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Baptist Minister Takes Own Life The Rev. G. H. Burton of Greenwood County Fires i Bullet into Teniple Troy, Feb. 2.?The Rev. -G. c. Barton, prominent Baptist minister of Troy, committed suicide today bv shqoting himself through the tem ple with a revolver. Xo cause^vas given for the deed. Homicidein Lexington Olin M. Price Shot to Death in Drug Store Lexington. Feb. 2?Olin M. Price, j white man 25 or 25 years old. was 1 killed practically instantly about 3 i o'clock this afternoon, two loads ?/_ of large sized shots having been fired into his body while he was! v in the drug store of Dr. Rice B. ! Harman. ? There were no eyewitnesses, but after an .inquest h?d been partial- ; ly conducted, Dr. . Harmon was j lodged, in iai!. pending lurthe'- jr.- j yestigation. Mr. Price staggered out of the! ' drug store, into the funeral parlors ; of Charles E. Taylor, in an adjoin ing building. He was bleeding pro- j t fusely from an ugly wound in the j chest, but managed to request that j a physiciambe called. .His efforts ! to give explanation of the tragedy , resulted in only agonized gasps. He J expired within ten or 15 minutes, j although three phyisicans hasten- ' ed to his side to give any possible ? medical relief. The trail of blood led to the rear : of the drug store. There two empty shells were found, and holes had I been pierced in a screen door in the rear of the store by the loads of shot. The inquest will be resumed tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, ' Following the' testimony by sev- 1 era! witnesses, Sheriff Roof went! to Dr. Harmon's home and placed j him under arrest. Dr. Harmon made.] s no statement. The funeral for Mr. Price will be; heid at 3:30'o'clock-this afternoon J at St. Stephens* Lutheran church, ] the services to be conducted by the j Rev. A. B. Ober.schain. Inter- ! ment will be in the churchyard. J Mrs. Price died two weeks ago. j Besides his parents, he is survived ? by a little girl, five years old. and i three sisters and four brothers. He j is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. j Price, life-long residents of Lex- \ ington - county and substantial j people. Dr. Hartnon is the son of O. E. j Harmon, veteran editpr of Lexing- ; ton county, newspapers and a sub- i stantial citizen. Dr. Harmon is the j proprietor of a large drug store j here. Further Report of Tobacco Meeting An enthusiastic and well attend- j ed meeting ot District Xo. 2 dele- j gates of the Tobacco Growers' Co- ; operative? Association was called to I order at <noon Thursday at Sumter i Chamber of Commerce with L. M. j Lawson, of Darlington, as. chair-j man. and E. I. ^Reardon. of Sum- ! / ter as secretary.'. Bright William- j son of Darlington was by & nnan?-. J mous rising vote elected as director ! fr^n District Xo. 2 to the Raleigh I Convention. By another unanimous j vote Honorable E. C. Epps of j Williamsburg county was endorsed . as .State Director to Raleigh con vention and every delegate, at this Sumter ct nvention signed a joint telegram to Governor Cooper urg- | ing the appointment of Mr. Epps. and several of the delegations in < the general assembly were wired to . l>y the delegc'es at today's conven- i tion requesting these county dele- ; gaticrts to call on Governor Cooper ? in a body and ask him to appoint Mr. Epps. j A number of speeches of inter est were made and. unanimity of ! action for thd| good of tobacco growers and support of the associa > tion were apparent throughout the i meeting. Mr. C. R. Sprott of Clar endon offered a resolution which j was unanimously adopted by rising '\ vote thanking E. L Reardon. See rctary of Sumter Chamber of Com merce for his interest in and bis work for the association, and Conn- ? ty Agent J. F. "Williams and the Sumter Chamber of Commerce for their cooperation in the holding of; the convention in Sumter. Mr. Reardon requested that Sumter be made permanent headquarters of District Xo. 2. but the convention j ihought it will bo best to hold meetings in different counties ?.f this district, but promised to come to Sumt*-r again. Debt Ref unding Bill Passes Washington. Feb. The senate amendment to the allied debt re funding bill was accepted by the house. The measure now goes to the president, who expected to ap point soon a commission which is to open negotiations with the deb tor nations. American Industries To Germany Washington. Feb. 3*?Apparent attempts to arrange for :t i>o<iily transfer of various American in dustries to Germany has been dis closed in correspondence between Secretary Davis and E. M. Waring, of* New York. SOLDIERS' BONUS BILL Washington. Feb. 3.