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The Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Sninter, S. C. Terms: per annuni?in advaaee. Adverrisements: ^One Square, first insertion _.$1.00 E^ry^bse^?ent hisertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will he made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private* interests wilt ae charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect will be charged for. * The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1S50 and the True Southron in 1S66. The Watchman ?J5d --S?uthroh now has the com bined circulation and influence Of both of. *he old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium in Stnnter. . Samuel. Untermeyer. the famous New York lawyer, has tackled a number of big jobs, but when he _?r>es after J. P. Morgan & Co., and affiliated interests, he is a big game hunter of boundless courage and .ambition. \ ".T*he announcement that New England textile interests have de cided to build more, cotton mills in the South will be good news to towns and cities that seek such enterprises. If the business men and capitalists of Sumter looked strith jfavor on cotton mills, it might be worth while to suggest that t&'.matter be investigated with the view of interesting the mill build ers in Sumter county as a possible >oeanor> of some of the new mills. . A few cotton mills in the suburbs - Of Sumter, having substantial v;6k*>Iy payrolls would prove a steady source of business for the ?ieVchants of the city and the truck growers and '* dairymen of the county. THE WET FIGHT is b'ecomiiig plain that there is a good deal of fight left in the wets. Elections in many-places this fall "will hang on the question whether it is advisable "to modify, the Vol ? ? ? -. ?' ? stead Act. f Behind all ih^ noise made by the patrons 6t bootleggers,' behind all : l&e talk that "rapre drinking is g?his; on ?fhani ever bet?re," 'stand the eold, hard facts of the benefits ?i?icr t'dumry as" a whole has already experienced because of prohibition. Spdnf ed 'that in some would-be smart circles a greal deal of drink ing is still going on. and a great deal of illicit trade, it is still true that Outside of these hoi'sy Circles less drinking Is being done than ever ^before, and that little is- de creasing 3J> private stocks fade ?vray, and as knowledge of poison ed booze spreads among the people. The health of the- "country was better last- \ear then ever before. The period of depression caused less pauperism and misery because * more people had savings than ever before. Crime, -.hough prevalent enough, is less so than in drinking countries. It is too soon to know whether *4fee Volstead Act is a Wholly wise provision or not. An experiment en; such an enormous scale as the yrohibirion experiment cannot be worked out in less than five or ten years. Enforcement, one might say, js'jjiist beginning. "Public opinion. ' \:* v v - . - v uncertain as first, is just beginning ~-? - ? -.- - . to rally actively to the support of t'Efe law. " If, after the test -has been fairly made, it seems wise to make the further trial of modifying the Vol stead Act, that will be another niatter. For the present, it would seem betetr to stand pat on the Act as it is, and to assist enforce rnent of it as it stands, until the public has a chance to see what ft is like when it is enforced as it was intended to be. COMMERCE WITH CONSCIENCE When President Harding said the other day that one of the great needs was for conscience in busi ness, he touched a chord which re sponds in the hearts of most Amer icans. When the phrase "business . is business" is used to cover fraud, to excuse greed or dishonesty or the exploitation of the weak, the Amer ican who hears it so used is always conscious of any uneasy feeling, of a belief, though it be unformulated even ro himself, thai there is some thing unsound about the business ?Which requires that phrase for its apologia. "I do not think arty business can permanently succeed that is not honest. And I do not think any enterprise ought to succeed that is not honorable," said the President. "And if you will combine honesty and honoi. that enterprise which makes such a slogan will stand un challenged before the world." 