Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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er Comptroller of ?ur rtrmgzr efearges Board With > Undue Favoritism IHyiCTIMOF w York Speculative Banks Beceived Tremendous We South Was! Washington, Aug. 2.?Policies the federal reserve board dur ...? the-past IS months or more ^^e^??^st^iedt today before a joint X'^^g^eea^nsd eomrnitte by John --?^eitcaBt Wniiams, former co*np tr?iierofthe durreney, who eharg ? c^that? the- hoard had dispalyed ua&ue favoritism in lending to -ISfe&fr York. Ranking groups while - oosthcm and Western borrowers uutfury curtailed. There was /?"?^abanadaat j^roujid for complaints |; taf <KserimiAation by farmers gen he added. - Tfee congressional committee - waa: appointed to inquire into the ;-8??1ciiltural situation and sura J0??he4Mr. W?liams in conneexion with- its- investigation into credit J facilities for farmers. ?Many of Mr. Williams' assertions iwere^ challenged in cross exami ,^jjaticn by Representative Ogden MBIs (Reppuhhcan) of New York, a c^^mission member, who was Carined with volumes of statistics. ;:jP*e clashes required commission rulings ?me and again. During examination Governor Harding gef'the reserve board and several fogfcfcer-- of::its officials were' present. l^-lmfx. WBEaxas' statement was un . iCois3pleted after a six hour session. New York Loans. ;ln;I)eeember, 1919, Mr. Williams >ugh one New York state bank :*sstittrtion which he described ?^known for speculative activi horrowed $130,000,000 the New York federal re fjb&nk. No law was broken .but several other New banks, "in hard and in good -were? allowed to bold out of reserve loans, Western and Southern bor Were being pressed to re loans; Mr. Williams read and letters inter * between; himself and Gov : e?hor B&sdlns: over , the situation of*: which ho complained. board, adopting the policy ?; J2J\. ipterest rates, he indirectly responsible for ?Q per . cent interest charges iv^iztg'on the New Yorkonon no^ketsi, and this "drained off ftrads '^om .the. fanning sections." 2fet^^s': -met - hint- at this stage W&&;i:g?iiexies of statistics tending to a|^^\rthat Hiehmond, Minneap t*p^lj$8as,~ Atlanta, Kansas City asn&'jff?-h&s?s hanks were borrow ing a^jiteh - greater sums propor - than New, York insti jwas. re seen the figures haven't y:>e^-Mr. ?Slls demanded during; inierehaages in which Mr. Wil tfams toM him to "go tq the re ?&rv?> board for the statements." Oae ^oerower of call money had to* pay 290 per cent to get a $1?~ <i^0<Wt 4osn, Mr. Williams said, alt&ough Mr. Mills insisted he had aa&i^rpretecf the arrangement, and-,-?&t& charger was 25 per cer.t. j :j&&fe^iBBCD2B- OTie? ? he added, wes- | t?ttt institutions rediscup.tmg were i ^efe??fced.to put up coUater^Tof 100 1 t&^GQ per cent in excess of the amoats- they got." "Give us one example of that," Chairman Anderson instructed 'the witnessi hut after an interchange. Mr. 'Wi&arns* repeated response ''Get if from tht reserve board" was- accepted as final. . Mr. MiHs likewise went Into, rules established by the board for eredit control and the creation by it as a bank's borrowing limit. G^yeraor Harding will follow Mr. WUHanas probably tomorrow. Nothing To bo .With Them CJoisiaky Declares He is Done With Game Throwers I - Chicago, August 3?Charles A. -Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, declaring hat the ver <E?ct of he jury did not change his mind until the accused players cleared themselves to his satisfac- j titer he would have nothing tc do Tfith' them. Working For United Ireland Delay in Sinn Fein Reply is Due to Effort to Get Ul ? ster to Join V Dublin, August 3?The sole rea son for delay in the Sinn Fein re ply to the government's Irish peace proposals is tha an attempt is be ing made to- secure he adhesion of Clster to- the peace plan so as to meet Lloyd George with a united Ireland, i is authoritiveiy stated. On being informed there are 10,000 unemployed men in Toron to aJone, Northcliffe is reported as saying "a^d yet there are millions of people at home that are propos ing to emigrate.". But we can's ac cept this interesting statement un ifl we hear from Lloyd Gecrgo whether or not it is "officially" and royally true.?The State. Bankers Endorse Cotton Plan Co-operative Cotton Market-] ing Association Founded |i on Business Principles Columba. Aug. 2?The campaign ^fer the formation of the South Car ^olia Cotcn Growers Coopera?ve Association to sell th cotton crop of South Carolina is being endorsed by farmers, bankers, cotton manu facturers and other weU known 'Business men. The plan is de clared to be one or good business and meets with the approval of many of the deepest thinkers in the state. Among the bankers of the state ?who have wrtten Harry G. Kami /ner, president of the ? association, endorsing the movement are J. Pope Matthews,, president of the Libert:/ National Bank of Colum bia; ciarles J. Shannon, Jr., presi dent OT-the First National Bank of &amden; and C. G. Rowland, pres