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How To Meet and Beat Boll Weevils Cottori "Association Will Ois euss Prohlem at Annual Meeting in Columbia Columbia, Nov. 11.?How to best t the boll weevil problem will Se^principal topic to come be the South Carolina Division of American Cotton Association its annual meeting in Craven tU, this city, on Wednesday, De jmber' 7, according to an an icement by R. C. Hamer. pres ident, yesterday. A general invita tion tq^ all of the farmers of the state to attend this meeting will be extended and bankers and business men and women will also be invit ed. . The .association is expecting to have astthe speakers at this meet wig prominent planters from sec- , tBalt have survived the rav- s of the weevil. They will teil he South 'Carolina farmers how ley met the conditions brought tbout by the weevil and will give them tfie 'benefit of Tli?_-ir ox;>?.:-i c ence. Among those who have been, "invited is J. W. McUrath. of Brookh?>yem Miss. Mr. McCrath is . said to be one of the most success ful planters in Mississippi and he has succeeded in spile of weevil conditions. "This.win. \n many respects, be the.most important meeting of farmers' ever held in the slate." said President Hamer yesterday. ^ **The ravages of the weevil this ' year-lias left many of our farmers in a state of doubt as to the 'nest course to pursue another year. We j are ?going to.bring to this meeting men who have already gone '. through with just what we are en tering upon. We will get the bene fit of their experience. Every farm- 1 er in. S?ut? Carolina om?ht to begin right-now to make his plans to at- ' tend this meeting." The association will also hear re ports on the progress of the co-op- ; erative "marketing drive in this. szzj.c- and other ^matters of import- i ance will come up. Oiliccrs for the entring year will be elected. The annual meetings of the va r'ciis county branches of the state divisions have been called fcr Fri- ; dty under the provisions of the : constitution of the state associa- j Uon. At these meetings officers of j the 'ensuing year will be elected ! and three members o: the state ; board of directors will be chosen from each county. -' The present officers of the South : ' Carolina Division of the American ; Cotton, Association are: R. C. j Hamer, of Eastover, president: J. ! H. Claffey, of Orangeburg, vice . president; Harold C. Booker, of; Columbia, secretary; John T. Mack-. fy. of Camden, treasurer; B. F. Mc- j Leod, .of Charleston; G. L. Toole, of Aikcv: ^. P. Stribling, of Westmin- i ?;ter; D. B. Anderson, of Moore: : Louis I. ??ion, of logoff, and T. L. \ Maiming of Dillon, members of the executive committee. Ex-offieio; zhemhers of the executive commit- ' tee are. J. SkottoT.ve Wannamaker, of St. Matthews; B. Harris of Co- ! lumbia; W. W. Long, ol Clemson College; R. M. Cooper, Jr., of Wisacky; E. P. Grice, of Charles ton and J..Clifton Rivers of Coium- ; bia. ? - ? ?? ? Study Effect Which Forests Exert Upon Stream Flow. - Investigation of the effect of for- , . ests upon stream flow is being made jointly by the Forest Service and Weather Bureau of the United - States department of agriculture, at i a station-in the comparatively light forests of the Colorado Rockies. "When completed,".- says the do-, partment, "this investigation will; furnish information of great value and significance for this and similar sections of United States where-agricultural development is dependent upon stream flow for ir rigation." I ?^Somewhat similar work has bee:: done in Europe, notably at Zurich. Switzerland. Observations, extend i?gvover 18 years, were made upon two small watersheds, one wholly, and the other one-third, forested. * - "On a proportional basis," the forest service says, "the total an nual stream discharge was approxi mately^ equal on the two Zurich 'watersheds. In short, heavy rain falls fche maximum run-off per second in the forested watershed., was only one-third toNme-half that on th? lightly forested watersheds, arid tike total flood st'ge discharge usually one-half. Although, as a result* of very long, heavy rains, the nan.