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The Watchman and Sod thron _ Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Sumter, S. C. Terms: $2.00 per annum?in advance. - Advertisements: One Square* first insertion __$1.00 Every suDsecfnent insertion .30 Gontracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced" rates! All com mufiif cartons VrKlcli Sub Serve private" mterests will oe chargedr^o* as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re- j spect will be charged for. "The" Sumter " ?Watchman was.' founded In 1:850 " and the True Sournron In r866. "The Watchman and Southron new has the com- j btned circulation and influence of both of the ofd papers, and is man- i jfestly"the best advertising medium | In SuTriter. LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY. There has been much talk lately - of co-operation nationally and in ternationally, and tha* is well, it is a tendency full of hope for the future. But co-operation, like charity, begins at Home?in one's own family, on one's own street, hi one^s own town. Herbert Hoo-/er, thinking along | this line in a recent speech, and; congratulating his audience on the j tte\V American capacity for team j ^ork, added: | "It is not well that the govern- j raent should be constantly calling! upon our people to mobilize for' this or that. It is iufinitely int-1 j?'orfant-' rha: evor.c community! should set up those arrangements j that will secure consideration of! the problems 'cl that community,! and its ad-.-ancomein; for when all j is said arid done, the success of our j government and j.eople has been! nar because cf our government.; cat eceh hi spite of iL ~'I do not think many of us be-! lieve the -government should ex-j tend its? long arm into" business any j farther than is absolutely neces- j sary: "In the main, Economic wounds | 3re HkV wounds in the human body. They cannot be cured by economic patent medicines or por ous piasters. They mUst cure J themselves by healing, ceH by cell, j and.it is the American people who j are the cells that must heal this j wound; not the government." It is a sound view; and fortu nately it is a view that is .steadily j finding acceptance. Little by little, j niteRlgih't people recognize that < ?prosperity and happiness are less! government matters thari com- \ mrrnify"/ matters, less political is sues than local and personal issues, j ^BtSlXESS ADVERTISERS. j A representative of the American \ Xe^wajjaper Publishers' Association," m a- spe^'dfi m Chicago, calls at-' T.entioTV; to-, the surprising increase"! in- newspaper advertising lately. I Nibi?n^ advertising campaigns are j coming to be the usual thing, he j >^5L-~ "Business houses that never j before -used any extensive news- i paper space are doubling; and treb-j ling their -.newspaper apprbprratioirs ; forthtsyear." 'Thiff has come about he explains, j ndt fif?m solicitation or propaganda j but ?''from the necessities of the! present-day business situation." j BtKiness-organizations realize more - than ever before their need of such j puTblierry and the immense field it j opens tot them. : j The speaker mentioned one firm ; that carted, in 1920, to use ?d- j vertising space ih a national way : for t?e"'j?rsi time.... Last year it in-! creased the scope of its campaign, j exte?^ng- it to* seveiaf dozen news- ! papers; in as ~;2ny efties, wifh the i result,- that in the worst year in a I deeader-**-was able to declare a 7 ' per cent dividend. This year the j sam?HKrnr is planning to adver? ! rise Hf^^O cities Another illustra tion is that of a magazine which, j by advertising in the 0ally papers, j ivterezgecl its circulation from 450,- ! 0ff0rt^ly5(ro,0O0. VAII this shows clearly that the i wJtoleUnited States is, for most I commodities, one market, the big- i gesi"and" richest in the world, and that the key to it is the newspaper ; which goes every day into the; h<jrmee of the people who constitute ; that marke*. .. ? * ? PtZZLTXG EUROPE. A banker and the export man ager of a large oil company, re cently returned from a study of European conditions, report that Germany is extremely busy. They found many factories working at night, and-were told that there are hardly 175.000 workmen idle in the whole country. ;"AII Europe is a puzzle", said the banker; nr. J. G. Geddes. "A trip I thromgU. Europe raises more n,ues- , tlons- th?li it answers. It creates c?nfusi?? of impressions. There isr'-so .great a diversity of conditions. You see the Europeans furiously going" somewhere; but