ident of the National Bank of South Carolina, located at Sumter. Mr. Matthews* wrote Mr. Kami ner as follows: "The organization of your cooperative association is one of the best business proposi tions the farmers of this state could undertake at this tme and I do not know of anything that would be -more productive of good results. It certainly enables them to ope rate a:: 1 ":i-orrr:ation at first hand which they could not secure individually; in other words it consolidates their . organization with a nominal overhead expense [which, of coursefi eliminates a similar organization on each farm." Mr. Shannon wrote as follows. "I fthihk it a movement tha promises a grat deal for the farmers of the Lstate, and should be heartily sup ported." Mr Rowland said in his letter: "I am heartily in favor of the cotton cooperative marketing movement. I stand ready to co operate in any way that I can to make this movement a success. Great . is the pity that a movement of this kind had not been started and put in operation many years i ago." . BvJE. Goer, of Greenville,, presi dent of the Judson Cotton. Mills, endorses the movement in a letter to President ^Kammer in which he says: "Cotton manufacturers would welcome as heartily as cotton grow ers any plan that would bring about an orderly marketing gof the cot-. Ofop. It is to be hoped that your present plan will succeed", r J. Ross Hanahan, president of the" Planters Fertilizer and Phos phate Company of Charleston, sends a strong endorsement of the movement. "Cotton in the past has been marketed with less meth od than any other raw material &know of," said Mr. Hanahan. "It & raised- on credit arid thrown on the-market for sale as soon as it is picked and ginned. There could be no other result than de moralized prices. This day is a pe riod of cooperation in all toes of endeavor. Cooperation will! not prevent the action of natural laws, but it will tend to lessen destruc tive results that come from chaotic conditions. Method in meeting a- falling market will often save the destruction of an indus try and if you can get the thorough cooperation cf the grcwert of cot ton in-South Carolina alone, you certainly will have done a piece of work worthy of a life time." S B. D. Dargan, prominent farmer of* Darlington, declares in a latter to President Kammer that "the cooperative marketing association is in my mind our only hope of salvation." University Fac ulty Elections Associate Professors in De partments of Chemistry and Biology Named Columbia, Aug. 3.?The execu tve committee of the University board yesterday afternoon elected C. W. Rice, of Columbia, ' as Associate Professor of Chemis try at the University, and elected J. D. Corrington, now an instruc tor at Cornell, an Arlcansas man, as associate Professor of Bio.ogy. The committee also instructed President Currell to extend an in vitation to the State Sunday School Convention to meet at the Uni versity next summer, after com mencement, the delegates to be entertained in the University dormitories. ? ? ? Leak in Rev enue Bureau : Commissioner Blajr Says Drastic Investigation is Needed r .: } { ? . ? ? ? ? j Washington, August 3?A thor- j ough nvestigation of the affairs of the internal revenue bureau has been found necessary, Commission er Blair announced tdday due to alleged leaks of tax information. ? ? ? Desperate Crim inals Escape Eight Negroes Break Out of Greenville Jail . Greenville, ,S. C, Aug. 3?Eight desperate negro criminals escaped from the jail early today. ? ? ?? The Trey Times opines. "Once get belligerents into conference, and results are produced more quickly than battles could bring them about." True. That little conference in a wooden h.>rse once produced results in Troy that were entirely rapid and definitive.?The State. Co-Operative Cotton Marketing Summary of- the Plan and Contract For Polling Crop in South Caroina Columbia, Aug. 2.?The crop contract provided by the Organi sation Committee of the South I Carolina Cotton Growers' Co -operative Association has been ?analyzed and summarized by D. I W. Watkins, assistant director of I the Extension Service, for the convenience of those who want a I quick view of the very comprehen sive contract. Summary of Cotton Contract. (1) The association is strictly co-cperative. (2) Only cotton farmers can join, and the associa tion belongs to them. (3) There is no stock and there are no profits. Proceeds are paid to the farmers after deducting all expenses of the association. (4) AH farmers are treated exactlyy alike, no par tiality, all sign the same contract, i (5) Good grades bring a good price?poor grades not so good. (6) .The association is not try ing to fix the price?but to get it ? for the farmer. . (7) The farmer! agrees to deliver for five years; all of the cotton he grows, but he i may from time to time grow more, less, or none, as he himself chooses. (8) The contract is binding?there is no way to dodge it when once effective?do not forget that; but it does not be come