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Row in Congress House Committee Attempts To Usurp Powers-of War Department Washington, July 25^?Plans for Democratic members of the house war investigating committee to atempt im peachment of the majority committee report censuring the war department for delaying sale of surplus foodstuffs and asking for adoption of a. policy of immediate distribution were block ed today by Republican committee men. . By a strict party vbte, the Demo crats' request for a reopening of hear ings on the food stocks was denie d. The Democratic members had an nounced they would attempt to dis prove statements contained in the r< port. Coincident with their failure and the direction by the Republican members' that a rule be asked for im mediate house consideration of the resolution calling for a policy of sale at once to the consuming public, the Democrats decided to submit a minor ity report, challenging the statements of* the Republicans. Because of prospective argument of Democrats that a change of policy of sale would result in the foodstuffs falling in the hands of speculators, the Republican c?mmitteemen today amended their resolution so as to re quest the sales to be made directly to the consumers by the government. Fir^l committee action today fol lowed a long executive session at Trhich the Democratic members in ask ing the reopening of hearings sub rhitted.a list of additional witnesses, -inciuding Secretary Baker and othe war department officials. Voted down, the Democrats decided to include statements of the suggested witnesses in /their^ minority report. Conferences had previously been held by the Demo cratic members headed by Represen tative Flood of Virginia with several war department officials, including Secretary Baker, who denied it was his policy ''to . withhold the foodstuffs from th;; domestic market and to pro tect the interests from which these products had been purchased," as charged in the majority report, rChairman Graham, after the com mittee meeting, asserted, that such a policy existed and that (subsequent re ports on, other subjects would be made by the committee to prove tht policy's application to various com modities as well as food. He asserted that the "same private control of thv government continues as wai exer cised by the council of national de fense in framing war policies.'' Mr. Flood's conference with war de partment officials today led him to challenge the majority report in a let ter which was concurred in by the other Democrats in asking a reopen ing of hearings. The letter asserted the report's statement that no sur plus of foodstuffs was declared for six months was erroneous, for ther* had been some sales before May. It also challenged the statement that the .food was permitted to deteriorate dur ing this time. Should Have Militia. That Columbia is in need of a nat ional guard organization no sensible man can doubt and it is curious that in times like these the average citi zen is slow to awake to the condition of the community. National guard organizations are indispensable to any community as a supplementary force to the police, seldom required it is true, but of a value that nothing else will supply when the emergency arises. ^^Jjhe^Kjj^ibiitiy of a riot is not by lllsi^?BHBbBrtfe^^^^ -~: ? r r with which a c?S",flHHffV;-o:;: It might be visited ny^r eonttajiraton, an earthquake, or a hood and wherever^ a serious calamity of general nature visits a city the criminal elements of Nthe population take advantage of it unless they be promptly and sternly curbed. Whoever has seep a large part of a city swept by flames and thousands of people in an hour rendered home less, knows the value of a military -organization that can get under arms and assume control in a few minutes. Nor is it prudent for any man to shut his eyes to the fact that everywhere in th? world the times arc more heavily charged with what is easily set off in a riot than at any day in the last half centUry. The peril of explosion is. we hop" and believe, steadily and swiftly di minishing, but it is still with us.?The State. A Famous Horse. Teddy Roosevelt, the saddle stal lion recently purchased by Mr. George D. Shore and brought to Sumter, is one of the best known show horses in America and all horsemen know him and his record. The following ar ticle taken from the last issue of he Show Horse Chronicle of Lexington, Ky.. is^ evidence of the place he held in, the capital of th" fine horse section of America: "Teddy" Roosevelt was one of the roost sensational performers ever seen in the Kentucky show rings. As a three-yea r-oM, in the hands of ^Billy" Shropshire