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Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29
SCHOOL BUSES
REDUCE HOCKEY
Modern Transportation Meth
ods Responsible for Better
Education

National character is Glossy asS0-
ciated with little red sCho0' l0GS" .
but they are fast tons re.esace2 {.
a place in aiStnry ty the "utoCt{o -.
The little schools We're scattered
through sparselv settIcG sections. $
that the pupils would aa;r cir;v a
short way to go. Nov g'r'u reads
and automobiles make Il ,.9~>!bis -
gather the students from OFT ri " de
seCIicn and concentrate tAe:, attend
ance at some central y in hare Z
big. beautiful building with all the
modern facilities {: education are at
their disposal.
It was only a li':e while ago that
Chino was country village with a
few stores and a Ied school house,
but today it has one of the tinr build.
ings that are now so commoE through
poses Before its imposing front
stops every school day morning "
fleet Of four REQ busses and from IS
to 10 students ali2ht. ready 10 begin
the days work, fresh, bright and
happy.
No longer does the barefoot boy
With face of tan figure. but rather the
we'll clad boy, with as much tan as
the boy in the poem ever possessed,
ides to school in comfort and is sur
oInded with facilities fer his better
ducation inside the school house as
'ell as modern transportation for get
ng him there and back home.
The four Reos are all owned and
oerated by the school district, and
ave been found to afford not only
10 most economical means Of trans
ortation, but have helped materially
10 bring up the daily average Of at
tendance. AS the appropriation for
the school is based on the average
daily attendance, the Reos have
helped to obtain more money for the
Chino school and the pupils are there
by afforded better facilities for get.
ting an education and also afforded
a reliable means Of transportation, so
that their attendance is more regular
and they are enabled to profit to the
greatest possible degree.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29

riveted, seamless, hand-buffed. hy-
draulically welded, drop forged and
oil tempered specimen Of human light
ming on 45-frame ground to one-thou'
sandth of an inch. At hot-air juggling
you have nothing on me.
III you wish to avail yourself of the
opportunity of lifetime, wire me, but
unless you are, fully prepared. finan.
cially and physically, to pay the tariff
for such services, don't bother me, as
am SO nervous that | cannot stand to
have my dressmaker measure my
clothes. Spare your time and money
unless you want to pay at least 81 per
week, in cash or it's equivalent.
LOUISE GETHERE."
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29
GAS SUPPLY SITUATION
is NOT ACUTE

Fuel Administrator Garfield has an
nounced officially in Washington that
motor car owners are not in any dan
ser of having gasoline curtailed; that
a survey of the entire country has not
shown the oil and gasoline situation
to be acute, and that for the present
no steps will be taken to restrict the
use of such fuel for motive power,
The administrator states, however.
that he will inaugurate campaigns to
reduce wastefulness of gasoline and
to instruct car owners how to cut
down gasoline consumption.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29
AUTO INDUSTRY
Will. CARRY ON
War Will Not Disrupt Modern
Transportation Methods
Says 0singa
BY JOHN II. osIkoA.
Retail Manager studebaker corpor'

= alton.
=. II there were 1ust ten persons in
the world and two Of them were
. killed, would the other eight have TO
20 back and live in dark cave the
rest OF their lives. Notwithstanding
they had just completed a magnifi'
cent ten-room palatial home OF the
most modern type?
And suppose these ten people had
Just bought a new so h. p. seven pas
senzer Studebaker six. After the
final argument OF kings" and the two
funerals would the remaining elgh'
people 60 back to travelling by or
wagon and burro. leaving the car TO
rot in sun and rain? Hardly.
And suppose these ten people each
had one hundred dollars. After the
battle would not eight OF them have
SIPS each? Civilization mus; and will
60 on.
Civilization means education.
Travel Is the great educator. The
automobile is the great instrument OF
civilization because the automobile
stands for universal travel.
Civilization is the bringing into sub
y
OF the great and inexhaustible sources
OF power stored in the earth. the air
end the sea The ground is full OF
gasoline and oil and steel. The auto
mobile Industry Is Americas thlrd
largest simply because it is the means
by which these great national assets
in the ground can be appropriated fo'
the greatest coed to the creates
number.
The main difference between democ.
racy and autocracy is that one stands
for the development OF a nation with
an army to serve it while the other
stands for the development Of an
army with a nation to serve 1t. One
goes In for great automobile indus
tries and the general uplift Of all hui
marity, the other for great military
and naval industry with the dynamit'
ing of women and children at sea as
q eide line.
AS a nation we believe in western
civilization and the things that II
stands for. We not only believe in
IL but we are getting ready to put up
the scrap Of the ages in defense OF
II. :s
Next year, the next, the next or the
next-some day Mr.. Hohenzollern
will have 20 lack up and after that
the world will Feep right on growing
into a better and better place for hui
manity 10 live and love and learn.
Aud until we begia to sprout wings,
it's q hundred to one shot these
United States of America will keep
right on building and selling and u.s.
ing good automobiles, better automo'
tiles and more OF them. Selah!
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29
SALES IN CALIFORNIA

