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. ^ h? The Watchman and Southron ?? Published Wednesday and Satur ->.... day by Ostcen Publishing; Company, i; ;?-Sumter, S. C. Terms: $2.00? per annum?in advance. Advertisements: One Square, first insertion ..$1.00 .,-..B?ery .soihsequent insertion .. ^ .50 * .u Contracts for three months or longer >will bs made at reduced rates. ? Ali : communications which sub ? serve ? *^private interests will oe * charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect Mvili' b> charged far. T?e>n5Sn??ter Watchman * was v founded in 1850 and the True Southrw..4n 1866. The Watchman and S.oathron now has the com toned.circulation and influence .of . heih of, tb^k-old papers, and is mah ifssfeAhe'/best advertising medium in Sug?ex., ?- ' WH?T^DOES THIS MEAN? InT the ; minutes of the annual meeting; of, the County Board of Commissioners the following para graph' occurs: - 77 'board further recomf ^ " r' mended to the delegation that legislation be passed looking fco the. providing of means for building : approaches to the Watcree !River bridge which would probably he completed daring *he year." ..." * v.'typrr Thisn recommendation of the - bounty ' 'Board indicates that it is the purpose of the Board to assume the .entire cost of building the i; bridges and causeway in the Wa teree rive:? swamp on the Sumter coun^.side.of the river at the Gar ? ner'??f??srTy crossing. If it is not * the purpose of the board to do this, then the 'recommendation shotild h^yechee^riwordeo so as to qualify and modify, the commitment of Strmter' ' county to a certain defi i^t^'e^peipditure, or a certain spe cific ^portion of the approaches. . Wfcetf'ine agitation for the .. ... ? ?? . building of a bridge at Garner's -'^r^vtTAft. being carried on with great-enthusiasm and zeal by those InteTestecVm the undertaking, there was decided and outspoken oppo sstionr-from a great many citizens a3pd tabepayers to saddling Sumter ' eoui^^wjtth the tremendous ^cost .^jojf, building- and maintaining the .. several; bridges and the four miles ~o^ sw?nspJcauseway on the Sumter '. county' side of the Garner's*Ferry crossings r0 it will be remembered that the outcome of this agitation for the Garner's Ferry bridge and the opposition to it, was that it was - decided.(that- the: bridge should be huilt with federal aid, Rich land couiify *'#nd Sumter county each appropriating $37,500 toward the . cost of the bridge, while the ap rw? proach^s pn the Sumter county side <wouid:-$evpaid for with funds to be raised ^hy private subscription, certaux, wefl known citizens of this -;. cky' ajMbjCnunty pubi^iy and re i pSeatedl^ - pledging themselves to raise all the money required for . the.constitution 0f the approaches ?bridges and causeway?on the ? Sumter si?e of the river. It was r^p?LteQ-?inyet and again that no tax would-be- Je viel for the Garner's "Ferry crossing, other than the ^7,500' appropriated for the river, bridge,.,and tnat no public funds . wonlet-be" diverted from other road funds' to build the four miles Of sWj?mp, road..- This road, it was -loudly proclaimed, would be a mon ument' to the spubiic spirit and ?b erall^ of ^certain citizens, who were not .only. w:illing, but eager, to give of their-private monies all that ' -would- be '"necessary to construct the approaches?to wit, four miles of causeway and a number of bridges^to: the Wateree river bridge at.Garner's Ferry. This jf??s. the talk at the one or - ? zoo;e {-xnaas meetings held to dis cuss the5"Garner's Ferry proposition, and' the^Wentieal statements a*nd trfedges were ? made whenever the matter was discussed publicly or ^privately while the bridge propo sition* was in a state of incubation. Of l?fe nothing has been heard of the fund,that was to be raised to pay for the approaches, and so far as is known not a dollar has ever -been pledged in a legal and binding manner, nor has a dollar been put up by anyone who promised to raise all the money needed, esti ? mated to be not less than $25.000. and jwobably a great deal more, if the approaches are constructed in a substantial' manner. As .a. matter of information we would hke- to know what has be come of the understanding that the funds for the approaches would be provided by private subscription. If this information is furnished by the County Board of Commission ers, or any.member thereof, we will pass* it on to many inquiring tax -payers. ? ? ?--B?- ?