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Decision Was Unanimous and . the Liquor Men Were. Knock ed Out NO BOOZE FOR CHRIST MAS IS THE RULING War Time Prohibition is* Held to Be Constitutional By Supreme Court ^Vasfcington, Dec. 13.?War-lime ?prohibition was held constitutional to day by ihe supreme court in a unani mous decision. Thus vanished the hopes of many for a wet holiday time. : No decision was. rendered on cases in volving the constitutionality of the prohibition enforcement act, framed ? le carry out the intent of the prohibi tion amendment to the constituion. In passing, however, Associate Justice ? -.Brandeis did hold the prohibition ? amendment binding on the States as ^?well as on the federal .government. ' This decision added one of the final milestones to the long fight to make the. country dry. The court will ren der opinions again next Monday, at whieh beer cases are expected to be decided, after which the court will re cess until January 5th. NEED NOT FEAR SERIOUS EFFECTS ? Harvard Professor is Positive as to Action of Sun Cambridge. Mass.. Dec. 14.?Ac cording to Harlan T. Stetson, of the . Harvard Astronomical Laboratory, the - world need fear no calamitous ..effects from a peculiar configuration of the planets that will take placie on /December 17. A widely published statement by a popular meteroiogica! cientist recently predicted that there ?wotild be many dire and portentous reet?t? from certain electrical distur bances to be-produced through plan etary attractions for the sun on that day. % V .Such things as floods, electrical storing;' riots and other disturbances ' of " far-reaching effect were to be the .Jpt of. the world "on the fateful day, *aid the scientist who gained access ip the press and thereby aroused the fears 5and forebodings of the ? timid throughout the land. To all of these predictions, Dr. Stetson says there is ao*foundation, declaring that they are "based lipon nothing more substantial , than, "hot air." >W1iat disturbs the astrologers ii '.the fact that on December 17 all the planets, with the exception of the *arthr will lie in an approximate line .with the sun, and all of them except ?IJranus will be on the same side of the sun. Uranus will be nea.ly oppo site. In other words, as the planets revoive around the sun at different rates .of speed, it will happen that on December 17 a line drawn from the ^tfn through Mercury, the nearest planet to it, will pass very close to Venus, Mars. Jupiter. Saturn and N*fe?>tune, also. \ They will be strung along in ap proximately the same plane and ap proximately the same line, like so ?ripny points on one spoke of a wheel. IMfcanwh ile, Uranus will be on the fcanie line but on the other side of the son, iike the point, on the spoke di rectly opposite. The astrologers have an-idea that the attraction of the planets for the sun. coming all from Si. single direction, will raise tides in the. molten sun and produce*- electri cal disturbances, which, in turn, will affect the earth. But here is where the Harvard authorities who know the facts, differ politely but emphatically. .'?"The tidal effect of airy body on the earth." says Dr. Stetson. "is caused by the- difference of the attractions for the opposite sides. If we call the dis tance from the tide-causing body to the- nearer side of th^ earth D. and the distance from the tide-causing body to the further side of the earth d. tin effect is proportional i<? D2-d-2. The w'oori has an appreciable tidal effect on the earth because it is so near the earth and its pull-on the nearer side ii much stronger than its pull' on the farther side. In other words, D2-D2 amounts to a good deal in this case. "But," continued Dr. Stetson, "the planets which are supposed to affect the sun are at such an imense dis tance from it that the distance from them to the near side of the sun and that from them to the far side of the sun are practically equal and the tidal effect resulting from this differ- j *nce is ?mall enough to be negligible, and certainly too small to affect the earth in any appreciable way." I _\_ ?/Chicago, Dec. IT..?Restrictions on tue ns*e of c oal were removed today j ?tad industry throughout the country j approached a normal basis. From | nearly all coal fields came reports! that fully ninety per cent of the! miners were at work today. The op- j erators said, however, that nothing like a normal output could be expect ed for several days, as it would be necessary first to clear away the de hr'iS which had accumulated during j thjh strike. Shipments of newly min-i ed coal have started from a few mines and are expected to be in the bends of distributors soon. Th* Fourteenth Decenial census wiH be taken in January commencing oh the second. At present there is a jj|orfag? of enumerators in Sumter. Information may b<> Rotten from the po,*v>fftCt5 concerning this employment The aeroplanes have returned !<? t"- ?'