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I CONVICTED Trained Nurse Sen tenced to Twenty Years for Murder of Mrs. Eastlake Montross. Va.. May 4.?Miss Sa rah. E. Knox was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sen tenced to 20 years in *mson by the jury in its verdict returned at S:23 o'cldc kthis evening. Miss Knox. former nurse, has been on trial since last Tuesday for the killing of Mrs. Roger D. Eastlake. -whose husband was acquitted last Decem ber of the murder. Watt T. Mayo, commonwealth at torney of Westmoreland county, concluded the argument for the sstate at~ 6 o'clock. Judge Chin then adjourned court to allow tiie jury to eat dinner before begin ning their se M-?tj discussions. The jury retired at 7 o'clock, returning the verdict in one hour and 23 minutes. The jury stipulated that the ver dict should carry a serttence of 20 years' imprisonment-in the statt penitentiary. The court room was crowded as -3diss Knox was brought from the jail to face the jury. The nurse stood erect as the sentence was an nounced and displayed no emotion. -She turned to her sister, Mrs. W..L. Suiter of . Ocean City. X. J.. however, and said a. few words. Judge Chinn then, formally sen tenced her and said he;thought the >jziry had been "most.lenient" with her: ? Xo steps \yere taken by defense counsel toward tiling, r.i;y appeal, and Judge Chinn adjourned court, while, Miss Knox was taken back to the jail. It . is expected she will be taken to Richmond tomor row to begin serving, sentence. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES Business Concerns Requested to Write Letters to Farm er Customers About Com munity Meeting in Sum ter, Monday, May 15th If a numbcx of Sumter business houses would get out a letter to ? their farmer customers inviting and urging the importance of the farmers and their -wives attending the big conununity meeting in Sum ter next Monday, these business concerns will be advertising their own business and helping out in a practical solution of toe temporary "hard times" problems that must be solved. The business men of Sumter will be doing themselves a big favor if; they will* enthusiastically interest themselves in boosting the big com munity meeting at tWe&Lyric theatre at 3.30* o'clock next Monday after noon. May 1 Zth, and ]by helping to advertise this meeting by telling their farmer friends ami customers about this meeting and the splen did illustrated motion picture lec j tare, by Mr. II. S. Mohley. a prac tical" dairy- farmer and noted lec - turer of the agricultural extension department of the . International Harvester company, of America, ab^ott dairying and; how to make Jt&e*dairy cow. "The Stepmother of Jf^osperity and the. Human Race" ?"-v"ery important factor in diversi fication of agricultural endeavor to heat .the boil weevil to it. Other subjects of importance will be dis cussed and much valuable coope ration information will be furnish ed. The city is interested in the country. Doubtless many business men can not see why they should concern themselves in the efforts fo organize the farmers of Sumter county into dairying, raising of hogs, dairy cows, beef cattle, poul try, and producing of trucks, fruits, eggs. corn, oats, velvet beans, and jn-tne succe?<s of the Sumter Cream ery and the Sumter Cannery com pany, or in the development of the Carolina Farm Products coir.pany. the selling of sweet potatoes and other farm products, or in the success of the cotton and the to bacco cooperative marketing asso ciations and other efforts being put forth to help the farmers to se cure profits on their farm products. But if these disinterested business inen will just stop to think that the alump in trade by virtue of the greatly decreased earning and buying powers of the farmers is inore to blame for the period of l usmess depression than anything else they will doubtless more fully realize that the various movements to join the agricultural and com mercial interests into cooperative activities arc not fads or fancies but in fact the real practical meth ods for eestablishing prosperity. Any business concerns that show the farmers that Sumter's business meh are vitally interested in the farmers' troubles wiil.be making friends among the farmers and at the same time helping to make the Surnter Creamery and the Sumter Canning company successful enter prises. A ^reat deal of this kind et cooperation will be necessary for years. One hundred letters to farmers only cost two dollars and twenty-five cents. AVhy not get in with the country and at the same time help to make dairying more general and trucking more ?>rofit able. The Sumter Chamber of 'Commerce will furnish information for1 firms that will send out invi tations to their farmer customers. ? ? ? Xutshell argument of chronic objectors in congress: "Tour state ment was all wrong. What was it you said?" Prices too low if you're selling; too high if you're buying. A per manent condition. Twa* never OTherwi -e i MUTINY AT ! PENITENTIARY j 15 Prisoners Make Break For Liberty This Afternoon. 