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The WateHRan and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Ostccn Publishing Company, Swnter, S. C. Terms: . sf? \-$2-.90-f?er annum?m advance. ,\ .^Ad^ectisemerts: Of?e Stjuare, first insertion ..$1.00 ^Syety-.-sstoeqaient'insertion -- -50 ' Contracts for three months or Sponger will be made at reduced : rate?. tj/^^c&.ll.^ communications which sub -KjXjgrye " -private interests will oe charged for.as advertisements. ~ Obituaries ? and tributes of re -?peet will be charged for. ? -:i-J&** Sumter Watchman -was founded, in 1850 and the True iSeuthroc in 1866. The Watchman j-hd Southron no%v has the cor.i >ined circulation and influence of &othof the old papers,, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium iftSraater._ '_ OTE GAS SITUATION. ^ - -Without going into a discussion 61-: the merits of the controversy ^J|ige%een City Council and the Sum s ter Gas ?& Power company, The Daily Item"feels free to express the ^^^^k>n;that it was a mistake that '*ifie mass., meeting yesterday after ;^i0BJ>on.'.did not.adopt the resolution .rejactiy as presented by the com *$n$%ee of the League fo Women r :<3f:?t?rs. With, a committee of' six ^representative and disinterested 'citizens to referee the differences t?tet have .grown up and have be c^prte vaggravated between the ma :^9i1ty fo City Council and the of , teals of the Gas company, we be - .'-ftt^re it would have been quite pos -'itMe that a fair and reasonable ad .^jstment could have been made. All ?e. see in the present situation is a ^P^Eacted and costly lawsuit, un "?fftite the gas consumers take it up ,-?ti themselves to file with City " ^bnncil a petition requesting the increase m rates for such a time as: higher rates are necessary to j^r?dnee a reasonable income. In j the -event of a law suit, the taxpay ? ers-^or at least one taxpayer? ? wc.nld"like to know who is going to ".p-ay; the vfees, cotts and other ex ?penees? We have a recollection of : cue friendly lawsuit in which the j '.c&y indulged a few years ago cost l iffi? van - even thousand, dollars in ??lai^ers^fees?five hundred to the ,. attorney,on one side and five hun ~ ?*?d to , the attorney on the other is$?e?^both; representing the city. If friendly suit cost that much, ho^ -much Will a, knock down and drag ^;piat;:^ght,-such as Is proposed, cost <I*OCAL GOVERNMENT. ~ ' ^Titltig ^ to the conference of f'",/town'and county administration at \ o*he University of North Carolina,' "^President Harding remarks:: >* -. "There has been an inevitable ;Vjendency?, becaJise of\ the over .;WheJraingly important work which /?"?^-confronted the - national govern /,j?aent, -to rely unduly upon it for .?the.performance - of many func tions which can only be discharged v^prarperty by local administrative .entities." ; The tendency has long been not- j .ed, and has grown rather than di- ] ? mmished with the increasing bur *.'dens of the federal government.; ?The very fact that the work at i ? ? ?. ? ? ? .. - Washington has become so "over- | *? "W-helmingly important" in these j ;, war and reconstruction years is I stronger reason than ever why j cities and states should do their >best to take care of their own af ? lairs,.instead of trying to "pass the c jfcock" to Uncle Sam. . It may be observed, too, that lo- ! cal communities are usually better ! ...able to handle their problems than j the national government is to do j It for them, in spite of the fact j "ithat Washington has great re- j . >sourees of money and talent to | draw upon, and federal efficiency I at its best is very high. Local in-j *terest, local knowledge and local ! talent are usually capable of meet ing . local situations, if the citizens ! only think so. And by facing local; -difficulties and overcoming them, J .local citizenship?which is really I t/^he.only citizenship there is?grows j i&nd. strengthens. Local government is the strong- ; hold of democracy. Federal gov- j ..'jxnmentvitself would break down | -eventually if it were not fed con- j "tttfu?lly from a thousand local j ?