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THE ROBESONIAN, LUMBERTON. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921. PAGE TWO Washington Letter Famine nd the Pellagra Plague A Bill to Take Care of the Farmer. (Special Correspondence) Washington, Aug. 2. The word famine" and the motive in using it have created the pellagra sensation in the South. There U m.thlng tliat will more quxV-r ."ouse the energy and the sympathv f th Arm-Mean public than the report of "a condi tion of famine" anywhere on this earth. Such report is instantly potent coming from far away Russia or China. The news of famine at home starinjr men and women in the face from their breakfast table newspaper instantly causes a swelling in the throat with a gulp of emotion. ' About ten days ago there came re ports from the agents of the Public Health Service that in Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina there was an increase of pellagra. When these reports were placed before the Public Health Service the publicity man was called in and something like the following occurred: Here is pellagra in the South again. It gives the Public Health Service the very opportunity it needs, to show Congress and the country it is not asleep. Let us get on the front pages of the papers. That tip was enough to the bulletin writer of the Public Health Service. He went back to his desk and made a hurried excursion into the realms of his vocabulary and his experience as a news writer. What is pellagra ? he asked himself. Why, jt is due to starvation of certain glands and tissues of the human body, because of an unballanced diet of ba con, corn bread and molasses. It comes from malnutrition and starva tion. He repeated these later words over and over. But malnutrition and star vation won't get us anywhere, he concluded. "By Heck, pellagra is caused by famine, it is the naked skeleton the cross bones and the skulL- Death from famine!" He wrote bis bulletin. The South was suffer ing from pellagra brought on by fam ine. "One hundred thousand people are afflicted and ten thousand will die.- Even that sensational bulletin did not get across' as was hoped. It is rumored that another plan was resort ed to to turn the trick, for the Pub lic Health Service was honestly con vinced that the pellagra situation was grave. It felt there was great necessity to reopen the one and sole pellagra hospital at Spartanburg, S. C, that was closed in 1919, because there were no pellagra patients there to be treated. The great hobby of Brig. Gen. tk.. .aiu. . Ar lauucj PCK wissw U w&ivu if HUNT'S OUAIANTEBO SKIN DISBA8B REMEDIES (Hunt1. 8lv. and Sop),tell In the treatment of Itch. Ectaina. RlnKWona,TcttTorotherttck inc akin diMtm Try tbil treatment at our ritk. J. D. McMILLAN & SON, Druggists 5 Sawyer, the physician to President Harding, is the physical efficiency of the American people. His particular channel for teaching the public the great need of such efficiency is the Public Health Service. Gen. Sawyer must be got to bring to the notice of the President the famine in the South and the plague of pellagra. If the President could be got to speak, the country would listen to what the Public Health Service had to say. The President did speak, for his heart was touched by the word famine". On it he rang the changes. But there is no famine, the South retorts. The Public Health Service explains that the newspapers created the famine despite the fact that the Public Health Service. Bulletin con tains the word fammine. When copy of the bulletin is produced a learned doctor of the ser vice comes forward with the explana tion that famine means one thing to science and another 'thing to the pub lic. So there you are. Senator Simmons, 'Eugene Meyer, managing director of the War Finance Corporation, and A. W. McLean; a director of the corporation, have slug ged the Harding administration into line for the farmers. But they had to plit the agricultural group in the Senate in doing so. It is a story that has disturbed the farmers' group in the Senate all this week. The Harding adminstration has feared the Norris bill as a red hot brick in a powder mill. It began to shout "Kamerad" as soon as it looked down the threatening muzzle of this bill. In its panic it went td the War Finance Corporation for shelter. ' "Can't you fix up a bill to take care of the farmers, if they must be' helped? said Mellon and Hoover to Meyer, "your corporation has shown splendid activities of late in cotton, now get busy and save us from the Norris bill." "On one condition,! said Meyer. "The administration must endorse the bill framed by the directors of the corporation. - It must get " behind the bill and help put it thro&gh Congress." "Of course, of Cofl1fle, cMh1ed Mel-L iuu uuu nuuvcr. Then Meyer and McLean called in Senator Simmons to help write the bill. The three wrote it and Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, an adminis tration Republican, was called on to introduce it. Senator Norris from his seat in the Senate chamber watched the birth of the new bill with some trepidation. Harding's message immediately fol lowed endorsing it "It is nothing more than an administration bill and we can easily defeat it with the farmers' group", thought the Nebraska Sena tor. But lo ,and behold! Senator Sim mons the next day took the senate floor and defended the bill practically acknowledging himself as one of its framers. "Ah" said .Simmons, let the ad ministration parade the new bill as its own. It knows only too well that we extorted this new bill from it' by holding to its head the Norris. bill as a pistol." The new bill proposes to issue two and one half million dollars worth of bonds to aid the f armersfthrough loans for exportation of their products. Senator Simmons, points that the pas sage will inspire confidence and cause the bankers and other investing in terests of the country to invest their money in agriculture. The difference between this bill and the Norris bill is that the latter will launch the gov ernment ino competition with pri vate business, while the former will stimulate private business to new endeavors. The new bill will probably pass this week. Senator Simmons and Senator Overman are apparently ; not in ac cord en the Linney case, which may be settled before this is put into print. Senator Overman takes the ground that Linney's statement before the Senate judiciary committee does not render him ineligible as a Republican for district attorney. But he aays that if It can be shown that Linney 'and Henry Lincoln Johnson entered into a trade for office, he will vote against Linney. REVIVAL BEGINS AT BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH AUGUST 7 Rev. W. D. Pridgen of Pembroke Will Assist Pastor F. A. Prevatt in the Series of Meetings Mr. Pridgen' Services- Are in Demand. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Pembroke, Aug. . 2. Rev. W. D. Pridgen, pastor of Pembroke and Buie Baptist churches, will be with Rev. F. A. Prevatt at Bethamy Baptist church about six miles out north of Lumberton, in a revival meeting com mencing next Sunday morning, Au gust 7th. - Mr. Pridgen has held several very successful revivals in the Robeson association since he came to this coun ty in April. His services are in de mand. Already he has engagements The next tirov ask for 41 Million DoUarr Advance In Cotton Price Went Up Cent Pound Mon day Lowest Condition Report on Record and Prospects Are Unprom ising Largest Carry-over on Re cord. New Orleans, August 1. The cot ton new year, with its annual statis tics and rush of excited trading, was marked today by an advance in price which experts estimated would bring Southern planters 41,000,000 more for their crop. . The day's developments put the price up a cent a pound. Interest was centered mainly in the item of the carryover, which was placed by H. G. Hester, secretary of the New Orleans cotton exchange, at 9,194,00.0 bales, the largest carry-over on record. ' - Secretary Hester . announced A- the commercial crop for the year ending July 30, at 11,377,3 16 bales, a decrease under last year of 1,065,864, a de crease under 19-17-18 of 529,657. ', Southern consumption, which he stated at 3,096,504 bales, Mr. Heifer says, indicates a decrease of 594,501 bales, compared with last year and a decrease compared with year before last of 437,273. Mr. Hester estimated the world's consumption of American cotton at 10,500,000 bales. W IB Mem mmm. World's Leading Authorities Show Just What Tanlae Really Is imdExpUm Effect of Each ot Ten Ingredients on. tfcet Human System. Power of Medicine Conclusively Proven. A. 4 The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealets. safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c CROP DECLINED 4.5 POINTS DURING MONTH Washington, Aug. 1. The boll weevil played havoc with the South's cotton crop during July, heavy rain fall aided in the destruction by pro moting a rank growth of weeds and grass and as a result a prospective production of 8,203,000 bales, was forecast today by the Department of Agriculture, basing its estimates. on conditions existing July 25.-J-That is a loss of 230,000 bales compared with the production forecast a month ago. The crop declined 4.5 nointa durimr per cent of a normal, tne'iowest imy zotn condition on record with 'one ex ception, that of 1886, when it was 64.1. Unpromising is the present condition of the crop throughout most of the belt, and there is very serious threat, the department experts say, of con tinued and increased damage from the boll weevil, while grass and weeds are exhausting much of the crop that remains. ' The condition by states follows: Virginia, 82, North Carolina 75, South Carolina 62, Georgia 69. Flori da 60, Alabama 58, Mississippi 68, Xjouisiana 59, Texas 62. Arkansas 76. Tennessee, 75, Missouri 80, Oklahoma 68, California 83, Arizona 89. All other states 88. A 'day never passes but what thousands of people ask the 'question What is Tanlae t Why its phenomenal sucsess! Why do we hear so much:about itf and Why has this preparation so far out-strippedall other medicines of its kind? The answer to these questions is easy and can be explained in just one word merit. Tanlac is. scientifically compounded and work, studv. exDerimentation and research by some of the foremost chemists and pharmacologists of America. ; The Tanlac formu'a is purely ethi cal and complies with all National ' and State pure food laws. It is purely .vegetable and is made from the most ! beneficial roots, herbs and barks known to Materia Medica. The Tanlac , Laboratories are among the largest and most modernly equipped in this country. Ten Ingedicnts in Tanlae. Altogether, there are ten ingre dients in Tanlac, each of which is ofj recognized inerapeuuc vaiue. In referring to onel or more im portant ingredients of Tanlac, the En cyclopedia Brittanica says: "It has been the source of the most valuable tonic medicines that have fever been 'Uxcovexod-".. " tonic orugf Contained" m fanlac. the 13th Edition of Potter's Therapeutics, a standard medical text-book, states that "they impart general tone and strength to the entire system, includ ing all organs and tissues." This- same well-known authority in describing the physiological action of still another of the ingredients of Tanlac, which is of value in treating m render, Sampson, Cumberland, Columbus and others in this county. He will assist pastor Hester at Oak Grove commencing on the 3rd Sunday m August. it's expected laree crowds will attend the meeting at Bethamy next week to hear this spirit filled man of God. . 666 has more 'imitations than any other Fever Tonic on the market, bat no one wants imitations. what is commonly known as a "run down condition," uses the following expression: "It is highly esteemed in loss of ap petite during convalescence from acute diseases." There are. certain other elements in Tanlac which, because of their influ ence upon the appetite, digestion, as similation and. elimination, improve the nutrition and vital activity of all the tissues and organs of the body and produce that state of general tonicity which is called health. The United States Dispensatory makes the following comment regard ing another ingredient: "It may be used in all cases of pure VA illC UlgtOUTC V 1 19110 VI where a general tonic impression is required." There are certain other ingredients described in the Dispensatory, and in otherx standard medical text-books, as having a beneficial action upon the or gans of secretion, whosaproper func tioning result. in a p&viScation of the V.. fr'ia.. fnvaainiv f-hnnah HAnt In this manner, objectionable and poi sonous ingredients of the blood are removed and the entire system invig orated and vitalized. Tonic and Body Builder Tanlac was designed primarily for the . correction of disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels. 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