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QUALITY and QUANTITY \bu get more shines for your money It's island worth more The big value Shoe Polish BOX P. F. Daltey Cooirtny Inc. Oufcalo, N. V. TALKS OF GKRMANY. Col McMaster Gives Out An Inter esting Interview. (By William Hunks . in Charleston Newft ami Courier.) Columbia, Feb. 21. ??? I've ha<i a that with Col. George H. McMaster, II; S, A., retired, and his conversa tion was of so much interest to mo that I asked him to let me report it for the readers of The News and Courier. Col. McMaster was over in Germany during the summer, and as that nation', once empire, is very much in the public eye at present, 1 find that his conversations are of groat enlightenment upon the prob lems facing not only that Country, hut other European countries as well. Perhaps America? Col. McMaster is too well known to the readers of The News and Courier for mo to tell much of him, except enough to let them under stand that he speaks with authority, fie was one of the men who came out of the Philippine war with a dec oration of honor. Ho swam some liver with a sword in his teeth, that constituting the major part of his clothing and equipment at the time, and put the fear of God into the Tag alog or lgorotc, or whatever outfit rt was. It is the daring of the ex ploit rather than the extent of the achievement that concerns us. The backbone of the island insurrection was broken by his daring to face poisoned darts and other devilish tilings i?i the way of wan are that were in vogue at the time. Col. McMaster lias been coniman dnnt, of cadets at the Citadel, and has many friends in Charleston/ Dur ing the World War he saw active service. Last summer, after goin.-jf over the- ground fertilized by the best blood of 'the world, he decided to spend a while in (Jermany. I confess that 1 was most inter ested in the human interest stories that Col. McMaster related, but. some of these, he thinks, are trivial compared with the more important observations that he has made as to the future of Germany. There is one statement that 1 will men tion as showing "relativity." He traveled from Cologne, on the Wes tern horded of Germany, by sleeping car, to Herlin, more than 150 miles away, and he paid therefor, including meals, less than the mere Pullman fan- from Columbia to Washington, about the name distance. "It is hard to generalize impres sions as to preaent-day Gormany," said Col. Mc Master. "Injustice to Homo is hound tip occur unless ono states qualifications , in his general izing. Hut any casual traveler can hardly fail to agree with mo in the statement that the two outstanding features are her 'static wealth' and her * babies.' " ' When I expressed surprise at tho term wealth as applied to Germany, which in the dispatches is pictured as a mendicant nation, Col. McMaster explained: "It will require several hourtf riding on a fast moving train to detect a singlo acre of land not as perfect in its cultivation and pro duce as Charleston's choicest acre. "We whirled past miles and miles of cultivated land, and when we would approach ix forest I thought to myself, 'Here at least we will find some waste land,' but it was not to be so, for every bit was tilled right up to the edges of the forests. "It would require the services of detectives to find a factory that is not i ngood repair and fully working. Many factories are new and all are in good running order. The towns and cities are alive with new build ings under construction. Capital is as busy as the <50,000,000 of inhabi tants. Idle capital takes no chance of being taxed, nor will the laborers allow the machinery of his body to become rusty. This thrift and pa tient industry can elicit only praise and admiration. As to the .poverty (by some proclaimed), one sees more poverty upon entering the cities of Charleston or Savannah, for in stance, than in all of the great cities of Germany. As to the German 'beggars' these are so few as to be negligible. Much fewer than in the United States. It is difficult to undcrs-tand how some travelers speak of the underfed, anae mic Germans, the starved babies and pale older folk. It seems to be a kind of stock phrase appealing for sympa thy, like that other complaint of the use of negro troops on the Rhine. "Such subjects are choice ones for those American citizens of Ger man proclivities, so plentiful among the travelers last summer, and so vocal in the .lt>bhM(K..uf hotels and on steamer docks. A ' traveler of this type was met at Leipsie. Consider ing a crowd at the railroad station, he had so influenced his own powers "ALL ABOARD" A Musical Comedy WILL BE PRESENTED 2 ? ?NIGHTS 2 Thursday and Friday, March 15th and 16th, 8:30 P. M. - AT THE CAMDEN OPERA HOUSE Under Auspices of the American Legion by a Cast of Camden's Finest Amateurs Tickets $1.00, 75c and 50c Reserve your 73c and $ LOO Tickets at Robin Temp's on and after next Wednesday AUTOMOBILE CYLINDERS AND CRANK SHAFT GRINDING We are prepared to prive your car an overhaul equal in every respect to the factory or that can he clone in any large city. We have rc^-round