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5ie Watchman and Southron PtibMbed Wednesday and Satur day by Osteea Publishing Company, Snmter, S. C. Terms: $2.00 jser annum?ha advance. "Advertisements: One? Square, first insertion ..$1.00 .. Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. ] ?Xt communications which sub serve- .private interests will Oe ciar^ed for as advertisements. Ofeituariea and tributes of re spect will be charged for. ??foe - Snmter Watch man was tended in IS50 and the True So^feron in 1866. The Watchman and. Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of bfofch of the old papers, and is man ifestly the besst advertising medium &?-amter. RUSSIAN COMMUNISM. Guglielmo Ferrero, the Italian historian so much admried by the late Theodore Roosevelt, writes in the. Italian Journal "El Secolo" on the- reasons why cummunism failed in Russia. History, he says, is full of cummunistic institutions, and coromunism in itself cannot be said to be contrary to human nature. ' -He. refers to the family itself as a communistic institution, and to mahy religious congregations which have done ^rreat ? things for the race. . - / VGh-the contrary, communism is ^ B? harmony with human nature, but oaly so far as human nature y m. .-capable of sacrifice and unsel rushhees. That is the key to the . .wimfe idea Cummunism is only possible where individuals are will big to give up for some ideal reason a part -of their material wealth? property and liberty?which they could themselves enjoy; or where ~ ?ame great passion?paternal love or. religious fervor, for instance? . .eSculdes selfishness. Understood in .this way, communism is one of the most beautiful flowers of his tbry-^and one of the most rare, ; "because it only grows in a few places. ? i$?m "Thus it is easy to understand that communism as it exists in it?feia is nothing but a coarse mis Yj^ptresentation. It does^not require ofithe peeple to make sacrifices for the sake of some ideal,' but prom ts them the same benefits? \ wealths comfort, pleasure, power? .capitalism promised to a - letter extent -with less sacrifice." :/Thai is an exceptionally clear ? -??Ssamihg-up of the Russian situa : twin. All advance for humanity is btiBt upon ideals and sacrifice for ideals. The" form of government matters little?the spirit is every *? t&iisg. Capitalism happens to make ii.:.easier for most people to work < the common good. Commun - fcm may ho more "beautiful in the-: ;? oiy, but is far more difficult. To try to* grab the advantages of the SW^er^orm without even the less ? ^i?crifices -of the easier is to be ?JfSfefiS^^.'ltb-'J'aliure.. -4 rij^EfeSAIi AUTO LICENSING ? .v.- ~ \ ^Surely the federal government has enough to do already without going, into the business of regula ting automobiles. ' Superficially there .is much to recommend, the Mills Bill, intro duced, in Congress at the instiga > tion of New York prosecutors. Ii intended to diminish automobile <hJWfts by having every car regis ^H?tcd-by the government and given ' '5^njatf6nt number to serve as ^^ntiflcation. There would be a . 'small fee. naturally. The fee now jJtoposed is $2 per car. -It. will readily occur to; anyone, however, that if automobiles once < citxne under the jurisdiction of a federal licensing board, and Con reahzed how fruitful a source ^new income they afforded, the , . jfee . yepuld soon be raised. Auto mobile owners insist that they are ??paying quite enough taxes now on g^Sfcijr - cars, and perhaps they are ? it any rate, such an innovation r.y^ould add another branch to a federal government already top ^e?vy -with departments, boards . .fedd bureaus, and it is not even sure that the present purpose of af * fording better protection for cars would be achieved in this way. i C?ars are numbered already. If it is desired to make the identifica : tion numbers more obvious man ?faetnrres c>uld b? required to ? stamp them in a more conspicuous ! place. Congress might issue such an order. As for actual regula : ti?n or supervision, surely this is it-ttataral and proper function for ? the state governments. gPS?ada, ' May 20.?H. Arthur -: ffty"rr * highly respected farmer of^the Mays Cross Roads section of the county, took his own life early today at his home by blowing off the top of his head with a shotgun, r Worry over financial troubles must - have been the cause of the deed as ".