-off was the same itfter the forest", soil had become saturated, the Zorest cover appreciably sta bilized the stream flow and re duced, the extremes of both high and low water. The forest cover wax ?lso beneficial in preventing landslides, which were common on .Steep,- unforested slopes during htav^xains, and in preventing ero sion, -which greatly increases flood damage throughout the entire bcourse of streams." z ? ? ? Sentenced to Electrocution. J: (?. Wallace, convicted by the jury in the fall term of the court of general sessions on the charge of a criminal assault upon a young girl under the age of fourteen, was yesterday sentenced by .Judge T. J. Mauldin to die in the electric chair on- December li>th, between the hours of ten o'clock in the fore noon "and A in the afternoon. Arguments for a new trial were heard yesterday but the new trial was not granted. The wife of Wal lace fell from her chair in a faint as sentence was being pronounced upon her husband. Wallace will be sent to Columbia on the 1 Jth of this month to be placed in the death house. After a while, we will degenerate into ? nation of hop-keepers.? ?Asheville Times. ?*m - ? <fc ? The fart young man is counted out early in tne race. Napoleonic War Brought Havoc j Comparisons *of Today and a j Century Ago Show Startling Similarity The unrest that has descended on j the world as the aftermath of the ! great war. together with the dis . turbo nee of trade, unemployment and other evils, followed after the j Napoleonic wars Of course, in those days it did not affect Amor- j ics in the same fashon as the af termath of the world war does to day. This country was too tar re-' movvd from Europe in the days i of the ailing vessels and it did not depend to such a great extent on exports and foreign trade for its ! prosperity. It is interesting-, however, to note j with what simiiliarity the situation ; in England has shaped itself to that | j of more than a century ago. i WHiam Cobbett, famous political i writer and reformers-told of the dis- j j illtisionment and discontent that j ; followed immediately after the end of the war with Napoleon. In his Weekly Political Register for Oc tober 2Sth, 181-r>. he wrote: '?Everyone, however ignorant, be- ; gins to perceive that this career of I war and this harvest of glory have not yielded happiness. People do not know how it is: but they know that they are in distress * * Ag-, riculture languishes; trade follows j agriculture: nobody has money to j pay rent, taxes, or debts. "A Corn Bill has not protected I the farmer. The cheapness of food ! has not lessened the misery of the poor. Nothing sells. The nation perishes in the midst of the spend- : ing of the produce of successive j abundant harvests * * * The peo- j pie do not" perceive the real cause , of their distress. The farmer sees his wheat fall from 15s. to Ts. a i bushel. He ascribes it to the defeat of Napoleon, and says that he was j the best friend of the farmers * * * j Others damn the French, and say j that it is their produce that lowers ours in price * * Nobody sees, or, i at least, appears to see, that their j distress arises frow* the debt and the military establishment and oth-/[ er fixed expenses entailed cm us by the war, and from the attempt which is now making to brim us upon a par of exchange with other j countries, by diminishing the quan- ; tiiy of our paper money." Finding employment for the i former soldiers and those engaged I in war work was a problem in those days, just as it is today. In , the London Times ?i November 23, j 18 HI. was the following: "We perceive with the greatest i pleasure that all humane and j benevolent minds are now turned to the consideration of the various j modes by which relief may be most'; effectually administered to the poor * * * We may point out two or j three ideas which seem to deserve j the notice either of government or of private individuals. We men tioned yesterday that this had been j done at Salisbury, at Plymouth and j at Ryton. We have to add that at ; Exeter employment is given to as many of the poor of the city as j choose to apply for ;* in the brick j and tile manufactory near the | work.10use * * * A meeting will be , he^d in the united parishes of St. j Andrew. Holhorn,'*and St. George-; the Martyr. In this populous and extensive district some benevolent] individuals have set on foot a plan for supplying the distressed with meat, bread, potatoes, and coals, under prime cost. "It is now universally admitted that the most humane as well as j the most politic mode of relieving the poor is by finding employment for them. The great evil to them, at present, is want of work. The j