11 Shot, Two Probably Fatally ?? Columbia. May 8.?Mutiny of i fifteen prisoners in the State j penitentiary was- suppressed ! this afternoon after eleven mutineers had been wounded by guards, and city police, two being probably fatally shot. Prisoners are said to have at ? tacked a guard as they were returning from dinner. One hundred and fifty pris oners at the State Penitentiary i this altcruooii inintiuexl, and when officers of the prison, re inforced by city, couuty and I state officers, to the number of a half hundred, fired on them, eleven were wounded. Two of ' the wounded men arc serious ly hurt and arc being treat ! cd in a city hospital. The pris oners surged towards the offi ! ccrs, armed with sticks and -mis. and it was at this point that the , firing took place. They threatened to kill the of- ] ficcrs. At the same time the { prisoners set fire to the chair factory in the basement, while others cut the fire hose of the prison, the city fire depart ment was called put, however, ami the flames were ousted. The mutiny took place when officers of the prison ordered prisoners to take certain civil ian garments and other articles objectionable to prison life, to ; the commissary building. Tliey objected, and when their lead ers, tbft_e in number, began to argue whli the officers, the ! others tiled out of the chair. I factory and !i."g\u t\>*r:r at tack. r: -~ SATURDAY, OPENING DAY CHAUTAUQUA Under the big tent at the corner I ?f Calhoun and Church streets. ; large audiences were assembled J ? otn in the afternoon at the 4:30 ; o'clock hour and at the evening I hour of S o'clock, to witness the ; two opening program for this sea | son's run of seven days of the j Redpath Chautauqua circuit. The audience of the afternoon i was most delightfully entertained ! by the varied program rendered by j the Collegian Male Quartette, an all-star organization made up of ! Messrs. Reed Strahan. first tenor: j Earl Vir Den. second tenor: Clar j ence Risser, baritone and Lester j Spring, bass. These men possessed \ most attractive pcrsonaliitcs in ad ! uition to their exceptional musl i cal abilities both as vocalists and i instrumentalists of excellence, and [ highly delighted the entire aud J ience by song, instrumental num bers, monologues and original readings. Their entertainment is trul3' a most noteworthy attraction. Hon. Charles H. Brough, former governor of Arkansas and presi dent of the Good Roads Associa tion of the United States, was the distinguished* speaker of the cven i ing program. His chosen subject ":j was "America's Leadership of the i World." Governor Brough proved \ the master of his subject, having at ; his finger tips ample statistic j covering all points going to prove j the present superiority of our ' country. Praise was given wher? I praise was due and tribute paid to ; men of America and to the world citizens who'have accomplishments j behind them. Gov. Brough is a iwell known writer on state and ' national problems and his lecture ; of Saturday night proved his broad : thinking capacities in problems of : national import. The lecture prov j ed enlightening and inspirational i and highly educational. ? ? "? i Sumter High Base Ball Team Makes j. Brilliant Record By playing stellar ball the local hadi have ? total of/ten victories 'and only on< defeat this season. The playing season has closed and ! the semi-finals looking to State High School championship are be ! ing played off. If Sumter wins from i Lake City this week in Florence ? she will be one of the four rcpre ; sentative teams of the state and ; will enter the finals in Columbia. Th?.? outstanding features of this i year's playing have probably been: Fielding of the entire infield, ably assisted by Henry Shaw in the out ! field: the hitting of Wheeler. Skin ; ner. Felder. Crawford and Wilder: I and last, but not least the iron man pitching of Edwards. Sumter meets Florence here on Thursday at four o'cloc*: in an ex hibition game. Buy a ticket and thereby help the boys out of fi nancial difficult] es. The government seems t?> favor capital punishment. It has cer tainly punished ours. The half of the world.that doesn't know how th?