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The Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Sumfer; s. c Terms: $2.00 per annum?in advance. - Advertisements: One Square, first insertion __$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three month* or longer will be made at reduced rsfes. All communications which sub _ serve . private' interests will oe charged tor as Rd\-ertisementa * Obituaries and tributes of re spect "will be charged for. The" Sumter Watchman was j founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron. now has the cpm bmed circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium in "-Sumter. _' VETO FOR SUPREME "C?UKT The proposition submitted at the Federatien of Labor convention, tcaX the Constitution be amended giving Congress authority to over rule decisions of the Supreme Court, is not likely to win much popular - favor. Certain decisions ? of that court have aroused a good j' <ieal of criticism lately, but it does not -foirow that the critics want "the-court reduced" to impotence. - Anyone; who thinks the matter ?ni clearly cannot help seeing that if Congress were given the power "ingested, Congress would become the sole, sotfrce- of governmental authority in this country, and the Constitution wculd be a dead let \ vvhat else could happen, with Congress made the final judge of l the constitutionality of its acts? fckat system, which happens to werk well enough in Great Britain, might-not work at all inytfeis coun _try, even if the nation were willing to abolish our three-fold plan of divided authority. ? The proposition to'place- Con gress above the Supreme Court is particularly 'uninviting, in view of the admfcted deterioration of Con gress in recent years. Whatever "the deficiencies of the; judicial branch of government may be, the public today has-, more respect for it than for the legislative, branch. THE WINNING TOFRIST ? It-must be fine traveling in some parts of " Europe. An American ^newspaper man tells of getting, in f*xhiQn*hte Vienna restaurant^ a T4s& breakfast, nicely served, for fgour cents, a sis-course luncheon for two with wine for 30 cents and a big dniner for two for 40 cents. One of the best rooms in the hotel cost 40 cents a day. An evering's ?35tertainment for three in a glit tering cafe amounted to eight cents, and the head waiter was immensely impressed by a: two-cent tip. A ?'barber came to his room and shav ed him for two cents. The best ficagars purchasable were two cents T-Jiaplece. All this was possible because $20 in American money was ex changeable for. 420.000 kronen, and /Austrian prices had not advanced rapidly enough to keep pace with the-depreciation of Austrian cur ? ttxtcy-. ? -r-^Fine fcr the visitor?yes: but for any- such one-sided economic ar rangement somebody has to pay. It is not so. fine for Austria. If the - re3stauranteurs, hotel men and mer chants lost nothings the loss falls inevitably .on the masses of the ^Jjreople who produce the food and goods and upon whom the whole ... artificial system rests. - Austria will never get on her feet while these prp^es prevail, be tcause her people are not getting what their work is worth, and so can scarcely'live, not to mention getting ahead. m m ? ~J^T&E ANTI-LYNCHTNG BELL ?' J**t,w ? .... ........ t "A good many people have been surprised - by the Senate judiciary committee's favorable* report on the Dyer anti-Iynching bill, which provides among other things that the federal government may as -?a*r.e prosecution of lynchings in cases where state authorities fail to prosecute. It was generally*1 sup posed that the meastire would be allowed to linger indefinitely in <*6mmittee because it roused such, bitter feeling in the House. Its pas *&ge in the Senate is considered doubtful. There always must be grave di versities of opinion when any . .proposal is made that the federal government shall assume control in state affairs, but in a civilized na tion it is difficult to believe that fhere can be any true diversity of - opinion on the subject of lynching itself. ~ If every locality where such a thing occurs would act promptly and drastically to stamp out the -evil, there would be no n?