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K? P | ? " ' 4>r?r Itrv.'.ifi CONWAY, S. C. Entered at the Post Ollice at Conway, S. C., as second class mail matter. 11. H. WOODWAKD,""Editor. Published Every Thursday Morning by Conway Publishing Co. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Copy, One Year $2.00 One Copy, Six. Months 1.00 One Copy, Three Months 50 r* 1.1 _ 4 f-ayanie in nuvmivc. TELEPHONE 21. Make all Checks or Drafts payable to The Horry Herald, or H. H. Woodward, Conway, S, C. THURSDAY SEPT. 8, 1921. COTTON IS LOST. Some of the farmers are seeing this year what the boll weevil can and will do to them in the destruction of crops. It is discouraging to see a large field of fine cotton almost entirely denuded of bolls. Thw is what we all see in many places now whenever we take the trouble ol look- j ing. It means that the farmer who ' has depended on cotton must learn to depend on something else to more or less extent, and th-3 sooner h can make this change the better it will be for all. As we have so often said the racing of cattle and hogs is a good thin?: in this county just as the farmer choose to make it so. There ar? people in this county making money on raising stock this year. We wain to see the number of that kind increase. After this we hardly think that any -of the farmers will neglect the planting of the supply crops. They will not neglect these they are used to do, for they now know that it will mean ruin to depend on cotton. I With plenty of supplies raised on the farm the planters will he just as independent as they ever were, provided they manage in the right way. Then there is the tohaeeo crop for which there is so much suitable ground in this county. Although war prices will never prevail again very soon, yet the average price that can be had for this crop per acre is an inducement to the planters to make tobacco a part of th?ir rotation of crops. The tobacco crop is sure to be on tho increase in Horry County, af- i tor this year. It can take the place of cotton in Horry whereas the farm ers in many other counties will find , it necessarv to hunt something else. | Tn the States where the boll wee- I vil has taken cffect for a number of years pa^t. and where the farmers have been compelled to turn their attention to other things instead, 't is now claimed that conditions are greatly improved over what they were when they all planted cotton and depended on it. Wo are looking for the same beneficial chancres here within the next few years. o ? "Even a Ford car will wear onf some time and without oil it will not go anywhere. o . Try to avoid the loss of fine things by failing to give them the necessary care and attention after they are put into use. Those who expect to make anything on ctftton after this will have to get it in the ground early and mature it in June. That is the way it looks now. o Tlv.* growing of truck for the markets should ho encouraged in t h i: section of tho ?tato. In some of the other coast courses farmers arc making good money every year on lettuce. Why is an ice pick a good too about other th'ngs besides ice foi which it was invented and firs1 used ? Because by its use one car got to a fine point in required opera tions. There i.-- a lack of jobs wa ting fo> the man now who could pull dowi big money about a year ago by on I; half filling his position. There ha comt a great change and there wer many who did not thrnk it could eve happen. o Lubrication of machinery is ius as necessary as blood in our bodies There are m^ny who do not knov this. A machine that is poorly lu bricated will wear out in a shor time and become worthless, whil one that is not lubricated at al will often ruin itself in a few hour? o The way to get business is to g after it. Conway needs and want all of the tobacco business the towi can get. It would therefore pay t get the prize houses buijt by anothe year and just as many more im provements of that kind as it is pos ?ible to mak6. . ,?... O Cotton will soon be a'thing of th past -a wonev cron in this coun i... rm T? i J a 11 - ty. ine neraia preaici-s mat Hoi ry Co. nt> v?ir be<otre one of th biff^est tobacco markets in th whole of South Carolina. Tf th farmers carnot rai?e cotton as money crop on account of the bol they will be compelled t turn their .ittention to the next bos thing in this section, whicn is to bacco. They will raise more an trore, and if they have any sens they will improve the grades tha they raise from year to year. * T \s Horry County is bound to be 'onie a great tobacco raiding county, the business men of the town f C' nway should redouble their efforts to provide hero by the next eaion all of the facilities and build ings that can possibly be needed for taking of the larger and larger crops that the farmers will produce. C) Now is the time when the Summer dwellers at the beach and tin; mountain side ^ill be returning to their