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The Watchman and Southron Entered at' the .Postoffic? at Sum ter, S. C as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL. Misses Ellen and Louise Siddall k have returned from Asheville, N. C-, where they attended the musi cal festival. - Mr. and Mrs. Powell Jenkins and \ Powell, Jr., of Savannah, Ga., arer visiting Mr. John I. Brogdon.. Miss Gladys Johnson of Florence is spending the week here, the guest of her cousin, Miss Annie ^ Churchill. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Ryttenberg have returned to the city after a months' stay at Atlantic City and New York. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Brailsford, of , Greenville are spending sometime with Mrs. Brailsford's mother, Mrs. J. T. Hose, on Liberty St. Miss Lucile Mathis who has been away on an extended tjip to Myrtle Beach and Florence has re ^ turned home, accompanied by Miss Easter Doughen of Florence; Mr. Horace Mitchell, of Savan nah, Ga., is visiting his sister, Mrs. J: Geo. H. Hurst, Sr. Mrs. H. G. McKagen is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wm. H. Bowen of Augusta, G?. Dr. W. W. Sibert has gone to Mc Cormick to spend two weeks. Mrs. James Hunter:of Washing ton-,- D. C, is visiting her parents, 3 Dr. and Mrs. S.. H. Edmunds. Mrs. C. Et. McClure and baby who have been spending some time with her sister, Mrs. J. M. Barrett on. Church street, has returned to ^ her home m Y?ungstown, Ohio. She was accompanied by her ? sister, Mrs. R. L. JacKson and daugh ter. Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Elmore and little son have returned home from Gaffney where they have been visiting relatives for the past three ^ weeks. Mrs. Claude Moorehead of Gaff ney is visiting Mrs. I. D. Elmore at her home on Broad St. r Mrs. C. H. Watts and sister, Elma Jones of Petersburg, Va., are visit ing Mrs. J. M. Lawrence and other relatives rh the city. Miss Mamie J. Chandler left this morning for Columbia to begin work as secretary .to Prof. Guilds, President of Columbia College. Mrs. Thomas Wilson and Miss Mary Wilson are spending some % time at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, N. C. Mr. Tvouis Gray is spending his vacation in Columbia. / * Dr. ' and Mrs. S. H. Edmunds 'have returned from Mur^ell's Inlet ? where they spent the last week. Mrs! Grehvilie i>eLorme has re turned, from Murrell's Inlet where she has been spending some time. Miss Jeanette White left for At lanta this morning where she will visit relatives. j Mrs. Riser and Miss Julia Riser; passed through the city this morn ing on their way to Murrellis- In let to visit Mr. and Mrs. O. H, Folley. ? Misses Ruth Coleman -and Anna Bell Hunter spent the week-end in . the . City. Mr: ?. W. Dudley and Mr. H. A. Wiiliford spent Saturday in Colum bia. Mr. Charles Pierce spent Satur day and Sunday in Columbia. Missse Leilah and Lilah *>mith and TMr. Liss Ridge motorcr! to Kingstree-Sunday to see a friend ?^who is ill in the infirmary there. Mr: J. W. Brown and family of Bishopville spent Sunday in S?mieV. Miss Daisy Hudson, who has! been spending the summer in the rtttfirn tains, has returned home, much to the delight of her many friends. ^ Mrs. James M. Caldwell of Rock Hill is visiting Miss Reesff "Chan dler. V ': M$ss Elizabeth Lesesne has re 4u turned home from a visit to friends - in Norfolk, Va.. Miss Pauline Wilson, of Indian apolis, Ind., a daughter of the late Dr. J. H. Wilson, for many years pastor of St. James' Lutheran church of this city, is a guest of Mrs. L. N. Ligon, 5 W. Oakland Ave. Mr. R- P. Monaghan. accompan ied by Miss Margie Monaghan. Mr. T- M. Monaghan and Mr. Richard Gallagher have returned from Wn mington, Del., after a short stay. ? The trip of fourteen hundred miles was made in four days with only two punctures on the entire trip. Misses Emmie and Esther Osteen " have returned from Pawley's Is land where they spent the last two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Maurer.^haye returned from a ten-day frrp through North Carolina, spending some time at Jackson Springs. ? ? <? Mayesville News and Notes Mr. S. M. Hux of the Continen tal Casualty Insurance Co.. of Sum ter. S. C was a visitor in town last *: week. The Ladies' Book Club gave a basket picnic at Pocalla Wednes day night. All enjoyed themselves * fine. Mr. W. H. Dean's little girl Nancy was taken with diptheria this week but is now doing nicely. This is the only case that has been reported so for here. Miss Harper, trained nurse from Sumter, S. C, has taken charge of Mr. U. V. Weinburg's wife who is critically ill. Mr. Hugh Witherspoon has been visiting in Spartanburg. S. C. for the past week. He returned home Friday night. 