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DON'T YOU NEED WARM BLANKETS AND BED THINGS a 0 YOU SPEND HALF OF YOVR LIFE IN YOUR BED AND BEDROOM. HAVE IT PRETTY. OUR SOFT WARM BLANKETS AND DOWNY QUILTS WILL DE LIGHT YOV. NOT ONLY WHEN YOV SINK YOUR TIRED HEAD INTO YOUR PILLOW. BVT ALL DAY LONG. WE HAVE A SPLENDID LINE OF BLANKETS, COMFORTERS AND EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR THE BED ROOM AND BATHROOM. LET OUR STORE BE YOVR STORE FOR EVERY THING ALL THE FAMILY NEEDS. J. H. RIGBY, The Young Reliable. Manning. - - South Caroilna. Our Fifth Car MU LES MULES Here for Inspection! We now have the best bunch of stock ever brought here. You cAn't find any bet ter any place. We want you to look over this bunch. We have the right prices and the right terms. Full line of Buggies, Wagons, Har ness, Lap Robes, Whips, Etc. Coffey & Rigby, MANNING, S. C. ONLY KAISER CAN AFFORD REAL TIRES IN CERMANY Even Crown Prince Has to Bump Along to Front in Car With Rope bound Wheels-Rubber Tires Soar Around $500 Apiece-Gasoline $6 a Gallon. The only automobile in Germany running on pneumatic tires is Kaiser Wilhelm's. Even the crown prince is ,denied, this luxury. Along with Von Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Von Mackensen and the other diadems in the German crown, the crown prince bumps along to the front on tires fill ed with rags, compressed cork and paper. These observations form but a small part of the anthology of facts gathered by Victor Van der Linde, special technical representative of The B. F. Goodrich Rubber company, of, Akron, who just returned from Europe after long study of tire condi tions abroad. In some countrics tires are not to be had at all, except at a fabulous price and only after a dozen or two high government officials have had one on the witness stand for weeks, literally speaking; gasoline is worth more than champagne and is obtainable only with government con sent, and nine-tenths of the automo biles are not running. "German scientists have tried to improvise for the scarcity of rubber by compounding what they call syn thetic rubber," said Mr. Van der Linde, "but in this they have been unsuccessful. There is not an ounce of crude rubber in it at all and there fore it is devoid of fiber. Then again it has cost about fifteen times more a pound than the vegetable. "The situation of both Germany and Austria as concerns tires, is truly deplorable. Countries bounding the central empires, with the exception of those that ar eatwa r with them are in just as bad plight. - . "Really the only car running with inner tubes in Germany today is that of the kaiser's Most casings are stuffed with compressed champagne corks, paper, rags and sausages made of ground cork. "Some have even been filled with sand and dirt. This only refers to those cars that have ragged casings left. Most automobiles have ground away their shoes and move about on rims bound with, rope. I was for tunate to find a taxicab in Berlin-a taxi cal) is rare there now--and ex perienced the sensation of riding in a machine having nothing but rope bound wheels. It was just like rid ing on a wagon. Everytime the car struck a cavity in the road, you were jolted clear through. "Thcre isn't a bicycle tire left in Germany outside of those on mili tary bicycles. Raids by the whole sale were conducteqj on shops and residence and all bicycle tires seized. These have been reduced to permit their remaking as automobile tires. In fact, everything in ruber has been reclaimed for tire construction and submarine battery cells. "The cargo of the Deutschland on its last trip was almost cxcluslvely rubber- but so pr1esing was the de nmndl for the use of the rubber- in dirigibles That none of it, with the possible exception of tires for the royal family, was allowed( to go into tires. "Germany had little crude rubber in stock at the outbrieak of the war-. Since then she has been depending on what she could smuggle through the mails and what she could buy from Sweden. Single sheets of rubber wvere sent in letters from the United States until Great Britain opened these and confiscated the contents. A fter this channel had been closed she potchaised large numbers of auto mobiles in this countryw and had them sh ipped to Sweden. Tihere she strip ped the aut omiobil.2s of the tires and abandonedl bra:nd neOw machines to th: Swedes. I it. now G;rat Britain pe mait no cars' shilipe: to Swedlen with tire ."uipmevnt. ir. V'an der. I .in le gave the pre vailing priets of tires in the follow ing coun itr ies: Germanytt--none to lbe had. Aunstriav -n'o to 'be had. Swed en--$55,0 for a tire if you have a permfit from~t Rtoyal Auntomiobile cluab. Norway-E w. ,( ith perm'flit. I )cnmark -- $t2n for a tire if you can findl one and give w.-itten assur ance to government that it will not go to Germny.v Ilollanl.j 8350 for- a t ire with gov (-rnment guaraniitee. Russia $1li0 for' one t ire. Gra Britain--$90. Italy -$l l0t. Spain- $125. "In Sweden,'' coniniuied MIr. Van der II ide, ''Lb ere are 10,000 automo hile's. There are 1,000 in operation and (on tires from vhic-h las disap peared all semblance of the original casing. 'Tires hold twenty and thirty patches. Sweden has been placed in this piredieament because of the num ber of tires that have gone to Ger many from its ports. E'nglaind has dleniedl it' rubbler supplies. Tires are scarcer there now than diamondta" -Gasoline, Mr. Van der. Linde said, I is as big a problem as. tires. In no t country can you get it without gov ernment permit, and in Germany the prices are practically prohibitive. A pleasure trip, of two hundred milse would cost the average German $200 in gasoline alone. This is the European scale of prices on "gas": galon Germany -- -- .. -- -- .- $6.00 Austria .- - ....- .......- ...6.00 Great Britain ...-..-......-..90 France ...-- -- '...-....-1.25 Sweden ...-..-._ ...-..-._ .. 1.75 Holland --'...-.....-...-..1.35 Italy -- -- . .-- - _- -- 1.00 Spain / 1.10 Greece .... ...... ..-- 1.60 "And-yet," said Mr. Ven der Linde, "men will run to their last cent or you .? Make to .by st 4 If, for no other reason than the ur It's a duty; because you haven't 1 you have power to start a Bank A Besides we want to help worthy.young life, you owe yourself a Bank Account, The Bank o Southern Rail An Ambition and THE needs of the South are idei of the Southern Railways the growth r the upbuildlng of the other. g The Southern Railway asks no favors raccorded to o4pers. The ambition of the Southern Railwa unity of interest tiat Is born of co-operatit rte railroad:; to see perfected th~at fair andl It ment of railroads which uthies the con agencies; to realile that liberality of treatr toh obain the addicional capital eeded fr th enlarged facilities incident t% the dcmand service; and, finally To take its niche in the body politic o -.other great Indtustries, with no lose, butt tights and equal opportutitics. "The Southern Serves 01~ ADERIENTH IM o .the end of t ipil rsources before hey %ill give up hlr ;ca'se 'Mr. Van der ,Lnde sald that Spain ipd taken advantage of its ute4tral ity to build up a big. automobile in lustry and has luilt truck haulage systems equal to our railroads. hortage of railroad equipment fore d Spain to adopt the truck as the hief means of travel.. 0 ADVERTISE IN' TILE TIMES. 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