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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-15
Statesmen Wanted

Lubricating oil, grease, speclaltles
paint. Part or whole time. Commls'
sion basis. Men with car or rig pre-
ferred.
RIVERSIDE REFINING CO.,
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
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D. 4. r. Meeting

The February meeting of the
DAUGHTERS of the American Revolu-
ton will take place on Tuesday the
21st with the regent, Mrs. Mamie N.
Tillman.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-15

Hons. B. E. Nicholson and j. L.
Minis left for their legislative work
in Columbia on Monday.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-15

Mills
For Statepurposes SA
For Ordinary County Z
For Constitutional School Tax 3
For Antioch a
For Bacon School District II.
For Blocker 2
For Blocker-Limestone A
For Golfers 4
For Flat Rock 4
For Oak Grove 5
For Red Hill q
For Edgefield 3
For Elmwood No. 8 z
For Elmwood No. 9 z
For Elmwood No. 80 2
For Elmwood L. G. 3
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Her niece, Mrs. w. A. Byrd.
Hons. B. E. Nicholson and j. L.
Minis left for their legislative work
in Columbia on Monday.
Judge J. W. DeVore left Monday
morning for Charleston to conduct
court there for several weeks.
Can't. and Mrs. P. NJ. Feltham have
returned to Washington, D. c. where
thew will remain for some time.
Mr.. Will Hair of Texas, but now
stationed at Beaufort, spent several
davs last week with his aunt, Mrs. Ell
len Strother.
Miss Evelyn Edmunds has gone
to Augusta to nurse her sister, Mrs.
Rhea Edmunds Rambo who is sick
with influenza.
Misses Emmie and Annie Sue
Broadwater returned to their studies
at Coller College on Monday, having
been detained on account of infuen-
"a.
Mrs. Mamie n. Tillman is spend
ing this week in Columbia in attend
ance on the State Baptist Conven-
tion and the State Conference of the
D. A. F.
Mr.. and Mrs. Biggar of North Au-
eusta came over on Wednesday to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. James T.
Minis. Mrs. Biggar was Mrs. Fannie
Eedlock Townes.
Mr.. James NJ. Sewell of Augusta,
died at his home on Telfair Street on
Tuesday morning. His wife who was
Miss Lucinda Brunson and his daught
er Miss Fannie Sewell are we'll known
in Edgefeld.
Mrs. Clarke, Misses Carrie and
Mary Harrison, Miss Corine Clarke
and Mr.. and Mrs. Roper Day, Mr..
and Mrs. julius Vann and others
from Trenton attended the funeral
of Mrs. Minis on Wednesday,.
Miss Sophie Abney returned to
Savannah on Sunday with her niece,
Mrs. a. J. Ives, where she will spend
some time. Miss Pickens Tarrant Of
LIT. Carmel will be the guest of Miss
Marie Abney during Miss Sophie's
absence.
Plans and specifications have been
made for the erection of the build
ing which will belong to Mr.. r. A.
Edmunds, adjoining the Mitchell
Drug Store. The plans are being
made by Mr.. McKibben, and worl;
will begin at the earliest moment pos
sihle.
Mr.. Charlie Butler Key has been
discharged from the navy and is eX-
pected home this week. Mrs. Key has
Been spending some time here with
Ir. and Mrs. C. H. Key, and the lit
tie baby, Alice Key has already made
great place in the hearts of the
family.
Mrs. Osmond Williams who has
been visiting her mother, Mrs. Mag
gle Hill, has gone to her new home
near Bennettsville, at Blenheim, hav-
ing been summoned to the bedside of
her husband who has infuinza. NJ.
Williams is in business with Mr. Ray
pCnd Rogers.
Read the full page advertisement
of Mr.. J. Rubenstein in this issue of
The Advertiser. Now is your oppor-
tunity to purchase many needed ar
ticles of comfort which you have
done without during the rule of high
prices. Come and see and make your
long delayed purchases.
IN a letter from Bruce N. Thinner
man, who is at the South Carolina
Sanitarium, Columbia, he says that
he likes the place very much and IS
improving rapidly, having been there
for little more than a'month. He sent
his subscription to The Advertiser,
and said he missed it so much as it
was taken in his home in the Red
Oak Grove section.
Mrs. D. T. Mathis Jr., returned tc
her school in Spartanburg county on
Monday. She has proved such an ac'
ceptable teacher in the school at Pac,
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Notice..

