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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-17
Eura and Climates.

The furs of animals whose habitat
fs In warmer countries Is not SO dura-
bic, does not form as good leather and
Is less supple than the furs from the
animals living in colder climates.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12
AMERICAN FLYERS TOOK
PART IN FIGHT
AGAINST BOLSHEVIK

Warsaw, May 11.-Members Of
the Kosciuszko aerial squadron Tn
der the command of Major P. Cedric
Fauntleroy, of Chicago, took E
prominent part in the air fighting
which resulted in the Bolshevik be-
ing driven out of Kiev. The Am
ericans made repeated raids against
the soviet forces. They dropped
bombs along railroads and flying
low, turned their machine guns upon
the Red infantry.
Twice during the drive toward
Kieyf the Americans moved their
headquarters near the front.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12
LYING BLASPHEMY,"
VICAR CALLS HYMNS
OF MARTIAL NATURE

Colne, England, May 8.-Some
very strong words about hymns have
been said by the Rev. ]. H. Hopkin-
son, vicar of Holy Trinity Church
here and son of the former vice
chancellor of Manchester Universe
ty.
eve have learned" he says, "that
war is not a mater of fluttering ban>
ners and clashing swords and beat
ing drums, but merely a sickening
and dirty butchery of lads in water
logged or fly-infested trenches.
eve shall be less ready than we
were to compare the movement of
the church to that of a victorious
army. Hymns that we could sing un-
before the war have be-
come lying blasphemy.
"Who would now sing Like a
Mighty Army Moves the Church of
God"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12
NOTICE! SCHOOL ELECTION

Whereas a petition has been circu-
lated in Hagan School District No.
35, asking for an election for the
purpose of voting an additional tax
of 4 mills for school purposes, and
whereas it appears to be properly
signed an election is hereby called
to take place at the school house, lin
said district on Saturday May 22nd,
1920.
Those in favor Of the tax will cast
a ballot upon which there is written
or printed the word "Yes". Those
opposed will cast ballot upon which
there is written or printed the word
"No". Rules governoring General
Elections to be observed.
Trustees to act as managers OF
said election.
W. J. Evans,
Co. Supt. of Education.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12
A FOOD SHORTAGE
THREATENS THE NATION

The estimated decrease of 248,-
900, 900 bushels of winter wheat as
compared with last years, due to a
decrease of $4,000 acres in the a.
mount seeded and to an extremely
low average condition of the plant, is
one of tie most alarming food situa-
tions which this country has ever
faced. 1t is alarming not simply be-
cause this great decrease in the
wheat crop means very high price
for flour, but because the decrease in
wheat acreage is merely indicative of
the general decrease in the acreage
of other crops. The American people
have not yet awakened to a realiza-
ton of what the agricultural decline
means.
The farms have been drained by the
cities until the production of suffi-
clent food to meet our actual neceSSi-
ties is so much endangered that it is
altogether probable that the food
prices of today will, twelve months
hence, seem to be very cheap. There
is a shortage in wheat; there is also a
big shortage in rye; and likely to be
shortage in the acreage devoted to
grain and other crops.
1t is not in the power of the farm
ers to change the situation. With the
utmost stretch of heir ACTIVITY, and
working from dawn till darkness
they cannot produce food enough to
meet the nations needs. There is no
earthly reason why farmer should
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Davis, Mes
DANES J. ]. Dunn, Ida McDill, Corrie
Robinson and Mary Ellen Ellison,
left Tuesday afternoon for Washing
ton, D. c., to attend the Southern
Baptist convention and to see the
sights of that beautiful city. We
wish them pleasant trip.
The Sacrement of the Lords Sup
FER was observed IN Greenva!e
church Sunday morning. A large con,
cregation was present. Rev. j. N
Dallas also held services in the after
noon at Friendship church, Laurens
County.
DR.. R. L. Parker and son, of Bel.
ton, worshipped at Greenvale churcf
Sunday morning. They were -th'
guests of Captain T. N. Nickles anc
Miss Nickles, of Due West. Mr.
Ralph McDill of Due West, also at
tended the services.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Sadler are on {
visit to their son in Holly Hill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12

