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WOMEN CALL FOR WILSON Thousands Appear in Front of His Homej ?Much "Cheering; Heard Washington, April 2S,?Several thousand women, including nu-j merous delegates to the Baltimore; convention of the National League j of Women Voters and to the c&n- j %*ention here- of. ? League of A*mer-> ioan Pen-Women, cheered former i President Wilson in a demonstra- | tion before his .home here late to- \ day. "*The cheering brought Mr.; . Wilson to the ,door and upon re- j quests for a speech he declared that j while, he appreciated the compli-; ment very much he felt he was j . "not strong enough to make a j speech." Mr. Wilson called back by the! cheer.* again thanked the women ! and added: "T will repeat for you one of my favorite limericks which runs as follows: ?* 'For beauty. I am no star, " 'My face ^on't mind it, ** *Because I "am behind.-it.' " The rest of the verse was lost in i a burst of laughter and cheering I that was heard for blocks. The former president made his' first appearance resting heavily on j a cane and assisted by a negro ! luitler. He .was atthed in a black! frock coat and to^ hat a~.d smil- j ingiy greeted his visitors. Doffing] his hat and hanging Iiis cane in the! pocket' of his coat he bowed and; then s&id: "Thank you very much for the i compliment. - I appreciate it very much. 1 am sorry I am not strong enough to- mal^.a speech." Mr. Wilson ,then retired to the \ house and when -the " cheering! throng kept up ihe tumult, calling J first for Mr. Wilson and then Mrs.! Wirson. the former ? president and j h:s wife ap^ared at^ an' upper < window and smilingly waved to the | crowd below. It was then that Mr. * Wilson repeated-his favorite Jim-j erick. For several minutes he and | Mrs. Wilson remained at the win- | dow while the women visitors sang: ??ngs ar.<i applauded intermittent!:, until the window was closed. . The delegation was to have j been headed by Lady Astor but she j did not appear in the . throng. She > had another engagement for the j aune hcur. < bine with pershing; ? ?- * _ . ... .1 Lord an?f Ba?y- -Astor Guests { of'General Washington. ^ April 23.?Lady | vXancy Astor. ok Virginia and the] British house ^commons, was oc-1 cupied today wi.h a strictly social] program, After attending service) in. jChristian Science church in the morning, Lord and I^ady Astor lunched with General Pershing. Their other engagements included a.visit to Mount Vernon with Sec retary Hoover'?nd a party of amends.- They will go to Phila ileiphia tomorrow where they will address the Women's: Trade Union League in the_ afternoon. 122 Years OW Negro. - Buenos Aires, April 1.?Antonio; Rosas, a negro who is reputed to have been born'232 years ago in thej African Congo, is still earning a I living in Buenos Aires as a medi- ! cine man and ticket seller. He was ] not too old to put up a fight when I three men held him up and robbed him a few* days--ago-but told a re porter he would Jiave made a bet ter ^showing- if he had not "taken a drop too much." Antonio does! not yet believe in prohibition. Antonio claims to have been cap- I tured in the Congo when a child ; by French slave traders. The French ship on which he and oth- j er negroes were placed was pur- j sued and captured by ah* English j vessel and taken to Madeira. He \ was brought to Argentina ai the. age of eight. He saw the birth of the Argentine ! nation in 2 $10'and slavery abolish-I ed in 1S13. In later years he j adopted the surname of Rosas af- | ter the famous Argentine tyrant, Rosas, of whom he was an admirer, j He is one of the few negroes living j in Buenos Aires. ? ? ? Another American Decorated. ! Leesburg, Va., April 20.?The j French government has conferred j upon an American, . E. B. Whit? of Leesburg. the order of Officer du Merite Agricele. a decoration in recognition of signal service to.ag riculture, but in this instance awarded ?or "service rendered in the improvement yf horses." Mr. White began to breed horses twenty years ago after returning t>n the advice of physicians to his native home in Virginia from St. Louis, -vhere he had been active on the grain exchange. The phy sicians had given up hope for his recovery', bur the outdoor work in cident to his interest in horse breeding aided in his recovery. The particular animal which led to the award of the decoration is the stallion Laet,'- bred by Mr. White and exhibited in Chicago at | the last International *Li\v Stock ! show. Laet was declared grand j eimmpion Pert?her?n stallion and j one of hit' rtons reserve grand! champion, giving Mr. White a rec ord said to be unprecedented in the history of the show. Mr. White is' a, member <>f the advisory board of the Horse Association of America, j .-? ? ?