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Resolutions Adopted by Direc tors of Bank of Edgefield. ^ Whereas Divine Providence has seen fit to take from our midst our .beloved friend, and our faithful and efficient Vice President, Arthur Smyley Tompkins. And whereas duty and inclination combine to prompt us to place on re cord some expression, however inad equate it must be, of our love for him as a christian gentleman and loyal citizen- some expression of our appreciation of his faithful and efficient service as an official of our bank- and some manifestation of our sorrow, that he will be with tis no more, and that he will serve us no longer. THEREFORE o Be it resolved by The Board of Di rectors of The Bank of Edgefield, S. C., First: That in the death of Arthur Smy ley Tompkins the County of Edge field has lost one of her most lovable and loyal citizens, and our bank has ^lost one of its most valuable and faithful and efficient officials. Second:- * That the cashier of our bank be, and he is hereby, directed to forward a copy of the above preamble and re solutions to the family of our de ceased associate and friend. Third: That a copy of the above pream ble and resolutions be published in the Edgefield papers, and that a page in our minute book be dedi cated to his memory, and that the above preamble and resolutions be inscribed thereon. J. C. Sheppard, ) President E. J. Mims, ? Cashier. He Has Given Advertising A Chance. William Wrigley, of Chicago, a well known chewing gum manufac turer, has already made his plans for advertisng his products next year and announces his advertising appro priation will be increased over the appropriation spent this year. Next year Mr. Wrigley says, he will 3pend four mill?n dollars for advertising. When questioned in regard to his i views about advertising, Mr. Wrigley said that he believed the main reas on why advertising has done so much for his business is because he has given it a chance. This statement brings to mind i a considerable number of men en gaged in various lines of- business for j whom advertising has done little or ^ nothing-because they have never ; given it a chance. They may have ? 'dabbled into it a little enough to en- , able them to say -"Advertising don't pay"-but that is all the chance they have ever given adver tising, and, of course, it has not help ed them much. The only business man or business that will ever profit greatly by ad vertising is the one that gives adver tising a clear field and a fair chance. -Rock Hill Herald. j Unique School Ends Sessions Greenwood, Aug. 19.-The most , unique school in the history of any , college in this state, according to . Miss Will Lou Gray, state supervis- . or of adult schools, will end tonight t at Lander College when the closing . exercises of the 'Opportunity School' will be held. Since July 24, eighty- , nine girls and women ranging in ages from 14 to 51, have been given in struction through the fifth grade. At i ??he time some of them came to the , school they could not read and write. . Now they can read and write legibly. Miss Gray states that this is the first . time a college has ever opened its doors for primary work in the sum mer. The oldest student in the school >was 51 years of age. She was a grand mother from Pacolet who was one of the most responsive pupils in the school, her teachers declared. She was called home at the end of three weeks on account of illness of a son, but when she left she could read and write. She told her teachers she had just begun to learn and intended to continue her studies. Students came from ali over the state, from a district bounded by Summerville, Lancaster and Ander son The average age is about 22 years. In addition to the boarding students, a number of day students attended. In all their studies usefulness was emphasized. In the study of ?vords, Lthe pupils were taught the words in 'commonest use, words which are used in cookery, in buying and sell ing, in the household, etc. In arith metic, in calculations were taught that would be most useful in every day life. Vote for 0. D. Seay for State Su perintendent of Education.-Adver tisement. Strong Endorsement of Mr. Turner. Mr. N. P. Walker, superintendent of the South Carolina School for.the Deaf and Blind at Cedar Spring, has written the following endorsement of Mr. George W. Turner: To Whom it May Concern: It gives me great pleasure to state that Mr. Geo. W. Turner of Edge field is a graduate of this school and as such is entitled to the confidence of his fellow citizens. I feel sure that he would successfully and conscien tiously execute any trust reposed in him by the citizens of his District, County, or State. N. F. Walker. Superintendent. May 24, 1922. (Advertisement) Use War Surplus To Build Roads. Washington, Aug. 19.-Up to Ju-, ly 1 surplus war material valued at $139,773,986 was delivered to the States for use in road construction, according to a report of the Bureau of Public Bioads of the Agricultural Department. The material, which consisted of all sorts of supplies and equipment suitable for which the war depart ment had no further need, was dis tributed on the same basis as momen tary federal aid. New York'and Texas lead in value of material delivered with nearly $8,000,000 worth, and every state, with the exception of five of the small ones, received supplies valued at more than $1,000,000. "This material has been of great value in road construction," said an official of the Bureau of Public Roads, "and there is hardly a coun ty in the United States in which some of it has not been used. "Probably of greatest value has been the 29,325 motor vehicles dis tributed, consisting of 24,752 trucks and 4,573 automobiles and, in addi tion, a large number of tractors." The system of distribution, the Bureau stated, has been so arranged that the states requisition only ma terial useful to them. In some cases they fall behind in allotments in or der to waii, for material particularly desired. Great ingenuity has been shown by many states in conditioning worn equipment, using war material to equip shops in which other war ma terial is made suitable for use, ac cording to Government observers. A large quantity of material still remains in the United States for dis tribution, the Bureau stated. This will be further increased by supplies used by the army of occupation in Germany soon to be brought back. Over Four Thousand Klans men Initiated. Chicago, August 20.