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DARG?N DIS CUSSES FEES OW LAWYERS rt':t 1 1 '- 1 Correspondent Thinks Time Will Come When Public Will All Counsel ~ To the Editor;.pf The State: \ Your editorial of March 10 under the head of. "For Admission to the Bar" is certainly; one of unusual in-; terest to.reflecting people and you ? handled it adn^irably. It seems to be the purpose"jof the leading mag-, azkies to examine it thoroughly. , We in South'Carolina'have rea son to feel more concerned about this matter than the people of other! states, as the, m^t law made, for the state by John Locke, one of the ? ' profoundest. philosophers of the ': world, forbadefthe practice of law; -under the system that has pre vailed throughout the lands under; ? Eaglish jurisprudence. It pro-' fthib'ite? in g?>ej?ltic terms the plead ?-ing at the' .bar' for fees and de-; - dared it was. a(.'base and vile thing; ?to plead for money or reward and' ibis law * pre.vaJVed in the state for; ...something iike.nalf a century, when' ?lnan named'Nicholas Trott broke. : over restraints in the fundamen-; tal constitutions and entered upon' the practice "of law and Jias the ? - distinction ot^bejng the first lawyer to do business'in this profession in South Carolina. He is" reputed to ha've been ^'yery shrewd and: , learned man^sjpecially learned in - ?-? the "Scrip tu r'eVv! Yet he proved to; be very and unscrupulous in; his practice/tff.^law and general dealings "Wlra*ms fellow men. This -...for-a, beginriirg^in our state against . the. warnmg^b?. one of the noblest, phHosophers'knbwn to the world is ^.certainly .discouraging for the . practical result^" of the present, scheme of the bar association. This work,was undertaken by the associatiot^^irYashin^ton's birth .^--day and \^.-oe*tolnly was a very ?. stop er day w-Jfegin the work of making lawyers- better and more useft1! citizens^s Washington in his last wM^acsC.testament took a*l ? -s pains to k'e^p^aVyers' hands off his r*-. business, %i hW* provisions for the protection;i?8?$>ls property, left to his heirs and devisees. He declar ed "in his will that he had! not ac cepted any assistance from them in ? v; the composition^ of that important instrument. an)i" thought it might suffer on account in prolixity and tautology; Vafc must go so and ? that in the event auy disputes arose about the will ^hese should be set ? tied by arbitration and that the de cision of the arbitrators should be ? as conclusive a4id final as a decis ion' of. the supreme, eourt of the United States.-; This coming in th?? last will and''Testament of George Washington sffould make all citi l, zens of America stop and think. What is the' matter with o:ir law yers? That] 'b\rr great first presi-: e dent should'warn against the em 2 ployment of tHeir counsel in this! most important; business transac tion of life/ * When we consider, too, that George Washington was; an intimate associate of John Mar- j .. shall, the most distinguished chiefi justice ' of - the0 ? United States . and j who wrote'-'a;* two volume life ofj Washington ?ar? one of his much; beloved nefftiews, Bushrod Wash ington, also' dn?th^ supreme bench, also wrote a life of Washington. Evidently1 he didn't let either, one of these great'lawyers have an op portunity ? to aid in the composi tion or interpretation of his wilL The good book^way back yonder,, tells us to beware of lawyers and the first citizen-in war and in peace and in the'.hearts of his country ; . xheh teBs us in-the mast impressive manner beware of lawyers and now comes the Bar Association of Amer ica and declares that a way must ! be found to -;better the practice of law in A^nerica>' And certainly the agitation of the question of lawless- J cess and its.re-medy is deeply con-| cerning every rpart of the English j . speaking worJfad-:; The Bar association has declared! that xnorr' learning and better i sc^larship must be tried as ai remedy, innumerable experiences! and ote^r^artiosis have already] taught xaany.ti?usands of citizens j that, geet learning and unscrupu- 1 Ions conduct Jiave often been found 1 in 'the same persons. And there is one instance, ofI such conspicuous] eminence as toigo very far in show ing that, learning and intellectual power. arer -nofc-/ efficient security j against in^mgjfsgty. Has not Pope I in one of hsi'jsmart couplets for-' ever settled ria&t question in the words:' ~If parts alfore thee, think howi Bacon whined. The wisest, brightest, meanest ofj . AJ1 know;* or1 should know, that Aristotle an4'?J3fetcon stand without rivals in es tu Wishing their respec tive systems Of philosophy. And all i know that Ba^?n became a lord j chancellor oT-England and was an- j rivaled in iblefteetual ability and) scholarship in that high office, yet a j more unscrupulous man than he! was never :found in this lofty sta-j tion. So Conrriranding and univer . ..sal was bis'? genius that thousands of students "o? "the great Shakes . pere's work's hake declared that no other man <-oul(5 have written such magnificentr tMngs except Francis! Bacon. The above "fcorslderations make ] us stop to do'ub't whether the Bar! association- has found the effective j remedy for'the?'betterment of the] life and services of the lawyers. But there is a remedy and it will be found before very long and en- ' acted into law^that a defendant's! attorney be provided for our crim-j ? inal courts wherever there is a! prosecuting attorney and be paid | out of the ptih?c treasury as he is| paid. Highest authority tells us. i . ,'iead not iht? temptation if you j would deliver '.from evil." Let no! lawyer have pay from private! sources and especially from per-| sons accused of crime. J. J. Dargan. Srateburg. . A s?iiiare deal is a good deal. - 1 COLUMBIA STRIKER IS CONVICTED! _ 1 F. D. Broyles Sentenced to Thirty bays For Interfer ence Miih Street Cars Columbia. March 31?The ver dict of a jury in city court here yes terday, convicting F. D. Boyles of disorderly conduct in connection with the Columbia street car strike, is taken as indication of public sentiment in regard to the violence j that accompanied the strike here last week. Boyles was charged | with standing in front of a car and when the motorman, employed as a strike-breaker, got out to throw a switch, he cursed him. He was sentenced to $10 or thirty days. The police automobiles which protected the cars have been dis continued and gradually the num ber of cars has been, increased. RESERVE STOCK OF COAL Secretary of Labor Says There is Two Months' Supply on Hand Washington. March 30.?While stating that a general strike in unionized bituminous coal mines is to begin Saturday, Secretary of Labor Davis declared in a state ment tonight that the situation leaves "no excuse for advance in coal prices" and no prospect of coal shortage for th. public. Reviewing the government's ef forts during the last two months to achieve a ^gttlement in advance. Mr. Davis expressed "keen disap pointment at the failure of certain operators to fulfill the terms of their obligation" to confer with miners for the making of new wage agreements which might have pre vented suspension of work. "All the government's efforts in the proffer of mediation, concilia ation and coraoromise." he said, "have failed to save the country from the national strike test of economic strength between em ployer and employee in the coal industry. In this effort the pres ident and myself have had neither legal right nor personal desire to dictate any program. Our one de sire has been to induce by persua sion and urgence the operators and miners to discharge the obligation they assumed themselves to confer again for the shaping of a new agreement." The miners, the secretary said, had always been willing to confer through their union representa tives, but the operators, although > for differently assigned reasons in I the several localities, had "turned their backs on a chance to lay bare, not only to the miners, but to the public^ at least their reasons for declining a new wage agreement." A conference for the operators, he added, "would have removed any stigma of bad faith." "There may be faults on both sides of this bituminous dispute." he declared, "but the side that openly repudiates its written and signed obligations has crippled its case before the bar of public opin ion." Tb ? agreement repudiated, the statement explained, was that con tained in the wage contract be tween operators and miners in the ? cemral competitive field, including j Illinois, Indiana. Ohio and western ! Pennsylvania, which has constitut ed the basic wage contract for all other coal fields in former years. The situation as to anthracite min ing, it was added, "forms a pleas ing contrast because operators and miners are meeting directly togeth er." Further complications in the coal industry, Mr. Davis continued, were due to the existence of overproduc tion, amounting to "fully 30 per cent, over development in the bit uminous fields." One result of this, it was pointed out. was to leave available in storagre now stocks of coal estimated at 10.000. 