> l> o> ^> THE RUSSIAN' PAYROLL. Socialists, in this country as everywhere else, have always ex alted the interest of many and pro tested volubly against the prosper / fty of the few. The Soviet govern ment in Russia seems to have lived up to its professions. Latest re ports indicate that the civil pay roll of the Russian government has no less than 7,000,000 names upon it. The Soviet army, by far the largest maintained by any nation, numbers 5,000,0v0 men according to official admission. Navy statis tics are not available, but would boost the total materially, since there are still considerable fleets in both the Baltic and Black Seas. Of the civil employees, 2,970,000 are in industries which have not yet relapsed Into private hands. The ! transport workers number 1,500,000 I and the timber and farm workers 400,000. * No less than 2,100,000 are em . ployed in government offices and institutions, and this surprising to tal may help to explain Russian's plight. Of people whom the Soviet government controls, one in 10 is on some official payroll f and we may suspect that in Russia, as in other land6, the servants of the the public are seldom overworked. It in interesting to note, in this connection, that Yourey Larin, chairman of the committee which \ is to reduce the ^ governmental overhead, announces the most sweeping cuts will be made'in the department of*education. ? ? + . I -GOTHIC FARM BTOLMXGS. An Iowa'engineer, addressing the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, pleads for Gothic ar chitecture on the farm. h4 wants to .give the sun a chance to "drift into the hogs' and other animals in side the buildings." No doubt the Gothic type of ar chitecture is somewhat better adapted to that purpose than the characteristic American barnyard I type. A clearstory added to stables, pigpens and hencoops would let in light and air to an extent which could hardly help /improving the well-being of horses, cows, chicken^ and pigs. Specialists say ths farm animals need light and ventilation as much as human beings do, but they very seldom get it. This is particularly true of the pigs and chickens. "Who can estimate the gain in horsepower, butterfats, egg records and selling weight of these serviceable creatures, if they were only provided with a proper Gothic environment? There might be a moral uplift too, along with this physical gain. -Gothic architecture suggests re liglon, which laAardly applicable to J the farmyard denizens; but it would , promote -cleanliness/ which is next to God?ness. COMING SHOE STYLES. . A slow battle appears to be on between the fashionable and the orthopedic shoe. At present the latter is distinctly gaining ground. Boot and shoe authorities say that common sense as to footwear has been growing in the public mind at 3. steadily increasing rate. Somehow the notion has become current that feet were made to walk with rather than on; that the foot cannot function properly if it is restricted or restrained by ill fitting shoes; that shoes correctly constructed are not merely cover mgs for the foot but aids to it in Its busin/ess of walking;'and that there must be some relation be tween the shape and flexibility of the foot and the shape and flexi bility of the shoe. ? Common sense will have to de velop a good deal further before the knockout blow is dealt the shoe of fashion, built merely to please perverted taste. Yet, as it ! becomes knfwn that there are shoes which can be worn w; hout j causing aching feet, bunions, cal j louses, corns, ingrowing nails or ? arch trebles, those shoes are like ly to become fashionable them j selves. Then the victory- will be 1 assured. HOLDING THE FORT. i 1 Says the Spartanburg Herald: j "If the State of ?outh Carolina is j going to be saved from slipping j back it will be through the rep- j ! resentatives of the counties of the ; I Piedmont in the approaching ses I sion of the Legislature. The low !er part of the State is suffering l from boll weevil shellshock. It ? will recover, of course, in time, but i while they are walking around. I asking What's the use? the repre isentatives of the up-country will ? have to hold the fort." Luck to them! There will bej jthe profoundest satisfaction on the' j part of the people of the lower part of the State if they succeed, i We do not wonder at their confi-j dence, as Illustrated in the re- J marks of Tha Herald, for many of the Piedmon' counties are probably in better shape than they have !ever been before. Spartanburg county, for instance, which ginned 58,771 bales of cotton in 1017 and t 54,908 in 1910. is credited with Halving ginned GS.7SI' bales from ; the crop of 1921; which crop was, probably made more cheaply than j any other since 1915. "With an income of over $0,000,- j 000 from its 1921 cotton crop and1 *-ith its cotton mills humming on j full time and paying out liberal | dividends Spartanburg's cockiness is not surprising. Our salutations to The Herald! We are delighted that Spartanburg and the other Piedmont counties are in such j splendid shape and we hope, let us say again, that they are going to do as The Herald proposes and "hold the fort" for progress in j South Carolina at the present ses- j sion of the legislature. If they do j the universal feeling in the boll | weevil counties will be that it is a fine thing to have friends and kin folks so competent to foot the bills."