CANTONMENT Johir Dozier, Nineteen Years of Age and Rock Hill Bey, Saw Five Montns Serriee With Canadian Regiment in France. j The Stat?. j A gleam from the flame-lit gloom j sharp terror and excitement of EurcI pean battlefields has filtered into the! ! dusty routine of work at the canlon raent in the person oi" jonn a. uozierj of Rock Hill, a youthful worker, aged j 19, who as a member of 2 Canadian j I i i j Big Value i n low rnce itq 300 110 STYLES U R||0 R D E R |PB5BOMHSraiBBSBL 1 f No More J Than IS ALL WOOL YLES GOODS CO. h Carolina A UMBSMEEP FV,^ TV ? 1 i /i?U V w iuLu-JuWU) U Ciiii etH13 T" ^y^;- - "] * t** ? n^/ I p/?V 1^1 ksLj. J j U v. ! jH ?jCCL*j' a Five DoliSes o? Cardui "ade Her We" Kathleen.. Fin.??.Irs. Dr.llr.s Trir.c, of this place, says: "After the birth. of i vy last T got very mucli run-down and weakened, so much that I could hardly do anything at all. I was so awfully nervous that I could scarcely endure the least noise. My condition was getting n .it. - -A. wuiae tin me i:me... I knew I must have some relief or I would soon be in the bed and in a serious condition for I felt so badly and was so nervous and weak I couid hardly live. My husband asked Dr about my taking; Cardui. He said, 'It's a good medicine, and good for that trouble', so he got me 5 bottles... After about the Becond bottle I felt greatly improved.. .before taking it my limbs and hands and arms would go to sleep. After taking it, 1% XI. -* "? * liuwevci, una puur circulation disappeared. My strength came back to me and I was soon on the road to health. After the use of about 5 bottles, I could do all my house-work and attend to my six: children besides." * You can feel safe in giving Cardui a thorough trial fqr your troubles. It contains no harmful or habit-forming drugs, but is composed of mild, vegetable, medicinal ingredients with no bad after-effects. Thousands of women :have voluntarily written, telling of the good Cardui has done them. It should help you, too. Try it 3 74 regiment, saw five montiis service in the. trenches of Flanders last winter. Mr. Dozier is a brother of Lieut. J. C. Dozier, Second jJa~taf.cn, First South Cerolina Regiment, now siationed at'the cantonment. Mr. Dozier yesterday was armed with nothing more dangerous than a- hammer and a mouthful of nails, and was a sHgfct figure in the blue overalls. tr?t lik-: Mulvaney who had been reduced bul was a corporal once, has a martial re cord beyond his years, ana recounted briefly, on being questioned, the storj of a bayonet attack in which he ha^l taken part that was lik'3 a splash oi color in memory? TU?. ran awflr frnm home In March, 1916, determined to see tne world and take a hand in the great war. He enlited in a regiment a1 Toronto and spent three months In training at Valcartier, after which ne was sent to England where he spent three months more in further trainIn October he cro3^e?l the channel anJ after a few weeks was in the trenches rtPftr Ynrps Durinsr his first furlough back to safety from the firing line hz wrote members of his family in Koca Hill telling them of his doings of the last seven months. They imme<Jiatelj began efforts through the American ambassador to secure his discharge on the ground that he was a minor. Meanwhile Mr. Dozier had again '?1 ? ^ ^5*i?rr li*\A TTr caKen am piaue uu iuc ui iug nuc. was ordered into one of the trencne.near the front in the sarly part a night soon after he had got back, and shortly before daylight advanced oven the parapet of the front line trench lr the second wave of battalion which had been sent against a, Germar trench 100 yards aistaut. ' The first wave charged 50 yards, and lay down and took refuge in crater holes, as ordered. A heavy artillery fire rrom British batteries against the Germans followed. Just as day broke the second wave went over the parapet, and! both lines started for the 'jerrnan lines. When they were within ten yard^ of their goal, tne Germans suddenly swarmed out of their trenches to meet them. Two German? saddenly appeared out of the gloom in front of Mr. Dozier with fixed bayc-net.*. He parried one thrust, twisted the opposing bay onet, so that his adversary's noia was loosened, and then thrust him in the bowels. The bayonet of the second German missed his head by inches at that instant. Just as another thrast was nearing his body the German was shot by a Canadian next to him. The battalion stayed in the trench 34 hours, and, to make it secure, was preparing to charge a second German trench up a short eminence concealed by bnshe9 to their right. During tne tense minute before starting a sergeant touched Mr. Dozier on the arm and ordered him to the rear, where his company commander informed trim that he had been discharged and was to be sent home through the efforts of his family. He was home within a month Was Rich Anyhow The barber was finishing lathering a customer, and was talking volubly as usual. "Yes sir," he said, "we have to mind what we're about here. Every time we cut a customer's face we are fined a 'tanner.' and if we make an ugiy gash it costs us a bob." Then, picking up and bradishing a razor, he added. "But I don't care s hang today. I've just won a 'quid.'" ?Tit-Bot3. SEEKS TO DEW IT i hven if It's True. However. Herlin Thinks It I'niniportunt Hcrlin. Aug. 13 (via Amsterdam).? Ti:r semi r.ffi :ai Xorddeutsehe Ali. g-meine Zeitang denies the existenc 2 or the telegram alleged by .James V.