The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 21, 1921, Image 2
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ed in 18>0.and the True Southron in
1856; The Watchman and Southron
fcoY, has the combined circulation and
mfiuenee of both of the old papers,
\n& is- manifestly the beat advertising
medium itf Sumter,
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XXTS OR CROOKS.
Congressman Bland of Indiana,
complained on the floor of the house
the" Mother day that he had been try
ing, itf vain for several months to get
a, light track for the Bureau of
Mines. That bureau is a branch of
the United States government. The
government, he says, has thousands
Of trucks of the kind desired, stand
ins idle, and -admits it, The govern
ment, also admits the desirability of
providing a truck for the Bureau of
2JJm.es. But "there is some red tape
or something in the way, so that -there
is no power on earth that can get
one of these trucks assinged tb a
station.*'
It is the same old story of a red
tape bureaucracy, repeated a thou
sand times daring1 the war and since.
The. growrnmehtal departments, sup
posedly organized for efficient service,
nave grown so unwieldy thai so sim
ple a matter as the transfer of a bit
of property from one department
?r bureau, to another is almost im
possible: Always there are promises
cf Reformation, but little comes of
1& famili?r and irritating bit of in
efficiency along, this line is found in !
the case of "farmers* bulletins" is
sued by the Department of Agricul- ]
tare. Some of these pamphlets are j
sold for five or 10 cents a piece. The
most convenient and obvious way to
ionrard such a small sum is by en
closing stamps with the order. But
win the government accept its own
stamps? It wilt not. The citizen
de^ring one of those pamphlets is
obliged to send a certified check or a
registered letter ov a postal order for
that nickel or dime.
It is impossible, apparently, for the
government of the United States to
axtaxLge so simple a thing as the ad
justment of accounts between the
?posioif.ee department, on one hand
and the department of agriculture or
the government printing office qn
*he other, and any criticism is* met
With the polite' but reproving re
minder that "stamps are not mon
ey.". Suppose a private business op
crated that wayr
JEWSOX'S OWX CREATXOX.
Yt is amusing to hear a man like
fEMison deriding the modern youth:
for his* lack of minute Information,'
for it is Edison and all the goodly
company of scientists and inventors
who have made the modern youth
-what he is. v
.Every invention -which helps to
'^c?ver distance speedily, to transfer
information promptly and easily, to
make sources of reference plentiful
and accessible, to render labor less
difficult or make diversion easier,
lifts- from the shoulders of man one
more^ reason for personal effort. Why;
should" any man, college-bred or oth
erwise; painfully acquire and cum
ber h~5s brain with'a thousand loose
facts, any one of which science has
made accessible to him in a . few
minutes or hours?
How can any youth be expected
to devote his life solely to the pursuit
Of dry facts when a phonograph in
every parlor and a picture machine
on every corner and an automobile
to every 10 inhabitants invite him to
frivolity, and he knows that he can
afford the time to be frivolous be
cause a thousand inventors have
made it possible for him to catch
up quickly with his business?
Such youth may be a bugbear to
the- inventor responsible for it. but
to., all the. rest of mankind it is the
hope of the world. Front it will
Spring, in spito of disgruntled genius,
the Edlsons. the Teslas. the Curies
and the Bells of a coming genera
tion.
BRITAIN SEES IT THROUGH.
There has been very general scep
ticism over the trial of German war
criminals which is about to begin in
Leipsie, Germany. Thu situation is
cleared considerably by the infor
mation that two British lawyers are
to be on hand for the proceedings*.
?Their presencY will make it infinite
ly more difficult for ger:nany to con
duct a farcical' or unsatisfactory trial.
Sir Ernest Pollock* Efigllsh Solici
ts General, and Stfr. Ellis Hume
H?fii*<fi?^ TZ* .Cr? wlU hew* tfe* ?eie
gatiorv. They will .take with them a
number of witnesses who will give
evidence additional to that brought
out. in the Bow Street proceedings in
London. Insistence on the German
fulfillment of this obligation was in
cluded in the ultimatum, and al
though the trials will be conducted
by German officials the English dele
gation will be there to see that
justice is done.
