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On Cotton ^Eftior of Manufacturers Record Delivers Address at Atlantic City ?tantic QityvN. J-. May 27.?"There b?:.n.b--;'u?ivers?3 prosperity, in terica until the cotton growers of South ,get> a square deal," de iared Richard K.. Edmonds, editor of the ManuiajcturS^" Record, in ad dressing today the opening session of -the 23rd annual Convention of the American Cotton Growers' Association. '*'? "We are not -asking for government paternalism. The. South is not seeking anyfavors. .What it" does ask-is that the cotton crop shall be regarded hot as a sectional product but as a great national asset," he continued. Never] since IS65 have the cotton producers; attained a fair measure of prosperity. Every effort to better prices for them has been vigorously assailed ir man ufacturing and financial circles in the; -3Sast and In England. "If the South had never produced bale of cotton it would have been infinitely better off today. Without cotton the South would be the center of the food producing power of America." The convention cheered when Gen. L. D. Tyson of Knoxville, Tenn., who .. comm ;nded a brigade in the Thirtieth j Dhision, declared it was North and ? South Carolinians- and Tennesseeans who preceded by tanks and supported by Australians, first broke the Hin deh-burg line et Bellecourt. "I'm. for a league of nations be cause tremendous standing armies! throughout the world are the only al- j ternative," General Tyson declared. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall told the association in session here today that he wanted to see the rail roads-operated by their owners. "I think, nevertheless." he added, "that the powers of the interestate commerce commission should have control not only of physical property but securities of interstate transpor tation corporations. I think that body 'should' have the right to say that no more railroads shall be built through territory already adequately served. "It is my opinion also that the waterways should be linked up with the railroads in the creation of a com plete transportation, system. This pian might go a long way toward over coming rate making combinations by -railroads. I want the government to dispose of the greatest merchant marine in the world to private corporations. Pocket whatever lossrthere may be as a part of the losses of war and give the American manufacturers an oppor tunity to get into the world markets. "I am unalterably opposed to gov ernment ownership of anything the government 'does not have to have. The real weakness of government ownership of anything is that there is nobody to cuss, nobody to sue and no body to reward. I never knew much ! good to come of anything in which! men had no hope of reward or hon- j or. "It is utterly impossible to run a shipping business by acts of congress. That requires quick decision, sudden changes of policy and power to fix rates as circumstances require. Mr. Marshall said he hoped there would be no more, "remedial legisla tion" for the benefit of any class and declared he believed wages in Amer ica could not be reduced. Arsenate of Lirae For The Boll Weevil Farmers Should Not Rush Into Its Use Without Advice Ciemson College, May 27.?"Farm-I ers -are cautioned that the use of ar senate lime against the cotton boll weevil has not yet passed the ex perimental stage," says Prof. A. F. Conradi, Chief of the division of En tomology, who advises that farmers should hot proceed in this matter without definite advice from Clem son College or from the U. S. Govern ment Laboratory, Tallulah. La. The material that is being used for dusting is generally known as cal arsenate, and is the same as calcium arsenate or arsenate of lime. The material must be correct, the proper dusting gun must be used, the time of applying it is of great importance, as well as the conditions of the sur rounding plantation. The government Laboratory at Tal lulah especially emphasizes the im portance of having a sample of the j material analyzed before using it, and 1 this will be done at their Laboratory i at Tallulah. The government urges that the Calcium Arsenate should j conform to. the following specifica-j tons: Not .ess than 40 per cent, arsenate j pent oxide. Not less than 0.75 per cent water ! 'soluble arsenate. Density not less than 60 cubit inches per pound. No one should fee Ithat this is an j in*ulibe remedy for cotton boll wee vils, tho the results so far secured are encouraging. The division of en tomology* is now locating co-opevative i experiments at points in this state j where serious weevil injury may be expected this season. Wild Cats Leave France Last Contingents of 81st Sailed From Brest To-day Brest. May 29.?All troops of the1 81st, or Wild Cat Division, are now homeward bound. The last com in-; gents sailed this morning on the trans- j ports Von Steuben and Finistere. _ i ???????-????? Attention Veterans! The D^'-^nters of >fhe Confederacy invite you to a dinner at the Court j House on Tuesday next at 1 P. M. ! Should you have a relative or friend who served in the world War they are als-v invited. E. Scott Carson, Adjutant Lisbon j Portugese -Give Commander and ; NC-4 Great Reception /: "Lisbon. May 27 (By the Associated Press)?