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TheY.M.C.A.Debt Movement Started to Put Or Campaign to Raise a Fund Sufficient to Pay Off Indebt ness of Local Association J _ A conference was held yesterday between the directors, of the Sumter Y. M. C. A., and Mr. C H. Tave ?baugh. of Atlanta and Mr. T. B. Lan ham of Columbia to discuss plans for ?putting: on a campaign here to raise a fund to pay off the indebtedness of the local association. The situation ?was thoroughly canvassed and the conclusion was reached to put on a campaign, beginning December 5th. to raise the necessary money to dis charge the indebtedness that has been a burden and a handicap to the as sociation for several years. Mr. Tavebaugh directed the campaign for ihn Columbia Y. M. C. A- a few months ago and succeeded in putting it over and raising all the money that was needed. First Cotton Bloom Four Farmers Brought in Their . First Blooms This Morning Four farmers this morning brought In the first cotton blooms of the sea son. The first to arive was W. J. Stafford, of the Second Mill section, who has acquired the habit of having the first bloom and getting out the j Iflrst bale of cotton. The second bloom came from the farm of T. A. DuBose. The third bloom was brought in by John Sumter, colored, of the State burg section, who was not satisfied to enow one specimen, but brought one bloom that he found Tuesday, and two that opened this morning. He also brought a cotton plant that had two blooms almost ready to open and eight forms in various stages of de- j .velopment. He said he had not been j troubled by boll weevils as yet. and j the squares on the plant showed no I evidences of having been punctured.' The fourth first bloom candidate was B. Pogue, the local hackman, who had a bloom that opened yesterday. Want County Court Spartanburg Grand Jury Recom mends Several Changes Spartanburg, June 16.?The grand jury in its final presentment recom mends a county court and the re modeling of the court house to pro vide for tne court room being on the third floor and the second floor be ing made into an office building. It j&Tso- urged the rural policemen to keep up their vigilance in hunting ?own^ distilleries which are said to abound in the county. In his charge to the grand jury Judge Sease rec ommended these things. The present ment of the grand jury is an in dorsement of the court's stand on the" matter. Making Over Peru's Navy American Naval Officers in Charge of Job Lrima, June 9.?Reorganization of the, personnel and chief administra tive branches of the Peruvian navy is now proceeding under direction of tho United States naval mission which was sent here six months ago, upon invitation of the Peruvian govern ment. The mission probably will remain in Peru two years. It said to be the first of its kind from the United States? to visit a South American re public. Commander F. B. Freyer is chief of the mission. He was formerly gov ernor of Guam and was Assistant Judge Advocate General of the navy, stationed at Washington before com ing.here. Other members are Com manders L. D. Causey. J. A. Bull and Ci'l>. Davy, the two latter of the TTnit- } ed.Stat'* fleet naval reserve. Commander Freyer. as chief of the general staff of the Peruvian navy, reports to the Peruvian Minister of Marine. Commander Causey has been placed in general charge of ships of the division. Commander j Davy is Director of the Xaval Aead .eroy and Commander Bull is pay master general. * Commander Freyer said he had re ceived the hearty co-operation of the 'local naval authorities since hi3 ar rival. Tbe Swygert Manier Ca:*e. Columbia. June 14.?The Job. C Igpjlrert murder case is now with the fflttpreme court, and a hearing for the &it&t in" Greenville, has been order aip; at which time the state will show ?flphy the case should'not be trans ferred to Lexington '-oiinty. rather .than be tried in Richland. Th^ or der to this effect war; issued by Asso ciate Justices Watts and Cothran, and is-returnable in <;re??nviil?\ wb ??:??? the ?justices will be for conference the last part of this month. ? Swygert is charged with the mur der of Dr. J. C. Nicholson, of T. es Ville. When the Richland xrand jury "received the indictment last week, it at first refused to a? t on it. on the ground that the ease should be fri<-d 4ii tJeadngton. Judge Towns^nd, how ever;, ordered the grand jury <>, take the'; indictment again, and a *'tr?e bilF* -was found. The shooting took p la <??.