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. * 1 - Increase in Red Cross Public Health Work Washington* Oct. 21..?Great increase in the amount of -work done by ths American Red Cross in the field of pubilc health, through its nursing service, home hygiene and care of the sick coudses, nutrition activities, first aid and life saving classes! health centers and other numerous methods, is disclosed in the annual report of the organization for the past fiscal year, which has just been made public. The increasing establishment of services that broadcast among the people approved ' health conservation and disease prevention information emphasizes the necessity of continuous support through a world-wide response to the annual roll call of the Society, from November 11 to 20, the report states. The war time nursing service of the American Red* Cross, when 19,877 nurses were furnished for active duty, has not been allowed to overshadow the society's peace time nursing service, Since 1921 ttfere has been an increase of more than 1,000 nurses on the reserve lifts available for duty at any call. The total number now aggregates 35,865 nurses. Of this re* se^ve 102 are serving with the army, 117 with the navy, 162 with the U. S. Publft Health Service and 1,088 with the U. S. Veterans' Bureau. Thru* Red .Cross nurses died during the payear from disabilities incurred in service in the late war. Last year the society established 81$ n*w pabhc nursing services in as many communities, making a total of 1 ,24# communities in the United Stgtse* Alaska* the Philippines, Porto *i? ???>- ?- ? ? ?, i I ?? WW WW *UKin IDIMOS, <wAwinfii>| mnA in publk health education, as well as nursing. ?4a* tha- home visiting and nursing service more than 1,500,000 visits went made by nurses, visits to schools totalled 140,000, arid in six months 1,260,090 school children were inspected by these nurses, who, in all cases of physical defects advised physicians'! case .to parents. Marked advance was . repotted in rural communities with thosands of converts won to approved methids of disease prevention throughout the country. In home hygiene and care of the sick instruction, which equips the student in proper methods insuring care where illness is not so serious as to require professional service, the Red Cross conducted 3,884 classes, enrolled 2,366 instructors, 93,448 students and issued 42,666 certicates to those completing courses. The nutrition service, which is a recognized factor in public health pro-; grams, also made marked progress. This Red Cross service promotes individual and communitv health in* available authentic information concerning food and the food requirements of different ages in the varying conditions of life. In general health activities the re. port-shows that (Chapters maintained 877 health centers which provided 38,761'lectures. Clinics that .specialized in bdby welfare work numbered close to 16,660. The- record of accidental deaths in the United States reached 62,492 last year. In striving for prevention of untimely death the Bed Cross through its firtt *id end life savings activities is reaching many thousands of persons. Hie Red Cfoss life saving corps has-a personnel of nearly 10,000 qualified in water-first-aid, and throughout the year the society carried on a wide campaign hi teaching people to handle themselves in the water and in life saving. One of the most interesting phases of American Red Cross work is thd activity of the Junior Red Cross. Although the society in July withdrew its reHef organisation from Europe, the-junior society has been authorized to continue its own activities indefinitely "In the last year the Juniors made two outstanding gains," the report declares. "One In the domestic field that is rapidly linking up the schools with the-jtthlor program, the other in the nll'.Af itnun lTlrt?nn??R pledging to organise autonomously on lines- of the Junior American Red Cross.* The report shows 24,528 schools enrolled in the junior society, with a total of 4,488,846 pupils wearing the "I Barest button. The junior work in foreign lands is establishing playgrounds, scjtodl libraries, sewing and manual training classes, homes for war ottfums;school reconstruction in dsrastated' areas and encouraging oommunity gardens and many other cotavyMlMa* Club Boys at the atate ra^r Clemson College, Oct. 17.?All over South Carolina club boys have their eyes turned toward the State Fair to he held in Columbia October 23-28. A large number of these young farmers will attend this great agricultural display and see for themselves the wonderful exhibits and attractions. The State Fair officials, realizing the advantages in having the youngsters present on this occasion, have decided to make Wednesday, October 25, a special day for the club boys who are ' present.. Every club boy who attends the State Fair on*this day will be given a iree luncneon on the Fair Grounds by the Fair