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GOVERNMENT FIGHTS TO REUEVE HAZARD From the Occupatioin of Farm ing in the United States CROP PESTS GET MUCH ATTENTION Progress Being' Made but Efforts Must be Increased More Than Ever. "Farming woul 1 be one of the safest means of gaining a livelihood mnd obtaining prosperity if it were not for the hazards of production? plant and animal disease, insect pests, predatory anii.ials, rodents, etc.," says the Secretary of Agriculture in his recent report to the President. The United States Department of Agriculture is now at work, as it has 1 i? _ ? i. t oeen ior many years, in developing1 ways and means of reducing or even eliminating the hazards. "Notwithstanding what has been done," lie adds, "if the increasing population of the nation is to be fed from the available farm lands in the United States, the efforts along this line must be prosecuted more vigorously in the future than ever before, and the fundamental research work which constitutes the basis of these efforts must have proper appreciation and support. Disease Takes Huge Toll. "The toll exacted by plant diseases is appalling. It is estimated by the department that in field diseases were responsible for the loss of approximately 1 DO.000.000 bushels of wheat, of 78,000,000 bushels of oats, of 200,000,000 bushels of corn, of N(>,000,000 bushels of potatoes, of 58,000,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, of 18,000,000 bushels of apples, and of 1,742,000 bales of cotton. The cost of producing disease and healthy crops up to the time of.harvest is practically the same, so it is clear that plant diseases are a grievous and dangerous overload on our agriculture. "One of the most magnificent activities which the department now has under way is the effort to reduce the tremendous losses from wheat rust, aggregating in some years as much as 200,000,000 bushels. Scientific investigation has proven that the fungus which is responsible for the disease gets its start in the spring on the common barberry plant, and a vigorous compaign, therefore, is being conducted, in co-operation with the various states, to eliminate such plants. 4,600,000 Sources Found. More than 4,000,000 barberry bushes have b<*en located, and of these 3,500,000 or more have been destroyed. Progress also has been made in devolving a method for controlling 'wheat scab, which caused in 1919 a loss of nearly 60,000,000 bushels of wheat; a convenient method of testing seed corn for germination and of oliminnfinnp flico-icn infontinn Knfrn.n I U V* I I ^ V t 1 O V (4 PV Jill V I \ ' I I ' ) V* 1 Vil C planting has been devised; and much has been accomplished in working out practical control measures for other injurious plant diseases." The report also discusses what the department is doing to reduce the losses from animal diseases, insects predatory animals and rodents. o "Cut only dead or dying timber," is a good rule to go by in thinning the standing trees tor fuel. o Habitual Consignation Cured in U to 21 Days "LAX-roS WITH PEPSIN" is a speciallyprepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relisves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regulai action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant '.o Take. 60c jyot bottle. | Children at the Three and a half million children In ml pinched like these, at the A merle that mean life to them. In the winter the one friend that had food to give " today to see a child tlve or six veara < healthy well fed hahy the sknl* -ihould 8?*e these children 'hroii^h t!?? i uors < great relief organizations have < omhl They seek to raise CXJO to saw i starvation and the diseases that , \ ' GOVERNMENT AIDING STATE FARM BUREAUS Several of the states, with the aid ?f the United States Department of Agriculture, are establishing farm uatri'.v ment departments. Efforts n,me in progress to work out a system >!' co-operation under which a maxi'Mi'-. i amount of research work can be lone, with an equitable division of expenses between the Federal and St;?te Governments. The Colleges of Agriculture in Arkansas and Mississippi have established departments of farm management and home ect nomics. Every effort is beinjr made by these departments, and in other states by the United States Department of Apiculture co-operating with state colleges, to assist farmers in their problems of management. This is accomplished by distribution of farm account books, supplemented by surveys, lectures, correspondence, newspaper articles, bulletins and circular letters. An important phase of this work is the training of county agents and other instrumentalities to bring to farmers in terms of their own business the principles of efficient organization and management. Instruction is given to groups rather than individuals. Although this program has not been put in