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OFFICE HOLD * ERS LOSE JOBS l Secretary MeiBon Approves of ^Ssujding^^moval of the ".. Heads^a^iBureau of Printing Washington,. April 3.?Rsorgan- I .ization of7 iae bureau of engraving \ . ,and" printing though the. execu- i ., live order 'issuef ' last Friday by j - President Harding removing James j ". JL.' AV\lmeth. itp director and 28 other officials, was explained today ! on the gi-ound^of ^efficiency" by! Secretary MellM. Xo' charges in- j voicing-the hopesty of any " of the j ?t dismissed hure? officials have been 'X filed, the trea's^; secretary stated, j M r. Meitonjfigxplanation of the i * sweeping c^ha$tges' made in the ad .'ministititive^^efsonnc-i of the bu re'au was''the'first official light thrown oh the president's action, j '. 'since tlie ?imoimcement of the or *'-":dler .a^-ti^S^ite House. Mean r-'-while -r<^J??5?|^s were introduced *'-ih hotIvj^ifseravte and house today seeking to elicit further information from the^ijr^S^ht. EiXor:.^ T>o_jol^in a personal ex ' plahat(olSGB9B?jr dismissal wer -? * made by Mr.-\Vjlmeth and a dele gation of forjngjr bureau officials who called at the White House hut without? appointment and therefore failed to see the president. ReorgAnlfeation. of the bureau heads, according* to Secretary Mel . .Jon, canie^asj^culmination of a ! number of .investigations into the' operation gF-ifSe* . piant following _Complainisv.^^{t? the efficiency of its operaia^KiJThe- seeming ab . ruptness o^Tfcihe change he explain- i ed by the. ^^o^?ectedness of the ar.nounc?n^3^ although he recall ed similar s^ra^n -change?; in of ficial positions': during the Mc - Ivinley administration. Assistant. Secretary of the Treas- '? ury Wadswosth, >fr. Mellon said, made a number of investigations oX- the bureau as did-other treas ury, officiate!' while Director of the Budget Datfes brought* A. R..Barnes . from Chicago to look into the ef ficiency of the. output of the plant. - He.: Barnes, he declared was the proprietor of an engraving estab lishment somewhat approaching , Lhevmagnitude of' the government : plant, and-,was considered, an ex ... perr Toa the .^subject. - ? ,". - These ' \?rif<us investigations made from timi- to time, Mr. Mel l^0on continuetJp^tisel?sed conditions . iix. the bur3^&. warranting the ?changes. Wasted was found, he stated, losses;;"i?> the government .'.."?? Stnhing into la^e surr i because of -^^apcr; beingj^oiled...in the new ?Z i^resses, lack;:;;^^Hip to date meth ods for >keepihg;, plates and other. - HQs?tiSfact?ri? conditions. Reports of th^se investigations . were made, -he "Padded, and it was thought that Louis A. Hill, the n%w " director, was the appropriate man to be put iii charge of the bureau. Assignment of justice department agents by Attorney General Dattgh-' ?erty, Mr. Mellon declared, was' merely a matter of precaution in I going over the stock in the plant] as there were' ho specific charges' of irregularity vagainst any of thej dismissed employees. 95 KILLED /Xaeut. Beck Shot by Oil Ope rator Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, April 4?Lieut. P??I*W. Beck, attached to the Fort 'Sill aviation'section, was shot to - death last night in a fashionable residence section by Jean P. Day, -a-widely known oil operator. The latter is held pending an investiga tion. _ \' According'to statement of R. W. Dick, Day returned home after es corting home the guests his wife had entertained and found Mrs. Day struggling, in the arms of Coi. Beck. Day is president of the Foursome Producing and Refining \ company and Beck is one of the first four aviators of the United J States army and.a widower. BREAK IN COAL STRIKE Independent Operators Offer * to Grant Demand of Miners New York, April 4.?The strike leaders announced that the an thracite miners' general policies committee meets here tomorrow to act on the reported offer of several independent producers to grant the strikers' nineteen demands imme diately, if they would return to i work. The acceptance of the of fer by union is regarded as the first break in the ranks of the op erators, and may result#in the ne gotiation of separate contracts and the reopening of mines, according to union officials. ONE MINE OPERATING New York, April 4?S. J. Gold-1 en, president district nine, Shamo-i kin, Pa., said at least one anthra cite mine in the country is oper-! ating regardless of the strike. At] the Locust Gap, Philadelphia and Reading mine, where for three months thirty men have been dig ging_frantically in search of a min er. Stanley Zuliski., who disappear- j ed under an tfvaianehe of hard coal; last January. ? MINERS ARE HUNTING JOBS "Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. April 4?The fourth day of the coal strike, in the anthracite fields, found many of the hundred a. nd fifty thousand -miners seeking employment in lo cal industries. Others are prepared to leave for their old homes in for eig?) countries each departing train carrying a ti'uGta who withdrew their savings, saying they never ex pected to return to America. THEY MAY YET GO TO CHAIR Motion For Dismissal of Ap peal of Taxi Murderers To Be Made Columbia. - April 4.?Motion for dismissal of the appeals of S. J. Kirby. C O. Fox and Jesse Cap pins, the three young men in the penitentiary, convicted of the mur der of WiPIam Brazell. Columbia tax driver, whose murder caused a man hunt over two states last year, is to be made early in the spring term of the supreme court by So licitor Callison. of Lexington, ac cording to a statement made by ^he solicitor here today. Mr. Callison stated that he did not consider the appeals of the three men well founded and he believes the court will dismiss them, under a recent ruling of the court, which would allow the court to throw out a case without it being argued. If the court does dismiss the ap peals, the "murder trio" will be resentenced at the May term: of court in Lexington. Solicitor Callison stated that he may have to go before the circuit judge in Lexington in May and ask for dismissal of the appeal of Kirby, that appeal not having been perfected and not having reached the supreme court. The Gappins appeal reached the court last week and is scheduled for argument in May. Fox appealed from an order of Associate Justice Cothran, in which the associate justice refused to re-open the case, but this ap peal has never reached the su preme court. It is believed the recent order of the court, allowing court to dismiss an appeal which appears on its face to lack merit, will prevent further appeals in these cases and that the famous murder trio will be finally sentenc ed at the next term of court in Lexington. There are now ten men at the penitentiary sen .enced to die. Three are scheduled to die on Friday of this week, but the chances are none of them will, or hardly more than one. These three are Cliff Hawkins, of Greenville, who will likely have a respite, in order that the circuit judge may pass on a question raised in connection with a motion for a new trial; Abra ham Williams, aged Orangeburg negro, who has* been reprieved several times, and who may get another reprieve; and William Hood, Greenville negro, convicted of murder. He may die, as per schedule. In the death house are Abraham Williams, the "murder trio," Ed. Culbreth, of Saluda, who murdered a deputy sheriff, and whose case is on appeal, and Edmund D. Big ham, of Florence, charged with killing five members of his imme diate family. In other parts of the penitentiary, with no . room for them in the death house proper, are W:ill Thompson, of Greenville, convicted . of murder, but having appealed his case; Otto Sullivan, ?Greenville negro, sentenced to die on April 21; William -Hood, also of Greenville, and sentenced to die Friday of this week; and Cliff Hawkins, of Greenville. HOGS FOR THE DAIRYMAN -:?? " Dairy By-Products Make Prof it?fole Hog Feed ' Clemson College, April..5.?Hogs can make or break the dairyman who is selling sour cream.. If he feeds his skim milk tc his hogs, his cream check will be clear profit. If he dues not his cream will be produced at a loss, thinks D. T. :rerrman, Extension animal hus bandman, who says that the dairy man who is not raising hogs, is working at a decided disadvantage and the man Who-is raising hogs and is not using all the skim milk he can get for his pigs, is overlook ing a good bet. A leading dairy paper asked its readers: "Do yqo consider that a hog herd is absolutely essential on a dairy farm to realize the most profit from the by-products of the dairy farm?" Of the answers re ceived S0.42 percent said "Yes." Buttermilk is equal to skim milk in feeding value if no water has been added. Both should be pas teurized if secured from a cream ery, in order to prevent the spread of disease, especially tuberculosis, to which hogs are very susceptible. Both skim milk and buttermilk fed alone are too watery and too rich in protein to produce economi cal gains. Just enough should be used to balance the ration. Up to that point, the more used the more rapid the gains. The best propor tions are: Just after weaning. 