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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY LEWIS M. RICE Editor Registered at th? Poetoflfloa In Union. 0. O.. u aacond claaa mattor. TIMES BUILDING MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. I. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $6.00 Six Months 3.00 Three Months 1.50 ADVERTISEMENTS Ona aqnara, flrat inaartion ti.00 Ever? aubaequent insertion 60 Obituary noticea. Church and Lodge notice*, and notice* of public meeting*. entertainment* and Carda of Thnnka will ba charged for at tha ra?o of ona cent a word, carb accompanying tK, order. Count tha word* and you will know what tha coat will ba. MEMBERS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively antitled to the use for republication of all oewh dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tha Iocm! new* published herein. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1920 Our cat says a wise man is never jealous. Our cat says it is small comfort to reflect that you have been a fool, but such reflection often results in an amended life. Our cat says thorns and thistles have a way of growing without cultivation. Our cat says it would be a calamity to misjudge a child a dullard when the trouble wa3 neglected tonsils. Our cat says it will be a great day wh.cn men can play like piny was work and work like work was play. TllE SOUTirS BUYING POWER The "New South" visualized by the immortal Henry' Grady has become a reality. "King Cotton" still is en throned in the South, but the fact that today the South has a greater buying power to th i population, perhaps, than any other section, is due largely to the fact that, awakening to some extent at least to our resources and possibilities agriculturally. Southern fanners turned some time ago, to diversification, and there likewise has been a splendid development industrially. The key to a nations prosperity is its agricultural production. The same key opens the door to the SouthV great wealth and cash purchasing power of today. Of the nation's $15,790,289 agricultural production, the . South's part was $6,427,607, or nearly one half of lie whole for the entire United States These convincing fig ures are emphasized *n a pamphlet, "The tlreat Southern Market," issued by the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, for general distri- : bution throughout other sections. It is apiece of literature that is bound to make a lasting impression, carrying, as it does, a better appreciation of the South's unquestioned ability to buy and pay l'or anything and everything that its people need for their comfort and their luxury. But, as is made plain in the pamphlet, the great purchasing power of the South is rot limited to its agricultural resources. The enormous production of its mines, forests, manufac burin^ enterprises, live stoeK, and fishing industry, swell this power to a staggering total. While the South is and will always remain principally an agricultural section, the value of its manufactured products last year totaled in excess of $0,000,000?about the same value of its agricultural products. Perhaps w.? of the South are richer than we realize. For so long a time did we, through necessity, look to the Fast, which was our banker, for financial assistance, the impression may have gained ground, both here and there, that the South was not sharing equitably in the general prosperity of the country, f.n impression that may have hung '.n after the old order changed and a new spirit took hold ' of the Southern people. But now the South has come into its own.?Columbia Record. 1 II I 11 I II . 1 SKOAL ADVERTISEMENTS J INSIDE TIRES stop punctures and blow-outs and double the mileage. Flynn will order them for you at Kelly's office in Bank of Union. Money back if you are not satisfied. See him, D. C. Flynn. 774-2tpd MONEY TO LOAN?We have on hand money to loan on farm and city property. Barron, Barron & Barron, Union, S. C. tf WE HAVE ice cold water in the summer, a red hot fire in the winter and bargains nM the time. Jolly-Austell Co. 775-6t FOR RENT?A beautiful 5 room cottage with fertile garden and fruit trees and garage; good neighborhood and every modern convenience. Apply to the Wonder Store. tf FOR SALE?Several cars rough lumber?framing cf all kinds and inch boards. W. T. Jones, Santuck. S. C. 719-tf. AGENTS for Columbia "State" daily and Sunday. Storm's. tf 25c/o off on all coats, coat suits and dresses for 10 days only. C. Allen Co. * 770-6t THE COLUMBIA STATE?Dailyj Our cat says the truant never gets the fun out of his escapade that ho thought he would. WEATHER REPORT For S. C. Fair tonight and Sunday. Gentle to moderate north and northeast winds. NOTICE A special communication of Union ? Lodge No. 75, A. F. M. will be held the 31st day of May in the Masonic Temple. The E. A. Degree will be conferred. Visting brothers welcome. By order, Ben. L. Berry, W. M. Win. C. Lake, Secretary. 2t. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COLLEOE MEN Secretary Meredith Urges Summer Farm Work to Speed Up Production. Clemson College, May 27.?I)r. W. M. Riggs, president of Clemson College, has received a letter from Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith, in which he seeks the aid of college students to help prevent curtailment of food production b yspending their vacation in helping on the farms. Secretary Meredith writes as follows: "Dear Mr. President: Our country faces a possible curtailment of food production due to a shortage of farm labor?a shortage that prom-' ises to increase as the summer ad vt'nces. "May I urge that you brinp this situation to the attention of the you rip men in your student body with the suggestion that, if possible, they spend their summer vacations helpinp on the farms? A considerable number of college men already make this a practice. This year there is special need for such help on the farms, because of the importance of maintaininp a normal production of food. I hope that not only students, but business men penerally, will lend aid, as so many of them did. patriotically and effectively, in the summer of 1918. "Reports received by the United States department of agriculture show that the present supply of hired farm labor is 15 per cent less than last year and approximately 72 per cent of the normal supply? which was almost exactly the situation in 1918. The farmers and their families arc doinp their utmost to keep up production, but they cannot secure the hired help that they formerly have had. In consequence, the food supply may be measurably reduced unless assistance is given. If within the next fortnight the business men and students of the country will declare their readiness to riiH H ii in no* orvniinrr Qiimmor niers will be more likely to make normal plantings. '"Unquestionably there is sufficient man power in the schools and cities to relieve the farm labor situation this summer. I believe the men will respond when they learn conditions, and so afford another pratcical demonstration of the neighborly and cooperative spirit which characterized the country's war ^iForts. "Many stud- .its have relatives or friends in the country to whom they can offer their services. Others interested should write the director of agricultuarl extension at their state agricultural college, stating their qualifications, the time when they can go to work, etc. The director will put them in touch with county agents who know farmers in need of help." NOTICE OF MEETING. We, the undersigned hereby call a mass meeting to be held Monday afternoon, June 1st, at the Home Service office for the purpose oforganizIng a Business Woman's club for Union County. Every business woman is urged to be present at 6:15 o'clock. Mamie Oetzel, Mahala Smith, Maude J. Mabry. 775-2t-pd. and Sunday. Now sold at Storm's. tf. FOR RENT?3, 4, and 6 room houses for rent; modern conveniences, price reasonable. Excelsior Knitting Mills. tf THIS "12-20" tractor?the latest addition to the Twin City Line? comes to meat the demand for a three plow tractor with surplus power and so constructed that it will stand up under the most strenuous farm work. For sale by Gilliam Light & Motor Co., 773-6t "The TWIN CITY" has just arrived in Union from Minneapolis, Minn., and is anxious to meet all the people more especially the farmers of , the county, for it is interested in agriculture. "The Twin City" expects to make its home in Union County, upon the better class of farms. If you do not know "The Twin City," inquire of your neigh- ; bors. 773-6t , ja ? Said a Clerg friend of our "The only bad thing economy is the effect that tion plate." And that's what start< True economy doesn' teaches us to get the mos tor whether it is a serrrn are buying. In church it is possible sermon worth a dollar, clothes you can't lay do' with a garment worth $.r Good Clothes at fail* Poor Clothes at any pric Our prices start at $1? % And so does your econ< Our Economy Sale is big reductions on Men's fords. J. Coh Headquarters For F FOR SALE?One wood burner stove. No. 8 Dandy Crescent, in first class condition. First $2F gets it. For further information see M. A. Jones, Porter street. ltpd WANTED?Young ladies to enter training. Apply Supt. Pryor Hospital, Chester, S. C. 775-6t FOUND?One automobile tire and in ner tube. Owner may get same by describing and paying for this ad. G. C. Vanderford, route 5 775-6tpd LOST?One cardboard paper folder, contaning blank checks and other papers. Finder please return to Times office and get 50c. Lost between Free place in Jonesville and West Springs. M. C. Gault. 775-3t THE OLD TIME SUNDAY My mother was born and reared in a little country village in western New York. On the farm where my grandmother lived it was the custom to begin Sunday on Saturday night at sundown. The "hired man" came in irom ine chores, grandmother put away all her work in the kitchen, and then the entire family gathered in the best room and studied Sunday school lessons, or had a reading from the Bible, led by grandfather, and all the family retired not later than 9 o'clock. In the morning after doing none but the absolutely necessary chores on the farm, the team that had not been used the day before was hitched up to the big four-seated wagon and the entire family, including the "hired man," went to church. There was preaching service in the forenoon, and then we adjourned to a lunch for ourselves and the team. Then we went in to a Sunday school service, and after an interval ther? was another preaching Bervice, after which we hitched up and drove slowly back to the farm. That was the way Sunday was kept in western New York a little more than fifty years ago. I can remember hearing my mother say that when she was a girl in this same New York state village she was not allowed to walk, except to the cemetery and back, on Sunday, and was not allowed to read any books except the Bible and "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Colombia's Share. Colombia la said to bo annexing a large share of the castor oil trade fee* merty held by India. iichaels-sterM VALUE-FIRST CLOTHES * \ I I yman s: about my sermons on ; they have on the collecjd this advertisement, t preach stinting. It t for our money ijo matron or a safety razor we to drop in a dime for a but in buvintr snrincr wn $35 and walk away SO. prices are an economy, e are an extravagance. 