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Abuse of Motor
License Privileges
State Highway Commission
Formulates Plan to Regu
late Agents
^Columbia. Nov. 22.?A plan, to
stop the abuse- of the automobile
demonstration license privilege was
:V worked out by the state highway
?>??mission . at its monthly meet
ing in Columbia yesterday after
noon. . It was decided to sell .the
ffiplup'icate "demonstrator plates
hereafter at $2 each*, instead of
fifty cents as heretofore, and to
sell only as many as there are bona
fide salesmen for any dealer. Here
tofore the dealers have been care
less in letting the duplicate licenses
/ :get inlo general use by owners.
The new plan was suggested by the
Columbia automobile dealers* as
i soeiation.
* The-commission also decided that
hereafter the dqplicate plates is
sued to demonstrators will be reg
? istered in the name of-the-dealer
and also the names'"of his salesmen.
I . Under the present plan a dealer's
f license is $25 for one make of au
tomobile, and ? 13 - for each' addi
\ 4ional make^ handled, with the priv
ilege- of getting duplicate plates,
marked ? "demonstrator;" at fifty
j "vents ea*fi The highway depart
L -*ient has'been finding this priv
j ilege greatly abused; probably un
\ intentionafly, and it conferred with
the automobile dealers here in an
V effortr: to get a-remedy. The new
' plan was the result.
The . commission also went into
j the 'matter- of ? legislative pro
gram' to be i^commended to the
5 iiext legislature, which*, convenes
\ in J&nuary.- Governdr Hatvey ha?
? co nf erred with the commission re
garding certain possible legislation.
I A cohtmittee. composed or Chair -
* maa-Ri G. -Rhett, of Charleston. C.
i Ov H-earon. of Spartanburg. and
[ Chief Engineer Charles H< Moojre
i field, of Columbia^ was appointed
! to work out the legislative recom
l mendatioss i&or-^lhe geberar assem
| bly. =
\ m One matter: which the highway
j department' is anxious to have
I brought a bout is some - plan for
; ecnalixing the highway; ' m?inten
$ ao-ee program of the state. At pres
-? ?nz part of the automobile license
^ money goes to maintaining county
5 highways. However, some of the
> eoiKjties have more highway
- k mileage for maintenance- than oth
ers, in proportion to their receipts
from ~the license fand. It is hoped
that some-relief for these coun
ties can be effected: Numerous oth
er matters are being given tenta
tive consideration, but the com
mittee is to work out the recom
mendations. *
Members of the commission re
turned to their homes Tuesday
night.
i X ? ? ~r ?".
Spend More Moneys
Don't Save
Ford Says Man's-Career Be
gins at Forty Years of Age
; "Until he is forty, a man should
be-..'gaining experience: he should
be learning all he can. particularly
bow to. spend money," says Henry
Ford, in a Boston interview. Spend
your money-?on yourself: get all
the experience you can. Don't try
to save money and be a miser.
"Give me the man of forty who
ha*- had lots -ofr experience, and if
he's1 honest and truthful his sue
cjsss is a certainty.
*'l was thirty-eighf or thirty
nine years old before r began to
think very much about making
money. Eefore that I was too busy
learning things and getting ex
perience, which I have found to ,be
of great value to me in recent
years.
' Now a man should not be-dis
couraged because he wakes up one
day- and realizes he is forty years
?Id and hasn't anymoney. He is
really better off it he has a clean
record and has gained much exper
ience, because he has the incentive
to put his experience to practical
use and profit by it."
During the Ja'.k, for it was more
of a friendly chat than an Inter
view. Mr. Ford revealed what he
believes to be the secret of his
amazing success aud why he is con
fident that plenty of riches will con
tinue to roll in /or years to come.
"My son and he said, "have
often talked about this, and-we are
x agreed as long as our motive is to
provide employment for just as
many people as we possibly can we
will always have plenty of money.
I haven't really tried to make
money in recent years. I realized
long ago that I had all the money
1 needed.
*'Some representatives of Hugo
planes came to our l>etroit ofiiees
recently.. I asked them what
Stinncs was trying to do: what
they were after. They admitted
motive was to make money:
they were out to g?-t control of bus
iness and Uj make all the money
they could.
