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Former Governor Sails For France Richard I. Manning Accompan ied by Mrs. Manning on Voy age to Europe New York, March 21.?Delayed several days in her departure from New York because of the harbor strike, the steamship Adriatic of the White Star Line steamed for Liver pool this afternoon with 300 first class, 275 second class and 250 steerage passengers. The delay in the Adriatic's departure from New York will, necessarily, cause a de lay- in the homeward movement of American troops. ? Among the voyagers on the steam ship will be former Gov. and Mr~. Richard I. Manning of South Caro Jina. They have had five sons in the war, one of wnonv was killed in ac tion, and the visit abroad of the gov ernor and Mrs. Manning at this time is for the purpose of visiting the I grave of the son who gave his life for his country, in addifon to the\ former governor's mission as a rep resentative of the League to Enforce Peace. Statistics Cotton Crop Washington, March 20.?Final sta tistics on the 1918 cotton crop an nounced today by the census bureau in-its last ginning report, place pro duction at .11,888,138 running bales, or 12,022,601 equivalent 500 pound bales,; both exclusive of lintcrs. The 1917 crop was 11,248,242 run ning bales, <->r 11,302,375 equivalent 500 pound bales. The department cf agriculture in December estimated the 1918 crop at 11,700,000 equivalent 500 pound bales. \ Included in the 1918 figures are 127,121 bales which ginners estimat ed "would be turned out after the March canvass. .. Round bales counted as half bales in the running bales statistics, num bered 154,060, compared with 189. 076 in 1917. Sea Island bales included are 5i, 389 compared with 92,619 bales in 1917,' distribution of sea island for 1918 by States was: Florida, 20,160; Georgia, 21,1*35; South Carolina, 9,964. 'The average gross weight of bales for the crop, counting round as half bales, and excluding linters, is 505.7 pounds, compared with 502.4 pounds for 1917. Ginneries operated numbered 19. 249, compared with 20,351 in 1917. Ginning of the 1918 crop by States, in equivalent 500 pound bales were: Alabama. 800.121 Arizona. 55,560 Arkansas. 985,319 California. 67,322 Florida. 28,242 Georgia.2,120,650 LoulsTana. 586,405 Mississippi.1,225.3 4 S Missouri. 61,516 North Carolina. 895,853 Oklahoma .... . 576.270 South Carolina.1.566.900 Tennessee. 329.203 Texas _.2,692,21S Virginia. 24.885 All other States. 6,157 Paris, March 21 (By the Associated Press).?President Wilson is keeping m close touch with his private sec retary, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Secre *^^ary of^the Treasury Glass, regarding the"- Situation in which the executive , departments at Washington have been left as a result of congress to pass several of the great annual appropria tion bills. President Wilson has satis fied himself that for the present at least there is no imminent danger of the- suspension of any vital govern ment activities and already has authorized measures to meet emer gencies that have arisen. German Cotton Shortage Opinion of European Experts on Cotton Situation "Washington, March 24?Germany *s cotton shortage is estimated to be 4,500.000 bales of 500 pounds each in official dispatches based on the opin ion of European experts and made public today. "When Germany began hostilities in 1914 the country had on hand only about 500,000 bales of raw and manu factured cotton, a supply sufficient for two or three months. The pre-war consumption had been 2,000.000 bales annually, much of which was exported but the cessation of exports was fully offset by military needs, so that the country's requirements were not less ened. The stocks on hand were sup plemented to the extent of 1,200,000 bales by seizures in invaded districts. Many expedients were described as having been used by the Central Powers to obtain the staple through neutral countries, and in the first three years "reasonably large quantities of cotton* goods" were, imported in that way. German sources estimate that 600,000 bales were purchased from the United States, Scandinavia. Holland, 175,000 bales from Switzerland before the blockade was made entirely ef fective up to the end of 1917. The amount obtained in 1918 was not known. A total of 100,000 bales also were j acquired in Asia Minor and Russian Turkestan. Cotton purchased by Ger man interests, which were unable to I import it from neutral countries, is es timated at 260,000 bales of which ! 200.000 bales are stored in Scandina jvia, Holland and Spain, and 60,000 ?bales in Switzerland. Substitutes for cotton made from paper, nettles, etc., were not very suc cessful, and only 10 per cent of Ger ; many s normal domestic cotton con jsumption was met in that way, accord ? ing to the estimates, or about 600,000 bales in three years. Based on the above information, it was estimated that of Germany's j average need of 8.000, 000 bales in I four years, only 3,500,000 bales had been supplied. ' In determining the cotton ration to be supplied Germany, it was pointed 'out the loss of Alsace and Lorraine I must be taken into consideration 'Those provinces included 25 per cent of the spindle and loom capacity of the country*, so that the annual re quirements have been reduced to per haps 1,500,000 bales. Virtually all factories were said to be in great need of repair and a loss of three or