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CLIMBING TO THE TOP. Way Is Open for Brains, Energy ant] Perseverance. W In one of the magazines there was a story printed recently under a head ing "Where They Were at Thirty." It dealt with men who have come to be national figures in industrial affairs in America. "Where They Were at Twenty" would be more interesting. The present writer was over in New York recently to see the man who is head of one of the grea'test railroads iu the world and representative of John D. Rockefeller's big interests in transportation lines. "Where were you at twenty?" the newspaper man asked. "Telegraph operator at a way station on a railroad in Arkansas/' was the reply. ? "Where did you begin?" the greatest publisher in America, if not the world was asked. "At twelve years of age, with a r\t three cents." was the an vapiiu* W4 _ , swer. Are the opportunities today as good # as in days gone by? Assuredly, There never was greater opportunity. From out of the ranks of the office boys, ^the clerks, the railroad employes, * the rodmen, the students the shopmeh, the factory workers, the salesmen of today, will come the greatest captain of tomorrow. The opportunity is bigger today bek cause the active, the enterprising, the alert and the capable stand out in vitid contrast at a time when there is so much of inclination to shirk and loaf on the job. The shirker gets nowhere. The worker climbs.' One of the partners of the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co. was a reporter in New York getting $30 a week twenty years ago. The head of the biggest life insurance company in the world was a small town school teacher when he fca vnrtpH nn I was twenty. oeiure uai ~ ~ a farm. Frederick Underwood, president of the Erie Railroad, was & brakeman. The president of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Philadelphia, started his business career as errand boy for John Wannamaker at $1 a week. Thomas Edison was a "train butcher," selling candy, cafces, and such things to railroad travelers. The mayor of New York was a locomotive fireman. The greatest retail merchant the world ever has known and who died leaving $65,000,000, was a hired hand 1q a country store. John Carty, one of the principal administrative officers of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., rose I from a $5 a week job in the company's Boston office. I D. C. Jackin|, the biggest figure in topper mining in America, was a farm hand in St. Clair county, Missouri and got his start educationally by studying at night by candle light <?v th? attic of the rude shack he call rW "home.'' Michael Idorsky Pupin, who developed the long-distance telephone, was a" porter in a New York store. Before that he was a farmhand. George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago, the largest financial institution outside of New York started as an office boy for a concern in Panora, Iowa. A list like this could be continued until columns were filled. The foregoing has been suggested by a bit of stuff that came floating in from Armour & Co., which shows hew'nearly all the men in that monster organization rose from small jobr in the Armour plant. Fcr instance: * Arthur Meeker, vice president, started at the bill desk. So did Everett Wilson, superintendent of branch houses and Frank W. Waddell, head of the provision department. F. Edison White, vice-president _ spent his first years with the com^ - AtA?.lr pvny as * uvia. ^ E. A. Valentine, vice president and head of the soap works, made his start as a salesman. Robert J. Dunham, rice president, began as a clerk, and Frederick W. 'jproll, vice president and treasurer, as assistant to the paymaster. Charles H. MacDowell, president of the Armour fertilizer works, entered the employ of the company as a stenographer. George B. Robbins. vice president, wag a clerk in the transportation department. Jno. E. O'Hern went to Chicago twenty-three years ago looking for a job and found one in the Armour olemargarine department at $1.75 a day. Today he is general superintendend of sixteen Armour plants. Myrick D. Harding, general superintendent of the Chicoga plant, who directs the work of 16,000 men started with the company as a messenger at $3 a week. flg Fred C. Shaw, division superintend, eni of the Chicago plants, started as a hnnkkeeoer. I A. P. Pension, head of the canning department, sits today at a desk 100 