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More Business is Needed
In Farming Industry, Says Sec
retary Wallace
New. York, June 7.?The period of
"agricultural exploitation" in the
United States is practically at an end,
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said
tonight in an address at a dinner
given *by the Standard Farm papers
publishers association to a group of
New York business men.
If production is to be maintained
he declared, every effort must be
made to put agriculture on a thor
oughly sound business basis, in order
that the farmer may be able to get
prices for his products which will
give him a fair rate of interest on j
the money he has invested and a fair
labor wage.'
Constantly increased production
will not, alone, accomplish this end.
Mr, "Wallace said, but mus* be sup
plemented by better methods of dis
tribution which will give the con
sumer in the city the farm products
with less waste and at less 'relative
cost."
"We. have come to a time when
consumption h*j practically overtak
en production," the secretary said.
"Just now we are in the midst of a
serious agricultural depression caused
toy unusually large crops and the
breaking down of our foreign market
and. in part, to our domestic market.
This depression illustrates how in
, timately agriculture is connected with
the business of the nation.
**W?t must learn to take some of
the speculative risk out of farming."
Bail is Denied Women
In Connection With Death of
Ohio Publisher
New- York, June T.?Miss Marian
McArdie and her mother, Mrs. Eva
Kaber, tonight were being held here
without bail in .connection with the
slaying of Dan Kaber, wealthy pub
lisher" stepfather of Miss McArJle at i
his home in Lakewood, Ohio, nearly
two years ago.
Shortly after, her mother had been
arraigned here and her grandmother.
Mrs. Mary Brickel, had pleaded not
guilty in Cleveland, Miss McArdie
was brought into court.
Although she had appeared this
morning wan and hysterical after a
sleepless night, the girl was calm
when she entered the. court room.
She listened with interest to a po
lice statement that she had been in
dicted with her mother and grand
mother in Cleveland on a charge of
? first C degree murder. After a regular
questioning. in the court, she S3id
she had no objection to being held
48"v~ hours pending receipt of papers
from Ohio, on suspicion of being a
fugitive from justice.
Fojrmer Soldiers Now Wave More
Waist Than Chest, Say Tailors.
London, June 4.?The tailors say
thaCthe former soldier is losing his
soldierly figure. His chest which, in
wartime, was where a soldier's chest
. ought to be, has now slipped down to
wizere it ought not to be and his waist
measurement has developed exten
sivejjr..
The result is that the beautiful fig
ure Of the man of 1919 has become
rare~and fatness and flabbiness. says
the tailors, have takten the place of
thinness and muscle.
"It makes my regimental heart bleed
to see the sloppy way in which former
soldiers now carry themselves." said
one who served as a sergeant tailor
in the war. "Look at that old tape
measure hanging on the wall. Note
the' finger marks about the 32-inch
line. That was the average measure- j
ment of the war waist. Compare it j
with the finger marks on this peace j
measure which shows that the pres- j
ent waist is from 36 to 40 inches. My
customers used to be like the letter
L Today they are like an S."
Death.
Mrs. Mary A. Nichols, wife of Mr.
John M. Nichols, died shortly arte*;
noon yesterday at the Tourney Hos
pital. Mrs. Nichols, who was 58
years of age, was a resident of Sum
ter county, the family having moved
to this section from Columbia. The
body was sent, to Lamar this morning
where the funeral services will be
held.
The Price of Gas in Sumter.
Editor Daily Item:
The advertisement by the Sumter
jftfling stations explains most plasi
?t>ly why gas costs more than outside <
the city.
Will they explain in like manner
why gas costs 27 cents in Sumter and
can be bought for so much less at
other points, with the same rilling sta
tion service?
Gas is selling for 23^ cents in Cam- j
den, 23% cents in Darlington. 2f? cents
in Columbia, 25 cents in Charlotte
and 27 cents in Sumter. It < ^ld not
be a matter of freight rates bee :use
certainly Camden hasn't a better rate ,
than Sumter, neither has Darlington
tout if they had, it should be correct
ed.
Charlotte, N. C, is certainly further
from port than Sumter and 1 presume
has a higher freight rate, yet I bought
gas in Charlotte retail at 25 cents in
station last week and was told th*-y
expected . it would be lower this
week It the tilling stations cannot
answer this perhaps the Chamber of
Commerce can if Sumter is being dis
criminated against in freight rates,
Automobilist.
