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rspapers Could Use to Ad iitiage a Thousand Type setters a Year Mr. Eu-i of the' College j him to j great has been the demand for typesetters, in the South, the Ethern Newspaper Publishers* As ^Jh. has established at Macon, .. a''well equipped school to teach i"e" operation of the typesetting ma ine. The pay for the operators on this shine ranges from $30 to $50 a week, and yet hardly more than half |g$ongh operators can be had. Young people have been overlook ing the opportunities in this great field. The hours of work are short, and the chances to secure a splendid, education are great, and the pay is I perhaps higher than for any similar \ g|c?ass' of work. Thej publishers have for years had ;. a struggle to keep operators. A lin-! oiype t>r intertype machine costs ap proximately five thousand dollars, and when a. publisher has to watch; & .two or three such machines stand; idle "day after day. because opera-j :- tors are not to be had at any price, j - his nerves begin to suffer. j The scarcity of typesetters was: felt so keenly that early in 1919 j I some publishers waited on gene' Anderson, president Georgia-Alabama Business * at/:Maeon. Ga., and urged 'start a typesetting school in connec- j '. tion with his business college, which,' for thirty years, has been drawing ; commercial students from all parts \ of the South. Mr. Anderson was se- ; lected as the ricrht man because' he ' had been a printer and publisher be-! fore going into the school business.! and had attracted considerable at-: tentjon throughout the textbooks hej had written on the English language, j showing how to master it the more' quickly. He said he could not es tablish a typesetting school as a" pri .':'Vatef enterprise because the cost of the equipment would be prohibitive, . and the publicity or advertising ex pense would bankrupt the school in I a few months. The matter was taken up with the! S. X-, P. A. at its Asheville convention j last summer, and the daily papers of i the South signed individual contracts; gttaranteeing the expense of the! "school and agrec-ing to furnish nec- > essary equipment and ample pub ?ir;ity to get students. Mr. W. T. Anderson, of Georgia, was : lade chairman, of the. school committee; Mr. "Wo'-dard was selected to repre sent Kentucky, and Mr. Moore. Louisiana. The Georgia press association met! in Macon on December 5.. and agreed to write editorials and news stories for the next six months to show , young people th<* great advantages. ?o be'nad at the school. Other conventions of employing j printers have invited Mr. Anderson I to appear before them to show how j they can contribute to the success off the enterprise. More than two nun-j dred applications for literature were} received during the first three weeks after the appearance of the school's advertising. The school will be open for business at Macon by Jan uary 1, and inquiries should be ad dressed, to the Georgia-Alabama Business College. JOHNSON NOMI NATES HIMSELF Hiram of California Will Run As An Independent Pierre, Dec. 30.?Senator Hiram Johnson of California today filed with the* Secretary of State the an nouncement of his candidacy for the Republican presJdential nomination. He will be an independent, cadidate for edorsement at the South Dakota primary in March. "Washington. Dec. 29.?Sale of thir teen ships, four of them tank steamers, to the Teas Steamship Com pany, . for approximately $20.000.000 was announced today by the shipping hoard. The vessels totalled about $120,000 dead-weight tons and repre sented war requisitions from the Tex as company. Five stil are in pro cess of construction. Today is the last chance the peo- j pie of Sumter will have to see the I picture "Back to God's Country." 3 Bxxy By Mall end 'Save Money <* Write For Our Cctcdcgtto Nc. C27 It <>.o-vs - ^tractive, latest sivies of sh?>?'s J"ia: cannot he }>;:ieh! in iotull tovra stores. It wili save yon rapney and show* our sysjcir- ,,; gi-'PS aa absolute ?: anJ satiolactio::. Qctdity, Style ar.d rticc r/r.? Best Gacraateca to Y/cgv, Fit one Satisfy 2> 'DENY CHARGE BY CARRANZA Mexico's Claim That Wallace i Attacked Soldier Who Shot j Him Branded as False Washington. Dec. 2S.?Claim/! of the Mexican government, as recently I presented to the American embassy in I Mexico City, that the killing near, j T?mpie? late in November df Jame? I "Wallace, an American citizen, resulted j from his failure to heed the warning of a Mexican sentry, are denied in an account of the incident -which reached j Washington today from Aguila Com : pany, of which Wallace was an em : ploye. I The killing of Wallace caused the j State department to make an urgent j inquiry of the Mexican government as to the circumstances. The Mexican j foreign office in its reply charged that I Wallace, while intoxicated, passed a i sentry stationed at what was charac ! terized as a ' dangerous spot." and I failing to halt, was shot and killed, j The Aguila Company's report, which j was presented at a meeting in Tam j pico of oil company managers and j which is the first detailed account of j the American's death to reach Wash | ington, says: I "On the morning of the 26th of No vember. Mr. James Wallace, employed by us as foreman on our earthern res ervoirs at Potrero Del Llano, was rid ing from the office down to the tank farm, a distance of about 250 meters. On the road was an outpost of four government soldiers with a machine gun. As far as we have been able to ascertain, Wallace's horse reared while passing this outpost, and kicked the machine gun, whereupon orie of the soldiers shot Wallace, killing him instantly.