effective until the grrowers of 400,000 bales of cotton sign up. (9) The association will pool all cotton and sell from time to time in large .lots. Each grower will get his share of the proceeds for the year regardless of the price his particular cotton may bring. The plan includes many of the principles upon which the indus^ trial development of the country has flourished, and every princi ple has been tried out and proven sound in American agriculture as well. Organization. (1) The association expects to include as many of the cotton, farmers in South Carolina as pos sible. (2) The state will be di vided into ten districts. (3) The board of directors will consist of one director from each district, each director selected by the growers in his district, and one appointed to represent the gener al public?eleven directors in all ?who control ~the association. (4) Each farmer member has one vote?no more; this is according to the best experience in such associations.. The Association when organized may affiliate with similar associations in other cot-" ton states for mutual help. Handling the Crop. The association will provide fa cilities for warehousing and handling the cotton of members. These arrangements will be.made by the directors and may consist either of trading with warehouses already built to handle coton, or of organizing companies build ware houses under certain conditions! With the large number of ware houses now in the state warehouse system, it is probable that the as sociation will not find it necessary to build new warehouses* ?? o ? Columbia, August 3?The value of live stock in South Carolina in creased one hundred per cent dur ing the decade covered by the re cent census report, according to a statement received in Columbia from the cesus bureau i Wash ington today. Chickes raised in South Carolina?the barn yard va riety?increased in that decade about fifty per cent. The value of the barn yard variety of chickens in the state increased greatly in the census period. The worth of the other kind of chicken, the powder puff varity is enestimable. When recent census was taken the value of live stock in South Carolina was $91,5i0,155, as com pared with $45,131,380 ten years before. Half '* of the live stock investment of the state is in mules. About twenty millions is in cattle, eleven millions is in horses, ten million in swine, and four millions in poultry. . Other animals aren't considered great investments in the Palmetto sate. When the 1920 census reports were tabulated the other day, it showed that there ane in South I Carolina approximately four mil lions chickens?the kind that cack le, in barnyards. In the yar the census was taken a total of approx imately thirteen million eggs were produced, and in that- year nine million chickens were raised. ? ? ? ? Off For France Members of Legion Will Visit Battlefields i New York, Aug. 3.?A delega tion of the American Legion head ed by National Commander Em ery, sailed today for France to visit the battlefields. There are representatives from every state^ LYNCHING IN VIRGINIA Petersburg, Va . August 3?One of the two negroes captured at Mc Kenney last night as slayers of Tingley Elmore. postmaster at To bacco on Monday was taken from the jail of Brunswick county at Lawrenceville early today and j lynched by a mob. The other man [was left in jail umolested. The city schools will open the fall session within a few weeks, and as usual the demand for houses will increase as every farl quite a num ber of families come to Sumter to take advantage of tne city schools for the children. An Oklahoma woman tried to di vorce her husband for cruelty, be cause he wished her to leave New York, but was refused a decision. N?>w comes the extraordinary part of the story. It was a New York court.?The State. An Open Letter to President Harding Under-Nourished Business Responsible For Under Nourished Lives Hon. Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: Your profound interest in the health and welfare of the people of the South, as shown in your recent letter called forth by the state ments in regard to the spread of pellagra, due to under-nourished .conditions of many of the poorer tenant farmers oi the South, is duly appreciated by the people of ;that section. They know that you voiced the feelings of your heart in behalf of suffering humanity, even though the health conditions are not relatively so alarming as the reports that you received would indicate. In this connection, however, will 'you permit me to call your atten tion to the fact that it is not sim ply the South which has suffered from the terrific decline in the value of its products, but that the West, and Southwest have likewise suffered. The cattle growers of the Southwest are largely bank rupt. The farmers of the entire West have, like/their fellow-labor ers in the South, had to endure great hardships. Moreover* I would beg to sug gest that the farmers are j;Ot the only ones that have been suffering. It is estimated