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The Watchman and Southron PabiJsbed Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Pablishi?? Company, Samt er, S. C. Terms: ?2,00 per aim am?in advance.. .... Advertisements: One Square, ? first insertion _.$1.00 3&very subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made . at reduced rates. AH communications which sub serve ^private interests will ae - charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect will be charged for. . The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1S50 and the True Southron in 1S66. The Watchman And Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of ?both of the old papers, and is man '-S$M$ly the best advertising medium ??in Sumter. .^DOPIT FROM GERMAN? Ernest Guy is a Frenchman who has been in the United" States for twio years, studying the effects of ? prohibition. ' Don't judge him by his name, however diverting it may be. Don*t judge him, either, by " the "fact that he pronounces pro '.: hlbiiioh a failure. Any kind of prohibition that kept out French wines- would be a failure to a man representing French wine-growers. He reports that "there is now more whiskey consumed in America ? thaif before the Volstead act be came a law," which is ridiculous. But the really interesting point of hrS remarks concerns "dope". Ta&Ine note of the' increase in t?9 l?e of narcotics in this coun t*ry-^-which is alarming enough, as - .every well-informed American : knows?he does not hold prohi bition responsible for it. as most of our anti-prohibitionists do. He de- | ; e?ares: I "It. is the Germans who are spreading narcotics throughout the ,,. -trcrid. What is happening in the - United States is but one phase of C this widespread plan to demoralize I their former enemies." *v - One may suspect a certain I ? ... v ?ammus behind that charge, and j dbiibt very much whether the Ger \ mans,. in their manufacture and ^distribution of narcotic drugs, are .'?"Moved by the motive Mr. Guy as : cribes to them. It is important, however, to know whether the I de*dly "dope" that is poisoning the , - bodies and brains of s? many American boys and girls reaTly does ? come mainly from Germany, and whether it is not possiblevto stop - ft,., no matter where it c?ines from. ?ONE BIG UNION*' TURNED DOWN ' To a considerable part of the American public the- American' ; ^Federation of Labor is a danger ; ??sly radical organization. It is ! well not to overlook the fact that to another considerable part of the ] public the Federation is a hop'e ieisly conservative organization. Its conservatism, from the stand point of the labor radical, was J ihown . again , at the Cincinnati i convention, when the Federation I i unanimously turned down resolu tions-endorsing William Z. Foster's ? plan, for "one big union". ^^T?he '.'one big union** idea, it will *be remembered, was the basic idea ! v of the I. W. W.. which rose to such ? * - . ? . ; prbminence during the war. The \ Federation is chiefly responsible j ?" tor the definite alignment of or ganized labor against that move ? - sjpr: ? - ment and the continuance of labor organizations along craft lines. ? "w"1th local autonomy. This is the ' democratic way. consonant with 1 American institutions. It is to be observed, however, Ihsit there is a tendency toward a - closer union of the crafts compos- , - mg them. This tendency is espe- | cially noticeable just how in the ' . railroad, industry. * RUSSIA AT THE HAGUE. The Pravda, the Soviet organ at sfoscow, declares that "Russia cannot and will not yield on the point of the principle of private ownership." That is, Russia will not grant other nations* claims to :; Russian property. A Soviet leader quoted by an .-. -American correspondent amplifies this. "We cannot recognize pri ' vate ownership as a right." he says. _ ;'We refuse to alienate the proper ly of the state, although we are willing to grant the use of it to former proprietors or .other? for ivery long periods and to entertain -the principle of compensation for former proprietors as well." That is to say, while the Soviet government will not. give absolute "^ntflrto Russian real estate, it is ^willing to give long-term leases, *J- ah3 will pay foreigners for confis cated property formerly owned by , The Russian delegates to The -Hague talk frankly of letting for i eigners have control of Russian .htm, coal. oil. railroads and fi " " nances on terms profitable to them as well as to Russia, and with guarantees practically . equivalent to ownership. The Soviet government "will not compromise,'" but it is willing to go half way to meet its .critics. Possibly it could not go much farther without stirring up a coun ter-revolution on the part of the Russian peasantry, which holds -the lands seized early in the revolution and would not give them up under any consideration. s If the Soviet delegates proceed to negotiate in this spirit at The Hague, they may accomplish more j than