The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 11, 1922, Page PAGE 3, Image 3

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The Watchman vand Soxthron Entered at the Postoffice at Sum ter, S. C, as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL. Mrs. Ernest *Rawls ? and her . daughter, Frances, has returned home ai.er spending several weeks [ at her old home in Fairfield coun ty-. - Miss Anna Epps, has returned to her home at New Zion, after visiting at the home of Miss Ma rie Stewart on Harvin St. Miss Margaret Wheeler has re turned to assume her studies, after spending .two weeks with her moth er at Sardinia. . ? ?* Mrs. W. H. Strange has; return ed home after spending two weeks with her mother, Mrs. W. P. Me Knight at Workman. ... , Mrs. J. A. Steele is visiting, her daughter at New Hill, N. C, 1 Miss Eloise Sims and sister,' Ad die Eula, have returned home near Manning, aftre visiting their sis- j ter? Mrs. Elick Timmons on. Har-| Yin" St. ? Mr. ?. W. H. Mein tosh has re turned home after visiting / her brothers family at Elloree. Mr. H.-O. S. Jackson, .of' Flor-? efcee. was in the city Thursday on j business. Miss Cora Duffie left for .Dar lington this morning on a yisipof several days. Mfl: H. C. Folsom returned yes terday, from a visit of several days in Raleigh and Durham, N. C Mr. J. C. Pate is spending the day in Columbia on business. Mr. /W. M. Wright was called to V^lewberry' this morning on account of tfic death of his sister Mrs.. An drews. Mrs. IL L. Scaffe" .and daughter. Marguerite, have returned t.a. their home in Su'mter after visiting ; in Jacksonville, ? DeLeon Springs, Crlanda and Tampa. Fla., for sev eral weeks. Miss Pearl Atkinson, of DeLe*on Springs, Fla., a niece of Mrs. Scaffe, accompanied Mrs. Scaffe and daughter to Sum ter, where she will be a visitor for some time. Mr. D. L. Pierce who motored through the country to various points in North Carolina and Vir- j ginia., where, he spent. the holi- j days at his home, has fetunied tj < Su rater. Mr. E, M. Barnes of Rock Hill: Is'spending the day in Sumter. ] Mr. Bartow Walsh ieft this morn- I ing for Beaufort, S.' C^ where he j will join a hunting party on a sev eral days, trip. Mr. B. F/ Scott returned to Sumter this morning: from Char- \ lesto.n where he has been visiting j for. several days. Mrs.' S. L. Roddy and children left this morning for Greeleyville ! . v/iere she visit relatives. Mrs. Clarke' WTaring returned to her home in Columbia this, morn ing, after having been, the .visitor is the city as the guest tff Mrs. E. S. ? Booth. ? ] Mr. Charles Blackburn has re-1 turned to his home in Columbia af ter a visit of several days in Sum ter. MI*s Alethia. Flemming has | gone to Rock Hill, S. C, where she! has accepted a position as: a nurse \ in the Winthrop College Infirm-1 ary. - i Miss Florine Rowland is. spend- j ing the week-end in Sumter. | ?Mrs. Edward E. Wright left! Saturday for Smitb/ield, N. C, to ( join Mr. Wright, who is located i there in business. Miss Lela Butler who has ?Veen spending the holidays at her. home'! in Kingston, N. C, has returned to i Sumter. . ,. j Miss. Jeanie Smith of Bishop-.: vllle passed through Sumter-todaj | on .her way to Columbia where she ! will be engaged in the engrossing j department at the legislature for: several days. Mr. C. W. McGrew left Sunday - evening for Monk's Corner on a; hunting trip. Mr. W. J. Black well of Marion ! spent Sunday in the city. ' - ? - -Miss Augusta Rembert 'passed j through Sumter today while re- j turning to her home in Columbia ; from a visit to her uncle Mr! E. 'E. Rembert Of Rembert. "Mr. Charlie Schwartz left yester day for New York on a business j trip of several days. ? ? o RlchhTohd. Jan. 9.?Secretary I Denbrhas been req ??sted by the State Game Commissioner for an i explanation of why he hunted hear I FrederickSburg^ Va., without a: s>ate license. Washington. Jan. 7.?The stale department has instructed the American embassy at Mexico City j to request Mexico to explain the seizure by the Saltillo municipal- J ity of the property of the South ; ern Baptist foreign mission board. ' The seizure included the . girls' school. Washington, Jan. 9.?Senator McCumber, of North Dakota, has been 'selected chairman of the senate finance committee, succeed ing the late Senator Penrose. Sen ator Frelinghuysen was selected to serve ..as chairman of the foreign committee. Dublin, Jan. 9.?The Dail Eire ann defeated the motion to reeled J)e Valera president of the Irish republic 60 to 5S. ??-^?^ Hamilton, Ala.. Jan. 9.?Robert j J. Lancaster, a National Ouards n?an, is on trial for the third time, charged with murder in connection with the lynching of William Baird, a myier. last January. Washington. Jan. s).