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'juyt,^ ; . . . 1 . 1 "-iv. ? u . . Hearing on Discontinuance of A. C. ' li. Trains, Between Sumter and 'Colombia. The South Carolina Railroad Commission has sent out the fol lowing notice regarding a hearing oV the proposed discontinuance of trains 68 and 69 between Sumter aita Columbia on the.Atlantic Coast lane Railroad company, the hear - iijg to-be held at the commission's of?ce in Columbia at 12 o'clock, noon, of July 5th: ? -Columbia; June 28, 1922. |fr.: Frank. A. Pierson. Secretary Columbia Chamber c" Commerce; - Mr. J. H. Woodard, State Presi * dent,*T. P. A., S. C. Division; Mr. ^ IS. L- Reardon, Manager-Secre Ttary. Sumter County Chamber of ?ommerce. Gentlemen:. Referring to / pre vious correspondence relative to proposed -discontinuance of A. C. L. Ijk'ft. trains Xos. 68 and 69 between St?nter and Columbia and vice The commission has decided to hold a hearing in regard to this fatter in'its office at Columbia, S. Gi, on July 5th, 1922, at 12 o'clock tjoon.; Yon. and all other persons interested in this matter are re quested to be present at this hear ing Yours truly, - (Signed) Frank W. Shealy, v. Lji' Chairman. JTwo meeting were held by the Sumter Camber of Commerce and <p&G:. hearing by the railroad com mission in June. 1921, and another will be held on July 5th, 1922, re garding- the discontinuance 1 of trains Xos. 68 and 69. The Sumter Ghainber of Commerce meetings opposed, the taking off of these trains at the first "^hree hearings, ^ny; and- all citizens of Sumter or Suinter vcounty stuTflcently. interest eSfclin this matter are invited to attend the hearing in Columbia on jifly 5th. Xot a single individual $b?. any point between Maxton, X. ?^^and Sumter or between Sumter ^fid: Columb^ attended the two hearings held at Sumter by the Sumter Chamber of Commerce, ahd none. so far as is known here between Maxton and Columbia, ex cept from iSumter attended the of ficial- commission hearing in Co fiimhia, although notices were sient to every point between Colum bia^and Maxton of the hearings last J^ane. .. ?' o- ? - Takes tfver Office jWalterboro, June 29.?Clifton O. Crosby will assume charge of the Walterboro postoffice on Saturday Of-thiS; week, succeeding Postmaster C. D. C. Adams. Mr. Crosby has recently had his appointment con firmed by the senate. He has been <?rrier of R. F. D. route, Xo. 2, f^om Walterboro, having been three years a' resident of Walter boro. . He was R. F. D. carrier from SS?kehatchie four years before coming to Walterboro. ''The retiring - postmaster, Mr. j?dams, carries with him the respect ahd ^esteem of all the patrons of the office. Since he has been ip office he has been unfailingly courteous , and kind to all patrons of the office ?nd has attended the business in a business like manner. Xo fault has b^sen found in his administration $t the affairs 6f the postoffice and &?" leaving is .genuinely regretted by scores of friends. - ? ? m 1 ' 1 A Great Injustice Threatens- the American People. Clothing is one, of the first ne oessities of life. It should not be made to cost the people more through the action of congress. -,.And yet that is about to happen. The proposed tariff bill, already jersed the house .and now before the-senate, provides a flat increase of 33 cents a pound on scoured con|S tent of. imported wool. That will inean an added cost of about $4.00 to every , suit of clothes or over coat and" a big increase on woolen clothes for women and children. It will add about $361,000.000 a year to the cost of clothing in this country. J You can help to head off this danger by writing 4r wiring your lenator at once to trim the tariff On wool to a more reasonable fig Germ?tty Recovering South Ajmeri can Trade. London, June 2.?The rapid re covery of German trade with Chile since the war is emphasized in a report of the Department of Overseas Trade. Chile like many other countries, the report says, owes to British enterprise and capital its position as a factor in the world's markets today. The first British firm was estab lished there three-quarters of a century ago and was followed short ly by many others. The Germans were hot long in taking up a sec ond" position in the field, followed in. v,ery recent years by the Unit ed States. Some years before the war Germany became a strong Competitor of Great Britain, and the United States steadily gained ground. From the outbreak of the war, however, everything went in favor of the United States and from 1?15 to 1919 they secured all Germany's lost trade, plus about 10 percent of the British. "There is every indication." con cludes the report, "that the British manufacturer has now much more to fear from German competition than from American. German im ports to Chile increased from only ?52,000 in 1919 to ?1.5SU.00'j in 1920 and a very marked progress will probably be noticeable in Ger man trade with Chile, when figures ?je available for the present year." ? # ? ' Only a jeweler" gets anywhere by watching the clock, The first day e? the first month must have seemed rather odd when no landlords showed up.' :O?NTY NEWS Thursday night about 12 o'clock the large house of Frank Martin, colored, which is located some dis j tance out on the Pocalla road, was J burned to the ground. A