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Shoals, Hop* of -1o '.th atoJ Bfenafit to Th? Entire Nation By Claude R. Colliiv*. New York, Jan. 20.? Muscle Shoul is the greatest hopo of the entire St uth, pait of the East, a certain benefit to the entire nation in peace and an assurance of national security in time of war. At a point in northern Alubama, a few miles from the Tennessee line are Florence and Sheffield, two small cities; ubont three miles west is Tuscuniba. The three have a combined population of but 20,000. At this point the Tennessee river, formed by the confluence of the French, Broad and Bolston rivers in Tennessee flows to the southwest where it empties into the Ohio at Paducah. Between Sheffield and Florence the river has cut deep into its banks. Its bed for 35 miles is solid rock and in this distance! is a fall of nearly 150 feet. This is Muscle Shoals. Outgrowth of War. Not until the United States was in the midst of the world war and hastily needed an immense explosive maim-1 facturing plant were efforts for the| development of Muscle Shoals sue-1 CeSSfld. Qllicklv the COVornmont nr.-i propviatod $20,000,000 for construe-1 tion of a dam across the Tennessee \ river at Muscle Shoals. This is now' known as Wilson dam. It was to furnish power for a groat! nitrate plant for manufacture of ex-! plosive. Last June, with the dam one-; third complete at a cost of $17,000,-: 000 work on it ceased. For the loca- ; tion of 'his plant the government se- j cured reservation of 1,700 acres. Then began building of nitrate plant No. 2 j across the river from Florence, the; most costly of the government's undertakings at Muscle Shoals. This' plant cost approximately $75,000,000. It extends over 2,200 acres. No. 2 has a capacity of 300 ton.; of ammonium i nitrate u day. The government expended a total of approximately $110,- j 000,0G0 on entire Muscle Shoals i project. Investigation of the entire undertaking has us yet failed to nien-j tion graft < r misuse of government funds. Its Present Status. Last June, excepting for a force of men guarding the property, the gov-, eminent ceased interest in "Muscle Shoals, it was closed. This is the status of Muscle Shoals today. Realization of the immense possibilities of the plant when finally con-1 structed has led to several offers to the government for the nrnnort-.v i None of (hose, excepting that of Henry For^, has ben of a nature sufficiently business-like to interest the war department. Ford has offered to buy the nitrate plants for $5,000,000 to pay the interes^jf nearly $30,000,000 in prop"erty and amortize the debt in 100 years. He further offers to lease Wilson Dam and Dam No. 3, on completion, for the manufacture of fertilizer for 100 years. Ford's proposition is based on the estimate of engineers | that remaining work will cost $42, 000 000. Army engineers say this cost \ will be $53,000,000. It is this difference of $11,000,000 j that is causing Secretary Weeks to i delay action. As the matters stand, Ford must increase his offer or con- i gvess must approve a compromise: deal. Fourfold Proposition. Muscle Shoals is a fourfold proposition. First, its completion means J the erection in the southern states of; a water power plant second only to; Niagara Falls and establishment of an industrial and agricultural area which' will equal any in America. Secondly, ! Murele Shoals means operation in peace time of a fertilizer plant which may revolutionize farming in the South and East. Third in importance will be the litng sought opening for navigation of the Tennessee rivov connecting the southeast with the! Mississippi Valley Navigation system.! Fourth is the national security of-' ferod hy Muscle Shonls in war. The nitrate plant used for fertilizer could he converted in three weeks into the most gigantic plant for the manufacture of explosives on the globe. If Henry Ford fails to obtain Muscle Shoals there is of course the possibility of the government resuming its construction and operation. Should Ford's offer finally bo ac(opted Thomas Fdison will act in an advisory capacity in operation of the nitrate plants- Charleston American. Have to Obtain Permission to Marry Sydney N*. S. \V\, .Ian. 2H.?The police of Queensland should not be com polled longer to obtain permission of tlx- authorities to marry, nor should the character of their prospective brides be subject to thorough investigation, as formerly, the cabinet has decided. Ever since the institution of the force, permission of the authorities had been necessary before marriage and the character of the intended bride had been scrutinized closely. Long objection to these regulations on the part of the police culminated in a call upon the Premier by a delegation from the force. The action of the cabinet followed. CHICHESTER S PILLS Vjn\ TIIK DIAMOND BRAND. A / I.??tle?l Ank your Ororftai for A\ / * M-rhwMcr ? Br*?d/A\ b - A fill. In Red #?.l 4.'old roettlllAXA/ T\ ?. lym, trBlci. with BluO Rlbbou. y/ 1-1 w) Take no other Buy af y?nr " If" fa "n>?l<l. A>k f rt lH-ei/KS-TFR * I <- Zr ui;V5?ONl? IIKAND PILI.A, tot 8(? "?