?Charleston News and Cour ier. If the Spartanburg Herald would m?ke a casual inspection of the re port on the distribution of the State school extension fu.id it j would find one more reason why j Spartanburg and other favored j Piedmont counties can continue to j hold the fort and remain cheer- ! ful. Spartanburg and several oth er up-country counties have re ceived for schools annually, for j several years, many more thou sands dollars than they paid for this cause. Sumter, Lee* and other counties- of the section said to be suffering from boll weevil shell- j shock, have been paying many j thousands dollars a year to help j the Piedmont to be cheerful. Sum ter county, for instance has paid j about $48,000 a year for school j extension purposes and the greatest j amount received has been $12,000. j It is rather difficult to hold the j fort and remain cheerful when j the burden of taxation is so un- j equally divided. . Railway Rates Being Reduced j Washington. 'Jan. 11.?Railroad j rates are being slowly but steadily \ forced downward by economic i Jaws which govern their levels, j Daniel Willard, president of the | Baltimore & Ohio railroad, argued j today before "the interstate com-' merce commission when that body^ resumed its inquiry into the general j level of transportation charges. There is no need but considerable danger, he added, in forcibly de creasing them by government edict i at the present time. ; Mr. Willard appeared as the first'; 1 of several railroad presidents who j ?will sum up the case of the com- j mon carriers in defense of the ex- j Isting rate levels. He was preceded j by several statisticians who present- j ed masses of figures all tending to prove insufficient earnings from j railroad operations during recent j months, and meager prospects for appreciable improvement even if | present rates are maintained, j "What then, maj the public ex-! pect?" Mr. Willard said in review ing? the statistical case. "Must it continue to pay existing rates and I fares? Is no relief to be expected? j "To assume that such is the case i would be in error. In the past American railroads have afforded j the cheapest transportation service in thfe world. They will do so! again. -They are in fact doing so at this minute. High as railroad charges are, they are* not higher relatively than other prices are or were, and it is important to re member that railroad charges or prices were the very last to go up and in the nature of things can not be the first to go down. They can and will participate in the downward movement of all prices. VIn my opinion to accelerate the downward movement artificially at J this time would injure the roads i and not benefit the public. Rail- j road rates are now and always have j been subject to economic laws | against which they can not prevail, and the mere operation of such j laws and influences will tend con- j stantly to bring about lower rates I just as has been the case not only during the past year but during all years of railroad operation." Lower costs of operation, which must be attained before rates can be cut, Mr. Willard contended, largely depends upon lower labor! costs, or upon investments of large ! amounts of capital for betterments j and upon time for the consumption Of high priced materials still in j railroad inventories and their re- j plenishment with cheaper products. I "The statements and statistics P?t in evidence would seem to af- | ford no basis for immediate and further reduction of railroad rates." \ he said in summing up. "because it must certainly be clear that! railroads can not continue ade- ! quately to serve the public if they j are required to operate under con ditions which yield no higher rate j of return on the value of prop- ! erty devoted to public use than ; that shown by the estimates, and that only by virtue of the most I drastic economies and deferred I maintenance." "When the hearing opened to day, the United States chamber ofj commerce asked the commission to j call Secretary of Commerce Hoov er, as general representative of commercial interests in the rate] hearing and the commission so or dered. Mr. Hoover will appear la ter. Census says half the women mar ry before they reach 2T.. Pur it isj because it takes them so long to reach 25. t Negro Rapist Sen tenced to Death Alken., Jan. 11.?With the court' house cleared of all others save | tlio.se necessary to try the case.: Curtis Franklin, alleged rapist, was; Siven trial today. At 11 o'clock; this morning it became rumored ; that he would be tried early in the afternoon, and a large crowd of | men from the section in which the ! alleged crime was committed, gath ered around and in the court house. ; At noon Judge James W. De- J vore ordered the court room clear- i cd of all persons except the offi cials and . witnesses Franklin, j who is a heavily built negro, was; placed in the dock carefully guard ed by the sheriff - and several of his deputies. All doors leading: to j the court room were gtwded and \ not even the .foreman of the grand ; jury was permitted to enter during the