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From the Manufacturers Record biggest, and broadest that can claim When this country called some mil its attention at the present time. • lions of its young men, and, for that) With probably more tha^ one third matter, some almost of middle life, ■ o of the world accumulated wealth, with give up business^ to give up home our wealth increasing, at a rate that hnd to give up all prospects of the fu we can scarcely comprehend, with ture and offer their lives on the battle resources for continued development field to save the rest of us from being beyond anything known elsewhere, overrua by German barbarism, no we can alford to assume burdens in man who was called to the colors the maintenance of the maimed soi- stuppeu to consider his future when diers and ct the families of these who •died, and we can' afford to co-operate the war was o'Ver, Nevertheless, the country placed itself undef a moral w Itb. the soldiers in getting them Obligation to these men and their fam .started in life again on a -ecale which ilies to see that tWy should not-swf no other nation in the world could fer financially by reason of their sa crifice. . ; We owe ft now to the men who were called to. this great work to see that they have every consideration which the nation can offer in overcom Ing the loss, of business or the loss of health. An<|; the families of those who died in cbmp or on the battlefield should suer by reason of the loss of their support. The nation is too rich to be nigardly. Our accu taulation of wealth should prove a curse to us if we dp not deal with the utmost liberality with the me>. who were called into the army, and with ^he families of those who died or were permanently invalided. The Government is proposing to train the maimed to be self support Ing. It. is taking the men who have been blinded and educating them to do certain manual labor. But among these blinded and maimed men were many who had never done manual la bor. They were men of education and -business affairs. To put them down to the dull drudgery of making baskets or kindred work as a mean, of support would be a serious reflec tion upon the honor of the American people. The Government should give them every opportunty for education and for training for some work which would keep them from idleness, no! so much for the money which they would make out of it, but for a cei tain degree of independence to tha‘ kind of work «hould be made depen dent upon it throii'*!’ failure oi the Government to abundantly care for him. Every maimed soldier should be \nade independent for life throngr 'the action of the Government. v; tho-* •regard to how great may be the cos* It should be given such eductions’ opportunity as he desires to fit hint for any employment or any worl which appeals to Mm. He should b< taiade independent of the grind of po - erty and enabled to live, in co nfort The families that were' denencen upon these permanently, invalided n maimed men or upon those who die-' in camp or on the battlefield shouh' likewise be made independent by ar income for life wluch. would at leas' Wahle them to live in comfort. c pension of $20 to $30 a month to a mother or a wife of a soldier whr died for bis. country and upon whom he wga dependent is picayunish and beneath the honor of the people o* Hhis (country.. The Ineurance plan devised by th< Treasury Department was a wise 'move, but it should not be regarded hs in any respect whatever the fur dutv of the Government. The may: mum insurance of $10,000 on a so’ dier’s life will give to the benefician ip the. way in which the Govermnen’ pays it about $u7 a month for twent* yesrs. That helps, . but it is a ven small sum compared with the value of that man’s life even from the finae cial standpoint to those dependent cp on him. In a well ordered family whim one member becomes permc pently invalided the other memberr regard if as their privilege and duty make the sick one comfortable Ihrocgh life. The American people should regard themselves as a part Of one great family, and every invar soldier should be treated in the sat)' way. i The nation is very wisely plur ning the building of highways and the drainage of land anil seekine turn thousands of soldiers to farm i}fe. None of this work should he done or even for a ’^orient consider fld from (he standpoint being doni by the soldiers as soldiers. If any eft he army men want to take ur |he outdoor life of road building and peelanuitiqn work, they should he giv pn the opportunity ot doing so, bu* to consider the employment of ther-' ass oldiers in work of this kind—:> suggestion that has been made— would .be absurd. ... ! * If any of these men want to en gage in farming, whether cn declaim ed land or on land - already in culti vation the Government should carry qut some great scheme for helpiu? to finance them in the purchase of Ipnd now under cultivation or of the land to be- reclaimed, on a basis where the cost from yea4 to year would bo triflingly small. They should be provided with comfortable f ;r:n homes, with the necessary tools a-d lives lock and given instruction by expects as to how to farm to the largest Exofit. ,. . ... . ‘ It would be folly to put on farms men who know nothing about agri cultural pun/uits merely becan.