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Winthrop President Given Jbl
ly Farewell Party.
The following article will be rea?
with much interest in Edgefield.
"Today Dr. D. B. Johnson, firs
and only president of Winthrop Col
lege, starts to Europe, where he wil
represent Winthrop College of Soutl
Carolina at the international athletii
meet for women in Paris. To this on?
man much of the power of Winthro]
College may be attributed, and fo:
South Carolinians when this college
is named there will always be tw<
names "associated in the memory
Benjamin R. Tillman and D. B. John
son.
"There have been two outstandinj
ambitions of Dr. Johnson-to se<
Winthrop Co'.lege grow and io b<
able to take care of the girls of th<
state who want an education in i
manner which will enable them tc
get it. To this date Dr. Johnson ha:
done this-probably exercising some
wizardry in getting appropriations
-for certain it is that when the rep
resentatives of the general assemblj
.?hear that Dr. Johnson has something
else he wants for the good of Win
throp College there are very strin
gent reasons when it is not granted,
"The young woman representing
Winthrop College in the contests al
this meet is Miss Lucile Godbold,
who was graduated in June. She has
already won in the shot-put contest
in America and England, and judg
ing from her physique she will be
able to bring back other laurels foi
Winthrop College South Carolina,
and the South. Miss Godbold is tall
and doesn't seem to have an ounce of
superfluous flesh, walks with a
springy step, after the manner of a
high-bred racer, and the one thing
acentuated in the expression of her
face is determination. With these
dominant characteristics it would be
a 'safe bet' that Miss Godbold will
not disappoint America. When she
returns she will have charge of the
athletics of the Columbia College in
our capital city.
"The next officer of Winthrop Col
lege who has been on the staff long
est is Miss Leila Russell, who has
been a member of the faculty since
1895. Mrs. Emma A. Fox, the cele
brated parliamentarian, who is now
teaching a course in parliamentary
law to the club women at Winthrop,
speaks of Miss Russell as 'vice-pres
ident of Winthrop College.' It is sure
ly due to her splendid executive abil
ity that the short course of the club
women is such a success, as she has
entire charge of this part of the pro
gram.
"Another important personage in
the personnel of Winthrop College
is the only librarian that Winthrop
has ever had-Miss Ida Dacus, who
was graduated from Drexel Institute
in 1902 and has been librarian since
that time.
"It is perfectly natural that these
three members of the Winthrop fac
ulty, Dr. Johnson, Miss Russell and
Miss Dacus, should feel very close to
each other, and this was demonstrat
ed on the afternoon before Dr. John
son left for New York, when Miss
Russell and Miss Dacus entertained
the 40 club women at a farewell par
ty to Dr. Johnson. This was a most
happy occasion.
"The guests were served imme
diately with a glass of punch and all
invited into one of the large parlors
where Miss Mary Frayser, of Rich
mond, who was identified with Win
throp for many years, proposed a
beautiful toast to Dr. Johnson, ex
pressing in appropriate words the
wishes of all for a safe, profiiable
-and interesting trip. To this Dr. John
son made a happy response, paying a
noble tribute to the women of the
.south.
"Then a group who had gathered
to one side of the room began to
sing some improvised salutations in
honor of Dr. Johnson. These songs,
sung to catchy tunes, were led by
Homer Rodeheaver, who was the au
thor of the verses. They went some
thing like this:
" 'Anybody here seen Johnson
J-OHH-N-S^O-N?
Anybody here seen Johnson, John
son of the sunny smile?
His eyes are blue and his hair is thin,
But we all want him back again,
Anybody here seen Johnson, John
son of the sunny smile?
"Another one was:
" 'What's the matter with Johnson?
He's all right!
He's on his way to gay Paree
The beautiful ladies for to see,
, What's the matter with Johnson?
He's all right!
He's going abroad but his wife ob
jects,
So he'll have to put on his dark blue
specs,
What's the matter with Johnson?
He's all right!'
"Several more of these jingles
were given, and vigorously applaud
ed, when a serious note was struck
and Mr. Rodeheaver began 'Blest Be
the Tie That Binds," in which .ali
joined. And then it was time to bid
Dr. Johnson 'bon voyage,' after a
most delightful afternoon.
"Carrie M'C. Patrick.
"Winthrop College, July 19."
One-tenth Developed.
In an address before the North
Carolina Press Association last week,
David Clark of Charlotte cited these
facts :
"There are in the world today ap
proximately 150,000,000 cotton spin
dles and of that number only- 16,
000,000 or slightly over 10 per cent
are located in the South.
"We are entitled to a larger per
cent of the spindles of the world and
have advantages that can not be de
nied.
"The New England cotton mills
have their backs to the wall in a
fight for their existence but they
can not overcome the difference in
the cost of living of the mill opera
tives or get away from the* fact that
wages bear a relation to the cost of
living.
