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Watchman and Sovthron *I at the Postoffice at Sum . C, as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL* and Mrs, M. S. Boykin have ed from Columbia, where ;ttended the wedding: of Mr.; )tt, a brother of Mrs. Boykin. j srs. Rowland McCoUum, P. rcptt and FL Compton left ?' morning of Forreston, S. C, unting trip. Mary Knight leaves tonight ^angeburg wbere she will be ; sitor of Miss Susie Bultman veral days. ? ^4 ?rs. Willie Bultman, J.' P.;: -dson, Francis Bultman, Jack . and Scott Carson returned ater Thursday from a trip to ?town by motor after having d a very successful duck It is stated that the party : xtmerous difficulties to over- j in the way of rough and ice- 1 roads on their return trip * ater, twenty-four hours time ; .required to make the trip.; ttor D. D. Moise left Friday j ig for Columbia after spend- ! lursday night in Sumter. C. E. ' Dukes and little ;er Frances, returned- home ? lay night, after visiting rel in BennettsviHe. C. W. McGrew, Jr.. has gon> hunting trip down on the 1 r river as the guest of his Mr. H. O. S. Jackson, of \ , ; ce. :es Irene and Helen Plowden irendon county, are spend ; e week-end with Misses Jane ?genia Miller; R.E. Wilder returned Fri Om the Olanta section where ?nt a short while on county ? KS. ? j ' \ J. E* Wamsley of* Winthrop e spent the- day in the city. R. L. Jackson of Mcmck*s; _ \ spent Saturday and Sun-' the city. J. H. Elliott, formerly of ; ilmetto Fire Insurance Co., ! me to Jackson, Miss., where; 3 accepted a position in iii- : e work. ?edwick Beekman passed [ a Sumter Monday morning; Dn his way to Columbia" from ?ville. Addle Weinberg of Man- i assed through the city Mon- I orning while en route for j hburg where she wiU be a for several days. Rosa Strauss left Sunday! .tesburg to } visit her daugh- | * ?rom there she will go to j , Miss., to visit her son, Mr. : >rris. Pauline Wilson left this tg - tor MeCaH, S. * C, jif ter j been the visitor of relatives j city. . T. W. McCoUum left this; rg for* Columbia on a short; >s trip. 1 Emma Reynolds leaves for| t; -Ga.. tonight "where she , ? the visitor .of her sister fori weeks. ? ^^ileta Tisdale has re tu ra the city after spending the ? nd with relatives in Dunbar ? c- ? . - " ! itor Frank A. Mclieod leaves . for Columbia where he? j detained* on business du * several days of this week, j I. M. Richardson of Siler l . C? arrived in Sumter Mon- i ?rning and will spend a short ith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. - Richardson. * E. H, Lynam motored to; >ia Monday where he was; on business. . and Mrs. L. M. Aller? spent i 2k-end in Augusta with Mrs. aunt, Mrs. William Waters.! ? % ? Vlaieb-Making Soldier, rs Annetta Morandi, twenty- . om Naples, received a pro- i <t marriage from Sergt. Jo-'' oster, late veteran of the A. j . >ut now on recruiting duty i sburg, she writes answering' e would be happy to marry i ar American friend, whom; T I met*during the war?but?: j % I two sisters, Julia, nineteen, i ancisca seventeen, whom Id not leave alone in Naples. | sergeant had solved / knot- \ )blems during the war and e was in the recruiting ser- j decided it was up to him j nit husbands for his girl's j , ?rother was the first recruit.! f" he sang the praises of Ju ;nce this brother. Henry, ?n a sailor during the war, lance of the thing appealed . When Julia had been to ami had accepted the J of Henry the question p of how to secure a hus-1 >r Francisca. He knew the i girls were peaches and j i that since they were such gg\ thing he wanted to keep ; \ his family. having another brother to ' t on the altar of matrimony ;b,t out his cousin, Fred and told of the charms of ca Martin was a trifle to land?but when he did.. % fell hard. result was that the three ? th flashing smiles landed in :>rk City recently and Wi re tnV dock by the three Pitts >ys. The sergeant acted as I de and introducer and th - ou pies, properly sorted out. ? >d " on the license depart f the New York city hall. I triple ceremony they de ior a honeymoon ic Pitts ? . ??