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Thv Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day oy Osteen Publishing Company. Sumter. S. C. Terms: $2.00 per annum?In advance. Advc-rtiseroents: One Square, first insertion __$1.00 Every subsequent "raseTtidiv -_' .30 Conti^tcts for - three -months er longer will be made at reduced rates. ? ? All communications which sub-' serve pri-'?te ' interests- will ae charged for-as advertisements. Obituaries"- and tributes of re spect will be charged for. t The Sumter Watchman was founded in and" the True Southron in 18S6. The Watchman and Southron now has the com bined circulation and mfraenee ef both of the old papers, and is man _f__*}y the best advertising medium Iv.". Sumter._. ' '_' GOOD TTOODSMEX The Colorado Rocky Mountain ?lub, campaigning* to arouse pub-* he sentiment.to the instant need of conserving, nature's most glor ious scenic regiensf lias published a- poster for the perusal of -~ all campers, present or prospective. It reads: "A good - woodsman is a fellow you would want to go camping with ?AGAIN" That kind of a fellow always leaves his camp-site in ieiter cond_tion; than he found it. Hi buries the cans, burns the rub bish "and puts out the fire so that It stays out. No forest fires mark h? trail. . "All the wild creatures that crawl, fly or run are- his friends instead of his prey. He picks few flowers and never-pulls them up r,y the. roots. He never chops; down a tree unless he has a mighty good reason for doing, it. "RLEMEMBER: You were - not the,first, over, the trail. ? Leave the pleasant places along-the way-just a? pleajs?nt for those who follow! you." ..." They are simple enough injunc tions, requiring. only a little thought-and courtesy to make them effective. < i ? ? ? TBE COTTiFGIATE Dlt-raOiA j It le a__tounced that Northwes- j tern University will not employ married instructors unless they! iiave other means of support than the university salary- The situa- j t!on prompting the announcement; cc*nf?pnts mo3t American collegiate institutions, and it is not a good in dication; It is explained that Northwestern pays as high salaries as other uni-*, VerSIties, but tha't living expenses; in Evanston are so high that a professor j: cannot hope to run .a _*jme and keep up the proper ?tt_rtdard of appearances on his y*_rly pay. There is something all wrong about it, not only at Northwestern but wherever such a condition ex ists. All question of salary aside, f* is setting up a -democracy of clothes and housing and food over a democracy of intelligence. ?; Ii is partly a question of wages. Teaching salaries still are f_r too ? low on the average. But that is; nit all of the trouble. In Ameri can educational Hfe as in other "-"?ea-lme we are losing our sense, of correct values. Salaries need to be brought Up, but no less does the mounting valuation of purely xSiaterial possessions need to be brought down. ? ?? The man best qualified to teach, ni>t,the man with, the best bank account, should- be chesen as the teacher. Unless we can strike a better. b?_ance between respect for the material and respect for the intellectual we shall neither be able to attract good men to the teach ing profession nor inculcate in stu dents those hardy standards for esdtoatmg worth- which are the backbone of Americanism. RAILROAD CONTROL Rairrcad operators are willing tor .the government to run the reads, provided it exercises com plete control over labor. Railroad workers are willing for the gov ?-?rnment> to run the roads, provid ed it exercises complete control over -capital. Neither side itself wants to be controlled, beyond a mild and benevolent paternalism that will help it out of a hole now and then. Each side wants priv i7:?g?s without responsibilities. No public service can ever be operated in that way; and it is safe to say that never hereafter ?will the United States government operat? the railroads in that way. There ha* been too much yielding tr> one side or the other in the past. It is probably the lack of adequate control, rather than too much control, that caused the de fecEsC In railroad administration v. h?e it was in public hands. Titai mistake should not b?? made again. ?nd w?U not. If. as a re sult of railroad capital and labor being unable to agree ? with each other, it becomes .necessary for the government to take over the in dustry, there should be a thorough understanding that both capital ? and labor shall be held to their i job of public service. Naturally, any owner or any worker not content with the con dud of the industry in public hands must have the right to get out? I the owner to unload his holdings j and the worker to quit, since eapi I tal and labor are both free. But j it should be understood that while [either money or labor-is engaged