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Ute WatcKroan and Southron Punished Wednesday and Satur day by Ostoe? Publishing Company, Swnter, S. c. 7 Terms: ; /$2o6i0 per annum?in advance. ?dvcjrtisemeiws: :Oae.^u??j, first insertion __?1.00 SJv^y. subsequent insertion .50 K Contracts for three months or IpngW-wiH be made at reduced xittes. : All CiMaaiHTanications which sub i^serye private interests will jo charged for as advertisements. ? ^ Obitliaries and tributes of re fl^bft TiU be charged for. The Scatter Watchman was feuivded in 1S50 and the True S^ttthron in 1&66. The Watchman Snd!/So1itfcron now has the com bined circulation and influence vof 1?^>C^he. old papers, and is raan ifestly tfre ^>est advertising medium jbyJtomter, ini in m^ p i ij 1 i i ?? i jrffiE FREXCH VIEW. . Xiaaitation of naval armament by l^ar.three naval powers is admitted ljisy oflTer no serious obstacles. Eut ^h^w.siout iand armament? That ^depends mainly on Frasice. And : Premie*,Briand is coming to Wash ington, to speak for France. He ?jffiudin a, recent speech : : : "My voice must carry- high and o;$ar< . Tomorrow, beyond seas, we 0btG. invited to examine into certain, ^ar^W^ws.' -I have the honor to re fr?iy present* to that invitation. We ifcair go... to Washington, first in ??rdrr^ a fulfill a duty of gratitude ramrT .Tft" f"^' ? their home those .noble and brave,, soldiers whom we lljavje" seen in France. We will go ipiso ^ta accomplish a duty toward .rFjEance has earned the right to tje^&rations and security. At no l^?ir^ ?tfiail the French government ;-^Hd^on-..th^se points. I will re vi&te .the .accusations of impcrial ? ism js^hich have been made against France. ;. "0?r allies know, that we dc xpejad ^our rightsr?nothing more. Tc^aorr?w at Washington I will pr vje tothe Americans that France wanf4 Peace." ; How will he prove it? The an swer is "found in many French ut ^Ea?ces .an,d in the comments of British and American correspond ents acquainted with France and her projblems. France will show the menace of a revengeful Ger many, unsettled Central Europe 'and Red Russin. She will point out that-at present the only safety fcr, her and Europe lies in her army. She /will agree to re duce" that army?provided the United States w'iH agree to come to hear aid and supply the missing soldiers if need arises. ' Will Afeerica do that? Or can it ? And H not, what can America WAGES FOB IDLENESS. The British government has been paying ?'unemployment insurance" to l.oO-O.eOt) idle workers, repeat ing oh^a huge scale the example set ijy "Robert Owen a hundred years ago an his factories at New l^?nferk. Owen stood it, but Eng land is in danger of going broke over it. "There is now talk of stop ping the payments. That would be harden the workers, but might he the leas of two evils. This ssaypient of workmen dur ing enforced idleness, though pos justifiable in principle, works badly in practice. By draining ~ money from taxpayers to meet the unemployment payments, it reduces the .'capital available for industry and thus retards industrial revival. Morebvjcr, the payments are said to If^pauperize'* those who receive them. The situation is somewhat reminiscent of the feeding of the idle^d<ypulace of Borne which be ^c?n? a regular institution in the |H?nH? of the Caesars. Idleness it self *is hasd "for everybody. It Industrial workers must live, and c$~ their own jobs are so largely ydhd their control, it is true broadly that the industrial com munity owes them a living. But it does not owe them a living with out -work. It owes them jobs. ? Aa obyious solution for any such r'TO?er? is to use the idle workmen On public Works of various kinds. Tha^ would be constructive enter prise^ tending to revive industry and>avoi?Lng pauperization. There isa*iesson in it for America. 1 " ? ? ? - XS^VCESSIBLE WEALTH. - A-lecturer tells of the enthusias tic jprTerlcan senator who returned from Alaska with the glorious tid ings that in one river valley alone -?and that not the largest?there washroom, and splendid soil for 100,000 farms. The lecturer inves tigated and found that the state ment as it stood, all by itself, was true: But inasmuch as the entire population of Alaska at the present tirh^ is less than 30,000, and trans portation is so expensive that it ef fectually bars the marketing of farm products elsewhere at a pro fit, . he wasn't advising 100.000 farmers to rush right off to Alas ka and enter the business of agri culture quite yet. This problem of distribution is one of the greatest now before the nations. With coal enough to sup ply the world for centuries, and ice enough to fill its ice boxes mean - ! while, Alaska alone could wann '?the world, turn its wheels and j preserve its food. Provided, of ! course, those wise ones arise who will show the world how to gt! the things it needs into the places where it needs them, at a profit to those who get them out and take I them there, and at prices possible to those who consume them. ? o ? ?5 U. C. V. Reunion and Strike There Will Be Ample Time For