"If that were our motive I
wouldn't be very confident of our
future. We are now employing
about loo.yo^ people and we hope
to employ many more. As long
a* that is honestly oar purpose?to
}rt*ovide lucrative employment for
just as many people as possble?
my son and I will always have
pV-nty of money to* do the things
\ 'e want to do."
? o ?
This is the time of year when
the apple trees suggests only one
thins?cider.
4 0* O) <*
Tennessee man got shot because
?it wasn't loaded." It was not a
ggm. It was dice.
?you can hardly blame the north
?wind for whistling. It is going
south where it is warm.
\n ounce of invention is worth a
pound of work.
Ferghana: Russia's Listening Post
hi the Heart of Asia.* n
I Continual reports from Moscow
that the Soviet government is seek
ing to become a leader of Asiatic
peoples, and her recent evidences
! of friendliness toward the Turks,
arounse interest in Ferghana, the
country which was the Russian
empire's deepest southeastern
wedge driven into Asia. A bulletin
from the Washington. D. C, head
quarters of the National Geographic
Society deals with this counrty of
deserts and oases, towering moun
tains and picturesque valleys, where
the territories of Russian, Chinese,
and Briton almost meet.
"Ferghana, formerly Kokan, has
numerous bids to fame." says the
I bulletin, "but among them two
! stand out. Its northern valleys
constituted the heart of Russia's
cotton producing country, and its
borders south and east marked the
terminal moraine, so to speak, of
the great. Slav glacier which had
j moved slowly down through Asia
f bringing its deposit of Russian do
; minion and culture, until it hung
j over both India and China.
Is a Russian Kashmir
"The'southern portion of Ferg
| hana- is a sort- of Russian Kashmir,
i a-country of . high plateaus and
towering peaks, deep valleys, pic
, turesque vales and sparkling lakes.
It is, in fact, the reverse to Kash
mir's obverse, .for it lies just over]
the Tnountain divide from that bet-1
ter ;known synonym for - rugged j
beauty:, so close that a Titan?or |
at: Big Bertha?might hurl a missile
hfcom Russian -to British territory,
jdnly a narrow strip- of Afghan
! hind, reserved because of the. long
[iealousy and diplomatic struggle
j"between. Britain ami' -the old Rus"- j
[sian Empire, lies between. Inj
places it is as narrow as twenty j
miles. ? j
f^y-This southern-portion of Ferg-j
j hana is the Pamir, 'roof of the|
j worlds Once Russia finally gotj
possession of it in 1893, she drew
even tighter about- it the cloak of
secrecy that nature had all along j
maintained. It becan:^ generally;
z^nown that excellent- mill ary roads
were reaching out from ' northern
Ferghana through gorges and ' over
.lofty - passes- into the - Pamir/ over
which artillery could be taken to the
very threshold of British India. But
j few persons ether than trusted im-j
I ptfrialists were permitted to tra-i
! verse these paths which Russian i
rdreamers- hoped would some day
lead their empire still farther south, i
I Northern Ferghana Fertile.
"Whrle the southerii end of Ferg-;
, hana is a country of rugged moun- j
I tains and plateaus, the fertile val-1
[leys of its northern end constitute a|
: Central Asian Eden. Snow-fed rills !
and rivers, always fullest in thie;
warm growing season, were led out
over fertile plains until they died in j
the^sands; but in the dying they*
made northern Ferghana a garden
spot of grains and fruits, and after
[the Russians came, of precious cot
ton. The cotton produced in these j
and neighboring * Turkestan oases
before the "World War, was great
er than that of India or Egypt
and second only to that of the
United States. j
j - ^In Ferghana and its neighbor-1
;ing countries of Central Asia there
was'undoubtedly ,a very early de
velopment of cvilization, even
though-they may not have been, ^as
some students have asserted, the
cradl? of the htrtnan race. : And
probably there the art of irriga
tion was practiced as early as any!
jwhece in the world. j
Many Times Overrun.