??city for a very short stay and v.'i.b.- glad to take up any Sumter 1:>.-.t..i.; who wish to make \h<- trip. j Union Labor Leaders Send; Out Invitations to Farm Organizations j I ! i _ I - ! ; CONSERVATIVES CON I j TROL THE FEDERATION! i Entire Platform Drawn Upj With View of Making It Ac ceptable to Producers ? Washington, Dec. 14.?American Federation of Labor officials made another effort today to establish re lations with farmers' organizations, the federation's "cooperation commit ! tee," appointed at the Atlantic City convention, meeting here with the representatives of several farmers' groups. i With only one delegate from a. j farm organization participated in the ! federation's "reconstruction confer j ence." which opened yesterday, it was i understood the invitations sent by the j j committee for today's meeting were : more cordially received. Federation ' officials declined to discuss the con I ference today, saying that the com mittee would make a report to the executive council of the organization. In view of the declaration of prin ciples adopted by the conference yes terday, it was generally believed in labor quarters that the cooperation committee had made greater pro gress toward a common ground on which to meet ^the farmers' represeh ' tatives than has any previous union group. Organized labor was declar ed by several spokesmen to be anx j ious to get organized farmers in the j fold for the campaign which the 'J workers plan to wage in the forth ' coming election. In this contention the statements made in the declaration, adopted by yesterday's conference, appealing to "all of those who contribute to so ciety to unite in furtherance of the principles," were explained today by labor leaders to mean that organized labor must be joined by the "pro ducing classes if its victory is to be complete." These leaders asserted that the problems faced by organized labor are as much the problems of the agriculturist class, because they are both political and economic. Every pressure is being brought to bear on the farmer groups to line them up for labor's program, it was indicated at federation of labor head quarters. Efforts, it was said, will be made to show the farmers that the conference's declaration against radi calism means as much to the tiller of the soil as to the industrial work er, and that the organized aid of the country worker is needed in the fight against "autocratic control of mono polistic maneuvering of the nation's raw supplies." The whole "platform" of yesterday's conference was understood to have been drafted with a view to making) it as acceptable as possible to the ! farmers. It was the work of the conservative element of the American Federation of Labor and was under stood to have been prepared under j the personal direction of Samuel Gompers. president of the federation. For the reason that it was put out as a feeler for the farmers. Mr. Gomp ers would permit no changes to be made in it by the conference, accord-j ing to authentic information. While it was noted that :< strong sentiment for Some political party declaration permeated the general conference yesterday, this, as well as the proposed endorsement'of the n?w Labor party, fell by the wayside be-, cause of the likelihood that it would be acceptable to few farmers, labor delegates said. TAX RETURNS OF THE STATE] -' i Columbia, Deo. 14.?Increase ia the total taxable property of the State j this year amounted t-? $26,681.44-3, aC-j cording to figures compiled by Tl\i\ \ L. Osborne, eoinptroler general. This is due largely t<? the persistent ef forts of the State tax commission in placing merchandise on the tax books on the equalization basis. The in crease in this hem alone tins year ap proximates $20.000,000. The total taxable property is now $402,859, 347. Charleston county leads in the comparison with figures of last year with an increase of $2,399.89. Spar tan burg comes next with $ 1,780,2S8; j Greenville, third with $1.75S,505; i Riehland, fourth with $1.743.410. j Four other counties showing an in crease of more than $ 1.000.000 in the order named arc Anderson. Or angeburg. Sumterand Darlington. I ?e- j cause of this increase. Mr. Osbornej was able to reduce the State levy of i nine and one-half to nine- mills. No increase is shown for Pickens, Barn well and Hampton counties. The reduction in figures for Pickens was caused by an excess assessment of! last year, which being adjusted thus brought a decrease. The Farnwell' and Hampton reductions are incident to the formation of Allendalc county.! the new county being formed by por- j tions of the two. ; The ffi-Y-Club held its regular weekly meeting at p. m.. Sunday j at tin- V. M. C. A. Dr. S. H. Ed- ! rounds addressed the members of thej club. Special music was rendered on th i occasion. A postcard, dat^d Keims. France. November 28th. from Mr. John K. j Crosswell states thai he is having a| wonderful trip bv automobile through! the