Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i[NTRAL MARKET FOR FOOD PRODUCTS 'commendations Made by Federal Trade Commission in Reports to Congress. Sle to tele telo *I'js ereSI* e -t of een.ral markets frl per1ishlab)l od llct in al! lairge cilies an I se ti ': a p >: a fa ier.1l li'1.ning aleW.be to all dealers in eh foods at those markets is pro eCd by the Federal Trade Commis )n inl its annual report today to ngress. . 'he commission's conclusions are ised on an investigation covering ay months and it declares that fed al action is necessary to obtain ef etive regulation and to avoid unfair id wasteful practices with the con quent effect, ol prices, in the pres t system the commission sees as a n-Iranec to the proper passage of L-is'hables from the producer to the .,numer certain intertra(le dealings hieh is believes should be eliminated )d it suggests that the handling of iese products be surrounde:l 'by nu ierous regulations andI restrictions, .ic -s the recor-ding of available .applit s, the dati ng of cold storage eriods and provisions for auction w rketing. Facilities should be made adequate. ie commission says. to enable the oducer to ship freely into the een al markets anil "with proper pro etion to his interests." The market g system should be so governed --at ob-iectionable hoarding would be minati'd and proper coord ination of ansnortation facilities should be ac mplishe(l to make deliveries certain (nen required. Solution of Problems The commission says -that "the n-cdled reforms can hardly be expect 01 to be accomplished by the initiative o' the denlers " an- asserts that State and municipal authorities lack. ade ouate power to effectively regulate the handling of the food -supplies. Al though cooperation of State and local tum:umrmstm:mtm:mmt GET OUR DRA We have a high power, fast plete power plant in itself for sai work of 6 to 10 men. Lever contr, Starts and Stops Saw Lever Control COLUMBIA SUI 823 West Gervais St. OUR BANE THEY ARE INSEPARABLE Y A good future without doesn't often happen, yc Our institution is a p and investing bank. We solicit the patronal a] attributes are likewvise ly dlesire to become such. You never regret mo use to regret when it is The Bankt JOSEPH SP T. M. MOU We Are Heac Nitrate o in quantities fro upwards. We ha the past ten da: age of this mate prices have ady~ past week it is s pared with oth Get our prices I MANNING authorities and railroads might ac complish the ends sought, the com mission believes this plan does not hold out much hope for a satisfactory solution of the problem. Turning to wheat products, the com mission says it has found that con centration of the milling industry has progressed far enougn so that "prob ably ten of the largest milling con eerns could supply the demand of the country .for flour." The commission ena.nz inci(entally that its figures m thirty-seven milling corporations show :d that their sales had increased from $160,000,000 to $354,000,000 be tween 1914 and 1918, while their an nual profits had grown from $5,500,000 to $20,000,000 in the same period. Reporting on the operation of the Webb-Pomerene act, permitting for mations of associations for export trade, the commis0sion informs Con gress that this act has served as "a decided factor" in promoting tile progr-es sof A merican manufacturers iii foreign markets. The commission says that (uring the year forty-three associations, comprising. approximate ly 7:32 concerns, whose oflices and plants are distributed over forty three States of the Union, reported to it as operating under the export act. Records of Commission. "Records of the commission seem to demonstrate," the report continues "that the criticism so often charged against United States exporters of fai 'i. g to cultivate and maintain per nwn'ient tra-de relations abroad and too often withdrawing from a particular foreign market as soon as more at trac.tive opportuni.ties present them selves at home or elsewhere, will not apply to associations operating under the export trade act. "In reply to questionnaires sent out by the commission requesting an ex pression, of opinion as to the actual working out of the export trade act. the replies received for the most part expressed saisfaction over results ob tained inier the law. It was reported that the system of collecting, adver tising and selling makes for the elim ination of much useless expense and duplication of effort. Several associa tions reported that their systems of ::n:::::::::::::::::::::m:::: G SAW PRICES !utting outfit, forced feed-a com ving logs to any length. Does the Al of blade while engine is running. Send for Engine Catalog Showing Gasoline Engines 2 to t 30 11. P., Power Saw Rigs and Drag Saws, all equipped with Bosch High Tension Magneto. 