--Timber in the United States is being con- . turned four times faster than it is grown, Chief Oreel?y of the forest service, told the house committee v^hile urging federal legislation to conserve the forests. - "Dawes Goes for Tram?) in Washington" ? headline. Poor tramp! | ' Irish Peace Treaty at Last Ratified (Contiuued from page 1) I tional struggle. . ! The future control of the Irish ! Republican army* is tonight the : subject of anxious speculation as i Charles Burgess, who strongly op- j ; posed the treaty, is the minister of. i defense. ' So far as the public is ? j concerned. Dublin seems delighted \ ! over ratification. Arthur Griffith and his col- j j leagues on emerging from the par- j : liament were wildly cheered and ; the city tonight is in jubilant spirits, j On the announcement of the fig- j ?res. De Valera - ose and declared I that the Irish people had estab- | ! lished a republic, and until the j ! Irish people in a regular manner , j disestablished the republic it con I stitutionally went on. This would j j be a sovereign body in the nation j I to which the nation looked for su- . j preme government. Jt was the ex ! ecutive until the people disestab i lished it. I Nobody was disposed to chal : lenge this proposition, for the gen \ eral opinion all along had been that j j during transition period Ireland j i must keep her representative as- j ; sembly until the treaty was con j verted into an act of parliament and the Irish would have an op- I 'portunity to erect a legislature of! the free state to replace the DaiL Michael Collins in quiet tones fol- j lowed De Valera. He said he did | 1 not regard the result in any spirit; of triumph. He claimed that the j men representing the Dail who Would be responsible for taking j over from the British government control' of the Irish administration should get a fair chance. In every j country what mattered most was public order and he appeal0'! to the other ' side to appoint a joint committee of both sides to carry on j the government. (This was greeted j with cheers). Mr. Collins declared that De Va- j lera held the same place in his i hcc.rt as ever. Then followed a.violent speech j by Mary MacSwiney denouncing the' result as worse than the be- j trayalNof Ireland in the- days of j Castlereagh. (Viscount Castlereagh Marquis of j Londonderry, who as chief secre-; tary for Ireland in 1798 was instru mental in carrying the union in 1800). Mr. Do Valera rose again, sup-; posedly in reply to Mr. Collins' j overture. However, he took no no- > tice of it. and merely appealed to I all of his own suppbrters in the Dail to meet him at the. Mansion ! House tomorrow afternoon. This j evidently hurt Mr. Collins very; much, but he quietly said: "If the visible presence of my- j self and colleages is so distaste ful, there mighf at any rate be J some accommodation between the; parties for the purpose of public j order." Minister Burgess immediately | retorted: "I will take care that the j discipline of the army is preserved." j The assembly then adjourned to j meet at 11 'o'clock Monday morn- j ing. No agenda, for 'that session I is indicated, and the only notice I of a motion is one by the speaker, Professor MacNeill. affirming in! general terms Ireland's independ ence and sovereign status, for which all sections of the dail might unanimously vote. The public is completely be wildered regarding de Valera's in- j temion. Ulster is' included within the; scope of the treaty, but provision is \ made for her to declare herself out j within one month after an act of ! the British parliament ratifying j the treaty, ana to continue under | the present regime, as provided in j the government of Ireland act in 1920. In that event, however, a boundary commission is to be nam- j ed to determine the boundary be- ] tween Northern Ireland and the j rest of Iceland. The Irish Free State will assume what may be decided by agreement or arbitration as a fair and equi-e table proportion of the public debt j of the United'Kingdom, and is to! afford harbor facilities to British naval forces under terms to be? hxed in -a convention between the two governments. Safeguards are provided . for j freedom of religion and education i within both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Formal ratification of the pact ! on the part of Ireland, as provided j by *he tr aty. shall be at a. meet- j ing, summoned for the purpose, of the members elected under the! government of Ireland Act to sit in the house of commons of South- j ern Ireland. These members, with a few exceptions, are the same as those of the Dail Eireann. - The British Parliament