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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-21

Rorn to Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID. Lioyo
this morning baby boy.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-21

Miss Lucy Johnson is the guest 0
Mrs. J, II. Johnson in Sumter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-21

r NJ. Kennedy has accepted posi-
tion at KatZof.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-21

Tho enrolment books close on JUL
81 If Won do not enroll you canno
vote in the primary, August 3lst'
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-21

Mrs. T. NJ. Mouzon has returned
home after spending several week., weeks
in Ashcville and other points IN Nor''
Carolina.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-21

Mrs. D. Hirschmann has returhe
To Manning from New York.
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Enroll now if you do not care TO o'
disfranchiSed.
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Ncssrs. ]. l.. Ridgcway ana oIaci
honec Uolladay are spending lie
days at Glenn Springs.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-06
At 73c Yard
Fancy CoIorcd Noilcs
All Sheer White Goods

Plain Flaxons, Noiles Sher-
cites. Etc.
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All Nainsooks
and
LOngcl0thS
Less 2Oeo
Light Wash Materials
Fancy Organdics and Swisscs

Fancy Voilcs, Lace Cloths, Etc.
White Novelty Materials for
Blouses
$3.50 and 9Oc quality =. sac yd.
Sl25 and $3.50 quality. sic yd.
One Lot of Novelty Swisscs
White Swiss with dots in varied
STYLES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
A QUESTION AND AN ANSWER.

A subscriber at Vermillion, Kan,
submits a fair question to The State
Journal. regarding its editorial policy,
that deserves fair answer. His ques-
ton follows:
Why do you advocate the ratifiea-
ton of the League of Nations to make
world peace and then in another COL
umn you advocate compulsory mill
stantly advocate more production to
bring down the cost of living and then
take all the young men from 8 to 81
to the military camps when at that
age the home and the farm is the only
place to make perfect men of them?
The State Journal has endeavored
to make it clear to its readers that it
favors military training not for the
purpose OF preparing our young men
to fight possible enemies, but for the
fight the battle of life.
Experience with military training
during the world war has demon
strated that the training camp is the
greatest agency ever devised for de-
veloping healthy. vigorous manhood
and good citizenship. 1t also gives to
the young man that discipline of which
so many stand in need.
II the home and the farm be the
only place to make perfect men Of our
boys, as set forth by eur Vermillion
friend, why send them to any school ?
And why were so many found physi-
cally defective by examining physi-
clans and officers?
AS regards taking the young men
from the ranks of producers for pc
riod of six months. it would be done
on the, same theory that many are
sent to agricultural colleges-to en-
able them to produce more at a later
date.
There is nothing that can fill the
place OF the military training camp
It is the great finishing school for
young men. 1t is the maker of de-
mocracy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR =. GUEST

WORK.
There's never a goal worth the getting but
what you must work to Gttain.
You must suffer and bleed for it, cling To
your creed for it..
Fail and 60 at it again.
Success is no whim Of the moment, no
corwn for the indoient brow
You must battle and try for it, offer to die
for ii,
Lose it, yet win it somehow.
The pathway to glory is rugged. and many
the heaTtaches you'll know,
He who seeks TO be master must rise from
disaster.
Must take as he giveth the blow.
There's no royal highway to srlendor, DO
short cut to fortune or fame.
You must fearlessly fight for it, dare TO DC
right for it,
Failing, yet playing the game
The test Of mans merit is trouble, the proof
Of his worth is distress
Much IS you long for it, man must be
strong for IL,
Werk is The door to success.
Copyright 1920 By Edgar A. Guest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
Dorothy Dix Talks
Paying the PRICE,.
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Weman Write'

