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j TOWN AND C TR?C& OttOWfiitS' I ....ASSOCIATION >Pinewo?L an? Lvsiciibiirg to Affiliate With Sumter Association (8*5$ Seif- \. - . '.?...'.^ ?_? . ? ,\ I -'-~ Messrs. R. S. DesChamps and N. L. Broughton of the Pinew??d Truck Growers' Association, and Messrs. T. G; Griffin, OF. Hogah, ?L D. Clark, W. D. Mclntosh. of the Lynchburg Truck Association, con ferred at Sumter Chamber of Com ; mcrce yesterday with Messrs. R. A. Bradham, J. T. Glasscock and E. I. Rearoon, a committee of the ^Sumter Truck Growers' Association,' 'regarding the affiliation of Pine wood - and Lyhciiburg associations with the Sumter association, and the cooperation of these associa tions to. sell all truck under the selling." agencies of the American Fruit Growers, Inc. Mr. DesChamps and Mr. Brougb '* ton reportd etha't the Pihew?od Association would affiliate with Sumter. The Lynchburg represen tatives said , they would make f? ?vorable report to their members to join with Sumter. Mr. R. A. Bradham, president of ?'' the Sumter Truck Growers' Asso ciation is in Charleston today at tending a .meeting called by Mr. T. B: Young, of - Florence, District County Agent, representing Clem son College regarding the form?r tion cf a State Truck Growers' As-j "sociatzon. When he returns, a joint I meeting of the Pinewood, Sumter j and Lynchburg associations will) be. held to .hear Mr. Bradham's re-| -port and recommendations ?s toj joining the proposed Clemson C?l- | lege extension division association.\J The secretary of-the Sumter as sociation was directed to invite the % Greelcyville Truck C rowers* Asso ciation to-affiliate with the Sumter association. It looks as though truck grewinj? is going to be- a- big feature of agricultural endeavor in ^Sumter,. Glareridoru Williamsburg and other Eastern Carolina and Pee Dee counties. Sumter hopes to be. the central headquarters in gener al co-operation .and has invited .the' truckers; of Eastern Carolina to get on the Sumter jitney of progress-^ s.tcp on the gas ?nti s?y- **2et*s go** to beat-the; boil weevil to it. 1 '? Bond CTcsed?-Detour. ? i It will be the effort of this de-; "partment to keep the public posted p as nearry as possible ?s to what roads about the county lare closed on account of construction work being done. The detours will also be pointed out ?s nearly adequate as possible. *jiayesviile R??d?Grade work ' hems done on this road. BrMges ^own in Rocky Bluff swamp. Road Closed to through traffic to Mayes- | ijUELe, Florence and other points, j Take read to .Oswego. Mayesville t:' rcTroacL is yet open^ however, to local traffic;, which means to persons liv 5 isg along this road. r. Manning Road ? Curbing and gutter werk being done on road just outside of city. Detour to left at end of pavement just ac city limits. Go through Shannontown, 1|gBttiaag^back intc Main road not far -?from ther N^orthwestern railroad crossing. Death. ^ Mr. Thomas B. Brunson died ai. his home near Concord at . 6 j o'clock Thursday afternoon after j having been in declining health for! ?bout two -years. Mr. Brunson j (. was in his sixty-third year. The] funeral services were . held at 4 .o'clock Friday afternoon at thej Concord church, the services be-| ing conducted by Rev. W. H. Work-1 man and the Woodmen of the j . World having charge of the inter-j ment. ~ Mr; Brunson is survived by his! wife, one brofher, Mr; W. L. Brun son of Concord, one sister, Mrs. L. ? W. Cordon of Sumter, three son?,i Messrs. T. *B. Brunson, Jr., J. J. j 'Brunson and E. D. Brunson and j three daughters, Mrs. L. W. War-1 ren and Misses Ann Elrze andi Mary Brunson;' alt =of the Concord I ?section. _???? If the 'Ashburn, Ga., creamery! could be so quickly established on i a firm foundation thare is no rea son "why the Sumtor creamery can i not do equally as well or better. I Sumter Is a larger town than Ash- j burn and ha*s advantages of 'ocation i * and transportation that the Geor gla town does not possess. If the; farmers will get into the game in earnest, the dairying industry will. ' within five years, be a bigger thing in Sumter county than cotton growing e*ver was. But to make it & success hard work is necessary. Col. John J. Dargan ha*s not abandoned his agitation for the ref * ormation of court practice by the enactment of a law providing for a state's attorney for the defense. The reform may be a long time *coming ? probably wilft as the lawyers who make a business of criminal practices will fight it and a great many laymen who fear that they may someday play the role of "prisoner at the bar." will not favor the elimination of the. per sonal attorney for the defense. If , absolute, evenhanded justice was the sole end sought in the crimi nal courts?the prompt acquittal of innocent and the speedy and ade quate punishment of the guilty? " Col. Dargan's proposition would be received with greater favor. If there were no yysters and mer cenaries in the legal profession to Sell their time and talents to the - ? guilty and aid them to escape the ' penalties they richly merit, there would be no reason for the sug gested reform. ? ? * m ? They called it the income tax return?and some are returning. O?NTY NEWS 1 Annual Clean-Up Week, April 3 to 8 The Sumter Urban League, mem bers and officers desire to have all the colored citizens observe our an- i nua.1 clean-up week. The clean- j up week begins April 3rd and ends' on the Sth. We hope that the cit izens will observe the following; rules of our annual clean-up week: j list. Clean thoroughly on the inside of the house you live in. 2nd.?Clean thoroughly the front and back yards, burning up all rubbish or placing it where it can be carried away by the garbage wagon. Tin cans and old worn out buckets should go to the dump pile. 3rd.?On Sunday, the second, sermons on cleanliness and health by all the ministers in the city and county. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Filth and old rubbish around the home are the agents for disease and death. 4th.?Remove every tin can and old rubbish from adjoining lot, cov- j er up every hole where water set tles, and destroy the breeding places of mosquitoes. Health lec tures will be given by all the phy sicians in the city beginning Sur day morning, April 2nd. Dr. C. W. Maxwell will lecture Sunday morn ing, at Shiloh Baptist church; Rev. i. W. Williams, D. D., pastor, and Sunday evening, 7:30 at Mt? Pis gah A. M. E. church, Rev. J. L. Benbow, D. D., pastor. Dr. W. W. Felder, Sunday morning, at Eman- j uel M. E. church, Rev. H. L. j Hicksbh, D. D., pastor, and Sun day evening 7:30 at Mt. Zion Bap- j tist church, Rev. J. P. Garrick, D. j D. pastor. Mr. R. W. Westberry j at Rafting Creek Baptist church. Rev. Theodore Diggs, pastor, and at Bethel A. M. E. church, 7:30 p. m., Rev! J. F. Boyd, pastor. Mrs. J. P. Garrick at Mt. Zion Bap ist church Sunday morning. Mrs. Al bert E: Spears at Mt. Pisgah A. M. E. church Sunday morning. Mrs. Annie Sanders, St. James A. M. E. church, 7:30 p. m., Rev. A. J. Jen kins, pastor. Dr. E. C. Jones at Trinity Baptist Church 7:30 p. m., liev. J. S. B. Cousart, pastor, and j at Jehovah Baptist church, 7:3G ? "p. m , Rev. M. P. Hall, pastor.! 350s "V*. S>. Jacobs at The Good ?hephera Episcopal Church, 7:30 j p. m.; Rev. J. C% Perry, pastor. Dr. J. J. Sarks will lecture in the morn ing to the students at Morris Col lege. Miss Hden Usher at the Presbyterian Church Sunday morn ing, Rev. J. P. Foster, D. D., pas tor. Miss Paul Sampson at the Holiness church, Sunday morning, Rev. W. H. DeLane, pat-tor. Prof. A. R. Donnelly at the Seventh Day Adve'ntist church at 5:30 p. m., Rev. J. Conyers, pastor. T)n Wednesday night, April 5th, the members and friends of every church in the city, will meet at their respective churches at eight o'clock p. m., and each pastor will give a. general health lecture, as sisted by members of the Urban' League! Tt. W. Westberry will j lecture at Emanuel M. E. church: ; Dr. C. W. Maxwell at Mt. Zion Bap- I tirt church: Dr. W. W. Felder at Bethel A. M. E. church; Prof: C. A. Lawson at Mt. Pisgah A. M. E. church: Dr. A. W. Brown, Shiloh Baptist church* Dr. E. C. Jones at the Presbyterian church; Dr. T. B. Davis at ' the Good Shepherdn church; Attorney M. J. Frederick 1 ?t Clinton Chapel church: Re* M. Warley, the Holiness Church; Rev. A. P. Spears at St. James A M.' E. church. We hope that every person will take advantage of every one of these sermons and lectures and at tend these meeting. Saturday will be final clean-up day on this occa sion. Judges < will inspect the homes and surroundings and prizes will be given to the cleanest ap pearance. R. W. Wcstborry, President. M. J. Frederick, Vice President. Dr. C. W. Maxwell, Vice President. Rev. J. G. Perry, Chaplain. Dr. C. W. Birine, Treasurer. Mrs: J. P. Garrick. Secretary. Meeting bf B-Sharp Music CInh. The B-Shurp Music club held its usual monthly meeting on Thurs day afternoon. March 30th, at the studio of Miss Louise Siddall. The following program was rendered: Vocal solo by Miss Esther Os teel*. Piano solos by Misses Nell Ard, Mary Daniel, Harriet Hirsch. Frances Kraker. Mary Beck, Iris Courtney, Virginia Du Rant, Susie Gregg, Nell Commander and Odes sa Hunter. Duets by Misses Sarah Balwin and Frances Bradford. Lizzie Brog don and Rita Heriot, Mary Walker and Pauline Loe. Trio, Misses Bertha Lee Beck, Roberta Johnson and Mary Beyle. During the afternoon punch and sweet cakes were served by Mk-s Siddall. Marriage License Record. A marriage license has been is sued in the office of the Clerk of Court to Mr. Hastings Scott and Miss Janie Logan, both of Prog don, S. C. There are still a few scattered numbers of last year's license plates to be seen on motor vehicles in Sumter. A final warning has been sent out and the owners of the au tomobiles bearing these plates are apparently left without an excuse for n1 having the required new li cense tag. Still, if it wasn't for the men who think they are distinguished look ing, what would photographers do for a living'.' HIGH HILLS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION Interesting Services Held in Historic Old Church Stateburg. March 30: ? There j was an event of great deal wider than local interest at the High : Hills Baptist church on last Sun- | day. It was the answer to a call j ; made for a Memorial Service at the j I grave of John M. Roberts. D. 1).. | whose death occurred on March j 25th. 1S22. and Sunday 20th was; i utilized for the centennial exercises ! touching his life and services. It ' was astonishing to