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THE COTf'ON * ASSOCIATION Mr. B. F. McLeod. State Manager or the South Carolina Cotton Associa tion has written Secretary E. I. Rear don tuat Tuesday, November 11th is the day fixed for organizing the town ship branches of the County Cotton Association, and will be known as "Township Branch of the County As sociation Organization Day.*' Mem bers of temporary township commit tees who have been soliciting mem tberships and funds^are the township committees who " are the town ?ip-eommittees-who are charged with the duties of calling the members to gether on Tuesday, November 11th to form a permanent township organiza tion. ? Friday, November 14th has been set by the State. Central Executive Com- j mittee for organizing the County As sociation branches of the South Caro lina Association, and will be known as "County Cotton Association Organi zation Day." j Township committeemen, and their chairmen should immediately begin i notifying every member in their town ships to meet on November 11th at time and place designated by the chairman of the township committee, aaad at each of these meetings there shall be elected a permanent township chairman, vice chairman-, a secretary and three members of the** county board of directors. ? These three di rectors should attend the County Convention on November 14th, at Sumter, at 11:30 a. m. to advise ev ery member in their townships that each member ii, a part of the County Cotton Association and every member is -cordially invited to attend the County Organization meeting on No vember 14th and to take part in its discussions, but the vote on all ques tions will be confined to the three duly elected directors from each township organization. This County convention will on November 14th, elect a, permanent County Chairman, vice' president, county executive com mittee, and a secretary of the County Cotton Association. Mr. L. D. Jen nings, chairman of the County Exec utive Committee, with Messrs. C^ J. Jackson, T. S. Dubose, Jr., A. E. Ay cock, E. W. Dabbs, J- B. Britton, G, A. Lemmon, J. Frank- Williams, T. J. Keels, T. J. Kirvin, and E. I. Reardon. Secretary and Treasurer constituting the-present county executive commit tee, are temporary officers and execu tive committeemen. But present execu tive committeemen are charged with the very important duty and are ear nestly requested^ to see that every township committee gets the members of townships together on November 11th . to elect the township directors to attend the County Organization convenion on November 14th. The first and most important step in the-- formation of a County branch of the South Carolina Cotton Associa tion, which is a State branch of the American Cotton Association, is the organization of township branches. Unless the individual membership through the township branch and the county association branches take a great interest in the association, why the organization is seriously crippled |ajEi tts?birtb^if j?fle*rd it-is -wot ?*rstiW :born" association. , j It can not be successful?x disputed I that 36 to 38 cents being paid for cot !ton today as compared with 25 and j 27 cents cotton for cotton when the :S. C- Cotton Association and Ameri can Cotton Association was first agi 'tated is due almost entirely to the j organization of these asociations. (Keep up your associations, attend : their meetings, and you will continue to get better prices for your cotton I [the year through' and for years to i icome. Township committeemen and! j executive committeemen must not de !pend upon the county chairman and j county secretary to do all of the work !of organizing the. township associa tions on November 11th. Xo two men can run such a big body of men. and notify every member in the county to attend the meetings on November 11th and November 14th. DR. SMITH TO SPEAK Rock Hill, Oct. 28.?Dr. James P. i Kinard, President of the Association has announced'that Dr. Henry Louis Smith. President of Washington-Lee 1 LTniversity, Lexington. Va,, will be the speaker for the Thursday evening session of the State Teachers' Asso tiation to be held in Columbia Novem ber 27th, 28th and 29th. Dr. Smith will speak on Thursday, at 8.30. The association is very fortunate in secur ing a man of Dr. Smith's popularity and abiilty as a public speaker. Dr. Smith was formerly President of Da vidson College and is an uncle of Dr. Reed Smith of Columbia. He will bring a message of vital importance to the educators of South Carolina. On Friday evening, the General Session of the Association will be turned over to the Illitteracy Commis mission. Dr. Wardlaw and Miss Gray are arranging a' most attractive pro gram for this vitall: iportant sub ject. The third session will be on Satur day morning when the business of the association will be taken up. It has been decided by the presi dent that there will be no depart ment meetings on Thursday after noon. These meetings will be held on Friday morning and Friday af ternoon. This arrangement will make it possible for a great many to be at home for the Thanksgiving dinner and come into Columbia for the even ing meeting. The departments meet ing at 9.30 on Friday are as follows: School Improvement Association, Home Economics, County Superin tendents, Department of Superintend ence. Kindergarten. Those meeting at 11.30 are as follows: Grammar Grade Teachers. Rural Teachers, Lan guage Teachers. History Teachers. Primary Teachers, Industrial Teach ers.' At 3.30 P. M,, Friday: College Presidents, Teachers of Education. Grammar Grade Teachers, School Im provement Association, Home Eco nomics. English Teachers, Peace League. Already quite a number have sent in their membership fees to W. E. Black, Lexington. He is %ready to send receipts to all who wish to pay in advance of the meet!" g. MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS INVITED The members of the committee in charge of raising Sumter County's share of the South Carolina Memorial Fund are trying to raise the full amount this week. The time is short, and it is impossible for the committee to see all of the citizens of the county. We feel that every man in the county will want to have some part in the erection of this memorial, and we invite every man and woman in the county to send it in to one of the Banks of the city, or to I. C. Strauss, the treasurer of the comimit tee, as liberal a subscription as each is in positjon to make. Make check payable to I. C. Strauss, or to the Bank to which given 'Tor Memo rial Fund." Don't put this off. Every sub scription sent in saves the committee that much work, and the whole work must be finished and reports in by Tuesday, Nov. 11th. The time is short, and surely the peo ple of Sumter County need no urging to contribute to a cause so worthy. South Carolina Memorial Fund Committee, S. H. EDMUNDS, Chairman for Sumter^Countv. . L lewis criti CiSES WILSON Leader of Coal Miners Says Wil l son is a Usurper Indianpolis, Oct. 30.?After dis-1 patching to Washington a telegram to ; j Secretary of Labor Wilson in which j the presidents position on the coal j strike was characterized as/that ofj an usurper, the executive board of the; United Mine "Workers of America to-! day turned to routine business. Al though the actual strike was less than 36 hours away, the governing body of the union devoted the afternoon to adjusting disputes between locals and individual members and at the end of their session said there was "noth- j ing of public interest^' in the pro- j ceedings. x Union headquarters was frankly in-} terested in the arrival here tomorrow of C. B. Ames, assistant to th<* at- i torney general, in charge of suits' brought under the anti-trust and fuel j and food control laws. The union! leaders learned with apparent equanimity that there has been un usual activity among local agents of the department of justice and pro- j fessei faith that their every act had been under warrant of constitutional rights which no statute could abro-; gate. At the office of the United States | district attorney there was no an-1 nouncement as to what proceedings J might be instituted in regard to the; strike: . j L. E. Slack, the district attorney, j was said to be in Chicago, but mem bers of his staff would not admit that his trip there had anything to do with the strike situation. They said he was expected back at his desk here tomorrow. The union officials said the mine owners and public could rest assur ed that no act of the organization would be allowed to work- physical damage to the coal diggings. They pointed out that the strike order pro vided that local unions must allow sufficient- "men to remain at work to insure the proper care and protection of all minings properties in conform ity with the provisions of the district agreements in the several fields." Building fences against charges that the demand for a six hour work ing day was calculatedNto reduce pro duction, the-statisticians of the union! assembled figures which they said proved that even the country's peak production of OS5.000,000 tons of bituminous coal in 1918 was not the limit of the industry. They said this was dug with the mines, averaging only about 70 per cent of capacity and with the skilled working force re duced* by 80,000 miners in the army and navy. Out of a possible 312 working days in the year, they said J western 'Pennsylvania, miners aver-j aged 26-0, Indiana 249. Illinois 288 and j Ohio v 224. The bulk of bituminous! tonnage came from those States. Against this record they set figures! for 1919 which they said showed that the mines had operated at not to ex ceed 50 per cent of the time. Despite this reduction in time, they said 1919 production of the country up to ?c-j tober 18 was 379,000,000 tons, only ! 103,000,000 tons less than in the j same period of 191$. They estimat-1 ed that the mine workers will not av erage nioie than 180 working days in 1919 and claimed that a full working force working steadily throughout the year can produce 800,00,000 tons if need be. They said the estimated needs of the country for 1920 were 550,000,000 tons. "These figures show," said Ellis j Searles. editor of the union's vmaga- j zine. "that there are too many min ers in the coal business for an eight hour day. The shorter day wouid distribute the work evenly through out the year and it would take only a short time to educate consumers to buy on the basis of steady rather than seasonal production. "Furthermore eight hours may be short eneugh for men to work in the fresh air and sunlight, but it is too long a period for continuous labor in the dark under forced ventilation. Men work themselves out quickly in dungeons." Increased wages are necessary, he said, because in 1918 Illinois mine workers of all classes averaged earn ings of 1,390.38. The first six months of 1919 showed average earnings of 572.08. he said, indicating decreased earning powers in the face of constant mounting living cost. From January 1, 1913, to July 1. 