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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
DID NOT
CARRY GUNS
ssllNaov York Tin, e,s3

View York, Dec. 33.-The Cunard
: hner Lusitania sunk by a. German
submarine in 1915. off the Irish
coast, carried neither guns. troops,
nor explosives. but did carry 5, ,4o3
CASES OF ammunition. the ofieiai
report Of the vessels cargo made
s.uhIic by Dudley Field Malone,
collector of the port at the tins.
shosys, according TO a copyrighted
stesy in the New York World.
The cases Of ammunition, the re.
pors stated, were carried by spe-
cife permission under rulings OF
rae Department Of Commerce in
foree since 1911.
The Malone report, the newspa-
per says, was made to Secretary Of
Treasury McAddo It was dated
June 1915, and was called for
after the German reply of May zS
to- President Wilson'S first Lusi-
tania note of May 13. has set up
the contention that the Lusitania
had been armed and that her rapid
sinking was due, not to the tor
pedo but TO the explosion of ammu-
niflor It was this report 10 which
President Wilson. in his second
note of June 9 referred when he
said:
! Fortunately. there are matters
concerning which the government
= -
OF the United States is in posi-
ton TO give the imperial German
government official information.
Mr. Malone said he determined
10 give out the text of the report
because OF still insistent appeals to
! him for information regarding its
contents.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
pHIon.s Experience With the Boil
Wceyil.

An intelligent and progressive
Dillon county farmer says his ten
ants took the advice of aNptyts
and cut their stalks and ploughed
them under last year long before
cold weather came. Their neigh
bors let their stalks remain in the
fields and production was about
the same in fields where the stalks
had been cut and where they had
been left in the field. In making
this complaint our farmer friend
emphasizes the. very point the boil
weevil experts have been trying
to drive into the heads OF the peo-
pie. namely: In order to get results
stalk destruction must be general
II a man. clears up his field and
his neigh hor doesn't infestation will
be as great in one field as in the
oti1er. II every cotton stalk in the
county could be destroyed it would
increase production from % to 50
per cent. Note the difference in
production this year between the
upper and lower ends OF the county.
The upper end Will make 60 per
cent of crop. while the lower
will make about 80 per cent. The
lower end raised about so per
cent of the county's tobacco crop
and did not have as much time to
devote TO cotton as the upper end.
where cultivation was more thor
ough. Long before cold weather
set i,r last fall the lands in the up
per end Of the county reminded one
of the spring of the year. The
preparation counted heavily in the
boil wecvil fight last spring and
summer. 1t stands to reason that
thorough preparation in the fan
will decrease infestation the fol-
lowing spring when we are told
that one weevil which lives through
the winter will produce million by
the following Ausust.--pillon Her
aid.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
Huge Economic Loss
By Motor Accidents

Washington, Dec. ] Capital
News Service9 9.-The recent cen
sus office bulletin, which present
statistics for deaths in automobile
accidents for 1921, in the thirty
four states. reporting. shows that
10,168 men. women, and children
lost their lives through accidents
which can not be held to be un-
preventable.
1t is pointed out in the nation
al capital that the economic loss
of such wholesale killings is enor-
nous. no matter how conservative
the figures are which enter into
such calculations. Supposing that
the average earning OF each of the
killed people was or would even
tually be at the rate Of one thou
sand dollars "a Year. ana that the
life expectancy Of all those who
thus died was but ten years each.
and the encrmous total OF s1o0.-
000.030 is reached, as the earning
power wiped out by automobile ac-
cidents in one year.
National campaigns are under
taken in the interest of stamping
out tuberculosis. cancer, and 9TH
e.. diseases which yearly slay their
thousands None Of them. it is
pointed out among legislators in
Washington. who see in automobile
accidents d wholly durable canker
in the body polite, are more dead
" than the improperly, carelessly
or drunkenly driven road vehicles.
The accidents. caused by them
thas take q place side by side with
the other plaques against which
society is at war.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
New Days.

