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Established in 1891.
CONGRESS TAKES UP
DEFENSE MEASURES
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AGITATION FOR DRASTIC MEASURES
FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE
IS DEVELOPING.
DANIELS BEFORE COMMITTEE
Secretary Will Ask for Appropriation |
to Hasten Battleship Construction. I
Would Compel Steel Companies to j
Give Government Preference.
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Wshington.?The attention of Con- i
gre^s was dirocted sharply to mat- j
ter.s relating to both tho army and !
navy which are expected to be produc- .
tive of agitation for even more drastic
measures of national defense than
have yet been seriously considered.
Secretary Daniels, before the House
naval committee advocated legislation
which Would compel steel companies
and other nrivate concerns to civo
preference to government orders for |
military supplies. He will submit n
new section for the pending nnval appropriation
bill for this purpose in
order to hasten battleship construction,
which he declared was being delayed
by commercial work in the yards
of private builders and in the steel
plants .
Secretary Baker wrote Speaker
Clark In response to a House resolution.
that 71.834 out of the grand total
of 163.800 national guardsmen taken
Into the Federal service up to August
31 ware without previous military
training. Rejections of enrolled
Kuardsmen for-various causes operated
later to Increase the number of
raw recruits to approximately 60 per
cent of the force.
In this connection also, army officers
charged with the duty of studying
events of the European war. both politic^
and military, made preparations
to contend before the congressional
military committee that the fundamental
reason for the cabinet crisis in
England was the volunteer military
policy there prior to the passage of
the conscription act. The experience
oi ureal uruain is viewed by these of- i
fleers as the strongest of arguments j
for the establishment of universal
training in the United States, as urged
in the report of Major General
M Scott, chief of staff, and to which the
entire American staff is committed.
Another aspect of the National
Guard situation came from Quartermaster
General Sharpe who told of a
$25,000,000 deficiency incurred by the
war department to equip and pay state
troops now in the Federal service. If
an average of 75.000 men are retained
on the border until June 20. he said,
the deficiency will be $50,000,000. The
universal training advocates are expected
to use these figures in contending
that prohibitive cost would he the
result of the present system if the
nation needed a great army.
COTTON PRODUCTION ESTIMATE
PLACES YIELD AT 11,511,000.
With Publishing of Report Cotton
Took Tumble of Nearly $5.00
Per Bale.
Washington.?Further reduction in
tho estimated size of this year's cotton
crop was recorded in the department
of agriculture's final report putting
the production at 11.511,000 equivalent
500-pound hales, exclusive of
linters. That is 120.000 bales less
than forecast after the last condition
report in October.
Production by states, with last
year's crop figures for comparison,
follow: 1916. 1915.
Virginia 29.000 15,809
North Carolina.. 64G.000 699.494
South Carolina.. 920,000 1,133,919
Georgia 1,845.000 1.908.673
Florida 43.000 47.831
Alabama 625.000 1.020,839
Mississippi 800,000 953.965
Louisiana 440,000 341,063
Texas 3.775,000 3,227,480
Arkansas 1.145,000 816,002
Tennessee 37S.000 303,420
Missouri 62,000 47.999
Oklahoma 835.000 639,626
California 60.000 28.551
All others 8,000 7,149
INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS TO
FOLLOW WAR CONSIDERED
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Norfolk, Va.?Problems which the
United States fares in its relations to
the warring nations and which will
oome with international reconstruction
after peace, were the dominant
notes of the discussion at the opening
session of tho eighth annual convention
of tho Southern Commercial Con- i
gress. The speakers included Senator !
^ Duncan I'. Fletcher of Florida, presi- j
^ dent of the congress; John Skelton
Williams and others.