- other h< If flivs will soon iind out ir it tries to cross the street Concensus of view concerning the radical uplifter: He's such an easv man to get along without. Experience has taught parents how to handle a four-year-old? by the time he becomes ??? six-vear oid. Radio orchestras. "The Choh Invisible" is no longer a poetic le gend. Most women like a man and a man iikes most women. A collapsible drinking <-.:tp usu ally proves it at about the third GLOOM PREVAILS AT GENOA - Only Russia's Accept ance of Powers' Memorandum Can Save Conference is Belief } Genoa, May 7.?Gloom prevails [at Genoa, for tins week,, say many I of the statesmen, and it may wit j ness the smash-of the international I conference on what the whole of i Europe has fixed its hopes. Only "Russia's acceptance of the power's memorandum can save the ! conference from disaster, as re j luctantly admitted by many of the i delegates. Complete acceptances is 1 regarded as probable and even if ! the .Soviet delegates surprised j everybody by returning and affirm i ative answer, Belgium and France ! seemed determined to have the I rider added to the property clause ; more rigid in character than in the j clause of the memorandum. I This eourse by Belgium and j France, if persisted in, would make j an agreement with Russia increas i ingly difficult because the Soviet i delegates are expected to cling j tenaciously to their system of na i tionalization. The French delegation has offi j daily disclaimed any responsibility i for the present situation, and M. j Bavthou announced today that un j less the Russians return an un ! equivocal affirmative the negotia j tien-s were ended so far as France ! was concerned. j ' In the meantime the Italian rep j resentatives are desperately trying ! to patch up the differences between ; the Cowers, realizing that the col : lapse of the conference would not j only postpone the reconstruction of j Russia, which i? Imperative for ; Russia and the world.* but. would : defer to an uncertain future the I needed pacification of Europe itself. The next few days, therefore, ; may witness a favorable turn in the ? conference. The disunion among j the Powers apparent today is large j ly the outcome of the Russo-Oer i man treaty, which France fears j may mean a new and dangerous ; military combination. Already the delegates are talking , I openly of a smash. Premier Lloyd George tonight , appeared rathe pessimistic in con : trast to his usual buoyant mood. I Nevertheless, he has not lost hope, j and is holding fast to the conviction j that the -conference can be made a 1 success. ? ? ? ! Pine Needle Baskets Bring Good In come to Club Girl. > How to use spare time profitably j might be. told by a young Mississip I pi club girl, Nonie Talbert. whose j home is some U miles from the town I of Meridian. Besides belonging to ja canning club, a poultry club, and la dairy club all tit the same time, ; Nonie earns money to pay for her \0\ n clothes, books, and high j school tuition, although she leaves i home before G in the morning to : attend school and returns after G : at night. i She is 15. and the eldest of seven {children. Her mother and the oth | er children do farm work, while the . father works in the shops at Meri j dian. Three years ago, about the j time Nonie first went into club i work, she also started going to high ; school in Meridian. She has to go J to and from town with her father j every day. ? The home demonstration agent [suggested that the time Nonie had i to wait before and after school flight be spent in the extension of ; flee in the courthouse. For the pan [three years Nonie has been doing ; this. She studies her lessons first iand then puts her spare time to good use making pine-needle bas kets, an art learned tit the state short course in 131?. During the past nine months Nonie has made and sold ?32 worth of baskets. At the Meridian fair she won first and second prizes on her bsaket ex hibit. At the Jackson Slate fair she won second prize, and at tin art exhibit of the state federated clubs held Ln Jackson, she won second place. All Nome's club activities must be carried on either before <; in the morning or after C at night. This means caring for her garden, doing her canning, caring for her poultry and calf when the average girl of !."> would consider herself entitled to a little recreation. While the? department of agri culture does not want to encour age club members to carry on their work under difficulties similar to those encountered by this Missis sippi girl, it is interesting to note that club work arouses a mini Ion which often enables girls and boys to accomplish what is seem ingly impossible. It in ?-.-is> to make a gentle man of a wife-beater if you begin by removing the grandfather's scalp just below the Adam's ap ple. Some people arc down on prohib ition because it makes it so hard to get a drink. ?-o ?? ? Spring weather revives th* pur and take craze. We put them on 'iiid tak<- them oft every week. Tile pleasure, of receiving u l>?.\ score by radio will be doiibb d i: they haw somebody cuss the um pire b? tueen plays. There are a. lot of toe tis Iba: don't bury t heir d<-;id. Tin . let tlieju hang mound on the street coi tiers. ? Exchange. Some roughnecks are made tii.,( ?y hy environment , a ml some I ??? the way c?.i; trs are laundered. APPEAL I MADE TO RUSSIANS i _ I Gravity of Situation in Europe Reflected by Suppliant Attitude of Allies Toward the Bolsheviks Genoa. May 8.?Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Schanzcr today addressed a strong appeal to the Russian representa tives at the economic conference urging them to aecept the main points of the allied memorandum |and promising Russia an inter | national loan, with the understand ing that the lending countries would thus provide funds for th*e rccon-j struction of Russia. R is declared' that the Russians have asked. twenty-five times for a loan offer. BARTHOU MAKES STATEMENT Genoa. May 7.? If the Russians 'do act give a categorical affirma tive answer to the memorandum that lvt': been submitted to them. France will not go on with the ne gotiations, and if no arrangcnicnt. is made with the Russian?, the non-aggression pact becomes im possible. M. Barthou, head of the French delegation to the economic! conference and vice premier in the j French cabinet; said to the Amer- j j ican and English newspaper corre-j ispondents today. M. Barthour himself suggested j the meeting, which proved of his-. jtoric consequence, because the; French leader emphasized repeat edly that France had sided- with i : Belgium on a question of peace. land not because she wished to line | ! herself up against Great Britain.! j The vital problem was that of pro-! I tcction to the property ' in Russia j of foreigners, and France believ ed that Belgium was nearer the truth in treating this important question. France, M. Barthou declared, dc- j sired only to maintain always her long-time friendship with Eng-, ; land. j "Then let me say what is in my ?mind frankly and openly, and do 'not forgei that my words are cafe-1 'fully chosen, and that I speak as 'the chief representative of the; . French government. We have been here a month. Some newspapers? land I am not referring especially j to American or English?seemed j to doubt the sincerity of France j and seemed also to doubt the seii-! timehts with which we came to Ge noa. Rut we have collaborated in i every possible way. France gave proof of her good will and loyalty and continually made concessions i so tiiat the conference could go i j on. j "At the outset we had semi-of - ! ficial conversations with t ri e j Russians at Mr. Lloyd George's vil la, and my attitude was approved by the French government. Then I came the sensational disclosure of the Russo-German separate treaty. I You know how everybody felt ? about that. "If France, as alleged by some, j possessed secret or sinister inten tions, that was her opportunity to wreck the conference. While we j were sitting unofficially with the I Russian delegations and meeting [ them officially around the tables of 'the commission on Russian affairs, j we were struck in the back. Had i we left the conference then and there, had we wrecked it. I believe 'there are few people in the United States or England who would have ? blamed us. Vet. despite this blow j from behind, we continued loyally ? with the w?>rk. Xothing could have j better shown our good intentions." j Tie- French foreign minister j then traced the events of tin- past ! week and explained how the ques-j ? tion offne pre-war debts was satis factorily settled by the memoran Idum of the powers t<> Russia and hew the problem of. th" war debts also was arranged. Mr. Lloyd George had given his consent, pro vided an agreement were reached ?on the question of private prop erty. "Belgium never liked our creat ' ment of this problem in the mem orandum.*" continued AI. Barthou. "i had it amended so that it con formed nee-;, with the Cannes res olutions. Then I went to Paris and found great excitement there among the public, and our parlia mentary commissions were united in holding htat Belgium's objec tion was justified, because even th" amended text was not categorical enough on the question of foreign property. I was instructed to sup port Belgium's cause, but that docs not mean that we have chosen from among our friends. We have tak en sides merely on the question of principle. There is no suggestion of preference as concerns Eng land or Belgium." That M. EUtrthou seemed be lieve thai the present impasse pos sessed great political importance was evident from the fervor with v hieb he entered upon a eulogy of both England and Belgium for what they had accomplished in th' great war. "We love England and Belgium, but believing that Belgium is near er the truth on i?ie vita; probiet? of private property we have sided v. ith Belgium." he said. Vet we have not sided against England. 'Ibv- m? n roaj be good friends, yet. disagr.n one point that doe* not mean that they can noi follow the sane path logethe.i n<< ::i a . n ? .. : i :'r;?-jutship aii ! i nion." The minist. r i hen ; urried ! -> th< uture. saying: "If j "a asked what is coming. ! nn-t s:-\ I do not know. h is p?,s ible even mi -im! ! ! a; :.*as.-ia !.