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1 TOWN AND ( Seceived no : warning letter Mr. Richard H. Dayis of Man ning Says Report So Far as He is Concerned is False Xditor Daily Item: About ten days ago there ap peared in your newspaper a news item, sent from this, place, to the Effect that black hand letters had bjeen received by the postmaster nere and also by a "Mr. Dick Da vis and a Mr. Burkhalter." As far as I know, I am the only person jaVthis community who is known as Dick Davis and I take it that I aia the man who was* referred to ?y your correspondent as "a Mr. Dick Davis." 2 I.wish to say that I have not re ceived any such letter as the one above referred to and I have kept quiet a few days thinking that the erroneous statement as to myself might be corrected. As no] cor rection has been made that I know of, please allow me space in your paper to state that the report that 1 received a letter warning me to leave this community is absolute ly false: ? Respectfully, Richard H. Davis. v Manning, S. C, July 13. Young Men's Business Meeting The monthly meeting of the Young Men's Business League of Sumter was held Thursday after Boon at 2:30 at the .Claremont Ho ; The dinner, 'which was served at exactly 2:30,' was certainly a de lightful one. ? The dinner, includ ing, chicken galore, was well pre ^red ? and weU served, which made, the members feel that they were capable of solving the most intricate.problems of the city, this being their sole purpose?the wel fare of Sumter. ;^After the. last course, the presi dent,- Mr. H. A. Moses, made a "|hort introductry speech, which was both interesting and inspiring. He. also spoke of the member Ship of the club, stated that there were 102 members on the roll, and they had had four applications. Only 41 members were present, tr&ich accounted for the discussion ^nf/'the small attendance. Flans were formed and it is believed that every member will be present hereafter. r ~ The principal feature of the meeting was the election of officers, whose duties begin on August 1st. The election resulted as follows: . ; "President, Mr. P.' M. Parrott. ' First Vice-President, Mr. F. M. ^oise. ~33econd Vice-Preaident, Mr. H. L. .TPTrthersp?on. . Secretary. Mr. F. E. Gibson. . Treasurer, Mr. John S. Buck. ' . Next in order came Mr. W. A. Bryan's interesting.talk. The>sub " .Stance of his talk was that Sumter ft -not getting as much trade from the nearby towns as heretofore. He urged the merchants to carry if* full stock and in order to get the trade, he stated that the best plan was to advertise, not as an in dividual, but as a solid group of merchants, on an intensive scale. JSf was moved and carried that the ^president-elect should appoint a 'Committee to., carefully consider this matter and to formulate iplans by which Sumter will get the t?ade from the nearby towns. There being no further business the meeting adjourned. Sumter Wins Again -. s In a game of baseball played here Thursday afternoon the Sum ter Strutters defeated Summerton by the score of 7 to 2. In every respect it has been shown that Sumter has a very strong team and some interested games are promis ed. The features of the game were the' heavy hitting of Henderson ?od the perfect support of Moore in the outfield. ?Sumter line-up: Swahn, ss; Mooneyham, lb; 3?oore. c: Owens. 3b; Henderson. 2b; Moore, rf: Thames, If; Wein berg:, cf: Nuanamaker, p. Batteries for Summerton; James end Martin; Sumter, Nunnaraaker and Moore. Good Advice to Women. The following advertisement ap pearing in The Charleston News and Courier is applicable to every eommunity in South Carolina: "To the Good Women of Charles ton County ?The Nineteenth Amendment to rfee Constitution of the United States, providing for Woman's Suf frage, foreshadows a new era in the political life of our State. Just v.-hat this new era shall mean de pends upon the extent to which the good women of our State partici pate in the election of those who are to fill the various public of fices. To every good woman this is an opportunity for real service which cannot be side-tracked. No excuse will justify your failure to meet this new responsibility. It is your patriotic duty to enroll and vote in the coming primary election. Only 10 more days re main in which to qualify; The Minute Men of . Charleston . County." W?1 Probably Strike Richmond, July 15.?With more than 95 per cent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway clerks voting to strike in protest against the salary reduction that went into effect on July 1. a walkout of the entire clerical force of the system will probably be called eaxry Monday, according to union leaders. ?UNTYNEWS I CORRECTION OF MINUTES Mr. Stanyarne Burrows of Permanent Road Commis sion Voted Against "Addi tional Inspector - I The following paragraph appear i ed in the official minutes of the last meeting of tiae Permanent Highway Commission: "Following motion was made by Mr. Jennings: "All in favor of requiring engi I neers to have an inspector at each [mixing plant at all times to in j spect every sack of cement, sand I and rock that went into mixer to say L "I's: L. D. Jennings, G. A. Lern mon, S. A. Harvin, J. B. Britton, J. P. Booth and J. F. Bland. "No's: Burrows and Rembert." Mr. Burrows states that the minutes ^re misleading in that the motion provided for an additional inspector, there now being one in spector on duty and has been on duty since the work was started. He saw no need of having two inspec tors and therefore voted against the motion. - ? ? ? - RED CROSS HOME SERVICE Report For June One hundred sixty-four families received some form of aid from the Red Cross during the month. 