The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, February 06, 1918, Image 2

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y If , i r A Goetrt. No war »• won by eannoo ftr* alone: Tbe acldler boar* the a rim and drenty role; Be dlee to aerre the Tlaa he has known: Hi* duty la to gala the dtatant goal. But If the toller In hie'homeland fair Falter In faith and shrink from every teat If he be not on duty erer t ’there. Lost to th# rauae la every eol. ’ dler'a beat. The men at home, the toiler In the ahop. The keen-ered watcher of the apln- ning drill Hear no command to vault the Among the etepe taken by our government tto eonaerve the food and ftidl supply of tbe nation, there la none more Important, according to our way of thinking, than the' program for' the conaervatlon of food, prepared by the United Stato* Food Admlniatration and r«lueoted An President Wilson’s, proclamation last week, in which the saving o! flour, meat and sugar la urged and demanded. The people are called upon to observe two wheatleas. day 1 one meatleaa day and two porkleav days each week, and a 10 per cent voluntary reduction In the hous^ sugar ration. To force wheat con servation both wholesalers and re tailers will be required to.llmit the!.' purchases of wheat flouV to 70 per cent of last year’s supplies. The remaining 30 per cent will be taker, from the mills by the food ‘admin istration for the purpose of <reatin^ an export surplus. Dealers are re quired to sell flour only trhen an. equal hum her of pounds of corn meal, grits, rice, or some substitute STANDARD •. ■ • Wednesday, February 6, 1918. trench’s top; They know not what It is to dlej for flour it purchased at the same i or kill, . And yet they must be brave and constant, too. Upon them lies theft precious / country's fate: They also serve the Flag as soldiers do. Tis theirs to make a nation*.! army great. Ton bold your country’s honor 'n your care. Her glory you shall help to mak^ or mar; For ther, who now her uniform must wear Can be no braver soldiers thin you are. From day to day, in big and little deeds. At bench or lathe. Or desk, or stretch of soil. You are the man your country sore- !v needs! ' Will yon not rire to her your finest toil? No war is won by cannon fire alone: The men at home must also sha-e fiNL fight. By what they are a nation’s strength is shown: The armv but reflects their love of right. •*. ' y. Will v ou not help to hold our battle line. Will you not give the fullest of your powers In sacrifice and service that are fin-*,. That vlctwry shall speedilv / ours? / />. / / RFX'HKTKIWJ COUNTY OFFICES / The Pres*and Standard is of the r.piniorc That the provisions ma ;«* iy^the ColletoitXr le'. ation to comply with the request of the Grand Jury for a 1 re-checking and verlflcatvoa of the findings of Accoun*aiit C. 1.. Vann, werf eminently vyisc. Th*- feport by Mr. Vann was startlin '. If true the cotmty ’ should he able 's^lo recoveg the shortatc^ r eporte<l H untrue, the officers I . '\e<i need * » Chtuplotc Vindication. h a \in- dication^ES can be given ’>)• a thor ough. reeph^king by Uie • \perts who have been sehqred. T is best for Mr. Vann and >qr th* officers in v«l\ed. When theVe\pcrts finisli their work, they wiiK.be able to establish to the entire 'shfisfartion of the people of the conntyNeither time. . •• It is the duty of every American citizen to comply with this ruling to thf If tier. While it may be, a little sacrifice and a little Inconven ient at times to do this, it is noth ing in comparison to the sacrifices and hardships that our soldier boys jrho are there now or soon will be in the trenches In a foreign land— are making and enduring for us. It is for these heroes that we ar? asked to make these little sacrifices^ in order that they may never lack a needqd ounce of food while they are fighting our battles on the blood-drenched battlefields of Eu rope. - . * The following extracts are taken from the statement of Herbert Hoov er. United States Food Administrat or which is published on one side of a Supplemental Home Card whir i Is soon td be distributed by the United States Food Administration for South Carolina: problem is to feed the Al- our own soldiers abroad by thenu^ta-mueh food as we the most