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The Prize Editorial. Announcement has been mad the winners of the Pulitzer wri pr'zes, among which was the edit prize won by Frank M. O'Brier The New Yoik Herald. His edito "The Unknown Soldier " appeare the issue of November ll. It beautiful piece of work and wo of admission into eve::y scrap b Because of the honor given it we print the editorial herewith in i "The Unknown Soldier." That which takes place todaj the National cemetery in Arlina is a symbol, a mystery and a trib It is an entombment only in physical sense. It is rather the thronement of duty and honor. ? man who died for his country is symbol of these qualities; a far m perfect symbol than any man cc he whose name and deeds we kn He repiesents more, really, than unidentified dead, for we can separate them spiritually from war heroes whose names are writ > on their gravestones. He-this sp whom we honor-stands for the selfishness of all. This, of all monuments to the de is lasting and immutable. So long . men revere the finer things of 1 the tomb of the nameless hero \ remain a shrine. Nor, with the shi of time and mind can there be changing of values. No historian st: rise to modify the virtues or 1 faults of the soldier. He has an i munity for which kings might pr; The years may bring erosion to 1 granite but not to the memory of 1 unknown. It is a common weakness of 1 inanity to ask the questions that c never be answered in this life. Pn ably none to whom the drama of t unknown soldier has appealed Y not wondered who, in the sunshi of earth, was the protagonist of 1 days' ceremony. A logger from t Penobscot? An orchardist from t Pacific coast? A well, driller frc Texas? A machinist from Connec cut? A lad who 1 eft his hoe to ri; among the Missouri corn? A lon shoreman from Hell's Kitchen? Pf haps some youth from the tobac fields, resting again in his own V: ginia. All that the army tells us him is that he died in battle. All th the heart tells is that some worn; loved him. More than that no mi shall learn. In this mystery, as in tl riddle of the universe, the wise wo ider; but they would not know. . - What were his dreams, his ame tions? Likely he shared those coi mon to the millions; a life of pea? and honest struggle, with such stat success as comes to most who tr; and at the end the place on the hi. side among his fathers. Today to c .honor ar his last resting place con the greatest soldier of the age, f; mous statesmen from other cont nents, the President, the high judg( and the legislators of his ov;n coui 4;ry, and many men who, like himsel fought for the flag. At his bier wi gather the most remarkable grou that America has seen. And the tom which Fate reserved for him is, ir stead of the narrow cell on the vi l?ge hillside, one as lasting as th:i of Rameses and as inspiring as Ni poleon's. It is a great religious ceremonj this burial today. The exaltation o the nameless bones would not be pos jsible except for belief. Where wer duty and honor, the well-springs o victory, if mankind feai'ed that deat drew a black curtain behind whicl lay nothing but the dark? So all ii whom the spark of hope has not diet can well believe that we, to whom th? soldier is a mystery, are not a mys tery to him. They can believe that th< watchers at Arlington today are na merely a few thousands of the living but the countless battalions of th< departed. "Though he were dead, ye! shall he live"-there is the promist to which men hold when everything of this earth has slipped away. All the impressive ritual of todaj would be a mockery if we did not be lieve that, out in an infinity which as tronomeds cannot chart or mathema ticians bound, the unknown soldier and all the glorious dead are looking down upon this little spinning ball, conscious of our reverence. And when noon strikes, signal for the moment of silent prayer, few of those who stand with bared head will iack conviction that the rites at Ar lington are viewed by other than mor tal eyes. Only in that spirit may we honor the unknown soldier and those who, like him, died for this republic. Unknown, but not unknowing. "Everybody is ready to sustain the law he likes. That is not in the prop er sense respect for law and order. The test of respect for law is where the law is upheld even though it hurts," says Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State. Methodist Minister Killed by Aged Inmate of Alms House. Columbia, S. C., "May 28.-The Rev. Vincent Davis, retired Metho dist minister and superintendent of the Richland county alms house, was shot to death early Sunday morning by John Watts Crocker, one of the inmates of the home. Crocker was arrested soon there after by Sheriff T. A. Heise as Crock er was sitting beside a window with a loaded pistol in his hand, waiting as said "To shoot the first damned dog that came in the yard." Two shots were fired, one enter ing the right nipple, penetrating the heart and lodged, in the clothing on the left side, the other made only a flesh vound on the left knee. Crocker denies the shooting, al though there were several eye wit nesses, a young white girl employed as assistant cook and she saw the su perintendent as he started to hand Clocker some tobacco when the pis tol fired. The girl said Crocker was standing in his door with the pistol in his hand. An aged inmate said she heard Davis and Crocker in a conver sation Saturday afternoon, when Mr. Davis asked Crocker to allow Mrs. Crocker to help in the kitchen. Crock er objected to this, and according to this same witness Crocker made threats against the life of the super intendent. Crocker is a native of Sparanburg county and will be sixty-four years old in October. He came here two years ago and obtained employment in a cotton mill. He had been in the alms house seven months. Mr. Davis is seventy-two years old and retired after serving in the Meth odist ministry many years. He had been superintendent of the home for four years. He is survived by his wid ow and four sons, who are all well known young business men in Co lumbia. Are Your Cows Profitable or Unprofitable ? Clemson College, May 29.