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'PROPAGANDA OF LIES" Charleston Navy Yard Re quired For National Defense Young Teddy Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, now and again exhibits flashes of the pater nal form. A recent incident is in point. While Secretary Denby was in Japan, and while Roosevelt was working out economies in the ad ministration of the navy depart ment, he determined to close up the "purely political navy yard at Charleston, South Carolina. That, as the country will recall, is the yard which old^Ben Tillman forced j upon the country when he wast chairman of the senate committee' on naval affairs during the first Wi/son "administration. To make a channel to the yard it was nec essary to alter the . landscape ma terially. At great expense a con siderable area of land was elimi nated. This was all to the good from the Daniels standpoint, since the more money spent in south, better. Young Roosevelt's pro posal ttTshut up the Charleston yard soon encountered negative action on the part of the senators from South Carolina. They in duced ten of their associates? making an even dozen in all?to sign a round robin declaring that they would oppose with their in- \ fluence and. their votes the presi- i dent's ship subsidy 'bill if the Charleston yard was closed, unless the government at the same time should also close some* northern navy yard. They took this threat ?to Lasker chairman of the ship ping board. lasker is the field agent of the ship subsidy proposal. He carried the paper to the White House, and very shortly thereafter Roosevelt received formal and written instructions from his com mander-in-chief to cancel the plan for dismantling the Charleston yard. Of course, Roosevelt was peeved. Especially he resented Lasker's part in the affir. Orders being orders, he-obeyed?but tech nically rather than in spirit. For immediately he exercised the pow er of the department and with- i drew all ships from Charleston,; leaving the yard with nothing to do. | A few days thereafter Secretary Denby came home, and being more" subservient, reversed his young as sistant's policy, but not in an of fensive way. Adroitly he brought about the creation of a board of j naval officers to make a new study! of navy yard needs, preserving, the! exfsting status.?San Francisco j Argonaut. The foregoing is typical of the j propaganda of^lies disseminated in ] relation to the Charleston Navy \ yard. Did young Teddy Roosevelt ex- ' hibit "flashes of the paternal j form ?" His father established the : yard. ; j Is It the yard 4*which old Ben j Tillman forced^ upon the country! when he was chirman of the sen- j ate committee on naval affairs dur- ' ing the first Wilson administra-! .tion ?" j The yard was authorized in 1901, i Theodore Roosevelt being president I of the United States. Senator Kale, j of Maine, was chairman of the' senate committee on naval affairs; ; Mr. Long, of Massachusetts, was! secretary of the navy and both ! Houses' 'of congress were. Republi- : can. It was established on the j recommendation of the Rogers j board, composed of some of thej ablest officers in the navy after ex- j haustive' study. It would be strange j if the Republican party had put a! $-20.000.000 navy yard in Charles- j ton, S. C, for political reasons. "To make a channel to the yard j It was necessary "to alter the land-: stcape materially." The yard is on j the west bank of a broad river. J There is a clear channel of 30 feet j of water to the open sea and* the to tal sum ever spent on the river was $175,000. So much for the facts. They show that the Argonaut's misin formation was complete. | For years the British believed in ; centralization of navy yards. About; 1$05 this policy was changed, and! one result was the construction of j the base at Rosslyn., There, in the north of Scotland, the Great Fleet' wats maintained during the world ; war and it is not too much to say that Rossiyn was a mighty factor in ! the final victory of the allies. Be- j tween Hatteras and Panama, the j United States has but one yard? i that at Charleston. There are six north of Hatteras, a distance of less than thousand miles. Would it be statesmanship or recklessness to abandon that one yard, the effi ciency of which has never been challenged ? There have been some naval of- j Seers who verbally criticised the ! Charleston yard, but very few, if j any, have never dared to put such j opinions in writing and stake their! professional reputations on a ver- j diet that the yard is unnecessary. I No, indeed, for to do so would be 1 to combat the opinion of the master 1 strategist and naval writer. Ad mir- \ al Mahan, and the best authorities ; the naval profession has produced. ? Of the various navy yards in the. country, the Charleston yard be- ; yond all others is the one that ex- | ists in spite of political pressure, i Political opponents put it there be- ? cause the national defense so re quired. The