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The Chesterfield Advertiser PAUL H. HEARN Editor and Publisher. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year; six months, 75 cents.-?Invariably in advance. Entered as second-class matter at the postofhee at Chesterfield, South Carolina. It is said that enough bills were introduced in the United States Senate the first day of the extra session to keep Congress busy for a year, if it considered them all. Vice President Marshall told the Senators not to rush, they had all day. PROFITEERING In an article on Profiteering The Augusta Chronicla says that as long as people continue to buy at high prices, so lo.ig will prices remain high. If people refuse to pay ridiculous prices high prices will go down. The Chronicla illustrates the situation with this incident: A gentlemen had been in the custom of buying diamond-back terrapins from an old negro woman in Savannah. All along the price had been from forty to sixty cents, according to size. But one day she asked him a dollar a piece for some terrapins of medium size. "Whv. what's the matter " the gentleman asked, "has the tariff affected the price of terrapins, too?"? the new Republican tariff having just been put into effect. "I dunno nothing 'bout no tariff," the old woman replied. "By why have terrapins gone up in price?" persisted the gentleman. Why do you want to charge me a dollar each for them now, when a few weeks ago you sold them to me for fifty cents?" "I dunno that neither," answered the woman. "All I know is, I ax 'em, en I gits 'em." And there you are again?"profiteering" reduced to its last analysis. As long as the public is willing to pay the price, the seller is perfectly willing to let the public pay the price; perchance raising it occasionally? Just by way of stimulating the demand. The Advertiser acquits our local merchants of Chesterfield county of any share in this profiteering business. We know they are selling as close to cost as possible. The profiteering is at the other end of the line. We would like to see the goveernment take this matter up with the men higher up, and see that they conic down a notch or two. SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS One of the leading medical authorities of Belgium, Prof. Rene Sand, of the University of Brussels, says that the war cost Belgium 100,000 children. In various ways, the inhumanity to parents and children, the frightful incidents of the war, caused this terrible fatality among children. This is another indictment against the Kaiser for bringing on this awful war. While thousands and thousands of adult victims, men and women, were sacrificed to the demon of war, how sad the reflection that one hundred thousand children were the innocent victims of this insatiable Moloch. How fitting is Milton's description of the heathen god, Moloch, to the author of these crimes in Belgium: "Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears." Our Savior said, "Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones it is better for him that a mill stone were nangeu aoout nis necK and He were cast into the sea." Multiply this by 100,000 little ones and who shall describe a punishment commensurate with the crime? OUR FIGHTING BOYS Our military men as well as oui statesmen, have learned a great many things that they did not know when the war began. One of the things learned is that several years of training at West Point is not al ways necessary to make a soldier. The general staff has recommended that the course of instruction a' West Point be reduced to three years. When wtf think of the brave deeds and good work done by our soldier boys in France who had no training at West Point and very little elsewhere before they went over and whipped the Germivn army, it does appear that the course of instruction at West Point might stand even a greater reduction. Our boys made up in bravery and fighting skill for the lack, of West Point training. It is said that on the battlefields our comparatively untrained soldier boys gained proportionately as many laurels as did those who had the benefit of years of trainis# at Weet Point '*1 ". ' S^' ' ' . ^ - ' V # ' . V Kentucky, wants to sell the Mammoth Cave to Uncle Sam, a bill having: been introduced in Congress to buy the cave and 1,700 acres of land. One million dollars is the price set upon the cave and land adjoining. Ih Russia the lack of food grows daily more intolerable. There is no coffee, and tea costs $8 a pound; sugar is $1.00 a pound and other things in proportion. When Russia rids herself of the Bolsheviks America wiH see that the civilian populadoes not starve. But we do not propose to feed the Bolsheviks or furnish food for them to destroy. FALLEN COMRADES BIDDEN FAREWELL Romange, France, June 