-springsof good citizenship and ad- ; ^ninistrative efficiency. THE HOME IMPROVEMENT TOUR. The mandate to go into all the worM and preach the gospel to ev ery creature is commonly supposed to refer to religious enlightenment. In "the farming regions of the .Mid nie West they interpret the com mand more broadly, and by peri odic home-improvement tours j spread, the gospel of better homes; and more convenient and healthful ?living conditions to every county. AO matter how sparsely settled. An Indiana woman writing in J the Country Gentleman claims for { her state- the honor of originating j these tours. It is: an^ hon or not.to < be despised.. Tjhe object of 'the; 'tour as outlined As .to- carry all sorts of labor-saving devices out into the country and show how they work. Experts from the state uni versity accompany the caravan, and give lectures on economics and ef ficiency. Merchants from the county seat go along to exhibit and demonstrate every sort of mechan ical appliance for making work easier in the house and on the farm, and to show the latest styles in wall paper, furniture and all sorts of accessories. Meetings advertised beforehand are held at different homes and. the county is covered so thoroughly that if any farmer or his wife-re mains in ignorance of modern ap plianeeg or fails to- adopt them it is not for lack of opportunity to know better. The advertising value of such tours is apparent instantly. Their educational value is no less im portant. In states like Indiana, where they are common, an in creasing roll Of ^ well-equipped farms and farmhouses testifies that a beneficient influence has been at work on a scale broad enough to reach almost.everybody. RUSSIAN SECRECY. The refusal of Lenine to allow the allied official committee to in vestigate conditions in Russia pre liminary to famine, relief has acted as a serious check upon European efforts, just as had been. feared. When Lenine refused . to allow this commission-to enter F-ussiahe j balanced food for the starving against his own vainglory, and de liberately . chose the. latter. It should leave no doubt in any sane i mind that the man is a iover of power and. not of his fellow-men. .If his scheme of government is practical, he need have no fear of any invsetigation even by hostile agencies. If .it is not* and still he is the champion of the poor and oppressed that he has posed as be ing, he would surrender any per sonal ambition 4n order ttfat his people might be fed. ...Du the ? other hand, the allied governments? might :hetter have gone ahead on a non-political ba sis, like the American relief com mission, and -given aid promptly just because .it was so desperately needed, trusting to time and con tact to reveal the truth. As a matter of-fact, Lenine's ef forts at concealment-are futile. The truth is beginning to sift out as re lief sifts in, and the straits to which Lenine and his .associates have Teduced Russia are becoming glaringly apparent. As time reveals these conditions more .. .fully, so ? time will provide/the remedy, not only for the famine-stricken prov inces but-for the governmental fal lacies. .The pity is that many an innocent Russian must, die of hung er before the truth .has made all Russia free. . . ?? in? ^ - IRISH DIVISION. The chief enemy of Ireland, af ter all, is Ireland. Ireland can get from Great Britain virtually what it wants, if it can only agree , as to j what it wants. It seems as far from agreement as ever. Ulster threatens civil war if set tlement with Sinn Fein Ireland leads to any diminution of the! rights and privileges of the ne\vly i established parliamentary govern-i ment in Ulster, Sinn Fein threatens war with Great Britain if its terms are not met in-the present negotia tions, and that would mean civil war in Ireland. There ought to have been two islands, and two I re lands. As mat tecs stand, there are two Irelands ; spiritually, but one geographically and economically. Though they; were cut in two by a cataclysm of nature or the building of a great wall or canal, each would remain industrially and commercially in complete without the other. Ulster, the greater center of business and j industry, needs the materials and markets of South Ireland. South Ireland needs Ulster, its business capital. Yet the two are -still pull- ? ing apart, at a time when, more than ever before in history, the sit uation demands their pulling to gether. How can the Irish problem be i solved until Irishmen learn com- j promise and tolerance, for mutual benefit if not from a spirit of fra ternalism ? SHANTUNG. The administration wants to see ; the Shantung controversy disposed of before the disarmament confer I ence meets, so as to leave a clear field for bigger and more funda mental matters. It is a reasonable 'attitude for our government, and for any other government that sin- | cerely desires the success of the | con ference. % China herself,.is the obstacle. Jn pan seems willing enough to return ; Shantung, as she has promised to do, but China meticulously refuses to accept the-province at her hands, insisting that Japan has no legiti mate