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F?T?JRE SUPPLY OF COTTON Can the World Find New Sources of Cotton Production to Compete With the South ? (Manufacturers Record) A reader of the Manufacturers Record sends us a statement quoted from another paper -which, refer ring to the world's cotton needs, says: "America has reached her limit and other districts that are equally favored with soil and ?climate must undertake a share of I the burden of supplying civiliza tion's requirements." To this our correspondent puts the query, "Do you believe it?" J We do -not believe that America! has reached its limit of cotton pro- ! duction, despite the boll weevil, which will be eventually conquer- ! ed, for science is superior.?wheni put fully to the test,?to the de structive power of any such enemy! of crops. We believe that the South, can j increase -its cotton production with- j in a few years, when the boll weevil j lias been conquered, provided the world is willing to pay a profitable. price to the grower. We do not belive the South will] increase its cotton crop to any ma-: terial extent except on the basis of a larger profit to the growers than they have ever received in the past,! except for the brief period of the war.. J The South can turn from, cotton production to diversified agricul ture and industrial development and make for itself far greater wealth than it can by growing cot ton except at high figures?at least ' at high figures as compared with prices cf the, past. - j Cotton has been entirely too low since the Civil War. with the ex ception of one or two brief periods. Some New England and many for eign . spinners very frankly randj openly fought to break down the j price of cotton. They have denoun-j ced the efforts of the South to se-j < ure a living price. They have kept the -cotton grower, white and black, in deepest poverty. They have not cared how great was the poverty, how severe the sufferings of the cotton growers, provided they could' buy cotton at a low price and make, a big profit in turning it into the! finished. form. Well may the South rejoice that1 all of humanity is not built on that! soul-narrowing plan, but that many, / cotton manufacturers, in the south j and North alike, realize that the cotton grower is a part of human - j ity, rindTthat he is indeed a part of their business. The grower is a partner with the! *tnanufacturer. His success is es-j gential to the manufacturer's suc-j cess, if the manufacturer is to; - continue to have any raw material for his factory. The cotton manu facturers must recognize that the production of cotton is the first! Stage in the industry, without which 1 ?very dollar of their capital in-j vested in mills would be wiped out. j It has long been recognized by; the iron and steel interests of thej Country that they must have an' assured supply of iron ore, or other-1 wise their plants are valueless.. Most of the big companies base their entire industry on the owner ship of ore and coal lands. The cotton mills cannot in the same way own enough cotton lands to supply their raw material, but they must-with equal care see that the cotton growers are essential to their existence, and that the cotton growing industry is" safeguarded to such an extent that the.South will contintae to produce the supplies needed for the mills of America, and of the world. We do not believe tliat there is any other country in the world equally favored with soil and cli mate for the production of cot ton; or. if a limited area of th kind can oe found, it has not t labor supply -which will make co ton development an industry great importance. For one hun dred years the cotton growers England, and the Government i self, have concentrated their e forts upon producing cotton in Africa, in India and elsewhere, in order to be less dependent upon the South as a source of their supply. These efforts have accomplished but little. The promise of success is no greater today than it was seventy-five years ago. Despite all the work that has been done, de spite all the discussion in cotton mill and parliamentary circles in England and among cotton manu facturers on the continent, there is nowhere in the world any evidence of a sufficient increase in the world's cotton production within th? next quarter of a century' to mate rially affect the world's supply of cotton or to prove in any way a serious competitor with the South. Shortly before his death the late Edward Atkinson, who had been a cotton manufacturer and a close in vestigator of every phase of the cotton industry in this country and abroad, wrote the Manufacturers Record that he had investigated climatic and labor conditions in every country in the world with an earnest desire to find some region in whkh there could be developed a serious competitor with the South as a cotton producer, "but," said he, "there is no possibility, in my opinion, that within the next half century the South is