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UNEMPLOY MENT PROBLEM IN SUMTER . Saggestions For Relief of Those Who Are Out of Work Made by Secretary' ~v ?v L Reardon ; ^:_ Regarding The unemplyonun: probte?*? ;o?, Sumter. Secretary ? Reardon* said Monday mat he will be glad, to- tike the :iu:ne of every unemployed individual of Summer .who is hunting a ;cb ?;hat is hunting any kind of a job that can be secured until the individual ? can <jjo better, and who is witling to accept ^'.before the war" or af ter the. wax;* wages?bur that those who- expect to secure wages such as. were paid during the wni on government encampment or other war- work."and for aM oth?r classes ?-Of-work during the war and soon after, and to work as ..very man pieaxes and to do the A*ork any old wayV- heed not expert, until i> there is^tatother world war. to se cure any yuch jobs or any such wages. A plain statement of the |;" f employhVeftt situation might well be made for information of all in |X terestedT^ J 1st: H-ow can employment be se cured fco those who want work? The aifc?wer is that some relief j can b? given by hundreds of prop- | erty owners spending some money. ! as much, as possible and as may be j . i*ecessary in. repairs to residence.*, I our-buildings, stores, fences and in j whitewashing and . in painting wb>re-ti^evlatter nvill tend to pre- i s.crve5' &60A iwork and metal work, and where repairs will prevent) futther.^deterioration Of property. | There are numerous houses and! business establishments and roofs j of %unc needing painting, and some I kind.Of rep?irsi . *ilhe?.wst of lumber has decreased j two: Xuhdre<l per cent, Rabor is j ' undoubtedly, by force of necessity. 1 ? w?nderfuSy1 lower and within the reach' of all who contemplate hav- j htg work done. Ruild now what you need and put money in circulation. Bui.ldfog'tfnateria! requires labor to manufacture. ; Jn.?i'^'fiy'-Su'mter people keeping at ir?mj^their money by not sending out of'.Sumter for things that can b^-'p?rchased at home?and by not giKing'Out contracts lor work to out at town~ Von corn*, when Sumter eonxrernV'of eontraotors can do the . work i just as chea por cheaper? |i| and at kmc time employ home skilled: aSfd unskilled labor to do the work.- In-one line alone, hav ?; ing job printing done indSumter will give *rij*arly- twice- as many men ?<rrk>ftsi are now engaged i iv busi ness, ^ if - estimates of job work Witt; ojut Of Sumter are correct/This is |tB?t T>ne Instance of what pa'tron bdag ' l$?me;: enterprise will accom- ' J?liltn'4n; soh'rhg to a great extent tile "unemployment problems of &*mter.> There are many others ;. 2a Uiti&r. retail-, wholesale, and in dustrial' line's. Employ home car 1 ?er?ters, -painters, machinists and , I./ ?he^hohie labor?skilled and un- : *kUle*d. ^; '3rd. - fBy purchasing frbm Sum ter county- -farmers, as far as pos sible all 'of our hay. vegetables, chickens -.eggs, beef. pork, potatoes. AEd Other home raised products y and food and feed stuffs provided j that "prices Of home' products are as i low as out of town products deliv- ! ered-m Sumter either at the stores <>r at^the homes of Sumter people? \ ^ailiir^ weight, measure, ck-anli- ( ne$s all being equaL As^a^concrete illustration of buy- i ihg a?~h?zh?: A local marble and ! Stolle Works told the writer a. few j days ago that on a five hundred! dollar monument and eoping job i ? the tv'riter is interested in that if >: this cdflcern secured the job that the actual cost of the granite, in- * eluding freight and hauling from j the' depot.-to the Sumter factory? ihe hauling money of course going ; -a- Sumter drayman?would be ] about One hundred dollars, and the ; re$?t of the money wouid go to Sum- i tcr stone cutters. Ih other words 1 by buying at home, we would be in- j stnimem^JLn keeping four hundred ; dollars of the live hundred dollars j iiTBumter. If we buy from a mar- > bie>s$nd stone concern outisd- of 1 Sumter. we would be sending prac- I tlcallj*' all <pi this five hundred dol lars of Sumter money out of Sum- ? U r fl suppose that out of every! dollar's worth of Job work sent out \ of Sumter?that if the work was ! done: In- Sumter job work houses, at lea** seventy-five cents on the dollar would stay in Sumter to be paid tout printers. bookkeepers. : Stenographers, and for city and county taxes and electric power. - city license taxes, etc. The out of j town- concerns do not pay a cent of county or city taxes?they fur nish yio man in Sumter or no wo man, any employment?they con tribute nothing except hotel bills of Occasii^Hl representatives?or very iittle else 1 know of?towards maintaining Sumter's stores, elec tric, plant, professional people, gas and water plant, schools, police, health, lire and other municipal depacUiKvnis. -streets, eie. V--t hun dred*" of thousands of dollars of Sumter money are annually sent out of Sumfcer for goods and werk that'2-ouIcT**be kept in Sumter tu furnish employment to many Sum ter n?fcn and women, to pay house rent.^doctor's bills, fuel bills, and to ke*p up our stores and to help 6ur Senner* to sell something to get isjoney to spend Jn Sumter with business coneems that gi,-e employ mcriQo Sumter citizens in propor tion Tf? the amount of business done every, month. We ar?