security of the nation demands that it be kept there.? j Manufacturers Record. Sumter Hardwood Co.. Chartered. Columbia. Nov. 9.?The Sumter Hardwood Co., of Sumter, has been chartered by the secretary of state.1 The capital stock is $100,000. C. F. i Korn is president and treasurer: : F. H. Korn is vice president; J. E. Logan is secretary. - Long hair, they say, is coming in style fast. Then hairdressers are not asleep at the switch. , EPISCOPAL EDUCATION FUND Two and a Half Million Dollars to Be Spent on Education al Projects New York, Nov. 6.?Upwards of two and one-half million of dollars will be spent by the Episcopal church on educational projects during the next three years accord ing to plans which are announced in connection with the Every Member Canvass of the member ship of the church on November 26th. The triennial budget which was adopted by the recent general convention at Portland, Oregon, provides for an expenditure of $12,600,000 on missionary, educa tional and social work to which the church is already committed. To this budget the convention add-, ed a forward program involving an additional expenditure of $8,400. 000, of which over $2,000,000 will be spent on designated education- I al projects in this country. Un?er the forward program, the church for the first time ac knowledges its corporate obligation toward the five distinctly Episco pal colleges?Kenon, Hobart, the University of the South, Trinity and St. Stephens; for each of which an item of $10,000 is included in the budget, while the forward pro gram also includes items of many hundreds of thousands for increas ed equipment, new buildings, etc. for these five institutions. Sim- j iiarly, in addition to providing for St. John's and the other universi ties and colleges which the church maintains in China and Japan, and its schools in the Philippines,.! Mexico, and continental United j States, including the twelve normal! and industrial schools which are maintained in the south by the American Church Institute for Ne groes, plans are outlined for the creation of other new schools and the enlargement and develop ment of existing schools in the va rious dfoceses throughout the country. i, Plans for a vast broadening of Episcopal activities at the great state and national secular universi ties have also been formulated. At 55 of these, new churches and community houses will be erected, or existing plants will be enlarged and workers will be located for special work among the under graduates. Additional sums are provided for scholarships for can-, didates for the ministry, for week day religious instruction of public school children, for summer class es, for church boarding schools, etc. A bulletin issued in connection with the forward program calls at tention to the fact that 37,000,000, of the young people of the country "are receiving no systematic in struction in the moral and relig ious sanctions on which our demo cratic institutions rest. The last j thing that the average American! would be willing to confess, says the i bulletin, "is that America is a Godless" country, or that she is de- ? veloping a wholly irreligious pop-j uiation. From the highest to the i lowest we piously take our oaths j upon the Bible, we have chaplains for our religious bodies, but of the teachings of Christ involving the ideals of brotherhood and of re sponsibility to God, we have but lit tle knowledge. These 37,000,000 young people will be the fathers and the grandfathers that will j make America, their sons and < grandsons will teach other sons] and grandsons. Are we to go on ; Godless and careless? Do we think | for one minute that we will not! pay in a material way for our neg- J lect of these children of today?" i The. bulletin declares that the church must face the problem. No financial drive is contemplated for securing the funds necessary to realize the church's plan con templated in this $21,000,000 triennial program. The appeal will be made to the members and ad herents of the Episcopal church alone, the campaign of instruction to this end being now under way. On November 26th the Every Mem ber Canvass will be conducted, in the course of which every listed | member of the church in rural sec tions and mountain districts as well as in all the cities and towns of the country will be visited per sonally by canvassers, and be asked j to pledge by weekly, monthly or yearly payment what he or she | feels able to contribute towards I realizing the $6,000,000 necessary! for the plans for 1923. - Women's Mission ary Union j Baptist Women Meet in Co lumbia in Annual Con vention Columbia, Nov. 8.?The annual state convention of the Woman's | Missionary Union of the Baptist! church is in session in Columbia, i The final session will be held j Thursday evening. Election of of ficers will come Thursday after noon. Several hundred women are attending. The first session was held Tues day night, with a pageant by young people, "World's