Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOWER STATE /CHAMPIONSHIP Great Pitcher's Battle at Florence?Costly / Errors by Sumter Play Large Part in Defeat - After outpitching Thompson for seven innings yesterday Edwards weakened and his support failed, McCoU winning 5 to t. Up to the eighth- inning only one ' hit had "been made off Edwards and with good support-he would have shut out the McColl entry. The feature of the game was the pegging of Felder to the plate on great throws from left field. Both throws were. perfect and* although only one man was declared out, the other was safe on a very close de cision. Approximately .tjiree thou sand enthusiastic ians. witnessed the exciting contest. This-is prob ably, the largest crowd ever to at tend a high school contest in South Carolina. Box Score. ' MeColl AB K IB FO A E Bivens. ss.-4 0 11 1 0 Brewer, lb_ 4 0 8'"16 0 1 Gibson, c. 4 2 J> 14 0 0 Thompson, p - 1 2 2 ? 4 0 Farmer, -,3 b .. 4 0 0 1 U 0 McLaurin, If . 4 1 0 1 0 0 Smith, rf_ 3 10 10 0 ^dens, 2b_' 4 0 1 0 2 2 Tatum. cf _-_ 4 0 1 0 0 0 Totals _. 35 3 5 27 7 3 Sumter AB R IB PO A K Rivers, ss_. .. 4 0 0 0 1 1 Wheeler, 2.h_ ? 3 I 8,1 2 3 Skinner, 3b ... 4 0 ,1 1 2 0 Wilder, ib.. ... 4 0 2 $ . 0 0 Edwards, p 4 ^00/1 2 2 Wright, c_ 2 0 0 -'13 ? 1 0 Felder. If_ 3 0 0 0 1 0 Crawford, rf 3 0 0 1 0 0 Shaw, cf '. 3 u Cv '.l 9 1 - 'Totals -?- -. 30 1 4 27 3 /< ~ Soore by innings: R H E iccCoIl.. 100 000 013?5 5 3 Sumter-- 100 000 000?I 3 7 Two base hits: Wilder. Base on balls, Thompson, one: ' Edwards, one. Struck out by Thompson, 14: Ewards. 12. Balk, Thompson. Batter hit. Wright (2) by Thomp ovn. Double plays: ^ Edwards to Wilder. Stolen bases: Wheeler 2; Rivers, Skinner, Wright, Gibson, 2; McLaurin, Edens, Tatum. ; Umpires: Burch and . Martin. Time of game 1:40. CITY COUNCIL v MEETING Assistant to Health Officer :Appointed. Lighting Plant and Fire Department in Good Condition ff&jC Ti-The regular meeting of council was^ held in the counci^ Chamber Tuesday, all members ^jf ^council being present. The rr&nutes of the regular meeting of May ,3?h. were read and approved. ~ V .^The clerk read a-lettev. froin the department of health, signed by ail members thereof, advising that Miss Mae Stoudenmire had been appointed as assistant-to the' health , officer at a salary of ;$3/0 peri fftOnth, said employment dating isom May 22nd. The action of the health department was approved by council. The clerk also read e report of the police depart ment for the month of April show ing a total of 71 arrests for the onth for various causes and collection of S422 in fines. Council authorized the employ ment of a dog catcher on Straight monthly salary, the length of such employment being subject to the will of council. The city mnaager read ietters re ceived from the Under-Feed Stok er Go., of America, and * the Sea grave Co.. in reference to the in spection by "their representatives oi equipment installed by the forinei at the light planet, and the fire truck in use at the fire depart ment.. The following is an "extract from the letter of the Under-Feed Stoker Co.: "Mr. Betterly reports that your plant is in excellent' condition? Customers are taking the propel interest in their equipment jj.nd giv ing it good attention." ..The letter from the Seagrave Co. states that the machines at Sum ter, are kept in better condition than any other trucks in this en tire section, and Complimented the personnel in charge as well as the cleanliness of the department. Councilman Raffield moved that these letter be acknowledged and their contents be conveyed to all of the city's employees at interest. After a general discussion of oth er routine matters with the city manager, council then adjourned. National Guard Goes To Jackson Sommer Encampment at Armv Post Some Time in July Columbia. May 25.?Decision to hold the National Guard encamp ment of South Care *na at Camp Jackson this summer was; an nounced yesterday by Adjutant General Grant following the re ceipt of a message from Fourth corps area head quarters. Th dates have not been definitely fixed, but the plan now is for July lf> to July 30. The encampment at Camp Jack son, will include all the infantry units and the motor, transport company, other units, to go else where. Col. T. E. Marehwjt. com manding the One Hundred and Eighteenth infantry, will be in charge of the encampment and will be assisted by several officers of the state staff. ' - '?? WOMAN CANDIDATE ENDORSED Sumter Winthrop Daughters S e n d Letter to Mrs. Df&ke Editor Daily Item: The following letter of endorse ment has been sent to Mrs. Bes sie Rogers Drake from the Sumter County Winthrop Daughters: My Dear Mrs. Drake: At a recent meeting of our I Sumter county Winthrop chapter l your proposed candidacy was a matter of keen interest. Recog nizing your unusual executive abil i ity, your broad knowledge of ! schools, and your interest in educa I tional problems, we wish to urge ; you to make the race for the of J fice of state superintendent of ed* j ucation. We pledge our loyal support, knowing that if you obtain to this high office you will serve the pub lic with the highest ability and re flect credit on the womanhood ol ? the state. i MRS. LOUIS WILLIAMSON, j Chairman, i MRS. M. L. PARLER, " i . MISS IRENE BRYAN. Committee. GERMANY'S DEPRECIATED CURRENCY Comparison of Pre-War and Present Value of the Mark ! . - ' . . . - Berlin, May 24.?-Problems? which : face German housewives today are j j illustrated by a comparative table published in a weekly paper de voted to the interests of civil ser vants. The table shows what, could be bought for sums ranging from 'one to 1,000 marks in 1914 and at I present time in paper currency, j One silver pre-war mark would l fill a market basket for it would buy a pound of'flour, a pound of sugar, one pound of salt, five pounds of potatoes, two pints of j milk, an egg and a herring.. The paper mark of today buys just one onion. For three marks in 1914 one could buy 100 pounds of potatoes; i today three-quarters of a povnd of i potatoes if they are obtainable at I all. * Seven "old" marks was the price j of 14 yards of linen. Now it is the* I price of a dusting cloth, i In 1914. a 200-pound pig fetched ! 100 marks. Today, one pays the j same amount for two pounds of i bacon. ~ i ,e hundred marks used to be ? a fair average monthly salary. Now j one pays that much for two pounds j of poor butter. ( A .four-room apartment could be j rented eight years ago for 1,000 j marks: now it is the price of a plain j kitchen dresser (cabinet). J The high cost of living affects all ? German towns. Municipal statis i tics show that while in Berlin the i prime necessaries of life are 220 j times the pre-war prices, in Breia ; en, Karlsruhe. L?beck, Ludkigshaf en and Schwerin they cost 250 as much, and at' Worms and Fulda more than 300 times as much as j just before the war. ! Near East Appeal j Letter From State Chairman A. F. Lever ; Editor Daily Item: j It is a source of great joy to me to be in South Carolina again, j Howevfcr pleasant it might be to ! dwell on the thought of being at I home once more in my native state, ! my mind turns quickly to the hun ' dreds of thousands of hungry lit {? tie children in far away Armenia, j As state chairman for the Near I East Relief, may I very strongly ; urge upon loyal South Carolinians I from the mountains to the sea. I that every heart respond to the cry j of hunger coming out of Armenia ; in just as large a manner as is at ; all possible to do? Every dollar ; given buys food for some little girl ; or boy. whose home is too far ? away that they should come to j your door asking for it. We want to .know they are fed. however, so ; in this way I come to you for them. ? As a practical way of caring for ;the 2.1 $4 of these children South ' Carolina is asked to provide for, ,' we have, in turn, requested each ; county in the state to support a. [definite number of children. Your j splendid county is asked to save the lives of 67 orphan Armenian children. The sum of $0 per ; month per child will do this. The ; money given for this most worthy ] cause will please our Heavenly j Father, and save a little portion I of humanity from the terrible hun ! ger pangs it now suffers. Give 'something to the Near East Relief j for the good it will do. In every good wish and in all sincerity. I am. Yours very earnestly. A. F. LEVER. State Chairman. New Engineering Examiners Are Appointed Columbia, May 2S.?Gov. Harvey today appointed the members of Lthe new state board of engineering ' examiners, created by an act of the ;i;>L'2 legislature. The members [are as follows: For two years: W. R. Wrigley, Greenville and G. E. Sand. Columbia: for three j years. L. S. Letellier. ~>f the Cita : del. Charleston, and W. S. Tom I linson. city engineer, Columbia: J for four years: T. Keitii Legare, i Columbia. ! TELEPHONE RATE CASE i Attorney General Wolfe Files \ j Answer in Judge Smith's Court I - ? ] ! Charleston, May 23.?Answering : ! the original bill of complaint upon { which Judge H. A. M. Smith is- j sued an injunction restraining the j state authorities from enforcing the telephone rates provided for I in the Foster act passed by the ; general assembly this year, the j raliroad commission, attorney gen eral and others, defendants in the j i