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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
RAILROAD RATE
- INCREASE

.Colunibia, Feb. 22.-Jas. l.. Sims.
clerk OF the federal court of the east
trn district .of South Carolina, will
within few days serve ON agents
OF all the railroads operating i'm South
Carolina copies of the bill If COM
paint prepared 10y acting assistant at
.torney general Morris G.. Lumpkln in
the case with which the state of
South Carolina hopes to head off,
the Increase OF intra state passenger
fAres and prevent the recent order of
the Interstate commerce commission
NOM taking effect OH March 81. by
which. N II does take effect. passeng-
er fares within the state will be in
creased twenty per cent. and switch
ING charges one hundred and fifty
per cent.
~ Judge Smith refused to issue the iII-
Junction against the Increased rates,
which Mr.. Lumpkin and Attorney
General Wolfe asked him to issue last
saturday. stating that he did not have
jurisdiction I'm the case. II requires
three judges to hear this complaint,
and Judge Smith will have to- ar
range for the sitting. IL is under
stpod the judge will cndcavor to hear
the case dur.ag March. following the
spring term o; federal court i'm Flor
snce. which starts March /.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
CONTEST, OVER
LABOR LAW
Complaints Filed Against Gotten
Mills

Columbia. Feb. 22.-That thu cot
ton mills OF the state are not violating
any law with regard 10 the mum Der Of
hours operatives are employed in any
one week is the substance of a state
mcnt made public in Columbia today
by the department of agriculture,
commerce and industries. in reply to
certain anonomous letters received
lately by Gov. Cooper and referred
by the governors office to the depart
mcnt of agriculture, commerce and
industries. In one case the letter was
said To he from employees and stated
that the employees threatened to take
the matter in their own hands.
The department of agriculture eX-
plains that the law does not allow
the employment of textile workers 70.
more than sixty hours a week, which
is ten hours q day. The anonymous
letters complained that the mills in
some cases were working their en-
ploycs for more than nfty-fvc hours &
week. The department of agricult'. =
| explains also that the cotton -i.ls,
members OF the Textile Association,
made an agree ement early in 1920 TO
run the mills not moro than fittv-five
hours week, ten hours each of the
lirst five days, following sunday, ana
i've hours ON Saturday.
But there is no law enforcing the
/ provisions of this agreement" says
the department of agriculture state
| ment
IF textile mill is not working it's
employees more than eleven hours
dai y and more than sixty hours week
| iy says the statement. "the depart
ment is powerlo?s to act other than
To so notify tn" officers OF the textile
association that the agreement is not
being kept
The department of agriculture has
inspectors who keep in close touch
with all mill conditions in South Car
olina. and they determine to what OK
tent the laws governing labor are OBJ
served. The dcpa. tment requests that
when complaints are to be made, they
be signed, go that the parties making
the complaints can be communicated
with. Al! names Will be kept as CON
idential. says the departments state
ment today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
UP TO THE
= GOVERNOR

Columbia, Feb. 24.-Among the acts
on the governors desk Thursday
morning awaiting his signature, hav-
ing passeU both branches of the leg
isiature. was that TO postpone the pay
ment of taxes until May 3. Governor
Cooper had not indicated what he
proposes to do with this bill. There
was two weeks ago n report in cir
Cuiation that he would veto it. but it
is now stated that he will sign it. He
has until Friday night to sign the
act. or il becomes law without his
signature.
This act provides for n penalty of
one per cent on taxes paid i'm January.
TWO per cent in February, three per
cent in March, three per cent in
April and sen per cent :or the first
haf of May, with collections after
Man i by executions Of the shcrifrs.
TIL" act provides that penalties shall
not be cumulative.
Another act waiting the signature
Cf tho governor is that To authorizes
the dean and board Of trustees Of the
Medical College i'm Charleston TO in
Vestigat" the advisabilitY of establish
ing dental department AZ the modi-
cal college. and to report their find
ings to tn" legislature next year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
SAM MCCULLOUGH
ARRESTED

