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Abuse of Motor License Privileges State Highway Commission Formulates Plan to Regu late Agents ^Columbia. Nov. 22.?A plan, to stop the abuse- of the automobile demonstration license privilege was :V worked out by the state highway ?>??mission . at its monthly meet ing in Columbia yesterday after noon. . It was decided to sell .the ffiplup'icate "demonstrator plates hereafter at $2 each*, instead of fifty cents as heretofore, and to sell only as many as there are bona fide salesmen for any dealer. Here tofore the dealers have been care less in letting the duplicate licenses / :get inlo general use by owners. The new plan was suggested by the Columbia automobile dealers* as i soeiation. * The-commission also decided that hereafter the dqplicate plates is sued to demonstrators will be reg ? istered in the name of-the-dealer and also the names'"of his salesmen. I . Under the present plan a dealer's f license is $25 for one make of au tomobile, and ? 13 - for each' addi \ 4ional make^ handled, with the priv ilege- of getting duplicate plates, marked ? "demonstrator;" at fifty j "vents ea*fi The highway depart L -*ient has'been finding this priv j ilege greatly abused; probably un \ intentionafly, and it conferred with the automobile dealers here in an V effortr: to get a-remedy. The new ' plan was the result. The . commission also went into j the 'matter- of ? legislative pro gram' to be i^commended to the 5 iiext legislature, which*, convenes \ in J&nuary.- Governdr Hatvey ha? ? co nf erred with the commission re garding certain possible legislation. I A cohtmittee. composed or Chair - * maa-Ri G. -Rhett, of Charleston. C. i Ov H-earon. of Spartanburg. and [ Chief Engineer Charles H< Moojre i field, of Columbia^ was appointed ! to work out the legislative recom l mendatioss i&or-^lhe geberar assem | bly. = \ m One matter: which the highway j department' is anxious to have I brought a bout is some - plan for ; ecnalixing the highway; ' m?inten $ ao-ee program of the state. At pres -? ?nz part of the automobile license ^ money goes to maintaining county 5 highways. However, some of the > eoiKjties have more highway - k mileage for maintenance- than oth ers, in proportion to their receipts from ~the license fand. It is hoped that some-relief for these coun ties can be effected: Numerous oth er matters are being given tenta tive consideration, but the com mittee is to work out the recom mendations. * Members of the commission re turned to their homes Tuesday night. i X ? ? ~r ?". Spend More Moneys Don't Save Ford Says Man's-Career Be gins at Forty Years of Age ; "Until he is forty, a man should be-..'gaining experience: he should be learning all he can. particularly bow to. spend money," says Henry Ford, in a Boston interview. Spend your money-?on yourself: get all the experience you can. Don't try to save money and be a miser. "Give me the man of forty who ha*- had lots -ofr experience, and if he's1 honest and truthful his sue cjsss is a certainty. *'l was thirty-eighf or thirty nine years old before r began to think very much about making money. Eefore that I was too busy learning things and getting ex perience, which I have found to ,be of great value to me in recent years. ' Now a man should not be-dis couraged because he wakes up one day- and realizes he is forty years ?Id and hasn't anymoney. He is really better off it he has a clean record and has gained much exper ience, because he has the incentive to put his experience to practical use and profit by it." During the Ja'.k, for it was more of a friendly chat than an Inter view. Mr. Ford revealed what he believes to be the secret of his amazing success aud why he is con fident that plenty of riches will con tinue to roll in /or years to come. "My son and he said, "have often talked about this, and-we are x agreed as long as our motive is to provide employment for just as many people as we possibly can we will always have plenty of money. I haven't really tried to make money in recent years. I realized long ago that I had all the money 1 needed. *'Some representatives of Hugo planes came to our l>etroit ofiiees recently.. I asked them what Stinncs was trying to do: what they were after. They admitted motive was to make money: they were out to g?-t control of bus iness and Uj make all the money they could. "If that were our motive I wouldn't be very confident of our future. We are now employing about loo.yo^ people and we hope to employ many more. As long a* that is honestly oar purpose?to }rt*ovide lucrative employment for just as many people as possble? my son and I will always have pV-nty of money to* do the things \ 'e want to do." ? o ? This is the time of year when the apple trees suggests only one thins?cider. 