supply of labor is greater than the demand; consequently, in that, J ; as in every other article, under similar circumstances, the price! falls; the laborer's wages are re i duced in some instances below , what is absolutely necessary for his support. The proper remedy is to increase the demand for labor." I In those days the state did not | ! take over the burden of providing j for the needy. It was suggested i ! thai every person comes to the aid ! of the helpless, and the following I extract from the London Times of November 2 8, 1810, is a coiiiment | i on this practcie: "Of the modes of private bene ficence which seem peculiarly j suitable to the. present circum stances, there is'none more simple: i than that of making soup of the re : maining victuals too often wasted, j "This practice,' says one of our cor- ; respondents, 'has been adopted by j myself ever since the complaint of ; distress became general; and I . have often had the satisfaction to afford some nutriment to a dozen i or twenty poor starving] creatures j ' in the course of a day * * *' " St. Matthews' Yarn Mill _ : New Industry for Calhoun People j St. Matthaws, Nov. 11.? It seem.-: ' as if St. Matthews is to have anoth er industry, a modern yarn mill. Albert S. Smoke, "who during the past year, has been joint owner with T. M., and W. W. W?nnamak er, Pr., of a large ginnery, used for the purpose of ginning a fir." cotton, has taken over the entire ; system, and he expects within tic near future to install, a complete yam system. The building is si! - uated with the corporate limits < f the town. Mr. Smoke expects to star twith an equipment of 1,000 spindles, but as the enterprise suc ceeds, expects to absorb the full capacity of the housing facilities which will be about 5,0o spindles. Mr. Smike will be tin- principal, if not, the entire owner of the busi ness, lie has made a success of his farming nterests. and now that the cotton pest has curtailed fur [ the remunerative production, ic will look for other fields upon i I which to c enter his energies, i Paper Making in the Sonii Production of Wood Pulp h Southern States Increasing Rapidly New York. Nov. 11.?Elevci mills in the yellow pine states con sumetl 297.955 cords of p?lp wood at a total cost of $3.014,488 in 1920. T'no total pulp oat pat w.is 144.004 tons, valued at $14.053. 54<> as compared with 100.252 ions in 19T9 and a value of $8,240.223. Th" total consumption of the Unit ed States was 0.1 11."72 cords val ued at $116,495,720, but the rapid growth of the industry in the south is one of the most significant phases of the report just made by the Forest Service of the nation's pulp wood consumption, indicating a great future in the yellow pi tie states. The United States in 1020 import ed ?85,000,000 worth of news print paper, $S9.00 0,009 worth of wood pulp, anal $2S.000,000 worth, of pulp wood to operate its paper mills, while in 101$ the importation of Canadian pulp wood wus only 000,000. These striking figures relative to the paper industry, are included in a pamphlet just publish* d by tin American Paper and Pulp Associa tion, and prepared by the United States Forest Service in co-opera tibn with the paper industry. These figures, says the Forest' Service in analyzing the statistics given in this complete review of the use of wood in paper malting, are evi dence of the heed for reforestation of the cut over lands oi the United States. l?i it.; summary the For est Service says: "We cannot count upon reducing the amount of pulp used. That would be not ojily^undesinable but probably impossible as well. We cannot count upon Canada indefi nitely as a source of supply, for the Canadian forests are no more limitless than our own have proved to be. ??The great (astern pulp mills cannot be moved to the timber of Alaska or the West Coast. 