four months' working time was estimated to be necessary to put the machinery, injured" by working on substitutes, in good condition. The report pointed out that if Ger many demanded that the shortage be made up, she would be asking in ef fect for one-fourth of the world's an nual production of 20,000,000 bales. Gen. Foch's "One Merit" Paris, March 21? Tarshal Foch was reminded today tha. March 21 was the anniversary of the beginning of the great German offensive towards Amiens, and was asked by Jules Eauerwein, of The Matin, to explain by what methods the marshal had turned the offensive into a German defeat. The allied generalissimo re plied: "You aok me to tell you in a few words. Victories are won by science that is true, but also by faith. "Wher one has faith one does not retire; one stops the enemy where one finds him "You tell me that I gave victory to France. It was our admirable soldier? who prave it. I have but one merit? that of never despairing." ..^?A'^ //?s Newest Gift Solves All Problems of Perfect Home Refrigeration As a climax to 36 years' refrigerator leadership, C. H. Leonard perfcted rounded inside corners in his mas ter piece?the Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator. This and other patented features are found only in the LEONARD Cleanable Refrigerator Its snowy, one-piece porce lain extending entirely around the doer frame and over the edges, can be washed as clean as a china dish. Ten walls of insulation keep cold' in. saving ice and food. Merely shutting the doors automatically draws the air tight by means of the Leon ard Ti.?er Lock. Equipped with patented non-leaking device to insure long lif?-. Don't accept less for your money when Leonard Clean able Porclain-Lined Refrig erators with all these exclu sive, patented features cost no more than refrigerators without them. There's a Leonard to suit every purse. Come in and see them. Why Vow Need a Leonard Guard against feed waste and save yourself worlc. footsteps, worrj and money by own- | ing a Leonard Cleanable Rchigerafor. As- | surcs better family heahi., cnil!s v.ater and i beyeaagea properly, and keeps children's j milk at a healthful terr.peraiure. The Cherry Co. 14 N. Main Street SUMTER, S. C. Rates On Rock And Stone Director General Hines Says Railroad Administration Has Reduction Under Consider ation Washii -n, March 20?Director General -l.nes announced tonight that the railway administration had I under consideration a reduction in j freight rates on crushed rock, stone, 'sand and gravel for road construction 'when consigned to and the freight is !paid by a State, county or township j government, or the federal govern ment. Such a reduction, however, will not be put into effect, it was said, until prices on these materials are placed at lower levels if that is con sidered necessary in the interest of price stabilization. The director general also said in re ply to numerous inquiries, that ad ministration contemplated no reduc tion in rates in building materials. Mr. L. E. Wood Injured This morning while Mr. L, E. Wood, Court Stenographer, was on his way j to the Court House for the opening of the Court of Common Pleas, he was knocked down and run over by an au tomobile driven by Mr. J. R. Kolb. Mr. Wood was taken at once to the hospital for treatment. An examina tion disclosed that he sustained no se rious ?injuries, although painfully bruised and mashed. It is thought that he wil be able to be out within a short time. The accident occurred on Law I Range just in front of the South en 1 trance to the Court House. It was entirely an accident and no blame at taches to Mr. Kolb. Mr. Kolb was driving his car at a moderate rate of speed and the accident -was due to Mr. Wood's stepping directly in front of the car as he started to cross over to the Court House. Mr. Wood was knocked own and the car pass ed over his legs, which were badly bruised. The Swiss Amendment j Paris, March 22.?President Wil son'expected to attend sessions of both the cduncil of ten and the league of nations commission today. At the latter consideration was to be given to various amendments to the league ! covenant, including one by Switzer j kind providing that the covenant ," shall not be interpreted as contain ing anything contrary to the sover eignty of States except in so far . as the State shall consent and the cove nant shall not interfere with ;-he in ternational affairs of any of its mem bers. i While the amendment docs not mention the Monroe doctrine it is tacitly understood to apply to it. Some American delegates are inclin ed to accept the amendment on such lines. Cotton Seed Facts. Mr. McAliley of Chester writes me that shortly after I left Washington Thursday things took a still more fa vorable turn 'and some of us were made happy. I had the pleasure of getting more relief than at any time since February 1st." This confirms my sugestion for men with large lots of seed to go to Washington in per son. The committee of refiners work ing with the food administration al located orders and try to place them where there is the greatest conges tion. I hear of the movement of a con siderable . number of cars from this section. Farmers and dealers will keep in mind the mils that grant quickest relief. E. W. D. Washington, 'arch 22.?Clarence H. Mackay. p. ./ident and other of ficials of the Postal Telegraph Com pany were removed today by Post master