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Sumter Men at the Reunion?. The following: personals were taken from the Darlington News j and Press: : Judge T. E. Richardson, of Sum ter, a loyal patriot and one . of the best informed men in South Caro lina upon history, past and present, was one of the welcomed old vet erans from his town. Colonel John J. D?rgan, a na tive Darlingtonian. now of Sumter, was an honored veteran who was at the reunion. Colonel Dargan was one of the especially invited ?speakers on the official program, and his address, in subject matter, patriotism and fearless truth, was decidedly one of the outstanding fuatures of the great occasion. : Bditor X. G. Osteen was one ot the well-known South Carolinians who attended the reunion, entire ly as a soldier of the Confederacy. T^hrough many years Mr. Osteen has been editor of The Southron, Saunter, and his career has been a long, useful and honored one. His j?i5it to the sanctum of The .News aid Press was much appreciated. The Mothers" Club: ' ?The Mothers' Club wishes to ex press its hearty thanks to all who in any way helped to make the fjecent Child's Health Conference - tie great success that it was. Spe cial credit i3 due the president, 3j?rs. John Wilson, who by her un- j taring efforts worked out the de tails of the conference. Also, ?gratitude is hereby extended to our efficient doctors who responded so ireely and cheerfully tc this call for the welfare of our children; to Mifcs Antonio Gibson and the" corps of nurses who. rendered invaluable service: to the teachers who were so thoughtful for" ' the entertain ment of the children; to the per apns who made special lectures^ to ?Be/parties furnishing helpful and attractive literature for distribu tion; to the merchants who made appropriate displays; to the Sum ter Daily Item for publishing nu merous announcements, and to thk First Baptist Sunday school for the' use of its house which proved an ideal place for holding such a conference. .j The mothers of the 245 children who received examination express ed deep appreciation of the oppor tunity afforded them and in many cases have already followed up the advice given them, by examining physicians. It is regretted that all! mothers did not use this privilege ??r their children. Corbett-Pritchard. ? " Miss Ethel Corbett of Paxville and Mr. J. L. Pritchard of this city were married at Spencer. N. C, oh ^Wednesday of this week. ? Both young ' people are well known in Sumter and have many friends in this vicinity, Mr. Pritch ard having been,, connected with the Sumter Dry' Goods Co., until recently when he accepted a po sition as traveling salesman. Miss Corbett has been teaching school at Spencer, N. C, the past season. Af ter a trip to Washington the hap py bride and groom will return to Spartanburg, which will be their future home. lV Ha tfieM-Godwin. r A quiet, but beautiful wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Hatfield in Florence Thursday evening, June 1st, when their daughter, Gaynell Easterbrook, was given in marriage to Mr. Lonnie Huron Godwin, a prosperous young business man of Summerton. The bride is an accomplished and very popular young ladj*. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple left on ;$heir honeymoon and after June | 15th will be at home to their j friends in Summerton. ???? ? Missionary Meeting. * ithe. divisional meeting of San tfee Baptist association was held on Thursday. June 1, with the Pa'x *5lle church. The exercises were? opened with devotional service,] conducted by Miss Jessie Broadway, j - The theme: True Light?In the j world ye shall have tribulation?j was discussed by Mrs. J. O. Bar-. .'wick. Mrs. Hodge .and Mrs. Har- j sin of Paxvilie each read a paper, j Miss Hettie White made an inter- j esting talk on children's work and \ mothers* co-operation. At noon the meeting adjourned j for dinner, and a most bountiful repast was provided by the ladies of the church, which was served on the church lawn. The afternoon session was open ed" with a short devotional ser vice, conducted by Miss White, af ter which Mrs. J. J. Martin gave a Sunbeam entertainment, which was interesting, and the part taken by each child was well carried out and reflected credit on the untir ing efforts of Mrs. Martin in train ing the children. The meeting was a pleasant and ' interesting one. Those attending from Sumter; were Mrs. C. S. Curtis, Miss Hettie White, Mrs. C. W. McGrew and Mrs. J. O. Barwick and John and Greg- \ orie Barwick. When the road contractors begin work on the Camden-Stateburg road and the Wedgefield-Pinewood road, there will remain only the Black river road, the Oswego road and the Green Swamp, of the main thoroughfares leading into Sumter. not in the hands of road builder-. The traveling public will suffer some inconvenience for a time, but those first sections of the hard surface highways will be complct- ! ed before fall and then traveling will be a pleasure. The first sec tion of the Mayesville road will be; completed before the other roads, but the Manning and Fishopville ' roads should not be- far.,behind the Mayesville. The girl question is ?'Has he sot: a car?" minty news 1 Business League Will Have Picnic. It has been decided by the Young Men's Business League that instead of