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LAWS FOR BENEFIT OF ALL. I UI vlhIM s\vs THIHR Ml ST hi: i uoi'i it vrioN iu iwi i n ' MOM \ 19 lN \M> BUH? \ uss. Kffort Must Re Made by PMPMOffl I n dor Dlrcetlnit or IU'|Hirtninit q| .\;v rh ulturc to <?rt?\\ More (?ruin lor at 1 < lose or Conflict World Mu>t Ho Pii, Washington. Fob. 3.?Coo p, rat km bot worn business nnd the go\ eminent In framing laws for the benoflt of all the people was urged by President Wilson tonight In an address before several hundred representative busi? ness men here attending the annual convention of the Chamber of Com? merce of the Cnlted States. He de? clared that we must all pool our In? torests" to discover the best means f<>r handling pal lie problems. The president urged the crention in the I'nlted States in time of peace of the same kind of united spirit which moves nations during wars. He re? called that "when peace Is as hand? some as war there will be no wars," and that "when men engaged In the pursuits of peace In the same spirit of self-sacrltlce as they encage iu war. wars will disappear." The president predicted that, while there Is a shortage of food In the world now. the shortage will be much greater later. He pointed out that under the guidance of the departme nt of agriculture efforts mtltt be made by American farmers to grow more an I more grnln. that the world may be fed. Speaking of the foreign trade of the I'nlted States the president asked that business men devise some way of allowing American exporters to com? bine and form common selling agen? cies and to give long time credits In such a way that these cooperative de? vices may be open to the use of all. He declared that apparently the anti? trust laws prohibited such combina? tions now, but that he would favor a change If a method fnlr to nil could be found. He spoke of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce's work In "surveying the world" for the benefit of all business men. I'msiness men themselves are to Jdume If Intelligent laws affecting them are formed, the president asserted. Ho added that they should come out Into the open and use their knowl? edge of conditions to bring about laws | t > prevent bus! . evils. The Mex'oan Ojgagtlofl was no q ? ti-Tted t-v \!r WiV i us im , af tlu dMBeottg h- bad ;,4 getting ap-1 i u: .??? ii,ioi i., . ri. "I woufd praiBf that you receive mo as If for the time being I were one of your own number." said the president, "because the longer I oc? cupy the oltlcc that 1 now occupy the more 1 regret any linos of separa? tion, the more I deplore any feeling that one set of men has one set of Interests and another set of men has another set of interests; the more I feel the solidarity of the nation, the impossibility of separating one in? terest from another without miscon? ceiving it. the necessity that wo nhonbl all understand one another In ? rder that we may understand our selv? s. "There is an Illustration which I have used a great many times. I will u>e it again, because It is the most serviceable to my mind, We otten speak of a man who can net lind his wuy in some Jungle or some desert as hnvlpg lost himself. 1 >t?l you never rolled that that is the only thing he has not lost? He Is there. He lost the r?Ht of the world. Ho has no llxod point from which to Maat*? Ho does not know which is north, which la south, which Im cast, which is west; and. If ho did know, he is so con? fused that he would not know In which of those directions his goal lay. nnd, therefore, following his heart ho walks in a great circle from right to left and comes back to whan ho started, to himself again. "To my mind It is a picture of the world. If you have lost other in? terests nnd do not know the relation of your ?w n interests to those other Interests, then >ou do not understand your own Interests nnd have lost yours. What ran want is orientation, relationship to the points of the com? pass, relationship to the other peo? ple in the world, \itai connections which hare fat the time betnn been severed. And so I am particularly glad to St press my admiration for the kind of or.