Veterans to Reach Home Before Trains Stop Run ning Chattanooga, Tenn., Oot. 18.? The only thing that is worrying the officials of the Confederate reun ion committee now is the possibility of a railroad strike on the evening of October 30, and even that should ^.o't prevent the attendance of all people in the Confederate /.one of the country upon the re union. All of the committee's preparations to entertain a large crowd of people are about complet ed, and the hope is entertained that fear of a railroad strike will not deter any who have made their arrangements to be in Chat tanooga upon the reunion occasion. The committee, in the first in stance, does not believe there will be a strike, but even if there is every visitor can leave Chattanooga as late as October 28, the day af ter the reunion closes, and reach their homes before the strike be gins. They can travel from Chat j tanooga to the Atlantic seaboard in j 24 hours: from Chattanooga to ; central Texas in 36 hours; from j Chattanooga to the Mexican bor der in 4S hours; from Chattanooga to St. Louis in 30 hours; from Chattanooga to Richmond, Va., in 23 hours; and from Chattanooga to the center of Confederate terri i tory in less than one day. j Sixty hours will elapse between ! the morning of October 28 and ! the time set for the railroad strike, i and in that time a person can ride i almost to Denver, Colo., or to Kan ! sas City in a little more than half j the time. It is easily possible for ! 95 por cent of the people who at : tend Confederate reunions to leave j Chattanooga on the morning of Oc | tober 29, two days after the close j of the reunion and reach their j homes before the date of the rail i road strike arrives. Hence it ap I pears positively sure that no visitor' to the reunion is in the least dang er of becoming stranded even if the strike materializes on schedule time. The railroads have made public their reunion tariff sheet, provid : ing for the purchase of. round trip ! tickets for -.the reunion occasion, j The price of tickets from all sta I tions to Chattanooga is printed in I the tariff in bold figures so that i there can not possibly be any mis ! understanding about either the I cost of tickets or the privilege of j buying round trip passage. As ;?. matter of fact the printed prices are for the round trip, clearly so stated in the tariff sheet. The fares are remarkably low for these reunion tickets. The local agents will doubtless supply the public j with all the information contained in the tariff sheet, both as to price j of tickets and the route of travel to ; and from Chattanooga. They have I been supplied with all this infor mation and it is now public prop { . Home complaint has reached re I union headquarters that local j agents were not supplying informa- : tion is due to the fact that not un- ; ; til Friday of last week had the : ! railway officials east of the river completed their tariff sheets, and ! j in advance of this very important ; ! work, no official information could I be imparted to the local agents, j Those agents who may have given I information were speaking without ' i official sanction, and in some in i stan< es the information they gave ; the public was incorrect. One of j these complaints came to the com- ; j mittee from Mayesville, Ky., to the I effect that the local agent there ; had given out the information that ! the cost of a ticket to Chattanooga * would be $6.50 one way only. The I printed tariff sheet shows that the \ cost of a round trip ticket from ! Mayesville, Ky., to Chattanooga is , S6.5e. The agent at Mayesville had doubtless heard that a reunion ticket to Chattanooga would cost the figure quoted and that it was a one-way ticket. It is-316 miles from Mayesville to Chattanooga, or j 632 for the round trip by the nearest route. Selection of an other route doubtless explains the slight discrepancy between the rate and the mileage. Other com plaints have come from Texas. Arkansas and Oklahoma, but the facts are that not until this week had the {Southwestern Passenger Association issued official orders to their ticket agents in that territroy. Their rate is one cent a mile west of the river, the same that the Southeastern Passenger Associa tion has given east of the Mississ ippi. Official knowledge of the rate is now in the hands of all railway agents in the territory covered by these passenger associations. Raleigh. X. (\. Oct. 20.?J. T. Harris was electrocuted in the state prison today for the murder in liuncombf county, September 3rd. 1920, of F. W. Monnish of Tusca loosa. Ala., a philanthropist. The govrnor rfeused to interfere after receiving numerous appeals for commutation based on claims of new evidence found. It's possible that search warrants may be issued for the place where "Brown-October-ale" poems are produced- ? Atlanta Constitution. In this glorious free country, every congressman feels that the house is his castle. FOR ' AMERICAN : AMBASSADOR Paris Communists Make Attempt to Assassinate Myron j T. fierrick Paris. Oct. 19 (P?y the Associat- | j