none can say whither." This b?sy-rtess of Germany was one of the puzzles. "The Germans hate or?ers c-n their boots which will require them to go into the world's market for materials to a larger degree than they have done. Out of this condition some im provement in international trade may come." Russia -was another matter per plexing eveTrybody's miiid'; Mr. Geddes found the same sit uation obtaining in Europe in re gard to 'the Genoa conference which Sir Philip Gibbs reported s holding in the United States?the men of business were disappoint ed at Americans failure to take part in the conference. They have the feeling that the strong hand of j America, coming in from outside ; the muddle will eventually be re- j quired before matters are put in order. It does not appear to be a desire for more inoney, but rather for assistance in1 organizing j from some disinterested power. ' j > ? r The trouble seems to he that the American people are hot making enough money to support their i government in the style to which it j is accustomed. * * * j Speaking Of the crime wave, a j Toronto constable h*s just made j his first arrest in 40 years ?nd ? New York policeman his' first in i C5 years. ? - ? m ? THREE VICTORIES r' Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer: *'*tVheh Lloyd George won his vote of confidence' there were three great victories. There was a mag nificent personal \ictory' for LlOyd.j George; there was a notable vic tory for Poincare; and there was a significant victory for world peace in the new cementing of the sore ly Shaken Franco-British alliance. Whether or not the" Genoa confer ence achieves all that its propon ents hope for; it win have served a useful p'UTpbse in bringing France and England together and setting them once more' shoulder to shoulder to face the perplexing problems of peace'. It makes ? One wonder just what kind of victory One' might call the decision of the United States not to participate in the" conference. To a good many Americans, chief among-them being those" hard-'7 headed business men who want to see economic peace and prosperity b?sed on sound wdrfd conditions, it looks like ?. victory of senatorial provincialism and timidity over! American courage and common sense. MOVIES ASfB RADIO. ( What of the movies, with radio} corning ih? A critical observer of I .American life says people hayej gotie fo the movies mostly not be- { cause" they cared especially for the 'j shows, but because they were bored at home. Other things being equal, he suggests, they would not take the trooble to leave'home in the, evening. Inertia would keep them j at home. j Well; here comes radio, bringing j entertainment and new interest in- j to every domestic circle that can j command the few dollars needed to buy a radio outfit, or the active brains needed to make one. The ?entle art of broadcasting is j fffowihg faster than any form of j entertainment ever grew before. Radio is sweeping the country. And ?-it keeps peoptt? at home. It is so j revolutionary a thing that,- for a j while at least, it upsets the whole j scattering tendency of recent yp'?TS. | And as the thing improves, this j new domestic " tendency may strengthen. People may actually j come, once more, to prefer staying at home. ? i What will the movies do then? f Combine radio with the films, on j a big scale? Even that lure may I fail. And here is another hew fac- I tor. Private films are growing in favor. People may soon have their movies. They may even have rad io movies, one of these days, j Homes may come back, after all. j ? ? + A "COMMODITY P?XIC In a recent address in \Denver. Secretary of Commerce Hoover | analyzed the business situation I with his usual clarity, and pointed out a fact worth remembering. We have just been through a panic, he said. If we did not recognize it as a panic, it was because it *7as a new kind of panic. Former panics have been finan cial; but as everybody knows, there was no'financial crisis last year or the year before. Money was a little tight, but that was caused in tentionally by the conservative policy of the Federal Reserve Board, not by the usual blind shrinkage of credit and flurry of fear known in former periods of depression. It was what Mr.. Hoover calls "a commodity panic." Prices slump ed 50 p<*r cent in 38 months. It w.is "the Greatest fall with The greatest velocity we have" ever known in our-history;'' It was also c'a period of major depression." Avid it was the first time thar The country ever went through such a period