having a luncheon next JThurs day as is its habit, that this*month it would gather at a picnic instead. The idea is to have an old time basket picnic, Thursday afternoon, at Cain's Mill. The committee in charge con sists of Messrs. P. M. Parrott. F. E. Gibson, and J. H. Levy. AH mem bers are requested to see their group captains for particulars: all cap tains are asked to consult with the committee so to be familiar with plans and details The league at present is working on raising funds for the publishing of the survey of Sumter county that has been prepared by Messrs. j Aaron Green and Ralph Ramsey, j students at the University. The preparation of' this survey was a I part of their work in economics, and . so far as "these gentlemen were concerned their papers could have been dropped into the waste bas ket after the professor had gone over it. The result of their work is valuable, however, and after looking into it. the league decided to undertake the effort to raise the funds to print it. The group cap tains are on this - collection now. These surveys are becoming part of the assets of each county. It is said that this idea was conceived at the University of North Carolina, and the surveys proved to be of such benefit to the communities that other state universities adopt ed the idea, and undertook the work. Raising a considerable sum of money for any cause is an under taking these days, but the league's plan was to divide the amount, in-, to many small parts, so that there would be no burden on anyone. PRESENT WEEVIL CONDITIONS No Need for Extreme Pessi mism as to Damage Clemson College. June 3?-After a conference here between Direc tor W. W. Long, of the Extension Service, Prof. A. F. Conradi, En tomologist, and V. V. Williams, until recently associated with B. R. Coad at the Delta Laboratory and now with the Extension Ser vice to conduct poisoning demon strations in this state, Director Long issued a statement oh the boll weevil situation to the effect that many of the insects; new present on cotton in various parts of the state are not boll weevils but cow pea pod weevils," and that -farmers need not become panicky over the presence now of abundant boll weevils, since the real- loss to be expected depends on weather con ditions in June and July. Direc tor Long's statement, which should tend to temper the alarm now felt by many, is given below: "A great majority, of the weevils in most of the cotton' field3 at this time are cowpea. pod weevils and not boll weevils.' Those insects in most cases look so very much alike that it is difficult for the average man to distingiush them. The cowpea pod weevil is not" pri marily a cotton pest but occurs ! on cotton only temporarily in the I absence of cowpe?s. This pest is [most injurious along the line from ! Barnwell to Marlboro county. In ' this, belt it is expected every sea j son at this time, and the most suc cessful practice is to delay chop | ping of young cotton until the at | tacks are over. Wherever these I insects attack cotton that has been j chopped to stand the value of j rapid thorough cultivation cannot be over estimated, j Sommer Weather Main Factor "The fact that the boll weevil I passed the winter in great numbers j and may be expected in cotton fields j at this time in unusual abundance, I does not necessarily mean great j damage to the cotton crop. Situ j aations like this have occurred be I fore in the history of the weevil j in this country, where they came out of winter quarters early and [in great numbers, causing a pan I icky condition among the farmers, j The loss that we may expect de j pends on the weather conditions of [June and July. I "With the approach of hot I weather the present generation of I weevils may yet be. practically de stroyed, so that the abandoning of a cotton crop at this time could j hardly be justified by the records, j The cotton should be given frequent ; and shallow cultivation to keep I down the weeds and to air the j soil. As the bulk of the cotton ! crop in South Carolina is made j by share-croppers, the women and children should be used to pick I weevils, and this should be so sup j ervised that it is done with great j thoroughness, otherwise it has no j value whatever. I "The damage done by weevils in | juring the bud at this time is fre ; quently ovr restimated, the only ef j feet being slightly delaying the j growth of the plant, j "Farmers prepared for dusting are advised that the first dusting may be given in heavily infested fields about the time fruiting be | gins, and this to be followed by the second application when ten to j fifteen percent of the squares have j been punctured, at which time three j dustings should be given in succes j sion four days apart. Infestation ! counts are easily made by any j one and directions are furnished I by the Extension Service." m m m I The term of Mr. Bartow Walsh, : one of the members of the Board of Education will expire on the I 13th of June. Mr. Walsh has been [a very faithful and efficient mem ; b**r of the board for several years; and he will doubtless stand for re-election. The notice of the elec tion appears elsewhere in our col umns. m m ? Most people who have nothing ?