ONLY GREGORY IS LIKELLY
TO RETIRE FROM CABINET
Washington. ? Every member of
President Wilson's Cabinet with the
possible exception of Attorney General
Gregory 1* expected to remain in
ofTico after March 4, when the president's
second term begins. It. was
learned definitely that all of them
have been or will be asked to keep
their posts. Reports concerning possible
resignations have centered chiefly
around Secretaries McAdoo, Houston
and llakerr and Gregorv.
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The
J. J. CORNWELL
J. J. Cornwell, Democrat, is the gov
ernor-elect of West Virginia.
Kiirwr
IN ARABIA CASE
ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR
SINKING BRITISH LINER
WITHOUT WARNING.
GERMANYSENDS NOTE TOU.S
Note Over Incident Received by U. S.
Officials Places Submarine Warfare
issue on a Clear-Cut Serious Basis.
?No Quick Action.
Washington.?Germany's acceptance
of responsibility for the sinking without
warning of the British liner Arabia,
with the explanation that her subma
rine i-uuiiiittiiuwr iouk iii? vuwhui lur
an auxiliary warship, has brought the
issue over submarine warfare to a
more serious and clear-cut basis than
anything that has happened since the
threat of the United States to break
diplomatic relations after the torpedoing
of the channel liner near Sussex
last April.
The German note, which was made
public by the state department, says
if official data is furnished showing
that the vessel was an ordinary passenger
steamer, "this then would be a
case of regrettable mistake from which
the German government would promptly
draw the appropriate consequences."
It is assumed here that the consequences
would be an expression of regret
and offer of reparation for any injury
or danger suffered by the Americans
on board.
The note has been referred to
President Wilson, who is considering
personally a review of recent German
submarine activities to which the
Arabia case comes as a climax. There
probably will be no immediate action,
as the state department first must
clear up beyond question the exact
status of the liner at the time of the
attack. Then it will be for the president
to decide the course to be followed.
In official quarters the German explanation
is regarded as weak and
unsatisfactory, no weight being attached
to the statements that the
Arabia was painted like a transport
and was following a route usually taken
by transports, and that -the subma
rine commander saw many Chinamen
but no women and children aboard her.
It is realized, however, that if official
data finally establishes the innocent
character of the vessel, in view of the
Sussex case, virtually only one action
remains open to the United States, and
that would not bo taken until every
possible consideration had been given
Germany's position.
MANY YOUNG WOMEN
RECOGNIZE "OLIVER OSBORNE"
New York.?Five more persons, including
one young woman whom he
married, rocognized in Charles H.
\Va* tlio man they had known as "Oliver
Osborne" or under some other
name. Wax, who is held under $50,000
bail, as a material witness in u Federal
case, was brought here from Chicago
to clear the name of James W. Osborne,
an attorney, who has been
accused by Miss Rao Tanzer of breach
OVER 50,000 FARMERS HAVE
APPLIED FOR FARM LOANS
Washington.?Officials of the farm
loan board announced that more than
50,000 farmers have applied for mortgage
loans aggregating approximately
$150,000,000 or more than 17 times the
amount of money which will be Immediately
available for loans upon the
organization of the 12 farm loan
hanks. Most of the applications have
come from the south and west. They
still continuue to come in by hundreds
evary day.
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FOR'
FORT MILL,
ANNOUNCES NEW
RRITISH RIRINFT!
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OFFICIAL WAR CABINET COMPRISES
MANY STRONG LEADERS
OF ENGLAND.
BALFOUR FOREIGN MINISTER
Earl of Derby is War Secretary.?A.
Bonar Law Asked to Act as House
Leader and Member of War Cabinet
Not Expected to Attend Regularly.
London.?Official announcement lias j
hepn made that the Government had (
been constituted, with a war cabinet
comprising the following:
Premier. David Llovd-Georgo; Lord
President of the Council. Karl Cuizon,
who also will be Government j
leader in the House of Lords; Arthur j
Henderson, Minister without port- '
folio, and Andrew Bonar Law, Chan- i i
cellor of the the Exchequer, who has
been asked by the Premier to act as
leader in the House of Commons and
also as member of the war Cabinet
without being expected to attend reg- |
ularly. ?