Comradeship at Home and Abroad." The pageant i was arranged by Mrs. George E. \ Davis, Mrs. W. J. Hatcher and Miss Azile Wofford. One of the principal addresses' Wednesday was delivered by Miss Juliette Mather, young people's sec retary of the Southern Missionary j Union, her address being in be-1 half of the Missionary Union Aux iliary. Another address of Wed nesday was by Dr. C. E. Burts, of Columbia, executive secretary of! the denomination in South Caro- j lina. Our idea of misery is to hear a brass band when they are just learning to play the Star SpangleJ Banner. j Sees Prosperity j Era For Country : Comptroller of Currency Cris ! singer Comments on Bank Resources I _ Washington, Nov. 5.?All "chan nels of commerce now appear to be active" and "there is every reason for the expectation that we are I now at the beginning of an era of prosperity." Comptroller of the Currency Crissinger declared to night, in making public an analysis of the September 15 condition of national banks. As compared with September, last year, Mr. Crissinger reported an increase in the total resources of the national banks of more than $1,000,000,000 and an increase of deposits of more than $2,000,000, 000. Continued improvement in the condition of national banks of. the country as reflected in the Sep- I tember reports, Mr. Crissinger de-j clared, shows "that our national: banks have very m a t er i al 1 y strengthened their condition dur ing the past year and are now in a better position to respond to the financial needs of our industries than at any time since the begin ning of the deflation period." Total resources of the national banks September 15 agggregated j $20,923,0'jy.000, an increase of; $220,089,000 since June, 1922, and! an increase of $1,206,919,000 since j September, last year. Loans and i discounts and rediscounts amount ed to $11,230,000,000, a decrease of $12,000,^00 since June, and a decrease of $440,000,000 since September, 1921. Cash on hand to talled $332,000,000, an increase of near $6,000,000 since June, but a decrease of more than $25,000,000 since September a year ago. Hold-! ings of United States government j securities aggregated $2,402,000,000 . an increase of $117,000,000 since; June, and an increase of $540,000,-1 000 since September, last year, j while other bonds and stocks held j amounted to $2,289,000,000, an in crease of nearly $12,000,000 since! June, and an increase of $316,-j 000,000 since September last year.! The total deposits in the nat- j ional banks aggregated $16,598,-1 000.000 in September, an increase, ojf $278,000.000 since June, and an: increase of $2,037,000,000 since September, last year. Surplus funds j aggregated $1,042,000,000, a de-; crease of $6,000,000 since June, but j. an increase of nearly $15,000,000,: since September a year ago, while undivided profits aggregated $539,-! 000,000, an increase of $46,000,-' 000 since June, and an increase of, $263,000 since September. ? ? ? How to Destroy Cotton Stalks. Clemson College, Nov. 6.?Prac-! tically every scientist, farmer and! every one else who has given any: thought to the matter at all, has j agreed that the cotton stales j should be destroyed as soon after j picking is finished as possible, as j one of the most important steps in fighting the boll weevil, but there is still some confusion as to the best methods of destroying the, stalks, says Prof. C. P. Blackwell. Agronomist, who makes the fol lowing suggestions: Decidedly the best method is to plow the stalks under thorough ly as soon as possible. If a farm er has good plows and good teams; and his stalks- are small, this is' not a difficult matter but it can not be done effectively with a one- 1 horse plow and a small mule. Stalks of average size can be turned un- ! der with a walking plow and two average mules or horses. Prac-; tically any kind of stalks can be j turned under with a three-horse riding plow if a weed hook or weed ! chain is used. Large plows and ! tractors can turn any size of stalks j effectively. It is not necessary to cut the stalks before plowing them ; under. In fact, they turn under much better if not cut first. If a farmer wishes to plant a: small grain crop after his cotton j and can not get his cotton picked and his land turned in time to; plant his small grain, then the best j method is to plant the grain in his Cotton middles early, and when j frost has killed the stalks they may j be cut with a stalk cutter and de stroyed very effectively. It is true! that this does not get the stalks into i the ground but it does get them down in the green grain crop where j the weevil can not live throughout j the winter. During the early days of fighting; the weevil some entomologists rec-: (?mended the burning of stalks as! a method of destruction, and many farmers have practiced it, but this practice has in nearly all cases! proven very bad; and it is a par-! ticularly" bad practice in South! Carolina because our soils