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The Watchman and Sorthron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Ostecn Publishing Company, Sumter, S.X2. Terms: _ $2.00 per annum?in advance. > . Advertisements: One-Square, first insertion -.$1.00 IJvery subsequent insertion __ .50 Contracts for three months or jknger will be made at reduced ; rates; - - \ All communications which sub serve . pri\.\*e interests will je Charged>*for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect, win be charged for. . The Sumter Watchman was ?founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1S66. The Watchman Vnd Southron now has the com bined ;circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best alvertising medium in Sumter. CITY MANAGEMENT. * Cleveland, fifth city of the United -States in population, voted on No vember S to adopt the city manag er system. There will be a council of ?2 5 members, chosen by propor tional- representation, and this Council will appoint the manager. The latter with powers greater than ? those formerly wielded by mayors, will he independent of party poli tics and will hold office, like the executive head of a private eorpor a^on, as long as his administra tion is satisfactory to his council manic board of directors. The eouncilmen themselves will bear no party labeL r This' development attracts at tention because Cleveland is the ^largest American, city that has adopted the city manager plan so fa?,'and also the largest city adopt ing proportional representation. It shows the growth of both of these modern methods of municipal gov ernment. Ten or 15 years ago, it seemed verj[. funny to most Americans that German cities "hir^d" their mayors Instead of electing them. Now it is accepted as a matter of course that methods found good in private business will work in public busi ness, arid that city government ha^ilt, any necessary connection with., national politics. These reforms have not brought a'municipal millenium. They are "stil!. much criticised, in their prac tical working if not in theory. They exemplify the familiar truth that nothing human is perfect, es pecially in the political realm. It is reeogni>ed that a bad form of gov ernment works well when there is a good spirit back of it, and that the best form of government falls down when the people, who are the source of authority, do not keep everlastingly on the job. There seems .to be more and more agree ment, however, that, other things being' equal, these new devices of fer* a far better chance of good government than the old partisan iaay?r-and-council. WHY THEY STOP TEACHING. A young man, college trained and interested in his work, is leav ing the teaching profession after four_y?ars of activity. In a cUr rgat" magazine he asks the ques tion. ."Why do 100.000 teachers leave the profession each year?" and'prdeeeds to answer it from his own observations. Ke found that many of his friends who admired him personal ly^ regarded his work with con tempt. They looked upon a male school teacher as "a son of licensed loafer, one who drew a pay enve lope but who rendered in return no especial service." They held this attitude in spite of his years of preparation' for the profession, of the number of classes per day he taught, of the summer school work hft did" To improve himself as a teacher and of the hours of study a?d home work. *He found that the business and professional men whose children were in hi? school regarded him as a rather futile member of the com munity. They did not want a teach er to mingle in political affairs or to participate actively in com munity plans. They did not iook up to him as a leader even in edu cational matters. He found that criticism of him a?d~"his fellows, as teachers, was n$t constructive. Usually it took t$e form: of idle gossip. Sueh a tocher had been seen playing c?rds. or smoking or dancing. These things became a horrible offense in tile teacher, although the parents o? school children, who might be expected to serve as models for the yaung, could do them regularly without causing comment. He found little recognition for valuable ceTvice rendered. He concludes his statement: ?Until the American people ren der heart respect, not lip respect merely, to the teaching profession, until they revere the teacher of 50 aa. they now chide the beginner of 23^ "4.he red-blooded college-trained I man or woman is likely to turn to I j more inviting fields^' ? ? ? ? ?