> efusing to agree i<> the meriioran Uitn will unit" '.;s again. I: i< eeessa-ry for the Russians' repij NEW TARIFF TAXES ARE BURDENSOME Sen. Simmons Criti cises the Republican Tariff in Minority Report to the Sen- ! ate Washington. May 6.?The taxes that would be imposed by the pend ing tnnff h?] would be as real those imposed by the revenue bill I and probably as great, Senator! Simmons declared in the minority report filed in the senate. The report rays, '"they must be paid by .-ill people, just as those in the revenue hill and not by the! beneficiaries who demanded and got them. Si> far as the special in terests arc concerned the taxes im posed are satisfying and "comfort ing. Peopb? view the hill as full of mischief and dangerous possibili ties." COMMUNISTS MAKE THREATS American Legation at Sofia. Bulgaria Heavily Guarded Sofia. Bulgaria. May S.?A threat to blow up the American legation, unless the United States authorities release Sacco and Vanzetti, the communists, now under conviction for murder in Massachusetts, has been received at the legation. The building is heavily spuarded. THE CITADEL COMMENCEMENT Charleston. May ?. ? Arrange ments for the holding of the Cita del commencement exereises h?ve been perfected. The commence ment program for 1$22 will begin on Friday. June 9th, and continue through Tuesday morning. June 13th. The program for the com mencement exercises of l!rJ2 is as follows: Friday afternoon. June 9th, com petitive company drill. Sunday morning. Jttne 11th. baccalaureate sermon at the Gfta I del Siiuarc Baptist church by Rev. . t". C. Colcman. ; Monday afternoon, .Tune J2th, individual drill and finai dress pa rade. I Tmsday morning. June loth, ! conmieneement exercises at Hibcr jnian Hall. The annual address ? will be delivered by Col. Jas. (J. Padgett, class of tS92. member of 'the Board of Visitors and State senator from CoHcton county. The annual meeting of the as sociation of graduates will be held on Monday evening. June 1-th. in 'the Citadel Chapel and will be fol lowed by the annual supper in the i mess hall. The president of the ? association expresses the hope that there will be a large attendance at I litte Alumni Meeting, and that the ?Citadel Clubs will send representa I Jives. : Up to the present time, the larg ; est graduating class of the Citadel was the class of 18S6. which num ! bered 53 members. When in Octo i ber, INN., after having been closed 1 for seventeen years, the Citadel was 'reopened, LS9 young men matricu lated. Of this number, only :bS per cent, remained until graduation. It has been only in the past few years that frtshman class of as many as 1!"'' members luu enter ed The Citadel, and the record of the class of 'SO. the first class after the Civil war. has heretofore not been equalled. At last it appears that ths record wll be broken: as [ the Class of 19-- numbers one more than the class of KS-S?'?. that is. t. This cdass enb red four years I ago with 191 members. Thus it has been reserved for this last ^graduating class of the Old Citadel to beat the record set by the first. MAY UPHOLD OFFICER BLAIR Washington. May 5.?Secretary" Mellon was understood tonight to have decided to uphold the ruling by Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair t" the effect that the con tributions to the Wood row Wilson Foundation are not exempt from t he I ? deral income tax. As wc understand it. France will be glad to reduce her army if the others will reduce the menace. clearly, yes <>r no. The terms pre sented to them are precis.- and clear. If their ply is n??t cate gorical, if it is dilatory, if it means playing for time, then I can merely say that Genoa is a charming city, bat we all hav '?Gier obligations and other duties whn it us else where." One question was put :<> Mr. Bar thou?"'if the Russian reply i-; evas ive, what will Fiance's altitude be on the non-aggression pact?" lb tnsM ered. "If it i.-: evasive. ?'?]! is over. The non-aggression pact can only be taken up in t> event of a prelim inary record >v:111 Itussia. Ger many sigi\cd the treaty of Ver sailles rid Article IU of the cove nant of the League of Nations pro ides that countries shall not ;u aek one another. Russia has not agned rle treaty of Versailles, and i nnu-aggression paei i.^ itnpos ilde unless some arrangement with rtiissia is brought about by the Ge '>a eiinfen nee. Washington, May S.-- The Anier ?an government is standing unal erably for the guarantee rei'iuest d of tin obregon regime nearly year ago. so far President <>bre *on given no definite assurances it order tu make ib.- formal reeog litinn Mexico possible, it otli iall\ announced. OIL TRUST ! GRABS NAVAL OIL RESERVES Secretary of Interior; Fall Leases Oil Fields Set Aside For Use of the Navy to Standard Oil Cy Richard IJnthicuni. i Special Correspondence > j Washington. May 8.?The latent ! administration scandal. growing} out of (hi- leasing of naval oil re-j serves in California and Wyoming. ; to private interests controlled by "?subsidiaries of the Standard Oil I I Company, promises to revive the : former "Conservation bloc" in Con- i gress and reveal perhaps the ex istence of a Standard oil bloc, j These naval oil reserves, original-'-! j ly s.