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Citadel Board Gives Statement Senator Padgett, in behalf of the board of visitors of the Citadel, yes terday submitted to the senate a statement explaining in detail the ac tions of the board in building the new Citadel plant and the operation of the school in every way, this being in answer to the report of the joint leg islative committee on economy and consolidation which severely criti cised the work of the Citadel. In the report of the legislative committee several faults were found with the operation of the Citadel. A summary of these were: Per capita cost remarkedly higher than any oth er state supported college, in con struction of the new plant interests of the state not properly protected and the intent of the legislature apparent ly not carried out, intent of legisla ture disregarded as to some salary in creases, number of heads of depart ments larger than necessary and scale of pay for teaching staff liberal, places too much emphasis on military training and money spent for adver tising should be saved. Reseats Statement. The statement submitted by Mr. Padgett and ordered printed in the journal says the charge that the in terests of the state appear not to tiave been properly protected and that the intent of the legislature was not carried out can not be supported Dy facts and was made without the proper study of the transactions in connection with the award of the con tract. "This is a serious statement, and an imputation against the good faith of the board which it believes is unjustifiable and which it resents," says the statement. In regard to the "expensive type if construction" charge made by the committee, the board says it did not feel justified in spending the money ?xcept for permanent work to be a iignity and finish worthy of the state. As to the per capita cost the board ieclares it is unable to see how the :ommittee arrived at ?ts statement md shows that the cost of the Citadel was $345 as compared with $359 for :he medical college, $343 for Win throp and $311 for the University of South Carolina.' The committee said :he per capita cost was about $500. Salary Matter. . The board also submits figures purporting to show that the Citadel las no such salaries as would warrant ;he committee to single it out for re faction. The per capita salary is giv m as follows: University, $170; Cita lel, $160; Winthrop, $141; medical ?ollege. $246. The board says the recommenda ;ron of the committee to.abolish the mgineering courses appears to be a 'useless and foolish thing to do." Needs of the Citadel for this year ire set forth as follows in the state nent: "The board wishes to say that vhile it has carried out to the best of ts judgment and ability the project )f the building of a greater Citadel vhich would meet the immediate leeds of the military college of the ?tate, and has completed the build ngs which it has planned could be constructed with the funds which it lad it must call the attention of the egislature to some needs of the. plant vhich they could not take care of, md for which they ask appropria ions at the present time. The imme liate needs are (1) a .building for i cadet hospital and (2) houses for he administrative officers who ought o live on the campus. "The necessity for these buildings s so pressing that the board feels unstrained in spite of the general lemand for curtailment of expenses, vith which it heartily sympathizes, o urge the approval of these two terns at this session of the legisla ure so that the Citadel can begin its ?ext session at the new plant and en er upon a new era of usefulness to he state."-The State. Paying for Passports. Our country is often called the 'Home of the Free," and it may be rue that citizens ?re free after they ;et here, but it is by no means a case ?f "free admission" to America. Bei num is the only country that one nay enter with a free pass, all others :harge heavy entrance fee, with Un :le Sam making the top charge. The iditor of Hearst's in a recent edito ial says: Every country in Europe-and America for that matter-has box ?ffice prices for admission. There is me exception across the water-lit le Belgi?m. You can enter Belgium ree, on a pass. Other countries are annoyingly igid in their passport rules. Within he last few months some of the lead ng countries have raised their prices or vises. Italy has raised her vise :harge from $2 to $10. Spain raised hers from $2.60 to ?10. Mexican consuls demand two photographs of the applicant, a cer if?cate of trustworthiness signed by an employer, by a b?nk, or by