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$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1920. Established in 1891
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Dark Horse
Repub
SENATOR WARREN G. HARDING
NAMED.
Is Newspaper Man.
Deadlock in G. O. P. Convention Broken
Saturday When All Elements
Settled on Ohio Senator
for Nomination.
Chicago, June 12.?Warren G.
Harding, United States Senatoi* from
Ohio, was nominated for the presidency
today by the Republican national
convention after a deadlock which
lasted for nine ballots and which finally
forced out of the running all the
original favorites.
As his running mate, the conven
tion named Governor Calvin Coolidge,
of Massachusetts, upsetting a plan of
a combination of the Harding backers
to nominate for the place Senator
Irvine L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin.
The collapse of the forces of Governor
Frank 0. Lowden and their
transfer in large part to Senator
Harding, put the Ohio candidate over.
General Wood lost heavily, however,
when the Harding drift began
and Senator Jahnson, the third of the
trio of leaders on the early balloting
yesterday, also went steadily downhill.
Entering the convention four days
ago as a candidate distinctly of the
"dark horse" class. Senator Harding
i
got only sixty-four votes on the first
ballot yesterday and on the second
' he dropped to 56.
I When the convention adjourned
last night at the end of the fourth
ballot he had 61.
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In all-night conferences among the
party chiefs, however, he was mentioned
many times as the most likely
to break the nomination deadlock
should neither Wood, Lowden nor
Johnson take a commanding lead today.
They all failed to do so, Wood
and Lowden running a neck and neck
race for leadership on four more ballots,
while the strength of the California
candidate dwindled steadily.
Meantime Harding pushed his total
to 133, individual delegates from
many states swinging to him from the
columns of the leaders and of various
favorite sons. The Johnson managers,
fearing a landslide was impending,
then made a last play to
1 save the fortunes of their candidate.
They moved to recess for a couple of
hours in order to take an inventory
and seek a new combination. The
Wood and Lowden forces, both virtually
at the peak of their strength,
but both disheartened at the long
string of ballots without material
gains, fell in with the recess plan and
the convention adopted it.
History of Harding.
Senator Harding is a successful
newspaper publisher. Since 1884 he
has owned and published the Marion
Star. He has been in newspaper work
since he was nineteen. When in Marion
he spends all of his time at the
Star office in the active management
of the paper. He is a practical printer
and delights in spending hours in his
composing room handling type.
He began his newspaper career on
the Marion Mirror, which was a Democratic
newspaper, at $9 a week salary,
and was discharged from the staff
of that paper during the Blaine campaign
because his sympathies were
with Blaine and because he insisted
on wearing the high hat of the Blaine
partisans.
The Republican presidential nominee
was born November 2, 1865, at
Blooming Grove, Morrow county,
Ohio, just nineteen miles east of Marion.
When a boy his family moved
to Calif&rnia, nine miles nearer Marion.
where voung Harding: taught
school for two years. He played a
cornet in the California brass band
and later received a college educa-|
tion at a little Baptist college at
V Iberia, Ohio.
K When he was 13 years old Harding
| moved to Marion to study law, but
I law did not hold his fancy long. In
B college he had been editor of the col
' lege paper, and newspaper work
B thrilled him. It was then that he
jB began work on the Mirror, from
in which paper he was "fired."
SB His political life began in 1899,
??.? when he was elected to the state seng|B
ate from the Thirtieth Ohio district.
|||% Elected Lieutenant Governor.
SB in 1903 he was elected Lieutenant
ures the
lican Nomination
HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPT.
Miss Emma Jane Yarn, Home
Demonstration Agent.
Short Course June 24-2(?.
The county short couype will be
held in Bamberg June 24, 25, and 26.
All club members are requested to attend
as this is held especially for
them and we want each one to get
the benefit of it. All girls are urged
to stay for three days it possible, ana
the boys to come in as often as possible,
but arrangements have not
been made for them stay over night.
The programme Thursday is planned
especially for poultry club members
as Mr. Winkins, state poultry agent,
will be with us and give us good advice
along poultry lines. I hope that
every member of the poultry clubs
will make a special effort to be there
promptly at nine o'clock. Miss
Bailey, state hgent, will also be with
us on that day.
Friday and Saturday we have Miss
Chauncey Blackburn, of Columbia,
Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, special agent,
Mr. Williams and Mr. Hancock on our
programme.