-bVialkod a good deni of late to ".friends about his financial affairs. HOME It?M?NSTRATIUN DEPARTMENT 3?SS GARO TRCirCK, j County Agent. Schedule for Week May 22-27. Monday?Lone Oak H. D. Club. Tuesday?Graham H. D. club. Graham Poultry club. Wednesday?Stateb?rg H. D. club. Thursday?Mayesville H. D. club. Friday?Office. "' : Saturday?Office. Garden Suggestions. According to Mr. Newman of the Progressive ' Farmer, "beans, snap and lima, bush and pole; beets and chard, carrots, celery, collards and cabbage, corn at intervals of two weeks; cucumber, eggplkn*, leek, lettuce, watermelon, . cantaloupes, okra, parsley, parsnips, pepper, salsify, squash and tomato "should be planted now. Don't forget to give gardens fre quent shallow cultivation. Watch /for garden pests and apply a rem edy at once. Blackberry Jam. (The recipe being used - by the members of the South Carolina Home Producers' Association). Use part ripe broken berries to give flavor and color and part slightly under-ripe berries to sup ply pectin that gives the jelly-like consistency. Wash berries and drain, use 3-4 pounds of sugar to one pound of fruit. Let sugar and J fruit stand oh back of stove until i enough juice forms to start cook ing. Cook rapidly in porcelain lined vessel and stir with wooden j spoon or paddlel Frequently move j spoon' or. paddle around and across I the pan/ being careful to move the j mixture from the bottom Of it. Do inot stir too rapidly or beat the I mixture. The jam should be cook ed to. 222 degrees Fahrenheit. It will give the same test as for jelly flaking off the side of the spoon when slightly cooled. Score Card for Jam: Flavor. . 40 Consistency._ 85 Appearance, color - 20 Container . 5 Total .. .1'.:..ioo Girls5 Ciuh Work. The State Short Course for Home Demonstration club members of South Carolina will be held at WiDthrop College June 9 to 15 in clusive. About 400 " women, and girls from every part of the state are expected to attend. .Five wo men and five girts are sent from each county, these delegates be ing selected for' excellence in home demonstration work and their ability as leaders. In addi tion to the regular 'delegates, the couhty farm women's councils will send special representatives. An interesting and Instructive program has been , arranged by the state home demonstration agent and her assistants. Prominent demonstrators and lecturers from all parts of the country will be oh j the program. "Among the speakers iare. Dr. C. B. Smith, Mh O. B. j Martin and Miss Florence Ward ? from the United States department j of agriculture, Washington, D. C. Dr. Ruby Green Smith, Associate ? Home Demonstration Leader, New York state, Dh 'Leon C. Palmer, ? General Superintendent, South Car 1 olina Sunday School Association; [Mrs. Chauncey B. McDonald, sec retary. South Carolina Tubercu losis Association, and Dr. L. A. ! Riser, of the State Board of Health. J Demonstrations along many lines of home making will 'be eiv^zi by the specialists and the county home demonstration agents. Recreation will be an important feature of the program. A train ed director will have charge of the work in the gymnasium, including drills, games, folk dancing . and swimming. Mr. R. E. Meli of the Rock Hill Y. M. C, A. will conduct ? the community singing each even ing. In addition to the entertain ments mentioned Hbove, there will be moving pictures, parties and "stunts." g A feature Of especial interest to the girls will be the course in health education, conducted by Miss Harriett Wedgwood of the United States Burea uof Education. Here the girls will be taught the "Rules of the Health Game" and "Right Living." Indications are that this Short Course will be the best ever held. t President D. B. Johnson has gen erously given us the use of the Winthrop College buildings and equipment, and is cooperating in j every possible way to make the j Short Course a success. Stateburg News Xotes. Stateburg, May 11.?After a long cold and wet spring the sun seems to have decided to shine on us again, for which every one is de lighted. All rejoiced that May 10th was such a lovely afternoon, when we had our memorial exer cises, were glad when Sumter. Wedgefield and Hagood joined with t us. We were certainly indebted to j Rev. John A. Bruhson for a most delightful, instructive and enter I taihing address, which all enjoyed i and appreciated and do hope to be ! able to have him with us again. Mrs. E. N. Frierson and little grandson, Edgar Nelson Sullivan, are back after a visit to relatives in Decatur. Ga. They stopped in - Barnwell for a day and night, which they enjoyed very much with their friends, the Boyds. The only drawback was the shortness of the visit. Found them all look in? well and very pleasantly situated. Mr. Tom Rogers spent Sunday with his family. Some of the schools in and around stateburg are having clov ing exercises. The Argyle school closes this afternoon, with a May Pole Dance. The farmers are getting ready to cut wheat. Hope they will make better crops than they iiad last year. I Here's a fable that Aesop over looked. Once upon a time a play was produced and the cast in eluded not a single $;irl named ' Peggy." BUILDING MAGNI1 Charleston to Have Str< Year Hence From River?Thence Care Charleston. May 13.?From the battery in Charleston, straightaway over a 50 foot wide highway, for 60 miles, the first 