000 tons for anthracite and 65, 000.000 tons for bituminous. "This means that railroads, pub lic utilities, manufacturing indus tries and retail dealers will have on hand Saturday nearly two months' supply," Mr. Davis concluded. "The operators state that production from nonunion mines will meet at least 50 per cent, of the normal needs of the country. As to the strike in the bituminous industry, the industry is squarely on trial before the public. At this stage it is simply an economic matter in which the chief sufferers will be the miners and the operators them selves. The administration will watch the developments and be ready to safeguard the public wel fare whenever it is menaced." Any rise in prices, he said, "should he reported to Washing ton at once for action by the at torney general." ! PEAK OF FAMINE j HAS PASSED! - Conditions in the Volga Said to Be Improving Moscow, March 30.?"The peak ; of the famine in the Volga has been passed: henceforward condi-! tions will rapidly improve." says ; Col. William X. Kaskell, director of American relief administration work in Russia, in a statement to day. Barring unforeseen difficulties, he believes all deaths from starva tion in the Volga will cease within a month. Corn is being rushed to the famine districts sin ultancously with seed wheat, feeding the fam- j ine-stricken and preventing them from eating seed which must be planted before mid-April. June brides will have to compete 1 I with the next income tax payment, i Facts About the South From the Blue Book of Southern Progress ?(By R. H. Edmunds. Editor. Man ufacturers' Record. > The South with about one-third ; of the population und area of the country had $6.885.00-9.000 invent ed in manufacturing:, as reported by the census of 1920. This was nearly throe times the amount of capital invested in manufacturing in the entire country in 1880. and within 13 per cent of the capital .invested in manufactures in the rest of the country in 1900. The value of its manufactured products was over $^S0S.OO0.000. The South has over $837,870,000 in vested in cotton factories which is four times the capital of the coun try's cotton mills in 1S80. The South is now consuming about 60 per cent of the cotton taken by all American mills. In 1020 the South produced $2. 285,000,000 worth of mineral pro ducts, or $295,000,000 more than the whole country produced in 1910. The South with one-third of the mines and quarries of the country increased their number since 1910 while the rest of the country outside of the South had a decrease. After briefly sketching the ach ivements of the south before and immediately following the Civil War period, the Blue Book of Southern Progress, published by the Manufacturers Record, Baltimore. Md., presents a comprehensive sta tistical review of the South's; matchless resources and develop- j ment during the fast forty years. The facts and figures thus present ed show the marvelous strides made by the South in spite of over whelming odds it had to overcome in rising from the devastation and bankruptcy following the Civil War. Though totally bankrupt in money and partially bankrupt in men after 1SG5, the South was never bankrupt in that initiative and energy and zeal which has made of this section a mighty em pire the development of which en riches the whole nation. The South has the largest sul phur deposits known in the world and produces about three quar ters of the world's supply. It has the greatest gas fields known in the. world. The South has over half of the oil reserves of the coun try and is producing 57 per cent of the country's petroleum. Since 1910 the number of petroleum and natural gas wells in the South in creased by 195 per cent, while the increase in the rest of the country was but 24 per cent. The South ] has over a third of the coal area' and three-fourths of the coking I coal of the country. In 1920 the! South produced about 26 per cent j of the country's coal which was j 98.000.000 tons more than the out- I put of the whole country in 18SO. { The South's iron resources are in 1 keeping with its coal reserves. The South is producing about 50 per cent of the country's lumber and has about 40 per cent of the forest area and about a quarter of the standing saw timber of the United States. Since 1908 the water-power de velopment of the South has in- ! creased from 991.941 horse-power to over 2.250.000. The undevelop ed water-power of the South, is es timated at over S.000,000 horse power. Construction contracts in the South last year, including con templated construction projects some of which were carried over into this year, amounted to nearly $1.000,000.000. The value of the South's farm crops last year was $2,543,000,000 or $330.000.000 more than the ag gregate value of all agricultural products of the United States in 188C The total value of the South's ! agricultural products is nearly J two-and-a-half times the value of the country's agricultural products in 1880. The South with about 36 per cent of the countrys' farm acre age produced over 41 per cent of the country's crop values in i:>2*>. The value of Southern farm proper ty in 1-920 .was $21,699,000.000, or $1,259.000.000 more than the value of all farm property in the United States in 1880. The South in 1920 spent $224. 