-. jn Lex ington, but on orders of Attorney Ceneral Wolfe the case was transfer red to Richland. Dr. Nicholson hav ing died in Columbia. The Lexing ton grand jury was indignant at the transfer^ according to a resolution adopted by it. The ?rd.er of the .supreme court postpones the trial from the present term in Columbia. The supreme court's df?c!slon will settle the ques -or venue for this trial, Do Not Give up to Boll Weevil. (Augusta Chronicle). "Don't give up. but fight the hard er" is the advice given to farmers with their cottonfields heavily infest ed with boll weevils, by C. A. Whit tie. an agricultural expert of the southern soil improvement commit tee. who has been studying the agri cultural conditions in the Augusta territory, and who has just come from Waynesboro, where he address ed the agricultural society of Burke county. Speaking of the boll weevil in the Augusta teritory. Mr. Whittle says: "The farmers of this region seem to be afflicted with a bad case of boll weevil blues. Here and there are in stances .of farmers giving up the fiKht beeause the boll weevil has appeared in greater numbers than usual on the young cotton plants. "My advice is: Don't give up?just fight the harder. "Things may not be as bad as the farmer thinks. The fact is. the situ ation is not asi bad as the farmers of this region stem to regard it. It is ad mitted that the past winter and the spring have been favorable to the boll weevil but there is always a chance that the weather will not continue to | favor the weevil?and the farmer I [does not want to miss any chance. ! "Early infestation of weevils has , often been followed by climatic checks that have given the cotton grower the upper hand before the pe riod of setting the crop has ended. "But don't count on the weather alone. Fight the weevil by any method that will kill him. "Thi3 year as at no previous time during weevil infestation in this ter ritory, labor is cheap. For that rea son killing weevils is a more econom ical practice than it has been. "In view of the great number of weevils it would seem appalling and impractical to pick them. It certain ly would be if anything like five cents apiece were paid for picking weevils. "But there are some method more economical for destroying the weevils than picking them by hand even though hand-picking could be done more cheaply now than heretofore. It is a well-known fact that a drag ging sack or strap attached to the plow will knock many weevils off ot the stalk and into the hot sand. Many of the older and less active weevils will die in the hot sand when thus dislodged from the stalk. "If when the weevil is dislodged from the stalk it is knocked into a pan of kerosene, there is afforded assurance that those weevils will no longer do any damage. "But it is only the young stalk that should be agitated. When the stalks get up 12 or more inches high th? agitators should be discarded. The:, hurt the cotton plant too much. "In the region of Augusta there seems to be considerable interest in sprinkling the small plants with cal cium arsenate. Doubtless some wee vills will be killed in this way. but mere sprinkging this material from a bag. will not place it all over the ?plant?the underside as. well as the top side of leaves?so as to poison all of the drinking water of the wee vil?the dew. ii "In certain sections molasses and calcium arsenate are applied as a mixture, the idea being that the wee vil has a "sweet tooth" and in eating the molasses will get a dose of pois on. However that may be. it is con ceivable that a thirsty weevil may drink anything when there has been several dewless nights in success. He may tackle the poisoned molasses and then become a good boll weevil?a dead one. "It is surprising how unanimom the farmers of this region are in op position to applying calcium arsenate with spraying machines. Something has certainly gone wrong. No such failures have accompanied the use ol calcium arsenate in Louisiana and Mississippi. A thorough investigation should be inaugurated and if mistakes have been made that can be obviated in the future, the farmers should know about them. "There are dangers, of course, ol mistakes being made with the intro duction of air. new thing, and it ii conceivable how mistakes in the use of calcium arsenate could easily be made. "But it is apparent that cotton farmers are not in position to spend much money on further experiment ing with spraying of calcium arse nate. It is rather expensive. "Up to a certain point in the growth of the cotton plant, the pick ing of fallen squares will help hold the boll weevil in check- Bach fall en square contains an immature boll weevil. Destroy tic square and" po tential subsequent generations are killed. "But when all of the squares are punctured as fast as they form, then is the time to stop the fight. All the cotton that can be made has then bef n set. "If an application of nitrogenous top dressing is going to be marie to cotton, it should be made immediate ly. If put on the latter part of June or the first of duly it. will tend to favor the damage of the boll weevil. I "It is going to fake good soil man jagement. intensive fertilization and ; thorough cultivation to make cotton in th?