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?HE UNION TIMES ? Ahad D?Ujr Enctpi Sunday by UNION TIMES COMPANY ?? M. Rise KUitu <?cuMrtd tt the Poetotflce id Union. S. C as second class matter. flnsi Butldins Man Street Bell Telephone No. t SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 14.00 Six Months 1.0') Hire* Months 1.00 ADVERTISEMENTS One Square, first insertion II 00 Every subsequent insertion 60 a^alaa. pa.. ?k - ? .1 1 vuivuwi / u\'\ivvoi vuutvia nnvi w\r~sp aoti(N mul notices ot public meetings. entertainments mud Cards of Thanks will be :htrt?d for at be rate of one cent a won', cash accompanying the order. Count *h.' word* and yod will know what the co-f will be MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the uae for republication of new., dispatches credited to it or not " .it" credited in this paper, and also -< *-? nuhhshed therein. TUESDAY, OCTORER 10. 1922. It now begins to appear that whet, strikes come the public is the goat. Coal is $13.50 a ton in Union, ant* hard to get, at that. The only parties benefited are the operators of the mines. Certainly, the miners have not benefited. Months of idU ness, with the consequent loss rf wages, the resulting unsettled conditions and the widening of the gap between employer and employee, have left the worker worse off than before. The only ones to come out ahead are the operators. With a vast amount of coal already mined, all they had to do was to sit still, and begin to raise U- ~_ l .. : ? J -ii w?nj pi ite ui i v/ai. x hi* miners sum mi the time that the operators were goading them to strike, and it looks now like it was the truth. While all this robbing of the public poos on the government is carrying on its investigations and promising relief. But the relief, as usual, will come too late to do those who have been robbed any good. The Christinr religion teaehes us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked give a cup of cold water to the thirsty and minister to the sick and the weary. And such ministration is beautiful. But the spirit of Christianity goes much further. It seeks to banish hunger from the earth, destroy poverty and disease, and give la every human being a cbance to be .. ~11 - 1 1 * - ? wen emu nappy. n is iar Detter to open the way for a man to help him self, than it is to keep his body and soul together by dishing out to him bread and cheese. It is a serious question whether professlon&r cKarltv does not harm more than It helps. Something goes out of a man who is the recipient of long continued assistance. His self-respect is destroyed. His capacity to think for himself is impaired. He sinks lower and lower into helpless poverty and often becomes an ingrate. The food and raiment donated can do good only when it comes in an emergency. It is temporary relief; the cure comes later. Christianity thus teaches the rendering of first aid, and then the application of a cufe. It appears to us that athletics ir. the schools and colleges is being a bit over done. Particularly in many ,f our high schools. There <ir? too many trips made during the school term. The present status allows a few to overdo and the many to go without sufficient physical training. We dr not mean to condemn physical training in our schools. The truth is, we have all too little physical training. It is a very poor start that a boy or _i i * ? ? ? ' - Kin nas wnen trie ucxiy is neglected. No matter how much mental training your child has, a feeble, diseased bouy will prove a terrible handicap. But a thorough training in a well equipped gymnasium would meet the needs rf all the students. And classes in physical culture should be as much a part of the course as arithmetic. Crime continues to sweep over the land, a veritable tidal wave of it. it has been said that three-fourths of it is caused by whiskey. We all know that most of it is so caused. It is not because we are trying by prohibition to put down the liquor traffic, but because oi the nature of the beast itself. When men are under the influence >f whiskey they are in prime condition io commit murder or any other crime. The man of ambition may start ou" working for another, but it will n?t be long before he will strike out for himself. To that end he will labor, plan, save. And why not? It is the desire of every redblooded man to own property, to have something he can call his own. And in a country liko ours, the ambition is easily attained. But suppose we had no stable government? Suppose there were no protection to property and life? The-e