are de- i ficient in organic matter. In fact, lack of organic matter is our first1 limiting factor in crop production,; while a good supply of organic matter is the very foundation of our j boll weevil fight and is a first es-i sential to successful cotton produc- j tion under boll weevil conditions. When we burn our stalks we burn the organic matter which is so es sential to success, and no greater j mistake can be made in lighting! the boll weevil. Let us plow our! stalks under or cut them down in a cover crop with a stalk cutter but let us never burn them. Meeting at Pinewood. Pinewood. Nov. 7.?The Field Department of the Eecutive Coun- ! cil of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina is sending speakers] <?ut two by two to talk to ;ili the parishes und missions in the Dio-j cese on the prbgram of the church ' for 1023. The speakers and date assigned to Si. Mark's Parish November 16th. General speaker, the %tev. f Paul Due. Ravenel. S. C. Dioces an speaker, tin- Rev. R. M. Abu--' Shall, Beaufort, S. C. Hour of ? r vice, 1 1 a. m. and i p. m. We will soon wonder why it costs' ?o dura much to rai?e a turkey. ? Fills Her J When Congressman J. J. Mansfi ?Jacqueline, shown here, stepped into ' Now Mansfield's recovered and his dj SOUTHERN FARM PRODUCT'S. (N. L. Willett in Augusta Chron icle). The trade is offering two cents for beef on the hoof in this city and does not want it at any price.. We are probably over-producing. At any rate, the beef producers declare that they are going to quit the industry. Nobody seems to understand the depression in beef prices for the past several years. The farmer can get ten times more per pound for the quick growing chicken and always easily sold and four times more for the quick growing and easily sold hog. The hog carries truly a variegated meat diet?the hog means high priced breakfast bacon and ham and pork chops and' baCon sides. Eut beef is perhaps worth two cents today for hide, hoofs, horns, boneSj tallow and its ammoniated flesh as a guano?worth as much for these things as it is as a food! And yet it is almost impossible today to get a tender, juicy roast or a fender beef steak. Is our south ern beef the equivalent of northern beef flesh and if not -why not? In Germany meat is largely sold in sausage form. The Big Rental Farm. And here is another change in our agriculture. I mean the break ing up of our big farms that here tofore have been rented out. The negro renter can't get advances. Then what becomes of him? It is a dangerous matter for our south ern agriculture to lose its labor. It is dangerous for us and_dangerous for the negro to let these former renters run off up north where the white labor does not want him and where he is the last hand hired and the first hand turned off and where the climate is quite often fatally against him. It behooves our agri culture to keep this labor in the county by transforming the renter to a day laborer or a closely su pervised share cropper. We have many farms today that are entire ly too large and we need more farm owners and less big areas as owned by the single owner. 1923 Cotton. No one knows what 1923 cotton will bring nor what European con ditions will be, but it will be a dan gerous matter for the individual farm to over plant cotton to the exclusion of food and other side issue money crops. I write down here what I shall call the cotton growers golden link chain. One link gone in any chain means to destroy the chain and this is true of this cotton growers' chain. There are eight links in it: Destroy immediately cotton stalks. Plant rye and turn under in spring. Plant cotton early. ? Plant only the highest types of cotton. Guano it. Cultivate intensely throughout the season. Poison it continuously and pick up continuously the squares. But how few of us, alas, are go ing to observe the first two link rules? And plant only. 8 acres to the plow? Two Coming Industries. The south has plenty of land. Let's put it to use. Use it for crops easily made, crops that come from perennial hardy plant types and whose fruits carry easily and are resistant to quick decay and here are two crops that are certainly in dicated. The Pecan. There is no limit to the pecan industry. It is the king of nuts. Tli; tree lasts forever and grows more profitable every year. Three to four foot pecans, seab-resistant, are exceedingly cheap. Some plant sixty by sixty, twelve to the acre; soar- fifty by fifty, seventeen or eightei n trees to the a<-re; and some forty by forty, ?>me twenty-seven trees t>> th" acr?tnd thin out these trees every other one at the end of fifteen years, getting the use of these surplus trees during a period of six or seven years. The San Pear. Th" San Pear is .