officials, according: to announcement by L. L. Baker and B. O. Williams. The admission to the gates will be reduced to 15 cents for all club boys present, not only on this day, but during the entire week. At the i luncheon addresses will be delivered by Governor Wilson G. Harvey, Director W. W. Long, of the Clemson College Extension Service, and state fair officials. Other prominent people will attend the luncheon as guests of , the club boys. In order to make the necessary preparations for the affair, every club i boy should go direct to the Boys' Club headquarters at the left of the main entrance of the large steel building and register as soon as he enters the Fair Grounds. This will reserve a place for him at the luncheon; and he < can get other information which he < needs, as this will be the boys' own corner. Next to the club boys' headquarters will be found the corn club i | exhibit, which every club boy should carefully study and observe. Tickets should not be neglected, for if the club < boys expect o get their tickets for 15 cents, they must purchase them from i the county agents, or else identify ] themselves as club-boys at,?ha gates .j of the Fair Grounds. "Meet me at the State Fair" should i be the slogan of every club boy who 1 can possibly see his way to attend. .1 A large crowd of club boys will be on , hand, end every clubster .who misses will miss a wonderful opportunity. i " ' I The First Woman , Senator on Protection i And Prohibition , Mrs. Win. "H. Felton, the first United States woman senator, who for years- has been a leader in many (rood works and words in Georgia, in the course of an interview printed in the Baltimore Sun (rave emphatic endorsement of a protefctive tariff and of prohibition. On these questions she said: * "We of the South should hail a protective tariff as a real blessing:. We cannot expect cur industries to thrive if we allow foreign manufacturers to come into our country with their goods made with labor 10 to 20 times as cheap as we are nble to get it and undersell us. "Our manufacturing' in the South in in its infancy. We need to stand by and help. And, unless we can sell our goods cheaper than a man from China or Japan, Germany or France, we cannot hope to see them grow. < "There's our cotton. We are iust ? ?f T V beginning to see how much more val- e able it is going to be to us when we 2 get our own mills to spinning so that 1 we won't have to ship it way up to c New England and then buy it back at a 20 times the price we were paid for it. >] What if Japan, with her labor costing 0 practically nothing, could bring man- 2 ufactured cotton goods into our coun- 1 try and sell on an equal footing with |, our own mills?how long would our j plant* survive? j, "I'd vote every .time for a tariff f that protects!" a Mrs. Felton's views on prohibition e are straightforward. In a single syllable she quickly answered a question put to her regarding agitation for the 0 moderation of the Volstead act. , "No," she answered quickly. Mrs. Felton said: "I'd a million g times rather cut off my good right ^ arm than see whisky brought back ^ into our country. Or, for that mat- ^ ter, see that splendid prohibition act IIAAJ I? _ 11 iiuutuou ui any aegree. "If you could have lived when I was young and could have seen tho j wretchedness it brought to many, r many homes right here in our own county, you couldnt ask me if I woul > dlike to mo it even modified. f "Prohibition! God bless that glorious oongrsss that made it a law in our land to prevent the use of intoxicants 1. In any way whatever!"? Manufacturera Record. t _ . . _i J U-'lfc t I It pays to advertise in The Ttata. c \ ^ss^KISSS^ 11 li 1 Letter to the Public Locklmrt, 2>. C., Oct. 20, 1922. Just a few lines to tne public at large. A great many of us from time to time enjoy favors, or, we might say, luxuries, that are rendered to us oaily, such as the telephone and telegraph, the railway system, the newspapers, and"flthers, too many to enumerate. And a great deal do we appreciate them, too, but how about our jitney buss lines? , Hoy many of us ever stop to consider this great treat? Many of the country people have lots of business to see to in the city, ^likewise the city people have business to manage in the country. How about the jitney bus line? Do we appreciate them as we should? This, you may answer for yourself. As I said, we may have to go to opr business either to the city or the country and how nice it is to step out ot our door right into a nice jitney and ride right where we want to go. But how many of us appreciate this enough? Many people enjoy riding to and from their daily work on the jitney, the price paid for riding being so small that it would hardly accede the price paid for the leather consumed on half sole. How mrny Cf our children enjoy thd city schools by riding to and from them on the jitney? I will not give this number but we do know the number is large. Of course, some might