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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-12-14

See William Farnum
Greatest Sacrifice" to be S
Edgefield Theatre Friday
cember 16.-Adv.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-12-14

Send your contributions to the
Economy Home, Campaign Head
quarters No. 5 Liberty Bank Annex.
Columbia, S. C.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-12-14

Z A beautiful line of Chri
New Year cards, Place cs
cards.
CoI.JETT DIR
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-12-14

culture does not spread 1rOIH
South Carolina to Oklahoma with
anything like the rapidity with which
the boil weevil travelled from Texas
eastward. Neither have people given
the spread of culture the study that
they have given the barring of the
boil weevil. We are ever ready to bat
tie for the things that will help or
hurt us financially and materially.
The west does not seek our finer
civilization because it does not know
that it lacks it.
In all the American history have
ever heard or read, there is little
more interesting to me than this: Six
counties in Southern Oklahoma, Lo-
gan, Oklahoma, Kingfsher, Cleve-
land, Canadian and Payne counties,
which had never been given to the
Indians were opened up for settle
ment by whites at IL o'clock the
22nd of April in 1880.
Any people who desired made "the
run" into these counties. The land
was staked off into homesteads, and
the first person arriving at any given
share, afoot or on horseback, or in
wagons, had the sole ownership there
of.
This race, so to speak, starting at
IL o'clock was known as "the rum"
The history professor at the Univer-
sity Preparatory school was telling
me the other day how his people had
taken part in the famous "run."
The most interesting part of my
story is yet to come. On arriving at
their given farms, some distance
from civilization, how do you suppose
they lived? Dugouts were made in
the ground, like the cave man built
in the Stone Age, and there they lived
with a covering over this ground
dwelling. Remains of these dug-outs
are still to be seen.
SO instead of cutting down trees
and clearing the forests, for there
were no forests, these sturdy farmers
went to work to till the prairie soil,
to raise wheat and cotton and corn,
and thus did the early days of Ok
lahoma begin.
lFLoRENCE MINIS.
December s, 1921.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-12-14
Miss Florence Minis Writes q
Famous Runs and Dug
Outs" of Oklahoma. MM MM
Dear Advertiser:

+ - ~
The most pleasing lntroductiongl
have ever had was on day earlyln
lSeptember when President Caldwell
introduced the faculty of the Unilyesrs-;
sity Preparatory School, calling each each
state by tue name which each facal;
ltymember represented, and mineSshles
called "the grand old state of Scum
Carolina. N could feel the blood sef
the Seccessionists flowing more rap
idly through my veins and anyope
rightly interpreting the pride Rpf
state in my face would have known os5E
from that alone, that ! was a South
erner. so .s..!s ~
AS have told you before, the ok- o,'ks
Ilahoma state capitol stands some dis-
tance from the city outskirts IND q
corn field and there is nothing SO de-
void Of sentiment as a cornfeid
Oklahoma is like a growing child,
and its toys are the oil wells. 3lie
hears every few days, 8 ther pill
well came in today To Bring :
an oil il4well is news that makes fcod
| for many conversations.
Overnight men become immensely
wealthy, and the blue Jeans Of some
of the unshayed farmers bear5ge-.
curities that would not be insignf-
cant on Well Street.
Z have had the good fortune to ride
over many parts Of ok lahoma and
through many towns, but I have yet
Ito find any two that look different.
Eachsis an exact replic .of its rssxt
county neighbor, filed with bunga-
lows. This ! can say, however tkat :: y
the roads connec citing these towns ire
vastly better than most / have eseen
in South Care lima The roads are
paved for two miles out Of the snesrs
lest town east of here Blackwell
A new town always has the eye giis=
idently necessary things, mod derr 4 ixS 4
uries, good school buildings, god
roads, rather good shops but a sthoues Z II
sand intangible ref EN- nts the Ave
not, nor ever srs ! viii have Tor genera
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-12-14

Johnston and Aiken teams will
play at Aiken Friday afternoon Of
this week.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

ton, compared with 1,7470O0 pounds
for July, 1920. 1t is this export of
long staple cotton which irks the soul
OF Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, where
the long staple industry has been fast
developing. So upset has Ashurst be-
come on account of it that on the sub
ject of protection he is an ardent
champion of the Republican policy,
just rs the Louisiana Senators are
with respect to tariff protection on su-
gar. If Arizona and neighboring
States can supply American needs cor
this cotton they ought to be protect
ed and not placed on a competitive
level with the fcllaheen labor of
Egypt.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
"LEGlOMAlRE" NAME OF TOWN
Arkansas Doushboys Settle on Adioin-
ing Tracts in Oklahoma and Form
$500 Acre Colony.