<? do oiake the mistake of doin? it. A Sketch of Our City Schools. The present school system in Sumter had its origin in 1848, when the Hon. John B. Miller presented to the trustees a tract of laad which now constitutes our school green. In.making this gift, he stipulated that it was to* be used for school purposes, and on this lot was erected the old Sumter Academy, but the building was burned about the close of the War Between the States. Mr. Miller died in 1850. but dur ing his very active life, he found ed the First Baptist church. He was for many years one of the leading lawyers of this section of the state. Mr. E F Miller, a pres ent day citizen, of Sumter, is his grandson . It was forty years after Mr. Miller's death, before the first pub lic school was organized. In 1889 the graded schools had their birth with Mr. John B. Duffie as super intendent and Mr. Victor R. Pringle as principal. There were seven other teachers. A house on the property where the home of Mr. I A. C. Phelps now stands was used ! as the school. ! During this period prior to 1SS9, ; there were many private schools from time to time, where the boys and girls attend. Men and wo men in Sumter from forty-eight years of age, or thereabouts, on up will remember these schools very well indeed. ' In 1890, Mr. S. H. Edmunds re lieved Mr. Pringle as principal. In 1892, an effort was made to raise $15,000 by floating a bond issue and at first there was considerable opposition because some of the property owners could not be led to believe that it would become necessary in the course of one hun dred ^-ears to use a school that large. In 1895 Mr. S. H. Edmunds be came superintendent and Mr. D. L. Rambo principal. The children were now occupying the Washing ton street building which is still used as one of our schools. From that day to the present the schools have been under the supervision of j Dr. Edmunds and the corps of! teachers has increased from nine to about forty-five. In 1901 and 1902, the military feature was introduced at the schools by several boys, .who for their own amusement had organ ; ized themselves into a squad and were using .22 calibre rifles. Among ! these boys were William S. Man ning, Bernard Manning, David Loring, Hasell Dick, Rob Cooper and Vivian Manning. These young sters carried their idea farther and were directly and almost solely re sponsible for the schools of Sum ter possessing this very m excellent feature today. It is. this military drill in our public schools which has probably attracted more fa vorable attention than any other phase of the school 'work here. Any school such as ours comes to be the center of the community j life. As some literary person hasj expressed it, the schools are large j ovens in which the characters of our future citizens are baked and we should be most careful in our selection of those who are to reg ulate the fires of the oven to see that the future citizens of our state and nation are given a fair oppor tunity. Sumter citizens have no reason j thus far to feel aught but pride j at the . stand our boys and girls j have taken in the various colleges where they have been in attend- j ance or are in attendance at pres- j ent. Hagood News and Hews. ? , Rembert, June 2.?Miss Mar- j garet Lenoir, youngest daughter of j Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Lenoir and Mr. j Frank Armstrong of Pickens, are to be married in Camden, Saturday June 3, at 12 M. Both Mrs. W. J. Spencer and j Mrs. S, W. Allen are better at this j writing. } The other week some parties, white it is supposed, removed some "cotton belonging to Mr. Carl Emanuel from an outhouse. Be-, fore they got it to their truck in waiting alarm was given and Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel pursued them several miles. Last week two bales of cotton were stolen from our near neigh- j bor, Mr. Phil Emanuel. the par- j j ties covering their trail so well that ; search seemed vain. Wednesday* C. M. Emanuel with Hamilton Boy- j i kin with others* got busy and j through information obtained in j your city not only got the cotton ! but two of the parties, colored, im [ plicated. A while back some one relieved j the excess of Mr. Burrel Moody's ! pile of cotton by a bale or two and j last year parties unkown. of j course, lightened Tom Wright's j (colored) pile. Cotton stealing was j becoming common here. It is j hoped the recent roundup will be j beneficial. j Last year it was a frequent com plaint on the "Peninsula" that hen j ! roosts were being visited. No one | j was overtaken but the new year j brought a change of residence of} I one or two parties and the thieves \?at least one?were overtaken, f The "paw" in the family that i rakes out the chestnuts is often j i "maw." ] j Short health rule: "Lie low, go | ! slow, keep cool."?Kipling. j Mr. W. S. Thompson, in declin- j j ing health, contemplates a visit to j I the infirmary in Columbai soon. ; The Y. W. G. A. of Columbia! ! will be in camp next week at Din | kins' Mill. "Hagood." j ^ On Sunday night, Mr. David j Silverman, formerly a member of j the Russian Symphony orchestra".! delighted the congregation oC Trin ity Methodist with several beautiful! violin selections. A cut of the graduating class of the High School which was to be | run in today's issue of The Item J failed to arrive from the engraver in time to be used. It will be printed in tomorrow's paper if re ceived in time. They way. tojisuxo sinoke kills germs, and there are germs in kisses, so what could you expect j ?rr<>m a flapper? I MINERS REJECT PROPOSAL Tribunal Appointed by Presi dent Not Wanted?Union Officer Declines to Give Grounds for Refusal Xew York, June 2.?A proposal that President Harding be asked to appoint a tribunal to settle the anthracite coal strike, proffered by the operators today before the joint subcommittee no wage con tract negotiations, was not accept ed by the miners. Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, declined to state ? on what grounds the proposition was turn ed down, except to declare it "ob jectionable." Labor members'of the joint sub committee announced they will call a meeting of the general anthra cite scale committee at Hazelton, Pa., next Tuesday to*frame a coun ter proposal. The invitation to President Harding, to which the miners re fused to subscribe, asked him * to "appoint a commission or tribu nal to find a practicable meth od by which prompt operation of the mines may be resumed pend ing its ultimate decision and also to seek and recommend a method by which future suspensions or strikes may be avoided." "Thus," said S. D. Warriner, chairman of the operators' dele gation to the wage conference, "we place ourselves unreservedly in the hands of the president, with out strings or qualifications. We want the mines as soon as pos sible. SUN YAT SEN AT HEAD OF ARMY Peking, June (By the Associated Press).?Sun Yat Sen. president of the South China republic, who so far has failed to reply to proposals to join Wu Pei Fu and members of the old republican parliament in their program to reunite the north and south; is reported continuing his hostile march northward at the. head of 30,000 men/ Sun Yat Sen, with his troops, is reported to have reached Kanchow. province of Kiangsi, from which he is expected to launch a drive against Xanchang, capital of Ki angsi. It is reported that the cap ture of Xanchang would be follow ed by a descent into the Yangtse river valley. Advices from the south indicate that Sun. who backed Chang Tsao lin, loser in the recent short lived campaign, still remains hostile to the victor, Wu Pei Fu. Sun also is expected to question the legality of the session of the republican parlia ment held yesterday at Tientsin. . The present situation in China appears to indicate that Sun Yat Sen stands between two fires.- ~ To the north is Wu Pei Fu, backed by a well trained army flushed with its recent victory over Chang Tsao lin. At Wu's back is Tsao Kun.! military power of the north, and the members of the old republican parliament of China. To the south is Chen Chiung Ming, outstanding military leader in that territory, formerly a supporter of Sun Yat Sen, but who a few days ago de manded that Sun resign the presi dency of the South China republic. Chen's troops are said to be' be tween Sun and his capital at Can ton. Method for Determining Boll Wee vil Infestation. Clemson College, May 30.?The following method of determining the percentage of boll weevil infes tation is advised, by the Entomol ogy Division: ' Make counts of 100 squares or forms at each of five joints in the field. These points should be prop erly distributed to represent aver age conditions. One point should be near each corner and one near the center of the field. Examine the squares or forms on the plant and not those from the ground. During each count of 100 squares pull off those that are punctured but let those which are not punctured remain on the plant. The punctured squares may be put in a small sack. After the count at each point has been com pleted, the punctured squares should be counted, recorded, and then discarded to prevent any pos sibility of confusion with the counts at other points. When counts have been made at all five points in a| field an average percentage of punc- j tured squares should be made. j For example: Make counts of! 100 squares at five points, north, j east, south, and west corners, and j near the center of the field. Sup- i pose the results were as follows: ?Squares Squares Squares Exam- not Puric ined Punc tured tured. Northwest corner 100 SO 20 Xorthwest corner 100 90 10 Southwest corner 100 75 25 Southwest corner 1U0 95 5 Center 100 85 15 Total for field 500 425 75 Divide the total number of punctured squares by 5, the num ber of points examined. The re sult in the above example is 15, which represents the average num ber of punctured squares per 100. or 15 percent. The counts should be made for each field. To simplify the counts a hand tally counter may be used to great advantage ax it does all the count ing by pressing a small lever as each square is counted. It. relieves! the one counting of. any head work. ' These tally counters can be pur chased from the hardware stores in Charleston and oth<-r places. In making the counts at each point in the field it is not necessary to count all the Squares on a stalk of cotton. <'ount average number from each stalk, from several rows at each point. It is usually best to start counting on the second or third row from the edge of the Held and about the same distance from the end of thM r*?ws at each cor ner of the field. MUSCLE SHOALS PLAN NOT YET WORKED OUT I _? Work of Attempting