These trials have been too long
delayed. There is danger that time
might obliterate, to some extent, the
memory of what kind of warfare
Germany waxed, and at some far.
future date some nation, encouraged
by that forgetfulness, might repeat
such horrors.
It is well the trials are at hand.
It is well that Great Britain is to be
present. Britain has a fashion of see
ing things through.
PRICES ALMOST CUT TS HALF.
On the first of this month, accord
ing to Bradstreet's index* thera was
recorded a general price decline of
48 per cent from the high level of the
boom period. That is to say, the
peak prices, on an average, had been
almost exactly cut In half. Or, look
ing at the situation from the other
end, the Bradstreet report showed
that prices stood, on May 1. only 13
per cent above the highest pre-war
level of 1912. And since May 1.
prices have settled down a little fur
ther.
Doesn't that give one a grand and
glorious feeling? To think that for
only $1.13, or possibly a cent or two
less, you can buy as much of the ne
cessaries of life as you could for $1
before the war!
'?But,'" every reader will reply in
stante*, "you can't."' And the sad
fact has to be admitted.
- The figures quoted above do not lie,
but they are wholesale prices, the
prices paid by dealers, not the prices
paid by consumers. The ultimate
purchaser knows only too well that
very few commodities reflect the big
drop referred to, as far as ho is con- '
cerned> and that many commodities
are stiil near the peak.
It comes back to the same old story
?the story of the retailer who eith
er refuses to take his loss on high
priced stock, or who, if he has profi-.
teerifig tendencies, holds out for
boom profits in a slump period and
hopes to continue those profits in
definitely.
The actual or intentional profiteers,
no doubt, are a minority, but they
have enough influence to retard the
natural subsidence of prices, to
arouse public indignation against re
tailers in general who do not deserve
it, and by checking deflation to hold
back business revival. The quicker
they take their loss?where there is
any loss to take?and start the new
j deal, the better it will be. for every -
j body, including themselves.
Timely Remark* From Mr. 3Ioise.
Editor Daily Item:
I desire to publish through the col
umns of your paper a short article and
hope that the views imparted may as
sist in bringing to the readers of your
paper a feeling of more optimism than
has been generally exhibited for the.
last few months. I attended with a
great deal of* pleasure the meeting
last evening at Pocalla Springs where
the good people of Sumter and the
surrounding county extended to the
boosters of Greenville a well-planned
and satisfactory reception. I believe
that this meeting will do a great deal
of good in every way and especially
from a standpoint of better acquaint
ance and cooperation among the peo
ple of the state, as the conditions
which have confronted, and are now
confronting the entire people of the
South are conditions that are not lo
cal, but are general and cannot be
solved by mere talk, and certainly not
by such pessimistic feeling as have
been exhibited for some months past
by a great many people.
For the past few years the entire
i people have been spoiled by condi
tions that were not normal and it is
well that these conditions have been
changed, even though temporarily it
involves a hardship on our enure
country. It has been a common feel
ing and was possibly gotten from an
old adage that the world owes every
man a living. This unfortunately is
not the ease. The world is good to
its people, but the only way that a
living can be obtained is by hard work
and saving and the sooner the people
learn this, the better off the country
will be and the sooner conservative
prosperity will again come.
There are a great many problems
i to be solved, but we have a great
i many able men among us to handle
I rhem. If there is a man, woman or
child who feels that the temporary
'depression which has come over this
country will destroy our existence and
j demolish our enterprises and that
[there is no remedy for it. then that
? person, whoever they may be has no
j confidence in tins grand old country
lot" ours, and should seek some other
I pla<-e of residence than in the T*nit?.d
! States.
; There have been some failures in
|onr community which we regret and
no doubt could not have been avoided
jand it fas up to these people, as well
j a* the balance of. us. to wipe off the
I slate, to put our shoulders to the
! wheel, to raise bur heads and open our
i eyes and ears and begin again if
[necessary for I believe that there are
just an many opportunities today as
ever before and 1 believe the fvtwre
will bring more opportunities us the
live wide-awake man than it has in
the past. ~VV|e have all been nit and
it would be hard t?r find what bust
mess or which individual has been hit
the hardest. The fanner who is now
holding his cotton and'having to nay
a high rate of interest is naturally
crippled, l>u( even with that, the
i farmer is probably more fortunate
than a great many of us in other
walks of life far he has food and
other necessities with which to sustain
life even though he has no ready cash.