small out ( house was saved, but very little ' household goods. It is not known I if he had any insurance on the ! house. j The railway shopmen'3 strike is ? effective in Sumter, thirty-one em j ployees of the Atlantic Coast Line 1 affiliated with that union having j walked out, according to orders, at {10 o'clock this morning. t No at- j i tempt has been made to, secure i ? other help to fill the places of thej strikers. Several improvements have j ? been made at the postoffice recent ly. The roof has been repaired, new screen doors and windows J have been installed and repairs made to the interior of the building. The work is in charge of Mr. L. P. Turner. ? ? ? j Mr. Ben MitcheHl, who lives on North Main street, and who. has just completed the summer course in farming at Clemson College, brougrht to the Item Office this morning some "above the aver age" sweet potatoes and peaches. The potatoes were as large as young watermelons* and the. peaches were twice the size pf the I average peach?they* were good ! tool j The dance,which was held Th?rs- j day evening over "Bryan's store was ! a delightful one. The Francis Hays DuPcnt club orchestra playejd for the occasion, and the crowd was well pleased. There were about 20 ladies and 75 men present which includes a large number of visitors. The chaperones were: Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Merrimon, Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby Blanding, Mr. and Mrs. Pringle Brunson, Mrs. Gordon r Bradley and Mrs. Eugene Moses. ? ? ? j Third Largest Telescope in* the I World. Delaware, O., June 28.?Within the. next few years there will arise on Observatory hill on the campus at Ohio Wesleyan Univer sity here, a huge concrete bulk, with a long finger' pointing sky ward. . It will be the third largest telescope in the world. At that time, an old man may look from the doorway of an out of-dstte brick house "near the great instrument, and recognize' in it a moment to his preserverance and the clominating ideal of a life that I will have passed the four-score and j ten mark. If he is there to see it, he will be comparatively penniless, as mon ey goes,, but rich in happiness. If he is not there to see it,- he has said he will be just as satisfied? ; because he knows it will be there, whether he is or not. Professor Hiram M. Perkins, now 89 years of age, started teach ing mathematics and astronomy years ago at Ohio Wesleyan, a poor man. During the long years of teaching since then he had amass ed a fortune of close to $200,000 by fortunate investments. But he will die a poor man. Nearly ev ery cent that he has earned and scraped together will be represent ed in the "third largest telescope in the world." A story that passes understand ing is unfolded in the simple an nouncement by trustees of Ohio j Wesleyan that $250,000 has been j contributed for the installation of j the telescope. All but $75,000 of i the quarter of million dollars was i given (by Prof. Perkins; the re-: mainder by his sister and brother- I in-law. Professor Perkins has lived with j ! one dominating goal?to be abfe j to turn enough money over to Ohio j Wesleyan University for the pur I chase of such a telescope. Not only did he devote all his income from his investments' to t his telescope fund, but he often contributed to it from his meager salary as a col lege professor, he and Mrs. Per kins trimming their household j budget to make the sacrifice pos- j i sible. And the story of self sacrifice is \ ? not on a par with the efforts of I Professor Perkins to dodge recog nition for his remarkagle gift. He has steadfastly refused any acknowledgment from his alma* mater and has driven the college press bureau to distraction by re | fusing to permit the use of his j name in connection with the gift. "I don't care whether I live to j see the telescope and the new ob | servatory completed or not." he j is quoted by Prof. C. C. Crump, now j head of the department of astron- j omy. "The knowledge that the | University is to have them is sum- J i cient." Prof.* Perkins gives the telescope !at the urge of an ideal that has j held sway in his whole life?the i belief that the study of the stars j outclasses all others in teaching the j ! majesty and power of God. and in inculcating principles of true re ; ligion. Under the terms of his gift, the j I telescope is to be used first for the j 'instruction of all the students of j I the University: second, it is to be; turned over to the public at regular ' ' intervals, and after that it is to be j : used for research. How do the evolutionists explain i the fact that, while a people never j '. forgets its vices, monkeys know j only the vices learned from men? { ! Many a pensiv** girl turns out I '?? to be expensive. 