"New England operatives pay
rents of $5 to $7 per week as com
pared to $1.00 and $1.25 per week
in the South and their annual
fuel cost is $86.00 per year as com
pared with $18.80 for Southern op
eratives. New England operatives
have to buy more and heavier cloth
ing and to buy the vegetables which
the southern operative gets from his
garden.
"I estimate the southern operative
has an advantage of $7.80 per week
which means that if the southern op
erative gets $15.00 per week he can
live as well as the New England op
erative who gets $22.80 per week.
"If the New England mills estab
lish the same wage scale their oper
atives will not receive enough to
cover their living cost whereas if
they pay the operatives enough to
allow them to live upon the same
scale as southern operatives, they
cannot compete with southern made
goods."
This is an illuminating explana
tion of the reason why textile man
ufacturing is forecasted to center
in the South.. Besides the advantages
in the cost of living to operatives
there are numerous other savings ef
fected to the manufacturers in such
items as transportation, fuel and wa
terpower. But the comparison Mr.
Clark makes, of the number of spin
dles we have as compared to the
number in the world emphasizes that
we have not yet realized the possi
bilities before us. Situated in the lar
gest cotton growing region in the
world there is no reason why a ma
jority of all cotton goods should not
be manufactured here in the South.
Only a lack of vision or poor manip
ulation will fail us of realizing such
a goal.
It becomes evident upon digesting
a situation of this kind that we must
take care not to makelegislation
such that manufacturing plants will
fail to locate in the South. This the
only factor that may keep them a
vvay for every other condition is dis
tinctly favorable. Hostile laws may
do positive danger to the textile de
velopment in the South Carolina and
othar states. If we do not they will
go somewhere else and thrive in
spite of an untoward climate and un
satisfactory labor.- Greenville
News.
State Facing Fuel Famine.
Columbia, Aug. 3,-South Caro
lina faces a fuel famine, with hardly
enough coal on hand to meet the de
mands of industry for more than ten
days or two weeks. So stated Frank
W. Shealy, chairman of the South
Carolina Railroad commission today.
"We are being flooded with appli
cations for permit to receive coal,"
Mr. Shealy stated, "and we are doing
the best we can by all consumers,
but it looks like a shut down for
many of the industries of the state
within the next two weeks." ^
Mr. Shealy stated that the brick
manufacturers seem to be in most
need now, and the railroad commis
sion is endeavoring to supply at least
25 per cent, of the demand, espe
cially for those who are supplying
bricks for hospitals and other pub
lic buildings which serve the public.
One large manufactory in Colum
bia, using cotton in its production,
has arranged to cut its consumption
of coal to one car load a week, Mr.
Shealy stated, and it is possible that
this will assist it in meeting the sit
uation.
Mr. Shealy stated that he regards
the situation as serious. The next
few days will see it acute and the
next two weeks will see many plants
shut down throughout the state, he
says.
The cotton mills of the state are
not seriously effected by -the situa
tion, Mr. Shealy stated, and they
will hardly have to close down. Most
of them operate on hydro-slectric
power.
SCORE ONE MORE FOf? NAVY
Damaged Replica of Old Venae I, lt
ls Believed, Can Be Repaired
by Sailors;
Percy C. Madeira, Philadelphia coal
magnate, has joined, the ranks of those
who have taken up the fad of collect
ing ship models. Madeira's experience
with the first model he bought, a
replica of the American clipper , ship
Son chem Cross, was an Interesting
one, according to the New York Sun.
This miniature ship, 30 Inches long,
the coal operator obtained recently
through an agent at Nantucket, who
considered the purchaser lucky In
getting a genuine model at a reason
able figure.
The model, with all masts and other
spars In place and with rigging,
blocks, boats, etc., as they should be,
was a handsome picture when lt was
packed for shipment at Nantucket.
But when the fragile model reached
Radeira's home ll came out of the
packing case nearly wrecked. It had
been poorly packed and roughly han
dled on the trip. Madeira looked at
the mass of broken spars and wreckage
and said things about the packer and
also the agent at Nantucket He fig
ured the model little better than
matchwood and that lt never could be
repaired.
He reckoned, however, without the
United States navy." He happened to
tell his troubles to a naval officer sta
tioned at League Island and soon
afterward the officer rang the coal
magnate up and said he thought he
had a man who could repair the
wreck.
GET LINE ON HIS CHARACTER
-
New Fad Among the Girls ls to Have
Man Friend's Handwriting Read
by Graphologist
The latest fad of the girls Is to have
the handwriting of their favorite man
friend read by a graphologist N*at
little packets of masculine notes, curi
ously enough readdressed In a femi
nine hand, have been received by
handwriting experts, who will tell your
character from a few characteristic
lines. The Inmost secrets of the char
acter tendencies of the unsuspecting
man upon whom you are wondering
whether to center your affections or
not are disclosed to you through this
novel means.