in [public service, it1 must be held- to j the duty of providing uninter rupted transportation; and having quit voluntarily', it should- have no further claim on the industry. BREATHLESS The woman who, for one family i emergency after smother, said she had "girded up her loins till her hips- were sore" declared also that I it wasn't-life , being just one you know-what-kind-of thing after an other that she minded; the beauti j ful was . compensation to her for i the demand. What she minds is ' the speed with which the things come. Time to catch her breath before taking a new knot in the girdle was all she craved. But the swimmer knows he isn't going to be given time to catch his breath: he has: to learn to take it while going along. The aviator learns to breathe easily and calmly iright along with the swoops. And j many physical ills, including pan | ics can be controlled by putting the mind firmly on the matter of even brear.hmgv ? ? ? j Ferhaps there would not be. so man]? family emergencies demand- I ing the sudden girding of the loins Jfor action if everybody in the fam !ily including those in positions of ! greatest responsibility would sim-. i ply learn to take their calm and ! even breaths of life and joy and hope and quiet counsel, as they went along. - . ~ AX OLD FOLKS* HOME [ a home colony where old people may spend their days in comfort and still be at least partially self | supporting is planned by the Loyal Order of Moose. It is an under taking which should prove sugges tive, to. other organizations and; in Idividuals upon whom provision for the- aged devolves. The project is based upon the theory that, most of such institu- j itions provide shelter and food fcr, [the eld but give them nothing to jdo, and so the -feeling of depend ence and the idle hours which are ; the corse of age descend upon the j inmates. ! The home planned is to be situ f ated in Florida. A big hotel will the used as a sanitarium for those who need nursing or medical care. ; Cottages are .to be built for dwell I ings and garden plots laid out. i Here, it is thought, with the i problem of shelter solved and with 1 climate and soil-- conditions favor ; able to their feebler efforts, the j old will be able to do the work of ? the colony without exertion, and ; be happy in the doing. The scheme j is devfecd with an understanding j thoughtfulness too often missing jfrom such plans.- ?* ; ALCOHOLIC vOSTFULXESS j Commenting on a - play entitled ! ; "The Old Soak", a Xew York WoFld j j writer pays a novel tribute to pro- j ; hibition. without which, he says. : : this line play never would have ! been written at ail. j "From an artistic point of view ; the .'Volstead Act has been an j enormous factor in the encourage | ment and enrichment of Ameri- \ lean literature. It has given us jmemcries to play with. But for i prohibition. American letters would lack that wistful quality which it-is so difficult to create around a civilization as new as fours. Xe colorful literature can i be created unless there is in the j people a great yearning." So all i the missing stimulation over and j above the Volsteadian percentage, j he suggests, may find its way into I American plays and novels, j It is a fruitful idea, which pro hibition defenders ought to make [the most of. There has been a ; long, loud wail from the artistic (Professions to the effect that there ican be no art without alcohol. The [public has been told that poetry. I fiction, drama, paintings. music, etc.. wer^ destined to dry up. and jail tff*' become flat, stale and un profitable. They have overlooked : this element of wistful yearning I which, to many minds, sheds radi ; ance around everything connected with the distribution and consump j tion of liquor in past years. j The wet era is rapidly developing i traditions and mvths that bid fair I ? [to make of if another golden age i not for statistical and sociological | purposes,, to be sure, but for cen [versational and artistic -purposes. [And if departed booze is going to I be prized in this way by former de l votees because it is so fine a thing I to feel sad about, who can grudge !it a long, sweet, memorable death? - I NEW OUTLET FOR SERBIA ! An American who has been j traveling extensively in Europe re ports that Serbia soon will begin construction of a railroad from j Belgrade : to the 'Adriatic. The j opening of this commercial high jway, it is expected, will end the [Firnne quarrel which has been one I of the bitter post-war problems be tween Italy and her neighbors. The railroad will bisect. forest and mineral lands of untold-rich ness, which never before have had an outlet, and will make this terri tory economically self-supporting for the first time in history. French and English capital already are ac tive in anticipation of the