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f GERMANS ARE CRYING FOR HELP People Who Thought They Could Rule the World Can not Manage Their Own Fi nances r - Washington, July- Sj?Germany, facing a political and economic situation generally admitted as most serious, must in-the view of American officials as expressed to day look across... the Rhine to Prance for necessary relief. France, it was stated -today . by one official in close touch with de velopments in Europe, must loosen her grip upon the reparations sit uation to lighten Germany's finan cialy burden, or utter collapse of the former strong. Central Power may result and a racial regime arise-from the ruins. . Help from the "United States, .it generally is maintai-d by offi cials here, only can be given Ger many in the form of loans bf pri vate capital and Germahy can ob tain loans only through the offer of sufficiently protective security to attract investors. Under , the pres ent reparations scheme it appears to officials here that, all of Ger many's resources are bound to the wheel of allied payments and held close by the hand of. ^France so that unless Germany ; can obtain concessions to permit of. the pledg ing of some of the^. potential wealth as security all hope of fin ancial assistance from without must be abandoned. The suggestion was . made in an informed German Quarter today that there must be recourse to the Russian system of barter if Ger many is to go on at all. Unable to pay the American cotton grower and the copper miner in any kind of acceptable currencywand with out coin, the German manufacturer must offer in return ifor the raw material a certain proportion of the finished product into which it is made up. It is fully realized by the Germans that any?-such plan would encounter bitter opposition from the labor "interests of the countries with which Germany seeks to barter. Rut that in their opinion as obtainable: here " is the cnly course open to the mainte nance of German industries. If they close down through lack of - market for their products, it is der clared that the result will be a tre mendous addition to the unem ployed classes in Germany, result ins*, in great dissatisfaction and the probable overturn of the present government and the substitution of a more radical regime. ? TROOPS ON DUTY IN STRIKE ZONE Railroad Strikers Call en the Public to Assist Clinton. 111.," July 9l?With three companies of state troops on duty here, Clinton was quiet today after yesterday's disorders, which re sulted in -the dearth/ of % 12-year old youth and the* wounding "of his father and another striking railway shopman following a clash between striking shopmen and guards em ployed by the Illinois^entral rail road. Officials of the Federated Shop Crafts demanded today that local civil authorities request Adjt. Gen. Carlos S. Black to withdraw the soldiers while William F. Smith, state's attorney, said that yester day's shooting will be investigated by the regular grand jury meet ing September 11. He. said it might stir the smouldering sentiment of resentment to a dangerous pitch to call a special grand jury. - Three shots were fired, in the di rection, of a sentry on duty near the Illinois Central round house here 'oday. The soldier reported to Major John O. Smith, in com mand of the troops, that he heard two bullets sing past his head and heard, the report of a third shot. The firing was- traced: to a garage r.-*ar the round house. Major Smith said. Two men in uniform were seen near there earlier in the day, he declared, and advanced the the ory that they may have been radi cals, masquerading as soldiers, fir ing the shots to stiriH-feeiing. While union officials wanted the troops withdrawn, public opinion expressed a different sentiment. Sheriff John W. Persons of Dewitt county, said he would not recom mend the withdrawal of troops for several days. TheJocal maintenance of way or ganization held a meeting today and decided to return to work but to protest against working with armed guards on watch. STUDENT IS HELD IN JAIL Charged With Murder in Whiskey Case Athens, Ga., July 9.?Briggs Carson, of Tiftcn, Ga.. a student at the University of Georgia Sum mer School, is held in- the Clark County jail on a charge of murder of Benny White, a negro, here, early this morning. According to information fur nished a coroner's jury Carson and five other university students hired the negro to buy whiskey, giving him money. At an early hour this mornins the negro ha?i failed to return. Then the students started out in quest of the negro, it is said, and located him. White ran and Carson is said to have fired. The negro was wounded in the right shoulder. He dfcd at 10 o'clock this morning.