to have any seriods competition in cotton grow ing." He frankly expressed his re gret that this was so. "because." said he. "vigorous competition with the South would force that section to produce cotton under better con ditions and handle it from the farm to the factory in a more economic way." Mr. Atkinson claimed that the only place in the world in which there was any prospect of serious competition with the South was ia portions of Argentina, but that there was no likelihood for half a: century of a sufficient increase in j population in that region to mate rially add to the world's cotton' ! supply. In the study of what England has; been trying to do for more than a| century in creating a cotton grow- J ing industry elsewhere, we can-< not find that there is the slightest j indication of any greater relative j j progress being made todaj- than I was being made seventy-five years { ago. When carefully sifted all ofj the reports about cotton growing in Africa and Brazil and elsewhere, amount only to a suggestion that.1 possibly within the next thirty to! fifty years some of these countries may develop into fairly large cot-] ' ton producing regions: but there is j no evidence whatever that for some years to come will their cot ton production increase to a suffi cient extent to take care of the ? J world's rapidly increasing demand J j for cotton. j The essential thing for the South to do is to produce first its own. foodstuffs in order that every farm er may be self-sustaining in the I matter of food and decrease its cotton acreage to such an extent that this may be properly handled through intensive cultivation. Cotton acreage should be largely decreased, it should be more heav ily fertilized and more intensively cultivated, and under these condi tions the boll weevil problem may be met and the South, continue to } raise a fair supply of cotton. We { see no likelihood, however, for some! years to come, of the South seri ously increasing- its cotton supply exerept at prices heretofore regard ed as impossible to secure. Moreover, it is the duty of every well wisher of the South to dis courage increased acreage in cot ton, .and to encourage increased acreage in foodstuffs. It would be a calamity to this section if the higher prices now prevailing should tempt the farmers to prepare for a larger acreage. They could not cultivate it properly if they did so.J j Slovenly cultivation would ? simply j increase the ravages of the boll weevil, and the destruction by the I weevil might far exceed any pos sible increase by larger acreage. I In a rather careful study for the last forty years of the efforts which : have made for over a century to grow cotton in other lands, the Manufacturers Record still adheres to the position which it has long held, that there is no serious com j petition with the South in sight for many years. It does not believe I that the South should make any ef ! fort to increase its cotton produc | tion over the yield of this year, ex j cept on a basis of "prices which i would make the world pay a living [ profit for this essential staple. Measured by :what should have] ; been a fair valuation for cotton] during the last fifty years, this sec- j tion has made a present to the' I world out of its resources of muscle iand brain and soul of not less than 20 billion dollars. j During that period its cotton crop, has sold for at least 20 billion dol-j lars less than a fair price would! 'have brought. ! The South has given of its vexy< j heart's bood for the enrichment of i others, the manufacturers and the; wearers of cotton goods throughout) the world. It has impoverished it-i self for their benefit. It has kept] its small cotton growers in pover-j j ty and in illiteracy. It has forced i them to live in huts unfit for human I habitation. It has permitted them ! to be enslaved, physically, financial iy and mentally, by selling their cotton at an average of less than! one-half of the price at which it should have been commanded dui> ing the last fifty years. The Southern cotton growers are now in a position to say that theyj wilf not continue in slavery mere ly to enrich others who are abun-| ; dantly able to pay living price for j ?what they produce. If the 20 bil j lion dollars which the South should ! have received in addition to what j it has. had from the cotton crops ? of the last fifty years had been paid j into this section there would have 'been throughout the South a de igree of prosperity commensurate \ with its marvelous advantages. . Everywhere would be seen comfort able homes for the cotton grower. Everywhere there vrculd be better I schools and better church build J ings and broader development of : whites and blacks alike. Women ; and children would have been kept j out of the cotton fields and the l wealth of this section today would ! be i'ar more than double what it is. ; be cause that ?0 billion dollars of extra income which it should have had, but