he was the cork of tin walk and took the measure of all the top-netchers of his day. His career covered several years and h" was one of the very few horses that ever strik ed a successful come back after hav ing been retired. He possessed extraordinary speed and couid literally fly on the rack two trot. On one occasion at th" Paris. Ky., fair he went clear through the fence because he was going so fast he could not stop quickly enough. He has been very successful as a breeder and is the sire of the fastest trotter credited to any saddle stallidn. the mare Lena Olson 2:16 1-4. H< is also the sire of ?vfi!dred C. a Blue i Jra ts fair champion, Teddy Pepper, winner at the last International and especially of many high class winning colts. Saul McDaniel, the negro who was ambushed and shot at Du Kose ('ro*< "Roads Tuesday afternoon, died at the hospital Friday ^norning at 6 o'clock. jMcDaniel stated that he was shot by Jake Butler, a negro with whom he had been on bad terms for several years. Prisoner Takes Gun and Rifle Archie Perkins, Negro Convict on State Farm, Escapes With Arms and Ammunition Columbia, July 26.?Penitentiary officials notified the police yesterday that Archie Perkins, negro, escaped from the DeSaussure Farm in Sumter county. The negro left the planta tion armed with a repeating shot gun and a Krag rille. Perkins made a successful break for liberty on Friday afternoon and notices are being sent to police de partments and county, officers. He is described as being five feet, eight inches in height and dark brown col or. He was sent to the prison from Greenville county. Plenty of Sugar War Department Sells Big Sup ply New York, July 25.?The war de partment has sold to the United States sugar equalization board 37.000.000 pounds cf refined sugar,, it was an nounced here today by George A. Zabriskie president of the board, who declared there is "abundance" of raw sugar in the country, that retail prices should not exceed 11 cents a pound anl that there is no need of hoarding. The head of the sugar equalization board said that profiteering dealers, if reported, may suffer revocation of their licenses for they are still under the contro1 of the federal food admin istration, who will not cease to func tion until the senate signs the peace treaty. He charged the apparent shortage tD "speculative exporters" and belated orders from canners and candy rr. akers. Housewives were "hoarding" sugar unnnecessarily. he said. New England having refined sugar stocks sufficient to last six months. Sugar is abundant in the United States and if it were not for profiteers and nervous housewives encouraged to hoard it there would be enough for every legitimate demand and a 30 days reserve supply in addition, de clared Mr. Zabriskie. "The chief factor in this apparent shortage, which is temporary," he said "has been the belated orders of big fruit canneries and confectionery fac tories which failed to anticipate their normal demands and held off ordering their sugar in the expectation that prices would, be lower. They knew the refiners could not sell above the fixed price of 9 cents. "Another ?dement that, as yet, has not affected the situation, is the ma rine workers' strike, which we hope will be settled before the entire fleet !of sugar ships is tied up in Atlantic and Gulf ports. Meanwhile, we are reaching by radio at sea all the vessel? possible and diverting them to Cuba to bring back raw sugar. "There is at present," Mr. Zabris kie said, "no shortage of raw sugar. The difficulty now is the capacity of the refineries. Of the 2,630.000 tons the United States sugar board con tracted to purchase from Cuba we had still to receive on July 1 no less than 1,100,000 tons. In addition to this we have acess to 1,970.000 more tons, including the best sugar which will hegin to come in about October 1 and the big crops of Louisana ana the insular possessions of the United States. "The situation is entirely satisfac tory so far as; the raw material is concerned and I know the refiners are doing their part for their plants have been operated right and day and some on Sundays for months past. In those parts of the country where local short ages exist it is true, there is an in clination to profiteer, but it is easy to fix tlm blame for that. The refiner can not sell sugar for more than 9 cents a pound. The wholesaler is obliged to ask a minimum profit of 55 <-vr*ts: so that the retailer does not pay more than $9.35 a hundred. Every body therefore, would be able to buy sugar at a maximum of 11 cents a pound and I know of chain stores sell ing it today for less than 10 cents." Rural Cooperation Editor Poe Suggests Six Kinds of Team Work Clemson College, July 24.?In his address on Tuesday night of Farm ers' Week at Clemson College Mr. Clarence Poe. editor of the Progres sive Farmer, discussed six kinds of cooperation which should be practiced to make the farming business and country life more nearly what they should be. J- Cooperative buying of supplies by the pooling of purchases. 