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Telephone.loeslend Ion* distance. No. 112.
Entered at the poetofflc* at Fort Mill. S. C.. as
mail matter of the second class.
THURSDAY. JAN. 31. 1918.
Go back to the simple life, be
contented with simple food, simple
pleasures, simple clothes.
Work hard, pray hard, play
hard. Work, eat, recreate and
sleep. Do it all courageously.
We have a victory to win.?
Hoover.
Don't have the nerve to send
to this office items announcing
doings gotten up for profit unless
you want to pay for them.
We sell our space and papers for
a living. If advertising is wofth
doing, it is worth paying for.
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Payment of poll tax before I
December 31 is a prerequisite of ,
voting in any election within
six months thereafter, Thomas j
H. Peeples. attorney general, '
says in an opinion rendered for
A. S. Harby, a member of the
board of election commissioners
for Sumter county.
When the Legislature of New
York says to the legislature of
Alabama, "You have prohibition 1
for yourself. Be contented with j
it. If vou vote it on us. we will
give you negro woman suffrage"
? what will the legislature of
Alabama say? What will the
solid South say??Moberly (Mo.)
Monitor.
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During the month which we
now have entered the two men
who rank first in the history of
our country were born. Tributes
to their memories will be paid
by loyal Americans on the
anniversaries of their births.
Of course, all the school children
know who these two men
were.
Too poor to take the home
paper? Well, that is a dreadful
condition. Buy a hen, feed her
crumbs and waste from the
kitchen and she will lay eggs to 1
pay for a year's subscription;:
then work her up into a pot pie j
iand she will pay her first cost;
so the paper will be clear profit.
Repeat this process year after
year, meanwhile learn wisdom
and cease to be poor.
In view of the number of
soldiers from Camp Greene who
pay weekly visits to Fort Mill, j
and in view to the prevalence in
the camp of spinal meningitis, j
we believe the health authorities,
of this city should pass a quaran-!
tine regulation against the Camp
Greene visitors. One case!
brought to this town by a soldier
might prove the starting here of i
an epidemic of this mosl dreaded
disease.
Hoarding food. Any one buying
and holding a larger supply
ui iuuu now man in oeace time, 1
i except foods canned, dried or
preserved in the home, is helping
defeat the Food Administration
in its attempt to secure a
just distribution of food and the
establishment of fair prices.
The food hoarder is working
against the common good and
* even against the very safety of :
the country. Hoarding food in
households is both selfish and
unnecessary; the government is
protecting the food supply of its
people.
The shutting down of many!
of the industries of the State on |
every Monday for the next nine |
weeks presents a splendid op1;''
portunity to employees of these
industries to prepare and plant j
their spring gardens. The
x critical food situation in the
V country makesnt absolutely imperative
for every family to
have the largest possible supply
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>f vegetables for immediate
:an8umt>tion and for canning,
Mid we hope that every employee
in the State who is made
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order will improve hit opportunity
for gardening.
We have billions of bushels of
food worth billions of dollars.
Let's protect these billions. We
need all of them. Let's not
allow rats and mice to take their
toll of millions this year?$200,000,000
is their annual bill of
destruction. Trapping, poisoning,
and rat-proofing buildings
will help reduce this enormous
food loss. Organized rat hunts
by communities are effective.
In one Ohio town a few years
ago each of two organized teams
killed more than 8,000 rats, and
a dinner for all the hunters was
the penalty for the losing side.
Boards of trade, civic societies,
and citizens' associations in
towns, and farmers'and women's
clubs in rural communities should
find this matter worthy of their
efforts. Farmers' Bulletin 896
tells how individuals and communities
can fight rats and mice.
Write to the United States department
of agriculture for it.
York County News Natters. ?
l lorkville Enquirer.)
The delayed report of vital
statistics from Bethel township
for 1917, has been received.
There were 79 births and 34
deaths. This gives a total for
the county during the year of
1,197 births and 697 deaths.
Study of the tax returns being
taken by Auditor Love, discloses
that the recent ruling of the
State tax commission is receiving
very serious consideration at the
hands of the hands of the property
owners of York county, and
also it suggests that the township
and county equalization
boards are going to have something
of a job on their hands to
straighten out the complications
by which they are going to be
confronted.
It has been many years since
(lioro havA hnon uc manu cn. wires
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during one winter as there has
been during the present winter
season. For about six weeks
rtow there has been snow on the
ground almost continuously. The
sleet storm of Monday night was
the heaviest that has fallen in
this latitude in many years. The
average depth was around two
to three inches and since it fell
on Monday night, not a great
deal of the sleet has melted and
passed away.
The proposed artillery range
site at King's Mountain, near
Gastonia, in their report, was
(I^SPrihpH n?S Kiarhlu ootiofontnuti
by the board of artillery officers
<fl the regular army appointed
by Major General Dickman, commanding
Camp Green, to inspect
the site. The report, says the
Charlotte Observer, was submitted
Wednesday morning to Gen.