The merchants, real estate dealers,
and in fact .-very business and individ
ual has been forced to take his loss
because of a falling market and it is
'therefore my opinion thai it will be
necessary before any readjustment can
be counted on and any substantial!
improvement reached that the farm-j
ers as well as the other business men
take their loss marking it off and fi
gure to make it back in the future. j
I do not believe there is any better
? place in the world to live than in
South Carolina and 1 do not believe
1 there is any better city to live in than
Sumter and when I hear a man say
that South Carolina is a poor state or
{section or that Sumter is a poor town
1 think of the salesman who was nev
er satisfied with the territoy assigned
to him, but was always wanting" to
change on account of a temporary
boom in some other place and after
making the move from one territory
to another several limes trying to fol
low the boom he finally returned to
his home town feeding that he could
get substantial business by pegging j
along in the same territory than he;
could get by making moves on account j
of temporal*:.* conditions that might;
exist elsewhere. >
In conclusion. I hope that Sumter
I county will foilowr- Greenville's ex
ample and will send its citizens out
from time to time with a view of get- j
ting in closer touch with the people
of the state and with what is being;
done in other counties of the state. 1}
believe that after the people in Sum-;
ter county have traveled over other
sections They will be glad to return to j
Sumter county to live for the balance;
of their lives and will feel that we!
have the best location there is on thej
' face of the globe. |
We hope that the Sumter Stemmeryl
wili bring to Sumter business from the i
.vurrounding counties which will bej
beneficial to us and that it will en^
courage the planting of more tobac
co in this county. I am now, with
others, looking into the practicability
of building and installing machinery:
for the curing of sweet potatoes to be;
shipped to northern markets and from
the information we have been able to
gather so far it loks like a practical
proposition and one that would bring
to the farmers of Sumter county and
of South Carolina a very fine oppor
tunity for making money out of a
crop that is easy to raise and which
can be raised in enormous quantities
and I hope to l>e able with my associ
ates to give the people of Sumter
county more definite information in
a short time relative to these plans.
We cannot turn bac k, and as was
told by one of ttie speakers last even
ing about the men watching a heavy
rain which h.ad come up and walking
out- on the porch one said to the other j
'"Do you think it will clear up" and
the other replied '"It always has", i
That is my attitude and feeling in
the matter. These depressions havej
come on the people periodically and
the cause of the present depression
cannot be entirely taken off thej
shoulders of the people. There may j
be other causes, but if the money]
that was made during good times hadj
been conservatively handled, we would
have been able to pass over the pres
ent condition without very little in
.convenience. While, as I have said;
before, it is a dear lesson, it will bej
worth more to our people in dollars j
and cents than can be estimated and |
when this depression has passed and I
business again resumes its normal I
course. I do not believe, regardless of*!
how prosperous the people might he-1
I come, that they will squander their j
'earnings again with this lesson inj
; mind.
! Let us all from this time on speak j
the good news that condition-; are
? improvirg. let us talk wuth optimism
to all with whom we come in contact,
let us put our shoulders to the wheel
and work diligently, not for a few
hours a day, but continuously, and i
very soon, the wheels of progress will
again turn and we will begin to feel
the joy of success through our own
efforts and be a. belter people for
having so lived.
Pessimism does no one any good, it
no; only incapacitates the man him- |
(self, but it incapacitates everyone with]
! whom he comes in contact. Lets push)
aside the dark clouds and very soon |
the sun will shine through upon all j
[ of us.
E. W. MJOISE. I
Bodies of Soldiers Arrive.
I Columbia, May is.?The bodies of
j thirty-one soldiers who died lighting
'the Hun reached Columbia today for
distribution to their homes in the
southeast, fourteen of them arc- of
South Carolina heroes, one of wdio
was a captain, James H. Holmes, Jr.,
of Charleston.