winter quarters. Just as they sought coolness in the hot days, they will seek warmth in the cool days, and so it goes. People who feel that they must accomplish something in this world, cannot afford to lose too much time in trying to follow the climate. Many have overdone it. o CLEAN SEED POTATOES. Clemson College.?There are maj- , or potato diseases and about ten times as many minor ones. South I Carolinians do not know anything about a lot of these and it is to be : hoped that they never will. But a great many South Carolinians are importing some of them every year 1 on northern grown potato seed and ; are planting the seed without so much at*, a disinfectant bath. And ' |every time a grower does this he ' learns something he did not need t<> know about some potato disease. I Growers can do at least two things, suggest the plant pathologists. 1 o Irmivc uie greatest possible freedom from potato disease.s 1. Insist on getting "certified" j seed. Northern seed growers who are willing to have their crops inspected during the growing season and at harvest time by federal or state inspectors can have their crop 1 "certified" if it meets certain standards. Such seed will cost the South Carolina planter more than the un certified seed but it is worth more. . 1 2. Give the seed from any source 1 a treatment in a solution of eorosiv- 1 sublimate or formaldehyde. The cleanest looking seed may bring the ' spores of one or more destructive diseases to the farmer. Farmers should avoid making even a speaking acquaintance with 1 these diseases. Otherwise they will soon be entirely too familiar. The county agent? or the botany division. Experiment Station Clemson College, S. C., can furnish information of value in this connection. o GOVERNMENT PLANS TO SAVE MILLIONS house, guided by a staff' of efficiency engineers, said in reference to the arrangements of the departments: Tremendous Increase in Costs. "In the course of the preparation of 770 charts, showing in detail the present organization of the departments making up the Washington service, tho commission has become convinced that there .are many op-' portunities for increased economy and efficiency that would bo brought { to light by a systematic measuring j up of the existing org, nizations and j existing methods of doing depart-; mental business with standards that have developed in the business world through the incentive of competition. It has noted complex, indefinite, poorly designed organization; inadequate provisions for administrative control and supervision, apparent duplication between departments and within departments, conflict of authority and overlapping of functions; overmanning, under standardized procedure, unnecessary records and other unbusinesslike methods." Very recently a group of engineers made an unofficial survey of the gov ernment activities as related to engineering, architectural and public works, finding that construction work of one kind or another is in the hands of nine separate departments, operating through 34 bureaus or services, together with four agencies not attached to the departments. This makes 3K in all, and the annual expenditure for construction of all sorts for the government amounts to more than half a billion dollars a vear. n / \'Sft 1* l\ 11 W k t t 4 In i i 1 < I i I\ <,<.< rt ?i/\ vj v? ? v: i i l 11 HIT 11 I UUIIUIIl^n cl I (; CI>1 1 strueted under seven executive de, partments and four unattached agencies, the engineers discovered. "There wan a time when the expenses of the government amounted to only \'l cents per capita nor "ear," said Representative 0. i\ Heaves . (Neb.), the ranking hou^e member of the joint congressional committee to investigate the departments with a ( view of putting into effect a <ystem of economy and efficiency. "Today the annual cost per capita exceeds $40. "This tremendous expense has made it necessary to resort to direct v taxation, and the people have <?ud, denly becomc painfully aware of who pays the expenses of the uov| ernment. Every taxpayer within the nation, when he looks at his receipts N* wonders what >v? are going to dc with the money, and the burdens >?> r) posed upon him incite a demand ioi s economy" a 0 r The "Green Mountain Boyc? The "Green Mountain ?Iloys" >vna n nflnio assumed by n body of soldiers from Vermont In the Revolutionary war. They captured fcort Tleonderoga 2 at the battle of BennlUKton. The; t. were orK?nlzed originally hy Kthan - Allen to oppose the claJms of New e York to the territory of Vermont. The ?"i Green Mountain Royg were the first o to ask that Vermont he regarded aa 11 h state. This was not ^ranitM until ^ i 17A1. when Vermont was admitted aa (> . the fourteenth state. I 1 o d Protect your flocks and poultry ger c erally by trapping coyote and woli ,t pups while they are easy to get (wes1 jof the'Mississippi River.) HE HORRY HERALD, GONW/ ' ' . ] NATIONWIDE FIGHT ON MALNUTRITION The