AS over against this dark spring,
1922, background let me cite, some
December /, 1922. facts. Cotton. lint
has gone up more than double its
spring price. Cotton seed is more
than Sc, per cent higher than a
year ago. Last seasons corn crop,
which was hard to sell at so cents
| a bushel, is selling. today in the
/ country at 81 a bushel in the shuck.
Peanuts. are selling at twice the
price of last seasons crop. Hay
/! has shot up, high up in price and
lis IN strong demand. A hayrgrow-
er on the Port Royal Railroad told
me the other day that he had re-
ceived an inquiry from one man
! for twenty-one cars. He, tells me
of his; great success with Velvet
beans broadcasted one and one
half bushels to the acre and cut
outstanding and just before it be
gan running. He, saved it on hay
racks with cross arms. He says
that the crop was saved green with
fleaves on It, and was exceedingly
nutritious, and that he made one
and, oae-half tons per acre.
Other Products.
+ The whole line of southern seeds
i-Velvet beans, Soy beans, and all
of the forage seeds and grass seeds
-all of these. are. in demand with
higher prices and with prices con-
tinuaily going up. 1t seems a
great pity, indeed, that last springs
agriculture could not have fore
seen these higher prices and this
strong demand that was to obtain
this winter on all of our farm pro-
ducts. 40 one wants to see. and,
of course, cannot see into the fu-
ture. but the fact is. the Millen-
mum would soon come if the world
could only realize these. two facts:
| First, that every daytis a new day,
and is not a continuation of yes
| terday;s and second, that we. are
just in the beginning of things IN
! this world as regards research
work and the, discovery Of that in
fpity of things that lie in the realm
Of possibilities, and it is for these
reasons. that the tomorrow should
always be full of hope, and that
the today is not necessarily an IN
dex of the tomorrow.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
THE DOLDRUMs AND THE
SUPREME ICONOCLASI

(By n. L. Wiilet in Augusta Chron-
icle).
Last spring the land was filed
with this kind of talk: 81 car't grow
cotton for the weevil won't let me,
and there's no use to grow other.
crops, because I can't sell them.
This despair as to the farm took
firmest hold upon our red hill farms
These farms over in. South Carolina
largely decreased cotton acreage
while it's effect in the red hills here
in Georgia, can be seen in Greene
county, where we have ginned, this
year, one hundred and three bales,
as against once thirty-five thou
sand bales. and over in Putnam
county, whereas against twenty
thousand or more in the old days,
we have. ginned only seventy.
The red hills, everywhere, have
decreased acreage, not only in cot
ton, but also in all other crops and
have, for a living, been suicidally
destroying their already too sparse
forests and delivering same over to
the saw mill and wood pulp man.
Farm labor, hopeless and discour-
aged, has been leaving these coun--
ties actually in droyes and never
to return. The fact is, however,
that all Of our. agriculture was in
the doldrums. There seemed to
be no way out Of our agricultural
difficulties. The farm. in fact, had
lad a stroke of paralysis.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

uated town of La Serena and Co
quimbo. its port.
"As YOU sail down the Pacific
coast, you say good-by to verdure
Tat Guayaauil; then follows the
long stretch of desert coast through
Peru and northern Chile. 1t is only
as you near Coquimbo that green
fields. again greet you.
For a century and a half
Icoouimbo has been famed as a min
ing center. One OF our North
American steel companies has de-
veloped a remarkable iron prop
erty in the gigantic Toto mines,
where ore, taken fror4 a mountain
Of iron by steam -shovels is convey
ed by an electrically operated
railroad to the pier and loaded d.
rectly. through chutes into special
ly constructed steamers.
..From Coqui1nboS the railroad
again strikes inland. Two loco
motives urged our train up the
steep grade to the cun1bre, the rack
system being used for some 80
miles,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
The Junior American Red Cross in
Sumter Schools.

