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? 31*;3tfatehman and Southron Published Wednesday and batnr ? ?i-? day ?F Osteen Publishing Company, 'Snmier, S, C. Terms: $2.00 per annum?in advance. Advertisements: One Square, first insertion ..$1.00 ?steery- subsequent insertion .50 ^Oohtr&ets for three months or longer will be made at, reduced rutes... .. J' ??J?l'^communications which sub serve . .private interests will ?e Charged (tor as advertisements. ? Obituaries and tributes of re spect ?*?iVbe charged for. 93xe* Sumter Watchman was fosaaded in- 1-850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman : and. Soaihron now has the com bined circukition and.influence . of both of the old papers, and is man ff^ry.tbe- bes? advertising medium ihiS^jra^er... BEPARATI?X KEDt'CnOX. The chief reason for the failure of'.^he^Genoa conference was that France refused to permit the dis '^attSsion of German reparations. ITranee- was afraid that if the sub ?ect'^were -brought up, there would b?'proposals made to reduce the reperatioa payments, and she was determined4 to prevent that. The situation has changed. What th?.7ppv>erSr refrained! from at Ge noa*.l?ough they knew it was fun damental to European reconstruc tion, "the. ^Reparation Commission itself is doing now. It has voted to* ce?si4er the question of reducing Germany 's' obligations to the Al lies. A?d while France herself ha? noti -altered her attitude, she is placed in a position where she soon- may be forced to yield. She cast the*only vote against this de c?sion. England. Italy and Bel gium .voted against her. The de ^4fftion ,of Belgium is significant. ^Prande -can hardly hold out long against such odds. De^y^wa to discuss reparation rednjcti?n does not necessarily mean 'tl&t the German payments wiH be reduced*, but it makes such a result seem- likely. The present step was taken -to meet the wishes of the bankers' conference in Paris, which has been considering a loan to -Germany. The ? loan itself; is in. tended to enable Germany to meet ?h'e>.?-payments due. The bankers ? ihade ? Jfe clear that the reparation ^ymehts now established, which Constitute a first mortgage onr Geir inany, are so high that any seer ofX# Mortgage would be worthless. -i^J: a foreign loan cannot be ob tained"" "without giving a second ^?idttgage that will satisfy the lenders. - * it seems to.be a question, then, of ?ea>&gj&bwn the reparation pay* &^m,JpX getting no loan to pay i08m^ii$?' And France may be :^8tBiwB^ed^eventually, to accept yte>^i$e\^jo? the matter, in order to'ge^jtwtf^or three-fourths of an in^tt^i?^v'instead of no indemnity ' ??S^y^th^re's one good thing ?ront^Ri?ssian and German money. Nobody-tries to counterfeit it. --**** A K?/ean critic complains that A^erTca^js- "destitute of morality ?fes?; fi*?&tfm." But surely our "mors?s-?re free! '/ * * > Indiana sports that 4 per cent ?f'J&^?&QGl children are feeble ""naiidd^a^^ow, don't go and say that*-*accounts for all the Hoosier patis./ ?>"^. : ' \ * * * jj^^^fgt stuff that girls eat no^.^S^^ays a physician, "leads Bt^jj^^^5>ow legs, knock knees 'an^i^^g^l^-. arches." Never have ''SSS^e^fets of a bad diet been '? * * * K^h^ge% any communication ^h*^^e^:t wrold. why not ask 'Sherman whether a labor union %5* trust? ? l-S- * * * . Thaf- Irish Free State won't be free mttch^kmger if it continues in *i?s pM^aeni-^tate.' CHILD LABOR EM CATIOX A new way of eliminating child labos abuses was suggested and en 3oxs?>d- at-the world convention of the Women's Trade Union League. "This Is to^beKin verv soon after the .kindergarten stage to educate the children themselves in their rights. jTbeyilait is to prevail upon School authorities to widen the ^ curriculum to contain instruction'in ol?dim\nces surrounding child labor in; every state or locality where tifey jexist. This special teaching 5sf ;to-| be supplemented by simple courses in civics. - protective labor lajys and economics, all adapted to tfe^.cbild's mental grasp and to the spells I industrial conditions of in difciSkiaJ communities. rO^Wren who go to work at 14 y?ars or under?and there arc about 300,000 of them In the coun try now?know practically nothing ?bo^**fce*r rights, their needs, the wages they should receive, the con ditions under which they should work or the laws concerning-them j in relation- to their- school or their j work. They would gain by learn j ing about these things. There are undoubtedly ~difficul j ties in the way of such instruction. I But some such courses have al ? ready been introduced in many j high schools and have been found ? useful and successful. If they can be suitably adapted to grade teach ing as. well, without crowding out other important ? studies, they should be productive, of good re sults.. The . children who do not g? to Work, ' but- continue their schooling.