They are beating their swords int
plowshares IS the biblical way Of say
ing that veterans Of the World war are
going back to the farm.
In Arkansas. ON a 2.JOO-acre tract. n
colony" of sixteen former service men
descended from Tulsa, Okla, and set
tied on adjoining quarter-sections OF
land. All of them were members Of
the Joe Carson post Of the American
Legion and they plan TO establish Il
trading center and town under the
name .''Legionaire."
The doughboy colony is In Scott
county, Most of the settlers will he
able to call the land their own In sew
en- months as the state allows two
years of war service 10 count on the
residence requirement.
Some OF the men will spend the win
ter on their land. clearing timber.
building. hunting and trapping. 1t Is
estimated that 100 service men Of Tul-
sa ultimately will settle on government
land.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
The "New" Political Party.

The Peoples Party" is soliciting
membership over the United States.
There are no dues or assessments
and support is derived from voluntary
contributions.
The main plank of the Peoples
Party" is government ownership OF
railroads, and it makes the time-worn
assertion that it is not controlled by
the financial powers of Wall Street"
II is seeking men and women organ
izers in every city and country in the
United States and paying n straight
salary to those who qualify.
1t might as well be called the "Peo-
pies Party" as the Non-Partisan
League or any other financial name in
tended to catch the ear and the money
of the elements of discomfort that are
always looking for some new political
patent medicine to try out.
Government ownership of railroads
is about as expensive a proposition as
any political party could try to fasten
on to our already over-burdened sys-
tenn of government and finance.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
Drilling Again.

Chas. w. Sweitzer, president of the
Nee-No-She Oil Co., was in town on
Monday and reports that the company
has finished the work of the placing
the casing of the well north of Queen
Beach down to depth of 1900 feet,
and drilling has begun again. They
are prepared to go four thousand feet
if they do not strike oil sooner, but re-
ports of the geologists encourage them
to expect a strike in the next two
hundred feet.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
WASHINGTON LETTER
Open White House New Years Day.

Open White House New Years Day.
Washington, Nov. 15.-(Special cor
respondence)- 1.-The whole country ap-
plauds the decision of President and
Mrs. Harding to restore the old prac-
tice of holding q New Years recep-
Years reception was an event long es-
tablished by custom and upheld by
every President down to the advent of
President Wilson in the Executive
Mansion. During the eight years of
President Wilson's incumbency no New
Years reception was held.
Standing for several hours and shak-
ing hands with some 10000 people who
wait in line for an opportunity to
meet and greet the Chief Executive, is
not an easy task, but President Hard
ing finds it pleasant one. He likes
to meet people, and the larger num-
ber of callers at the White House
since he has been its occupant dem
onstrates that the people like to meet
him.
The announcement that the New
Years reception will be resumed is
important, not merely because it will
afford opportunity for larger num-
ber of people to meet the President,
but because it is significant of a
change of attitude on the part of the
Chief Executive toward the people
President Wilson adopted policy of
executiveness and isolation. He not
only did not meet the public gener-
ally, but invited few people of prom
mence to meet him at his office and
confer regarding public welfare. His
was n one-man administration.
Mr.. Harding not only meets large
numbers of people for the mere per-
sonal pleasure of making an acquaint-
ance, but he also grants special au-
diences to a great many men of i'm
portance in their local communities
who can and do advise him regarding
the condition of business and the
needs of the people in an industrial
and social way.
During a period of eight years we
had an administration that boasted of
democracy but practiced autocracy.
We now have in the White House an
administration that makes no boast of
being close to the people but which is,
in fact, constantly and intimately in
touch with public opinion.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
Beet Sugar Indu stry Helped.

