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THE MONEY'S WOR"ILSS - BUT IT BUYS A LOT German Mark at Store Purchases More Than American Dollar Does (By Walter M. Wolff) The individual who, as far back as 1915, began to invest his savings in Gernan marks, has dropped his good American Rlollars through a :told in the floor. He will never see them again; they're gone. He has but one last chance in the world to catch 'value receited" by the tail, but he must hurry. The German mark is headed downward and no one can today sound the pit into which it is falling. If a man waits too long, and continues to hold on to his German marks, the day is about to break when he will be unable to buy the mate!.es to burn them up. Such is the situation for countless thousands of minguidcd in vestors who sought to outdo "G-R-Q" Wallingford by buying and holding German paper marks. But what is the actual condition of affaii's in Germany today? Has money there any value left at all? The an swer is: Yes and No. It is a little known fact that the valuta situation of foreign countries today has pro duced a big assortment of freaks. A most illusory one is the fact that the .Mace value of German paper marks cannot be figured in dollars and cents any longer-unless one takes only the largest denominations. In purchas ing power, however, the German mark has from two to 50 times its intrinsic value. And herein lies the secret of the "value" of the German paper mark, as well as the "freakiness" in it. At the present writing the dollar has become worth more than 3,000 marks, or, vice versa for the German, the mark has dropped to 3,000 to the dollar. Let u stop a minute to realize just what this means. Our smallest coin (with which the familiar postage stamp, box of matches, or stick of chewing gum is purchased) is the cop per penny. In school we learned that 10 mills equal 1 cent; 10 cents equal I dime; 10 dimes equal I dollar or 100 cents. But we seldom speak of "mills" in our daily business life. It is very seldom, comparatively speak ing, that financial experts make much use of them. But in Germany today One Mill is worth three marks!! In other words, one mark has a value of but one-third mill (and even less)!! Is it any wonder a German hesitates to emigarte to the United States; that he cannot now buy American food, American clothing, American raw materials, and so on? It simply cannot be (lone, and Germa'-American commercial activities are destined very soon to fall into a grave state of lethargy. The German mark today worth less than One-Third of a Mill! Why, a newsboy would have to take thirty marks before he could give back to a German One Cent in fair exchange. -And if that same newsboy were in Germany the next minute, he would have stories to tell that would make his pals' eyes pop out with astonish ment five minutes later. And why? Because for 30 marks he could have purchased two good cigars, or a bar of chocolate, or a pair of leather shoe strings, or a big toy, or-well, lots of things that One Cent wouldn't begin to touch in U. S. A. But to come back to the Mark. With its intrinsic value 'of less than one-third mill on the world market, it still has the purchasing power of from One-Half to Three Cents (on the av erage) in Germany. The pretty 50 mark note would bring but one and two-thirds cents on the bourse, but one can still buy a railroad ticket, a big loaf of bread, a fine glass of beer or wine, two tickets to the best movies in towvn, or a big houcunt of fllowvers with it-In Germany. Take the larg er dlenomnatons-the. 1,000-mar-k note. It has an actual val~ue in ex-i change of abouit thirty cents. Thirty cents will buy a good laugh' in thbe states; but 1,000 mark i--,n Ger m-my Boils Quit Quick,! S. S. S. Will Prove to You i Your Own Case the "How" and "Why" of it. Rernarkable Blood-Cleansing Power! There Is a reason for everything that hap'pens.. CommoI~n-snso kills misery. Comm,,on-senso also stops bolls! S. S. S. Is I lbe comouo-sense remecdy for b)o11s, be Pimples May be Smail Boll.! enuse it Ia built on reason. Seientific au thorities admoit Its power! R. S. a. binds blood-power, It builds red-bldood-cell,. That Is what makes fighting-blood. Fight In g-blood destroys Impurities. It fights boils. It nlways wins! It fIghts pims plea! It fights skin eruptionts! It builds nerve-yower, thinking power, the tight flsted power that whirls a man up into success. It gives women the health, the angelic complexion and the charm that moves the world!I These are the reasons that have made H. 8. 8. today the great blood-cleanser, body-builder, success build er, and It's why results have maede teare of Joy flow from the souls of thousandle Mir. V. D). Sc-haff, 557 15th St., Washing ton, 1). C., writes: "I triedl for yearn to get relief from a bad ease of boils. Everythisg failed until I too'e 8. S. 8. 1 am stow absaolutely cured, ansd it was 8. 