1919, he said, thej mine workers of the central competi tive /field had averaged yearly earn-; ings- of $873.85. Sumter Wins in Columbia. The volley ball team that went to Columbia to represent Sumter in the great Olympic meet demonstrated its vast superiority over the other teams that were present. The team which was headed by Hodges as captain and ably supported by McKnight, Crow son, Levi, Heidt. Chandler, Bryan and Hall, won from Charleston by the scores of 15 to 7 and 15 to 5. Three games were to be played and the winner must secure two of these. Sumter won the first two games from Charleston, allowing their opponents two less points in the second game than in the first. The Columbia team was also de feated in the first two games by the, score o.f 15 to 3 and 15 to 1. As was the case with Charleston, the Game cocks allowed the Columbia team two less points in each game than in the preceding game. Sumter in the four games played totaled ?0 points to their opponents' 16 or an average of nearly 4 to 1. As a result of their brilliant victory, each member of the Gamecock team was presented with a miniature silver volley ball upon which was engraved "S. C. Olympic Games. 1919." It was expected that the Sumter people would win, but not by so large a margin. The team demonstrated its superiority over its opponents in every department of the game. The local team put in some hard practice^ for these games, which enabled them, to win. , The remaining winners of events from Sumter will be published as soon as the list is complete. CAROLINA ??WN EI* R? TIGERS Clemson Shoves Across First I Touchdown in 9 Minutes j Columbia, Oct:. :10.?Clemson Me ? feated the University of South Caro I lina 19 to 6 in the auual State fair [game here today but the victory of the Tigers did hot approximate the pro-! portions supporters of the Hillmen J ! expected. Carolina played a great defensive [ game and showed that it could take j the ball away from their heavier and j more experienced opponents when! forced to back toward their .>al posts, j The Gamecocks also surprised the j Tigers by scoring, a touchdown being negotiated in the second quarter, made possible by the alertness of Goodman, big Carolina tackle, who intercepted a forward pass on the twenty-yard line. A series of rushes by Carolina backs carried the ball to the two-yard line where Timmons shot over. Two off side plays by Carolina made Clemson's, first touchdown pos sible. A forward pass failed on the fourth down on aCrolina's twenty yard line in the first ten minutes of play and the ball would have gone to Carolina had not a Gamecock line man been off side. This indiscretion made first down and a moment la ter Allison dashed through for the first counter. A blocked kick on the forty-yard line gave the Tigers the ball in the latter stages of the first period and when the second began the ball was a yard from the line. Harris went over for the touchdown as soon as the second period began.. From this time until the final pe riod there was no score. A fifteen yard penalty for interference with a Clemson baick on a forward pass and two additional penalties for off side made the last Clemson score possible. Carolina rallied under the goal posts aVid held for two downs with the ball less than a yard from the goal. Armstrong, Kay, Banks, Potts and Harris were the Clemson stars while the best ball for Carolina was played by B. Smith. E. Smith, Goodman, Timmons and Max McMillan. Clemson. 19. Carolina. 6. Schenk ... ....LE ... .. B. Smith j Potts.LT . . . Goodman Gilmer .'. . .LG . . . . Thomas Gettys.C..E. Smith Lightsey.RG_ McMillan Simmons . . .RT .Crawford Kay.R Brockington (C Banks (C) .. ..Q.Timmons Harris.LH.Skinner Armstrong .. ..RH.Blount Allison .FB.Allen Score by periods: Clemson.6 C 0 7?19 Carolina .0 6 0 0 ?6 Substitutions: Carolina, Lightsey for Crawford. Marion for Thomas. Seaborn for Blount, Epps for Seaborn, Blount for Epps, White for Marion ?Moorman for B. Smith, Thomas for Waite, White for Lightsey, J. McMil lan for Waite (at guard); Waite for E. Smith (at center), Burns for Tim mons. Clemson, Roper7 for Banks, Banks for Allison, Williams tor Schenk. Touchdowns ? Allison, Harris, Banks, Timmons. Goal from touchdowns?Harris. Referee?Streit (Washington and Lee). Umpire, Tichenor, (Auburn). eHadlinesman. Alderman (West Vir ginia Wesleyan). Time of periods 15 minutes. Hallowe'en at St. Joseph's. Thursday evening at 7.30 the pu pils of the boarding school assisted by several of the day pupils gave a short but unique program in the as sembly hall of the Academy. Tbk? was decorated in the rich Hallowe'en colors. On the