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PAC.E EIGHT - GERMANY IS A BANKRUPT Correspondent Declares Bankruptcy Not Confined to Finances. By Milton Bronner. Berlin.?The Germany of today is! a bankrupt nation. It is a bankrupt in more ways than j the mere matter of an inability to make its income match it? expense*. Other European nations are bankrupt in that particular way?Franc*? k-, and Italy, for instance. But Germany is bankrupt in hopo and endeavor. It is bankrupt in vim and zest of living. It is bankrupt nf fnitli in thr> future. The average German of today?the fellow like you and me and Neighbor Smith can hardly see a gleam of hope ahead. He is rid of his expensive kaiser and the other minor kings and grand dukes and princes. He is of a great expensive army and navy. He is lid of conscription. He has a republic instead of a monarchy. But nowhere does he see unity or peace or satisfaction. Politically Germany is a house not, only divided against itself, hut many times subdivided. There are politicians who dream of the restoration of the monarchy. There arc political parties which dream of Bolshevism. Even the Socialists are subdivided into various representatives in the Reichstag. Class consciousness has not been abolished. It has been intensified. It is now the protestant againstks It is now the proletariat against th> aristocrat, but the worker against the war profiteer and, in another sense, the town dweller against the farmer. If the German is fairly well off, the state takes much of his estate and of his income in taxes. If he is a worker, it grabs 10 per cent of his wage. If he succeeds in getting his earnings increased, he finds that the cost of food, clothes and housing: has more than kept apace with theextra money he has earned. He pays six times as much for his daily paper as before the war. It costs him eight times as much to ride in the street car. His food, coal, gas and rent have gone up from five to eight times. He earns, perhaps, 300 to 500 marks per week, and the cheapest suit of clothes is 1,500 marks. Shoes cost from 90 marks up; shirts 65 marks, socks 11 marks. His glass of beer, which tastes to him like near beer, costs 1 mark. Everything he smokes "costs much more. His wife complains she can't U nllnl.l I 1 ~ ? U ? ? U ~ IUII tnc iiuuoc;iium UIIU iiuuif IIUJ j / Farmers Will J OUR HOL AND IS WHEF BUILDINC HANDLE OUF OUR SAL! IENCED TOB I AND AMPLE ACCOM M OUR SLOGAN I. GENERAL V- - - -rhildi'cn on what ho a'lows her. ^ If he seeks consolation in hl^ J newspaper, the chances are that he t roads of the frosh taxation tlie gov- . loniiiont will have to assess in or- < [lev to meet the allied demands foi . reparation payments. 1 f have heard many people in Washington, London, Paris andi' Brussels bewail the fact that Foch 1 agreed to an armistice before the allied armies marched into Berlin. They argued that only in this way could the Germans have been thoroughly convinced that they were beaten in the war. But after s? month in Germany, I think every German knows he was licked. Everything the German reads, hears and sees reminds him of it: Bremen a dead seaport. Allied troops on the Rhine. Ruhr steel mills closing. S"vnn tovtilo factories or. part time. Munich's famous gaiety all gone. (ierman money low-rated. German army a mere police force. German navy at the bottom of the sea. German merchant marine in possession of the allies. Allied commissions all over the country. Germany's future mortgaged to the allies. Men like Walter Rathnenau, head of the great electrical trust, or Hugo Stinnes, with his finger in a hundred industrial pies, or Arthur Von Gwinner, the great banker and shipping magnate have their own thoughts and theories, but the future is so uncertain that they prefer not to discuss things. Big business does not know what may happen in Germany itself. It faces not only huge taxes and great increases in its payroll, but an increasing difficulty in getting raw materials, not to speak of the difficulty of finding materials which will accept German goods. The result of all this pessimism and depression and even hopelessness is a lowing down in the national life. ^ The trains are slower and fewer. The street cars run at longer intervals. The cities are not as brightly lighted. The gas is not of as high quality. The shops are not as well stocked. You wander into the great department stores of Essen, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden and Leipsic and are struck by the comparative emptiness and silence. Only the theatres and movies and restaurants and beer gardens are filled. And there are many tilings you miss in this after-the-war Germany. You never run into the parades of |troops that you used to see. You miss the military bands which used to give daily concerts, in the parks. THE V I 119 looacco w; Open on Tue ULY 19, 192 ISE IS THE HOME OF T *E THEY GET FAIR TF i REMODELED AND I * SHARE OF THE CROF E.S WIl,L BE CONDUCT % ACCO MAN, WITH A BUYERS. ODATION AND SER\ I T. SCOGl . MANAGER & Al KMnHMMMHaMMMaMNMMMHM