-. None of our men actually saw what happened. Some of them had been talking to Wallace a minute or two before, and hearing the shot they ran out of the office and found Wallace lyipg on the ground dead. "The soldiers gave the explanation that Wallace insisted on passing be tween the machine gun and a sentry, that his horse refused to go forward, for which reason one of the soldiers beat ft several times with the butt of hi? rifle, and that Walace then threw his horse over on the soldiers, nearly upsetting the machine gim. They also claim "Wallace hit the soldier with an axe, handle he was carrying and fur thermore make the statement that Wallace was intoxicated. The state ments are not substantiated by facts. Apart from the circumstances that we have never known Wallace to be in toxicated durihg the ten months he was employed by us, and that it is in any case very unlikely a man would be under the influence of liquor when going to his work at 8 o'clock in the morning, we know positively that Wallace was Absolutely sober, as sev eral of our men were talking with him a few minutes before he was killed. \ "As regards Walace having as- j faulted the soldier with an axe han dle, the lack of foundation for this; statement is proved by the fact that j the axe handle which he was carrying | down to the tank farm was still found j strapped to the saddle when the horse i Wallace had been riding was brought j back to the corral. Furthermore, it is extremely unlikely, to say the le?st, that a man armed with only a stick i should attack four soldiers with rifles' and a machine gun. Another circum stance which proves the soldier who! killed Wallace did not act in self-de- j fense is that the nature of the wound according to medical evidence, shows beyond any possibility of doubt that Wallace was shot from behind." BIG FUND IS OVERSUBSCRIBED Christian Church Passes Seven Million Mark i St. Louis, Dec. 20.?The men and millions movement oJ. the Christian Church, inaugurated six years ago to raise $0,300.000 for education, mis sions and benevolence, has been over subscribed by more than $700.000. it was reported here today at a meeting of the board of directors. The Rev. Dr. Archibald McLean of Cincinnati, chairman, and all officers were' re elected. Pisgah News Notes. Pisgah, Dec. 29.?Christmas passed off very quietly here. Only a few fire crackers were shot. People stayed at home and enjoyed the fires. Very little visiting was going on. Mr. Williams of Roseville who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Kenney, returned home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Blackman of Cassett spent the holidays here with relatives and friends. Miss Van Ray Kenney who is at tending Anderson Colege is home for the holidays . Rev. J. W. Kenney filled the pulpit at Cedar Creek.yesterday. There is much moving going on at present. Mumps are still here. Whole fam ilies are down with them. They cer tainly have bf-en a scourge in this sec tion this fall. Mr. G. W. Elmore's family are all very sick with diptheria or some thing lik it. The doctor has forbid den any one to see. them. We hope for their speedy recovery. Many hogs have been killed and more to follow. There are some fine ones here. The New Year is here and the pros pect is not very encouraging for ag riculture. Farm labor is gone l>y the board and farmers don't know how to manage their crops. The high price of cotton and demoralization have brought about such a stale of affairs. Rev. Mr. Outlaw tilled the pulpit at Pisgah church Sunday afternoon and preached a good sermon. ? Mr. John Montgomery has moved to HartsviUe. For some time he lias been suffering with head trouble and is under treatment in Charleston. We hone he will soon be all right. Our section regrets the going of his most estimable family* j_ J WESTERN UNION j RAISES SALARIES j Thirty-two Thousand Employ ees to Receive/More Pay After January 1 New York, lX'c. 28.?Thimy-two i thousand employees of the Western j Union Telegraph and Telephone cpni ! pany will receive salary increases, [amounting to $5.000.000 on January ! 