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!BRB LABOR BOARD.
,^Wb^ther the railroad strike de
velops or-Ihlows ovir, the situation
hjfcft,. brought-out one fundamental
fict, which, the administration at
^asiuntgton is properly emphasiz
'Scg;:; It'iar.that the authority of the
^ilrcj?d Labor Board must be re
/. In v^i o| the joeke/ing and skir
-'?^i^k:'of'Vex:ent week*, the Labor
J^j^i ^a3 t^n"ftouted by both em
$|^dSP^:?nd>employees: The Penn
s^j?ii^ Railroad defied it in the
IpM&JBTJa ^discharging union work
,?i^u -The men defied it individ
.......
.Msgy?iB doting to refuse the 12 per
.c^t-' wa^ge;.cut ordered by the board,
Acsl'.' the. .Tabor leaders have defied
iroffljciaj^f'in preparing to put the
a&^e^in^ ?ffect. The strike, if
called* would be a blow not against
^fe Railroads, but against the La
b^r :{Board ruling, and therefore
agiutfcg the government.
> 'itachaction would be indefen
ijlbfe. A state of .mind which per
jslto -either .side to ignore the La
ter :B? rulings is intolerable.
ihrtii body-must have its authority
pjifceki,or be abolished. There can
fce^no" b:a&-way -policy.
-^AbohsJiBient seems out of the
<^fc^rion, tfor the Board fulfills a
^'ecepM?gr purpose. The obvious
f|tirig. is -to increase its effective
n&sjPyr- clothing' it with as much
pover as that exercised by the In
??j?wt^be. Cbnimerce Commission. It
^Sght aelpi in prestige and in prac
qperation, H the Labor Board
tfrSfe combrned with the Commis
S&m,..,so ? $&at States?, wages and
Wording conditions could all be:
^r?e^. out together.?_?
' ? ;. ;'m.l?i 9?\w j
? Tfe5raEatacxs rx sweatshops.
v - The director of the United States j
-yt&t veterans*.'. Bureau suggested j
teeently the establishment of four
c?atip&ai^ schools for the training
^ of former service men, the creation
xrt^ .-employment offices to assist in |
?;^ftcing these men and a follow-up
: system insuring them speciahzed
? assistance. . He believes these inno
:t^sti.ahs have been made necessary
by t^e.evils of the contract sys
' teisr now. in force.
.'TJjider the contract system, it is!
charged, former service men sup
posed 'be receiving vocational
training are actually placed out in
sweatshops^ and "mushroom"- con
cems which are taking advantage |
ro^ *heir plight to secure cheap la
bor. In some of these plants men
>l?Jib "?ave been assigned for train
*.SsR in specific occupations are
orming quite different work,
ply because the employer sees a
chance in this change to make
more money. According to the di
rector, of 6,000 service men repre
sented as rehabilitated scaroely 5
per cent are engaged in the work
by them and assigned to
' 'i-There; has been so much talk j
>ut the nation's failure to care !
its disabled service men that j
le public is having a hard time
f& discriminate between facts and
Certainly if even a part of
the.charges of inefficiency, crimin
al' neglect and indifference are
--'true, the ceremonies planned to
honor the "unknown dead" are in
danger ? of being regarded as a i
mockery.; The dead soldiers can !
best be ^honored by dealing both I
generously and justly with the liv- j
ing.ones. \
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AX UNPOPULAR STRIKE.
If the railroad unions persist in 1
going on strike, they will probably j
find that they have done the most !
unpopular thing in the history of J
American organized labor.
The men cannot expect loyal
support even from organized labor ;
In other industries. The latter 1
know , that the railroad employees |
?rfc, as a class, the best paid work
*-*'?* ? i
fers-i? the world, that their working ;
conditwrnv compare favorably with i
those in most other industries, and !
that, everything considered, they J
lire lucky to have such good jobs.
There must be a good deal of irony,
to the 4,000,000 men out of work.
irt ttoe ?pectaele of those railroad
men blithely preparing to quit j
work themselves and incidentally
add to the unemployment in every
other line.
It cannot be doubted that the
railroad employees have griev
ances. It may be admitted, too,
that railroad operators have pro
voked them unduly. Nevertheless
the men should understand that j
prostrating American industry by a
strike is not the way to settle their
grievances, and that the public,
which is the ultimate court of ap
peal, will .'not stand for a strike.
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TOSTER ARMING.
Ulster is arming again. That is
the saddest news that has come
from Ireland lately. - It almost
blots out the hope arising from the
Irish negotiations in London. Sir
Edward Carson's organization of
"volunteers," created in-1912 to re
sist the home r?le bill, is being re- j
vived. Thousands of men are j
drilling in Belfast and large quan
titles of modern arms have been
obtained.