of which it has been rob , bed?and we use the word robbed ; advisedly?would have been the basis for an increase in wealth which would have placed the wealth j of this Southern land qf ours be J yond our comprehension and made it a veritable Carden of Eden, a ' land of milk and honey, a land of ! education, of relicrious advance | ment. of moral upbuilding, a land j whose prosperity and progress ; would have commanded the admi ! ration of the world. It is now in the power of the people of the South?and every man. woman and child, white and black, is vitally interested in this j fact?to create through a fair price for a reduced cotton crop a pros perity rivalling that of any other country on earth. Co-operation between growers, ! land owners, tenants, bankers, mer chants, editors, teachers, women's clubs and all other organizations? a co-operation which means the betterment of humanity and the lif.ing up cf the downcast and the down-trodden?can bring this con dition about. Will the South real ize and utilize this opportunity? Easter Maud: Tiny Setting For a World Mystery. Easter Island, rumored to have; disappeared beneath the Pacific at the time of the recent destructive earthquakes shocks in Chile, is the subject of the following bulletin! from the Washington. D. C. head-' quarters of the National Geograph ic Society. "If Easter Island had sunk be neath the ocean as it was rumored to have done/ says the bulletin, "this final dropping of the curtain j on the island might have gone! some way toward solving its mys tery: for this tiny bit of land with) its unique gigantic statues isj shrouded in mystery and has re mained since its discovery one of! the world's unsolved riddles. One] theory has been that it represents! the last pinnacle of an ancient Pa-{ cific 'Atlantis' which disappeared! beneath the waters many centuries! ago-?a theory to which a disap pearance of the island might ob viously lend support. Far From Everywhere . "Situated 2.000 miles west of j South America and almost an equal! distance from other Pacific islands.' Easter Island is one of the most! isolated inhabited regions on thej globe. Its greatest length is less, than 15 miles and its greatest width about seven, but its triangu lar shape gives it an area of only 50 square miles. Many an island so small has gone practically unno ticed; but former inhabitants un wittingly 'advertised' Easter Island by setting up huge* images along its beaches: and to geographers and students of human institutions andj activities it is as famous as anyj island of the Seven Seas. "The mystery of Easter Island, became recognized when Dutch j navigators' discovered it on Easter: morning 1722 and reported that hundreds of strange stone figures! of men more than 30 feet high stood everywhere about its margins, i their backs to the sea. The na-j tives had only the crudest of tales to account for these images which] evidently had been fashioned agesi before. I "Recent study has shown that, the images were mounted on ter-j race3 below which the bodies of the dead were exposed and often bur-, ied. But whence came the idea1 for such statues on this isolated \ island, and how some of them weighing many tons, were moved: and "set in place by the natives, have proved baffling enigmas. Gigantic Statues Wear Hats "The statues were carved from volcanic lava on the slopes of an extinct volcano. Scores of them itmain still in and near the quar ries. Others have been moved var ious distances, some remaining horizontal, others placed in an up right position. Some were moved ?the natives say by magic?for miles across the island. Altogether nearly 200 ot the huge figures are now visible, and others are believed to have been buried in landslides. The largest standing statues are ; 32 feet high, but one still reclining in its quarry measures 64 feet in length. On the heads of many of the figures were placed great cylindrical 'hats' of a different col ored stone, each weighing several tons. "Easter Island, discovered by the Dutch and for a while possessed by. the Spanish, now belongs to Chile, but for long periods there has been no civil Chilean repre ; sentative in residence. A Chilean company operates a cattle and sheep ranch on the island which supports luxuriant growth of grass es. About once a year a ship calls, leaves supplies and takes away wool and hides. The cattle are killed for their hides alone, and the surplus meat is thrown away. Vaea For Base by Germans. "Only about 200 natives, Kana kas, now live on the island, but it is supposed to have supported sev eral thousand inhabitants in the past. Peruvian slave traders kid napped close to 1,000 at one time during the past century. Since then there has been practically no tribal organization. . "Easter Island played its part in the World War and evidently had figured for years in German naval plans over against 'der Ta?.' German vessels -from all ports of 'the Pacific quietly assembled