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\ Fair Trial Asked director Oeirerai Tells Senate WhatJ3as Been Accomplish ed^ With Railroads Under Govenimeiit Control. WasnWgton^ Jan. 3.?-Accomplish ments of-the railroads under federal ?controi'- during the last twelve months aiid.^^aments for a five year cqn tintia^e of^Vjernniient operation were re^e^ todav '"by Director. General 'Mc w?^?;*wlflre^teitfymg" before the'sen ate interstate commerce committee! C He sai?V in .1919 _the? government should make a surplus of a hundred -million -dollars from the -roads. Murder in Bamberg Bamberg, Jan. 2.?Paul Jenkins and. ^ison Williams "are in the Bam Derg.counry pil charged with the, "friijfogl-ofc Henry . Williams several; -days ago. The killing took place on j Mrs. N. E.. Hefcto's- place. It appears | th?t there is some- uncertainty as to I -which one of the negroes did the kill- | ing and. the corqner, therefore, had j iboth men committed. COTTON BLOOM AT CHRISTMAS. Jfews Notes of The Holiday Season at Wedgefield. Wedgteneld,Jan. 2.?The winter so far has been an unusually warm one. The' writer picked a cotton bloom on Sinas? day andheard of another l^arty' that gathered green lima beans on that day. All wheat and oats that* ?were;sowed in early fall are looking SOocT. M^e^srs. A. E. ?ycock, Jr., and Ma rion Brice of the aviation service, agpeiat the holidays at home. 2k!Er; I? "H. Thomas of the Base Lab oratory corps, TJ. S. A., returned from 'oveirseas. recently, having received his discharge. The following young men have re tfirned to the various colleges after a "pleasant Xmas at home. To Clemson, "Wade Ramsey, Geo. Ramsey, Hugh zji? Mansfield Ryan, Richard and Ma rion rjwhjht, John Hammond and Ed ison. Wright To Carolina: Ralph Ramsey." University of South Caro lina, Willis" Ramsey. -Mr. R. L. Wright has sold his dwelling and lot to Mr. H. Chandler, ^d he and his family will mov3 to Boeky Mount, N. C. Mr. *M... Mellett bought a lot from the\ Thomas.;estate'.and is building a two '.story'.residence. . Rtty, F. Sv Hook, the Methodist minister sent to this charge, preach ed' his 'first sermon on last Sunday evening'. .'"'.. 'Mr.' and^'Mxs.^Wm. .Benton of Ab beyilJe. spent the, ^holidays with Dr. a?d. rMrs. M. L. Parier. Miy F. E lliott ^Thomas,. of. Philadel phia, is," at home" for a much needed res?' ' Mi^ W;:^B^ JCr^u^jefie^L; spent the I^^^S^niii "his * daughte^ilrs.., Bar- f }jjsj'yte&'\ii\ Beekeeping: ?iiey Wasted Here and Abroad! J. Increase, in., the. cost of honey, due t?. tljj b|g:v. export demandcreated by ^^^fs^n^^jt aafe to predict that t^ericoiniag y?ar- will, see ihe greatest effort ever inade. in furt^rihg Dee^r &^B^^^cc<^ing^o. ianmiaf report of ^t^^w-oag of Entomology, United S^te^!?JDepartmeQtof . Agriculture, ^^ii^l^-i^- ^..^ ^eac-hon e^|o;;|he* yalne .of perhaps $2,000,? ^S^.rW^^Vf^Adr?abotu 10 times the valuation -for any year previous to the be^miin#,of the war?indicating that &oney%ha^i ceased to'.bg'a.luxury in. the n^jd^^f^^e^ allied: 'p eoples. ^ * ,-. i^iit^e^ome "demand* for^hohgy Ijas^^e^sed. ...BlipK^ar^i^a^V s^le^^woyer, of fc&"hon>y >o?r^^x^0^^:^ never' reaches- 'the lar^^niers .of trade. .In addition to these two: dema-nds; the heavy Ipss of bees darinijgf the winter of 1917 and a resultant decrease in production in the eastern* ?htted.^States likewise was respoiisible for increasing _the price of hc^ey**io the highest figure recorded in ?anyJ years. . In expediting shipments or* honey and supplies" f or * "beekeepers, and especially in granting permits to bee keepers to buy sugar for feeding their beesi where this was necessary, "the United States' Food. Administration has been of great help it is stated. The issuing of the semimonthly mar ket reports toy the Bureau of Markets, UxiitecLStates Department of Agricul ture, has made it possible for the first time for: the producer to get reliable information regarding the honey mar kets^* This has been a chief factor in making it feasible to encourage bee keepers to increase their production. O f importance in this crisis in the bee ihdustryvhas been the continuation of the crop reports of the Bureau