feet from the table at which as a boy of fourteen, he worked for $3.50 a week. Charles Eikel, general superintendent of the St. Paul plant, started with the company as an office boy. Would these men have had their fine positions today had they been shirkers and clock watchers? Not in a thousand years. For every big job there is in Amer^tica today there will be two twenty ^ftears from now.' There never was a better opportunity for the bright youngster or tl> bright young man. It does not matter what you are today, office or bank clerk, farmhand or salesman, shop attendant or truckman. For in this country more than in any other, can it be said with truth: I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. Work and you win. Loaf and you Use. t Cotton Association to Meet. , I Columbia, April 26?The semi-an-' nual meeting of the South Carolina i division of the American Cotton As-J sociation will be held in Columbia at ' Ciaven Hall on Wednesday, May 5) ! at noon. As this is to be a very irn-i portant meeting of the association it is urged that every county in the' 1 state be fully represented. All members of the association are urged to' attend the meetings in their counties! i prior to the convention. The May 5 convention will take up; three matters for thorough discussion j according to an announcement by R. | M. Mixon, president These will be i Warehousing, Finances and Organi-i zation. The South Carolina Division is an'xious to have sufficient warehouses in the state to take care of the 1920 crop and will bend every energy to titjs end according to officials of the association. Plans are under way to further pernrironiMtlni, in tho state. I irvi iuv Vignut?t?v4va -? ,, Membership campaigns will be conducted in every county in an effort to secure as members those merchants, farmers, bankers, business and professional men who have not yet joined the association. A special effort will be made to enroll the women of the state into the ranks of the association. The Ameri' can Cotton Association at its meeting 'in Montgomery voted to admit the [ women into the convention on the 1 1 same basis as men. One of the speakers at the May convention in Columbia will be Mrs. Cora D. Mathis of 1 Alabama, a large and successful woman farmer, who thrilled the Montgomery convention. Mrs. Mathis is jvery enthusiastic over the American Cotton Association. Each county chairman in the state is urged by President Mixon to see that his county is represented by a large delegation at the meeting. ' 1 o 1 | PITY THE TELEPHONE GIRL. Hers is Not An Easy Job By Ajiy . Means. "Talking about the telephones, the proposed rate increase and the bad service that they say we are getting," said one this morning, "you ought to go up in the operating room of the ^ccal exchange and *ee those girls work." "I was up there a few minutes the other morning and I never saw any courting or sleeping at the switch. Every girl was wideawake and on the job. There are 19 operators up there, and of these nine or ten are always on duty. Every three or four hours, each one is relieved for 20 minutes or longer by a substitute. It is my opinion that a lot of this talk about bad service comes from people who just don't think a minute what they are saying. Did you ever stop to think that a lot of this kind of talk comes from the residence phone? The business men do not complain so much about bad service, and it may be that, the good housewife, waiting until the last minute to order her dinner roast, is slightly impatient and out of sorts, and seconds seem like minutes to her.'' "You know there are certain times during the day when the rush is on, that Is almost impossible to answer every call on the second. You can't get instantaneous service in a barber shop onr Saturdays. And also, between the hours of 10 and 12 in the morning and from 3 to 6 in the afternoon, * * ? ? ? - ? ?? - * ? -?A A w t IJ?