* yeariknowntn Ifc-st.S Alw?y? KelOI>t? K?r SOLD BY DRUGGISTS 1VLRYWHLRE The Southern Pacific railroad in one stretch of 170 miles across the Siskiyous makes a complete circle 18 times. South Ajr.srica Field V? For Scientific Research i Chicago, Jan. 28.?South America will be the field of four out of six! te scientific research expeditions to be <v sent out by the Field Museum of ti< Natural History during the next five se years. Two of these expeditions ul, will gather geological specimens in W1 | the area from Brazil to I'atagonia nr | and two, one zoological and one bo-| an tanical, will study the animal and' no plant life of Peru. ,-o An archaeological expedition will cit I visit the Isthmus of Panama and the i nv State of Columbia and at the same J M time an ethnology expedition will goj is to the Malay Peninsula. All expe-j nu ditions will go before summer and j St will be gone for a period of two to I five years. | as The department of geology is one j], that plans ty extend its expedition j t>n over a period of five years. The ^ first of these will be headed by Dr. p., Oliver C. Farrington, Curator of the WJ department, and will proceed to the gem producing localities of Brazil. One of the objects of this expedition j fIt is to secure a full series of minerals! pv associated with the diamond. ' Sp Two later expeditions under Dr. I Farrington's direction will visit the ta important gohl an<l iron mining dis- j w< tricts of Brazil and the silver and <|r copper producing districts of Peru j tii and Bolivia. The latter expedition will also take specimens from the i inin/.,.4?nt li IIUJMJI l?m, llltl Ul\" lilMI \ cUI.IMI H III III posits of Chile. | )UJ Specimens of pre historic verte- \ no brate life will be searched for by the i cr second of the geological expeditions, i kn This expedition will visit the Santa i of Cruz beds of Patagonia, certain : P) areas of the Painpean formation of ]m northern Argentina and some cave pv deposits of Brazil. It is hoped to hi; secure sonic specimens of the great ti< ground sloths, the Pampas horse and to other types of vertebrate life of co South America. The expedition will, vi< he under the direction of Mr. F., S.! Uiggs of the department of historical I oe geology of the Museum. I?< The zoological and botanical ex Ti peditions will work together in the j tli interior of the Sierras of Central ve Peru and in the region of the sources i fn of the Amazon. I so Ih\ Wilfred Osgood, curator of | or zoology of the museum, will head the $il expedition which expects to bring I back n any new specimens of animal or life. The botanical expedition will j \\'i be under the direction of Mr. J. dis Francis Macbride, assistant botan- go ist of the museum. The region the pr expedition will cover is almost un-jho known as far as its plant life is con-, oil cerned. ; The flrchflpnlnricfll evnedition un- SO der the direction of Dr. J. A. Mason, tir will endeavor to solve some of the be mysteries of the interrelations of the- *?v ancient civilizations of the Americas wt and will attempt to establish proof Pr of a connecting link between the an no cient. Maya and the Inca of Peru. The department of archaeology al-l so plans to penetrate the Colorado 1,1 desert next summer and to work j among the Eastern Apache and Na- ?v vajo Indians. *b The expedition headed by I)r. ^ Yay-Cooper Cole will leave in June n: for the Malay Peninsula to study the origin and migration of the Malay I 1"' and Negrito races. Before return- j ing to this country Dr. Cole will at-j ^ tempt to penetrate into the inteiior ' T1 of Borneo. Dr. B. I^aufer, curator of the de-1 ^' partment of anthropology, is plan-,. ning a trip to China to study the! aboi iginal tribes of the islanjtl of 1 Cj! Hai-nan. He will also make an ^ arch geological survey of the province j of Ku-kien and Manchuria in order s.a th to enlarge the Chinese collections of nil the museum. ' ,. m - 11 r Jitney Bus to Whitmire sit Leave Whitmire at ... . 8:00 a.m.; Leave Union at 10:30 a.m.! Leave Whitmire at ... . 