see what an i awakening followed this appeal.; I The people came in crowds. Not ? ! Baptists only, but all other denom- j I inations contributed evidences of1 I great interest in the occasion. The j big old church afforded plenty of testimonies to its claims on the af- | fections of people in this com- i munity. Though once in wretched dilapi- j dation and many times without j pastoral service, yet it was used | for meetings in maby useful j lines at all times. Interdonimina- j tional Surrday schools had been j held there with great success and I the building put in excellent or - j der from bottom to top by the at tendance on these Sunday school meetings and the Farmers' Alliance nad used it for their good work j and the General Sumter Memorial Academy had held its religious ser- i j vices and its commencement e'xer- | cises within its precious old wails, and it was about thix time that it j was painted inside and out and I on the inside can be found a neat j pulpit a handsome Bible and or- j gan, sofa and chiars, bell and i gaval and baskets for collection all in place and in perfect Condi- j tion. Then there were exhibited ] pictures of the old building in all1 its stages for over a hundred years ! and there were seen large crowds on its piazza who assembled to establish a high school and did es tablish the- General Sumter Me moral Academy, and several pic- j tures of the memorial stone erected to the memory of the great teach er and preacher, learned in the \ work of the ? nools and wearing j the title of D. D. for his theologi- I cal learning and high efficient ser- ' vices to the church. The range of discussion by the! speakers was a wide one as to! Baptist interest ami wOrk. The! first pointed and impressive allusion was to the fact that the song with I which the meeting opened was ' known as "America"- and sung throughout America, as the adopted National air of the American peo- j pie and was heard in all parts of! the world, on bands of music and in the voices of tens of thousands ' : of American soldiers and sailorsj land this song was written by "Rev. j Samuel F. Smith a Baptist divine. Then followed description of the work of Richard Fiifman, once a pastor of this church who had at I tracted the attention of Lord Cornwallix by his patriotic services during the Revolutionary war. and that James Monroe was so charm ed with his preaching that he1 would have him speak in the Capi tol at Washington and that Patrick j Henry was so fascinated with Fur- j j man's life and services that he in- j I sisted that all his family should be | come Baptists and they are to this ; day. Then it was shown that j j Samuel Furman. a preacher in this ! same church was known as a j Metaphysician and Logician not j only in this country, but in Scot j land, and is said to have held the ' friendship of the great philosopher ! Sir William Hamilton. And Rob j ert Hall and Charles H. Spurgeon j were discussed as great preachers ' of the world and pictures of I Spurgeon's vast audiences were on ?exhibition. All done to arouse an \ interest in the work of this old j church and before very long it was j declared that a portrait of Miss j Grace Allen, now Mrs. Lee. who } was the first woman probably in the world to cast a vote in a Bap ' tist business meeting which she did ! in an association meeting at ? Wedgefield as a delegate from this church on a date to be fixed under : her portrait when it is proposed ? to have some- renowned speakers j to discuss the church in its work i in the past, in the present and in i the future. j As a concluding work of the day ja Memorial Association was form ed to take charge of the work of I restoring this old church to great ; usefulness, and the composition of the association is an assurance of its j earnest and su' : ?sful work. Formed on tii?. 26th day of [March, 1922. The High Hills ?Church Memorial Association. Members: Hon. C. J. Ja'cqson, president. J. F. Lenoir, vice-president. Mrs. J. 1. Lenoir. secretary and ; treasurer. Geo. W. Maby. Mrs. W. M. Lc hdir, Jrl, Mrs. T. M. Moon-, ex ecutive committee Col. John .i. Dargan. historian. Rev. E. W. Reynolds was the presiding officer in thi^ meeting '.and conducted it with marked suc ' cess. The singing under his con 5 duct contributed largely to the {pleasure and profits of the Occa sion. He will serve as pastor, ] naviug preaching tuba- a month for the present. VISITOR. Police Officer Johnson Resigns W. H. Johnson, who has been a , member of the city police depart ment for a number of years, lias handed in his resignation to Citj Manager S. O'uinn, wha n rcsigna ition is if) take effect :i'< oa -e. J. i'.. Watts, formerly oi the Fo il ice department is at present act ing as a substitute officer. The baseball team of tie- <\> ilumbia Hi.u'i school arrived in Sumter this morning prepared for I their game of baseball with the lo cal High school baseball club. The 'game is scheduled for four o'clock I this afternoon at the fair grounds, i i PASSOVER SOON TO BE OBSERVED Special Ritual is Compiled For Use of the Service of Haggadah Passover, the Jewish festival of liberation, known in Hebrew asj "Pesach." begins this year on Wednesday evening, April* 12.1 Starting on this evening every I Jewish household in the country! eats Matzbth, the