-The achievement of the ftrist trans-Atlantic au1 flight, with Lisbon ?s the' first European stopping point,. I has aroused the enthusiasm of the \ Portuguese as no event has stirred, 'titem"for many years. When the Amer ican seaplane^ NC-4,. came over the [Tagus River this -vening the pop julace, crowding all places of vantage, i-gave fuil expression to this enthu siasm by cheers of welcome to which was added the bombing of guns and the ringing of bells. For days the people of Lisbon had oeen awaiting the completion of this momentous voyage and, though dis appointed from day to day because of the inability of Commander Read's craft to continue its flight from the Azores because Of unfavorable weath er condition, yet. each day they looked hopefully toward the west. Now they are able to say that they never doubt ed that the NC-4 would wing its way safely across the intervening SOU miles of waten Early in the day word was flashed j that the NC-4 had started and at in-j tervals there were bulletins of the; progress made. The whole city was j en-fete and during the later hours of the day virtually all business was abandoned by those who crowded everj' where to witness the arrival. Guided by skilful'hands the Amer ican plane, which had covered the distance between the protecting de stroyers along the route with clocklike regularity, swept in over Lis bon and settled down gracefully near the cruiser Rochester. It was not forgotten by many of those who witnessed the triumph of the American commander that an other man, equally stouthearted, the Australian, Hawker, was being wel comed in England on his return from a wonderful trans-Atlantic flight, more spectacular but not so successful in its ending and there was praise for both. St. Anne's Picnic Yesterday. There was a large attendance at the picnic given yesterday by the Sunday school of St. Anne's Catholic church at Pocaila Springs and all forms of amusement were indulged in by the children under the careful eye of Mr. John W. McKiever. Many courtesies were extended the ladies and gentlemen in charge, for whkY they wish to extend their ap preciation .especially to the Eddie A. Jenkins Company, the Anchor Motor Company and the O'Donnell Company for nse of trucks to convey the chil dren to and from the grounds; also to Moran & Company and Mr. F. J. White for valuable assistance. Men and Young Men. Get acquainted with our clothing department. For the hot weather, we" offer Palm Beach. Keep Cool and tropical worsted .suits at prices that are reasonable. The O'Donnell Dry j Goods Co. Bolshfevik Terrors Omsk. Siberia April 3 (Correspond- i ence of The Associated Press)?A thread of suffering runs through the stories told by refugees from all parts of European Russia, hundreds of thousands of whom have found asylum here. Almost all of them fled from Bolshevik terrorism. They tell of murder of the members of their fam ilies, deprivation of property, savage j treatment, hunger and terrible hard- I ship of their flight from Bolshevik j bandits. The cdrrespOndent of The Associat- j ed Press talked with a number of ? these refugess in order to learn their j adventures. Several cases came toi light in which girls unable to escape before the approaching Bolsheviki shot themselves rather than fail into, the hands of the terrorists. The wife j of a Russian colonel now at Omsk said 10 the correspondent: 'We lived a life of comfort and! contentment on our laiul not far Iron, ? Samara. Warned by our peasants we i fled across the hills hidden in a farm j cart. My cousin, a girl of IS. who thought she could not escape, look a j revolver from the desk in her draw ing room and shot herself through I the head because shc*knew what her] fate-would be. You can understand why it is difficult for us to beileve in J Bolshevism." This preference for death rathe!-! than capture by. Bolsheviki seems to j be prevalent among the young wo men and girls of former well-to-do families of European Russia who are ! now in Omsk. Th<- wife of an assist - j ant minister of state and her sister, a j gill of 25, lied from Bessarabia. The] girl said with quiet Russian fatalism: | "If the Bolsheviki succeed in getting | to Omsk I shall shoot myself." Some stories tell of the famine which existed in the district of the j Ural Mountains. When relief train I arrived at Kalma not far from Perm j it was surrounded by children beg- ; ging for bread. A man of 7- years was so overcome when he received a j loaf of bread that he fainted and two! little children, when given bread. !>< - ' came insane from sudden my. The r<'fugoMS tell of several cases In which peasants murdered the :>??"- ; prietors of the land upon which they | lived in order to obtain possession of the farms. On ihr- other hand somei of the poasans imperilled thir own i lives to help the lard holders to es cape from the Bolsheviki. Paris. April 2S.?The actors and! singers of the Pnris stage have de-i cided to form :i regular trades-union.) to he affiliated t<> the General Labor Federation and so compelled to take part in any strike ordered by thai body. . The machinists, electricians and other employees of the theatre and music- halls have been unionized for! some time. The new union will try j to establish a. miniim m salary of $4 ; a day with payment during rehear- ? sals. Stibscribe to The Daily Item. 10c per wsek, aehvered. Only Reports Indicate Reduced Acreage j _? ; . .. ; Condition of Cotton Crop 76.8 of r a Normal. Cultivation Held j Back by Muddy Fields, Crop j Getting in the Grass and Boil j Weevil and Other Pests Have I Appeared. ! (Memphis Commercial-Appeal). ! Indications are that the l'Jiy-20 ectton'crop will be planted on .'12. 