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^^tcKirian and Southron and Satnr <*ay by ^Company, ^ter, ..S. t\ Serins: *$&z9? f*tr ? annum?in advance. Adver fisemcntsi ^SSJarev first. rhs-rtion ..$1.00 insertion .. .50 for three months or , will be m?de at reduced d Communications which sub private interests will be for as advertisements, tttaxies and tributes, of re wiU be charged for. ie, Sumter Watchman , was in. 185*;: and. the True intjirom in 1S6(C The Watchman |and Southron now -has the com Jlbined; .circulation and in fluenee of J^hx/Of old papers, and is man ifestly the best ?advertising -medium ?tin Sumter; ?'' A FRSEXD -XX* NKUD. "|f',-For the past'six weeks this pa ^er.-. lia?-;--been -.printed .md s*ut p|K?gular"b'r to subscribers, although r0iir- ?'pri*<ting plan*, was in ashes p^?^thoefDairy, Item was without a l^ome or habitation.. That the pa ; per was.'fesuexl da-i'y. wiohout miss fM&g- an 'issue- ? was due entirely the:;' generouo : assistance of JMr^-'-Jas .Izlar. Sims, of the |?Xnw#.-and. Democrat, of Orange 0^KB^] who placed, -his well equip-, '^e^y printing plant at our service. ^0q^^iMa^ ' service' 'and the many '-&CIB of lindly co-ope-.-ation that fib^^d'members of his organiza i';rendered the Daily Item force ; t?ey were ? sojou n : ing i n ?fb^iig, we make gr?teiul ac hievement. Mi\ Sims was >t.-m offering' aid in a time d untiring in h.*ipii*g ?r help was required. - ?'<>*c SOME AfjfAD*. >B2p: printing plant of the Csteen -Company was destroyed fire on the night: of June ISth 1th, and since tha ttime its two isijers?the Sumter Daily and; ."the Watchman and irim? have been printed in iee?r?? the Times and Dem Orangeburg,?and they i Tissued reg^rfarly without sin' issue. This achieve 3^' which ail connected; with. *%:$?Sf^ . are,, naturally. ?tv4Plfe*le- proud, -was accomplish^ t syalJ cooperation- ol the^o;rce,T-the fraternal as Re.^fi?1'c ^J%,Si^s,.. .of f<tbttrg^ tl?mcs. vand -DemoaraV. .^placed the entire equipment irces'' Of * tjifeif ~p rTrTt^g "oj?r service: - The. Osteen ~&i&8&ii$k Company cwas repre sented in- OHM&$bvrg;Z while the l^^-wswaa^rls - were""~being printed fl^h McCarthy,'fore ?V "W. McGrow, ; make-up f^SV^n^aaon .and G. H.'. *>: 'operSR'orsL' * Tht the" paper : on ? tiau ^'.^??sslf^ed, except* bj i' ofv- the Times and: .wbc-torok ? charge' when ,.'fl^f^^ up and read} " press. The first issue of Item was printed in Monday " afternoon^ after the fire?-arid in' Sumter , by the thai afternoon a_ Tfte last C>r:ingelv>rg pnnteu -In Orangeburg ternoon, July 30tli. To \'.Is priiUed-'-iu-*o.Mr own* are at; home <^rain. Sk" of printing a daily pa Tar distant from the office petScatJon. having the work -onv schedule :tfrne and with a rree of efficiency, has been dif and.r.o one realizes better ih\se who have had the v/ork do the K?any shortcomings that <e marked the newspaper dur -^this; period of. rccoi-struction readjustment. Keaders, and ^iii^cTrs '"?'have ?ov.-rooked the *rs >f orok-kiR and v,-e tha^k f* r their forbearance and their hv-arter.icg suppt>rt in time of stress - and. trial. ie Sumter Daily Item is home a new building d~sisrned ouf iiee<ls and with a fine out of new machinery of the latest "models. The. equipment is not as > aa before the fire, but it is for immediate necessities, within a short time the plant be better equipped for all isses of printir.f*- than it was be yre the fire. We have faith in Slimter and have planned a print ^ing 'plant on this foundation of faith-. We cannot at this time ex tend an 5rtvita.tion to our friends to "visit the ntw ]>lar.t, for the work of installation is sti<I in pro gress* and b.rfore? we have a house warming we wish to have a chance ts> clean-u-p and _ make some prep aration to receive 'company. ^ffiE AND THE PUBLIC. "Some years ago ths editor of the Daily Item was.a.,kc*d to prepare japer on the general subject of relations of the press to the public. The following paper was the result. In it is embodied the ; ideas and ideals that the editor of this paper as evolved as the ba sic principles to be observed in conducting a newspaper, and . which he has endeavored to live up to. At this timey wnen the Daiiy -Ite!n is making a new start as the newspaper of Sumter, it stems not inappropriate to print the article as an outline of the duty that a real newspaper owes to the public it serves: j The duty of the press to the I public is epitomized in the single j word?Service. j All else that may be said on the ! subject is only an elaboration and ^explanation of the basic idea that the term service embodies. If the press does not sincerely and zealously serve Its public it falls short of its true mission and becomes an