>ed of federal c ontrol and the abuse would jv"? ii should. But mob rule wh-iefc is permitted t" flourish u? j checked in any part ? of a nation I sooner or - later spreads until the j entire body is affected with the j poison. Then the question cannot be considered as pureTy local but becomes of wider concern. ECONOMICS AXD HUMANITY When Lincoln declared that this nation could not exist half slave and half free- he was stating \ a great economic principle as well as one of -humanity, although senti mentalists stress' the latter idea [ rather than the former. Economic j [ principles do not sound idealistic as motives for guiding the human race forward, and for many years they have been regarded as mostly dry theory for specialists to labor over. ? Recently there has- been a change in the popular attitude toward eco nomics, and a growing thirst for knowledge of this subject has been noted in every quarter. It is a good tendency. The spread of such knowledge will hasten the solution of many apparently unrelated prob lems. A better understanding of fundamental economic facts on the part of capital and labor both will lessen the" breach between those } two groups'and demonstrate their true community -of; interest. A keener understanding of economic principles on the - part' of Ameri can farmers has already been of great benefit to agriculture and to the whole nation. A number of-prominent corpora tions have established special de partments ? for the study of eco i noraics, passing along the results of tliis investigation to employees and public with notable benefit to all concerned. The dust-should be pretty well shaken from the books on this I subject, for it has been discovered t that common" sense ^ and 'economic j principles work together exception ; ally well. " ; I Some Facts About The Public Printing I Editor Daily Item: j I respectfully' request space in j your valuable paper to give a few [facts and figures, compiled from . the public records, in regard to the [work of the. joint committee on {printing. " The committee was established j by law in 1916 as a result of an in 1 vestigation of a special committee f of both hoifses,' the findings of which, showed that the method of handling the state's printing was careless and inefficient, and that a more efficient method could be j made to yield large dividends for a small investment of expense. These conclusions' of the special committee were well founded, a*i |subs?ksuent * developments have j proved. Gradually the work of the committee has expanded until I tod'ay not only the public printing I is handled by it; but all office sup ?phes and printing for all depart - j ments- oif the state government are purchased through the committee and the total net savings aggre gate a considerable sum. The average annual cost of the ; public printing for the six-year I period from 1911 to 1917 was $32, t 901.81, while for the six-year pe | riod from 1917 to 1923 the average annual cost is so far $28%108, with i the permanent code of laws of 1922 j still to be paid for. which will 'make a general average of $32, 444.66 a year for the past six years, i though this average will be re jduced by refunds from the sale of jthe 1921* code. This reduction of I the., average yearly cost has been ! attained despite the fact that with j hi the past few years the cost of j printing has more than doubled j and the "deflation"' in this indus - [try has not kept pace with that in pother lines. (The price of book pa i per of the. grade used for the state (printing is now 8 1-2 to 9. cents !per pound, as against 4 and 5 ; cents per pound in 1914 and pre jvious years. At one time it reach I ed 15 cents. Wages, which in j creased an, average of about 100 I per cent, have not declined at all). J The figures of cost for public ? printing for the years 1911 to 1922, ! both inclusive. are ns follows: First Pertod. iim._$25,000.00 fl912.43,606.41 ! 1913._. 30.341.45 11914._41,115.59 j j 1915._ 25.000.00 ' 1916 I..- 32.347.44 Second Period, t (It was here that the committee began its work). 1917._$18.658.37 '1918_ .16.519.07 ! 1919.18,177.16 11920 . 25.800.00 ! 1921_ .48,353.80 [1922 (includes permanent { code, estimated) 67,060.00 j It will be noted that during the ' first three years of the committee's j existence the amount spent for : public printing was practically cut : in half. This wars accomplished j by reducing the volume of repons printed by state officials and by the j elimination of much useless dupli ; cation in the public printing. The increased cost for. the past fevvye;n*s J has been due to advanced prh-es ^for printing apd to the inclusion : of both the temporary and pernia i nent code of laws, which the con istitution requires to b*> printed : twice at each recurring period 'of ten years. Under the contract ; made for the publication of the ! permanent code this committee will I receive a considerable sum from ! the sate of the code to members of the bar and others. This money j will b*? r*?fun?