The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-02-26

than work, your Uncle Nub wishes to
give the first gun in advocacy of "a
general clean up day" A clean soul
begcts a clean body, clean bodies
crave clean surroundings, clean sur
roundings begct pride of civic ma
ture and love of the beautiful.
Judging altogether by what greets
the eye and the aifactory nerves as
we walk about the premises of many
OF our homes, man is the most untidy
and careless creation Of all animal
nature. Sanitary experts tell us that
the greatest breeding places for dis
eases are those conditions which Of
fcnd both the eye and the nose. Now
let us consider the practiced side of
this proposition. From time to time
great many towns have conducted
a paint up, clean up campaign" 1t
always worked we'll, was good for
the health and good for the health of
the towns and counties concerned, and
the appearance of the general sur
roundings improved wonderfully.
These campaigns should be kept up
year after year. Of course, a man
need not paint his entire building
every year He can, If needs be-,
touch up here and there, but perhaps
there is no painting needed. The
cleanup part, however, is always in
order. The idea is to clean up back
yards, streets everywhere, to get rid
of refuse, to disinfect, and to make
things sanitary and attractive to the
eyes and nose. Now right here let
me say, my hat is always off to the
ladies, but | will take OF at many
times to the Ladies' W ~ '-c this
matter up and carr. q @ cess
full conclusion. Let "vbc be-
come infected with the Lug of clean
illness. Tie experiment. is worth try
ing especially with the several cases
OF typhoid fever we had here las;
summer so fresh ill our minds. If by
complying with the above suggestion
will be the means of preventing only
one case of fever we will not think
an appeal to the good people here
to clean up, beautify, and bring about
an absolutely sanitary condition in
vain. ,..:. >, IA,
Honor roll Cross Roads school, Miss
Suddie Davis, teacher; John Elliott
Rowe, Marjorie Smith, Irene Billups
Clifton Bronson.
There seems to be building move
mcnc in the atmosphere here and if
carpenters could be had in the next
few months quite a number of resi-
dents would go up. Among those who
are wanting to build this spring and
summer are: w. w. Davis, cashier
of the Bank of Santee; II. E. Davis,
of the firm Of Davis &: Barnes; George
Joseph, and several others are plan
ming to build residences this summer
and several of our folks are doing
considerable repairing and remodel
ing on their residences, and it is said
that tobacco warehouse at cost
of something like eight thousand dol
lars will be built time enough for this
years crop, and judging from the
amount Of tobacco being planted i'm
this section if a warehouse is built,
quite a lot of the weed will be sold
here.
We are in hearty sympathy with the
IN)nVpn,ant tn rnI,,,n
and the amount of fertilizer used, and
AS we have previously stated we hope
this method will be the means of solv-
ing the cotton problem in the way Of
advancing the price. But as the pledge
is written out can man conscien-
tiously sign it? While we have no
particular criticism of this pledge as
it is written, yet our opinion is that
1T should specify the amount of acre
age each man should plant to the
horse, and not the reduction in per-
c&ntage of acres from last year. A
may have planted 20 acres last year,
and B 10 acres, so \ can afford to
cut 33 l3 per cent this year and then
have a big cotton crop, while it would
cut B down almost to zero. And when
it comes to a man being honor bound
by pledge to hold his cotton until
he gets 35 cents the pound can he
do this when there is no certainty of
it? 1t may be that a wear or more
will pass before this price is reached,
and we fear a good number Of our
farmers would be somewhat embar-
rasscd in financial way before that
time. While we are almost sure if