10 of these being new applications ? in June. Fifteen ex-service men - received assistance in applying for certifi cates* in lieu of lost discharge cer tificates, or for unpaid allotment. Eighty-five disabled ex-soldiers were aided in filling out the long papers and preparing the numer ous affidavits required by the gov ernment before hospital treatment compensation for disability, or vo cational training is awarded by the United States Veterans' Bureau. Sixty-four civilian families re ceived food, clothing, medical at tention or some other service. Two hundred forty-one visits were made in connection with the work, and 99 interviews were held in the Red Cross office. The financial report: for the month is as follows: Office expenses '_- $"3.41 Car expenses_ __ 13.80 Direct relief fi-. 85.06 Total.:: __$101.27 The home service office will close J tomorrow, July 15th,. until ? plans j are made assuring a regular month I ly income sufficient to carry on I the work properly. Notice will be given through the papers if ar rangements can be made to have the work carried on by volunteers while the office is closed. Helen Wheeler, Executive Secretary, Red Cross Home Service.' j Order of Court Says Hands Off Wilson, N. C, July 16?Tempo rary injunctions restraining strik 1 ing shopmen in eastern North Car | olina from any interference with I trains or employees of the Atlan j tic Coast Line railway was signed i by Judge Henry C. Connor early j today. I "The order is made returnable at I Raleigh July 25 and specifically re i strains strikers from any manner of interference with trains of the I complainant company, or with ?em j ployees, or those who desire to be come employees of the company. Named as defendants individually and as members of the union in the injunctions are C. P. Chipman and j W. D. Ricks of the machinists; F. j R. Hutchison and O. A. Platt of ! the boilermakers; W. S. Cooper I and C. W. Dause of the black j smiths: T. W. Weaver and J. R. I Arnold of the carmen; A. T. Moore I and C. L. Wallace of the sheet ! metal warkers; W. W. Miller and j C. H. Williams of the electrical j workei*s: G. D. Rosser, president, j and C. R. Otterberg. secretary of I the A. C. L. federation of shop j employees: F. W. Brown, chairman : of the shop committee, Wilmington i shops; Hugh M. Pace, secretary of j the federated shops committee at ; Wilmington and J. Prause, chair j man of the Rocky Mount shops. After reciting the fact that the I complainant is engaged in carry [ ing of interstate commerce and the United States mails and a continued i interference of the company's busi | ness will result in irreparable dam j age. the order declares that no in 1 terference with either interstate ! commerce or the carrying of Uni ; ted States mail will be tolerated. The injunction is aimed to pro I tect the shops at Wilmington and j Rocky Mount. Flood That Failed Bristol. Ya.-T?*nn.. July 16? Trucks were today kept busy haul ing away sand that last night was banked in front of State street j stores to keep out a flood which ' failed to reach here. The waters of Beaver Creek ? reached their crest about 'I o'clock this morning, but did not leave its banks. Warnings was received ! here last'night that a flood was rushing on th** city from th?> north and State street merchants made hurried preparations to keep it out of their stores. Camp Glenn, N. C, July It".? Private George P. Jones of Char lotte, a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twentieth North Carolina infantry, which is en camped here, was drowned here this morning while bat inns: in fie Three Hundred Re publicans Made Prisoners. Men Are Caught Napping I Belfast, July 16 (By the Asso ciated Press).?Dunndalk is in the! hands of the nationalists, more j than 300 republicans having been taken prisoners. Between 4 and 5 o'clock in the morning the nation als virtually seized the tjwn, only; two casualties resulting?two ir-j regulars, one killed and another j seriously wounded. Yesterday Dunndalk was held by the republicans. During the: night Free State forces, command ed by General Hogan. descended upon the town by road and im mediately began an enveloping movement. In quick succession they seized the county prison and the county, hospitai in the south end of the town, the Bridge street barracks in the north and the