-unizStlon which you ha\ ? drawn logt thar, "I have attendee* banquets of ehawi? bers of COfn CSS TOS In various parts of the country and ha YS got the im? pression at each of those banquets that there was only one <itv in the country. Ami it has Seemed to mc that these associations were meant In order Ii gsatro) m in's pvesaectlve, In order to ieatroj his sense of relativ? proportIons; Womt of all. if I ma) be permitted to any so. they were in? tended to boost something In Partien? lar. T.oosting is ? ? ? r> unhandsome thing. Advancing enlernrtnt lag very handsome thing, but to exaggerate local merit In onb r to etc it.- dlapTO portion in the general development is not a particularly handsome thing or not particularly Intelligent thing. "The advantage about a chamber ol oommoree ol the Unll '<i Btatei Isthat thorn i* only one Waj to boost the United states and thai Im by seeing to it that the conditions under which business la done throughout tho coun? try arc the best possible conditions. There can not be any disproportion about that. If you draw your sap and your vitality from till quarters then the more sap and vitality tin re is in you the mote there is in tho commonwealth as ? whole and every time you lift at till you lift the whole level of manufacturing and mercan? tile enterprise, ".Moreover, the advantage of it is that yot. can not boost the United States In that way without undt r ?tandlng the United states. Yon learn a great deal, i agreed with ? eol league of nine In tho cabinet the other day thai we had never attended in t?ur lives before a school to com? pare with that we are now attending for the purpose of gaining a liberal i ducatton. "Of course, 1 learn a great many things that are not so. Out the In? teresting thing! about it is this: Things that are not so, do not match. If you le af enough Of them you BCC if you hear enough of hem you see there is no pattern whatever. It is a crazy quilt. Whereas the truth al? ways matches piece for piece. With other parts of the truth. "No man can lie consistently, and he can not lie about everything if he talks to you long. So that I would guarantee that if enough lien talked to you. you would get (he truth. 'I had somewhat that experience about Mexico, and that was about the only way in which I learned anything that was so. for there have been VtVtd Imagination! and many special interests which have depleted thfrigi as they wished me to believe them to be. "Now seriously, the task of this body is to match all the facts of busi? ness throughout the country, and sco the Vast and consistent part of them. That is the reason?and I think >ou are to be congratulated upon tho fact ?that you can not do this thing with? out common counsel. I have as];, myself, before I came hero tonight, what relation you could bear to ii government of the United states and what relation the government could bear to you. There are two aspects and activities of the government which you will naturally < une Into most direct contact, "The- first '?? the government's po.\, i ol Inoulry- i I ?matte and dlsluterest? cd innplr?--und iu j owe <i den* tide assistance. Tou "-ret an Illustra? tion Of the latter, for example, iii the department of agriculture, lias it oc? curred to you. i wonder, that we art just upon tho eve of a time when 0U1 department of agriculture will be of infinite importance to the whole world? I "There is a shortage of food in the | world now. That shortage Will be more serious a few months from n< than it is now. It is necessary that we should., plant a great deal more. It is necessary that our land should yield neue p. r acre than it doci now. It is necessary that there should not be a plow or a spade i?11?? in this coun? try if the world is to be fed; and tho methods oi* our farmers must feed upon like scientific information to be d? rived from the state department of agriculture and from that tap root of ail. the United states department of ngrtculture, 'The origin and use of that depart? ment is to inform men Of the last developments and disclosures of science, with regard to all tho pro oesnes by Which soils can be put t?> their proper use and their fertility made the greatest possible, "Similarly With the bureau of standards. It is ready to supply those things by which you can set forms, you can state bases for all tho scien? tific proCOSOCS Of business. "Tho government Of the United States is very properly a great in? strumentality of inquiry and informa? tion. ?