The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 21, 1918, Image 7
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mn Seooftd Ota Mfttter.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Lawrence Carson is visitin
Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Spann.
Miss Helena Bultman let today fo.*
Winthrop.
-Mr. Raphael Bowman left on
Tuesday for Belmont. N. C. where he
will attend college this winter.
Miss Molly Bowman has gone to
Ashevllle, N. C, where she will at
tend St. Genevieve's school.
- Mr. J. P. Booth, Jr., of the aviation
service, who has been stationed aT
Austin, Texas, is at home on fur
lough.
Mrs. Lilian Poole and daughter
Elizabeth, of Jacksonville, Pia., are
visiting Mrs. Charles McFaddin on W
Liberty Street.
Mr. H. G. Osteen is attending the
meeting of the S. C. Press Associa
tion this week at Gaffney.
Miss Nettie Powell and Miss Eliza
beth Murray left this morning for
Camp Jos. E. Johnstone, Jackson
ville, Fla., where they will enter the
base hospital in the Red Cross ser
vice.
:-:Mlss Kathleen Parham left thi-c
morning, for. Greenwood where she
wift enter "Lander College.
R. I*. Wright Dead.
; Mr. Robert Lee Wright died at his
home on W. Liberty street about 2
a. m. Thursday, after an illness'
of several months. " Mr. Wright was
born' in Jefferson county,'Ga., Jan.
1*0." vgSSr, and was "near 57 yean
?hi, his " lather being Henry G
fright and his mother Susan E
?3ejikins.- lie came %o Siunter over
3* ^ars ajp, and has lived in this
^ft -and" county since. He ' married
"Mh^ Lieila, Edwards of this city, by
wkeni seven children; two "daughters
#ve " sons, . were born, all of
wb^jsm are Irving. His wife died a few
firtfr? ago, and he is survived by one
brother Oply, Mr. A. R Wright, ol
S??2erWftle, Ga.
''t^T?' 1 Wright has been connected
with the business of Mr. H. J. Harby
since the beginning and was a mem
n e* of the'firm- of Harby & Co. at
the tjme of his death. He was a man
off5 $"he business Qualities. He had
treeii a member of the city council
hut" was not a man who aspired to
public office?
Grand Rally for 4th Liberty Loan.
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A mass meeting will be held at the
Opera House at 11 a. m., September
27,- when the following program will
be carried out:
t.. Exercises opened with grayer by
Rev. J. A. Branson.
?bifft concert by Military Band
from Camn Jackson.
Address by French officer.
sSpnj^ selections by the famous
Cafeip- Jackson quartette.
Address by ex-Governor Sheppard.
Song selections by military quar
tette.
L?bery Loan drive headed by L. D.
JenningsX
,< "Sae committee on entertainment is
composed of the following: A. C.
Pfeelps, S. H. ^Edmunds, Neill O'Don
ae9,'-?i D. Jennings.
Please watch the space donated by
the banks of Sumter. A full page in
The Item tomorrow. Something of
importance to the ladies.
"Send Off" For Nurses.
A most interesting "send off" was
given on Wednesday night at the
home of Mrs. Porter on Baker Street
to. .Misses Marion Nettie Powell and
Elizabeth Murray, by the members of
tlie Sumter Nurses' Association.
These, two of our most efficient
nurses, have answered the call of
their country and "left for Camp Jo -
seph E- Johnston, Jackson vile, Fla.,
"Thursday morning. There they will
be joined by Mrs. Helen McKay, an
other of the nurses of whom Sumter
is justly proud. All honor to these
young woman who are making such
sacrifices. They carry with them' the
heart feit prayers of our entire com
xntemty for Almighty God's tenderest
care and keeping.
Miss Harvin, of the Army Camp,
WaynesviJle, N .C, where recupera
tives from gas attack are brought,
was a guest of the Association as
were also Misses Obenschain and Hud
son of Camp Alice Tubercular Home.
The menu of fried chicken- and all
that goes with it seems to have
touched the spot, if one is to judge
by the many remarks made by the
large concourse assembled at the sta- j
tion to say good-bye and God bless
you.
Sumter at Ciemson.