*? pears that France must between getting even with; rid and getting even with iy. ? ? ? <o the Armenians will move apparently they are begirv think the Turk don't want * bout. ?t tells us the music of hells i our hearts. This is es i>- true of the littie bell on j h register. j No Award Yet Made by Commission Matter of Granting Contract For Mayesv?le Road Held Temporarily in Abeyance The bids submitted before the Permanent Hard Surface Road Commission at its meeting of Jan uary 2*>. for the building of the four miles- of hard surface .road on the Sumter-Mayesville road were from the following construction companies: The Adams Evans Construction Co., of Jacksonville. Ela.." the Slattery and Henry Co.. of Greenville: Robert G. Lassiter & Co.. of Raleigh. X. C. and the Powell Paving Co.. of Columbia. No definite decision was made by the commission as to the awarding of th<*. contract but the matter is yet under consideration and will probably be disposed of within the next few days. Alaska's Railway Making Progress Event to Be Celebrated by . Middle of February is Plan Anchorage, Alaska. Jan. 21.? So rapily has the work of bringing together the ends of steel on Alas-f ka's 467-mile government railroad from Seward, on the sea coast, to Fairbanks, in the heart of the Yukon country, progressed, that definite plans are being made for a great celebration throughout the territory to mark the driving of the "golden spike" some time in mid February. The ceremony, which will be at tended by Governor Scott C. Bone, of Alaska, and other high territor ial, and federal officials, will take place at the Riley Creek bridge, 120 miles south of Fairbanks. Thousands are expected to attend the ceremony. The Riley -Creek bridge is in it self a triumph of engineering. Late in November, 1921, 500 tons of. steel for *the bridge- were shipped f^rom Seattle to Seward. Today the bridge, a 900-foot structure, is practically completed. With the exception of the l,34<*-foot steel bridge across the Tanana River at Nenana which will not be placed in service until late this year or early in 1923, it is the last unit of the road to be completed. Pend ing completion of work on the bridge at Xenana trains will be sent over the Tanana on ferries in the summer and over tracks laid on the ice during the winter months. , ? The' government railroad cost approximately $56,000,000 and has heen under construction since 1914. The' main line between Seward and Fairbanks is 467 miles in length, but, with branches, the completed system will have a total trackage of 539 miles. For some months past luxurious trajns. with Pull man coaches and buffet dining cars have been operated over the main line on a once-a-week schedufe. Freight was carried between the ends of steel by dog sled.. Alaskans hail the coming of the railroad as the key that will un lock one of the richest territories in the world. Mail from Seattle will reach Fan-banks in nine days. Heretofore from one to three months was the Usual time of transit. The road will be open the year round and no longer will .the freezing of the Yukcyi in winter mean that the great interior country must hibernate until re sumption of navigatoin in the spring. Alaska's richest areas are tap ped by the Toad. The fertile val leys of the Tanana and Yukon will be in direct connection with Se ward, a seaport with a harbor free of ice for twelve months in the year. The road passes through important coal fields, one of which is expected to furnish supplies of steaming fuel for naval vessels. It traverses what ? government geo logists describe as a rich potenrial oil district in the Cook Inlet region contiguous to Anchorage. Before the advent of the rail road, according to federal reports, it cDSt $70 to ship one tqn of hay, com. potatoes or other necessities to Fairbanks. The freight went' by boat to St. Michaels, at the mouth of the Yukon, was then re shipped up the Yukon and Tanana rivers to Fairbanks, a total distance of 3,S00 miles. Sometimes it was shipped through Skagway over the White Pass and Yukon railroad to White Horse, thence do\v!isthe Yukon and Tanana rivers at a cost of $66. Today the same bulk of freight can be shipped by the railroad to Fairbanks in three weeks less time than by cither of the older routes, traversing a total distance of l.ssf, miles at a cost of about $30. Since the road began handling traffic a few months ago. the cost of oaTs in Fairbanks dropped from $140 to $70 a ton. the price of beef drop ped 25 cents a pound. Wood cost ing $130 a cord was replaced by lignite coal delivered at $6 a ton. An increase in tourist traffic is expected. Mount McKinley, 20.300 feet in altitude and the loftiest peak on the North American con tinent ^S but a short distance from the line and Mount McKinley Nat ional Park will become accessible. Rights for French Women. I'-'iis. Dec. 22.? Raymond Poin care, formerly president of France, is the latest prominent adherent to a rights-for-worn en campaign which is in progress here. The purpose of the movement is to place the wife on an equal foot ing with the husband by uivinL; her control of her property. A bill conferring