of Cwp Estimates. The ^-United States Fuel Administra tion permitted the chief factories of beekeepers supplies to operate on fuelleS3 days, and supplied one factory with coal at a. serious time, and the Postoffice Department ruled that bees without combs may be shipped by parcels post. This ruling materially helps in the proper distribution of bees whenever there is a serious bee loss in any part of the country. .Organization among beekeepers for better marketing has resulted, through the assistance of the Bureau j of Markets, in the formation of two large cooperative societies. In respect to bee culture the most important work of the Bureau of! Entomology was a series of field ex- J perirnehts on the behavior of Euro pean foulbrood in the hive during the j time that it is being cleaned out by the bees. These experiments served to throw light upon the method to be j used in preventive treatment. The re- j suit of this work, which marks a new | phase in. bee disease, and which pro-; mises to yield most helpful results, soon will be published. Rev. J. W. Watts, of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louis ville, Kyi will conduct all services of th6 First Baptist Church until Dr. Thayer shall have fully recovced from- his prolonged illness. Mr. Watts will conduct prayer meeting tonight Few Ships Delivered Contractors Have Completed Four Ships Instead of Hun dred and Fifty. Washington, Jan. 2.?Only fourj ships have been delivered by the three j government fabricated ship building! plants, Charles Piez, director general; of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, ? said. .today . in testifying before the i senate^ commerce committee." . Dif?- ; culties in constructing the yards and ; in obtaining material were largely re- j sponsible for the delays, the witness; said. ? " j Three of the.ships have.come fromj the Hog -Island yard. Mr. Piez testi fled, and the fourth from the Subma-i rine Boat Corporation plant at Port; Newark, N. J., which should have de- j livered 124 vessels by last December; 7. ." . .' ..; > .'. o 3 i The Merchant Shipbuilding Cor-! poration at Bristol, Pa., has not yet! delivered a ship, he said, although un- I der its contract 24 should have been I completed by December 7. The Hog ; Island yard delivered its third ship j today and has launched 12 others, the | committee was told. Before resuming its inquiry today,! the committee adopted a resolution by Senator Nelson of Minnesota, ex- j tending its investigation to include a| survey of the progress of all govern- i ment ship building. Under the resolution the Shipping '! board and the Emergency Fleet Cor- j poration would bes required to furnish a statement showing the number of shipyards where ships for the gov ernment are being or are to be built j or contracted for, together with the j< capacity of the yards and the amounts j contributed by the government for ! i their construction, if any, and the j ] number of ships each has completed j or lauuhed. The committee also ask- i i ed for the expenditures made, from a^ '] monies appropriated by congress for j ships and whether any of the vessels j j completed for the fleet corporation j 1 have been used in carrying men or j < munitions to or from Europe. 11 Mr. Piez told the committee that11 because of a change in the manage- j i ment of the American International: < Shipbuilding' Corporation contractors j on the Hog Island project, the fleet <j 1 corporation had decided that it would j 1 be unwise for the government to take j over management of the yard now;? 1 Under the . new arrangement. Matt | s Brush, formerly a vice . president of \ t the American international Corpora- | tion,. heads the American Internat ional^Shipbuilding Corporation. Mr." Piez said "he believed the gov ernment eventually should exercise its option oh the Hog Island site and | J take over management of the plant, j1 Informal War Contracts Senate Committee* Rejects Sec- js xetary Baker's Plan of. Sei- j * tlemetft. - ? H Washington,. Jan. S.^^y.'