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ff . ">" v< 'The'operetta; The Fire Prince, by David Stevens and Henry Hadley, was presented Thursday evening with great effectiveness. The cos tumes were very striking and ap propriate; the stage setting very ie&ective, the music dgytehtful.. Those 'who took thlHglo parts did Their parts remaripbly weil and the. chorus was tfflfeed to a very high degree of efficBncy. The audience ;was ?^hght^&rith the whole performance anWie credit belongs to Miss E. W. Truitt. who trained the pfpuis with care and evident skill. The audience was enthusiastic in its applause and thV 'rtmments made after the operetta were high ly commendatory. Mention must be made - of the ^splendid work of MSs^ -Katherine Timinerman who not only fiidex cellentlv well as an accompanist. ?ut whose fidelity TaWfc efficiency were a constant source of inspira tion and helpfulness to the whole c&st: Her work: at tteVffeno was ably supplemented by ^"FrofGi rard and Mr. Hughson Green: violinists, Mr. Newmam cornet, Mr. Robert Wright, clarinet, and > -3jr. DuPre Rhame, drums. The "following characters par ticipated in the peir|p:?aa*ce and gave it is success:..': |l Grognio?:King Jo^^Sntoufiia? 3?ario'n Foxwxttth.) % ^^-j-' Prigio, his eldest'&nMv Fire" Prince.?Roland Milro.Jg^ Alphonso, Enri^. Frigio^s broth ers?Aiva Spann, Charles Crombe.., The Wise Man, tutor to the Prin-" oessr?Eaynard Pitts. I -~-Don?Roderigo, :Spui*KJi*Amba3 V ^fcdor to Pantoufiia?George Nofal. Frederic, a Pantouflian^ officer attached . to -the Sparfij^ > embassy r?Henry Ligon. : ', if Benson, the a^b?ssaBor*s Eng lish butler?George Vaughn. >^k|iam and Jackson, ,head page; boys at the embassy,'John, jBarwick; and Perry Moses. voE Isadora, queen of .Pantoufiia?-; Rjta Heriot. .--:.r.u Lady Molinda, Lady. JKathleena?,* l?eees of the King?Esther;, Gst?en,; Helen China^ ;j/n The Duchess, honorary;governess ?Annalieze Walsh. .... . Rosa, daughter of. the Spanish > ambassador?Nancy Bocih, . Teresa, her friend?Dajsv*?hhi?. Chorus ?- Misses Helen- Allen, Lenore Gaston, Augusta Jennings," .Pa?line Lee, Mary.. Louisa^. Nettles, Susie Osteen, EhzabethS, Rose. ren. Fairy?Ria Melle. Reed;. - ? ?. ?? ' Tfc?ssianaJT Entertainment by Tbe Sunbeams, u Thursday evening, June 15th at the First Baptist church^. the little children of the Sunbeam Band Save a beautiful demonstration of missions. Under the wonder*al leadership of Miss Hettie White, who. ha3 made, the studjtvof mis skuas one long holiday with, ?o much ..sunshine that - t'*e, foi>.:gn ...rfieids are no longer .miles away, ,, bright next doo~- .:. \- - No missionary in . tlr; . foreign ?eM.does a nobler work ton a Miss ^JJertie White; in rain,. sunshine she- is e ver active ii.. <fa>mg for ethers so that she mighiilead them to .-Christ. Self is sacctficed in . - placing duty first. :Tb>ii iiaptist cfctvrcix & fortunate in .Itaving such a woteker. She- was ably?, .assisted , {. by, ,Mrs. Laura Lebby it. -khe fol lowing program: . or Hymn No. 2-64?Jeisus^Wants Me for a Sunbeam. .. . ..Prayer by Secretary, r; Margare ft prakeford. i o ? :* , State Motto. Song?Praise Him-rrBy\ Littl Sunbeams. , . .23rd Psalm, by Margaret H Instrumental Duet, Sara WSUia? Baldwin, r. Song, Jesus Needs Sunbeams. ^Recitation, Virginia Parrott. Instrumental S?l?, Roberta Joh - .Song, World's Children . Jesus. Instrumental Duet, Louise -??teetta Phifer. ? -?: Sentence prayers*. to'-T' Mission fields were -then* repre ?ented. by Mother Goose's rhymes. :, No. 1?The Children' who iiv . a shoe with the old-woman Myrtle Mims. No. 2, Our Generous Little Jack >t/Burner?Sarah Mclver. o'i . No. 3, Busy Little Miss-Muff it 'ToOtsy Lindsey. i No. 4, Lucy Locket.-'no rlol in her pocket?Louise Phifer. ^ . No. 5, Reckless Simple Simon . - Sarah Baldwin. '? s: No. 6, Our Cunning-Little Japa nese Pigs?Virginia and' Mary Owens. -?.1 ? ? No. 7, Little Boy Blue' being "called by Margaret Howl. .No. 8, Little Bo Peep .no longer asleep?Man- Hjll. No. 9, Mary, Mary m>t now contrary?Mabel Coleman.'1 No. 10. The wide away little boy Who lived'in the lane-^-^Margaret Witherspoon. . No. 31, Jack and Jill, who have learned to climb the hill^-Archie O'Quinn and Loretta PMfer. No. 12. Mary who has a little lamb will tell you how shse makes uses of its wool?Sailie ?la?kling. Mrs. Phifer- and Miss Coleen eampbelt furnished solos'.' Miss White, who made an in spiring talk, stated -'that the Southern- Baptist . convention, which met three, weeks" ago, award ed the. banner to the Swnbeams of South Carolina, J.hey having con tributed the largest amount, thir teen thousand dollars. : Mrs. W. B. Costin accompanist oil the piano. - , Mr. Leroy Witherspoon closed the exercises with a short pray er.