^ Offeers say that Carson stated, he fired to frighten the negro. The crooner's jury ordered Carson b.cld on a charge of murder. Tourists in Europe say (hey are ov**rchar;r?-d. Well, they went over to hit the high spots. ' I MUST ENROLL NOW TO VOTE _ - How Citizens May Qualify For Democratic Primary Elec tion This Summer j All Democrats, men and women j alike, must enroll now for the Democratic primary this summer or they will not be allowed to vote. It does not make any difference how many times a man may have enrolled in the past, he must re enroll for this election. Clubs are reorganized every two years. I The Democratic club books will [ be closed Tuesday, July 25. County registration certificates have nothing whatever to do with the primary election. The only way to qualify for voting in the Democratic primary is by entering one's name on the club books, j The rules of the Democratic party j describe that the qualifications for membership in any club of the party in South Carolina and for voting at a primary shall be as follows, namely: "The applicant for membership, or voter, shall be come so before the succeeding gen eral election and be a white Dem ocrat. He shall be a citizen of the United States and of this state. No person shall belong to any club or vote in any primary unless he has resided in the state two years or in j the county six months prior to the j succeeding general election, and in ! I the club district sixty days prior j to the first primary following his j I offer to enroll: Provided, that i public school teachers and minis | ters of the Gospel in charge of ' a {regular organized church shall be j exempt from the provisions of j this section as to residence if other jwise qualified." The applicant for club mem j bership must enroll in the ward in which he or she lives. Anyone jwho can meet the qualifications i above can and should join a Dem ocratic club, and thus qualify to iote. All that is necessary is to put one's name on the books. COTTON " ' MARKETING ASSOCIATION t ??? j Organization on Business i Basis Nearing Completion Columbia, July 10.?With the administrative officers elected and the general manager and other technical officers named the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Coopera ; tive Associaiton will soon be ready to function. j Last week the board of directors ; made further progress towards the j i completion of the organization of ; the association. WT. R. Scarbor- j I ough, cashier of the Bishopville' j National Bank and oi*e of thej I best known bankers in South j Carolina, was elected treasurer j and Arthur Mazyck, of Bennetts J ville, manager of the Pee Dee Rivr i-er Cotton Company, was elected j general sales manager, j Mr. Scarborough in addition to I being one of the best known and j one of the ablest bankers in the' j state, is also a large planter and ! is himself a member of the asso j ciation, having been one of the j first planters in Lee county to sign j the contract. ! . Mr. Mazyck is regarded a3 one of j : the best cotton salesmen in Amer- j ; ica. He has been in the cotton ; business Jfor the past twenty-five j [.years. He was in the Mississippi Delta for seventeen years. Eight I years ago he came to Bennettsville i and later accepted the position of \ j general manager of the Pee Dee; j River Cotton company and due to | i his ability as a salesman that com-! ! pany has made a wonderful record, i ; Messrs. Mazyck and Scarborough j i will enter upon their new duties at; j once, it is announced. Applications for membership ini j the association have been coming j ; in steadily during the last ten i j days, it was announced, many j farmers having decided to join af- I j ter seeing who would conduct the j j affairs of the association. m, -m 0f PROSPEROUS ERA COMING! ' Industrial Survey Most En-! couraging , Washington. July 9.?The United j : States is "striding vigorously to- j ! ward industrial prosperity." ac- j j cording to the economic summary j j for the month of June issued today j j by the United States employment j service of the department of la- ' i bor. ? i Employment is increasing, the j ; survey said, despite unsettled con- \ > ditions in the coal fields and cotton : texttle industry and the railroad j controversies. Of the 65 leading cities of the I country. 