there in the summer of 1014 preparatory to united action under Admiral von Spee. But it was a rendezvous with death. From there the as sembled fleet sailed to its destruc tion by a British squadron off the ? Falklands." ^Boll Weevil Exterminator?What Is It? j Clemson College. Dec. 7.?There has been referred to the Division 'of Entomology a card with the heading: "The South Aroused." etc ? This card advertises a boll weevil i exterminator, apparently lor sale j by Webster Laboratories, St. Louis, I Mo. It speaks of this boll, wee vil extt-rmiator having been test led, proven and endorsed by many 'big plantation owners of South ' Carolina. j . "We do not know what this ex terminator is." says Prof. A. F. i Conradi. Entomologist, "as to our j knowledge it has not been refer red to Clemson College lor exam j naiton. and we are interested to j know who are the Ing plantation i owners referred to in the adver I tisemeni. "L'nder date of November 6 we ( wrote to the address of Webster ? Laboratories. St. Louis. Mo., as glv j en on the card, but we have not j heard from them. As this: is a I time when we must consider every thing that may have any possible practical value in boll weevil con trol, we should be very glad to near from such plantation owners who have had an opportunity t>? :<?*?! this exterminator." Shouldering He "Hog Killing Time" ! - . j Important Points in Butcher ing Outlined ;._:_ ! Clemson College. Dec. 7.?Along . with the first cold spell come . 'thoughts of butchering time. Nine important steps in killing hogs j which make the work easier and ; produce better pork are suggested j bv D. T. Kerrman, Extension Swine ' Sj)ecialist. - ] 1. Select only those hogs which; ;are in good health and are gaining j I in flesh. Hogs which are losing. i flesh make poor moat. The weight j jand condition at which to kill de- ^ - ? j ponds on whether you prefer large or small cuts of pork and whether ? , you want a fat or a lean carcass. Most farmers kill heavy fat hogs. but the packers put a premium, on hogs .in medium flesh weighing j around 200 in 22"5 pounds. 2. Keep the hogs off feed for at j least 24 hours before killing and. keep them quiet but provide them with all the water they will drink. This clears the system of food, fa cilitates bleeding: ami lessens some danger in cleaning. Hogs that are excited before killing dress out a dark red carcass, and if they are whipped, or bruised in any way the bruised spots must be trimmed out. ; 3. In sticking avoid sticking the shoulder, for this causes the blooj' to clot and means a waste in trim ming. Place the hog flat on his back, make a longitudinal incis . ion in the neck, insert the knife '.l or 4 inches, with the cutting edsrj' towards the breast bone,' raise the,' point of the knife up against the! breast bone and withdraw. Then' ; lay the hog on his side to bleed ;out. Do not drag the carcass over ?the ground, as this bruises the , meat. I "-!. Scald 1 1-2 to 2 minutes, with water 14."> to 1G? degrees' ! Fahrenheit. Water hotter than !this makes the hair set if the ho;;, j is left in water more than one I minute. Water much cooler than j j this requires too much soaking to! I loosen the hairs. If you have no i thermometer, stick your finger ttito jthe water three tin.es in rapid sue-, ! cession. If the third time is a. lit-! j itl'.' too hot for comfort the water J ? is about right. Remove the hair ifrom the legs, ears, and head first as these cool most rapidly.- A tea [Spoonful or lye or a. small shovelful ! 'of wood ashes to 30 gallons of Wai ter will help loosen the scurf. Reyj j move as much hair as possible ' ?with thevscraper, because all hair .'that is shaved (iff will stand out [when the pork is cured. : 7). In removing the infes'ines i use the left hand inserted be jtween the intestines and the meat, to .^uide the knife and keep the in , testines from being cut. 6. Wash the carcass thorough-j jly both inside and out. j 7. Either remove the leaf fatj [entirely or loosen it and allow it i ltd hang by the upper end. This' j facilitates cooling. j S. Split the carcass down the! middle "f the backbone?-not on ? either side as is often done, for this; is a needless wast<?and on downj [through the head. In the South it! is a c-mimt':! practice, to cut the' flanks away from the hams, but in1 doing litis care must be taken not i to cut into the ham. These prac-j tices hasten thorough cooling. ? Never cut up the carcass until' 'ii lias had time ;?