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Thfr Watchman and Southron - Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Suinter, S. C? Terms: 82.00 per annum?-m advance. Advertisements: . One Square,, first Insertion .-$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 ~ Contracts for three months or longer will be made - at reduced rates. All communications which sub iserve private interests will oe charged t&? as advertisements. rOhituafie3 and tributes of re spect will be charged for. The Snmter Watchman was bounded in TS50 - and the True Southron in. 1866.- The Watchman &n<? Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly the-.best-advertising medium 'Iii Sumte*? - A XEARLY WAGE A new plan for a minimum year- j ly wage for the garment industry "is being considered by the inters J national Ladies' Garment Work- j ers Union. It calls for an unem- j ployment fund to which both em ployers and employee would con tribute.' r?n the ground "that it Ls an obligation of the industry to pro vide>4or^t^e regu^ar -workers a guaranteed yearly compensation." It seems that the average work er is- idle about 100 days a* year. The jgroponent of this plan believes .thai if it is put into operation it will heih^: t? stabilize the trade, and will makr; it imperative for manu facturers to work out . means of making" it more regular and less Seasonal in its employment. Thoughtful employers would be ; glad to obviate the seasonal na- j tpre of the trade, because it would ! greatly , lessen, the labor turnover ! and utilize the machinery to better j advantage. Frenzied rushes fol- i lowed by idleness are good neither j for a business advantage nor for Jtae human beings engaged in it. : WhetherJhe garment trades suc ceed in carrying out this plan to j a ^tiafaetory conclusion or not, it j seems to have ? suggestion for the i equally seasonal coal industry.] Might not .the consideration of the! ^wiio'le "coal- biisiness on the basis' of a yearly minmum wage serve j as-a handle by which to take hold; of the situation ? MOTHER AULIAXCE .????-< -. The announcement that France j and c Belgium ;had concluded "an ; airtight pact for joint action in no | jnatter what circumstances" camej as Mother shock to people who I Have hoped for an end of that sort J of thing. - How long ago it seems since the j igte^.nijpoths of the war and thej t?^^?g^tho" after the armistice. ^eiix7Jailiion? everywhere were. tSSSiig^r' "no more alliances or! b?^?c^s^of power" but a general oo^ope^^^n for the benefit of all! j T^r?^yjijhe League of Nations* of- j fervidL promise of such a result, conciliating as it did a soft of alfjan?e ?' of all countries which would eliminate partial alliances; ?^&jf?&fc of powers. " l*Hai.' Jlope- seems to have failed, j Eyeit?'-''?among members of the i jLfiftB^e'/'pledged to stand by each j otheiv'att? ? supposedly guaranteed f in their rights by virtue of their j membership, there has been one al hans^owher after another. This S,5Fea?3t-Belg2an pact* is^ simply the . *?. . j^?^^egahis emphasis ;:from the j fietthat itT? the "?etfond alliance ar- i ranged since tho opening of the j Genoa -conference. The German-: >?? *v ?. ? ? i **j*i^*?^an par*, was probably more s^ffificihi and full of potential; trouble. There is a!sq a French- { Polish, alliance, the alliance com-i j^rrfidflg Czecho-Slnvakia, Jugoslavia j anH lioumania and generally known i 'as the "Ldtle Entente", the Anglo ?jP^OBeh alliance and others of minor j importance. One thing at lea*t brings a note fc'f "cheer. It is the fact that these I Alliariees afe made* public, as pro-j Tided by the Versailles treaty and j as de-tnanded by modern sentiment, j instead. of being kept secret ac-j cording to the dark methods of the! old diplomacy. Still,, the American; public would rather not hear anyj niore pfor the present. Every one; *&thenvseems to postpone the gen- j era! getting together on equal j terms which forward-looking peo-. pie now regard as the most desii*-j ahle way of handling international j 33 airs.' ? ? 1 M THE DOPE WAVE 1 Many people imagine that, be cause- there has been considerable agitat'Onv in this country against j narcotic drugs and some corrective! legislation has been enacted, the j l-vil is greatly reduced. There is ?