they did at Genoa. THE PERFECT ROAD What is expected to be the most perfect piece of road in existence j is soon to be constructed on the ; outskins of London. Altogether it j will be six miles long, and it will | cost nearly half a million dollars a mile, though much of that cost is not properly chargeable to con struction. The details should be interesting everywhere, in this j road-building era. The road is to be 150 feet wide from fence to fence. For the present, along most of the route, the space for wheeled vehicles is being made 50 feet wide, with a margin of turf and a ten-fOot! ?I footpath on each side. As the j traffic requires, the paved strip for vehicles is to be widen. First the dirt bottom is leveled and rolled j hard. Then there is spread a j foundation of broken stone, with ashes to fill the interstices, to a depth, of 12 ihches, rolled hard. On top of this is a nine-inch stratum of strongly reinforced con crete, and on the concrete, a two inch carpet of natural rock as phalt. The experts say that such a road should last 50 years with little need. of repair. Part of it is laid over the remains of an old Roman road, which lasted for many centuries. Once made, the solid paving will not be broken up, to put in gas or water mains. Provision for everything of that sort is made be forehand, and wherever pipes of any kind have to cross the road way they will be carried in sub ways. Here is an example that might well be followed by Ameri can road-builders. AFTER THE GI/ORIOtJS FOURTH. Which town had the better time on Tuseday?the one that had the flag raising, baby show, pageant and athletic contests, or the town that made itself deaf with fire works and is now suffering the us ual aftermath of wounds and blind ness? One large city which, with its suburbs, has barred fireworks for several years with the happiest re sults in the way of good times and j sound limbs, has been finding its j wisdom flouted by stands set up on j country roads bej'ond its jurisdic tion. Not only the farm neigh- J bors but passing automobllists have j been buying at these stands. They cannot take the stuff home, so they have been setting it off on the roads | with even less than the usual pre- j cuations and with the added men ace of the gasoline in the car standing near. Nobody has had any real fun out of the forbidden dangers, and the doctors have been busy. - , ? ? THE LOSERS EV DEBLTX. ! I American satisfaction with the j restoration of order in Dublin is j dampened by sadness for the fate | of the insurrectionists. Those "irregular republicans" j meant well, but they have fought, I died and gone to prison in a wrong I cause, the dupes of wrong-headed ! leaders. They represented an ab stract idea of independency which, however justifiable or praiseworthy in itself, was foolish and impracti cable in the present state of affairs. Their courage Was admirable, but quixotic and unpatriotic in its ap plication. They were doomed from the first. They represented an undem ocratic determination of a small mirority to have their way against the will of a large majority. The majority of Irishmen are plainly in favor of the Irish Free State and willing to brook no interference with its establishment. Irish leaders, like De Valera. who have been pursuing a stub born course of obstruction, surely Ought to see the light at last, and act more sanely even if they can not fhink sanely. And Americans who. by their fanatical support of the insurrectionary republicans, have driven so many of them to death or prison, should take seri ous thought of their responsibil ity. ? ? ? Young millionaire who says ho leads a dog's life may mean lap dog. DAN MURPHY, CONVICT He Refused a Pardon Recent ly*- B?4 Has Changed His ! Mind Columbia, July 6.?Dan Mur i phy. aged man of the state peni I tentiary, the Orangeburg prisoner, : who has spent the past quarter of ? a century in the state's bastile, the man who not long ago announced that he did not want the pardon which the pardon board recom mended, is to have a new ex perience. He is to call on Governor Wilson G.-Harvey at an early date, for the governor has written Dan that he will see him at the execu tive office in the capitol. Dan wants to talk about the rec ommended pardon. Dan announc ed that he did not want the pardon, when the pardon board first menr tioned it, but he has changed his mind. There has been some "rough stuff." in the prison, among the unruly element of the prison ers, and Dan says life isn't as bearable as it once was. The new element, young men and foreign, with a spirit of unrest that may be war-born, is not what Dan was used to for the first twenty-five years of his stay in the peniten tiary, and he is now ready to take the pardon, he says^ if the governor wilt grant it. . To this end Dan wrote to the governor a few days ago, asking that he might have an audience with his excellency. And on yes terday Governor Harvey wrote to Dan, stating that he would see j him and that