'There is one fundamental that we ought never forget. No law can ever be. enacted or any substitute ever found for the reWard of merit, h is the essence of our social life; it is fundamental in our religious life. And I am quite sure there can be no abidjng reward without mer it, and I am equally sure thai there can be but little of merit without prospect of reward." Regardless of one's possible agreement or disagreement with President Harding in political mat ters, when it comes down to this ! matter of business morals, every American who is worth the name heartily subscribes to'this doctrine, 'i?? m m m ' TREATIES'NOT RATIFIED Americans learn with surprise that the treaties resulting from the Washington arms conference are not yet in effect, and are not likely to be for some time to come. They ! do riot become operative until all of j the signatory powers haw ratified j them and exchanged ratifications, land the United States is the only one of the five big powers that has taken the necessary steps. Japan has "ratified the Shantung agreement, and is expected to rati fy the important five-power naval reduction treaty and four-power Pacific treaty at any time. But when Great Britain. France and Italy will ratify is problematical, j There is even a possibility that j France may never do so at all, for j that country seenis strangely in ! clined of late to plav a lone hand in J international afiairs. and she gave j her preliminary assent at Washing ton unwillingly. ? "Why the' powers should delay i action is not explained. Thev have j been busy with the Genoa confer^ jenee. bu that hardly accounts for j so long a delay. They have had j time enough to ratify, if they [wanted to, in these four months. ; There is some ground for suspect - jing that perhaps they want to pun fish Uncle Sara a little, for his re j fusal to ratify a certain other treaty land his disinclination to participate more fully in international affairs. I GOLFING IN A GARDEN. "If some of you golfers could go j out into the garden before break j fast and pick your own strawber j ries. rosy and sweet from the plant, ]you would realize the;pleasure of J golfing, in a gai-den,'*: says J. Horace j MeFarlahd, editor of County Life. ??"Yb?- could' loaf fn the shady cor ner^ of your garden'just as you do at the club house. You could have your own fresh, red tomatoes and j tender roasting com just from the \ stalk. All this for the price of two jgolf balls^?two of those that you Llost. j; "You don't know the joy of eat I ing until you have tasted such ifood. It's not the same that you I get down town. The more you have to fight the tomato bugs, the better those ^niatoes get. Your ; garden makes a little more of heav | en on earth, anditf has no nine jteenth hole, either." j All .very true. Yet it may not ! appeal to golfers. Golf, like fish ling and yachting, seems somehow j incompatible with gardening, j Weather that is particularly good j for one is usually good for the oth | er, and the sportsman follows his j natural bent. Golfers will be goif j ers to the end. The only way to j make one into a gardener is to J catch h<m before he learns the lure j of the links, it might help, though, i to establish a standard set of natty | gardening clothes, and arrange that \ the amateur gardeners should do their gardening in small groups. A TRUGE IN EUROPE. - ? - j Europe, a? represented at'Genoa, i agreed to one thing, at any rate, j besides its adjournment to the j Hague. The nations pledged them I selves unanimously to a period of non-aggression against each other. The period is' rather absurdly short?only eight months instead of I the 10 or 15 years that Lloyd j George wanted?but that is better : than nothing, and a good start to | ward something worth while. I It strikes many Americans with I ! surprise that it should be thought J necessary to declarre such a truce, j The nations have not been fighting ; httely. The scattered fires left by the big war seemed to be diving out. j But talk of war has not died out: j and armies, the instruments and also the provokers of war, have ! not disbanded. With the failure to j accomplish anything at Genoa in j the way of constructive coopera tion, it is well to haw this short ; respite guaranteed, before any possible lunging of the nations at I each others' throats again. The eight months are for con i ference, at the Hague and possibly ! elsewhere. There would hardly I have been any war in 3 014 if the inaiions had taken eight months to < talk over the situation. Now it is not so much a question of stopping I a war already prepared but of j removing causes?largely economic ?which might conceivably lead to war. This summer is going to be a. crucial period