8. S. that did it."' Try It yourself. H. Fl. S. In sold at all drug stores in two sIzes. Tho larger aso bottle is the moro economical, S.S.S. Ma OLD FOLKS NEED NOT BE FEEBLE IF you are "getting along in years" you don't need to sit in a chimney corner and dream of the days when you were full of life and vitality. Keep your blood rich and pure and your system built up with Gude's Pepto-Mangan, and you will feel stronger, younger and livelier than you have for years. Get it today and watch the result. Your druggist has Gude's-liquid or tablets, as you prefer. Gude's Pepto-Mangan Tonic and Blood Enricher will feed a tubercular child for Tw< Weeks and milk now costs 60 marks will give you a five-hour ride on th< fastest train; it will bu yyou live good square meals (but you must do with out champagne). One thousand marks will also enable you to rent a fairly good furnished room in any Germar city for One Month! Think of itl! The largest denomination Germans has today is the Ten Thousand Mark certificate. If the mark falls still fur. ther, Germany will soon need One Hundred Thousand Mark notes, but let this be as it may. It is enough foi us to know that 10,000 marks c.re worth but a little more than three o1 our dollars. On account of the short age of currency of large denomina tions, it is very har'd to get a 10,000. mark note changed in Germany ever at the large banks. Imagine a mar in New York or Chicago running all over the city trying to get chaige for three dollars! And three dollars just begin to represent some. value to us Sonic of us have to work a whole day to earn this amount. Others spend it in one evening for an opera ticket, or for taxi fare. But in Germany-and only in Ger many-the equivalent 10,000 marks will buy all sorts of things, from a din 'mond ring to a couple of choice shares in any good German industrial con cern. It will also enabel a small Ger man family to live tolerably well (with strict economy) one month! An American family has more or less of a hard time living on $3 a day! Everything is far cheaper in Ger many today than it ever was before not excluding the peaneful days prior to 1914. But the German receives so little wages today, compared to the cots of commodities, that to him every thing is exorbitantly out of reach. And it does not take a prodigy to know that an average wage of fifte'en or twenty thouand marks a month is nothing when shoes cost five, suits twenty, and overcoats thirty thousand marks. Right now every German is wor shiping the Almighty Dollar. He has already begun to take only dollars in payment for his wares or services in many instances. If the government did not prohibit the buying of and speculating in dollars, every German would immediately dump his paper marks on the exchange market for what they would bring in dollars. It is one salvation for Germany that speculation in this respect is some what curbed. It is also true that many profit and grow fat at the expense of their fel low men. Large industrial enterpris es in Germany are declaring enormous dividends, and many a director or stockholder is a paper milliardaire. But, as is always the case, the unbear able burdens of debt fall not upon him who has the money with which to pay. but upon him who has it not. And the big, underpaid, overwor-kedl majority has it not. .As for the American comning oveir wvith the hope of reaping gain from the buying power still left to the mark (which the German should but d<.>es .not get), my candlid advice to hin is stay at home; he isn't likely to b~e welcome under the pr1esent cir cumstances. And if he has by chanice still a batch of paper ma-ks wh:ich lie eomsider-s a par-t oif his assets, let him dlispose of them. I know a man who bought ten thousand doflar-s' worth of marks abiout oryasao epi six cents for foery mark, and. lir hai mnysecur-ed a little more than 160,000 marks, which was still q[uite a bit of money in those days. IHis in vestmnent, however, cost him $9,950, for today hi., paper- is worith scar-cely fifty dollar3-! Alnost unbelievable, isn't it? Nevertheless, it is appalling ly tr-ue! There never- wvas a bigger soap) bub ble than the German-mar~k investment sch eme into which thousandls of Am ericn: fell and fell (leer). Only the lucky tourist who passedl through Gemansmy or- sojourned there last sumi mer succeeded in benefiting somewhat fr~om the valuta. (DIon't aggravate him b~y asking him what his hotel bills were, or wvhat he had to pay for a stop-over im Bavar-ia, or what the customs authorities did to him )-but some things were give-away cheap, anyhow.