postoffice and several business houses in the center. The occupants of the Ann street i barracks, the republican head quarters, learning" what was hap pening set the barracks afire, left explosives in the mattresses and I tried to escape. They were called {upon to halt and, failing to com j ply, were fired on by the nationals, J who were in possession of the rail road platform. It was here that the casualties occurred. About 20 men were taken prisoner, all with out weapons. ft - The military barracks was cap tured without a shot. Nationals en tered from both sides, overpowered the sentry and disarmed the guard. In fact a majority of the men were in bed and they found them selves under arrest when they were aroused. The republican guards at the railroad station and prison were also disarmed and arrested. The group of irregulars coming from a dance at Black Rock, Louth, also were made prisoners. The Free Staters engaged in this movement are attache dto the Fifth Northern i division. Dublin. July 16 CBy the Asso ciated Press).?The publicity de partment of the.. Irish irregular army today an n o.unced that Eamonn De Valera is at field general headquarters serting on the staff of the director of oper ations. It is believed headquarters has been transferred from Mallow to Limerick. The provisional government re affirms its determination to sup press the revolt. In a ' manifesto addressed to commander in chief, Collins, and the men of the nat ional army, it says: "You have been entrusted with supreme command - of the national army, and with General Mulcahy and General O'Duffy, have been constituted a general war council to direct the military operations j now in progress. The government's j action is dictated by a determi j nation that the splendid valor and devotion of the army shall be in j spired and directed to yield its i full fruits for the salvation of the I nation. "The army which recently freed the country from foreign tyranny must now again resist the attempts of an armed minority to force their dictatorship upon the people; the Irish army is fighting for the same principle as when it fought the ?British, namely" the right of the {Irish people to be masters in their j own country. _ _ "The irregulars' method of war fare is destructive of the economic life of the nation. Sheer brigadage is a fair term to apply to it. _ - The fight is for a revival of the j nation, for free expression and effective execution of the people's !will?in other words, for the es j tablishment of all the' signs by i which the nation is to be held [worthy of consideration among I the states of the world." i The manifesto is signed by all I members of the government, j General headquarters has issued a bulletin confirming the capture j of Dunndalk with 300 irregulars j and quantity of arms and equip } mem., the Free Staters suffering no j losses. The irregulars are reported to jhave seized a quantity of shipping j in Cork harbor, looting the vessels j of large quantities of stores. At ? Limerick the irregular activities :are ruining business* Many of the j principal places of business have j been seized or looted, including j fiour mil's and bacon curing fac ? tones, rendering many workers j idle. iAGED WOMAN DIES RIDING TO FUNERAL Spartanburg. July 16. ? "Miss ? Julia Sherbert, aged 81, while ' traveling in an automobile to at. ? tend the funeral of her sister. Miss ; Elizabeth Sherbert. aged S8, died j suddenly today. While en route to : the church she leaned her head on ?the shoulder <>f a woman compan ion, who did not disturb her. j thinking she was' reefing ??r sleep j ing. When -the party reached Hebron church, where the funeral j was to be held, it was discovered [that she was dead. Marriage Licenses. White: Mr. Thomas Oxendine j and Miss Grace Benenhaley of I Dalzell. i Colored: Julian A. Tarleton and Ruth Lillian Morse of Surater. Willie China and Marie Boston of Dalzell. j Paul Adams of Sumter and Ada ! McDowell of Ruskin. Decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Order of District Judge Smith In a decision fii^d Monday the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals, affirms the order passed by Judge H. A. M. Smith, of Charles ton, in the case of Sumter Gas & Power Co.,7.vs. City of Sumter. The case was argued before the Cir cuit Court of Appeals in Richmond during the early part of June. The telegram received announc ing- the decision of the court is as follows: "Harby, Nash & Hodges. Attorneys-at-Law, Sumter. S. C. Gas and Power Company versus City of Sumter affirmed. Copy of opinion by mail as soon as printed. Advise associates. Claude M. Dean, Clerk." The case may be appealed to the United States Supreme Court and in the event such appeal is taken by the attorneys for the Gas Com pany, the attorneys for the city of Sumter have stated their intention I of moving for an order from the ; court requiring the Gas Company ! to gi\*e additional bond, to protect i the gas consumers of the city pend j ing the appeal to the United States I Supreme Court.