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Cot a move on you ami join the "buy-a-bale" movement, and while you are at it, don't forget to join the t "buy-a-ticket" movement, a ticket to ( me union bounty lair Uctober 21- . 22-2:1. Elsewhere in this issue will he seen the call of President Wilson for a day j of prayer for peace, October 4. Let < all pious people heed this call of our t president. Let the pastors preach 1 and pray everywhere for the coming of peace in all the world. Followers t of the Prince of Peace assuredly de- \ sire fervently the cessation of the fearful conflicts raging. ' t October 10th is the day for the be- ( ginning of the enforcement of the city j ordinance against speeding and running with open mufflers on the streets of Union. All motorcycle riders and i automobile drivers will do well to in- 1 form themselves upon the law soon to take effect. You will see the full text of the ordinance published elsewhere in this issue of The Times. ' 1 TRAGEDY OR COMEDY? Life to many is a sort of huge joke ] ?a comedy. Such individuals are never serious, never weighed down with responsibilities. They throw off ] responsibility like a duck's back sheds water. Such individuals would ca: iy their umbrellas so as to allow a following pedestrian to punch out his , eye and upon such a situation exclaim, < "I did not mean to do it." There is a < disposition on the part of many parents to train their children in the idea that life is a funny comedy; nothing is to be taken seriously; nothing is to be considered reverently. The truth is, life is a tragedy. From the cradle to the grave it is a struggle, a battle. With a cry the helpless infant is born. With groans the aged man lies down to die. In the strength of manhood the tasks are enough to tax the muscle and brain of the strongest. This thing of living is a serious business, and the sooner one realizes it the better for him. AS WE SEE IT. We have pushed along the "buy-abale" movement. We have urged every one who is able to hold a hale to buy one and hold it, thus keeping cotton off the market as long as possible. The movement has assumed wide proportions and has done some good. Kut the fact is, this sort of thing is but a| makeshift. It is a remedy hut not a | cure. A man in agony often swallows some temporary remedy, knowing that it will not in the least ward off the serious operation which will follow soon or late. The pain may be allayed but the cause is not removed and until that occurs the pain will recur at intervals and with fearful vio lence. The cotton grower must find a cure. Remedies in plenty are to be found. What is vastly better and what must be found is a cure. The government's money to move crops, the laws demands to reduce acreage and thus cut production are not much better. These too are remedies and not cures. The real cure lies in another direction The farmer himself is the doctor in the case; his salvation must come from within ,not from without. He must operate upon an entirely different idea. Cotton must be made his secondary crop. He must raise out of the ground his staples of life first and raise for the few actual needs outside of his own resources. He must build up his soil by planting clover and other legumes. He must raise fruits and vegetables and learn to live at home. We believe he is rapidr ly learning these lessons. The great war now raging will do much to teach us all that we may be independent if we will but assert ourselves. We need to be a-free people commercially as well as politically and such experiences as this season has brought us, will go far towards helping us so to do. Open Letter to Teachers of County. Superintendents, Trustees and Teachers: Vacation is over and I trust that everybody is ready for work. We should start with a renewed energy and all strive to make this the best scholastic year Union county has ever known. Every teacher in Union county is a member of the Union County Teachers association and it will give us great pleasure to greet all the former teachers and welcome new ones. The Union County Teachers association will meet Saturday, October 10th at 12 o'clock in the Union high school building. This is the time for election of officers so every teacher, trustee and principal is urged to be present. Hoping to see each of you there, I am, Sincerely, Mary Gist Fleming. 1'res. Union County Asso. BUFFALO A revival meeting at Buffalo Baptist church closed Sunday night with 10 additions to the church and a large number of Christians were revived. Rev. A. C. Baker of Columbia assistid the pastor, Rev. L. S. Shealy in the meeting which lasted twelvo days. Throughout the meeting there was a arge congregation in attendance. DISEASED TEETH A MENACE TO HEALTH That the mouth of almost every inlividual is unsanitary is no longer a juestion of doubt. It forms an ideal medium for the propagation of all 'orms of bacteria. It is of just the right temperature, contains at all times the necessary moisture and atmosphere, and the deal food elements ip which to devel>p a culture of almost any germ. So hat we have in the mouth an ideal medium for the propagation of pneumonia, diptheria, tuberculosis, tyihoid, meningitis and the germ of al ??wuv v? vij umci v,unvaf;iuu."