Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LITTLE SHOE ■y JACK LAWTON. Billy picked it up on hla way home from the theater. He had been about to cron the road In order to hall a taxi, when he noticed a dark object half buried In the snow at his feet Billy's honest face wrinkled in perplex ity as he turned the thing over In hla bund, to him It looked like a child's bed-room shoe. What else but a bed room shoe would be lined with quilt ed satin, and furred around the top? “Whnt,” muttered Bill, “would a kid be doing out In the streefedn a bedroom slipper?” He passed the question over to the taxi driver. ‘That there’s a woman’s carriage boot,” the man explained, Billy w as not offended. He was glad to find someone to talk to. New York had given a cold welcome to this big free-hearted son of the West. Upon the train coming he had noticed the dif ference. , In Billy's home town everyone spoke to everyone else. His car companions had turned up their collars at his ap proach and unsociably lost their faces within them. Billy was very lonely. He was discouraged. Perhaps it would have been better to have stayed and spent his pile In the place where he had made it; he was very sorry that the age limit prevented him from going to war, there, one might find comrades aad sympathetic understanding. Even .the home town had failed him la that The other boys had all married, while Bill was Absorbed In the succeee of his Now they were satin fled In tiietr homes end he wa# left outald#. Jtat then, there had never been a girl to hold his fsocy. Bill couldn't tell why. perhaps because he had continued la the hope of flodlag ooe. like his mother She had been eurh a tender faithful creature. Bill couldo't think ef her yet without a lump lo hla throat —yea. the girts he had met. were differ ewt Be he aat la the taxi look lag down ea the little shoe aad weadeelog what la do with It Tit aa ad la the paper ^ saggsated the still griaalag rheuffeer. Tee'll HUM 10 .BE HIRED Food Administration Outline Policy to Moot Decporato Food Situation. The National Pood Administration la anxious to Impress the message of conservation to the utmost. The peo ple of the country at large do not ap preciate the demand for wheag^ The Food Administration at WagrMngton has st/essed the situation in this na tion wide proclamation: "If we are to furnish the allies with the necoseary proportion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest, and this Is a military necessity, we must reduce our monthly consumption to twenty- one million bushels a month as against our normal consumption of about for ty-two million bushels or fifty per cent of our normal consumption, reserving a margin for distribution to the array and for special cases, leaves- for gen eral consumption approximately ona and one half pounds of wheat products weekly per person. Many of our cu** tomers are dependent upon bakers’ bread, such bread must be durable, and therefore requires s larger pro portion of wheat products than cereals baked In the household Our array and navy requires s full allowance. The well to do la our population can make greater sacrifice# In the con sumption of whrat products than can the poor To effect the needed sav ings of wheat, we are wholly daepnd- eat upon the voluntary assistance of the American people, and we do ask that the followtag rule# be oheerved! Ttret. householder/ to aee not to etreed e total el ooe aad one half pounds per weeh of wheet products per peeeos This means aat more then one sad three fourths pound# of Vic tory bread contalalag the of euhotttatee ead s half phnnd ad rooking tour. ■ L cvnrhors. pastry, plea, ns tat brook feet reroele ell '< 8. Stanwood Menken ae Billy he vnlnahie. Brief tt was la New# If m the imm Billy wae a» very city eog be-oee U dreeas the at e Wsalthy, she might he. te wear e hoot like that, but thee hie own wealth aMght amteh Wra Aad If she weetg enly bo kind —Billy's dream had tehee heaaty for greeted. WeB. ha had n record In shoo hack there la the home town of ohieh ae The saeoer cum# Abruptly. TTTlt flairr return bout to ewMe A White storm A part meat a where he will he rewarded f«»r his trumble The aote was signed Myra Burrows Bill frit the exrllemeat ef s youth going ta his firet party, as he slipped lato his feultlaas overcoat and hast eated to Klrerulde I Wire. Uncoaerluua ly he ess a believer la Tate.