4 pounds of milk to 1 pound of corn: pigs weighing 50 to 100 pounds, 3 pounds of milk to 1 pound of corn; pigs, weighing LOO to 150 pounds 2 to 2% pounds of milk to 3 pound of corn; pigs weighing 150 to 200 pounds or over, 1 to l> pounds of milk to 1 pound of corn. Pigs on goo<l pasture or forage crops will need less milk to balance the ration. Skim milk and buttermilk carry a high percent of mineral matter, especially calcium and ? phosphor us- The beneficial effect oi these materials on growing pigs in k<-cp ing them thrifty and building big ger frames is hard to measure. However; men who have i;s?-<i them and know their value for bone and muscle building, realize that their Value is even higher than stau-d. especially for young pigs and brood sows. ? ? ? Will Hays says that tin- slogan of today is '"Let's go." and it can't be denied 'hat he went.-: Washing ton Post. Putme Students of costume mav connect tie- short skirts with the great strides thai women have neon taking.? Boston Herald. An optimistic congressman says the bonus will be paid in October, but doesn't say what October. TAMPERING WITH JURY, CHARGED! _ I j Entire Panel Dismissed and Probe to Be Started j Los Angeles, AprD -?.?The en i tire jury panel in the case of Ar thur C. Burch, charged with mur dering J. Bolton Kennedy, was dis I charged today by Judge Reeve. Burch's trial was continued until j next Monday. Judge Reeve will I commence on Wednesday a hearing [Of charges made by the defense! 'that the panel had been tampered! with. The defense charges followed [statement of venire members while j being examined as to their qualifi i cations as jurors that persons had j sought information as to their opin ion concerning the Burch ease and i matters connected wtih it. Mr. Woolwine said that it had j been the practice for years prior to his taking office for the dis Itrict attorney to investigate pros ? pective jurors as to their qualifi cations and integrity, j "The investigation is legal and is made to protect the people from ' thieves and murders." he said. "We j want a public hearing of this en tire matter, and if it is determined that any person, whether connected with the district attorney's office or not has violated the law. he should be punished for contempt." Mr. Woolwine admitted that in one instance?that of Miss Zoe Rutherford?some one connected with his office but as yet unknown, to him, had '?overstepped the bounds of proper investigation." While under examination as a juror by the defense, Miss Ruther ford said a man representing him self as from the district attorney's office had called at her home and : requested her to leave the room while he talked with her mother. Paul W. Schenck chief defense counsel said he would continue in terviewing veniremen, their rela ; tives and neighbors. "The charge of tampering with a jury is of even more importance than the Burch," he said. MANNING TALKS OF TEXAS TRIP Cooperative Marketing of Cot ton Gets Results Columbia. April 5.?R. T. Man ning has r.'tu: ned from a bueiness trip to Dallas, Fort Worth, New Orleans and other points in the southwest and brings heartening , reports as to the efficiency of the Co-operative Cotton Marketing as sociation. "Individual selling of cotton is' too hazardous and expensive a j.practice to be longer engaged in by the grower," Mr. Manning said yesterday. I "I attended a meeting of the Texas Cotton association at Fort Worth and there were exporters, cotton merchants, business men from New York and Boston and government men from Washing ton: all of whom were interested in cotton. "I found on investigation that practically all of the cotton grow ers of the rich delta country are in the cotton cooperative market ing association and that the asso ciation has proven profitable to growers. The members have em ployed high class men to manage the association and. to make the sales and when export men and cotton merchants go to the cooper ative marketing association to buy cotton, the price is fixed by the association. Experience has shown that the growers get two or three or four cents more per pound than they would get if they had sold in the open market. "It was also said by growers and merchants that a higher price j was also procured for short cot- j ton sold by the cooperative asso- ' ciation. though in a somewhat les- j sei* degree because of the fact that a smaller per cent, of the short j cotton was sold through the as sociation as compared with the long delta cotton. "I asked export men and buy ers how it was that they gave more for. cotton through the co operative marketing associaiton. They replied that they gave more because of several facts. They said they would receive orders to buy a certain quantity of a certain grade of cotton. If they bought in the open market they would have to purchase a considerable quantity and pick from it the grade wanted; this would necessi tate assembling expenses and other costs. When bought through the marketing association, they said the cotton'had already been pool ed and the grade desired could be bought without delay or ex pense of assembling. In this way, they were able to pay a higher [price for cotton sold through the' I association they said." J Mr. Manning bolds that the co operative marketing plan is the j hope of the growers of cotton. --*?m j High School Debating League, _ ! Columbia. April 4.?Forty high] schools of the state have entered the state debating league, in which teams will debate in Columbia the last of this month. 