progress and development incident to the opening of the road. So the problems of the world get smoothed out one by one. and of fener than not in some way en tirely different from the original plan. But the fact is encouraging j and the method less important. It i justifies the remark of Chief Jus i tice Taft that there is too much j pessimism over things in general ! and to little appreciation of the power of individual effort which manifests itself in practical accom? plishment while factions and- gov ernments -quarrel over theories. THE RICH INDIAN GIRL Exie Fife, nineteen-year-old Creek girl, recently a virtual pau per, now. with an income from oil lands running up toward $5,000 a day, refuses to let her aboriginal head be turned by her wealth. She says she is going to study music and send her brother to college. She wants him "to be somebody". For herself, she asks npthing spec tacular, not even a musical career. The music, apparently, is for rural use. She is going to stay right at home, in her little bungalow, and run a farm. - ? - "I want to be a farmerette," she says. "1 want about 500 or 1,000 acres, stocked with sleek, pure-bred cattle, and waving fields of com and grain. Then I want a flock of puffing tractors, with me behind the biggest of them all. plowing up the ground and kicking up the dust. That's the life for me." It sounds as if the language might be the reporter's, but the ideas evidently are Exie's. And in an era when even get-rich-quick I Indians are prone to . act as if money were made only to burn tip. Isn't it refreshing? '?IRISH REPUBLIC" FUNDS j I A.move has been made by officials J representing the Irish Free State. to tie up the funds lying in banks, of this country which were raised by the sale of bonds for the "Irish j Republic". An injunction has been j granted by Justice William Burr; of the New York Supreme Court j preventing the withdrawal of these funds by the De Valera faction pending legal decision as to their j rightful ownership. This action is said to be one of the severest blows the Irish Irregulars have received, but there [can be little doubt of the justice ! of the proceeding. There is dif ' ference on the Irish question among ! those who subscribed for the bonds ! in this country as there is in Ire I land, some upholding the right of I De Valera and his friends to use [the money for their unhappy cause j and others urging the claims of jthe Free Staters. The settlement of the question !of ownership will be a lengthy and ; delicate proceeding, but it may j operate for good in that the stop J page of funds may check the mis I guided activities of De Valera. his {supporters in this country and his ! followers in Ireland. - ? ? . A MISSION THAT FAILED I The French war debt mission jcame, eonferred and departed with j scarcely a ripple, and with surpris ; ing quickness. The public hardly j realized that it was here until it ihad gone, though the subject it i came to discuss, the payment of the i billions that France owes this eoun .try. is of interest to everv Amer : lean. i There was nothing else for the French commissioners to do. They j found at once, when they met the American debt-refunding commis sion, that they were up against a [stone wall. They came to negot iate, but there whs nothing to ne gotiate, because Congress, in pre scribing th<- powers of the Ameri Ican commission; had tied the com I mission's bonds. By order of Congress the Amor ! ican commission is forbidden to j discuss the 'cancellation of any j portion of the allied war debt, or ito arrange for interest payments j lower than a rate regarded by in jternational financiers as impos I sible, or to spread payment over a I period as long as financiers regard j as imperative if the debtors are i I ever to pay the principal. j This is the :natural result of an j ; unintelligent effort on the part of! j Congress to dictate beforehand in a' j matter of delicate negotiation in j which the Executive Department j j ought to have a free hand, and the j j terms of whose settlement are i j something for experts, not poli- j j ticians, to determine. There can | j hardly be any real progress made I j toward adjustment of these foreign J j debts till Congress lets the admin- j j istration use its own discretion in! j the matter?subject, of course, to j final congressional approval. j KEEP BRIGHT CHTLDREX BUSY I.... . - i ' The supernormal child at last is coming into his own as an object i for special education. ? I j Too often the exceptionally j bright child loafs through school, j He gets high marks, but at the! i same time he acquires bad'habits! I of idleness, inattention and inabil j ity to concentrate. Because the work allotted him is below his ability, he performs it without ef fort and without the hardening of : his mental fiber which education i j should provide. His honors, prop- j erly considered, are not honors at I all. To take these gifted children I j and give them special tasks in ac j j cordance with their ability instead. j of permitting them to play with I the tasks of the average child will put them on their mettle,- give them real work to do and teach! them to utilize their gifts instead j I of wasting, them. Every school has its quota of j such promising material and every I school should seek the most en-1 lightened methods for developing it ?