>d to the state treas I ury and should be deducted from the appropriation of 1922. Comparing 1914 and 1922. In order to make an accurate comparison of 1914 and 1922 it is necessary to make somewhat of an analysis of the 1922 appropriation. Of the total of $76,851 appro ! priated this year S49.274.52 will be I expended for public printing prop !er as against $39,495.59 for 1914. I Reports of boards, commissions, I etc., created since 191.4, changes in j the law which required payment ! from public printing funds instead j of from department funds, together j with, reports of special.committees ! authorized by the general assembly j accounts for $5,833.58 of the dif ! ference, leaving actually spent for (the same work only $4,487.49 more! i in 1922s than in 1914, when every-j j one knows, or.can easily ascertain, I I that the cost of printing is now j j practically doubled what it was in 1914. Had there been no joint! committee on printing in 1922 the! probabilities are that the appro- j priatioh would have been consider- j ably in excess of $100,000. In comparing the years 1914 and j and 1922 the extra session of 1914 has been included. If it is believed | that this is unfair the following figures will show that in volume of work over which the committee 1 could have no control the com parison is, if anything, unfair to 1922. The acts of 1914. both regular and special sessions, contained 788 pages whereas'the acts of 1922 contained 948 pages. In 1914 for! both regular and special sessions, there were printed 4,492 pages of bills, while for the session of 1922 there were printed 4,240 pages of bills. There was also appropriated for the operating expenses of the com mittee for 1922. $4,991; for equip ment, $1,800; and as a revolving j fund to purchase office supplies, j ! $3,000. Of the amount for opera!- I j ing expenses several hundred dol- j lars will probably be unused and | I will revert to the treasury, which j j is likewise true of the amount for ( equipment. This equipment will \ practically pay for itself in 1922' and as its probable life is five orf six years there is a considerable j net gain to the state. The revolving fund is exactly I what its name implies. It is used to purchase office supplies for the various departments. These sup plies which, before this committee j began ta act as purchasing agent, j were bought at retail prices in I I small quantities, are now bought at j [wholesale, entailing a saving of t practically $3,000 for 1922. This j money is refunded to the "state treasury as the different depart ments settle their accounts. I There is another phase of the ! committee's work which has been : productive of lowered operating j costs for other departments of the \ government. Contracts for all job| printing for the various depart- f ments are awarded through this of-' i fice. A considerable'sum has been j saved hot only by securing the best I j prices by/ cvompetitive bidding, but expert advice in the use of paper j has saved a great amoun| of mon jey. Besides there is a tendency ! towards coordination and stand jardization which has often pre ! vented the printing of unneces sary forms. The small expense tb which the! state is put for the operating ex-j penses of the joint committee on ? printing is returned many times *n j ! the economies which the commit ! tee has been able to effect. The ] ! committee is the one department of j ? government which was instituted ' I simply and solely for the purpose j ! of economizing. That it has more; 1 than fulfilled the mission which j [ the authors of the act creating it I j had in mind is clearly demonstrat- i ? ed by the figures given abows, j J which are taken from the public [ records. Niels Christensen, j j Chairman Joint Committee on j j Printing. i ! Beaufort. ? * The Woman Tote, Again. (Xews and Courier). Yesterday The Xews and Courier j j called attention to the fact that in i j York county and in Clarendon J county the enrollment on the part j I of the women had taken place j i mainly in the larger towns. An ex^ j amination of the enrollment by j precincts in Sumter county and in j j Barnwell county indicates that the j j same condition prevails both in j ; Sumter and in Barnwell. Here are j the enrollment figures for Sumter: Precinct. Men. Women. Total ?Sumter. Ward 1 124 58 182 j Sumter, Ward 2 _ 570 309 879 i Sumter. Ward 3. 