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fBp THE UNION TIMES w- P?bl?hed Daily Except Sunday By ^ TH* UNION TIMES COMPANY Lewis M. Rice Editor . . Registered at the I'ostoffice in Union. * , "3. O.j as-second ciass matter. i - riiTtet Building Main Stree; Bell Phone No. 1 "subscription rates I* a; <>ne Year $4.00 'Six Months 2.00 Three Months 1.00 Advertisements One square, first insertion $1,011 Every subsequent insertion 50 Obituary notices. Church and Lodge notices and notices of public meetings, entertainments nnd Cards of Thanks it K? i?hortfpH for at the r ite of one Vv ?" '-ent a word, cash accompanying the Wfi?-' order. Count the words and you will ^ <now what the cost will be. Member ot Associated Tress The Associated Press ts exclusivel\ untied to the use for republication of news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and 4iso the local news published therein. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1. UK!I. THE WORLD FACING A COTTON FAMINE AND ITS MEANING. Not since the Civil War period when hundreds of thousands of people were idle in Lancashire because oi the inability to buy cotton from th< South, and when the desperate situ ation then almost forced the British government to recognize the Confed eracy in order to get cotton, has then been the certainty of such a worlt shortage as we are now facing. The new crop is likely to fall be low 7,000,000 bales, for it has beer steadily deteriorating during the las three or four months. Adding th< new crop to the supply brought ovei from tormer years will hardly give us of spinnable cotton enough to meel the world's actual reauirements. It is impossible to spin down to the last bale, and, therefore, all mills in this and other countries must of ne cesf-ity always have some stock or hand and some in process of nianufac ture. The actual amount required, therefore, will almost certainly exceed the available supply, and the world will go into the next crop shorter of cot ton than it has been at any time sine* 1865 and I860. This shortage cannot be made up for a number of years The ravages of the boll weevil make it impossible for the South to raise :i large crop for some years to come This section cannot possibly, regardlesa of the price to which cotton niav .. ?&*.? go, plant and cultivate an acreage large enough to give a hig yield whib the boll weevil holds sway, and there ia no remedy yet '*r> sight for the ravages of the weevil. Moreover, the South is leaminj; that in diversification of agriculture there is more prosperity for the indi idual farmer and for the South as a whola than would be in cotton at any price, and a large proportion of rmtVinrn fnrmcre will npvpr ncain oncentrate all of their energi'-s upon cotton growing. They have this year had a lesson which for a generation we have been trying to hammer into the South, viz.: that the most uneco nomic and wasteful thing the Southern farmer could possible do was to raise a crop of sufficient size to give the cotton boars of the world th? whip handle. The South has learned that a seven million bale crop at 20 cents or more per pound, (and it ought to go much higher), will be worth vastly more to this section than a twelve million hale crop at 10 cents a pound. It is, therefore, incumbent upon every well-wisher of the South, banker merchant and manufacturer, and land owner as well, to do all in their power to encourage diversified farming, to insist that the small land owner and tenant farmer shall have no lien crop credit at banks or at stores unless they raise sufficient foodstuffs for their family needs, for credit on any other basis would he an injury to the borrower. The lesson which has been learned will be of incalculable value to the South if, regardless of the price to which cotton may go, this section continues to concentrate its energies upon living at homo instead of having "its smokehouse and corn crib in the West." The South ought not to havi to buy a pound of Western bacon or Western corn. It oucht to nrovid< the feedstuff* and foodstuffs for itself and have a surplus for shipment elsewhere. Cotton is a curse, has been and ever will be, to the South except it be raised as a surplus crop, giving only such acreage to cotton as can be prop erly cultivated after putting in a suf flcient acreage for food and feed sup plies. The acreage that is put in cotton should be heavily fertilized, but this acreage should be smaller nex' year than it has been this year. An acreage of 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 would be ample for the South if prop rly fertilized and intensely eulti vated. The yield per acre would be larger, the cost less and the profi* greater. But even this acreage would be too large unless the South can in addition thereto carry on the diversi ftcation of agriculture to a sufficient extant to produce its own grain and meats. It behooves the bankers and the merchants who are in touch with thf fa Ma peeple ef the South te begin an immediate intensive and aggressive Do you know you can roll SO good Cigarettes tor lOcts from one bag of GENUINE Buif Durham TOBACCO We want you to have the best paper for "BULL.'