-will be more intelligent citizens for this early instruction. VACATION - READING. Vacation reading lists are being made out, perhaps not so univer sally as lists for other vacation equipment, but at least enough to ] warrant a little discussion of the j subject. ? ... j There are those books one has j been meaning to read all winter. They might be mastered now. On - ?> .. .... - ? i the other hand; they lack the freshness of untried volumes, and j might better wait , until one returns 1 ! from the vacation, keen and eager. There is always the popular fic tion, w hich-is devoured all the year arounc. but -which* acquires a fresh hold Oh the public under the guise 1 of "light summer reading." It is I easy tc read, if one can keep awake ! over, it r some of .it is good and de- { serves reading. But a lot of . trash J gets miixed up with it* and the j result is that the vacation ? reader loses rather than gains in the time he'puts on-it. jiw it --might be a happy change to try to adapt the vacation reading*} to the vacation spot* There are ] sea tales and verse which will gain j in charm if they itre interpreted I by the nearness to the sea itself. For those who go into the woods I or mountain to camp-, or into the j country, there are hooks of wodd I craft, of nature, stories of outdoor life which will fit into the atmos phere of the outing- very happily. Henri Fabre, John Burroughs and Thorean come to mind readily, but there are numerous ?others-of wide ly differing purpose and style whose books would make .ideal compan. iofts On sueh Vacations. - The sympathetic librarian, the I bookshop .proprietor who would I rather rejoice -with you over some I fine piece of literature than sell you ia "besr. seller", will prove able as j -sistants m selecting. the particular ' vOhinies 10 suit your need. j ? - . ? ..<?. r-, MERGERS !' I A new tobacco merger has been j announced, involving $157,000,000 of capital. The Tobacco Products Corporation is-being wedded to the ? United Retail Storey Cdrporation, i which controls the stock ownership I of the United Cigar Stores Com pany. AH who- use tobacco should be interested in this. Not the least interesting fact j connected with the merger is that j it will be controlled by James B. ! Duke, founder of the American To | baceo Company and- the British American Tobacco Corporation. Mr. Duke has been out of the game I since the government dissolved the j "tobacco trust"?the American To [ baceo Company?a few years ago. f i j Evidently be judges business condi- ; ! - i tions favorable to his return. I ' ' - ' I I There has been a notable steel J j merger lately, with other steel in- j I dependents arranging to combine, j ! There' are plans completed or go- j I ?ng forward for mergers in meat, j : oil, rubher? automobiles, coal and j j various other things. Indeed, mer ? gers are coming so thick, it is hard I j to keep track pf them. ? They af- | : feet nearly all the principal neces- j j ?aries of life. j The "public shows signs of con- ! j cerri about this merger movement, | . and would like to know more about j ? it. Is it purely economic, in the ! j interest of efficiency', or is it in j tended to evade the letter and spirit j of the anti-trust laws under a guise i of legitimacy? The public has been I pretty friendly to "big business" , i ip recent years, and is now; but ! big businetw must be careful, lest old fears and animosities be arous- ! I - i ;ed. There is only one way in which I !the growth of business to dimen. ; sions eliminating competition can ; ; be tolerable. That is by effective j ; government supervision. -mt ? >? RAnJtOAI) STRIKF HXEGAL? i I ; The United States Supreme i ?. . ? . i ? CoOrt has held, in an opinion re- ; I eently delivered by Chief Justice ; 'Taft with the assent of his associ- j I ates. that a labor union is responsi ? We, and can be sued, for causing! : damages and restraining inter-i ! state commerce in the course of a j strike. Railroad