This brings up again, with new
vividness, the whole unfortunate
episode of pre-war division in Ire
land, with the Ulster leader defying
the British government with im
punity. That incident rankles yet
in South Ireland. It has had much
to do with rcce.it Sinn Fein ex
cesses. If Ulster arms again,
South Jreland will do the same.
What chance is there of Ireland
realizing her hopes with soldiers j
drilling for civil war in Belfast !
and Dublin ? It is more obvious !
than ever that, whatever England |
may concede, Ireland's future de
pends more on Ireland than on
England.
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THE SWISS SYSTEMy
President Harding has said, truly
enough, that actual disarmament
at this time is impossible?that the
most which can be hoped from the |
Washington conference is an agreed j
limitation of ' armament. The
thing which may be got rid of,
however, with safety to every na
tion concerned, if the conferees go
about it right, is militarism?the
spirit and method of competitive
armaments. And the chief, factor
in eliminating militarism, as Pres
ident Emeritus Eliot of Harvard
points out, is "the destruction of
a professional military class."
This is no mere dream, as Pres
ident Eliot shows by referring to
the Swiss military system. He de
scribes it as the one method in the
world of maintaining a sufficient
armed force for domestic and de
fensive purposes while avoiding all
danger of militarism.
The Swiss army is purely a citi
zen army. It is absolutelvvdemo
cratic. Every citizen is obliged
to undergo training. That train
ing, however, is so short and in
tensive, and arranged to come at
such seasonal periods, that it does
not interfere with the citizen's
regular life and work. The result
is that there is always a,sufficient
force of trained soldiers ready on
call for any emergency, while in
the absence of emergency there is
no drain on the nation's resources,
no dislocation of industry and no
military swagger.
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Notice to Subscribers.
s Statements have been mailed to
all subscribers to the Watchman
md Southron. We know, without
being told, that times are hard and
money scarce?no one knows it
better than we do, and for this rea
son we urge those who are in
debted to us to make prompt pay
ment of the small amounts due.
No one owes any large sum, and no
one will miss the amount they
owe us. The idea that because
no one owes us a large sum for
subscription that we can get along
without it is erroneous, for while
no one owes much there are more
than a thousand of these past due
accounts on our books amounting
in the aggregate to' several thous
and dollars. We need this money
more urgently than ever before in
the history of this newspaper
owing- to the heavy loss sustained by
the fire that destroyed our entire
printing plant last June. The new
equipment cost a great deal more
than the old. in consequence of the
advance in prices as a result of the
war. The insurance that we car
ried was based upon the pre-war
cost of the plant, and when we had
to buy new machinery the insur
ance money did not go far toward
replacing that which the fire de
stroyed. For this reason we are
in need of every dollar that is due
us and we ask that our friends call
and settle or remit by mail at the
earliest date possible.
Cotton picking season is about
over. A larger percentage of the
crop has been harvested in Sumter
county to date than ever before in
the recollection of the oldest citi
zens. Notice the expression: per
centage, to date.
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No circus is billed for Sumter
county this season. The circus
people are close students of crop
and financial reports and they nev
er visit a section that has a crop
failure.
The Jennings Duroc Hog Farm
has a number of hogs on exhibition
at the State Fair.
Slogan of infant republic:
"More."
STRIKE NO
NEARER
SETTLEMENT
Conference Between
Labor Board, Rail
way Executives and
Union Leaders
Without Definite
Results
Chicago, Oct. 26.?The govern
ment wil* make its final attempt to
prevent the threatened general rail
road strike tomorrow morning at 0
o'clock, when presidents, general
chairmen and executive committees
of the five train service unions meet
here at a conference reported to
have been arranged at the instiga
tion of the United States Railroad
Labor Board.
The board's investigation of the
causes of the strike threat ended
abruptly at 8:30 tonight, when the
five union leaders asked permission
to make announcement to their
men.
" Executives of the Big Four
brotherhoods and the Switchmen's
union of North America, after a
day of verbal jockeying with the
United States Railroad Labor
Board, declared late today that no
power on earth save a "satisfac
tory settlement" can prevent their
men walking out, beginning next
Sunday morning at 6 o'clock.
Their declaration came at the
close of a day of fruitless ques
tioning, when Judge R. M. Bar
ton, chairman of the labor board,
called each union president in turn
and asked him for four prepared
questions, the third of which was:
"If the board shall declare a
strike is not justified and should
not occur and direct that the em
ployes not strike, will that order be
obeyed ?"
The union chiefs, Warren S.