180,000 on commercial fertilizers. I or nearly twice as much, as the j whole country spent in J910. The South's 91,169 miles of rail-! road, nearly equal/* the railroad j mileage reported for the entire ! country in 1 880. The South spoilt on highway | improvements through State High-; way departments $150.000,000 in j 1921. and it is estimated that ovei i $400.000.000 will be spent in 1922. The value of exports through Southern ports last year was ovei $2.294.0O0;.O0O, or more than a third of the value <>f the exports of the United States, and $519, 000.000 more than the total value of the exports of the United States in 1910. National Bank resources in tin South in 1920 were $4.67S,000,000 and deposits $2.666.000.000. which about equalled tin- resources and deposits of all National Hanks in the country' in Hum. Other hank deposits in tin- South in S9-20 were $3.447.000.000. compared with $4.400.000.000. the amount of de posits in all banks, excepting Na tional Banks, in the rest of the country in 1900. The south is spending on public schools over $204.225.000. which is about " ?.??!? cent less than the ?-ti tir.- country spent in 1900. and $24.000.000 more than U\<- rest of i he country spem a I t hat time. The estimated true wealth of the United States in IS SO was about $43.642.000.000. while tl.sti mated true wealth of rhe south in 1920 w.i* approximately $70.000; 000.000 or probably double :h< wealth of the entire country forty y? a i s ago. Among a long list ot items coy- : No Satin for I Of course, the flapper bride wil ? uniforms that have persisted ?irbug j m:?y choose sat?n, of a delicious sof [ likely to choose lace, gauze, silver c ering practically everything pro- j duced in the United States, the i South is now producing: About 100 per cent of the coun try's bauxite. About 100 per cent of the coun- j ry's fuller's earth. About 100 per cent of the coun- ! try's turpentine and rosin, which | is about ?? per cent of the world's j output. About 9.0 per cent of the coun- j try's sulphur. or more than \ three-fourths of the world's out- j put. About 99 per cent fothe coun-1 try's phosphate rock. About 92 per cent of the coun- j try's crude barytes. About 90 per cent of the coun .try's aluminum. About 89 per cent of the coun- | try's carbon black from natural gas. About 75 per cent of the coun- j try's natural gas gasoline. About 66 per cent of the coun- \ try's commercial fertilizers.; About 60 per cent of The coun- ! try's natural gas. j About it.' per cent of the coun- j try's graphite. | About 57 per cent of the coun-j try's petroleum, or about 36 per ( cent of the world's production. About 51 per cent of the coun try's mica. About 50 per cent of the coun ' try's ouartz. I About 50 per cent of the coun try's lumber. ! About 48 per cent of the coun try's asbestos. About 45 per cent of the coun- j try's lead. About 42 per cent of the coun try's zinc. About 40 per cent of the coun-) try's asphalt. About 40 per cent of the coun try's feldspar. About 33 per cent of the coun-j try's pyrites. I About 33 per cent of the coun-! try's talc and soapstone. About 100 per cent of the coun-; try's cotton crop (less a few thou-j sand bales raised in Arizona and; California) which is about <!<> perj cent of the world's cotton crop. About 100 per cent of the coun try's cottonseed oil and peanut oil. which add annually several hundred million dollars of food supply to the North and W est. About 100 per cent of the coun try's sugar cane. About 100 per cent of the coun-; try's peanuts. About 'j3 per cent of the coun try's cane syrup. About 93 per cent of the coun-j j try's sweet potatoes. I About 9<> per cent of the coun?i try's winter and early spring veg-j [ etables. ! About 80 per cent of the coun-; I tr>"* rice, j ; About 7<i per cent of the coun-; 'try's grain sorghums or Kafirs, j About <; 1 per cent of tie* coun j try's cabbage. j About ">(i per cent, of- the coun-j 11ry's butter. i About 4tj per cent of the coun | try's peaches. i About epr cent of the coun-j i try's chickens. j About '?'.<< per cent of the coun-J i t ry's corn. j About 36 per cent of the coun j t ry's honey. i About 33 pei- cent of the coun-i i try's eggs. And the south has: . > About 37 per cent of the coun j i ry's swim-. j About '.'>'?'> per cent of the coun-j ? t ry's cat t le. About :J" per cent of the coun-, j t ry's milch c ows. [ About 13 per cent of tile coun-' S t ry's sheep. These are some of the thingsi which the south lias achieved. Spring fever and a little money n: the b;iui< are a great embination in restraint of work. The only !'