&e they want to get into country life, un less the Government stands behind them and through experts gives them -the cooperation necessary to insure success.i," ...v Wp, tgke ft. however that a very large proportion of these men will, de sire to enter upon farm life. They have seen, broad world opportunities; their -mhals^ttve been quickened; they been uiJ,o jgreat- m. metyijlklaeiivitr; fncV horizon fins been broadened, and many of these Repple'Vftl.vent.tq do bigger things than iBby had eyer expected to do before they caught thia pew vision of Irfe-gwhkh came to them amid war ttclivuiea. , The. nation should regard the liana Uhg this whole gropwiUoQ u the Consider. These men have given from one to two years of the vcmrlbes: of their lives to savingu s. have given up business, they tost op portunitles which would hadi^ome to them, while the rest of people stayed at home and made money by filling the very : places of the men called to the war. Is it at .ap conceivable that we should for one moment hesitate tc recognize our supreme duty to the re turning soldiers and to the families ■of the soldiers who made the supre me sacrifice and laid down their lives for others. Evanston, 111., Feb. 1.—Plans for he drive by the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union to raise $1,000,000 and to enlist amillionnew members in America and Alaska were announced today by Mrs. Freder ck B. Perkins of Michigan, at the na tional headquarters of the organizat ion here. The (’rive will open March 20 an« mntinue until May 31. the money to be paid by March 20, 1920. The cam laign will mark the opening of a five ‘ear Jubilee program, at the eonclo sion of which will be a big celebration ! n honor of the fiftieth year of the or anizalion’s existence. Ti e country has been divided into en districts, eaeli of which will have • national field representative. Eacn state will have a financial director vith assistants in each city and town. “The budget will provide money for vork always emphasized by ti e organ nation and c^necially needed now in he reconstruction and stabilizing per od,” said Mrs. Perkins, who is exec • 'vc secretary of the Jubilee commit ee and director of publicity. The f ind will be apportioned gs to’ ows: child welfare. $150,000: healt’ 1 nd morality, $100,000; Americaniza- i »on. *200,000; women in industry *30,000; education and information '50,000; world prohibition '300,000; ’ eadquarters Evanston and Washing- ‘on. $50,000; equipment and repairs *•>0.000: oeld service' $30,000, adm nis tration $70,000. Miss Anna Gordon, Illinois naMor.al •-uii’fi:*. chairman rf L3e ,h hMee mmmittee. Mrs Ella . Boole, New York, is vice chairman, Mrs. Frances >arks, Illinois, director of member- hip, and Mrs. Margaret Mnnns, Illi nois director of the Jubilee fund. Ot.” ir committee members are Mrs. Eliza beth P. Anderson, North Dakota, Mrs. Sara H. Hoge, Virginia, and. Mrs. De borah Knox Livingston, Rhode Island SEE-COT’S HAND IN Native* of Rhnotan Ascribe Theli' Es- ] • sap* From Death to Mlracuioua | t Interposition. By; BAKER. "Saved by the hand of God,” Is the way the nine natives composing the. crew of the 80-ton schooner Oromana j characterize their escape from death, | after having drifted helplessly 50 days on one of the loneliest bits of ocean in the seven seas. j When the wreck of the Oromana was towed Into Papeete harbor, Tahiti, I one of the most remarkable voyages knows In these waters was completed. The vessfl, a two-masted schooner,! owned by natives of Rimatara, an island about 300 miles southwest of; Tahiti, left her home port, without egrgo, bound for the fslahd of Rurutu, ta the same group, where she was to undergo repairs and take cargo of copra, fer Tahiti. , Two days out, she was struck by. a storm, which carried away both her masts and later her rudder, leaving her a helpless derelict. With never a glimpse of land or sail to give a ray of hope, the Oromana drifted for 50 days. After 15 days the supply of food was gone. The natives managed to