- Should no appeal j be taken to the United States Su j preme Court, under the bond here Itofore filed, the Gas Company will j be required to rebate to each of Its j customers the difference between jthe minimum rate of $1.35 and the (rate of $1.90 collected by the Gas i Company pending the appeal to the jCurcuit Court of Appeals. The Attorneys representing the City of Sumter are: Lee & Moise: Harby. Nash and Hodges, and Epps and Levy: for the Gas Company. Purdy and Bland: Hagood, Rivers and Young, of Charleston, S. Cv and Francis T. Homer of New S York. RUSSIAN DYE EMBARGO POSITION i ADVOCATES UP AGAIN LOSE OUT I Representatives Hope! S e n a t e Refuses to That Their State ment Will Be Deem ed Basis For Re newed Negotiations The Hague. July 16 (By the As sociated Press). ? Soviet Russia will accept Europe's invitation to restate its case. This information was conveyed tonight to the Asso ! ciated Press by the Soviet spokes ! man. Whether that restatement j will result in a revival of The j Hague conference nobody, least of all the Russian delegates, dare pre dict. ? Continue Licensing System. Contro versy Not Ended Washington, July 15s?Dye man ufacturers of "the country failed to day in the fourth phase of their long fight to have the existing^ dye embargo and licensing system con tinued after the coming into force .of the administration tariff bill. The senate, by a vote of 38 to 32, struck out provisions of the meas ures under which the embargo would have been' continued one year and might have extended fer ! any part of an additional year at j Maxim Litvinoff, head of the the. discretion of the president., \ Soviets., has communicated with';. This does not end, however, what j Moscow and Russia's answer to the j has come to be a bitter contro ! communication sent to the Russian J versy in congress. Senator Freling | delegation yesterdaj% which waslhuysen. Republican, New Jersey, j virtually a bid for new declaration's [announced that he would offer the ' from the Russians; may be delayed - embargo provision anew after the I until Moscow has its say. j In the meantime further down ? the storm-swept dunes of Schev j engen the non-Russian delegates j continued their work of preparing ! reD?rts of the three subcommissions tariff had been reported to the senate. Meantime Senator Bursum, Re publican, New Mexico, is preparing an amendment continuing the em bargo system for a year or more. I which will show why they failed i but with a provision requiring that j to reach an accord with the Rtis- j the profits of the dye manufac isian delegates on the vital question j turers in excess of 10 per cent be 'of property, debts and credits. jpaid into the federal treasury, j Whether these reports will' bei A number of those voting against j presented and adopted at-a filial j the embargo today supported it a : plenary session Wednesday depends year ago, when the present act was ion the nature of the Soviet answer. I passed but they explained that j On this Litvinoff, Krassin and j they believed the necessity for a j Sokolnikoff labored throughout j law had cased to exist. On the j Sunday. other hand senators supporting the j "We hope," said the Soviet rep- J finance committee amendment con rescntatives, "that our new state-j tending that an embargo is necesr j ment will be deemed a basis for'sary to protect not only to the dye renewed negotiations but that is j industry but also to insurb the for the non-Russian delegates to I perpetuity of the chemical indus decide. We will try to make our I try as a means of national defense, position clear." " j With- Senators Lenroot, Republi Europe's attempt to resuscitate; can, Wisconsin: Simmons. Demo The Hague conference is regarded i erat, North Carolina, and Smith, here as additional proof of the se-j Democrat, South Carolina, leading a i riousness of the general economic | fight to that end, the committee I situation. The Hague has become j majority agreed to and the senate ja sort of barometer for Europe as j approved reductions in proposed la whole. The experts assembled j duties on cotton cloths so as to ! here have been instructed by their j keep them in line with the general I home governments to exhaust every j reductions made by the senate in j possible means to reach an accord,; the duties on yarns entering into I or the beginning of an accord, with i such cloths. J the Russians because it is believed ! On unbleached and uncolored ;that any advance made in the solu-j cloth, containing yarns with aver ! tion of the Russian problem will j age number of which does not ex i contribute greatlv to a betterment j ceed No.. SO, the senate approved iof the economic situation as a ja minimum duty of 10 per cent j whole. j ad valorem, and a minimum of 30 ? ^ ?? 