unleavened I bread. In some households no I leaven of any character is eaten I during the eight days the festival of Passover is observed. Among the more liberal Jews of this country Passover ends on Wednesday, April 10. In most! Jewish homes, however liberal, a! portion of the elaborate ritual built Up during the long centuries this feast has been celebrated will be' retained. j The o] ening evening of the fes tival, known as Seder night, will certainly be observed in all Jew ish homes. A Special ritual has been compiled for this service call ed the "Haggadah." This vener able volume recites the events of the Exodus by means of quaint songs and stories, and endeavors to awaken within the soul of old and young a love of liberty. The ritual of the Seder stresses the no tion that each one is to regard him self as if he himself carne forth from the house of Egyptian bond age. * Additional efforts have been ex erted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis to make this fes tival of Seder more appreciated among the younger generation of American Israel and to this end a new edition of the "Haggadah" is being prepared which will retain the salient features of the ancient ritual and omit only such frag ments as are obscure and inappli cable to our day afco generation. Many Jewish cohgreatiohs and organizations are planning to cele brate Seder in their own instittt i tions. While primarily a feast for I the home there is no traditional ! objection to an institution, sym bolizing as it does a larger family, gathering about a festive board and reviving common memories. I Originally Passover was an agri \ cultural feast. At a later period ! it became dissociated in part from j its primitive nature and was iden tified with an event in the early i history of the Hebrews which in I vested the festival with the new ! and highly significant spiritual ; message of liberty for all man j kind. In the synagogue the note of i spring is reflected in the assigned scriptural reading from the Song of Songs, wherein .the worshipper is reminded that the winter is over and gone and the song of the tur l tie-dove is again heard in the land, j This joyous note is not sounded I to the exclusion of the historical j association of the Exodus of the i children of Israel from Egypt. The I purpose of the Passover is to re j call to mind the many miracles 'which were wrought'in behalf of the House of Jacob by the never slumbering Guardian and Keeper of j Israel. Throughout the festival of Pass over the historical circumstance of this delivery from Egyptian bond ; age is vividly revived and the j scenes reviewed where the kindred I of Joseph were degraded to slave j labor in the very country upon I which their illustrious ancestor had i showered richest blessings. Their j enslavement of body afflicted likc ? wise their souls. They sank into I the grievous thraldom of despair, j The deliverance from Egyptian ! tyranny assured them that their I supplications had been heard on j high. The memory of this rcdemp j tion reminds the modern Jews that I they. too. must be on their guard I against oppression and work with ! all their might for the eventual ; triumph of humanity over the tyr ianny of injustice and iniquity. ! Passover has inspired the Jew to i trust in the eventual reign of right j eousnes-. - ? ? ? ? I Negro Gives Officer Long Chase. Lewis Ganes. negro, was Satur day morning arrested by Ofliccr J. D. Chandler, hut not until he had occasioned the officer much trouble in running him down. The negro had been previously arrested on gambling charges. The charges that he will now have to answer for in addition will be vagrancy and the resisting of arrest. The negro was found in an automobil" re pair shop on tin- corner of Hamp ton avenue and Sumter street and it wax at this point that the chase began. Officer Chandler kept toe negro well in sight, following him on foot, and after a short lift in an automobile driven by .Mi-. Pen Gordon, finally captured the negro in-ar tin- Northwestern Railroad tracks beyond Salem Ave. ? ? o Confederate Veterans Name Dele gates. A meeting of the Sumter camp of the United Confederate Veterans was held Saturday morning for the purpose of nominating delegates who are t?> attend the thirty-sec ond reunion of the United Con federate Veterans which is to be held in Richmond, Va., June 20th io 22nd. The following veterans were nominated: Messrs. \Y. ' >. ? 'am. T. K. Ricliardson, G. W. Ma honey ami Sumter Watt". -?????<> Oflicer Lawrence I-ivprossos Thanks To Public. Officer .1. M. Lawrence, who was recently shot while in the discharge of his fluty, is now again out and is getting along as splendidly as possible, lb- begs iliat his expres sion of thanks io the entire public be made for the countless courte sies shown and the numerous at tentions paid him on all hands by everyone dtrring tin period that he was confined to the hospital and to his home. When you get :i radio oat fit her s mus: ? m the "if. LIVESTOCK MEN TO MEET j AT CLEMSON Annual Gathering of South Carolina Livestock Associa tion April 6 and 7 Clemson College, March 24.? The Smith Carolina Livestock Asso ciation Avill holrl its annual meet ings at Clemsdh College an Th?rs-, day and Friday. April ?