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Reply to Judge Purdy Officials of County Fair Sub mit Statement Concerning Proposed Lease of Pump -ing Station LanQ The officials of the Sumter Coun ty Fai-r Association replying to the well meant objection of Hon. R. O. Purdy to the leasing of the land adjoining the city wafer works pumping station on the grounds that there i* danger of contami nation of the water supply, amir his statement that the land was purchased by original owners of the water works plant years ago i o protect the .-cater supply from ftmtrfmination t>y surface pollution, with aU due respect to Judge Purdy and his opinion, beg leave to most *e*j?ectf*lHy submit for public con sideration the following: The county fair officials admit ?that this statement is correct, but coutend that.conditions then, sur rounding the water works pump ing station necessitated the pur chase, 'at that time, of many acres o? land to ward off the erec tion-of residences with many sur face- toilets near the pumps and wells on land immediately adjoin ing the wells, and to make impos ^thrle the digging of many cess pools -or so called "dry wells" near -The wells and pumps Into which resfideniiai sewerage was poured ,?om water closets, kitchen sinks, and bath tubs in the absence 3t itt&t time of a modern water car riage system of sewers, and sub sequent to the establishment of the water ?ation until Sumter acquir ed- its modern sewerage system and its-modem system of sanitary sur ?ce closets with the can reeep t&^te'atttf s'y<tem of removal by the board of- health sanitary earts o: nisny'-'hraudred.? of tons of deleteri ous organic matter' which wa< ?bitpied in the soil before the city of - Sumter ^enacted sanitary laws reouirag the use of cans and the regular removal of all disease bearing maft?r~ from the city. ?When me st-werage system was established and the laws enforcing connections therewith together with ^he firing, in of every cess-pool or dry well, and the laws enacted in stalling modern methods otherwise to prevent sespage and water coa -rstminatiow;?then the nec?ssiiy for thirty acre? of land to protect the water supply practically disappear ed. Sumter. at the time of the es tablishment of the 'water works, and for years prior to the building of ou_* sewer system a:;d installa tion of a modern surface, sanitary toilet system in those sections of the city not accommodated by the' sewer!a&e. system, was working at that time with and under the "Old Home Town** sanitary regulations. <2?ea ?gtin many theories of the Sa3?~a5chool of sanitation have been 1tewnd <to- be wrong and laboratory investigations and "bacterial dis coveries and other methods of hu fisstD-- ingenuity,, have freed us of many old .-time Inconveniences, cus toms.' and, restrictions found to be cjsrroneous and unnecessary for preservation of human health and Sfe. We no5V leave largely to ex ;P?it trained, scientific minds and officials many problems that indi viduals felt in the good old days ihey -knew all about and what to without any advice or legal reg ulations to a large extent. -_Ror years it was unlawful oe tween July 1st and October 31st to ', make any excavations or expose up- j turned earth as. we believed then 1 that- typhoid, malaria, and yellow i fetterVgefro* were thrown up. in- : h?Jed' and that an epidemic of ] either or all three of these irifec- j lious diseases would follow. Where \ it? that- law today ? Now we know j that the only known method of dis seminating malarial or yellow fe- : Xsr is through the intermediate i ho-t. the female of the variety of anopheles or stegomia mosquito, j and that we have to eat or drink j she typhoid germs to contract ty-j phoid fever, and we know that man I is the only animal that has or r transmits typhoid, fever, and that j hogs, cattle, chickens, carnival ] people and county fair officials are i as. safe as the ordinary animal or I citizens in so far as being "car-! riers" 'Of disease of infectious and j eonjagious.;character and design, j . Yc^do'h?t have to contract any ! disease from carnival people or j from county fair officials if you let ! f hem V>alone.' The theory of soil] pollution has undergone many j changes, and had its chief grounds 1 for existence entirely in accord- j anoew- ith actual conditions?phy