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The Watchman and Southron j Published Wednesday and Satur day by Qgteen Publishing Company, Sumter, S. C. . ... Terms:. $2.0? per annum?in advance. Advertisements: One ^QjL^LreK first insertion -."$1.00; Kve*y subsequent, insertion .50 I ; .contracts for three .months or: lcnffer- will be made at reduced ' rate?,... ? ; A? communications which sub- j servo -private interests wiil be 1 chaj^eS.T^or as advertisements. ^MtiuirSte. and tributes of . re- j spect?*v^ill be -charged f?r. j '1 The ;Snmter . Watchman was ioufcded irv and vithe True ] Sou^bron ,ih .i&SO.". The Watchman ; and" Southron now Has the com- . biped crrcnlation and influence of : .both of the old papers, and is ma^ Ifestly^b.e best advertising medium ] in Sumter.- i . ? i -r niV-itii- -nvii -iti'-nr gag .r" ; ?' - 3 *.. - ? . > - : ^ATTR;\itiZATION CHANGES. Tn^r^$r*>son naturalization, bill, i now r;?en?ing in Congress with a. good T-prospeet for enactment, j would^'i?ko more changes in the! e^rxzenshlfh-laws than have been; made for a" century. The principal I changes contemplated are as fol- j lows: ? I." The registration of all aliens! ,-^??r times yearly during iheir res- I ?dence-in the United States for at, leastrfive years before they become \ citizens.' ' :y .'.uiXffi" creat ion of independent \ exi^SB^t^p for women. Z.*^?he repeal ?&iyghe amend-: l$0tf requiring a certiti-; 4. ? :A.^reqniremen>. thdr wit nests- ? e^^eed?appear before a federal J examiner: with the applicant o-?lyj ?j>ice. . . .. - . . Tbe n>st, and perhaps the most; important, is intended to insure j iha^ah'dfdates for citizenship shall 1 reside in the United States for the : full five-year period . required. ! There can be no doubt of that. ?; with such, checking up. j The second is a batural develop-! meat from woman suffrage, and j wilr remove the injustice of" making I U IfOM'tfh automatically a citizen of j Jbe same country as her husband,! regardless of birth and preference.! The third merely does away with i provision which was meant for j the same purpose as-the first of j. these new'regulations, and which,! hats worked badly. The-fourth change, the purpose of which is to save trouble that is; considered unnecessary, appears to j be the least vital, though perhaps' justifiable. Altogether the new; 3?faA ought to work much better j than the old in establishing ade- ? yuate safeguards for naturalization j aad making aliens appreciate their ; new-citizenship when they gain it. MOKE WORK. '?Reports from 231 of the prin-' cipal*industrial centers with but; fiev-rxceptions show a general im-, pwteetaent in employment condi tfeaas, and breathe an enthusiastic l^firtt of hope and confidence in! tsbfe future. Weather permitting,"; March will begin an. era of great! ttetiyity." So says a report from j itfre employment- service of the De ? xc partment of Labor. : -Weather is one factor in the up- j ward trend of business. Indus- *; trl& ..settlements between capital j and labor, form another, and per- i haps the most important. Whor- \ ever t&ere still exist difficulties and j nni^ettied disputes, now is the time | :o siel theni settled on- sonic sort of j workable basis that will carry ; through the next year. With ev- \ erything r*ady to move, strikes,! lockouts and deadlocks constitute' intoleKTble situations. The public! is in a mood of little patience with j th|s-soft of thing. It-wants jus-1 t'ice do$e, and wants it done quiek- \ Jy.? Where absolute justice cannot i l^~a*r^.ed at, in the-view either; of Employer or employee, the next i Wst.thing is a compromise, some: ??r*pf^ modus, vivendi which will! permit'both sides to carry on. for! their own benefit and that of every- ; body-nor directly concerned. ?