The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, September 26, 1921, Image 2
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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 1!?21.
Union citizens will, on tomorrow,
vote upon the question of the boiul
issue to take care of the over.>
crowded condition in the city schools, i
We do not see how propressivo citizens
can fail to support the bond
b'sue. We have compelled the children
to attend school. Now we have
not room to care for them properly.
True taxes are hiph. but a nec">>
sity is a necessity. We cannot afford
to vote apainst the bonds. If the
bond issue should fail to carry, it
would be a very prove mistake, in
, our humble judpmea'.
W? have not said anythinp about
it, but our subscribers have doubt
t ' les? noticed that we have enlarged
The Times. The size of the paper i-5
now equal to six paces of the former
size. The increase in size i? ."()
percent. Same price of $4.00. This
shows our own faith in the return of
better business conditions. We feel
that conditions warrant the chancre
and we have acted in accordance with
our own convictions alone that line.
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Some time in- the future we propose
returning to the use of the full leased
wire service, instead of the abridged
servite we now use. When that
move is made we intend to put the
at $5. We are not quite ready
to go thafe step now. Before a great
while we intend to move in that direction,
however. We have faith in
the future, and propose to show our
faith by our works.
[ i SOME POINTS ABOUT
ADVERTISING
Wa do not claim to know very
much about advertising, for it is a
soiance that has many mysteries yet
unsolved, ana it u a very complex
problem. A representative of an advertising
concern recently called upon
The Times manager with a proposed
scheme for hank advertising. He
said he knew practically nothing
about advertising a grocery, dry
goods, shoe or clothing business. Hi?
specialty was banks and hanks alone.
This shows how advertising has become
specialized. Hut there are some
facts relating to all advertising that
may be known to all intelligent minds.
These facts are as follows: Advertising
pays, otherwise there would
not be so universal a demand for it.
Advertising must be honest, for a
cheat in advertising, as in other lines
of business, works to the undoing of
the business. Advertising must have
the effect of producing business for
no man will continue to pay out perfectly
good money for something
that does not produce results. It
is this latter part that we would em
phasize. Results we must have, appeal
there must he. What is there
in an advertisement that attracts,
appeals, produces results? Pru es,
value for your money. But this ap
peal is often over-worked, for we
ara more strongly attracted by quality.
We require style and fit. Men,
r?'
as much as women, are bound by the
desire to be in style and to be well
dressed. Service is another strong
appeal. And there is this to be remembered:
an appeal must be direct,
* to the point, it must be presented intelligently,
briefly. It must attract t
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the eye. These are but a few good
yjuk. t
Ideas that underlie good advertisZ'/rjL
(
ing. t is probably true that adver-lj
? Using is today more necessary to t
9 business, and of greater volume than
K; at any time in the history of business.
It is absolutely essential to the con- ^
<9 duct of a successful business. It not
P ?nly pays to advertise but it is death
|p to fail to advertise. sl
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Our cat says next year will re
ward boll weevil fighters.
Our cat says farmers must destroy
stalks in the fall and pick weevils ii.
the spring, if they would lick the boli
weevil.
If
Our cat says there a?e so many
good ami beautiful things to think
about that it is a pity to see anyone
given over to a reprobate mind.
Revenue From
Movie Theaters
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 112.?Ther,
ire 1(5,000 motion picture theaters in
the United States and the revenue
taken in at these places of amuscmcu;
amounts to an average of $2,000,000
a day, Hon. Timothy 1). Hurley, chairman
of the Motion Picture Comniis
son of Chicago told the National Conference
of Catholic Charities here tonight.
"It follows," continued Mr. Huriey,
"that no one individual or combination
of individuals engaged in prodmii;
buns for exhibition should have the
ui'censored right that any or every
bin produced should he exhibited
without restriction. Such exhibitorrightly
come within state coat vol under
its police power, and have rep
utedly so been held by the couri of
:i-st resort.
"The seating capacity of theaters
in this country is more than .*>,400,000.
