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i Building Up a New Industry ? > . - ?-s ^ The Business Men of Sumter Cooperating With vthe Farmers Business men of Sumter in co operation with the farmers of the county are determined to establish dairying: on a sound basis; because they realize the tremendous value x?f dairy products as an article of diet and because the dairy indus try lias in it economic elements. which make for greater stablitiy. i it-ss fluctuation and fewer dopres- j sions \han most other industries. The consumption of a liberal : amount of milk, butter, cheese and j r.-ice' cream will mean- a reduced j -giocors bill, fewer visits paid by! tlfe doctor, more happiness, health . and efficiency to the community. The efforts made by the Sumter I ^?"Creaiiaery company to . expand its ? business are thoroughly apprecia- j ted by the leading citizens of Sum- j ter. The business and social or ganizations are behind the move- ? inent and are determined to add! one more local enterprise to its ? already long list of successful un- i dertakings. i - The Chamber of Commerce is be- j hind the movenTent, and especially j the Sumter County Committee is j leaving no stone unturned to make ; this one of the leading dairy cen ters of the United Stares. The Rotary Chin of Sumter is j satisfied that a successful creamery ! will mean more prosperity to the , farmer, better nourished children, J health^ adults and prouder Sum- ! ter citizens. And the Young Men's Business , League sees in the growth of the ; dairy industry a. stabilization of ; economic conditions generally in the country. AH are interested in the growth : and development of this great new industry. With such enthusiasm'shown the i Clemson College Extension De- ! partment in Copcration with the United States Department of Agri- ! culture feels that the farmers and j everyone responsible for the sue- | r eess of the dairy industry is deser- j Ving of every possible encourage ment, and is willing to assist in ? every possible manner. The wonderful cooperation ; shown by the organizations men- ; tioned and the backing the leading ? bankers are giving to the promo- \ ters and prospective promoters of the dairy industry indicates a de- j termination on the part/ of the ! Business men of Sumter. to see the j industry- succeed. ' The increased use and oonsump- I tion of dairy products produced j and manufactured locally means | putting into circulation more money, and it eases the economic | situation all around. It is the pride of good Sumter ? citizens to encourage local enter- j prise and to use locally maunfae- ; ? lured, products in preference to the imported article. --? ? ? ? Danzig Fast Becoming Interna tion- j alized Dantrfg. Jan. 4.?This old German 1 ?ort on the Baltic, created a free, city by the Treaty of Versailles^in j order to give the Poles access to the ? sea. is becoming internationalized j and a center of conflicting inter- ; ests. One of Danzig's largest stores ad- j Vertises that nine languages are j epeken by its clerks, and th'e^ cof- j ..ors ofj England. France, Poland, j Jlaiy. Sweden. Lithuania. Spain, j Korway and Denmark greets visi ' tors at the main entrance. lz is seldom that the Poles and thp Danzigers agree on anything. I and on this account tht^ League of ! Nations has a High Commissioner. General Haking, an English army ; officer, on t-he ground to settle dis- | pates when possible. The Dan- ! zigers always contend the Poles! want .too much and the Poles say i the Danzigers continually are trying to give them the worst of it. General Haking says relations ? between the two are really improv- ' ing and that in the long run the Poles will have all that is due them by inter-allied agreement. that the business and life of some 300, ??eo Danzigers will go on about as , usual, and that Danzig will pros per in future as a free city just as the framers of the Treaty of Ver sailles intended. ( But the great change & the Kfe of Danzig during the last year and a half has not been without re sentment. Recently the Danzigers have been openly opposing the in flux of the Poles on the contention that unless restrictions are en forced Polish workmen will soon force thousands of German labor ers out of their positions. Thousands of Poles have enter ed f>anzi;r for business purposes or in connection with government af fairs by terms of convention ami agreements between Poland and the free city of Danzig under the new arrangements. , Danzig has its own postage stamps, but the German mark continues as the ehy's currency. In many connections where- the Danzigers have t he upper hand the name of the city is spelled "Danzig" which is German, but wherever the Poles have the say it is spelled "Gdansk" which is pol ish. Danziarik newspapers boast *<f the iowito cosmopolitan aspect brought about as an outcome of the war. A touch of night life and gaiety has been given the city by introduction of eabnirets and :it Zoppot. ;i suburb, gambling resorts by the sea have become quite fa- ? qqous throughout Central Europe. Algebra is being used in framing the new tariff "X" marks the spot where the imports fall. -o ? - The man who, at his wife's re quest, has been Sentenced to spend Sundays in jail, will feel :it home. Well, if France can't depend up on C/hcle Sam s arms, perhaps she Still can pull his leg. Mill Workers 5f v Discuss Strike Conference, to Be Held Totf?y m Rhode Island With Manufacturers Providence, R. I.. Feb. ?An nouncement was made today by National Organizer James A. Dick of the Amalgamated Textile Work ers of America, who is conducting the strike of more than 2.500 cot ton mill workers in the Puwtuckot valley, that a series of conferences have been arranged for tomorrow between representatives of the strikers and the mill operators to attempt to arrive at a settlement. The textile workers went On a strike after a wage reduction Of 20 per cent. Labor organizations both in the Pawtucket valley and in the Blackstone valley, the two chief textile centers in the state, gave over the day to a series of or ganization meetings*. ? Thomas P. McMahon. president of the United Textile Workers of America, the labor organization active in the Blackstone valley, addressed a meeting of union delegates in i Pawtucket this afternoon. While no new walkouts were announced, plans were discussed for asking the aid of other branches of or- ; ganized labor in the fight against i the wage reduction. It was reported today by Presi dent McMahon that outside the ! Pawtucket valley between S.000 1 and. 0.0 00 textile workers are out) Of work in Rhode Island. 5,000 of \\hieh are members of labor or ganizations. x Quck Action Promised <?- . ? i ! Washington.. Feb. 6.?Xegotia- ; tions looking toward the refunding of the elevn billion dollar debt owed the United States by foreign ! nations will be inaugurated at a very , early date, it was stated to day at the treasury. Treasury officials said that whiflt! i no definite schedule had been ar ranged for the inauguration of the j refunding negotiations it was i probable that debts of the various ? countries would be taken up in 1 the order of volume. This schedule 1 if followed, would mean neg?tia- ] tions involving the British debt I would be undertaken first and then j debts of France. Italy. Belgium and j finally the smaller European na tions. * Conclusion of the arms confer ence it was stated, had the effect j of clearing the way for opening of ; the refunding negotiations. Legis- j lation providing for a commission ! to carry oh these negotiations is j awaitim? the Presidents signa- I ture. n Ckrainia Seeks Independence From Russia. Kiev, Urkrainia. Jan. 1.?The Ukraine has been long known as : Russia's sugar bowl and Hour bin bat the sugar bowl has been empty i for three or lour years and now j the Hour and eornmeal are so low j that it is doubtful whether the j Ukrainians will have enough bread ? to carry themselves through to an other harvest. The hungry folks from the Volga famine district have inyaded the Ukraine by "nun- ' dreds of thousands^ Moscow and Petrograd have drawn on its bread supply to the limit of their ! power. The Ukrainians are. however, ? lighting,and independent lot who I have stubbornly resisted requisi- I ion and defeated plans to divert j heir foodstuffs in large quantities to other parts of Russia. These requisitions and general dissatisfae- j ti?n with conditions have played j a iarge part in limiting the ?llrairi- J tan food supply. i Besides the snows were so late, in coming last fall that much of j the grain seed was frozen in the ground before the snows came to j give it protection. Consequently the Ukraine faces the possibility of ! a small grain yield next year. Even \ an extraordinary spring sowing j c.-mnot compensate for the un- ' favorable condition of the crops < planted last fall. The attitude of t!ie Ukraine to ward Moscow is of far greater im- I portance than that of all the other so-called "federated" republics be cause of its great wealth and com mon boundaries with Poland and Rumania. Moscow apparently re gards the Ukrainian republic as a federated part of the government having its headquarters in Mos cow. Bui Ukrainia. probably an der pressure of the intense Uk raine nationalistic sentiment, holds that ii is quite independent of Moscow and aspires jo support dip lomatic negotiations with Euro pean powers io oo?;>iu recognition as an independent nation. M. Rakovsky, rh<- Rumanian So cialist, who is now president of the Ukranian Socialist Soviel re public, has been able, with Mos cow's aid. ?to suppress all the rarger movements against Russian domination of the Ukraine, never theless, the i<]< a <?f complete inde pendence of Moscow seems to be uppermost in the mind*? <?f the lit tle Russians, peasants, merehanis. laborers and professional classes alike. Com munism exists i;: the Ukraine in .i much diluted f'.rtn. M. Z?n ovieff, chairman of the executive committee of the Third Internat ionale, arid oth< . hfgh priests ??! Marxism visit . : :.? Russia occa sionally ffnd try t-? whip i: into line with the Third Internationale and the Moscow program. I'm the Ukrainians still aspire for inde pendence. ' Tin- principles a parly si.-mds for are le.