> and 7, ac- ! cording to announcement of. W. J. Sheely, Extension Animal Hus bandman, who is secretary-tre?s?r- ; : er <if the association. The detailed ; program has not yet been ahnounc | ed. but it will cover various phases of livestock work in South Caro | lina tinder present conditions, j There will be discussions concern i ing the profitable feeding and mar \ keting of beef cattle and of hogs, 'as we'll ns such special subjects as : the problem of soft pork and other i feeding questions. Several noted j livestock specialists will be on the ; program for addresses, j One of the special features of the j meeting will be a study and discus sion of the results of the winter j feeding experiments with beef cat | tie which have been conducted at J Clemson College during the win i ter. .Methods and rations used in i this experiment will be discussed, j and buyers from eastern stockyards ; will place values upon the finished j ! steers, thus furnishing a practical j demonstration of grading cattle for j market. i Clemson College is glad to en- j i terrain the livestock men at the ! j annuaul meeting this year, and it i is hoped that a specially large num- ' j ber will take advantage of the op j portunity to pay the state's agri-1 I cultural college a visit. Resides ; the work which the college is I doing in animal husbandry, dairy - j ing. and other lines of agriculture, there are various things of inter est here which the members, many of whom have never been to Clem son. would find instructive. Secretary Sheely announces that j the program will be ready within ! a few da vs. -? ] A Very Pleasing Announcement. \ Editor The Daily Item: It will be remembered that a j large number of the graduates of our high school of last year are now attending college?a large percentage of the girl's and one hundred per cent of the boys. In ] addition to this, we have a number j of boys and girls attending colleges j throughout"the south. It is a gen ; unine pleasure to hear reports of j these boys and girls and I am con ; stantly receiving them. In two of I the denominational colleges of this ; state where we have a large num I ber of students, the boys are mak ; ing enviable records for them | selves and our schools. The presi i dents of these two institutions told me recently in person of the splen i did impression that our boys are j making. From one college in this ! state the reports are now coming ; in. I saw one of them and on all ! subjects where was not a single j mark below "Superior." I At the meeting of the State I Teachers' Association one of the ! professors of Winthrop College in j a group of men to whom he was j talking, made this statement to me, which was exceedingly gratifying. I He said that just a few days before j leaving Winthrop he saw two young j ladies from Sumter on the cam j pus. and calling them to him he I asked them this question. "Will you girls please tell me what it is that ; enables us up here at Winthrop to pick out the girls from Sumter? : They make good records with us. i and, in addition to that, they have ! a distinctive power of adjustment to i college conditions." A few days ago ! i received a report from one of < our boys in another state. The dean of the institution said that he ? was a "top-notcher" in even' de i partment of college life, and was making for himself a distinguished I record." On Saturday the follow ing letter reached me from tilt same institution: ??I wish to ?all your especial at tention to another of your pupils ; who has made" good with a rush ; with us. He makes a good aver j age in ids studies, but above all 1 things else stands out prominent ' as a leader on the campus. We think he has developed wonderful i ty in his stay here. He is prob ably the mos- popular man on the j campus." "1 was very much 'pleased to note j that while the presidency of the ! student body and of the V. M. C. I A. were both open to him. He I con id nave had either and moat j men would have taker, the presi i demy of the student body as the highest position in the gift of the ' student body; but he preferred, af ter conference of the nominating committee with him. to be nomi nated as president of the T. M. C. A. and was elected tovtUis place by an overwhelming majority." I believe that when the parents of our boys and girls are doing so much to give their girls and boys a college education it is due them that they should have all the en couragement possible. Of course, the only encouragement that they really wish is the knowledge that their boys and girls are doing j^ood work at the several institutions that they arc attending. It. gives me great pleasure, personally and offi cially, to congratulate these boys and girls and commend them in he highest terms. Cordially submitted. S. II. EDMUNDS, Superinte ndent. One statement made by Mr. JCeils Christensen in his address to the livestock meeting Saturday should be taken to heart by every farmer. He said that the truck growers of the Beaufort district had learned from experience 'hat live stock are essential to successful and profitable truck growing?nothing takes the place of cow manure compost lor fertilizing truck. COOPERATIVE MARKETING Cotton Growers of the South west Have Set a Precedent That Will Bear Close Watching by Other Pro ducers (Philadelphia