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'?VT ,-1 fiAsja^rWo?^ com? akt s, a tftdTftliC*. ^ssrtola -$1 00 Inoortkm . 5? Ith? or long reduosd raten, which subesrng. Will ho charged for I tribute* of reopect .mi foe waa found - True Southron in and Southron* circulation and on* the old papers, the hoot advertising business men are the American Cot tho financial support lion that are neces llnin It an an effec'tve or ThM appeal is made ea tho ootton producers, for Who have already by the efforts of the and stand to gain inilHonn Is properly main StfHens if it is allowed tro of the Sooth given generously eautfe that baa to them, and it acid Sloshal that they to the suooass or be coUoo association and po give the few dollars re hoop It aVhrs and fighting prices toe cotton. The sot I to gtvt the world-wide itione, but they are ?:mp the funds to maintain intention for WKXMAX problem of Francisco' villa government, though 4 Us OPtitributior to pomoe, and greater in Mexico here rut ftw-may issue between _Mexico. r?m* wanted In thts country "?NM1? particularly the fgJtTpWpetmte<i four years It Americana ttrero kill property was stolen or uader Itdlcmsnt for {?osdean eourts. Four of his band subsequently this skit of the border and hodged for that govornrrrut Is nb?e the Unite* States Si ontitlsd to demand hie Bta} the lUafcan author fhld It eery embarraaatng id turn him over. Villa with any such ' The I swag rtebry de? ft* han?d by Amsrloans Me* leans forgive his them. But Instances justice nsey sndanger the sta the now Mcilcan govern-, gttp op now trouble for tn Merlon just when order ?ro being established. It AflTP housework Agperic u gtr! hau boon great ?voted an an athlete, says ?tsa Asabruster. physical di if Of the public schoo 1? of To e ' ,3t A certain few^eJitL maintain^] t? |g#it^rska4uig ar>d "other Mere of the rich are taught \o ride horseback or If. But tint average American heol girl hr\llkely to be found of heart and flabby of muscle* mause eh? never \doe? anything ?fu strenuous than ?de in a moto? rr st through a mowtc Plain, everyday houeowork la rec snten?ed aa a cure tor* this < ondt >& Tt*?? much housework. \oo hard -?work, lo bad for aiyoW The orten who hsve done tod\ much pyvd too hard houaework sKow It g. s old in their thirties, Just When ngg should be gott ma their best Wv Moment and greatest beauty. iRut little physical exercise, or exer f kOe of the wrong kind, brings Its own '??rot nn-a And at least, the woman Who ha? done too much hs? some ttlfc/ng to show for h- r life, wblls the ttle one, or the one who has worked hur brain an.l not her body, has only ? A>unch of nervea to her credit?or d!i rdWdlt. A child of four ran be taught to do ptgoplsst thinge about the house. If the tiny duties are followed by the nvbre responsible one suited to the f hu rennlog years, the child is far more apt to be rosy snd well, fsr more apt ,'fo keep ahead In school, far less lb j,?*? I? catch the school diseases than j. the Shild kept from uacfu! I.ibnr and 11 the useful knowledge that goes with "eddUng t'.. daugh',** of the land ' ?<isd lb? sens? 1* lbs wjrst thing any mother-citlaen can do for her children or her country, Giving them chorea luitahle to their age and strength and insisting that theae be performed faithfully and well, Is one of the best things ahe can do." The labor problem disappears from the home wlien every member has his ehare and machinery is installed to do the things which ahould not be expected of woman-power. And the aense of responsibility, the sense of power which knowing how to do things flvee. Is the host earnest of a nappy, useful iu.j successful future. Something seems to have happened to that military bonus. Will the Lc gionarlea who want it have to start a Fourth Tarty? ? a e "Thsre Is plenty of coal and pK.Uy of care' says a government official. Surer The coal is In the ground and the cars are standing idle in. the frrlght yard. aas The Socialist candidate will not ?tump lhJJB^0^j^JJj!i*^^|e^a^ SALVAGE. An Interesting point in the general question of salvage la the fact that ths city of Toronto, Ont., is planning to buy metal compressing machines which will compress into bundles all the tin cans now thrown on city dumps. Intended in the first place aa sanitary devices, it is believed that the compressors will not only pay for themselves but provide an Income for the city in excess of the cost of ope? ration. It leads to the general question, ?What is waste?" If old tin cans can be salvaged