DONALDS
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DONALDS

Miss Alice Humphries spent sew
eral days in Pelzer visiting her nieces
Misses Lois and Alice Humphries.
Rev. A. H. Key, of Honea Path,
called on Rev. and Mrs. j. M. Dallas
last Thursday.
A great many of our citizens at
tended Chautauqua in Due West the
past week and enjoyed the various
programs very much.
Mr.. Gary Moore, of Ware Shoals
and Miss Mary Jane Sample of Cokes-
bury, were married Sunday after
noon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs,
James Wren. Rev. J. NJ. Dallas per-
formed the ceremony. Their many
friends wish them much happiness.
The Donalds school will close Fri
day night with interesting exercises
A number of boys and girls will
graduate.
Mr.. Leon Gordon, of Anderson,
spent Sunday with his parents.
Mrs. Marion Poore, of Greenvllle,
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Sharpe, and also
with her children.
On Monday, May 10, patriotic
North and South Carolinians paid
honor to the memory of the herioc
dead who fought, bled and died for
the cause of the Confederacy. Deco
ration of the graves of the heroes,
and memorial addresses marked the
day.
The Ware Shoals U. D. C.. served
their annual banquet last Saturday
to the Confederate Veterans of the
surrounding country. Capt. W. r.
Dunn and several others from Don
aids attended, and report very
pleasant time.
Only fourteen of the "boys" were
present-their grey line will soon on
ly be memory.
Rev. and Mrs. J. NJ. Dallas spent
Friday afternoon in the Leith dis
trict making sick calls.
Mrs. Homer Blackwell of Lauren as,
is visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. r. Blackwell near Due West.
Miss Bertie Mae Smith, who has
been teaching near Mauldin, is home
for thes ummer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wilson and
chilren, of near Laurens, spent the
weekend with Mrs. Wilson's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Seawright, neal
Donalds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12

keep on producing more is doctrine
which should be taught from every
platform, in every office and through
every newspaper in the land for at
the best it will be impossible so in
crease the acreage in foodstuffs this
year as to meet our actual nccessi-
ties. The best we Can do is to ameli-
crate the condition by encouraging to
the utmost the agricultural output of
the country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-05-12

be expected to work longer hours
than an industrial worker, but the
railroad employ and industrial work
els are insisting upon an eight-hour
day. If the farmers and the farm
laborers followed this example, the
cost of all foodstuffs would almost
double the price overnight. Every
hour cut off from the industrial
workers day, with its accompanying
demand for an increase in pay, only
serves to intensity the food situation
by driving farm laborers away from
the country to the city, and causes a
steady decrease in food production.
The industrial workers and all others
who are striving for shorter hours,
! increase pay and less efficiency in
production are merely serving to
bring about a condition which will
mean cost of living far beyond
anything which this country has ever
! known.
We are face to face with a farm
situation which has in it the menace
of a real good famine. Blind, indeed
are the men who do not recognize
these dangers. A food famine would
mean socialistic and anarchistic and
bolshevistic unrest, because the
public does not understand the cause
of these high prices, and does not
recognize that the rate of city growth
is enormously increasing the number
of food consumption at the expense
of the number of food producers.
But it is not merely in the short
age of our own food production in
which danger is to be found. This
condition is worldwide. The official
report of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture of April II pub.
fishes statement from the United
States Trade Commission at London,
in which it is said.
Gall indications point to world
wide shortage of wheat during 1920,
and a worldwide increase in the de-
mand."
The details given in this report
show that England will be forced to
depend, to very large extent, upon
America for it's wheat. There is moth
ing new in this, however, though it
serves to emphasize the seriousness
of the wheat shortage, of the danger
of prices of food which will stagger |
the nation this fall, and, perchance
for several years to come. Unless the
people are made fully acquainted
with these facts they will not be able
to understand the situation, and,
therefore will turn to socialistic and
anarchistic agitators.
1t becomes the duty of every tea
cher, preacher, and business man;
every newspaper, and every other in
fluence which can enlighten the
country as to the facts in regard to
worldwide food shortage and es-
pecially to emphasize the danger of
a food famine in this country. 1t is
also incumbent upon every intelli-
gent man and woman to do their ut
most to stem the rush of population
from the country to the city and en-
courage every effort which will con-
duce to the larger developments Of
the agricultural interests of Amer-
ca.
Produce more food stuffs and
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
H. C. L. PSYCHOLOGY.

Despite the heroic efforts of fed eral, state and local organizations to bring down the hig4, cost of liv- ing, it remains about where it was before-higher than Giiroy's kite. Whatever we may be able to ac- complish in other directions. says the editor of Ford's International Weekly, in this one line we are ap- parently helpless. If there has been a decline, it has been so little as to give us but small hope for the future. It may be that when the so-called paramount issues of the political campaign have been settled we may apply ourselves more sue cessfully to this task.
 The while we are waiting, how ever, we need not be altogether without consolation. For even the high cost of living has its bright side, although to be sure it is not a very bright one, and has to be locked at from the right angle to be seen at all. In our zeal to cor roborate the assertion that the cost of living is high--as though it need ed any corroboration-we are like
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24

OVER.THE-ICE EGGS, $1.50 per dozen, at Fowler & Morris.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
A BONUS TAX ON EVERYTHING