-/ The thermometer dropped to 33 degrees?only three above freezing | at 7 o'clock Saturday mornixig. PREACHER ROUGEY TREATED Oklahoma Pastor Kid napped, Hit on Head, Drugged and Left in Ditch. Investiga tion On to Find the Guilty Parties Lawton, Okla.. May I.?Plans for the trial May 9th of Rev. Thomas Irwin, pastor of the First Presby terian church, proceeded today in the absence of action to determine who kidnapped the preacherSatur day night, hit him in the" head, chloroformed him and threw his body in a ditch. He was found la ter by motorists. Both factions of the congregation, who split over a year ago when the pastor preach ed the funeral sermon of Jake Ha mon, slain by Clara Smith Hamon. are discussing the incident today. MAY ASK FOR RELEASES Of Men Held in Connection With Logan County Trouble Charleston, W. Va., April 30.? Release from the county jail, undor bond of eight men, the only de- j fendants siill in confinement of j more than 100 v. hose cases were j transferred .from Logan county for j trial, was a possibl ;ty today as a j result of the latest move of de- j fense counsel. Application for bonds | for these men y.as expected to he j made when circuit court recori- j venes tomorrow v. th the an ou-1 . of bail the principal question; for consideration. The eight fire I among those cliarg<a with murder; alleged to have be?-u com im tied in the course of attacks on forces along the border of Logan county ! last August and some of them had j been held in Logan jail for about j six months before being brought j here, a week ago. - o o ? FISHERMEN ! INSAVANAH " i . i i Rescued From Small Boat Be longing in Charleston Savannah, April 30?The coast guard cutter Seminoie arrived here today, with William Johnson'. Israel j Pringle and Frank Smith, of Char leston, w;h6 Were rescued from a small motor boat at sea Saturua}'. The three men left Charleston Fri day for a day's fishing. When the j wind'.began to blow they made; for I port,, but just as they entered thej channel the engine stopped. They I drifted, seaward and after twenty-! four ' hOuvs were* sighted by the j geminple. The. motor ;boj*t collap- j sed and sank a short while after j j the men were rescued. -' ** 9 ? : ?' y ? ' * ^Bishopville News Notes. ' 2 ' - ? Bishopville, . April 29. ? The! j court of common pleas was held ! here last week in which a large j number of cases were disposed of, j most of which were settled by the j difierent parties, or postponed un- j til another court. The pastor of the Presbyterian i church was installed last Sunday. I We had a fire last Sunday morn- i lng which destroyed two small j ! stores on Church street. They were ; insured by the owner and the loss j won't be very heavy, j . Mr. Geo. Reid, one of our oldest j ; veterans, is still quite sick, but we j j pray for his recovery. Mrs. Abbie Shaw was found in < her bath room in an unconscious j state. She received prompt atten-! tion and is now better. Mrs. J. M. Hearon, who has been in bad health for sometime was taken to Johns Hopkins for treat | ment. Mr. Jake Shuford was tak-j I en to the hospital "sometime ago. i He was operated .on for appendi-i citis, but is not doing well. Con- | sidering the weather and the early' appearance of the boll weevil, the! outlook for the farmers is very j gloomy, but lets be hopeful, as the j darkest hour of the night is before ! I day. j Sonic Whiskers. Brighton, Mich., April 29.?The' long whiskered championship of j j the world is claimed by John J.; Tanner, n4. for more than half a century a resident of this village. His beard measures exactly nine I feet from chin to pit. Ordinarily. I Mr. Tanner controls it by thrusting: the end inside the band of his! trousers. j More than fifty years ago, when I Mr. Tanner's beard was only two! or three feet in length, he decided to .seek the championship. To this end he braided his beard and: tucked it inside his vest. The whisk ers soon attained proportions making the braiding impracticable. Ten years a^o Mr. Tanner's beard was six feet long. Five years ago two feet more hud been added and now it measures nine. Tin- owner hopes to attain a growth of twelve feet. Heeds no policeman's call, but thinks h" knows it nli. Turns cor ner fast and skids. Survived by uife and kids-. After learning the spring pas- , senger rates from the south to the | north we don't blame The hints for flying. Perhaps the .^t. Louis man named ! his baby Radio because you can j tear it so far away. -m ? ? Friday isn't considered unlucky j when it comes next to payday. j NOT HOSTILE TOWARD J-RANCE Russian Foreign Min ister Assures Pre mier Barthou There Were No Secret Clauses in Russo German Treaty Genoa, May ,1.?Russian foreign Minister Tchitoherinc has written a letter to Vice Premier Barthou, of France, assuring him there was no secret military or political clause an the Russo-Cerman treaty signed Easter Sunday at Rapallo. He said Russia was not hostile to ward F r a n e e, notwithstanding France's unfriendly attitude to ward Russia. IDENTIFIED BY VICTIM Nurse Tells Officers Negro Was in Group Oulpepper, Va., April 30.?Jim Yaeger. one of five negroes arrest ed by the police on suspicion of having been implicated in the at tack last night upon a Washington nurse in the business section of Culpepper. was positively identi