-? - -gi 111 lO j? NARROW ROADS. [ " : - Ring" tardner. in a recent, article j paid his respect to a Florida high way with a nine-foot paving strip, j It appears that such roads are common in Florida. The result is ! easily,imagined '"when you take a thirteen-mile ride on a nine-foot ! road on a Sunday evening with a constant line of headlights staring ? you in the eye." Lardner confesses that he lacks words to describe the situation, .although his driver had a good. supply, and used most of tlnim. licit may be paved wirb good ^ntiuntions, but neither good inten- I rions nor profanity i will pave j American roads. Why any com- j munity ."ill continue to build road- , ways so narrow that two vehicles ; cannot .pas* without one of them Crowding the other off is hard to .; understand. Lardnor's explana-1 tlon * thati-the Florida people are; "g?n?ralJw-always so stuck on their j home town that ihey don't never go nowheres else, iunless they have | to." and that they naturally figured : thart-'there wouldn't never be more j than one motorist using the reads the same any," isn't altogether satisfactory-: It is-? cheaper to pave nine feet than 14. and cheaper to pave 3 4 feet than *J0. but it is not cheaper in proportion to the area paved, and certainly it is not cheaper when measured by the public benefits derived from it. People every where are finding this oiit, and ac cordingly -are widening their nar row highway pavements, and wish ing they had done so in the first place while they had the materials and machinery on the ground. ?tB& YEAR OIF .irXK." A keen young man who is rap idly making his mark in the fin ancial world says this is going to be "die year of junk." That is to say, '"we are going to see more scrapping -of obsolete thing* and obsolete ideas ? than the world has ever sent to the junk heap in any one year in history." He is not thinking especially of the battleships marked for scrap ping by the naval powers, al though they are pertinent. He calls special attention to the quan tity of commercial tonnage that will have to be scrapped, not so much because most of the govern ment ships are not good enough ro sail the seas according , to old standards, but because the stand ards are changing rapidly, and the shipping nations are now building far bigger and better ships, with which the little, old-fashioned craft cannot compete. There ?must be similar-scrapping all along, the line, he says. "The steamship, the steel plant, the mo tor plant, the copper mine that cannot operate under the 1921 minimum cost line is going to give way to one that can." There will not need to be So very much scrapping of actual plants and machinery, be thinks, but in methods of handling the situation, the Junking processes are going to be wholesale." This may weil be true. There are signs enough, in many lines of production- and distribution. And if this process is as necessary as it appears-to be, the sooner it is un dertaken and accomplished, the better for everybody, ' ? i? mi i SPRING AXB BFSIXF.SS. February is. always, more or less the dull mbnth of the year. It is the tag end of one season, and not yet the beginning of another one. The corresponding summer month is-August: but vacations are on at that time, and business men have a habit of considering summer dullness in some way normal, while they' cannot : quite adapt their minds to the same conditions in February. In a duK year this psychology adds to the general dullness and creates a vicious mental circle. February, however,> is now over. The wild geese' are flying north ward, and the wild buyers are stir ring abroad in the iand. There has been no overproduc tion this time, measured by the needs of people in general. There is a latent market for every yard of goods on every merchant's shelves, for every brick and piece of steel and everything else that is. customarilym.produced between our two oceans. The worst is over.- With spring building begins on a scale worth while. The number of people who have been waiting to build their homes for the 'open season, of J9-J2 is almost incredible. Wheth er they will fulfill their hopes de pends on Whether they are met, by architee:, contractor, material manufacturers and labor,: on what they consider fair and honest terms. Building means increased demand for everything else. Xo one moves into a new house with out at least a little new furniture, a few new curtains. And even it people leave the bulk of these pur chases for a later time, that in it self is hopeful. It means a steady and increasing demand for all the new things that go into houses. The automobile- business seems re-established on a firm footing. Little dullness is preoeptible there. Other industries an.