> copl thoroughly.1 ; liaise Technical School Standards. ? Tokio, Nov. 15.?The govern-' ment has decided t<> raise the To-; jkio and Oska higher technical: [schools, the Kobe Higher Com-j mereial school, the Tokio Higher! Normal School and the Hiroshima' [Higher school ti? a university stat-.i i us. A new denial college will be - I e s ta bl i s h e d ami post-gradu-j [ate courses will be added at u; higher schools. The course of ?study a! tlx- Tokio Foreign Lan rgcage school was extended, but noj {announcement made as to iis ? length. ith the perfect shoulders, Instituted Iptor, ended when his artistic eye a actress. Land Office Virtually on Current Basis. Washington. Dec. 9.?For the first time in years the work of the general land office is practically on a current basis. Commissioner Spry declared today in his annual report. Final homestead entries are now acted upon within thirty to ninety days after the final cer tificate has been ' issued, he said, and it: is no longer necessary for an entryman to wait two' years or more after having ' ;ubmitted sat isfactory proof for his patent. Approximately 5,000 more pat ents were issued during the fiscal year than in the previous one, in volving an increase of 2,787,000 acres. Of this increase; 2,459.833 acres were covered by en tries under the homestead laws, making a to tal of 9.632.635 acres patented un der these laws. Entries were al lowed for 10,367,153 acres of which 7.070,175 acres were taken under the stock-raising homestead act, and patents were taken out on a total of 12.904,821 acres, a substan tial increase over the area patent ed the year previous. Total cash receipts for the year showed a surplus of $3,848,598. The field service, entrusted with the investigation of all charges af fecting the integrity of transactions involving title to public land, as well as the protection of - public lands from trespass or unlawful oc cupancy, collected $199,059 and turned over to the treasury ? 179. 171 recovered through civil and criminal actions in cases of depre dations. During the year 117.535 acres were thus restored to the public domain. During the year 17,922 entries were allowed under the stock-rais ing homestead act, bringing the to tal number of entries under the act to 80.323, embracing an area of 31,407.991 acres: 8,399 patents were issued under the law, cover ing an area of 2.919,819 acres, bringing the total number issued to June 30 up to 14.130,000, for an area of 4.550,416 acres. There were patented under the act of 1908, applicable only to the state of Minnesota, 19,6SO acres during the year, making the total patented- under the act 1.021,920 acres. s + Substantial progress was noted in reclamation of desert lands: 3. 671 final desert land entries were received and 1.656 patents issued during the year as against 1,599 patented the year previous. Under the Federal Water Power Act. applications aggregating 674, 000 acres were received for action as against 552.590 the previous year. About 1,000 elections under the act were called for as against 500 last year, and in the majority of these cases elections have been filed and entries allowed subject to the provisions of the act. Under acts of congress confer ring upon former service men the preferential right of entry for ninety days in advance of other disposition of lands released from withdrawal or segregation or made subject to disposition through sur vey,or jesurvey, 475,790 acres .were restored to entry, and 1.S36, 900 acres opened on survey. During the year six national forests were enlarged, five undei special acts of congress, and one reduced. Three hundred more applications for mineral pat ents were received during the year than in the previous one. the ap plications embracing an area of 53.043 acres. Homestead entries in Alaska have been made exten sively: ~tZ original entries were made dui ing the fiscal year, em bracing an area of 10,611 acres, while 71 final entries were made What are you going to give yout wife for Christmas'.' Pick oui something she can't throw. A man is. a person who woulc rather g<? to his lodge and ride the goat than stay at home and be the goat. Five of our most beautiful words are "Mamma, the coal has come." DAUGHERTY FILES ANNUAL REPORT Attorney Genera! Recom mends New Judicial Organ ization For Federal Gov ernment to Clean Up Crime Cases Washington." Deo. 7.?A new basic judicial organization, to meet the augmented work which has result ed from "the ever-increasing com j plexity of government", was sug r ge.sted by Attorney General Daugh erty in his annual report, made public here today, on the opera tions of the Department of Justice. Noting that 66,722 criminal cases were begun in the last fiscal year, the report declared the point was being approached "where a re vamping of the machinery used in this work is inevitable.". Adoption of some method by i which the 'government could re tain attorneys who have* special; knowledge of government matters in addition to legal training was one of the several suggestions ad vanced by Mr. Daugherty. The recently enacted legislation provid-i ing additional judges should help; the situation, he said, but probably j will not entirely remedy it. "The failure of local self-govern-i ment in parts of the country/* the report said, "results "In the' in sistence of the citizens of those communities that the Federal gov ernment perform that function in I which the local