that light i< being considered by the Commission for Civil Legislation. In France it has been custom ary for tlie wife to give complete control of her property to inn- hus band. 1 Tobacco Grading Law Legislation Enacted to Re I quire Farmers and Ware housemen to Quit Hand ling Tobacco Like Shucks - j The Tobacco Grading bill has at last passed the South' Carolina j legislature and become a law. There has been a hard fight over this bill for the past ten years, but j at this meeting of the legislature all opposition practically disappear ! ed. ? Most of the best farmers for ; some time have been '?culling" or j ?'picking*' their tobacco before mar ' keting it. This, for all practical : purposes, is the same as grading. I To meet the requirements of this bill, the only additional work will I be the tieing. Since the boll wee , vil has made its destructive ap ; pearance and the cotton acreage j has been so greatly reduced, all ! of the tobacco growers will have I ample time in which to put their ! tobacco in a more marketable con idition. They will also be able to j use their seed cotton houses for ; packing houses. However, it will ? be well for every tobacco planter to I begin to figure now on a storage [place for his 1022 crop. A splen did pack house can be easily con i structed. A pole house, daubed : like his curing*'house and with a > double floor and ceiled over head ! makes an ideal arrangement. The ; floor should be eighteen inches or : two feet from the ground] Rough boards can be used for both floor j ing and ceiling. Almost any out I house can be easily converted into ? a desirable pack house, with but \ little cost. It is to be hoped that j the day of handling tobacco in : South Carolina like shucks is past. I The farmer realized that he was ! losing money by taking his tobac i co direct from the curing barn to ! the warehouse for sale, but could ' not help himself. ' * All of the tobacco handled by the Cooperative Marketing Asso i ciation would have been graded and j tied any way. A good many i farmers who remained out of the j Association on account of this I feature, will now doubtless sign up ; at their first opportunity. One of ; the most prominent features of co operative marketing is to put the Commodity in the most presentable ; form before offering for sale. t ? m o ? 6 Interesting Facts About Your Eyes Thousands can see the same : object at the same time. That seems nothing extraordinary, yet lreally.it is a miracle! It is only ; possible because in the wonderful I scheme of things an object throws ! off from its surface millions of rays in all directions, ~a.ch person/ac cording to his position, seizes liter ; ally, on one of these rays, and ! travels along it. ocularily, to the object. The eye' is "pained by a sudden j light. Why? It .is because the : nerves of the eye are burdened iwith rays before the pupils have had time to contract and receive ; them. Again, if we.leave a well-light j ed room and go into the street, i everything seems much darker than it actually is. That is be ; cause the eye pupils, contracted indoors, have not had time to di late and catch the lesser rays out side. "Getting used to the dark" i is merely waiting for the pupils to dilate. Cats, owls and tigers see in the dark because they have the power I of enlarging at will the pupils of ; thir eyes, and thus collect all the scattered rays of lights them? are, which are present even in "dark ness." Do we know why we can see ourselves in a mirror ?? It is not because the mirror is a mirror, but because the rays of light from our face, striking against the glass, and unable to pass through it be cause of the "backing," are thrown back again to our eyes. They rebound, in short. Finally, with two eyes wc ap parently ought to see double, and we do! But the two images fall on the two retinae simultaneously, and are combined in one. There's more in the eye than one would think.' ? ? ? Mecca of Divorcees. Bueno Aires. Dec- 1C. ? The Uruguayan divorce laws have made the city of Monteviedb the Mecca of the ill-matched couples of the neighboring republic ,,r Argen tina. The Buenos Aires newspapers refer to .Montevideo as a "matri monial safety valve" and drily ob serve that up-to-date divorce leg islation has been rendered un necessary in Argentina by the en terprise of the Uruguayan ktw ! givers. According to La Razon of Buenos Aires, tin- Montevidcans (possibly in a lit of repentance for having dissolved so many Argentine un ; ions) are now endeavoring to hold ih<- balance even by making mar riage an easy and expeditious mai ter in thieii capital. So far have they gone in the let ter direction thai they have been <?ond.