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Wednesday aud Satanla) ?BY? JryBLdUiHlNG COMPANY 8?MTEK, 8. C. $aj# per iihis in advance. AdvertiMmmta ?jho Square first Insertion .. ..$1.00 ?Nry subsequent Insertion.60 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made st reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private interests will be charged tor as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect WfV be chanced for. The Sumter Watchman was found 04 la 1S60 and the True Southron in !???. The Watchman and Southror. the combined circulation am J of both of the old papers ti manifestly the best advertiain In Sumter. Boss The same old pro-Clerman editors have spent the past three years tryiM to work up sentiment against Use American government and defend? ing; German atrocities in Belgium, in France and on the high seas are now on voting their talents to creating op m against actis? and effective against Germany. They are opposed to sending military to Europe, especially to Trance, am making use of all manner of mislead! ng arguments what they suppose to be the of the government. They to be patriots and to stand for km against the world, but they to bo more concerned lest tho tod States' action that will injure tny and help our allies to win war than that our country should rge Its full responsibility in thi/ world struggle to save democracy and the liberty of the peoples of all na? tions from the menace of Prussia n tsm. There are still many wolves trying to masquerade In sheep's clothing, but they fail to conceal their fangs or to suppress their snarls. A very large majority of all Germans Mn of German descent in Amcr ars truly loyal to the government, hot there are at large too many self looted spokesmen who are at heart toMowtrs of von Rlntelen. von Papen other German secret agents who and financed the plots, con and outrages against the peo? ple aod government of the United during the last three years, are many traitors and German agents still at work in this country, but In time they will be property dealt with, we trust. THE NEGRO KXODV& Large numbers of negroes have left the South for various industrial centers In the North and West within the past year, and the migration in iastead of waning hai every indica? tion of Increasing in volume. The movement from this immediate sec? tion was late In starting, comparative? ly few negroes having left Sumter vicinity for the North lust summer fall; but abaut December, reports of high wsgss and a great demand for workers of all classes having be to come back from those who gone North to try their luck, the movement northward Increased In volume. During the past two months large numbers of negroes have left Sumter each weok. the majority of them going to Pittshurg, Philadelphia and New York and the Industrial cen? ters In the vicinity of those eitlen. Among those who have left wer? tu be found all classes of negroes, but a largo proportion of them has been what might be classed as skilled la? bor?carpenters, brickluyers, chauf? fers, cooks and house servants. So far as the Information available en sble- us to arrive at a conclusion, the number of common farm hands and laborers of that class to go North has not been large, as yet. but if the de? mand for common labor In the North Increases and high waxes are offered, there Is no power under heaven that can keep many hundreds of negro la? borers from going North. The lure of high wagee will draw them, regard? less of the fact that the climate, liv? ing conditions and working conditions In the North are strange and unsuited to negross. and especially to those who have b?en born and bred on flout hern farms. To tell them that a majority of them cannot do the work that will he demanded ot them in the manner that their employers expect It t) be done, that they cannot stand the climate and that many who go North will not live through the first winter, will havo little or no ef? fect?thoss who contract the moving fever having heard the stories of high wages and steady employment win not hoed the warning, they will make the venture regardless of con? sequences, gome of them will make good snd will prosper, for so long as there Is the present scarcity of labor In the Industrial centers, but many more will not be able to adapt them selves to new and strange tssks and living conditions un " )y will suffer hardships such as t 4.? v have never known of or Imagined. But that is the penalty they will have to pay for breaking awsy from old ties and old occupations, and no power, public or privat?, can save them fiom it. Looking nt the migration of the ne? groes from the South from the point of view of the white employer of ne? gro labor, it cannot be disputed that conditions that wil result from the re? moval a large percentage of the ne? groes from the South will cause se? rious disorganization of all lines of industry and not inconsiderable loss, until there has been a re? adjustment and reorganization to meet altered conditions. Thus far the ne? groes have not left Sumter county In sufficient numbers to create a serious shortage of labor, and it Is possible that the exodus may not attain such propositions as to create a labor fam? ine, for