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The Watchman and Scuthron Published Wednesday and Satur <jay by Osteen Publishing ^Company, . Sumter, S. G. Terms: $2.00 per annum?in advance/ . Advertisements: One Square, first insertion _.$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates, ?v ^ All communications wh'ch sub serve .private interests will ?e charged for as advertisements. h Obituaries and tributes of re spect will be charged f?r. The- Sumter Watchman was -founded in 185G ar.d the True Southroa .in I860. The Watchman ands Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium . in, Sumter. .-r-r COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. British 'labor has gone far in the j recent manifesto submitted to Pre- : mier Lloyd George by a group of j labor leaders and labor members j of parliament. The manifesto calls j for the establishment by the Brit- j ish government of industrial courts) which would function like the ex- j isting civil courts, and to which i both capital and labor would be \ complied, to submit their differ-1 ? ences for adjudication, instead of; resorting to the lock-out or strike, i The labor statesmen insist that they w~nt to see co-operation be-! ? tweeaiEmployers and employees,; replacing.-the industrial warfare of the past;- because they believe that industrial peace is the only way to revive business and maintain de cent living standards. They con demn - equally unreasonable de mands of employers and unreason able .demands of workmen, and be lieve that there can be no way of reconciling their ? opposing view points except through impartial tribunals'with full authority to act. This manifesto is admittedly the . "work, of '-"moderates," whose views differ widely from those of the radi cal labor'leaders. It is believed, that it represents the present sen , .*? ?. .. - ? .1 - i timent; or at least the developing} sentiment; of the majority of Brit-! ish workers. In the United States this princi-j pie of compulsory arbitration has j never found favor with labor. It j is being fought vigorously in Kan- j sa-s. It was condemned again j only the;otker day by. Samuel j Gompers:- Yet there is a growing; feeling among moderates , in this j country, as in England,, that there i is no other way to bring peace to! ? industry, except the way that has brought peace1 to civilized people in nearly all their other relations with each other. , j S> i../-.-. - ? in- j _ I There is a new book which busi '* rteiss men and women in the United, ^States might profitably read. It is . "America vs. Europe in Industry." j ...written by Dwight T. Farnham, an' ' -industrial engineer who has spent J 'months studying conditions and; visiting- industrial leaders in Eu- ! ?.rope-' One of the many interesting! facts brought out is that an Eng-j lishman budgets his time much! more carefully than the average American. The appointment sys tem is followed rigidly. In order j to sec a man of any consequence j 1 an appointment must be made. If i ? at the end of the allotted time the j mtervjewer has not completed his j business the appontment is conclud- t ed nevertheless, and a later one! may he made to finish the matter, j " The author says: ; ( "There is no stimulant to the' omission of irrelevant details and to keeping well to the matter in hand eqUal to the knowledge that in exactly 20 minutes the next man will arrive and your time wlil be up." Americans pride themselves upon their brevity and ability to go straight to a point, yet it is safe to say the average American business man would do less talking and there would be less sitting about in wait ing rooms if office hours were bud getted according to the present English system. i BUDGETING BUSINESS HOURS. GOOD TASTE FOR GIRLS The supervisor of home econom ics in the schools of a large city re ports a great improvement this year in the dress of high school girls. She says through the or ganization of the students them selves the matter has been taken in hand. Naturally, this works better than any "sumptuary legislation" laid on from above. The supervisor was asked by one group of girls to name the details that she considered untidy, those she thought in poor taste and those ?she thought immodest. She made this list, and