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The Watchman and Southron
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Published Wednesday and Satur
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V' ? . Sumtex. S. C. '
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The Sumter Watchman was i
founded in 1SS0 and the True !
Southron in 1866. The Watchman j
and Southron now has . the com
bined circulation and Influence of
beih.ol the-old papers, and is man
ifestly the best advertising medium j
H'Symter.
I Iti.'l. !? ?II I_Ii,????I II 'IF
GREEK AXD TURK
. The Turks are driving.the. Christ
ians out of Asia Minor. . Having
massacred nearly all the Armen
ians, they are defeating and ex
pelling the Greeks.
Verjr well: Inscrutable are. the
ways of Providence. Possibly the j
Christians concerned -had It com
irrg to them;~for their sins, though!
from this distance it Icoks more like
ah. undeserveA misfortune inGieted
upon the Asiatic .Christians by smr
f ut Alhes. Great Britain,. France and
-Italy might hav* saved them. Pos
sibly America herself might have
saved them, by vigorous action inj
.time. i
At any rat*,, the.thing is done. |
And. since it is- done, why should j
??*>r the civilised world make thej
best- of a bad -business by evening
things up geographically?
If. the Greeks are to be swept
ok into Europe, where they are
a: .home, why not sweep the Tarks
back- into Asia, where .they i>elo?g? <
That has-been too long delayed al- j
v^ady. The time is ripe, if. the I
Pavers, are capable of "manly ae- j
WAR ON KOAIfr SIGNS
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The state highway department in |
Ohio haV gone on the warpath i
against advertising signs cluttering?
up the roadways. ? Recently it torej
down and carted away, in onej
county, nine truekloads of signs;
found along the main touring j
routes.
-The -official, objection to thej
sgss is that they obscure the traf- ;
\ Sc signs and. confuse the motorist, j
Their elimination for this, reason]
is- permitted by a state law. Here- ?
after, announces-the state superin- !
tertdent of highways, no sigps other i
than traffic signs will, be permitted '
Tnthis the 6,0-foot limits allotted i
icr-reads. Within those limits!
?igits may be erected only by thej
'jixkte highway department.
>" Such action is excellent as far as i
it gees, and deserves emulation!
wherever no move has yet beenj
made; to regulate the various com-!
mc-rcial and political signs -and;
pesters that ,:are a feature of most |
American highways. There far a j
graving popular notion, however.!
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that the limits of exclusion should ;
be made wider, and that landscape j
beauty-is almost-as good a reason 1
. fcf restriction as traffic safety.
A New York department store
which had difficulty in collecting
an overdue accounf from a woman
customer held her false teeth
when she sent them in* to be re
paired. She paid the bill without
any further delay. That's putting,'
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t??th in collection -methods.
SAILING AIRPLANES.
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The importance of the recent;
airigHding contests in France and;
Germany should not be underesti- j
mated. This building and sailing j
of '"gliders" or engineless planes is;
more than a mere sport. It is at
scientific competition that will mean j
"much to the future development of !
aviation. ?
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It is a question of perfecting the i
planes?the lifting and steering j
part of the ?ir machine?and!
Ir-arr.ing to handle them most ef
fectively. And thie is the biggest I
problem that remains to be solved j
in the mastery of the air.
Airplanes have been driven far;
and fast, but only with the expen- i
diture of great energy. A bird flies
**r and fast with little effort. Thej
^jit-en plover travel3 from Nova.;
S-jotia to the Antilles, :T.400 miles,
using only two* ounces of fat for i
fuel. At this rate, says a scientist,!
*n airplane w eighing half a ton!
Should Sy 20 miles on a pint of j
?- gasoline. ;
52s9 soaring of birds?their rising \
cr remaining motionless in the!
?ir without i erjeptible effort?has j
always been a favorite problem for
scientists. If man could only do
that! And just lately, man seems ;
-
cn the UT^'e of doing it. A Oer-fl
man the other day rose in a light ;
bree;>' on a sliding olanc and re- j
main*?d up for mor*- than two hours
r -;
That was the most amazing step
in aviation since the Wright
brothers first proved flight pos
[ sible.