unprofitable and un worthy servant, a parasite on the body-politic as deserving of con tempt as a Godless priest or an innjust judge. This is an ideal conception of the press when doing its allotted work jin a civilized land and for an en lightened people who have the in telligence to appreciate such ser vice and the character to inspire it. But ideals are ever difficult of absolute Attainment, and never more so than when the press holds itself strictly to the performance of it3 full duty, in all "respects, to the public It serves. Unfortunate ly the press is not an inspired spir it unhampered" ~~.d unburdened with a carnal body. human worldly ambitions and human frail ties, and even those servants of the press who aim high fall below the mark. Sordid considerations or adverse circumstances so frequent ly obtrude in this, as in all other vocations, that the eyes even of those who have beheld the inspir ed vision of worthy service for ser vice's sake, are* dimmed arid they sturafble as they grope toward the iight, or their feet stray from the ^straight and narrow pathway. Izr e_cisting conditions the man ner in which the press performs Its duty is, at the very best, a 'compromise, and opinions differ .radically as to how the press may within the limitations that hamper an? circumscribe its. activities, \nost effectively serve < the public There are two antagonistic schools of thought respecting the procedure to be-fallowed in serving the ptiblic. One asserts that the ??Tress should reflect public senti ment; the other that the press ?should lead and mould public-opin ion, or at lea-3t, influence the trend of thought that affects the public. ? The desciplcs ,of both schools fall ! frequently into . error ; and thereby ^ox tiitfr public <th ill service in 'stead of conferring benefits.- But t}ibse who essay to lead, in :iiisen<je or educate the- public have sl clearer conception: oi the true . Xujxctlojn: :.of_the''; press than those who seek first to catch the drift of the prevailing, sentiment -. and then echo or reflect ItT" * Despite the fac?^ that' selfish ana unprincipled. ;wen have often seized upon and degraded - the> press, to advance their own schemes and to further ftheir personal ambitions^ the press -that represents an idea, stands for ?something definite and strives by the dynamic force or mind and cogent argument, to attain a cer tain ^nd, is more to be respected and should be preferred above that , other species of journal that seeks merely to Ingratiate itself in {the good graces of its public by j holding up to it a reflection of its j ephemeral sentiments and preju dices. i ' ' j Th?-re Is no such thing as pro gress, improvement and advance ment, material or spiritual, in iiiass, and the press that only re jects pubic sentiment, as it ap pears on the surface, is a bar to civic progress, since it represents ony the average, of its public and does not rise above the common place. Advancement- and better ment in manners, morals and ma terial conditions among a people are results, not causes, and are the legitimate offspring of thought transformed into action. Thought, real living thought, it is^admitted. is the product of the conscious ef fort of mind, and mind is individ ual, and singular Therefore, when public sentiment ,is spoken of in the sense of collective thinking it is equivalent to setting up a man of strr.w, for v.e are then discuss ing a thing that is non-existent; What is commonly denominated public sentiment Is not the mani festation of collective thinking,' but the discernible results of the reception and, generally, Incom plete assimilation of ideas de veloped in the mental laboratory of some individual who i3 neither commonplace nor the index of the average of his community and pe riod; or else public sentiment is, at Its worst, the noxious emana tions of prejudices, class hatreds or fanaticisms, insidiously instilled^ into the minds of the unthinking by demagogues, agitators or fa inatics So much being granted for j the sake of ihe argument,, it fol lows that the press that assumes that Its highest duty is to please and flatter its public by reflecting and championing what appears to be the predominant sentiment of the day, Is flittering away its op portunity for real service and ac complishes nothing of present valve or permanent worth. w ? . ? - There never was a more harm ful fallacy than the" favorite cry of the time servings demagogue: "The voice of the people is the voice of God." It all depends upon whether a false prophet, teaching evil, or a prophet of God, teach ing truth, a seer of wisdom or a prince of fools, has been whisper ing in the ears of the people. The press that accepts