4 0* O) <* Tennessee man got shot because ?it wasn't loaded." It was not a ggm. It was dice. ?you can hardly blame the north ?wind for whistling. It is going south where it is warm. \n ounce of invention is worth a pound of work. Ferghana: Russia's Listening Post hi the Heart of Asia.* n I Continual reports from Moscow that the Soviet government is seek ing to become a leader of Asiatic peoples, and her recent evidences ! of friendliness toward the Turks, arounse interest in Ferghana, the country which was the Russian empire's deepest southeastern wedge driven into Asia. A bulletin from the Washington. D. C, head quarters of the National Geographic Society deals with this counrty of deserts and oases, towering moun tains and picturesque valleys, where the territories of Russian, Chinese, and Briton almost meet. "Ferghana, formerly Kokan, has numerous bids to fame." says the I bulletin, "but among them two ! stand out. Its northern valleys constituted the heart of Russia's cotton producing country, and its borders south and east marked the terminal moraine, so to speak, of the great. Slav glacier which had j moved slowly down through Asia f bringing its deposit of Russian do ; minion and culture, until it hung j over both India and China. Is a Russian Kashmir "The'southern portion of Ferg | hana- is a sort- of Russian Kashmir, i a-country of . high plateaus and towering peaks, deep valleys, pic , turesque vales and sparkling lakes. It is, in fact, the reverse to Kash mir's obverse, .for it lies just over] the Tnountain divide from that bet-1 ter ;known synonym for - rugged j beauty:, so close that a Titan?or | at: Big Bertha?might hurl a missile hfcom Russian -to British territory, jdnly a narrow strip- of Afghan ! hind, reserved because of the. long [iealousy and diplomatic struggle j"between. Britain ami' -the old Rus"- j [sian Empire, lies between. Inj places it is as narrow as twenty j miles. ? j f^y-This southern-portion of Ferg-j j hana is the Pamir, 'roof of the| j worlds Once Russia finally gotj possession of it in 1893, she drew even tighter about- it the cloak of secrecy that nature had all along j maintained. It becan:^ generally; z^nown that excellent- mill ary roads were reaching out from ' northern Ferghana through gorges and ' over .lofty - passes- into the - Pamir/ over which artillery could be taken to the very threshold of British India. But j few persons ether than trusted im-j I ptfrialists were permitted to tra-i ! verse these paths which Russian i rdreamers- hoped would some day lead their empire still farther south, i I Northern Ferghana Fertile. "Whrle the southerii end of Ferg-; , hana is a country of rugged moun- j I tains and plateaus, the fertile val-1 [leys of its northern end constitute a| : Central Asian Eden. Snow-fed rills ! and rivers, always fullest in thie; warm growing season, were led out over fertile plains until they died in j the^sands; but in the dying they* made northern Ferghana a garden spot of grains and fruits, and after [the Russians came, of precious cot ton. The cotton produced in these j and neighboring * Turkestan oases before the "World War, was great er than that of India or Egypt and second only to that of the United States. j j - ^In Ferghana and its neighbor-1 ;ing countries of Central Asia there was'undoubtedly ,a very early de velopment of cvilization, even though-they may not have been, ^as some students have asserted, the cradl? of the htrtnan race. : And probably there the art of irriga tion was practiced as early as any! jwhece in the world. j Many Times Overrun. "Like all other regions of Cen tral Asia Ferghana felt the heel of Cheng's Kahn and. ' Temerlane^ It was overrun too from Chinese Turkestan which lies against it to the east. When Mohammedanism arose to power, it was conquered by the Arabs and its people have since been followers of the prophet. ."Russian dominion came slowly j to Ferghana, then the Khanate of Kokan. After the more western portions of the Trans-Caspian re gion and Turkestan had fallen. Russian' arms finally conquered the warlike Tekke Turkomans who blocked the way to Ferghana's fer tile valleys. It was not until 1803 that the slow-moving Slavic glacier i had engulfed the southern terri-; tory of the old I\hanate. "With the Russians came** organ izing abilty. development, railroads,! ! prosperity, and a smattering at least of western civilization. To the rail ' bead at Andijan, aimed at the heart : of Asia, ran the modern expresses; from Petrograd, with their sleep ing car* and spotless diners. And a few miles south began the mili taiw roads that lost themselves in ! the mysterious Pamir. ? "The Bolsheviks at first lost con ; trol of Ferghana as of many of its neighboring regions. But by force ; o." arms and diplomacy they have won it back after a fashion. "If Russian power has a renas* cerice in Asia either by ^domination or through leadership Ferghana <-an hardly escape assuming its old importance as a source of raw ma terial for?? Moscow's cocton factor ies and as a watch tower and lis tening post over against the In dian and Chinese frontiers." The Silver Lining. "Mister.