sent it to all the schools with which she is connect ed. Untidy?Shoe laces broken and tied together, safety pins showing pins used in place of buttons, run* over heels, short ends of loose straight hair, spots and stains on clothing, wrinkled garments an" dusty hats. In poor taste?Exaggerated hair dressing, expensive jewelry with an inexpensive costams, silk stockings with a gingham dress, white shoes und stockings with a dark dress, bracelets on the out-side of a glove, the use of a- vanity case in public, large plaids on a fat girl, imita tions of all kinds?cheap laces and jewelry, going down town without a hat. Immodest?Too short skirts, too low necks, too thin waists, con spiciuous underweai^, not enough underwear to conceal an uncorset ed figure, display of bare knees. One of the intercs'.ing things I about this list is the small amount! of money needed to be tidy, in good taste and modest. A few cents j for shoe laces and buttons and j cleaning fluid, with the aid of a j little labor, will turn the untidy j girl into the tfdy* one. Untidiness, j moreover, makes for scatter-brain- j edness, and the girl who has lift ed herself from the one class into j the other will undoubtedly find \ her school marks improving. To be in good taste, one needs only' a little sense ?.nd forethought j in buying new things, and a little j restraint in the matter of "show- j ing off." It is safe to prophesy that the girl who is tidy and tasteful will, with out thinking much about it, devel op a sense of modesty in her cloth-! ing and conduct. The orderly, taste ful girl will find that the simple and graceful clothes she now choos- j es are long enough at both ends and trim enough and substantial j enough to fulfill the other require- j ments without being clumsy orj hampering. - RUBBER GLASS. i - j Malleable glass, which would be j tough but not brittle, and could be' easily shaped or welded in any form, has long been a dream of glass makers. There have been | many rumors of it, but apparently j nobody has yet discovered the sc- i cret of making it. Possibly nobody j ever will. But here comes a sub- j stitut^e which may serve the same purpose. An Englishman named Fordyce j Jones, a rubber expert now in this j country, is credited with the inven- j tion of a "rubber glass" and a ! process whereby the rubber may ? be wet-molded and either be made j transparent or given any desired; color by the use of aniline dye. [ Samples exhibited in London are j said to have aroused more interest than any other discovery of recent times. i The possibilities of such a ma-j terial, if it has the t qualities ascribed to it, are vast. Presumab- i ly this rubber glass may be made either soft or hard, like ordinary j rubber. If so, it will probably re- 5 ]>iace our present rubber, glass and j celluloid for almost innumerable j purposes. It should be, for numer- j ous uses, more durable than either j glass or celluloid. One of its adap- ! tations is said to be that of a vir totally everlasting varnish for wood j or paper. It may be an interesting mental exercise to figure out other | uses. . THE ARMED ROBBER. The death penalty for armed [ robbers is urged by a judge of the Brooklyn, X. Y.. county court. The judge holds that every arm ed robber, whether he be burglar or footpad, is a potential murder er. He finds in his duty of admin- i istering justice that the number of! armed criminals is increasing rap- j idly, and he feels that the way to stop the performance is to make j punishment sufficiently drastic to give cause for thought even to the hardened. The judge may be right. A very brief perusal of the papers from any part of the country will reveal an alarming number of robberies committed by armed men. and of ? shootings in connection with these attacks. A mounting list of dead policemen adds its gruesome testi mony us to whether the robber goes armed ? to kill. No action which will clear up the situation in any, community is too severe. TWO DEEP WATERWAYS A bill has been introduced in ; Congress by Representative Reed ! of New York, calling for the con-j ? struction of an oceanic ship canal ] between Lake Erie and the Hudson ; river, largely along the route of j the present state barge canal. He ; and other proponents of this route