~~ RUSSIAN RELIEF NEEDS. - Some of the reports of relief j ! work in Russia are encouraging. . I The director of the American Re i ; lief Administration, Vernon Kel 1 logg, states: j "Ten thousand tons of food have ; already been safely and rapidly i I transferred from Riga to Moscow ' and the outlying districts. We are ; handling the food just as we did in ! Austria, Poland and other Eastern : European countries. Americans j control the supplies from their ar I rival at Riga until they enter the I children's kitchens. We have had j priority in transportation and per ! feet freedom not only of move ; merits but of consultation with all i kin is of people, white as well as j red." There are other difficulties, how | ever. Secretary Hoover has an j nounced that private charity is not ; sufficient to cover even a portion of i the great need for food. He has ? asked for congressional authority to j j make use of army supplies in the] J famine areas of Russia which, it is j said, are now "costing the govern- j 1 ment large amounts for stoiage and j preservation." Mr. Hoover believes I "no greater purpose could be found i for their application than in saving '? human life in this great area of j distress. In view of the fact that work is { going forward safely and efficiently, \ private charity ought to be more I generous than heretofore. Also, ! tG the ordinary observer, some such 1 use as Secretary Hoover suggests: j appears to be the best disoosition to j i make of the army supplies in those | ! localities. -? .? .? BACK VP THE MARINES. _ j The decision to use United States j ! marines \.o guard the mails should j ! aid materially in checking the rob ' beries which have been too fre I quent of late. This measure needs, j ; however, to be accompanied by : drastic investigation of all sus : picious circumstances and the , prompt and severe punishment of j ! all persons caught or found to be j I involved in robbing the mails. Recent improvements in the j I handling of money shipments and I ' the arming of essential employees, I and the offering of rewards for i j capture of mail robbers resulted in ! : a reduction in the number of thefts ' i little short of remarkable. Yet in I ! spite of these precautions a big i robbery was effected in New York. ; A failure to regard the situation as j sufficiently serious accounts for the increase and boldness in mail rob- : J beries just as it does for the ifc- i ' crease in other kinds of crime. When the public find the govern ment become sufficiently aroused to j the dangers of the situation to take I i i effective action it will be found that even the spectacular and myster- j ious mail robber can be put out of j j business. THE POLICEMAN MAYOR. . No result of Nov. S was more re- j ! markable than that in the Cleve I land election. Fred Kohler, who j was chief of police under Tom [Johnson and whom Theodore; i Roosevelt characterized as "the best police chief in America," was elected mayor. I j That fact would be interesting; enough. It is probably unique in American political history to put a I policeman in the mayor's chair? \ land Kohler is exactly that, a "po- j ! liceman," in character as well as : ; history. I His success, moreover, is the ] ; climax to as notable a "come- j : bark" as can be found in the rec- ; i I ords of American public life. Eight j years ago Kohler. as a result of un- : pleasant charges brought against' him, was removed from oflice by ! i Newton D. Laker, then mayor. He i was pretty well discredited. Ap parently he was down and out. But j to his friends he said, "Never mind. I'm going to be mayor of Cleve- ! land." He started right in to pull I himself back into public esteem. At j last he succeeded in being elected ; county commissioner. Now he realizes his ambition. His campaign, too. was unique.: Kohler was the candidate of no party?of nobody but Kohler. He made no .speeches, gave no pledges ! and offered virtually no program. I He merely tramped from house to I house, all over the city, "thousands ; of miles," he says, knocking at doors, introducing himself and ask ing people to vote for him. He had no newspaper support, no political j support of any kind. Ami Ik- beat both party machines. Here, certainly, is something new In the political game. And now i Kohler is asking the public to name Iiis cabinet. The magazines j ! will soon be writing him up. i -? ? ??? Mayence. Nov. l?h?Twelve pf-r- I I sons were killed and sixty injured ; ? in a factory explosion at Doth heim, forty miles from Oppau, where the explosion of September 21 killed a! ; thousand. The Best of the Fair Schools, Communities and Demonstration Clubs Have Attractive Displays (By E. I. Reardon. Manager De partment of Publicity). Occupying practically one entire side of the main building, the Wo men's Home Demonstration, the va rious school, community, girls' can ning and other club exhibits, to gether with the general Sumter County Home Demonstration booth, made up the biggest feature of the Sumter county, 1921 fair and the immensity, quality, variety, attrac tiveness of the display, artistic ar rangement and the thousands of different kind of exhibits, were a delightful surpri-e to the general public attending this year's county fair. It required hours to properly see and appreciate this exposition of resourcefulness, industry, taste and training, and vei " few, not withstanding the former magnifi cent exhibits of these clubs at form er fairs in this "county, had the re motest idea that such wonderful progress had been made in these necessary lines of endeavor in Sum ter county within twelve months. The ladies and the girls, and many gentlemen also of the respec tive communities represented by booths and other exhibits have the right to feel very proud, indeed, and if they are one-third as proud of their work and their displays as Sumter county is of the women, girls and men who made these won derful exhibits, then