- Beneath the red glare from a blazng cross, what was said to be the nation's big jest class of Kiu Klux Klansmen 4,650 candidates-was initiated in a huge field just outside of Chicago late last night. While thousands of voices chant ed the surging roll of "Onward, Christian Soldiers," the candidates, ?tili garbed in their working clothes, faced the cross and its circle of white-clad initiators and pledged their allegiance to the "invisible em pire." The mystic rites were held in an ?utomobile-rimmed circle a quarter af a mile in diameter. In the center of the circle, outlined by the glaring headlights of the cars, was the cross, 20 feet high and wrapped in cotton from the southern fields. It was esti mated that 25,000 persons witnessed the ceremonies, representing the eighteen klans in Chicago and the twelve outside of Cook county in the state. Must Stiffen Courts For a while there was a lull, it seemed, in lawlessness in South Car olina, but during the last few days there has been a resumption on a most alarming scale of the homicid al mania in South Carolina, and the papers have been filled with ac counts of homicides, suicides, and lesser forms of lawlessness. No a mount of charges and counter chai* ges on the hustings is going to im prove matters. There is only one way that greater respect for law will fill the hearts of South Carolinians and govern their actions, and that is a j more thorough functioning of the courts. As long as bootleggers, caught redhanded, are acquitted, or" allowed to go scot free upon the pay ment of a measly fine, the lawlessly disposed will look upon the courts with contempt and they have a per fect right to ?do so, as the earning capacity of the average bootlegger is no doubt several times that of the average laborer, and a fine of $100 or $200 means the diversion of just a small part of the profit.-Chester Reporter. Interest in the Legislature. In every county bf South Caro lina whose politics The News has been privileged to observe there is renewed interest in the legislature race this year. The people are realiz ing that service in the legislature is not a joke and that nincompoops are not be be got rid of by transferring them to the house, that is, if good government is to survive. This quick ened interest is manifest by the large number of candidates in the race in each county and in the cali bre of the candidates. Goo men are running, and numbers of them. Orangeburg county, for instance, has 41 men in the race. Greenville coun ty, which a few years ago had diffi culty in getting enough men to offer to make up the representation, has more than twice the number this time. The same situation prevails in most of the counties. Regardless of what condition will exist in other aspects of our state government, here is assurance that South Carolina is going to have bet ter government if the public is dis cerning enough to choose from the host of candidates the best fitted men. And it undoubtedly will, for slowly but surely the truth is sinking in that progress in government must come primarily from the legislature. Governors may lead, but they cannot lead anywhere without legislature that follows. And a recalcitrant gov ernor can be held in reins by a cau tious and prudent legislature. The legislature is in every respect the corner-stone of state government. We are going about the elevation of state government in the right way when we recognize the importance of the legislature. Voters should be careful to read the platforms of candidates for the legislature and to choose men of character, intellect and vision. They should hold no brief for the destruc tive candidate who would tear down and abolish everything in sight. He is a real menace, as is the one of a venal disposition. A few days ago the curruption committee of the Tennes see general assembly told what harm this type of legislator may do in this portion of its report: The murderer deprives an in dividual of life. The thief de spoils a single citizen of proper ty. The judge who forgets the sacred responsibility resting up on him can injure comparatively few by bartering his oath. But the VENAL LEGISLATOR is a MENACE to the impartiality and probity of that system of law which is the palladium of all rights pertaining to citizen-, ship, and the foundation stone of public safety and security. As long as the public is not indif ferent toward its legislative candi dates it need not fear men of this kind. They are born of nonchalance. None of them will creep into the leg islature as long as public interest is as acute as it promises to be two weeks hence.-Greenville News. Game of Horseshoes Popular In Greenwood. Greenwood, Aug. 19.