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The Watchman and Southron! Published Wednesday aud Satar- j day by Ost ecu Publishing Company, Sumter, S. G. .Tcrqts*: $2.99 per annum?-in advance. Ad vcrtiseihents: Q?e Square, first insertion >_$1.00 Exery subsequent insertion .50 j Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced j rates. All communications which sub- \ serve private Interests will oc i charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re- | ?pect will bo charged for. The S?mter Watchman was ! founded in 1850 and the True j S?uthron "m IS6?.' The Watchman j and Southron now has the com- ! bmed circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man- j ifestly the best advertising medium j, fn Sumter. RXSSIAN DELUSIONS. Fred Keyes, an American horse- J man who was in charge of a cele brated stable belonging . to Count j Varentsoff-JDashlvor, former vice- i roy of the Caucasus, has. just es- j caped. from Russia. "It's a land of nightmares," he says. His strongest impression of "the revo lution is this: . "Everyone in Russia talks in millions. The newsboy will change a couple"-of million; rubles.^ My railroad fare from Moscow to Riga cost 14.000,000 rubles (formerly; about- $7,000.000). Forty pounds' of white flour cost 12,000.000 rubles." - That seems to explain a great deal. It throws light on the amaz ing attitude of the Soviet represen tatives at the Genoa conference, laflation of Russian finance has j stimulated the normal Russian j tosdettcy to inflated ideas. Rus-} tSfrtt imagination is enormously in- [ *3ated. Russian hopes and fears j ami prejudices and hatreds and j ?uspicions are inflated.^ And so it i comes . about that Tchitcherin, j Soviet minister of finance, can j have the sublime impudence at Go1 noa to try to dictate the whole con- i ference, acting as if he regarded j the Allies as conquered nations and | maintaining that they owe Russia j more than Russia owes them, and j insisting on guarantees when he) himself ought to be giving guar- j antees.' - I It iooks like a nation suffering j from what alienists call "delusions j of grant? ">ur'\ complicated with aj ^m?hia of'persecution". Yet it is! card ta believe that the Russian ' people as a whole are in this psy- j chopathic state. It is* rather the i state of the arrogant Bolshevist i &feeup -that presumes to speak for j them. THAT RHESE AtfMY PAY * ' The Allies have replied, respect fully enough, to the American de mand for payment of Rhine army j expenses, saving that they havej never questioned the justice of this j Claim. There was nothing else forj them to do, if they had wanted to j do anything else. Furthermore, j they make the suggestion that the} United .States government take steps to arrange for. payment, "which is to be made, of course, out of German reparation money, in tiohxc way or other. And this sug gestion.; is the -interesting part of it. All of the money paid by Ger many passes through the hands of the; Reparations Commission, the body set up by the Versailles treaty | too: the liquidation of allied claims against Germany. If the United States is to obtain payment for its array, of occupation by any process j except by direct demand on Ger many?and this does not seem to have been considered at Washing tofl, in spite of our separate Ger man treaty?the payment will come through the aforesaid commission. On that commission there is no America**1 - representative, though our government maintains an offi cial "observer" of its proceedings. The allfed reply. Otiten, seems j tantamount to suggesting that thej United States, if it wants to collect S the money in question, should es- t tabltsh representation on the com- j mission. And since President; Harding is said to have desired j this for some time, as the best ! means of safeguarding American; interests in the war settlement. ! there need be no surprise if such J action is taken soon. TUE MODERN CRUSADE. The "Women's and Children's ! Army", leaving St. Louis for Wash- I ington. is a curious manifestation, j Its purpose is to ask presidential i ?pardons for husbands and fathers j serving prison sentences for alleg-j ed violations of war-time acts. The j prganizer "is Kate Richards O'Hare, j a socialist' leader. Perhai?s this crusade will be happier in its issue than the Chil- { dren's Crusade of the middle ages, j in which, little folks perished by j thousands. And perhaps the par- j dons for which they ask are de served, and will be granted. And perhaps it was necessary to take this spectacular means to direct public attention to the incarcera tion of people for war-time of fenses who' ought to be released in a time of peace. But whatever the motive, what ever the need, and whether or not h was wise for the