to Re concile Differences in Lan guage Goes On Washington, June 2 (By the As sociated Press)?Work of recon ciling differences in language con | tained in the plan approved by the i house military committee for de I velopment by private enterprise I of the government projects at j Muscle Shoals, Ala., and the lan jguage used by Henry Ford in ex [ pressing the terms of his offer was renewed today by the committee in session .with W. B. Mayo and J. W. Worthington. Upon the efforts of the conferees to work out an agreement satis factory to the parties involved, the j fate of Mr. Ford's proposal de I pended in so far as its favorable ! or ..unfavorable submission by the j committee to the house is concern j ed. First discussions centered up ; on the fertilizer provisions of the ! committee's plan as compared to \ that rewritten by Mr. Ford in De I troit and submitted to the com mittee yesterday by Mr. Worthing ton. No progress was made at the morning session to harmonize the I two paragraphs relating to ferti ; lizer manufacture at Muscle Shoals. IThe discussions were renewed la I ter in the afternoon when the con I ferees met informally for the sec ond time. Their plan contemplat ed a joint rewriting of the pro ? visions which could be communi jcated to Mr. Ford and his attitude I ascertained in a way to permit a i report to be made before the com ! mittee at its formal session tomor jrow. The second point of controversy between the committee and the motor manufacturer, involving the Gorgas steam plant, awaited dis position of the fertilizer question. CRISIS IN IRISH AFFAIRS Arthur Griffith Makes Answei to Lloyd George That Pre vents Break in Negotiation ! London, June 2 (By the Asso ! ciated Press).?With a touch of the ! dramatic, similar to that which ! featured the signing of the treaty creating the Irish Free State last December, the negotiations between the British government and repre sentatives of the Irish provisional regime tonight were saved from a possible breakdown by Arthur Griffith, president of the dail eire ann, making a last minute answer to six quc^lons put to him by the British cabinet yesterday. With his characteristic optimism Premier Lloyd George answered this morning that he was sure that the trend of the Irish situation would permit of his departure for a week-end. The premier decided that the answers were satisfactory and immediately departed for Wales. He will return to London next Tuesday when the conferences will be resumed. The questions the British govern ment asked have not been made public, but it is understood they concern the drafting of the Irish Free state constitution and its re lation to the treaty. They were submitted to Mr. Griffith and Mi jchael Collins. After deliberating !on them it was decided that Mr. i Collins should return to Dublin and [take counsel with his colleagues, j; Meanwhile Mr. Griffith remain ed in London and tonight handed his answer to a secretary from Mr. Lloyd George's office, who had been waiting at Mr. Griffith's hotel. Later Mr. Griffith left the city for Ireland. Before departing, he said he had little to make public, except to say that the situation ap peared the same as it was in De cember. He would not venture to assert that the prospects had brightened. He will return to Lon don Tuesday. The extreme gravity of the state of affairs between the British, the Free State and the Ulster govern ments is reflected in the airtight ban that has been placed on all news of what has happened in the conference here since Colonial Sec retary Churchill's statement in the house of commons that it might be necessary to reoccupy reland. Col. J. J. Danran Addresses Veter ans at DarUnston. (Darlington News and Press) The absence of Gen. Julian S. Carr was greatly regretted, and the next number on the official program was an address by Col. John J. Dargan, a native Darlingtonian, The variety of patriotism which comes from Col. Dargan is a fine blend. It comes from a cultivated scholar, from a Southerner whose heart is devoted to the develop ment of the highest interest of his country, who is of broad philan thropy, who insists that history must be correctly written, and who speaks his own honest con victions, whether or not they may be pleasing. Colonel Dargan again was ar dent and true, patriotic and broad in what he said, and he held his hearers with closest attention. There were applause and cheers, there was bowing of heads in ap proval, and this even when the gifted speaker was treading upon delicate ground, for such an occa sion. If Dempsey wants a job there seem to be several senators looking for a fight. West to Manage Coker College. Hartsville, .Tune 3.?W. B. West, secretary uf the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' association, has been appointed business man ager of Coker college at Hartsville, effective July 1. according to an announcement of Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of Coker. Mr. West is named to succeed A. B. Lambdin, who h.