* opening up week by week. Business every where shows small but steady gains. It is a time for cheerfulness, steady hard work and good sense. PAYING FOR DEAD MORSES. ????? t Back in 1ST2. an Ohio city bor rowed $400.000 to pay for certain waterworks improvements. The money went into a new pump and new mains. The pump and pipes have long since been worn out and replaced, and $1,060.000 has been paid in interest on the loan, but the city still owes tiro original $4.00,0.00, and apparently expects to continue paying interest on it in definitely. Here is a notable example of municipal payment for a dead horse. It may have been all right to make the loan in the first place. jbut it was certainly) not right to [make ii without ahy>provision for paying it off automatically before ?j the benefits ohiai)i&] from the loan j ivere used up. ; How many scores of American cities arc now borrowing money, j right along, in the same improvi i dent way ? How many cities are ' borrowing not merely for "perma ; nent im prove men is"'?which may ; be only semi-permanent?but for ? current expenses? How many of ithese dead horses wUl have to be j paid'for by a generation that has derived no advantage from them, ? and will have trouble enough tak Sasg-einre of its Own burdens? IXIYERSAI, ilEbtCAL TESTS. Members of the .National Board ? of Medical Examiners in session 1 recently considered, among other things, plans' for the establish 1 ment of a single qualification ex amination for medical practice. It ; is the inteniton that applicants ! passing this examination will be 'admitted to the practice of medi ' cine in any state without having ?to pass'a. state examination also. The standard is to be made so j high that there can be no doubt of the qualifications of doctors who pass. j Twenty-one states already accept jthe certificates issued by the nat ional board, and 10 others have signified their willingness to accept i them when state laws can be i amended to allow such procedure. I The further stiffening of these : tests will advance their popular ity and in itself help to maintain the already high standards of the j medical profession, j Neither medical facts nor hu man ? bodies change intrinsically iwith state boundary lines, and a ! man who is qualified to practise in one state should be fitted to do so j in another. As in teaching the arti I ficial barrier should be removed. ? EDECATTOX MAKES MARKET. -. i Worthy of considerable thought jis the statement of Brent. A. To.rzer, j an American manufacturer, as a rc j suit of personal inquiry and ex iperience in the Orient: j "There will be no market for la bor-saving machinery in the Far East until the people become more educated. It pays in that country 1 to hire hundreds of coolies to do i the work of one machine. There ; is no manufacturing in the Orient, j in bur .sense, except for shipyards. ? arsenals and railroad yards. The ! situation can't be coped with in ; any way except by -further educa jtion and the eventual abolition of j menial labor." ! So much for. the supposedly j "rich trade" of the Orient, which has dazzled so many American : minds. And so much for the meth I od by which that imaginary trade j must be >built up. if it is ever to : be realized. There's no question about if. j People don't want machinery, don't j heed maehinery and can't use ma j ehinery until they become educat ; ed. Education gives value to hu man life and to human beings' time ! and effort, and - prepares the way i for the labor-saving equipment. \ Education also provides the knowl i edge without which it is impossible j to use the machinery. Education creates the wants for the things the machinery will produce. The first and greatest export to the j Orient, therefore, must be western ' education, if the modern Occident j is ever to profit greatly by busi i ness dealings with the Orient. This truth applies likewise at i home. Many American corpora : tions are doing much for education, ' less as philanthropy." than as bus iness policy. > They know that the better educated the public becomes, the bigger market they will have for their goods. $75,000 or More Babe Ruth's hew contract with the Yanks calls for $50,000 a year with a $500 bonus for each home run. That, fo- a period of three years. Seats near the- Mary-Eascellen we'dding cos! s:b?;.l>ut this wasn't as high as the Oarpentier-pemp'sey bout. France wants ne re children'. This proves she isn't rich. Princess Mary's? mother reduced for tin- vvedding. Her rather was also reduced'. To-day's Best Jokes and Stories The common spelling