story of a nation-wide effort to eliminate undernourishment in growing children is told in the scrapbook of a milk specialist from the federal department of agriculture, who has cooperated in the last two years in more than forty milk campaigns held in cities and rural districts throughout the United States. All of these campaigns have been held in the interest of better health for children, and in every case where a milk compaign has been put on there has been an increase in the consumption of milk, which has amounted to as much as 80 per cent in some cities. What this means to the lipnltli of t.hr country is hard to mons lire, for milk campaigns put on in one city have resulted in more campaigns in neighboring cities and rural districts, and the milk week lias grown into a long education on the food values of milk. The milk campaign week was started in Connecticut in 1918, when six cities, the first of which were Hartford and New Haven, organized to combat undernourishment among their school children, rhe movement spread to Rhode Island, where Newport took up the work, and this campaign was followed in rapid succession by campaigns in four New Jersey cities. Boston then went a step further, and put on a twelve months cam>aign. Among other cities which have taken up the work are l)e troit, Pittsburg, Kansas City Topeka, Davenport, Iowa City, .\kron, Spokane, Seattle and Madison. Other cities have planned campaigns; and Iowa and Kansas put on a State-wide campaign for two years with splendid results. "What is behind the great inlerest in milk?" asks a bulletin ot the department, and answers, Undernourishme'nt. There are many children that are under weight and undernourished. A survey of 10,000 Chicago school children showed that 40 per cent were 7 per ccnt underweight and the investigatois were surprised to find that of those underweight 57 per cent were from comfortable homes in the residential section, and only 16.2 per cent were from the stock yards district. "This fact,' says the milk utilization specialist," 'demonstration the need for teaching more about the value of foods, ?for the fault here was not poverty but ignorance of the necessity of certain foods or growing children.' "Undernourishment is not confined to the cities. In one of the counties in the richest agricultural section of Kansas it was found that of 0"9 children in 30 school districts 110 were at 'east 10 per cent underweight and only 42 per cent, of them used milk every day. Also in three townships in Iowa 51 pe; <"ent of the children .wore underweight." 'From figures like these a citv r ay gi uge the necessity of a milk campaign," says the specialist. "A 'nmpaimi is never conducted by the Dairy Division of the United States Department of Agriculture unles.there is a local feeling that it is needed. It i& then made certain that th?"? milk is pure and wholesome, that the supply is adequate, and the price reasonable to the producer, the distributor and the consumer. In such campaigns the Dairy Division co-operation of the local agencies." The value of milk in the diet has been shown very strikingly in the milk-feeding demonstrations carried on in the schools. In Kansas City, for instance, a survey in a certain school district in May, 101;? I .1:^.^.1 1 fUo+ Q<7 nr?v of tho U.^ll/^1 | |?V. I v. . . v . children were undernourished. The;were given a school lunch of mil1: and graham crackers, and by .Sep tember the percentage of undernutrition had fallen to 2"> por cent The following March onh' 3.7 nei cent were below weight, and it was expected that all would ho brought up to normal in a short time Similar results have boon obtainec in other cities.?New York Times o LOWKK FRFKIHT KATES. On Various Commodities From Cal ifnrnia to South Carolina. Columbia.?Chambers of Com mere* of the ^tatn of South Carolina hav boon advised of reduced freigh rates en rice, beans and peas am canned goods from California point to South Carolina ooints, a reductioi that will, it is said, mean much t tho business interests. The reductioi has iust been ordered by the Inter * ' - r*? Slate LOininerce v/ohiiim^iimi. The reduction on pr?as and bean is from $1.25 to $1.05; on canne salmon it is from $1.16 1-2 to 9 cents; on all canned goods fror $1.20 1-2 to $1.05; on dried fruit, ii , sacks, from $2 to $1.45; on dne fruit in boxes from $1.66 1-2 to $1.2 and on rice from $1.25 1-2 to $1. NEW NIGHT LAMP A new night lamp consists of spiral an inch and a half long an< an inch in diameter placed vertical ly in a bulb containing neon ga? An electrical discharge from thi spiral fills the bulb -with a glow aim Par to that of the mercury-vapo lamp, but the color is a beautifvi orange. The lamp is claimed to b mu"h more durable than the ord? nary metal filmament lamp. Th current consumption is only abou five watts, anil the lamp is recom mended for many purposes requir ing only a low power light at i minimum of