he would arrange a jdate very soon. I Dan became a famous man about I a year ago, when The Record ar I ranged to have him see a moving I picture show, at the Imperial ' Theater. It was the first movie I he had ever seen, and the ride he took to the theater was the first he had ever had in an automobile. It was the time of his young life. And now he's to talk to a governor, in the governor's office! Dan has seen a quarter century pass, since he entered the prison gates, convicted of the murder of County Treasurer Cope, of Or angeburg. To this day however he denies his guilt, only circumstan I tial evidence having convicted him. He says he was in Augusta at the time of the murder. A petition for his pardon was sent*, to Go v. Cooper some month ago, and the pardon board's approval was given it. It was held up, however, at Dan's request, the old man stating that he preferred to wait in the prison with Superintendent San ders in charge, than to go out and try to overtake ? world that had a twenty-five year start on. him. Many Decisions by the Supreme Court One of the Sandal Cases De cided in Favor of the State Columbia. July 6.?Sixty cases were decided Wednesday afternoon by the supreme court, the opinions being handed down at 6 o'clock. Several important cases were in cluded in the lot. In the E. M. Mittle manslaught er case an appeal from the verdict of the circuit court was dismissed, i Mittle killed J. H. Patterson at Orangeburg and got nine years. He asked the supreme court for a new trial, alleging certain errors in the judge's charge. The new trial was refused and the appeal thrown out. One of the famous J. O'Neal Sandel cases was decided in favor ! of the state. Mr. Sandel, of Cal houn county, sued the state in two cases, each for $50,000, alleging that his two young daughters died from the use of typhoid serum furnished by the state board of health. In one case Mr. Sandel got a verdict of $25.500 and the state appealed. In the other case ithe state won. and Mr .Sandel ap I pealed. This is the case decided I in favor of the state Wednesday af I ternoon. In the case against J. C. Mar ! lowe, a Greenville man who claim ! ed to have been a Pershing scout in ! Mexico, who was convicted of kill [ ing a young man named McCarreli. j and sentenced to serve eleven j years, the appeal of Marlowe was ! heard and he was -granted a new ' trial. Gov. Harvey m Demand for Speeches. Columbia, July 3. ? Governor Wilson G. Harvey is a busy man these days, even though he has not been governor for many moons. In addition to his official duties, he is called on to make many speeches, ! for all sorts of occasions and gath I erings. The governor has often j been called upon to make two or I three speeches in one day. His date I book is full of engagements during the remaining months of his term ' of office. J The governor was to have de 1 livered an address in Orangeburg j on the Fourth of July, but a change j ! in program brought about a con i flict that made it necessary for him | ! to cancel this engagement. He will | j speak at the Epworth Orphanage I in Columbia on the 4th. at a cele ! bration at that institution. The governor makes many talks ' to religious gatherings. Next Sun | day he addresses the men's club of ? i the Shandon Methodist Church of j I Columbia. Two weeks ago he ad- j i dressed the men's club of the i ^Washington street Methodist church 1 of Columbia. On the 19th of July the govern or will deliver an address before j jthe state convention in Florence of jthe South Carolina Pharmaceutical i j Association. ] On the 23rd he is to be a speaker i j at the state convention of the American Legion, to be held in i Florence. i Numerous other dates for weeks j ahead are in the calendar on the I governor's desk. He is in much de : mand as a public speaker. The tobacco market will open Tuesday, August 1st. W. ROSERS SCARBOROUGH 8 TREASURER Cotton Growers' Marketing Association Elects Bishop . ville Banker / Columbia, July 6.?W. R. Scar borough, cashier of the Bishopville National bank of Bishopville, was yesterday elected treasurer of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative a ssoci.ation. An nouncement of his election was made by the board of directors last night Mr. Scarborough is one of the best known bankers in the state and is regarded as one of the most able. He is prominent in the af fairs of -the South Carolina Bank ers' association and a regular at tendant upon its meetings. He is also a large planter and has been active in the co-operative market ing movement since its inaugura tion. Since 1901, he has been a banker, becoming in that year one of the organizers and first cash ier of the Bank of Bishopville and has been the only cashier of the institution. Since July, 1916, this has been the Bishopville National bank. Mr. Scarborough is also a director of the Ice and Drainage Tile company, is secretary and treasurer of the Bishopville Invest ment company, was one of the or ganizers, was