Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Are You A. True /V M E R 3 C A INJ 7 Standing with your Government? standing Behind President Wilson, \yho is carrying the heaviest Burdens any Man at the Head of this Government, or any other tor that matter, ever carried? Are You Standing behind and helping to carry out the imperative plans of this Government and the Hope of all Humanity for Righteousness, .Justice and Freedom to continue in the World? These plops are made known to you Through Herbert Hoover, His Spokesman and Che United Suites Food Administrator, and the United States Food Administration, which to the People of South Carolina means Mr. William Elliott of Columbia, and to the People of Union County, means the Food ffMstributors Council, composed of every Loyal and -Patriotic Dealer in, and Distributor of Food Products in Union County, and the City of Union. If you are you will not buy, or try ta buy, or hoard any unusual quantity of Flour, Sugar, Meats or liards. , You will do all in Your Power to Produce something to eat at Home, Vegetables of Every Kind, Chickens, tfggs, Butter, Milk, Pigs, and where 'Possible Food Crops of Wheat, Corn, .and Potatoes on a Scale larger than every before. You will stop all waste of every kind, Give your Scraps if you have any to your own Fowls or Pigs or to h Neighbor if you have none of you'' own. You will make just as few demands for service of all kinds in the Hand- ! ling of Goods a.s possible, you will Condense your orders as nuich as pos ? sible, and never have any Concern to Deliver goods to your house more; than once a day, and you will lighten burden an<l reduce the cost to yourself and hundreds of others by Always telling your dealer anytime during the day will do for your delivery. Above all you will take the requests cS your (lovernment coming through the sources above named as sincere, and use most abundantly the Food Products that are abundant and peri-Vi'.Mp uiid use most sparingly the Things Our Soldier Boys, and Our] Allies must have or Surrender to the J Moot Merciless Foe of Everything. that is worth while in life, that ever threatened the world. Remember every Found of Meat, I 4Vheat, Flour, Sugar and Fata saved or unused by you shortens the War and Contributes to Victory and Hence Saves Lives and Hastens Peace. We Urge you to Stand with us and By us in Carrying out Pledges to our j Government in this Crisis. Wo have Framed This Pledge and Placed it on Display in Our Window. I "It is Your (Guarantee that We will Give you the Best Goods and Service I Possible Under Necessary Govern- ; event Restrictions and Regulations, and that You will be Given the Benefit of Fair and Moderate Prices on all tVn A -!; ,.Uu ,.r I.'/i/i.l Tli.it IDA Hnnrllti " Tours to Win the War at any Sac- J riricr wo can make, or Service we can n nder. THE UNION GROCERY COMPANY Far Twenty Yeara The Old Reliable (JrocerH. t'hone 100 or 80.. L. 1^ Wafcnon, Mgr. I ORDEAL OF GRAMMAR. " Vj How It Came to Be Inflicted Upon an Unoffending Public. The world reached ils highest known stage of intelligence before grammar was even invented, much less studied, sic I have had some curiosity to find out Jo where Had how so groat a blight upon ba young life first came-into being and gp why it ever became a school study, sei and I find that the Ureeks knew it cfc not; that their triumphant literature m< and their matchless oratory came to th( flower before grammar was dreamed thi of; that it was not in any sense one no of the irreat arts which they wrought out and with which thcj' armed the human race. he I find that after Greece hnd declined ap a barbarous Macedonian made himself ne the owner of all Egypt, and In order to i surround himself with the most spectacular form of ostentation of which m, his vain mind could conceive he set to an collecting not only all the rare and ^ precious objects and books and manu- ar scripts there were In the world, but he <je capped it all by making a collection of ex the living men of the world who had re| any reputation anywhere for knowing anil thinking. Taking them from their homes where they had some relation to the daily necessities of human helugs and had really l?eeu of some use. he shut them up for life in one of his palaces at Alexandria, which the folks ^ there were In the habit of calling "the hencoop of the muses," and out of sheer desperation, since they could do ^ nothing better to amuse themselves, they counted the words in the hooks which real men had written and pro- ' pared tables of the forms and endings which the