forty cylinder blocks since last July and so far as we know they arc ^ivint^ excellent service. W. 0. HAY'S GARAGE SOUTH BROAD STREET, CAMDEN, S. C. of perception' as actually to believd, (hat tlitf1 people gave signs of uifk't nourishment, Btit a careful scrutiny i ? ? . . .i U-<.i only obvtoUS evidences ol health and bountiful nourishment. "Undeniably the former leisure clans of Germany ia hard puU Fixed income* are becoming valueless. The chaos of finauce and isolation, tho (liinuiiiUoii of trade, must of necessity be now producing anguish that. can no longer be off, nut by thrift, tno an guish tasted by othera in Belgium and Franco, who . likewise were not responsible individually for their own undoing. "The solving of Germany's present troubles seems to be now a question demanding the thoughtful attention of the statesmen of the world. In this the underlying motive noed not be coricprned ontfrely with helping Ger many alone. It would seom that Ger many's fall, like Germany's wars, might be contagious. But the help that munt be extended and the co-op eration exacted aro such profound questions that philosophers-* and statesmen can but approach thoso mighty questions with a spirit of reverent humility. "If there is not a spirit of un selfishness among the nations the weaker nations are in as Horry a plight as individuals would be with the Golden Rulo abrogated. "What did Germany look like to the .average traveler Just summer?" "WelU how would America appear if all her capital* and all Jier people were working to the utmost?" "So much for the first thing no ticeable in Germany, its apparent wealth and prosperity. As to its crop of babies, what traveler is there who crosses the line but ob serves the babies in the fields and in the cities? Can it be that the Germans arc thinking en masse on this subject as they appear to do on all subjects? And 'by order' ? an order welcomed as it bears the mark of efficiency, their own Teutonic ef ficiency. The word has been passed around 'that the family without at least three babies? is traitorous to the fatherland -one baby for "fader,' one for 'mut ter,' and one for 'vaderland.' "How ia this patriotic crop of ba bies connected wjth the dictum of Ludendorff that "the first ten years \tfter the armistice will determine who were the victors?" Sixty mil lion Germans against forty million Frenchmen! There is the answer! The German's replace their war lines in seven years, the French in twenty. "'The hate of these great nations is carefully nurtured and fostered, even as never before. On one side is cynical, calculating science and numbers. On the other ? anguished memory and dread of the future's 'out-Horoding' the past." He is a shallow thinker indeed who does not perceive this dread dominat ing the psychology of tho France of today. "Was there ever a time when the peace of the world was so menaced,? Was there even a time when the world should so recognize the signi ficance of ten million graves, but re cently dug? , "Atop of this American and Euro pean are being kicked out of Asia, whereas it was thought by many that the Turk was to be kicked out of Europe. Who won the war? Lu dendorff replies, 'the first ten years after the armistice will determine." "You ask whether France's army can hold in the Ruhr against any possible German army? Why, of course it can. Because of the change in the principles underlying modern wars, as compared with other strug gles, which had been considered ti tanic. Because mighty munitions of war are Franco's munitions requiring time and money in the making. Ger many's mighty armament is destroy ed or lies at the bottom of the sea or is apportioned among the allies. "What do armaments and muni tions represent as against manpower? Man power -would be impotent with out tho modern engines of destruc tion. It has been said that the United States started in 1914 to build armaments, and yet 1918 found hor borrowing .from France. The .simple cannon and guns used in the wars from Napoleon's time to our own Civil War, and so simple as to be produced in ordinary cross-roads foundries, are replaced by mighty en gines of today's warfare. A cannon is no longer an iron tube, and a rifle is no longer a flint-lock musket. A modern field pieee costs half a mil lion dollars. "What is the political-military .sig nificance of the Ruhr invasion? "France observing that the securi ties promised her after the armis tice have vanished, is in effect going to 'Berlin.' Of course, actual presence in Berlin is not necessary. Camping upon the coal and industrial resour ces of Germany is sufficient. In peace, and under the Versailles pact, the military-strategic po.-ition in the Ruhr is similar to Germany's when she attached the mining regions of France in 191 1. or as illustrated in the I'nited States in 1S?5"J, when the Union armies appropriated the coal, iron and grass field* of Kentucky and Tennessee. It would require Ger many many years, even if unhinder ed, to acquire tin- armrament that France Kt now I "The i ;ut uulari> sad tiuth is that Armistice Day was November 11th, 1 :? 