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SHOW DOWNS NOW QENUttgOED. Southern Wholesale Grocers Challenge Statement of Packers T^he. following open letter under date of September 9th was addressed j to Senator NAsle Gronna, Senate ] committee on Agriculture a>fcl -Fores- j . tryr .v- '?. " - ' j . The Anwriean Institute of Meat Packers recently spread broadcast to j 'the' i>ress through the powerful pub- j licity bureau which it is maintaining in Washington, a statement to the ef- i feet that out of ninety witnesses who j had.up to that time appeared before! the Senate Committee on Agriculture. I SS were opposed to the Kenyon and! Kendrick bills, and two appeared in j favor of some such legislation as sug- j gested! in those measures. The Southern Wholesale Grocers' j Association, with a membership of; nearly two thousand, and representing j thirty States, cannot let this state ment pass without reply. ' We are replying in an open letter to you and your committee since the ?five big packers chese the method j used by them to put out their state-; ment through their dominated meat! institute. Of the eighty-eight witnesses who have testified against the Ke..yon and Kendrick bills there are three chief classes: (1) the paid employee of the big packers, (2) the packer sub- | sidized witnesses, and (2) the witness es who are afraid of the big pack- j ers. Of the eighty-eight witnesses! against the Kenyon and Kendrick bills j a majority have come here to testi fy at the expense of the five big packers, so I am informed. In this connection, and to prevent injustice, I would suggest that the committee call Mr. Brooks of Swift & Co., put him tmder oath, and ask him how much money the five bier pack ers have spent or have become obli gated to pay, to date in railroad fares, hotel bills, etc.. for* any of the devoted eighty-eight witnesses. - The Southern Wholesale Grocers' j Association realizes that there is a fight on for the life of competitive business as against monopolistic con trol, but it realizes that, if any inde- j pendent interest starts out to spend I even one twenty-fifth of the many j millions that the big packers are spending in propaganda, this expen diture will ultimately be saddled on the consumer. Bureau of Research and Publicity. Southern Wholesale Grocprs* Ass"n. By Lewis H. Haney, Director. CAMP FIRE NEWS j On August 26th eighteen of the/ Camp Fire Girls of Sumter left for Lake Junaluska, X. C, chaperoned by Mrs. I. A. Ryttenberg. We took a night trip and reached Junaluska the next day about noon. Our' guardians, Misses Sallie Rem bert and Elizabeth McNabb were at the station to meet us. A few of the girls- rowed across the lake and the rest walked to our camping place. The rest of the day was enjoyed in roamipg about the place and get ting acquainted. The next day we got down to hard | work. We arose at 6 o'clock sharp and went for an early dip in the lake or to play tennis. After breakfast was clean up hour, then for a camp tire meeting. It was decided to work for a number of points each day twelve in number. After this rules were made for the guidance of ihe girls. After the meeting w> went I for a row on the lake and then to dinner. An hour and a half was set iside after dinner for rest and then we went swimming in the lake. Later we took a hike on one of the moun tains. The camp of girls was divided into three parts, six in each to help with each meal, breakfast, dinner and sup per. This program of the day was kept up throughout the entire stay. The cenncnial. meetings were held on Thursday. Sunday and Friday. Cooking breakfast on the mountains was enjoyed by everyone, also the gathering of galax leaves. The next event that everyone look ed forward to was the camping over night on Eag-le's Nest. The trip be gan early in the morning with a party of thirty. a few hiked to Eagle Nest and others went in wagons. We reached ihe iop early in the after noon and stayed until noon the* next day. There were several parties and excursions on the big boat of the lake that were-enjoyed by every one. There were prizes awarded to various girls for boating, best camper, best scout and the greatest number of honors won while at the lake, a day was spent in Waynesville and one on the way hone.- in Asheville. A night trip home put us in Sum ter on Sunday, the 7th. All the girls voted that this was altogether the most enjoyable ten days vaca tion lhey ever spent and eaeh one sincerely appreciates the devoted ef forts and kindly patience of their guardians in planning and po de- j ligbtfully carrying out ibis lovely va- } cation. In closing ! would !