* So now you can reoeivo with each package a book of 24 leaves of 1Y1AL4* ? tho very finest cigarette paper In the world. (j) A campaign for increasing food produc tion, and for still further lessening the cotton acreage; and at the sam< time insisting upon more intensivi 1 fertilization and cultivation of th< acreage put into cotton and othe: crops. This way will lead to universa 1 prosperity for the agricultural ant all the business interests of the South Any return to the system of concen 1 trating attention upon cotton to th< exclusion of foodstuffs would prove ai unspeakable curse to this section ant make cotton the lodestone around th< ' necK oi fcoutnern industry and South ern agriculture which has held th< tenant farmers of this section in eco ' nomic slavery for so many years.? Manfacturers Record. Our cat says when courthouses an real temples of justice the nation wil prosper. * * * Our cat says with more than hall a hundred strikes now going on it ii little wonder that the number of un employed totals a big figure. * * w Our cat says there will be verj little cotton raised in Union countj next year except by boll weevil fight ers. ? * Our cat says a clear conscience if a producer of sweet sleep. Our cat says he has not yet founc one Union county farmers who wil promise to destroy his cotton stalks by October 10. * * * Our cat says laws are never too strict for those who obey them. * * Our cat says those who waste often come to want. Decrease in Exports Honolulu, T. H., Sept. 15.? (By Mail).?The tremendous effect that the condition of the world's sugar bowl ha? upon the life of the Hawaiian Islands was exemplified here recently when the United States custom officials announced that there had been a decrease of $14,553,124 in the territory's exports to the mainland United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, last, as compared with the exports of the previous fiscal year. Only the fact that the value of exported canned pineapples increased by nearly $11,000,000 kept the figures from falling much lower, as they reflected the fall in price of raw sugar from its peak price of 23.56 cents per pound in 1920 to its present price of less than five cents a pound. The de-line in the value of exported raw sugar during 1921 was $25,372 526 under 1920, the respective figures being $91,048,269 and $116,420,795. The total exports were $127,692,879, compared with $142,246,003 for 1920 and $93,018,401 for 1919. Hawaii's purchases from the mainland incre.ucd nna'iy S 18 000,000 during the 1921 period over 1920. the respective figures being $77,$24.114 and $59,261,621, compared with $43,572,794 in 1919. The planet Venus move* around the sun at an avernjr* speed of twentytwo miles per second. #&* ' ' ' . TWO BEST MC THEBOU No. FALL DESTRUCT Bureau of EntomoU Isolated area 400 acres 15 mi I deal toyed during first ten days of 1 Only one weevil found in Ms where stalks were left weevils wi left. One had ten bolls to stalk and more than other. STALKS SHOULD BE Newell of Louisiana Experime stroyed on plantation before Octol the winter. October 15 to 27, 15 per cent. November 30 to Decern and later, 43 per cent. W. E. Young of Smithdale, Mi "My experience is that the be in September and October. Desti will have little picking of weevils little picking of late because I < and they have nothing to eat. h. to take my four mule disk and g< cuts each row twice and one disl 1 then flat break the land with a covers the stalks. I believe thi than all other methods of fightin attribute my success in growing made a complete failure. I hav under bad weather conditions and a good year." PICKING EARLY WEI C. R. Byrne, of Nachez, Missi "Destroy the weevils and pun and rush surface cultivation and e under weevil conditions." e D. M. Calhoun, of Gilbert, Loui , "We are making cotton and " conditions. We are not doing it 1 ^ the job from daylight 'til dark. W ' ginning about middle of May and ' negroes are expected and require as they are to keep the grass c it does not cost us a cent extra 1 much a question of labor to do th control and direction of the abui 1 Negro farm labor in the South oi 1 time anyway. So it is only a qu j what to do himself and seeing th Mr. Calhoun has made as high less than 1,000 pounds seed cottor over ten years ago. He is located timber in the uncultivated areas. "I believe the foregoing meth in which to fight the boll weevil. Woman's Influence in Japan Honolulu, T. H., Sept. 8.?