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tm * j" 111 <^arettes They are ^ GOODI 10' Buy this Cigarette and Save Money HOW MUCH DO STRIKES COST THE NATION? Curious Figures Based on Department of Labor Statistics. (Capital News Service) Washington, July 6.?Statistics issued by the Department of Labor show that strikes in this country average more than 3,300 per year. It is not contended by the department that its figures are accurate, since they depend upon newspaper ^ and trade paper reports for the most , part, but that they are under, rather than overstatements. ft Tt is imnn?ciHlo fnifti-fiillv tn psti- I mate the average cost of a strike, since they vary so in duration, number of workmen affected and economic loss through whatever industry is wholly or partially shut down. But if the most conservative possible estimate be adopted, and it is considered that the average strife Erects 100 workmen, and that the average strike lasts 10 days, the total arrived at is 3,300,000 working days lost per year. If the average cost to each workman is $5 per day and the average loss to each industry does not exceed three times the loss to the workmen, then strikes cost this country some $66,000,000 a year. It is not believed that these figures are anything but suggestive. The average strike undoubtedly affects thousands, rather than hundreds, and for many more than ten days; few union laborers receive as little as $5 a day, and, of course, the industry affected suffers out of all proportion to the workmen. But, it is pointed out at the capitol, . *'> V MarxMa< i* wm I Man \ Becaus a million w Get Yc Silve Main Street ' if it were true that only $66,000,000 [ were wasted by stlikes every year, that $66,000,000 spent in proper channels on arbitration would undoubted ly stop most if not all the strikes! ! It might be an economic measure to spend a part of it for accurate statistics of strike costs to the country; a little education on what i ' really costs to stop work might mak< (people less willing to indulge in, ori cause, strikes. o Rome Book Club. The Rome Book Club held its regular meeting on Wednesday, June 21, at the home of Miss Etta Tart. Meeting called to order by the president, and roll call responded by each memj ber with "name of a noted jurist, j including those now on the bench." j Minutes of last meeting read and j approved. There being no business, J the afternoon's program was carried out Two very interesting papers were read by Mrs. W. T. Turbeville and Mrs. G. *K. Way. These papers were muchly enjoyed by all. After a move to adjourn, delicious i-ofroahmpnts. consistine of ice cream and cake were served by the hostess. Our welcomed guests: Miss Mabel I Chandler and Mrs. R. C. Foxworth. Etta S. Tart, Publicity Chairman. o Stamping Out Typhoid Fever. Attention is called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune to the fact that both in Mississippi and in Louisiana great progress has been made I in the past two or three years in the reduction of typhoid fever. In Louisiana the death rate in 1921 was only half as great as in 1918, the rate being cut from 38.95 in 1918 to 22.34 in 1919, to 15.83 in 1920, to 17.73 in 1921. Typhoid fever has always had bad ..aooo onW wnrv) v?r?. hut it .seems I vcaio uitu gvvu ^ vw. w, -- ? ? clear that the mortality from this loathesome disease has been definitely and permanently reduced. An epidemic of typhoid fever today is evidence that something which should have been done has been left undone. If an epidemic occurs in a town or city the presumption is strong that something is wrong with the water supply or the milk supply of the system of sewerage disposal. Where competent authorities are on the job there is not the least likelihood any longer of a typhoid fever epidemic. With a first-class public , health service adequately maintained, the(@tohes i Mad r They Have ] e of these featu earers of Marx - ? * "* /-I T* r* 4- ( anu vjcl k Oman's typhoid fever could be virtually; stamped out in a very few years: j ?News and Courier. REGISTRATION NOTICE The office of the Supervisor o: Registration will be open on the 1m Monday in each month for the pur pose of registering any person who is qualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident of the State for two years, and of the county one year, and of th? poll: j precinct in which the electoi offers to vote four months before the day of elction, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section to him by the Supervisors of Registration, or who can show that ht owns, and has "aid all taxes collectible on during the present vear, property in this State assessed at three hundred dollars or "?e. R. E. CI ' RKSON, Clerk of Board. KINGSTREE W&fc' lodgp No. 4fc / SEtK A. F.M. f ""vr -? Meets the second Thursday night in each nonth. Visiting bretheren cordially invited. H. U. Kinder, W. M? Donald Montgomery, Secretary. 666 cures Bilious Fever. CYPRESS . SASH \ DOORS ^ BLINDS W * 2- $r ! MOULDINGS ^ AND MILLWORK 666 quickly relieves a cold. ; Youi Should be 11 free circulat ? A? 1 1 . mat win sia ( constructed the trying si will not sag le Clo 3one it For Mc * ires there are Made Clothing Satisfaction! wv ? j i uep t. ; KINGS! Ill IPATI || Home I When you bu from Western Packi out of this county a thing from The Ki: money you pay for i turned back to the f Those large packinj stock. They do no and churches nor do The Kingstree Saus ' is Oil Sausage, pu i? Balogna Sausaj I Liver Pudding Pork Sausage Smoked Pork S Vienna Sausage Frankfurter Sa and Han FRESH BEEF, PORK,I Kingstree Sausage IH. A. 1 Kingstree, No Grocery Store or Meat \ Home-Made Products 1 r Sumn lade of materials tl :ion of air; at the ss nd the test of use. -*-1? " *- *"1^ rttr VTTlll Kr Lil<d.L uicy win nv. ummer weather, rr and get out of sha itfiiner 1 r ?O >re Than a Million M n more than \ ; today. jh 0^* IfU JIU1C REE, S. C. * toN] Indu _ J _ 11 - A. y a uonar s wuri ing Houses, that n nd State. If yov ngstree Sausage F it stays in this cou armers for Pork, g houses will not t contribute to yc they help keep up age Factory Mao t ud in 25 and 50i ? Mr ?- - - - j & lausage I S usage dies at its Market IPTTON AND DRESS! Factory and People' MILLER, Proprietor ' S larket is Complete With from the Kingstree Sausagi fa uer ; hat will perm ime time be They shou >ld their styl lade of matej ipe. Do T Persons! arxMade ^ SMii5 N Ml 1 51 stry I h or more ra noney goes fgS 1 buy any- Kfl actory the E inty and is 1| * Beef, Etc. E : buy your 1$ >ur schools . p your roads. ? II I pound cans ED POULTRY 1 s Market 1^ outh Carolina. |yP out a Stock of 15 e Factory! IJ ? I\:i >uit 4 lit of the materials Id be so 4 * $ e during rials that . . -5 : I a his! 1 ' < > fe I 1 ^ I It. ' * I