that there are five million industrial workers out of employment. Their conditon is probably even more serious than that of even the poorest of the farm laborers and tenant farmers in the South. Their wives and children are suffering in deep pov erty, lacking food and are under nourished, and many of them need more medical attention than do the reported pellagra victims in parts of the South. I have just this moment clipped from, the editorial columns of the New York Herald the following: "Exhausted from lack of food and his prolonged search for a place* in his plumbing trade, Arthur Challis, 23 years old, a world war veteran, of 254 West 21st street, fell in front of the house at 193 Third Avenue. To a policeman who went to his aid he explained ^hat he was starving. At Bellevue Hospital his sickness was diagnos ed as the result of starvation and exhaustion/' This condition of unemployment as you well know, is due to the unequalled depression in the in dustrial interests of the country. -The iron and steel industry of America is running on a basis of about 15 per cent to 20 per cent of its capaqity. Hundreds of these great plants stand idle, and not in the history of: the .iron industry was there ever before such a cur tailment of production in propor tion to capacity. To a large ex tent similar conditions exist in nearly all other industries. These appalling facts (for ap palling they are) show that un - employment and poverty are not confined itix the farming interests of the South and West, but extend to every line of business. As the farmers have. seen, their products shrink in value to-far less than the actual cost of production, so mer chants and manufacturers have [seen their stocks and their pro ! ducts sink in value far below the jcost of replacement or of produc ition. Securities o.f every kind have decreased in value to an extent j that has endangered the safety of i the financial interests of the coun try. Great corporations, upon ! whose dividends hundreds of thousands of people have depend | ed for cheir living, are no longer j paying dividends. I Your intense interest manifested j in the welfare of the South [prompts me to remind you of t^ese facts, and to say that you L^ld within 3'our power a remedy which would vitalize the industrial and agricultural interests of the* country; a remedy which would quicken the lifeblood business and v would do more to stay the progress of disease than all the medicines which all the physicians and all the druggists in America can pro vide; a remedy which if promptly applied, heroic as it might be, would put back to work the five . million unemployed industrial workers, would give life to the agricultural interests, hope to the despondent, food to the under nourished, and health to individ ual and to national life. It Is a tremendous responsibility which rests upon you, Mr., Presi dent, when you hold within your hands this tremendous opportun ity. The remedy, if applied promptly would be magical in its effect, and once more hope and optimism and employment and prosperity on the farm and in the factory would revivify the life of1 the entire country. It was the starvation of industry by drastic deflation of the Feder al Reserve System, more deadly in its effect on business than all the pellagra, the report of which has so alarmed you and the medicai officers upon whose report you have depended, on individual lives. The people who have lacked nourshing food to sustain the body and vitalize the blood until sick ness has taken possession of them and endangers their very life, are only typical of the vast industrial and agricultural and financial in terests of the country which have been under-nourishecj, deprived of credit, the life-giving food of all business. Suddenly, without a moment's warning, the supply of this vital food was cut short by what I do not hesitate to say was the greatest financial crime against civilization in the history of the world, whether the men re sponsible for it fully understood the meaning of their act or not. I am in receipt of a letter from a Southern banker who tells me that former Secretary of the Treasury Houston wrote him thai he was opposed to the exportation of farm products because this would maintain the price of these products, while his aim and ambi tion was to break down the prices. Whether this statement be entire ly correct or not is immaterial, though it comes to me from a thoroughly responsible man; it is nevertheless, in exact accordance with the methods adopted by the Federal Reserve System in break ing down prices through the dras tic curtailment of the food supply or credit, just as essential to the life of business as food is to the human body. Moreover, the people responsible for starving into the present condition the business in terests of the United States have, as shown by the sworn testimony b3fore a Congressional Committee and by proofs submitted before the United States Supreme Court, been guilty of definitely trying