294 101 395! j Sumter. Ward 4 162 61 223 j Concord __ __ 82 17 99 jDalzell._ 111 45 156 I DuBose_"47 8 55 j j Earle. 62 13 75 j ? Farmers .._ 43 7 50 j |Hagood._ 46 21 67 j I Manchester_. 9 3 12' i Mayesville _ _ . 82 10 92 j iOswego. 44 17 61 ! 31 iPisgah_ 23 8 : Pinewood _. 107 27 1341 ? Pleasant Grove _ 36 3 5 51 f i Privateer_ _ 109 17 326! j Rafting Creek . 64 5 69] I Reid's. 43 ? 43 j j Salem. 26 12 38 j I Shiloh ...... 50 7 571 Stateburg __ 60 15 751 Taylor's_ 77 27 104; Trinity_.... 43 5 48 j Wedgefield_ GS 36 104 j Zoar.. ...... 82 23 105! Total .. .. _.2 4'54 867 3331 j 1 / An examination of the foregoing: table will show that of the 867 j women voters in Sumter county 529 are in the four wards* of the city; of Sumter. Figures for Barnwell ?-ouniyi tell the same story. The Barnwell; County People points out that in 1920 there were 1.881 men en rolled in ?arnwejl county as com pared with 1,867 men enrolled j this year. Barnwell county has a I total enrollment this year of 2? 8<>2. The increase has been en-1 tirely due to the enrollment of wo- i men voters. The Barnwell figures by pro-, ?inets. giving the enrollment of s TOBACCO Co-operative Associa tion Receiving To bacco of Members To-day?Both Inde pendent Ware houses Sell at Auc tion The Sumter tobacco market is' booming, a great deal of tobacco1 is being brought in from Sumter and other counties and prices are ruling higher than for several years past. The Sumter County Tobacco Farmers* Co-operati\*e Marketing Association began receiving tobac co of members Monday at their warehouse in one of the old mag neto factory buildings, facing on Magnolia street. At 11 o'clock about twelve to fifteen thousand pounds of tobacco had been re ceived and it was still coming in at that hour. The prospects*were that during the day the receipts would approximate twenty-five thousand pounds or more. As rapidly as the tobacco is received it is weighed and graded by the expert and experienced tobacco men that the association has em ployed. The member who delivers tobacco is given a receipt for his ; tobacco, which show's the weight and grades. He is then allowed a stated amount per pound, accord ing to grade, and the tobacco will be held by the association until it can be sold to advantage, and when the pool is closed out the farmer will receive the balance of the sale price of his tobacco. The advances to be made for the various grades are shown on a large card posted on the wall of the warehouse office and each farmer can see fpr him self what he is to receive for his deposited tobacco, as soon as it has been weighed and the grade tickets j made out. An idea can best be obtained of the advances made by quoting a few of the grades: The highest and lowest advances on the various classes of tobacco is given ?there being many grades under each classification: Wrappers, $22.7o?$17.50. Cutter smokers, $15.05?$7.00. Cutters, $15.75?$7.70. > Smoker primers, $6.30?$1.05. Primers, $6.00?$1.05.. Independents Boosting. Prices. In both independent warehouse* auction sales were held Monday, total sales aggregating thirty! thousand pounds, estimated. The ] prices ranged high, the top grades j bringing $65 and the average fori both houses being aroimd thirty cents! Some of the prices received hy i individual farmers at the Banner' Warehouse will give an idea of how j tobacco sold Monday: ? j W. F. Rush, Turbeville: 192 lbs. at $65.00, $124.80: 174 lbs. at $55, $95.78; 518 lbs. at $46, $238.28; 130 lbs. at $27, $35.10. Total 1,014 lbs. $493.88. average, $48.70'. W. T. Kennedy: 444 lbs. at $42.00, $186.48. Rush & Joy: 30 lbs. at $30, $9; 160 lbs. at $37.00, $59.20; 144 lbs. at $50, $72.00. 