The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 17, 1919, Page PAGE 6, Image 6
Normal Prices Returning
Ono .statistician has estimated thai
there are in this country today con
itructive expenditures toia-ing tiv<
billion dollars, which are hesitating
to begin on account of the high pric
es of materials and labor. It is evident
'ha' an individual corporatior
is reluctant to erect a bui'ding which
trt/Jix- will rvwf Pint 5100(100. if hf
feels that six monlhs 02- a yearhenct
he can << hi plicate the same identica
structure for $(>0 000 of $70,000
However, there is a certain patriotic
element in all this, and if everybody
waits ror the bottom price, v/i
will all suffer from the inevitable
stagnation, and complete resumption
will be indefinitely postponed. The
policy of the founder of the Rothschild
banking house, which was to
buy securities neither at the lowest
price nor to seU at the highest, am!
which 'he baron demonstrated so
successfully, is not a bad one just
, now. There is, moreover, the p:x>bability
that a building, erected at
more than the normal cost, may
furnish the opportunity for conducting,
for some years at least, a business
at profits which will warrant
the unusuai expenditure. There is
always a "happy medium" somewhere
between the abnormally high
and abnormally low, which is usually
difficult of determination, but
which is warranted and advisable.
Some building materials have already
fallen in price; a substantial
reduction in many others will doubtless
produce greater profits at the
end of twelve months, by reason of
increased sales, or sales which would
otherwise not be made at all, than
by trying arbitrarily to maintain
war prices, which is ultimately impossible.
The Sales Department of
the War Department, which has the
disposal of hundreds of millions of
dollars of raw and manufactured
products, bought for war purposes
and no longer needed, has already
arranged for the release of certain
commodities. The lumber associations
have been authorized to commence
the sale of the vast quantities
of lumber on the Government's account
and expect to clean up the entire
surplus in six months. The copper
interests, representing 90 per
cent of the American producers, exnect
to disoose of the Government's
holding of copper in fifteen months,
or less. Sodium nitrate and hardwood
lurrber are also now ready for
release. Other line^. will follow as
rapidly as arrangements can be
made, and all without "breaning"
the market, though prices will naturally
be less than war-time prices.
\ A fair stait has been made toward
settlement with the thousands of
contractors,' and subcontractors, although
the process is less rapid than
could be desired. On th^ whole, we
are Recovering from conditions of
the "dav after" quite as rapidly as
should be expected.?H. H. Windsor,
in the May Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Connecticut Blue Laws
Boy. and girls who have to go
horr ? when -he curfew rings at Dor
9:30 p. m. should read some of the
old laws of Connecticut and rejoice
that they did not live in our early
Colonial days. Here are several of
the most interesting on<,\s. Look them
over carefully and compare them
with our modern care-free lives:
No one shall run on tnc daonain,
or walk in his garden or elsewhere,
except reverently to and from meeting.
No woman shall kiss her child on
the Sabbath day.
No one is to cross a ferry, but
with an authorized ferryman.
>No one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds sweep houses, cut hair,
or- shave on the Sabbath day.
No minister shall keep school.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed
with gold, silver, or bone lace above
two shillings by the yard shall be
presented by the grand jurors, and
the Selectmen shall tax the offender
at 200 pounds.
No one shall read common prayer,
keep Christmas or saint's day, make
pio, iaiu^, vi p.u; v<>
any instrument of music. except the
drum, trumpet and jew's harp.
No man shall court a maid in person
or by letter without first obtaining
the consent of her parents; five
pounds penalty for the first offense,
ten for the second, and for the third
imprisonment during pleasure.
Iievtdoping Neatness
My hardest struggle?" asked the
; oung \ idow \.he is "b vr.rg up"
a family of th ee. "My mo.- difficult
probont is to have the cr.il iron pieK
up their own toys and clothing every
tine. is a; I and sa < ;i Jv that
let l.'.l v.u is the ; f III
erty, for if 1 were not right after
Tom and Ned, to say nothing of little
Agnes, they would never gather up
one thing."
-;na* mi* suu>;j;u- mm ?v/i.n v..v
. gains. that you have made?" cam*
lhe next question, a bit dubiously.
"Indeed it has, for I'm just beginning
to see the results. Hut for a long
time 1 grew very weary repeating
tfie same directions every night and
insisiting that clothes must be placed
where they could be most easily donned
in the morning. Now there is no
question about it. Of course there is
always something new to tackle, but
I'm keeping on. the best I can."
Every mother realizes how hard u
is to insist upon a certain thing, especially
when children are tired. Hut
every victory won is a victory not
only r?r the mother but for the boy
or girl who is receiving this splendid
training.
Have you ever thought of the hoys
who went into the service, the ones
whose doting parents had never insisted
upon a thing's being done?
What a "hard row" those lads must
have "hoed"! Never had obeyed, and
now forced to do so! How much easier
it would have been if they had always
had such rules.
A mother gave her children permission
to crack nuts for candy
Down upon the floor they "plumped'
? with never a thought of protecting
the carpet. When they were througl
their mother probably had to sweej
up the remnants. How much easie
to have taught them neatness.
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NEWS SAYS;
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Madam Marie Rap]
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human voice that
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convince you as t<
these goods.
5 Baggett's Jev
East Main Street,
Bring me your broken Watches
pairs made same day received.
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COFFINS ANI
A large and varied assort
Automobile Hearse
of Horse-Drawn
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Kingstree Ha
Phones <35> 4&
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THfc PEOPLE'
H.A. MILLER,
with the aid of
?old, of the Met- j
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reproducing the ^ ' ? |
it was actually 1*1 iy 3* ,
rge*invited audi- ?TT?~? , between
the pri- BENJ. MclNNES, M. R. C. V. S.
id the Kdison Re- McINNES,M.D.,V.M. D
ludience familar VETERINARIANS.
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;he voice they ;trst Monday in each month, at Hel[uestionably
hers, ler's Stables. 9-28-tf
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lips. Then Mad- S?g ?
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ras singing, her Notary Public with Seal. 1
so perfectly by 5.9! iyp JOHNSONVILLE. S, C. j
binet that it was '
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A. M. SNIDER,
Surgeon Dentist .
stock a nice , 0 _ _ /
Office at Residence f
Ml of Railroad Ave., KINGSTREE; m<
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merit to select from.
and Robber-Tired
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If you need Glasses, come
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inses fitted correctly at low5t
prices. Broken lenses dulicated.
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KINGSTREE
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A. F.M.
sets the second Thursday night in each
anth Visiting brethren are cordially
yited. B. E. Clarkson, W. M.
W. W. Holiday, Sec. 2-27-lv
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