there has always been at some seasons a surplus of labor and some of the negro population can be spar? ed without serious inconvenience, ex? cept in cotton picking season. But whatever the result of the changed conditions brought about by the war and the coming of the boll weevil, the South must face the fact that things will never again bo as they have been and we must begin at once to readjust our business and methods of lifo to meet new and changing conditions. We are In the midst of an Industrial | revolution and it is useless to attempt to restore the old order of things?the powers that actuate the changes that are taking place are too great to be controlled. The best that we can do Is to adapt ourselves to the altered conditions and make the best of cir? cumstances. We may as well recog? nize now, as later, that the movement Northward of the negroes Is just one of the manifestations of the industrial revolution that the war has set in motion?the North urgently needs la? bor that it cannot obtain from Europe or elsewhere and as the last resort Is drawing upon the South. And the negro is just as responsive to the lure of higher wages us any other race. The same inducements that drew hun? dreds of thousands of common labor? ers from Europe each year before the war are now operating to draw the nag ism from the Sout. They have heard the call and until the demand for kibor In the South more nearly equals that In the North they will continkie to go North. Furthermore, the negro fs a free agent and If ho finds It to Ms advantage, or believes that it Is to his advantage, to leave j the South there Is no way to prevent his going. We may as well face this fact and abundon any idea that It Is not possible to stop the exodus by for? cible means. The negroes who remai i in the South wilt have their condi? tion improved by the exodus of the others, for their labor will be in greater demand and their opportunl will be enlarged, but unless they measure up to the new opportunities and do the work that Is to be done, when the war is over and the abnor? mal conditions now existing have passed away, they will be crowded out of the South by the Influx of white la bor from other sections. In the long 1 run the removal of the overplus of no groes from the South will most cer? tainly work out to the good of the South as a whole, both the whites, and the negroes who remain here, bo Ing the beneficiaries of the changed conditions. ARMY REGISTRARS NAMED. Local Hoards Appointed to Register Those Subject to Selective Con scrlptlou. Ward 1?It C. Haynsworth, B. IX Mitchell. W. L. Lee. Ward 2?D. D. Molse. K. U Mc l^eod. Shopsrd K. Nash. Ward 3?H. A. Moses, J. A. RattleM Ward 4?S. O'Qulnn. H. LcRoy Wltherspoon. J. H. Duffle. Stnteburg?T. S. StucKey, James Pagan. Providence?S. P. Gllllard, Alex C Burroughs, S. F. Moore. Rafting Creek?T. J. Brown, J. L. Jackson. Oswego?F. W. Andrews, S. M. Mc? Coy. Mayesvllle?Bert C. Chandler, C. E. Mayes. Concord?B. W. Brogdon, Jr., 1'. L Jones. J. L. Brogdon. HhHoh?g. w. Truluck, W. T. Green. T. J. Keels. Privateer?Silas Kolb, O, A. Net? tles. Wedgefield?E. E. Aycock, H. M McLnnrhv Bloom Hill?Frank M. Coulter. Osofgl I* Geddings. The shove named registrars are hereby culled to meet with the Coun? ty Board of ReglHtrution and Conscrip? tion, at the. rourt House In Sumter. S. C, Ml May 24th. at 12 o'clock Noon, .here to rceelve Instructions, cards, etc. JOHN H. C LI FT UN. Chairman. Board of Conscription ami Kcgiatr.it Ion. A Losing tale. "First 8crlbe?"So the editor took one of your poems and then asked you out to lunch V Second Scribe?"Yes ?and th? lunch only cost me i dollar more then 1 got for the poem?' TWO NURSES KILLED. Fatal Accident on Ship Carrying Reil Cross Units to France. New York, May 21.?Two American nurses of an ambulance unit, en route to France were killed and one seriously injured yesb rday aboard an American steamship when a piece of a shell, fired by the naval gun crew aboard, in practice, ricochetted from the water's surface and scattered frag? ments among a group of nurse on the decks. The gunners explained that when the shell struck the water one hundred and seventy-five feet from the vessel centrifugal force caused bits of shell to fly back on shipboard. The steamship which sailed for Europe Saturday came back this morning with the nurses' bodies. Roth From Chicago. Washington, Mny 21.?The two Red Cross nurses killed aboard an Ameri? can steamer were Edith Ayrcs and Helen Woods, both of Chicago. They were attached to base hospital No. IS. The navy department dispatch gave no details of the accident other than to say that the nurses were killed by fragments of brass from one of the j liner's guns. Tins is taken to disposq j of the first report that they had been i struck by a shell ricocheting from the water and indicates that they were killed as a result of some sort ol gun accident. i _ I Real Rotate Transfers. Master to Chero-Cola Bottling Co. lot in city. $100. S. M. Nabelt to Ralph Kill, his Interest in six lots on Broad street, $237.50. Julian E. Banden to J. R. Atkinson j 40 acres in county, $1000 and other considerations. B. u Bruneon to Bom Newman, his interest in 35 acres In county, $150. j Master to fchepard Nash, 1 lots