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-, We did not intend It is absolutely nece and Hats into money at stock of the above goods *Men's $30.00 Suits]a Men's $25.00 Suits i Men's $20.00 Suits i Men's $15.00 Suitsi M en's $12.50 Suits All Men's and Trunks, Suit Cases, Swea thin A Large Assor We 6aurantee to Fi1 We will appreciate THED.1J-0.fl PHONE 166 THE MANNING TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. I. I. APPELT---------------------------------------------Editor F. M. SHOPE-----------------------------------Business Manager McLAURIN'S RESIGNATION. The triumph of an idea, born in some man's enthusiasm is at the back of every 'great thing ever accomplished for the advancement of mankind. In 1905 the price of cotton went far below the cost of production. A great convention of farmers and business men met in 'New Or leans. Mcbaurin in an address to the convention, ad vanced the idea that cotton could be transformed into a collateral as negotiable as a bond, if the title was guar anteed, and the weights and grades by the government. In 1914, when the South could get no money on its cot ton this plan was hit upon. Now the Federal govern ment has taken it up and we are to have Federal ware houses, weighers and graders. It is the triumph of an idea that is to save the South. It is to be deplored that Mr. McLaurin thinks best for him to retire. It is a high stand to take, and not many men would lay down a job, with the same salary as the governors attached to it, especially when the funds made by the system p~rovidles for its future without further ap~propriation. The portion of Mr. McLaurin's relport setting for the methods of corporations should be read by every citizen who loves his country. .The object les son of the warring nations in Europe should be taken home. The elements are at- work here, and it will take wise statesmen, not petty time-servers, to serve our na tion. On another p age will be found Mr. McLaurin' s re port to the general assembly and his resignation, which we print, feeling that our readers are deeply interested in the warehouse system and its future. REDEEM THE WASTE PLACES- -AND MEN. One great, supreme question is confronting the Ameri can people today, a question that overshadows all others of the moment, and that is 'the much discussed one -of how to, reduce the cost 'of living. There is but one answer: WE MUST REDEEM THE WASTE PLACES OF OUR~COUNTRY-AND TrHE WASTE MEN.. Food speculators are responsible 'for much of it, but waste places and, waste men are responsible for even more. Is it a matter for wonder that food laupplies are held at almost famine prices when wear nfroavnted with the l r 'fA tJ.. to have a sale this year. bu c rcumstaunces have 1 ssary for us to turr alof once. To do so, we willel at and below cost iow $20.00 Boy'sI $1 iow $ 16."/5 Boy's 1C iow $"13.50 . Boy's 8. iow $ 10.00. Boy's 6. iow $ 8.35 Boy's 5. Boy's Overcoats at the sa ters, Men's and Boys' Odd g at prices that you cannot i tment of New Shapes in You, and will make any Necessary Aletrations Wii any business that you give 1 ANDLRCLOThI Home of Hart Schainer & Alarx. spectacle of hundreds of thousands of men tramping the streets of cities and towns, doing nothing and producing nothing, while within a few hours walk of any of them lie broad acres of land that are idle because there are none to cultivate them? Let us stop hanging the high cost of living onto the war. It may have had something to do with the sky rocket prices, but very little, because we are exporting less than heretofore, a hundred million dollars worth less in 1916 than in '1915. We may twist and squirm and wriggle all we please, but we can not escape the fact that the law of supply and demand will regulate the cost of that which we con sume. And, equally, we can not escape the fact that millions of acres of land are idle because hundreds of thousands of men would rather go hungry in a city than live on the fat of the land on a ftarm-would rather beg at the back doors of city dwe'Lrs than to ride in their own automo biles on country roads. Harsh wlordis, but true. We read of congress appointing committees to "investi-' gate the high cost of living." But about the only "inves tigating" that is done is to see just how much money can be extracted from the public till in the shape of "com mittee expenses." If you want to know why you are paying so dearly for the supplying of your table just step into a car and spend one day in driving around to the farms of this township. Question the farmers and see how many would like to employ more help-IF THEY COULD GET IT. Then go home and use your own brains instead of al lowing others to do your thinking for .you. If every idle man in this state could be put to work on a farm during the coming summer the increase in the yield of foodstuffs for the state would' be so staggecring as to be almost beyond belief. And yet we sit around and blame politics, and the poor old-overburdened war, and every other thing except the right thing. We repeat, food speculators are partly responsible, and they would be in jail if we had the energy and the cour age to put them there. But we have neither. The middle man is a hog and should be kicked into the pen with his brothers. But we are too indifferent to do the kicking. The commission man will rob you blind' even if you have no eybs. .And we turn the empty sockets for an other gouge. The railroad demiands its pound of flesh and takes two. And all we do is to groan. *These things all have their beating, but they are small as ccmnarad to the law f sumply and demand. 4 l\J . Su ,{ its noa \l orce u it not d Ha' a t Cos .AY. 1.4 5 " as uringotheg 2.50. S uits" nr Suits not Suits noz Suits :6o1 suits not me Reduction Trousers, in I resist. Hats at Cou. thout Extra Charge. is during the NO COMI Thousands and thousands dree are living in squalor ai immediate section o fthe cou capable of enduring any hard are not on the farm and. pro tioned farm to them. Why can't the farmers of gether and devise ways and r work tilling the soil-where merely EXISTING? It might cost a few dollar wvaste p laces would be cultii would be converted into usef Talk it-shout it-Jet it r OUR LANDS MUST BE C TO PRODUCE .MORE! It is the only solution. For years we have been r< city, and the farm has just al it can no longer be robbed. It is time for our leaders va plan whereby we may rob --with men. YEverybody would be the ga BIG HAUL OF LIQUOR live Hundred Gallons stolen From Warehouse. Girard, Ala., Jan. 6.--Five hundred r'illons' of whiskey, part of the loot conducted here by state authorities, has been stolen from a warehouse since Decembr 21, when the build ing was put under guardl, according to an announcement tonight by Sher 1ff Lindsey of Russell county, Five hundred cases of whiskey were stolpen about a month ago and 'the -uherifi' apealed to Gov. Henderson for a guard. The watchman recently em ployed has been removed since dis covery of the second theft, the sheriff said. The wvhisket was uiphor~ed from nine 'barrels by the use of a rubbor tube, which was carried outside the builing through la hole bored in the wall. PAINFUL COUGItS RELIEVED Dr. King's New Discory is' . and coldsk 'thn Mto e tr co naearly fifty yars.' a that' strains thios~ Mrtalit try ,r Kidg'a aoD~0 1 r'e"t.rre / $ 8.3 $ 6.35 4.00 3.35 act every ~1t Lel Dale. .SUMTER. S. C. .. )f men and women and chil id want in the cities of our rtry. * They are strong men, ship on the farm. But they bably no one has ever men this section at least get to nean, of bringing these half y where they can be put to *they can LIVE instead of s to get them here, but the rated and the waste men ul citizens. ing from every housetop: ULTIVATED AND MADE >bbing the farm to feed the" >out reached the point where to get together and outline the cities and feed the 'farm iner--the farmei' most of all. ery. The soothing pine balsams and mild laxative ingredients soon drive the cold from the system. Have a bottle on hand for winter colds, crou p, \ grippe and bronchial affections. At your Druggist, 50c.--Adv. KENTUCKY REFORMATORY sCENE OF FATAIL FIRE Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 9.-Two negro prisoners were suffocated, one was probably fatally burned and more than 50 others narrowly escaped death in a lire which started late last night in a cell house at the state re fornmatory' at Frankfort. 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