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Eije Elbbertiser Subscription Price ".00 Per Year Payable in Advance Published by ADVERTISING PRINTNG COMPANY Laurens. S. C. Advertising Bates on Application. Obituaries and Cards of Thanks: One Cent a Word. 1atered at the postoffice at Laurens, R. C., as second class mail matter. LAURENS, 8. C., JULY 20, 1921 The disclosures made by Chairman Lasker, of the United States Shipping Board, of the huge deficit existing in the board's operations for the past year 'and the tangled conditions of the board's affairs again demonstrate the futility of expecting the government to conduct large business in an efficient manner. The experiments with the railrt'oads. tle exyress, the telegra ph. the teelehone and the shipping have cost th., nation millions of dollars witho'it a corresponding gain in ef ficiency and the lesson ought to he a valu:.ble one when government owner ship of public utilities is considered n t.e future. * . * A day's tide away fr'oi liomie in an nu toltobile in -ahlmost any direction towar'd a eciter of po;itilation cannot but impress one with the wonderful strildes t hat the Picdmont section of the state has made in road building within the past several years. Where five years ago one would hesitate be fore going several score miles without mutch foreboding, lie now starts out for a hundred mile trip without any. other expectations of difliculty CXCei)t what milgit be caulsed from mechani cal troubles. llender'sonville, N. C., once considered a igood (lay's drive, is now but a few hours distance. Co tlmbia may be made between meals wihh ease. Greenville's distance is but a ploasant afternoon outing. i'n ion, C'hester and Rock ill, once very remote on account of bad roads, may now be reached by almost pie'fect roads with the cx'eeption of but a few short stret'hes of- ordinary r'oads. Gireenwood is but a little more tian an bour's run it( here fine roads lead ot, 01r Zre bing buill to otheir towns. L a ttrens. couity is-not far belhind other cotilites tin road building, although the high i tl of rornd-hlding during the ti:We whent thie hal.k of it. money was pent has :.revented it from getting as mouili tmileage as some counties, butl it has 'oadk to be prouild of. The good r'>Iads tovveoment has already added muh to the ileasu'es of living ho;h in 1->win tnd in tli. couitry and, thouth eo-tly. it has beeno of reat Val. to the people. Tlhe .vok oiight not to be c':msidered! :I.cm e~ yet, bml shonId . on until eV'. ry occ (:(uiupant of the land w-Il be iin a reasonzable distance of 'n all-the-vear, road. * * * * *' * * * * * *' * * * * * * * 7lt. Gallaghei', .l uly I \.-W-\e have been (~.nedl~ in this neighbhood wviith 'i>ml rains anid the crotis are. looking The) yrun2 pe~ople( of oriIt hrchi en heda 13. Yi. P. t. sociatl at the home a:Altr. and Mirs. Arthuri Odell Satu d:a'. night. 'The H. Y. P . I'. is pr'ov in a g reat sti'e tss inl 1ur churc itn'~ tV:tiint botys anid gii'ls wh~o are soon to men and womien, to take an ae Spairt in all chur cht work. ins Olivia Branyon w-as thle '-itest of .Mli .rzAnes andtt l..aise .\lartin IL'. weLek-endi. R1ev. Waiter .\assey. of Grte(enville. .Anl Suniday night wit I hlt ives' in AlssBroksi Daenprtwho holds~ a reCson lsible posit ion in Greenville, is at homu, for a two weeks' vacation. M\iss IlIirriet K night has r-etur tnedl ho me- a fteri spentd injg a week with hier' .Alri. and Alirs. .l oe .\iedlock visitedl !i augh.tt.er at Ware' Shoals yes tcr.lay. .\1s Anae Arnold, of Gre-ehworod '. th( gues5t of .\Misses Briooksie and I -rnice sav'en port Satur tday and Stun day. Tn- iends of .\tr. J. RI. Briowin will be~ ;lasedl to know lie is able to be oitl again. .\is. Laur ta Gaines and daughter, of Augusta, i'ec-ently v'isited the for mer's sister-, Mtrs. Octavia Jones. Alt'. and .