to wreck State Banks which did not follow their demands as to the par col lection of checks. You have doubt less read the statement made by former Comptroller of the Cur rency, Hon. "Skelton Williams, whose word no man can question, that it was definitely said in a meeting of the Federal Reserve Board, while he was a member thereof, that if some desired plan could not be carried out in any other way than by the failure of State Banks, it would be better to let them fail. The spirit of men who engage in such a (Sampaign for breaking down the established financial in stitutions chartered by- the States merely because they would not be come members of the Federal Re serve System, or yield to its dic tates to the destruction of their own business, is a spirit of business immorality wpich has shocked the country; and Vthis country cannot have" faith in the Federal Reserve System until the 7r\.n responsible for that condition have been re moved from power. Their instant removal by you, for which there is abundant reason, would be the remedy which you could promptly apply to create that confidence which is now lacking, and to fur nish proof to the country that while the policies of the Federal Reserve Board under your administration are being rapidly changed from what they were, the men respon sible for those unwise policies and for the immorality of trying to break down State banks, have been removed from power. When a physician has made a fearful blunder in the diagnosis and treatment of a case, and this is fully discovered, the family of the patient would fail in their re ipo lsibility to the sick one if they continued to permit that physicians to remain in charge, after a con sultation of other physicians had proven that his method would eventually lead straight to death. The patient, knowing this condi tion, could not possibly have faith in any new treatment so long as the physician who had blundered remained in chrage. Even if there were any ground on which to attempt to* uphold their cutting off of the food sup ply to the business interests of the country, and the determined effort to break down prices, there couid not be a possible question as to the immorality of seeking by the most drastic means to violate all good faith and honor of the coun try-by endeavoring to wreck the banks chartered by different States merely because they refused to yield to the dictates of the men in charge of the Federal Reserve Board. This in itself not only justifies, but demands in the in terest of the morality of the coun try and of business integrity and honor, an elimination from power of ?every man responsible in part or in whole for that work. The national sickness is not merely the sickness of a compar atively few thousand, or even per haps a hundred thousand pellagra victims of this deflation and im moral work of the Federal Re serve Board. Ib is a sictkness of the entire country. It is a sickness which has closed thou sands of factories, which has kept freight cars on the tracks, which has thrown out of employment five million or more men eager anu anxious for work in order to sup port their families.' It is a sick ness which during the last 'twelve to eighteen months has brought about a decrease in the value of the products of the farm and fac tory and the mine and of securities largely exceeding $25,?ftO,G??.,0i)?. The sum is far greater than the actual cost of the war to this country. Moreover, the war stimulated some lines of business and created employment for men. This fear ful destruction of values has en tirely swept out of existence, never again to come back to the people who have lost it. this $23.000.000, 000 of value. It has created pov erty in the industrial circles of the North and West and South; poverty in the cities and on the farms; poverty for those who were rich and increased poverty for those who had but little of this world's goods. It has caused hun dreds and hundreds of suicides. It has brought about an increase in sickness in all parts of the land many, many times, greater than the reported sickness' of pellagra in the South, even if the actual pellagra situation in the South were far greater than the report of the medical authorities would indicate. I have profoundly appreciated the vast responsibility resting up oil you. I have from the beginning of your administration realized that no president since the days of Washington, not even Lincoln him self, had to face national" and in tornational issues of such tremen dous import. I have been in hearty sympathy with the work i which you have been trying to do in so changing the conditions that there might be employment and prosperity where there is now un employment and poverty, and I would not add one single burden to the road of responsiblity you are carrying. But in the interest, of the nation's life. In the interest of suffering millions, 1 beg that you will personally give heed to this situation. Through the de preciation of the value of products of labor, of the