Stone, of the engineers; W. G. Lee,
of the trainmen; L. E. Sheppard,
of the conductors; W. S. Carter, of
the firemen, and T. C. Cashen, of
',he switchmen, declared in turn
they had no power to cancel the
strike order, expressed the individ
ual opinion that their men would
not obey an order from them or the
board to remain at work, and re
iterated their previous declarations
\ that "only satisfactory settlement"
could avert the walkout.
Such a settlement they said,
would be reconsideration by the la
board board of its 12 per cent wage
reduction order of last July 1 or a
movement by the individual rail
t roads to confer with the unions and
j set aside the ^board's order.
W. S. Carter declared a settle
ment should also reimburse the
men for the pay lost since July 1
! as a result of the wage cut.
The other three questions asked
the union leaders were:
"Who or what authority in your
labor organization can withdraw
the order to strike or stop a strike?
"Suppose you, the chief executive
of your organization, or your execu
tive committee, issued an order or
a statement that a strike should
not occur, do you not believe the
strike would be prevented?
"Will you, as chief executive, use
your power and influence to see
that the orders of the boatnf on
the matter be obeyed?"
That the government contem
plates injunction proceedings
j against the unions for violation of
the transportation act was indi
cated by the trend of questioning,
conducted by Ben. W. Hooper, rep
resentative of the public on the
board.
Hooper sought throughout his
examination of the five union lead
I ers to bring out that their strike
j order was not only in defiance of
I the July wage cut decision, but by
! including other and unsettled ques
tions, violated that part of the
transportation act which says all
disputes "shall" be referred to the
board first for settlement.
Lee. of the trainmen, said his
j organization's ballot was based
j solely on the July 1 wage cut, and
i declared he had withdrawn from
I the brotherhood's joint meeting
and refused to subscribe to their
ballot. The language of the joint
ballot, he said, implied other ques
I tions were involved.
I The other leaders defended the
I joint ballot and asserted that all
j the other questions referred to all
i had a bearing on the frame of
j mind which led the employes to
j vote for a strike.
j The question of time and one
i half for overtime and of a general
j revision of schedules were included
j in the discussion pi .-eding the
j strike question proper on both the
j joint ballot and that of the train
? men, they said. While all the union
J chiefs maintained that the strike
I question was technically taken on
j the July wage cut, all admitted that
; the other questions would probably
j figure in any settlement leading
! to calling off the strike.
Questioning of the union lead
1 ers brought out that a vote against
ith?- strike had been returned on
j twenty-three roads by the conduc
! tors, on fourteen roads by the
trainmen and on three roads by the
firemen, ("ashen said the switch
men on every system voted in favor
of striking. Stone, after a heated
protest against furnishing the in
formation "to his enemies." agreed
to obtain it from his otfice in
Cleveland.
The hearing was marked by fre
quent clashes between members of
the board and Stone. The engi
neers' grand chief charged Chair
man Barton was not giving the
unions ;i fair hearing, after he^bad
attempted to introduce tlw- names
of seven roads which, he said vio
lated orders of the board. The
chair ruled against the evidence.
"It is not our purpose to sit here
and listen to discussion going back
into the history of other decisions
or the merits of decisions that we
have rendered." the chairman said.
"If you want to be heard on that
you may be heard at another time
and place."
; "I want to call your attention to
the fact that Mr. Hooper just fin
ished asking that identical question
of Mr. Sheppard, and Mr. Sheppard
replied to it," Stone retorted.
"Violations of schedules by these
different roads have been going on
for months, and that has led up
to the frame of mind that you find
these men I represent in.
"If I cannot find redress m this
board, then I want to know where
\ the 80.000 engineers can find re
lief. If we are to be prohibited
explaining the feeling of our'men.
then I do not see that there is any
thing more for me to say."
Stone finally was permitted to j
read the names of the seven roads,
on motion of "Walter L. McMenir
men, labor member of the board.
The first two were the Atlanta.
! Birmingham and Atlantic and the i
Missouri and North Arkansas, both j
of which are in hands of receiv
ers. \
"Don't you know our decisions
were overruled by the federal courts
on those roads?" the chairman and
Mr. Hooper interrupted in unison.
"Then to carry it to a logical
conclusion, all a road needs-, to
do is to go into receiver's hands,
and transportation act is null and
void," Stone replied.
The other five roads named by
Stone as violating the board's de
I cisions were the Denver and Salt
Lake, Arizona and New Mexico, Ne
i vada Northern. Detroit and Mac
kinac and Peoria Railway Termi
nal.
Stone then attempted to read a
list of thirty-three roads on w*hich
j he said wage reductions had been
j placed in effect in violation of the
! transportation act, but Chairman
j Barton, interrupted with the ob
i servation that they were all short
? lines and not parties to the present
dispute.