-Many South Carolina farmers are just starting in the dairy business, ar.d the closer they follow orthodox busi ness methods the greater will be their success. Starting right will make success easier. A business man who is successful always knows the status of his business, that is whether each division of his business is netting him a gain or loss. So it should be with the dairy farmer. He should know whether each cow he owns is producing enough milk and butter fat to show him a profit or loss above feed cost. To know this he needs only a milk scale, which can be purchased for about $4.00, a milk sheet to en ter the weights at each milking, and a book for entering records, says I. R. Jones, Assistant Dairy Husband man. A sample of milk should be tested once per month. A fair sample should be an average of 2 to 4 milkings, at least of one morning and one night milking, since cows vary in test much more in morning and night milkings 1 of the same day than in correspond- ! ing milkings of different days. The milk should be thoroughly mixed by j pouring from bucket to bucket before sampling. A one-half pint sample is ' sufficient. Any creamery, ice cream factory, vocational agricultural high school, or the State Agricultural Col lege will usually be glad to do this testing. The owner himself can easily learn to test once he gets a Babcock tester. The p ounds of milk for the month multiplied by the test gives the pounds of butter fat. The feed.cost can be figured at the prevailing mar ket price. A profitable cow should produce not less than 6,000 pounds of milk or 200 pounds of butter fat in 300 days. WINTHROP COLLEGE Scholarship and Entrance Exami nation. The examination for the award of vacant Scholarships in Winthrop Col lege and for admission of new stu dents will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When Scholar ships are vacant after July 1, they will be awaided to those making the highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for Scholarships should mite to Presi dent Johnson before the examina tion for Scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships the worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20th, 1922. For fur ther information and catalogue, ad dress Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, South Carolina. Hie Best Hot Weather Tonic GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TOKIC enriches f ht Dlood, builds up the whole system end will won derfully strengthen and fortify you to withstand the depressing effect of the bot summer. 50c J The Pan-American Conference of Women. For women of. twenty-two coun tries of North and South America, all roads, during the last week in April, led to Baltimore, where, in the larg est hall in the city could furnish, that of the Century Theatre, over one thousand women from outside, in ad dition to those in the city, assembled to discuss all that has to do with hu man welfare-the care and education of children, safeguarding of women in industry, sound health and mor als-the fundamentals that appeal to women of every clime and tongue. In the first session, one hour and for ty minutes in length, twenty-two wo men, coming from all of the Ameri cas, sundered in actual miles almost as widely as the north and south poles, spoke, each speech strength ening the note of unity which pre vailed throughout all the conference. Most interesting were the mem bers of this company of women, a goodly number of whom were not only officially appointed delegates from their own government^, but were also specially commissioned to collect information on educational institutions and public organizations of various kinds in this country, which could be adapted to the needs j of Central and South America. The only continent where as yet woman has not attained to the priv ilege of the ballot is South America, but the delegates from Brazil, Uru guay and Chile reported on their suffrage movements, Donna Bertha Lutz of Brazil telling of the bill now pending before the Brazilian Con gress to enfranchise women. The six day program was filled to the brim with enthusiasm, international friend liness and boundless interest. Gov ernment and state officials and edu cators, representatives of the Cana dian, Central and South American countries, as well as prominent lead ers of the women of the United States, addressed the immense au dience. During the last session of the Pan-American meetings a resolution was passed calling for a permanent organization, and the Pan-American Association for the Advancement of Women came into being, with the general aim of better education for all women, freedom of opportunity and responsibility, and particularly the promotion of "friendliness and understanding among all Pan-Ameri can countries for the purpose of maintaining perpetual peace in the western hemisphere." The officers are from the United States, Brazil, Pan ama, Mexico, Colombia and Uruguay. Woman Mayor a Terror to Bootleggers. Dr. Amy Kaukonen, the twenty three-year-old mayor of Fairport, 0., has been creating quite a stir locally through her efforts to "clean up," with special emphasis un bootlegging