'The trouble is, in brief, that we' have mills without forests, in the east and forests without mills in the west. The obvious solution will be to supply the deficiencies in both parts of the country. More mills will no doubt be iocated even tually on the Pacific slope and in Alaska. But what of the east, with its heavy investments of capi tal and its millions or- waste acres? "Reforestation will take not not only skill, energy, an?! money, but most serious of all, many years - must elapse before the east can In put on a thoroughly self-support ing basis. Yet there is no cnoico i left to us. The work must be un- . dertaken. We must have : ulp. and j for every year of delay we must . ?pay increasingly heavy penalties ? for neglecting to restore the forest:": as fast as the wood, is consumed/' The states included ::: the south- , ern pine group are Georgia, Dela ware. Maryland, Mississippi, Sooth Carolina. Tennessee and Texas. '( with the District of Columbia. The , eleven mills in this group, secured their wood at a minimum of cost, the average cost per cord being $12.ill as compared with a national average of $10.03. This is due to the ability to use the southern woods, and only the states of Wash- - ington and West Virginia can ap proach this low cost for the raw material. The 279,055 cords used arc divided as follows: # Yellow pine. 160,190 cords; pop- . lar 4.70 4 coils: yellow poplar 27, oll cords: gum 39.S20 cords: cot tonwood ?.?:'ti cords: basswood 4. 002 cords; beech birch and maple 21,738 cords and mill waste and slabs 1 $.0 75 cords. The wood was reduced almost entirely !|v the soda, or the sulphate processes. In 1S16 the states in this group produced only 87,321) tons of pulp, valued at $3.407,333, and the product was considerably less valuable than that produced by the new modern mills. -??-o Deaths. .Mrs. Daisy Benbow, widow of the late 11. L. Ben bow, who died ::: 1 !?*17, died at 0 o'clock this morning at her residence No. 511 Church St. The funeral services will be in charge of Dr. D. W. Daniel, of Trinity Methodist church, and will be held at the city cemetery at i l o'clock Tuesday morning. Mrs. Benbow is survived by three daugh ters, Mrs. T. N. Owens and Mrs. A. L. Bradford of Sumter. and Miss Ruby Benbow of Wilmington, and one son. Mr. Harry Benbow of Sum ter. She is also survived by two brothers, Messrs. \V. L. and Harry Brunsen of Sumter. Miss Bell Harper, aged 29, died at her home.. Xo. 204 Broad street, at 12 o'el ; k Sunday after having been in ill health for a t;umt?er of months. Miss Bell Harder was lh> oldest daughter of Mr. J. W. Har per, and w h en at t h e a g e oi' fourteen years had the distress ing misfort no of losing her motr* er. The duties of the rearing of her five younger brothers ap<i As ters rested i e. her in the hi : n and it was indeed remarkable and noteworthy how thoroughly she as sumed her hew charge. A short funeral sr.->" will he held at the reside ace th.j afternoon by Dr. D. W Dann i. The body will be carried to Lattu. S. leav ing Sumter at 7:_'<> Tttetiday. to :< - ceive burial at the family burying ground on Tuesday morning. Printing of obscene matter in the Congressional Record might give thai publication a little wider cir culation; When the Irish conference is at a loss for something else to do i;. passes a crisis.?Providenoi Trib- , une. - ...... ' ?? ?? ? ?? Don't throw away your worn out furniture. Fou can always soil it to some chap who rents furnish ed apartments. Disarmament Plan Endorsed by Pope Cardinal Gaspari Gives Press Outline of Pope Benedict's Plan For World Peace Washington. Nov. '?' fBy the As soeiated Press). Pope Benedict approves President Harding's plan in bring; about the limitation of irmameh.ts by common understand ing among the nations. The atti-: tnde of tiie holy see is considered, j especially by Roman Catholics, as most important, since- it secures to th< conierence the support ?f what ' i i farmed by many "the greatest J mo /a 1 and spiritrtl power in the] world." Although che pope has no repre sentative at tie: conference', Moh-j signer Bonzaiio. apostolic delegate ] ia Washington, will follow the pro- ' ceedings and report them to the ' v-atican. The Rome coiTespondent of the Asso' h.t d Press understands that I the pope claims a priority in the movement for limitation of arma ment which he hopes will lead to ilisarn:?me;it a ltog c t h e r. Iti: ::<..,< ?_? note of August 1, 1317, to all : Lin.