?na^lmdus vote .the ^nate^Uttary; ;?aommjt%$ today i rejected Secretary.. Baker's rec ommendations for-.le^isJatiftn^tQ; vali date informal; war. contracts,, and authorize their ? adjustment ^jpy:~.t&e war department, aud> ^rdere^^fayorr itf^ reported Senator. Hitchcock's bin legaliiang such contracts, but placing their adjustment in the hands of a non-Interested: eomp^sslga.-^:^. . Red Cross No^es-^gjgwae J|erviec Department. ... d a (s1 1 ti o \ r a .Miss .Margaret Laing, ;? Horae Ser rice secretary, will arrive in the. city j ^ >nvSaturday.; While here,,.her.head iuarters.wi5.be'.at the City National ]~ 3ank ?uhdlng.- X'l,L^2< After M}88. laing. -.has. ; flnijahe^; n'er york here, Miss Mamie. Cha^Ier^wJ? >ecome. the^secr^tary of., the,- Horpe 5eryice section;. Mr. Horace Harby. be ng chairman. It is hoped that much rood will be done by this depart-] nent, the need-ot- which becomes; nore apparent day by day. Home Care of the Sick. The Red Cross chapter is very anx ous to organize a class on "Home i ?are of the Sick;" While it is hoped; hat no such thing as an influenza ep- j ^ demic will ever visit us again, the! ^ ihapter thinks it well to organize such ! jj t department that will be able to | ^ ake charge of things should the oc- J t :asion ever arise. If there are a suf- i n icient number of ladies who are in- j ^ erested, a class will be formed. Those j J vho would like to take such a course i ^ :an get further information by calling | it> headquarters. i _ Red Cross Stickers to Be Sold Again, j v Even though the war is over, the i Red Cross is still keeping up with j x most of its work, and still needs a J t lelping hand. Consequently the "Car- ! ^ ry Your Own Package" movement i will be started again. A special com- j c mit tee has been asked to attend tc j j the selling of the Red Cross stickers, j , and merchant and customer are ask- I't ed to help. The Red Cross Chapter is in urgent need of a typewriter. WiU buy, rent or borrow. Visible Writer, Reining- j J ton, L. C. Smith or Underwood pre- j, ferred. Call Red Cross headquarters i * at once. Tobacco Seed. The Chamber of Commerce has re- | reived an ample supply of tobacc '. feed for free distribution, and also c ! number of bulletins giving direction: as to the culture and curing of tobrsc- j co. Tobacco plant beds should be put' in now and those who expect to grow tobacco this year should call for seed I at once. The 12-year old son of Ed Scott. i colored man living on Mr. Tisdale's1 place four miles above Bishopvill- . was accidently shot and killed on Christmas day by his playmate, a j youth of about same age, a son of. Harmon Abraham. Coroner's jury] brought in verdict of accidental homi-1 cide.?Bishopville Vindicator. Washington, Jan. 3.?Practically j the entire Forty-first, (Sunset Di- [ vision), is included in the list of units i, announced today for early convoy! home. J 91 Poland Suffers Between Fires Bolshevism Among the Rich as Well as the Poor, 'Warsaw, Tuesday, Dec. 3'i (By the; Associated Press).?"There is Bol shevism among the rich as well as among the poor," said Andreas Mora czewski, the Polish premier, to the j Associated. Press. .The premier is a member, of the Austrian, parliament' and/one., of the most prominent figures i in the present government. He is the j son of a coal miner, but a highly ed-; ucated student of government, an, ideal Socialist, whose honesty is un- j auestioned even by the opposition. "The social contrasts are every- j where too great," he said. "We have 200,000 workmen unemployed here?1 no clothes and no food for their fam ilies. I am a Socialist, but above all, [ am Polish. "I am no Bolshevist. I love Poland i and am willing to die for her. I served three years as a soldier and consider I am doing my duty by remaining at j this post. . "I am working for a greater and better Poland. I have never liked the , C-ermah Socialists who persecuted the Polish Socialists in Silesia even be-' fore the war. I do not believe that I there is great danger in lack of em- j ploymeht. "Poland Is caught between two fires ?Russia and Germany. What is worse j in Bolshevism than the act of the; C-erman army is selling the city of ; Minsk for 40,000 rubles. "The course for Poland as we see it is: First, the