fied today by the victim. The nurse was attacked as she was walking from the railroad sta tion, where she had descended from a late train, to the home of a rela tive within two . blocks of the sta tion. Yaeger, according to the po lice, has figured in their records in the past. Outtiiifc Down Inanity Xcw York. May 1.?The public is said to be becoming saner about insanity. Families used to feel it a terrible stigma if any of their.kin was considered "a little bit off," as the saying went. But thousands of such people now go voluntarily to free dispensaries ' for nervous and mental disorders." Last year 3,85$ persons in New York state made 9,9G0. visits to the 40 such clinics condueted through out the state. Only five or six years ago such a thing was un known, according to officials of the State Charities Aid Association, which is cooperating in the work. This organization, pointing to statistics which show the tubercu losis death rate dropped about 34 per cent from 1907, when the or ganized fight on the white plague began, to 1020, expects to show the same results in its battle against in sanity. The war and the business depres sion that has followed caused a considerable increase in mental disorders, Aid Association officials declared. They have found, how ever, that serious worries and dis eases are not the only waves that shove the mind off rn even keel. Some people become unbalanced by too much recreation, just as others skid from the path of sanity because of overwork and domes tic un hap pin ess. What the association intends to do is popularize information con cerning the causes, treatment and prevention of mental disorders gen erally. It contends that 40 percent of the 40.000 persons in Xew York State who are now under treat ment in asylums and hospitals for feeble minded could have been saved from such a fate if tne prop er preventative measures had been taken in time. It feels that since the asylums of the country have a greater enrollment than the col leges, the people ought to be taught to have themselves examin ed by competent physicians if they feel queer, or if acquaintances so consider them. The most hopeful sign for cut ting down insanity is in the atti tude of parents and teachers to ward children, is the belief of the Aid Association. "If we can help the queer chil dren. we will have fewer queer grownups in the future." .one offi cial said. Often the youngsters who are backward and Queer merely need to have their tonsils or adenoids re moved, the doctors have found. Hut others have complexes, inhibitions, and a neurossis or two fretting their young minds. In this con nection, it was said that some of the doctors at the state hospitals make use of psychoanalysis, while others do not believe in it. Pa tients upon Consultation often are told .what to stop worrying about, and field agents go around to see bow they are getting along. Others are diseove^d tQ.be worse off than ?merely nervous" as they most of ten describe their own condition, and occasionally these have to be sent to an institution. Cultivation of health through proper habits of the mind and the cutting out of bad mental habits is one idea that those working on the problem hope to put into the pub lie's head. Brooding over being snubbed by others, or misfortunes and injuries is the thing the experts want people to stop doing. Work instead of day dreaming, these ex perts say is a pretty good way to prevent getting lop-sided K*1 ..-in the ea rs. Divorce rings -are being worn., and the fad of giving divorce pres ents is next in order, we suppose. Russia wanted to !>orr?;\v enough money to put her out of debt. About the only thing the ama teur can raise in a garden ai a profil is sweat. < If he happens to think of ii Mr. Bryan likojv will tell us that evo lution is downright devilution. MEMORIAL SER VICE FOR WOMEN _ Work <4In Obscurity" Compar ed With That Rendered by Unknown Soldier i Washington, April 30?Memorial. ceremonies lor the women who died , in the World War were held in the' amphitheatre at Arlington national ? cemetery today under the auspices! of the Women's Overseas Service; league. The army and navy were j represented by General Pershing and Rear Admiral Harry McL. Huse ; and the Red Cross by Dr. John Van ! Sch?lk. Jr.. who was commissioner i to Belgium for that society during: the war. Special tribute was paid by Dr. Van-Schaik in his address to Marion Crandall. the first American woman killed in the war, and he drew an analogy between the service ren dered "in obscurity" by her and other women to that of the un known soidier. G. L. SALLEY RESIGNS Clerk of Court of Orangeburg Will Leave Post j Orangeburg, April 30.?O. L. Salley has written Governor Coop er tendering his resignation as clerk of court, to take effect Jan uary 1, 1023. It is not known who will offer for Cue place. J. R. Sal lep. present deputy clerk, and son of the clerk of court, states that he will not be a candidate, but will practice law. Mr. Salley has been clerk of court for many years. Fol lowing