The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 23, 1917, Image 4
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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
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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.