02.8,000 acres, equivalent to.a. reduc tion, of about 11 per cent, compared with ST.OT-'J.OOO acres planted to cot ton in 1918. Reports sent in by correspondents also indicate that DO per cent of the increased acreage has already been planted, and that f4 per cent, of the area planted is up to a. stand, in most cases unusually good, and that the j condition of the. crop as of May 20 is j 7fi.S per cent of a normal. This com J pares with a condition of 82.3 per I cent reported by the United States I department of agriculture, as of May j 25. 19155* anc a .10-year average end May condition of 79.25. The acreage when planting is com pleted will depend in an unusual de gree upon the weather to the close of; about the first week in June, on ac-1 count of the unfavorable character of the weather for the past two weeks. A general reduction of less than 10 j per cent in the use of commercial fer tilizer is indicated. This report is based upon cor respondence covering in detail 782 cotton growing counties included in the 10 principal cotton producing ! states, and is general as to Virginia. Florida. Kentucky, Missouri, Arizona l and California. Preparation.?A considerable area of the acreage planted was not as well prepared as usual. This was due to temperatures above nornm.1 oc curring early in the season, a desire to get ahead of insect pests, and as an expedient, suggested to meet la Ivor problems. Soil was worked too wet, and clods now causing trouble, . Feitilizcr;~*-A general reduction in the^use of commercial fertilizer about proportioned' to acreage reduction is j indicated. - j Stands ?i Germinal ion unusually! good., but much complaint of plants] dying from/:cool nights and excessive j moisture. Appearance of the Plant?Plants) sappy and making poor root. Growth i spindling and lacking vitality. Cultivation?Choppipng general but j fields muddy and work seriously de- ; layed. Grasps and weeds getting an alarming start. i I Labor?Labor shortage is about uni- j I versa!. Wages high. Insects, Etc.?Texas complains of j the army worm and the web worm. while insects of a variety of kinds -ire j giving trouble in Oklahoma. Hale j county. Alabama. and Southwest' Georgia report boll weevil. The Weather.?Preparations and i planting were started at about the I usual dates with sufficient to excessive* soil moisture following copious winter, rains all over the belt, and especially ? over the drouth areas of Texas and Oklahoma. Rainfall for April was" from two to four inches, excepting j over south central Texas and the j coastal flat woods country of North j Carolina and Georgia, where precipi- I tation was from one to two inches: I excepting ai?a. the southern half of] Mississippi and nearly all of Louisiana. | where precipitation amounts to from j four to six inches, and as high as eight inches. Precipitation was fairly well dis- j tributed as to time until about May 1.; since which date too frequent rains, usually light, bm occasionally very! heavy, have been general over the belt interfering with planting and j cultivation. Complaints of packed ; and of washed soils. Temperatures during April were! usually near or above normal. but after ti ? first week in May it was un- j seasonably cool west of the Missis sippi spreading eastward and. still j preva lent. As a whole the season has been ; backward. Correspondents say the j crop is from a week u> more than j three weeks late. Growth'and de-1 velopment have been greatly retard-' ed. Hot dry weather with plenty ofj sunshine is the great need. IjAND OWNERSHIP IN BOHEMIA, j Demand Tiial the Great Estates Bcj Taken by the Government and I>i-; vided to the People. Prague. April 18 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?There is a heated controversy throughout Bohe mia over the question of dividing up j the great estates held by the land owning magnates of this section of] Czecho-Slovakia. The greater part I of tlx- land in Bohemia is in the i hands of these large land owners andi there is a widespread demand that! tie- estates shall be taken over by thci Stair- and in some way put in the; hands of the poorer classes. The people are a!! the more insis tent that this action should be tak- j en because the land owners, for 'im! most part, have been open enemies of; the Czech Nationalists and have been] faithful sateiiit.