approv ed of the treaty last December 1G by adopting the reply to the speech : from the* throne requesting such j approval. Various formalities of formal ratification, however, still 1 remain to be complied with in or der to conform to the terms of the document. ? ? ? Philadelphia. .Ian. 9.? Luther; Boddy,' a negro, the alleged slay er of two New York detectives, has been captured. He was heavi ly armed, but surrendered without j a light. Indianapolis, Jan. 7.?Dan F. Steck*-, of Iowa, has been appointed chairman of the American Legion's national ' legislative committee. Commander MacNeider announced today. Pittsbugh, Jan. 9.?The principal purchasing agencies have an nounced twenty-five cents a bar rel reduction in the price of crude oil. Tokio. Jan. 9.?Marquis Okilmn, th< elder statesman, who was re ported dead; was still alive last night. His death has been official ly announced and posthumous hon or:, conferred by she regent. Will Irwin says future wars will be fengbi with germs. If we keep on l:i'?img > ft our best men, future wars will be fought with cripples. ; High School Victorious Hvatt Park School Loses Basket Ball Game The Sumter High school basket ball team met the basketball team of the Hayn Park school of Colum bia in the local V. M. C. A. gymnas ium Friday night and won their j season's first game by ?he score of 28 to IS. The game was fast in every sense ? of the word and it ran easily be i said that although the Hyatt Park school team had the weight over j the Sumter team, Sumter made up : for and overbalanced this handi cap by their speed and determina-j tion. The outstanding feature of I the game was the phenomenal* goal throwing of Wright. K., who was largely responsible for Sum tcr's goodly number of point. A ; good bit of credit is due the Sum- j ter "Hi" for their victory in this( game in that with the exception of Wright, this game gave Sumter*s| team members their first taste of a j regulation game. Hyatt Park Sum tor! Sanmon, Walker, R._. Wray, Green I F Walker, H-C_Wright: K?ster, Helms. .Blanding, Felder G Substitution: Sumter, Chan dler for Felder. Officials: Heidt, Referee. .Time, j F. Sholar and Reynolds; Scorer, i Pitts. The Dollars and cents in Rain Drops ? Washingteon. D.C., Jan 0?"Rain might be looked upon as the oil I which lubricates the world's eco- j nomic machinery," says a bulletin ' issued from the Washington, I). C,; headquarters of the National Geo- j graphic Society in connection with recent reports of world-wide drought damage to crops. ? "With the smallest estimated cot-! ton orop since 1S93." continues the: bulletin, "with spring wheat in i poor condition at home as well as I in many of the other wheat eoun- | tries of the world, with other im- ! portant crops below their average, ! and with the drought east as the I villian. or at least as an accomplice, in each case, the difference that a I few showers make in humanity's j scheme of things is strongly em- : phasied. "While everybody realizes in a general way that the world de- I pends on rainfall and fertility for I food, there are wry few. perhaps, who even approximately appreciate how comparatively little the farm- j er actually does in the grreat pro cess of crop-growing. To plowj millions of acres furrow by furrow, to spend millions of dollars on fer- j tilizers, and to reap and gather and thresh, is no menn task. And yet compared with the part that nature plays in the process, man's work seems a very slight labor. For in stance, it takes about 2a inches of rainfall to grow a food ero;? tinder Dur general farming methods. | which means about 2.2G0 tons of water to the acre. That means a preposterous figure, hut the doubt er can easily demonstrate its cor rectness. Suppose the American L farmer had to haul the water his j ground must have to give him good 1 crop, and that distance and freight j rate were the same as th<- average i railroad haul and rate^ in the I'nited States. On that- 'basis, it j would cost him more than $4.0<i0 j un acre to water his place. "But not only would his water : bill be nearly half a million dollars on a 100-aere farm, but his fertiliz er bill, also, would amount to a neat little sum. It is estimated mat in the* process of normal evap oration, soil water presents the rootlets of its neighborhood with About fourteen j ounds of ammonia ? a year to the acre. Also, it gives them some ~>7 pounds of potash, j With sulphate of ammonia cost- j ing only 2 cents a pound (it cost: 5 1-2 during the war) and a hun- j dred pounds of the sulphate requir ed to contribute 17 pounds of am monia, it will be seen that the pro- | cess <*f evaporation gives the root- j lets $1.65 worth ammonia to- the: acre. "When the