* future. But the cotton farm ers who bold on. learn how t<< com bat the boll weevil and who insti tutes a more self-sustaining type of agriculture, will be as successful as any other elass of farmers in the world." Cock Fighting in Irelaud. Dublin. June 7. fti the midst ol [all the turmoil in Ireland, the popu j Jar but illegal sport of cock fightinp I is not being allowed to lapse. Then has just been a great assembly of a1 least 1.000 people in an island oj Lough S?eagh. j Some fights took place, but before jthey concluded 150 police succeeded in reaching the island. That ended j the matches. The spectators were I permitted to go free. Four-fifths of the diamond cutters ; in Amsterdam are out of work. The world is more interested in carrots ?than karats.-?Kock tslanrl Argus. Hot Sport in Turkey Cockroach Races Popular in Constantinople Constantinople. June 7.?Betting or cockro'ach races is one of the newest sports here. It was introduced by a Russian who has just opened a hall where a man who wants some real exictement for his money can get re sults. The hall is darkened at the moment the race is to begin. Then a single electric light at the end of a runway is turned on. and the cockroaches, each in a separate track, are let loose from their cages to race for the light. More real, old-fashionde. non-pro fessional sport may be had here than in any other city of Europe. This is due in part to the allied troops of oc cupation, to the American officers and sailors on stafam here, and the large number of American officer:-, and sail ors who have come out for business since the armistice. What the Russian refugees have done in the way of enlivening the city with concerts, dancing places and queer restaurants, the other allies j have done in sporting iincs. In winter there is wild boar, duck and fox hunting. There is also, in and out of season, plenty of horse- \ back riding over the dirt roads and j unfenced streu lies of upland country on both sides of the Bosphorus. Horse races are often he'd. Roth the British and the Americans j have laid out golf courses. There are j also a few tennis courts. The troops 2nd sailors within the pity have taken charge of a large field near Taxim. in the center of Pera j and there play football and baseball matches. Yachting and swimming arc commonplace sports open to all. The Russians from the Piack Sea. -.vho are accustomed to bathe naked, lave increased the popularity of the reaches, especially a fine strip of sand :>n the Marmora north shore known is Floria. There, without let or hin drance, men. women and children, un dress on the open beach and bathe in costumes that seem quite conven- j ional here. The Turks have contributed ehick ?n fights to the international sports. To Regulate Diet for Athletes. Hanover. N. H.. June 14.?A study -?f the health of members of the rreshman class, to be used as the oasis of regulating their diet and dan which will be associated with the dan will be associated with the reshman compulsory athletic course. )ne of its aims will be to work out a ?roper balance between the height tnd weight, of each man in order that le may do the best possible work in ;tudies and athletics. Harry Hillman. track coach and head of the department of reorea ional athletics for freshmen, will di rect the study and its application, -fe has formulated a nutrition scheme by which, he plans to keep a check on every freshman's health and habits and udvi:-;o him how best to regulate them. The plan is still incomplete, out. he. general outline has been adopted. A rigid examination will >recede assignment of students to athletic groups. Men who are nor mal wlil be allowed to engage in the egular activities. Others will be vatched and advised how to modify habits and diet, in order to obtain a iroportionate relation of wejgiu to leight. Once the requirements of condition is reached they will be free o elect their sports. Zion City Makes Drastic