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THE UNION TIMES c tl PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY c a TIMES BUILDING. MAIN STREET 1< BELL PHONE NO. 1 0 LEWIS M. RICE. Editor h . ! a Registered at the Postoffice In Union, s S. C. as second class matter. t SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.50 s Six Months .75 : v Three Months .40 r AT< ERTISEMENTS 1 One square, .lrst insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 t MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS r The Associated Press is exclusively entitle to the use for republication j of all news dispatches credited to it or p not otherwise credited in this paper ^ and also the local news published herein. |e 11 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1917. i Excuse us kind reader, for the fact j that you will have to trim your own j paper this week. A small piece on < our folder, ordered as soon as it broke, t has not yet arrived. But you will j have no great trouble in cutting the 1 paper yourself. We will remedy this as soon as we can. M. C. Gault, one of our most valued correspondents, in his newsy and very reaaaDie letter tms week, calls * attention to his community, saying that everybody around has or will J plant some wheat. That is a great move, and it is to be hoped that every community in this county will be in ** the same class. Read what Mr. Gault \ has to say about the corn to be seen r l in the cribs he tells of, also.' It is interesting reading and teaches its own j lesson. Plant corn, plant wheat, plant peas, beans, sorgum?plant, then plant ^ agan. If you don't you will live to regret it, see if you don't? i We are sorry , indeed to be com- ( ] pelled to have a nice, newsy letter 1 from Buffalo consigned to the waste basket. The letter is good, and it is j good from the standpoint of news. But we have no earthly way of knowing i who wrote it, and that is necessary if 1 we are to publish the letter. You 1 can see just how this is, if you will ] think for a moment. Suppose some one should question some statement < in the letter, and we were then to say i; we did not know who wrote it, how .? would that place us? It would look js very much like we had forged the let- I ter, would it not ? Glad to have let- 1 ters, nice newsy letters. Hut we must 1 know who writes them. This we must 1 know for our own protection, if for ; no other reason. 11 THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR SOLDIERS rONTTONEI) The plan to have a general gather- 1 ^ ing of baskets filled with Rood things | | ( to eat and carried by truck to Camp Sevier, for our Union boys Thanksgiving will have to be postponed, to the very great regret of all. There is such an epidemic of sickness among the soldiers at that camp that the camp has been put under quarantine law. Measles, meningetis and pneumonia have developed to such an extent that these measures were considered necessary. W. D. Harris, who had been taking the lead in the matter of getting up the baskets has decided that it will be best to put off the preparation of the baskets to some later day, the time to be announced later. So soon as conditions improve at the camp and the quaran- . tine is lifted, we will carry out the ^ plan outlined. SAVE MAN POWER. t A pood lady, one of Union's excel- j lent housekeepers, and thoughtful, < withal, upon reading our editorial 1 some days ago on "Thoughtless Wo- i men," and in which attention waa 1 ailed to the needless expense and t rouble so many women put the gro- t eryman. or the drygoods man to in s sking for a 5 cent delivery, then fol- < >wing with another request for an- t ther 5 cent delivery?all within a ( alf hour's time, has expressed her t ppreciation and she volunteers this ] uggestion: I Jet the housekeeper, af- ^ or having ordered some article, be < eady with the ticket or the money i O as not to keon thp ?lf>livpr\7 mnri 1 raiting. Let him come, be ready to s eceive the goods sent, thus allowing < iim to make a quick trip. This seems s t small matter, but it is not, for as i he lady in question said. "It will save i nan power, and in a time like this. < nan power must be saved." It is I rue, man power must be saved. The < rreatest asset the nation has is man 1 lower. The great waste of man pow- ] r in war times makes it all the more < ibligatory that we husband it. Man .1 lower, why that is the very thing we < >eed; the brutality that is going on in * he world threatens to reduce its man i lower to a minimum. Every avail- < ible ounce of man power should be ] onserved. The lazy, or thoughtless ind careless housewife who thinks hat ten minutes of a delivery boy's ime is of no value is very wide of the nark in her thought. It is a waste of nan power, and about the most Vl All irlit 1 nee IWa mAef Uufwfnl + l-wv nost damaging waste today is the vaste of man power. This idea, expressed by the good lady, shows very rreat thoughtfulness and we pass it >n to others with the earnest plea hat they save man power; save it, "or it is the one possession that is >eing destroyed by war that we canlot regain in a hurry. Save it, for it vill help win the war, save it, for it vill be needed to feed and clothe the vorld; save it, because it is mean, desperately mean, to waste it. "Save food, ind help win the war," fine! "Stop oy riding and the waste of gasoline, ,hus help win the war," good, very joodl "Eat wisely, help win the war" .plendid! "Use less coal and wood, fielp win the war," first rate! "Conserve, preserve, help win the war," rery worthy! "Plant grain, corn, pats, peas, beans; help win the war," leed it! "Save man power, help win ;he war." That's the biggest, best yet. Heed it, hear it, consider it, be ishamed of yourself when you waste it, for it is the one thing, sadly