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Y. W. C. A. CALLS BIG CONVENTION 2,000 Women Expected to Gather in Cleveland the Week of April 13-20, 1920, for National Convention. MEETING POSTPONED TWO YEARS BY WAR Delegate* Will Discuss New Membership Basis for Students and Question of Future Support for Work. Many Other Things. The Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America will meet in national convention In Cleveland, 0., the week of April 13 to 20, having postponed the convention from the spring of 1018 In order to comply with a government request that expense and travel be reduced to a minimum during the war. The department on conventions and conferences of the National Y. W. C. I A., of which Mrs. Harry Emerson Fossick is chairman, estimates an attendance of 2,000 women, representing all departments of Y. W. C. A. workhoard members, secretaries, students, club girls, Girl Reserves, girls from Industrial Service Centers, women from the International Institutes for foreign born women, members from city, town and country Associations. Each Association in the United States will be entitled to one voting delegate for every one hundred voting members in the Association. Two of the most important questions which will come up before the convention will be the membership basis and the question of support Of old busi ness to De consiaerea me most impurtant question will be the membership basis for student associations, the granting of charter membership privilege to the Chicago Young Women's Christian Association and a recommendation providing an increase in membership of the National Board of the Association will also be presented. Rev. Charles W. Gllkey, pastor of Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago, will give a series of morning addresses daring the convention week. Dr. Robert E. Speer, secretary to the Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church, North, will also give an address. Mrs. Speer is chairman ef the National Beard of the Y. W. 0. A. The convention will be In session morning and evening, the afternoon being given over to sectional meetings held In various churches. Attendance at these meetings will be determined by group membership and also by activities. Mrs. W. P. Harford of Omaha, Neb, will preside at the opening session, baring been elected as president ?t the last convention of the Young Women's onriatlas Association, bold In Los An- j fdes la 1915. The committee en holiness to ceuie before the conTention has for its chairwoman Mrs. John French ana lnclndes amonf Its members Mrs.- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Miss Eliza Butlei, sister of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; Mis* Martha McCook, Miss Mabel Cratty, feneral secretary for the National Board of the T. W. C. A., and Mrs. William Adams Brown, all of New Tork dty. 1 TOWN GIRLS TO HAVE IW. C. A. Association Maintains 52 Town Secretaries?Wants to Ex And UJapI/ of flnoA panu vvvii\ ai viiwi "During the war girls all over ths world had their first lesson In nation wide and world wide thinking," says Miss Mabel Head, director of Town and Country Work for the National Y. W. C. A. "Girls learned something of the Inspiration of working with hundreds and hundreds of other girls, unselfishly and unstlntlngly, through Red Cross work. Now the T. W. C. A., . through Its world wide program of service for women, Is planning to expand Its work so that girls all over the world, and particularly in smaller communities, will not lose this experience. "Citizenship forums are being organized for girls In small communities, where girls may come together to learn more about their country and their responsibility to It and as citizens of the woria. "Reading course* have been planned at National Headquarters in New York so that a girl in any community may carry on a course of study, either by herself or with other girls, on a wlda ariety of subjects. "The Y. W. C. A. has at present thirty-nine secretaries doing county work. This means that they travel about from one community to another helping girls to plan out social, recreational, educational and religious activities for themselves aDd organizing them to Carry on these activities. These secretaries work with the county agents of the Department of Agriculture In carrying on home economics work. They help plan pageants, arrange benefits, assist the girls in going to Y. W. C. A. summer conferences and help plan all sorts of social good times for the community." s V, W. C. A. PLANS * % at nAAAnai WUKLUKKUUKAM Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Heads Association's 1920 World Service Program. $3,000,000 NEEDED FOR WORK. Leader Call* Association a "Stabilizing Influence" In Outlining Post-War Program for Women?Federal Council of Churches to Announce "Y. W. C. A. Sunday." I Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., chairman of the National Educational Campaign Committee of the 1920 World Service Program of the Young Worn en's (Jftristian Association, una uauc the following statement: "Since the war we are more than ever aware of the economic, industrial, educational, social