and acts upon the theory that the strident voice of the public is really and actual ly the voice of God made audiible. and, therefore, to be obeyed with out question or investigation, is perpetually led astray by more noisy clamor that has in it noth ing of divine wisdom and but rare ly a seasoning of common sense. The press that is satisfied to be the weather-cock of the commun ity ma.ves no contribution itself to ward the uplift' of the public and cannot become an influential force for positive good. Nevertheless, the reflector school of journal ism sometimes contributes a* great deal to the idle amusement of the public and it also helps in fixing a feeling of complacency and satis factioft with things as they are. Satisfaction breeds contentment and wherever contentment prevails' there is little progress?if not ac tual retrogression. Thus the conclusion is inevitable that it is not the duty of the press to reflect public sentiment, al though this policy may be easier ?"faciiis descensus Averno"? there being fewer obstacles en countered while following the path of least resistance, and greater ma terial rewards are garnered ? from catering to the follies and foibles of folks than from trying to teach them to think clearly and live wisely. The press with a conscience and a more or less exact realization of its prime duty to the public, and that is also possessed of an earn est desire .to improve its oppor tunity and to discharge the re sponsibility that rests upon it, cannot fail to wield an influence for good and to render real service. It either itself takes the leader ship in swift and vigorous crusades for right and justice, when wrong is paramount and the people op pressed, or *n the. slower, more thorough and, more resultful revo lutions that have been brought about without j strife, by patiently and assiduously educating public opinion along new lines i until old convictions and beliefs 'are 'dis placed and new ideas are firmly implanted in- the peoples' minds, so that the desired reforms in laws or customs are accomplished as if a part of the natural sequence of events; The press that has service as its motto does not arrogate Ao 0 itself the possession of all wisdom rior claim preternatural foresight; it is not jealous and intolerant of the opinions of others, but seeks to discover and to make more ser viceable, by disseminating as wide ly as possible, the useful and fruit ful ideas of the wisest and sanest minds of the time. The press be comes, as it were, the exchange of ideas, where the thoughts of. all the worth-while thinkers are list ed and displayed in order that all who thirst for knowledge and seek new ideas may attain this desire. It is a calling that demands broad mindedness, tolerance, a truly cath olic spirit, independence of thought and keen and unstinted .ympathy with and for humanity tn the mass. Unless it has these attiibutes it cannot do its full duty to the public. It must he endow ed with and cultivate the insight that detects and understands the inchoate ideals and aspirations of the great majority, whose untrai'n ed minds cannot formulate their thoughts for clear and forcible ex pression. In this way the press can become, at least, the mouth piece, if not the voice of the peo ple. In performing this oflice the press is rendering service, for the first step toward righting a wrong is to make that wrong known at the bar of justice. and in a free country the great jury is the read ing public. It was an honest, pa triotic, humanity loving press that Thomas Jefferson had n mind when he declared that a free press is es sential to the life of a democracy. He did not and could not have meant to give hrs approval to a press that would debauch and abuse its freedom by indulging in license, although the yellow jour nals and the subsidized press are both fond of quoting Thomas Jefferson in excuse for their mani fold abuses of the freedom they enjoy. But to depart from the. cons deration of the b?ty of the press to discuss the abuses that have crept in would foe to open up jtoo wide a subject to be treated adequately at this time as a sub isidiary topic. There is another phase of the duty of the press to the public that, while theoretically not so import ant as that of the principles that j should govern the press in dealing with political, economic, moral and similar questions that are the foundation-stones of society, is generally regarded as the chief function cf the press and the only valid excuse on tho score of busi ness efficiency for its existence. That is the news collecting and dis tributing activities of the newspa per. There have been various ans wers formulated to the question. What