52 reported increased em : ployment while 13 reported de | creased employment during June. A noteworthy feature of the survey, the department said, was ? that all industries but the stone, i clay and glass products, indicated increases in employment. In these j three industrief, it was said, the ; decrease was largely due to sea ! sonal layoffs. i Director General Jones of the employment service declared "the ! country is steadily but surely forg ; ing its way toward a period of in ' dustrial prosperity in which it is j possible that the labor supply will j not equal the demand." i A note of optimism, be added. ; pervades practically eveiy indus try in every section of the country. The survey indicated, according i to Mr. Jones, that building activ | ities were developing so that a ? shortage of skilled building crafls - men was becoming apparent in . many sections of the country. Casements are yawning for next I winter's coal and that's about all : the min?* operatorse are doing. When in Rome do as the Rom ' r>r:s do: hut when in had don't do 1 as th<* bad *nws do. IWORK IS STARTED IN STRIKE ZONE Operations Under Way in Coal Mines?Plan to Break Walkout Pittsburg. July 9.?Coal was be- : ing cut yesterday in two important pits in the Pittsburg bituminous I district, the first serious attempt on i the part of the Pittsburg Coal Producers' Association to break the strike, which for fourteen weeks has kept idle every union mine in the region. Deputy sheriffs were on guard and there was no semblance of disorder. The woik of cleaning up the mines began last Wednesday and had reached a point yesterday where the cutters were put to work-. Several days will be re quired before enough coal will be available to warrant operation of the ^hoisting machinery. Railroad switches have been filled with empty cars and it was stated at the mines, shipments are expected to begin about the middle of the week. At the Hendersonville plant of the Henderson Coal and Coke com pany in Washingt6n county, there was no sign of activity of the sur face, but it was stated that a force was busy underground. Twenty or more deputy sheriffs, each armed with a pistol, were quartered in one of the company's buildings on the main highway between Pittsburg and Cantonsburg. There have been no evictions, and many of the com pany's houses are still occupied by strikers, although it was said numbers of families have moved away, while many of the strikers were working in harvest fields in the vicinity. A more important move, strik ers and company officials agreed,, was at Montour No. 4 mine of the Pittsburg Coal company. . Here coal ..cutting, i* was said, was in active progress and preparations were being made to put the mine at work with an increased force. About fifty deputy sheriffs are on guard. -'- "Our men are being given an op portunity to go to work," said one of the men connected with the company, "and I don't think we are going to have any trouble, but these mines are going to be oper ated and our preparations are with that end in view." The strikers had nothing to say other than reiterate that the men had ho intention whatever of go ing to work, and if the company expected to operate the mine before an agreement was made with the union it would have to bring in the workers. Arrangements are being made to place a nuniber of other Wash ington county mines in operation, it was learned. CANDIDATES END ! FIRST LAP OF TOUR _ . . j .. About 800 Voters of Orange burg Hear Speeches OrangeUirg, July 8.?Eight hun dred voters of Orangeburg county today heard speeches from the state candidates but there was very little spontaneous applause. The major candidates, as at previous meet ings, contented themselves with a plea for lower taxes, ' but con tended that there should be no curtailment in the efficiency of the various departments and bureaus.' The Contenders for minor offices j made* their usual speeches and the i various disputes which have been j engendered during the pa3t week did not depart from their average interchanges. "OPEN" LETTER WRITTEN! Union Officials Demand Re-j moval of Soldiers j ? New York, Julv 9.?The general j strike situation in the New York district today remained deadlocked, with both sides claiming gains. Averaging the claims of both sides, it would appear the strike is be tween 60 and 8U per cent, effective. I but this only means that a corre- i sponding portion of the men have ? quit and remained out. Delays in ; train service in the district today were negligible, so far as reported. Returning holiday trains were! ag#.in handled promptly, according I to station officials. What union men said was prob- ! ably the first letter ever addressed j to a public inconvenienced by a strike was written today "to the I commuters on the Erie Railroad"' by the New York district strike committee. This was an "open" letter, written following the an nouncement of the withdrawal of a score of trains in the New Jersey- : New York district by the Erie, to explain the position of the strikers. The letter claims the strike was the