Marriage License Record.
A marriage license has been issued
to Mr. David C. Gamble of Turbeville
and Miss Marnie McKinney of Brog
don.
Business is looking u,p? to see it
taxes are coming down.?Brooklyn
Eagle.
Events in Upper Silesia teach us
that nature probably knew what she
was doing when she flattened the
poles.?-Wichita Falls Record-News.
Austrian Tyrol
j _
j Which Wants to Be a Part of
Germany
Washington. June 7.?Austrian Ty
rol, the most mountainous part of
Austria, which voted unofficially re
cently to join itself to Germany, is
described in the following bulletin is
jsued from the Washington, D. C,
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic Society:
"Tyrol is a second Switzerland,
about equally mountainous, though
not quite, so well known to the tour
ists of the outside world. Still, as the
home of snow-capped peaks, deep val
leys, and sturdy, yoelding peasants, it
had its meed of fame among those
who search out the beauty spots and
quaint localities of the world. And to
the Austrians themselves it was the
pleasure-ground par excellence. In
the care-free days before the out
break of the world war 350 Tyrolean
health resorts and recreation centers
were listed. Einpeio;- Francis Jo
seph who was an ardent mountain
climber, had a summer palace, at
Ischol in Tyrol, and at other places
in that mountainous region he main
tained hunting estates and lodges
whKh he considered the hnest in Eu- j
rope.
Tyrol Only Half Pre-War Size
?'But Tyrol of today is far differen:
from the Tyrol of ten years ago. Then
the region under Austrian control ex
tended far south of the main crest of
the Alps almost to the plains of
northern Italy. This southern region
was known as Trentino to the Italians
and was one of the most important
parts of 'Italia irredenta.' When the
victorious Allies wrote the Treaty of
St. Germain which closed the war
with Austria, the Italian border was
moved north to the position claimed
by the Italians for centuries; and so
more than half of the old Tyrol was
iopped off. ?i flfrrjttfltt
"The present Austrian Tyrol is a re
gion of approximately the area of
Connecticut and with a population of
less than half a million. While the
old southern Tyrol, on the south
slopes of the Alps and exposed to the
sunshine and warm winds of Italy,
has a rather mild climate, the part
which has remained to Austria, north
of the highest mountains, has rigor
ous climatic conditions. In some years
hardly a month is free from frost,
and heavy snow covers much of the
ground for seven months of the year.
The pasturing of cattle on the Alpine
meadows is the principal industry, but
sparse crops of rye and oats are rais
ed throughout the arable portions of
the country.
"The main water-shed of the Alps
which now marks the southern bound
ary of Tyrol is the linguistic as well as
the logical geographic boundary. To
the south, even under Austrian domi
nation, Italian or a mixed patios in
which Italian predominated, was the
language in general use. To the north
however, the country had been thor
oughly Germanicized since the fifth
century. The doorway between these
Latin and Teuton worlds is the Bren
ner Pass, famous since the Roman le
gions used it in passing north to con
quer the barbarians. Since 1867 a
railroad has traversed it.
Touches Germany on North
"On the west, Austrian Tyrol in ef
fect is bounded by Switzerland,
though the westernmost part of the
region is called Vor?lberg. It is gov
erned with Tyrol. To the north lies
the southernmost country of Ger
many, Bavaria. Eastward Tyrol is
bordered by other of the few remain
ing provinces of Austria.
"Innsbruck, situated at about the
center of the present Tyrol, is its cap
ital. With its population of approxi
mately 60,000, it was the largest city
in the old Tyrol. Most of the other
cities of any size were in Italian Ty
rol: Bozen, Rovereto and Trent. The
latter city, with a population of 30.000
though in what was Austrian territory
before the world war. was almost
wholly Itahan in language, architec
ture, and the names of streets, build
ings and public places. Among the
towns lost to Austria by a revision of
the southern boundary of Tyrol was
Meran where is situated Tyrol castle,
the seat of the counts of Tyrol, from I
which the entire region tool: its j
name."
Reorganization of The Oiban Army.
Havana. Cuba, June 4.?Reorgani
zation of the Cuban army is one of
the tasks facing the new administra
tion of Dr. Alfredo Zayas. The Men
oca! government which preceded that
of Dr. Zayas took a preliminary step
by abolishing the custom of promo
tion of officers by selection. The
presidential decree effecting this re
form will become operative on July 1.
but no selection will be made between
the present and that date.