4 The invitations of the marriage of Mr. Gilbert Young to Miss Made line Thomas of our city has been received. The marriage to'take place September 1st. at the Pres byterian church. ??? ? According to dress reformers, the form divine should not be di vinable.?Norfolk Virginian-Pilut. > ? . Rub-My-Tism Cures Infection. -? ? ? AH countries are learing the best navv to scrap is their own. ? ? * Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism, Camden Takes First Game Batting Rally by Sumter Broken Up by Rain When Things Were Looking Up For Home Team Ever since the days when the ! old Main street park was the local "Boyle's Thirty Acres" Camden has ha ' the Indian sign on Sumter's baseball team and Thursday was nb exception. Leo Miller's "Pets" winning 5 to 1 by clean hitting in a game that was interrupted once, and finally broken up by "Ole Jupe." The lone features were the fielding of Wilson, a catch behind first by Crawford and the hurling of Sherill who yiel'ed six scattered hits until the eighth when rain per haps prevented the "Gamecocks" , from balancing the score sheet. Camden opened up her attack in the initial round when Wilson first up singled through short, the ball taking a bad hop by O'Neal. Park er sacrificed out to Crawford unas sisted, Wilson taking second Mal lonee singled, scoring Wilson, and advanced to second on the throw in. Paterson kept up the barrage with a single to the middle zone, but Mallonee was held on third. Snipes fanned and Lowe was out.to Crawford unassisted on a good stop. In the second Sherrill singled with two down but was forced . at second on Wilson's hopper, Shealy, F. to O'Neal. The. visitors tallied twice in the third when Parker. singled and Paterson tripled over the fence "off his chin" and scored oh Snipe's single. Two more were added in the fifth and sixth. With two down Paterson walked, stole second on a much disputed decision and scored on Snipe's second hit. The fifth and last run came with two down also when Sherrill reach ed up over "his head and slapped the pill over the left center fence. The home team started off well when O'Connor M. and Crawford singled after. Phillips had fiied out to deep center, but O'Connor was doubled at second on Paterson's swell catch of Shealy's line drive. Phillips tripled with two down in the third but was left when O'Con nor grounded out to second. It was three up and three down for the home hopes in the 4th, 5th an? 6th; a snappy double play turning the trick in the latter inning after Phillips had singled with one down. The home forces tallied their only legal run in the "standup" inning after Crawford had grounded out to Mallonee and Shealy, A. had fiied oul to Paterson on O'Neal's single and Shealy's two-bagger to right coupled with Paterson's wild throw. Camden went out without a mishap in the incompleted eighth, but Hawkins, Ludwig and O'Con nor, M. singled scoring Hawkins, leaving two on and one down when the deluge came. The two teams meet again today with Benson being the probable se lection for the vistors and Hall for the home crowd. Standing of the clubs: Won Lost Pc Camden_1 0 1000 Florence_ 1 0 1CG0 Sumter ._ _ 2 2 500 Hartsville'.. .. .. 1 5 250 Camden and Florence were un able to play the first three days of hue week owing to the fact that the former had three previously sched uled games with Lumberton, N. C. The box score follows: Camden ABRHPO A E Wilson, 2b. ._ 4 1 1 2 10 0 Parker, 3b ... 3 1 1 0 0 0 Mallonee, lb 4 0 2 12 0 0 Paterson. rf .322211 Snipes, cf_ 4 0 2 2 0 0 Lowe, If..... 3 0 0 0 0 0 Stacks, ss_ 3 0 0 1 1 to Rhame, c_ 3 0 ? 2 0 0 Sherrll, p. 3 1 2 0 0 0 Totals. 30 5 10 21 12 1 Sumter AB R H PO A E Phillips. If_ 3 0 2 0 0 0 O'Connor, M., 3b 3 0 1 2 1 0 Crawford, lb . 3 0 1 7 0 0 Shealy, A., rf_ 30 0 1 00 O'Neal, ss_ 3 1 1 2 2 0 Shealy, F., 2b . 3 0 1 2 2 0 O'Connor, A., cf. 3 0 0 2 0 0 Hawkins. c_. 200500 Ludwig, p._ 2 0 0 0 1 0 Total_ 25 1 6 21 6 0 Hits by innings: Camden_. 313 001 1 Sumter. 201 001 2 Seore by innings: Camd. 102 011 0 Sumter. 000 000 1 Summ, ry: Two-base hits. She lay, F.; three base hits, Phillips and Paterson; home runs, Sher rill: stolen bases, Paterson (2).; sacrifice hits. Parker; double plays, Paterson, Wilson and Stacks, Stacks, Wilson and Mallonee; left on bases, Camden 5, Sumter 3. First base on balls, Ludwig, ]. Struck out, Sherrill, 1; Ludwig, 4. Time of game, 1 hour and 20 minutes. Umpire, Mabry. NEW YORK COTTON. Tstdys Open High Low Close Close .Jan .13.60 13.09 13.60 13.96 13.48 Mch 13.78 14.07 13.78 14.08 13.67 May .13.90 14.13 13.90 14.15 13.75 Oct .13.15 13.62 13.13 13.58 13.09 Dec .13.0."? 13.95 13.55 13.94 13.47 Spots 5 up: middling 13.60. NEW ORLEANS COTTON Y'st'dy's Open High Low Close Close Jan. 13.27 13.63 13.27 13.60 13.11 Mch .13.38 13.69 1 3.35 13.69 13.22 .May .13.53 13.79 13.53 13.79 13.38 Oct .12.7.". 