2. Cooperation in producing crops by joint ownership of improved equip ment Cooperation in putting raw products into more finished forms by joint ownership <.f gins, mills, cream eries, etc. 4. Cooperation in the marketing of crops. Cooperation in financing farm production. * 6. Cooperation Tor more and bet ter education r>f the kind, which is really needed by the rural people. Tin- f.ddress was full of practical suggestions and examples of how <-u-1 operation in all of these phases of I rural Ii!'" can b<- practiced by farm ers i*'?r their advancement. May Have Candidate Republican May Ask For Con gressman Lever's Post - A meeting of Republican committee men is to be called in Columbia with- j in the next few days, according to L. < A. Hawkins, uegro. district chairman. The meeting is to be called to discuss the advisability of putting a candi-! date into the field for the place just] vacated by Congressman Lever in thf1 Seventh district.?The State. Race Segregation Chicago Tribune Wants Sepa rate Districts for Negroes (From the New Orleans Times Picayune.) Chicago is facing just now an issue of the negro question which has wor ried many Southern cities; and it is experiencing trouble and difficulty in housing the large negro population recently crowded into that city. The greater portion of these newcomers are from this section?and Louisiana and Mississippi contribute probably a majority of them. There are said to be 50,000 new negroes in Chicago, and finding quarters for them is difficult. They have, as usual, moved into the central districts of the city, mainly into the south division and around the stockyards, where most of them are employed. The slaughter and packing houses, which formerly employed largely alien labor, have, since the war began, been swamped by negro workers from the South. The trouble is over homes and quar* ters for these newcomers. They have pushed into sections formerly almost excusively occupied by whites, and this mixing has stirred up racial prejudice and intensified the opposition of the white to negro settlers among them. It is the same problem which led to trouble in Baltimore some years ago when a large immigration of negroes turned many white districts black, and finaly led to an ordinance draw ing the color line, shutting whites out of preponderating negro districts, and vice versa. The same trouble showed up in St. Louis, where the question of segregating whites and negroes was submitted to a refer endum and carried. It now presents itself in Chicago, where it apparently was unexpected, and where, theoretically, the doctrine of full equality prevails. The question did not obtrude itself to any extent until lately, when the large influx of negroes brought the issue to a head. The Chicago Trib une, which is notorious in its hatred of the South, and which never loses an opportunity to denounce the peo ple of this section for their supposed ill-treatment of the negro, is greatly distressed over the race differences that have arisen in the Windy City, and calls for candor between the races. "The race situation in Chicago is growing worse, and will continue to grow worse until competent remedial measures are undertaken," it re marks, excitedly. "Will we under take them now or will we wait until some shocking tragedy stirs us into oelated action? It is the crowding of negroes into neighborhoods formerly exclusively inhabited by the white people that is causing the present disorder and threatening future dis aster. More homes must be built for the constantly increasing flow of Southern negroes." It is somewhat surprising to see the Tribune now contending so ear nestly for the segregation of the races, the plan which has been in sisted upon by the South and which has so far produced the best results. It would divide the races into sep arate districts. It remarks, with confidence, "the races do not want to live together. We believe this is as true of one as the other, to a certain extent. At least we see that colored people do strive for community life trying to segregate as much as possible; thus also the whites." And so on. for columns. To pre vent trouble between the races, the Tribune insists they must live sep arately and in different districts. Its plan is to build new, houses and sec tions for negroes, and it