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Th> Watchman awl Southron ftoitflftbed Wednesday end Satur day t?y.. Qstefa Publishing Company, Suinter, S. C. Terms; ??,06 i?er annum?in advance. Advertisement*: j One Square, first insertion -.$1.00 .?1 very subsequent insertion -- .50 ^^ontraets for three months or longsr. .will be made at redneeel ??? rase?. "Ml communications which svb -^rye private : ;? interest*. ? wlft. ue charged for as advertifaements. Obilu&rie*. and tribute* of re spect will be charged fojr. The Sinrnter ' Watchman was ; foauded in.lS?O and the True! Southron in IS&fi. The Watchman j ijL?d Sonthron now has the com- ' b$tp?d circulation and influence of \ both of the old papers, ijid is maa- , ^s?ly the bv>st adcertising medium i It! ;5umrer. ;?; j * - ? * i WILLS ! .Do. Vfiu read the hank adyertis-j mg:? iRome of the^ most interest-1 big a.n<i ineeniQtts bits "of reading i matter to found anywhere are j coming: from the hands of the ad- \ vertising men nowadays, and thej tank advertising- has come ro hold i itsj own with' that of the depart -1 rner.r stores,'and the rest of the. se?injr news that makes "news paper^ and magazine** so entert? in They Xe.vor Found His Will*' an nounces a b:g barhk in a- large, ctty. and teils a at pry of' unnecessary / difSciihres. He had told his wife . : - . ?' . i atJww having mad** *-trill, but it; etmli. not be found:- He died after j g short illness, leaving the vif? and? . shree children. I f^Thc. ival property which, in thej -jfrsene'e of a will, belongs to the! rbSSdjen wnhjent to .the*' widow's: eahnot be scjd until-, the i youngest com~s of age. 10 years] Ja.ter; un?rss the mother goes5 through complicated court proce dure. It is going to bp difficult jn) jthe interim, if Hoi: impossible*, for Jrer to edvear? and keep the three . children on the insurance and the i iocome from her .tRird of the prop^ .; k-iiy. Tot he meanfso leat her in [ i-.>.,troi of the"property.** ' " The. moral drawn by the bank is j Wi3ye your will drawn, with thej Sri** "named as executor. It's a j ?<V>rt plan. ? v " " ! i - All sorts of complications are > ?;:k-ei? to arise in case of sudden ? ?fS'h, and minor -children need to! be "protected, ? Wives, also, who j have shared in the early straggle*. \ hiisht to be asstn-ed their jpst shared of^rhe later rewards. Xo man wants to leave his affairs j ,in a tangle for his heirs to wrestle j with, particularly if his means are ' jnodcst. It might be said that the , fsihaSer The fortune, jhe greater need of a ^iear and explicit wiil. Wills ,arei?rt for old people in their dotage t? make. They are for young people to take care of right along with the annual budget- arid ctfcer moans of keeping affairs in order. WAR-TIMF ftOClAUSM Col. C: H, Knpgles. chief of the - army ordnance technicians, wants ; to "draft everybody" m case ?f-an other -war. '^JlmmediateJy imon a declaration hj* war he would have the govern m#nr draft workmen, business men . 2.-' \. I :', '. - -? ' - linxt - professional men as well as fighting nien. roniroiling iz>dusrry end ccimmerc^ as completely as we army and navy, "freezing' ^Weanrt wages and requiring everybody in private ^4ife to stick to his job end do ins duty just as the soidler does. Absolutely every ' cittzen aMe to serve his country with hand or b?*ain would be enlist ed and fitted intp ?he gener?l sehe me. >fany other experts, i? tm^>'c aj?o- private life, feel the same way abc.?t it. in fa?t? this is per- j haps rhe ?^neral notion today of how a war ought to be conducted, j If TepreseTitr? an ontgmwth from | the experience of the World War. and would eertairily tend to cor rect a lot of injiiRilce^ that ?-?crur- j red then. i It is recognzied that thL?; ten dency* went farther in tne kite war than it had gone before, but it did hot go far enough. The demand of i itrmV men for a bonus is hi itself eloquent testimony to its shortcom- ? ings. It is felt more strongly than I e.er thaT th'e only democratic way wage war is to have ever?/ citizeH imaged in it. doing what he can for the eommen cattse. with nobody iti position to dodge hi* duty or tenet*T unduly fri?m anybody else. And if another big war occurs, ve may be pretty sure that the pro v.r;<ed plan will have a trial: Em iu j'.