-?The sol diers' bonus- legislation will carry provisions for raising ?he revenue necessary fo finance it. Chairman Fordney announced after a confer ence* with President Harding. A coal strike is due in April. April strikes bring May prices. Wage Cuts > Announced I Cotton Mills Want to Meet Southern Competition Boston. Feb. 2.?Cotton man ufacturers, employing approximate ly 50^00 operatives, in New Hamp shire. Massachusetts and Maine tp j day notified thwr employes of wage cuts amounting in most eases to i 20 per cent, effective February 13. i Now Hampshire plants also gave t notice of an increase from forty . eight to fifty-four hours in the j weekly working schedule. The announcements brought j Northern New England manufac turers into line with those of lihode Island and Connecticut, who recently put lower wage sched ules into effect. Several strikes have followed the reductions in the latter states. The important centers at Fall Riv er, New Bedford and Lawrence were not affected by. the day's an nouncements, and only two of the mills at Lowell had announced the cut today. The principal centers involved in today's readjustments wore Manchester. X. IL, wi:h virtually all the rest of the cotton mills in that State following the lead of the Amoskeag and Stark mills, and Lewiston. Maine. . Some 17,000 workers are employed in. the two mjlls named and the Lewiston plant employs PJ.OOO.' V.'. P. Siraw. agent of the Amos keag Mills, explained the action as necessary to meet the compo sition of Southern/ mills. Other agents asserted i^b would assure contineous operation_of the mills -for at least several months. ? ? ? Savin?: The Forests. In an address on "A National Forest Policy" before the Agricul tural Conferonee'at Washington. P. <\. on Thursday. January 26, Gif ford Pinchot said:. "No wood on the farm, no food in the town. It takes more than half, the wood consumed in Amer ica to supply the farms that pro duce our food. The farm indus try is the ^greatest single use of wood. , "The farmer finds it harder and harder to -get building lumber at reasonable cost. The reason is clear. Five-sixths of our virigin timber is gone. Two-thirds, of all the states, with eighty million peo ple and more than four-fifths of the farm values of the country; de pend for timber on the .few re maining states which still cut more than they consume. Within ten years the entire country will have to depend on two or three, states for nearly all its softwood lumber. "Moreover, what we can net sup ply at. home we can not secure abroad. Far more than half the nations of the world are dependent for timber supplies upon forests beyond their own boundaries. Even Mexico is an importer of timber, while the Canadians, if they should give us all they have, cc-uld meet our needs for less than one gener ation. "The demands we make upon our forests are gigantic. More than half of all the lumber used in the world is consumed in the United States. Meantime, we are replao- , ing by growth only one-fourth of : wb.at we cut. and our remaining i supplies are dwindling to any early end. Jt is clear that we must grow what we need, or go without. "The 400.000,000 acres of timber- : land which remains, if they pro duced fifty cubic feet per acre per i year, could almost meet our pres- I eht needs. But they have been so mishandled that ?ftt-cn cubic feet j is all they grow, while our popu lation is inceasing and the uses of ( wood are multiplying. A higher j standard of living always means a ! larger use of wood. "The public forests, national und state, are reasonably weU handled,; but they furnish less than three per cent of our lumber, and ean j never supply more than twenty, j "Farm woodlots, scattered in small tracts outside the lumber re- ! gions. will always help the farm ers, but can not grow the vasfi ouantities of saw timber we must! have to live. They are in little danger of devastation. "The privately-owned commer cial fimberlands which contain most of what timber we have left | are being devastated more rapidly and completely than ever before. I to the incaluluble injury of tin-, whole nation. "When a house is on lire, the first tiling is to stop- the fire. Re planting, lire prevention, and the saving of what...timber-lands still remain on the public domain and tie- Indian Reservation? are each Of great' importance, but the first ?.hing is to put an end to forest devasia t ion. "Since the states which do not Lave forests must depend on those which do, this mutter mos: b< han dled by the nation itself. A nat ional taw would become effective everywhere at once, while if saving our eomm? rcial forests were left to the individual states, ii would un doubtedly be years before those states which hare large supplies of saw timber would take action. By that time h might well Pe too late. "Meanwhile, it is well to remem ber thai the forest is a crop to be grown from the s?.il. not a mine to i><" exhausted ami abandoned, as the lumbermen d and thai pro posal t?> take the United States Forest Service out of ihe Depart ment of Agriculture is in fact a proposal to check the progress of forest preservation in America." "?Germany is Celling Demo cratic." say.-: a headline. T!iat stori must have been sei afloat by France to prejudice the Harding administration against Germany. ? Greenville (S. C. > Piedmont. It was announced the other day that they don't use real pies in the movies, so nor near as many peo ple want to get in now. Inhuman Warfare j Russian Bolsheviks and Kar elians Hunt and Treat Each Other Like Wild Beasts Helsingfors. Finland. .Jan. 2? iOnly theAise of rifles and machine guns distinguishes the warfare in i the Arctic forests of Russian Ka relia from the primeval stalking land hunting that the wild things of the Northland have waged against each other in this frozen I-land for ages. (Karelia is a sec | lion of Northwest Russia bordering ? on the White Sea and extending , into Southeastern Finland.) 