No doubt it viii be interesting
| not only to the patrons Of the
schools but also to the general
public to know what excellent
work our children are doing
through the Junior Red Cross.
To enroll requires the nominal ma;
sum of fifty cents per class room.
which amount pays for the Junior
Red Cross .Newssfor one year. In
order to win a button each child is
required to perform some act OF
service for mankind: Upon each
little button you will find these
words: Il serve. . What more
beautiful and useful idea can pe
instilied into the minds Of our
youth than that Of lending aShelp-
| ing hand to one less fortunate z
Early in the fall the little boys
at Hampton street school began
preparing and planting their Red
sCross garden, the proceeds from
which go toward the support OF
their little adopted girl at the Res
cue orphanage in Columbia. These
boys and girls. have responded to
the call for help for several diff
ferent families this winter. One
class of little boys went into the
woods and cut a load of wood for
one needy family. They not only
cut the wood, but hauled it to this
| home and stacked it on the porch.
Could you see the expression on
the faces OF these children as they
go down the streets with their
wagons and arms laden with
clothes and food for a poor fam
lily, then you might appreciate
what genuine pleasure they re-
;ceiye from it, for each child through
experience knows that it is bet
ter to give than to receive.
When Thanksgiving came, the
tiny. tots of Washington street
school and the boys of Calhoun
High school gave a most beautiful
shower Of food. clothing, books,
and money to the poor. Every
day has become a thanksgiving day
to these children for they have
realized that it is their duty to make
this a. better world in which to
live. and by answering this call to
duty, they have found true happi-
ness.
Christmas time is almost here.
The Juniors in our four. schools
will bring cheer to many little
hearts. Already they have begun
saving. their toys of which they
have grown tired and their clothes
which they have outgrown to
shower, upon some little boy or
girl who. might otherwise think
that Santa Claus had been eaten
up by. the boil weeviI.
Last year the girls, Of the High
school had beautiful display of
useful articles for the poor: can
ned goods. staple groceries, and
more than two hundred new gar
ments which they had made Be
sides this local work, our boys
and girls are planning to send Of
ferings to the orphanages, to dis
aDled ex-service men. and to Red
Cross nurses IN Arizona who were
disabled by service during the war
Seeing now as you do the good
work which your children are
doing, won't you give them all they
ask of you. "a word of encourage
ment I, Your cooperation, backed
by the leadership Of a good teach
er, Will be. incentive enough to
guide them on the road to true
manhood and womanhood.
Mrs. ]. Pringle Brunson,
Chairman Sumter County Junior
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

The sultan of Turkey was chased
away from his home but a man
with so many wives shouldn't care.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

A new monoplane may travel $50
miles an hour but Christmas is
coming along faster than this.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09
contents

What makes US laugh out loud is
seeing girl with bobbed hair
one day and long hair the next.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

It takes both cold and coal 10
make the public realize who pays
the cost of the strike.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

SO many mice live around moon
shine stills they may kill off the
cats.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

The height OF discretion hes
somewhere between the short skirt:
evil and the long skirt peril.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Cider is working hard.
Coal Men Agree on Price
headline. Consumers don't.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Einstein will lecture on his the
o.y in Japan. Imagine trying to
understand it in japanese.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

About 2o.ooo.ooo go to movies
every week most of whom arrive
about the middle OF the picture.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

One thousand canaries arrived in
this country in one load. Looks
like. a fine winter for the cats.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Detroit cafe cashier chased a rob-
Der with broom. She is single
s. we don't know how she got her.
training.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Unemployment is decreasing ex-
cept among those who have jobs.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Actors look forward to this win
ter. The audiences will applaud to
keep their hands warm.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Due to the coal shortage. one
popular winter resort will be two
suits OF underwear. s.-,.. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

We can't afford to pay the SOL.
der bonus because We have got to
support the new tariff.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

"our girls don't know how to
love- writes an American singer.
But they are practising
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

They may make the ocean liners
dry, but they will never dry the lines
we've seen.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

The man who claims he took.
cold baths last winter may have
to il do this winter. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

In Boston, mans wine blew up,
The. drinks were on the house.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

Fame is fleetirs. a former pre-
mier ef France was chased out OF
a dining room at Toulouse.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