Columbia, Feb. 23.--Sam McCul-
Tough, the negro who is charged with
having shot Sheriff ID. Gobcr Ander-
son, OF Chester, when the sheriff was
making raid near Chester last Sat
urday night. is lodged safely in the
state penitcntiary, where he has con-
tossed 10 the shooting OF the Chcs-
ter officer and a SO to making whis-
key in the house whore the shooting
occurred.
McCullou%h has told several stories
The first was that hc was guilty Of
the charge against Eim. Later he said
nc had the gun set to catch some
one who had been stealing meal from
his house. In another statement he
confessed 10 making whiskey. In
none has he denied being the negro
who was at the house where the shcr-
.if was shot ana who was seen to leave
the house after the shooting
Sheriff Anderson went to the house,
about nine miles from Chester. Find
ing all doors locked, he made an at-
tempt to. enter through a kitchen
window, when h. was shot in the
neck. McNulloUgh escaped, but was
captured later ana lodged in the Yori;
Jail, being brought from there to CO.
lEmbia Tuesday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
NCrriS COLLEGE Holds Big Religious
Meeting.

There were present at the rcli%ious
congress which was held Wednesday
in the chapel OF Morris College. about
1000 persons. or that number there
was fai representation Of white
r"opl" made up OF leading ministerial.
lawyers and business men of Sumter.
According to jhc statement made by
t:oV. Richard Carroll. the noted COL
or"d leader a"d Spcmdid speaker Of
'oIumhia, the meeting was one of the
best of its Kind ever held i'm South
Carolina. The purpose Of the meet
ms was for spiritual anr racial up
ii,. and for pure religious purposes
II is fclj that great good was accom-
piiSh"d and that its influence will. be
of very lasting nature.
The meeting was opened by n hi.
lIlHd" which WAS led by colorcd
uand Of Is pieces. The students of
Norris College, who number 500. also
took part i'm Ills opening parade.
ANON" thc speakers of the occasjou
were Nj. +. T.. Jones. white. OF
Fountain Inn. His subject was
Fithin%." Dr. Alfred Ham delivered
a splendid and Stron" sermon ON the
subject "Evanscliam." Dr. Larua. of
Minnesota. made a fine address on
';ih!" CmriStianity Among the col
orcd SPEAKERS were: II. NJ Moore.
president Of the Static sunday school
and l.. y. u. t.. conventions and j. :.
Earle, president of TN" BAPTIST cduca-
ton and missionary convention of
South Carolua
There W"r" drlr4at'S present from
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
WAGES
OF COMMON LABOR
Railway Executives Make Rec,
Onlmendati0n in Letter to
Carriers

New York, Feb. 22.-Thc Associa-
ton of Railway Executives today sent
to the carriers a letter recommending
that the matter Of adjusting wages
Of common labor TO lower levels be
left TO the individual roads to carry
out in accordance with conditions pre-
vailing in their territory.
The letter, signed by W. w. After
bury, chairman of the labor commit
tee, and made public by Thomas De-
Witt Cuylcr, chairman Cf the associa-
tion, set forth that tho carriers have
complained that they had been criti-
ciZed fer not reducing the pay Of
their common or unskillcd labor to
wa2e levels prevailing in other in
dustries
NJ. Atterbury's. letter said he had
suggested to the railroad labor board
that permission be granted enabling
the carriers to use these prevailing
rates as Il minimum scale for railroad
employment, but that the board de-
cided February 10 that this matter
could be raised only as n result of ne
gotiations between the roads and
their employees.
ter left the determining of what the
new wages should be, when they
should be proposed and the naming
of the classes of employees to be af-
| foCtod
The procedure Of establishing new
wages for unsllillcd labor. it contin-
ucd. must be III strict accordance
with the transportation act and de-
cisions OF the United States labor
board"
Contin ling, the letter said:
This will in general require thir-
ty-day notice OF a desire to meet and
confer with duly accredited represen-
tativeS of the classes of common OF
unskillod labor proposed to be involv-
cd; the cndeaVCr at such conference
to negotiate n satisfactory reduction
in wages, and, in the event of fail!
urc, the certiication Of the disputc
to the United states railr Dad labor
board, with such evidence as to pre-.
vai!ing rates of wages in other indus
tries and decline in the cost of living
as will, in the opinion of the com
pany, tend to sustain the business ant
reasonablenesS Of the proposed reduc
ton"
The letter said that numerous com
panies had indicated that prevailing
rates ofW wages of common, unskilleC
labor i'll their territory had greatly de
clincd below the rates set by the rail
road labor boards decision of Jul,
20, 1920.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
BOLSHEVIKS ADMIT
BAD CONDITIONS
2o,000,000 Peasants Starving
n This Winter i'm Central
aes,s Russia, Is Claim