- <, * ~ ! - .?^? ? -j I Not Pleased With President, j (From the Boston Herald). I j The present occupant of the I White House, a man of many ex cellent qualities; is the mdst near- I ly opposite in mental type of Gro-' ver Cleveland of any man that' we have in recent years had there, j Roosevelt was a man of personal ity. Woodrow Wilson had no lack I of courage or vigor in expression, j Everybody knew where he stood ; on a question. But the present j president often leaves us in a great I fog of uncertainty. We do not i ! know whether he is with us or ! against us?whether his public 'statements mean courage or com promise. We do not know what j he means to do with the W. P." O. i Harding appointment in the feder al reserve, for example. We have j never foreseen his policies in ref erence to the coal and the railroad [Strike's. We should have been pleased, if immediately on the ! heels of the Herrin massacre, seemingly instigated by John U j Lewis' telegram, he had declined ! to have him as a luncheon guest at" the White House, just as Roose velt had refused to dine with Lorimer of Illinois and just as ; Cleveland had written about Grady I We should have ) liked in Prosi j dent Harding a more virile asser- | j tion of himself and the power of j j his office. We believe the time has come in our history when no presi | dent can be great who does less j than this. -.-. . i Tokio Workmen's Wages Show Drop. Tokio, Aug. 15.?With the ex ception of Tokio, wages of wdrfc I men during June indicated a j slight drop or remained practical ity unchanged. In Tokio, dycrrg and textile wage's scored a pcr Iceptible advance during the period : while others remained little "changed. In Kyoto, Kobe, Fukuo i ka and other leading cities, dye iing. chemical and miscellaneous I wages dropped slightly, others re imaining the same as before, i Throughout the different cities, i wages of maid servants increased i during the month of June as did those of cement and stave makers J '' in Tokio, tailoring and shoe mak- | j ers in Kyoto, sugar refineries and j I transport agencies in Xagoya. brick j ? layers, sake brewers and textile I (makers in Kobe. A drop was reg-i istered in the wages of silk reelers j !in Tokio. spinning operatoresses I in Koyoto. millet"* in Yokohama. I painters in Kobe and compositors in the public printing offices in! ! Fukuoka. The old-fashioned mother whoj ! worried about turning the baby's j liver over now has a daughter who | j worries about the kids.turning the j i flivver over. ?^"^^ ~ j The city man who reseuts the accusation that the city is more I wicked than the country would be bored to death if it wasn't. Every day will be Sunday bye? land bye, ;ind then it won't matter; [if we do have that no-account} ; feeling on Monday morning. j Many a man who approves of '. the New York policeman for I knocking: a <igatvt out of a Wo ? man's mouth would he very in<li? I nant if a woman asked him to stop j chewing tobacco. UNDOING ;niEti WORK OF 76 j ? i' White Supremacy in The Gov-I ernment of South Caro lina as EssenliaJ Now as in 1876 _ . i Charleston. Sept. 10?The ~fol- i lowing editorial entitled, 'Fooling! with Dynamite." will appear in to morrow's issue of the News and! Courier. . "There are parts of South Caro- j liha where some people may feel I that it does not matter- very much whether or not the governor of the ! state is a thoroughgoing Democrat. "There are parts of South Caro lina where white men may be ready to vote unquestioningly for a man who is on close terms with the state's Republican boas and pap dispenser. "There are parts of South Caro lina where the fact that a candi-; date for governor openly rejoiced at the election of a Republican president and the capture of the government by Republicans may not. militate seriously against him with some of the voters. "Is this true in those counties where the whites are" a decided mi nority? 