With so many things worth
knowing some still insist oa re-
tnembering the size of their gloves.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-09

camp at the sunset hour. the .colos-.
ing of slopes. and crags was gor-
geous beyond adjectives to describe
Pink deepened to rose; rose to ter
ra-cotta: terra Gotta to purple.
Then each towering peak became
Ia sentinel guarding a. mysterious
Promised Land beyond the Andes
awe passed the ruins of long
abandoned stone dwellings. oec,i-
pied. perhaps. in those remote
DAYS of pre-Incan rule when thes /,
lmountains, had not. risen to their
Ipresent height and this region WIS
Within the corn belt.
Continuing south from Copiapo.
little by little the desert fora
grew from tufts of grass and
stunted bush to tall algarobas and
cacti OF many varieties. one with
Ia great red bloom. AT Valienar
we entered a wide. irrigated val
ley, emerald green with alfalfa.
land vines heavy with those luscious
white grapes whose equal ] have
found in no other part of the
world
The vine brought originally
from Spain in colonial days, is now
cultivated throughout an extensive
range. The French vine. popular
! in certain provinces, was intro
duced in the ffties. Chilean wines
are celebrated throughout Spanish
America. Here the manufacture
of wine is regarded as a national
industry and few advocates Of pro-
! hibition place light wine and beer
! on the black list.
! AT the River Eleui the longi-
tudinal railway gives a twist sea-
ward to serve the charmingly sit
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

ty bureaus, just how much the
farm bureau movement means to
the man on the farm.
1T is often the MOST worthwhile
things that one is least thankful
for. Returned soldiers have de-
clared that they gained = wonder
full appreciation Of fresh, pure air
after having been forced for hours
to wear a gas mask in order to pro-
tect them from a hostile atmo-
sphere filled with dead-bringinG
gases.
Proud Of Farming.
$50 it is with the farm bureau.
We don't realize how much 1t ID
worth to as until we have to get
along without it. l know, because
Il have lived in counties which had
mo bureau and counties which had
"Just to be able to call tho ad-
visor by telephone and ask his
trained help ON some knotty prob
lem of production-to be able to
write in to the experts of the L A.
A. at Chicago and know that they
will carry on your cause at Chi
cago or Springdeld-t0 be able te
have your interests furthefed might
and day by trained men Of the A. r
B. F. at Washington-that's what
the farm bureau means.
Il am proud of farming. And ]
want farming to rank with every
other business in the world. II they
are organized, as they are, We farm
fers must be organised and must use
the most modern and scientific
methods. That's what the farm bu.
reau means to US.
| "And that is why I Joined thu
Illinois Agricultural - association
land the American Farm Bureau
, Federation, even though / do live
in a county where there 10 no coun.
ty farm bureau"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
Csmpaiep Manager Letter

Every member Oh the Bureau and every progressive
farmer il Rock island county should place red mark around
the future Of the farm u
this the Of the intensive mem
hershu be waged in nook and corner
az county Your cooperation VIII greatly ASSIST
Is making ii possible complete the work on that day
The uniting number OF people into IN oreanzaloh
has and slow moving operation ne
Illinois association has announced plan which mas
hen successfully other counties Of the state IN the Farm
Bureau will ~ followed in Rock II
campaign. -. .....,,- ...,..s
men 10 20 into county spend enough time to visit every
farmer enaed great deal Of time and expense
Under plan local who donate their services
organization work Eight or ten men are chosen
each this soliciting The township IS divided
into four parts three local work each quarter
township
n order that may properly qualified to present
proposition solicitor school Will DC
held Monday Sept 49, The best posted men
win be at this school to instruct the
they will be able to answer any and all
questions
Immediately following this drive will be
Sent 10 the entire county, with
corporation The solicitors will not receive
for their services dinner Sept Is and incidental
penses connected with the drive.
While impossible for member of the Farm Bureau
to solicitors help with the drive by cooper
ating solicitors who giving their time TO assist
consider Of value to farmer in the
county.
Remember the date Sept let's all pull together
the reorganization that day
HOMER A. DAILY,
Campaign Manager.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
HELPSFARMER
REBUILD SOIL
Phosphate Limestone Departneat
Of L A. A. Is Serving the
Rundown Farm,

