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The Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by , Osteeu Publishing Company, Surater> fc. O. Terras: $2.G& per annum?in advance. Advertisements: ,-On? Squaxa,. first insertion _-51.00 Kverv Ipjitteequeat insertion .50 Cowacis for - throve months or lorig^'-Tssft be made at reduced rates. ? : - All;~com,mu?icacions which sub serve'/ jfrivate interests will *>e charged, for as advertisements. Obituaries and" tributes of re spect* wil* he charged f?r. The - Sumter - Watchman ? was foujsd^d 185? and the True SoiyfhrOn in* The Watchman and*"Southron now has ti*? com b'ine^vcircTtIation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ite^tlytheh&st advertising medium in-ISun?er: * ?fJlEf! KERDS Again me appropriate?ns com mittee, tried lopping oft the sum -of $300.(M>G from the agricultural bud get for next year, for free seeds, and again members of the House restored -t.be appropriation. What j&jcnore, they did it with shouts and chaser;?. which would have been wonhy of some great national cause. ' : " It.. is hard to believe that the R.O.WJP will be received with equal enthusiasm by me public at large, nor that any appreciable number of.-farmers or gardeners in this country are in .desperate straits for tree seeds .from the govenment. It seems incredible that a nation "in sistent upon economy in aii gov ^rnmem. .departments or an udmin istration pledged to it, car v.pnold th^s.petty graft, especially when so many more vital demands are be ing curtailed. T^e.;JE?ureau;;" of Municipal Re feafch of-'Toronto has for its slo gan"*-" ."Citizen control of the citi zen's business.'" Recognising that iuch: control is difficult under all eooditxetos aild impossibie under ig norance Of public affairs me t'u re3>u, directors have undertaken to feeep. citizens informed by means of f^qnenr, prompt and accurate bul lexin? cojioerning: the affairs of the - The present series of bulletins is iHled "Biographies of Individual ^li?pisl^ One at a time locai school buildings' are. discussed, beginning with the-date of erection and pro^ CMee^jpjg to list faults and deficien C?*|L? 'aiT well "as' improye.mems a! - *eadv -"greatlv needed. > lg is IpuvA that in Toronto, as in'many^;other cities of the United Si^esy school construction, to date 3&: iar from perfect. In Toronto, hOapev<er,'' it is frankly declared to be "unfortunate that the state whil* c^-jiging- children to attend, school, i^Bciujld at the same time fail to aifard- ihe-nv healthful condition, '-school.v -,-Flatiiaps such faults and others '&?: \this- side of the Canadian bor d^z^wpuid be changed more rapidly ^o Toonto slogan were generally adopted and. backed up by "fre quent, prompt, and accurate" state ments; of existing conditio as. C?YIC PHILOSOPHY A nice "old man was asked his idealof civic development He a??wered, *'a flower garden In every yard.along the streets." Compared witfe most o/the modem nostrums, it sounded a little old-fashioned. but.it was full of homelv wisdom. The bautifying of premises tends ^ develop in the one who does it the. elements of good citizenship? honest pride, a respect-for proper ty, a desire to obey the laws and to" see. them' obeyed, that property *artay b?. safe from vandalism and destruction: an enthusiasm for the coutrol of ?ll public and individual acdvities which if uncontrollec wculds und? the labors of imnrove mept. "Moreover, the act of making gar de^ helps to keep the mind in a wholesome altitude toward person 3?^apd public problems. It even makes?fof pea.ee and an end of wars between- nations. For it i? almost j*m^>ossible *k>. remain narrow, pessi mistic-. bigot?i and bitter when Working out under the sky or ??n joying the things which grow there. If "the city power plant <-an tuake - money selling curreni for cookinsr at two and n half cents per k.^w.,-*s stated, it must be mak ir.g a-*fc!lling on the rate that is charged for lights and power. The si?tentent has a strange sound, coming, as* it does, on the heels of the recent readjustment upward of the power rates fo a majority of the consumers of small and me dium amounts of current. If pow er ean be sold at a profit at two and half-^ents then it is not rea sonable to ?eharge power consumers five, six and seven e*nts. ?/ ? * ? .