hearing of the trial. *. The victim, a frail, sweet-faced wife and mother, .appeared in court with her nursing baby in her arms. In. a low voice she re counted the night of horror when the man attacked her in her home. But few questions were asked, her j story being strong enough to con-j vict the prisoner. Dr. Bodie, of Wagener, and several other , citi-i zens from that place gave testi- ' mony, and then Franklin was plac ed on the stand in his own de- j fense. Franklin appeared yery nervous j and declared he had purchased a j quart of moonshine liquor in the j section where the crime was com mitted and that he was drunk on | the day of the crime, but stood steadfast in denying the crime. At torrieys Thomas Morgan and El more S. Henderson, appointed by the court to defend the prisoner, j made no argument, and only a few wordsvwere said by Solicitor i Gunter for the prosecution. J. S. j Williams, of Eureka, was foreman of the jury, and the jury had re tired only about twenty minutes j to deliberate when they reentered i the court room with a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was taken ?to jail until 3 o'clock this afternoon when he was brought before Judge Devore and sentenced to be elec troduced on Friday, February 3. The judge spoke only a few words j in sentencing Franklin, saying 1 "I cannot for ray life see or under- | stand why people of your race can \ be guilty of such fearful crimes, knowing that death is the penalty." There was absolute order in the court house, and the extra depu ties found no work to do in quelling any disturbance* Franklin must be kept in Aiken until ten days be fore his electrocution according to the law. : ? ? a News Items From Wedgef ield Wedgefield, Jan. 10.?The press reports on: lawmakers as gathering in Columbia again. During the few years of wrongly interpreted by many "prosperity." the com mutation road tax was raised from $1.00 to ?4.06, and it is a bur den now on a larger percent of the people of the county, and I feel like I voice the sentiment of many when I say some step should be taken to make this burden lighter. Among the recruits on the chain gang recently were a few white men. When they violate the law they should receive the same pun ishment. It is a pity some of the bootleggers could not wear stripes, j I understand two of these gents are being^punished not for selling liquor, which it seems would have been all o. k.. but for getting a, better price for water than the city realizes for bnic. i Our farmers did mare fall plow ing than ever done "-around here be- j fore, and it is hoped it will help to j destroy the weevils. Coon hunting is the most profi table occupation around these parts. I There are a number of good coon | dogs around here and the hides aro j bringing good prices. The Jordon folks presented their j play. "A Poor Married Man" in the ! school auditorium here on last Fri- j day night to a fairly good and ap preciative audience. The following .students have re- j turned to the various colleges after | a pleasant Xmas at home: Mans-j tield and Dick Ryan to Clcmson. i May Celeste Parier and Myra Ram- ! sey to Winthrop, Lucy Coulter and ! Lillie Brice to G. W. College.! Messrs. Marshall Brice and Wade I Ramsey, who are teaching in Vir- j ginia and Alabama, also enjoyed aj short visit to the old home town, Mr. A. J. Geddings, who has been farming the Thomas place for the j past four years, has moved to I Xewbrookland. Columbia, where he will operate a market. Mr. Lee H. Thomas will be num bercd among our new farmers for the year. Mr. Geo. T. Geddings, who ; bought the Metz place from Mr. S. j Weinberg has remodeled it and has moved in. j Mumps is the prevailing malady [ around here, and it is no respecter I of persons or age. the youns: and i old alike are mufflejawcd. ? ? ? Meeting of Mothers' Club. The Mothers' Club was delight fully entertained on Friday after noon. January <Uh. by its president. Mrs. John Wilson, at her home on Harvin Street. > At thi* clone of the business meeting, those present were en- . fertained by two vocal numbers.' "*If I Kn*?w." and "Water of the Minnetouka." by Mrs. James Shaw, accompanied by Mrs. Alvin Burns. Mrs. Jack Rowland read two numbers. "When Pa Shaved Off His Whiskers." and "Good Morning." Mrs. Shaw then played several selections after which a delicious luncheon was served by the hos-I t ess. Even a man with blue blood <an have a red nose, remarks the Jack sonville Times-Union. n<> must ; ?tls??. however, in addition t" his blue blood, have some green backs. ?Charleston News and Courier. 