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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
why THAT LAME BACK?

That morning lameness those
sharp pains when bending or lifting,
make work a burden and rest irnps>.
sible. Don't be handicapped by a bad
back-look to your kidneys. You will
make no mistake by following this
Manning residents example.
j. z. Reardon, blacksmith, w.
Boundary ST., says: "a heavy cold
settled in my back One day while
STOPPING at my work, sudden pain
shot through the small Of my back
and it felt as though knife had been
driven through me. My back was so
weak and, lame I had to walk in q
stopped position most of the time. My
kidneys didn't act right, but after
using box Of Doan's Kidney Pills
that I bought at Dickson's Pharmacy
was in Al condition. I know
Doan's Kidney Pills can be depended
upon to rid kidney complaint"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Reardon had. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
Winthrop College
SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTR ANCE
EXAMINATION

The examination for the award of
vacant Scholarships in Winthrop
College and for admission of new
students will be held at the County
Court House on Friday, July I, at
0 a. m: Applicants must not be less
than sixteen years Of age. When
Scholarships arc vacant after July
1 they will be awarded to those
making the highest average at this
examination, provided they meet
the conditions governing the award
Applicants for Scholarships should
write to President Johnson before
the examination for Scholarship
examination blanks.
Scholarships are worth 500 and
free tuition. The next session will
open September goth, 1922. For fur
ther information and catalogue, adj
dress Pres. ID. B. Johnson, Rock Hill,
S. G. 18-2t-p
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
MONEY FOR FIGHT
ON WAR GRAFTERS

Washington, May 15.-The House
cleared the road today for what
some members described as "an un-
relenting prosecution of war graft
ers" when it put through and sent
to the Senate a bill appropriating
$500,000 for investigation and pros.
ecution of war fraud cases by the
Department of Justice and passed
Senate bill for an additional
grand jury in the" District of Co
lumbia, before which the Attorney
General may present evidence in
his fight for indictments.
Attorney General Daugherty had
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17

"l'hy, we are going to save $751;
100000 in the Treasury Department
in the Supervising Architects office.
On what? On public buildings. Back
in 1913 we passed public building
bill, and because they can not get
anybody to take the contracts for
some buildings for the amount of
money then appropriated, on account
of the increased cost, it remains on
the books. Therefore we have saved
$19,000,000 because we can not get
anybody to take the contract until
we enact Legislation increasing the
limit of cost.
| "Now, as to the Department Of
| State. There is an alleged saving of
a little over million dollars. The
largest single item is $750,000 pay
ment to Columbia under the treaty
Of 1909. In other words, back in 1909,
$750,0O0 was appropriated. Colombia
refused to accept it. Director Dawes
says it is saved this year. If it was
a saving this year, it has been a saw
ing every year for the past IL years,
and we have saved $9,000,000 out of
this $75O,0O0 fund.
District of Columbia. Now, this
statement of General Dawes would be
a joke book if it were not serious in
its effort to mislead the public.
There is a saving of 100000 for
what? War emergency improve
ments. One hundred thousand dollars
was appropriated for the District of
Columbia to repair streets around
the Army and Navy buildings con-
structed during the war. The Treas
ury could not pay out dollar Of it
after the end of the war. 1t was not
spent during the war under the Demo-
cratic administration; they didn't
spend dollar of it, and it remains
on the books. General Dawes says he
has saved it this year when there
could not have been dollar of it paid
out of the Treasury on any voucher.
Who did he save it from?
Legislative. You do not know it,
but he says that he saved $4,000 out
of the salaries of Members Of Con-
gress. Who did not get theirs?
| Uaughter.) The only way it could
be saved was when some member of
| Congress died. Did he kill them?
And yet he claims that he saved that
amount. I said it was joke book.
| Uaughter.)
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
COTTON MEETING TO BE
HELD HERE ON MAY 2;