11 J per cent on cloth containing yarns Death ! of an average number in excess of No. SO. Bleached cotton cloth containing yarns the average number of Timmonsville, July 14.?R. F. j Keels. Sr., of Timmonsville died | early Thursday morning after a lingering illness. He was 72 years | I old. Mr. Keels was a native of Sum- I ter county, and was the son of the j late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Keels. He was a very prosperous farmer and ; lived in Sumter county until ten i years ago. when he moved to the : I Sardis section of Florence county, j j Forty-four years ago he married j Miss Ada Wilson of Lynchburg, j who with seven children survive him. The children are: Mrs. Robert R. Green of Florence. Mrs. W. L. Whitehead of Lake City. Mrs. Eliza Humphrey. Robert Keels, Henry Keels. Cecil and Da vid Keels, all of Sardis. Mr. Keels was a life long mem ber of the Methodist church of Lynchburg and leaves a large cir icle of friends to mourn his death. j The funeral will be held in the I Presbyterian church of Lynchburg j gtate chairman E<Jgar A. Brown, , Friday morning at 11 o clock the a<idressing the women voters of his j interment to be in the Lynchburg I nyn c0umy Barnwellt through the ; cemetery. _ (columns of the Barnwell People. ' says: "I respectfully urge each and _ ! every woman in Barnwell countv j Sewerage and Water Works Issues | above (he age of 21 yearj. tQ enro]I which does not exceed No. SO would bear a minimum duty of 13 per cent ad valorem and that containing yarns with average numbers in ex cess of No. SO would bear a mini j mum of 33 per cent. ; Cotton cloth printed, dyed or ' woven figured containing yarns not j in excess of 15 per cent and that i containing yarns in excess of No. j SO would bear a minimum of 40 j per cent. Opposing the 40 per cent rate I Senator Simmons declared this was ja "plundering and outrageous" tax j on the American people which j could not be justified because the 1 amounts of imports was small. He i said that they were not compe titive with American products but ; merely were supplementary to them Women and the Enrollment. BONDS TO DILLON BANK Arc Bought Dillon. July i.">. ? Under competi jtvie bid the First National Bank of j Dillon today bought $8.000 of sew Jernge bonds and $21,000 of water j works bonds beaiiny; 5 1-2 per cent, issued by the. town ??f Dillon, and vole on election day. It has been suggested that if you vote you will be required to serve on the jury and pay poll tax. This is an error. Voting easts no additional responsibility upon you. as the I :??_> i session of the legislature pass at a premium of $.'501 on the $.2!?.- cd an act exempting female voters imm> issue. The First National Rank ? frt?ni jurv dutv." its organization has handled i ! Since quite a large volume of the school Darlington. .July I.? land county bonds. the Palmetto Power I R. S. Rogers, the president of j I this bank, is always keen for Rood investments and when an'oppor tunity of this nature presents it-I j self, he is always ready and is j i usually the successful bidder. Work on \\h< start* d Main Street. Sumter's White Way Friday morning on -Patrons of and Light company in Darlington bft-ye re ceived cards from the office ol commercial lighting rates. This in cludes stores, offices, theaters, ho tels. boarding houses and all in dustrial and commercial establish ments of not more than MO watts and small fractional horse-powei motors. This is very welocme news to the citizens of Darlington. POSTMASTER GENE] OF PROG] Dr. Hubert Work, the new head of the United States postoffice de partment, is mad because the south has shown such progress as to war- j rant the attention of the govern ment in the matter of postoffice buildings. It has been a long time since a cabinet officer of a Republican j administration has taken the op- j portunity to array sections against I j each other, particularly the north j j and the south, and it has remained for Mr. Harding's new fledgling to j reopen the wound. i K. Foster Murray. Washington j correspondent for The News and Courier thus tells the story: "Postmaster General Hubert I Work has just written a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon calling attention to the fact that ! congress has not been making suf ficient appropriations to keep the buildings provided for postoffice j purposes abreast of the growth! and demands of the service. "Dr. Work urges the secretary of the treasury yto memoralize con- i gress for the" appropriation of suf ficient money to enlarge the floor space of about 500 offices and to improve facilities and equipment in many of the buildings now occu pied. "But in doing this Dr. Work does something which his predecessor, Mr. Hays, carefully avoided?that |is, he sounds a sectional note say ing to Mr. Mellon that during the past ten years the southern group of states was apportioned 35 per cent of the new postoffice buildings, although- this group "handles but 15 per cent of the entire postal business" of the country. "Dri, Work further informs Mr. Mellon that the increase of the postal business in ' the southern group of"stktes"Tias"*n5eeh merely; "nominal" by comparison during! j this ten-year