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Means of Weathering 5 Financial Crisis -4^ Moscow, July.*' 14.?Limitation of I production and probably the closing down of several factories have been recommended by a special commission of experts in a report to the Council of Labor and Defense as a means of weathering the industrial crisis, which, after a few months of revival of Russian trade, has again become acute. Since 1918 the Soviet government 1 has many times been obliged to re- 8 sort to limitation of industry due to c shortage of fuel, raw materials or ^ food, but the cause of the present stringency is different. Limited sules, bad trade connections with the provinces, and the in- ^ sufficiecy of < working capital at the disposal of the various government ^ trusts and syndicates all have contributed to the present situation. ^ Since the inauguration of the new economic poliey the various nationalized industries have been combined ? in trust* and -Syndicates and reorganized t(V Wfirlf -nn.( Q V : ~ I - ? .. ^ Wiiimciv. tai> uaMS. I All concerns have been deprived of government aupplies and their employees no longer are rationed. Having begun, with very small capital . at a time when the Soviet ruble was continuously depreciating in purchasing power,'they had to fall back upon their old stocks and later when they began to increase production in order to manufacture sufficient goods to obtain funds'-for future operations. As a result the markets soon were flooded with goods. Owing to the ab# normality of trade conditions and the low purchasing-t.power of the ruble, these goods could .neit)ier be. sold freely to wholesalers nor direct to consumers.'The commission > proposes that practically*every industry be- curtailed. The program .fixes the. following percentages of reduction: Coal industry by wlf>-vf>eieent;- mines < by 83 percent; gojdtand.platinum -by 12 per-g cent; salt, 33-percent; metal, six t< , seven percent; cotton textiles, .25 percent; wool,c20; percent; flax, 20 percent; silk 10- percent; leather, 16 percent; chemioalifWe percent; glass, ' 64 percent^-chiria^34 percent. The commission -.also reports that prouucioin nas ianen greatly in com C parison with pre-war output, the ra- f tio being from seven and ,one<-half I percent in the metal industry up to F 61 percent in the electrical. E "Indlustrial Life," in a recent Is- E sue, says that the new bankruptcy 1 law, now being drafted, will provid* [ that the government shall not be re E sponsible . for the debts of state- C managed concerns. This decree, how- I. ever, has not yet been adopted by th? F Council of Commissars. A ? I Frontiers Threatened ( *fc' With Russian Invasion 1 t Bucharest, Rumania, July IT.? ^ Rumania considers that her frontiers ? are threatened with a Russian in- * vasion, not necessardv of armed men, ^ r but rather by st-nving thousands who may be driven i.i August from ^ the Volga basin by crop failures * She fears a repitition of the move- ^ ment of the - trekking multitudes ? which left the Volga last summer, ^ driven out by hunger. ^ What steps should be taken if this * happen?i?. Thess- people -ennnot Le _ shot down with machine guns as they cross the boundary line, and it may ^ not be possible otherwise to stern the 1 flow to any appreciable degree for * the frontier is long and the Rumanian army is not large., ? Poland is equally interested with Rumania. She is subject to the same invasion. The recent visit here of President Pilsudski, of Poland, was " to consult as to a course of mutual action. In August the Rumanian and Polish- crops will be ready for harv- J a estf-and neither country wants its ^ food supplies ^to be depleted by the ' thousands of Russians who may make f a last