some notable guarantor-and $10. Chile last year raised her vise price frorr $2 to $3. France used to pay $2 foi a vise; but she has advanced the price to $5, and she demands that ap plicants shall answer eight questions and give two references in France , and in America. Japan, however, behaves herself in the vise matter, asking only $2.5C and some information as to the trav eler's purposes in visiting Japan Great Britain, too, reduced her vise charge last July. She used to charge a traveler $2.50 to pass through Eng land and $5 to remain there. But now a "transit" vise has been devised One may pass through England foi the small sum of twenty-eight cents The traveler who wishes to remain ir England must pay $2. And Holland makes the low rate of $1.50 for an j sort of vise. In the face of these various charg es it is interesting to note that ari American vise costs $10. The Ameri can Congress itself fixed Uncle Sam's vise at that high price and has hele it there. Yet, in spite of the cost, the United States, by the recent immigra tion act, has been forced to regulate admission.-Augusta1 Chronicle. Campaign for Relief of Jewish War Sufferers. Charleston, Jan. 30.-One hundred thousand dollars will be sought ir South Carolina for the relief of Jew ish war sufferers in Europe in a state wide campaign to be conducted Feb ruary 5 to 9. The campaign in this state is part of a nationwide drive to raise fourteen milion dollars foi ministering to the needs of millions of starving and destitute people in the war-stricken regions. "We save them or they die," is the slogan of the campaign. Preliminary work has been under way in South Carolina for several weeks and the state body is rapidly perfecting its district and county or ganizations. The state committee is headed hy August Kohn of Columbia, as honorary chairman .Louis M. Shi mel of Charleston as State chairman, and Montague Triest of Charleston as chairman of the state executive committee. Other officers include'Ar thur V. Williams of Charleston, sec retary; Joseph Hepler of Charleston, treasurer ,and Joseph R. Freifeld of Aiken, campaign director. The ad visory board consists of Rabbi J. S. Raisin, of Charleston; Rabbi F. K. Hirsch, of Sumter; Rabbi Emil Ho rowitz, of Charleston; Dr. Josiah Morse of Columbia; Rabbi Zorach Bielsky, of Charleston and Rabbi 'D. A. Karesh of Columbia. The state, for the purpose of the campaign, has been districted in ac cordance with congressional districts, with a district chairman in charge of each. These district chairmen are: first district, L. Wetherhorn, Charles ton; second, M. S. Polier, Aiken; third, Morris Rosenbaum, Greenwood; fourth, Gilbert Harris, Spartaniburg; sixth, J. M. Levkoff, Hartsville; sev enth, I. C. Strauss, Sumter. Each dis trict chairman is responsible for the counties in his district and each county has a chairman and organiza tion of its own. In sections of the county where the campaign has already been held, unexpectedly large results were ob tained. Chicago, with a quota ofi $1,000,000 subscribed about $2,500, 000. New York has a quota of $5, 000,000 and is expected tb exceed it. Campaign leaders in South Carolina are confident of success in this state. Mr. J. Rubenstein is the chariman for Edgefield county. Auditor's Notice For Return of Personal Property and Real Estate. All persons owning property, both real and personal, or in any capacity, as husband, guardian, executor, ad ministrator or trustees are required to make returns of the same to the Auditor under oath within the time mentioned below and the Auditor is required by law to add a penalty of 50 per cent, to all property that is not returned on or before the 20th day of February in any year. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years except those ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls. The 50 per cent, penalty will be added for failure to make re turns. For the convenience of tax pay ers, I or my representative will be at the following appointed places on the dates mentioned to receive tax re turns : The office will be open to receive returns from first day of January till the 20th day of February, 1922, as prescribed by law. j. R. ZIMMERMAN, Auditor, E. C., S. C. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly ?i?>P,y."Standard Puerai strengthening tonic, GROVE'S'TASTELESS chill TONIC.drives out Malana.enrichc* the blood, builds up the system. A true Tonic, For adults and children. SOo Increase in Cotton Acreage Means Disaster. i If the South planted 32,332,000 : acres to cotton in 1921, there is ; real need for a most thorough and - comprehensive campaign to prevent 5 an increase in acreage in 1922. The ? official estimates are that 31,427,000 acres were picked and that 2.8 per E cent of the acreage planted was aban I doned. If this be true then 31>427 ? 