they are cer tainly feeling, or ought to feel, mighty good. Miss Caro Truluck, County Home Demonstration agent, assisted by Mrs. E. J. Karrack, have a right to feel satisfied with the general County Home Demon stration booth and the other com munity booths. It is hard indeed with limited space and only scant descriptive and technical ability to portray this department's accomplishments as represented at the fair, or to cor rectly tell of the communities with booths that are not connected with the county home demonstration de partment altogether. In the contest for honors and prizes in school and community booths, the judges. Miss Laura Bail ey, Assistant Slate Home Demon stration Agent. Miss Jane Kitchen, Home Demonstration Agent of Lee county, and Mr. Johnson. County Agent of Atken county, had to spend practically the entire day go ing into the merits of the numerous exhibits and discussing many intri cate points to render a decision. The Sumter C ounty Homo Demon stration Department Booth. This large and beautiful ar ranged department contained hun dreds of exhibits from individual clubs of the women's and girls' branches of the demonstration de partment. Every kind of club was represented and thousands of ex hibits of many kinds were there. Here can be seen accomplish ments in gardening, canning, pre serving, pickling, cooking, sewing, dairying, fancy work, pastries, con fections, household conveniences .made at home, and dresses, hats, and other clothing, and."made over garments" and thousands of ether useful and ornamental thi? rs too numerous to mention. You will just have to get Miss Truluck and a half dozen other ladies to tell you about it unless you go and see for yourself. Every in^'vidual who participated in the exhibits in this booth should pat herself on the back, and while they are at it give Mis-* Caro Truluck a couple of pats. The community booth that won the first prize of one hundred dol lars in a "neck and neck" race with other winners and gave the judges a run for their money in figuring out results for first honors was Con cord School and Community booth. Mr. and Mrs Boll Weevil would drop dead with heart failure if they were shown this great "live at home" collection of hundreds of beautiful and useful good things to eat, and other artistic and attrac tively displayed exhibits. Concord school and community are veteran prize winners at county fairs. This school and community has contract ed the habit of winning, and they don't seem to be able to get over it, the habit is kind of chronic. Bethel School and Community Booth. Bethel Sc hool and Community booth captured the second prize of $75.0(1 and- this is another com munity of the "incurables" who just can't get over the habit of "bringing home the bacon" in county fair contests. This com munity lias never failed to win a prize in a county fair contest. This booth, like the others had entirely too many hundreds of beautiful and useful exhibits to warrant this scribe getting into trouble trying to do justice by enumeration and de scriptive effort. When a reporter's mouth is watering for some of the thousands of good things to eat .he can't get his mind to working right and he had better pass on to the next exhibit or he will land trouble for himself .and his paper. If you haven't been to the county fair this week.'take it from me you ought to go and when you see Bethel booth you will know that 1 know what I am writing about when I say I better not try to write this booth up. Graham School and Community Booth. Graham School and Community booth was really two booths be cause it occupied a space thirty-two feet by twelve feet, whereas the other booths were sixteen by twelve feet in size. It was made in tin first section in l<?g cabin front, rus tic effe< ! nod this exhibit in its en tirety carried thousands <?i diversi fied farm and household products, and like all other of the booths featured canning, preserving, cook ing, dairying, pickling, fancy work, gardening, pastries, clothing, school work in various phases, household arts, paintings, "live at home" ev idences of thrift, and so many hundreds of other splendid exhibits that you will just have to excuse the writer from attempting to dwell further on this magnificent exhibit except to say that Graham school captured third prize of fifty dollars and the judges must have had to use an adding machine and a pat ented scientific sifter of some kind unknown to fair visitors to see wherein this booth differed from Concord or Bethel booths for first prize. But as before stated ah the winning booths ran true to form in the prize winning class. pinewood School and Community Booth. Pinewood Graded and High School and Community booth in artistic arrangement and high (dass exhibits was second to none. Tins community decided at a late day to enter the contests and did not specialize on prize winning, but rather ran to cooperation and sh w ing what a first class school and a wide-awake community has been regularly doing for years to get ahead of the boll weevil and "hard times" any eld time these two pests took a notion to visit Pinewood section of Sumter county. When it comes to showing what diversified