The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, October 10, 1922, Image 2
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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Our cat says small minds cheri ;h
spite.
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Our cat says energy misapplied is
sinful waste.
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Our cat says we think well of those
who praise us.
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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.
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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.''
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Our cat says the heart of the gardener
is rewarded for his months of
labor when flowers bloom.
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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.
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Our cat cays weak minds falter in
a crisis.
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Our cat says a business must yield
a reasonable profit to live.
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Our cat says it is easy to be an
optimist when the shies are bright
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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. '
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Our cat says it is astonishing ho.v
many things you can do without when
you try. \
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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
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Our cat. says those who plow under <
cotton stalks this winter may hope 1
to pick cotton next fall.
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Our cat says extravagant wives (
turn honest men into rogues. j
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Our cat says the reason advice is s
cheap lies in the fact that there is an *
overproduction of it. j
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Notice 1
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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 <
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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 ,
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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
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Vhfe Sisrra Nevada mountains have e
LOO peaks over 10,000 feet high. t
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Purple dye in Augustus' time sold 1
for the equivalent of $180 a pound. c
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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.
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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
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AUSTELL'S SHOE STORE
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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/
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ALL KINDS OF o
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Union Marble & Granite Co. I
Main St. Union, S. C. ^ f
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H. W. EDGAR n
Undertaking Parlors pl
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Calls answered day and night ^
Prompt and Efficient Service
Day Phone 12ft?Night Phono 311
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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
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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 ;
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TO GET THE $3,500
JBUILD A,DRYING HOI
WE ARE. IT HAS COI
THE CROP IS EXCEED
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PRODUCT!
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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1ST FEW WEEKS,
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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
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, ?...>??#* ?*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.
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