battlefields of eastern France and Belgium, but thai the scenes of wreckage am! ruin are awful. J COTTON MARKET President Wannamaker Out lines Plans and Purposes of Cotton Association Columbia, Dec. T-'>.?J. Skottowc Wannamaker, president of the Amer ican Cotton Association, yesterday made public the following letter writ ten by him to C. H. Clark-, editor of The Textile World Journal, of New York. "Your letter of November 20th has received my attention. Concerning the two million bales of cotton, I think this matter is now fully and clearly understood, a full explantion having appeared in the press through out the country, it simply means that instead of carrying the cotton cr< p over a period of 1 2 months which would be in line with the suggestions of friends of ours in various lines of the cotton industry, on account of the sma.ll cotton crops we decide to set aside two million bales to be car ried until next summer. "The producer has determined u> no longer enrich the speculator and manipulator upon his adversities, at least when it contributes not one iota to the benefit of the consumer of cot ton goods. "According to statistics from the United States Department of Agri culture a large percentage of this cot ton is rushed upon the market during the fall months. This of course blocks ! the channels of trade and beats down the price and enriched the specula tor and manipulator. [Inder ordinary conditions cotton should be ware housed and sold only as the regular legitimate demand calls for it and at a fair profit to the producer. His failure to adopt this plan has broughl about the deplorable conditions ex isting today. As u result he has en riched every line !of cotton industry where cotton is used commercially ex cept himself: to the producer he hai brought poverty. "i would ask that you review th< New York market occasionally an: you will find an abnormal condition distant months from five to six cent: under close-mjonths, the reverse should be the case; spot cotton selling ir i New York at from five to eight hum Jdred points over futures; spot cottor ; selling in the South in like manner ! and in addition to this only twelve i mousand bales of certified cotton or j New York. A.n enormous amount o! spot cotton sold by speculators at far lower prices than it can be bought: around five hundred thousand bales ol long staple cotton at forty cents pet pound which cannot be bought at; i dollar a pound; over a million hales q) short staple cotton sold at fron' twenty-two to twenty-five cents pe: pound; enormous sales on the Nev York Exchange and the Diverpoo speculator absolutely in the clut.-he of the New York gambler. All ef forts are being made to depress ant bring down the price of spot cottoj j and bring out spots to enable thrka j gentlemen to till their contracts am i save themselves from enormous loss j es. We find no law. either human o: I Brick, Flooring; Celling. Siding, Casing, Monldings, Framing Lumber, Bed ('< ii.tr Shingles. Pine and Cypress Shingles, Metal ant! Composition Shingles, Tes Doors, Sash and Blinds, Mo: 11 Plaster, Fire Brick, Fire (lay, Server Pipe, Stove Fine, : Cotta Thimbles tr i olors and Stains Water Proofing Mineral. Corrugated Metal Roofing, Loclcs, Hinges, Nails, Grates,"** Saws, Hatchets, Hammers, Door Hangers, Can>onteFs Tools, Paint Brvishes, Paints and Oils, Inside Decorations, Hardware, Paints, Oils Porch Columns and BaKastcrs, Beaver iSoard, Vahi-y Tin ami Ridge Boll, Ashetos and Composition Roofing. CaLsomincs and Cold Water Paints, WIRE FENCING, IRON AND WOOD POSTS EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA 1 ! 1 ?: divine, or no requirement of public! ' opinion, backed by justice, that will' ??"require the producer 10 part with ike! "; product of his toil for the purpose of -1 relieving these ramblers from the prc >.\ dicameni in which they have placed I themselves and to assist them in beat ? 1 in:; down the price of cotton. j ?'Th<- manufacturer and the pro 'jduccr are each a halt of art industrial ? i whole and the consumer of cotton ?Igocds also enters largely into the I question. For sixty odd years the " producer has failed to ioarkt-1. his I; crop. Henceforth ami forever. a ? ! result of the organlaziton of the *jAmerican ('<>t;<<n Association lie pro Ij;poses to W.-.J-'du USc his crop. StfCtch i ! the marketing over a period of ?! months, in vhort crop years over a i j sufficient period that will assure him ? ' a profitable price. i i "For the purpose of carrying these E" plans into effect and force we are or t jganizing a Banking and Export Cor ; . poration with ample capital to assure r the effecting of direct sales both at ? hc.:.c and abroad'. As a result of our : i work we will remove1 antiquated I i methods from the handling of cotton, i save unnecessary' waste, reduce the r cost of handling and save country .? damge amounting ?