is his letter to Governor Cooper resigning the office: "I have served the people of Orangeburg county for thirty years as clerk of court, and my present term does not expire for two yeasr but circumstances are such that I find it adivable for me to relin quish my office." '?Please accept this, then, as my resignation of the. office of clerk of court of Orangeburg county, said resignation to become effective Jan uary i: 1022. "I take this step now in order that the voters of this county may be free to choose my successor in the approaching prfmary." How Do They Exist? Moscow, April 2.?Many of the millions of persons hitherto fed by the government and who are now being thrown upon their own re sources are finding life in Russia complicated by depreciation in the value of the paper ruble, growing constantly more difficult. Only 0,000,000 persons including the Red army and navy are now receiving government rations, says the Moscow Pravda. Last 'Sep tember the 'number was 1 l.r.OO.'OOO. Factory workmen, government employes and others cut oft' the free ration list received, in theory.'pay increases supposed to he adequate to permit them to buy their food on the open markets. The pay fixed today. however. may be worth actually, in purchasing pow er, only half as much next week, or next mouth. Prices for food and other ar ticles in Moscow follow almost ex actly the depreciating value of the ruble as compared to gold or for eign money. If street brokers pay 250,000 rubles to the dollar today and 1.000,000 for the dollar a week or so hence, bread will cost four times as mucn a week hence. A salary of 2,0.00.000 rubles monthly, fixed a. month ago, has little purchasing power today with street car fares fixed at 32,000 1 rubles, newspapers f..000 rubles ?acli and .black bread 5,0,000 rubles a pound. How Russians manage to exist through all these difficulties is a puzzle to the foreigner: yet Mos cow's population does not appear to be greatly underfed. Housewives perhaps tear their hair when they find that varying market prices disrupt their house hold budgets. A chicken, say, that was quoted yesterda;, at 0O0.O00 rubles, may cose 1,060,000 today but many Muscovites manage to get the additional slips o: paper Call ed money and buy the chicken. Just the same. Display Window in Church. Toledo. O.. April 2lh?A church window which is said to have the distinction of being the first one in this country installed exclusively for display to the street has been installed in the First Westminster church of this city. The church has provided ? spe cial lighting system to illuminate the window from within. A few church windows elsewhere are thus illuminated, it is said, but these show from within, whereas this window is seen only from the st reet. The window which shows Christ preaching to the multitude con tains many figures anil will carry its message visually seven nights in the week to passersby. The window is hand painted, whereas the background in most '?hureh windows is worked out with small pieces of stained glass. Khaki For Trench Troops Paris. April 12. ? It will require ten years to clothe all the French troops in khaki despite the efforts of the Higher Council of War to equip all branches <>r the French army with uniforms of that color quickly as possible: The delaj is due to the fact that the Ministry of War has enough horizon blue and .and gray cloth ?tu hand to equip some branches of ili<- service for ten years and those ocks im.s! he used up before khaki can It adopted. Therefore the home troops must continue to wear horizon blue, and the un mounted chasseurs steel gray while Colonial and African troops will at nee receive khaki uniforms. CASES OF MUCH INTEREST Alleged Bank Forgers Will Be Tried This Week Aiken. April 3".?The center of interest in the court of general ses sions for Aiken county, which con venes here Monday with Judge Ifayne F. Rice presiding, arc the cases of Henry P. Dyches, charged with shooting of Calvin Craig, and the trial of Lyles, Westbury and Padgett, the alleged fo'rgers. Dyches shot and killed Calvin Craig. farmer, and a man with many family connections, last De cember. The shooting of Craig. i: is alleged, was the outcome of a long standing dispute over a land boundary between the two men. I Craig. when the shooting occurred, was on a two-horse wagon driving to Graniteville with a load of wood, and Dyches was with his son driving his car through his farm road. At the inquest it was i sworn by Dyches' son, Marion. I that Craig. who was driving ahead j ! of the Dyches car. mumbled some- j ' thing in anger and reached hack ; in the wagon as if for a weapon, as I the'-Dyches automobile horn blew ; for a passage in tl^e roadway, and : at this point the elder Dyches shot I from a d??ble-b?rreled shotgun, : killing Calvin Craig almost instant ! ly. The Craig family has engaged i Cole L, Please to aid Solicitor Ount- '? j er. in the prosecution. Messrs. Wil- i 1 liams. Salley and Smoak, of the ! Aiken bar. will defend Henry ; Dyches. The