1.?"Farewell, dear comrades. Here under the clear skies of the green hillside and amid the flowering fields of France, in the quiet hush of peace, we leave you forever in God's keeping." With these words General Pershing, commander of American expedtionary forces closed his memoral day address at Romange in the Argonne cemetery, where more than A,000 Americans who fell in the fighting are buried. General Degoutt representing the French government, and Marchal Foch allied commander in chief, spoke briefly, mentioning all the battles in which the Americans had participated and dwelling upon the everlasting memory in which those who had died for the cause of liberty, justice and civilization would be held by all France. TAKE IT IN TIME Just As Scores of Chesterfield People Have Done Waiting doesn't pay. If you neglect kidney backache, Urinary troubles often follow. Act in time by. curing the kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills are especially for weakened kidneys. Many people in this locality recommend them. Here's one case: C. F. Covington, butcher, Parsonage St., Bennettsville, S. C., says: "My kidneys started to bother me a short time ago and I suffered a great deal with them. I was also troubled with darting knife-like pains in my back and found it hard to straighten up when I bent over. Every day this trouble got worse and it was not until I used Doan's Kidney Pills that my back got strong and well and stopped aching. My kidneys became regular and I felt a whole lot better in every way. One box of Doan's is all that was required to cure this trouble and I am in A-l shape now. Price GOc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills- the same that Mr. Covington had. Koster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N.Y.?Adv.?5 Why We H; Because they're f tires. Because our < and gratify our cust There are United We can provide exa Unit* are We know U. S. Tires WHITE-BUCHA MUN . TWO PLANS EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD SHOULD MAKE FOR THIS SUMMER It will help your neighborhood to have a community picnic and public speaking sometime just after crops are laid by and you can't afford to wait much longer to get your speakers and arrange for your music. We believe it will be well to have one or more local speakers as well as speakers from a distance, and we again suggest as one feature "community singing" of the old familiar songs everybody loves. The "agricultural exursion" idea is getting more popular every season and your county agent and your neighborhood leaders should be deciding on a place to visit?some place which is not too far away to be reached by automobiles. It may be some noted stock or diary farm, or alfalfa section, or some rural community which has distinguished itself for general good farming or for some specific thing which interests your folks. There is no telling how much it may help your neighborhood to get its cit izens together for a trip of this sort. What they see will be worth a lot to them, and the mere fact that all go together on a happy trip of this sort will itself increase the spirit of friendship and fellowship which must always be at the bottom of cooperative effort or community progress of any kind. The foregoing suggestion is from that excellent paper, The Progressive Farmer. We would like to see this I suggestion taken seriously. Why can 1 we not have a big get-together meet- ' ing at some accessible point in the 1 county not for one section, but for I the whole county? There is one burning question that could be discussed at such a gathering one in which we are all interested and ' one on which we all agree. That is EDUCATION, the complete annihilation of illiteracy' in Chesterfield , county. What do you say? This thing MUST be done, and there is no better time to start than right now and there is hardly a better way to start than a big community get-together picnic. | The "agriculture excursion" is also a good idea and should be made a regular annual affair. TWO CLEMSON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS VACANT Two four-year scholarships' to Clemson College will be vacant this summer for Chesterfield county boys, besides the scholarship in the OneYear Agricultural course. Examinations will be held on July 11th, beginning at 9 A.M. A scholarship student may also receive aid from the United States government. Such a student would be enabled to secure an education at very little expense. Boys eligible for these examinations should get in touch immediately with Supt. of Education .1. Arthur Knight ami get ready for these ex- < aminations. I ^\\\\\\\<p ?? W * * m m rndle United 2 rood tires. Because we KN< experience has taught us thm omers. States Tires for every nee< ctly the ones for your car. id States Ti i Good Tire are Good 