The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 10, 1919, Image 3
LIES ARE FED
If SELF DENIAL
Doing Without in
jDnerioa Supplied Food
to Europe.
pry from this country nine* ft
pdtiM'war liuve kept starvation
i Allied Kuix>p? and have tnalu
0 the hi-uith ant! strength of those
I ire beeu bearln* the brunt of
tittle*. *> that thej could hold
? victory. Now that hostilities
Mittd w4 must assume the add
rfeu ot keeping starvation from
itjiif Its toll upon the millions
km been liberated from the
Vjju joke. Famine would undo
pgrt which bu bMD accomplished
^ the world tor democracy. No
u rtrernment can be eatabllahed
maiatalned by a nation harassed
Lr A starving people turns
Bi tad anarch/. Food ha*
M ititoctb and courage to the na
m flfbtlof tor democracy ; It muet
, liv? the natlone strength and
KuillltJ to te-eetabllsb themselves
frccdfr* and democracy.
ifcott our help It would have been
piotel/ Impossible for the Allies to
totals ? living ration. Since oar
ry into the war we bave been con
?ntlo| lar*?'J to th# eupport of one
4red and twenty million people
normal food supplies have been
off, whose production has fallen
oil (a the vanishing point, whoee
li bin been devastated by Oer
i*. The food exported from the
mi States la the pest year has
i iuffldent to supply the complete
ta of twenty-two million people,
la lard to grasp the magnitude
significance of the assistance
h has been lent the Allies by the
lotic, Toluntary service of the
rican people. The food we sent
ad last rear would bave been suf
it to feed one-fifth of our popttla
Aod this was done In spite of
bet that we entered the year with
t crops. Our surplus was practl
nothlng. An overwhelming pro*
loo of the food that left this co un
it- 1 year was snved out of the noiv
home consumption of our own
$e.
h iplte of difficulties met In Inter*
I transportation and shortage of
pa tou i) Age our food exports last
ir amounted to a figure that a few
in ago would have been unbelieva
, Even the most optimistic element
i?r population faced -with anxions
iternatlon the prospect which
led before us with the beginning
the 1917 harvest year. v
be American people have not been
fpelled to sa ve. They have been
taled to on the basis of humanity
id of patriotism. They have re
rofini voluntarily. .
Besides such Incidental benefits as
[Improvement in figure and health
it we've reaped from Otir meatless,
icatlos.s doys, think of the fun we've
i out of them? the pew crop of
lea, jibe*, topical songs and car
at^ to replace the mother-in-law
k aid the boost to our reputation
f wtdy humor !
Eighty millions of men can
not be taken out Of production
for four years without lasting
tosses of yltld. It will be years
before their fields recuperet*,
firms are restored, and herds re*
docked. Save food.
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Work.
tfork touches the keys of endioaa
Wtjr, opens the Infinite and stands
'?truck Wore the immensity of
?t there 1? to do.? Phillies Brooks
... ?' i.";;yv.. ? ? ?
Collins Brothers
atlcrtakers for Colored People
?Mom 41 714 W. DeKalb St.
Columbia lumber &
teFSCfflRING to.
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COLLivIii! A, S. C. ^
DOING HIS BIT
By LAURA J. NUNN.
<taWfri?hl, I9is. by McCiurJ" NewJmiT.T
.SvmUr.itu.)
Knrly In the grout movement for the
cpntervfttlon of food joksi<? had
broached the subject to her husband.
Ho had acquiesced most heartily, Or
tulnl.v ho would l>e glad to "do his bit."
"All I want In the plainest of food," he
sold. "And your cooking would make
tho worst concoctions delicious
For a while all went well. Delicious
dishes bawd on rice or spaghetti, with
nourishing meat sauces, appeared on
the table, and occasionally an entire
meal of vegetables. And John hod
eaten them, llrst. with noisy approba
tion of the economic value of tho move
ment, then with u great parade of
patriotism, but lastly In a pregnant si
lence that spoke volumes of martyr
dom, Several times he had tele
phoned that ho would not be home for
dinner ? detained by business.
And then one evening the cot was
out of the bog. John had arrived homo
almost un hour earlier than usual,
laden down with packages. Into the
kitchen he strodo nnd slammed them
noisily down upon the tub-tops.