On the average this is tilled several
times daily. According to the gov
ernmental figures motion picture theaters
in this country took i.i in ad
missions $707,000,000 in too j'mcal
year iMiuiU? in o uuia, aj-vj,
"The supreme court ha-' hold that
the motion plenae basic , is not to
be regarded as part of tnc press or
as an ciyun or orgar.s of pubiic opinion
and are subject at all times to
municipal control. Notwithstanding
ci ert decisions the motion picture pee
pic have insisted at all times that they
have the right to exhibit any picture
that they see fit to produce, limitim
themselves only to the border line ol
ciiminal prosecution for producing
pictures which are prohibited by the
cnminal law.
"These interests do not question the
health regulations provided by the
municipal government, and relating
so'ely to the physical conditions <v
the place of public exhibitions. 'I V. \
insist, however, that the police power
of the municipal government should
in t interfere with their exhibits, but
that they should be allowed to exhibit
r.ny film that may appeal to their
judgment?-that judgment being based
laigely upon the condition of prolil
are loss as disclosed by their ledger.
"The City Council of Chicago recently
took 1500 pages of testim >ny
of various persons having control an.I
education of children and coming in
direct contact with the family. There
questionnaires, after being analysed
by Prof. Ernest W. Burgess, of the
University of Chicago showed:
"1. Motion pictures interferes with
school work.
"2. The moral effect is bad.
"3. The view of life and life's duties
are false and distorted.
"4. That the sex and vampire films
apfeal to the children.
"5. That there is less respect for
authority than heretofore. 1
"(5. That children from seven years
tin are precocious about the sex qiu-sti'
n.
"7. That there is a noticeable diei
tgard in reference to the marriage
ties, and a ba<l effect on modesty and
purity.
"8. That the children disregard tiehome,
and are dissatisfied therewith.
"9. That the physical effects on tie
children, as a whole, are harmful; the
eye-strain is severe, the nerves affected.
decreased vitality and dull
mentality.
"10. That the effect on the risino
generation, on the whole, is had..
"11. The average attendance' of
children of school age is two to threi
times a week.
"The motion pictures, however, relate
to and directly 1 ear upon ami
control to an unbelievable exiert, !i>
trend of the mind and the edu; at a.
md morals of every man, womru, ami
hild in the community. Mr. Wi! i:in
A. Brady, speaking for the mot oi
picture industry says: 'In all probability
the day is coming when the no
lion picture will be the educator of
the world, and perhaps the teacher of
the Word of God.' This, we take i'
as conceded is of vital importance.
"The question then narrows itself
down to whether we shall turn o n
to the police, the merchandi er and
the exhibitor, or shall we create departments
in the various communit'cs
where we reside, the members o(
which shall be appointed by the chief
executive of the municipality or state,
answerable only to him, who in turn,
is ! lswerable to the people, to prejudge
the films before exhibition."
Bridegroom of 100 Years
Honolulu, Sept. I. Th slefpy lit
le village of Kalapana on the on h
vest coast of the island of Hawaii
laims the distinction of havhy th
driest bridegroom. A native (h it,
). Kaapana. who claims to be more
han 100 years old, has just ma-tied a
lushinjr widow of 00..
This is his second marriage, his
rst .vife havinpr died more than
alf a century ago.
Sunday is so called because it was
>e day r.n winch, in olden times, worlip
was offered to the sun.
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Carolina Football Material ']
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Columbia, S. C., Sept. 22.?With
fuuy 73 candidates trying for the
lot.ibail eleven a tthe University 01
South Carolina upon the opening day o
of college this past Wednesday specu- ?
lalicn is rift here as to what men o
i.ui going to make the Gamecock Vnr- d
s.ty this year and especially as to s
wi ich of the new men will be tried t
i jf by Coach Sol Metzger in the op- 1
eniiig g?.nie of the season with Er- c
kine on Saturday, October 1. For *
d .te Metzger will attempt to '
8' . ax. .. a Ine on as many ine il t.n |
i . i i be possible to.