Financial aid in sum up to Sl0,-
100000 to the beet sugar interests in
Colorado, Utah and Idaho will be ex-
te2ded by the War finance Corpora
tion as result of a plan evolved be-
tween members of the corporation and
western sugar representatives. The
money will be advanced by the cor
poration through financial company
in Utah, which will make loans to
sugar companies to the extent of the
advances of such companies to the beet
sugar growers.
1t is of great Importance to local
business that the farmers receive
prompt payment for their crop in or
der that they in turn may meet their
obligations and make the purchases
needed to keep the wheels of industry
going.
Thomas r. Cutler, vice president OF
the Utah Idaho, voiced the sentiments
of business men generally in express
ing profound satisfaction with the
action taken and stating that it will
be great help in relieving the stress
and making possible the orderly mark
citing of the crop now in the making.
The cost of the beets produced in
the territory covered by the loan will
be probably s3o.OOO,OOO. but the su-
gar companies will be in n position to
provide part of this amount from sales
Ir hot 10
estimated that the sum authorized will
be sufficient to take care of the sit
uation.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
NorthcliTe Doms Chapeau.

Apparently the United States has
AN appreciative observer and warm
friend in Lord Northcliffe, editor of
the London Times. He has just COM
pleted tour of the Philippines, and
the tremendous progress those islands
have made in the 20 years they have
been under American supervision has
filled him with admiration. He "takes
off his hat" to the United States for
what he has seen. Lord Northclitfe
also understands the point of view of
Americans regarding the Anglo-Jap-
aDese alliance, and his opinion re-
garding that undertaking has been re-
Gently confirmed in conversations with
British citizens in China and other
parts of the Orient. They all told the
London editor that the alliance was
out of date and ought to be discon-
tinued. We have heard many declara-
tions from Great Britain of the great
desire of the British for closer rela-
tons with the United States, but the
reluctance of the British to drop their
Japanese alliance, certain incidents in
connection with ocean trade competi-
ton, and other developments have in
dicated little real effort to cultivate
greater intimacy with this country. 1t
may well be that Lord Northcliffe,
through his first-hand knowledge of
facts, will be the rallying point about
which will develop a better under
standing in the British mind of Amer
lean motives and ambitions.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
Cannot Bluff The Public.

The attempt of radical labor leaders
of Tacoma and Seattle to boycott the
annual fair at Puyallup, Washington,
the first week in October failed COM
pletely.
Because the fair management would
not throw out needy people of the Puy-
allup Valley who were employed in
erecting new buildings and import
workers from outside towns, the radi-
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
The Flivver Kings Road.

The railroad guide for August in
dicates that passenger service on Hen
ry Ford's road, the Detroit, Toledo &
Ironton, is practically non-existent.
Here is another reason why Mr.. Ford
is able to make such bright financial
showings for his road. By cutting out
the passenger traffic and turning all
his attention to the hauling of revenue
freight, he does what every road in
the country would like to do.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

his partner an encouraging look and
took Mabels hand. gently and re-
spectfully conducting her TO his pri-
vate safe.
Nov. dear little one, you open as
I give you the combination"
The surprised girl followed his di'
rections. Then Keith observed to his
pale and perturbed partner as the
safe door swung open:
Help yourself, my dear friend.
You will find my savings Of years
In there. ready for your use"
Mabel understood and retained her
grateful clasp on the hand of the man
who had saved the good name and
the existence Of the bank. As her
eyes met those of Keith she lowered
them instinctively and flushed.
Il was the first encouragement OF
hope she had ever given him and his
heart beat wildly. Then as Mr..
Doane hurried with box of cash to
the outer bank, Ket-h drew Mabel
closer to him.
"My dear" he said. eff ! told you
I loved you what would you sayT'
THAT I am glad and happy" was
the low-toned reply. and Gordon
Keith was content
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

cal labor leaders tried to destroy the
fair.
By means of banners, handbills and
the columns of the radical labor press,
friends of organized labor were asked
to boycott the fair.
In spite of their propaganda this
years fair was the biggest and best
ever held and the attendance shatter-
ed all previous records.
When will radical labor leaders learn
that they cannot dictate?
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

ployed eN-service men In New York.
When THE Man Without Coun-
try" the film-yersion Of Edward Ever
EFT Hale's historical story, was shown
In New York under auspices Of the
American Legion, Miss Wood volun-
teered her services. and at each per
formance read the preamble to the con-
stitution OF the Legion and gave pa
triotic reading. The proceeds from
the show were used in the welfare
work among jobless ex-service men.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
Notice of Hospital Board Election

A mass meeting of the citizens Of
Lamar and Prowers county and es-
funds of The Lamar Hospital is here
by called to meet at the Elks Club
on the evening of Friday, December
16, 1921, at s o'clock, for the purpose
of electing two directors Of The La
mar Hospital Association for the en-
suing term. and the transaction of any
other business that may properly
come before the meeting.
Dated November 16, 1921.
C. RAY STRAIN, Pres.
F. NJ. WILSON, Secy-Treas.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
Egyptian Cotton TumbIes In.