proceedings, deny the main alle- j gations of the plaintiff, the South- | ern Bell Telephone & Telegraph company* and allege that the rates \ ! involved are not conrhscatory, and j they allege furthermore that in i its relations with the American j Telephone & Telegraph company j ? and through improper charges and j j accounting methods, the plaintiff \ i shows thin earnings, while the real j party in interest, the American Telephone & Telegraph company, j is in fact receiving larger earn- j ings from its investments in this j state, held in the name of its "sub-j sidiaries, and is thereby increas- j ing constantly and largely its proA] fits and surplus, as well as its div- j Idends and the value of its stock j ,and properties. The following are some of the al legations made by the defendants j in answering the bill of complaint: | - "That the plaintiff is a 'mere in- I strumentality, conduit or adjunct,' j of the American Telephone & Tel- i egraph company, and the purpose i and effects of said form of organ- I ization is to set up a fictitious en- i tity, which performs the bidding of the parent compnay. is fed or ; I bled as the exigencies of condi- i I tions may require, but always with j j the intent and purpose that its j ! statement of earnings may show | : something less than a fair return I on its property, so that at will it j I may show to regulating commis: i j sions the need for higher rates and I I support such demand by a sys- : j tern of bookkeeping and account- i ' ing, .which misleads and deceives. "That the relations between this j real party in interest and the i plaintiff are such as to carry out! j and effectuate the foregoing pur- | ! pose, and to drain the subsidiary ! j company of its rightful revenue \ \ and earnings in this state especial ! iy." j The defendants list the alleged , j methods in which the results are j ; brought about, through purchase | j of supplies and equipment from \ j the Western Electric company, an- I i other alleged subsidiary; the charge I and collection by the American | j Telephone & Telegraph company of j 4 1-2 per cent, of all the gross re- j [ceipts of the plaintiff; in its long i i distance toll contract with the' I American Telegraph & Telephone j ! company; through depicting e am- ! j ings and income by charging more ! I than a fair share or proper or av- I erage amount for repairs deprecia- j tion, traffic and commercial ex penses. It is alleged by the defendants ! that it is necessary to a full and ^adequate hearing and understand ing by the court of the matters J presented by the plaintiif in its | bill, and to understand and pass on a proper and fair rate. ?hat the American Telephone & Telegraph ! ! company, which is also a corpora j tion engaged in business in this j state, be made a party to the ac j tion, and be required to appear I before this court and to submit it i self and its books, as well as the j books of the plaintiff herein, to an j ? inspection and examination by tin: j j defendants and their agents and i by this court. I The defendants conclude the an-1 j swer by praying that the bill of ! ! complaint be dismissed. At a hear i ing held May (>. Judge Smith re j fused to dismiss the bill of com i plaint on grounds as then set forth j j by the plaintiff, and gave the de ! fendants 30 days in which to an- 1 ? swer to the original bill of conn ?plaint. The case will in due time 1 be heard on its merits, it iy I thought. MRS. DRAKE WELL RUN FOR OFFICE She Enters Race For State Superintendent of Edu cation ; Bennettsville. May 24. ? Mrs. ; Kessie Rogers Drake, who nas j been out of town for several days. ? was asked today if she had defi I nitely decided to enter the race : for the office of state superintend ! ent of education. Her reply was, ! "Yes, I will make the race." She j further said. "I think I should say I that the requests which have come j to me from some of the leading j educators of the state to run, have i increased my confidence in the idea that I can be of service to the state at this time. I am sure that my ; friends will realize that the desire | to serve tiie educational interests of the state prompts me to take : this step. I ain not unmindful that I arduous* duti"s and great respon sibilities face nie. 1 trust I n\uy prove myself not unworthy of the ; kind expressions contained in let ters and telegrams which I have j received from these friends." The Marlboro people are much ; interested in Mrs. Drake's an-i j nouncement. She will have the en ; thusiastic support of the men and women here who know her so j well for tiny recognize her worth and ability. j Two Petition-; in Tl.