- is a curiotis thing, not '^teatized bv many of the people adno'-trm^, the plan. It is .Social ism. The only difference between it and the recognized iyr^ is that it is applied only in war-time. Mcdern warfare drives nation* into Socialism. And if they really get the war habit. tb*y may nor go back to individualism, at all when wars end. T>>most Ameri cans tttiF i-howld be. one of the strongest of all arguments against war. -.m ? ? THE BKSrO.VDK.VT BOT _ _ _ *? Some people who have heard of the suicide of the high school boy who became despondent from read ing l.es Miserables -and mediiating on deep philosophical problems have felt that it ? indicated that deep reading, was bad". .Cor young people. The boy left a note in which he said" that after consider ing such <ju?est4one as-'whether there is any Ood. how the world was made, the?? struggle for existence, the survival of the fittest, man's right to take the life of another being, and so on; he acquired the. feeling that the world could get on as well without him. so he left it. Teachers or parents of more nor mal children of adolescent age! will rise as one and say that it was j not the philosophy alone which up- j set the boy. The chances are that | it wass improper food or Lack ef i outdoor exercise or both. The boy] is said to have been "a model stu- j dent"?which to any experienced! adult means thai be was an ahn or-I mal boy. Had he played on the j team, gone on hikes, and bacon j bats with the bunch and gotten fuP j enough of fresh air and physical | tiredness to sleep of nights, the j chances are that no philosophical j reading could have done more than j given his-mind' a little extra -punch, j A little frivolity sweetens up Darwin, a little tramping in woods and -fields put* an infinite spirit in to the universe and sound sleep has ? way of solving the mental tangles. pig New Features Added to Colossus Rjngling Bros., and Bamrnn I &.Beafey Bras Entire Sbip ? load of :Ne**l?es From Made even more tremendous J than iE iS>i\ by the recent addi- j tion of many more trained wild j animal displays and the purchase] of Europe's biggest horse shew, j Bringing Brothers and Bornum i-i Bailey combined will exhibit at Co- j lumbia October 27th. All who glance ov?r the coble i news or who read the magazines, must have noted the many contracts j entered into by the Binglimc Broth- ; ers for foreign talent last winter.\ A special ship was chartered this; spring to bring the hundreds ci hu- j man performers, trained mimal,; a?:ts and equine, displays to Amer-i ica. More thaji a million persons! .-aw the mammoth new circus t f! 1522 during the weeks that it ex- j hibited" in Madison Square Carde::. j X.ew York. Xow this marvelou? j exhibition is touring the country \ aboard five grea: railroad trains. | It is a third bigger than the Bing ling Brothers and Barnum & ; Bailey show of las* season.. It is j ten times larger than any other j circus now on tour. Big as is this wonder circus of 1.922^-with its more than twenty! trained wild animal displays in \ steel arenas, fully 15o wonderfully schooled trick horses. 7*b? men and women performers. 14*0 clowns,' and scores-of features?the price of admission is no more than be- j fore. And tbough tbe trained ani mal numbers and the immnese horse show were, circuses in them-! selves while touring Europe, they are not offered as separate attrac tions by the Bingliug Brothers and Barney ?vr Bailey combined shows. Instead all are on one gigantic pro gram. Everything is in one main-] moth uuiiu tent. One ticket ad-j mit? to all and includes admission bo tremendous double menagerie. There are more than a thousand ^ animals in the zoo of this circus a-nd thes?r include a tiny baby hippopotamus only recently born, and accompanied by its three-ton; toother. Another remarkable zoo-' logical feature is an armored, rhin oeerous, the only one known to; exist and for which the Ringlings recently refused au offer of $gu, ? p * I^eds. England; Oct. 21 (By the! Associated Press j.?David Lloyd' iUortre. the retiring Prime Minis ter, speaking at the great meeting' of coaJition imperials this after noon declared tbe "hannrr of. par ty strife" liad been hoisted at the; recent meeting of conservatives at the Carlion Club which voted against e***vtfwnt??: the -coalition. ' >m m m Adr?"atiopie.. Oct. 'I'l <By the As sociates Press).)?The exodus oi refugee* throughout the territory occupied by French detachments has shown increased disorder in the past 4* hour4. The moving eol umns are r^peatedy blocked by the frantiq effort*; of the refugees to j accelerate the pace as well :.t be. new columns arriving from v-c> j roads or across the fields. - I Darlington. 0<?. 27.