without a financial dis'.urhr.aee equal to the industrial ' and commercial dsi turbanee, or greater* i ? Th*? reason, he points out. is simply the financial structure call ed the Federal Re.cerve Bank. It has proved itself equal to the most drastic demands" or. ir. in war and in reconstruction. In has mobilized the nation's capital resources and made them Available anywhere they are needed, in" whatever quantity they are needed, instead of leaving the country at the mercy of chance and the will of the New York bank ers as i tused to be. MORE BIRDS. MORE FLOWERS "Who says there is no progress? Take birds and flower's, which af ford a pretty good test 6i civiliza tion. Carl T. Robertson, a natur alist, writes: "Two decades ago any little bird was fair prey for a hulking adult with a shotgun of" a hopeful young slaughterer with a flobert or an air rifle. There were bird lovers then, but. they were not or ganized. They deplored the cruel ty, but their deplo'rings had little or no practical value. Now condi tions are different. Almost no one except un-Americanized recent ar rivals and a few young male sav ages makes' a practice of killing song birds or ^'footing game birds out of season.'* . V The Auduboh societies and other organizations "have done it. by preaching the protection of birds because of their beauty and tise fulness. A hew generation is growing up which does not kill for the' sake of killing, and the next will be still better. The case is not quite so good as regards wild flowers, but there is much improvement there, too. There has grown up ? general sen timent for the' preservation of all beautiful things in the woods and fields. For flowers there" are no commercial considerations. They do not eat bugs and worms, as birds do. Nevertheless, so strong is this new attitude, becoming that in al most any pr?gressiye community, people tearing up and bringing home fragile wild flowers are like ly t? be condemned rather than ad mired, and in many section flow ers which a few years ago seemed destined to extinction are now re established again. COURAGE. A story is told in the current Etude, in relation to the good which may be accomplished by community singing, Which seems to have wider application and to dig deeper down into fund amentals of life than even the good cause for whose berefit it was told. "When that terrible plague, the Black Death swept over Europe m the 2 4th century, whole cities were wiped out and thousands of homes became pest-houses. One citizen remained in his Home and gradu ally watched all traffic in the streets cease. It was a city of death; not a soul stirred in any of its avenues. Finally this man de cided he was not going to die like a rat in a hole, especially since it was Christmas Eve. He bravely put on his hat and went into the streets singing a carol. A window opened and one panic-stricken man called to him, then another, until 25 souls marched out of town to the top of a high hill, all singing. "Instead of waiting in their little houses, in despair, for death, they tool; on new spirit, and not one of the group died. The music saved them." The man who says, in extremity, "Well, if I've got to face the worst. I may as well do it with my head up." is the man who puts things over and seldom meets defeat. And in the few cases when defeat or death does get him, his name goes down the centuries, bringing new hope and courage to those who come after. ? ? - Congressman Brinson Dead Newhern. X. C.. April 13.?Rep resentative s. 5L Brison of the Third congressional district, died early today. Mr. Brinson is survived by a daughter. Mary Steel Kbinson. The funeral arrangements have not been completed. He returned to this city a week ago from Koches rer. Minn., where he underwent an operation. He had been ill for several months. Washington, April 13.?Speaker Giilett of the house has appointed a committee f?f fifteen to attend the Brison funeral tomorrow. Tp-dayfs Best Jokes and Stories ? Spihstefhood is simply tho tri ; umoh of mind over curiosity. I We may yet be able to get the I doughboy out of the dump? by ? Christmas. Kventually we may learn to i speak of our country as these Unit ! ed Blocs. ! Those senators who put their faith in reservations ha.v-3 had lit tle Pullman experience. Apparently there is n"> way to cut the pattern of peace without having* a few serans left o:.