-ss signi/ic;ijit than tie leaders it stands for. When :i mail is undone he's doic. usually. Tin- English language is a wonderful invention. As we understand it, birth control is simply tie- triumph oi mind over maternity. Find Way, Says President Harding ^President Discusses Question of Bonus Washington. Feb. ?.?President j.llarding informed Republican Con gressional leaders today that what jever soldiers' bonus bill was en j acted should carry with it a pro vision fcr raising the revenue to ['finance the bonus. Various means jof obtaining the money were dis cussed but it was said that no con clusions were reached. It was agreed at :i White House conference lasting more than an [hour and :i half that the problem of finances should be considered jointly by majority members of the House ways and means committee ?and the Senate finance committee. Whatever agreement is reached, it .was stated, would be submitted to [the president with :i view l<> an ;accord between the executive and legislative branches before the bill 'is submitted to the house. Chairman Fordney. of the House j committee, and McCumber of the [Senate Committee, said the inter committee conferences would be in itiated soon, probably within a day 01 two after the House commit-,' 'tee closes its hearings on the bo j nus measure. Both Representative Fordney and Senator McCumber said on leaving] ithe White Hons.- that none of the many suggested methods of raising: the funds, including tin- use of the interest on the British debt, had been eliminated as a result of the j discussion with the chief Exec utive. $30,000 Damage Suit Cow Chain Causes Lad to Fall From Bicycle, Charge Orangeburg. Feb. 4.-rA big dam age suit against the cityjias just 'been tiled by attorneys representing I R. L. Stokes of this city. The com i plaint states 'in part that cows 'were knowingly allowed to graze in the street, being fastened there with stakes and chains, and that lone of these cows suddenly drag ged a chain across the street hi front of the bicycle ridden by ! young Eddie" Stokes, son of the "plaintiff. catching the bicycle, throwing the lad to the ground and factoring his skull. The amount sued for is $3$>,0G0. Her Skull is Crushed Edgefield ' 'Woman Thrown From Buggy and Killed Edgefiold. Feb. <;.?WTiile out driving this morning, her horse be came frightened and ran away .Mrs. J. C. Timerman. of the Meet ing street section, of the county being thrown ^from the buggy and instantly killed. She fell on her head crushing the skull. She was the only occupant of the buggy. Caught After 17 Years Providence. Feb. 6.?Escaping police detection in several state over a period Of seventeen years. Walter M. Savage, negro, was ar rested here tonight charged with the murder of Columbus Wells, who was shot at a chicken shooting party in Duplin county. Xorth Car olina, in December. 1904. Savage, although he denied the shooting was intentional, admitted he tired the shot that caused Wells' (hath, the police say. and that he fled the state. He expressed no surprise at be ing arrested, and explained thai he had always expected it. CATS DYED TO / MATCH FURNITURE New York. Feb. 7.? .Miss Mar garet Owen, a Florida singer, has been arrested charged with dyeing her <ats to correspond with the house dra!porieS, causing the eats' death. She was released with ?'< warning. -? ? <. Prcsbj terian Pledges. Officers and members through out the Southern Presbyterian church will meet during the month of February to dsicuss plans for the payment of afl pledges made during the current year and for j the every member canvass to l>e made on March lL':h. or near that date, as recommended by the gen eral assembly. During the past three weeks an active campaign has boon conducted through the church papers urging the ohurehe.s fto wipe out any indebtedness to any of the b??nevoleni causes, such as foreign missions, home missions. Christian education and ministerial relief. publication aj^J Sabbath school work, the assembles train ing school at Richmond and the Bible cause. It w:is estimated that a total of $4,"?oo.0o<i would be rais ed during she present year and Of tiiis Sli.Too.ooo would vro io the abm-e eause.s. The balance would go to synodi .:! and local causes. As ih>- church year ehd^ March ?1st, it is planned :?. make a can vass of all members of all ehurohe on or about March \-Zih for pledges for :>:>? eoming y.-ar. When rhe canvass has ?.?-.?n completed and ro p*?rts tiled; lit.- general committees on benevoli-m causes can estimatc their bod;-,.:-. The Southern Pres by rerian ehureh'has ? ??:.du<-i ed this every nn-mher c;i nvass for ;i number oj years, and ministers and church ollieors say that ii is the . i method of stabilizing the iina rices of a church IhirojM- won't bo settled until fti-r debts ar<-. -~*r -i The chiefly responsible for the present rare of foreign eX ehange was (he inventor of the printing press. Rochester Times Union. Directors Are Named For State Young and Williamson to Rep resent Tobacco Growers* Association Florence. Feb. ?T. B. Young of Florence and Bright William son of Darlington ?