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S S~eSectionOOne '' P Pags1 tJ2 PagesPages to 20 "AN-N----.. -. --*--* ..-D. JUNE......201'. VOL XL NMAN4NNG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1929. N~ WILL SUMTER C MR. MOISE' On last Monday afternoon a com mittee .representing Sumter county and consisting of the following: Messrs'Davis Moise, Booth, S. A. Ilar vin and E. I. Reardon went to Pine wood 'to extend an invitation to that section to vote themselves into Sum ter county. Messrs C. R. Sprott, Charlton DuRant and 1. I. Appelt at 'tended this .mebting from Manning, going simply to hear the proposition from the "Game Cock" representa tives. Mr. Moise was the speaker and well did he handle his subject from a "hot ait" standpoint. He made prom ises, to our mind; were absurd and ridiculous. Mr. Moise promised the people of Pinewood a concrete or brick road from 'Sumter to the Clarendon line, a distance of we think about enty miles. He also stated it was I he intention of Sum'ter to build all of i p.their main roads with concrete or brick, claiming sand-clay was a failure and wotild not -stand. 'He also stated there were seven hundred wooden bridges in Sumter county, and these would be supplanted with concrete. Mr. Moise is a fluent speaker and a good part of the crowd seemed to be I with him. Now, 'let's take Mr. Moises's argument and see where we are at. Sumter county has voted up on themselves a bond issue of $2,500, 000 for good roads. These roads built as Mr. Moise says out of concrete or. brick will cost approximately $60, 000 per mile, making about forty miles. Will Sumter county pay $1, 125,000, or half of their bond issue to give Pinewood a -good road? From accounts we have seen in the Sumter 1 papers the other taxpayers of that county have been made the same pro mise. Mr. Moise says they have seven I hundred wooden bridges which will be i built of concrete. We haven't the figures but we do believe it will take < fully the balance of the bond issue (or ] $1,125,000) to build these bridges. AN IMPORTANT MEETING TO FARMERS OF CLARENDON COUNTY Chairman W. C. Davis Calls a Meet ing of The County Cotton Asso ciation For Tuesday, May 15th. A meeting of the Clarendon County cotton association is hereby called to meet at the Court House at Manning, S. C.. on Tuesday, the 15th, instant, at 4 P. M. Matters- of great importance to the farmers of this county will be discussed. - All farmers from Plowdens Mill, Harmony, Brewington, Sammy Swamp Midway, Calvary, Fulton Township yet unorganized, are urged to attend this meeting, whether members of the as sociation or not. Below is a list of the County Or ganization as it stands today: Clarendon County Cotton Association W. C. Davis, President; J. E. Rowe, Vice President; .1. M. Windham, Sec retary.' Executive Committee ALLeon M. Galloway, George A. Rid gill, R. H1. Belser, Di. R. DoeN' L. DuRantDuoe Members State Board of Directors R. M. Smith, F. C. Thomas, J. M.. Davis. D~ouglas Township J. C. D~ennis, President; WV. J. Bud din, Vice President; D. E. Turbeville, Secretary; Directors, J. L. Green, E. A. CoAker, F. N. Thomas. Sandy Grove Trownshiip R. E. Smith, President; Silas Floyd, i Vice President; ,J. H1. 11am, Secretary; Directors, E. L. Langston, T. M. Cok.. er, W. D). McFaddlin. New Zion Towntship) G. M. Ificks, Presidenit; Jehu Smith, Vice President, P. M. Gibbons, Secre tary; Directors, D). R. D~ufose, JT. HT. Dullose, Willard Fleming. Manning Tlownship F. C. TIhomaas, President; E. 11. Gamble, V ice President; i. J1. Iomar, Secretary; Directors. .J. M. WVindIham, R. [E. Ridgill, S. L~. Davis. MI. Z:1 io Towsip IrLon M. Gallowvay, P'residt ;a; R. S. Johnson, V ice P'esidlenit; HuTg h .1 ohn son, Seerel ir.'; i rector s. 1. V. P'low den, S. A. Stranoge, C. IT. Baggett .1 St. Jamen Ti(f Iownshi p Iiilhtur4, V '-( Pesi lenit; J1. E. Rowe,I Secretarv ; Di)rectors, J1. M,. D~avis, L. A. Brunson,, J1. 1. lort on. St. Ponl 'Towvnshtip C. M'.. Pdlasoni, PresAident; J1. TI. K(inig, V ice P resideIntI; J1. H1enry K ing, Secre.. Tar; irect or,, J1. M. King, Rt. M. C. Md. .Av:s. Preside'nt; R. B. Mel.. ,aS'ectarv; DirectorsA E. M. WatT.J Grntrvi.h1George Josep)h. Ma snar 1( J. D a vii. Pre'sident. ; Jos.] S oro I.