Rules For Dressing Zion. III.. June 4.?The City fathers >f the city of Zion evidently overlook ed the fact that drosses would have 3 cendency to shorten at both ends. They covered the tops with an ordi lar-'e. but neglected the bottoms. W. Hurd Clendinen. Mayor of Zion. has had his attention called to this alpable neglect on 'he part of the Ufvic powers. He was thunderstruck wl n he saw how weak the ordinance >vas and how helpless the law was to ict where women had paraded in/ hort skirts. The present ordin.anc- imposes a ine of from one to 2 hundred dollars. >r from five davs to six months in he city hastily for appearing in pub ic in "peekaboo" or mosquito-net lockings, in sleeves that do not come 'own to the middle of the forearm. >r in blouses that "expose, or partial y expose, the neck and should?rs a reater distar.ee than a thirl part I from the neck 'o the tip of the shoul lers." The wearing of such attire is leemed "immodest' vulgar, indecent ind suggestive of low and vicious renal;, tending to debauch innocence I md purity and degrade the best in terests of society." Hot the lengths ot he skirt.- are no! mentioned. A Soldier of Garibaldi. London, June 7._ -Jules Sambon. iged 84. one of Craribaldi's famous thousand volunteers who fought for he independence of Italy has just died h'c-e. (p. was twice wounded >n the Volturno battlefields; At one time he owned a remark able collection of ancient objects il lustrative <d' the history of the tbeatei throughout! he ages. This w;is ac quired by the Italian government and now forms the museum of the Scala Cheater in Milan, lb- was also the ittthor of a notable, work on coins. Sambon married Laura Elizabeth l?;iy. ;i r??la.iive of Charles? Dickens and descendant of Vitus Bering, the na viga lor. Boycoit on English Wares. Hamburg. June v- Proprietors of hotels and restaurants in Hamburg have declared n boycott against Eng lish and French wares as a protest ? gains' the institution of the allied penall ies on i he Rhine. French wines and liquors and Eng lish preserves are no longer in any restaurant or wineroom. An effort is being made extend the boycott to other cities. _c ^ mdMM j Who Owns the Streets? ! Controversy Between City of Columbia and University Trustees Columbia, June 9.?Considerable I inter est attaches t<> the outcome of ithe "controversy." if it can be called by such a strong- word, between the city of Columbia and the University in regard to the streets that cross the University campus. The University trustees want to close up these streetr. and the city is of the opinion that they should be left open. The matter is under discussion in a friendly way. with City Councilman W. A. Coleman as the city's spokesman, and the out come depends on an opinion from At torney General Wolfe as to the Uni versity's right to close the streets. The idea of the trustees is to close up Bull street, running behind the president's mansion, and Green street, adjoining the ball park, through the entire length of the campus, and to eventually remove the wall to the rear of the president's home and make the campus larger and a unit. At present the streets cut the campus into several sections. The trustees last Monday adopted a resolution calling on the attorney gen eral to render an opinion as to whether or not the University could close the streets for public purposes. As yet the resolution has not official ly reached the attorney general, but he will probably prepare his opinion as soon as he receives the communica tion. The action of the trustees is said to have been prompted by the refusal of the city to pave the streets through the campus. The city merely postpon ed paving the streets through the campus until the state can appropri ate its share of the cost of the pav ing, the paving program being car ried on on the fifty-fifty basis, the city paying half and the owners of abutting property paying half. The legislature did not appropriate money for its half of the cost this year, though the city has its extensive pav- ! ing under way. Officers of the s. C. X. G. Regiment. Columbia. June 16?T. E. Mar chant, of Columbia. ^3 colonel, and it appears that E. C. VonTresckow, of Camden. will be lieutenant col onel, of the First South Carolina Na tional Guard regiment, as a result of the election of officers of the outfit this week. The election for a major of the third battalion resulted in a tie between Capt. A. M. McLeod. of Camden. and Capt. Murray Mack, of Fort Mill. Adjutant General Moore has not yet announced how this tie will be