13 this true in the coun ties where the Democratic party is the only protection of white men against negro rule? "There is no question whatever that the "Republicans would like to strengthen and build up the Re publican organization in this state. Nor- is there any question that ?vith the governor of the state on close terms with the Republican boss the way would be opened to this under more favorable r conditions than have existed since the state was re deemed from carpetbag misrule in 1876. "This is why Mr. Blease's rela tions with Joe Tolbert, the boss of the Republican 'Black and Tans* in South Carolina, has caused such serious concern to the men who remember the difficulty with which the people of this state threw off the yoke before. "To fool* with any situation which might -mean putting the negro back into politics in South Carolina is-to fool with dynamite. "There are plenty of men still living in Charleston and Colleton and Berkeley and Georgetown and other low country counties who can remember when in this section we had negro legislators and negro magistrates and negro congress men. "Break down the integrity of the Democratic party -and we will be faced with the grave responsibility of having to experience these very things again. "The Democratic organization, holding the white men of the state together, is the one protection which the voters in the coast coun ties have against a return of the j negro into politics.' ? I "Voters in some of the up-coun- ? try counties may feel that "theyj can afford to take chances in th;s i matter and may treat it lightly.1 There they have a big white ma-' jority. It is far otherwise with us in the whole lower section." Bleaseism vs. Democracy. (MuTlins Enterprsie). Are you a Bleaselte or a Demo- j erat? You can't be both. Why? Because Blease in 1919 asked his friends not to vote in the Demo cratic primary, but to wait and vote for him in the general elec tion. Because Blease praises and en- i dorses Tolbert, the Republican I leader in this stale, the man 'Who; sits down in and leads negro conventions, and who is trying to increase the Republican vote inj this state so that the negro can j hold office over you and me. Because, he, Blease, said that he rejoiced when the Democrats were defeated and Harding elected Pres- j ident. And Harding rs a president ; who appoints negroes to office, j Harding belongs to the same party j which supported the negro legis-' lature in 1875 and 1876. Then! Blease must not object to seeing,! negroes in office. And' yet he; asks you and me to elect him' governor, when, according to his j own word, he is in sympathy with j the Republican party. Can we as loyal Democrats, as white men. vote for a man who loves not his! party, but loves the Republicans! more? Will you be fooled by his low; tax claim? Do you know that it is a tact that if he could cut off everything that he claims is wasteful, your i taxes would not be reduced more! than two cents per one hundred J dollars? And listen, he would j abolish the tax commission, which! is*the only body to see chat ihej big man. the banks, and oth Ur cor-j poratiorts pay their share. Doe? thwj look like he favors making the j rich man pay, and giving the poor j man relief? He seems to be pl'iy-j ing to the rich man against the! poor man. Don't let him fool jou. i Ask yourself if he has ever done ) anything for you except to turn ! loose convicts by the hundred to j come back home and endanger i your home, your wife- ani chil dren. Stop and think before you vote \ for this man who takes us all for' Republican sympathizers, and I thinks that he can go into tne i governor's chair again on th2 ?g- j norance and restlessness of a part j of our people. Show him tha: you > love the state, your homes, and that you are still a proud and. loyal Democrat. ?9 ?& ? "Probe Insane Vets Treatment" | ?headline. Insane treatment ofj veterans needs probing. The rail dispute never will be j settled until both sides begin m?k-j ing tracks for peace. ? ? * . After 11 p. m.. th<> overage hus-j bond is either in bed or in bad. i Democratic Leader Thinks the United States Should Help Stabilize Conditions New York, Sept. 9.?Reestablish ment of prosperity in the United States must be given first place in the thoughts of Americans and must be the preface to discussion of the entrance of this country into European affairs and into the League of Nations, declared James M. -Cox, former governor of Ohio, and Democratic candidate for the presidency at the last election, on his return from Europe today on the Paris. Mr. Cox .went abroad to study Old World political and economic conditions. Discussing the issues m. the congressional elections this fall Mr. Co>: said that the international is sue would be "the failure of the administration both in the moral and unselfish view, on the one hand, and the practical and selfish view on the other, to participate in the affair of the world." But, he added, the matter of govern mental association to promote peace must yield to the matter of establishing economic order in this country. Mr. Cox said that, for the mo ment, there was nothing