- furnishing job* Jfor other citizens in other town* when We send our money Off for floods, work or other things. Our ?ounty government an?l state govefhment. in every department. rCceiie annually many thousands of d$Uar.v.iu taxes from Sumter store* factories, professional peo ple and from Our farms mid from menaMBrtf?omen in every bran?:h of industry- and business, the on1 of town concerns and out of state con 1 corns pay no (axes to support our j state, county ami municipal eharg [es. Farmers ami employed people ' keep up Sumter's establishments and institutions. ; Focal labor, business men. farm :<-rs. corporations, factories, jobbers. ;:ill pay taxes, some very much, some jjust a little, "but all lo<-;? concerns j help to keep our state, county and {city governments and schools, i churches, charitable institutions. : hospitals and organizations of va ; rkus kinds. j Perhaps our permanent Road j Commission and our county Board ! of Commissioners can help out by [the former doing everything pos sible to have contractors employ Sumter county laborers, and by the latter purchasing all hay and corn , and meal, grist, office supplies. ? from Sumter stores or from Sumter ! county farmers, if prices are right of course. Local stores and meat I markets should purchase home pro duct:- from the farmers, j Suppose merchants adopted ihe| ! simon pure. true, true "patronize) 'h?rne enterprise" ideals and the! [professional people also and ourj ? farmers? Then would a grocer or an attorney buy his clothing from I a Xew York or Columbia tailor? or should a general dry goods mer- i .chant's family send to New York j for their dress goods?or send to' Charleston wholesale grocers for his groceries or would a farmer' either. Why should a lawyer in , [Sumter or merchant, or a doctor,! or a banker or a' farmer or any ] j Sumter man buy his furniture from! a foreign furniture store when he i can buy it from or through a Sum- : ter furniture dealer. Why order; hardware for building from out of1 town concerns when you can buy; it from or through a local hard- j ware dealer. Should a real estate dealer send off for locks, mantels, j doors, sash, blinds, paint, to put i in his house that he is building to I rent to some clerk, bookkeeper., machinist or merchtnt who r mts' I this real estate dealer's houses, j There is nothing you want that aj local dealer cannot order for you J and keep a good commission on! same in Sumter if he has not the j goods in stock. So after all we1 have, to some extent at least in op- j portunity to keep a $ot of Sumter I money in Sumter to furnish work J for many unemployed. But doing jail the building we possibly can; now and all the repairing, painting j whitewashing,of out buildings and j back fences, etc., will do a lot of good. But spending Sumter money in Sumter and Sumter coun ty money in Sumter county will do more than anything to reduce the! probability of more men and wo-1 men being thrown out of work. ! There are too many unemployed: now. Don't make matters worse1 by securing jobs in other cities for other men and women by sending j Sumter cash out of Sumter. Keep I home labor, farm, stores, factories. \ busy and you keep that many em- / ployed and give 'unemployed work to do. ? Distribution off The American Xe- ' gro. i (Review of Reviews). President*'Harding*s recent ad- j dress at Birmingham has reawak- | ened interest in the future of the negro-race<in this country. A cit-j izen of Alabama, Mr. A. S. Van i de CJ-raaff. has contributed to the j Tuscaloosa Xews & Times-Gazette an article on the redistribution of ; the race in America. Mr. Van de (Jraaff has been a careful student of the subject for more than thirty; years, and as long ago as 1896 he ! wrote and published conclusions which have been strikingly veri fied by movements of the southern colored population which have j since taken place. To show* what were the actual! changes in c*he twenty years be- i tween 1890 and 1910, the north-] ward movement of the American I negro is clearly indicated in the j census returns: There are now more blacks' in Cincinnati than in Louisville?more I in the border states of the north than in the border states of the] south. On the northern side of the! old line of cleavage which the j Civil War removed, the number of j negroes have been increasing through all of fifty-fix years, and has had its greatest increase with in the last four. On the southern side there has been as steady a decline, at lirst only relative but la ter absolute, until in Kentucky there are now fewer negroes than in 18?0. and the black percentage of its population has become less; than that for the United States as a whole; until also, as is even more! significant, the las' census has! shown the loss of black population ' in all the four contiguous subja- j cent states?Tennessee. Alabama. ; Mississippi, and Louisiana. This! radical change of trend?this de-j oisive turn toward uniformity in the redistribution of the negroes between north and south under the conditions of freedom?is thus sho n to have already operated over wide areas, and it is now be ins extended over the whole coun try. The movement of the blacks out of the south assumed proportions during the World War which have! caused the returns of the census of i:c_'t> if, r(<? received :is :i reve lation and heralded as sensational by some