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;^GAKDptOM MISSDELORME ,. ?_ Expression of Resentment at Unauthorized: *Jse^ of Her Name as - Candidate For Member of School Board - To .The Editor of The Item: To my amazement and indig nation, I learned from last night's Item that, without my knowledge or consent. I had been put up to be t-tio.'''.-defeated candidate in the re cent election of a school trustee. Who was responsible for the bril liant and chivalrous scheme to so use a woman's name, I do not J 'ikn?w, but I wish to say this: A member of the school board ' -suggested, to a member of the Wo men's. League that it was desired to have a woman on the school' ? board. Not .suspecting the. real motive behind the. suggestion, this lady and several others urged me to .allow my name to be used, - which I emphatically refused to dqC Later I saw in the Item that women would not be allowed to participate .in the. election and I realized that the suggestion had probably not been made in good faith. However, had I been a candidate for the honor I feel sure that my friends could have jnjustered. more than :twenty-six ballots in my be half. .1 hope that I have been able to inject into this letter some of the anger and resentment that I feel k in being placed in this position by some of the twenty-six gentlemen who took part in this very demo cratic election! Had I wished my name to appear in print,. I could ? have accomplished the purpose. Jh another way than by having it in the list, of the "also rans." I hope that you will do me the courtesy of publishing this state ment, and I shall not trespass fur ther., upon your columns. Edith M: DeLorme. ENSIGN EDITOR IS . ..... r>? ?. &4 & .'i i For "Creel and Unwarranted" Treatment of Classmate ? ' i ~t-'- - >f Washington^ June lo.-?Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, today officially reprimanded. En - sign J. L.. Oimsted, editor of the "Lucky Bag" the year book of this ~* year's graduating class at Annap 6lis, for "oruel and unwarranted" ; treatment of Leonard Kaplan, a fellow member of the class. s 'XlL Secretary Roosevelt told Ensign Olmslead, whose home is in . Des ?? Meines^ Iowa, that he had been guilty of "aji action which casts a .grave doubt as to your posses-' sion^of those qualifications essen tial to any.officer in the Unite States navy" and added jthat "th< department will- require from you in. the future evidence of a funda mental change in your Attitude to ward your comrades in the ser vice." ' Others, especially the associate ^ editors, the Naval Secretary as " eerted, undoubtedly were guilty. In jsome measure for the affront to Kaplan, which consisted in per forating the page in the year bool containing, his photograph and bio graphy so, that it might be re moved. But, added Mr. Roosevelt the primary responsibility rests 01 Ensign Oimsted. When asked for a oopy of the reprimand,. Acting.Secretary Roose velt made public at the same tim< a statement in which, he express* the belief that no racial antipathy was behind the treatment of Kap lan. -: . *'A most serious note in this in stance at the u Academy," Col. Roosevelt said, in his statement to newspapermen, "was struck, by the query in certain people's mind to whether, the action had* . beei taken because. of racial reasons, reasons! .Feeling as strongly as>-J do how un-American any such dis tinction as this. should be, I hav* gone most carefully into this phase. I am happy to say that. I am" convinced, that, bad though his incident was, no such motive was behind it. "The records of the Naval Acad emy show that in the . class of ?2922, nine men entered their , faith as Jewish. Certain of these , men were among the most popular .in the class. Furthermore, a num ber of our prominent, officers, in the. past, and at this . time, are either Jewish or. of Jewish extrac tion., "The traditions of our country have always been exemplified by our navy. We pride ourselves that in the service there are no distinc tions of race or creed." Hart in Automobile Collison. While en route to Brewington Friday night with her brother, Mr. J. T. Brogdon. Jr.. Miss Theola Brogdon was painfu'ly injured when a Ford roadster, in which two white men were riding, crashed into , their car. Something had gone wrong with Mr. Brogdon's car and be stopped in the road to ascertain the trouble. While he was examining