"Like all other regions of Cen
tral Asia Ferghana felt the heel
of Cheng's Kahn and. ' Temerlane^
It was overrun too from Chinese
Turkestan which lies against it to
the east. When Mohammedanism
arose to power, it was conquered
by the Arabs and its people have
since been followers of the prophet.
."Russian dominion came slowly j
to Ferghana, then the Khanate of
Kokan. After the more western
portions of the Trans-Caspian re
gion and Turkestan had fallen.
Russian' arms finally conquered
the warlike Tekke Turkomans who
blocked the way to Ferghana's fer
tile valleys. It was not until 1803
that the slow-moving Slavic glacier i
had engulfed the southern terri-;
tory of the old I\hanate.
"With the Russians came** organ
izing abilty. development, railroads,!
! prosperity, and a smattering at least
of western civilization. To the rail
' bead at Andijan, aimed at the heart :
of Asia, ran the modern expresses;
from Petrograd, with their sleep
ing car* and spotless diners. And
a few miles south began the mili
taiw roads that lost themselves in
! the mysterious Pamir. ?
"The Bolsheviks at first lost con
; trol of Ferghana as of many of its
neighboring regions. But by force
; o." arms and diplomacy they have
won it back after a fashion.
"If Russian power has a renas*
cerice in Asia either by ^domination
or through leadership Ferghana
<-an hardly escape assuming its old
importance as a source of raw ma
terial for?? Moscow's cocton factor
ies and as a watch tower and lis
tening post over against the In
dian and Chinese frontiers."
The Silver Lining.
"Mister.** began the seedy-look
ing man. "I haven't got no home
and-"
"No taxes to pay!'* Interrupted
the man addressed "no coal bills!
no worry lest the landlord raise
your rent. Permit me to congrat
ulate you."
"I have ab job and-"
"Lucky chap! No danger of get
ting fired."
"But I'm serious, mister. I have
no money and-"
"Xo temptation to spend it fool
ishly on able-bodied beggars. Why.
you're the very child of fortune
Good-day! ? Boston Transcript.
We may live too fast, but very
few girls born in 1900 are 20 yet.
? ? ?
We have setting-up exercises. Mit
don't need sitting-down exercises.
Cassina Ready
For the Market
___________
Special Half-Pound Packages
Offered at the Charleston
County Fair
(News and Courier).
Half-pound package .of cassina. i
made from the leaves of the cas- |
sink, or Christmas berry, will be j
offered for .sale at the Charleston)
County Fair under government j
auspices. These packages werei
prepared at Mount Pleasant on i
the farm of Mr. Alfred Jourannet1
under the personal direction of Mr. 1
George F. Mitchell, federal ~ tea j
expert, known afts one of the
world's authorities on tea.
In the same booth, it has been i
[arranged to dispense something!
like thirty gallons of soft drinks
in which oassin ca^fein has been
utilized as the-base. These sam
ple drinks will be given away and
it' is believed that they will at
tract much attention. The syrup
was manufactured in Washington
from cassina prepared at Mount i
Pleasant. 1
I Mr. Mitchell has returned from
[Washington in order to take part
[ In the cassina demonstration at
the county fair. -He has received
jcruite a number of inquiries from
I Eastern men of business who ap
I pear interested in cassina as a j
commercial enterprise. It is Mr. j
Mitchell'*: opinion that it will not j
be long before cassina is oh thei
market.as an active competitor of!
tea: He has-pointed out that cas-j
sina is not to be confounded as al
substitute for tea. though in taste |
they are fairly similar. Cassina. j
Mr. Mitchell holds, is a beverage
on its own merits, which have
been thoroughly tested.
In the circumstances it is felt
that these packages of cassina will
find ready sales, as they will be
appropriate for Christmas gifts,
the cassina being also known as
the Christmas berry. It is an- j
noune'ed that these packages willi
suggest Christmas. Six thousand I
pounds Of cassina in half-pound!
packages, will be on sale - in the;
cassina booth. Mr. Mitchell sug- ?
j gests that 'many persons will be j
rglad of an opportunity for sending!
some, of the packages* ,to distant;
friends at Christmas.