sical conditions surrounding the j water, works wells prior to estab-j :ishment of modern methods of disposal of sewage. Mayor L. D. Jennings, with the approval of Cout.cilman D. R. Mc Callum, was the first to make the suggestion that the water works lantb.be leased to the county fair association, under certain reserva tions end of course under Well define^ sanitary rule^ and regula tions and under the supervision of the Samter BoarO of Health and our; Health Officer. There?ore the "u tyle r ^ County Fair Association cllicials beg fur ther use of your columns to ex pJgSn ^tc* the public their position. The gentleman circulating the pe tition opposing this lease for coun ty fair purposes of course made hjs case as strong as possible against rhe lease on grounds of unVtuesiionable certainty of water contamination. Inasmuch ns he was tiding his own opinion and did succeed in an ex-parte showing in convincing many citizens that he was right and the county fair of ficials* and Mayor Jennings and Cottnc*ilman McCallum are wrong, which he lias a right ?<> de at any l?ne, .then the fair ollicials think that presenting both sides to the public will not he amiss. Of course every citizen has the right to pro test against the lease of the water works- ?nds. either by himself or in conjunction with numbers of other 'citizens. Rut believing that there 'is no danger of water con tamination by the fair using these lands under reasonable, common r.ense. practical evv ry-day cleanli ness and sanitary regulations, the fair . officials feel that tiny have ? right to ask for the approval of their fellow citizens in their ef fort to accept an offer made in good faith by city Cou-neH or by two out of three of the City Coun cil. It should be borne in mind thai Mayor Jennings and Councilman MeCa.il urn. and the officials and. stockholders of the fair associa tion are taxpaying. property own ing, and successful business and professional men us well as those wh<? Oppose the lease of these l^inds for fair purposes, and that I the gentlemen, favoring this lease J are just as public spirited and in ?eiligem and just as much interest- j ed in a pure?water supply and inj the protection of public health as! .any other ehizeiis. s The County Fair Association j does not contemplat e and posi- ; tiveiy will not permit any stable or I hog or cattle manure or pathogenic j or disease-bearing tilth or menac- j Lng organic matter to seep into our water supply, because all of this will be removed daily during the : four days of the county fair, and ; the eoujty fair will positively keep ' t he eaih-f grotrods in a cleanly and j .-anitarv condition a* all times, as,1 clean i! not cleaner than the wa-; tc-r works laud is now kept. The j County Fair Association will he compelled to keep the grounds in a satisfactory condition to meet the requirements of the state and ? local boards ot health or forfeit j their lease at any time on demand ! of the City Council of Sumter. j therefore the fair association has! a greater incentive, with invest- j menrs of many thousands of dol- ! Jars in buildings and fencing to I live* up to the safest requirements j of the health authorities than those j in charge of the water works have, j even conceding that the present j management of the water works, plant is doing all that should be ; done to safeguard the water sup-! :>]>? and the public health. The statement by Judge Pyrdy j that there is more or less danger; 01* seepage from, toilets used by j county fair visitors or attendants is j ro met hing rather unique in our j experience because we can not see i wherein there is or might be any j difference between the system of! 1 plumbing to be used by the coun ty fair authoYities and the plumbing j used by any other clasx of citizens, especially when this pfexznbisg, like ail other plumbing will be in stalled by local pumbers and in spected by the official city plumbing inspector during its installation and periodically inspected, like all other plumbing, by the inspector or : city health officer. E. I. REARDON, { For Sumter Countv Fair.! i . . .-? ! j Mrs. Solomons Sails for Europe, j ?-??