overlooked, that is worth the saving and that means more than all other saving. A WAY WILL BE FOUND. I used to worry considerably over the question of what the people who lived on the earth a thousand years i rum now would do lor wood and coal. When you see the great wooded lands ;ut down in a hr'cf few years, when you think oi the timber that is destroyed to make papj/, kuild houses, ships, docks, bridges, furniture, f'olding and many other useful things, ,vhen you consider the destruction of :.rees to get the bark to be used in canning leateh, in making quinine ind.a hundred other useful things and medicines; when you think of great hunks of wood used for heating?it loes seem that in a few brief years ill the forests, all the trees in the kVorld will have disappeared. . True >thers may be grown, but growing ,rees is not a question of days but of fears and centuries. When I see great train loads of :oal, one after another, year in and fear out, passing to and fro in the sarth and consider that, at the rate t is going, soon there will be no more :oal to be had. The thousands of locomotive engines, thousands of great iniustnal plants, millions and millions >f homes, offices, stores and shops all ising coal, all burning, burning, bumng coal, but not one producing coal. t would seem that after a time, and lot a very great while at that, there will he no more coal. What do you :hink? Is tfe supply of wood an coal nexhaustable? Everybody knows Jiat at the present rate of consump- ' .ion the supply is diminishing and joon there will be no adequate supply. \s I say, this thought gave me deep concern. I could see, in the not distant future a treeless world, a world without coal, and, consequently a fireess world, and as a sequence to that,| i freezing world. It is easy to predict he last representative of the race itanding alone, looking1 out upon a lead world, and viewing the desolation. True he might move to a tropi al climate, and find nature producing trees at most marvellously rapid rate. But certainly the coal for industries vould have to go. He could get plenty >f bark for quinine, certainly, but he .vould find it 110 easy task to keep the .vheels of civilization turning. As I >ay, these thoughts had a way of mming up and troubling me. Under such stress a man may say: "why should I worry. I'll not be here; it s of no moment to me." But that you ~_i - _ ? .annul, uu, uniess you are dominated I by the meanest kind of Selfishness. A I spirit like that would damn the world 1 before the trees and the coal pass. I I bave found comfort and hope in another direction. Human ingenuity under the providential leading, will devise a way. Already much has been done. Substitutes for trees have been found for building houses. Brick, stone, steel, concr^.e, these have largely supplanted wo building mater- J A ial. Electricity has come to pull . trains, street cars and the wheels of j great manufacturing plants. Byproducts have come to be of more importance than the original products; waste that was, has, and is being turn- G ed into wealth, skill is supplanting the| bungling and prodigal methods of the |' past. One has not the need to, stretch the imagination very far to see the day in which human skill will devise a way to harness the sun and during a certain period store up heat to be used when needed. We use ice when nature is out of the ice business, and the ice is clean, easier to get and as abundant as is necessary. We will use heat caught from the sun when the heat strikes the earth and is stored up to be used when cold weather comes; or, we will build great heat gathering plants in the tropical belt, send -t by wire to the cold north or store up and ship it into the cold region from the warm regions. Or, else, we will harness the waves, the waterfalls, th^ winds and in harnessing them we will produce motion, motion will produce heat, and behold a world warm and snug and secure. It now transpires that when a man tells me of the sad day ahead for the human race, I laugh at his fears. I do not see very far into the future, but I can see far enough to get by his lonesome outlook. I can see a world so bright at night that one will have to hunt a dark corner in which to sleep. Light, warmth, comfort, everywhere. Hot and cold water, electric lights, artificial heat, but none the less having the power to keep old Jack Frost out, why the human race is just beginning to find its way in this wonderful old world. Worry? Not me, I have found a better way, and not by selfishly closing my eyes and refusing to care about the future. Not that, by no means that; but a better way that sees the intens- j ified skill, the inventive genius of men 1 creating the needed thing when the 1 necessity arrives. True, just now, the mad world is about the business of killing, destroying, wasting, and has no time to give to the worthy questions. But, even , his thought is not withoiA recompense. f The very madness that prevails will 1 create, invent, discover much that 1 will be turned to heal, restore, blest* 1 and comfort mankind when the madness passes and the new idea finds j itself living in a peaceful world. Men will fly, but not to battle; they will ( build explosives, but not for the de- . struction of men. The explosives, f created to destroy men will be used t to blow away obstructions to the pro- J Igress of men. Mountains will be made . to give up their treasure with less la- j bor, tunnels will be built with less i "Waste of man power; coal or some ? creation that will take its place will send myriads of ships to and fro upon the seas, but they will be going about j the peaceful pursuits of trade not load- c led with guns and men trained to kill. c God! what a work this would be, could 8 be, if there were less of greed, am- f bition, pride, envy, evil of all sorts, f After all, the thing that drove man < from Eden was sin, and the only j thing that keep him from re- t turning is sin. Is it not so? t I DREi thank: For 3 Day We will give Coats This means tha will c C. AI HHHHWMHMimm Russia After War Be ? Buyer Rather Than Seller I Petroprad, Oct. 15.?