"When the carry settlers of the
southern part, of our country ar-:
rived, they ? fourtd the Indians j
along the coast curing the leaves j
of our native cassina or "Christmas j
berry tree," which you all know is(
a species of holly, and preparing]
from them 4 a drink which theyv
praised very highly as a stimulant, (
and which they used as an every-j
day drink, much as We now use tea j
and coffee," Mr. Mitchell said in:
an address.
A*The history of the use of this I
jplant by the Indians is even1 more ?
; interesting and fascinating than -
(the history of the early use of. tea j
and coffee by the Chinese and Ara- j
! bians. There is hardly a report or j
[narrative relative to the Indians'
I by any of the early explorers or
settlers of our country that does!
not make mention of the use of j
this beverage by the Indians,' who j
|;had great confidence in its stimu- j
lating and curative qualities, even
to a point of reverence, using .'t
in connection with their religious
ceremonies.
"Perhaps the earliest mention of I
cassina occurs in the. ''Migrationj
Legend of the Creek Indians.' Xo j
doubt you remember the story of
this lost tribe, known in history j
as the Kasihta tribe, which is sup- j
posed to have started from some'
point west of the Mississippi, or inj
Southern Illinois or Southern Ohio, J
and traveled west, then south, i
then southeast, until they-reached ?
Eastern Georgia. There they met a|
tribe called in tlfe legend the Pala- ;
ehucolas. who gave them' cassina,.
which the Indians called 'black
drink,? as a sign of friendship, and
said to them:
"'Our hearts are white and
yours must be white, and you must
lay down the bloody tomahawk
and show your bodies as a proof'
that they shall be white/ Later,
in' 1735. the chief of- this same;
! tribe read the legend, which wasj
[ written in red and black characters!
[on a buffalo skin, to Governor Ogle- j
j thorpc and many British authori-.
' ties. ?
! ? ' Cassina was not only used by
j the Indians of the Southern ai d
j Gulf States, where it grew nil
I along the coast, bul 'was traded to j
jthe Indians of the -.mountains:
j where it always brought a high!
j price in exchange for other articles. I
It is interesting to note that be- I
(sides using the wild' plants, they:
(also planted and cultivated the cas-j
'sina around their dwellings in their J
villages. The Spanish settlers of!
Florida and the French settlers Of]
Louisiana learned the use of tills j
beverage from the Indians ji o.a j
the-'Very beginning.
"During the War Between thci
j states, when the south was cut off
i from its source of supply of tea
iand coffee, cassina. was prepared
Jin a very crude way and used not I
Ohly by the soldiers in the /field,-j
but by a large number of southern
families, and even to this day it
! is being prepared and used in
! place Of tea and coffee by certain
[classes, especially in Xorth Caro
I linn itnd Virginia. In the latter j
state this crude product Can even
I be purchased from country stores."
i Steinmetz says four hours is a
'day's work. Tin boss says it is
; hard to get a man to work that
i long.
J When noses arc red and people
are blue and ???al is so high?- Oh,'
u hat'll we do?
t
? -? ? mm*- -
The world series is now over and
live all suppose tlmr Miller Muggins
knows one thi^g that money can'ij
buy.
We do not see where they g:el
the name of "wold cat" operations!
from, for there is no one wild aW?ul j
it but the guy that bites.
' Silhouettes this season are various
"with the full skirt, the sHghtly- n't
(varied' with'drooping panels <or ^side"
up and down silhouette with the bl
rates the sleeves for fashionable efft
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Ticino: Switzerland's Italian Can
lon- . ? , i
A major item of- geographical'
news arises from the accession ? of
the Faseisti in Italy because of
Mussolini's reported announcement
that his government will seek the :
transfer of the Swiss Canton of
Ticino to "Greater Italy."
"Italy's irredentism. born in the
late seventies of the last century,;
bore fruit when the Trentino re
gion came to her after the World .
War. With that encouragement it
is not surprising that her dream of j
uniting Italians under the Italian
government should persist. ' |
"Ticino is so situated and so pop- :
ulated that it could not well help
being the next place for the irre
dentist lightning to strike. This
canton makes a trowel-like thrust
into the saw-tooth boundary of
northern Italy?a thrust which be
comes especially conspicuous since
s'milar Austrian projections were
ironed out.