last recourse, as the Railroad Labor Board's order reduced the shopmen's earnings "to les;? than $1,700 a year." It charges the board violated the clause of the Transportation Act requiring: its wage decisions "to be based on the cost of living." The same act took I note of the "right to strike,'' the letter declares. Regret is expressed "that the strike is causing trouble" to the Erie commuters and that "it will cause ;m increasing amount of i trouble." Hut "neither you. nor any other honorable man could or I would have acted .otherwise." the ' letter savs. j There is comparatively little in I terset in county politics and there j has been thus far little discussion I of prospective candidates. It is igenerally understood that Senator j D. I>. Moise and Representative : Heiser. C. J. Jackson and J. B. [Britton will probably stand for re i election, but no other candidates j have been announced. Superin tendent ?tf Education Haynsworth (and Judge ?>f Probat?- Richardson j :\r<' expe^t**d to stand for re-elec ! tion. Clemson College Trustees Meet Plans Made For Further De velopment of Technical De partments Clemson College. July 6.?The regular July meeting of the board of trustees of Clemson College, which is the "budget" meeting of the board, has just been concluded here after consideration of the va rious matters regarding finances and appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1922. The action of the board included be sides appropriations plans for equipping a first rate civil engi neering laboratory, a radio station, two new positions in extension werk, and one in engineering, the creation of a division of markets, and various minor matters. At the outset of its considera tion of fiscal matters the board was 1 confronted with the fact that the fertilizer tag tax is the lowest in j 15 years; namely, $126,118.07, the; next lowest having been in 1914-j 1915 when the tax was $155,859.- j 76. In view of this fact the trus- j tees will have to take advantage, j announces President Riggs, of the j authority granted' by the last leg- j islature to borrow money for the! fiscal year now beginning. The board gave considerable at-j tention to the matter of providing! for equipping at once one of the j most complete civil engineering! laboratories in the South. To thisi end, a new position, that of as-1 sociate professor of civil engineer- j ing, was created, this position toi be filled by a specialist who will have charge of the civil engineer ing laboratory, which hopes to do! much of the testing for the state highway commission. The college j expects with these increased facili- 1 ties to give as soon as practicable the degree of civil engineering. The plans already made looking j towards the establishment of a ra- j dio outfit at Clemson were approv- j ed by the board, provision having i been made for a radio station on a i much larger scale than that at first planned. The station will serve the entire state and will be of particular use in connection with agricultural matters. To meet the news needs in cer tain lines of extension work! brought about by changes in ag- j ricultural conditions, provision was made for two new specialists in the i extension service, one to be knownl as specialist in tobacco growing and handling, and the other ?s special- \ ist in peanuts, soy beans, and cow- j peas. The request of Prof. L. A. Sease,! assistant professor of English, for! a year's leave of absence was! granted in order that Prof. Sease might accept the position of teach er and supervisor of academic work of the federal board students now being trained at Clemson Col- I lege. Dr. W. H. . Mills, who for the past year has been in charge\'t of federal vocational training work,; in addition to his work ?s pr?fes-j sor of rural sociology has given j up the vocational training work j and will become instead special-1 ist in rural credits in co-opera- j tion with the United States depart- j ment of agriculture bureau of farm j economics and farm management, j He will of course retain his col-i lege work as professor of rural i sociology. A new division in the agricultur- j al department was created to be j known as the division of markets, and Mr. F. L. Harkey, now exten- ] sion specialist in marketing, wasj elected chief of the division, the I creation of which enables the col- j lege better to carry out the pro-; vision of the act of the 1921 leg-! islature establishing grades and \ standards for certain truck crops and placing the responsibility for] the enforcement of these upon Clemson College. The study of the English Bible was introduced into the curriculum as an optional cultural subject.: This subject will be taught by