the first secretary for two years and is director of the Lee County Fair association. He also served as mayor of Bishopville for four years and was a member of council for a like period of time. During the war Mr. Scarborough was local chairman for the first second, third and fourth Liberty loan drives, also for the Victory loan of 1919 and was chairman of the first Red Cross campaign. He is a steward and former treasurer of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and was treasurer of its building committee. He is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and also a member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1901 he was married to Miss . Rosa Mood of Summerton, daughter of the Rev. William W. Mood, and has two children living. He will move to Columbia in a short time. The board of directors of the as sociation was in session yesterday afternoon and again last night making plans for the handling of the 1922 cotton crop. The organ ization of the sales departments, the warehousing question and many other matters in connection with the handling of the crop were dis cussed. Members of the board said last night that they were delighted with the splendid cooperation which they were receiving from over the state. There seems to be a gener al desire on the part of the people of the state, they said, to assist in every way possible in making the association a success. Offers of warehouses are being received from all sections of the state, and the. board feels that there will be no difficulty along that line. Gratification was expressed at the interest being taken in the re opening of the campaign for mem bers. Plan? are now being work ed out for a series of meetings to cover the entire state. Flames Destroy Grain Elevators Baltimore, July 2. ? Lightn ing struck the roof of one of the several big grain elevators at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad's termi nals at Locust Point and in a few minutes the immense structure was in flames. Although deluged by rain in the terrific storm prevailing, the flames spread rapidly. Nearly the entire city fire department, includ ing fire boats, was quickly at work, but the fire continued to spread, soon enveloping elevators B and C and pier 5, all of which were wrecked. The elevators contained over 500,000 bushels of grain which, with 60 carloads of export tobacco on the pier, was destroyed. The railroad company's loss is esti mated at between $3,200.000 and $4,000,000. Several firemen were injured or overcome by heat and smoke. The American Sugar Refining company's big plant and other valuable property on the south wa terfront were untouched. A num ber of freight cars were burned. Several vessels were scorched be fore they could be towed out into the harbor. ? ? ? MISS VAUGHN ENTERTAINS One of the most enjoyable events of the week was the strawride Wednesday evening given by Miss Nannie Vaughn in honor of Misses Gertie Mae Masters and Annie Mae Whitney. One of the main features of the strawride was when they were about three mile? from the city they were issued fire works, which they 'shot with a great deal of pleasure. The whole canopy of heaven became illuminated and the happy smiles of all present were very conspicuous. After the "fire works" came the reward. Refreshments were serv ed which consisted of block ice cream, delicious cake and cold drinks. Those who attended the de lightful function were: Misses Ger tie Mae Masters. Annie Mae Whit ney. Ethel Bateman. Mary Alice White. Cornelia White. Arlie Mae Barnutn. Annie Louise Nettles. Su sie Osteen. Elizabeth Baker. Thel ma GaSton, Helen Commander, Doris Moses, and Messrs. Alva Spann. Marion Fox worth. James Burns. Edward Buck. Frank Sholar. Oliver Sholar. George McXiever, DeSaussure Edmunds. Frank Clark, James Felder. Eldridge Kennedy. Blnnding Cpshur. Truesdale Mose loy, Albert Lavendar; Luther Gen try, Louis Lyons. Henry Brunner, Roland Miller. George Vaughn, James McMillan and Joel Hodge. ATTACK ON LOGAN MADE BOUTTO Congressman Charg ed With Failure to Repudiate War Ut terances of L a w Partner St. George, June 6.?The cam paign meeting here today was fea tured by an attack on W. Turner Logan, of Charleston, in the race for congress from the First district, by I. S. Hutto, of St. George, one of his opponents, for Mr. Logan's failure to repudiate the war utter ances of his law partner. John P. Grace, mayor of Charleston, and j the endorsement of the attack by J. B. Morrison of McClellanville, ...the third member in the race. Mr. Logan, who spoke first, merely stated that he did not believe the people of the district were inter ested in jokes, but that they are desirous of men in congress who can do something to alleviate pres ent conditions. T. H?good Gooding, of Hampton, in the race for comptroller gen eral, claimed that the charges pre ferred against him were instigated I by W. Fred Lightsey, senator of iHampton, and sustained bv a "weak" governor, meaning