At the Tunnel's End.
"There is no gainsaying that Ti-'
cino is thoroughly Italian in race,'
language and culture. It is aV
question, however.' whether the Ti
elhesfc wish to forego their hard
won status as a fairly autonomous,
unit of the Swiss confederation for
government by their home land.
Ac ross the Alps lies Italy, for the [
southward traveler through the
Simplon tunnei. To all appear
ances the south-bound passenger
emerging from the St. Gothard
tunnel also is in Italy. The little
town of Airolo has every aspect of
the "Land of the Madonnas' and
down the course of the Ticino river
into that wondrous valley of plen
teous waterfalls, the Leventina, the
people, the scenery, even the vege
tation is distinctively Italian.
"However Airolo is on the north
ernmost frontier of the Swiss Can-'
ton, and after passing town after
town which exert the spell of Italy,
the traveler finds himself at Ti
cino's capital of three castles. Bel
linzona, where the St. Gothard line
forks.
"Locarno beckons from the east,
rnly fourteen miles away, and,
Lugano allures him to the south.
Having gotten this far into Swit-j'
jcerland's Italian Canton, where ??
American visitors arc few and Ger-.
man guests formerly were many,'
the wise traveler would see both.
Lowest Spot in Switzerland.
"Locarno offers the famous Con
vent of Madonna del Sasso, with its
magnificent view along the Maggia'
Valley and across the Maggior--?
Lake. This valley is one of the
deepest In the Apis and its river
gathers in the torrent waters from
many tributary vales. P>eing less
than TOO foot above sea level is a
distinction in the land of the Alps.'
in fact Locarno can advance a ten-!
able claim to being the lowest spot;
in Switzerland.
"Lugano aspires to a more far-;
reaching superlative?to that of
occupying the most beautiful lo-j
cation in Europe. Rivals are many\
for thai distinction but when one
submits to the spell of the lake
encircled :Monte San Salvatore and,
Monte .Generoso across the Luga-!
no wat< rs he is likely to throw dis-i
crimination to the winds in un-.
questioning enjoyment of his hours,
amid such beauty. It* 'scenic de- j
termination" figured in politics the
almond and the orange trees, the'
meadows ana the groves, all shout;
aloud that the austere grandeur of
the Swiss Alps have here given
way to the softer seduction of an
Italian landscape.
Ti< wiese Founded Delmonico's. !
"The T?>:nesc are industrious
growers of vineyards and gardens.
Their canton is-smaller \v. area than
Rhode Island. Despite mountains]
and glaciers they have two-thirds
of*R under cultivation.
"Industry is so littl<> developed
thai men must farm or migrate, and'
s<i many <<;' them leave that women
arc in the majority by several
thousand. Sons of Ticino found-!
od the silk industry" in Zurich and
Variable
j and variable."" There is the basque,
ted bodice'with long straight-skirt
' drapes) and, by way of variety the
oused bodice. This usually exagge*
set
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PLAN FOR
WEEVIL
CONTROL
Recommendations for boll
weevil* control adopted unani
im'osly at the conference of agri
? cultural scientists and scientific
?farmei*s, held in Columbia No
vember IS on call of Governor
Wilson G. Harvey, are as fol
lows:
Destroy the weevil's winter
quarters, by plowing under cot
ton and corn stalks and by clean
ing terraces, ditch banks and
other trash on the farm;
Prepare land early and thor
?? o?ghly. Plant best seed of up
proved varieties. Among the
best varieties are Lightning Ex
pr'ess.' Cleveland Big Boll. Delta,
Type and (on wilt-infested land)
Dixie Triumph.
Tse fertilizer sufficient, such as
would make a bale of cotton per
acre in an average season with
out the presence of the-weevil.
This will vary on individual
farms. Make, side applications
of soda early, before the first
. ,bk5oms appear^
Plant as soon as ground is
warm. All cottou in a given
community should be planted at
about the same time (from the
first to the-middle of April).
'Practice frequent shallow
cultivation to keep up fruiting.
Practice thick spacing.