15 miles hard .surface and the other 45 of j smooth sand gravel, through a love- j ly, semi-tropical countryside rich in history and romance, the motorist a year hence will be able to drive ?to -the Santee river and there make a crossing by a splendid concrete bridge into the Pee Dee section of South Carolina, through which good roads carry on to Xorth Car olina. Fifty-six miles from Char leston at "the high hills of San tee' suddenly a plunge will be made Into the heart of the great Santee swamp for a three mile drive up on an elevated highway, 25 feet above the surface constructed of solid earth and concrete trestling in alternate sections, 26 feet wide at the top and 110 feet at the base. Across the river another stretch of a mile of the same elevated drive way will bring the motorist to high lands in Williamsburg county. Such is the magnificent project which is now well under way of construc tion by the state highway depart ment ,the Santee bridge commission and the county authorities of Charleston, Berkeley and Wj'Mams burg, a work of such ? agnitude and so well advanced toward real ization already that it must be seen to be understood and appreciated. Through the Jungle. The feature of tve project, of course, is the bridge across the San tee and its approaches, and it is one of the most interesting and impres sive pieces of roadway building in this country and will undoubtedly become famous in the records of automobile touring. The Santee swamp, with its jungle growth and its recurring overflow from the river freshets, presents supreme difficulties to highway building and appears to be utterly impassable. It has been impassable to vehicles since the beginning of time, except for the railroads which have trestl ed their way through it. and only a bold and costly assault upon it j could succeed. This has been \ made and the problem solved by a major operation of engineering, and the result will be the opening up of a line of communication be tween sections of the state hither to separated by a natural barrier and the forging of an essential link in the long desired Atlantic; coastal highway. The work on the approaches to the bridge and on the foundations of the bridge itself have been under way for the past six months and much progress has been made, but it will require prob i ably another year to complete the project. Enough has been accom plished, however, to show the form and scope of the undertak ing and an inspection of it is rap idly feasible and well worth a half day's motor trip. The journey can be made from Charleston to the base of operations in three hours | or less and the road?only part of i it at present the future highway?; is nearly all of it easy driving and only short stretches are at all dif- j ficult. How it is Done. The headquarters of the contrac- J tors and the beginning of the ap proach work is near St. Stephens, | on the high ridges that mark the terrain and on the very edge of the great swamp. There is the great burrow pit from which the mater- j ial for the fill is being taken by steam shovels to be hauled by train J loads to the swamp and also the! forms in which the concrete piles are being cast for the permanent' trsetling. The burrow pit looks \ like Gaillard cut in the Panama canal. A standard gauge railroad track with two trains of cars filling and dumping all day of the material scooped out by the steam shovel is laid and relaid as the cut is widen jed. Already 250.000 cubic yards of j this material has been moved and It'is estimated that a total of be tween 700.000 and S00.000 cubic yards will be used. The material is of a very fine quality for its pur pose, being a mixture of clay and sand, packing hard and making an ideal embankment, which will stand, the engineers say, for all time and make a solid foundation for the roadway on its surface. The trains run along timber con struction trestles through the wiie clearing that has been made into the swamp and dump the earth to build up the embankment unt;i it reaches a height of 25 feet, with the prescribed slope and surface. The first section of this work on the Berkeley side has been com pleted and a beginning has been made on the first concrete trestle which is to alternate with the dirt HU. This first trestle will be 700 feet long, and beyond it another embankment is in course jf con struction. At the end of that a second concrete trestle with a span of 1,300 feet is to be built. This alternate trestling and ear'h work will extend for three miles on this side of the river with the seeming ly impenetrable swamp en either hand and in the freshet season, the water rising up to within ;i f.