The other members of the Min- [
istry, who are not in the war Cab- I p
inet. are:
Lord High Chancellor, Sir Robert
Bannathyne Finlay.
Secretary of State for the Home
Department, Sir George Cave.
Secretary of State for Foreien Af
fairs, Dr. Arthur J. Balfour. 1
Seccretary of State for the Colonies,
Walter Hume Bong.
Secretary of State for War, the Earl
of Derby.
Secretary of State for India, Austen
Chamberlain. .
President of the Local Government
Board, Baron Rhondda.
President of the Board of Trade,
Sir Albert Stanley.
First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir
Edward Carson.
Minister of Munitions, Dr. Christopher
Addison.
Minister of Blockade, Lord Robert
Cecil.
Shipping Controller, Sir Joseph Paton
Maclay.
President of the Board of Agriculture,
Rowland E. Prothero.
President of the Board of Education,
Herbert A. L. Fisher.
First Commissioner of Works, Sir
Alfred M. Mond.
Chancellor F. Duchy of Lancaster,
Sir Frederick Cawley.
Postmaster General, Albert Illingworth.
ZONE SYSTEM FOR PAPERS
PROPOSED IN POSTAL BILL
Rates of Second Class Matter to be
Greatly Increased Under New Territorial
Division.?One Cent Postage
on Local Letters. j
Washington.?One cent nostage for ,
local first class mail deliveries, and ,
a zone system of rates for second class
matter which is expected to greatly increase
the charges for magazines anil t
other periodicals having a nation-wide '
circulation, is provided for in the annual
postoffice appropriation bill as
virtually completed in committee. The 1
| moasure, carrying appropriations to- J
taling about $"* 17,000,000, probably '
will be reported to the house next '
I week.
, Under the one cent postage provis- '
! ion the rate on letters and other mail '
i matters of the first class, when ilepos- f
ited in any postoffice or branch post- !
office or letter box or postoffice in the
delivery district, for delivery within
the limits of the postoffice, city or ru- <
ral delivery district, would be cut I
in half. I
The zone proposal for handling t
newspapers and magazines, which i
now pay a flat rate of one cent a i
pound, is regarded as one of the <
most radical changes in postage rates 1
in years. It divides the country into I
eight zones, with rates chargeable
ranging from one cent for 300 miles <
to six cents for 1,800 miles or more.
The bulk of daily newspapers, the |
committee believes, will not be affect- ;
ed. because they do not circulate be- <
yond a 800-mile radius. j
DEUTSCH LAN D DUE BACK
IN U. S. EARLY IN JANUARY '
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New London. Conn.?The German 1
commercial submarine Detusrhland. (
which arrived in home waters, will
make another trip to this port with- \
in the next few weeks, according to a
statement by Paul G. L. Hllken. vice
president of the Kastern Forwarding
Company, American agents for the t
undersea craft. He added that the ,
submersible would make regular trips i
as long as the war continued. 1
WARNING MADE AGAINST E
GIGANTIC NAVAL PLAN
Washington.?Warning against undertaking
too great a building pro- I
gram in naval plants the next 18 j
months is given in the annual report i
of Rear Admiral Taylor, chief con- 1
tractor. Uecause of the shortage of t
skilled labor resulting from the un- c
precedent ed demands of private build- p
ers. the admiral says, "additional new (
construction work must be undertak- c
en at the navy yards with great care I
and recognition of probable delays." [
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, S. C., THURSDAY, DECE1M
FRANK B. KELLOGG
New photograph of Frank B. Kelogg,
wh owas elected United States
enator from Minnesota, defeating
Saniel W. Lawler. Mr. Kellogg is a
tepublican.
fEUTONS TAKE BUCHAREST
rEUTONS CAPTURE CAPITAL OF
RUMANIA AS CLIMAX OF BIG
DRIVE.