Practice early square picking
if cheap labor is available. This
must be done very thoroughly
every five days if possible in or
der to be effective.
Definite recommendations on
poisoning are deferred for fu
ture consideration by this con
ference until after the propos
ed conference at Washington
has been held to determine upon
the general policy tu be recom
mended for 1?23-.
Develop a fertile soil as the
best asset to farming under boil
weevil conditions.
Van Dyke Replies
To Edison Charge
Professor of English at Prince
ton Criticises Thos. A. Edi
son For His Attack on
College Graduates
Princeton, N. J.. Nov. 22.?The
recent criticism of college men by
Thomas A. Edison has Brought
forth a reply from Dr. Henry Van
Dyke, author and professor of Eng
lish at Princeton university.
"He is right in saying that our
colleges are not what they should
be.J' said Dr. Van Dyke, "but he is
dead wrong in thinking that he
could make them s<>. The very
things that he blames in them are
best and most hopeful. The objec
tion of college education is not to
enable a man to make a living, but
to teach him how to enlarge and
??m ich his mental and moral life, to
l?e more of a man. to be a real per
son and not a cog in a machine
of industry or trade."
"The trouble with Edison's idea
of education is that he merely
waats labor that he can use in
btismess. The college, at least
most of them, want something bet
ter, men who can use their minds
intelligently and sympathetically
with the larger purpose of man
kind."
S<> live that you think ail people
better than you know they arc.
Only safe place for a speeder is
the Sahara desert where roads are
as wide as they are i>?;ig
m ? ?? -
A new device changes people's
noses. Slicking them where they
don't belong does the same.
M?sl men t>-U their wives every
th'ns even if they don't know it.
Shipping Bill
Fight is Started
Special Resolution Gives the
Measure Right of Way
Soldier Bonus Issue
Raised
Washington, Nov. 22.?The road
was swiftly cleared today for an
early end of the house fight over
the administration -shipping bill,
which will begin tomorrow.
A special resolution giving the
bill right of way was put through
the house by a vote of 200 to 110.
Three Democrats supported and
sixteen Republicans opposed it.
Generally speaking, leaders.said, it
did not indicate the lineup when
the House voted on final passage
November 29.
Democrats agreed at a party
caucus to .stand solidly against the
measure, enactment of which was
urged yesterday by President
Harding in an address to a joint
session of congress. One Demo
crat at the caucus. O'Connor, of
Louisiana, served . notice that he
would not be bound * by the decis
ion, at the same time announcing
he was in-favor of the bill.
The three Democrats joining
Republicans in the vote: . .
O'Connor, Lea, (California) and
McDuffie, ((Alabama).
Republicans voting against were:
Beck, Browne. Frear. Lampert,
John M. Nelson and Voigt, all of
Wisconsin: Boise Dickinson, Hu*i
Kopp, bowell and ToWner. Iowa:
Clague and Keller, Minnesota;
James. Michigan, and Sinclair,
North Dakota. ; .
Representative Longon, 4 Social
ist, New York, stood with the op
ponents.
i The soldier bonus iss?e was
[raised by Representative Johnson,,
! Republican, South Dakota, who
!announced he would vote to per
Imit the house to consider the bill.;
[but would not vote for its passage.
[Mr. Johnson declared no part};
j could survive that refused to give,
a bonus to soldiers and then give
a bonus to ships.
Sharply contrasting views ?were
presented by Representative Mon-,
dell. Wyoming, the Republican
leader, and Representative Garrett,
Tennessee, the Democratic leader.
Mr. Mondell asserted that the Re
publics, administration had- not
been able in 18 months to Cure the
evils left by the former adminis
tration particularly with reference'
to the shipping problem. Turning
to the members on the Republican
side, Mr. Mondell said they could
not escape' the responsibility of
meeting the issue in this congress.
Mr. Garrett declared that.in at
tempting to force the bill through
"the Republican administration
with the death rattle in its throat
was running true to form in fa
voring the special interests." It
was surprising.' he - said; that rile
drive for the .bill should be made
immediately after the administra
tion had been, "repudiated and
j discredi ted" at the polls. ? *
i Chairman Campbell, of the rules
committee challenged opponents of
j the bill to bring forward some
thing better.