*cre elected di rectors from South Carolina for the [Tri-Stafe Tobacco Growers' Co operative Marketing association, ac cording to certified returns to state headquarters here tonight. They will leave here tomorrow morning forjtaleigh to attend trie first ses sion of the directorate which will organize formalin Wednesday by electing officers of the association. m* <? ? Mary Miles Minter is Implicated Los Angeles. Feb. 7.?A scented | note dropped from one of Taylor's; hooks, while police detectives were i making an examination, according | t<> fin- Los Angeles Examiner, it j Was on the monogrammed station ary oi" Mary Miles Minter and de clared in vivid terms her love for! Taylor. Sin- didn't deny author-: ship according to The Examiner. Butler Charged With Murder! Los Angeles. Feh: 7.?A tele-1 graphic warrant charging Edward ! 1-'. Sands, the? former butler of William Desmond Taylor, with the j murder of the firm director, was sent in Carlin, Nevada, where a man resembling Sands is under surveillance. The police here today anuounc- j ed thai no warrant on murder': j charge had been issued against"; Much Rioting in Parts of India ! _ ' i . Many Police Officials Are Killed and Wounded London. Feb. 6. ? Renewed ; rioting in several parts of India,. ' involving the killing of at least j seventeen polieo officials and four; members of attacking parties in ! addition to the woun<ling of *a | number of persons .and some de- ! sti?ction of property, occurred over: : tin- week-end. simultaneously is . suance of a declaration by the non- j ' cooperationist leader, Orandhi, that' civil disobedience would become, effective unless the government granted .amnesty. on Saturday police officers at : rhauri, on the Bengal Northwes- j '? tern Railway, were stormed by in- ' ; dian nationalist invaders. A watch man and eight armed policemen; ? who w<-re rushed to the scenes to give aid to the staff. Then the nationalists burned the Offices and stripped the bodies of those killed I and J^urnfed them. On the same day rioting took j place at Pirley in the middc unit ed provinces, where several at- I tempts were made by a large crowd J ; of volunteers to seize :he town hall. ; Insufficient, police forces charged them without success and then ? were ordered to fire. The move eventually was put to rout after two persons had been killed and five others wounded, among them liie district magistrate. Reports received In London on i Saturday's rioting indicate the; events occurred when the Prince of Wales was at Bhopal. the second of importance of U;c Mohamme dan India state. He was the guest] oi tin* Begum of Bhopal. the. only woman ruler in India. -? ? ? UNITED STATES ENJOYS "LOVE OF THE WHOLE WORLD" Washington'. Feb. ? (By the Associated Press.)?The proposal oi the United States government for tin- convening of the Washington Arms Conference was '"a stroke of genius," which has resulted in .i service tu tin- world and which "will live in history as long as his tory lives." Baron Kato, head of ;;ie Japanese delegation, said tonight in n statement commenting.on the me.-ting.- Tin- agreements sign . here, he added, contain nothing thai is calculated to impair the security . <>f any nation, hut, on the contrarv. "have given such reassurance as few I.tit visionary dreamers I is 3 contemplated up to three months ago.*' ?'With America's wealth and re-j sources.*' Baron Kato said, "she could have dominated the seas. She ? hose, however, the wiser course, the way of truer greatness, which has commanded the admiration, re aped ami love of the whole world. At tlx- same time every nation rep-j r< sen ted here has benefited im mensely as a result of the earnest discussion ami the notable series of understandings that have been reached. "In Japan ive realized that a new] spirit oi' moral consciousness had I come over tin- world! Inn we could! not bring ourselves truly to believe! that it had struck so deeply into' 'in- sotiis of nu ii. until we came to] Washington. VW came and we have' learned; :md [p turn \w have, i think, given evidence. h as no i man can mistake, thai Japan is i n ady for the new order of thought | the spirit of international friend- j shin and cooperation for the great- ; ej- good of humanity which the] iM.nference has brought about." The l-\er I hat u ill host upliff j China is. she says, in leave her j alone. - Washington Post. fine H;< it ! .. ; .fc MKII1 can I'-fll'll to j do anything if he will do any thing to b-nrn. _ "1 am thinking of the people/' e\|dains a clironic reformer, who i forgets to mention what with. Plea Made by Calder Use of American Vessels by Americans for Foreign Trade Urged Xew York. Feb. ?,\ |>iea for shippers throughout tin- country tu use American vessels as carriers for their foreign exports in the interest of the American merchant marine was voiced today by United States Senator William M. ('alder in an ?ddress before the Forum of the in stitutional Synagogue. Public opinion, he said, should be aroused to appreciate the necessity 01' keeping attout freighters built during the war at a cost Of hun dreds of millions of dollars and to win back the country's earlier dis tinction of carrying nearly 90 per cent, of its exports in domestic bot toms. He said he would back legislation to this end. "Tiie