ed Press).?A small oblong pack-j I age -wrapped in plain white paper I tied with a strong cord and mark- : i ed, "Perfume/' lay on a table in j j the American embassy all this ; i morning. It was addressed per- j i sonally to the American ambas I sador, Myron T. Herrick, and had j I been delivered by registered post. ! Thinking it was a gift, the am- j i bassador's secretary, Lawrence j i Norton, carried it to the ambas I sadoc's residence. Early in the i evening, the ambassador's valet, j Blanchard, saw the package on a j desk, and following custom started j ! to open it. T Ne removal of the I paper revealed a small pasteboard ' box such as might be used for \ holding soap. Almost immediate- ; i ly a spring was released and as! j Blanchard lifted the lid he heard j I a familiar noise which brought I back the days when he was a j j bomber in the British army. He | j hurled the box through the open I j bathroom door and ran from the \ j room. The 'bomb exploded in the j 1 doorway, two fragments hitting I the valet in the back. He was not j i seriously injured. The ambassador, his daughter-in- j I law. rM.s Parmely Hcrrick, and j her seven year old son were just | j at this time ascending the stair- j ! way, preparatory to entering Mr. i ! Herrick's suite. Blanchard came j I running out as the ambassador : ? reached the top. "A bomb h?s exploded and I i ! am hit." the valet shouted. "Thank | j God. you weren't in the room." \ Blanchard then, collapsed and j i was carried down stairs. The am- ! bassador motored immediately to I ! the Hotel Crillon to ask General I j rershing the best thing to do, and j the prefect of police was summon- ! ; ed. The bomb is believed to have . i been sent by French Communists j as a protest against the conviction i of two Communists in the United I States charged with murder; it 1 contained the deadliest of explo- j siv.es; according to the.perfect and ; I his staff of bomb experts, j I Proof of the strength of the ex- i ! plosives is shown by the fact that the bathroom was wrecked, that ; j much damage was done in the I I bedroom and that seven fragments I went through a thick steel .ward robe, while others made deep dents | in the metal doors of a cabinet. i The ambassador's first thought I j was to ignore the matter but Gen. ; j Pershing and others advised him to make the full details public be- ! cause of the possibility of other bomb outrages. The prefect, ac-: companied by the attorney general I of Fx-ance. came to the hotel and shortly afterward went with the ambassador to the latter's home. ! The prefect made the announce jment that 5,000 police and detec I tives would begin at once a search } ing inquiry and that probably there j would be numerous arrests among j known Communists. President Millerand was among the first to congratulate the Amer ican ambassador on his escape. He : sent a personal representative to j ! convey congratulations in the name j ! of the. people of France that the i ' ambassador had not been hurt and | i assure Mr. Herrick that the out- '. j rage was deeply resented by every Frenchman worthy of the name and that the greatest efforts would . i be made to apprehend the guilty. ; I Premier Briand, Leon Bourgeois ; I and many members of the diplo- | 1 matic corps sent messages and j throughout Paris the most intense : I indignation is expressed at the at- i ! tack on the ambassador. There has been a fair degree of ; : interest shown in the project of j j the establishing and maintaining 1 I of a canning factory in Sumter j ! since the meeting which was held ! i in the Chamber of Commerce at ] j noon Saturday. The plans that . ! were suggested call for the fonma : tion of a $25.000 corporation. It j was estimated that only ?5.000 of ; this amount would have to be rais : ed in order to make the beginning. iThis money would necessarily have j \ to go toward the buying of the ma- , I chinery and equipment of the j ! plant. The corporation could at first rent a building with the op- i ! tion of buying at a later date. The meeting held the suggestion that the remaining $20.000 could be : subscribed for by the farmers of : the county to be payable in the ; spring and summer with their fruits, vegetables and produce.] 'The establishment of this factory ! would help materially even the i smallest farmer. It will be import- I an however, that enough farmers] ; plant sufficient produce to make j i the whole plan a success. It seems ! j that nothing could be entered into ; I just at this time which, with a small outlay of capital, could be of such benefit to such a large number of people both in the city and county. dive this your thought. ? m ? Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been is ,sued to: Mr. .1. VV. Caddin and Miss Mary Geddings both of Sumter. Colored: Archie Ruf us and El len Daniels of Brogdon. Augustas Lesesne <>:' Alcolu and Sally McCullum of Sumter. Tony Carolina and Aline Mc l-Laurin of Sumter. Williston Pack and Lizzie Moses ; of Sumter. Isaac Sims and Agnes Reid of Sumter. Andrew McCary and Bertha I Woods of Shiloh. The Canning Factory Proposition An Enterprise of This Sort is Needed to Provide Market For Farm Products Editor Daily Item: I am very glad indeed to read your news item in this afternoon's issue regarding the proposed can ning factory in Sumter and to see that you have put the matter be fore the general public. Most of the people in this com munity are pretty well convinced that cotton as a chief money crop has about ceased to be a good risk for either credit advances or the necessary investment to grow the crop under boll weevil conditions for a profitable return. Wc all know that it is going to be somewhat difficult to convert the farming interest of this sec tion to the growing, harvesting and marketing of other crops on a profitable basis, but we do realize that other sections have done so. and still other sections that are not near so fortunate as to labor, soil and c limatic conditions are i successful in growing other money crops and we can grow pretty well | anything that any,other section of the country can grow.. One of our chief troubles is the proper methods of harvesting and j marketing of our products and J right here let me state that this J problem is as much the farmer's problem as it is anybody else's. The proposed establishment of a! canning factory, would in a small way be of great benefit to the j farmers of all classes throughout ! the county, for the reason that they do know how to grow vegetables j and fruits and could do so without discarding their present labor and equipment and-without additional, equipment or expense (other than the setting of orchards and the ex p-nse of carrying them until liiey produce; and would give them a J ready market for their produce j and a source of income (even though it be small) at a season of ] the year when they need it most j and at the same time would start ! ^ots of farmers to producing suffi- j cient quantities of fruits and vpg^- j tables for his home consumption J through the fall and winter. The public will probably recall ; that during last spring and sum- ; mer (when money was scarce) j there could be seen during the '? early morning hours many wagons j and buggies driving through the i residential sections of the city, i making a house to house canvas j with produce of all kinds, very of- j ten coming very early in order to ! sell and get back home to do a I day's work. At best the city of Sumter can only use a limited amount of green produce, a great part of which is ] raised in the gardens of the city! and the cost of the system of dis tribution is used by the producers! is high, in most cases if the time J of the producer and of his stock | were taken into account the cost of selling by the methods used, j would amount to more than the j produce brings. A canning factory with the prop er management and sufficient cap- j ital could buy the produce direct; from the producers, sell to the con- j sumers in town and ship certain; quantities of the green produce to other markets and pack the re mainder. Another fact to be taken into consideration is that even under j past conditions, each season there 1 has been large quantities of pro- ! duce wasted for the want of a mar ket for same. For instance, one of the greatest wastes that we have is j the sweet potato, a nutritious food product that can be eaten three times a day. We have never yet had a satisfactory ma *ket for the sweet potato and any iarmer will tell you he would be only too glad to contract to grow sweet potatoes for from 50 cents to 75 cents per bushel and a bushel of sweet po tatoes will pack 15 three-pound cans, which are sold to the jobbers and wholesale grocers at around $2.25 per dozen and in turn sold to the consumer at 30 cents per can. I have been informed by a packer that about the same mar gin #of gross profits are made out of the other products. Recently I was told by a lady who resides in Sumter county that *he had made an approximate net profit of $8.00 per bushel on pre served figs, and of course we all know there is nothing nicer than preserved figs. Another product that can be grown in large quantities at a rea sonable profit is syrup and I think could be handled in the same plant as the numerous other vegetables and fruits. The eMiipnu nt as used in a can ning facic-ry so far as I have been able to s>rcer*cin is very simple and inexpensive and large per centage of the labor used is inexpensive. Of course the superintendent or as ue is called in the plants, a proc ss man * * * would have to be a man of experience and ability and nec essarily would have to be gotten from some other canning factory. We all know when the farmers of all classes are prosperous?that general business conditions are good and have a pretty fair idea too, what becomes of general busi ness conditions when the farmers arc up against problems which they cannot solve successfully?for instance low price cotton grown under boll weevil conditions. In my opinion if a canning fac tory is established in Sumter and Is operated