organizations are now j engaged in taking a vote on the ! rpTestion of authorizing their lead ers to call a .strike, as a result of the wage cut ordered by the Rail road Labor Commission. If any railroad strike is called, it may provide the first application of this ruling. ... The nature of the "damages" whose infliction must be paid for by the striking organization is not altogether clear, although it seems to .contemplate losses due to vio lence.. If. this interpretation is cor rect, a peaceful strike would be im mune in this respect. If it covers business losses suffered by employ el's through the.mere suspension of work in their plants, that is a dif. ferent matter, and any body of strikers might be sued. . That would make the ruling amount to a virtual prohibition of strikes, and is therefore hardly thinkable. It is evident, however, that any railroad strike is bound to inter fere with interstate commerce. That would seem to amount to a prohibition of railroad strikes, al though Congress has always re fused to enact any such prohibi tion. For this reason the issue will be awaited with unusual interest. OX WITH PROSPERITY. The director general of the em ployment service of the department of labor says, "The broadening-out. of industry in almost all lines of activity for May clearly emphasizes the fact that the business depres sion is behind us." ? . ?- If- this is really true, it certain ly gives a grand and glorious feel ing. Facts, moreover, seem to be behind the statement. May was the biggest month the automotive industry has yet known. Building construction has boomed to the stage where in 231 principal industrial centers there is an actual shortage of carpenters, bricklayers and plasterers. Texas has already started cutting wheat, and large numbers of men will soon be need ed for harvest fields. "Wisconsin wants laborers for north woods and sawmills; Alabama, laborers all. over the state;. Butte, Mont., ex perienced metal miners for copper; California, experienced lumber workers; Detroit, skilled automo tive labor. ?Certain observations on these facts occur. Most of the demand, where there is a shortage,.is for skilled, labor. The skilled man is the last to be ;fired and the first to be taken on again, and always the best paid. This would indicate that more technical .schools were desir able and that letting children st?T in school long enough to learn useful trades is better than letting them go to work at- ctead-ehd oc cupations at art early age. Also, now that business is on the upgrade, if everybody who owes somebody else a bill will release enough of his hoarded savings to .pay his bill "with, everybody's bils-i iness will be better sooner. ?? j r '' ' * ? t m - - An eminent , volcanologist says that one of the Hawaiian volcanoes is- getting ready to erupt. And probably nobody will pay any at tention to him until after the dis aster is over, and then the inhabi tants of the neighboring country? what there are left of them?will go right back and begin to rebuild their devastated homes. * * * Max says he "refutes these sor did suggestions of commercialism" and "nobody would be more glad than he if Miss McCorrnick should suddenly be relieved of the weight of gold which is crushing her." Suggestion to disapproving rela tives?relieve her of it and see what happens. * * * Is there any joy on earth to compare with that of a child on a ten-eent-a-week allowance when he finds that ice cream cones which used to be six cents apiece are now reduced to five? * ? * It's going to take, more than a generation to eliminate all the grade crossings, and even then neither city nor country roads will be entirely fool-proof. Why not try using a little ordinary caution in the meantime? * * ? "What women want more than anything else, wrote the poet Chaucer, is authority. And yet English peeresses are. sore because they can't get into the House of Lords. Lady Astor knew better, and ran for the House of Com mons. President Melton Receives L.T.. 1). Degree. Columbia. .June TG.? Dr. W. D. Melton, president-elect of the I'niversity, will become president of the institution July 1, according to announcement made today by the trustees, following the close yes terday of the institution's most suc cessful year. The trustees yester day gave Mr. Melton the degree of LL. D. To-day's Best Jokes and Stories A Short Story. Once -upon a time there -was a j married man who liked to stay at j home nights and take his family j everywhere he went. He's dead, j - Today is our birthday, hut we j haven't noticed that any ?of the. j banks are closed. Banks, will please j take notice and don't overlook this again. The Pipinff Costs. j The colored minister had just j concluded a powerful sermon on t "Salvation is Free," and was an- ! nouncing that a collection would i be taken up. Up jumped a broth-1 er in. the back of the church. "If salvation is free," he interrupted,; "what's the use paying for it? I'm not going to give you nothing till; find out. Xow?