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The Watchman and Southron .??[ ? ; , . , Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Compaoy, V' ? . Sumtex. S. C. ' Terms: &2LQ0 per ami um?in ad ranee. Advertisements: One Square. first- insertion -.$1.00 Every subsequent insertion '?.--?* ,5G Contracts for three, months or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will je charged for as advertisements. Obituaries - and tributes of' , re spect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was i founded in 1SS0 and the True ! Southron in 1866. The Watchman j and Southron now has . the com bined circulation and Influence of beih.ol the-old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium j H'Symter. I Iti.'l. !? ?II I_Ii,????I II 'IF GREEK AXD TURK . The Turks are driving.the. Christ ians out of Asia Minor. . Having massacred nearly all the Armen ians, they are defeating and ex pelling the Greeks. Verjr well: Inscrutable are. the ways of Providence. Possibly the j Christians concerned -had It com irrg to them;~for their sins, though! from this distance it Icoks more like ah. undeserveA misfortune inGieted upon the Asiatic .Christians by smr f ut Alhes. Great Britain,. France and -Italy might hav* saved them. Pos sibly America herself might have saved them, by vigorous action inj .time. i At any rat*,, the.thing is done. | And. since it is- done, why should j ??*>r the civilised world make thej best- of a bad -business by evening things up geographically? If. the Greeks are to be swept ok into Europe, where they are a: .home, why not sweep the Tarks back- into Asia, where .they i>elo?g? < That has-been too long delayed al- j v^ady. The time is ripe, if. the I Pavers, are capable of "manly ae- j WAR ON KOAIfr SIGNS ? The state highway department in | Ohio haV gone on the warpath i against advertising signs cluttering? up the roadways. ? Recently it torej down and carted away, in onej county, nine truekloads of signs; found along the main touring j routes. -The -official, objection to thej sgss is that they obscure the traf- ; \ Sc signs and. confuse the motorist, j Their elimination for this, reason] is- permitted by a state law. Here- ? after, announces-the state superin- ! tertdent of highways, no sigps other i than traffic signs will, be permitted ' Tnthis the 6,0-foot limits allotted i icr-reads. Within those limits! ?igits may be erected only by thej 'jixkte highway department. >" Such action is excellent as far as i it gees, and deserves emulation! wherever no move has yet beenj made; to regulate the various com-! mc-rcial and political signs -and; pesters that ,:are a feature of most | American highways. There far a j graving popular notion, however.! "i that the limits of exclusion should ; be made wider, and that landscape j beauty-is almost-as good a reason 1 . fcf restriction as traffic safety. A New York department store which had difficulty in collecting an overdue accounf from a woman customer held her false teeth when she sent them in* to be re paired. She paid the bill without any further delay. That's putting,' . -.' . .1 t??th in collection -methods. SAILING AIRPLANES. -:? The importance of the recent; airigHding contests in France and; Germany should not be underesti- j mated. This building and sailing j of '"gliders" or engineless planes is; more than a mere sport. It is at scientific competition that will mean j "much to the future development of ! aviation. ? # i It is a question of perfecting the i planes?the lifting and steering j part of the ?ir machine?and! Ir-arr.ing to handle them most ef fectively. And thie is the biggest I problem that remains to be solved j in the mastery of the air. Airplanes have been driven far; and fast, but only with the expen- i diture of great energy. A bird flies **r and fast with little effort. Thej ^jit-en plover travel3 from Nova.; S-jotia to the Antilles, :T.400 miles, using only two* ounces of fat for i fuel. At this rate, says a scientist,! *n airplane w eighing half a ton! Should Sy 20 miles on a pint of j ?