and gambling. Much to the discom fort of the lawless element, who im agined they would have little to fear from a mere slip of a girl, she is liv ing up to her pre-election pledge to make Fairport as spotless a town as lay in her power, and has already es tablished herself as a forceful ex ecutive, with little mercy for law vio lators. Dr. Kaukonen, who is of Hunga rian parentage, is the youngest grad uate of the Women's Medical Col lege of Pennsylvania. Upon her elec tion to the chief executive's office she calmly appointed herself to sev eral other offices, so that as chief of police she arrests bootleggers; as ex pert chemist, she analyzes, and as a board of health she pronounces against the liquor taken in the raids. Make the Law Supreme and Its Violation Dreaded. It is undoubtedly true that the fla grant violations of the prohibition laws-the very apparent fact that an army of men find setting the law at defiance highly profitable in a finan cial way and not particularly danger ous-is increasing lawlsesness gen erally. When those who are criminal ly disposed see any law held in con tempt, they are quick to take it for granted that the law is weak. In a sense they are right, and it is be cause they are right that the forces which stand fo- law and order are de manding that more teeth be put in the statutes-that the law be made ter rible for those who hold it in con tempt. Increasing lawlessness has brought the country to the point of alarm. And when folks get alarmed they get busy with preparations for protect ing themselves and their property. That is what the law-abiding citi zenship of this country is doing now. It will not surrender its heritage without a fight. Either the law must be supreme or lawlessness will be Albany (Ga.) Herald. Don't say shock absorbers say "Hasslers."-Y. M. C. j CORRECT NUMBER OF EGGS FOR HATCHING Poor Turkey Hatches Often Due to Crowded Hens? Fowl Will Cover From 15 to 18 Eggs, and Sometimes More, Much De. . pending on Her Size-Incuba tors Are Successful. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Turkey hens and chicken hens ordi narily are used to incubate turkey eggs, although Incubators are used where turkeys are raised on a large scale. During the early part of the laying season it often happens that there are on hand a number of eggs that should be set before the turkey hens' are through laying their first lit ter," and become "broody." In such case, and also when it is desired to have the turkey hens lay a second or third litter, some of the eggs have to be incubated under chicken hens or in an incubator. About a week before the poultry are to* hatch a sufficient number of tur key hens should be allowed to sit to take all the poults hatched. They can be given a few eggs from the incu bator or from under the chicken hens. Turkey Hens Are Close Sitters. and allowed to hatch the poults them selves, or at night a newly hatched poult can be slipped under each tur key hen that is to be given a brood of poults, and by morning they will take them, poultry specialists In the United States Department of Agriculture say. Turkey hens are close sitters, and if managed properly they are the surest means of hatching turkey eggs that can be used. Incubators are quite as successful with turkey eggs, however, as with chicken eggs. Poor hatches are a very frequent cause of complaint among turkey raisers, and this ls quite often due to crowding more eggs under the hens than they can properly cover. One egg too many means that every egg In the nest prob ably will become chilled at some time during the four weeks of incubation. Turkey hens cover from 15 to 18 eggs,j|nd in some cases more, depend ing W*Bie size of the hen. Chicken hens of the general-purpose breeds cover from eight tp ten turkey eggs. The turkey-egg capacity of an in cubator is approximately three-fourths of the chicken-egg capacity. YIELD TO PROFITABLE COWS Every Dairyman Should Weigh Each Milking and Have Sample Test ' ed for Butterfat. "Every owner of dairy cows should know if his cows are giving enough milk or butterfat to make a profit over the cost of feed," says A. C. Baer, pro fessor of dairying at Oklahoma A. and M. college. "A scale to weigh the milk in the barn can be bought for S4. It takes only a few minutes a day extra time to weigh the milk from each cow and write the weight on a milk sheet .tacked up in the barn. Once a month a sample of milk can be tested. Any creamery, ice cream factory, or cream station will usually be glad to do this testing. Every schoolhouse can be equipped with a tester at very little expense, and the boys at school can do the test i n cr. "A profitable cow should produce 0, 000 pounds of milk or 200 pounds of butterfat in 300 days. Are your cows all profitable? Why not find nut? Is milking dairy cows a business propo sition with you? If so,- why not ap ply business methods?" GLUTEN FEED FOR FALL PIGS Corn is Not as Satisfactory for Swint as it is for Sheep and dairy Cattle. It has been found that corn gluten meal is not extremely satisfactory as a feed for fattening fall pigs. It ls not nearly so good a feed for hogs as for cattle and sheep. It brings better results with dairy cattle than with beef steers. It seems that the most satisfactory returns are made from corn gluten feed for hogs when lt is fed in a self-feeder alone with corn self-fed in another feeder and tank age in a third feeder. The results are improved if this feed is fed in connec tion with good pasture. KEEP HORSES IN CONDITION _ m injurious Practice to Permit Animals to Go for Weeks Without Some Attention. 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