'Pax reform will be the subject. The schools entered are Anderson, Cedar j Springs, Chester. Clover, Easley, ! Gaffney, Gr^enxille, Greer, Honea Path; Jnman, Kock Hill. Seneca, , Six Mile, Sp?rtanburg, Walhalla, I Woodruff; Amiod:, Bennettsville, [Camdeh, Chora w. Clio, "Columba, Con way, FTorruee, CJreeleyville. Hartsviile. Kingstree, Lynchburg, McColT; PinCwood, Timmonsville, Branchv?le, Krun*on, Edgefield, Ehrhardt, Langloy, Ridge Spring,! Shminerville, Wagener and Walter ! h?rp. j They're called peace dollars, but j it requires the usual hard fight to get possession of one.?Tacoma .Ledger. "Barbarism Vies*1 >. The tendency In spring underga garment. The tren? toward bizarre the new styles the two are comproc ioned in trim-taUored garments. MAY PUT SHIPS IN USE Former German Vessels Mayi Be Reconditioned ? ? ? ? Washington. April 5?W. F-! Oibbs, of Gibbs Bros., in charge j of reconditioning the liner Levia-j than, has been asked by the Ship-j ping Board to prepare specifica tions for the reconditioning of the Agammemnno, formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the Mount Ver non, formerly the Kron Princess Ce cille, Chairman Lasker announced today. If the cost of reconditioning is not prohibitive, he axfded, the ships! I may be reconditioned and placed in j the North Atlantic passenger serv ice with the Leviathan. The Leviathan, the contract for Whose reconditioning was given the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, will leave its berth in New York at 5 o'clock next Sunday morning weather per- j mitting. The navy has been con- j suited by the Shipping Board and j has declared itself satisfied withj , arrangements for the ship's safety? in making the trip to Newport News. PLEAS OF* NOT GUILTY Entered by Directors in Bucket Shop Cases New York, April 3?Six directors of the American Cotton Exchange who were indicted last week for j alleged bucketing practices, today, entered pleas of not guilty before Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions. They were: George W. Pratt, sec- j retary-treasurer of the Exchange;} Randolph Rose, vice-president; An-} gelo T. Jennings, Raymond Paimer j and Edward Patten and Martin j Goulko. Judge Rosalsky granted a request of counsel for the accused that they be given two weeks in which tu withdraw their pleas if they so de sired. The Cofton Exchange itself, al though indicted as a corporation, did not plead today. Counsel for the Exchange indicated to the court that a written plea would he. en tered, probably tomorrow. Summer School For Teachers j Columbia, April 4.?Announce-! ment is made l>y the University of} the dates for the 1022 Slimmer j School for High School Teachers, j which starts June 22 and continues} through July 2S. The courses this year will include athletics, agri-? culture, biology, chemistry, citi zenship, English, educational tests j and measurements, high school; methods, high school administra tion, high school problems, history, Latin, library methods, modern languages, mathematics, physics, school law and zoology. The teachers attending the sum mer school will live in the univer sity dormitories, the lady teachers j in the girl's dormitory and the men in one of the main dormitories. The courses of study are arranged in accordance with the require ments of the state board of educa- j tion. Prof. J. ;V. Stoddard is in charge of the summer school. The happy medium in industrial j adjustment is one that can make the ghost walk.?Rochester Times Union. ? ? ? Congressional free s'"-ds seem t<? . . . . ! be raising cam. Lenin may not be as red as hej was, but he is still far from being! the pink of perfection.?Norfolk; Virginian -Pilot. ! Most <>! iiie raw je.i<?.;; are over Jone. j ? ? Our observation is that when :i ; Hip young girl gets flipper, she be comes a flapper,?Dallas News. With Daintiness rment styles is toward the tailored effects vies with it. So in many of iised. Cloth of odd pattern is fash ARMY AVIATORS KILLED IN TEXAS Major Simons Who Lost Life Was Charleston Man Houston. Texas. April 3.?A mimic battle above the- clouds, staged by flyers from