sost. Convlct'e Unhappy Knowledge. The philosophers worrv nhom th i relations between space and time, hu 9 ihe convict doesn't. He knows rim ' he Id doing n Jorge amount of time Ii limited aindunt of space. LY, S. 0., SEPT. 8, 1921. COUNTY IN TEXAS HAS " 1 FINE HOME-LIKE JAIL If you happen to visit the county jail in Breckenridge. Texas, and see 1 a group of men playing cards or r dominoes or some other game; if : you happen to be there at noon i and see these same men prepare 1 and cook a meal that would satisfy ] the appetite of a hard-working < harvest hand; if you happen to see < a certain solidly built, companion- j able man who seems to be the "ringleader" of the bunch, you will t wonder where the prisoners are, yon t will wonder what the hilarity is all t about, and you will wonder who the < companionable ringleader is. i The group of men are the prison- t ers, says the Baltimore Sun, the games and banquettuig a?*e a dailv t routine and the solidly built "pris- i oner" is not a prisoner at all?he is i the jailer. James B. Harrison, th^ t jauer, nas made it his business >n i life to "brim? up" prisoners and h^ 1 tries to make his companions feel \ literally "at home." 1 To accomplish this purpose Ha'*- t rison chums with the prisoners, h* * eats with them, plays with them i and tells them they are not 'had i fellows' at all. Tho jailer not onTv c keeps them supplied with ma pa- ? zincs, newspapers and indoor ?amc\ j but they enjoy music and movies. * The men prepare and cook thci> i own meals. ? They can have anythmrr to en' \ thoy want. A plate of food is no' \ shoved through Iho cel^ door v.' ( them, not in Harrison's toil. Tnst^a^ 1 the men sit down on chaiv<* oero?v? i table covered with a white cloth, < have napkins and observe good tablo > mannea-rs. Harrison believe." per- i mittiniy th? men to prepare their own ( r^cals and table has had a threat'influence for ^ood ainonir them. : The menu for a recent Sunday's 1 <linmNv r?r?ti yi Orl r\f > green beans, potatoes, fruit sa'ad K. broad and butter, coffee, iced tea. i milk. oranges, apples and bananas. 1 "The chocolate pies th?se men 1 make are wonderfu'." said Harri- i son, "and the way they can cook 1 other dishes is a great surprise. Th ^ ] boys liave games, magazines, news- : papers and Bibles. At night I poi ' mit the prisoners to assemble at the ] windows in the jail overlooking an open air theatre and view the pictures. We are trying to beautify the plot of ground around the jail and have planted it in grass, and , when the prisoners want some fresh air I let them come down and help ] with the work. I never, however, require them to work, but they have at all times been anparentlv much pleased to do anything that they thouirht would help. "When they are white women 5 prisoners they are kept downstairs, i in the receiving room. I always ; ti'ort them with respect and permi* no men in their presence. T do th* ; regardless of what their degreo i.? ' the so-called cr'min?1! wov'r' ?* >? ?* bo < Harrison is 33 years old and was ' born at Momanche. T^xa^. Ho i- nt> 'of tnine brothers irt agfamily <>r 13 < children. Ho planned to enter th? ministry, but owing to dof^Hvo evri sipht was prevented from tnlciiv th"> course of stud v. TTo ha? always boon a student of human nature, believo: in his fellow-mon and says thp-t h" finds some good in the worst of them. > f. 1 McCORMACK Verti. M/ r r' The McCormack M they still stand at the head [j will be higher next year, < Remember also that Drills, Cane Mills and E r and Vulcan two-horse Pic ? chinery. Come and see FARM I f PARMER AS A FACTOR IN THE PROSPERITY OF NATION In its September review the National City?Bank of New York says. Hie plea of the labor leaders against i reduction of wages would bo sound f wages were being reduced below .he level of prices ruling for the products of labor, or below the general compensation of the great body >f workers outside of their own organizations. The trouble at the present time is :hat what the labor leaders are protesting against has already happened ;o more than one-half the worker-? >f this country. The former are tryng to maintain the pay of a minority at the expense of the majority. The farmers and producers of practically all primary products and raw naterials have taken reductions of ipproximately one-half the value oe heir products. The prices of their products are back to the pre-war evel. They have lost a great proportion of the purchasing power they lave been using in recent years, and lie market for the services of all he workers who have been supply 4-1 1 u. ; l ?i 1 ii^; trill-in iu^ ut'trn tin tuiini attuiunerly. This is the fundamental cause >f the unemployment which has spread over this country in the last /ear, since cotton, corn, oats, live stock, rice wool, hides, dairy prod icts, flax seed, the principal metal ind other primary products he^an to 'all. It is true that as factoryvorlcers