catch a shark with hook and line. This lasted them five days. The rest of the time they had no food. An occasional shower prevented death from thirst. Then the “mlraqle” happened. The mountains of Tahiti rose slowly over the horizon. The shifting sea current brought them nearer and nearer until they were finally sighted from shore and a powerboat sent to tow them in. They were too weak to rise to their feet, but, after a few days ashore all appeared to be rapidly recovering from their experience. The natives say the hand of God guided their craft, for the prevailing winds In these latitudes are from the northwest, a" direction which would never have brought them to Tahiti. jumtrttftmttfiHiiiiiimiiiiiu? & (Copyright, 1918. by McClur* Newspaper j Syndicate.) He was, without doubt, a very lone some and very homesick young sol dier; but why, he asked himself, had he stepped forward so eagerly when the captain had read the carefully worded invitation to dinner “for the lonesomest and. most homesick soldier boy in your CtfAlfr?” Already he felt Auction x depressed and irritable at the thought strfl One Car-load of dining with .SHE KNEW THE GREAT STORY IT IS A HARD WORLD A voMig lady presented her card at ho hex pifice and reques ed two »asscs for "('bin Chin.” Tm entitlec. o them,” she explained, “because I an a walking advertisement for (he ;how. i am wearing Chin Chin hats, 'bin Chin collars and cuffs, a Chin IP'in suit and Chin Chin boots and gloves. ••.-rfury, madam,” declared (he hard 'iried tic-kc. seller from the pro tection of his cage, hul there are s|x v walking advertisement for Chin thin with the company. O’Dowd Theatre, Thursday, Feb. 13. Girl Lacked Gift of Narrative, but Waa Able to Tell All About Chateau Thierry. As we crawled up a railroad track In the vicinity of Chateau Thierry (this was in October)—a railroad track which seemed the only new and complete object In sight—the Y. M. C. A. girl, who had been sitting in the corner of the compartment resisting all advances at conversation, volun teered a remark. "Our division took It,” she said. It turned out that she had gone In with her canteen just behind the divi sion, during that fight wherein Amer ica made good. She lacked the narra tive talent, that girl, but she came out at intervals with flashes like this: “When our boys came up the strag glers said to them: ‘You can’t stay In there!* Ahd our boys said: ‘We’ll pot only stay there, but we’re going forward.' When the stragglers saw that, they formed, too, and went back with them.” Or this, as we drew Into sight of a road bordered by blackened ruins: “There’s where our divisions came Into sight, singing, ‘The Yanks Are Com ing,”’—Will Irwin In the Saturday Evening Post With '^frangprs. The party j would probaolyconsist of giggling J girts, he told himself bitterly. How- , ever, here he was, and evidently near ing his de^tinatlotl. “Will you let me off at Van Dyke street, please?” he said to the con- dnctor.. ' , "Get off at Arbuckle. Van Dyke’s at the top of thq hill,” replied the con ductor. “Top of the hill,” thought the boy. "Good heavens, and It Is beginning to snow, too! Back to camp for me be fore It Is too late!” “Arbuckle! Arbuckle!” roared the ronductor, and Stanley G , like a HORSES No Longer in Evidence. Two Jews wejre on a journey on p hot summer day. “Have you anything with you, Matthias?” asked one. “Yes,, a bottle of wine. AVhat have you, Moses?” "A dry tongue.” “Good! Well! divide our provisions.’ ‘ 'Maftiiias produced his wine and It was divided. Then he asked his fellow traveler to bring out his provisions. “I?” said Moses., “Why, yes, the dry tongue you said you had.” ‘T haven’t got one now,” was the cool reply.—Boston Evening Tran script. Pretty Polly. Tolly, want a cracker?” ,, “Why, yes,” answered Poll ns she plumed her plumage and neatly brushed out her cage with her port- side wing. “Now that the war is won and the necessity for food conserva tion has been reduced to a certain de gree, I feel that I may indulge In my favorite dtsh without serious damage to my conscience.” Arid the wealthy munitions worker who overheard the remark bought her on the apot for $1,000 cash, saying that she should be surrounded with luxuries for the rest of her days, yea though she lived to be as old as the mother-in-law Joke. Note—Gentle readers who look for a moral to this particular piece of patriotic persiflage will please try to bear up under the disappointment. There ain’t none.