World War cut off! German supplies <>f potash and it soared to $400 a ton, geologists' scoured the I'nited States for the priceless fertilizer with little suc cess. Vet the process of evapora tion generously hands out more than half a hundredweight to the acre, in war and peaye. This auto matic fertilization is worth an ad dition $2.50 an acre to the farm er at present prices, and would have cost him $10 an acre at war j prices. ??From this it will be seen that the $12 to $25 an acre that it costs the avera*^ farmer t" grow wheat is a small figure indeed. compar ed to w! tt In- saves by having Na ture as his water wagon and fer- \ tih'zer source." Washington. Jan. 7.?C. C. Tinkler, president of the San Francisco Construction Company,] conferred with Secretar-- Weeks on the offer of his concern for the completion and opertaion of the j Muscle Sho?ls, Ala., nitrate and w.ttei- power projects on a si-mi govei nmcnta 1 bnvis. Chicago. Jan. 6. ?Ten thousand men arc penniless :ind walking the streets of <'li:<-::during the day. mkI 1.000 sleep in the ope*!) at night, :> subcommittee reported to the city employment commission today. The commission voted !?> seek an a.ppro ; riation of .<is."im to he ns?-<i in operating municipal lodging ionises and to ask the city council to open ]^ municipal bath houses to the helpless unemployed. r,..<l of t vve |V?r Tht bonds of Governments get ?ack to normal as they gel back to p he financial eenters. Ireland is free; bui Kentucky is! ?till lighting. New Kipling: "T.or. osts. be w it h US Vet. ?t our foreign debt." Official Returns of Election D. D. Moise Elected Senator and J. B. Britton to House of Representatives The commissioners of the State and County elections met Friday afternoon ;it 3 o'clock, and tabu lated the returns of the recent spe cial election held for the purpose of electing a state senator from Sumfer county to Jill the vacancy in that body occasioned, by the death of Senator John H. ChjCton and the vacancy in the house of representatives caused by the resig nation of Hon. T). D. Moise. The official count follows: Senator Representative it a ? o 1-8 l i-i V bo Ward I 7 33 2 2'i 16 "> Ward II .... 2*; 12:: Hi S7 :.s 16 Ward III ... 12 <tf $6 12 13 Ward rV ... 1 21 G 15 13 t> Concord .... 11 38 17 ."2 13 1 DuB?se .. l <; ii 2 it .". Calvary .... 2 2 0 0 1 ft Manchester 1 . 1 2 1 2 1 Mayesrnie t; it r. 2 in 1 Oswego* ... :: ? -1 2 s o Fulton . i :;i o ^> 1 11 0 Privateer ... ?"? 1G ? l"> s 4 Providence 2 lo 7, s 9 0 Rafting Creek 7 27 3 IS IS 1 Shiloh . o ii ."2 l is :: Stateburg .. 1(> ." " 4 i> 2 Wedgefield 12 21 fl 2:: 13 0 Total .... 113 102 114 307 204 -'S SIR EDWARD GREY'S SIGHT RESTORED BY AMERICANS (Charleston Xews and Courier) Washington. .Ian. fi.?Recently The.Xewsand Courier published an exceedingly interesting, but incom plete, dispatch from London with reference to' the recovery of eye sight by Sir Edward Grey, the fa tuous British statesman. The dispatch said that all Eng land has been thrilled by the news that Sir Edward is no longer blind, and that he is to marry Lady Glen conner, widow of the late Lord Glenconner. As to the circum stances of the recovery of his sight the dispatch can vouchsafe only this: - ? "It is said that his good fortune is almost of the nature of a mi racle: while, at the same time, it is 1 stated very carefullysthat no de tails of it .will be givne to the pub lic for the moment, but that later] on a most surprising statement may j be made. What will that announce merit he? The mere thought of it and the careful statements 'which I have linked ii with that"/potent] phrase, 'a miracle.' vastly have in trigued the public imagination. All England waits with fervent cu rosity." For the benefit of the readers of The Xews and Courier the mys tery can be solved at one*.. When Sir Edward was in Washington j a few years ago as British ambassa- | dor- he went to a -celebrated eye specialist. Dr. Wilmer. The specialist had a suspicion '? that the blindness which was af flicting the statesman * was due to : his teeth, and recommended that Sir Edward call on Dr. A. F. Har vin. a Washington dentist who came here from Abbeville. 