V.'aile there are more candidates
C i. i hare ever before turned out for v
a Carolina team the outlook for the ?
u';u i n is i one too rosy ior a spirit ot* *
op.imis.n .o prevail. Caiolina men in r
i know realize trial the Gamecock 1
Learn to he moulded out of the ma- 1
ui.al on hind has as hard a task be- <
u re it in its big game in the state
a. was ca e l.st season. While there '
is no denying Metzger will put ujion c
ilic in Id a team that will be letter per- x
iiet in fundamental play and carry a r
tamch many times stronger Lhan-his ]
?iiile given . ggregntion a year ago, 1
the rub comes when ?i ?s remembered }
tiiat Clcinson will try to blocK the
I v? .crock s path with one of the big- '
: * . i. teams evi r turned loose in the
In other words, Carolina will
ui.ve to depend, as it did last year, '
ecu lie. dwork t.i overcome this tie- '
.a i- handicap, for the gamecock '
. a v v.i wiii n.iL come near watching 1
i to Clcinson in sheer poundage, 1
dgii; ; 1\- the mateiial trying for the {
.> team .
ior.. ? i the new prospects for Car- 1
.. .m .. . e broYi showing up well. '
... is working hard with Green,
'\>;:ar.d mid J? burns, all new men, to
w mid ;lmi mlo quarterback material
i lirsl order. Green won high honors
a a i layvr ;.l Wollord h itting School
t year and is a good punter and
; i sser. lie is a Columbia boy. Bib
l . iti, ef 1 lorence, a graduate oi
i. at high school, is making u strong
bid for the place. Holland is the
he . si of il e three candidates and
s had tii^ bene tit of some experi
e as a pi iver en a naval team durug
the v. m. He is in good condition
i d ii s been showing weil in the pre.h..i..
.ry work-outs. Moseiey Jeffords,
o"' (>.;..r. burg, th.e smallest of these
i. roe cnudi i...es, has <bcen help up in
m. j.va i'cv by a strained tendon but
rapidie rounding into form. The
ti ;i K in r:;'j oi nif squad tins season I
u >n ?1 ou; to be a little fellow named)
Li !:.-r, of 12a avoirdupois. Baker cel b.ulei
li s appealance on Ihe field
by running back two punts for touchdo
.'its. lie is a ntav\;ei for his weight
:.n.l is going to rnake some one hustlu
for the job.
trying lor the other back iold posi.
are Captain Tatum Gressotte,
h: .. :%nd fcfizemore, the star little
:> i f last ason. who did so much
> w. ek the hopes of Glemson. In
?!.;-ti;>n, Metrgcr has George Bclk, a
former C. star; Snipes and Turner,
ft m-r h;- k at C- rtilina; Grady Mc.
: . "f Vt : k. a big, rangy fellow
a i h iyh - ehool experience; Ben
I'v - - y. a solidly built Freshman
, ft in Ilook Ilill, and n whole host
I' other beys, none of whom are out
< f the running. Undoubtedly all of
;h. ?e men w 11 be in the mix up with
, Ki kine October 1.
The end-: seem well taken case of
wiCn 1 Icy ward Brockington, of Kings
t.n e, left wing man last season;
f rankie Meyers, of Charleston, the
little <1 mion of the squad; Joe Wheel? .
<>f Florence, general utility man a
ye.ai ago; Fant Kelly, of Union, a sub
'.art season, and a dozen new men, nil
digging hard for a place. Motzger
i !>v switch some of his backs to this
position.
he line fa. the hardest job the
co- cb r h:i"e c n their hands it will be
ir- ntly < at weighed in the Clomson
nn if .. 1-- I 1
h. ii * 11 ? ? \i\~ iiiuitaiiwii 11lity HctU
f,? !ii the material trying for both
(oriiv. Vetxjrer hns I.ightsey at eenti'v
with Pla'lrie Edmunds of Ridgeway,
f rn r Porter tackle, fighting
bin for the- position. Edmunds comes
fr< m an < ' ! Carolina family and is
ir 'i'.'l t i beard from before he
, ur. dilates.