New, York. FEB, 2l.--A description
OF apparently serious conditions in
Russia 1nder the bolshcvik adminis-
tration as taken from Soviet ncwspa-
pers and other documents is given in
n statement issued here by "A. j..
Sack. director of the Russian infOrma-
tion bureau i'm the United States. The
Official bolshevik Izvestia OF Decem-
Der 20 last. contains the text OF a
speech by Trotsky before the eighth
otJgress of Soviets in which he de-
clared:
.At present about 54, 1000 versts &c.
O0'D miles of Russian railroads are
destroyed SO that only the central part
about $4,000 versts remain intact.
Three thousand bridges and 5000
telephone and telegraph lines have
also been destroyed and we have
about 6f per cent OF sick locomotives"
The recently appointed commits
aaxy of means OF communication
femsfiunov, speaking on the same
subject. said;
-Out OF n total OF $4,000 telephones
along the railroad line OF Russia. 49,
500 require major repairs. The cleo
trio signal apparatus must be com
,plstely 'overhauled. The upper part
os tho road beds Is in catastrophe
condition. The repair shops are most
~ I'm ruins and their machinery has
been denuded OF important parts"
The statement says not less than
2O,Qp0.000 peasants are starving this
winter along the Volga region and in
other provinces OF Central Russia.
A Bolshevik commissary. Boguslav-
sky. writing In the official Pravda
says.
The working men are without
footwcar. rubbers and even without as
mach as needle. Truly. they ar,
Z hv1dE much worse than they did be-
fore. We are bound TO admit that
tho Soyiet power has failed to do fol
the most indispensable things"
The statement declares that popu.
lar revolts against Bolshevik rule ar,
taking place. An anti-Bolshevik
r8~een" army. composed mostly o
peasants ts reported to be operating il
southern Russia. Tho rcvolts agains
Boishevik power. the statement add:
are being suppressed with the utmos
cruelty. A proclamation issued by III
extraordinary commission in southern
Russia threatens thUt all rising:
against the Rolshcviki will be sup
pressed with implaca bile severity anC
declares that all those aiding or con
csaIins members OF white" ol
rgyeen" armies will be shot ant
their property coniiscated.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
To The Women of The County.

me nome demonstration work is
rapidly becoming an integral part of
every rural organization and is gem
orally the only organ through which
instruction along The various lines
which lessen cares ana lightens bur
dcns and makes for more efficient
work in the homes in the community
IS given. The county home demon
stration agent is the only paid worker
IN the field who spends hor entire time
in the interest OF the rural women
of our country.
There is a slight misunderstanding
in the minds OF some of the DeoDlc
IN the counties as to the duties and
qualifications of a home dcmonstra-
ton agent. 1t is not the intention OF
any one concerned to claim that she
is the best cook, the best gardner. the
best poultryman, etc, in her county.
SHE lays no claim to these distinc-
tionS. However, she is a sciontiiical-
ly trained woman, who applies her
knowledge Of science to The prob
lens Of every day life which con-
front every ambitious woman.
The home demonstration agent is
not specialist, but is Il woman Of
general training in home economics.
However, she has at her command Il
corps of trained specialists in every
line from whom She may obtain any
information she does not have on
hand, whenever needed.
DO YOU have any problems in your
home? Is your kitchen arranged to
save time and energy? Does your
houseWork consume all your time? DO
Nou plan your houS" work system
atlcaily? Have Nou any time for read
Ing? Have YOU a hOusphold budget?
Does your butter command th,. best
price?
can You Cull your nock of chickens
and thus increase your profits?
DO YOU know how To make attrac-
tive drapcrIcs for your room at small
expense?
DO YOU know how to make your
grounds attractive? What shrubs and
flowers to plant and when?
Is your child undcrWciGht? DO YOU
know why? DO You get vitamincs"
DO YOU know what they are?
10 You know when "s'l is not
silk Whcn "Wool is cotton"'
HAY" YOU an all-th"-ycar-rc1nd
garden? II not, why not?
Your home demonstration agent can
hep YOU with these and many other
rr problems. Get i'm tuuch with hrl.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
MOE LEADTR IS SENTENCED.
10 serve Four Years in North Caro-
lima PCnitcntiary

wilson, y. G.. Feb. 2O.--H. Il. Fu-
hcll". found Suilty i'm Wilson county
superior court Wednesday Of leading
mob which Stormcd the WAYNE
county court house AT Goldshoro ON
the uiSht of December =. i'm an effort
l" got possession of thrco nogroc.,
charged with the murder of Herman
Jones, grocer this artclnonu ,,,s
sentenced by judge Calvert to scrvc.
four years i'm the state prison. I'm
trcIle Appealed to the supreme court
ana his bond was fixed at $1,000.
-Four other alleged members o: tn,
mob had their cases continued until
the next term Of Wilson county Grim
inal court.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
STOCK LAW FIGHT

