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Effe %!bbertiser Subscription Price $2.00 Per Year Payable in Advance ADrERb COMA" A o fising R" 44 A~ o Otuisant C048s ot? minO Cat a Word. tered at the poetogloe at Lauxeas, ?.' C, as secas class mail matr. LAU RENS, S. C., MA RCH 28, 1021 A new reason has been added to those already given why the cotton acreage should be reduced; or rather more strength has been added to the arguments for reduction. The govern ment giners' report shows total gin nings for the year of over 13,000.000 bales of cotton, about 200,000 bales more than was anticipated. The market is already glutted. Why glut it more? 0 .. Itallroad workers and meat cutters in $he packing industry are making a desbierate effort to hold on to wur time wages,. but with the change in attitude on the part of the public they will find that their fight will be in vaij. Tlhere is no reason why any class of workmen should be more fav orel than another in regard to time and pay, and even the great body of workers is coming to realize that there aro certain classes whose demands are endangering the prosperity of the coupt ry. REIDUCE ARMAMI-NTS Jjidging by the naval estimates of thi country, England and Japan, the larger nations of the world are ex penling every effort possible in build Ing'up naval power .while the people back home are ipaying the bills. All of -4s thought that at least one result of I ie latA war would be the reductJon of rmamtent, especially since the arct -enemy of peace is .grovelling in the dust. llut It seems that unless son kind of pressure is brought to bear at the national capitals the taxes for 'war armaments will be greater rather than smaller than ever. Arperic-a could well take the lead in redt'cing naval armament. - It is the strobgest nation in the world today and least liable to have a war upon its hands. Even Japan is not thinking sc riously of an armed conflict with this cour.try, despito her diplomatic strokes. In the position she occupies this country ought to serve notice to other nations that she is going to re duce her fighting establishment and that she will expect them to follow af ter her. After a reasonable tine elapses and ot!:er nat ions f,.1 to re spend then it will h,,, tintc to reve' the policy and 1build a navy that A 9 lie the equal of any. Wars arC n::- owvwh and will not end until :he s;orit of conquest is ov ercome inhe 4i nds and hearts of people but the eqst of getting rcady for the-:, can at '.ast he reduced. The cost of thos.. we have alreadyv had are JOE 'OI.IIERT T t1.h% OF' STATE PATRONAGE Cocehranr for Ulstrilct Attorney and Tol hert fo'r i nteri~rali Reinue (''llector. Wash.ng:en \March 1".*-pr'ucely at (i e xtC': t "' :' absenc('e of ri neck tie. Natiorza' Rest: an commt~ttee r:an 3. WV. T';. :'t, of Sout:h (Carolina, wvh:, :r9s0 a'l :2.e ;(.'i:en of R'nhu 1lican :.Stat ch (. Uman. ena. Ied on Pr:esi dent Har iding his :nornint 'a~nd dis cuissed . t:r'n . :na~t rs affct'inig the Afo: emer ir.: fro the P'residlen tial oflece the 'ommuitteeman said that he had subhs:antie nogn) .but had directedI his atte~ tally to two oetes which -aye 7O diately open for appoin .' One of these -is the colli of internnl revenue for South Carolina, which was lest open when formen Governor lleyard resigned. For this place the national committeeman has recommended R. R. Tolbert, of Abbe villle. The qther post is that of -dis trict attorney for the western district, now held by Wtlliam Thurmond, whose renomination last year was not con firmned. Ernest F. Cochran, of Ander eon, has been endorsed -by Committee man Tolhert to succeed Thurmiond. Committeeman Tolbert remarked thalt he was not now "gunnlng" for efficient offcers who were merely serving out the end of