13. IN 12.75 13.15 12.65 Dec .13.15 13.50 13.15 13.49 13.03 Snots 5 up; middling 12.50. LIVERPOOL COTTON January . 8.91 March_. 9.01 May. . 9.04 July. 9.02 October. 8.81 December . 8.90 Sales 5,000. Receipts J ,000; A!! American. Middling. 8.50. <v Good Middling 9.30. Gamecocks Defeat Camden Sluggers Second Game Won By Sumter. Score 6 to 1 After having lost four straight game's to Camden Sumter cane through with a cleancut win Fri day, 6 to 1. by forcing Peters to take cover in five innings. Five hits, including one double, a triple, homerun and two singles coupled with two wild pitches called for the retirement of the visiting j youngster. Rhame taking his place in the sixth. It was a game that filled up the box score as plays were made all over the field. Three snappy double plays enlivened the interest of the fanatics and there was a running barehanded catch by Lowe of Crawford's possible triple. Cauthen's splendid fielding, handl ing 11 chances without a bobble, and another dazzling catch by Shealy, A. of Snipe's bid for an j extra base hit. Sumter had 11 hits ! for a total of sixteen bases. Phil lips* long homerun over the left field fence with with "Boll Weevil" Hawkins roosting on third capping the clima.x. Hall's pitching was of the giltedge variety, the visitors only being able to bunch them in two innings, in the sixth when they collected two for no result and likewise in the ninth. Cauthen and Phillips were the stars for the hon ors with the willow. Sumter's first run came in the second round when Shealy, A., first up, slammed the peliet over the left field barrier for a tripie and Cauthen singled past short. Shealy, F., sacrificed and Cauthen advanced to third on a wild pitch, but was out when O'Connor, A. hit to Peters, Peters to Rhame. Haw kins fanned. In the fifth rack the home crowd put the old game in the icebox thusly: O'Connor, A. doubled to right and was safe on ?third when Peters tried to catch him on Hawkins* sacrifice, both runners beipg safe. A wild pitch scored the first named after Haw kins had pilfered the middle sta tion. Hall flew out to Sherrill, but Phillips with the count three and two pounded the next one over the fence, totaling three for the inning. Rhame was saved from probable damage in the seventh by a fast double killing, but he was not spared in local's final inning. Craw ford went out, Paterson to Parker, but Shealy. A doubled to right center and scored on Cauthen's du plicate over Sherrill's head who advanced to third on a passed ball, scoring on O'Connor's single after Shealy, F.. had gone out, Wilson to Parker. O'Conner was out. Snipes to Lowe when he tried to score on Hawkins' long single to left. Camden's lone marker was a} gift, Paterson popped out to Cauthen. Lowe lifted a high fly in front of the plate which Hawkns dropped. Hall picked up the ball and caught the runner between second and first on a throw to Shealy and he ; was out in the rundown, however. < Umpire Mabry claimed that he had I called time, owing to a ball being j thrown in ^nd Lowe was safe on first. Hall hit Sherrill and Lowe scored on Stack's single to center. I Hall stopping the throw-in and pegging to O'Connor to catch Sher - rill. Stacks stole second and Rhame was out to Crawford un assisted. In the ninth two peculiar plays were pulled off. Paterson struck out. Lowe singled and was followed by Sherrill with another to left. O'Connor, M., pulled the age old hidden ball trick and caught Lowe a mile off second. Stacks popped up behind third and when O'Connor dropped the ball Sher rill was forced at second, ending j the game. This afternoon's game promises to be a corker with Luther hurling for Sumter and Benson, Camden's Lee Meadows and best bet. tossing them over for the visitors. 'The game will be called promptly at 4:30. The box score follows: Camden AB R H PO A E Wilson, 2b_ 4 0 113 1 Snipes, cf_ 3 0 0 1 1 0 Parker, lb_ 4 0 0 12 0 1 Paterson, 3b - 401 120 Lowe. rf&c. 412410 Sherrill, If_ 3 0 1 2 0 0 Stacks, ss_ 4 0,1 1 3 0 Rhame, c & p.. 3 0 1 2 2 0 Peters, p_ 1 0 0 0 2 0 Benson, rf ... 2 0 0 0 0 0 Totals_ 32 1 7 24 1 1 2 ! Sumter AB R H PO A E I Phillips, cf ... 4 1 2 1 0 0 i O'Connor. M., 3b 4 0 0 1 2 0 Crawford, lb .. 4 0 0 12 1 0 Shealy, A., rf . 3 2 2 1 0 0 ! Cauthen, 88-. 4 1 3 3. 8 0 Shealy. F.. 2b __3 0 0 4 3 0 O'Connor, A. cf 4 1 2 2 1 0 Hawkins, c. _ 4 1 2 3 1 1 Hall, p. 2 0 0 0 3 0 Totals_ 32 S 11 27 19 1 i Score by innings: 1 Camden. 000 000 100?1 Sumter . 010 03o 02*?G j Hits by innings: Camden . 010 012 102?7 Sumter. 021 021 14 -?1 1 ' Summary: Two base hits, O'Con nor, A.. Shealy, A., Cauthen. Three base hit, Shealy, A. Homerun, i ; Phillips. Stolen bases. Stacks, I 'Jail- ? I lips, Hawkins. Sacrifice hit, Shealy, j I F. Double plays, Cauthen, Shealy, ' ? F. and Crawford. Rhame, Stacks I and Parker. Stacks, Wilson and Parker. Left on base. Camden. 