List Of Ss makes OF automobiles oi
which Smo-e than $50 cars of each
were sold between January and De
cenber /, 1917, in California:
Ford, 35,091; Dodge, 5173; Over
lind, 4Sl3: Buick. 1872; Chevrolet,
42l5; Studebaker, 2942; Maxwell
2504; Saxon, 1886; Chandler, 1245;
Oakland, 1171: Hudson. 1101; Cadil.
lac, 976: REQ, $50: Dort, s32; Chal'
mers, 752; Hupmobile. 7o1; oldsmo
bile, 675; Grant, 59s; Paige, 562;
Franklin. 502; Haynes, 45s; Republic
Truck, 445; velie, 4S9; Packard, 405;
Mitchell, 403; White, 375; KisselKar,
2ss; Moreland Truck. 2s5; Briscoe,
el9; Vim Truck, 245; Marmon, 23S;
Jeffery, 219: Stearns-Knight, 201;
Cole, 1872; Stutz. 1872; Auto Car Truck
1ss; Pierce Arrow, ISL; National, 40,
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29

c. S. Rieman, vice president and
general manager of the Elgin Motor
Car corporation, writing from Chi.
cago, states that the company has on
hand parts, material and cars in
course of construction all paid for, to
the value of approximately $1,000, 900.
ALI of this material was bought under
old contract and at prices much lower
sSsan prevail today. The last finan-
cial statement of the company showed
cash on hand of 1921 1858. SO, with tota!
assets of almost 100000. Mr.. Rie-
man says that the Elgin financially is
in a position second to none, and
quotes the Bankers Journal of Chi.
cago which said in a recent editorial:
The company bears an excellent
reputation among bankers. Our usual
careful investigation disclosed. that
the company publishes only facts"
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29
SPOTLIGHT TALK

Don't abuse the privileges a spot.
light gives you. This light is wonder
fully helpful when properly used, but
damnable when misused. Its free use
is sure to be legislated against severe
ly unless drivers curb some present
propensities Always cary the spot
light higher than the other lights
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29

There still are a great many en-.
gines without detachable cylinder
heads and these use valve plugs.
These plugs often leak. This leak
ing. may be stopped by spreading
ordinary paste stove blacking over
the threads. Do not use too much.
This may be used at any hot joint in
place Of white or red lead and is
much better because it does not make
removal Of the part an hours job.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29

.'on what grounds do you claim
exemption?"
II am a conscientious objector. !
believe that II they were called for
million men would spring to arms
in single night, and object to be.
ing dragged to arms In the DAYTIME. !"
Kansas City Star
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29

The project Of constructing port
at Rome at a cost of 100000 pounds,
has been finally approved by the Ital.
ian government.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29
= IEAN year OAN
Different-Because 1t Is Better

Yet the whole idea that the Stan
ley is unconventional is not fact,
but fancy. The fact is that the
steam plant is the most conven-
tional, the oldest, the most highly
standardized, the most efficient,
the simplest, the safest and the
least mysterious that science has
ever devised for driving a road
vehicle.
And so to give you the perform
ance you have always wanted was
with us not an endless expert
ment, but merely matter of re-
filming a power plant which was
from the beginning fundamental
ly suited to the work. Not only
is the Stanley engine fundament-
ally correct for the variable
speed, variable-power require
ments of automobile service, but
it is the simplest ever developed
for that service.
1t has but two cylinders. 1t has
but fifteen moving parts.
Yet it delivers a continuous flow
of power, not impulses-not even
Overlapping impulses but a
continuous flow of power.
In Stanley construction the en-
gine is geared direct and per-
manently to the rear axle, and no
transmission gears are needed.
The function of the generating
plant which supplies this engine
with steam, stored in advance, is
no more complicated than that of
a kerosene stove for boiling water.
The volume of steam flowing to
the engine governs the power of
the car, and this steam the driver
controls by a single finger-throt-
tie on the steering column.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-29