End of Conquest Comes Just 100 Days
After Rumania Enters Into European
Conflict.?Important Railway
Junction Also Surrenders.
Bucharest, the Capital of Rumania,
s in the hands of the forces of the
Central Powers.
Exactly 100 days after the declaraion
of war by Rumania against them
inds the Teutonic Allies in control of
ibout 50,000 square miles of Rumanan
territory?virtually one-half of the
Kingdom?running from the Transylranian
Alps northwest of the Capital
:o the Danube south of it, and a large
?art of Dobrudja, and probably still
jn the heels of the retreating Russian
tnd Rumanian armies which have
jeen endeavoring to hold them back.
Simultaneously with the announcement
of the fall of Bucharest came
:he news of the capture of the important
railroad iunction of Ploerhtl
lorth of the Capital, the conquest of
which places in the hands of the invaders
the last railroad in the west
ind gives to them the head of the
ine running northward to Jassy,
where the Capital of Rumania is now
dtuated.
No details have as yet come
through concerning the climax to the
;reat drive of the armies of General
von Falkenhayn and Field Marshal
von Mackensen, or whether the Rumanians
or Russians succeeded enirely
in making their escape behind
he Bucharest line. Previous to the
mnouncement of the capture of
Bucharest and of Ploechtl unofficial
advices had indicated that four divisons
of the defenders were in a hazirdous
position in tha region due
west of Bucharest and in danger of
being enveloped.
The taking of Bucharest virtually
completes the conquest by the Teutonic
forces of the southern section of
the Rumanian kingdom, embracing
territory of more than 50.000 square
miles and marks the culmination of
in operation accounted by military
commentators one of the most soundly
conceived and brilliantly executed
feats of the great war.
From the hour when Field Marshal
von Mackensen forced a crossing of
he Danube and on November 24 set
foot on Rumanian Roil nfTontlne a
junction shortly afterward with General
von Falkenhaven's armies, drlvinfc
through Wallacbia from the west,
there seemed little doubt of the ultimate
fate of the Rumanian Capital.
The relentless pressure of the Teutonic
invading armies, with their prexmderance
of heavy artillery proved
too much for King Ferdinand's forces
nice the Rumanian front was broken.
iVARMING TO WATCH FOR
U-BOATS AGAIN FLASHED
New York.?Another warning to
he merchant steamers of the Entente
Ulies to beware cf German submainos
was sent broadcast by wireless
by a British cruiser off Sandy Hook.
5RYAN URGES ADOPTION OF
DRY ITEM BY DEMOCRikTS
Washington.?Reforms to which he
lopes to commit the Democratic party
ind to see accomplished within the
lext four years were outlined by Wiliam
Jennings Bryan at a dinner given
n his honor by admirers among Dcmicratic
officials and members of contress.
Nationwide prohlbtlon he urgtd
as most Important and other causes
>n his list included woman suffrage by
federal amendment, election of the
iresldent by direct popular vote
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LL T
[BER 14, 1916.
(labor officials
! HALT LABOR VOTE
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION WILL
AWAIT RESULT OF LEADER'S
EFFORTS.
ALLIANCE IS BEARING FRUIT
Effort Being Made to Draft Substitute
For All Forms of Compulsory Arbitration
Which Will Be Agreeable to
All.
Washington.?Congressional action
cn President Wilson's railway legislation
program probably will await the
result of determined efforts of labor
leaders to draft a substitute for all
forms of compulsory arbitration which
will be agreeable to their followers,
employers and the administration.
The determination of the president
to undertake making impossible by
such law a situation as he faced last
September in the railroad dispute hast
> aroused labor to the greatest activity.