If a plane bearing a human be
ing can be flown without an en
gine. the addition of a very little
mechanical power will suffice for
dependable flight.. We shall have
planes of extreme lightness and
i buoyancy, with engines of absurdly
I small weight and power, for gen
; eral use. We may even have "air
j bicycles," propelled by the hands
and feet of the . operator. Then
I men will be really flying.
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COLL*GE CHANCES j
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It is easy , to find among success- \
j ful Americans both men and wo- i
men who had no-college education.
It is. also easy to find, among the
unsuccessful, men and women who
had every opportunity of college
and technical- or professional
training:-'
The Children's Bureau of the
Department of. Labor has- recently
been answering the question of
why children should finish the
eight elementary grades and high
I school before going to work . at
gainful occupations. Dean Faruell
of the Kansas Agricultural College
tells why older boys. and girls
should go through eollege if they
can possibly do so. He says: .
"An American with no school
?HgHHHfMMPllH
ing at all has one chance in 150,- ?
000; of becoming eminent. With j
a high school training he has 87 j
times as good a .chance. .With .a |
college education he has 700 times
as good a chance." . .
No sure w?y has yet been dis
covered for learning in childhood
which is the one .out of 150,000
who will achieve big things in
spite of lack of schooling, and
which are the 699 who have
real latent ability, -needing only
the wider opportunity and training
of school and college to make it
bear good fruits -
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FOR mELAND.*'
Bernard Shaw, himself a loyal
Irishman, has been indulging in
some plain, remarks to his fellow
countrymen anent the recent guer
rillaWarfare carried on by the re
publican -faction. In his judgment,
"the luxury of .dying for Ireland
after doing Ireland all the dam
age he can" is. all that Irish rev
olutionists can hope for hence
forth. ...
That verdict seems justified by.
recent Irish history. The rebels
against the Free State have done
their utmost; without -visible pro
fit, to- anybody and with only harm
to the great body of ? Irish people
who, like the common, people ev
erywhere, want peace and order
and a chance to enjoj^ life and
get ahead. .
?i The - assassination of Michael
Collins has only emphasized the
anomaly of this rebellion by a lit
tle,, mistaken group of . Irishmen
against the wishes of the major
ity. Lamentable as that tragedy
has been, it may .serve a usfeul
purpose by clarifying the situation.
The overpowering indignation of ?
the Irish public may bring the
rebels to their senses.
The notice said to have been giv- I
en by their leader, De Vale ra, that j
they might stop fighting if they j
wanted to, should help along this!
process of restoring sanity to a dis- j
tressed land. Surely it is not;
necessary that Irishmen should be
always dying for Ireland.. The
time has come-to- live for Ireland.
FRESH AIR FOR MOTHERS, j
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Fresh air camps for youngsters |
have been established as part of j
the child welfare work of most of j
the larger towns and cities. Of j
course, all the poor little sufferers j
in hot tenement districts are not j
provided for. and those who have }
an annual outing in the country!
rarely get more than a fortnight of
it. Still, they are better off than
their fathers and mothers.
One neighborhood house in New
York City was asked recently by a
mother cf five children whether
she herself could be sent to the
country. Her little Johnny is go
ing to have two weeks at a camp, j
two of the girls will have two I
weeks on a farm, and so on. But |
the mother, who does washing j
regularly, in addition to keeping
her own house and looking after
the children cannot get to the
country or go for any sort of out- ,
ing at all unless she foots the bill, j
Her husband is making $18 a w?*ek. i
but it takes all his earnings and i
hers to keep everybody clotbed j
and fed and housed.
The neighborhood house to
which she appealed knows that !
there are many other mothers like
her in the city. A fresh air fund 1
for mothers is now beinjc started. '
and the welfare workers are look- \
ing for nioe places in the country
where, a few mot her.? could lx' j
boarded for two weeks, or a little j
> *
] cottage which, could be turned
{into a sort of summer camp,
j It is a useful movement. Fath
!crs and mothers who live in hot,
> cramped quarters and work con
tinually under a strain to provide
the necessities of life deserve va
cations if anyone does.
HEAD OVER HEELS.
j It pays to think. This is not a
'new idea, but at least it has the
i merit of always being: a good one.
i A young woman in a certain co?n
|ty recorder's office had been made
head of the. office mailing depart
ment with. a tidy increase in sal
ary because she used her brain.