walls were heads of witches, pumpkin faces and black cats which reflected a weird and grusome scene in the soft glow of the Jack O'Lanterns. The atmosphere was uncanny when the ghosts ap' peared in their silent tread march. A number of special features ap propriate to Hallowe'en were in evi dence which added much to the at tractiveness and merriment of the event. The goblins, witches, elfs and fairies were out for their anual frolic, wear ing the strangest costumes, hats and caps, and acting in such a manner as only those airy creatures can. They paused long enough to give a few dances, and warnings to the mor tals whom they chanced to meet. ! Finally, before departing to the sur prise of every one, they presented a play entitled "Under the Greenwood Tree." in which each group displayed its own peculiar pranks and charac ! teristics/ The play included fairies, [ witches, goblins, a Bogie Man, and i mortals. These little folk proved to he just little school girls out for a frolic with false faces and queer locking costumes making believe they were real inhabitants of another world. ! The accustomed hospitality of St. } Joseph's was extended and a fairy banquet closed this happy evening. The following is the program: Reading?Hallowe'en?Miss Mary Ana Brooks. Ghost Drill?By High School stu dents. Hoola Dance?Little Miss May Peattie. Recitation?"Little Orphant Annie" ?Little Misses Majorie Heath. Clas seda DuPose and Alice Lee Cour. Fairy Dance?Little Miss Andrena Moran and Alice Le Cour. Gnome Dance ? Miss Margaret Heidt. Play?"Under the Greenwood Play." ? i Columbia, Nov. 1.?According to a ! statistical statement in the current is j sue of the University Weekly Xews. ia publication gotten out by the Uni versity of South Carolina. South Car , olina led the five other states in the j Fifth Federal Reserve District, both in the amount of individual deposits and in the savings deposits for the years 1917 and 1918. The county of Lee. in South Carolina, led all the other counties of the state both in individ ual demand deposits and in savings deposits. TREATY FIGHT TAKES NEW TURN La Follette Comes to Aid of Lodge With New Propo sition Washington. Oct. 30.?Formally opening the light on the labor section of the peace treaty. Senator Lafollctte, Republican. Wisconsin, moved in the senate late today to strike out the en tire section for establishment of an international labor organiaztion. De bate on the motion, which may last for several days, was started by Sen ator Thomas, Democrat. Colorado, who attacked the labor section as cre ating "a supernation for the benefit of a particular class." He called at tention to a clause in the treaty, de claring the well-being of wage earn ers to be "of supreme international importance" and quoted Samuel Gompers as saying the laibor pro visions were written "by labor men for labor.M Agreement to such a program. Sem Thomas ac serted. would not be in the interest of the world's peace. The section not only is unconstitu tional in several respects, he con tinued, but Us proposal for uniform labor standards, is ''grotesque" and can result only in a' levelling to the standards of China and India. He estimated that the international labor body would cost the- United States '?fully as much as the expenses of our own government." Senator Penrose. Republican, Penn sylvania, suggested that the peace conference agreed to the labor sec tion without understanding it, and declared if it were understood, every trade union in the United States would condemn it. Senator Thomas will continue his speech tomorrow, and no vote is ex pected before next week. Several other senators expect to put up a stubborn fight for the Lafollette mo tion though they concede there is,lit tle hope of its adoption. COTTON MAR KET REPORT The Sumter Chamber of Commerce daily cotton market reports, publish ed in this paper as corrected at twelve o'clock, noon by the Mr. W. E. Dent, official United States government grader of cotton has been consider ably augmented by the installation of a telephone (No. 961) at the head quarters of the grader and the Tri County Cotton Marketing Association. No. 12 East Liberty Street. Mr. Dent and Captain A. W. Suder, recorder of cotton grades and book keeper will be delighted to tell any cotton seller at any time between 9 and 4 o'clock just what spot cotton is selling for, and also what the New York. New Orleans and other cotton fnture markets are doing each day. The telegraphic reports received by the cotton grader every fifteen min utes of cotton market prices through out the world enable the grader to give the farmers just exactly the in formation received by the cotton buy ers. The cotton graders' office will also tell any cotton seller what cotton buyer in Sumter is paying the high est price for cotton each day as far as it is possible to ascertain this in formation. Comparative prices between the Sumter cotton market and competi tive markets will be investigated and handed out also daily to those inter- | ested. Any farmer or cotton seller may have his cotton cut, sampled, graded, staple length measured, and recorded by number of bales and serial num ber of each bale, and this information placed on a duplicate