for Europe. and indirectly for America. It will de termine whether th> Old World is going to profit from the big war and go forward with wise recon struction or is going to slip back ward toward destruction. May the truce be used wisely I GANG SPIRIT G?XE RIGHT A group of boys in an average I residence community, had made themselves a pirates' den with j boards and shingles pilfered from | various building operations in the; neighborhood and from the cellars! of their own homes. To live up to; their name they carried on pirati-j cal exploits involving the disap- j pearance of a gallon of ice cream J intended for some one's party, the j "entire crop from a neighbor's peach tree; and a pie set on a window sill I to cool. None of the boys were | bad individually, but as a gangj they lived in a dream world of: adventure which carried them in to serious mischief. Then came the big fight, when! the gang came into conflict with aj bunch from another part of town. Stones flew, windows were broken, eyes were blackened and general j damage done. Parents all along the t blocks involved suddenly realized j that they had a situation to con-! tend with. There was one father who didn't j condemn the gang. In fact, he con- J tossed to; approving of a gang, onlyj he felt (hat this particular gang; had started off on the wrong foot. He had a friend at the Y. M. C. A., j who knew about boxing, baseball,} basketball and other valuable sports. First thing the pirates knew, they were working their I heads off to earn The money need-! ed to join the association. There- ' ? ' ? -1 after they were so taken up with ? swimming contests, basketball! games, hikes and such affairs that i I they just didn't have a minute left I for stealing pie or smashing win dows, i It is an old story with many well known variations. It isn't always the "Y" leader who comes to the j rescue. The supervised public play ground, the Boy Scout movement, the well managed public park, the parent who point's the way unob trusively to the right sort of ac tivity, all play important roles in making the gang spirit and bound less energy of boyhood forces for safe and happy growth. ? j SAFER RADIO Radio enthusiasts will be inter ested?and their parents comforted ??by the announcement of a new receiving device without aerials. The apparatus is said to solve the receiving problem by means of sev eral yards of wire tacked on the back of the cabinet. If the thing' is as simple as that, the idea will soon be adopted generally, by man ufacturers and amateurs, and wires | strung in the back yard, on the I roof and between houses will soon j disappear. The danger from these elevated serials is only beginning to he ap preciated. In cities they are found j 'frequently strung up in such prox- j imity to electric light, telephone] and high tension wires that con- i tact might easily be established at any time, giving somebody a fatal shock. Several deaths from this cause have been recorded already. In many cities the authorities are kept busy removing amateur aerials from dangerous locations. Why use them at all, if they're not needed? ? ? ? A GOOD RECOVERY The business recovery Is slow? dixoouragingly so, at times. But is it really so slow at it seems? "What nearly all who discuss the matter fail to realize," says the bulletin of a big trus teompany. "is that the recoveries after previous periods of business stagnations un doubtedly seemed at the time even slower, more spotty and more gravely threatened with a relapse than this one does now." In other \v<?rds. business is re covering with unprec edented speed, v ery likely it is recovering quite as rapidly as is good for it. If the convalescence were any more rapid, there would be reasonable fear of * dj&geroUS relapse. ??? i FULMER WILL RUN; Columbia. May 27. ? H. P. Fulmer of Orangeburg, congress man from the Seventh district, yesterday filed his pledge as a can didate to succeed himself in the Democratic primary this summer. The pledge was filed with Gen. Wilie Jones, treasurer of the party j in South Carolina. So far Mr. j Fulmer is the only announced and j qualified candidate for congress. j To-day's Best Jokes and Stories Something Missing. Sandy Mr-Nab took a ten rent' ticket in a raffle for a flivver. He won ir. Was he pleaded at his good fortune? Xot a bit. When brought to him be ex amined it gloomily. ??I tell ye," he said, "the whole thing was a swindle." ""What's the matter?" asked ; his friends. "Where's the gas?" demanded Sandy.?Em. A Good Name. Robinson?"What do you think of my daughter's execution .on the piano?" Swift?"Good name for it, that: ' she certainly does murder the ? time."