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/ ; ( $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1920. Established in 1891 ~ " * ' " 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. ^TT ' ~' """I T ATi'/lon Run Plnsp. . H WU iUlU Juv/?uvu ^ - 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. - ^ 9m 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. nf flip r'nmmitfpp. "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 (Continued on page 5, column 2.) 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 * t xjj* v 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. ^ e t 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." - '"z.34s:.