* Wasn't there after all. destiny la that little shoe lying directly In his path? Hs wished that the modem Cinderella might hats dwelt la humble rlrruas- stancea. his education had been grind, yet was this s propitious eartroemeot for s dream girl of appealing gentle- He was shown Into a luxurious roocn. and found himself staling stupidly down lato the fretful face of s Mirer haired women. "It la my boot, young man.” the old lady said brusquely. "If you hare any doubt, get down and flip It on. Women are not wearing No. 8 orerboote as a rule these days I will repay your trouble." The Westerner found hla voice. "Oh! no,” be protested, “thst’s all right.” ”1 Insist upon paying for the ad vertisement at least.” the woman said sharply and pressed a bell at her side. Then again Billy stared, but this time, not* stupidly. His keen eyes had tak en on *the light o’ dreams.’ A girl had entered the room In response to the ring. Her lovely face turned In imme diate attention to the woman’s. "Set tle with this man regarding the return of my carriage boot, Margot,” Myra Burrows directed, and left the room. It was the ‘dream girl,’ who signed a check at the desk, the dream girl, who put it into Billy’s hand with a compre hending smile. “You may as well take It,” she said, "Mrs. Burrows is—determined.” And the Westerner forgot New York's code. He only knew that In a few moments he must leave perhaps forever, the one girl whose eyes shone clear as a child’s, whose lips curved i In soft appeal, whose voice had the tender ring that Billy loved to bear. . "Who,” he asked abruptly, "are yon?” \ T aos Mrs. Burrows' secretary,” the girl answered simply. Ruefully Billy touched the little shoe. T wish that you were Cinde rella,” he said. Then at her quick glance of astonishment Impulsively Billy told the tale of his I on ell ness of the dream girt, so Uke his mother. And as Margot listened her eyes soft- Med Into understand]ag •Why that la my owa story* she ■Md. "alone la New York, and frtewd- rtwbe te tbesrve t< per week Mowger i el preeeef In nddl •erve In the tecee ef wheat U le he eervug et*0? eetereg Buhifts t •kmeata aet te *«? ' powee# ef wheat per gueet thee rewterming with Han ftetlwae reqeeeted ef the keuea hetdera Third, reteiieee te eeO net mere thee weewtgbih ef a barrel ef flwar te ear tewa teetemer at aev eae tlsse aad awt mere thee eaeqwarier ef a barrel te ae? reuetry rasteaser at aey owe time aad la aa raea ta tall wbaat product# wit beat eale ef aa equal weight ef ether rereale "Fourth, we eek the bakers sad gem cere te reduce the eoleme iff V Id erf bread eoid by delivery ef the thrum quarter poo ad leaf where eae pound rttone la ether weight# We bAkere not t»« tie* eek bikers not te In create the emeunt of their wheet flour purchae- ed beyond seventy per reel of the overage monthly amount perch seed In the four mouths prior le Merck flrst "Fifth, masufbetorers uelug wheat products for soa food purpoeee should rets# such aee entirely “fllith. there Is so limit upon the oss of other cereals, flours, end metis, corn, berley. buckwheat, potato flour, etc. Many thousand families through out the lend ere now using no wheat products whatever, except a very tmnll amount for cooking purposes and are doing to In perfect health and ■atltfadion. There la no reason why all of the American people who are ab'e to cook In their own households cannot tubalst perfectly well with the use of lest wheat products than ons and one-half ponada a week. USE MORE IRISH POTATOES In Order That They Will Not Ovs* lap New Crop. Columbia.—South Carolina can help very mntartally new In the eonaervm tien of wheat by uaing Irish potatoes. The produce people report to the food admlnistratloa at Columbia that there are unusual quantities of excellent Irish potatoes on hand In this state for Immediate use. It Is Important that these Irish pota toes be used so that they will not overt lap Into the new crop, and because they are the best available substitute for wheat. Potatoes are universally liked. The food administration kaa boon assured that Irish potatoes can he bought at very reasonable prises from all local markets, and If they sennet he bed the food administrator el Ootmmhla would he please die he advised ee that any deficient market can he supplied Potatoes are aa aoooptabk sehsth rule for breed A pound ef baked potatoes Is equal In uutrtUre vuh»e le tsbebte potass as a wheat end ee • FOLLOWING FALSE OODS By 8. STANWOOD MENKEN, President of the National Security League. . * Just as the test of the Individual Is best found under the stress of great trial or play of passion, so nations prove themselves In time of war and are able to Judge, not alone of the qualities of which their peoples are composed, but al so the measure of, confidence which should be placed In their lenders. ■- It has been said that Americans d o n’t h n’v e to prove that they' are the ‘‘greatest people on earth” for they admit It; and yet, when we look hack over our history and consider how w'e have met great problems—such as slavery, by a great war; tariff, by fourteen bills and a like number of panics; conservation, currency, bank ing, anti-trust and railroad queatlons, by making the same matters of