-mother strictly southern crop tremendously indi cated for us here. Tin- tree is ab solutely blight proof, it comes from China. The tree grows continuous ly, bearing heavier ea< h year. Tre< s ai.xeeedingly productive. Pear is large, sometimes called the Pound Dad's Job eld of Texas became ill, his daughter his office and ran it without a hitch, j lughter is his "right hand mam" ? Pear. The fruit is hard, keeps well, \ , and is our best shipper and best i jcanner and our best cooker. All ? ! other pears here with us blight; ! and they get soft and are not good \ ?shippers. The San Pear is not {especially indicated for a home' ? eater but mellowed up it does " fairly well; but the commercial end j of this pear is the end for which it ;is indicated. It doesn't require ex- : ! perts in growing or shipping for! I either the pecan or the San Pear. ! The south should make use and ! bigger use of those crops which na Ftare made strictly southern crops.; N. L. W. j Automobile Fatalities: 1921. t .-Washington, Nov. 3.?The de- j jpartmenV of commerce announces | I.that the returns compiled by the I {bureau of the census show that j 'during the year 1921, 10,168 deaths j ! resulting from accidents caused j j by automobiles and ' other motor? j vehicles, excluding motorcycles, oc jcurred within the *deajh. registra i tion area of the United States (ex | elusive of Hawaii), which area j ] contains 82 per cent of the total J ? population.- This number' rep re-j sents a death rate of 11.5 per iOO,- ! 1000 population,. as against 10.4 inj 1920, 9.4 in 1919, 9.3 in 191-8/ and 9 in 1917. .Between 1917 and 1921, j therefore, the death rate per 100,-| j 000- population from motor vehicle | accidents and injuries increased \ about 28 per cent. ? In the 27*states ! for which data for 1917 are avail- } able the actual number of these I deaths increased from 6,014 in that year'to 8,492 in 1921, an increase} of 41.1' per cent. ? ? ? Not as Bad as it Looks. | (Dillon Herald). I North Carolina does not tax lands | for state purposes. Each county J makes its own levy on lands for county purposes. Revenue for| state purposes comes from cor-1 porations, inheritances, incomes; and other sources. A Mr. Everett j i of Richmond county, North Caro- j j lina, owns a plantation which isj j split by the state line, one-half be- i j ing in South Carolina. The South j Carolina half is valued at $34,985 on which Mr. Everett pays taxes to the amount of $1,014.57; the North Carolina half is valued at] $61.040.00, on which he pays taxes i amounting to $392.80. Quite a difference. On the surface that J ; looks bad for South Carolina, but! j it is not as bad as it looks. North i J Carolina is a big manufacturing ; j state. It claims to be the richest; ' state in the south. It has more: millionaires than you can count on !*he ends of your fingers and toes.! its revenues from incomes, inheri-j Itances, corporation taxes, etc., is. 'large. South Carolina is an agri- j (cultural state. Outside of the i I Piedmont its manufacturing in-( jdustries are few. Its revenue from; {incomes, inheritances, corporation; (taxes, etc.. is small. The revenue} j for state and county expenses must j como from some source, and lands j I are forced to bear a big share of; the burden. Let us bring it nearer j . home. Marlboro is the richest ag- j j ricultural county in the state. Its Hands have a high value. It has; few manufacturing plants. On the! j other hand Richmond county, in j j which the North Carolina half ofi the Everett property is located, is' [-honeycombed with railroads andj 'thickly dotted with manufactur ing plants. It has ten large cot jton mills, in addition to the Sea-, (board terminal at Hamlet. After, ail it is not as bad as it looks, j 'Taxes must come from property in) one for mor another. It is true' our tax laws need revising. There ' are inequalities; particularly in the, system of taxing real property, but j real property is bard to re:ich, while it is a simple matter to ar- \ ? rive at the value of a corporation ! or manufacturing plant. It is along these lines tb^ st.-.'te tax commis sion is working. It is a slow and tedious job, but give the commis sion time, and it is our linn belief [thai they will work out the prob lem to the satisfaction of the tax Recent reports from the county ; indicate that while Sumter county 'produced the biggest and best hay [crop on record, a large percentage I of it was damaged by continued rains after it \v:is cut and shocked ' in the fields. THE SHILOH ROAD ; Citizens of Shiloh Section of j County Explain Their Views of the Situation - I Editor Sumter Daily Item: i . In the published minutes of the i meeting of. the Permanent Road j Commission held November 2nd, I signed by Mr. J. J. Brennan, sec retary of this commission, the fol lowing appears regarding the re quest of the delegation from Shiloh ; township about promises made to jus on May 25th, 1920, when we had our petition signed for a spe cial election to vote out a part of Shiloh township into Florence county, that there would be a hard I surfaced road built to Hudson's (bridge or that the road funds ! would be prorated in proportion j to the length