Boiling water over a kerosene
stove-a two-cylinder engine with
fifteen moving parts-a one
finger throttle control-that's all
there is to the generation, appli-
cation and control of Stanley
power.
And the Stanley car complete
engine, wheels, steering gear, ev-
erything included-has but thirty
seven moving parts.
The reason why the Stanley car
has power at low speeds-why it
has the fastest pick-up-why no
.self-starter is needed-why there
is no clutch to pedal and no gears
to shift, is because the fuel is
converted, not into instantaneous
ly dissipated power, but into
steam which is stored in advance
and may be instantly applied in
any desired volume to the driv-
ing wheels.
And the reason the Stanley runs
with a SOFT. smooth, gliding mo-
tion, without noise or vibration
even at highest speeds, is be-
cause the steam, upon entering
the cylinders, exercises its force
cxpansively, in smooth eontinu-
Gus flow, and not in series Of
explosive impulses.
The Stanley car has neither car
buretor nor carburetor troubles
it has neither ignition system nor
clutch troubIes-it has neither
gears to shift nor gear-shifting
troubles-it has neither self
starter nor self-starter troubles.
But it has stored power.
And its fuel is kerosene.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-12-21
DOG TAX LAWS: RIGHT
Z AND WRONG KINDS

"If, you will agitate for a good
big tax on dogs, a friend writes, u
am sure you can help US in our ef-
fort to raise sheep"
We do not believe much progress
will ever be made with an plan to
tax dogs and put the tax in the gen.
eral public treasury. Much the wis
est and justest plan, in our opinion,
is one providing that dogs shall be
taxed at certain rates and these
dog taxes then set apart in special
fund and used for repaying any
man whose sheep are killed by dogs.
It will not help a man very much,
nor encourage him greatly in sheep
raising, just to know that taxes
were paid on the dog that killed his
sheep. But it will help him a great
deal if he knows that in case he
loses sheep, he can get enough tax
money to replace the lost animals.
Along with this plan, of course,
provision should also be made (1)
for killing Immediately any dog
known to have killed a sheep, and
f2) for levying on the owner an
extra tax or surtax amounting to
probably five times the normal tax
on a dog.
Instead of agitating for general
tax to 60 into state or county treas
ury and which might or might not
encourage sheep-raising, why do not
advocates of a dog tax unite in be-
half of some such plan as we have
here outlined? If they will, we be-
lieve they can make progress.-The
Progressive Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-12-21
A WAY TO KEEP SPARERlBS.

Do YOU have too much sparerlbs
and backbones at butchering time!
It is often the case when more than
one hog is killed. The problem OF
disposing of them without waste or
having to eat them all first, is some
times perplexing.
Put them in a keg containing a
brine maue of ten pounds OF salt
and four gallons of water and let
them stay. They will keep for sew
eral months. To use, soak the plec-
es in boiling water to remove the
salt and you will find the flavor has
not been spoiled. This method is
recommended by T. z. Atkeson, for
merly agent for Suwanee County,
Florida. He says the parts should
not be salted down because there
is so little meat on them they are
almost sure to be over-salted.-The
Progressive Farmer.
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News for the Farmer

are in this condition, one can do no
better work than to remove these
distractions this winter.
Every farmer ought to order his
winter reading matter right away
now that the long evenings that
should be used in increasing ones
fund of knowledge are here. Include
a good magazine for Mrs. Farmer
and something especially for the
girls and the boys.
Hogs must have comfortable quar-
ters in order to make the best posi-
BILE gains. Give them a well-roofed
sleeping place on a raise d dirt floor,
protected from cold winds-being
sure to provide plenty of litter
The Progressive Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-12-21