Dr. | W. H. Mills. ! In order to maintain excellence j in the college band, the board au- I thorized the appointment of a band' leader to give regular instructions, to the members. Members of the board present at j the meeting were M. L. Donald- i son, Greenville; J. E. Wannamak- j or. St. Matthews; TV*. W. Bradley. Abbeville: R. I. Manning, Colum bia: A. F. Lever, Columbia; R. H. Timmerman. Batesburg: IT. C. Till man. Greenwood; W. D. Barnett. j Columbia: L M. Mauldln, Colum-1 bia: R. M. Cooper, Jr., Wisacky. ] Governor Asks For Stricter Law Enforcement Columbia. July 10.?A program of stricter law enforcement was outlined by Go\-ernor Wilson G. Harvey, in a statement issued to the press Monday, in which the chief executive tells of several steps he is contemplating, looking to a more rigid observance of the laws of the state. One of the steps the governor is considering is a change in the sys tem of employing state constables. Instead of having state constables assigned permanently to certain places in the state, the governor proposes to use the men as "float ing" officers, sending them wher ever in the state they are most needed. The governor is also hot in be hind the magistrates of the state for their cooperation in law en forcement. The executive stated today that if he finds magistrates that are not cooperating fully in enforcing the laws, he will take whatever action is available, even to the point of revoking commis sions, if necessary. People who h?ng for the good old days would hate to drive a horse. Brown-rot is causing great l?>ss to local peach growers, and there Is no known remedy for this dis ease. COTTON ACREAGE IN STATE SMALLER Georgia and South Carolina Only Places Where Cut in Acreage Noted Saluda. July 9.?The division of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture shows by its report of July 3 that there is a 15 per cent reduction in cotton acreage in South Carolina, as com pared with the revised estimate of last year, the acreage planted and standing on June 25 being esti mated at 2,230.000 acres, against 2.623,000 acres in 1921. Condition oh June 25 is reported at 60 per cent of normal, as compared with 67 per cent on May 25 and 75 per cent the average condition for the past ten years on June 25. The acreage planted and stand- j ing in the entire cotton belt on j June 25 is reported as 34.852,000 acres, against 31.678.000 last year. Condition on June 25 is placed at 71.2 per cent of normal, as com pared with 69.6 on May 25. 1922.1 and 69.2 per cent on June 25, i 1921, the ten-year average on June 25 being 76.9 per cent. Condition of cotton in South Car olina on June 25, 1921 and 1922, by counties, follows in table below: -Condition June 25, June 25, Coumy. 1921 1922. j Abbeville_- 66 62 j Aiken_65 61 j Allendale -__ 59 .56 Anderson. 68 70 j Ban-berg .. 63 60 | Barnwell_ 59 57 j Beaufort.. ._ 56 55 ; Berkeley. 64 57 i Calhoun _ __ 61 54 ; Charleston _ 60 60 Cherokee. 70 73 j Chester. 64 64 I Chesterfield __ _ 59 60 | Clarendon __ 61 55 Colleton _. __ 59 54 i Darlington_ 71 66 Dillon._= 68 60 Dorchester __ __ 55 56 Edgefield _ ___? 66 57 Fairfield. 61 57 j Florence. 65 58 Georgetown .... 55 50 | Greenville. __ 68 70 j Greenwood _. ._ 65 63 j Hampton_ __* 58 53 { Horry __. 68 55 .i Jasper ______ 55 55 | Kershaw. 62 62 ! Lancaster. 60 63 ! Laurens ___..- 67 66 ; Lee _._ 70 65 j Lexington.. __ _ 64 58 McCormick __ __ 61 57 | Marion.__ 65 58 Marlboro _. _ 73 ?1 Newberry. 63 61 Oconee. 67 71! Orangeburg _ _. 6i 56 j Pickens ______ 67 71 Richland _. _ 58 51 Saluda.6? 54 Spartanburg . .. 68 71 Sumter ______ 61 57 Union _ 60 61 Williamsburg_ 63 57 York ._..62 66 South Carolina shows ? reduc tion of 15 per cent in acreage and Georgia 3 per cent, while the other states show an increase, as fol lows: Virginia. 50 per cent; North Carolina. 13: Florida, 75; Ala bama, 32: Mississippi. 20; Louisi ana, 10: Texas, 10;. Arkansas,- 18; Tennessee, 28: Missouri, 50; Okla-j homa. 12: California, 20; Arizona, 12, the averag3 increase for the United States being 19 per cent. The acreage for each state is re ported as follows: Virginia, 51,000 acres: North Carolina. 1.6O0.000: Georgia, 4, 129.000: Florida. 122.000; Ala bama, 2,925.000; Mississippi, 3,200, 000: Louisiana. 1,311,000; Texas, 12,312.000; Arkansas, 2,853,000; Tennessee. 812,000; Missouri, 156. 000; Oklahoma, 2.840.000: Califor nia. 210.000. which includes 128, 000 acres in Lower California; Ari zona, 105.000, and New Mexico, 46.000. Condition in other states on June 25 was as follows: Virginia, 85 per cent: North Carolina, 7C; Georgia. 58: Florida. 75; Alabama. 68; Mississippi, 76; Louisiana, 69; Texas. 72: Arkansas. 