is legitimate news? Eut none are entirely satisfying. The one tha' sounds best and comes near est to being the correct answer is the slogan of the New York Times: "All the news that is fit to print." What is news? and, What is fit to print? are two separate and distinct problems that two Solo mons might solve, but if they were switched on their jobs they would probably differ in the answers they would give. What one man con siders news, and tne mort interest ing news at that, another has no j hesitation in classifying as mere rubbish. What one regards as a human interest story with just a sufficient spice of raciness to add relish to the repast, another de nounces as salacious vulgarity. One section of the public demands a j great deal of political news, an-1 other wants the sporting page spread all over the sheet. And the women whose tastes and rights must be taken into consideration, are strong for society news, with long strings of names of those present, verbal snapshots of the gowns they wore and itemized lists of the things to eat. News is a problem that has never been solv ed and the papers that print twenty to fifty page editions are no nearer satisfying the public than the smallest rolio. In making up a newspaper the purpose should be to give the story of the happenings of the com munity, the state and the world as accurately and a; fully as pos sible, correctly and entertainingly written, good English and an at-, tractive style being appreciated by every day newspaper readers a." j well as by professional high-brows, j When it conies to deciding what-! class of news should be given prominence and what relegated to comparative obscurity it is a mat ter of the.-^i?dividjial judgment of the man 'who CQntrols. the make up of the paper. ^ He who guesses nearest what the people who read his pap*T want, or can make hi3? readers believe ? that the way ho handles ? the . news is the best, IS' the most successful newspaper man." ? 1 " . There is,.;more 7m knowing what to leave oof of ? newspaper than in what to put in. A newspaper that is* honest and values its repu tation never knowingly prints an untruth?and no newspaper prints all the true news stories that come to its desk. Truth is often more cruel and does more needless in jury when told out of place than the blackest slander. Kence it is an accept-a rule of the press that in dealing with matters that fall under the head of news items, judgment and charity must be ex < 'vised in reaching a decision whether to print or omit. When no principle is at stake, when no good can be accomplished by mak ing public certain facts it is well to be silent. But when a principle is involved or where the interest? of the whole public can best bt, served by publishing the facts, the newspaper should be as fearless in giving publicity to the truth and in handling the news as it would be in discussing a political or mor al issue in the editorial page. All there is to it is the exercise of dis cretion, a wise and charitable judgment and a reasonable amount of courage in standing fast to one's convictions?and the newspa per will do its duty to the public as the purveyor or news. To my mind the motto that the Watchman and Southron has car ried at its head since the old True Southron was established here in Sumter more than fifty years ago to serve the public in a time of stress and trouble when the old civilization was in ruins from the effects of ,war and reconstruction, sums up the whole duty of the press to the public: "Be just and Fear not?Bet all 1 the ends Thou Aims't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." -o~&~o NO TIME TO QVIT The heavy infestation of the cot ton fileds in every section of the 1 county by boll weevil3 an dthe tre mendous amount of damago being done-?estimated by various Carniersj j to range from -10 to 9S per cent, has ! resulted in a species hopeless and doles panic among a certain num ber, of cotton growers, and they are throwing up their hands in despair. The real farmers, the men who pro duce something besides cotton and a few bushe ls of corn, are not i Jung this attitude. They are fighting the weevil and are buckling down to the task of making a liv ing and a little more out of their farms with greater energy and more dogged determination than ever before. Instead of being whipped they are going forward on the principle that the fight is just begining?and in the end they will not only win prosperity but obtain for all time victory over the boll weevil and independence from the oppressive rule of King Cotton. In every state and section that the boll weevil has infested there has been a large percentage of farmers who would listen to