- belligerent powers, vrged them | to agree" on son:, fundamental prin- i cipios to end the war and lead to it just and lasting peace. It invited all the countries at ' war to agree "upon the simultan-I tious and reciprocal decrease of i an.euis." limiting them only to 1 what strictly was necessary for the ? domestic maintenance of public i order. At tile same time Cardinal Gas-: parii gave to the Associated Press] i statement, in which the papal j secretary of state further explain- ! ?d thd pope's plan and his belief that only disarmament could as- 1 ure a desirable peace'based upon! principles of justice. Cardinal Gas- j : nrri still believes one of the chief j reforms to that end is the aboli- : lion of conscription, The United! states and England have no con scription, the cardinal pointed out. liid he argued that with conscrip Acn abolished an offensive war tvould be almost materially impos- ; jible in Europe and arbitration would necessarily take its place. -o?o?s>-~ The Story of Your Dollar. >A dollar rolled into my office :he other day. sat down on the edge >f the desk and rubbed his silver face'. "W< IV he said wearily, "I've had a busy year. (Josh, but I'm -rind you didn't put me in the bank nr pay me out on your car." : "You'd l etter be glad you didn't j ?o to pay the income tax" I re sponded coldly. "Where have you j been all this time? Sit down and -:ive an account of yourself." "I've been spending most of my: time among the ex-service men," he admitted. "Po you know that! in this country there are at present Hi;.m?ii ex-service men in hospitals served by the Red Cross? I have, been visiting Oteen where there ire 1.100 men suffering and dying j of tuberculosis com rated through; the war, and ICenilworth where ? men lie year after year in plaster casts because of a bit of shrapnel' in their spines and the Psychiatric hospitals where the boys we sent away in 1017 scream and rave and-* ' have to be behind bars till they die. Ten million of my dollar friends went to help the ex-service man last year and through the Federal Board cf Vocational Training we have helped S?.OO0 ex-soldiers thrown out of v.or1-: because of dis ability back into normal life. And SO.oOy men represent at least 250.-; 000 women and children depend v.\ on them. Ah, no. the war isn't over by any .means. In the hos- | pita Is and Sanatoriums it is still being fought." ? i Lie paused a moment and strok-j ed the 1^ Pluribus I'num on his; brow, then continued pensively, "As. yes. I've seen some strange things sine .- you sent me away last; year. I've been in sev< nty disasters in the United States alone?calami- ?? ties iike the San Antonio liood and 1 tlie Oconee cyclone; I have stood with the doctor and the Red Cross nurse alone in cities laid waste by j wind cr earthVtUakc and have heard Lhe cries of th? dying mingle with i those of the living for the <lead. I have been with the Public Health nurse in little mountain towns and in far remote places where she did ' everything from bathing the new-1 born baby to burying the dead. And i've been in Europe too, among Mr. Hoover's babies?and seen 3,-i :,ee e-Mi little children saved to civilization through The European : Relief Council." "You have cv rtainly earned a va cation, " 1 assured him. "Do you i want to : pend a <iuit; life time in the safe deposit vault or how about a :> vv months in the baby's bank?, [Either one is guaranteed to be rest- i ful." j The dollar hesitated so long that; 1 could see the cattle's feathers itulver. i "If it's all the same to you 1 would rather keep on working," he explained thoughtfully. "I can't do a"whoie lot of good as a gentle man of leisure. Helping soldiers and feeding dying babies is much more in my line." ? J wish they all felt the same way about I said as I put him back on the Red Cross Roll Call. Roll cail dates, Armistice Day. Xov. 11, to Thanksgiving Day. Women ar more eificicnet. real ly. A woman can drive slow ami ::i ?!: abou! as many pedestrians as ? man can get a', lifty miles an f>i)iii?'ho\v or other, times never get bard enough to cause unem ployment of those who know how fO make cigarettes. ()lten ! rie only difference be tween eccentricity and cusscdness whether we wish to express it politely or forcibly. -? ? m Who wants to see ;i girls i ar i; : he shows it on purpose. Japan's Case at i the Conference! _ i Ambassador Shidehara Makes j a Plain and Sensible Statement Cam bridge. Mass.. Nov. S? j Whatever the problems of the ar mament conference, an agreement] for limitation of naval armament ought to be a comparatively sim- ; pie matter," says Ambassador Shidehara of Japan, one o?' the I country's delegates, writing in the j current issue of ihe Harvard ("rim- i son. I The ambassador bases his state- ? m< nt on the conclusion that the j war left only three gr?a: naval powers each on a differ.n't con tinent and with "none" at" the real interests of one conflicting vitally j with the