case of Dyches has j been set for Wednesday. ? ? ? Samson: City of Cigarettes and Cherry Trees Washington. D. C. April 20? j "Much of the tobacco used in the : manufacture of the genuine Turk ish cigarettes >.old in this country I comes from the fertile district of I Asia Minor of which the town of ; Sanvsart is the port, i 'This place of 15.000 inhabi ; tants, where a massacre of Chris I tians is reported, felt the heavy . hand of tho war in the raid on its 1 harbor by the Russian Clack Sea fleet. Jt lies 100-miles, in an air line, west of Trebizond and 300 ; titles due east of Constantinople," I says a bulletin from the Washing I ton. D. C. headquarters of the X:e i tional Geographic Society. Trade Rival of Sinope "Cereals and olives are* also: grown extensively in the neigh-j : borhood, for Samsun lie? in the pro- j duetive delta lands of the Kizil Ir-j j mak and the Yeshil Irmak. In the '? days before the Christian era when ! it was known as Amisus the city ; was an ambitious trade rival of the j now less consequential Sinope. Its j pre,-war prosperity was due chiefly i to the fact that it is an outlet for j the rich Sivas valley, the last named place lying to the south-' least and connected with Samsun by! an excellent road. Kaisarieh, j which is due south, also employs! I Samsun as its water gateway to j Constantinople and Russia, j "Samsun, like, the ancient port i whose fragmentary remains are a j little more than a mile distant on a i pomontory, is handicapped by its \ poor harbor. While discharging their cargoes ships must lie oiT j i shore a distance of a mile in an open roadstead, and at seasons of jihe year, when storms are severe I on the Black Sea, it is frequently' j impossible to take on or let oil* pas ] sengers. Handled Constantinople Trade j ! "Amisus rose to a position of] j great prosperity as a trading post j under the kings of Pontu? and du-j j ring the first century dt the Chris ? tian era it displaced' its neighbor ling port of Sinope as the leading; cntreport of the eastern Euxine. as j it handled much of the trade be tween Constantinople and central I Asia. "When Rome took up arms i against Mithradates VI, Lucullus, ; sur-named Ponticus for his ex 1 ploits in Asia Minor, besieged and j took the three maritime towns of i I Sinope. Amisus. and Heraclea after! j a siege of two years. It was during! i this campaign that Lucullus amas sed the wealth which enabled him j to live in luxury following his re ; tirement to his villa at Tusculum, i near Naples, that Pompey is said j to have dubbed him 'the Roman j Xerxes. A more lasting result ofl jthis conquest was the general's! j introduction of the cherry tree into; j Europe from Asia. Augustus Ca. - j sar conferred upon Amisus the j privileges of a free city. "The Ottoman sultan Mahom-j med I. son of Bayezid who had j been defeated and captured by the) Mongol prince. Tamerlane, at the battle of Angora (1402), captured Samsun and it has remained a1 Turkish possession since that time. An old castle, built m' enormous square blocks at the base, and top ped by smaller ones, is a decaying I monument to the early days of the! city's present masters." Ukraine is Poverty Stricken. Kiev. March 27.?The rich Uk raine, the home of wheat and su-; gar. bandits and hardworking stub-1 born peasants, is at last quiet. ; This vigorous people has been I conquered, temporarily, nut by the: Red Army so much as by hunger.] All the Ukraine wants now is food! and quiet. The Ukraine has had 15 govern ments since October, I y 17. It has I been a battleground for Com-j munists. Nationalists and Czaristsj and Poles, followers of Petlura, the j Ukraine Nationalist, and all man ner ol nun and parties. The tragedv and ruin of Uns-, sin's revolutions is best seen in the] Ukraine. Iis great farms have] !>?m-ii laid low. Its ri<!i lands are! lying fallow und going to waste. Its line railway systems have been shot ro pieces. It's bridges have been blown up. It has been dam-; aged more than any other parr of] Russia. In this former land of plentyi dozens and dozens of (had bodies I are dropped off at each railway! station, dead from hunger or ty phus. slaying in georgia Disappearance of Wife Said to Have Been Cause Sylvania, Ga., April 30.?j. Cavi . Mock shot and killed L. H. Byrd. j 40. here this afternoon and is being held iii jail pending completion of an investigation. Byrd is said to have accused Mock with being im- j plicated in the disappearance of I Mrs. Byrd, who has been missing from her home for several days. Mock surrendered to the sheriff! following the shooting, asserting; that he shot in self defense. F. H. j Waters, an eyewitness, stated that: Mock fired the first shot. republicans in front; Get Post masterships Despite Civil Service List New York, April 30.?Ninety out! of ninety-tw o postmasterships went J to Republicans under the present administration, although the ap-! pointees were not first on the civil j service list, the National Civil Ser vice Reform League, declared in a; statement issued