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on One NGe toC8EDNEDAYSection One , +UPages 1 t 8 OL. XLIIMANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922 1AllROAD STRIKE NAY END $OON Maintenance of Way Employes Not Expected to Quit Work, Says Grable ONE AGREEMENT MADE Pennsylvania Railroad, and its Shop men Get Together on Wage Scale by Direct Dealing 0. Chik..go, July 18.-With E. F. Grablo, president of the Maintenan ce of Way Union, asserting that he did not expect his men to leave their work, conferences looking forward to a peaceful settlement of the shop men's strike continued today. Announcement by the Pennsylvania Railroad that a mutually satisfactory wage agreement had been reached with its shopmen was considered by some railroad and union leaders to have had a clarifying effect on the entire situation, inasmuch as the Pennsylvania has insisted on deaiing directly with its own men. Mr. Grable issued a statement to night asserting that "the path to an early adjustment is open" so far as the 400,000 maintenance men are concerned. - Referring to his conference with President Harding last week, Mr. Grable said he had received assurances that members of the Senate interstate commerce "committee expected to hold early hearings on disputed points of the lscor provisions of the Transporta tion Act, particularly with refer once to the living wage principle. "Reasonable Wage." "The basis for the guidance of the board in the present act is . to set a 'just and reasonable wage," Mr. Grable's statement said. "The present issue which should be set tled by such a hearing by the in terstate commerce committee of the Senate and amendments to the law, is an interpretation of this phrase, 'just, and reasonable' and its ap plication to a living wage." Mr. Grable said he advined the board of orders sent to his gen eral chairman to open negotiations with their respective roads imme diately regarding disputed rules, working conditions and wage and to submit the case to the board if an agreement was not reached. The first of these disputes came before the board today, the dispute being that of the Chicago, Milwau kee and St. Paul Railroad. The car rier set aside the thirty-day clause in existing agreements for the fil ling of a dispute and Mr. Grable secured the board's promise for early hearings on this and similar cases, many of which will be con solidated. Wants Decisions Retroactive He requested that future de cisions on wage disputes, favorable to the men, be made retroactive to July 1, when the wage cut beeame effective. Mr. Grable said a peaceful settle ment of the shopmien's strike was being held up by a few roads wvho were unwilling to allowv returning employes their seniority rights. The .railroads in ultimatums to the strikers, said unles athey returned to work by certain dates, all of which have now expired, they would start in again as new em ployes. They are supported in their stand by proclamations issued by the labor board. On the other hand, President B. M. Jewell, and his striking shop men, have asserted that any set tlement must be predicated on a full restoration of seniority rights to the returning strikers. Georgia 'National Guard com panies were sent to Waycross to day because of strike disorders and North Carolina troops were held in readiness for an emergency. Fresh troops were mobilized Ir Illinois to replace those on duty at Blooming ton and Clinto. Permanent Injunctions The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroadl and the Chicago and Northwestern today were granted permanent injunctions here prohibiting picketin gand irn. thiidation by the unions now on strike. Temporary injunctions were issued to the Pore Marquette at Detroit, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Louisville and Nashville at East St. Louis and the Wabash rail road at St. Luis. 