?Ex. j The Pinch of Riehe?. Reduced Gentlewoman. ? "Ah, j but y?n have never ^elt the pinch I of poverty." Wealthy Lady?"Xo*. but I've! worn tight shoes all my life."? j Ex. i ? " ? A Good Morning. A young man entered the office j of a wealthy banker: He had just finished a brilliant university ca reer, and wished to begin work "as 1 a banker." "Have you any opening of which j I may take advantage?" "Yes," replied the banker, "im-i mediately behind you. Close it as j you go out."?Ex. His Adopted Son. A mother was questioning her j little daughter, aged six. i "Who is the father of the calf?" j asked the mother. "The bull," replied the young- j ster. j "Who is the father of the duckl-; ing?" continaed the' mother. "The ? drake," responded the! child. "And who is the father of the | kid?" i "Charlie Chaplin."?Ex. By Request. j When the band had finished play- i ing, a tired-looking diner beckon- j ed to the conductor. f "Do you play anything by re-j quest?" he asked. . j "Certainly!" replied the eondue- j tor. I "Well, then," retorted the diner, j "for the love of Mike, go and play; solitaire until I have finished my { dinner." "\ Try This One. The Customer: "I can't find my| wife anywhere. What shall I do?"; The Shopwalker: "Just start' talking to our pretty assistant over; there."?Ex, Coal Agriculture. I Xewedd?"I'm afraid we're go- j ing to find it hard to get coal." "\ Airs.- Xewedd?"Oh, dear! ;I do! I wish they'd plant larger crops in j the coal fields."?Ex. ? 1 Got Away Again. { A station-master hearing a ter- j rifle crash rushed out of his office l just in time to see a train disap jpearing round the curve, while ! j among a number of overturned! ; milk-cans at the extreme end of ' j the platform there sprawled a hat less and disheveled young man. "What's the matter? Was he I trying to catch the train?" asked j ' the bewildered station-master of j I a small boy who was standing! (near by. ! "He did catch it," explained the j j boy, "but it got awav again."?; Ex. i j One Good Tiling. i "Yes, he's a tearful bore, isn't I jhe? There's only one good thing! 1 about him." "What's that?" . ] i "His opinion of himself."?Ex. Had to Have Him. i A candidate for municipal hon ors, irritated by the groans and un- ' friendly remarks with which he; was received at one of his first j 'meetings, exclaimed furiously: "Ii don't care what you say: you have j got to have me whether you like ; nie or not." i "Why. guv'nor," inquired a placid j individual at the back of the hall, | "you ain't the measles, are you?"? I I Ex. i Won't Lay Eggs. I "Gome," said the mother, to her j little girl, "you have been very j naughty, and I'm going to lock you I up in the eh'ekeneoop." "All right." said the naughty j little girl. "You can lock me up ! in the chicken-coop if you like, but j I ain't going to lay no eggs."? Ex. Want Standardization j _ Washington, May 2S.?Standard- j izntion in the lumber industry is expected to result from the four | day conference of lumbermen just j completed here, according to a j statement issued tonight by Secre tary Hoover, summarizing the re- i suits of the meeting. The conference, he said, decided : to accept the agency of the Na-j tional Manufacturers' Association, j in obtaining appointment of a com mittee from all groups introduced in lumber production-and is con-! versing, with a view to the deti- J nite adoption of standardised j nomenclature, grades, q u a 1 i t y. marking and practices. Necessary | I technical investigations in the va-I I rious branches of the trade will be j made during the summer, Mr. lino- j 1 ver said, and it is expected that a I final conference will be held in j the early fall for the creation of a definite organization. Mr. Hoover proposed at the con ference thai a national system of inspection and certification sh id be created by the industry to em brace all the lumber trade with a view to affording all possible pro tection to ih^ consuming public \ as well as to avoid unnecessary j confusion in the trade itself. PROBABLE COTTON CROP FAILURE! _ i Jay & Co., Reverse Estimate,; Saying That Only Prospect j For Moderate Yield Lies in Perfect Weather Conditions j New York. May 2th?There are l two major factors operating to ! maintain the present price o<* tot- j ton and to estaJm'sh higher prices as the season progresses. The