are many such regions upon the earth today, and they aru not desirable places in which to live. If the abovo statements are true, is it not worth while to hold up the law? Should wc not by word and deed be the friends of the law? i i ] Most of our reading* is done so hurriedly that wa gat practically no ben- J eftt from it. It is the age of hurry; , an age that is superficial. It is an { age of the short cut, the get-rich-quick < scheme, the age of camouflage und j sham. No wonder that hypocrisy and , rascality abound. We have caught ( the automobile and airplane pace, and i ha/e no'lime to think, weigh, ponder. " And nowhere is this craze more in ' evidence than in the habit of skim- ( ir.ing in our reading. It would be a j good thing if we would determine to I do some careful reading each day of 1 something solid, something worth J while. x yHHDu1 Our cat says small minds cheri ;h spite. * Our cat says energy misapplied is sinful waste. * Our cat says we think well of those who praise us. * Our cat says logical deductions are j often misleading. Our cat says some man would tail to hear opportunity even though it knocked with a sledge hammer. ? Our cat says those who believe money to be everything come finally to realize that it is nothing. Our cat says pay your subscription to The Times: we need the "dough.'' * ? Our cat says the heart of the gardener is rewarded for his months of labor when flowers bloom. m m Our cat says if the mothers would enter into the social life of their daughters, the tongues of gossips 'would wag less. Our cat says riding the water wagon never yet killed a man. * Our cat cays weak minds falter in a crisis. * * * Our cat says a business must yield a reasonable profit to live. m m m Our cat says it is easy to be an optimist when the shies are bright * * Our cat says a war to exterminate rats ought to be put on in this town. Our cat says now is the time to i?<.gin war on the boll weevil. Our cat says do riot envy the successful man, be one. ' ? Our cat says it is astonishing ho.v many things you can do without when you try. \ 1 Our cat says men grow wise by p.; tlent plodding. I Our cat says some people said the boll weevil would never do any damage in Union county. j * * < Our cat. says those who plow under < cotton stalks this winter may hope 1 to pick cotton next fall. i Our cat says extravagant wives ( turn honest men into rogues. j 1 Our cat says the reason advice is s cheap lies in the fact that there is an * overproduction of it. j 1 Notice 1 ? I On Saturday, October 14, The Union Times correspondents are asked to 1 meet at the Monarch community fair i and we will have a picnic from 10 to \ ? o'clock. All bring well-filled bas- i kcts. All are urged to attend. ] R. M. White, Miss Julia Young, . Pres. . i Secretary. 1504-2t < ?? , Misses Antoinette Currier and An- ] na Bender, New York girls, have ar- \ rived in Los Angeles after a hike , across .the continent. Miss Ann* Mathews has been :nsta)l*d as th* first woman r*gist*r of 1 deeds in Naw York city. Importations of Scottish tweeds to the United States is increasing. i Cheap Cotton Manufacturers Record. Randall N. Durfee, a New England .pinner end a prominent member of the National Cotton Manufacturers' association, has written an article for the New York Journal of Commerce almost every paragraph of which bejins with the dictum "cotton should 3e cheap." It should be cheap, says Mr. Durfee, because it is a prime necessity, because it furnishes clothing for the poor man, because millions of workers are dependent on it for a livelihood, because "only in times \)f cheap cotton does the manufacturer secure a reasonable profit on the capital invested," etc., etc. We ought to strive to produce cotton as cheaply as possible, says Mr. Durfee, instead of curtailing production. He thinks that the cotton-producing sections are capable of producing large enough crops to make cotton cheap. As these arguments, however, appear by themselves to be a little too "raw," it should be stated that Mr. Rurfee also contends that "by cheap cotton is not meant a price which does not show a profit to the producer. All interests handling cotton arc entitled to a rea sonable profit, but the producer is not entitled to charge 20 cents for cotton cost 10 cents any more than the manufacturer is entitled to charge $1 for the finished cloth costing 50 cents." Perhaps Mr. Durfee thinks cotton labor is inefficient and unprogressive. It is. Fi^e-cent cotton had a way of closing schools, dressing labor in rags, housing