"They are under the jurisdiction
I of this board, however," Stone re
torted.
I "Anyway, as I understand it, the |
I trend of your argument is criticism i
! of the board," said Mr. Barton. "I ;
: beg your pardon," Stone replied, "I
I said nothing of the kind. I said
i the action of the" carriers had in
! flamed the minds of the men as the
! result of which the strongest strike
j vote ever polled by this organ iza
tion was had. That is what I meant
I to infer."
i By adjournment time this after
I noon the board had finished its
j questioning of the chief executives
j and the railroad representatives on
the program for the evening ses
I sion beginning at 7 o'clock.
After the day hearing, Mr. Cash
J en in a statement to newspaper
i men, said:
j "Nothing transpired at-vthe day
' meeting to change the situation so
j far as settlement is concerned."
It was decided, the board an
nounced at the convening of the
night session, that no further rep
resentatives of the union would be
i called upon to testify. Mr. Hooper
i announced that the board consid
! ered it had sufficient information
? from the labor conferees, although
i they might be recalled for some
' additional questioning. ^
: T. DeWitt Cuyler. chairman of
j the Association of Railway Exe
cutives, acting as spokesman for
the rail officials, then presented a
summary of events leading to the
present crisis so far as the railway
executives were concerned.
I Chairman Barton announced the
i hearing would close tonight and
! that the union men and railroad
j executives can go home.
The five union presidents im
i mediately called meetings of their
i general chairmen and executive
i committees at the Masonic Tem
| pie he^e tomorrow morning at 9
j o'clock.
"The board will take everything
i into careful consideration," Chair
; man Barton announced in adjourn
! ing the hearing, "and will, within a
! very short time, possibly tomorrow,
; certainly not later than the next
: day deliver its decision in this mat
j for in the usuahway."
y. M. C. A. Campaign.
I The committee feels deeply
j grateful to the citizens of Sumter
! for the help thus far given, sub
| scriptions amounting to about $8,
! OOOj, but we are still short about
$3,500, and we have confidence in
our people sufficient to give us faith
i to believe that the remainder will
be subscribed.
If you haven ot subscribed please
do so at once. You may phone
Mr. T. C. McKnight at the Y. M. C.
A., Mr. C. E. Hurst, chairman of
the committee or Mr. Bartow
Walsh, treasurer. Y. M. C. A.
Although money is scarce it will
be an easy matter to raise the
amount needed if everybody will do
his and her duty.
If you have already subscribed
and feel that you can do more,
please do it.
The future of our community is
dependent upon the boys and girls
that we are training now, and
whatever you give, goes toward
making a better citizenship.
You can make your gift in four
installments, 1-4 cash knd the re
mainder payable November 25, Jan
uary 1st and February 1st.
Do not wait for some one to call
on you. Send your gift to either
of those named. If you want a
subscription blank, phone Mr. Mc
Knight and see that one is sent
you.
It is impossible for the commit
tee to see every one and we beg
that you will not withhold your
help because you have not been
called on.
There may not be as much money
in growing wheat as in cotton at
forty cents, but hot butter-milk bis
cuits are more satisfactory as a
diet than cotton. A few barrels of
home raised flour in the store room
next summer will come in mighty
handy.
Tobacco prices on the Eastern
North Carolina and Old Beit mar
kets have steadily advanced since
the opening ot the season, and dur
ing the past week good tobacco sold
r<?r hijsrher prices than for several
seasons.
Bringing the Law Into Contempt.
(News and Courier),
it is* a plain statement of fact
to sav that nothing that has hap
pened in this state in years has j
been better calculated to heap con
tempt upon the courts than the j
fiasco which has marked the effort I
to bring the murderers of young
William C. Brazell to speedy jus- !
tiee.
Brazell. a young taxi driver of
Columbia, was murdered on the
night ot August 2 by C. O. Fox.
Jesse Gapping and S. J. Kirby, who
hired him to take them on a trip
in his automobile, attacking him
at a lonely place in Lexington coun
ty and beating and stabbing him to
death. The murder was so brutal
that the full details of it as the
murderers told them afterwards j
could hardly be printed. Fox. Cap- j
pins and Kirby had as their only
object the theft of the automobile.