1 ^ : Its then certainty has now ^'.vin place to doubt while others hesitate, divide and quarrel, the Turk comes bark. What next?" } I rj a general way, I gather that ('??I. Mi.- Master's observation is that h ranee is in despair and is making a desperate stand against the Ger m/in threat: that Germany is always to be considered a menace to France as !"rg as she id numericably stron ger; that Prance's increase in birth rate n one to tho family as compared with three in Germany; that France to meet this condition ^s adopting thousands of Russian babies, that ha tred was never so deep nor so a^ute ?as at present and that children "Tntho schools are havihg it taught to them daily; that wars of today are^not successful through chivalry or cour- j ag? but by mean* of economies, and I that iho. Ruhr Valley comprises tho resource* the economic heart of Get many. Unless there ean bo an interna tionnli/at ion of tho Gold 60 Rule the f'utuir of Ivuropi' i-. more t In n ob- ! ?our^ho0 pcopu s an* sitting up oi> a volcano. Small Towns. . Thero are only about 1,500 commu nities in America which can rightful ly call thmselves "cities," but there are 75,000 "towns." A few of the latter have become as Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," but with a few exceptions they are the livo, eager centers of the farm life of this re public. For the farmers do not, a* a rule, lead an isolated existence. They revolve around some center, in to which the centripetal, force draws many of them as the centrifugal spirit* of venture and activity le$s?na. At this center is the farmer's ship^ ping and passenger station, the busy general store (no longer a loafing place), the milk station, the auto repair shop (succeeding , to much of the custom of the village blacksmith) and the small bank. Increasingly tho small town is also becoming tho school center, into \Vhich the sur rounding school districts are consoli dated, so that every farm boy and girl may have not only elementary but high school advantages. Tho people on the farms comprise only one-third of the total popula tion, but when to these are added the residents of the 75,000 towns tho ?non-urban population becomes one half of tho total. We thus still have a largo farmer foundation for our national life. And we still have a wholesome penetration, of "small townliness" in our cities, on account of tho large number of their resi dents who have come directly from the country or small town, or are but one generation removed from its interests, attitudes and neghborly sympathies and ambitions. How conscious tho small town is be coming of its imortance a radio mes sage sent out from the Kansas City Star broadcasting station by the di rection of economics and social science in a state of agricultural college sug gest^: > "Fifty per cent of the purchasers of manufactured articles and of the contributors to our scheme of na tional finance arc found in the small community. It is in the country bank, the small town bajik, that the farmer's financial business is trans acted. The money value of the new wealth created by farm production goes first to the country bank, then to the city bank, then to the central bank. Candidates for the offices of gov ernor, congressman, senator do not hold the majority of their campaign meetings in the large cities, nor in country school houses, but in the umall towns. Here they assemble the voters who hold tin- balance of power in the nation. The small community has furnished the city with its leadership and w still con tinuing to do so." lie does not stop here. "Small town stuff," as he calls it, has dom inated the thinking of the world, and he citcs in support of his contention the fact that the philosopher, Kent, was scarecely ever outside of the small town of his birth, and that Millet was of the country and small town. Moreover, Naz/ireth, out of which it was asked whether any good thing could come, was a small town, also was Hethlehem. ? New York Times. , ? TO REQUIRE A FERRY Across Watcree River Connecting Kershaw and Fairfield. A bill has been introduced in the general assembly to require the Southern Power Company to furnish the necessary equipment for a ferry across- the Wateree river. The bill reads as" follows: "Whereas by the erection of a dam by the Southern Power Company across the Wateree River for the pur pose of developing1 hydro-electric power the use of three separate fords and ferries across said River have been closed to the public and the pub lic travel has been hindered and - stopped thereby, now therefofe. ll<* it, enacted by the General As- . sembly of the State of South Caro- j linn : Section 1. That the said South ei n Power Company be, and it is j hereby required on or before the first day of .January, 1924, to furnish in the Counties of Kershaw and Fairfield with necessary equipment for the maintenance of a public ferry across said River at the site of the former Harrison Ferry and to maintain said equipment in safe condition for use thereat; the expense of operating said ferry shall lx* provided for by the said Counties. Section 2. Failure or refusal to furnish and maintain said equipment as hereinbefore provided for shall subject said Company to a penalty of not exceeding one hundred dol lars per day from and after the first day of .January, 11)2-1, to be recovered after suit of either of said Counties. Peculiar Kxpcriencrn. Mr. li. I,. White and son, Krvin, while on their way to Lancaster the past week, had an unusual experi ence. Mr. White says a chicken rooster just common scrub domer neckcr. was in the road and flew upon the Ford car radiator and into the windshield, breaking out the lower one and cracking the upper one. 