the car. Miss Brogdon remaining in it, a Ford roadster going at high speed ran into it. both cars being over turned and badly wrecked. Miss Brogdon was seriously cut on the face and arm by broken glass from !the windshield and lost a great deal of blood before medical at tention could be obtained. Mr. Brogdon, who was standing by the eide of his car when the collision occurred escaped injury by a mir acdie. There were two white men in the Ford roadster and one had an :arm broken and sustained other injuries. The other man escaped with little injury. The man with the. broken arm was taken to Man ning for treatment.. In the ex citement and confusion Mr. Brog don did not ascertain the names pJL the two men w'ho were in the Ford roadster. After paying a garage bill, one wonders why pedestrains are for ever complaining about being held up. I WOMAN VS. ' j 'WOMAN I _?. .. j j Second Candidate Files Pledge i j For Office of S?periiiteftd-j ent of Education I m ? . I ? Columbia, June 3.?The most ra I teresting political situation ever I (known in the history of .the state ! arises- with the filing of the carar j paign pledge today of the second j woman to offer, for.an important I state office. Mrs. .Martha .Wallace, j iwife of E. B.-Wallace, a school j : principal of Columbia,, herself an j educator of note, entered the race i for state superintendent of educa- j tion. in which there are several. candidates, one: of the others be- | ing Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake, of j Bennettsville. Mrs. .Wallace "at one time taught in Chicora College here. She has also taught in public schools, and during the camp days following the \ war she made a fine record in the Camp Jackson schools here. Dur ing the war proper she went to France as a Y. M. C A, entertainer,; andffor ten - months she. did re- j markable service for the men in j the; camps abroad. ? She served as teacher in several camps in this country. She has been prominent] in club and social service activi ties in Columbia There are lots of hats in the ring and the campaign will open with a vim next Tuesday, ? the first meet ing being in Columbia. railroad' commission PEAiUNGS Train Service and Rates to Be Considered ? Columbia, June 16.?The South j Carolina Railroad Commission to-' ? day announces series of bearings, l dealing largely with the petition of I the Atlantic Coast Line to be al j lowed - to- discontinue trains. ^ J One of the trains under discus sion operates between. Columbia l and Sumter, Nos. 6S and 69.. The railroad had posted notices that it would-discontinue these trains, the commission, authoring such ac tion, with the. understanding that ?if there was any protest, the notices j must be taken down and a hear ting held. The Columbia business I interests, through, the Chamber of jGommerce, have protested vigor ously, and a hearing is to 'be held at an early date, the date yet to be announced. Xext Thursday several hearings i are to be held-in Florence, on mat ters pertaining.to the Coast Line,, and the next day the commission is..to inspect the Isle of, Palms railroad, at Charlest?n. At Florence on next Thursday j the commission wilt .consider a. pe tition of the Atlantic- Coast Line to make certain changes in the service on the Wadesboro-Cheraw-Florence ?line, changes that are usually made in summer, but against . which there is a protest jthis year. These ?changes are proposed in the sched ule of train Nos. 60 and 63.. Another matter to, come before i the commission ; at Florence /will i-be the proposal to take off trains !-Xos. ,.2S and 29 on the Glio and jLatta.branch.. The road contends j that it is losing money heavily on : this tine. Several important matters are to j come before the Immission at a j hearing in Columbia on .July 6. ,wAj-no:ag these- is the question of certain adjustments in the freight j j rates on brick .and also, the rate on ice. . ? .... ... , t Fo?owing the hearings in Flor ence next week, the commission i will go to: Charleston, for. the. Isle ? of Palms railway inspection on Fri jday. En route to Charleston the i commission will stop at St... Ste i phens to have -a. hearing in regard | t0 a proposal to .