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Thf Watchmnn and Southron fubiish**! -Wednesday and Satur . . ^?by aO<gf&*n''Publishing Company, Sum t er, S. C. * * Terms?: $i^jl>el^annam?In advance). - -Advertisements: Orfe S^tear^T* first insertion _ 1^1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 C.c**traets* for ?three .-'months or logger'will*be made at reduced rates.- - - ^ All communications which sub serve' private ' interests will oe charged for-as advertisements. D-biruaries and. tributes . of .' re spect will be charged fpr. The S?mter Watchman was founded^ in .1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman ajtM**~Souihron now has th? com bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is.man ifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter._. Pl^TJNCM PRICES * Demand for platinum, from jew elers* and manufacturers of radio equipment* forces the price- up steadily, and every increase stimu lates the importing of this increas ingly popular precious metal. . A year ago an ounce could be had for $80. Last week the price.hit $112, an<T'there is no guessing where it will go if weddings continue, pop ular. Colombia, now the largest pro ducer, is running 50 per cent ahead of last year, and the high prices have brought a steady flow of the metal from Russian . "sources, via Esih.oma, Sweden, France, and England.. . Platin?in. it appears, is here to *t.rr-- and. price reduotion seems out che question. These, last years - have made, it a necessity rather that a fad. -.-?.? ? HARXKSSI VG^T?E FLOODS Engineers are studying plans for damming the tributaries of the lower Mississippi on. a sufficiently large scale to hold flood waters and provide electric power for the surrounding areas. It is believed that-a ?y&Tem can be worked out by which the waters of both \he trib utaries and the main stream can be. controlled at all seasons and the annual flood damage reduced to av~mmimum. People in the "regions of the South most affected by these floods a lively interest in the plans. If t&e force which year after .year [ wqrste. their -fields and towns* couljl be harnessed and made to. furjMsh: electric power,, it would * 32Srt all the difference, . between i-aving a friendly, constructive force for a neighbor and having a hos tile,: destructive one. - * Building levees merely for the purpose of holding the .streams, in their/tasuiks is a passive solution of the difficulty in which "the. people work' for the rivers. Under the i new* scheme the rivers would work for the.people. ;FREXCH RACE SUICIDE -: ;> .. . ? " - -s - ..v- ? ? > . -.. ' ? ? France's dwindling birth rate 'become a hugbear to that re pub^c'3 statesmen and military men: for a generation and has serv ed as an excuse for the German allegation that the-nation was de generate. The war proved-the er ror o? that, supposition, but it did not helj2.^he_ birth rate. Now . a French league for Increasing the Population professes to have found the ^ausg 'of f he..: disturbing ten dengyj* ~S - 1*?e~CSS?e -Napoleon is to blame. ?ay^th*ej?el=e-iJthusiasts for a more proHfic-race. The Code Napoleon provided -4or-? the division of the estagfeS of ? intestates equally among sur^vlh^ichildren, and naturally ?.?no2g?:....F;;ench parents have dep sjrejf* to preserve their, property-^ for ^{he.Jy.?ssession of land really meaos-something overseas?for a p- ?~ i* ? limited number of heirs. It all tw v i. -? ? sbund^Tpeasonable enough. k- . ., - - At any j?te, it is hard to quarrel v.itlr the League's aims. At the 2 92<r>ate~bf 266 births to every 100 marriages: -the present population of 4>#Q?;000 should shrink to 25. n.'io.^CO by -1365. and the French people would vanish by the year 2.000. And no one likes to con template- anything like that. 3 .. - * O AZt TVJtXS MODEST A.^w^oTk art critic announces (hat'the~a?kworld is becoming nor mal again.-' He bases this opinion on a view of paintings and sculp ture exhibited by women artists, findmg in the entire exhibition not a single nude figure. Not only wasthere a noticeable lack of "Sep temrtJFr Morns'' and "Nudes De se'-r^Ing^a> Staircase," but some of the;'sculpture was draped to an unus,ual decree. 