I 'Republican leaders asserted'the
?bill would pass the- house with at
! least 25 votes to spare, but they
1 declined to speculate on its chances
j in the senate. The view was'ex
pressed by others that if defeated
it woul? go down at the hands of
the Republicans and that the
question of final enactment by the
house depended-- *upon the fate of'
amendments offered.
i. : ? , r> mm^A
j Cotton Men Gather
Plan to Organize County^
Units is Made
Kingstree, Nov. 22.?A mass
meeting of ihffuentiar cotton and
tobacco growers of Williamsburg
county was held at the court house
here^ yesterday afternoon to take
preliminary steps toward organiz
ing local urtits throughout the coun
j The Cotton Growers Coopera
tive Association and the Tobacco
Growers* Cooperative" Association
together with the extension ser
vice of Clemson College are work
[ ing together to form the com
I munity or school house organiza
! tions. From these various locals it
, is intended to form a county or
iganization. and a meeting for this
I purpose has been appointed for
December '5.
i At yesterday's meeting Mr. T. j
,'M. Cathcart. county agent, pre-!
I sided. The Tobacco Growers' As-i
jsociation was represented by W. E. j
! Lea, of the field service division. |
iE. C. Brown, of the Cotton Grow-]
j ers' Assocarion, was present and
I made suggestions. The object in!
j forming these local and county
i units was explained by Messrs.
j Lea and Cathcart. Besides the so
jcial advantages and promoting
'community interest and studying
j community problems. it was
pointed out that these local units
j would be of wonderful benefit to
! the membership in keeping them
[fn touch with the doings of the
j association correcting false reports,
studying cost of production, im
j proved methods of product Ton and
[grading; developing community'
leaders, increasing the member
ship and doing group work with I
the extension service of the coun
ty.
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j
Cafe men agree to call beef stew
! In ? [ s(?>w on the menus. But what
[will chicKej) salad be called?
"Oh. we called about the flat
j advertised."
j -Well. I did mean to let it. but
'since I've r^a<' the house agent's
[description of it. 1 really feel I
can't part with it."
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1 A loose screw on the door is
worth two in the head.
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If your enmeies weiv as bad as
you think they wuold be worse than
j they are.
SEES "TITANIC"
STRUGGLE IN U* S.
Catholic Leader Issues Warn
ing on Education .
Washington. Nov. 22.?Warning
that a "titanic struggle is impend
ing" as regards the relationship of
Democracy and education was given
tonight by Rev. James Ryan, di
rector of the department- of edu
cation of the National Catholic
Welfare Council in an address be
fore the second annual convention
of the National Council of Catholic
Women. The speaker asserted that
the "controversy" had passed from
th-i stag'* of ac-odemic discussion
and had entered the "broad arena
of practical politics and united ac
tion."
I ' Two philosophies of .education
tare contending for mastery in the
j United States, according to the
j speaker, who described the one as
the nationalistic point of view and
the other as "the traditional Amer
ican attitude."
"I do not exaggerate when I
say," Mr. Ryan continued, "that we
are face to face with one of the
most momentous crises in the his
tory of our country, and may I add.
too, of our (Catholic) church, thai
we ever have been called upon to
participate in. Upon its outcome
depends to a great degree the orien
tation of the United States, the per
petuity of our democratic institu
tions."
The convention also heard the
subject of education discussed by
the Rev. William J. Kirby, a. fac
ulty member bf the National Cath
olic Service School, who spoke or
the subject of the opportunities, as
?well as duties, presented by the
school. The annual report of the
service school was rendered by Dr
Anne M. Nicholson of San Fran
cisco.
?} The day meeting of the conven
tion was occupied in receiving re
ports from the various committeei
and diocesan representatives and. 2
visit to the White House to*meet
the President.
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Korean Mining Outlook Defrress
*,_ .