^establish another j railroad crossing in the little town. DIAL DEFENDS SUPREME COURT Senator Says Some Members I Abused This Tribunal Washington^ June 15.?Declar ing that some members of con jgress. had *;so far. forgotten them j selves as to abuse the supreme j.court," Senator Dial, Democrat, ]5outh Carolina, denounced in the senate today recent, attacks which j he said had been I made on thei 1 south and its .industries for em j ploying children in mills. The sen jatpr asserted that the criticism jthus far had come .from persons j "who want to disrupt the govern-] ; ment" and he made a plea for the retention of .."an equilibrium" in j dealing with the question." Mr. Dial declared that if there j was one thing the country needed : more than any other it was that i its conititution be upheld. This | was being done , fairly and justly j by the supreme court. he said. I adding that there never was a time ! ; in history that America's courts j j have not had the highest regard j and respect of the public. The South Carolina senator de-j plored the "tendency to criticize" I ! what he said .was prevalent' I throughout the cottntry. but assertl j led that it.was no more evident I ?elsewhere than in congress. Unwar- j | ranted atacks, he declared, should j j cease because of the general, effect; ' they had and the other criticisms i they inspired. He said he expected j ! to discuss the ciiticisms, directed [ [at th?- south, more fully at a later ' ! time. The children's ? vacation has srarted and mother's vacation is [ over. -? 4P ? Amundsen isn't .going to the j North Pole, for five years to avoid ! the results of the coal strike. A fish usually stays in water over j I his head. The human variety is no j ; exception. ^ m ^ And another , civilizing, influence i China appears to need is a little j target practice. COAL PRICE RlG?LATION Secretary Hoover Announces That Prices Are to Remain Unchanged Washington. June 15.?Agree ment with representatives of the National Coal association and the National Retail Coal Merchants' association upon a plan for pre venting advance of bituminous coal prices during the strike was .an nounced tonight by Se.-;reJ.ary Hoover after a conference it che commission commerce department. Anthracite coal operator?, Mr. Hoover stated, have agreed not to advance prices of stock now held above ground above the. levels of the past week, which he add?d, were lover than at the beginning of the strike. . ? Bituminous operators in fields where a price, basis has not yet been established. Mr. Hoover said, will be "earnestly requested" t? reduce selling expenses for spot coal to" the Garfieid price including the standard selling. expense, plus "such additions ;for increased costs as were justified, m each individ ual case." /'The complexity of local condi tions," he said,, "due to the strike and the entrance of many, 'snow bird' mines make the estimate of maximum prices very . difficult in many districts. This plan, if ad hered to", should result : .in a re duction of ^prices in several dis tricts of, Pennsylvania and west Kentucky. I have some assurances that this basis will be accepted for Pennsylvania, and J hope west Kentucky, will also fall into line." Persistent misstatement or; mis understanding, of elements inside and, outside the coal-industry, Mr. Hoover, asserted, has given rise to the impression in some quarters that the maximum .of $3.50 a ton for spot coal,, established with op erators, of..80 per.cent of the pro ducing fields, constituted minimum prices and offered opportunity for occasional advantage being taken. . There have been few violations of the .spirit of-this agreement in Virginia* eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, Mr..Hoover said, where prices for spot coal, averaged ^about $3 a ton. varying from $2.50 to $3.25 with an occasional sale at the maximum. More than half the tonnage, >he added, is moving as contract coal at: averages below $2.25 while Alabama^ coal is be ing, offered at from .