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tary idea is quite foreign to the

Chinese view of things and does not
result in any wide reformative ac-
ton, which should of course, be the
outcome of any wisely devised
prison system To quote further
from the article in the Christian
Science Monitor:
''In Tientsin, however, the Chi
nese have taken the matter in hand
along lines much more in harmony
with the Chinese character. A new
prison has been built, where the
prisoners are taught trades; where
they are also taught to read and
write, if they are illiterate, and
where a definite effort is made to
send them out better citizens than
when they came in. In the women's
section, all the officials who come
into direct association with the
prisoners are women; while the wo-
men prisoners themselves are
taught weaving. sewing, tailoring
and the simpler varieties of en-
broidery. All the work done in this
prison is useful work; moreover, it
is work the results of which the
prisoners are allowed to see for
themselves, and lin a measure, to
enjoy. The women, for instance all
make their own clothes and those
of the men prisoners as we'll.
"The Chinese in fact,it would ap-
pear, fully recognize the very ex-
celent effect produced on prisoners
as upon every one else, by the con-
sciousness of doing useful work;
just as they, very rightly, distruss
the outward discipline and unifor-
nifty produced by the Japanese
military method" Literary Di-
gest.
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TRAINING COURSES

For the first time, courses IN
home demonstration work will be
offered this summer in the currlcu-
lum of the Winthrop College Sum-
mer School. Much serious thought
and thorough preparation have
been given to those courses by Miss
Christine n. Souht, State Home
Demonstration Agent, and her as
sistantsl
There are three of these courses,
one in Food Conservation, one IN
Methods, and the other in Practice.
In the food conservation course the
students will be given an oppor-
tunity to gain practice in methods
or preserving foods. The course will
furnish abundant practice IN the
best methods of canning, preserV-
ing, picking, jelly making, drying
brining preservation of eggs and
any other methods of food preser-
walton that may become necessary.
The course in methods is for the
purpose of acquainting the student
who plans to become a county agent
with the best methods of carrying
on field work including organizing
and conducting home demonstra-
ton, canning, and poultry clubs,
conducting community, county and
state fair exhibits. Instruction will
be given by a successful trained
field worker who can speak from
practical experience of field prob
lens.
The last of these courses will in
clude the giving of demonstrations
of various kinds, which is great
part of the demonstration agents
work. In this course the student
will be given an opportunity to see
demonstrations made by the best
demonstrators in the country, and
under expert supervision will be
given practice in teaching by doing
and in presenting information
gained in more or less technical
courses in such a way that it ap-
peals to the popular mind.
Further in formation in regard
ed to these courses may be obtained
from the Home Demonstration De-
partment of Winthrop College.
Those who are interested and wish
to attend the Summer School for
these courses are asked to make ar
rangements as soon as possible.
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A dog tax Of S25 has been made
by the Berlin government. Dogs
used to lead the blind are exempt,
unless the blind person is in posses
sion of an unusual income. Cats al
so would be taxed if there were
enough in Berlin to make it worth
while, but the Germans have always
regarded the cat as unhygienic and
it is rarely met in German homes.
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LUMBER MILL DESTROYED

st. Petersburg, Fla, May 27.-
Fire totally destroyed the lumber
mill of the Carter Manufacturing
Company here today. The loss was
$4,000. The origin of the fire is
not known.
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TEACHERS co TO LANCASTER.

Misses Kathleen Coleman and Sal
ly Hart, who are completing the ses-
sion as teachers in the City Graded
Schools, have accepted work in the
Lancaster Graded school for next
session.
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"Bayer Tablets Of Aspirin" is
genuine Aspirin proved safe by
millions and prescribed by physi-
clans for over twenty years. Ac-
cept only an unbroken "Bayer
package which contains proper
directions to relieve Headache,
Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia,
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain.
Handy tin box of 12 tablets cost
few cents. Druggists also sell larger
"Bayer packages" Aspirin is trade
mark Bayer Manufacture Mono
&ceticaciGester of Salicylicacid.
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Masonic membership in the Uni
States numbers 2,0S6,808.
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year 914,OoO,OOO pounds. Per
capita consumption has risen from
two pounds annually at the time of
the Civil war to eight pounds at
present.
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lUEODAI JUNE 0m lUJU A.M
THE S. F. CROMER PROPERTY
ON SOUTH MAIN STREET
This property consists of FL Acres which has
been sub-divided into business and residential
lots. We have very low price placed on this
property and are sure that it is good buy for an
investment or speculation. In very short time
this property will be worth four or five times
what we are going to sell it for, because the paw
ed street and sewerage is now being extended be-
yond it on South Main Street.
We have sold over three hundred thousand
dollars worth of land in Abbeville County at diff
ferent times and consider this the best property
we have handled, at the price we have this for.
AS you doubttlss know, ABBEVILLE has i'm
poved wonderfully in the past six months and we
see nothing to check it's growth as long as the
real estate continues to change hands and be de-
veloped.
COME OUT. BID. BUY.
FREE $4,000 IN CASH FREE
1st To the lady bringing the largest number
of men in one automobile (trucks and children
counted) and at one trip we will give free $500
2nd The lady bringing the second largest
number $lO.Ou
3rd To the man bringing the largest number
of adults in one car and in trip, we will give
ffee -------- @1oOV
The above contestants must report to the auc-
toneer the number brought Immediately upon
arrival at the sale.
Remember the Time, Place and Date.
ABBEVILLE, S. c., TUESDAY,
JUNE 9Th, AT 1890 A. NJ.
Sale Conducted By
South Atlantic Realty Go. INC.
Home Office: GREENWOOD, S. c.
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AMBASSADOR" VAUGHAN