* The mpn *'ho put up the money for the cneaihery will naturally ex |>ect to. mak^e a profit on ?he invest ment, but the real profit and the ['big profit will be derived by the ?; farmers of Sumter county who will j be provided with a regular and re j liable marker for their butter-fat. The eeamery will turn grass and velvet beans into cash, and money , will be in circulation every month : in the year. j The postponement of the date j for the collection of the state in i come tax will be an appreciated i concession to some people, but the i income tax is worrying fewer pe? ; pie this year than last. ? ? ? I The Republican politicians in . congress are worried to death over ! the bonus grab. They are scared not i to pass the bill, for they face de ! feat at the -hands'- Of the ? bonus i grabbers if they vote against it, and tUey realize tfeat the re.sult of the ; enactment" of the bill will be the : total disorganization of the fin j auces of the government and of j the country. j Last year when The Item office ! substituted electric melting pots on j the Linotypes for the gas melting J pots theretofore used the expert of j the Mergenthaler company advised j that three cents per fc, w. for elec I trie current, the rate then in force*, j was, the equivalent of $2 gas. but i that the siight,bj- higher cost for j electricity (the gas rate was then 1 $l.f?0) was inconsiderable in com j parison with the advantages of the ! electric melting pots. The electric ; melting pots were installed at a ?cost of more than $600 and the gas : pots discarded as junk at a loss of jmore than $200. . Therefore, the i payment of practically 3-4 cents ; for electric current is not endured j with any degree of resignation. ? And the statement that -current lean be sold' at a profit at the rate : of two and one-half cents does not : ease the pain at all. INCOME TAX LAW TO BE TESTED Claims Measure by Legisla ture Unconstitutional I Greenville. March IG.?The State j Retailers' association, perhaps in I association with other business in ! terests, will set to work im media te ; ly to test the eonstitu-ionaliy of ! the state income tax law passed by the session of- the legislature, just 'closed, according to announcement I today from J. W. Patrick, prcsi ? dent of the state body. j This statement was made fol I lowing a meeting of the Greenville retail: bureau, at which members suggested that the Greenville or ganization have the matter looked I into. Alex Meyers of the Meyers ? Arnold company department store j said that, the law is unconstitution ial because it conflicts with the con ? stiuttional provision, that a tax can i not be levied on an income made in another state by a person resid i ing in this state* and further said . that federal statute prevents the I federal government from disclosing f to the state government its in I come tax records, so that the tax i commission might check up in this f way. j Mr. Kirk Patrick, president of the : state associaticaj. said that he has ; advised Secretary Wanna maker. ! whose headquarters are in Co (Ir.hfbia. to have the matter looked i.*no. ' .Mr. Kirkpatrick said that a j similar movement, he understands. : has started among cotton mill men I and that it is quite possible other ; business interests will join with the [retailers in ascertaining if the new I law conflicts with any constitu tional provisions. , The income- tax law provides that i business concerns and individuals {. shall pay to the government one | third of the amount-paid the nat I ional government, the law being I retroactive and applying to- 1H21 j incomes. j The merchants at their meeting I today passed a resolution which J was. . telepgraphed to Governor j Cooper urging that he sign the : Foster bill , to put telephone rates j back on. the January 1. 1$21, ba 1 sis without delay. SYRUP MILL~ OPERATING Distributes Large Quantities i of Cane Seed j Darlington. March 14 ?The Dar ' lington Syrup Mill has already j started its activity for 'the coming "xv'ison. This week the company jis distributing large Quantities of ?cane seed among the farmer* [throughout the country. The of ? ficials report that a very large crop of cam- is exepected this year. ?as a, number of the larger farmers ; have expressed themselves as be ! ing anxious to promote the planting : of cane among ?he croppers: The [Darlington Syrup Mill was organi zed last year by a company o? .young business men ami this year will operate a plant for the man j ufactun-ing of chicken and stock 1 feed in connection wtih its syrup j plant. \ oh. very well, Let Stinnes mo joopolize trade One man will be I easy to handle when again we t make,the world safe for demoe i racy. The Hollywood custom of Tak ing "nightcaps" at a neighbor's house may be excused: but having nightgowns there is a little too much. but they consider their doctor bills paid. COOPERATIVE MARKETING SWEEPS STATE i '_? , - In the Counties Where Active Campaign ing Has Been Done Farmers are Sign ing by Thousands Columbia, March 16?Contracts representing 31,000 bales have been received at the offices of the South (Carolina cotton Growers Coopera tive Association in the last 4S hours according to officials of that organi zation. Contracts are pouring in by every mail, they said today, from all sections of the state. Marlboro county has gone to a total of H.oS4 bales and encour aged by the progress they are mak