>w feet of the surface of the roadway, the road thus seeming to pass through a submerged forest. The trestling permits free passage of th ? swollen waters, so that there is no dam ming, and the road has been pitch ed at a level a hove all possibility of overflow- The effect of passing through this jungle on a high place beautifully surfaced road, with the primeval forest of cypress and thick tangled undergrowth, unin habitable to man and all but im penetrable, win make the drive way full of interest and charm in its contrast between the forces of nature and the ingenuity of man in outwittin.tr, if not overcoming them. At the end of this three mile ap proach the Santee river will be reached and there the tin*- bridge will be crossed. Five great con crete piers are to carry the steel etch of Sixty Miles One Battery to Santee on Into North >lina superstructure of this work, with the central one bearing: the weight of the draw. Three of th'-se piers have already been placed and the work is progressing steadily. On the other side of the river the embank ment and trestle work is taken up again through the swamp and runs for a mile. In effect, the whole I work is a continuous bridging of nearly five miles. 0,000 feet of it in concrete trestling. Builders of Project. The work is being done under the supervision of the Santee bridge I commission, composed of represen tatives of the counties of Charles i ton, Berkeley and Williarnsburg. The commission is composed of W. K. McDowell, chairman, C. J. Ba ker and John McCrady, represent ing Charleston; W. P. Russell and C. Ballentine, representing Berk eley, and S. A. Graham and P. J. Gourdin. representing Williams burg, with William Burguson of. Charleston secretary and treasur ! er, and M. Rutledge Rivers of j Charleston as legal counsel. The ' state highway department is su [pervising engineering work with J. L. Parker making periodical in spections and W. Roberts resident engineer and J. Williams inspector of construction. The approaches are being built by the Rawlins Contracting company with Mr. Pin nen as superintendent and the filling by the Cornell Young com pany as subcontractors. The foun dations for the bridge are being built by the Simons-Mayrant com pany of Charleston. The bridge and its approaches will cost within $850,000, one-half of which will be borne by the federal government under the highway aid act, and the other half by the three counties of Charleston, Berkeley and Willaims j burg, of which more than three tourths will be paid by Charleston county. The bridge will bring the I Pee Dee section of the state, for the first time, into easy communication j with this city and open up an ave j nue through the coastal country into that rich region, and it is cer , tain to result in great commercial ; benefit. A Great Highway. Of interest and importance sec ond only to the bridge and its ap proaches is the highway that leads from Charleston to the Santee, which, in its first sections, is prac tically a reconstruction of the I whole roadway system of this re I gion. The concrete driveway which runs-now from Cosgrove avenue, on the Meeting street road to the ten mile post, is to be continued immediately about six miles furth er. At that point, where now there is made a sharp turn, across the Atlantic Coast Line tracks to the causeway over Goose creek around The Oaks and so toward Mount Holly, there is being cut a straightaway continuation of the Meeting street road, avoiding the sharp turn and the railroad cross ing. The clearing has already been made and the roadway is now be ing constructed. This highway will be pushed straight on to the San tee river, passing through Mount Holly, Bonneau, Russeltville and coming out almost at St. Stephens. It will be Of a uniform width of 50 feet, which makes it eligible to fed eral aid for hard surfacing, which some day will doubtless be given it. The road passes through a most in teresting and beautiful country. Some of the oldest and most his toric spots, intimately associated with the early settlement and civil ization of Carolina, are immediate ly upon or open from this highway. Mulberry Castle, Biggin church, where Sir John Colleton is buried, Exeter, the oldest country house j in the state. Strawberry, Medway. Belle Isle, Francis Marion's old home and the place where he is buried, are some of the lovely and romantic spots htat are reached by this road. The old Santee canal, stfll largely intact and with poten tial value that may yet come into realization, is crossed. When the road is completed it will make one of the most interesting and de lightful drives imaginable, besides being a commercial highway con necting up important sections of the state and an essential link in a great coastal line of communi cation, along which will pass a heavy stream of traffic. The road from Charleston to the Santee bridge is being built inde pendently of the bridge project but is linked up With it. as a single de velopment. Each of the three coun ties participating in the building of the bridge is-constructing the high way passing through that county