Ellington field, resulted in the death of two army aviators today when two pur suit planes collided in midair, both falling to the ground, one in flames. The aviators killed in the crash were Maj. John \V. Simons. Jr., of Charleston, S. C, and Lieut. Gerald H. Fitzpatrick, of Sacramento,, Cal. At the time of the accident about 15 planes were in the air. The pursuit planes piloted by "Major Simons and Lieutenant Fitzpatrick were supposed to be protecting a bombing plane, when a fourth plane simulated an attack on the bombing plane. Aviators who witnessed the man euvers were able to give a graphic account. Rushing to the protection of the attacked plane. Major Sim ons made a sudden turn, which threw him against the wind. This checked the speed of his plane, causing it to get in the way of Lieutt nant Fitzpatrick, who was attempting to pass him from be hind. The sudden checking of speed of the first plane, caused the wing of the second to collide with the rudder of the first plane. . The colliding planes spiralled to the ground, landing within 25 feet j of eac bother. Both officers were dead when rescuers arrived. The plane piloted by Major Simons caught fire and was destroyed. The plane piloted by Lieutenant Fitz patrick was shattered but did not burn. Major Simons formerly was on duly with the chief of the air ser vice in Washington but was under going pursuit training at Elling ton field. He was unmarried and a native of Charleston. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry in 1908 and held tem porary rank of major during tin world war. He was transferrd to the air service last August and given the permanent rank of major. He had beer on duty at Ellington field since January. Lieutenant Fitzpatrick is surviv ed by a widow. He was commis sioned December l:?21. after taking a course of training at Rockwell field, at San Diego,.Cat He was assigned to Ellington field in January for advanced training in pursuit worlc. His home was in Sacramento. Cal. ? ? ? Sunday School Conference York, April 3.?one of the most important conferences of the South Carolina Sunday School Associa tion's convention which is to be held in Columbia, June 20. 2J and will be a county officer's con ference for state, county and dis trict Sunday School Association of ficer:--, according to Leon C. Palm er general superintendent for tin South Carolina Sunday School As sociation. The program committee for approaching state convention is now working on rhe programme for this conference, according to Mr. Palmer, and at the conference various phases i'i* -Sunday Sehool Association work with practical plans and methods for promoting it will be discussed. "In my judgment," Mr. Palmer went ?>n r<? say, "?>n<- of the weak est points ia the work of the local county and district association is the Ia<k <?!' publicity werk. Few of our local Sunday School Asso ciation workers appreciate the im portance and necessity of publicitj and fewer still know how to |>i l*are articles in suitable form." "At this conference the pro gramme committee \ ;1I endeavoi to have an experienced newspaper man spoa.k <ei subject. "How i" < !et and Writ.*: Sunday School Dope That the Editors Want i<> Print." SHIPPING BOARD SALARIES CUT Congress Refuses to Pav $35, 000 a Year Each to Four ? Shipping Board Officials _ Washington, April 3.?The house! put its foot down firmly on a pro posal today to pay salaries of $35,-' 000 to four shipping board officials, ' refusing by a unanimous vote to I :approve the conference report on] 1 in- independent offices appropria tion bill which would have author-! ized payment during the coming fiscal year of salaries of between [ $11,000 and $25,000 to six employ ees in addition to the four who j : could receive $.15,000. After a round of criticism of the I compromise limitation the confer ence report was recommitted to the house managers with instructions [to insist on a provision that no sal aries in excess of $25,000 be au ! hortzed. Expressing the hope that con gress would tell the shipping board it would have to get along without four $35,000 "beauties" Represen tative Walsh (Republican) of Massachusetts declared that while the board had a "serious tangle to unravel" it had no problems to cope with greater than those han . died by the cabinet, i "Vet you propose to pay salar ies practically three times that of icabinet officials," he asserted, ad I dressing Representative Good (Re i publican) of Indiana, in charge of j the eonference report. Representative Mann (Republi can) of Illinois said the compro mise would give to four men a [higher combined salary than that of all cabinet members. Congress, in his opinion, is not justified