northern editors. They should not have been such to any i lose observer, or studeni of sta tistics. The movr-no n! has been continuous sine* the surrender of the armies of the Confederacy, and its expansion was ;i logical antici pation, i'.ut the cumulative in fluences of the war H?d of the boll weevil invasion have tiuickencd it! beyond all expectation. Contrasts are now presented between groups of states, northern and southern, even more striking than tlb.se h,.. tween the different regions of rb< south resulting from ?hr> use of the country as the geographic;*] racial nnit thirty years ago. Down to inin rhe immigration of the blacks into the north was pretty vvdl oon rtned to the border states from Il linois to Xew Jersey, and to the ? ;;% of Xew York. To this northern territory in order to equalize area j wiih that of my upland south. 1| used to add the District of Colum-: J?ia, the three wer Xew I'ngland i states, and the part of New York south of a line drawn from Mass achusetts! northwest corner to Pennsylvania's northeast, making uh ;t total of 2oG,000 square miles, against 1 ".<>!?". This "Negro Canaan." as 1 named it, in 1910 held S40.M?U black* whose decen nial rate of 21 p<-r cent, compared I with one of less than 4 per cent, j for the 1.974.000 blacks of the up-, land south. It contrasted in an-j other way with the western south, an area twice as large, holding only !?lJ.?tii(l negroes. Even then a more informing1 comparison?certainly one morel readily followed?would have been i afforded by adding to the northern ' territory the remainder of Xew j York, raising the area to 246,000 i square miles, and contrasting whh i the 227.000 of the five southern ! border states, Delaware. Maryland, J West Virginia., Kentucky, and Mis-! souri. with Tennessee and Virginia) added. In the northern group there) were N'ahOOO blacks, with a decen nial gain of 147.0CO: in the south ern 1.891,000, with a decennial! loss of 5.000: the half-century gains were in the northern 632,000. or 283 per cent.: in the southern 312,000. or 37 per cent. only. Now. from the returns of the census of 1 920 we find in Th e northern group 1.236,000 blacks, showing a decen nial gain of 380,000, or 44 per cent, and in the southern 1.917.000, showing a gain of 26,000. or less than 1 1-2 per cent. And if we again extend the comparison back to I860, as the beginning of the new dispensation, we have in the north ern area an increase of 1.002.0?0 negroes, or 44 S per cent., against one of 53S.0.00, or 40 per cent, only, ! in the southern. A still more striking comparison from the returns of lf?20 is that between the seven great states of the north leading in negro popula tion. Xew York. Xew Jersey. Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana. Uli- i nois. and Michigan, with the Dis- j trict of Columbia added as before.! and those six states of the lower j south?South Carolina. Georgia, Florida. Alabama. Mississippi, and Louisiana?in which in 1830 there was already that "bjack population accumulated along the Gulf of Mexico." which De Tocquevillc thought "would have a chance of j success, if the American union is dissolved when the struggle be tween the two races begins." These were also six of Judge Tourgee's "eight black republics." 1 and for them his anticipation seem ed much better grounded than for North Carolina and Viriginia. for in 1 SH0 the two races had stood in them on practically even terms, whites outnumbering blacks by | only 32,000, whereas in 1880 the blacks outnumbered the whites by 243.000. Hut while the blacks still led in 1900 by 25.00 0. in 1 f? 1 0 the whites held a majority of ">."7. iiOQ. and this had grown in 1 f+ 20 to 1.607,000. This rapid relative gain of the whites is itself striking enough but the difference between the rates of growth of the black population in this supposedly most congenial habitat, and that of the widely differing northern area, is even more so. In the northern territory of 290,000 square miles in 1860 there ere 202.500 negroes: in the southern of 287,000 square, miles. 2.166.000. In 1^20 there! were in the northern 1;219.000 ne-j groes, showing a decennial gain of i 409.000. or 50 per cent.: in the southern 4.957.000, showing a de cennial loss of 16.000. For the suc cessive twenty-year periods begin ning with 1SHo-SO the rates of in crease in the northern were respec tively 112. ",5. :?n<l S3 :>cr eent.: in the southern 47. 39, and 11 per cent. This contrast may be startling, i but that :ne figures are only typical may be seen by comparing the black rates of increase for the three great divisions?north, west and*, south?as defined above. For the j last three decades, beginning with I that ending in lf'20. these rates! have been in the north, 46. 20. and 1 25 per cent.: in the west ">.'). t;S. j and 12 per cent.; in the south 2,1 10. and 17 per cent. For the three twenty-year periods since 1SG0. be ginning with 1900-20, in the north 74. 52. and 124 per cent.: in the west ICO. 1 and 165 per cent.! in the south 12. 