to the bridge. The Williamsburg sec tion has been practically Complet ed and Charleston's portion i? al j ready and has been for some time j in use, but the last six miles of it, I as has already been stated, is to be I hard surfaced. Berkeley is working j steadily on its portion and will have it done wihtin a comparatively short time. By this fall the whole way from Charleston to the bridge approaches the road should be ! open. After it has been complet ed the highway will be taken over for maintenance by the state high way department. The road is to be surfaced throughout?except for the concrete section in Charleston county?in sand-clay. The elevat ed driveway through the Santee j swamp will be of the same mater ial, except, of course, for the por tions on the trest'ing, which will ; be of concrete. Along the whole [of this causeway there will be a substantial guard rail. The entire project is conceived in i a broad spirit and is being carried j through with boldness and energy, jit is a work that will be a credit ! tf? tlu- state and a monument to thw I vision and resources of the three counties which are carrying it through. ? ? ?? When a man isn't sure of him self, that makes it unanimous. THE ARNETTE MURDER TRIAL Harrison, One of Defendants Describes Killing Columbia. May IS.?Today the. session of the trial of Ira Harrison. Glenn Treece and Frank Jeffords, for the alleged murder of John C. Arnette, partner with Jeffords in I the Elmwood Filling Station, on the night of May was replete with startling developments. The defense first offered charac ter witnesses for Jeffords. Harri son then was put on the stand, and he wa's unsparing in his testimony as it related to himself and his al leged confederates. He told of the plans for the killing of Arnette, how the execution of the alleged plot had bee-! delayed by the movements of Arnette. He said he struck Arnette with a stick, but denied that his blow caused im mediate death. It was the two blows delivered by Jeffords with an iron axle, he said, that put an end to the one-eyed victim. T *eece, he declared, was outside the building watching in accord j ance with the pre-arranged plans. I Harrison, speaking calmly and in {clear voice, told the jury of his. ride in Arnette's car with the dead body of the latter'on the seat be side him and how the swerving of the car threw the head of the dead man against his shoulder. He said that the original plan had been to make way with the body at Smith's branch, in North Co lumbia, but that passing automo biles had prevented this chapter in the plot and he continued on to Kirkland avenue, where the car was rolled down an incline. Harri son saying that he jumped from the car as it rolled down the em J bankment. j ? Harrison testified that Treece had lost his nerve and left the machine near the branch. Jef fords, who, he said, engineered the scheme, promised to follow in his car to bring them back, but he failed to show up. Harrison contended that he at tempted to leave the garage when he struck Arnette, bat came back upon the demand of Jeffords, who, he said, he thought was armed. In conclusion he testified, after say ing that Jeffords had promised him and Treece an interest in the business in response to the so licitor on cross-examination: "I am guilty as can be; I have told the truth and lied on nobody." A packed court room heard the testimony. When court rceonven i ed fcr the afternoon, Mrs. Treece, j mother of one of the defendants, and the youngest, told in broken vcice that her son had been a good boy, that she always waited up for his return home at night; and that she was waiting for him on the evening of the homicide as usual. He did not say a word to her about the alleged murder, she said. The testimony of the heart broken mother was a dramatic prelude to the testimony of her ; son, Glenn Treece, who followed j her on the stand. He was readily responsive to the I examination by his own attorney, j Mr. Herbert, and the solicitor, Mr. j Spigner. He said he never touched j the body of Arnette. His story was I incriminating as to himself to the j highest degree, and it appeared j that his defense was that he car ried out his part of the alleged agreement because he feared Jef fords. His line of defense was similar in that respect, and in oth er details to the testimony of Har rison. While Treece was on the stand two developments occurred, and one. the sudden illness of Juror Taylor, brought the. trial to an end for the day. The other was the i pathetic despair and anguish of I Mrs. Treece, who gave way to the i strain and grief under which she ! had been laboring and cried out. j "My boy, my boy," as relatives led I her from the court room. Two physicians attended the j stricken juror in an ante-room. It j was said that he was seized with {a form of colic: and that he would ! probably be able to be in