DAVID R. FRANCIS is our official am
bassador to Russia, but he has fled
from the country and is waiting till he
thinks it safe for him to go back or until
the President decides with what group in
Russia he wishes our representative to
deal.
Consequently, the contemplated visit
Of Samuel NJ. Vauclain to Russia is of
more than commercial interest, even
though Mr.. Vauclain's primary purpose
is commercial.
Mr.. Vauclain is going to Poland and
| Rumania as we'll as to Russia in the in
terest of the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
He will come in contact with the sub
stantial, conservative men of these coun-
tries, the men directly connected with
the development of the transportation
systems. This development is depend
ent in large degree on political sta
bility. Whether he will or not, Mr.. Vau-
claim must absorb great deal of infor-
nation about political conditions, and it
will be authentic.
It is difficult for any one in America
at the present time to form any definite
opinions about what is going on in east
ern Europe because the reports from that
part of the world are conflicting. Those
which come through the ordinary news
sources are censored. Others are sent
out by propagandists of one interest or
another. No one knows what to believe
When Mr.. Vauclan returns he will be
in the possession of information which
should be valuable to the State Depart
ment, and if the men in charge of that
department are wise they will ask him
to give them the benefit of the knowl-
edge which he acquires.
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Democrats and disillusioned Republicans,
the women voters and the labor vote-to
get under a new banner guaranteed to
stay in the air?
To believe all this is, of course, to as
sumo a good deal. To believe that there
is no special significance in the Crane
and Colby appointments is to assume
that Mr.. Wilson is without interest in
politics and unaware of conditions that
would make new alignment against one
or the other of the old parties or both
relatively easy for man in his position.
Even Mr.. Colby's friends will admit
that his appointment will not make for
new efficiency in the State Department.
The cabinet has gained man of charm
ing manners, who is notable chiefly for a
good old American name and fervid de-
sire to sink without trace all that is nor
mally dominant in the Republican and
Democratic organizations.
Of the slow, patient, pitiless intrigue
against which the State Department
must contend, Mr.. Colby naturally knows
little or nothing. But Mr.. Wilson him
self has been having great deal of init
mate experience in international di-
plomacy. Most of it has been painful and
therefore educational and highly illumi-
mating. He may train Mr.. Colby and
make passable secretary of state out Of
him.
But the appointment will be like a
balm of Gilead to the lost and wandering
tribes who still remember Chicago and
1916 with bitterness. 1t is their man,
their comrade in travail and bewilder-
ment, and not Democrat, who is exalted
before their eyes. To many of them it
will mean that Mr.. Wilson is forgetting
party lines and that he has ordered aloft
the banner cast down at Chicago in 1916
when it had been carried only half way
to the promised land.
They may even believe that the Roose-
welt policies can be revitalized and
merged in the larger purposes of party
designated as Wilsonian!
Very exciting, very diverting, is all
this. 1t has always been known that Mr..
Wilson wishes to see in this country a
new political consciousness Of the sort
that is being expressed in the great, slow,
progressive, liberalizing movement of
England
Abroad even the older leaders are be-
ginning to think, as Roosevelt used to
think, in terms of human rights. And it
is necessary to admit that the Lodges
and the Borahs, the Reeds and the rest
of them are, for the present at least, far
from any interest in the essentials of the
Roosevelt doctrines.
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MILITARY TRAINING REJECTED