Dickman, and contained only one
important suggestion of desired
improvement, and this was that
the area of the site should be
substantially increased.
There are few, if any, German
citizens in York county who come
within the provisions of the German
alien registration law, but
if there is they should be made
acquainted with the fact that
they must register with the police
or [K)stmaster between February
4 and February 9. The
law appliss to all native born
German males over 14 years of
age who have not previously
taken out naturalization papers.
I? Rock Hill thev go to the chief
of police for blanks and elsewhere
they go to the postmaster.
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renames ior laiiure to observe
the law in regard to registration
is very severe.
New Building for Winthrop.
The outlook for the securing
of much needed dormitory room
at Whuhrep college is encouraging
since the House Ways
and Means committee of the
Legislature has favorably reported
the appropriation for this
building. It is understood that
the Ways ant) Means committee
was practically unanimous in
recommending the aoDronriation
for the new dormitory. As the
committee consists of twentyfour
members, citizens from all
sections of the State, the attitude
of the committee indicates
the widespread opinion that
adequate facilities ought to be
provided at Winthrop college for
the education of the women of
South Carolina.
The York county member af
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the Ways and Means committee
is Hon. W. R. Bradford. Mr.
Bradford is a firm believer of
higher education for women and
Winthrop college, and his influence
in the committee and in
the House has been, and will
continue to be, exercised in behalf
of justice for the young
women of the State who are
seeking educational advantages'
| at Winthrop and have been un|
able to enter on account of lack
of dormitory room.?Rock Hill
Herald.
Man's Career.
Man that is born of woman is
of few days and full of microbes.
He goeth to school when a
youngster and gets the seat of
his pants paddled for something
he didn't do until he is sick at
heart. He groweth up like a
weed in the back yard and soon
reaches the age when he is composed
largely of feet, freckles
and an appetite for pie. About
the time he gets too long for
short trousers and not long
enough for long ones he goeth
away to college, learneth how to
monkey with a three-dollar
mandolin and -play whiskey
poker. He cometh home a bigger
fool than ever and marrieth
a sweet young thing whose pa is
supposed to be wealthy, but
whom he subsequently ascertained,
couldn't buy the prize
rooster at a county fair. He
worrieth along from year to
year, gradually acquiring offsprings,
until his house resembles
a Sunday school class
just before Christmas. He fretteth
through the day lioth awake
nights trying to figure how to
keep himself and his dependent
population out of the poor house.
Efforts are rewarded by his
daughters who run off and get
married and bring him home a
nice son-in-law every few days
to feast at his board. His Sons
grow up ana call him governor
and set him back a five-spot
every day or two. About the
time he has acquired enough
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Light Hardware, Heavy
expenses LES8. we art
values that go further.
No prices quoted hereWe
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placing your order NOW.
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If You Had to
Borrow Money
You cannot borrow a do!
credit established any w her
One of the best ways to
have an account at the Sh>
ily and show by your trans
loaning: risk.
The Savings Bank welco
people who desire to estal
not do it in a week or a m
to start and build it up.
Why not start to establi;
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lucre to make' it worth while- for
his heirs to quarrel over, he
contracts a cold and is hurried
away before he has time to have
a talk with his family. His sons
blow in his estate on bad whiskey
and plug hats and his wife puts
the finishing touches to his
career by marrying the hired '
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Qsarastise si la Charistte.
The most rigid quarantine or- 1
der Charlotte has ever known j
was clapped on that city Friday j
afternoon at 2 o'clock by Mayor i
Frank R. McNinch. following a 1
conference with city and Federal
health authorities, when every J
amusement place in the city was t
ordered closed until February 7, <
and when all hut necessary trav- <
el betveen the city and Camp *
Greene was ordered discontinued. !
The order was issued in an effort
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spread of cerebro-spinal meningetis;
six cases having been'reported
in the city of Charlotte.
Mr. Chas. W. Eason has been
confined to his home on Clebourn
street for some days by illness.
Old newspapers for sale at The
Times office.
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limmle and a German Boy Clash?
Must Do Three Things to Save
^ountry.
It was a warm evening, so Uncfe
Dan went oat to a livwn seat under the
spreading branches of the great tree
:hat suggested the farm's name of Oak
aill. Blllle and Jlmrnle had been layng
for him, sq Uncle Dan was cap:ured
by the boys on short order.
"Say, Uncle Dan," Blllie began. "We
lad a red-hot urgument at school yes:erday
with Carl Newman. Carl said
:hat German schools were miles ahead
)f our schools and that no one could
rome up to the educated German. Well,
ilimine koi not unaer tne collar ana
landed It back to him good and plenty,
rimmle said If their education taught
them to torpedo I,usltnnias, sink hospital
ships, murder hundreds of worn?n
and children, make slaves of
the Belgians, poison wells, destroy fruit
trees and commit all sorts of crimes,
then we did not want that kind of
education here. What do you think
about It, Uncle Dnn? I told Jimmle
irou spent a lot of time In Europe and
knew all about schools, so give us your
aplnlon."