The girls will go home Saturday
afternoon and as people from the
country will have to come in for them
I want just as many ladies to come
for that day as can and see the demonstrations.
The ladies of Bamberg
i and the surrounding communities are
invited to attend all the demonstrations.
Mr. Hancock will speak on
peanuts Saturday, so all peanut club
members should come for that day
to hear him.
The following is the programme:
Thursday, June 24.
9:00-9:20?Registration of club
members.
9:3 0-10:0 0?Devotional exercises.
Welcome address.
10:00-11:00?Selection and preparation
of birds for exhibition?Mr.
Wilkins.
11:00-12:30?Stenciling lesson?
Miss Bailey.
12:30-2:3 0?Dinner.
2:30-3:30 ? Table service?Miss
Bailey.
3:30-3:45?Recreation, club songs.
3:45-4:3 0?Culling demonstration
?Mr. Wilkins.
Friday, June 25.
9:00-9:30?Devotional exercises.
9:30-10:30?Proper cooking of potatoes.
10:30-11:00 ? Recreation, club
songs.
11:00-12:30?Canning of beans
and other vegetables.
12:30-2:30?Dinner.
2:30-3:15?Objects of club work.
3:15-3:45?Recreation, club songs.
3:45-4:30?Booklet making.
Saturday, June 26.
9:00-9:30?Devotional exercises.
9:30-10:30?Peanut culture.
10:30-11:00?Recreation, songs.
11:00-12:30 ? Preparation and
cooking of dinner in steam pressure
cooker.
12:30-2:30?Dinner.
2:30-3:30?Peanut products.
3:30-3:45?Recreation, songs.
Attend State Short Course.
The state short course, held at
Winthrop college June 3-12th inclusive,
has just closed. Bamberg county
had a splendid representation and I
feel sure that each club member who
attended this course feels that much
was accomplished and came home
with the determination to help her
community and club in every way
possible. We all appreciate the opportunity
and privilege of attending
this course given by Winthrop col
lege and of bearing tne spienaia lectures
and demonstrations.
The following delegates attended
from the women's and girls' clubs
Governor of Ohio and was elected to
the United States senate in 1914. He
was married in 1891 to Miss Florence
Kling, of Marion.
Golf is Senator Harding's particuI
lar hobby. He also is a great baseball
| fan and attends the game whenever
possible.
He is a great home man and likes
nothing better than to sit at his own
! fireside, entertaining friends with the
help of Mrs. Harding. He takes great
pride in the fact that he has never
had any labor trouble at his newspaper,
plant.
Senator Harding is a trustee of the
I Trinity Baptist church, of which he
is a member, and upon whose services
he is a regular attendant when in
Marion.
from Bamberg county:
Mrs. J. O. Ritter. Olar; Mrs. W. P.
McMillan. Bamberg; Miss Mary Clayton,
Bamberg; Miss Ruth Sanders,
Olar; Miss Mary Hayne Walker, Denmark;
Miss Georgia Fogle, Denmark;
Miss Tailie Smoak, Bamberg; Miss
Mildred Eaves, Bamberg.
Care of Summer Chicks.
It is preferable to hatch chicks in
: the four early months of the year on
account of the fact that these chicks
. are able to withstand the heat of sum
mer and the usual excess of mites
pnrl flpnc hpftpr thnn vmincor hirlrlipc
However summer chicks can be hatched
and raised profitably if attention
. is given the following rules suggested
; by Prof. F. C. Hare of Clemson College.
Dust the setting hen with sodium
; fluoride before you set her and twice
during the hatching period. Make
. the nest on the ground in a cool place.
cover nest and hen with a large box
i ?about two by four in size and about
i two feet high?and place a dish of
i grain and another of fresh water in
the box. The box has no floor and
one side should be covered with slats
i spaced 2 1-2 inches apart.
Soak the eggs for two minutes in
warm water just before the chicks
hatch. Sprinkle water in the nestr
Move h?n and chicks to a shaded run
when chicks are about thirty-six
! hours old and keep the hen in the
box for the first two or three days
, then let her run with the chicks.
Do not allow these chicks to go on
ground over which the older chicks
! have ranged. If you do, the young
. biddies will be stunted by eating the
filth and contaminated soil. Put
them away by themselves on a shaded
grass lot, or in part of the garden
where they will be protected from
ttL? midday sun, and tiiey will not
mind the heat.