$1.82 to $2.10. At present, he declared, there is a surplus of unsold coal at Virginia tidewater: and.in Alabama, which it would be of advantage of larger consumers, to obtain as public de mands will enlarge later in the sea son.. < Permanent settlement of the coal strike, Mr. Hoover said, discussing the. mine, controversy, will rest up on some solution of the problem of intermittency of employment in the ooal industry. Part of those employed in coal mining, .he explained, receive less than an annual living wage while on the other extreme there are the high annual wages where there is permanent employment. There have been from 10 to 15 different proposals for solving the problem of intermittency of em ployment .in the coal industry, Mr. Hoover said, some of which would not require legislation. He declin ed to discuss, these suggestions fur ther at this time, however. Terra ^Haute, Inld., June 15? Withdrawal of their acceptance of an invitation to meet the United Mine Workers in a joint wage con ference was announced tonight .by the. policy committee of the In dianapolis Bituminous Operators' association. The Indiana operators in .the future will deal only with' the miners of this state, the com mittee announced. This action fol lows similar action taken- by the Illinois operators, a statement by the committee said. DR. GLENN HEADS STATE DENTISTS Myrtle Beach Selected as Con vention Place for 1923 Georgetown, - June 15. ? The State Dental Association met this morning and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: Presi dent, Dr. J..P. Glenn, Spartanburg; first vice president, Dr. David Aiken, of Winnsbroo; second vice president, Dr. Herbert M.. Hucks, Of Georgetown; recording secretary, Dr. E., C. Dye of Greenville; di recting secretary,. Dr. J. S. 3vrd of Edgefield; member of Board of Dental Examiners, Dr. W. Ji. Sim mons, of Piedmont; editor-in-chief of association journal, Dr. J. P. Carlisle, of: Greenville. All the visiting dentir.ts agree that this has been one of the best and most enjoyable, gatherings of the association yet held and are loud in. praise of the hospitality shown them by the people of Georgetown. The trip to North Is land and the jetties was delight ful.. Pushing and a fish, fry on a scale seldom participated in by the visitors was a feature which will not soon be forgotten. Myrtle Beach was selected as the next meeting place. The local commit tee in charge of arrangements so successfully ?vm-ied out consisted of D. H. M. Hucks. Dr. P. H. Mc Donald. Dr .E. VY. Durant, R. Z. Robinett, J. H. Carraway and M. S. Smith. "Organized labor suiters from its own mistakes." Sure. The idea of trying to attract attention with a strike when the country is inter est! d in hits. If skirts are longer, they are in them too far. Woman ascking divorce says her husband whips her every day. This is entirely to often. Scientist says the world will be crazy in 2122. Ohters. however, look for a change before then. If you can't spell "sophisticated," just use the word "fresh." I To Bring a 1 ^^^^ sROCKHIW. ! MAN HEADS I BANKERS j Charles L. Cobb is Elected ! President of State Body I i . .. - r- ? j Asheville, X. a, June 15.? j ; Charles L. Cobb, of Rock Hill, was | i elected president of , the South ] i Carolina . Bankers* Association at j j the business session held here to-1 j day. Other officers chosen were: i j Robert .I. Woodside, of Green-j jvilie. vice president; James H. I Craig, of Anderson, secretary ! treasurer; Judge B. Hart Moss, of j Orangeburg, attorney. ! Tonight's banquet concluded -the j 1922 convention, which was at t tended by 281 members and visitors i Governor Morrison, of North Car I olina. and a number of men {prominent in banking circles in many. states attended. The con vention endorsed cooperative mar keting and went on record as urg I ing the government fully to take i care of its wounded and disabled (soldiers before granting a bonus j to former service men, and adopt ed a resolution asking xha.t the j United States government return a [sum estimated to be between $60, j 000,000 and $80,000,000, alleged ! to have been taken illegally from I the Southern States following the ;civil war through taxation on cot-! j ton. I GREAT FIRE AT ! ROCKAWAY, N. Y. - -?-_ ? ? j Hundreds of Buildings Swept Away in Summer Colony i New York, June 15.?Fire swept I through the seashore bungalow i colony at Arverne, between Rocka ? way and Far Rockaway, tonight : and destroyed between 600 and 700 I buildings. More than a score of ! colonists, overcome by smoke while | j fighting to save their effects, were ] rescued by firemen and policemen. I ."