women to take part in the march of the "army" ?unquestionably the children shoukPhave been left at homo It is of the very essence of childhood to be without judgment on adult matters. And Its lack of such judgment should "be its protection against having the burdens of ma turity put upon little shoulders. To use children in any such way as 'this is simply to exploit their child hood-for sentimental purpose. A strong cause needs no such assist ance; a weak- one is not strengthen ed, in the eyes of people who know anything about the rights of chil dren, by an attempted reinforce ment involvfng^such cruel folly. BOOZE AN? CRIME. B?oze always did cause crime. It is still causing it. j? The crime of the present day is not -all due to bootleg booze, cither. Much of it is a direct inheritance from the days when the "real oid stuff" flowed freely and the saloon was more accessible than the movie or drug store. The howls against prohibition do not come from agencies concerned with crime and its prevention. They do not come from the heads of orphan asylums or from visiting nurse associations or probation of ficers or charity associations. Watch and see. The Work of these people has been made easier by prohibition, and they have hope that the results of it may be more permanent. Not for a generation can anyone tell just what are the effects of prohibition. Too many- criminals of today have an alcoholic heritage. Most of the feeble-minded have a similar history: Until a genera tion is functioning whose parents never saw a saloon, never knew the taste of highly alcoholic beverages, there is no way of estimating the effects. Transition periods are difficult things. A transition in the physical tastes of a nation is a peculiarly difficult one. It is well, when con sidering the demand for repeal of the prohibition lew, to think of some of these things, as well as of the thirst of the foolish and the de sire of those unwilling to practise self-control: *"" A SOLDIERS* SCHOOL Three - rehabilitation assistants belonging to the Veterans' Bureau returned from an inspection of the Vocational School No. 1, at Chilli cothe," O., enthusiastic about what they found. ' ? "We wcro instructed to inspect this school," said one, "so we could make intelligent recommendations to disabled men seeking vocational training. "Wc were all agreeably surprised by the progress made there. "The hospital is a model of its kind. No college can boast more up-to-date dormitories in which the single men arc housed. Cot tages are being erected for the married men. These are small, but cozy and homelike." Over 400 men are already at work there, apparent^* getting good training:' This is but one instance of what hn-3 been done and is still being done for the hehabilit?tion of dis abled veterans. There is a great deal more to do, but at least pro gress is "being "m'ade. ? ? ? -?* If the drys will only bide their time, "the opposition may die out. Bootleg booze is a great extermi nator. ? ? <? GASSING FARM ENKMIES Poison gas is being turned to the purposes of peace. The Depart ment of Agriculture Is now experi menting with various kinds of gas as a means of destroying noxious insects, animals and birds. The Chemical "Warfare Service has used phosgene on rats in Porto Rico, with evident success. The gas. liberated at the entrance to a hole, flows down the hole and suffocates the rat just as gas suf focated men in the trenches. The same gas is said to be used successfully in killing the worm known as the peach tree borer, being buried, in solid form, in the earth around the tree, where it catches the worms as they hatch out. Other heavier-tlian-air gases are being tried on prairie dogs, ground squirrels and woodchucks. A test is to be made, probably with Chlo rine, on the destructive blackbirds of the imperial Valley in California. The plan is to overwhelm them them with a gas cloud at night while they are roosting in the marches.- Other plans contemplate 1 j the slaughter of grass hoppers,! i locusts, etc, by similar clouds, used I i ! i preciselv as the gas was used ! \ 1 against hostile armies. It is a hopeful adaptaion of de-i ! j structtvc weapons to constructive I , , . , I ; purposes, but one to be used with | j extreme caution. Aside from the danger to the wielder of the i weapon, there is the same objec-i ! tion to gas in peace as in war?it | j : Us likely to kill non-combatants I along with enemies. This is true | alike of animals, birds and insects.! The gas may annihilate them all. i the beneficent along with the rest, ' I and often it is difficult to say in j which class any particular creature j belongs. Many a well-meant cf-1 fort at riddance of a pest has j brought a worse evil, by interfer- ; ing ignorantly with the