'Ohemical analysis of the milk served at the Chicago, Milwaukee and t Pani Rala.ar.s. which No Joy Rid COAL WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE HUMAN FAMILY I stepped on a round rock Sunday evening ands movee some of the ball-bearings in my left hind leg and now I can't locomote r.nd I have suffered much, and lost sleep, am right restless, but I have been reading up . on the world-wide i strikes that are causing such serious I trouble, loss of life and property. I Mr. Editor, what is the matter with I us, anyway? Just a few years ago. I I wrote you a letter in which I de clared that we were nearing the time of the "Brotherhood of Man," but today I confess that if that happy day does come, it is in the dim future. I used to say, poor be nighted China, but poor China is not doing worse than many other peoples are today. . Thei world war was just as bed as the devil and his legions could wish it to be. And Ireland is in a hell of a fix, and Eu rope as a whole has a dark future ahead of her, but the facts that con cern us most seriously and vitally are embodied in conditions that exist right here in our glorious America. If our people go on for the next decade, striking, fighting, killing, bombing and burning, as they are now doing, we won't be the glorious America that we have rightly boasted in the past. Why, if we don't do something to bring about better feeling, better condi tions, and an all-around better un derstanding between capital and labor this country that we so much love wil lexperience a war that will be more dreadful than any that the world has ever witnessed. What is the trouble with the human family anyway? Dd men not lope one n other any more after all these years of Bible knowledge and spiritual light, with God-fearing men pro claiming the glorious truth of Christ 1 and his saving provision for the whole human family and our people doing as they are today? It is sim ply alarming and proves that men are "lovers of themselves rather than the truth." Oh! what a good time the human family could have on this beautiful earth if men and j women would love one another and work, and be honest and virtuous and not covet the things that be long to your neighbor. I feel that it is high time for every man and wvoman in America that knows right from wrong to rise up in their might and take a firm stnd~ for the things that are right and to wage unceasing warfare against all the accumulated evils that so seri ously threaten to undermine Amer <'rica. B. R. Pollard, in The Spartan burg Herald. TO D)EDICATE CH URCH Wilson, S.. C., July 18, 1922. Editor Manning Times, Please print in your paper this I week that the Methodist Church at Wilson Mill, will be dedicated next I Sunday, July 23rd, by Rev. E. L. Me Coy, P. E. of Sumter distuict. We I will be glad to have all of those who1 contributed toward the building of the I Church to be with us and any others that can come. Yours truly, E. C. Coskrcy. made about seventy workers Ill, disclosed that the milk containedl 1 croton oil, city health authorities said. The Pere Marquette road an nulled six passenger trains in Michi 'gan due, it was announced, to the coal strike and the shopmen's strike. Labor board members re ceivedl telegrams today from ship- t pers at Chattanooga, Tenn., assert ing that the shopmen's strike was threatening the waste of the Geor gia peach crop and from the San Gabriel, Cal., valley Potato Growers' I Association, asserting that potato growers were also suffering as a result of the strike.. ).K R . CO O O E!I TO POISON BOIL1WEVIL Hiartsvile, S. C., July 15, 1922. ['o the Editor: I notice appearin Kint all of the daily tnd weekly papers this week an ar icle from Clemson College puporting o give advice as to the patesttand nost approved methods of handling he boll weevil. I am sorry to take issue with the weevil experts of the College on this natter but feel compelled to do so as ny own experiments and those of nany of the best farmers in the State cad me to differ from them in import mit particulars. Clemson College is supported principally by the farmers >f South Carolina and I submit that where there is important evidence available from many of the best and nost reliable farmers in the State, it should be given at least equal weight .vith that of the "experimenters in klabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tex is and Oklahoma. The :boll weevil has been in South arolina for several years during nost of which time the Government md colleges experts have advocated method of weevil control which was xpensive, which required much judg nent mn its application and which in .olved night. work. Besides in prac ice last year the Government method >roved to be dangerous in that some roes .were severally damaged by )lan liee after two or three applica ions of the calcium arsenate in dust orm. I have abundant evidence that the arly poisoning of the weevils by the nolasses-calcium arsenate method is1 success and is so cheap and simple hat it can be put into universal prac ee. I think it a fair deduction from he results obtained that, when put nto universal practice, it