- i Xew York, Jan. 1.?Among the I passengers sailing from New York ! on the White Star liner Olympic I December 31 for Cherbourg and j Southampton was Mrs. Xina M. Solomons of 29 Yv'arren St., Sum-' ter. ? o ^ James D. Xoe, .seven feet tall; and weighing 325, lost 25 pounds; and his job in a recent campaign. ; He was tall but couldn't get into hjs stride in gathering in the votes, i Any man who agrees with his i wife can have his way. ? ? ? Japan says she will be out of debt by 1943: -Japan is more opti- ' mistie than father. ! A Pittsburger had two wives liv- I ing in the same house. This house j shortage is terrible. Wonder if plumbers sleep under ? the sink in their own homes? . Gertrude Artelt, 20, of Philadel phia, is competing in The winter swimming events now on at Miami, Fla. She started to win national water championships in 1917 when she annexed the water pentathlon and 100-yard fr#?e style titles. Master Holds I Public Sale: $4,055 Total Amount Involved in Sale of Tracts of Land E. C Haynsworth, master lor j Sumter county, sold on Monday. | sales day. at a public auction held j at the ('our! House, thirteen tracts ' of land consisting of city properyt j and tracts in the rurafl districts. The following sales were made, the j highest bidder taking the property: j T. L. Houston vs. Serina Smith, j et ah. IS acres in Privateer sec-j tion. Sold to l^ce <NL- Moise. attorn- j eys for $50. Mrs. Lola II. Fowler vs. John Goodman, et al.. 28 acres, Lee I Moise. Attorneys, ????">o. Elliott Xewman. et al. vs. F. Mc- I Iver, et ah, 17 acres. M. J. Fred-' eriek, Attorney. $ 155. J. J. Harby. et al. vs. Evelyn | Griffin, 4?.; acres. Epps & Levy, At- ! torn eys. $2.GOO. C. M. Phifer vs. Julia "Wallace. 1 et ab. lot on Bee street city, Epps : & Levy. Attorneys, $50. I,u!a H. Fowler vs. Peter Davis, j et al.. 3 tracts. 200. *?3 and 14 acres. '? Ivee ,? Moise. Attorneys, $?00. fleriot It. Eberhar-dt vs. Edgar I Dink his, et al., 2 lots in Hagood. j Ler Moise, Attorneys. $50, ?'. M. Levy vs. Edgar Dinkins. j et ?,al., ~ lots in Hagood, Lee & ! Mcise. $50. M. It: Wilkinson vs. D. H. Allen, j et a'. i(?i acres Manchester town-j ship. M. J. Frederick, Attorney, I $500. Flora Ml man vs. Peter Goodman, \ et al. 2 tracts. 50, To and 74 acres, j Shiloh township, l>ee & Moise, At- i torn eys. $100. OfDonnell ?t Co.. Inc. vs. J. P. ' Mc; Mellan. et al.. (J5 acres, Lee ?fc 1 Moise. Attorneys, $100. M. R. Wilkinson vs. Rebecca j Eva is. et al., acres. M. J. Fred erick, $r>o. - Tax Reduction (From the Abbeville Press and Banner.) There is to be an eft ort to re duce taxes, certainly an effort to reduce the rate of taxation as against property. That is well and good. But if the effort to reduc ?ae rate of taxation as against prop- J City shall amount to nothing more j than transferring the burden from property to other sources of reve- J nue. then the effort will not be sin- j cere, and the people will gain little. We are in accord with the view that other sources of revenue should be sought. It is not right that land and visible property \ should pay all the expenses of run- I ning the government and at the same time pay the enormous ap propriations for one purpose and another. Any means of effecting a more equitable division of the burdens which the few have been bearing will meet with our ap proval. But what we would like to im press on the legislators who are soon to assemble in Columbia is that the people want less taxes col-] lected. from whatever source. The ] Legislature has run wild in the j matter of appropriations in the past j few years. Individuals ran wild too, but they have had to ""deflate" and so must the tax levying body. It will do no good or very little good to reduce the property tax four or five mills if the burden is merely transferred to the other shoulder and if the people are still called on to carry as big a load as ever. Let the load be lightened. First reduce the amount of appropriations, and then look to the means of paying these. Am) while we are talking about taxes and taxable property, we would like to ask why it is that notes and mortgages in this State are not taxed as other property? ('v.n no means be found to force the people to pay taxes on securi ties of this kind?. Why should it not be a good idea to require that these securities be listed each year by the auditor and stamped to the end that they bear a part .of the tax burdens? A suitable penalty would make it unprofitable to try ! to evade- the