- ,\r Mrs.; Johnson, accompanied by her three ? daughters. Misses Aha. Myrtle and . Hertha, and Johnny Jiatehell. was returning from the Pee Dee fair in Florence last night in a touring car. they were wrecked by the j reckless driving of an unknown liogr? man. in coupe. The coupe was being driven on the wrong ."ide of the r??ad and at break- < neck epeed. and hit the touring car head on. Both cars were.al-: mozt completely demolished. SHAW RESISTS ! IM ?T PAROLE j Anderson Man Re sorts to Habeas Cor pus Proceedings to Keep From Going B?ck to Prison I Columbia,' Oct. 2.1.?Governor ; Harvey's ire arose wli^n legal pro ceedings were started in Anderson to prevent his suspension of a ! parole. and the governor, he an nounced t?>day had -instructed So licitor. Leon Karris, of Anderson, over the telephone, to protect the state's interests in the case, that ' I of Reed Shaw, of Anderson.'whose ; I habeas corpus . proceedings were i f scheduled for argument Monday, j ; The solicitor was instructed to see; : to it that no stone was, left un-! [turned in presenting the srovernor'.- : jside of the case. j Shaw was paroled by a former j i governor, the condition being! I good behavior.". Shaw is charged; I with having recently viola ted the j condition, and on September 2S his parole was revoked by Governor j Harvey, the governor having re-! I reived reports that Shaw has been j violating the. law, A few days-ago j he was re-arrested, on the govern- : ! or's orders, as he was about to | board a train at Greenwood. He ,! was tabeu to Anderson, and the] governor then ordered Sheriff Majr,- ? rett. of Anderson, to bring him to i Columbia. The sheriff was pre- j vented from doing this when ooun- ; sei for Shaw served habeas corpus ? papers on him. The. case was set ! for today. The governor takes the position | I that the parole, a function of the j chief magistrate, was conditioned ! on the man's good behavior. The > parole issued from the governor's j ! office, the condition was fixed by > the chief magistrate's act: the dn-; ration was left to. the determina-i tion of ,the governor: the revoea- . Tion was within the governor's au- | thority. Governor Harvey contend". , j "If this proceeding is to stand." ' (the governor stated, "ft will mean j 'in effect a new trial for the man j land will take the law enforce- j? ment phase of the case out of the I executive's hands and put it back i on the courts. If the governor is I not to have authority to act in con- j ' nection with his paroles, then, |there is something wrong with the j ! criminal law of the state." j Governor Harvey takes -he po- ; jsition that numerous other offi- i jCials have takeja in re.oem months. \ jthat there are outstanding defects ] |in the criminal law of the state and j j these need "ironing -out." The j governor will probably have ?eme ; I recommendations to make to the j j legislature regarding amendments S to the laws, to take out some of j |the kinks, such, for example, as the 1 i 'various methods by which a coo-; i victed criminal may appeal from: |court decisions, and thus mdefi- ! jnitely postpone the administration \ | of justice. AUTO ACCIDENT * IN GEORGIA | ?,?i?- -. ? ; ' j Macon. Ca.. Oct. ?n.?Adjt. Gen. j J. Van Holl Xash. one. of the best known military mep in Georgia, and Lieut.. H. M. Butler of Atlan-! jta. were killed at S:30 o'clock to-1 night when an automobile in' jWhieh they were riding turned iturtle four and a hah miles from, I Griffin. Adjutant General Nosh's i. j neck was broken and he died in a; jOriffin hospital. Maj. Charles Cox. commander of; the Atlanta battalion, sustained a ', I broken collar bone and broken 'ribs. Lieut." H. A. Heins, driving the , ear. is said to have been only slight ly injured. Members of the party were re turning home from a barbecue giv en by Maj. G. E. MaPett and offi-, cers of the 'Jackson rifle company. [ to members of the Georgia Infao i try Officers' association. Officers', ;from all over.Georgia were in at 1 tendance. , ^vs tne autopiob;le in which the Xash party was -riding struck an pnpaved reeci?m of the highway: ;the driver of the car is believed to jj j have, lost control of the machine. : and it plunged over an embank- h :merit, turning Turtle. .] Maj. G. K. Mallet and other of-:, j fleers went to the scene of the ae-L jeident and front there to Griffin.!. jGa.. late tonight to conduct an of - \ , fkial investigation of the accident. ! j Meantime. Mrs. Xash wa.x carried ;; .from ?? Atba.ua to Griffin in an au- jj 'temofeUe. The bodies of her hns- , I bann and of Lieutenant Butler will j be returned to Atlanta in the early jnorning it was learned here. ; Jacksonville, Fla.. Oct. 23.?'fuel, reports of heavy damage in the S' everglades section as the result of', ltoods. riu?- to excessive rains with- !j in the last few weeks, "are gros.