** "Patience, brother, patience,"! said the parson. "I'll illustrate, j Suppose you were thirsty and came j to a river. You could kneel right down and drink, couldn't you ? And it .would cost you nothing, would it?" "Of course not, that's just what j . I "That water would be free," con- j tinned the p?rson. "But supposing j you were to have that water piped j to your house, you .would have to] pay, would you not?" "Yes, sir, but?" j "Well? brother, salvation is free, but it is having it piped to you that you got to pay for. Pass the j hat, sexton." Think This One Over. A rut is only a small sized grave.?Exchange. They 3ay the road at the end of j Manning avenue extension shows j slight signs of improvement. "Daughter," said the Old Man, sternly,- "I positviely forbid your marrying this young scapegrace! He is an. inveterate poker play-! er!" -j "But, papa," tearfully protested; Alice Hortense, "poker playing is ! not such an awful habit. Why, at] your own club?". I "That's where I got my informa-} tion, .daughter. - I'll have noj daughter of mine bringing home aj man that I can't beat with a flush, j a full house, and -fours."?Rich- j mond Times-Dispatch. j His- Wife: "I do wish I had a new evening frock. Every one will} recognize this- old one." Mr. Nicklepineh: "Oh, just cutj a - little off -each end and they'll' think it's- bran dnew."?Detroit News. Keen Tennis Player (to partner, after winning stubbornly contested game): :'Yoti were absolutely top- j ping. Miss Lovebird. Why, you played just like a?a thwarted wo- j man."-?Punch. "Who's going to. look after this | country while youhg Rockefeller is} in China?" "Otto Kahn."?Life^ Brown: "Smith's new novel, 'The Horrors Of Wedlock,* has made Ihm, a fortune, hasn't it? It's the season's success.". r , Jenes: "Yes, he claims he's made enough out of it to get mar ried on."?Smart Set. Singleton: "What's the matter! with your face? Homebrewers' picnic?" Homescrapper: "You know, Ii bought my wife a glass rollingpin, j thinking she'd be careful not to break it." Singleton: "Yes?" Homescrapper: "She broke it." | ?Judge. Retalation A father and mother wishing to j punish their child for disobedience j told him he could not eat with them j and must have a table for himself j *in the corner of the room. At ? meal time, when the parents were : seated at the table and the boy j was in the corner, they heard the; little fellow saying grace: "O Lord i .1 am thankful to Thee for prepar- j ing a table before me in the pres- .' ence of my enemies." The other morning the steno en- ? tered the office, stamped her feet; and-said: "Gee, my feet are cold."! "No wonder,'' said I, "wearing; those thin kid shoes." "Thin kid! How do you get that \ way?" she retorted, lifting her J skirt. "Look at that heavy calf."? | Tobacco. "If he kicked you, why didn't you ; kick him back?" asked the sympa-j thizer. "Wot! Then it would have been his turn again," replied the abused j one.?Ena reo News. At the spiritualistic seance: "1 want you to call up the spirit of George Washington, madame." "I have him." "Right; now ask him where that dollar landed that he threw across the Potomac river!"?Richmond j ; Times-Dispatch. Howard: "Schuyler sees no fault in his wife." Jay: "Blessed bp the tie that blinds."?Life. Corn, (liquid brand) fell off 30, I points more yesterday. Dm* to ex I cessive rains-and condition of the] I swamps for the past .".<> days an I i active movement upward is ex-j I peeled in the near future or as j soon as the downward movement i has exhausted the present supply; The market is still bullish and will continue to be mooreish in that di- : rection according to experts who j figure that what damage the rains; haven't already done the sun will complete to the present crop. Trad ers are advised to buy as a rise may be expected at any time now. I Hard luck is a polite name for j sleeping sickness.?Ex. . Who Surveyed the Ocean? I ?