Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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$?U AR CUT TO TWO LBS. EL PER MONTH AUGUST 1ST, -of This K'i!e of the Food Administration is 3Iade Voluntary on the Part of the People, But it* It is \ot " w:*?, n it.,v !?in|Ti!ru TT 1111 n ??vc'?me Compulsory. IpftB ? 0? Wafhincton. July 2.".?The American ration of three rounds of suga~ j - -i* - ?*%A iV? TT?rt ^ ?A<3am All f per capita per uwnui v>a> umd> v>?to two pounds by - the food adminis tratior> This action has been ex- j clusive'y forecasted by the Universal | Service. The order takes effect Aug. j 1 and is expected to re-main in force J until January 1. It may he possible ; at that time to lossen the restrictions | somewhat. & A similar order to public eating i houses limits their sugar supply to pl^Ktwo pounds far every-^0 m^ls. At |||j|wbe present time no further reduction j liSriil 'be placed on the soft drink man-; _j ? t ? 1 J? I ^,ffilPiHi'arrui""rs* wn0 airenuy u."eiaimg j HOkSt' 30 per cent basis. T!ie food ad- ; ^^ iinistration exoects that the domestic | ffPeduction to two pounds will save 1 W^Tenough sugar to meet the necessities I W of our allies. [ The nation remains 3 volnn^rv one and there is on intent to make it compul?0T*v. to?1* the Runnlie1* nf s^ear on hand are to be allocated to the various states on the two-pound basis, and failure of voluntary rationing in j any state will create a deficit in that j stat* which will not be met by the j ^ national administration by further I j? allocations. W Wilson Will Not Help Dial, By Jesse Cottrell. "Washington, D. C.. Tuly 25.?The ; administration will take no hand in v * the senatorial fight in South Carolina.' During the past few days the ! repon has been current here tha* j newlv found snnnorters of *he Dial ; iff? candHacv v*omH have the admin:?- : tration take a hand. Tt is stated upon jjlK authority that the administration is . W hand?; off and will net interpose in a t m content, among Democrats. The gen-1 eral impression her? is that one fac- ! tion in South. Carolina is just as loysl \ * to the sr-^ernment as the other and i that efforts to make capital a^am^t | Former Governor Blea.se along this i line is for naught. It is believed here ! that Mr. Blease will stand 'by the j administration and be just as good [ a Democrat as any one else from i South ^arC'iina. if not -better, be- ; > ? And Ifou arc to saw and n< ij jj f f v-' . ' ., ' ; ' . '-v <1. \-~~l - >." > , ?im ?*: wa*?l' U -i * <w?... ;..> > Medical OF THE 5 W- South ( I Owned and Conir Schools of Medicii j Rated in Cla^s A by the Cci the American Medical Asscci? ation of American Medica- C( I Coofeienee of Pharmaceutical A Leader in Me ; in the r * '? 1 - !i.1. it iNew ouuaing wuii wen e( coips of thoroughly efficient a r Located opposite the Rope Charleston Museum, thus affc j teiisive opportunities for rt?ea Women Admitted en the j For eata'ouge address. H. GRADY CALI Calhoun and Lucas Sfcre zi cause to times past his democracy f has been put to the acid test and j f.iuit'll .Ivf-Tc:banian and true : \ yv. x. i i. i Kei'omcs Cashier of *he foninwroinl r.j < Jintoii \t)w. i I Greenwood Index. Mr. M. Poland. who married Yi * lilla Sproles, has been elected cashier nf t:;e Coir.mercb-* of The Clinton Chronicle has this to say about, him. I' Frank M. Boland. for the nasi :: years local agent for the Columbia, Xewberry & Laurens Rairway , ha? been elected cashier of the Commercial Bank of this city as a successor to W. H. Simpson, resigned. He will enter upon his new duties just sa soon as he can be relieved from his pres. ent position. Mr. Simpson will enter the government service. The new cashier. F. M. '"Roland, is a most efficient and accommodating railroad man and during the time he has won the esteem and highest regards of every business man in the city, all of whom express regret covpranro n* Vn'c T>rpspr(t nOsitiOf. He is well qualified for the new work ho is about to enter and will prove * ; vnluablo acquisition to the