tonight. The league denounced the meth- \ ods of naming fourth-class post- j masters and declares that their in-' vestigation in twenty states proves that politics is the nominating in fluence in postmaster appointments! The report is signed by William j Dudley Foulke as ehariman. * ? * j Suniter Chess Club Meeting. The. Sumter Chess Club, having] just completed a most enthusiastic; and enjoyable season, want to ex-, tend the scope of the club so as to include everyone in Sumter who plays chess or who would care to learn. The club membership has necessarily been limited this winter! as there wereuno club rooms but' only meetings were held at private' houses. It is now the intention to provide club rooms and enlarge i the membership to as many as are! interested. Chess, although public opinion to the contrary, is a game that will appeal to almost any person who! will take time to learn the moves] and is being played by boys of ten; up. /The author that said ' a little J knowledge is a dangerous thing" j certainly knew nothing whatsoever; about chess. A little knowledge of the game of chess will soon.con vince you that it is a game holding the greatest interfest-for you and in addition is a brain builder. -Chess is an international game and very, very old. Chess has been played j from time immemorial. It is it! game that furnishes the sinews of j knowledge, a game that sows the ! seeds of thought, and with .roots1 deep enough would create the most : magnificent tree of knowledge. Everyone is welcome to join in the game. Leave your purses at! home, as it is against the ethics of] chess, unless you are a prof es- ; sional. to play for money. It does not require the greed of gain to make chess, our king of games, in teresting to you. You will not go home, however, without carrying a ! savings deposit of thought. Come dressed for conquest, for j the king and queen will move ma- j jestically across your path. While you may not receive an official in troduetion. yet the triumph of hav- i ing played with royalty will set i your pulses palpitating, as you dis-; cover a move such as you never' dreamed a queen would dare make, j The moves of the knight will j help you unravel the intricacies of your income tax ? strategy lies j closest to the knight. If you will ' watch the knight closely you see: the dawn of a new beginning. Observe the pawns and you will I learn a great lesson of the value ; of trifles, for as Angelo said. "Tri- ' fies make perfection, but perfection is no trifle." We aie convinced that after learning chess you will transfer; your allegiance from whatever game you now pursue and become 1 a devotee of the royal game. Come Tuesday night to the Y. M. C. A. at 8 o'clock and you will not be disappointed. Respectfully. j Sumter Chess Club. F. M. Moise, President. Poland's Foreign Debt. Warsaw. April 1. ? Poland's struggle to refund her foreign debt, amounting to nearly $235, 000,000 at the beginning of this j year, is recounted at length in the first complete budget of the Re public, presented to parliament by Minister of Finance Michalski. Poland's greatest creditor is America, to whom she owes $ir.T. 312.109 or 65 per cent of her 10 tal indebtedness. France comes next with 22 per cent and the re mainder is divided between Eng land. Italy and Holland. Retailing the difficulties under which the Polish State had come j into existence. Minister Michalski pointed out the slow but consistent progress she has made from the beginning in all affairs of govern ment. After sketching the plans for the immediate future intend ed to hasten that progrses, he appealed to the nation for patience und consideration. "it is one of the Polish charac teristics that we should like to build up Poland within one year," he said. "But this is practically impossible and the favorite com parison of Poland with western states which have never lost their independence is indefensible. "Our future is in our hands. I believe that our future govern ments and our future parliaments will place the future of the state on the linn foundations of granite." These are trying days, but some people don't try hard enough. The Kentucky gentelman lues to be a scholar to be a judge of good liquor these days. CHAUTAUQUA WEEK NEWS Annual Educational Enter tainment Opens Saturday Forecast of Program Next Saturday the big Redpath | Chautauqua will open with one of j the finest programs ever presented. Everything possible has been done by the Redpath program builders to j make this year's Chautauqua full j of high class entertainment and '? up-to-the minute lectures. The famous Collegian Male | Quartette, a notable singing, brass and saxophone quartet, will be. the ; opening attraction. The Collegians are n< ?. only singers and instru- ; mentalists, but are also capital en-j tertainers. At night after a popu lar concert by the Collegians. Hon. i Charles H. Brough, well known ed- j ucator and former governor of: Arkansas, will give his popular lec- . ture. ''America's Leadership of the World." lie holds