Columbia, May 15,-Members of
the South Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association have been
called by the organization committee
of the association to assemble in their
respective county seats on Tuesday,
May 23rd at noon for the purpose of
setting the machinery for permamn
cnt organization in motion.
Each county convention will on that
date elect delegates to a district con-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
requested speedy action on both
both

requested speedy action on both
measures.
Some men who think they have
power in the nation today will find
themselves Lehind the bars" as a
result Of the activity Of Attorney
General Daugherty, declared Chair
man Madden, of the appropriations
committee, in urging everybody to
stand up and give him what he
had asked. Supporting the chairman
in his plea, Representative Connolly,
Democrat, Texas, said he wanted the
government to "get the grafters in the
flesh and not in the imagination"
whether they were Democrats or Re-
publicans.
"But before the next campaign"
said Mi. Connally, ~ hope the De-
partment Of Justice will get one man,
put him in cage and exhibit him
throughout the country, And over his
cage as it is hauled from State to
State they ought to put big sign
with the words. Here's that CRATER
we caught out Of 10000 cases.
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he may scratch both and write in the
name of his choice.
The state has been divided into. ten
districts and ten directors are to be
elected. The districts are as follows:
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Candidates Cards
FOR PROBATE JUDGE

| hereby announce myself can
didate for the office of Probate Judge
for Clarendon County subject to the
rules of the Democratic Primary. If
elected l promise faithful admins
tration.
G.. II. MATHIS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17

but who wants to kiss eruptlons9
Plmply men don't look like tho owners
OF anything. Pimply women, too. are
puzzles, with no prospects and no
power. Young men and women, here's
the positive way out. Physics and
purgativcs will fail. What you need
Is n scientific blood-cleanser. 8. S. S.
Is one Of the most powerful destroyers
of blood impurities You can prove this
I'm q short time. S. S. $. has been
passed on by jury Of millions Of peo-
pie just like yourself. 1t is considered
one of tho most powerful vegetable
blood-purifiers and flesh builders in
existence. That's why you hear Of SO
many underweight people putting ON
lost flesh in n hurry, why you hear Of SO
many rheumatics being freed from this
scourge, with S. S. S. Start todaywith
s. s. S. and sec your face clear and
your skin get ruddier, your flesh
firmer. 1t will glvo you a boost in your
career. S. S. S. is sold at all drug
stores, in two sizes. The larger size
Is tho more economical.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
Piln1pIes Keep
Young Men
! Down!
They Make Women, Too, Puzzlel
How S. S. S. Stops Skin
Eruptiona Positively.

Plmples and skin eruptions have o.
price,--you pay for every pustule,
black head and pimple on your face.
Pimples produce prejudice and prevent
prosperity. Your heart may be gold,
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
Mr.. Sinclair Lewis as a Polemicist