Their arrest by Georgia authori
ties, their imprisonment in Augus
ta, the efforts of a mob from Co
lumbia to take them out of jail and
lynch them, their hurried removal
to Savannah and thence to Char- j
leston. and the excitement which
prevailed for days while armed
men waited to take them from offi-1
cers of the law for the purpose of I
summarily executing them, made a !
front page story day after day
for several weeks. They were tried
at Lexington and condemned to
death. '
There is no possible doubt of the
guilt of these murderers. That I
their trial was a fair one has not'
been impeached. Yet by the ex
ercise of legal technicalities their
execution, which had been set for
yesterday, has been indefinitely
postponed. It is a failure of justice
the harmful effects of which must
surely be farreaohing. The inabil
ity of the courts to function in this
case in a way which would have re
sulted in meting out prompt pun
ishment to young Brazell's slayers
j will be cited time and again here
| after in justification or excuse of
I mc'.y law?and it will be hard for
I those of us who condemn mob law
i to reply effectively.
? In point of fact, only one ef
1 fective reply can now be made.
I Steps must be taken at the earliest
j opportunity, which will be when
! the legislature next meets in Jan
uary, to devise ways and means
so that :n a case of this kind the
courts of South Carolina will be
clothed with power so to deal with
appeals as to protect the processes
of the law from defeat through
technicalities. The courts exist to
j promote justice. They must be
I given such powers as will enable
them to command respect.
Farm Statistics For Sumtcr Couuty.
The following facts and figures
have been taken from the United
States Agricultural Bureau bulle
tin for South Carolina of the year
1920. The figures speak for them
selves and a good idea may be ob
tained from them as to just what
j will have to be gone against in
! the consideration of diversified
[ farming, etc.
Sumter County.
Land area of the county?367,
360 acres.
Number of farms, 4,897.
Land in farms, 265,759 acres.
Improved land in farms, 167,457
acres. !
Average value farm land alone,
?78.51 per acre.
White farmers, 1,122.
I Negroes and non-white farmers,
j 3,772. i
Farms Operated.
Number of farmers operated by
owners, 1,4 97.
Value of these farms, $11,732,
475.
Improved land, 61,619 acres.
Native white. 622.
Negro and other non-white, 874.
Farms operated by managers, 55.
Containing improved land, 10,
?753 acres.
Tenant Farmers.
\ Farms operated by tenants, 3,
! 345.
I Containing improved land, 92,
i 0S5 acres.
i Value, $11,667,882.
j White tenants, 458.
Negro and other non-white, 2,
| SS5.
j Total Value of Farm Property.
All farm property, $29,885,681.
j Land in farms, 20,865.143.
Implements and machinery 1,
j 643,146.
j Live stock, 2.814,178.
j Horses, total, 2,477.
I Mules, total, 5,621.
Beef cattle. 1.954.
! Dairy cattle. 6,916.
Cows and heifers, 2 years and
j over 3.992.
I Sheep, total, 185.
; Swine, total, 30.034.
I Sows and gilts, 5,349.
Crops.
I Corn, 46.460 acres; 912,597 bus.
Oats, 9.179 acres; 20 3.567 bus.
j Wheat. 1.747 acres: 1",.946 bus.
I Hay and forage, 26,060 acres;
! IS,030 tons.
Irish potatoes, 104 acres; 10,414
i bushels.
Sweet potatoes. 1,445 acres; 156,
792 bushels.
Tobacco, 3,499 acres; 2,364,663
pounds.
Cotton. 7S.1 SO acres: 4 7.521
bales.
Sorgum, 4SS acres: 1,777 tons.
Farm Expenditures.
Labor:
Farms reporting, 2,573.
Total expenditure. $811,4!?2.
Fertilizer:
Farms reporting, 4.554
Amount expended S2.U79.737.
Feed:
Farms reporting. 1.449.
Amount expended, $247,424.
In 1920 -h;.K per cent or almost
one-half of improved land was
planted in cotton.
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Police Court.
Lottie Skipper, a colored woman
living on De vim street, was this
morning tried in the Recorder's
court on the charge of being a va
grant. The case took the form of
a trial by Jury, attorney for de
fense L. E. Wood. There seemed
not to have been quite sufficient
testimony to sustain the charges
preferred against Lottie and she
was found not gruilty by the Jury.
EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE
Governing* Boards of
Railway Unions
Meet to Consider
Proposal of Labor
Board
Chicago. Oct. 2 7.?The executive
committees of the big five trans
portation organizations, which pos
sess power to call off the strike,
met today with the chiefs in confer
ences, said to ha\ been called at
the instance of the railroad labor j
board on a proposal to entrust to j
the board the adjustment of coin- I
plaints, which led to the strike i
vote. The conferences are expect- !
ed to determine whether the un- I
ions will regard this as "satisfac- j
tory settlement."
D m, 0
I
Police Ford Suffers Injuries.