~ .. Vice Prie t ; .J. WV. Snro. Se'reb iriv. ) nn.tm-e ,J.. DUNTY BACK i STATEMENTS? What swill become -of .the rest of Sum ter county .and what will the* -ey when they discover Pinewood 'has drawn half of their bond money for %bout twenty miles of road? There are several hundred miles of public roads in Sumter county, ' and Mr. %4oise says if the $2,500,000 bond is 5ue is insufficient to ibuild all of the roads, :.the legislative delegation have pledged themselves to pass a 'bill -at he coming session of the legislature ro raise the necessary amount. In'our )pinion the necessary fund to build such roads and ibridges would *be near r $20,000,000 than $2,500,000. Mr. Moise claims it will take eighteen nills to take care of the present bond issue. His .county now pays about ;wenty-one mills exclusive of school 3onds, which he' did not state the tmount of such 'bonds. This makes tround forty mills Pinewood would pay into the Sumter treasury and ilso their share tf about !half million lollar bonds into the Clarendon treas iry, making something like seventy ive mills. We are told that Turbeville 'has >een invited to join Sumter county, md they too, we presume, have been nade the same inducement, which if ;he promises come true, would eat up ill of the Sumter bond issue. Will Sumter then turn their backs on the >alance of their county, and the tax 3ayers who voted this burden upon ,hemselves'? Will they do this to nake new acquaintances? Or is this 'bait -to acquire more territory to ielp pay off these shackles? The intentions of the good roads )oosters of Sumter may be good, but ,o our mind, Mr. Moise's statements ;o pave all of the public highways to he county line with brick or concrete ire impossi'ble. The Clarendon delegation will ad Iress the Pinewood citizens next donday afternoon 'and state their side >f the matter. St. Marks Township H. W. White, President; J. S. Plow len, Vice President; J. S. Plowden, 3ecretary; Directors, P. T. White, J. - Tobias, Clinton Stukes. Friendship Township R. H. Belser, President; W. E. Feld r, Vice President; J. A. Brailsford, secretary; Directors, E. L. Faircy, M. ff. Rickenbaker, J. Q. Ross. W. C. DAVIS, Pres. Cotton Association. MANNING FESTIVAL WEEK Next week will witness at the Pas ine Theatre, the greatest program ver offered to the people of Clarendon Jounty. Among the attractions are: "Tren ure Island" by Robert Louis Steven ton. "Everywoman" by Cecil B. Do fIilles. "Male and Female." This array of the best pictures ever creened should appeal to all classes. 'Treasure Island," the most read took in the entire world, will be liked >y all boys and girls, twixt nine and linety. There'll he shown the first .wvo days, Monday andl Tuesdlay. 'Ev'erywomanm" the greatest wvoman ietore filmed, will be shown here, N~ednesday and Tfhursday, "Male and 'emale," the picture that has taken he entire country by storm, will be creenedC~l, the last, two dlays, Frid ay nd( Saturday. Tlo complete this won erfil programi, Mr. Lou Rose assist d by Mr. Norman TIrenna of New iork will presenlt many new novelties lso "Lost City" and Elmo Lincoln." To insurie a good steady picturie, a ww mach ine has bee nordered, and vill be here in timen for next week. alAN SLAYS WIFE ANI) THEN SELF 'God foirgiv'e me!'' Roberit 1lian, igedl forty- thIree, about 3 o'clock t his fternoon shot and killed his wife and hen too~k his own life by firing~ a nllet inti hiis head. Hogan was miarriedl to( Mrs. Rlober', .esesne about one year aigo. JBefe r' ecr ma~rriage to Mrd . Lesesne she w'' ' tiss ll all ie Pitts, diaughter of the Iate ohecrt P'itts, of G ourdin. The t.rcedy. it is sa i, took p1l'wci ii the pre :;nce of four of Mrs. 1Ho ta n's chiildren, who are saidh to be the mly witne se~s of the affair. Juist as Mrisi. Hlogan was comnir;t >wvn the steos preparatory to fgo'ime o town her husimbandl, it is reipoirt-d lhot her six times before tinning 'he oni oni hims if. Mlr.. gan i- suirvived hv. five chi Irenm by har first haishand. Edw, ird an I inery Pitts, brothera, oif Samter, and 41ri . W V. Mchry, (f lanes, a rio-. LODGE DECLARES WILSON MUST CO i Senator 'Condemns President's Policy f -on League of Nations and . Mexico in Keynote Address h u Chicago, June 8.