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Guam, Uncic S8a's far-Fit Island Possessiop Has But Possibilit By CA4IfJ SCH Right this way, ladies and gentle men, to Guam and the Carolines. See Uncle Sam's far-flung outpost, the last stopping point on this side of the Philippines. Transfer at Guam and go south to the Caroline Islands. These are the spoils, or a part of them, that the Japs got for fighting against Germany. See Yap, little in name and size but mighty. Japan has a mandate over it, but our cable to the Philippines lands there. There are hundreds of islands in the Caro !ines. See what the Japs are doing there. See with your own eyes whe ther they are abiding by the four power agreement to cease building fortifications. Right this way, ladies and gentlemen." The ballyhoo man, the "barker" in the red cap, can be imagined or visu alized as standing at the dock in San lFrancisco a'd exhorting his hearers to go West. But this young Horace Greeley can only be imagined. IlIe wears no red cap; in fact, he is not there. If he were there he would be shoutt ing the wonders of Hawaii. That place is established in the American ecnsciousness. We have acquired the habit of going there. Guam, still largely undeveloped, is only a diamond in the rough. Yap is just a pinpoint on the map. The Caro I mes are just half a thousand pin points. however, Guam has a length of 30 and a width of six or seven miles with a total area of approxi mately 200 square miles. It is a stop sigp point for Uncle Sam's transpaci tic ship route and one of his cable liacs. Ile has also there a naval de pot and some fortifications not yet linished, but as much finished now as they will be within the next 10 years if the status quo understanding of the powers lives. Guam is hot; its mean temperature is 80 degrees. When it rains, it pours. When it blows, look out for a hurri cane. When the ground shivers and you have a strange feeling of empti ness or uncertainty, you may know that old Mother Earth is quaking. Ihurricanes make no last impression on the natives. A furious storm de stroys the lields sand gardens, wipes out everything. The people are desti tute and famine grips them. It has happened several times. Some ship conies in with food, and starvation is prevented. The farmers grow just enough vegetables for their daily needs. They never have a surplus; when disaster arrives, they are not prepared to cope with the emergency. The situation may he peculiar but not entirely illogical. There mus he an incentive of a positive character. Here in America we grow more than we need so that. we can sell the sur plus and buy other materials with the EAGLE "MIKADO" For Sale at your Dealer ASK FOR THE YELLOW PEN EAGLE I EAGLE PENCIL COM Speakin Have You Too Much I Of course not. Put your sur and it will ear Then in the c will reap the early thritt. ( This is a bank the the people it doeslI Are you one of th( Home Bank CHARLTON Du T. M. WELLS, ( 1Ig Outpost In th PacifiG. Oewn Litie Developed, kes Are Great. URZ LOWDEN. money received. quam is isolated. There is no market for the surplus. The wants of the people are extreme ly simple. The only possible need of a surplus would come with a catastro phe. The people are unwilling to an ticipate a calamity, particularly so if two birds cannot be killed with the same stone. Guam is not self-supporting, though every home has its garden or rancho, where the principal products are corn and sweet potatoes. Perhaps there will be a patch of tobacco or some coffee bushes stooping from the weight of the berries. Rice is grown. Cocoanuts are gathered from the palm trees. Copra, the dried meat of the cocoanut, constitutes the only item exported. By far the larger part of the population of 15,000 is engaged in agriculture. The roads are poor, many of them little more than mere trails. Even the carabao, or water buffalo, and the cart it draws cannot travel some of them. This need for better transpor tation retards the development of the island. When roads are made, fine lumber obtainable in the interior and other materials besides copra will doubtless be exported. The natives are a picturesque lot of mixed blood, with a range of com plexion from white to dark brown. In other days Scotch, French, English and Spanish ships stopped in the har bor of San . Luis d'Apra. When the ships departed, some of the men re mained and married the native Chamorro women. If the tourist were required to guess or identify the place by the family names he would judge himself to be in the British Isles, France or Spain; if he heard the lan guage and knew languages he would perceive it to be the common tongue of that section of the world; that is, of Micronesia. The men wear trousers