Lodger.) Oklahoma City. Okla.. March 27. ? More in Oklahoma one *mcount- j ers a new farmer?' movement that' will he worth watching. It is the I farmer turned business man and projecting himself as the salesman as well as the producer of his crop. If the essay succeeds, it will have a wide and revolutionary ef fect, not only on the method of distribution of the cotton crop, but on tobacco, wheat, cattle and other agricultural resources. These cotton growers here have begun a system of co-operative marketing ana-j logous to the successful system of the California Fruit Growers. The movement, born in Okla-1 homa, has spread over the south.: Texas. Arizona and Mississippi have sold cotton co-operatively this sea son. North Carolina and Arkan-' sas have completed recently their! organizing campaigns. Georgia1 and South Carolina are now or-: ganizing to sell the 1922 crop. AI-1 together, eight states are co-ordi- j nating their efforts in the Ameri can Cotton Growers* Exchange, the j National Overhead Sales Agency, j now composed of Oklahoma, Texas | Mississippi and Arizona. All par- j ticipating states are organized on j the Oklahoma plan. When the states now organized and organizing are operating ac- j tually they will handle a good per centage of the crops of the states representing 90 per cent, of the country's production. The Okla-| homa Cotton Growers' association j ?the parent project?was born of a realization on the part of a little group of Oklahoma cotton farm ers that the weak spot in the cot-1 ton farmer's business lay in the selling end. They saw too great! a spread between producers and j consumers. They were taking the other fellow's price for the pro duct of their toil. With realiza tion of these conditions came ft de termination to seek a remedy. A cooperative marketing agreement was drawn up. This agreement was submitted to the growers of the state in an intensive member ship campaign which dosed on April 2. 1021. when 35.000 growers had signed the legally binding sev en-year contract, under which they were to market all the cotton pro duced by them through the associa i tion. J The state was divided into 10 I districts, according to cotton pro duction, and a director elected by the members in each district. An 11th member was appointed by the president of the State Board of Agriculture to represent the inter ests of the genera; public oh the board. An expert cotton sales ; man and an audlror were hired. I The best cotton classers to be found were employed. ; The first bale of cotton was de livered to the association August IS. 1921. Since that date the as {sociation has -received and made !an advance payment on 100.000 bales. The association, a non-stock, non-profit corporation, has no funds. Its only asset is its title to ! cotton delivered to it by its mem j bers. On this cotton it borrowed I during the 1921 season $3,500,000 from Oklahoma banks and paid !it back as it became due. It also j borrowed $2,500,uo0 from ihe i War Finance Corporation. This ! money was used to make advance j payments to the members at time j of delivery of thefr cotton. The j average approximate advance was i $30 per bale. A later payment of ?10 per bale was made in Feb ruary on all cotton delivered to the association, and a third payment of $20 per hale is just now being completed on three of the largest pools. This makes a total of $S0 per bale received by members i having cotton in these three pools. i ... j The association has created a j market. It has discovered good [middling cotton: very few. if any, ; Oklahoma farmers knew that cot ? ton of that grade was produced In the state. It has secured for the grower the actual staple value of ?his cotton. It has rought about an j increase in price. ?y grading, sta jpling and establishing the actual spinning value it nas forced street : buyers to pay more nearly what the ; cotton is worth; Non-members as jwcll as members have thus bene fited. It has classed cotton into even running lots ready for big buy ! ers. Tin- large cotton buyer can ? com?' to the association's sample I room and buy 100, i.OOO or 5.000 [bales of any designated grade and staple of cotton, tie can look at the actual samples laid out before him. ': He does not have to go out into the country and buy large lots of mix i ed grade and staple in order to get the 100 bales he wants. He linds them ready for delivery at a fair price. Consequently, buyers pay a premium for association cotton. The association has eliminated entirely the loss from country dam age. All its cotton is warehoused and fully covered from the weath er. It is also fully insured. The association has security with the Federal Reserve Bank. It has es tablished a credit and actually bor rowed $6.000,000, with cotton as se curity. The association has dem onstrated that cotton farmers can and will stick together and that through hired experts they can con duct a marketing business on a bus iness basis ami win the confidence of the people with whom they do business. Volivt says. "There is no peace on earth, nothing but hell." His neighbor must have a phonograph. ? ? ? Mary Garden cried when u\n governors kissed her. Looking at their pictures, we don't blame her. -? ? ? Men like girls who are sweet and tmple. bui not ejirls who are