? Arverne lies in a narrow part of the Rockaway peninsula . and j stretches across froni Jamaica bay 'to the sea. The.blaze,, believed to i have started in the Hotel Nantiluo, } spread; to the light wooden bunga i lows on the bay side and destroy-' j ed several boarding houses. Fire ! boats, sent from New York, fought j the fire from the bay. t. Every structure in a five block j area was destroyed. ' In Beach 59, 60 and 61 streets, i the. private residential section, 80 ! residences, valued at from $15,000 ito $25,000 each; 75 bungalows,; i valued at $5,000 each, and, 15 ho j tels and boarding houses, valued at $40,600 to $50,000 each, were j destroyed. i Seven engine companies, sent! ifrom New York, aided the volunteer j {fire fighting companies from j j beach resorts and five lines w.ere j i stretched around the fire area. Af- i ter three hours the blaze was re- j j ported under control. . I The blaze presented a spectacle j that attracted thousands and many j of these assisted the firemen and j the residents in removing house ! hold goods. An entire section of j small bungalows was dynamited in: j an attempt to arrest the . flames, j ; and several firemen were hurt in j this operation. ; ? Tents and improvised shelter* i I were pitched on the beach and cc | cupied for the night by the, hun-| j dreds whose homes were burned | j One hundred and fifty children [in the Israel Orphan asylum were j ! marched from the building as! j flames licked its walls. They ware j j housed in a hotel outside the fire (area. The orphanage was de stroyed. j * ? ? - . ? 1 ! If the property owners <vant' j East Liberty street paved from the j railroad to the city limits to con-! j nect with rhe county hard surface! j highway and Main street from Live \ ! Oak .street to the city limits, they; ; have the opportunity to say so by I ! signing the. petition;for a bond is-j sue that is to be circulated. At-j i tention is directed to the statement issued today by Mayor Jennings by direction of City Council. The; paying should 1>* done now. as the! highway system of the county will j be Incomplete until these unpaved I gaps are filled. City Council can not order this paving done without the sanction of the property owners and a majority vote of the quaii- ! tied electors. It is up to the people j to say what they want dons. ' To put you in a cheerful mood n the morning, have negligee of a cheerful color. Rose-colored rilftg. JwiS3 and sheer batiste, rase-dctted affeta and rose-sprigged chains ire reoommended. REPUBLICAN IN GEORGIA Grand Jury Will Make Search ing Investigation i Atlanta, Ga.. June 15.?-Investi gation of complaints that federal employes and; office seekers, in Georgia had been required -to pay for appointments was continued here today by Clint W. Hager, dis trict attorney, but? the federal grand jury, still busy with its inquiry into alleged drug smuggling at the At lanta federal penitentiary, did not take up the patronage charges. . Many persons were at the federal building ready to testify in the allegations that funds had been collected, and among them was Clarke Greer of Augusta, known as a leader of the Republican fac tion in Georgia opposing J. Louis Phillips, state chairman. He is sued a statement charging that Phillips had had him "fired" as a special agent of the department of Justice because of the patronage charges, while Phillips, who was expected to reach here from Phil adelphia early next week, tele graphed a statement denying the charges in full and attributed them to "Democratic partisans," "dis appointed office seekers" and "an enemy faction in our own party led by Greer and others." Charges that an effort was afoot to obtain a $5 contribution from each mail carrier in the state. Dem ocratic as well as Republican, were among the matters to be investi gated, Greer's statement said, "many Democrats were fleeced worse than Republicans." Final action was expected to morrow on a number of cases in connection with alleged smuggling of narcotics to federal .prisoners in which H. C. Carrick, assistant pris on physician, and three, guards have been arrested. District At torney Hager said Dr. H. H. Von tav, superintendent of federal pris ons, is expected to reach Atlan ta, probably early tomorrow. He was understood to be coming ? in connection with this inquiry. The investigation, ordered by the department of justice as Wash ington, will be taken by the grand jury, District Attorney Clint W. Hager stated, so soon as the probe into an alleged "dope ring" at the Atlanta federal penitentiary was cleared up. He indicated that this would be taken today or tomorrow. Mr. .Phillips, who was in Penn sylvania today, telegraphed . the following