, The unofficial alliance between tlio
' American Federation of Labor and the
four railway brotherhoods arranged
recently at Baltimore is bearing its
first fruit in conference between representatives
of both organizations to
draft a plan that will shelve all compulsory
arbitration bills. Congressional
leaders are inclined to go slowly on
the president's program pending announcement
of labor's proposals, provided
they are revealed during the
present session of Congress.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
that conferences already have taken
place between brotherhood and Federation
leaders, but that no concrete
plan had been worked out. Hope exists,
,he said, that some plan can be drawn
that will make congressional action
unnecessary.
"Organized labor," he said, "always
will oppose any form of compulsory
arbitration."
If a scheme satisfactory to the
workers is drafted. It is understood,
it will be submitted to representatives
of the railroads and other employers
and to the president. Approval of it
probably would mean that Congress
would eliminate the compulsory arbitration
feature from any legislation
enacted.
DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS
BY GERMANS IS PROTESTED.
united states Declares Germany's
Policy to Be "Contravention of Humane
Principles of International
Practlve."
Washington.?Tho American Government's
formal protest to Germany
against the depotation of Belgians
for forced labor, as a violation of tho
principles of humanity, was made public
by the State Department. It was
in the form of a note, cabled to
Charge Grew at Berlin with instructions
that he seek an interview with
the German Chancellor and read it
to him and was given out by the Department
with the terse comment:
"The interview has taken place."
Officials refused to add to this
statement, and so far as could be
learned there has been no reply from
Germany. All information available,
however, indicates that the deportations
are continuing, and it is known
that through earlior informal representations
Charge Grew learned that
the German position was that the
policy was a military necessity and
not in violation of international law.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS, JR.,
HONORED WITH OFFICE.
New York.?Josephus Daniels, Jr.,
of Raleigh, N. C? was elected a vice
president of tho National Young
Men's Democratic League at its an
nuftl meeting hero. Frank I). Shelley
of New York waa elected president
and William F. McCombs waa made
chairman of the advisory committee.
Letters from President Wilson and
Mr. MoCormiek thanking the organization
for its campaign work, were
read at the meeting.
FRENCH SHIP WITH CREW
OF 718 LOST SAYS PARIS.
Paris.?The French battleship Suffern
.which left November 24 for
L'Orient, a French naval station In
Brittany, has not been heard from
since the Minister of Marine considers
the vessel lost with all on board.
The Suffern was reported to have
been damaged by shell fire when tho
Allies tried to force the Dardanelles
and she was sent to Toulon for repairs.
She was of 12.750 tons and
had a staff of 18 officers and 700 men
NATION NOW REVERTS TO
SOCIAL WORK SAYS WILSON.
Washington.?Advocacy by President
Wilson of a better "so al understanding,"
and *a warning by Samuel
(lompers. president of the American
Federation of Labor, against governmental
regulation of the normal activities
and personal relationships of the
people, featured the session of the
Conference on Social Insurance here
under the auspices of tho International
Association of Industrial Accident
Board and Commisbiona.
1MES
| HOSPITAL SHOWS PROGRESS
I Report Shows Debts Greatly Reduced.
Baptists Proud of Fine institution
at Columbia.
Columbia.?The third annual report i
of the Baptist hospital, recently filed
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I ,,J nuuivn u . UDI'II-K, liruiviiuill RDYi
ernor, who Is president of the board of
! trustees, pays high tribute to the '
| present superintendent. Louis J. Bris- |
i tow. as well as to the surgeons and j
1 physicians, and. in addition. show
that progressive strides have been !
I made in the past year. "At the time
Ivouis J. Bristow assumed charge of
the hospital 1G months ago." the re- .
[ port says, "there was an accumulated
debt of over $16,000. and at the close
of the fiscal year the debt is only i
i slightly over $2,000.
Many improvements have been
I made in the hospital during the year
and the report enumerates the followI
ing: Entire building painted, a modj
ern and extensive X-Ray machine pur|
chased; heating plant renovated; new
dumb waiter installed in south building;
a cystoscopic room fitted out; a
new telephone system installed and
many beds added.