---The Dear-horn [ndependent, llOGS! HOGS! AND MORE HlOGS! (By Johmn A. Murkin, Publicity Direc-. tor, Souther-n Packing Corporation, Orangebur-g, South Carolina.) Oiie of the greatest losses in the business of hog raising comes from the presence of runts in the herd. These unthrifty individuals decrease the pr-ofits and levy a heavy tax upon the owner-s. So far as p~ossible, the runt should find no pr-esence in the hei-d. It is a fac-t that runtb are not necessarily horn so; but runty condi tion conmes from unsanitary conditions and that the substitutIon of sanitar3 for infected surr-oundings will dlestr-o3 the evil. Pure Ibred sows will farrow mor< pigs andl bring more to weaning age thah scrub or grade sows. This be ingr true, it. follows tat th pure.. br. sow is more profitable than. the sctub because the net profit from breeding comes from the number' of pigs rails ed to weaning age. Begin before the pigs are born to make the surroundings sanitary. The gravid sow should be thoroughly scrubbed with a disinfectant and with warm soapy water some little time before delivery in order that she may not carry infection to her off-spring. Pigs should not be permitted to run in old avid much used .hog lots, Good water, plenty of shade, and feea insure thriftiness of the pigs up to; 100 pounds in weight. Hog lots should be plowed, deeply once a year. This prevents contami nating worm eggs from being assim ilated by the pigs. This will be found to be a great insurance against the presence of runty pigs. One third of one half greater weight will be attained by the pigs who have the advantage of clean lots and sani tary surroundings. Help in the swine business can be effected by every breeder doing some thing to push along publicity. The farmer who is carrying four or five sows for market producing pur poses can well afford to pay from $75.00 to $150.00 for a good pure bred board of any of the leading breeds, for ,he will make big money by the investment. As a matter of fact, he would be hard put to make any sort of an investment on his farm that would pay him as great profit in a year or two as to buy a pure bred boar and put him into use. Why then, con tinue to use of the derub boar? No other animal converts into meat so much foodstyff that would go to waste as the hog. They will furnishi met, lard, and many dainties that no 'other meat is so popular in supplying. There is a great demand for hogs at all times, the demand is always great er than the supply. They are sure mortgage lifters, and will pay the farmer out of, debt ever ytime, if he will give them a chance. Hogs are easily raised. The South can pro duce the highest quality of pork cheaper than it can be produced any where else in the world. It furnish es year round pasture of the best quality; litters can be raised at any time of the year ,and no expensive housing is necessary. It is only nec essary for the southern farmer to take advantage of his opportunity and rhise the quality of pork the world wants. Any farmer with avail able lands can grow the kind of pork the packer wants, and there's a good profit in raising hogs when business methods are employed pork production under present conditions is of more economic importance to'"the individual and to the country than ever before. NOTICE Most positively no hunting allowed on my Jordan plantation. Any one whom seen violating this notice will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. 48-4t-p Mrs. S. R. Colclough. TRESPASS NOTICE All persons arc forbidden to tres pass in anty way on the following lands: D. J. Epps, Grant James, L. P. Fulmore, Robt. G. McF'addin andI iWilie Rose. Anyone tr espassing or hunting these lands will be prrosecut edl. D. .J. EPPS. 47-4C. Kingstree, S. C. NOTICE Notice is hereby given, that a meet ing of the stockholders of the M.AN NING CURING HOUSE, Inc., will be held in the office of W. d. King, Man ning, S. C., on the 28th, (lay of De cemiber, 1922, at 10 o'clock a. mi. for the purpose of considering going into liquidation, winding up its aff'airs and dlissolving, as required by the laws of the State of South Carolina. By A. L. LUCE, 48-4t-c. Secretary and Treasurer 666 Cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. 47-tf. G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, Glasses Fitted, Brokei Lenses Duplicated. Satisfaction Guaranteed SUMTER, S. C. Just Unta cked A HoleRProof Si Stitehc44 Top $oerPro Stitched Another Shipment of DRE Specid $10.75, $12.00, $14.75, $18.00, $24.75 5 dozen Voile Waists, Special, 98c. 5 dozen Voile Waists, Special; $1.98 Just a few Bla Robes to See Our flcCollu Sumte UNPACKING II WHY PA' A Fine P $2 On Eas Get your Christmas P1 on Eas I represent nine old r and can get you one if you hurry. Why pay music house dollars profit when yo from the factory throu of Sumter, at the Wre 876 L. Everybody who knows at about half price. Place a Piano Christmans Eve day os e0__ Men 1 k Hose, Extra 5fir Lisle Hos Etra Tops, ". . 75c SSES I Priced 5 dbzen Parisols-Priced $1.00 to $5400 5 dozen Ladies' Bloomers, $1.00 to $5.00 New Shipment Ladies' Neckwear. nkets and Auto Close Out! Window! m Bros., r, S. C. OLIDAY GOODS I Y MOIE? l TANO for 9 5. j; Terms! ANO at Factory Prices y Terms. eliable piano factories, in time for Christmas ~s two or three hundred u can order one direct. igh. T I LL. ck Store, Phone 601 or TILL, knows he sells Pianos tour order now and get the -night.