payment of taxes, per- , haps the penalty could l>e the for- j feiture of all interest to the State. It is certain that the amount of property subject to taxes, stated in dollars, will greatly decrease with the new assessment. Other prop erty must be found to take the place j of the disappearing values or the ? amount of taxes coming in will be j greatly redueed. A tax on mort gages and notes would not only help the situation but would be just. In China the oldest man in each block of ten houses is made a census enumerator, when a census is taken, in t he * Celestial Republic. On a given day he makes the count and sends the list for his ten hous es to the tax office. There's only one thing that stops hair from growing on bald heads, from making short men fall and fat men sylph-like and that is a perfect endocrine system. This is according to the statement of a Xew York physician at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Medical So ciety. The endocrine system, which consists of secretive glands, is srill a secret from medical sci ence A traveling man says that in his opinion mutton corn for early ship ment to northern markets would be one of the most profitable truck crops thai Sumter county farmers could plant; He says tin-re js an unlimited demand for green corn in the early spring before 'lie lo < ;il crop comes in and th t the price is high, according to state ments made to him by produce dealers in several mid-western cities. It is worth looking into. Scotland now has :i population of I.SS2.2>? s. which is three times what it w;is in IS01. There are 185.482 more Scotch women than men. Fur coats are quoted ai half hour more crying than thev ? Here's the ,1922 Style, Girls! Just glimpse this, girls?the men, of course, aren't interested. This Is the 1022 bathing suit style. It will be worn at Palm Beach this winter and at all the beaches where -censorship isn't too strict next summer.. From society's mid-winter Astor fashion show, New York. It Suggests Russia The three-piece- costume is quite the^ most useful part of milady's I -wardrobe. She insists that there be a hint of Russia about it. Tho ! caracul wrap which is part of this Claire costume, is an intriguing thing smartly enough cut to suggest an almost military line, yet distinctly feminine. For the Rest Hours \ chemical coixcfdexce. OevHopmeht of FeHiU7ic-r Roefc on Pacific Island. Here is the cold geographical fact: "Ahnosi contemporaneously with i!:.- issu<- of the n mdate of j ad n: in iy trat ion for the island of Nauru, famous for its rich depos its <?:' phosphate of lime, was the ; rediscovery of rho great sulphur mountain of Vanua Lava in the Banks group of the New Hebrides." "Bin here also is a fairy tale of science, a happy chemical coinci dence, or a problem in relativity," suggests a bulletin from the Wash ington, i). c.. headquarters of the National Geographic Society. "Scene one might disclose little American Polly Smith dropping j pennies in a b? o take ro Sun ? day ychool to 'give to teacher to i send to missionaries to th<- heafh ; < Scene two might portray ? s 'me waving arain field of our fer ; tile west, and a closeup show j l-armer Blank buying fertilizer at the village store. And the ferti lizer enriched the soil, which grew the grain-, which sold for the mon , i.y. which little Polly Smith put i into the box ro 'give teacher to I send missionaries ro tin- heathen.' "Here a second geographical j fact must obtrude: 'The special age:!- needed to change Nauru's . phosphate rock to a sdluble state for sale ;?? farm* rs is Van rut Lava's sulphur.' " .\ World's .l<.nipiiig-on" Place. Then the bulletin continues with the f?ITow'ing information about I the island of trees that grow on stilts where missionaries have gone, and where we may get tVr : tilizer?information extracted from a communication to The Society by Rosamond Dodson Rhone: ?'Nauru, or Pleasant Island, is I almost at the jumping-off> place of rhe world: ir is not exactly ""East of the sun and west of the moon.' ! but it is almost the farthest east, ? being only thirteen degrees west <?:' the international date line, and ir is half degree south of the Equator. It is one of the Line is-1 ? lands. "Before it fell to Germany it j knew no white rulers, but was gov ; erned by its own immemorial laws, j enforced by its own chiefs: but white influence had impinged upon j it for many years. Whaling ships j from New England ports called there and traded firearms for \ chunking coconuts and island pigs. Ir was ratlier n. |>oor island in , those faroSE days, before its great ! wealth was discovered. It had no sandalwood or tortoise shell: no j pearls or bcehe-de-mer: not even ! copra, for copra was not made in j th<- Pacific before and CO ! conut oil was not an article of ; commerce. I Arose Dripping From the Sea. 