The extremely low death rate was
pointed out in strong terms by the report,
which said that out of 1.R97 persons
admitted for treatment, which is
an increase of 249 over last year, only
32. or about 2 per cent, died. The
i total volume of business tranacted by
1 the hospital for the year was over
$63,000, of which amount about $".1 ooo
was "paid" work and about $7,000 free.
"The Baptist hospital is 'Baptist'
in name only," the report said. "It
i is Baptist in management only, and
| not denominational in benefits and
blessings for the persons admitted for
treatment represented 12 denomina'
tions and this does not include those
1 represented by the some 200 or 300
patients who did not indciate their re
ligious affiliations. Less than onei
third of the 1,500 patients were of the
Baptist church,"
The report says that the Baptist
hospital has been placed on the regu- ,
lar benevolence schedule of nearly all
the Baptist associations in the state
and that the 1.100 Baptist churches in
I the state are now contributing regularI
lv to the Slir?t>Orf of tll? Inolllnllnn
There are now 20 nurses in the training
school.
Reference is made to the need of a
maternity ward, for which purpose
C. K. Henderson, of Aiken, has contributed
$1,000 as a starting fund.
Charged With Killing Baby.
Spartanburg?Charged with murder
Mrs. Lydia Smith, lu years of age. her
mother, Mrs. Lizzie Pittman, 50 years
of age, and Fulton Pittman. 16 years of !
age, have been placed in the Spartanburg
county jail. They are charged
with having crushed the skull of a
new born infant in Appalachie mill vil
lage, Greer, following which, it is alleged.
they stabbed the baby in the
abdomen several times with a knife
and then flung the corpse in a mill '
pond.
It is alleged that clothing connecting
the Smith-Pittman family with the
crime was found upon the premises of
the accused people. It is said that
the State will show that Lydia Smith,
the girl accused of being the mother,
was absent front her employment from
November 10 until November 20. The
body of the child was discovered on
November 28.
It is charged that Fulton Pittman.
the young man arrested with the two
women, was intimate with Lydia Smith
and an effort will be made to prove
that he was the father of the dead
child. Pittman is a son of the accused
girl's step-father.
Mrs. Smith was married on September
10 of this year to Fd Smith.
Washington.?The house passed a
hill providing for the establishment of
flsli hatcherle* in mnnv nariu r*r ?.?
country. South Carolina, (leorgia and
North Carolina muat tight out which
Is to secure a $50,000 appropriation
for u migratory fish station ttao provision
in the hill being that it shall
be located on the coast of one of thesa
states.
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80UTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS.
A bank at Simpsnnville has placed
in its lobby a large bulletin board to
be used by its farmer customers for
stating things they have for sale, such j
as poultry, field products, live stock,
etc.
A larger acreago of small grain has
been planted in Cherokee county this
season than ever before.
E. J. Watson attended the Southern
Commercial conference in Norfolk
this week.
Charlie Parry, X year old child at
Chester was burned to death when
his clothes caught fire at an open
fireplace.
Much activity is now going on in
Orangeburg for the establishment of j
a hospital, a meeting has just been
hold by the graduate nurses and other
women interested in the Orangeburg
hospital association.
The creameries in South Carorlina
are manufacturing ice cream.
According to reports froni the Na- |
ional Dairy Show, held in Springfield,
Mass., two weeks ago, morn dairy- |
men attended from South Carolina
than from any other southern state, i
The Springstein Mill of Chester
has recently made a number of improvements
for the benefit of its employes.
A commodious community
building has been thoroughly equipped.
It has a large auditorium, at
the rear of which are well lighted
reading rooms and a library. There
are modern baths.
Fl
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$1.25 Per Year.
WEEVIL MARCHES
CLOSE TO RIVER
THREE GEORGIA COUNTIES
ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER
NOW INFESTED.
LETTER FROM STATF FYPFRT
State Entomologist Worsham Saya
Cotton Pest is Threatening Sea
Island Industry.
