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Wyt Pamfoerg J|eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, ui^ier Act of March 3, 1879. $3.00 PER YEAR. Volume 30. Xo. 23. THURSDAY, JUNE 9S1921 In a book recently issued by Von Hindenburg, credit for the collapse of the German Empire is given to the pressure brought to bear by Woodrow Wilson. Thus# the leading German soldier of the world war is willing to grant an accomplishment to tne great American statesman that a great many Americans are not willing to grant. While to the admirers of Woodrow Wilson this statement of Von Hindenburg is merely a confirmation of what they already believed themselves, the statement will perhaps not add to Von Hindenburg's popularity in certain circles in America. Between Bamberg and Blackville wide acres of peanuts greet the eye of the traveler. While perhaps the acreage in peanuts in this section is not as great this year as last, due to unfavorable marketing conditions, the peanut remains a favorite crop with many planters. The presence j of fields of sugar cane is also noticeable, and one rather large field of Irish potatoes. There are also many acres planted in rice this year in va^ rious sections of the county. This is practically a new crop for this community, and one which will no doubt bring a fine return to the planters. ? a ig? ? mm CATTLE RAISING. r*. An editorial in the Columbia State reveals the fact that from 1900 to 1090 Uia nnrnhpr nf pattlp in South -L *S mm, V IUV ii VC AAA v v* Vi V??v v. v ? Carolina increased nearly 50,000, or about 12%. During the same period North Carolina "and Florida showed decreases, and Georgia's increase was slightly less than South Carolina's. The fact that the cattle raising industry is on the increase in this state is encouraging, though the ratio is somewhat disappointing. Experts in aiiimal husbandry say" this state is well adapted to cattle raising. Boll weevil infestation has caused cotton to be the one uncertain industry throughout the lower section of the state, and the same condition will soon prevail all over South Carolina. The lower sections of the state have * thousands of acres of pasture lands pn which should be large herds of cattle continuously. The Carolinian, of St. Matthews, according to its successor, the Calhoun Times, "has died, vamoosed, passed away, ceased to exist," and the Times follows with a statement of the newspaper activities of St. Matthews for some years past. The Carolinian was one of The Herald's brightest and newsiest exchanges, and we regret the misfortune that has overtaken it. It was edited by Cliff Lankford, one of the best newspaper writers the southern section of the state has had. But the Carolinian, like many other enterprises, appears to have overlooked the business end of the mat9 ter to the serious detriment, of the bank account. The Times is nowT being edited by T. H. Ifreher, who states that he has undertaken the work as a public spirited citizen in order that the county may have a newspaper. The new paper has our best wishes, but we are inclined to the belief that " unless it is operated as a business enterprise it will not attain much measure of success. The day of running a pewspaper as a public spirited enterprise is just about past. Naturally a newspaper that is worthy of the name serves the public, but it must also serve the publisher to the event of furnishing him a visible means of livelihood if it is to be worth anything to the community. The * * * ~ w> > i v. i + i r\ n Vl O O Q 1 PUDI1C 111 many cummuimico iiuo ?. peculiar idea relative to the country newspaper. The people seem to frequently forget that the publisher has a right to live and prosper like other folks. Nobody thinks it strange that a grocer or clothier should be able to buy a home and a car thrown in after being in a business a year or two. but if the editor does that, many folks think he is getting on too well. As a matter of fact an editor cannot serve his county if he lives from hand to mouth, and is always put to it to pay his printers Saturday night. Our advice to any town supporting a newspaper is that they cease to kick on * fair prices, and let the printer live and prosper as they would like to do themselves. He can then give his people a better paper, and he is worth far more to the community, to say nothing of the fact that he will give his town an enterprise of which it may be proud. The local newspaper office should always be one of the shew places of anv town, and it takes money, lots of it, to ever get an office which the editor may show with pride. Progressive towns know the value of their papers. TKI-COIXTV LEAGUE GAMES. Schedule of Games in lie Played in / Eirst Half of Season. The president of the Tri-coanty Base Ball league has given out the schedule of games to be played during the first half of the season, which is as follows: June 10?Ehrhardt at Bamberg; Barnwell at Denmark, and Williston at Springfield. June 