—Indianapolis Star. Cleared the Floor. .One of the inspecting days, as the officer was going his rounds, inspect ing the barracks, he discovered, against the rules, a number of suitcases on the floor in various places. He told the boys that on Ids next rouuils he didn’t want to see a single one on the floor. S* when he came again he was much pleased to see the room in order, but as he was about to leave he glanced up at the celling and. there were the suit cases tied to the rafters. He thought It pretty good and called a passing officer to see It. As he was in good humor It passed as a joke. Matter of Patches. Seven-year-old James and his moth er" were visiting the latter’s spinster aunts. As was their custom these maiden ladies showed their visitors their vast supply ot home-pieced quilts. “This is the first four-patch Jane ever made,” announced one proudly, displaying a quilt whose blocks were made up of four square pieces. “And this Is Mary’s nine-patch,” ex plained Jane. “She made it when she was only seven years old.” The third quilt was an embroidered silk one, made of myriads of tiny ir regular pieces—the gifts of friends and the remnants from ancient wed ding and reception clothes. James stared at it a few minutes and then he turned to his mother. “Is this one an all-patch?” be asked. Model Boy. Little. Edgar had been posing for some students at an art school. When evening camg, .and the portrait was not yet finished, the instructor cau tioned hi ip, not to, change bis clothing lest he ruin the etyor scheme of the picture, Two ^eeks of updtsturbed ralt Was state, when the Ipststfetor received from the' little model’s mother the following let ter: “Piease, aft, eftn’t you hurry up that there picture yop’re making? Ed gar’s underwear needs changlng.” Oartoons picture, «*• palntlpg pna*fl£ antt the port r at nearfck ft*., perfected sti the Ipstrtfetor received from Round Trip. Aunt Mary Wells Is one of the few “befo‘ de wah” darkles left In a little Kfatuifity town. Becently she was dis- cu sing with her employer the merry- go-round that was runnhig up on the corner. “Nawsuh, Mr. Malcolm,” she srfld, ftunwsuh', I don’ ride on none o’ dem ■ things. Why, Mr. Malcolm, I’ve seen rtune o’ these here fool niggers git on that thing and ride as much as a dol lar's worth, and git off at the very same place they gits on at; an’ I sez to ’em, ^fow yon spent yo’ money, nig ger, wbah yo’ been?”—Saturday Eve ning Post beaten animal, slunk from the warm car Into the driving snow. “Ah, my boy," called a cordial voice, *T was afraid you weren’t coming,” I and to Stanley’s amazement, a luxur- \ lous limousine rolled to his side, the door snapped open, and he found his | t hand being vigorously shaken by a | V very portly and very likable gentle- <*► man. “Drive like mad, James," called ^ the gentleman, “or that roast won’t, $ be fit to eat.” I V “Glory be,” wondered Stanley, “am I, Cinderella?” j A He became firmly convinced that his | X fairy godmother had at last reriiem-1 bered his existence, for all through the 1 ^ wonderful evening that followed gifts A from Paradise seemed to be shower-1 i ing upon him. The dinner was not to ! ♦ be passed by lightly, but he was never j quite sure what he’d eaten, for di-1 X rectly opposite him a vision in pink ! X dimpled and smiled, and he caught J 4 fleeting glimpses of wonderful dark J eyes, eyes which he had never be-: «£♦ lieved existed outside of books. I X After dinner the vision, Miss Mar-' £ jorie by name, played wonderful, j ^ dreamy music. Stanley was quite sure that lie saw the portly gentleman kiss X his slim little wife when Marjorie J played an old love song. He had a ' V very pleasant feeling of belonging in <£♦ this happy, intimate little family clr- X de, and Wonderful visions unfolded 1 themselves before him. The voice of ♦ his host recalled him from the build-1 ing of his air castles. ! X “Our boy is in France, you know,” X the older man was saying, “and we ^ would like to think that over there an-V other family Is taking a lonely lad into . their home tonight.” ! X “I hope so, sir,” replied Stanley,! earnestly, “and I assure you that my ! own mother nud father will thank you j from the bottom of their hearts for j your kind hospitality to me. I hnd a pretty gpe case of the blues this after noon,” he, laughed. It was easy to laugh when the most beautiful girl in the world was smiling at one In such a friendly foshi&p. All too soon the clock struck 10 and Stanley rose to depart. “At least Cin derella had until midnight,” thought the hoy, enviously. But it was time for him to say good night to the kind people who had taken him, a stranger, into their home and treated him like a son and brother. Brother? Well, not If he knew,It! ' He could hardly be blamed if, when he said good night to Marjorie, he held her hand a hit more closely and a