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War ?n the boll weevil Land Owners Association Lead ing the Way in Construc tive Work Columbia. l>ee. 19.?The spread of the cotton boll weevil throughout the South has been seized _upon by the South Carolina- Landowners* associa tion as affording an opportunity for its best constructive work. It has been advocating diversification of crops and especially urging the intro ^duction and expansion of the livestock industry. By adopting these methods, it is . asserted, the damage done by the boll weevil to. the South Carolina fanner can be counteracted and portions of the State can be turned from a one crop system of agriculture with aii its risks to a well-rounded system of farming that will enable the State to feed itself to a large extent and help feed the rest of the nation as well as supply a portion of the libre that clothes countless millions of the ."world's population. To that extent, according to some authorities, the boll weevil has not i proved to be an unmixed evil. Clem ? ent S. Ucker, executive vice president ?f the Southern Settlement and De velopment Organization, with . which the South Carolina Landowners' asso ;? - ? ciation is affiliated, says that the wee vil "changes the whole agricultural situation of the youth; the first two or v ' three years he causes acute suffering, ;7 hut then cotton raising is taken up on - ?n improved basis, other forms of ag riculture are entered upon, and the region invaded by the weevil begins to get rich." Having started in Yucatan or Cen-; :*tral America, where the cotton plant; v" originated, the weevil advanced j through Mexico and crossed the Rio j Grande at Brownsville about 1S92. Itj has spread since then, extending its! range annually from 4u to ItiO miles,' - depending upon weather conditions,, until it has invaded most of Texas,! - Oklahoma and Arkansas, has overrun j completely Louisiana, Mississippi and j Alabama, is approaching the tip of; the Florida peninsula and the norther-j most limit of the cotton belt in south-j ern Missouri, Tennessee and Georgia.! ?I- The boll weevii entered South Caro lina last year and this year it spread! practically, throughout the southern j ;; iand central parts of the State. It hasj f /even crossed the line into North Car-| olina and has been found in the vicin-! ity of" Wilmington, N. C, the United) States department of agriculture] states. There seems to be no doubt j 5 that the. insect will spread to the lira-! c it of the cotton belt. Nothing has been found so far to [ stop the progress of this pest, which j has caused millions of dollars ofj -damage to the cotton crop, sometimes; to the extent of 50 per cent in certain j ^sections, but government scientists' ^suggest.- as.;a means. of control, cer- j tain methods of cultivation and land j celaring and fertilizing, the use of! early varieties of cotton, and other j methods of control. . Poisoning has! been successful to a certain extent.! r j. The situation created b>; the ad-j vent of the boll weevil in South Car- | 'iolina is being met by the South Caro-j lina Landowners' Association with ai .constructive program to encourage di versified" ;f arming by creating home cash markets for farm products oth-J ige than cotton. To that end the as-j soeiatmnv has been active assisting in j ? :tne o^g?nraztion of corporations to j operate, meat packing plants, grain J elevator grist mills, sweet potato dry-! ;ing plants and storage warehouses,! ???syrup mills, peanut mills, velvet bean j crushers or siniilar establishments at[ points^such as Orangeburg. Beaufort,! Walterboro. Brunson. Bamberg. Sum- j ter, Hjaxtsville, Kingstree and George- ] town. * >By this means, it is pointed | out, tne farmer who is discouraged j by the'fcoll weevil from continuing to! raise cotton, is assured that he can j raise CStttre;, hogs, grain, sweet pota- j toes, sugar'cane and legume crops! and twfn them into cash at nearby pomts.4^The farmers are being encour- j age? by* bankers and business men in Charteren.and other cities, joining thej State deve%pmeht Association as the! result ?jfc'xnei tbership -campaigns con- j ducted in several cities. That South Carolin:-, can produce j the goods in other lines than cotton, j as can other Southern States, is ; shown by the fact that federal de- j partment of agriculture records show; that the three largest record crops of j corn were grown in South Carolina! when .the yield per acre was in each ' case eWer 200 bushels, reaching 256 i bushels in one case. Also. South j Carolina is making such progress in i the livestock industry that she will be; the leading livestock state of the un-; ion, aeording to George R. Wheeler i of Charleston, manager of the South; Carolina Landowners' association, ofj "which Senator Niels Christensen of j Beaufort is the president. Th?.