broken. Large Summer School More than a hundred high school teachers, from all parts of the state, are enrolled for the summer course at the University, the largest enroll ment for this course that has been registered in ejg-fit years. The course started today and will last through the L'lst of July. Gas Company Arrested The case against Columbia Rail way. Gas and Electric Company., charging contamination of a stream, will probaly go to the circuit court it was stated by attorneys here today. The warrant for the company was sworn ou? by Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson, and charged that coal' far gas dumped from the Columbia gas plant into the Congaree river kills fish in the steram. A similar case several years ago was thrown out by the grand jury. R?ey Guilty J. R. Riiey. formerly of Colum- J bia. but now a newspaper man of 1 harleston. was found guilty in the j court of general sessions here yester day afternoon, on the sharge of non support of his wife and child. Pee Dee Bridge The state highway commission, ac cording to announcement made to day, has decided to locate the Pee Dee bridge a! the site selected by1 the iw. r>ee Bridge Commission, thus bringing to an ?n(l a long contro versy ovo'* the question ot where this span would span the Pee Dee. The new site of the bridge will be located at the Mars Bluff landing. The high way department engineers found a location higher up the river, more advantageous from an engineering standpoint, it was said. However, this will be abandoned. Plans for the structure are to be made at once. Kingman-Sanders Bridal Party Bn tertiJued. On Tuesday evening following the rehearsal for the Kingman-Sanders wedding. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Phillips entertained the wedding party and a few friends very informally at their home on Washington St. The house was lovely with quan tities of yellow daisies. The hall and parlor were cleared for dancing, and in the living 10.on tables were ar ranged foj cards, in the dining room tall, yellow-shaded candles in silver I holders shed a ???><'< radiance over the J polished mahogany table with its gleaming silver and cen*erpiece of yellow daisies. Here a buffet supper J \vas served consisting of a fruit salad with dainty sandwiches, followed by ices in the form <>f yellow slippers, small yellow iced calves and mints in I \ell??w 111 lip basket*!, j Those present were the bride and I groom elect, the other members of the i a ????i'l i m?; party. Misses Emma Pijiek ney. Marion Coker ot' TimmonsivUe. Marlon Moore of Savannah, Helen j 11 untiicutt of A she vi lie. Sadie San ders o: Beauforr. Mrs. VV. <?. Court right. Messrs John Ria? lim:. Joe Wiggins. Haroid Laws?>n. W. O. Courtright. Wilhj.m Califf of Char I lesion. De I gar Dom. Teddy Martin of Charleston. Jerome Collier. Dr. E. .1. Smith of Charleston and L?rle Misses Elizabeth Graham and Mary Phillips, j Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kingman. Mr. j and Mrs. \Y. C. Morrison. Mr. and i Mrs Gustave Sanders and Miss Julia Sanders of Beaufort. Rev. j. b. Walk er and Mr, Herman Myers. Death of Mrs. Aiiall. (Columbia State. June 16) Mrs. J. W. Ariail, wife of the Rev. J. W. Ariail of Bowman, died at the residence of her son. Prof. J. M. Atiail of Columbia College, at an ear ly hour yesterday morning. Mrs. Ariail had been with her daughter in Charleston for treatment for some time and her son brought her to Co | lumhia about ten days ago. Mrs.: Ariail suffered a sinking spell yes terday morning from which she nev ei rallied. Before her marriage she was Miss Carrie E. Hodges of Sumter. Her father was CapL G. W. Hodses of j Brownsville. H<>- mother was Miss Charlotte DeLorn. Britten of Sum ter. Forty-one years ago she was married to Mr. Ariail and during this time she has lived in various sec tions of the state. She was a wom an with the ideals of the old school, gentle, kind, unselfish, and the an nouncement of her death will bring sorrow to a host of friends through out the state. Besides her husband she is sur vived by the following children: Mrs. Emma A. Ellis of Charleston; Prof. J. M. Ariail of Columbia; Dr. C. C. Ariai! of Greenville, the Rev. Warren j G. Ariail of McClellanville. Robert j ! Ariail of Mullins and Misses Nell and Rowena Ariail of Bowman. She has large family' connections in Sumter and Marlboro counties. Mrs. Ariail was born March 8, 1861, and was therefore 60 years of age at the time of her death. All of the family v.ere at her bedside when the end came with the exception of