maintain that it would cost the gov- j eminent nothing, in the long run. ? because the expense could hi- re- j paid by the sale <>f hydro eR-ctric ; 0 ! power developed along the route, without the charging of tolls. This is obviously an effort on the | part of New York, to substitute a i deep waterway ot its own lor the 1 proposed Great Lakes?St. Law rence waterway. It is a natural enough desire, and there is no rea son for believing that the expense of the New York project could not i I be met in the manner suggested. ! It does not seemjikely that Cud ' gress will be persuaded to abandon the St. Lawrence project, because ;that route has been preferred by the experts of the internationaL, com mission, and because the possibili (ties of profitable waterpower devel ! opment in that proaect are consid : ered still greater. * I At the same time, it is not evi ; dent that either of these projects need supplant the other. It" either could he constructed ? "thout cost ing anything, why not build both, and let the deep sea traffic take whatever course it likes? - ? ?#> ?? A HARVEST PROPHECY. A prophecy which should be of I interest to American farmers is! marde by Sir William Henry Bev-j ertage, director of the London : School of Economics and Political Science. He warns England that! the year 1923 may h?- "destined to repeat something like the experi ences of the year 1315, the year ofj the worst and most general bar-1 vest failure known in European! history." Sir William is no long*haired visionary. He is a practical sei-1 entist, who has arrived at-his con-' elusions by purely scientific meth- j Ads. Tracing back through cen- j turves the price of wheat in western ? and central Europe, he has found ? that a cycle of peak prices has oc-' curred with remarkable uniformity ; at intervals of 15.3 years. There j has been but one break in this se ries of cycles, he says, in nearly 4 00 | years. He naturally infers that i peak prices regularly follow poor: harvests. The-present cycle of 1T>.3 : years apparently ena ? about two { years from now. That would imply j a disastrous harvest immediately preceding it. which is to say, ^cxt | year. He has no satisfactory ex- j planation of the phenomenon, but j suggests that it may possibly beI due tc a recurrence of certain solar! conditions. Americans, like Europeans, may j take it for what they think it is worth. If any American farmer is j convinced that the greater part of i Europe is really to have as bad a j harvest in 1923 as southern Rus sia! had last year, the obvious thing; is to so ahead and raise all the ! grain he can this year and next. ? m * - Sweet Potatoes Sent to King and j Premier. Charleston, Feb. 7.?Southern sweet potatoes, served in one of the appetizing dishes made famous j by Dixie housewives, will soon be on the tables of King George and ; Premier Lloyd (George of Great * Britain, specially prepared pack- j ages for them having been among; a shipment of 2,000 pounds, for- i warded from Charleston to Liver- ! pool on the steamship Wekika. The Southern sweets are being sent to England for the purpose oi introducing this excellent food staple through the joint efforts of. the Southern Railway System, the . Carolina Company, steamship for- ;' warding ssgeiifs of this city. and ' the South Carolina Sweet Potato j Association. The potatoes were packed in 1 five pound cartoons, (-ach contain- j ing a copy of the attractive hook-; let recently published by the South ern Railway System, showing reci pes for preparing sweet potatoes in i the most approved Southern'styles, and other literature giving inforrna- j tion as to the food value of the! sweet potato and the extent of its growth and use in the south. Arrangements have been made j for the distribution of these pack-i ages through selected British deal ers and it is expected that they will ; prove so attractive to the families' who get them that an additional! 'market for southern sweet potato growers will bo established. Forsakes Luxury Ivlrs. Annie C. Chan is at work In the New Bedford Textile School al though her father is a millionaire coal dealer in Shanghai. She ex pects to return home soon to aid her husband, M. C. Chan, efficiency expert und graduate of Netv York University. *> ??<>??