and the material In them put to new uses, if garbage can be "reduced", producing usable mater? ials, if old rubber, old paper, old lum? ber, old everything can be made to perform a service, is there any such thing ia> real waste? Apparently there iah t. The only roe We Is In getting the stuff which s wants In Its present form Into the >laee where it becomes raw material 'or something else. During the war, the army and Red ?ross salvsged Just about everything, lid bits of metal. Junk of every kind, rent Into the sorting houses and from hers to ihe place where it would do he most good, Much of the waste of rar was thus nullitiod. Why cannot cities, big and little, ahe over such work? Most com ft unities collect ashes and garbage at he present time, but the majority mnsider such collection an expense ather than a revenue-producing bus neaa. Yet the Junk men who sot wer the rubbish on city dumps make food livlnga thereby. Some of them icquIre fortunes. If a eity collects garbage as a aani ary measure, why should It not look nto the matter of making this col eotlon pay? An-i when it finds that ?ther cities do make It pay, why does t not add the function of collecting rash as well? It is not the business of the schools o take on collection of papers and old uhber. or of the Junk man, nor even if the charitable society. It wotfjd ?em to be a municipal function to ,st rubbish out of houses, and to turn t over to a general salvage organ I atloTi which, with Its* paper balers md tin can compressors and what lot, should serve as a clearing-house or sett ng the matter into ita proper ilace again Rubbish collections at regular in ervnls, moreover, would help to keep lown JXrv*. ? COTTON LETTER (John F. Clark * Co.) New York. Aug. I?Further buying hleflr of October credited mostly to 'apaneee interests and Liverpool sent >ctot>t >'P ninety points while May food about unchanged. This aharp re rersal of differences in the past couple lays is supposed to be due to cover ng of October hedges. Some apecu'a ive buying on the theory that October rot too far under spot cotton and cattered covering on stop loss orders There was also trade buy.*it* in De ?ember but the later months were neg ected. Continued rains and cool nights n South Carolina, Georgia and Ala >ama helped the rise a little but the toying on the weather waa negligible rhe strength in Liverpool was regard ?d aa due mostly to the recent break In exchange. The foreign situation continued depressing and the public ?howed little or on disposition to take Hold of the constructive aide of the market \ NEW YORK COTTON Y'afdv's Mt.nth Open Iilgh Low Close Close Get SI.25 81.98 31.01 81.95 31.03 1 >?? . 30.37 30.3? 30.00 30.80 30.00 'an r ..33.50 29.93 39.15 29.88 29.25 Mali . 25.20 29.45 28.95 29 45 29.00 .A..28.90 29 00 28.50 28 90 28.75 l Mon OULI \NS COTTON T'at'dy'B Month Ovm High Low Close Close Oct _ . 3040 30.50 29.85 30.44 29.72 Dec - -29.as 99.8ft 29.20 |f.?3 29.24 Jan .. .29.0^39.43 28.73 29.21 28.77 Mch .. ..23.60t 28.98 28.33 28 80 28.41 May .. 23.30 88.85 28.03 28.27 27.93 ?if UVKRPOOL COTTON. Close: Jan 21.51; l eb 21.27: ftfoh. 20.97; May 20.37,\ June 20.15; Julv 19.92; AUg. 34.80; 8ep 22.90; (>, 82.98; Nov. 82.90; D4? 21.82. CHINA BRIGANDS ARE CHECKED 3y American and British Gun boat? Near Shanghai OUTLAWS TAKE~POSSES SION OF SHIP American Ship Fired on By Bandits and Taken From the Crew Shanghai, August 4?Brigands who have terrorized the upper .reaches'of the Yangtsze River in recent months found a sudc en check put upon their activities wh>n American and British gunboats were dispatched into the up? per river from Shanghai, according to reports that have Altered back to Shanghai. 1 .The gun boats were sent up to Chunking utter a band of outlaws took possession of the Robert Dollar II of th? Robert Dollar Company of Shanghai at Wanhaien in Szechuen province, and were frightened away only by the appearance of the Amer? ican gunboat Palos which came in re-* spouse to distress signals. The Robert Dollar II, on the maiden voyage of the new river service the Dollar company Is establishing, was fired upon from the shore after tine first encounter. Messages t3 Shang? hai said the bandits vanished into the hills on the appearance of the gun? boats. Notes of City Public Schools Through the courtesy of the editor I purpose to discuss under the h>ad "Notes of City Public Schools" some measures that affect the welfare of our children. I hope that these arti? cles may evoke sufficient interest to cause