effort to save their lives. ? D... v. ? i _ -i -i? J' ' ivunwiiiin nas tuuH y bia tinny uivisions on the Dniester frontier, and even so many hundred Russians are slipping over the boundaries eaeh week. Swedish Shipping Recovering Stockholm, July 14.?Less than eight percent of Swedish shipping is now idle, according to the latest report of the Swedish Shipowners' Association. This report shows a sharp contrast to conditions a year ago, when in June Swedish shipping depression reuched bottom mark with over 44 percent of the country's total tonnage idle and nearly 46* percent of the men employed laid off. The report-of the Shipowners' Association covers only its membership, but vii tually all of the country's shipping is owned by members of the Association^ The recovery of Sweden in shipping U based largely on the country's approach to normal in many of its most* important industries sand the rapid increase in exports. Killing Bugs, in Novel Way London, July 14.-*~A farmer in Kent with a 60-acre orchard has solved in a new way the problem of ridding his fruit trees of a plague ? of caterpillars. He-engaged a flying machine and loaded-It np with half a ton of insec- j ticMMf* Tha machine flew to and fro . over thh'trees at-a height of from 16 to 80'<^ardt, <scatterlhg *he poisonous . f. powder. In half an-<howuther>^oh warn done and it proved cjuicker and cheaper^ar*l? muefc "move* effective than praying the {rees from the .ground* i&t; SUBSCRIPTIONS TO $20,000 CANNERY NOTICE: All whose names*appear below with five stars may call .upon Paul E. Wilhurn, Secreiary-Troasurer, and get their stock certificate. The certificates are ready for do. livery. I "EACH ONE GET ONE" We have built our canning house, nstallcd a boiler and our wagon icales. We have ordered machinery, ans and everything necessary to operate a cannery. We are calling foi he full payment of the capital stock iubscribed. We have begun a canvass for $10,000 idditional capital. We have been so nisy planning to get the machinery i\ operating condition that we have ;ad little time to give to the matter if soliciting subscriptions to rc.-<aso he captal stock to $20,000. We will ?ow press that matter. Several new ubscribers have been secured during he last two days. ^ewis M. Rice ^ * ** 200.00 Z. K. Hughes *60.00 i. M. White *60.00 11 n At. UOII1C1 'OU.UU r. E. Minter 50.00 )r. Russell Jeter 50.00 t. W. Beaty 50.00 '. B. Strange 60.00 [. F. McLure 50.00 V. D. Wood 50.00 1. L. Davis SO.OO . R. Whitmire 60.00 toy Willeford 60.00 lam Berelowitz 50.00 lam Kassler 50.00 J. R. Lancaster 60.00 . V. Askew 50.00 rlacbeth Young 60.00 2. M. Garner 50.00 V. C. Wilburn 60.00 . Mobley Jeter, Jr 50.00 G. Young 50.00 i\ W. Carnell 50.00 Jnion Filling Station .... 50.00 i. G. Kennedy 50.00 factor Smith 60.00 no. W. Gregory i. .... 50.00 I. N. Sprouse 50.00 V*. W. Johnson 50.00 9: B. Sparks 50.00 \ B. Gault 60.00 >r. A. P. MoElroy 50.00 leorge- WillasU 50.00 lord on Bishop. 50.00 I. T. McMeban ; 60.00 I. U. Harris 60.0( \ J. Parham 50.0ft. >r. J. W. Buchanan .... 50.00 I. J. West 50.00 D. Hancock 60.00 >r. W. N. Glymph .... 50.00 5 F. Kennedy 50.00 oyan Austell 50.00 j. J. Browning 50.00 W. Stone 50.0C rtrs Ir>hn R MoikSo tr.nnn UU.W . Cohen Co * 160.00 ' Jitizens National Bank . . **60.00 ' I. C. Wilburn ....... 1AHU19 )r. Theo. Maddox ***50.00 Ilss Mahala J. Smith . . *****60.00 liss Edna Tinsley .... *****50.00 Iradley-Estes Co. **50.00 V. S. McLure **100.00 r. B. Barron *50.00 '. D. Barron **60.00 Jnion Bakery ****50.00 Vill Humphries *****50.00 Ida Bailey *****50.00 <ouis Gault 60.00 V. B. Murphy *50.00 I. W. Beaty (additional) *****50.00 ). Norman- Jones *****50.00 !. C. Sanders * *50.00 K. Morgan * 50.00 Tios. McNally 60.00" I. Lee Kelly 50.00 J. Allen *50.00 '. E. Wilburn *****50.00 JonsoTted Ice & Fuel Co. *****50.00 toy Wf.leford (additional) . . 