suggests that those industries which brought th^m to Chicago should provide the homes. It submits this program to the packers, who have imported most of the Southern negroes, "If these industries fail to provide such housing accommodations, rhey will share with the city authorities responsibility for the grave disor ders which are almost certainly ahead of us." it remarks. Personal Thrift Urged American Home Economics As sociation Appoints National Thrift Commission Richmond. Pa.. July 25.?Personal thrift is to be urged among college and university students by domestic | science and economies teachers al! I over the country at the instigation of] a National Thrift Commission recently] appointed by tlm American Home j Economics Association. The appointment of the commis- | sion came as a result of a Convention at Blue Rider?. N. C. at which the i plan of introducing th" practical teaching of thrift as a corrective for I studenl extravagance was brought for ward by Benjamin B. Andrews, vice! director of tie- Savings Division of the! United States Treasury Department.! State home economics thrift chair- i man will be appointed by the com j mission, of which Miss Ruth Warden j of the University of Iowa, is chairman. In a resolution passed at it? j business meeting the American Home. Economics Association endorsed the] national thrift and savings movement: and called <>n all its workers to fur ther the movement in every possible j wa y. Strike Settlement Expected i m_ Compromise Agreement Made With Marine Workers New York. July 25.?Announce ment <>f the settlement of the marine workers strike expected to be made! today. Vice Chairman Stevens of the Shipping Board who came here Mon day and has had conferences with1 representatives of both seamen and] operators intimated that practicaUy ; the only thing necessary to complete j the compromise is signatures. Cotton Statistics Southern Cotton Association Is sues Important Statement Columbia, July 23.?Cotton produc ers should now receive seventy-five cents per pound for their product, ba sis middling, declares President J. S. Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association. He terms this a fair price compared to what the public is paying for manufacured cotton goods and says that because of the great world demand for the staple, the supply and demand situation, and the increased cost of production, the raw product will soon be worth more than it has sold for since the Civil War. Mr. Wannamaker says: Our experts have completed a thor ough investigation as to the supply and demand for raw cot'on. They were guided in this investigation of supply and demand solely for the purpose of securing accurate, conser vative and correct figures, and have submitted the following report as to the supply and de^und of American cotton. This statement is submitted to leading firms engaged in various in dustries affected by cotton, including cotton buyers, manufacturers of raw cotton and dry goods people. Many of them state that they consider same conservative: Total visible supply of American cotton as of July 3, 1919: 1919 Bales Liverpool stock. 346,000 Manchester stock. 45.000 Continental stock. 225.000 American afloat for Europe.. 435.896 U. S. Port stock. 1.258.484 U. S. Int. stock.1,027,232 U S. Exports today. 72,335 Total American.3,409,947 This visible supply will, of course, be very materially reduced at the present rate of consumption before the close of the present cotton year ending July 31, 1919. Bales Total amount of cotton car ried over from year closing July 31. 1919. into year opening Aug. 1, 1919 .. ..2,700,000 Production of cotton from growing crop as shown by government estimate, ap proximately .10,960,000 Total.13.660.000 A painstaking investigation con vinces us thai the countries named below will finance and consume the following amount of cotton; howev er, this 'only represents the press ing and absolutely necessary demand which amount will be consumed as shown: Bales United States will require.. 0 500.000 Europe will require.10.000.0UO Other countries of the world, including Japan, will re quire ..'2.500.000 Total absolutely necessary requirements .. .. _21.000,000 ThisVill show a shortage in supply of.7,340.000 (See paragraph following headed "Important." which swells this to tal to 9.050.000 bales.) In this estimate we have shown Europe far below her requirements. Europe shows a shortage of cotton bought in the last four years as com pared with the previous four years of 15.935.437 bales. Japan will certainly make a desper ate effort to secure an amount of raw cotton far in excess of the amount consumed during the present year. Important: In the above estimate we have shown the government esti mate as to the production of cotton amounting to approximately 10,900. 