"It's so exciting that I simply can't
walt till I get a note from every man I
meet," confessed one debutante. "One
letter will do In a pinch, but most
handwriting fortune tellers prefer to
have several, written at long Intervals
apart, submitted as samples.. But
goodness me! nowadays friendships
don't always last that long. There are
only two things dangerous to the game
-one ls that the man may get suspi
cious and stop writing, or, worst of all,
he may get his own letters back from
the graphologist by mistake. For this
reason always be sure to remove all
traces of name and address from your
original letter."-Chicago Journal. ?.
Oh, So That's Itl
We are shortly promised stockings
that will button up, and this recalls
the old query: "Why is It that a wo
man always buttons her clothes up In
the reverse fashion from a man?" If
It were a fact that all women were
left handed, and consequently found
It easier to do things in this way, lt
would be understandable. But they
are not.
A Mere Male thing oilers me this ex
planation: "Probably, lt ls because all
women are imitative. They Intend In
future to oust men from the earth en
tirely. Wherefore they stand in front
of the glass, and endeavor to create
In lt a reflection as much like a man
as possible. But looking glasses al
ways show tilings reversed, and wo
man, not being able to realize this,
always does things backward." So
that's that!-London Opinion.
Meat Flour.
The qualities of meat flour, a new
food that ls being made In New Zea
land, were described to a meeting of
farmers and others held In a New Zea
land town. The speaker said that re
cently at a dinner 18 persons sat down
to a meal composed entirely of (meat
flour dishes, and only a little over half
a-pound of meat flour was used In Ita
preparation. It was excellent for In
valids and bore a high food value. It
could be exported easily and compact
ly, and would keep, so far as present
tests went, for two years without the
slightest sign of deterioration. It took
three pounds of meat to produce one
pound of the flour, which, was at pres
ent being readily sold at five shillings
($1.25) a pound and was found exceed
ingly economical In the household at
this price.
Negroes Move to the Cities.
The negro urban population o? the
United States ls now, In round num
bers, about 3,500,000, and even more
when towns and villages of less than
2.500 Inhabitants are Included; thal
ls, one-third of the negroes of the
United States are now living In vil
lages, towns and cities. The largei
part of the Increase In negro urban
population has been due to migration
In the last five years some 500,000 ne
groes have moved from rural districts
Into the towns and cities. A large pro
portion, therefore, of the negro popula
tion ls new to city conditions.-South
ern Workmen.
One Place lt Wouldn't Go.
"Dlsbere talk about cancellation ol
debts," said Uncle Eben, "may be all
right fbi the big transactions, but 1
wouldn't like to see anybody try tc
start lt In a crap game.**
Bootlegging Business is Fast
Fading Away.
? Washington, Aug. 3,-The boot
legging industry is sinking by the
head.
That may surprise ypu but it is
the statement of Prohibition Direct
or Haynes.
"Without a market bootleggers
must stop," Haynes says. "Their
market already has been largely cur
tailed by cutting off sources of real
whiskey. The only good whiskey now
coming into, the United States is
through smugglers. But we have
clipped the wings of the leading
smuggling rings. By our methods we
have made it unattractive for others
to start the game."
Red liquor has been well controll
ed by the government's restrictive
program, Haynes asserted. He claim
ed that very little of the whiskey
now withdrawn on legal permits is
being diverted to illegitimate uses.
.Commissioner Haynes knows that
liquor still comes over the smuggling
routes, but he holds that the volume
is negligible and asserts that on that
score it can not be contended that
the liquor thirst is being quenched
in any considerable degree.
The smuggling source has supplied
practically all the high grade liquor
which has been offered by bootleg
gers," the Commissioner said'.
Will Check Smuggling.
_"We hope to work out a plan of
co-operation with foreign govern
ments, to check this influx of for
eign liquor. The problem has been
particularly troublesome. We are
now overcoming some of the earlier
obstacles to this phase of enforce
ment.
"We have successfully met the
problem of illicit withdrawals of
real whiskey from American ware
houses and the illicit diversions of
alcohol through commercial chan
nels. We are confident that smug
gling within a short period will cease
to be one of our problems."
Prohibition officials have made a
careful study of the smugglers' own '
charts. They know their sailing
routes. They are acquainted with
some of the leading smugglers thru
their "under cover men." They are
wise to plans tostart cargoes on
their way to thirsty America, and at
once take steps to receive the ship
pers when they land or even before
they have had a chance to reach
shore with their precious load.