government has1 ; failed, and frequently in matters ! where there is concurrent jurisdic-; tlon between the State and Federal! government it is difficult to estab-j lish a policy aS to the extent to* which the Federal, government' should take jurisdiction. This is peculiarly true of offenses arising! under the Federal reserve act, the! narcotic act. the Volstead Act, and ; the postal frauds act. There has; been an effort on the part of thisj ] division during this fiscal year to' I have the United States attorneys J ', and the state prosecuting attorneys j r meet, from time to time for the pur-j j pose of cooperation. Evidence of! ! the benefits of these meetings is ! overwhelming. I "The existing procedure for the! j removal of a defendant to the juris- j . diction where the crime was com-1 [mitted, is unduly cumbersome and! ; results in unjustified delay a^nd i ! injustice. Under such procedure | ! the trial is frequently delayed from i one to two years." < ? i ; Announcement was made in the ! report of* the "desire of the De fpartment to return, or to recom mend for return'* all property seiz ed under the Trading with the Enemy Act in cases where the owners come within "the enabling J section (Paragraph 9)" of the Act. j "The question in almost all of j these cases," Mr. Daugherty re j ported, "is -either of title of or cit ! izenship. For instance, the Alien i Property Custodian has seized and i now holds the property of estates, which are quite complicated, by reason of * the rights of United States citizens, alleged to have been \ acquired subsequent to the war. ! Oftentimes the question . becomes j one of the validity cf an assign [ment or the acquisition of title j prior to the war. and in this con ,-nection it is exceedingly difficult at j times to distinguish between the j pre-war ownership of a claimant i and a simple claim of indebtedness, jand it is then necessary to have the J question submitted to the courts, j "It has also been necessary to ; send representatives of the de" ! partment to Europe to secure evi jdence from those familiar with cer ; tain cases. This evidence was mate | rial in the- consideration and trial of these cast-? and in rbe deternii j nation of regain cla'nio, so that a j fair and impartial hearing could be j given to litigants and claimants, i In fact, it was usually at the re ; quest' of litigants and claimants j that those representatives were 1 sent abroad, and while such in ] vestigations and the taking of such I evidence served to acqommodate i claimants, it likewise protected the ! government in the administration i of the tusts created over these prop | ertie3. j "It may be expected that the i future will see any number of in j terpretations by the courts of the : provisions of section 9 and of the ! question as to whether trie litigant ? is a proper party claimant under i thia section. The questions of i ? law arising are many, and while. (? in general, it may be said that the provisions of section 9 do not con flict, it must be recognized that there exist some exceedingly close j questions as to which of the provi ; sions of section 9 control in certain I cases. The greater majority of the j precedents established by the courts during the past year have been fa vorable to the government." The report made no comment on . the railroad injunction case and ?'merely noted the legal situation ; arising out of enforcement of the j prohibition statutes outside the j continental limits of the United I States. "Since the 18th amendment of j the Constitution and Title Two of the National Prohibition Aci became effective." it said, "rum-running vessels of American and foreign registry"; carrying liquor from for eign ports to our shores, have swarmed along our seaboards, smuggling liquors into the United States in violation of our laws, i "Eighteen vessels of foreign reg istry and eleven of American reg istry with their cargoes of liquors ! have been seized. No American ' owned vessel can transport bever age liquors. Foreign registered j vessels can not transport beverage liquors within American territorial waters. Of the 18 foreign register ed vessels seized. 10 were found transporting and smuggling liquors within the 3-mile limit of our shores. The remaining S foreign vessels seized were hovering off our shores beyond the 5-mile limit, but within the 4-leauge zone of our shore line ami unlading their car- j goes to other boats to be brought ashore in violation of our statutes! known as the hovering acts. "The hovering statutes (Rev. Stat. 2867 and others provide that no vessel bound to our ports shall unload merchandise within four leagues of our shores, unless by a permit, without incurring a penal ty against the captain, to satisfy which the vessel may be subjected to forfeiture. "Foreign governments protest seizures of their vessels thus vio lating our revenue laws and smug gling liquors to our shores, because international law does not