oh? is the unsatisfied deferred demand for'-the remnant of past crops, and i the other, weather peril's and hol?, weevil menace to the new crou now only partially planted. During the j last two months, students of the j cotton situation have been per- i plexed by reason of the indlff?r- j ehce of consumers to the constant- j ly diminishing reserves and their! strange conviction that political j disorders in Western Europe arc I potent of the inability of the peo- j pie of (he world to procure the es sentials of life. National economy | is disorganized in more than one: country, hut the people of all na- j tions have a considerable meas- i lire of prosperity and the satisfac- j tion ofvtheir simple wants is a po tential economic force. Reserves j of raw cotton and its products have gradually been reduced, ?s these wants have been supplied, until now We are on the verge of actual ex haustion. At no time since the Civil War have the world's cotton resources been so uncertain, and the imme diate future promises little relief from anxiety. The American cot- i ton crop this year is seriously im-i periled. It now seems evident that ; the area planted is nor. likely to ex- i ceed greatly the area planted last year. The weather in the we:-;t has the boll weevil so numerous' that they are already destroying, part of the crop by feeding upon tender leaves of sprouting plants. ! In three states only, Arkansas, His- i sissippi and North Carolina are; crop conditions reasonably normal. \ The only prospect for a moderate , yield lies in perfect growing weath er henceforth. If such sveather be not vouchsafed, another crop fail ure in the United States confronts the cotton industry. In view of the! world's now sfeadly increasing need ' for American cotton, the situation produced by such a crop failure would be economically disastorus. Reason for the Revision of Our Crop Report Mr. Leon M. Esterbrook of the ; department of Markets and Crop j Estimates of the Department of Ag- i riculture has advised us that the i tentative par for the calculation of | cotton crop production should be] 221.5 pounds per acre for May, in stead of 237.7 as earlier estimated j by the department. In view of this J change, we are obliged to reduce ! our estimate of the indicated crop! based on a. condition of 65, and a contemplated increase in acreage of j g?per cent, from, 10.900,000 to 10,- j 243.00O bales. J. W. Jay & Co. Anderson. May 28.?J. E. Wool-! bright, 35. constable to his father, a magistrate, was shot twice and instantly killed last night at Town ville. by a nelgnbor. Press Tucker, in whose company he had spent most of the day. A jury of in quest found that Woolhright met j his death at the hands of Tucker, who early today was lodged in the county jail. Washington. May 27.?Reports are current here that President Harding is seriously considering; the appointment of Senator Ed.! Smith, of South Carolina, to the; additional Federal Reserve Board membership, created by the re-; eently enacted legislation which ; was initiated by Senator Smith him- I self in order to secure the selection j of a farmer for one of the places \ on the board. j Washington, May 27.?President j Harding today took action affect-j ing more than 50.000 postal clerks j and carriers throughout the coun try when he approved a recom-j mendation of the postoffice depart* j ment for the establishment of a I strict eight-hour basis for postal j employes. ? ? o Mobile. Ala.. May 20.?An inter-; cepted radio message from the na- j val air station at Pensaeola. pick-! ed up by the battle house wireless ; station stated that the pleasure i boat Swan, missing since late yes- j t'erday, with fifty passengers, is! back in Pensaeola harbor. No de-[ tails are given. Pensaeola. May 20?The pleasure boat Swan, carrying fifty passen-j gers, which was missing throughout the night reached her dock with j all hands safe. The vessel ran into1 a Gulf storm, but lied up on the! other side of the bay until safe to proceed here. Columbia, May 2!?.?Mrs. H. V. Yalse. a good looking young wo man, who says she is from Peach tree street, Atlanta, is in Columbia! under bond, pending her prelim- j inary before; the recorder on a charge of grand larceny. She is charged with having stolen a valu able ring from a jewelry store in i the heart of the business section. j I Washington. May 2 7.?Avia tion experts of the marine . orps ] claimed today for Major Roy C. : Geiger, U. S. M. C, the record for time and long