in paying $35,000 to any one in the government service short of the president. Representative Harrison (Demo crat) of Virginia told the house he had refused as a conferee to sign j the conference report because of j his objection to* the agreement as : to salaries. Representative Byrns of Tennessee, ranking Democrat on the appropriations committee, [also criticized the salaries compro i mise. j -? ? ? I United States Public Health Service Negro Health Week ! The keynote of National Negro [ Health Week, April 2 to X, will this (year be that the negro death rate, I as shown by the Census returns, is j not only not increasing but is ; steadily decreasing and, moreover, j is no higher today than that of ; New Tori: and Boston was forty j years ago and is only about two | thirds as hi'rh as that of Trieste, Petrograd, Montreal. Venice, and other cities at that time. From this it will be argued that American negroes are not necessar i ily short-lived or especially liable [to disease and that their death rate Iis high because of their compara tive poverty. Everywhere the col jored people will be told to look af ! ter their health, that,they are not . doomed by nature to an early [grave, but that by care they can .' avoid many of the ills that lie in 'wait for them and policy holders (in one of the great New York insur ance companies has been reduced per cent. J Incidentally the employer's at tention will be directed to the fact ' j thai it is estimated that in the .! states that have a large negro '! population 450,000 of them are '' sick all the time and that 225,000 j thousand die annually: that about '{half these deaths would be pre ' vented by better hygienic condi j tions: and that such a saving would do away with much of the annoy ' ance and industrial loss that now } results from absenteeism due to ill ; health*. 1 j This year's health week, the j eighth to be held, will be conduct - I ed by Dr. R\ R. Moten, principal of j Tuskegee Institute, under the aus j piees of- the Annual Tuskegee Ne I gro Conference and the Negro Bus ! iness League in cooperation with I the ?. S. Public Health Service and I many other associations, j The week begins on Sunday, j April 2. with health sermons and lectures by qualified persons, who will explain what Health Week is and will urge cooperation with (organized association and will es ' pecially emphasize mother and in stant welfare work to reduce the i high infant mortality, -which is [?about double that of the whites. ; Monday is hygiene day, when i personal and community hygiene j will, be discussed and social hygi ] ene education and venereal disease control measures considered. Tues I day is "swat the fly" (and inci : dentally the mosquito) day; the : spread of disease by insects and the need of screening will be empha sized. Wednesday is children's clay and will be devoted to stories of health crusades, cleaning up school buildings, and commemora-l tion of the birthday of the late Booker Washington. Thursday willi be tuberculosis day. when special attention will be called to the fact! that the disease is not hereditary j and that treatment should be be-j trun early. On Friday, church san itation day, churches will be clean led and toilets i>ui into sanitary con dition. Saturda;. will be general clean-up day. -? ? ?? Throngs attend Tex Riekard's [trial. It's seldom the folk can at rend one of his shows for nothing. Dayton News. -? ? ? And so Europe can't understand j our senate. Well, that appears to| make it unanimous.? Bridgeport The chbrf business of a bucket shop broker these days is going j broke.? Indianapolis Star. They had rather go riding than play golf because in golf you can't drive with one hand. FIRST MOVE IN THE CAMPAIGN Democratic Clubs Called to Meet and Reorganize For Biennial Campaign Columbia, Aprii 4.? H. X. Ed munds; .secretary of the. state Dem ocraiic executive committee, yes terday addressed a letter to all the county chairmen of the Democrat ic party in the t-lau- calling their attention to the fact that the va rious Democratic clubs are to meet oh the fourth Saturday of this month for reorganization and to elect delegates to the county con ventions. The county conventions are to be held on the fust Monday in May throughout the state and the state convention will be held on the third Wednesday in May. Mr. Edmunds' letter sent out to the county chairmen is as follows: "L beg to call your attention to the fact that the time is approach ing for the calling together of the clubs in your county as provided by Rule 5, which rule reads as fol lows: "The clubs shail meet: on the fourth Saturday in April of each election year for the reorgan ization: Provided, That