? aim in'ectious disease. Such a mouth^is not only a menace :o the child that possesses it, hut hose perms are breathed out, coughed >ut and sneezed out into the home :he school room, the cars, the theatres, and each of such mouths is a menace to an entire community. A child with defective teeth and an unsanitary mouth, besides the contapious disease is menaced by such troubles as plandular enlarpements. tonsilitis, adenoids, all pulmonary anA intestinal troubles, and many cases of mania have been traced directly tithe infection and irritation of the trifacial through cavities in the teeth. DR. H. K. SMITH, Dentist Special Prices For CO Days. BROWNING SUGGESTS WAY TO CUT COTTON ACREAGE Mr. Editor: The preat war in Europe has disorganized all business to [i greater or less extent. It has been specially destructive to the cotton industry, which is not only the basis of wealth in the South, but furnishes to the United States, her favorable balance of trade with the rest of the world. The business men, not only of the South, but of the entire country, have shown their* appreciation of this grave situation in the "buy-a-bale" movement and many other ways. The governor has called the genaccomU,, ? I vice means, if possible, to avert th( calamitous conditions now confronting the cotton producer. Under these circumstances it seems to me that at the meeting to be held October 1st, at the various county seats, some definite plan should be agreed upon and submitted to the general assembly for their consideration. I would suggest something along the following lines: That a license be placed upon each acre of cototn planted in this State for the season of 1915, that for the first eight or ten acres per work animal, the license be almost nominal, say 10c per acre; that for all this specified amount, the license be made practically prohibitive, say $10 per acre. Allow me to say that I am not the first to publicly advocate this plan, for while I was considering its feasibility, I saw an article in the press by Mr. (Iruber of Walterboro of which the above is a synopsis, and 1 have n> desire to deprive him of the credit of first advocating it. I would put teeth in this law and make it effective in the following manner?that the delegation to the Kcuciai aancmwiy sunn recommenn to the governor one citizen from each school district in the State, where cotton is grown, whose duty it shall be, between the first of June, 1915, and the first of July of same year, to inspect each and every field of cotton planted in his school district, estimating, or if necessary, measuring the same. He shall also ascertain the number of work animals kept by each producer and report his findings in full to the county treasurer, not later than July 15th, 1915. The county treasurer shall then proceed to enter it on his books under the heading "Cotton license for the year 1915," and this license shall be collected as the other taxes are collected. For the pay of this school district inspector, I would recommend that they receive about $2 per day for not more than ten days, and an additional $10 for necessary traveling expenses and j | Unic I SATURDA x c ? THE + Offers, Subjee . ?* Chase & Sanborns lamo worth 30c. Chase & Sanborns l'amou X ?worth 35c. X Chase & Sanborns famou V ?worth 10c. Chase & Sanborns l'amou ?* worth 45c. 'Chase & Sanborns famou T mi. /i /* mis oonee rocs lur X while it is going. V Chase & Sanborns Teas, Liptons Teas, White all kinds. Fifteen Boxes "ic Senate worth 75c. t. 10-pound bucket Fresh S ular $1.25. (Limit Best 5 cent Bread on ml ?? ' resh Flieschmans Yeasl Best 10c Lump Starch f New Crop Quaker and 1 packages lor 10c pel J New Crop Graham Flour f Good 15c I'ink Alaska Si Hitters Pure < irape Jelly, ?? 