This yourig woman noted the
; time wasted because citizens had
to call in person -for the docu
ments left to be recorded. It oc
| curred to her that much of this
? time could be saved by the sim
ple process of mailing the docu
ments to their owners. She pro
posed the change to her chief, the
suggestion was followed, and pro
motion was teW reward. The tax
payers whose time she saved could
well afford to pay her increased
I salary.
Few person i make the mail the
convenience that it should be.
Practically all business and do
mestic banking can be done by
mail.-yet-an aggregate of years is
wasted weekly in small banking
errands. It is frequently more
practical and just as inexpensive to
do shopping or marketing by tele
phone. Yet how many women
take advantage of the convenience?
?Xone but the thoughtless reck
on their time as worth nothing and
waste -it in non-constructive run
ning around. The boss makes more,
money than the office boy. He
uses his head?the boy uses his
heels. When the boy-learns to use
his head to save his heels he will be
boss.
EUROPE EV" CANS.
.. A. national .canning, contest has
been arranged by government au
thorities for girls who are mem
bers of canning clubs organized, and
directed by the agricultural ex
tension department. The winners
will be given a three months' trip
to Europe.
The object of the contest is "to
encourage thrift in the conservation
of all available products during
the season, to emphasize through
camiing the importance of a con
stantly well-rounded diet for farm
and rural home efficiency and fo
stimulate an interest in rural club
work among America's boys and
girls."
The preliminary bouts are being
staged all over the country this
tall by the young exhibitors in
their usual annual club exhibits at
local courfty and state fairs. Those
who win highest honors in these
elimination contests will present
their masterpieces for a final try
out at the great li\re stock show in '
Chicago in December: The four
who win top honors here will get
the coveted trip abroad.
The rural club work in general j
and this contest as a feature of it
are great things, riot for the prizes
which are won but for the things!
they encourage. Those who fail to
win the trip, or even one of the
minor medals, need not grieve.
Young people who are learning
exactness, thrift, economy and in-1
telllgent contact with their fel
low-beings in any line are already
upon the road to independence
and- soon can purchase with their j
own funds whatever . their tastes
may indicate. ?-? ' - -
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WHEX THE PUBLIC ARISES.
? President Harding has sent a let
ter to the president of the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce, commend
ing the efforts of. that organiza
tion to forward the Herrin investi
gation by raising funds to finance it. j
People generally will be glad to
know that the matter is going
ahead with public support, though
it seems a little strange that in
any state private financing should j
be necessary in such a case.
W hatever forced the issue, it is
significant that the law-abiding
element among the private citizens!
of the state has evidenced its de- j
termination that justiie shall be j
done. When the public arises to
demand its rights, genreally some
thing moves.
The example of the Illinois citi- ;
zenry may well be heeded by the !
country at large as a hint to arise
and demand that the great in- j
dustrial disputes now menacing the
life of the nation be settled with
out further delay.
The president has spoken to con
gress for the nation. Cannot the
nation speak to congress for itself,
backing the president in his de
mands for clean, fearless legislation
to clear the situation? And can it
not speak with an equally authori
tative voice to the employers and
employees locked in the disputes
(which darken the national outlook ?
j Financial contributions will not be
j necessary in . this matter, but the
j force of public opinion should be
j brought to bear. It is in re legal -
?ing great public questions to the
j status of a private fight and keep
ling hands off accordingly, that the
j peace-loving majority loses out.
CLEAN UP LOCAL
BOOTLEGGERS
i Police Department Continues
to Bring Them In
j The round-up of bootleggers and
j liquor peddlers started by local of
j ficers a few weeks ago continues
: unabated and as the result of raids
! made Friday and Saturday which
? 'brought home the bacon' several
j more offenders have faced the
magistrate's court receiving heavy
fines. If the continued effort of
j the police to stamp out the liquor
I traffic in Sumter continues with the
vigilane eand# .follow-up it has of
late, the liquor* dealers will soon
find the high ? Cost of .doing busi
ness all out of proportion to the
profit they have been receiving
from the thirsty..
? The first offender caught in the!
police net last week was Sharper
English, colored, who faced the re- !
corder on two charges, that of!
transporting and having liquor in!
his possession.
He was fined one hundred dol
lars on each charge, which was
paid. ' This makes $"300 English
has donated to the city, as he was'
fined $100 for having liquor in his'
possession about a month ago. !