bit longer than convention de manded. , “I do hopo that you will come again,” said the girl, shyly, and Stan ley, drawing a long breath, exclaimed: “You just bet I will, and beginning to night my fairy godmother has a place in my prayers.” Marjorie lookecl slightly puzzled, hut the arrival of the motor prevented far ther conversation. As she turned away from the door, a dark object ly ing on the floor caught her attention. It was a glove, a man’s glove, and she picked if up. “I will send It to him tomorrow,” she thought, calmly; then tosfed It upon the table and ran up stairs, furious to find that her cheeks were burning and her heart thumping strangely. The morning’s mail brought the fol lowing letter: “My Dear Fairy Princess—Cinderell (Is that the masculine form of Cin derella?) has lost his glove. His fairy godmother informs him that it may be found at the palace of a certain prin cess. Reversing the old tradition, may Cinderell come in search of his lost hand—not foot—covering?” It Is almost needless to add that the Answer of the Princess Marjorie was) “yes,” to the letter, and also to the question that not long after was asked In the fragrant dimness of the con servatory. “And shall we ride off on our honey moon In a pumpkin, ray princess?” ; askejl Stanley with a Simile. “Iq, a shoe box. if you like,” said Marjiorie. “In anything, dearest, so, long as we go together.’’ -——— i MULES ALL SOUND SIGH GfilUEII INSPECTED These horses and mules are dimatized and ready for work. Sale will be held on old Methodist Church lot, corner Dargan and Cheves Streets 'February AT 12 O’CLOCK Can be seen at Pee Dee Fair Grounds Friday p. m. or Saturday morn- 1 A few good saddle horse included in this lot. mg. TEB: W-HttF fit |«E 18 31, i 10 90 DtYS Robert R. Greene Florence Lodge Loyal Order of MOOSE Protects the Whole Family The I>oyal Order Moose founded ai Louisville, Ky., April 12th, 188S, has nearly two thousand subordinate lodges, nine hundred thousand mem bers and is the fastest growing bene- ciary order in the world today. Eac lodge pays weekly sick and ac cident also death benefits; privileges of Moose Clubs, cildren of deceased members educated and cared for at our children’s home and school at Moooeheart, 111., given and dedicated to the order by Hon Thomas II. Mar shall, Vice resident. Dues $1.00 per mont. No assess ments, non sectarian, non partisan. Ages 21 to 50. By special dispensation, the mem bership fee for a short time longer, is only $6.00. Af’er charter doses $25.00. Send in your application now and save $19.00. Meetings every Tuesday night in Masonic Hall. Drop in my office and let talk it, over, G. H. Hopkins, Deputy, Rooms 6 and 8 Williamson Building. M. R. Vickers , District. Supervisor % and PICiS a j*;™, ssLg a Garden Seed Now is the time This is the place. Shipment just received BUISTS Prize Medal Seed in bulk. I). M. FERRY’S Seeds in packages. Get them at ZEIGLER’S t HISTORY OF THE BAKING INDUSTRY % From the Ronr.n age down through the Dark and Middle Ages and on through the colonial period there were many improvements 11 at are worthy of inonltoning, but noiwiihstandir.S, all that was done the principle of hand production remained the same until the advent of steem newer machinery in i! to p«: jO V, Mitt r •: r nineteenth cen‘or;-, tem, compelling th; in large centrull. ish landlord of t' :U milling from V.’k'.a 1 : baker rems early part of the old Landlord Oven Sys was cor About 900 A. 1). the peasants to m l! his grain at home and bake ated ovens, owned and controlled by the se'f- day. bt ought about tec first separation f From that time on the business of the ku.d in that of kneading and baking and became -b Balkan Settlement. The first barbarians to settle per ronnently In the Balkan peninsula werfc tbe Bfulgars, a Finnish pshple, ‘ whose hnn\e was the middle Volga dls-, trJctH. The Slavs are said to have be- Mg* « i. ' ■’•««•' gun to pour into tills region as early KilttfMgTOfr}!! J |?W|S , as the third century, but they were not established until some time NeSmith-PoWCll Co., IllC Bu ' 8 — 1 30-38 Front St industrial, whil" the milling, or grinding of grain, became more allied with agriculture. The Guild System, which in some conn tries as early as the eleventh century, is the first mention of or- ganization in convwtion with the bread baking industry. While tiie Guile! System wan used in all trades, yet the Bakers’ Guild be came a very important trade organization and served to helo the halting industry for nearly four hundred years, until its political activities caused it to fall of its own weight about the middle of the seventeenth century. V THE BOYD RUSS BAKERY