former Governor Robert A. Cooper. He charged that the man who said that he was guilty of irregularities j in the auditor's office afc Hampton was a "character-stealing liar." He j asserted that he was not ousted! from office, but after he had bscnj ireelected auditor of his county, Sen ator Lightsey had refused to send his name to the senate for con firmation, and that he was sustain ed in this action by the governor. "When the matter was taken ineb ! the* state supreme court, he as serted, the State Tax Commission joined in the action, and the deci sion of the court merely held that 'the office was an appointive one. Walter E. Duncan, of Aiken, in the race for reelection, said that he had merely said that Mr. Gooding had- had his day in court and was not sustained. He held up the opinion of the supreme court to show that the action of the gov ernor in refusing to send in the name of Mr. Gooding for auditor Of his county had been sustained by the' highest tribunal of the land. I ' For governor, John T. Duncan, i Of * Columbia, made his usual plea for* the taking over of the water powers of the state, claiming that progressive movement would cause South Carolina to be one . of the wealthiest states of the union. He taunted his opponents for their failure to follow his lead. Senator George K. Laney, of j Chesterfield, said that if elected j governor there would be no ppwer 1 behind the throne to direct the af fairs of the state; he would be the executive without reins or control. Mr. Laney said he did not believe the people wanted to go back to conditions prevailing in 1914 when there were inadequate appropria tions for public schools, a hospital for the insane which was a dis grace, meager support for Confed j erate veterans, etc. The only way 'these things could be maintained, he declared, was by taxation. The Chesterfield senator said that he did not believe in extrava gance and was firmly of the opin ion that when there were useless offices they should be eliminated. He strongly defended the legisla ture in its progressive effort at tax reform, whieh, he declared, j brings relief from the burden on ! tangible property. Thomas G. McLeod, of Bishon ville, eloquently depicted the con ditions prevailing in the state, a de pression resulting from the back wash of the world war, and rav ages of the boll weevil. He came out strongly for the en forcement of the laws for the pro tection of the homes, lives and property of the people, declaring that if criminality continued to be allowed to run rampant, the very j fabric of the government would be I undermined. He said that the ver j diets of the juries and the pro nouncements of the court-should not be interferred with. He declared that he believed in the rights of labor and of capital, of the rich and the poor, as guar anteed under the constitution and if elected governor, would hold the scales of justice evenly balanced. If he would make such an execu tive and his past life has shown the manner of man he is, he said, that he would be the governor of all the people. I Cole L. Blease, who arrived late j because of delay to the automobile in which he was traveling, spoke after some of the minor candidates j had completed their talks. He de j clared that during the four years : in which he was governor he had 1 worked for the best interest of the ! people and would continue so to do. ! He made the charge that there was j extreme extravagance in the op j erat ion of the state government, ; quoting the appropriation figures of j the last year of his administration ; and those of the present time. He said that there had been more of I fices and commissions created dur ! ing the past eight years than dur : ing the previous eight years, to I make room for political pets, i He attacked the State Tax Com ! mission as being a useless adjunct j of government which took away ! the constitutional power of the i comptroller general, and he paid I his respects to the state board of j public welfare. The budget com I mission, he charged, was created to make a job for Ben Sawyer, of Co lumbia, the secretary. He said that all this extrava gance and the accumulation of use less office had almost broken the j backs of the taxpayers and had prnc.tic.illy bankrupted the State. I He paid h's respects to the com I miit :o on consolidation and econo ' my which he designated as the 4 "smslling committee" and said that the $25 a day received by the ex perts of Griffenhagen & Asso ciates? Inc.. of .Chicago, was money thrown away. I Declaring that the manipulations of W. Turner Logan, of Charleston, in the Charleston city Democratic convention had disfranchised voters and forced John P. Grace on the people of that city. I. S. Hutto, of j St. George, in the race for Con | grcss from the First district, today launched an attack on Mr. Logan. He said tl.at Mr. Logan's failure to repudiate the utterances of Mayor Grace during the World War, when Mr. Grace was each day attacking Woodrow