The motive for army reorganization
is economy and was discussed at con
ferences between .Major General
Enoch Crowder special agent in Cuba
for President Harding and both
President M. G. Menoeal and Dr. Zay
as. then President-elect.
WhiP* the armv itself numbers only
about 1J.?00, the high salaries paid
and the cost of supplies has run the
total cos', of this branch of the na
tional defense to more than Sti.OOO,
000, a figure considered excessive.
Some sentiment has been shown lor
the abolition of the army and the
creation of a fore- of rurales, bin the
general trend seems to be for a .-mail
er force than at pres. nt but of
greater efficiency, tie result of the ac
quisition of the most modern forms or
automatic rifles and machine guns.
Anti-Trust Prosecution
New York, June 9.?Samuel Untre
meyer, counsel of the legislative in
vestigating committee, has announc
ed that he would write the depart
ment of justice asking if *'< could
spare the necessary men and money
to prosecute violators of anti-trust
! laws.
Carpentier should wear a German
helmet while fighting Dempsey. It
might frighten Jack into an uncon
scious state.?Detroit Journal.
Cave Mai) Laughs at Rent Man.
Washington. June 7.?Cave houses
uro coining in style again. Scarcity
of housing accommodations in the
district along Lakes Maggiore and
Corio, Italy, has driven many peas
ants to dig houses for themselves in
the hillsides where they live in primi
tive simplicity, newspaper dispatches
say.
"The inhabitants of most of the
countries of the world have at some
stage in their development lived in
cave dwellings. A belt of such
duellings extends from China across
India to Asia Minor and Arabia,
thence along- the shores of the Med
iterranean to the Canary Islands, the
West Indies, Mexico, and North and
South America. In a few places tu
day mankind still lives in (his simple
and inexpensive fashion," says a bul
letin from the Washington. D. C.
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic Society.
"Have a Cave." Welcome to Traveler
"On Kaster Island, in the Pacific,
where innumerable caves and grot
toes have been formed by the wash
ing away of soft, deposits which lie
beneath the bard volcanic strata,
housing- accommodations present no
problem. Many of the natives sleep
in the open or in these caves and
cheerfully point them out to the trav
eler as the logical shelter for him dur
ing the night.
"In one of the wildest portions of
northern Africa, near Guermessa, on
the top of a. sugar-loaf mountain
whose sides rise precipitously for
hundreds of feet a fierce and warlike
race now live for three months in the
year in stone eaves hollowed out in
the mountain sides. The trail to the
dwellings has been worn as smooth as
! glass by centuries of constant use,
' which mak^s an approach difficult for
j man and beast. These mountain men
have cut separate establishments for
themselves, their wives and their
children, and have furnished them
with rugs from Kairowan nad Persia
and numerous leather cushions stuffed
with sheep's wool.
Troglodyte "Trusties" Guard Homes.
"Suspicious of other cave-dwelling
people near them and hating the
stranger, they spend the remaining
nine months in the year wandering
with their flocks of long-haired goats,
broad-taiied sheep and camels on the
herders of the Sahara. Down in the
valleys too there are plantations of su
perb olive and tig trees which they
protect from the other troglodytes
during this season, while their houses
in tlie mountains are being guarded
by a few trusty men.
"At Matmata and Medinine in Tun
isia are extraordinary underground pit
dwellings. When he is told that he is
approaching' one of these villages the
traveler experiences a queer sensa
tion ar seeing nothing on the land
:cape except crater-like holes in the
earth which look like they might have
been caused by the explosion of enor
mous shells. As he peeps over the
rim of these holes in the earth he sees
below him the intimate life of the
family, their dogs and camels. This
is their common living room, which
is entered from above by a slanting
^.ubterraean channel. Other rooms
enter into it by means of lateral pas
sageways, ar>d are sometimes excavat
ed one above the or her for two or
[hioe Stories. It is said that as many
as 1,200 people live in these pits,
tone Dwellers Have Sky Scrapers.