- gasoline. ; 52s9 soaring of birds?their rising \ cr remaining motionless in the! ?ir without i erjeptible effort?has j always been a favorite problem for scientists. If man could only do that! And just lately, man seems ; - cn the UT^'e of doing it. A Oer-fl man the other day rose in a light ; bree;>' on a sliding olanc and re- j main*?d up for mor*- than two hours r -; That was the most amazing step in aviation since the Wright brothers first proved flight pos [ sible. If a plane bearing a human be ing can be flown without an en gine. the addition of a very little mechanical power will suffice for dependable flight.. We shall have planes of extreme lightness and i buoyancy, with engines of absurdly I small weight and power, for gen ; eral use. We may even have "air j bicycles," propelled by the hands and feet of the . operator. Then I men will be really flying. j COLL*GE CHANCES j I __ j It is easy , to find among success- \ j ful Americans both men and wo- i men who had no-college education. It is. also easy to find, among the unsuccessful, men and women who had every opportunity of college and technical- or professional training:-' The Children's Bureau of the Department of. Labor has- recently been answering the question of why children should finish the eight elementary grades and high I school before going to work . at gainful occupations. Dean Faruell of the Kansas Agricultural College tells why older boys. and girls should go through eollege if they can possibly do so. He says: . "An American with no school ?HgHHHfMMPllH ing at all has one chance in 150,- ? 000; of becoming eminent. With j a high school training he has 87 j times as good a .chance. .With .a | college education he has 700 times as good a chance." . . No sure w?y has yet been dis covered for learning in childhood which is the one .out of 150,000 who will achieve big things in spite of lack of schooling, and which are the 699 who have real latent ability, -needing only the wider opportunity and training of school and college to make it bear good fruits - ? .< ?--...?. '* . ?? ? FOR mELAND.*' Bernard Shaw, himself a loyal Irishman, has been indulging in some plain, remarks to his fellow countrymen anent the recent guer rillaWarfare carried on by the re publican -faction. In his judgment, "the luxury of .dying for Ireland after doing Ireland all the dam age he can" is. all that Irish rev olutionists can hope for hence forth. ... That verdict seems justified by. recent Irish history. The rebels against the Free State have done their utmost; without -visible pro fit, to- anybody and with only harm to the great body of ? Irish people who, like the common, people ev erywhere, want peace and order and a chance to enjoj^ life and get ahead. . ?i The - assassination of Michael Collins has only emphasized the anomaly of this rebellion by a lit tle,, mistaken group of . Irishmen against the wishes of the major ity. Lamentable as that tragedy has been, it may .serve a usfeul purpose by clarifying the situation. The overpowering indignation of ? the Irish public may bring the rebels to their senses. The notice said to have been giv- I en by their leader, De Vale ra, that j they might stop fighting if they j wanted to, should help along this! process of restoring sanity to a dis- j tressed land. Surely it is not; necessary that Irishmen should be always dying for Ireland.. The time has come-to- live for Ireland. FRESH AIR FOR MOTHERS, j - Fresh air camps for youngsters | have been established as part of j the child welfare work of most of j the larger towns and cities. Of j course, all the poor little sufferers j in hot tenement districts are not j provided for. and those who have } an annual outing in the country! rarely get more than a fortnight of it. Still, they are better off than their fathers and mothers. One neighborhood house in New York City was asked recently by a mother cf five children whether she herself could be sent to the country. Her little Johnny is go ing to have two weeks at a camp, j two of the girls will have two I weeks on a farm, and so on. But | the mother, who does washing j regularly, in addition to keeping her own house and looking after the children cannot get to the country or go for any sort of out- , ing at all unless she foots the bill, j Her husband is making $18 a w?*ek. i but it takes all his earnings and i hers to keep everybody clotbed j and fed and housed. The neighborhood house to which she appealed knows that ! there are many other mothers like her in the city. A fresh air fund 1 for mothers is now beinjc started. ' and the welfare workers are look- \ ing for nioe places in the country where, a few mot her.? could lx' j boarded for two weeks, or a little j > * ] cottage which, could be turned {into a sort of summer camp, j It is a useful movement. Fath !crs and mothers who live in hot, > cramped quarters and work con tinually under a strain to provide the necessities of life deserve va cations if anyone does. HEAD OVER HEELS. j It pays to think. This is not a 'new idea, but at least it has the i merit of always being: a good one. i A young woman in a certain co?n |ty recorder's office had been made head of the. office mailing depart ment with. a tidy increase in sal ary because she used her brain. This yourig woman noted the ; time wasted because citizens had to call in person -for the docu ments left to be recorded. It oc | curred to her that much of this ? time could be saved by the sim ple process of mailing the docu ments to their owners. She pro posed the change to her chief, the suggestion was followed, and pro motion was teW reward. The tax payers whose time she saved could well afford to pay her increased I salary. Few person i make the mail the convenience that it should be. Practically all business and do mestic banking can be done by mail.-yet-an aggregate of years is wasted weekly in small banking errands. It is frequently more practical and just as inexpensive to do shopping or marketing by tele phone. Yet how many women take advantage of the convenience? ?Xone but the thoughtless reck on their time as worth nothing and waste -it in non-constructive run ning around. The boss makes more, money than the office boy. He uses his head?the boy uses his heels. When the boy-learns to use his head to save his heels he will be boss. EUROPE EV" CANS. .. A. national .canning, contest has been arranged by government au thorities for girls who are mem bers of canning clubs organized, and directed by the agricultural ex tension department. The winners will be given a three months' trip to Europe. The object of the contest is "to encourage thrift in the conservation of all available products during the season, to emphasize through camiing the importance of a con stantly well-rounded diet for farm and rural home efficiency and fo stimulate an interest in rural club work among America's boys and girls." The preliminary bouts are being staged all over the country this tall by the young exhibitors in their usual annual club exhibits at local courfty and state fairs. Those who win highest honors in these elimination contests will present their masterpieces for a final try out at the great li\re stock show in ' Chicago in December: The four who win top honors here will get the coveted trip abroad. The rural club work in general j and this contest as a feature of it are great things, riot for the prizes which are won but for the things! they encourage. Those who fail to win the trip, or even one of the minor medals, need not grieve. Young people who are learning exactness, thrift, economy and in-1 telllgent contact with their fel low-beings in any line are already upon the road to independence and- soon can purchase with their j own funds whatever . their tastes may indicate. ?-? ' - - ?? ? - 1 ? ?'? ? ? ? ! WHEX THE PUBLIC ARISES. ? President Harding has sent a let ter to the president of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, commend ing the efforts of. that organiza tion to forward the Herrin investi gation by raising funds to finance it. j People generally will be glad to know that the matter is going ahead with public support, though it seems a little strange that in any state private financing should j be necessary in such a case. W hatever forced the issue, it is significant that the law-abiding element among the private citizens! of the state has evidenced its de- j termination that justiie shall be j done. When the public arises to demand its rights, genreally some thing moves. The example of the Illinois citi- ; zenry may well be heeded by the ! country at large as a hint to arise and demand that the great in- j dustrial disputes now menacing the life of the nation be settled with out further delay. The president has spoken to con gress for the nation. Cannot the nation speak to congress for itself, backing the president in his de mands for clean, fearless legislation to clear the situation? And can it not speak with an equally authori tative voice to the employers and employees locked in the disputes (which darken the national outlook ? j Financial contributions will not be j necessary in . this matter, but the j force of public opinion should be j brought to bear. It is in re legal - ?ing great public questions to the j status of a private fight and keep ling hands off accordingly, that the j peace-loving majority loses out. CLEAN UP LOCAL BOOTLEGGERS i Police Department Continues to Bring Them In j The round-up of bootleggers and j liquor peddlers started by local of j ficers a few weeks ago continues : unabated and as the result of raids ! made Friday and Saturday which ? 'brought home the bacon' several j more offenders have faced the magistrate's court receiving heavy fines. If the continued effort of j the police to stamp out the liquor I traffic in Sumter continues with the vigilane eand# .follow-up it has of late, the liquor* dealers will soon find the high ? Cost of .doing busi ness all out of proportion to the profit they have been receiving from the thirsty.. ? The first offender caught in the! police net last week was Sharper English, colored, who faced the re- ! corder on two charges, that of! transporting and having liquor in! his possession. He was fined one hundred dol lars on each charge, which was paid. ' This makes $"300 English has donated to the city, as he was' fined $100 for having liquor in his' possession about a month ago. ! Saturday evening three more col-! jored- men were caught with the) I goods at their homes where they i were- conducting a 'cash and carry' business in /liquid corn.' At record er's court this - morning, Wm. j Vaughn-'wask fined 520^ or sixty days, Ben McLeary $100 or sixty! jdaj-s and Gfandison Heriot $100 I or sixty days. Heriot paid his j fine. After bringing him- to Sumter two rural officers visited the home of' Heriot and ? located a small home made stilt which was brought to' town and" now reposes at the' police station. Anyone looking j over this still will not wonder at j the effect some of the liquor sold i locally has on the human system. ! It i's made from an old oil can of (about ten gallons capacity, filthy j with dirt and with lead pipe fit j tings. From such as these comes, the real 'tin can' brand with a va riety of poisons. LIFE TERM FOR MURDER ? ? ??? ?? Greenwood. Sept, 17.?After de liberating 16 1-2 hours the jury in ! the case of R. Clayton Underwood j and Berry B. Hughes, charged with [ ! the murder of Oscar Mitchell, I 1 Greenwood baseball player, report- j ed to-Judge H. F. Ritre this morn ing at 10 o'clock that they had agreed oh a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, with recommendation to mercy, in the case of Underwood, but they could not agree on Hughes. In imposing the life* sentence carried by the verdict. Judge Rice, pronounced a warning against the influence of liquor. Underwood re ceived the sentence without a tremor but his wife who had shown no emotions throughout the trial burst into tears. A motion for a new trial was overruled by Judge Rice and he again refused to direct a verdict of not guilty for Hughes. - Bail for Hughes was fixed at $5,000. The life sentence for Underwood was the first sentence ever pro nounced in this county on Sunday and one of the few on record in this state. The trial of the two men con sumed three days, during which time hundreds packed into the court house to hear the trial of a ease that had aroused Intense feeling. Oscar Mitchell, Greenwood sec ond baseman, was shot to death by Underwood in front of Underwood's father's boarding house August 8: Underwood claimed that Mitchell had made an attack on his wife. The state introduced evidence to disprove the attack story. Young Men's Business League News ????? ! The Young Men's Business League lunched as usual at the Claremont. Thursday. Among re ports on the ' month's activities, j one of interest was that from mer chants' saying they had experi enced direct results from the ad vertising campaign recently launch ed by the league. Direct results from the booster trips were also told of. Secretary Ewing Gibson would be grateful if the members would bring him the annual dues mak ing lighter the work of collection, j Election of new members was; made an especial order for the i next meeting. The last meeting was largely at tended. Colored Man Runs Amuck. Sunday forenoon Julius Zuel, j who it seems has somewhat of a j reputation as a bad man. got all j liquored up on chain lightning and j after raising a general disturbance , in the neighborhood in which he! lives started to take a little target practice with ;< revolver at his brother. Julius' aim was bad and only a flesh wound was inflicted. Local officers went to the res cue and brought Zuel to the sta tion house. After a hearing of the ca*se be fore recorder Monday morning the case was referred to higher eourt. Several other cases for disorder ly conduct, vagrancy and drunken ness were disposed of. Altogether the police had a busy Saturday night and Sunday. [end of rail I strike is not , yet in sight j Strikers Demanding Condi tions Not Specified in the j Baltimore Agreement Chicago. Sept. 17 (By the As Iciated Press j.?With the shopmen's; I peace plan threatened by outbreaks i >due apparently to misunderstand-j ings and with the New York Cen-! tral and the Southern railway an nouncing their failure to reach j agreements with the strikers, roads ! not-participating in Baltimore ne gotiations reported a return to I normal operation of their shops j tonight. I One of the larger lines mentioned j in ' connection with memorandum of agreement adopted by the shop I crafts' general policy committee ! of. 90. here Wednesday with the ob ' ject of ending the countrywide strike through separate agreements with individual roads, che Rock Island and the New York Central had definitely announced a failure to reach an agreement and con ferences of the Southern with un ion leaders had been no more suc cessful as the strik'_ entered on its j 12th week. < j In the case of the New York Central, a statement was issued by the road expressing a willingness to fulfill the memorandum of agreement reached at Baltimore at conferences between B. M. Jewell, head of the strikers, and represent atives of certain of the carriers, but it was asserted that represent atives of the shop crafts "attempted to interjeet questions not mention ed in. the text and clearly outside the agreement insisting that these matters be' included." The road also announced it would continue to employ men to fill existing' va cancies in its shop force, adding that at present it had 32,951 men at work compared with a normal of,,,35,192. ?The same misunderstanding resulted in disturbances yesterday when strikers begen to work here in./the shops at the Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. In some cases the men were reported to !*ave .demanded that non-union workers be' dismissed 'and in others that their striking [foremen be reinstated. Today of ificials of the Northwestern an nounced that they expected 12,000 iof the strikers to return to work [tomorrow morning. This number |.would be in addition to the non [ union men, estimated to number about 60 per cent, of the normal [force. More than 15,000 men were expected back on the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul. At the same time railway executives who have refused to come in under the Bal timore plan reiterated that they are ,in a way of recruiting: full shop forces, and that the settlement talk had resulted in large numbers of men returning to work independ ently of any action taken by the i union leaders. Many of non-set- ? tlemeht roads were said to havej forces ranging from 75 to 100 per1 cent, normal. These roads have formed new organizations to sup plant the striking shop crafts. . Among the roads which have an- i nounced agreements with their shopmen independently of the un- i ion are the Santa Fe, Pennsylva- j nia, Union Pacific, the Burlington, the Illinois Central and the Chica- j go, & Alton. W. G. Bierd, one of the two receivers for the Alton, is sued a statement formally an-1 nouncing terms under which strik- j ing employes had been invited to j return to work. It expressly stip- j ulates that they shall return as! "new emplosfes." The invitation is extended to the j former shopmen "with the excep tion of those barred from reem-1 ployntent by their direct-violation | of rules or flagrant insubordina- j tion and such men as have been guilty of extreme violence during j the period of the strike.' The strikers were offered their j former standing as "between them- j selves." That is. they were to take j seniority rank beneath new men j and those who refused to join the j walkout. Mr. Jewell departed early tonight j for New York, where he said he would enter into conferences with j the New York Central officials on j Tuesday in the expectation of j reaching a speedy agreement un-1 der the terms of the Baltimore I plan. At union headquarters it i was said only trivial differences! prevented the signing of a sepa-1 rate peace with that road on Sat- j urday. These differences, it was ( said, would be cleared away by] submitting them to the arbitration j board provided for in the Balti-j more plan. According to the union leaders; the men' on the following roads will; return to work tomorrow: The! Chicago & Northwestern; Chicago, j Milwaukee & St. Paul; Baltimore ! & Ohio. Seaboard Air Line and the | Green Bay & Western. ? m ? ? Chamber of Commerce Notes. j - i To The Bankers. Merchants. Farm ! Land Owners and Other Business ! Men and Women of Sumter j County: Cotton as a chief cash crop in Sumter county is a thing of past | unless some unexpected solution of boll weevil problem occurs. With j practically every tobacco produc ing state organized, and not less ! than fifty per ent of the tobacco j produced in TJL*2. and for the next; four years very likely seventy-five j per cent fo tobacco production i sold under the splendid price in- j creasing methods of the Tohac- i co Growers' Cooperative Market ing Association, and with prices for all grades of tobacco during 1922 j increased from one to two nun- j dred per cent because of this sys- j tematic and organized, business- j like method of marketing, and taken in eonncetion with the sen-; sible but law-enforced system of j preliminary grading and tieing of J tohacco which cleans the tobacco I land makes it -worth much more j and look much better, it looks to j me like tobacco as our chief cash crop for years to come is a "safe ' bet. It can not be successfully dis puted that this summer tobacco of j even medium quality, properly [graded, cleaned of sand, and prop j erly tied brought profit-making I prices, and that the better grades ! on both the independent markets land cooperative association mar j kets brought what farmers called I "fancy priees" and much more [than, the average prices for years ! past, medium grades bringing from ! sixteen to twenyt-three cents and jthe better, well cured and well [graded qualities selling from thirty I to fifty cents a pound. Even the "trashy" or "sand lugs" and I "scorched and green" tobacco sold j for one to two hundred percent j more this year than the average ; prices for several years on both in dependent and cooperative markets. In a conference with several.lead ing business men and farmers of Sumter a few days ago I was told of an important movement to get our Sumter county banks and merchants, large land owners and other business and professional t men and women to join together to raise money with which to employ a practical and experienced tobac | co demonstrator to come to Sum ter county in December ,1922, to show our farmers how to prepare tobacco beds, prepare tobacco lands, set out plants, cultivate, harvest and cure tobacco. Mr. K. B. Belser is the leader m this very sensible movement and I wilt not dwell further on the details of this plan to secure a tobacco expert, leaving further information to him, except to say that it looks like a very wise thing to do. ? i Thousands of acres of splendid j bright leaf tobacco producing lands are available in every part of Sum ; ter county, some lands being adapt ed to one variety and some lands to other varieties of tobacco. Th:.; has been said by many experienced tobacco producers and warehouse managers and by numerous tobac co buyers representing tobacco ex porting and domestic tobacco com panies. About all that is necessary to find out what lands are suitable for certain varieties is to get -one or more experienced tobacco dem onstrators who know something about tobacco to put in all of his time in the country districts for eight months, investigating, visit ing our farmers, and talking with the farmers and then staying "in the stix" until tobacco selling time showing the farmers what to do to produce a tobacco crop that will sell next su ."imer. This tobacco demonstrator in addition to visiting individual farms can hold a num ber of community meeetings in ev ery township and school district and backed up by the presence Of leading land owners and experienc ed Sumter county farmers who pro duce tobacco, and by numbers of Sumter's merchants and bankers and by numbers of country mer hants also^ he can reach thousands of tenant farmers and other kinds of farmers who need" information regarding the production" and cur ing and marketing of tobacco and we can make a splendid Start to wards creating in Sumter county, a profitable tobacco industry and building up a large tobacco mar ket in Sumter to take the place of cotton. It has been also suggested that a special expert, practical demon strator be employed who will de vole his entire time and attention to instructing such farmers as may need instruction, and there are thousands who do need such infor mation, how to diversify their farm! productions. Mr. Belser also has this movement in hand for presen tation to Sumter and Sumter coun-' ty's business men. As Mr. "belser is a very busy man trying to solve j his own boll weevil and other troubles, and inasmuch as Sum ter county has always granted rue the privilege of "butting in" when ever and wherever I think it well to butt in. I am merely trying to give a preliminary sketch of his plans for everybody to think about when he gest ready to start mov ing the movement. I also have" in direct, but serious boll weevil troubles and so has every oihe^r man, and every other woman in Sumter county, but many don't know it yet, but they will fully i realize it before long. Many think- j ing citizens are of the opinion that those whose opinions are to the ef-j feet that cotton can be continued as the chief money crop of Sumter county are laboring under serious misapprehensions. We may or may not make a half crop of cotton, but with intelligent work and good sea sons we do stand a chance of mak ing a good crop of tobacco many more times than we stand of mak ing a good crop of cotton. Every farm where labor and other condi tions are suitable ought to try o?jt tobacco in 1923?and inasmuch as successful tobacco growers pian* their tobacco beds in December and January it is well for large plantation owners to get busy as-' sisting their tenants and share croppers to y*?t r^aWy f*>r limited acreages of tobacco next year. The banks and mercnants of Sumter J county have a nine "say so" I about this matter and should con-! sider well in advance what Mr. j Belser is going to put up to them, j E. r. Reardon. J Many a man learns to play a cor- j net to spite a neighbor. What makes a bowlegged one happier than a long skirt? WANTED?Ladies to come and see my line of hats. Hours 9:30 a. m. to 7 p. m.- I have new stock. Mrs. C. W. McGrew, cor-i ner Magnolia and Myrtle Sts-. Phone S79L._ FOR SALE?Abruzzi Rye Seed of Coker Pedigreed Strain at $2.23 per bushel. O'Donnell & Co. monAyfcmr CLINTON Capt. E. A. Smyth Offers $25,000 for Dormitory Clinton. Sept. 14.?The Presby-I terian College of South Carolina j opened September 5. The enroll- I ment for the first week was 185,! the largest in the history of the j college. It would reach 200 for j the year if the students could be j taken care of. All available space \ in the dormitories has been taken. The enrollment last year was 163. j Eleven states are represented in the j student body. At the last meeting of the board 1 of trustees President Douglas stat- ; ed that a new dormitory accom modating 100 students could be filled. He said the dormitory wuold cost $75,000, but ti would be impossible to raise this money unless rich men contributed it. Soon after the meeting of the board he received a letter from Cap". El- i lison A. Smyth of Greenville, stat ing that he would give $25,000 to ] ward the erection of this dormi tory if the remaining '$50,000 were i subscribed ^within a year. Captain j Smyth said m his letter that 60 j days after he was notified that i the college had in bonafide sub- j scriptions $50,000 towards the erec- ! tion of the dormitory, he would turn over to the college, :n cash, $25,000. * ? ? ? , I - i . ?. i The Press's Part With notably few exceptions the newspapers of South Carolina, large and small, daily and weekly and semi-weekly, stood once more in the recent crisis for good government in South Carloina as they have stood always in the past. But for the promptness and the vigor with . which the press responded a very different story might well have been told at the polls on Tuesday, j In the very nature of things the forces in this state which were op- ? posed to Bleasism could not orga- I nize until after the first pririiary.; Mr. Blease was under no such handicap and his supporters were j able to organize from the begin-i ning. Had the supporters of any one of the other candidates under- | taken to perfect an organization j the cry of ring rule would at once have been raised. We do not think that any set effort whatever was made to influence votes for Mr. McLeod before the first primary. Organization is a vital necessity in popular elections, but all the or ganizign which could be done by the friends of Mr. McLeod or the opponents of Blease had to be done in ten days. The only agency which could arouse the public in that time was the press. The press did arouse the public to the situation and tire public once aroused the result was certain. The instant and vo.lan |tary response of the newspapers ; to their obligation saved the day and afforded a new and striking de monstration of the beneficent possi bilities of the press's power.?The News and Courier. COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON OPtt Hldt Low Close <3om [ Jail_21.12 21.20 28.87 21.13 21.34 \ March_21.20 21.28 20.97 21.25 21.43' May 21.15 21.25 20.30 21.15 21.40 Oct__ - _2f.t0 2I.K 20.80 21.13 21.25 | Dec _ .21.25 21.33 21.00 21.28 21.45 Spots 10 Off, 21.40. NEW ORLEANS COTTON Odor His* lav Close <3o?*; Jan- - ...20.67 20.63 20.29 20.60 20.91 March - _ 20.76 20.76 20.43 20.66 J!1.00 Nay _ .. .20.74 20.74 20.35 29.81 JulyL .. .20,45 20.45 29.43. 21.43 Oct.. - ?20.46 20.48 20.09 20.38 20.67 j Dec? ~ . 20.70 20.70 20.25 20.54 20.88 Spots 50 off 20.30. Liverpool Cotton. January ._ ... _._ 11.90 j M~oh . ._ . 11.80 Nay ._ .? 11.89 i 4?ly _ ..- _ ~ - .....- H.561 October.... ._ ...? _ _ 12.17 , December._. 11.96! Receipts. 13,000 Sales. 8.000; Middling. k 13.16; uood Middlinir. 13.35. ? ? ? A jury has freed another self- * made widow. 1 THE STRIKERS ASJ> THE FARMERS It is estimated by the United Stales Department of Agriculture that the \-alue of the important farm crops in, this country this year will be $1,250,000,000 in ex cess of the value of the crops last year, the value of the crops this year aggregating approximately $6? 000.000,000. It was proved during the World War that with intensive farming, even on the present acre age of arable land, the United States could produce enough of all the food crops to feed the-world. That is practically what the farm ers of this country have been doing for the last eight years. This year the crops, with the exception of the cotton crop on account of the boil weevil, have been remarkably fine, and their aggregate-value so great that the mind could hardly take it in. . .'"^ It is too early to estimate- what the farmers who have made the record breaking crops of' the pres ent year (record breaking for peace times) will get for their work and What return upon the ?value of their investment in land and farm equip ment they will receive. They win be fortunate if they make enough, to pay for their board and clothes, not particularly because of am over stocked market, but because, of the determined, not to say criminal, in terference of the railroad, brother hoods ami railroad crafts of one name and another with the free transportation of the products cf the farms to. the markets of the country. Tens of millions of dollars ' have been lost to the growers of food crops and other crops of .the land by the nation-wide strike on railroads^ and there is no way by which they can recoup their losses. In trying to run the railroads of " the country in their own ^Interest the railroad strikers have disre garded utterly the rights of the farmers and other productive forces of the country, and this is-a coh-? a dition which the rest of the coun try will not stand always, we may be sure of that. There is an old, saying that the "farmer feeds rrs all" and this is what he has been * doing sinee the first of his line, who was killed by his brother. But like every other worm of the dust,.it is as certain as death that he is get ting "powerful tired" of playing ?le goat for the railroad Issaac who has thought only of saving hixasehl first "and ^the Devil take the hind- r most." Possibly, if the farmers of the country who have lost so heavily on . their crops because they could- net get them to market could coHect what they have lost from the broth, erhoods and . Mr. Gompers? *-they might be interested in counting the. cost of the present railroad strike to* the strikers in wages, to the comers of the railroads in divi dends, to the business interests ?*y the ? interruption of traffic, to the general public in the loss' of-life and destruction of property. Et is - doubtless wen withm the mark, tc say that tne present railroad strike ha* cost the country not less than half a billion dollars and without < the least compensating benefit. A Timdy Warning Representative Stevenson, of, the. Fifth district, handed to The State yesterday a brief statement of such importance and timeliness that its reproduction here is believed to be. advisable: "The primary contest now having . been settled, it is exceedingly im portant that immediate attention be given to the appointment of the very best men available for federal t election commissioners in each dis trict. There will be a Republican candidate for congress in each di trict and unless the elections i conducted in absolute confon to law, there will be contests ai if the House is very close, Repul licans will unseat Democrat members on any showing of irregularities. Hence, eflJciei commissioners of election should be appointed.**-?The State. ONE YEAR AGO AND TO-DAY Our Depsoits one year ago were.- $ 792,759.60 Our Deposits today are_ 1,164,453.00 . .... ...... _? ? . -.v v.; We owed one year ago_ 253,954.90 We owe today_.-.-. NOTHING WhiltY the figures above may not be conclusive, we fe%l that they indicate better conditions for our community. If you are not already a depositor, we would be very glad to have your account. If you are a depositor, build up your bank balance and help make better times. THE NATIONAL BANK-OF SOUTH CAROLINA C. G. Rowland, President. Earle Rowland* Cashier 4 Our Savings Department As shown by our statements from time to tinfce it will be seen that we carry the largest savings ac count of any bank in the city. We appreciate this mark of confidence on the part of our patrons, and will do everything in our power to continue to merit it. Even though your money may be deposited in our Savings Department for a fixed period, it is al ways available for you when you want it. First National Bank of Sumter