-? , ; exaggerations," according to Cob \\ <\. A. Youngberg. United .States army t-yi^inevr in charge of the ?Florida. district, who two weeks ago j : personally inspected a large part of ^ the flooded areas, and who i> re-'. IceJving?daily reports on the situa-i l.vion in the territory. London. Oct. 23.?Unless some.', unforeseen developments occur, ] Andrew Bo/tar Law will before the'j day end.-?. he the prime minister of !. Great Britain. Arrangements have already been made for a conserva- ' . live party meeting at the Hotel { CecJ!? The announcement of th* + composition of the new ministry j and de.-laraiion of the govern- t ( meat'.: pro-rani may. according to j ifa? latest information, le deferred until Thursday. Three-mile Limit Mearts ?ll Ships To Come in 'Bdiie Dry* Last Stein and Decanter to Be Emptied Before Vessel Crosses One Whieh Sepa rates Wet From Dry Territory- 0. Washington, Oct. 22.?Ocean steamers which sailed from, for eign .ports tod.ay for the I'nited States faced the necessity of care fully computing the .amount of al coholic beverages on hoard, against the mileage shown, hy . the ship's daily log. The last stein and de canter must be emptied before the ship crosses The three-mile line marking the accepted limit of American maritime jurisdiction, un der an Interpretation of the pro hibition laws which became effec tive at 3 2.01 o'clock this . morning. Fleets of nine companies are temporarily exempt from operation, of the law. by rea:<on of injunction proceedings pending before Feder al Judge Hand in New York, and will be permitted to 4-nter with their wet goods safely sealed under the system which prevailed, before Attorney Oeneral Daugherty ruled ihat the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead Act applied to American "territory" as a whole, and hot only to the continental terra firma. The nine "exempt" lines in cludes two American companies? the International Mercantile . Ma rine and the .United American line ?and seven registered under for eign flags?the Cunard-Ancbor White Star. French. International Navigation. Holla nd-American. Scandinavian-American and the lioyai Steam -Packet. Tbey have; sought permanent injunctions against the enforcement of the j law. on the ground that Mr. I Daugherty went .further than the i author*-; of the statute and amend- : ment intended, or. if he did not err; in this respect, then the act itself! was illegal in scope. ! All other ships come within the i law's meaning set forth by the At-' ?ornrv CJenf.rnl and approved -by; President Harding. Officials here were confident that: the forthcoming decision of Judge ' Hand would serve to temporarily j clear the atmosphere. Begardlessj of its nature an appeal will be' taken to the supreme court. Secretary Mellon, is expected to . give approval tomorrow to regula- j tions formulated by the prohibition j bureau for guidance of customs* and prohibition authorities along) I he coasts. 'j The regulations are expected irr limit the activities of. the **3ry navy" to the three-mile zone except1 irj cases of ships which have il- i legally established contact with j the shore while themselves outside I the zone. Several cases involving! this poinr already-are engaging the! attention of the. While House and: State Department, notably that of* the Canadian schooner Emerald, I which whs recently seized eight! miles oft" New York. : ; The British embassy has made1! an issue of the Emerald seizure,! contending tha*. there was no evi- j dence to show that she was in' touch with American , territory.! The prohibition agents at New York j assert that they came upon the; ship while small boats from the., shore were engaged iu transferring! her liquor cargo, and that this was* sufficient to warrant her detention.; A more complete report Iras l>een asked by the state department. Legion Position Causes Chagrin I Washington. Oct. 22.^In srder'j that their positions might be mis- I taine<l. those who supported :he j bonus bill in the house and senate .J indirectly, in some instances, and! directly in others, .urged the Ame.rri ican Legion, in its New Orleans j convention, to condemn those whoj opposed the bonus, and President j Harding who vetoed it. Today, these m embers of con- ? gress are outraged- For the lesion j refused to support them in return\ f?M* their support of the demands j of the legion. Democratic me**!