General Burleson because they refused or failed to follow the department's instructions in the management of the properties. A. F. Adams, president of the Kan sas Home Telephone Company was appointed to superceed MacKay and has taken over control. The refusal to follow instructions came'after the postofflce department refused to grant the company the compensation asked for and the of ficials failed to put into operation promptly the wage schedule and eight hour day. Basel, March 21 ?The president of the German armistice commission at Spa has presented a note to the inter-allied delegates asking if Ger many should consider true the state ments in the French and British press that the peace treaty will be ready for the Germans as soon as President Wilson approved it, but that the Germans would be allowed neither to discuss nor modify the document, according to Berlin ad vices. London. March 22.?The British . dominions do not tVel that they I should take the responsibility of cn i tering into the deciding of differences jof Buropean nations where the British , empire is not directly involved, ac cording to a memorandum submitted to the British delegation to the peace confernce by Premier Burden, of Can ada, says the Morning Post. The American delegation supports the memorandum. the correspondent says. Washington. .March 22.?U is said unofficially at the White House rhat the president might return by May th*? first, leaving Paris immediately after reaching an agreement on ihe principal features of the peace tr- aty without v iting the actual signin *. An extra session of congress, n? t later than March the 15th, is 'low; regarded as a certainty among oflfi- j ? la's and congress leaders. Paris, March 2l.? premier P.-de-J rewski, of Poland, has sent Herben Hoover a message thanking him for I food sent to Poland, which Hoover; had notified him was a "gift of Amer ican people." j Cotton Seed Conference. Editor Daily Item. It will be of interest to the farm* ' and seed dealers to know the outcome of the conference in Washington, 19th 20th. It developed that hog lard has been exhausted, the price having gone back to 28 cents with packers asking not to allocate them any more foreign orders. That since the call ing, of the conference 22 million pounds of cotton oil products have been allocated to refiners for export. That as a result one refiner has bought 13 tanks of oil in this State since Saturday and expects to buy 14 more this week. And others are buy ing. Mr. FitzSimmons explaine? the toll plan of the Southern Cotton Oil Company. When asked why his com pany proposed it he replied because Jthey did not care" to take any further jrisk of the maintenance of stabiliza tion. But he was sure the farmers jneed not fear the breakdown, because of his confidence in Mr. Hoover and his assurances that Europe needs all the fats we can produce. He stated that his fourteen mills had less than 2,000 tons of seed, a 2 1-2 days crush. That he could store 10,000 tons of seed alone in his Columbia mills, j that he had the command of money, j and the physical plants to handle [seed, but that his people would close j down rather than buy seed. Yet his j company was willing to crush the i farmers seed without profit just :o re lieve the farmers. He was advised to impress upon his superiors that with the showing made we expectel his company back in the market until the seed are all crushed. In justice to his company it must not be over looked that they have bought more seed in this State than last year, yet tbr-re are on Mr. FitzSimmons' care ful inquiry still 40,000 tons of seed in the hands of farmers and dealers who have always been customers of his. This was really the most inter esting development of the meeting. Other mills stated that they' were full up either with seed or oil or both, but would buy seed just as fast as they could sell oil to make room for more oil. It is a very significant fact that all the mills of the State are: opposed to the plan suggested by the j Southern. Nor was it favored by [the State and national food adminis tration, nor by the farmers?all be I lieving it would break down stabil i tzation. The very arguments put up j by Mr. FitzSimmons for , its accept ance by the farmers were even more strong, as was clearly brought out in j the discussion, for the Southern to iget back into the market, and finish J up the the crush of this year's seed. I believe it will do .so. A year ago on the showing made by the South ern, the food administration would i simply have said: You will keep in the market, and run your mills until the seed are all crushed or your li cense will be revoked. Now the food administration has not the authority to say that, nor to enforce any such order. And this is another unfor tunate result of the attempt of the j government to regulate prices. It was put up to Mr. FitzSimmons I yesterday very strongly by farn: er I representatives that the Southern .jwas a party to all the stabilization ; program, and that it could not in good morals say "You must accep; the toll plan we submit or we will close down, and we do not care whether you accept or not. Speaking from the standpoint of a crusher 1 i would rather close down." Thesi ' were Mr. FitzSimmons exact words.. From many expressions that I heard of the uniform fair dealing of the Southern, I do not believe they will do any such thing. Mr. FitzSimmons stated