1 The Karelians, hunters, fisher ; men and trappers from childhood, j know the forest trails as well as the wolves who here outnumber the humans. Furelad like Eski : mos. wearing snpwshpes or skis. : they dash through the frozen land \ and in the long Arctic nights 1 pounce upon their similarly clad j Bolshevik foes. . Reports of this guerilla warfare j which have recently reached Hel j singfors indicate that in many in j stances "no quarter*' has been the ! rule on both sides. The insurgents accuse the Bol shevik]?who in this case arc Ka i relians. but Red Army men?of j stripping their prisoners naked and [dropping them alive, through holes j chopped in the ice of the lakes 1 which dot the forests. They freeze I to death even before they drown j for some days the cold has been so hintense that to expose a bare hand ! to the frigid air meant a frozen j hand in a few minutes. The Bol : xhevik present similar charges jagains: the insurgents. I The Karelian revolt began late in October but the Russian So viets did not begin active opera I tions against the Karelians until ! the latter part of December. The territory actually occupied by the insurgents consists only of about 10,000 square miles of sparse j ly settled forest wilderness, with a ; total population only of about 40. I 000 persons. Raiding bands, how > ever', have dashed on snowshoes : hundreds of miles from tin- oee? ; piec" territory to the .Murmansk : railway, which runs from Mur mansk t* Petrograd and have j blown up several bridges, thus pre venting movements of Bolshevik ro I "n farce m en ts. When these bridges are repair ] ed. the Bolshevik contend it will be ! a simple, though long task to quash ' j the revolt. The absolute "lack of J railroads and scarcity of useahle ! highways will prevent movement , \ of any large body of troops into \ ! the. forests, in which most of the j insurgents are- as much ai home ? 1 as the foxes and wolves. j A Language for tin* League of Na t ions. London. Jan. 9.? Professor Gil bert .Murray, vice-chairman of the : Executive Committee of the League i ( of Natrons says the necessity of an j international language was forcibly borne upon him when attending the recent meetings of the League of Nations at Geneva. "If you spoke in English," he said, "it was translated into French: if in French it' was translated into ! English, and if anybody knew neither English nor French that was his own look out." On the whole, he thought the j natural way on: of difficulty would be for the League to recognize one <>{ the two artificial international languages, either Esperanto or Ido. The latter for most Europeans . was easier. To non-Europeans there were certain advantages in Esperanto, which had a smaller number of roots. ? ? m Marriages in County on Decline. A comparative study of the mar- , riage license record for Sumter county of last year as compared with the record of this year might prove interesting. For tin- length of time as covered by the months, inclusive, from July 1st of last year until February 1st the marriage licenses issued number: White, 77: colored, ."'*'4. During the same pe riod of months of this year the issues are: Unite 7" ami colored! Cotton Mewing Schedule. Secretary E. 1. Reardon. of the Chamber of Commerce, was very busy tins morning sending out hundreds of letters to the farmers all over the county telling of the schedule of the six big meetings of tin- South Carolina Cotton Grow ers' Cooperative Marketing Asso ciation which meetings are to be held in the following locations in this county on the dates given: Tuesday, Feb. 7- -Bethel school. Privateer township :it i ! a. in. VVedgetield school in Middleton township at ?*' p. m. Wednesday. February Sth?? 1 tal ::>?]] school. Providence township 11 a. m. Rcmheri school, Rafting Creek township at p. in. Tuesday, February :oh ?- Cori ef?rd township, !! a. m. Shiloh sei.or,!. Shiloh township p. m. Every cotton producer i.-' invited to a 11 ? rid t heSe meetings. Iteganling the Sumter meeting. Dr. ?'!.-.!???;:<?.? I?oe. editor of the Progressive Fanner, is t.. tour South Carolina at an early date, speaking in the interest of the Soiit h Carolina Cotton Growers" Cooperative Ma rket ing Associa tion. sind Dr. Lonjr. ''i<- director <o' farm extension of Clemson College has guaranteed thai Dr. Poe will sp?;ak at Sumter in th,. interest of this association, dat.- to he announced inter. Dr. Long has also promised .???ve?a! prominent speakers lor the six !'!??? tings above mentioned. Sum tot- ' muiii\ is going t?? g.-i into line with other coiinti'-s supporting the South Carolina (*otton Growers" Cooperative Marketing Associaimn Horsepower has been sufficiently developed iu motor. What we need now is the development ?.f a Iittb- horse sense Lh the driver. ?Baltimore i.'un. Women of Palestine Taking a Position in Indus trial Pursuits Haifa. Palestine. Dec. 30?