-** ! ' - ? Tiie news that the South is plari ! hing a memorial to .Matthew Fon taine Maury may give rise to the question on many lips, "Who is Maury ?" "We honor the railroad builders who tracked the wilderness for our easy travel; we take the oceans for granted. An observation car pas senger, conscious of bridges, tun nels, -cuts' and 'tills' realizes that the civil engineer preceded the one in :the cab. But many a trans-At lantic traveler considers that Co lumbus found the way? and that's that," remarks a bulletin from the Washington. D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society. A Famous Tri nm vi rate "In point of fact the observation of winds and currents, the mark ing of fog and iceberg limits and rain areas, and soundings for tem perature constitute a preliminary work without which the. safe and swift ocean travel of today would be impossible. The pioneer in this work was Mathew Fontaine Maury, whose name is as familiar to the navigator as is that of Darwin to the. naturalist. In the early an nals of the American navy he is linked* with Charles Wilkes and Matthew Calbraith Perry." The bulletin then quotes from a communication of Josephus Daniels which relates the fascinating nar rative of Maury's career as fol lows: "Maury early heard the call to the sea. His elder brother had lost his life in the naval service, and his father opposed Maury's ambition to follow the profession that had robbed him of his first born, even though the appointment -came from Sam Houston, then Con gressman from Tennessee. What romantic history hangs around the association of Houston and Maury ?fighters both and American pio neers and statesmen, too! "The consuming passion, which wsfie h'm always follow the path ?f''?uty, did not permit even paren tal objection to dissuade Maury from the high calling in which he was to win primacy. No Naval Academy Then "There was no naval academy when Maury entered the navy. He had. been so proficient in mathe matics in the country school in Tennessee that he was called upon by his teacher to instruct the young er rbpys. and on shipboard he con tinued the methodical study which made him the first scholar and scientist in the navy. - "Using a Spanish work on navi gation, he acquired a knowledge of the Spanish language along with a mastery of a subject essential to a seafaring man. In his watches he drilled into his mind the formu las from notes made below decks. "Laying broad foundations, it was not until his voyage around Cape Horn.when he sought in vain for reliable information as to the winds and currents to be encoun tered and the best paths for the vessel to .follow, that, this need de termined the particular study to which he would devote himself. When but 28 years old he publish ed his treatise on navigation. It attracted favorable attention in this country and abroad and be came the textbook of the navy. . '?Patches of Knowledge** '.'Incapacitated for active service by a broken leg. his ambition for command afloat had ot be aban doned, though while on crutches he applied for sea service, which was denied him. Writing to a friend at this time, he said: Til content myself with cultivating a few little patches of knowledge. What shall they be? Shall they be light and heat, storms or currents? Ship-building or ship-sailing? Steam or projectiles? Hollow shot or gravitation? Gases or fluids? Winds or tides?or??' . "His 'patches of knowledge' grew until they almost covered the geography of the world and all nav al lore, as the waters cover the sea. In his famous 'Scraps from a Lucky Bag.' he advocated the adoption of steam as a motive power and pre dicted a new era in naval warfare of big guns. Did he. dream of a gun that could shoot an hundred miles? "He advocated a naval school for midshipmen, 'that they might be instructed in the higher duties of. their profession.' and urged the use of regular textbooks. .His new. ideas fairly startled old sea dogs, who basked in the glories of tra dition and regarded new things as revolutionary. But the reforms that he proposed delighted the thoughtful and ambitious, and stim ulated study and exploration and science in the navy. Other Scientific Work "In 184 0. he read to a distin guished audience in Washington, composed of the president and en voys and congressmen, a paper. 