"There have been cave dwellers in
Asia Minor since long before the time
of Xenopbon, who says that their
houses were, underground with en
trances like wells, and thut in them
the members of the household lived
with goats, cows, and chickens. Here
too they stored the hay for their an
imals and their own supplies of wheat,
barley and vegetables. In the region
around Mount Argaeus in Oappadoeia.
southern Turkey, there are cone
dwellers living today whose habita
tions pei haps more nearly resemble
the American cliff houses to be found
in Arizona and New Mexico than any
others in existence, and were used as
habitations as far back as 2,000 B. C.
The chambers of these dwellings hol
lowed out in the solid stone are
spacious, and the stairways resemble^
round tunnels leading from each
floor to that above it. Houses have
been in some instances made nine ,
stories high, but usually they are not!
so pretentious. '
? The countrj of the troglodytes of
Asia Minor is inaccessible, and the
visitor must make his way over moun
tains and past rivers when his path
is discernible only a few feet in front
of hilf!.
"Perhaps the greatest and most
beautiful of the dirt' cities built since
the beginning of time is Petra, on the
old caravan route from Damascus to
Mecca. Though ? is unoccupied to
day. Edomltes, Phoenicians, Egyp
tians, ami Romans have carved in ar
tistic designs on the rose-red walls
of its temples, amphitheatres, shrines,
and houses records of their successive
occupation^.
Fi'criu li Cave Houses Vow Store Rooms
"Europe too has her cave dweller.:.
Near Tours. Prance, there are a few
caves that arc inhabited, but for the
most part the old cave rooms, pos
sibly used by the Aquitani of Cae
sar's time, are used as storage rooms
with the dwellings built out in front,
.?t' them Hi Spam there are many
artificial caves, formerly inhabited, ]
which are now used by Spanish g-vp- j
sies.
"in the interior mountainous region l
of Gran Canaria in the Canary islands1
there are numbers of tin- natiA'es liv- j
ing in cave houses whose doorways!
stare out like huge black eyes on the!
face of the cliffs. These mountain J
hep herds have built little terraces in
flout ..t their dwellings and hedged !
them about with cactus and yucca i"
keep the children from tumbling down
the side of the mountain. On the ter
races they have ??? t up primitive ovens
and here for the most part the fam
ily lives.
"Many of the American Indians
lived in natural cartes and excavated
dwellings in cliffs, some of Che most
noteworthy being those of the Chaco
Canyon and Mesa Verde regions. <\>
lumbus found cave dwellers In cer
tain portions of the West [ndies, and
even today on King Island in The
Aleutians a colony of hardy Eskimo
I
I fishermen lives in a settlement of
j about forty dwellings cut in the cliffs
(overlooking the sea."
A Huge Irrigation Scheme.
Pocatello. Idaho. June 1.?Removal
of the entire town of American Falls,
Idaho, with its population ol 2,000,
two or three miles to new site higher
than its present location, is to be at
tempted within a few months by en
gineers working on a huge irrigation
project.
Waters of the Snake River, on
which American Falls is located, are
to be dammed, according to present
plans, and will be used to reclaim
some 300',00u o more acres of arid
land now given over to the sage
brush.
Engineers say the project is one of
the largest ever attempted. The big
dam itself will have an abutment of
one mile in length, will be sixty feet
high and will have a base sufficient
ly strong to stand an additional thirty
feet should it ever be deemed neces
sary to add to its height.
The big reservoir to be filled by
the waters backing up from the dam
will cover some 7t> square, miles and
will have an impound of 3,000,000
square feet. Its waters will extend
from American Falls to Blaclcfoot, a
distance ot about twenty miles. The
reservoir will have a shore line of
nearly 100 miles, and at its widest
point, it will be four miles across
and. in places, PG feet deep.
Pesides moving the town of Amer
ican Falls,, it will be necessary to tear
up the Oregon Short line railroad and
move it to higher bench land. A
railroad bridge will be razed and a
new one constructed farther up the
Snake river. The Idaho Power Com
pany's plant furnishing light and
power to th*e southeastern section of
the ntate will be removed.
The dam site has been surveyed and
preliminary work in torn, of drill
ing for a solid rock foundation has
been started.
Austrian Financial Situation?Hard
Times Predicted.
Vienna, May 12.?Sir William Oocde,
chairman of the Austrian section of
the Reparations Commission, which
has just gone out of existence, who
has made several attempts tq obtain
British loans for Austria, sees some
signs of improvement in the internal
situation of this country, but holds
out no hope that the foreign credits
the Austrians desire will be granted
them in the next few months.