This is to inform our friends and
TIL public generally, that l have pur-
chased from the estate of my former
partner, the late Mr.. B. B. Wilson,
his interest in Merchandise and Live
Stock, and will continue the same
line of business at the same place.
His estate will retain one half in
terest in all notes, SO parties owing
notes now due and past due will
please call and settle.
Belts Cantelou.
'g9Ho3 E2nA G0fS as9Ms HIN
3asEA@9&ET 5SEM G.9hl8'nl
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For Hibler 8
For Johnston IL
For Meriwether (Gregg) 2
For Moss 3
For Ropers 2
For Shaw A
For Sweetwater
Talbert 2
For Trenton 8h
For Wards z
For Blocker r. R. (portion) Is
For Elmwood R. R. (portion) Is
For Johnston R. R. 3
For Pickens R. R. 3
For Wise R. R. IL
For Corporation IL
All the male citizens between the
ages of 21 years and 60 years, except
those exempt by law, are liable to
poll tax of One Dollar each. A capi-
tation tax of so cents each is to be
paid on all dogs.
The law prescribes that all male
citizens between the ages of Is and
SIS years must pay $500 commuta-
ton tax. No communication is includ-
ed in the property tax. So ask for
road tax receipt when you desire to
pay road tax.
JAMES T. MINIS,
Co. Treas. e. G.
You can change your bicycle into
a two-cylinder motor driven machine
by adding the johnson Motor Wheel.
Come in and see them.
Stewart & Kernaghan.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-15
LOCAL AND Personal,

Miss Mary Fitzmaurice is visiting
her niece, Mrs. W. A. Byrd.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-15

Judge j. W. DeVore left Monday
morning for Charleston to conduct
court there for several weeks.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-15