THE HOEEY HERALD, CON\* fou don't see richly dressed women i J roing around with expensive toy I logs. 1 One thing you do see everywhere is the old gray-green coat of the I jcrman soldier. But the men who I ire wearing them are not soldiers I now. They are plain citizens who H iire wearing the old army packet be- \M cause it is made of serviceable cloth H and they can't afford a new coat. 9 One thing is as it was before the Eg war. 1 don't know how they man- |l age it, but German cities are still S the most spotless in the world. The jB streets are clean and the parks and B open places are in beautiful trim. B The lawns are perfect and thfc pan 9 sies are a riot of color. R Doubtless you wonder how things 1 go on at all if Germany is reall> jj bankrupt. In business,'when a firm | I [is bankrupt, its assets are seized j 2 and sold for the credtiors and the ;l firm ceascs to be. H But you can't do that when the jp government of sixty-five million people can't meet its debts. You can't sell them out and bundle them out. The sixty-five millions with their industry, their productive capacity, their wants still remain. And a nation of that size'can keep B a great many hands busy satisfying p its own internal needs and trading with itself. Germany is today a land of para doxcs. Its government is "busied"?but it is sustaining tens of thousands of wounded ex-soldiers by pension" , and other tens of thousands of un* | employed people by doles? It is a republic?but it has few | convinced republicans. It has been badly beaten?but it- J people dream of revenge upon j France. Prices are sky-high?but the use * of luxuries like champagne, per : fumes and motor cars has tremendously increased. Fares have been increased?but I railway trains, steamboats and | street cars were never so crowded j as they are today. People denounce militarism?but all over Germany you see picture-* j of old Hindenburg. Though hope is dead, hate lives? hate of France, the victor! And Germans think of revenue, talk of the next war?and blacklist allied ; poods! When the man in the moon came o REGISTRATION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned members of the county board of registration will be at Bay- j boro, at the store of B. L. BufTkin; from nine o'clock until four on the j 18th day of July, li?21, for the purpose of registering voters. O. M. Watts, i Thos. W. Booth, Geo. M. Huggins, 7!7 2t Board of Registration, i ? I I I arehouse I sday i * ! 11 t. 1, I HE FARMERS, tEATMENT. : i EQUIPPED TO 3 FOR 1921. ED BY EXPERFULL FORCE i i /ICE WILL BE ilN JCTIONEER * / rAY, S. 0., JULY 14, 1921. nnHHaMi The Ha The Pioneer H Leadei WE ARE A | CORNER, ANL ' FRIENDS AND NO PAINS OUR HOUSE 1 OUR CUSTOMI j YOU WILL COURTEOUS 1 Our Market A full fore s. BACK TO FARMS |[ BECOMING CRY1 1 I V New York.?A real estate firm of j n nationwide scope, which in the past! a year sold 4,272 farms valued atls more than $20,000,000, from Maine to L-aniornia, nas mane puuuc at its t offices here the interesting discov- , pry for the first time in many years,! ( there are signs of a change in the i t drift of population "away from the. cities and back to the farms." j Recently announced federal census | \ statistics showed that the aggregate I ( population of American cities, when j the canvass was made six months or i j more ago, actually exceeded the ng-j i gregate population of the farming 1 districts, a condition unprecedented' , in the country's history. This is ex-^ plained by the fact that there was i \ an influx of people from farming L communities to the cities especially in the period of abnormal industrial activity during and immediately fol-j lowing the war. Thousands of farmers and members of their families; came to factory localities, where, j for two or three years they made big! wages. With the slump following; the general industrial readjustment, however, these farmers, and in many cases, idle city dwellers as well, are turning to the 'ariis where labor has long been at a premium. The records of the firm i'i question are said to sho.v that during the past 20 years it;; sales have been made in almost unvarying proportion, two-thirds to farmers moving. from one section or state to another, | and one-third '*o Mien from the citie.-. The present back-to-the-farm movement, however, it is declared, shows 'an almost exact reversal of these ! percentages, that is, two-thirds of the sales are now beim* made to men from the cities as against oi.e-1hird to the farmers. i "The first check in the cityward j movement," a member of this firm i stated. "anDears from available 'statistics to have come late last fall, J with the tightning of industrial conditions and consequent' lack of em: ployment in the cities. It became increasingly evident this winter until }n February the tide seems to have begun to flow the other way. "The change, naturally, is most marked in the vicinity of the industxiel centers, the February sales in New England, for instance, having increased more than 200 per cent, over those of last