>n,. jibing we ar? Just beginning to do that we ought to have clone long ago. We ought long ago to have had our bureau of foreign and do? mestic commerce, Wo ought long ago to have sent the best cyt's of the gov? ernment out in the world where the opportunities and openings of Ameri? can commerce and American genius were to be found; nu n w ho were not sent out as the particular agents of any s? t of commercial Industrie! in the United Slates but who were [eyes for the whole community, "Mut there are other ways of using the j.a<\ rnment of the United Stnl ways thai have bur.- boon tried, though I not always with conspicuous success or fortunate results, Von can us< ? the government of tho United States by Inlliienclns its legislation, That has been a verj active Industry, but it i i put ai'. ays been manage I a^ Hie Intel, ii of t he w hole people, It It Ivory Instructive and useful for the gov ernment of the United Hintes to hnv such menus ns y??u are rt ids to supply for gettlns ? sort of concensus "f opln ||oii which proc edi from no particular quarter, nnd original and with no par? ticular Interest because Information is the very foundation <>i all right action in legislation. 'Men on the inside of business know how business Is conducted and they can not complain ir men on the out? side make mistakes about business, if they do not come from the inside nnd give the kind of advice which is necessary, The trouble In the past?for I think the thing Is changing very rapidly?lms generally been that they came with all their bristles out. They came on the defensive. They came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent. They did not come to guide, but they cam." to block, and that is of no use What? ever to the general body politic "What has got to pervade us like a great motive power is that wo can not nnd must not separate our interests. trom one another, but must pool our interests. A man who Is trying to light for his single hand Is lighting against the community and not light? ing with it. "There* sire si great many dreadful things about war, as nobody needs to be told In this city of distress and of terror. But there Is one thin-.,' about war Which has a very splendid side, and that is the consciousness that a winde nation gets, that they must .ill act as ;i unit, for the nation; sind when peace is as handsome as war there will be no war. When men, I mean, engage in the pursuits of ptdce in the same spirit of self ?sacrifice, and Of Conscious service of the community with which, at any rate, the common soldier engages in war, then shall there be wars no more. You have I moved the vanguard for the United state:. In the purposes of this associa? tion just a little nearer that ideal. That is the reason 1 am here, because 1 believe that. "There is a specific matter about which I. for one, want your advice. Let me say. if 1 may say it without dtsrepsect, that I do not think you J are prepared to give it. rieht aw?y. I You will have to make some rather extended Inquiries before you are ready to give it. What I am think? ing of is competition in foreign mar? kets as between the merchants of dif? ferent nations. I speak of ihe subject with .. cer? tain degree of hesitation, because the thing farthest from my thought is taking advantage of nations now dis? abled, from playing tin- full part in that competition, and seeking a sud? den selfish advantage because they are for the time belni d\ abl< d. Praj i llevs me, that ..? ?ught tu eliminate i all tv,->t though) ' ? ? oi our minds ; r. 11 ?, n 4d i I hit nat tot as ;r w? and the | ot hei ns Ion* of tin w ? rid . < re iu 1 h< j normal circumstances of Commerce. Tin rs is a normal circumstance of commerce in which we are apparent? ly at a disadvantage. "(Um* anti-trust, laws apparently .make it lllogal for merchants iu the United states to form combi? nations for the purpose of strengthen? ing themselves in taking advantages of the opportunities of foreign compe? tition. That is si very serious matter for this reason: There are some cor? porations and some firms, tor all 1 know, whose business is rrr< at enough Land whose resources are abundant enough to enable them to establish selling agencies in foreign countries ?.The question arises, therefore how an- the smaller merchants, how I are the .younger and weaker corpora? tions, going to get s foothold as against the combinations which are permitted I smd even encouraged by foreign gov? ernments in this very fed 1 of compe , tltlon'.' "American