4: Sumter. W. First base on balls. ! Hall 1; Peters 1. Struck out. Hall ! i 3. Peters 2. Hit by pitcher. Hall j ; 1 (Sherrill): Rhame 1 (Hall). Hits: apportioned, off Peters 5 in 5 in I nings. Rhame, 6 In :: innings. Wild pitches, Beters. 2. Passed balls, I Lowe. 2. losing pitcher, Peters. Time of game, 1:48. Umpire, ' Mabry. Standing of the cluh.^: Won Lost Pc : Sumter. 3 2 (>?"i Camden. 1 1. 500 j Florence. 1 1 500 Hartsville. 2 3 400 , o ? ? A Harvard star jumped 2f> feet. ! Probably got his training dodginy uutos. I Two Out of Three I Sumter Won Last Game of Series With Camden 4 to 1 Luther smiled throughout the game and naturally Sumter came out with the long end of a 4 to 1 score. Camden started out as if she were going to get next to Sum ter's big leaguer, but "Punk" only j tightened up his belt and whipped 'em over with a little more zip ev ery time the visitors threatened. However, Shealy's catch of Nun namaker's bid for a hit and subse quent throw to O'Connor doubling up Lowe saved the tall pitcher from further trouble in the fourth. After this inning, in which Camden scored her lone marker, the visi tors were unable to do anything with him, 7 men fanning in the last 4 innings. The visitors got one hit in each of j the first three innings but m'ere un- ? able to tally. Parker singled with j one clown in the first, but was fore- j eu at second on Mallonee's hard hit j grounder. Mallonee advanced to ] second when Cauthen threw past Crawford, trying to complete a double play, but was left as Pater son grounded out to Cauthen. Snipes tripled over the fence in the second and Luther pulled out of a j dangerous hole when Lowe and [ Nunnamaker grounded out to the infield and Rhame flew out to right. Benson singled with none out in the third and was advanced to sec ond on Wilson's sacrifice hit, but Parker grounded out, O'Connor, G. to Crawford and Mallonr.ee skied out to the other member of the ! O'Connor family. The visiting boys tallied their lone run in the fourth when Pater son, first up, was hit by a pitched bail and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Snipes singled to right and Paterson was put out at the plate on Shealy's swell peg to ( Hawkins. Snipes went to second on the throwin and to third on Lowe's one bagger. Lowe went to second and Snipes scored when Hawkins' peg hit the runner in the i back and bounding- out to left field, Lowe pulling up at third. Nunna- ! maker hit a hard drive between ! first and second, but Shealy spear- ; ed the pill and Lowe was doubled j up. After this the visitors never threatened seriously, a peg to O'Connor by his centerfieiding brother cutting down Wilson when ! he tried to advance on Hawkins' wild peg to center. Sumter threatened in the fourth ? when Crawford and Shealy, A., sin- j gled with one down, but a fast double play Parker to Wilson to j Mallonnee killed the home hopes, j In the fifth with one down O'Con nor, A. singled. Hawkins laid1} down a neat bunt and had it beat, but Benson threw past first and both runners advance. Luther up in the pinch singled sharply just I inside the right field feul line., sc.or- j ing both. Sumter scored two more ! in the seventh on one hit. Hawkins walked and Paterson threw to the grandstand on Luther's grounder, j placing runners on second and ! third. Phillips came through with the pinch hit and the total was four. The next three batters were easy outs. Hartsville comes to town today for a series of three games. Lud wig will probably pitch for. the league leaders, while Walters will likely oppose him. The game will be called at ."> 'pclock sharp. The score follows: Camden AB R H PO A E Wilson. 2b. .. 3 0 0 3 2 1 Parker, ss ... 4 0 1 2 6 0 Mallonee, lb_4 0 111 0 i Paterson. 3b._ 3 0 0 0 2 1 Snipes, cf_4 1 2 2 0 0 Lowe, rf_. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Nunnamaker. If. 2 0 0 2 0 1 Rhame. c_ 3 u 0 2 0 0 Benson, p_ 3 0 2 0 0 1 Totals .... 30 1 7 24 10 5 Sumter AB R H PO A E Phillips, cf & c ..4 0 1 2 0 0 O'Connor. G. 3b .4 0 0 2 1 0 Crawford, lb _ 4 0 1 10 1 0 Shealy. A. rf 4 0 1 2 1 0 Cauthen. ss ... 4 0 1 2 5 1 Shealy. F. 2b . 3 0 0 2 3 0 O'Connor. A. cf 4 1 1 1 1 0 Hawkins, c_3 2 1 6 0 1 Luther, p. .. . 3 1 2 0 3 n Haltiwanger. If 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals. 33 4 8 27 15 2 Hits by innings: Sumter _ 001 231 10*?8 Camden.. Ill 210 0U1?7 Score by innings: Sumter . 000 020 20*?4 Camden. 000 100 000?1 Summary: Three base hits. Snipes; Stolen bases, Wilson and Cauthen: Sacrifice hit, Wilson.: Base on balls. Benson 2: Hit by pitcher, by Luther. 2 (Paterson and Nunnamaker); Struck by Luther, 7; Wild pitches. Benson, 1; Luther 1; Double plays. Shealy, A. to O'Connor, G. Parker, Wilson and Mallonee: Left on base, Camden. 5; Sumter. 