The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 02, 1919, Image 8
CUT EXPENSE BY
CUTTING CLOTHING
hi i
People Are Advised Against
Buying Too Many New
Togs Now
'
GARMENTS REMODELED
FROM OLD MATERIALS
i I ?. ,
Homo Demonstration Agents
Have Been Holding Classes
in Clothing" Conservation.
"You must be the son of my old
friend Edward Miller," said the man
back on a visit in his home town to
the small boy he met on the street,
"for you have his eyes and his
mouth."
"Yes, and his pants, too," piped up
Eddie.
This winter Eddie Miller won't b
alone when it comes to wearing
father's cast-off trousers cut down
for his diminutive form. All over th
country the Eddies and Johnnies ar<
being clad in warm garments made
from discarded clothing which of la4'
years has been given or thrown awn;,
and the Susies and Marys di-pla;
with pride the dress "mother mad
from her y< ar-lr fore-last skiit."
Thrift has become the rule almo
overnight. The old saw, "a penny
saved is a penny < arned, ' bar taken
on fresh meaning to many i;, the pas
year.
With those whose incomes are a
thousand dollars or less economist
state 40 to GO per cent has had to go
lor food during these war year-.
Rents have gone up t ?o in nur \
places, that often the only plac
where a cut can be made in exp< nscs
is in the clothing column. Realizing
that there are mnay who, anxious to
save l>y utilizing old materials, an
unable to do so because of lack of
knowledge, the home demonstration
agents under the extension service of
the Department of Agriculture ir.
connection with the State agricultural
colleges have been holding o'asste
in clothing conservation in all parts
of the country. This work has evoked
marked response from women attending
and some remarkable results
have been attained.
,Fas!hion Shows Popular Events.
Proud of their efforts and anxious
to have their neighbors profit by
their experience, the pioneers in this
work have put on "fashion shows"
where parades are staged in the manner
of the big store parades at the
opening of clothing seasons. Mowever,
the models in these up-to-date
fashion shows wear garments remodeled
from old material.
The campaign has been especially
strong in inwa and jNcnrasKa. at.ores,
halls, private homes and libraries
have been utilized for the exhibitand
as places in which to hold the
''clinics." To the "clinics" those who
are interested bring garments and
leftovers and discuss with the export
in charge the best way of putting
them to new uses. Jn Ceerro Gordo
County, Iowa, an especially interesting
display of garmnts v;as held in
the Mason City Library. One unictyadmired
piece of work was a goodlooking
drest for a ten-year-old girl
made from a three-year-old lightweight
suit of her father's. The little
pleeted skirt was pieced eight o?'
nine times but the pleats hid the
piecing.
In Lincoln, Nebraska, a room in the
City Hall was donated by the Mayor
S for the use of the home demonstration
agent and her assistants in this
remodeling work. Here the old garv
ments are brought and expert advice
is given their owners on how best t<
make them over. Some noteworthy
accomplishments in saving cloth have
been the uses which have been made
of the cloth flour sack. Once used foi
drying dishes, they now are made in
to children's dresses, undor-garmcnta
aprons, ana otner garments ana at
tractive utliclos of vycar are the ro
suit.
The thrift of the French has al
ways been admired. This nations
characteristic has Jbocn attained i
part by their stioggle to pay th
huge indemnity exacted from thei
by tho Germans after the Prance
Prussian v/ar. America's opportunit
now comes to cultivate this same vi
tue. To help reduce our war del:
by individual sacrifice and economy.
o
Charles VonGlon returned la?
week from a stay of several day
with f (mentis in 'Wilmington, "N. C. H
Is the general manager at tho store
of Conwfty Bargain House.
r
SHORT RATIONS
FOR THE GERMANS
Food Is Very Scarce Throughout
the Whole
Country.
Berlin.?The Germans, particularly
those living Jn the larger cities,
are today having lean fare for their
dinners.
ri i 1 1 i i a t \
oo mucn nas uoen saui auout tno
food situation that it is understandable
if there is an impression in
some quarters thai the situation has
been exaggerated. Here, however,
there is one excellent barometer of
the situation, namely "Schlechthandel,"
as illegitimate trafficking in
foodstuffs is termed, and this is beginning
to diminish markedly.