fine bal ancc of nature. Any farmer con templating a gas-cloud assault j along his crop front had better ! wait until the experimenting has one farther. CIVILIZATION There are now 115,000 miles of J paved or surfaced highways in the j United States?more than there are I or ever were in any other country J in the world. They have all been j built, too, within comparatively | j few years. When the system pro- I videu for in the Federal Highway Act, is completed, the Agricultural! Departmcn reports, the improved j mileage will amount to 180,000 miles. The process will keep right on. with accelerating speed, establish ing new trunk lines across the con- j tincnt and up and down, in a trans- i portation system of ever-growing fineness and durability. Imagine all this network of good roads swept away?the condition in I which it would leave the country ! and the inevitable deterioration that would follow. I Good roads arc civilization. There | has 'never bee?i a high state of! civilization without dependable transportation routes connecting every locality with every other, and still less will there ever be hereaf ter. You can measure modern hu- j i man progress pretty accurately by '. 1 i ; its road-building. i>jbAE*TTS FOR WORKERS I The recent statement by a labor i I leader that Henry Ford's efficiency I j methods are proving "a curse to ; j the workers" seems to represent a feeling more prevalent than effi ciency advocates have suspected. ! ! It bespeaks the tendency to re- j ! volt against an industrial system I j which makes human labor increa??- j jingly mechanical and monotonous.! As machinery develops, the critics' j complain, the workmen themselves j 'are turned more and more into ma ichines, their interest gone and! their senses dulled from infinite repetition of the same movement. There is a good deal of truth in | i this criticsm, but it is not the I whole truth. As the Ford system j itself demonstrates?and it is ' j typical of the whole present ten- j jdency of modern industry?along! jwith the growing monotony of work there come shorter hours and ; better compensation and living conditions. Mr. Ford's adoption of the five-day week is the latest evi dence of this tendency, and shows what is perhaps the natural and only remedy for the evil complain- j led of. i i j The specialization of jobs means j ; increased production. cheaper: goods, industrial progress, and so j is perhaps inevitable. The benefits j must be held, if possible. The dis- j advantages may be counteracted by; {the greater reward and greater j j leisure of the worker, compared j with his predecessors, i His work may bo less interesting j than theirs, or develop his mind-j j less, but he has more time and op- I port unity for development and progress outside of working hours. 1 lie also gets far more of the pro ducts of industry, by this process. [than his predecessors did. Hclp-j ing to produce in large quantity, he shares that quantity. He hasi comforts ;ind conveniences of life that were beyond the dreams of his kind a generation ago. and he has them because of this very specialization of which he coin- ^ plains. Aral if they fail to find the plesiosaur tli<- -.might try hunting j for the German . reparations pay ments, tin- dodo or a smokuble i nickel cigar. It has reached the point with a lot of us where every time we spend a penny we feel like we're robbing some tax collector. The tax collector can make al most anv business pay. We predict ;i hot summer for the miners and operators :ni<! a c?dd winter for the cpmatmor. The Unknown Sea Bottom Explorers and geographers who have been sighing Tor new lands to conquer may find their best field of endeavor, pardoxically. in the sea. Now that the United States Navy has perfected a deyiee fpr measuiing the depths of water by sound waves without going through tho tedious process of lowering sounding linos it should be possible to add greatly to the relatively water portion of the earth. The little we know about the undcr region is brought out in the follow impbrtance of this little explored ing bulletin issued from the Wash ington. 