and shirts, but they vary the American style by keeping the shirt entirely on the out sie. We may laugh at the custom, but they deem it a much more prefer able method than ours. If we lieved as near the equator as they do we might see more wisdom in their ap parent madness. The women like ample skirts and waists, with sleevs, but they save their shoes and stock ings for special events. The Guamese impress the traveler as an amiable people. They are in telligent and eager to learn. Their enterprise in this respect must be re garded as astonishing; for the Span ish authorities frowned on education because they thought the natives, if left ignorant, would be more tractable andl less likely to rebel against the government. Since the American oc cupation of the island at the close of Pencil No. 174 Made in five grades CIL WITH THE RED BAND IKADO PANY, NEW YORK g to U! V4oney ? You need more. plus in this bank n more. ecline of life you rewards of early ome in today. Lt believes in >Usiness with. & T rust Co. RANT, President ~ashier AVQJD MISTAKES No Need to Experiment With Mann ing Evidencett"ggpg. There are many Wi a ig vorei l kit ney remedies on the ma g p9Aday, but, none so well-recomme de --none so; Manning recommended ; opn's Ki. ney Pills. Ask your nig ilor. Read this Manning cb: T. M. . Young, adv. yksing sign painter, Bradham Ave., s: "Not long ago my kidneys trot{ gd me and I couldn't get my prppgr" rest at night as I had to get up often to pass the kidney secretions. I felt drowsy all during the day. The kid ney secretions burned and contained a sediment. This condition caused a numb feeling across the small of my back. I began' to use Doah's Kidney Pills from Dickson's Pharmacy and they helped me a great deal. Doan's are good. I gladly give my recom mendation." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney rdmedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mr. Young had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. the war with Spain, schools have been established. A marked filial devotion may be noted between the parents and child ren. When marriage comes, the in terested fathers and mothers plan and work together to give the young couple the right sort of a start in life. When the parents reach old age, the sons and daughters repay by taking care of them. "It is not unusual," says one man who has studied this aspect of Gun mese character, "for a man or wvoman of 40 or 50 years to ask permission of the parents before engaging in a business transaction. The spectacle of old womon, abandoned and forgot ten by their 'children, acting as water carriers as in Samoa and among our Indian tribes, is unknown in Guam." Many of the houses have roofs of colored tile and are constructed of wood, stone or stucco. The Ameri cans introduced corrugated iron as a good roofing material, which some of the natives have taken as an example worth following. The older residents or those of a conservative mind stick to the customs of their forefathers as good enough for themselves; they pre fer dwellings tatched all over with palm tree leaves. Agana, the seat of government, is an industrious little city that sets the pace for the few others in Guam. The houses are more modern and the streets more spacious and better sur faced than those of its sister towns. In the public square you will see the principal church of Agana and of Guam. Founded in 1669, the earth quake of 1902 shattered it; as yet it has not been restored to its former glory, but the native give it the same degree of adoration. "Its great bell," a former governor of the island once said, "tolls every morning at 4 o'clock calling the peo ple to matins and to their daily tasks. The church is a sacred possession hallowed by the worship of genera tions. The people could not be parted from it nor from the daily observan ces connected with it." The island imitates Italy in shape, though if that country can properly be compared to a boot, Guam must be reckoned as a pair of hose such as men wear. The toe of Italy points downward, and that of Guam takes a similar position. There is a dissim ilarity, however, because the Italian boot projects northwest, while the Gunmese upper prefers.the northeast direction. San Luis d'Apra, 10 miles from Agana, has a better harbor than those of Pago and 'Tarofofo, which are on the other, or eastern, side of the is land. Agana's own harbor gives no assurance of safety in a storm, in asmuchi as an anchor wvill drag read ily in the coral bottom. A pra has a clay bottom. Consequently, wve have the queer situation of the capital us ing the Apra harbor regardless of the disadvantage of location entails. Would you pick cotton from trees ? Then go to Guam where three variet ies grow wild. Trhe tree cotton flourishes at a height of 60 feet. G uami has other ermarkable trees besides those that yield cotton. The wvomen take the long leaves of the pandanu and braid them into mats and hmats. From the hau tree, the men manufacture a strong rope im pervious to wvater. The cocoanuts here are the best in all the tropics, the pineapple are juicy andl the bread fruit delicious. The jungles contain miany hardwoods valuable for ship building or cabinet work. The island, of course, is adlminis tered l*' our Navy Department, be eause of its great imp~ortance as a naval station.