successfully, 1 believe there will be others started and I hope operated successfully too and what nicer thing could happen to (Kumter county and Sumter too. than to have several nice little fac tories manufacturing the raw pro ducts thai can he grown so bounti fully in Sutci. r county, such as vegetables, fruits, preserves, jel lies, syrups, pickles, soups and cat sups. I do not agree with Mr. Dabby that the canning factory is a prob lem for a few men in Sumter to solve. I think it is up to every citizen of the town and county and ! from my knowledge of the situa- j tion, 1 believe that if a canning .factory is established in Sumter, 1 it will be through the close co-op- ; erat ion of the farmers and busi ness men and not by cither class alone. j Another fact that I could like I j to mention or rather a question, I ' would like to ask is with this year's losses piled upon last year's losses, j ! who is going to make advances to j I the farmers who need advances next year? AVhat is he going to make under boll weevil conditions j ?and if it Is not cotton?how and who is he going to sell it to? It I seems to me that a market for the produce that can be sold during the spring and summer will to I some extent help solve the prob j lern. I R. A. BRADHAM. -?? ? ? Enrollment at Furman j Baptist College Has Largest Attendance in Its History Greenville. Oct. 18.?Final revi sion of figures in tk<* office of the i registrar of Furman University shows an actual enrollment and at j tendance at the State Baptist Col I lege for boys this year of 404 stu dents, the largest of any of the sixty-nine years since the institu | tion was established in the city of Greenville. T ie enrollment this session is pr . ?tically double thn.t of thrx? years ago. Attendance figures for the past four sessions show this ; growth in the size of the student body: 1938-'19?205. 1919-'20?299. 3020-21?381. j 3921?404. Of the 404 students registered this year, 374 register from South Carolina, Xine other states of the Union and one foreign country are represented by the other 3?) men. divided as follows: North Carolina 13: Georgia 3: Virginia' 2: Pennsylvania 3: Tennes see 2: Kentucky 1: Maryland 1; Xew York 3: Mississippi 2: China 2." CALLED MEETING OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Editor Daily Item: j In view of the threatened na-, jtionwide strike of railway employ ees effective October 30th. 1921 ? land feeling that something should j be done towards organizing our, 'city and county to meet the exi ! igencies of the emergency should I this threatened calamity occur. [ Therefore, a meeting of the en i tire membership and board of di rectors of the Sumter County I Chamber of Commerce, and all ! other interested citizens of Sumter ; county is hereby called for 3 3 o'clock Monday morning. October j 2-Uh at Sumter Chamber of Com i'merce. second floor of City Hall j Building. j A full attendance of the directors i is requested as other matters will ; be up for consideration. Every j member of this organization and ! the public is invited and urged to ? be present. By order of E. S. Booth, presi ' dent. E. I. Reardon, Manager. ; Secretary. Sumter County Cham ! ber of Commerce. -?? m ? j Xcgro School Improvement, j Fifty new rural school houses for colored children have been built in South Carolina during the past ! year. Darlington county has re I cently put on a special building I program for that section. State aid j is available for new schools on the j same terms for both white and col I ored schools. I . j South Carolina has operated nine i summer schools this summer for colored teacers, with an attend ance of* between 1,400 and 1,500. ! Twenty-four counties in South ! Carolina now have Jeanes super j visors. City schools are also being I improved. Eleven colored schools j have been accepted by the state I board of education as high schools j to receive state aid. In each case j this action was recommended by i the white district trustees. - Ninety colored school principals I and supervisors were sent this sura I mer from South Carolina to the i summer schools of Hampton ?nd ! Tuskegee. Through their summer ! work for teachers these two I schools are influencing negro life : all over the south. Both institu i tions are in close and sympathetic : touch with every state department i of education in the southern states, I and their thorough work, their in spiring ideals, their gospel of in telligent work, high moral stand ards, and inter racial good will are bearing fruit in hundreds of coun try communities. They stand for I opportunity to the negro to the full i extent of his ability: and are show j ing. all over the south, that the i negro's development promotes the i interests of both races. To Equalize Freight Rates. ; Columbia. Oct. 19.?An adjust ment of freight rates in South Car ! olina and other Southeastern states. ! to make them as low aw freight rates in Georgia, or else to adjust the rates of the several states, that they will be on an equal basis. ' will he discussed at a conference l iu Atlanta on next Monday, to be attended by a representative of ih?