60.00 Jnion Marble & Granite Co. *50.00 l. W. T. Ravenscroft . . . *****50.00 I. B. Going 50.00 . K. Brennecke *50.00 )r. O. L. P. Jackson .... **50.00 Itorm'a Drug Store ***50.00 . M. Wood **50.00 I. A. Owens 50.00 . A. Hollingsworth . . 50.CC '. J. Vinson 50.00 >. E. Smith 60.00 lerbert Smoak 50.00 hos. H. Howe i 50.00 Irs. P. B. Barnes 50.00 *ash v 60.00 Irs. L. M. Jordan ..... 50.00 i. B. Godshall 50.00 V. J. Tucker 60.00 V. B. Aiken 50.00 t. E. Foster 50.00 Sagle Grocery Co 50.00 Irs. Jno. R. Mathis . . . 100.00 .ewis M. Rice 100.00 !\ J. Farham 100.00 )r. J. W. Buchanan 100.00 E. Kelly 100.00 . From 60.00 Louis Jolly 60.00 . L. Bolton 600.00 )r. F. M. Ellerbe 50.00 V. T. Powell 50.00 V. T. Sinolair 60.00 1. Krass 50.00 . L. Duncan 50.00 )r. J. G. Going 60.00 1. E. Bailey / 50.00 1 Yilliam Coleman 500.00 I. R. Lybrand 60.00 1. Haydock 50.00 V. Ivey \ 60.00 f. W. Stone 50.00 i. T. StOtidenmire 50.00 5. Nicholson "* 50.00 ?. L. Wagnon 60.00 'hos. J. West 60.00 '. F. Wallace 60.00 ,'nsh ^ C 50COO P.'A. Mvrnralr *: 60.00 Irs. H. L. Gaffney 50.00 L Be? Foster* 60.00 I. J. Allall 60.00 na.-R. MatWk?.? R. Wilbwra 60.00 lavis Jeffrias 50.00 Maa W4bu??a 60.00 ?C. Dunne to., i 100i)0 I F. M. Moore 60.00 T. E. Bailey 60.00 J. J. Willard 50.00 R. C. Williams 50.00 S. R. Garner 60.00 H. W. Edgar 50.00 John H. Wilburn 50.00 Roy Bumey 60.00 J. Wiley Sanders 50.00 A. Kerhulas 60.00 J. C. Mitchell 50.00 I)r. D. H. Montgomery.1. . . . 50.00 W. R. Jolly 5^.00 L. D. Smith 50.00 J. A. Going 50.00 J. M. Bates 50 00 Norman-Murphy Coift. . . * *50.00 Dr. Geo. T. Keller **50.00 J. W. Gilbert r,nnn Crescent Filling Station . . . 50.0& Mrs. L. B. Jeter, Jr 50.00 R. P. Jeter *50.00 W. T. Jones s 50.00 Jno. R. Mathis (additional) . . 50.00 Stuart Smith 50.00 "W. "H. Gibson 50.00 Frank Clay 50.00 B. L. Fowler 50.00 I. From (additional) 50.00 Mrs. May C. Peake 50.00 N. C. Palmer 50.00 G. Epps Tucker *****50.00 J. A. Hollingsworth (addit'al) 50.00 J. E. Tinsley * *50.00 A. A. Hames 50.00 H. B. Jennings *****50.00 B. B. Anderson 50.00 J. B. Betenbaugh 50.00 Cash 50.00 Cash 50.00 C. H. Peake 50.00 Grover C. Wilbum *50.00 Mrs. Ora B. Fant .... *****50.00 Miss Mary Emma Foster ** **50.00 Mrs. Hettie V. Foster . . *****50.00 L B. Jeter, Sr.. 50.00 Robt. J. Fowler 50.00 T. M. McNeil 50.00 Total $10,250.00 Amount subscribed in produce 1,150.00 Grand total $11,400.00 We want more subscriptions. Will you not take one or more shares ? IT-! n " " ? uuiuii canning s products Co., Lewi# Mi Rice. Pres. Only 2 Percent Drinkable/ i PerHs besetting. thfe.unbib>r of bootleg whiskey were forcibly demonstrated^ today-by a statement of Prohibition Commissioner H&yne6, who told the ^tafethat only 2 per cent of the liquor analyzed by chemists of the prohibition forces is found to be drinkable. The other 98 per cent is poison. "The poison contents of bootleg whiskey cannot be too strongly emphasized," Mr. Haynes Slid today. "Continually we find whiskey brought in after raids-which-would1 be deadly il taken in sufficient quantities." In Washington there is a prohibition department storehouse, in which there are hundreds of gallons' jf whiskey, bottled as genuine whiskey should be, but which are only bootleg preparations and which contained wood alcohol or formaldehyde or large quantities of fusel oil. An interesting anecdote is told by Commissioner Haynes to illustrate what the bootleg whiskey drinker may expect. A group of agents raided a still in a mountainous -section not far away from this part of the country. They got plenty of mash and plenty of alleged liquor. One of them, an expert, on examining the liquor said to il ine prisoner: "Great seott, man, do you drink this stuff?" The manufacturer was shocked at the. question. "You bet your life I don't," he replied in disgust. "This is made to sell. I wouldn't risk my life with a drink of it."