** began the seedy-look ing man. "I haven't got no home and-" "No taxes to pay!'* Interrupted the man addressed "no coal bills! no worry lest the landlord raise your rent. Permit me to congrat ulate you." "I have ab job and-" "Lucky chap! No danger of get ting fired." "But I'm serious, mister. I have no money and-" "Xo temptation to spend it fool ishly on able-bodied beggars. Why. you're the very child of fortune Good-day! ? Boston Transcript. We may live too fast, but very few girls born in 1900 are 20 yet. ? ? ? We have setting-up exercises. Mit don't need sitting-down exercises. Cassina Ready For the Market ___________ Special Half-Pound Packages Offered at the Charleston County Fair (News and Courier). Half-pound package .of cassina. i made from the leaves of the cas- | sink, or Christmas berry, will be j offered for .sale at the Charleston) County Fair under government j auspices. These packages werei prepared at Mount Pleasant on i the farm of Mr. Alfred Jourannet1 under the personal direction of Mr. 1 George F. Mitchell, federal ~ tea j expert, known afts one of the world's authorities on tea. In the same booth, it has been i [arranged to dispense something! like thirty gallons of soft drinks in which oassin ca^fein has been utilized as the-base. These sam ple drinks will be given away and it' is believed that they will at tract much attention. The syrup was manufactured in Washington from cassina prepared at Mount i Pleasant. 1 I Mr. Mitchell has returned from [Washington in order to take part [ In the cassina demonstration at the county fair. -He has received jcruite a number of inquiries from I Eastern men of business who ap I pear interested in cassina as a j commercial enterprise. It is Mr. j Mitchell'*: opinion that it will not j be long before cassina is oh thei market.as an active competitor of! tea: He has-pointed out that cas-j sina is not to be confounded as al substitute for tea. though in taste | they are fairly similar. Cassina. j Mr. Mitchell holds, is a beverage on its own merits, which have been thoroughly tested. In the circumstances it is felt that these packages of cassina will find ready sales, as they will be appropriate for Christmas gifts, the cassina being also known as the Christmas berry. It is an- j noune'ed that these packages willi suggest Christmas. Six thousand I pounds Of cassina in half-pound! packages, will be on sale - in the; cassina booth. Mr. Mitchell sug- ? j gests that 'many persons will be j rglad of an opportunity for sending! some, of the packages* ,to distant; friends at Christmas. "When the carry settlers of the southern part, of our country ar-: rived, they ? fourtd the Indians j along the coast curing the leaves j of our native cassina or "Christmas j berry tree," which you all know is( a species of holly, and preparing] from them 4 a drink which theyv praised very highly as a stimulant, ( and which they used as an every-j day drink, much as We now use tea j and coffee," Mr. Mitchell said in: an address. A*The history of the use of this I jplant by the Indians is even1 more ? ; interesting and fascinating than - (the history of the early use of. tea j and coffee by the Chinese and Ara- j ! bians. There is hardly a report or j [narrative relative to the Indians' I by any of the early explorers or settlers of our country that does! not make mention of the use of j this beverage by the Indians,' who j |;had great confidence in its stimu- j lating and curative qualities, even to a point of reverence, using .'t in connection with their religious ceremonies. "Perhaps the earliest mention of I cassina occurs in the. ''Migrationj Legend of the Creek Indians.' Xo j doubt you remember the story of this lost tribe, known in history j as the Kasihta tribe, which is sup- j posed to have started from some' point west of the Mississippi, or inj Southern Illinois or Southern Ohio, J and traveled west, then south, i then southeast, until they-reached ? Eastern Georgia. There they met a| tribe called in tlfe legend the Pala- ; ehucolas. who gave them' cassina,. which the Indians called 'black drink,? as a sign of friendship, and said to them: "'Our hearts are white and yours must be white, and you must lay down the bloody tomahawk and show your bodies as a proof' that they shall be white/ Later, in' 1735. the chief of- this same; ! tribe read the legend, which wasj [ written in red and black characters! [on a buffalo skin, to Governor Ogle- j j thorpc and many British authori-. ' ties. ? ! ? ' Cassina was not only used by j the Indians of the Southern ai d j Gulf States, where it grew nil I along the coast, bul 'was traded