*e". There is something about the J breath of bootleg patron th?;t re- j minds us of an air of finality. April showers spoil spring hat flowers. At times, when we observe the; direction in which this age is] headed, we wish it wasn't qtrite so j fast. ? ? E< jrope may begm to suspect af- j ter a while that- our habit of changing bur minds about treaties j is indicative of a growing feminine j influence in our national politics, i -B Some men are horn rich, fome j by industry acquire riches, but j some have frequent twins thrust j upon them. ?-? The average man has a vo- ? cabulary of 3f?9 words, most of] which are used0 in combination with j the pronoun "I." At this season of the year it is difficult to distinguish between so-, eial unrest and an acute attack of laziness. ? ? ? A middle-agetl man's contempt for the youngster who thiriks he understands-women is always ting ed with compassion. 1: It is well to remember, how ever, that the only girls who leap from strangers' automobiles are those who climb in. Central may fail at times to get the right number, but she has the world heat in the matter of getting goats. "Mother of fifteen; father of fourteen"?headline. It was puz zling-until we saw that it referred to age, not ? number. Another of life's sad little fail ures is the effort:of a high-brow to keep from laughing at a slap sficT? movie comedy. The chap who smokes a Turkish j cigarette in a holder is doubtless trying to get the smell as far as possible from his nose. After a time the small boy be gins to understand that it is wrong to tell lies unless you are a par ent talking to a small boy. After all, we should be grateful to Russia. Think of the agony she has saved other peoples, who long have dreamed of a similar experi ment. Society seems to be divided into two classes: Those who break part of the laws all the time and those who break all the laws pirt of the time. While talking With the traffic cop at Paxville the other day a man drove by with six bales of boll weevil food on a wagon drawn by one mule. Some mule. Noticed very little cotton being planted in that section and less grass in the street than usual. Bald Headed Men Take Notice. Siberf's cat has again broken in to notoriety. Sometime during the night after the store had been closed it is presumed s-he got into a drawer full of cat-nip and got a cat jag on, thereafter wandering over the tops of the show cases and whereven else fancy led her. During her walk over the cases she knocked off a bottle of hair tonic and the Uri Ager. We. don't know whether this last is a musical in strument, a surgical instrument or some other kind of an instrument. It seems to be a. new idea, a patent of John's.?but however and not withstanding, here is the strange part of our story. When the bottle of hair tonic fell to the floor and broke, some of the liquid spatter ed upon the cats face, and what do you think? When the store was opened in the morning it was found the cat's whiskers had grown so fast during the night they wrere dragging on the ground behind her. and eight inches of them had to )?? clipped off so she could walk without getting them tangled in her feet. Some, tonic. This may sound a little exaggerat ed but if you don't Relieve it Del mar can prove it by showing you the scissors which were used in Clipping the whiskers. A little girl whose hair crackles when she combs it was told by her mother that she had electricity in her hair. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "How up to-date we arc. I have electricity in my hair and grandma has gas on her stomach."?-The Synchron ous Motor. Two Irishmen were working on the roof of a building one day. when one made a mis-step and fell to the ground. The other leaned over and called: "Are ye dead or aloive. Mike'.'" "Oi'm alive.-" said Mike feebly. ".Sure, ye're such a liar Oi don't know whether to believe yes or not " "Well. thin. Oi must be dead." I said Mike. 'Tor ye would never I dare to ?-all nie a liar if Oi was ; aloivc."?Employes' Safety Maga zine. "Ma," said a youngster, "there's a man in the kitchen hugging and kissing the hired girl." When hi? mother starred for the kirehen hr shouted: "April fool! It'? only pa." Pupil: "I don'r think I should get zero on this paper." Teacher: "Well, I don't either, but That's the lowest 1 could give you."