1 Wood Fragment Death Weapon Portion of Stump Kills Eleven-Year-Old School Girl - Greenville, Jan. 9.?Mamie Crenshaw, eleven-year-old school girl at the City View School near Monaghaif Mill, was killed this morning when she was struck by a fragment of a stump that had been hurled 150 feet" through the air by a dynamite blast. The accident oc curred just as the pupils were as sembling to re-enter the school room after a recess period. The stump was blown up out of a road nearby by a party of road workers rebuilding the highway. Still Taken Intoxicated Cow Leads to Capture of Still Sunday two cows were lost by Victor Baula who urns a farm some five miles from Sumter not far from the Rocky Bluff swamp. Boys were sent out in search for the missing cows and finally after a time one of the cows \vas located lying on the ground deep in the swamp and near the cow were found barrels of mash. The-cow could not be awakened from her slumbers nor did she make any great amount of effort to arise and return to her home and to her less intoxicating provender. The use of a wagon was necessitated to act as an ambulance to convey the cow to her previous abiding place. It is stated that she finally came round all right. Following the lead taken by Mrs. Cow a visit was.paid by the officers j to the aforementioned spot and the officers were rewarded by the find ing of a 50 gallon still, complete, made from a big steel gasolene drum and two barrels of mash ready for the run. The still when found was partly filled with the mash. The location of the still was on the place of a negro named Joe Brown and the officers forming the raiding party of Tuesday af ternoon were Sheriff C. M. Hurst, j Deputy Sheriff H. G. McKagen, and I Rural Officers Sam Newman, Alex j Xorris, Hamilton Boykin, and Ed. [ Newman. Farming Program - j Schedule of Crops Recofh j mended For Boll Weevi} Conditions i After careful consideration, ! the following schedule of crops IS for an average one-horse crop j j has been agreed upon, and is recommended for use under h boll weevil conditions. It is I intended, of course, that each J individual farmer shall make ! such minor changes as the j needs of his farm require. The j number of acres of the given crops and the number of cows, sows and poultry, should be ? j multiplied by the number of j acres in your farm. The acreage and estimated average return, and the num ber of livestock per one horse ' farm is as follows: I C to G acres of cotton, i estimated value (5 acres.$250.00 i G acres of corn, with velvet beans, at $35210.00 5 to 6 acres of oats and : wheat. (1 acre wheat) followed by peavine hay, at $30.00_ISO.00 1 acre sweet potatoes.. 100.00 I 1 acre Irish potatoes, ' 'ollowed by peanuts 100.00 1 acre snap beans, fol- / - lowed by peanuts .. 120.00 1 acre in sorghum, su gar cane and similar crops _. 50.00 2 acres in tobacco, or some substitute money crop . 200.00 And live stock as fol lows: 1 cow, increased to two as soon as feed is available, estimated value of milk and cream, one cow_150.00 1 sow and pigs_100.00 Flock of poultry, 20 to 25 . 40.00 Estimated total yield per one horse farm, under this plan _$1,500.00 ? ? ? Meeting of Afternoon Music Club. The regular monthly. meeting of the Woman's Afternoon Music Club was held in the auditorium of the Girls' High sehol building Monday afternoon. January the ninth at four o'clock. Mrs. Dillard leader. Af ter ;i short business session, the fol lowing program was rendered: Paper?Lives of Puccini. Leon cavallo. Wolf?Ferrari?Mrs Guth rie. Vocal Solo-?The Swallows ? Bingham?Miss P. Haynsworth. Piano Solo?Love Song?Horv'in ?Miss Blanding. Reading?Stories of the Operas, Madame Butterfly, Pagliacci, Jewels of the Madonna-?Miss Brunson. Vocal Quartet?Summer Breezes -'?L Denza ? Bendemeer's Stream? Josephin?' Sherwood ? Mesdames John Lee, J. A. McKnight, Leslie and Miss Irma Smith; Mrs. Hearon. accompanist. The club then adjourned to meet The second Monday in February. Mrs. Mitchell Levi. (!orresponding Secretary. ? ? ?? Kingsport, Tenn., Jan. 11.?Dam age estimated at two hundred thousand dollars resulted from a fire which partially destroyed a lo cal store. Domestic life and affection is*, highly developed among ducks. IJ Tobacco Meetings i Farmers Meet to Choose Di ; rectors?Three For South Carolina i * Florence. Jan. 10.? A meeting of ; the organization committee of the j Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Asso ciation was held in Raleigh, X. C. January 5, to tabulate the signed contracts from the three states. I Each state, including Virginia, j Xorth Carolina and South Caro ? lina will be entitled to three direc j tors, one of Which will be ap i pointed by Governor Cooper. This state was divided info two districts by counties, as follows: District Xo. 1, Florence. Dillon. Georgetown, Marlboro, Marfon and Horry. "District Xo. 2. Darlington, Lee. Sumter. Clarendon. Williamsburg. ICerkelcy. Dorchester. Bamberg, Edgefield. Orangeburg, Saluda, Lexington, and Aiken. From the above counties nearly five thou sand signed contracts have been sent in and tabulated, while every mail brings in new contracts. On January 30, each county will hold a meeting of the signers at 1 its court house, at 10 o'clock a. m.. for the purpose of electing dele gates. These delegates will be elect - j ed on a basis of one for each mil ! lion pounds or majority fraction j thereof under contract. Every j member or signer is supposed to i attend his courity meeting on Jan \ uary 30. On February 2, the dele i gates elected will convene in their district meeting point to choose ; a director for that district. The i delegates for the first district will ' meet in Florence, and the delegates j for the second district will meet in j Sumter. j At the meeting in Raleigh, the following action was taken: "Owing ; to pressure brought on the com ! mittee from growers in the three ! states who had not yet*had an op i portunity to sign, the committee J decided to conitnue the campaign for* signers on the same basis until : February 2. 