"There!" ho said as he untied a string
nnd disclosed a huge steak; "there's
a piece of meat. That's steok ! Beef!
Allow me to lntroduyco you, mndom, to
n meal. I have had all the makeshifts
I want around here and I am off tho
war stuff for good and all ! Why," he
continued virtuously, "all 1 want Is
simple food. A good piece of meat,
Some vegetables, some good bread and
butter, nnd n dessert. No frills to that.
And I'm going to have them."
Secretly Jessie wns Just as well
pleased. The "makeshifts" hud meant
much extra work for her, and It must
be admitted she did not particularly
enjoy mnde dishes. She, too, liked
"good plain food."
So matters Jogged along until John
produced a pair of tickets for a lec
ture on "Hooverlzlng." "It is tonight/'
he sold. "We will have to go? and
thank goodness It Is with a clear con
science that Wo can hear him hand It
to those people who have not been
doing their bit" 1
"Well, we certainly hove!" laughed
Jessie.
An hour Inter, from their comfort
able sojits in the hall, they looked at
each other In consternation. But the
speaker's jyords still flowed on In ear
nest appeal, and there was not time
for discussion.^
"Hundreds of you good people would
tell me if I asked you, that you ure
doing all you can/' he said. "You
will say that you have cut out every
thing but necessities. You are using
nothing but plain food ? and plain food
with you means the best roasts of
beef, Iamb and pork ; the finest steaks
chops j th^ whitest bread you caa
obtain, and the 'simplest' desserts ?
Usually pies or cake which use up the
white flour.
'Do you honestly think you an? do
ing your best? This war will be won
or lost by food. Don't forget that for
oqe mlntfte. Most of you, in your ctfm
fortable houses, feel that the war is a
remote thing which can never touch
you. iTou give, five minutes of pity to
the starving children in Belgium or
Poland^ arid then sit down to heaping
plates Of food and promptly forget all
about them. You have a vague sense
that everything will be all right Uncle
Sam is behind us, and of course that
n)eaii8 that nothing can harm us. Other
countries have suffered. But America? ,
Impossible 1 And so you go on day by
day, grumbling a little at the increased
cost of living and continuing to live
ernctly us you did before the war.
"Many of you think because you
have bought a Liberty bond you have
'done ygur bit.' What right have we
to give a 'bit' while pur men in the
army give their all? So must we. We
cannot all go to the front ; some of
us must stay here to keep things going.
But we can and we must do without
the things we like; must sacrifice what
we most enjoy to help win the cruel-,
est,' most horrible war in the history
of tLe world.
"Begin at homo? now ? to save the
foods that our men at the front must
have. Cut out tho roasts, the steaks,
the pies and puddings. What if you
don't like wfflrUreHtfT Or macaroni*
Or beans three times a week? Do you
think the men In the trenches like*
It ? especially now when winter is at
hand?
"Looking at It from this point of
view the housewives of the country
ftra of even more importafrce than its
army. For of what use would be an
army without food?
"And get away from this idea of do
ing your 'bit.' Go in all over. A 'Mt'
is not enough. ? ALL of the BEST of
fou Is necessary. YOU can win this
war l"
In silence John walked home beside
his wife. She was doing some deep
thinking but wisely refraining from
iaying anything ? yet. .
Finally It came out Was It John's
jmuilly hearty, loud voice that spoke?
?Well' begin tomorrow, Jess," he said
-tuskllx. "I guess we have not done
nuch thinking? I've boon wishing all
ilong that I could do something. En
rled the fellows la uniform and nil
:hat yoy know. Even If I can't wenr
.lu> khaki I can do something. IIow
iboiit It old girl?"
And Jessie, as she thought of thei
Tnlned houses, the blind and crippled I
the "starving women andchUflrrnfl
n Europe, gavo thanks thht she coiilw
lo b^r vurt to aid the mrn who w?*?l m
lght to nuTke such co? -.^Hons \mv m
able In America. f
Rhett Plan for $25,000,000 Bond Issoe
for Building Good Reads in South Carolina
. r ? t,y f
Id response to many roquosU w? publish below the Rhrtt plan tor a
Issue of I25.U00.000 for good roads in South Carolina, the interest1 on the
bonds to be paid by a special automobile tax and a staking fund for their
retirement in twenty year* to be created In the same way. Till# ia the plaa
; that has been endorsed by the good roads contention, the South Carolina |
State Automobile Association, the Columbia. Greenville, Rock Hill and ;
Charleston chambers of Commerce *nd many other organisations over the
State. it is to be submitted to the General Aseembl^ at the approaching
session In the form of a bill.