?Orange and Black. The local reporter just came in and said "Poulos. you have about got to the end of your rope." IT-* was referring to The cigar which we had been nursing for th<* past hour and a half which was burned down to below The danger lire. | (Laugh here). We are smoking: them short this spring trying to ? economize. (Stop laughing here,1 this is no laughing matter). Cigars ' have come down in price some but' we haven't noticed rhaT the quality! has gone up.?much. There, is no doubt that cigars be a luxury, but' we must have them regardless, and; if the anti-tobacco league or what- ? ever anti it. is trying to drive every j f?rm of tobacco from existence and ' prohibit smoking in the FTtfited Staates ever succeeds in putting! this prohibition bill through ?*! . !*!*!?'!*,i** right then is whei. we. are ready to leave for South Am er- ] ica or Mexico. Oh. what beautiful weather! My j yes. isn't it just line. Did you ever see anything like it? And! such superb mornings?I do so like to ride these beautiful morn-; ings before it gets too warm. Yes j I do. too.- And have you noticed: how the roses are blooming, and; the?yes. while I was out yes terday 1 saw some near the edge! of town?oh. just exquisite, and j such colors, but I always like dah-! lias best. Oh you should have seen the; Easter iiilies I saw this morning.; Da.come out riding with me some time. Yes I have been intending, to call at your home for the | longest time and T said to John only yesterday?You know we will both be delighted?Yes and I want you' to come and see us?My goodness i here it is already 10. and I had a I date with rny dressmaker at it:30. \ Well be 'sure and come and? I must rush right down as I am ; late now and then I've got to go to \ the dentists, goodness gracious, that! or ly leaves me half an hour. 1 have ! an appoinment with him at eleven, i I know I can never make it in time. | Yes I had to have two teeth attend- i ed to last week. If there is .any thing on earth I detest, etc, etc. Well I must hurry for if I don't get that dress fitted, etc., etc, etc.; Dear, be sure and come to see us j soon. Yes 1 will, and yon come to see us. and bring little Annie along, etc., etc.. etc. You know the last time we took That child calling 1 thought I would die laughing, (her is related a long story in full) Yes she is rnisehevi ous but such a dear little thing, when her father came home the other night she met him at the door and there another story in detail) Well I don't mind children as a rule, but I just can't tolerate that (-) child. I've never seen such rudeness since I was horn. The night we called for the card party (here is related another story in detail) Well dear now do try and come to see us. (Time is now ten-thirty.) Yes, yes, and I am going to bring a girl friend who is visiting me, Miss So and So from Charlotte, she's such a sweet girl. I just know yeu'li he crazy about her and by the way I want to tell you about the time I had when I visited her people last summer etc.. etc.. etc. Editor's note. The above is a puzzle. Can you tell whether this conversation was between two men or two women ? Signs of Spring. And soon will echo sweet and clear The warbling of The lark. And in tho balm-y atmosphere Of yonder baseball park The smiling citizens will hear The hot dog's cheerful hark. ?George Phair in Beardslee Talks Immigrants Try to ?* Enter United State* via Argentina. Buenos Aires. March 17.?Poles, Germans, Rumanians and other Europeans unable to enter th-; United States directly from their countries on account Of the Ameri can immigration laws are coming to South American countries against which the law is not di rected with the hope of getting into the l'nited States by this route. The movement has been noted for the past three months at the Unit ed States consulate here where several hundred immigrants from Europe have applied for vise of passports to the l'nited States. They are told that no passport can bo vized until they have resided in Argentina for one year. Ninety percent of the immi grants* say they have families or relative hi the United States whom they wish to join. Some Come with full knowledge that one year's residence in Argentina is required before they are free ro enter the l'nited States but others say they were told by steamship agents that it would be merely necessary for them to trans-ship here to a steamer bound for an American port. The American consulates at Kio de .Janeiro and Montevideo are also reported to be busy with these applications, the majority ?>f which come from Polish Jew.-. Since 4.S00 Americans are going to Russia, they should learn the motto, "Abandon soap all ye who enter here." LISTEN?We are overstocked on screen doors and windows. We: are going to sell them now when you need them at greatly re- j duced prices so a- to reduce our : Stock. Booth & McLeod. ADDITIONAL ARREST MADE! ?