3, it was announced here tonight. I Employees who have been in the service for more than one year will ? receive a 15 per cent, increase and i those who have been in the service j more than six months, but less than j a year will receive a 10 per cent, in j crease. Only employees earning less ! than $250 a month are affected. I PROPOSE PLAN TO REDUCE COST Declares People Hinder Battle f. To Bring Down Prices i - j Washington, Dec. 29.?The Ameri j can people themselves are - hindering j the government in its campaign to ! bring down the cost of clothing by : demanding only merchandise made i from the finest wools, declared How : ard Figg. assistant to the attorney i general, in charge of the high cost j of living campaign today in endors j ing the statement issued last night in ! Boston by William M. Wood, presi j dent of the American Woolen Com ; pany. Mr. Wood, in his statement, de ; clared that if the American people j would consent to wear good substan j tial clothes made of the coarser j wools, clothing would be available at j considerably lower prices. ! "We cannot expect t the price of j clothing to be materially reduced as 1 long as the public demand is directed ? to the higher prices of merchandise." I said Mr. Figg. "The retailer as a { result of this demand on the part of j the public, has unconsciously fallen into the habit of displaying only mer chandise of the higher price. In turn his demands of the manufacturer have been for the higher price clothing, j the result being that the manufac j turer of materials entering into the completed suit has had to devote the majority of his operation to the manufacturing of cloth in line with ! the demands of the retail distributor. I As a consequence there has been very i little cloth of a good quality at a reas I onable price manufactured. ! j "I am informed ,by the manufac- j j turer that he can today manufacture I cloth of a good quality at a price far j ! below the prevailing -prices if the re- j : tailer and wholesaler will devote a i j certain percentage of their operations i ; to the distribution of this quality j cloth, which would have the effect of j I causing a reduction of from 25 to 50 j j per cent in the present prices of ! j men's clothing. ! CALlToN CONGRESS j i Prohibitionists Ask National i Lawmakers to Stop Wood Alcohol Trouble \ *? i Atlanta, Dec. 29.?Calling on con- \ gross to provide more rigid enforc-' ment of the prohibition laws to pre-jj vent further loss of life through wood* alcohol more than 100 Southern dry':! leaders passed a resolution to that ef- I feet today. The resolution which was introduc-' ed by E. Y. Clarke, Souther** cam-: [ paign director for the Anti-Saloon ; league, also called for the death pen- j ialty for those found guilty of selling wood alcohol in whiskey and also demanded greater activity on the part of government, state and city authorities in enforcing the law. ^The concluding paragraph of the resolution states that "the prohibition j enforcement conference respectfully j ! calls attention of the congress of the ? United States to the existing condi- j ?tions and most earnestly urges that j I sufficient funds and a sufficient num.-! Iber of law enforcement officers be! ! provided to insure proper enforcement j j of the laws now on the statute books to make impossible a repetition of this! Christmas t rage d y.'' Among those who voted for the res olution were Gen. X. B. Forrest of! liiloxi. Miss., commander of the sons; of the Confederate veterans. Col. W. j McDonald Lee of Richmond, Va.. Dr. ! Howard H. Russell, founder of the | j Anti-Saloon League of America, and; Judge Nash R. Broyles, chief justice' :'of the Georgia court of appeals. ! Dry leaders were present from I I Georgia, South Carolina. Mississippi, j ! Alabama. Tennessee, Florida and Vir- j i ginia. NORMAN HAP- i GOOD RESIGNED - Asked to Be Released So He' Could Answer Slander Washington, Dec. 30.?It was an-! nounced at the White House today j that Norman Hagood. whftse appoint-! ! ment as minister to Denmark was not; ? confirmed by the senate, had tendered! i his resignation to President Wilson1 j two weeks ago. with the request that, it be aceepted quickly so he could an-1 iswer the charges made by Harvey's: Weekly that he had sought financial! assistance in this country for the: Russian soviet authorities. Iiis res-j , ig nation was accepted. ONLY 3 RESCUED j - ! Twenty-six Crew of Belgian Ship i Lost i - I St. Johns. Dec. 30.?Three men] were rescued today from the wreck of j the Belgian steamer Anton van Dritf. which struck the rocks at the entrance; tc St. Mary's Hay at midnight Sun-' day. They are the only survivorsfof j the crew of twenty-nine, LABOR LEADERS HARD TO PLEASE Objections to and Criticisms of Industrial Conference at Outset Washington, Dec. 29.?Suggestions of the presidents' industrial confer ence for the settlement of labor un rest drew iire today, by organized la bor in the first of/the public discus sions invited by the commission in its report published today. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, said the failure of the conference to rec ognize deffiiiiely the organization of workers?trade unions?as the basis for representation, was a fatal omis sion; while Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, noting the absence of reference by the conference to col lective bargaining or the necessity for organization of workrs, said any one who would avert or postpone indus trial conflicts could not ignore these principles. Mr. Gompers declared the commis sion should reconsider the question of definite recognition of trade unions "in order to make possible the confidence and cooperation of wage earners which can be expressed only through organizations of their own making. "Any plan to establish or maintain anything like fair relations between workers and empolyers must avoid compulsory features,*' he declared. "Any proposal for compulsory labor is repugnant to American society and citizenship." Mr. Morrison said the declaration against government employees join ing the American Federation of Labor "would indicate that the committee had been affected by the temporary wave of anti-unionisrn." "The state," he' added, "offers no hope to lovers of industrial peace who see the necessity of abolishing autoc racy in industry and giving employees a direct voice in their working con ditions. "It is no solution to empower the president and a cabinet official to select representatives of workers to adjust disputes. The workers must have this power themselves. Mr. Gompers. at the outset of his statement, said that except for its opening declaration he had found "nothing new and little of interest" in the conference report. "In the opening statement," con tinued Mr. Gompers. "it sets forth that right relations between employer and employee in large industries can be promoted by the deliberative or ganization of that relationship.'- But the report fails to give definite recog nition to the application of this truth. Both employers and employees must be organized in order to become re sponsible parties . to any system of mediation or arbitration?otherwise the arbitration tribunal must deal with individuals instead of organized groups. The principle of representa tion depends upon organization." In order to promote constructive and permanent changes that will eliminate causes of much industrial unrest the conference should con sider governmental ' agencies to pro vide the necessary information and assistance in securing continuous bet terment of working conditions That problem must ultimately be worked out by employers and employees, but the government should advise and as sist. "It is something not yet fully un derstood how perfectly safe freedom is." GENERAL AND ADMIRAL DIE Two Officers of Retired List Die in Washington Washington. Dec. 30.?Major Gen eral Thomas H. Barry, retired, form er commander of the central depart ment and the department of the east, died at the Walter Reed Hospital here this morning, after three weeks' ill nss. Uraemic poisoning was the di rect cause of his death. Washingt onD.ec. 30.?Rear Ad miral John K. Pillsbury. retired, dropped dead in his home here today. RIOT AT FUNERAL Havana Has An Unusual Street Fight Havana. Dec. 30?Thirty-three per sons were injured, several seriously, in yesterday's .encounter between the police and a disorderly crowd during the progress of a funeral through the city according to the official esti mate made public today. BUTCHERY BY THE BOLSHEVIKS Fourteen Thousand Persons Shot in Three Months Berne. Dec. 30.?*Fourteen thousand persons were shot by the Bolsheviks during the first three months of 19-1S by order of the extraordinary com r-uttee at Moscow, according to -an official note published in the Bolshe viki organ Isvestia of Moscow, says a dispatch received here. BOOSTING GENERAL WOOD'S CAMPAIGN Headquarters Opened at Chica go For Political General Chicago. Dec. 30.?Headquarters of the organization that is promoting the candidacy of General Leonard Wood for the Republican presidential nomination were established today at the Congress Hotel. William Proc tor, of Cincinnati, took charge of the campaign. Judge T. B. Fraser has been secur ed to address the men's mass meeting at the Y. M. C/ A. next Sunday af ternoon at 3.15 o'clock. CATTLE GROWERS (BLOODSHED IN FIGHT AGREEMENT! HAVANA STREETS I They Object to Settlement Made Street Rowdies Fire on Funeral With Meat Packers Procession ' Washington, Dec. 28.?Members ofj Habana, Dee. 29.?Twenty-five pcr j twelve Western Cattle Growers* As- sons were wounded today in encoun j soeiarions have appealed to President ters between ;1ih police, persons at I Wilson through former Secretary Me- tending the funeral of a laborer killed j Ado-) to upset :hr arrangements made hi Sunday's demonstration against [by Attorney General Palmer to com- the high cost of living and spectators : promise the government's anti-trust gathered along the route of the fun i proceedmgs against the meat packers. {ei*al procession. Ten of the wounded i John .Miller, of Fort Stockton, Texas, j are gravely injured. 