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THE DAILY HMEB T^URsHay AFrERNOON, Fg.BRUA T{Y 16. 1922. FLORENCE THE Published Daily Except Sunday at Florence, S. C., by BRUNSON A GARDINER Mason C. Brunaon, Editor. Chas. R Gardiner, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable In Advance One Week —— % -15 One Month .60 Three Months 1.75 Sit Months 3.50 Onn Yesr 6.00 To receive attention the . aine day complain'? from subscrioers In the city .must be mad before seven o’clock. perfunctory aid of a few sketchy and inadequate news services. The theory the French build up. of a dollar-seeK- ing American, of a materialist people sitting ever at the receipt of custom, Is a caricature created by their imag- ginning of remarkable eareer. In time he ros^ to the rank jof director. Years after h e became the vice-gover nor and later govecnor of the great Bank of Japan. Since When he has been minister of finance 4and his won- ination. They do not know ihc Amer- j d er f u i record of A 1 nienrement was ica of the American because no one I comnlcted re centlv by his appoint- ment to the highest C° ve rnment post in the land. among their own people tell? them what wc do. think and say, no one familiarizes them with the average life and conduct of our citizens. Perhaps this helps to explain the bewildering suspicions with which • p . rom London 0plnlon . i France views the world. She under-( p ro b a biy the most ren kvrkable thing occurmi to our street supervisor that J hid the corn, as the pictures in EOme THE SAFETY OF A\JR TRAVEL. OUR STREET CROdSlMGS. FEBRUARY GARDEN REMINDERS.! Editor Daily Times:—For quite a If the seed corn has not been test-1 '°ng time our street crossings; have'j ed, now is the time. The rag doll sys-! been almost but inVpassable, due to-'J tem Is simple and efficient. It is much ' the continued rains. This condition ^ better to spend a little time now weed a PPPliet as much to the brick cross - ings as\those which are not bricked. There i lno excuf c which our city gov- ing out the ears low in germination than to spend several days in the busy season tins summer replanting erninenfl could offer for Hs continued ', corn. cxlstends as it would cost the city al- I Beware of the seed catalog with the mosi no.hing to put them and keep,^^ ^ here never y aR a i It . s strawberry pldnt that would produuee ' m m|gi5od "eondition, Has it ever j two hundred beiTies or pumpkins that Entered ae second class maUer at Florence, S. G. Member of The Associated Frees. The Associated Press is exclusive ly entitled to the use for republica- tlon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also to the local news pub lished herein. f ,V. - * *• • • —' THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1922 FORD’S OFFER ON FERTILIZER. The so-called. Fertilizer Trust is fighting the Henry Fora proposal to take over the projected Government n|trate plant at Muscle Shoals. It is! ou t se t 0 f the Repubiican attack stands none except herself. What a i j about civil aviation in ‘lie past year splendid service it would be for her I j jeen that not onp T t- jBenger has people if the French press should,. knied or subscribe for a big authoritative news service, such as the Associated Press, take the complete report, and absorb It as their background of this busy, sympathetic world. The injustice France may do to Americans is trivial compared with the injustice she does herself in fail ing to employ the privilege of modern communications through the press as a means of enlightenment. It is a simple fact that most people are in clined to be friendly, when you know them. HAYS HELPS WILSON FUND. It causes no surprise to hear from Washington that Will H. Hays, post master general in the cabinet of Pres ident Harding and chairman of the Re publican rational committee in 1920. has joined the movement for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. No one familiar with politics ever doubted that Hays was against Wilson only for partisan reasons. Although Hie Republican chairman wag persistent In his fault-finding with the Demo cratic administration, and promirt to capitalize anything lie thought would aid his own party, he was described been killed, or even seric«isly injured, in a fii’tiFh airplane thn tiighout 1291. And tins, although, duri »g the sum mer. betweeif four hundi vd and five '•'iiiria Ind weather, when it. is im- pos'ihi,, | 0 do general street work,/ that tic chaingang and street torcoi eon Id at least scrape oil the bride- unreliable catalogs indicate. it is lime to be thinking about the hot bed for starting the tomato, 'cab bage and sweet potato plants, in the crossin-N, and at important corners;", south, tobacco seed will be plan.ed in where i!