title. The Chinese position is under standable and excusable, but none the less unfortunate. Germany had a legal title to Shantung, regardless of the co-ercive methods by which she obtained it. That title passed to Japan by oono.uest and the authority of the Versailles peace conference, with Germany's con sent. . Japan's title, therefore, seems technically legal, whatever the moral aspect of it may be. The obvious thing to do, from the American standpoint, is for China to swallow her pride and make the best of the situation, merely driving the best bargain she can in the negotiations leading to Shantung's restoration. The Wash ington administration will doubt less support her claims as far as possible, if she agrees to this rea sonable procedure. China should understand that ?she is not likely to get Shantung back at all by any other course, now or in the .near futura. The ?Washington conference, into which she wants to precipitate the dis pute, will have no authority to dis pose of it. Eventually the League of Nations may take up the case, but China has more to expect from prompt and direct settlement with Japan. District Home Dem onstration Meeting Fifteen County Agents and Officials of Winthrop Col lege Here on the 26th and 27th On September 26th and 27th, Sumter will be honored by the presence of twenty-five or thirty hidies representing fifteen coun ties, Winthrop College and United States Department of Agriculture officials and specialists of the Home ?Demonstration department, States Relations Service and other depart ments of our state and national government. Several male experts are also expected to demonstrate and lecture with the lady special ists to the home demonstration agents, and thirteen prize club girls of various counties, who won the prizes in making biscuits, some of them even making better biscuits than mother can make. Mrr. S. O. Plowden. of State burg, Sumter county, the district home demonstration agent in charge of fifteen counties, selected Sumter as the meeting place for the 1921 district meeting, and has succeeded in getting an unusual number of the lady officials and ex perts of the State Home Demon stration department to attend the Sumter meeting. Dr. Samuel H. Edmunds, city su perintendent of education kindly agreed to allow the district meet ing in the Girls' High school audi torium, and also to permit the use of the commodious and well equip ped domestic science rooms and fa cilities, all of which will add great ly to the success and pleasure of the meeting. * Dr. J. A. Lund, of the States Re lation Service, of Washington will be here to demonstrate on the gov ernment's -specialties in cutting, curing, and canning of all kinds of meat and fish. This will-prove im portant information for the home demonstration agents to distribute and demonstrate in club work. The ladies of Winthrop College who have so far accepted invitations to attend and instruct are: Miss Christine South, State Home Demonstration agent. And the following assistant state I home demonstration agents and specialists: Miss Laura Bailey, ! "Mrs. Anne Campbell, Miss Lola M. Snider, Miss Eula Atkinson. Several others are expected if other engagements do not prevent. ! The object of district meetings are to bring together the local or \ county home demonstration agents ; for consultation, exchange of ideas about their work, plan of organ ization, and to receive from spec ialists instructions about new or ad- ': vanced discoveries of home eco nomics. Miss Caro Truluck, the local ! county home demonstration agent is naturally delighted that the dis trict meeting will be held in her county, and she is heartily cooper ating with Mrs. Plowden to make the meeting a successful and pleasant occasion. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce and the Young Men's Business League have been invited by Mrs. Plowden and Miss Truluck to assist in making the 1921 annual district mectinsr of the home demonstration agents of fifteen counties, and the other visit ing ladies and gentlemen one to be long remembered. Adventure in Antarctic Sir Ernest Shackelton Saiis on Two Years Voyage London. Sept. 17.?The Quest. the small boat on which Sir Kniest Shancleton will explore the un charted sections of the South At lantic. Pacific a-d Antarctic seas, left the Thames "today <?n the start of a two year's voyage. William Eiohenzollern probably could tell the KuKlux Klan where they could find an "Invisible Em peror."