-The country must frive President Wilson and his "dy- I nasty" from power and defeat the League of Nations as he desires it, leclared 'Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, temporary chairman of the Republic-, in National Convention, in his key note address here today. Defending the Senate's opposition to t n the treaty of peace as a high and pa triotic duty, the Senator flung down u this gauntlet ti "We make the issue. We ask ap- t probation for what we have done. a l'he people will now tell us what they i Mhink of Mr. Wilson's league and the 5acrifice of America." r While emphasizing the point that ' uround the league must be waged the 1920 Presidential campaign, and de- b voting much of his speech to arraign-' nent of the Wilson administration, d the Senator found time to lay before L' e Alelegates the stand of the Repub lican party on other salient prob- P tems facing the nation. d Chief among these was Mexico. De- A !Iaring it was time for the United States to take a firn hand in things r Mexican and end the "disgraceful rec- t rd" of the last seven years, Senator Lodge urged that this country let the Mexicans choose as their President h iome strong and upright man who is rriendly to the United States and de- e termined to establish order and then t lend him a real and cordial support. a "Mexico lies at our doors," he de- w ?lared. "It is a primary duty for us to deal with it under the Monroe Doe- a .rine, but nothing has been done, and 4 vet we are asked to take a mandate h for Armenia." Salient points made by Senator P Lodge were: n "Mr. Wilson and his dynasty, his S ieirs and assigns, or anybody that is dt iis, anybody who with bent knee has g ;erved his purposes, must be driven I rrom control, and from all influence ti .ipon the Government of the United b tates. ir They must be driven from office and power, not because they are Demo- w .rats, but because Mr. Wilson stands w or a theory of administration and t rovernment which is not American. 01 "The return of the Democrats to i< ower with Mr. Wilson or some of his li lisciples still the leader and master of a: great party, which before his ad- f< 'ent possessed both traditions ard IT, principles, would be a long step in the to lirection of the autocracy for which \Ir. Wilson yearns and a heavy blow to :o the continuance of free representa- h1, Ave government as we have always t< inceived and venerated it. I. "Mr. Wilson and the autocracy he at 'epresents, and all which those who ti )t ieve.' in his dotrines and share his C Ipir'it represent, must be put aside and di ~onclusively excluded from any future r '(ntrol. "Tlhe defeat of the present adminis- S, ra tioni andl all it me'ans, transcends 14' n impojJ~rtance every other (luest ion w mu all immediate andl( dominant is-p es arie hound up with it. Withouty hat defeat every chance of' the right; e'ttlement of' the mighty questions he-I 'uire us, so sorely needed now and not ater, will~ depart. I "To maintain law andl order' and ,table' governmenii~t where j ustice ruiles' i d the i:ght of all mna, hiigh andi ow, rich amnd poor1, shall lbe pr'otcC'edI ye must haive a government of the 'peopjle. ii lV tho.;en b~y the pieopl', ant overnmiiu' t lby a singslu' imn or bya group~ of men.: or' by an orgaized.u i iority. " re:)ciailly pirite: ve I iriif leg'i in. '. F'ul bdt in proel vi'ie in thei White iiose;. To' azomp li aui:h min we '' thiee, vie mia have, as we in. n '"The r'se of pri'Ces, t he high co~i e liviing: v-hichi reach daily into everv ' o'nblemi wvhic'h er front: I . i- me ori iii he urce of)Y1 g1tin tni cju-uiub, Ill, but o' ' th-ing4 tha, mn b,- :if fot'''d by I;.w should bu.