1:30 p.m. 1,1' Leave Union 4:30 p.m. tci Leaves from the monument in Union vl and from the public library in Whit- \ mire. sh J. R. GRIFFITH tr. Subscribe to The Union Times. ?. SPENT HALF HER TIME IN BED v Farmer's Wife Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Made Her a Well Woman ? _ h< Carter's Creek, Tenn. "Three years 'n ago I was almost an invalid. I spent M inmie iimim!::!!,' 5* [I Mjj with a trouble which W I women of a certain re nge are apt to have, or **?*. , i 1 took Lydia E. M Cinkham's Vegetable I < 'J JI Compound Tablets I k .II and used T.ydia E. W( lit "fll- I I l'inkharn's Sanative llu : <: 'llti Wash. I am a well to |" : f - woman now and have w< been for t wo years. It I can work as well as any one who is younger and as i am a ch farmer's wife I have plenty to do for I : It cujtivate my own garden, raise many tk | chickens and do my own housework. You may publish this letter as 1 am to rtudy to do anything to help other ca women as I have been so well and h.npv i since my troubles are past.M vs. E.T. M Gamxjway, Carter's Creek, T -nn. m Most women find plenty t ? do. If Bl th<yy are upset with some female ailment and trotdblcd with such symptoms as *h Mrs. Galloway had, the smallest duty seems a mountain. If you find it hard to keep up, if you are nervous and irritable, without ambi- 1 tion and out of sorts generally, give the Vegetable Compound a fair trial. We j believe it will help you greatly, for it lle j has helped others. t>a ronderful Growth of Texas Oil Town 1 Mexiu, Texas, Jan. 21.?Overnight a nted city arose. From an apparent sleepy little town of 3,000 populnin in October, 1921. where the old tilers farmed for a living und eked it a bare existence from their lands; liere they rode cow horses to "town" id hitched them to a hitching post id where even the town hall bell had it tolled for years because of the b webs and bird nests?to a hustling y of 30,000 people, and all in a few untlis, this is the recent record of exia, an old time Texas town, which feeling the effects of one of the microtis oil developments in the uithwest. The population now consists of an sortment of oil field followers and ousands of men and women seeking lployment, leaving an oil field for e new, coming on trains from all iits of the United States, or in igons, trucks or "horseback," some inging their assortment of houseId goods and camping outfits and iding from ten to a hundred men for cry job, and no place available for ending the night. onscquently because of the cxhorbint prices charged for n room, if one re lucky enough to secure one, huneds of men, favored by the long-con mod mild winter are sleeping on the ass along railroad tracks, public irking places and, in fact, anywhere ey could. Overnight a bed in a tent arked "A place to flop" soared from cents a night to $3. A night in a tide plank structure where one didn't iow his bed-fellow or the hundreds others in the single room cost $5. aces charged the few who were cky enough to get in one of the few ivnte dwellings vary, but all were gh enough to satisfy the most faslious millionaire. But men are glad get a bed at any price and many uld not find shelter except that proiled by nature. Rail traffic jumped hundreds of per r.t. There are two trunk lines, the uiston & Texas Central and the fnity and Brazos Valley lending rough here and passenger traffic is ry heavy while freight trains are pquently seen running three abreast, heavy is the demand for oil machiny. One road is said to have spent 00,000 in enlarging its facilities. The water situation is not altogethwhat could be desired. The water is procured from a spring a short stance from town, and although od water, it was nearly as high in ice as gasoline. Some oil man, wever, came along and drilled an well right side by side with the ring, "tapping" the water supply ? badly that lately it has been en- ^ ely stopped. Water wagons have en requisitioned and although they e busy all day and night hauling iter to homes, restaurants and imovised "bunking" houses, they are ' t sufficient to cover the field. < Consequently the town has been de- ( ired "very unsanitary" by citizens < heated arguments at the meetings 1 the city council, which is making < ery effort to remedy the situation, avor Riddle informed the irate citi- i ns that this "could not ho done over-! | prht." Getting a hath here is quite an ex- J ( rience. if indeed not a task. The [1 saying "if you want to do some- , ing big?wash an elephant," cer- \ inly has found parallel in Mexia. , lis luxury may be found, outside the , Dodland crocks, only in a downtown ] rber shop. The bath house is a stall a wooden floored, planked-in enjsure. Just plain pine planks are | ippery, but the proprietors of the ] use have found that it is not neces- ( ry to maintain first aid kits because ^ e board floors are warped enough to low the bather a foothold. "Clean- , less, after all, is next to godliness," t a bath in Mexia is next to inipos- , do, j But as for oil, there are a solid six ilea of new derricks, drillers outfits, | nts, wooden buildings and people f lere once there was the open prairie. survey of all local lumber men ows thnt building completed or conicted for since October 1 totals heeen $.'1,000,000 and $5,000,000. ( MOTHER GAVE IT : I _J_ ?