neith er warning nor advice before the weevils actually appeared, blindly insisting that the weevils did v<t amount to much at the worst and that they did not believe they would ever invide their cotton fields. They talked big before the weevils demonstrated their ability to de stroy the cotton crop so absolute ly that there remained not the vestige of hope of making ex penses, but when the weevils ap pared, they lay down on the job and quit. ( This country is not de pendent upon cotton, it is an in comparably rich country and Its people can by well directed industry live in comfort and produce wealth. Some of the farmers of Sumter county are in the hopeless state of mind atpresent, but they should re vive their courage and take hope. This is no time to quit. . A DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY. Forty years ago today?August 1, 1881?the Sumter Watchman and the True Southron were con solidated under the proprietorship of N. G. Osteen, who on that date acquired ownership of both news papers, having been connected with the True Southron as half owner from its establishment in 1SG6< and having owned a half in terest in the Sumter Watchman from January 20th, 1881. Thirty years ago today?August 1st, lSiH?H. G. Osteen assumed the post of editor of the Watchman and Southron.' Itds.a mere co-incidence that the date of the resumption of publica tion of the two papers in Sumter, after the forced six weeks' sojourn in Orangeburg, as the result of the! fire, falls on August 1st. , SUGAR' PRICES ' ' ' ! Sugar has started up again late ly. There is no telling how high it will go. There are many prophe cies of a big rise, wholesale and re tail.. ' ' ' In the face of this, one big re lining company has issued a state ment saying that it cannot under stand why prices should advance, because there is every indication of an over-supply, rather than a scarcity. It maintains that there is plenty of raw sugar to last un til October, and by thak time the new crops will be on the market. It is not aware of any crop short age. This is interesting but not con clusive. Last summer there was a plentiful supply, actual and pro spective, and yet everybody knows how sugar rose in price, until the gamblers and monopolies finally lost their grip on the supply. Everybody said last fall that such a situation would never hap pen again. Perhaps it will hap pen again, though, if public au thorities stand aside and consum ers fail to assert themselves. Or ganied greed hasn't yet got through tampering with economic law. ? ?fr 3? Captain J. E. Johnson The funeral services of Capt. J. E. Johnson, whose death from paralysis occurred in Henderson ville on Friday morning, we're held at the First Baptist church yester day afternoon at five o'clock and were attended by a large concourse of sorrowing friends. Capt. Johnson was one of the most popular men in the service of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, a ser vice extending over thirty-seven years without blemish of record and he was generally regarded as one of the best men in the com munity, a. man who enjoyed the highest respect of all who knew him. Dr. F. II. Martin conducted the funeral services which were simple and impressive. Honorary pall bearers werp the deacons of the church, the deceased himself having been a deacon. Dr. F. H. McLeod, R. B. Mar-. J. C. McClena ghan,, Thos. H. Harllee and B. W. Covingtun. The active pall bearers were Dr. I). H. Smith, Ii. R. Stuc key, F. Lee Howard, J. R. Clem mons, IL A. Smith and (J. C. Chan dler. There were numerous floral designs covering the grave at Mount Hope cemetery where the body was :ih< nvo.?Florence Times. -?: Coming Marriage. Mr. and Mrs. VV. R. Du Dose, of Oswego, have issued invitaions to the coming marriage of tln-ir daughter. Miss Kathleen, to Mr. William Arthur Hanimett, at He bron church on Thursday, August IS, at S o'clock. -*-e?-^ Richmond, Va.. August 2?Many women are voting In the Virginia primary today for governor and state officers. You'll get somewhere with a pipe and Prince Albert is sold in tortpy red bags, tidy red tins, handsome pound and half pound tin humidors and in the pound crystal glass humid or with sponge moistener top. Copyright 1921 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Wicston-Salem. N.C. 1 Start fresh all over again at the beginning f Get ? pipe!?and forget every smoke experience you ever had that spilled the beans! For a jimmy pipe, packed brimful with Prince Albert, will trim any degree of smokejoy you ever registered! It's a revelation! Put a pin in here! Prince Albert can't bite your tongue or parch your throat Both are cut out by our exclusive patented