-t aside by ['resident Taft, and j in charge of the Navy Department,, ! A-ere transferred to the Secretary of : the interior. .Mr. Kali, in .May. 1 i?21 I by an executive order by President! j Harding. During the administra-j ! tion of Secretary Daniels of tin* ; [Navy Department many attempts ? .-.ere made by private interests to j obtain these naval reserve oil; lands but in every instance they j were frustrated. Recent wild spec- ? I ulations on the New "fork Stock ' I *? i ? Exchange in the steck of the Sin- J I ciair concern, led to investigation \ j which revealed these secret leases j I under the Pall administration of [the Interior Department. The! j latest of these naval oil reserves to i j fall in'o-tho-hands of-the Standard j Oil subsidiary is the Teapot Dome j j district in Wyoming comprising be I tween 6.00? and 7.0m) 'acres of vir- | j zin territory. Naval reserves No. 1 ' .?and. '2 are iti California. ? Senator Kehdrick (Democrat.; ; Wyoming) first introduced a reso- j lution asking for information con i corning this alleged deal, which resulted in bringing to light the i fact that the deal had been con ; sumated. with a statement from the j Interior Department made to the ; I ress. that the reason for leasing I was that owners of adjoining lands i had drilled wells within two hun j dred feet of government land and I were draining the naval reserve. It j v as alleged that such drainage had ! been going on for years. This . statement was completely disproved I by former Secretary of the Navy I Daniels, who said in a public state I ment that several times owners of I adjoining land had threatened to [sink wells close to the na\al re ! serves, but he had told them if this i were done he would put marines ! into these fields and tap their re serves, and the threats of the owir ! crs of the private lands were not ! carried out. The former seere ! tary stated that all modern navy [Vessels are oil-burners and that ! these reserves must be protected. Senator LaFoIlctte (Republican, j Wisconsin) came to the support of [Senator Kendrick and introduced a resolution directing the secretary i of the Interior to send to the senate 1 a list of all oil leases in these three j naval reserves, and all information ! relating thereto, and it is upon this resolution that a new alignment may be forced in the Senate with ' the supporters of national eonser | cation on one side and the friends j of special privilege and standard ' j oil on the ether. I It is expected that the former j supporters of Theodore Roosevelt in ] ! his policy yf national conservation will support the LaFoIlctte reso-j j lution for an investigation and that : it will have the support of the farm! : bloc as well as the united support; ; of the Democratic senators. It is already evident that the ad- i ! ministration will resist this in-" vestigation with all the power it; ? tan command. According to a, reliable Republican paper. Senators: [ Smoot ??nd Curtis have notified [Senator LaFoIlctte that his resolu tion will not be allowed to pass if; ! i hey can prevent it. Secretary Fall's reason for mak ing the leases having been explod- ; led by former Secretary Daniels. a: . new reason has been advanced both j for making the leases and for' '< keeping them secret. The corre spondent of the Republican paper, referred to says: "The ?>nly reason given for this j I manifest unwillingness to have the1 <>il contracts made public is the declaration that they were enter-; 'cd into as l art of the administra-: tion's policy of military defense and should therefore be treated as con-j ' fidential miliary information.*' It is pointed ou! that this mili- j tary policy does rot comport with the claims of tic administration concerning the accomplishments in behalf of peace resulting from the btte Disarmament Conference: nor does it comport with the adminis tration policy of maintaining a large personnel in the navy by turning over the reserve fuel of the navy, i<? private interests. Secretary Fall, it is pointed out. has never been friendly t<> conser vation, and his success in obtaining ( entrol of these <-ii reserves for his department, with the designs of his department upon forestry and other tail ura I resources, has alarmed the friends of conservation oi natural resources over the present situa tion. Senator l.aKoUettc has already received assurance of the support of man.', ether Republican Sen ators, and despite th* opposition of the administration it :s expected that an investigation will be made which brine to light tie- secret transactions in naval ??:' reserves aal may operate* to head-off deals to