-' hers are especially .chagrined, bot j they not only wanted :he. leg:oa toj pay them a compliment, but wanted j the legion, also. to.condemn the; Harding administration. ... Congressional bonus advocates,.] who a re i n Wa shi ngt o n, a re say-1 Ing quietly today that the legion i has left them in a most embarrass-. Lng situation. The legion has giv- j pn indication that it was not asj deeply concerned with the horns as j rongressmen thought it to be, and j so declared. It is taken for grant- j F-d here that the legion did not pre- j tend to stand sponsor for those! members who voted for bonus, j but lacked the courage to devise j new forms of taxation-with which j to pay it. The report in Washington, seeni-j ignly well established, is that :he| legion, iu another session of con- j irress. will renew the fight for a j bonus; but will insist that tho<e who] clamor for the soldiers, pre pari aj hill which the president will sign?I rule that carries machinery for the. payment of its own cost. Those who attended the legion | meeting at New Orleans are s:id to j have secretly criticised those svtioj passed a bill which they knew in! idvaucr ti?e president would v? to. Every Democrat should arrange :?? vote in ihr general election; fuesday. November 7th. Re,mem- j l?<-r th? date ami make no other j. [)bins for that day. It is a duty tc r rote for the nominees of the party. |< Few bootlegger.-? go to jail or doj.; lime on the gang when they have! he option of paying a fine. Th-\ M seem to have little difficulty in ; ending a hundred or two dollurs to-U ?ay a Line. j These cold snaps will soon give|? ;cUardi c. long wanted twang. i LEGION DISLIKES SAWYER President's Personal j Physician Who W.?s\ Boosted into Pr?m-j inence Sieverelyj Criticised ; Xew Orleans,. Oct. 1:1 (By thej Associated Press).?The- American; Legion after A long business ses-j xion. in which a resolution was; adopted .criticising severely Brig-j adier Central Sawyer in spite of! the. protest of the legion's. hospi- ; talizntinn commissioner. A. A. ! Sprague of Chicago, tonight enter-i mined Gen. John J. Pershing. head ? of the army in France, and madej last minute preparations for the j contest tomorrow for the election 1 of its national officers. Out of the names ?f candidates j for. the national commandership ^V.illiam F. Deegan of New York] and Alvin M. Owsley of Denton,! Texas, stood forth most promi- \ nentjy. if the gossip of the lobbies! and committee rooms was any.in-j dication. . Both assert confidence that; their campaigns will be successful.) ieitheji man had anything fur- j ther to add early tonight to pro-1 nuncio memoes, already made pub-j lie as to his stand on legion poli- j oies. Owsley in his report as headj of the legion's Americanization j commission had laid stress upon what he termed the necessity for' "100 per cent. Americanism." to tal exclusion of immigrants troral this country for an indefinite per' riod. correction of alleged defi- ? cie.ficies in textbooks dealing with i the war in such manner that the t Germans have been giiren too fa-! vorable a report. Deegan has chosen as his princi-' pal policy continuation of the bo-; nfcp tight. . . . . Both indorse the policy and the record of Hanford MaoXider, the' present commander. Matthew Murphy, of Binning- ! ham. Ala., whose name was sug-! gested several days ago by Milton; J. Foreman of Chicago as a prom- j ising candidate, ; had practically j withdrawn from the race tonight, j ,, Another name which continues! To be discussed is that of Joseph { F. Thompson. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., j a .former state commander .of :thel Region in that state. j . 'It was hinted tonight that a j resolution calling for definite ac.- i tion in behalf of universal peace} might be introduced tomorrow by j legionnaires who also, are mem- j bors of the Interallied Veterans' federation. '? Although the Interallied. Veter- ? ans formally concluded their con vention Monday, an executive eorn-'v miuee. of the organization em-; powered by the convention to take ? what action h deemed expedient! toward forwarding world peace hasj beep in session here all day today, i and is expected to make a state-] mejit shortly covering its position.] The resolution attacking and de manding the removal of Brigadier! General Sawyer, President Hard-! ing's personal physician, from.thej post of chief coordinator of the; federal hospimfixation board, was! adopted by the convention by a ' vote of f>oi to 37S. . ..Maj. A. A. Sprague of Chicago.; mentioned as a .candidate for the; position of national commander.' vainly tried to stem the tide against Dr. Sawyer. . Sprague precipitated 1 the issue several weeks ago by a; bitter attack on Sawyer, but; pleaded today whh the. convention | to give Dr. Sawyer "a chajice," ,on' the latter's recent promise of co-1 operation with the legion's rehabili tation