1 m o ? All of us have sleeping sickness | early in the morning. We should hate to be an actor in , Pekin where they throw China; eggs. j If women were philosophers, they would remove wrinkles In putting a littl" fat iu behind th?m. ?SHOPMEN OBEY THE STRIKE CALL i (Chicago Labor Lead ers Report That Orders For Nation wide Strike H a s Immediate Re sponse Chicago, July 1.?Thousands of railway shopmen dropped their tools today to join the nation-wide strike. Early reports indicated that shop mechanics and helpers generally throughout - the country are joining walkout, with about fifty thousand already reported having quit work. Complete backing for the labor board and ist orders, two of which are involved in the present strike, was assured by the administration in Washington,* although, no one would make any definite suggestion as to how the government might act to end'the strilffc. THE TARIFF GRAFT Senator Norns's Ideal Speech Against Profiteers' Tariff BIO One of the "briefest and one of the best speeches made in the sen ate against the pending Fordney McCumber Profiteers' Tariff bill was made by Senator George W. Norris (Republican-, of Nebraska), discussing the rates on shotguns, -rifles,* etc. The house bill imposed the fol lowing high rates: On shotguns valued at more^han $5, $1.50 each; valued-at more than $5 and* not more than $10, $4 each; valued at $10 and not more than $25, $6 each; valued at more than $25, $10 each, with an additional ad valor em rate of 35 per cent, which the senate committee made 45 per cent. In his- best ironical vein, Sena tor Xorris said: "I am surprised that the senator (Mr. Simmons) does not under stand it. Of course, it is not for protection, because we send guns all over the world. We command the world's market in guns. There is ho protection in it. It is' not for revenue, ? of course, because none are imported; but the sena tor forgets?and this applies to a good many other things in this bill ?that there is another reason that might have a practical effect, and I am surprised that the senator does hot understand it: Has he forgotten the men who are engag ed in making 'guns in this coun try? Has he forgotten that the war is over- arid that their market is probaBly somewhat interfered Vith, and that they need some as sistance from somebody"? Does not the senator realize, too, ^hat While there are no gtlns imported, be cause they cannot compete with us, there are,' nevertheless, people in other countries wh%o>make guns? "We have this market. We are reaching out to get the balance of the world. We want a tariff away up high so that we can raise the price here and still- keep out the foreigner, while we go out into the foreigner's country and sell guns at less than^cost and put him out of business. ?We could not do that if we jid nojt ha^e the Amer ican fellows^ here*; toiling and work ing to make up here what we lose abroad, and hence we have to have this. It. is necessary. If we can raise, the tariff high enough to keep out the other fellow, and raise the price here up to the level of the tariff wall and compensate our selves while we go out and conquer the rest of the world in the gun business, when we have driven"the other fellows out of business in their home countries, which may take some time, we can increase the price there. We could not do that without losing some money unless we had this thing in the bill, and so we have it in here. "It may be pretty hard on the fellows who want to buy guns to shoot prairie dogs and rabbits, but it is a splendid thing for the mil lionaire who makes the gun. The senator has forgotten about that, and while he Us traveling out to gather in the world .market we will toil and sweat and work and labor and keep the wolf from his door. That is why we ha\;e this tariff, not only on guns but on a good many other things. We are going to do the same thing with sewing ma chines and paints, and a lot of things made out of steel, and a whole lot of other things; and will it not be a glorious day when that time comes, when our millionaires will control the world, and we will go hungry and toil while they are getting around to do it? We ought to be glad of the opportun ity to make these sacrifices. We ought to rejoice * that we are the instrumentalities by which these men will not only profiteer but continue to profiteer. They have us captured now. We want them to capture everybody else, and let everybody pay tribute to their greatness and to their grandeur. "The senator from North Caro lina has not grasped the idea yet. He ought, it seems to me, to be able to understand, and he will when he gets as old us I am and lives as long as I have, that one of the blessings that eonv* to us through such legislation as this is that for every drop, of sweat and every bit of toil that our people go through and all the suffering they have to endure they are going to be able to see somebody living high and flying with the geese." Most every man knows what he would do if he had the money. Health hint: . Swat the Hies un til you run out of them. Who started the belief that five a. in. is the time to mow a lawn? 7,000 Walkout at Birmingham I Birmingham, July 1. ? Union leaders estimated that about seven thousand railroad shopmen walked out here in answer to the strike i call. Atlanta, July 1.?Upwards of thirty thousand shop crafts em ployes in the southeastern territory answered the strike call this morn ing according to figures from the various local unions up to noon. Railroad officials were watching the situation closely, saying little or no figures from this source were available at noon. Denver, July 1.?Reports to the Associated Press indicate the strike of shopmen to be nearly one hun dred per cent effective in this ter ritory. Educators to Hear About Volcanoes Mankind's debt to the volcano