^le evidence of such improve ment, % f^v^m?st convincing proof of the j spread of. deadly drug habits is the 1 consumption of opium and its j ! i products. It was bad enough back fin 1909. when the United States j used 470,000 pounds of opium, j many times as much as all Europe j together, and nearly 30 times* as j mux-h as Germany. France or Great j Britain. Ten years'later, however, j the American consumption had I risen to 720.000 pounds, and those I who keep track of the traffic say j the increase still continues. Ways have been found to get around all of "the corrective laws ! yet advised. The "dope" is not j only Imported in regular ways and j and then diverts to improper purposes, but vast quantities are I smuggled in. Methods of sales manship are worked out with dia bolical cleverness. The worst phase of the whole ugly business is said to be the systematic distribu tion of samples of heroin, codeine, j or cocaine among school children, j They acquire the habit easily, and ! then they are customers for life. liiere are hundreds of thousands of recorded victims in the country. ] and estimates of the total number i i i r~n into millions. The evil ought to be taken more seriously by the pub lic, the press and legislative bodies than it has been taken so far. THE HEDRE PROFITABLE j - . '.v *-? ?'??? - v i A "nature writer suggests ih?t ifi i you are going to have a hedge you j may as well have one with money J hanging from it ready for your J picking. He proposes a hedge of j currants, or gooseberries or black- J berries or raspberries^ Some of the latter, nowadays, are "everbearing", and ? productive of desserts, even if not of canning quantities, right through the summer. According to the American For estry Magazine, a productive hedge may be as beautiful as a non-pro ductive one, and the non-productive hedge is always a liability. It has tc be cared for. cut and sprayed just 'til? same as the productive one. A berrj It edge along the outside of one's estate is liable to be aj temptation to' the pissing small b<?y, hut if it is well cared for, it will produce eno-igh for the house hold besidies, ahd the hoy's gooot will is extra. ST*RE>VGTH OR GRACE? J A public lecturer^ direetor of an art school, said recently that physical education should aim at "strength for men and grace for women." He objected strenously to what he knew of modern physi cal education for girls ahd women in the high- schools and colleges. Why in the world, he inquired, should girls do stunts oh the rings, jump the gymnasium horse or twirl around on parallel bars? And still more, why should girls play baseball? Esthetic dancing, j training in posture and grace were] what they required. Let the other | things* be left for the men. In discussing these statements a coftege senior who spends six hours a week in gymnasium activities, in cluding indoor baseball, said: "Is there a real reason why a 1 graceful woman should not know I h^tv to think quickly and act] promptly and understand- team co operation? Those are some of the things baseball teaches women." Said her father: "Is there any reason why the round-shouldered girl should not have her muscles strengthened to a point enabling j her to straighten her posture and j maintain it correctly? As.I under- j stand it. that is what man;' of the! so-called stunts' enable her to do." j Almost any phyiscal ' education teacher will say that girls love the "stunts" and spend their free time before class playing with ap paratus. They do not stand around j in corners practising graceful ges- j tu'res. Btit any physical education ( teacher who is awake to the pur pose of her teaching, as well as its method, knows that health is thej first consideration, and that every j bit of apparatus work, every game j and daneirg step, properly under- I stood and taught, does help to eul- j tivate not only health but also grace i both of body and spirit. ? ' m ? ? ?OMPERS A\i>-BOLSHEVISM It is not surprising that Samuel j Gompeis opposes strongly any rec ognition by the United States gov ernment of the Soviet government of Russia. He has stood firmly against allowing the American Fed eration to be eaten through with Botsiievism. He h;ja, at every turn, opposed Red-ism with American ism. It has not been en easy fight for the veteran, nor is it over. Mr. Gompers very \vi? ely urges Americans to beware 11 "now-we are-good" propaganda "poured out of the Moscow machine into the ears of the world." He does not want the world to forget that it is "?j.1 ily a month since Lenine said: "We encountered the fight