<>o] bigger than .' bix fool is th<- man who argues with i >ne. ; Secretary H.rvis sug ? pa rents ma ke their h it's t he boy s i hat ma k eats work. lapper 'Brides I have noire of stiff satin wedding h decades of varying fashion. She tness. if she will, but she is quite loth or some exquisite silk-_ Convention of Young Women's Christian Associations. Hot Springs, Ark.. March 30.? "Internationalism, or the Business of Peace" will be the general sub ject of the evening sessions of the seventh national biennial conven tion of the Young Women's Christian Associations of Ameri ca, to be held ht-re April 20-27. Foreign speakers at the convention will include ?vliss A. Maude Roy den. English woman preacher, who will give a series of addresses on the "Christian Way of Life." Miss Royden, said to be the only woman who has tilled the pulpit of the City Temple of London, was ar. one time an extension lecturer at Oxford University. She is the daughter of Sir Thomas Royden, formerly lord mayor of Liverpool. Miss Royden studied at Chelten ham under Miss Dorothy Beale. one of the pioneers of higher edu cation for women, and at Lady Maragret Hall. Oxford. Oilier speakers from abroad will be Miss Anne Lamb, tin Anglo Indian of Calcutta, and Countess Helene Goblet de Alviella of Brus sels. Belgium, who will discuss '"The Business of Peace Between Nations." The same topic will be treated by the first woman judge of a court of common pleas in the Unit ed States. Judge Florence E. Allen of Cleveland. "The Business of Peace" will also be discussed as between races by Bishop Robert E. Jones of New Orleans and Mrs. Lake Cr. Johnson of Atlanta and "in our work-aday life" by a com munity specialist, Edward C Lin deman of Greensboro, N. C. pro fessor of sociology in the North Carolina College for Women. Within the national convention are three groups which will hold sectional meetings; the national student assembly, the industrial assembly and the world service council. The industrial assembly will discuss unemployment and re ligion. Petition in Bankruptcy. Charleston. March 30.?1>. c. Shaw, <>i" Sumter, trading as the Columbia Sales company. the Sumter Oakland company, the New Zion Motor'company, and individ ually, has filed a petition in vol untary bankruptcy in federal c ourt, listing assets as $244,545!l0, and liabilities as $3-74,281.64. G. W. Shaw of Sumter. auto dealer, has filed a petition, listing assets ;is ss, 120. and liabilities as $75.539.10: and I*. W. Shaw of Sumter has filed a petition, listing assets as $15. 8-60, and liabilities as $S1.$83.94. Many Bankrupts in London. London, March 17?London pa pers point out that the year has started in conspicuously for British trade generally, judging from the bankruptcy statistics which show that there have been 1.160 failures in January and February: a figure far In excess of the average. The main reasons assigned for failures are reckless overbuying during the late boom, absence of reserves and good will, heavy tax ation and the decline in trade. Provision dealers, farmers and builders, in the order named, seem to be the hardest hit. One Northhamptonshire shoe factory has just paid its its cred itors one-fifth of a penny in the pound?the equivalent of .,,Si per cent. o ? o Chicago. Match 31.?-The Cook county probate court must decide whether Frank Blazek is the- son ot on*- or both of the Siamese twins, who died yesterday, before the estate can be settled, it they were one personality the boy will get tie- hundred thousand dollars they had accumulated, otherwise la- will ^?-t only his mother's. lb> sa's share. A long seien tili*' con troversy is inevitable. -? ? ?? L.-nine is sick : perhaps he is si. k our idea of an optimist is n sell er v-ho announces "popular" prices. UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES TO MEET 'Important Matters to Be Con sidered Next Week Columbia. March 31.?Setting up ' (jf the graduate school at the Uni | versity is to bo one of the most irn : p?rtant mutters discussed at a : meeting of the trustees to he held during the first few days of April, j Other important matters, especial ly the distribution of finances au thorized by the recent legislature, are to be considered by the trus I tees. The recent legislature appro ; i?riaied money for the establish ; ment at the University of a gradu i ale school and it is said this will greatly enlarge the usefulness of the institution. It will mean even I tually the enlargement of the fac I ulty, it is said, but for the first year the courses will bo handled ; by present members of the fac j ulty. At the meeting of the trus I tees in April the courses for the j graduate school will he mapped out : and the various departments as signed to members of the faculty. I The graduate school will he opened ; next fall. The trustees will probably at this ' meeting also designate the head of j the graduate school. This officer i will probably be called the dean, j The name of Dr. W. S. Currell has I been, mentioned in connection with I the deanship of this school, since he has tendered his resignation as president of the University. Another important matter to be 1 ! considered by the trustees at their | April meeting will be the plans for : ; the woman's building at the Uni | versity. The legislature appropri- ' I ated $2,000 for plans and prepara- j j lion for the woman's ?