Sumter county is well represented
at Ciemson this session by many
promising young men. The following
young men left on Tuesday morning
to resume their studies at Ciemson
College: Hugh Ryan. Wade Ramsey.
Louis Pitts, Richard Wells. Robert
Mellette, Odil Cain, Frank Kolb. F.
M. Dwight. Mauriee Randle, Mims
Pitts, John Parker.
The following left today (the 19th)
for Ciemson College to enter the
freshman dase: Richard Dwight
Mansfield Ryan, Edison Wright. Hai
ry Hood.
Bnick Car Stolen.
The Sumter Automobile Association
has been notified that a light Buick
Six, 1917 model, motor number 313,
624 has been stolen from W. H.
Moore, Greenville.
Chief Of Police Sumter and Sher
iff Bradford have been notified by the
local Association and have been ask
ed to be t>n the lookout for it. Help
ing to find lost cars is one of the ser
vices the automobile association doe*
for its zaember* ?. .' ?
AGAINST COTTON TAX.
AMENDMENT TO WAIi TAX DILI
FOR TAX OF $3 A BALK.
South Carolina Congressmen to VoU
Today Against Amendment o!
Pennsylvania Reprcscnative.
J Washington, Sept. IS.?All mem
bers of the South Carolina delegation
in the house except Representative
Itagsdale. will be present tomorrow tf.
vote against an amendment to th<
war tax bill to be offered by on
gresman Moore of Pennsylvania, tax
ing cotton $3 a bale. Mr. Ragsdah
may also be here in time as a tele
gram uring the importance of hii
presence was sent him today by Con
pressman Stevenson. This amend
ment while it may be defeated is ex
pected to bring on a spirited fight.
It is Mr. Moore's contention that
since much money has been spent ir
the South on military camps and can
tonments that the people in that sec
tion should not object to this extr
tax on their cotton. The Souther;
members will stubbornly oppose it
especially in view of the fact that i
price may soon be fixed for raw cot
ton.
war work campaign convex
?; tion.
! Prominent Leaders of Seven Organ
izations Hold Enthusiastic Meeting
? in Columbia.
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Special to Daily Item.
Columbia. Sept. 19.?All religious
beliefs of South Carolina crystalized
themselves into one gigantic unit t<
raise one million dollars for wrar
Work, at the united war work cam
paign convention held here yesterday
and today. Over five hundred dele
gates representing the seven organ
izations agiliated by request of Presi
dent Wilson, are in attendance. A
notable feature o^ the convention was
an address by Gypsy Smith, British
T. M. C. A. worker, who related hi:
experiences among soldiers in France
and called on the South Carolina peo
ple to come together to iorm a great
machine to raise funds to make their
religions active in service to those
who are laying their lives on the al
tar of freedom. Other speakers be
fore the convention included Gov
Manning and leaders in the seven
participating organizations.
Miss Katie Boyd George, English
Y. W. C. A. worker, Goudon Spriggs
of Australia, Capt. George Dingle, o:
the Canadian army and others ad
dressed the rieeting. The closing
meetings today were turned over U
campaign experts who instructed
workers in organization of district
county and city units and discussion
of plans for holding district meetings
throughout the State. The United
War Work campaign will be con
ducted throughout the country the
week of November 11 to 18. The di
rection of the South Carolian cam
paign will be in charge of a. A.
Protzman, and other well known war
campaign directors.
aerial gunnery.
Absolutely Necessary for Aviators to
Be Accurate Shots.
Somewhere in France, Aug. 25
(Correspondence of The Associated
Press)?Accurate machine-gun fire
is the chief requirement of the suc
cessful combat aviator, allied aviation
experts agree. Fortunately for the
allies that is one department in which
their aviators excel.
It is interesting to note the pro
gress made in the weapons used by
aviators. At the opening of hostilities
airplanes were used mainly for ob
servation work. Their pilots were
armed generally with carbines, and
sometimes only with an automatic re
volver. Then came the fighting air
plane and the single and double ma
chine gun.