the degree I of doctor of philosophy from Johns1 Hopkins University, being one of the men who have served as gov- I ernors.of an American common-^ wealth to receive this degre.e He held the chair of economics ; and sociology in leading colleges | and universities in Mississippi and j Arkansas, for a period of sixteen j years prior to his election as gov- j ernor. He is well known as a! wliter on state and national prob lems. He is president of the Nat- ! tonal Good Roads Association and Just now is being mentioned as a possible president for Georgia Tech. While a student at Johns Hop- | kins University he studied in the' classes of Ex-President Woodrow Wilson. This resulted in a life j long friendship between the two men. On the second afternoon seme; of the most popular scenes from i favorite light operas will be given : by the Montague Light Opera Co.; The members of this company are experienced singers whose abilities; have been tested by many success- j ful chautauqua towns in every l l*m of the United States. On Monday evening a short concert by; the operxAi?mpany will be follow ed by a lecture by Dr. Hughes W. Hart. Dr. Hart is a member of the national executive committee of the j Roy Scouts. During the war he! was chief of the educational divis- ; ion of the foreign press bureau of the committee on public informa tion. His lecture the "New In dustrial Day" will be one of the: high lights of the. week. On Thursday afternoon Irene' Stolofsky is the foremost woman) fists will give artists' recital. Miss i Stoloisky and accompanying ar violinist of the country and real music lovers will miss a rare treat j if they" do not hear this splendid | concert on the third afternoon. ' In the evening of the third day! a short concert will be followed by j Sidney London in his impersona-j tions of great literary men. With the aid of wigs, grease paints, and j vivid descriptions Mr. London pre seats speaking ; likenesses of the writers in his repertoire, and while j in makeup reads from their best I known masterpieces. The London1 lecture-recital is inspirational andj educational as weii as being most entertaining. On the . fourth day of the ehau-; tauqua comes the popular Cramer-! Kurz trio. This trio has been ex-j ceptionally successful in concert I and has established a most enviable j reputation. Following their concert 1 Miss Evelyn Hansen, formerly con- ? nected with the department of in terior of Washington, 1). C. and; the extension department of Chi-i cago Art Institute will give her lec- ; ture demonstration. "Well dressed on a moderate income." Miss Han-; i'-en will use actual models and her: talk will have a dollars and cents value to every mother and daugh-l ter in Sumter. On the fourth night one of big : features of the chautauqua pro gram will be given. The most en joyable comedy, "Turn to the Right" will be presented by the | New York cast. This play is full of wholesome fun. thrills and ten-: der heart interest, it has had a! long run On Broadway to packed 1 houses. Leiran'ce's Little Symphony Or chestra will be the attraction of the fifth afternoon and will give a program that will prove to be a rare musical treat. This orchesta was organized and coached by Thurlow Leiurance, famous com-! poser of "i:y the Waters of Minne-j tonka." In the evening Judge Marian A. Kavanagh of the supreme court of Chicago and member of national crime commission and authority on law enforcement will deliver hi^ lecture. "Traitors to Justice." "What Am I Going to Do?" "What j line of work am I fitted for'."' "What professions are mos' crowd ed?" are some of the questions that are puzzling the young men and vomen of today. On the sixth afternoon Chester M. Sanford will answer these very questions in lecture and round table entitled, "The Failure of the Misfits." In the evening of the sixth day the sparkling comedy. "Friendly Ene mies" will In- given. On the last afternoon Viena's Hawaiians will give a complete concert. This organization was the first to introduce genuine Ha-' waiian music into this country, and has made several successful tours of tin- United Scales. The evening! Of the last day is Joy Night. Mr. Jess Pugh. a great humorist, fur nishes a happy ending to a week full of good clean entertainment,; interesting and instructive lectures: and splendid concerts. There will also i><- a junior chau tauqua starting on the third day, the nature of which will be an ?nounced later. Arbuekle is out of the movies He hasn't the face to gel back. An ideal stenographer is one who not only looks good but makes eood. THE SUMTER TOBACCO MARKET Secretary of Chamber of Com merce Writes Letter to the State Director of Tobacco Association In order to find out whether the Tobacco Growers' Cooperaiiv?. As sociation intends to work with or against the Sumter .tob^co mar^ ket this summer. Mr. E. L Rear don has written the following let ter to Mr. T. E. Young. State Di rector of the Tobacco Growers' As sociation. Mr. Young's reply will be published. Sumter county is favorable to