Saturday evening three more col-!
jored- men were caught with the)
I goods at their homes where they
i were- conducting a 'cash and carry'
business in /liquid corn.' At record
er's court this - morning, Wm. j
Vaughn-'wask fined 520^ or sixty
days, Ben McLeary $100 or sixty!
jdaj-s and Gfandison Heriot $100
I or sixty days. Heriot paid his
j fine. After bringing him- to Sumter
two rural officers visited the home
of' Heriot and ? located a small
home made stilt which was brought
to' town and" now reposes at the'
police station. Anyone looking
j over this still will not wonder at
j the effect some of the liquor sold
i locally has on the human system.
! It i's made from an old oil can of
(about ten gallons capacity, filthy
j with dirt and with lead pipe fit
j tings. From such as these comes,
the real 'tin can' brand with a va
riety of poisons.
LIFE TERM
FOR MURDER
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Greenwood. Sept, 17.?After de
liberating 16 1-2 hours the jury in
! the case of R. Clayton Underwood j
and Berry B. Hughes, charged with [
! the murder of Oscar Mitchell, I
1 Greenwood baseball player, report- j
ed to-Judge H. F. Ritre this morn
ing at 10 o'clock that they had
agreed oh a verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree, with
recommendation to mercy, in the
case of Underwood, but they could
not agree on Hughes.
In imposing the life* sentence
carried by the verdict. Judge Rice,
pronounced a warning against the
influence of liquor. Underwood re
ceived the sentence without a
tremor but his wife who had
shown no emotions throughout
the trial burst into tears.
A motion for a new trial was
overruled by Judge Rice and he
again refused to direct a verdict
of not guilty for Hughes. - Bail
for Hughes was fixed at $5,000.
The life sentence for Underwood
was the first sentence ever pro
nounced in this county on Sunday
and one of the few on record in
this state.
The trial of the two men con
sumed three days, during which
time hundreds packed into the
court house to hear the trial of a
ease that had aroused Intense
feeling.
Oscar Mitchell, Greenwood sec
ond baseman, was shot to death by
Underwood in front of Underwood's
father's boarding house August 8:
Underwood claimed that Mitchell
had made an attack on his wife.
The state introduced evidence to
disprove the attack story.
Young Men's Business League News
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The Young Men's Business
League lunched as usual at the
Claremont. Thursday. Among re
ports on the ' month's activities, j
one of interest was that from mer
chants' saying they had experi
enced direct results from the ad
vertising campaign recently launch
ed by the league. Direct results
from the booster trips were also
told of.
Secretary Ewing Gibson would be
grateful if the members would
bring him the annual dues mak
ing lighter the work of collection, j
Election of new members was;
made an especial order for the i
next meeting.
The last meeting was largely at
tended.
Colored Man Runs Amuck.
Sunday forenoon Julius Zuel, j
who it seems has somewhat of a j
reputation as a bad man. got all j
liquored up on chain lightning and j
after raising a general disturbance ,
in the neighborhood in which he!
lives started to take a little target
practice with ;< revolver at his
brother. Julius' aim was bad and
only a flesh wound was inflicted.
Local officers went to the res
cue and brought Zuel to the sta
tion house.
After a hearing of the ca*se be
fore recorder Monday morning the
case was referred to higher eourt.
Several other cases for disorder
ly conduct, vagrancy and drunken
ness were disposed of. Altogether
the police had a busy Saturday
night and Sunday.
[end of rail I
strike is not ,
yet in sight
j Strikers Demanding Condi
tions Not Specified in the
j Baltimore Agreement
Chicago. Sept. 17 (By the As
Iciated Press j.?With the shopmen's;
I peace plan threatened by outbreaks i
>due apparently to misunderstand-j
ings and with the New York Cen-!
tral and the Southern railway an
nouncing their failure to reach
j agreements with the strikers, roads
! not-participating in Baltimore ne
gotiations reported a return to
I normal operation of their shops
j tonight.