Roth guards of Ja -t reason are back
JeMillan and Thomas. McMilln.
vl > bail sfrom Mullins, has put 0:1
v-'ght. Tfo is showing veil. Rut
mas has not, yet boon able to rcpoit
for practice. Neither of these
men lmve their jobs secured as it
clearly evident, in the cvimmages to
date. Chnppolle is a strong contender
fee one of those berths, as is Sigman.
The latter is r. Columbia boy, a strapping
big fellow who is active. And
Jr. ':?on. the find of last winter, is
i':: - a bid for one of those posi?i..
is. At tackle Alec Waite, tho star
'oc'-.le of tho stale last sonson is nl010
t -ore of his position. TV,on comes
rt;1 tobn of ITcmin?*way. who is green
n -? y Mir -. Should be mould himself
:oto a ph'vov Carolina will bo well
<"( -'ifi (1 r,' these important places
m;;s o p-'Me substitutes in Edwards
of "Ra'esburg, TTydvick T)ickort-. of
" ' Hill. nrd many another good
bov.
t.\; ..p Mid' largest np ?!
ie cvovd over **) attend the initial
' > <)r the r.-on r.1 Carolina will bo
} . . i v.hn-i fho Frskine game h'
' i Oefob r I. Interest, in the
' r :f . (JanvoeVs this season
aire 1?* tremendous and requests
?'r 1 fo?- first c;?mo arc pour:rv
i; c "t v section of t.lio state
Th?i '' vj i to ho made into ?
! of nnn'i >1 football rally for the
i,' f?"j*irrl. ii'I of whom nro anxious to
.. ("Jam 'cocks start their second
'<>n under the present efficient
... : -r system which worked marel
'a ! vc r. 1
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'Sandwich Men** Employed
. yd: < y Australia, Ainr. 10.?(By
Mail). So much confu ion has fo'- 1
lowed .ho change of Sydney's tralfi<
rule from "Keep to the Bi.uht" C
'Kcip . ? the Iiefi" that the city ha 1
(." m f iced to employ "sandwich
: < ' > '.vm..1 r ahaut th" principh
'!. r-.i;: i> or. , lvarin.tr f-i'.rrs that r<
mind j (!( <:rinn:- and vehicle driver
' tli - n w order.
T!v traffic rule chantre went into '
effc ' hi''- 1. f .olhvin''- a decision by 1
he miM cipic nutlioritif a that, th 1
It ft side .f the Jft.rret and sidawnlk
v';1 s >:;l fhn the r:?ht, a.1*1 since '
th?'n residents of S *dnoy have h'*on f
s! t nyrlin"' n.'rainst (he habits of a ^
lifetin.e in a attempt to live up to
the innovation. t
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The r'<i?as a race ere declared a
to he the most hone.-t people in the y
world.
The jawbone of a whnlo of average ^
s 7.c measures about seven feet in *
length. p
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o Extend Campaign it
? For Signatures
Columbia, Sept. 22.?At n meeting I
f the organization committee of the
'outh Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative
Assciation Tuesday it was
lecided to extend the campaign for
ignatures to the contract at once into :
he counties of York, Richland, Dar- '
ington, Lancaster. Greenwood, Dor- i
hester, Lexington, Chester, Dillon, j
darlbovo, Kershaw, Oconee, New (
>erry, McCormick, Lee, I^urens, Callour,
GreenviHe, Pickens and Sauda.
The committee expressed delight
vith the progress being made in the
:anipaign and complete confidence
vas expressed that the 400,000 bales
leccssary to make the contract cflfecivc
would be signed before May 1,
922, the final date named in the conract.