6. Umpire, Mabry. Time of game, 1:28. Standing of the Clubs. Won Lost Pc Sumter ....- 4 2 f>t>7 Hartsville .._ 5 3 500 Camden ...... 1 2 333 Florence .... ? 1 2 333 Doubles and Trples. Sumter is certainly supporting her ball lub as the crowd Satur day indicated. It goes to show what good baseball will do. * * ? Rhame must have thought he was "hitting the line" when he jumped over the railing .and spear ed Shealy's pop foul, landing on his head after the catch, but com ing up with the ball "under his a rm." * * * For the three games played hist week. Cauthen lend.-- the club in hitting, having 1 hits out 8 times at bat for an average of 500. His hits included ;i double and 3 singles. The nominal leader is Luther with 2 out of 3 for ?;7. but he bus only played in one game. Phillips fol lows Cauthen witti an average of i 155, havng C? hits out of 11 times j up including a triple, homerun and thr^e singles. Hawkins follows with 333 and Shealy, A. with an | even 30 0. It is regrettable that J the averages for the three games in Hartsville are unobtainable. Hawkins, the human boll weevil, was forced to retire from the game in the ninth, a foul tip injuring one j of his digits.. Phillips Look his place and Haiti wanger, the new outfielder, went to left. Smyrna of Today Once Greatest Commercial Mart of Asia, Now a Dead City .-_ ? ? - * Smyrna. July 20.?Symrna. once i the greatest commercial mart- in Asia, is now like a city dead. There is little to show that it is the base ; of a Greek army of 200.006. For months no cargo boats have enter- j ed the harbor. Business through out Asia Minor is paralyzed. Amor- j icans control the little trading that exists. There are three rea sons for this stoppage of business. One is the war, another is the hope- I less rate of exchange (the Turkish pound is worth about 6S cents), and ! a third is lack of demand for for- j eign goods. As there seems little likelihood of | an abater nt of the war between the Greeks and Kemalists, local merchants see little hope of a re- j vival of Smyrna's commercial su- j premacy. Many of them have left the place for Italy. England and ; America, where they hope to find greater prosperity. The city itself is so primitive and unattractive that one wonders why it has been such a bitter bone of i contention between the Greeks and ; Turks for so many centuries. But of course it is the rich agricultural lands within the province of Smy rna that both sides covet. This ; area, which the Turks call the ''Pearl of Asia", is one of the most fertile and produces some of the ' finest fruit in the world. Smyrna figs and raisins are household terms. The country also yields the | finest leaf tobacco known. The yearly exports to America amount ; to millions of dollars. The treaty of Sevres placed Smyrna under Greek administra tion, with the .proviso that after five years the population might ex press its preference for either Turk j or Greek control. Although it has a population of upward of 400.000 and is consid ered by both Turks and Greeks as j one of the most modern cities in ! Asia, Smyrna to. the visitor is dis- , appointing and unattractive. Its narrow^ winding, crudely-cobbled streets give off an offensive odor. Its drainage system is deplorably inadequate. Its transportation and : lighting facilities,-too, are woefully defective. There is only a single tram, and that consists of a single- j track, one-horse ? line along the j waterfront. j Then Smyrna's hotels are sad ! affairs. The most modern of them is 40 years old. Xone of them would do credit to the smallest town in the United States. When King Constantino came : here, the best accommodations the j authorities could get for him was a : small eight-room terra cotta house that any farmer in America would j own. The King and his ministers I were not here two days before they were almost driven out by bugs and ; mosquitoes. The city has few places of j amusement. There are two or j three indifferent moving picture theaters and numerous coffee- } houses. All over the Near East I the "coffee-house" in an institu tion. Here the population sits all j day sipping Turkish coffee, drink ing oozo (a drink that tastes like ' aniseed) and talking politics. The natives as a rule are primi- \ tive, indolent and superstitious. They carry "conversation beads" to ; beguile the time. These they fin- j ger and fumble by the hour. The visitor might imagine the holders of the beads were at prayer. Even the horses wear these curious con versation beads. But in these cases they are used to keep away, as the j natives believe, the "evil eye" from the animal. ? o *? To Forecast Earthquakes Pasadena, Cal.. Aug. 13.?An in- , formation service on earthquakes, similar to the weather bureau's work in its field, is being consider- ; ed by