>uilding, j \ thereby committing itself to this I phase of the building program and I making preparation for this need ' ed building at. the institution. At i the meeting in April the trustees j will probably select architect to! , draw the plans for the building. The trustees will also discuss the 1 \ University's budget for the year ? j and will handle a number of rou- j . tine matters. Three new trustees will be re- , ceived as members of the board at j the forthcoming meeting. Messrs. j Sullivan, of Laurens: Gordon I ; Hughes, of Union, and McCutcheon. j j of Kingstree, elected to succeed L. ; I P. Hollis of Greenville: the late C. 33. Spencer, of York, and the j ! iate P. A. Willcox. of Florence. This is considered one of the : most important meetings of the : year. The exact date for the meet ing has not been announced. HIGH SCHOOL WEEK IN COLA. Annual Meeting to Be Held in i Columbia April 26 to 28 ; ;} Columbia. March 31.?April 26 2S will he big days for the high ;: school people of the state. These i days will be the big days of "High School Week." when several hun dred high school students and many '. high school instructors will be in ! Columbia for the oratorical, eloeu jtionary and athletic events of the j ;| "high sc'hool week" program. ! j This is an annual event for the ? high school league of the state. : There will be the annual debate, j the querry this year dealing with tax reform. There will also be the i declaimers contest for boys, and ialso the elocution contest for high I school girls, '[ here will also be the ! big track meet, in which all hiith ? schools of the state will participate. The annual meeting of the High I School League will meet during j these dates. It is expected that. ; important plans for the work of I high schools of the state will be : discussed. Many high school prin ! cipals will attend the meeting. { The annual banquet will be one ! of the features of the program, i the details of which are yet to be j worked out. The University Ex ! tension Department is co-operating in plans for the big week, and Dr. : Reed Smith, head of the extension j department, states that the high ; ! school week program will this year j be bigger than ever before. SAYS MUSCLE SHOALS MUST BE COMPLETED ! Knoxville. Mandl 30.?"We may recommend that it be sold to j Ford." was the statement today by J Senator Xorris of Nebraska, chair-I i man of the senate agriculture com-| I mittee. during the brief stop the! j committee made here this after-j : noon on its re.urn trip to VVashing I ton from the Wilson dam. where i the committee had made an inspec- : j tion of the Muscle Shoals plant. "We war.i .Muscle Shoals de- j j veloped." continued the senator; j ! "it is an unsettled proposition at j [present. Whether it shall be J ' leased or sold or completed by tin government is the biir question toa [settle. There are some difficulties j I which some people do not under stand and the greatest Of these ;s I [the Oorgas plant which was built | ? by the government and the Ala- j vbama company independent from the plan: anil the dam at Flor- i ence. The government wanted tho j <lorgas plant during the war for: 'tie- purpose of furnishing power ?to the building and plants a I Mus I de Shoals. Ford has included ; this in his offer. This makes a i very difircult legal tangle." ; "I think Ford ought to have i;.": said Senator Hellin of Alabama. ! ' ?bin l i-? an unsettled question as }? to what congress will do about it. However. we are all agreed that' i the project should completed." ; Now is the time for all good men. ? !?? swat the fly. -? W ar !. h us taxes; but taxes don't lea1, e lls much. I DARBS VISIT > ABBEVILLE Account cf a Speaking Tour For Cotton Association Editor Daily Item: The writer spent, several days in Abbeville county last week in the" interest of the Co-operative Cotton Marketing' Association. For the) benefit of friends who sometimes enjoy my observations on peopled and places these lines are penned. ! To reach my first appointment in Abbeville on Wednesday it wasi necessary to spend Tuesd .y night j cither in Columbia, Clinton or Ab-, beville. I decided to stop off at ] Clinton. This gave me the oppor tunity to see the improvements at the Thornweil Orphanage and the! P. C. of S. c. where quite a num ber of Sumter boys are being edu cated. Both institutions have add ed to the equipment since T was there about 10 years ago. Presi dent Lynn and Supt. Fleming re port better support of the orphan- ; age than the hard times seem to warrant. But still there is always a place for every gift that