of the roads. "Commissioner Truluck wanted to know something definite about Mr. Smith's remarks in regard to agreement of the Board referred to at a mass meeting, inasmuch as the Board has no record of it. Mr. E. I. Reardon, secretary of the Summ ier Chamber of Commerce read ex tracts from minutes of a mass meeting held at Chamber of Com merce, Kay' 25th. 1920, but it de veloped that this mass meeting was not a meeting of the Sumter County Permanent Road Commis sion, but a called mass meeting of the citizens of Sumter county held in the interest of good roads." Now, Mr. Editor, we have been to Sumter, sought arid have been shown the minutes of the meeting of May 25th, 1920. by Mr. E. I. Reardon, and also a published re-, port of this May 25th, 1920 meet ing written by/you for The Daily Item, and comparing the minutes, and the resolutions adopted in this joint meeting of May 25th, 1920, we find that your report and Mr. Reardon's record fully agree all the way through. The minutes show that every member of the Sumter Permanent Roads Commis sion was present, including Messrs. I. M.' Truluck of Shiloh, and Mr. E. E. Rembert, of Rafting Creek townships who were at that meet ing nominated and subsequently added to the commission. Every member of the Sumter County Legislative delegation was present. The minutes and the Daily Item report show that the follow ing resolutions introduced by Mr. L. D. Jennings, chairman of the Permanent Road Commission, with the amendments introduced by Mr. I. C. Strauss and Mr. B. F. Myers were adopted by a majority vote, "the Permanent Road Commission members being present and par ticipating in the deliberations of this meeting called by Dr. E. S. Booth, president of the Sumter County Chamber of Commerce to harmonize the differences between the dissatisfied portions of'Rafting Creek and Shiloh townships, Mr. I. C. Strauss first introducing a set of resolutions to the effect that the Sumter Chamber of Commerce was peculiarly obligated to settle, if possible, these differences between these two sections and the county at large. Sumter's mercantile establish ments and tobacco warehouses have long sought the trade and to bacco of Shiloh township. Sumter gets a lot of our tobacco and trade but a majority of our dollars and , tobacco go to Lynchburg, Olanta, Timmonsville and Florence be cause we are-so far from Sumte^r and the roads are terrible most of the time between here and Sum ter. It seems that Sumter's merchants and tobacco warehouse owners would stand back of Shiloh in this request for a hard surfaced road at least as far this way as hard surfaced roads are constructed to wards Remberts and Stateburg and j Pinewood sectons. Sumter can get; many hundreds of thousands of dollars trade that now go to Clar endon, Lee and Florence counties if a hard surfaced highway was built at least to Shiloh if no fur ther. Then we would have at least twenty-two miles of hard surfaced highway to induce us to haul our tobacco to Sumter and to I do all of our trading in our own| county seat instead of having^ to go into other counties on account! of the miserable roads our own county provides to Sumter. the county seat. Shiloh, Turbeville, New Zion, Sardinia. Trinity. Pleasant Grove, and other eastern Sumter county and Clarendon county, and western; Florence county sections are the j "live at home" tobacco producing! sections. If Sumter wants this tobacco and I this business let Sumter's business! concerns interest themselve in see- j ing that there is a hard surfaced | highway built into the middle ofj this territory that can be reached | by traveling only a few miles each way to get to this hard road. Thisj is being done and will be done for; the Rembert, Pinewood, Stateburg j sections, far away but not as far away from Sumter as we are in Shiloh township near Lvnche's Riv- I er. Read the resolution following introduced by Mr. Jennings, Mr. I. j C. Strauss and Mr. Ben Myers: Whereas, the Sumter Countv r ' - '? } Permanent Roads Commission has determined to build hard surfaced roads with the two and one-half; million dollars to be derived from the issue of the bonds recently! voted and such other additional I funds as might be available: the1 hard surfaced roads which said commission has determined to I build being as follows: The public road leading from Sumter to Manning to the county line, known as the Manning Public road; The public road leading from j Sumter to Paxville. to the county line; The public road leading from Sumter to Pinewood, to the county line: The public road leading from Sumter to Wedgefield, where it in- J tersects the Camden-Charleston j public road: i The pvblre road leading from jSumter to Stateburg, where it in tersects the Caniden-Charleston [public road: The public road leading from iSumter to Camden, to where it in tersects the Kershaw county line. 1 The public road leading from {Sumter to Bishopville, where it in tersects the Lee counyt line; The