with all the nations involved III THIS
present war America will find it
quite impossible to repeat the Gus
tomary greeting-"A Merry Christ
mas" Out Of thousands CT homes
have gone the noble sons whose ear
" wears made for US the Christmas
days a time of happiness and cheer.
We never dreamed in these past
wears that the little lads. for whom
we bought the sleds and skates, and
for whom we jingled the sleigh bells
the night before Christmas, half
waking them from their Dreams
would one day be marching over
the fields of France facing the
cruelties and horrors of the most
inhuman war the world has known.
To many of US there have come mo-
ments when it has almost seemed,
a ssomeone has said, that the lnfin-
ite Justice had been too long neu-
tral in this war. But such moments
do not last. Faith, born OF the
great Christmas message, reasserts
itself and finds refuge in the conf
dence that "justice and judgment
are the habitation of His throne"
In one of the darkest days of the
Civil War, when Frederick Dougless
addressing a great audience of col
ored people, gave expression to his
hopelessness and despair for the fu-
ture of his race, old Sojourner
Truth rose from her seat, and street
ching out her long thin hand cried,
"Frederick, is God dead?" We do
not wonder that men and women
doubt His presence and His good
ness. And He too probably does
not wonder that faith sometimes
breaks under life's inscrutable mys-
teries. But He is faithful still.
With courage we must await those
days that soon will come when we
search the papers for the tidings we
fear to see. To train our hearts to
face the worst-that is part of oul
great task. To hide our own fears
and send across to those who are
cover there" only the word of cheer
and hope, this too it is ours to do.
"Watchman, what of the night:
The watchman said: The morning
cometh. Our. Dumb Animals.
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"LET WE FORGET"

Visit your school this month.
Of course you have housed and
painted all your farm implements!
Get your account books in time
to start the new years business like
a business man.
Will you let Christmas find you
with some harvest work still an
done? We hope not. \
If wheat is top-dressed with ma
nure it will help bring it through the
winter. This will pay in view of the
assurance of high prices next year.
Order lime now. 1t is as effective
applied in fall or winter as in spring
and if ordered at the last moment
manufacturers may not be able to
supply it.
The farmer who builds and fits up
his repair shop now can get a lot of
repair work off his hands during the
winter, while it is too high to work
outside.
zNow is a good time to clean the
briers and bushes out of the pas
ture (?). Because of neglect in this
matter, many of our Southern pas
lures are simply fakes.
It's none too soon to begin check
ing up on this years business so
that any mistakes you have made in
marketing, fertilizing, ETC., may be
corrected next year. Start in time.
Every Southern stockman should
ask his Senator or Congressman for
a free copy of a 615-page book on
Diseases of the Horse" 1t will be
invaluable to any farmer who raises
horses or mules.
A fountain pen and number OF
postal cards are good things to have
handy. In this way you will write
friends, relatives or advertiser
while matters are fresh in you1
mind and not run the risk of for
getting.
In almost every Southern field il
the hill country one can find stump
or powders that make it impossible
to employ deep tillage machines o.
power machinery. Wherever field
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-12-21
THE BEST SEED POTATOES

More than rs years ago l insisted
from the results of my experiments
in North Carolina that the second
crop of Irish potatoes was far bet,
ter for seed the following spring
than potatoes from the North. The
northern experiment stations in ger
eral disagreed with me. I started
what was to be series Of expert
ments in conjunction with the Cor
nell Station, New York, and the
Maine Station. They were to send
me early potatoes grown in their
grounds, which I was to plant in
North Carolina, and from them
grow a second crop the same season.
Some of these were to be sent to
the Northern stations and they were
to send me more of. their seed po-
tatoes, and so on for a series OF
years.
We progressed as far as the sec
ond season, when I had planted some
of my second crop seed alongside
the Northern seed sent down that
spring. The growth of the second
crop seed was so much more vigor-
Gus than the Northern seed that l
had photo made of two adjoining
rows. When the crop was made l
took the contents of Is hills of my
second crop seed and Is hills of the
Northern seed and piled them side
by side and photographed them.
There was not a potato in the crop
from the Northern seed that would
have been a culling in mine.
My Northern correspondents stop
ped right there and sent me no more
of their potatoes. The results were
proving all that I claimed.
But there was still some inclination
to doubt the superiority of the. late
crop grown in the south, and it was
suggested that it might do for one
season, but it would be necessary to
go North for seed at least every third
year. More recent experiments
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-12-21
kept warm and comfortable.