committee. The suggestion by Delegate Bett-, man of Ohio, that a repudiation of; Dr.; Sawyer would hurt..the cause' of the disabled veterans and make; President Harding "sore" . was! greeted with hoots and jeers min gled, with applause. jiepudiation of Dr. Sawyer came, in the form .of an amendment to1 the report of the rehabilitation j committee which report was even ' more conservative in tone than! had been expected, and carried i the recommendation that . "the; American. Legion accept for the} time being the pledge of coopera- I tion given by Brigadier General Sawyer in the hope that il wih! be carried out by htm in a spirit ; ns well as in the letter." Slate Commander Barron of*| Minnesota presented the substitute resolution attacking General Saw- j yer and demanding his removal. , It follows in part: "Whereas, although four years j have elapsed sin.ee the signing of; the armistice and vast sums have heen appropriated by congress for; the hospitalization or sick and dis-! uhled veterans suffering without : hospital eare or in state or. con-. tract hospitals or in unlit govern ment hospitals, and "Whereas, in many cases more]: [ban one year has elapsed be- , tween the date of congressional j appropriation and the selection of;; ?it es for new hospitals while many jf the men for whom euch hos- i pita Is wer? intended have died fur ih>- lack of proper treatment, and. ?'Whereas, the director of the;, ["hited Stales veterans' bureau has -s made commendable efforts to get i hese hospitals completed while* here is yet hope of saving many I >f the veterans in need of them; md. - . . p "Whereas, Brig. (Jen. Charles E. i ?awyer has hampered tb?- efforts of ? 1 be director of i he veterans* bu-;< eau to accomplish tbis result andj.t 1 * * has repeatedly made publicji ?uu-ements which c?n only, belt construed t?? mean that he is more$-1 nteretted in economy than in sav-U School Money -Wasted by Parents Average Attendance of White School Children Last Year Was 66 Per Cent Columbia, Oe:. 21.?The need of: educated, well-paid, strong-mind-, ed men in the office of the county j superintendent of education in j every- county: the need o? better j teachers^ better educated and more j competent teachers;. the, need, of double-daily school sessions, that more supervision, of study may be ' accomplished; .the necessity for! more rigid promotion and gradu-1 ation standards; more supervised! teaching .. and more supervised play.: the need of longer school terms in many school districts; the *eed of more regular attendance, j and the need of more industrial; education are matters stressed inj the annual report .of the state ru-1 ral school supervisor. DJ L? Lewis, j made public here Saturday. Mr. Lewis reports, that the av-1 erage attendance of white chil-; dren during the school year which ended last June was 6? per cent! Vit means the people are throw-! ing a.way one^third of their school! taxes, levied to educate children who are not regularly, in school," Mr. Lewis says. Mr. Lewis comments on the fact that country schools have made splendid advancement due to tbe: lengthening of school terms iu many parts of the state:;. Seven months is the average, where for merly it was five month*. H-e urges that .all schools endeavor to; length-, en their terms as well as to length* en the school day, and to have tevo' sessions daily. - , .. j In favor of industrial education. I Mr. Lewis says it is the duty ot\ parents to help banish from the j minds of pupils the idea that-man-} ual labor is degrading, fie brings-j out the fact that manual training ! aids in mental development, going] hand in hand with literary instruc- j tion. . . * I . The report also urges that the j legislature strive to arrive at voroe! solution of the tax problem, that! the state aid for schools might be j so appropriated as to prevent any "going back" in these times of. stress, but rather greater pro-: gress in the rural school system. [ He also urges that the legislature;, etop the violation of law on the] part of certain sections, in creating ^ school districts that are smaller [ than the minimum allowed by law. He urges further that , women be velected to serve on school boards. wherever possible. ing the olives of the men who gavej their beal'h to their country *-.