division of land, to be ; jaid for at pre-war values; second, the ' :aking over of the mines by the gov- j ?rnment for an equitable considera- : ion; third, state ownership of public; atilities, such as electric plants, wa- j erworks, railroads, slaughter houses, ocomotive works and bakeries. "The program does not provide for1 ;tate control of all industries, as has >een said, for slate work is less effi- j ;ient than private initiative though he railways in Austria, while costing he government more to operate, were 1 nore efficient than under privat e op- j ration.: * "Poland's difficulties come partly. rom the fact th* t we have been under i hree different "rules, Austrian, Ger-? nan and Russian. We have three ] :inds of money in circulation and \ uffered a double military "occupa ion." . A Japanese Opinion "-7T7" i. . Tokio, Dec. 5 (Correspondence of \ he Associated Press)?Viscount i Jchida, Japan's Foreign Minister,; ecently: declared, .that the United j tat.es; of.America, after affording the! rorld every proof of iheir absolute; rnpartiality and fairness^ completely; tartledr it by" the astonishing* feats of. rms and of civil efficiency which j' onericani troops and organizers have; iisplayed.. \ ' I The Viscount was. .. speaking at ai ?anquet held here to -Z celebrate the I apitulation of Germany. The '.func- j ion was arranged by.the Allied So-; ieties of Tokio a nd was one Of the j lost impressive ever held here. Near- ! 7 all .the leading statesmen of Japan i rere present as well as a large num-j en, of foreigners including Americans j *ith tl^ .-'American /ambassador, Ro'- j. ind ^fuwrU ".'"'"! ? "i] The speaker expressed the opinion i Sat G^mahy may become a pbfftieal; iboratory,and the scene of fruitful!! sperimentsr>in. polities 1..., science, [; 'hich, "Jhe added, is one* of the desld- j ] rata- ?jP our time.*"- He "believed that; le genius of Germany was not suited j ) centralization and military empire;. ut rather for-variety and dispersion' nd th?t Germany was "most herself j 'hen sfce'ewas most divided." ?. ?.. ."Whatt Is. a Pledge? ' j ? Sumter county "went over the top" j ith a big hurrah in the Red Cross!, rive a few months ago, the amount ! [lotted the county being largely over ibscribed. All of these pledges were ', iade with the distinct understanding , lat payments would be paid in full , a or before December 1st. A majority of the subscribers have;, adeemed their pledges, but there is! ? long list of delinquents on file with i, reasurer R. L. Edmunds, at the; umter Trust Company. These de- j nquents apparently regard their . ledges of. little importance?some- ', ling to be attended to at their re- !; xote convenience, or not at all if they i nd it inconvenient to part with the! ?w dollars they promised to lay on { iie altar of patriotism. When these ubscriptions were made they were ? ublicly recorded and the subscribers | rere advertised as liberal and gener- i us patriots who were gladly doing | -hat they could to make the lot of hose who were fighting in their de ense more tolerable.. They were held ? tp before the world as examples of heerful givers, but they have not de- i ivered the goods, and are now enjoy- ! ng a reputation that is not justified j >y performance. The Sumter Red Cross chapter had i lecided to keep the record straight. | .nd. at the annual meeting, held Do- ? ember 10th, a resolution was adopted i is follows: "That notices.br sent delinquents! :oncerning their War Fund Pledges.; ind that the names of those who hav< ?ot paid these pledges by January 15? u> published." - j When this list of delinquents is; published there will be a great furor ttid hard feelings, especially by thos.