1>. <'. .headquarters of the National Geographic Society: "When it is realized that nearly three-fourths of the surface of the globe consists of water it is rather remarkable how little we know of the vast surface of the solid sphere which lies under this screen ol liquid. The greater portions of our continents are mapped even to the smallest details, and our harbors and the shallow waters closely off shore are fairly well charted: but once the edges of the continental shelves are passed the features of the sea bottom are represented only by a few somewhat vague contour lines laid down between rather in frequent points of soundings. Not Sure of Greatest Depth "We know without doubt that the highest point on the earth is the peak of Mt. Everest which ex tends above sea-level for 29,002 feet?or :bS feet less than 5 1-2 miles. On the other hand we can only speak ol* the deepest abyss 'yet discovered." for one great pit. hidden in the depths of the ocean, has scarcely established its title to first place .in recent years when it has been surpassed by a deeper one: and it can hardly be believed that the deepest of all has yet been discovered. "School children were taught a few years ago that the deepest de pression in the earth's surface was near the Fiji Islands and that it was ."?0.133 feet deep! Since then 'the deepest hole on earth* has been successively Kcrmadec Deep, northeast of New Zealand. 30.930 feet: Nero Deep, southeast of Guam. l.Glfi feet: and the present holder of the record. Philippine Deep, cast of the Philippine Islands. 32.os.'t feet. This greatest known depth therefore lies six miles and 409 feet below the surface of the sea. l.ikc Sera tell on Billiard Ball "The greatest range vertically of the earth's surface is between the bottom of Philippine Deep and the top of Mt. Everest, a distance of ap proximately 11.6 miles. This seems a tremendous distance un til it is compared with the diameter of the earth which, near the lati tudes of these great physical fea tures, is approximately S.00O miles. On a globe with a diameter of eight inches instead of S.000 miles, this, maximum range of depressions and heights would be represented by a scratch little more than a hun dredth of an inch deep. The small est division on a household ruler is one-sixteenth of an inch. The (scratch would be less than a fifth ! of such division in depth. On a billiard ball one could hardly I scratch lightly enough with a pin j to represent the great Philippine Deep, and a few grains of talcum j powder would stand for Mt. Eyer I est. The smoothest orange that i grows has much greater irregu larities on its skin in proportion to j its size than those given to the I earth by all its peaks and valleys. "One who studies the earth comes to realize that in a sense the continents arc subordinate to the great ocean basins. The total volume of these depressions below [-?sea-level is many times greater than the volume of the land that rises above the sea. If the entire land surface were leveled down an ocean nearly (wo miles dee]) would sweep over every square foot of the surface of the globe. The condi tion of the continents might at first glance be considered precarious, but dry land has formed a consid erable part of the surface of the earth for millions of years and will probably remain for a long time to come. It has been estimated that less than four cubic miles of solid material is carried into the sea by water annually. At this rate, leav ing out of consideration upheavals and subsidences due to earthquakes and other causes, it would require more than G.000.000 years for all the present land to be washed into the sea." Control of Moles. Clem son College. April IS.?? Moles generally pass through their run ways several imes a day. and the following methods have there fore been found effective in con trolling them, says Prof. A. F. Con radi. entomologist, in answer to numerous requests for a remedy. 1. Stir unparched peanuts in white of egg. While sticky sprin kle Paris green over theni. Mi\ well so thai ilie poison surrounds all I he seed, and let dry. They will dry in about one-half hour and are 'hen hard anil can be easily handled. 2. Roll raisins in strychnine with a stick or tooth pick. Do not use hands, and be sure not to spill any for it is a violent poison. When through burn any poison re maining o\ er. Whittle a broom handle to a point. Walk over the ground, and ai intervals pierce the runway and drop into the hole a poisoned rais- ] in or peanut ami cover with tin* foot. Mole traps may be pu'chased at. hardware stores or wholesale j houses, but they are less effective, and onh the poisoned traps are rec ommended. -?? ? ? ? Emma Goldman stumbles out of] starving IjLussia into ;i job as news- | paper reporter. Von make I he j comment, reader, while we dry our tears. Tie- iTiit.ti of the hour tnkVs care of the minutes. To-day's Best Jokes and Stories Angry wife:" Arc all men fools?' Husband: "No! Some arc bach elors."? Exchange. How English ami American Differ "I*speak four languages." proud ly boasted the door man at a hotel in Rome to an American guest. Yes, four?Italian. French, English and American." "But English and American are j [the same." protested the guest. "Not at all." replied the man. If 1 an Englishman should come up j now. I should talk like this: 'Oh.! j 1 say. what extraordinarily shock- j ing weather we're having! I dare j say there'll be a bit of it ahead.', I But when you came UP I was just! {getting ready to say: 'For the lpve; lo'Miko! Some day. ain't it? Guess j (this is the second flood, alright."