'rhTs is' in striking contrast to an exhibition "ot paintings held in Par?? a lew months ago, which was *o cstsrpietery given over to the ex ploitation of bare flesh that pa trons called it inartistic and dis gusting". America is usually ahead of France in such matters. Can it be that this return to draped figures on the part of American artists fprebodes a similar tendency everywhere? Jt would be a fine thing, if not carried to excess. There is noth ing more beautiful than the human figure at its best, but. surely it has been overworked lately, in paint ing, sculpture,. dance and dress. A movement in the opposite direc ; tiqn is to be welcomed, as long as the artists do . not. go to the ex treme of swathing: the divine fem : inine, figure beyond recognition .in ; Mid-Victorian. ,.garb; or portraying j the male, as a complete tailor's model. - LOW PUBLIC-PAY The research work of the U. S. Department of Agriculture is one of its mast important activities, and I has,.saved- the .nation millions of j dollars. This work is frequently in dan ger from mistaken^ cuts in appro . priations and from the. discourage ment of low pay to trained scien tific workers. . Skilled specialists engaged in government j agricul tural work receive only about one fifth as much pay as do men of the. same attainments in private hfe. ... . . ; j The loyalty of the men who stay I under such a condition is obvious, j Most of those already in the work i v;ill remain because, they enjoy the [service and have acquired the hab :t of working for .Uncle Sam, How pyer, there, will soon be a . falling oft in research efficiency for the j sample reason that it is becoming [ increasingly difficult to obtain new men jto fill vacancies. Young men who have received the necessary special training for such work are I no longer willing to undertake a [life-long service which offers so i uninviting a future. _ It is a situation which needs remedying, .yet the plight of the federal agricultural workers is not unique. Other departments of the : government underpay their work ers, and. in ? state ? and; local govern ments as well,- important officials are fequently underpaid, I With all the talk about easy money and easy; work; in- public employ, the fact remains that the quality of- service rendered in j branches . requiring special skill, j ability and training is nearly al ; ways maintained at a high stand ard, while the, average remunera | tion ranks far below similar re [ ward in -private life. Here is mis ! placed and false. economy which [should be overcome. BURNING LETTERS If you are planning a murder or an elopement with somebody else's j wife or. husband, first, burn your j letters. Everyone has been warn ! ed not to write compromising tet | ters, but ever since, the invention of the stone hammer and chisel the temptation to put thoughts in to permanent form has been too great to be resisted. ., Many thoughts are well worth I inscribing, but there is one class of I thoughts which should either die a-borning or be left entirely to the lips. These are the thoughts that make love letters so thrilling when ; first written and read but so silly and pathetic when turned into Ex ? ? . s hibit A. of a divorce or murder trial. Think of the scorn, the shame and the heartache that I could have been avoided by the proper use of a single box of matches! . , Tears ago John Greenleaf Whit I tier expressed himself admirably ! in this matter of destroying private letters of a delicate or personal na ture. In a letter to Edward Bok he said: . "Some years ago I destroyed a targe collection of letters I had re ceived, not from any regard for my own reputation, but for fear that to leave them liable to publi cation might be injurious or un pleasant to the writers or their friends. 4T have always regarded a pri vate or confidential letter as sacred and its publicity in any shape a shameful breach of trust, unless authorized by the writer. I only wish my own letters to thousands of correspondents may be as care fully disposed of." NEWSPAPER EDUCATION It remained for Ed. Howe, the philosopher of Atchinson, Kan., to coin the phrase, "a newspaper edu cation". It has never occurred to most people how many there are in this country who posses just that kind of education. There must be millions of them. They may have finished public school or. not, but they are primari jly graduates of the public press. It furnishes, almost all their reading and most of their topics of conver sation. It is not merely the medium which brings to them news of the ' outside world. To them it repre sents culture. It also plays an ever gr.owing part in the mental life of j those whose schooling has been more extensive. That is a sobering