ing, the workers in that county declare that they now have visions of a 100 per cent sign up and have begun work to that end. Lee county is also setting a fast pace, over 5,500 bales having been signed in that county in the past four days. YV. A. Stucky. a well known planter of that county, signed the contract yesterday. Mr. I Stucky did not consent to sign the i contract until after he had made a thorough investigation of the ! plan from every angle and had ; convinced himself that it was the proper step for the farmers of the I state to take. The state of South Carolina yes terday signed the contrac t and will ! sell all cotton grown on the state I farms through the association. The j General Assembly at its recent ses | sion passed a joint resolution au ! thorissing and empowering the su j perintendent of the penitentiary to sign the contract. Governor Coop er yesterday signed the resolution and Col. A. K. Sanders, superinten ent of the penitentiary immediately ? thereafter signed the contract. The ! state farms grows approximately 573 bales a year. Governor Cooper ; signed tIk* contract in the pres ! ence of a number of interested par ; ties, including Representative Clar . ence J: Jackson, of Sumter. author ! of the bill in the bouse. Senator P. L. Bethea of Dillon, one of its : sponsors in the senate. Harry G. j Kaminer, president of ihr- associa I iion and others. ! Dr. Lee Davis Rod':.. president of i Limestone College. Dr. Davidson M. j Douglass, president of the Presby 11erian College -of South Carolina, pDr. D. W\ Daniel, of ClemSon Gol 't lege and other notable edueaCcrs of the state will begin speaking tours in behalf of the movement j within the next ten days COTTON "CLEAN UP DAY" 'Business Men of Sumter Join Hands in Putting Over the Marketing Association Campaign ; The following business houses ! have authorized the . addition of j their names to the Tuesday closing . list: Ducker & Bultman Cash & ? Cany. Booth-Boyle Live Stock Co.. Li. J. Earner*. ? - The banks have come into line ; as the following letter shows: Mr. EL W. Dabbs. Jr.. County Di rector. S. C. Cotton Co-operative Association. Sumter, s. C. Dear Sir: Realizing the import - | ance to all lines of business of the j success of the cotton co-opera ; five association, the 'undersigned representing the various banks of i the city of Sumter hereby tender j you the servcies of at least one j man from each of said banks for : active work on Tuesday, March ? 21st. to assist, where needed, in . making the campaign a success worthy of the Gamecock county, j We heartily approve the closing ? of business places on that day and ? would dose the hnaks entirely but ; for legal reasons which make* it in ; expedient. Yours very truly, j The Sumter Trust Co.. by I. C. ; Strauss, president; .National Bank I of South Carolina. C. G. Rowland. I President: The .National Rank of : Sumter. J. P. Booth: Commercial I Rank & Trust Co.. by R. A. Brad 1 ham, President: The City National Hank, by G. A. Lemmon. Presi jdent: The Peoples' Rank of Sum ter. by A. M. Broughton. Cashier: ! First .National Bank of Sumter. by O. L. Yates. Cashier. i GAS COMPANY FILES BOND j - ! Complies With Order of Fed i eral Judge Smith The Sumter Gas and Power Com ! pany hus filed with the clerk of the I United District Court, bond in the I srm of $2?.oon which they were I'required to ?'tile under the terms ? of the order recently passed by .Jiul^>- H. A. M. Smith, in the eon : troversy between the Sumter Cms and Power Company and the city ? of Sumter. This bond is conditioned for the payment to Jh<- uas users tin the eii;. of Sumter of any and all sums which may be collected 'from them by i}?<- ?is Company in I ejecess <>! the rate established by i the gas ordinance in ease the Uni ted Stales Circuit COur! <>f Appeals atlirms .Indue IT. A. M. Smith in holding thai the. Sprinter Has and ? Power company is bound by the ? terms of iis eontraoti made with the I city of Sumter in the year 1!'! 1. "Universal knocking in Lime brings re-form." h doesn't ap|M?ar to -have done- much for tin weather. . however. To-day's Best Jokes and Stories Epitaph for poison j?as: Best? i in jj^nr-e.; - Soon- men like closed cars, and >ome .-hew mbaceo. The girl who marries for money j usually grts a poor husband. Bathing suit: The alibi used ro ! g<M a shape imo the public prints. Europe still clings to the hope ! that we may yet marry her to re i form her. Some wives are happy, and .-nine realize that their husbands are j afraid of them. ; .\ tij) is merely ah. effort* \o buy i a quarter's worth of the waiter's good opinion. Success is largely a matter of se lecting the right men to drop from ; the pay roll. The eyes seldom see temptation1 j when the nose is pressed firmly ! I against the grindstone. t ? ? ? 1 ? - ? ? .