"Trade is better, wages are begin
ning to approach the internal pur
chasing value of the crown and the
people look healthier." Sir William
said to The Associated Press. "The
sunply of coal is now mainly a mat
ter of money and at the moment can
be identified with the question of
credits. Raw materials are more
easily obtained on long credits and
the import requirements for these
should be financed without any ser
ious demand upon state funds."
Sir Wiliam pointed out that neither
the League of Nations nor the Repa
rations Commission can grant credits
to Austria for they have no money.
Xeither, he said, can foreign credits
be obtained solely by Austria's initia
tive, since she has no assets to pledge
except by permission of the Repara
tions Commission.
"Only by a combination of all these
factors can any result be achieved,"
he continued. "When the League of
Nations have concluded their inves
tigations and made their proposals
which are to be based upon private
credits, it will still be for the hank
ers to say if they will put up their
money."
These foreign credits, if granted, he
caid could not be made available until
the claims against Austria for repa
ration and for relief loans had been
postponed and this involved obtain
ing the consent of several countries
who have not yet had an opportunity
even to study that question. There
fore, he concluded, that no foreign
credits would be available, for Aus
tria for the next few months Hard
times are ahead for Austrians, he
declared.
Military Control
of Stricken City
Pueblo. June 8.?With the arrival
of 200 additional national guards
men it was announced here tonight
that ali civilian guards on duty in
the area swept by the floods of last
week, will be withdrawn immediate
ly and control of the city would parts
directly into the hands of the mili
tary until the emergency has passed.
In addition to the troops, 41 army
trucks are on the way to aid in
distributing supplies and in cleaning
up.
A refugee camp that will accom
modate 2.000 persons today was or
dered constructed at once. A seven
waid hospital is now ready and can
accommodate 1,000 persons should
diseases such as smallpox and ty
phoid fever develop into any epi
demic At present the number of
these cases is nol alarming, it was
said.
The city council has established
a tree employment burer':. Wages
f.u labor we:.- fixed at 4">. rents an
hour and all persons are prohibited
from paying more or less than that
until further notice.
Funerals oi the unidentified .lead
:i; to start at once. These, officials
?aid. will he without ceremony so
that sorrow may be put behind as J
>.<...M as l'"'Si ihie.
Washington, June 9.?The treasury
departmcnt is mapping out plans to
relieve ? ?:?if!? - raisers without the ne
. e! sitj of legislation.
Great things are being done in Eng
land, by George! -Nashville Terihes
sea n.
Twice the world has been free of
iaeia.l hatred: when Adam was a
young fellow, and when N"ah came
..ut of the Ark. -Washington Herald.
"Is there anything wrong with the
girl of today"" asks The Literary Di
gest. Not with the one we have in
mind.-1?Charleston Gazette.
! Killed and 2 Injured
in Auto Accident
Car Containing American Legion
Officers Goes Over Embank
ment Near Indianapolis
Indianapolis, June 9.?F. W. Gal
braith, Jr.. national commander of the.
American Legion, was killed and
Henry J Ryan, director of the Le
gion's Americanization work and
?Milton J. Foreman, of Illinois, mem
ber of the Legion committee, were in
jured when an automobile in which
they were riding went over a steep
embankment. Galbraith suffered a
fractured skull and died enroute to j
the hospital.
CITIZENS TRAINING CAMPS
Expressing the. opinion that the Cit
izen's Training Camps to be estab
lished throughout the country this
summer are a vital asset in the broad
scheme of national defense. St^retary
of War Weeks has addressed a letter
to the governors of the nation ask- >
ing their cooperation toward making |
these camps a success. The Secretary j
of War requests the various state ex- j
ecutives to bring the camps to the at
tention of their communities by offi
cial proclamation or in some other
manner. He declares that the up
building of the National Guard and
the organized reserves depends in
great measure on these camps.
The secretary's letter follows:
"Plans have now been completed
which provide for a month's course in
Citizens' Military Training camps this
summer for 10,SOU physically fit citi
zens between the ages of 18 and 35
years. These citizens will be drawn
from all parts of the country and quo
tas in proportion to' population are
being allotted to each state in order
to assure a thoroughly representative
body of candidate. I am most anx
ious that the men who takes train
ing come not only from every part of
the country but from all walks of life.