The good old battled scarred
flivver, property of the City of
Sumter. received one more malic
ious bruise, when on last Friday at
about no it was rammed by a
fleeing automobile of the variety
that's painted green and makes a
hissing sound when it runs. Chief
Barwick was piloting ye good old [
Lizzie and saw George Robinson, a i
public hack driver, coming his way
down Harvin srteet. Now George
has been police surveilance for a
number of days on the suspicion
that he occasionally handles coun
trabrand tonsil varnish. Chief
Barwick placed his Ford aeross the
street to block the way of the car
which George drives, and also
called out George's name and gave !
him the command to stop. One j
word from Chief and George did
as it pleased him, so stepping on
the gas the car driven by George
Robinson bounded forth, striking
the police Ford in the rear and
brushing by it. When last seen the
; car which George drove was ball
i ing the jack at a speed of about 60
milri per down Devine street.
George is still making himself
scare around these parts and like |
the proverbial (.hickens is coming j
up missing. Not so with the j
! cylinders on the car we don't sup
! pose. The flivver is again out of
the repair shop and is as pert and
sassy as ever.
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The shady drug stores and quack
doctors will now become the com
! petitors of the blind tigers and
bootleggers in catering to the
thirst of the bocze artists. The
ruling of the treasury department
permitting hte sale of beer, wine
and liquors opens up a profitable
field of commercial endeavor to
j doctors and drug stores that place
! profit above principle.
Enroll for School of Methods.
The School of Methods begins
tomorrow. The place of meeting is
the Presbyterian church.
j This is a great chance for all
I Sunday school workers to receive
j valuable help.
Enroll right away.
! If you only attend one session,
be sure to enroll.
It costs nothing to enroll. Re
member, by the way there is an at
tendance banner offered. Be sure
to attend. Help your school get
the banner.
i Miss Abbie Bryan is superintend
| ing the enrollment for this School
i of Methods.
Prize Winning Sumter Durocs.
I The Jennings Duroc Hog Farm
won the following prizes at the
State Fair:
j Aged board, first. Junior yearl
! ins boar, third. Senior boar, pig,
i second and third. Aged sow, first,
j Junior yearling sow, second. Se
I nior sow pig, first and fourth.
{ Young herd, third. Senior cham
pion sow, first.. Grand champion
sow. *
Alfred Scarborough, of Eastover,
won the following: Junior yearl
! ing boar, second.^ Senior boar pig,
! first. Young herd bred by exhibi
I tor, fourth.
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COTTON MARKET
NEW YORK COTTON.
Ystdys
Open High Low Close Close
; January .18.45 19.05 18.40 19.03 18.58
I March .18.36 18.90 18.24 18.86 18.40
! May .17.93 18.46 17.78 18.40 17.97
j July .17.52 18.00 17.38 17.99 17.50
: December .18.70 19.20 18.62 19.17 18.78
j Spots 40 up; middling 19.70.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
Y*tdr?;
Open High Low Close Close'
? January 18.01 18.70 18.00 18.64 18.24 j
I March .17.86 18.49 17.86 18.45 18.04
I May .17.38 17.99 17.37 17.96 17.53;
I July .16.80 17.33 16.80 17.46 17.00 1
j December .18.15 18.75 18.05 18.67 18.28
i Spots unchanged; middling 18.75.
j LIVEPC0L COTTON.
1 January . 11.96
I March . 11.71
May . 11.53
July . 11.30
October . 12.51
December . 12.06
lone steady. Sales T.OOd: American. 5,
400.
Middling 12.1.": Good middling 13.00.
SUMMARY.
Texas?Cotton picking about completed
in aii sections- rain badly needed.
Oklahoma?Cotton picking progressed
rapidly: four-fifths picked.
Georgia?Cotton all picked and Hulk of I
crop jiinned. Fanners burning stalks or
plowing under to kill weevil.
Alabama?Harvesting of cotton finished
in nearly all sections: ginning progressing
rapidly.
Mississippi?Picking and cinninp cotton
practically completed in southern and cen
tral portions.
Arkansas?Very favorable for gathering
cotton.
South Carolina?Cotton yield exceeding
expectations iti north but little picking re
mains to be done.
North Carolina?Cotton picking ncarl\
completed/ui the south: some improvement
in late cotton in the east with still con
siderable picking to be done.
* Tennessee tlathering of cotton pro
gressed rapidly nearly all in quality very
good.
Florida Xo report.
Louisiana?Cotton mostly pinned: very;
little remains unpicked.
(This is last weekly cotton bulletin).
Fair Notes
Special Arrangements Being
Made to Make Poultry and
Live Stock Departments^
Best Ever Held
One feature of the big poultry
show of the 1921 Sumter County
Fair, November Lr>th t<> ISth, will
be an auction sale of numerous
varieties of pure bred poultry <>n
the third and fourth days of the
fair. Mr. A. II. Wilder, superin
tendent of the poultry show de
partment is working hard on this
feature of our fair.