(By Mail).?A unique feature of the gradual rise of women's influence in Japan, until their position now is slowly approximating that of -American and British women, is that they are gh ing up smoking, just at the time when great comment has arisen over | the increase of smoking among their 1 sisters in America and England^ according to Dr. T. H. Haden, dean of the theological department of Kwansie Gakuin, a mission college in Japan, who attended sessions here of the Pan-Pacific Educational Confeience as one of' the empire's representatives. ' "Formerly all classes of women in Japan smoked in public as well as in their homes," Dr. Haden said. "The influence of the west has almost stop; ped this custom although it is to the 5 interest of the government to foster it, as tobacco is a government monopoly." Dr. Haden said that a new word for home?"katei"?has been coined f in Japan to express the meaning and i idea of home life in western civiliza. tion as it is being learned by the Japanese. "The changing condition of Japanese women is only begun but it is proceeding with a rapidity and intensity which are significant and hopeful," he said. "The Japanese language ' has a word expressing house and 1 household, but they had no concep; tion of home life in the Occident, where women are on an equal footing with men. This is now expressed by 'kaitei,' with the new appreciation of home as a thing to be shared We carry at all times a full stock of Diamond Tires and Tubes. Fabric Tires ... Cord Tires I.et us show you how we can save you money on your Tires and Tubes. The Union Hardware Co. Distributors Union, S. C. I I ? IVES TO BEST .WEEVIL , 1 ION OF STALKS >gy Teat In Texas: Lea from* other cotton. All stalks October. iy in check plot. 30 miles away arc so numerous no squares were I other three; one made 600 pounds DESTROYED EARLY nt Station found where stalks de>er 15 3 per cent weevils survived per cent. November 1 to 25,- 22 ber 7, 28 per cent. December 15 ssissdppi, says: )st time to fight the boll weevU is oy stalks by October 10 andjrou and squares to do. I have done Jestroy my stalks by October 10 iy method of destroying stalks is > up and down each middle. This k will destroy six acres per day. two horse plow, which completely jre is more to stalk destruction g weevils combined and to this I cotton when my neighbors have e averaged a half bale peT acre believe I can make 120(L.t?kif50n"~ EVILS AND SQUARES ssippi, says: ctured squares early in the season you can grow cotton successfully siana says: \ making it profitably under weevil >y sitting in the shade but are on < pick our weevils ana scjuargjn^- keeping it up until AugusTTT Our id to do this work just as much >ut of their cotton. In thi*"way to produce the crop. It is not so is work as a matter of intelligent idance of labor we have already. \ly works about one fourth of the estion of the land owner knowing at his tenants do it." as 80 bales orr 80 acres and never 1 since the weevil struck his farm on bottom land and there is ljeavy / ods to be absolutely the best way "W. W. WOOD, "County Demonstration Agent." | by husband and wife and gradual rise of the Japanese women to the position of their American and British sisters." Dr. Haden said that the city population of Japan is increasing thirteen times as fast as that of the country, due to the change of industry from agriculture to manufacturing. A'ore than 1,000,000 are engaged in factory work and in exces of half of those are under 20 yens of age, he said. "A s\gnjfic??it JOi<iJi?te?qpttingcindication of change in progress in Japart now is the fact that while the Japanese women retain the kimono as their chief attire^ they have discarded the obi?the folded square of cloth worn on the back?ar.d over their kimonos many of the women now wear a full, divided skirt, which ties around the waist, with a wide sash and hanging at the side," Dr. Il.idt n said. "Many of them also wear shoes instead of their sandals. "Divorce laws also have been revised in accord with other transitions. Formerly a man could send his wife back to her parents without excuse or explanation. This act constituted legal freedom for him. Now he can only divorce her for infidelity or by agreement with her. The Ionian us yet has no recourse against the infidelity of her husband, not ever though he bring a concubine into the home, as frequently has been done. "The example of Americans, their homes and schools in Japan, gradually has altered the hearts "find feelings of the Japanese until they have been induced to effect these changes." Institute for Laundering Proposed Cleveland, Sept. 30.?The construction of a half-million dollar institute of laundering will be one of the principal subjects to come before the 38th annual convention of the Laundry Owners' National Association here October 3-G. Funds for the institute already are practically guaranteec and the delegates are expected to approve the project. It probably wil be constructed in Chicago. The institute would provide a place for the standardization of materials methods and practices as applied tc the laundering of textiles. It would maintain an organization through which advanced theories in mechanif and plant management may be work ed out and a laboratory for the analysis and study of cotton, linen, wool nnd silk fabrics. A practical commercial laundry would be operated ir connection withm the institute. About 4,000 delegates and visitor* are expected