L* Sru-e J c--e-^-$. ?? Majority: The greater nnmhev. Antonym: Borah. Twinkle, twinkle"movie star: w* I no more wonder what you aiv. i Vamp stories teach us that the j female after specie is deadly, to the ! male. . . ? . Every normal man believes in S telling the truth, but few of. them j j are extremists. : . ; In this mad rturry of haste, man ; has almost lost. the gentle an of ; rolling his own. | A woman prefers a man without I riches, judging ?from the way .she quickly relieve? him of them. , Somewhere between the Great j ? Beyond and the sucker who thinks! i the dead speak there is a happy ; medium. .. ,~j Nature is rather unfair. In ourj 'teens, when we could most easily] learn, she persuades us that we i : know it all. . .; ... , ; . 'A The income tax blank doesn't! j seem so complicated,, however, af- j j ter one resigns himself to telling! I the truth. ... , . ! The old-fashioned widow who! : spoke of her .la.te_husband now has i ? a daughter who speaks of her. la- j ' test husband.' ? -. r- j The Irish nightwatchman at the ; observatory was new. He paused 1 j to watch a man peering through a ! : la ige telescope. Just then a star! fell. "Man aloive." he exclaimed in amazement. "You're, shure a foine i shot."'?X. C: It. News. j Jim: "I wonder what was done with all of the terrible machinery i for destruction left from the war." Tim:?"A large part of it must . have been taken over for use by American laundries.!'?Sans Gene : (Paris.) ; 1 i The "Wobbly One: "Offisher. did you shee me f-fall" Officer: "Yes," j The Wobbly One: "Had you ever sh-sheeh me before?" Officer: "Xo." The Wobbly One: "Then 'how1 : d'did you know it wash me?"? Stalcy Journal. He: : "It's my principle never to kiss a girl." She: -You can't expect any irp-. ; terest from me. then."-?Williams' Purple Cow. if any one woman had all the clothes she wanted the rest of the women would have to go around'in barrels.?Sugar City Gazette. One cure for a lawless state is ; less law. The Irish Free Ktate appears to : be a kind of fre.e-for-ali state. "Hanging doesn't discourage crime." At any rate, -' hanging ? juries doesn't. National pride is merely a ?moke-creen laid down to conceal ? a national graft. ; The world is growing better, but j it is yet too early to hold out hope of a complete recovery. That peculiar smell in ? iightly : packed movie house is probably an atmosphere of democracy. In these modern times one won-' j d.ers what has become of the old j gentleman who wore the heavy j beard as an aid in straining soup. i ??? ! Hut think of the awful fix we'd j be in except for the elevating in i tluence of women in politics. Ill fares poor France, to hasten ing ills a prey; when debts accu ] initiate and the Huns won't pay. ', For tin- next few. decades, na i tional aspiration iu .Germany will take the form of national perspi ration. The average American thinks j thrift consists in getting along with. 1 four cylinders 'instead of six or ! eight. The public may boycott the i wicked movies, but it continues to devour spicy -tories about the i movie people. Arid so the peace dollar is de signed to last twenty-five years. Well, there are a few optimists left in Washington. Business will get better when it gets better credit. Another note long- past- due is a not?- of chi>erfuin'es?, * Isn't there a vacant place on the bench for Mr. Borah? When Lloyd George Bhows up. tin-re is usually a. show-down. Ireland reminds us that a little religion is also a dangerous thing. The safest place to bury the hatcket is just back of the jingo's ?*ar. Many Americans think normal ex is a state in which one can fall off the water wagon for fifteen eelits. To the charming divorcee, lite is just one darned husband uiter an other. . , Th" rotten nes? in Denmark ?tfp pears to . have communicated itself to the German mark. ? r ' PROBE WEf?L UNDERWAY ; Governor Kussell Not lto Ap pear Juekson. Miss.. March :?. -?ov. j Lee M. Russell does not plan to ap pear in person before the legislative j committee inyestiga.tin.fi; charges] i made to the Mississippi legislature! i t.hat "a pernicious" fire insurance j lobby v.'as being maintained here, n'tid allegations that a suit for dam ages, recently filed against the gov ernor by Miss Frances Birkhead, a i former stenographer, was fostered by certain fire insurance interests.' I Governor Russell