period," exe'uding the j j increase due to war activities." . j Just why the increase due to war activities applies, any more to the southern group of states than to the northern and: eastern group, j Dr. Work does not explain. "The postmaster general has fail ed to animadvert upon wh*at would ! appear to be a much greater "out-! j rage" than the lack of proportion j in the number of federally-owned j postoffice buildings to the gross j postal receipts by sectional divis-1 i ions. -It is actually a fact that there are over 19,000 postoffices in the thirteen southern states with $62, 700,000 in . gross annual receipts; whereas there are; only 9,600 post offices m the eastern and New Eng land. stat.es, whose gross receipts last year .were about $170,000^000. i If Dr. Work. intends to revise the postal facilities of the country by sections on the basis of compar ative gross financial intakings, he I has ahead of him a large task in ! which lie' is apt to find Secretary ? Mellon too busy to assist. ??>> ?.. I "The population of Colorado, Dr. j Work's own-state, is 939,000, andj I its gross postal receipts last year; (were $4,6-45,000. New York State's! j population is 10,3,85,000, and its | j gross postal receipts are $7.9,359,,- j i 00o. Colorado has eleven postof j fices in federally-owned buildings, | i and New York state has fifty-j j three. On the basis of compara-. j tive gross receipts New York ought i to have seventeen times as many ! postoffice b?i|ding3 as Colorado, ! and on the ? basis of comparative ! population, . New York ought to i have eleven times as many. Who i has perpetrated this "brutal" dis crimination in favor of Colorado? "It is noted by the postmaster! general in his epistle to Secretary] Mellon, that the gain in gross pos- i i tal receipts in the south during the j j past ten years has been nominal I in comparison with the country as a whole. In the same letter Dr. j Work informs. Mr.. Mellon that the ! postal business now done in New j I York city alone is equivalent to j j that of the whole United States I twenty-five years ago. As the pos- j j tal business of the southern states j j is today greater than that of New .York city, the postal business ?"\f; i the southern states by the post master general's own assertion is I therefore greater than the postal i business pf the whole country! j twenty-five years ago. Eliminating j I the postal progress of the south for the past ten years as merely ; "nominal," what prodigious stunts i the south must have per ! formed in the fifteen years from 'lS97 to 1912 to make it surpassi - today the postal business of the en- } tire country in 1S97! Evidently j there was never anything like thatj ! progress in all history, and yet the I assertion may be ventured that | j phenomenal progress was not rec-1 I ognized by a corresponding pro- ( I portion of federa" postoffice build-! jings. The tact is that in 1912 the! isouth had about 29 per cent of the; j postoffice buildings of the country.: i Now, complains Dr. Work it has I i oZ per cent, i J "Here is another bit of statistics j for postmaster general to con-1 I template while he considers the j j myriad postoffice buildings of the : [south: The population of the thirteen western states is 10.lSl.-j jn00. and their total gross postal re [ceipts last year were $45.500.000. j New York state's population is 10. > 385.000. and its gross postal re !ceipts last year were $79.359.000. I There are fifty-three postoffices in! federal buildings in New York I state: there are 120 in the thirteen 1 western states. Does that prove j that there are too many federal: buildings in the western states? j "It was really maladroit in Dr.! Work to make any sectional refer ence in an argument for federal ownership of "postoffice ?{uarters., ? If it is both cheaper and wiser for ! the government to build its own ] postoffices than to house them in I rented structures, as the postman- j Iter generVl says it 'is?and he is no_jdoubt right about that?the government has been the gainer j I from the fact that it built 196 post l offices in the south from 1912 to [1922, as well as from the fact that it built 390 postoffices during the [same period in other parts of the country. There are 52.<'(?(? post RAL COMPLAINS RESS IN THE SOUTH offices in the United States, with only 1.100 of them in federally owned buildings: and as Dr. Work tells Secretary Mellon that it is cheaper for the government to own than to rent, and as 10,000 of these postoffices are in the south and 186 of them in federal buildings it is obvious that Uncle Sam has been a heavy loser because he has no>: built a great many more post offices in the southern states." The Reparations* Question. Discussing the recent report of the Bankers' Committee to the Reparations Commission, the Guar anty Trust Company of New York, states that the report should not halt the development of a more confident feeling with regard to the European situation, which has been a conspicuous feature during recent