public road leading from Sumter to Lynchburg, via Mayes ville, to where it intersects the Lee county line; The public road leading from Sumter to St. Charles, to where it intersects the Lee county line; The public road leading from Sumter to the Shiloh section, to Hudson's bridge. Whereas it may be found that; said funds will be Insufficient to' complete said roads, and in order j to provide against any insuffi ciency we, the undersigned mem bers of the delegation from Sum ter county, do hereby pledge our selves as far as we possibly can, and also our successors, as far as we possibly can, af the next ses sion of the legislature, to enact a ; statute authorizing said commis-, J sion to issue such additional bonds [as may be necsesary to complete I the aforesaid public roads to the points designated hereinbefore. } (.Signed) J. H. CLIFTON, Senator. D. D. MOISE, R. B. BELSER, . C. J. JACKSON, Members of the House. Amendment to Jennings resolu ! tions offered by Mr.; L C. Strauss jand seconded by Mr. Ben Myers, ! j adopted by majority vote, i v Resolved: That any available i funds whether from bond issue or j ! derived from legislative action be j j prorated on the ten roads, except j that state highway and federal aid funds are to be devoted only^to the) roads for. which same are no W avail- ( able. Resolved: That in our "opinion j the mileage of roads to be built! should be prorated with respect to the length of the roads. ] I have in my hands as I write a j report of that meeting published in your' paper, May 26th, 1920, inj j which Mr. L. D. Jennings, Mr. R.: j B. Belser and others said that the [Sumter County Chamber of Com-; [merce campaign meetings held in ?the interest of the two and a half j million dollars for hard surfaced j highways emphasized equal mHe ! age on all. ten roads. Mr. Jen- , nings held out to the last for this plan, but Mr. Belser said in this j meeting that while 1:*? agreed with j Mr. Jennings that ? the campaign 'pledges should be carried out, nevertheless that he,. Mr.; Belser in the speeches. he made during the hard surfaced- highway cam paign had favored r prorating the mileage in accordance with the importance and length of the j road, but the' people had voted! I on the equal mileage plan and this , ! should be carried out. i I Now, we taxpayers and citizens ? j of Sumter county living in a re- j ! mote section of the county, in Shi- i j loh township, some of us twenty- j five to thirty miles from Sumter, felt that we would never get any j {of the hard surfaced highways and J thought we had better go while j the going wals good and economical ! and avoid having to pay from ] twenyt-five to thirty-five extra mills j taxes for good roads for other sec- ] ! tions of Sumter county. So we! were getting ready to vote into j Florence county. We might not j have gotten any better roads if we_j had gone into Florence county,] (but we would not have to pay 3 ! double taxes for. other sections' [hard surfaced highways, while we ! secured none for our section. But Mr. E. I. Reardon, who was I manager of the hard surfaced road j campaign, and publicity man also, j wrote Mr. I. M. Truluck and urg- j ed that a delegation from Shiloh's j dissatisfied section meet at Sumter [ Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, j May 25th. 1920, when the Rafting1 j Creek delegation met with the of- ; j ficers and directors of the Chamber ! ; of Commerce, Permanent Road' ! Commission. Legislative delegation, j and about one hundred and fifty I other citizens of Sumter and Sum- j ter county, lawyers, merchants, j bankers/farmers, etc. We did ap near in response to Mr. Reardon's invitation with the results .above' recorded. Now we can vote into | Florence county but we will have to j carry with us the heavy load of j our prorata share of one million j dollars road bonds already sold, whereas if we had been plainly told ; on May 25th, 1920. that there! wasn't enough money and there! would never be enough to build more than ten miles of road on each road leading out from Sumter, we | could have then left and gone; into Florence county. That is \ what we are mostly sore about. We j were told that we would get a road to Hudson's bridge, instead of the 1 road, terminating at Trinity as originally agreed upon by the Per- ' manent Road Commission and the I legislative delegation. So Mr. Brennan is somewhat in error when he says "that it de- i veloped" that the May 25th. 1020 j meeting was a called mass meet- \ ing in the interest of good roads.' : Because the good roads meetings; had been held and the hot air shot | all over-'the county by word of' mouth and through newspapers i and thousands of letters sent out j from the Sumter Chamber of Com- ? merce and all of which succeeded in getting about five to one vote in favor of hard surfaced highways for certain portions of Sumter t county near Sumter. while some remote sections beyond the ten j mile limit from Sumter will hard- | ly get any hard surfaced roads at all from the way things look now. B. A. SMITH, M. E. TRULUCK, J. C. TRULCK. Cowards, S. C, R. F. D. 1. NOVEMBER FARM CALENDAR, Tiling.