Columbia -The Mexican cotton boll
weevil has infested three Georgia
counties, bordering on South Carolina,
namely Burke, KfTingham and Chatham.
according to a letter received by
K. J. Watson, cotnissloner of agriculture.
from 10. Lee Worsham. stato entomologist
of Georgia.
"In Chatham county," says Mr.
Worsham, "it appears to be only 15
miles from the Savannah river. The
advance eastward this year has been
about 150 miles and with a favorable
seson next year the southern and western
parts of your state will become infested
by the weevil.
"We are arranging to call a convention
of the sea island growers of this
state some time in January, for the
purpose of having a heart to heart talk
with them on sea island cotton and the
boll weevil and we will be very glad
indeed for the sea island growers of
your state jttul Florida to meet with
us. The experiments which we have
conducted for a period of years on
early fruiting varieties of sea island
cottno are the only experiments that
have l>oen conducted. Our results are
very promising indeed and we are of
the opinion that if the sea island grow
< m ?4ii |iui?ui' nits proper course, tney
run continue to grow some cotton, but
there is a great danger of their becoming
stampeded and trying to grow
short cotton instead. This, as you
knvw, will be very disastrous to the
sea island industry. In view of the
fact that Georgia. South Carolina and
Florida raise all the hcr island cotton
grown in this country, 1 feel that
we ought to pull together and do everything
in our power to save this industry.
Will you be willing to cooperate
with us and urge your sea island
men to attend the convention at
some central point some time in January?
"You are going to find in your work
in South Carolina that you are going
to need all the help that you can possibly
get from every conceivable
source In convincing the farmers and
business men that the boll weevil is a
permanent and serious factor in cotton
production. Your problem in
South Carolina is identical with that
of Georgia, and I hoj>e that whenever
this department can be of service to
your Rood people you will not hesitate
to call on us."
Dillon Boy Writes From Paris.
Charleston.?A letter has boon received
in South Carolina by a Charleston
man from Paul Rockwell, a Dillon
county boy, who with his lamented
brother, Kiffen Rockwell, has made a
hrillian record in aviation under
French colors. Paul writes the first
news of just how Kiffen camo to hia
death, the victim of an explosive bullet,
which ho received in the right
breast, while attacking single handed
a three-man German neroplano. Paul
has been wounded aeverul times and
the loss of an arm incapacitates liira
from further military service. He
writes of his marriage the first part
of this month to a Parisian girl. He
is now corresponding for several
papers, his headquarters being Paris.
Fish Hatching For This State.
Few Violations Reported.
Columbia. A. A. Richardson, state
chief game warden, said a few days
ago that reports he had received from
game wardens throughout the state
indicated that violations and accidents
Thanksgiving day were few. Twentythree
violations were reported, all of
which were minor offenses. According
to these reports, there wore only
two accidents: James Howe, a small
boy of Pickens county, was accidentally
shot in the leg and J. Acy Todd
was also accidentally wounded.
Rock Hill Gets Contest,
Greenwood At a meeting of the
executive committee of the South Carolina
Intercollegiate Oratorical contest
held here a few days ago it was
decided to hold the next contest in
Rock Hill. The contest will be held
on Friday, April 20. Iloth Greenwood
and Rock Hill'made splendid offers
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culty (hat the executive committee
reached a decision. Every male college
and university in South Carolina
is a member of the association.
Cuts State's Death Rate.
Columbia.?"If each individual, who
died was worth $500 to the state, then
by saving the lives of 1,025 persons the
state board of health has saved the
state $512,500 on a total appropriation
of $55,573.23," says James A. Ilayne,
M.D., state health officer In his report
for the legislature after calling attention
to the decrease in the number of
deaths from preventable diseases. "Wo
claim that the state hoard of health
has prevented these diseases," says
Dr. Hayne. Liberal support for the
state tuberculosis hospital