? Exchange. In the Wrong Pew. They were on their honeymoon and were staying at one of Chica- j go's well-known hotels. The bride hail been out shopping, and com- j ing back to the hotel hurried to the I room she believed was hers and rapped gently. "Sweetie! Sugar plum! Let your; honey in!" A great bass voice came through the closed door: "Madame! This is no candy shop! This is a bath room!"?Exchange. "What did your son learn at col lege?" "Well. sir. he can ask for money in such a way that it seems like an honor to give it to him."?Ex change. More Misplaced English. A man living a few miles off the main road in speaking about mak ing an avenue to his home and other improvements, said he'was going to cut a revenue up to his house, drill an. artillery well, have the water scandalized to be sure it was pure, then when his friends called to sec him he could treat them more hostile. A merchant had advertised for a boy. Late in the afternoon, a red headed, freckle-faced, blue-eyed, honest-looking boy applied for the job.. "Do you like to work?" asked the merchant. "No sir!" replied the boy. "Then you can have the job," re plied the. merchant. "You. are the first boy who's been here today who, didn't lie about it and say yes." ?5?Exchange. } "Never stop a man running with j a hat box in his hand." said the old j misogynist. "It may be his wife's [hat and he wants to get home be jfore the style changes,":?Ex change. SPRING. (By W. E. Moore) Spring is the time when the maiden blushes. The strong man feelr timid and shy as the youth. The sweet-noted song-birds sing in the rushes And call to their mates in the neighboring trees. It is the time when true-love ad vances. And calls out "surrender" in voice calm but firm. It is the time when love is re kindled I And hearts that were "broken" will vibrate again. Spring! Oh thou sublime. Thou quiet, gentle season. ? Stay with us longer, if, for no other j reason. I Than that thou art. Spring, the love-making season. Just Received by Wireless Scalamazoo, Pcnnsyltucky. The girls here have decided to make skirts one inch shorter ! which were already dangerously incur the dead line. An old colored man was burning dead grass when a wise guy stopped and said: "You're foolish, to do that. Uncle Eh: it will make the meadow as black as you .are." "Don'i worry, 'bout that, sah." replied Uncle Eb. Dat grass will grow out and be a's green as you is."?Exchange. A Strong Attachment. "Gome along, now." ordered the policeman, handcuffing the prison er's wrist to his own. "Of course i will." said the etil jprit. jovially. 'Tin very much at tached to you."?Exchange. Thoughtful. "Have- you said your prayers, Leslie?" "Yes. mamma." "Did yon ask to be made a good boy?" '"Yes. mamma.. nn?] I |>m in a word for you and father, too!"? Exchange. A successful business man is one with the horsepower of an optimist and the emergency brakes of a pes simist.? E xcha nge. Can't Read Yet. Bobby came home from Iiis first day at kindergarten with the an-j nouncenicnt that he could write. Upon being given pencil and paper,! he made his usual meaningless; scribbles. ; "But what." said bis mother, "does it say V" "How do I know?" answered Bobby. " haven't learned to read it yet." ? Exchange. Lot O' Trouble. Yeiirs ;igo the youngest son of a peer went out to the wild and wooly vvesf. H? picked up a negro ser vant before he started to trek. The! lirst morning in cm;;? the Britisher took :i cold plunge, rubbed himself I down vigorously, went through some physical exercise, shaved, j , cleaned Iiis teeth, combed his hair. ! manicured his nails, and put on j clean underclothing. : The negro watched him with j interest, not unmixed with pity. "Mistuh." he said, at last, "you ! are certainly a lot o' trouble t" yo'self, hain't yuh?"?Exchange. Have just been thinking about buying a new Cadillac, an cight i room bungalow out in the country j conveniently situated by a good j road, the house to have all modern conveniences including electric 1 lights, its own water system, hard wood tloors. two pianos, a Vic [ trola. billiard room, modern plumb I ing, a small dairy, a private still j and all other up to date accesso j ries. Also about how nice it would j be soon to take a tri]) to Atlantic j City and loll around at one of the best hotels for the next month or so. running over to Xew York ' every once in a while for a night ! of pleasure among the carabets and I the theatres with more money than > we knew how to spend. As we said before, we have been thinking j about it. It doesn't cost anything ' to think. He?