his seat I in the morning, when the testi | mony of Treece Will be resumed, j Jeffords, who. according to the alleged accomplices, was the master mind in the plot and mur der of Arnette, has not been put on the stand. The trial will not j be concluded before late Friday ! night, if then. The attorneys for ! the three accused are serving by appointment from the presiding judge. W. H. Townsend. Harrison* is represented by J. H. Cooper and Jeffords by John Quinn and James H. Hammond, while Treecc's counsel is R. Beverly Her bctr and William Nelson. The trial enters its fourth day Friday and fifty witnesses had been on the stand up to Thursday night, of this number the state has called i thirty-two. Columbia. May 19?Blaming the entire crime on Ira Harrison, J. M. Jeffords, who took the stand in his own behalf today, brought to a climax the sensational trial of the trio charged with the murder of J. ('. Arnette. Jeffords testified ? that he did not strike Mr. Arnette j at* all, where Harrison and. also. ; Glenn Treece. the other two dc I fendants, testified yesterday that I he had hit the fatal blow. Jef fords stated that Harrison killed j Mr. Arnette, that it was Harrison who plotted the crime and that ' he did not know that any such j plot bad been made. Death. News reached' the city yesterday I afternoon of the death of Mr. W. V". Jennings, u well-known form er citizen of Sumter, but who has resided in Xew York foj the past twenty odd years. He is survived by his wife, and one brother. May or K. H. Jennings of Orangeburg: also three sisters, Mrs. J. L. Hayns worth. Mrs. Jas. H. Chandler of Sumter and Mrs. Maitland Chase of Hartsville. A movement to organize a Ki wanis Club in Sumter is said to have been started. ?? ? ? Koo may be China's prime min ister. His first name is not Cu. METHO?IST BISHOPS Am ASSIGNED Coifeg* of Bishops Shif I Mem bers to New Territory Hot Springs, Ark.. May 19.?im portant changes in the assignments of members of the college of bish ops from Methodist Episcopal Church, Southland numerous shift ings in territory embraced in the Episcopal districts were announced tonight by the college, which is meeting in connection with the gen eral conference of the denomination here. With the exception of Bishop Horace M. DuBose of Berkeley, Cat, all pres'nt members of the col iege are given new assignments, while of the five men elected bish ops at this conference, all but one. J. E. Dickey of Griffin. Ga., will be sent to the foreign missionarv fields. Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta will be in charge of a re arranged district which contains the conferences of Virginia. Louisiana and Baltimore. I Bishop Collins Denny of Rich-1 mond. Va., is shifted from the Kentucky-Illinois district to the Xorth Carolina and South Carolina district. Bishop William B. Murray of j Memphis, whose district the last four yeurs included the Missouri j conferences and Denver, Col., goes j to the Alabama-Xorth Georgia dis-I trict. ! Other assignments include: Bish- i op Edwin D. Mouzon, of Tulsa, Okla.. changed from the Oklahoma Arkansas district to the Tennessee district: Bishop U. V. W. Isling ton of Huntington. W. Va.. from the Carolina district to the Kentucky ; Illinois district: Bishop William ? Ainsworth of Macon, Ga.. gees from I the Texas district to that which in j eludes the Xorth Mississippi. South Georgia, Misssisippi and Florida conferences. Assignments for the four new bishops going abroad follow: Wil liam, B. Beauchamp of Nashville, j Europe, headquarters, Brussels, 'Belgium: Samuel R. Hay. Houston, 1 Texas, China, headquarters, Shang hia: Hoyt M. Dobbs, Anniston, Ala.. Brazil, headquarters. Sao Paulo; Hiram A. Boaz. Dallas, Texas, Si beria, Manchuria, headquarters, Seoul. Korea. An intensvie cmpaign to carry the teachings of the denomination into all parts of states lying between the Rocky mountains and the Pa cific ocean was ordered by the con ference late today. The campaign will be financed in ! part during the quadrennium by i funds derived from 60 per cent, of the surplus of the missionary cen tenary fund and for the first time in the church's history paid evan gelists will be employed to carry on the work. Especial attention also will be j given the chjurch extension work in j parts of Oklahoma. West Virginia, j Illinois and Texas. A commission which will handle the campaign was directed to con sider the establishment of a branch of the church's publishing house in San Francisco. Prolonged debate took place over the proposal to appropriate a por tion of the centenary fund surplus j for purpose, but article carried af iter members of the committee ! which presented the plan declared statements made to them showed there is a wide field for church ex tension in the Western .states and that the money could not be used to better advantage. The conference held morning and