UNIVERSAL military training is un-
~ likely to be an issue in the presi-
Dental campaign. Indication of this is
given in the rejection by the House mill
tary affairs committee of the plans origi-
nally Incorporated in the army reorgani-
zation bill. Pressure from the Republi-
can leaders is said to have occasioned
this complete reversal of the policy in
favor of which the committee voted last
week.
Democrats in the House, repudiating
the Presidents appeal for delay, regis
tered their disapproval of compulsory
training still earlier. Although the
American Legion still officially indorses
the policy the subject occasioned one of
the liveliest disputes in which the
{. league of veterans has indulged. 1t was
approved in a recent convention by a
rather slender majority.
The general situation is hardly that
which was forecast by pacifsts, who de-
clared that our entrance into the war
would permanently stimulate the mill
tary spirit in this nation.
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labor are, of course, infinitely higher than
in t1e days when the first contract-now
abrc gated because of delays and changed
conditions-was let.
But the library is one of the practical
and necessary plans for the betterment
of Philadelphia. Public opinion is in en-
tire sympathy with prompt work upon
the project even at the inevitably in
creased cost. We shall begin to feel that
we are getting somewhere when the
handsome new edifice starts to rise on
the chosen site at Nineteenth street and
the Parkway.
The Mayor can make this building one
of the enduring monuments of his admin
istration,
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THE "NoUVEAU PAUVRE"

A NEW class, or a class known by a new
name, has begun to attract attention
in Berlin. During the war the city was
filled with the nouveau richie, men who
had grown rich from war contracts and
were spending their money in riotous liv-
ing. The new class is known as the
nouveau pauvre, or the new poor, and is
composed of the educated persons Of mod
crate incomes which, under the rule of
high prices, is too small to purchase
anything more than the ordinary necessi-
ties of life.
No one had any sympathy or respect
for the nouveau richie, but the lot of the
nouveau pauvre, both in Europe and in
America, is so hard that they deserve the
pity of all who have managed to pre-
serve the purchasing power of their in
comes
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WHAT is THE BEST WAY?

THERE is absolute agreement on the
= Importance of preserving Hog Island
as railroad and ship terminal. But the
best way to do it has not been demon
strated.
The suggestion that it be bought by
the city has merits, but the city has not
the money needed.
The Chamber of Commerce is consider
ing the proposition that a company of
citizens be organized to take over the
terminal and operate it. 1t is said that
about S20,000,000 would have to be raised
by the sale of shares in the company.
quarter of this sum would be used
to pay for the plant, another quarter for
erecting cold-storage warehouses, a third
quarter for building drydock 1000 feet
long and the remainder for working capi-
tai
There are undoubted merits in this
plan, the chief of which is that it would
interest the business men of the COM
munity in the financial success Of the en-
terprise. 1t is assumed that the share
holders would be men interested in the
foreign and Coastwise trade, and that they
would divert to the terminal all the buSi-
ness over which they have any influence
as we'll as all which they directly control.
Civic patriotism alone has not been in
fuential enough to induce local business
men to assist whole-heartedly in the de-
velopment of the port. If these men can
be induced to invest their money in such
a great port Improvement as Hog Island,
self-interest would lead them to do their
utmost to make it profitable.
There is no doubt that under proper
management the terminal would be i'm
mensely profitable. Its site was selected
before the war by experienced shipping
men as the best place on the Atlantic
coast for erecting series of wharves
and railroad sidings for the collection and
distribution Of freight. These men
| bought the land and were making their
plans for its development when the
| United States entered the war.
Government engineers indorsed the
| Judgment of the original purchasers when
they selected it as the best site on the
coast for fabricating ship plant. The
work done there has made it the best ad-
vertised terminal in the world. It would
cost $1,000000 at least to buy for it the
publicity which it has received in the
last three years. Whoever gets posses
sion of it will have the benefit of all this
publicity without the investment of a
dollar in advertising. When you say
"Hog Island" every shipping man in
Europe and America knows where the
place is and what it Is.
The city cannot buy it.
The state won't.
And the national government is not
disposed to lease it.
1t remains for private interests to take
advantage of the opportunity to change
the place from a shipyard to a shipping
| terminal.
The purpose of the plan which tn,
Chamber of Commerce is considering i.
to put local capital in control and to keet
in the city the profits which are morally
certain to accrue from developing tn,
property on the lines originally laic
down.
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NEW HOPE FOR THE LIBRARY