(Did you know that the peo ple in Philadelphia never eat snails? .She?No. how's that? He?They can't catch them. A grocer down the street has i some cheese which is simply unap ; proachablc. Limberger. I Now that Fatty has been turned I loose he had better stick to that j brown beverage of the same name ! as his own. Lost. Strayed or Stolen. Rund away. 1 red an vi to caf. j His hind leg was plack. He was I a she caf. Enipotti vat prings j him pack pays 3 tollars. Jacob j I Zuddcring. Clar Creek, tree I miles pehind the p ridge. HOT POLITICS" I IN COLUMBIA r - [Candidates For Mayor Come to Blows at Meeting i Columbia, April 19.?The muni j cipal campaign waged in Columbia I for the past several months reach- [ j ed its climax at the concluding | ! meeting here tonight when Com- ! j raissioner William A. Coleman, j president of the Merchants Bank. J ?and John W. Richardson, former j chief of police, candidates for I j mayor, engaged in a personal en- j ; counter behind the scenes at the ! Columbia theatre, where the speak- i j ing was held. During the course j j of his speech attacking the candi- i i dacy of Commissioner Coleman, j } Mr. Richardson, referring to the j j former, said that he thanked God ' ? "I haven't got a brother-in-law in j j the penitentiary for stealing and j i another jailed for passing bum i I checks." This remark was occa- \ j sioned by the charge that while j ; Mr. Richardson was chief of police I the jail was robbed of some $60 I and Mr. Richardson retorted that; tit occurred while he, as chief of' j police, was at Jacksonville arrest - j ing a brother-in-law of Commis ! sioner Coleman, charged with rob I hing the city of some $20.000 whlie j assistant clerk and treasurer and for which he was later convicted ? and sentenced to a term in the j state penitentiary. ? After the conclusion of Mr. Rich ! ardson's speech, according to eye } witnesses, Mr. Coleman approached I the former chief and asked what ! he meant by defaming Mr. Cole i man's relatives and Mr. Richardson i merely smiled. Then Mr. Coleman.; J they stated, hit Mr. Richardson and j : blows were exchanged. They were separated by State Constable Tom j ; Be rley. i The municipal election will be ! held next Tuesday, at which a ; mayor, two commissioners and two j school commissioners are to be J elected. W. J. McCormack. PLAN STATE FAIR ON LARGER SCALE j Manager Will Be Elected To I Have Executive Control Columbia, April 19.?Founda j tion from plans and recommenda- I tions for a greater state fair, more I i representative of the agricultural j and commercial interests of South i Carolina, was laid today at extend- ; ed sessions of the executive com- | mittee of the South Carolina Agri- j cultural and Mechanical Society. Election of a manager, a secrc- :' tarj" and a treasurer and plans for financing the fall festival will bo made at tomorrow morning's ses- : sion. D. Frank Efird, of Lexing-! ton. is the secretary and David G. i Ellison, of Columbia, is the treas urer. The new office of manager, j to have executive control of the; fair, will be created, it was de- j cid cd today. Complete reorganiza tion of the state fair was recom mended in the report of Robert ! M. Cooper, Jr.. of Wisaeky. and . various improvements were sug-; gested in the reports oi depart ment heads. These will be con-1 sidered at tomorrow's meeting.! one of the features of the session: was the luncheon at noon at which ? leading men representing every! phase of life in South. Carolina i were represented. The consensus of opinion, boiled down, as express ed by the various speakers, was [ that the State Fair should have a real objective which would have tu be lived ui> u>. that it should be ' abreast of present-day civilization:, and a leader in the agricultural [< life of the state, and that, above j' all things, it must be an educa-l, tic- medium through ocular den,- ? oust rat ion of the greatness of ' South Carolina and the necessity of , the farming interests modernizing 1 their activities. Maybe they burned Rome be- ' ?ans;- Nero was tab!ling jazz. ? ? ? Why not award the taxpayers at bonus ton-; Then everybody will! ?.? satisfied. The Alexander Trio The Alexander Trio, appearing at the coming Redpath Chautanqua, is afl entertainment organization known for its novelty instrumental features, cleyec character sketches and popular vocal selections.* . -1 ~*' * J. F. Alexander, manager of the company, is a mas".7'<T the^as?pn?