-< Negro Placed in Jail on Illicit j Whiskey Distilling Charges John Henry Smith, a negro al- j j leged 10 be of the moonshine clan. ' : has h^en arrested and rdaced in ) the county jail on the charge of j j being connected with the'affair of; ; Tuesday morning, which took place ! . at Briltimor^ [stand of ?*Ri.<r j i Hay" district same, fifteen miles J from Sumter, at which time officers j I forming a raiding party into the: ; illicit whiskey distilling territory [ were lired upon from -ambush l>y | moonshines. The arrest of tin- ne- [ gro was made Wednesday night by j Deputy Sheriff H.<;. McKagen and j Rural Officers Alex Xorris and j Hamilton Boykin. - - - ? ? ? j Portland. Oregon, to Have Roose- j ? velt StaiuC. Portland. Oregon. March 28.? j Admiration for Theodore Roose- j velt as a man and citizen prompted Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, a Portland physician, who knew Roosevelt as a cowboy in North Dakota, to do nate to tiie city of Portland an equestrian statue of the former president. The statue is now being made by a Phinrister Proctor, not ed sculptor, ft is- expected to be finished some time this coming j summer and President Warren O. Harding has been asked to offiei- | ate at the unveiling, if the statue is finished at the time the presi dent makes his proposed western tri]?. When Roosevelt lived at Medora, j Dr. Coe was at Mnhd?n. and they J met as hunters. Dr. Coe had some huntirig dogs that Roosevelt liked j very well: and Roosevelt used to i visit the Mandan region where the hunting was better than around .Medora. In later years Dr. Coe i visited with Roosevelt, in his train, ! while the president was making a I western trip, and relates that when j they reached Medora Roosevelt in-j sisted upon shaking hands with every person in town. The statue is of heroic size, being lo feet high above the base. An architect is to be engaged to de sign the base which will be about 10 feet high. A site for the- statue has been chosen in a centrally lo cated park. Dr. Coe plans to place somewhere in North Dakota the acts from which the s.tatue is made. Mandan, iMinot .and Bismark have asked for it, but the place has not yet been selected. Professionalism in college ath- j letios has almost run its course, j ; the stench having become so rank | ; that the public and the college ?u- ! ; thorities cannot submit to it any ! j longer. Unless the evil is correct- j \ ed. by radical reforms and strict I enforcement ;of regulations to keep j ; athletics in the proper place, the I re-action will he so great that par I ems who send their sons to col ? lege to obtain a broad and liberal I education will give preference to '? the institutions that put a ban on I all forms of inter-collegiate ath- i ! letio contests. The result will be j i that there will be schools (or col | leges) for the training of profes-' ; sional baseball and football players j and other strong and physically j j skilled sportsmen, and other j schools for men who. value the in- j I tellectual above the muscular. { one-eleven cigarettes Three Friendly Gentlemen TURKISH VIRGINIA. BURLEY y^TIFTEEN In a new package that fits tlie pocket? At a price that fits the pocket-boot? The same unmatched blend of Turkish, Virginia and Burley Tobaccos Guaranteed by ? 111 FIFTH AVS. JljRJt VOM! CITY - New Washing I-ess Fertilized Sold This Year Machine Invented? ^C?lu* Aprfl 12? . .' j sales in South Carolina are con siderably off this spring as com-, pared with last spring, according, to the privilege' tax collections, of' State Treasurer Carter. For Janu Anderson, April II.?Mr. I. Ci. Watson, who is the proprietor and manager of a tin shop on South Main street, and who. some six . i ary, February and arch of this year Or seven years ago. patented and put on the local market one of the most economical, as well as one of the most simple canning outfits known to the trade is now manu facturing equally as successful a washing machine. In fact this new; machine being put out bv Mr. Wat- ! purchasing is done in April and" son is really an outgrowth of his 'i wtrl>" -Mav- The ngures from the former invention and may be ' tax collections as received byk iir. the tax collections was $105,815.49 as compared with $120,939.30 for the same, three months in 1921. The fertilizer season is drawing ot' a close, most farmers putting in their supplies during the. first three months. However, a good deal of ouickly converted into a canning Carter show that less fertilizer is outfit itself. It is extremely