distance north-and south flying by virtue of his flight; yesterday from Quahtico, Ya., to Pensaeola. Fla. In a statement made today the j China man claims that two negroes came into his store Saturday night and attempted to hold him up and that he rushed to the back of the 1 store, got Iiis pistol and fired nt them, fatally wounding the negro^ Paul Thomas, who later died at a local hospital. Hogs with camouflaged muzzles ; are still wandering around the; streets. HOKE SMITH PROMISES TO H HELP FORD (Atlanta Georgian) Do fin ring the Muscle Shoals site a natural asset of which The entire people ought to get the benefit and pointing out that. Henry Ford is the only bidder who has turned hisj thoughts toward the interests of the people, former Senator Hoke Smith left f<,r Washington late, Wednesday promising to do what hej could "to help bring about such a| result." Mr. Smith had just re-1 turned from Muscle Shoals and was ?in .Atlanta a few hours on his way' 10 the capital. The' former senator gave out the! following statement prior to his de-1 parture from Atlanta: "With dam Xo. 2 completed and o.nm Xo. n built. 800,000 hydro eleetric horsepower can be pro duced at Muscle Shoals annually. It will be far the largest hydro-electric horsepower that can be produced in the United States, certainly ea.-jt of the Mississippi. "It is a national asset which should be used for the benefit of all the people of the United States. "Nitrogen can be produced from the air economically only by the use of great water power. This is the one place in the United States where air nitrogen can be produced economically*. Limestone must be used in the process. The govern ment has already acquired large limestone quarries right alongside th:- nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals. Plants Need Use. "Tt has spent eighty millions of dollars in the construction of nitrate plants for the fixation of nitrogen, fmm the air. If the dams were completed and simply used to pro duce power for manufacturing plants and public service compa nies, these nitrate plants would be a waste. These nitrate plants must be used, or they will rust out. 'With the dams completed this plant would furnish the means of producing in time of war munitions of infinite service. Tt would make us independent of importations from 'Chile and would constitute a gre*?t national defence. 1l would be a powerful influence to preserve peace, for it would be recognized the world over that with this plant the ro.tdiness of the United States to produce explosives would be complete. "The plant should be kept at work that it might be ready at any time as a military defense in order, and the nitrate plant must be con tinual^' operated in the fixation of nitrogen from the air. "Nitrogen is one of the three .qr^at elements of plant food. Phos phorous is another. Phosphate rock in vast quantities is located all along the Tennessee river in close proximity to Muscle Shoals. So two of the three elements required for plant food can be produced more economically at Muscle Shoals than anywhere else in the United States. Cheap Nitrate Boon. "Cheap fertilizer will help the farming interests of the entire country, help produce m?re food stuffs, and serve all the people of the country. "There is no way to give to all the people of the country the full benefit from the wonderful water power at Muscle Shoals except to devote them primarily to the fixa tion of nitrogen from the air. This also will give us. first, preparedness for war and thereby a guarantee of peace: second, cheap fertilizers, aid ing in the production of abundant foodstuffs. "The only bidder for this prop erty'who turned his thoughts to ward the broadest use of the power in the interest of all of our people was Henry Ford. The bid of Henry Ford '^lone recognizes the great service to the public which could come from this property. "Congress ought to approve a lease to a corporation directed by Henry Ford along the lines of his hid. I shall do what I can to help bring about such a result." Atlanta, Oa., May 20.?A fore cast of gradual, but steady im provement in business conditions throughout the country, and a sug gestion that Georgia pass a law permitting farmers to plant cotton only in alternate years were heard by "delegates at the concluding ses sion of the Ceorgia Bankers' As sociation here today. , The forecast came from Eugene Meyer. Jr., managing director of the War Finance Corporation, who addressed the convention and