to j jthe Indians of the -.mountains: j where it always brought a high! j price in exchange for other articles. I It is interesting to note that be- I (sides using the wild' plants, they: (also planted and cultivated the cas-j 'sina around their dwellings in their J villages. The Spanish settlers of! Florida and the French settlers Of] Louisiana learned the use of tills j beverage from the Indians ji o.a j the-'Very beginning. "During the War Between thci j states, when the south was cut off i from its source of supply of tea iand coffee, cassina. was prepared Jin a very crude way and used not I Ohly by the soldiers in the /field,-j but by a large number of southern families, and even to this day it ! is being prepared and used in ! place Of tea and coffee by certain [classes, especially in Xorth Caro I linn itnd Virginia. In the latter j state this crude product Can even I be purchased from country stores." i Steinmetz says four hours is a 'day's work. Tin boss says it is ; hard to get a man to work that i long. J When noses arc red and people are blue and ???al is so high?- Oh,' u hat'll we do? t ? -? ? mm*- - The world series is now over and live all suppose tlmr Miller Muggins knows one thi^g that money can'ij buy. We do not see where they g:el the name of "wold cat" operations! from, for there is no one wild aW?ul j it but the guy that bites. ' Silhouettes this season are various "with the full skirt, the sHghtly- n't (varied' with'drooping panels <or ^side" up and down silhouette with the bl rates the sleeves for fashionable efft ? ? T Ticino: Switzerland's Italian Can lon- . ? , i A major item of- geographical' news arises from the accession ? of the Faseisti in Italy because of Mussolini's reported announcement that his government will seek the : transfer of the Swiss Canton of Ticino to "Greater Italy." "Italy's irredentism. born in the late seventies of the last century,; bore fruit when the Trentino re gion came to her after the World . War. With that encouragement it is not surprising that her dream of j uniting Italians under the Italian government should persist. ' | "Ticino is so situated and so pop- : ulated that it could not well help being the next place for the irre dentist lightning to strike. This canton makes a trowel-like thrust into the saw-tooth boundary of northern Italy?a thrust which be comes especially conspicuous since s'milar Austrian projections were ironed out. At the Tunnel's End. "There is no gainsaying that Ti-' cino is thoroughly Italian in race,' language and culture. It is aV question, however.' whether the Ti elhesfc wish to forego their hard won status as a fairly autonomous, unit of the Swiss confederation for government by their home land. Ac ross the Alps lies Italy, for the [ southward traveler through the Simplon tunnei. To all appear ances the south-bound passenger emerging from the St. Gothard tunnel also is in Italy. The little town of Airolo has every aspect of the "Land of the Madonnas' and down the course of the Ticino river into that wondrous valley of plen teous waterfalls, the Leventina, the people, the scenery, even the vege tation is distinctively Italian. "However Airolo is on the north ernmost frontier of the Swiss Can-' ton, and after passing town after town which exert the spell of Italy, the traveler finds himself at Ti cino's capital of three castles. Bel linzona, where the St. Gothard line forks. "Locarno beckons from the east, rnly fourteen miles away, and, Lugano allures him to the south. Having gotten this far into Swit-j' jcerland's Italian Canton, where ?? American visitors arc few and Ger-. man guests formerly were many,' the wise traveler would see both. Lowest Spot in Switzerland. "Locarno offers the famous Con vent of Madonna del Sasso, with its magnificent view along the Maggia' Valley and across the Maggior--? Lake. This valley is one of the deepest In the Apis and its river gathers in the torrent waters from many tributary vales. P>eing less than TOO foot above sea level is a distinction in the land of the Alps.' in fact Locarno can advance a ten-! able claim to being the lowest spot; in Switzerland. "Lugano aspires to a more far-; reaching superlative?to that of occupying the most beautiful lo-j cation in Europe. Rivals are many\ for thai distinction but when one submits to the spell of the lake encircled :Monte San Salvatore and, Monte .Generoso across the Luga-! no wat< rs he is likely to throw dis-i crimination to the winds in un-. questioning enjoyment of his hours, amid such beauty. It* 'scenic de- j termination" figured in politics the almond and the orange trees, the' meadows ana the groves, all shout; aloud that the austere grandeur of the Swiss Alps have here given way to the softer seduction of an Italian landscape. Ti< wiese Founded Delmonico's. ! "The T?