giro- used this year than last by pie. durable and inexpensive. The machine is compact, neat in j appearance, and has a number of [ advantages over washing machines now commonly in use. It does its work with thoroughness and dis-! patch, washing clothes by alter nately subjecting them to boiling water and steam. With Mr. Wat son's machine the whole opera tion of washing is accomplished with the machine. You do not have to heat water and pour in it as in some machines The clothes receiving drum is rotatably mount the farmers. Other Siamese twins in need of an operation are Ireland.?Wash ington Post. NOTICE The Democratic Clubs of Sumter county are.b'ereby called to meet at their respective places of meeting' on Saturday/ April 22nd, 1922; at such convenient hours as the 'offi cers of the respective clubs may. ed within the container'and" water \ df jfn?^,ejc ept that in the city is introduced into the container jof Sumt5r 'he;club* of ln* .^ld through a spout convenient* ar- ! cil>' of .Sumter shall meet Friday ranged on the side of the ma- [ afternoon^.Apnl 21st, not ^earner chine. Bv means of heat generat-***** 6 ?'c}(K'k P- m- on said day. ed from burning fuel, fired as you! *ha? reorganize by would fire an ordinarv cook stove, (?^S?^ft? j?f officers executive the water is heated to a boiling! committee. ..member of the. county point, and under this boiling action j executive committee and delegates caused to circulate completely ro the rount>' convention which around and through the clo&es, 1meets in the Court Hous^ Sumter. boiling water and steam passing!^. C., .on. Monday the 1st. day of out through the drum containing Ma*' 1922> ? 12 o'clock, noon . thom Fach club is entitled to one dele The machine has been patented^ TO the convention for every and quite a number of them man- Nf^fij?:*}*? memtjers, or ma ufactured already. Mr. Watson !'5?rrt>'' I?art .^eof' based up?n. plans, in the near future, to man- jth? vote 0,UKclub at the *Kf& urfacture it on a large scale; in fact, will be forced to do so. for without any effort on his part to secure them he is almost swamp- i ed with orders for the machine I clubs may be,, had. ^ oSTEEN _? ? ? ! Secretary County Democratic Ex* The mist that hides the sun-1 "cutiv*; Committee, shine of prosperity is the pessimist. ! Sumter, S. C., April 8th, 1922. j mary. j The club officers are requested to 1 give this ..notice all possible pub fliciry that a full meeting of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative Association VICTORY WEEK The organization committee asks every Sumter County member to sign the following pledge of service, clip it out and send it in to campaign headquarters. PLEDGE OF SERVICE. "Believing in the importance of cooperative marketing, not only to the farmers themselves, but also to all lines of business, 1 pledge myself to devote as much of my time as possible from now until May 1st. to getting signatures to the marketing con tract of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association. "I will make an especial effort to he on the streets of Sumter <>r_.-. (here insert, name of other town if you wish) on Saturday, April l.'th. and there co operating with others who have signed this pledge see that every cotton grower, white or colored, understands the plan and has an opportunity to join. "1 ..ill wear my membership pin until .May 1st. Signed_. Address._. Cut Out. Sign. Forward to Chamber of Commerce. Business men who are not eligible to niembership, but who endorse the asso ciation and wish to assist in its organization are requested to sign the above pledge, striking out the last paragraph. Sumter County has her quota, but the more cotton the association controls the more effective can it control the price. ^he more cotton Signed up in Sumter County, the more voice will Sumter Counrv have in the management of the association. C?OPETIVE MARKETING IS THE ONLY METHOD YET DEVISED WHEREBY THE FARMER HAS A VOICE IN SETTING THE PRICE OF HIS PRODUCT. DO YOU WANT YOUR P RICE OR ARE YOU WILLING TO CON TINUE DELIVERING YOUR COTTON (NOT SELLING IT) AT THE OTHER MAN'S PRICE. BROTHER MEMBER: SHOW YOUR COLORS. WEAR YOUR MEM BERSHIP PIN. IF YOU HAVE TWO COATS, GET TWO PINS. IF THE CHIL DREN TAKE ONE, GET ANOTHER. Of them from Chamber of Commerce. Let the world know where you stand. This space contributed by the following banks who heartily endorse the association. Ask them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, THE SUMTER TRUST CO. NATIONAL BANK OF S. C. CITY NATIONAL BANK,