'On Saturday John Henry Cordon, 1-1-year-old son of Mr. Pearce Gor don, tried riding a horse with a hal ter and no bridle. The eonseqtience was a runaway horse. The horse belonged to Mr. N\ T. Petters and ran from his honv to Mr. Cankeys and ran around Mr. Caskey's house three times, one time over some waste lumber and stabbed himself, finally falling in an old road bed and killing himself. John Henry was not Kurt more than a few scratches *rtd bruis es. ? Lancaster Citixen. Farmers Attention ? / ?' V \ \ \ ,V . .. ;; :V;, ? ; t '? . V ?? . "? ? ; 4 , Please call at once for your Soda and Arsenate, both are now to be delivered. ' : ' ,4>' The Bank of Camden HARD ON NEWSPAPERS. Many Publications Finding the Tiroes Too Strenuous. Suspension last week of the Pitts burgh D^patch, morning and Sun day, and the . Pittsburgh Leader, evening and Sunday, removes from the field of American journalism two of its best known newspapers. The Dispatch, under Col. C. A. Rook, was an especially attractive paper. The feeling in newspaper circles, it is stated, had been strong for some time that Pittsburgh had entiretly too many papers. Diseontinuancy of the Dispatch and the Leader reduces the number of going newspapers in Pitts burgh to two morning, three after noon and three Sunday newspapers, which is more at that than Pitts burgh really requires, more, we think, than any other city of Pitts burgh's sizb has. Baltimore, for ex ample, with 738,82(5 people, as com pared with 588,343 for Pittsburgh (United States Census figures for 1020) has only two morning and two afternoon dailies. Cleveland with 700,841 people has only one morning and two afternoon dailies, while De troit, with . 003,078 people has only one morning and two afternoon dai lies. . So it goes throughout the country. Only a small handful of cities, and those the very largest, now support more than one newspaper in the morning field and very few have more than two in the afternoon field. Ed itor and Publisher in connection with the elimination of the two Pittsburgh papers named above publishes a list of important newspapers in this country which .have disappeared since 1011. The last includes such well known publications as the New York Press, the New York Sun, the C'hica-j go Herald, the Boston Record, the Baltimore Star, the Detroit Journal, the St. Louis Republic, the Grand Rapid, Mich., News, the Kansas City Mo., Post, the Cleveland Leader, the Birmingham Ledger, the San Fran cisco, Call, the Oakland Enquirer, the Hartford Post, the Portland, Me., Argus, the Concord, N. II., Monitor, - the Concord Patriot, the Albany Ar gus, the Rochester, N. Y. Union and Advertiser, the Yonktrs Statesman, the Utica Observer, the Utica Herald Dispatch, the Norristown Herald, the Norristown Times, the Salt Lake Her ald- Republican, the Erie Herald, the Quincy Journal, the Springfield, 111., News- Record and the Rock Island Uhion. The Wilmington, N. 0., Dij. P'?Uh uiiother newspaper that su* pomied pub'icrtion a fortnight ago, A Pittsburgh publisher, discussing tho changes in that city, says to Editor and Publisher that the fewer newspapers which remain "can give better service both to readers and ad vertisers than was possible hitherto.* They will have greater resource* to employ in the making of better pa. pers while the advertiser will be able to reach as many, or more people at a very considerable saving in cost There is a limit to tho resources avail able to newspapers even in cities u large as Pittsburgh, a limit to thr number of newspapers which adver tisers can help keep going without in creased benefit to themselves.? -TV News and Courier. What's a Man Made Of? A scientist says each man contains the following ingredients: Fat enough for seven bars of soap. Iron enough for medium sized naiL: Sugar enough to fill a shaker. ? Lime enough to whitewash a< chicken coop. - Phosphorus enough to make '2.2W1 matches, Magnesium enough for a dose of magnesia. Potassium enough to explode a toy' cannon. Sulphur enough to rid a dog of fleas. The whole collection is worth 98c. Even that is a high price to put or some men. Safeiy First. There was a man in Texas who went to a revival meeting and was pressed to repent. He wavered for a time and finally arose and said: "Friends, I want to repent and toll how bad I have been, but I dasirt do it when the grand jury is in ses sion." M "The Lord will forgive the revi valist shouted. "Probably he will," answered the sinner, "but he ain't on that grand jury." ? Lawyer and* Banker. 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