><?? ungrateful if I did not here expose tlu* nsa m I did not here express the apprecia tion of the whole bunch of girls for the kindness and patience shown j us by Mrs. Ryttenberg both on the trip going and returning. RAT-SNAP j KILLS RATS ! Also mice. Absolutely p? vvents j odors from carcass. One package I proves this. RAT-SNAP comes in rakes--no mixing with oth<*r food | Guaranteed. 25c size (I cake) enough for Pantry ! Kitchen or Cellar. 50c size (2 cakes) for Cbickev I House, coops. ,,r small buildings. 91.00 size ("? cakes) enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage build jogs, or factory buildings. ?Sold and guaranteed by Sihert'> Drag Store O'ppnnell & Co. and Du rant Hardware Co, Sumter, S. C I ORGANIZATION Secretary Reardon Presents Ar gument in Favor of Cot ton Asociation Ac-ling Secretary Keardon. ut' the Sumter ?'ounty division of the Amer ican Cotton Assboitaion, directs at tention to the difference between Or ganization and no organization, and the same difference between coopera tion and no cooperation between the farmers, merchants, bankers, law yers, doctors, and ali professional men and women and employees in every line of business. Organization and cooperation mean: 1. High price cotton. 2. Prosperity. :>. Independence. 4. Good roads. ?"?. Education of the masses. t>. Home comforts. Without organization and coopera tion means: 1. Low price cotton. 2. Poverty. Z. ComTneroial and agricultural slavery. 4iT Bad roads?and hundreds of thousands of dollars and much time lost. 5. Illiteracy' for most of the peo ple?poor school facilities for our boys and girls. C. Xo home comforts?or limited comforts for a majority of our peo ple. The farmers will not remain or ganized and actively cooperating be tween themselves if left fo them selves. "With the organized and train ed business efficiency, and system atic cooperation peculiar to mer chants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, and professional men and women, and among organized labor, coupled up with the industry and producing abil ity of the ff rmers, who for the most part are not trained business men. the farmers will be encouraged, taught, and trained to remain organ ized and to cooperate with the forces that are vitally interested in the prosperity of the farmers. Therefore every man and woman of practically every profession, trade, and occupation is vitally interested in the success of the American Cotton Association. Many local cotton buy ers are members of this association which shows that even the men who buy the cotton first hand would rath er pay high prices than low prices for cotton. It is only the cotton mills, the oil mills, and the cotton gamblers who are really interested in depress ing tfhe prices of cotton and cotton seed. How any cotton farmer, of all men. can afford to remain out of this movement is a mystery unless it js due to the ignorance, stubbornness, or selfishness of that class of individuals, who remain out of organizations which do the greatest good for the greatest number. Every force that the cotton farm er goes up against in selling his cot ton and other farm products, and in everything the cotton farmer buys is organized in one way or another, actually and systematically, or ten tatively. Even the negro laborers, cotton pickers, share croppers on the cotton farms are tentatively or ganized, and they name the prices they must receive for their labor and for picking cotton, and the conditions under which they will work as labor ers or share croppers. The white farmers have to submit to e\-ery de mand made upon them in every fea ture of production and selling of their farm products. But the cotton farm er is unorganized, he will not or ganize Or remain organized, if left to himself, he sells'his cotton almost altogether by individual methods, and for the most part he accepts just what prices he is offered, and the price of cotton is fixed and r^guiated by the cotton mills. and the cotton gamblers, and the price of his cotton seed by the oil mills, and then the cotton mills and the oil mills dic tate to tlie cotiton farmers what he ?hall pay the manufacturers for the cotton seed meal, hulls, oil, and for manufactured cotton all of which the cotton farmer originally produced, out didn't have organized, efficiency, business training, or business acumen sufficient to sell for a reasonable liv ing profit. If twenty or twenty-five thousand bales of Sumter county produced cot ton are sold for twenty dollars a bale less than its market value, and not less than that number of bales of Sumter county cotton are sold an nually for twenty dollars a