(Correspond- I nee of the Associated Press)?Point- I np out the opportunity for the devel- I pment of American trade in Russia ,fter the war, the Commercial and ndustrial Gazette suppests that the art to be played by Americans will ie preat. "Russia," says the Gazette, "in the lear future will play the part of uiyer rather than of seller and thereore, it is necessary that American ommercial men should be well aclainted with the demands of the Rus;ian market and with the conditions if buyinp and sellinp in Russia. In irder to obtain this, the Americans should orpanize an experienced staff >f travellinp apents, with ' a pood cnowledpe of Russian. The apents, >y cominp into contact with Rus;ians, would soon pet to know the leeds of the Russian market, and vould be able to suit American proluce to Russian needs, so that they vould be above all cpmpetition. "The same method of carryinp [roods by means of apents should also be applied to products, which Russia is in a condition to export to America (wool, beet-seeds, etc). "Parallel with this, it would be desirable to form in Russia a staff of trained mechanics and enpineers, who should sindertake the manapement and development of railways in Russia. "There is no doubt that after the war Russia will have an extensive market for agricultural implements, which branch of trade has always been of great interest to Americans. Therefore it would he to America's advantage to have a large staff of enlightened workmen in Russia, to which end, the Americans would doubtless willingly throw open the doors of their industrial schools and workshops to Russian workers. On the other hand, Russian institutions would also he willingly take in all Americans desirous of learning the conditions of commerce in Russia. f "In such a manner there would he exchange of practical workers, which from a economic point of view is the best way to insure success." g Marshal Joffre May be Etected to French Academy ? Paris, October 17.?Correspondence ? )f The Associated Press)?Belief that Marshal Joffre would be the next perion elected to the French Academy las been entertained by the public for nonths but his reported declination to 'ollow the rule of the Academy by innouncing nimself as a candidate ap-1 )ears to create a situation resembling i deadlock. The thirty-four "Immortals" now omposing the Academy are said to be inanimously in favor of Joffre as the irst of the six new members to be dected. Everyone has talked about he eventuality?everyone but Joffre, ? ind it appears to be essential that the it eticent hero of the Marne speak up an f he wants to become an "Immortal." al t is a rule of the Academy that aspi- soi ants for membership declare their in andidacv and it. has Wn tVio ?<<>- ' ion that they should call upon the ilh nembers to solicit their votes, much tra n the same way as a candidate for a shi >olitical office. This Joffre has not lone and it is said that he will not lo it. "The Marshal has never had any imbition to become an Academicianr' aid a close friend of Joffre. "In act, he asserts that he has no right >r title to the honor. Several of his , riends have urged him to propose fe' lis candidacy but he considers that fe( here is no personal consideration in onl he matter, that if he were chosen Ph \ 5S UP I SGjVjWC s Only, Nov. 26, 20% Discc ? and Coat Su t a $20.00 Coat :ost you only $16 XEN Thanksgivii We want to tha friends and c\ the splendid p courtesies give: year. Athough our country has tried to do our best to keep c the same time, keep prices ; Now, that the great tim< joicing of all the people is a to give you nothing but the A. - 1 to mane your Thanksgivii A. Great J RAISINS, PECANS, FIGS, ALMONDS. DATES, WALNUT PLAIN CAKE, MARBLE Sanders i Phones 23" I WANT YOL That I am Agent for "Kantle: be glad to demonstrate to yoi service of these Rain Coats. $3.98 up, and they will keep me at No. 392 or drop me a ca you the real coat for rainy w< B. IVI. Gifl Box 3S2 would be simply in honor of the ny and that, consequently, personsolicitations or expressions of per- , lal preference in the matter are not order." rhe question now is whether the ( istrious company wi'/ sacrifice its iditions in order to choose the Mar*1 for one of the vacant seats. i ECZEMA REMEDY < Sold on a guarantee for Eczema, J tter, Salt Rheum, and similar af:tions of the skin and scalp. Sold ^ ly by us, 50c and $1.00. Glymph'a 1 arinacy, Union, S. C. rOR ~T ! DAY , 27, 28 >unt on all lits. or Coat Suit .??. J CO. 1 Is Here I ilk our many istomers tor atronage and a us the past i been at war, we have >ur stock complete and at as low as possible. 5 of harvesting and reit hand, we are prepared very best of everything ng Dinner Success CELERY, , CRANBERRIES, 'S, FRESH OYSTERS CAKE, FRUIT CAKE Iros. Co. # 7 and 238 J TO KNOW ak" Rain Coats, and will ii the splendid quality and . The price ranges from the rain off, too. Phone rd and I will call and show >atlier. Union, S. C. NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Union Hourt of Probate Notice is hereby given, that on the 18th day of Nov., 1917, at 11 o'clock, t. m., in the Court of Probate for laid County, the undersized will nake his final settlement as Adminstrator of the Estate of Mias So>hronia Whitmire, and that thereupon he will apply to the Judge of said 3ourt, for hia final discharge as such tdministrator. U J. BROWNING, rhia 17th day of Nov., 1917. Published in The Union Times for 80' days. j - -&k