_ rin r? ice cans come in tn a myiu me ia? in the office." "Lots of folks complain that sometimes they overhear the girls gabbing and talking at a great rate, and that they are not paying any attention to their business. That is easily explained. There are 9 or ten girls sitting side by side up there and every one of them has her hands full, answering calls and giving directions to each other. That is what causes so much of that talk you hear over the lines i at times." I The management of the telephone i company invites anybody to come in at any time of day and see for them! selves just how the telephone girls work and what kind of service they are trying to give and I believe that if folks would just visit the operating room one time, a lot of this talk about poor service would be cut out." ? Gastoria Gazette. A TURK PREDICTS BLOODIEST OF ALL WARS. San Remo, April 25?"What doeB Turkey think of the supreme councils decisions'' I asked Ghalib Kemal Bey, now Turkish ambassador at Athens and to 1918 Turkish envoy to Soviet Russia. He presented a memorandum to the San Rdmo conference protesting against the dismemberment of Turkey and demandig justice in ac!coftance with President Wilson's as'surance. I The Turkish diplomat's answer to my questions were interpreted by his beautiful daughter, who spoke with emotional, religious, yes, fanatical patriotism. "If you think this Christian peace conference is putting an end to wars by dividing Turkey among the na tionv constituting small minorities, you are gravely mistaken, I assure you. "The Moslems will fight for their existence as a nation and as a religious body to the last drop of blood. Starting New War. "England is starting a new religious war, the consequence of which will fall upon her head. All Turkish 'men, women and children are ready [ to die for their country and religion. |The world will witness the most terrible war soon. "Yesterday we were defeated. To;day we are victorious. The San Reino conference is a farce which will surely turn into a world tragedy." Tscheidske, who was famous in the I Russian duma and was the first president of the all-Russian Soviets under Kerensky, is now head of the Georgian peace delegation here. He said to me: "The question of self-determina I tioa for the nationalities of Asia Min- J or is difficult and complicated. The principle must be applied justly to all nationalties. I fear that the methods employed now will not yield the de- l sired results. 1 Russian Problem. "The Russian problem is still unsettled. One-sixth of the globe, Russia, stands before mankind asking: " 'What are you going to do about me?' "Russia's economic collapse is reaching a stage where it threatens the very existence of the Bolshevist 1 government itself. Therefore the Bolsheviski are forced toward evolution, applying themselves to constructive , work. It is true the Bolsheviki neces- ' sarily continue their endeavors of . spreading the Bolshevist fire by which they will eventually be consumed. "The adjustment of the economic ( life of Russia is a problem of the < gleatest world importance, bearing 1 no delay. The Georgian republic realj izea this and ia readv to adODt meas-lr ures to avoid conflicts with the Bol-h sheviki." t f o { Mixed Odors?The street car was | passing a glue factor, and the odor emanating therefrom was decidedly obnoxious. The prim young lady took out a bottle of lavender salts and 8 sniffed vigorously. Finally the man ? behind her tapped her on the shoul- 8 der. t "You'll have to cork up that bottle 8 lassie," he said. "I can't stand that f smell any longer. " T "< 0?v.?v .J-V t y Select your tires according to the roads they have to travel: In sandy or hilly coun* try, wherever the going is apt to be heavy?The U. S. Nobby. For ordinary country TI. S. Chain or Usco. For front wheels?The U. S. Plain. For be9t results? everywhere?U. S. Royal Cords. I ? K1XDI.XU OF SKELTOX SOLVES ( 20-YEAR MYSTERY, IS BELIEF, i < Indianapolis, April 26?Unsolved [or more than twenty years, the mys- j ;ery surrounding the disappearance 01 Miss Carrie Selvage was believed to ae cleared 'away with the finding toiay of a skeleton in the private hospi- | al where she was last seen. The skeleton was found by work- j nen who were turning the old build-1, ng into a garage. Clothed in a blue , iress, it was resting in a sitting ' josture in the corner of an attic. The . :ostume along with a pair of felt ( dippers, were recognized by three j jrothers of the dead woman. They ire Edward L., Williams, J., and Joseph W. Selvage, members of an old ndianapolis family. The old building originally was an r irphans* home and later was convert- j ?d into the Union States Hosnital. It , vas at that time that Miss Selvage intered the institution because of lervous disease. Sometime later it vas turned into a rooming house. The >uilding was of unusual construction ind the place where the skeleton was ound was a small corner about three >y four