and religious diffl MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. Chairman of the Educational Campalgn Committee of the Young Wemen'e Christian Association. rulties which beset the lives of girls ind women everywhere. In meeting he post-war needs of women the fonng Women's Christian Association itandx as an Instrument of service, tested, apd proves by war, and organised to meet the manifold problems ef Rata "Because of Its fifty odd years ef experience la meeting fundamental prob!eau affecting girls, the Young Worn* ' Christian Association Is an organisation particularly fitted to exert a itablllzlag Influence upon the troubled times through a consistent program ef errIce for girls and women. "American women are ashing hew ihey may share In the world's reconstruction. They can do so by enlisting the support of their communities for this World Service Program, which will 'nsure to the world a healthier and befr ter womanhood. "This campaign of the I. W. 0. A. to tell the DeoDle of the United States about Its work and to raise $3,000,000 with which to carry on T. W. C. A. work during 1920 In the United States, Europe, China, Japan, India, South America, Egypt, Siberia and Mexico will close the week of February 22 to 29, which will be known as Y. W. C. A. Week. "The Federal Council of Churches will probably set one Sunday as a tirno for ministers throughout the country to address their congregations on general conditions affecting women and the Young Women's Christian Association as an Instrument of service. "The immediate task is to bring to the people of the United States a knowledge of conditions affecting the lives of women in all parts of the world. We can no longer Ignore the character, the manner of life and the Ideals of other peoples, whether we want to or not. A special call is now oraing to the Association from China, Japan, India and South America, where work wob held back during the war because of the necessity for special activity In France and the United States. "The World Service Program calls for $4.500,000. Of this amount $1,500,000 has already been secured." The educational campaign committee includes among Its members Mrs. Robert E. Speer, president of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A.; Mrs. Henry P. Davison, Mrs. William Van V. Haves, Mrs. Robert L. Dickinson, Mrs. William Adams Brown, Mrs. Van Sanforc' Merle-Smith, Mrs. Lewis H. Lapham, Miss Ellen Hale Stevenson, Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt and Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt. SMALL Y. W. C. A. IS COMMUNITY CENTER Recreation for Girls Is Important Feature of Work. Fifty-two young women in tne i nired States are known as Y. \V. C. A. " own secretaries." All of wlilcli moans that the fifty-two are organizing recreation work for girls and for the community at large In towns of less than 10.000 Inhabitants. ' The Y. \V. C. A. may be in one rented room or more. It may be a whole building, but at any rate there is a recreation room and if possible a kitchen, reading ar.d writing rooms. If the Y. W. C >. has a building of Its own It becomes a community center, where a'l women's organizations may meet. ONE-FOURTH WORLD'S WOMEN IN CHINA Seventy Per Cent. Employees In Shanghai Cotton Mills Women and Children Working Twelve Hour Shifts. ! One-fourth of the women In the: world nre Chinese?-OO.OOO.OtX> of them. They nre going Into Industry In large numbers to work long hour# and for little money. In Shanghai, for instance, seventy; I per cent, of the employees In the I cotton mills are women and children.1 i Working hours for spinners are from six in the morning until six at night j j and from six at night until six in the | morning. Weavers work from 5:30 in j the morning until seven at night and ! the wages are from ten to twenty cents . a day. Hundreds of women are em- | ployed in silk filature mills, standing { hour after hour washing cocoons in j basins of boiling water In the ex-1 cessively hot rooms necessary for' ' apartments where fine silk is spun. , In Canton alone, there are 150,000 j women in factories at a maximum ; wage of forty cents a day for women and of fifteen cents a day for girls. | As part of its program of world j service for women the National Young Women's Christian Association Is expecting to put on Its staff of secretaries in China an expert on Inj dustrial conditions who will develop : social work in factories, and work to < ; improve conditions for women em- j j ployees. This work will include the! . intrnrinr>Hnn of recreation and social ! ! life among the workers and of health j j lectures and educational classes. Y, W. C. A. STUDENTS TEACHING IN CHINA Physical Training School Maintained in Shanghai. The vast majority of Chinese men remember their mothers as cripples. Many a girl wanders Into a mission ( school who has not had her own feet ; bound, but has never seen a woman ' of her own class who could walk, and, therefore, she walks In a most ungainly fashion?scarcely conscious of her 1 natural feet 1 The Chinese Medical Association? 