users of words employed. El The lifeless dregs of hooks which their distilling left we now call grammar and study instead of hooks and even speech itself. In their lowest 1 depth of indifference to the moving, tei pulsing life of man not even the Alex he aiulriuns sank so low as that.?Ernest fat C. Moore in Vale Review. re< ap ARMY DOCTORS. ^ ? ? ~ . . hit i noir ureat services to tno world ana to Medicine. _ War lias always had a great influence jnt on medicine, first developing the priest ^ physician, then the barber surgeon and ^ later the army medical officer. In warpri time l'are devised the ligature for arteries, although he was not the first to i ? t th? employ it. |n< Napoleon, who was often at a loss to ^ * supply hlR army with food, made awards, which, from an empiric and ^ * practical standpoint, developed canning and the preservation of food be BUI fore bacteria were known. The American medical profession u will ever he under obligation to our an army medical officers for their services to the world in the discoveries of nu- 'j* merous diseases, their causes and pre- .( vention, said Dr. Charles II. Mayo in 1 an address reported in the New York Medical Journal. Our army medical officers stand pre , eminent in science. To Beaumont we are indebted for the first report on dl- *? gestion. digestive fluids and gastric a movement from direct observation of a on patient with gastric fistula. To Sur- co' geon General William Hammond we no are Indebted for the development of ev' the army medical museum. ^ Surgeon J. S. Billings fostered the *U1 second largest and the best medical library in the world. Surgeon General Sternberg discovered the pneumococells and founded the army medical aci school and the government laboratories ^u of bacteriology and hygiene. Under r'r Sternberg's administration Major Wal- nri tor Heed, with James Carroll, Jesse W. th< I-nzeurand Aristide Agramonte, proved Ari the mosquito to be the agent transmit tr< ting yellow fever. I m A Typewriting Tip. Having occasion to measure a eir- nis eumference that figured out to tenths ^ of an inch and not having a rule marked to these divisions, says J. Claude 'u< Crews In the Popular Science Monthly, j no I tried the following means of over- tin coming the ditliculty: Going to a typewriter, 1 made a row of periods, with each tenth one a comma to show full inches. This gave me a rule marked ' In tenths, also one that could be bent around shafting, collars, etc. As near- dl* ly all typewriters make ten spaces to j Ini nn inch, it Is an easy matter to aceom- 1 pel plish whut seems to be a difficult Job boi coi Blissful Occupation. wl The little boy laid told a little girl Kti that he loved her, and the teacher or- no dered lilui to write "I love Bessie" on ho the blackboard 1(H) times. 1 ros "But that was no punishment," said clc the teacher later. "lie would cheer- hn fully have written It 1,000 times."? wc Louisville Courier-Journal. he spi Tactless. Op "Is Mr. Flubdub busy?" asked the en diffident customer. i tei "Mr. Flubdub Is always busy," re- j foi plied the pompous attendant. ! da "Well, let him stay busy." And that's fill how Mr. Flubdub lost ft big order.? nn Ixmisvlllc Courier-Journal. ev Hard Ones Too. Little Willie What's the nntne of | 1 Ihe feller what calls on yer sister?1 to Little .lohnny-I don't know yet. Top go calls him something different every r,? time he conies.- Lxchaiige. to or He Explains. on "How did you get rid of all your |n] money?" flM "Some of it 1 was touched for and some of it I was tagged for."?i/ouisville Courier-Journal. th fls Cosmopolitan. Hend Harbor Have you any partlcu- tit lar choice in shaving mugs? First Asalstnnt? Not a bit. 1 shave them alL pr ?I'uck. iCRET OF FRENCH CULTURtl brating Balance Between Head and Heart at Top Speed, Is Deduction of Magazine Writer. Intensely alive. Is the chief Imprea* >n one has of the French, writes hn Galsworthy In the Atlantic. They lance between head and heart at top eed In a sort of electric and eternal e-saw. It Is this perpetual quick ange which gives them, It seema to i, their special grip on actuality; ey never fly Into the cloud regions of eorles and dreams; their heads have t time before their hearts have Interned, their hearts not time before elr heads cry, "Hold 1" They apprenrl hoth worlds, hut with ?urh rnnM :ernatlon that they surrender to Ither. The secret of French culture lies In Is vibrating balance; from quick irrlage of mind, and heart, reason d sense, In the French nature, all e clear created forms of French life Ise, forms recognized