tacft of interest i;i the maintenance of a merchant marine has been caused largely by the fact that our business men have found other lines of endeavor more profitable," .Senator Calder said. "In the beginning of our history the populous ports of our country were ranged along tin- eastern sea board. We had to maintain a mer chant marine. "Today the center of population is a thousand miles from th* At lantic and 2.000 miles from the Pacific. Our internal affairs oc cupy tiie attention of the business of our country mere than our over seas trade and we have not appre ciated tiie advantage of maintaining a fleet to carry our products to the furthermost pans of the world. "I am in favor of the enactment of measures which will assure this being done and i am certain that the vast majority of the people of our state would support legislation to assure this result. If we are to extend our foreign commerce we must have- the ships with "which to do it." He said the subject of greatest interest to the people in the Fast was the need of early revision of the tariff. "All over our state today, factor ies are closed and workmen are out of employment." he declared. "This has been brought about through [the revival of our trade with Ger many. They and the other coun tries who manufacture the same products that we do have been able i to undersell us because of the low | bring of the value of the currency j of those countrie? in comparison to our own. "In Germany before the war a ! mark was worth 24 cents. The av i erage Cferman workman received ! four marks per day, or about $1. The German workman is receiving i 100 marks a day as against four before the war, but these hundred ; marks are worth but 50 cents as I against the equivalent of %l, which I he formerly received. On the oth er hand, the pay of workmen in our industries has practically doubled since 1914. This has af ! footed the cost of commodities j produced here, so that it is impos sible for us to compete with Ger I many and other European onun j tries." -? 0j ? ; Monthly Meeting o! League of Wo men Voter*. The League o" Women Voters will hold its regular monthy meet ing. Tuesday afternoon, February 14th. at 4 o'clor :: in the basement [-Of the Carnegie Library. The pro {gram for the afreinoon will be the i^tudy of our town and county gov ernment. This is hi line with the work suggested by the state com 'mittee of the Iea.*rue and has r.I : ready been used with profit and 'practical results by a number of ?other counties. The form of 0\r town and county government will 1-e discussed in a paper by Mrs. It. I D. Graham and the moral aspect? I of our town and county government will be discussed hi a paper by Mrs. John R. Sumter. Surely there is not a woman voter in Sumter coun tv who is not-interested in this sub ject and certainly there is not on< v ho would fail to profit by thesr* discussions. If yon do not enter : ? h?? pejmarv <! is.-- of citizenship with the other members of the lea-tie von will rind yoursolws left behind by your c? ntemporaries and when you awake t the fact, as you surely wiil one day thai you cannot serve your state intelligently, you will regret you.-* indifference to these opportunities. If you cannot ; remember that the first Monday in [each month is r*er:siration day at the court house, ??!..( this article out land paste it on yc.v mirror so that von will !??? frequently reminded. The hours are eleven o'clock- a. m.. j to l o'clock p. m. If you have no 'one with whom re have the ehil jdren while you go to register, call ;Mrs. C. L. Stubbs president of the league and sin- will arrange to hove I one of the members of the league I take care of them for you: it you live too far to walk to the court house, call her and she will have one of tiie members take you m her car. Tour slat * will need your vote next summer, more perhaps than it has since the days of Hamp ton and you do not wan! to find yourselves cleharr? d because you have neglected to register. Re member that yoj cannot vote oi any issue within thirty days after registering. It' you are not in sym pathy with i lie League of Women Voters, yon will want to do your duty anyway. Mrs L. P.. Furman. Puhliciiv Chairman League of Women Voters of Sumter. A judge rules tluit a wife is worth SS.'H'ii At that rate ihe doughboy on i In- Rhine w ill soon collect our .-hare of i he indemnity. -??-?-? Now thai gas has been abolished :iv a weapon, it won't he so hard for missionaries ro explain the beauties of Christianity A nother difference l et w ? en leath ami taxes i< thai death calls 'or an executor and taxes for a re Ulster Blocks Set tlement in Ireland All Day Conferences Held in London Without .Result j London. Feb. <; (By the Associa I tod Press).?After a numbei of! j important conferences in London today between the southern Irish [ leaders. Premier Lloyd George and i members of the British cabinet: j between Sir James Craig] the List-.