?Syracuse Herald. Lid you ever find an explanation for the fact that when an excited hunter mistakes a man for a deer he never misses??Rochester Her ald. r ;. > : r Women's Council of Sumter County i - \ ! An Important Meeting Held Saturday Afternoon j The Woman's Council of Sumter ' county held a very important and ? interesting meeting at the quar- \ : ters of the Sumter Chamber of I Commerce Saturday afternoon. A j j number of matters pertaining to j I the future economic as well as | I present conditions confronting city j j and country life were .. discussed. , j Cooperation with the Chamber of t i Commerce marketing committee, : ; and "living at home" were stress- i j ed. Mrs. E. W. Dabbs, Jr., pre- | I sided. Miss Caro Trulujck, home : ! demonstration agent was present, j I and took up with the other ladies j I subjects of more than ordinary in- j ! terest in home demonstration and ! I club work. Among the ladles who spoke for ! i their clubs and communities were | Mrs. E. W. Dabbs. Jr.. Mrs. Ned I Levell. Mrs. H. W. Beall, Mrs. Jas. I i Pagan, Mrs. S. C. Plowden, (dis-| I trict home demonstration agent),! -Mrs. J. J. Dargan, Mrs. E. J. Gar- ; j rick, and Miss Dargan. E. I. Rear- { j ?on, secretary of the Chamber of j ] Commerce, conferred with the la I dies about importance Of the com- j I munity clubs, and the weekly club market for sale of club and other i j farm products' in Sumter, and I I guaranteed that Sumter's business ? i men and the ladies of Sumter will1 I do their best to help the men, wo- i j men, boys and girls of the rural i j districts to sell their products. And ! in any other way that will help the i ; rural sections. Owing to the pres- ? I ent scarcity of vegetables and fruit j ; due to the prolonged drouth I ; which has ruined most of the gar I dens, it was decided to defer the | j weekly club market for four weeks. Committees were appointed to I investigate, the advisability of start- j j ing some kind of industrial work ! which cluj) girls and women can ; do at home and sell through the j home demonstration department, i and for making plans to have the j numerous clubs of the county rep resented by exhibits at the 1921 '? Sumter county fair in Sumter No vember 14th to 17t'h. inclusive. A very important phase of the discussion was the value to the I county and to the county seat, Sum ! ter. and to all trade centers in the ? county, of doing everything pos , sible to reduce the annual bringing \ into South Carolina of approxi ; mately one hundred millions of ; dollars of food and feed stuffs that I can be produced in this state, and I the importance of making Sumter I countyfmoney "live at home .and ! work in the same place." 'Miss j Truluck reported plans for dem i onstration work for the next^few i months, stating that the scope of j the work has broadened. Mrs. S. j O. Plowden. district home dem : onstration, urged the earnest in ? terest, work, and cooperation in j the plans of the federal govern-! 1 meat, Clemson and Winthrop Col leges, and the business organiza ! tions to overcome the adversity of I the present and to do something on ; the farms to substitute for cotton, ! and the importance of the city and , rural people pulling together. It j seems that the Sumter county la ddies are greatly interesed in the ""buy at home" to keep money in circulation to provide industries and employment for. Sumter coun ty's citizens, and to produce every thing possible and sell it "at home. Those two ideas appear to be the dominating factors in getting ahead j of the cotton boll weevil. Anoth er noticeable feature of the reports j made and the ideas advanced was j that the women and girls of Sum j ter'county, and of Sumter city must ! participate and cooperate in every ' movement, as far as women can. ; brought forth by their male fellow ! citizens. The Woman's Council of Sumter [?County, and Miss Truluck, the ! home demonstration agent, and her ! hundreds of women's and girls' I clubs are making a showing that j shows something?that shows that I women and the girls are awake to the importance of doing many j things to make Sumter county j prosperous in the shortest possible time. ? o ? 