Dr. Ariail. who had left from his home Monday night, the Rev. W. G. Ariail. who was on his way her0, and Miss Rowena Ariail. who was sick at her home in Bowman. The body will be carried to Sum ter today leaving at 4:20 o'clock this afternoon and the funeral ser vices will be conducted there by Dr. J. W. Dnniel of Sumter and Dr. R. S. Trucddale of Columbia. The in terment will take place in the Sum ter cemetery. Dr. J. C. Guilds and Dr. R. H. i Munson of Columbia college and Mayor W*. F. Cleveland of College Place will be among the pallbearers. The other pallbearers will be from Sumter. Shall VVc Poison in 1921? Clemson College. June 15.?On fertile, high yielding land where the weevil is very destructive, we recom mend poisoning provided it is done intelligently; but the price of cotton having fallen faster than the cost of machines, poison, and labor, it is obvious that a corresponding high yield per acre is necessary to offset the expense of treatment and insure h profit, says Prof. A. F. Conradi. chief entomologist. It is as cheap to poison cotton that makes a bale per acre as it is to poison cotton that makes one-half bale per acre. Under what conditions is poison ing most profitable? Where cotton acreage has been reduced to the point where the crop can be given 'exceptionally good care, and where the fertility of this smalier acreage is continually being increased by the incorporation of legumes, manure, and intelligent fertilization. The results from poisoning are most j profitable on high yielding land. Poisoning will never take the place of soi] building but poisoning is most profitable in a system of diversified farming that has soil-building for its chief aim. Tiie principal handicaps in poison ing in 1920 were the failures on the part of farmers to inform themselves adequately; the scarcity of specially constructed machinery; the adverse weather conditions; and the failure [on the part of the farmers to provide [checks that were dependable, so that reports of the results of poisoning carried but very limited weight. How to Poison. The United States Delta laboratory. Tallulah, La., gives the following directions on "How to Poison." Use only pure calcium arsenate in the form of a dry powder. Apply this only in the dust form. Pur chase this to conform to the follow ing specifications: Not less than 40 percent total arsenic pentoxid. Not more than 0.75 percent water soluble arsenic pentoxid. Density not less than 80 or more than 100 cubic inches per pound. Have your county agent send a sample of your calcium arsenate to the Delta laboratory. Tallulah. La., for free analysis to make sure that it is satisfactory. Use only dusting machinery es pecially constructed for cotton dust ing. Poison only when the air is calm and the plants are moist. This practically means making only night applications. t'se about 5 to 7 pounds of cal cium arsenate per acre for each application. Start poisoning when the weevils have punctured from 10 to 15 per cent of the squares. Keep your cotton thoroughly dust ed until the weevils are under con trol. This usually means about three applications at the rate of one every four days. Then stop poisoning until the weevils again become abundant. [f the weevils become abundant early enough to injure your young bolls, make one or two more appli cations late in the season. [f you have a heavy rain within '11 hours after dusting, repeat this application immediately. !><> not expect to eradicate the weevils. Poisoning merely controls them suffich ntly to permit a full crop of cotton. Keep your cotton acreage low and do everything possible to increase your yield per acre. Always leave an occasional portion of a cut unpoisoned for comparison with the adjoining poisoned j^raet This will show how increased your yield If you are consid write the Delta lulah. La., for Whose Baby Is This? New Born Girl Infant Left at Home of Mr. J. C. Rogers Near White's Mill _ i Mr. J. C. Rogers, who lives on the Eishopville road, beyond White's Mill reported to Sheriff Hurst today that very early Tuesday morning Mrs. Mary Campbell came to his house and turned over to himself and Mrs. Rogers a. new-born white baby girl and asked them to take care of it. Mrs. Campbell explained that at about 3 o'clock the same morning she wa3 awakened by a noise made by some one coming to her door-step and that when she went out to investigate she found the baby. It was evidently only] a few hours old. It was wrapped in one garment and a blanket, but there was nothing by which it could be