full operation in some states, the demonstrators in 26 commonwealths, co-operating with the department during the last year, have worked with more than 52,000 grouped farmers. Business men, as well as farmers, are becoming more interested in farm management problems, as the result, | the department specialists say, of economic conditions brought about by the war. This, together with the need of farm accounts made necessary by the income tax law, is making farm management wovk one oi me most important extension projects. o (>G(> will break a Cold, Frver and Grippe quicker than anything wiknow, preventing pneumonia.?12-13 Now is the time for all time to make a careful decision about the cutting of the acreage of both tobacco and cotton. WEAK, NERVOUS, ALL RUN-DOWN Missouri Lady Suffered Until She Tried Cardui.?Says " Result Was Surprising."?Got Along Fine, Became Normal and Healthy. lf^ Hif.. U?. ^1- ? ? opi iviu.? ;viy uuck, was BO weak I could hardly stand up, and I would have bearing-down pains and was not well at any time," says Mrs. D. V. Williams, wife of a well-known farmer on Route 6, this place. "I kept getting headaches and having to go to bed," continues Mrs. Williams describing the troubles from which she obtained relief through the use of Cardui. "My husband, having heard i Df Cardui, proposed getting it for me I "I saw after taking some Cardu! . . . that I was improving. The result was F^rp rising. I felt like a different person. "Later I suffered from weakness and weak bark, and felt all run-down. I did not rest well at night, I was sc nervous and cross. My husband said he would get mo some Cardui, which he did. It strengthened me . . . M; doctor paid I got along fine. I was in good healthy condition. I cannot ;< ?ay too mu?h for it." Thousands of women have suffered as Mrs. Williams describes, until they found relief from the use of Cardui Since it has helped so many, you should not hesitate to try Cardui I! troubled with womanly ailments. For sale everywhere. E.S3 Bread Kitchens ?- ^ eastern und central Kurope wait, gaunt im kitchens for the Rot soup and bread s since the Armistice. America has been thein. It Is a common sight in linropr old whose head has not healed. With ; dost? before two years. America mu>: >l smother winter, ami to th;it end H;*h' ned Into the European Relief Council this Kern-ration *>f Km ope from death o.\ 5 With iiinJi'i feeding. REPORT OF BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION Says Nearly 203 Warships Completed for Navy in Past Year. Washington, Dec. 15.?Nearly 200 warships, including one s u per dreadnaught and 96 destroyers, were completed for the American navy during the fiscal year ending June 30, an 1 more than 100 others, including eleven superdreadnaughts and six great battle cruisers, were building at that i time. This is shown in the annual report of Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, chief of the bureau of construction and repair, to Secretary Daniels. For continuing work on the ships building, Admiral Taylor estimated that $119,000,000 would be required during the fiscal year beginning next June 30. This compares with $59,000,000 last year and is the largest total ever proposed by the American navy in peace time for continuing construction. It is explained by the fact that work on many of the crafts authorized in the 191C> building program was halted during the war. Admiral Taylor's report also disclosed that the navy department is engaged in developing and constructing new types of aircraft, including great rigid and semi-rigid airships and seaplanes similar to those which undertook the trans-Atlantic flight Ip.st year. Besides the dirigible which is building in England, for the United Sf'ltoo ) lin 11 ?l \r\T io Kn .. J"" ? . v tnv 11111,1 10 i n 11vi 111L; a UII i;;* il>le at home. Airplanes and seaplanes building include four of t^e N C type for so. vice with the battle fleet, making a total of eight of this class. In the four new craft now building are embodied the lessons learned in the trans-Atlantic flight. The navy also is building a snv.ll number of interchangeable land airplanes and seaplanes for the marine corps and two types of torpedo carrying seaplanes, one to be all of metal construction. Large Seaplane. "To provide a large seaplane for fleet use," says Admiral Taylor, "the bureau undertook the development of a design for a seaplane larger than any in existence, a 60,000-pound flying boat. The design embodied several new features, including metal wings and a unique power plant of nine Liberty engines in three groups, each group being geared to a single propeller." Admiral Taylor devotes part of his report to tests conducted with some of the German submarines turned over to the United States for experimental purposes, and says on the basis of these tests that "on the whole these vessels