\t association has a legislative program to press before the General: Assembly this winter. which pro-! gram, .officers of the organization be-j lieve, iv ill help overcome the effects of the boll weevil. The program in-' eludes"; authorization of a State high-> way system which will enable the farmers to get their products to mar-' ket; a dog control law which will tend ? to encourage development of the' sheep industry: amendment of the i chatte^- mortgage law and passage ofj a maries and brand law which are; calculated to help develop cattle rais ing; eftmination of free range, and a law for the control of woods fires. A model drainage law also is to be sought'.of the South Carolina legisla ture., and in that connection it is stat ed that this State has over 1.500,000 acres 6T land that need drainage in the interest of health improvement and general development. A good deal of drainage is being done by the organization of local distracts in the State as in other parts of the South. One of the newest of the South Car * olina districts is Clarendon county drainage district \o. 3. which is oper ating near Foreston, having been or ganized; largely through the efforts of Courtney Campbell, of ih<> Carolina Stock Farms. Inc.. at thai place. The "ewkeefn is dev-e roping 4,000 acres of land near Foreston; It is said to have the largest silos in South Car olin:!. Some of the cutover land thai is being cleared On this place Mr. Campbell plans to plant in carpet grass mixed Bermuda grass, white clover and laspedeza or Japanese clover. For this puropse he has bought several hundred pounds of car pet grass seed, which is reported to be the entire visible supply of this seed in the United States this year. Carolina Stock Farms. Inc., is special izing with Western range cows and Hereford nulls, besides which it has herds of Angora goats which, while producing the valuable material for: mohair cloth, are, busily engaged in I cleaning out the underbrush on land that will ho put under cultivation.! Next year it is planned to have sev-' era! .thousand head of goals on this place. There is understood to be aj ready market for Southern goats, I hogs, and cattle at Richmond, Va., and! other points. i 1 Besides his legislative program and other constructive work, Mr. Wheeler is planning to hold a series of old-j fashioned sales and exchange days at j different points in the State, at which ' farmers will be encouraged to bring j in anything they have to sell or trade, j whether livestock, equipment or farm products, and incidentally people I fronv? different communities would J have a chance to mingle and hear ad-! dresses on timely topics. In this mat-j ter Mr. Wheeler is taking a leaf from j the plan of the Marinette County New | Settlers' picnic in Wisconsin which, j starting in a small way with 50 peo ple in 1912, has developed into a two-I day affair which had an attendance of j 40,000 at Marinette, Wis., this year; ?and has taken on the character of a! district fair with exhibits, speeches, meetings of various kinds and other features incidental thereto. DISASTER FOR BEAR GAMBLERS j ^Manufacturers Record, Baltimore, 1 Md.) The profits of American cotton mills during the. last five years have far exceeded anything which they had ever anticipated. Owners of cotton mill stocks have seen themselves grow steadily richer as week after week these securities mounted to higher figures, until at least $500, 000.000 to $750,000.000 have been ad de;? to the value to the Southern cotton mills in the last three years, j These Mill stocks have doubled and I trebled, and in some cases quadru-1 pled, in value since 1916. This won-j derful prosperity has broadened the j whole f.x'lc of Southern cotton manu-j frserurers. and no one need be sur-j prise.; if they should begin to invade { the East and secure control of the big Eastern concerns, thus reversing the old-time condition when N*ew England had such large interests in Southern mills. The Southern mills are now on their . feet financially; th.