The South Carolinians are: Wil- j
hams Stewart, Great Falls; James T. !
Lloyd. Greenville; Clarence F. Cow
an. Langley; Faul E. P.agsdalo, Pel- !
zer; Finest C. Jones. Pickens; Boyce
L. Gowan, Spartan burg; James A.
Epps and William M. Mobley. Union;
Clyde Tomlison, Manning; Julius A.
Mood. Summerton; Johnnie McFad
den, Sardinia; Fritz Williams. Xeescs;
i Broad us Davis, Woodruc; Claude A.
! Stephenson. Anderson; Percy X. j
j Gunter, Patesburg: Vemon X. Jones. ,
; Branehville; Capt. .fames H. Holmes,
Jr.. Charleston: Walter A. Campbell, i
! ("bester.
Warning Sent Mexican President.
f ?*- I
: Mexico City. May is.?"Beware1
of the fate of Francisco Madero. who
j failed to heed solicitations to change
his policy and fell." was the warning
'sent to President Obrcgon by Liber
als constitutional members oi the
chamber of deputies and the .senate
[sent a warning and made pointed
: charges against two members of the
cabinet who had attempted u> cnuse
I dissatisfaction against, the Obrcgon'j
administration. It was signed by one
hundred and thirty-eight deputies
and several senators. Two cabinet of
ficers were charged with attempts to
uae their offices to propagate 'radical- i
ism. . ?
HEALTH ARTICLE
By L. A. Riser, M. J)., in Charge,
Department of Rural Sanita
tion and County Health
work, S. C. Board of
Health
For :i long time wo have accepted
the theory that the country was
-healthier than the city and city people
thought they might maintain their
healthy condition by making yearly
excursions to the country Cor their va
cations.
This was a natural supposition for
in the country we have plenty of fresh
air and sunlight and fewer persons to
a given urea. Facts recently brought
tout by surveyors made in the coun
Ities do not bear out this theory*. These
j reports show deaths from typhoi 1 and
I malaria to be muc h higher in the
country than in the city. This is
brought about by lack of sanitation,
poorly heated and poorly ventilated
school buildings, lack <>t' medical at
tention, polutted water and. last but
! not least, lack of health supervision
in the rural district. An educational
[campaign is necessary to change
[these conditions and thus reduce thej
death rate in the country below that
of the city where it properly belongs.
In the city we have health laws and
the City man is forced to obey these!
laws. In small towns we too often
have these laws which are not ? n-<
forced, and in the country we have
no laws and no power to enforce tin m j
if we had.
In the city each citizen is made to
understand that his standard of Iiv-j
ing must be such as to come under]
the law and at the same rime he is
made to understand that he is not ;
only responsible for own health and
that of his family, but the health of j
his neighbor also. A man in the
country who lives a mile or more from
his nearest neighbor can do as he
pleases with his property. His stable
may not be cleaned out but once a
year: his hog pen filthy and smelling
to high heaven: his well with an un
safe top which allows the surface wa
ter to drain in; his closet open to
flies and chickens and his child with
contagious disease allowed to run at
will. It does not occur to him that
he is the cause of the spread of dis
ease not only to his neighbor in the
country but too often to the citizens
of his nearest town. He may have a
case of typhoid fever at his home and
through the sale of milk in town may
spared many eases of typhoid fever ,
ihere.
The farmer bads such an inde
pendent existence. He is lord of all
he surveys, and this sort of thing has
gone on so long, it is hard to convince
him that he owes certain duties to
his neighbors and friends and to so
ciety at large. We have all been so
busy preaching good habits and good,
health to city folks and making laws'
for them, we have failed to make the
farmer realize his responsibility.
Now we are waking up to th;s fact
and feel the need of some law en
forcement in the country.
Progressive farmers in all our
counties in South Carolina are behind
the movement. '"Better Health for
Farm Homes and Communities". The
department of rural sanitation of the
State Board of Health, by the permis
sion and aid of your local paper is
going to get out an article each month
on Better Health. The object of this
department is to establish a full I
time county health department in!
every county in South Carolina and J
stand ready to cooperate with any
county beginning this work. Xo coun
ty that does n<>t protect the health
and lives of its citizens is truly pro
gressive. It is just as important to
know how much is lost to a county!
each year by preventable disease as
it is to know how much is lost by the
boll weevil or the cattle tick.