'PLY COMPANY Columbia, S. C. and our Future saving is something that u know. rogressive money saving' ~e of these whose person -and those who earnest ney saved. There is no ;one. )f Manning 'ROTT, President KON, Cashier rquarters for f Soda m ten tons and .ve sold during y's a large ton rial, and while mnced during the till cheap comn er ammoniates. >ef ore you buy. OIL MILL. CAROUI HELPED REGAIN *STRENG Alabama Lady Was Sick For T Years, Suffering Pain, Nerve: and Deprased-Read Her Own Story of Recovery. Paint Rock, Ala.-Mrs. C. U. StE if near here, recently related the lowing interesting account of hei covery: "I was in a weakened dition. I was sick three years in suffering a great deal of pain, v nervous, depressed. I was so V I couldn't' walk across the floor; had to lay and m;- little ones do work. I was almost dead. I I every thing I heard o.. and a numb doctors. Still I didn't got any ri I couldn't e'at, and slept poorly. believe If I hadn't heard of and t Cardul I would have died. I bo six bottles, aftir a neighbor told what it did for her. "I began to eat and sleep, bega gain my strength and am now and strong. I haven't had any I ble since . . . I sure can testify tc good that Cardul did me. I 4 think there is a better tonic z and I believe it saved my life." For over 40 years, thousands of men have used Cardul successf In the treatment of many wom ailments. If you suffer &s these women take Cardul. It may help you, tA At all druggists. E conducting business abroad is nie with the hearty appr c'al of the eign customers." 'The commission saya also that law instead of increasing the strei of the already great American in trial establishments has enabled snaller concerns to baind togethel a fashion to push fully organized )ort trade in a keen co.upetitive r ner, which they are not able to d home. To this extent, the conimil believes, the law has worked to -reat advantage of the small fir --0 TALK OF NI'rRATE AS YEAR CLO Flood o.- Debate on Muscle Shom Lines are Drawn-Republi Determined Not to Yield, though Cry of 'Sectionalisn he ard. Washington, Dec. 31.-The old: .losed in the house tonight wit flood of talk on the ups and do of Muscle Shoals. Working through to the eve of new year discussiong a $10,000,000 propriation for completion of Wilson dam, part of the governmc big wartime nitrate project, the h< adjourned with lines sharply dr for a fresh fight Mond ay and a ernination on the part of Rel icans opposing further aid not yield, even in the face of a cry sect ionalisii. All day long the dani project bitterly attacked and warmily fended. It remained, however, Chairnian Graham of the investi: ing committee, which went over -,round, to turn loose the guns u the little Alabama settlement which, lie declared -there had I dumped with reckless disregard the future enough money to C half of the public buildings in W: ing ton. t he other sido of tho pictuire 'Iresentedl by Represetntative Gari Democrat, Tennessee, himiself a mi ber of the investigating body, pleadedl for funds with wh ich to ahIead with cotistruction of the natmed 301r the presidlent, and1( w lie itnsisted would be a vital cog t h Amnericant tmachinery of war t. The chiatge by Mr'. Garrett that peo ple of the South could see iti oppos it ion to the measure no gri (excep1t sec'tinalismi was vigoron detnied by Cha irman~ GiCrahiamwho :t dam like that now being costt beetn butilt in the hiistor'y of the wi atndl probab1lly neCvert would. Fromt1 the Ipropol)I adlvanced Soutth'rn representaties that house put in to the su. ary civil the $ 10,000,000 stric'ken3 outt by~ 'omittL'e, the dbebate jumiped i t hi' damt itself to nitrte~( plants m11i les away, inovol vinog the pol ic the government inslcig M e,-oject cos.ting~ upIwardt of $100, (100. Mr. Gartret t dleclared t hat to workl now on3 the untdertakitng, 30( cent cotmpl(ete and for wvhich $17, 0(00 had been e'xpen-'ter3i, nlot wiold b( hrig great loss to the cr'i menti, but wvoultd he "'thle hi rIke as the most vital atssets tioe of w:.r. Mr. Graham, ort other hand, cotende'd thalt ('om "'should eit go deepert illto thle 1331til it hadI d(e(id''d on3 ai diff policy r's Ito disposail oif the plant31 Ther ws dec idedl opposit ion vo1)' q~uartt'is to a1 bill niow pe'' which woh.ll convert It le A l 1)b1int inito fert ilIizer' factories, bers pro'(f(ssin~g toi see thi" spec't governmt t'i ownerst'h ip. flepretat'i : ive llantkhead1(, lJ s;tat edll tatI Muscle S1hoals ('0u3h sutccess fully oper'3a tal ats ai co cial lan:t. Complet ion of the lie arguied, wavis necessary1 as' par31 Money back without que If HU NT'S Salve false Ii treatment of ITCH ECZ aINGWORM, TNT T other itchins' skin die enough to cerVe American farmers crying for cheaper products needed for the yield of bountiful crops. Washington, Dec. 31.