poli tics—It may be doubted whether we are quite as great as we think we are. In considering how we exercise our Judgment, we should remember the extent to which we have devoted our selves to the education of the young and the large sums we bars spf-nt at all times for public schools and for colleges. When we look heck and see the mistake# we have made. It would almost appear as If we had felled to apply much that had been taught us la arhoot and college, or that perhapo the school end college had wot taught us how to oolv# great political meeeureu Then, again, the thought enmeo to oo of whethso or not wo hev« not hod fhtoe isoders. tad have not dung to fbteo godsi Corporation Weonpn. W# nil rsmemhor the out cry against vented Intervals of tbo repttaUete There have beeu greet wrongs dour fmufhlueo have been obtained by cor- rufdftou end theft end greet Injorteo have often been done In the right# of tbo people t end an. when wo found dsnoo herd end things going wrung, we hue# vented our eager upon rur- porutieae and upon the rapt'alters who ran trolled them la many mono wo allewod ourselves in become angry with a rtoae nr with rone In Individ ■a is and os ponded eur etwegih on eur temper, rut her than upon a stud? ef the cure ef the rendition# about which wo complained; aad In many laetaareu we poalnbod rorperuthsao her the wrongs of their predecouaore In ewonruhlp. much es elae of pervoto are visited upon their children. fvmngngoqe. knowing the pohllr nosed, appealed In prejudice and Ig norance In dlarunalag public antlers and made leeoea (the currency, earl- trout laws aad the railroads political foot hot le. Just aa If the queer Ha ef whether money could he aaved by Joining together rompoalee aad pro viding for irrasmy la pur rim ere tod eel co oss pet I tire L Of morse tt was s matter of economics (which Is the science of com am reel, hurh matters call for a conference between repre- aeatatlvre of formers, laborers, ori ent! Ac students ef world conditions, and manufacturers end purr he sera of gonda. to consider and determine how goods cun be produced with a fair wage to the employee, a fair profit to the employer sod the maximum bene fit to the public. Future Problem#. In Europe they have taken three questions up In this careful way and the result has been of great benefit. Now. end In the future. America will have to deal with countries that are short of resources through the exhaus tion of war and have, of necessity, to get down to rock-bottom. The thrifty. Intelligent, industrious European Is apt to Ivg a good merchqnt, and we are going to have a hard time competing with him for commerce and for world position, so wq must consider aU of our problems more carefully than ever before tnd cast aside those men who attempt to lead us sway from a thoughtful, dispassionate view of great questions. Graft and neglect In local communi ties of political duties by the Average citizen are responsible for the ralsgov- eminent thkt breeds disrespect, where we should have pride because of the efficiency of our people. The flrst con cern of the citizen In every community must be to see that It Is governed In a way that will aasure the approval of clean thinking men and women. The mechanics governing a city re quire the tame kind of clear thought and careful work aa that given to shop work or form planning, and svery good American must feel that at this time there Is nothing more worth while. If we de these things well, we will not have to worry nbout the foreign- born loving America, because living conditions here will be no excsflcnt that they simply cannot help It eapo rtalfy when they art given not alone 4 healthy «uM|. v. Lend Him a Hand Your hand—mg hand— . Every hand in the land stretched out to help him to VICTORY! That i$r the way that America is going to win this war. It is the only way she can win it We are fighting a United German people. Until every American is backing the boys in the trenches, until every hand in the land is stretched out to help, we cannot expect our army to defeat the German armies strengthened by the toil and sacri fice of the one hundred and fifty million people of Germany and Jier allies. This is a war of national resources, and every one must add his share to America’s fighting strength if we are to make our superior resources count. Every hand in the land must be stretched out to help our boys if we would send them over the top to early and certain victory. Save for (he Third Liberty Loan. Invest in the Third Liberty Loan. That is the way to lend a hand. That is the way to make a nation invincible for freedom and justice. , Every bond bought now is a direct fighting aid to this boy in the trenches in France. Lend Him a Hand Thi$ Space Paid for and Contributed by First National Bank, * • Allendale, S. C