> Crop forecast: Farmers will raise Cain. The mo*>t slushy pari Of snow is the poetry it starts. -*>-o ? Two divided by one equals di vorce. LESPEDEZA AS A SU^TITUTE FOR COTTON Lespedeza, one of the South's greatest legumes, is the title of an interesting article prepared for the Lespedeza Seed Growers" Coopera tive Association, Inc., by Dr. R. E. Lewis* Bains, Louisiana, a promi nent TOrmer who is specializing in the growing of this profitable crop. While the name. Lespcdeza, was supposed to* have been given this plan: by botanists in 1800; it was not until 1SS0 that it received the attention its merits warranted, as ;i commercial farm product under the development of Col. J. TL Mc Gehocv of Laurel Hill, Louisiana, who recognized its value as a feed for farm animals and as a soil builder, and who sang its praises for years. Its place in southern agriculture is due largely to Col. I McGehee, says Dr. Lewis. Lespedeza is an annual, maturing ; its seed in the fall, which shatter j readily and reseed the ground for ' the corning yera. Normally, these ' seeds which shatter i>ff at maturing I time remain dormant until the ' warmth and moisture germinate j them. It is the practice to plant i from February 15 to May 1. The stems and branches of the j Lespedeza plant are slender and the leaves small but very numer ous. A good crop will grow to the height of 15 to 18 inches, and on fertile soils 30 inches in not un known. It is estimated that a good stand of Lespedeza will represent' a ton of hay for each C inches of i its growth. This plant will grow on almost j any of tin- types of soil in the cot ton holt, but of course like most other plants does best on a more,' fertile, well drained soil. It is i thought that no plant is more suit- j able to follow cotton, as Lespedeza j brings the soil back to its former state of fertility. The custom of seeding Lespedeza i with oats has become more or less I a fixed hal:H among the producers, as the oats, by virtue of its shade keeps down weeds and grasses and i allows the Lespedeza to make rapid j growth. However, just as good crops can be produced when the j seed is sown alone; but seeding I with oats has the advantage of giv- I ing the planter two crops from the ! same ground during the year, with ; but one cost of cultivation. Ex- ! perience indicates that one bushel of seed (25 lbs.} per acre is about j the right amount to be planted. )c requires no inoculation, as the '\ rough little jackets containing the j seeds carry enough from the fields from which they are taken to" in-! sure perfect inoculation. No special soil preparation is necessary, although U has been i demonstrated be vend a doubt that j soils well supplied with phosphates j will produce the greatest growth. The method of harvesting the' hay will depend some.'hat on the! grade of hay- desired. In any j event, the chief? effort should be oi- | rected to the preservation -of the i leaves upon the stem as they cor.sti- j tute a great part of the feeding ? value. Cutting is not started unt;l the plants are in full bloom, and , the hay should not be cut while the \ dew is on or while wet from rain. ! Little need be said in favor of j Lespedeza hay -it:* a feed for ail kinds of stock after looking at the following comparative analyses: ! Timothy contains 2.S per cent pro ?! tein, 28.3 per cent carbohydrates and 1.4 per cent fats. Lespedeza j contains 7.G per cent protein. 21.0 , per cent carbohydrates and 1.8 per cent fats. As compared with otner legume hays it has the advantage of being free from woody growth, permitting its entire consumption*; and is free from the extreme laxa tive properties which make some h gume buys undsirable for work ; stock. When used as a pasture''with j other grasses it helps tp make a '. balanced ration and phould be found in every pasture in the j South, thinks Dr Lewis. As a s< il I) ilder it ranks with other legumes. -? ? ? Not So Serious - Mike got a job moving some kegs j of powder, and, to the alarm of his | foreman, was discovered smoking at his work. "Je-ru-salem!" exclaimed the j foreman. "Do you know what hap- j pened when a man smoked at his! job some years ago? There was | an explosion that blew up a dozen men." "That couldn't happen here," re turned Mike, calmly. "Why not?" "Cause there's only you and me," was the reply. Novelties in Wool Hosiery at the Suniter Dry Goods Co. ?Adv. -?