The meeting was presided over by
^resident Ilarry G. Kaminer and most
>f the members of the committee
vere present. R. C. Ilamer, chairman
>f the campaign committee, and Dr.
V. W. Long, director of the extension
'ovees of Clemson college, presented
cports of the progress made to date
a securing signatures to the con
acts.
It was decided to make the memSevship
fee in the association $5. It
,-as pointed out that in Texas, Oklahoma
and other states the membership
fee was $10 but the committee
decided that $5 would be sufficient to
meet the campaign expenses in this
state.
The committee has issued a statement
setting forth the benefits ol' the
cooperative marketing system as compared
with the present marketing system.
Extracts from the statement
follow:
"Who controls present system7
Spinners, speculators and gamolers.
"Who controls cooperative marketi-g
system? Producers acting
tlilough their cooperative sales agen
"What is cost of operating present
system? The producer pays the
profits and expenses of the long line
of buyers and dealers who operate between
him and the mills, and he also
pays for average of eight samples
per bale, for weather damage, and
many other wasteful and unnecessary
charges.
"What is cost of operating cooperate
e marketing system? Cotton will
move direct from the producer to the
warehouse of his selling agency without
any cost except transportation
charges. When sold by the association,
the full amount received, less
actual cost of maintaining the association,
will be returned to the
growers. Wasteful sampling, weath
damage and the profits of many
ii; rollers will be entirely eliminated
"What is the present selling plan?
Dumping us soon as harvested, which
forv.es a year's supply of cotton on the
market in four or hve months, and ineMoibly
breaks the market.
"What is the cooperative selling
plan ? Orderly and systematic selling
t. ioughont the year, according to demand,
which will be a factor 111 stabilizing
the market and minimizing
near raids and efforts of speculators
to break the market and lower the
price.
"What is financing method of present
system? None, so far as the
producer is concerned. Cotton buyers
utilize the banking resources of
the country of finance the purpose of
cotton, but produceft are without any
system for using banking credit for
orderly selling.
"VVnat financing program for cooperative
system? The cooperative
marketing association, using negotiable
warehouse receipts, will utilize
banking resources of the country to
make advances to members at time of
delivery and market cotton in an orderly
systematic manner.
"Grading and stapling present system.
Entirely in the hands of buyers.
It is a matter of common knowledge
lhat cotton in the hands of farmers is
almost universally undergraded and
staple values ignored in local markets,
which are the markets in which
faimers sell.
"Grading and stapling cooperative
system. In the hands of experienced
and competent men in the employ of
the cooperative marketing association.
Every member will get the full benefit
of the grade and staple value of
each bale he produces. This alone will
mean an average profit in exe -ss of
$10 per bale.
"Weather damage, present sys
ov iji# i i v/iii tin (i t i i ui ,"? i-? ? iiiwic
than $25 per bale?all paid by farmers.
"Weather damage, cooperative syst'-m.
None. All cotton of all members
will be stored and insured in
bonded warehouses.
"Results present system. Poverty,
child labor, hardship and distress,
;<oer churches, poor schools and unboi
nd unstable business.
"Results cooperative system. Fair
and stable prices representing cost
of production and profit. Independence,
comfort, creed churches, good
.ichools and staple business.
Clemenccau Takes
"Silence ("ure"
x'aris, Sv-pt. 8.?Former I'rcmiei
Cleinenceau took h s recent "silence
cure" in a medieval castle perched
1,500 feet above the blue waters of
the Mediterranean at Olive.-e, on th
island of Corsica.
Nicholas Pietri, the owner of th?
castle, has been a life-long friend and
newspaper associate of Clemenccau.
I'ietri is as deaf as the proverbial
post.
"1 have traveled a lot since the
armistice," the foimer Premier is reported
to have said, "but in India.
Egypt, the Soudan^ everywhere I
ha . e been, I have hail to talk too
much. Now what F want is silence.
I am sure to get that with I'ietri. He
is so deaf that I won't be tempted
to volunteer any small talk to him
ind he is very tactful in not asking
piestions, realizing that the effort for
ne to answer him is too much for
ny old lungs."