farm and the fac I tory, the lessened wages and the unemployment of millions, the burden of carrying the individual, the state and the national bonded indebtedness has been largely more than doubled. It will take far more than twice as much cot ton and wheat and corn and other products of labor to pay the in teresc on this bonded indebtedness, and eventually to wipe it out, as would have been required under the prices which prevailed for products and labor at the time the indebtedness was incurred. You will no doubt recall the statement made by President Lin coln when he said that "debts are paid honestly only when they are paid in the same terms of value under which they were contract ed." The terms under which our bonded indebtedness was con tracted were terms of high wages, and high value of farm products and of manufactured products. The breaking down of wages and" of products has dishonestly doub led the burden of this indebtedness and all the sophistry of all the po litical economists in the world who may argue otherwise cannot pos sibly change this situation. " We are asking a man who has been deliberately starved unto a point of extreme weakness to carry the same load which he could eas ily shoulder when he was abund antly nourished with food. We are asking the country to deflate and deflate to a point where it is absolutely impossible for it to carry the load under which it is, stag gering unless the food supply of credit is promptly furnished, and the financial medical authorities who have enforced this starvation process are entirely elimino.ted from the situation. Ort July 14 Comptroller of the Currency Crissinger before the bankers of Ohio, said: "Experience has shown us no time when the conjunction of low prices for commodities and labor with high cost ofr money brought 'anything but disaster to the people. "We will be wise to remember that falling prices and high ? inter est rates are never the twin sisters of prosperity. "High interest rates and pros perity were never bed-fellows." And with an emphasis which needs to be heeded throughout the country he said: "If that be financial heresy, or economic treason, make the most of it." Mr. Crissinger's statements since he has been Comptroller have given heart to the country and helped to bring about a little stimulation in the anticipation that business food would yet be supplied. But the men who cut off the supply of food, the men who sought to wreck banks be cause they did no place them selves unnder their domination, the men responsible for the amazing decision of the Supreme Court, which referred to this work as "warfare upon State institutions," iare still in power, and the country, [therefore, still lacks full faith in j receiving the nourishing food es sential to its life so long as these j men are in a position to cut short 'the supply whenever in their view j they may decide in secret to do so. ?? With very great respect, with a j sincere appreciation ? of the many responsibilities resting upon you, and an apprecaion of the conse : cration which you are giving in jyour effors to lead the country out I of the chaos in which you found it, I am, Sincerely yours, RICHARD H. EDMONDS. Editor. TWO CENT?MINIMUM FOR TOBACCO SALES Florence, August 21?The South Carolina Tobacco Warehouseman's association has agreed to the re quest of the South Carolina To bacco association to pass all to bacco offers on their floors for which buyers will riot bid as high as two cents per pound. The growers recently asked the warehousemen to t?ke such action saying they wanted to keep trashy tobacco off the market and the sec retary of the warenousemen's as sociation today said that effective tomorrow the rule would be put in to effect. Producers have expres sed much dissatisfaction over prices since the market opened on July 19 and they said they hoped the two cent minimum would omprove the situation. The growers' organi zation had sought to make the minimum three cents but could not get the warehousemen to go that high. -<g>~? ? Before Sumtcr county embarks upon the road building program it will be well to carefully consider the comparative merits of hard sur faced roads?concrete, brick or bi thulithic?and top soil or gravel surfaced roads. If concrete, brick of bithulilhic roads are built prac tically all the material will have to be imported while there is sufli cient gravel of the best quality in the county to surface the entire road system contemplated. The first cost, the cost of maintenance and the life of the wartous types of roads must necessarily be taken in to consideration. The experience of other counties and states will be a valuable guide. BIG MAJORITY FOR TRINKLE ! Richmond, August 3- -The noml atiori of Senator Triable for gov ernor over Harry'St. George Tuck e rin yesterday's democratic pri mary by between fifteen ad twenty thousand majority is indented today by newspaper returns. Tin- same returns indicate the nominaion of Junius West as lieutenant governor and the