-> vho feel that their position In the community and financial responsibi1 ty are so high above question they j ire entitled to exceptional considera-1 ;ion and unlimited time in which to pay (he subscriptions, which they >tand pledg? .1 to pay on or before De cember i^t. Perhaps, if they recol lected that if all Red Cnoss subscrib ers were as negligent of their oblige Sons, as they have been, the soldier^ in the hospitals in France would suf fer and die from neglect, they would pay up promptly. Jap. Peace Belegales. Tokio, Jan. 4.?J; pan plans to in '.lud three representative business men in the delegation to the Euro- j pean peace conference. Shall We Go Back or Go Forward? (By Norman Hapgood.) Senators Knox, Reed and Lodge are taking as heavy a responsibility as any set of men could take when they endeavor to prevent the formation of a League of Nations at the only time when there is any real probability of its being possible to form it. Long ago the Prime Minister of England said that at the end of the war there would come a critical moment when the mind of mankind would be fluid; when we should be accustomed to doing" great things, unprecedented things; when we could, if we wished, take such steps upward that the ter_ rible cost of the war would be justi fied. But. Mr. Lloyd George went on to .argue,... once let that moment pass and we shall sink back into our cus tomary fears, and there will be noth ing to compensate for all the lives and all the destruction of prosperity. In endeavoring to prevent the suc cessful beginning of a League of Na tions. Secretary Reed comes out bluntly with opposition to the whole idea, and a few of the less intelli gent senators back him up. Cleverer ones, among those who wish to defeat the League, follow the policy of Sen ators Lodge and Knox, and are fight ing for delay, the usual device of ex perienced politicians when they are trying to defeat a'measure in which all elevated and disinterested consid erations are against them. President Wilson's Purpose The American people ought to un derstand that the president's activi ties abroad at the present moment are due to no sudden impulse. Thes au the following out of the faith that he has had from the begin ning. He has been compell ed to change his course in detail frequently, as any good hehns man tacks according to wind and tide nad the accidents of a rocky coast. But he has always aimed at a peace bas ed on mutual understanding, mutual 2onfidence and mutual welfare among the nations. He has read history, and he knows how at the end of so many of the great wars the victorious alli ance has planned to preserve peace by the exercise Of its own force, and bow completely illusory every such attempt has been. He is not trying to force upon the governments of Eu_ rope today the details of any plan. He is, however, trying to bring to the few men who happen to be the gov ernments of England, France arid It aly at the moment a realization that they will be building on the sand if they do not use this oportunity to make a more disinterested and spir itual settlement than has been made after other wars, had a combination rrith some international arrangement :hat will help us to get rid of th-i ?jM fears and the old antagonisms. Messrs. Lodge and Knox are -.rilr iiant men, but thejr represent the old jtory, the distrust of the people the j iistrust of ideas~the distrust of ideal ism. .They can themselves practical, and yet they stand for the thing that has always, failed and the thing, that brought this war upon us. They 3tand for the holy Alliance applied to the conditions of 1919. They prac tically say to mankind, "You cannot io anything" . better than you. haye lonejso don't try," whereas" the pres ident is /saying to the governments, 'Yojll mnW~r|se above the limits of the politician and" bureaucrat or civiliza jJLoh'?elJ. fnayr tfje.".. . ... * ^t \us Vook at one or two of Mr. [jodge'a arguments to see how flimsy ire the weapons even a highly edu cated man has to use when he go.es >ut in support of prejudice against a lew truth. He says it will be a grave Jaing for a sovereign nation to . leave .o mankind in general the determi lation of whether a question is vital o its independence and safety. Yes,.it vas,a. grave , thing when the head of ivery household in the vill?ge had "to eave in large part, the defense of his .'amily to the village police force and ;he village courts. No doubt the Lodges of that day viewed this step vith solemn alarm. It was a grave hing when duelling went into the dis card. Nothing, indeed, could have ;eemed more destructive of