000 acres are 97.2 per cent of the to . tal plantings, which means that 32 ! 332,000 acres were planted in 1921 i Accepting the final estimates of the - plantings of 1920, as 37,043,000 r" acres, the reduction of the acreage . in 1921 from 1920 was 12.7 per cent . This is a very material reduction, for . it means that where eight acres were i planted in 1920 only 7 acres were [ planted in 1921, but it is not as great r a \reduction as was made in 1892 from 1891; and 1895 from 1894 - 1905 from 1904 and in 1915 from i 1914. It must, therefore, be plain to any s thinking man that instead of increas [ ing the acreage in 1922, as we al ; ways have done following an advance ? in price, we should really reduce the i acreage in 1922, at least sufficient to bring the combined reductions of 1921 and 1922 down to where they i would equal the reductions of 1905 and 1915. I [ Even though we admit that the of , ficial estimate of the acreage planted in 1921 is too high and that the esti . mate of the yield per acre, 126.9 pounds, is too low, it must be appar ; ent to everyone that had an average i or normal crop per acre been made . in 1921, we would have had too much ; cotton.'For 30 years past the South's average yield per- acre has been 175 , pounds. Even thirty million acres ? with a yield of 175 pounds per acre means a production of 10,120,000 . bales. That is more cotton than we neede in 1921 and is every bale as . much as we shall need in 1922. It is probable that we planted 30, ; 000,000 acres in 1921, that a total crop of slightly over 8,000,000 bales. , We do not want such a low yield per acre again in 1922, for cotton cannot be economically produced with such a yield per acre. Moreover, there is not one chance in fifty for such a low yield again next year. Therefore, we must hold the acreage down to at most 30,000,000 acres, or run a most serious risk of cotton prices that will mean disaster next fall. -The sections where the boll wee vils were destructive last year will reduce the cotton acreage but that is not going to be enough. We must organize during the winter and bring pressure to bear on every cotton planter to reduce rather than in crease his acreage in 1922. No coer cive measures will be effective. They will always fail as they did in 1921, but by reasoning together and by persuasion nearly every cotton plant er can be induced to hold his cotton acreage down in 1922 for his own and the general good. The end justifies the service of every good citizen to this task. It is a large and difficult task, this canvassing of every cotton producer, but the necessity will jus tify the effort.-Progressive Farmer. Many Miles of Highway Built. A total of 782 miles of the state highway system was constructed dur ing 1921, at a total cost of $4,9(76, 383, according to the annual report of the State Highway 'Commission and its chief engineer, Chas. H. Moorefield, which is to be made to the legislature this week. These totals in clude 290 .miles of road constructed by the counties, independent of the state highway department, at a cost of $1,510,000. A total of 508 miles was graded by the state highway de partment, at a cost of $3,466,833, 492 miles being completed. Sixty-five bridges of more than 20 feet in span each were completed during the year. The report shows that the program already in sight for 1922 totals $5, 429,906, under the state department, and $2,250,000 by the counties. On the last day of the year the de partment had approximately five bil lion dollars worth of road work un der way, providing for the construc tion of approximately 450 miles of road, and- eight bridges. The report shows also that 411 miles of road were maintained by the department throughout the state, at an average cost of $251 a mile. The cost of operating the state highway department was only $213, 712. It spent for road work in the state $3,738,797. Of the funds used $1,359,453 was federal aid; $698, 132 was motor vehicle license re ceipts; $1,681,212 was furnished in the cost of operation was the cost of handling $56,830 worth of war ma terial, furnished gratis by the feder al government, and also the cost of issuing automobile licenses. During 1921 the state highway de partment licensed 91,3ol motor ve hicles as compared with 94,751 in 1920. The receipts were $733,820, as compared with $527,868 the year before.