process. So, just pass up any old idea you may have stored away that you can't smoke a pipe! We tell you that you can?and just have the time of your life on every fire-up?if you play Prince Albert for packing! What P. A, hands you in a pipe it will duplicate in a home-made cigarette! Ge^ -but you'll have a lot of fun rolling 'em with Prince Albert; and, it's a cinch because P, A. is crimp cut and stays put! the national joy smoke Piegah Neros and Views The hot weather is playing havoc with the crops, they are full of sap from so much .rain. The. boll wee vil has made rapid progress dur ing the wet weather and all farms have them in abundance. The people have picked up the squares until their backs gave out from so much stooping, and they have all about quit as they can't stop the rapid progress of them. Corn looks wefl '? in places, Mr. J. Ii. Gillis, who farms extensively at Rembert, has fine corn. It looks as if it will make near 60 bushels to the acre. His cotton is good too. Miss Annie Keels, one of our young lady farmers, has a fine crop . of corn and cotton. Mr. J. F. Baker, one of our good planters, made one six acres of corn last year enough to do his farm of two horses, fed two fam ilies, four hogs and . sold 20 bush els and can sell a* much more and still have enough to last until he harvests this year's crop. He used 400 pounds of 8-D-3 to the acre," and 200 *pounds of soda around. How will that do? . Miss Lula Baker is vi. iting her sister, Mrs. Hatfield of Cassatt, S. C. Mrs. J. L. Gillis and daughter, Lula, are oft to the mountains for a while. Miss Gertrude Gillis has return ed from a visit to Charleston. She says she had a fine time. Miss Helen O'Shaughnessy and Lieut. S. E. Lc?e of Charleston, spent the week end with Mr. J. L. Gillis' family. A protracted meeting is going on at Pisgah this week. The pastor is going it alone. The Sunday School Convention of the Kershaw Association held a two days session last Saturday and Sunday at Shamrock church about 30#niles above Camden. It was a large and enthusiastic meeting and the proceedings all through were interesting and instructive. Miss Elizabeth Nichols of Columbia made a most interesting taik on the proper raising of children for religious work. She demonstrated her lecture by the use of pictures. The next convention will be held with the Cedar Creek church on the fifth Sunday in July or August next year whichever month the 5th Sunday falls.in. The officers of the convention elected, are J. E. Du Pre, president, Mr. Fundorburk. vice president and E. L. Cato, secretary. The ladies had a bountiful dinner for all and the hospitality of the people was unbounded. That is a line section of country. The people are well to do. Have a plenty to live on. believe in educa tion and progress along nil lines. I saw corn that is good for 90 to 100 bushels per acre. -<><?-> Marriage License Record White?Thomas Stephenson and Bertha Lucile Holland. Sumter. Colored?Carolina Williams and CLr*s>UJ:a Brogdon, Sumter. James Weston and Bessie Peterson, Dal zell. Eugen McCoy, and Lucile ! Cords, Sumter: Torn Bel!. Dillon Florence Conyers-, Sumter. ????>?*> Through an oversight in Mon day's issue, the name of Booth & iMeLeod was omitted from the li.-t of firms who furnished material for the new building of the Osteen Publishing Co. This company was one of the first at the new site with lumber for the building; an.! also furnished cement. Fidelis Entertain For Miss Brower Farewell Reception in Honor of Young*' Missionary The First Baptist church of Sum-'' ter is very grateful to God'for the record she is. sustaining in the act of sending out from' her member ship one who is to bear the glad itidnggs of peace and' good will to jthose who know not of Kim who is jour salvation. Miss Cornelia Brow r one of our own gl^js, has been ac cepted by the Foreign ?lissio* Board, and expects to leave/ :thi^ jweek for New York from .-whence ishe will embark for Chili,.to.ent -r' the foreign field. In honor of this noble young woman, numerous entertainments? have been given by the warious de partments of chuch workers, and many, useful and handsome pres ents have been bestowed cn hr-r. One of the most enjoyable of these occasions was the shower gfven by the Fideiis Glass of the Sunday I School and the O. A. Society on {the afternoon of July 21st. The young ladies with their friends gathered on the spacious lawn to do honor to the occasion, and a happy crowd they were. But the lowering clouds and falling rains necessitated their repairing to the Baraca Boom at the rear of the church. No to be outdoe. how ever, mirth, and pleasure had full sway?oid time games and con tests contributing to the merriment. The