^- j New York woman who wondered ! if robbers would get $30,000 she had <<r.t of the bank found tiny would. "Where are the bootleggers head ed?" asked an asker. To the cem etery to see some old customers, maybe. ? ? ? If it takes five years for Japan ?to get out of Shantung she must* 5e getting something besides her- j ?elf out. Another way to reduce is worry too much about business. * ? ? Woman who asks divorce because hubby fed her on peanuts doesn't want to be a monkey any longer. New and Pretty "Things" What we mean by "Things" refer to the Stylish Capes, Coat Suits and Dresses now on sale at the Sumter Dry Goods Co., and the selling has already begun In earnest. 1 j Richmond Hotel Horror i ; - Guests Trapped in Building?j Thirty-Three Missing and Unknown Number Dead i - Richmond, Va., Feb. 7.?Six j known dead, thirty-three reported; missing or unaccounted for and ? twenty-eight known injured, four- : teen of whom are believed to be ' fatally hurt, is the tell of the- fire which swept over an area of half - a city block hero early this morn ing, destroying the Lexington Ho tel and several oilier buildings and entailing a loss of $2C0,000. The lire was discovered at 4:10 o'clock this morning in the hotel ; and rapidly spread to adjoining property, other buildings being de-1 stroyed or gutted being the Pearl; Laundry, the plant of Clyde W. Saunders, printers, the Savings Bank of Richmond, Branch, Cabell &. C<*. and E. it. Laferty & Co., : and the Cooperative Producers' Ex change. Twenty-two patients arc at one hospital, the Virginia, three j are at the Memorial, two at the Johnston Willis and one at the Grace Hospital. At police headquarters a force of! men still is busy in an effort to j cheek off those accounted for on the list of guests in the hotel. From seventy-five to eighty-five persons Were known to have been in the \ ho;ei when the fire began. The dead are: Hiram S. Austin, Fincastle, Va., \ M. J. Fox, Williamsport, Pa. I L. -M. Tho: las, sheriff of Aloe marie county, Virginia. E. T. Cox. Richmond, Va. F. L. Shaw, C. & o. Railway con-' ductor, Richmond, Va. T. D. Piercer, Yonkers, X. Y. The ' bodies of the last named three still j are in the ruins, according to po lice. Those reported missing or unac counted for follows: 1 i Samuel Ash, Richmond; D. E. ! Ann s, Charleston, S. C; C. C. Lber Iy, address not given; E. J. Rush, | Richmond: W. E. Hubble. Rich-! mend; T. F. Riley, South Caro-j Una, I. H. Crowder, and Ii. G. Ca-! boon, Fincastle, Va.; E. T. Carter,! United States navy; T. W. Jones, Norfolk; Mr3. T. W. Jones. Nor folk; T. W. Crannen, address not given; T. F. Hiftiard, Riehmond; II. O. Bailey, address not given; Frederick Keller, United States navy; T. L. Parker, Atlanta; T. 1). | Turrier. address not given; J. L. Kellam. Hampton, Va.; C. B. Bow-; en, Richmond; C. W. Hathorne, ad-1 dress not given; E. F. Taylor, Jr.. North Carolina; J. R. Nelson. Flor- ? ence, S. C; T. R. Jones. Norfolk: T. T. Leftwich, S. Hamlin. und E. I T. Cox, addresses not given; V. L. Shaw. Richmond. Those reported injured arc: .1. N. linger. Hoyden. Va., injury to back: John R. Cochran. New York; E. P. Howell, Norfolk: Thomas Flagan, Brooklyn: George Cutter, Buckroe Beach, Va.; James Folden, Patton. W. \'u.; B G. Wright, Newport News; Elmer Dif lenbaugh. Newport News; B. if. Trice, Globe. V'a.; Hubert Dodd, Lexington, V'a.; Joe Webb. Fin castle; Va., injury to right foot and hip; Andrew Calles, Buffalo; .i. c. Harival. Portland, .Maine: A. if. Harrison. St. Louis, bead, left hand and ankle injured: .Mrs. Clara Cochran. New York: W. W. Bume, Spartanburg, s. C: C. Goodman, Richmond. Ky.; Ernes; Staples, Richmond; Chas. Benton, Wilson. N. C: J. E. Ford. Rocklngham, N. C; T. Lease. Hinton, Va.; M. A. Austin. Philadelphia, Seventy-two guests were regis tered at the hotel. Smoke from the stairs of the basement gave the first warning of the fire to T. 1). Frey, night clerk, who sounded an alarm. Sumoning the fire ap paratus, he returned to the hotel and aroused many guests. Improvements1 were being made in the building. The telephone switchboard had been disconnected 10 permit new installations and the elevator had not heeji operated in several weeks. There was n<> op portunity to warn tln.se occupying the rooms ?