the county committee may name any other day within the same week for such club meeting by giving at least two weeks' notice by advertisement in one or more county papers. In case any existing club shall fail to reorganize on the day fixed, the county committee may fix a day for such club to meet for reorganiza tion by giving two weeks' notice, as provided in this section.' "You will note that except as provided for by giving two weeks' notice by advertisement the clubs must meet on the fourth Saturday in April." When the county conventions meet delegates to the state con vention will he chosen. In addition to making what rules or changing any rules that the state convention may deem ad visable officers of the party in the state are to be chosen. In regard to the county conven tions the rules provide: "Every general election year county con ventions shall be called by the county committees to meet on the first Monday in May at the coun ty seat. The convention shall be composed of delegates elected from the clubs in the county, one delegate for every 2"t members, and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, based upon the I number of votes polled in the first j primary of the preceding election year." As to the state convention the rules provide: "The state conven tion shall be called by the state committee to meet at Columbia j every general election year on the i third Wednesday in May. The convention shall be composed of delegates elected by the county conventions, each county to be en titled to as many delegates as double the number of its members in the general assembly." BIG ROW OVER FEDERAL JOBS Dismissal of Bureau of En graving Executives Stirs Official Washington Washington, April 4.?President Harding's dismissal of 20 bureau of engraving executives was the center of another storm of Democratic protest in congress today despite a White House explanation that the president had not intended by his action to "reflect on the character" of any of the discharged officials. In the senate a congressional in quiry was proposed formally in a resolution by Senator Caraway (Democrat) of Arkansas, who de clared the president's unparelled dismissal order had been "inhuman and inexcusable." Several other Democratic senators joined in the attack while in the house Repre sentative Byrns (Democrat) of Ten nessee assailed the president's act as "nothing short of an outrage." Taking the lead in defense of the administration, Senator New (Re I publican) of Indiana told the son ate there were "ample reasons" for [the dismissal although unfortu nately there were times when the I president could not take the coun | try into his confidence. ! At the White House. Secretary Christian, acting for the president, declared in a letter to one of the dismissed officials that a full ex planation was not yet opportune, although the chief executive re gretted that 'insinuating publicity" was being given the incident. There had been no desire, the sec retary said, to reflect on the char acter of any government employee It also was said by White House officials that Mr. Harding felt, he alone was responsible for the con duct of an efficient administration and that he proposed t<? exercise the presidential appointive power in a manner that accorded with hi* own judgment. There was no pos sibility, it was declared, thai any of the dismissed officials would be re stored to office. M. V. Jervey, representative of the American Fruit Growers, Inc., is in Sumter with temporary head quarters at the Chamber of Com merce. Mr. Jervey while here would like to .^"t hi touch with the various Truck ('.rowers in this sec tion and the surrounding sections who are members and non-mem bers of the Sumter TruckIGrow ers' association. The Ameican Fruit Growers, Inc., have con tracted to handle the entire out put of the Sumter Truck Growers' Association. Mr. Jervey will ex plain to the various growers the packing, grading, and loading of their different products. Any farm er who contemplates the growing of truck, it will be to his advan tage to drop in and see him while here in the city. -? ? ? Most of us are long on straw berry shortcake. A JOB FOR MADDEN'S ? SON-IN-LAW President Harding Selects Assistant Postmaster General . j Washington. April 4.?President [larding will -send, to the senate j soon the nomination of Paul Hen i derson of Chicago, to lie second j postmaster general, it has been ; learned definitefy at 'the White ?! House. .. Henderson is the .son-in | jaw of Chairman Madden of^the j house appropriations committee, to j succeed Edward H. Shaugnessy,, ] who died as the result, of injuries i received in the Knickerbecker the i atre disaster. .