exploit other natural resources by i he big interests. Mr. Rurbank has done much crossing whh satisfactory results, but it hasn't yei been demon strated thai melius crossing is ad visable. STATE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS Department of Education Sends Out State Aid - Columbia, May 7.?The state] department of education yesterday paid out ?290.000 to 17^ state aid ed high schools in the 48 counties of the state, according to a state ment giv?m out by the department. With reference to the law with regard to state aid. the depart ment gave out the following state ment: ' The law provides for the lowest salary among the high school teaching corps up to $100 a month for the first year's service. ?I0T. for a second year's service, or $110 for the third year's service.; provided the same teacher is em- j ployed for two or three consecutive j years. Schools employing a third) high school teaeher may be allow ed $250 additional, and schools employing four high school teach ers may be allowed $500 additional. ' Wherever the high school en rollment exceeds 15 per teacher, tuition for outside boys and girls may be allowed at the rate of S3 per month. The large army of country boys and girls enrolled inj the high schools exceeded all ex- j pectation. This necessitated the payment of high school tuition on the basis of Sa.7:5 per cent. "Centralized high schools in eluding three or more cooperating districts were granted under the law a double salary allowance. The group of stich centralized or consolidated high schools is afford ing much needed facilities to coun try districts." Payments by eountic3 follow: Abbeville.?3.G59 Aiken. 9.387 Allendale. 2.794 Anderson ._ _.15,345 Bamberg. 5.172 1 Barnwell. 4,422 Beaufort. 2.90$ I Berkeley. 2.148 Calhoun .... . 2.937 Charleston ._ . 3.930 i Cherokee. 3.403 ; Chester. 5.644 j Chesterfield. 9,059 'Clarendon._ 3.777 jColleton . 1.5G1 1 Darlington. S.G35 : Dillon. *.$?? I Dorchester . 0.0 01 ; Edgefield._ 5,3 to } Fairfield. 4,406 'Florence ...10.275 I Georgetown .. _. _\. 5.75S ?Greenville ._ .13.0 4 1 (Greenville _. 5,195 ! Hampton. 5.150 ; B?rry. 4.918 I Jasper. 1,075 I Kershaw. 2,087 Lancaster... _ 5.824 ! Laurens. 7.S12 ; Lee. 3.714 j Lexington. 9,900 j McCormick . 2,431 i Marion. 7.993 . Marlboro . 6.923 j New berry . 7.066 Ooonee._ 7.190 j Orangeburg. 12,211 ; Pickens._ S.335 ; Rich land._ 5.991 j Saluda. 3.078 jSpartanbUrg .17.5-" ? Sumter _.10,403 1 Union. 4.104 I Williamsburg.5,308 York. 9,054 Gas Association Convention. Kansa's City, Mo.. May 4.?C011 i serration of gas will be the keynote [of discussions at the seventeenth 1 annual convention of the Natural Gas Association of America, sched uled to be held here May 15-18, ac cording to the announcement of Leslie u. Denning, of Pittsburgh. I Pa., president of the organiza j tion. Delegates are expected from jail parts of the country, i.-.eluding the middle-western states, the pro ductive fields of Texas. Wyoming. 1 Louisiana. Oklahoma. Kansas and as far west as California and from western fields. Several prominent men in the gas industry are on the program for discussion of such subjects as "Standardization." 'The Indeter minate Franchise," "Conservation," "What the Natural Gas Companies are Doing to Help the Consumer get the Greatest Value from His Nat ural (his Service." and various phases of gas production and dis tribution. Open forum discussions in charge of a chairman for each subject will be held on the following topics: Production. Transmission. Distribution, and Public Relations. The convention activities are de signed for all (.lasses of gas work ers, and many employes of the g? companies, as well a^" company ot licials arc expected to attend. Pres ident Denning announced. Large exhibits of field coittpm* and househlod appliances will I open to the public during the < ox - vention. with the announced p . - pose of impressing the gas 1? n with the thought that they .1 st work in close harmony wit ie patron and appliance maker. Open covenants avail little i vorces increase even though . c styles enable a man to see wha he is getting. Some men are polit" enough to .remove their hats instead of touching the brim in greeting. And then seme are bald. ,\ happy home is one jn which the husband realizes that a woman naves spending mouey and love in the order named. A^ a girl looks so does a man 00 k. it will be :> hot summer Th< voiaen are already smoking. Many feel called upon to speak \\ lo? a ! ?? not. Only thin^ sonic people save foi rainv day is rheumatism. Dry statistics show th<> country i??t -i> dr\ is the statistics. COOPERATIVE MARKETING OF TOBACCO Burley Growers of Kentucky Obtain Higher Prices For Their Crop Raleigh, N. C May C?Tobae-. co sold through the Burley Tobac co Growers' Cooperative Associa tion in Kentucky during the month of February averaged $29.U?J per hundred pounds as compared to