I One of the larger lines mentioned
j in ' connection with memorandum
of agreement adopted by the shop
I crafts' general policy committee
! of. 90. here Wednesday with the ob
' ject of ending the countrywide
strike through separate agreements
with individual roads, che Rock
Island and the New York Central
had definitely announced a failure
to reach an agreement and con
ferences of the Southern with un
ion leaders had been no more suc
cessful as the strik'_ entered on its
j 12th week. <
j In the case of the New York
Central, a statement was issued by
the road expressing a willingness
to fulfill the memorandum of
agreement reached at Baltimore at
conferences between B. M. Jewell,
head of the strikers, and represent
atives of certain of the carriers,
but it was asserted that represent
atives of the shop crafts "attempted
to interjeet questions not mention
ed in. the text and clearly outside
the agreement insisting that these
matters be' included." The road
also announced it would continue
to employ men to fill existing' va
cancies in its shop force, adding
that at present it had 32,951 men
at work compared with a normal
of,,,35,192.
?The same misunderstanding
resulted in disturbances yesterday
when strikers begen to work here
in./the shops at the Northwestern
and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul. In some cases the men were
reported to !*ave .demanded that
non-union workers be' dismissed
'and in others that their striking
[foremen be reinstated. Today of
ificials of the Northwestern an
nounced that they expected 12,000
iof the strikers to return to work
[tomorrow morning. This number
|.would be in addition to the non
[ union men, estimated to number
about 60 per cent, of the normal
[force. More than 15,000 men were
expected back on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul. At the same
time railway executives who have
refused to come in under the Bal
timore plan reiterated that they are
,in a way of recruiting: full shop
forces, and that the settlement talk
had resulted in large numbers of
men returning to work independ
ently of any action taken by the i
union leaders. Many of non-set- ?
tlemeht roads were said to havej
forces ranging from 75 to 100 per1
cent, normal. These roads have
formed new organizations to sup
plant the striking shop crafts.
. Among the roads which have an- i
nounced agreements with their
shopmen independently of the un- i
ion are the Santa Fe, Pennsylva- j
nia, Union Pacific, the Burlington,
the Illinois Central and the Chica- j
go, & Alton. W. G. Bierd, one of
the two receivers for the Alton, is
sued a statement formally an-1
nouncing terms under which strik- j
ing employes had been invited to j
return to work. It expressly stip- j
ulates that they shall return as!
"new emplosfes."
The invitation is extended to the j
former shopmen "with the excep
tion of those barred from reem-1
ployntent by their direct-violation |
of rules or flagrant insubordina- j
tion and such men as have been
guilty of extreme violence during j
the period of the strike.'
The strikers were offered their j
former standing as "between them- j
selves." That is. they were to take j
seniority rank beneath new men j
and those who refused to join the j
walkout.
Mr. Jewell departed early tonight j
for New York, where he said he
would enter into conferences with j
the New York Central officials on j
Tuesday in the expectation of j
reaching a speedy agreement un-1
der the terms of the Baltimore I
plan. At union headquarters it i
was said only trivial differences!
prevented the signing of a sepa-1
rate peace with that road on Sat- j
urday. These differences, it was (
said, would be cleared away by]
submitting them to the arbitration j
board provided for in the Balti-j
more plan.
According to the union leaders;
the men' on the following roads will;
return to work tomorrow: The!
Chicago & Northwestern; Chicago, j
Milwaukee & St. Paul; Baltimore !
& Ohio. Seaboard Air Line and the |
Green Bay & Western.
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Chamber of Commerce Notes. j
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To The Bankers. Merchants. Farm !
Land Owners and Other Business !
Men and Women of Sumter j
County:
Cotton as a chief cash crop in
Sumter county is a thing of past |
unless some unexpected solution of
boll weevil problem occurs. With j
practically every tobacco produc
ing state organized, and not less !
than fifty per ent of the tobacco j
produced in TJL*2. and for the next;
four years very likely seventy-five j
per cent fo tobacco production i
sold under the splendid price in- j
creasing methods of the Tohac- i
co Growers' Cooperative Market
ing Association, and with prices for
all grades of tobacco during 1922 j
increased from one to two nun- j
dred per cent because of this sys- j
tematic and organized, business- j
like method of marketing, and
taken in eonncetion with the sen-;
sible but law-enforced system of j
preliminary grading and tieing of J
tohacco which cleans the tobacco I
land makes it -worth much more
j and look much better, it looks to
j me like tobacco as our chief cash
crop for years to come is a "safe
' bet.