-- aki'ui>l< v. .. . i Charlest?n. May 25.?The Sinii ter Stave and Heading Company, inc.. manufacturers of cooperage, yesterday tiled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in tin- United States District Court here listing liabili-i ties of $64,604,41 and assets of *23.360.!>4. Attorneys Lee Moise represent tin- bankrupt concern. A. 1.. Jackson, a merchandise broker and manager of ;i whole- j sale concern of Srrmter. also tiled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy yesterday, listing liabilities of $46. ????*!?.22 and assets of $140. JIM DENSON SAFE IN MACON JAIL Negro Who Escaped From Mob Captured and Deliver ed to Sheriff Mason, Ga~, May 24.?Jim Den son. negro youtli. prayed unusual ly long in the Bibb county jail to night before he threw himself upon his bunk for his first night's sleep of this week: he prayed for the members of the mob that broke into the jail at Irwinton. Ga., early Tuesday, dragged him out and at-; tempted to lynch him: and pray-! ed for his ultimate release. re- i asserting his innocence. Denson is under sentence to hang on June. H>. for an alleged i attack upon an aged white woman; some three years ago. His case j went to the supreme court of the United States. Believing that Benson's escape! from the mob was made possible by an act of Providence there are numerous white people of this and' of Wilkinson county, it was re- j liably reported tonight, ' who will! ask Governor Hardwick to com- i mute the sentence of the negro to j life imprisonment. It is the only: chance to save his life. Denson was captured this morn-! ing by a posse who believed in law; and order. There were two news-1 paper reporters from this city in: the party. They turned Denson! over to Sheriff L. P. Player at I Irwinton, Ga.. who only a few! hours before had declared his be lief that Denson was dead. It was like bringing a man back ' from the grave to present the pris- j oner at the Wilkinson county jail. As soon as the negro could be fed i and clothed, for there were only; a few rags left on his body, he was ! rushed to the county jail in this; city. "Lawdy. Boss, looks mighty good. I jail, sbo do." said Denson as the car in which he was riding swerv-1 cd into the gateway of the local; jail. "Use sho mighty proud to be here," and Jim smiled until his; big white teeth glistened. Inside the jail there were two re-; captions for the prisoner, one by] the white prisoners; {he other by: the negroes. j '"They tied a rope around my! neck," said Denson. "Then they dragged me into the car. I asked I tho7n to let me pray and they re plied that they hadn't time. "I heard them say they would ; shoot me just out of town. The j knot on the rope around my neck was choking me, I reached tip! one hand in the dark and felt the slip knot. I untied it. The car: was speeding 30 miles an hour. Ij says to mvself, 'Jim, jump or be; kilt.' "I jumped, feet first, flam-floo-j ey. just like that. I hit the ground on my feet, then on my head, and j I must have flopped over four; times and rolled into the ditch. "When I got out of the ditch i several shots were fired at me. I ' crawled, but they kept on firing. 1 got up again and ran. I was hare footed, my clothes were torn off; me and the gravel cut my feet." At sun-up yesterday the negro j said he obtained bread from an- j other negro and then returned to j the swamp. At sun-up today he I said he crawled out and got plums, ; being nearly starved. Then he; heard the bloodhounds on his trail. [ "Pretty soon the white hound came upon me," said the negro. "I kept jumping from one side of the creek t<> the other. I couldn't! shake him. He got right up to! my heels, so I stopped, snapped my fingers at him, and Lawdy, he; curled his tail and walked right up to me. I took off my belt and tied him to me." The negro had this dog tied to him. wos playing with a second hound and was fighting off a third when the posse reached him. Sheriff Player said here tonight that he had names of persons in the mob that attacked the jail early Tuesday morning and that arrests would be made. SWEET POTATO CURING Senator E. D. Smith Calls At tention to New Bulletin on Subject Editor Sumter Item: I have secured a limited number of Farmers' Bulletin No. 1267, w Inch I think will prove of inter est and might prove the saving of some, money t'> those of your read ers engaged in raising sweet po tatoes and u?io have tobacco barns on their farms. This bulletin is en titled "Utilization of Flue-Heated Tobacco Barns for Sweet Potato Storage," and describes how to use them for curing and storage. I would appreciate it very much if yon could carry a notice in your paper thai this bulletin can !??? se cured by writing me. To send them out broadcast would soon ex haust my quota and many would come into the hands of those who do not desire them; depriving oth ers who do. Thanking you for your kind ness in this matter. I am. Vours very truly. E. L). SMITH. U. S. Seriate. Washington, D, C. Former Chicagoian Gets Twenty Years French Military Court at Da mascus Imposes Sentence For Inciting Disturbances in Syria Chicago. May 25.?A sentence of twenty years in prison, on ;i charge of inciting recent disturb ances in French mandate territory in Syria was meted our to ?'h:is. R. Crane, of Chicago, a former American minister to China, 1>\ the French military court of Da mascus, according to a copyright ed dispatch published in the <'hi eago Daily News. Majestic, World's Largest Ship, Makes Maiden Voyage The New White Star Liner, as Large as 400 House a, Compared with a Liner of Twenty-five Years Ago THE world's largest ship, the Majestic, a pas senger liner of 56.000 gross tons, left Southamp ton May 10 for New York on her maiden voyage. Ordinary folks on shore find it hard to realize the size of this last and greatest addition to the world's fleets. She is five times as large as the average big ocean steamship of 25 years ago, while her tonnage is as great as that of all the 132 ships in the historic Spanish Armada of 1583. Her interior space equajs j statute" miles an hour. She has capacity for"4,10C that of 400 ordinary 8-room houses, and she has 1,245 \ passengers and carries a crew of 1.000. j staterooms, besides great public rooms two stories I bigh. Her length is 956 feet, her breadth 100 feet [ and she is 102 feet de*p from the captain's bridge tc: the keel. The Majestic's weight is 64.000 tons. If she were; *o hit an object when going only at five miles anj ?our the blow delivered would be equal to that of j *4,500 Ford cars. H.-r horse power is 100.000. and! Iier speed more than 25 knots, or nearly 30' Pershihg Praises Social Hygiene Board's Fight on Vice Results of the government war on \*ice as carried on by the U. S. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board to protect the health of the men in uniform show that 83 red light districts have been shut-up in various cities in the past two years. In the last six months, the report just made public, shows that vice districts have been closed in Nor folk, Va.; Pensacola. Fla.; Colum bus, Ga.; Vallejo and Los Angeles, Cal.: and Camden, N. J. Disorderly resorts have been closed in Balti more, Md.; Carlisle, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D. C. The results have lowered the disease rates in the army and navy from 91 to 62 per 1,000 men per year. The money saving to the gov ernment, saved "through having to treat fewer men, is piaced at $1.118,000 for this past year. Secretary of War Weeks and I General Pershing have both praised the U. S. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene 'Board for its excellent work in lowering social disease rates and improving the health of the men in the army. "The importance of this work." said General Pershing, "can be realized when you know that social diseases constitute the main source of work for the medical branch, of the army in peace time. I am par ticularly pleased with the showing made at Camp Benning, Georgia, where the rate has been lowered from 149 to 27 per 1,000 men." The secretary of the board. Dr. j Valeria H. Parker urges that more attention be paid by parents and in schools to teaching children the correct facts on sex. "Qiildren learn these facts any how," said Dr. Parker, "ami they learn them in the worst manner possibJy. Frequently their facts are entirely wrong. This leads to much trouble among both boys and girls a?id is responsible for much delin quency in the youth of the nation. Much suffering misery and unhappi ness will be eliminated, if parents will face these facts bravely and not try to dodge the responsibility." Women's clubs all over the coun try are urging the continuance of the war on vice. No appropriation has yet been granted by Congress. MEETING OF UNITARIANS Annual Anniversary Week in Boston, Mass. Boston. May 21.;?C hutches throughout the United States and Canada were represented at the annaul Unitarian-Anniversary Week exercises which opened here to night. The program will include the annual meeting of the American Unitarian association. Rev. Dr.' Charles E. -Park o? the First! Church in Boston, a pulpit which 1 has had a continuous ministry since j JG30, preached the anniversary ser- ' mon. Tomorrow morning the sessions '? of the 16 auxiliary agencies will get j under way. Of particular interest; to the 2.000 delegates will he the ! results of the recent church mem- j bership campaign which, it was an- : ; nounced. brought 10.000 new mem- I I bers into Unitarian church.es of ! ; North America. j The Unitarian Campaign Com- ; I mittee, under the leadership of J ; Chief Justice William Howard Taft, was announced tonight as having, j : in th?