concentrated nutri tive value in the least shipping spare butter and sugar "Our solution is to eat* less,, o;’ these and as little of all foods as wij support healti| and Strength. All saving counts for victory. „’’W* do bpt need to starve our own- people. We have plenty for selves and it Is the firm policy of the Food Administration to\retaiu for our people, by its control of ex ports. a sufficient supply of every essential food stuff. We want no body In our country 4o eat less than is necetwarK for .good health and full strength for America needs tbe full productive power of all its pert- pic. Much of tho needed saving can be effected by substit-uting ope kind of food for another. Hut the time has conje to put aside all self ishness and disloyalty. The time has come for sacrifice. “Tl»e Allies ask us to meet oh^y their absolutely imperative needs. Tbe.v are restricting the consump tion of their own people to the mini mum necessary*' for health and strength. They are controlling thyir 4 . „ . v food by drastic government . regnl;>- the guilt or innocence of the j^r- non .. There is every actual privi ties involved., and whether or no>-. ,lon » nif >ng their women and chil- PLAXT PLKrirr OF FOOD FLAXTtt The events of the past few weeks <9 ' have show* how sad a plight w* would have been in here. If/we had to buy everything we needed for food. There ban been no suffering in thin section because of aeareity of the essentials of Ufe. The sugar famine and the salt scarcity have given uk an idea of the sad plight of other pections of the country. The flour scarcity will soon bring to us the* realization of what real food shortage is, unless we comply with thF*demands of tbe government ani save flour.' But situated as all are in Colle ton county and lower South Caroli na, we need suffer no pangs of hun ger or go poorly fed to bed, if we grow plenty of food plants. Tie season for planting is here. Let u* be wise. K , THE « ItlSfS OK THE WAM In his address to the farmers, of the nation, appealing for a supreme effort, at production of food sup plies, the President indicates his per suasion. that the end of the war is practically in sight, , confirmin'; thereby, with the authority of knowl edge, the judgment of most thought ful people who are reading the signs of the times, says the Charleston Evening Post. The President’s words are unusually significant. He said: - * ■'* “You will realize, as I think states men on both sides of the water real ize, that the culminating ’crisis of the struggle has come and that the achievements of this year on the one side or the other must deter mine the issue.” That is the nearest to a categori cal prediction that the war will end during the present year that has been made by the chief of any of the warring nations, and U may be tak en, perhaps, as something more than prophecy. Instead of the prospect of peac4 within the next eleven months moving us to halt our ener gies in preparation for the struggle however, the President emphasizes the obligation upon us to exert our selves all the more to improve the opportunity to bring to a finish *. world catastrophe. He said; \ “It has turned out that the forces that fight for freedom depend upo i us in an extraordinary and une\\ pelted degree for substenance, for the supply of materials by which men are to live and; to fight, and it will be our glory when the war ta over ftiat we have supplied those materitils and supplied them abun- These foods are wheat, beef, pork, ^antiy, and I: will be all the mo^e Kiiftaar n rwt antra** * f? Colleton County has lost any mone; through xioiations of law by offi.- ■ iaU. ** - ■« w The officials who have been ret ported short by Mr. Vann are either guilty or innocent, if they are gull ty. thia ftact should be established beyond doubt; If Innocent the testi mony should be so conclusive that no one can have the least doubt oi their complete innocence. Surelv Mr. Vann, together with the Comp troller General and the Auditor wlo win come here to make an Inde pendent investigation, will be able to satisfy every person in the coun’v and will prove conclusive. We trust that everything will be found all rlcht. and that there will be a complete vindication of ou.