Capt. and Mrs. P, NJ. Feltham have
returned to Washington, D. c. where
thew will remain for some time.
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switched off onto trying to reform
the Constitution"--
sh-h'' said Loretta, my dear,
don't say birth control"
That's right, DON'T" said Henry
savagely. I'm glad to see that Won
are getting sense of modestv at
last" A'
Loretta got out a tiny gold lor-
gnette and looked at Henry
through it.
isn't he quaint?' she said, putting
IL away again. 81 suppose the Sena-
tors are very much like him. That
gives me an idea: I'll practice on
nm during lunch. You see. dear
we are forming new group with
wonderful woman at our head. and
from now on we have taken q new
hame--we are to be called the VOL
untary Parenthood League"
Loretta paused, and powdered the
end OF her nose, 10 )king so ineffablv
plquant and youthful that even /
VINO am in sympathy, burst out
laughing. The worst of Loretta is
that everything she becomes inter-
ested in always succeeds-Henry
knows this as we'll as I, and hence
his secret irritation at seeing her
at play with the very foundations
OF lie. With her unerring instinct
tor taking up causes that don't fail.
no one could be sure that the world
would not IN the end be cursed with
complete birth control, or anything
else Loretta might think of in the
mean time.
Il wonder" said l plaintively.
and with the hope of changing the
subject. whether | could get that
brass chain down in the Russian
quarter, wherever that is"
I've Just come from there" said
Loretta. nibbling an olive, land do
you knc W that statistics show that
II the laws of bir control were in
operation among the foreign ele-
ment in New York City alone the
municipal funds now directed into
the twenty-five municipal hospitals
for the care of the blind, the dis
eased and the feeble-minded chill
dren Of this city would be sufficient
to DO away with the entire slum
district and give each remaining
child a liberal education?"
''Leav ng ladies like you nothing
whatever to talk about said Henry.
att cking the food
ION the contrary" said Loretta.
swiftly laying down the mouthful
Of chicken she had been about to
put into her mouth--"on the con-
trary-having, in the course OF two
gerera tlons. practically done away
with the unfit, and along with It
that vicious circle of charity organi-
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ture. The guards are, most Of
hem, able to tell you about the
things in their particular division.
The Sunday
Story Lady
1t was on this day I made the
most wonderful Of my discoveries of
what New York is doing for the free
education Of its children.
care you looking for the Story
Hour Class?" inquired a guard of
me.
"The WHAT" asked.
"Oh, thought you might be look
ing for NJ s. Chand err" he replied.
''She's the young lady who tells the
Sunday story"
At this he directed me to the story
telling lady. Miss Chandler is a
charming young person with just
enough Of the child in her, combined
with interest and enthusiasm to
make her the one to fill her pos ton.
Every Sunday afternoon at o'clock
she tells q story in the large lecture
hall, founded upon some historical
episode, and Illustrated by stere-
crtlcon views Of objects of art which
relate to it. On Wednesday after
noon she has class just for the
CHI dren who come to the Sunday
story, when she takes them around
in group to the objects in the mu-
scum which were shown on the
screen the Sunday before. Both the
story and the supplementary class
are free to any one.
The following Sunday found me
in the lecture hall with Jean and
Barbara. The little auditorium was
packed, many Of the children were
from the East Side public schools.
Others very proper in their fur
trimmed coats were escorted by their
mother or governess. All in all, a
happy, interested crowd of young
sters.
Many mothers are there, some
with their knitting, others with en-
broidery and still others, like myself,
willing to learn with the children.
One mother brings her two children
from Yonkers, another all the way
from Astoria.
Order is maintained in the audi
torium by group of regular at
tendants called monitors, and mighty
good disciplinarians they are, sup
pressing any whispering or the eat
ing of peanuts. sometimes struggled
in in spite of the ban against them.
Museum
Games
Continually one is surprised at
what these children knovs about the
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worker The society's representa-
tive pondered as TO how she womb
meet this particular social malad-
Justment as presented in Ameer and
whether 1t was not problem for the
characterization group to undertake
characterization too often ia one
OF those idealistic general terms
which we all greet Wi h enthusiasm
and then let il go at that. The rea-
son is simple. We just do no, know
now to reduce it to the concrete 50
1t VIII tie up with our own indi-
V.dual efforts. and, anyway, we are
not just sure whose job American
lzatlon is Broadly, it is the def
mite responsibility of every one of us
who deals with these families. r.
means considering their past expert
ences and then trying to adjust them
20 their particular niche in our own
country.
1t is certainly a far cry from the
open fields of Persia to an East Sid
tenement, and we have got to try
10 understand the background %
Ameer's family, together with their
ambitions and possibi ties. before
we decide on any definite plan. and
that plan will have so be one n
which they believe or we will fail
Social work appears to some like
game Of chess. You are the PLAYER
and the families the chessmen. After
due consideration Of the trend of the
game as whole, and the advantage
or certain pay, you make your
next move, and SO on until the end.
The fallacy Of the smile is This:
the family must not only agree to
the move, they must understand the
mental processes which lead up to i.
so that it will be Just as much their
move as yours, otherwise your efforts
are in vain.
As for Ameer's family, the Char.
lty Organization Society Will prob
ably try to send them back TO a farm
by early spring, where they vii.
have the agricultural opportunity
they really want and need.
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stopped continually to ask dripping
policemen, who thought it was some
where around Rivington Street.
This name sounded sinister to me
like a Place where murders should
be committed-and as weapproached
it my spirits sank lower and lower.
The streets had contracted to mar
row cracks-miles and miles of wash
hung out of the tenement windows.
tiapping dirt;lv in the rain; over
head the elevated trains passed with
a deafening roar that died away
only to begin again with terrifying
regularity.
"Think Of babies being born and
brought up in this noise," cried /.
From the trestles of the elevated
the rain stopped and dripped in con-
centrated rivers upon the masses of
bareheaded people who surged be.
low in darkness which the storm
made almost night. In the black.
cavernous mouths of all the shops
candles were guttering, and heaps
of children crawled and swarmed
In and out among the filth.
"My God, James," said Henry,
where are you taking u.s."
"This is Second Avenue, below
Rivington Street, sir" replied the
disguised James.
II didn't know such holes ex-
isted," said Henry.
ooh, this is nothing" said Loret-
ia, cheerfully. "You know | often
think" she added, chow nice it is
that Clarence wasn't born down
here"
"Loretta!" I cried in horror.
clarence is our only child"
We finally found the brass shops,
and getting out Of the machine we
approached the least dingy of them
and entered. Everything brass that
has ever been made was there. ex-
cept a brass necklace; really, life
was very discouraging.
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The Americanization of Amecr