'S. C. and who was born and raised in Clarendon county. The South Car-, oliniah confirmed the suspicion as ; to the source of the trouble and successfully treated the ambassador whose sight was rapidly becoming restored whet) he returned to Eng land. So it was a South Carolina den tist who was the miracle worker in Sir Edward G rev's case?along with the eye specialist who con ceived that it required dental science to remove the cause of the. blindnes \, Whiskey Schooner To Be Released Washington, .ran. U.?Instruct ions covering the disposition of tlie British schooner .Messenger of Peace which was seized with a li quor cargo off the X'orth Carolina coast are expected to be sent today to tile Chited States district at torney ai Raleigh by Attorney Gen erla Daugherty. The department of justice wiil probably instruct the return of the vessel because of for eign registry. Inn at same time will prosecute members of crew as the ' evidence might warrant. ?? ?? Ambassador Harvey in Auto Wreck Cannes. Jan. 0.?George Har vey, American ambassador to Great Britain, narrowly escaped death when the axle of the auto mobilo be was rifling in broke, throwing him out. He was dazed j for an hour and will be confined to bed for several dnvs. Not Serious Hurt. Washington. .Ian. ? Ambassa dor Harvey cabled the stale depart ment thai he was only slightly in jured, but s;iid he had requested Ambassador Rorriek. .-it Paris; to temporarily act as American ob server :ii the Cannes conference. Mad Dog Runs Amuck Alken. Jan. ?. A mad dog point er ran amitrk through the streets of Aiken this morning, biting and ftghting every other he met in ]}i< path. Acting chief <>r police Seth I'.iisP.-. followed the canine mi! fo town and cornering him in the Bethan\ c'tnerery! shot him in death Six other d-ogs bitten by the dog with rabies have been ordered killed iiy it <? authorities, among them "I'artuer." ;< black and tan lionnd. belonging Id Sheriff How ard, and a favorite around Aiken. NEWBERRY PROTESTS INNOCENCE Michigan Senator Dis claims Any Person al Knowledge o f Corrupt Practices? His Brothers and Friends Did It For i Him Washington, Jan. o.?A sweeping ; declaration of his innocence was' made by Senator Newberry. Re publican, of .Michigan, speaking in [ the senate in Iiis own defense . against ouster proceedings brought by Henry Ford, the defeated Dem ocratic candidate, "as Clod is mv I . i ' witness." He said. "] am not to : this day and hour conscious of hav- : ; ing done a single act that was or rIs in any way unlawful, dishon ; orable or corAipt." America May Take Part i Believed That Allied Invita tion is Favorable I Washington, Jan. 7.?Oflicial an i nouncemenl Of the American gov j ernment's attitude toward the In- : ternational economic conference to be held at Genoa early in March j may be extended during the com- ' ing week it was indicated tonight I in high administration circles. The text of the resolution adopt j ed by the allied, supreme council at j. Cannes yesterday calling the in-? I ternational meeting, along with the j invitation issued by the allied pre i miers to the Cn'ited States to par ticipate in the conference, was re , ceived at the state department dur?ng-the day. ? Officials generally were reticent I with respect to the invitation, but [ the view was advanced in ope au thoritative quarter that the posi tion Of the Unfee'd States would be ! known without .delay. The impres sion likewise was 'given that the American government was looking upon'-the invitation with*favor in view of the resolution adopted by ; the supreme council at its Cannes ! meeting* - Three Columbians Die Colombia. Jan*. 8.?Two of Co lumbia's oldest arid most prominent ? j-.citr&frs, both:'VuVldiers ofihe Con-j fefFertfcy; died here this afternoon. [Pr&ron C. Loricfe*,^ aged seventy nine, one of the oldest nierchant's of the city, died at uj < home here.at . 3:05 o'clock after an illness of 'about t<m days. Capt. W. I). Star ling, former superintendent of the ' Confederate Soldiers Home, died in tlie Confederate infirmary at '4:2." o'clock after ?h illness of some ! time. I Mr!' L?rick, although near the four-score mark", was actively en- ! gaged in business as president of j L?rick & Lowrahce. one of the old- j est and leading nnrdware and gro- : eery businesses of the State, until ; his last illness. ('apt. Starling was also a pioneer in the business world in Columbia, having been a leading merchant and planter. He was a life-long j resident <>f Columbia, having been J bom hen- in .May. 1S42. Both ser-! ved throughout the War between the States, and were in some of the most important engagements ' of that conflict. Another death of a prominent Columbia was that of the Rev. D. I A. Sox. pastor of the Lutheran j Church at Brookland, near Colum- ? bia. and a resident of the city. He ; bad served sixty-five years in thej ministry and was one of the lead ers of his denomination. The funeral services Of Mr. Sox and C?