will greatly lelay the rapid increase of weevils end allow the whole crop to fruit for ome time longer than when early ontrol methods are not applied. The experience of Mr. McDutle, arm manager for ex-Governor R. I. anming on his Meredith place, is suf fcient on this subject although it is onfirmed by practically every other armer who used the molasses treat usost infested field. o1f_ 10arso ro t is fil frq ety ad u o ).r.McOuic oiON h sfik Ilatev7,o Shc day heul me that oteica apreaen aind afutllyx mid whiekly duaPrin th~a intr-a Ma giv tolJue 27) and thaed sant st tat exoverntod ofManinga erhn bol weevilstah a ee uabler to take snge lie te evil empets fi Colegethatid hatte but fee carleflly ove toh0a eldy ofin the est feways inteSate cad found (lit from thml pt ini rt vhtc particsulars Clemso Ceige unc ured.t.(Ths prically bhe faare futh pCaroin ua.)dTh scott referr dver tohas piate iMrarch evidenas ae fom theny of the bestiod o neseiblerce witheratate, it vei tat me tha exheimjus iwe verbaa 65acoiand hadisipi o'eed s plow 6hsoc o ecpntue arThey vei has ben in aout squares for sever2lsqars (lur In colldequoexpers.W aeAvoated eotuke of ee cont J.ic w illie, hic reqredo moct Hudg enindes a pownao of expeichen ice ast yar he ovtermearmethin hisvedto to the nerousci that somica ions of the calciussente inpdued o hae 12banda evidae n ttonh vryiosointh h weevils reuledi the o >roaticalutotarsdesteuctod ts hat it card beastinonlerosl pose mhall the wshoe pthe parutcuor le experience tof Mrannn Mc.le, he Fence Sold of ex-Governor Manning, May 30 fro mthe fields of Mr. Goodson and June 12 from our own fields (these being the dates upon which these three parie made the first applica tion of( poison.) It seems to me no less foolhardy to do nothmng to control the boll weevil until squares have formed on the plants and of course some of them been punctured by the .old weevils. It is perfectly feasible as stated by the Clemson authority to kill these early weevils by applications of arsenical poison. Why is it not equally feasible to keep on killing them for a period of 30 days when a method which will certamnly do this is offered at a cost of about 20c per acem per application for materials, or say $1. per acre to complete the job. The experience of many in this section shows that it IS perfectly feasible to do THIS VERY THING. We are not going to get perfect boll weevil control anywhere this season because in no section have all the far mers poisoned their crops and picked squares, nor will we probably gat wveevil control to the highest degree mn an yseason, even in sections where the molasses poison is used in time and. frequently, unless the farmers are vigilant mn finding the spots where the few weevils who have probably escaped the poison are laying in the squares. I firmly believe, however, that when .every farmer in the State pois ons his cotton before squares are for med and continues this treatment of ten enough to keep the poison on the cotton until the last of June and there he continues vigilant in detect mng and picking up the few punctured squares that the occasional unpoison ed weevil will lay, wo will have a method of control which will protect the whole cotton crop until late in the season and allow normal crops of early planted early varieties to ma ture. In order to secure the universal adoption of all agricultural practice it is only necessary to convince all the farmers that the practice is pro fitable. The use of te Williams, , plan of cultivating corn very quickly became, universal in this section be cause its benefits were so manifest that even the powerful opposition of many Government experts and agri. clhuet tener adTe eof sten of manyo .if this sei showsthat itnce pch ly feable nd (10tca T noug VEo Whremot gone tof getverfectmer1 Wieviamcontrolanyorwhe thseoner tiibecause etion harerl thesfar rs an~divitad iters npvning h(irs neihors wilomw robab wlys waeni thuswl tose higfhenceto degee that mols neishonrs used cntoe a frequrtynlsth concurrenc with vigmlan Coing aindn the sGotsere mther fewwevils ho pav prablys esalye vaithes uose aclingphosphe suae. pdy ikupsursat Ior firoml. biemvtctne, however ht which ever farer in the State 15ith owshic tton befen aquares abefor sqes ore and newhich trastcrredt oltenough t fireeapicteisona n maecto untilayo the irst ofueared hnade pcigu h e uncture tsqoudareste that intheocioaunlisose io weveei hadl lay ne ilhaeio metod o Jun6trol June18 wi wastec theorale fotboll weevl