<> around seventy I j five millions of dollars a year. sj "There is a tremendous waste in - j the cutting and sampling of cotton 1 and there is an army of parasites l standing between the producer and 5; the consumer and a large part of \ I their profits is deducted from the pro - fits that the produce"' should have and r in addition to this a large part of ??? m mwammmmmsmtsmm mvemsaammmam this cos; is assessed against the price of the goods that the consumer must use. The manufacturers are heartily in favor of this plan. "if cotton were dumped upon the market today neither the producer of cotton r;r the consumer of cotton (goods nor die manufacturer would ro <?< iv.- hut littie berietit. The profits would continue Lo go into the paw of j the manip-ulai or. i "I fee! with this ercplanation thai you v\*iil mos! assuredly : upport our proposition. I' has met with the ? hearty endorsomon! of men. not only I throughout ;!:'? South hut from every . ; section of the nation. }{ founded! i on justice and truth, it i:'. economic." I FRENCH "TIGER"' RECEIVES INJURY ! Paris. Dee. 14.?Premier Ciemen i ceau. while crossing the English chan 1 !?( I last Wednesday on his way-to ; London, suffered a fractured rib, hut j with his usual stoicism, the "Tiger" ! did ;mt permit the news of his injury I to become public and carried out his entire program without faltering. It i was only on his arrival home today : that the fact became known. Alighting from the train on his ar ; rival here today. M. Cienienccau pro j ceedeel immediately to the ministry of \ war and summoned Dr. Tru filer, who j made* a thorough examination and la i tor reported that he had discovered j that the premier was suffering from a fractured rib. but said that his in ? jury was not serious. 2 COMPANIES FOR NATIONAL GUAR? Spartanburg and Union Mus tered in Columbia, Doc. 13.?Two more' military companies of national guard have been added to the South Caro lina militia, thus bringing the total number allowed by the war ? depart ment under the provision for compa nies with a minimum of 65 men up (</ seven, one more company may be organized with this minimum, :vi the State v.'as authorized to form two ' attalions under this arrangement. The two new companies are: Union, Company E, and Spartanburg, Com pany F, Second Battalion, First Regi ment of South Carolina National Guard. The other five companies al ready formed are: Company H. Wai tcrboro, Second battalion; Compa re, nies A and B. Charleston. First Bat talion; Company C.. Greenvile, First battalion, and Company D, HartsvilleV First battalion. The two new companies have al ready been mustered in and are now only awaiting federal recognition. MORPHINE .. habit cured the easy and gentle way. Whiskey habit by gradual reduction. Also Tobacco cure at KEELEY INSTITUTE g| Box 75 CoIumbia*JS^ii GOOD NEWS FOR FARMERS A year ago middling cotton was selling at 25 cents an d Today these cottons arc selling at fifty to on2 hundred the greatest cost in producing cctton^is selling for 1020 staple cotton of the-same grade was selling at 30 cents, dollars per bale move, while fertilizer which represent shipment. AT FROM 55 TO $20 PER TON LESS. We congratulate our Farming Friends in having not only "both ends of the rope" but the middle as well. We have been in the fertilizer business for 36 years., d uring which time we have handled practically one brand of goods. THE AS HEPOO The question might be asked, why do you stick to it? The answer is simple, because it has always given us satisfaction. We don't believe we have ever had a farm er to teil us that he was not pleased with the results ob tained from Ashepco Goods. We can refer to dozens of farmers in Sumter, Clarendon and Lee Counties, who would be willing to pay more for Ashepoo Goods if necessary than any brand on the marker. Many times have we been told that they trot as good results from our 8-2 1-2-1 as their neighbors got from 8-3-3 of another brand. Here is a saving of about $8 per ton the difference in price. We have contracted on a very large scale for our 1920 requirements, and while we have every reason to be lieve that we are selling. THE BEST KNOWN BRAND ON THE MARKET. Our prices are strictly in line. There is going to be a big demand Tor high grade amrrrcniated goods, owing to the 'presence of the boll weevil. Every farmer will want to get his crop off early and push it before the weevil begins to operate. We have sold more fertilizer for 11)20 shipment, than we ever sold during our many years in the business. We believe we have the best goods on the market, we know our prices are right, and. considering these facts it will, be to the interest of every farmer to see us before buying. Our principals advise that there is danger of car shortage and we cannot impress too strongly the need of placing orders early. If you want to get ahead of the boll weevil, you must get your crop in early, and to do chis you must have your fertilizers. ACT PROMPTLY. O'Donneli & Company