terms, for which they had been confirmed, but 'that he would in due course nake recommen dations of persons to ill these posi tions as the ternms expired. Hie inti mated that there was iplenty of time to take uip these casos tis the situation further developed. It has not been officially announcedl as yet, for in stance. saiat will be the modus operandi as to Presidential postomcles. After calling on the President, .hy whom he waos cordlahly received,.om mitteemain Tolbest proceeded to pay a visit to Attorney Oennral Dangherty. YOUTH CONFESS18 ..LLINR. FOEND, Virgil Decker Says the Devil Drove Him to Attacking Hiis Comrade. 'Warsaw,, Ind., March 19.-Offlol1 of Kaciusko county- today, continued the4r efforts to 'draw from Virgil Deck er, 19, of Atwood, Ind., the rfasons for the attack upon his chun Leroy Lovett, of Elkbart, Ind., 'which led to the latter's'death. Early today Decker confessed he had struck his chum oi the head with an iron bar in a cottage oi the Tippecanoe river near here, while Lovett was asleep, and several, hours later returned to the cottage with a horse and buggy, taking Lovett's unconscious form to a near by railroad crossing, where it was struck by a train. "The devil drove me to it," Decker told Sheriff C. B. Moon, after sign Jng his confession, and 'would add no other explanation. He contradicted his previous stxatement that a man named "Guy" was 'with them, finally admitting he had committed the crime unassisted. lie denied that his transfer of his own clothing to Lovett's body had been a part of a iplan to collect insur ance totalling nearly $30,000, payable to Fred Decker, his brother, in event of death by accident of Virgil Decker. In his confession Decker said that about 10 a. Im., on March 12, last, he and Lovett arrived at the cottage, and shortly lay (lown to sleep. lAter he awoke, his confession said, and "the piece of iron you have just shown me is the piece which I used to strike iaRoy on the head." Thinking him dead. Decker said, he went to the home of his brother, and returned about 6 p. In. He said he found Lovett on the flbr and he "lifted him, led him out of the cottage door and helped him into the buggy." evelta times. -he said, he drove across the railroad crossing nearby, trying to make up his mind to leave Lovett on the crossing. "FinalY I saw a train coming from the east," he confessed, "and drove down on the railroad tmck, unhitched the horse, leaving the buggy with Le Roy ying in the seat on the track, and I ma down the road south in the direc tion the horse -went." Lovett died later from the injuries whicb it was at first -belieyed he sus tained only !n the railroad crossing ac cident, "The reason I placed my suit of ov eralls and shoe son LeRoy was that I thought 'when the tmin struck the buggy LeRoy would be cut so bad be could not be identified and some. of my clothes awould be found on him and they would think it was me and I would have a chance to get away." 190 COTTON CROP South Carolia"s Total Guiines Were 1.039.470 500(-0.Illu nd ihiies. Wa'~hngton \'.:. reh 21.Producnon of 'otton. exclusiveC of linter.' amount .i1 .197.775 :-u nning bale's, count ing round as half~ bal es. or 1:.:107.754t equiv1alenUt 7''-pou'tnd hales for the 20cr'o;. according to the I1nal gia ning r'eport f the se'ason issuedl today ly the cenlsuh bur, au. The 11 cro;' w~a: 1 1.325 .32 run ning bales, or 11,4 20.763 ejuiv'a:(rnt 500-pound bales, and the 191] SCrop was 11.futO.450 runningz bas.s or 1 2. ' 4i.:'2 equ~valent .'''