7,000 Mile Trip Through Siberia \ 'Berlin, Aug. 29 (Associated Press)?Charles R. Crane, former American Minister to China, at tributes the success of his trip across Siberia and through Russia to the ingenuity of his Chinese cook who, he stated, never failed [to return from most precarious scouting trips with eggs and some ; meat whenever Mr. Crane's car i halted for forapring purposes. "He even succeeded in ferreting i out one of his fellow countrymen 1 who would come down to our car I and attend to the week's laundry - i ing." said Mr. Crane in the course j j of an informal narrative of his 7, j 000-mile journey. i The 100.000.000 Soviet rubles for ! j which Mr. Crane paid $3.000, I American money, were carried in : bales which occupied a large part I of his car. Referring to the Soviet's output of currency. Crane stated that one ! of Lenine's last decrees gave the ' employees in the government print- ! I in^c offices permission to remain ?f- ' j ter working hours for the purpose j of printing money for their person- j al use. Everywhere along the route, he < said, there were evidences of the ; food shortage multiplying as also was the shortage of clothing, many women; being seen walking the streets of Petrograd and Moscow without stockings and shoes. The new heads of Alaska and , the Philippines are Bone and Wood. ' respectively. Haw. Haw.?Nash ville Tennesseea n. An eastern city is giving night instruction to its policemen in bl gal procedure. The classes should be extended to include members of the bar.?Pebria Transcript. If the disarmament conference runs up the S. (>. S. sign, it will stand for Same Old Suspicion.? Rochester Times Union. Plan to Engineer Strike in South Textile Workers Union An nounce Campaign to Organ ize Mill Operatives New York. Sept. 16.?Textile workers in the south will be cham pioned in a campaign for a forty eight hour week,' soon to start. President McMahon, Of the Textile Workers' Union, announced today. Champagne For the Sick New'York. Sept. 1?.?Champagne | entering the port totaled six hun dred cpuarts daily last month. Im- I ports were nearly twenty thousand j quarts, coming from Spain and France for medical use. A Common Sense Program for Cot ton Planters. (Southern Agriculturist). The American Cotton Association ; announces that it has had urjrcd { upon it two plans for the limita- ; tion of next year's cotton acreage, and is asking members of the as sociation to express their choice of: the two plans, or their disapprov al of both. They are: Plan No. 1. (1) Three-fourths of all open ; lands to be devoted to food and ; feed crops and To pasturage for live stock. (2) One-fourth of the cultivat ed land to be planted in cotton, j well fertilized and worked, so as to! j produce the best yield under the most economic conditions of labor j and other expenses. (3) Encourage the rapid organ- ; i ization of state-wide Cooperative j Marketing Associations for handl- , I ing cotton and other farm pro- j j ducts. (4) Adopt economic reforms' and efficiency iri the future baling, warehousing, "financing and mar I keting of the cotton crop, upon the j most approved and advantageous I ! modern methods of orderly mar- ! I keting. (5) Induce* every cotton farm-; I in the south to become, first of all, j j self-sustaining, and so control the : production and sale of cotton as1 j to force the consuming world to ,' pay the growers a profit on the j production of each and every bale j of the staple. Plan Xo. 2. j Petition the governors of theJ 'states of North Carolina, Souths Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis- ; sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Okla- i homa, Tennessee, and Texas, to at j ! once call into special session the j general assemblies of their respec f tive states, to enact a law prohibit j ing the planting of any cotton in J any of the states named, in 1022, ' such laws to be enforced under the i j broad police powers of the states, j I for the purpose of destroying the ! cotton boll weevil and the pink boll j i worm, the former insect having ? ! spread over 7 7 per cent, of the ?m- , ( tire cotton belt of the L'nited States :?such laws to be effective in each I state named from January 1, 1922. | j to January 1, 1023. provided each; and all of the cotton states named j in the petition shall pass a similar law. The cotton farmers of the \ small producing stater: of Virginia, Florida and Missouri will be ap- | I pealed to, to unite with the larger j cotton states in cutting cotton out : j for 1022. j Of Plan Xo. 2 it is necessary to j I say little. It is pure bunk. The I governors and legislatures of the states named have too much sense to enact the proposed laws. They have no constitutional risrht to pass ? such laws. The laws, if enacted, ! [ could not be enforced. Xo practi I cal man should bother with such ! wild-eyed foolishness for one'min ! ute. Plan Xo. 1 is a safe, sane and , practical method of meeting the j situation* The policies proposed j in the first four paragraphs are j I all policies of good farming : and sound business. With them j put into effect, practically every farm in the cotton country would ! be self-supporting. a*s is proposed in Paragraph 5, and the unfor- ! tunate and misleading language at j the end of that paragraph could ! be dropped. Indeed, it should be dropped [ anyway. The youth, no matter j i what it does, can not "so control ] i the production and sale of cotton 1 I as to force the consuming world ! to pay the growers a profit on the ; I production of each and every bale j of the staple." That, to be plain, j about it. is more bunk. Xo or- j I ganization can secure the power, or should have the power, to force the world to pay a profit on crops produced by inefficient methods and at unduly high expense. Such prices would nut be fair prices, and it is folly to attempt to lead farm- ; ers to believe that any marketing system that may be developed can make profits for the farmer whose farming does not entitle him tu a profit.. national methods of co-opera tive marketing can do much for cotton growers arid for .ill other farmers: hut they are not going to do away with the necessity for good farming. They are not going1 to give any man a profit on the cotton he produces if thai cotton is produced by expensive methods and at exorbitant cost; they are not going to insure .-very farmer, or any farmer, "a good living and 10 pei cent. <>n his investment." or accomplish any other impossibil ity. Fortunately, however, this dem agogic verbiage has no essential relation to the practical method offered in Plan Xo. I for controll ing acreage and marketing the crop. The plan itself is sound and should be put into operation. < '<?; ton farmers, we feel sure, will have no hesitancy in choosing be tween it and the absurdity propos ed in Plan Xo. 2, and in carrying it into effect tiie American Cot tou Association should have the hearty cooperation ol every farm er, and of every citizen interested in the development of a smble and permanently prosperous southern igriculturc. Pay Up Week Young Men's Business League Endorses Proposal to Have Pay Up Week At the regular meeting of the Young Men's Business League on Thursday a proposal was submitted for the consideration of the organ ization that a Pay Cp Week be I held in Sumter. The matter was discussed generally by the members and all aspects of the pro position were carefully considered. The re- I suit of the discussion was that the Young Men's Business League de- ' cided unanimously to endorse the ! proposition and to actively co-op- ; crate in putting over the plan to 1 have a pay-up campaign. It was decided to put on the Pay-up Week, beginning with Oc- j tober 1st and continuing until Oc-; tober 10th, in reality making the; period in which debt paying will ' be the order of the day cover ten j days instead of one week. Com- \ mittecs were named to take charge i of the campaign and the co-opera- I tion of all merchants and business and professional men will be en listed. It is not planned to have the pay-up week for the benefit of the merchants only, out for every line of business. Everybody is ex pected to pay what they owe to everybody else, so that at the end of the period the slate will be wiped clean and money will be made to do its full duty. It is a fine proposition and only the dead beats will be able to find any objection to it. Only those who owe everybody and have j nothing due them will fail to be I benefited. The U. C. V. Reunion Confederate Veterans Invited To Meet in Chattanooga Chattanooga. Tenn., Sept. 15.? For the third time in the history of that organization the L'nited Con federate Veterans' Association has been invited to hold its annual re union in Chattanooga and the in vitation has been accepted. The in vitation is also extended, of course, to the Sons of Confederate Veter ans and allied organizations that hold their reunions simultaneous ly with the U. C. V. The date of the reunion has been fixed for Oc tober 25-27 inclusive. Committees are already busy making arrange ments to entertain the reunion, and all who attend are assured of a hearty welcome in advance of the event to the homes and hospitality of Chattanooga. The reunion organization is head ed by an executive committee of which W. X. Hudiburg, an active business man. is chariman. There is also a general advisory commit tee headed by Hon. Alex W. Cham bliss, mayor of Chattanooga. These committees are composed of many j of the best men of the community, j many of whom -/-re active in the] entertainment ot the reunion eight | years ago and who are therefore known to the leaders of the ex Confederate organizations through out the scath. John E. Lovell is chairman of the finance commit tee. It