-The Dearborn inde pend~ent. RAIO( STATION Richmond, Va., March 21.-The Times Dispatch Publishing Cam pany, publishers of the Times Dis patch (Morning) and evening Dis patch, will begin tomorrow the in stallation of the first public radio broadcasting station in Virginia. NOTICE 01F SA LE OF -PElRSONA L lOP~ERTY State of South Carolina, Cla rendon County. The State vs. Jlake Plowden and Neta Myers. I will sell at public auction to the highest biddor for cash on Monday, G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, 'Glasses Fitted, Broken Lenses Duplicated. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SUTM~E.R. S. C. 71 Fwp~e Ladie, See Us E We can save you money of Foot SUITS IN TWEED. Dresses Dresses $7.95 - $14.95 Materials are Taffetas, Can and All New ( NEW SHIPMENTS O The latest Spring Sh $2.00, $2.50, $4.00, $4. LATEST STYLES IN \ Brown Kid, Satins and I $2,25, $2.50, $4.00, $5. | The Peoples l (FORMERLY THI Phone 601 SUMTEI April 3rd, 1922, within the legal hours I, J. E. Gamble, S for judiciary sales, the following de- County, will sell n scribed personal property: the highest bidder One Ford Touring Car which was of the CouL't Hous taken on the night of February 23, S. C., on Monday, 1922, by Rural Policeman J. M. Peavy April, 1922, bein; and confiscated by the County of the legal hours fo Clarendon for the illegal transporta- following describe tion of Alcoholic liquor. All that tract 01 J. E. GAMBLE, County, in said Sheriff Clarendon County. forty-three (43) n bounded North by NOTICE ./ DISCHARGE I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon County on the 17th (lay of April, 1922 at 1- o'clock A. M. for Letters of Discharge as Ad ministrator of 'ie Estate of Shadrie Rush Mims, deceased. Charlton E. Gamble, pd. Administrator. Tfurbeville, S. C., March 14, 1922. NOTICE 01" SALE State of South Carolina, Clarendon County. Court of Common Pleas. Notice of Sale. 1H. J. Ilarby, Plaintiff, VJt vs Wt Susan E. Gaymon, Israel Gaymon, fra Sarah Lawvyer, Madison Gaymon, ra( Wallace Glaynmon, Jr., Susan Cordes, .cheCk I Ocie Washington, Moses Cordes, Ruth Cordes, Eleanora Stukes U> known as Norvel Stukes, Sallie Call a Ann Cantey, Rufus Gaymon known a as Moss Gaynmon, John Calhoun Sy8telD Gaymon and Eliza Gaymon, De fendants. Under and by virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas made in above entitled action to me directed, LThe Most ProfitableGh Acre on the Farm by tai' t I reiptgiiized if thli Cfarni, bt i often, neglectedI. yoi V <-ike t. i i fr 'n a haltI $ iitl pi I.,thn Is oti Ii i ettee ALWAYS PLANT SEEDS to, iOi( Io ( iIinii i'- yi~( or in iii al oiii i THE nuit -irnllul ieso fl e< JOSEPH T.W.WOOD &SONS Ji SE EDS~MEN Iera~tilet 4 - tQ eost ce ef ore You Buy? 1 your Suit,, Dress, Hat and Wear AND KELLY-KLOTH a.50 Dresses Dresses $17.95 $19.95 on Crepe, Crepe de Chines ,ombinations. 'MILLINERY DAILY apes-Prices ranging $3.00, $3.50, 50, $5.00 OMEN'S FOOTWEAR atents. Prices Ranging $3.00, $3.50, 00, $6.00 /lercantile Co. C WRECK STORE) ?, S. C. Next to P. O. heriff of Clarendon man; East and South by land now t public outcry to or formerly of William Coulliette; and for cash, in front West by lands of Washington Gay e door at Manning, mon and W. S. Manning, and beiIng the 3rd (ay of the same bonveyed to me '(Preston Ssalesday, within Gaymon) by E. A. Weeks andl others r judicial sales, the by deed recorded in office of Clerk of 1 real estate: Court of Common Pleas for Claren land in Clarendon don County in book L. L. on page 509. State, containing Purchaser to pay for papers. cres, more or less, J. E. Gamble, land of Rufus Gay- Sheriff of Clarendon County w0ther 7ature the benefit and protection of our de 'etors with checking accounts, we have :1 the Protectu Check System. his System, you can write your checks ertain amount and then protect your >y tearing it at that amount. '* .at being a check can be raised to a higher amount. our bank and let us demonstrate this to you. It is free to all depositors. QUALLY PRACTICAL FOR POCKET, DESK AND PAY ROLL USE ectu BANK OF MANNING S RITT T. M. MIOUZ~gNr l PrdeTAait Ca her