'The C.ulf Stream and Its Causes.' and later a paper on the connec tion of Terrestrial magnetism with the circulation of the atmosphere. ".Merely to state the varied achievements of this master naval scientist attests his many-sided ser vice. Jn addition to his purely maritime discoveries and accom plishments. Senator Vest declared 'the whole signal-service system of this country originated with the navy, and the man in whose brain H firsi had existence was M. F. Maury.* His system of weather re ports has hc^n extended so that on land as well as on sea he was a benefactor, whose hleas have not only made for safety in navigation, but have been of inestimable value to agriculture." The man who doesn't know what he is talking about usually talks about an hour too long. m A* ? Another good way to save day light is to depend on the products of a farm for a living. After watching Genoa, the Ger mans doubtless are glad there were no Russians at Versailles. I Queensland: A State - Without a Sert?te Queensland. Australia, which has entered the limelight by becoming the first "two chambered democra cy" of the world to abolish its upper house, is the subject of the following bulletin from the Wash l ington. D. C, headquarters of the National Geographic Society. "Australia began its independent career long after the. launching of the United States, yet it has set some examples in the past in the creation of political machinery, such as the Australian ballot and j universal suffrage, that America j has followed. Rut the common wealth and its states have tried ! other political experiments which jthe great republic ,.of the west has j so far merely watched from afar. I Perhaps the 'no senate plan' of j Queensland may be grouped.; in so far as the United States is concern i ed, with the Australian federal cbn ?stitutional referendum and propor j rional representation. , ? Queensland Dwarfs Texas j Queensland?and Australia too. for that matter?loses in apparent j size because of its great distance j from us. In reality it is a huge j state, completely dwarfing Texas j our largest commonwealth. Its I coast-line is more than 2,200 miles : long and is equivalent to that of I the Kastern United States from j northern Massachusetts down the Atlantic, around Florida and to Mobile. "Since Queensland is located in jthe southern hemisphere, its hot * regions are to the. north,' its cooler regions to the south. Its northern most projection. Cape .York Penin sula, may. then, be. compared I roughly to Florida, though Cape York is much closer to the equa i tor. To be as close to the equator j as Queensland, Florida would.have j to be shoved some 1200. miles far i ther south until Key, West touch I ed the Isthmus of Panama. If, I Australia could be towed to our } part of the world, where we could compare it with the regions we know, it would have to be turned about so that the warm regions would correspond. If it can. be imagined that this were done and Cape 'York placed near the Canal zone, so extensive is the State of Queensland that it would . cover most of the vast expanse of the Gulf of Mexico. j "Queensland's area is 670,000 j square miles. It is almost as great j as the combined areas of all States east of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and the western line of Pennsylvania, extending from Maine to Florida. Working for a "White Australia" . "Naturally, colonization . in Queensland began along its south j em coast, its mildest region cli : matically. . Thanks to its moun I tains which parallel the coast, the climate of the stsite is not as hot ? as its latitude would indicate. The i far northern section, however, is j truly tropical and has . not been j developed to any .great extent. In [ the southern and . middle sections I are thriving ports and cities. Bris j bane., the capital is about the size [of Bridgeport, Connecticut, or Houston, Texas, the state's popu lation o"f about three-quarters of a million?approximately, .that of '.Oregon?is almost wholly of Brit iish origin. - . ? "The development of the tropi j cal portions of Queensland has i been slower than that of similar ! regions in other parts of the world j because of the determination of the j citizens of the state and of the entire Commonwealth to maintain a 'white Australia.' The black and yellow races have beta excluded in recent years, some being deported. ' Not