A month ago it was possible to
buy butter, sausages and some othe> ,
articles from those surreptitious i
dealers at high prices. During the
last fortnight, however, it has bo- i
come increasingly difficult to find J
those things, and even the best "con- |
nections and sources" are now un
able to produce more than occasional !
small portions at greatly reduced,
prices.
When the crafty dealers in this
business cannot longer secure articles,
there can hardly be a doubt that I
it is because they do not exist. I
. 1
Wealthy people, it is true, can still
Main limited quantities of what j
used to be considered necessaries,
but are now considered luxuries,
l.< ugh at terrifying prices. In on
^articular case a man in Berlin paid
' f
10 marks for a ham, tho eggs to ge
it!i il costing 3 marks apiece. A <
mnor recently purchased at an Un- |
r den Linden restaurant, consisting i
>1 thin soup, fish, meat and a baked f
pplo, cost 02 marks. Coffee woulo
.r'.ve cost 3 marks additional.
What such prices mean can bosf
be realized when it is considered that
'he highest daily wage of a skilled
;Ionian mechanic rarely reaches 20
marks.
Those in the poorer walks of life
ail declare that it is absolutely impossible
to keep body and soul together
on the rations distributed on
food cards. The correspondent can
Icdare on personal knowledge that
it was impossible oven in the winter
of 101G-1917 to exist on the official .
rations. In other words, nearly er- i
cry one was compelled to resort to
"Schlechthandel."
Another factor in the food situai
tion is tho lack of fat. Even after ,
such a meal as cost 62 marks one '
becomes hungry, even ravenously ,
hungry, within two or three hours. j *
"When I get my weekly allowance j
of b0 grammes of butter," said on^ |
woman in discussing the food ques- j '
tion, "I spread it all on one slice of i
bread, so as to have one real meal
every week.
It is the normal state of every
German, at least in the greater ^
cities, to be continually hungry. A j
keen political obseiver said to tho 1
A ssociat ed Pres$:
"If I had <30,000 tons of fat T could i
everlastingly squelch Bolshevism ;n j
Germany, and if 1 had some con-;
densod milk, too, I could set up almost
any kind of government except
the one we used to have."
It is not only that food is so dear
as to be out of reach of the poorer
classes almost completely, but all
articles of clothing are correspondingly
dear. The correspondent was offered
COO marks for an overcoat
which was purchased in Berlin in
1916 for 178 marks.
o
MUST NOT PROFITEER.
Partial demobilization of the food
; administration and the withdrawal of i
* many of its rules and regulations]
- have given the impression in some
y quarters that all the activities of the
' food administration have ceased or
- are shortly to cease. This is not the
2 case. The act imposes upon the adr
ministration certain obligations
which continue until presidential
proclamation releases the fond ad
ministration from the terms of the
- act end particularly the obligation to
curb profiteering and speculation in
- licensed food products. This funcil
tion must continue to be performed
n and there is no intention of relaxing
c in this direction.
? i o
>- NITRATfc FOR FARMERS,
y
Washington. ? Representative
A Byrnes, the aiuthor of the amendment
making nitrate of soda fund a
revolving fund during the war, was
it advised by the secretary of agriculx
ture that nitrate of soda during the
^ aovartn will anlil fanm.
pvum t' ?/v oviv vvr * ni'tvi
ifi I ors at the Tata *?f $81 per ton ' and
| that an ample jmpply is assured.
Elbert Hubbai
Said of a Tall Chi
from a railroad ca
Did you ev<
the story writ
Wm of your Elcctr
||;?J I How every 1
eif l rnents contribi
eTH-HI PHSP anrl hunn
?- m m V Ml ( V4 I IM^JJ
lc| your business.
03 How those
gr p ^ are whirring
a power, a foi
ding ia a thoii
sw*tcll';
?3^ ^ Think what
W flisl store or facto
^ I*? J inspires a s<
j|-12| % doesn't it!