identified. Mrs. Campbell is connect ed with Mr. Rogers by marriage and she took the baby to him to be cared for until some disposition could be made of it. Mr. Rogers told the sheriff that the baby was such a strong, healthy and pretty little crea ture that his wife fell in love with it at once and wanted to keep it. He applied to the sheriff for advice as to what he should do and what course he should follow in order to legally adopt the little waif, that had been, discarded by its mother. Mr. Hurs*, advised Mr. Rogers that he could kee? the child, unless its mother should ap pear and present proof that the baoy was her's. Deadlock Unbroken Washington. June 16.?The con ferences between the house and sen ate over the naval appropriation- bill ended in a deadlock. The bill with, the Borah disarmament conference amendment was taken back to the house for action. Wood bu rn - Ma nheira Wedding at St, John's Church, Washington; Washington, D. C, Evening Stair. The marriage of Miss Margaret Kathryne Manheim, daughter-of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Manheim of. 1744 P street northwest, and Caot. Thomaa Bennett Woodburn/ U; S.' A*, took place Friday evening. June 10, at St. John's Church, Rev. Edward- Slater Dunlap, assistant rector, officiating. The bride was escorted byhe'r sis* ter, Mrs. Julian Childe Dorr, a bride of March 25, who also "acted as maid of honor, and Major Thomas Lee Gore of Edgewood arsenal. Maryland, acted as best man. On account of , a very recent bereavement in the fam ily of the bride the arrangements tor the wedding as originally planned were chaged, and there were no guests present except the attendants. Capt. Woodburn is stationed .'at Camp Holadird. and the couple left immediately after the ceremony for Baltimore, where they will reside at the hotel Bellsvue until the 1st.. q? July Mrs. Woodburn is a niece of Chief J. M. Harwick of Summer. ?1 ? ? r Notable Meeting of Prominent Edu cators. Des Moines. Ia., June 3.?Democ racy in education is to be one of the chief topics of discussion at the na tional convention of the National Ed ucational association, to be held in Des Moines next July 4, 5, 6, 7, and S. . Among noted speakers at the con vention will be Herbert Hoover, Unit ed States secretary of commerce; Judge Ben Lindsey of the Juvenile court of Denver, Colo.; Dr. A. -?H. Rhinehart of Mills college; Chas. H. Baker, field worker of the Internat ional Rotary; Fannie Fern Andrew^ authoress, of Boston, Mass.; WiJliani C. Eruce. editor of the School Boat* Journal of Milwaukee; John A. H. Keith, president of the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute. Indl; Dr. Thomas D. Wood and George D. Strayer of Columbia university; and John F. Sims, president of the Stev ens Point (Wis.) collere. Other not ed speakers will be on the program, but have not definitely accepted the invitations to attend, according'to Chas. E. Pye. local secretary. In addition to the above the follow ing state superintende; s of publicfci struction have signing their inten tion of being present: <5'"red L. Shaw, South Dakota; Augustus O. Thomas, Maine; May Trumper. ? Montana; W. N. Sheats. Florida; M P. Shawkey. W. Virginia; Annie Webb Blanton. Texas; E. A. Brooks. North Carolina; L. N. Hines. Indiana, and J. M. Gwitia. Louisiana. Also the following who are prominent ia the educational world: Sam A. Baker. JenTersba City. Mo.; J. H. B?veridge. Omaha, Xeb.; F. D. Boynton. Ithica, N. T.; I. B. Busch, Erie. Pa.. Frank Cody. Detroit. Mich.; Howard Driggs, Uni versity of Utah; Wm. T. Harris, Joj> lin. Mo.; E. W. Johnson, University of South Carolina; A. S. Cook. Balti more. Md.; J. C. Cra'obe. president Colorado State Teachers' College; Theda Gildemaster, president Minne sota State Normal at Winona; Min nie Nielson. state supjrintendent of North Dakota; Ethel C.lReddeld, state superintendent of Idaho; W. W. Mc Intyre, University of Ohio; Jesse H, Xewlon. Denver. Colo.; H. B. Smith, secretary Colorado State Teachers' as sociation; R. O. Stoops, Joilet, III. < This year's convention will be the first to be held under the delegated plan. There are to be about 1,500 delegates present. Educators will watch with interest the outcome of the first gathering since the reor ganization of the assoc ation. as the method of electing ont| delegate for each 100 members is expected to have great influence on the? deliberations the oenvention. o doubt the underworld . would rfully consent to a Sisarmaraj&nt rence on the understanding that lice were to disarm first.-?Kan* v St nr.