1 ires. Thai NAN MOTOR C< GO BROS., Page ? "WILLIE" EXPRESSES HIS OPINION OF THE MAN ADAM Editor The Advertiser: I am not .much rn favor of the "woman in politics," though I admit there is a strong argument for giving woman the ballot. I have been watching from without the interesting debate going on in your columns by and between the young people of the Chesterfield High School. Now, one young friend rises to the point of eloquence and refers us to God's creating man in "His own image," which no one can gainsay. Let us, however, to keep the record straight, read on in the same chapter and we see that after the powers of larl ness deceived the woman, that she straightway deceived the man and caused him to fall from his boasted citadel of strength and proud prc-e.ninence. If man were really stronger than woma i he would have risen abov# the offer of the forbidden fruit at the hands of the fair Eve in Eden's bowers. lie should have proved himself a man on the spot, and if he had been a man, really and truly, he would not have yielded. You see the woman has always been able to handle the man, which proves the old saying that she is the real "power behind the throne." The tempter knew that he himself could not handle man, but if he could handle the woman, he could, through her, because of her power and influence, carry his plans to a successful culmination. And woman handles the man to-day. Let us not get away from the facts. Willie. EVER SALIVATED BY CALOMEL? HORRIBLE! Calomel is quicksilver and acta lika dynamite on your liver. Calomel loses you a day. You know what calomel is. It's mercury; luicksilver. Calomel is dangerous. It :rashes into sour bile like dynamite, iraniping and sickening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should lever be put into your system. When you feel bilious, sluggish, constipated and all knocked out and believo you need a dose of danger>us calomel just remember that your Iruggist sells for a few cents a large mottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is entirely vegetable and pleasant to take and is a perfect substitute for :alomel. It is guaranteed to start your liver without stirring you up inside, and cun not salivate. Don't take calomel! It makes you jick the next day; it loses you a day's ivork. Dodson's Liver Tone straightens you right up and you feel great. Give it to the children because it is perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe. States Tires 3W they're good t they will satisfy J of price or use. ires ' s t's why we sell them. D., Chesterfield ilan0 UFT CORNS OR CALLUSES OFF Doesn't hurt! Lift any com or callus off with fingers Don't suffer! A tiny bottle o Freezone costs but a few cents a any drug store. Apply a few drop: on the corns, calluses and "hard skin' on bottom of feet, then lift them off When Freezone removes corn: from the toes or calluses from th? bottom of feet, the skin beneath ii left pink and healthy and never sore tender or irritated. BOLL WEEVIL MENACE AND LIVE STOCK LOANS Dr. W. K. Lewis, director of th< bureau of animal industry under th( United States department of agricul ture in Columbia has just returnee from a trip into a number of coasta counties. Dr. Lewis is vitally interested ir arousing the people of the State tc the menace of the boll weevil, whicl is invading the southwestern cornel of the State. The invasion of this pest will compel the farmers to turr from the cultivation of cotton to live' stock raising as the presence of tht weevil means that for many years once the pest has arrived, productior of cotton will be practically impos ible. Land values will commit the State to two distinct efforts to meet the emergency. Dr. Lewis says that ir the lower half of the State the lands are cheaper and the growing of live' stock for beeves will be natural sequence of conditions. In the uppei half, where the prices of land art much greater, the farms necessarilj smaller and the area of waste land; much resricted, the people will resorl to dairying. Inability to finance purchases ol cattle for fattening purposes is ont of the greatest handicaps the farmer; now face, Dr. Lewis suys. To meet this condition, it will be necssary, h< says, for a few banks ut strategica points appoint livestock experts ir to take care of loans for catth Hanking houses in the West follow th is plan, the cattle expert at the bank visiting the farmer who is feed ing the cattle purchased with th< bank's funds, and seeing that all con ditions as to feeding and preparing for market are properly compliei with. A few banks in the State com mitting themselves to such a practice would do much toward advancing the livestock cause, Dr. Lewis says. He thinks the boll weevil menace wil eventualy compel them to see the ne cessity of this, but the earlier actior be