Columbia High Defeats Sumter.
Columbia. May IS.?-Columbia "Hi"
defeated Sumter Hi" here yesterday
afternoon 4 to 3. The game was one
of the best exhibitions of high sc hool
baseball ever played in Columbia.
Sumter got iw-> runs in the first in
hing' on walks and errors. Bradley
i hit a three bagger in Columbia's
half of the second and scored on a
wild throw. Hedgepath for Colum
bia hit a home run in Columbia's
half of tite fourth, tying the score.
Columbia scored again in the
eighth. Sumter came back in its
half of the ninth, tying the score by
an error in the infield. Columbia
rallied hi its part of the ninth, get
ting two singles. Shillito brought in
the winning run with a. single over
second.
The game was hard fought with
plenty of "pep" on both sides, as it
had a bearing on the state cham
pionship, which is to be ' played off
in the next week or two. Etheredge
pitcher for Columbia, was strong in
the pinches. lie allowed only two
9oatC*h hits and fanned 12 men.
Hedgepath for Columbia on short
furnished the fielding features. He
successfully fielded ten chances with
out an error. Seay played his usual
good game on first.
Amend Cotton Measure
Washington. May 18.?Representa
tive Stevenson of South Carolina in
troduced to the house today an
amendment to the cotton futures
a. . under which :i buyer on the cot
ton exchange would have the right
to select one-half his purchase in
any of the legal grades desired by
him. and the exchanges would have
the right to deliver the other bail* in
any of the grades they might select.
The amendment differs from the
Dial amendment only in that the lat
ter stipulates that the Payer and
seller must select their halves on the
cotton from two of the ten grades.
Mr. Stevenson states that the rep
resentatives from .Mississippi. Louis
iana and Oklahoma, where low grade
cotton is produced, have found no
fault with either his or the Dial
amendment They defeated the com
er amendment lust year because o1
their belief that if would eliminate
a market for low grad* cotton.
PRISON REFORM
Noteworthy Address by Thomas
Mott Osborne, of New York
The need of a common-sense sys
tem in prisons so that men will tome
out better than when they went in
was the keynote of the address of
Thomas Mott Osborne before the j
131st annual council of the diocese!
of South Carolina Tuesday evening.
The no-,-ting was held at the Prcsby-;
teriah church to accommodate the
large crowd, the use <>f the building
having been offered the council by
the pastor. Rev. J. 1'. Marion, and
the session of the church.
In introducing tin- speaker Bishop
Guerry. the presiding officer, said that
Mr. Osborne had done Pis* great
work because he had taken the po
sition that men in orison are not
brutes but our brothers. The bishop
also asserted that Mr. Osborne had
more real heart-to-heart friends than
any man in America.
Mr. Osborne declared that he was
not interested in prison reform from
sentimential re asons, pointing out that
he had been a plain business man for
twenty years after leaving college,
then entered politics and became may
or of his native city. Auburn. X. V.
It was when he wsa appointed on a
hoard "f commissioners on prison re
form that In- became interested in
prison conditions and decided to enter
[Sing Sing prison as a full-fledged in
! mate for a week's stay, in order to
become acquanted with the convicts
j in their daily life and as one of their
i number. Afterward, as warden of the
[great penitentiary a; Ossining. X. Y..
I he was aide to institute the reforms
{that he had fouivl to be imperative
for the well being of the inmates, but
only after overcoming much opposi
tion.
He said he was led to take up the
work because he looked upon the mat
ter of treatment of criminals as a
great unsolved problem of society.
That it is a problem crying for oarn-j
est consideration is shown, he said, by
the fact that TO or more per cent of
the inmates of prisons have served at ;
least one. previous term. Their- is noj
indication in that, he declared, that I
prison methods turn bad citizens into1
good. i
Showing the enormous cost of crime I
fo the country in dollars, Mr. Osborne;
stated that the average number of
confined criminals each year is 4!)(>.-!