But these newer nd more deadly
weapons are useless unless properly
aimed, and this is no small task a<;
the pilot must aim hot his gun, but
his whole machine. lie must use his
airplane as a gun mount. It is eas\
^to conjure some of the pilot's ditfieu!
ties when the gun mount is manoeuv
ring and traveling twice as fast as'
any express train, while its target is
in similar action.
Nor is that all the difference be
tween aerial and ground gunnery. On
the ground, ammunition is pract :al
ly unlimited. In an airplane, every
ounce of weight counts, and ammu
nition is therefore strictly limited.
The greater, consequently, is the need
for accuracy in shooting.
It is important th\t no ammunition
shall be carried which is not absolute
ly reliable and all is selected and
tested. Guns are rigorously inspect
ed, for a jam at a critical moment
might prove fatal. In training, on
the other hand, ammunit:on is care
fully selected for its badness; the ob
ject being, by means of frequent ? n
jams, to make the clearing of a stc..
1 *ge automatically simple to the pil
ot.
The successful air fighter must be a
good pilot; but even the most bril
liant trick flyer, the "stunter" who
can throw his machine about in the
aii- and make it a supremely difficult
target for his adversary, is nevertbe
less incoinpletely equipped as a light
er unless he can combine brilliant
flying with brilliant gunnery. Foeh's
rule that "off<-nee is the best defence*'
applies even more in the air than on
land, ami it is by following that rule
that the allied fighters have won
their ascendancy over the Germans.
Recently before a crowd of 1,500
people, assembled for a Labor Day
celebration at Erwin, Tennessee, Miss
Sallie Wannamaker, well known in
Sumter as a musician of ability, pre
sided at the piano, and rendered a
program of solo numbers of a pa
triotic charaeP-r that met with an en
thusiastic reception. Later on dor
ing the program, an orchestrA which
she helped to organize and of which
she is pianist, took a leading part in
completing the celebration of the hol
iday by acting as accompanist for
I community singing and other enter
tainment. Miss Wannamaker i
spending the summer months in Er
win,
Cotton Market I
Corrected dahy ?t 12 o'clock Noon.
P. G. BOWMAN. Cotton Buy*.'.
Good Middling 'M 1-2.
Strict Middling 31 1-4.
Middling 31.
Strict Low Middling 29.
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Open nigh Low Close Close
Yes'dys
Oct . . 32.70 32.99 32.41 32.43 32.85
Dec . . 32.20 3^.31 31.75 31.78 32.25
Jan . . .12.05 32.18 31.52 31.60 32.05
How Much Per Pound Did it Cost to
Raise This Cotton?
(Special to Dallas News.)
Coleman, Texas, Sept. 9.?We have,
for the last year, gone through one of
the severest drouths ever known in
this part of the country. For many
years Coleman county has held her
own, as a farming and stock raising
county; in fact, this county has com
pared favorably with the best farming
belt of Texas. Where, as a rule, many
hundx-eds of thousand bushels of
grain are thrashed, not one btlshel
has been thrashed this year. The same
may be said of cotton. The county
has produced as high as 64,u00 bales
of cotton in one year, but in all prob
ability 100 bales will cover the pro
duct for this year. Some rains have
fallen in spots, but a general soaking
is necessary, so that farmers can sow
their fall grain. The county is prac
tically rid of all live stock, which had
to be moved for pasturage or ship
ped to market. What few stock are
left are dependent on fall oats and
wheat grazing for pasturage.
We would like to call the atten
tion of Mr. Barney Baruch of thi
War Purchasing Board to the above
and ask him if he feels like a price
should be fixed on the above cotton
in order to prevent the producers of
same from getting too much for it.
This county is only a fair sample of j
an area nearly as large a? +he State of
Arkansas in the State of as. where2
every bale of cotton grown has cost
the. producers $10 per pound to pro
duce it.
We shall go further. If the entire
crop of the South of the 1918 planting
is sold at $200.00 per bale, including
seed (and much of it will bring high
er prices), and each farmer was paid
$5.00 per acre rent for the land, rent
for bis teams, pay for himself, wife
and children at the same wages paid
unskilled labor in any Northern city
the cotton crop would not pay all who
have produced it.