-; 'premier, and the members of his cabinet, and finally late this even ing between Sir James and Mr.: Lloyd George, a solution of the; j difficulty over the question of fix : ing the Ulster boundary apparently had not been found. Statements issued tonight by ."iehael Collins, head of the pro-i [visional government in Ireland and; tin- Ulster premier, indicate that j they still are far from an agree- i j .near. Parliament reassembles tombr- j ; row and the new Irish crisis threat ens embarrassment to the govern ment. In official orioles it is ex- 1 reefed that Mr. Lloyd George will \ comment on his interviews with. Mr. Collins ami Sir James Craig in [the course of his speech before the house of commons tomorrow. Further disorders in Ireland were rep'orted today, most serious of* which was cattle driving on a largo scale m the Tipperary dis trict.. Early Sunday large num j bers of cows, sheep and horses were driven off several estates, the ob ject apparently being to compel '?owners to break up grazing lands. {Notices signed "Captain Moon shim-" were posted stating that Iany one found driving the cattle ; back or repairing the walls arid gates would meet with instant, 'death. The Irish Republican army j has announced its intention of se verely punishing the perpetrators, j The railway strike is to be ex | tended to the Maeroom line to night isolating the central part ? of Cork county. j London. Feb. G (Ry the Associa ted Press).?The Ulster cabinet ; members in London met this after ' noon and decided they wo/uld stand : by the govenmenl of Ireland act with regard to the Ulster bound aries unless Unat, boundary was 1 changed by mutual agreement. This [decision was made known through a communique issued by the gov , eminent embpdying a. letter to Prime Minister Lloyd George sign led by Sir James Craig, the Ulster ; premier, in which the decision is announced. ? * ? j Buys Short Line Orangcburg, Feb. C.?The Or iangeburg railway was sold today j by C. E. Denniston, receiver, the j right of way being purchased by E. C. Johnson of North. The rails ; belong to the Seaboard Air Line ' railway and were nor sold. It is ? rumored here that Mr. Johnson i will operate this road, using mo : tor propelled equipment'. This railroad serves a good farming sec tion and it is hoped here that thv. ; railroad can be operated again. 0 ? ? Bulgaria's King Applies to Allies ! For Relief , Sofia. Jan. 4.?King Boris of j Bulgaria appealed to the allies to I postpone the payment of some of Bulgaria's reparations in the Chrisr ' mas message he sent to the United ! States through The Associated ' Press. j "Standing here in the' midst of a people bowed in sorrow and suf 1 fering. in my country that is pros ! tr?te and dismembered," the king I said, "1 should like at this season : of peace and good-will to mankind j to appeal to the great nations of the earth to ^rant Bulgaria some regard and compensation for her exemplary conduct during the past ; three years and for her faithful j discharge of treaty obligations, i "I know my people may look j with hope and confidence to the i ever sympathetic and fair-minded American) government to raise its ? voice in our behalf in European : councils when rhe revision of ex isting treaties is considered. We I are especially anxious that our [situation should be taken up at the j forthcoming European conference ' in wim h we hope the United ! States will participate. "Unless Bulgaria is afforded I some relief from her present intol erable burdens and unless the al lies see lit to postpone some of our reparation payments 1 am afraid the country may reach a state of economic, financial and moral ex haustion. Also, it is vital to our economic existence that we have free access to the sea." King Mo; is added in a sul.se riueni chat with the correspondent that he hoped his country had passed the crisis but. he wem on, "we are still in a period of con valescence. We arti still stuggling to eateh our breath. It will be a long tin..- before we are out of dan ger." The Ring declared thai Bulgaria would endeavor by the policy of peace, labor and forebearanco to m.-rit continuance of th.- support and sympathy ?i the United States and to deserve the approval of tin* allies. -? ? ? Congress spend.-; half its time dannlng solutions, and the other lal-f trying to solve its plans. When ;i woman is unable t.. do an own housework she usually tires a servant t.? help her be un tbleJ Add this to your list of similes: -as busy as a one-armed man r?posinq to Siamese twins." As a rule, the woman who can't ' ahum wit hon i servants can't I a lor::; with servants. U hen \ on see an old boy wear 's "!;e of thse loud ties, you know is only a question ol tinm until ome vamp will produce the letters court. Attack Made On - Farmer Bills Cooperative Marketing Pro posals Before Senate Washington, Feb. 6.?Proposed provisions of cooperative market ing bills, now before the senate exempting farmer organizations from operation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law ?*ere attacked in the senate today by Senator Bran degee. Republican, Connecticut, who asserted that congress \v;is going far astray when it said in legislation that an a?