000 bales. With information before us as to the abandonment of acreage we find as a result of a. very careful in vestigation and recheck that the abandonment is 8 1-2 per cent. Tce govcniment condition report was the lowest in fourteen years. With infor mation before us as to acreage and condition, we consider a crop of 10. 000.000 bales a liberal estimate, and taking this from the government es timate, shows a difference of i?G0, 000 bales. Adding this amount to the above shortage in supply of 7.34.0.0^0 bale's, makes a total shortage before the 1920 crop becomes available of 8.300.000 bales. Concerning the visible supply of cotton shown above, which enters j finally into surplus, it is the unani mous opinion of our experts that the 1 visible supply of cotton would be enormously decreased by an actual count. This of course, is caused by unspinnable cotton, and also by rot ten cotton due to enormous amount of cotton being exposed, entirely unpro tected, during the past, wet winter as a result of the acut'? labor situation and congested conditions, it is esti mated that the decrease from these conditions will amount to around 7;"<J. 000 bales. This added to the short aye of 8.300,000 bales as shown above, will make a total shortage in supply of raw cotton, as compared with the pressing demands, of 9.050. 000 bales. We find that regardless of the fact that Europe purchased in the last four years 15.935.437 bal^s of cotton less than for the previous four years, the amazing fact stares us in the face, that there is still 3.000.000 bales more cotton actually consumed from the four last consecutive crops of Ameri can cotton than was produced. The trade is overlooking these startling facts. According to the latest figures obtained from the department of ag riculture in Washington, the world's production of cotton for the last four years shows an enormous shortage as follows: World's Production: 1915. 17.609,000 bales) 1916.18,095.000 bales 1917. 17,4 1 0,000 bales 1918 (Shortage even greater than shown above. Exact figures not vet compiled-.) The world's consumption for the last four years has exceeded the world's production, as follows: World's Consumption: mi fj.19.761.0.00 bales 1916. '..21,011,000 hales. 1917.20,180,000 bales 1918 .17.701.000 bales It is our unanimous opinion that the above figures are conservative: that it will be necessary for the mills to curtail production, in many cases clofe down, before the 1920 crop be comes available; and tthat we are facing a cotton famine.. We have rendered the above repor\ upon true condition and facts, and without bias, it being our sole purpose to render a correct statement. . Cost of Production. 1918 Cotton Crop: Expert representatives of the department of agriculture, employed for the purpose of making an esti mate of the cost of production of the 1918 cotton crop, find that this cost is in excess of thirty cents per pound basis middling. The cost of produc tion of the 1919 crop, that is the grow ing crop, will be far in excess of the 1918 crop. We are now engaged with the best experts obtainable in preparing a statement showing the cost of produc tion of the present growing crop. This statement cannot be complet ed until the season has become iar enough advanced to ascertain approxi mately correctly the production, which will probably be ascertained the first part of September, at which time a statement showing the cost of pro ducing said crop will be completed. We are conducting in every section of the belt a thorough and painstaking investigation, so as to show the abso lutely correct cost. With information before us. however, we find that this cost will be far above the cost of the 1918 cotton crop. World's Needs for 1920 and Estab lishment of Minimum Price for Which Cotton Will be Sold: We are also working with leading experts in pre paring a statement as to the world's needs for cotton for the year com mencing August 1. 