word Temuco, the city in Chili to which Miss Brower goes, was announced, out of the letters whicl. the greatest number of words wer. required to be made. The most resourceful young lady was Mr*. Timmons Edens; who exceeded in the contest?the prize, however, be ing handed over to Miss Brower. After this feature of the enter tainment, a rap at the doer was heard, the visitor being Master Douglas China, who appeared with a huge bundle. He inquired "Is this the "Ados"?the ship on which Mis3 Brower sails, "and is she on board." Upon being in formed in the affirmative, he hand ed on the package for the fortun ate young lady. All kinds of lovely jand usefu' gifts were contained in I this wonderful bundle, attesting the I love and appreciation of the Fidelis i Class for their friend and olasr mate. The evening was made joy ous by the mingling of glad voices in song arid jest, after winch the 'crowd disbanded, each heart ech oing a prayer, that as this show had brought good will and happi ness, still more might the gracious showers of blessings fall from the Ithrone of (bxl on the pathway of jour much-loved missionary to be, that she might be wo derfully used of God for the good of mankind an.d for the glory of Him in whose [service she has given her young life. J The many friends of Mr. Herbert Beilew were shocked and grieved to learn of his death on the 23d ai '.Johnson city. N. v., from typhoid I fever. Mr. Bellew, who was a shoe salesman with the Endicot j.Johnson Co., for this territory, has made Sumter his headquarters f ? over a year, and during that ti;:.?' .had made many friends in this section. About three weeks ago he was taken sick .-it a local hotel and upon the doctor pronouncing lit typhoid, he decided to go to his hor-e at Johnson City, X. Y., due ling Iiis illness. 'Washington,-?? Aug. 3.?Disposi-''. tion of'ame'h'dmehts to the agricul tural credits bill was begun by the ; Senate today, but . a vote on pass- / age of the measure', which: is fay-i;\ cred by the' administration; a:sub- [\ stitute for the original Norris bill,-, Went o-ver.'i'- ? : ? : ?-. >d. '?? fTwo 0;f a I score of pending amendments were adopted after a hard fi.srht. One, offered by Sena- . tor Smithy Democrat, of South Carolina, would authorize loans by the War Finance Corporation to> associatio'ris'?of agricultural pro-; ducers, afrd the other, offered .by Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, ? would authorize the corporation to take up $100,000,- ? 000 in bonds of the Federal'Farm Loan System. The Smith amendment wa<* con* tested hotly. Senators Harrison and Williams, both Democrat, of ' Mississippi: La Follette, Republi can, of Wisconsin, and Ashurst, ? Democrat, of Arizona, led the op position and fought for direct % P ans to-Individual producers. The amendment was adopted?iZ to 22?with party lines divided. Senators Smith, Lenroot, Re- \ publican, of Wisconsin; Smoot, Republican,, of Utah, and Sim-: mons, Democrat, of North Caro lina , championed the Smith amendment: Individual loans would require the War Finance Corporation to have 250,000 em ployes for Investigations. i Impracticable, Says Simmons. Tiiat the direct individual loan plan was ^'impractible, unworkable and preposterous" was asserted by Senator Simmons. Senator Lenroot said that the original Norris bill did not contemplate direct loans to individual farmers. That the amendment would "get the farmer out of the bill altogeth er" was asserted by Senator . La Follette, who said it would give benefits principally to "parasites who prey on the farmers." Banks and trust companies would be the principafeibeneficiaries, he added. Senator Ashurst said tho farmers would be "torpedoed" and relief giyen mainly to "banks gorged with improvident loans." The Harrison amendment was adopted without a record vote or particular (oppostion. Senator Har rison said the Farm Loan Board had applications for loans aggre gating $150.000,000, and only $15, 000,000 available for them, due to tlie inability to market bonds. Senator Norri3' part in initiating the legislation was praised by several Senators during the debate. Senator" Kenyon, Republican, of town, said he had started the agricultural credits legislation and worked, while other Senators 'were pursuing the festive golf ball." Sen ator Ashurst and Senator Helfin, Democrat, of Alabama, also prais ed Mr. Xorris. who is on a sick bed a Tier n. collapse during the fight for the legislation. > y,\ New York, August 2?The schooner Henry L. Marshall, with a. liquor cargo was taken into cus tody last night four miles off the coast by coast guards on the cutter Seneca and brought here. The schooner .was Hying a British flag.