farming, household art, conserva tion, artistic taste, thrift, and in dustry will do, why this booth had every element of education, and ef ficiency to hack up what Pinewood claims to be, equal to any and sec ond to none. The ladies of this booth say they are coming back next y< ar and will be in the prize winning humor but to carry home first prize. Other communities had better take due notice and govern themselves accordingly for the 1922 Sumter County Fair. Pinewood carried off the fourth prize of $25 and much honor besides. Oswcgo School and Community and Stateburg: Home Demonstration Club Booths. The Oswego Scho< x and Com munity booth, and :he Stateburg Home Demonstration c ub booths were not entered in the prize win ning contest but rather with a view to cooperating in general county pride and get together features, and showing what their respective townships are doing in educational, thrift, farm and household diversi fication, fine arts, fancy work to gether with the rest of the county in overcoming temporary agricul tural, industrial, and business de pression. But it must be said that these two booths were the equal in artistic display, attractiveness and general exhibition efficiency of any exhibits at this year's fair. Os wego started late to get up their booths. These two communities, however, do not agree to continue as non-participating factors for first honor awards, and will likely be back next year with surprise show ing and prize taking booths. State burg Demonstration club has had , the honor of carrying home first and second prizes in past Sumter county fairs, and Oswego school and community are no strangers to prizes and other honors in past county fair contests. Sumter City School Booth. The Sumter city schools have al ways made it a rule never to com pete at our county fairs for winning prizes against the rural community clubs and scholars, but the city schools always have an attractive and instructive exhibit at our coun ty fairs. This year's Sumter city school booth embracing exhibits of results obtained in educational en deavor and training from every grade, and the domestic science de partment which is a big and im portant and perhaps the best equipped domestic science depart ment in any school except perhaps Winthrop College in South Caro lina, built, equipped and maintain ed with practical disregard of ex pense and efficiency in the class of instructors employed for this work, had exhibits which any city can be very proud of indeed. Cooking sewing, writing and painting were the chief exhibits of this booth, but there were other and many other interesting and instructive evidences of the efficiency of Sum ter's city schools which enjoy quite a national reputation as educational institutions. Miss Jane Kitchen, of Lee Coun ty, one of the judges of the demon stration clubs booths said that the quality of the canning, preserving, cooking, and pickling of every booth was much beyond the usual in quality. She was very favorably impressed with the magnitude and general success of the community and school booths in every respect as was Miss Laura Xailcy. The Field Crop Department and the Hoys' Corn club department in one booth, while not as large as was desired, and not containing as many exhibits as Mr. J. Frank Williams, superintendent and county agent, and his assistant superintendent, Mr. A. 1'. Hinson would have liked, wert- nevertheless on a par in quality with perhaps any similar exhibit in any county fair in South Carolnia. The two departments showed in gra::-. truck, sweet potatoes, can ned and preserved goods, and oth er evidences of diversification of farm products what Sumter county farmers can produce and what hun dreds are doing in getting ready to overcome boll weevil conditions. Tin-re were hundreds of various ex hibits, and all were all that any ex pert on such matters could possibly wish for. - The Snmler Chapter of Bed Cross Best Boom and Booth. The Sumter Red Cross Chapter rest room was a haven <>f rest and a thine of beauty, and a joy forever. This booth was not only very beau tiful and artistic but was very use ful indeed to fair visitors where a eordhtl welcome awaited all. The ladies who arranged and conducted this rest room deserve the thanks <>! the general public, and this booth added a great deal indeed to the success, attractiveness, and pleasure of the Greater Gamecock County Fair of 1921. Sumter has always been very proud of its Bed j Cross chapter, and so is Sumter , county. The Sumter County Sunday School Association Booth. j The aim of this beautifully ar ranged and varied exhibit is, among other things, to arouse interest, en thusiasm, and inspiration in better Sunday school work arid to provide a place for exchange of ideas, ideals, standards and methods, this booth is educational, and coopera , five also. Miss Abbie Bryan is the superin- j tendenl of this booth, and her zeal for and love of the work could not help but make this department of i the county fair an ideal feature in : many respects. The Sumter County Sunday School is interdenomina tional, and is doing a great work. : Bast year at the fair a little girl, | j one of the carnival women's chil I dren came