statement in connection with the affair: . "I desire to'say that not $1 has been paid to me or our committee for making, or ?recommending any federal, .appointment in Georgia, and the false Charges being circu lated are made by Democratic par tisans, as well as ;by disappointed office holders, and particularly by an enemy faction in our own party, led by Clark Greer and Charles Ad amson and H. G. Hastings, who ever since the reorganization of our party on a respectable basis last year, have fought to destroy me as chairman in order that they might obtain control of the party machinery and appointments and the control of the liquor traffic for their own selfish ends. I have complete confidence thar our peo ple who believe in honor and jus tice and law enforcement will not permit themselves to be used for such base purposes." Mr. Greer issued the following: "I started this investigation when I was a special agent for the de partment of justice. I turned up a number of cases, some of them worse than th?s. When I turned up this one, involving Phillips, the state chairman, lie had me fired. "This is absolutely not a franii up. The collection of money was not confined to Republican office seekers, who might possibly be ex pected to support the party, but was extended to Democrats, many of whom were intimidated and fleeced worse than the Republi cans." When he turns to snarl back at the knockers, you know that he is beginning to feel himself slipping. ? ? ? An ancient belief is that a dia mond wards off insanity; but a modern belief i3 that a diamond brings insanity. rect Styles in Woman's Wear. Our entire stock including VOGUE HATS and BETTY WALES DRESSES. All at and below New York invoice cost. Fnrther Evidence on Calcium Ar . . senate-Molasses Mixture. During the past few days many farmers in this section have made tests with various mixtures, of cal cium arsenate and molasses and in every instance with which I am fa miliar they are delighted with the results. On our own plantations we have experimened with several mixtures and are now using .a mix ture of one-half gallon warm wa ter, in which is thoroughly mixed one. pound of calcium arsenate an.1 added, to one-half gallon of black molasses. We. have-found a con venient way. to apply is. to use , a quart bottle which is filled three fourth full.of the mixture. Cut a trench out of one side of the cork, reserve the bottle and apply to the bud of the cotton by shaking or plunging motion, dropping two or three drops in the bud ' of the plant.. This method requires less of the mixture per. acre and keeps it thoroughly agitated all the time. We find that none of the" mixture should be carried over night as it is.hard to mix the next morning. No more.should be mixed than can be used during the day and it should be thoroughly stirred before pou ring into the bottles, (or buckets if the mop' is used).. Mr. Randolph Gillespie applied the molasses mixture to three dif ferent .fields on the 12th, 13th and J 14th. This morning (16th) he I spent more than .an hour in these j fields searching for weevils. ? He I found no live weevils and no re jcently .punctured squares. There I were many weevils in the fields be l fore the poison was applied. J Mr. J. L. Jordan was. picking j about fifty weevils per acre, from his fields before ppisoning. .He .poisoned on the. 8th and 9th and on the 12th and 13th. He sent hands, into the fields '.to. pick weevils^ and the hands could find no weevils. Mr. Jordan and Mr. Middleton went into, the fields themselves and {looked.for some time and could find rnone. On Monday the 12th instant we poisoned the field near the Pedi greed Seed. Company's gin and warehouses in which numerous, weevils,had rbeen fobserved. On Wednesday we .sent .about twenty hands into this field, offering them two cents each for. live weevils. . A few quit pretty promptly, on .not .finding any weevils. . About fifteen however, kept looking ? for some time, but none found a weevil after going, over, about seven acres. Mr. j Sharpe, who was . in charge of the j gang,.raised the price to five cents i per weevil, but. still failed to find any.. Later the price was advanc ed to ten cents per weevil, and not a single, hand found a weevil after searching for two hours. .. Mr.. Getfrge . J. Wilds, plant breeder of.the Pedigreed Seed Co., carried out the following experi ments during the past week: Test No. 1. At 1 p. m., on.the 10th instant, nine hills of cotton were treated; with the molasses mixture. There are two plants in each hill, and; only one of the plants in each hill was treated. Twenty-one weevils were placed on these nine hills about one-halt-being placed on the poisoned plants and the rest on. ihe unpoi.