-The State. DAIRY POINTS BUTTER SHIPPED IN SUMMER Parcel Post Will Prove Entirely Satis factory if Proper Condition? Are Maintained. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment ot Agriculture.) Parcel post shipments of butter are likely to be subjected to conditions, especially during the summer, which may cause deterioration and injure the quality of the butter. It is highly de sirable, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture, that every possible precaution he tak en before shipment Particularly Is this true of farm-made butter, because conditions affecting its quality and condition usually cannot be controlled as easily as in creameries. Farm made butter, however, should be mar keted just as satisfactorily as cream ery-made butter when It is properly made and prepared for shipment. It is necessary to maintain proper conditions -'n the care of the milk and 1 Several Thicknesses of Old Newspa pers Should Be Wrapped Around the Butter Before Inclosing lt in the Shipping Package. cream and the making of butter If a marketable product is to be produced. Too much importance, it is said, can not be given to maintaining cleanly conditions in the stable and in other plac'es where the milk, cream, or but ter are produced or kept, for they ab sorb odors and spoil very quickly. It ls Important, too, that these/ products be kept In a cool place. High temper atures should always be avoided, as they produce a soft, olly condition of the butter which ls undesirable. In manufacturing butter on the farm or tn a factory the buttermilk must be removed and washed out, and the proper amount of salt must be Incor porated evenly. Frequently parcel post shipments'of farra butter are un satisfactory to customers becaus? proper methods were not used In mak ing lt, and-the quality and condition of the butter thereby Injured before lt was shipped. For the satisfaction of customers lt Is Important that a uni form quality of butter be produced. Methods used In preparing butter for parcel post shipping depend large ly upon the local conditions and stylf of package used. To insure deliver}' in the best possible state, butter, after being packed, printed and placed In carions, should be chilled or hardened thoroughly before lt ls shipped. One of the most satisfactory ways of preparing butter for shipment ls in regular one-pound prints, the stand ard print measuring 2% by 2% by 4% Inches. Every pound print should be neatly wrapped In ^ regular butter parchment or paper. A second thick ness of such paper has been found to add materially to the carrying possi bility of the butter. Waxed paper may be used for the second wrapping. As a further protection to' the print, lt should be placed in heavy manila paraffin cartons, which" may be ob tained from folding paper-box com panies, either plain or printed as a stock carton or with a special private brand. Corrugated fiber-board shipping con tainers of various sizes may be ob tained for shipping one-pound prints of butter. These boxes or combiners practically Insulate the butter and fur nish much protection against heat. Further protection may be obtained by wrapping the container In stout wrap ping paper. The whole should be tied securely with a strong cord. In tying the twine lt should be drawn tightly around the package ,so as to Insure Its proper carriage. Some persons ship butter by parcel post In Improvised <Ar home-made con tainers. Clean, discarded, corrugated paperboard cartons are obtained from the grocer or other merchant at small cost or frequently without any cost at all. It ls possible to cut a piece of paper board in such shape and size that when lt ls folded It will form a satisfactory carton. LIKE FEEDING COWS IN DARK Wisconsin Farmer Praises Cow-Test ing Association as Guide-Board to Better Dairying. "When I bought my farm two years ago there was a herd of scrub cows on lt." writes a .Wisconsin farmer to a field agent of the dairy division, United States Department of Agricul ture. "I joined the cow-testing associ ation, and soon found that my scrub cows were a failure, so I disposed of them and bought some purebred and grade Holstein cows. The cow-test ing association ls a gulde-toard on the way to better dairying and a big saving In feeds, as one can feed to so much better advantage where th? production Is known. Trying to feed with out records of your cows ?is like feeding lu the dark." WEAK, NERVOUS, ALL RUN-DOWN Missouri Lady Suffered Until She Tried Cardai.-Says "Result Was Surprising."-Got Alonjj Fine, Became Normal and Healthy. 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