-i by a farmer is not a crime but becomes a crime when done by a majority. Senator Brandegee declared 'the country need not expect relief from high prices through passage of the bill "if the farmers who are its beneficiaries chooSe. to inflict high prices*." lie added that ho believod there was "grave danger of a cor ner in the food and clothing sup plies of the country" if the pro j posed exemptions.are enacted into law. "1 do no! know." he continued, [?'whether the Sherman law should he maintained, but I do know that no amount of apologizing, explain ? ing or attempts to justify, can sat I isfy me hat we should not have i ; laws which are uniform in their . operation." The attack by Mr. Brandegee I came at the end of a day's debate I on the bill mostly between lawyer : members of the senate, none of I whom appeared to agree with any other as to exactly tin; scope of i tile bills. Tile hoUSe bill, thCO pretrcaily before the senate, is re i garded as being more liberal in its exemptions than tin- senate sub stitute or the measures submitted. I by several senators giving authori ty for th? creation of cooperative associations. .As a result of the tangled situa : lion. it was 'doubtful tonight j whether ;t vote could be iiad on tin bill tomorrow although leaders de clared an effort would be made to ; obtain act ion then. ; DISASTROUS FIRE IN ILLINOIS TOWN j Highland Park. Ilk. Feb. 7.?A 'fire causing a loss estimated at three hundred thousand dollars de stroyed three buildings and dam aged several others in the business district here today. Firemen from I surrounding towns fought the flames. Plant Good Cotton Seed. Clemson College. Jan. 17.?It is ? now time of year for every farmer ; who xepects to plant cotton this : Spring to get his seed ready for planting. We should all make sure .? that we have good strong, clean, healthy seed of an approved va riety ready to plant, says Prof. C. j P. Blackwell. ' agronomist, who : urges that it is more important now ; than ever before to use good seed ' that will germinate readily and give ja vigorous early growth, as other : wise the crop may be delayed and ; lost to the boll weevil, l There arc three things .about cot ! ton s? ed that we should all look rafter carefully at this season: 1. our seed should be of a test : ed and approved variety of cotton. ! There are seedsmen who are adver j tising varieties of cotton that they ! claim made high yields under boll I weevil conditions, as a. special ad j yeriisement to seil their seed to [farmers in boll weevil territories. Some of these advertisements are either frauds or serious exaggera ! tions. This is no time to experi . rnent with highly advertised va j rieties that We. know nothing about j personally. The agronomy division i of Clemson College has conducted I thorough tests for a great many years to determine the best varie j ties of cotton for boll weevil condi ] tions, and after careful examina : tion the following varieties are rec : ommended: Short staple: (1) Cleveland Pig \ Poll lor wilt-free land: (2) Dixie I Triumph for wilt-infested land. Long staple. < ] ) Webber 4!<; (2) j I)eh a type Webber. ; 2. We should use seed nol only j of approved varieties but from a reliable source. Farmers who are : buying seed will do well i<? buy from reliable seedsmen as near home as possible. ?: 3. We should make sure that ? the seed we are planting are strong, j healthy seed and will give us a jrjuick vigorous germination. It" there ; is any doubt ai ail about the seed ' we should make a germination test i before plant ing time. The Plight of Soviotism. P.aku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 1.?This oil city on the Caspian Sea. form ; crly a trading mart of tin- Cauca sus, is suffering severely from the I destructive frnaimial and political changes brought by the world i war. Its customers in Bokhara. Mcrv. iXhiya. Samarkand and Tashkent, cities rich in property, culture and I glory for a thousand years, also [have been struck by the present-day cyclone. * No longer do these trad:::;; cities i send to p.aku their cotton, silk. I food ami deftly-Woven carpets to find their way into the salons of ? Central-and Western Europe. In consequence, business is bail. The old ord< v is changed. The old classes which once made these cities prosperous have been east down and their places have been taken by Soviet re volu ntiona ry com mit t. es Principalities formerly well or dered have b.-en dragged down in th< Oblivion of social anarchy. The Princes Tarkovsky. who once own ed huge tracts ot land along the Caucasus side of the Caspian Sea and sewra 1 hundred square miles of the sea. itself, formerly made winde tities prosperous by their fishing industry. Today they are either dead or h. v< tied abroad. -???