and others were thus fo'-cod >ut of employment the evil effects lave been increased, hut the original mpiflse and the main influence com\s from this great bod" of people >vhr extract wealth dirertly from mture and who are largely dependent upon wov'd markets. Moreover there is n<> prospect rr i recovery of farm nrodn^ts to th ? ev^ls of war time. Doubtless thrv ire now unduly depressed and will swing back to a norma-1 levol with improvement in general ronditi^ns nit any exnectation that thev wi" recover to the war Ipvol, or to th? present rreneral level of waives and manufactured g^ods, is wholly unwa ranted. The sooner war time prices and wages are forgotten the better rhev are not norma! in times of peace. o (From Tiife.) Is this doctor you are telling me about a homeopatliist ? Don't be alarmed about that. He never prescribes less than a quart. o A Scotch Inheritance. (From Youth's Companion.) f r* CCAV \lflln \l' l V 4 in 4 iinv i i v ti i fi "n. o vy ?? ii\; ?? ci. studying1 at Edinburg University roomed at the home of a thrifty scotch family. Each morning Mr.'. MacAgnus would come in with an age-scarred dustpan and a well-worn brush nnd sweep tho floor stooping about tho place in back-breaking disco mfort. I should think you would find it easier to use a broom, the professor ventured one morning. No doot, no doot, agreed Mrs. MacAgnus, but I hae the brush and 1 hae not the broom, my mither having loft the broom to the eldest child. The youngest breather got nothing but a turkey wing. .. ftp ii 4 ? sav car pli cal Lift MOWING MA? \CK Self-Dump HAY R; ower was the first solution t< L Don't neglect saving all *nd you can not afford to try we carry a full line Disc Ha Evaporators, Feed Mills, Sec >ws. We ca^ry a full line < our line and get prices. IMPLEME Conway, S. C i LEVANT LUCK TOKEN Blue Head is Very Populai With People. Constantinople.?The luck token of the Near East is the blue bead. Its supposed potency is recognized equally by King Constantine, the Sultan of Turkey, Mustapha Kemal pasha, Gen. Papoulas and on down to the humblest soldier and peasant. M. Gouraris, the right-hand man , of Constantino, carries a whole string 1 of beads in his pocket which he takes out and fingers while being interviewed by foreign corespondents. No cabinet meeting or war council in the Near East is complete without beads. In the Angoro parliament, whera the sittings are often stormy, members shake their beads at each other and sometimes throw them across fV\a /?Un miinti r\ ^ Tu%*1/a?V v?ivj viiumu^i i x vunautD vi x ut i\v v and Greece put beads on their carpets, hang them over the door like a horseshoe, decorate the tails and the bridles of their horses and horns of their buffaloes and oxen with them. No journey is undertaken without beads on the horses and the wagon. No peasant woman is not happy unless she has them stuck in her hair, while her wealthier sisters wear them as necklaces. The shops of Asia Minor are full of these cheap beads and the blue glass ones is the most popular of all. o MORTGAGEE SALE. Under and by virtue of a Bill of Sale in the nature of a Chattel Mortgage, executed and delivered bv J. .T. Allen to Mrs. M. J. Seals, dated January 21st. 1921 and transferred to H. H. Woodward; 1 have seized and will sell >n front of the Town Hall at Conway in Horry County, at twelve o'clock noon on the J 7th day of September A. D. 1921, the following personal property [covered by said mortgage to wit: I One (1 ) black horse mule about t six years old, known as the Garj field Grainger mule, and being the j same mule sold to J. T. Allen by the I said Mrs. M. J. Seals on or about j January 21st, 1921; said mortgage* having been given to secure the purchase money thereof. Terms of sale Cash before delivery of the property. Dated September ??"' 1021. J. A. LEWIS, Agent of mortgagee. < Making Sure of the Kniny Day. "I say, mother," said Young Tompkins, "I think I'll draw out the money Uncle Dick left me and take a trip across the pond." "Hut dear,'* she protested, "you were to save that for a rainv dav." ''Well, I'm going to London and I'll be sure to find a rainy day there."?Exchange. I ? ? > ) What Counts. ' I perceive, said the Highbrow, after witnessing bis first hall game, A that success in this sport can be ;?J tained only by perfect 4 cooperation among the player; each subordinating his own individuality to that of the organization of which he is a part. You may be right at that, mnlied the lowbrow, but the main thing is team work.?New York Sun. With I he boll-weevil defying the colton crop, it is re essential now than ever 11 we devote more time and ention to the growing and 'ing of feed crops. This 1 be economically accom- I shed by the use of the CHINE and McCOR\KE. I :> this great problem and your hay this season. Hay and farm and buy hay. r* it * rrows, Stalk Gutters, Seed tion Harrows, Chattanoga of repairs for all our maNT CO. ' x '