It can not be successfully dis
puted that this summer tobacco of
j even medium quality, properly
[graded, cleaned of sand, and prop
j erly tied brought profit-making
I prices, and that the better grades
! on both the independent markets
land cooperative association mar
j kets brought what farmers called
I "fancy priees" and much more
[than, the average prices for years
! past, medium grades bringing from
! sixteen to twenyt-three cents and
jthe better, well cured and well
[graded qualities selling from thirty
I to fifty cents a pound. Even the
"trashy" or "sand lugs" and
I "scorched and green" tobacco sold
j for one to two hundred percent
j more this year than the average
; prices for several years on both in
dependent and cooperative markets.
In a conference with several.lead
ing business men and farmers of
Sumter a few days ago I was told
of an important movement to get
our Sumter county banks and
merchants, large land owners and
other business and professional
t men and women to join together to
raise money with which to employ
a practical and experienced tobac
| co demonstrator to come to Sum
ter county in December ,1922, to
show our farmers how to prepare
tobacco beds, prepare tobacco
lands, set out plants, cultivate,
harvest and cure tobacco. Mr. K.
B. Belser is the leader m this very
sensible movement and I wilt not
dwell further on the details of this
plan to secure a tobacco expert,
leaving further information to him,
except to say that it looks like a
very wise thing to do. ?
i Thousands of acres of splendid
j bright leaf tobacco producing lands
are available in every part of Sum
; ter county, some lands being adapt
ed to one variety and some lands
to other varieties of tobacco. Th:.;
has been said by many experienced
tobacco producers and warehouse
managers and by numerous tobac
co buyers representing tobacco ex
porting and domestic tobacco com
panies. About all that is necessary
to find out what lands are suitable
for certain varieties is to get -one
or more experienced tobacco dem
onstrators who know something
about tobacco to put in all of his
time in the country districts for
eight months, investigating, visit
ing our farmers, and talking with
the farmers and then staying "in
the stix" until tobacco selling time
showing the farmers what to do to
produce a tobacco crop that will
sell next su ."imer. This tobacco
demonstrator in addition to visiting
individual farms can hold a num
ber of community meeetings in ev
ery township and school district
and backed up by the presence Of
leading land owners and experienc
ed Sumter county farmers who pro
duce tobacco, and by numbers of
Sumter's merchants and bankers
and by numbers of country mer
hants also^ he can reach thousands
of tenant farmers and other kinds
of farmers who need" information
regarding the production" and cur
ing and marketing of tobacco and
we can make a splendid Start to
wards creating in Sumter county, a
profitable tobacco industry and
building up a large tobacco mar
ket in Sumter to take the place of
cotton.
It has been also suggested that
a special expert, practical demon
strator be employed who will de
vole his entire time and attention
to instructing such farmers as
may need instruction, and there are
thousands who do need such infor
mation, how to diversify their farm!
productions. Mr. Belser also has
this movement in hand for presen
tation to Sumter and Sumter coun-'
ty's business men. As Mr. "belser
is a very busy man trying to solve j
his own boll weevil and other
troubles, and inasmuch as Sum
ter county has always granted rue
the privilege of "butting in" when
ever and wherever I think it well
to butt in. I am merely trying to
give a preliminary sketch of his
plans for everybody to think about
when he gest ready to start mov
ing the movement. I also have" in
direct, but serious boll weevil
troubles and so has every oihe^r
man, and every other woman in
Sumter county, but many don't
know it yet, but they will fully i
realize it before long. Many think- j
ing citizens are of the opinion that
those whose opinions are to the ef-j
feet that cotton can be continued
as the chief money crop of Sumter
county are laboring under serious
misapprehensions. We may or may
not make a half crop of cotton, but
with intelligent work and good sea
sons we do stand a chance of mak
ing a good crop of tobacco many
more times than we stand of mak
ing a good crop of cotton. Every
farm where labor and other condi
tions are suitable ought to try o?jt
tobacco in 1923?and inasmuch
as successful tobacco growers pian*
their tobacco beds in December
and January it is well for large
plantation owners to get busy as-'
sisting their tenants and share
croppers to y*?t r^aWy f*>r limited
acreages of tobacco next year. The
banks and mercnants of Sumter J
county have a nine "say so" I
about this matter and should con-!
sider well in advance what Mr. j
Belser is going to put up to them, j
E. r. Reardon. J
Many a man learns to play a cor- j
net to spite a neighbor.