According to our consul at Alexan-
dria, there was exported from Egypt
to the United States during the single
month of July, 1921, over 1000, 900
pounds of Egyptian long staple cot
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

Auto insurance at the lowest price.
Call C. A. Hansen. Phone Lamar 25.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

Auto collision insurance at lowest
price. Call C. A. Hansen, Phone La
mar 25.
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

work as an en-
tertalner OF the
Y. NJ. c. A. corps
IN France. With
her own troupe
Of young women
she spent a year
III e ering the
doughbOys in the
overseas camps.
Her service, how
ever. did not end
with the W ar.
She has enlisted
TO help the unem
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16
WAR WORKER AIDS JOBlESS
Help Unemployed ES-servIcs
Men In New York.

Miss Ellerbe Wood will be remem-
bered by many ex-service men for her
The Lamar register., 1921-11-16

F. NJ. WILSON, Secy-Treas.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-03
Indications Today Are That
Rate On Tax, Revision Bill
Will Be Delayed FelU Weeks

Republican side. Senator I,enroot,
Republican, Wisconsin, has proposed
that the maximum rate be. made 60
per cent of the amount by which an
Individual income exceeds $500, GOO in
lieu of the present IS per cent OF the
amount by which the income exceeds
81. 100000. Senator Simmons. Dem
.ocrat, North Carolina Democratic
leader in the tax revision fight, pro-
poses maximum Of So per cent of
the amount by which the income ex
ceeds $500. 900, While Senator King,
Democrat. Utah, would have the rate
40. per cent OF the amount by which
the income exceeds $ss,eo0.
One Snbstitute.
Only one substitute has been pro-
posed for the excess profits tax. Ser
ator King favoring 10 per cent tax
on that part OF q corporations net in
come in excess of 20 per cent of the
usual deductions allowed under the
bill. !. n
Senator Walsh DemocrAt. MAsaa-
.ehusetts. has p aced before the SEN
ate an amendment which would pro-
vide for the tax OF from M per cent
TO 225 per cent on corporation income
while Senator Smo0t would retain the
present ,flat II 0 per cent. I.
Senators Smoot. Simni0ns, sKing And
McNary. Republican. Dragon. have
given notice that they intend 10 cfIrr;
amendments to the transpoftatton
would repeal all transportation tAxes
including telephone, tele9raph II. cable
and radio while senators Hlsnsaons
and MrNAry would .r& yl&Ai Stke fss "A
on freight passefieer and afullaaA1i ! Il
commodatlcns. M x
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-03
RODY,OF LAD FOUND
CHANGING IN CLOTHES
CLOSET, in CHICAGO

Chicago. Oct. 3.-The body OF Sam
uel Burlington, a 14-year-oid high
school boy, was found hanging by a
rope in a clothes closet in his home
late yesterday. The lads hands wero
tied behind him, leading police to be-
leve he may have been murdered,
although the boys parents held to u
suicide theory, explaining that Sam
uel'sS knowledge of woodcraft might
haye enabled him to do the tieins
hlmself.
Mrs. Burlington said that when she
left home at 3 o'clock Samuel was In
the hest Of spirits and laughed and
joked with her The boiy was still
warn, when she found 1t on her re-
turllaaaaes1s, hours later.sy. The by was
a leadY sfn his scfo lastic work and
might have become temporarily de.
ranged through overstudy. she said.
Police Sergeant O'Connor. who in
vestigated the death. declared. how
ever. that 1t was decidedly impfob-
ably that the lad could have hanged
himself. .&
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-03
PREDrTSFALL
OF COOPERATIVE
MARKET SYSTEM
Chicago Board of Trade
Makes Such Statement to
Grain Growers.