- Alf participants ..acquitted themselves well. America, Japan, India, China and Africa, the latter by . little Bill Costin, deserves special praise. MTYNEWS I IS IT NECESSARY? Taxokyer Asfe For Ihforma j. lion About Abattoir Editor Daily Item: v The figures given in your local column Thursday as to the cost of the municipal abattoir planned for Sumter, and-the statement of the' cost -tot operation of one in-. Colum bia, -when considered in connection' j with-the taxes we are now-paying ^for street paving;* -water system, olectric light plant, board . of\ health;- and' also the additional call expected for school extension, presents matter for serious con sideration by our citizens just at this time. ? Has the city the money to pay for ti'ae proposed outlay? Do we need the abattoir so mach that j our debt-imrden should be increas-i ed at this' time of financial strin-! geecy? Is there any assurance j that the -abattor will be.self-sup >porting aad not a drain upon our finances? Tho advertsiements, printed in your paper of houses for sale and for rent, of r household furniture i for sale, for reason thatJ parties are going away, evidences that there is an ebb in the tide of S?m ters prosperity, and should warn I us to be Jearefui' In the making of debts -calling for increase"of taxes. A TAX PAYER. Boys Leave For ?amp ^?^out 'S5 jrfys and 'MessrsVrSc&-j j tino McKnight and Shaw, who were in-charge, left Friday morn-j ing at six o'clock? in autos for Stonte> Lake, - near ? Greenville: where they will camp for 15 days. The following ^program- ?wifl-'be carrfed'out: - Camp Schedule, ?j 7'A. M;?Bugle. "Get up." ,7>10?Setting up exercises. 7:20-?Swim. J&b-Oitt and dress/ - 7:45?:Moraing watch 's iT5 ?Breakfast. 8:45;?Clean up Camp, etc. ? 3:15?"Jesus and His Cause." 3:35?>'How Jesus Met life Ques- j tions." 10:15?"The Life of Sir George Williams." T0:45?Round Table. 11:15?Games. 12:15?Swim: ' 1:00 P: M:?Dinner. IrSt)?Read, write, sleep. 4:30?Athletics, games, boating. 5:30-^SWim. 6:00?Supper. , ' ^ ' ' 6 :30?-Do what J you please. ^^S^-Cafmp'fire. S:45-^Bible reading and pray er. 9tl5-^Lig*rts out."-Sleep. There is' good fellowship am?ngt] the boys and the instructors are excellehr ones, -so they have a good time in-store for-them.' ? Kei?dent Employes of A. C L. Rail- j road Organize Social Club On Thursday-evening the resident emploj^es of the A. C. L. and N. W. Railroad met at the Freight Sta tion for the purpose of -organizing a Social dub. The meeting was call ed to, order by -Mr.L. I. Parrott, and was opened with prayer by Mr. S. - W. Walker, the object of the meeting was then explained by Mr. Parrot:. Out of a total of 105 white-president employes, 92 of this number were present at 'this meet ing and enrolled as ^members who expect to enroll the whole -number of i&5 before the next meeting j rtw? weeks hence. - ?' Mr. L. I. "Parrot was elected f president of the club, with Mr. C. ? M. Brand, j. I.- Felder, S. - W. ! Walker, E. Boney and O. WPlay- j er, as Tice-Presldents, and Mr,1 S. i L. -Gentry, secretary and treasurer. | This- is a purely social organiza-* tion, composed of white? jT.C. l. and N. W. Railroad' employes re siding in Sumter and has no con nection whatever with any other 1 organization its object' being to bring about a closer relationship; ( among its members. At the dose j 1 of Hie meeting a. supper was,.served ( ? at the Union Restaurant. It is \ planned to have a> number of so- ; cial functions during the year. Mr. L. I. Parrott, was the pro- I moter of this organization and if j was through his efforts that- the j organisation was perfected. As far ! as they are advised this is* the first J Iorganization of -this kind on "the! ; A, C. L.. railroad or any other rail- j I road in this section of the country. | A Bridui Shower. On Friday afternoon, June 9th, a pretty flower party was. given Miss Dorothy Schilling, one of the bride-elects of June, by Miss Adrea DuRant and Ruth Lyon, at the home of the latter. The room was made sweet by ten different kinds of cut flowers. A flower game was played, the priz'e being won by Miss Margaret Beaumont, who graciously handed it to the i honor guest. j Advice was then written to the j bride-elect and read aloud, caus i ing much fun. A small delivery f man, Francis Lyon, now entered I with a white trunk covered with i sweet peas and tulle, filled with ; lovely ajid useful gifts of her | [friends to Miss Dorothy. The following guests were pres- ! jent: Mr. Jamie Cuttino. Mrs. R. j j Loyns, Mrs. M. V. Whilden, Mrs. j [Mark Reynolds and Mrs. Louis' j Lyon, Misses Dorothy Schilling. \ j Eleanor Wallace, Annie Laurie j Booth. Catherine Warren Eva ! Chandler, May Blanding. Margaret I Beaumont, Jane Miller. Aline i Bradham, Julia Schwerin, Marie rBrogdon, Adrea DuRant and Ruth Lyon. Ice cream with bunches of candy flowers with cakes and punch were served. After all, it is rather amusing to watch a 16-year-old flapper try ing to act as though she had an interesting past* NEW POSTMASTER FOR SUMTER Mr. John* IK Heidtman Will Be InstaHed as Acting Post master Tomorrow I Following an inspection and i thorough check of the Sumter i postoffice, which has been in pro jgress since Monday, May 29th, by Inspectors J. W. Cole, of Atlanta I and C. H. -Sheffell, of Washing ton, Postmaster T. S. Doar lias 'befitj removed by order of the .postoffice department and Mr. J. D. Heidtman, who was tendered and has accepted the' appointment of acting postmaster, will be install ed as acting postmaster