n OI long ago, on quiet, com
" Portable farm in New Eng.
land, lived a little ten-vear-
CID Ameer, a handsome Persian bow
with big, brown, flashing eyes, black
hair and clear skin. During vaca-
ton he spent his days helping in the
garden, caring for his chickens or
often rowing through the nearby
woods, discovering new birds and
flowers and making exciting add
tons to his various "collections. -"
Evenings he liked to read or play
his little brown violin, which came
from 'the other side
A short time ago he came. with his
parents and little brothers and sis
tiers, to live on the East Side of New
York. Immediately he was quite n
hero among boys, for he could tell
of wonderful animals, BIRDS and
flowers of which they had never
heard
However, it was not many weeks
before his heroism vanished in their
eyes because the boys found that
hmeer did not know how to fight
properly when a big fellow picked
On him; he could net swear and talk
back sufficiently to please them. He
refused to go "crooking" with bows
on his street who watched for
smaller children returning from
baker shops to snatch their buns and
cakes from them. He was ALWAYS
beaten in all their gang games, and
his mother was forever calling him
to read, or practice en- his violin.
No. Ameer was no longer a hero.
He was called by that name which
cuts deep irto the heart Of every
boyle was a Sissy"
Small wonder that when a visitor
from the Charity Organization So
clety heard him speak harshly to his
young sister, and asked if that was
lhe language he always used
ameer's black eyes snapped and he
replied: Sure, whatya think? /
gotta talk like that; I'm a tough guy
now"
"A challenge-thas~A~te the social
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cations which cater to overnonr,a
elon without taking any constructive
steps to eliminate it-having. | saw.
freed the thousands Of women now
engaged in this futile OCCUPATION
we would be in pos;tion"-
Il see," said Henry. turning to
me, that the steel strike is about to
break"-
YES" said Loretta, "and it is the
reasons for such national catastro-
Plies that we women will then b.
IN position to point out to tn
great masses who will come to hea-
US lecture upon these Matters
But. Loretta, DEAR" said +
And, moreover" said Loretta
getting a large supply of chicke
INTO the left cheek, edo you realize
Senator"-
What did you call me?" said
Henry, looking like q startled fawn.
"A Few Neat
Statistics
do you realize, Senator" re-
peated Loretta, bent upon rehears-
ing her part, and leaning far over
the table toward the helpless Henry.
do you realize that by putting into
effect this simple law Of controlling
the number of children yearly
brought into the weld you would BE-
saving, for yourself and your own
family, thousands of dollars a
ycar?"
How SOP" said Henry, pausing
IN the act of mastication.
How so, indeed?" said Loretta.
tossing back her curls and clench-
ng her fist upon the tablecloth.
DO you realize that five-tenths of
the money you pay out in wages to
the thousands of workers in your
factories is money wasted? You
think you are getting the maximum
OF labor out of those people. You
are not, for underfed, devi.al;zed,
semi-crippled people are unable to
contribute the maximum of labor. Dc
you realize that if one normal chile
had been born in place of every tw,
abnormal children you would b
getting from that one adult to-day
the same amount of labor you are
paying two adults to do now? Do
you realize that the laborer with
one child to support is five times less
likely to go on strike than the labor
er with five children to support?"
"Why?" said Henry.
Because" said Loretta, in the
hoarse but calm voice of one who
has won her point and knows it. "be-
cause the laborer with five children
has five children who are economi-
cally unfit---five children who should
lever have been born-~five chit.
dren who could no more grow up
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Nine Dollars a
Week for Nine