10c glass. Pure Ap % For Best Val X | _ ? % 1 JritL I PHONE 1< . clerical work. In addition to the ahove, I would recommend that the general assentr hly enact that an additional license fee of $1 he collected upon each ton of fertilizers over and above two tons that shall he used under the cotton cultivated by each work animals. Of course, this would have no reference to fertilizer used under grains or any other crops except cotton. It might be advisable, however, to give the inspector the power to administer oaths and require him to take the oath of the producer as to how much, and id what way his fertilizer was used per I J m 1& OVERCO/ A SHIRTS?Our New UNDERGARMENTS HEAD WEAR?The NECKFIXINGS?Ne new ?AND - I War o v We All MUS But your doll; 1 /a4- V? 1?? ? - vaiue a ever. One of models. ^ -m,, Hert ? ^ Suit t made to wearfabricked to satisi sold to make you ^ more season after __ Sio to VTS too, but v try-on proves an ABOUT YOUR Ol ' Fall line of Eagle Shirts are ?Anything you need in Unc latest word in STETSON an tw Fall CRAVATS, 25c to $1. shapes you see advertised ir EVERY DRESS NEED Agents for "Stronger Than tl THE SEASON'S G1 in Cl< j D. Wr. lVHJL-.I_.il A Y, MONDAY ictober 3rd UINJIOISJ C ;t to Stock Exhaustic us little Cuba Collee at 25c? s Highland Blend Coll ee at :>()j is Perfection Collee lor 33 l-Jic is High Grade Collee for .?">e? sSeal Brand Collee for 40c. ther, lasts longer and is better , Tetleys Teas, Leggetts Teas, Roae Teas, and Iiidgeways Teas ir brand Matches for 50c? now Drift Lard for $1.00, regirkfet, fresh daily. ;diily?fresh Magic Yeast. or|5c per pound. tfofhers Oat Meal, the 12 l-2c pjickage. -Aew Whole Wheat Flour, ijaion for 10c can. iJ good as the 25c article, for jil Jelly 10c glass. ws, Best Servio j You Will Find JITN IU1\ t v?rB animal. If there should be a frtiizer license to be paid, the inspcior shall make this report to the c0dy treasurer at the same time he ,?jw his cotton acreage report, and tfeSounty treasurer shall charge it ti nder the heading "Extra f^rtilitX Aense," and collect it the same as okflfl taxes are collected. Should the gnAal assembly enact laws along t^Mlines they should at once take 5<p? to inform the State governgpl of all other cotton 'producing sttA and urge in every way possi- , l^lhese other states to adopt the i gjnflor more drastic laws. r No War T Wear Clothes ar must buy more nd better wear than many NEW Fall ;'s an ALCO for Fall? ?wea r?WEAR? p 11 . . - - :y tne nattiest dresser; come back to us for season. $25.00 ve talk about ALCO beyond dc rHER ^DRESSING:' here in the latest patterns lerwear, 2 pieces and Union d NO NAME Hats. 50. Barker Brand Pure Li 1 the magazines?1/* sizes, 1 FOR MEN AND THEI ie Law" Shoes to fit the fai MEETINGS TO YOL >thing VAX, Manager. ^4 J AND TUES] , 5th and 6 iROCER >n and Withdrawal Big assortment famous Bcec ' ment Heinz 57 Varietie More Olives. Cherries, PickU Relishes and Catsups a oll'ered by any one stock New Crop 15c size pure Ton $1.10 dozen. New Puffed Wheat, l'uffed R flakes, Oat Meal, Postu and Crape Nuts. Best Bakers Chocolate made, Limited lot imported Sweet strictly 15c now, still g know a store in the State Pure Cream Cheese, finest ma Cream Cheese by the box Rough Rider Baking Powder Baking Powder for $5.75 Choicest Stocks of Hams, Pi rnnc I'"1' uuiu^iins, Koiled Hi moved, sliced to order; Beef Hams sliced to ord< Breakfast Bacon sliced t You Will Naver Kno\ Items are Until You b 1'ure Imported Muscavado Me assortment Table Syrups ! e and Appreciate No Superior to jROCEF < L. L. WAG K A ' Just one other suggestion, and I will bring this to a close. 1 do not suppose a law could be enacted that would apply to the following, but I would most earnestly urge it for the consideration of landlords and tenants. A great deal of our cotton is now produced by tenants who pay a fixed rental of so many pounds of lint cotton per work animal. I would recommend that one half of this cotton rent be changed to oats, corn, hay or some other farm crop to be delivered at a fixed price, or that a specified number of bushels or pounds of the same be paid as half the rental. This y l . ^MET HAT them later. >ubt. * ? $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 suits, all Weights, all prices nen COLLARS?all the 2 for 25c. R SONS? mily. J \ Co. ' ???a DAY NEXT I tii :| Y CO. | Willi out Notice X ! :h Nut goods. Hig assort- > !S. " ^ ;s, Salad Dressings- Sauces, t nd better assortment than t V lato Catsup tor 10 bottle? .ice. Shredded Wheat, Corn im Cereal, Instant Postum A Lowneys 25c Cakes lor 21c. $ Spanish Pimentos, worth f oing for 10c. We do not' > getting less than 12 l-2c. ?* de, 2 pounds for 45c. Pure for 19c pound. & for $1.75 case, Good Luck X. v > case. X cnic Hams, Breakfast Baams, skin, fat and bone re- ^ Choicest inside cut Dried > ?r, Choicest English Cured & o order. & w Just How These JL Tse Them This Way. % lasses for 6()c gallon. Fine all sizes in tins. f ? X ive Attention, X X tY CO. I NON, mgr. . . . , .,->*vWVV will he only a matter of justice from the landlord to the tenant, and besides, in thus reducing the cotton production for another yeur. he will be aiding in enhancing the price of that which is produced. Trusting that the press of the state generally will give this as much publicity as possible, I am. Very respectfully, Lowndes Browning. Union, S. C., Sept. 25, 1914. What a delightful world if the rose kept its odor as long as the moth ball does!