?News item, Washington (D. 0.) Star. Home Brewing on Decline New England rapidly is losing- interest in the formerly absorbing.topic of home brew. It also is losing its taste for the various concoction* for. m^rly manufactured on quite an extensive scale. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, commenting on the decline of the "industry" in that section, says the demand for yeast, hope and malt has dropped off by half from the peak of the fad. And the decline continues. The passionate earnestness of the American people when- in pursuit of a new fancy is a subject'-of humorous comment even with those who are rated as among tho most paeeionate faddists. Fortunately, we do not take our hobbies too seriously. t Home brewing ^became--the "rage" when thfe country went dry ami -the" "real old stuff" was not available. Everybody? it seemed, was seized simultaneously with a wild desire to manufacture something with a "kick" in it. " The experiments,* the ?trials, the tribulations and the regrets of the home brew makers have furnished unlimited "copy" for witsmiths in the heebie* days- sinoe Mr?-Volstead had congress put Its official "okeh" on the famous act which bears his name. - It wao~great-sport while it lasj^d. But it didn't last long. One by oner< the devotees at the shrine of homo mi?w I'cn uref wi iryiof^ *o violate the act with the assistance of smelly i concoctions an?l the kitohen stove. - It somehow-didn't seen* right Xo parade a deliberate infraction of the lave before the children. Then, too, there war the menace to health- .New England'* experience probably is -typical of the entire-country. In big issues, such as-this, Americans nearly always think, ami act alike. When New England tiree-of. making Jiome brew, it's a. cinch th? Middle-West, the Far West. Dixie and aven ituhhorn old -N' Yawk also ara-losing tnteraat. Fditoaial, Seattle Timee? . ???I I I I X x BE nr x W HB MB ? t ?i mSL t M fc H B f MM tsm t tH m T MB t M mm J n WM X K I .* We urgently insist upon t ? ment to build and open coming in, three or four X We are going right aheai & there is no other road fo X We beg to remind each s f possibly get, and need th< 1 paying promptly. If yoi V V to can by Wednesday oi i- today (Saturday). The T; more subscriptions to tt one way to help to bett* ?n'y yesterday a commi |>' a fair profit. We have s< ready to ripen in the fie 1 Our. only hard place is t Do -you not think yoi I The U o n. | FJ I LEV > -TP the great need for full co-o] ite a canning factory. Many a day, and m any are paying d, in fact, hav inp burned th< >r us to travel save straight a ubscriber to s tock that we nei e money now. You can make n cannot pay all, pay a part. : next week.. The last mackim re are many who have contei le stock. He lp us to put Un sr days. ssion house offered to handle omethmg like a million pour :lds. We are ready! or will 1: he lack of sufficent capital, i should help us? nionCa roducts VIS M. RICE. Presid, #1 ' 1 " 1 " *!' ' * t H 4^4 4^4 4^A 4^V 4^4 A^A 4^4 A^V A^4 A^4 A^ji i!% j^#1 l 8^ I X ? Y T Y J r% I Y Y Y T Y Y T T *!* Y T T v I Y t Y Y Y Y Deration in the move- V ... I new subscriptions are T no their subscrintions. V . bridges behind | head. y ed every dollar we can ? a our burden lighter by ?! Y We expect to be readv Y Y Y e we will need arrived > X mplated taking one or X ion County on at least v i T our entire product at ^ ids of tomatoes now X ?e in three days more. Y * I ? s f t j nning f Co. I t ent * X T T T r t ????? ??????