80; Tennes see, 83: Missouri, 92; Oklahoma, 76; California, 91; Arizona, 85> and New Mexico, 85. B. B. HARE. Agricultural Statistician in South Carolina. Death Mrs. Sarah A. Caldwell. aged 84, died Saturday. July 8. at 5:50, at her home in Wedgefield. It is reported that sometime ago Mrs. Caldwell had a fall from which she never did recover. She had been ill for a long period and Sat urday afternoon at 5:50 she was called to her heavenly home. She was loved by everyone and will be greatly missed by her relatives and many friends. She was buried on Sunday afternoon in the Wedgefield cemetery. She is survived by two sisters, six daughters and two sons. Mr. G. B. Kitterell. who has a farm near Mayesville came to The Item office Saturday and told of his success in ridding the boll weevils from his farm. Mr. Kit trell says he has nothing to sell but will be glad to give anyone the ingredients and the mixture he has used with such success. He further states that he will be will ing to come to Sumter and without expense demonstrate publicly the effectiveness of his remedy 7;>y rid ding an acre of badly infect-d cot ton of the weevils in a day or two. Mr. Kittrell's postoftiee address is Mayesville. R. F. D. 1. Two years ago only 655 citizens registered in order that they might vote. t*|> to the present time this was the largest number that ever registered. The registration books, which were closed on July 8. showed that 1.1?0 had registered. Women are responsible. What has become of the old fashioned woman who was raising a husband and ten children? Everybody will be back at work s?.i>n ex'-ej.t. the chaperones. [CLOTHIERS TO MEET * - i Sessions to Be Held in Hen de?spnviilc Soon Columbia, July S.?Members of the South Carolina Retail Cloth j iers' association are looking for ward with pleasant anticipations to the annual convention which will be held at Hendersonville, July 12 13th. While considerable business will be transacted .at this meeting and officers for the year elected, the rec reational and the social side will be stressed especially and the trip will be somewhat in the nature of an outing for the members. Many will likely make the trip in their cars and will take with them members of their families. Several speeches will be made during the convention. The ad dress of welcome will be delivered by J. Mack Rhodes, mayor ,of Hen dersonville and the response by Sol Kohn of Columbia, president) of the Clothiers' Association. J. O. I Eell, representing the Henderson- j ville chamber of commerce, will' also make an address and a rep resentative of the national associa tion is expected to be present. The invocation will be offered by the Rev. A. W. Farnum, rector of St. James' church of Hendersonville. Thomas M. Watts, Columbia, secretary of the association, said yesterday that it was planned to have a dance complimentary to the ladies present the evening of July 13. Other social features will mark the convention. The officers of the organization are Sol Kohn, president; B. O. Evans, Anderson, first vice presi dent; D. D.Witcover, Darlington, second vice-president; Thomas M. Watts, Columbia, secretary-treasur-j er: Charlie C. Wharton, Green wood, national director. COTTON MARKET ? KFW YORK COTTOM. Opts Hlgb Lew Clew CIos* Jan_ - ?21.65 21.77 ZI3.7 21.37 21.97 Karen _ _ 21.56 24.69 21.26 21.26 21.83 May _ .. ?21.43 21.43 21.14 21.03 21.59 July - ?22.3* 22.30 21.68 21.83 22.48 Oct.... _ ?22.30 22.25 21.76 21.82 22.45 Dee..-21.95 22.08 21.62 2i.S2 22.25 Spots 65 off. 22.10. i NEW ORLEANS COTTOM. Yeetdyt ODftB High LOW C1n<M) ('InW Jan__ - ?21.12 21.32 20.90 20.90 21.50 March _ .. 20.98 21.03 20.73 29.74 21.30 July - ?22.04 22.13 21.70 21.80 22.44 Oct_ - ?21.59 21.75 21.28 21.31- 21.97 Dee_?21.34 21.52 21.07 21.10 21.80 Spots 50 off. 23:00. Liverpool Cottas. January .... ?.. _....? ._ . _ 12.11 March .;..-?.. ..?? _ 11.96 May ?.._ 11.85 July ._ ._ _ 12.87 October... .?. 12.44 December.... .. 12.21 Receipts, 6.000Sales. 10.000 ; Middling, 13.45; ouud Middling, 13.35. Morning Cotton Letter. New Orleans, July 10.?Liver pool was due 4 to 11 down by New Orleans, 7 to 10 lower by New York, most on nears. Southern spots Saturday were unchanged to 25 down: Dallas 25 lower; mid dling there 22.50; sales at Dallas 715: all told 4,406 bales vs. 5,849 Friday. Recent weakness in Francs and Marks probably due to report Ger many will be unable to meet her reparations payment, due July 15th. Even if Germany fails to meet her obligations on 15th effect not likely to be reflected very much in the cotton market; as the allies will probably resort to some new ar rangements concerning Germany's indebtedness. Meanwhile sterling exchange is ruling steadily. Weather, developments over the week-end and weather