others." j .Vi the sa'me time the ambassa dor takes opportunity outline j .lapan's ea.se at the arms confer-1 cnce, her relation to China and the \ far eastern situation, as well as her j place in the world. I le writes: "The Japanese de 1 egratjoii come to the Washington Conference confident that the nations assem bled there will achieve a substan tial measure of success and that valuable understandings will re sult, enabling the several princi pal nations to live in future with toss suspicion and distrust, and consequent armament. This is th^ l.ast that can be expected. But we .Japanese are hoping that, as President Harding said at York town on October 15, "The time has come when there must be recogni tion of essential cooperation among nations, devoted, each of them, in its own peculiar national way, to the common good, the progress, the advancement of all humankind. "We Japanese are primarily con cerned, as America is, with a limit ation of naval armament, and it is on this matter that I speak with confidence. What agreements can j he reached for the limitation of land forces is more difficult for me j to estimate. But as far as the j seas are concerned an agreement ! ought to be a comparatively simple j matter for the obvious reason that 'lure are but three great naval powers left in the world and that each of them belongs to a different continent separated from the oth ers by a gtvat ocean, and with none of the real interests of one con flicting vitally with the others. For these reasons it seems to me that only a most arbitrary attitude on the part of one or another country can defeat the main purpose of the conference, and none will be arbi trary, for the peoples as well as the \ governments of all three most earnestly desire agreement. "There is an unofficial, I might say public; American point of view that any agreement must be con tingent upon a settlement of Far Eastern problems, o.nd to some j Americans those problems seem* greatly involved and fraugh* with ! possibilities of grave danger. It is hardly within my province as the representative of another govern- | nient to 'point out to any Ameri- j cans how needless is this alarm. ! but as your president has invited j us to an open and frank discussion, j and as the "Crimson" has left me j free to say what I will, I am sure } it will not be taken amiss if I point out the fallacy of such contentions as have been launched in the Unit- j ed States by the doubters and by the comparatively few actual ene-! mies of an understanding. "Intelligent and well informed I naval men in every country know that the great war left the United | States proper absolutely unassail able. Xo power in the world is in I a position to attack your country | without bringing grave distress! upon itself. For more than one { hundred years you have lived with out a hostile foreign soldier with in your borders, and today no na tion in Europe would dare attack you even if any had the will to do so. Yet Europe is only 3,000 miles away while Japan is twice as far. "But the baiters of Japan are not content with that argument. They declare that Japan could take the Philippine Islands. In the same category they could in clude Hongkong and the extensive British possessions in East Asia, and also French Indo-China and other European possessions in the Pacific. But, as a matter of fact, these various eastern possessions of Western nations could be consider ed by Japan a far greater menace to her than she is to them. Japan, however, is confident that no wes tern, nation has any designs upon j her independence. "These fac ts, though do not end the argument against Japan. Her persistent detractors, in their pro cess of 'piling on the agony,' in form their hearers and readers of the plan of a militarist Japan to take control of China and organize : that country's millions into a Yel ! low Peril. The phrase was first ; launched by the Kaiser Wilhelm : and was used subsequently in the United States by his agents in an I effort to distract American atten tion from the war in Europe. Xo ' one realized more (dearly than the Japanese themselves that such a [ project is utterly unattainable. "In the first place, we Japanese should come in conflict with the several European nations that hold established positions in China. We should then he required to domi hate, control, and ultimately or ganize the Chinese. This would ;.