thought to any newspaper editor. It invites much heart-searching as to whether the press is living up to the standards .'called tor. in any such powerful instrument of education. The usual verdict of the news paper profession?however the other professions may feel about it ?is that the press, as a. whole, is really doing this very thingr and serving the public need and con tributing to the shaping of the pub Wc :min<LtQ the best of its ability, i Any editor will grant that there is much of a light or flippant or otherwise undesirable nature in the present-day press, but will urge that a press that was perfect ac cording to the notion of highbrow reformers would never have, enough readers to support it. Editors are driven to the practical conclusion that, human nature has to be taken as it it, indulged moderately in its harmless foibles and led on very gradually to any high degree of [serious education or culture.. With all its faults, the American press today is probably more hon-, test and fair, and certainly prints a far larger amount of interesting, true and valuable Information? than any other press has ever done in I this or any other age. \ . ! PRICE BOOSTS I '?? r.- -? ?? [ . ?p I Prices are going up. That is the most obvious fact of present busi ness conditions. In a typical week recently, of 102 changes in tthe price of standard commodi ities, 77 were upward. The ten dency is especially noticeable in fuel and foodstuffs, but it also per meates the general field of manu factured goods,. To people who blindly accept the tradition that high prices neces sarily mean prosperity, this is a welcome development. To the ma jority of citizens who are up against the actual facts of living, it is not. ; ? Prices during the last year or so had been gradually' stabilizing ^themselves at levels1 where they w<:re more fairly adjusted to wages and salaries.. All that was needed, apparently, was such a speeding up of industry as would absorb .the uaemployment. This has occurred. But no sooner has the general sit uation straightened itself out rather satisfactorily than the balance be gins to be upset once more. Wages and salai ies at this time are not, as a whole, on. a level per-^ mitting an increase in. the cost of Irving. As one economic authority put if, the ordinary income "will not permit liberal buying at ad vancing . prices," If prices continue to advance, then, one of two things must hap pen. Buying will fall off so much that manufacturers and merchants, in order to move their goods, will have to lower prices again, which means a new and troublesome. peri od of deflation. Or else there will be another struggle to increase wages and salaries to lceep pace; with advancing prices, which means a repetition of the same old vigor ous circle of inflation that the public hoped it was through with. The public has had enough in flation and enough deflation, and wants neither now. What it wants is settled conditions of work, income and living costs. The public, accordingly, is going to be very impatient ..of any unjustified price boosts. CONSERVATIVE 1TNCLE SAM "Because the United States, of all [countries, offers the>. best promise of a more human life to the masses, it is strong enough to answer the Bolshevik challenge," says Col. j Raymond Robins of Chicago, expert I sociologist. He adds: I "The present social order of our 'Country is able to meet this chal llenge because of a certain confi | dence and trust in our political, I economic and religious institutions. (But it cannot be met by any nation in the Old World.", ! These facts are worth calling ! freshly to mind every time some l ' '' ! excitable patriot raises a new cry of alarm regarding some radical men ace or other. Anyone who calmly studies the political history and social ten dencies in the various countries of the world usually concludes that the United States is the steadiest country in the world. Even Eng land, with "its freedom broaden ing slowly down from precedent to precedent.