"Well," replied Uncle Dan, dellber- <
ately. "the Germnn schools are very '
thorough; they furnish exceedingly valuable
and prnctlcal Instruction. The
Industrial training given there Is probably
the best to be found. The schools
as a whole, however, In my opinion,
appeal to the head only, and never to
the heart. The aim and trend Is to
make the individual blindly submlsalirn
t a fh a Prnoolnn v\1nn a P ***a ? ! #1 <1 a_"
Jl hV llir R I UOOKIIl (/Kill U1 UIUIU UUminion;
they tench thnt it is the destiny
of Germany to rule the world, and
that to the glory and advance of Germany,
in this plan, all things must give
svny; thnt the kaiser as hend of the
state, can do no wrong if he carries
forward the plan of world control.
Some, of the greatest teachers and
preachers even defend and Justify her
heartless crushing of Belgians and the
many other atrocious crimes she has
committed in this war. Thank God,
our American education reaches both
the head and the heart. It is an education
with a soul, and we must maintain
the high ideals we hnve fixed. In
a word, in Germany, the people are
taught that they exist for the government,
while here the government exists
to serve the people."
"Just wait a minute," interrupted
Bllile. Say that over again slowly, so
I cnn write It down."
Uncle Dnn, smilingly, complied.
Bllile exclaimed: "Now, we will hand
that nut out for Carl to crack.
Carl, you know," continued Bllile, ,
"has a very smnrt father who keeps
him posted on the German arguments.
Carl said our government wns only |
an experiment anyway; thnt it would
not last twenty years, and that it j
might burst up any old time. Jimmle
asked him if Germany was so mighty
good, why they did not go back there
to live."
"Our government will go on forever,
won't it. Uncle Dan?"
"Now," said Uncle Dan, "you are
raising a big question, and one thnt
has troubled me for years. Our government
is still in the experimental
stage; in fact, it is the greatest experiment
ever undertaken, and if pop- .
ular government is to be successful, a
few things must be done, otherwise, to
paraphrase the great Lincoln, the government
of the people, by the people
and for the people, will perish. It is
my firm conviction," said Uncle Dan,
In a very impressive manner, "thnt if
our country is to go on, as we hope
nnd pray, we must very quickly do
at least three things, and I will name
them in the order of importance as it
appears to me:
"First, adopt compulsory universal
military training of all young men
physically fit before they reach the
age of twenty years.
"Next, require that every foreigner
who comes here to live must, within a
reasonable time, say a year, declare
his intention of becoming an American
citizen and take the necessary steps to
do so, thereby, from that moment, assuming
all the obligations of citizenship
of-our country, und thnt means he
must defend our flag upon equal terms
with our native born, nnd if he is not
willing to do this, he should be sent
back from whence he came."
"That's the stuff," exclaimed Billle.
"And, finally, enact such legislation
as will make >fc>tlng compulsory. Popular
eovernment is bnseil nnnn the
participation of all and the rule of
the majority, and democracy cannot
continue and be successful unless we
(lve up to the spirit of the institution.
"The first step, however, Is the pass- ,
Ing of the Chamberlain bill for universal
military training. If you will get
the leading citizen, and especially the
editor of your paper, to write personal
letters to your congressman and both
senators, urging their support, It will
help enormously.
"I see by the morning papers," said
Uncle Dan, "that the Rotary clubs of
the entire country, the livest, most efficient
organization to be found, have
unanimously decided to get back of
the Chamberlain bill and give It loyal
and enthusiastic support, They will
work with the Universal Military
Training league to accomplish this important
piece of legislation, which will
do more than anything else to make us
a real p.atlon with a common viewpoint,
bring us back to sane living, and
teach us the patriotism of service."
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The MAJESTIC THEATRE
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Announcement.
THE CAROLINA BARGAIN HOUSE having
bought the S. A. Lee Cash Store will consolidate
the two stores and operate as a unit in the Slewart
Buildings, now occupied by the Cash Store
and the one adjoining above, as soon as necessary
remodeling is completed. We will have good
news in price-making daily, and \\ill have a complete
line of Groceries, Hardware, Shoes, Dry
Goods, Notions, and a general 5c, 10c, and 25c
department kept up-to-date, and the largest line
of candies in town. Come to see us in our larger
home. We will prove our prices are more than f
right and the store service high class. Watch
the double front white building. Clad to see old
friends and new.
Carolina Bargain House,
B. M. LEE, Proprietor.
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t your mouey where it will support the New Federal Re- ?
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k part oi every dollar so deposited goes directly into the ? ,
new system, where it will always be ready for ycu Z
when wanted. 1
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