Columbia. Feb. .22.-The stock
lsw night. though supposed TO be dead.
" reviving again. \ delegation of
Georgetown citizcps. according to in
formation received from Georgetown
oy Governor Cooper. are coming to
Coiumbia this week TO protest against
passage by the senate OF the bill to
extend To next year the operation Of
the stock law for Georgetown. The
bill has alrvady passed the house and
~ stated that Scnaor III. l.. smith, Dr.,
oL Georgctown. is i'm favor of the bill.
This would Insure it's enact mcnt into
isw' unless the senate. ~ - whole, can
ne made To see necessity for killing
the. bill. To this cud the Georgetown
delegation ~ coming To Columbia this
week. The pending measure would
make the stock law effective in
Georgctown January /. 1872.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
FIST FIGHT
IN LEGISLATURE
Barney Evans Raised
Rough House in Lobby
Arrested and Put
in Guard House.

Columbia, Feb. PA fist fight be-
tween Barney b. Evans, Columbia
lawyer. a visitor on the floor and
several members Of the house of rep
rescntatiVes, tonight, was the seIsa-
tion Of the legislative session. On Or
Gcrs Of the house Mr.. Evans Was ar
rested and placed i'm the city jail,
where he was held during the night.
All excitement, the members Of the
house agreed to adjourn much earl
icr than usual, though one measure OF
Importance was voted. The bill to
increase the number of trustees of the
university from seven to twenty-one
was sent to third reading without u
dissenting vote.
The encounters in which Mr.. Evans
was the aggressOr was said to be duo
to the fact that Mr.. Evans was heaV-
lily under the influence of whiSkey-
The trouble started when he put tho
end Of his curved walking stick over
the neck of Hub" II. Evans, Of
lNewberry, former representative,
who was on the floor Of the house as
a visitor. Hub Evans Slapped Barney
| Evans face and there were some
words All Of this took place at the
foot Of the speakers stand, in the
! front of the hall. Representatives
separated the men and Barney Evans
was put in a seat.
| In a few minutes Parney Evans en-
countercd Hub Evans again in the
| vcstibule of the house. There was
profane language passed and Barney
| Evans was heard to curse Represen-
| tGtiVe C'audc Sapp, OF Columbia, who
| was passing out the door. on the way
to the senate for Il conference with
q member Of the senate. AS Mr.. Sapp
reached the house door Mr.. Evans
threatend his life saying: IF YOU
come out of the door l will kill you"
Mr. Sapp stopped to see what Mr..
Evans wanted and Mr.. Evans caught
him hy the vest. jerking the buttons
off and using words that Mr. Sapp
resented by knocking Mr.. Evans to
the floor. He was knocked down
Twice by the Rich!and representative.
Gen Sawyer, clerk of the budget COM
mission. and several members Of the
house took part in the affair and
Mr.. Evans was pretty badly down
ed"
Earney Evans was arrested by the
state house policeman and taken to
Main street. Here, however, he was
released NJ" Evans returned to the
capital, and it was said that he made
certain threats. The house adopted
n resolution instructing the sergeant
at arms to have Barney Evans ar
rested and kept in custody until Civ
en- further instructions A second
resolution that discussion of the mat
ter be postponed until Thursday morn
ing was adopted. Within a short
} time the sergeant at arms reported
I that Mr.. Evans had been turned over
to the city police and was in the city
jail, where he would be kept until
morning, pending instructions from
! the house.
The house adopted a resolution ex-
pressing entire confidence in Mr..
Sapp. who was attacked 10y Mr..
Evans.
The house was in an upheaval Of
excitement for an hour after the fight.
Never has there been such a scene in
; the halls Of LEGISLATION in years.
Acting under its constitutional
rights the house voted TO bring Mr..
Evans to trial Thursday morning.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
Crop Demonstrations i'm 1920.