the suggestion was made by H. P. Hunter, an Elherton, Oa.. banker, who was elected president of the association. Mr. Hunter proposed that the cotton planting restriction be imposed by counties, which he said ould have a tendency to de stroy the weevil as well as to pre vent too large a surplus of the commodity. m ? ? Augusta, Ca., May 2S.?Joe Jones, a Chinaman, was today charged with murder following the hearing of a coroner's jury into the. death of a. negro Saturday night, the testimony of the witnesses tending to show that the negro was shot through the heart by the Chinaman as the result of a row over a penny's change. _ UNDERTAKING THE CHERRY CO 18 N. Main Street Motor Equipment KELL BR?NS0N Licensed Embalmer. Night Phone 798-L. FIGHT STARTED ON TARIFF BILL Cummins, Republican, of Iowa I Joins Underwood of Ala-j bama and Stanley of Ken tucky in Opposing Provi-j sions of Tariff Bill Being Forced Through Senate Washington. May 2C?The sen- j aie came today to its first big fight j over individual schedules in the j tariff bill. Hates recommended by | the finance committee majority on some steel products came under ? j fire from both the Republican and; Democratic sides of the chamber.! j but as rapidly as votes were taken i the committee was sustained. ; Senator Cummins of Iow.i. one j j of the Republican senators who i fought the Payne-Aldrich bill, j I opened tbe fi^bt on steel plates land announced that he would have} j amendments to offer to many other | I duties in the schedule. Senator; ! Underwood of Alabama, Demo- ? j cratic leader, and Senator Stanley ! j of Kentucky conducted the light; j for the minority. ! Asserting that for years the! j United States Steel corporation had ! } fixed the price on substantially all | j commodities it produced or in which it dealt. Senator Cummins j said the intimacy in the industry j was so close that something be sides competition would have to be j depended upon to fix reasonable j prices. I "I do not want to go to the point-j ! to which we are being forced? j j that of the government fixing: j prices." said Senator Cummins, j "'therefore I am in favor of ad- | ! justing the schedules to permit fair j j competition from abroad, but 11 J do not know that that will be ef j fective." I The Iowa senator and Senators Underwood and Stanley argued j that :he United States could and j did produce steel cheaper than any j other country in the world, and in- j sisted that tariff duties were im- j necessary. Senator Stanley said I the United States was selling in the j markets of the world and that in j the face of that the United States j Steel corporation wanted congress to guarantee its profits against I any possible competition from for- } eign lands. Senator Underwood charaeteriz ed the rates on steel plates as "a j shame and a fraud on the Amor- j I ican people." He urged fhat con- j j gress let the steel industry stand, j ; as it was a giant in the world of | I industry and not "wet nurse it like i j a baby in a crib." In the course of his address,! I Senator Cummins disclosed that he] j was one of the leaders on the ma J jority side, who sought to pre j vent a general revision of the tar j iff at this time. He said that this was not the time for such legisla tion because chaotic conditions in j the world made it impossible to obtain accurate information on j which to act. Senator Walsh, J ;(Democrat) of Massachusetts de-j j clared Republican senators were ! I hearing from home and were re-, j ceiving letters and resolutions prov- j j ing the people had become aware j I that the Democratic contention! i that the bill would increase prices; i was correct. In this connection; j the Massachusetts senator read a! I letter from Julius C. Moss of Bos-; j ton. vice president of the National] i Association of Retail Clothiers, ? ! stating as a result of agitation rela tive to the proposed increase in I the tariff on wool prices of cloth j had advanced 50 cents a yard. Already, Mr. Moss said, the ad- ! j vance in cloth cost meant an in-! 