more than 20.000 of the blaek ! aborigines remain.in the state and {they are steadily decreasing in j numbers. ... j "To help the development to ! ward a "white Australia' the federal j government grants a bounty. . on ! sugar-cane raised by white labor, iand a considerable sugar industry ' has been built up in the fertile ! coast valleys of Queensland. Over i behind its mountains the state has a great plains region like that of the United States. There and on the lower hills are raised the vast herds which make Queensland the premier cattle, state of Australia I and among the leaders in sheep j raising. ! Had "Senate" Appointed for Life i "The six states which make up ! the commonwealth of Australia I were colonies before federation in i 1901 and had governments differ ; ing somewhat from each other. I States' right were jealously guard j ed when the federal constitution was adopted, the several states : keeping their.original political ma J chinery. All of the states had 1 parliaments of two houses corre [ sponding to the senate and house I of representatives of American i States. In four states both houses I were elected, but in two, New I South Wales and Queensland, the ; 'senators' were appointed for life j by the king of England. The mem ; bers of the single chamber which ; remains in Queensland are elect ed, and the state without a 'conser I vative balance wheel.' becomes the ; mos! democratic of the Common : wealth's units." Much of "higher criticism" is ; clone by people who think Deuter |-onomy was a. prophet. i The pessimist wonders what tne 'world is coming to: the optimist ; wonders when it is coming to. Our idea of. an efficient man is ?one who can find a use for all his ; vest pockets. - After all. the division is fair enough.. The bride gets the show Iers and the groom catches thun ; der. i A bribe a day keeps prohibition ; away. I_ 666 quickly relieves Colds, i Constipation, Biliousness and i Headaches. A Fine Tonic I SOY BEANS ! POPULAR ^ * NEW CROP ! New Extension Circular Gives Timely Information j Clemson College, June 10.? "Many farmers are finding soy beans a very satisfactory substitute cash crop as the ravages of the boll weevil increase," says Prof. G. P. Black well in Extension Circu lar 3B, "Soy Beans," which has just been published to meet the de mands for information on this new J crop for South Carolina farmers. j The circular, which was prepared by. Prof. C. P. .Blackwell. Agron omist, and S. L. Jeffords, Special ist in Pastures and Forage- Crops, discusses briefly . varieties, soil (adaptation, soil.preparation, methr j ods of planting, inoculation, ferti j lizers, liming, time of planting. j rate of seeding, methods of culti. j vation, time and metfeods of har vesting, harvesters, etc. The soy bean is a safe crop, says the. circular, because it is easily cultivated, and is subject to few j diseases and is bothered by few Mnsect pests. It has many uses, and ! if there is no market for the seed, it can. be fed to any kind-of live stock, is a good crop to plow under for soil building, and can even be used .as. food for people. Finally, it is an inexpensive, crop to. grow and not a difficult crop to handle. j -Hence the fact that it is gradually growing in popularity in this state, j Copies of Extension Circular 36 j may%be had free upon request, from j the' Extension Service, Clemson College, S. C, oi- from the County j Agents. Weekly M eeting of Sumter Rotary't3ub i Ml ? ? I ? ' HZ** The weekly, meeting of the Sum ter Rotary :Club was held Monday at 2:45 at the Claremont - Hotel. After enjoying the delightful dinner, which was served, business j .matters.of.the .club were discussed. After the ? business matters were settledv Dr. J. A. Mood gave a de lightful and very inspiring talk. JHe spoke o$ how their influence would be. for the good or for the. had. :The. theme .of his talk was, that they should live such lives that th<* ?young boys of the city would; be influenced and in turn would be i come citizens: which any commun Uty would be proud!, of. j. He spoke of social, service and I showed how it . is the real motto j of the twentieth century. In short Lhe said that they did not live for Lselfish gains alone* but that they .were in the struggle for Sumter, the state and the nation. His plea i was :to help the young boys. He emphasized the fact again that they could not tell them how to live;- but