> di'ie atn "Profiteering, the charging of ex >rtionate and unjustified , prices, hich is stupid as well as unlawful, re subject now to ample punitive ws. Those laws should be en )rced, others if necessary added, and ie offenders both great and small iould be pursued and punished. "The most essential remedy for igh cost of liing is to' keep p and increase pi oduction, and articularly should e very effort be iade to advance the productivity of ic farin. "The phrase 'Government ownership' eans not only that the Government tall own the railroads, but also, it to be feared, that those who run ke railroads shall own the Govern ient. General Government ownership rider our political system would in itably bring about the mastery of ie Government by those who oper te the machinery of transportation . of any other industries which come I ito governinent possession. The ghts of the general public, for whom LI industries exist, would disappear nder this scheme and nothing would left to the people except the duty paying taxes to support the roads. "Over 600 Artiericans have been nd red in Mexico. Carranza insulted ke American Government in every. :ssible way, and still nothing was ne. We fell so low that when an merican was seized by one, of the any bands of brigands and held for mnsom, all tha. Lt - Government of te United States would (1o was to of -r to be the channel for conveling ie ransom of their citizens to the ghwaymen who had seized them. "Ve have ratched and waited long tough. We need a firm hand at ie helm. The time has come to put ,i end to this Mexican situation, hich is a shame to the United States id a disgrace to civilization. If we e'to take part in pacifying and help g the world, let us begin here at mie in Mexico. "Let the Mexicans choose as their resident some strong and upright an who is friendly to the United tates and determined to establish or r, and then let the United States ive him a real and cordial support, id so strengthen and uphold him at he will be able to exterminate the mldits and put an end to the unceas g civil war. When the armistice with Germany as signed the course to be pursued as clear. - - That course Svas make the peace with Gernany at kce and then take up for reasonablei mnsideration the question of estab ;hing such future relations with our sociates in the war as would make r the future peace of the world. uis Mr. Wilson prevente(l. lie went Europ)e. "Ie had apparently only one aim, be the maker of a league of which should be the head. le was de rImiine(d that there should be a .'ague of Nations then and there, d in order to nullify the powers of e Senate given by the powers of the nstitution of the United States, he -e ided to make the league an integ .1 parit of the treaty of peace with nirmany. Thus he presented to the -nate, and initendIed to piresent, a dIi nunia from which he believedl there as no0 esae In ordler to have 'acee wvith Germany lie meant to com 'I the Senate to accept with it the 'ague o fNations. "Tfhe Repulic ians of the Sena te per viniit the dangers oif the league, (de rmliinedl to resist Mr. Wi'ilson 's de andm. The Amiierican people will niev. ecpt. that alliance wvithI foreign itions11 proposed by the P'residenit. he President meantLime has re a infed inflexible. ie is determjied have the treaty as he brought it eor nothinag, and to that iminperi is deiiand the people wvill reply in uuos which cannot lie misundler "We he .tso topped Mr*. Wilson's c-ity, and the qulestion j.oes to the ople. In 191l6 Mr. Wilson won on' ory thait '113 had kept us out of. rl(' inow demands the aplroval he A merican pieople fori his tiirtyv hi. adnunistration on the gro nd at 1 h ias kept us oult if pieace. "TI- leazue iust. be discussed in *1y distict andl in e'very Sta;te, and * 0 5'ii' toi have the verd Iict so '7 ylven that no man who seeks re present thle peopifle in the S'm - the House or. in any place or in d dereO, e 1 have the sl ightLest "W rcho. tho issue; we ask ap -'ihaunntl fori what w.e hiavei donei. I'he '.4'! w.ill now~ trll us what they MR. FELDER Al COUNTY SUP Editor Manning Times: Will you please allow me space ir your columns to reply to my friend Kelly's reply, in last week's Times. I feel very much flattered at Mr. Kelly'. statement that "being the type of mar I am he could not treat me with sileni contempt "I must be above the aver age for him to consider to take notict of me. I wish to thank Mr. Kelly foi these flattering words. I did not mean any reflection