P'te? vantagi
1Padding
quattlebaum ugh
CONW,
dffTcers destroy 1
stills and booze
Seventeen still?;, 1.000 gallons of
beer and 200 bushels of corn were
seized and destroyed by United
States revenue pfficers, P. J. Colerum,
J. G. Fanning and C. A. Rector,
in a two days raid in Hampton County
last Friday and Saturday. Arrests
were made in several cases and warrilo
k 0\?/Ti 111 ijMi/.iI -C t lw? r\ . 4
i (ill t.) i i ? i > i; UV,?U lOOUVll 111! Ult' ai I
of 19 men connected with the stills.
HOW TO GET THERE.
This paper has already had two
01 three news items giving notice of
the sale by the Government of 580
horses and mules, the sale to be held
at what is known as the Animal Embarkation
Depot No. 802, North Char
loston, South Carolina. This depot,
where the sale will take place on
January 14th, 1919, at Ton o'clock
A. M., is situated 12 1-2 miles north
of Charleston, and two miles nortn
of North Charleston. On the date
of the sale Government Trucks wil
meet street cars at North Charleston
and carry prospective bidders to an.
from the scene of auction, provide,
notice is given. The circulars dis
tributcd by the Government direc
prospective bidders to telephone No
1150; but people who go from thi:
County to bid or. these animals ma;
find other easy ways to get to th<
place as it may he reached dircc
from Charleston Atlantic Coast Lin
or by Automob|le.
Meals will be furnished at cost b
prospective bidders and shelter wil
be provided in case of inclemcn
weather.
df Course I
That politician
Should be fought
"Who tiarcf to iboaxt he
lb# fcofflgftt.
-?-Caftoow? Magazine.
-v V 1
df
mney that he saw
i
r window.
l4If I knew the his,
tory of the business
represented by that
I could write a wonry!"
)r give serious thought to
ten in the Big Chimneys
ic Service power plant?
foot of those Tall Monuutes
to the convenience,
liness of your home life,
Big Electric Generators
day and night, supplying
rce, that will do your bidtsand
ways?at the snap
t
/
your home, your office,
ry would be without it! It
inse of appreciation?
it suggests?Ant I taking ad3
of all tho helps Electricity
,'c me ? Is it possible that J
ually losing time, food, fuel
tor that could easily be rest,
ion, comfort and case by furectric
Helps.
the opening of the New
we wish to extend to you our
and appreciation for your pa;
in tho past, and assure you
% stand ready at all times to
n lightening your labor and
to your comfort.
V J
Wi ^
I & ICE COMPANY
AY S. C.
I
COTDRAN HAS BILL
TOJSIVE MEDALS
Greenville.?Plans to introduce a
bill at the coming session of the general
assembly providing for a State
medal to be given to every South
Carolina man who has been in the
military service of the United States,
either in this* country or overseas,
during the war with Germany, are
being made by T. P. Cothran, member
of the hfcuse from Greenville
County.
o
A Minor Matter.
A Cardiff woman joined a private
library circle gays the Cardiff Western
Mail. Her husband, who had no
faith in feminine judgment on such
1 matters, was anxious to know how
i things went.
i "Well, and what sort of a meeting
: diu you have?" he asked on hi*
i wife's return.
i "Splendid " she answered.
"And what was the topic under disI
i cussionY"
* "Oh," was the reply, "we discussec
1 the antecedents of that brazen wo
1 man with the dyed hair that jusi
- moved in opposite the Joneses, am
t also one of the poets?Shelley, 1
* think."
^ o
M ATERIAL TO AMERICA,
c
Washington.?All war materia
0 captured by the American army wil
be brought home, Mr. Baker sai<
0 today, to be disposed of as congres
* may direct. The equipment include
* more than 1,400 guns and trench mo
tars taken in action and thousands o
machine guns and rifles.
Various proposals for distribute
of the captured material have beei
made. It hag been suggested that i
he divided anQong the States in pro
portion to their quotas in the arm}
but tm this ffcm Mr. Baker decline
to express an opinion.
f
CHRISTMAS EVE
BRINGS VESSEL
Nearly Four thousand Soldiers
Return to This
Country.
r
New York.?In a Gold driving rain
that in no way damponed their ardor,
?',8G5 American troop.i came into port
aboard the big Frcnqh liner France,
Christmas eve ship of the fleet of
vans ports that is bringing back the
American expcditonary force. It
\as the first time that the France
as been in the harbor since 1915.