bate at least too little, why four hundred thousand or five hundred thousand dollars of Sumter county money goes away from Sun if er county ami into the pockets oi the cotton mill stock holders and cotton gamblers. Hun dreds of thousands of dollar- taken from *he farmers for cotton seed, sold below the market price also go away from Sumter county every year. These hundreds of thousands of dollars, if kept among tin- Sumter county farmers. would ;><? speni among the Sumter county merchants find professional men, ami deposited in Sumter county banks for redistri bution, and mainly spent among city of sumter merchants and professional men. and employed laborers, and de posited mostly in Sumter city banks. Figure up just the above facts, and tln-re are other features of vital inter esl to farmers, merchants, bankers and professional men and employees <>f Sumter county rather numerous to mention, which can be left for fu ture editions of this pa\>er. Tust consider these tew facts and then if you can't see why you should be organized. Mr. Farmer, and why you Mr. Merchant. Mr-. Banker, .Mr. Professional .Man. and Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Employee should help the eotton farmer to Organize, stay or ranized. and cooperating, why there is surely something vitally wrong with your thinking faculties, if you ever think al all. About seventy-five per rent of the merchants, and all of the banks of the city of Sumter, and perhaps n ?najority of the professional men. and many employees also, and nearly ev jej;y loca-t. cuUcu bin v htjs- joined :;<r American Cotton A Qcia?on. Prac tically every business estapli/hmoni in ; Sumter will join soziier 'er later, as 'soon as solicited. ! But a majority of farmers and ' country merchants have not yet joined, although doubtless they would : if the farmers favoring Iii?' associa tion would take the time to present ihe matter to those farmers who are indifferent, The farmers ought to he able to see. by the way that the business and professional men arc joining this- as sociation to cooperate wife the farm ers, (hat the American Cotton Asso ciation is the solution I of ihe low priced cotton, and the figh ccsl p ?living problems. RAILWAY MAIL ORDER TORES United Brotherhood of Mainte nance of Way Employees and Railway Shopmen May -Act % i Detroit. Sept. 11.?Establishment by jthe [Jailed Brotherhood of Mainten ance of Wa y Em p 1 oyees and ra 1 i wa > shop/ laborers of a chain of depart mental mail order stores to handle ne cessities of life direct from producer and manufacturer to consumer for the i purpose- of reducing living costs was I recommended to the convention of jthe organization here today by Grand j President Allan E. Barker. The recommendation proposes im j mediate opening of the first of these [stores and selling at 25 per cent, be llow present prices, gradually extend | ing the chain through this country i and Canada. j President Barker also recommend ed that the brotherhood go into the manufacture of various necessities at reduced costs to labor organization members. Establishment at one of hosiery factory is contemplated. The erection of a ten to 3 2 story of fice buidling here for international headquarters and establishment of a labor organ printing plant were also recommended^^ The convention TcftT*"*continue ail next week and during t iat time will act on the recommendations of Pres ident Barker. STOLL NOT EJECTED Official Returns in Siith Distri Give Sherwood Twenty three Majority Columbia, Sept. 12.-LTho official j vote from the Sixth District yester- I day again overturned the precding j day's count, and E. J. Sherwood of j Conway. Horry County. holds a load | of 2.". votes over his opponent. P. H. i Stoll of l?^Btree. Williarnsburg I county. ^ Reports froni^^^PeTTee seetM*/| last niaht were that a recount would j be asked in Horjry Count}', where 204 j more votes werfe counted for Mr. j Sherwood yesterday and ?ight for Mr. Stoll over the preceding day's figures, i Another rumor' was that a recount j would be asljed in Williamsburg, j where it was contended! the number of ballots cast was in ejecess of the J polling strength of the bounty, 'total number of votes The j least in Wil- j was 2.219..I liamsburg last jTuesdav Figures compiled by\ Aihley C. To bias, Jr., secretary of the State Dem ocratic executivj-cojnmitl ?e. give Wil liasburg's votinJW^Jklh mary of 191^-as 2,. i_ HIGHEST FRENCH HONOR BESrOWED for the pri- j Jl.?Lfut. William of Jone?ilel, in this very high .having con EFrench go\ the legion of kerv highes: Inion. Sep Walter Hanie county, has received t^< distinction and honor of ferred on bin: by th eminent the order of honor, this being tin honor that can be bestowed upon any one by the French government and so far as is i npwn. Lieut. Iiamos'is the ony South Carolinian to have re ceived it. Lieut. Humes received the official announcement from the French gov ernment a few days ago, the hand some certificate bearing as its cap tion "Ordre Rational De La Logici* D*Honneurv ind was signed on May 19. 