- first two years of a five-! year program, obtained per cent' ! Of its ultimate goal of $3.000.000. f Of S2.3S7.516.37 pledged to date. I ! $1.431.715.1-1 has been paid in by \ 24.694 individuals, with a loss front' i death, insolvency, "change of. j heart" and other causes of less: than 2.100 of one per cent, it was) said. ? Interest in tomorrow's session I 'will be divided between an open" : meeting of the Unitarian Temper-; lance Society, which will present! j special reports on "prohibition re-j [suits" and the Unitarian Laymen's; ! League sessions. I The 07th annual meeting of the; American Unitarian Association? will occupy Tuesday, with Rev. Dr.! , Mi'not Simons, head of the depart-1 iment of church extension, report-; ivg detailed findings of the commit- ; tee which had charge of the join- ' jthe-church campaign. The Women's: .Alliance has been assigned Wed ' nesday for its 32nd annual meet-. I ing. . j The May Week festival, the so-' eial event of the annual meeting, is J jkcheduled for Thursday evening in jibe Copley Plaza Hotel. The pro-; gram for Friday will be devoted to I the affairs of the Young People's; ' Religious Union. j NO STRIKE IN ! COLUMBIA Judge Pucrifoy Renders Deci sion Against Street Car Strikers Columbia. Ma\ 25.?There is no; street car stride in Columbia.: Judge Puerifoy holds, in a decision j announced by him here today, in passing on the motion of the. former street car employes for the.' appointment of an arbitrator for: tlio st-.r. t t car company here. An act of t.li" recent legislature pro- i vj?ii-s for a committee of three t<> ? settle street cur strike:' in Colum-! bia. Tic- company re;used t<> name its member of the committee.! claiming that the act is unconstitu tional. The act provides thai the circuit judge shall appoint where either side refuses to name its member of tic committee. The1 court's decision reviews the strike] situation here and i><?iiii> oat that: tie- company employed other men, end there is now no difference or! ispute between the company and is employes. PLANS FOR GREAT BAPTIST ! UNIVERSITY -;? Committee is Appointed to Study the Suggestion From Mercer University Jacksonville, Fla.. May 10 CEy the Associated Press).?Proposals for establishing a great Baptist, university for the Southeast and j founding an additional theological seminary were referred by the: Southern Baptist convention here late today to committees who will make recommendations to the; next annual ?Convention. Home missions and Sunday! school work with the reports, of' the boards in charge took up the. greater part of the day and night! sessions, and it was announced1 that a conference of Baptist Iead-j ers will meet in Nashville June: 20-21 to launch a campaign to complete the $7.">.O0U,000 fund by 1!?"J4 for enlarging Baptist activi ties. The women's missionary union, auxiliary to the convention, also discussed the fund and its members pledged themselves to continue their aid. The union held its last business meeting of this year and elected Mrs. W. C. James of Birmingham president, and other officers as well as hearing commit tee reports. The question of a new theologi cal seminary and a Baptist uni versity was raised in a proposal made by trustees of Mercer Univer sity, u Baptist institution with the approval of the Baptist state con vention of Georgia, that Mercer be made the nucleus for both institu tions. If this were done, the trustees said they would transfer all of Mercer's assets to the con vention when the latter completed its $75.000,000 on condition that the convention raise $2.500.000. The Georgia Baptists promised to subscribe $.2,500,000 additional for the project. The Macon chamber of commerce offered to raise $500,000^ if tiie convention decid ed upon Mercer. The resolutions got into what speakers described as a parlia mentary tangle and consumed much time before a vote was tak en. Several speakers said they wer?' unwilling to pledge the con vention to the project at the pres ent time and amendments were adopted bringing this out. The new university proposal has been before several annual conventions and i: was stated that the South ern Baptists intend eventually to establish such an institution. Hospital work was also discussed today and tomorrow the conven tion will take up the laymen's movement, women's work and oth er allied subjects while Sunday wiil be given over to memorial ser vices for the Rev. .J. B Gambrell. l>. I)., former president of the con vention, who died in Dallas last summer. Baptist preachers at tending the convention will conduct services Sunday in more than 50 churches both white and negro o? evangelical denominations in and around Jacksonville. The tina.1 bus iness session will be held Monday. Half a dozen speakers .it to night's session stressed the import ance of home mission work and the Rev. .1. B. Kobbs. I >. 