-The game of horseshoes will soon be as popular as golf and tennis as an ameteur sport in Greenwood, say fans of the game. A comeback has been staged by horseshoes. In tiny alleyways and wherever boys have room enough to make a horseshoe court, they play the game. Baseball and marbles are forgotten by the lads and the clank of horseshoes "ringing the peg" has taken their place. Grown-ups are also taking up the game. The game was used on many camping parties this summer as a di version and campers have been loathe to give it up. It has many ad vantages, its devotees point out. It is not as strenous as tennis and more exciting than cards. No expen sive racquets or clubs are required and one can make a court in a few yards of dirt anywhere. "It's a good game," the fans say, as they abandon other sports. Horse shoes of a generation ago, an intrig uing game has come back. Marconi's Latest Views. Imagine some enterprising scrive ner in the early part of the year 1493 interviewing one Christopher Columbus lately returned fr>m the epochal voyage. It is hardly less of a privilege today to get a news story from that far reaching, history-mak ing explorer, Guglielmo Marconi. So often has he been pictured as a Me dieval wizard rather than a modern scientist, and rumored as receiving messages from Mars instead of la boring in his laboratory, that he is understandably 'shy of ~ porters. But in the current American Review of Reviews he talks freely of his wonderful new world of wireless. One thing he says, is clear and certain from the present situation in radio: "It has entered upon a new phase, is passing from limited and special uses to those which are gen eral and almost unlimited. It has till recently been a means of salvation to mariners, a valuable instrument of war, and of occasional use in com merce. It is now beginninng to be the servant pf all who have word to send between distant parts of the earth, the most general, the cheapest, the quickest means of communication ever dreamed of for long distances." It was only some thirty years ago that Mr. Marconi visualized present attainments in wireless telegraphy; only a generation since the funda mental discoveries of Maxwell and Hertz, on which he builded; and only yesterday that the popular results of it all have come flashing to fruit age in radio, telephony. For any thing comparable to the speed and suddenness with which the wonder hasJ>roken upon us we must imagine the finding and colonizing of Ameri ca reduced from centuries to weeks. Who could not have laughed incred ulously a few summers ago if told that words uttered in a room of The Journal' building would be heard on the shores of the Pacific? That wireless will ever supplant wire communication is, in Mr. Mar coni's judgment, out of the realm of the. ^prob?ble. "If we are learning the possibilities of radio we are also learning its limitations, and these will always leave work enough for the cables and wires." But of all the fundamental difficulties in radio, those that confined it to "special, un usual and often intermittent ser vices," only one remains unsolved or baffling; and "We are entitled to full faith that the inventive genius of great army of experts now at work will complete the solutions." Static, or in the interference of waves produced by nature is coming surely under control ."Fading" or "fog"-that is, a condition under which signals, after coming clear at one moment fade into silence, and then regain full strength-is stlil a mystery, although means of combat ting it are being developed. As for "jamming," which arises from the circumstance, as now understood, that there is wave "room" for only a limited amount of radio transmis sion simultaneously within a given region, it appears that "devices which are now being contrived will reduce it greatly." Thus are the three troublous difficulties yielding. -Atlanta Journal. The Horse's Point of View. ? The American has often, in these columns, called attention to the fact that we should be especially kind to horses and mules during the warm days of summer, when they are re quired to do hard labor in the city's streets. The following statement issued by the American Humane Society is worth while : "If a horse could talk he would have many things to say when sum mer comes. "He would tell his driver that he feels the heat on a very wann day quite as much as if he could read a thermometer. "He would say: 'Give me a little water many times a day, when the heat is intense, but not much at a time if I am warm; if you want me - to keep well don't water me too soon after I have eaten.' i "He would say: 'When the sun - hot and I am working let me breathe once in a while in the shade of some ^ house or tree; if you have to leave ( me on the street leave me in the shade if possible. Anything upon my j head, between my ears, to keep off c the sun is bad for me if the air can j not circulate freely underneath it.' ; "He would talk of slippery streets, i and the sensations of falling on cruel j city cobblestones-the pressure of the load pushing him to the fall, the ? bruised knees and wrenched" joints, j and the feel of the driver's lash. . "He would tell of the luxury of a j fly net. when at work and of a fly j blanket when standing still in fly t season, and of the boon to him of screens in the stable to keep out the insects that bite and sting. t "He would plead for as cool and y comfortable a stable as possible in < which to rest after a day's work un- ( der the hot sun. s "He would suggest that living through a warm night in a narrow , stall neither properly cleaned nor bedded is suffering for him and poor 1 economy for the owner. 1 "He would say that turning the 1 hose on him altogether too risky a . thing to do unless you are looking for a sick horse. Spraying the legs and feet when he is not too warm on a hot day he would find agreeable. "He would say: 'Please sponge out my eyes and nose and dock when I | come in tired and dusty at night, and also sponge me with clean cool water under the collar and saddle of the harness.-.Charleston-American. ? 1 ' ? Excursion Fares Via Southern Railway System ROUND TRIP IDENTIFICATION PLAN One and one half fares for round trip. ATLANTA, GA., American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, November 13-18. AUGUSTA, GA., Georgia State Sunday School and A. C. E. League Convention of A. M. E. Church, (Colored) September 6-10. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Crescent Temple, September 15-16. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., American Gas Association, October 23-28. CEDAR POINT, 0., International Bible Students Association, September 5-13. CLEVELAND, 0., Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Nation al Biennial Movable Conference (Colored) September 11-16. CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Southern Medical Association, No vember 13-16. DETRIOT, MICH., Sovereign Grand Lodge I. 0. 0. F., Sep teber 18-23. DETRIOT, MICH., Radiological Society of North America, December 4-8. HOUSTON, TEXAS, Annual Convention Laundry Owners Na tional Asseciation, October 2-7. MOOSEHEART, ILL., Loyal Order of Moose Supreme Lodge, August 20-26. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Grain Dealers National Association, Oc tober 2-4. NEWARK, N. J., Elks (I. B. P. 0. E.) of the World (Colored) August 20-24. PITTSBURG, PA., Annual Convention American Chemical So ciety, September 6-9. IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATE PLAN One fare going one-half fare returning. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., National Association Cost Account ants, September 23-28. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. National Association Stationers and Manufacturers, U. S. A., October 9-14. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Casket Manufacturers Association of America, October 18-20. BALTIMORE, MD., Woman's Foreign Missionary Society M. E. Church, October 24-November 1st. BOSTON, MASS., International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, August 28-September 2nd. BOSTON, MASS., American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-30. BUFFALO, N. Y., United National Association Post Office Clerks, September 4-8. BUFFALO, N. Y., National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, ' September 19-22. BLUE RIDGE, N. C., (R. R. Sta. Black Mountain) Boys Scouts of America, September 12-19. CHICAGO, ILL., National Convention of Congressional Work ers colored people, August 23-27. CHICAGO, ILL., American Bakers Association and Allied Trades of Baking Industry, September 11-16. CHICAGO, ILL., National Spiritualist Association, U. S. A. An nual Convention, October 16-21. CINCINNATI, 0., National Council of Traveling Salesmen As sociation, October 9-11. DETROIT, MICH., Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo National Annual Meeting, September 7-9. DETRIOT, MICH., Annual Meeting Prison Association, Octo ber 12-18. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Supreme Camp American Woodmen District Convention, August 28-September 1st. LOUISVILLE, KY.,. The National Exchange Club, September 25-27. LOUISVILLE, KY., International Federation of Catholic Alum nae, October 26-November 2nd. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., National Tax Association, Septem ber 18-22. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., Annual Meeting American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngelogy, September 18-25. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Southern Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers Annual Convention, December 5-7. NEW YORK, N. Y., National Association of Retail Clothiers and National Association Men's Apparel Club, September 11-15. NEW YORK, N. Y., National Police Conference, September 11-15. ST. LOUIS, MO., American Veterinary Medical Association An nual Convention, August 28-September 1st. For further information call on nearest Ticket Agent or com municate with R. S. BROWN, District Passenger Agent, 741 Broad St., Augusta Ga. J. A. TOWNSEND, Ticket Agent, Edgefield, S. C. Museum of Voices. Berlin, Aug. 19.,-Languages and lialects, ranging from the talk of the ?eorgia plantation to the lingo spok :n on the remotest island of the South seas, and including the words ?f the world's most famous men, will >e preserved in the museum of voices soon to be opened in. Berlin n connection with the phonetic de )artment of the National Library. The collection, which is already ?tarted, is the work of Prof. Wilhelm Doegen, phonetic expert. The first monographic records include all the mown dialects of the English lan guage, and others in different ton gues are to be added. Gen. von Hindenburg and Rabin Iranath Tagore have registered ?heir voices. The latter's record ends vith a quotation of the most obscure Sanskrit. English dialects are repro luced through the quotation of tht ?ame verse in the Bible. The records are of copper, bearing in engraved likeness of the speaker md his autograph. Prof. Doegen es-* ;imates that the records will last 10, 300 years. Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. M IMS, Optometrist-Optician, Edgefield, S. C. ? Bus Tours. Niagra Falls has a rival for the honeymoon trade. A bus company in Ohio has mapped out motor tours which will follow the Lincoln high way in a general way and which will take in various big cities and fam ous spots such as Civil War battle fields and other historical points. One such tour includes New York, Philadelphia, the battle fields of Gettysburg, Washington, Baltimore, Atlantic City, Mount Vernon, Cum berland and Pittsburgh. Within any city* special sightseeing trips will be arranged to cover the ground thor oughly. Drivers are being carefully selected with an eye to patrons' saf ety of life and limb, and every possi ble provision for the comfort of .pas sengers is being made. In time no doubt there will be bus tours following all the fine national motor routes. Persons not owning automobiles will be able to enjoy all the pleasures of this modern vaca tioning without any of the responsi bility of family touring. Also, of course, they will have to go without the privacy and complete freedom of the self conducted trip. That would be a drawback to many persons, but to many others the new way will prove a genuine blessing.-Green ville News. WANTED: A teacher for the Brunson school,. Apply to T. P. MORGAN, 8-15 Cleora, S. C. '