>:nesc are industrious growers of vineyards and gardens. Their canton is-smaller \v. area than Rhode Island. Despite mountains] and glaciers they have two-thirds of*R under cultivation. "Industry is so littl<> developed thai men must farm or migrate, and' s<i many <<;' them leave that women arc in the majority by several thousand. Sons of Ticino found-! od the silk industry" in Zurich and Variable j and variable."" There is the basque, ted bodice'with long straight-skirt ' drapes) and, by way of variety the oused bodice. This usually exagge* set r PLAN FOR WEEVIL CONTROL Recommendations for boll weevil* control adopted unani im'osly at the conference of agri ? cultural scientists and scientific ?farmei*s, held in Columbia No vember IS on call of Governor Wilson G. Harvey, are as fol lows: Destroy the weevil's winter quarters, by plowing under cot ton and corn stalks and by clean ing terraces, ditch banks and other trash on the farm; Prepare land early and thor ?? o?ghly. Plant best seed of up proved varieties. Among the best varieties are Lightning Ex pr'ess.' Cleveland Big Boll. Delta, Type and (on wilt-infested land) Dixie Triumph. Tse fertilizer sufficient, such as would make a bale of cotton per acre in an average season with out the presence of the-weevil. This will vary on individual farms. Make, side applications of soda early, before the first . ,bk5oms appear^ Plant as soon as ground is warm. All cottou in a given community should be planted at about the same time (from the first to the-middle of April). 'Practice frequent shallow cultivation to keep up fruiting. Practice thick spacing. Practice early square picking if cheap labor is available. This must be done very thoroughly every five days if possible in or der to be effective. Definite recommendations on poisoning are deferred for fu ture consideration by this con ference until after the propos ed conference at Washington has been held to determine upon the general policy tu be recom mended for 1?23-. Develop a fertile soil as the best asset to farming under boil weevil conditions. Van Dyke Replies To Edison Charge Professor of English at Prince ton Criticises Thos. A. Edi son For His Attack on College Graduates Princeton, N. J.. Nov. 22.?The recent criticism of college men by Thomas A. Edison has Brought forth a reply from Dr. Henry Van Dyke, author and professor of Eng lish at Princeton university. "He is right in saying that our colleges are not what they should be.J' said Dr. Van Dyke, "but he is dead wrong in thinking that he could make them s<>. The very things that he blames in them are best and most hopeful. The objec tion of college education is not to enable a man to make a living, but to teach him how to enlarge and ??m ich his mental and moral life, to l?e more of a man. to be a real per son and not a cog in a machine of industry or trade." "The trouble with Edison's idea of education is that he merely waats labor that he can use in btismess. The college, at least most of them, want something bet ter, men who can use their minds intelligently and sympathetically with the larger purpose of man kind." S<> live that you think ail people better than you know they arc. Only safe place for a speeder is the Sahara desert where roads are as wide as they are i>?;ig m ? ?? - A new device changes people's noses. Slicking them where they don't belong does the same. M?sl men t>-U their wives every th'ns even if they don't know it. Shipping Bill Fight is Started Special Resolution Gives the Measure Right of Way Soldier Bonus Issue Raised Washington, Nov. 22.?The road was swiftly cleared today for an early end of the house fight over the administration -shipping bill, which will begin tomorrow. A special resolution giving the bill right of way was put through the house by a vote of 200 to 110. Three Democrats supported and sixteen Republicans opposed it. Generally speaking, leaders.said, it did not indicate the lineup when the House voted on final passage November 29. Democrats agreed at a party caucus to .stand solidly against the measure, enactment of which was urged yesterday by President Harding in an address to a joint session of congress. One Demo crat at the caucus. O'Connor, of Louisiana, served . notice that he would not be bound * by the decis ion, at the same time announcing he was in-favor of the bill. The three Democrats joining Republicans in the vote: . . O'Connor, Lea, (California) and McDuffie, ((Alabama). Republicans voting against were: Beck, Browne. Frear. Lampert, John M. Nelson and Voigt, all of Wisconsin: Boise Dickinson, Hu*i Kopp, bowell and ToWner. Iowa: Clague and Keller, Minnesota; James. Michigan, and Sinclair, North Dakota. ; . Representative Longon, 4 Social ist, New York, stood with the op ponents. i The soldier bonus iss?e was [raised by Representative Johnson,, ! Republican, South Dakota, who !announced he would vote to