<? an achievement such as no coun try has >?<?? been or will ever be able to accomplish. Human nature isn't that way: a subject race is generally a greater burden than help in lime of war; and .Japan is not looking for war. Japan needs! peace, is willing to pay a price for j peace, and believes that tnat price; will be not only morally but proti-* table paid. "But from China we Japanese believe we have a right to ask the j privileges of equal opportunity and j the open door. We are not so richly endowed as America with ; wealth, territory, and raw mater- j ials. Here you have everything, j Von are self-sustaining. Hut we j are like the British Isles. We have ! a population approximately of < sixty millions, with territory the j size of one of your medium-sized / slates. Our supplies of raw ma-j terials must come from abroad, and j the markets for the goods we man ufacture must likewise be foreign : countries. Without supplies from j over tlte seas and without markets at the ends of our steamship lines, we cannot live. The neighboring ' undeveloped Asiatic mainland has an abundance of the necessary raw j materials and also affords an im- ' portant market. We desire the ? rights and privileges of trading on this mainland on equal terms with any nation, near or remote: and in j turn we are willing that any other i nation shall enjoy, in fair compe- j tition. equal rights with ourselves, j There is trade for all in these vast j territories, more extensive and probably as richly endowed as the \ I"nited States. "But here is an Interesting point: i To the United States the materials ; and trade of the Asiatic mainland ! are only a source of added wealth, while to Japan they are a necessity! of existence. We ask only an ap-, plication of the policy of live and J let live. "It is contended by the relentless opponents of Japan that in develop- j ing East Asian resources we should j deprive the continental people of i what is rightfully and exclusively theirs. The reverse is the truth: j we should benefit them. The Japa nese would be superhuman beings if among them there were no trad- | ers who tried to exploit the native j people. There are always in back- \ ward countries foreigners who seek only their own selfish ends, and these foreigners are not only Jap-; anese. In seeking their own ad-, vantage western adventurers have j often been able to teach the Japan | tricks. But on the whole the con- i tinental people, now generally poor and unfortunate, are greatly: benefited by any development of | agriculture or mining, any con-; struction of railways or organiza- ? tion of steamship lines, that more ! progressive people undertake. "In what condition, for instance, would China be today without the enterprise of European and Japa- ? nese railway builders and promot- j ers of mining, of industries, of ag- j riculture and of the steamship lines ; that visit her ports?and. if I may go further, without the foreign ed ucation that is being given her sons, primarily by Creat Britain. Japan and the United States? I de liberately class education with de velopment, for one is essential to the other end both serve the cfiftise of progress. Neither of these things are without tbeir evils, but how much greater are their benefits! "The cause of Manchuria is well worth considering. Before the rail way lines were constructed there and the brigands along them brought under control, Manchuria was almost depopulated. It was in effect an extension of the Mon golian Desert, with Mukden the only place worthy to be dignified . by the name of city. Today the | opportunities that are afforded j peaceful farmers, the protection I j that is given them, the railroads;I that take their crops to the sea- j ports, and the steamship lines that | convey them as far as Europe andji America?these things create ajj greater demand for labor than the j Manchurian population can sup ply, and hundreds of Chinese cross j annually from the provinces of | Shantung .and Chili into South j Manchuria to reap the harvests, i thereby earning in the temperate fi months of the year sufficient wage j to enable them to return to China h and provide for their families J! throughout the winter. "Likewise do foreign countries, including Creat Britain and the 1 United States, profit by the develop ment, no matter who undertakes it. America's trade with Japan today, both export and import, is far greater