-" is-more -radical than America?that is, its. political and economic evolution moves faster.. And this American .steadiness is not of one class only; if it were it would be dangerous. It permeates all the classes.. except a fringe of radical extremists so small as to be of little influence. America is. liberal; but our lib eralism is what almost .any . Eu ropean country today would call conservatism. The reason for this national conservatism is plain enough, as Col. Robins suggests. Americans know when they are well oft", and don't lightly take any chances of changing for the worse, in sudden hope of ..a millennium. . That 4s why the Reds, of any type, never have a chance here. ... Before Henry Ford builds that factory in China to make flivvers for the Chinks, he'd . better, ask the manufacturers. of laundry ap pliances what the yellow man does to Caucasian machinery. Elections used to be affirma tive; now they're mostly negative. Instead of voting for candidates' and. platforms .they like, people vote against those they dislike. * * * The new British government, one! observes,, having . ousted Lloyd! J George because he threatened war.^ against the Turks, is threatening war against the Turku. * * * The American automobile asso ciation says the. time has .passed tor gaudy billboard posters on th6 highways. Yep?people go by-too fast to read them nowadays.^ .. . , *? *. . * We know a cheerful cuss who I refers to his automobile-owning! relatives as gas connections. * *?*.-, One man blows out the gas and' kills himself. Another - steps on it and kills somebody else. .*.*?* The Allies are seeking a united front on Turkish issues . .They'll be lucky if it doesn't. prove to be a battle front. ..**'*.. New York husbands have filed a husbands' bill of rights with : the f supreme court. Just so it doesnt interfere with the wives' right p? bills,, the wives should worry. SCIENCE ?ND- RELIGION M People who are at all interested in the supposed war between re-[ ligion and. science are indebted ,to f j Charles P. Steinmetz, who. paused! j recently in the. midst, of a political ? campaign to make a thoughtful address on the subject. ?. c j .. Dr. Steinmetz's - utterances com- - mand respect because of his seien-r ftific standing. He is ardently de j voted to material science and re garded as an intellectual giant. He \ 'is the man who. finishes what' j Franklin began, and . "makes' lightning". ? . This wizard frankly admits that physical science has no room forf such conceptions as God, immor-' itality. infinity, etc. That is be-; 1 cause science deals with facts as* revealed by the. . senses and inter-1 preted by logic. AU pur sense per- j ceptions are limited. Our senses cannot, perceive the infinite. So k-ftic, applied to scientific discov +1*, -.?in, never .prove.. the existence of the infinite. But?and here is the big point that Steinmetz makes' ?neither can science disprove .the' infinite. Thus the results of science, as applied to such questions, as wheth-j er there is a, God...whether.God is love and whether man's, spirit is eternal are negative, and "the I question is still as open as ever," j All the honest scientist can say. is. that "the two, science and religion, are not necessarily incompatible, but are different and unrelated ac tivities of the human mind." Here is consolation for the re ligious mind. Science, based on the senses, cannot prove that knowledge about things of supreme interest may not be obtained by a higher method than sense percep tions. The religious man is satis fied that he obtains such knowl edge through faculties superior to his senses. Without being able to study his soul under a microsope, he knows that he has a soul. With out analyzing God by chemical pro cesses, he knows that God exists. Without any multiplication table,1 he can figure out that he lives for ever. And as long as he does not deny the correctness of science in its proper field, science has no bus iness questioning the correctness of his religious ideas. Where are all the people now who had so much to say in opposi tion to the new white way? You don't hear much from them since it has been in operation. A man bigger than you is never a liar. He is mistaken. SMITH PLAN OF WI r IS NEW AN S -' V-*?r (By N. L. Willet in News and Courier). j jn the old days the culture of cotton was sadly abused because it excluded the growing of other I crops, but this does not alter cot-i ton value. We now understand] that the farm must feed itself and] the farmer's family. For two years a large' portion; of our. cotton has been sold under cost of produc tion. The south needs and must have a dependable cash crop. Mr. George D. Smith, of the ag ricultural experimental station of the University of- Florida, with va>t accumulated weevil data, at hand before him and- with thir teen years of actual weevil field experience gives to the south a Wholly new' and a revolutionary