The plan follows la fuM as endorsed by the good roads convention:
Your Committee on Plans begs to submit certain facts which should b#
known and understood before Its proposals are presented.
There |s at present no SUte Highway System In South. Carolina. Thi
State Highway Commission, created In February, 1117, Is composed of five
members, of whom three are senior professors of engineering at colleges,
and the other two are appointed by the Governor. It Is limited iji Us powers
and duties to investigation and advice. At least four-flfths of the amount
tt colleots from licenses Is turned over to the counties. Under the present
Act, it is not possible to eetablieh a system of State Highways, and your
committee's recommendation^ contemplate such amendments to this Act as.
in its judgment, would be necessary, both to eatabllsh and maintain In good
condition and repair at least fifteen hundred miles of well-surfaced highways,
connecting every county seat In the state.
To do this would require a very large sum of mone^ ? possibly tvrenty,
. or even twenty-live million dollars ? and without the credit of the State behind
it, this would be impracticable. Under the Constitution, this credit may not
be extended "unless two-thirds of the Qualified electors of this State, voting
on the question at a general State election, be in favor of it." Until November,
1920, there will be no opportunity for submitting this question to such a vote.
However, there 1# much to be done In the establishment of * System
ol State Highways before surfacing them and it will be found that a year an&
a half will not be too long a time to lay out such a system and acquire title
to the roads. In the meantime, however, your committee hM proposed plans
which would enable euch counties, aa may desire to have their highways
completed within their limits, to do so.
It Is clear at the outset that two-thirds of the qualified voters voting oa
the queetlon would never favor any large Issue of State Bonds, to he retired
by general taxation. It must be made clear that the general public are to
pay no part of this tax. It is 'a public Improvement which so particularly
benefits the motor vehicle owner that he can well afford to pay It *11, and
he should so unmistakably express himself. There are now over 66,000 auto*
mol?i lea registered in this State, and they have paid in Moan see during tha
year, In round numbers, $290,000. *Tiiw iucinase Of automobiles in the State
for the peat two years has been, from 19,000 In 1916, to 37,000 In 1917, to
66,000 in 1918. The increase In the United States from January 1, 1916, to
January 1, 1918, was over 100 per cent. Iowa already has one car to every
six persons.
To retire $25,000,000 of 4ft per cent bonds serially In twenty years would
require about $1,800,000 per year. An average license of $20.00 per oar on
106,000 care would yield $2,000,000 with; 160,000 oars it would take $12.60 peg
car. The present average license is $5.26 pes car.
H every owner of a car would figure his saving in gasoline, repair bills,
and in wear and tear, provided there were 1,600 miles of. well-surfaced high
ways, kept in good order, in the Statfe, Jt^ would be found that thiB will
amount to between $100.00 and $200.00 per annum. He. therefore, is asking
the State to permit him to Invest from $10.00 to fl6.00 per annum, say, to
save from $100.00 to $200.00, a total saving to the automobilises of the State
of over $10,000,000 per annum, in money. It would be hard to compute the
saving in time. x ,
With this prelude, your committee begs to report its recommendations,
as follows:
, 1. The State Highway Commission should be given the power to acquft?
rights-of-way and iande, by purchase or condemnation* for the purpose of
establishing a State Highway System connecting all the county seats; to
construct and surface the highways 1$. such a system so as to take care ot
the traffic which may be developed upon them, and to keep such highways ia
proper condition and repair.
2. The State Highway Commission should bo eeven in number, and
should ^>e composed of one from each Congressional District, with the three
sector of <m$rUuH*rlog. provided in the ?resent Act, as advt#Ofy
members. It should ?el?ct its own chairman, and have full power to employ
fie own engineer, and fix his compensation, and aleo the compensation of
all Its employee#.
3. There should be two or more tnii of 8tate of South Carolina High
way Bonds, aggregating a sufficient amount to connect every cdunty seat with
a well-surfaced highway, each issuo to bo retired serially, or by amortisation,
within the life of the road upon which the proceed? cure expended. . .