tomorrow jnorning, the transfer being in pro cess today. .Mr. Heidtman, who has been a resident of Sumter for four years, is a native of Orange burg, is. forty years old, and has, for a number of years represented in this ter ritory, as traveling salesman, the well known drug house of Sharpe & Dohme,-of Baltimore. He is a Jifelong Republican, a son of the late J. JL. Heidtman, of Orange burg,, whos' was for twenty-seven years clerk, in the United States district attorney's office, Charleston, and is also a nephew of Abial Lathrop, Esq.,, of Orangeburg, for eight years' United States district attorney for South Carolina and assistant district attorney for four years, both of whom were affiliat ed with the Republican/party. Mr. Heidtman since ^locating in Sumter has4de^tified Himself ;with the com munity^ by the purchase of a home arid, saj's thauall the. property he owns is in Sumter. He has a pleasing personality, and as he as sumes charge, of the postoffice with ihe expressed purpose of serving the people of Sumter efficiently and acceptably he should make a suc cess in his - Tiew position. Mr. 'Heidtman was mentioned a. few months ago as a prospective can didate for the appointment as postmaster, but he did notydSle an application and his name was not then considered in connection with the appointment- The appoint -ment' as actiaag postmaster at thi9 time, he states, was offered him without solicitation ? on his part. - The removal-of Postmaster Doar ?; the culmination of long con tinued' trouble in the- postoffice, dating back' several years. There hare, beenseries of shortages, or -irregularities, in the stamp depart ment/ that: have never been satis factorily accounted tor, -some of the trouble ante-dating Mr Doar's promotion from assistant postmas ter tO acting 'postmaster aliout two years ago. There was a. shortage \'m the>stamp. department of some j thing less thsxi a thousand dollars ?during the administration of^-Post ?master Geo. W. Dick, which Dr. Dick? promptly paid and resigned .from the office, at which time Mr. Doar was made acting postmaster, which position he held until he re ceived . the appointment, of post master about ?ix or seven months ; ago. During Mr. Doar's incumbency as- ?eting postmaster there were other shortages in the same depart ment, which he paid when uncov ered. ? About sixty days ago a shortage i? the stamp department of a few dollars less- than $3,000 Was discovered by the postoffice in spectors; who were making a reg ular inspection of the office. This shortage -was made good by Post master Doar. But immediately the friends - of - Mr; Doar made a de mand, through Congressman Ful mer and Senator Dial) on the post office department that a complete and searching investigation be made of everything connected with the local postoffice with the view of locating the trouble and ascertain ing the cause of the repeated ir regularities. In compliance with this request Inspectors -j. W. Cole, of Atlanta and C. H. Sheffell, of Washington were sent here, arriv ing May 29th. They have been hard at work checking up all rec ords of the office for several years back, and taking stock of ail stamps and supplies in the office. In the course of their investigation they uncovered an additional stamp shortage, that the other inspectors had not discovered, of $4.600. Their report to. Washington of the conditions existing in the postoffice resulted in the order removing Postmaster Doar and the appoint ment of Mr. Heidtman as acting postmaster. Mr. Doar, as the re sponsible head of the postoffice and under bond, Was called upon to .make good this last shortage, as he had done when other shortages were discovered. . Mr. Doar has the sympathy of his very many friends in Sumter who have stood by him loyally, and who used every influence pos sible to bring about his appoint ment as postmaster, immediately after he was named as acting post master, and there was no let-up in their efforts until he was nominat ed for postmaster and confirmed a few months ago. That he leaves the postoffice under such circum stances, after his more than twen ty years service as assistant post master, acting postmaster, and postmaster, is deeply regretted by all who are acquainted witli the facts. -? ? ? Mrs. E. W. A. Bult man. Misses Constance and Irma Bultman and Mr. Walter Bultman returned Fri day, having attended the com mencement exercises at Hood's College. Frederick, Md. Miss Con stance being a member of the grad I uating class. Mr. Geo. Bultman 'accompanied them going, but re ! turned by rail at an earlier date, j They picked up Miss Thelma at (Greensboro, who went with them to ! Frederick. On their return trip J they went to Baltimore from Frederick, then Co 1'hiladelphia, saw the Gettysburg battle field in Pennsylvania, then to Camden, New Jersey, from there to New York and finally to Sumter. Miss Annie May Whitney of St. Augustine. Fla., is visiting Miss Nannie Yaughan on Salem Ave. I Now is the time to fight the boll I weevils by poisoning and picking I up the squares. The farmers who i make a fight stand a chance of [ making a crop of