them to be read. I am writing this preliminary no? tice, in order that it may be unnec? essary for me to sign my name to the succeeding articles, Respectfully and cordiallly, Hi H. Edmunds, Supt.. City Public 8chools. Since the revelation made by the sxamlnatloni incident to the draft for the United States Army, even more thought than* formerly has* been given to the general health. It. is the uni? versal belief that it is during the per? iod of childhood that subsequent ' health can he assured; hence the great attention that is given today to the 1 ?are of children. In a recent issue of School Life i periodic*,.', published by the National department of Education, this ques? tion Is askod and answered: "What > s health? Health is not merely free- < lorn from illness. Health is not ) nerely sufficient vigor. Health is thai . ibundanee of life and overflowing vi? 1 ror which are foundations of success ind happiness in lifo. Health means the possession of a reserve force of strength nn.,1 energy. Reserve force ia necessary Vo meet the emergencies . ;hat arise in every life. Resrve force a the physical capital which is so large a factor in personal success. . Childhood is the time to build up this reserve." It ia not the purpose of this ar Icle to discuss the prevention of dis? ease, however Interesting it? might be LO seek through discussion the foun? dation of Pasteur's stutement: "It is within the power of man to abolish ?11 Infectious diseases." For this phase of the subject it is sufficient to lay now that the best preventive of all lisea&e Is health. The really healthy body should have a reservoir of en Jrgy, furnishing through its vigorous /ltality realsting and creative force, rhe devitalized individual is nervous, jxel table, unbalanced; the highly vita ised peracn ealnu deliberate, aelf F>oiaed. Physical vitality ^determines me's output in everything. Good health is therefore, unquestionably the greatest of earth's blessings, lin? ier modern conditions to insure good health the individual must protect lh& group; the gioup must protect the ndividual. Between the individual and the group there must be the most ac? tive and t ie most intelligent- coopera? tion. The group and the individual are mutually dependent?"useless without ;h? other." There are many elements that con- I tribute to good health. In this article ' and the next we shall consider only i diet and that in a very limited way; { for my desire Is to make these arti- i cles Immediately applicable to our j schools. It is only since the proper diagnosis j of pellagra and its practical elimina- j tlon that the attention of the general public lias been attracted to the nec- ! esHity of a well balanced diet. 8ince J then even we who are mere laymen ( have learned a great deal of the part that propr food plays in our physical well being. Would It not be well for | u* to procure from our physicians the esseiillnls of a balanced ration and the 1 foods that will furnish the necessary elements? Two things are accepted as true: 1, For children, almost without extceptior the best food is rich milk. In the few cases wheie milk is not a wholesome article of diet, a physi? cian can easily determine the condi? tion and make the needed changes 2. Our children of today eat t<?o many sweets. Physicians! will tell us that the body needs sweets. In the days of primitive man the supply of SWSetS were very difficult to Obtain; in order, .therefore, that the body should be properly nourished, the lu? st in.Uw desire f<u sweets was made very great, Today the instinctive de? sire remains as it was originally and, sin?, the supply of sweets Is very abundant and easily procured, there has been an excessive OSS of sweets, especially Og the part of children who yield mors readily than adult* to their instinetive desires. In diet, aV In many other of life's activities, na? tive instinct la not a true guide. MANY SCHOOL LEVIES RAISED Over Seven Hundred Districts Make Progress ' .' STATE AID OVER 'QUARTER MILLION Sumter Receives T welve Thous? and Thre? Hundred For In? struct 'on Columbia* August 5?iveven hun? dred and fifty school districts of the stMe. an "almost magical" result of an act of the 1920 legislature, have voted original school levies this year, j or raised exdsting levies; to provide additional school turns. The revenue thus added to school receipts through? out the state will evened a u.UUon dollars. These stateineYits arc made by the state department of educa? tion In an Information sheet being sent this week to all School trus? tees in the state, from the Columbia offices of the state department of edu? cation. This information sheet is the department's annual deliverance to the school boards throughout the state. It also goes to teachers an-1 cover.': in detail the school legislation <>f the state, the money available fr>r state funds for schoo' purposes and other data valuable to the public, educators. This bulletin show? %hat the amount of special state aid furnished schools. In addition to the regular school funds appropriated by the counties, a total of $852,593 was paid during the school pear ending June 30. ii?20, to ! 