say, "What is the jitney worth to the man with capital? The big business man? doesn.'t he own his big fine car?" The answer could be yes, but does all his employees own one and if they did could they run one at the price of jitney fare? Does not the big business man send his employees out on errantis in several instances miles away. These trips would expensive if automobile hire was to be paid. Just ask the business man about the jitnay. v Now how many of.us have walked a couple of miles over to otir neighbor's house to ride down to town with nun in oraer to save the same payment, really due the jitney man. Let us do our bit of patronizing Lhe greatest treat that ha;? ever been to our country. Take a pleasure ride sometime and let's keep our jitney man in good heart. These few lines were written ^free will in appreciation of the jitney bus lines. Forrest C. Wood. Total Marine War Losses Announced in Germany Berlin, Oct. 20.?With time at his command to make a careful investigation, and the disposition to delve nto statistics, Dr. Christian SiegripH Tnpplio.Miulor t> ? ? ?? %?! n vict moil pUU* icist, has announced that a total of .9,900,000 of enemy mercantile shipling was sund by German submarines during the war. Of this aggre- ' rate', he says, 14,300,000 tons went 1 lown during the unrestricted cam- 1 >aign beginning on February 1, 1917, ncluding 12,300 tons in English ships. ' Dr. Toeche-Mittler gives the total >erman shipping losses during the var as follows: One ship of the 1 ine, (the "Poramern," lost in the 1 >kagerrak attack); seven armorlad cruisers (of which the newest ind largest was the "Luetzow," of ' 16,000 tons and launched in 1918, also 1 ost at Skagerrak); 17 protected 1 ruisers, ten gunboats, three special hips, two surveying vessels lost at Tsingtau, 48 large, 24 small and 38 1 Id torpedo boats of various sizes; !8 mine sweepers, 199 submarines, ' 7 auxiliary cruisers, 22 other auxil- 1 ary vessels, and more than 100 fish- 1 ng steamers. In addition 80 naval ' alloons were lost, some through fire * rom land, some because of storms, ,nd others on account of landing on 1 nemy soil. ' The sinkings at Scapa Flow are 1 riven as five large cruisers, ten ships ' f the line, five small cruisers, and . 2 torpedo boats. Dr. Toeche-Mittler inscribes these sinkings as "a noble, elf-chosen fate which atoned for the arnatre done the honor of naw y the revolution and which maniested to the enemy the German dea nee." Common house-flies have been 1 >roved to migrate as much as six 1 nfles in one day. / I The largest single floor school in , he United States is at Port Wayne, ; rid. ^ .- i m An aerial tram line 22 1-2 miles i rag is operated by a British Columbia mine. j The average human body conains enough fat to make seven cakes fsonpt -i- *' v ' * ' 1 ' 1 ?"r 1 I i """J 1 ? Farmers of the South Headed for Independence Washington, D. C., Oct. 21.? 'The Southern farmer is making ho] ieful progress in his journey from dependence upon a single money crop, trite its one pay-day per year at m*rirn? time for cotton or tobacco, toward the independence to be obtain el' by the operation of his farm to {yield cash returns throughout > the year from the sale of truck crops, cuttle, hogs, poultry and dairy products," says Fairfax Jiarrison, president of the Southern Railway company, in his annual report which goes'on to say: "One proof of this ^progress is found in a report by the United States Bureau of Markets that from January 1, 1922, to August 19, 1922, there were shippped from the stahtrof North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee 107,298 carloads of cabbage, cantaloupes, lettuce, onions, strawberries, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, watermelons, Irish potatoes, peaches and mixed vegetables, compared with 83,629 carloads for the same period of last year, an . increase of 23,669 carloads or 28.30 per cent, and this showing was made in spite of the fact that there was a substantial decrease in production of watermelons and peaches because of unfavorable weather conditions. "Other bits of evidence of the same character are the establishment of 26 new creameries in the territory served by Southern Railway Syptem, a larg increase in the production. j>t butter,, th raising in south Georgia of milk fed poultry along the Hnea for many years profitably practiced in east Tennessee, the placudgm farms throughout the terrtoArVtf more pure bred poultry. tlr^iJBp * previous year, and the groW grade tobacco iri South Ca(if^ror'1^ Quaghh j * "The movement of farri 1 into the South, comparative fdr several years past, shows b?iunof increasing. Sound and' consejjvatfoe colonization projects are being launched in severs^ localities served by Southern Railway "System. Lands will be prepared for farming and offered on terms which should attract a desirable class of farmers from parts of the United States where land prices, measured by productive value, relatively are much higher than in the South." Devises New Method of De*Gre?imf WaHhington, Oct. 20.?