The Young man who drinks too
much, the young man who burns the
candle at both ends, the young man
have his fling and SOW his wild oats
and get off scott free. But he doesn't t.
He pays the price in shattered nerves;
in premature senility, and insanity.
There is no hospital, no insane asylum
in which they will not tell you that
three -fourths of the men patients
brought their fate upon themselves.
The woman who lives on candy and
sweets, who takes no exercise, who
wears clothes that are first aid to
pneumonia. who lives on her nerves
and in a perpetual strain of gadding
from party to party. thinks that she
can likewise sin against nature ana
escape the penalty, but the price she
pays enriches sanitariums, and puts
nerve and lung specialists in the mill
lionaire class.
Do you wish success? The price of
taht is all that you have got. To buy
success you must give every ounce OF
strength in you-and then some more.
You must give every thought of your
head, and every aspiration of your
soul. You must count neither sick
ness. nor WEAKNESS, nor discourage
ment in paying your bill.
You must work while others play.
You must save while others spend.
You must take the hard road when
the easy one lies invitingly before you.
You must cruelty your vanity and
think only of your object, not yourself.
You must stand the gaff, take criti-
cism gratefully; endure insolence pa
tiently; deny yourself the pleasures OF
both love and hatred.
Perpetual sacrifice on the altar OF
ones desire. Self immolation to one
IInen6-
ing labor. Dauntless courage and en-
durance. These are the coins with
which one buys success, and it is be-
cause so few are willing to pay the
price that there are so many failures
in life.
Men and women believe that there
is some royal road to fame and for
tune in which they can joy ride in a
Limousine, or that there is some magic
carpet that will watt them to success
without an effort on their own part
1t never happens. There is no easy
way to the heights. Every step of it
must be taken with blood and tears.
and faint hearts are not strong enough
to pay sa great a price. So many get
weary and lay down their tools. They
get tagged and drop out of the race.
They do not like the company they
are forced to keep on part of the jour
ney and they turn aside to where the
society is more elegant and agreeable,
or they argue with themselves that
after all success isn't worth what life
asks for it, and they content them
selves with some cheaper bargain.
Every day of your life you see lone
ly, loveless. friendless people. sick
people failures. who rail at the in
Justice of fate, but the fault is their
own, not fate's. They could have had
the thing they desired if they would
have paid the price, but they would
not.
copyright. 1913. bv the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE-

Yestidday before suppir pop was
stropping his razor and feeling it with
a unsatisfied Expression and stropping
it agen, and l sed, Pop, can you stick
one leg up till you toutch your ear?
If you wunt to tawk to me, tawk
sents, sed pop. And he felt the razor
agen, saying, confownd suteh a razor.
/ wouldent shave a dog with sutch a
razor
am tawking sents pop, cant you
do it, pop? I sed.
Do wat do wat? blame this razor.
confownd it, sed pop, and sed, Wy,
stick one leg up till you toutch your
ear
Say. look heer. young man, I'm tired
of your ixa operations, they're foolish,
that's wat they are foolish, and I don't
wunt to heer eny more of them, sed
pop.
That wasent eny ixaggeration, pep,
l can do it, l sed.
Are you standing there with strate
face and telling me you can lift your
leg till you toutch your ear? sed pop,
and 1 sed, Yes. sir, can't you, pop
and pop sed, Leeye me out of this
please, and 1 sed, Yes sir, can't you
pop, and pop sed, De it, go ahed and
do it this minnit, and if you don't do
it III give you suteh a licking it will
be impossible to ixaggerate about it.
Yes sir, sed. And I lifted up one
leg and kepp on lifting it up till !
Touched my ear with my hand, say
ing, See, pop, I stuck my leg up till
Touched my ear. I didn't say wat
was going to toutch my ear with, did
1, pop?
Get out of heer, sed pop.
Wich I did. going past pop as quick
as possible to avoid axsidents-
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The Woman Who | ovcd-and
Earned 4 Modem s.o:y q Home and Business
By JANE PHELPS