against us by instituting terror, a threefold terror. If it becomes necessary 3gain we will have it once more." In many respects.' Though not j all, Mr. Ompers is on firm ground, j And in fact, the agreement of the I powers to assist Russia with loans j and materials does not say any | thing about political recognition, j The important thing in the Rus [ siah muddle is to keep clear as to i the exact situation. Nobody can oust the Soviet government but the Russian people. Nor can they do i it until they are on their fe.er, nor j can they get on their feet without j outside help. It's' going to be a ticklish course I ? ... "in'-. ? ? ? to steer nations and governments through the mess without recogni tion of the Reds as rulers of Rus sia, but perhaps it cam he done. Meantime, Mr, Gompers' warning of the dangers involved comes not i amiss. - ? m m -. . j A Cleveland scientist who has been making' experiments with, "ether drift*' says his results cast doubt on the Einstein calculations. It's a hard world for ordinary, un scientific folks to grope about in. If science isn't even positive that it is relative, what in space is it. anyhow? * " * * The woman who is thought to have killed three husbands to get the insurance money says she has had ihree proposals since the death of her last husband. Some m<m will dare anything. TOO FAT? If you are a man of 50 years, and you weigh 50 pounds roo much, your chance of living to he 100 is only half as great as it ought to be. So says New York's health com missioner, Dr. R. S. Copeland. *T know, absolutely how to live to be 100 years old. and I don't practise what I know. There are in this country 3,500 men and wo men past iOO years of age. and there is rio reason why the average man should not attain the century mark." The great trouble with most people is what Dr. Copeland con fesses?they don't practise what they know. Surely there cannot be any large proportion left who have not yet heard the gospel of fresh air, sound sleep, exercise and wholesome food, in proper propor tions. A great many of them, in fact, do not want to practise what they know. They prefer the pres ent pleasure or the present indo lence to the more or less shadowy future, with its very uncertain ben efit of living to be 100. More and more people every year find out. however, that the present pleasure is greatly en hanced by good health, that present indolence is far less enjoyable than present exercise followed by well earned rest. The excess baggage which is a product of lazy living and uncontrolled appetites is of no good to the carrier or to anyone else. When the pounds and puffs have given way. to leanness and power, when the will and character have been strengthened by the ef fect, then life begins to be worth living again. And whether it con tinues to 100 is a minor detail, not because today is bad, as it used to be, but because today is good. ? ,?? THF. TENANT'S IXXTXG "Moving day" in ?w York is said to have been a glum day for landlords. There was a great pro cession of tenants moving, with their effects, to the suburbs. Large I - - ? .1 numbers of flats are left vacant, i Landlords have been obliged to j compromise on rent and improve- j ments. Likewise in Chicago, where there i's a sort of strike against landlords, j with tenants refusing to pay high rents and establishing tent colonies, j Likewise, on a smaller scale, all' over the country, wherever rents j have been so high as to arouse gen -; eral resentment. The landlord has had his inning, j Now it is to be the tenant's inning, j He insists, reasonably enough, that! rents must be deflated along with other costs of living, and the big j increase of building helps his cause. Another year or two should see rents quite reasonable again. If the tenant is wise, however, he will not press his advantage un duly?as many a landlord did? when he finds fate playing into his hands. What is needed in the real estate business is some preneral agreement, in "every section and every community, as to what is a fair percentage of return on prop erty. Then, with valuation es tablished, rents rould be figured out on a basis mutually satisfactory to landlord and tenant. Very much as Interest rates are adjusted bet tween lender and horrower. -? There's many a rough neck in a stiff collar. BETTERMENT OF ;| r CONDITIONS I i -Or ! Business Situation Compared With That of a Year Ago - ! London, April 15.?Trade