-The movement for the emancipation of the women of Palestine from their social yoke has just received a new impetus by an exhibition of women's handicraft held here, with results far greater than any hoped for by iis most ardent sup porter-. The idea of woman in industry is a new one in this land. Before the great war woman was con sidered a burden. Her place was the jail-like honm from the con finement of which she would dare leave only by special permission lrom her lord and master the hus band. This was especially true among the more ignorant of the Mohammedans who believed that woman had neither brains nor soul and must be treated as an an imal. The fact that she was bought and sohl instead of being married for love added great strength to -let belief. Today a'11 this is changed. Wo men are not only d< nu nding but are also receiving oc,ual\rights in the home. To :he utter conster nation of num. !hey have thrown to the winds custom and tradition and have erhbarked upon fields tabooed a few years ago. They have definitely entered industry and are a sa result reli? /ed in part of are as ;t, result relieved in part of k? i>t them subjugated for centu ries. The exhibition which was the first of its kind in Palestine was opened by the High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel. In the course of his speech he praised the wo men of Palestine for the part they are playing in the upbuilding of the country. The exhibits which were all hand-made, consisted chiefly of pottery, lace and embroidery. Bas ket making was perhaps the most interesting of all articles on dis lflay. it is believed thai with proper advertising, markets could be found and a great demand created for some of the things which the country women in Palestine are capable of making. Danzig Reopened to Travellers. <? r* Berlin, .Jan. 5?nfJerman export firms which before the war main tained branch offices in the United States now are seeking to estab lish agencies with reliable houses there, to avoid the cost of opening and maintaining their own estab lishments. A few German firms already have succeeded in making satisfactory connections in this manner and the Americans are ac cepting and forwarding orders for Geman goods. While American imports to Ger many are negligible, the German export trade to America is report7 ed gradually improving, despite the fluctuating value of the marl: which prevents the making of long time contracts. The majority of the exports are bought by the Am ericans on a cash basis, although verbal contracts are common for future deliveries, prices however, being quoted in foreign exchanges. Virtually all German exporters now quote prices in the monies of the countries to which, they sell. It is understood this policy has been adopted at the suggestion of the government, for the checks even tually are deposited in the Reichs bank, which is forwarding agen cy for the government in the pay ment of war indemnities, which must he.made in foreign,exchange. This policy has created a peculiar attitude on the part of the German business man. whose profits often depend upon a depreciated curren cy in his own country. He is there fore loath to see the mark rise in value, for his net proceeds would !)?? proportionately reduced. In spitc^of wage increase.; and high cost of raw material.-:. Ger man factories working for the ex port trade are reported to have been running at full capacity for the last three months with or tlers ahead which it will take weeks to (ill. Volley Ball ist Have Supper. Cadilacs. Stutxs. Buieks and Pords gathered at the Economy Filling Station Friday to get their monthly supplies. In other words I he foui- volley ball teams of the V. M. ('. A. league had their monthly supper in the "V" Dining Etoom. Big time as usual! Sena tor 1:. P. Ep.ps. toastmaster of the occasion, was clear up to his usual trend anil bubbling good humor, etc. Sure, fine supper, long menu find all. Apologies were in order from .John Planding, captain of the Ford team, and from Ike ?dwards. of the PufoR outfit, ; s to jus; why it was that the cad iliac aggregation under Jumbo I lai:1 dd and 1 he Stut/.:: under .lames Burns were tin besi steppers on the gas Thanks are extended t< Misses Mary Ahlermajt. Daisy and Helen China for their generous assistance in the serving of the. leaguerites, Columbia. Feb. Notices have been s"hs by the siat- highway department in all sheriff':, police departments and oilier peace offi cej> of the slate, asking their co operation in rounding up motor whi'de owners who do not secure uses. "One Ntori- week" is allowed, due, to the fact that the plates wv late in bei tu; received The month ?t' .1 .aunary is allowed for se< t;j ing licenses.. Noted Ncgrro Dead. PutbT Spears. .1 formet resident, of Sumter and very well known in tlii:: section. dled last week in Texas. Spears was a prominent colored Republican leader in days I ha I a re past. Tin- business revival is coming 1 i hi along, but preachers are needed. Parents Eating