The government keeps a staff of
men busy at/ certain ports abroad,
principally in Canada and the Baha
mas and Mexico, watching vessels
that are destined to the United
States. At many foreign ports they
have established close working a- j
greements with officials of other
government. Closer tab is also kept
now at American ports and upon
land routes leading into the country.
Growing Your Own "Eats."
At this time prospects are favor
able for good crops in the Southwest
and fairly good prices seem certain.
Yet, no one can foretell the future
with any degree of certainty, and
in these days of unrest, not only in
Europe, but in our own" land, it will}
be good business policy for every j
farmer to make sure that he has j
stored away in his pantry, cellar and
storehouse, an abundance of food for
his own family and for his livestock.
When strikes occur and factories
shut down, the factory worker has ;
about one week between his last pay
day and hunger for himself and his
family. Hard times are always more
severely felt in the city than on the
rightly conducted farm. No farmer
has any excuse for going hungry.
He may not always be able to pur
chase the fancy trimmings of a ban
quet table, but if he farms right
if he is capable and intelligent e
nough to be a farmer-he will have
a spring and fall garden; he will
have poultry and eggs; milk and but
ter, canned fruits and vegetables
and other things to eat. Strikes, low
prices, political disturbances and
business depression may cause him
a loss in money. He . may be pressed
to meet his interest payments and
may be bothered in any other ways,
but just as long as he can stay on
the land, he should be abie to supply
his own table with substantial food.
In this he is better off than the man
in town who must almost quit eating
or depend upon charity as soon as
he loses his job.
It will soon be time to put in the
fall garden. Why not make ready for
it at once? Make your garden worth
while. Insure yourself against hun
ger. Store your feedstuffs for your
livestock. Be in a position to be in
.dependrr of strikers and political
disturbers.
Grow your own "eats."-Farm and
Ranch.
On3y Okie *'BROMO QUININE" j
Io aret the genuine. call for full name. LAXA- 1
riVK BROMO QUININE. Look for signature ol I
B.W. GROVE. Cure? a Cold in One Day. Stope I
-ouah and headache, and works off cold. tts I
Pre-Electfcm Promises.
Occasionally we hear a politici?nj
?ay that "Texas would have a better
jovernment if the Democratic party
lad real opposition." Texas, however,
las one advantage not found in close
political states. The Texas primary
ilection settles the issues and the
jeneral election is only a matter of
"orm. On political years Texans
lave only one campaign to
vorry through while in many other
>tates the.general election creates as
nuch unrest and excitement as do the
jrimaries at which nominations are
nade. Therefore, Texans can now
"orget politics and get down tb bus
ness three months ahead of others.
Beginning early in the summer the
voods were shelled and the cities
jombarded by candidatesfornomina
j tion, and each one- was liberal with
?promises of better government. Even
: though some of the promises made
might be deemed extravagant, would
it not be reasonable to expect our
newly nominated candidates who. are
sure of electron, to make an earnest
effort to not only remember some of
the things they said during the cam
paign, but to carry out their pre
election good intentions to the best
of'their ability.
If it were possible to secure even
50 per cent as good a government
as has been promised the people dur
ing the past few months, our new
office holders will be deserving of a
life tenure.-Farm and Ranch.
?R.KING'a NEW ?ISCOVER*
&??? Surely Stoo That Cooa*.
C. D. BARR'S
FLOUR MILL
OFFERS TO THE
WHEAT GROWERS
SELF-R?SING FLOUR
PLAIN FLOUR
Of the highest quality and ail the returns obtainable
from their wheat by modern custom milling. .
Special Attention Given
To Out-of-Town Orders
LEESVILLE MILLING CO.
LEESVILLE, S. C.
We Can Give You Prompt Service
on Mill Work and Interior Finish
Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for
Immediate Deliverv.
Woodward Lumber Co.
QUALITY-SERVICE
Corner Roberts and Dugas Sta., Augusta, Ga,
Spend Next Sunday on Delightful
Isle of Palms
$9 r n ROUND TRIP FROM
O.OU EDGEFIELD, S.C.
Good Only on Train Leaving Edgefield 7:30 P. M. Saturdays |
via Columbia. Arrive at Charleston 7:55 A. M.
Returning leave. Charleston 5:15 P. M. Sundays; also, good on train
leaving Charleston 3:00 A. M. No baggage checked. Not good in par
lor or sleeping cars.
ENTIRE DAY OF FUN AND FROLIC AT THE SEASHORE
I Excellent Sailing, Bathing, Fishing and Water Sports. See Historical
Charleston, Fort Moultrie and Sullivan's Island.
WEEK END
TICKETS
$6.25
Sold for trains Saturdays and Sundays, with final limit returning to
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date of sale.
Summer Excursion tickets bearing final limit October 31, 1922, now on
sale to Mountain and Seashore Resorts. Stopovers. For particulars
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