outlook for! the immediate future likely have much influence on values. Semi-monthly crop condition re ports are about due. Last month national ginners was issued on the 12th. Giles report on 13th and report of Watkins on 14th. Census report on consumption during June in the United States due on 14th. Returns will run against 496,000 lint consumed in May this year and about 462,000 for June last year. Sentiment remains divided, for while the weather of late has been favorable for growth of plant, damage by weevil may have pre vented crop from improving very much, if at all. McLcod on Taxes. '(Dillon Herald). In his campaign for governor Mr. J McLeod has adopted a unique but! effective method of enlightening the people on the tax situation. He takes up the supply bill for each j county in which he speaks and shows the people item by item how their tax money is spent. By this method he is proving that the tax problem is a local problem which each county must solve for itself. The state levy is only a small part of the general levy and the bulk of the tax money goes to schools, roads and bridges within the coun ty. The supply bill for each coun ty is made up by the county dele gation and is enacted into law up on the recommendation of such delegation. For example: The supply bill for Dillon county, car rying a certain levy for all pur-1 poses, passes the general assembly! in the form in which it is present ed by Dillon's delegation. The oth er members of the general assem bly do not care whether the levy is large or small. It is purely a local matter and they have no interest in the bill. If taxes in a certain county are too high relief must come through the county delega tion. When the people get these facts into their heads they will be- j gin to have an understanding of; the tax problem. The candidates for state offices; have a holiday this week. The j next campaign meeting will be held ! in this city next Monday, July 17. j The meeting will be held at the! court house, as usual, and will j open about 10 o'clock. Interest in the approaching city j ? lection is steadily growing and a j close race between McCallum and McLeod is predicted. . i Hilda James, 17, Europe's gret America to compete in the Joseph Aug. I. She's now in Iiverpo6L: INCOME FROM MOTOR LICENSES Some Counties Are Running Ahead of Last Year Columbia, Jiily 8.?-The total col lection from the sale of automobile j licenses for the year to date, inciiid- j ing figures for. June 30, was an-j nounced as $689,277.66 by L. H.! Thomas, secretary of the state high - ! way commission, yesterday. At the same time Mr. Thomas an-, nounoed that the accruals to the j counties so far this year, including ! June, under the .80 per cent, clause. ? was $551,422.12. " ; In the amounts to be returned ' to-the counties Greenville leads the state with $51,449.97 and inciden- j tally this figure establishes a rec- i ord for all counties. Greenville has j so far .had more money returned from the sale of licenses for the N' six months of 192.2 than any coun- j ty for a full year during any, past 12 months. Among v the other larger amounts to go back to the counties for six months may. be mentioned Richland with $45.452..- ! 52, Spartanburg with $41,137.69,1 Charleston with $39,511.33 and An-\, derson with $34,753.96. The total registration of motor vehicles, ircluding June. was. 77, 833 automobiles, 6.616 trucks, 39 j trailers, 497 motorciycles and 422 j dealers. Last year the registration was 83,349 automobiles, 7,197 trucks, 59 trailers, 756 motorcyles and 669 dealers. These were the figures for the full 12 months. Another interesting fact brought out by the figures of v Secretary Thomas was that for all of last year 1,394 registrations or trans fers from one owner to another were recorded, while for the first six months of this year only 785 had been recorded. This would in- j dicate that fewer used cars are I changing hands. Beaufort. Charleston. Cherokee, Dorchester. Greenville. Oconee, Pickens and Spartanburg have al ready received more money from the motor vehicle license fund for j the six months of tl\is year than j they did for the full 12 months of I 1921. While several of the counties J have made progress and gone ahead of last year's registrations, a num ber are still behind and doing practically nothing to increase the revenue for themselves. The. state. | department has urged the counties to enforce the law and to employ inspectors to apprehend the vio lators. Several have done this and they have been rewarded by additional cash in the county cof fers. South Carolinians bought 821 "brand" new automobiles during the month of June, which would -ndieate that a little money is still, icfl in the state. The figures were compiled yesterday by the state highway department. This num ber _?f new machines were regis tered with the department during the month. In this list of new registrations Richland led with 135. while Green ville was second with. 82. Spartan burg had 73 and Charleston 71 with Florence registering 38. Jas per and McCormick tied for the j boobv prize with two each. - If it's in liquid form somewhere ! in America there is a stomach that j can handle it. . 