THE history of the Free Library build
4 ing has been implied and handed to
Mayor Moore. 1t is not an enlivening
tale. There have been suits and cross
suits, protracted debates concerning
Philadelphia cut stone and imported cut
stone. There has been enough litigation
70 satisfy the most omnivorous chancery
iurist and there is no new library struc-
ture.
The conference held yesterday by the
board of trustees of the library, members
Of Council and the Mayor does, however,
give ground for hope that at last the
stage Of preliminary complexities is pass
IND. The war slump in the building
trades ia 'n the wane. Materials and
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4IRPLANES

IRON birds floating in the sky
i Prey remorselessly
On the tiny obscure dot
That is some great city
Below, men insects rend and tear,
Women wiring hands of pity.
I have flown a hundred miles
Over the blurred plain,
Dropping devastation and death,
Blotting mems nerves with pain
Their miserable cries were tiny as insects
Calling their god in vain.
The sound of their oaths and lamentations
Could not even reach up to me,
The clouds were at peace. no tribulation
Disturbed the sky harmony,
Only my buzzing changed
And my heart beat dreadfully.
I laughed as silently tossed blind Death
Down on that insect people.
Dreadful it was in the peaceful sky
To murder that insect people,
And never to hear a sound or cry,
Or bell toll in steeple.
gone,
shrieked high up in u cloud
I wanted to fly in the face Of their god
And spit my disdain aloud.
I ripped through the terrified whistling air
And burst through the 'earth's damp
shroud.
All ! it was blue there, wide and clear,
Dancing alive in the sun,
And millions OF bright sweet cymbals rang
Praising the deeds l had done,
And millions of angels cheering stood
Deep columned around the sun.
And then stood erect and cheered,
Ay shouted into the sky,
filled the vast semicirce round,
There was only the sun and ],
The round, red, glittering, blazing sun
And futtering human tv.
w. j. Turner, in THE Dark Wind
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FROM DAY TO DAY

types, types more
capable of a victory
over nature, will have
to be abandoned.
Man WI. have to
turn elsewhere than
to materia. progress
for the thing that
makes lif, wort h
while.
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A FoUR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect the
new administration to concentrate its at
tention:
The Deldtcdre river brdgC
:. t!Iyuyg,, yty enough TO accommodate tho
ldrgcS ships
Development Of the rapid transit system.
contention hall
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the todter supply.
Homes TO accommodate the population.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26

The action Of the New Jersey Legisla-
ture in passing bill to legalize the manu-
facture OF beverages containing $50 per cent
alcohol may be the work of press agents
anxious TO further the construction of bridges
over the Delaware and Hudson.
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TN SPITE Of At.

TN SPITE Of At
l. torncy eneral
Palmer and all his fair
price men, the cost of
living mounts.
Official figures show
that it went up 2 per
cent in January.
Mr.. Frank A. Van
la.liA nann L. .n ha
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MIE HAVE seen the fruits of war.
W Men turned aside from conquering nature
to conquering each other.
In revolution men turn aside from or
ganizing the forces of nature to organizing
the forces Of society.
But mankind s big problem is more power.
The defeatist policy of Hohenzollern or
that of Lenine gets mankind nowhere. What
is needed is a twentieth century James
Watt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26

Time drags in Congress, there is so little
of Importance to attend to. The cut of Gen
eral Pershing's coat and trousers was up for
debate on Tuesday
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26

These political conferences In the
Mayors Office are calculated to give Senator
Martin the cold shivers.
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ENOR the moment, at least, we are checked.
Nature is strongly intrenched,
We are not bending her forces to our uses
with the wonted increasing success.
The appetite to consume, stimulated by
the belief that there was no stopping us. the
tittest products Of a force that was steadily
working out n type that could subdue the
earth to its ends, has not been stayed, but
has gone steadily on.
We want, as the chief said, ito eat lot"
That is what the . per cent increase in
the cost of living in January and the 100
per cent increase since 1914 means.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26

If the opinion of the Democratic women
meeting In Albany, N. w. is correct. the
new political note Is to be soprano.
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Ready for the
Running

North Dakota is to
Ready for the the front with nomi-
Running nation papers for dele
gates for William Jen-
nings Bryan. North Dakota Democrats are
evidently strong for the Zone, two, three
and away" fashion Of starting a race. And
the Boy Orator of the Platte has already
heard the "Onc, two, three"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26

Well, at least, cambridge Colby Il Q
front -ranker as a surprise party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26

1t is significant that some newspapers
failed to see any point in Clemenceau's joke,
even though there were fourteen of them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26

The police must find these jewel rob-
berries terribly monotonous. -
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The fact that the Parkway is a beau
tiful thoroughfare is but an added reason
why the public library should be a beautiful
body to house a beautiful soul