to the Sumter County ? ! Sunday School booth and was ! j warmly welcomed by Miss Bryan and the little girl was delighted j with what she saw. But she said j she had never been to Siayiay j school nor heard of Jesus. ! Bryan told her stories of a BibleBP^ j I ture and took the little girl to M- j dav school and the little one^^Fas; given her first impressions of what; ? Sunday school is for. The Sumter j County Fair Association always i welcomes the Sumter county Sun- j j day School Association to occupy space at its fairs, and the entire j county benefits by the exhibits and ! the work of this association. _ - Individual Farm Booth Exhibits. Mr. C. W. Josey, of St. Charles in ; Lee County, and Mrs. X. B. Math- ! j ews of Privateer township, the lat ! ter the only farmer from Sumter : county with an individual farm ex- : hibit, were the two farm exhibits i I but tney made up in quality, di- j . versification, artistic arrangement, j and in quantity for the disinterest j ed. attitude of Sumter county farm- ? ; ers'in this department and in the ; j field crop department of the fair, i 1 Mrs. Mathcws is doing a great work in Sumter county in teaching her; tenants methods of diversification, j and in showing others how to "live ; at home" and knock out the boll i weevil. Mr. Josey is a recognized i diversified farm product farmer, ] and he, with Mrs. Mathews showed ! in mammoth and educational and j interesting style that 'there is no i ! better place than Sumter and Lee {counties for a farmer who. will work ; ! and plant something besides cotton. i Fine Art, Household, Fancy Work, I and Floral Departments. j These four interesting depart : ments were conspicuous for the ! wonderful improvements over any j previous county fair, not only in , j quality but in the increase in the j numbers of exhibits. It seems as j though greater interest and en- i j thus.asm were manifested in each j j of these departments. Every ex hibit in each of these four depart , ments was a gem of individual tal ent and of artistic ability, as well as : indicating that our housewives and j our daughters are not only indus j trious. but thrifty citizens. Xothing ; j less than a visit to each of these de , partments will convey any adequate ? idea of what these four depart - I ments are to our county fair, they j J loom up big. splendid and inspiring. \ : The following ladies who had | I charge of these departments ought j to be given great big beautiful J bouquets Irom the floral depart- \ ment presided over by Mrs. W. D. i [Boykin and Mrs. M. B. Boykin, and [the two latter ladies ought to keep j j immense bouquets for themselves. Fine Art Department, Mrs. E. M. j j Huff, Supt., Mrs. Frank Lynam, As- j i sistant. Household Department, Mrs. Jno.' j R. Sumter, Supt., Mrs. E. H. Huff, j Mrs. R. C. Richardson, and Mrs. ! i Frank Lynam, Assistants. Fancy Work Department, Mrs. J. j T. China, Supt., assisted by Mrs. j Walter C. Boyle. Floral Department, Mrs. W. D. j Boykin, and Mrs. M. S. Boykin. Booth of The Sumter Post of The i American Legion. "Our boys" were there, at the I county fair and believe me when J j j say that no man. woman, boy or girl attending this year's fair but j ! who gladly and proudly visited this j j interesting, historic and instructive j j booth to pay tribute to the valor of j the world war heroes from Sumter j county. Their booth wat elegantly and artistically decorated and con , tained war relics and other inter j esting information about the world { war. The service flag of white boys j j from Sumter county, large and fill- I I ed to overflowing with white stars j showing how many served from 1 Sumter county, and the "supreme I sacrifice flag" with its too many i j gold stars unfolded stories which ; will ever live in the hearts and the j ; minds of Sumter and Sumter coun- I j ty. It is well worth a visit to this ; ? year's county fair, and every appre ; ciative citizen should be only too ! '< proud to go to the fair just to visit I ; this booth and pay his homage to j I the heroes who helped to make j anew the history and the civiliza- ! , tion of the world. j Sumter Troupe of Boy Scouts Booth ; The writer has a big spot in his ! j heart for the boys and girls, having i , once been ;i boy himself and having I had or tried to have a lot of sweet - 1 hearts. Now the Sumter Troop Xo. j j 'l Boy Scouts as much as they too I i love the girls, evidently intended to ? show the independence of man over I woman when it comes to doing things for themselves, that is for I the Boy Scouts, without female j ! talent, domination or dictatory sit- j perintendence. So these patriots ?and public spirited young men who . have worked hard to make the | Sumter county fair a success, did ! , not even consult Scout Master ]?". K. | 1 Xash of their troop about how to arrange their booth, they ju>t i adopted the new slogan of Sumter : i county, "Let's go" and they went ! to it. l\t- sure to i?f this booth ? if you want to see how the boys ? are opening the light lor the liberty . and rights of future manhood over i I female domination and persuasion. ! It is indeed a very interesting de I part ment. and it is the work of* a 5? numb, r of "simon pate, do