just THE RACE FOR NITROGEN Ford or Some One Else Must j Run Muscle Shoals If Amer-; ica Holds Her Place in a ! New Struggle (?Philadelphia Public Lodger) i It is written large in human his- ; lory that no nation or civilization ; ever has disappeared except from ; one. or both, of two reasons: They j either were beaten down by a su- I perior military adversary or they had exhausted the fertility of their j soils and had to move to new lands, ! sometimes perishing by the way. j There have been races for gold in ! history, but that is giving way to j a new race, the race for nitrogen. The Battle of Muscle Shoals that' is being fought now in congress and j elsewhere really is the first skir- j mish in the battle for nitrogen. I The great war was a war of nitro- j gen. Nations gathered it up and j hurled it at each other as Jove j hurled the lightnings. It is the ? food, the clothing, the shelter and i the war stuff of the world. Plenty i of nitrates in America will restore j the fields now being exhausted, will furnish a war material with- j out which guns and planes and I soldiers are useless and helpless j and will keep two great dangers, aforesaid, from drawing nigh | America. Henry Ford wants to insure these two things for us at Muscle j Shoals. The Chilean nitrate in terests and the coking industry 1 and divers others are opposed to i him. They would prefer to keep ! the situation where it is today. In- j cidentali}*. Henry Ford wants to I give the farmer qheap fertilizer so j he may buy more" automobiles. Na ! turally, considerable money will \ move thereby in the direction of ! the Ford treasury. However, that is not what the interests assailing'^"Ford at pres ent fear most. They are fearful that money will not be the first consideration, but that he may wish to do for agriculture and for other interests what John D. Rockefeller has done for medi cine. They are fearful of what he may bring about in chemistry, machine-building, hydro-electric I fields and the light-metal business. I They are not worried about his J hope to sell a tractor, a truck and a car, all for 1,00.0, so much as they are about a possible Ford aspiration to go down in history' as the man who made agriculture a business and a profession instead j of a gamble. I There are other phases to Mus ! cle Shoals, but nitrogen is the main lone. At the present time there are j three main sources of nitrogen. The Chilean nitrate-beds are first; and 'between 2S67 and 1919 we spent i for this nitrate for export duties jto Chile, for insurance and ship ping, about $$00,000.000. Chile got j $103.647.000 of this in duties. We jhad hauled 13.314.000 long tons of jit to America at the end of 1919 when we brought in 68,229.000 tons. We are now bringing in J about S3.000,000 tons a year, and Jit is not enough. The world is fall ing behind in its production of j nitrogen, and the nitrate beds, less j rich n?w. will notlas t forever. We ?get no American nitrogen by air ! fixation; and of the ammonium j sulphate produced as a coking by j product, not more than 100,000 [tons a year come oh the fertilizer market. I Muscle Shoals is the one anwscr j in sight. There and in the im imediate neighborhood are two gov ernment nitrate-fixation plants. one partially completed dam across ? the Tennessee river, a great stcam ! power plant, a quarry, a trahsmTs jsion line eighty-eight miles long |and about 4.000 acres of land. The two nitrate plants at cost, plus 'wartime prices, represent about [?85.000,000. One of them, costing '? $13.000.000. is a failure. Both of J them could now be built at half ! the wartime cost. About $17.000.000 has been spent J on the dam to help navigation and j furnish water power. It will dc jvelop an average of 300,000 horse : power daily and never less than 1100,000. The steam plant, as an auxiliary, is good for 125,000 horse ! power. In the Tennessee watershed are \ millions of tons of coal and phos i phate rocks. The air is over j head, there is lime in the hills, [the No. - nitrate plant is ready to j make the nitrates. The river is j ready to furnish the navigable I water when the dam is complete, 1 ready to furnish the power for the electric furnaces, for making gases. ? phosphates, light metals, acid and I to fling a circle of power around a ; 300-mile radius. There stands $100,000.000 in tax i payers' money, the plants with no (wheel turning, the unfinished dam 'blocking navigation, falsework fall ling down, metal rusting, the whole thing idle, waiting for congress to j do something. It is a "white ele phant" eating its head off on the ; hay of maintenance charges. Three things can be dene with |it. It may be scrapped and its cost [?"charged off the books." The gov ernment can go into the water power and nitrate business and run [the plant from Washington. Or (some such offer as that of Henry F<.rd may be accepted. He will take it over if the government will complete it with money on which he will pay an interest of 4 per cent. For a long-term lease he will keep the nitrate plant ready to make explosives and the rest ot" the lime he will do as he pleases with it. As scrap the whole business will bring maybe $s.000.000. That will be aboin ten cents on the dollar for the plants as junk. Henry Ford will pay but six cents, wirb a dif ference- the plants will be in ope ra-em and one of them at least ai ? ways in readiness to make nitrates for d< Cense. At.tbe end of the con tract Ford will have paid the na tion about $215,090,000 for his ten ure.' The Mississippi Valley, claiming 55 per cent of the American popu lation, is ;-oliel for Ford. He has the "farm bloc" back of him to a man; The South wants the work curried on. 