and I industrial conditions in this country i on the whole are, in the opinion of ;experts, steadily improving though [somewhat slowly. Xo big revival has materialized, I but there has been a continuous j betterment of conditions, a seem | ingly healthy growth, that has sat ' isfied traders more than any sud j den "revival" which might have I been built on shifting sands and j would have collapse, leaving matr i ters worse than before. ' One or'landing indication of the j trend of affairs Is that money is i easier and more is being loaned, j which indicates confidence in the i trade situation generally, j Encouraging reports come from I various trades, notably coal, tex | tile, and pig-iron. General living j conditions have improved, com j modities having dropped in price and there has been a decrease in unemployment, although it is still large. In seeking for an unbiased state ment regarding conditions from an authority, The Associated Press turned to Robert Skinner, the American Consul General in Lon don. In response Mr. Skinner gave j the following statement: "While governments undoubtedly {continue to have their very serious difficulties of a political nature, j there are signs of improvement in I business which is much less de pendent upon the activities of gov ernments than might appear to-be the case. The recovery of trade is taking place very slowly and tin* I evF-ntfuily but to realize that it is ?recovering, it is only necessary to I recall, for example, the state of thijs ; country just one year ago. "At the moment there was- much j political and industrial unrest, j troops in large numbers were on I active service, the coal industry had j closed down and dependent lines iwere necessarily affected. Prices jwere high, unemployment was much greater than at present and ; the psychological factors disturbed, j "It seemed a year ago as though ! Great Britain had lost her foreign ! coal market; but today it "'s obvious I that this has been recovered to a great extent. "The Manchester Chamber of Commerce tells us that hopes of a moderate revival of trade with In dia have been realized and that in quiries from India, and China have i been numerous. Egypt also has j placed a fair number of orders. I South America continues quiet. I "India, for many ye&rs the great j market for British cotton goods, I has become herself a manufactur er of such goods. "China has become more or less ja manufacturing country absothing, 'say, 100,000 bates of American cot jton last year. South America nota jbly Argentine and Brazil have,-be jgun to manufacture textiles and j generally all countries give signs ' of interest in domestic man.ufact i ure. While this shifting of. pro j duction from one place to another {creates certain difficulties, on the other hand,, far...from indi ! eating depression it suggests the 1 reverse condition. I Britain and United States ex ports from.thercity.of London are suggestive. For the three months j ended March 31, 1922, declared ex j ports from London to the United j States aggregated 17,870.399 plus merchandise valued at .$1,272,589 which was invoiced in American currency only, as against exports for the same period in 1&21 [amounting to ?7,201,675. i "If we remember how prices have j tdropped since a year ago we shall i at once see that not only has there j been an increase in values but still I greater increase in quantities. The : large single items of these exports I which show increase are: leather. I precious metals, gums, linens, scrap jmetaJ, aluminium, linseed oil, and i copper concentrates. '?One hesitates to pick out these cheerful symptoms for purposes of j optimistic discussion because it is j I always very dangerous to prophecy; I and yet he would fail to recognize I the prevailing indications as most ! encouraging. ? ; Boarders realize there's no place j like home when they see strawber i ries on'the market and prunes on j the table. Some women brag about the men j they could have married because' I the fish that gets away seems the! I biggest. I Two married people can live I cheaper than one single man in I love. ? ? ? I In England, a Ford license is ! more than $100. They don't like a I joke. I Money doesn't talk as much as: i people who have money. For the sake of his professional pride, it's probably a good thing .Texse James died before our time. ; Some people think they are in-j i tellectual just * because they