That all?" she asked, her elbows
on the table, her face in her cupped
hands.
Not isn't all, Mary. and the rest
is even harder to tell'
Il guessed there was more
Il went to see Marion Hovey the
other day, and she insulted me terri
bly,, and"
Marion Hovey insulted you-I did
MT know she had spunk enough"
she has plenty of spunk." Then 1
told Mary faithfully all Marion had
said. When I repeated what she had
said about loving Robert. and her
fathers desire that he would marry
her. Mary emitted a prolonged whistle
that focused all eyes upon us.
I'm sorry, Gerry, but honest I
couldn't help it," she apologized.
Don't do it again, please begged
her. then went on with my story.
You poor child. you certainly had
to take it, didn't you ?'
Il should say did, I was going TO
tell Robert, but SITTER / thought it over
decided not to. feared it would do
more harm than good"
Wise little Gerry! Never let man
know another girl is in love with him.
1t makes her more interesting, you
know. He likes to find out for him
comes from men knowing OF thinking
girls are in love with them
Mary. what shall 1 do? will not
lose Robert, Marion Hovey shan't
have him"
That's the stuff. He's yours, hang
on to him. But Gerry do you hon
estly want me to tell you what to do9
What / KNOW you will have to do
If you and Robert are ever to be
happy"
"of course do. or shouldn't have
asked you am nearly crazy. Mary
and SO unhappy over all this ! have
tried SO hard
Now listen to little Mary. Then go
do as she says"
Observation-Disclosures a decision.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
PEACE SEEMS FAR OFF.

The Democrats of the house are
starting back fires for purpose OF de-
feating the Republican move for
peace. A member of their party from
Geesia has introduced seven bills re-
pealing as many war time acts con-
ferring special powers on the presi-
dent. 1t is hoped by the administra-
ton leaders that support may be di-
verified from the pending peace reso-
luton to the bills of Democratic au-
thorship.
In proposing the Porter resolution
declaring the state of war with Ger
many at an end the house of repre-
sentatives is acting under what it con-
siders are the constitutional powers of
congress to terminate the anomalous
situation in which our relations with
Germany are left as result of the
defeat of the Versailles treaty. 1t is
trying to give force to the declaration
made by the president in his speech
before congress on the signing of the
armistice, Thus the var comes to an
end"
Great Britain, France, Belgium,
Italy-all the nations with whom the
United States was associated in the
warfare at peace with Germany. We
alone remain in a state of war. Pri-
vate and public action is retarded in
many ways as a result OF this state
Of affairs. Normal commercial rela-
lions with Germany cannot be re-
sumed- until peace has been accom-
plished. Private enterprise awaits re-
lease from the handicaps that the
legal fiction of war imposes on it.
In the circumstance the peace reso-
luton seems to offer the only way in
which peace can be established. Fiji
teen months have elapsed since the
signing of the armistiee.
There is little doubt that the senate
will adopt the resolution and little
doubt that the president will veto it
If he veto the action of congress and
the veto stand, we shall have to wait
as patiently as possible for further
developments. Probably the war will
continue until after the November
election or even longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
SMOOTH THINGS ALONG =

Yes we all have trouble enough, so
don't tell US yours. Rather. do this
smooth things alongi
I know of a person whose great
stock in trade is to talk continually
about misfortune. The day that they
were born was one of the dark days
of the earth. Nothing is ever going to
be right-all things are wrong.
Well, I would say. to that person
what of it?
You never put fire out by feed
ing it more fuel Smooth things along,
my friend, smooth things along.
Somehow or other, all things come
out right if you will but get the proper
viewpoint. But it can't be done if
you persist in putting yourself in your
own light. You have to get out of the
way yourself while you let in the light
and air and natural rightness of things
that already exist in the world to make
you right.
Smooth things along awhiIe-and
see what happensi
Not very many folks quarrel with
themselves. If they were put on a
desert island all alone, they would
have other things to think about They
would start right off to smooth things
along for their own good, you may be
very sure.
Never mind who is to blame. Most
times, no one is. So do all that you
can to smooth things along.
The world wilt change for yeu very
quickly if you do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15