scientists, engineers and bus iness men i.? California. The undertaking aims at per fecting an instrument sensitive enough to record the slightest trem ors of the earth and so make pos sible the prediction of approaching movements of its surface. The men in charge of the project are students of vibrations, who as sisted in the development of sub marine detectors and other similar instruments used during the war. They have the co-operation of local educational institutions, the United States Geodetic Survey and the United States Geological Survey. Responsibility has been assumed by the Carnegie Institution of. Wash ington. Direction of the work is in the hands of an advisory committee consisting of Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of the Carnegie Geophysi cal Laboratory. Washington. I). <\. chairman: Dr. John A. Anderson of the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory: Dr. Robert A. Millikan. physicist, of the California Institute of Tech nology: Dr. Harry Fielding Reid, professor of geology at Johns Hop kins University; l>r. Bailey Willis, professor of geology at Leland Stanford. Jr.. University; Dr. Ralph Arnold, geologist and petroleum engineer, of Los Angeles, and Dr. Andrew C. Laws?n. professor of geology at the University of Cali fornia. ? ? o What you don't know doesn't worry you, but it does the other fellow who has to listen while you talk about it.?Greenville Pied mont. The Mud-Sills of Crime Shyster Lawyers, Weak and Incompetent Judges and Failure of Courts to Pun ish Criminals Incite Mob Violence To the Editor of The State: Referring to your interesting edi torial in your paper of August 13, h<-ad. d "When Sheriffs Do Their Duty:*' The questions you ask arc time ly?in fact long past din-: Put it seems to me that you need not be at a loss for the correct answer. our laws are a heritage from Great Britain, constructed upon so cial conditions and a type of hu manity prevailing in an age long past and greatly changed, with a bewildering multiplicity of patches applied in some kind of effort to adapt the legal fabric to modern conditions or, as it sometimes seems to the layman, with the object of creating an intricate network or puzzle designed to furnish almost : endless protection to criminals and I revenue to the legal profession. We have heard the cry many I times in the past for fewer laws and stricter enforcement. We are i now at a point where we need a simple, clear, legal fabric, without red tape, and swift and drastic pun ishment for those who break the laws. j You ask, "Arc we tired of gov- I enment by laws and courts?" and j I think the answer is that a great many who are anxious to suppress crime are tired of the kind of gov ernment and court results which they have been experiencing for some years: that they are thor oughly tired and disgusted at the sight of their hard earned tax mon ey being wasted in bringing crimi- i rials to trial only to be released ! again provided they have ample | funds to pay those lawyers who are i sufficiently learned in the puzzle} of the code and know all the flaws and loopholes to suit each | particular case and defeat the ends i of justice. I When the majority of our magis trates are more or less unskilled in the law and necessarily have to prepare warrants hurriedly, it often happens that such warrants have some technical defect, as for in stance, a failure to state the source of information: and when several criminals who have been sought by officers for many months at a cost of several thousand dollars of the i public money are finally arrested on such a warrant, a smart shyster ! lawyer employed by the criminals chases to one of our judges, points j to the technical defect, presents a j habeas corpus petition, and the I judge with a mind only .for the let ter of the law, signs an order for j release of the entire gang instead ; of considering the welfare of the public and giving the magistrate ! an opportunity or correcting me ! omission. j When criminals are. after great public expense and delay, finally brought to court, only to have the cases drag along from one term to another at further expense because of "easy" judge s, "smart" lawyers and their ingenious devices for pro longing trials until public sentiment on the particular case shall have died a natural death, or insufficient propaganda spread in the commun- j ity to insure the selection of a fa- j vorable jury; when, even in the event we succeed in bringing the j criminal to face a jury and the j state makes a streng case with ample evidence, the jury refuses to j consider the public welfare and do \ their duty, or some one of them will through sentiment for the criminal, friendly feelings to the at-j torney defending him. or perhaps! financialjor political reasons, make a mistrial