The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 12, 1916, Page FOUR, Image 4
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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<
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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
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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.
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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.
> ? .
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I and has an established reputation.
It contains no opium or <>tl er nar-i
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