bank. j | IVJten a $ran is Poor. Exchange. , A man is poor when he has the confidence of his friends, when people who are nearest to him do not believe in him: when his character is honeycombed by deceit and punc' 1 Uft fa TT"V| P n IUICU uv uiouwjicoi/. IXC W fi/ut " ? he makes rncney at the expense of his character, when he does not stand clear out, supreme in his idea. When this is clouded, he is in danger o? the worst k-nd of poverty. Tf yoi have maintained vour integrity, if vorr character stands forth square to the world, if von have never bant the knee of principle to avarice, you are not poor though y?u may be compelled to beg oread. 1 i SUNDAY OK* MZAX . WEAIXESS jgKjaft WE MO miKXX aHOBU (ii'M 11111 il'i ' TASTSX a1 raurAKXAST FOODS CONTAINING WHEAT > only <isk*>d >t waste ?<K?a - i College STATE OF Carolina oiled by the State i m ne ana rnainiaty incil of Mcdica; Educators of tion. Member ot the A<soci) lieges ai dot the American Faculties. dicaSEcucaiicn South. flipped laboratories. A full 11-tiine teachers. r Hospital and very near the irding the students more exrch ai:d traini: g. [3me teims as men. JSON Registrar, ets Ckarfestop, ^oe. Carolina. Marti I 'II ?C ? I BMBKPI6MC -jk^VA; m 9 n:.j aaHe ilLLi Ull miMliU ' 51M CROPS Patriotic Duty in the Present Crisis Pointed Out by Governor Manning, Who Urges Neighbors to Volunteer Part Time to Working Farms From Which Men Have Been Called Into the Army. CV\!nmhfa .? A a q -rror monci;ro tr\ Vi n applied individually where conditions ! demand It, and as a means of savir.g ! a vast amount of foodstuffs and feed- ! stuffs a3.well as other crops, Governor Manning, in a call to the patriotism of the people of the rural sections of South Carolina, urges that neighbors lend of their time to help work the : crops on farms from which men have j been drafted into the army. The gov rnor's statement follows: "The necessity of sending men over j seas as rapidly as possible is greater j thon over \Tr?ro anri more* ! V f VA MVyAVl V> A'AVI V V j men must be drafted in to the army, j The War Departmen: finds it impossible to grant furloughs to these men who have been called away from the farms. The need of men is greater In the army. I realize that the shortage of farm labor is a serious handicap. Crops must be cultivated. A little later the harvests will be on. | It,i this situat^pn I urge that, in every community throughout the State, neighbors, who know local conditions, lend themselves and give of their time to help on the farms from which the operators and laborers have been taken into the army. In this way. and in this way only, will a great~economic loss be avoided. In this way can a great amount of foodstuffs and feedstuffs, too precious in view of war demands and war conditions to lose, but which will otherwise probably be lost, be saved. This kind of service is. and should be regarded, as real war work. There exists a great op- | portunitv to serve patriotically and j unselfishly, in a way that will count j heavily, and I hops that our people j v;:'ll be quick to see and grasp it. . . MAXIMUM CANNING WITH MINIMUM U3E Or SUGAR: Columbia.'?Fruits may be canned j without sugar for next winter's use. This will be good news to many housewives who are handicapped in their canning operations by the limit that the Food Administration has found it necessary to put on the r? <\-\ ^ /\-# rut r> fV\ r* f /?M M V\ A r\n O ft ttiiiuuxic ui dugax tuai can uc puiviia^ed for canning and preserving. A bulletin has been issued by the United States Department of Agriculture which tells how to put up fruits without sugar. Copies of this bulletin may be had by writing the Department at Washington. A^k for Bulletin No. 839. Full instructions will be found on page 15. Other bulletins issued by the Department of Agriculture give instnvtlons for maximum earning with minimum siiwr Hftms rannprR should write the Department for Bulletin* Nos. ?59, 853. 