per Imit the house to consider the bill.; [but would not vote for its passage. [Mr. Johnson declared no part}; j could survive that refused to give, a bonus to soldiers and then give a bonus to ships. Sharply contrasting views ?were presented by Representative Mon-, dell. Wyoming, the Republican leader, and Representative Garrett, Tennessee, the Democratic leader. Mr. Mondell asserted that the Re publics, administration had- not been able in 18 months to Cure the evils left by the former adminis tration particularly with reference' to the shipping problem. Turning to the members on the Republican side, Mr. Mondell said they could not escape' the responsibility of meeting the issue in this congress. Mr. Garrett declared that.in at tempting to force the bill through "the Republican administration with the death rattle in its throat was running true to form in fa voring the special interests." It was surprising.' he - said; that rile drive for the .bill should be made immediately after the administra tion had been, "repudiated and j discredi ted" at the polls. ? * i Chairman Campbell, of the rules committee challenged opponents of j the bill to bring forward some thing better. I 'Republican leaders asserted'the ?bill would pass the- house with at ! least 25 votes to spare, but they 1 declined to speculate on its chances j in the senate. The view was'ex pressed by others that if defeated it woul? go down at the hands of the Republicans and that the question of final enactment by the house depended-- *upon the fate of' amendments offered. i. : ? , r> mm^A j Cotton Men Gather Plan to Organize County^ Units is Made Kingstree, Nov. 22.?A mass meeting of ihffuentiar cotton and tobacco growers of Williamsburg county was held at the court house here^ yesterday afternoon to take preliminary steps toward organiz ing local urtits throughout the coun j The Cotton Growers Coopera tive Association and the Tobacco Growers* Cooperative" Association together with the extension ser vice of Clemson College are work [ ing together to form the com I munity or school house organiza ! tions. From these various locals it , is intended to form a county or iganization. and a meeting for this I purpose has been appointed for December '5. i At yesterday's meeting Mr. T. j ,'M. Cathcart. county agent, pre-! I sided. The Tobacco Growers' As-i jsociation was represented by W. E. j ! Lea, of the field service division. | iE. C. Brown, of the Cotton Grow-] j ers' Assocarion, was present and I made suggestions. The object in! j forming these local and county i units was explained by Messrs. j Lea and Cathcart. Besides the so jcial advantages and promoting 'community interest and studying j community problems. it was pointed out that these local units j would be of wonderful benefit to ! the membership in keeping them [fn touch with the doings of the j association correcting false reports, studying cost of production, im j proved methods of product Ton and [grading; developing community' leaders, increasing the member ship and doing group work with I the extension service of the coun ty. , m m j Cafe men agree to call beef stew ! In ? [ s(?>w on the menus. But what [will chicKej) salad be called? "Oh. we called about the flat j advertised." j -Well. I did mean to let it. but 'since I've r^a<' the house agent's [description of it. 1 really feel I can't part with it." m ? *> 1 A loose screw on the door is worth two in the head. <m> ? ? If your enmeies weiv as bad as you think they wuold be worse than j they are. SEES "TITANIC" STRUGGLE IN U* S. Catholic Leader Issues Warn ing on Education . Washington. Nov. 22.?Warning that a "titanic struggle is impend ing" as regards the relationship of Democracy and education was given tonight by Rev. James Ryan, di rector of the department- of edu cation of the National Catholic Welfare Council in an address be fore the second annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women. The speaker asserted that the "controversy" had passed from th-i stag'* of ac-odemic discussion and had entered the "broad arena of practical politics and united ac tion." I ' Two philosophies of .education tare contending for mastery in the j United States, according to the j speaker, who described the one as the nationalistic point of view and the other as "the traditional Amer ican attitude." "I do not exaggerate when I say," Mr. Ryan continued, "that we are face to face with one of the most momentous crises in the his tory of our country, and may I add. too, of our (Catholic) church, thai we ever have been called upon to participate in. Upon its outcome depends to a great degree the orien tation of the United States, the per petuity of our democratic institu tions." The convention also heard the subject of education discussed by the Rev. William J. Kirby, a. fac ulty member bf the National Cath olic Service School, who spoke or the subject of the opportunities, as ?well as duties, presented by the school. The annual report of the service school was rendered by Dr Anne M. Nicholson of San Fran cisco. ?