1022, when the board ! of directors will assume control." j Thost signing prior to or at the ; meetings on January 30 can par I ticipate in the election of dele j gates. An active campaign drive ! will be made fronT~*how until Fcb j ruary 2. jn this state for a 75 per j cent sign up. Any persons needing contracts ! for themselves or for tfteir neigh I bor can obtain them by dropping a postal to T. B. Young, Florence. ! South Carolina Campaign Com j mittee. I Rast On Trial in Orangeburg Orangeburg, Jan. 10.?The grand jury has returned three true bills at this term of court against Claude J. Rast, former superintendent of j education of Orangeburg county, .' two charging him with obtaining : money under false pretense and ; one with malfeasance in office. ! It is stated that an indictment for j forgery will also be handed to the i grand jury this term. Last Sep | tember the"- grand jury returned a ! true bill against hin: for attempted criminal assault upoi a girl stu dent hile he was principal of East I Middle school. 1 { C. J. Rast will be called for trial I tomorrow on one of the cases for obtaining money under false pre tense. It will be recalled that last July C. J. Rast entered upon his i duties as superintendent of educa tion for Orangeburg county and I that on Julv^ 12. at about 7 o'clock, j he was called from his residence : to the store of A. W. Stroman, ! where he was severely and pain I fully beaten over the ncad and ? about the body by three men, and that, the following day he left Orangeburg county, writing back to a member of the county board of education that he had left Or angeburg county because he feared j further.trouble from a rumor of his having attempted to assault a former girl student of his and that in order to save himself probably further bodily harm or his having j to inflict serious bodily harm upon j others he had left and handed in his resignation as county superin tendent of education and stated that he would return to Orange burg county for this trial. During the time Mr. Rast left Orangeburg and his return to give bond for his appearance for trial charges were brought against him by a few citizens of his misconduct in office some time before when he was'a township commissioner. Rast declares his innocence of the attempted criminal assault charge and the charges that he obtained money from the county under false pretense, malfeasance in office and of forging a name to a county claim. has taught school in Orange I burg county for over 30 years and Iis a man of family, with prominent : connections. The prosecution of I these cases is being conducted by : Solicitor A. J. Hydriek. while Rast j is represented by William C. Wolfe. ; Robert Lide, Ed. C. Mann. J. Le ; roy Dukes and Sims & Sims. Marriage License Record. Marriages have been issued to the following colored couples: Richard Brown and Anna Drown of Sumter. Henry Jones. Oswego and Ada Capers, Sumter. Eddie Kennedy and Rebecca Spann. Sumter. Frank (Iregj; and Rosa Taylor, Mayesville. David Wright and Aglee Tub hard of Shi lob. Eugene McDuffio and Annis Ben nett of Oswego. Century Prince. < >sw ?\iro and Re becca White. Bishopville. Sain Carolina and X?omie Wil son of Mayesville. J;i mos Peterson and Man ha White of Mayesville. Sidney Mack of Wedgefield and Sally Conyers of Cane Savannah. Douglas Davis and Emma Jones of < i.swego. Seeking Secret of North Pole - ! C*a;ota:n Amunsden Preparing to Start on a Four Year Trip in Polar Regions j New York, Jan. U.?Within four years Capf. Ronald Amundsen, Arc tic adventurer and discoverer of the South Pole, expects to return to civilization from the North Pole in possession, of the knowledge and i power that will enable scientists to predict weather, conditions for a year or more in advance. Captain Amundsen, who arrived j ! here tonight from Seattle, is en . ! route to Washington, where he j will discuss with directors of thei I Carnegie institute details of his re i newed attempt to drift across the top of the world in his ice-bound craft. / With him he will take instru ments for a super-scientific study of the upper air reaches of polar i regions. He says he will attempt to work out the theory of Prof. Vilhelm Bjerknes of the University of Christiania. Norway, that the weather conditions at the