Despite Clemcnceau's plea of weakless
and his age K1 years?he looks
s sturdy as the oaks surrounding
lir* foello
There ore those who insist that
he Tiprer intends to re-enter the
>olitical arena and that in the peace
tnd quietness of the little island
irhich Kave birth to Napoleon, he has
>een preparing for a reentry into
lublic life that may be almost as
tartling as that of the little Cororal.
I
point out that tire insurance only indemnifies;
it does not restore. That
money paid out in San Francisco came
fx ni capital and surplus funds of
<tock fire insurance companies and
from the pockets of their stockholders.
To pay their losses there the
companies had to cash in on their
prime securities. Further, they had
to call into their business about $90,000,000
of new money as a result of
that one conflagration. Despite al>
this the fatalities among companies
occasioned by that catastrophe were
negligible compared with those fol
lowing the earlier Chicago and Bostor
conflagrations when wildcat bank*
and wildcat insurance companies were
numerous. There are few of that type
in existence today; the insurance law
of all the states are too rigid and the
public supervision is toft close.
The later conflagrations mentioned
are only three of a score or more dur
itig my lifetime, each of which has
taught its lesson. Their combined ef.cct
has been to lower the average
rst of fire insurance to you! Sounds
like an absurd statement, doesn't it?
And yet, literally, it is true. Conflagrations
have taught us to urge you
to erect better buildings and adequately
to safeguard them from fire by ev"ry
approved mechanical device, and
by cleanliness and careful management,
the inducement being to give
you heavy credits in your premium
rate when you follow our counsels,
fodav no architect of anv vreat. stmc.
ti're would dream of beginning his
plans without consulting the men behind
the whole rating system of fire
insurance?the engineers who specialize
for us on how to prevent and extinguish
lire and how to build to resist
fire.
All this is back of the modern science
of rating in fire insurance whereby
the insuted practically fixes his
own premium rate and in which his
stale, sectional and city conditions
ave an important bearing. Rate mak.ng
is the manufacturing end of the
business of stock fire underwriting.
Italy Has Over-Crowded
Labor Market
Rome, Sept. 24.?While the United
States seems to he in a crisis of unemployment
with the number of unoccupied
persons amounting to millions,
Italy, which is generally an overcrowded
labor market, had but .'188.744
this summer.
At the snme time, there are a great
many sporadic labor crises in various
parts of the country and, from time
to time, whole indu:.'"ies seem to clos"
their doors at a mom -nt's notice. The
metallurgical industries of Turin have
faced crisis after crisis but manage
to tide them over. The textile industries
of Northern Italy, too, have had
their periods of slackness. The workers
recently accepted a reduction of
15 per cent in their wag?s.
At. Trieste, there is much unemploymont.
A reduction of 20 per cent in
wncres was accepted hy the workmen
so that ordovtT could be obtained. The
workmev-Were to'd that by next Julj
there would be gradual reductions until
the total would reach 50 per cent.
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TWO BEST MOVES TO BEST
THE BOLL WEEVIL
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FALL DESTRUCTION OF STALKS
Bureau of Entomology Test in Texas:
Isolated area 400 acres 16 miles from other cotton. All stalks
destroyed during first ten days of October.
Oiily one weevil found in May in check plot. 30 miles away
where stalks were left weevils were so numerous no squares were
One had ten bolls to stalk and other three; one made 600 pounds
more than other.
STALKS SHOULD BE DESTROYED EARLY
Newell of Louisiana Experiment Station found where stalks des
Toyed on plantation before October 15 3 per cent weevils survived
the winter. October 15 to 27, 15 per cent. November-1 to 25, 22
per cent. November 30 to December 7, 28 per cent. December 15
and Irter, 43 per cent.