could not be said to be superior in design and capabilities to corresponding vessels of the United States navy." "This is a matter of interest," the o r\??ivnl ooiro ^ ^ ~ uviiiui en nc&jr r>y Hi V1CVY U I tllC gerated ideas of the German submarine prevalent during the war, when they were still a mystery." GOV. APPOINTS HORRY CITIZENS Recently Appointed Several! Magistrates Over The State. Horry county magistrates were appointed bv Gov. Cooper as follows: W. H. Chestnut, first district; M. A. Hamilton, second district; I. M. Fleming, third district; R. B. Nichols, fourth district; G. A. Rabon, fifth district; F. B. Black, sixth district; H. C. Dawsey, seventh district; S. S. | Owens, eighth district; C. G. Enzor,! ninth district; P. B. Harrelson, tenth! district; S. M. McNabb, eleventh district; B. L. Carter, twelfth district; H. G. Gore, thirteenth district; J. I. Ward, fourteenth district; A. P. Thompson, fifteenth 'district; J. F. Simmons, sixteenth district; and J. N. McCormick, seventeenth district. o f!ie Quinine That Does Not Affect tha Heai Tiecruse o{ its tonic nud lcxative ei'fect, LAXATI*7K liROMO QUININIS is bMter thau o-ciinarj Qu\i.ne and does not cause nervousuesr. not in-r'ny in htad. Remember the full nameHLt '.oosc tor the s# nature cf I?. W. GROVJR 30c o **>><1!: ************* t Church Directory * ***************** Conway Baptist Church, Myron YV. Gordon, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Sunday School Exercises 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching 11:15 a. m. Evening worship and preaching 7 p. m. Prayer meeting services every Tuesday 7:.'U) p. m. Strangers and visitors cordially welcomed to all those servicesKingston Presbyterian Church, J. M, licnimon, Pastor. Services every Sunday morning. Sunday School at 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching a1 11:15 a. m. Prayer meeting services Tuesday 7:30 p. m. Wo welcome one and all to oui services. Conway Methodist Church, J. C. At kinson, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Departmental Church School 1' a. m. Bible Class for men only 10 a. m Morning worship and preachinj 11:15 a. m. Evening worship 7 p. m. Prayer meeting services Wcdnesda; evening 7 o'clock. Welcome extended to everybody t< attend all services. pi HATS FOR STREEV v-jj^R If all tlii* hats made of velvet, duvetyu or brocade, ami garnished with embroidery, were withdrawn from millinery displays, one wonders whui would be left. But no such disaster is threatened and we are allowed to enJoy street hats like those shown here, one of velvet in two colors with upturned brim, one of velvet iind brocaded silk dangling a gorgeous tassel, and one of duvetyn?-silk embroidered. : PLIGHT OF EUSIOPFS I C08EN STAGGERS I 3,500.000 Facing Starvation Can Only Be Saved by America's Response to Joint Appeal. , It Is utterly Impossible for one who hns not actually sien th?? mi?orv nt the early Autumn in Europe to visualI ize what the children of the Eastern and Central portions of the continent face this winter. To say that 3.500,000 children have no alternative to starva tlon or death from disease except American aid, is startling, but independent observers hy tlie score and careful scientific surveys of the economic and crop conditions overseas brand the figure as conservative. In Poland, ior Instance, v! ere 1,308,000 youngsters last year subsisted :ilmost entirely on the one free Ainerl: can meal a day that they received, conI dlti? ns as winter closes down, ure worse than ever before. The Bolshevik invasion stripped large p >rtions of the country of all gruiu. Professor E. D. Durand, Pood Advisor to the Polish government, after an exhaustive survey, has reported that only forty per ce?t Is available of the food necessary to carry the population through the winter. In the city of Vienna tests conducted in the American Kellef Administration food kitchens showed that f>2 per cent of the children between the ages of 0 and 14 were "seriously under-nourish ed." Thirty-three per cent were mark edly under-nourished, 11 per cent were slightly subnormal and only 4 per cent approached the state of a normal American child. The Ameri a^j Itelief Administration is feeding 300,000 Austrian children every day now, am) 1 there Is no chance of dlmunltion of need before nex linnet. The spectacle of the medical ne<?ds of Europe's children Is equally ap palling. Estimates reaching the AinerJ lean Red Cross *s to needs for medical I service In the destitute are?s this win| ter Include : Old Av3trla-Hu* gary, 750. i 000; new Poland, 1,500,1^0; Czecho| Slovakia, 200,000; Serbia, 150,000, and j Roumanla, 100.000. In the lacal year ] of 1010*20 the Red Cross has reached with the v< citable gift of life 1,500,000 children In the affected areas. Tuberculosis Is prevalent lo a terrldlc degree. Five children out of seven In