* South Carolina Railroad Com i mission, a' which time testimony regarding the rate situation will be taken by a representative of the interstate Commerce Commission. Janus A. Perry, of the Georgia Railroad Commission, lias request ed the South Carolina Commission j to have representation at this hearing. !"<>r many years Geor gia's freight rates have been low ??r than those of other states ad i joining Georgia, and the South 'Carolina commission holds thai !the discrimination ngainsi this state I is unfair. Mr. Dabbs Discusses Canning Factory Says Farmers Will Grow Vegetables But Will Not Invest Money in Enter prise ! Editor Daily Item: Owing to other matters I was j I not able to be present at the can- I j ning meeting Saturday. I am in I formed that the promoters express- ' j ed the opinion that farmers will < j not grow the necessary fruits and i vegetables to insure the success of' such an enterprise. Of course j they will not with only vague prom j ises of taking care of their crops. 1 But if responsible men will calcu i late how many acres of the va | rious fruits and vegetables that are j suitable for canning will be needed and what price per bushel or j pound (better by weight) they can . ; pay to farmers, a price that will j ! give to farmers a profit under nor- j ! mal conditions, I do not think there \ J will be any trouble in making con- j j tracts with reliable farmers forj j their supply. Such . contracts j I should be for not less than 3 years | j to protect the cannci's and the I j farmers. Jt may be that a sliding j scale of prices would be the prop-: i cr way to protect growers and can ! ners. * Canning e n a commercial scale as 'I understand the proponents of the idea plan for i- not the farm ? ers' problem, and I would not ad i vise farmers taking stock. The j cannery should be owned, controll j ed and operated by a small group j of men who by their success in ; other buiness, would be a guaran ! tee of success in the canning line. It is just as Mr. Belser says about ? a marketing corporatibn. He does not want more than 10 men to own ! and operate one. I do not fear j such organizations will rob the farmers, for if they do, .they will ' kill the business. They must be ! willing to operate at low overhead charges and on small profit and they must pay such prices to grow ers as will insure a steady supply. ; Unless growers get a profit they ) will quit. There may be business men who ; have made their pile, and can quit, as I understand was stated^ Saturday. There may be some ! farmers who can do likewise. But ; if such there be. they must not I forget that this is a mighty easy : climate and soil^for any family Tthat is willing to work to make a I living. Of course they would have to do without some comforts and ! many luxuries at first, but the great | j mass of the people can make a liv- | : ing. Should they refuse to do so, j and confine their efforts to supply ing merely their own needs, some fortunes would soon not be worth 10 cents on the dollar, because bus iness would stagnate. I understand it was stated "See the farmers are not interested, there are only three present." I i think I know why more were not j there. They are tired of talk and ; generalities, and they have no money to put into a manufactur- I ing enterprise. It*ls all they can | do to grow crops and they have no , confidence in any one or group of , j farmers successfully going into the j ! manufacturing business. And they J , have put their money into enter- | j prises only to be frozen out later j on by smarter business men who have opportunities to play such (games that farmers do not have j (I do not say they might not do I the s:me if they had the chance) j therefore the farmers will let- the : business men who have the money j and the experience to guarantee success, own and operate such en terprises, and who by theri close- , ness to the management can pro tect their investment when made. To repeat somewhat: Whenever i a group of business men of Sum j tor are ready to contract with 1 farmers for fruit and vegetables at j profitable prices there will be no I lack of reliable farmers ready to ? sign the contracts. Try it and see. j Until ready with a business propo i sition, it is valuable time wasted to [ hold meetings to talk over gener ; alities. I hope these suggestions i will not be taken to mean that I ; am opposed to anything that will I be helpful. 1 am making them be j cause I could not be present, and j believe that I have pointed out the ; way to success. E. W. Dabbs. Forming Good Heading Tlabits. I If parents wish their children to J form good reading habits they must j first form such habits themselves. ! And there is no better way to do I this than to bring into the house : hold a periodical that will be of in i terest to every member of it: that ! will supply the best reading for ; old and young. Among the pe : ri?dicals of this description ' The j Youth's Companion is unique. Not j ! only does it aim to entertain and inform boys and girls in their* ; teens, as its name suggests, but I ; there is not a page in it that par- j ents can pass over with indiffer ? ence. | The ."2 issues of 1022 will be j crowded with serial stories, short ] stories, editorials, poetry, facts and fun. Subscribe now and receive: 1. The Youth's Companion?52 j issues in I 022. 