900, and 984. EXPERT TELLS HOW TO SELECT SEED CORN ColumfMa^?Tlje Feed Admimistr^ftion has issued a pamphlet, "A Message to the Corn Club Boys of South Carolina," containing an article written by James W. Draffin, second prize winner in the Com Club contest for the State in 1917, and who is an expert on corn prodi*ction and scientific se?5?juuu ui s??eu. x ue cu is cuutied. "How I Select My Seed Corn in the- Field," and contains some valuable information not only for boy farmers, but for their elders as well. Copies of thi3 pamphlet will be mailed free to any person making request to the Conservation and Production Division, Food Administration, Columbia. S. C. ' , . FARMERS MAY SELL HOME-GROWN WHEAT Columbia.?Farmers who have grown wheat may, under recently modified regulations of the Food Administration, sell wheat or flour to their neighbors under certain conditions. Purchasers of wheat from farmers may have it ground on the same basis as the farmer who raised it. but in such case3 they will be expected to use flour substitute? pouna lor pouna wun tne nour. wnen farmers sell flour to individuals they must sell flour substitutes with it, or tnke miller's certificates from the purchaser, showing that flour substitutes have been ground tq cover the amount of flour bought, pound for pound. NEW REGULATIONS T6 APPLY TO COTTON SEED Columbia.?The Food Administration announces that all price agree ments or other masters affecting the price of the 1917-1918 crop will expire with the disposition of such cotton seed as individuals mow have in their possession. No agreement now existing, as to cotton seed prices, will extend to the next crop, but Jiew rules and regulations wl1! be announced later to apply 10 the 1918-1919 crop. All differentials and margins of profit, sones a-nrf rales, which have been 9stitL,:lL,'.c,d will reriaia in c-ffcci u:.U; have h'.itn replace;! br o?.~ji j 'lar rulings. WASP MUST HAVE REASONED Case on Record Where Insect Used Stone aa Hammer to Pound Dirt Mere F:iim!y. So far as known, only owe small !n sect?a wasp or tim sparx lamiiy? among the millions of creatures belonging to a lower order than man. has ever employed the aid of a tool t"? accomplish a desired result. The mother wasp of this family digs a tunnel in the ground, deposits her egg in it and provides a caterpillar stung to death or to a condition of paralysis for her I ;!>v to for.] on vIm-u Pitched. The grub subsists upon the caterpillar until it passes through the pupa stage into the perfect winged insect. Then it digs its way out of the tunnel and begins its life above ground as a wasp. P?ut after tho mother vrasp has made its tunnel, and deposited the egg, it. finishes its task by ramming down pellets of earth, little stones, etc., into the mouth of the tunnel. This is the race habit of these wasps. It is recorded o- undoubted authority that one inventive mother, when the mouth of the . 3 4... ? TUnilCl was loveicu iu u icvci ? uu rest of the- ground about it, brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used it as a hammer in pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making the spot as firm and as hard as the surrounding surface. Then she departed, brought more dirt, picked up the pebble again and used it as a hammer, as before, NOT WISE TO GO HUNGRY Writer Criticizes the "No-Breakfast" Fad Which Still Retains a Hold on Some People. A few years ago someone started a boom for the breakfastless day as conducive to longevity. I know persons who have clung stubbornly to this absurdity, Meredith Nicholson writes in the Yale Review. The despicable habit contributes to domestic unsociability and is, I am convinced by my own experiments, detrimental to health. The chief business of the world is transacted in the morning hours, and I am reluctant to believe that it is most successfully done on cmp y stomachs. Fasting as a spinruai n!sc:pun? i>, ml course, quite another tiling, but fasting by a tirod business man under medical compulsion can hardly be lifter! to the plane of things spiritual. To delete breakfast from the day's program is a sheer cowardice, a confession