What makes a bowlegged one
happier than a long skirt?
WANTED?Ladies to come and
see my line of hats. Hours
9:30 a. m. to 7 p. m.- I have new
stock. Mrs. C. W. McGrew, cor-i
ner Magnolia and Myrtle Sts-.
Phone S79L._
FOR SALE?Abruzzi Rye Seed of
Coker Pedigreed Strain at $2.23
per bushel. O'Donnell & Co.
monAyfcmr
CLINTON
Capt. E. A. Smyth Offers
$25,000 for Dormitory
Clinton. Sept. 14.?The Presby-I
terian College of South Carolina j
opened September 5. The enroll- I
ment for the first week was 185,!
the largest in the history of the j
college. It would reach 200 for j
the year if the students could be j
taken care of. All available space \
in the dormitories has been taken.
The enrollment last year was 163. j
Eleven states are represented in the j
student body.
At the last meeting of the board 1
of trustees President Douglas stat- ;
ed that a new dormitory accom
modating 100 students could be
filled. He said the dormitory
wuold cost $75,000, but ti would
be impossible to raise this money
unless rich men contributed it.
Soon after the meeting of the board
he received a letter from Cap". El- i
lison A. Smyth of Greenville, stat
ing that he would give $25,000 to
] ward the erection of this dormi
tory if the remaining '$50,000 were i
subscribed ^within a year. Captain j
Smyth said m his letter that 60 j
days after he was notified that i
the college had in bonafide sub- j
scriptions $50,000 towards the erec- !
tion of the dormitory, he would
turn over to the college, :n cash,
$25,000. *
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The Press's Part
With notably few exceptions the
newspapers of South Carolina, large
and small, daily and weekly and
semi-weekly, stood once more in the
recent crisis for good government
in South Carloina as they have
stood always in the past. But for
the promptness and the vigor with .
which the press responded a very
different story might well have
been told at the polls on Tuesday, j
In the very nature of things the
forces in this state which were op- ?
posed to Bleasism could not orga- I
nize until after the first pririiary.;
Mr. Blease was under no such
handicap and his supporters were j
able to organize from the begin-i
ning. Had the supporters of any
one of the other candidates under- |
taken to perfect an organization
j the cry of ring rule would at once
have been raised. We do not think
that any set effort whatever was
made to influence votes for Mr.
McLeod before the first primary.
Organization is a vital necessity in
popular elections, but all the or
ganizign which could be done by
the friends of Mr. McLeod or the
opponents of Blease had to be done
in ten days.
The only agency which could
arouse the public in that time was
the press. The press did arouse
the public to the situation and tire
public once aroused the result was
certain. The instant and vo.lan
|tary response of the newspapers
; to their obligation saved the day
and afforded a new and striking de
monstration of the beneficent possi
bilities of the press's power.?The
News and Courier.
COTTON MARKET
NEW YORK COTTON
OPtt Hldt Low Close <3om [
Jail_21.12 21.20 28.87 21.13 21.34 \
March_21.20 21.28 20.97 21.25 21.43'
May 21.15 21.25 20.30 21.15 21.40
Oct__ - _2f.t0 2I.K 20.80 21.13 21.25 |
Dec _ .21.25 21.33 21.00 21.28 21.45
Spots 10 Off, 21.40.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
Odor His* lav Close <3o?*;
Jan- - ...20.67 20.63 20.29 20.60 20.91
March - _ 20.76 20.76 20.43 20.66 J!1.00
Nay _ .. .20.74 20.74 20.35 29.81
JulyL .. .20,45 20.45 29.43. 21.43
Oct.. - ?20.46 20.48 20.09 20.38 20.67 j
Dec? ~ . 20.70 20.70 20.25 20.54 20.88
Spots 50 off 20.30.
Liverpool Cotton.
January ._ ... _._ 11.90 j
M~oh . ._ . 11.80
Nay ._ .? 11.89 i
4?ly _ ..- _ ~ - .....- H.561
October.... ._ ...? _ _ 12.17 ,
December._. 11.96!