process of weevil control. His methods are totally unlike all wee vil 'research work to date. The cost is not over $1.25 per acre and the experimental station says that if the Smith rules had been universally followed in Florida this year the outturn per acre in cot tort would have been increased over $3fr.00: /This' totally new line remedy is not perfect but it is an advance j and Florida believes it will save; 90* per cent of the normal crop, j The gist of the method may be put j into two sentences: First, re move all squares from the cotton nlajnt about' June "5, \and destroy them; second, follow this at once [ with'a thorough application of cal- J clirm arsenate, dusted, using a suitable gun machine. This meth- | ?d , is not effective unless all win ter: "weevils are * out of winter quarters. - In Florida this is about June 5. This work can be done by. m>meii and children. Each work er "tAust be equipped with a tight well-made cotton cloth sack, not gunny, provided With a draw 3t?ing *for keeping the mouth Closed. As the squares and wee vils. ~a>e -picked from the plants they1-^ire placed in the sack and later on taken, from the field and burned.- Not a single weevil on the pl?nt or in the bag must escape. The;'work must be supervised by an; intelligent person. The good I efuthe plan comes only when) every: square is destroyed at this particular time. Square pickers* in??st begin at one side of the field ami"take rows as they come and as soon- as possible after the squares: axe removed the applicaton of poison should be made. Both op erations can be carried on togeth er .successfully by picking squares until late in the afternoon and then let-the poisoning begin over this pjcked area. Calcium arsenate must--he -used. Paris Green and London Purple should never be used on plants. ?;>Aniroais working in the fields te.n idays after poisoning should be muzzled and operators should wash face and hands, using plenty af isoap. A duster must be used that is hand power, hot horse power, and strong enough to force j powder into the folds of the bud. The weevils in the fields deprived of squares will attack the terminal buds 'In a great host, many of them going inside the' folds. This poisoning,' therefore, is directed only at the t * ninal buds, and if we kill the weevils in the squares ahcl the weevils that are eating the terminal buds, why we' have de~ stroyed the weevil population of the i field?hibernation, of course, laying at this time ail ce?sed. It is useless, therefore, to scatter poi son over" the whole field. Five to seven pounds "Of calcium arsenate is: all that will, he necessary per acre. Operator must Walk .slowly and take pafhs to force the pois?n into the small bunch of tender leaves at the tip of the plant. Ap ply' when there is no wind and ear ly 'niorhing and late afternoon.' It is' best that there be dew oh the i plants^ but dew has nothing to; do with the poisoning under the! Smith method of the weevil.' The! insect is poisoned only by eating the tender foliage and buds to which the poison has been applied Work of this nature cannot be) done well at night, but only late! in the afternoon or early in the morning. It was found that prac- j tically all weevils are killed with- j in three days after the poison is i applied. The Smith method cost is so I small,, something like $1.25 peri acre, that it can he used on poor land, whereas the usual dusting methods, seven or eight applica- j tions, cannot be used except on tho j richer lands! The Smitn method is for upland cotton. In the past few years we have' found, that we can kill the winter j weevil by poisoning the terminal bud^ The Smith method, however, waits- until emergence from hiber nation has been completed: It is veryf easy to literally fill this terrqinal bud with a suitable poi son jay means of a good dust gun. This'/.stripping of squares is radi-j cal and the farmer may be afraid ] of it. This stripping leaves the J cottOn plants free to develop bolls! without weevil interference for the succeeding seven or eight weeks, j When summer migration begins I the bolls will be large enough to' resist t the migratory weevil?say late in July. There is plenty of time after June 5 to develop a crop.' Ninety-nine per cent of weevils will be out of hiberation by June 5 and all these should be dead. Planting should not be extremely early, say late in March. The very early or late planting of cotton is dangerous. Cotton sheds about 601 per cent of its fruit. The loss of i a few squares in early June should ! not affeet the yield. The plant, however, remarkably reacts on the! stripping of the squares. This stripping is always followed by i an increase in the height of the j plant and closely followed by the; profuse development of new squares. So pronounced has been j this acceleration and stimulation! and fruiting that it seems prqbaMej that'even with no weevils pre.