as she gave him a kind word Not a
bad sort-she wished devoutiy she
could love him-but since she could
not. had no thought of making him a
consolation purse. Then there was
Lily Graysen. whose world was bound
ed feur-square by Cousin George.
Olive wept inly over the hopeless tan
gle, what time she was not laughing at
Lisbeth and young Neighbor Edward
Grayson-whose world was for the
time being bounded by themselves.
Things were at this pass when Billy
sprang the Rest Cure. All other fes-
tivities had so palled he insisted upon
taking all hands to a green shady
meadow in the upper river valley,
there to listen to the birds singing YES
pers while they watched the sun set
gorgeously in a long dun distance.
Nothing to eat but bread and water,
with scant mitigations of hot roasting
ears. and blackberries. both acquired
on the-way. The acquiring made Billy
and George Miller, who were in
charge of it, so late dusk had turned to
starlit darkness before the corn was
properly in the fire.
1t was too warm to sit about the
fire, SO the company fell properly into
solitudes of. two. Billy was the last to
seat himself-and fate ordained him to
choose his partner by her hat A blue
hat wide of brim. with only a ribbon
and a rose outside. he thought he
knew who wore it beyond peradven-
ture. Therefore he burst out hush
eddy as he sat down. Tell newly
| is it Olive won't ever see me? Looks
right spang thru me-I'm not even a
blot on the landscape to her. Have 1
done or said things to make her hate
me so? Or is it just what I ann
why, L Suppose you ask her.
came in a muffled voice, clearly trem-
ulous. Billy reached for a hand con-
veniently near, squeezed it bit and
said banteringly: Nov. nowi Don't
turn on the water-works! I know
! your game, lady-you don't care three
! beans for mcguire playing cat-and-
mouse with me to bring Old Man
| Johnny to taw. 1 haven't minded
indeed, I want you for a sister two
ways. Turn about is fair play-say
you'll help me with Olive-unless
there's somebody else. Dye think she
can fansy that fat-head, Gregory"
Maybe! Girls are so queer" came
reflectively from under the blue hat.
At the same moment came shout-a
squeal rather, unmistakably 'Riah-
Sues. Corn. Billy! Corn! Rescue
the perishing."
Lets do it." said the blue hat, get
ting up quietly with happy giggle.
| "Agreed-but that must work two
ways" Billy retorted as he also rose.
And then quite unaccountably he
found a soft warm young hand slid
softly within his own.
| CCopyright 1920 by the Mcclure News
/ paper Syndicate)
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erievious drouth the town had ever
known. We succeeded in alienatins
the support of every liberal, poot,
logger" white SLAYER" crook anu
CRATER in the town. Did we earn
the encomiums of the uplifters anx
the cfean-towners We did not. IN
the second election the uplifters anu
the clean-towners marched hand IN
hand to the polls with the BOTTOMS
crowd and voted against us again. ms
city and the chief corporation. greas
railway company. had for years peen
at odds over the responsibility for the
maintenance and upkeep of a viaducs
connecting the main town with one OF
the large hut modest residential sec
tons. The city had been footing the
bills and fussing about II for twenty
years The city administration, OF
which we have become the casual ms
torian, forced the railway company 10
take over the viaduct and agree 70
maintain it in perpetuity. About that
time the viaduct fell down. Due to
trouble in securing necessary ma
terial, the railway company was Lde-
layed in rebuilding the structure. The
people who used the structure charged
the DELAY to the mayor and voted
against him when he came up for re-
election.
The most grievous insult to which
the administration OF which we write
subjected the town was that of giving
it its first comfort station. Without
expense to the taxpayers and using
money which had been wrung from
reluctant debtors who had been long
overdue at the city treasury, the ad-
ministration caused to be erected at
the intersection of two principal
streets an architecturally handsome
and hygienically useful structure. AT
first the people laughed their heads
off at the amusing spectacle. Then
their hilarity changed to scorn and
contempt In the end the comfort
station became one of the ''bitter'
issues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15