-s of the Hapsburg| dynasty which oppressed BohomL'i for four centuries. < >ne of the firsi acts of the new government was to appoint a commis sion to make recommendations for re form in land owning. The commission now has reported recommending that the great estates should be bought by the state and that no land owners should be allowed to bold more than ! about ?;'_'"> acres. The question as ro | what amount the state should pay. these land owners for the land i: ex-1 propriatcs in this compulsory fashion has caused serious differences Of opin ion. All but a few extremists con cede that the lam' should be ;>.ii<i for.' President Masaryk favors a generous compensation to the land owners while i Premier Kr?triarz. who has always been identified with the Czech Con-! servativos. intervenes in behalf of the' land owie-rs by insisting that they"! should allowed to hold up to 7,-~ 500 acres. Last month an Overland Model 90 stock car in . Oklahoma, broke all previous records in a most extraordinary non-stop high gear test. - . Let us show ycu an exact duplicate of this car* It will meet your ideals of motor car appearance as well as your ideals of efficient and dependable service. It couples luxurious riding comfort with, power and reliability on steep h?ls and rough roads. - OVERLAND SALES COMPANY \ 1 West Liberty Street Sumter, S. C. | mZ.-jk_; QvtrUkd Model Ninety,Five Passerer Touring Car, S'J'iS f.o.b. Toledo " Come to our store r Lady Beecham Says "Public Schools of U. S. Hav No Counterpart in Great Britain" London. April 28 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?The Anier ?can system of education has a gn.r advantage, over the English plan in enabling boys attending day schools to live at home and receive the care and guidance of their mothers. This i.' the opinion of Lady Beecham, wife of a famous music conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham. Lady Beecham thinks that many pitfalls in Engish married life would be avoided if the boys of this coun try saw more of their homes and learned to understand women. Boys of well-to-do families in Eng land rarely see their parents except during holidays. They attend board ing schools, beginning! in their early 'teens, some when they are only seven oy eight. As a ride these schools are so far distant from the pupils' homes thai their parents sec the boys only for :i month al Christmas, a month :<"> Easter and during the mid-summer holidays which last about six iveeks. lr is the children of the poor that attend the day schools, or ?Tree"'" riiools. .;s rh.oj are ealod. Tim pubile schools of the Cmted States have te> co unter pan in Great Britain. What -.?<? known as "public'' schools herej are the fashionable private boys't school's like Eton. Harrow and tlugby,! entrance to which is so difficult that; boys are booked for them in their: babyhood. Lady Beecham. .-ifmr pointing oul the advantage of the American day schools, says that boys "growing up , ::i this way to comprehend their mothers, when they marry have far more sympathy with their wives." "1 think." she continued, "thai much conjugal trouble in this country is due to our system of educating our sotis. ' The English boy sees little of his mother and sisters, almost nothing of] femininity in general, and grows to j manhood understanding the minimum j about the ideas and ideals of women. When he marries his experience is of- ? fen gained a1 the expense of his wife, which does no4, make for happy mar-; ri:i sfe. ?-it is almost revolutionary to con-' demn our line old ublic schools, with] their enormous weight of tradition.; bui 1 confess i would like to see the ! day school and the co-educatlonala system, so common'in .America. j>l !\r| i much bigger part in the upbringing r?f our sons.** Ban on Dancing Orgy of Public Balls Disgusts Decent People of Berlin Berlin: April 12?Police President Ernst's prohibition of public dane ins in Berlin has l>'-en welcomed by-i the great mass * of citizens, whoso Indignation had been aroused not i only t>\ ptreal number of balls h- !d ' nightly. 1 > r i t also bj their character. ; One such ball, held recently. was a beautj competition. The dance-feverj h.-is been raging in Berlin since the war-time prohibition againsi public donees uns withdrawn. Reports from provincial towns show similar conditions. The soldiers j of ;i garrison in ;) small town in Brandeburg sent :< delegation th( commanding officer to proti ;1 again? requiring them to I>egin drillhis a- ? [i m. wlu-n tliey had been darichtg tin*?'. ! ^%n%^nL touHst,!Victor Chapman Prize I 'Pretty tolerable, stranger," re-j p;{r;s April 20?The Victor Cn^ ;sppnded the old Lellow. who was s?-jimn pri2C> founded in memory of the idly on ill- stump ?>l a tree. 'T j so< Qf John;.Jav Chapman> who was had a pile of brush to burn and tho|OM0 Qf the ^ Americans to Cffht for lightning sei fire to l( and saved me; },V:iUC0 } enHstingin the Foreign the trouble of burning it U] gion and who later was killed wherr'a -j had some trees to cut down, but I member of the Lafayette Escad rille, the cvHohe b-vd-d them and saved j ?* J?-een awarded this year to Bera ,,' , 'aril Pay. who is preparing a thesis on i I IC t J !?? i i'O!! me. I ?'The Intellectual Relations between. '?Remarkable! Dul what are you j Prance- and the United States." M\ doing now?" ! Pay will study at Harvard during the -Wailing far an earthquake to j \ ear a !> 19-1920. come along and shake the potatoes"j - ? .out of the ground."?The Glum- j Subscribe to The Daily Item. Only Booster ! 10c per week, delivered. ? ? ? ? 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