-* *l and. has shown himself by speech; and action ip be temperamentally unfit for the position which he holds and for the. responsibilities which he exercises, therefore bei it . "Resolved, That the American j Legion *of the. United. States of ! America in convention assembled demands the removal of Brig Gen. Charles E. Sawyer from the ppsty of chief coordinator of the ied- ' eral hospitalization board." vWashington,. Oct.. ? (By thel Associated .Press).?Incidents at! Xew Orleans, which resulted .in the ? departure from that city .yesterday 1 of Director Forbes of the .veter ans* bureau without having deliv ered the address, he - had . planned to make before the American Le-j gion convention, apparently are re-f garded as closed by Mr. Forbes. - who returned today , to-.his desk at h the bureau.... b The director had no comment i to make in explanation, of his .fail- j i ure <o address, the .legion. It was; learned. .however, that he left with | the local representatives- of thel bureau in Xew Orleans a copy, of \ his. prepared speech in which he had planned to discuss the gov- j ernment;* . policy in the matters ? relating .to veterans of the.-war..L' In this connection it, became I: knowH that, Mr;. Forbes discussed j: Iiis .plans . for. the. New Orleans Jj visit with friends in administra- i tion circles here and they thor- *-. oughly approved of. it at the time ? he left Washington. They explain ed today that Colonel Forbes was } prompted to make the trip, only ' by the most sincere . intention , to bring about by . personal contact, a^ closer.relationship and. spirit of co- f, operation between the bureau and j the veterans assembled at the convention which would work to i the mutual advantage of the gov- ! ernment and the. world war men in i3 solving questions between them, \ It also wae explained that Col. Forbes had been invited by Han- \ ford MacXider, national command- i er of the legion, and other offi- jt cials of the veterans' organization J: to. attend and address the conven- h lion. At the time the invitation wasj ace?-pted.. Director Forbes, himself!! a member of the legion and said j: to be, intensely interested in its | welfare, discussed his plans with ' the legion officials, and. it was said. ; they heartily approved of his plans. \. Brigadier General Sawyer, in {"? charge of the government's soldier !i hospital program, likewise declined tonight to comment on the pro gram at New Organs. He receiv ed news of the resoluiton asking for* his removal without indicating that he intended to make any! public reply. ? i _ i Xew Orleans. Oct. 2*5. ? The. ]? fourth annual convention of the j American Legion will conclude its j sessions late today, following the] presentation of reports of several ;? ?onimiitees and the election of of- | ticers. 6 After the night spent in caucuses, i which served only to complicate; the possibilities cl* the outcome, I he friends of the various candi-j; lates tor national commander of : the Legion .continued their efforts-1; n behalf of their choice, causingfi the statement to be made, that ! he come?*: ie the moat intense to j Liegion's history* . PARACHUTE SAVED AVIATOR Lieut Harris Jumped From Falling Airplane and Escaped Death Dayton. Ohio. Or-?. 2A (By the j Associated Press).?Presence of mind of Lienr. H. R. Harris, .chief i of the. flying section at McCook field probably saved his life today when be unstrapped his parachute and leaned from his falling air plane. He landed in a grape ar-j hor in the yard of the home of ] Daniel Barres and his ship crash- ; ed to earth, eompjerely wrecked i in the yard of William Clingman. nearhy. It was the first time an air ser- ! vice pilot lias been saved in such I a manner, according to officials | at the field. The arbor into which j Jjeauenant Harris dropped .gav* f way and he fell to .<. cement Wallt. He was badly bruised and scratch ed and was removed to. the Mc Cook field hospital, where physi cians reported his condition not serious. Scores of north Dayton citizens witnessed the accident and saw the? plane plunge to earth. Mrs. Cora ; Billings said she was standing, hi] the street, near her home talking] to a neighbor "when she heard a, loud crack. j , "Looking up I saw the machine ' falling. Pieces of the wings, J broken -oft", fluttered downward. A; moment later I saw the parachute i dropping ? then it opened . up i gradually and floated dowa." Clingman and his six year old? son. Thomas, had been working in ? the .back yard a few minutes be fore the pkxne fell. Mrs. Clingman i heard the crash and tinkling.of! glass as the windows ?f her hon?'