-ts been the business manag er for two years, coming to 'the college from West Virginia. Mr. Lambdin goes to Connecticut to take up work there. SHORT COURSE FOR WOMEN I Opportunity For Mature Wo men to Renew Their Youth at Winthrop College The Short Course for Women of fered at Winthrop College for the first time during the summer ses sion of 1916 has become an annual event which is "looked forward to 1 by all who know anything about this fine opportunity open to wo men. When the request came to the college from the State Federa tion of Women's Clubs to arrange such a course for mature women, she gladly responded to the call to service, for she wishes to meet the needs not only of the younger wo men of our state, but of all the women of South Carolina. Thus each year this short course is of fered to aid the busy woman in the home in keeping abreast with the times; to furnish her with an op portunity to renew her youth, to live again, in spirit, the" life of a college girl. The course this year will take place July 10-22, inclusive. Miss Leila A. Russell, who, each year, has charge of the details of this course states that President John son has secured a splendid faculty for the summer school and these educators will serve as instructors for the Short Course. Some of the most eminent men and women in ! the United States have been engag ! ed as lecturers for the period of I this course. j , The women who have attended j this course year after year look i upon it as a delightful two weeks' outing which may be had at small j expense. Catawba Hall will again ! be open to accommodate mothers j with infants. Children large enough to be left at home will not be ad mitted to the dormitory. The dining room is not open to children and hence the difficulty of securing food fof them". " A" mother with an infant can secure a nurse after she arrives. Those women who ex ! pect to attend should write Miss j Leila A. Russell, Winthrop College, j Rock Hill, S. C, for further in I formation. t Simply that of nine dollars per week for board, or two dollars per day for a period of shorter dura tion. , ?? ? . Shun Liquid Sprays for Poisoning Boll Weevil. Tallulah, La., May 25.?A warn ing against liquid sprayer attach ments to cotton poisoning ma chinery-is issued by B. R. Coad, director of the boll weevil labora tory of the United States depart ment of agriculture. Calcium arse nate applied as a dust, he points out, is the only certain means yet found for controlling the boll wee vil and any effort at control by means of liquid sprays is useless. Sprayer attachments are, therefore, not only unnecessary but are an added burden. They increase the j cost of - the- machinery and make it ! more complicated and difficult to I operate. The liquid spray! even if ! it were as effective as the' dust I method would be decidedly m?re I expensive. It would necessitate the use of water carts, to feed the m? I chines and demand an ample and j constant water supply which is j not available on most farms, and j in various ways would increase the j cost' of poisoning operations. Or ! chardists and others who have to ? conduct poisoning operations regu j larly are constantly searching for j poisons that can be dusted instead ! of sprayed. Cotton growers are i very fortunate in that the one j really effective method of con trolling the boll weevil is the dust j method and they should not waste jtime and money. Mr. Coad points 1 out, in experimenting with the ex | pensive spray methods that farm ; ers in other lines are so constantly j trying to get away from, j In addition to the foregoing } spraying (equipment we also find ! on the market many curious devices j for applying some liquid prepara ! tion, usually containing calcium I arsenate, for the control of the ! boll weevil. Some of these are co j be attached to plows., ' others to J cultivators, while still others run j independently. They are usually j provided with some exceedingly j simple form of tank with a grav j ity Mow of liquid, which either i drips on the plants or is wiped on i them by some form of brushes or I rags. Many such implements are i absolutely comical, and the only I sad feature is the fact that some j farmers are foolish enough to pur I chase them. The literature ad j vertising these implements prom : ises wonderful results and the di I rections given often call for only j a small fraction of a pound of i poison per acre, which is distribut ; ed over the plants in. a very ir J regular manner. Tc expect boll i weevil control from such methods I is absolutely absurd. The depart I ment specialists have been attempt- | I ing boll weevil control with liquid j i applications for many years. In j these tests they use the finest avail- j : able high pressure spraying ma I chinery. distributing the liquid j j poison over the plants in a mist j ! form, thus reaching absolutely I ! every part of the plant. Further-1 ! more, these applications are usual- j I ly made at the rate of 100 gallons I of solution per acre. In spite of j ! this these spray applications do not j control the boll weevil, and how i ca.n anyone expect to secure bene i tit from the absurd recommenda I tions issued with some of the *na ! chines now offered the farmers? Farmers who desire more detail ed information on this subject I may secure it free of charge by I writing the Delta Laboratory, Tal lulah, Louisiana. j While returning from Florence Sunday aftrenoon an automobile belonging to Mr. T. R. Evans of j i this city caught on fire on the road near Cartersville and burned I completely up. The