Dust the mother hen every two
weeks with sodium fluoride till biddies
are weaned, then dust them occasionally
if needed. Do not let the
fleas bother them. If put away from
the poultry house and other fowls
they will not have mites.
Give them butter milk or sour milk
if possible to drink. Mix wheat
shorts with buttermilk and feed what
they will eat morning and noon. Give
crocked corn at night. Keep fresh
water before them at all times.
Many people hatch chicks every
month in South Carolina and. have a
constant supply of frys. Anyone who
separates the broods and guards
against soil contamination, as well
as prevents loss by lice, mites ana
fleas can grow chicks at any time
without loss.
Keep Trying.
Lord Tomnoddy was very much in
love with Fluffy Flipflop, the famous
revue star, and announced his intention
of asking the lady to marry him
the following night.
"And you think she will say 'yes'?"
asked the father, amiably.
"Oh, I don't know," said the love
sick youth. "She's so beautiful and
fascinating I feel I can never hope to
win her love!"
"Oh, rot!" said the father, encouragingly,
"Lot's of other men
have succeeded. Why shouldn't
you?"
Raising the Hat.
"In days of old when knights were
bold" it was not always safe to go
abroad unprotected. Armor was generally
worn, and the helmet was indispensable.
At the king's court, however,
it was illegal to draw a sword,
and people in the presence of the
king always -went bareheaded as a
mark of their knowledge of their
safety. The same became true in the
presence of ladies and the "custom of
uncovering became a mark of respect
that is universal.
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The Well Spoken Sergeant.
An old drill sergeant was so much
given to using bad language toward
his men that some of them complained
about it and the commanding
ofilcer told him he must stop the
abuse and soften his expletives.
The following morning the ser-|
geant was in charge of a very ragged
spuad and after keeping silence for a
considerable time he eventually burst
out with:
"Bless you, my pretty dears! You j
know what I mean."
Changed His Xotion.
"I used to 'magin, sah. dat a mule
was de most absemious, stubbo'n and
aggrevatin varmint in de world. But(
?uck!?I wasn't mar'd den. Yessah,
dat was previous to and befo' de
time I had committed mat'imony."
COST OF PUBLICITY
HIGHER THAN EVER
EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MAKES
CALCULATIONS.
Losing Game for Papers.
Authentic Information From People
Wlin Knmr Pnlltt.tf**] for Their
Own Benefit.
A special committee of the National
Editorial association, which has had
in charge the study of conditions so
as to make recommendations to the
members of the N. E. A and all other
publishers of papers with a circulation
up to 5,000 has made its report which
is just given cut by H. C. Harding, of
St. Paul, Minn., field secretary of the
association.
The committee is composed of men
who have had opportunities of study
probably not equalled by the average
publisher and includes President Edward
Albright, Gallatin, Tenn.; R. T.
Porte, Salt Lake City; E. K. Whiting,
Owatonna, Minn.; H. U. Bailey,
Princeton, 111.; George T. Haubrich,
field secretary of the Colorado Editorial
association, Greely, Colo.; 0.
0. Buck, field secretary of the Nebras
ka Press association, Harvard, Neb.;
G. L. Caswell, field secretary of the
Iowa Press association, Ames, la.,
and H. C. .Hotaling, field secretary of
the National Editorial association, St.
Paul, Minn.
The committee had also in consultation
with them in an advisory capacity
B. S. Herbert of the National
Printer-Journalist, Chicago; Harry
Hillman of the Inland Printer, Chicago,
and W. A. Huse, vice president of
the American Press association, New
York.
The report of the committee is
herewith printed in full, as is also
some comments and explanations by
E. K. Whiting of the Journal-Chronicle,
Owatonna, Minn., which he has
issued in folder form to be mailed
out .with the report of the committee.
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"The special committee of the National
Editorial association appointed
to study the selling price for advertising
space in weekly newspapers
based on known costs of production,
recommends the following rates per
inch: ?
"For newspapers of 5,000 or less
i cuiation, 20 cents.
"For newspapers of 1,000 or less
circulation, 25 cents per inch.
"For newspapers of 1,500 or less
circulation, 30 cents.
"For newspapers of 2,000 or less
circulation, 35 cents.