should be understood that this invitation was issued at the elev enth hour, after it appeared that the ex-Confederates would have no reunion this year because of the absence of an invitation. Xo southern city seemed to be willing to invite the ex-Confederates, due doubtless to local conditions. When it appeared that the ex-Confeder ates had given over holding a re union this year, a number of live spirits in Chattanooga threw them selves into the breach and prevail ed on the City to issue the invita tion. It was accepted the same day of issue by Gen. K. M. Van Zandt, commander-in-chief of the Veterans' Association. With but a few weeks in which to make ar rangements for entertaining the reunion, the ex-Confederates them selves can not expect the elaborate entertainment they received here in 1013, but they arc assured that they will be given the best that Chattanooga can provide in the very short time intervening be tween now and the October date. Merely as a matter of informa tion to the ex-Confederates and their friends, adequate arrange ments will be provided for their business meetings and the usual so cial features of reunions will be carried out. There will be no free mess hall, however, for the reason that the time limit precludes such arrangement. Neither will the vet erans be housed in tents. Instead of these arrangements the homes oi* Chattanooga will he thrown open to them atid they will be entertain ? ed^in private families as well as ir j tit" city's numerous modern hotels. j boarding houses and rooming houses. The ex-Confederates and their friends will find Chattanooga a j better city than it was i". 1913. The ; same historic and scenic environ ment is here; the same warm hos? 1 pitality that prevailed then will be ! in evidence at this reunion: there ! will he rounds of entertainment, open air concerts, receptions, balls and informal dances for the official j ladies of the reunion and for the! commanders and their staffs. These i will form an outstanding feature! of r!ic reunion, staged somewhat] differently from the regulations ofj other reunions, and more enjoyable' to the visitors. There will be boat i rides on the Tennessee River! through the historic and scenic rapids below the city where the stream lights its way through a' spur of the Cumberland mountains. ; Arrangements are under way for one of the most elaborate barbe- j cues Lor the visitors at a large pub lic park that has ever been provid ed for any reunion of the past. Oth- | ? v features Cor the entertainment of the vsiitors and guests are be-' ing worked out and will soon be an nounced in the official program of the event. There will be plenty of room and entertainment for all. : and the invitation is extended t? tin- ex-Confederates', their friends and the general public with the as surance that all who come will be ' welcome. 1 HCl iE deMonstra- J,> The National TION DEPARTMENTr \ [The Enormous Influen the Country's Businef -^he Advance in Cotta (Manufacturers RgfgJPB). 'The tremondous^fvance in cot* S< me inquiries have come in re gard ing methods of making grape juice. Following is given the cold-, press method and the hot-press method. Bulletins on same and other uses of grapes can be had at the office of county home demon- j ton, which has been adding aboni stration agent: :j $.7.>,00lt.000 a day to the value .of Cold-Press Method. ? Secure j the present crop and the sii sound, clean, fully ripe fruit: crush brought over, and which before ffe clean cloth sack by hand, but if as j rise stops will probably add at least the fruit by hand or. better, with a j. .$.i,flO0,0e0.000 to the income of home-made crusher. If a cider j southern farmers over the price mill is available, it is well adapted | ruling two months .ago, will quicJSj for both crushing and pressing. Afr, ly.'revive and stimulate every inj ter the berries are crushed then dnstry in the south. The War Fin: jniee should be pressed from the i ance Corporation and the mort fruit immediately Small quanti- : liberal credit forced on the Reserve tics of fruit can be pressed in a* Board by the administration have much as a bushel of grapes is b^ing ? tremendously aided the situation; handled a cider mill or an inex- [short cr?P- added to thP' pensive homemade press like those j am?unt ^ou^ht over from,:pre illustrated in Farmers' Bulletins :? vio-us -vear9? Wl1 644 and 7r>S should be used. Hav-i&fc?