North i Pole govern the weather of the re- ; ! mainder of the earth's surface and I that an intimate knowledge of the ! farthest north weather will enable I scientists to determine for a year ! , or more in advance a more or less j exact chart of weather conditions j . in the remainder of the world. If j this is accomplished he said, it will j prove an inestimable boon to the i world's crop growers. Captain Amundsen will make all Iiis scientific reports to the Car negie/ institute. His vessel, the Maude is now being provisioned in ' Seattle for a seven year voyage al- ! though the Norse explorer believes he will complete his unique expedi- ! <ion in less than four years. There j will be nine men in his party, in j eluding Capt. Oscar Wisping, who I was one of his crew on the trip to i the South Pole. The Maude will sail next June. The explorer brought to New Fork two adopted daughters, mem- j Ibers of the Tsjuksji tribe of Siberia. ! j They arc- the first of their people; to visit the United States. Cakonita. j five years old is a full blooded I T.sjuktsji but the other. Camila ! ICarpendale, 11, is the daughter of) '! a Russian fur trader. ! Captain Amunsden said he j 1 j adopted the two when he found; j them starving with their tribe near ? j Wrangel island. They will leave in ; j a few days for Christiania, where j their foster father has arranged j for their education. o ? ? In a Spartanburg Township. i ? 'j Attention of the Geiferal Assem- | ! bly is directed to conditions in a \ I community of Spartanburg coun- j i ? ty, brought before the Spartanburg j ; legislative delegation, because they I ? may have a, significance not con- ? j fined to a single community in the ! . I state. ? ' I We quote from the Spartanburg j ! Journal: "Alleging that the liquor traffic j j in Campobello township is a great- j ! cr menace today that it was direct- ' j ly after the civil war, Enoch Law j rence, a citizen of that commuity ; j appeared before the Spartanburg i J delegation to the general assembly ] I today and requested that body to ! j take prompt action looking toward ' ameliorating the conditions he do-! iclared exist at the present time. "Mr. Lawrence charged that in- : I efficient work by the rural police j in that section has been and is the I ! source of much unfavorable com- j j ment among citizens of that com- j |munity. He declared that houses : have been burned near Campobello I I by dealers in illicit whiskey who '? have been infuriated by efforts to I have their traffic abolished. Rural j policemen have been subsidized, j Mr. Lawrence told the delegation. : In one instance, he declared/ in a j hearing before a magistrate several residents of that community testi- i fied tha tthey considered the repu tation'of the arresting officer bad. { : resulting in/the imposition of an j I insignificant fine upon the de- ! ; fendant. j "Mr. Lawrence asked the dele j gation to take prompt steps to | j bring about a radical change in the ! ' manner of enforcing the prohibi- ! ; tion laws in Campobello township. 'This allegation aroused much j interest among the members of the i delegation*, and F. ("entry Harris. f acting as secretary of the delega ;tion. consulted several citizens from near Campobello in an effort to , procure names of men who are fa ! miliar. Mr. Lawrence said, with the [ conditions he claimed exist in that township." i The State hears rumors of con ditions in other rural and village communities more or less similar lto those said to prevail) in Campo- : ' hello. Beyond question, the en- | forcement of prohibition is by no : : means a matter in which cities and : large towns are solely interested. I Whiskey making and whiskey sell ; ing is ten fold or fifty fold more common in many rural neighbor hoods now than it was ten years or ; 30 years ago. When the saloons were open they were afflictions of [towns and cities, they corrupted! municipal politics, often they were "crime centers." but the country districts were free of them. Now the time has come when the ! liquor question is at least a mat ter of concern as serious in the country as in the town.?The State. ' The sheriffs office announced j today thai they would begin at once to levy on property to statis fy tax executions for unpaid state, county and city taxes for the year li'i'o. These executions have been in the hands of Sheriff Hurst for several months and lie has exer cised all the leniency possible so that the delinquent taxpayers might, if possible, pay their taxes and save additional costs. He has no further discretion in the mat te!' and is required by law to forthwith levy on the property. -? ?? ?