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In remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD Foremen A<K*rtiaiac RepreMoHthrt THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1922 In this number of The County Record will be found the announcement of two of our well known and deservedly popular citizens for office. One for the legislature, the other for the state senate, Messrs William R. Scott and William Willis Boddie respectively. We believe that with the wide and successful business experience of each of these gentlemen, they will, if elected, render valuable and efficient sendee to their county and state. The fish law goes into affect today, June 1, and the season for taking fish from the streams in this county in any manner whatsoever until August 1, is closed. In other words the fishing season is closed from this day until August 1 and it will be a violation of the law, punishable by fine and imDrisonment, to take fish from the streams or lakes in this county during this closed season. It is hoped that every lover of the >port and also those who are inclined to take fish indiscriminately will refrain from violating this law. It has been in force now for several years and has prov i to be a very good one for the protection and propagation of fish. But whether it is or is not a" g 'od law the fact remainthat it a law, duly enacted and placed u:*m the statute books of the state and so long as it remains there without modification or annul lmer.t it should be obeyed. Mr. G. B. Marvin, formerly superintendent of the Sumter Light and Water plant has recently accepted a position here with the Kingstree Electric light and Ice Co. He will have charge of the lines and transmission. He is a very competent man and expects to move his family here as soon as he can locate a residence. Mr. Mar*in is an expert pump man and we i -e informed that it is the present in ?ntion of the company to install electrical pumps at the town's t- l-i r\ nit rnnca c\i paiiipiu^; .Hauvw X\jl pui pvov v* pumping water and he will have charge of this work also. Mr. F. B. Adams, general manager of the lighting and ice plant says he has a very competent force in charge night and day and that everything is moving along smoothly. The County Record is gratified to learn that this company has a brighter prospect. We want to see every home and every business in Kingstree electrically equipped by the end of the present year. o PLAIN FACTS SHOW PROSPERITY RETURNING. Building Increases, Unemployment Decreases, According to Uncle Sam's Figures. Government compiled statistics show that a marked revival of building has been in progress for the last year, building permits being two or three hundred per cent more numerous than in the period of great de pression. Combined dwellings and stores have been the most popular new buildings, double dwellings next, with apartments a close third, single dwellings a fourth, and purely business structures last in comparative figures of erection. New Jersey cannot find enough hands for ,ier building jobs. Michigan reports more opportunities than automobile mechanics, and Minnesota and other northwest sections are asking for farming help. General business conditions through* out the country as reflected in reports made to the Department of Labor Employment .Service show plainly in the fact that in 60 cities where studies were made in April showed 40 in which more workers were given place; on pay rolls, and only 2-t in which employment decreased. '"Despite a few disquieting Indus trial features," .-said Director General ?Jones of the Department of Labor, I "America is surely righting herself. I April recorded an upward movement,, with industrial lines broadening out. which will show increased activity in th succeeding months." cl The increase in the number of men j cl employee! by 1,428 firms which report ai to the department was 74-100 of 1 per b; cent, in the month. New York show- r? ed a decrease in employment of 7-10. di of 1 per cent, and Chicago of 5.5 j per cent. j cl j th WOMEN* INTERSETED IN j ^ TOWNER-STERLING BILL, j cl 1 ft General Federation of Women's Clubs tr Helping Education in the *1 I'nited States. ft i ci Washington, June 1.?Mrs. Edward d ? ... - I _ r t :_i_ I Hi t ranKiin wnne, cnairman 01 icgism- i ? tion of the General Federation of j d< ' Women's Clubs and assistant attorney general of Indiana, calls attention to S' the fact that the United States Gov- cl eiT.ment now spends four times as D much per head on cattle, horses, sheep and hogs of the country as it spends lo per capita on its school children, and tl that the women of the General Feder- m ation fee! that the children should p: , at least be on a par with fish, hens ai and