334 lbs, $140.20 J. M. Floyd: 218 lbs. at $30, $65.40; 250 lbs. at $43. $107.50: 18 lbs. at $60, $10.80; total 406 lbs., $183.70. Many a pair of shoes were sur prised today when they saw their first sidewalk. -% ? ? We shot at George's soldiers sev en years before they all got mad and went home.' And ever since the British have been getting even by sending lec turers over here. Every Fourth of July we take a day off and some people take a few fingers off. "Keep one foot on the floor" is a good rule in shooting pool and a better one in kicking. men. the enrollment of women and I the total enrollment for 1922 and j that for 1920. are as follows: 1922. 1920. j Precinct Men Women Total Total j Barnwell _ 376 191 567 375 Blackville 312 174 486 316; B.Springs- 52 23 75 50 j D. Ponds . 6 18 84 491 Dunbarton 69 29 98 115; Elko_ 122 68 184 103! Four Mile 34 15 49 411 Friendship 70 14 84 52! H.Springs 32 29 61 4.91 Hercule3 . 105 35 140 99! Hilda_ 85 31 116 831 Kline _ _ 92 52 3 44 651 Red OaK . 48 14 62 M R. Branch 53 IS 71 53 Rosemary 73 45 US 64 j Siloam . . 48 16 64 45 Williston . 230 169 399 270! Totals .1867 935 2802 lS81j In Barnwell county 935 women! arc enrolled and of these 191 are; in the town of Barnwell, 174 in the! to\Vn of Blackville and 169 in the1 town of Williston. a total of 531, or more than half the entire en-! rollment for the county in these! three towns. This year it is, very plain that la general the women living in the j rural districts have not enrolled to! any considerable extent. The en rollment on the part of the women j has been mainly, as we have stat-l ed, in the larger ^ent*>rs of popu-' lation. The total enrollment of women will be well past 50..000 for: the state: probably 60.000 or more and the woman vote, the vote of the women who live live m the, towns will this year determine the: election. Who, then., will doubt the result?i To-day's Best iokes and Stories Heresy: The act of being a mi- j nority. Our own opinion is that soprano is used in Heaven only to balance the alto. "A skin you love to touch" is one that doesn't get slippery in this kind of weather. About the only way to keep a law from being unconstitutional is to attach a rider levying a tax. The easiest way to be reconciled ! to age is to observe a few young j simpletons trying to act smart. j ' Still, the man who tells his wife j everything may be trying to tempt her to exchange confidences. If we can save daylight by5 mon keying with the clock, why not tinker with the calendar and retain the bloom of youth? In one particular we are not be hind other nations in preparedness. We have a fine big pension office. In congressional districts where the majority is a little radical, politics makes strange red fellows. A rich man could be happy if he could overcome the suspicion that his friends have designs on hi3 purse. It frequently happens that the J man who says he will think it over j means that he will ask his wife about it. Correct this sentence: ''The man had a splitting head and a miser able taste in his mouth next morn ing, but he made no good resolu tions.*" The Ford boom appears to have the muffler on. _______ i . , . Everybody seems to have the in alienable right to quit work except mother. Vacations would be rather nice ! if we had sense enough to stay at home and enjoy them. Wonder how a passive buck" pri vate feels while poor oppressed strikers are sniping at him. The reason so many young peo ! pie are skeptics is because faith is the product of thought. Number one on the list of haz ardous occupations for the sum j mer is that of trying to kiss .a girl jin a canoe. Strange how rough-neck outsid ers are always doing things to dis ! credit strikers and .the klan. ! Poor old Wilhelm. If he but liad !his former authority, he could [ make every German buy his book. The operators reflect that even tually every striker^ will take a lit tle job for the stomach's sake. The three gentlemen who now boss Russia may learn from history that triumvirates go before a fall. h \ . k-? ? ?