thus defeating justice by] the will of one person against a dozen or a hundred: when a type of lawyer known to be unscrupul- j ous and who well knowing his; client to be guilty and deserving a ! life time confinement, is permitted to practice in our courts, stands be- ! fore our juries and swears that j their clients are as innocent as new j born Iambs, etc.: when a lawyer is j permitted to practice in our courts. ! who brazenly and blatantly an- \ nounces in open court that he in- | tends to procure a "Bleasite" jury! for his client: when these and many; other farces and travesties of jus- j tice and law enforcement are be- j ing flaunted in the faces of the ! public with disgusting variations : and repetitions would it not be a better question, to ask, what else j can we expect than the conditions showing up in the Brazell case? I think the mobs, although pro- ! ceeding contrary to the written law, are not the proper objects for the harsh criticism, but that their desire for a swift, sure and cheap administration of justice where guilt is certain, is but a crude at tempt to supply and overcome the glaring deficiencies of the laws and those in legal authority, and that the latter are the proper objects for criticism. I of course do not mean to apply this to the sheriffs concerned in the BrazelJ case for they have done their duty. Instead of wasting our criticisms t*i.?on the mobs. I think it would be more to the point to consider if they have not been for a long time past gradually forced into this fnime of mind by tin- lax adminis tration of w hat laws wo have?the alarming increase uI ail kinds of ?names as a eonsequenc??the prac tical encouragement given crimi nals by the slight risk of arrest and conviction with severe sen tence, and then place the blame where it belongs. it seems to mc that "the peo ple are getting tired of being made the "goat." and unless we can have a < lean-up in our code of laws eliminating the jokers and funny t ticks making them dear out and adapted to present conditions, mob admiiiistration of justice is likely to im rease raiher than abate. Cod knows i lore is a great need : for constructive work in this line. ] J. B. Wallace. Camden. f Editorial reply by Columbia! ; State): The Choice Before the People j The letter of Mr. J. B. Wallace! in The State today contains a rep : etition of much truth that has been | ' said and written in South Carolina : the last 30 di* 40 years, but the an swer to it is that if the people are \ ??gluing tired of being made the i goat," it is time for the people to 1 reform their code of laws and the administration of it. If the govern ment in South Carolina is still in tiie hands of the people and its lawyers and others outwit and Cir- I cumvent the purposes of th peo- i pie. the fault is in the peor e them selves. . In other words the gov?. nment. the laws, the lawyers and ? te ofTi- ' cers can be no better than he peo- ; pie themseives and whe* he peo pie give up the effort i > work j through organized ant' civilized processes, the sole alterr ttive is to go back to primitive an nciviliz- I ed processes, which h ? say the rule of the moo. When the mob rules i > one is safe. Granting that it o- ins by hanging the bloody mu *er, it turns aside in a few 2. aths or days tc hang the worthj farmer, the piouo clergyman or the useful banker. Nothing more surely than that is taught by history and ex perience. Never has any organ-1 ization or body of men that oper ated without the law operated long without degenerating. The choice before the people of ! South Carolina is simple and plain 1 and the necessity of making it has I not been in many a year so imme-: diate and urgent. Unless we shaF! have and have quickly a reasser tion of respect for law, we shall have, in shorter time than one likes to think upon, more murders and more crimes of every description than have disgraced the common- j wealth in the last 12 months. The people of South Carolina are not wanting in virtue nor in cour- j age. They can enforce their laws if they will. They are not so weak j and so ignorant that they needs must be ruined by sharpers or pet tifoggers. Toleration of the mob or con- j cession to it by honest men who believe in morality and peace is equivalent to encouragement of the j suicide of civilization. Mob rule in South Carolina would be no better i than rule by "fat black bucks'' in the jungles of the Congo. We must i go forward or backward in South Carolina and. if we turn to the j mob. we shall travel in a day a; hundred years toward the dark ages when the strongest arm and sharpest weapon were always right j in their dec: dons. CHILD L^?OR LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL \ Greensboro, Aug. 22. ? Judge Boyd declared the national child labor law unconstitutional