cottout_ THE POSTOFFICE SHORTAGE Former Postmaster Doar Gave Inspectors Statement Admitting Responsibility Shortages That Have Oc curred It Is stated on official authority ! that at the completion of the ! check up of the local post office j last week by Inspectors Cole and ! Sheffell, Postmaster Doar made a j written statement admitting his [responsibility for the shortages j that have been discovered in the j stamp department of the postoffice j during a period dating hack to 1018. The inspectors completed their work and left the city Sun day afternoon. An Expression of Appreciation. Editor of The Daily Item: i Please allow me space in The Item to express my grateful appre ciation of the generosity of the orchestra in helping us with the operetta last. Thursday evening. The orchestra not only played de lightfully, but when the leader, Prof. Girard, was asked for his bill, he replied that he had no bill to render. Our thanks are due and are hereby earnestly tendered to Mr. Girard, Mr. Hughson Green, Mr. Xewmanv Mr. Robert Wright, and Mr. DuPre Rhame. I wish also to express\my official pride and personal gratification on account of the very* many high commendations that were given ot the Fire\ Prince. The boys an& girls all did splendidly and gave the operetta in a very attractive and charming way. The praises . from various sources that; have come to me. have been of the highest order of commendation, and I sincerely congratulate these boys and girls, [and their leader, Miss E. W. Tr?ltt to. whom belongs the credit for the presentation of the operetta, I would not be just to myself if I did not express my appreciation of the most cordial co-operation that was generously given^. by The Daily Item. It was through its generosity and through its very impressive mode of advertising that the attention of the public was directed to the presentation , of J.the operetta. It is unfortunate that the school i was unable to have the operetta before the close of school. It was originally intended to* have it dur ing commencement week. When.it was found that it would be .impos sible to have it then, it would have been called off entirely had,it not pbeen for the evident disappointment on the part of those who had been so faithful and earnest in their practices. The school was there.-, fore, glad to assume the responsi bility for the presentation of the operetta last Thursday evening. With renewed expressions* of ap preciation, Cordially submitted, S. H. EDMOXDS* Superintendent All Ready for State Sunday School Convention. I The State Sunday School con ? vention is close upon us and close j by. It will be held in Columbia, at University of South Carolina', June 20. 2-1, 22 under auspices of South Carolina Sunday School As sociation. Some of. South..,'Car? j lina's ablest speakers are on the {program. Dr. McGlothlin of Fur ? man University is one of the main j speakers among other splendid j men of the state. Leon C. Palmer, the general^su j perintendent of the Association, ; writes that a banner Will be giv j en to the counyt and to the Sun i day school having the largest dele | gation v in proportion to miles ; traveled. i Delegates will be entertained at j the University at the following ; uniform rates: (a) For three days' board and lodging, total 1,4, payable on registration; (6) for less.than three days, meals 50c each, lodging 35 cents per day. The railroads ar egiving low rates of one and one-half fare for round trip ticket, provided you hold "Re duced Rate Certificate" from the State Sunday School Association of jfiee, 714 Andrews, Law building, j Spartanburg, S. C. This certificate I furnished free on request. Write tonight for it. Every white Sun day school worker in South Caro lina is invited to attend. Every one who attends is counted as a delegate. One thousand delegates are expected. o ? ? Wedgefield News Items. Wedgefield. June 1C.?The showT ers of rain are beneficial to corn, but is against harvesting grain and I the efforts to poison the weevils. Mr. W. H.- Ramsey, Jr., voca i tional teacher in the Abbeville, Ala., agricultural school, spent the j past week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. EL Ramsey, He was accompanied home by Mr. Jim Ward, a large land owner of Alabama. I Mr. Ward plants 400 acres of (cotton, nnd contrary to what we are doing, says he has abandoned I the application of poison, that the ! increase in yield does not justify I the expense of poison and applica tion. It seems it would be a good j idea for some of the farmers of I Surnter county to make an experi | nient to poison a few acres or one, and leave one. keeping an itemiz ed account of all expenses. Miss Ruth Cain of Privateer, who ; taught in the Creenwood city [schools the past sessslon, is spend ing the week with Miss Jeannette 'Thomas. The school improvement society had its regular meeting on yes terday afternoon and plans were mapped out to raise sufficient funds to make some repairs to the school building. About fifty people from Sum ter attended the barbecue, which i th?' .Methodist church gave at the I home of Mr. 11. B. Boyykin, Dab; j zell, Friday night. Has your wife'-gone on your va * cation yot?