merchants feel that they sire at a very Considerable disadvan? tage in contending against that. The matter has been many times brought to my attention and i have each time suspended judgment, because In thi mutter '1 sun from Missouri,' und T want to be shown this: 1 waul to b< shown how'that combination can in mad" ami conducted in a way which won't close it Bgalnst the use ol everybody who wants to use it. "What I would like very much to be shown, therefore, !s a method of cooperation, which is not a method oi combination, not that the two words an mutually exclusive, but we have come to have a special meafiing ot tnched to the word 'combination.' Most of our combinations have a safety lock and you have to gi t the combination to jet in. I want to know how these cooperative methods can bo adopted for the benefit of everybody who wants to use them, and I say frankly, ? 1 can be shown that. I urn lor tin in. "If I ( an mu he i liown that. 1 am against them, und l hasten to add that hopefully I ? xpci t t hat I cn u I'.- show n." Tin- president said tbat he hope i the organisation would lake stops to discover the opinion of the small merchants und bankeri in the coun i ry diet i i< Is on i he subject. "As u matter ol fact," bo con? tinued, "yon do not ha\ <? tIme i? think in a city., .. .. ? Tin rc a iv i hink In? space i in this country, und some ??! the thinking done is very solid thinking Indeed; i the thin' in--, of the sort of men thai I nw all like beet, who think for them? selves, who do 11<?i sec things as th?: are told to see tin m, but lock- al them and s< t> them tor themselves, ami If iln y are told they are white when they are not white, plainly say that they are black; men with ej and with a courage back of tin sc eyes to toll what they see. The coun? try is full of those nu n." . . . I Experience has taught him. the president said, not to try to dominate any conference called to g. ! tin' be:; j Solution of a problem because "com? mon counsel" always brings the best results . . . "it is a splendid thing to he nart >f a great wideawake nation; II is a splendid thing to know that your own strength is Infinitely multiplied by the strength of other inen v ho love the country; it is a splendid thin . to feel that the wholesome blood of a great country can be united in a common purpose, and that by frankly looking one another in 11.- face an: taking counsel with one another, prejudices will #imp away nnd hand ?om< understandings will arise and a universal spirit iff service will be engendered, and with this Increased sense ol* community of purpose will come a. vastly enhanced Individual power of achievement for we will he elevated by the w ind?- mass of which We constitute a part.'' YOUTHS ROIt BANK. Greenville, Feb. 3.?Q. W. Proffltt and (J. L. Long, sons of prominent farmers near Laurens, were arrested by the police here today Upon B charge of having robbed the Bank or Waterloo in l.aureus county. Long, the police Say, confessed that he entered the bank at the noon hour last Saturday and took the money while all the doors were open. He had part cd' the money in his posses? sion when arrested, it is alleged. Sheriff OwlngS of Laurens county will come for the boys tomorrow. it is probable Proffltt will net la. charged with hank robbery as both | said he had nothing to do with it. They were going to the ^Yest Virgin- 1 ia coal fields, they stated. EXTENDS TAX COLLECTIONS. Columbia, Feb. 4.?The time for the payment of State taxes withoul ' penally has keen extended to March 1 ; by A. W. Jones, comptroller general, j with the approval of Gov. Richard 1. I i Manning. A prev ious order extended i firm from iTanvair 1 to Februar?'! I. There wiii likely be ratll i d todj t% pr 11 l. ? follows yesterday to the several coun? ty treasurers: "Under und by virtue of power con? ferred upon the comptroller general, with the approval of the governor, in section 707 of volume 1. code of law. of South Carolina. 1 do hereby extend the time for the collection Ol taxes, without penalty, until the first day of March, A. l>., 1915. You will goveri yourself accordingly." Without debate, the house passed to third reading yesterday morning the Nicholson bill from the senate extending the time for the payment of 191 ? taxes wIthoul penaltj. The tax extension bill, which will i?e ordered ratified today, reads: "Section L That the county treas? urers of the counties of this State be, und tin y arc cu<h hereby, authorise I ami directed to receive without pen? alty, all taxes due by taxpayers to the county ?