it in hovels and prohibiting the construction of churches. It made the slavery of pre-Lincoln days appear in comparison as some sort of heaven. It degraded even the negro. It swelled the death lists, apotheosized ignorance, pauperized whole sectiono. Before the Civil War there had been negr oslavery in the South. After the Civil War, the cheap cotton advocates undertook a new enslavement of the whole South, white and black. There is and can be no such thing cotton production at ten cents tier pound, under boll weevil conditions, and nobody knows it better than does Mr. Durfee. And nobody knows better than he does thut if production of cotton at ten cents the pound were possible it would be possible only by : weating blood out of American citizens and giving them in return not even a proper food supply. Mr. Durfee knows that, or ought to know it. Nay, more; he knows that a price of 20 cents for cotton, now, is an infamous price?havoc-making. To defend it is equivalent to defending the march of an invading army through the South, spreading destruction at every turn. The maintenance of American dominance in cotton production is desirable, highly desirable, provided profit also is maintained, but not otherwise. Philanthropy is carried to ah extre7he " if the Southern farmer is to go on indefinitely producing cotton at a loss. None more than the farmer laments the necessity for acreage reduction, but Mr. Durfee knows, or ought to know, that the only way in which the I boll weevil can be fought at all successfully is by intensive cultivation, and intensive cultivation requires cor centration of available labor on small, er, nor larger, acreage. Doubling the acreage might actually reduce the size of the total crop. VA OAff AM 10 />U AOT\ JAO vvvkuii 10 vucap tuut ut'^taura; millions. No cotton is cheap that is paid for by the misery and ignorance i of blacks and whites. No cotton is cheap that reduces whole populations to the condition of Indian serfs. But if Mr. Durfee and his associates, so intent on profits for themselves, would work for cotton prices that carried with tern something like a living wage for the producers, out of the prosper- i ity resulting the South unquestionably, we think, might through educa- i tional processes, etc., gradually I achieve a greater efficiency, which i would corresponding reduce produc- | tion costs. "Distress cotton," however, is not a national asset; it is a national liability. | It is true that foreigners are mak- ( ing stupendous efforts to establish | cotton production in their own colo- , ies. Maybe Mr. Durfee has noted that , they are doing it by guaranteeing | prices, which is the equivalent of ( guaranteeing profits. They are not | worried so much about price as they ( ire about supply. If more production , |(t ?frVt r* M ? ?' ?? ' in miak mi. 1/uncc ?anis, lit' muy t/t' , lble to get it by guaranteeing prices . ilso. We do not doubt that hundreds ( :>f planters would be willing to contact to produce cotton for him at cost . plus a reasonable profit. The trouble with many men of Mr. Durfee's type, however, is not that they want cotton it a fair price, but that they want sotton at an unfair price. They want it at less than cost. Indeed, a little less selfishness and a little more conscience would be good for more than mo depresser of cotton prices. Moral lesponsibility! The boll weevil may | he, as some negroes think, a visitation From the Almighty in protest against the conditions under which wit>/in himi t>een produced. ' The development of the co-opera* ^ Live selling plan in the South is so * rapid that many look forward to the < Lime when the price will be fixed as 1 absolutely, year by year, as is the , price of steel. Cotton then will l>e ' 'cheap." It will be "cheap" in the ' *ense that it will be sold for actual 1 lost of production, plus a reasonable * profit. But the kind of cheap cottpn 1 Mr. Durfee seems to vision will, we :rnst, never again be seen in the Unit- t ?d States. t ? 