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UTJjp gtauitlg Sprorb. KINQSTREE. S. O. THURSDAY. OCT. 12.1916. Why Are Prices Soaring? With the price of wheat, flour, cprn and many other articles that form the basis of food supplies ir the United States lower in Europt / than in the United States this one question is very pertinent: "What is the cause of these enormously high prices at home?" In the face of the fact that wheat and flour are selling in the European war couiv tries, Germany excepted, for less money than is being asked for it here at home it cannot be truth ? t fully claimed that the demand foi our product by the war Strieker countries is the real cause, because it is not plausible that our people would send their food products, the ' very staff of life, to Europe to be sold at a lower price than they couk fnr thorn in the home markets The United States Government made an investigation as to the prices pre .f * vailing in Europe and the above con I ditions were found to exist. The New York Evening Worlc makes this editorial complaint: The high cost of nearly everythinj a family needs has become a matte] of nation-wide comment and alarm Latest reports show that meat, veg etables and dairy foods are nearinj prices on an average twice as higl as a year ago. Potatoes cost three times as much. Flour has advancec 60 per cent. The price of onion has doubled. Butter sells 12 pei cent and cheese 23 per cent higher Even the lowly cabbage that sole for 66 cents per barrel a year ago ii now quoted at $3. What this means to family bud ore** nopHn nri demonstrating. House keepers everywhere are complaining that a five dollar bill buys scarcel: more than half the provisions i bought this time last year. Where is it to end? It is tru< ? ? wages in some quarters have gon< up. But the vast majority of Amer . ican familes of modest means hav< had no addition to their incomes. Is it the war? And if so, how This country produces plenty of foo< for its own needs and that food un der ordinary circumstances can b< sold at normal prices. What is thi "war price" plea so frequently ant ldosely offered? Are Americans be ing cheated out of enormous quanti ties of their own food products ii order that somebody may harves huge profits abroad? Or is there > gigantic conspiracy on the part o: producers, wholesalers and retailers to capitalize t he troubled state of th< world and get what they can out o: the American consumer? Everywhere anxiety is growing t< have these questions answered. Th< rising cost of American food ii America is rapidly becoming a mat ter of national moment. It calls foi deep and thorough probing by thi hiorVio.it nnthnritv and intelligenc< the nation can bring to the job. Push for Your County Fair. Let every true son and daughtei of old Williamsburg put a shouldei to the wheel and push for youi County Fair. If there are any wh< don't want to push let them get ii harness, hitch themselves to th< ; 7 . pole and pull this great county festi val to the very summit of success Dispel, immediately, Any feelinf of doubt or "blues" that may pos sess you as a result of the destruc tive work wrought by the summer's storm, and make up your mind thai you are going to have a good bij time from November 8 to 11, shak ing hands with friends and minglins with fellow citizens of the county or the fair grounds at Kingstree. And further, that you are going to b* treated to some of the most pleasing, interesting ana instructive lear.ures that it is possible to obtain. A first class carnival will be there, and s 5tlmber of free attractions each day and night- all combining to make our citizens oblivious, for a time, tc the cares of business and the sting of adversity. The beads of the various depart ments are earnestly urging co-oper ation on the part of all citizens wht ' \ ; r. have the welfare of their grand old county at heart, ancl we feel justi! fied in making the prediction that we are going to have a bigger and betI ter fair this fall than last, regardless of adverse circumstances. Was It the Bremen? ': i We are inclined to believe that! i ? the long expected Bremen, supposed . to be a sister ship of the Deutscht land, made its appearance at New port, R I, last Saturday in the form; ? of the German submarine U-53 and /emphasized the fact of its presence . in American waters Sunday by tor; pedoing six merchant vessels belong; ing to enemy countries. Either this .' or there was a fleet of German sub-! marines off Nantucket with a tender ij or supplv ship not far off. It is our ? belief that the ordinary war type of ? the German submarine could not i make a voyage