-. Taxation: The act of robbing rone man because it is too diffi cult to catch another who dodges.. Two Contracts For Sweet Potatoes American Fruit Growers, Inc., to Market Crop?Shipment ? to Liverpool Florence, Jan. 9.?As president of the South Carolina Potato As sociation, T. Benton Young tonight made two announcements which mean much to the commercializing of this crop. His announcements were the signing of contracts with the American Fruit Growers, Inc., of Philadelphia, for marketing the crop this season and shipment of lots to Liverpool, England, for in troductory distribution. .January 15 the American Fruit Growers will open an office in Flor ence and place a representative here to handle the movement oS the crop. This office will be able also io handle any and all other produce of the farmers where ten dered in car lots. This connection will afford a direct outlet for South Carolina sweet potatoes in 200 con suming centers of the Uniteed States where the American people keep personal representatives. ' Charles J. Brand, president of. company, made the trip here per sonally to sign the contract. He signed for his company, while Mr. Young signed for the association, acting under authority delegated himaby the directors in a meeting' in Columbia. The .'cenpany is a $10,000,000 corporation and reputed to be tone of the largest selling organizations of its kyid in the world. Through this sales connection the South Carolina Sweet Potato Asso ciation expects to place readily all thciproducts of its members. A par tial list of member houses include Dillon. Florence. Kingstree, Tim monsville. Walterboro with four houses, Fairfax. Williston, B^am berg/?bAiken, Johnston, Trenton, Xewberry, Bishopville, Appleton, Cowards. Leesville, Gabh*. Marion, Garnet.. Manning. Silver, Bloom ville, Georgetown with two houses. Wateree, Lanes, Varnville and others.. Consequently interest in the con tract is state-wide. The over whelming bulk of cured sweet po tatoes.of South Carolina are mar keted, through' the association. This will amount "to 200 carloads this year. All of this will move ? under copyrighted brand of the as sociation with its guarantee backed by. the state, which makes special inspection at the shipping point. Shipments are pooled montifly- by grade and all shippers within the same ir oath receive the same price for: thoir stock. In reference to the English ship ment,:the association, the Southern Railway and the Carolina Company, of Charleston, will ship Saturday via the steamship Wewiwa 500 car tons of association cured and guar anteed sweet potatoes to Liverpool. Through the biggest stores of that city these potatoes will be dis tributed free to most influential customers for introduction to-Eng lish tables. Recipe books will ac company these cartons so English men will know how to prepare them according to time tested ways" of the South. A feature of the shipment will be a special consignment for King George and his queen. This prob ably will be tendered through the American ambassador, Col. George Harvey. The Carolina Company is pre pared ro follow up this introduc tory feature by personal represent tatives. This is the first effort of South Carolina to break into Europe with sweet potatoes. -o?o?? Convicted on Charges. J. W. Caddin wa3 Wednesday tried in the city court on the two charges of carrying .concealed weapons and for disorderly con duct. He was convicted by the jury on both charges and ? cenc ed by Judge Harby to the payment of a fine of $50 or the serving of SO days for each of the charges. The sentence of the concealed weapon case bore the proviso that with the forfeiture of the pistol to the city and the payment of $25, the remaining $25 of this fine would be "suspended. This condition was accepted and the .32 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver surrendered and the $75 cash collected. Cad din was arrested on the 5th day of January but the trial of his case was continued until this morning. Th<- City Council has rendered Its dec^ision in the gas rate contro versy, fixing the rate the company is permitted to charge at $1.50 per thousand cubic feet. It is to be hoped that the dispute over t^e gas rate will be ended by this ruling of council, but judging by "the comments on the report of Auditor J. L. Respass by Preside X Pollitt of the Gas Company, the rate fixed by a majority vote of City Council will not be occepted by the gas company as a fair and reasonable return on the invest ment. The matter may have been settled by the ruling of City Coun cil, but there remains the possi bility of further controversy and le gal complications. The audit by Mr. Respass was not in vain, how ever, for it affords a definite basis for. argument respecting the cap ital investment and the operating cost of the Sumter Gas Company, the two items that must be taken into consideraiton in fixing a fair and reasonable rate. The folks of the lady who is to marry the former Kaiser are ob jecting seriosuly. Knowing Bill as we do we cannot blame them.? Janesviile <Wis.) Gazette. ??? ? ? Some people feel so superior in the possession of high standard* that they don't think it necessav to bother r.uch about conduct. -? ? ? It isn't always politeness that makes a man let a woman get on a street car first.