so informed ^he; [comniittee in a communication de-, jlivered to the chairman shortly be fore the '.committee recessed after [hearing three other witnesses <iu.r ?ing the initial day of the inquiry, j j In a previous communication the j governor, reiterating .the. eh a ?res! m?de in his message to the legisla ture, suggested that the commit tee, summon Stokes V. Robertson,.: state revenue agent, from whom, [the governor stated, he,- received; j much* of the information on which jibe allegations were based, j . Mr. . Robertson testified as the: I first witness. He explained that; i what he had learned was largely; j front other persons and gave the i mimes of witnesses to be summon >o. ,. j :V Mr. Robertson was without infor-; mation as to any connection of in j surance interests with the suit filed ? by. iVliss Iiirkhead, which charged ! the governor with seduction. Ho j I t.old the committee that he *cnew j j nothing, of the merits or demerits of the suit. !.- Mr.. Robertson told of reports! j reaching him that the Mississippi! j Fire. Insurance company, a state ' j organ iza t i on. form ed a ft er the' I withdrawal of a number of fotejgn 1 [ companies subsequent to the filing i of anti-trust suits against them in j j December. 1 i?2 had been coerced j [into approving certain legislation 1 now pending before the legislature, j This, however, was denied by | George A. Wilson of Greenwood, j president of the Mississippi organ- . ization, who testified that, the sur:- ? jgestion that his company approve ; the legilation came up in connec- ! tion with a meeting of a state or- j ;ga'nizatioh of insurance agents and that his concern regarded as meri- | jtorious the measure as having to do ?with the formation of a state rating j ; bureau. F. P. Becker of Brookhaven. sec- ' iretary of the state agents' asSocia-j j tion. testified along the same lines; ias Mr. Wilson. He also denied a' j statement made, by Governor Rus- j 'sell that the meeting here at which the' bill was discussed several weeks j j ago was in secret. So far as the suit of Miss Birk- ; j head against the governor was con-' |cerned. Mr. Becker said, he had | I no knowledge and declared em- j Iphati'eallr that.his.organization did j ! not aid the young woman in the in- j jstitution of the suit, j He also declared that, so far as j : he knew, there had been no lob- ''? j bying. i The opening of the hearing to j day followed several days of pre- I j limihary conferences and post- | ponement. Five members of the Mississippi ' Association of Insurance Agents, R. ; C.; Wilkerson. John Hennessy. P. L. ? i Hennessy and U. G. Flowers of i j.Vicfcsburg and R. L. Roberts of i jCanton. Miss., and W. D. Mountger : of Natchez, a director of the Mis isissippi Fire Insurance association, I testified at the night session. Alii ? denied indetail allegations made by j ;the governor .as to alleged lobbying : j activities or that coercive measures 5 ! were used by the agents' organiza- j ;tion to compel the Mississippi Fire [Insurance association to approve i legislation pending before the state j j legislature. Mr. Wilkerson enlivened proeecd lings when a member of the ? om-? jmittee read a statement made by ! the governor in his message as jo the alleged coercive measures. ; "If the. governor made .."such a I ;statement to me personally. I'd say? 'he was a liar, but to you. gentle-. ? men. I'll simply say it is false." 'Wilkerson told the committee. ! i ? The great ?niestJon is not "How : will the treaties affect the next; j generation ?" but "How will they I.affect the next election? . It isn't probable, however, that the man with,the hoe wlil become, a greater political power than the, man with the. dough.. i Ain't nature wonderful? Keen ?though one i-s born every minute.: i some new Ponzi appears now and then to handle the entire crop. Statesmen might render a ser 1 vice by figuring out just how much blood must be spilled before l subject people is entitled to lib ' erty. I While training officers, '..ouldn't 'it be a good idey to add a course, in J?rn manners in order to prepare a few submarine captains. . If strikes make coal higher we can get foreign money to burn. -? ? ? Dunn and Bradstreet can't tell von how mu.eh a. friend is worth. If Government wishes to break up the tobacco trust, it might limit the selling price and add another re\ i nne stamp or two. . We all look sheepish after getting fleeced. WANTED?To take orders at m> home to make hats. 11 interest - ed. call 879?L. Mrs. C. W. Mc *>rcw. corner Magnolia and Myr tle streets. 