_xr j una. i a? ! U |1U1? MUJ 0U1CICQ TT I in ACMI and Pain* Until Mothnr Began Giving Her CardoL Dublin, Va.?Miss Mary Alice 1 ughett rwilding on Route S, near , ?re, recently told n visitor of her teresting experience with Cardul. las Hugbett said: "I had been suf- I ring for some time with painful . . . < was pale, didn't feel like going, ould just drag around, and couldn't Bt to do any good. I would suffer 1 ice a month with my back, sides i id head. My limbs would ache and didn't know what to do, but I knew , must do something, for I didn't get 1 ell by letting it run on. 1 "My mother is a believer In Cardul < r she saw what It did for others as , ell as herself, so she began giving to me. 1 "It wasn't long before I aaw a isnge. It was just what I needed. 1 regulated me. I began to oat and v eep, and the pain stopped. "Cardul Is without doubt the best ' male tonic made, and I am glad I . n recommend It to others." If suffering with symptoms such as iss Hughett mentions, or other all ents peculiar to women, why not ben Cardul at onceT Its merit Is well tabllshed by successful use for more an 40 years. Try Cardult Tour druggist sells tt. WOltl The highest steam navigated lake ] the world is Lake Titicaca, which 1 s at an altitude of 12,545 feet, ] rtly in Peru and partly in Bolivia. 1 A >v4i A * i ? n<ii, UI^UAl , i Mwl| ? i % j 1 tfi I C iVill Make Dash For North Pole Christjana, Jjorway, Jan. 28.?Two Norwegian aviators, Lieutenant Omlal and Sergeant Odd Dahl, will accompany Roald Amundsen when he itarts north again from Seattle, Wash., next May and will make a lash for the North Pole by airplane. They will also carry a moving piclure outfit and about 30,000 feet o: film. Two extra men have been en gaged here by Amundsen for the sxpedition. Both Ontdal and Dahl are expert wireless operators and expect to keep Lhe Maud, Amundsen's ship, in touch with Spitzenbergen and to reeeiv messages from the Norwegian wireless station at Stavanger. The two aviators will join the Maud at Seattle. The airplanes to toe used in the North Pole dash will ftave motors of GO-horse-power, accommodate two passengers and be provided with skis and wheels. Only one machine will be used at * time and the other held in reserve. As the Maud does not offer sufficient 'pace, a shed must be built on the ice for them. The Norwegian army and navy nave presented to the explorers the mns and munitions they may need and GO boxes of specially selected provisions, tested by Professor Torup of the physiological laboratory of the University of Christiania, will be sent to Seattle for their use. Yorkshire Textile Firm Brings Suit Against Agent Ixmdon, Jan. 28.?The Court o* Appeal has just decided that Leonid Krassin, the Soviet trade agent in Kngland, is not entitled to diplomatic immunity which he claimed in a suit wrought against him by a Yorkshire textile firm to recover the sum equivalent to about $100,000. Krassin asserted that his recognition by the British Foreign Office as official agent of the Soviet government under the provisions of the Russo-Bi itish Trade Agreement constituted diplomatic immunity. Lord Justice Bankas, in dismissing Krassin's appeal, said the Russian lad not established that he was recognized in any capacity other than trade agent and that this did not orotect him from civil process. It is understood that the ease will >o taken to the House of Commons vhich is the ultimate tribunal of ap >cal. J- A. Sawyer ? A. O. Kennedy Sawyer & Kennedy Attorneys and Counsellors at Law No. 33 Main 8treet Union, South Carolina Engaged in the general practice of aw. We no longer represent the Union-Buffalo Mills Co., the Union Manufacturing A Power Co., or th* Union & Glenn Springe Railroad Co 'A.NUAKI -'8( ly2v | t 4 ( ) j 2 i I f \ Foreign Prisoners I ? In Ukraine Don't Stand Much Chance Khaikotf, Jan. 28.?Being a foreign prisoner in the Ukraine is akin to being lost in the Sahara. The Mustapha Kemal government | at Angora. Turkey, recently negotiatt e<l a treaty with the Ukraine under the terms of which there was to be si mutual exchange of prisoners. A delegation of Turks caine to iKharkolf and after paying diplomatic courtesies inquired sit the Foreign | OtTiee for si list of the Turks who J were imprisoned in the Ukraine. But ( neither that olhce. the War Office nor the wardens of the prisons had any! Hst"(Jo in and :isk tin- prisoners ' the! I I wardens told the Turks. 