1.00 this spring. :>my. now in full swing, with Suits and Indies' Oxen Co. ^eep Kool Clothes i { " "". .1. I ' I I i ??? . > J Look The Facts In The Face / s . / i Prosperity is here. Enough for you and the other fellow too. Why not enjoy and use yours to the fullest and he sport J\ enough to be willing for the other fellow to have some share of it too. The High Cost of Living propaganda is the most overworked and misrepresented target of conversation, speechmaking and muckraking that has come as an aftermath of the ivar. The cold facts are that necessary living costs have in- ' . creased since the ascent began not much, if any, over 100 per cent, and the average wage scale has increased close to, if not 200 per cent, and notwithstanding the increased costs we pay for everything under the sun, you can't 'find one man out of a hundred who is not a spendthrift who is not better off, has more money and better working hours and better working conditionn than ever before in his life. It i strue as never before, that if you want to indulge in needless luxuries, if you demand unnecessary service, if nothing but the finest, (so called) is good enough for you, you have to pay the price and you ought to. The world is too'busy. There is too much necessary production needed in every avenue of business and economic life of the country for any one man or class of men to make unusual and u?v-" necessary demands for his own indulgence. For it is these things that deprive others of necessary service and attention, and it is undoubtedly true that the use of men, means and time for luxuries and extravagant indulgence is the principal cause of labor shortage, high costs of raav mate rial, low production and other sore spots in the general scheme of our national life. It is also beyond question that we think too much, talk j too much and write too much of the High Cost of Living and the supposed ills which we imagine afflict va, the truth being that we are perfectly willing to accept more wages and ' , shorter hcnirs than ever before. We demand and get a higher price for everything on earth de do*, make or sell, than ever before, and we resent it if any man criticises us for it, and. the whole trouble is that we are not willing for the other fellow to have the same privileges or blessings that we demand for ourselves. .. We have overlooked the age old truth that we can't "Have Our Pie and Eat It Too.' hi other words, we can't have shorter hours, higher wages. better living conditions, get more for our produce, time or service than ever in outlives, and expect the ether fellow to work just as cheap as he ever did, just as long hours as he ever did, and sell his ------produce to you jtist as cheap as he ever did; and that is just the milk in the cocoanut; that is just what nine out of ten people are demanding or talking about fifteen hours a day in this country; that is what about 75 per cent of the high cost of living means and no more. The remedy is so plain that he who runs may read. We are prosperous, own up to it, and talk good times.. We are all living better than we ever did before. Lets tell the truth about. ' We all have more money than we ever had before, if we haverCt spent it for automobiles, fine clothes, fine farms or a thousand and one things that were not necessary to our happiness -or well being before. Lets be \ This brings us face to face with the facts, which, dorwn \n your hearts, you will admit. 48 a nation, for it seems to Y universal, our energies, interest and enthusiasm are afXcted with a bad case of hook tvorm. In others we arc tzy, we are not as thrifty as we could be. We are spendi\ our forces ir\ frenzying about imaginary ills and high Pvcs, and we think entirely too much about what the other f*\w is doing, when we need, and the wQrld needs, as never be]a'e, energy, every man om his jobfetnd faith to believe thfahat job is as good as any on earth, and it is if it is an hoilmble or necessary service or production and we put theVjht spirit into it. \ W\need to acknowledge the fact that work hds rarely, ' , j if killed and seldom injured any one in this country, and 2V idleness and indulgence is the worst enemy we have to ourVace of mind, content, and prosperity. We need to make Xre, produce more, and save more, and whenever we rcaie that we can talk high prices and hard times until we creiithe atmosphere and make our fears a reality, we will all ft busy, get on the job, keep so busy in worthwhile, profitabhnroduction, that we won't care what the other fellow is\ing or getting either, and when we do, we will , acknowlelo that these are the best times, this is the best ) country, *\have the best jobs, with the best all found conditions thorny people ever had in the history of the world. Lets workore, save more, and thank and serve God better for the \aings He has bestowed on us. ' / { J! \ I UNlON-ijFFALO MILLS STOKES 1 \ L. L. WAGNON, Manager Union Store, PlL 74. Buffalo Store, Phoee 9