- officers. \ LAW KKFOK4 KMKVr KI ND ;Si IK The House ^ oL Representative* last week refused to permit an ap propriation to go throucb for a law enforcement fund designed to sup ply the means for a vigorous co- forcenjent of the strict prohibition law passed fry the house. The chie’ arguments used were that the reg ularly elected officers of the cm+alv should be able to enforce such lawx without aid from outside. fn the main this is true hut many times an outsider can discover violations of law much more easily than a Sheriff or Magistrate. This 1* par. tlcularly true of Violations of the Hy*n there is starvation in Belgium. '^The. whole great problem of win ning the war rests primarily on one thing: -the loyalty ahtf sacrifice <f the AmvfrkQ people m the matter of food. It is hot a government respor sibility It is a responsibility of each individual. Each'- pound of fool saved by each Amerhqin citizen is a pound riven to the su>port fo om army, the Allies and thx friendh neutrals/ Each pourid wasted or eaten unnecessarily is a pound'xjth- held from them. It is a direct p>r- It conscripts, by moral force, every man,'woman and child in the cour. try. It makes each of them a fac tor in the war. with a measure of * responsibility and of opportunity short only of those who expose their bodies to the fire of the enemy. It means that by increased productions and by rigid savings at home we can- conquer.at a minimum of waate o our young manhood. It is j.n jn spirini| idea and one that sho;! ; produce great results. „ sons! obligation on the part of each ..powerful appeal to every American of us to some one in Europe whom we are hound to help. “If we are selfish o* even care less. we are dislnval. we are the en emy at home Now is the hour of our testing. Let us make it the hoiii' of our vietory: victory over our- selvea; victory over the Enemy of Freedom.? We say again that It is the sacred duty of our people to comply read ily and willingly with every request of our government to conserve the food supply of the nation. It will not he long now till millions of our soldiers will be in the thickest of the -patties in Europe. And wheq the spring drive begins and the dal ly papers, wrtt’j glaring headlines across'their front pages, each day pklbltsh tbe list pf names of the hundreds and thousands of- ou.r he- ( /‘»es whese !i\e.« were swept in;o etrrnirr-»U* previous dav by the gun fire and shell twrrat of the enemy U is then. wK^ayK-hencath the heartaches and sadness this terrible news will bring, there will be a lit- tle joy in the knowledge that Aon have done your bit. glory because in supplying'them w» ha' e mode ouf supremo effort and sacrifice.” Two points of extraordinary in terest are contained in thin state ment, the assertion, In the f*r«: place, that the mea'snre of this na tion’s participation in the war has turned out to he Greater, than ve- orlginallv estimated, and the pla n intimation that pur eff<Ht is to l *'- principally in furnishing supplies to the European belliurents. WhiK the President does not sav so. relatively easy to read from liiK statement that the measure of Amer ican military contribution to the war has beer( definitely set. tha: our energies are to be concentrate! on supplying ifiatcm 1 to our Alii*- * rather than the pouring out of man pov.*w and that these undertaking adequately fulfilled, should hr n. the war »t*‘ a Successful conclusion by the end of the present year. T" the same token, if we tail to’supply the tnUerial and equipment ooV Al. lies require of us, the year .will ses. th^ war come to aa unsatisfactory close. The crisis, then, consists in America's powers of production, with which is involved, of cdurse. the nation's capacity to conserve its resources, by self denial and sacri fice on the part of its citizen- There is in this an extraordinary There la more Catarrh In thia aactlon of tha country than all other dlaaaaea put totether. and for yeara It waa aup- poaed to bo incurable. Doc tore preaertbed local remedial, and by constantly failing to cure wllh local treatment, pronounced tt Incurable. Catarrh is a local dlit-ase. greatly Influenced by conatttuttonal con- ditiona and therefore requires conatltu- Uonal treatment. Hkll'a Catarrh Medi cine. manufactured ay F. J. Cheney * Co.. Toledo. Ohio, ta