-Pt. Starling will be held to- ; morrow. The funeral of Mr. Ho- | rick will be held Monday. Brave Convict Pardoned _. Columbia. Jan. ? Kmanuel j Daniels, the York county convict, who held convicts at hay with a shotgun last Thursday and prevent ed their escape, after one of them > had attacked the guard with an ? axe and knocked him unconscious, J was today granted a full pardon I by Governor Cooper, in recognition of his bravery, and it is stated that the pardon is to be presented to the negro with a formal ceremony, in the presence of the other con victs. Practically.every county of ficial of York county and several ; score citizens signed the petition asking the governor to pardon the negro. Daniels was a trusty on the York county gang. When the j guard was knocked unconscious he took the guard's shotgun and or dered the gang of twelve convicts not to move, or- they would be shot on the spot. Another trusty, Onie Crier, wen I to a farmhouse nearby and called for help. The request for the pardon was sent to the gov ernor by Senator John Karl, of York, and ihe governor ac'ted with out waiting to o?Ynsuli rhep ardon board. Daniels was convicted in April 1021. of forgery and given a year's sentence. 'His- term would have expired soon. San Francisco, .but. Second trial Of Ho;. Arbuckle has been set for W< dnesday. Philadelphia. Jan. !>. George W hart on Pepper, a prominent Philadelphia In\\*tnf, lias bei m poi?f.-d Hinted States senator by Governor Spronlo to succeed the late Senator Boise I Vnrose Th ? appointment stands only until the November election. LEGISLATORS GATHERING IN COLUMBIA Columbia. .Tan. 0'.?Legislators] are arriving in Columbia this after- j noon, for tin- opening at noon Tu? S ctay of the second session of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly of South Carolina. Around hotel! lobbies, in the capitol corridors] and on street corners today the members of the senate and house are gathered this afternoon, and as tiny discuss the forthcoming session tiie one topic above all is that of taxation. Lightening of the tax burden is the chief theme of the legislature this year and will bo its chief aim.; It now a]>pears that some sort of tax reformation is sure, the public] demanding it. and in recent weeks*! the sen'iment of the people having; developed in the direction sought 1 by the state's leaders for several years, thai of reforming*the present j system. Tiie need for additional sources' of revenue, for the taxing of property which, has heretofore gone untaxed, is the aim of the. members of the two branches who are best posted'*on tin- needs /of the state and the tax situation in general. It is likely that a gasp-! line tax and possildy other new; sources of state revenue will be' provided during this term. A few matters of new legisla-I tio'n have been proposed and will; likely be introduced. There will be created, it. is thought likely, the office of state purchasing officer, which will be expected iO effect large savings to the state. It is ru mored that a divorce law will be in troduced. There will be numerous other measures, though the main1 thought will be for tax reduction. There will \j? numerous elections, j including the election of an asso- i ciate justice of the supreme court! and seven circuit judges, together j with many other positions of mi nor importance; including trustees of several educational institutions. The governor will send his an nual message to the solons Wed nesday, possibly within a few min utes after the session starts. The, governor says his message wlil be brief. lie declines to say what it; will deal with, but the chief mag istrate intimates that be will dis-! cuss taxes largely. -? ? ? White Hpu'se Sur renders to Bonus Washington. Jan. 7.?A general agreement for the enactment of a! bonus bill for former service men j early in the present s. ssion of: Congress, it was indicated. had been reached at the Conclusion of | .a White House dinner conference ' tonight between President Hard- '? ing and a number of Senators. | Representatives and members of tiie Cabinet. The plan contemplates it was un derstood, that tin- cost of?the bonus will be defrayed, if possible, from | receipts from the Allied debts to the Pnited States: If these are not sufficient, it was .