Their Children Famine Reaches Terrible De gree in Russia, Reports Say i * ; Geneva. Feb. 1.?Famine has reached such a terrible degree in [Orenburg district of Russia that people arc killing each other and i parents arc eating their children, ' says a telegram' received here to : day from a representative in Mos I cow of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, head j of the international committee of ; Russian relief. The representative's telegram, 'addressed to tin- Geneva bureau of the international committee, was ; based upon information received i from a Russian representative at j inched to the American relief ad : ministration at Orenburg. The following authentic exam j ides, says the telegram, occurred in j the village of Tuliakova: A man named Tuhvatulla Hal | I in ate the corpse of his brother. A woman named Housha ate two of ! her children, and a man named ; Absam devoured his daughter. Other cases of cannibalism were reported from the district of I Oorney, near Orenburg, whither i people arrived on foot. having i walked 200 to 2.">i> versts in order to obtain American aid. (A verst i is .'Pi of a mile.) i I Southeastern Ex press Extends Service Tennessee Central Railroad : Express Service Taken Over Atlanta, Feb. 3.?Express service J over Tennessee Central railroad extending from Harrlman, Ter.n., ' to Ilopkiusville, Ky., via Nash ville, was taken over today by the Southeastern Express Co., accord \ ing to announcements made here j by President J. B. Heekday. This gives the Southeastern a line inio Nashville tin- only large city in the Southeastern territory which it ! has not previously served. The ; Tennessee Central has a mileage of about 300 miles and has just been taken over by its new owners who : bought it after a receivership cov j ering several years. This line con : neets with the Southern at Harri ; man, Tenn. j Victory to Y. M. C. A. Strong Sanford Team Unable fo Out Point Locals -_ i Although taking the game of I basketball from the Sumter High I School team by the score of 34 to , 30 in the game Wednesday night, ithe strong Sanford School quintet j \yere the loosers La their rub with [the Sumter's big "V" specials. Sumter top scored the visitors in the game of Friday night by a 54 to 20 margin. The game was a fair ?demonstration of.the technique of i the basketball art and proved ; rather interesting after the second five players of the Sumter "V" team J had replaced the "too strong" first ! squad. , Sanford. for a time, gave : the second addition a mighty good : run for their money. The two games with Sanford were very much enjoyed in Sumter. Here's [good luck to your team of manly land sportsmen lads. -. ? ? ? ' China Has the Last Word Washington. Feb. 3?China's re fply to Japan's offer to give up group ; tive of the famous ??twenty-one" demands is expected to end the :arms eonfernece and the far east ern negotiations. The plenary ses i sion tomorrow is expected to end j (he conference. ? * ? GERMAN RAIL WAY STRIKE rierlin. Feb. :;.?Germany's rail way strike will become more oom ? plete with the strike of local union members. j DIFFICULT TO FURNISH REPORT Washington. Feb. ?A complete report of prosecutions and pardons ? under the espionage act would be i difficult to compile. Attorney Gen ' eral Daugherty advised the sen ate. State Champion Heifer. 1 Whilden and Onsrud of this coun ty are the owners of the wonderful j two-yea,r-old Guernsey heifer. She is with her. first calf ami has just completed a. twelve-month test, in the advanced registry test of pro ; dm ing over 600 pounds of butter fat during that length of time. ; This is ;i record for the state of (South Carolina and places this ex it client animal in a class with just a few others in the United States. I This county should be justly proud <>; this superb heifer. Gambling Mania in Havana. Havana, Jan. '?' ?Theatre and j moving picture managements are threatening to close their houses ; as a i?rotes? against what they jOV-elnre is :in enormous increase in ! illegal gambling. Athletics and I other exhibitions upon which bets lean be made have become so eom \ mon, they < la im. that the public I has neither thl mooey nor the ?b'stre to buy tickets for amuse ' merits where the wagering thrill is j absent. ?'omimercial bodies arc support ing :i campaign to limit betting to those enterprises licensed mulct the tourist encouragement law. pot tied beer was discovered in itln* reign of Edward VI by aeei Ident. It is still disoeveied the same Jewish Relief Work Campaign to Raise South Car olina's Quota Has Been Postponed One Week I Charleston. Feb. 2.?Difficulty 'in completing the organizations in some 01' the. counties in the state ?has made it accessary to postpone I the South Carolina campaign for i the relief of .Jewish war sufferers I from February ."> to February 12 i a.xd Louis M. Shimel, state chair man of the drive, has announced thai the new dates for ihe cam7 ! paign are February 12. 13, 14. 1 and 1?;. A number of the county I chairmen reported 10 state head jquarters that they would find it im i possible \o bring the work of or ; gani/aiion in their counties to n ' point where they could begin the I drive February ?"