32. and 42 percent. Mr. Van de Graaff is convinced that in the long run only good ^an come to both south and north and | to whites and blacks alike from the j continuance of the migration! movement: j In no state of the north was fhci percentage of blacks as high as 4 in 1920, and in only six states did! it reach 2. With the first turn of j the industrial tide the critics and, industries of hoth north and west; will a.nain need and bid for negro labor. For the south. answer' might well have been made to the Nebraska inquiry by tin- secretary of tlic Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, .-hieb within six months preceding had raised $100.000. not to bring back any of the 16.000 ne groes Montgomery county lost be tween i;?10 and 1920. Mit to induce ihe eqming of white farmers from north and west. Xow. as twenty - live years ago, it is plainly to l>e seer: in agricultural Alabama thai progress and prosperity for counties ami communities large and small vary in inverse proportion to the relative numbers of their blacks. Wherever the negroes are in the majority there is stagnation and decay. And this holds in other realms than the material. The ne gro has risen and i*< to continue to rise in America. fJiil it i? note- the b*ss true that American standards are in remain white standards, and commuiry standards ought every where to !.?? ti\<?d i<y the whites It th?- number <?!' negroes l?e such that hy their mere mass they fix the community standards, these de < line: the negroes ris>- more slowly, if they 11^-- at all: and the whites, who live with ihem. may them selves sink toward a lower level. This has been always felt, if not d-<l:ii'?l in words, in I be south. The lift* of its black belts has nol been ! acceptable to the white man?the : standards, political, industrial, and iothcr. of the black belts, h?ve been hardly less unsatisfactory to the ! southern whit'- man than to the I nutn of the north. A Croat Money Crop in the Making I Some real progress has been I niad?- by a few enthusiasts in hnv ! ir.g curing and storage houses bull' j in the southern st:ites in which, to : save the delicious, sugary Xancy Hall and Porto Rico sweet potatoes 'for the late winter and early spring 1 markets. Sweet potato storage is no longer jan experiment, it is a decided suc ,cess. it not only saves most of the potatoes processed, but improves the citing quality of the potatoes, land they can lie kept for several I months longer than can those po tatoes placed in earthern banks for I keeping: and after removal from I the storage house they can be transported in good condition U ?? long distances, if necessary. Some experimental shipments have been successfully made to London, Eng Iahd and to Honolulu. Hawaihm Islands. Much more progress has been made in saving sweet potatoes than ] in marketing those saved, as most of the agencies interested in mar keting the potatoes have somewhat naturally looked to the great mar j ket centers of Xew York, Philadel phia and Baltimore for a market. J>ut these densely populated places and those cities and towns in the surrounding country are well sup plied with dry'potatoes, known as the Jersey variety, which are large ly grown in Xew Jersey. Delaware, [Maryland. Pennsylvania, West Vir ginia, Eastern Shore Virginia and [extreme northeast Xorth Carolin;). I In the cities mentioned above, the Carolinas and the other south ern states producing the most va rieties of sweet potatoes, will for some years to come./have great difficulty in even getting a chance i to compete with the present pop ular Jersey potato, (popular with [the dealer who has his connections already formed, and also with those customers who are unfamiliar with a better potato), but eventually, the Xancy Hall and Porto Pico will not only gain favor, but will. 1 be lieve, capture these markets, as quality will tell in the long run. In the meantime, what are we going to do? Are we going to stop the building of storage houses which are saving a fearful econo | mic waste? Are we going to let those potatoes already stored rot in the houses as we have permit ted the crop for years to rot in earthen banks? Does the south need new money crops to till the gap. due to Iosse* caused by the f cotton boll weevil? I know wc are going to continue building houses, and I believe we can find h market for storage-house potatoes in southern cities, towns and hamlets, and in the great wes tern country now only partially j supplied with sweet potatoes. By 'keeping potatoes on the local mar kets almost every month in the I year we should be able t? double i the consumption of this splendid, staple article of food. When the present condition of this new industry is brought to the attention of chambers of commerce and boards of trade in the cities ,and towns, and to the attention j of bankers and storekeepers in I those places not having business or ganizations. 