1 president of the pan Handle Cattle; Seven persons including two policc | Association, announced here today. [men were wounded by pistol shots a ; Tb** gmwers. Mi\ Miller said, sub-1Quarter of a mile distant from the ; mitted to the President through .Mc-j home of the laborer, as his coffin was jAofoo a series of charges to the effect j being carried toward the cemeteryvon I that the compromise does not give |the shoulders of a group of brother them any redress for their chief i laborers. After this outbreak there grievance, which they allege, and the|wa.s\no further disturbance until the control of stock yard markets by the [body had been buried and the funeral packers to the disadvantage of the 1 party was returning homeward, producers. They ask that the prose- j As the mourners reached the center I cutions be taken out of the hand of ?f the city a fusillade of shots was ex ! the attorney general, and that new [changed with the police and about IS j suits be brought with Frarfcis J. Hen- j persons were injured. The police fin ey, of San rancisco. former attorney [ally succeeded in reestablishing or i for th.- Federal Trade commission, as (der. ! a special prosecutor. j Reports as to the cause of the en | According to Miller the matter was' counters are conflicting. The police i laid before the President last week, {claim that efforts were made by the '"We adopted the unusual course of "crowd to attack them, while the labor getting the matter before President I crs assert that the police provoked Wilson." Mr. Miller said, "because wo j them by indiscriminately wielding i thought it unwise to put our evidence their clubs against inoffensive men I at the disposal qS the attorney gen- 'and women spectators of th^e funeral, j eral, in view of his attitude as dem- j In prominent parts of the city cp ; onstrated by the statement with the ! night printed notices were posted call I packers." jing for venegeance against the police, j Mr. Miller said that in'addition to {These were removed by the authori i several Texas cattle associations, simi-j ties. All was quiet tonight and tho I lar organizations in Colorado, Okla- indications seemed to be that there I homa. and adjoining States had join- j would be no further trouble. j ed in the presentations. Conferences j with McAdoo upon the subject were j made by the growers* representatives in New York last week and the mat ter was brought to Washington. COLLEGE ANAR CHISTS MEET Parlor Socialists Hold Annual! Convention in New York New York, Dec. 2!>k?Delegates from various chapters of the Ip^ter- ? collegiate Socialist society opened its j annual convention here today behind closed doors in the studio of Rose Pastor Stokes. It was announced that j j among those participating in the dis I cussions was ' a delegation of 30 out ! of town college professors and stu [ dents, some of whom came from Vas sal*." ! There was a reception tonight for j the visiting delegates at which there I were a dozen five minute addresses on I the general subject: "The Collegian I and the Labor and Socialist Move | ments." The chief topic to be consid j ered tomorrow will be "Freedom of Discussion in Ameri ~n Universities." It is estimated that several thousand laborers were in the funeral pro cession while tens of thousands of persons lined the streets through! which the cortege passed. The labor situation at present is very grave and a general strike is said to be impending. It is reported that President Menocal has prepared a de cree calling for suspension in guar antees the moment a strike is called. POLISH ARMY ON GUARD DUTY Differences Over Plebecites Re moved By Conference Rome. ec. 30.?Poland has her en tire army marshalled along the Rus sian frontier to form a barrier against, ! the western spread of Bolshevism, J according to an .interview with Car dinal Karkawski, Archbishop of Warsaw, printed in the Corriere di Talia. Officer Killed When Airplane Drops. Montgomery, Dec. 29.?Lieut C. H. Shoemaker, engineering officer at aviation repair depot, was almost in stantly killed at 4.15 o'clock this after noon when a De Haviland Bluebird, in j Chicopee. Dec. 30.?Twenty arrests I had been made tr^ to day in this State j and Connecticut in connection with j which he was a passenger with Lieut, the distribution of liquor containing j Lloyd Barnett as pilot, side-slipped in ! wood alcohol, which caused the death i making a right angle bank and fell of at least fifty-seven men and wo- 100 feet to the ground, men in this vicinity since Christmas. | nett was slightly injured. Lieut. Bar ^IfeM?urLand! If you have izrms or city property for sale, write us. We wifl subdivide and sell your property AT AUCTION quickly and profitably for you. Farm taeds Our Specially?-Territory UsMed N&ciy-Srjen *TBizicxd Six Hundred and. Eighty-Eight 2cres of Far.Tt Land a.nountinS to ever FIVE MILLION DOLLARS sold in 3918. Write for booklet cf endorsements and infor ii'Sy?\ about our auction methods. ?IY COMPANY fel^ffNfl j~( . "THE KAtuE THAT JUSTIFIES YOUR CONFIDENCE* 3& and GREENVILLE, N. C. Reference: Any brr. c h Petersburg, Va. or Greenville, N.C The National Bank of South Carolina of Sumter, S. C. Resources $2,230,000 Strong and Progressive The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU C. G. ROWLAND, President EARLE ROWLAND, Asst. Cashier _ H. L. M'COY W. Y. YEABON NEILL G'DONBTELti, President iL O. L. YATES? Cashier .Ii um I ^iJOOD-BYE 1919 I 5Tou were very kind to us. JVe are sorry to see you go, but the best of friends must part. r Fare thee well. The First National Bank SUMTER, S- C.