as forms with finite utility attached. Controlled presslon Is the result of action and action. Controlled expression is thej senco of culture, because it alone t ikes n sufficiently clear appeal in a)! >rld which Is itself the result of the'; calculable Interplay of coraplemen- 1 ry or dual laws and forces. French culture Is near to the real art of things, because it has a sort quick sanity that never loses its iy; or, when It does, very rapidly rovers the middle of the road. tINCESS IS CZAR'S MANAGER idoxia, Eldest Daughter of Ruler of Bulgaria, Said to Be Clevereet of Family. Princess Eudoxia, the eldest daugh of the czar of Bulgaria, Is said to the cleverest member of Ferdinand's ully. She manages the Sofia palace, celves ministers and envoys and ologlzes to them for Ferdinand's sterious nbsences; runs Ferdinand's "in at Vltoseh when Ferdinand Is not ling there; directs his business specltlons and his enormous private Tilth, and, In particular, runs his big id-development scheme around Chaavo. near the Turkish frontier Eudoxia is block-eyed, lively and | etty, with an ambition, Sofia declares, be married quickly, and cynics add it Ferdinand chose the German side dead of the allies' because Germany s vast supplies of bridegrooms of pal, princely and ducal blood. In fin. Eudoxia Is known as "Balkanska evn"?the Maid of the Balkans. In [timer she makes solitary tours In j hills, puts up in shepherds' huts, d shocks Ferdinand, who is a timid in with a sharp distrust of his subits, and a faith, inherited from a wsand years of Bourbon fincestors, it women, like men, of royal blood s three times sacred. Trying to Do Their Bit. While nearly every woman is trying do her bit in some way, there are at ist a hundred thousand other fair es who believe they can serve their untry by breaking into the movies, tes a New York critic. That is why ery motion-picture office Is crowded th applicants and why motion-picre managers are busy men these days frantic filradom. It requires much tlence, nerve and sometimes a set burglar's tools to enable a would-be tress to reach a manager, however, t an overdressed woman of rather >o years gushed her way past the ray of office boys and clerks into 3 sanctum of the man who hires and I ps. "I wish to become a movie ac ss," she announced. "I feel that I ve within nie the makings of a great persona tor of the silent drama." lave you ever had any experience, idatn?" asked the manager. "Miss, you please," simpered the applicant, o, I haven't any experience. My ?e Is my fortune." "Well, you need t worry about the Income tax. If it's the case," grunted the manager, on't slum the door." Fearless Japanese Official. Df all the eccentric characters In pan, one of the most famous and itlngulshed Is probably Viscount Dr. i Pro Tajlrl, president of the irarlal board of audit. He Hatters nofly, not excepting himself, says a rrespondent, and Is feured by all 10 are not sincere. The late Prince itsura was once scolded by him, and E t long ago llaron Shlbusawa waxed t In anger at a public meeting as be 10 to refute the charges of eommer11 corruption which Viscount Tajlrl i d made against Japnn's business >rld at lurge. He is outspoken when thinks the occasion demnnds outokenness. Fearlessness of public lnion or ridicule Is dramatically ?Xiplltled in the very simple and unpreltious life that he Is leading. His ad Is of the simplest variety. He ily carries to the office a bento box od with rice nnd some pickled plums, i d during the past 40 years he has n or stuck to his Spartan lunch. fj Fish at Reasonable Price. g The Canadian government's venture B supply the public with fish at a rea- gj nahlo price has proved a success. A E frlgorator service from Nova Scotia Ontario was provided, nnd the govnnient's scheme was advertised. In e week there were three cars earryg approximately 60,000 pounds of I h, as against normal shipments of )00 pounds. The varieties sold under II e government's plan, which provides Bj nt the buyer shall take the whole I h, are haddock and market cod. These ere the only ones available In quan- I ties to Justify the experiment. Had- P >ck Is well known; market cod la' Kj actleally a newcomer. J S Does 1 Trouble Are you un Fear You Wi JL, If so, Puti DIR We do not mean that you bury it BUY LAND. Union County land bound to increase in value. Bu] wrong. We have a number of s listed. E E KELL\ I ^ MM?? I \ /our t You easy For ill Lose It ^ foOg&mk U. ^ ASSOC vi 1 It Into IT , but we mean that you is "dirt cheap"?but is y now, you cannot go mall and large Farms ' & BRO. \ # I