-Charges that r he farmers of the United States have been "robbed by the Chilean nitrate trust," which, he declared, was op posi. g the d~velopment of the gov rnment nitrate plant at * Muscle Shoals, Ala., were made today in the S house of Representative Almon, Dem acrnt, in whose district the plaint is ocIted. The repree-ntative during debate ,n the sundry civil bills, asserted that \irerican farmers because of their 'nubility to obtain nitrates for fer ilizer in sufflicient quantities, had gall, been obliged to pay the Chilean gov fol- rnment since 1879 a total of $153, 'O 00,000 as export duty on nitrates con- ;hinped to the United States from bile. If the manufacture of fer bed, -ilizers in this country had been en 'eak, c.ouraged. Mr. Almon continued, im eak, ',otatitions could have been curtailed just aid payment of the tax avoided. the -----o r o CONTEMPT SENTENCE tlier. FOR GENERAL HARRIS I .\djutat General of Army Ordered to ughty me .ail by Washington Judge for Re fusal to Produce Records of Selec a to tive Service Machinery-Appeal well Prevents Immediate Execution. 'rou p the Lon't Washington, Dec. 31.-A contempt. 2ade 'entence of ten days in jail was im '6c'fI todnv on Maj. Gen. Peter C. wo- Harris, adjutant general of the army, uy "y justice Siddons of the district su lly'rome court for his refusal to pro nely ice c rtin records in connection -vith the selective service act which did, Were sought in Ohio divorce proceed . fngs. 85 A n anpeal from the ruling of the ceourt that such records should be ting 'roduced was imme'intely noted by for- 'ounsel for General Harris and the 'ontnmnpt sentence automatically was the ;usnended pending disposition of the igth appeal. dus- General Harris said he had his the field equipment" ready and was pre in 'mred to serve out the sentence if ex- 'iceessary b'it added that he did not ian- expect to have to go to jail. o at Ju1st ice Siddons in en:erilig the or sion der adjudging the general in con the tempt directed that should he decide ius. to produce the records sought before he expiration of the ten days he vas to he release,]. Thie war depart SES ment, however, is to make a test of he status of draft records. Is- The record which Justic Siddons :ans or*dered the geenral to produce was Al- in aflid:ivit nia'ie by Mrs. Mary H. is Wal'h in behalf of- her h'shand, Hen ry H. Walsh, before W'llsh's loe, board. Walsh is now suing his wife tecar h a wM -- the CYPRESS ap thle SASH >nse DOORS riwn de- BLINDS >ub to of was for rat the poAP e into* rect Sish 'ett, em go lam AND bich i1 MILL WORK the mnd 2 Professional Cards had >rldl, JINO. G;. DINKINS Attorney-at-Law the MANNING, S. C. bill tie' -____ two DuillANTl & ELLERBE . o Attorneyte at Law r' " MANNING, S. C. sto" 12 0. Purdy. S. Oliver O'lBryan [)000- ) Y & O'BRYAN gov- < nd Counselors at l~aw. 'ighi ~ NNING, S. C. 11 KD LESESNE iole torney at Law PANNING. S. C. frmn ' gotiated on Real Estate din net *NEY TO0 LOAN stat-e--Small and Large err ' ans. Long T1erms. I*. W. WID)EMAN m .IANNING, S. C. Ii. C. CURTIS, Attorney-at- Law .6 MANiNG, S. C. iINBERG & STUKES ' nberg Taylor HI. Stukci for divorce. and hi8 counsel obtained an order for the production of the af fidavit in connection with these pro cee dit: gs. General Harris contended that'Pres ident Wilson in the order pronulgat ing the selective service act promised that ceriain information in connec tion -with the questionnaires would nevt r be made public and that among this information was the physical con'lition of the men examined, mat ters relating to dependents and addi tional matter or afridav:Ls that might be filed. In view-of this the general con tended that he was stopped from mik ing the iformation isublic not only by the law itself but also by the president's order which constituted' a "nmoral promise" to the wives and other relatives of men called to ser vice that information furnished 'by the men woul be kept from the public. DO YOU R that the man who sa horse on a tread-mill? No matter how ha makes any headway of his labors. Get out of the tread -by systematically s: income. Begin NOW, a year hence. FIRST NATIO] W. C. DAVIE J. A. WEINI J. T. STUKE OW Th umen Gre jSTOI and look ovi Ihave to sh a our line nea Icome to tox Ibe you are Imarket jus a what we ha I but would g I privilege ar Iof showing Sanyway.W ayou onily su a wil g'1ve y IPrices and j ways in line a us when in TO LATE Death only a irep'ter-of short time Don't wait until paints a1ijd aches become inc'urat-a Hdineases. AvoidA paintui consequences by takig GOLD MEDAL , antOl ho world'n onr.ird rernodv for kidney, livor, bladder nvt! uric acid trouWas- -the National Rem-tv of klo1-nd since 1695. 3uaranteed. Three sizes, all druggists. LoA for the namo Gold Modal n wery box EALIZE ves nothing is like the rd he works he never -others reap the results -mill-work for yourself aving a portion of your rather than a month ol VAL BANK. , President. ERG, Vice-President. S, Cashier. EN BROS. MARBLE and GRANITE CO. DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS ERECTORS )calers in everything for the cemetery. o largest and best equipped mon tat mills in the Carolinas. enwood,-.......S. C. ::mmmmmtamtuanu PKINIl er what we * ow you in {i ct time you ( vn. It may ( not in the ( st now for { wve for sale, J five us the i id pleasure I you thrul( e willishow ( ch goods as i ou service. terms al . Stop with'( town.