Mr.. Lewis would have us b. eve 2
business man, in business Flu
business city OF 100000 inhabitaI
suffer immediate social ostracisu .4d
his business interests threateu 3nd M
self, regarded as a menace to instita !!
This is the least convincing par I'll the
book, which dramatically must bear in
slant and overwhelming conviction. The
revolt that is indicated leaves the reader
only tepidly interested. 1t is apparent that
Rabbits SNUG and doubtfully acquired
prosperity is never seriously in danger,
nor does his portrayed estrangement from
his friends and traditions achieve to the
dignity of more than the pouting aloofness
of childish quarrel
Faulty as a novel and as an arraign-
ment, lacking the final note of conviction
on account of its .injudicial attempt to
draw an Indictment against whole city,
"Babbitt' is still an achievement marked
with sustained flights of imagination, the
finest of courage, fidelity to the details OF
everyday life, rare gifts for setting in mo-
ton a variety of clearly differentiated and
recognizable types and a maturing power
of observation and analysis of compli-
Gated America. What is written here in
friendly criticism is written in apprecia-
ton of Mr.. Lewis's significant and liberat-
the belief that only Mr.. Lewis's willfully
self-imposed limitations can prevent his
grasping the full of his opportunity.
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are crowded in. The atmosphere Except
as 1t purports to depict the whole truth)
is done with deftness, agility, rare humor,
force. But of what avail an atmosphere
if nothing of Importance emerges? With
the. brilliant qualities of description and
depletion displayed. there is, however, a
propensity to garrulousness, to fahging
repetition of minor effects. to the enumera-
ton and glorification of unimportant de-
tails.
AS a matter OF fact Mr.. Lewis's probable
intention in the construction of his plot
was. first, to place under the microscope
the life of an average citizen; second, to
paint with a bewildering wealth of detail
the environment which produces him;
third, to place the man in revolt against
that environment and finally to have the
environment conquer the man. 1t is in the
third phase, on it's power of convincing
public and art. that the merits of 'Babbitt"
as a novel (quite apart from its value as
criticism of society must lie.
The sketch is there but the motives for
Balfoitt's indicated revolt are meager and
unconvincing Babbitt having witnessed
the dispersal of a procession of protesting
strikers by the rough hand of the local
militia, ventures in his own club an opin-
ion, casually given, which amounts to moth
ing more than that strikers are human be-
ings and should be treated as such. For this
small expression of independent thinking
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liant light glowing about the fame of Cortes
and Pizarro yet he confronted equal perils
and endured far greater hardships, con-
quering an empire just as interesting as
was Peru or Mexico. far more remote and
inaccessible" Born in Granada in 1906,
to take the authority of his biographer,
Fray Pedro Simon, De Quesada became a
lawyer like his father and practiced in the
courts of Granada until 1885. In that year
he was offered an opportunity to go to
Santa Marta, settlement on the coast
of what was to become New Granada, as
chief magistrate. At the age of thirty six
he sailed from the Canary Islands and
after a passage of forty days came to lone
of the cities most combated by evil fortune
that was to be found in all the Indies"
Starvation faced the new Governor of
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pleasure. The villein-it is plcasanter to
call him copyholder name derived from
the fact that his holdings were copied into
the Court Roll-served the lord of the
manor as the lord served the King, but in
a smaller and harder way Tn the spring
he had to plow four acres for his lord,
and each villein supplied two oxen for the
lords plow team for three days in the
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
Old World England

A HISTORY OF EVERYDAY THINGS IN
ENGLAND BY Marjorie and c. H b.
Quenneli. Charles Scribner's Sons.
HHE period covered by this book is
from the Norman conquest in 1866
to the end of the eighteenth con-
tury. 1t has been written, the authors say
in the introduction. "for boys and girls of
public school age, 1t u worth the while
of grownups too, particularly those whose
work touches any of the seven centuries
with which the volume concerns itself.
The author, the playwright or producer
engaged upon costume play. the painter
or book illustrator-yes, even the architect
and builder-can find good deal that is
In his line.
The Quennells wrote this history because
they felt that there was a lack of the real
background in most school histories. The
pupil learns about kings and battles and
laws, but he emerges from his studies with
only faint knowledge of the home and
village life of the people who supported the
kings, fought the battles and obeyed the
laws. The Quennells are particularly in
terested in craftsmanship, costume and
architecture.
The England of the twelfth century was
made up of 800 600 families-less than one
third Of the number that New York city
boasts now. There were $500 landowners
and clergy, $4,000 freeholders, $4,000 yeo-
men. 100000 villeins or copyholders, 10000
cotters or small copyholders and only
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of justice and uphold customs which were
to become laws"
,villein was the backbone of England. He
had three days week for his own farm
ing and he could own cattle. OF course
he was tied to the land and could not
leave without his lords consent, but as
there were no motor cars or cheap tourist
rates to Alberta in those days he cared
not to wander unless for an enforced mill
tary trip to France or for pilgrimage
A village in those days was like an open
farm. The villeins plowed the common
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children estranged and strangers; that in
the conduct of life many are hypocrites or
self deceived (the distinction is nice
one). and that current ideals are sham and
futility. 1t is not true that in such city
there is no quiet, studious refinement, no
men Of broad enlightenment or rugged
integrity. no happy family life, no uncom-
promising attitude toward right and
wrong, and no appreciation of the values
of life. The weakness Of the arraignment
been so easy to concede so muchl How
the novel would have benefited if it were
not poIemic against the whole city Of
Zenith but only against what is narrow.
crude and mean. ignoble and false, SNUG
and vafnglorious, corrupted and corrupting
in the city of Zenith. There must be con-
trast to have conflict and conflict is the
essence OF dramatic narrative.
w.
Considered as novel, designed to unfold
story. make comprehensive certain
characters. and to trace the changes that
take place as the result of external or
internal conflict. "Babbitt' falls short of
what Mr.. Sinclair Lewis has in him to
give and to give richly. The novel has
been sacrificed to the arraignment The
outlines of the characters, sharp and out
wardly comprehensive in the first strokes
of the authors brush, become gradually
obscured as the details of the background
The New York herald., 1922-09-17
An Old World Spanish Venturer