occupants, Mr. Evans, daughter and a party of friend's, barely had time to get out of the burning machine. "Work has been going on in a Japanese shipyard 1.900 years. ? \ News Item. A government job. FIGHT ON CHILD LABOR RENEWED Permanent Organization is Formed by Representatives of Number of National Associations Washington, June 1.?A perma nent organization to work for "ab solute abolition of child labor In the United States" was formed here today by representatives of a number of national associations called into conference on the sub ject by Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor. The meeting was ar ranged by Mr. Gompers following the recent decision of the United States supreme court holding that special excise taxes on the product of minor labor were invalid. I Spokesmen for the new organ ization, after a conference at the American Federation of Labor headquarters, appeared before the house judiciary committee to urge legislation prohibiting or regulating I employment of children in mines, factories and similar arduous oc cupations. Representaive Chandler (Repub lican) of New York said it was the opinion of himself and other members of the committee that the supreme court's ruling had made it impossible to accomplish any thing by legislative regulation un less and until a constitutional, amendment had been adopted. The organization formed today to institute a campaign for such an ! amendment will be known as "The j Permanent Conference for the Abolition of Child Labor." Mr. Gompers accepted the, post, of per [ manent chairman. A committee of ten was appoint - > ed to draft a constitutional amend - I ment and "the best form of law" i to meet the situation. This com mittee will report to the*confer ence at a later meeting when ac tion on its recommendations will be taken. The conference adopt ed a resolution introduced by President Gompers which declar ed that the conference expresses it self determinedly organized "* *?to abolish child labor for, profit throughout the United States, its possessions and territories." In addressing the conference and commenting on the hearing on child labor before the house judiciary committee, Mr. Gompers said that "if the atfitU'Ie of the committee is a guide to congressional senti ment: we have a fight on "our hands, strange and mid-Victorian as that may seem." ? ... Mr. Gompers said that congress men were engrossed. in f matters which they deemed of more con sequence, "in the stern, business of getting Teelected:" "It is amazing, and astounding that it should' be necessary to .ask congress to protect 'childhood," Mr. Gompers said, "congress ought to : be eager to perform this duty. Ex pressions from "committee members I this morning, however, indicated much more of a desire to find a way out than to find a way through to success; But congress will get no rest. The issue is before1 the coun try. We are prepared to fight the issue through- to a conclusion that shall be final and that shall at last bring freedom' to American child hood." ' ?" m ? <m ?? Explosion Fatal Dr. Hemingway Killed When Tank Explodes ^ Hemingway, June 2.?Dr. W. C. Hemingway die dthis afternoon at 5 o'clock as a result of a gasoline explosion, this morning. The in terment will take place at Union church, of Rome, at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Was Sterilizing Instruments. Kingstree. June 2.?Information .has just been received here of the death of Dr. W. C. Hemingway this afternoon, caused by the explosion of a gasoline tank, while he was sterilizing some surgical instru ments. The accident occurred about noon today, at .Hemingway. j COURT DECIDES FOR M'CORMICKi Chicago, June 2.?Appointment of Harold F. McCormick as guard ian of his .17-year-old daughter" Mathilde, was filed in probate court today. Legal action by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick' to restrain Mr. McCormick from* giv ing his consent to the marriage of Mathilde to Max Oser^ Swiss riding master, has been dropped, accord ing to Charles S. Cutting. Mrs. Mc Cormick's attorney. "There will be no more court proceedings," Mr. Cutting told re porters. Mr. Cutting admitted Mrs. Mc Cormick had the support of John D. Rockefeller, her father, in her opposition to. the marriage. "Mrs. McCormick has always been opposed to this match," he said. "She has always been trying through conferences with Mr. Mc Cormick to offset it in some rea sonable way. Then the marriage seemed inevitable, so she took the court action. "Mr. Rockefeller's \iews have been plain concerning such foreign alliances. He has been quoted fre quently in Eastern papers that none of his wealth would be taken abroad." x Mrs. McCormick's final objection to the marriage, it was reproted to day, was that under the Swiss law the wife of a Swiss subject would have practically no rights in her own name. Chicago, June 3?The court fight against Mathilde McCormick's international marriage to Max Os er ended abruptly in court today, when Mrs. McCormick withdrew her petition restraining the mar riage. On June 1st Capt. C. F. Whitted took over the management of the Imperial Hotel. The business will be in charge of Mr. M. B. Cox as active manager. COTTON PRODUCTION AND PRICES Mr. Dabbs Quotes Opinion of Memphis Cotton Expert Editor Daily Item: Some