from a German to an > American port unattended. I Again, it is probable that theGer. man Government built and sent the i Deutschland out on a voyage to the . United States as an experiment, then - seeing that this particular type of submarine made the trip success1 fully, the Bremen was armed and dispatched on a mission of destrucl tion instead of being sent as a com* r merce carrier. / r The Annual State Fair and Har1 vest Jubilee will open on the 23d of a j this month, continuing through the 3 27th. Judging from current rer ports concerning the festival of fun 1 and frolic, the management is mak3 ing greater preparations than ever before for the entertainment of the - visitors. It will be a gala week in * the Capital City, and every citizen t of the State who can spare the time and the "wherewith" without detri* a I ment to his own county fair should - attend this great show of the State's ' finest and fairest products. * Brevities from Bethel. Bethel, October 9:?Perhaps some ? people think that Bethel is dead, s but that's not true. Come and visit ^ us and we will show you what we are doing. Of course some of our boys and girls are married, or off 3 employed elsewhere; but that's all right, there are some left here still. P Messrs Daniel and Letcher McElveen visited friends at Union Sunday ' afternoon. 1 Mr Mott McGill of Kingstree visited a friend in this community Sunday afternoon. 3 Mr and Mrs G W Burgess spent 2 Friday and Saturday with their 3 daughter, Mrs Dave Cole, at Seloc. Mr Hardy McElveen of Kingstree [ spent Sunday with his parents, Mr j * and Mrs K U Mctiveen. B Afessrs Bart and Eugene Burgess visited relatives and friends in Lake City Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Allie Burgess was called to the bedside of her sister,Mrs Luther McFaddin, in Olanta, last week. We r hope for her a speedy recoyery. r Messrs Letcher McElveen and Reoce Wilson attended the picnic at 5 Oak Dale Saturday afternoon, i Mr Daniel McElveen and sister, a Miss Jessie, attended preaching at Hebron Tuesday night. The delegates that were appointed . to attend the Sunday-school convention at Pergamos on the 28th inst are Mrs W A Cooper, Miss Poss Epps * and Messrs H J Burgess and Ira . Epps. Rev D M Clark will fill his regu* lar appointment here Sunday. Sunt day-school at 10:30, preaching at 11:30. Messrs J V and J D Burgess and Daniel McElveen went to Lake City Saturday on business. Prayer meeting will be held at Bethel Sunday night at 7:30. We hope to see a large congregation, as we desire everyone to take an interest in it. We are sorry to hear that our school will not open until the 27th inst, as our teacher has been in a hospital at Charleston for about two weeks. She was operated on for appendicitis. We hope she will soon be restored to health. Tiptop. I am now engaged in the Coffin and Casket business. Calls promptly answered at all hours, day or night. I Phones?Office, 17; residence, 91. in id p S Paiidtkipv | * u WVikinui* " I Tanlac, "the master medicine,"on >1 sale at ScoTr's Drug Store, i NEGRO STUDENTS HEAR C L BLEASE. SOME ALUMNI HAD OBJECTED BECAUSE OF MR BLEASK. S LANGUAGE REGARDING NEGROES. Cole L Blease was the chief speak er yesterday at the opening exercises of Allen university, a large negro school in Columbia, despite the protest of Tuesday morning by alumni and former students, whc petitioned President Manse and the faculty that the invitation be withdrawn, "as it will greatly embarrass our wives and daughters to have exGov Blease speak to them, since he has spoken so harshly in the courts and on the stump against the virtues of the negro women and the respecl and decency of negroes in general." Mr Blease made no direct refer? ? V?'? fnaanU tn this npHtl'dn cute iu mo o^jeevii w viuw ? , but the Rev W D Chappelle, D D, bishop of the African Methodisl Episcopal church in this State, whe introduced the ex-Governor as "the strongest white man in the State oi South Carolina" and one whose par doning record had removed all sting in things "said on the stump," was somewhat scathing in his denuncia tion of those who presumed "to die tate the policies of a great church.' "Who are they, anyway?" Chappelle asked. Then in answer to his owi query he remarked, "They aren'1 known outside of their own back yard." The harsh things said or the stump, the bishop observed were only to tickle the ears of the voters and thereby gain their sup port. , Ten minutes were consumed bj Bishop Chappelle in his speech ol introduction, generously seasonec with superlatives. In asking the ex-Governor, he hac onmrlit oairl tn crot thp atrnnirpsi OV/Ugllbf liv