of invalidism which i3 well vcalculofed to reduce the powers of resistance. The man who begins the day with a prescription, that sets him apart from his neighbors may venture into the open ^untily, persuading himself that his abstinence proves his superior qualities: but in his heart, to say nothing of his stomach, he knows that he has been guilty of a sneaking evasion, n ne were a uwmal, healthy being he would not be skulking out of the house breakfastless. Early rising, a prompt response to the breakfast bell, a joyous breaking of the night's fast, is a rite not to be despised in civilized homes. Football in China. The Chinese, first as they were in many things, were first in the field with that winter pastime we regard as peculiarly our own?football. They niflvpd foothall from very early times, Jf" ?^ ~ at first with a ball staffed with hair, bnt from the fifth century with an inflated bladder covered with leather. Even in the earliest days the game had its own literature, giving the technical names and positions of the players and enumerating at least seventy different varieties of kicks; bnt perhaps the most striking matter so recorded was that concerning the reward of the players: "The winners were rewarded with flowers, fruit and wine; and even with silver bowls and brocades; while the captain of the losing team was flogged and suffered other Indignities." i Checks Little Used in France. Checks are not much used and are seldom accepted in France. There is but little attempt to identify the payer /vf o /?ho<Mr onH nnvnnp who either makes out or accepts an order to pay does so at his peril. The public tax collector will have none of them, and the taxpayer has to stand in line with his bank bills in the back yard or in the garret of the precepteur, or else he must go to jail for nonpayment He cannot send a check. There is no clearing house in Paris. Banks settle their! accounts with one another by sending uniformed messengers, who carry cash through the streets and who stand in line before the cashiers' windows waiting to get their exact change.? j John N. Anderson in Century Magazine. Aristotle's Prescription. A balsam for every ill, an ease for] every ache, is translated by Steele I " C? A/tftnf " Clin. I irOUl Lilt? OtX'lClUlll ocunui uiui posed to have been written by ttie | philosopher Aristotle for his pupil, j Alexander the Great. The concoction j , consists of juices of various fruits | boiled down and seasoned with musk, ambergris and aloes, various highly expensive oils salted liberally with powdered pearls, rubies, sapphires, amethysts, emeralds, gold, etc., all being guarded by fxppropriste magical j precautions. Alexander, however, died at an early! age from excessive imbibing, not of j the delectable mixtures prescribed by: bis mentor, but of the juice of tb<s j grape. j LIFE FiFTY CENTURIES AGO Discoveries Show 'here Were Many Points of P.ecerr.binnce to That of the Present Say. Translation of prvMstorir' f.-iSMs In tft<> University of '.Vnnsylvania museum at Philadelphia has revealed 11;:11: women mayors woi-i regularly i toted public officios in Asia Minor 5.000 years ago. That prototypes of newspaper men at that rem >te time, true to more modem traditions of the prof???*ior). oec.-isioanllr b?van:o ir.volvod in litigations of the present day "libel suit" character, but generally wore released "on bail" is also indicated in the newiy deciphered writings. The translations which concern a once-powerful, well-organized government and people of which nearly all trace has been lost through long forgotten centuries have just been completed by Dr. A. B. Snyce of Oxford university, famous oriental scholar. lie copied the tablets two years ago and f-ho Mnios FV/vnf- wlmro h? was finally able to master their timeshrouded messages. The tablets were the work of Hittites of Cappadocians, whose national boundaries 50 Centuries ago extended from the Mediterranean to the Black sea and from the headquarters of the Euphrates into what is now Persia. Each province