year; those in the ' middle Atlantic states about 175 per cent, over last year, and In the steel centers and manufacturing districts of the central west approximately 100 pe rccnt. I "The t majority of men going i ouse of Horry Co .1 i r T i r m me saie or i od? T THE SAME OLD ST, ) WILL BE "AT HON PATRONS. HAVE BEEN SPARE FOR THE ACCOM MC F.RS. . RECEIVE THE USUA hrf atm f"kit ok! oi ir k. A X J 4+ ? A A 1 Jk 1 ^ 1 W 1 V_>" 1 X opens on Tuesday, :e of Buyers will be A. GRAVi P rom the cities and manufacturing' owns back to the farms are believed <? be men who came from the counrv originally, attracted by high' trapes in industry. Many of these non acumulated considerable savings md now that work is uncertain and carce, they are using their savings o purchase self-supporting homes or themselves, rather than to acept lower wages or to live in idleless while their savings are being i ?aten up in high rests and other ivoidable living costs in the cities." New England was said to be leadng the entire country in the backo-the-land movement. While the in ireas.e throughout the United States! s in excess of HO per cent, greater) in February than for the same period last year, New England's farm sales show an increase of 200 per cent., due to the fact that many factory workers who have been thrown out of employment or forced to submit to wage reductions, have left the cities and towns and gone into general farming, dairying, poultry and hog raising and bee-keeping, as well as the cultivation of small f ruits. An interesting feature of the situation is that of the 4,272 farms sold last year, 1,171 were disposed of in New England, more than onequarter of them to residents of other states, only 57 buyers were New England people. ?o THE STUFF. The test of a man is the fight he m:ike?, 'Plin iri'it hf (btilv shows: t . i?, ^ . . v v..?? ? The way ho stands on his feet and takes Fate's numerous humps and blows. A coward can smile when there's naught to fear, When nothing1 his progress bars, But it takes a man to stand up and cheer While some other follow stars. It isn't the victory after all, Hut the fight that the brother makes; The man, who, driven against the wall, Si ill stands up erect and takes The blows of fate with his head held high, Bleeding, and bruised, and pale, Is the man who'll win in the bye and bye, For he isn't afraid to fail. It's the bumps you get, and the jolts you get, Ana the shocks that your courage stands, The hours of sorrow and vain regret The prize that escapes your hand, That test your mettle and prove your worth; It isn't the blows you deal, But the blows you take on this good earth * That shows if your stuff is real. ?"Teamwork." I house unty, and the icco. 0 AND ON THE lh lO OUK D TO EQUIP 1 )DATION CF 1 L KIND AND FLOOR. July 19th. i on hand. I ELY, ROPRIETOR. I ' I \ Church Directory * Conway Baptist Church, Myron W. Uordon, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Sund'iy School Exercises 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching 11:15 a. in. Evening worship and preaching X: I r, j>. m. Prayer meeting services every Wednesday evenjng at 8:15. Strangers and visitors cordially welcomed to all these services. Kingston Presbyterian Church, J. MLentmon, Pastor. Services every Sunday morning. Sunday School at 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching at 11:25 a. m. Prayer meeting services Tuesday 7:30 p. in. We welcome one and all to our services. Conway Methodist Church, J. C. Atkinson, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Departmental Church School 10' a. m. Bible Class for men only 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching 11:15 a. m. Evening worship 7 p. m. j Prayer meeting services Wednesday evening 7 o'clock. Welcome extended to everybody toattend all services. o 066 cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Fever, Colds and LaGrippe, or money refunded.?adv. o NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons having claims against the late James F. Cause are hereby given notice to present same, duly verified according to law, to the undersigned Executors, and all perunnv: i r.rlnltt <?rl mil n thr> mluU IIIMVI7VVVI Mil W VI *V tC4 tV' | are hereby requested to make immediate payment of same to us. J. J. McDowell, Kxecutor. Kllcn Gause, Executrix. Allsbrook, S. C., July 5th, 11)21. 4t. o To Stop a Cough Quick take' HAYES' HEALING HONEY, * cough medicine which stops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A bo* of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE V SALVE for Chest Colds, Head OoAds and ' Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The naive should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Qroup. The heal bo* effect of Hayes' Hetttal Honey laftide the throat combined wkh the heatmt effort 0i Grore'e O-Pen-Trate Salve Ihwwith the pore* of the ekln moo Mope a oough. I Doth remedtee are packed In oae carton and the cwt of the combtaed treatment la 9Qe.fi *Juct ask your druggist for HAYES* HEALING HONEY.