pressing in the question of the League of Nations. In Europe, he declared, reparations and not the league is the most important question now. "Reparations," Mr. Cox declared "is the one question in Europe to day, and America holds the key to the reparations situation. If a de cision is not reached, Germany will collapse and with her will'go Aus tria. And if Germany collapses, France will get nothing and will be left 'in a ?cry bad situation which will endanger all of Europe. ;"At the fall elections the admin istration will have to answer for its sins of omission and commis sion. While the paramount issue will be an internal -one, the do mestic and international questions can not reallv be separated. The economic unit is Tie world, not any one country. Part of it is close to collapse. America had a chance, without involvements of any kind, to end the deadlock, stabilize Eu rope and create a market for our farms and factories. . Declining prices in America's products is largely due to the rejection of this opportunity." Mr. Cox sard he favored suspen sion of payment Of the inter-Allied war debts. The Balfour statement, he added, w??s badly received in England and did not express the feelings of the peopic. "England wants to pay us what she owes," Mr. Cox wpnt on. "I should not be surprised if when she does it, she then proposes that all the remaining obligations to the United States and England be cancelled." "The league needs no defenders. The United States will become a member of it, of course. That is as certain as the coming of day. We will come in. not only as a mat tre of duty and service, but of self interest as well. We will enter with a well formed and under standing public opinion and then the league will cease to be a polit ical issue, "Germany, I was told by Presi dent Ebert, will enter the league the day the United States does, but she will not, for the present at least join the league unless- we do. Just as soon ns the constitution of the Irish Free State is fully rat ified. Ireland will be represented in the assembly of the League Whatever condition America sees fit to impose conscientiously, the other members beyond ques tion will accept." Mr. Cox seid that the unanimous feeling among American travelers abroad was one of astonishment that America was not finishing her great work it had begun by par ticipating in the war. This feeling, he declared, was shared by Europeans. "When 1 proposed that the Uni ted States act as mediator in the reparations commission." he stated ^'the idea created absolute enthu siasm in London and \he continent al capitals. I also mentioned the idea of having Secretary Herbert Hoover, who ;s universally known and respected, ascertain accurate ly Germany's true state, his find ings to be used by the reparations commission. Of course this idea was not proposed w:tn the inten tion of interfering with the ad ministration or with carrying on its affairs." The man who is as busy as a bee usually lights on something. Burbank has perfected a white peach. It is excellent for eating in a white skirt. The honeymoon is over when the coal shortage starts. This may be an awful country: but on Tagawa Island there are 14 women to every man. Wonder what an Irishman says when his small boy asks him what; peace is. What's in a name.' Fort Medi cince. La., couple found a barrel of booze on their front porch. WANTED?To sell you a new hat. I also tnke orders for hand made hnts: can furnish material. Mrs. C. W. MoGrew. corner Mag nolia and Myrtle streets. Fhone S79-L. STRIKE' MEETING IN CHICAGO Leaders of Striking Railroad Unions Summoned to Im portant Conference Chicago, Sept. 7 (By the Asso ciated^ Press).?Rail strike leaders from every section of the country were hurrying to Chicago tonight in response to the summons of B. M. Jewell, head of the railway em ployees* department of the Ameri can Federation of Labor. Tomorrow there will be a meet ing of the. executive council, con sisting of the six executives of the i j shop crafts and Mr. Jewell, and on j Monday there will be a meeting j of the policy committee of 90. The object of the sessions was not j I stated in the call sent out last i i night. j; At union headquarters' it was I 1 said the meeting of the executive j council would be secret and that ho announcements of any kir.d would be made regarding any pos sible action it might take. Mr. j Jewell, who dropped from sighii r last Friday, was still absent from headquarters tonight. It was said at his home he would return from -New York early tomorrow. In the absence of Mr. Jeweli and other members of the executive council, several of whom were said to have been in the east with him, union officials refused to com ment on rumors that Mr. Jewell was planning to submit a propos al for a settlement with