} Some of the statesmen who think t they are instruments of Destiny! ! are merelv wind instruments. I " ?,_k I The bonus question the politician I I has o decide is not "Is it possible?" I lb'.:: "Is it neocssaty?" ? - I The party had been circumvent- j ir.Z the Eighteenth Amendment, j j Stopping in front of a residence, ; ?one of them pulled the doorbell j :. uncertainly. A window was thrown j open above. "Mishish Brown," called up the} i spokesman, "woujoo mind comin' | 'down and pickin' out Mishter' ; Brown from ush? Those that; aren't him wanter &o home!*'?j : Exchange. i Mr. Xagg?I suppose now you wish you were free to marry again? Mrs. Xagg?Xo. justf free.? Lon I don Mail. Catty remarks are usually purr sonal. -s^b We Know Her. :| (There wa.-< a young lady named; Maud:". '* '\ ' A very deceptive young fraud j She never was able To eat r.; tbtt table, : But out in the pantry?0 Lawd! Ohio Sun Dial. How Time Flies. I Dearest. I love you. Since the dawn of creation, -since the birth iOf this.world, since the-beginning ! of time and long before watches, i were-made, 1 have known and lov-j I ed you. Darling, wall you be mine? j O Tom. this is, so sudd'enl?E X-j change. ' j ? ?y Expensive. j ? Following the marriage . cere- I j mony the groom called the minis-1 ! ter aside and inquired the.-price of j ? his service. "Well.'' said th* minister, "you j j may pay me whatever it's worth to] ! you." "Be reasonable'." groaned the j ? groom. "This woman inherits a mil- I lion dollars on her twenty-first j j birthday."?Exchange. - At flic Powder Mill. "Bill," said the foreman after the accident, "did yo>> break, the ; news to poor Mrs. Ifurphy about her husband getting blown sky-. ; high ip the explosion?" "1 did." '?Did yon break it gently?" "I did. 1 told her that Tom I go: that raise he'd been looking i for."?American Legion Weekly. j Tlie Girl: "Did T ever show you 1 where 1 was tattooed?" Tin: Boy: ??No." The Girl: "Well, we can drive around that way."?The Brown .1 ug. Get a Transfer! If you are on the Gloomy Line. Get a transfer. If you're inclined to fret and pine. Get a transfer. Get off the track of Doubt and Gloom: tb-t on a Sunshine Train?there's room. Get a trans:-r. ?Seiet ;e.d. A tree toad loved a she toad Tina lived up in a tree: She was a three-toed tree toad But a two-toed toad was he. The two-toed tree toad tried to win Tin- she mad's friendly nod. For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground That *he three-toed tree toad trod. But vainty the two-toed tree toad I rit-d. He could not please her whim, in her tree toad bower, with her V-toed power The she toad vetoed him. ?The Strathraorean. Mose Potts was an old colored ditch digger on the farm of a well known Virginia planter. One, morn ing, after having been at -work only a few hours, he wax seen ap proaching the farmhouse with a peculiar limp and an unusual ra pidity. "What's the matter. Mose?" ask-I <-d his employer. "It's dis way. boss,"ihe groaned. "Ah see de biggest turtle Ah evei did *??<? vvigglin' his haid in de mud. ;in<l Ah took d<* spade, and cracked \ him on de haid. and. boss. Ah done mi? off rnah id- toe.*"?Exchange, i "Orders Is Orders." h was on a long march north oi Chateau-Thierry. At the end of a iiusiv day the captain ordered that every man in his command should change hid undershirt. The ?rstl sergeant whispered ;<> him thai not a man possessed moiv undergar ments than those whieh were at the motnent adorning Iiis per son. Bur the ?."'.ptnin snapped back: "Military orders must he obey ed. Let the men change with each ot'u-r."?Amt-riean Legion Weekly. Short A teddy hear sat on the ice. As cold as eold could be, hut soon he up and walked away. '?.My tale is told." said he. Perhaps after all ? man isn't to blame it* he thinks more or his Stenographer Than he does of his Wife" he can dictate to his. ste nographer. A Britisher, while touring the United States, remarked to a man in the West: '?You have an extr" ord'nary country here, you know, very extr'ord'nary?stunnin' wo men, rippin' big cities, and a bally lot of other things, but you have no aristocracy." "No what'.'" asked the Western er. "Aristocracy? Aristocracy'.' And what's that?" inquired the mystified native. "Oh." drawled the son of Albion, "people who never did anything? and whose parents and grandpar ents never did anything?whose famib'es have always been people of leisure." ? "Oh. yes: we have 'em here, but we call 'em 'tramps:' " France is just a bundle of nerves surrounded by a deficit. Europe must choose between American leadership and a receiv ership. The only false profits among us now are those declared in the in come tax blanks. This administration is also do ing much to uplift arid encourage the art of tailoring. When people see a star in your window, they know you are a dry ?