than that with China, in spite of the latter's gigantic size j and natural wealth. Part of the \ trade in cotton goods may have i passed from the United Slates and Great Britain to Japan, but the in crease in the sales of machinery has much more than compensated. Wherever organisation and produc tion are provided, the Chinese, a most industrious people, thrive and profit, and wherever their labor and resources are made available the benefits extend to all the world. "In this connection let me state some facts with regard to Shan-! tung ? which Japan has been charged with taking from China. When it became part of Japan's obligation in the late war to drive Germany out of that area, she as sumed only part of the rights which that country held in Shantung. The leased territory of Kiaochow. which tin Japanese captured from the German garrison, contained not ' ii?l3!lilllc^ DRY CLEANING & -j - Of Ladies' ? i'/i ~ bearing Apparel The Only Proper Way STEAM PRESSER No Burning. No Scorching. ? [3 raj 1 i i 1 a S i 1 I i ? E [I r?. Sumter County's Leading- Cleaner and Dyer. Garments Dyed in Black, Blue or Brown. Hats Cleaned and Reblocked. DEE COMPANY - W. B. DAUGTREY, Mgr. 28 W. Liberty Street Sumter, S. C. To My Counjty Friends: Ask for W. B. Daughtrey, formerly with Rowland Warehouse Co., and Anchor Motor Co,, of Sumter, S. C. forty million pr-oplr? (which is the j "Thus, it will he seen that the estimated population of the prov- : charge of "aggressions" on the ince) hut fifty or sixty thousand. : part of Japan in Shantung has been most of whom had gathered there | presented in a conspicuously unfair to trade with the Germans and con- light, tinued to reside there and trade j "It is the hope of Japan that the with the Japanese. The leased ter- ; Washington conference will give ritory of Kiaochow covers about i her the opportunity to dispel what 200 square miles, less than half of , ever distrust and suspicion may ex one per cent of the area of the | ist in America against her. She province. I hopes to demonstrate conclusively ? Japan promised China that shejlhe necessities of her position and would withdraw her forces and re- I lhe justice of her policies, in order turn the Kiaochow territory to her; that false charges against her luiii Lite xviauvitun icihlui * iu iici , i 1 and she also offered to share with I ma>* find n0 honest response in thej China, on an absolutely fair and j future- W'here she may be'wrong eoual looting in substance as well | she win strive t0 mond ner as in name, that section of the ! Consideration instead of condeng German railway which has come | nation, cooperation instead of con to her hands in consequence of the Aict?could profitably as well as war. China has not agreed to ac- ! righteously be the slogans of the. cept this arrangement, contend- ! aations hereafter, ing that alone by her action in en- j "There.is one point of warning tering the war the German rights I should like to make in eonclu : sion. Xaval limitation is ti.<s prin-. ! cipal objective of the conference. I Naval limitation means not only an j agreement among the great powers . , but also a tremendous example to j others and an inlluence in favor of ? The Japanese soldiers tnat took ; .he St,ale!iu.nl of all controversies naturally reverted to her. "But China's entry into the war was three years after the German fort ress had been reduced by a Japa nese army. Tsingtao have long evacuated the by peaceful processes in the future. half of that which the ers, including the Uni maintain in the province of Chili great pow- , of the coteferehce should the chief Permit their noble-and attainable?purposes tc be defeat ed. \ ? ? ? to protect the railway line from Peking to the coast and to guard the legations at the capital. More over, the several concessions ob- j A menu card and a furnished tained by the Germans for future apartment are alike in this, that railway construction in Shantung there seems to be everything on are to be transferred to the Inter- [earth there except what you national Consortium composed of I \var.t.?Milwaukee Journal. American. British and French, Jap- I ? ? c anese and Belgian linancial groups, f Ireland is -fighting for home supported by their governments. ? rule; so are nmst husbands. 1 \ i I SEE THE 1 i 1 I 1 soxv AT WORK Pulling Siddall's Big No. 2 Saw Mill and Other Farm Machinery at THE FAIR GROUNDS Bland "The Ford Man" 1