afternoon sessions today, at which j a large amount of routine business I was transacted, and then held an j other session tonight. Hot Springs. Ark.. May 19.?The general conference of the Method ist Episcopal Church, South, in (session here, late tonight accepted its finance committee's budget of $2.070,000 for operating expenses of the church during the next four years and decided to leave virtual ly unchanged legislation governing the transfer of pastors. Both subjects were regarded as of paramount importance to the church and the action was taken j only after extended debate. j The Woodrow Wilson Foundation. On Christmas Eve, 1920, a group j of women met to consider what I was then a nebulous wish to pay some sort of a tribute to the man j who was shortly to leave the j White House. There was no doubt I in their minds as to the verdict cf I history: rather the thought was j to establish a precedent, if pos ! sible, and honor a great American j while he lived. Great men had I seldom been so honored. Indeed, i it was the fairly well established ! custom to sadden their lives with I abuse and make amends later, j The thought of a tribute of some i sort was discussed among the wo i men and then presented to a group j of men. friends of Mr. Wilson and I former members of his official fam } ily. Finally, within two weeks af j ter Mr. Wilson had become a pri I vate citizen, there was a great win i tor's day meeting at a Xew York ! hotel where the wish became a j fact, where the nebulous desire to j honor him while he lived became ! the very real plan to creat the ! Woodrow Wilson foundation. -? ? ? When you buy a pair of shoes you do not expect the merchant to throw in a dozen pair of silk j hose, nor do you expect a dozen I shirts, collars and ties donated with a suit of clothes, hut many advertisers not only expect, but dc I mand. that when they spend $10 ? with a newspaper for display ad vertising that they he given free of charge twenty dollars worth of ' reading matter boosting their busi ' ness. The public either does not realize, or prefers to ignore the fncV that space is the stock in trade of a newspaper, and if it is given awav the newspaper would soon i go broke and out of business. FIVE WHITE MURDERERS IN DEATH HOUSE Kirby, Fox and Gappins to Be Re-sentenced This Week Columbia. May 22.?S. J. Kirby. Fox and Gappins. the trio of mur derers in the death cell at the pen itentiary, convicted of the murder of William Brazell, the young Co lumbia taxi-driver, v.-ho was killed on a road from here to Augusta last summer, are> to be re-sentenced this week, probably Tuesday, ac cording to announcement today by Solicitor Spigener, of Lexington. The solicitor stated that he would consult with the judge on Mon day, the opening day of the court, and if Tuesday were convenient to the court, he would appear on that day to ask that the trio be re~sen tenced. All three of the me;? gave no tice of appeal, but only Kirby's appeal was perfected, and it was dismissed by the supreme court recently making the next step in the famous case the re-sentencing of the men. The trio will probably be sen tenced to die at some time during the sum'mer, all having been con victed of first degree murder. This means, it now appears, that rive white men, convicted of sensation al murders, are to die in the elec tric chair at the pen this summer, the other two being F. M. Jeffords and Ira Harrison, two of the three men convicted Saturday of the mur der on May 1), of J. C. Arnette, proprietor of the Columbia filling station. The date for the execu tion of these two has been set by the court as June 15. Glenn Treece, the other member of the trio, got life imprisonment. All i three are young Columbia men.. Jeffords was in business with Arnette, and it was brought out in the trial that he plotted the mur- j der of his partner in order to get possession of the business and to j get partnership insurance carried on his life. Harrison and Treece worked for the other two and they were partners with Jeffords in the murder plot. BIG WHISKEY SEIZURE Ninety-eight Gallons Captur ed by Sheriff Rector Greenville, May 20.?One of the biggest seizure? of whiskey made in* this section -i a long time came this afternoon. ? when ninety-eight , gallons were taken by Sheriff Rec tors forces and the forces of the State federal . prohibition director, together with a Cadiallac touring car. Warrants for three men whose names are as yet unannounced, have been issued, and arrests are expected momentarily. The federal and county officials made the seiz ure, after a long watch aJong the roads leading from Greenville into Georgia, as they believed liquor was being brought to the city from Georgia. Three men in the ear evi dently found the road blocked, for when the officers held them up and; searched the car about six miles from the city, no liquor was to be j