-oned plants. At 6 p. m., the nine hills were examined with the result that. six living1 and six I dead weevils were found on the | treated plants. At 2 p. m.. on the i 12th the same plants were exam-j ined and two live and eight dead weevils .were found. At 9 a. m., on ! the 14th the plants were again ex- i amined and on live weevils and ten { dead ones were found. As weevils ' i move about considerably at th'S j season it. is assumed that all that 1 remained on,the.treated hills were destroyed within the test period. I The mixture used in this test was ! one-half gallon water, one gallon I molasses and two pounds calcium! 'arsenate. I Test No. 2. At I i). m. on the 10th instant, ten hills were treated with the fol lowing mixture: Eight gallons of water, three gallons molasses and! ten pounds calcium arsenate. And on the ten hills twenty weevils were placed. At 6 p. m.. on the same day, four living and five dead j weevils were found. At 2 p. m.. ion the 12th, two living and seven! dead weevils were found. At 9 a. m. on the 14th, one live weevil and eight dead ones wore found. Mix* ture used above is very light and. 4rjes up. quickly. . Test Xo. S: Same mixture was used on test Xo. 3. under about the same condi tions, and 75 per cent of..the .wee vils succumbed. . . Test No. 4. In test No....,4 a .mixture of five 'gallons of molasses, five gallons, of water, and seven and one-half pounds of calcium arsenate was used..on five hills. Twenty weevils were placed on the, five hills. At 6 aP m. .on the 13th no living and fpnr dead weevils were found. On the. 14th, a shower having fallen during, the night of the 13th, an other .search for weevils was made and. three additional dead and no live ones were found. . The results of these experiments seem to show, that where a liquid containing at least . half molasses and at ..leasr. three-fourths of a pound, of calcium arsenate per ga?lOn is used, 100 per cent mor tality occurs within four days. The. fact that a good many of the weevils placed on . the plants were, unaccounted for does not modify, the . value of the experi tnenti as our experimenters observ [ed some weevils to.fly away imme diately on being placed on a plant. The.cotton surrounding these ex periments had not been treated with poison of any kind. I have.had.two letters from'BCr. G., 3dL; Xorris of Vaace, Orange burg county, S. C, who last year applied on or about June 10 a mixture of one and one-half pounds ^calcium arsenate and one quart of hot water mixed with. one gallon of . molasses. He stirred the water and arsenate for 30 .minutes before mixing with the molasses and ap plied with. a mop. He says one .man or. boy . can apply to four acres per day. . He gathered nine hundred pounds of seed cotton ]>er acre.^ and only made _two hundred to four . hundred pounds per acre on the balance of the farm. He does not - consider this test. positively conclusive, owing to .the fact that he had no untreated cotton in the field with treated cotton. He is confident that the poison was re sponsible for. his comparative suc .cess, in a section which, was al most wiped out .by the weevils last year. The cost of the mixture,. Mr. Norris say.-, was twenty to twesty five cents per acre. . All. the farmers who have report ed., on the use of the mixture in this section agree that the cost is between fifteen and twenty-five cents for materials. Mr. Xorris reports that most of the farmers in his section are using the molasses .calqium arsenate mixture this year, and so far as he has heard they ;are pleased with the results. I cannot be certain that by the use of calcium arsenate molasses treatment any farmer .will make a .crop of cotton. and I can only be .sure that under the weather con ditions we. have . had here since May 30 that the vast majority of the weevils have been killed and that few weevils are left in the treated fields and few punctured squaro:< are appearing. The cost of the application is so slight and the results appear so manifest that i feel that every farmer can ill afford