its friends can send. Miss Xesbitt, who went from this neighborhood ten years ago. will, at the end of this session of the school, enter a training school for nurses. Dr. Lynn spoke very highly of her character and the fine influence she has among the girls and predicts for her success. For the second time in my life I saw a Masonic funeral and was very favorably impressed with the solemnity of the service. The one I saw 50 years ago left a bad im pression on my mind which this one removed. That night when I boarded the Seaboard through train for Abbe ville there was not a single pas senger in the negro coach and only six in the white coach. Owing to the train schedule 1 did not go to bed in Clinton and in Abbeville found every bed at the hotel occu pied so J sat up until six a. m., when I got a bed for two and half hours sleep. The square and main street of Abbeville are very attractive, but at 4:15 a. m., it was the most lone some place I ever saw as I tried to locate the hotel. After several raise starts, an auto came along and I secured the information needed to find the hotel, there to sleep on a chair in the lobby, as another belated traveler was do ing, untii some of the guests got up for early trains. The globe lights at 4 a. m. and the stars over head made a long .to be remember ed picture. After breakfast, Mr. Hill, the county director, took me to see sev eral bankers and other business men whom I found to be enthus iastic for co-operative marketing. In the afternoon Mr. Hill and Mr. Ellis took me out to a cotton gin toward Calhoun Fails and to Lebanon church where we found small groups of farmers and signed up several contracts. They are very much disheartened over the boll weevil damage and while ad mitting that it is a good thing, the best plan that has yet been pro posed, they want time to think about it. It was very amusing to split hairs with a very intelligent farmer of the Lebanon neighborhood. Ke is Cf French Huguenot descent. I told him he must have some Canny Scot blood in ids vewis. Most of the land in this part of the county is sandy black jack, very rough and washes badly. The next day Mr. Hill took me to Lowndesville on the C. & W. C. railroad in the Northwestern part of the county to Campbell's school house and to Antreville. The roads are bad from lack of work or from fresh work now going on. Some of the poorest and most broken sandy lands I ever saw be tween Abbeville and Lowndesville. Clay loam predominates about Lowndesville. And fine sandy and clay mixed about Antreville. At both places I saw signs of good farming. 1 was particularly im pressed with the burr clover on all of the best looking farms in the county; also fields of alfalfa. Also not a cow or hog at large in the county. Friday Mr. Ellis joined us again and at Due West we picked up Capt. Nickles, who went with us to Donalds, and Keowec in the north eastern part of the county. Here we found good farming. Alfalfa and burr clover very much in evi dence about Due West and Don alds. At Donalds Dr. Carlton took roe to his home to meet his wife who was a Miss Tuffts who in her girl hood lived v. iti; her uncle-in-law, Mr. Ben Wilson, just above Mayes ville. J found them very pleasant, and her aunt, Miss Tuffts a dear old lady. Rev. Edgar Tuffts of the Banner Elk Mission school on the Tennessee-North Carolina line is an elder brother of Mrs. Carlton. Through them 1 heard of Earnest Cooper, who married her sister, and of etiler ML Zion Mayesville people, Keowee is a very progressive com munity with a tine new graded school building. The first morning I met Chief Justice Gary on the square in Ab beville. Me insisted on my giving up my room at the hotel and making his home my head-quar ters while in the county. So that niirh: after meeting with Cue busi ness men <a" the town in the court house i went to Judge Gary's. I do not think he and Mrs. Gary co?T6 ha\<- treated me better if I had been "one of the elect." It was of the greatest interest fo hear him tell of the campaigns ?>l tsT'b ISSa and LS'JO from the standpoint ?>;* ;i Gary; and a re former, lie gave me several speeches and addresses chat are of historic value which I intend to give to the local library when L have finished studying them. He finally admitted before i left the ^< com! morning as he was auto graphing some of his addresses for me. that the old "aristocratic ring" that the reformers destroyed was succeeded by another ??ring/' the; leaders of which were about as aristocratic as the old ring. My stay in his hospitable nome was wonderfully resting after cnping all day over bad roads, and combatting the indifference, apathy or the suspicions'- of farmers who do not want to sign iy their rights (?) The right to _->? >w crops to give away! To over the same old story: three times' a day, to try to make it at . . 