-unless it's a movie star. . The vital and re.lling phrases coined day by day are soon in corporated into our slanguage. ?Art changes with the years, and we may yet see the public square, adorned with an intrepid states man mounted on a flivver. ?Character is made by the things you stand for: repuration is made by the rhings you fan* for. When the man tells her that he loves her wonderful mind, he means that she isn't much for looks.' The next question to he decided is who shall play the I rush harp 3 ritV* who shaH play second fiddle. At the movies: "f a 1 w a y s thought her such a sweet girl, but 1 can see now she looks kinda de praved." When, the farmer says something must/ be* done, for the country, he mcan? at the expense of the city. There's very little militaristic spirit in a country that calls 'em doughboys, gobs and leathernecks. Even in the midst of Califor nia's wonderful climate, Hollywood can't escape the storm of public criticism. If Mr. Watson wishes to render a- great public service, he might investigate the wanton hanging of juries. Well, why shouldn't a dirt farm ers mix in politics. Heaven k,?ows. familiarity with dirt will come in handy. Except for the ckmk of .sabres and the rattle of arms. America might moiv easily hear Europe's Macedonian cry. Of course the world is getting letter. Formerly it killed re formers: now it contributes to place them on Easy Street. In years to come, we may ex pect a plague of candidates whose ouly qualification is a yearning to do something for the doughboy. We.have no. rail-splitters now. but when we compare pacts and covenants it occurs to its that we are not without hair-splitters. Margot must not think us rude. We're simply a little awed by a lady who use? hard-boiled phrases and smokes cigarettes in theatres. The man. who says he has no de sire for riches may be a philoso pher: for that matter, any other The Millennium will be here some time after the trigger finger becomes as useless as the appendix. After all. ? happiness doesn't de peud on an automobile. Even a poor man can run down his neigh bors. And so the Krupps will make, typewriters. Doubtless they are persuaded thai the next war will be fought with propaganda. Spring is here. Already the quaint twitter of the pennant win ner pickers Is heard-in the land WANTED?To take orders at m> .home to make hats. H inlCx'est .e.d. call KT'.'--!.. Mrs. <\ W M? - Grew, corner Magnolia and Mm tie streets. GOV. COOPER PRAISES THE LEGISLATURE Declares That This' Session Will Go| Down in History as! Beginning of Tax! Reformation Columbia. Mar.-h 16?"The re- j cent legislature was remarkable in one respect, the institution of a j tax reform progrma. The legisla- j tive session v.'ill go down in his-j tory as the one that starte?! the reformation oi the tax system in South Carolina, and the future years will, look hack on i: as a session which started something that proved a great boom to tin; state." This is the summing up of h;s impressions of the recent silting j of the General Assembly, as ex pressed by Governor Cooper on Wednesday afternoon, just before he left ihe < ity for New York, where he has gone with State Treasurer s. T. farter and Comp troller General Walter K. Duncan, to borrow three million dollars for the state. 'Then* wasn't much done by the legislature,*' said the governor: "but there wasn't much to do, ex cept enact new tax laws, and this was. done. Nothing '"else of import ance was'enacted, but this was im portant and is the beginning of a tax reform program that will in years to come bring relief to the ovreburdened small tax payer," said the governor. In referring to the work of the recent legislature, the governor pointed to the state income tax, the inheritance rax. the gasoline tax and the increased corporation tax. The enactment of these new revenue laws has this year reduced the slate tax levy from twelve to seven mills. It is "predicted that in future years,-with these new laws proving popular, other revenue sources will be provided: property will be classified for taxation, con stitutional inequalities will be re moved, and the tax burden can be so shfited as to bring relief to the small property holder, who is now bearing such .? heavy portion of the tax load. The governor expressed grati , neation at the work accomplished by the legislature. 