1>.. of Birmingham declared, "If we are to preserve our traditions and heri tage, we must evangelize every foreigner that comes to our shores." He said he feared the effect of foreign immigration on tiie civilization of the old south, "the finest and lost civilization in the world." I ?r. Uobbs paid a tribute to i >r. L#. 1>. Warren of Atlanta, superin tendent of the home ? mission board's building and loan fund, who had .iust completed raising a ;'$l.nuu.yuu church building and loan fund a few months ago when retinal trouble of years' standing culminated in^total blindness. The last business of the night session was formal adoption of the home j mission board's report. ? ? ? What's Ttie Matter With South Carolina? i An interesting vacation filled with pleasure, educational and en tertainment, features and all- kinds of athletics as well as army in struction, with all expenses paid, to! the offer made to the young% men j of South Carolina who will attend \ the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Camp McClellan July 27 \ I to August 2<>. and yet only 28 per! 'cent of South Carolina's quota has been filled. Our young men do not realize j that this is not an old-fashioned ; army camp or surely as in Florida j and other states, the quota would ] : be tilled. The object of the C. C. is to! train young men in order that they j j may be of greater service if an [emergency arises. However, any! [ man who atends camp will not be j '? required to join the Reserves or. National Guard or anything else j unless he so desires. No previous military experience j i is required and any boys 17 years ; of age may apply for admission to J the Red or Elementary course.] i .Men who have had experience will: : be admitted to the White course for non-commissioned officers or the \ Blue course which trains men for commissions. Men who start their work this summer in the red course can take the advanced : courses in succeeding years. Young men will benefit greatly mentally and physically. The work j is indorsed by some of our most prominent citizens and everyone [ who has the time should attend. If our young men permit South Carolina's quota to be filled by an j other state what will be the result? One thing .sure. South Carolina's young men who can attend camp ; and get their commissions and do ; not do it. certainly will not become officers, and in case of an emer ; gency they will be taking orders . from someone else It will be much better' for men , who are not yet settled for life to j txo to three one month camps and get their commission and be ready j for something worth while in - case of emergency than it will be. to wait until they are older when such training will be much harder for them and they cannot get it under such favorable circum stances. Certainly men who fail . to make the best of this oppor tunity cannot kick if they have to serve under less favorable circum j stances later on because they re fused to take this training. Surely what the rest of the southern states can do. South I Carolina can equal. Tell your friends- and help pull the state out of the hole. Get an applica tion blank, till it out and send it in as somi as possible. For appli cation blanks and information ad dress either the C. M. T. C. Head quarters. Gainesville, Fla., or Ma jor K. S. Lytle. Recruiting Adju tant. Headquarters. Fourth Corps Area. Fort McPherson, Ga. Medical l'\a mi tiers. Columbia, May 20.?Dr. Baxter .1. Hayn- - of Spartanburg and !