recognize our hovering acts as valid outside the three-mile limit, except^ as they may be applicable to our Own na tionals." The attorney general then called attention to the litigation over seizure on which the courts have ruled, or which now are pending. Only general reference also was made to litigation involving patents seized by the alien property cus todian, such as the Bosch Magneto and Chemical Foundation suits. "A number of suits" have been riled, the report said, to determine title to these patents and to de cide the ownership of the funds which have accumulated from tise of patent rights. . ? Post-war espionage by unnamed foreign governments was hinted at in the report submitted by the department's bureau of investiga tion. "The attention of the bureau has been directed," Director W. J. Burns reported, "to investigations of several individuals who have posed as representatives of foreign governments, resulting in the apprer hesion of the persons under in vestigation." Attorney General Daugherty rec ommended legislation "making* it a crime to kill an officer of the United States" while' executing a process. He called attention that while it is now deemed a crime to j assault or wound an officer engag- ] led in such duty, there is no law dealing with his killing. Need was ! cited also of a statute making it a, I crime "for & single individual to i . defraud or attempt to defraud the United States in any manner and ! for any purpose." j Mr. Daugherty said work was ! being pushed on the war contract ! investigation of the department and j that action was being taken, as j warranted, with the completion of the audit of each project. -. ? ?" ? ??? Dr. Barker's Lecture. ? i Dr. Charles E. Barker, of Grand I Rapids. Michigan, who was health [adviser to President Taft during I his administration., and a lecturer ' of national reputation, having spoken throughout the United {States under the auspices of the i International Committee of the j Young Men's Christian Association and the Redpath Chautauqua, spoke j m the PresbytfTHn church Sunday j night to a large and appreciative I audience, :his subject being "The j Road to Happiness." Dr. Barker, i who was in the city to deliver I three lecj^ires today, under the aus j pices of the Rotary club.' volun | teered to. deliver an address Sun j day evening. The Rotary cfub ettr j deavored to arrange for a union j service but this?was found to be j impossible, owiiig to previously j arranged special services in some I of the churches, so the offer of the j Presbyterian church was accept | ed. The address was helpful and [ inspiring and all who heard Dr. , Barker were delighted. \ Dr. Barker spoke to the boys j and girls of the' High ' School at J 12:30 today, his subject being I "How to Make the Most Out of i Life." He snoke for one 'hour I and received the closest attention. Monday afternoon at 4:15 he j spoke to women on "A Mother's j Relation to Her Daughter." AH j mothers and girls of High school j age were invited to attend, j Tonight at 8:15 Dr. Barker will deliver his address "A Father's Re I sponsibility to His Son," in the High school auditorium. AH fath : ers and young men are especialry j invited to attend by the Rotary j club. j Dr.. Barker is a man with a gen j uinely unselfish message. He real i izes the grave responsibility of par j ents who love their children?but who sometimes wonder how best they can impart those lessons which are so vital and yet so inti j mate as to be difficult of expression. No parent?father or mother?can j hear him without wanting to bless j him for making a hard task easy j and pleasant. His suggestions are i not only practically helpful and in i formative, but they have helped j thousands of loving but puzzled i parents to get closer to their, boys j and girls than ever before. Dr. j Barker is intensely human. He is i thoroughly in earnest. His motive j is to help you and to help you j help those yon lovo. I GOOD ROADS MEETING Columbia. Dec. 11.?A state bond j issue, for hard surfacing the main I highways of South Carolina was ! endorsed by a good roads gathering ? held in the capitol here today at I the call of Governor "Wilson G. Har vey. While some suggestion was ! made of a fifty million dollar issue, the amount and ways and means I of financing was left to a com mittee of seven, one from each ( congressional district. The com mittee is composed of: W. W. jSmoak, Walterboro: Capt. W. D. j Black. Williston: Senator E. P. Mc ! Cravy, Pickens; B. H. Peace, i Greenville: Col. T. B. Sprat* Rock ? Hill: Col. D. A. Spivey. Con way: and Claude N. Sapp. Columbia. Two hundred people attended the meeting. It is not true that New Yorkers sleep in their shoes so they will be ready when fire breaks out. Mexican bullfighters have a union and may strike for shorter horns. THE SHiLOH . i ROAD QUESTION 5 . y--: Secretary Reardon Explains Why Committee Did Not Appear Before Com mission Mr. W. W. Green