-? ? ? Lithuania: Where * Autumn-Tide is Courting Tirne 1 ? ?. . . '?. ? - ! Lithuania, the southernmost of 1 the Baltic countries carved out' of pre-war. Russia, seated herself at ?j the family table of world nations j by accepting jurisdiction of < the j Permanent Court of Intejrnatioae-l ! Justice, but has declined to join a ja conference of Baltic States to ! settle upon a policy at Genoa, j "Though the United States has i not recognized the Lithuanian government, as have most of "the 1 nations of Europe, manyof the. j principk-s of its republican govern* i ment were borrowed from Am*r!? ' ca. A recent incident hi this con j nection was the presentation by j Lithuanians in America of a 11b i erty bell' to the mother country im i commemoration of the fourth anni ; versary of its independence. -The j beil is to be rung on all national ! holidays "and days of important his j torical significance to the coun i try." says a bulletin of the Nati?nal ' Geographic Society issued from its } Washington, D. C, headquarters, j "Over the present country of Lithuania, once the largest state in t Europe extending-from the Black j Sea. to the Baltic, the armies* of j Germany and Russia crossed and j recrossed - during the World War. ! Germans, often raided the country: ! to capture cattle and the Russians I counter-attacked to gain immedi j ate results for the moral effect ; elsewhere. j Is Their. Language the Oldest? "These fair-haired and?hlue-eyed j people, who claim that there are ! more than one million foreign-born I Americans of Lithuanian extrac j tion in our country, speak a langu ; age which is said by some philolo gists to be the oldest living langu age today. It resembles the primitive Sanskrit and is distinctly different from the Slavonic family, the Teutonic and the Latin. ' The conquering nations who ruled the j territory from time to time have ?attempted to stam, out the na ,itive tongue by requiring the chil dren to use-textbooks and prayer books written in the Cyrillic aiphe bet, but they. have never' been* en tirely successful. "The ancient capital of this ,jarea, which now is slightly in ex cess of the combined areas oZ ^&r j Hampshire, Vermont, Massa chusetts and (Rhode Island, was Vilna, whose narrow and winding streets, stony pavements and horse cars give it a quaint and almost j medieval atmosphere. Though the j seat of government now is Kovao many of" the great events in Lithu anian history center around Vilna, An Epic in Two Sentences , j "Vilna was founded at the junc ? tion of the Vilna and Vilayka riv ers by Gcdimin in 1322, and is con nected by railway lines with;Petro* grad and through Warsaw with most of the capitals of Europe. I When Napoleon passed through the jcity i.i IS 12 on his way.to Moscow i the Lithuanian nobles crowded around him, as it was believed he would restore the oid Lithuanian state. Near the city today there stands a stone which tells the. tragic story simply: On one side it bears the words, 'Napoieon Bonaparte passed this way in 1812 wi^h 40? 000 mem' On the other" sire there is engraved these words: *Napol eon Bonaparte passed this way in 1*812 with y,000 men.' "The thVee former Russian pro vinces, Vilna, Kovno, and Suvalki out of which most of the present I state has been formed are not very {prosperous looking country, when compared with that in the neigh j boring German and Polish lands j farther south. Much of 5t is j marshy and covered with forests, j Indeed the forests are so extensive j that they constitute one of the country's greatest \ natural . re-, sources. Agriculture is'.the cliief industry, and a surplus of some [products, such.'as timber, hides, land flax that her neighbors need, j is produced. * j "The swain in Lithuania, despite [the tendencies which balmy spring is supposed to inspire, makes th? : fall of the year his courting season, ! because he must be married in the j winter time. More than-90 per cent of Lithuanian weddings take j place during the cold weather, for i the wedding lasts for a week or j more and time cannot be spared i from the fields and farms when the [planting and harvesting seasons [come. Winter time is the ?me of ! festivities in this little country when .lack Frost turns every lake and marsh into a h' hway." Farm stills seem to be growing popular, judging from the'report of rh<- prohibition enforcement of ficials, and this ought to put a litr jtle pep in the back to the farm ; movement.?Columbus Dispatch. j You've got to cut down on i mashed potatoes if you want to j cut down on your vest.?Detroit . News. I Aral now it is proposed to purify j the Hollywood "movie" colony by' ; transferring it to New York!?jg j Kansas City Times.