1_ ! SENATE FINISHED '\ APPROPRIATIONS Measurement tirj Hoiif^e For; ConcuiTence I - Columbia; March 10.?The sen ate Jit S o'clock tonight complet ed consideration of the approprin-] tion bill in so far as the actual; expenditures themselves were con cerned. There were some amend ments to provisions at the end of the bill providing for the carrying out of the measure, which were ?taken up for consideration after j the senate had returned from the j supper recess. The bill as passed ! by the senate carries a lotal of ap- i proximatel'y. $.")..S00.000, or between $5.$.'0tf? and $60.000 increase over the bill as presented by the finance committee, which itself increased the house bill by about 570.0u0. The biD will likely be sent back to the house early tomorrow morning and will probably be immediately referred to a free conference com mittees, as the house is almost cer tain to refuse to .concur in the sen ate amendments. The senate added a number of items, aggregating more than $20, 000 in the appropriations for the State Highway Commission than provided by'.the finance committee. Senator Young, of Charleston, pro posed these amendments. These in clude 5f.,o<"> for three clerks to per-., form duties in connection with the alliances between the state and fed eral governments: an item of $8, 000. if so much be necessary, for reimbursing for the' work on the "Santee bridge, and ?2,700 for tem porary clerical help, such as in spectors and other workers. One more held engineer is added and the salaries of the other two in creased over the amount allowed by the finance committee. The secretary's salary is raised from $3,240 to $3.600, the assistant sec retary from $2.160 to $2,400 and the stenographer and clerk from $1.620 to $7.S00. Senator lion ham, of Greenville, led a fight this afternoon to restore salaries paid to clerks and other positions held in various state of fices to the status of the 1920 ap propriations, and a large number of items already passed on were re considered, but on a /blanket vote covering all of the proposed changes the. senate refused . 'these increases. The ways and means committee, reduced these salaries, and in some instances the finance committee made increases over the house bilk The senate raised quite a num ber of salaries in a number of state offices. An increase from $5.00 to $1,000 was granted for repairs to the state house, this being to repair leaks in the. roof of the capitol. Another increase for repairs' on the capitol was added. in the section "electrician and engineer's office" to repair the chandelier on the cap itol steps, which yras broken about two years ago at a Christmas tree celebration when the Christmas tree turned over. . '. ; The salary of the secretary to the Sinking Fund Com minion was! raised from $3.2<?0 t<? $3,600 and ihose of the assistant secretary and stenographer and.-clerk from $2,150 to >2.400 and from $1,020 to $1,-1 800; respectively. An increase of more than $12,000 , was allowed in the section of the j Comissioner of Agriculture. The senate took two separate votes to- j day on one item in this section j which provide for the continua tion of rhe publica;ion of the weekly farm bulletin first setting the appropriation at $11,500 for publication and clerical help and then They reduced if to .SlO.OOO'and on a third reconsideration reduced; rite item to $0,000 for the publi cation of the bulletin and $1;350 j for clerical help in connection with the bulletin. Senator Moore offered an amend-: meht at The end of the approprin-; tion bill to provide for a general cut of 2"? per pent in practically' all of the appropriations, but this j was voted down. The senate finance committee j proposed a section that no state ; college should advertise in the j newspapers or other publications I at the expense of the state. Sen- : i a tor Johnstone had this proviso! j further amended by providing that the section should not refer to ad vertising for summer school schol arships and other similar things. The senate suggested the state} levy he fixed at six mills, hut did] so realizing that the free confer-! encte committee after all would have