Wilson, the j commander-in-chief of the Ameri can army and navy, and was prais I ing the German submarine which were engaged in sinking American ships, placed him in the position of .approving these utterances. / He declared that Mr. Logan was engaging his time in communing j with the bon-toris and elite of Washington; that he had done nothing for drainage, freight rates and other things, but has pitched his whole record on what he did for the navy. While he did not say that Mr. Logan was urifit for office, yet other people had said so and let him deny it, if they are not true, de clared J. B. Morrison, of McClel lanville, who endorsed the Grace utterances of Mr. Hutto.. Mr. Mor rison quoted an alleged utterance of John P. Grace, taken from the Congressional Record in the Whaley-Day-Hughes election con troversy in 1914, which said: "I do not think anybody could cor rupt the negroes worse than the people were corrupted in the last election." W. Turner Logan, of Charleston, incumbent, who spoke first, said that he did not think the people of the district wanted to listen to jokes when great issues were pend ing. He said that when large in ternational affai#3 occupied the na tion, when the' nation was in the midst of a financial, commercial-, industrial and agricultural depres sion, a man of experience was needed at Washington. He paid a high tribute to the American na tion, declaring that the very ex istence of the republic is being menaced by great financial power, which must be curbed if the integ I rity of the ideals of the republic i are to be conserved. There were about 6.00 people in the court house here today. PRESIDENT SEES MARINES CHARGE Five Thousand in Gettysburg Maneuvers < Gettysburg, July 1.?President Harding is encamped ^tonight with 5,000 marines on the historic Get tysburg battlefield. Accompanied by Mrs. Harding arid a few friends he came by automobile 1 today from Washington, arriving at the i camps established by the marine ? corps in time to witness a l?te af i ternoon reproduction of- Pickett's famous charge. The president and Mrs. Harding will remain here over night and i plan to leave tomorrow^ by , aiito i mobile for Marion, Ohio, where a j homecoming celebration will be j held during the coming week. Two days, it is expected, will be re quired to complete the trip to Ma rion. Shortly after arriving at Camp Harding, the presidential party went to an observation tower on Cemetery Ridge to watch the ma neuvers staged by the Fifth and /Sixth regiments of marines, which helped (bring fame to the Second division overseas. Carefully .re hearsed, the reenactment of the Confederate charge was carried out with realistic effect. The men representing Pickett's men wore their hats crushed in to resemble the head gear of the Confederate soldiers. None of the men wore leggings and many of them were dressed in fatigue uni forms, others appearing in the I sham battle without their olive j drab shirts. After a 15 minute cannonade by j the Tenth artillery, the marines in j mass formation as Pickett's . ad j vanced guard, moved slowly for ! ward. Adding t? the realism of the spectacle men fell in their tracks as they advanced, while their com rades moved on toward what wais once the Union line. On rejaching the "high water mark" the troops retreated and the maneuvers were over. Among those who witnessed the spectacle with the president were: General Pershing, Major General LeJeune. commandant of the ma rine corps; Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in command of the camp; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt: Speaker Gillett, Sena tor Pepper of Pennsylvania and Governors Sproul of Pennsylvania and Trinkle of Virginia. Tom Harrison Given New Trial j Columbia. July 6.?Tom Harri ! son. Greenville man. who was last : year convicted of killing his wife and sentenced tc serve fifteen years in the state penitentiary, was today given a new trial by the state supreme court. Harrison's appeal being sustained, the decision of the lower court reversed and the new trial ordered. The opinion by Associated Jus tice Fraser. is based on the ex ception to the charge of Judge Memminger to the trial jury the position being taken that the court's language served to coerce the jury. ?i ? You don't have to go in swim ming to have a shark pull your leg. 666 Cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the germs. Manj^Prisoners in the Penitentiary Columbia, July 6.:?There are today 512 prisoners ii> the peniten tiary", . more than for. any year in recent years. Colonel Sandere, su perintendent, stated today that he feared he would not have money to run the prison on for the rest of the year, due to the large pris on family and the small appropria tion made for its support. The legislature allowed $100,000, and at the time the legislature was in ses sion there were 408 prisoners; last year the penitentiary spent $102. 