hogs. * hi They are much concerned over the n critical situation of the Towner-Ster- w ling bill which provides for a depart- it ment of education with a secretary f< in the cabinet and for federal aid to ri the states in the promotion of educa- st tion, including the training of teach- in ers, the teaching of adults, vocational training, and assisting in payment of cl teachers' salaries. ai Some twenty amendments offered is to this bill in the last congress have tc ' in nAlP Kill i ri _ f*} lktcu iiituipuiaicu in viic uc? uui troduced in the sixty-seventh con- n< gress. It rests now in the committee tl on the reorganization of departments, fi where it is being considered with an- ti other bill for a department of public t 1 welfare, in which education will have only a part. The women of the fed- c< eration feel that it should not be sub- a: ordinated to other departments and e: 1 should be dignified by a separate place in the cabinet, as is done in other countries, with a trained educator at ci the head. g Mrs. White a.-ks all club women to ai write at once to Hon. Walter F. Brown, Winder Building. Bureau of oi Efficiency, 17th Street X. W., Wash- w [ ington. P. C., chairman of the com- j oi mittee on reorganization of depart- J ft ments, concerning their stand on theju] bill. | st ? ?. ,b< MASONIC TEMPLE FOR b< BEAUTIFUL CAPITAL SITE.|tj Order Plans Magnificent Building on I Nine-acre Tract in Northwest Washington. m I w In the very heart of the most ex! elusive and beautiful residential sec- js tion of northwest Washington, D. C., lies the "Dean tract" of land, nine ?] acres in extent, covered with magnifi- 0, i cent trees, and the most coveted and rj eagerly desired piece of land in all a] the District of Columbia. It was re- b< i cently purchased by The Women's jj Foundation to preserve it from real 0l estate accression. K, Now the tract has been sold to the u Masonic fraternity of the District, ^ which will erect upon it a temple to p cost one or more million dollars. The a, land was purchased for a considera- a] tion understood to be $900,000. and is jf amply large enough to permit the cj erection of several temples should such be found desirable. w Civic authorities are loud in their ft praise of The Women's Foundation, st which declined to permit the beautiful park to be cut up into building lots j,i or disposed of to anyone for any pur- w pose whatsoever until a pledge was cr made to preserve for the city the ma- Cl jority of the magnificent trees which w grow upon the land. th When the plans as made are realized, the Nation's Capital will have something seldom or never seen in _ fraternal buildings?a great temple a adequately and completely surrounded by broad lawns and wooded areas. Some of the most magnificent buildings in the world are in America, it is pointed out, and among the most beautiful are several with no foreground or background, the wonderful Pennsylvania Railroad station in NewYork city, the Woolworth Building, and the City Hall in Philadelphia being cases in point. Typewriter Supplies. Users of Typewriters will flue! a full stock of ribbons, corbon paper, second sheets and typewriters paper at The County Record Office. tf. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. I have contract covering all cross tie-; placed on right of way for sale to S. A. L. Railway Co., between West Andrews and Trio, S. C. Will personally be on tie yard at Earles each day. and will buy all ties that are acceptable to the S. A. L. Railway Co. R. E. CAM LIN, 1-tp. Earles, S. C. i i WASHINGTON COMMENT. j That business should not profit at! ie expense of the health of little { lildren is a universal belief. That 1 lild labor is expensive to the nation, jj 1 offense against decency, undesired [ j ,* those who put the welfare of the ' j ice and their country above imme-lj ate monetary profit, is undenied. | \ But there are worse things than 1 lild labor; things which could wreck j lese United States much quicker even j lan the exploiting of many little j lildren. ^ One of these is the overthrowing of lose foundation stones upon which 1 lis nation is built; let there be no ! undation and the superstructure will | umble. Let there be no nation, and | lildren here will be as are the chil- j ren of Russia?starved, helpless, i ?ad by thousands. The supreme court of the United ! tates has just ruled that the 1919 I lild labor law was unconstitutional, j oubtless the explorers of children j ;joiced. But there are many who ve children who have not criticized ! ie decision, just as there have been 1 iany who are heart and soul for I rohibition who believe the eighteenth | mendment and the Volstead Act ( ave done more harm than good. Adlittedly, the 1919 child labor law 1 ould have