has been more fully recognized by results of recent researches. Con trary to the popular belief that the volcano is an enemy it is one of mankind's best friends. Without volcanoes it now is believed there would be no ocean; and to.them we i are indebted for carbon dioxide, without which human life would 4iot be possible. } One of the most tremendous vol i canic explosions in history, that of j Mt. Katmai, in Alaska, will be de scribed and its effects shown in mo tion pictures before the Conference of Geography of the National Ed ucation Association, to be held in Boston July 3. Dr. Robert F. Griggs, leader of j the National Geographic ? Society's j expeditions to study Katmai and discoverer of its neighbor natural wonder, the Valley of Ten Thou sand Smokes, will tell of the find ings of the expedition. Though( unawares of the mighty upheaval, every inhabitant of the United States felt its effects; one of which was the cold, damp summer of 1912 caused by the interception j of so much sunlight by the dust from the eruption which^quickly | was carried around the world. Even j j in cloudless Sahara the ' sky was: overcast; and it is believed that aj ! succession of such eruptions could I ! plunge the earth into another ice ! I age. I Katmai's terrific explosion was') j unnoticed because it was so remote.! j Had the upheaval occurred in New j j York City the sulphurous fumes would have polluted the air every- i I where east of the Rocky Mountains, j the -noise would have reverberated j like an artillery duel across the j central states; and the lower Hud- j son itself would have been a giant j ; tomb with few ruins to eved tell ! the story. Fortunately Katmai'3 eruption I provided geographers one of their greatest opportunities for studying j volcanic .phenomena without any j frightful toll of human misery. Kat- j mai village, twenty miles from the ' crater, was deserted because all the ; natives had gone fishing, accord- ? ing to. their summer custom. Kodiak, nearest settlement of i consequence, and the most imp?r- j tant town in an earea larger than! Ohio, is a sleepy village of 400 peo ple, where a mosque-like Russian church is a relic of the one-time Russian America. . An area around Katmai, half I i again bigger than Delaware. w:as j covered with a.foot or more of.ash, | which was enough to destroy all but the hardiest herbaceous plants. Be- ? fore the- explosion a suffocating blanket of incandescent sand burst i through orifices in the floor of the valley. "When tflfe explosion occur ! red two cubic miles of material j was blown off the top of the vol canic mountain and its present j ' whereabouts, as the police bulle-; j tins would say, still is a mystery1 ! to scientists. The aftermath of this eruption j i promises to be one of our most ; j precious national heritages. Beyond j Katmai lies a great valley from j j whose floor constantly ascends mil- j j lions of columns of steam. These j great rolling clouds of vapor which j go billowing down the valley, some- j I times trailing out before the wind j ! a mile or more, exert an uncanny! fascination. t The fumaroles, or vents, through j which the steam escapes, disclose ? encrustations of greatest beauty, { I variety and color. There are mass- \ I es of bright yellow sulphur, chunks j j of ash turned red and blue, and ; j pure white masses of silicious ma- j I terial. j j You can cook your dinner over j [these jets of hissing steam, though j jyou have to hold the frying pan j down against the uprushing stream, j j There is a natural bathing pool, j I one end cold and another hot. Not { ! far away is a lake with trout of j j thirty inches or more that bite at ; j almost anything: and there also is 1 Brooks Falls with its leaping sal- j Imon which may be speared when i a trout diet palls. President Wilson turned aside! from the stress of war time to make j this region a national monument, j Some day it will be a national park ?second only in area- to Yellow stone. Many lesser phenomena mark the vicinity. There is fall ing mountain, for example, which ? needs not a motion-picture camera, j but a phonograph or a radio to I record its thunderous subsidence, i i Magnificent forests will provide a j I game preserve. Novarupta. a near | by volcano, now veils her crater I ! in rolling clouds of steam. So remote are these phenomena j that members of the National Geo- j graphic Society's expeditions are . the only white men who have yet j (explored them: but they are not; j inaccessible. A broad, deep har bor renders a landing easy, and fif I ty miles of roadway will place, this J natural wonderland within the j j compass of a day's automobile trip j from the harbor, named Geograph-j j ic Harbor, in honor of the National j I Geographic Society which discov ered and explored the section. 0} 0f -Qf In Florida a lost aviator lived on j ! grasshoppers. Now he ought to be I good at dodging autos. 