10 meet and answer objec tions, to explain obscure points, wa wearying to a degree very near prostration. -I do not know how I could have stood it, but for the restful evenings with Judge and Mrs. Gary. So that without know ing it. they contributed to the. work, for two days by enabling me to be physically and mentally bet ? r able to present the cause. 1 must tell a good joke on me and close: I overheard Mr. Hill tell a lead, r at one place to get up a g< i meeting and he-would "bring a real speaker." E. W. Dabbs. WOODROW WIL SON FOUNDATION An Appeal to the Pablic Schools The schools and colleges'*are called upon to assist in raising South Carolina's quota of $30,000 to the Woodrow ?Wilson Founda tion. The appeal should be par ticularly strong to the school- boys and girls of this state, because Mr. Wilson spent a part of his school days in South Carolina. It is not the amount contributed which counts so much as the num ber of individuals who show inter est by giving even small amounts: If the average contribution firom the school children of the state were as much as ten cents so their [obligation would bB fully met. It is proposed to raise one..bul lion dollars as a permanent foun dation. With the income ' om this foundation awards will be made to individuals and groups i ! who have rendered distinguished service "to Democracy, public fvel I'.re. liberal thought, or peacd I through justice.'' I Governor Cooper is the chair | man of the Foundation fn South j Carolina, and writes me thus in re , ga.rds to it. "It seems to me the purpose of j this foundation ought to appeal to ; every person who believes in peace I through justice. By this means it is hoped that we may keep con stantijj before the American public j the -44^a4*?for - which Mr. W2soa j stood,$>i*;ing the greatest crisis of j the world's history. It gives, an ; opportunity, to every individual to j contribute some, amount and there | by become a charter member of tail ; Foundation." The..State Superintendent of Ed [ ucatio^u, Mr. J. E. Swearingen, to ; whonij^jxe school system of South j Carolina, is everlastingly indebted, ?" ! senjls^jUs message: "Thje, Woodrow Wilson Founda ; lion is..worthy of the cordiaL>Tjp I port [iLV.d cooperation of all Sgeth I 'err.-, rs; and Southern Democrats. : Pubjjc* school teachers and pupils i can v^ry properly take an acti^fr interest in the campaign for fund*, j South'1 Carolina cannot afford tt> j omit,her pan of the work or her i contribution to its success." i Eacp school should organize a j committee ro collect money and 4 j send together with the names of i the' ,subscribers to Gen. Wylie ! Jones?..( Palmetto National Bank I Building. Columbia, S. C Safe Jones is tbe treasurer of the Fund - for South Carolina. The National Committee will send to each sub i scriber a certificate or some other ; formal acknowledgment consti | luting the subscriber a charter j member in the Foundation. I cannot address an individual ; letter to each school in South Car j oiina. I trust that this published j appeal will be sufficient. I "am sure that this effort to honor a. man so well known in South Car olina, and so well loved, needs only to be mentioned to get a prompt ana sonorous response. i I hope that every school teach-^ ; er who reads this notice will take jthe initiative in organizing the work \ and carrying it to successful com- i pletion within the next ten da;^ I Send the money and list of sub ? seribors to General Jones in Coium-v j bia?not to me. Very sincerely yours. W. M. Riggs, President Clemson College, Chair-' . Educational Section in South Carolina, Woodrow Wilson Founda PLANE HITS j SMOKESTACK Ma< !. (Ja.. March 31.?Two au ! tomobile racers. Jules Devereux. j oT Portland. Oregon, and John J. ! Costa, of Anthonk. Ark., are dead, and W. L. Fisher, member of the fhitish royal flying corps during ; th.e World War. is in a serious I condition as the result of an air n< in which they had planned j to My to Atlanta, thence across the miry to Texas, crashing into a tall chimney at the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad ships, near here. late today. The men hopped off at 4:30 o'clock in a machine which had been used in a flying cir" " that appeared here early in veek. Soon after leaving the ground, ac cording to eyewitnesses, the plane scented to have struck a "down rent." causing it to swerve and strike the smokestack. Tue of the men. helpless in the ? wrt < kaue, were pulled out by rail- ... road tuen, who smothered the :hat were eating into their bodies through gasoline-soaked . ? - by throwing loose earth them. The third. Costa, was i rown free of the machine and down the railroad tracks, his,*, ? a tire. While on the run ? 1 jumped in his path, knocked-$ i down and rolled him irt ^hc sand to put out the tlame"s? 1 \