The citizens of Sumter county
and this state are invited to send
exhibits, which will be especially
provided for in the big poultry
building.
Mr. .T. J. Whilden. superintend-:
ent of the cattle show department <
has been putting in some mighty;
effective work in different parts of >
our state. By order of the board of |
directors he has secured sufficient,
commodious and comfortalbc
rainproof tents for cattle ex
hibits. As Mr. Whilden'is himself
a Guernsey breeder hev thoroughly
appreciates the importance of pro
viding comfortable quarters for and
taking the best of care of cattle.
Hie will give the care and comfort
of cattle his personal supervision
and see that all are looked after
with due regard to the health of the
animals.
Special efforts are being made to
make the poultry and live stock
department, hogs, mules, horses,
sheep, and,other domestic animals
the best ever displayed in our
county fairs, and if possible the big
gest and best over held in South
Carolina
Mr. A. L. Ardis is superintend
ent of the swine deparmtent. and
President W. T. Brown is superin
tendent of the horse and mule de
partments.
Both these gentlemen are pure
bred swine raisers and will vie
with the superintendents of the
other livestock show departments
in seeing that their departments
take the best care of all exhibits.
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Pisgah News g
and Views
All Cotton Picking Has Been
Completed
Pisgah. Oct. 24.?Cotton picking
is over and all ginned. Something
unknown at this date in the mem
ory of old folks. Gin reports arc
ahead of last year, and it must be
all picked and ginned in other
places, for the world knows that
but little is made.
In appealing to the courts to
stand off justice to those men in
Columbia found guilty for mur
dering that boy, the public has the
cause of lynch law. Speedy trial
?and conviction is not all. Prompt'
execution for the guilty should fol
low in order to make people re
spect the law.
The impending strike and other
strikes are largely caused by the
foreigners that America -has been
receiving for years. Let it come!
No better time to have it than now.
Then let volunteers run the trains
i and crush the strike once for. all.
Lots of men will take the strikers'
places and run the trains.
I A small dog went - mad on the
writer's place a few days ago. bit
some children on the hands, killed
I chickens on several places around,
bit a few dogs before being killed,
j A few farmers are preparing to
I plant small grain.
! The fine Indian summer that we
I now have is enjoyable after such a
[ hot summer and fall. It den't
come every year.
The turning of the gin house and
much cotton of Tom Wright's on
Charleston road near Bethesda
church Saturday morning was a se
vere loss to him and others who
had cotton there. He is a very
worthy and industrious colored
man, and has the sympathy of all
in his loss. I understand his in
' surance policy had just run out. We
hope this is a mistake and he will
j recover some of his loss.
The pastors of the colored
churches about here say that they
have had very successful meetings
i this fall with many additions and
that the hard times have not ma
terially hurt their contributions.
I Rev. J. P. Dendy, the Pisgah pas
| tor, says his work has been very
j successful this year.
A meeting of churches will be
j held at Antioch church Saturday
J and Sunday next for the purpose
of consolidating all the churches in
; one associational union.
The Kershaw Association meets
on November 9th at Bever Dam
church.
Prizes for Sumter Poultrymcn.
Several chicken fanciers of Sum
ter received premiums on the birds
that they exhibited at the State
Fair:
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds.
Cockerels, A. E. Gregg, fourth. Pul
lets, J. T. China, third. Pen. J. T.
China, third.
Mottled Anconas: Cocks. Wen
dell M. Levi, third and fifth. Cock
erels, Wendell M. Levi. second and
fourth. Pullets. Wendell M. Levi.
second and third. Pens. Wendell
M. Levi. third.
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Traveling men report that speed
ing on the recenty completed hard
surface highway between Timmons
ville and Florence is an expensive
amusement, speed cops equipped
with motor cycles are on duty at all
hours and they pull every motorist
who exceeds the speed limit. Each
and every motorist arrested i^ re
quired to pui up a cash bond of
ten dollars, for which a receipt is
given. No checks are accepted
and nothing bin the cash will sat
isfy the cops. If the cash is not
produced the unfortunate motorist
is iri\ urii to proceed to Florence
forthwith. AI the rate the speed
sters are being gathered in the cops
will earn sufficient money to pay
their salaries ami help materially
on the interest on the road bonds.
HOME DEMONSTRA
TION DEPARTMENT
A.s 'the best season for planting
fruit trees : is approaching, Mr.
Williams expects to make an order
next week. Any one who is inter
ested can leave an order with Mr.
Williams or at the Chamber of
Commerce. We hope that many
will take advantage of this for the
time has arrived when we must
raise what we eat Ft home and fruit
is among the necessities in the diet
unless our health is to suffer.