> and although a large proportion of the comities j had arranged to be in readiness by I that dat<-. it was deemed best to postpone the opening for the whole ! state in order to have uniformity, j .Mass meetings will he held at a. ? number of points in the state at; ; the opening of the drive. Some] of them will he addressed by, ! speakers who are acquainted with: conditions prevailing in Centralj jand Eastern Europe and who will [ bring to th<-:r audiences first-j hand information of the terrible j j conditions of destitution and dis pense which the present campaign' seeks in part to relieve. South Carolina's part -<w" rhe j $l4J)'b;i.O0fi which tin- American j [ Jev.ish Relief Committee has un-j dertaken to raise in this countryI 'has been fixed at $100.000. 'threei 'years ago the state contributed] iabout :?l-PUiou to this cause and; ithe state campaign leaders believe' ' from the tone of reports received ; (from some of the counties that the i new quota will he reached or ex- ' Iceeded in tin- week allotted to the, ? drive. Tin- monev will he for * I warded as fast as received to New York, whence it wili he immcdiate j ly transmitted to Europe through tite joint distribution committee,! i an organisation that has for several [years advised relief work among! the hundreds of thousands of I starving Jewish families of the war-stricken lands. j Mr. George 1). Levy is chairman 1 for Sumter county. - Will Appoint Hundreds of Income Tax Auditors. - i S Washington, Feb. 3.? The eollec- ' jtion of United States internal reve-* [ nue taxes is "a-big job. The Civil ; Service Commission said in a state-' ' ment Issued today that more than I 1 ! 20,00') government employees are engaged in this work. 7,S00 of I I whom are attached to the In-! j come Tax I "nit. This latter figure 1 includes more than 5.000 auditors jand inspectors of income tax re I turns who are employed in Wash ington and in the tield. ' Notwithstanding this large force! I the Civil Service Commission states' [thai the. Bureau of Internal Reve nue needs several hundred more: j auditors and inspectors for the In-j conn- Tax Unit, and that an exam- j : ination to Jill these positions will be | held throughout the country on] : Mar? h S. The entrance salaries < offered range from $1,800 to .$3.00" : a year. Advancement will depend I upon demonstrated efficiency. ! New appointees are given a six- ; ? weeks' course of training in the ; ; technicalities of the income tax: j law and are paid lull salary during! ! such instruct ion. ? Full information and application j j blanks may he obtained from the : United States Civil Service Commis ! sion. Washington, I). C, or from j : the Civil Service Board at the post - j ; fllce or customhouse in any city. 1 Examination to be held in city on March 8th, ,1022. Application! Planks furnished at Postoftice. t Bunin? lias Educational Boycot. Rangon. Dec. 2(>?Tin* National-j ?ist educational movement in Bur-j I ma which originated more than a j year- ago appears to he declining. Large numbers of students have i been leaving the Nationalist schools, land going back to the government! schools and*government-aided mis-; sion schools whence they came" A number of the Nationalist ; schools have been dosed chiefly: because of the difficulty of support- ? ing them without taxation, because: no university will recognize de- \ grees conferred by the Nationalist! College and because of the belief] held by many Burman Nationalists! that a permanent system of Bur-j mese education cannot be formed \ until complete home rule has been established. One "i" the first steps in the Nn-! tionnlisl educational movement I was a boycott of agitation against the University of Rangoon. How ever, Mating E, of Mandalay. one of the leaders of the boycott agi-i ration has Just asked in the Ran goon Tiroes that the boycott be j .-.?:!!< d off; 11.- declared that "ai this stage of the movement it is j manifest that an educational boy cott can produce dire consequences] to the nation. In Fur-ma the boy cott of one university means a boy cott of education. ; This staying aloof, like Advil- ? les sulking in his tern with the' peevishness of a child, is a had policy in public questions. Uni versity boycott is like the Austral- .' ran l.merang and now rebounds to the aggr< ssor. Fire at Jersey Cty .J< r.-:e\-('itv. Feb. \ - A fire which destroyed the Lehigh Valley rail- j road repair and supply shops here, caused a damage estimated at two hundt ? d thousand dollars. Walters eomjd.'vin thai there are no big lips sine?