"For newspapers of 2,500 or less
circulation, 40 cents.
"For newspaper of 3,000 or less
circulation, 43 cents.
"For newspapers of 3,500 or less
circulation, 46 cents.
"For newspapers of 4,000 or less
circulation, 49 cents.
"For newspapers of 4,500 or less
circulation, 52 cents.
"Fir newspapers of 5,000 or less
circulation, 55 cents.
"After a thorough study of the
present situation, the members of the
committee were unanimous in the
opinion that the prevailing rates of
advertising in community newspapers
are much too low and that these rates
do not compare with the increased
cost of other commodities.
"After studying the costs of production
as reported from newspaper offices
in the different parts of the country
the committee finds that only a
small percentage of country newspaper
publishers realize the perils which
confront their future existence. In
the mechanical departments labor
costs have increased from 50 per
cent, to 150 per cent.; machinery and
materials have advanced in keeping
with the rising costs and the newspaper
publishers have not followed in
the procession but have been deluding
themselves into the belief that they
are making a profit and that their
future is as secure as their past apparently
has been. It was found upon
investigation that most publishers
have a very inadequate idea of the
cost of producing their publications.
Most of them have considered that
the increased price of paper stock
was the one item which should principally
concern them. It is the one
subject over which they have been
especially alarmed. Since the circulation
of most country newspapers is
from 500 to 2,500 copies per week,
the committee has felt that although
the item of increased cost of print
paper should have serious consideration
it is of minor importance as com
fared io tho Ir.rrrased costs of labor,
machinery, material, rent, insurance
r. 12rl the various other items of expense
which are standard. It was
found that a number of publishers
who own their own buildings are not
charging the item of rent in figuring
what their publications are costing,
nor have any considerable number
been including interest upon the
money invested in -their plants as
a part of the production cost of their
newspapers. Others have been failing
to put themselves upon their own
payrolls for any adequate salray such
as they might easily earn elsewhere,
and from year to year have been laboring
under the false delusion that
they were making money. They have
not taken into consideration the depreciation
of plants and of the tremedously
increased cost of replacement
of machinery and still they have
continued to sell space in their publications
at rates which have prevailed
i for years.
"The committee is strongly of the
opinion that disaster and ruin faces
thousands of publications, unless they
i immediately adjust themselves to the
. new condition and rigidly adhere to
the rates which the committee of investigation
recommends."
By E. K. Whiting.
Omitting a repetition of the sched.
ule given above, the little folder published
by Mr. Whiting is as follows,
. and will probably open the eyes of
many who have not thorouarhlv inves-i
j tigated the matter of cost of advertising
space.
"In the formulation of a schedule
of advertising rates for country newspapers
the committee appointed by
. the National Editorial association in- j
. dorsed the accompanying schedule!
only after careful study of all cost
data obtainable. ' The cost data of
. two well-known mid-west home print
; weeklies wiA\ circulation of 2,200 was
used as a basis upon which to build
the proposed schedule. Both of these
, newspapers operate with standard
, cost systems and the papers are very
similar in makeup, size and number
, of pages issued during the year. The j
. total cost of production, including
ctu. uumysiuuii, news composition,
presswork, makeup, mailing, print paper,
editorial department and all di.
rect expenses chargeable to the newspaper,
was $11,212.42 for one and
. $11,119.03 for the other.
"In order that publishers of this
class of papers may net themselves
. 20 per cent, profit on the gross receipts
of their newspapers it was
shown by the cost data presented that
a basic rate of 35 cents an inch must
be charged. This rate provides for
15 per cent, agency commission tfor
all plate contracts and a similar discount
to local advertisers making
yearly contracts. In this connection*
j attention of doubting Thomases is
I called to the fact that the average
1 hour cost on the two newspapers
taken as a basis upon which to formulate
the schedule of advertising rates,
are considerably lower, than the na-_
tional average for 1919.
"The committee was thoroughly
convinced by the cost data presented
that no publisher could produce an
Inch of advertising for less than 20
cents ana tor tnat reason papers of
500 circulation or less are given that
rate. In stepping up and down from
the basic rates of 35 cents for papers
of 2,000 circulation one member of
the committee suggested the heretofore
accepted rate one one-half cent
per hundred circulation. This rate
was quickly rejected when it was
found that print paper costing 10
cents a pound, which is the average
price these days, and carrying 50 per
cent, advertising and 50 per cent,
reading matter actually costs 1 cent
an inch per 500 copies for white space
alone. It was found possible to decrease
this "spread" slightly with papers
of over 2,500 circulation due to
the possibility of distributing the over
head charges over a greater volume of
business.