that the outlook now is much brighter than when they formulated their toll plan. In the first day's discussions when Mr. Gash of the American Cotton Oi: Company, and of the Union Seed and Fertilizer Company was opposing a resolution to require refiners to buy crude oil on allocation of export or ders, and to require mills to buy seed when crude oil was sold, I asked him this qestion: "Do you want the oil to refine and do you want the seed to crush?" He said "Yes." Then I replied '"You must get busy now and buy the seed for they are being put into the soil." He stated "We are j buying seed. We have been buying i all along. And we will continue to [buy seed, but wee do not like any j thing that looks like coercion. The representative of the ?rmpirc Seed and Fertilizer Company of At lanta, I did not catch his name, said his mills got out of the market in December, got back in again, got out, and in again and that was the way mills always did. and he had no doubt the Southern worked the same way and would be in the market again. Mr. Butter worth, another refiner, stated that for some time he had not sold any iard compound to Washing ton bakers on account of low price of hog lard. Cut that on the day before he sold them 70,(?00 pounds for im mediate deilverv. The refiners have more unsold oil than usual, and are carrying the greater burden according to the sta tistics of" the entire trade, but they are the most optimistic people in the j trade. They have access to, and un derstand world conditions better ; than any other men in the trade. They assured me that it would do no good to try to bring more pressure on the j government. That they were in al ! most daily communication with Mr. [Hoover by cable. 1 heard complaint i of unreasonable delays in cables, one j ! of which Jost to them a big South i j American order that Spain filled. They 1 ! told us privately how the Southern \ [business men can help the situation i by placing orders for compound lard ' with those refiners who are taking , crude oil. Instancing a big order < from Clio which enabled them to 1 m-n-c oil from that point. Mr. Gash. , Mr. Eutterworth and Mr. Esprigan * are a committee of refiners that meet ! in Washington every Wednesday toi? consult with the food administration. Three crushers and three farmers J and dealers were appointed to meet ? there also every Wednesday. I can \ hot recall the names of the crushers.\\ Mr. Calvin of Texas. Mr. Burke, oft?! North Carolina and myself were nam-jl ed as the farmers' and dealers' com- \ mittee. i told Mr. Cassells I could i not possibly go to Washington every jj week, a.qd would not .go unless 111010' ras absolute need for my presence here. Mr. Calvin is kept there by the ,'otton States Marketing Bureau. Either he or Mr. Cassels is to wire dr. Burke and myself* if we are need d. So far as I am concerned seed lealers and farmers who are inter sted in my being there will have to >ut up the funds. My expenses for he three trips have been met and I lave kept an accurate account of ame. There is a small balance, but lot enough to pay for another trip. ,0 say nothing of my time. I tried on ill three occasions to get dealers and armers to attend. Some have done ;o, and found it was a wise expendi ng of their money. I trust others vill go any Wednesday until the end >f the season. From this section it prill cost $45 to $50 to be there two lays. They will then get first hand Information better than I can tell it n a newspaper article. It is going to be late before all the seed are crushed. But they will be crushed at $71.00 per ton. I do not believe anything will be gained by trying to sell for less to hurry up the movement, and it might bankrupt some dealers. Thank you. Mr. Editor, for so much of your valuable space. E. W. Dabbs. Washington, March 21.?The cas ualties in the United States air service personnel serving with the American and allied armies at the front num bered 554. Of this total 171 were killed in combat; prisoners 13a; wounded, ,129; missing, 73; killed in accidents, 42; other causes, 4. The table was made public today by the war department. FEEING BLUE LIVER LAZY TAKE A CALOTAB Wonderful How Young and: En ergetic You Feel After Taking This Delightful Nausealess Calomel If you have not tried Calotabs you have a delightful surprise awaiting you. 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Milk-Fed Marines Our Devil; Dogs would never have whipped the Hun and earned their name had they not been v fed on milk, butter and ice cream! So says. a big new series about dairy cattle, starting next week in lEe COUNTRY GENTLEMAN Milk products generate the pep that makes the cow-keeping nations lead the tion, while the cheese we eat per capita would starvfeya mouse. / Ourconsumersmustleaiqn that butter, cheese andL ice cream are foods of most vital importance. And at the same time, our farmers must carry on to greater and more profit able production by the use of pure-breds. You don't hearmen withpure bred herds kicking that the dairy businessdoesn't pay ! There will be seven articles in this series. "XyOU should read ev; one of them. And remem ber: this series is only one ofa dozen included in a ySST's subscription, be sides all the practical de partments, the pictures, and- but find out for yourself! Send me to day, only ONE DOLLAR FOR 52 ISSUES JOHN S. 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