.4*4, There should be levied by the Legislature am annual license tax upon,
motor vehislee all of wWch should go to the State Highway Commission-?,
sufficient to enablo the Commission to keep the highways in the System In
proper condition *ud repair; to pay interest on *11 outstanding State Highway
Bonds, and to retire same in accordance with their terms. |
6. The oountios of the? State should be authorised by the Legislature
to issue County Highway Bonds, and ^MUrtract Mich parts of thin highway
sytem within their borders as their people may ratify.
6. There should be levied for t^e next two years a one-mill tax, to be
distributed bo the counties proportionately, for ro*d purposes; provided that,
in the event any county should desire to turn this fund over to the State
Highway Commission for expenditure on a highway In the State System,
within the limits of its county, the Commission should be required to add a
like amount from Its Bcense foot forths mm MrpiM _
7. The present motor vehicle license tax shoo Id be at once raised to
M cents per horsepower for automobiles and motorcycles, and $ L0& per bona*
power for motor trucks, with >5.00 for trailers and *$*6.00 for dealers, ?*???
there Is an opportunity of securing Federal aid, in which event this should be
tnoreased to such an amount aa will supply the portion which this 0ie*?
must furnish In order to obtain the full portion to which it would be entitled.
8. Any moneys which a county may turn over to the Highway Commit*
sion, to be expended on a State highway, should I* refunded such, court?
put of the proceeds of any State Highway Bonds, which may be issued, with*
oat Interest. v
9. Wherever any highway which is now improved, or may hereafter ha
Improved , shall be taksn iato the State Highway System, so much of the ear*
facing improvements as may be available In the said System, shall be
eppralsed, and the value thereof paid to the county out of the proceed* oC
any State Highway Bonds that may be issued. ??
Your oommtttoe believes that under audi a plan a System of State High
ways can be b??un *Ad be prepared for construction by the time the State
Bonds referred to to . Paragraph 3 may be submitted to the people. In Noven*
her. llM. J
(Adopted by attd recommended for enactment into law at a convehtkm
of the South Carolina Automobile Association, December 11, 1918.)
idoufl Growth ofthe South (
bile Association in One Year.
ColumbfU-A year ago tha South Carollaa State Automobile Associate*
w?e unknojrn. Today it has several thousand members end new clubs are
being forced weekly In every section of the State. . The association has
launahedJluring the fast few weeks a movement for a $2:?,ooo.t)(K)_ bond issue
tor a St^fe-wide system of good roads that blda fair to culminate successfully*
If it d <#s the good roads system will stand as a lasting monument to the
autom<vllc association.
M,f ch of the credit for the wonderful work dona In the organisation of
the ysoclation must be given to C. W. Co field, the tireless secretary and
tre^urer. When he came to the State a year ago he fonnd the organization
pr Jtically defunct. lie took bold of it with a vim and has accomplished
M The State headquarters of the association are located in the Imperial
motel at Greenville. "There <Mr. Co field has compiled a list of every antomo?
?lis owner in the State- of South Carolina. .He. Is also compiling through tha
different local club# a minute description of every car in the State. Thisl
will be of benefit in recovering stolon cars.
The auto aseocietioB ; furnishes each member with a copy of the Blue
Book, membership in the local. State and American Automobile Association^
an emblem for hU car, a subscription to *h<* American Motor, a national
good road s^magaVft&?,& feurcrty fefcture and the protection of (be South era
QaAorwrttern Detective Iiurcr\u in recovering stolen cars.
"FOOTER'S"
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CLEANERS AND DYERS OF WEARING APPAREL
AND HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS OF ALL
DESCRIPTIONS.
WE DYE AND CLEAN ARJdY CLOTHES.
I'awl Pout mmI Ktimw Mb yiii.rils Olvrn ItiiimxIUU* Atlenilou
FOOTER'S DYE WORKS, CUMBERLAND, MARVIAND
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WHITK MAN 8URKKNDBHS
M?y? He Helped ltob Post Office In
Virginia.