* So Do Thi* Month. Agronomy, j Continue planting of cover crops and small grain untli work is fin ished. j Sow wheat on fertile well pre j pared land. Do as much deep plowing as weather permits on heavy soils and where no cover crops have been .planted. Store next year's planting seed I in a dry place well protected from ; rats and weevils. Fumigate if I necessary. Horticulture. Prune scuppernong grapes. J Set out strawberry plants and as | paragus roots. Set peach, apple, pear, grape and other fruits. Clean up terraces and ditch banks about-the orchard to de stroy winter quarters of insects and diseases. f Prepare cold frames for winter [ lettuce, radishes, etc. Set narcissus and other bulbs early this month. Dig dahlia and cahna roots and [ store in a dry place for.the winter. Animal Husbandry. Repair or build comfortable quarters for all livestock. Castrate all boar pigs that are to be fattened for pork. They will fatten more rapidly and more^ cheaply. ? Keep all animals free from lice. They are more comfortable and re quire less feed. Breed sows any time after No vember 8 for March,- litters. Give sows to be bred a ration supplying plenty of protein to hav??% ! them gaining flesh at breeding jtime. This insures a larger and stronger litter, at farrowing time. Dairying. As soon as frost kills the velvet I bean vines, pasture the fields. This is the most profitable method to harvest velvet beans for dairy I cows. I JVhen the silo is opened, see 'that all mouldy material is thrown ! out before feeding starts to avoid indigestion and other * serious troubles. . ? Remember that in feeding calves j milk, the quantity should not vary suddenly, and that the milk should be warm and clean. I Feed calves milk from a pail which, is sterilized after each feed ing. ! Feed the service bulls rather heavy grain rations (containing no. cotton-seed meal) and legume hay to prepare them for heavy breed ing season. . ? - Entomology. ' Rush cotton picking and d<3Stroy stalks. Continue farm cleaning to I destroy ?the weevils' winter quar ters; Plan for the winter sprays for the orchard, the shade trees, and hedges. /Winter is the time to spray for [scales; write for;information. Get the spray pump in good ' working order and do not wait un til time to use it. Pack the bees, \ Beware of unscrupulous fruit |tree agents. " . I Plant Diseases. Contract for "certified** Irisfc j potato *seed for next spring's plant ing. Plow under cotton stalks and : plant a cover crop to help control !anthracnose ana other diseases. Get shellac and coal tar or cor Irosive sublimate and white lead [paint to cover all large cuts made [in pruning. > Detroy diseased garden debris \ to decrease the number of diseases [ carried over to next year. Poultry. j Take an inventory of your poul try and keep accurate records feff i the ensuing year. j The regular Fall term of the j Court of Common Pleas will con \ vene next Monday morning. The building of paved highways ! is simply a question of money. The I $2,500,000 provided by the bond issue voted by the people of Sum tor county will build just so- many ; milea of road and no more. If more mileage is demanded by the i people than the bond issue will pay for, it is within their power ! to vote an additional bond issue The Sumter County Permanent Highway Commission is carrying out as rapidly "as possible the pro gram of road building agreed up on before the bonds were issued, and the program will be carried out to the letter if the funds hold out. Just as many miles of road will be built as possible and thus far t?yfe commission has indicated the intention to treat every section of the county with even-handed jus tice. Columbia, Nov. 8. ? Solicitor Pydrick. of Orangeburg, has an nounced that he will move before the supreme court on November 27th, or as soon thereafter as pos sible, for a dismissal of the.E. N. Mittle case, in which the Orange burg man is appealing to the United States supreme court for a new triaL If the motion is granted and the appeal dismissed, it will mean Mittle will after all serve his nine year sentence, imposed for the murder of J. H. Patterson +t which he was convicted. Mittle appealed to the state su preme court, and the appeal was dismissed. He went before Judge Mauldin and secured a stay of exe cution, that he might appeal to the United States supreme court. Governor Harvey ordered him re arrested. He went before Asso ciate Justice Watts and secured a stay, pending his appeal, and it will, if the appeal is perfected, be two years or more before the fed eral tribunal reaches his case. The position to be taken by the state in moving for dismissal of the last appeal will be that no federal ques tion is involved, except those al ready considered and passed upofc. Mittle is now at liberty.