'One day Nauru, like Aphrodite, j arose dripping from the sea. The . date of this emergence c annot be ! more nearly indicated than ages \ ago. and the term day is nor lim ited to twenty-four hours, but is : to be construed liberally, like the J days of 'Jenesis. The island may ! indeed have been thrust suddenly j into the air. with all her lovely j polyps gasping and shriveling in [the tropic sun. and scarlet fishes j and long-armed ocropi leaping af i frighted "out of the exposed caves : to the safe shelter of the sea, while I slow-moving sea-urchins and mol lusks perished in the pot-holes and I labyrinths of the coral: or the pro i cess of elevation may have been j gradual, life in the coral dying gradually at the emerged top. while , it remained in full vigor just be I nearh the level of low tide. "At any rate, when the upheaval I was complete, when the fairy tow j er ?? and pinnacles and the unsunned , caverns of the sea had been lifted i into the blaze of the sun. life at its \ i base beneath the sea continue'd un i abated and the fringing reef was . slowly extended around it. Look Like Aquarium Houses. "At this period the island must ! have looked like those fantastic j artificial structures which we see j in acouariums. No product of man's construction could be more extrav agant in conception than these j pinnacles, towers, bridges, flying ; buttresses, their shapes always , suggesting architectural fantasies j upreared into the air. There it (stood, bare .and bald as did the i ear th on that day in Genesis when the dry land first appeared. "Then came the sea-birds, mil linns of them. feeding on the j abundant sea-food, nesting in the i coral, hatching their young in ever I increasing multitudes, and deposif ; ing the waste of th'-ir bodies in the I coral till the lower crevices were : tilled and a gradually rising body j of guano attained at length a lev *d with the tops of tin- pinnacles, [and then rose above rhem and lay ; in a level plateau across the is ; land. Ramparts Surround Island "(".I the margin the rains. the winds, and the breakers, spouting high against the coral, washed away ;'ii.- deposit, so that ramparts of bare pinnacles stood up and r- r ill stand all around the island: but the coral walls hack from fhej shore held safe the treasure. Came another day ?1 am aware that 1 am dinging days about as casually as the author of Menesris). The sea birds are gone; no; a keen red eye or swiff-diving wing was left:! gone, immemoria lly gone. How or w hy is a mystery. "Then in rhe alembic of Nature , a transformation occurred. Guano j is chiefly phosphoric acid and ni- J irogen: coral ischiefly lim?-. Some how, by the close contact, the izu ano became, changed into phos- j phato ei lime, which is guano rais- j r-u to the nth power. It had now j become a hard rock, odorless and ! generally colorless, although some ] specimens show Trie, dark stratiti-j . .?; i<in and lake a high polish. * Another day- perhaps the same ! lay < it is startling to see how. i rlosely iliis follows tile Genesis ? aery of creation)?vegetarion ap i>earc-d. narrbwly^limited in species.^ l>nt abundant in specimens: and: hiall*' man. the brown people of' he South This must have j been tin- order, for where there is no vege* at ion there is no popu lation. "The vegetation owed nothing to the wealth of phosphate be neath ii. Phosphate is not soluble in water, it needs treatment with sulphuric acid, which < on\>-vls if into superphosphate to let loos*- its treasure of stimulation for plants.