- prohibition cane in. This ir- because people are not tipsy now.?Washington Post. : When you want to have fun get | 1 crowd to telling their middle names. Former Premier Giol?tti Recalled King of Italy Advised by Par liament to Ask im to Form Ministry London. Feb. 3?The presidents of the Italian senate and chamber of deputies have, advised the king to ask former premier Giolitti to form a cabinet, a Rome centra! news dispatch says. Death in the Electric Chair Columbia. Feb. 3.?Curtis Frank lin, an Aiken county negro, who was convicted of criminal assault oa a white woman of Aiken, was electrocuted at the state peniten tiary here today shortly before noon. Out- Debt to Armenia. It is stated . by Mrs. W. S. Jennings, vice state chairman for Near East Relief that America and the Allies have not administered io the necessities of Armenia, as thai lit tie nation was led to believe they would, when they were en ticed into tin- war: at which lime they raised an army of 4OO.0O0 sol diers. Throwing it across the front 01' the German army, thus prevent ing the latter from reaching the <?,;! fields of Baku, thereby bringing the war to a close several mouths earlier ?h a it would have been possible 1^? have done otherwise. We owe a Christian duty she states 10 the remnant of ibis na tion, and all of South Carolina should see that this obligation is fully paid. It is further stated that S."?-per C< at of tin: Armenians are rural, and they eagerly grasp every op portunity offered for self support. Near Hast relief now has pro tected by the American Hag 118, 000 acres of land, which is being cultivated by modern American ag ricultural machinery under Ameri can agricultural experts: and these people are eagerly grasping the new ami advanced methods offered by the Americans. It appears now to lie only a short step 10 the- time when these Armenians, if given proper pro tection, will bo self supporting, self sustaining and on the road once more to happiness. "American Hospitals, a perma nent monument to the efforts of relief workers to better living con ditions in backward and turbu lent countries, are rising up every where throughout the Near Fast. Reports received periodically at headquarters of the Near Fast Re lief here constantly announce the establishment of new hospitals and health stations. "The most recent hospital open ed by workers of that organization was announced in reports receiv ed today from. Samson, a port on the Black sea. where the climate is unhealthy at the best. " "For t in- under-h o u r i s h e d, scantily clad, barelegged refugee youngsters, living in tile tilth of tiie stre/'ts during the day and sleeping in a fetid refugee camp at night, this climate is a quick breeder of malaria! dysentery, and tuberculosis.' "'To take care of these oases picked off the streets, as well as to ha mile the orphanage a new hos pital has been opened in a house near one 01 the Relief Orphanages. Here the timid, shivering, din encrusted bit of humanity is given its first contact with American cleanliness. The filthy refugee rags are burned. A hath, probably the first in many moons, leaves a com plexion several degrees lighter, but often db-closed a body coyeredvvith scabies. winch require prompt treatment. 1 leads usually require shaving, as the hair is a mass of nits, and the scalp covered with j scabs. Favus, a scalp disease; which takes months to eure, has developed in most cases. "it is almost impossible to cv-m-| pletely segreate the diseased chil dren in the orphanages. There are' so many eye. scalp ami skin diseas es, and disease spreads so rapidly. Here at the new hospital, however, diseases can be segregated and easily treated. The youngsters have j a garden to play in. u<-t proper food to buibl them up, and learn the] value of neatness, cleanliness and discipline. When cured and ready to enter the orphanages, therefore, they oui- klv fall into the daily pro- j gram of orphanage life." .All contributions should be sent to .Mr. Wm. M. Gibbes, State Treas- j urer Near Fart Etelief, 'J15 Liberty National Bank. Columbia, S. C. -? ? o Demand for Economy. Editor Daily Item: Referring to resolution adopted by Civic League would it not be a f^ood idea to discontinue the non-i necessary tree and park nurse and adopt the league nurse who docs more good in a month than the I tree and park nurse does in a y<aar. It seems by the financial conuition of the city that we arc laboring! under about as much burden as. We can stand under. The cry is for reitef from and not an :iddi- : tion to our burdens: I am heartily ' in favor of ti e change as suggested ' a' ?o v ??. Rcsp, eifully, EDGAR SKINNER. Grand opera is almost :is good is a phonograph record atter you vt accustomed to tin- absence of hat tunny scratching noise.? u'M-iicstrr Times Cnion. ft would be great if some people tail ed as well as they do loud. New brooms sweep ?hau; but new dresses don't sweep at all. "Women who paint are dishon est." says the Salvation Army com mander. They do steal a yood look. The Boll Weevil and The Cotton Outlook. The price; of cotton in the tnter ' national market and the position I of the United States as the world's ' P-ading producer will ultimately be (determined by the?