*r re are no brick crossings.’( the cold frames. The hot lied should hundred'people a week w t re crossing cindm; ,o U ld be hauled and put down? j be built on dry ground with a south the Channel by air, and although well Blear,> do not understand me to'j ern exposure so iliat it will get all tin- the Channel by over one thousand a week - vere being mem or say that the street force. taken up for Joy rides in tt is country, j cimhl m should work out in the rain,, of hot bed i? Urn one built oj top of For this we have to thaak not only | and o\|xise themselves unduly to the sunlight possible. The simplert type the ground. It consists of a wooden the skill of the pilots ;?i d airplane !' lemeuts, but they could and should frame well packed with rich ma mechanics, but the aevou sutical in spection department amf^ |i he control ler of aerodomes and lie* msefc, who have made sure that only first-class men and machines have be ?n allowed to carry passengers. iiur • do this work at sueh times as the J containing considerable stra w. Th> weath' r would permit. This has been, j manure is packed down solid and well done under a former administration , dampened . About six inches ,<f rich and there is no reason why it cannotli dirt or compost Rirms the seed bed. i It Pays You BUY THE That’s Why OUR COAL Is so Popular. Florence Ice & Fuel PHONE 143 BEST be done mow. M. D. HARLLEE. A glass frame for the top completes' the hot bed.—Farm Life. Hie I’ lorence Daily Tiincs oy carrier 15c a week r.ut j.ecesvary to go, into its reasonsJ on t jj e L e -,g UP 0 f Na 1 ions as counsel-; -uiiecially in order to get a new slantl llnK against lhe polioy . . op ».,is situation which to many per- attitude now toward the work ' sens has been obscured by the very size of the figures involved. This opposition from the crowd which if said to control the fertilizer oqijuit of the natibn would indicate, if anything, that they feel their control is threatened if the Ford project goes ihv.o’ugh. That in itself is interesting. Ford’s proposal may be a bad one for the Government or it mav not. Ex ports must de’ermine that, but when a group which is said to control an industry snort* when somebody else seeks to share it, then the time has arrived for the public to become thor oughly Interested in what is transpir- <Df. Farm err for years have been com plaining -ibo’it. lhe high prices they must pay for fertilizers. On most farm* these days fertilizer is as es sential as water and sunlight. If the farmer Is being held up or gouged for his commodity and there is a way to >ee him and give him his soil leaven t. lower prices without injury to the irryeroment, then that thing would seem desirable not only for the far mer but the consumer of farm pro ducts as well. Opposition to the Ford offer is xiter waging what to all appearances tpg- offer all the more > Interest- a bitter ctWrtftdgn'agtUsl som^ log. MAY BE JUST AS WELL. It is now conceded that there is no hope of congress passing a new ap portionment bill at this session. The opposition to the proposed increase in membership, even from 435 to 460, has been strengthened with lhe two years postponement of action following the census. There was no convincing argument that enlarging the house would in any way improve it, and it had to be ad mitted that the smallest increase men tioned would mean $500,000 addition In salaries, etc., and probably as much more in enlarging the house office building and other changes thus made necessary. Members elected from existing dis tricts are naturally more holpeful of re-election by the constituents, who gent them to ’Washington than they could be expected to be of election from a new apportionment. But that Is not all. The census was taken so soon after the disturbance and shift ing of population due to the draft and war industry to represent a permanent location of voters. An apportionment based on that census might be out of relation to the actual populations of today or of the next election. There has been a marked return to home districts, particularly rural, and hi some of the larger cities the loss in population has reached phenomenal totals. Bo, It may be just as well, if congress postpones reapportionment at least until there is more assurance that the shifting of population has re turned to something nearer normal. There Is certainly no demand for more members. It is in quality lather than quantity that improvement is desired. FRANCE DOESN’T KNOW THE YANKEE. Civilization is mostly a process of understanding. “Love thy neighbor” Is really “know thy neighbor.’’ The durable result of the great war is the revelation of peoples, one to another, and the unlocking of the gates of prej udice so that curiosity and interest could succeed suspicion. The physical energy of man ip IHn't- ed to the space he can traverse be tween a sunrise and a sundown; his mental energy is exhausted only when bls 1 ^ Ifoaglnations wearies or falters. Modern communications whisk tin mind, into the far comers of the earth, penetrate homes, reveal characters, and all in the space of a comfortable hour. The great passion of the American people during recent years has been to recognize and understa.nl the rest tt the world: enterprising newspapers have sent trained dependable men over the earth to discover and relate how the rest of the world lives end thinks; In every capital they can be found, these apostles, of society, inter preters of humanity, and bullilers-up of friendly appreciation. How astonishing then, that in a country like France, in a capital so universal as Paris, the French should be'content to struggle on with the of Wilson, his recognition of ils merit' and desire to aid in promoting the | principles it represents, are but re- i minders of the dismay and indignation i felt throughout the country when the | Republicans in the senate decided to | make a partisan matter of world, jieace. It was realized that ratiflca-J tion of the treaty would be jeopard ized by a partisan division that would be quickly taken advantage of by those in this country who were op posed to our entering the war against i Germany. However, to the politicians the temptttion to make use of any prejudice that may aid them usually is irresistible. While to most of its friends the League issue was viewed as a great moral question, even Mr. Taft, who had talked for it from the sam? plat form with Wilson, showed the hold of | partisanship when he supported a Re publican who accepted the view of the “bitter-enders.” Wrathful as we may become at the politicians some times and contemptuous of their swif; changes of position, there is some thing about the impersonality of their manner that is at least interesting. son they send word to the latter, “No, hard feelings.” Unquestionably Mr. Hays must real- ize, with the passion of the campaign over, that President Wilson was treat ed unfairly by opponents of lhe League and that amends should be made as far as they can be. Ai‘ anv rate, th* Republican chairman of 1920 by aid ing the Wilson Foundation movement is merely doing what many other Re publicans are. Pointed Paragraphs Alimony is the "div" in divorce.— Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. The most slushy part of the snow Is the poetry it starts. — Pittshurg’u Press. A leaky radiator in St. Paul gave out hootch. Heavens, what a janitor! —Minneapolis Journal. “Gold vein in Los Angeles street” will be denied if it was uncovered by an earthquake.—Wail Street Journal. School children are now getting 5- cent ice cream. Educational condi tions rae improving. — Philadelphia Record. Centenary ’of the birth of Gen. James P. Anderson, a distinguished officer of the Confederate States army Sixty years ago today Gen. Buck ner, the Confederate commander, sur rendered Fort Donelson to Gen. Grant. James A. Farrell, who rose from a common workmfcn to the presidency of the United States Steel Corpora tion, enters upon his sixtieth year to day. Important developments in relation to the coming senatorial campaign in Indiana are looked for at the annual convention of the State Democratic Editorial association, which meets at Indianapolis today. In the Day’s News * Viscount Takahashi, tbs Japanese premier, who predicts a tolally dis armed world, Is at present one of the dominant figures in international poll tics. His has been a romantic life. Some 5q years ago, as a youth, he was sent to Anrerica to be educated). Find ing himself a stranger in a strange land he was probably the most miser able boy in the' 1 world. With his stu dies only half completed he finally re turned to Japan and took a post as a bank clerk. This proved the real be- 8* - ., -v •> , -Ae • #Si- The Spinsters CONVENTION Screamingly Funny Farce Comedy Presented Under Auspices of CIRCLE KING’S DAUGHTERS 8 P.M. ,; I at the ! NEW HIGH SCHOOL BACHELORS ADMITTED FREE! Any bachelor who will get mar ried on the stage Friday night will he admitted FREE. Attend this Spinsters Convention and pick your WILLING BRIDE. ■■■r. 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