UMIVIf vv I^vv V..W w?. v^0 man in the State. He had gone carefully over the records, careen and deeds of all the Governors oi South Carolina, and Mr Blease, h< said, easily held first rank. Severa pardon cases, where the former Gov emor "by a single stroke of the per set that negro free," were cited One of these was that of a 14 yea: old negro boy sent up for life. The congressional controversy betweer the negro, George Washington Mur ray, of Sumter and a white man, Co Moise, of the same district, was alse reviewed by the bishop in all its ramifications. Later in his speed Mr Blease reminded the bishop thai it was he (Mr Blease) who had made Murray the Congressman from this State instead of the white man. Mi Blease was then a member of the canvassing board and cast the decid ing vote. "If I had got justice three weeks ago and if the board had been as honest," he said yesterday, "I woujd be the next Governor oi South Carolina." He had always sought, he said, to do justice to the negro, regardless of his color. Much speculation had been engaged ia bv the negroes themselves as to the character of speech Mi Blease would deliver, but the speak er throughout his discourse spoke guardedly and with moderation. He said he had been misunderstood bj the negroes, whom he greeted as "my friends." In politics he hac always urged that taxes negroes paid should go to the support of negrr schools. School boards, he said chiseled the negroes out of their jusl proportion when making apportion I ment for the schools of the two races Christian citizenship was earnestlj commended to the students of th( school. "I don't make much profes sion myself. I have been so hound ed. vilified and abused that I ofter go by my own church, refusing tc enter, because I know that there are hypocrites and scoundrels at the communion table, who are a disgrace to God Almighty." The studfente were told to "aim nigh, tell the truth and to attain the ends of a worthj ambition honestly," and not by slipping books under the desks in the examination room or copying information from their cuffs. Referring to the sentiment in the petition, by inference, Mr Blease said he had never insulted "a colored girl." "I have never wronged any woman, white or black. Neither have I spoken a word of slander 'against any woman." A slanderi er was denounced as "a most con' templible cur." ! The ex-Governor's attitude toward convicts was somewhat enlarged up-! 1 , on. He sometimes thought, he said.! , that all penitentiaries, jails and court i U'kot ! SlUUMra IIJl^lll uc aiMMioncu. vutai was the use <>f these and the church , too, he asked his audience, that ap-1 1 plauded his words with increasing ') volume, and punctured the unfinished sentences often with confirmation r i comment. An overruling Provi' dence was held up as the mighty fi avenger of all wrongs, both political ' and spiritual, and certain political 51 controversies were enumerated to ' i sustain this assertion, the names of1 ' j those wronged being tactfully with- j 'j held. 5 In urging that the negro students * hitch their wagons to a star, the race, just up from slavery, was cordially commended for its entrance ' into professions and the varied ' phases of commercial life. "You " are coming into higher things," they 1 were told. "They can't hold you 5 back despite what I or any other r man may say," he said while the auditorium roared with cheers of ap proval. 1 B W Mance. president of the university, was reared in Newberry ' .county, and the Newberry negro was the choice of Mr Blease to head the i State nesrro collepre at Orangeburg, 1 when an attempt was made to oust ^ Miller, the president of that institution, during: the Blease administra1 tion. Mance himself took occasion ' at the conclusion of Mr Blease's speech to deliver another laudatory speech in which he recalled the early efforts of Mr Blease at the Newber1 ry bar, "when Cromer and Johnstone and Schumpert and Welch and * the late lamented Pope' were the giants in the legal profession there." * These had dwindled into the proport tions of "mere pygmies" in com' parison with Mr Blease, before Mr 3 Blease was elevated to the Govern^ or's chair, Mance argued. The a " Dresident of the school commended i ' the examples of Mr Blease and Bishop Chappelle to the students as 1 worthy of emulation. Both, he said, '; were known throughout the United r States and it was only through their zeal and adherence to worthy pur1 poses that they had been enabled " to carve their way through untoward circumstances. - The State. > ? . 5 When You Take Cold. 1! 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