-ir debts have beep paid off; their treasuries are replete with big work- I ing capital, and the mills no longer j have to ask any financial favor of anyone. The abounding prosperity of the I South and of New England, however, are matched by the enormous profits'i of English mills. A recent financial I report sent by the Whaley-Eaton j Service from London to its American i correspondents says of English mills: j '"The cotton industry is making un heard-of profits, though handling a smaller quantity of material than i before the war. The greatest domes-! tier consumption is shown in a fall of j exports of cotton cloth approximating 1 50 per cent. Prices of mill shares have doubled and trebled. Mr. | Smethurst, a Lancashire manufactur- J er. is quoted publicly as stating that J *it is sin and shame for owners to J pocket the profits now being made. Exporters of textiles made great ; strides during October, shipments of cotton yarn and manufactures being valued at two and one-half times the the value of exports of woolens and shipments for ; October, 1913, while worsteds about doubled." Under these conditions it is readily seen that the cotton manufaturers j arc making far larger profits than the j cotton producers, and that they have' -paid much more for cotton than the j ruling prices of the last two years! and still have made splendid earn ings. It looks, however, as though the great battle of the producers, against the bear gamblers of the world has been won, and that those who have I gambled against a fair price to the, growers will at last get their just punishment in staggering losses. For) years they have been leeches on the J cotton trade, fattening on the life- j blood of others. Now they must pay j the penalty, and the Manufacturers Record rejoices in the overwhelming; financial-defeat of these bear gamb lers who for years have lived by rob bing the farmer. ANOTHER SHIP | LOAD SOON Government is Collecting An other Shipment of An archists New York. Dec. 22.?The transport Buford which sailed for Russia yes terday with Emma Goldman, Alexan der Lterkman and 249 other radicals; will be followed in a few days by a second shipload of reds, according to] the host information obtainable to KILLING OCCURS AT HEATH SPRINGS John E. Blaekmon, Jr., Shot By James C. Conch Lancaster, Dec. 20?John E. Black mon. Jr., a prominent and well to do farme r of the Rock Mil! section of tile county, was shot and instantly killed at Heath Springs today !>y .lames C Couch, another prominent farmer of the same community. The trouble tool? place on .Main streel in the town of Heath'Springs. I PEACE MISSIONS j AT HOME AGAIN I Polk, Bliss and White Return Arrive in New York i* Now York. Dec. 20.?Frank L. j Polk, assistant secretary of State; Geh. Tasker H. Bliss and Henry White members of the American delegation j Ito the international peace conference, i 'arrived here tonight from France on the transport America. The delegation was taken from the! transport.-which is anchored at Quar antine: in an army tug and landed at) the Battery. , Thirty-nine other members of the < peace delegation, including members of the staff of General Bliss, remained j on board the transport and will land ! tomorrow. I Secretary Polk appeared to be in I excellent health and said he had en jtireiy recovered from the indisposition ! from which he had been suffering j l'.when he went to France last .June, fie i ! was taken at once to the home of his I i stepmother. Mrs. William Polk, where! he said he would remain until Mon-j [day and then would go to Washing- j I ton. I j He said he could not discuss the; j peace conference at this time, but | [took the opportunity to praise thej j people of France for the heroic effort i they were making toward reconstruct ing their war torn country. General Bliss, who is returning ! from his second trip to France, hav ing been appointed military adviser! I to the peace commission on November! ;29, H?lS. was accompanied by Mrs.! Bliss. Both were in excellent health, j General Bliss