_? lMr^ i TIME FOR FILING PLEDGES j Candidates For Office Will j Take Notice and Govern j Themselves Accordingly j At the meeting- of the County j Executive Committee of the Dem j oeratic party held on Tuesday, : June 6th. a motion was passed to the effect that the time for filing of pledges by candidates be fixed at six o'clock p. m. on Monday, July 31st. The following ? is rule for filing of pledges adopted by the state convention: "Candidates for the general assembly and for the! county offices shall file with the! chairman of the county committee ! i a pledge in writing to abide the re j suits of the primary and support (the nominees thereof. Candidates for other offices shall file such pledge with the chairman of the state committee: Provided. That the pledge of such candidates shall ?be?filed on or before 12 o'clock, meridian, of the day preceding the day fixed by the county committee -of the state committee for the first campaign meeting of the county or state respecitvely. No vote for any candidate who has not paid his .assessment nor complied with this 'rule shall be counted." This change of hour for filing pledges, in conformity with the above rule is given for the infornla tion-of the public and any pros pective ^candidate. .The last day vfor filing^pledges, therefore, will be Monday, July 31st at noon. H. G., OSTEEN, County - Chairman. J. B. Duffie, Secretary. PAVING BOND ELECTION j Petition To Be OrcMated Asking City Council to Or der Special Election To-the People: A petition will be circulated for the freeholders of the City of Sum j ter to sign, asking the City Coun cil to order a special election- for the purpose of voting on the is suing of not exceeding two hundred fifty thousand dollars of i bonds. This is done for the reason that East Liberty street should be paved from where the .paving now stops to join with the county's new hard surface road. North. Main street should likewise be paved. ... Several people nave filed with the Council petitions to nave cer tain streets. For instance, Wright street and Haynsworth street, and we understand there are oth^r ^streets the people of the city de \ sire to have paved, they to pay ]-two-thirds of the cost. Our streets were paved some six years ago on I this basis and we have paid back ! six-twentieths of the cost of thp streets. City Council cannot order this election until a petition is first sgned by a majority of the free holders within the city limits. When this petition is signed the (pity Council has the right to order an election, and all qualified free holders have a right to vote. This does not mean that City Council will issue ' two hundred fifty thousand dollars of. bonds, but will be authorized to do so. j There is no better way of paving the . other streets that should be | paved than by the method whereby j the abutting property owners will j agree"' to pay two-thirds of the' cost.! These bonds can be. sold to be ; paid back one-twentieth each year j for twenty years, and this will not i work a hardship on anyone, and! jit will not only pave East Liberty j j and North Main streets, that should be paved to connect with the hard j surface road, but it will enable ! i other abutting property owners to j have their streets paved. j The city will pay one-twentieth ; of the cost each year, and the, abutting proprety owners will pay ! two-thirds of the cost. Petitions have already beert J signed by a majority of the abut ting property owners on East Lib- I eryt and North Main streets. City j Council is unanimously in favor of j paving East Liberty street and j j North Mam street, but this cannot j be done unless the qualified free- j j holders sign ths petition and- the j people vote for the bond issue, j With the good results obtained ! I from the streets we have already j ?paved upon this basis, I do not; ? think anyone will oppose" this prop- j osition, as' the only burden on the j whole city will be to pay back one third of the cost, and taxes each I year will not be felt to any great j extent by anyone. j I have been requested by City\ I Council to explain the proposition ! of the petition and election to- be j held and I am taking this oppor- j tunity of doing so. j L. D. JENNINGS, Mayor. | Death. ? Mrs. C. L. Simpson, of Tim- j mcnsville, died June 15th and was j buried June 16th at Byrd ceme-1 tary in Timmonsville. Surviving j Mrs. Simpson are her husband, C., L. Simpson; two sons, Roy and Vernon and two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Richardson of Sumter and Mrs. J. W. Rodgers of Wedgefield. Marriage licenses. White: Mr. Vernon Lee of Dal- j zell and Miss Mildred Gaylord of j Da I zell. i Colored: Brunson Wilson and j Lou Bradley, both of Mayesville. Marriage Licenses. White: Mr. Charlie Weeks of of Pinewood and Miss Agnes Brewer of Pinewood. Colored: Charlie Pugh and Ver melle Stewart, both of Sumter.r There are good citizens, and then there are citizens who speak of government as "they." ? * * About the easiest way to keep a man from growing great is to de ny him all opposition! REDRYING OF TOBACCO Facilities For Handling 3,000, 000 Pounds Raleigh, June 15.?Facilities for redrying three million pounds of to bacco a day are now assured to the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative As sociation, at a price which means a reduction to the organized grow ers, according to Richard R. Pat terson, general manager of the leaf department. at Richmond. Mr. Patterson announced today that ar rangements had beea made and contracts signed with the various j leaf-tobacco companies to redry I and prize all of the tobacco of the I association for the coming, season. That North Carolina ? banks will back the organized tobacco. grow ers to the limit in the same , man ner that Kentucky banks ' have backed .the Burley tobacco ?