>n the upper floors. Fanned by a draught in the tem porarily abandoned elevator shaft, the fire leaped toward the roof. In a moment the five avenues of es cape?a front, center and rear staircase and two fire escapes at front and rear?were cut off. Guests rushed from their rooms to find the dimly lighted hallways and corridors filled with smoke. The stiars were pits of flames, roaring upward through the semi-darkness. A few found time to seize blank ets and other wraps, but the ma jority were clad only in their night clothing. Tho windows of the ho tel were filled with frenzied guests climbing outward on the sills to escape the creep of the- flames and crying for help. ? ? ? Board For Federal Prisoners Columbia. Feb. 9.?Randolph McAdams, of Washington, federal prison inspector, is in Columbia working- against a bill in the leg islature, introduced by Representa tive Claude N. Sapp, to require the federal government to pay a mini mum of $1 a day for federal pris oners placed in county prisons in South Carolina. Mr. McAdams stated that the government opposes this because of the fact that the average price* paid for the boarding of federal prisoners in count;/ jails is approximately fifty cents. This average is maintained in many counties of this state now, but the bill in the legislature would make the minimum charge of $1.00. -? ? ?o Novelties in Wool Hosiery at the Sumter Dry Goods Co. ?Adv. The sun may never set on the British flag, but India does. Ten Million Bond Issue For Building School Houses is Now Proposed Columbia, Feb. 8.?A bill bear ing the joint authorship of F. G. Harris of Spartanburg, J. R. ? Bryson of Greenville and T. J. Hen ' drix Of Spartanburg, providing a SI 0.000,000 state bond issue bear ing 5 per cent per annum coupons, j for the purpose of erecting school ; buildings in South Carolina, was I introduced in the house of repre sentatives today and referred to the ways and moans committee. ! Tin- money is to be loaned to school districts by the state treasurer un I der (he designation of the state isuperintendent of education and; j the authorization of the stale; J board of education. Each school \ district borrowing such money is j j to refund it in twenty equal an- j i nual installments. Trustees of Univer sity to Be Increased _ j Columbia, Feb. '?>.?The senate I j today passed the bill to increase the | i number of trustees of. the University j from seven to twenty-one. The I j vote on the bill was twenty to ; j thirteen. Debate on the luxury tax j i bill waged ?'fiercely in the house i and was carried over to tomorrow, i : Representative O'Rourke of Char- i j lesion has introduced in the house j a bill to prohibit the telephone j companies from charging in ad- j ' vance for ser vice. Representative ! . Barmvell has in the house a bill to ? j require all water plants, public and i i private, to have their water examin-j ! ed once every quarter by the state j board of health, and also by a. pri- j i vate ch&mist. The hill is advocat- j I ed by the state board of health. ; i -<1~* COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON. Yes;cJys j Open Eigli Low Close Close Jan. .15.61 15.55 15.55 March .. .17.35 !6.37 17.01 17.02 17.10. May . .. 17.C0 17.02 16.63 16.73 16.80 j July _ . 16.53 18.58 16.29 16.29 16.39 Oct.13.87 F5.90 15.72 15.73 15.74 I Dec 15.68 15.73 15.65 15.65 15.65 ( Snots ort. L7. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. YesWfrs ! Open nijrh Low Close Closa March . .16.21 16.26 15.94 15.34 !6.<5l j May .(6.25 13.25 15.87 15.87 1-3.00 July .15.97 15.58 15.60 15.62 15.77 | Oct. .15.40 15.40 14.97 15.05 15.15 | Dec.15.06 15.06 15.03 15.03 15.05 Spots up, I'j.O'J. LIVERPOOL C0TT8N. ' January . 9.15 : March . 9.61 May . - . 9-.60 July . 9.86 October . 9.30 December . 9-20 Sales S.0GO. Middling 9.64; Coed Mid- j <lb3S 10-20. _ j Oysters are noted for their si- ; [lence because you seldom see one ; stewed. The Worthiness of Boys? Club Work. Clemson College. Feb. 8.?The presem condition ol" the agricultur al interests of our state makes ^it imperative that we devote our ef forts to the things which are es sential and timely. It is no time tor indifference or inaction. In tl*e prompt a?