As the ship steamed up the river,
! ho moti rriiunlo/l 1 Vw? #J<w?Lr ??wl ? !
iva. \i. */ ?f V?VV4 VHVy UW l\ (Hill 1 ^
ging and sang "Home, Sweet Home."
"Dixie," "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All
Here" and answered their reception
from ashore with more enthusiasm
than has been displayed heretofore
on any transport. They seemed
thoroughly to appreciate their good
fortune in getting back the day before
Christmas. Many of the troops
were from Arkansas, Mississippi,
Illinois and District of Columbia.
The total included 1,504 wounded
men from nearly every State in the
union, their injuries ranging from
bullet wounds in arrxjs and legs to
shell shock and cases which yrill require
months of treatment.
There were in waiting at the dock
a military band, and delegations
from the canteen service of the
American Red Cross. The enthusiasm
and "home for Christmas" spirit
that was displayed during the trip up
the harbor was mora than doubled as
the vessel rounded into dock.
Col. Asher Miner of Wilkes-Ilarro,
Pa., wounded, learned after landing
that he had been awarded the distinguished
service medal Pen* herosim
in action at Aprempnt on October 4.
Lieut. Rohrrt C! Tlnll nf Ml P:ml
Minn., a medical officer of the Eighteenth
Infantry, First Division, and
later on the .staff of Brig. Gen. Frank
Parker bore four wounds and the
croix de guerre with three citations.
He was first decorated by General
Mangin at Soissons for locating a
lost battalion of troops on July 22.
Lieut. Edwin C. Ga^re^t of Biggs,
Cal., attached to the , Three Hundre i
and Sixteenth Signal \ Battalion saw
42 of 51 of his men killed by an ex
ploding shell that burfct ipn a switchbeard
they were installing in an advance
field telephone Ration at Dead
Man's Hill October 1. The lieutenant
was badly injured. \
Private Albert J. Kail of Company
K, One Hundred anjl Tenth Regiment,
Twenty-eighth Division, was
wounded and captured at Chateau
Thierry when 40 of platoon were
killed. He was taken to the German
prison camp at Rastaty where, he declares,
the conditions were frightful.
There were only three nurses to 900
men and paper bandages were used.
He escaped in company with a lieutenant,
a French interpreter and
four marines by riding under trains
to Met/, after they had fought their
way through the prison guard.
o
RETURNS THANKS.
Editor Herald:
i'lease allow me spree in the Herald
as I wish to tbank every one of
the Herald readers that have been so
good and kind to help me out in
raising the money to get me a wheel
chair. May fho good Lord bless
each and every one that has beer
kind enough to help me in my helpless
condition, and I also thank the
kind editor for printing my pieces
for me. I am spre thankful to the
1 good Lord that we have some feeli
ing hearted people; they have been t
friend to me. Jl wish them a lon^
and happy life jtnd a happy homo iT
; Heaven when tjtcy are done on earth
i I would like very much to see eacV
one that hast been good and kim
enouirh to hell) he in mv helnlos?
? ?1 " *
dition and h^ve a talk with them
hut if I novel' have the pleasure o
1 meeting them on earth I hope it wil
- he our happy Jot to meet each othe
t in Heaven.
1 Dear friends, I have not ordered
I the Invalid Rolling chair yet, but
hopo it will bo so I can order it soor
I am sure thankful to you reader
for what you Have done for me in m;
helpless condition. I am not goinj
| to state any of the names of th
1 readers that have helped me. Thos
1 that have helped me know it, an
? those who have not. hnlnnfl mr>
^ ... ?- - nuv^
s it and the good Lord known who wa
t good and kinfl enough to help me
f and the good fyord will bless the one
that helped mt in my helpless con
n dition.
n 'Wishing yo^i a happy new ycai
t I will close.
I ami
V Mttls,
d' Wampee, $. C.
R. F. D. No. 1, feox 47.
w
f
f
|?
J.'