14?Springfield at Bamberg: "wmic-rv,-, at Barnwell and Ehrhardt at Denmark. June 17?Bamberg at Ehrhardt; Denmark at Williston, and Barnwell at Springfield. June 21?Denmark at Bamberg: Springfield at Ehrhardt, and Barnwell at Williston. June 24?Williston at Denmark; Bamberg at Barnwell, and Ehrhardt at Springfield. June 28?Ehrhardt at Williston; Denmark at Barnwell, and Bamberg at Springfield. July 1?Williston at Bamberg; Springfield at Denmark, and Barnwell at Ehrhardt. OLD SHOES CAUSE SUIT. Man Seeks Damages for Alleged False Arrest. A pair of old shoes left by a colored woman at the repair shop of an unnaturalized Russian in Cape Charles started a suit which is taking the United States district court to settle, relates a Norfolk, Va., dispatch. The shoes were the incubus of a suit for I $16,000 damages for alleged false arrest filed in the court by Max Kozak, citizen of Russia, against William R. D. Williams, justice of the peace at Cape Charles and against Robt. H. Reynolds, town sergeant. The suit of Kozak is based on the allegation that he was falsely arrested on May 25, last, without a warrant, j The trouble started, he-claims, over a i pair of shoes left by Jennie Gunter, colored, to be repaired. When the repairing was finished, her hsuband called for the shoes and was given a pair, which Jennie declared was not hers. ???? The Future of the Country Weekly. What is to be the future of the country weekly? This rests with the community and with the publisher. If the community recognizes the value and possibilities of the country weekly and is willing to pay what it is worth, and if the publisher realizes his responsibilities to his community, then its future is bright, it will have an important part in building up a satisfying and wholesome rural life. * First of all, the country weekly of the future will be recognized as a community institution. This means it will be prosperous. The rnmmunit.v will realize that it is un wise for the community to have a newspaper which is not prosperous. The country newspaper of the future will not be sold as a newspaper, but as a community service, just as the telephone is service. No one thinks a telephone rental of from $12 to $30 a year is high, yet in the service it renders the paper is quite comparable to the 'phone; and the telephone receipts can't be used to put on the pantry shelves the way the old newspaper can. A country newspaper is worth more than the $1.50 or $2.00 usually charged. The publisher, of course, will be a recognized community leader. He will have emancipated himself from the thraldom of detail. He will have capable girls who can do this sort of work better than he can do it him. self. He will never find that he is unable to attend the meeting of the committees in charge of the community house, of which he is chairman, because he has to fix a balky linotype. It goes without saying that he will have a neat, well organized and systematized front office. The people of the community will know, also, that they have a part in making it a good paper. As one | country editor put it, the country j weekly is "not the sole product of its editor. It is the combined product of its friends, readers, and advertisers." Xo country publisher n,'Ar> offtn Vtirp pnnns'h TP (.UU1U O CI anui u i\/ ^ ? 0 _ porters to cover his territory as intensively as it should be covered. And it is well he cannot. It is better for the community to feel its responsibility with the editor in making a representative paper.?M. V. Atwood, College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Tthica, X. Y. Pull for Greater Carlisle. To Save Historic Flag. Xew York.?The only American flag used at the first inauguration of George Washington is to be preserved between two 100 pound glass plates in the metropolitan museum of art. The flag was carried by the Second Artillery regiment af the state at the inaugural on April 30, 17S9. Pull for Greater Carlisle. THREE PRESIDENTS ASK AID FOR CHINA Harding, Wilson and Taft Appeal to Americans to Help Stricken Millions of Sister Republic. The President and two ex-Presidents of the United States have joined, for I 4^ ^ fV,/\ Y\ ? i>4- a4s f K A lilt; hi's l unit; in Uir v#jl luc country, in an appeal for a philanthropic enterprise. President Harding, ex-President Wilson and ex-President Taft are all in the forefront of the movement to send aid from America to the famine victims of China. One of Pres dent Harding's first official acts after his inauguration, taken when he had been in the White House less than two weeks, was to renew the appeal made by his predecessor in behalf of America's sister republic in the East. President Hard'ng said in part: "At this, the earliest practicable moment in my administration, I desire to add my own to the many appeals which have been issued heretofore In behalf of the starving people of a large section of China. * * "The picture of China's distress Is so tragic that I am moved, therefore, to renew