skip' I the sport page and read the scan i dal stories. j In some instances there is suffi cient evidence to convict the wo man, and in others the woman in I good-looking. ; Xot enough married men leave. I their business cares at the office. ? and too many leave their good ? manners there. The equator, they say, is not where it was.' Perhaps it got too hoi there. - ? ? ? j Cost of living is said to bo drop I ping about one per cent a monih.1 : First 100 months are the hardest. H ?:-1? ?? ? . The man who has been kicking j about the coid weather will t?ffii be I kicking about the hot weather;" ? I To-day's Best Jokes ?nd Stbries - Hinr to executives: Ypup can't j develop a spirit of team-work and I your ego at the same Time. j ?'? m j The most appropriate place for ja male person to wear a wrist watch is on his wife's wrist. Success is largely a matter of marrying the right woman and let t'rig nature take it's course. The length of time between strike and settlement depends upon the length of time between meals. ^ Tt isn't a moral sense that makes I flapper seem offensive. It is har I dening of the arteries. - j Hell doubtless has its draw backs, hut there probably won't be j any smell of Turkish cigarettes i there. The average American never j feels truly impotant unless he is ! spending more than he can afford. What has become, of the old fashioned young man'who felt wild and wicked when he smoked a cuneb? j It's much easier to impress the j neighbors than to impress the man who makes The' loans at the bank. "Another thing that encourages us to awake ahd breathe the early morning air is the early-morning I fly. i ?? ? - j "Habitual law-breakers are usu | ally mental defectives." We some times fear this is true of habitual , law-makers. j Christ healed the woman with ; ah issue of blood. His spirit can h'ea.l those who suffer from issues of Hat currency. The financial wizard usually : winds up by getting free board and clothes, and that is considerable Accomplishment in times like these. 1 Willie Willis: "Pa, what do they ? mean when they say a woman is dressed in the 'height of fashion'?" ' ? Papa Willis: "About an inch above the knees, my son."?Town Topics. - Boy to His Dad: "Dad, can you sign your name with your eyes shut?" .His Dad: "Certainly." Boy: "Well, then shut your eyes and sigri my report card."?The Boys' Magazine. "Why the golf sticks? I didn't know you golfed?" "I don't. These are merely to im press a hank president. I'm going to strike him for a loan."?Louis ville Courier-Journal. t." "How is it- you have such a good met :ory, Xorah?" her mistress in quired. "Well, mum, I'll tell ye. Since me childhood never a lie have I told, and when ye don't have to be taxin' yer memory to be remcm berin' what ye "told this' one or that, or how'ye explained this or that, shore ye don't overwork it an' it lasts ye, good as new, tell ye die!"?Chrlsitna Advocate. The conjurer was producing eggs from a top-hat. He addressed a boy in the front row. "Your mother can't get' eggs without hens, can she?" he asked. "Oh, yes," said the boy. "How's that ?" asked the con jurer. "She keeps ducks," answered the boy.?Rural Life. "Robert," said the mother stern ly to her offspring who had .just broken a window with a baseball, "I'm going ? to give you a good whipping?hot because you broke the window, but because you broke your promise to me that you would stop playing ball near the house." "Aw. ma." whimpered the boy, "can't you do it. for breakin' the window? Dad'11 have to lick some body for that.?American Boy. .Mother (apropos of young son): Well, wliat's keeping you from tak ing hold of the youngster and mak ing him behave? Father: Xo, no: not armed in tervention?an economic penalty. Take away his dessert.?Le Rire (Paris). Mrs. Worth had just learned that her colored work-woman. Aunt Dinah, had at the age of seventy married for the fourth time. "Why. Aunt Dinah.'" she exclaimed, "you surely haven't married again!" "Yassum. honey. I has.' was Aunt Dinah's smiling reply. "des' as of'en as de Lawd takes 'em, so will I."?Ladies' FlOme Journal. Mrs. Skinner (across fence): 'if 1 had the family skeleton you have I wouldn't parade it before the neighbors." Mrs. Sapp: "Xo, you wouldn't. If you had a family skeleton you'd probably sell it to a medical school."