Receipts. 13,000 Sales. 8.000; Middling. k
13.16; uood Middlinir. 13.35.
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A jury has freed another self- *
made widow. 1
THE STRIKERS ASJ> THE
FARMERS
It is estimated by the United
Stales Department of Agriculture
that the \-alue of the important
farm crops in, this country this
year will be $1,250,000,000 in ex
cess of the value of the crops last
year, the value of the crops this
year aggregating approximately $6?
000.000,000. It was proved during
the World War that with intensive
farming, even on the present acre
age of arable land, the United
States could produce enough of all
the food crops to feed the-world.
That is practically what the farm
ers of this country have been doing
for the last eight years. This year
the crops, with the exception of the
cotton crop on account of the boil
weevil, have been remarkably fine,
and their aggregate-value so great
that the mind could hardly take it
in. . .'"^
It is too early to estimate- what
the farmers who have made the
record breaking crops of' the pres
ent year (record breaking for peace
times) will get for their work and
What return upon the ?value of their
investment in land and farm equip
ment they will receive. They win
be fortunate if they make enough,
to pay for their board and clothes,
not particularly because of am over
stocked market, but because, of the
determined, not to say criminal, in
terference of the railroad, brother
hoods ami railroad crafts of one
name and another with the free
transportation of the products cf
the farms to. the markets of the
country. Tens of millions of dollars '
have been lost to the growers of
food crops and other crops of .the
land by the nation-wide strike on
railroads^ and there is no way by
which they can recoup their losses.
In trying to run the railroads of "
the country in their own ^Interest
the railroad strikers have disre
garded utterly the rights of the
farmers and other productive forces
of the country, and this is-a coh-? a
dition which the rest of the coun
try will not stand always, we may
be sure of that. There is an old,
saying that the "farmer feeds rrs
all" and this is what he has been *
doing sinee the first of his line, who
was killed by his brother. But like
every other worm of the dust,.it is
as certain as death that he is get
ting "powerful tired" of playing
?le goat for the railroad Issaac who
has thought only of saving hixasehl
first "and ^the Devil take the hind- r
most."
Possibly, if the farmers of the
country who have lost so heavily on .
their crops because they could- net
get them to market could coHect
what they have lost from the broth,
erhoods and . Mr. Gompers? *-they
might be interested in counting the.
cost of the present railroad strike
to* the strikers in wages, to the
comers of the railroads in divi
dends, to the business interests ?*y
the ? interruption of traffic, to the
general public in the loss' of-life
and destruction of property. Et is -
doubtless wen withm the mark, tc
say that tne present railroad strike
ha* cost the country not less than
half a billion dollars and without <
the least compensating benefit.
A Timdy Warning
Representative Stevenson, of, the.
Fifth district, handed to The State
yesterday a brief statement of such
importance and timeliness that its
reproduction here is believed to be.
advisable:
"The primary contest now having .
been settled, it is exceedingly im
portant that immediate attention
be given to the appointment of the
very best men available for federal t
election commissioners in each dis
trict. There will be a Republican
candidate for congress in each di
trict and unless the elections i
conducted in absolute confon
to law, there will be contests ai
if the House is very close, Repul
licans will unseat Democrat
members on any showing of
irregularities. Hence, eflJciei
commissioners of election should
be appointed.**-?The State.
ONE YEAR AGO AND TO-DAY
Our Depsoits one year ago were.- $ 792,759.60
Our Deposits today are_ 1,164,453.00
. .... ...... _? ? . -.v v.;
We owed one year ago_ 253,954.90
We owe today_.-.-. NOTHING
WhiltY the figures above may not be conclusive, we fe%l
that they indicate better conditions for our community.
If you are not already a depositor, we would be very glad
to have your account. If you are a depositor, build up your
bank balance and help make better times.
THE NATIONAL BANK-OF SOUTH CAROLINA
C. G. Rowland, President. Earle Rowland* Cashier
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Our Savings Department
As shown by our statements from time to tinfce it
will be seen that we carry the largest savings ac
count of any bank in the city. We appreciate this
mark of confidence on the part of our patrons, and
will do everything in our power to continue to merit
it. Even though your money may be deposited in
our Savings Department for a fixed period, it is al
ways available for you when you want it.
First National Bank of Sumter