0m 0^ 00, j Sometimes we thir.K (he cream j ' of society stays on ice. Obregon Moving Troops to Tampico Washington. June 29.?Over night advices to the state depart ment from Tampico served to j change materially the situation in j the Mexican oil region resulting from the holding for ransom by a rebel band of 40 American em ployees at the Aguada camp of the Cortez Oil company, an American owned concern. Consul Shaw re ported that the rebel chief, Goro j zave, arid his men left the camp I Monday morning after a 24 hour ikstay. The message, dated yester I day seemed to have cleared the j air but on its heels came another j dispatch filed last night by the consul" saying that the rebels had seized the Pecera camp of the British owned La Carona company and that about half a' dozen Arner ! icans were among the 85 men held there. Xo further advices came during the. day. In demanding 0,000 pe j sos'for the surrender of the Pecera ! property and the employees the ! rebels fixed July 2 as the date by which the payment must be made. Whether the 15,000 pesos demand ed at the Aquada camp was paid was'not stated in any ol the mes sages received. . The state department promptly instructed Charge Summerlin at Mexico City to make representa tion In regard to adequate protec tion for any Americans held in connection with the new raid cn the British owned company. Mr. Summerlin also was direct-id to press Mexican federal authorities to capture and ouufsh bandits who captured A. Bruce Bielaski. De tails of Belaski's escape had .not come in official reports. Beyond these new representa tions to the Obregon government was no indication the state deparl mnet intended to move at present. It was pointed out that the.depart ment was not ra possession of an;; information tending to show that the raids in the oil region were more than they appeared to be on the face of Consul Shaw's reports, the operations of bandits j levying or seeking to levy tribute von the oil companies. If President obre gon or his officials, have any data tending to show that his political enemies are responsible for the outbreak in the Tampico region they have not seen fit to communi cate that information to Washing ton yet In any case both officials and unofficial -advices showed that the Obregon government was moving additional troops into the Tampi co. district for the evident purpose of surpressing rebel or bandit ac tivities. ??? ' ? ^It was evident also- from the re ports, official or otherwise, reach ing Washington from the oil re gion during the week that com munication with the outlying camps is slow at best and that de tailed accounts of what took 7>lace at the Aguada property have been unavailable as yet to Consul Shaw. He did report, however, that Goro zave, on leaving the American camp Monday, threatened to re turn and seize the nearby British Pecera camp and also the property of the Mexican and Gulf Oil .com pany in the. same region. The reb el chief made good on a part. of this threat at least. ?? ? i ? o ? ? Church Advertising Found to Pay. Milwaukee. Wis.. June 20. ? Views of editors and publishers on the value of church advertising were read before the convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World here last week by the Rev. J. T. Brabner Smith of Chicago, of- the division of pub licity, Committee on Conservation and Advance of the Council of Board and Benevolences of the Methodist Episcopal church. The expressions were received in reply to a letter sent to publishei-s and editors asking for a state ment of the advantage and values of church advertising, it was stated. Following are abstracts from some of the statements read by the Rev. Mr. Smith: The Times-Picayune, Xew Or leans. La., Manager: "For many years the newspapers of Xew Or leans have given from two to four columns each week to free church notices. Within the last two years some of the churches have bought advertising space. The churches using display space have found it a good investment, I am told by the pastors." The Indianapolis Star, Manag ing Editor: "First and most ob vious is the effect in stimulating attendance. This result is too well attested by experience to be re garded a:-? any longer a matter ot experiment." Cincinnati Times-Star. Manag^ ing Editor: "The church, today as always, requires direct advertis ing of its work. My experience has been, that the militant church, with its modern methods of get ting men and women within^ its portals, is the one which is doing the greatest amount of good in the community. The great factor in the campaigns of such institu tions is advertising, newspaper ad vertising, that will reach into the homes." The World-Herald. Omaha. Xeb., Advertising Manager: "It is our opinion that the ministers of the various churches are convinced of the value of newspaper advertising, in view of their efforts to obtain free publicity." -.. ? m ? This may be a cruel world, but not a coaled world. A swelled head is easily broken. Faste this in your hat. _ Some people's idea of clean movies is havins the girls in bath ing. # ? ? Xormal times are back. Most people are looking for abnormal times. These are the sood old days we sh-?ll wish for in a few years. DYER'S MEASURE BEFORE SENATE j Anti-Lynching Bill Favor ably Reported Washington, June 30.?The Dyer anti-ly'nching bill, providing- pen alties by- the federal government for mob action, was reported fa vorably with amendments today by the senate judiciary committee by a vote of 8 to 6. Senators Ashurst (Democrat) of Ari2;ona and Norris (Republican) of Nebraska did not vote. The vote today ended a long committee fighf" over the bill, which was passed last January by the house