-;'oundl tales. An estimnat ' of 1,'.9'75.'' e,;uivalent 7'0-paund i-ales fn: thc 19~2' erap was forec'ast by the de'ar-tmnent c.i agrjiui ture last December'. Included in the 1920 i'rodluction are 211 593 hales which ginners esth.ated would( be turned ou t aft r the March (canvass5. Round bale's inc? leJ are 200,534 compared with 1 17,305 for 19191. American-Egy'ptian included was 91, 905 bales, $omr 'ared .',:th 40.437 for 1 919. S a island included was .75 stn compared with 6,916 for 1919. -The av'erage' gross wseight per bale for the crop, counting r'ound as half bales andl excluding linters, was 506.4 lounds. compared wvith t504.2 for 1919 and 505.6 for 1918. Ginneries opeated for the 1920 crop numbered 19,426 compared with 18, 815 for 1919. Total ginnings, in equivalent 500 pound bales by states follow: Alabama, 670,721: Arizona 1 04,852; Arkansas, 1,177,095; California, 77,443; Florida, 19,194; Georgia, 1,446.577; Lourislana, 388,655; Mississippi, 897,733; Mis souri. 74,332; North Carolina,93$,582; Oklahoma, 1,287,689; South Carolina, 1,639,470; Tennessee, 313,747; Texas, 4,130,197; Virginia, 20,844; all other states, 12,673. New Propelier. A propeller invented by a Massa chusetta man for motorboat. basn B alngle blade that oscillates like a flth's tall or the motion of an oar in sculling. The Purzling Twins, The new baby twins looked as alilte as two pens in a pod. Harold stood looking at thorm and, looking up at his father he asked, "and aren't there even laet ore erights to 'em?" WILt. LECTURE ON"THE TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO" Dr. Frederick Monsen Seleots Vital Chautauqua Topio. Well-Known Explorer and Lottarer Has First-Hand Knowledge of Sister Republio. Dr. Frederick Monsen's illustrated lecture on Mexico will be one of the notable features of the coming Red path Chautauqua. For many years Doctor Monsen ex plored Mexico thoroughly. He photo. DR. FREDERICK MONSEN. graphed and studied the country and the people, and came into personal contact with such men as Diaz, Huerta, Villa, Carransa and Obregon. Doctor Monsen's vigorous presenta tion is entirely unprejudiced by jiny commercial or political interest in the country. The lecture is illustrated by magni ficent pictures. DIVELSIFYING WILL KEEP $110,00,000 IN SO1'I CLAROLINA Columnbia, March 14.-South Caro linlans imported $1 10,0l0,000 worth of food and feedstuffs from the West last yeair, according to figures compiled by the conm'ttee on banking, legislation and warehousing of the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Asso 'ciation. The importation of this enor moua amount of foodstuffs into the tte was ,made necessary by theoag erness of the farmerb to raise cotton, many of them planting seintoen *eres to the plow. In a statement issued yesterday the association declared that there was no reason for the f'armers of the Sta.e to be panic-stricken over the fact that t-he price which c6tton Is now bringing forbids them plansting over a ha crop of it ne't year.. It Id keclared' at' study of the figures collected by the committee on bankins, legislation and warehouses of the association, ought to convince them that a diversiflea:ion of crops in South Carolina will prove profitable. According to the committee statc ment the inpjortation of food and fecd stuffs into South Carolina from the West last yea~r as follows: Corn, $15. ('00,000; mixed feedls $1 3,000,000; hay. $12,000.000; Oats. $l0.000,000; flour, $20,00,00;beef, $15,000,000('; bacon, $20,000,000: eggs and butter, $3,000, c''0 malk ing a grand total of $110,0 000. "These figures." snys the association '"arc purchases from this state Only before the goods are delivered together and every i temn mut be paid for in cash with the freight. T[his amount coui be spent at home if the farmers of S.outh C'arolina wvould get their minds off of cotton for a few minutes.'' HIl0iU''S T'i'l'' 1El) Tren Th'iousand illlb i'et (Out in t he lletantei Garden. Store than l0,000 tulip bulbs have just been planted in the Botanic Gat den