months. The report may mark, a turning point in the- atti tude of Americans and others to ward the whole economic and po litical situation of the world, Xhe Survey pays, as well as a turning point in the situation itself. For the present at least, the bankers' committee has done no more than to indicate that the con ditions do not exist which would permit the early mobilization, by means of a loan from private in vestors, of German reparation pay ments, now partially suspended through a moratorium. The ques tion before the committee was a purely financial one. that of the ex ternal credit of Germany, which depends, of course, on the confi dence of investors in the ability and willingness of Germany to meet her obligations. ? The essential conditions of an external loan to Germany, in the opinion of the bankers' committee, are: (a) that Germany should clearly show a desire to meet her obligations; (b) that the total amount of her obligations should not be left uncertain, but should be definitely fixed at a sum which the lending public could feel was well within her capacity to meet; and (c) that the proposed loan could be made only at the unanimous re quest and for the benefit of the' al lied countries. The committee was of the opinion that, should these necessary conditions be met, the external credit of Germany might be revived and substantial loans could then be successfully floated, in all the main investment mar kets. The reparations obligation of Germany was fixed by the London Accord of May, 1921. at . approxi mately $32,000,000,000 (.132,000, 000,000 gold marks), and Germany has given the reparations com mission bonds to this amount. Some $20,000,000,000 of these bonds however, were to be held in sus pense by the commission awaiting a time when recovery of Germany would permit her to pay interest and amortization charges thereon. The annual charges for interest and reduction of principal on the re maining $12,000,000,000 of bonds, which were actually issued, amount to approximately $715,000, 0*00, which has proved so heavy a drain on the German financial structure, even with the aid of for eign speculation in her paper cur rency, that the creditors of Ger many have been compelled to grant temporary suspension of part of these payments. The German funded debt, exclu sive of the reparations debt, is not large?only 73,500,000,000 marks on September 91, 1921?and is be ing gradually reduced by tender of the bonds in payment of taxes. The floating debt, on. the other hand, .increases about as rapidly as the note circulation, having been 228,700.000,000 marks on Septem ber 30. 192L 281.148.000,000 marks on March 31. 1922, and 289,246, 000.000 marks on May 31, 1922. About 96.5 per cent, of this floating debt is in the form of treasury bills discounted at various banks. At the end of March, the note cir culation amounted to 130.671,000. 000 marks, and at the end of May to 151,950,000.000 marks. / This ra pid increase of floating debt and paper currency is helping to make uncollect'ble the reparations obli gation, because of the progressive disorganization of the government finances. Public opinion in this country as reflected in the attitude of the gov ernment is averse to reduction of intergovernment debts by cancel lation. This is correct as far as it goes, for, if possible, all real debts yUould be paid in full, and pos sibly the inter-government debt;; may all be paid ultimately. Never theless, for some time to come we in this country may find it quite as difficult in most cases to collect even the interest on such debts as the allies find the collections of reparations. Accordingly, 'Uncer tainty regarding some basic fac tors exists and business is unable to move forward with the rapidity which all desire. New Crop Sweet Potatoes Mr. W. H. Ramsey, of Wedge field, sent the editor a generous sample of new crop sweet pota toes yesterday along with a box full of other fruits and vegetables. The potatoes are fine speciments. Sam Green, colored, who farms on the Green Swamp road was so liciting orders for new crop sweet potatoes yesterday and exhibiting samples of what his customers would get. He says he planted his potato crop April 10th. The editor received this morn ing from Mr. W. H. Ramsey, of Wedgefield. a box of peaches, to matoes and cantaloupes, which was greatly appreciated. A telegram from State Chairman E. A. Brown, states that reports received by him .indicate - a very light enrollment throughout the state. He urges that the enroll ment committees of the Democratic clubs make energetic efforts to ob tain a final enrollment of all quali fied Democrats, but men and wo men. With Proper Sup port the Southern Creameries Can And Will Succeed With the coming of the boll weevil to the Carolinas one of. th$ sources of income which has al ready been tapped in the past?the milk cow?is becoming of interest. Every farmer cannot sell whole milk, but every farmer can sell cream to established creameries,, to ice cream factories