cntol. lTei thae aon te grlowingosaso has bearl showney wiharly areievy a dif orderttond ure thenie uhnver--l mal.p The toan araifaltal aticle itomsJany neesr to nvhasee all7 t'he famr haal (hrcicemos peo duitale The uster oaf ote Wmnth) pano nclgtivinscor, ver.8uckl becae unral respethfor stion work caus iteso beeIts ePrmest thaetoreof Eteniowrful mapsin of s pre.sorse ofpertonal fins. In eard t ofboll weevil control . onc MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HAS GOOD' MEETING A most enthusiastic and successful meeting of the Seventh District Med ical Association was held at Kingstree on Thursday, July 6th in the Ma sonic Hall. A moving picture theatre was utilized for the showing of lant ern slides to illustrate certain of the lectures. The Seventh District com prises the counties of Clarendon, Georgetown, Lee, Sumter and Wil liamsburg. The meeting was attend ed by forty-one medical men, repre senting each of these counties. An interesting program of scientific pap ers was presented. These led to live ly discussions, entered into by many of those present. At dinner time the members drove out to the picturesque grove of the old Fulton home, where they were served fish stew and bar becue, prepared by the master hand of Mr. Jim Epps. The medical association of Claren don and Lee counties extended invita tions to the district association to meet with them next year. It was de cided to hold the 1923 meeting at Bishopville and the 1924 meeting at Manning. During the absence of the president, Dr. J. A. Mood, of Sumter, the vice-president from Williamsburg, Dr. E. T. Kelly, presided. Besides the invited guests who presented papers, the association was pleased to have as guest Dr. C. F: Williams, of Colum bia, the president of the State Asso ciation, who made a brief, but inter esting address. The officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows: Councilor .pre viously elected by the State associa tion, Dr. T. R. Littlejohn, of Sumter; President, Dr. E. T. Kelly, of King stree; vice-president, Clarendon, Dr. W. S. Iarvin, of Manning; George town, Dr. W. M. Gaillard, of George town; Lee, Dr. A. H. Brown, of Os { wego; Sumter, Dr. H. A. Mood, of Sumter; and Williamsburg, Dr. B. M. Montgomery, of Kingstree; secretary treasurer, Dr. Carl B. Epps, of Sum ter. After an invocation by the Rev. Mr. Ridout, an address of welcome was made by Mayor William Scott. Then followed the program, as follows: Ex amination of the Heart, (A) "The Electro-Cardiograph," by Dr. J. IT. Cannon, of Charleston; (B) "The Roentgen Ray," by Dr. A. Robert Taft, of Charleston: "Surgery of the Prostate," by Dr. G. Fleming MclIn nes, of Charleston; "Hypertension'" by Dr. T. R. Littlejohn, of Sumter; "A Brief Review of Hook-Worm In fection in This Section," by Dr. T. C. Harper of Kingstree; "Myoclonia, with Case Reports," by Dr. W. I Burgess, of Sumter; "Is Goiter Sur gery Giving Satisfaction ?" by Dr, Carl B. Epps, of Sumter; "Puerperal Infection, with Case Reports." by Dr. W. S. Burgess, of Sumter; "Unrecog nized Glaucoma and The General Practitioner's Responsibility in Its Diagnosis," by Dr. D. W. Green, of Sumter; and "The Acute Abdomen," by Dr. C. J. Lemmon, of Sumter. COTTON DUS'T'ING IN CLARENDON COUNTY Some very good work in the poison ing of the boll weevil is being carried on by Messrs. A. S. Rawlinson and C. R. and J. IT. Touchberry. I visited these farms Monday and made a care ful check on the results obtained to late. These farmers are using th' one horse dusting machines of differ ent make, and are well pleased with their respective machines. As far as weather conditions will permit, they are dusting their cotton according to government reco n meIda t ions. While too ("Irly in the season to forecast results, the work a k this stage looks promisingr. In nito of most unfavorable wveather conditions these men have materially reducedl the percent:'''e of punctuired s~fimr es and their c~otton is frutiiting nIIcely a this time. I wvould n ise farmers1 'd a1re i' terestedl ini his mat ter to visit the farms above mienti1o"-d fra'm time , time dr~ming ihe searson and keepi, touch wvith the r;'sults obtriined. TI this wvay a man will he better able to dlecide for himself the aldvisablilityv of purchasing du~st and nmachiies fo'r next year. .I wvill be glad to visit these farms with interestedl Parties and am sure that the farmers mentioned wvill wel come visits by their brother farmers. W. R. Gray, County Agent D)ESIGNATED) FOR CADETSHIP Washington, July 8.