935 school districts, which is nearly half of the total number of school ; districts in the stab), 188 2. Money j paid out as state aid is for the follow- I ing purposes: rurp schools, high : schools, term extension, seven months ; t<rm guarantee, public school build- j ings, vocational trairing, this includ- j ing agricultural, trade and home eco? nomics; schools for Milterates and j night schools, negro school betterment, j school libraries, school Improvement j association prizes and enforcement of j the compulsory school law. By far the greatest amount of state j aid for schools was syent for rural : schools. This totaled over a quarter j of a million. The noxt Wrge amount j was $175,000 for hijjh schools. The j ra ven-months term fund totaled $140,- j 000.' Term extension took $52,595. The amount of $45,920 was appro- 1 priated for public school buildings, Over $4 3,000 was spent to help voca- | tlonal training, of which $36.000 went j for agricultural instruction. Over'; $30,000 was given for work among); idult illiterates especially in night \ schools. Negro school bettenment got !l jver $21.000. Compulaory attendance ji ...ok $71,600. Spurtnnhurg county schools got 1 more Mitte aid than those of any other county during last session. The total was $49,B11. Hdrry came se OOlid With 143,884; Anderson wan third) $43,02."?; Qfveerivllls was fourth,! $42,384. Rlchland received $18,215, I Charleston's Aid totaled $ 11,761. Flor-, ciico received $3s.32r> OrangebUrg'* was $28.270. York's total was $2.?. 409. Bumter's was % i 3,805; Try to Oust Railroad Agent Cameron Railroad Man Shows His Rulings A re Correct Wyatt A. Taylor Columbia, August 5? An -effort to oust .1. A. Smoke, railroad ngunt at Cameron, in Calhoun county, came i<? a head at a hearing before the South Carolina railtoad commission toda'y. when fcltlsens ?jsil a petition for ins removal. Thirty-odd pitlnene appear < d before the < ommission and |he affi? davits and Statements made in behalf of the agent made it appear io repre? sentative^ of tite i)i-<..ss that ih\ agent was vindbatd. He ^submitted a?hla vita and testimony to show thai his rulings hod been right, whereas citi? zens complained that he was Wtbng. The commission has Rendered no de cision in the matter as yet. The rail? road commission Ik s ordered the Sou1 hern railway to furnish side tracking lor warehouses at Wirms boro.. BRITISH SHIP IN TROUBLE Prohibited From Landing In American Harbor \ LAYING CABLE TO BRAZILIAN SHORES Officials of Company Resist By Authorities Keep Ship Three Miles From Land Miam . August 5.?The British ship, ('olopi.i. chartered to land a cargo of i iblc from the llurbadoes here, most not enter American untere until per* iateSU'0 has heeu gra.it?'d hy the state ' nepar.n-ent. Th*> British ambassador ! teiegraph<'d the vice consul here to ! keep the ship outside of the three j mlja limit u nil further orders. Th< oresid- i, ,,..?> i>i ? \i ui : New Vt?U. August !">.- Fiv?- qrtocd hah'lii l-?'1d u)i Hi., attend:.'.ts of i he l^r.ox Turkish ha.n v\ liile 175 bath , VS *< y* asleep, and vscapod with :.-n tb uisand dollars worth of. val ii -w,r~~~.^*.*W*4*?l^WWn3JI?lj^ Guaranteed Tires at 35 Per Cent Off List 30 x 3 Non-skid, Clincher. $11.90 30 x 3 l-? Non-skid, Clincherj&?.$15.75 32 x 3 1-2 Non-skid, S. S...:.- $1M5 31 x 4 Non-skid, Clincher ....jii. . $21.90 32 x 4 Noh-skid, S. S..L.$24.90 33 x 4 Non-skid, S. S.:. $26.25 34 x 4 Non-skid, S. S...-.^.* $26.75 Best Quality With Guaiai tee of 5000 Miles. 1 Carolina Bhttevy It & Accessory C?. I 128 S. Maitt^treet, i Sumter, S. C. j Phone 590 FORDS! FORDS!! We have just received Ten 1920 Model Fords Equipped with Self starters. Nine Touring Cars and One Roadster. PRICES RIGHIT. BETTER SEE US QUICK IF YOU WANT A FORD AS THEY WILL NOT LAST LONG : \ JENNINGS-BURKETT MOTOR COMP'Y S. Main Street SUMTER, S. C.