it now. i j never say die" gamecocks of Sum- J tcr who can always be found ready tu respond it) a manly, courteous, and cheerful manner lor public ser vice. Su inter is very proud of its boy scout organizations and has a right to be. As far as this scribe has gone in attempting to describe the fair, it is but fair to admit that he hasn't had the rime, ability, versatility, nor technique to do justice to a sin gle department described in this article, and he can only repeat, and advise Sumtcr county citizens, for their own sakes, and for the good of Sumtcr county to visit our 1021 county fair?tomorrow is the last day. If you miss it you will be remiss in your duly to the numer ous ladies, men, girls and boys of Sumter county who have put in so much of their time for your instruc tion and your entertainment. "Funeral" Ser vices Held J. Fuller Gloom Properly Lairi To Rest at Fair Grounds One of the largest funeral pro cessions ever held in Sumter coun ty was staged yesterday afternoon by the Voting Men's Business League. Without a doubt this was the largest and happiest burial ser vices ever accorded anyone, and judging from-remarks heard on the streets, this must have been a very popular and substantial citi zen, as over three hundred men representing both city and county turned out to pay homage to his death, not life. Promptly at 3 o'clock the tun eral procession left Iiis happy hunt ing grounds, the County Court j House, where sentence had been I passed upon his life. Led by Chief ' of Police Harwick, the festivities began. Mayor Jennings, with Councilmen Raflield' and McCallum headed the line. Xext came the 'hearse' with the coffin on top. ex posed to the eyes of everyone, sym I bolizing the fact that GLOOM is no more in our midst. This outfit was 1 artistically decorated by Walter Loyle. and consisted of a one-horse wagon that moved into the Wateree I Swamps when Sherman was re ported near Camden. Since that time ft has rested peacefully in Walter's stable, awaiting the burial day of Gloom. Slowly drawing this mudern vehicle was Sir Pop. the able and trusted stead of Mr. Phil Booth, a creature that has hleped him out of many a hole. On top reste the bier with "no beed" or kick?simply the moral remains of Gloom. Following were the offi cial grave coverers of the city of Sumter with their official spades presented by an ex-mayor of Turbe yxllc. Following came the "life of Sumter" one hundred busy men who had laid aside their cares and troubles of the day, desks full of unfinished mail, and thousands nZ unopened letters containing cheques and duns, to do justice to Gloom. The real sad and solemn part of the procession was the Mourning Automobile, containing six Sumter ladies whom we are proud of. Cer tainly, this feature of the proces sion was its beginning and climax and success. As Sam Chandler re marked when they passed his store "Boys, them there girls can make us do anything, just look at me crying and laughing at the same time". Can you beat it? With the toddling tone of "How Dry I Am" played by the Hussies Band of Pinewood, the precession wended its way without molesta tion to the Fair Grounds. There, the 'remains' were hurriedly grab bed by the male-husbands of Gloom and nearly deposited in its las: Savings Bank, when Calamity Jane stepped forward and filed a protest with Mayor Jennings. When asked for her reasons:: she plead for time, as her father had been informed by Henry Harby a canning factory was impossible in Sumter. To this the Young Men's Business League replied "Bury him"?so Calamity Jane again protested, claiming this time G. A. Lemmon had told old Gloom he didn't believe any Sum ter Bank was going to help our farmers. Fortunately.. Mr. Lemmon was on the ground, denied the ac cusation, so the Young Men's Busi ness League demanded burial. Ca lamity Jane again begged the post ponement of the funeral, stating Davis Moise told her Father Cotton was going to sell for six cents be fore Christmas. Mr. Davis Moise was not present but one of his lad\ friends defended him by denying the statement, immediately a tu mult arose, and Calamity was about to claim her father kept our gas rate hgih. when the Young Men's Business League to quiet the mul titude, gently threw the coffin in the hole and started their work. Calamity and her sisters step ped forward, realizing their fight in Sumter was lost, and discarding their mourning dresses, threw them with tin- coffin in the grave .and feelinglj the Hussies Band render ed "Pack Up Your Troubles' 'while official grave diggers completed their work. The festivities are over. Mr. and Mrs. Citizen, but there's a great moral: If you feel blue, keep it a secret, don't let your neighbor know it. If you're broke, don't believe it. for you can get it back.? if you'll ge: busy. Spread the gospel of optimism in Sumter: We're in the finest spot in the world, and we're the best people anywhere. Spread joy. pass it along. If a pessimist tries to talk to you; shut him up. Smile, and Sumter will smile with you. Cry and well, move to Savan nah. -? ? ? The first cases taken up for trial in this term of the court of com mon pleas are the two cases, which are to be tried together, of