in city, $25. Derry and Horton Vaughn to L. D. Jenning>? Elizabeth Pinckney and others, 1 lot in city $13.21. H. A. Brunson. Master Floi-encc J county, to S. J. Tomlinson, 176 acres! in Shlloh township, $5 and other con- ; skleratlons. H. A. Brunson. Master Florence county, to Mrs. Bettie Tomlinson and j others, 212 acres in Shiloh township, j $5 and other considerations GEN. WOOD \T CHARLESTON. (From the Springfield Republican.) It may not be generally known that there is now developing a humorous aspect to the transfer of Major Gen. Leonard Wood to the new Southeast? ern military department, with head? quarters at Charleston, S. C. When he was transferred from the old De? partment of the East, with headquar? ters at New York, all the clamorous newspaper gentlemen who stick pins into Wilson night and day promptly assumed that the president was vin? dictively "getting even" with Gen. Wood because Wood had advocated preparedness. "Our greatee* general'' j had been "sent to Coventr v^i'.e in some mysterious way the nation's military defense would now be im? periled at New York under that ex? perienced and accomplished officer. Major Gen. J. Franklin Bell. It now appears that the new Department of the Southeast Is to be probably the most important department in the country, in that, on account of its mild winter climate, more oe~?s will be trained there than c. jewhere. Gen. Wood may have command of over a .quarter of a million men. And thus I win be "punished" by a "vindictiv. " j president. The criticism of Mr. Wil? son for "persecuting" Gen. Wood * been on a par with the angry remarK of a mature Bostonian of Harvard affiliations when it was learned that the War Department would not rec? ognize Harvard University as a full Hedged military camp for the training; of Harvard students to be officers of the United States army. "Wilson hates Harvard," convincingly said ths Bostonian; and that settled it. I j CONSTITUTION FOR IRELAND. I London, May 21.?Premier Lloyd ;George today announced in the house jof commons that the government pro j posed to summon an immediate con j vention of representative Irishmen in ' Ireland to submit to the British par ! liament a constitution for the future government of Ireland. NOTICE?For the benefit of our pa? trons, our corn mill will run daily from now on. Any one wanting a pure, high grade meal will do a ell to bring us their corn to grind. Mill at the foot of Sumter Street, near Southern Railway. Sumter Roller Mills. SAXON ROADSTER A CAR COMPLETELY EQUIPPED WITH EVERY MODERN MOTOR CAR FEATURE. New Series Saxon FLoadster This new series Saxon Roadster is now a com? plete and finished automobile to the very last detail. Look among the high pri ed models and you'll fiud none that carries more cor venienees. It has now one of the finest and mc st efficient two-unit starting and lighting systems that can be purchased. No other car, no matter the price, has a better starting aud lighting system This new attraction puts a vast gulf between Saxon Roadster and the car lacking starting and lighting In comparison such a car is antiquated and old-fashioned. As much as the ox cart com? pared to the automobile. Think now?you simply press a button with your foot and your motor is purrirg away. Think of the ease and luxury that is yours iu this refinement Another feature of instant appeal are the de? mountable rims with 30-inch by 3 inch tires. In case of accident tire dunging is a quick and easy operation with demountable rims. But these larger tires h ive a further advan? tage. They make Saxon Roadster higher standing and thus add to the road clearance. Add beyond this they mean greater riding comfort and far longer tire life. Now Saxon Roadster posses a greater pro portion of tire surface to the weight of the car than any other on the market. So the Saxon Roadster owner fii.ds himself posessed of a car which practically never suffers tire trouble. Nor are these the ouly new advantages. You'll note the body is of new style and the top, too, which has a Grecian rear bow Then there's the electric horn; the tire carrier at the rear; the speedometer; and the new de? sign carburetor which gives finer performance and easier starting. These features are all in addition to tho.e others you know so well, Stieb as Timken ax eh; Hyatt quiet bearings; Saxon high-speed motor; and fully a score more. Now, no car iu the world at so low a price offers the value to equal Saxon Roadster. Price, $495 f. o b. Detroit. CAROLINA SAXON CO HOLMES SIMONS?Treas. and Gen. Mgr. 1218 Hampton Avenue Mr. <;. W.Yoncc, Newbnrry, S. c. Mr. vv. Ci Parry, Karahaw, & C. Mr. Stove Perry, Cumdcn. S. C. Mr it. <> Monk. Inman, B, 0. Messrs. Byere ft Coielnri?, Qaftnty, B. c. Mr. U m. Jordan, Unton, s. C. n Phone 647 LIST OF SAXON DEALERS Palmetto Auto Bales Company, Green? ville, s. c. Messrs. T?te & (leer, Helton, S. C. r. m. Trlbble & s???n. Seneca, s. C. Trlbhle & Aynew Donalde, s. c. Mr. U u McLnurln, MeCoU, S. C. Peoples Garage & Supply Co., Hauts ville, S. C. Columbia, S. C. Mr. I. T. Heller. Kingstrec, S. C Measrs. I.aehioeottcc & Gaillard. ?leorgetown, s. c. Palmetto Garage, Charleston, S. C. The Mutual Garage. Denmark, S. C. Arthur Hardware Company, St. Mat tbews, S. C.