2. All the remaining issues of 1021. I :>. The Companion Home Calen dar for 1 022. All for $2.50. or include McCall's Maga zine, the monthly authority on fashions. Both publications, only 3.00. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. Commonwealth Ave. & St. Paul' St.. Boston. Mass. New subscriptions received at this otfice. County Treasurer Wallace is inj his office every day for the pur pose of receiving state and county j taxes thai are now due. He re ports that receipts this week have j been verv light. . - One movement on foot is that Ot , a man without a car. Red Cross Roll Call - ( Mr. L. D. Jennings Has Ac cepted Chairmanship For Sumter County Atlanta, Oct. 17.?The .accept ance of the appointment as Roll Call Chairman for Sumter of Mr. L. I). Jennings has been received at headquarters Of the Southern Division of the American Red Cross. Mr. Jennings will imme diately begin active work of or ganization to make the Roll Call the most far-reaching in the his tory of Sumter. increased and extended actvii ties of the Red Cross make this I appointment otic of tremendous \ importance this year. Activities of the Red Cross are i so extensively enlarged that a max imum membership must be obtain ed in order that the growing de- i mands made on the organization ' may be met. The work of the Red Cross for disabled veterans of the World War and members of their fami lies has reached absolutely stag gering proportions. The numbers of soldiers in hospitals under gov ernment care has grown from 3. 300 in 1910 to 2';.000 in 1921 and the new year is expected to see 1 this number increased in even greater proportion. The work that the Red Cross j has undertaken in connection with the ex-soldier is to furnish the con- I necting link between the veteran I and his family that needs aid on the one hand and the government that is glad to furnish this aid on the other. The Red Cross has realized that there must be a hu manizing element connecting the man and the compensation or hos pital treatment furnished by the bureaus at Washington. The man can not regain his health in a gov ernment hospital when he realizes that his loved ones at home may be suffering in the meanwhile. He can not acquire the new usefulness that vocational training strives to gives him if he thinks that while he is working to attain this useful ness, the folks back home are feel ing the pangs of privation. Finding work for these veterans, seeing to it that in this work they are permitted to enjoy the priv ileges that were theirs before they answered their country's call, are functions that come within the scope of endeavor of the Red Cross. During the current year the Red Cross spent $10,000,000 on this sol dier work and. more money was needed and needed desperately. The Fifth Roll Call makes it its aim to see that every single case is adequately provided for. Hardly less important is the work undertaken by the Public Health Nursing Service of the Red Cross. A brave little army of nurses has been widely scattered over a vast terrain in the South in the best tactical positions to give the bene fit of their servcies not only in a personal . way in thousands of j homes entered by affliction but to j extend the benefit of their experi ence and knowledge in teaching the basic principles of health and hygiene and proper care of the sick in homes where such things have been unheard of. Everywhere this service has been I installed there have been demands! from neighboring sections for a nurse. Soon it must extend to ev- i cry neighborhood of every county; or parish in the South. The Roll Call response makes this service! possible. . \ And then these nurses form a; reserve army that can be assembl- I ed immediately in cases of national j stress or local calamity. There was no flood, cyclone, or lire in the j south during the year of 1921 that j did not find a force of Red Cross nurses, properly equipped and ready for the most arduous ser-1 vice on the scene within twelve hours after the disaster. Should another war come, these j nurses would form the nucleus of the same splendid Red Cross or ganization that did such noble; work in '17. 