said he would return i to Washington tomorrow with hisj staff. j j Asked about the peace conference,! General Bliss said: "T shall be mostj happy to talk in Washington, but not1 just now." He added that the Ameri- j can delegation had been treated '"with j the greatest kindness and considera- i tion by every one at the peace confer- J ence." Mr. White, who was formerly am- j bassador to France and the only Re-J publican meber of the American delegation, was also in fine health. He j said he would remain several days in! New York before- going to Washing-1 ton. He declined to discuss the peace j conference. Representative and -Mrs. Fred A. j Britten of Chicago, who have been on i a visit to France, also landed from the transport. NEGRO LYNCHED BY GEORGIA MOB Fifty Men Enter Train at Smithville and Take Prison er From Authorities Columbus. Ga., Dec. 21.?A negro! known as Charles West, alias Johnny Webb, was taken from a train near Smithville, Ga., today and shot to death by a mob of about r>0 men bent on avening the death of a Stew art county farmer. The account of the affair received j there by telephone said the negro was being brought back from Jackson-; ville. Fla., where he had been ar-' rested charged with the murder of Emmett L. Brightwell, a returned soldier. Brightwell was shot and killed December 12 by a negro whom he had ordered not to hunt on his farm. The mob entered the train when it stopped at Smithville before! day break and conducted itself sol quietly that the members of the train! crew said they did not know what j had happened until Deputy Sheriff; Johnson had been forced to give up i his prisoner. After seizing the negro the men en- j tered automobiles and drove to the! scene of the crime where the body was j found later, bullet riddled and hang ing to a tree. A coroner's inquest re- 1 turned a verdict later in the day that ? the negro came to his death at the; hands of unknown persons. Feeling had been running high inj Stewart county over the killing, which 1 was said to have been unprovoked! and a subscription of $400 had been; raised and offered for the negro's ar- | rest. This, it was said, will be paid j to the Florida authorities who caught I him. I TROUBLE ARISES IN SIBERIA Japanese Government Worried Over Situation at Irkutsk Paris, Dec. 22.?Japanese govern ment officials are anxious about the i situation at Irkutsk. Siberia, accord- | ing to information reaching'peace con-! ference circles. They would like to send troops there, it is said, but do not desire to do so without having reached an understanding with the United States and the allied r'?vern ments. It is understood that the; Washington cabinet is not particularly favorable to the suggestion. AUTO FIRE Ford Sedan Burned in Street A pecuiar fire happened at 11.20 j a m. today when a Ford sedan from j Georgia, owned by Sineath-Kelly Mo-j tor Co.. caught on fire. The acci-1 dent happened at the intersection of Main and <'alhoun Sis. Mr. F. B. Sineath was driving it' at the time and is said to have been 1 j lighting :i cigarette when the carj caught. The entire frame work and: glass were destroyed, only the rear1 I seat being saved. The ear was insur ed by II. P. Moses & Co. of ibis city.! Quite a crowd gathered to witness ' ihe .unusual sight. The hre department quickly re ; spend od t<> the call, but the car was too far rrone to render much aid. That tlie gasoline tank did not explode was the Subject of much comment' by the I spectators. . . COTTON REPORT Report By Ginners to First of Month Columbia, Dec. 19.?The bureau of the census, in its preliminary report of the number of bales of cotton gin ned in the counties of South Carolina during 1919 an?! 1 .OS, prior to De cember 1 of each year, shows a total in the Slate for I'll! of 1.299,190 bales against 1.241.656 for the year previous. Anderson leads all the counties of the State during 191!? with 74.734 bales, against 67,680 for Marl boro and 66.717 for Spartanburg, which are second and third. In 1918, however. Marlboro was first with 58, 4 72 bales. Bamwell second with 57, '983, Spartanburg third with 53,944, while Anderson was fourth with 51, 666. Jasper county gets the bobby prize this year with 1.954 bales ginned to Decemb< r 1 while Beaufort is a close second with 2,056 and Georgetown third from the last with 3,973. Last year Georgetown was at the bottom of the list with only 3.K28 bales, while .Jasper had 5,506 and Beaufort 6,842. Figures lor each county follow: County. 