\lt's. Eai'nest Neoce were wti the'ir mtot her, Mi's. JIames .Mlattin Sundi~ay. icharid Davenpot spenit last wveek with Roy Ar'nold In Gr'een.woodl ano he was very much pleased to have hs little host as guest in his borne Sat um'day and Sunday. At a recent bumsinesus meetIng of Kings Chapel Elpwor-th Leagueo, It wat decideod that all dlevotlonal meetinigs would be h'eldl in the c'hurich insteitad of homes. The iear~rue will mn"t at the hsurh next Sunaye (e,-a,,1i THE QUESTION BOX .By W. D. S. What has become of the old gentle nan who kept his home made twe :obacco wrapped up in the skin off th teat lard, to keep it moist. Where will you find one of our ol dsters who attended our ienies an ountry feasts, armed with her bi vleker basket, which she placed o ,he table when dinner was ready, wit ;he request that the managers pu ;ome of all the good things in he asket so she could cat at leiaure, a ier teeth were too bad to eat at th able. What has becomne of the sister wi tsked her merchant for a wash pal Ind soap to wash a sample of his call ,o, to see if the colors wezm fast? And another one, who would cle% he sample in her mouth to find ou c'hether the calien would fade? What has beconie of the good ol n other, who kept his corn juice in lutch bellied white decanter an lavored it .with camomile blosronm inlw orapge peel? SAYS FOOD CROPS WILL BE SOLUTIO. ?hairnian Of York County Associatio Gives Views on Situation. Rock Hill, July 16.-J. B. Johnsor :hairmnn of the York Cotton Assc :iation, ;s a firm believer in the fac that the growing of food crops is ti one sure means of bringing the Sout out of the depression and placing thi favored part of the country on th threshold of a perniament prosperit3 Dr. Johnson has transmitted his view to J. S. Wannamaker, president of thi American Cotton Association, and t President R. C. Hamer, of the stat association, urging that meetings L held in each cotton growing state dill ing the month of August to start drive for more foodstuffs during 192 Dr. Johnson declared today the something must be done to save a interests in the South; that the fat of the farmer was not alone in th balance as various other interests at so entwined about agriculture thi they are in as had shape as the fartn .r, if not worse. By producing greater . qua.ntity of foodstuffs ne year the farmer will make himsel more independent and by doing so h will automatically cut his cotton acr age, thereby insuring a fair price'fc whut vtaple he grows this year an next. in view of the success of the cotto association this year, Dr. Johnson b< lieves that this organization is in p( sition to further the foodstuifs can paign. The acreage reduction obtaih ed was around 30 per cent, he sait while the fertilizer reduction wa around 50 per cent. A year ago, <h clared the head of the local cotto association, it looked like an imposs ble task to stimulate food productio and thereby automatically cut th cotton acreage, but it was done. No, is the time to start the movement fc a reduction in acreage for 1922. "I have taken the matter up wvit Presidlent Wannamaker, of the Amer can Cotton Association, asking him t call a meeting in each cotton-grow ing state during August, at which th~ question of increased food productio will he conidieredl. I know it is thi logical thing to (10, because in At gust, Septemuber and October grai amnd cover crops should be sown. I we can show on November 1 an es traordinary acreage sown to grain ani over crops, with a drive on for riarther' reduction in the cotton acre ige for 1922, I am satisfied that th :otton buying wvorld will be so im >ressedl that we wvill be able to ol amn a fair price for the 1921 cotto rop and for the cotton held ove romi 1919 and1 1920. A prodluction o. ,000,000 bales this year and from 8, )O0,000 to 10,000,000 b~ales for 19 2 vtill absolutely save the South; andi loing this wve will lend a helping han :o eve.ry other sect ion of this greal ~ountry.'' Asked whether the farmers coul ecure aid in purchasing seedl grai ind seed for cover crops, D~r. .Johniso: replied: "Every merchant and ever; oanker in the Southern cotton state