^ve ing secured the fresh grape juice, strain it hrough flannel and then place it in bottles or fruit jars. While bottles are suitable if pre- } ne*". ^^C^Eb * i *u . at high figures, and leave the wond ferred the quart clamp-top or] ? ? ^ Qf Amcrican stock hghtmng-scal type of fruit jar is ; ? m0nths hence, thus insur recommended as the best containerif the g<with is wise in holding for grape mice for home use. Such i down itg acreagCf a long period of jars ordinarily ar; more conveni sees that nough be enom the world from a real ton famine, such as it has not .faced since the civil war of 1861-65. Ail of the old stock fit to spin and the. can be consumed^ evejl ??- - - '.profitable prices. ently and successfully use, are more'; The countrv already generally available, and ' can be j ^he south?s cotton crop advance used also as containers for other marks the turning point and that products in succeeding years. Hav- f from now on things will wonderfu* ing placed the juice in bottles or ; ]y improve. jai s. put these in a water bath | ' EVer Wall Street now admits and sterilize by heating until the ? that the advance in- cotton .will juice has reached a temperature j probably be the turning point to start the wheels of industry and near but not quite up to the hoiling point. If a thermometer is availa ble, the temperature can be tested. As soon as the juice has reached a temperature of 190 to 200 degrees F. ! 95 to 98 degrees C.) remove it from the sterilizer If no ther mometer is available, remove the juice as soon as it shows the first sign of simmering preliminary to. boiling. A good home water bath or sterilizer can be provided by placing a false bottom of wire" gauze (4 meshes to the square in> ?) or a thin ni , *rous holes le bottom of a washboiler or t, covered preserving pot fill ? vith water enough to surround not cover the bottles or jars of grr'ue juice. (See fig. 2.) The fal ;t bottom enables water to get under the juice containers and the cover of the water bath confines the steam. Vhich sterilizes the upr per parts of the containers. Just ks soon as the temperature of the juice has reached the point at which sterilization has been assur ed remove the bottles containing! Song of some of the oil wells the juice from the water bath, seal j t^is vicinity: "Nobody Knoi at once, and store in a dark. cooli'How Dry I Am."?Los Ang? place until desired for use. In seal-^.rrjjnes. ing the fruit jars, before clamping j ?>? ? ? thtm dip the lids and rubbers for j .Nations are less for giv.ng'tha! a moment in the hot water bath, [for getting.?Norfolk Virginian Ti\ so that they also will be sterilized, [dot. If bottles are used cork them withj bring back general prosperity. Last week we said the soul would be the first section to sht marked business revival, and the mighty financial wise-acres Wall Street are putting forth the same statement. What this country hate needed more than* anything 'else hV a' mOu teriai way has been a litt'.e"\yj^? fiori of inflation in credit ami prices. The credit inflation"-has Come through the reversal 3y the board in which [ administration of the former credit; have been bored ] ^'ia^n of the Reserve Board, and V'tne increase in cotton prices wi j s'i'ar* a revival for higher price ' farm products and of many "mi ufaetured products, and the resuil ' wilT be tetter times, better e< ploy men*, and more prosperity j everybody. Months ago when reporting thj change of credit policy which thf administration was inauguratinj we said: "Glory be! the wheels arl beginning to turn." They will noi begin to speed up. it' new corks that have just been j The thre/^^. soaked for about 30 minutes in wa- ' school giri are rouge, rice powder, ter at a temperature of not less [ apd rough stuff.?Washington Post, than 140 degrees F. Use a cork I * c * ? ?l a 'itile wider than the mouth of \ . vThe old-fashioned man who wait the bottle, and after inserting this l ed,for his ship to come in no<v [ as far as possible cut off the rest : of the cork even with the mouth, j Pry the mouth of the bottle thor I osghly and dip in a melted mixture j of equal parts of beeswax and ros ? in or in melted paraffin. Hot Press Method. The hot press method is identi cal with the cold-press method, ex cept that the crushed fruit is heat j ed. nearly but not quite to the boil I in?-: point and is then pressed while jhoi. In home work the fruit geri ? erally is heated in a large dish pan. ; Stir it while heating, so as to bring ! the entire mass simultaneously to j the desired temperature. Then : place it in a cheesecloth bag hung : over a receptacle to catch the , juice, and press by hand.. Allow i the juice to cool, strain it. and then i proceed as in the cold-press meth- j i od. 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