"Procurement of candidates is in
the hands of the Commanding Gener
als of the nine corps areas and the
locations of the camps and all other
general information is contained upon
the application blanks, copy of which
I enclose.
"It is my opinion that these camps
are a vital asset in the broad scheme
of national defense because they ad
vance the upbuilding of the National
Guard and Organized Reserves.
"It is my belief and hope that these
camps wiil develop closer national and
social unity; will teach the privileges
and responsibilities of American citi
zenship and will stimulate the inter
est of the youth of the country in the
importance of military training.
"My purpose in adressing you on
this subject is to request that you
bring these camps to the attention of
the people of your state by proclama
tion or by any other means you de
sire. I make this request because I
am convinced of the lasting benefits
to be derived from these camps both
?by the nation and the individual tak
ing this training.'
How to Determine That Cattle Are
Flee From Tuberculosis.
The clinical or physical examination
of cattle to determine if they are af
fected with tuberculosis is of yet very
little value. The best diagnosticians
can only diagnose tuberculosis in its
advanced stages, and it is absolutely
impossible to. diagnose it in its in
cipient and early stages.
Many reactors are among the fat
test cattle, which would appear to be
in the best of physical condition. The
only way to bo at all sure that your
cow or cattle are free from tubercu
losis is by means of the properly ap
plied test. This test does not in any
way interfere with the healthy ani
mal and is considered very efficient to
diagnose diseased animals.
John H. Morse.
Home Garden Fertilizing.
Don't make the mistake of trying to
garden year after year without manure
or some sort of fertilizer. There are
very few soils so rich that they do
not respond to good treatment in the
form of manure, fertilizer, and or
ganic matter of one kind' or another.
Manure is valuable for at least two
reasons.?because of the plant-food
elements it contains, and because it
supplies organic matter. Use it by all
means if you can get it; but if you
cannot, do not become discouraged,
for commercial fertilizers properly
used are effective substitutes. Many
large truck growers depend entirely
on fertilizers instead of manure. For
ease and convenience of application
commercial fertilizer has much to
commend it for the home vegetable
grower.
As to the kind of fertilizers, prob
ably the best all-around formulas are
2-12-2, 3-10-4 and 4-8-6. These con
tain all the necessary dements which
arc usually lacking. The first men
tioned fertilizer is adapted for the
richer and heavier soils where manure
has been used. The other two will
give better results on the average gar
den soii.
Nitrate of soda and sulphate of am
monia are fertilizer materials which
can be used to good advantage later in
in the growing season to force growth.
Mote c ue c. required in the use of
these.
After you have the soil well pre
pared ami ready for the seed, broad
< asi from four to eight ooueds of fer
tilizer for every hundred .-qu :re !eet,
and mix it well into the sod before j
planting. After the crop is three to
four inches high, another application
can be made of ;( smaller quantitj
along <Ji<- rows on each side, taking
the young plants. Cultivate or stir
care that tin- fertilizer does not Louch
the fertilizer into the soil as soon
a:.- possible.
Fertilizers hasten crop growth.?the
resuh being earlier vegetables Fer
tilizers, however, . tnic ; take the
place of good seed-b**d preparation,
good cultivation, or water. All of
these things are essential for the high
est success m the family garden.
Chicago, June 8 -Bandits lined up
dancers at Evanston and escaped with
nearly twenty-thousand dollars worth
of jewelry and cash.
Aid For Flood Sufferers
j Provided in Joint Resolution
Adopted in Congress
"Washington, June 7.?-A joint reso
I lution was adopted iate today by the
house and the senate authorizing the
secretary of war to extend all pos
sible relief to Colorado flood sufferers.
Previusly Senator Phlpps, of Colo
rado, had announced that ne and Rep
resentative Hardy, of the state, would
seek an appropriation of $1,000,000
for flood relief.
The resolution directs the secretary
of war to take aii possible sanitary
measures to safeguard the health of
the population in the flood district,
to furnish subsistence and shelter and
to give all other forms of aid.
Interment Camp for Irish Political
Prisoners,
Ballykinlar, Ireland, Kay 11.?The
internment camp for Irish political
prisoners established here last Novem
ber is now filled with 1,727 men. tt
was originally used as a training camp
for Ulster troops in the war and 2
divided into two enclosures which are
called cages.