- grow ! ers in their successful .marketing I of this year's crop is now evident, from the first replies- sent \ out ?in the form of a questionnaire* to nine Edgecombe county bankers. Every reply, so far received states that, the Xorth Carolina ? banks are ?favorable to cooperative marketing, j and will extend to the farmers -who are members-of the association ? assistance ' in paying their - obliga j tiohs' insofar. as it accords ; with [ sound banking principles, - following the successful example of the Ken tucky, banks in helping , the mer chants to handle participation cer tificates given .to the growers after the first payments on their , tobac co.. The majority of Edgeccmbe bankers expressed : their approval of i.the .'plan,. which assured ? the Kentucky growers large additional advances.:- The Planter's'Bank, of Pinetops, authorized the ' directors ! to .'.make loans to the f T>baccp Growers'' Cooperative Asso.-iatiofa up-to their entire legal limit,, as '.90 per cent of the Kentucky: banks did in:.the' six million-dollar loan^which was repaid in forty days. Married. Mr. Vernon Lee ,and; Miss .Mil dred. Gaylord, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.: W. M., Gaylord, both of Dal zell, were married at Grace Bap tist church at noon Saturday by .Rev. , Jno. A. . Branson. After spending their honeymoon in Charleston Mr. and Mrs. Lee will be at home at DalzelL Girls' Hi-Y Camp. List of essentials for i Girls' Hi Y^camp,vJuly 3-17, Stone's'Lake, Greenville, S. C: Three blankets. Pillow and case, Two sheets, Towels, . Comb and brush, Tooth brush, ? Bathing suit, Two serviceable dresses. Sweater (or other wraps). Middies and bloomers. Hiking shoes, Bible, note book and pencil, Book for other fellow to read. ? .Tin plate, knife, fork, spoon and cup.. There will be no laundry sent out-while at camp. Tennis players carry raquets. Sew name securely on blankets. Boy Scoots at Pocalla. I The Columbia Orphanage troop j of. Boy Scouts will arrive at Po j c?lla', late Monday afternoon and will.go into camp .for a week. The j troop is making the trip from Co lumbia by truck and is expected ! to arrive at Pocalla before eight o'clock. Mr. Devant of Columbia is in charge of the troop and will remain with the boys during their stay at Pocalla. Mrv Chandler Baker Beall, of j Mayesville, has returned home i from John Hop-kins University, j Baltimore, from which lie was j graduated with the A. B. degree at [ the recent commencement, receiv | ing the highest honors. Mr. Beall attended Davidson College one year, then entering John. Hopkins, where he remained a year, going then to France, and attending the University of Dijon during the sum mer, and received his-degree at the I completion of the course of study. I He. then. matriculated in the Uni | versity of Paris, remaining one I year and was graduated with honor, being the only American in ! the class. Returning to John Hop I kins last fall ? he resumed his ! cotfrse, and receiving full credit for the work done in France, was graduated with his class this month. Mr. Beall is not yet twenty-one years old. fl Daredcviltress , Mr????-i Many men have tried to swim tho English Channel and have failed. Doris Hines. an English girl, is only 16, but she says she's going to swim the channel this summer. Man may be superior I > woman in some ways, but he cant pay a I compliment that will make the re cipient squirm in impotent wrath. Capital Cky Items of Interest By WALLACE BASSFOKD j (Special News Ooireqpoadei*). I Washington, June 19.?When 1 Oscar U"nderwood, of Alabama, was in the house x>f representatives he . built up a great reputation as an expert on the tariff: he became chairman of the. committee on ways and means and his name be i came fastened on the: tariff law j which his committee compiled and j put through the house. Under 'that measure the country enjoyed i the greatest prosperity it evar knew, and it remained for the greed of American manufacturers to find fault with the law. Mr. Underwood is now the democratic j leader in the senate. He has writ I ten for the Xew York Times, the j greatest democratic newspaper -of ! this time, a long artiele on the proposed tariff law now before the j senate. Space forbids -its use in full, but here are some of the most pertinent paragraphs: "I have always opposed in prirt ciple the theory of