000, entailing a proportionate num-i
(her of prison officials and guards.
ISuch a condition nuts all citizens in
j dange r, and the shadow of the prison
is on every city and State," he de-1
clared.
The theory that the criminal belongs
; to an exclusive class, quite different
from other human beings, has been
'exploded. Mr, Osborne declared. From
his own contact with criminals and j
[from tests made by an English phy
sician, it has been found that there
are no 'physical criminals'' or "mental
criminals." in the sense that the com
mission of a crime is the result of a
peculiar physical or mental consti
tution. As a matter of fact, he said,
it has been his experience and that
; of others, that the average of intelli
I genceo fpcrsons inside a prison is:
I higher than that of the persons out-1
side.
It is the consiceneo, not the mind,
of the criminal that is undeveloped, bej
asserted, and a "moral hospital" is the j
aspect that prisons should strive for,
nit her than to continue as places
strictly of punishment. The indeter
minate sentence is the best method,
he holds, for it is coming to be real
ized, that the theory that the pun
ishment should be made to fit the
[crime, and nut vice versa is correct..
It is practically impossible for pres-j
ent methods to reform a criminal, asj
they have the ine vitable result of mak
ing a man worse, seneling him bae-k j
into the world with a spirit of revenge
against society. He pointed out thatj
in many eases a criminal tendency is
the result of environment and asso-j
ciates. j
A large part of Mr. Osborne's ad
dress was a relation of some of the j
many incidents that had marked his,
close association with convicts, inci
dents that reflected the rules govern-j
ing the management of convicts in j
prisons of the olel type- and showed!
how the criminals react to the condi.-j
tionsA Other incidents indicated howl
they responded to his system, a sys-;
te-m reposing confidence?n theun andi
giving them a chance- to prove that I
they are amendable te> correction wise-j
ly administered. The liberty allowed!
the convicts at a road camp in the
State of Xew York was described. |
and how their loyality to the- method;
prevented the-m from taking aelvant-j
age of it.
He gave concrete instances showing1
that a criminal can be reformed and j
make a good citiz*i of himself when
he returns to the outside world. The]
first name of one of them was "John
nie," and he re-ad a letter that he had!
received from Johnnie, telling how In-j
was making good in the world, be-]
sides supporting his wife and two'
children. j
Mr. Osborne pointed out tin- almost!
general indifference that is shown by
the wardens of tin- prisons to the
method that lie instituted at Sing Sing,
where it has been working sucea-ss-,
fully for six years. His system is call-j
ed the Mutual Welfare- League, and
it is also in operation at four other
prisons in the county, including that!
at Paris Island, hi this State. Phe
nomenal success has been achieved by
j ii at the naval prison at Portsmouth.)
X. H. Out of a total of more than)
tf.000 prisoners, only eight have es-:
caped. and no guards have been em
ployed during the period of two years, j
The only guard service employed is
that supplied by the- men themselves,j
after the- manner of a military sys-1
tent. In the past at a tim<- when there)
were only 170 prisoners, the guards
had numbered ISO.
There is undoubtedly a strong loy
alty among crooks, to themselves and
to a system that re-poses trust in them
and loyalty is the basis of good citi
zenship, lie saieb Appealing for inter-j
lest and sympathy for the men in the
prisons, he- pointed out that it was
Cain, the first criminal, who asked:
"Am I my brother's keeper?" ami he
Iben referred to the significance of
the story of the thief on the cross.
After Mr. Osfoorne bad spoken a,
resolution introduced b.v Bishop Fin
lay was unanimously adopted ex
pressing to the speaker trie "deep ap
preciation of the service he has ren
dered to us in the clear and power
ful presentation of this very vital
subject." An offering was then tak
en for the benefit of the Prisoners*
Welfare League.
Annual State Short Course.
The annual state short course for
home demonstration ciub members
I will be held at Winthrop college on
j.June 3-9 inclusive. Five women and
I five girls are selected from the va
rious home demonstration clubs of
each county as delegate.'-- to this short
course. These member* are selected
ion account of their good work and
j leadership in their communities.