??Boston Transscript. Jr was a wet day, and as the .pretty girl entered the crowded car a man rose to his feet. "No. you must rmt give up your sent: I insist."' said 11 iyoung wo man. "You may insist as much as you like, miss," was the reply. "Im get ting out here!"?Erie Review. "A" Operator: 'Has -Marjorie an"? education along musical lines?" "ii" Operator: "I should say so! Name any record and she can tell you what'? on the other side."? Telephone Review. A Japanese boy came to the home ?Of a minister in Los Angeles re cently and applied for a position. ; Now'_it happened that the house i hold was already well supplied with : servants. so the minister's wife said, j "I am sorry, bmSwe:' re?lry' haven't j enough wor?c to keep another boy busy." "Madam." said the Oriental po ; litely. "I am sure that you must ! have. You may not know what a ! little bit of A-orV it takes to keep I me employed."?Tokio Times. j Patron of the Arts: "Eighty ? five francs? That's'rather expen i sive for the work of a painter who's : still alive." j Art Dealer: "Well, 7/ou might ; give me the money, and I'll see ! what ran be done about it."?Le : Matin. \ ? . T..T-_ I . i The Bo.ss: "I'm afraid you are j not qualified for the position; you 'don't know anything about my j business." Applicant: "Don't I. though" ij ! am engaged to your stenograhper." i ?Boston Transerint. "I want." said the very plain j I girl, "a book entitled 'Cultivate "Tour Natural Beauty.' " "Here it is." said the clerk, who wanted to be- sociable. "Are you i I getting it for a friend?" i And the very plain girl put her j j purse hack into her bag and went ! ; right, out. ? Philadelphia Retail! i Ledger. ;. ? --? ? ! I Willie (to his father who had j ; recently married the second time): j "Ther's a shop in the High Street i just like you. daddie." Father: "Shop like me? What do you mean?*" Willie (getting near to the door): "Why, it's under entirely new man iagement."?Edinburgh Scotsman. 1 - ? . ... "You had a f orty-dollar ga?: bill! i last month," said the dry agent, j "The wife has-er-been doing: a I little canning," said the home dis j tiller. "Hum. I want to sample -some of II he stuff." "Wife," called the home distill-; i er, in quavering tones, "open a can 1 of salmon for the gentleman."? ! Birmingham'Age-Herald. !': He (lingering in the :hall): And, '! dearest, we shall grow old togeth j er, you' and F. i Pier Father's Voice: Well, you j needn't start doing it down there, i need you??Boston Transcript. 1 1 I "When Is your daughter think ! ing of getting married?" I "Constantly.* ?The American Le j gion Weekly. ': ' , i-? Mrs. Baring: "Do you know, j ( Mr. Jolly, that your wife is the j ! most tactfnl woman I ever met?" j I Mr. Jolly: "She's a marvel, j j You'll hardly believe it, bitt she has] j managed to keep an Irish cook and i j an English housemaid for your; ! years.'?Judge. ? ? ? I ' , I "The slump in business doesn't i I seem to worn,' MacTavish in thej j least." j "On the contrary, he's tickled'to ! 1 death because he has so much more j j time- for golf.""' j Bilton: "What do you consider; j the meanest act a man can do aj I woman?" ! ? Mrs. Bilton: "Will her a fortune j I payable at the age of 3;"." j The latest fad in the United ! States is for men to carry photo ! graphs of their wives inside the j crowns of their hats.- An enter ' prism0- firm is specializing in extra ! large rowns for the. State of I Utah.?Eve. Algernon (city cousin): "What J ! has that cow got the bell strapped ! ! 'round her neck for?" j Bobb: "That's to call the calf! ; when dinner's ready." ? Home j i Chronicle. ! " i "So you've been speculating in j ?the market, have you?" "Xot at all; I always lose my' i money on sure things."?Judge. ! "1 wonder how China feels about the peace conference?" "All broken up."?Judge. j First Italian: "Oh, looka data; j bird on da rubber plant!" j Second Ditto: "Sure: he' gutta- j i perch a,"?Harvard 'Lampoon. "Papa, if I was twins would buy ' the other boy a banana too?" "Certainly.-my son." "Well, pap, you surely ain't go ing to cheat me out of another; banana just 'cause I'm all in nn^i piece? "?The Futurist. "A lobster in a hurry, waiter." j "Yes, sir; I'll attend to you right away."