renomination of Berkeley D. Adams as corporation commis sion. ???o?o?? Havana, August 2.?Cuba will send a delegation to Washington r<> oppose the sugar and tobacco pro visions of the Fordhey tariff hill i it is offiically stated. County Board Meeting Pinewood Citizens Ask For Rural Policeman?Turbe vifle Short Cut Eoad Again Comes Up At tho regular monthly boa. .j meeting there were present: Chair man Rowland, members Lenoir, Mims, Britton, McLaurin and Oliv er. Minutes of July 5 were read and approved. Mr. Rowland, for committee, re ported the purchase of a pair of mules. Application of Camilla Bradham for aid was decLned. A delegation of citizens from Pinewood section composed of i Messrs. Mims. Epperson, Baxley, I Aycock and others presented a petition .asking that a rural police man be pl?ced in that district. After considering the matter later the board decided that this was a matter which would have to ha decided by the legislative delega tion and directed that the matt-r i be referred to it and that the Pine j wood delegation be advised of ! this actio\n. The above delegation' also called attention to the fact that the roads in ? that section were again need ing work and asked that some pro vision be made looking to same. After discussing this matter later in the meeting the board conclud ed that the only practical method of handling this extra territory would be by an extra gang which Would be permanently located there. Steps were taken to or ganize such a gang be appointment of Messrs. McLaurin and Britton, a committee to purchase eight mules and gear for same and one four-horse wagon, same to oe purchased through advertisement, offers to be submitted on or be fore August 24. Two tents were also authorized purchased for this gang. Mr. E. W. Dabbs, Jr., and Mr. Jackson, o4* the Shiloh section, presented a petition asking that the TurbeyiUe short cut road be now built as prices for material and labor has declined materially. The board after later considera tion of this matter regretted that it was not in position to comply with the petition as funds for the construction of this road had not been put in the supply act. City Manager O'Quinn came be fore the board and suggested that the county work such part of the Oswego road as lay within t'-.e city limits to its intersection with Calhoun Street and open ditching to Turkey Creek charging the city for this work. Messrs. Oliver and McLaurin were appointed a committee to handle this with the city officials. Mr. K. P. Moses, - representing the Sumier Cotton Warehouse Co., came before the board relative to the renewal of the contract, of such ccfhpany with the county as to furnishing platform space for weighing cotton. Action on this matter was deferred to the Sep tember meeting. Application of D. A. Hatfield, for aid allowed him for increase was considered and he was grant ed ten dollars per month. Applications were received from Lula Adamson, and Lavinia White and Nina L. Brown for aid. These were granted five : dollars per month. An applicaticn was received for position of cotton weigher for Pinewood section. R. A. Lawrence was elected to this position. County Engineer reported the main gang moved to Moses road, and engaged in Widening this j road from the city limits to Rocky Bluff. Other gangs engaged as usual. Letter was received from1 Secre tary of AKarnont Moses Loan FUnd calling attention to expfra I tion of the term of Mr. D. R. Mo Callum, as trustee and asking the board to name his successor. Board recommended Mr. McCal Ium to succeed 'himself. Mr. H. P. Boykin was recom mended for reappointment as rural ! policeman for Dalzell district, i'er the two years term 1921-23. Application for aid was receiv ed from Miss Janie Pool and five dollars per month was granted her. . Letter was received from Messrs. R. S. Elliott and Sons relative to aid which Clarendon county had been paying indigent parties in that section. This was referred to Chairman Rowland for investiga tion. \ ? Commissioner Oliver stated that i he had signed warrant in full for salary of Engineer Jef ford's, while he was sick, subject to fin. disposition by the. board. The board approved of this action, and recorded regret at his sickness and pleasure at his satisfactory re covery. The matter of rent paid the mas Jter for an office was discussed ' and the board directed that Mas ter Haynsworth meet with them at next meeting to further consid er this. 9 * The Clerk was directed to follow up the matter of filing of complet ed books of record, of cotton weighers with the clerk of court. The board after reconvening af ter dinner recess approved of claims befere it and adjourned. Our Business Oflice. For the time being the business [office of the Osteen Publishing Co. will be continued in the temporary i quarters on the second floor of the D. J. Chandler Clothing Co. build ing. North Main street. This is [done for the convenience of the [public, as it will be several weeks I before the repairs on the old build