-aid it was ten tatively suggested! that sales tax might )>o supported by-the admin-1 istration for the purpose. All the agreements readied to night wire provisional, it was em phasized by those who attended, ahNl subject to revision if a fur- j ther canvass of sentiment among! Republicans in the House and Sen'- ; ate make it necessary. Other items? of legislation under discussion in cluded the permanent tariff, and i the refunding bill for the Allied debt. . The conference lasted front '7 p. I m.. until midnight and those pres ent said that every possible detail of the legislative Situation was dis cussed, although it was not the in- , tention to draw up plans or a defi nite program until other confer- r ences have been held. It was in dicated that President Harding would call in other Representa tives and Senators' later to give a | broader scope to the discussions of j tin- bonus bill. it was said it would probably be brought up in] the Senate in the very -.near fu ture as a result of the negotiations , tomghL <? a> - Th ? small attendance .at the tax- , payers' mass meeting. Saturday', might be construed by tiie unin formed as an indication that the j. taxpayers of Sunjter county have;, no complaint tr make against the ' present system of taxation and arc j, satisfied to j?ay as much taxes asj? they are now paying indefinitely, jJ hu; tins would be a misftake. Xo- L body is satisfied and everybody is < anxious to discover new Sources of i' tax revenue and to shift the bur-', den of taxation to the shoulders ? of the ot her fellow". , The bids on the first permanent 4 highway construction contracts b will be opened tomorrow* by tin- < Permanent Highway Commission. ? The bids will Ik- on four mile sec- ] tion of the Mayesyille-'road, about four miles on the Sumter-Camden j road and about three miles on tie Manning road. There are a num ber represent at ives of road con struction companies already in town to submit bids on the road and bridge work. -o ? ? Wayeross. Ca.. Jan. !).?I'nion labor leaders have been summoned to Wilmington. X. C. for confer ence Wednesday with otlicials of the Atlantic Coast Line railway rehit-K*e -to wage reduct ion, it was WANTED?Black Walnut Kernels. If you have any Black Walnuts lake off the | outer shell and bring' us the kernels, \vc buy them. C. I,. Strauss Go., \) Dupan Si.. Suni ter, S. C. Phone 69/;. Now Mexico Had First American Apartment Houses The firT?t summer's work of the National Geographic Society's ? - pedition to study Chaoo Canyon, Xew Mexico, where vast apartment dwellings housed one of the most thickly populated and highly cul tured communities in North Am erica before Columbus came, has just been completed, according to a report made to Hilbert Grosvenor, President of the National Geo graphic by Neil M. Judd, leader of the expedition. While del ails of the summer's findings must await formulation to be presented to members of the National Geographic Society it is stated that the results of the first season's work fuily justify the be lief that the studies in New Mex ico, which will be continued through several summers, will rival such expeditions of The Society as those which revealed to the world that Pompeii of South America, Machu Picchu, find made "known the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Alaska's vast natural cauldron, which has been set aside as a National Monument. A bulletin from The Society ex plaining the significance of the ab original, apartment houses, 'which are veritable treasure ehests of pre ? y^lumbian history, says: "Chaco Canyon is that segment of the chaco Rivcer which is set out near the borderland of San /?an and McKinley counties. New Mexico. Its sheer, but sometimes crumblinr walls of sandstone rise from its floor anywhere from 100 feet to a height nearly equal to the United States capitol dome. From their upper ledges stretch semi-desert wastes, making for an isolation which adds another mys tery to the bygone metropolis of the canyon's maw. Whence came the lumber to build and whence tie water to cultivate the corn, beans and squash of these aboriginal farms? "From an airplane this gash in the desert surface might re semble a magnified sector of the Panama canal. Closer inspection would disclose, however, not ?n expanse of water, but an uawater ed canyon, in or bordering which are a dozen huge ruins that look to the casual observer like remains of giant apartment houses, . con taining hundreds of rooms, with associated temples or sanctuaries, known as kivas. and lesser build ings, the true significance of which is not yet known. "More astounding still, some of these larger structures, such as the Pueblo del, Arroyo (arroyo-wash). one of the- two large ruins upon which The Society's expedition is ro concentrate its investigations, arc built after the familiar' E shaped ground plan of the modern office building, with the addition of a curved wall binding the6 ends of the Fi projections and forming inner courts. The other ruins to be studied. Pueblo Ponito (bon ito-beautiiul), is a D-shaped build ing, with its curved wall 800 feet long. "Aroheologieally this ancient Is land of Manhattan, surrounded by a sea of sand, may accuratelv be described as a hundred miles fYom anywhere: for it is 10a miles from the cliff dwellings of the Mesa Verde, 100 miles south to the ;m eiont town of the Zuni. and 100 miles