on those with Mr Kelly in office, some of these men are my best friends and neighbors, and I am satisfied 'that they acted foui square and do not doubt but what the3 turned in every dollar that they col. lected. I have heard no complaint frorn any of them and as we all know it i only the "hit dog that yells" therefor( we take it that our opinion about their being straight is correct. Mr. Kelly's statement as to the license law reminds ine of a little bo3 shooting in the air with a pop pistol What he tried to say (lid not touc me on the charges that I made. H< iust simply made things worse foi him. . What I said was that he had collect. ed quite a sum from our unsuspecting citizens on a law and that he should have known that it was a law befort he did so ,and not deceive innocent lav abiding citizens with a fake. H( should have known that the law was all right before he acted and not t< have collected from innocent unsus pecting parties on a law that could not be enforced. We were told that every man would be forced to pay the license. but I know quite a numbei that refused to pay and nothing has been (lone. He did not see that every one paid the license as he promised ilhrough his collectors. In his reply he did not say why he did not try tc collect from the delinquents. It is very strange that Mr. Kelly should be so kind all of a sudden "in helping the people by saving the time and con fusion it would have caused them" it they had had to go to Manning to gel their license. Mr. Kelly stated in his reply that he collected something ovei 2.000 licenses more than the tax books showed the previous year, but this only puts him in a worse light, for it is very generally conceded that we now have the poorest service since the establishment of the Supervisor's of fice. According to his own figures, he must have collected some where be tween ten and twelve thousand dol lars. "Ie says that he collected seven thousand and twenty licenses and granting that half of this amount think of Mr. Wilson's league and its sacrifices of America. "They (the people) will tear aside the vei! of words woven to blind and leceive and come down to the essen tial and vital point-Mr. Wilson's plan )n one side and the independence and safety o fthe United States on the ther. "All Americans must join together in their own way and with their own irgunents defeat Mr. Wilson's league -s he desires it, whether amended by rim or in its pristine simplicity." Senator Lodge charged the Demo ,ratic party vith responsibility for Ilhe ierlious condition of the hour,' an11d said, if the Republican par'y fails to grapple w-ith it effectively, "th( Russian dlescenlt into barim risnm will be'gint to dIraw near" A beginning had been) made he said, by a Republican Congress in rest oring economic condlit ions, 'working uinder allI the d ificulties anid opposition im p)osed by a hostile executive." Ile anulmeratedl various beneficial mecas ares ,adding that the estimates had beeni redFuced over a bill ion dollars. F le advocated enforcement of the laws against profiteering and saidl it was poss5ible t' (Fheck the adlvance of plrices Fby law, Fby priin g for "'the control of (cred its in suzch aman Wir as5 to give preferen.-s tom the most .-ssen:tial products.'' He describedl the railioadl act "'as a sing'le greait law~ wih in i any pejiri wouihld be sufli en t to d ist ingu ish a Congress as one 'f high nec(mpl ishmnent ." HONO)RS CGEN ERALJ GOlG AS London. .June 8. - l ing George con forr-led a knight comunmiershuip (It the ider of St. M ichael oF a d St. Geor'ge 0i 0former Surligeon Genima) :l William G. Gorgais, of the Un aited St t es arimy. Th'le King took advantarre of his visit If insp~ection a t the Millbiank: Mil lit ary ItoSpital to c-all on the disin iguishedl A mierican at Queen A lexandria's nmurs hine hoame whliich is at ta:ihed to the hos pita:l. In a long t a: wlth: Gen. Gorgas~ le K in"- (Omnplimlented hlim 01n hi! reaut aci(elvemuents in er nquermng mat Inaiia in thle ennii cal ' lne b 1(medical scri "nce, saying that in this way th" (-on ftrcton (If the ca:n:al wasI inde pos ;ilde ISWERS ERVISOR KELLY was one horse wagons