to figure the rate that would] .be necessary. It .adopted the six! mills idea as a desire.: The sug-'j geStion came through Senator! Lightsey who insisted that the levy I be fixed at six mills. \ The income ! (tax bills still in committee could; be made to make up any deficiency! by increasing the income tax. Hej wanted the burden removed from real estate and visible property and put on those able to pay. He had hoped that some of the new sources of revenue would have been adopted. His plan of reducing the levy was to provide the difference in the income tax bill. Senator McGhee wanted to know if this was another effort to ram something down the throats of certain senators who did not ! agree to the committee income t?x j bill. I Senator Lightsey said he had j no such idea but he wished to stress the point that much more 1 revenue could be gotten from 'the j .ncome tax bill. It was brought laut that what was done would have no binding effect on the senate. Senator Christensen said he thought if the committee income tax bill were adopted it would make a six-mill levy possible. The appropriation bill went to the house at midnight. To Free Conference. Columbia. March 11.?At 12:30 o'clock this morning the general appropriation bill went to the house of representatives, which refused to concur in the senate amendments, twenty-five minutes after.the senate had taken its final vote on the measure. Tlu- Mil ?Same to the house with .. :t six-mill levy and an approxi-. mate appropriation of 36.000.000. It was ..brought out that the levy provided would raise $2,600, 000, and there was much resent- . ment at the action of the*senate * putting the levy so low. .when, in 'x?ct, it was stared, the levy should be ten mills to raise the necessary revenue. \ ;'? There was a disposition .among some of the members of the lower : body to concur in the six-mill levy in order to "show up the senate/' I which would have neeessitated.Jin I extraordinary session, but ;wiser i counsel prevailed. The. senate.tcortferees appointed. I by President Harvey aye Senator.. Gross, fffe Dorchester: Senator Pearce, of Richland and Senator Hogers, of Sparenburg, and Speaker Atkinson ap -jointed on .' the part of the house R. T. Hughes, ' of Marion: C. X. Sapp, of Ric-h i kind, and Kugene S. Blease, of Xowberrv. - It may be that th.' art oj dancing is deteriorating, but the camel walk is a long step forward. ' V Genoa proved the world' round; it may yet prove it..square. ? ? ? ? ? Xo young fellow turns out ?s i people expect, so why. worry?' A man who has time to knock has entirely toe much time.' Girl of most beautiful, hack is found! She will grin and bare ih j . Everyday or so tbe;oldest man in ' the world either dies or marries. * I Too many .people on, the job have j started their vacations. ;.. ? ? +.?rr s [ Collecting bills is easy: all of us? have a collection of them. 1 The Most Profitable Acre oi the Farm ThS garden, spot is recogo&ed by many .-x>: the liest paying part <.f the farm, but is often neglected. A good garden means' money in your poeket. and from a health standpoint.% there is nothing bette** than green, fresh vegetables. The right Variety Of -tr-ge?rbles to choose, for eariiness, yield or flavor is clearly shown in our 1022 Catalog. Mailed Ire* on request. FOOD'S C&OP SPECXA?, giv ing seasonable information for the farm anYl ?'urrent prices of -altHeld' st ees.- mailed- free. fT.W.WOOD & SONS 5??DSAffjV . ;., No. 17 G.'lttk Hi :f??u^nd, V&f 9 South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association Sign Up Week MARCH 11T8 TO 18TH .--v - J V -a Z. Sr. fc v .. ." j ":""'"?>': > ;' 'S Si * . . ? i .'"> TUESDAY, MARCH 21st, WILL BE "CLEAN UP DAY" Hey Member! Wear your pin. Get one from Chamber of Commerce. See the canvassers in your community today. Don't wait for them to see you. On Tuesday, March 21st, Bankers, Merchants and Business Men of Sumter have agreed to close their places of business and give their services toward secur ing signatures to the marketing contract. We have Eleven Thousand Bales. Our Goal?Not Less Than Twenty Thousand by Saturday, March 18th. Send or bring all contracts to E. W. Dabbs, Jr., Cham ber of Commerce, Sumter, S. C. This space contributed by FIRST NATIONAL BANK, NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SUMTER TRUST COMPANY, CITY NATIONAL BANK.