Seoul. Korea. Oct. 7v?It is fear*
ed the outlook for mining in Ko
rea Is'not very promising, at leasl
in the immediate future.k There was
a great boom in Tungsten ores dur
ing the war as the strong demand
and high prices prevailing made it
possible to open up many promis
ing prospects with a small out
lay of capital from the surface
workings, of which the natives
were able td reap a rich profit foi
themselves and the buyers whe
handled and cleaned the product
With the ~ decline of prices and in
creased difficulty of working with
;add< d depth, the. industry" complete
ly stopped, untir today there is not
a single active working mine.
' All the successful gold produc
ing mines-in Korea are the resull
of a combination of foreign energj
and capital. The only copper mine
in the country that has ever pro
duced in quantity is Kapsan. Bit
jjmindus coal .in. Korea, so far a.c
; developed, fs mediocre at best, late
j m origin, and in many cases rijb
; ning. into lignite. There is a good
anthracite horizon but the most
; accessible was at once ^aken over
bv the navy.
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: SouthV leadership in Sanrttarion
i ? ?
(Manufacturers Record).
? Norfolk has a wonderful ri?ew
j market house. In design, equi.V
; ment, conveniences and health
?conserving mnbvatfdns, it wop3d
I seem that this building leaves
nothing to which modern sanitary
science could add. A great creditio
the important Virginia city; in *hich
it Is located, it is also ah example
to cities elsewhere, in the country
generally as well as in the'south
It is another demonstration, iur
, thermore. of the fact not universal
ly recognized that in many1 mas
ters of sanitation the south ia now
and has long been the leader 4h
, the United States and therefore ^n
the world.
\ The records show that not only
j through southern, initiative was-the
: yellow fever terror banished from
the south and practically from the
world, but nowhere- were stornier
1 and more effective measures taken
! to prevent the bubonic or black
! plague from getting a- foothold in
t America. In whole cities, such as
New Orleans, Mobile and other
! seaports, every building was^tnade
absolutely rat proof, so that , no
where could the plague carriers
find lodgement, even ^should they
break through the shlpside precau
tions against their' dei>aj*atioa.
The individual drinking cup a&d
the' anti-fly crusade, now of; uni
versal adoption, originated - in. the
south.
"I New Orleans, to the unknowing
!{a synonym for,."the city care fof
"^got," inaugurated and maintained,
- a dozen or so, years ago, such ? rig
? id system of inspection and sani
tation in its hotels, restaurants, and
- 'market houses as will be found even
-.today in few if ?ny eitles north of
Mason and Dixon line. Under..the
direction of the State Board of
t j Health," the kitchens of -all pubifc
eating houses were put "in a thor
ough sanitary condition, the mar
ket houses were cleaned - -and
screened, and waiters were not-al
lowed even to carry an uncovered
tray of oyster* on the half shett^to
a customer across the street. ... up
In Stauntbn, Va., a^ market
house was erected -spme twenty
years ago which had every sanitary
feature that could he deyisWat the
time, and all over the south there
has been for years an advance in
these matters, such as the larger
si cities of the north have not. yet
j [known.
Norfolk's latest example aeTves,
> j to call attention to a fact -whioh
. .should be widely known and pcoSt
:|ed"by.
-j Brinks are useful in their piafce
t j but hot where'T seen a fellow set
one the other night. .
Two's company/three's an argu
ment.
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Laugh and the world will laugh
with you, grbim'and they^ll a? Ia?gh
at you. ? ? ? / - -v
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"We are in the market at all times for large or |
small quantities of pine logs and green pine boards..
I Write or phone us if you have any of this stock to f
I , offer.'5
Sumter Planing Mills & Lumber Co.
s?mtee, s. c.
TEN YEARS HENCE
WILL YOU BB PROSPERING m BUSINESS or
LOOKING FOR A JOB ?
IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR NOT
YOU have started TO SAVE.
First N ational Bank of Sumter
Plow your cotton
stalks in -now.
FACTS WORTHY OF YOUR
CONSIDERATION
Our large Capital Stock and Surplus Indicate our Abihty.
Large Loans and Discounts?our Liberality.
Large Deposits?the Peoples' Satisfaction with our Service
and Confidence in our Protection.
We offer you our Service and Protection and want your
Account.
The National Bank of South Carolina
The Bank With the Chime Clock. f
C. G. Rowland, Pres. Earle Rowland. Cashier