> Machine Gunners Are Ordered Out To Protect Prisoner in North Carolina Penitentiary? Man Shot in Breast Raleigh. Aug. 4.?As a matter of precaution, due to the presence in ? Raleigh of a large number of au tomobiles from Moore County, a detachment of the "Durham Ma chine Gun Company, of the North Carolina National Guard, has been ordered to Raleigh to guard three negro prisoners rushed to the State prison here this morning following their arrest in connection with the attack on a white woman and the shooting of her husband near Southern Pines this morning, j "We do not contemplate any [trouble, though the circumstances j justify every precaution," declared I S. J. Busbee, warden of the State j prison tonight. I A. E. Ketchen, of Miami. Fla.. \ who was seriously wounded while j attempting to defend his wife from j attack, was taken to the Carthage j Hospital where it was said to night that chances for his recov ery were good. En Route to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Ketchen who were j en route by auto from Miami to New York had encamped last night j on the road near Southern Pines. Their tent was invaded early to day by three negroes who demand ed money, according to the story told by the husband, and when he reached for his pistol, one of the intruders opened fire. Ketchen was wounded in the breast, and was unable to assist his wife when she was pursued by the negroes. Twenty minutes after Sheriff Blue arrived here with his prison ers, a detachment of seven dusty automobiles drove up to the gates of the State penitentiary. They; were filled with men who asked if the sheriff had arrived, but made no attempt to interfere with the guards when answered in the af- j firmative. During the afternoon, other au tomobiles, apparently from the dis- I trict where the outrage occurred, i continued to arrive in the capita! j and the authorities decided that it would be best to have the State troops on hand to supplement the I prison force during the night. Senat?' has started an open air restaurant. Xow. when eating spa- j ghctti, the sky's {he limit. Maybe a barber shaving himself; says "Your hair needs washing, j sir." SHOPMAN ASSAULTED AT FLORENCE _ j Strike-Breaker Captured by Four Men and Severely I Beaten Florence. Aug. .3.?Search is be ing made today for four white men who are charged by J. A. Jones, who came here yesterday morning to work in the Atlantic Coast Line shops, with having forced him into an automobile, taken him. outside of the city, and then beaten him I up and thrown him into a ditch of water yesterday afternoon. This morning Mr. Jones made the fol lowing sworn statement to the of ficials of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company: "State of South Carolina, County of Florence. "Personally appeared before me J. A. Jones, who on oath says: "I live in Branchville, and came to Florence this morning, (August 2) for the purpose of going to work for- the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road company, on instructions of Supt. R. B. Hare. I was instruct* ed to report to Master Mechanic 15. J. Smith who gave me a letter to Foreman Hedgepath in? Colum bia under whom I was assigned for i work. About 11:30 a. m., I went ito a boarding house for dinner, one i of the strikers who I did not know saw my tool chest and of course suspected that I was going to work [with the railroad. This man then I went'to the proprietor of the board 1 ing house, whose name I. do not know, and* after he conversed with [him a few minutes, the proprie tor came to me and told me that i he could not keep me any longer. I was later picked up by four white, who* took me in an automo bile down the road out of town, when I was taken from the car and beaten and then thrown in a ditch of water. I am a stranger in Florence, and do not know any of my assailants. "J. A. Jones. "Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of August, 1?22. "R. C. King, "Notary Public for South Caro lina." This is the first disorder of this kind authentically reported in Florence in connection with the strike of the shopmen. " No founda tion could' be found for other re ports of disorders of this kind. Other points have had such dis orders' and much worse. To date j the-only other trouble arising from f the strike was the shooting at Capt; George Rollins by two men alleged to be Alvin Broach and R. J. Revell, strikers, who are under bond now charged with the-attack. Investigators of the Jones case state today they had -identified the boarding house where Jones had stopped ?s the place belong ing to John Scarborough, who *s among the striking shopmen. F. W, Willcox, attorney, made the in vestigation at the house. He said when he called he found Mr. Scar j borough away from home but talk ed to Mrs. Scarborough. He says, she told him Mr. Jones had stop ped, there yesterday morning on arriving in the city and that la ter he had become known as ? strikebreaker, when her husband J told him he could not remain long ier. ? Mr. Jones told Mr. Willcox that on