found. However, the cushions of. the back seat showed imprints of cans and^the officers followed the; tracks of the car back along the road for about six miles, where they found the whiskey stored in an old house on a small cross country road. The whiskey was in one-gallon cans. The prospects for a large peach crop in Sumter county are report ed to be excellent. CASH FOR LOGS?We pay the highest market price for strictly high class ASH, POPLAR and CYPRESS logs delivered by rail or truck to our Sumter band-mill. Write or call for particulars. The Sumter Hardwood Co., Sumter. S. C._^_ FOR SALE?Face brick and com mon brick in any quantity. Spe cial price made on car lots. Get my prices before you buy. J. P. Commander. TEXT BOOKS ADOPTED State Board of Education Signs Contracts With Num ber of Publishing Houses Columbia, May 20.?Adoption of textbooks for the public schools of South Carolina was completed by the state board of education yes terday after several days of con ! ference on various texts which had been submitted. The board of edu cation has been in session several days and yesterday announced that its work has been practically com pleted. Approximately 32 contracts with book publishing houses remain to be signed up, but this work will be completed within a day or two. Representatives of various pub lishing houses have been in Colum bia in numbers recently and many text:-; have been brought to the at tention of the board. The book3 : for the next five years will be some what higher in price, it was -un derstood yesterday, than they wfro under the old contracts as the cost of practically everything that goes into their making has advanced in recent years. - J. E. Swearingen, state super intendent of education, when.asked j yesterday for a list of the books I adopted by the board., said that a j list had not been prepared yet for I publication. He said, however, that the list would be available in a few days. The law of the state, as is gener ally known, provides for a readop tion of textbooks for the public schools every five years. The books adopted by the board at its meeting will be used over the state, in the schools during the next five years. Provision is made with.the book companies whereby old books may be exchanged in part payment for new books, this arrangement* saving muc". money to the people of the state. CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICES Columbia. May 22.?J. H. Hope, ' who for six years was county su perintendent of education of Un ion county, and twenty-one years before a teacher, and lately con nected with the book adoption work of the state school system,, today filed his pledge as candi date for state superintendent of education, as has''also Paul Moore, of Columbia, a graduate of the University and teacher for a num ber of years. J. E. Swearingen. state superin- - tendent of education, has filed his pledge for the race for governor, and his entry in this race had opened the doors for many candi dates for his job as head of the school system of the state. O. D. Seay, former county superintendent of Richland county, has recently filed his pledge for this office, be ing the first. * In the governor's race Former Governor JBlease and Former Lieu tenant Governor A. J. Bethea have also filed their pledges. ; .. Death Columbia. May IS.?Mr. Thomas H. Connors, formerly of Summer ton, Clarendon County died this, morning at the Confederace Home here, aged seventy-seven years. The funeral will be held at no?n Saturday and the interment wlil be at Elmwood Cemetery. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. E. A. Cuttino, of Sumter. UNDERTAKING THE CHERRY CO 18 N. Main Street Motor Equipment KELL BRUNSON Licensed Embalmer. ^ Night Phone 798-L. CONDENSED REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTER, S. C. At the call of the Comptroller of Currency at the close of business , May 5, 1922 RESOURCES I LIABILITIES Loans and Discounts.* 786,249.97 j Capital Stock .$ 100.000.0$ Overdrafts --------- ,J'JJJ^J| Surplus (earned) .... 150.000.00 United States Bonds._ j.11,000.00 Other Securities_ 27.330.12 j Undivided profits Banking House. 35,000.00 (earned).... 25.650.6S Cash in vault and in ! Circulation. 49,100.00 Banks ._ 160,148.15 Deposits. 799,145.57 5 per cent. Rederap- j Payable- None tion Fund. 2,500.00 j Rediscounts._ ' None Total.$1,123.S96.20; Total ..$1,123,896.20 DEPOSITORY OF TT?E United States. Postal Savings Fund, County of Sumter and City of Sunfter We solicit Accounts of Corporations. Manufacturers, Merchants and Individuals. The National Bank of South Carolina Of Sumter, S. C. The Host Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Capital $800,000 Surplus and Profits $260,000 STRONG AND PROGRESSIVE Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU. The Dank With the Chime Clock. C. G. ROWLAND, Pres. EARLE ROWLAND, Cashier