1 Vhfe Sisrra Nevada mountains have e LOO peaks over 10,000 feet high. t ' c Purple dye in Augustus' time sold 1 for the equivalent of $180 a pound. c m I A GA I 4 4 1 A IN AU s Prohibition is an Old 1 Story in Bechuana Land London, Oct. 9.?For fifty years Bechuana land, north of ^Cape Colony in Sooth Africa, has enjoyed peace and prosperity under Chief Khama, with Great Britain lending a helping hand when needed. Khama, said to be ths oldest native ruler in Africa, is now celebrating his jubilee. As he looks back over the years he sees much that makes his happy, but nevertheless he is disturbed as to the future of the protectorate. His son and heir belongs to the new order; looks upon Khama as an old fogey; does toffl believe as he does, and shows no inqDnation of following in his footsteps. . For twenty-five years the son has b&p taway from home, and has not aifi his old father. He turned up only' just in time to attend the jubiMgfeciebrations. Acdrafling to the story of him told by th&jMlawayo correspondent of the Mornift* Post, Khama is a remarkable miij *"Opl%jn Bechuna land," hte cor{jsponSft writes, "do we find an exdcinidjyp ttfl* nmie ^hat the* caming;Jh'' Christiantity and civilizati<Vi maris the passing of the authority ,'0f Chief. Kh&Ui Is a genuine Christian. .He practiet his 'religion. He succeeded in mai xiaining his influence over his people luring the difficult transition periodhen the old order was giving place t the new. Khama was no namby-fijlpby ruler. He did not trust touhe force of his own example al<Jne. He made a *law tlfht none of ^ils people should touch firewater and he enforced it. "One of the secrets of Khama's success," ^^irrites the correspondent, "is his imposition of absolute prohibition of intoxicants within his land. Bcchuana land was dry before the Anti-Saloon League of America began to think of prohibition." At the time of the Jameson Raid, in 1895, Khama needed help. He crossed the ocean and say the "Great White Qtmn." Queen Victoria told him the Aid would he stopped, and that as ltfig as she lived his rights should not he infringed by any of her people,. That promise was kept.' As part of the jubilee celebrations Khama's native army passed before him in ro^ew, and there was dancing and greaf&lemonstrations of loyalty. Many speeches were made. The resident Magistrate, missionaries, and white setSkrs showered congratulations on tie venerable old man. The :< remonieJ|)a8ted a long time. When they werfLdone at last, Khama rose to his feeif and amid profound silence made an ftRipressive speech. At its lose, to t|jp supri8e of everybody, he made a pathetic appeal to his son, Sekgoma. | "1 have a word for ?iy son. I do lot knowj^bim. He has grown up ?way frogjime, and from his people, so that W cannot know my wishes md their jpays. If he is willing to walk fa) thi road that has hpon Ao?n rie, all wftbe well. He has not yet I ;V<Sto his wart to God. If he will ?ive bin hfart to God I shall have no ioubts." I Italian Alton Industry I In Good Condition Romp, OP- 9.?The cotton industry in Southern Italy has shown satisfactory dilopment since the end of ;he war. fie Meridionali?the Southern Cottotffl^orks?now own 14 mills A'lth 600.#) spindles; lf> factorlese vith 8,00fl|(|)ower looms, two print ngr work* tfith 20 presses. and bleaehng and dySihopa for yams and .ma- < o rials, a mil of 86 estahlishflrimts ;mployW |5,000 hands and using * 12,000 howiower. The dail itpnt is 60 tons of yarn ind oVer aloOO yards of material, md they hjce such a complete < ine of go rh,from the cheapest and j oaraest t< finest and moat artia- ^ ic, that b wl, meeting the demands )f the ho arket, they alao aend argelyto rn Europe, Sodth Amrica, and esa extent to India. * ' ''{ BL-J.li ! II , ! ' ! ~T? LLON OF W'' J^HRfVRA^'VTVn11 . 13HK,s^i W2^k. Zl1 F FOR MOTOR LI WILL SA^ BARREL O TOMOBILE TANDARD Ol (HEW JEI w mmmmmrmmvHmmmmmmmmamm A Ray of Hope ! From Australia I Mid-winter was dreaded a little in R Australia, where Mr.y a.vl June were I thought to contain the possibility i f depression and unemployment which I had marked the Northern Head- B sphere's last winter season. Aus- I traiia's winter seems to be passing oil U pretty well, however, and it may turn 9 out that, instead of reflecting the con ditions of our last winter, it is pleas- J antiy torecasting our next winter - - The Nation's Business. |9 Mrs. Janet Payne Bowles, of In- IT dianapolis, is one of the few women in America engaged In practical ? goldsmithing. J y^Buros and scaldsJ^k | You Will Find | Rr.d Goose SXcee j AT AUSTELL'S SHOE STORE ?? a??? Woolen Goods Require Great Care in Cleaning We have been very successful in vleaning wooien goods and other heavy fabrics?you can profit by our I experience. We sterilize every piece I with live steam and drive out all dust I and dirt. Why take chances on hav I ing your suit clicked up and scorch- I ed by the old way? Phone 167 anc dust-proof motor cycle will call anc deliver anywhere. Special attention to parcel post. Agent for two larg- =* est dye houses in the South. ?p] HAMES PRESSING ?o and t