have to have any experience. He
can easily learn how to milk thena."
The boy was followed by two young
girl stenographers, who giggled over
their applications, and found the whole
proceeding extremely interesting The
face Of one of them was a mastery
com ination of layers upon layers of
powder and rouge, SO that one could
not help but wonder what she would
really look like after a hard day of
the haying she was letting herself in
for.
Another stenographic couple who
arrived a few minutes later on the
other hand. took the whole matter
most seriously. They let Miss Mitchell,
the recruiting officer, know that a
summer in the country meant seme-
thing in their young lives, and they
asked her advice upon every question
included in the application. Upon
hearing that the berry picking would
last ten weeks. they decided upon that
II don't see how it could last that
long" said one of them astutely. How
do they find SO many berries?"-
Miss Mitchell assured them gravely
that the berries were cultivated by the
hundreds of acres and sent them off
much excited over the prospect of
earning three cent quart of anything
so easily picked as the berry.
Gee, wish we'd known about this
last summer" came back one of the
voices. as they went out the door
ITO think we stayed here all summer
when it was boiling"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15

Attention is being called to the
heavy losses sustained by the Ameri-
can people thru the decline in the
market value of liberty bonds But
the truth is that nobody has lost, can
or will lose a cent IL he still hold and
shall continue TO hold his bonds.
These bonds still draw the same
amount of interest that they did when
they were selling at their face value
and when they mature they will be re-
deemed at 100 cents on the dollar.
Owners of liberty bonds, therefore, can
view their tremendous losses with per-
feet equanimity. Not only is this true
but they can benefit themselves great
ly by increasing their holdings at pres
ent prices. A 500 bond, bearing 4 Il
per cent interest, can be bought for
$ss, which transaction represents net
profit of s12 at the outset. The pur-
chaser then will draw $4.25 annually
net on an investment of 500, but on
en- investment OF SIS. Is there any
thing better. safety considered?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15

The railroad board named by the
president this week will find plenty
of work ready at hand. Back of the
outlaw strikes which have been started
at Chicago and other points in this
country by dissatisfied railway en-
ployes, lies the general question of re-
adjustment OF railroad wages as a
whole. 1t has been estimated that to
give the rail employees all they ask in
the shape OF additional pay would be
to increase the costs Of transportation
more than a billion dollars annually
This increase of expense necessarily
would be passed along to the general
public and it is figured 1t would add
about $40 per person to the present
high cost OF living, or between $40
and $50 for the average American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15

The senate and house conferees on
the postoffiee appropriation bill have
reached a complete agreement, and the
measure will soon bsoomeNa law. One
OF the provisions put in by the senate
and accepted by the house creates a
joint congressional commission to in
quire into the present mail transpor-
tation system. with a view to making
recommendations for it's improvement.
But the greatest improvement that
could be brought about in the mail
service would result from separating
Burleson from il.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
GERRY SEEKS HELP.
CHAPTER So.

Robert was so quiet all the evening
that Betty asked:
rs Robert III? I never knew him
to say SO little:>> He's usually full of
menced to hum when he came
around" We were alone in the kitch-
en-. Betty was getting supper.
''Ne-he isn't ill. But. Betty, he is
discouraged over his work. He doesn't
get on. you know" My cheeks flushed
Robert that even this half apology
hurt. But 1 had to say something.
Come on out. boys!" Betty called.
Robert still showed no animation.
He ate his share OF the creamed
chicken; then he and Frank smoked
while Betty and I cleared away.
I'm sure he is ILL.," she remarked.
He doesn't look well, and he is so
quiet-and different"
I made some excuse, and We soon
Betty thought you looked i'll, Rob-
ert. Aren't you feeling well ?"
I'm all right"
He said nothing more all the way
home. and scarcely spoke after we
reached our room save to answer a
question.
Mary, I want you to lunch with
me-" said the next morning. Il have
to talk to someone and you're the only
one with whom 1 can talk over my
private affairs"
Little Mary is always on the job
when secrets are being told. Reason
she's a clam Never talks-forgets
if it is necessary"
At luncheon I told her first of how
Robert had again been staying out,
that he had been drinking a little and
frequented the pool room oftener than
was good for him. 1t may not have
been a dignified thing to do, but 1
could not decide upon anything that
Offered any reasonable surety of max
Ing him happier.