must show tjiem. it Seems to the'writer that his-entire ..talk was based on the following quotation from Emerson: ."What! (you are speaks so leiid I can not! hear, what you say." . .. Eighty-two percent of the mem bers were present and also sever-" j al visitors. They enjoyed, the meeting very . much and were struck- with Dr. Mood's talk, Ii [ever in need of a- good, helpful j speaker call on Rotarian Mood. Marriage License. j White: Mr.. Arthur P. Perry Of New Bedford, Mass., and Miss Gladys Fitzgerald of Columbia. ? ? "Marie to Wed *King With Pomp" j?headline. That's about all the I modern king has. Our idea of. a. rich man is one who gets his ties made to meas ure. . We would hate to be making a! lot of money and have to keep it j up or be a failure. The hard thing about driving a nail with a hammer is missing your finger every lick. ? ? ? Somehow or other, the emana tions from swivel-chair government experts remind us of Sitting Bull. NOTICE Books of Enrollment For Democratic Clubs N o Open ? Books of enrollment for the sev^ era! Democratic clubs of Sumter county are now in. the possession of. the secretaries of the xespective clubs and have been opened- for.' the enrollment of all Democrat^ who desire to qualify tb vote In the party primary....The rules re quire that the-.books be opened on the first Tuesday .of June.: and to remain open until the bast Tues day in July. Each applicant for enrollment shall . . personally sign the, rolf: book, and shall enter > thereon the age, occupation and residence of the applicant. The rules requires every appli cant for enrollment as a voter tb be 21 years, of age, or. to become ?o* before the succeeding ^general flec tion and be a. white Democrat. He or she shall be a citizen, of the United States ami of this state. 2*To person shall belongr to .any dub or vote in any primary unless he, or * she has resided in the state,-- twiT years and in the county &x months . prior to the succeeding general elec tion and in the club district 6,0,days . jwrfor to the firist primary follow-* ing his offer to enroll: . Provided; That public school, teachers .and. ministers of the. gospels in. charge of a regularly; organised, church .shall be exempt from .the prpyls ions of this section as. to residence, if otherwise qna2ified, . The enrollment hooks are in the, custody of the secretaries and 4>n> rollment committees of Xhe reepecr tive clubs, and said books are kept at the usual places for the conven--M ience of the voters- of the respecr tive districts. The clubs of Sumte' county and the secretaries of the same are as herewith ennmer&ted-: Ward 1?R. S. Hood, at Clerk: of rt's office. - Ward R. J. Bland at Harby, Nash & Hodge's offiee. Ward 3?P. J.' Gallagher, at O'Donnell Dry,Good* Co. - - Ward 4*?E. I. Reardori at De Lorme'^s Pnarmacy.?. Concord-r^Albert Brogdon. Dalzell?-J. B. Rameld. - Du Bose?Mi R. Rivers. Earle?A.'E. Elliott Farmers'?Jaraes Bradford. Hagood?W. J. Sanders. Manchester?E...R? Williams. -Mayesville?Rr J. May es, Sr. Oswego-^M.-M. Browiv . \ Pisgah?Leon.- Stuckey. PinewoodV?Howard Scott Pleasant.Grove^j. R. Goodman. Privateer?J, M. Kolb* Rafting Creek~J. A, Ream es. fealem?R. P; Skinner. ... Stateiburg?Kmloch. Bult Shiloh?:W. T. Green. Taylors-?J. E. Truiuck. Trinity?T. R. Mims. Reids?L. E. Avin... Wedge?eld?E. E. Aycocfc. Zoar?R; G. Jones. ?? tL G. OSTEEL. . County Chairman. John B. Dume, Secretary* MRS. DR?XE FffiESPJJ3)GE Will Run For Superintendent of Education Columbitt, "Jurid 13.^-Mrs. Bes sie Rogers Drake of BeanettsviBe yesterday filed her pledge and paid the assessment for state superin tendent of education.* -Mrs. Drake is .the first woman in the history, . of South. Carolina to offer for a ? state office, Gen. Wjlie Jones; with whom Mrs. Drake filed her pledge said yesterday. General J ^-a e* '?? wrote Mrs. Drake to this effect dur- ' ing the day. . , ... v^-' W. Banks Dove also filed hie * pledge to succeed himself, as-secre tary of state. - ...v Candidates for all state officer and congress have .until noon June 19 to file their pledges and pay the , assessments.. The . state campaign will open in Columbia, a week from today, ... ...... ... ? r. " ' CCC Cures DDD Fever. Bffioos Cote and LaGiippe. /* * * ?T?- ??>-i"-->r . r, rww ? 7--"" The National Bank of South Carolina 5 ? ?. . . ? , ? i ? ^ - ?fit}'^ ?? Of Suciter, S. 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