J. A Warren, ej al vs. J. 11. Warren. K. Dozier Lee: Bpps & Levy. IVIser X- huffie. These eases were begun | Monday afternoon and continued j into the sessions of today. j Railway Unions Plan To Make New Demands i - ' Movement of Railroads For ; i Reduction of Wages Will Be Met by Counter Demands ! -?? I Chicago, No. 15 (By the Asso- j ; ciated Press). ? Plans of the Broth ! erhood of Locomotive Engineers : and Brotherhood of Locomotive j Firemen and Enginemen to meet demands of the railroads for revis I ion of rules and working condition ageements and for further wage I cuts were completed today at the I (dose of a two day session of 650 j general chairmen and officials, i Warren S. Stone, grand chief of ! the engineers, and William S. Car j ter, president of the firemen and i enginemen, explained the settle ' meat und. r which the recent gen eral strike order was cancelled and i received their followers' indorse '?? ment of their action. Requests from 08 railroads for ; revision of rules and working con- j I ditions were considered, and the ! counter demands formulated. Mr. j Stone announced tonight the unions ? were agreed on a concerted pro ! gram in the rules eases. Announcement was made today ? that the four big brotherhoods have '? signed agreements with roads in the Eastern, Western and Southeastern districts for settling up adjustment j boards, provided for in the Esch ' Cummins transportation act. Two j assistant grand chiefs will repre ! sent the engineers on the board? : F. A. Burgess on the Southeastern I and H. P. Daugherty on the Wes j tern. The Brotherhood of Railway I Trainmen will be represented by j A. F. Whitney on the Western and : W. X. Doak on the Southeastern j board. Xo appointments to the i Eastern board have been announc I ed as yet. Creation of the boards is expect j ed to speed up the work of the ' United States labor board by re ' lieving its docket of the hundreds ! of petty cases of individuals' gri.ev | ances. All such disputes will be ; first referred to the nearest adjust | ment board for arbitration and ' only in event of a deadlock on the board will the case come before the government tribunal here. ! Each of the boards is to have eight members, . one from each of i the brotherhoods, and four repre senting the roads in its territory. I Meetings will be held monthly in j Xew York. Washington and Chi cago. The agreements run for one year and may be renewed. Roads in the Eastern territory '?? which have already signed the ! agreement included the Baltimore j & Ohio system: Xew York Central; ! Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. i Louis railroad; Lake Erie & Wes tern; Toledo & Ohio Central; I Zanesville & Western: Kanawha & ; Michigan: Boston & Albany; Mich I igan Central: Pittsburgh & Lake Erie; Indian Harbor Belt railway; ? Cincinnati Northern; Kanawha & ; West Virginia. i The Southeastern district agree- | j ment bears the signatures of the i [Atlanta & West Point; the Wes ! tern Railway of Alabama; Atlantic ; j Coast Line: Central of Georgia: . I Charleston & Western Carolina; I Chesapeake & Ohio; Florida East I j Coast; Georgia railroad: Louisville [& Nashville; Louisville, Henderson . <& St. Louis; Nashville, Chattanooga I & St. Louis; Norfolk & Western; ; Richmond, Fredcricksburg & Po tomac; Seaboard Air Line; Win : ston Salem Southbound, and the '?? Gulf & Ship Island railroad. In the Western territory the [agreement has been approved by IS j roads. ? ? ? PURCHASE OF LAKE JUNALUSKA I Columbia. Nov. 15.?Methodists i of the state will be interested in ! the announcement made here to ; the effect that a group of southern i business men are organizing a j movement to buy and present to the Southern Methodist church the property in the Blue Ridge Moun : tains of North Carolina known as j Lake Junaluska About thirty-five . laymen of the south compose the j organization. The presentation will ; be made at the general conference j of the church in Hot Springs. Ark., j next May. O m o Maycsvillc News Notes. Mayesville. Nov. 15.?Dr. Miley. , assisted by Mr. Hooker, his sing i er, is conducting a meeting at the ! MayeSville Presbyterian church this I week. I With the exchange of pulpits Sunday of the Baptist churches Rev. E. W. Reynolds of the Salem [ Baptist church of Sumter filled : our pastor's appointment here and he made a wry fine talk. Mr. B. C. Chandler, our mayor, is en route to Asheville for a brief i visit. j Mr. T. L. Kahn, one of our mer ? chants is getting ready to move to Asheville^ We hate to see him ; leave as it will be hard to get an | other man to till his place, especial '? ly the interest he has taken in the ; upbuilding of our city. We have learned of the ap I proaching marriage of Mrs. Jessie , Burns Burkett. of Fayetteville. X. j C.. to Dr. J. Van McGougin, state [senator from North Carolina, to j take place at the home of the j bride-to-be's sister, Mrs. V. V. Weinberg, on the 23rd of this merit h. .