In the face of this appalling fact,
we have men in Congress and vin the
department like Mr. Baruch seeking
to limit the meager profits coming to
those who have toiled in the cotton
fields this year, when only 25 per cent
of that product is used in this coun
try. Isn't it amazing that any class
of people should be so short-sightee?
is to want to rob the cotton planter,
or at least limit his niggardly profit?
to build up and enrich foreign coun-i
tries, who buy our cotton, say at 30c j
per pound and sell it back in thread
or mercerized cotton goods, etc.. at j
$5.00 per pound? Then, too, don't!
overlook the heart-breaking years in |
which the cotton planters of th
South took 4c to 8c for their cotton.
We are quite sure that those wh
seek to linvft the price of that which |4
costs so '*?": iy to propagate have not j
well considered this question. Th' ?
cotton States of America must be de- j
pended on to clothe the world, and j
tor all exports of cotton we draw gold
from all the world and keep the bal-M
ances of trade in our favor. That j
balance will shrink or expand as the i
price of cotton shrinks or expands, j
Do we want to keep that balance j
healthy and the eotton growers hap- J
py and prosperous. Or do we want to i
stabilize eotton prices, impoverish th* j
producer and make the fortune of j
alien spinners?
Ponder this question seriously.
Manchester, Eng. Aug. 25?Re
markable profits have been made in
?he Lancashire cotton industry since
the beginning of the year, despite j j
the shortage of raw material from theL
United States, and the compulsory j j
stoppage of machinery.
Fifteen spinning concerns publish
accounts whose total profits for th-c
half year ended June last, amount to
$S9f..l2? against $209,7^0 in the si?.
months ending December. 1917. As
a result of the good trade reports,
share prices have steadily advanced
and the capital appreciation since the
beginning of the year for the fifteen
companies is over twenty per cent.
FERTILIZER FOR SALE -We ar<
going to sell all the Meal, Acid, j
Lime and mixed goods in stock j
here for immediate ' shipment, a' \
bargain prices. Please call us be- ;
fore stock sold out. Southern Bro- j
kerage Co. Phone No. 89. j
FOR SALI'?In settlement McBrido j
estate I offer 1,000 acres Jaquep
lands, tracts 47 to It; acres, well j
located in famous Pudding Swamp;
tobacco section. The four 1917 j
pri::e corn clubs boys of Sumter ]
and Clarendon counties live one to
eight miles away and grow ??? to i
90 bushels on same type soil. A :
nearby tract of similar unimproved *
land was paid for out of last year's:
crop. Prices right and terms rea-!
sonable. E. W. Dabbs, Trustee. I
Mayegville. S. C._
REESWAX WANTED -Any quantity
large or small. Am paying best
cash price. See me if you have
any. X. ?:. Ostcen. _
FOR SALE?F. O. B. cars, Camp j
Jackson, stable manure; very little
straw. Car load lots only. Chend
cal and Fertilizer value rated very
high by Clemson eollege. A. A
Strauss, Sumter. S. C.
MILLERS' CERTIFICATES?Can b
obtained at Item Office at reason
able prices in lots of 100 or more.
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OU can save wisely or unwisely. True
economy consists in buying the best. We
are giving I; slow a iist of the best Cloth
Ing and Shoes produced in this country.
It v/iil pay you well to buy from this list.
Hart Shaffner and Marx Clothes and Overcoats,
Dryefus & Lang Cl thes,
American Boy Clothes and Overcoats,
Dubbelbilt Boys'- Clothes,
Ford Overcoats,
Paragon Pants.
Knox Hats.
Schoeble Hals,
Ma I lory Hats,
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ostonian Shoes,
ates Street Shirts,
Lion Shirts,
ynee Blou ses for Boys,
M?nsing Unc ierwear,
Wright Health Underwear,
Varsitv Undc rwear,
Wayne Knit Hose,
Woven rig'hi Hose, .
True Shape Hose.
Kaiser Cravats,
Altman Cravats,
Hansen Gloves,
Carter's High Back Overalls,
.intree Tranks, Sags and Suit Cases.
q We are proud of these lines and we offer them
to the trading public with the utmost confidence
that thev will rfford the greatest satisfaction.
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