<>? - If the world's good resolutions are carefully nurtured, they should last until the next ;.rar. King George Ad-^ dresses Parliament In His Address He Pays Tribute to Arms Conference London, rch. 7.?The imperial parliament has been prorogued by King George to make effective the Irish agreement. ]!?? paid a high tribute to the Washington arms conference in his spceChi in his speech King George sr"I, i "during the three months that the Washington conference on "disarma* j meat and Far Eastern?;? q?estiofi?s continued its sittings a treaty de signed to maintain peace in the j Pacific has been sighed by repre ! sentatives of the British < thpire, the j United States, France and .Japan I and awaits ratification. Wnile this I treaty replaces the Anglo-Japanese I alliance, 1 am happy to feei that ; th<* long standing concord h*-Cw? on I tiveso countries will remain as coi^ I dial as ever under the arrangc ; meats thus concluded. At the-same j time <mr relations with the United I States enter a new and 'evSh"closer. ! phase of friendship. An agreement was also reached on the question ; of disarmament and a treaty sign ; ed providing a large measure of j relief from the b?rden of arma I ments. In all these-*respects great 1 results have been attained and the I success of the conference, for which the world owes a debt of gratitude to the initiative of the president of ; the United States, being the hap j piest augury for our future inter national relation.." . ? ? c I COST OF THE SOLDIER BONUS Washington. Feb. 7.?The sok ' diers' bonus would cost-the federal i government approximately two bfl ! lion, five hundred million dollars . on basis of estimates prepared for , the house, ways and means commit j tee by fiscal officers of army, navy i and marine. -?fr~o-o Katsena: A Borne of the Tropics "A Rome of tim tropics, peopled j by the Israelites of Africa, center i of a farming region which sup- ? . ports a population as dense as that of England and exports a. surplus I of foodstuffs?such i,s Katsena. in j northern Nigeria, which recently ! has been frequently, .mentioned be cause its emir visited London and j also be-cause of surveys of Lake Chad. northerneastc?i limit of the Hausa states," says a bulletin from j the Washington, D. C\, headquar | ters of the .National Geographic So j ciety. , . ' j "A civilization may bo incon i gruous in contrast to another, and yet not be so primitive as the i strangeness of its cutoms would in-^ dicate," the bulletin continues. "The ! Emir of Katscna is reported to have j gazed in amazement at an airplane. I to have wondered at the parsimony j of a rich nation which* did not pVo ! vide servants to wave large fans ! over the ruler's head so ho "might ? not be annoyed by file's, and to have '; so heartily approved one northern ; luxury that he purchased a brass j bed to be sent to Katsena.for the future royal comfort, j Have Guilds, and Crusades I "Yet if In.' found tim<* to read ? lany European history- while-in Lon j don the emir must have been in ; terested in a European guild sys \ tern which persists in the indus trial organization of his own pro vince ?tb this day. and in the Crn Isadcs which haw- their annual ' counterpart in the Mohammedan ' exodus from his capital, to Mecca, I a journey of five or six years, dur I iiii; which the pilgrims combine re . Iigious objective with advantageous trade activities all along .the way. "As a state Katsena has been ? swallowed up in the province of I Kaiio in northern Nigeria, due east I of Lake Chad and about half way ? between thai marsh bound inland j sea and the Niger. As a -city it .has shrivel!-''1 within its mighty ; walls, as high as a three story ! building, and, thirteen miles in cir i cuif. ??The city of Kuno has outdis > tanced Katsena and become the I Chicago of this fertile region of : grain, i'oitnii. giant vegetables and luscious fruits, and also of indi | genously developecl industries that j range from cloth making to manti : fact uro of glass. But Katsena still I is the cultural center of the Hausa . peoples, whose tongue is the most j mellitluoiis of north Africa and so rich in its vocabulary that you may ?'find words for' eight periods of the i day from sunrise to sunset. Hausa is the trade language of the area j between the Benue, the Niger and , the Sahara, and it is one of the j few African tongues which has de veloped a native literature. Hansa Ruled by Unla Chiefs "The Hausa genius for trade ? and farming, and ihrur comparative (?literary sup< riority -over their ne ; gritic neighbors, does not extend I to government, so that they are ; rub d today by the Filing $ people ?Withotu a country who generally j have dominated but not displaced i the population they conquer. The j Fula chief-, in turn, pay allegiance j to Great Britain. Both the leisure ly quality of Katsena life, and the. : value placed on various possessions ' are suggested in a greeting wherein i one must first ask about the health I of ,ia- stranger, tin-it about his j wives, his horses, Iiis cattle, and "all j that is yours.' After each reply tin- intcrragator reiterates, 'Allah : be praised for that' before putting . the n.\? quest ion. "What baseball i< to America and the bull fight is to Spain the ( wivstiin'fi match is to the* Hausa mbes. in rhaps this sundown spec tacit might better be compared to ?: horse show; For the wrestlers must compel,- for attention with the bizarre and barbaric color splashes r. pi-. s.by turbans and Ik r nouses am! coiffures of what we ? would ??.:!! ratted hair', against u b.ji kgronnd of statesque camels ;1j<1 i?i?bn trees. The 'over torn"' ! <>t the entire picture is tin- bronze" brown of hundreds of half uud? . spectatirs." I ? ? ?