individual roads to the full council. The meeting Monday will take place simultaneously with the hearing before Federal Judge Wilkerson of the action by the government) seeking to make the temporary in 'junction granted last Friday I against the strikers permanent. GREEK ' CABINET RESIGNS Public Opinion Overthrows Ministry Athens, Sept. 8.?Succumbing to the pressure of public opinion as the result of severe reverses to the Greek army in Asia Minor, the cabinet of Premier Protopa-Pada kis yesterday resigned. Nikolas Kalogeropoulos, a former premier, has been charged by King Con stantine with the task of forming a new cabinet. Paris, Sept. 8.?Rumors that King Constantine of Greece, in tends to abdicate, is current in sev j eral European capitals. They are j considered to have been given some [color by the sudden recall of the heir apparent, Prince George, to Athens, from Bucharest ? ? ? The man who flares up never shines very long. A wise man never sleeps on a railroad track or on the job. ? ? ? Out of sight is not out of mind. Coal is and isnt. * In spite of governmental efforts It may be difficult to prevent coal profiteering, which reminds us once more that no matter who strikes it is the public that's out ? ? ? Dust "clouds are being seen on Mars. This proves Mars has autos. Coal Situation Growing Serious ????? j Columbia^ Sept. 8.?The coal siU uaticn is not improving. So stat ed Frank Shealy, chairman of the. railroad commission, today. The ( two hundred cars of coal which were promised for shipment from the Clinchneid mines Wednesday havc been allocated, but if they have been shipped, the railroad commission knows nothing of it. At the same time there have been / about 300 applications a day for . some of that coal. Five car loads of coal were re ceived "Wednesday. The Thursday ? imports are not reported as yet. Only about a half dozen cars are being received each day. so far as the railroad commission record's show. ? '^Ijis The Brandon Mills, of Green- . viiie, one of the large manufac turing plants of the Piedmont sec tion, closed down yesterday, accord ing to report to the commission because of shortage of fuel. The Carhart mills at Rock Hill report- . ed to the commission yesterday that they would be forced to shttt - down in a few days, if some relief . is not found. Many other man-i ufacturing plants have already. ? been forced to cease operations,. -: and still others are facing shut-:.j'." downs. "The state faces a serious situa tion for this fall," stated Mris|! Shealy. "What is to be done for do mestic coal, as well as for a suffi cient quantity to meet the deniands of industry, we don't know." - INJURED IN AUTO MOBILE WRECK Greenville, Sept. - 10 ? Several hours tonight after Anderson Dur ham, injured in a wreck of his automobile this afternoon, had been pronounced dead, he was found to be living. Mr. Durham is a resident of the Poe mill village. He and Pat Bal lew were driving on the Buncombe road when their car collided with another, both machines being bad ly wrecked. Mr. Ballew received cuts about the head^ but his condi tion is not serious. The identity of the other car has not been estab lished. Another wreck happened on the Buncombe road more remote from the city this afternoon when. Frank Knebel had his left leg broken and his right ear torn off.. A rear tire exploded and caused Mr. -Knebel to lose control of his machine. It ' plunged up an embankment beside the road and an overhanging limb dragged -him from the car and tore off his ear. He fell In the path of the automobile which broke his leg. ?; ?' -' - I..I.I II ?. - 5 ^FOR THE RELIEF Pain in the Stomach and Bowels, Intestinal Cramp Colic, Diarrhoea -SOLO EVERYWHERE* LAST CALL Books Close for the collection of County and State Taxes September 15th. B. C. WALLACE, Co. Treasurer. ONE YEAR AGO AND TO-DAY Our Bepsolts one year ago were.- $ 792.759.00 Our Deposits today are.1.164.453.00 We owed one year ago._ 253.964.00 We owe today _.?_. NOTHING While the figures above may not be conclusive, we feel that they indicate better conditions for our community. If you are not already a depositor, we would be very glad to have your account. If you are a depositor, build up your bank balance and help make better times. THE NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA C. G. Rowland, President. Earle Rowland, Casi?ei Our Savings Department As shown by our statements from time to time it will be seen that we carry the largest savings ac count of any bank in the city. We appreciate this mark of confidence on the part of our patrons, and will do everything in our power to continue to merit it. Even though your money may be deposited in our Savings Department for a fixed period, it is al ways available for you when you want it. First National Bank of Sumter