the tobacco associa-* rion but during the 1922 tobacco selling season both warehouses in Sumter are leased to independent warehouse operators. This condi tion can not be changed unless the lessees agree to sell their leases to the tobacco association. Sumter, April 29th, U?l'2. Mr. T. D. Young. State Director; Tobacco Growers* Cooperative Association. Florence, S. C. Dear Mr. Young: Self preser-> vation is universally recognized as the first law of nature, and this holds good in business as well as in other ways. You know that th? business men of Sumter for the most part, and to a considerable extent, many Sumter county farm ers have invested approximately $140.000.00 in two tobacco ware nouses and a tobacco stemmery. Of course the primary object of these three enterprises is to build up the,, Sumter tobacbo market by furnish ing our farmers with convenient and the best possible marketing facilities. m You know also that Sumter is by'' force of circumstances for the 1!>22 tobacco selling season, an inde pdenent tobacco market, that is our t wo % tobacco warrehouse lessees Messrs. G. O. Watts and W. T. Harnsbc-rger are not affiliated with the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association but will conduct in dependent markets at Sumter in these warehouses. The Tobacco Growers' Coopera tive Association has seen fit to make offers to all warehouse own ers and lessees and warehouse managers to purchase or lease* these warehouses. The Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse Company, of Sumter. of which 1 am a stock holder, director, and secretary, oC~ fered to sell to your asroeiation for cash?that is one-third cash and. the balance payable in cash in two years at eight per cent with bond and mortgage u> secure same. Your association has not accepted our offer. I do not know whether or not the Peoples' Tobacco Warehouse Company, of Samter, has made your association any offer. You1 know that neither of the Sumter warehouse companies could either deliver or lease its warehouse for lfs22 to your association ?niess the> lessees. Messrs. C. O. Watts and W. T. Harnsberger agreed to turn over the warehouses to the owners or to the association. 1 inferred from what I read 'a the newspapers that the Tobacco Grow-*, ers' Cooperative Association will operate their own warehouses eith er by direct purchase .or lease. I understand also that your associa-^ tion will require the members there of?that' is tobacco growers who have signed up with the associa tion, to deliver their tobacco at the warehouses operated by the To bacco Growers' Association, and atS no o.her warehouses. Is this cor rect.' And if it is so am I to un derstand that your association will not permit any of its members to? sell on the Sumter tobacco market or on any other independent to hacco market not affiliated with your association? I am writing th?s letter on my own initiative and no1: by request or authority of any organization, association, or any other organized body, but I feel as one who has worked hard for your association, believing in its princi ples and in its merits, that I have* . the right to know where we are at in this matter before I go any fur ther in cooperating in signing a.n members for your association. Is Sumter's tobacco market to be** boycotted;by your association be cause Messrs. Watts and Harns berger prefer to operate the Sum ter warehouses independent of your association, and because the own ers of the two Sumter warehouses would not sell to your association on your terms and at your prices? 4 1 feel that the public is entitled to this information. We would naturally like to keep the Sumter tobacco markets open and make* Sumter the biggest possible tobac co market?and I want to know what the attitude of your associa tion is towards Sumter and other independent tobacco markets. I do not know of any one in Sumter who is opposed to your association, many of us in Sumter county have helped to organize your"associa tion j But 1 would like to know be-" tore 1 go any further whether your association intends to boycott every tobacco market that has not lined up with your association, and" whether your association intends to require that every tobacco grower in your association who has here tofore sold at Sumter must carry their tobacco to other markets or*-* crated and controlled by your as sociation. 1 will appreciate an early reply because I can not afford to work: against the Sumter tobacco market and would nor do so anyhow under any circumstances. It may be that I am mistaken in inferring that your nssocaition will not buy on the Sumter market or permit any of its member tobacco growers to sell on the Sumte!- or any other independ ent market. Sumter has secured plenty of tobacco buyers represent-*, ir.^ every leading tobacco company f?r the 1922 selling season. Will your association also have buyers on the Sumter tobacco market? I? h pe ;hai \mi will. Yours truly. E. I. Heard on. old-timers predict a mild sum mer with light rainfall. That's fair.