'C'x'ie believ'es that on the watershed of the Tennessee another New England industrial district will be created. Every body who eats food and Wears clothes is concerned directly. It ties'up with the one great problem of the world?with what shall we be fed and how shall we be cloth ed? Eigger than four-Power pacts or leagues of nations is the prob lem ( l keeping the soils of a na tion from being exhausted, for around it hover the specter shapes of famine. Muscle Shoals can furnish ho more than 55 per cent of the nitro gen we are now using, and we are not using a tenth part of the nitro gen fertilizer that ought to be used. What is sold is put out at eu price almost prohibitory. Henry Ford proposes to make 11.000 tons a year. This product will have about three times the value of. Chilean nitrates. It will ease a situation that increases in loss and danger yearly. The matter is one for congress, in its wisdom to deal with. It will disturb certain very powerful in terests, break some virtual monop olies, hurt a good many people in one way or another, but it cannot be ignored. If something is not j done today, it must be done tomor row. Henry Ford and the ihter icstg, that are attacking his pros j pects are ho more "than incidents In the race for nitrogen and the battle for nitrogen that is starting in every chilized" corner of the World. ? : SALVATION ARMY PLANS I ; . ' ". . ,? ? ?? - ! All Committees to Meet Wed ! esday Afternoon For Final Instructions Before Drive Begins Monday Morning, j April 10th ? j With the Salvation Army appeal but a week off and interest in the drive growing "steadily over the county, the General Chairman Mr. John B. Duffie, is greatly ehcour ! aged with the puttook and is con | fident that Sumter county will easily go "over the top." There is a fine spirit of cooperation among all the various workers and among citizens generally and with hearty cooperation its unqualified I success is assured, j Mr. Duffie. is calling a meeting i of all committees, and individual i workers, for Wednesday afternoon ! at four o'clock at hsi office 130 j North Main street, for the pur j pose of getting information as to I the method of canvassing, and the j districts to be canvassed. I The following figures show ire I lief activities of the Salvation Army in the Southern Division last year: which comprises the states of South Carolina. North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Persons given Christmas dinners j 10,949; Number of children "given itoys 3,924: Number of persons giv jen other meals 9,678; Number giv jen Transportation 519; Number of 'garments given -9,096: Number of j pairs of shoes given 1.163; Number i of persons given garments and 'shoes 3.116; Number of persons i given lodgings 3,282; Number of applications for employment 44$; Number supplied with jobs 23S; ; Number sent to Greenville Materni ty Home 75: Number interviewed ;and advised 2.421; Number given i medical aid 286: Mothers given j summer outings-2GS: Children giv ! en summer outings 1.043; Number ! families relieved by any means : 3.051: Total number of persons giv : en relief 17,239. llcligious Work Number converted 2.456; Out door Meetings S.3&S: attendance. ! 1.154.415: indoor meetings held. 19.253: attendance. 247.768. In addition to relief stations in every corps point, the Salvation Army maintains three industrial I homes for men, located in Atlanta. Savannah and Jacksonville; room ing houses for women and girls, located in Jacksonville and Savan '. nah: the Greenville Maternity Hos ; pital: the Salvatin oArmy Bruner I Home for Children in Greenville. : and the hotel in Charleston for j men in naval and military service: .hotels for men In Jacksonville and jSavannah. ? ?'?' ? News of The Conrt of Common Pleas. A verdict in favor of the de fendant w?s returned Thursday af tcrnoon in the case of Walter J. Jennings vs. Walker D. Hines, di ; rector general of the A. C. L. rail road. The next case entered into and I taken up for trial was .t of Sue i Ella Browder. et al. vs. The North j western Railroad Company of S. C. ?Epps and Levy; T.ilum and ; Wood. This is a suit brought ; about for personal damages The ? amount of the suit is $3,500. , - The case of Sue Ella Browder vs. the Northwestern Railroad j Company of South Carolina was completed during the court ses sion of Friday. A verdict of $75?' was found for the plaintiff. This I was a suit for persona'l damage. The jurors dawn for the first week were excused Friday after noon for this term. Judge S. W. G. Shipp was engaged Friday after noon and during Saturday with equity" matters and with the hear ing of various motions. The indications are that the cot ton acreage in Sumter county wilt he materially reduced, but not to as great an extent as anticipated. There will be a greater area of im planted land in the county than for years.- and less fertiliser used.