th<f average of $20.03 per hundred pounds for tobacco sold over the auction Uoor in Kentucky accord-, ing to a telegram from James C, Stone, president of the Burley Association reaching the Raleigh headquarters of the Tobacco Grow-* ers' Co-operative Association this week. Contradicting recent rumors that the organized growers of Kentucky* received 7c for their tobacco Mr. Stone stated that the members of the Association have been advanc ed about Sc per pound and that payment of about the same amount is being made to them this month. "The growers in the association will average 4c to Gc per pound more on linal returns from their tobacco than outside growers." stated Mr.. i Stone. The R. J. Reynolds To i bacco Company has just completed j another large purchase of tobacco i from the organized growers oi \ Kentucky through their co-opera ! tive marketing association in addi tion to the fifty-five million pounds j which the association has already ? ? sold at very satisfactory figures, j The success of the Burley As-? i cociation in redrying tobacco for its members is evidenced by the i fact that there are a nunrber of ; big buyers interested in the pur? 1 ! chase of the remainder of the. Kentucky pool according to latest dispatches from Lexington head , quarters o'f the Burley Tobacco Growers' Association. A. T. Holland, of Danville. Va.. j has been appointed supervising j grader, of the Tobacco Growers' ? Co-operative Association. Accord j ing to today's announcement from R. R. Patterson, general "manag ' er of the leaf department. \ Mr. Holland was connected with the Imperial Tobacco company at '. Danville for fifteen years, for ten. ' years as assistant manager and for ! live years manager and head buyer of the leaf department of that com- / pa ay. For the past two years M.r. Holland has been with the Export Leaf Tobacco company at Danvills and has had other experience with ! the ..fim of. J. M. Edmonds & Co., as district supervisor. : The appointment of J. E. Boui ! dir. as grader at Virgilina, Va., was j also announced by Mr. Patterson, : Mr. I'.ouidin was connected with the Old American Tobacco com Ipany as assistant buyer for the wrapper department, was later ; with Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., j as assistant buyer on the Danville market, and finally became con I nected with the American Tobacc? I company as assistant buyer at Dan ville. COAL OUTPUT IS STEADY j Weekly Production is Above 4,000,000-Ton Mark j Washington. - May 7.?Weekly I production of coal apparently has i struck "a temporary level in little I above the Luuu.UUO-ton mark." th4 United States geological survey '? announced tonight in connection with its weekly summary of. tb*s ; industry. Early reports for th* i week ending May 0. the statement j said, indicated that production of i coal would aggregate 4.i:>0.0*Mi tons, approximately the same as in j the previous week. Production was I confined almost entirely to be bitu minous, it was declared, "produc-* j tion of anthracite remaining prac i tically at zero." Based on it* reports of produc j tion. the survey said, the strikt? 1 situation appears to be "essential . ly unchanged." Golden Rule Day. Regarding the Golden Rule Sps ; ein I Day of which Mr. William Berg, formerly with the Wreck I Store of Sumter. now of Sunbury. : Pa., wrote an endorsement to The Daily Item in last Tuesday's issue of this paper, and winch the Sca ! board Air Line Railway company, j in cooperation with the Sumter ? Chamber of Commerce, will present ; *?> the business men of Sumter at an early date, the following re ! ceived at Sumter Chamber of Commerce from the Clarksville, Tenn.. club will doubtless prove ot interest to every retail dealer in : Sumter: C. G. Foskett, secretary of the clarksville. Tenn.. club, says: "We ; of Clarksville. Tenn.. thirty strong. , at this session of the Associated Advertisers, endorse the Neosho. Plan as the most successful small town retail merchandising idea with which we Have come in con tact. Tes. it has increased ou< i *ales. Dur cor pany alone (the j Coulter Lumber Company), has : realized untold benefits in this line. ; Not many retail lumber yards sell j 23.000 feet of beaver board in on? i day for cash, or Portland cement j by the carload, or cedar shingle's by j the 200.000. Sterling Northingtoo I over there sold l'.H'O pounds of coffee in a single day. Cash and [ Carry Smilhson holds the record I on soap with 2.700 cakes, and i John Dickson swept seven counties , the day he sold 1,000 brooms. In the words of Minor Brand, our ! first president, it has given u? an I 'extra Saturday in each month' 1 ind that on a cash basis."?From. ?m address before the Associated Advertsilus Clubs. Atlanta. Jun|r* 15, 1921. Where there's a will, there's a way. And where there is no will: rhcr? "s a fanifly row. A lirtTe"iTio"?>nlight now and then often marries the best of men.