will, I am sure, back tip this priopC 4ition and help the farmers to the his~ :litch in obtaining seed for the car rying (out of this common se'nse an practical plan." Dr. .Johnson referred to the fac that the farmers wvho have increase Lheir food crop this year would bei better shape than the ones wvho dIi not increase their acreage. in food stuffs but kept to the usual amount (o 9otton. A nd the sanie state' of af fairs would obtain the coming yeai It is an absolute fact that the grow~ ing of more foodstuffs for man ani beast will make the Southern farme ind~ependent, whether he plants nmuec or little cotton, in the opinion of Da Johnson, who is 'a large farmer a u-ll1a nonkr an,1 nrmnt,~ 1Ffr. Minrp Ch~I on Or Preidenut 'T 3, JAME5 MOSGAII 8 (Copyrght. 193. by Jara MOM. 96) WILUAM HOWARD TAFT 1857-Sept. 16, William Howard ' Taft born i Cincinnati. 1878-Graduated at Yale. 1887-90-,Judgo of the Superior Court. I 890-2-Solicltor General of the r United States. 1892-1900-United States circuit Judge. 1900.04-Commissioner In and governor of the Philip. pines. 1904-8--Secretary of war. 1909-4paugurated twenty-sixth president, aged fifty-one. t W HEN Roosevelt and Taft rode tp Pennsylvania avenue on March 4, 1900, It was the first time since Jackson and Van Buren had A passed that way side by side, more than 70 years before, that a retiring president would not have preferred an other seat mate and successor than the one whom the fortunes of politics had thrust upon him. Roosevelt alone selected his success or.4 Naturally, everyone assumed that we were to have a Roosevelt admin a istration by another name, and it was expected In the campaign that the ex-president would not go further away from the White House than Oyster Bay. Instead, he plunged into t the depths of Africa. e The fate of William Howard Taft h would be pathetic if he himself had s not met it and borne it with a smile. e le was abler, more upright, more independent than some far more suc a cessful presidents. But by bent and e training he was a judge, and the 0 0 t il .. f 1, William Howard Taft. White House is no place for a judge. As lawgiver and governor of 'Manila, Taft had won tile confluene of his oriental subujects, andl rather n than desert his post, before huis task e was finished, hle sacrificed tile dlearest .v ambition of Is life. In a year and ra half Roosevelt had him in his cab inet as secretary of war-and soon h had him in his eye for the presidency. Roosevelt hnd thle weakness of his strength, lIe thought lhe was strong 0enough to make a president. But real presidents are horn, not madle. C The mJomlent Roosevelt was gone, " the standpatters, tile reaetionary e forces, emerged from their seven and onle-hlalf yeuars in the cyclone cellar. a The moment the political bronchto felt f the tendlerfoot on its back, it bucked, -and thlrew Taft from the scat of leader Iship. Tile ne4xt thing, thle rank andl file of R~epub'licans knew, the party was slipping hack Igto tile old rut -from wlh Roosevelt bad jerked it e when first he laidl upon it his master -ful hand. - But the people refused to go hack. Eight months after Taft's inaugurn g' clear warning of the (disaster that -overwhIm~aed tile party in thle conlgres~ sl(,nal election of 1010. and whilh all b~ut destroyed it In the presidential election of 1912. According to a story that was told of Taft, a curious stranger asked a Igatekeeper at tile Union station in IWashington where he would stand the best chnnee of seeing the presi (ldent in the few spare hours that he y' hlad between trains. "Right where s~ you are," was tile reply. "H~e's al ways either taking a train or getting t ofon. - Taft was tile first preslident to draw the present salary of $'75,u00. Con gress iwmd also' adopted, two yeaai be Ifore he came in, tile customl of allow t lng $25,000 yearly for the travejlng Iexpenses of the presidlent, and he be I camne thle great presldeptial traveler, t anking a recordl of 150,000 miles in -four y