'crease of $1 to $2 for each suit j t of clothes. Washington, May 20.?The gov- j ernment has won in the supreme i j court a suit to have the Southern J ! Pacific company's ownership of ! j Central Pacific railway's declared \ I unlawful. i j The concrete base and curbing! ! for the hard surface highway on i ' Mayesville road has been laid up j to the town out to the brick yard, j The concrete will he finished to the i city limits this week, if no unfore j seen delay occure. As spon as the j concrete is completed the laying i of the asphalt surface will be start jed. Cooper Declares t Trade is Better Columbia, May 2<1.?Trade a^d industrial conditions throughout the nation, particularly the south, show an optimistic tone, is the n essago brought home by former Governor Robert A. Cooper, new member of the Federal Farm Loan Board, when he reached the city today for a week's stay before <ja swing through the southeast on an inspection of farm loan banks. The former executive is looking v.adl and said that while he hftd assumed his duties, he was far from "halter broke." He is ex tremely pleased with his new po sition, particularly from the view point of service to the farmres of the south, and is very outspoken as to the cordiality of his associates on the board. Governor Cooper said that h* had not yet secured suitable living quarters Cor his family. Mrs. Cool er pre. eded him to Columbia sev eral days ago. Mrs. Cooper and the children will reside with Mrs. Cooper's relatives at Gaffney until the fall months after leaving the Governor's mansion June 5. The former executive and his family arc now busily packing prepara tory to departure. The former governor told his newspaper friends that he would give out a statement relative to the last eighteen pardons issued by him just as he was leaving office. He expects to do this in the next few days. These have been se verely criticized by the, press of the state. He thinks he can brush away the cobwebs. This he can un doubtedly do in most of the cases but at least in three of them he will have to remain silent because of the situation surrounding them, as his newspaper friends here know and his newspaper friends cannot exploit them. Opposes "Free Range" Cbltfmbla, May 26.^S\atirfg'idefi nitely that he is unalterably oppos ed to "free range," but that h<, would give their arguments careful consideration and come to some final conclusion in a week or ten days, was the decision reached by Governor Harvey today after he had heard the pleas of a delegation of prominent Berkeley County.citi zens asking that the act, passed at the last session of the general as sembly,' exempting a certain por tion of the county from the provis ions ol the state-wide stock ^aw until 1923, be signed by the gov ernor. The delegation, composed of Oc tavus Cohen. J. A. Harvey, C. M. Wiggins, J. Russell Williams, M. M. Murray and D. McK. Winter, argued that the cattle in theterri ?tory affected were very poer. and that the meager price brought by them would not justify the owner3 in fencing in their land. The.gov ernor was in sympathy with their condition, but he had to "give the matter careful study before he act ed. This bill, with two ethers of similar import, are a heritage from Governor Cooper's administ*S?68, The state-wide stock law which would be extended in the case of Berkeley was passed at.the. 1921 session of the general, assembly after a memorable tight, ajw^js^as signed by Governor Coop'er..3?arch^. 2, 1921. The Sumter Eric.k Works have hooked an order for Dixie Texture brick in Montreal, Canada. Turn about is fair play?for many years this newspaper and many others in South Carolina were printed on pa per manufactured in Canada. WANTED?Country hams. Will pay best prices. Ducker & Bult raa n. . . k . CASH FOR LOGS?We pay the highest market price for strictly high class ASH, POPLAR and ! ('V PR ESS 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 Tots. Get my prices before you buy. J. P. Commander. The National Bank of South Carolina < Of Sumter, S. C. The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Capital $300,000 Surplus and Profits $280,000 * STRONG AND PROGRESSIVE ?5 Give iis the Pleasure of Serving YOU. The Bank With the Chime Clock. i C. G. ROWLAND, Pres. EARLE ROWLAND, Cashier CONDENSED REPORT OF THE CONDITION OP 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 capital Stock.$ 100.OOC.00 Overdrafts 1,667.96, us ^M*.** United States Bonds.. 111,000.00 Other Securities_ 27.33o.l2 ; Undivided profits Ranking House. 35,000.00 1 (earned) . 25,650.63 Cash in vault and in Circulation. 49,109.00 Banks ._ 160,148.15 Peposits -. 799.145.57 5 per cent. Redemp- ' B?!s Pavable. None tion Fund. 2,500.00 ; Rediscounts . None t Total.$1,123,896.20 j Total.$1,123,896.20 DEPOSITORY OF THE ? United States, Postal Savings Fund, County of Sumter and City of Sumter We toUcit Accounts of Corporations. Manufacturers, Merchants and Individuals.