'IS and '19 and by; having this nucleus ready, the army of nurses would be functioning practically on a moment's notice. These are just a few of the phases that the organization is \ undertaking in its peace program. . The success of all other acivities ; naturally depend on the response of communities to the Roll Call. The criticism by the State Wei- j fare Commission of the conditions existing at the Sumter county chain gangs is undoubtedly found ed upon facts. Convicts have been whipped by the officers in charge of the chain gang. This is not denied, but it is claimed that punishment was inflicted only when ; absolutely necessary to maintain discipline. It is also claimed that the whippings were never deliber- j ateiy so severe as to be classed as brutal, and that the convicts who j have been whipped have brought the punishment upon themselves by persistent insubordination. It is unlawful to whip convicts. But the officers of the chain gangs are required to maintain discipline and to see that the sentences of the court that the convicts perform hard labor is carried out. How is this to be accomplished without some form of punishment for in subordination and persistent refus al to perform the tasks assigned them? With the class of convicts that the chain gang officers have to deal with, what measures should be adopted to maintain discipline and enforce the rule thai hard la bor be performed? It is a problem! the Welfare Commission may be prepared to solve. The current market price of j chickens and eggs is on indication that there is profit in other lines of farm industry than cotton grow ing. If the money that is sent j oat of Sumter county for eggs, poultry, butter and meats could bei paid to local producers there would be less excuse for calamity howling and complaint of scarcity of mon rrr ' virginia at7*w burley Notables xurrjsH The three greatest cigarette tobaccos, blending MILDNESS - MELLOWNESS-AROMA one-eleven cigarettes Big Cotton Battle Coming Southern Holders'and Buyers Lining Up for Fleecy Tussle Now that the government crop I report and indicated final yiettd for this season is behind us, the cotton future markets will depend in their fluctations on the rapidity with which .textile interests absorb contracts.' From now1, until crop news starts I to have its effect on fluctuations I beginning, next summer, a mighty ! battle is scheduled between the'cot j ton holders of the south and those I who buy cotton and make it avail I able for use by the general public. I But the south will have an unwit I ting ally in the form of mother na i tur&. herself. The crop.is not only short, but according .to reliable reports a large percentage of the crop will be non-tenderable on contracts, i For the season ended July 31, last, I non-tendcrabie cotton . including j snaps and hollies in the hands of ; farmers (not stored in compress j ors and warehouses) equalled 13.5 per con;., of,the total farm holdings \ on that dato from the 1920 crop. 1 It is futile to attempt to estimate just what, percentage 6f the 19-21 crop will be non-tenderable. We might make a guess but our esti mate on non-tenderable cotton might be .so iarge that it might arouse the.ouspoken derision of those who think that a crop which because of weather conditions has been eut as low as 6,537.000 bales will still yield a high per centage of contract; grades, writes Sugar man's Indicator. ? General Diaz Visits New York New York. Oct. 19.?New York welcomed General Diaz, command er of the Italian armies toward the end of the war. who is en route to attend the American Legion convention at Kansas City. -? ? ? -? Miss Luxate Kami3c Returns From France. Miss Lucile Handle, who was chosen one of three from South Carolina to have the privilege o? studying at the Conservatoire Americ?in at Fontainbleau, Franco, this summer, returned last week and resumed her place on the musi cal faculty at the college. She re ports a most profitable experience, having spent the three months studying modern French composi tions including piano and voice. The former she had under the well known I. Philippe and also Mo.tte Lecroix, while the latter she stud ied with the noted Panzero of the Opera-C?mique. M iss Randle is de lighted with what she achieved and feels that it will-be of untold value to her. This Conservatoire Americain was organized by such eminent French musicians as M. Charles Mane Widor. M. Francis Casade sus, M. Paul Wid?l. M. Isadore Philippe, and heartily endorsed by Walter Damrosch and others. Mrs. George Montgomery Tuitle of New York City had entire charge of organizing the body of American students, numbering about 200. and gave her entire time toward making the venture a success. The purpose in organizing such a school?"the formation of young American musicians capable of an international outlook in their art. by affording them the opportunity to supplement their studies under American teachers by some months of intensive study under some of the leading personalities in the musical world of France'*?is a worthy one and merits the success it attained. Tins school of music has the same rank as the Paris Conserva toire ;ir~tl has for its faculty * the teachers of the latter institution. The ?redits given by the former conservatory arc given full value by the latter^ ? The French masters. Miss Randle says, were delighted with the un usual ability and talent of their American students.?Rock Hill Herald. -m ? m- * We've got rid of the flash and the sound, and we only need to get rid of the bullet to make firearms safe?Philadelphia Record.