not to invest twenty cents per acre per application for this treatment, and apply it sev eral times, at intervals of a week or ten days. There is . not the slightest question that millions of weevils have already been killed by this treatment during the past ten days, and it stands for reason that this has done some good. DAVID. R. COKER. Hartsviile, S. C., June 16. Denmark May Follow U. S. in Boy , and Girl Club Work Although agricultural extension methods are older in Denmark than in the United States, work with boys and girls as conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture in cooperation with State agricultural colleges has not been organized there. A plan, how ever, is being considered for form ing similar clubs, says S. Sorensen. agricultural advisor attached to the Danish Legation at Washington. ?t j present the work in Denmark is lor; people from 18 to 7 0 years. :-. ? ? ? A bachelor.., .who gets through June is a- lucky bachelor. Monthly Report of The report of the police depart ment for the month of May is as follows: * - To?al: arrests _- -?' -- -- ?* dismissed cases -------- ^ Suspended cases -- * G?usesi .of Arrests: Gambling -- ? ? -- -- -- -- 15 Disorderly conduct --*--- --- ^ Speeding a?tos _- -- -- ---- P Dog ordinance- S Vagrancy ^T -.? * Dmnkr-_-- -- -- -- -- ? Concealed weapons -2 Pick pocket .- ------ * Prohibition law -- -- -- -- ?* Traffic^ ordinance 16 Petty larceny - - - _ ^- * Street taxes -- -- ------ 4 Cash finest collected -- 30 days xm: gang - - ----- fi.OO Total -1-1 ._$588.00 The* above' report ?hWfr tfeo.-pab lic that the members of the police force are on the job; and should be commended for their good work. Why Jom TUc .-AaierfccaJi Legion -. ??- Auxiliary. "i .? ? "? ? ? Surety it is a.matter offirfde to the mothers, wives, sisters-, and daughters of the soldiers 5h the I late*'war that their men "?sdr-their i bit" in that great struggle and" I measured up when the call of -duty came for the service of-'brave and I unselfish " pen. The Woments I Auxiliary gives us - a chaasee to [ perpetuate this fact, j' And it gives us a chance to stand behind them now as we did-daring thVperiod of strife and bloodshed. ; There are many needs amdhg these |ex-feoldiers which ah organised ! band -of interested, sympathetic, jandv'determined women can hflp' j to supply. Our disabled -soldiers i.need assistance. Many. of them are j without funds and _ with; Health ? wrecked are unable \o work. The i government has been .-deHnti^ent j and inadequate in. its care of our 'invalided soldiers. Perhaps we i.havenot brought enough pressure ! to bear.. Among the well, there are I down and outers to whom we cnit j give* encouragement and ? ..fresh ! starts . '?* . j The purpose of the Women's Auxiliary is beautfiuliy expressed in the preamble of the constitution of j the American Legion whose ideals j it .shares : { "For God and country! j We- associate ourselves together j for the following purposes:. .... To? uphold and defend the Gon j stitujtkm * of "the United States of !. America; J Tot. maintain law and order, j' To foster and perpetuate a one j hundred per cent. Americanism; To preserve the memories and in ! cidents of our. association in- the great, war; . To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state land: nation: |. To combat the autocracy of both the classes and. the .masses; To make right the master of ] might;- - i To. promote peace and good will j On earth; To. safeguard and transmit to. j posterity the principles of justice, J freedom ?and democracy; to par-. ticipate in and fo contribute to the accomplishment of the aims and ; purposes of the American Legion; I to consecrate and sanctify our asso j ciation by devotion to mutual : hlepfulnessl" i ' '. I We shall be glad to have you j attend- -our meeting on Monday af | ternoon to hear of the work being j done among the ex-seryice>; men in ! Sumter county and, if you are e? | gible, to join with us in our aims I and plans for the future. A, man in loye_.will do anything; r but . he usually does nothing.. - 'm m- . . The hardest .thing about being a j movie actor is getting married j every time your pay is .raised. ?'' * ? " . '" The coal strike is going on, but will;not hit us until fall. . ., Kiss rhymes with bliss and miss and they usually go. together. ? ? ? Man's herb, worship is usu-Uiy heroine Worship.