11^.? also ex pressed gratification that- the state j could take care of the heavy notes ; which fell due early in the year. "The state's credit stands strong," [ he said: "never has the state failed \ to meet an obligation when due. j and never will it fail." he said. The three million dollar loan which the state officials have gone to New York to arrange Ms for the PARENTS AS ? The Child's First School Issued by the National Kindergart< New fork Cityl TheSe articles arc The Significance c By Klicu Tb>r? is no question in the minds oi intelligent persons regarding the deep significance of education dur ing the first .six years of life. To he fully appreciated however, this period must he considered in th? light of its relation to the sum to tal of all education. in the first place, as life is a con tinuous process, so education should he a continuous guiding of life ro its highest fulfillment. The various stages <??; life?in fancy, childhood, youth and man hood, should merge naturally into one anvil w r. The goal of the entire process of education is good character, realized through the acquisition of good habits, and. it may readily he [seen that this fact should be kept in mind by every educator of the infant, child* or youth. The educa tor must also bear in mind the faei that the foundation of educa tion is laid in infancy and child hood. Physiologists and psychologists agree that many of the physical weaknesses and harmful mental habits of late years may be traced to faulty guidance in childhood. During childhood a fund of re sistance, physical and mental, should be acquired through ob servance of the laws governing de velopment, in order, however, that these laws be observed in the nursery, they must be understood by the parent, and that they be un derstood, they must bo as system atically taught as other subjects of education. I An educator recently made the following statement: "My brother j and his wife are both university graduates. When the first baby came to their home. neither of them knew anything about the care j of it. physically or mentally:" The j speaker went on to say: "It is in I credible that students should be j permitted to graduate from our j higher institutions of learning j without any knowledge, of one of the most important subjects of edu ! cation?the care of the child." Observation of young mothers ar J their task reveals the fact that j many of them do not realize that j their work calls for especial prep ?;aration. and frequently the crown ing joy of parenthood, true satisfac tion, is missed. But sadder still is the fate of the small pupil, who. ~~????????????? - operation of the plate government until next fall, when the year's taxes, which finance the govern ment for the year, fall due. The notes covering the three million dollar loan will be paid with the proceeds of tax collections. EDUCATORS is the Family"?Froebel. ?n Association. S West 4^>th Street/ appearing weekly in our columns. ?f Child Education C'rcohnan. ; commencing ixfe with an impulse to ! realize his inborn possibilities, t| I handicapped not only by his own ; short-sighredness, but also by the faulty guidance of one who iovci" j him but does not understand him: j one who en n bot discriminate be I tweea the nauiral impulses that' I should be-cherished and strength jened, and those that should beelim ? inated. ' . I Until the fact is recognized that I the first six years or li4"e- comprise' the most important period of all 'education, a heavy handicap"will I continue to 1ki placed upon the ef I forts of the pupil both in ?'the. horne | and in the school, j Every high school, college and ! university should oner a thorough f course in child education, physical land mental, aud this study, should I he second to none on the required ; list of subjects for graduation: in ; this way parents couki be prepared J for their especial work as eduCa-: ; tors, and the child permitted to' : realize his innate possibilities.' j Petition For a Kindergarten. ? J, ? . ? ? ?* ? - ? . *? ?? j-L Parents whose children are. not j receiving kindergarten education ! should request their school authori ? Ties to provide it for them. The I following lMjtkion. signed and pi>? j sented to your School Board, will j acquaint them with your desire for |a kindergarten, and such a pe j thron should be honored. j (To lie pasted on sheet to be signed)" To the Honorable Board of Eduoa ? lion or Board of School Trustees, . City or ' ! Town . County _.'.' j State .vjV-'i? We, the undersigned parents or i gaurdians of 2i> or more children ! between the ages of -4 and 6 years, I residing within an elementary ' school district, respectfully petition j your honorable board to establish iand maintain a kindergarten in school, for the instruction of our : said children. f ' Xante Address i_:___?_ The Xational Kindergarten As* . social ion, S West 40th Street. New I York City, will furnish infprma I lion, advice and literature upon ; request. Coif rule: Keep your eye on the ?ball?especially when the course ia ; crowded. ? ? ? Xew machine shuffles and dealer i cards. Maybe you can go to bed I and let it play the game out. South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association Sign Up Week MARCH 1 ITH TO 18TH TUESDAY, MARCH 21st, WILL BE "CLEAN UP DAY" Hey Member! Wear your pin. Get one from Chamber of Commerce* See the canvassers in y??r 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.