*; at :evil control ? revolutionary the removal of all squares early in June would actually result in the increase of the yield of cotton. Mr. Smith calculates that if this method had been universally used in Florida this season the cotton crop outturn would have been in creased over $32 per acre. While the Smith weevil control methods relate to hiberation, the date of planting- cotton, the strip ping of the squares and bolls if any about June 5; they also have relationship: to the weevil's life his tory. In former days it was thought that the cycle of the wee vil was from twelve to fifteen days. If so there would have been no Smith formula. As a fact, thirty days elapse between egg depositing, say on June 5, and the develop ment into an adult weevil capable of depositing eggs. This thirty days of freedom-of weevils in the field allows plenty of time for pro ducing a bottom, a middle and a top' cotton crop. This discovery of the weevil's cycle is new and exceedingly important.' M3le and female weevils are" about equal. Both feed on cotton bolls and square flares up and drops off. Both in Florida and here many weevils develop throughout-the winter in the fields. Emergence in Florida often begins m January. Under the Smith method emergence must he " complete before square strip ping and this throughout the south has been found to be about the fifth of June, though along in May emergence may have reached as much as ?5 per cent. The Smith method relates wholly to the winter weevil and not to the summer. The square picking and the dusting of the hud must be' synchronous -with the last and total emergence of weevil, say about June -5. , Therefore, the planting of cotton early in March or late in April (ahd ' not late March) would totally upset the Smith formula, and would not be effective. The weakest''point "in the weevil's life, and the proper time to attack him the strongest, is. at this time of' total emergence, which is an attack wholly oh the winter weevil and it is done be fore the cycle of the "summer wee vil has begun. Of course, there would be no summer weevil if the winter weevil could' be exterminat ed: The plucking of squares and early' bolls1 and the burning of them ? destroys; the young of the early emerging weevils ? these early weevils themselves1 having died?and poisoning kills off in the terminal' buds the later emerged weevils.- ' ' As is well'known when weevils eat squares and bolls the plant im mediately takes on height and ex tra size and this is true under the Smith -method of :square plucking. Okra is a first cousin of cotton and it is well-known that strip ping the okra plant of its early crol> makes the'plant put on- 'a mueh heavier' crop. Now, the same is true of cotton. With'in this thirty days of immunity to weevil from June 5 the cotton plant p'uts on immediately a large crop of squares. These mature early and synchronously. This allows the destruction of all stalks in the field by October 1 or 5; ahd this destruction is a part of the Smith plan and it is a necessary part in all' plans of weevil control. Al though the lesson here is plain enough for the most ignorant way-, farer, yet not 10 per cent of our agriculture obeys this rule, but al lows the fields to breed winter weevils all winter: A careful study will shew that the Smith methods all dovetail into each other/ The whole thing works I like Clock work, but no clock work and rio complete technical work can ever be done on the mental level of the non-guided negro share cropper" and renter. If the Smith method is to be left to the mental level and carelessness of the share cropper and renter; then, do hot- begin it. The Smith method j will not admit of carelesSriess and indifference as to the time of plant ing cotton nor as to the time of removing the squares from the plant. In other words, it takes brains and' devotion to grow cot ton under the Smith method. On the other ham:, it takes brains to do anything worth while in this world: Constructively the Smith