1 I Some men tell their wives every thing, and some love the dear creatures and covet their good opin- j ion. The prophet who said jitneys j would empty the street cars can j sympathize with the one who said prohibitino would empty the jails. We can believe that man was J made of dirt, but we can't under- j stand why so many of the popular j novels are. Many a wife wonders if hubby is at a summer resort catching speckled beauties or freckled beauties. A man who tells all he knows j seldom knows all he tells. -, Tt takes a lot of sense to get by without knowing anything. o Seek ?. S. Trophy itest - woman swimmer, will come, to P. Day cup race? in New York Bay, State's Live Stock ralues For Labt Year inSontlr Carolina Slow, Total For Hogs, Sheep, Horses, and Mules to Exceed of Cotton Columbia, July 10.?The, hye tock industry in. South .Carolina during-last year exceeded in. total* value that .of the state's cotton crop. ? This interesting,, and soine wnat startling statement was made yesterday by-Dr. TV". K. Lewis, state* veterinarian . and: inspector - in charge of live stock. and sanitary control work. Figures for ; live stobiv,. which includes . cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and mules, total $84, 000,000; while the . 'cotton crop, m taking the state . department- of* asricultpre's estimate of- 776,1)00 bales -and-allowing the high aver age, price of-20 cents per .'pound, values. $77,600,000. ? ^ B Jj|The * above statement will - come as an. eye-opener to -many- South Carolinians who. had no; idea that the live-stock industry in this-state had grown to.such proportion. fes'r-Dr.'? Lewis, who represents both the federal government and fea state in -the. control- of disease* among animals, attributes this con dition to three things: Tick eradi cation, 'hog cholera work, and the advent of -the boll weevil. He be-" lieves that' the solution of the boll weevil problem is in live stock rais ing and sees for South/ Caroline, great possibilities in this' industry. Since 1914 when the legislature V made an appropriation to fight the cattle tick, thus eliciting federal* support to the extent of giving South Carolina a separate district, great work has been done in. elim inating the principal drawback,, tick. The federal government has raised its quarantine entirely and the state quarantine rests only on the coastal plain. Hog cholera, too, has gradually been cut down through the preventive treatment unjil today the loss through .this disease is. estimated to be only $50.000 a year. Dr. Lewis has been in charge of the South Carolina" office since its establishment and to the untiring.efforts of him and of his force, ] South Carolina . can attribute an actual and potential* saving of about $2.000,000 a yffor*. not to speak- of the increase nbteVi in live stock. In 1914 the farmers of the'state took an. actual and po tential loss from the cattle tick -of $1.500.000 and from hog cholera of $500,000. Gradually these itehsji > have diminished. Referring to that strip of coastal plain which the ;state still holds- in^ cattle tick quarantine. Dr. Lewis" was asked what could be done to eradicate the tick there also. "Ob servance of'the statewide stock act will hasten the entire eradication" more than anything I know." he said. ? Dr. Lewis' department is known as the Clemson college live stock sanitary office. In 1921 it'.was made a part of the college with Dr. , Lewis'?s director of the_*?te- v : partment. v . -v mt ? m* . .? ? ; . v Professor iVTavor has learned to change the sex of unborn - flies.. Now if he can arrange to remove the sex from unpublished novels. Enroll if you want to vote for state and corihty officers. Maybe when a restaurant in France wants to act highbrow .it prints the menu in English. If overwork caused baldness some men would never have to shave. - ? ? m And \t frequently happens that' a 'specialist is merely an ordinary craftsman who has learned to charge more. They are'trying to find how jazz started. Since they can't locate one end they Icok for the other. ? ? ? v Radium is down to $13.125.000 an ounce. Look out for profiteers. Every now and then you see ar man who could, get more miles out of hi^oar than in it.