--Joseph T. Bragdon, of Manning, has been d3 signated by Senator E. D. Smith for a cadetship at the United States Mili tary Academy at West Point. AIDDITIONA L LOCA LS Miss Fulton of Columbia, is the guest of her sisters, Mesdames James Dickson andI T. L. Bagnal. Mr. Leland Smith is home' from the Furman Fitting School at Greenville. A. C. L. ENGINEER SHOT Wilmington, N. C., July 18-IH. J. Southwell, Atlantic oCast Line en gineer, was fatally shot at 7 o'clock tonight by TI. E. Dallas, yardmaster and special guard rat the Atlantic Coast Line yards. Dallas is held in jail without bond. I inust accept the evidence of my own eyes and~ that of my own experimental organiation and of reliable farmers in this section who are also my personal friondls. (Signed): David t Cer. HEARING IsHEARD INTO MINE FIHT Foreign Witness Gets MixCed Up i. Inquest SIX MEN REPORTED DEAD Owner of Nearby Farm, Former Un ion Miner, Is Arrested Wellsburg, W. Va., July 18.-The inquest into the death of Sheriff II. H. Duval and three other men who were killed in the attack on the Clifton Mine, near Cliftonville, yesterday was adjourned late today until Friday, when it became evi dent there was some confusion in the mind of a foreign witness who was testifying through an inter preter. The witness, a Hungarian non union miner, while reciting his story of the fight, said he saw two men standing near the tent colony and firing at the deputy sheriffs. Hle later withdrew this statement, and it was explained that the in terpreter was unabel to determine just what the witness meant. Deputy sheriffs who took part in the fight were the other witnesses. George Caldwell, a prominent Wells burg business man, testified that the "invaders" rushed lown the hill fir ing and yelling as they ran, and drove the deputies to cover behin(d a freight car. Her( .hey were subjected, he said, to a heavy fire from the tmnt colony. He detailed the fight around the tipple, saying that the mob charg ed the deputies three times before they were finally driven off. Startles Jury Hugh J. Radcliffe, another deputy, startled the jury by declaring that he had seen six dead men during the fight. The official acocunt of the dead so far is Sheriff Duval and three of the attacking party. An other witness, J. C. Edwards, mine superintendent, said the wounded had been taken from the mine and given first-aid at a farm nearby. The owner of the farm, who was said to have been a former union miner, was arrested and taken to Wheeling. W. S. Wilkens, prosecuting attor ney of Brooke County, said tonight that as soon as the inquest, is com pleted the evidence would be laid before a special grand jury and if indictments were found, the accused would be brought to trial within a month. Eleven more prisoners were brought in late today by the State police. Some of them had been arreste . in the vicinity of Avelia, Pa., where the Pennsylvania State police were reported as active. One prisoner had a bullet wound in the shoulder and said he had been wan dering in the woods without. medi cal attention since the fght. CIIALES''ON NAVY YARD NOT TO BF. CIAOSEI) Will lHe F ept Open on Recdur d Scale -Act ivit y of Smiith and i ial and l'rotests From .\' I South lBrinigs Reaction Washington, .July 18.-Se, .tor N. 3. Dial this morning cnllec (on A ct.. ing Secr eta ry of the Navy Roosevelt andl wais told that the (Ch ieston Navy Yard would not he closed but would be kept openUf on a red, - d scale. Senator E. D. Smith also ob tained informiation which satisfied him that the yard wvouha be kept going, but said that. the e>:tent of its operations on the reduced plan would remain t" he dletermined. There is no quetsion that the ac tivity of the Senators and many others in protesting against the summary ordler of the Actinf Sec retary for the close of the Charles ton yard and the fee(l ing of varioths influential persons in high adlmin istration circles that a serious mis take was being made by this course, together with the man ifes tations of concern from Southern communities outside of Charleston, constitutedl in the aggregate reac tion against the closing order which must have surprised the Acting Secretary of the Navy as much as it imp~ressedl the adminis tration as a whole. FLIES IN P'ERSIA Bushires, Persia, .July 18--(By the Asociated Press).--Major. W. HI. Blake, who left here last night in the continuation of his ai rplane flight aroundl tte world, arrivedl at Bendler Abbas, Persia, at daw~n this monLg