Clemson College, Feb. 22.-Thc
statistics on crop demonstrations car
ricd on in South Carolina in 1920 by
county agents show some very in
tercsting and encouraging Yields as
compared with the average yields Of
tn same crops for the state at large.
There were 5S8 corn demonstrators
planting S.2S1 acres with an average
yield of 1872 bushels as opposed TO
1871 bushels estimated average for
the state
There were AS cotton dcmOnstYa-
tors pia"ting 9.093 acres with an Nv
cragc yield of 1853 pounds Of seed
cotton per acre sas opposed II 720
pounds for the state.
There were 126 tobacco demon
strators planting 946 acres with an
average yield of S12 pounds per acre
rs opposed TO 656 pounds for the
state
There were 1903 small grain dem
onstrators planting 1854 acres with
yields averaging about 80 per cent
increase over tn" state average
There were 1914 hay and forage
demonstrators planting 7,O27 acres av-
era2mg 2.1 tons per acre, Il decided
increase over the average for the
state.
There wore 1.0O6 summer lcgume
demonstrators planting 16.S4I acres
averaging l.G tons per acre, a de-
cidcd Increase.
There were l01 Irish potato DEM
onStrators planting 3,4o9 acres av-
"raginr 1872 bushels per acre as OBJ
posed TO 94.5 bushels for the state.
ThCr" were 25S sweet potato dem
"nstrators planting 20i acres avcrae-
Ing 1872 bushels per acre as opposed
TO III bushels for the state.
The values Of tn" Increased yields
OF crops crown by demonstrators are
'SlimatCd as follows: com, $T3.24i:
cotton, $l6l .155: tobacco $I3.O72;
small grains, $7S.496; hay and for
az" crops. $l3,O95; summer legumcs.
$"9,"92; Irish potatoes. $l5.505:
sweet potatoes. $32.lNl. The grand
total o, tn" values of increased Yields
Of TN" demonstration grown crops
named above was $lNl.929. o" nearly
h@f million. These figures take no
account of Increased Yields and profits
made nN farmers who followed aj-
wee and suggestions by county agents
hUt did not conduct demonstrations
under agents super, iSiuu.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-02-26
ACTION CAUSES SUR
PRISE AT MEETINGI
United States Wants to Present
Views on Mandates Before
Any Move Is Made by COun-
Gil of the League

Paris. Feb 22.-AmbaSSador Wa
laCc's notification to the council of
the league of nations today that the
state department at Washington de-
sired to present the views of the Unit
cd states before action was taken on
mandates created great surprise i'm
lcaGu" circles. The gradual with
draWai of American representatives
from the councils commissions con-
ncctcd with peace activities had tend
ed to confirm the opinion that the
outgoing administration would leave
all such initiative to the new govern
ment.
The text Of Secretary Colbys note
will not be generally known until to-
morrow, but his unexpected interven-
tion is learned in French circles. and
among others also, with evident sat
,sractiOn, as showing that the new
world still maintains contact and is
still interested in the old worlds
problems.
Notification Of the imminent arri-
val Of the note came when man
dates was the first question on the
agenda Of the council, which spent
nearly the entire day in discussing the
reply to the American ambassadors
letter and exchanging views upon
those mandates which the American
observations ave not likely to touch.
| The councils reply to Ambassador
wallace, GiEAcd by DR.. Da Cunha
! president Ct the council, expresses the
! .vC'y int rest with which the coun-
ell learned of the communication from
the state department. and its early
delivery, an dsays that in Difference
- his request the council will post
zone all final drccisions relative tC
the form of mandates now under
discussion until receipt of the COM
munication.
The note points out that the man
dates on the agenda are all Of type
"A" Asia Minor p" Central Africa
II recalls that mandates Of type &C.
tho Pacific Islands and German Yves
Africa were decided upon two mont n.
ago and published. The mandates are
as follows:
Type "A''-Great Britain manda
tory over Mesopotamia and Pales
tine: France over Syria and Lebanon
Type f. - Belgium mandatory
over German East Africa; France anC
Great pritain over Togoland anl
Kamerun; Great Britain over Ger
man Southeast Africa.
Type "C''-Japan mandatory owe
North Pacific Islands, including zap
Australia over New Guinea: New Zea
land over Samoa; Great Britain owe
Nauru; Union of South Africa owe
German Southwest Africa.
The council decided that the man
date commission shall be composed o
the four mandatory powers-Grca
Britain, France, Belgiu mand Japa,
with other members chosen from
among representatives of Italy, Por
tugal, Holland, Sweden and perhap
the United States. The question O
an American representative is still
unCer discussion