-mn.-ii by both Uruguayans and Argentines. One cynical scribe, however, remarks that the ??mar riage while you wait" system should serve as an excellent feeder to tin divorce court in the slack season. It's all right to select I lays move- arbiter. l.andis cah'i han dle everyt hing. The touch system, however, is hot employed by all typewriters. Some employers won't stand for a touch. -?? ? ?? As a rule, the effort (?? lift up undeveloped peoples i< merely :.? hold-up. I'te ll- Sam, however, isn't searching for the opium sesame in ! China. Meeting of Tobacco Association Held Permanent Chairman and Secretary Elected and Dele gate Appointed at Morn ing Meeting A meeting of the Sumter County Tobacco Association was called Monday morning to moot in the : auditorium of the Court House. Thon- wore some 70-Odd members of the Sumter association present at the meeting. 2," of this number being*from the colored farm popu lace of tin- county. "Mr. E. h Reardon, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, acted I as temporary chairman of the : meeting and stated the object of] the meeting as being for the pur- j i pose of the election of a delegate to represent this county at the dis trict convention of the Tobacco Growers' Association which is to | be held in the chamber of Com-; merco halls at 12 o'clock, Thursday, : February 2. j Mr. .1. T. Glasscock of Concord. I was elected permanent chairman . of the Sumter County Association j and Mr. J. Albert Rrogdon also of; the Concord section was elected: ! as the permanent secretary of the! association. Mr. I). L. Smith of Concord, was elected as the delegate who will represent Sumter county at the district meeting at which meeting there are to be repesentatives from 1 3 counties of the state. At the conclusion of the mooting, Secretary Roardon was given the floor and he presented information J to the meeting^ obtained from the i.Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Asso | ciation which was to the effect that j agents representing tobacco trusts1 ; were going out openly with all j . forms of propaganda this year which was directed against the To bacco Growers' Association and that every moans would bo-used to; break up the association". The ad vice to all members was to stick by the association and to refuse to, listen to anything to the contrary. The names of 1new, members were added to the roll of the'Sum ter County Association. First Church Ser vice in America , Held by Sir Francis Drake on Pacific Coast in 1579 ____ ' Chicago. Jan. 24.? (By the As sociated Press)?First church ser- \ \ vices in English in what is now the ? I I"nitod States were held near San j j Francisco in 1579 by Sir Francis j Drake orkthe .-first trip an English-! man made around the world, ac cording to the Xewberry Library I here. ?. ?' Drake returned to Plymouth, his; borne city and - starting point, in' [September of 1580, just 40 years! to the month before the Pilgrim | Fathers sailed from there, and five : years before Sir Walter Raleigh's firsth ody of settlers put out. j Drake was a fighting Puritan,! j leading the British fleet late, in the: l crucial hours against the Spanish- ! I Armada, and ibis first American 1 I church service in the English i tongue was direcredf by the Puri-; tan chaplain to the expedition. After a terrific struggle to get around the end of South America. Drake had plundered Spaniards up the west coast unaware of dan ger, and continuing north had passed - shores yet unknown toi Spain. Turned back by the cold ! as he bog' a to approach Canada, he put?into a small creek or bay on the northern side of the Golden Gate before striking t across the . uncharted Pacific. Tt was on June 17. 1570. that Drake anchored <>n the California coast. He landed his men on the L'lst. and on the 23rd after the friendly Indians had lacerated | themselves to pay the white man homage, Francis Fletcher, the chaplain records: ?'This bloudie sacrifice (.against our wils) being thus .performed,! our general, with his companie, inj the presence of those strangers, fell 1 to piayers: and by signs in lifting* up our eyes and hands to heaven, signified unto them that that God whom we did serue. and whom they ought to worship, was aboue: be seeching God, if it were His good pleasure. to open by some meancs j tln ir blinded eves, that they might in due time be called to the knowledge of Him, the true and ener liuinp: CO. and of Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, the sal-, nation of the Gentiles. "In the time of which prayers, singing of Psalmes and- reading of certain chapters in the Filde, they j sate very attentiuely; and obsor- j uing the end of euery pause, with one voice still cried, oh. greatly I rejoicing in our exercises. Ter they tooke such pleasure in <>u singing of Psalms, that when soeuer they resorted to vs. their first request was commonly this. Gnauh. by which they intrcated : hat we would sing." Drake tarried just a month, set ting sail on July 2:'.. after naming the country New Albion. The year after the (?olden Flind dropped an chor again at Plymouth, he was elected mayor of the city, and serv ed !