The proposed scheme to raise $2,- 00,000,0OO for soldier bonuses by collecting sales tax of 1 percent on goods sold under $500 and of 5 percent on goods sold over that amount finds favor in Congress. If it goes through, points out the New York World, the person who eats, drinks, wears clothes and allows him. self reasonable comforts may expect to be kept busy counting the pen nies that go ito make up his daily contribution.
 When Smith starts downtown in the morning for his office and stops to buy a paper at the newsstand he will pay tax. If he has his shoes shined he will pay another tax. His wife told him before leaving not to forget that tomorrow will be the boys birthday, and on the cheapest toy he will pay tax. At noon he may lunch on a cup of coffee, a sandwich and piece of pie, each article subjecting him to a tax. A cigar will mean another tax. Rush- ing for the subway in the evening, for every chance nickel he may pay out he will leave behind a fixed sum for taxes on sales.
 In the meantime, Mrs. Smith will have bought few provisions at the corner grocery, a new saucepan, possibly half a dozen cheap hand kerchiefs and a pair of stockings,
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
CHEERFUL LOSERS.

Talking about losers, wrote the editor of the Anchorage Times the day after election, Jack Chovin early gave up the fight, smiled, hitched up his trousers and started in with renewed vigor and ambition to make light out of darkness. Jack, the true sport that he is, has no apolo- gies to offer and has already for gotten the election episode, which he has written on the pages of an cient history.
 The world loves a cheerful loser, continued the editor, when suffi- cient returns had come in to make the election of Jack Mcbride cer- tain, and even the most narrow minded is forced to admit that Charlie Heron is taking his defeat gracefully and like the gentleman he is. Anyone can win, but it takes gentleman to lose. .=
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24

Ily to take the SIS pair of shoes in
 the show window as proof. We once
 bought this pair for $4.48. This , should prove that the cost of living is high. And no doubt it does. But the SIS pair of shoes is only
 a part of the story. As matter | of fact, nearly as many people are
 able to wear the more expensive shoes as were able years ago to wear the kind that cost S4.48. It 1 is doubtful, when the facts are all adduced, if we could prove that the vast majority of people are worse off today than they were ten years ago. To the casual observer it must be apparent that sales have not fallen off to any great extent. You still have to wait till June or July for delivery on the automobile you order today
 We are likely to forget in the excitement of our hunt for the profiteer that the general and in many cases very substantial increase in income has put many of us with. in the reach of things which in the days of the low cost of living we were quite content to put aside as beyond our means. The pinch real ly isn't in the shoes; it's in the fact that we have suddenly found things within our reach which were not there before
 We must not grow cool in our zeal to abolish profiteering. And yet we must remember that a good share of our discomfiture is psycho- logical For all those who are ready to spend some effort in buy ing cautiously, to cut down their wants to fairly decent margin, to buy for use rather than for show, the times are not so bad The dol lar that goes out may be worth less than it was five years ago; still it is not to be denied that more dol lars come in.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
LANE AND WASHINGTON.

Franklin K. Lane, former secre tary of the interior and one of the ablest members of President Will, sons cabinet, issued valedictory at the time of his retirement which is full of suggestion and horse sense.
 ashington," he said, lis a com bination of politica, caucus and drawing room and civil service bu- reaus," containing statesmen who are politicians and politicians who are not statesmen" He declared that trust, confidence, and enthusi- asm-three simple virtues of all great business-are the most lack ing in governmental organization. ''For the high administrative of ficers,' he said further, "there should be salaries twice as high as those now given, and they should be made to feel they are the ones responsible for the work of the de partment, the head being merely an adviser and contractor of policies. In word, we need more opportu nity for planning, engineering states manship above, and more fixed au- thority and responsibility below"
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
SCHOONERS PREPARING
 FOR NORTHERN VOYAGE

SEATTLE, Wash.-Four auxiliary schooners-the Thraser, Tyee, Hell lenic, and Silver Wave-are being fitted here this spring for trading along the Siberian and Alaskan coasts of the Arctic ocean. They are being sheathed in iron to pro- tect them in bucking the ice fields.
 The Thrasher, the largest. will lead the little fleet north. The T11rasher replaces the historic old tradever Belvedere, which, after more than thirty years in service, was crushed in the ice off Siberia last fall.
 The Tyee and the Hellenic will work along the Siberian coast and ascend the rivers. The Hellenic plans to remain five years in the Arctic. The Silver Wave will work from Nome.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
Department of the Interior Alaskan Engineering Commissio,
NOTICE