kept warm and comfortable.
Mr.. R. A. Keaton surprised his
family, by going rabbit hunting, and
shooting a rabbit during the. snow.
This was the first time he has been
hunting or has shot a gun in fifteen
years. We imagine he must, have
been in a few feet of the rabbit.
Miss Genevieve Anderson of Lam
der College, and Archie Keaton of
Wofford, are at home for the hoi-
days. ...
The Antreville High School has
suspended school until January ON
account of bad weather. Mr.. Paul
Moore has resigned as principal, so
we hope to have a new teacher af-
ter Christmas.
Mrs. R. A. Keaton has returned
home from st. Augustine, Fla,
where she went to be with her
daughter, Mrs. ]. E. Cheatham, who
has recently been operated on for
appendicitis. We are, glad to report
that Mrs. Cheatham is rapidly fe-
covering.
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Antreville, Dec. 20.-When we
looked upon the landscape on last
Wednesday we noticed that during
the silence of the night beautiful
snow had fallen to cover the land
and make the children glad. This
is indeed a jolly time for the boys
for the minute they think of snow
they draw a mental picture of a
rabbit sitting in bed awaiting the
sound of a gun and become the
sport of the hunter. However we
thought of the soldier boys during
this bad weather. We hope they
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-12-21

sumed her husbands duties at the
request of the church board, and
occupied the pulpit Sunday morn
ing. Reverend Adams won a Sec
ond lieutenant's commission at the
Fort Sheridan training camp and
has been called to Camp Grant
Rockford, Ill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-12-21

made in North Carolina fully bear
out the fact that the home grown
seed will make the best crop. Western
growers about Louisville, Kentucky,
were offering what they called second
crop seed, and on inquiry I found
that these potatoes were 3 late corp
grown from seed of the previous sea-
son which had been kept in cold
storage, insisted that the name
second crop was only applicable to
potatoes grown from the early crop
of the same season, but that had no
doubt that the late crop from cold
storage seed would be just as good
In fact the Louisville growers claim
that they are better. The main
thing is to get late maturing crop,
a crop dug in late November and
early December, which can be kept
till planting time in February with
out sprouting. This is the great
difference between the Northern
seed potatoes and the late crop in the
south. The Northern crop is dug
earlier, and being more perfectly
mature, will sprout more Oh less in
the cellar in winter. These sprouts
are of course rubbed off before ship
ping them. This carries off the
terminal bud Of the shoot from the
eye and the potato grows with a
cluster of lateral shoots, while the
late crop Southern seed grow with
the strong terminal bud, anc anyone
who is familiar with the Irish potato
crop can easily tell the difference in
yield, without digging, of a plant
growing with a strong single stem
and one with a cluster of stems. -
A few days ago had letter from
a grower in Monmouth County, New:
Jersey, the greatest potato-growine
section ON the northern Atlantic
Coast. He said that he is intending
to invest largely in Southern second
crop seed for another season. Last
spring he bought some in Richmond
Virginia, and found them worth
double the Maine seed potatoes; in
short, that the second crop seed
made 100 barrels an acre while the
Maine seed made so barrels. And I
was told years ago that the second
crop seed might show well for sea-
son or so in the South, but they
would never make a crop, in the
North. as compared with the North
ern-grown seed.
Another reason. why the Southern
late crop seed of the early varieties
should be- used is that the Maine po-
tatoes are all infected with the
black shank disease, and if we want
to keep clear of that it will be bet
ter to use the homegrown seed of
Irish potatoes.-The Progressive
Farmer.
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THE CHRISTMAS OF 1917.

Was there ever a day in hte his
tory of the last nineteen hundred
wears when so many homes looked
forward to Christmas with less of
anticipation and Joy? In common
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PREACHER ENLISTS; WIFE
TAKES PLACE IN PULPIT

Urbana, ILL.,, Dec. 18.-Mrs Frank
D. Adams, wife of the pastor of the
Universalist church here, has as
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-26

Georgia proposes to go 'bone dry"
one better and have what looks like
Christian Science dry, by prohibition
Of alcohol for even medical purposes