The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 07, 1922, Page PAGE 2, Image 2
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.!
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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.
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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.
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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.