ears, as he went abont thdl fcountry appealing for a reversal of -the verdict against his adinaitration. rn vain he strove to turn back the tide, which only sported with him. After having elected him i~y 1,200, (K00 plurality, the people parted with r1 Taft more in sorrowv than in anger. They (lid 'lot question that he was a - 2000 ineident, but that Is a secondary S consdi'ration, A Dresident mnust be Airt of all n poiliiian nnA a laar. Cheek tlifen All unmborp,4,A reies)W$p ija Dheek .family are cor'dially invited to ittend a reunion at the home of M.' LA. 1heek near Princeton, July 28th. Come nd bring well filled baskets. 'A pleas knt 'day is assured ot all. We hope o have a talk on th'e history of. the heek -family. l C.'TAYLOR, Committee. ?rinceton, July 18, 1921. * S * S e S e - * S e S e S SPECIAL NOTICES, S I.. . *S * 50* 5* 3* Farm For Sale-143 acres, 7-room 1.welling, good barn and tenant house; miles of city, near churli, high chool and highway. Cash qt on easy anyments. Luther Wasson, at Wilkes i'urniture Store. 1-tf For Sale-One registered Jersey cow vith certificate. nedium size, and will )e fresh in a few days: p ce' $100. Iso one other Jersey cow tich will ;oon be frelih. Both cows fat and age 4[Oht. T. 13. Sumerel. 1-1t For Sale-Registere4 . Berkshire )gs. Also some grades.1Also a milk OW. W. P. Childress & Son. 1-1i For Sale or Tro41e-i"or dry cattle, wo 1good milk cows. J. W. Hender on, Jr. ' 1-It-pd Harris. Sprngs Hotel Opu ned-Thils B to inform the public (heA the hotel it Hlarris Springs Is open for the sum ner. Can accommodate ab6ut a dozen marders. i-it-pd (airs Cheap-We have .several used ars which we will self at real bar ains. Will trade. Stimerel Motor 'o0. 1-it For Sale--Duroe-.Iersey shoats Vt. 0 cents a Ioun ad. .1. .\. Wasson, Cross 1111, S. C. 1-2t-pd 'oiy Buggy-A brand new pony mggy, rubber tires. Price $73.00. T. B. Sumerel. I - 1-1t Notl'e-The manager of Owings 4wimIing Pool wishes to announca Ihat lie has dralined the swimming pool ror some repairs, and it will be the ast of this week before 'it is again ready for use. i -It Lost-diunch of keys wit i name of Jno. It. Pltetrson onl iplate. / Finder please return to Advertiser office or 3. C. Peterson, Latrens. 1-it Wanuted-A few pupils to coacl. Per hout1r. 50 cents. ilattie H1. Sulli van, 661 .South llarl)er st tIeet, lan rens. Phone Nl12. 1-1tpd Store Itooms For Rent-Tihree new itore rooms now ready for rent. Lau rens Trust Co. 32-t1 For Sle-100 bushels good iome rased corn In shucks. See )r. W. If. Dial. 5.2-2t film Repair Paris-Lug: and wedges for all make cars. City Vulcanizing Station. 51 -tf Notlee-- have been iovinvt houses I t years. Am ready to move you's. '. A. Owens, Clinton, loute 1. For Rent-Sev'en troom cotta.re. close in, on South ilarper street. Price $25 per month. Laurens Trust Co. 50-5t Notce-I have arranged to be in Laurens two (lays each month. If your plano needs tuning leave order with S. M. & 1E. I. Wilkes & Co. 0. M. Tully, Plano Tuner. 28-tf Dr. J. T. RUTLEDGE DENTIST At Dr. AlbarIghi's Old1 Stantd. Phone :11 0. C. Featherstet ~ W. B. E~night FEATHlERSTONE~ A KiNIGUT A ttorneys at Law Laurens, S. C. All Business Intrusted to 0-ur Care Will Ifaive Prompt and Carefui Atten tion. Offiee O7t:r Palmetto Bank Mr. Featherstone will spend Wednee day of each week in Laurens. Dr. T. L. Timmerman DENTIST Lauren., South Carolina Offlee in Peoples Bank Building HANDSOME PIANOS at W~rite us O'DANIEL & REID ('linton, S. C. 0. Langdon Long ATITORNEY AT LAW Enteprise National'Bank Building All Legal Business Given Prompt Attention Simpson, Cooper & Babb tutorneye at Law. Will Prac~ee in all Stute Courts Prompt Atentiona Gi..en lneu PRESCI OUR S] PC DRL Use Old Tires as Spares Your oldest casing ma'y have in it hundreds of miles that we can save for you. Sonic day it may come In mighty handy as a "spare". Bring It in and let us look it over-we advise only sueli repairs as pay. 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