card system for selling or storing of cotton, and with out cost to the cotton seller. WThen the cotton is sold the seller returns or mai's the card given him about his cotton grades, staple length, etc., to the cotton grader, no postage being required on this Government card, and the selling transaction as to whom the cotton was sold, and how much was paid is recorded at the of fice of the cotton grader for future reference and for the information of the Bureau of Markets?U. S. De partment of Agriculture statistics di vision. Farmers should have every bale of cotton graded by the cotton grader of the Government who is a disinterested official, and is appointed and super vised by the Chief of the Bureau of Markets in Washington, and he has no political, commercial, or other in terests in the cotton graded, nor in the seller or the local cotton buyers. Cotton samples may be brouhgt to the grader without the bales of cot ton, but such cards telling about grades, staple length, etc., of those samples, are^plainly marked, "grad ed but not cut and sampled by United States Government cotton grader." The Tri-County Cotton Marketing Association, cooperating with the Sumter Chamber of Commerce and the Bureau of markets of Washing tor- offers a cotton cutter, sampler, grader and bookkeeper to record cot ton grades, selling transactions, etc.. absolutely free to the cotton sellers of Sumter, Leo. Clarendon, Calhoun. and other counties, the Cotton grad er, but having no sayso as to his ap pointment or no control whatever over him. his actions, or his manner of grading. The Bureau of Markets in Washing ton appoints and controls the grader and he is responsible to Washington authorities altogether. Theerfore no local cotton or com mercial interests, and no political in terests whatsoever are permitted to influence the services or opinions of the cotton grader or his, assistants in any shape or form. Much money is saved the intelligent cotton seller who has sense enough to find out from this service what his cotton grades and just what he ought to be paid for it. Maryiagc License. Colored: Earl Kirkland. Mayes ville and Elizabeth Bradley. Mayes ville. Colored?Silas Lesesne. Mayesville and Rosa Barnett, St. Charles. Daniel Huggins, Sumter and Su sannah Johnson? Sumter. To abort a cold and prevent com plications, take The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c. WHY INJUNCTION WAS ISSUED Attorney General Palmer De clares that Government Act ed in Self-Defense Washington, Oct. 31.?Railroad tin ion officials conferring with Attorney General Palmer entered no protest against the injunction issued in In dianapolis lay against the calling of the coal strike and tendered the good offices of their organiaztions in at tempting to arrange a settlement of the strike. The attorney general told the railroad union chiefs, as well aS' Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, with whom he conferred after the meet ing with the railroad men, that he did not believe it would be necessary to use any other power than the. courts "to protect the government." Mr. Palmer said he told the union men that they were at- liberty to say to either side in the strike that the president was ready to act imme diately to have the controversy set tled amicably whenever the strike was called off. President Gompers and other offi cials of the American Federation of Labor were said, however, to have urged their views on the matter of the injunction in vtheir conferejioe,, with the attorney generaf. "I explained the necessity for the action," Mr. Palmer said, "and, lhe_ maner in which this case must be differentiated on its facts from all other cases in which injunctions have been used. I have been opposed and the administration has been opposed to government by injunction, whereby employers might use the processes of the courts on an ex parte hearing to force their emploj'ees into submis sion. "This is the government itself, using its own courts to protect itself from paralysis. It. is not an injunc tion obtained by employers, not for the benefit of employers, not to set tle the controversy, but to save the people of the entire country from dis aster. It doesn't affect the right of a man to work when he pleases." In this connection Mr. Palmer ex plained that the petition for injunction as prepared by the government seeks to restrain the officers of the United Mine Workers from doing anything in furtherance of the strike order. "If the injunction is obeyed," Mr. Palmer said, "and it goes without saying that the law must be obeyed, it will take away the direction of the strike from above and leave to the men perfect freedom to work or not, as he sees fit. No strike can go on without direction." If the injunction is disobeyed ..the court can act on its own initiative to punish or. en application of the gov ernment. Mr. Palmer declared the next step depended on what happen ed. Mariage Licenses. White?R. Archie Hughes of Un ion and Letie Dennis of Turbeville. Colored?Arthur Pinckney of Sum ter and Elise Smith of Manning*. ABRUZZI RYE $3.50 per bushel SEED WHEAT Fulghrum & Texas SEED OATS Two and three Pound Bagging A Ducker & Bultman 905-906 Bi i mm mi.urn i?BBaw?aBBB