was subdivided into cities, and those were supervised by a mayor and a prefectress, whose powers. the tablets indicate, were co-ordinated. In one instance it appeared the woman mayor had an official status independent of the male head of the "municipal' government. An insight into many other interesting and hitherto unknown phases of life in the ancient kingdoms whose lands comprised the presenfr-tlay Mesopotamian battle grounds are afforded by Doctor Sayce's discoveries. SEE DEER AS FOOD SUPPLY Belief That Animals Can 3e Domesticated and Raised Like the Ordinary Live Stock. There has been advocated the scheme of raising1 deer as a source of meat supply in this country. It is believed that deer farming could be made as profitable as any ether livestock industry. It has been pointer! out that the Virginia (leor and the Rocky mountain elk are best suited for this purpose. Elk have been acclimatized in many parts of the world and everywhere they show the same vigor and hardiness. They adapt themselves to almost any environment and their increase under domestication is equal to that of ordinary cattle. It is contended that there are large areas of rough land in the United States, H.ke the Ozarks and the Alleg.aany regions, where elk could be profitably raised. The Virginia deer is adaptable to almost all parts of this country and thrives on land unsuited to horses. \ Animals and Proverbs. It is singular at first sight how largely animals are referred to in proverbs, but since proverbs are built on men's lives and their observations, it is really not so odd. The docile sheep reminds one of obe client children or tractable servants; the strutting peacocks, with their large and beautiful tails, of gaudily dressed woifcen; the rock-climbing goats, of bold adventurers; *he cunning foxes, of unprincipled and shrewd tradesmen; the chirping crickets, of care-free merrymakers, and the slippery eel, of unreliable employers. i This readiness to see resemblances everywhere shows itself in proverbial similes and comparisons?the man with ? nlnnnlnl. mlni^ la "OO OHlfllll CIO Q fl 21 LL11UL11 10 CIO Qtuptu UM mu auk;" a cheerful companion is "as happy as a clam;" the headstrong youth "as wild as a buck;" the diligent workman is "as busy as a bee;" the courageous soldier is "as brave as a i lion;" the neighbor who is lean and j tall of stature is "as gaunt as a grey' hound." ( i Mecca for the Fat. "Go to Mesopotamia and perspire" Is the reply of a writer in the Seattle, Post-Intelligencer to a person who is., | searching for a reliable cure for fat. in j : that climate a fat person simply melts' i and runs down. As early in the morn- [ j Ing as daybreak one awakes to find | himself bathed in perspiration. The, [ "cool" of the night means a tempera| ture of 90 degrees; by eleven o'clock | the temperature rises to 120 degrees,! | and at midday the air simply burns the! j lungs. Nobody remains fat in Meso-j ! potamia, and nobody works if it can be j ! avoided, and Sulim tells me that it, I generally is avoided under the pretext I of turning everything ove. to Allah, I All this fat pilgrim needs in Mesopota-1 j mia is somebody to support him. If j | this can be arranged, the fat takes j care of Itself. However, one might re-1 duce, even in this climate, quite hand-1 ily while looking for somebody to sup- j port one. Grand Canvon an Inspiration. An interesting example of the way the Grand canyon "gets" those who j live a while with it is found in the j technical, and to most of us the in-1 comprehensible, reports of the govern- i mfiiit topographers and geologists who| studied it for years. Apparently, in | 1 spite of themselves, these men to j nritom rn/'jrs ?nd ranvons are the grim i i business of life often interrupt their! ! dry, 1 "'!ir:ical pages by brief bursts' ! of enrh?;r.ia^in, not inspired in the least I by science, but by the pure emotion oi ' sublimity. JAWS OF FIX ERS CLOSING mi!io?'T check (;i:r e\ewy 1VT0 CRITICAL SIT CATION _r?? .Wov^'sr Smoothly u?!