of Brooklyn, at Flatbush Avenue and Mtalbone streets, east of Pronpect Park. Tihe tt lii, is of a very ancient or! gin an,' its carly history is quite un certa' u. 1.dnnaeus the father of modern systematie botany, dlescribed the tulip in 17'3, but it is known that the flower htad bee~n cultivated by Europeans for 200 years before that and previously by the Turks for an indefinite period. This modern and most artistic 'way of planting tulip bulbs through the grass, and having the hillsides spotted with their glowing ors, is the latest method of ~gthe natural touch which is the' Vrtion of art. It is told of a famous 'rdener that when he wanted to pit ' t - several thousand tulip bulbs he- sent a man with a bakeof thoi to the top of the hill, where they w 1e to be plant ed, and had hIm emwpty the basket there, the bulbs rolling down the hill and stopping awherever they found a slight depression or some obstable, in a blade of grass or a stick or stone. Where the tulips stopped rolling, the'y were planted, and the result vwas 0 lack of order or regularity, w'hich was "natural" in the highest degree. Here was a group, there one, or perhaps two, and the grass was sprinkled with the single beauties here, there and everywhere. "Since movi4 pear t4e river two years ago, NWe'Wv alWats' used RAT NAP. Watched a vicious water rat, nibbling at RAT-SNAV outside the house. About 16 minutes later he darted off for the water, to cdol his burning stonach, but ' he -died befo-re reaching i" . Three sizes, 86o. 65c, $1.26. Sold and guaranteed by Lau rens Hardware Co., Putnam's Drug Store, and Kennedy Bros, 0* * * 5 *$S * 9. * *$ $ #FECVIAL J5OTAEM. * * * e. 4 A e Potato Sllps-Place your orders with nie for Nancy Hall and Porto 'Rico po tato slips. Roland Nioseley. 36-1t buildhig and Contracting-Now is the time to build or repair your house. .,aaterlal and labor are cneap. See me. G. F". Benjamin. 36-1<t Building Material-See me for all kinds of uildiug material. Just re ceived shipmuent ot .biick, lime and cement. C. H. d)uckett. ui6-5t-pd for Sale-Marlboro Prolific seed coin. . heen planted one year, $2.00 per bushel. Z. H. Tinsley. W.uros itt. 5. 36-2t-pd 1iorse-Clipping-iiave your horses and mules clipped at F. P. & J. Ji. Childress' stable- ord-lt-pd Lostr-Uack sow, weighing about 200 pounds. Uot ou't first of week, Re ward ror her return or Information as to whereabouts. J. T. Brownlee, Watts Mills 36-lt-pd Notice-This is to notify the public that on account of all supplies being sold on a cash basis I will be forced to demand cash of my patients who do not pay in full their accounts this spring. If I can collect the acouitt duo me I owill be in a position to con tinue serving as a physician, but if I do not, it 'will ,be necessary for me to go on a cash basis also for my service. Those interetscd will take due notice Land not be disappointed if they are re fused further credit. J. -1A Donnon, M. D. 36-4t-pd For Trade-We 'have some new .bug gies and wagons which we will either sell or trade. Will trade vehicles for cars or cars for vehicles. Come along With your trading goods. T. B. Sum erel. 86-1t-c Wanted-Mule or horse to work for feed or 'ill pay rent if suitable. W. E. Adair. Laurens Rt. 6. 36-it-pd Buggies and Wagons Cheap-We are now' offering for cash during the next two Weeks a few buggics and wagons at less than cost. T. -B. Sumerel. 36-1t-c For Sale-Two niep.. heifers, one Jersey., one Holstein. Pfices right. Al-, so *fine Berkshire boar ready for ser vice. A. It. McGill, Lauren, Rt. 1. 36-11-p4 Cows For Sale-Some that ai-e al ready fresh and others which will be fresh in a'few days. ;Prices from $40 to $100. T. B. Sumerel. 36-1t-c For Sale-FIve cows, fresh in nrilk. J. D. Culbertson, Madden Station, IAu rens Route 4. 