>4? > yea rs ago. Earthquakes Frequent in Chile. Santiago. Dee. Ifl. - Two hundred and forty-nine earthquake shocks were recorded in < *iii 1 ? ? in 7 *.?!_'?? ac cording 111 ;1 report just published b\ the national seismb logical ser vice. The average interval be tween shocks was 3fi hours while in the year previous a shock was ieg!>i. i> <l every _'s hours. Tin- greatest seismic activity in I'c'n w;is id" area embracing the Aconcagua and Maipo valleys in which the prim ipal < ita-s are locat ed. The mosi pronounced shock w:is recorded on July 2G, the cen ter of which was in the Aconcagua valley. Citadel Visitors Make Statement Senator Padgett Submits Paper to Senate and Will Be Printed in the Journal Columbia. Jan. 2s.?Senator Padgett, in behalf <>f the board of visitors of the Citadel, yesterday submitted to the senate a state ment explaining in- detail the ac tions of the board in building the new Citadel plant and the operation of the .school in every way. this being in answer to the report of the joint legislative committee on economy and consolidation which severely criticised the work of the Citadel. In the report of the legislative committee several faults were found with the operation of the Citadel. A summary of these were: Per cap ita cost remarkedly higher than any other state supported college, in construction of the new plant in terests of the state not properly protected and the intent of the leg islature apparently not carried out. intent of legislature disregarded as to some .srJarv increases, number of heads of departments larger than necessary and scale of pay for teaching stalT liberal, places too much emphasis on military, training and money spent for ad vertising should be saved. The statement submitted by ?\Irf Padgett and ordered printed in the journal says theymarge that the in terests of the state appear not to have been properly protected and that the intent of the legislature was not carried out can not be sup ported by facts and was made with out t he proper study of the trans actions in connection with the award of the contract. '?This is a serious statement, and an impu tation against the good fai.h or the board'which it believes is un justified and which it resents," says the statement. In regard to the "expensive typ? of construction." charge made by the committee, the board says it did not feel justified in spending the money except for permanent work to be a dignity and finish worthy ot the state. As to th per capita cost the board declares it is unable to s>-e how the committee arrived at its statement and shows that the cost at the Citadel was $34.". as compared with S359 for the med ical college. $343 for Winthrop and $311 for the University of South Carolina. The committee said the per capita cost was about $500. . The board also, submits figures purporting to show that theKMtadel has no such salaries as would warrant the committee to single it out for reductions. ?'The per capi ta salary is given as follows: Uni versity.^ 17.0; Citadel. SICO: Win throp, &J.41; medical college, $246. The board says tb^rcoommen.na tion of the committee to abolish the engineering ol&rses appears to he a Vuseless and foolish, thing to do.- n ; . ? : Xeeds of - the -Citadel for this year are set forth as^ollows in the statement: - "The board wishes'-'to say that while it has carried |ftit to the best of its judgment an^^feility the pro ject of the buildihg&- of a greater Citadel which wottfdJ|meet the im mediate;rneeds of^tftejmilitary col lege of state.r^aj*has complet ed the buildings w^jech it planned could be.;constructed with the funds which it. had it mjist call the a: tention of the legislature to some needs of the plajitl;vAvlricb they could not take cn^r of. and for which they ask anpropriarlons at the present time, 'The iminediat* needs are (1) a building for a cadet hospital and (2) houses for the ad ministrative officers':-who ought to live on the campus. - "The necessity for the*? build ings is so pressing that the hoard feels constrained in spite of th' g.