Passengers are required to pur- chase tickets before entering trains.
 Tickets can be purchased from the station agent, whose office is in the employment office, on the ground floor of the General Office Building. Alaskan Engineering Commission, or at North Nenana.
 Tickets will be on sale at my time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time before the departure of the trains.
 Regular trains for the south leave the foot of A street on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a. m., and from North Nenana for Fairbanks, Tues days and Fridays, at p. m.
 The following is the schedule be- tween North Nenana and Fairbanks. subject to change without notice:
 Leave Fairbanks at zoe a. m; arrive North Nenana, II 80 a. m.
 Leave North Nenana :00 D. m; Iarrive Fairbanks, 5:38 p. m.
 A ferry will be run between Ne mana and North Nenana to connect with Fairbanks trains. Passengers f"r Fairbanks should purchase tick cts in Nerana before crossing the ferry.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24

and at each step in her rounds she vii! have been summoned to pay a tax.
 Every day it will be the same for everybody - Smith, Brown, Jones, Robinson and their neighbors, wheth- CT they live in an East Side tene- ment, in the Bronx, on Long Island or in Westchester. And the trades man and dealer who acts as tax collector will want something extra for his pains and charge according to his opportunities. From rising in the morning to going to bed at night, from one week end to the other, 1Oo,O0O,OOO people through, out the country will be paying bonus taxes on whatever is bought and sold - food, wearing apparel, luxuries and necessaries.
 This is 1920. In was in 1920 that Sydney Smith wrote in commenting on a scheme of taxation then in force:
 "The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road, and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine which has paid T percent into q spoon that has paid 15 percent, filings himself back on his chint4 bed which has paid P percent and expires in the arms of an apothe- cary who has paid license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death"
 That was child's play compared with the bonus tax that Congress plans to rush through in the hope of corraling the soldier vote.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
FOREST SERVICE WILL
 FOSTER PULP INDUSTRY

KETCHIKAN. - Officials of the government forest service are mak- ing every effort to induce paper manufacturers to establish pulp and paper mills in Alaska's forests, ac- cording to c. H. Flory, forest su- pervisor for Alaska. Active steps toward establishing mills probably will be taken soon, he said.
 MT. Flory denied reports that the
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24

forest service has put stumbling
 blocks in the way of prospective lpaper manufacturing companies. We are offering better induce
 ments right now than the Canadian government" he said. We are go- ing to do everything possible and within reason to aid the establish ment of paper mills"
The Nenana daily news., 1920-05-24
 NOTICE.

No passengers from any boat will be allowed to land at Panama or Fort Gibbon for an indefinite period
 DR. MOORE.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-04-01
Polish Easter Egg Custom

An interesting Easter egg custom pre-
walls in Poland. On Easter Monday every
head of house, man or woman, presents
each visitor on his call with hard-boiled
egg, or, rather, the half of one. The head
of the house divides the egg, gives half to
the caller, and eats with him the other part.
The custom has such hold on the people
that the mobiles, even when living far away
from the fatherland, observe it. Many years
ago Prime Czartorysi was in residence in
Paris, when he held the usual reception on
Easter Monday, receiving each guest at the
door of his salon, and dividing the egg in ira
ditional style with each visitor, who ate it
Observation-Disclosures.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-04-01
Served in Two Wars

The passenger steamship St. Louis, with
a record of having served with distinction
through two wars in which the United
States was belligerent and in the interval
carrying passengers across the Atlantic under
the American flag, now is blackened hull,
the victim of fire started by painters
torch.
The big ship was being reconditioned at
a shipyard for service after her second honor
able discharge from the "colors" when the
accident took place. Her owners, the Amer
ican Line, say she can be repaired, but it
will mean practically rebuilding her and it
is task of many months.
The St. Louis was christened by Mrs.
Grover Cleveland. Her construction and
launching was an epoch in American ship
building in that she was the first ocean
greyhound" to be built in this country. She
made her first voyage in June of 1895. I'm
der contract with the American govern
ment she was intrusted with the fast mail
of England and Europe.
Under command of Capt. W. Goodrich, u.
S. N, she was equipped with heavy guns as
an auxiliary cruiser in the Spanish American
war. Her first adventure of note was when
she was ordered to cut the cable between
Santiago de Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica.
Running up until she was under the
direct fire of the guns of Moro Castle,
American gunners sent back shot for shot
and succeeded in silencing all but the mortar
batteries of the fortifcation, while sailors
were fishing out and cutting the cable line.
On June Is, 1898, she captured the Bri-
tish freighter Twickenham, which was tax
ing cargo of coal into Santiago, presumably
to be used for the Spanish feet. She was of
the port when Admiral Cervera made his
dash for the open sea, and she brought him
and 746 of the crews to Portsmouth, N. H.
In 1917, when the United States joined
the war against Germany, the St. Louis was
one of the first American passenger ships to
be armed and to defy the German sub
marines and mines. She had many narrow
escapes and once actually was hit by tor
pedo, but without serious damage. She car
ried to and from France thousands Of Amer
ican soldiers, and she was one of the last
ships to be released from war duty to return
to pursuits Of peace Exchange.