method seems to be a method of common sense. It shows beautiful research work and in Florida it certainly has been found to be a scientific method. But, suppose through some * cause or by neglect or lack of clock work the farmer late in June or early in July finds infested fields. Then what is to be done? It is'plainly seen that he can begin and keep up the usual dusting method. He does not lose his crop because Jhe Smith method failed him. He always has the dust ing method as a final recourse. It seems that we will have a calcium arsenute famine in 1923 and possibly two-thirds of the de- j mahd will not be filled. The Smith j method uses only seven or eight pounds pe acre, while the dusting method uses usually about thirty. Prof. Smith has given us new lines of thought and wholly new lines. His method is wholly harmless and : Its proven cost is but little, but his rules must be followed just as j a druggist follows a doctor's pre- j scription. ? ? ? i Every once in a while you find a su rn judge who speaks very sharply to a reckless driver who kills a little child. WANTED?Hardwood logs. We pay nighest cash price for choice Ash. Poplar, Cypress and White j Gak logs of standard specifica- i tions. delivered to Su niter by rail j or truck. We buy logs twelve J months in the year and give preference to loggers equipped to. bring in a steady supply. What] have you to offer? Stmiter riardwocd Co., Sumter, S. <j. ?. D. C. Convention Officers Ejected 1>y the An nual Meeting in Birming ; ham Birmingham. Ala., Nov. 16.?Af ter election of national officers at the morning session a luncheon, at which each state was represent ed at a separate table, and an au tonu ^ile tour of the city this after noon, delegates to the annual con vention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy tonight' observed historical evening. A lively fight developed in the annual election between Mrs. W. F. R. Byrnes of Charleston, W. Va., and Mrs. Chappell Cory of Bir mingham for the office of record ing secretary general. Mrs. Byrnes was elected by a majority of 154 votes. Five general officers, including Livingston Rowe Schuyler of New' York City, president gneeral,, was reelected, while four hew general officers were named. Treaded by Mrs. Schuyler. new official roster includes: First vice president general, Mrs. Frank Har rold, Americus, Ga.; second vice, president general, Mrs. Frances EL Ross, Riverside. Cal.; third vice president general, Mrs. W. E.. Mas sey. Hot Springs, Ark.: recording secretary general. Miss Allie Gar ner, Gzark, Ala.; treasurer general, Mrs. J. T. Biggins, St. Louis; his torian general, Mrs. St... John A. Lawton, Charlest?n; registra gen eral. Miss Ida Powell,. Chicago; custodian of crosses of honor, Mrs. Eastbrook of Ohio, and custodian of flags and pennants, Mrs. J. H. \ Crenshaw, Montgomery, Ala. Following the most heated de- j bate that has yet -been heard on I the floor of the convention, the I United' Daughters of the Confed- i eracy tonight voted to aid in the j remodeling of the Lee Memorial chapel at Washington and Lee uhi- ] versify. Strenuous objections to the pro- i posed change in. the building were 1 made by members of the Virginia i delegation led by Mrs. C. E. Boiling of Richmond, wh.o argued that for reasons of (sentiment the shrine should De* left just as the south-j em general had built it More than 30 persons had spok en upon the question before the vote was taken-, the delegates sup-j porting the plan of remodeling by j an overwhelming majority. Dr. j Henry Louis Smith, president of I the university, ? was present at the I session and refuted statements that i the chapel had been sacrilegiously] used for football rallies. The Rains banner, presented to i the state which collected during ! the year the most historical data: was presented at the night session \ to North Carolina: the Rose loving cup to Mrs. J. H. West, historian of South' Carolina; the Ann Robin son Andrews hiedal to Miss Ruby, Thornberry of Jacksonville, Fia:;; the Hyde medal to Miss - Beatrice! Meaghen of the District of Colura hia.? ' ??,. ' v ' ? *., % Mrs. Asa Roundtree presented; the Youree prize, which - went to j Mrs. Philip Holt of North Caro lina, Mrs: Lee Trammell of Geor gia and Mrs. D. D. Bradford of Pittsburgh. The St. George Schuy ler prize was presented to Miss Edith Pope, editor-in-chief of The ! Confederate Veteran. Raise Funds to Buy Paneho Villa Diamond Belt ? - ;" ??? ' ? San