to attend the conven tion. Germans are Emigrating New York, Se^t. 30.?Immigration of Germans is increasing and the advantages of the United States as a place to which to migrate are to dc described in an emigration exhibition to be held in many German cities during the winter, the Foreign Language Information Service announces, The promoter of the exhibition has appealed to German immigrants in the United States for exhibits. No, money doss not buy happiness, hot it fats sa option est it.?Syracuse Herald. i _ ?? Valu F I WILL 0 1VIOIM THE FOLLOWING L The Fine P WILBURN Sold \ Located seven miles w< top soil road to Cross ! I This fine farm conl eral tracts, each havii farm has enough timb the finest places in the already has two fine | ings on it except one. this sale. I One-half cash, balai annum, with bonded 1 price. Purchaser to p f| For further informs I C., R. F. D. 2, or J. M. H Plats of these lands I above. No Change in Building Plans of ZR-1 Washington, Oct. 1.?Loss of the ! gipnt. British built airship ZR-2 with / many lives on her trial trip in England has not ttous far caused any change in plans for the ZR-1 now ' building for the navy. The two de1 signs were so dissimilar, it is said 1 by navy official^, that the wrecking of the BR-2 carried with it no lessons so far as now known to be woven 1 into construction of the ZR-1 as a ' safeguard against similar disaster to that vessel. The ZR-1, it is explained, is the American navy's pioneer project in airship construction of the rigid type and the vessel follows very closely design of the German Zeppelin L-4P. ! captured intact in France during the ' war. Modifications to permit instal1 lation or American made propelling engines and a few other changes were 1 necessary, but navy officials regard the ZR-1 as practically a reproduc1 tion of the L-49 which was proven by the Germans as a safe and reliable craft with all stresses and strains demonstrated in actual flight under " varying conditions. 1 It was tne purpose of the navy ex1 perts to make the L-49, which was al most the last word in German war experience construction, the starting point for American development of [ lighter than air rigid war craft. On the experience gained in operation of the ZR-1 operation it is planned ti base future improvements or increases in size. t The ZR-2 on the other hand, represented the last word in British engineering progress over German originals and the disaster to the British HALF AJJENTURY Oklahoman Praises Black-Draught, Having Used It "Can Safely Say for 50 Years." Grandfleld, Okla.?One of the best known farmers of Tilman County, Mr. . O. W. Tlsdale, who owns and manages I a wagon yard here, says: "I have used Thedford's Black* Draught?I believe I can safely say for i fifty years. "I was born and reared In Tsxas, Freestone County, sixty-four years ago. I have been married forty-four year^ My father used Black-Draught before I i was married, and rave It to us . . . "For forty-four years of my married life, It has had a i>lace on our medl* 1 cine shelf, and Is t\e only laxative, or liver medicine, we ^pse. We use It , for torpid liver, sour stomach, headache, Indigestion ... I don't think we ' i could get along without It, knowing , what It has done for us, and the money li la i- a ? 1 * ? it. una anvru. u ih jiihi nn Ktiuu nn i re1 liable today as It was when wo began , Its uRe. My boys use It and they are satisfied it's the best liver medicine 1 they have ever used." . Thedford's Black-Draught Is purely ' vegetable, not dlsacreeablo to take ' i and acts in a prompt tind natural way, ' So many thousands of persons have < been benefited by the - je of Thedford'e , Black-Draught, you should have no hesitancy in trying this valuable old * well-established remedy, for most liver 1 and stomach disorders. NC-139b. j able I or Sal< FFER FOR SALE ON SAI DAY, OC AND DURING LEGAL lantation of I, Deceased, I For a Divis est of Union with two mi Keys. taining 589 acres has beei ng road frontage, wood er on it to pay for it, and i state. It is well located pastures under wire! Ej I will also sell a small tr< Trn*?p nr our I CilUtlij ur OALTi ace in one year with intei mortgage to secure ba >ay for papers and stamps ition see S. H. Wilburn, Greer, Union, S. C. may be seen by applyii * A built vessel, officers here feel, only tends to confirm the decision to attempt no unexplored field of construction in turning out American Zeppelin's, but to proceed from one wellestablished model to the next improvement slowly and so on step by step to whatever the ultimate lighter than air cruiser of the future is to be. Plans for the purchase of the ZR-2 in England came after the war, while designs for the ZR-l were well in hand at the Navy Department before the war ended. When hostilities ceased, the British were left with a number of giant craft under construction in addition to the R-34 which made the flight to New York and backk. It was decided to stop work on these and salvage all that had been done, and the United States then