protection, and j have leaned strongly to the idea j that customs taxation v should t>e j levied primarily in the interest of j revenue for the government, and ! that all rates of taxation -should :>be so adjusted as to allow a rea j sonable inflow -of goods from I abroad in order that the custom house might have an opportunity to take its toll as they passed through and some degree of com petition might be established. J have never contended that, in the interest of a revenue tariff, it is necessary to . bring? about destruc tive competition, but a tariff that fixes the rates of taxation so high as to practically prohibit. foreign goods from entering the American market at all has been abhorrent to my ideas of the proper use of the taxing power of the congress of the United States. Outstrips All Other Bills. "There are some few low rates in the .pending .bill. There are some articles on the free .list. But, tak ing it all in all,. it is undoubtedly the most prohibitive tariff bill that has ever been proposed in the American congress, and the rates of taxation are higher and less defensible than any that have ever been presented to us in the past. It looks as if those charged with the responsibility of writing the bill have accepted unqualifiedly the rates proposed by the .special . interests desiring protection and have not given consideration to the resultant effect on the general busi ness of the country or the burdens ! that must be borne by the -con j sumers of America. Should - the ! bill become a law, the American people will find - this out in time, but it will be after they, have paid the price of the experiment. "The Democratic party is often, charged with being a free trade praty. So far as I know from the beginning the democratic party has tfever abandoned the system of raising taxes at the custom house. There are free traders in the dem ocratic party and I have known--of some in the Republican par%\ As I understand it, the position of the democratic party is. that taxes levied at the custom house should be for revenue purposes.onfy, that the custom house is a place where revenue may be obtained to run the government, and that it pro vides a covenient way of raising a certain amount of revenue; that if a revenue tax be levied at the cus tom house in such a way that it does not unduly stifle -competition from abroad, and the person who pays it really pays it to the gov ernment, it is a reasonable way to raise reyenue. But when a tax is levied so high that very . few imports -come in?and if imports do not pass through the custom house they leave no taxes behind ,them?the result is merely that o? 'raising the price,, which 'goes into the pockets of loe home producer. "The effect of protective tariff laws, as distinguished from tariffs for revenue only, has been to tax the great mass of the American ] people and to increase the profits Olf a few. I often bear socialism and communism condemned.. I do not believe in either, but it is dis crimination on the part of the gov ernment against the masses of the people for the benefit -of the few I that sows the seed from which grows the tree of discontent, and discontent when brought about by unjust laws reflects on the whole system of government. I believe that the great powers of the gov ] ernment are intended to be used only for the benefit of all the peo ple, not for the promotion of spe cial interests, and I care not wheth er those special interests come out of the fields of agriculture or arise from the smokestacks of a steel mill. Where the Farmer Comes Out. "In my opinion, if it were not for the support given this bill by senator* who represent agricultur al constituencies it would be impos sible to pass it through the senate. The argument is advanced that since taxes are to be levied on manufactured products, taxes should also be levied on agricul tural products and that if the people are to be penalized for the i benefit of the manufacturer they [should likewise be penalized for [ the benefit of the farmer. Where the fallacy of this argument comes is that under the guise of doing something to help the farmer in some particular item, their sup port is asked for a bill that as a whole means that for every dollar the farmers may derive from the bill they will pay $100 in taxes for the benefit of somebody else. In j other words, for every 1 per cent, j of protection they are given they pay J)9 pr cent, of protection for the benefit of other people. I do not think there is any question about that. "Take the wool schedule, known as Schedule K in the Payne-Ald rich bill, but having a number in j the bill that is now before the Sen ate. If the tax proposed in the bill is levied the farmer will have to pay the tax the same as does the man who lives in the city, , the man who works in the store, the machine shop, the foundry or in an office. It the analysis bo worked out it will be demonstrated tfcat the fax of 23 per cent on "scoured wool will cost the pubhc --nearly ! $200,000,000. of which those en gaged in the growing of wool will receive something: Mfce $72.000,000,, against -which this