the appeal heretofore made and to express the hope that the American people will continue to contribute to this humanitarian cause as generously as they possibly can." In ^pointing the American committee for China Famine Fund, with his own immediate predecessor in the White House, ex-President Taft, as one of the members, and Thomas W. T ^ ~ ? xt ^? -\y 1. M ^ C ~ -Liamonr ux i>e\v h?ik, us uimuuiau, President-Wilson said in his proclamation : "Not only in the name of humanity, hut in that of the friendliness which we feel for a great people in distress,I venture to ask that our cit'zens shall, even though the task of giving is not today a light one, respond as they can to this distant but appealing cry for help." LIFE SAVING STAMPS HELP FAMINE VICTIMS Each "Mercy" Sticker Purchased for Three Cents Provides Food for One Day for a Chinese. Sales of "Life Saving Stamps" by the American Committee for China Famine Fund for the benefit of China famine vicftns have reached a total of thousands of dollars at the end of the first month, and already the money Is actually saving lives in China. Orders during the first month aggregated more than 10,000,000 stamps, which will mean?at the rate of 3 cents for | each stamp?$300,000 for the Chinese when the complete returns have been ! made. The stamps are intended to se| cure a multitude of small contribu1 ? m ? ? ? ?^ * 11 ' lions irom persons who wm uui na?*? j ! an opportunity to contribute In other j I ways. The campaign for China is the j ! greatest single philanthropic effort' now before the American people. Every state in the Union is now coI operating in the life saving stamp j sales, and special committees are at | work in more than 2,000 cities through- j j out the country. The circulation of the stamps is being effected by sales organizations composed of officers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary So-1 cieties, assisted by commercial organ!- j zations, schools, churches, Boy and! Girl Scout Camps, Y. M. and Y. W. ! Christian Associations, fraternal lodges, hotel assoc ations, boards of education and other volunteers inter-1 ested in the movement to extend a 1 helping hand to a sister republic in dis-: tress. ! House to house canvassing for the : sale of the stamps?which are intended to be placed on the backs of letters and packages?has proved the most effective method in the smaller* communities. In the big cities the stamps have been sold to business houses, which are using them on their outgoing mail ! and packages. A nominal quota of ten stamps for every adult has been set by the committee, but in many centers . this already has been passed. If un- J * ' x- -Li--fhrnnrrVi o 1 nr>Q 1 I &D16 to UUl2tl.il jsiauipis iiuvuf,u u >vvu> . I committee write China Famine Fund , Committee, Bible House, New York. I ' * BUY CHINA LIFE SAVING j STAMPS i J I ! I I I 11qt tor a pay o fj j If each person buys ten stamps at j a cost of 30 cents, this community will go over its stamp quota. Stamps can be secured from "he locai C?".rna Famine Fund Committee or directly from Cnina Famine Fund, , Bible House, New York City. I I Watch the Prices?Tl Best Self Rising or Plain Flour, 24 lbs $1.21 H | | Lard, 8 lbs. I-bucKet ?1.U4 | Bacon, Best Rib Sides 16c Bacon, Regular Plates, per lb 14c ! Rice, whole head, | per pound 5 c Fine Grits and Meal, peck 29C I | Sugar, small quantities, ipound 8/4C i Sugar, 25 lbs. bag, $2.13 || Sugar, 100 pounds bag $8.00 I Army Bacon, 12 lbs. 1 can $2.28 II Coffee, White House, 1 Maxwell House, MonoI gram, 1 lb. 39c, 3 lbs..$1.19 i We have anything you m I and Prices will make yo Pal I Pay Cash and Se I FOLK & M I Bamberg I* IVY -CJ YY XU1X jl v mi xi v RAGE AND SALES ROC NUE HAS BEEN OPENI PARED TO RENDER P TEED SERVICE TO OU I WE HAVE EXPE CHARGE OF OUR R] AND WE GUARANTE] CIENT WORK. OUR STOCK OF GREASES, OILS, GAS< ETC., IS COMPLETE IK A TRIAL IS i I AGENTS DODGE BE NEXT JONES BROS. STABLES ? * hey Continue to Drop I Coffee, best loose ground, m one pound 16c m Coffee, Farmers Friend, ! m, ? TU? ff ? HI O JLUfc. L'ct-LL I ggl Soap, Palm Olive, Fairy, ; S Ivory, cake 8c 111 Octagon Soap, 7c cake, H 3 cakes for 20c 11 Peaches, large can, sweet M and ready for table use... 23c Creamery Butter, H pound 42 c Premier Salad Dressing, I bottle 44c ill j Durkees Salad Dressing, \ I bottle 36C^ 1 Wesson Oil, I I small can 32 C 1 1 Wesson Oil, . 11 large can 54 C ' | Jello Ice Cream H I Powder 12c M 1 Salmon, all kinds, from 8c H per can to 47C H / ?b ?ant in the Grocery Line, M u open your eyes. 1H ive the Difference I ' Carry cMILLAN. 1 South Carolina. I H? I , arage 11 UNCE THAT OUR GA- I >M ON RAILROAD AVE- I ID, AND ARE NOW PRE- I } ROMPT AND GUARAN- 9 R PATRONS. - I | RT MECHANICS IN I I | EPAIR DEPARTMENT, I I E PROMPT ANDEFFI- I I lCCESSORIES, PARTS, I II )LINE, TIRES, TUBES, I II r EVERY DETAIL. I II III \LL WE ASK. I - I ] iOS. AUTOMOBILES. I ^ mi BAMBERG, S. C. 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