*' .Miss Baker Entertains Quite an enjoyable party was given .Monday evening by .Miss Elizabeth Baker at her home on Broad street and many of the young boys and girls of the city were most delightfully entertained. Conver sation dares were made during the early evening and. dancing partici pated in by numerous young couples; A refreshment course of ice cream and cake was served. All guests present were loud in their declarations of a most pleasantly spent evening. Those present were: .Misses Inez Carr. Mary Thome. Ruth Brigss. Nina Jenkinson. Nancy Booth. Mary Vogel. Mary Hoi man. Marguerite Harby, Cath erine Timmerman. I ??>rjs M<?ses. Margaret Dick. Ruth Flowers. Vir ginia Doar. Daisy China. Armida Brunson. Emmie Osteen, M arn i < ? Tucker. Lilian Kill. Gene Buck, Helen Commander. Tbxie Turner, id.-' Edwins. Esrx-lle Edwins. .Mamie MeCoITum. Edna Boney. Ellen Stuekey. May Willis Osteen. Annie Louise Davis. o(J Columbia, and Atiie Mae Barnum. Messrs. Charles Green. Robert Witherspoon. Des. I Edmunds. Frank Clark, Wiley! Sholar. Oliv, r Sholar. Charles! Crombe. Louis Lyon. Henry Ligon. j Ansley Brunson. George MeKiever, George "\Vray. Henry Shelori Ernest j Friar. George Dick. A. Boykin. II. R'-mbert. Burgess Bultman. W. R. Philips. Robert Bultman. ?Marion ? Moise, Terry Moses. Julius Pitts.; Clint Wheeler. Raymond Burgess. ? Harry Shaw. James Burns. Ed ward Buck. Alva Spann, Marion Poxworth. Edward Booth, Charles; Wray. Doug. Moses, Henry Bruner, and Charles Cm tine. Six Great Achievements. News and Courier. Hamilton Holt, speaking at a luncheon in New York in celehra- ? tion of former President Wilson's I sixty-fifth birthday, said that Mr. j Wilson had done five great things; and that any one pf them would ; "assure him a foremost place in j history. The five achievements listed by Mr. Holt were as fol lows: Coalescence of the heterogen eous ideas in connection with the war into one idea.?democracy. His statement that in the war - we wanted nothing. The driving of an effective wedge i between the Hohenzollerns and the) German people. [ The first outline of the basis of j peace. The expression of the thought' that the nations should substitute j cooperaiion for competition. A volume could be written under I each of these heads, for each of) these achievements was of tre- j mendous importance. Nor can Mr. ! Wilson's bitterest enemy deny him credit for my one of them. Per haps of then all the first and the fifth are the greatest. Without the fh*>t tite war could not have been j won. Without the fifth there would j be no hope for civilization. There is a sixth achievement of Mr. Wilson which, although it is a corallary of the fifth and in Mr. Holt's summary is implicit in it. really deserves separate mention. Mr. Wilson did more than express rhe thought of international co operation in place of competition. Against tremendous odds and al most single-handed at Paris, he es tablished the principle of inter national cooperation and wrote it into the treaty. It would he the accepted rule of conduct of the na tions today if the Amercian people had not permitted themselves to be buncoed by a loi of the smallest j and most unscrupulous politicians; that ever infested any country. -0~9~^ Nations don't fear underhand; dealings as much as underwater dead lings. ??? Economy This Polish girl is on the- way to church in her "Sunday-go-to-meet- j in'" clothes, but she carries her j shoes to save them. When she nears the church she puts them on. i Improved Tone in Cotton Markets Better News From Mill Cen ters hi America and Eng land Helps Prices Xew Orleans. Jan. I.?While the cot on market had a distinct holi day tone during the whole of las* week it was very steady, never theless, and stood gains the whole week through, being supported in main by great \v improved ac counts from mill centers both if. this country and in England. At its highest it was 30 to TO points over the close of the preceding week with March up to 18.25. On the close prices were at net gains of 50 to C3 points with March at 18.2 5. In the Spot department middling gained 23 p. incs In the. net results, closing at 17.75, which price compared with 10.50 at the cd. sing price this week last year. Ann rican cotton goods markets and mill points told of more business doing and toward the end of the n eck Manchester < ommenced to send over decidedly favorable re ports, saying that manufacturers were beginning to b..ok a. great deal of business wich India, some of the orders extending for several "months ahead. At the middle of the week considerable bullish excite