honor and nanhood to the Lodges and Knoxes )f only a few decades ago than that a nan should not settle with pistols and seconds a whole group of wrongs .vhich. nobody, thinks of settling that ,vay now. Any step ahead is a grave rtep, but the trouble is more danger ous to go forward than to stand still md attempt to go backwards. The Monroe Doctrine. Senator Lodge wishes to know! ivhether we are ready to abandon the Monroe Doctrine. This would be an excellent question for a high school debating society. Any trained mind I will realize we are simply extending! the Monroe Doctrine?if you inter pret that doctrine with any realiza tion of the march of history. Not j even Senator Lodge and his predeces sors have been able to prevent the discovery of the power of steam, or the invention of the telegraph and telephone, or the bringing of the whole world in closer communica tion than Boston was with New York J in the days of Washington. The j Monroe Doctrine was formulated to protect small and weak nations in the j western hemisphere from exploit::- j tion by big and aggressive nations] abroad. What the liberal spirit of the age is endeavoring to do tomorrow a* Versailles is to extend the* Monroe Doctrine to the whole world, to read j the Monroe Doctrine in the light of the inventions of Fulton and Bell j and Marconi, and not to treat it asj if it was a frozen thing incapable of i growth. We want an arrangement ? that will protect not only Brazil, but | Belgium and Serbin and Bohemia! and Jugo-Slavia and Poland. Does' Senator Lodge want tbe new nations] or the Czeko-Slovaks and the Jugo-j Slavs to depend on their own, strength? Doos ho want the new, Jewish nation in Palestine to ^defend ;tse!f? Would he like to ha e China I dependent on her own strength? He j says. "Let us bo honest with our- j selves." Well. I echo that statement.! Let him honest witn himself, and! ioil us what he thinks of the state! to which his doctrines have now brought the world. He tries to throw a scare int <>us about immigration and tariffs. If I were writing pages instead of para graphs, nothing would amuse mei 1 " j jmore than to take up each one of his j points in succession and show its hun- i j dred per cent, shallowness. Neither j ; the League to Enforce Peace nor the I j League of Free Nations Association j j has said or means to say, that immi ?gration is a question to be decided 'by the League of Nations. I fancy j both these organizations think it to be ? a domestic question. Certainly I do, j j and I would no sooner ask the League \ j to settle it than I would ask it to set- i I tie the negro .question in our south- i I ern states. The league, in fact, has! ; comparatively little to do with the I I domestic questions of advanced and \ j self governing nations. The greatest' cause of wars in modern times is the! I race to control the great undeveloped! J resources of the backward countries, j ! that the majority of the officials of ? I so when Mr. Lodge tries to raise a | J tariff scare he overlooks the differ- j ! ence between tariffs a free and self- j governing country may make for its domestic welfare and tariffs which might mean that one of the great i powers was assuming the right to cut j off from the other powers access . to I the raw materials of some places in Africa or Asia Minor over which it assumed sovereignty. Attack on Technicalities. You see the whole trouble with the attitude of Lodge and Knox is that they are doing what a certain type j of corporatiin lawyer tries to do if j he wants to knock out a statute en- | I acted with the purpose of helping! ! along some aspect of civil progress, j j He does not lend his intellect and ex- ? \ perience to try to reshape some clause, j in the statute to make it more ef- ; i fective. He gets his microscope and j i sees what detail he can find that may j j possibly admit of a successful attack j I on technical grounds, and uses any j j such point to upset the whole sta_ \ I tute. If minds V e Lodge's and Knox's j were turned in the other direction, j and were trying to help the world j build a League of Nations, now at j I this critical moment, in the