-neral demand for curtailnien*. of expenses, with which if-heartily sympathizes, to urge the approval of these two items at this session oi the legislature so that the Citadel can begin its next session at the new plant and enter upon a new era of usefulness to the state." Khi-Klux-Klan Makes Donation to Needy 6t City. I have received a letter signed by, the Klu Klus Klan of Sumter, enclosing a ten dollar bill, to be used for the relief of the needy during the present severe weatfc. r. As the personnel of this organiza tion is unknown I wish to take this manner of acknowledging receipt of same, and to express my thanks. AXTOXIA B. OIBSOX. City Nurse. ? ? ?? Not Mr. Kisncr. The driver of the automobile responsible for the regrettable ac cident occurring on the Pocalla swamp causeway on the night of January 26, in which two mules were killed, was not Mr. Kisner, the name previously given, but Mr. 11. C. Tarver. Oil Mill lias Small Fire. The Sumter Fire Department rendered good service in the ex tinguishing of a small lire on the top of a large tank located in tin main building of the plant of the Southern Cotton <>i! company. The tire \v;is discovered at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning by the night watchman for the plant. Being taken in linn- there was no appreciable amount of damage occasioned by the lire. flfifi cures Chills and Fever.?? Adver! isement. Don"! frei and complain about the discomfort enused by this cold snap. The colder ;i gets and the longer it lasts, the better it is for the cotton farmers. Millions upon millions of boll we eds will be lull ed l?\ this freeze, following the spring-like weather <>' lost week Ctrfi cur.'s Malarial Fever.?-Ad vertisement. Ramage Named by Bar Association Officers Elected at Closing Session of Lawyers of State Columbia. Jan. 27.?C. J. Ram age, of Saluda. was this afternoon elected, president of the South Car olina Kar Association for th< en suing year. The election of op;, eers was the feature of the after noon session of the association. Mr. Ramage is a well Icnown at torney of Saluda. His reputation is more than local, he having serv ed as special judge at terms of court throughout the state. He is r.lso ?well known as a compiler of sev . eral volumes of the South Carolina ; Supreme Court. Vice presidents of the ass*., n tion were named as follows: K1 C. .Mann. First circuit: R. A.: Ellis. ISecond circuit: R. 1-3. Dennis. Third ; circuit: Woods Dargan. Fourth eir |euit: Francis H Weston. Fifth cir cuit: G. W. Ragsdaic. Sixth, cir cuit: W. S. Hall. S.-venth circuit. W. H. Nicholson, Eighth eh'-uit; W. H. Grimball. Ninth circuit: S. L. Prince. Tenth circuit: James '?. pSheppard. Eleventh circuit: J. P McNeil, Twelfth circuit: .j. Rob ert. Martin, Thirteenth circuit; Rye jdolph Murdaugh, Fourteenth eir-j j euit. O. C. Blaekman ami Williauj I?. j Dickey. both of Columbia were' I named, respectively, secretary ami treasurer of the association, i Oother otticers named at the ses sion follows: General Counsel--p. H. .Moss. First circuit: Claude Saw yer. Second circuit: Garlton Du : Rant. Third circuit: P. C. Cork,J Fourth circuit: P. A. Cooper, Fifth Circuit: John A. Marion, Sixth cir cuit: H. R. Carlisle. Seventh cir cuit: I. H. Hunt. Eighth circuit: .Julian Mitchell. Ninth circuit: N. G. Shiley. "Tenth circuit: W. K. [Carroll, Eleventh circuit; O. H. Mc !Millan. Twelfth circuit; J. P. Carey. Jr.. Thirteenth circuit: W. D. Con nor. Fourteenth circuit. ;, Local counsel: R. L. Weeks. M. E. Zeigler, First circuit: Sol Blatt, W. M. Smoak,'Second circuit: H. 1. jEllerbee. J. c. O'Brien; Third cir j euit; J. W. LeOrand, R. Tt Caston, J Fourth circuit: Jos. L. Nettles. E. j W Mullins, Fifth circuit; W. J. _ Cherry A. L: Gaston. Sixth circuit: jjohn- K. Hamlin. S. T. Lanham. Seventh circuit: J. W. Nichols. Al | bort A. Todd. Eighth circuit; J. D. ! Cogsdoll, Octavus ' Cohen. Ninth circuit: J. M. Padgess. G. c. Suili ; van. Tenth circuit: A. S. Tompkins, ;.Iohn D. Carroll. Eleventh circuit: !A. F. Woods. Walter Hazard. ; Twelfth circuit: Miss J. M. Perry, j B. A. Morgan. Thirteenth circuit:; H. K. P?rdy. J. M. Moorer, F??r i toonth circuit. j Executive comimttee: Douglas ; McKay. William S. Nelson and J. R. S. Lyles. A paper by Judge H. II. Watkins, judge of the Western Federal Dis-! trict for South Carolina was read, lie discussed the place and func tion, of the lawyer in the modern ?World. Judge Watkins oharaoteriz | ed the bar as a stabilizing force in ! the present-day civilization and I pointed, out that the lawyers held tin their