and - to the large distributors in the crtifes. Please note the word established, and do not -let some over-enthus iastic promoters induce you to start a creamery until there is an &c? tual need. Sink community pride and sectional jealousies, if such exist, and join in making a sac cess of these creameries now strug7 gling for existence; they cannot succeed unless they can, increase their output, and this cannot be ao complished without an additional supply 4>t raw material. In tnis connection I earnestly, commend to your attention -the following interesting article pufcV lished in the July 1st issue of Ths? Southern Farm and Dairy Jour nal. Georgia is not the only state suffering from the condition de scribed: Raw Material Needed tor Dublin Creamery. Dublin, Ga.?The Dublin, .Ga., creamery and other creameries* through Georgia who owe their existence to a form of temporary insanity which drives people to create things and either leave them to run alone or without raw" ma terial, faces the same situation that other creameries through ih* state are facing, or have faced?^ that is a shortage of raw dairy* products. Appeal after'appeal has been made ^for more sweet milk and cream, but little response has been noticed. The bankers of Dublin, realfehjjr the great asset of an institution which means cash money for dairjf products twelve "months each year, arrived at a means whereby farm ers might be assisted in the pur chase of proper dairy cattle. - The plan, briefly outlined was that wherever farmers showed an inter- - est in dairying and were equipped to feed and care for a blooded animal,, t$se banks honored h? draft for the price of * a cow or. cows as the case happened," and several months credit was given the purchaser. Only a relatively small number have availed them selves of such an opportunity , to equip -their farms. With the present .supply of; rkw dairy products the local creamery* win continue to operate, but manu facturing only about one-thirdrof its full capacity. Last week 900 pounds of butter were shipped; and* officials of the creamery state that material for 3.000 pounds could have been handled with as little expense and trouble. Persans having a formula for creating interest in dairying, ^ will confer a favor on middle Gebrgia by advising the Dublin Chamber of' Commerce of the methods." .We clip the above from the Ma con News. Ko use in now giving Dublin advice, it is too late, but to other towns in Georgia, having en thusiastic ISwannies, Rotary; Lions and other innumerable civic bodies, who. are doing much for their re spective cities and towns, but whose zeal, in some instances, if greater than their knowledge, we * would say, be sure dairying is .suf ficiently developed* in your terri tory before you install a cream ery. Otherwise, you are not ahme' throwing away your own money, but probably killing some other, creamery by drawing from its ter ritory. 'Such inconsiderate action in this and ether industries has ! been a-jbane to Georgia and a re I flection on the intelligence of the j state. The. following clipped from thf?. Progress-Argus published at Jack son, Ga., Is a tribute to the good sense of. the farmers of that section, who probably produce more milk: than those of any other section* not .having a creamery. "Georgia, the latest figures show has thirteen creameries, the most of thorn being built during the past few month*. The fear is expressed that the creamery business is like ly to be overdone. Better to sup port a few good creameries; tham have so many struggling for an ex istence. There is ho danger ok j overdoing the sour cream business. * There5 is always a demand for sour j cream and sour cream dairying is the kind that pays the' average farmer best in the long run." G. A. Cardwell, Agricultural & ^Industrial Agent, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co? In The Court., i - State vs. J. M. DesChaxnps/ charged with malicious mischief. State vs. George Gaymon, charg I ed with disposing of property u*> {der lien. The case of Mr. J. M. Des? I Champs, jury having stayed out ail * I night and failed to agree, wa? * & I mistrial. 1 The jury in the case of George Gaynor, stayed out all night and j failed to agree, the case being a mistrial. ? State vs. Salley Wiley, charjred with murder. This case is now be ing tried. This will be the last j jury in the criminal court tbif> " term. There has been no change in the shopmen's strike situation, local-* ly. The thirty-one shopmen who walked out when the union lead ers called the strike are still out and no effort has been made to fill their places. ; , l +0**9 . The Hi-Y girls returned from ! Paris Mountain, where they havet j been camping for the past twelve" j days, between the hours of $ p. .m. j Fiday night and 3 a. m. Saturday ? morning. The following motored to the camp, in order to bring the* girls back: Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Osteen, Dr. W. E. DuRant. and Messrs. Hutcheson, James Boney and Henry fygon.