farmers ? as whole will pay about $99,000,000, the rest of the people will pay in proportion, while the government will receive as its share of this enormous tax leas than $2OrOXHL0OO. ( Yet. it is contended that this duty ; on wool will help the American j farmers. I admit it will Iwlptfce men whose Iwusines*, to raising sheep, but the other farmers of ! the country, those who do - not grow wool bat raise wheat and corn and cotton, will pay the bill?that' is, a most substantial part -af^ It? and for every wool grower there tire a thousand farmers who do not raise sheep. I do not have. In mmd the little farmer who raises cotton or wheat and has a few sheep'on the side, but the men whose,busi ness is arrowing sheep and who are only a few in-nunber/wlii?ft^oom pared with the great 'mass of farmers who will *ay so large a proportion of the tax propos?j^(? the pending measure. ; r, "So we find some 'of -the-, pro ponents of the. rpenditig measure maintaining that Its epae*~ will greatly relieve the ^srieol rural situation in this country, ^be? ie it raises tie tax on their products -at the ^Custom Hoase. Personally I have never believed j that such a tax would -prnvetffeaay benefit to the American, farmer. We are told how the Mtt^-,?oIng to help the farmer by an inereaaed tax on wheat, by increasing -tax on certain kinds of cotton, neither of which will ever bo t>f any benefit to the farmer or put one dollar In his pocket. This faSk may sound like musicto ihel?na er, but does the farmer realize that there are also in this - hill paragraphs taxing the, necessities of life, necessities that are vital ^o the farmer, the necessities by j which agriculture lives? . ? "When the : present Sa^r **s written not o&ry wars all kinds of fertilizer, which are imported ftito the-United States and are valuable in the development of agricahaye, placed on the free list, but binding twine for * the ?an who raises wheat in the West ^ad ties and bagging for the fereaer Wnose^tasic crop is cotton were likewise ^p1ace^l on the free list. . Under this mi they propose v to put these SWags back on the tax Est, and there is no evidence that either of these industries has suffered-from out side competition under existing law. Some of the - fert?toers com ing into this market and many .of the commodities from which ?lizers are made aiso will fee star ed, under the proposed law.* I am confident that the farmer will not be long in finding out these things. The items I have cited are-simply illustrative. Others which ehnceern the welfare of agricuJteune can -be found all through the biJL" .. - m ? ? ' ? Messrs. Richard Baker and Mc Donald Dick drawer Just graduated from the University -of yftk0Stitu.. Mr. Dick will be a tutor* 3at University this . summer; Both Messrs. Baker and Dick metan 4* quirements and & . tarn l>e?atte '~. members of the. honorary -?afcer arty, Phi Beta Kappa. Om>-3*n men of the academic dep&rtnxent became members,-and Sumter owns j two out of the ten. So it -speaks well, not only for Bakerand Bfe?c, . but for Sumter. Silage Mixtures Tested Far Steers In the Sorna. To get results economically i&oet cattle feeders should use some kind: of silage in the rations, says the United States Department of Agri culture. Steers fed on silage usaai ly not only make mere economical gains, shrink less, and make more j profits than steers fed on dry j roughage, but also make it possible j to utiiiize crops jyown primaxftyin a rotation for restoring the fertfiJty of worn-out lands. The comparative vafci? of a num ber of different silage crops far steer feeding was recently worked out by the department in coopera tion with the Louisiana Experiment Station. In one instance .afrnftftr lots of cattle were fed a ration of cottonseed meal and blackstrap molasses in combination with com silage, corn and Biloxi soy-been. Mi age, sorghum silage, sorghum and Biloxi soy_bean silage, and Japa nese cane and Biloxi soy-bean sS age. ; :' The best gain was made by the {steers fed the straight corn si lag*-, but it was shown that the ca|textty of a farm for fattening or winter ing cattle may be greatly increased by the use of heavw-yieW?ng s?age crops' such as sorghum and- Japi- . nese cane. ? Immature*-* Biloxv-ad^K beaas mixed with com or sorghum were not so satisfactory, but with late-maturing crops ttke Japanese cane these soys save very good: re suits. . Sorghum silage and jfapa nese cane and Biloxi soy-bean age are practically equal in feed ing value for steers when soppie mented by cottonseed meal and molasses. ? ? ? ? Harding is said to be losing pa tience with Congress. That -makes it unanimous. Maybe if a gardener planted weeds, vegetables would come up and crowd them oat* ?w?? ? ' ' m mm ? ?? ?? Unfortunately, the things that afford us the most pleasure are the pleasures we can't afford. ? '? e i ! Nothing hurts your **?ck Jtke having it 4n for -somebody-. n a m, * ? ~ - Many of the. things that come are uncalled for. "Shot by Suitor"?headline. The suitor didn't suit her so he decid ed to shoot her. m> i m When a 'man rushes home *on pay-day, you know who it boss a? his house,