25-i1 Wanted-To buy your chickens. Best market -prices paid. Any quantity. Armstrong's Market. 35-5t-pd For Salv-Sasta Daisies, 10 cents each or $1.00 per dozen. Mrs. J. H. Cunningham. 327 Laurel St., Laurens. 35-it For Sale-500 bushels Cleveland JBg Boll Cotton Seed. First year from the originator. 75c lper bushel. C. A. Ow ens. C!i'iton. S. C. 33-5t-c Cars (heap-Used Fords, 'Maxwells, Chevrolets, Overlands, from $200 up. Cash or terms. Sumerel Motor Co. 36-1 t-c For Sale-1920 model 1 1-2 ton Re public truck, fully equipped with lpneumatic tires and body to haul any thing. lias not been run over 350 miles. Reasons for selling, do not need it. W. 1B. KnIght, 33-41 Noicee-This is to warn all persons from buying or renting my land, situ ated one mile east of Princeton, Lau : en. County. S. C.. ns it is my share of my frather and mother's estate. Any one wishing further information, ad dlress. Miss L. C. (}ilkerson. 619 North McD)'imle Ave.. Andlerson, S. C. 32-4t Notite'--1 have arranged to be in Laurens two days each month. If your piano ntteeds tuning leav~e ordor wi th S. M. & 1.0. 1I. Wi'lkeei & Co. 0. MI. I~fs F~or Sale-Rhode Island Reds (Reds that stay red). $2.00 for 15. W. R. Mc-Cuen. L~aur'ens. 28-tf PRICES SMASHED Organs reduced $50.00 Pianos reduced 6140.00 l'layers reduced $175.00 It will pay you to pick up one of these bargains. O'Daniel & Reid (linton, S. C. Dr. T. L. Timmerrnan DENTIST Lauren., South Carolina Offiee in Peoples Dank Bilding Simpson, Cooper & Babb attorneva at Law. WIU rrettee ta anl Stat. Cuarte' Prompt Attention Given All Basinese I (ASOLINqE SYSTEXS pressors, Computing Scales,For Scales, Show Cases, Account Reg isters, - Rebuilt Cash Registers, Safes, Store Fixtures. THlE UAMILTON SALES CO. Columbia. A. C, 77 *..7 !..-'; SOWE N RS.MARB0 & GRANITE CO. MANAVMURSC - Dealers in everything for the em4 - tery. The largest and best eQuipped thon - umental mills in the Carolinasa. GREEJWOOD, -- S. C. ( Don't Neglect Your Tires - ---They Cost Lots of Money WE GIVE FREE INSPECTION We Build New Life in Old Tires Rim Cuts, Blowouts, Rebuilding and Retreading a Specialty City Vulcanizing Station Oldest---Largest---best At City Filling Station Do not forget that we have a large and 'well assorted stock of all kinds of Belting, Pipe, Valvesi. Fittings, Iron, Steel, Shafting, Pul leys and Hangers, Boltp, Nuts and Washers and anything else you may need in the way 'of machinery supplies at present low prices. Try us. Columbia Supply Company 828 Gervals Street, COLUMJIA, S. C. THE WORLD FAMOUS SOPRANO ALMA GLUCK Textile Hall, April 4.th. Greenville, S. C. First Twelve 'Rows .............................$3.00 Second Twelve Rows .- ............ 2.50 Remainder of Orchestra ........... .............. 2.00 Enti-re Balcony for Students and Teachers..........1.50 (The above amounts ineludd war tax.) Mail orders now lkii' r- eived. Send cheekH, eash or pst office orders to Textile flail, Box 685, Greenville, S. C.,.or Ir. R. I. Peters, 525 East North Street. NOTE :-Patrons who desire to sit in the baleony but are neit.her teachors nor students may proenre balcony seats at $2.00 each. Seats reserved by phone or without remittance will he held 48 hours and then restored to the rack. No exception to this rule. Sendl your check to insure gett ing the desired reservation. Seat s now onm sale at A rmst rong's P harmacy. IWRIGHT-SCRUGGS SHOE CO. SPARTANBURC, S. C. ANNOUNCING Summer Footwear Showing.. All that's new and stylish - in women's and children's shoes, men's oxfords, ho. iery, etc. Featuring. .Satin Strap Pumips High or Low Heels Black or Brown NEW HOSIERY For Men, Women and Children In Silk or Lisle; Plain or Fancy Styles; All Colors. WRIGHT-SCRUGGS SHOE CO. SPARTANBURO, S. C. Prompt Mail O.,der Se...:-e