ing on Liberty street will be com pleted, so as to provide a direct entrance to the new building. Call Telephone 30 when you have busbies matters to be attend ed to or news items to report. GOOD ROAD PUBLICITY State Association Plans In tensive Campaign to Edu cate Public Columbia,.July 30.?An intensive j publicity campaign for good roads ! is being planned by the South j Carolina Good Roads Association ; for.the near future. The organ ization win take advantage of every method known to stress upon the people of the state the necessity of permanent highways being built by the state, it was said yesterday. The newspapers, the billboards, the moving pictures and other agencies will be used in the cam paign. Already posters are being printed emphasizing the fact that '?baa roads cost more than good roads." % ? "Bad roads mean loss and isola tion; good roads mean prosperity and communication," reads one of the slogans being gotten out by the association. Another circular calls attention to the fact that while other states of the union are spending enormous sums on state highways South Carolina is prac tically doing nothing by compari son. ""We are delighted with the re sponses that our appeals are meet ing with," said President L. D. Jennings yesterday. "The people of the state are sending in their membership fees right along. A big membership in our association m^ans a strong organization and every county in the state should have, a large number of active rrembers.- We want as members, people who are really interested in good roads and who wiU get out and work when we caU upoi them." President Jennings announced yesterday that B. H. Peace, presi dent and editor of the GreenviUe News, had accepted the position ;.f chairman for Greenville- county and will at once undertake, the work oi organizing that county. Mr. Peace is a good roads enthus iast and has given the association strong support through the col umn^ of his paper. 'We are very greatly indebted to the press of the state for the splendid, support which it is givija;? us," said Mr. Jennings yesterday. "We telt sure that we would have the support of the newspapers since they always stand for pro gressive measures. Without their aid. we: could accomplish nothing in this campaign." SWEET POTA TO SYRUP Columbia, July SO.?The South Carolina Development Boarcl has conducted some very interesting experiments making candy of-the syrup made from the .sweet, pota to. . The syrup was secured from ? the United States Department of Agriculture and Was made at Fitz gerald, Ga. N , The straight syrup will { not crystalize or harden on cooking ta make candy, anfd this;was to be ex pected, for the substance . which gives ii sweetness Is not cane su gar but malt sugar. The syrup may be.used to advantage in raak- . king "fudge" and it niakes* a pro duct of the highest, quality as at tested by experts ini'different parts of the'cotmtry who have teste?! the product. When chocolate fudge is made it requires less chocolate to give the desired flavor, and this should interest the professional candy maker. Peppermint and lemon fudges were made and found to be fine g eating. When the sweet potato syrup is* used the resulting fudge keeps moist longer than when made by the usual recipe and has a smooth er texture. I ?* Recipe. 3 cups sugar, 3-4 cup sweety potato syrup, Butter size of walnut, 1-2 cup Baker's Cocoa, 1-2 cup water, Flavoring extract to suit taste. Mix sugar and cocoa; add syrup and water. Put mixture on a /ery slow burner until the sugar is com pletely melted; then let it boil hard until it forms a rather firm ball when dropped in cold water. Stir mixture occasionally both be-, fore and after it boils. Add but ter, then the flavoring extract. Cool quickly by cooling in a large pan' of cold water for this makes the j fudge thick and eliminates the ne cessity for beating. Pour in a deep buttered' dish. ? ? ? BAGXALL-KIXG. Miss Sophi Bagnall and W? iam C. King, Jr., were married at the home of the brides parents Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bagnall, 19 Levi Street, Sumter, S. C, Sunday afternoon at seven-thirty. Rev. J. P. Marion pastor of the bride performed the ceremony. Only a &w friends and relatives were present. The bride was never loviler than on this occasion, wearing a white sateen and georgette, with acces- ? series to match. The bridegroom is a promising young business man of Augusta, Ga After a delightful supper the happy young couple left on the 9:30 train for their future home Augusta, Ga. ? ? a The county board of Education met today and disposed of a num ber of matters affecting the interest of the schools of the county. All members were present, Mr. H. H. crimson, prinicpal of the Mayes ville School, having come over from Orangburg, where he is spending the summer, to attend the meeting. Shoots self instead of skunk.? Headline. And we can just hear the sympathetic neighbors saying: "Well it was a mistake that any boy was apt to make.?Buffalo Ex press.