ment was created by the cabled re port that a large British concern h id sold 25,000 bales of cloths tc India.. Predictions were heard that by the end of the first quarter of i:c2l' Lancashire cotton mills v.ouM be found running full time and such predictions re ?jved al! the more consideration because of the cablegrams from London to the effect that many worsted and woolen mills in England were w o rk i n*g overt! me. Toward the end of the week so?ne mill points in Georgia wired in telling of good sales of cloths and claiming that in some instances mills were supplied with orders enough to keep them running to full capacity for the next six months. Dallas wired that cotton houses there were getting instruc tions to ship out large quantities of spot and a good deal of interest was attached to a telegram froni Gal vest on. at the end of the week, saying that#a steamer at that port was loading 18.000 bales for Ham burg. . Mill takings were considered disappointing being only 274.000 bales for ihe week, ;hc sma.l?ei*t takings in many weeks, but -nost traders held that they were wholly due to the holidays. The failure of an important New York and Chi cago brokerage house on the clos ing session of the week caused an "erratic market for a while. In the last half of the weekN consider able liquidation came from the long side because of the triple New Year holidays. Tolstoi's Ideals Hard to Meet ? 1 Yashay'a Polyana, Russia, Dec. 7. ?The idealistic community, com posed of 15 young men and three women, living on the estate of th? late Count Tolstoi, is encountering difficulties in its effort to' attain Tolstoyian perfection of freedom. The obstacles include unrequited love of one of its members, lack of, money, food and clothes and the antagonism of a cunning, land hungry peasantry. The latter oc cupy the village commune outside the gates of the park enclosing the ? Tolstoi home and are watching the new experiment with jealous fear that the members of the community may get away from them the land promiseA. to the peasants by Tolstoi and subsequently by the Soviet government. Suspicion has sprout ed in their minds that the ideal community will eventually take over many thousands of acres of forest lands composing the now na tionalized Tolstoi estate. / The same disappointment which Tolstoi, himself, eneountei >d when he characterized his life as a huge tragedy because family ties pre vented his living humbly, alone and free, loving every man and woakan equally welt, has begun to be ex perienced by at least one member of the group of idealists. They planned to take up life where Tol stoi left it and to live it as he dreamed of living it. But a hand some young woman member of the community, endowed with the ? wide nature of the Russians." is ln-lieved t? have become a disturb ing element and to have caused Kvassov. a stalwart young man in the group, to declare his intentions to walk to India and there pass his remaining days in contemplation, like the aged Hindus. Only a claim jumper could de fine the exact status of the Tolstoi estate. Originally, when inherit? ed by Tolstoi, it included 3.&00 aeres. of which the Count be queathed about 1.300 acres to the peasants of his commune; but the Soviet government took this land away from them to make the whole domain into a national museum. Prize to Chileans for Essay in Eng lish. Santiago. Dec. 1.?A prize has been offered by W. M. Collier, the new American ambassador, to stu dents in the English department of the University of Chile for the best essay, written in English, on "The Relations between the United States and Chile." Senator Smoot is having difficul ties with the income tax collector. According to a story originating in Washington the claim is made that the Utah senator's returns in taxes to the government for 1M17 was $3. xiH below what it should have been. Mushrooms have been found just below the snow line in the Swiss Alps and the natives are gathering them and storing them for their winter food, just as we do potatoes. The isle of Man does not mean that once u. on a day women were excluded from it. In reality it means the middle island and de rives its name from an old word ?"monopia" or "menavia." in Manx "vannin" or "mannin." which means middle and was applied to the island because of its location.