stopped child labor. But would also open the doors to the >dcral government taking over all | ghts not reserved to and by the | ;ates, a thing expressly forbidden | i the fundamental law of our land. Let us, by all means, do away with j lild labor. But let us do it by I moused public sentiment, by state leg- j lation, by education, by willingness j > follow Him who would have little lildren suffered to come unto Him. 3t by tampering with the strength of le country where children are most ee, where children have most oppormity, where children are best pro(cted. Let us thank God for a supreme I >urt which can think of the country | ? a whole, even before it thinks of (ploited children. "What is the matter with the ! lurch?" asked many devout church- I oers, ministers, church authorities | iid serious-minded laymen. There are a thousand answers. One f them is brought forcibly to mind hen the proceedings of a gathering ! v. certain church are read and it is I >un<l that emphasis is being placed | pen the necessity for ministers rictly to "maintain the moral law" y reiusiug to muiiv une miu jiu.> ien divorced for ahy ot'nor reason 1 lan infidelity. That, brethren of the church, is one " the things the matter with it; the ;fusal to recognize that the human lind demands equity in its religion as ell as its civic law. Marriage, a sacrament in the church, made with mutual promises to love, ? honor, to cherish, to be faihtful. But," says the church, "if you break ae of these you may be free of mar- ! age bonds, but if you keep that one [ id break all the rest, bound you must ?!" A man may beat his wife, get ' runk on home-made hooch and stay | at all night, go to prison for felony, 1 ? cruel to his children, bring disgrace ' pon his family. "Never mind all | lat," says the church, "stay married." 1 ut a man may be all that is good 1 id kind and upright and honorable id temperate in every other way; 1 he is once unfaithful, then, says the . lurch divorce by all means! J The innate sense of justice with 1 hich we are all born protects against ? te idea that a helpless woman must J ay bound to a brute who maltreats ' ?r and his children, merely because < is Janse do not run toward the "other ' oman." The law recognizes extreme uelty, desertion, and felonies as just luses for divorce in most states; hen the church as a whole does also lere will be less reason for it to ask, What is the matter that men vener:e me less each year?" Boy Wanted Somewhere in this town is one boy who is a "go-getter" spirit, full of grit and ambition, and absolutely honest. We want that boy. He will be the only boy agent in this town for the famous MOVIE WEEKLY MAGAZINE. He will work after school and other spare time. His pay will be what he makes 1 it; besides fine prizes and free < Movie Tickets. When he makes \ good, he will be promoted. If ' you are between 14 and 19 years ? old, determined to "make good" J and truly think you are the i>oy ' for this job. then apply by let- i ter to Mr. E. L. Gilbert, "Per- \ sonal," 3rd floor 119 West 40th J Street, New York City. Give ? full details of any pr.:;t selling i experience; your age; parent's full name and business; your school grade and at least two references. It. * III i jv KttSferefofr&ra*srereg&fcffl gt&Yif'.Jt .Jr : 1. K VVVl V I || Tobacco! || Insure Your ;| Against i Stori | in 1 The Hartford Fire jK Then when the Black Cl <5 and white skuds to fly Hps back in your easy cl H| smoke your pipe 1 [ jl ing of protecti ||? the strong a [|l Hartfc ill Polic Rates Are Lower th S|l FOR FURTHER INF" | W. H. WELCI ip For All Kinds o p| Phones, 85 and 73 a*rii u IBB 1MB . B Bfl m I FOUR: I PORCH ( $19. 185c Cash, Balanci ; This Porch Suit consists of fc 1;: Rockers and one Swing, finished ||:: We have a number of other I :g: I Rock ^laple, Oak and Dark Green, Ion the above terms. This is Porch Furniture seasc should appeal to all homeloving which furnishes more comfort at t suit We also have a full line of Pore I Etc. Come in and make yoUr sele now. Williarteburg F "Th^Bj^Yellow Fi s. y ggl Kingstree, - - \ Tobacco!! 1 Tobacco 1 Hail I ms | | Insurance Co. | louds begin to rise, |* fast, you can sit fe lair and quietly M. with the feel- IjSi ion under rm of a tji is Year than Last B ORMATION SEE 3 I, Manager-Agent, jjl f Insurance |j| KINGSTREE, S. C. &? SBimTO I PIECE I SUIT! ,85 |l e $1 Per Week || >ur pieces, one Settee, two ;|?; in fumed oak. ! |I: 3orch Suits in Old Hickory, ; ; any of which may be bought \'M\ ?n and these remarkable terms \\M\ people. There is nothing jjgjj his season than a nice porch :h Rugs in Congoleum, Grass. \m\ 4k ction of Porch furnishings :?|; ^ urniture Co. ii *ont Building" \W> +> [anager ^ South Carolina. T||: rrryinn;rTrrm#fffi I 1