<i I3y she Two Jaws of a (iiant I'incer En. ris)?i;jr Van Army \r?4 l?e? In-* rorr<-l Together.?Only 2! ^!:l"s Them Now, ;i Space \i> j'iirt of Which is Exi?mj>t From Alii* )l Artillery Masses! on U1 Sides ?o? G^r. -r Fo 'j lias taken a tear out of the boo a- of German military strategy and ordained the ^se by the allied armies of the pincer system of offensive in ! ae Soisson^-Rheims saiier.". Beth jaws of 'he pincer are moving smoothly, wi-h pivot along the Marne working in unison, and the process o? attempting to capture many of the nearly half a million Germans in the big pocket is well'on the way to what at present seems like possible success. Enemy Fights Hard. The Germans, however, evidently do not intend to permit themselves to be entrapped without fighting. Having thrown thousands cf reinfOrcements into the already congested salient, they have started a counter attack cf great violence all along the : , _ 2 x J iu A >ymi-Cir?. :umr trout irum m" rivor to the region immediately south*ve?f c? Rhehns. and their men are said to have orders to stem the allied tide of advance at all costs. Advance All the Same, vertheless, at last accounts th3 Americans. French, British and Italians, themselves well reinforced to meet the new turn in affairs, were steadily pressing forward at nearly all points on the battle line to Rherms while east of the Cathera! City a Polish contingent?the first of the Poles to enter the combat?is declared to have carried out successful. * ly an enterprise against the enemy in which more than 200 Germans were made pri=or.er. Western Jaw Motor Eas?. \ . The western jaw of p'n^er continues to .rove eastward t!*o Ourcs river on both sides of the stream and the . Franco-American troops now are virutally knocking at Mie gates of Fere-en-Tardeno:*. the important railway junction ".nd storehouse for Germany's war supplies. Further "Otith to the Marne new advances. in keeping with those in the north, have baen attained. MoTing \orth From Msme. At +he pivot of the pincer. north of the .Marne, 'midway between Chateau Thierrv and Rh^irns. the Fr^n^h have extended their line northward in the Fere. In the Ffz forest and north of Dormans. while the eastern jaw of the oincer. under the pressure of the British, has noticeably moved forward in a northwesterly direction for about a mile and a half over a three- mile f-nnt to -Mery Prerocv and Gue :x. the last n#med villas^ five miles west of '"RhMms and a scant mile and a half from the Rheims-Fi'smes road. At Mer^ Pr^mov fhe allied line now stands a.bmi+ ten and a half miles southeast of Fosmes. which i3 tbs central station on the railway running ibet-ween Soissons and Rheims. Only 21 Hiles Across >ow . For a we*k ard a day the allied troop* have hammered aga: 3t the Soisson3-Rheiim.s salient until it3 width across 'between the cities has bsen r.arrwoed to about 21 miles from an original width of 37 miles, while f-hck trio n o-jtlij r has 'hPAfl W?ld_ ed ir.to a semi-circular culde-sac Over t*e entire pocket rhe allied artillery continues to rain shells from all sides, and airman r?re keepine no their intensive bombing of troops formations and military works As yet. notwithstanding the inroad* pf the alV'ed troons. there has been ' no sign of an 'impending general retreat on the part of the Germans, and, * T ~7 _ c-fon/5 or?rl f? Allf 1( J1S tJiWi.O (_?J Siau'.l anu nt JL\. J(, wov> and thp allied gains continue with the same success as heretofore, it seems I that with the daily narrowing of the neck of the pocket the enemy necessarily will lose many of his men when the time comes to make his way northeastward. Some perturbations is being caused in England through a strike in several cities of munition workers. The workmen threaten a further extension of the strike unless their demands are met. WEDNESDAY ALLIIEAU -*-% >? n a f?*; tr? /c O ffii j wat!,Aii^>3 / TT5E iA) 3CVEA3I -nAOSaOSjC. | ||/"^ " JONTAININO wm>J FMDsAY ours MEAX. .^Wr I WHEAXLESS tmx NO 3cm\a csjscersji. 'l^|j|ljjf-'^' easts* as. sxeawdvst fjo^j | CONTAXXLKC ~&33C/CZ / ' i