and which has been urg ed by negro and other organiza tions. Opponents of the measure have declared it an unconstitutional j interference with state rights. Comparatively few changes were made in the original house bill and these were said to be designed to meet the constitutional objections. A^ subcommittee of the senate committee recently recommended defeat of the bill on the ground that it violated the constitution. Some senators voting today for a favorable-report were said to hold j doubts regarding its constitutional ity but thought the bill should be enacted and put up to the supreme court. The bill declares 'that if states fail, neglect or refuse to maintain protection of life they shall be deemed , to have denied the consti tutional guarantees and the federal i authorities will have power to ad j by indictment of state officers or members of a mob and trial in the federal courts. The measure requires "reason able efforts by state officers to maintain order and protect prison ers and their failure would subject them to imprisonment for five years afnd a fine-of $5,000. Mem bers of mobs in which a prisoner is put to death-would-be subject to conviction of conspiracy with im prisonment for five years to life provided. Counties in which fatal i mob disorders occur would be lia j ble to the family of the1 victim un der a forfeit of $10,0.00. Amendments adopted by the sen ate committee require that failure of the state officers to protect mob victims must be charged in the fed jeral indictment and proven to the j satisfaction: of the federal trial J court.' The bill v has had an unusually j hard course in the senate committee ! after a stormy birth in the "house. After lying- in the judiciary com mittee without action for several months, Senator Lodge o$ Massa chusetts, Republican leader, and other Republicans started the movement for disposition by the committee;which culminated in to | day's favorable vote. Republican [leaders were doubtful, however. {whether senate consideration could I be secured at this cession, j Eight "Republicans. Chairman j Nelson of Minnesota, Dillingham of I Vermont. Brandegee of Connecti j cut, Cummins of Iowa. Colt of j Rhode Island, Sterling of South Da Ik ota/ Ernest of Kentucky and tShortridge of California voted in {favor of the bill. One Republican j Senator Borah of Iado, and five I Democrats, Culberson of Texas, j Overman; of North Carolina, Reed j of Missouri, Shields of Tennessee Sand Walsh of Montana were re j corded in opposition. TO WALK ' OUT TODAY L ? ? Shopmen at Florence Without Further Instructions Florence, June 30.?The Florence j railroad shopmen, according to J. J B. Mackey, -president of the labor j federation* in Florence, up to to night had not received anything ! further, since the instructions of yesterday morning, when they had j telegrams from their national offi i cials stating they had permission, ! to quit work at 10 o'clock tomor i row morning. While the instruc i tions were held by the local offi i cials to leave the quitting or con i tinuing of their work optional with ! the individual, the wires are sup j posed generally to be understood j thoroughly by the men and they ! are expected to quit work prompt ly at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ; ing as a body. Unless something ! develops between now and - 10 j o'clock tomorrow morning in the i national conference in Chicago the j strike is expected on schedule, j In order that their national head ! should know that the machinists J in the A. C. L. shops in Florence I understand thoroughly their tele graphic instructions, the local pres ident this morning telegraphed William H. Johnson, international [president of the International As I sociation of Machinists, to disre "i gard newspaper stories. The j-Florence shopmen, he said, "are j complying with your instructions." -? ? ? ! Prefers Forestry to Stenography. i Duluth. Minn.. June 29.?Three ; and one half years in an office con Ivinced Miss Eileen Carroll. 21 year i old Minneapolis girl that a person ? perfectly at home in the great out j doors had no business doing steno ! graphic work for a living, so she {applied for a position doing patrol j work in the Superior National For est. She impressed Supervisor Cal I vin A. D?hlgren and now she i3 a j full-fledged patrolwoman. first to j be permanently stationed in the ! north woods. ' Miss Carroll plans to continue j in forestry work the year around, j She said she wasn't afraid of bears, I ^o the forest service promptly gave ( her the acid test and assigned her ! to a post deep into the forest. Here she was virtually lost for three j weeks. Finally she received a let ! ter asfcing for an interview. Apologizing for the delay in an swering she explained that "a lookout's hours are rather long? I haven't had time to answer soon er." People who build autos don't read the speed laws. FRENCH PREMIER GAINS SUPPORT Senate Votes Confidence in Poincare Paris, June 29?