? were, broken and jhought her has- ? band and son had been buried un der .the plane. .. , She fainted. j McCook. field officials immediate- I Iy started an investigation- The ac-: cident is beiieved to have been j caused by a weak wing support.: The plane was thrown into a nose j dive ax a height of about 504 feet, j Harris realized he was too near; the earth to right the machine and : took the only avenue of escape, in] jumping. ! Harris won the light commercial j plane event in the aeronautical j races at Detroit last week. m ? m , . j One Bootlegger Comes to Grief, j J. W. Capers., of Paxville, was; picked up Saturday morning by the j police with a gallon and a_ half of! moonshine in his possession, and j' was at. once .placed..on trial in the j recorder's court. Capers was con- j' victed on two counts, transporting i and having-liquor in his possession., j The sentence imposed was $7S ory thirty days on each count.. Capers; first told Chief Barwick that he was j bringing the liquor to a friend*, who i had asked him last week to.get him i some, liquor at the first opportttn- *1 ity. He said he bought the liquor i from another man. that he did not i niake whiskey himself, and ? was;; merely bringing it- to town.-to ac- j. co'mmodate a friend. He claimed j1 to be u nable .to remember the name of his thirsty friend.. , When called on to tell Judge. [' Harby where he got the.liquor he j: had -a different story ready. Be j said he just happened to. see the , jug. under some hushes by the side j, of the road, -as he was coming to , town Saturday morning, and that V! he put it in the back, of his buggy,-t thinking the owner would come to J him . and get it. when he arrived in |3 Sumter.- Capers' stories were ?aotj convincing- so he. was declared; guilty. He is sojourning in- the guard house while awaiting the ar-! rival of Paxville friends with funds -j ] to pay his fine, aggregating $150. \] ?:.,:?.?>.??.?? . |i W. .T. Capers of Paxville, whoii was convicted in the\. Recorder's j. Court Saturday of transporting li-; 3 r'.uoi\ and; sentenced to sixty days on the chatngang or pay $150 i fine. was.released Saturday after-] noon upon the payment of $1O0J the remainder, of the fine being sus- j pended during good behavic-r? lt ! Now smoked by a million mm who love a superior cigarette MURDER IN u ? ?IKEN eOUNT?; Chief of Police of Wagener Fa ? tally Sfeot by Ngero Aikem Oer. 2A.~I,uke R?gen?, chief of police at Wagener in ASken county, was . shot and perhaps fe> lally wounded by Murray Quattle baum. a. negro, this morning!. Bog- ? ers is in: a critical condition. -Thfe \ negro made bis escape and at ia^st reports was hiding in a swamp near Wagener. Posses; of armed men are search-\", ing for him. The shootingoccnr: rf red at the Quattlebaum negro's .?! brother, - a .few t mites, from, trie | town of Wagener. The brother was wanted on a minor charge and Chief Bogera * went to the home after procarmg. a . warrant from Magistrate Gar via to make the arrest. Murray Quauiebaum was there and when Chief Rogers appeared wKh\'< a constable,- his brother, asked that- . the warrant he read. tAs the .offi cer rrns reading the paper. Mar ray Quattlebaum stepped a few feet away snatched . up a shotgun \ a nd fl red upon Mr. Rogers, the f load entering the officer's side/ Mr. Bogers was hurried to a hosr : pital in Columbia, but physicians who attended him at Wagener en tertain little hope for his recovery. Dashing out of the house in tbe? . midst of the confusion, the nssgro . made hU way to the swamps near by,, stilt armed ? with - the weapon > he had. Used oh the bfllcer: . Sheriff Howard with' his- depp- j ties went immediately to the scene \ and the sheriff is in charge of tile [ situation. Wagener, Oct. 20,?Murray Quai llebauui. who possibly fatally shot Luk e Rogers, c*hie f of .police, ea riy , today, surrendered tonight anpy*as ; taken to the j?il in -Alken; ?uat- >t tlebaum took refuge in a swainp |, near Wagener after the shooting,.; | Barbecue at IlajTGod. There will be. a barbecue' anti^ r hot supper at the Hagoodde?ool t house, on Friday evening,,* ?e?ob- ! er :27th. Governor-elect MeLeqd ; will make an address. FOR SALE-^-New 'line of hats in velvet, felt, duvetyn: novelty* ? line just received. Also oma- ? ments for dresses. Come if you need anything in my line. Mrs. C..W. McGtew, N. Magnolia and. Myrtle Sts.,: ' ? . v INDICATIONS FP^?HY QF YOVfi C0NSIDIKATI0N Our large Capital Stock ana Surplus indicate our AM?ty. Large Loans and Discounts?<ror LtberaHty. Large Deposits?the Peoples* Satisfaction with oar Servic* and Confidence in our Protection. . We offer you our Service and Protection *nd want your Account. The National Bank of South Carolina The Bank With the Chime Clock. ' C. G. Rowland, Pres. Earle Rowland, Cashier TEN YEARS HENCE WILL YOU BE PROSPERING in BUSINESS or LOOKING FOR A JOB ? IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE STARTED TO SAVE. First National Bank of Sumter