-In ordsn to compare the grease and dirt contests of various wools and to improve Wools in these respects, the U. S. Department of Agriculture has deviaqd a new method of degreasing and washing the dirt from samples. In the course of this work it was: found that samples from the side of the fleece are best for the purpose as tip*. contents of dirt and greast is this part are closely Velated to the average for the entire fleece. In the method for determining grease, as now used by the Depart ment, the samples are washed three times with gaso nlie,whi.Oavnicmfw times with gasoline, which is grained off through a Alter paper that relists all foreign matter. It Iisb been found that this treatment IsavSs only 9.17 percent of grease in Rambouillet wool and only. 0.28 percent to Wool of the cross bred sheep used. Dirt is taken out of the agmples t>y washing with soap and water. The wool is cleaned well if the watef to at i temperature between 4A and 46 de ?rees Centigrade-, which is not hot i ;nough to felt the wool. Results obtained by testing various samples of wool for grease and dirt will be need in planning the mating of sheep in an attempt to mprove the fleece to these respects. Pan Pacific Congress To bo in Australia Sydney, N. 8. W., Oct. 20.?The Australian National Research Council has approved the proposal to hold the Pan*PiecMc ScietttHte- Otttgllil" in Sydney and Melbourne neat ytar following: an appeal by A. Andrews, New South Wales government geologist. The 5,000 pound appropriation by the corAraonwealth for the Conpress will be expended thrbugh the Institute of Science and fttdustfy. An Lnvttatidn to participate in the eonpreps already hae been sent to the National Research Council of the United States snd h^s been accepted. Rattlesnake no lain akWte the heart quickly and violently. ft tVV "HI A Comwi?kj Fair Friday, the 27th of October, will llkaty be a treat day in the Boganivilla townahip. On the afore-named data the peopletrotn every school district in the township are scheduled to meat at Wast Sprints school as participators in the Community Fair. This promisee to be a treat day for the community. Every class room in the school building is expected to be crowded with exhibits and displays depicting the progress of our farmers and the illustrious home economic department. The entire school ground and building will be given over to the occasion, and large crowds , of people are expected from all sec-! tions of both Union and Spartan- i burg counties. Tha program covers every houd of ( the day. There will be something happening every minute. The quality of the program will be somewhat like the following: Plays, dialogues and speeches by the children; oration by some prominent citizen of Spartanburg or Union; contest in jumping, trac, etc; a base ball gram* between West Springs and some other , school in the township. Yonr attendance would be highly appreciated. Remember, place of fair is West Springs, Friday, October 27th. Kelton News I j, Mrs. Russel Garner and children, Haakel and Mary Allen, spent several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Chester Garner. Miss Mattie Gamer is at home spending her vacation. .Misses Elizabeth Stone and Frances Little, who are attending school in Uhion, spent the week end with their parents. Mrs. W. W. Hall,, after spending several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Little, left for her home in Miami, Fla., and was accompanied by her sister, Miss Lillian Little, who (s to spend the winter with her. Mrs. J. E. Keily and children were shopping in Union Thursday. Mrs. Winnie Sanders and Mrs. Eva Ghrner spent the week end with relatives in Cherokee County Robert Hutchings and son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Davis Broome spent the week end with Mrs. Broome's father at Chesnee. Copper From Russia May Prevent American Monopoly ft ??? London, Oct. 20.?That the recent agreement between the Soviet Government and the Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Company, which will permit the handling of the inexhaustible i copper, lead and zinc resources of Russia, is the most important event British industry since, the armistice, is the opinion of Sir Edward E4gar Bart, the merchant banker. Sir Edward, in an interview, has declared that while the world at the present is running short of these metals and the present source of supply is being rapidly depleted, the reserves of Russia, which are practically vir gin, will be laid open, averting any possibility of an acute shortage. There are vast -areas in Russia containing these metals which have never been touched for commercial purposes according to his statement. "It is quite possible," Sir Edward said, "that without this new Russian source the supply of copper, lead and zinc in the world would be exhausted within the next twenty years. Russia