>r. ?I. S. Matthews of Denmark were yesterday reappointed as members of the state board Of medical ex aminers. The reappointment was made by \ he governor. EXPOSE OF COTTON SWINDLE Officers of American Cotton Exchange Testify That Cot ton Orders Were Bucketed New York, May 22.?Witnesses called today in the prosecution of the American Cotton Exchange, on trial on a charge of maintaining a bucket shop, testified that many of the sales recorded on the ex change were fictitious and said that the organization depended largely on figures from the Liverpool and New Fork cotton exchanges for its own quotations. With the placing of Charles G. Hcaley. secretary of the clearing house of the exchange, on the wit ness stand. Assistant District At torney Whitner told the court that he would seek to prove that the exchange had been making a con stant practice since January, 1?21, of executing cotton orders without any cotton exchanging hands. Mr. Healey, under examination by Mr. Whitner, asserted that there were 15 members of the clearing house, all of whom .were members of the exchange itself. These men, he said, virtually made up" the group of active traders on the exchange floor. All other traders were in the south or *so far away, he said, that they never traded. Through Mr. Healey's testimony the assistant district attorney brought out that brokers of the American exchange were invari- . ably paired in their deals on the floor. Alleged instances were en tered in the records. The clear ing house, it was pointed out, got its pay in these transactions,' while the client in the South paid $5 margin on each contract. Mr. Hcaley admitted that he had seen the trading sheets of the New York cotton exchange arid had never found its transactions conducted in such a manner. When Samuel Landecker, a part ner in the cotton brokerage firm of Orsmbee .* Landecker, took the stand he was asked by the prose cuting attorney: "Suppose in these socalled fictitious sales your cus tomers had asked for a delivery of the cotton what would you have . done?" "I would not: know where to start to look for it," admitted the witness. "Fortunately my cus-^ temers didn't ask for it." Landccker will be recalled to the stand when the trial is resumed tomorrow. FREIGHT RATE REVISION Railroad Official Advocates Uniform Mileage Scale On All Business Atlantav May il.?There is z growing need for a uniform mileage scale in the establishment of freight^ rates, both "interstate and those within thei states, Charles H. Bar ham, general freight agent of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad, declared today'-jg-. the Southern^ class rate investiga tion being held here by Joseph B_ Eastmen of the interstate com merce commission. *. Mr. Barham, whose testimony took up all of today's session and may last several days, also pro posed a plan to make Atlanta a pivotal point in gauging rates for ] the Southeast. He went into many details during the day and in an swer to questions said the hnsic theory in making and applying freight rates is the cost of service. * He also declared interstate freight is 73 per cent, of the total freight hauled. V "Ordinarily in making class rates I distance controls only in a limited ; way." the witness said. "This is be- * l cause the effct t of distance is modi ! fied by other elements, for instance [competition from the standpoint fo I deliberation the competition of one * I jobbing center with another. A definite mileage system, Mr. j Barham declared, is "necessary as a ; measure of justice to the territory 1 and as a measure to promote good * i will within the territory. The system o? rate fixing pro posed by the carriers is to be on a mileage basis as the fundamental j principle, with a fixed definite per centage relationship between class rates: the application of class rates ; in all directions and general com- ??. pliance with Section 4 of the I- C. j C. providing the same rates for long j hauls. This svstem. together with . ; the definite rate fixing proposal, : will require a complete revisibn of j rates by Southern carriers. Mr. Barham pointed out although the cost of service would always be the primary principle upon which rates would be based, that rates could not be gauged entirely by cost of service, although this ? should be' the first consideration * because of conditions in the terri tory served.'^ The aim of the car riers, he said, was to secure an average that would be fair all * along the line. De said that a rate fixed by com promise and averages on the gen- - era! scales suggested would mean _ many and sharp reductions?some of them as much as 30 per cent., in the case of the Nashville. Chatta nooga and St. Louis. First O?icial Act of Governor. Columbia. May 25.?Governor Harvey performed his first official a et today when be rsgned a no tary public commission for a lady. Miss M. D. Reid. of Spartanburg. The governor was asked by news paper men if he had a leaning for the ladies, and he replied that the signing of a woman's commission I as the first in a batch o. notary public commissions was as a sort of tribute to the new feminine voters of the state and the ladies ?. generally, "but nobody can accuse me of doing this to cater to the feminine vote, for I am not going to offer for reelection,** the govern or laughipgly added.