stepped in to obtain by purchase the ship most advanced in construction British R-38, which was to become the ZR-2. Designation of the vessel? in numerical order, in what appeared to be the reverse of the order of construction, ia accounted for that fact. The chief reason for purchase of the British ship, it was explained, war on the old engineering axiom that bet ter progress is to be made if two o' anv new tvDe of anv mechanical do vice are worked up for test simultan eously than if only one pilot desipi is completed. Had all the epps beer placed in the ZR-2 basket in this case, it was pointed out, the navy would have to bepin apain at the prass roots in development of this arm of the aerial fleets of the future As it is, construction of the ZR-1 is pToceedinp unaffected by the ZR-2 disaster, althouph it was said to be poinp slowly by reason of reduced appropriations for the navy this year Practically all of the duraluminum for pirders of the ship's frame worl has been produced and is now in pro cesscess of fabrication into the lat tice work frame members at the Phil adelphia aircraft plant of the navy: contracts have been let for the 18 pa?, baps which will furnish the liftine power and the keel of the ship will be laid within a feW months at the I akehurst (N. J.) hanpar built to house both the ZR-l and ZR-2. The frame members are beinp cut and assembled at Philadelphia to be knocked dowr when complete and shipped to Lakehurst where they will be reassembled and placed in the ship. The pas baps are desipned for either hydropen or the new, non-explosive but hiphly expensive hellium tras discovevp/1 Hurinc flip woi- A< present plans call for the use of hydrogen because of the excessive cost i)f the excessive cost of producing suf ficient helium to fill the hags to their full 2,000,000 cubic feet capacity. The ZR-l's 645 feet in length and 78 fet indiameter practically duplicate the standard C.erman practice an shown in the 1,-49, which was produced after the Gerninns had operated 'ome 140 air craft of the Zeppelin rharacteristics in actual service. In speed, however, the Amreican craft expected to exceed the 60 mile maxi mum ef her German prototype due to the use of higher power. Present HHHHBHPWHBHB' .and I t I LESDAY I ;t. 3 I HOURS OF SALE I Must Be I ion I lies frontage on the I i subdivided into sev- 2 and water. This I for a stock farm and ach tract has buildict on Tiger river at 'est at 8 per cent per lance of purchased ) Executor, Union, S. ng to either of the plans call for the use of six Liberties, each in a separate car, as against the original plan for five engines, two of ' them driving the stern propellor and mounted in the after c#r. The motors were designed to delived 400 hor%e power each for airplane use, but for employment in the ZR-1 will be reduced to 320 horsepower each with a consequent improvement, it is said, in economy and reliability of operv I tion. While the ZR-1 will have virtually 700,000 cubic feet less gas capacity than the ZR-2 her lift is expected to | equal the 56-ton pull of the British trans-Atlantic R-34 and to be about 27 tons less than ZR-2. The American designers have been unable as yet to make what they regard as accurate calculations as to the useful load, the tonnage in excess of her own weight equipped for flight, the new ship will be able to carry. Goal Soon be Reached Zagreb, Croatia, Sept. 9.?The secession movement in Bosnia for separation from Jugoslavia and Croa tia is in full swing and events of great importance may develop any moment, says the Gesztesy news bureau. The Hravatska Liszti, published here, has this to say: "Our day will soon arrive. Our patience is at an end. We cannot remain inactive any longer. Let some one raise the standard of rebellion and even the dead will arise in their graves to fight for Hberty." ' ' ' Newspapers published in Raditch openly affirm that the fight for the freedom of Bosnia and Croatia is on and that the goal will soon be reached. The Belgrade government has established a severe censorship on all news coming uot of Bosnia and the river traffic between Bosnia and Serbia is interrupted. The Second regiment of infantry, composed for ths greater part of Croatiar.s, has been replaced as a garrison at Zagreb by i regiment of exclusively Serbian. Constitution Transferred to Pleasant Bay Boston, Oct. 1.?The famous frigate Constitution, now at the Navy Yard, will be transferred to Pleasure > off the South Boston shore, w hereby* it will be accessible to visitors, if plans now being made by Rear Admiral Gleaves^ commandant of tho First Naval District, and the Chamber of Commerce, are approved. Tb? C^istitution has been in at the Boston Navy Yard for 15 years. Officials^. estimate that 60,000 persons have *onc aboard during that time. The number would be greater, it ie !? lieved, if the vessel was more centrally located. The Constitution was built it Hart's Shipyard here, now Constitution wharf, 122 years ago. She wee refitted at the navy yard in 1M07. . It Pays To Advertise.