is our only hope of lessening this catastrophe, for the resources of the United States, which represent about forty percent of the total, are rapidly dwindling. "For the next decade I can see America lording it over the world of industry through her control of these metals, but I also see her squandering her heritage with recklessness, and I further 'see how it may easily hatqen that Great Britain, through her development in Russia, will assume a position in the metal industry that will displace America. "That is where the Russo-Asiatic Consolidated company and the Soviet government come in. If allowed to develop to the full extent of its capacity, this company may easily become the greatest producer and purveyor of copper, lead and zinc in th^ worki? It will free Brtiish industry ' from servitude to these essential 1 trans-Atlantic raw materials, and it will secure for us a supply of these metals that will be felt in every department of British commerce and manufacture. I believe the coming 1 period of leanness and scarcity will 1 be followed by long years of plenty 1 that will more than re-establish us in our old prosperity." Methodist Schools Show Increase 4 i Chicago, Oct. 21.?Increased enroll- 1 ment this year over that of 1921 In the 40 colleges and universities reporting to the Board of Education of the . Methodist Episcopal church, shows that the post-war revival in college attendance is not temporary, that | board declares. v An increase of almost 5,000 students is disclosed this year. Fall , registration totaled 55,570, which is expeeted to be increased by several hundred before the end of the school yea?, Last year the total reached 51*10. , Boston University, with 9,500 stu- < dents* and Northwestern University, with 0,000 students, were the two , largest school reporting. I POTATO I Growers ALL THOSE WHO PLANTED SWEET I POTATOES FOR THE CANNERY ARE I REQUESTED TO CALL AND SEE US. I WE FIND THAT IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE I TO DISPOSE OF THE CROP WHEN I CANNED. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE g TO GET THE $3,500 OF CAPITAL TO I BUILD A DRYING HOUSE. SO, THERE I WE ARE. IT HAS COME ABOUT THAT I THE CROP IS EXCEEDINGLY SHORT IN I THIS COUNTY, AND HENCE THE PRICE I WILL, AFTER THE FIRST FEW WEEKS, I BE GOOD. THIS GIVES US A WAY OUT. I WILL YOU CALL AND SEE US, SO THAT I WE MAY TALK IT OVER? I THE UNION CANNING & | I PRODUCTS CO. I I LEWIS M. RICE, President. I To Our Subscribers Mr. Roy Vaughan, having resigned as collector for The Times, we beg to urge our *... . _ - ,.. ' i'' ~ ? friends to drop in and renew their subscription. We have not at present any coUector " Iin the field, and will appreciate your coming in and renewing your subscription. The fall of the year is here and many subscriptions are expiring this month. Call in and give us your renewal or mail us your check for renewal. \ , The Union Times LEWIS M. RICE, Editor. |, Prepare For Exports Continue Educational Convention ncrease Over Imports Cleveland, O., Oct. 21.?School su- Oil. 20.?The country's forperintendents and leading educators ***" trQ<le during August resulted, acfrom all parts of the United States cording to the returns published by ire expected here February 26 to finance department, in an excess March 1, for the 1923 convention of exports over imports aggregating the department of superintendents of 8?568,000 yen, the former reaching the National Educational association. 146,000,000 yen and the latter 137,In addition to the geenral sessions ^>0?? yen- This brings the yearly >i tne convention, lib separate daily w i ,uzo,zt>u,uuu yen for meetings of committees and suvsidi- exPort and 1,386.000,000 yen for imary organizations will be held, it is P01"^ Compared with the correspondannounced. trig period last year, the above indi"Thc department is the most rep- ca*ed ?n increase in the excess of imresentative of and one of the more im- P?rt over e*P?'rt by approximately portant educational groups in the &6>0?0,000 yen. country," A. J. Kennedy convention . No ,llver or waR exported dur. manager states. "It is virtually the August while their import backbone of the educational system," am?unted to 158,000 yen, bringing the he added. gross total since the beginning of The various subsidiary organiza- y?*1" 2?000,000 yen for export tions include deans of women, pro- an^ 7h6.?bO yen for import, of gold feasor* of various subjects and semi- an" 8^vereducational organizations. . _ . ,, , . - A Persian bride's dowry is carried . , through the streets by porters to The cocaine user is never hungry show her father's prosperity. and ean go from five to ten days ?? * without aloep. The dreaded black rattlesnake is ~ rrTTT"- > generally found at elevation between The gold and jewels that went down 8,000 and 6,000 feet. with the Lturttania were worth be- . . - . tween $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. l^ooh at the little yellow tabeh * \