-? Marriage Li<*ense Record. i Marriage licenses have been is-; isued to: Mr Paul W. Levine of Los Ange ]..... (?;?!.. and Miss Iconic Forber of Brad Ie> .Tunet ion. Fla. Mr. Harry Brad ham and Sallie Cardner. both of Sumter county. For that matter, it is no harder to get through barbed wire en tanglements than it is to get through red-tape entanglements, j Tax Revision in Conference [louse and Senate Committees Arrive at Agreement on Some Schedules Washington, Nov. 15.?Agree ment on excise and soft drink taxes was reached today by the house and senate conferees on the tax i, \ ision bill. After striking out the senate proposal for a -i P^r cent, manufacturers' tax on perfumes, ess< n< es. extracts, toilet waters, and the like, the managers agreed to tin excise taxes as finally approved by the senate. They are: : Automobile trucks and automo bil- wagons, including p^rts and accessories, 3 per cent. Other automobiles and raotor cycles. including parts and acces sories. 5 per cent. Cameras weighing not more than 7 00 pounds and lenses for such, 10 per cent. Photographs and plates, other than moving picture films, 5 per cent. ? "andy, 3 per cent. Firearms, shells, etc.. 10 per cent. Cigarette and cigarette holders or pines composed wholly c.* in part of m< erschaum or amber, and smoking stands. 10 per cent. Liveries and livery boots and hats. 10 per cent. Yachts and motor boats not de signed for trade or fishin ; or na tion il defense: and pleasure boats and pleasure canoes if sold :or more than SI00. 10 per cent. Works of art. 5 per cent. Excise taxes now in force the re peal of which is agreed upon are: Articles made of fur, 10 per cent. . Musical instruments. 5 per cent, Sporting goods, including pool and billiard tables, 10 per cent. Chewing gum. 5 per cent. Portable electric fans, 5 per cent. Moving picture films, 5 per cent. Manufacturers' taxes on soft drinks, to be in lieu of the present levies, were agreed upon as fol lows: Upon nil beverages derived whol ly or in part from cereals, 2 cents a ballon. Upon ali unfermented fruit juices intended for consumption as bever ages with the addition of water and sugar, and upon all imitations of such fruit juices, and upon all carbonated . beverages (except ce? real), 2 cents a gallon. Upon all still drinks (except pur?; apple cider) 2 cents a gallon. Upon all finished or fountain syrups for use in compounding drinks, 'j cents a gallon. After limiting it to admissions to moving picture shows, the con ferees agreed to the senate amend ment providing that no admission tax shall be collected where the charges do not exceed 10 cents. The excess profits and transpor tation tax repeal were agreed upon, but this was purely perfunctory, aa both house and senate "bi?s-pf?vid: cd for their repeal on next Jan-^ uary 1. ? ? ? Boll Weevil?Feed Crops?Cattle. Clemson College, Nov. 12?$p the presence of the boll weevil, South Carolina farmers are grow ing more feed crops, such as velvet beans, eorn. and hay: and these one time all-cotton farmers will find that a profitable way to dispose of tlie feed crops is to sell them to cattle, so-"to speak, suggests W. j'. Shcely. extension animal husband- * man. who' is doing everything pos sible to help farmers in this line. At Camden F. M. Wooten has secured four cars of choice steers, and at Boy kin, B, 1). Boykin has se cured two cars. These men plan in their farm management to beat the boll weevil if possible. Since Mi*. Weevil has caused velvet beans and other feed crops to be planted, these two farmers will run their steers through the velvet bean fields and thereby harvest the beans at no cost, selling the beans to the steers at a profit, leaving most of the fertility on the soil, and get ting a profit on the steer. After cleaning tin* bean fields, the steers will be finished, in the feed lot, on a ration of silage, cowpea hay, ojpif^^ and cottonseed meal. x. At Dillon. Or. Wade Stackhouse luts just completed a cattle feeding barn that will accommodate more than loo head, where he will finish steers after he has run them through his velvet bean fields. Dr. Stackhouse plans an extensive fe ding operation, where he will feed oh a graduating scale. As the steers fatten or finish, they will he sent to market and thin ones will take their places at the troughs. By this method the mar kets can have a continuous supply of fat cattle and the cattle feeders can b. employed the maximum amount of the time, and thus the best results be obtained. iVssrs. Wooten, Boykin, and Stackhouse will take the best care of the manure, handling it from the barns to the fields and plowing it und? r. Tims, in addition to the profit from feeding the cattle, they * will materially cut their fertilizer bills. Realizing the growing need for a< curate data on steer feeding in the stat.-. the South Carolina ex- i perimem station has secured one car of choice steers for experi metual feeding during this season. -?? ? - Holiday Eve Cluh. is it possible to get a full meet ins to anything in Sumter? Four ? ? eijngs of the club were called and m no instance did a quorum "? '? '? without some of the present ? ?> going out after the hour ;': ; ' ' and recruiting other borsol the club from the high ways and by ways and begging V?-;:i 10 a?end. There will be nl dances this season. The only state in which man's the state of matrimony. -???????- , There are people who scorn wealth, and then there are people who tell the truth about it