(By the Asso ciated Press)?The senate today gave Premier Poincare a vote of confidence following a debate on the question of German repara tions in the course of which M. Poincare declared that the allies had arrived at the turning point on the question of reparations, but that the French government "will ? make every endeavor to avoid get ting into 'a blind alley/ " j Germany. M. Poincare said, was struggling with a financial crisis, but she had provoked it herself, i arid. meanwhile her industries were flourishing. "German companies," the pre mier continued, "distributed 40 per cent, in dividends on an average in 1921 and the German fleet already has recovered and now occupies third rank in the world." Germany was buying back ships delivered to Great Britain, was building heavily and was engaged in considerable extensions of her railroads, these extensions even comprising some of a distinctly military character, M. Poincare de clared, adding, "we cannot accept these outlays unless Germany be gins paying her debts." The premier suggested as rem edies for the situation "the put ting into effect of a really effective ! organization for the collection of taxes on Germany's exports, the proceeds of which should be de posited with the reichsbank; or, if that is insufficient credits accumu lated abroad by Germany in for eign money must be applied to the payment of reparations. Paris, June 29 '(By the Associ ated Press).?The pooling of all the allied war debts.was proposed in the senate this afternoon ;by Senator Jouvenal during the course of a debate in which Pre ihier Poincare declared that it did not' for a moment occur to any one that France would repudiate her war debts, though they were con tracted in the interest of all the allies and profited all of them. The premier said he was in fa vor of liquidation of the debts on condition that it be a general set tlement. Senator Jouvenel wanted France to abandon all her war claims ex . cepting those against Germany, but, in return, France should seek priority in the matter of reparti tions for reconstruction. - ?? m' ? little Brothers of Vesuvius. Washington. June 19.?Recent eruption of mud volcanoes m the edge of Mexico near the southern i California line as reported from El Centro, California, has intro duced these "little brothers of Vesuvius" to some persons for the first time, and may have left the impression that this portion of the country is subject to major vol canic outbreaks. A bulletin issued from the Washington, D. C, headr quarters of the National Geographic Society explains just what mud volcanoes are and tells some thing of their wide distribution around the world. "The term 'volcano' is in a way a misnomer for these little mounds of boiling mud?a fact that is rec ognized sometimes by calling them 'mud geysers.* says the bulletin. "Most of them, in the matter of size, bear to true volcanoes the re lation of the proverbial molehill to the mountain. And while 'vol cano,' with the picture that it bring3 up of demolished and buried cities, naturally inspires something of awe, 'mud volcanoes,' when they iare not mildly interesting natural I phenomena, are little more than j nuisances. Like Geysers, j "Like geysers, mud volcanoes are ) usually found in regions that have i been subject to true volcanic ac tion within recent geologic times. But this is not always true: and 'recent' in this sense may mean j many thousands of years. In the i case of geysers, water gathers in fissures, a portion of whose walls are hot, steam forms after a time -and the column of water is expell ed. In the case of mud volcanoes a much smaller quantity of water is involved. It is usually turned I completely into steam which forces its way through fine material and forms hot mud. In typical mud volcanoes, the soft mud is forced out with little violence through the top of a small mound and flows down over the sides. Occasional ly, however, a heavy column of mud traps the stearii for a con siderable period, wTiich is ended j by a geyser-like eruption that may I throw the soft material and chunks f of the hardened cone high in the ! air. Found All Over World. i "Mud volcanoes are much more common than geysers. The only places in which geysers exist in ap j preciable numbers are the Yellow ; stone National Park?the largest j and most important geyser region f in the world?Iceland, the Malay ! archipelago, and the North Island of, New Zealand. But mud vol canoes are scattered around the world. To the eastward they are first encountered in Iceland. In Europe they are found in Sicily, the mainland of Italy and the Rus sian Crimea: in Asia they occur at Baku, on islands in the Bay of Bengal and on the Malay Archi pelago: farther east they are found in New Zealand. In the Western Hemisphere they are found in Co lombia, in the Yellowstone Park, just south of the Mexican-Califor nia line in the delta of the Colo rado River, and a few miles to the north on the eastern shore of the Salton Sea. in the Imperial Val ley." ? ? ? Now that women have the hair cutting craze these long-haired men ought to take it up. Somebody asks what ha3 become of the smut leafleets newsboys once *old on trains. Our guess is that they have grown up to be novels. ill" i i ??i i i , Tobacco Meeting At Mullins Florence, June 29. ? Mulling "The Wilson of South Carolina'.