\ Gerar, former American ambassador hriln. to have been sent by Em>; roc William to President Wilson, In i August. 1914. when the German emperor is quoted as having asserted A A " V\ O rl f r\ n r\ elicit DeigiUllid iicuLiaiuv iiau iu ; violated by Germany on strategical | grounds." The alleged telegram, which has reached Berlin by way of Swit| zerland. has the emperor saying that i Kin? sent him word throne1! : the emperor's brother. Prince Henry ! that Great Britain would remain neutral if war broke out on the continent involving Germany and France and .Austria and Russia. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says: "We are in a position to declare that no such telegram from the emperor exists. It is true that Mr. Gerard was given an audience on August 10, 1914, in order to give him an opportunity of placing President's 'Wilson's offer of mediation before the emperor. "The president's personal message to the emperor read as from the or - - - ? - ?t.: ; ticiai fieaa 01 one or ine powers wuxu j signed The Hague .- convention and ! said: " I feel it to be my right !and my duty in accordance with Article 3 of the convention to declare to you in PteTAHD For All L EASY AND I KILLS LICE, TICKS. FLEAS, 1 RINGWORM, SCRATCHES, GERMS AND DR] i NON-IRRITATING* EFF JLJ to I'lHll wno r IS uinj ?w. V W*il ImBF * AMCWMIWi li; .'i J 'I ; Ground Limesto ! Your Ferl !i We have been made . over this section for a Lii | j finely ground and this m , It releases the potash am - * * . 1 I corrects the acidity ana { makes the soil .very muc makes it easy to get an corn and grain by puttinj condition. i I Order EarlyI Anderson PI Oil Co A niiersf W. F. FARM] i ? s An Ambition ai / j *J*HE needs of the South arei / ' of?JbeSoodbeva Rathragr: the fro* f i tbc opboiidiaf of the etbec. ^ " il I < The Soodteni Kaihvay uki mo fin jf t J accorded to others. \l ' 5 Tbe ambition of the Sootbcra RaO y < army of incereuc tXat is bora of co-opo v I * the railroads; to see perfected :hat fair u J meirt of railroads which invite* the I agencies; to realize that liberality of ti ^ y/ to obtain the additional capital needed fo enlarred facilities incident to the don I. service; and. finally? * ' "* " ??w? fm nfcbe in the body pofi f other great isdodtries, with no took. I t| v oeba auwi eqiul oppoitaiuocs. " The Southern Serv Swt^m^aa ? -- [ i irit of truest friendship that X i v.o : 1 rl welcome any opportunity to act in the interests of European peace, j whether now or at any other time that 1 might be better fitted, to render yoj r-nd all concerned services whicli would irive me satisfaction any joy." "This proposal was made at tUp lime when the armies of both sides iitii alrnnrlv crossed the frontier and when it seemed out of the question to ; all a halt to events. The emperor ; could, therefore, only, have his thanks conveyed to President Wilson for his j offer and thereby remark that while j the present moment was too early for i mediation by the neutral powers, the 1 president's friendly proposal might i later be returned to. i offers.")f oa..' cmf shrd shrd shrdlun I "The emperor then conversed for i some time further with Mr. Gerard I and explained to him the events that * j led up to tve outbreak of war. The V | emperor particularly pointed cut tha ^ j ambiguous and disloyal attitude of j Great Britain which had desfroved all j hope of a peaceful argreemen*. "M~. Gerard's statements M' VH j memoirs appear to be a reproduction ! of this conversation. If the pres3 in enemy countries sees revelations !n then that only shows they are ignor- \ 1 ant of the German white book which I in essence set iortn me same events. THE HERALD AND >JEWS ONH fl YEAR F* >R 0\'LY SI o<? W Subscribe to The Herald and News, j } - ~ >1 I , SSF=Sral mmmi .ive Stock 1 SAFE TO USE. I SITES. CURES MANGE. SCAB, ' 0 -M ETC. DESTROYS DISEASE H 1 :VES AWAY FLIES. 1 ' MVltfia IUBVttBIICiU8 H EVIlVfii anfe^rbnoiwmm EAb DIF> WEEKS CO. ne Will Reduce tilizer Bill. the distributing agents mestone that is unusually akes it quickly available, j plant food in the soil, julverizes the hard -pots, :h more productive and ??or?ltr cfsnr] ."vf vaiijf uwuuu va w / vwv* *j y the soil in first class -Prices Right. I i 1 losphate and mpany >n, S. C. CD C a. ui\, ^wrciary, >4 M t[\tt fell a A^WiUir i ^ dartkalwithtfeenewh } A 1 Hi sod mccam of ?nc bom | >' | I ratio* benreea tfcepabfieand f xi frank policy in the s?me*- J \ confidence of imuunaal V tatacat which wiS axtbie it f r >r ibe acquisition of better asa /V aa4 for iaacMed and beser / F T tic of tkc So?b atenUe o? / ? widi eqaal IfceJtio, egu? as the Sooth*" r . 1^7 Jl