A suggestion comes from Mrs.
Dabbs that we have a plant ex
change and .pass on to the neigh
bor the tig sprouts, grape cuttings,
peach and apple trees that would
otherwise be cut out and burned.
November is a good time to do this.
Strawberries is one of our earliest
fruits and those plants should now
be given away bought or exchang
ed. The Weekly Market bulletin
gives opportunity for buying, sell
ing and exchanging. It would be
well for us to have that coming
each week. It may be had for the
asking. '
In the comments of Commission
er Harris this week is this: "Begin
now by planting winter gardens.
The September drought has made it
difficult to get winter gardens start
ed. But the indications are that
there will be favorable seasons be
fore the end of the week. I urge
our people by all means to plant,
collards. rar>e," turnips, and other
root crops of the season. They are
wholesome and nutritious for man
and beast." ' And again, "The
relative importance of gardens in
1922 cannot'be stressed.too much.
Our landowners should encourage
the tenant faxfrier to raise more
chickens and1'pigs and well as to
have garden an'd^ruck patches. The
great demand of the world is fuel,
and food is the^-fuel that keeps the
old human-machine running."
By this time all or most, at least,
of the non-producing hens should
have been culled out and soid there
by saving the feed for the winter.
Some women -have done this, and
will have just as many eggs, less
housing and feeding to do. Those
who have not should attend to
this at once'.* The agents are ready
t? help you at any time. The su
' perintendent Of poultry department
of county fair- expects to have an
auction sate> of pure bred poultry
during fair week. This wiH be a
I splendid opportunity for getting
good stock over the county, I hope.
! Too long have our flocks been neg
| lected, and not a paying invest-'
j ment. The mongrel flock grows
I weaker each year,
j South Carolina does not producei
j nearly enough cblcxens and eggs
for its own use. We get large sup
plies from Tennessee and North
Carolina. Chickens are shipped
into Sumter county every week.
Why not we here in the county
supply this market? In some coun
ties of the state there are being
organized i^ouhry associations. The
members of each of these' associa
tions will have one breed cYl
chickens. This will standardize the
I production and make marketing
j easier and more profitable. One
| community of this county has leen
! selling eggs cooperatively during
! the summer and realized' better
[ prices than otherwise. I hope that
i any community interested in this
i will talk it over and begin now
to make plans in a small way. ; We
do not want- to try any big thing
until we have looked carefully into
it. The home demonstration agent
j will foe glad to talk it over with
I anycae.
Friday of fair week there will be
I a meeting of Woman's Council with
representatives of Young Men's
Business League and specialists
from Winthrop College to discuss
special industries for the women
] of the county for next year. Fol
lowing is the list which state de
partment is advocating and will
) handle. Of course we can under
take anything that we can market
here in Sumter and for that reason
j we are calling this meeting. Any
one interested is invited to attend.
I Place and hour will be announced
iatcr.
Special Industries.
Fig prejgfcrves, blackberry jam,
plum jelly; Dixie burgoo, Bruns
wick stew, pine bark fish stew, arti
i choke relish, grape juice, soup mix
I ture. ' .-?
It might be interesting for thoset.
contemplating.any of this work to
know that state marketing agents
have already had inquiries from a
firm in Oklahoma regarding this.
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A Real Butter Cow.
The report for September of the
dairy division of Clemson College
shows that Richmond Belle of
Oak Ridge, a Guernsey cow owned
by Whilden and Onsurd, led the
Guernseys, in the state in the pro
| duction of butter fat, the month's
[record being 1113 pounds of milk
|and ?G pounds of butter fat. This
I is the third successive month that
j Richmond Belle led the Guernseys
? of the State in butter fat produc
; tion. Whilden and Onsurd had
three other. Guernseys that pro
duced more than forty pounds of
butter fat during the month of Sep
| tember. t
Marriage Licenses
A marriage license has been is
sued to Mr. L M. Floyd and Miss
Pearl Keels, both of Lynchburg,
S. C.
Also to the, following colored
couples:
LaFayette Thompson and Louise
T. Hunter, of Stateburg.
Mack Shack and Cla:-a Smith of
Sumter.
Jim Cooper and Ada Gregg of
Oswego.
Richard Davis, Jr.. and Willie
Bell Dennis of Wedgefield.
C. W. .los. y. of St. Charles, who
:s a regular exhibitor at the State
Fair, as usual this year carried off
a number of premiums for farm
products. He received the follow
ing awards: Second for ten ears
Dent corn. Second for single ear
Dent corn, first and second on*
bunch velvet bean?, second on half
bushel rice, first on best display of
corn.