Oreenvillc, Jan. ft. ? Declariug that he
Sad taken part iu a postofflce robbery at
Bedford, Va., on Novoinber 22, Arthur
tarrett, a young white inau appeared at
he office the postofflce inspector Here
i week ago and Maid he wanted to give
diuself up to the authorities since hit)
<on science hud worried him considerably.
The young roan was given a formal pre
'iiuinary u day or so ago here, was bound
'>ver to the Federal Court for trial, and
vill probahly bo seut back to Bedford
n the next few days. The postofflce
'uapoctor communicated with the Bedford
luthorities and found the facts substan
tially a.s stated by the youug man . He
aid he had been pursuaded to go into
the robbery by two other men whom
he met the same day and whose names
Me did not know.: They got into the
office, he said, but not into the safe, but
?tfled some packages which they found
?n the floor. . JSarrett said ho repented
after he had left the postoffipe, and came
p'>nck to return the goods ho took, but
'oiind the office already occupied, and
Vft^them outside.
York's Mayor Takes Action.
There Were no sales of alcoholic bev
erages last Monday under the camou
1ngft iULffiedicine. PawPaw trade was
U a standstill. No kind of protestation
T tummyache would hjive boon sufficient
to get a bottle of Jamaica ginger, and
!f a respectable housewife had asked
*or a bottle of lemon extract, as to
whether or not sho got it would have
impended upon the known habits of her
husband with regard to use of frtiiuu
lants. The alcoholic beverage business
was shut tip tight. Behind it all- there
was a reason. Mayor Johnson bad given
notice on the strength of mftst convinc
ing assurance that this notion that there
ix no \vay to restrict tho sale of alcohol
in various available beverage form* un
der respectably sounding names la a mis
tuke. There wan no real fear of a mob
outbreak Monday ; but it was recognised
that almost anything might happen la
n case liko that and that tho frea flow
i >f aUohol does not in any why mjti
gate such a situation. ? Enquirer.
Mr*. Susan Eleanor MorrlH and her
daughter, Pearl, died within an hour
of oju-h other near Hlacksburg Tueaday
night. Mrs. Morris wan 41 yeara of
ige nnd her daughter, 21. The husband
in d father suryites with /seven other
children.
"The Reason Why."
it. A. Thomas Stock Keraedlea are
the bent, they are aclenttilcally made
and all medicine. They keep the health
up, aiid? the feed bill down. There la a
a cause for every effect, remove the
QHVM and tho effect removes itself.
The Poultry Remedies are especially
made to relieve all the diseases in the
Fowl family auch us, Cholera and Itoupc
and makes tho Hens lay.
The Hoc Remedy will positively
keep off tne Cholera, and if given in
the first Htages, will cure 00 per cent.
Don't forget to keep on baud a bot
tle of Karris' Golie Remedy for Iloraes.
It is so simple with dropper, that a
child can give It.( Also a bottle of Fer- ,
ris' Healing Remedy for Cuta and
Urulsoa on muu or boast. They never
fail, v
These remedies are all guaranteed
to you by your dealer, to give satlsfac
tion, or yout money back;
Made by Old Kentucky Manufactur ...
log Co., l'adueali, Kentucky.
8V>r sale by Springs & Shannon, Cam
den, S. C. ? adv. .Tune 8.
TKKHl'ASS NOTICE
All parties aro hereby warned not
to trespass o" my landa located on the
Darlington road eight miles east of Cam
den, knownMPs the English land. This
is for huuflng, or any purpose -whatso
ever. AMfne violating this notice will
he preseuWd to the fullest extent of
tho law. i
I, F. HOLLAND.
December .2$, 1918.
Don't pay out a fortune for a suit, and don't ex
v" ' ~ " -rr-r --- . r. . ? r ?' ^ _
pect to get one for a sons. One is extravagance and
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the other is foolishness. Neither will lead you tq
success.
\ v 1 * ? ? * ' ~ ? ? ' - * ' r. - "? r ' "' V;: '
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There is always a medium between two extreities,
and this applies especially in the selection of your
clothing.
This is the medium store, where ybu can always
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buy a solid, substantial, correctly designed and splen
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didly made suit for the minimum price to be paid
for quality goods.
The same high, standard and . minimum of
i s maintained in our furnishings department. We
no "cheap stuff", and we charge not one cent
than is absolutely essential to a reasonable
profit.
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROl