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ARMOR PLATE BILL PASSED BY SENAJI Important Measure in Nationa Preparedness Program Sup ported Solidly By Dem ocrats. Washington, March 21.-The Tillman bill to provide for th< erection or purchase by th( government of an armor plat( factory at a cost not to exceec $11,000,000 was passed by th( senate late today by a vote of 5E to 23. The house naval commit tee has set aside tomorrow fo consideration of the measure with a view to reporting it to the house promptly. Democratic senators supported the bill solidly, regarding it as one of the important measures included in the national prepared ness program now being has tened to completion. Nine pro gressive republicans joined with the majority in voting for the bill. They were Senators Borah. Clapp, Cummins, Gronna, Ken yon, Norris, Poindexter, Sterling and Works. Passage of the measure in the house is regarded as assured. Adminstration leaders are plan ning to bring it up soon after passage of the army reorganiza tion and immigration bills. The bill, which has the appro val of the administration and Secretary Daniels, was bitterly opposed by several republican senators. At committee hear ings on the measure, officers of the Bethlehem and Midvale steel companies, two of the three con derns which furnish armor to the government appeared and the threat was made that their plants would ha7e to be disman tIed as soon as the government entered upon the business, leav ing no source of supply for the navy's immediate needs. The opposition in the senate was led by Senators Penrose, Oliver, Lip pitt and Lodge. R. A. Cooper. Laurens Advertiser. There have been many and va ried newspaper comments on the advent of Mr. Cooper mnto the gubernatorial race. Some criti cize him for entering the race, ~-on the ground that it will weak t en the cause of the law enforce ment element by dividing its strength and also on the ground that Gov. Manning is entitled to another term. Othiers acknow ledge his title to become a can -didate without further comment, while still others come out defi nitely on his side. The propor tion of these different views is about the same as may be judged from the comments printed in last week's paper. The larger daily papers, as a whole, have been rather reticent in express ing themselves. The chief objection brought fourth is on the ground that Gov. Manning's and Mr. Cooper's platform in the past campaign were practically the same and for Mr. Cooper to justify his claim to the office now he must find fault in Gov. Manning for advocat-ing just those things which he himself was pledged to do. We do not know Mr. Coop er's plan of campaign, but we see no necessity for him to at tack Gov. Manning's record. That record has been made and is already public pr'operty. There is no reason why Mr. Cooper should go into it unless he chooses to, for he might feel willing for the voters to pass on it without anything farther than what Gov. Manning himself may wish to say about it. Judging from the urgent requests that Mr. Cooper says he has been re ceiving, a large number of peo ple have already formed their opinion of the governor's record, and it only remains forMr. Coop er to give his platform and views as to the future' so that they may decide for themselves whether or not they are depend *ing upon the right man. It may certainly be depended upon that Mr. Cooper will not say or do anything that will in any-wise compromise himself with a law less element. His record as a prosecuting officer in the courts is sufficient to blight any hopes along that line. It is real early to predict witi any degree of certainty as to the prospects of any candidate ir the race, but we rather thini that many papers have underes timated the strength of Mr Cooper and are not aware.of th< strong current runnmng in his favor. Of course he may be de ceived in this himself, but tha is a matter of his own judgemen and does not at all argue that hi shoud not respond: to it. FOR A UNIVERSAL COTION SIANDARD United States Endeavoring to Bring About Its Adoption. Washington, March 24.-The establishment under the terms of the United States cotton fu tures act of official cotton stan dards for the United States has been accompanied by an earnest effort to secure the adoption of these standards by the cotton trade in Europe as well as in this country. A brief history of this movement is contained in Ser vice and Regulatory Announce ments No. 7 of the Office of Mar kets of the United States De partment of Agriculture, which has just been published. Although the attempt to secure the adoption abroad of the new American official standards was not altogether suscessful, this new oublication shows that much has been accomplished toward bringing about uniformity of standards. For various reasons the Liverpool Cotton Association did not see fit to adopt the Amer icam official standards, but has revised its standard to a form which is said to accord at least in value with the American standards and which replace by a single set the three sets formerly in use, representing respectively upland. Gulf and Texas cotton. This tribe standard seems to have grown up in Liverpool be tween 1833 And 1913. It seems also to have been the result of a process of evolution caused by the increasing necessities of the cotton trade and was built up from time to time by the addi tion of types or boxes of stan dards. - When the United States cotton futures act was passed and ex perts began the work of prepar ing the. new standards it required the desirability of securing urn versal adoption for the new stan dards was recognized. For rea sons given in detail in Service and Rezulatory _Anouncements No. 7, however, it was found un dersirable to adopt the Liver ool standards for upland cotton. In order, therefore, to explain the proposed American standards and to urge their adoption in England, Germany and France, two members of the Depart ment of Agriculture visited Eu rope in the fall of 1914. A number of conferences with representatives of the Liverpool t Cotton Association were heldi3 and it seemed at one time proba- a ble that this association would I adopt the American standards, I. one or two minor changes havingi been made at their request. The association. however, was un willing to take definite action until March 1, 1915. It was im- I ] possibile under the law for the American government to defer until that date the promulgation I of the American standards and 1 accordingly no agreement on standards with Liverpool was reached. On December 15, 1914, the offi cial cotton standards of the Uni ted States were established and promulgated and their use on the future exchanges became practically compulsory on Febru ary 18, 19I5. They have been adopted voluntarily by all of the spot cotton exchanges ofth United States. The representatives of the de partment also visited Bremen and Havre and conferred with German and French cotton mer chants in regard to the adoption of the American standards by those exchanges. The Havre exchange has taken no action,I but the question is still open with! Bremen and that exchange has stated its expectation of adopting the standards if they prove to be suited to ;the conditions of the cotton trade at Bremen. t is believed that these confer ences did much to promote uni fomty in cotton grades for tie future, but owing to the dis turbed conditions caused by the w~ar no dlefin1ite agreements were nossibe. On last Saturday afternoon the ladies of Chester gave Dr. S. WV. Pryor, president of the Pryor hospital which was burned, a linen shower to help replenish the linen closet for the hospital. 'It was quite a surprise to Dr. Pryor, and he was deeply touch-* ed by this thought of the ladies. The Sumter Watchman and Southron says that the Sumter tLight Infantry, Co, N. G. S. C. tto go to Mexican border at any time, if the call comes for it, and it is expecte at any time. STUDY OF STATISTICS. One Hundred an Thirty-nine Homicides Reported With in Twelve.Months. Not only is the annual death rate for negroes in South Caro lina larger than fcr white people but the annual birt rate is small er, according to figires completed yesterday by the bireau of vital statistics. The death rates, based on returns for 19t5, are: For whites. 12.6; for legroes. 17.4. The birth rates are' For whites, 29.1; for negroes, 2017 One hun dred thirty-nine honicides were recorded. Of the 24.501 deaths occuring last year in South Carolina, mak ing an annual death rate per 1, 000 population of 15.2; 9,141 were white people, 15,350 were negroes, and 10 were Indians. There were 44,950 births, dis tribpted as follows: White males, 11,015; white fenales, 10, 127; negro males, 12,110; negro females, 11.512; Ingli imales, 2; Indian females, 184 "The an nual birth rate for tate is STUDY OF P One section o e"eort is riven over to a tfon )f pellagra, fromii h there ere 1,460 deathIf iS$th Caro ina in 1915. Thiss' eaie* ranks ourth in its toll, thtiee -lead ng ones being: Disesig of the irculation, 2,539; pulmonary tu >erculosis, 1,991; diseases of the idney, 1,646. These four caus s of death are responsible for pproximately one-third of the leaths. Both the number and the per entage of deaths from Oellagra, trranged by the counti -, are riven, showing the foio ing re ults in part: Charleston ith a leath rate of 208 per 000; umter, 159.2; Greenwoo 52.6; 'hester; 147.3; Greenville, .1.2; lichland, 131.2 Anderso 21; -eorgetown, 114.4; York, .4; 'lorence, 98.8. Tne rem er f the counties range lowe an ese, the lowest being C ,en on with a rate of 32.1 Other causes of deatb, 'th heir toll, are: Intestinal d eas s, 1,306; pneumonia, 1,23 tv ~hoid fever, 553; cancer, ~13; tysentery, 502; malaria, 65; ironehial pneumonia,- : ; rhooping cough, 20'7; diphth -Ia, 10; general acciddnts, 557, ui ide, 43; railroad accidents, 53. INFANT MOTALITY HIGH. Aproximately 32 per cent of e total number of deaths in 915 were of children under Ifve ears of age. The total arra4 red y races are: WVhites, 2.834; ne ~roes, 5,983; Indians, 5. In each nstance the numberhof deaths f males exceeded that of the ~orresponding females. Not ~onsidering this one period the argesst number of deaths occur ng in the several succeeding de ades follows: White men, from 0 to 70; white women from, 30 :o 40; negro men and negro wo ~en, from 20 to 30. The largest death rate in South Jarolina is in Richland co'unty vith a rate of 29.8, which is fol owed closely by Charleston ~ounty with 28. These excessive ates are due largely to* the leaths in hospitals and for: the laths not accounted for in state institutions. Other couities with high death rates: George own, 21; Florence, 20.5; Sunter, L9.4; Berkely, 18.1. The lo.vest ate, 9.8, is found in Siuda ~ounty. Florence county won the ban er in the percentage of bi ths. with 44.1, followed by Inrry ounty with 41.5 The next oun y is Clarendon with 35.3, folow ed closely by Calhoun, Cheter field, Darlington, Lee, Ma'ion, Qrangeburg, Pickens, Suiiter, nd Williamsburg. Rieliand ounty has a birth rate of 28.3 nd Cnarleston county, 23.7 The lowest birth. rate is recorce d in Aiken county with 19.6. One of the foulest murdes in the annals of any county was committed in a desolate pat ot Barwell county last Wedniesday night. The victim was a white woman about thirty years old, who lived alone at the old funily homestead. An investigatbn of the premises showed that her assailant had entered the louse through one of the front win dows. She escaped througi the back and ran several huidred yards from the house Iafore he caught her. She was cioked to death. On Thursday ore ne gro suspect had been arrested, but it is said that the evience against him is by no means con. clusive. The officers wiil. not stop until the guilty oie is Elbert Bede Says: It's never too late for our ene-! mies to mend their ways. We all believe in the single term- until we get into office. It's getting so Mexico isn't: even a good place for Mexicans. Why don't they use rubber in- I stead of silk thread in our paper money? Churches are members of the volunteer fire department-they save from fire. The man who can get out of a' trunk after being put in there with legs and arms tied, is quali fiEd to dress in a Pullman! birth. The get together spirit is sus ceptible to misconstruction. It is possible to get together in ways that could not in anyway be con sidered co-operation. The man reading the other side of your paper in a street car thinks you are a boob if you don't ask him if he is ready to have you turn the page. The greater the demand for iron and steel for engines of war, the greater the dividends on Car niegie's steel stock, therefore the greater his contributions to the cause of peace. After a person's face becomes marked with sin and intemper ance it is impossible to entirely remove the traces by even the most upright life-but a life of :crime will auickly disfigure the nee spotless window of the soul. We presume that under government ownership of rail ways every congressman would feel compelled to furnish trans-, portation to his constituents in iabout the same manner he 'now furnishes garden seed and pub lic documents. Horsehair is used in Russia for making a great variety of articles. Brushes are made from it, the manes being kept for soft brushes White horsehair is considered' the most valuable for this pur pose, and black the second best. The long hair of horses' tails is utilized for fishing tackle, violin bows, military head-dress, and :cloth for pressing oi. Shorter I hair is used for stuffing mattres es and furniture and -furniture, after having been cleaned wit soap and water. The values of borsehair varies greatly accord ing to grade. On the Petrograd mark4.one pood (36.11 poundsy of . unprepared~ horsehair (gray manes) may be purchased at 6 te 8 rubles, ($8.50 to $I1.40 per 100 pounds.), while long horse air manes fetch a price of $107 per 100 pounds, and even more. The prices paid for Russian abroad are much higher. FOR SALE, EGGS-E. B. Thompson's Strain Imperial ~Ringlet" Plymouth Rock Eggs for hatching, $1.00 for 13. D. W. Young's Strain Whiter eghorn Eggs $1.00 for 15. J.E. Bruce. 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