Chicago, Oct. 3.-The grain world
is witnessing the Almost complete COL
lapse Of the cooperative movement
OF farmers to market their own grain,
Joseph p. Griffin, presid ent Of the
Chicago board of trade, told the
Grain Dealers National association At
the annual convention here ~
# The leaders in this movement are
in retreat" Griffin said. Il Despite
tiasirsin experience ana 7Itter IaSk 81
marketing knnWledge, they have been
exposed as paying themselves enor-
nous salaries.
''The farmer has learned that the
glowing promise made to enlist his
financial support are impossible of
performance. Without the farmers
money to be supplied in abundant
plenty, this plan was foreordained to
failure. and thus we are now witness
ing the almost complete COLLAPSE OF
this embryonic monopoly. seis
Much legislat ation has been recently
advanced, Mr.. Griffin said, which
was nothing less than bold attempt
to; destroy 4the present highly COM
petitive marketing system and sub
stitute in it's stead q species Of mono
polistic control.
pThis sinister plan was to be sugar
coated and Sanctified under the, shall
low pretense that it was a co-opera-
tive producers movement" he con-
tinued.
''In plain fact it VISA sponsored by
an aggregation Of self constituted agi-
tators and fa'se prophets who in self
interest and for personal aggrandize-
ment were attempting to capitalize
the unhappiness and discomfort of the
farmers
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-03
ADVANCES THEORY
FOR EARTHQUAKE

Salt Lake CITY, Oct. s.-Dr. Fred
y. Pack professor of geology at the
University OF Utah, gives as the
cause of the recent earthquake as the
slipping OF the blocks OF the earth's
chlst OH the Great SEWER Fault, the
largest known fault in the world. He
explains that this section in ages past
was "a region Of therial springs and
this heat may have something to do
with the shifting If the crust on the
Great Fault. In mis- opinion. a shift
nf the orJst on the fault Of one-six-
'ccnth of an inch would cause Chin
neys IS! tumtle, and that in the pres
cn, case there had net been more
than a quarter OF an inch OF move
ment al any one time. In compari-
son, he states that tho shift during
,h9 San n. Franciaco earthquake
amounted to 80 inches, He has ex-
amlned the damaged school building
and does not think that the damage Is
extensive enough to warrant the tear
: Ing down Of the structure.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-03
Inhabitants OF Once Wealthy
Russian PrOUi1ce So Weakened
That First Food Kills Them

have striven for proving fatal to them
in their weakened condition.
Disease has played its part in the
ruin OF Astrakhan. Black typhus
took a terrible toll during the winter
o. l919-1920, not only in districts
further north. but in this city. Forty
out of every hundred physicians died
summer Asiatic cholera and malaria
have carried off thousands Of victims
When one asks the people the cause
Of the present terrible condition, the
inevitable answer is: There has
been no rain" The only ray in the.
gloom is the fact that the potato
crop; was slightly larger than usual.
and for the moment this crop Is
helping in the solution OF the dire
problems of hunger. u
Medicine Not Obtainable.
Medicines cannot be found here.
In the entire province Of Astrakhan,
there are only 500 grains OF quinine.
it is declared. The correspondent OF
the Associated Press has visited sew
eral homes where malaria patients are
lying. In each was found the mother
or wives OF sufferers sitting in blank
despair. saying I'VE have no Quinine:
we can do nothing -
"A floating hospital is maintained in
one point OF the delta OF the Volga,
where sick sailors are taken from
Caspian Sea vessels and 100 deaths
from undernourishment and lack OF
medicines occurred there in August.
DR.. Novanoff. In charge OF this hos
pitaG wept Nr j9 hen given, sup
ply OF 9quinine and Castor oil.
Along the western coast Of the
Caspian stands the Island Of SHILOH,
where one Oftsthe grimmest tra gef1ieS
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-03
PLAN ADVANCED
T0CREATEFUND
TO AID WORKERS
Would Loan Money to Mu
nicipal Public Works to
Give Jobless Men Work.

Washington. Oct s.-Advisability
of a federal bond issue to create a
fund for making a loan to munich
pal public works in years Of depres-
sion when jobs are scarce, was under
consideration today by sub-commit-
toes Of the national conference on un-
employment.
SUCH "a proposai has been suggested
as part Of a plan for permanent safe
guards against bad years for the ma
tion's workers. No estimate of how
many mi lions Of dollars would be re-
qutred for such a fund has been
made. The plan constitutes one OF
the recommendations of the confer.
ence advisory committee.
Loans to municipalities. would be
made by the federal government un-
der the plan. only upon proof of ma
tional unemployment and industrial
depression. The interest rate fol
loans to municipalities would be not
less than that paid by the fedora
government ratr