hands the power to stem I modem forces cf radicalism and j lawlessness. The report of the committee on i legal education through its chair man. J. F. Carti r. of Bamberg, 'gave cause for gratification, i Mr. Carter. W. D. Melton and P. : A. Wilcox. of Florence. weno i elected as a committee to repre sent the association at a conference j of legal education to be held in ; Washington in February. R. Bever , ly Herbert, of Columbia is an air I teraato. Memorials to deceased members ? of the association were then pre-; sen ted as follows: D. S. Henderson, of Alken, by C. J. Ramage, of Saluda: Ren L. Ab ney. of Columbia. by John P. Thomas. Jr.. of Columbia: William T. Shannon, of Camden, by L. T. .Mills, of Camden: George John stone, of New berry, by Dr. George R. Cr mer. of Newberry: George S. "Mower, of Newberry. by Eugene S. : Please, of Newberry: Barret Jones, of Ratesburg, by E. W. Able, of Saluda. A memorial to Richard D. Lee. of Sumter. had been prepared by] Judge R. 0. Purdy. of Sumter, who 'was absent. This memorial along with all the others was printed in the minutes. A memorial to C. F. Spencer, of York, by T. F. McDow. of York, absent, will be printed, as will One ?by Watson R. Finger, of Charles ton. l.y-YV. 1L Fit'/.simons. of Charleston. The eulogy to ex-Chief Justice George W. Gage, of Chester, re cently delivered in the state Su preme Court room by D. S. Hen derson, of Aiken. since deceased, will he printed in tin- minutes. The association adopted a reso lution by J. Gordon Hughes. of Union to the effect that tip- future meetings will cover two full days with morning, afternoon and night sessions. Vital Statistics for The Year 1921. Th?- following is the official rec ord of the vital statistics <?f Sum ter County daring the year 1921: Township Birth Deaths. ('oncord. I ol Machester ... - It 16 Mayesville 120 7 7 ? Middleton ... S i Privateer _ -- 1 ~l 1 'rovidence - . . 14.C - 46 Rafting < reek 1 3f> 5 . Statcburg 1 i S ,;4 Shiloh 14fi Sumter (township (22 I 1 ~ 1 ('ity of Sumter '?> 1S 1 [Calvary Id Fulton _ . i; :::: Totals . i so : i.t.u quickly relieves a eoKL? Advertise went. ! 'a r.i ph rasing a recent quip, a cigar store might be defined as tin place where a Scotchman gets his matches. Atlanta Gas ' Rate Controversy Some Far-Reaching Truths of the Gas Rate Decision ( Atlanta Journal). In refusing the injunction asked by the Georgia Railway and Pow er Co.. against the recently order (<\ reduction in the Atlanta gas rate, the United States district court em phases certain principles of far ranging import to the common weal. Consumers, numbered by ! thousands, naturally are gratified | that upon judicial inquiry the*law and the facts of the case have i proved to be stich as to justify a rate that promises appreciable sav--j ings in gas bills; Put of greater I moment are The court's basic con-i elusions, touching the cuestions at I issue between the company and | the Georgia Railroad Commission, the latter standing as conseryer of j the general interests. Twice during the war period the commission authorized increases in ] the gas rate, as well as in electric*] light and power charges, and in street car '"ares: in November,! 191S, the rale was raised from $1 per thousand cubic feet to $1.15, and in February, 1921, to $1.90; In allowing these advances, against which there was vigorous protest,' tin- commission stated that so soon as in its judgment conditions war ranted, ir would reopen tlve ques tion, with a view to downward re vision. Accordingly, in June, r 1921, it ordered a reduction of the &1.90 rate to $1.65. This still left ; the company charging upards of fifty per cent more than prior to November. 1ft is. As the months wore on and general costs con tinned to decline the commission ? cited the company to show cause why further reduction should not be. made, and after due hearing 1 prescribed a rate of $1.55, effec tive January 1, 1:922. In resisting this order, through appeal to the federal courts, the company con tended, amongst other things, that the rate had nor %been prop erly arrived at and that its en forcement would amount to the taking of property without due process of law. The court holds, in the first place, . that the protested rate "was fixed after full hearing, under laws pro I vided therefor," and that: "The : clear and comprehensive opinion of the railroad commission recog i nizes as the applicable principles of law rules which we think are . substantially correct, and ft evinces I a full, and conscientious considera tion of the evidence. Due process of law has been afforded." As to whether the rate thus