1919 19 IS The State .. ..1,299.193 1,241,656 Abbeville. 24.187 18.095 Aiken. 38,132 54.37S Allendale. 1S.S8S . Anderson. 74,734 51.066 Bamberg. 23.137 20,839 Barnwell. 29.166 57,983 Beaufort. 2.056 0,842 Berkeley. 9.25 7 12,386 Calhoun. 30,9S2 34,634 Charleston.. ... 6.t;86 8,255 Cherokee. 14,823 11.755 Chester. 28.02S 24,373 Chesterfield.... 31.384 26,916 Clarendon. 35.620 33.S59 Colieton .. .. .. 12.036 19,237 Darlington .. .. 38^.270 35,046 Dillon. 37,795 29,503 Dorchester ,. .. 14.212 16,733 Edgefield.. .... 22,250 25,218 Fairfield. 19,504 20,218 Florence. 37.74 7 30.366 Georgetown . . . 3,973 3,S2S Greenville. 45,334 31,605 Greenwood .. .. 31.848 29,916 Hampton. 10,186 20,969 Horry. 7,600 6.260 Jasper. 1,954 5.506 Kershnw. 27.707 26,485 Lancaster. 19.833 18,595 Laurens. 44,406 33.517 Lee. 40,272 36,714 Lexington .. ?. 23,311 31.261 McCormick .... 15,782 13,853 Marion. 16,809 14,763 Marlboro. 67.?80 58.472 Newberry . . .. 30.633 30,822 Ocon?e. 20,861 19.002 Orangeburg.. .. 81,349 S9,740 Pickens. 21.104 16,103 Richland. 24,717 22,246 Saluda. 22.465 23,359 Spartanburg . . . 66.717 53,944 Sumter. 42.552 44,877 Union. 16,746 15.57 4 Wflliamsburg .,. 24.944 , 25,303 York. 39,346 30,134 IT'S FOOLISH TO SUFFER. When So Many Snmtor People Arc Pointing the Way Out. You may be bravp enough to stand backache t headache or dizziness. But, if. in addition urination is disor dered, look out: If you don "t try to fix yct!i':r sick kidneys, you may fall into the clutches of dangerous disease before you know it. But if you live more carefully and help your kidneys with Loiin's Kidney Pills, you can stop the pains you have and avoid fu ture danger as well. Don't experiment ?use the remedy Sumter people are publicly endorsing. Read this case: Mrs. A. D .Owens, 204 S. Council St., Sumter, says: '"About eight years ago I was down in bed with kidney trouble and my back felt as if it were broken. I had headaches and dizzy spells, so bad, I simply can't tell how i felt: I was nervous, too and the slightest excitement would upset me. I felt languid and wanted to sleep most of the time, but couldn't, on ac count of the pains. Finally I used Doan's Kidney Pills and it wasn't long before I was out of bed and cured of all the trouble." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?th?. same that I Mrs. Owens had. Foster-Milburn Co..! Mfgrs.. Buffalo, N. Y.?Advt. (58) j mmmmmmm mm \ wmm mm.???w?mmmi i INTER-CHURCH ! ! CONFERENCE; Significant Meeting of Church j Leaders Concluded Columbia. Dec. 19.?The religious! j conference which has been in session: I in this city for the past three days! under the auspices of tiie Inter-church, ?World Movement, came to a ciose last; j night at the Washington Street; church. It is said that the meeting has been one of the most significant! and far reaching conferences of re-; ligious leaders ever brought together; j in this State. Tremendous stimulus: j has been given tot he various evan gelical church programs of lii State! j whose leaders were in attendance as1 delegates, at the invitation of the In jterchurch World Movement, under j whose auspices the assembly was I held. 1 j The subjects under discussion dur : ing the final hours were: 'The En largement and Adaptation of Denom J inational Programs." '"The Organiza tion of the Individual Church" and "The Church Transformed from a Field into a Force." ' ? Under the first head, it was shown I that the Intcrchurch World Move j ment. which is a cooperative and not la consolidated movement, is only pos sible upon the basis of denomination al activities. Forward movements in many denominations have prepared 'the way for this cooperative basis. iThe cooperative councils of the home |and foreign missions, Sunday schools Jand educational boards, have shown j the way. The fact was stressed that J denominational programs?the work i to be done by each separate evange jlical body, must be enlarged and in | tensified. to make the Interchurch 1 World Movement effective. The cooperating denominations have certain tasks which are not distinc tive to the denomination, such as ministerial support, pensions, Bible