The prairie soil Of Illinois, rich
a. it is, is wearing out in places
as the result Of wrong farming In
the past The remedy for this, a
the county farm bureaus have
learned through research, is phos-
phate, limestone and other fertl-
izerA
To properly buy fertilizers ex-
pert knowledge is necessary. So
the l. A. A. and the county farm
bureaus have a phosphate-lims-
stone department to apply this
knowledge and constantly keep ~
with every phase of the situation.
This department Of the l. A. 4
has saved thousands Of dollars to
producers In helping them to avoid
mistakes. It has secured the most
favorable contracts in phosphate
and the lowest prices in phosphats
for producers. 1t has maintained Z
production plant in Tennessee -
as to assure Illinois farm bursau
members of source OF phosphate
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15
In. /. D0I|ee
BIC THINGS IN
FARMER WORLD


Almost everyuue who reads 3
newapaper IN illinois has some
time Or other come across the three
lettars-"I. l. A"
What ID the !. a. A.?
There are 10000 farmers in ~
county farm bureaus Of the state
the members Of the !. A.. A.-who
could answer the question with par
donable pride. The /. A. A. is the
state farm bureau in Illinois. the
state business association Of the
county farm bureaus OF the state.
Today the !. A. A.-or the Ilh-
nois Agricultural association. as
it's officially called-ranks with
Ohio and Iowa rs one Of the larg-
est state farm bureau decorations
in the United States.
The /. A. A. does things-its
members will tell you that. Here
are only a few Of its accomplish
ments during the last IL. months
from July, 1921, to July, 1923:
Many Savings.
Saved members $4,000 by pre-
venting the railroads from institut-
ing a raise in grain freight rates. .
Saved Illinois farmers $225, 900 in
state land taxes as the result Of ap-
nearing for them before the Illinois
tax commission.
Knocked out bill No. 444 in the
Illinois legislature, bill which
would absolutely have prevented
vital cooperative marketing.
Established cooperative market
ing in every major Illinois asricul-
tural product.
Collected $4,000 in claims for
members free Of charge.
Made the Illinois farm bureau
movement known from one end OF
the country to the other as one OF
the most potent forces in Illinois
agriculture.
Strange Is Fiction.
1t all seems like q dream that
such q powerful organization as
the l. A. A. is only six years old
| Today it takes its place, represent
I ing its 100000 farmer members, on
a par with the most influential or
CARNATIONS of bankers, laborers
manufacturers and business men
It's highly trained representatives
are constantly representing the
farmer in the legislature at Spring
field, before the great railroad Off
Gals at Chicago and even at Wash.
ington.
The l. A. A. has one Of the mos
modern and best equipped Offices in
Chicago. Fifty employees there arf
working for the farmer. These EN-
ployes are, without single excep
ton, university trained men, ex
perts in their lines. They are di
rectly under the supervision ant
control of the executive committee
of the l. A. A., which consists o.
one farmer from each COMPRESSION
al district, elected by farm bureau
members,
| Six Years Work.
! All this has been attained in si1
lshort years. In 1916. the I. A. A
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-15

What If we didn't have a county
farm bureau and an l. A. A. and an
A. F. B. F.?"
Ninety-five out of the 102 Illinois
counties are blessed with the coun-
ty farm bureau. But the other sew
en-
Let Martin H. Schaeffer Of Hoyle-
ton, Washington county, Illinois,
answer for some of the progressive
farmers in the seven counties which
have not yet entered the farm bu-
reau family. Mr.. Schaecer, a prt
gressive young farmer and teacher
believes so thoroughly in farmer
organization that he has sent in his
dues and the dues Of his neighbors
to the l. A. A. and the A. F. B. r.
Realize Value of F. B.
Even though we have no county
farm bureau" said Mr.. Schaeffer
~ want to be member of the state
and the national farm bureaus. And
so do many of my neighbors. l will
venture to say that we realize, even
more than farmers in more popu-
lous counties, which have the coun-