W. E. Young of Smithdale, Mississippi, says:
"My experience is that the best time to fight the boll weevil is
in September and October. Destroy stalks by October 10 and you
will have little picking of weevils and squares to do. I have done
little picking of late because I destroy my stalks by October 10
and they have nothing to eat. My method of destroying stalks is
to take my four mule disk and go up and down each middle. This
cuts each row twice and one disk will destroy six acres per day.
I then flat break the land with a two horse plow, which completely
covers the stalks. I believe there is more to stalk destruction
than all other methods of fighting weevils combined and to this T
attribute my success in growing cotton when my neighbors have
made a complete "failure. I have averaged a half bale per acre
under bad weather conditions and believe I can make 1200 to 1500
a good year."
PICKING EARLY WEEVILS AND SQUARES
C. R. Byrne, of Nachez, Mississippi, says:
"Destroy the weevils and punctured squares early in the season
and rush surface cultivation and you can grow cotton successfully
under weevil conditions."
L. M. Calhoun, of Gilbert, Louisiana says:
"We are making cotton and making it profitably under weevil
conditions. We are not doing it by sitting in the shade but are on
the job from daylight 'til dark. We pick our weevils and squares beginning
about middle of May and keeping it up until August 1. Our
negroes are expected and required to do this work just as much
as they arc to keep the grass out of their cotton. In this way
it does not cost us a cent extra to produce the crop. It is not so
much a question of labor to do this work as a matter of intelligent
control and direction of the abundance of labor we have nlrondtr
Negro farm labor in the South only works about one fourth of the
time anyway. So it is only a question of the land owner knowing
what to do himself and seeing that his tenants do it."
Mr. Calhoun has made as high as 80 bales on 80 acres and never
less than 1,000 pounds seed cotton since the weevil struck his farm
over ten years ago. He is located on bottom land and there is heavy
timber in the uncultivated areas.
"I believe the foregoing methods to be absolutely the best way
in which to light the boll weevil.
"W. W. WOOD,
"County Demonstration Agent."
WITH BUSINESS PROSPERITY COMING
You will want your house or store fixed up electrically. '
I do House Wiring, and my work is first class.
I sell Electrical Fixtures, and the quality and prices are right. '
I will use my best endeavor to give you good service if you entrust
yoitr work to pie. .. Let me figure with you.
I W. T. SINCLAIR
REGULAR DINNER 40 CENTS I
REGULAR SUPPER 40 CENTS
We strive to please you.
With every 40 cent meal we serve coffee or iced tea.
Fresh Norfolk oysters served in all styles.
NEW YORK CAFE
? Smith Block, just East of Southern Railwav
Notice Meet Me
? A special communica- . m "T
fi- tion of Union Lodge No. Al ? ____
75, A. F. M., will be held
'JT QX? in the Masonic Temple at A ____
ig'&WiyMonday RICE S BARBER SHOP
The M. M. degree will be conferred.
Visiting brothers welcome. ? , _ t
By order, 23 Years in Barber Business
Ben L. Berry,
Wm' C' Secretary. \m-26 in Union.
SPARTANBURG "ha^eCut " - " ~
AIITflMflRII V ShamP<*> ? -25c and 35c
/ill I U ill U D I L L Massage 25c and 35c
RACES I Singe 25c
0 . , n a i a A11 Tonics 1_ .. ?25c
| Saturday, Oct. 1st steams __ 25c
2 p. M. Children's Hair Cut 25c
? . . . , . . . . Razor Honing 40c
7 high powered and high Mustache Dye 35c
class automobiles and
drive's. R|CE'S BARBER SHOP
Spartanburg rair , . .