leaving the house he took his kit of tools across the street .to a store, operated by Mr. Gasque, 'and left them there till he should, be able to find another boarding house. While he was out looking for another place, he says, his tools disappeared. He says Mr. Gasque informed him that a crowd of white men came into the store jand got the tools and carried ! them away. He has not recovered j them. While looking for the tools. [ he says, the four men w;th an auto j mobile took him into custody, witn 'the results stated hi" his affidavit. \ - Harding Making Best of Bad Situation Washington. Aug. 4.?The major purpose of administration inter vention in the rail strike was ac complished, a White House spokes man 'declared today, when both rail executives and shop crafts un ion leaders agreed to consider au } thority of the railroad labor board i as supreme in future controver j sies. This aspect of President Hard ing's proposals for a settlement of the strike is viewed by the admin ; istration as paramount. The fact that the executives rejected the j president's further proposal that j to end the strike, strikers be taken j back by the carriers without im ; pairment of their seniority status j was said to be secondary in the . White House view, since the suc i cess or non-success of govern j mental mediation efforts in indus I trial strife could be considered a i small matter compared with main | tenance of the integrity of legally [established agencies of the govern | ment itself. ! This outline of the administra j tion's attitude was made available i today after the cabinet session j which was occupied for more than j two hours with consideration of I industrial difficulties in coal min ! ing and transportation. 7X i strengthened the belief that fcr the moment no further government ! move affecting the conduct of rail ! roads was to be expected. A rumor that president Hard-1 ing's proposals on seniority as originally presented to T. DeWitt j Cuyler. chairman of the Railroad I Executives' association, differed in form from the draft rejected by the meeting of the asscoiation met with denial at the White House. Xow that soft coal prices are fixed at ihe mine, you can get some! coal if you will "fix" the selling! acent. Transportation rates s h o u 1 d ; come down again. Coal is a bis: item of expense, and that is being eliminated. Republican Party in South Carolina New Clubs Being Formed Throughout State by Anti Tolbert Republicans Columbia, Aug. 4.?Joseph W. Tolbert, Republican national com mitteeman for South Carolina, may, be the active head of the G. 6. P. i in South Carolina, and the party that follows his oft-assailed lead may be recognized as the Republi can party of the state, but the fact remains that there is a "clean" Republican party in South Carolina, and all it needs to attain a place of usefulness in the state, accord ing to its leaders, is national rec ognition. This new, white Re publican party in South' Carolina is a dormant body today, with a large membership, and waiting to take a place of honor in national poli tics, state its leaders. A year ago there was taker an advanced step for South Carolina politics, when under the leader ship of the late David Anderson, of Marion, and with the support of the late C. O. Miller, of Washing ton, secretary of the national Re publican committee, a new Re publican party was launched.. And it was well launched too. There are today thirty Republican clubs in South Carolina, in as many dif ferent communities, and these clubs are banded together in a state party, of which the late Mr. An derson was president, when Mr. Anderson died and when national Republican forces chose to recog nize the old negro Republican ? party, the activities of the new party rested, and today it stands at attention, waiting the word of national leaders that will give it recognition as a state force. According tc leaders of this party in Columbia there are today thousands of good South Carolin- i ians ready to join this party, and hundreds have already joined clubs, that are its units. In Union, in Sumter, in Charleston, in Green ville, in Spartanburg and in other parts of the state there are Re publican clubs, making up the frame work of the new G. O. P. for South Carolina. In this connection it became known here today that George B. Lockwood, secretary of the national Republican committee, will