* *
y V
GALLST.R. "KAISER 1
IN A FROCK COAT"
[London.?"Roosevc^^*^ * only the
Kaiser in a frock qoat." is the opinion
of A. G. Gardiner, editor of the
Daily News, who reminds his readers*
to-day that the economic interest^
behind Roosevelt arc very pro-British
now when thby want to destroy
Wilson. But he warns that these interests
have no disinterested passion
for British compctiton in the future.
He says Glausewitz is very much
alive iu America, adding, "Roosevelt
thinks as naturally in the terms of
the big stick as the Kaiser did."
Gardiner say&': "The defense society
of "which Roosevelt 'is President
asked him if'lie might like to publish
the society's peace terms, which
the editor characterizes as a nice
way of stabbing Wilson in vhc
back by floating an opposition policy
while the Psesidont is here.
o S
TRESPASS NOTICE.
All persons are hereby given notice
and warned not to trespass on
any of my land. Hunting, fishing,
trapping, or anything in any way will
be in full penalty of the law for vio7
lations on 280 acres in Gall van ts /
Ferry township, more or less, diulng-^l
the year 1919.
JAMES CARROLL.
1-3-18 2t. pd.
o
NOTICE OF LOST CERTIFICATE.
Notice is given that time deposit
certificate No HSfi issnnrl hv Rank
J of Loris to Mrs. Amanda IIardift)*-^Ay
} for the sum of $40.00, dated August
10th, 1017; has boon lost by the
holder thereof and all persons are
hereby notified and warned not to
purchase or deal with the said certificate
but to return the same at
once to the Hank of Loris, Loris,
South Carolina. This certificate
will not be paid or redeemed to any^"
person except the true and lawful
owner. '
BANK OF LORIS,
By 1). K. McDuffie.
Dated Dec. 23, 1918.
12 2K4H-IU.
<s- X .
STRAY NOTICE.
There has strayed to my place one ^
black barrow, with white list about
half round body, and marked crop
and split in the right ear, and twounder-nicks
in the left ear. Hog i?
about a year old. Owner may ob*
tain same by applying to the under- <
signed and paying charges.
E. H. LAY,
It. F. D., No. 1, Myrtle Beach, S. C. "
12j26|18-3t.
HORSE MEAT PRICES
GO UP FOR GERMANS:
With the American Army of Qtx-u- ,
pat ion.?Horse meat again hay experienced
an advance in Germany.
Meatless days are being generally
observed throughout Germany.
In Coblenz the week beginning
December 16 wis a meatless one. The
ruling price of horse meat in the
aiea occupied by the American army
is at present as follows per pound;
Horse sausage, one mark 80 pfennigs;
horse meat, one mark CO p?fen'
nigs; horse liver, one mark 40 pfen1
'
i By order of t^ie obergemeistor of
1 Coblenz, if the Weekly meat allow- i
; ance is taken in horse flesh double ,
i the amount is permitted, but this is
not to exceed one pound per person
; per week.
> Before the \yar when floujfc was v
s milled, about 70 per cent, of any V
kind of wheat wfnt into flour.
i 90 per cent, of grain is used in the^
f making of flour, but the product is 4" ,
i of poor quality.
. Itenorts pnnfinnbd
t LW I t'UCIl \ [
i American bridgehead of continuation
1 of the improvement in food ceridi- ^
i tiona in the country districts ?xf Ger?
many but not in the cities. This '** '
f due to the fact that land long idle ??
1 being cultivated by discharged sol*
i* diers. ^
o
1 DISCARDED BIG BERTHA. \
J Coblenz.?Dismembered and with
i. its war worn parts already beginning
s 1 to rust, the big Bertha which startled j
y I the world by its long range fire upon
? Paris last spring has been left to its }
c fate in an old Gerfnan arsenal yard
e west Prussia.
'I According to information reaching
V thf? Thiwl L!~
-. v* uiu lamuuH uig Kuu
8 is lying in the iopen air, protected * (
t from the eyes off the curious only by
s a board fence.
i- Other guns laige calibre^ a*?
also within the jferd, a few German \
t\ soldiers acting ai a guard. *
1
j ft
One month before the nrmisticc
with Germany tended the war, the
American navy -operating a %fttal
of 1,959 voxels jpf all dcsfcAjptUns, \
| j
I 4
1
I.:,,
?
" I
1U