Within each of these are rows o'
brown huts and an extensive recjre
tion ground, the whole ringed abtut
thickly with barbed wirf and over
looked by a number of high sent y
boxes.
There have been no escapes fi n
Eallykinlar and no attempted bre? i.
"Tunnelling would be impossible,'
an officer said, "because the wa er
comes close to the surface of the
ground."
The men are housed 25 to a hut,
each being provided with a plank
bed, straw mattress and four blankets.
The Associated Press correspondent
and a representative c? an English
news agency was the hrst newspaper
men ever allowed to v-isit the cazhp,
which is about 30 miles from Belfasjt.
Scarcely a drearier spot is to be found
in Ireland. The camp is pitched on
a fiat which is swept by all the winds
that sport on Dundrurri Bay. "W*
have a lot of rain here," 3aid one of
the British army officers in charge.
"We get the maximum rain fall."
The prisoners were shy of the news
paper men. Joseph McGrath, a mem
ber of parliament from a Dublin dis
trict, a prisoner who holds the post of
the Irish Supervisor of Interneesr,"
voiced his distrust of the correspond
ents who sought to interview him
about prison conditions. .'^
"How do I know who you are?'*,he
asked. "Any outsider allowed -to
come into this camp is bound to be
suspect from our point of view. Tpu
could not come unless the military au
thorities consented.
"Even if you are what you say you
are, anything I told you would be sub
ject to censorship before 'ou were al
lowed to publish it. I a tn willing.tb
gire you a written state.aent if "yo?.
can undertake to print it as submitted
The Irish people will never learn the
truth about conditions here until we
are relased and can tell them our
selves."
Dr. Hayes, another member of the
Dail Eireann, also refused to make .p,
statement, but both men. talked, it
some length with the visitors.
Two sleeping huts inspected by thfi
newspaper men were clean ami well
kept and there were stove firea bunk
ing. Prisoners do the cooking under
the supervision of a British army,?er
geant. The interned men were at
their evening meal in the messroom
and locked up with curiosity' at the
sight or strange civilians. They ranged
in age from youths to elderly men. -
One of the first prisoners encoun
tered in the camp was a Dublin barri
ster whose long white beard gave him
the look of a patriarch. He complain
ed to the escorting officer that he had
failed to reecive the literary supple
ment of a London paper to which he
had subscribed.
Except for supervision by the mili
tary authorities, the prisoners "run
their own show." They 2 ;e organized
in units of about 100 each under a
captain. Each of the two cages has
a supervisor of internees who, until
a few weeks ago, was known as
?'camp commandant." The prisoner*
had regular military drill daily
and, according to Mr. McGrath, they
were "ready for rifle practice," when
the authorities put a stop to the drill
ing and changed the titles of the
"commandants" to something less
military in sound.
Football is the principal diversion
of the internees. A reading room-is
provided and the men are permitted
to subscribe to recognized magazines
and newspapers, which are delivered
daily. They have their own chaplain,
a prisoner, and anothe* priest living
outside the camp is also available.
The colonel in charge of the camp
read the following scale of rations
for internees: Bread, one pound daily;
meat, 10 ozs. 5 days a week; baosn,
S ozs. one day a week; fish. 3-4 lb. one
day a week; beans, lentils, peas... 2
ozs.; potatoes. 10 ozs.; vegetables, 4
ozs.; tea. 3-4 oz.; sugar, .2 ozs.; oat
mea: . 2 ozs.; salt. 1-4 oz.; margarine
1 l-L' ozs.; milk, three men to the titt.
This could be suplerp'-nted from the
prisoners* canteen, whose stocks they
were permitted to select themselves
"No limit is placed on the number
of incoming letters. From 600 to 7?0
are reeieved daily. A prisoner may
send out. three letters a. week About
400 prisoners' parcels arrive daily;"
the colonel said. It was stated that}
lit men had been discharged from
the cam]) since it was opened. After
seven days' internment, prisoners may
appeal for release. Those released;
were usually required, it was said, to
sign a paper stating that they had
never been members cf the Irish Re
publican Army and that they were
I loyal British subjects.
It seems almost impossible for edi
tors and owners of um?r 'las to save
anything for a rainy ?ay.?Ambridge
(Pa.) News-Herald.
! Personally we have considerable
j egotism, but something tells us that
I if we were a fish we would nab the
'hook.?Dallas News. ? 1
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