in behalf of himself and other citizens of Shi loh township has* written Secre tary E. I. Reardon requesting the j statement published in The Daily Item that the committee of Shlloh citizens appointed at. the mass \ meeting in Shiloh school auditor ium on November 20th to appear before the Permanent Road Com mission, at its meeting last Thurs day, did not meet the commission , because the Shiloh committee ex pected Mr. Reardon to notify, this committee when the Permanent Road Commission would meet. Mr. . Reardon was not aware that this was expected of him because Mr. . \ I. M. Truluck of Shiloh is a mem ber of the Permanent Road Com^ mission and it was expected that he would inform this committee of ; the date of the December meeting % of the commission. Besides Chair- M man L. D. Jennfrxgs of the Perma- ; nent Road Commission said at the Shiloh meeting that the commission would meet on the first Thursday* in December. The Shiloh citizens have also re quested The Daily Item to say that . Shiloh has not given up the ef fort to have a hard surfaced road:" constructed well into Shiloh ter ritory and that this committee will meet the Permanent Road Com mission at its next meeting. The Shiloh citizens have also re quested the aid of the Sumter ' Chamber of Commerce and all of the business men and women of Sumter, the county seat in getting up a big mass meeting at Sumter the latter part of December, and also the assistance of the citizens . of Rafting Creek township -in at tending this meeting for the pur- * pose of asking the Sumter county Iegislative delegation to carry , out . the provisions of the resolutions adopted at the Shiloh meeting on * % November 20th, and the guarantee jof the former Sumter county leg islative delegation made at a meet ing .in Sumter on May 25th, 1920 to. the effect that the Permanent ; Road* Commission would build ten roads of a main highway system, leading to the .county lines on the* ; ten roads. And that if the bonds footed together with state and fed j'eral aid are not sufficient that the ^delegation will authorize the com-? (mission to sell additional bonds suf jficient to. carry out this program of j roaxl building. . The Shiloh citizens emphasize, j the importance of the business es tablishments of Sumter. joining foirces with the Rafting Creek and the Shiloh citizens in the approach ing meeting to help put over this? plan of giving the extreme western, and eastern sections. of Sumter county their share of the hard sur faced highway system. They aro, calling on Sumter's business and women to rally to the aid of Shiloh and Rafting Creek town ships. Mr. Reardon has-agreed to call, this meeting just as soon as he can communicate further with Shiloh and R?fitng Creek citizens, the lat ter of whom have also requested j 1 the Sumter Chamber of Commerce - to aid in bringing about this pro gram of highway constraciton, with the cooperation of Sumter's busi ness men and women and of Sum }ter*s. several business leagues and 'clubs also. . It looks as though the more hard, surfaced highways are' built the i more the citizens and taxpayers ! desire these kind of highways, and it seems that the taxpayers., believe that the best roads obtain able in the quickest possible time, especially of the kind that the Per manent Road Commission have already put down, the better it will be in. the fight against the boll' weevil, diversification of crojjs, dairying, marketing and general evolution of agriculture and allied^ business interests. Things are looking up, the farm ers are forcing the issue for all the hard surfaced highways that* Sumter county can possibly secure in the quickest possible time. That looks well, it is optimistic con structive, determined effort to keep_ Sumter couaty moving forward in the procession m of progress, not moving backwards. "When the farmers are yel?ing for thirty thou-* sand dollars per mile highways and willing to help pay for them, it looks like Sumter county "has a j future that means something de-v ?spite the old boll weevil. BIG LIQUOR SEIZURE Bottled in Rmd Booze Mas querading as Sweet Potatoes j Cincinnati. Obio, Feb. 10.-?Four ; thousand quart bottles of bottled in bond whiskey in 170 barrels labeled "sweet potatoes" were seized in the Big Four railroad yards here late today by federal prohibition agents and Cincinnati police. The accidental dropping of one of the barrels by a work man led to the discovery of the* j liquor which, according to the bill 1 of lading, had been ? shipped by j "James Davis" at Seabrook, S. C, ; to the Gordon Brothers Storage I company at Chicago. Longer dresses are here only for a short time. They are just to call I attention to girls' faces. ? ? ? Teachers have quit in West j Frankfort, 111., but. the kids fear '? the trouble will be settled. Seattle college girl demanding the <ight to wear running trunks has* the tight and left also. Closed autos and closed mouths [are becoming more popular.