be in Columbia during- September, -for a meeting with the state executive committee of the Republican party, the Tolbert faction, when plans for the party's future ? will be made. Whether any changes in personnel or policies or practices are to be made is not known. A leader of the new Republican party in the state stated here today that resolutions adopted by the Sumter Republican club recently, repudiating the Tolbert methods in the recognized party, were endors ed by the "new Republicans" of the entire state. . REDUCTION REQUESTED ???? Germany Sends Note Regard ing Private Debts Berlin, Aug. 4.?In a supple mentary note sent to Paris to night the German government re affirms the position it assumed in its original payment communication in regard to payment of pribate clebts contracted with Frenchmen before the war. The note declares the German government does not pro pose to default in carrying out the payments, but merely requested a reduction of the amount to be paid. The note calls attention to the British and Belgian replies and as sert sthat neither the Versailles treaty nor the London agreement i provides for punitive measures be fore August 15, on which date the next instalment of the debt pay ment is due. It concludes with the hope that action will be deferred until the reparations question is regulated. The note is accompanied by statistical data on German fin ances ancl economics. FOUND DEAD ^ 1 INROCMi Pencil Vendor Dies at Spar tanburg? Relatives ?n known Spartanburg, Aug, -3.?1 jwis, a pencil vendor, who makes Spartanburg every month, -spend-; ing several days here on eacir trlp^ was found dead in his room .in Magnolia street boarding houso:; yesterday afternoon. The man was a cripple and went on . crutcbe*/ He left nothing to indicate, wl?erer his family is. His body was: taken to the undertaking, parlors of John F^ Floyd to be held until his. fam ily can be communicated with, bat so far there is no clue to wherp they live. - ' ?> . . Mr. Lewis was well known -afcth&r boarding house, but- was - never . heard to mention his- family. Xes terday morning he- went io~ - the kitchen and aasked for some wate?. to shave with. He went to--, his room and when he did not turn up for lunch a lad was sent to. call him. The boy found the nian .lyj . ing on his face on the floor ?jjsQTl went back, saying that he ?ould not wake him up. Investigation disclosed that he was dead. IV'wtx apparent that he bad been- dead but a few* minutes; \ ??m ? ? _-r Dead C?ii^^sm?n Given Ndmiiiati?? Lemuel P. Padgett Carrfe&Six of Ten Counties in rp~""~ see District , Nashville, Aug. 3.?Despite thev fact that he died yesterdair; v-ga^P Lmer Congressman Lemuel' Pi jpad. fgett of Columbia-has been renomi-' I nated 'for congress from tlie^Sev I errth congressional district- He-, de*-, feated his competitor, William C. Salmon, also ?f. CoIomWa, "by ji^ . majority of between 1,000 ; ami; 1.500 votes, according to ixecom-i plete and unofficial returosw-TJteso returns show that the deceased; congressman carried six of the t counties in the district. The movement to nominate: ^r. Padgett for his 12th term, the fact that he is dead, took f?: yesterday afternoon when his? friends formed hasty organization and made public an appeal to for htm. What effect the nominatioit^?fl the former congressman .will have is problematical. The purpose* ot it was to force a new election; and. permit other candidates to enter the race. A critic says the railroad labor board's decision should be .-more elastic. Also more adhesive, if they are expected to stick. ABRUZZI RYE?New crop se lected recleaned seed $2.50 pe* bushel. Wheat: Selected Vir ginia. Blue Stem, Fulcaster t*nd Leap's Prolific, $2.50 per bushd?B Place your . orders now; ?and j certain to secure first class seed/ Sumter Roller Mills. - - - IB ?- ????~??.?',..; ... ? HE HAS A FORTUNE. We mean the hoy who has one hundred dollars that he himself has made and saved, he feels like a iriillionaire. He has learned many a lesson by this. He has caught the thrift habit He has learned to do without tinnecesaary things. He ceases to squander his money. His Judgment of values is better. He is all in all a much better boy. .How about your boy. Has he got the habit yet? If not better - . y get him started at once. This bank will be pleased to handle his account. 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