school enlargement, promotion of rnission study, stewardship and inter cession, which must continue to be carried on by the denominations, but enlarged and developed through pub licity and conference arranged by such an agency as the Interchurch World Movement. It was announced that the mqve iment would enlist the' services of es } pecially appointed representatives in Keep Ycur Liver Active, Your System Purified and Free From Colds by Taking Calotabs, the Nausealess, Calomel Tablets, that are De lightful, Safe and Sure. Physicians and Druggists are advis ' ing their friends to keep their systems I purified and their organs in perfect i working order as a prelection against ! the return of influenza. They know ; that a clogged up syst'em and a lazy ! liver favor colds, influenza and serious I complications. To cut short a cold overnight and to I prevent serious complications take one I Calotab at bedtime with a swallow of i water?that's all. Xo salts, no nausea, I no griping, no sickening after effects, j Next morning your cold has vauislied, I your liver is active, your system is purir ! fied and refreshed and you- arc feeling I fine with a hearty appetite for break i fast. Eat what you please?no clanger. Calotabs are sold only in original ! scaled packages, price thirty-five eents. ' Every druggist is authorized to refund I your money if you are not perfectly i deliahtcd with Calotabs?(Adv.) I - j every State, county and individual ! church for the~ departments of spir itual resources, life work, stewardship, and missionary education. It is un derstood that these representatives will render volunter services and will be chosen especially from the salaried denominational secretaries and from laymen and laywomen who shall serve very much as did the "dollar a year" men during the war. An extensive State, county and local committee, or council organization for the move ment is also contemplated. The next general conference ?f church representatives for the mover ment will be held in Atlantic City in January. Mr. F. B. Adams is a visitor here today from Seneca. . ... The raflirays of tike United States are more than one-third, ?early one - half, of all the railwayi of the world. They carry a yearly traffic to auch {renter than that m any other country that there is really no hau for compari son. Inceed, the traffic of any two nations may be com bined, and still it does not approach the commerce of A_r-'_ t_i_:_r?_:_ Ask Any Doughboy Who ?4. Was "Over There" and he will tell you that American railroads are the best in the world. He saw the foreign roads ? in England! and France, the best in Europe ? and in other Con tinental countries ? and he knows. The part railroads have played in the develop ment of the United States is beyond measure. American railroads have achieved high stand ards of public service by far-sighted and courage ous investment of capital, and by the constant striving of managers and men for rewards for work well done. We have the best railroads in the world ? we must continue to have the besty But they must grow. To the $20,000,000,000 now invested in our railroads, there will have to be added in the next few years, to keep pace with the nation's business, billions more for additional tracks, stations and terminals, cars and engines, electric power houses and trains, automatic signals, safety devices, the elimination of grade crossings ? and for recon struction and engineering economies that will re duce the cost of transportation. To attract to the railroads in the future the in vestment funds of many thrifty citizens, the direct ing genius of the most capable builders and man agers, and the skill and loyalty of the best work men ? in competition with other industries bid ding for capital, managers and men ? the railroad industry must hold out fair rewards to capital, to managers and to the men. American railroads will continue to set world standards and adequately serve the Nation's needs if they continue to be built and operated on the American principle of rewards for work well done. America borne upon American railways. ??miui Statu Stntur Cummin*. Those desiring information concerning ike railroad situ*, mtion may obtain literature by writing to The Associa tion of Railwny Executives, 61 Broadway, New York.