THE CONQUEST OF NEW GRANADA.
BY r. B. Cunningflame Graham. Hough-
ton Mifflin Company.
A S the story of the conquest of New
n Granada (the modern Colombia) is
largely the story of the life of
ximines de Quesada, least well known OF
the great Spanish conquistadores, Mr. Gra-
ham has wisely made his narrative a BIZ
ography of that lawyer of Cordoba or
Granada (his birthplace is in dispute) who
turned explorer, conqueror and ruler for a
time of the country we now cali Colombia.
And to those who have read Mr.. Graham's
Cdrta0ena and the Banks of the Sina 1t
goes without saying that the setting down
of this narrative has fallen into sympa-
thetic and informed hands.
To the average reader the name of De
Quesada shines dimly as against the bril-
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Each century is treated of in separate
chapter, and each chapter tells of the inn
-portant things of the period-costumes,
castles, ships, building, farming, gardens,
amusements, games, chivalry, monasticism,
arms hunting, furniture, cooking, &c. The
book is handsomely and intellgently illus
uated by the authors, and Scribner's have
made very fine volume of it.
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thirty-eight vine
yards; Pussyfoot
Johnson's voice was
not heard in the
land.
The twelfth CEN
tury Englishman
was not what the
young men Of the
twentieth term a
boob. The Crusades
had resulted in a
general knowledge
of the outer world.
The business men
were efficient in
spite of the fact
that it was consid-
cred wicked to lend
money at interest.
Lawyers and trust
companies will note
with interest tha
when one Hamo
Bland died without
making a will he
was severely criti-
cized and the abbot
of st. Edmund de-
clared that the next
usurer who died in
testate should not
have Christian burial.
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Santa Marta and all the Spaniards who
had accompanied him to this tropical pest
hole. An expedition into the interior failed
to relieve the situation and it was decided
that the supposed wealth of the country,
the inevitable treasures of gold, must lie
beyond the mountains So it was agreed
to explore the interior by way of Magda-
lena River and to find land fit for settle
ment Not more than hundred miles of
that stream had been explored and the
land beyond the mountains was nine hun
dred miles away. The Governor of Santa
Marta had many tried captains with him;
but his good genius made him select De
Quesada to lead the proposed expedition.
And well did the one time advocate re-
pay him for the choice After dangers and
which lasted for nearly year, De Ques-
ada made his way to the heights where
Bogota now stands. conquered the great
Chibcha kingdom, founded the city which
still bears that name and won diplomatic
victory over Sebastian de Belalcazar, Gov
ernor of Quito for Pizarro, and Capt Fe-
derman, a German officer in the service Of
the Governor of Venezuela. Only one act
of cruelty is charged against De Quesada in
all this time, and after, that of the killing
of the last ruler of the Chibchas. With
what treasure he had amassed for the
Spanish King De Quesada returned to
Spain ambitious to be made a Marques.
But i'll fortune attended him in his native
country and he spent twelve years wander
ing about Europe, during which time he is
believed to have written many of the books
credited to him, but of which no actual
copies are known.
Then he returned to New Granada, once
more ascended the Magdalena and came
to the city he had founded being past
fifty years of age Again he headed an
expedition to find the Golden City and
spent three years and his entire fortune
in a fruitless quest. To the people of the
country he was hero of such reputation
as falls to few men, for when he was past
seventy he was asked to take command of
an army to suppress Indian revolution
and he not only did this, but won the cam
paign. Rich in such honor but poor as to
worldly goods he lived until he was eighty
and left measure of his qualities as a
man in provision in his will that sup
piled money to keep jar of water always
for wayfarers the hill of Limba, for
there is no water near at hand and the
place is hot" Mr.. Graham tells well this
story of a great Spanish conquestidore of
whose life and gallant deeds most of us
have known too little.
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winter, three in the spring and one in the
summer. In addition he must work three
days week on the lords land or pay
yearly toll of two shillings, one and one
half pence and sixteen eggs. He must fol-
low his lord to war and sit in his court
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fields and had individual strips for their
own crops Cattle grazed on the common
pasture, swine foraged in the common
woods The villein and his family ate pork,
chicken, vegetables, milk, eggs, cheese and
honey. The Domesday Book mentions
The New York herald., 1922-09-17