1 an Association composed -only of ChV j nese physicians mostly graduates from : American and English Institutions? ' have asked the entire educated community of the country to co-operate la better health for the children of China. All the Mission Boards operating 1X1 V/D1DM ICK UJBl vas in ui? |iva>v?> contributions the Tounf Women's Christian Association could offer to tbe health of China would be to establish a normal school for the training of physical directors. Accordingly, In Shanghai, which Is the greatest port in China, the national committee established such a school in 1014. The school has won favor with all educationists, both missionary and government. There have already been nine graduates from this school. Miss Ying Mel Chun, a graduate of the Wellesley School of Physical Edu"Al 1 CHUOD, UU9 uctii utrau ui uic o^uwi? Graduates of the school are scattered from Canton to Peking, teaching with conspicuous success In twelve mission and government schools. SQUEEZED TO DEATH When the body begins to stiffen and movement becomes painful it ia usually an indication that the kidneys are out of order. Keep these organs healthy by taking COLD MEDAL *i.* s s;. nd rd remedy for kidney, ;vr.r, bladder and uric acid troubles. Faint us since ;6r<>. TcUe regularly and *:eep in gcod health. In three sizes, all dreggis'.s. Guaranteed as represented. Look for the umr. Cold Modal on every box osd t i - . * Uw iuutrtioa SHERIFF'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Dillon. By virtue of an execution issued out of the Court of Common Pleas fori the County of Dillon in the case of, J. W. Dillon & Son Company, plaintiff, vs Smith Miller, defendant, and by virtue of a levy made there under the undersigned will sell at public sale to the highest bidder for cash on the second, day of February, 1920, between the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door in Dil-i Ion in Dillon, S. C., the following de-j ; scribed real estate to wit: All the right, title and interest of Smith Miller in'and to the following! described real estate: 1st. All that certain piece, parcel: 'or tract of land situated and being in | the county of Dillon in the state: aforesaid and in Hillsboro township' containing fifty acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by lands I of Collierene Granger estate lands; on the east by Stage Road; on the south by lands formerly of Susan Mc IfL i jL-,'^ THE MOST. 3 j If you conten Bl/%7? th.it you boc P/4|j anxious to s orders must h Eve.i a brief * > passenger mo< popular. Wh g^p your automol PAIG^DtTlir Cormac and west by lands of Neill I Miller the same being the lands conveyed t0 Neill Miller by Robert and I E. E. Morris. * 1 2nd. Also all that certain lot or ] tract of land In State and County c aforesaid, being ninety-four acres and c deeded to Neill Miller by L. Q. Miller 1 and at that time bounded as follows: 1 North by Neill Miller; east by 0. H. 1 McCormac; south by Miles lands and west by J. N. Page and Oliver lands, t Tinth nf th? ahovft tracts beine t known as the estate lands of Neill 1 Miller. c Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to 1 pay for papers and revenue stamps. S. V. LANE, Sheriff. 1 15 ?t of Dillon County. 1 i . jr , '" ' V.: ?' -'ai?Ti 1 ^ MR. L. C. BF RO FEI F. S. RCT i L. C. BRADDY, Aj BEAUTIFUL CAR IN iplate purchasing a Paige car let ik your order immediately. Ou erve you but his allotment is 1 >e accepted on a strict priority bas: inspection cf the new series "Lin del will explain why this car is so y not make this inspection today >ile problem permanently. >IT MOTOR OAR COMPANY. PET lRLE BETHEA, Age > I ?OOTCE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. N Notice is hereby given that J. H. iamrr, M. R. Hamer, and E. R. iamer, executors of the estate of J. J( 3. Hamer, deceased, have made appli es ation unto me for final discharge as hi luch executors and that Thursday, fli February 5, 1920, at 11 a. m. in the ar orenoon has been appointed for the 1! learing of the said petition. b( All persons holding claims against tb he said estate are requested t? file hem with the executors, on or before tb 11 o'clock in the forenoon on Thurs- tb lay, Februr * 5th( or this notlce will oi >e plead in bar of their recovery. ni JOE CABELL DAVIS, oi Judge of Probate, ol I' ik i* Dillon County. tADDY'S HANDSOME COT! Grown with YSTEI <TII .17 trade mark REGISTERED. fSTER GUA SALES OFFICE COLUMBIA, S. C, ?ent AMERICA j^jjl ^ us suggest SX|8 r dealer is imited and BLyrl - iri wood" five ilAj universally -and solve tt w/ ll1! f. ? ft1 J ROIT, Mich. _ * OTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that Mrs. rnnie Watson, administratrix of the tate of Leslie Watson, deceased, is made application unto me for nal discharge as such administrator ( id that Thursday, January 30th, 120, at 11 a. m. in the forenoon ha* sen appointed for the hearing of e said petition. All nnronnc HnlHino rloima ie said estate are requested to file 1 iem with said administratrix before 11 o'clock In the fore- 4 >on on Thursday, January 30th, this notice will be plead in bar ! their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS, ["ON CHOP ?'S ER NO CO. DILLON, S. C.