"The committee suggests that publishers
overload rather than underload
their pages with advertising matter
and regularly avoid splurging with
additional two and four pages unless
possible to carry ;>U per cent, or more
in these additional pages. This recomendation
is made for the purpose
of conserving print paper and also to
prevent thoughtless loss by publishers
who do not know their page costs.
One publisher with 1,000 circulation
complains that his page cost with
| present and contemplated wage scales
' will be $20 a page for 1920 and if
only loaded 50-50 per cent., a page of
of advertising will cost $40 to produce,
let alone any profit for the publisher.
The page costs of the two
mid-west weekly papers used in making
the schedule of advertising rates
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BLANTON HASTENS
TO CORRECT ERROR
REPUBLICAN LITERATURE SENT
OUT TO VOTERS.
Byrnes Also Suffers.
South Carolinian Embarrassed B J
Empty Envelopes Being Sent
Constituents.
Washington, June 13.?If you had
been making speeches in congress for
the ladt two years in favor of the administration
until you were blue in
the face and ready to consign to
Hades any one who opposed you and
then found that when you mailed your
speeches, many thousands of them as
you thought, to your Democratic constituents,
they had received in lieu
thereof speeches of "Uncle Joe" Cannon
or other Republicans denouncing
President Wilson and his party, what
would you do? Hunt for the man
who perpetrated this miserable trick
upon you and expose him or hasten
home to explain to your constituents
now it an Happened; tnat you are not
a Republican, and that you are as
much of a Democrat as you ever were
in your life?
This is no fiction. 'It is exactly
what has happened to two Democratic
members of congress during the last
two weeks, Byrnes, of South Carolina,
and Blanton, of Texas. ,
Mr. Blanton, who has been profess!
ing loyalty to the president throughout
his administration, having strong
opposition for reelection, had 40,000
copies of a Democratic speech printed
to send to his district. Out they went
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and Blanton dreamed glorious dreams
of success and two more years in congress.
Then he chanced to look over . s
a few of the mail bags which had for .
some reason been delayed and found
to his dismay that his speech had
been bound with others of Republican
members bitterly criticising the president.
Every manner of abuse was heaped
upon President Wilson, his administration
and the Democratic* members
of congress in these speeches, and
through the adroit manner in which
the scheme was handled Blanton goes
on record as having made these
speeches and indorsing their sentiments
by sending them out with his.
What did Blanton do? There was
only one thing for him to do when he
discovered what had been done. He
hopped a rattler for the west just as
quick as the fast trains going that
way could take him. He will have
much explaining to do to his Democratic
constituents as to why he sent
them all that lot of Republican stuff.
Mr. Byrnes, although he had the
same trick played on him, it was in
a little different form. His secretary
r,
sent a number of addressed envelopes
to one of the departments with instructions
to have certain documents
inserted therein and then mailed*
House employees sent the empty envelopes
to Byrnes's constituents, minus
anything whatever inside.
Mr. Byrnes said today that in his
case it might have been an honest
mistake but that he would have less
doubt on this point if he had not had
a similar pvnerience with the aDDro
priations committee. There he called
for a statement of the expenditures .
made by the Republicans in the many
investigations they have been conducting.
At the same time "Uncle
Joe" Cannon called for a similar
statement of expenditures when the
Democrats had control of congress.
When the hearings were printed It
had the expenditures of the Democrats
but not those of the Republicans
and Republican employees claimed
it was a mistake.
Other members have similar complaints
and it is almost certain that
if the house were now in session there
would be a thorough investigation of
this alleged "mistake" of the Republican
employees especially when
such mistakes work against members
who have of late been actively prodding
the Republicans for their short
comings.
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Their Luck.
"The farmers, generally speaking,"
"Yes," interrupted the Erratic Thinker.
"The farmers, like pretty much
everybody else, are generally speaking;
but, unlike most other bodies of
labor, when they voice their demands
they do not say the same thing
in unison. Therefore, there is no
throughly clear statement from them,
but merely a confusing gabble, and
they get nothing."
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