?Boston7 Tr?nscript. Tn a small town a man is known ; by the things he tries to conceal, j As a rule, a grouch is just the; triumph of a yellow streak ovex j good nature. It occurs to us that whatever j may be the matter with the world] it isn't gray matter. Civil service enables efficient men! to hold their jobs on and on until] the other party gets into power. The headlines indicate that thej list of hazardous occupations mav j vet include that of h*'ir\K a husband, j France isn't alone in her trouble.' A lot of credit men in the country; know how to .sympathize with her. j. Hardins smokes a corncob pipe.]' Bel his wife is mad. We don't know how much edu cation there is; but it isn't enough. Some of these new drivers think a train ought to take to the woods; when it sees them coming. WANTED?You to come to the! Service Barber Shop. Just been j put In repair. All new and clean. Opposite the postoffice. L. E.r Cubbage, J. L. Mooneyham. ! Funeral Held Fop Charles Wood. The following is a clipping tak en from the Wilmington Dispatch. The deceased is a brother of Mr. F. A. Wood of Sumter: Funeral service for Charles E. Wood, for 40 years a member of Wilmington's police force, who died Sunday afternoon following a stroke of apoplexy, was held from St. Andrew's Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Interment was in Oakdale ceme tery. The service was conducted by Rev. .J. E. Purcell, pastor of St. Andrew's church, assisted by Rev. J. A. Sullivan, pastor of Calvary Baptist church. Mayor .lames U. rowan, com missioner of public safety, made a most impressive talk at the church. He paid a beautiful tribute to the deceased and he was profuse in his praise for the entire police force. Mayor Cowan had previously di rected a. letter to the entire force calling upon them to attend the funeral, and practically the en tire force responded to the notice. In addition there were hundreds of other friends of Mr. Wood who went to pay their respects to the memory- of Wilmington's oldest po lice officer. Many beautiful flora! designs, in cluding one sent by the po?cc de partment, were placed on the grave. The pallbearers were May or James H. Cowan, Commission ers J. E. Thompson and R. C. ?Cantwell and Chief Claude C. V?shwell, honorary, and apt.. W. C. Wo?l?rd. Sergeants W. R. Ap pieberry and E. J. Grimsley, and Officers S. H. Fulford, J. S. Bryant adn E. Z\T. Sessoms. active: Record er's court, which was in session yesterday afternoon, recessed for the funeral hour. Mayor Cowan's letter to the police department with reference to the death of Officer Wood under date of May ??, reads as follows: "One of' our comrades In arms has- fallen. One who yesterday was in our midst, companionable end apparently in the full bloom of health, has answered the final summons. "Charles E. Wood has entered info eternity. Last night attentive to duty, faithful to his trust and alert to* protect the lives and property of a great city. Tonight he lies silent and lifeless. Truly, in the midst of life we are in death." "'He was a patriot to his duty, a br?ve warrior in the perform ance of that duty and a sentinel who was always alert at his post. He was a credit to the Wilmington police force'and his memory is not ohly sweet to us personally, but, in the manner in which he lived up to his trust, sets up an example worthy of emulation and adds lau rels to the history of the force, which we love and in which we take pride. "A veteran in the service, yet he was always a youth in vigor and in spirit in the discharge of his duty; whether in the heat of summer or the " bleakness of the Winter?and no matter the hardships, no.mat ter the danger. A valiant soldier has gone to his eternal slumber. "There is a great bond of friend ship and comradeship that links the brotherhood of policeman. Perhaps, it obtains its greatest strength because' they face dangers and endure hardships together and stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the front line trenches in protecting the safety of the public and in ad vancing the weal of the commun ity. Only those who have served in the great ranks can appreciate the difficulties that beset the path of the policeman, the obstructions that"he encounters and must over come, the rigors of weather that he must meet. Yet he must always 'carry oh,' no matter the trying Circumstances and nd matter if people just fail to understand. For that reason' above all others, no doubt, the tie of brotherhood is stronger. So when the Grim Reap er makes his visitation a message of deep grief is sent to the hearts of the entire force and a remem brance of keen sorrow is left with them. He who always has a kick coming finds it eventually arrives. Generals' names in the Chinese war sounds like a juggling team. SAVANNAHTO BE BRIDGED ! Chatham County, Georgia, Votes Bonds For Half Cost of Bridge Charleston, May 10.?Chairman I R. Gr. Rhett of the state highway ! commission. today echoed the satis i faction felr here over the success Iful outcome of the Savannah j bridge bond election yesterday, as ?this assures the Chatham county's I share toward the building of that I $600,0<FO span over the Savannah j river, an important link in the I coastal highway route. The Char I lest on-Savannah highway, most l ly sand^-grave], win. it is' said, be Icompleted before the bridge is J ready for use. South Carolina" and ('federal aid will provide the rest "of j the-funds for the bridge.' - " j Federation of Music Clubs Oftei I Prizes to American Composers. j Peoria. 111., May 4.??s a sfim j ulus to American composers, the j National Federation of Music Clubs" .today announced a prize compe-. [tition for musical productions, i which will be performed at the j thirteenth biennial festival of ths ?organisation at Asheville, X. C, in i.lnne. lf?23. j The prizes total $2.900, and are I divided into ten classes including a lyric dance drama, for which $1,000 is offered. ?400 for the lib retto and ?<;00 for the- compo j sition. ] The competition is open to all ? American citizens, it was announcr I ed by Mrs.. Helen Harrison Mills, of this city, editor of the Official Bul letin of the federation. Mrs. Mills stated that Mrs. Edwin B. Garri gues, chairman of the division of American Composers, Philadelphia, i*a., was sending out detailed infor mation concerning the competition. The list of prizes follows: ! Class 1?Lyric, Dance, Drama? j $1,000.00. ($400, Libretto?$680, ; Composition, open to any American citizen). Class II?Chamber Music-^foGO. (Poem, "Spring in Sicily" by Cecil Fanning). Class III?A One Act Opera? $500. Class IV ? Women's Chorus? $250. Class V?-Trio for Violin, ViOlin j cello and Piano?$150. ? j Class VI?Chorus for Unchanged (Children's Voices?$100. j Class VII?"Violin Solo?$100. Class VIII?Federation Ode? $100. Class IX:?Violincellb Solo?$100. I Class X?Song?$100. ?9F o ? ? ? ? j Products of American Industry. {? Washington. Mat 4.?American\ productive industry's output reach ed the enormous total of $87,000, ! 000,000 in gross value in 1919, Cen isus Bureau statistics show. < The I unprecedented total, undoubtedl3J| I due . to some extent to the higjflg I prices prevailing in that year, ? an increase of 186.7 per cent,? ? $5C,000,000,000, over 1909 wj| ! year's products has a gross vaut^ I Of $30,400,000. The stat?- - of j productive industry, whi.~ em ; braces manufactures, farm products 1 and mines and quarries products.^ [as .announced by the Census Bu-* j reau for 1919, follow: Manufactures, gross value, $62. j 418.078,773, compared with $20, j 672,05LS70 Tor 1909. ! Farm products, gross value, j $2L425,623,614, compared with ! $8,494,230,307 for 1909. I Mines ? and quarries products; [gross value, $3,158,463,966, com-, j pared with $1,238,410,322 for-1909. With a war in China, that fa mous open door is marked "Exit/* ?i? ? ? ? Any boy can tell you that an ap ple a * day "won't" keep the doctor * away if it is a green apple. 666 % Cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious^ Fever. It kills ih& germs.. CONDENSED REPORT OF THE CONDITION 0*P ? THE FIRST NATIONAL ~BANK OF SUMTER, S. C. AS the call of the Comptroller of Currency at the, close of buStae&tf May r>. 1922 RESOURCES . LIABILITIES Loans and Discounts.$ , 780.240.07 ! Capital Stock .._._.$ 100,000.00 Overdrafts . 1,667.96 0 , ?; ,C?AAi'A? United States Bcims.. 111.000.00 (earned) .... 1,0,000.00 Other Securities_ 27.330.12 I Undivided profits Banking House. H',000.00 j (earned) . 25,650.63 Cash in vault and in j Circulation -. 49,100.00 Banks . 1.60?48.15 } deposits .- 799,145.57 5 per cent. Redemp Bills Payable. None tion Fund. 2,500.00 ! Rediscounts . None Total.S1.123.S96.20 j Total .$1,123,896.20 DEPOSITORY OF THE Cnited Slates, Postal Savings Fund. County of Sumter and City of Samte* We solicit Accounts of Corporations, Mau-facturcrs, Merchants and Individuals. I The National Bank of South Carolina Of Sumter, S. C. The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY c apital $300,000 Surplus and Profits $230,000 STRONG AND PROGRESSIVE Give ns the Pleasure of Serving YOU. The Bank With the Chime Clock. C. G. ROWLAND, Pres. EARLE ROWLAND, Cashier