taken, the better for the cause In argument for the idea Dr. Lewis yesterday reminded that banks ir coastal cities place large accounts ir lonns to truck growers, an employes of the bank, well versed in the cultivation of truck, visiting the trucking areas regularity and guiding the bank in the placing of loans.?The Stats Ohio, with its 5,600 saloons, went dry the last week in May. Most ot the State licenses expired on the 27tl of May, but 16H saloons each pail $J05 license to sell for one day?th? last duy. WINTHROP COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award 01 vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col lege and for the admission of nev students will be held at the Count; Court House on Friday, July 4th, a 9 A.M., and also on Saturday, Jul; 5th, at 9 A.M., for tho3e who wisl to make up by examinations addi tional units required for full admis sion to the Freshman Class of this institution. The examination on Sat urday, July 5th, will be used only foi making admission units. The schol arships will be awarded upon the ex amination held on Friday, July 4th Applicants must not be less than six teen years of age. When scholar ships are vacant after July 4th, the; will be awarded to those making th< highest average at this examination provided they meet the conditioni governing the award. Applicants foi scholarships should write to Presi dent Johnson for scholarship exnmi nation blanks. These blanks, prop erly filled out by applicant, shouh be fil ed with President Johnson b; July 1st. Scholarships are worth $100 am free tuition. The next session wil open September 17, 1919. For fur jther information and catalogue, ad dress President D. B. Johnson, Rod HUI, . C. ] , | Satisf t | sweet | Aid tc | digest | andei ! | LASTI | And < ! Sealed |K1m 1 . w Flavor Las ; A NERVOUS WRECK , From Three Tears' Suffering. Saji Cardui Made Her Well Texas City, Tex.?In an Interesting . statement, Mrs. Q. H. Sctiill, of this town says: "For three years I suffered untok agony with my head. I was unable tc ' do any of my work. * j I just wanted to sleep all the time, foi t j th.it was the only ease 1 could get, wher I I was asleep. I became a nervous wrecV ' just from tha awful suffering with mj head. 1 1 was so nervous that the least noise t would make me jump out of my bed. ! ' had no energy, and was unable to dc 1 anything. My son, a young boy, had tc > do all my household duties. 1 was not able to do anything until 1 ' took Cardui. I took three bottles in all - and it surely cured me of those awfu - headaches. That has been three yean i ago, and 1 know the cure is permanent - for I have never had any headache since : taking Cardui. .. 1 Nothing relieved me until I took Cardui - It did wonders for me." Try Cardui for your troubles?made s from medicinal ingredients recommended i in medical books as being of benefit !r 1 female troubles, and 40 years of u3e ha: - proven that the books are right Beg'r i taking Cardui today. NC-1>I ITh, A i Of Life Insurance wards every cemet a desolate home, of the widow. It in black. The policies o Trust Company, Gi to-date in every r? B B B ; I Chesterfield , I C. C. DOU< 1 I ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, - I INS B w# Buy mmd s#u R ^ B action for the tooth. g 3 ? appetite and ion ? benefit nioyment in j ING form. only 5 cents package. ' ^CHEWING 6DMr j) AS TO THE PRICE OF The ADVERTISER This paper, as all our subscribers ? know, advanced its rate last fall to $1.50 a year. We have heard very, very few complaints about this. Only ubout three subscribers so far, | have said it was too high, but we do ^ not know what some of the others who have not recently paid, are r thinking, therefore we are going to ( make a new proposition. For all : those who think the price is too high f we will reduce it to the old price? but this one dollar is not to be paid , in cash, because a silver dollar is not j worth what it was when this paperj sold for one dollar. ^ We will take for that one dollarton pounds of good lint coton, at I the rate of ten cents a pound. Or we will take four good fryingj size chickens, or two nice hens. I Or we will take a bushel of corn. Or one dollar's worth of good j ' country lard at the old 1914 price. | We hope this fall there will be 50 | farmers to take us up on the cotton I proposition so we can make a bale. ? So the proposition is this: We will I reduce our price to the old 1914 , basis, if the farmer will reduce his ; prices to the same level and make an , even swap on some good usable proJ. t ' uucc. ire Is Plenty Argument. It heads toery. It returns again to It glistens in the tear walks the streets clad f the Southern Life and reensboro, N.C., are upaspect. I > I I Loan & Ins. Co. CLASS, Manager HEALTH, HAIL, LIVE STOCK , USANCE mI Eitat*?Momjt Lmr?4