1 feel that the produce ! dealers and grocers will be called into conference in each commun ! ity. and that Rotary and Kiwartis clubs will lend their valuable aid. not only by eating and talking sweet potatoes, but in seeing that ! dealers iii \thoir towns keep thorn 'on sale as long as they can he had. j And last, but by no means least. ! the home economic divisions in the several states and women's clubs lean largely contribute to the ac complishment so much needed and so much to be desired, the making [of a money crop out of the southern [sweet potato. ! The crop is valued on the farms in the southern states, according to United States department of agri culture figures for lfcjl at seventy four million dollars, but this means little, for 'JO per cent or more of this crop-value rocs in earthen banks. Some part of the crop is saved by feeding to livestock, but most of it is lost after being made and harvested. Only a small part of the crop actually reaches the market and brings wealth to the i farms for later circulation in all l avenues of ;radc. ', Wc can correct this, and we [can make this delicious southern ; product ;i money-crop, if you will ! h<dp. ['in your hack under the j load, and let's go. j This department will be glad to j give names of associations and i storage-house owners having sweet j potatoes for sale. O. A CARDWELL. [ Agricultural :ind Industrial Agent. Atlantic Const Line Railroad Co. Preached Against Painted Shams. The sermon .delivered by Rev, : D. S. McDonald at the Christian ?church Sunday evening was n slash ing, virile charge, against the paint ed shams of modern social iij'e. ,\!l ; who heard were held spellbound by the fearlessness and force with j which tlie facts were presented and [applied in conjunction with a mas I terly sermon based on the text, j "Ada m. v. here ;i n t hon '" Among the many interesting [topics of ?!>.? cl'a> discussed by Mr. i McDonald v. < re "The I >ouble Stand ard OJ .Morality." "The Cltra-Mod ern Jazz Da nee" and "The Cut ; t Ii !? ! relationship Between Oap ita] and Labor." Sumter would be a better tOvi'il it' it had heard ensemble the pow erful message and made revolu tion to come froh) behind the trees of our false ale.is in reply to the ? ill ..i ?-?Where art Thou'." M ev.i, City, Feb. ! \ < b.mern ! M erigO a nd lb ima I -o i [el a lob v. hieve been captured a! El Paso alleged violation <?;' Failed Sla|e> rn ni ra lily. STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION PROGRAM Spartanburg. Feb. 13.? Prelimi l nary announcement of program for the annual State Sunday School Association convention was made j fry the program committee yester ! day. Among those who have al I ready accepted places on the pro ! grom are Dr. II. E. Tralle. of E'hila ! dclphia, head of the training work I of the American Baptist Publica* j tion Soc iety. Dr. Tralle will speak : each day of the convention. Dr. Robt. S. Tuesdale. pastor of '.Main Street Methodist Church, Co i lumbia. will speak on "Sunday I School Evangelism." Dr. Trucs ? dale is secretary of the evangelism 1 committee of the State Sunday School Association, and is widely known for his interest in this phase of i hurch work. Dr. Watson II. Duncan, pastor of j Cheraw .Methodist Church and one of the most popular lecturers in i the State, will speak on "The Dis ; covery of a T.ittle Child." i Dr. D. B. .Johnson, president of ! "Winthrop ('(?liege, will preside over the convention sessions as president. ! The convention sessions will be ! held at the University of South ! Carolina, and the date has been j set for dune 2<k 21. 22. in accord ! ance with the wish of the Univer j sity authorities, this being the week ! following commencement. Further anouncement regarding ; tiie convention will be made later j by General Superintendent. Leon C. i palmer, of the South Carolina Sun ? day School Ass< '-ntion. ? <r -> I EASY MONEY IN CHICAGO Chicago, Feb. 14.?Government I agents are investigating the deal ings of the Western Land operators j company, the third concern raid* : ed by the authorities. It is believ ed to have swindled foreign horn ' citizens out of more than a million i and a half dollars. WHEAT PRICES MAKE JUMP i Chicago. Feb. 1 5.?Wheat prices ! jumped six and one-half cents a I bushel on the opening of the : board of trade today, prices ad vancing from $1.37 to $1.39 1-2. CAN NOT USE SKILLED LABOR Washington. Feb. 14.?Xaval of ficials regard as impracticable the ' suggestions of the leaders of navy ! yard employes who lost their jobs , as the result of the arms treaty that the yards could provide em ! ployment in the scrapping of the I vessels. This work c ould be done ? by unskilled labor, they said. STOCK EXCHANGE j FIRM FAILS Xew York. Feb. 14.?The failure j oi Crawford. Patton and Cannon, j members of '.he Xew York Stock i Exchange, was announced this j morning. i Columbia. Feb. 14. ? Senator Wells of Edge field introduced in ? the senate Monday night a resolu tion looking to the development by the state of hydro-electric power I on the Columbia canal. The reso lution would submit to the people Of the state in the next election i the o.uestion of a six million dol ? la r bond issue. j The supreme court has decided I that the canal property shall re I vert to the state, and the Wells ! resolution looks to development ot j the canal, when li'igation now ! pending before the United States ! supreme court is decided. The ca i nal is now the property of the Co ! lumbia Railway, (has & Electric i Company. i Columbia, Feb. 14.?The house j of representatives Monday night ! sent to the senate the "bad check bill." the Shepp^ard-Barn/etf-biill : to make utterance of a check on a J bank where there are no funds t? ; cover, prima facie evidence of in ! tent to defraud. A roll call vote I Monday night resulted 53 to 19 in I favor of the bill, j The house also sent to the sen jate the luxuries tax bill. The bill j would tax soft chinks, tobaccos, j automobiles, high priced candies. ! cosmetics, movie tickets, playing ' cards and dice. j The house tabled a resolution ' which would have out the salary of ?the clerk of the houie and other : attaches. j Senator Miller's resolution "to ! request law officers of the state to Imore strictly enforce the prohibition j laws of tile s'at"" was killed by I the house by an overwhelming vote. I; was argued that such a "request;" would he a reflection on the officers and a weakening of the law. Representatives Hughes, of the house ways and means committee stated today that the appropriation blil. the annual flfnancial measure, would be introduced in the house Tuesday night. Columbia. Feb. 14.?Representa tive Mooiy of Greenville, intro duced ill, the bouse Monday night .i resolution to provide for an e<l ucarional survey of the state, to determine the efficiency of the ed uca IlonaI syst ??m. The resolution would empower live governor to appoint a commis sion !?? investigate the school sys tem. v,i:!i regard to its "Organiza tion co-ordination, administration and general efficiency." The mem bers ?>!' the com mission would work without pay. The resolution would appropriate $1 A.tVofl \>, finance the survey, in i.ear the cost of expert investigat ions and expert assist tt?nts fewer ? ! elections! - I Bill Introduced in the Legis- j lature For Amendment to 1 Constitution Columbia. Feb. 14.?Rcpresen- ! waives Bryson. of Oreunville: i ' Harris, of SparUinburg. and Mein- j j nes. of Darlington, introduced in the House today five resolutions ; looking to amendments to consti-i tution. to provide for election of state officers and members of the I legislature every tour vears. may fight to reduce army Likely Make Effort For Limit of 75,000 Men Washington, Feb. 13.?Demand: . for a reduction in the size of the j ? army to 100.000 enlisted men. or j j even to a maximum of 75,000, will j be made in the house when the j annual army appropriation bill! comes up for consideration, mem- j ; hers of the suhcommitee which is ; ; drafting the measure predicted to- ; ' day. j A formidable bloc of Representa- j lives, the subcommittee members ; declared, was preparing to wage a ! determined light to limit the : army's size to 75.000 men..while! j others who favor reduction had in- j j dicated they would be satisfied if j :the maximum was fixed at 100,000. , I Other factions nmong the house! ! membership were said to favor a i 125,000 maximum or to oppose j I any reduction in the present! ' size, which under a limitation fbr ; pay of enlisted men approximates ! j 137,000. ' ! , War department estimates trans- \ : mitted through the budget bureau; ! call for an appropriation for the j fiscal year beginning .July l sulli-! eient for the pay of 150,000 men' and approximately T4.000 officers.; Chairman Anthony, of the subcom mittee in charge of the bill, an-| I nounced today that three new es-J timates had been called for from the war department to be com ! puted on the basis of an army of j : 75,000. of D.Mi.oOO and 125,(100 en ? listed men. . j Members of the subcommittee ? were of the opinion that the ap propriation bill would provide, I when reported, for an army of j "100,000 or 12.").000 men." Efforts ' to cut the number lower than 100,-1 [000, it was said, was expected to, be made by Democratic members of ; the house and by some of the members who believe the arma ment conference has practically re-! moved the possibility of war. search for lone sail,0r Xew York. Feb. 14.?Scores of 'ships of all kinds left the ocean routes today to search for John Kirkner. the sailor who was cast j , adrift from the steamer Gaffney I i last Wednesday in an unfrequented! 'part of the Atlantic. State Teachers' Association. ! Rock .Hill. Feb. 14. ? Judging' from the interest that is being! 'taken in the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association. March Itith-lSth. the goal of L-jU*"' in at-j i tendance will be reacned. Practi-j !ca41y every county is working on [ plans to be well represented. The [Officers of the association feel that; there has been arranged one of the I strongest programs in the history! of the association. The following j (is the program of the Home Keo- j [nomics Department, of which Miss j Christine South, of Winthrop Col-1 lege is president: Tuesday morning. 9:30, Wash-j ington Street High school: 9:30-9:50?The PvClntion of the; ; Homemaker to the Community? j Miss L. E. .Swygert. Chicora Col-1 ! lege. j 9:50-10:10?The Opportunities : for the Home Economics Woman j j in the Institutional Field?Miss j ; Beatrice Perry, in charge of Cafc ! teria. Winthrop College. 10:10-10:40?What Place Has Home Economics made for itself j ?in the Public Sehols?Miss Ade-! : laide Baylor. Federal Board for j ! Vocational Education. Washington.! ! D. C. !? 10:40-11:10^?How the Depart-1 ment of Agriculture is Applying : Scientific Knowledge to the Prob-| lems of tile Farm Woman?Miss j Florence Ward. Office of Extension [ (Agriculture and Home Economics) I F. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Wash ' ington. D. C. 1 ll:10-ll:3o?What are Some of i the Xecessary Qualifications for: j the Teacher of Home Economics? ! Director of Home Economics. City Schools. Columbia, S. C. I 1:30?l :.':<??(>?The Home Eco nomics Association in its Slate. Re- j rional. and National Aspects?Miss ' Edith Thomas. President Southern Home Economics Association. 