1 Fully 4 00 women and *rirls are ex
' peeted to be present *o enjoy the
.'many demonstrations aid lectures,
j The general theme of the program
?this year will be '-Live at Home" and
j ".Make Money at Home." Included in
j this program will be the utilization
i of home products botfc as a means
j of sustenance and of making money
j at home. Prominent demonstrators
land lecturers from all parts of the
j south will handle these sepjects. The
I state home demonstration force in
cooperation with Winthrop college, is
sparing neither time nor expense to
! make the short course interesting and
j profitable to ail who at end.
A special feature for *he girls in
attendance will be the daily health
! program, in charge of Miss Martha
I Dinwiddie of the United. States bu
i reau of education. The supervised
j recreation will also be an important
I part oi" the course and will be in
I charge of a trained physical director.
Indications are that the 1321 Home
! Demonstration short course will be
i the nest that has ever been held in
I the state. ' ,
; Sumter County Delegates to Short
Course.
j The following girls have been
awarded scholarships to the "Wln
I. throp short course on rc-oords made
! last year: Names, pounds of toma
toes raised, cost of production and
I profit follow:
I Inez Huggins, 1.424 pounds, $17.70,
I $7i'.S4.
Alma Huggins, 672 pound's, $11.30,
$30.
! Sallie Gardner, 876 ponnds, $19.73.
?61.06. I
Sara Stahord. 37 chici Sns hatched,
25 chickens raised.
Mamie DuBose. 26 chickens hatch
ed. 21 chickens raised.
There were some better records
made than some of the above but
were not eligible to trii on account
of previous one or age. Mame Du
Bose cannot go since she has stopped
club work. Tillie Brice will go in her
, place. ;
The women delegates will be pub
lished later.
CARO TTtUL/UCK,
County Home Demonstration Agent.
Sumter County Woman's Council.
On Saturday afternoon, May 14th,
the Sumter County Woman's Council
was organized in the office of the dem
onstration agent. This council is com
posed of the officers and other inter
ested members of the Home Demon
stration Clubs of the county and may
include other interested club women.
The purposes of the council were
given by Miss Truluck as follows:
1. To assist the county agent in
planning work and in meeting the
needs of tho county, communities, and
clubs.
2. To promote the economic and
social welfare of the county especial
ly as related to home and community
life in the county.
3. To encourage spec dizod indus
tries for purpose of developing specific
resources in the county.
4. To develop leadership in the
community.
5. To foster friendly relation be
ween urban communities.
Mr. It. It. Belser discussed woman's
part in present crisis. He said that
recent statistics showed that $13,000,
000 was paid out each year for can
ned goods brought into South Caro
lina. That for dairy, poultry, and
canned fruit and vegetable products
we send out of our state about $23,
000.000 a year. He also said that the
local market that is now under con
sideration might be able to take care
1 of woman's products.
The following officers were elected:
Mrs. E. W. Dabbs, Jr.. Pres.
Mrs. Wm. Haynsw?rth, Vice-Pres.
Mrs. .lames Pagan, Sec. and Treas.
It was decided to hold the next
meeting in June when we hope to have
a larger number present and form
ulate some definite plans.
RcrgdoU's Counsel Held for Contempt,
i ______
I Washington. May IS.?Harry Wein
berger, of New York, the counsel for
I Ci over Bergdoll. in the court martial
proceedings, was ordere'; to appear
before the bar of the house of Rpre
! sentatives today for contempt, after
refusing to testify before the investi
gating committee regarding the fees
j paid him by Bergdoll s mother;
Boston, May is.?James A. Dun
can, of Columbia. S. C. a teacher at
Harvard university, was sentenced to
day to serve three months in jail
for assault with a knife on a negro
policeman. He appealed, and was re
leased on $1,000 bond.
Columbia. May 19.?The Cohannet
Mills, of Fingerville, in Spartanburg
county, have been granted authority
by the secretary of state to increase
their capital stock from $100,000 to
$200,000. B. B. Gossett of Spartan
uirg, is president of this company.
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