There was plenty else to look at.
but buying was difficult because the
suilen woman in charge did not seem
to know the price of single thing.
Finally there shuffled in a sallow.
unshaven man, full of smiles and ex-
plantations. The lady was only a
neighbor, so she did not know the
stock. She was so kind as to come
'n--his wife usually tended the shop.
but she was sick.
why don't you run the shop your
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healthy and we'll fed on the wages
their father can earn than the moon
could reach the sun-children
"Well,' said Henry, beginning to
eat again. there's something in
what you say; but l can't help it.
What can do?"
Give US $4,000 for our campaign
OF education among the poor of this
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King Lear. grief stricken at the
hea' tiessneSs of his youngest
daughter, fefheS on the ann
of hs jester
From king Lear" as put on at the
Metropolitan Museum at Wednesday
mahnees BY the children Of the Sunday
Story Liuss
museum. Miss Chandler will say
such a thin- is in Gallery 80,
Robert, will you lead US there?"
Without moments hesitation
Robert leads the way, seldom max
ing a mistake. Some times the
children choose certain PICTURES
which Miss Chandler tells them to
find. OFF they go decorously enough,
and pretty soon Miss Chandler fol-
lows along to see if they have been
able to place their picture. Once in
. while some one gets lost, but not
often.
Another time Miss Chandler will
take the entire group to the differ
ent pictures which illustrated the
Sundays story. She tells them
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self" said Henry, in the tone Of
health inspector.
There was not enough in it. it
seemed The man had fo make nanc'.
more; so he worked in a cigar fac
tory
My Oldest girl" said he, with an
apologize smile, "she work in
shirtwaist factory"
"How many children have your"
said I.
"We have seven," said the man,
and he sighed.
How much do you all make. to-
gether?" said Loretta, who had
ceased to be talkative all of sudden.
Some week we make IS, some
week 49," said the man.
For nine people to live on" sid
Henry, severely.
well. you see" said the man.
three of them growing boys-only
seven. five, nine year old-they no
need eat so much food"
But" said Loretta, tell the gen.
tleman why you have so many chill
dren when it is so hard to bring
them up"
ut is the will of God" said the
man, rolling his eyes devoutly. MY
wife. she go to the society for the
baby welfare; she say she cannot
have so many kids; we put two of
them away SOON"
Where Will you put them" said /.
"Oh," said the man lightly, that
is easy. Jimmie, he has. wha' DIV
call!--hip disease-the free hospi-
tai take him; and then there il
Sonya-she silly in the head, she
not quite right-so feebleminded
home take her"
And your poor wife" said |. full
Of sympathy-"she is sick, too.
What's the NATTER"
"Oh, she all right in day or so.~
said the man, with great smile
she just have twins-two little
girl; one is dead already, but the
other-it fine little baby"
We fled out of the shop and into
the automobile. over which the rain
still drizzled and the elevated roared
like great, relentless beast.
Did you say you were going to p
meeting or something?" SAID Henry
to Loretta.
Loretta. who knew when to be 81
lent, nodded her little head.
well, here" said Henry, sullenly.
getting out his checkbook, there's
$4,000 to help your league out when
1t gets to Washington and YOU can
make me a member Of the d
thing"
And I never got the brass neck
lace after all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
ut is the viii of God, Lady"

city, said Loretta, quietly swallow
ing the mouthful of chicken.
"No," said Henry, with equal
firmness. "Go around in your auto.
mobile and tell the workingmen to
stop having so many chldrcn-it's
perfectly simple, if you really want
to do it--why do you need $1,000
to do that?"
I'VE need it for lunches and taxi
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thing as soon as you get an idea
you want to go deviliny the govern
ment about it. Go down into the
Sums and teach the men and wom-
en- there how to stop having more
children than they can support
There is your field, young lady"
THANK you for your kind sugges-
tons. Senator" said Loretta.
Don't call me SENATOR" said
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r. y Il ~:

IN teaching all those who cared to
learn.
These are the free things in New
York that / have taken advantage
OF, but they do not begin to cover
the long list that have heard about
but not patronized. This year, how
ever Will see Bob taking music les
sons at the Greenwich House Set
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tlement. Lessons from a graduate
of one of the foremost of European
musical Conservatives may be had
for 25 cents apiece.
! wonder if there is any other
place IN the world where so much
may be had rs in New York bv
merely knowing about it and reach
ing out to take it?