-r State. until April 1. 1915: Provided, That all tax execu? tions Issui d by the county trt asurer to the sh< riff or other officer charged with the duty of colectlng same he j returned to the county treasurer on I er before July 1, 1916. "See. 3, That on all tax execution'; j issued for the year 1915 there shall he added a penally of .". per ca nt, for nonpayment of same." SUMTER COTTON MARKET. I Corrected daily by Ernest Field, Cotton Buyer. Good Middling 8 l-*>. Strict Middling 8, Middling 7 7-8j Strict Low Middling 7 3-8. Low Middling '*> 7-s. Staple Cotton, Nominal, New York Cotton Market. Open Close. March.8.63 R.72 Get. Chicago Produce Market. Special to The 1 >aily Item. Chicago, Feb. *'.? May wheat 11.60; corn. s I 1 -s'. oats, 59 5-8 pork i''. i ! I? rd, 11.40; ribs, I". 15, ' The Atlanta Coat I Line llailron P.i ; spread imotlu i stirfai ? a \ ei In ' ,,| granite scro< nln ?s ov< r itu ai |,roa< 111 h to the s;ati.m und h f. A : up part of the yard used u ?? a hue hI a ml, Tin- changes recently mad ha> v done much mal e the yai more presentable and to retno> .former bad condition ;. KKCOMMKXDATIOXti SOT XKW. Dr. Dabrock Says Matters Referred to In Herring Ro|H>rl Wore l?\>rnn rly < 'allotI to Attention of Ucncral As? sembly. (\ lumbta, Feb. 3.? Dr. J. W. Bab cock, former superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, called attention ton! jhl t<" the fact that the greater part of the recommendations made by Dr. A. P. II< rrlng, Lhe i n ciency expert, w i i > > has just com? pleted an investigation of conditions at the asylum, wrerc mad< by him in his testimony before ilio osyli m In? vestigating committee on April ! I !?<?*.?, when in answer to a question from the chairman, he gave his rea? sons for asking for the Investigation. Dr. Pabcock also referred to an ar tic! written by himself for the Cen : ; Editl m ot the News sad Cour* ier, In which mo ol these same rec < . im ndations v. . re made. He said he though! ii only j u.>;ico to himself to hi i thew facts out, as those rocom m ndati >ns, he raid, were made to the ;??.] assembly several years ago, n id thai they are only repeated by Dr. Herring. gen ral assembly, in company with I; >v. Manning and Dr. Herring, ? ill ake a personal Inspection of the [asylum tomorrow, ______ RIIM2E WRECKER ON TRIAL. Vanceboro, Me., Feb. i.?Werner Vi n Horn,'the German bridge wrack? er. was arrested today charges' with I "wilful and w anton injury and de? fect men! of buildings." He will be tried this afternoon. ?4* V i our Neighbor's Whv Not Yours? Strong, active, accommodating, painstaking. Large capital and surplus, commodious home. None better prepared.to serve, or more anx? ious to please. I lhe N&iioual Bank qf I Sovikh Carolina X CG Rowland, Pres. G. L. Warren, Cashier t ,..r* ' ? i ll"- t r :' ? ' V . ' .' ,t~l rrione^ , y wheii , converted^ rrto dollar^ M! ? ;v' Ii. by US' s s *.-/. effort II / || -art of thej 11 We extend a welcome to evef y man who works liard for his money to come in and learn the many advant? ages behind a banking connection. H We want such men to make this Bank their Bank and you can easily do it if you will save jus? a little of what you earn. Don't be backward about coming in with a small begin? ning. SI.00 starts you. ''4 PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS" Fhe Nati ? I Bank of Sumter ESTABLISHED 1SS9 ?T>.t^l I !!???? IS j Si S TAMPA, Florida. ? I Mardi-Gras ) New Orleans, Mo- | I Celbbrationt bile and Pensacola. I X Excursion Tickets will be sold for the above Z I occasions from Sumter on Feb. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Z t and 15, at tares named below, by the 1 Atlantic Coast Line ! 4 t I ie Standard Railroad of the South TAJ: a FLORIDA. SI7.30 new :>^vi-:a.?:s. la. . $25.15 mobile, ala. . $18.95 i PENSACOl A, FLA.. ?18.30 Tickets will be limited, at time of purchase to February 2 ith, but an extension ol final rctr.ru limit to March 15th may be obtained by depositing tickets prior to expiration and upon payment oi $1.00. K01 . diiles, reservations, etc., inquire of Atlantic ( >ast Line Ticket Agents, or address W. J CRAI6, Paes. TraflF Mgr. WILMINGTON, N. C. I ass. Agt. Z T. C. WI?TE