-rion which is so neces sary to the program of getting things back to normal, a natural outcome will be a tendency to turn temporarily from a great many worthy causes, says 13. O. Wil liams, Assistant State Ijoys' Club agent, who thinks that there has never been a time when the boys on the farms needed encourage ment and help as they do now. Certain commodities are sellisg at a narrow margin of profit 'and others below the cost of production. This fact demands that the farmers practice efficiency and business judgment in the handling of their farms in order to realize a com fortable living. And farmers are setting a higher standard for their sons to li\o up to than has hereto fore been the case. Thi3 means that the boys must lie .rained ahd be instructed in the best methods of farming. It is to be realized that each year a good many boys begin farming for their first time, and that it is not wise for them to enter upon the threshold of life without some training and ex preienee. Hoys' Club Work, when property carried on, gives this training and business experience. The boy likes to have things to call his own and to use as his own. He is forever working and playing with his pets and other belongings. Why? Be cause they are his. And the im pressions which he receives as* a result of his own investigation will last longer and have more influ ence in shaping his life than any other impressions. It matters not what problem we are trying to im press upon the youngster, we must stress( personal initiative and try to get him to learn new ideas 'for himself. But the matter of own ership is one of the strongest things which pulls the boy into club work, and it should be encouraged as far as possible. The club work attempted this year aught to be done with a very specific purpose in mind, and should be sufficient and remunerative, and helpful in carrying out the pro-? gram of constructive progressive farming. ????>?? American Legion Dnacc. The Sumter Post Xo. 13, of \he American Legion is to stage a dance on the night of February 23, at Bryan's hall, the music being: furnished by the celebrated Xew man Musical organization. This orchestra isr widely known through out the CJhited States and has for several seasons been making dance records for the Columbia Phono graph Co. More Money For Through the m Have You Joined? Campaign Now On to Secure Signatures in Sumter County* Canvassers in Each Community* The Tobacco Association Will Sell This Year's Tobacco Crop. How About Cotton? WHAT IT IS An association of, by and for South Carolina Cotton Growers, formed for the one purpose of selling the cotton of its members co-ope ratively, through its own specialized mar keting expert, secur ing for its members the best possible re turns for their labor. READ THIS ENDORSEMENT. Slimier, S. C, February 4, 1922. Messrs. J. F. Williams and E. W. Dabbs, Jr., City. Gentlemen: We are pleased to know that you propose an exten sive campaign of Sumter County to acquire members in the South Carolina Cotton G Association. We approve of the eiafion and are of the opinion that the time has been reached for farmers to adopt a system of co-opera tive marketing of their products in order to reap the full benefit of their crops. Yours truly, lie Sinntcr Trust Company, By 1. C. Strauss.. [.'resident. rhe City National Bank. iw G. A. Lemmon, I 'resident. "lie Commercial Bank & Trust Company. By R. A. Brad ham. President, rile National Hank of Sumter. By J; I'. Booth. ] 'resident. The National Bank of South Carolina. By C. <Ffcow land. President. WHAT IT WILL DO 1. Grade, class and staple each bale. 2. Pool each grade rSof??|a?<i sell by pools in quantity. 3. Sell direct to spinner where pos sible e 1 i m i nating several speculative profits and increas ing growers' profit without increasing cost to consumer. 4. Warehouse all' cotton, thereby re ducing "country The Peoples Bank. By L. D. Jennings. President. First National Bank. By .Will O'Donnell, President. The Y'ounjr Men's Business Leajcue. By 1 [erbert A Moses. President. Sumter County hamber of Commerce. By K. S. Booth. President. !>a\id I). Moisc, ji Bciscr. I damage." C. J. Jackson. JOIN NOW. CONTRACTS CAN BE SECURED FROM ranch MEER OF COMMERCE