wisest land most fertile manner, their assis I tance would be invaluable. As, how- j j ever, they are simply following the j i old trade of so many prosperous and | !conventional reactionaries, of looking] j for opportunities to throw the ma- j ichinery of progress out of working t order wherever they can find the op jportunity, they are bearing a re sponsibility as grave as men in high j office could possibly bear. They are [dashing the hopes of mankind. They are endeavoring to tell the world -that the total result of the measure less woe of this war shall be precise- j ly nothing; that it shall leave the world exactly where it was before its baptism of sorrow; that any man and any group of men who endeavor to j rear from the ruins of Europe the j foundations of a better world shall | have from them nothing but ob-] structi?n and discouragement. FOR COLDS AND GRIPPE FOLLOW DOCTOR'S ADVICE Ask any physician, or-druggist and he will tell you that the first step in the treatment of. a cold, cough or grippe should 'invariably' be *'a- brisk calomel purgative, preferably.-, _the nausealess colomel, called "C?l?t?bs " This alone is often sufficient to break up a severe .cold over night," or cut short ah attack "of grippe and possibly prevent pneumonia One Calotab on the . tongue at bed. time with a swallow of' water,?that's all. No salts, no na?se?* nor the. slightest interference with your eas ing, pleasures or work. Next morn ing your cold has vanished; and .your entire system is purified and refresh ed. Calotabs. Calotabs are sold only in original sealed padsages; price, thirty-five cents. Recommended and guaranteed by druggists everywhere. Price refunded if you are not delight ed.?Advt. Boll Weevil Zone Clemson College Prepared to Furnish Maps _ahd Infor mation. - - ? - <- *? Clemson College, Jan. 2.?O^n; to> the recent cold weather, it appears that the boll weevil has af last gone into winter quarters and this has made it possible for: the , State Pjest Commission to settle; definitely; the; boll weevil quarantine line ? forj the winter. The quarantine zone, which is a belt of about 30 miles wide .SM; adr vance of the safety line,.- is -discon tinued for the winter. This ;?one;will . become operative again; about.April 1, depending on the weather.conditions. Permits from the quarantine zone are therefore no longer necessary. The safety zone, which is a belt about. 2d miles wide in advance of the boll wee vil line, will remain effective and ho> shipments .are permitted to move, from that zone into 1 free ?...teritory without a special permitThese .per mits are rarely granted. The<x>mniis sion in operating this .quarantine - is guided by the - circumstances.;-and from time to time- may Issue -j>er^alts from certain areas near the^safety line in safety zone when ia/tqu^i? jeptbe safe to do so. ; 1 li:~<l The boll weevil quarantine hne,now begins at the SavannahRft$eokat Beech Island, and-, r-tme ~^03|gh Blackville, Branchyille,-.,.. /Pregnall, Summerville,. and -Mt. RJeasan^ The safety line .begi^atf^i^rrcS^yaja^ah River at Parksville; and rgj^jttirjffigh Edgefield, Swansea, '-?t. ^tthews^'St. Stephens, and eastern edge ot J?alls* Bay.. ; : ? ? f v^rrr Parties interestedroang^^ai^Trfftapg from the-> State Crop^Pesi. -Commis sion, Clemsoa-Coltege; SrfC*- &~y*a I Building Material and Fe^d Stuffs | "Rough -and Dressed lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Biic5; Shingles, Mouldings, Etc. ? ;; All kinds of Feed for Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. We solicit your patronage, - J [ Booth & McLeod, Inc. rm^msF j| * ----- : - r-- . >?? -,AgE%W?jjJA Mtofj?|f , In Sumter, Lee and Clarendon Counties C. P. OSTEEN, :: Sumter, ? C ? MMMMMMIII II IIM>IHMIMM4|H'MMMIHMMK ?? The Goddess of LiBerty At Our Door Welcomes you to the Bank- that has purchased for itself and its cus- ? tomers over a half million dollars of Liberty Bonds and Certificates, ?AND? Has given six of her young men to the service of her country. Resources Over $2,000,000. _? _ - ? -c g - ?? J>Vl -\ - The National Bank of South Carolina C. G. ROWLAND, President ?5*5 <5 Cathie ri' ? t t ? I br. . V