* capitulated to cooperative market ing today when Reuben Offutt, ex warehouseman, planter and mem-* ber of the Burley pool from Lexing ton. Kentucky, told in detail why the Burley growers succeeded in i thiir first year of organization fcr cooperative marketing of tobacco. ? I Explaining why bankere of Ken I tucky seized the golden opportun ity to cooperate with tobacco farm-* ers of his state in financing their plan, Mr. Offutt said that the terms of the thirty million dollar loan to the Carolina-Virginia Growers ancjr the liberal arrangements for re discount that are promised local" 1 bankers will result in a close al-... J liance of southern bankers" and j southern farmers that Will be of j untold benefit to both. Merchants of South Carolina like J those of Kentucky will soon become" j convinced that cash customers and . j steady receipts are more profitable than the annual orgies of brief {spending and the heavy burden p^ long debts and double credits which are carried under the auction syi-, tern from year to year according ! to Mr. Offutt who congratulated, j the business men of South Caro^ j lina upon their eager support of the present whirlwind campaign. Hundreds olfarmers gathered at Mullins where - the speculative in terests were fully expected to stairt a controversy, but the Kentuckian^ jwon the audience completely. ? Tfee meeting resulted in a large sign-?p of new . members following "the speaking and is certain to result in a iaige increase of the pooled tb i bacco from, the Mullins district ac j count of C. E.i Dickson, manager of ! the association of warehouses of I South Carolina with headquarter* (there. I Timmonsville, another big marr. I ket which is now completely solid [for co-operation staged a highly j successf ul celebration today wherf j hundreds ojt tobacco farmers heard J.,H. Uisseberry, leader of the j Virginia sun cured pool, and. John Bell from the Kentucky Burley Aj j sociatlon, tell how two co-operative j marketing organizations have sutt | passed the hopes of their tobacco j growing members in a single year: i The ladies ?f Timmonsville served" ! limch to the farmers, . merchants j and bankers of the big tobacco market who have canvassed so suc I cessfully for^ new members dturinih.. i the past few days that their end * of Florence county presents an 9i ? most solid sign-up. j Feeling grows tense throughout j the South Carolina belts as th* I smoke rises from hundred, of .tob?c | co .barns and the c workers realize j they have no time to' lose althou*& : hundreds-of thousands of pounds are being added to the tri?stat* pool each day,, townspeople .and planters in Increasing numbers a*r*f hurrying to. hamlets, cabfnS> and .fields in their race against time. Leading the state with a 10 per cehf sign-up after adding a" hun dred thousand pounds to the pool i at yesterday's meeting in Kingstre* iand Heolingway, the citizens ?f j WiUiamsburg county in twenty au~ J tomobiles are making an imme jdiate fojtow-up campaign. Liter j ally, thousands of tobacco, farxneri j reached today's meetings at Mul*, ; lins, .Timmonsville, Manning, Chad ! bourn and Bamberg, and tomor j row should mark the climax and the successful close of the whirl wind . campaign which reaches Georgetown, Andrews, Summer-, jville, olanta, Turbeville, Marion,, j Sumtes Mt. Tabor and Fair BUstf. ! on its last- day.. - , ! ? Announcement that the Ameri ! can Agricultural and Chemical Co., i and the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., have endorsed the plan of th\e tobacco growera': co-operative a? sociation was given out by the Florence office of the association today, t The successful campaign of the, organized growers marks closing .of j auction houses at two more mar j kets in South Carolina, Kingstre<* J and Aynor will handle no tobacco 1 this year ?*cept for members of th* j Tobacco Growers' Co-operative As I sociation. tccording to today's an 1 nouncement from'C. E. Dixon, man j ager of warehouses for South GsJN ! olina. -? ? ?- . Trial of J. W. Crocker. ! Columbia, June SO.?Before ; night, the fate of .John Watt? i Crocker, a former inmate of the j Richland county alms house, tried j here today for the murder of Rev.k j J. "Vincent ^3>avis, former superin tendent of the county home and > ! prominent Methodist divine, will ? be known, tfce case going to tbe^ j jury today,, after a! trial that con I sumed all of Thursday and a large [ part of today. Crocker issixty-eight yeai*$ old. I He shot Mr,. Davis on Sunday I morning. May 20, when the super intendent .galled at his cottage, sit the county home, to give him * an* i allotment of tobacco for the dies; | \ The old* man had been complaip> j ing when Mr. Davis gave him wortr j to do. and the day before had? threatened to shoot the superin tend nt. Insanity was the defense set.up by the attorneys for Crocker. , Nichols and Wyche, of Spartan burg, represented him. Crocker ! was a former inmate of the Spar tanburg alms house, that being ' his native county. Several per jsons from Spartanburg testified t ; for the defense. i ? ? ? A horse ran away on Broadway in New? York. It is thought that * he saw another horse The South Carolina Railroad eommiss?|n announced Saturday I that the hearing set for the 5th j Wednesday regarding the proposal i of the railroad commission to di** I continue trains 68 and 69 between ; Columbia and Sumter had been.* j postpon^l. to a date to be selected ' the pastor of Presbyterian church j road cffieiafeu The officials .state J that present conditions with the* . railroad^ necessitate postpone jment. /