} The day meeting of the conven tion was occupied in receiving re ports from the various committeei and diocesan representatives and. 2 visit to the White House to*meet the President. -* * * Korean Mining Outlook Defrress *,_ . Seoul. Korea. Oct. 7v?It is fear* ed the outlook for mining in Ko rea Is'not very promising, at leasl in the immediate future.k There was a great boom in Tungsten ores dur ing the war as the strong demand and high prices prevailing made it possible to open up many promis ing prospects with a small out lay of capital from the surface workings, of which the natives were able td reap a rich profit foi themselves and the buyers whe handled and cleaned the product With the ~ decline of prices and in creased difficulty of working with ;add< d depth, the. industry" complete ly stopped, untir today there is not a single active working mine. ' All the successful gold produc ing mines-in Korea are the resull of a combination of foreign energj and capital. The only copper mine in the country that has ever pro duced in quantity is Kapsan. Bit jjmindus coal .in. Korea, so far a.c ; developed, fs mediocre at best, late j m origin, and in many cases rijb ; ning. into lignite. There is a good anthracite horizon but the most ; accessible was at once ^aken over bv the navy. j * _m* ? m> ? ? - I ? " - - : SouthV leadership in Sanrttarion i ? ? (Manufacturers Record). ? Norfolk has a wonderful ri?ew j market house. In design, equi.V ; ment, conveniences and health ?conserving mnbvatfdns, it wop3d I seem that this building leaves nothing to which modern sanitary science could add. A great creditio the important Virginia city; in *hich it Is located, it is also ah example to cities elsewhere, in the country generally as well as in the'south It is another demonstration, iur , thermore. of the fact not universal ly recognized that in many1 mas ters of sanitation the south ia now and has long been the leader 4h , the United States and therefore ^n the world. \ The records show that not only j through southern, initiative was-the : yellow fever terror banished from the south and practically from the world, but nowhere- were stornier 1 and more effective measures taken ! to prevent the bubonic or black ! plague from getting a- foothold in t America. In whole cities, such as New Orleans, Mobile and other ! seaports, every building was^tnade absolutely rat proof, so that , no where could the plague carriers find lodgement, even ^should they break through the shlpside precau tions against their' dei>aj*atioa. The individual drinking cup a&d the' anti-fly crusade, now of; uni versal adoption, originated - in. the south. "I New Orleans, to the unknowing !{a synonym for,."the city care fof "^got," inaugurated and maintained, - a dozen or so, years ago, such ? rig ? id system of inspection and sani tation in its hotels, restaurants, and - 'market houses as will be found even -.today in few if ?ny eitles north of Mason and Dixon line. Under..the direction of the State Board of t j Health," the kitchens of -all pubifc eating houses were put "in a thor ough sanitary condition, the mar ket houses were cleaned - -and screened, and waiters were not-al lowed even to carry an uncovered tray of oyster* on the half shett^to a customer across the street. ... up In Stauntbn, Va., a^ market house was erected -spme twenty years ago which had every sanitary feature that could he deyisWat the time, and all over the south there has been for years an advance in these matters, such as the larger si cities of the north have not. yet j [known. Norfolk's latest example aeTves, > j to call attention to a fact -whioh . .should be widely known and pcoSt :|ed"by. -j Brinks are useful in their piafce t j but hot where'T seen a fellow set one the other night. . Two's company/three's an argu ment. m o 9) Laugh and the world will laugh with you, grbim'and they^ll a? Ia?gh at you. ? ? ? / - -v k "We are in the market at all times for large or | small quantities of pine logs and green pine boards.. I Write or phone us if you have any of this stock to f I , offer.'5 Sumter Planing Mills & Lumber Co. s?mtee, s. c. TEN YEARS HENCE WILL YOU BB PROSPERING m BUSINESS or LOOKING FOR A JOB ? IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU have started TO SAVE. First N ational Bank of Sumter Plow your cotton stalks in -now. FACTS WORTHY OF YOUR CONSIDERATION Our large Capital Stock and Surplus Indicate our Abihty. Large Loans and Discounts?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 Account. The National Bank of South Carolina The Bank With the Chime Clock. f C. G. Rowland, Pres. Earle Rowland. Cashier