^eV melloplione and guitar. He is also an expert steel guitar artist. Mrs. Alexander plays the ukulele, melloplione. saxophone and piano; and Vivian Pierce, third memher of the company, is a violinist, pianist, lyric soprano and dramatic interpreter. The Trio has toured with great .success in many parts of the United States. Recently on a large Ohautauqua circuit in the West where this organization ap peared, a systematic ballot was taken in every city visited, and the Alexander Trio was voted the most popular organization of its kind on the entire program. HULL DISCUSSES NEWBERRY'S CASE Democratic Chairman Takes Fight into Michigan?Are Seats For Sale? Grand Rapids. Mich., April 10.? Democratic attack on the seating of Senator Xewberry was carried into Michigan tonight by Chair man Hull, of the Democratic nat ional committee, through a mes sage read at a state.-wide meeting of party leaders. Chairman Hull in his message discussed : . length the Xewberry case, which former Governor Cox touched upon in an address here last night and which Chairmnji Hull tonight declared "sharply raised the clean cut issue of whether seats in the United States senate are for sale." Re publican leaders lad >wered the issue affirmatively, the chairman said, adding: "This means that ruvy office is for sale and that the corrupt use of money to influence any govern mental agency for any purpose, no matter how selfish or fiendish, is a part of the political practice of those who are today in high places in Wellington." The Democratic chairman then wept on to say that the Xewberry ease "bad as it was in every ouias sense" is not "within and by itself that which constitutes the greatest danger.but as a symptom of out cropping sign it reveals startlingly evidence of the frightful underly ing system of political bargain and sale under which Old Guard Repub lican leaders are today conducting the Republican party and the af fairs of our government as well." Three classes of Republicans ex ist today. Mr. Hull said, naming them as "the Old Guard, the Pro gressive and the Xewberry Repub licans." "The Xewberry brand is now in control of the Republican party," he added. Chairman Hull presented to the Michigan Democrats a declaration of the principles and policies for which the pemoeratc party stands, asserting in this connection: "The Democratic party is tradi tionally in favor of economy in gov ernment expenditures. * * * The Democratic party holds fast to the doctrine of equal rights to all. spe cial privileges to none.* *'*'** It clings fast to all the fundamentals of the founders of Democracy and of popular government. * * * Dem ocrats are loyal and consistent friends of the ex-service men. ? :: Democrats believe that everyone is entitled to a living and that every industrious able-bodied person should have at least a living wage or a full day's pay for a full day's' work." The Democratic^ chairman re ferred to tlie coal strike, saying: "It does seem to me that . the1 ?east the operators- could do would be to confer wit:': the miners ac cording to their written agreement. Their course may compel a com plete reorganization and readjust ment of tile coal industry. I imag ine that if the miners were at fault the national administration would be really active in an effort to set tie the strike." PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECEIVE EN DORSEMENT Washington, April L'u (Capital News Service).?^During the fourth ' annual convention of the American Legion, department of Florida, in session just closed at Palm Beach, there was unanimous and enthus-* iastic adoption of the following resolution: "Whereas the public school sys tem is the fountain- head of better Americanism, therefore be it ' Resolved. That the convention favors federal support of the public schools under a system that will not interfere with state super? vision of such schools; and be it "Resolved further. That this convention favors an improved sys tem for the vocational training of. ex-service men. backed by ample appropriations." Senators and representatives hi congress who favor the Towner Sterling bill, establishing a depart ment of education with a secretary in the president's cabinet, find in this action of the premier young American man 02-ganizaiion great encouragement. So many organ izations of all sorts have endorsed the bill that sentiment * in con gress is rapidly crystallizing toward its early passage. To tfnd the ex service men of Florida solidly be hind support for the public school is very gratifying to all friends of the bill and all proponents of Americanization plans which are to work out school. through the publ? A fisherman found $lO,um> on ? the banks of the Potomac Maybe ?that's the dollar George threw* [across, with interest. Whipped cream covers a multi tude of short portions'. The business of America demands at this time the best banking service obtainable FIRST NATIONAL BANK NE ILL O'DONNKLL President 6 COMTEK, S. C. ARCHIE CHINA Vice President O. L. 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