comments on the cotton situation as I see it may be of in-, terest to my friends among: th? readers of your paper. We have had continuous wet weather since February. Many fields were plant ed on badly prepared soil. Some did not come up at all and have been planted over even since the 15th of this month. Owing to bad stands, much replanting, cold ana wet weather some fields are so. poorly cultivated that I look for their abandonment. Many fields have little or no fertilizer. On the early and well cultivated cotton boll weevils are being found iff great numbers. These aue condi tions as I see them in this sec tion. The following extract from a let ter from Geo. I?. Fossick, the cot ton editor of the Memphis Com mercial Appeal indicate that thesf conditions are general. I have met Mr. Fossick very pleasantly at sev eral conferences in Memphis and was impressed with his absolute fairness in trying-1/> find out the ac tual facts 'about cotton withofiut bias to either the producer or con sumer. Fifteen or twenty years of ksuch study with correspondents in every ? section of the cottonv bstt have made the Commercial Appeal the greatest authority on cotton in the world. Under date of May 15th Mr. Fos sick writes: **My dear Mr. Dabbs: I regard any crop materially leas than twelve million bales as ind? cating higher values, if not in the f?ll, certainly before the 1?2S crop begins to move in volume. If we have less than eleven million bales . I look for higher values from the time the - fact is established with . reasonable certainty^ ? unt|f there is ? prospect of raisingr four teen million bales at least. I think however," that we must take into account the purchasing power of the people and I am not at aU sure, that the world can consume more than ten million bales in a year if the. price is. above thirty cents pound and probably not more than twelve million bales if the price Is above twenty-five ceats*. * * It is my impression that, about fifty, per cent of the planting this yea*? is late and will be exposed to boll weevil depredations to such an ex tent that it seems folly to h>ve planted at all. Cotton in. Mem? phis territory is up to a good stand and much has been worked out, at though grass is gaining headway. Rains have been too frequent * *.* If we do not produce more eotton to the acre than we produced last year it will require at least lffigr per cent increase in acreage to? pro duce a crop of twelve million bales/* It is a far cry from nineteen or twenty cents- to twenty-five -or thirty cents. It is also a far cry from t?* : 960,000 bales to 10,000,000 or 12,; 000*000 bales. If twelve mli??a bales ought to sell for twenty-five cents or above and ten million bales for thirty cents or above and-if the world has ^already consumed on?* million bales more than the^ 1921 crop and 4s now-tssing the carry over from former drops the pres ent price is/*cheap?too cheap for us to accept- "This-is a condition not a theory:" What price ought we to have now? It looks to me like it should be wayr. above thirty cents if we but hate the faith to* refuse to sell for less. I believe ;this resume of condi tions from such an authority' as Mr. Fossick deserves tne caretn^ consideration of our people. WV need to get the right perspective before, we sacrifice the cbtton we have sweated over so long to hold for a living price. Not many farmers will ever again have s? much cotton as they have now. We are in very muck the condition o?? 1916-17. A- short crop, no pros pect for a big crop. The period of deflation is swinging toward* even money, if. not inflation. Wi need to recoup some of our loss es. Will We do it? Time will show. E. W. Dabbs. : Salem, Black River, May 22nd. New Device Tests Power of Soil to Support Road An instrument for testing soils on which roads are to be built has been devised by the Bureau "?* Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. It consists of a metal disk resting oh ?the soil and supporting a cylinder I into which shot can be poured. Tne apparatus is held in position verti cally by means of a tripod, at the top of which is mounted a small, j dial that tells to one-thousanth of I an inch how far the disk sinks into [the cylinder. By means of the in strument it is possible to get infor mation as to how the soil will act in wet weather. The kind of soil beneath a road surface has a great deal to do with how it will stand up under modem traffic, and . engineers look upon this as ah important consideration* in determining the kind of road to be built. This is confirmed by a number of instances where two sections of the same road ha\e been" built in exactly the same manner and subjected to the same traffic but on different types of soil. One section has lasted well while the other has broken up in a manner that can only be explained by ajactet of supporting power of the; soil be neath the road. The bureau has for some time been investigating this question* along various lines both in the field' and in the laboratory, studying the characteristics of different soils and experimenting with means to keep, dovrn the moisture content of the soil ?md'thus increase its bearing power...?Tlja.latest development baa' been the new device. - ? M Man says the world is 72.000.^00 years old. No wonder it's wrinkled*