1 l':0<??General Session. Afternoon session. '.) p. m., Wash- j ington Street High school: Business meeting. MOTORISTS M 1ST SHOW LICENSES Time Limit lor the Obtaining of Them lias Expired 'I'lie state .if Smith Carolina re quires thai a iieep.se be displayed mi the rear of each motor vehicle. Tiie time Ii mil for the obtaining these .has expired and motorists who have been procrastinating are likel\ to discover thai the law is te?; playful: thej are in s.or.e dan ger of feeling the penalty for care lessness in compliance with statines; as made :itid provided. Washington. Feb. 14. ?Two hun Ired destroyers have been laid up in various ports with depb-ied r? \\s. it was nifiejally annoum-ed at he nnv\ departmenl today. FERTILIZE YOUR PEACH ORCHARDS _______ Every Peach Orchard Should; Be Fertilized Certainly Once a Year For your young orchards, one. nvii and three years old. we prefer ?1 large forkfuls of stable manure scattered on top of the ground. 10 t<? 12 inches from the ;runic of tree. Increase distance \'l inches per year from the trunk of the tree and the manure somewhat, and work into the soil promptly and t horoughly. If tin- manure cannot he procur- . ed. then \ e fertilizer?6-4-0 or (j-4-2. We advise the potash, on! account of non use of potash for some years oast. Apply manure any time during the winter. t'>?- fer tilizer preferably in March, not la- I ter than April 15th to 25th. ac cording to .earliness <>r lateness of j spring: same distance from trunk j of tree. For your bearing orchards, four years old and up, use fertilizer 7-5 5. This brand was tested in the Carolina Fruit Hills las* year, and I proved very satisfactory. Apply,' K to in pounds to tree :! to feet j from trunk, then see that the for- j tilizer is covered promptly and; worked thoroughly into the soil. It is very important that the! planting, of your young trees, and ! also the trimming of your bearing i orchards, both should be attended! to now. particularly before the sap \ rises. Early planting and trimming! is greatly to the advantage of the trees in every way. A Clcatf-up Week. Would it not be a grand idea to have a clean-up week, say from . j February 20th to March 1st. earlier; \ or later, the time to be decided ac ; cording to the season. If it has notj j been done before then.fake up all j ; collected trash and litter and burn j jit. also burn the woods surround-j j ing or near the orchards. In this! way wc would destroy millions of! ! insects and it would go far in keep-1 \ ing these pests under control, j If peach orchards are worth, i planting they are worth developing! j and caring for. Now let us do our utmost to in-j duce all of our orchardists to come I together while the peach industry1, i is in its infancy in our favored Car- ; i olina Fruit Hills, by cooperating inj [planting their young orchards earl-' ;ier, trimming their bearing orchards: [before the sap rises and applying j I the spray for scale, eurcuiio and j brown rot promptly, or especially ' at the proper time. With these, and the judicious use of fertilizers, [thorough cultivation and nature's! [bountiful gifts of soil and climate. ; we will build up a peach industry second to none. These things as [ sure success. ! CONVERSATION j OF ANGELS, Philadelphia. Feb. 14.?Angels communicate with each other by telepathy and converse with mn | by the same means Dr. Horace j Stanton. of the Presbyterian Min-; j tsterial Association, declared in an address. He- declared that te lepathy is the court language oft ; heaven. ; CONSUMPTION ' j OF COTTON INCREASED | j Washington. Feb. l-*.?<"otton [consumed during January amount-! led to 526.552 bales of lint and 40,-j j 49s bales of iinters, compare? I I with 366.463 hales of lint and 2'.'.-' 1782 bales of Iinters for January ( I last year, the census announced to-! ;day. ^ [ DOHENY FAVORS FREE STATE; _- j New York. Feb. 14.?The reason j I for the formation of the American [Association for the Recognition of j the Irish Republic now no longer | exists, according to Edward L. Do- ? heny, president, who said he fa - j I vors the Irish Free State. -o~?? SENATE KILLS HYDRO ELECTRIC TAX BILL' I Columbia. Feb. 15.?The hydro-j electric tax bill was killed by the senate today by a vote of 2S to 16. j The bill had been debated through the last evening session and for, two hours today. It was opposed; on the ground that it would be a | burden on the corporations and on , industries. The senate this morn-1 ing passed the bill to tax corpora- i tions. The vote in favor of this bill was 2S to 14. Following these: votes the senate launched into a del-ate or. the income tax hill. The house heard a long debate on the resolutions to provide for bien nial sessions of the legislature. The resolution was opposed by Repre sentatives Bryson, Greenville, Me- ; Innes of 1'aldington, and Harris, of j Spartanburg. The plan was killed \ by a vote of 53 to 52. This vote ; carried death also to the compan ion resolutions providing for elec tion of state oflicers every four years. The authors of the bill spoke for it. Numerous members spoke i against it. Columbia Street Car su-ike Columbia, Feb. 15- The motor men and conductors of the Colum bia Railway. Cms and Electric Co., calfed a strike at 1:30 o'clock this morning to take effcei at 6:S?