in a de- j cision handed down today. BLIND ARTISTS ENTERTAIN Friday night the Blind Artists of the State gave their musical con- j cert in the Girl's High school audi- i torium before a medium crowd. The concert was very much enjoyed ! by all who attended and was said to be a very wonderful exhibition, j These blind men and women per- I formed wonderfully on the piano and other musical instruments and recited some very funny and inter esting stories and anecdotes. An exhibit of work done by the blind in the:- Columbia workshop was on the stage, and announce ment was made that the articles would be placed in the store of Mr. S. I. Till for .sale, today and later, an dpatronage for same solicited. -? ? ? Louisville. Aug. 22.?Mayor Smith has issued a statement that every means will be taken to pre- j vent and suppress the growth of Klu Kulx Klan in our community, j characterizing the organization as J a "menace". The Irish Ulster is too hot for '. Ancient Aviation Stunts in Hawaii Hawaiians Centuries Ago Sail-1 ed From High Cliffs into ? the Ocean Honolulu. T. H.. Aug. 16.?Thriiis of flying were enjoyed by Hawai ians centuries before aviation was invented, accordifig to stories told by natives of today. Their ances tors got their aerial excitement by jumping off cliffs into the ocean in home-made "planes." They made a regular game of it,- ? known as "lele pali" or "jumpng ' from the cliff." It was played up to a hundred years or so ago by na tives who lived near groves of loulu plams near high cliffs over- ? looking the ocean. Details of the game have been ? obtained by William J. Coelho, a former newspaper editor now - an officer of the Hale o r.a Alii Ha waii (House of Chiefs.) This is what he says of the vanished sport. The game was played with huge contrivances built of light but stout sticks and overwoven with louiu palm leaves. Several of these af fairs were made ready, the Ha waiian "aviators" took their seats, and were pushed over towering cliffs at the same time. The ad venturer who remained longest in the air was the winner. Often through carelessness or excitement a "plane"Would execute a nose dive similar to those of twentieth century airplanes. - The only damage was the loss of the game. . " '. Old Hawaiians say that their fly ing men were exceptionally skillful. The only means they had of guid ing their crude appliances was to shift their weight to maintain bal ance as they zigzagged down to ward the sea. A fleet of outrigger canpes an-, chored offshore to pick up the sportsmen and retrieve the planes,' Exceptionally daring HawaiianB often hopped off thousand foot cliffs on the mainland, it is said. Stinner's Xew Health Officer Sumter has a new health officer. : His name is D. O. Browning.-' ifrV Browning has been on the job since the 15th of the month when he accepted the position. Mr; Browning comes to us from La Grange, Ga., where he has been' serving in the capacity of health ? officer of that city for some time. Mr. Browning has had years of ex perience in this line of work and comes to Sumter with a very fine recommendation. Washington, Aug. 22.?The sen ate bill making a billion dollars available for the exportation of ag ricultural products was passed by the house today. Washington, Aug. 22.?Presi&MiL J. S. Wannamaker, of the im^P can Cotton Association, today told the congressional committee - that the unnecessary deflation of .cur rency and prices was brought about deliberately by the federal reserve" board. Mount Vernon, Ky., Aug. 22.? Mountain clansmen, national guardsmen, and twenty deputy sheriffs thronged the court house at the opening of the trial of John Bailey, Jr., the accused slayer of Beverly White. 1 For Best Results Use LIVE STOCK REMEDIES Sold by Druggist* and De-den LOST NEARLY $60,000.00 The Columbia State under date of the 17th., reports the ? loss by a farmer living near Lake City of $30,000 in bonds and an almost equal amount in mortgages. The robbers actually carried away his iron safe. Had he exercised the privilege al lowed him by his bank of taking care of his securties, it could not have happened. We are fully protected by Burglarly In surance and our patrons are at liberty to make use of our vaults for the safety of suet: stocks, bonds, or other valueable papers, which they may own. A Satisfied Customer is our most Dependable Asset. ? FIRST NATIONAL BANK SUMTER.S.C XEILL O DOXXELL ARCHIE CHINA O. L. YATES President Vice President Cashier The National Bank of South Carolina OF SUMTE R, S. C. : v . e i, i The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY *" I ? Ca pit; l $300,000 Surplus and Profits $280,000 I I STRONG AND PROGRESSIVE Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU I The Bank With the Chime Clock. . k C. G. ROWLAND, Pros. FAULE ROWLAND, Cashier