feet, apparently a second atic. Miss Selvage disappeared in 1901. She sent her nurse after some milk ind when the woman returned Miss Jelvage was gone. A country-wide earch was made, graves in cemeteries vere opened and the hospital repeatidly searchd, but no trace could be ound. Coroner Robinson in a preliminary Kememb automob TODAY there ar than 7,000,000 c in. the cotintry. Pret nearly everybody in tl tion will be traveling in his own automobili // The first thintr ; wants to know no\ when he starts out t< car, is how much it i to cost him to keep ning. Sit s all very well 1 some dealer's word 2 tire?if you know wh and his object in se A,N to you. Our object in sellin Tires is to have you back for more?and i United lingers Motors Co., The Floyd Company F. Rogers I>. J. Leo C. McLaurin J. C. Covington & Co., ?xamination said he found no trace of violence. Miss Selvage was 43 years )ld and had been a school teacher. o KLOREXCE PREPARES AGAINST MR. ROLL WEEVIL r Clenison College, April 27?The joll weevil will not bring any lean rears with him, when he arrives in Florence County, according to report of J. Ward McLendon, county igent Agricultural and allied inlustries are in a marked period of ransition, he states, in anticipation )f the appearance of the boll weevil n the local cotton fields. Notable in the line of preparation ,o change from cotton on the one:rop plan to diversified farming, a .'ery excellently conducted central nilk depot has been established affording an assembling point for the lairymen of their products and a listributing system for the consumer. Another valuable factor in the lairy business is the establishment of i 1125,000 ice cream manufacturing )lant, which affords a ready market or every bit of milk and cream which an be produced in Florence county. Mr. J. F. Stackley has announced dans to include a very modern and :ommodious refrigerating plant in lis ice factory in Florence. This will live the livestock industry, which tlready has made splendid headway n Florence County, a tremendous mpetus, inasmuch as the stockmen vill be able to cure and preserve heir meats indefinitely and be abidutely independent of the market. i \ \ ? ^ O is; er when ft ile came f? 5 more that we sold if them // ty soon u s Tires j his sec- b^ind them. around ^ They are fcu pie who perfei straight side au a man wh0 pr0?jucecj t vaaays, matjc truck tir 5 buy a s going Tw0 of the it run tributions to ti economy ever [O take H ibout a As represem o he is oldest and large lling it cern in the w< a reputation t g U. S. We can't affo come tute "just as g be glad tires of standa I States Ti Dillon, S. C. Floydale, S. C. Fork, S. C. Hanier, S. O. Minturn, S. C. Jndson, S. C. V ? ? I Under the leadership of a number of the most prominent business men and farmers of Florence, Timmonsville and Uake City, a movement is on foot now to erect a chain of sweet potato curing and storing houses, and to conduct a guaranteed pedigreed seed business in conjunction with them in these three cities. An expert will be employed in the field to institute this work and to instruct growers of both potatoes and seeds how to proceed. A $50,000 company is virtually organized now to put over this project. o HAIL AND RAIN DESTORYS CROPS Harvin, April 26?A hail, rain and wind storm, six miles wide and extending for about forty miles in length, equal in proportion to that of June 8, 1919, today visited the Tindal and Brogden section of Sumter County and extended to Harvin and Alcolu in Clarendon county, doing great damage to all crops. The tobacco crop is a total loss. Young cotton and com is badly damaged. The full iVI. J. ? . L. f CAICUI ui mio uauia^tJ uauuui uc ittii- j* ly estimated now but some state that ^ * a plant over will be necessary. Several prominent men traveling in an automobile near Tindal suffered severe personal injuries. Mr. John. A. McKnight, of Sumter, and Mr. Dwlght Cain, who were traveling along the road near Bethel church, were bruised. Mr. Cain having been beaten into unconsciousness for several minutes. It is said some of the hailstones were as large as a cup and many the slxe of the proverbial hen egg. J t f ? , f$ 11^ StSSm a ia ?\ srca* iivai r * them to you. / have a record iit b7 the peoztcd the f.rzt itomcbiic tire, ;he f:rci pr;cu? 'C. Createet conro and zr.otor made r tatives of the st rubberconorld, we have o live up to. rd to substiood" tires fc rd quality ires