000. and the first of last year there were only 284 prisoners. The chair factory has already this year turn ed over to the state treasury 542. 000, representing five months ?f its operation, and on the other hand the prison is called upon to pay for the up-keep of the many "safe keepers," prisoners sent from the counties merely for "safe-keeping. * Grove's Ghffl Tonic Invigorates, Purifies and Enriches the Blood, wc The gyroscope stops the rolling of ships. Nothing seems to stop, the rolling- of cigarets. Prayer is a wonderful force if mixed with equal parts of sweat. . ??/? Cures Malaria, Chills, {pjQ Fever, Bilious Fever, Colds and LaGrippe. 7d Charter No. 16660 Reserve District No. 5 * REPORT OF CONDITION OF^OTE National Bank of South Carolina of Sumter AT SUMT^,TSrTHE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, * C\ At the Close of Business on June 30,1922; ?, - . . RESOURCES: 1, a Loans and discounts, including redis counts; acceptances of other banks, and foreign bills of exchange or drafts sold with Indorsement of this i bank (except those shown in b and C) _._.$ 1,213,102.62 Total loans-? 2. Overdrafts; unsecured $ 2.087.00- . 4. "U.S. Government securities owned: a Deposited to secure circulation (?. S. bonds par value)_.--. 200,000.00 b All . other United states Govern ment securities (including premiums, if any) ? ~. 107,642.55 1,213,102.62 2,687.00* 1 $. 6. S. ;9 10. 13. 14. 15. 33,36?; 43,332.39 46,339,0* 62,833.29 2e,S3e.77 141.09 I$.<HJ0.C0 total _-.-.- 307,642.55 Other bonds, stocks, securities, ?etc.:- 18,900.00 Banking House, $31,551.16; Furniture and fix tures, $1,812.78-----.-. Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank Items with?Federal Reserve Bank in process of collec tion -1 Cash in vault and amount due from national banks.. Checks on other banks in the same city or town as reporting bank (other than Item 12)._.: Total of Items 9, 10. 11, 12> and 13 135,769.14 b Miscellaneous cash items.- 141.09 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from ' IT. S. Treasurer-?-? ? I . 1 Total ._?.-.$1,764,338:73 LIABILITIES: 17. Capital stock paid in.-.$ 18. Surplus fund 1_"? 19. Undivided" profits ------ 46,933.55 a Reserved for interest and taxes accrued _5 9,260.45 b Reserved for _-~ 13,612.05' 69,806-05 20. 21. 23. 24. 25. 26. 28. 30. Bank (deferred 32. 34. 40. Circulating notes outstanding Amount due to Federal Reserve ' credits)_---?-.? ? Amount due to State banks, bankers, and trust com panies in the United States and foreign, countries (other than included in Items 21 or 22) Certified checks outstanding Cashier's checks outstanding- ? _-. Total of Items 21, 22. 23, 24, and 25 42,225.99 Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) sub ject to Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days) Individual deposits subject to check State, county, or other municipal deposits secured by pledge of assets of this bank or otherwise Dividends unpaid Total of demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve, items 26, 27, 28, 29, 36, and 31_ 391,980. Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more notice and postal savings): Certificates of deposit (other than for money bor rowed) -.-r-:-? Other time deposits ?._-.-?- ? Total of time deposits subject to Reserve. Items 32. 33, 34. and 35 495,427.73 Notes and bills rediseounted, including acceptances of other banks and foreign bills of 'exchange or drafts sold with indorsement of this bank_ 300,000.00 2a0,600.oe> 69,306.05 199.9*5.00 32,993.12* 4,105*63 4 36.41* 4,978.78 S6S,446.18 17,781.75 I 10,753.00 232v209;$5 263:218.^3 34,90 3.0S& ! Total-_J.'?-;? $1,764,338.73. State of South Carolina. County of Sumter, ss: ' i; EARLiE ROWLAND, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. EARLE ROWIiAND, Cashier. ] Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of July, 1922. W. H. TATES, JR., Notary Public. Correct?Attest: V* * MITCHEOLL LEVT, "\ . * W. B. BURNS, r'~ ^fc H CO. ROWLAND, > > Directors. ~ :. (SEAL) ? The National Bank of South Carolina V; Of Sumter, S. C. ^ T The Bank With the Chime Clock. The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTEST Capital $300,000 Surplus ami Profits $360,080 STRONG AND PROGRESSIVE Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU. C. G. ROWLAND, Pres. EARLE ROWLAND, Casntef md; 11, Jim Acorns Produce Large Oaks. The same is true of a bank account Many people wonder why we are so anxious to secure small accounts, some of which are started with deposits so small they do not pi*y the cost of handling. Our answer to this is we are building for the future for wo know many of these accounts will grow and in time frsc?me very profitable. The small depositor may be one of bur mott valued customers in the future. The boy who starts a savings with a dollar may grow m a few years to be a businets man of commercial importance. We would Itke to have you boys get in the habit of bant ing with us now, so that we can count on you in years to ctfme. THE FffiST NATIONAL BANE OP SUMTER, S. C