a constitutional remedy, la taken Internally and acta thru the Blood on the Mucoua Surfaces of the Syatem. One Hundred Dollar* re ward is offered for any caae that Hall'a Catarrh Medicine falls to cure. Send for circulars and testlnaonials F JCKENKT A CO.. Toledo. Ohio. ■old by Druggists, ttc. Hall’a Family PUie for constipation. i i. *e Fertilize Now ' The Cheapest Fertilizer I HE world shortage of farm products means continued high prices for every thing your land can produce. Plant^. more acreage this year and make each , acre produce more. „ ' '-c - » * s'* Now is the time to use Manure—the cheapest fertilizer. , T’he following comparison of the plant food value in commercial fertilizer and Ma nure bears evidence that it is to your interest from a cost standpoint to use Manure on your land. . • ‘ K • ' T A COMPARISON OF THE COSTS OF PLANT FOOD IN COMMER CIAL FERTILIZERS AND MANURE BASIC PRICE PER UNIT Acid; »• • • Ammonia Potash • • $1.25 $7.00 $6.00 X COMMERCIAL . o FERTILIZER • Analysis— 8-3-0 cost per 8-3-3 cost per 10-2*0 cost per ton $37.00 ton $54.00 ton *30.00 MANURE FROM CAMP * JACKSON Analysis— Acid, 0.45 at $1.25 * Ammonia, 0 68 at $7.00- Potash, 0.58 at $6.00 • • • % .56 4.76 3.48 $8.80 s \CTUAL WORTH OF MANURE BASED ON COMMERCIAL FERTI LIZER $8.80. Furthermore the decaying organic matter in the Manure is constantly adding available. f>lant food to the soil, is valuable both from a humUs standpoint as well as a land builder. Manure will show results for three years, and ifs cost divided through this period \ull show a much lower cost per unit of plant food than any other fertiliter on the market. w ■ 1 • S’ X ’ a. . i- X ’ X w Car Lots a Specialty X-\ s ■ * • 4 *' .X ^ • . Car Average 33 Tons C X xX • •• . E ARE daily making shipments of this product into all sections of the country, and it is being received with entire satisfaction on account of its excellent qual ity and condition on arrival at destination. It contains no obiectionablev matter sii ch as trash, dirt, obnoxious grass seeds, etc.; oat straw is the only bedding used, an i the Manure naturally contains a small quantity, but not sufficient to make it objectionable. As a matter of fact it is worth more than its weight, on account of its high value of potash, which makes it more val uable as a fertilizer. / THE IL\II.KOAI> COMMISSION' SOUTH CAROLINA OU September 5. 101 ;. r J CIRCULAR NO. 212 •KfFreight Halt* XtljiKnu-nt Sperlul Kal«» on Siabl«- Manure*. A|)|ili<-. ai*l»* hetw^rn pointM in South Carolina. Carload niininium 30.OO0 pounds;.per ton, 2,000 po»n<i« Not subject, to Vprrcvntage reduction on •»——■*" joint traffic. 5 miles and under. $ 5 :» in miles and over miles . . .00 15 miles and over 10 miles.... . . .G5 20. miles and over 15 miles . . . . . .70 25 miles and over 20 miles. . . . .75 .30 miles and over 25 miles. . .. Jo K 35 mile* and over 30 miles. . . .$3 40 miles and over 35 miles.... . . .90 50 miles and over 40 miles. . . . ,9.*. •*0 mile* and over SO miles.... . 1 *• 4 70 miles and over 00 miles. . . . . . 1.05 SO miles and over 70 miles . . . 1.10 90 miles and over SO miles. . . . . 1.15 100 miles and over 90 miles. .. . . . 1.20 120 miles and over 100 miles. . , .. 1.2V 140 miles and over 12 0 miles. . . 1«0 miles and over 140 rides. . . 180 miles and over 10ft nil''*. . . X 1.40 200 miles and over 1' ^ m M .y . 1.45 220 tniles and ove- O ’ 1 UK’ y. . . . 1.50 240 miles and O' * • V A ft mpes. . . .. 1.55 200 mile* and ov < - o 0 ■4 ft miles. . . . 1.60 2H0 miles and oxt r A. * y miles . . . . 1.65 300 miles and over S'yO miles. . . .. 1.70 Effective September 17. 1917. By. order of,-Ihe Commission. J P. DARBY. Secretary V / THIS SCHEDULE OF FREIGHT KATES \ X" '>/' X will enable you to detefmine the rate to your shipping point. Shipment can be made from either. v x X ■ y CAMP JACKSON, COLUMBIA. S. C. - .jr / 1 CAMP WADSWORTH SPARTANRUIMi, S. C. sS- 4 s ■** WRITE US TODAY’ If you are interested in prompt de livery. We already have numerous orders booked for prompt shipment, but will use our best efforts to make delivery in accordance with your in structions. X. AGENTS WANTED IN UNOCCU PIED TERRITORY ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO Powell v. X Columbia, S. C. V - / ’ ^0' . * yv