the city of Warsaw, for Instance, have been found to be tubercular. Typhus Is widespread; rickets, the right hand of under-nourishn.ent is alino^* universal, sind cholera lifts Its grim head con- | stantly in one pla^e and another. The European Relief Council, corn prising the American Relief Administration, the American Red Cross, the American Frlerds' Service Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution C mmlttee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America, the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A and the Y. W. C. A., seeks $33.000.000 with which to meet the Situation. It has estimated that at least $23,000,000 must be had for food and A ? /\ - \ A/?A * " | ro. medical service to avert absolute dlsastei Minorr* the throa ened ' children. Checks may he sent to your local committee or to Franklin K. Lane, 1 treasurer fSuropcir Uellef Council, 42 Hroarttve.y, New York, or to the Child Feeding Fund, Lkcary Dlges4, New York City. ? o To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, a cough medicine which slops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A box of GROVES O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of > HAVES' HEALING HONEY. The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat ;>f children suffering from a Cold or Croup. Tl:e henlinii effect of Hoyes' Healintf Honey InMdothc tliroot combined wiih 11? healing effect ol (irovo's O-Pen-Trato t-alve through the pores ol the skin soon stops u ccutfh. * Both remedies nre pneked In one carton nnd the cost of tl.e coiitiilDL'.l tr? a uncut Is 3So. ' Just j;.sH your uru^iat lor IIAYLS' HEALING liONEY. K^ETflER LIGMTNIT "THE BEST BY S SOLD AND INSTALLED D.C,JO! Conway, S. C. 7122 tf. p P wi P P P P sa fsi sii St g HORRY COUNTY g g TRUST COMPANY g Real Estate e? ^ L. D. Magrath ^ Manager. ?eai tstate Loans m Bonds sa Insurance IBS p Sr3 teg teg teS Ira 28 tea 3B J. C. Colhoun, the negro employee of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company who was arrested here some time ago for taking parcel post packages from the mail sacks, was taken to Columbia last week, where he was tried and sentenced in the United States District Court for his crime. Calhoun had conducted his affairs on the wholesale plan?that is, he took everything in sight and had much goods stored at his house. For some time before his arrest the people of Conway had failed to receive a number of parcel post packages that had been properly mailed. Some detective work led to Calhoun's arrest and trial. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons whomsoever, and especially Jess J. Chestnut, are hereby forbidden to enter or trespass in any manner upon my land, whether enclosed or unenclosed lying in Conway township; hereby calling attention to the fact that there is no public path through my property; and I will pay the sum of $10.00 i,i cash reward for nroof of anv vio'ati* n of this notice. Ij20|4t ' B. M. CHESTNUT. THE MERCANTI1 I Is running the same as ev< I tomers the best advantage ent conditions of the coun II An inventory has been ta on hand, together with the and bills payable. The dition than ever before, slump in prices. | Those who owe account payment at the store. T1 during the new year undei before; and will find the wants of the people and they need at prices that v It is necessary this year f< affairs on a conservative fc to increase production an< possible. Aside from th , i . i this business will rind ou Dusenbu f TODD VI % PST< P HOUR YON THE FARM THERE'S NO CAUSE FOR ALARM IF YOUR BUILDINGS ^ ARE PROTECTED ASAINST LIGHTNENG WITH THE ONLY ? GUARANTEED SYSTEM OF LIGHTNING RODS. BRAND siG ROD ERVCCE TEST" * D EXCLUSIVELY BY - HNSON R. F. D. 2, Box 2. ** A TONIC drove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So pleasant even children like it. The blood needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to Enrich it. Destroys Malariul germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigorating Effect. 60c. ?Mhir i rrr tins only BSMWr AX YOUR GttOCEOS (MAXWELL HOUSE 1 COFFEE . fMfcll IM Will III! IIIIIWgCTMWMnBBHPWMMlBJi GASOLINE SYSTEMS Oil Tanks and Pumps, Air Compressors, Computing Scales, Floor Scales, Show Cases, Account Registers, Rebuilt Cash Registers, Safes, Store Fixtures. THE HAMILTON SALES CO., < ?a<lv) Columbia, S. C. 1J29 tf JL BUSINESS OF RY & CO. sr and offering to its cuss possible under the prestrY ken of the stock of goods t outstanding accounts due business is in* better conconsidering the general ts are requested to make ley will find the business r the same management as : same efforts to serve the give them the goods that v\W be found right. 3r all of us to conduct our >asis, doing all that we can 1 1 r if d making as lew debts as is policy the customers of r policy as liberal as ever. ry I Co. 1 LLE, S. C. L 1 I