Grounds (Under M. & P. Bank)
DRY"CLEANING '0? SALE
K)imiiiaic? the soil from the finest A considerable number of
and most delicate garments without new an(J sCCOnd hand autOlos;
of color or shrinkage and cleans
your garments clean. We have the mobiles and new and SeCOnd
enuipment and the know how, that is i_ _j ax i
what counts in cleaning clothes, i nand auto trucks at bargain
will appreciate your business as much fjoriirpct Amnnir th*>m arp <4
..s anyone. Special attention to Par- "KUres. Among mem are
^el Post. We will call and deliver in a bovoi-oI
. . , . , iov.viui uiaivcs UUKIUnU,
dust-proof motorcycle. -? '
Nicholson Hank Building, Phone 167. C adillac, Essex, Hudson and
Agent for two of the largest Dye 0ther mako?t Thp nrirp?
Houses in the South. uuier manes. ine prices
? . > n i are factory cost. If
Hames Pressing and you are about to buy> thig ig
Repair Shop your opportunity. Call at v ^
^ the bank and let us show
[PYMRHA MSQ?[RU!~| them to you.
' Citizens National Bank
J rrmi j union, s. c.
1 /Z\ 1 Men wlio have studied the statistics
* voo*QMtWflU p on the subject state that old fathars
I ^ \ a,<>. t^le one8 wh? h*ve "brainy" off5
?UVI*T noaintA. ^ | spring.
LAL. SffkCCISTS J It I'ayR To Advert in,.
living a Thought
to Fire Insurance
5y John B. Morton, President National
Board of Fire Underwriters,
New York.
Could a five destroy the Boroughs;
>f Manhattan or Brooklyn in the NewYork
City of today? Those who are
i-csponsible for the futures of the
great stock fire insurance companies
c instantly ask that question of themselves
as they keep in their minds
fairly exact figures showing th<>!
amount of liability which would result
from an uncontrollable lire.
New York has more fireproof buildings
than any other city in the world.
To us they mean fire barriers dividing
the city?much as do fireproof division
waMs in some manufacturing plant.
The. ordinary blaze is smothered before
it has a chance to assume alarming
proportions, and yet a conflagra-:
tion so great as to startle the world is j
always a possibility. I am not an >
alarmist and therefore wish to emphasize
the fact that there would have'
t?? be a most remarkable conspiracy of j
untoward fate and circumstance, be-!
fore such disaster could sweep Newjj
York. But?well, that's our biggest J
problem, just the same, in New YorTc
as well as in every other city in the
country.
It has been my privilege to observe
fire underwriting from the reconstruction
days that followed the Civil War
to the present when we are reacting
from a world struggle that was for
the protection of our very existence,
it has been a pride and a satisfaction
to me to know that alone of all the
great modern business agencies, fire
insurance companies have not increased
the cost of their services to1
the public in this period of high prices.!
When the war was on and we were
oli readjusting ourselves to the higher
costs of living, a temporary surcharge
was made, hut that increase
of cost was only 10 per cent, and it'
remained in force only a few months.
Ours is not a business of immediate
results and we take our risk today,
but our profit, if any, may only be determined
in the distant future.
The average cost of lire insurance,
however, is not only lower now than
it was before the great war, but it
kept on going down during the war
when everything else went up from 50
per cent to 300 per cent. Perhaps your
own rate did not change, but it is
still true that the average cost was
lowered. That too, in the face of a
demand unprecedented in the history
of the business due largely to the
enormous increase in values. Fire inoranee
at least was one business
where demand did not make for extortion
or overcharge when the pressure
was on.
The fire that gave birth to fire insurance
as a business occurred in London
in 10G6. This was a bit before
my time, but I have observed at close
range the results from the Chicago
five of 1871, followed by the Boston |
conflagration of 1872. Disastrous as;
hey were to the companies of that I
day, the economic effort was small 1
compared with the destruction in three [
lays' time of $350,000,000 of property
in San Francisco in 1906.
Do you recall what happened in!
1007?the year after the San Francisco
fire? Was there not a panic that
tested us all? Such an enormons shifting
of values could not be made withoufi.
a severe reaction and the economists
told us that the prime factor
war the sudden withdrawal of crver
$200 000,000 from investment by the
stock fire insui-ance companies to pay
their losses in San Francisco.
Maybe this is a good moment to