REPAIR SHOP Nicholson Bank Building J Phone 167 YV/ I ' ' d ALL KINDS OF o CEMETERY WORK v P Union Marble & Granite Co. I Main St. Union, S. C. ^ f ______________ r< 1 " i la H. W. EDGAR n Undertaking Parlors pl tl Calls answered day and night ^ Prompt and Efficient Service Day Phone 12ft?Night Phono 311 I P' for Tale ?i SEED WHEAT Red May and Leaps Prolific jjq SEED. OATS f< Fulghum, Appier and Red A Rust Proof L SEED RYE HOI Akruzzi and North Carolina he CLOVER BI Crimson (in rough), Crimson, # (cleaned) and Burr Clover to Winter Hairy Vetch, Rape and B< Beardless Barley. ^ ~ Looks like there will be no ' j| excuse for aot sowing grain u his fall. Mix Vetch and Oats ;or fine forage crop. J. L CALVERT ; JONESVILLE, S. C. St Ill I N .# rine %///// W//U// '/""*// 4/#//* ' ////' | i | |imB m? UBRICATION , l/E YOU F TROUBLi N : LUBRICA' L COMPANY RSEY) pot; Grow - ALL THOSE WHO POTATOES FOR THE REQUESTED TO CAL WE FIND THAT IT W1L TO DISPOSE OF Tt CANNED. WE HAVE N TO GET THE $3,500 JBUILD A,DRYING HOI WE ARE. IT HAS COI THE CROP IS EXCEED THIS COUNTY, AND H WILL, AFTER THE FIF BtUUUU. IMS GIVE! WILL YOU CALL AND WE MAY TAIA IT OVI THE UNION C PRODUCT! LEWIS M. I ECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS MO P' RT CAR OWNERS who need parts t or their cars, call on us. We have wo Dort cars that we have disman- FOl led and can fit your car with any tl >nrt it needs. Murrah Motor Co., C onesville, S. C. 1601-4tDd B ? K iNTED?1,000 ladies to come to ur Great Aluminum Sale Thurs- FOl iay morning, October 12, at 9 re 'clock. Life-time aluminum ware, ec forth $2.00, will be sold for 90c per cc iece. The Union Hardware Co., el Jnion, S. C. 1504-3t , st 1ICE four room cottage on Sardis wi >ad, and near City cemetery. This St an attractive house and a vary irge lot, nearly acre, wired in, and * Or inning water. This is the Kohn m lace. - This nice and attractive lit- Gi e heme can be purchased for R< 1,800. Suitable terms can be ar- SL inged on both these pieces of Bt roperty. S. E. Barron, selling _ ;ent. 1476-tf j \t IAVE a small quantity of good === aed wheat for sale. D. J. Gregory. Shi' tnion, Route 8. ????????? | ? QL NEY TO LOAN at 6 per cent on inn lands only. Jno. K. Hamblin, ?^n. .ttorney for Atlantic Joint Stock p*1*? and Bank. 1499-tf jgl HE FOR SALE!?A six room use, practically new, and attrac- , ire, sewerage, water and lights, on tne8< assengame street in West Union, *lsed nice locality and desirable place ?n liva? prlca only $1,600. S. E. J1"" irron, selling agent. 1476-tf _____ plant P US FILL your prescriptions. We *hiP II any doctor's prescriptions, i* d< nion Drug Store. arrai 1502-Mo-We-Fr-tt ? portt NEY TO LOAN at six per cent Fo ? farm lands only. Jno. K. Hamb. Jno. 1, attorney for Atlantic Joint toee, Lock Land Bank. ion, I 9 0 , ^ f V - ' > *:? # s t riON VW it rs PLANTED SWEET I , CANNERY ARE | L AND SEE US. g L BE IMPOSSIBLE I IE CROP WHEN 1 EVER BEEN ABLE I OF CAPITAL TO E USE. SO, THERE |c Wfc ABOUT THAT g INGLY SHORT IN ENCE, THE.PRICE 1ST FEW WEEKS, > US A WAY OUT. SEE US, SO THAT ?R? ANNING & SCO. (ICE, President. | NEY TO LOAN on city or country ropeily in large amounts on easy irnis. S. E. Barron. 1406-tf it SALE?16 pigs from two to tree mpnths old; six full Poland hina and 11 half Hampshire and erkshire; $5.50 each. John L. Mcinney, Jonesville, S. C. 1504-2t ( RENT?Large, commodious ga ige located on Gadberry street tuipped with lights and sewerage >nnection. Has lathe machine with ectric motor. Surrounded by reets except on one aide. Gas nk and pump, also stand for ashing cars. For terms and rental ;e W. S. McLura. ' 1427-SaATu-tf i RENT?I'n'ii'u fi.rr.fi... /int^owo - " V - -wvm wwvwgs, Uli odern conveniences. Located on age avenue. Now occupied by 2v. T. H. Burton. Early posseaun. See J. H Gault or Foster ;ntley. 10-10-12-14 lvertise in The Turn*. var Srings Bankrupt Sale' ivar Springs located on the SouthRailway between Columbia and >n, 8. C., will be sold under an * of Bankruptcy Court October 922, 10 oclock a. m., Union, S. C. is cash. ie curative and medicinal value of i Springs have been widely edver* 1 and thousands of dollars have spent in advertising. The water ate bottled by the company are rn from Maine to Mexico. The t nnilov m - , ?...>??#* ?*wv?T?ioiii|i &iiu l riictcr. operated ai a profit. The location ??irabie with complete shipping igementa at q minimum cost. The of this property offers fine opinity. r further information apply to K. Hamblin, Attorney for Trusor W. S. Nicholaon, Trustee, Un5. C. 9-26; lOf-0-10-18-16 4