Francisco, Nov. ;io.:^-Sport enthusiasts of Manila have started a fund to buy a diamond belt for j Paneho Villa, the Filipino lad who took the flyweight 'title from Johnny Buff at Brooklyn, according to mail advices received from the Phippine capital. The fund in its first day reached a total of 4"50 pe sos." It's love, all right, if . he still thinks her beautiful with .the greater "part of a h ot dog parked in her face. ? ? + -'. There is something poignantly touching about* a "'fat man's con demnation of dancing. -' \ r,.i r1 -9 a ^" a,^. Argentine Investigator- ^Impressed Wah German Industry. Berlin, Oct. 23.?The rigors of the coming winter threaten to crack the morale of Germany's working:* classes unless the outside' world' alters its political attitude and the' mark improves, declared Dr. TKos. Amadeo, ? prominent' 'Argentine0 economist on the eve of hisr de parture from Berlin after a nation wide study. Dr. Amedeo is Argentina's direc* tor bf public instruction in agricul ture, professor of rural economy fh the Universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata, and director of the Museo SociaUArgentino, under the-1 auspices of whic hthe* late Theo dore Roosevelt visited ' Argentina." He resumes his duties as Argentine delegates to the International Agri cultural Institute at Rome' next, month, after spending a short time ': in France.- "* In spite of his fears'for the'eco-^ nomic position of Germany in the"' near future, 'Dr. Amadeo voiced the utmost praise for the industry *, now prevailing. "I have the impression,'" he said, "of having seen an enormous, swarm of diligent people led by in dividuals of unsurpassable compel tence in all classes and activities.*; The German people has the spirit . of work in its" blood and marrow and bone, and for that'reason- the German people will not go under as did the Austrian.'* He called attention, however," to * the increasing costs of living and'" to the'serious domestic results of* depreciation in the mark, warning that these factors'might prove a strain too severe for" the workers to stand. An economic collapse of 'Ger-. many, 'Dr. Amadeo was convinced,* would mean heavy losses for* all countries of 'North '" and * Soulth - Amerc?. On the other hand he be-'; lieved all .would profit, greatly if the position of Germany's industry were improved and ."her trade, were restored to its normal chan-.* nels. Regarding ' German-Argentina relations. Dr. Amadeo said he fo?nd ? many Germans wished! to 'go tb ; South ^ America, especially to Ar gentina,- but were unable to pay. the costs of the voyage* because' of the mark's low exchange value. "They are the sons of farmers, hand-workers, and persons ofjsinalf independerit means wh? seek bet^. ter prospects-,1" he explained1. 4The&\ would without doubt be very user-'* ful to the young lands of South America because of their techh?-' cal efficiency and their ambitions' to progress. Never would there be a better time than the present for' the founding of ? colonization company organized on a large; scale and promoted by farm and employment "circles." Dr. Amadeo incidentally ex pressed high confidence'in the re sults to be achieved by .an inter national congress" of ? Social'?Tf^ ? seums and similar institutions which he'proposes should be held at Buneos Aires under the aus pices of the Jiuseo Social Argten--: tino. He voiced the opinion^ that. these institutions should be more active in interriatfohal cooperation for the improvement of the con ditions of peoples. Still, it's about as safe to-be'an' Armenian in Turkey ais-to be a rector in America. >: 1# -? ? ? ' ? ? Even in the old days people**euss= ed their betters, but they didn't call ' it sociology. . Since 18 01 prices have dropped * 10 times and gone up 11. %- ; * TEN YEARS HENCE WILL YOU BE PROSPERING in BUSINESS or LOOKING FOR A JOB ? IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER OB NOT YOU HAVE STARTED TO SAVE. . First National Bank of Surater Plow your cotton stalks In now. ? ? ?.?? ' . ' 1 ii ><i FACTS WORTHY OP YOUR CONSIDERATION Our large Capital Stock and Surplus Indicate our Ability. Large Loans and Discount!)?our Liberality. Large Deposits?the Peoples' Satisfaction with our Service and Confidence in our Protection. We offer you our Service and Protection and want your. J Account. The National Bank of South Carolina The Bank With the Chime Clock. C. G. 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