1 So the Turkish delegation went thoutinr through prison corridors calling for all Turks to come forward and rounded up 1 ,.'><><> Turkish uibjects who were sent hack to tinland of Mustapha Kenial. Most of these Turks were ollicers and crews of small ships which had I entered Ukrainian ports with merchandise. After they had sold their .roods they were arrested by Ukrainian officials who confiscated their ' money and sent the Turks to Khar- | kotf, the now capital of tho Ukrainian ' republic. The Turks say they were honest merchants. The Ukrainians say they were snuiRKlers. i Queen Mary is a confirmed curio hunter and during the nan year she has traveled hundreds of miles to visit curio shops. | . _ QuicklyrsKtcrt-Jto It o ,1 r>atuntl,ori;:innlioioriia * - * -wr A ih+h J fr-^d.iysvv.thAJiU. h* ? e"*y 1 Hair Keim-dy. It is net y..4 . ^1 a<<> '. Komovood.ndru.t > ^ , <f- " 3MfJ and inal.ea ttirImt clean, ______ - *1 tlul?y, ftb'ini'.ant and beuui if ill. SiimpKi mailed 'oi- i'i unfa by 'i'lio Mildred Louiay Co. Maiden 4H tu.rion. floss, t.y America t'-opii djry" Co.J iji.ston, Alias. wmM Rc&ce Ycur Weight l lP^C" :-t t:.? ruU? c( Id to 33 r > ndo p*.r f iH 1 io"lb? liy eiiujile guunuiieod, eafo |?L'. voUiililAtriiitiaeiit.tOMOO will ridiu-a ITT your itfl ' without unneo 'Mary oiSt\ [I <ni:H'u,.'i ilietioRi ond \vill not injur.) 19* it wc.'iVi'n your ay stem. V/ritetoday C-S 1 r I'l'.Kl" I'M bill I'llollWlig lie la J VVi l oin (irstanuwwIthtMssd to m ?* ia.fi.a Co. .Uttldca 4d, Boston, Ll**. ^' NTOL| ? ' r ' lirx I* n Ho i*ie Protector I o\ ?" Colli*, Croup mmd I K ^ MINTOI, "'^raliovoaI -I-S-T-E-N I Renew Your | m Subscription I TODAY! I Only $4 a Year I If you delay I you may pay I more later I The Unio | Daily Time ! THE Thinge We Must THINK OF Ilow many parents have you heard say, "1 wish I had sa\ed my money?" And how many parents do you know of today, who are teaching their children how it. save ? It is a really necessary part of a child's edueatioi he taught thrift?for as a child is reared so shall his whole life incline. Teach the "little tots" thrift, and you will be assured ol' their happiness in later years. \ i:.. i - .i ii.iiiimoini- iiuic savings nam; will Do loaned to every child who has an account of one dollar or more at on? Hank. "I.ariro Knoutrh to Servo Any Siiom- lliiou^h to Pro:, CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK.JjfBpiL Eggs From Every Ken <* Egg Producer in.ikes i-.11:\ l.iM-r- hi viniii^ pullets; keeps pout j produces fast Kt'owth in <onni! elm-lts J 1-2 it. Imx, kn cents We carry a complete lim m C.irn-Vet Stand.iril Remedies for Iters y. . ( * I llnys and Uotiliry We will cladD refund nmr liinliey if \ou fal. t kt> i : r? suits from the use of any Usro-Vct remedy. if, O AUTHORIZED OEALERS IN UNION COUNTY J. K. Fowler Union, S (' II T lliyylns 1-tulT.ilo, S ? ! Stones l?nu Store 'iiioii. S < Keller's Itruy Store ... llulT.iio. s i .1 .Mo! ley Jeter Union. S C E- Rrrnvn lttiff.ilu. S ?' Union, s C. y|litimI Sllpfilv ( < arlisle s C toWipli I I'liiirmey t mm. S ( Carlisle Ua?li U., Circs', - C ! K- yvIn s I'll it . . Mot ircli Murr di s I'liarni.o \ . s\ti;. S i ' I i ft lit deliMir.lt> ISottie I ..Union, S t. * I nosvlilt tint, < >. . . t K. t' 1 _r=^ 1. i =^-=y. TO THE PATRONS OF UNION SfHfWc ! _ _ ? . W wv wa V? w ? ? W ? * * ' Now that your children's eyes have been examined bv ? ui Joe tor, remember that if he docs not make a special* ' > Kind of work, that I am prepared to fit glasses. 1 give >< Mm* and attention to this work and guarantee satisfactior * ?>. at all times to make good my guarantee. Let me name to you some of your neighbor* > b r?< ?r* satisfied users of my glassja. Yours For Better Eyes For the Li. '; F. C. DUKE I | STATU LICENSED OPTOMERIST. | London,s force of policewomen now There are many parts of England umbers 113 members. where snow hardly ever falls. Princess Ixuiise, Duchess of Ar- Bagpipes are shown on a Roman yll, is a talented miniautre painter, coin dating back to fiU A. D. New Orleans is to use poison gas in Nearly every third farmer in the n effort to exterminate rats. United States has an automobile.