fixed is "eonfiscatory," the court de clares: -'That question depends here ! on the value of the private property taken for use and the compensa ; tion probably to be afforded by the rate fixed, as compared with : the net returns received in the lo cality by other investments of cap j ital of comparable security and ; permanency." Pursuing this line, ti-.c court is of the opinion that ? the commission in estimating the j value of the property as a basis for fair earnings and charges did right to exclude from consideration the value of the gas company's fran 1 chises. For, while it is not to be denied that such franchises, .ven dible and taxable as. they are. "may nut be taken from the own ers . _ . without just compensa tion," at the same time. "The fixing of a just and reasonable charge to be made by a public service cor poral ion is neither the taking from it of these franchises nor the use of them, in the sense of the con stitution." And now ponder these meaningful words of the decision: "Business which from its nature or from circumstances of monopoly is of public concern is undertaken with the implication that charges made the public therein shall be reasonable. Private property de vote..', thereto becomes affected with a public interest. Public reg ulation of the charges is but the enforcement of the duty to make only reasonable charges. Munn vs. Illinois. M C. S. tJ3. It may be said that in a franchise granted to do such a business is implied a covenant that the charges shall be just .and reasonable; as it has be>n said that ?.11 grants of Dtfb.&c franchise are upon the impoed condition that they shalrTK? nsed for the public good and if they are not so used or are misused they may be revoked. The Xew. "fork Clectric Twines company vs. EWr pire Subway company, 23o U. S. 170. As pointed out in Munn vs. Illinois, this implication has ex isted from the earliest times and did not first arise og the passage of regulatory legislation. The fix ing of reasonable rates where un reasonable ones have been charged does not take the'company's fran chise nor impair it, hut permits and requires its use according to its true original terms." By way of further emphasis, up on this point, the court observes that if rates and profits have heen higher than the investment itself should ordinarily earn, then 'the franchise, "so far from having"ac-> quired thereby any greater^v^Uue^ has simply been abused/' Re^? tion is no more than a .soverefiga^. visitorial power. It doea~noL"3?g|?^ i prive the owner of his franchise*"1 j nor take it or its use from him, ut. T ! directs it to its proper and only S&s*J gal use, to wit:J the service of the^ ' public and the earning for?its own j ers of just and resonablc returns." How exceedingly umortunate I for all concerned if a public service ; corporation, enjoying a monopoly. fails to see its duties in this clear ' light of ? equity, fails to recognize that its franchise is "the public's ' own contribution to the business,'.' j and that only in rendering the com munity good service at fair rates does it justify its existence! As suredly, a less reasonable attitude is unfortunate for the. rank and j file, on whom excessive charges [ fall; and in the long run will prove unfortunate for the. very concerns whose policies are thus m'istttkenly i shaped. The gas company's pr?fc?ble an ; nual income tinder the new* rate of i $1.55 per thousand cubic feet is es timated by the court as $424,150. :j2. with no allowance for future ' increase in ; consumption and de j crease in cost of production, both j of wliich appear likely. "This in ' rnmo yields eight per cent on $5, 301.Si8, a value in excess of that ; found by the commission; a yield seven>per cent on $6,059.130, and ! six per cent on $7,069.176. So ; low a rate of return as six per cent i was upheld in YVTlcox vs. Consoli rdated Has. Co.. 212 U. S. 19. when 1 conditions were more stable than now." > This being the truth of the case. ! who can wonder that the? railroad j commission ordered the rate redue i tion or that the 'court sustained if? ? The only wonder is that so. just a procedure should have been chal lenged. To break a cold take 686.?Ad ! vertisement. i "About 22 is the poper time to ' marry," decide the" college girls? . who probably mean 1922. ? ? ? Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism. Advertisement. -~~ Longest sentence in the world i$ "I pronounce you man and wife/' ? ? ? 1 ' 66G cures Bfrious Fever.?Advm> tisement. An economist says the'idle are always a menace. This i? especial-. 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