1920. These esti mates are being made for the purpose of establishing a minimum price for which the growing cotton crop will be sold, and also for the purpose of de ciding upon the acreage to be planted in cotton in 1920. Cotton will not be sold below the minimum price agreed upon, nor will an acre be planted in excess of the acreage recommended. A mammoth meeting of the Amer ican Cotton Association, with repre sentatives from every county in the cotton belt will be held as soon as j [hese reports have been rendered, and at this, time a minimum price at which cotton will be sold, based upon these reports, will be agreed upon. To tal acreage to be planted in 1920, bas ^d likewise upon this information, will be agreed upon and not a pound of cotton will be sold below- the mini mum price so established and only the acreage agreed upon will be plant ed. Many of the European countries consumed every pound of cotton avail able during the war. Germany even used all mattresses, cushions and ev erything containing cotton, and Ger many is today in the market for re gins and lihters to help replace this shortage and help fill her great de mand for cotton. However, there will not even be enough re-gins and lint ers. which went begging and which we thought valueless, to anything like fill the demand. Cotton is worth, basis middling. 75 cents , er po'M-d based on the price for the man. .actured product. Based on supply and demand as shown above it will be worth highest price it ha.s sold for since the war between the States. It will prove a wise busi ness policy to hold your cotton until it brings a price based on these con ditions and to plant your lands in food and teed crops which require much less labor and which crops are bring ing very profitable prices. Do not The next time you buy calomel ask for The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure* Medicinal virtues retain ecPand improved. Sold only in sealed packages* Price 35c How Red Cross Helps Assisting Crippled Soldiers to Get Back into the Game One thing the Red Cross depart ment of Civilian Relief is doing these ; days is to see that every crippled soldier or sailor "gets back into.-the I game" just as close to his- original self as science can make him?that j is the idea of the government. The government provides for the I fitting, replacing, and keeping in re 1 pair of every artificial limb or ap pliance required by its crippled fight ers, and the Red Cross is helping to see that all who need these things apply to Uncle Sam for them. The excellence of these artificial ad juncts to the human body is remark able. Miss Mary Ann Abel of the Southern Division headquarters atf tended a baseball game in Washing ton recently in which every member of both teams had lost either a leg ? or an arm and it was a good, .close, hard-fought game of ball. too.. .. Confederate Reunion Annual Meeting Will Be Held in Atlanta Second Week of October Atlanta, July 26.?October 7, 8, 9, and 10, have been chosen for Unit ed Confederate Veterans' annual- re union here and since General Van Zandt. of Fort Worth, in accepting the invitation to hold the reunion here in the fall suggested October it is presumed these dates will prove, ac ceptable to the veterans. ' % swap oae bird in the hand for two in the bush. You have your cotton;, he' 1 it; do not sell at these prices for t purpose of planting more with hopes of making another crop, with hopes that you can sell it for something like what it is actually worth. Demand it for the cotton you have held and you will get the price. . . 3 How Much is Q TfourEirm Worth jT Date of Sale Owner Aug. 31, 191S __C. O. Dixon, Esq.. Sept. 10, 1918 __H. N. Singletary,Esq.? Sept. 11, 1918 ?Durant, Horton Sc Floyd Sept. 13, 1918..Mrs. Mary J. HarrelL. Scpt. 14, 1918_J. D. Coker, Esq Oct. 1, 1918_F. L. k John WiIcox__ South Carolina farms can be sold to better advantage now than ever before. Crop values, in 1918 increased Ninety M? lion Dollars. Money is plen tiful. There is a demand for small farms. By subdividing your farm or idle land we can sell it at auction for you quick ly and profitably. Note the prices brought by these South Carolina Farms sold through us. ft Location Ain't Sold Far .Near Mulkns, S. C_$42,999.16 Lake City, S. C_ 66,723.66 Manning, S. C- 35,294.62 Darlington, S. C. __ 25,134.56 Hartsville S. C.10,116.20 Timmonsvllle,S.C.. 71,589.85. Oct. 9, 1918_W. T. Wilkins, Esq... " Kingstree, S. C..._ 19,206.72.' Nov. 19, 1918..York Real Estate Co... York, S. C-._. 11,331.25 May 7, 1919_Catawba Real Estate Co. Rock HCl, S. C._.?17,500.0O If we can sell property satisfactorily for the other fellow, and hundreds of en dorsement letters testify to that fact, dosen't it stand to reason that we can [ sell your land to advantage? In 1918 our total sales of Ninety-Seven Thous and Six Hundred and Eighty-Eight Acres of Farm Land amounted to 9k Five Million Dollars We are completely equipped with an efficient corps of publicity experts, accurate surveyers, energetic auctioneers and sales force. Write today for booklet explaining our methods. Farm Lands Our Specialty ?Territory Unlimited Atlantic Coast Realty Co. "The Name That Justifies Your Confidence" Petersburg, Va.-Greenville, N. C. Reference: Any bank in Petersburg, Va. or Greenville, N. C.