> o'clock. This action was taken. ?; :s said, as a resul; of the discbarge of l'i members of tne local union of. street railway workers: 144 men will he affected by the walk out. according to union otlieials. 1: was stated at 1:4" thai i lie cars would nor1 leave the barn this morning. KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE IN ANDERSON Aged Man Struck by Car on Main Street?Driver Ar rested Anders?']!. Feb. l ?>.?Abraham Paletz was struck by aiv automobile Sunday >.;^;r and died from his in juries shortly after he was taken r? a hospital. The car was driven by Henry Hill, young white man from Equinox mill. Charile Hin, liaynumd Morris, and two other men, named Heller and Freeman, are being h?dd at the county jail. TJus.- four men are said to have been in the car driven by Henry Hill. The tragedy happened on the extension of south Main street. The driver of the car says a wiman crossed in from of the car on the opposite side from where Palotz was. Paletz. he says, started across lie- street and then turned back. !!<? further claims that when he saw the ear was going- to hit the man he attempted to put on brakes and in the excitement he put his foot on the accelerator. Abraham Paletz, was from Po-, ''land. lb- came to this country in 1904. He had saved enough to send for his family, consisting of a wife and four children, when the World War began and he had sent the money for them to come to America. On account of the dis turbed conditions in his country they had not been able to come. The old man was in Greenwood for some years and lost some money in a hank failure which he was saving to again send for his fam ily. He was a junk dealer here. lb> has two brothers in Camden. X. J. The body will probably be/ taken to Camden fer burial. PRIEST HELD FOR MURDER Montreal; Feh. 14.?The Rev. Adelard DeLorme a Roman Catho lic priest, was arrested tonight on a charge of having murdered his half brother. Raoul DeLorme, an Ottawa university student, whose body was found in a suburb of the city January t;. with sisLhullct holes in the head- * Father DeLorme. who had been under police guard all day, was taken into custody after a coroner's jury, coucluding its investigation, had found him criminally rcspon sibl for his brother's death. The long missing will of the student, who took out $2.">.00? in surance at the alleged direction of the clergyman just four days be fore his death, was found today in ?the office of Notary Delanger, and disclosed that the Key. A.delard 'DeLorme was chief heir and ad ministrator of the estate. The hearing today, at which Father DeLorme took the witness stand and calmly related what He knew of his brother's movements on the day preceding>his death, was tilled with tense moments. The pub-< lie was excluded, officials permit ting only a few newspaper men to be present. The priest went over the previous account he had given of how the young man had left home fur an evening's enjoyment after which he did not see him again. The excitement was intensified when J. C. Walsh. M. P.. designated by the attorney general's office to conduct the inquiry, began to ques tion the priest .about his brother's will which had been missing until today although police had searched . for the document. Father DeLorme stated that the will had been left at the office of a local notary and when it was pro duced he suggested that it shoul 1 not be read, contending that should it be found that he would benof.t by its terms. Iiis position would be "peculiar." Contents of the will were .then divulged and by its provisions; Father DeLorme was found to be the principal beneficiary of >the dead student's estate, yielding an income of more than $10.000 a year. Police officials testified that when they asked Father* DeLorme about the will at first he said it was in Ottawa, then at the office of a local notary and finally that he did not know where it was. Their testimony also showed that bullets in the young man's head ? bore the same barrel marks as those fired from a revolver found in the prist-s car. and that soap had been used in an apparent effort to remove blood stains on the seats and cushions of the machine. Feathers found tin the car also were described by witnesses as similar to those on the autom *bilo wrap covering the victim. Coroner Mahon cautioned the jurors that although Roman Catho lics they were not be influenced by the fact that a priest and a servant of the church might be affected by their decision. They stood seven to one on their verdict Ii?.ding him criminally responsible for his half brother's death. Father DeLorme was unmoved by che verdict and walked briskly ? to the automobile in which he was driven to police headquarters. SEVEN-YEAR OLD BOY INJURED BY AUTOMOBILE Dessaline Ward, the seven-yenr old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. h. Ward, was run over by an auto mobile yesterday morning about 'J o'clock, while on his way to the Sc. Joseph's Academy, where he at tends school. He was painfully I'jii not seriously injured, and was taken to the home of Mrs. Kings more, where he received medical attention. The driver of the auto did not s;?.p to find out how bad the lb: tie fellow was hurt, and so far. tin name of the driver has not been ascertained. Country In*dhngs are training for spring tourists.