$4,000 bondsmen or landless men. The five
million acres of cultivated land were di-
vided into counties, the counties into hun
dreds and the hundreds into manors. The
lords held the manor lands at the Kings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
2He - 1 MOTOR i l DIGEST l lIA 8P

New York state has 775.ooo motor vehicles.
 Five women are engaged as taxi drivers in Topeka, Kan.
 Boston has 12o,20o suburban own CTS or passenger automobiles.
 In Italy, 1s of the most important automobile manufacturers are in Tu- rin.
 Fifty-eight hundred automobiles were stolen in the oity of Chicago in 1921.
 More than twice the number of garages than homes were built in oshkosk. Wis, last year.
 There are only four companies in the United States manufacturing elec- tric automobiles.
 Motor vehicle replacements in the United States are estimated at l. 100000 cars this year.
 According to recent survey. Con necticut has 2,395 motor vehicles for every horse in the state.
 Automobile tire exports from the United States in 1921 were valued at approximately $16,o0o, ,0o0. John H. Ely. age 70, a prominent architect of Newark, N. J.. is ono of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29

December, 1921, exceeded December. 1920, sales by almost 25 per cent, and Fordson tractor retail sales for the same periods show increase of over 100 per cent for December. 1921, as well as an increase over the total tractor sales for the month of No- vember.
 These facts seem to indicate that not only are the farmers buying more freely, but that the general public Is becoming more responsive and recep- tive.
 Another point brought out by a comparison of production figures for the past two years shows that Ford inclosed cars are gaining in popu- larity, as 23 per cent of the 1921 pro- duction were sedans and coupes as against total of IS per cent for the year previous.
 Recent reductions In Ford car and truck prices brought them to new low level The touring car now sells for s34S, the runabout for SS19, the coupe for S5Soy the sedan for S645, the chassis for s2S5 and the truck for s340, all f. 9. b. Detroit.
 This is the fourth price cut in the past 16 months. During that time the price of the touring car alone l~ oSSh Sue rom $ofo to So4S, reduc- tion of 70 per cent. Reductions on some of the other types have been even greater.
 The Ford company believes that this reduction, while not large one. is especially important at this time. as Is should go a long way toward stabilizing market conditions.
 Ford is giving employment at pres ent to approximately 1000 men in his main plant at Detroit, the i'm portance Of which Is emphasized when consideration is given to the fact that nearly 20 per cent of the city's population Is directly dependent upon the Ford Motor company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-29
.EDWARDS-HANNA
 ENLARGE PLANT

Aubrey. Edwards of the Edwards Hanna Motor company, Ford dealers, says that in spite of the indictment weather his firm has been busy de- llvering Ford cars this week.
 The Edwards company has considerably enlarged and improved their plant, taking in another build ing and nearly doubling the floor space. Many changes have also been made In the accounting department. New equipment has been added to the shop and since the reduction in the labor charges this Department has been kept busy.
 This concern Is making a special offer this week whereby they will thoroughly overhaul and paint a s'ord car for $5O and many Ford own CTS are expected to take advantage of this generous proposition.