-'cost>of produc [ tion under new conditions necessi tated for tii" control of the boll I weevil, tin- National 'Bank of Com ?merce. in New York believes. "The destructiveh'ess of the boll 1 weevil and the difficulty and cost I of combating :: make clear the ; grave conseouenecs of the invasion i of**"this insect on ?he economic fu ture of the cotton states." the bank ' says in the February number of its : magazine. Commerce Monthly. ! "Not only every farmer but every I banker and business man in the [cotton belt is obliged to consider [ the' weevil in "formulating his j course of action. "The invasion of the boll weevil into the American cotton bei? will I have an effect en do pri'-e of cot I ton throughout :he world. Th*s [area iias normally introduced about I per < ent. of the total cotton sup ? I plv. Anv fa'-tor which add* j greatly to the cost of poduction or In basic commodity infljtcts an eco fhOmic loss. The American farm i er will continue to produce Cotton. [ How much lie will produce will [depend on the effects of better I methods in the face of new condi tions. Whatever the ultimate ef jfeets of the weevil on the total i Am*:riean crop may be, that crop j will apparently be produced at a I Considerably higher cost. ; "Such progress has been made in methods of fighting the. insect j as to offer fair assurance that it j may yel prove possible to grow as ? much cotton per~scre under boll j weevil conditions as before the in ! vaslon. but production under the. I new conditions is much more oosi ? ly than under the old. The labor cos; of the methods necessary to control is so great that a perma nent reduction in the acreage plant ed 10 cotton in the United States I seems inevitable. _ '< 'The world's supply of cotton and the ultimate working out of the situation in the southern states I will thus depend to ah unknown [degree cn the efteols of this higher ; poduction cesl on cotton produe-^ [tion in other countries. Higher j cost in the United Stat.se, however, i will greatly change competitive [conditions of production for the [international market. The world i will not lack for an adequate su& [ ply of cotton. What the ultimate effect of the boll weevil may be j as to the shari- of the world' sup I ply coming from the United States i cannot as yen be foreseen." The depredations of the boll weevil, the hank, points out, will ! tend to further crop diversification ; in the southern states. "Not all of fhe results of the i destruetiyehess of this insect have been bad," the National Bank of Commerce jn New York says. "There are wayV in which, the cot ton stales have benefited but wheth er the sum of effects is good or ill a new system of agriculture must be faced. In important sections lite transition has already been made. Before the coming of the bob weevil southern agriculture ? throughout its history had been based on the-one-crop systme, and ! since the invention of the cotton [gin that crop had been cotton. ' Wherever practiced, a one crop sys I tern, regardless of what that one . ciop may be, results in land -im poverishment and subjects an agri cultural population to such ftnan ;cial hazards as/to make sound eco ; nomie conditions Impossible. "In those parts of the south where the weevil is Veil establish ed and has been most destructive tin- lesson has been learned. A county seat in Alabama has raised a monument to the boll weevil, be cause the community is at last on a sound economic foundation, as a result of the abandonment of the one-crop system. in northern Florida, in parrs^of Geogia and else where in i he areas of earlier in festation, corn and hogs, peanuts, alfalfa, beef cattle and dairy cows, sweet potatoes, soy beans and oth <r crops are to som.- extent replac ing cotton. "It is true that as measured by the actual acreage, statistics indi cate tbai in the aggregate diversi fication has been but little increas ed. The fact remains, however, thai whether or not the decreased cotton acreage of ,11121 is to be taken. an earnest of the future, production of food for home con sumption has greatly increased in the South.. Packing plants are springing up, and tin- farmer who once bought his pork at the general store from tin- proceeds of his cot t/on is selling his hogs for cash, and is likewise buying his household supplies for cash. Kitchen gardens are the order of the day. Cattle are tmpoving in quality, and many farmers arc testing various new crops in small acreages. "Tb.utherh farmer will not permit the bob weevil to drive him on; of the business of growing cotton, lie will diversify' his crops somew hat^ meanwhile gradually learning effectiveness of weevil control, growing orvly as much cot ton as h-- can handle profitably under the more arduous conditions of production which, he now" faces. The transition will inevitably strike at the roots of southern economic Life. how.v r. Diversified agricul ture requires skill, not only in the mechanical features of the handl ing of varied crops, hut much more in farm ni:inga 1 neat7 S y 0 $ _ _ N..(? in farm ma n:i ;;< !:e-m. including thai of live stock. The social ef fects e; these new requirements cannot bo foreseen, but whatever they % i:i:i\ )>? the southern states are rich in potential agricultural tMXSsibilities. and i; is aot unlikely that they arc just about to enter upon their r< al prosperity." In .? tew generations instead of F. F. \. and Mayflower Pilgrim ancestr\ ijie really wealthy will proudly refer to their I. o. \> forefathers?Independem Order of LSoorl ggers.?Saginaw .V.ws Cour ier.