1!?]!*. by "Poiacaire-Le President de la RepubHque Franeaise, ana fli? Chief of the Military Bureau.*' The certificate bears the seal of the Re public of France and engrossed in ii is Lieut. Haines' name and tmit In was a member of the 372nd regiment of tin- AmeiUcan infantry, but ii mu state the particular act of heroism for which the honor was conferred. For- extraordinary heroism in lead ing his men in attacking and captur ing a German machine gun nest in ihe face.of galling fire, during which time he was severely gased and fo: other acts of heroism. Lieut. Ham*/ was three times cited for exceptional brave r> l>> the Frcnek government I and received the Cr?ix d4 Guerre wir! j palms. He was niso cited for bravery by the American government and re j eeived thv- Distinguished Service Cros?.. j School Dresses lor the; School Girls, j A most attractive line of pretty, j wdl-mad'.- percale antl gingham dresses for lit lie and ^ir's can be found at the Sumter Dry Goods Co. Advt. f NO MORE RATS or mice after you use RAT-SXAP. It's a sure rodent killer Try- a pkg and prove *t. Bats kiiJ*d with RAT SNAP leavjfc no ametl Cars or dog* won't touch it Guaranteed 25c sii# i\ cake) enough Cor I'.in try. Kitchen or Cellar. r>0o size [ (2 cakes) ..for Chicken House, coops, or pntal! buildings $1.00 size (."> cakes) ? nongh foi all farm and out-bn IUI :gs, sfornp buildings, pr factory buildings. Sold ani guaranteed by Sibert** Dm: St?r?. O'Do/inoll ,\| Co and rant Hardware Co, Suin^r, S. C. i 1 already are busy with the early shoppers in the 1 Ready-to-wear Department. Beautiful models 1 in Coat Suits, Top Coats, Serge and Silk Dresses, I Separate Skirts, Kimonas, House Dresses and | Furs now daily on display. I We Control the Famous Line of "Belany Worsted Mills'' v Serge? and V/ool Dress Goods ( Manufacturers of the Winthrop Serge) Skinner's Messalines and Taffeta Silks (every yard warranted). Lady Duff Gordon's Street 8 and Evening Dresses which are described in the | leading Fashion Publications of the country? Cadet Hosiery with the Linen reinforced knee, toe and heel for school boys and girls. "Queen Quality Shoes" for Ladies none better that we've heard of). Barmon's self-adjusting House Dresses?just a slight advance over cost of material. _ .. . ... . _. _. j - ._ _ f COUNTY Y. M. C. A. The campaign of the V. M C. A. for?$50.(ipn for Stair arid foreign work has brought to light some very interesting figures dealing with ihr boys of South Carolina. There are ap proximately 70",00-0 white boys of as sociation age. that is. between 12 and 20 in the State. Of this great num ber who should be reached by the as sociation. :<! per cent live in towns and communities of 2.500 population and underi white the other 16 per cent live in the larger cities. To reach these boys in the country tho ass'ocia- j tion is planning with its increased i program for in 2" to do a constructive j piece of county work which ,has as | iis objective tin- reaching of every boy | in the county where it is organiz3d. I Florence county through its leading j citizens has-, requested the State Y. ; M. C. A. to organize and set up its; county work organization. They are , anxious to have the distinction of be- j ing the first county in South Caro- ; lina to have a county Y. M. C. A. I Mr. B. A. Schnell, county work sec- i retary for the South Carolina Asso- i ciations is at present in Florence in connection with the State campaign for $30,000, and is at the sa *? time investigating the conditions, . A will make a report as to the question of organizing that county. Washington, Sept. 12.?The "Plumb plan must be buried beyond all hope or it will become the rallying point for the nationalization of industry," Ed gar J. Rich told the house commerce committee todiay, ,-sipeaking for the Associated Industries of Massachu setts. N ' ? ?? ? i! 1 ? ; IBi > \ ..: .. ;- ":4H:, i.'ii;!' Cigarettes made to meet your taste! II iW" lW I! RR.W Camels are offered you as a cigarette entirely out of the ordinary?a flavor and smoothness never before attained. To best realize their qual ity compare Camels with any cigarette in the* world at any price! 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