and baxius and the other half two horse wagons and log carts, this would make it figure out as-above stated. No other Super visor ever had this appropriation, and even granting that this cost of labor and material is higher than ever, why then (with thi. extra amount of money) should he give us so much poorer service than all the others. Mr. Kelly certainlly hits the nil on the head when he said he used the best judgment he had, we do not doubt that he did the best he was capable of doing, and I did not say a word. till he had the check to accept a much more responsible office. As to our highway commissioners I am personally acquainted -with them and I wish to say that they are good business men, I fully ngree with Mr. Kelly that they are fully able to at tend to the business in hand and will put Mr. Kelly out as soon as they see that he has outreached himself and unless he uses better judgment in this office than he has in the Supervisor's office I am of the opinion that it would be long before we "will dil igently consider his place and it shall not be." It seems from Mr. Kelly's own statement that I am not the only I one who has been criticizing him, as he says "it is being talked ou the streets of Manning that I am dratwing two salaries." As to Mr. Kelly's denying charges made, I am quite sure if he was to be hung he would -eny the charge, but denying facts does not disproce them, let him show why he did not enforce the law, and why he neglects some sections of the county, and if his ex planations are satisfactory we will ex cuse him. I want to say in conclusion that I hate controversies and I will not re ply to Mr. Kelly again, also that I bear no ill feelings to him or any one that I know, but I do not feel that Mr. Kelly has been giving us justice and God forbid that I ever carry any ill feeling to any man and get behind a bush and throw at him, but it some times takes growlers and pretty loud ones too to wake up some people. If Mr. Kelly will come over to where I live I will take pleasure in showing him a public road that has not been worked since he has been in office, except by Mr. Leslie Tindal and myself, I have worked on this road several times and I have never re ceived a penny compensation, and I do not suppose that Mr. Tindal has. Very truly, E. B. FELDER. Silver, S. C. MARTEN'S PLEA IS DENIED Washington, June 8.-Request for the subpoena of Major Gen. William S. Graves, former commander of the American expeditionary forces in Si ber-in. and Raymond Robins, former A merican Red Cross commissioner to Russia, in the Department of Labor's deportation proceedings against Lud wig C. A. K. Martens, was denied to day by Immigration Inspector Shell who is conducting the hearinz. Former Senator Hardwick, or Geor gia counsel for Martens, several weeks ago filed a request for the ap e(arane0 of Gen. Graves and Mr. Rob ins. Inspector Shell denied the request nh ground that any testimony irre(velanit to the case. Annllouncemient was made at the re sum0ption of the deportation proceed ings todlay that final hearings wvould be hebd ,June 17. TE case then is ex J)etled to go to A ssist ant Secretary oIao Pst, who probaly will pass the case on for final act ion by Prcsi dent Wilson. '[he session today was toaken upJ wholly by prese'ntation by Senator I lardwick, of the case for Martens. TO'( RlOUND UP 'TAX D)ODGERS IWarhington, ,June 8.-Flying squad r'onsa are to senit by tihe internal revenue hbureau to) all of the large cities in a generalI taxs drive which is expeeted lby oflicials to resuit in tho l'ineent taxes and pemnlties. C'ommnissioner Williamis ann ounced tha;t ?cci al attenationi wouald lbe direct eto the colection of t he execise) taxc on ale by manu0fneturmers, lhe so.. calledi luxury tax, the jem .r tax,th toIn toilet artiele- une' proprietary miOinie1s, t he soft. dlrink tax: andl the adm1issioni tax. Thle comm1iss.iioni.r said the buriteau hiadl reeivedl reports froom many sources 111at deale; anad otlher per sons responsiblme for mturn and col leeftion 'f mi scellan1110r. taxe v O :eYe foiling ill their duty.. Some of the bri ' r hr"binring i arr'ive ror the hoevMe e ok will