west to the ancestral site of tiie Jlopis. i "Within an aera less than half' that of the District of Columbia | there are eighteen enormous com munity houses having from 100 to S00 or more rooms. There are also, other structure types, such as the three to twelve-room dwellings,! groups of 'taluV pueblos' under| the wall of the canyon, in the im- j mediate vicinity of the large build-j ings, and tiny cliff houses and sto- < rage cisis under the canyon wall j itself. ? "Then there, are circular struct-j ures. adjacent, to both large and I small dwellings, and a semi-sub-j terranean home built of mud in-1 stead of stone?the last mentioned found by The Geographic's recon naissance party?which point to j possibility of other ruins of great-j er antiquity that will 1?.- invalu able in tracing the development of this aboriginal civilization. The existence of these last mentioned in the chaoo region had QOt; pre-:, viously been suspected. ? If the major groutga were ir.-' habited simultaneously; it is esti mated he canyon population could not have been less than 10,000. This Indian city lay m a- region so unfriendly that even the no madic Xavajo has not attempted to cultivate it. Hence tke question, What has happened there? Did the climate change? Were the sur rounding arid wastes once fields, of cotton, corn, squash, and beajis? Or did these aborigines of h??Pf western New Mexico have an irri gation system akin to that of the lfugaos of the Philippines or *M*e rice terraces of China? "Was the American Indian in dependent of a Nile toward whose delta such an ingenious people as the Egyptians tended: and did he build apartments no less collassal and of more immediate^ervice than the Egyptian race of undertakers constructed for thei rdead? '"One fact is -fairly certain, that this people of a period variously placed between the time of Julius Caesar and "William the Conqueror had a democratic form of govern ment and elected a governor every year." Automobile Association Meeting. Columbia. Jan. 3.?The Spartan burg chamber of commerce has in vited the South Carolina Auto- " motive Trades' Association to hold its next semi-annual meeting ,ic that city. H. Lee Harvey of Char> leston has called a meeting of the executive committee of the associa tion for January 18 to consider the selection of the next place of meet ing and to transact other business of importance. Members of the executive com mitee of the association, besides - President Harvey, are: Otis P. Mills of Greenville, first-'-vice- pres ident; E. A. Jenkins of Columbia, second vice president; Harold ?'. Booker of, Columbia, secretary; J. S. Stevens of Charleston; D. W. Alderman, Jr., of Florence; Frank H. Gibhes and Wade j. Fowler of Columbia; Eugene B. Smith Of Greenville. W. T. Harmon of Sum- " ter and Willett P. Sloan of Ander son. - Legislative matters will also'be discussed by the committee at the meeting, it was said. - - Rub-My-Tism, a pain *:iller.~ Advertisomefct. -? -? - ? -f Colored Man Suffers Double Fire Losses. P. B. Bruner, a colored man"/the owner of the two story residence^ which was destroyed &y fire diuv ing the early morning hours "of January -1st., was hardly ever/the shock of the burning of this house when his family were awakened Tuesday morning and were inform ed that all three of his r.arns^. >and stables on his place in the^oopn try, were in flames. The ftindttfrW^ which had been saved"\?rom ? the - house which had bunted* ha'd.b'eelfc' h aded upon a wagon and the-wag*1'*' on placed under one of the sheds - which was burned completely*' ' down. The entire crop'of cont, peas; cotton seed, dry feeds *anif " : forage were lost in the ^-burning barns. One bale of cotton was-ai'-' so lost and all of his farming trte'n- " 1 sils demolished. Bruner was away from his place at the time, whicJT place- is situated about three miic-s- ? ? from Sumter on the Biuhopvilfcr ?-? read, he haying walked to S?mYcr in the search of a mule and-buggy that one of his hands had car'ried. away and had not returned at the' * proper t into. ? ?>?? < ??' Bruner had no insurance what soever on his barns. Any thoug^ ful rcmemberance of him .b> --bis, ... friends at this time will be* tippre^ ?* ciated. ? - To break a cold take 6CC-?Ad vertisement. * -' - -c ? + ... ^5 Cannes, Jan. C?The allied su- ?? preme council has approved unaur I imously the calling of an interna- \ tional economic conference to be i participated in both by Germany \ and Russia. -? ? ? OCC cures Chills and Fevei.?: I Advertisement. ? f 1 r ' r 1 t The National Bank of South Carolina : OF SUMTER, S. C. > ? -? > The Motft Palastatinj SEK VICE with COURTESY . 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