The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 06, 1918, Image 3
joix the tip top ru n.
Put Sumter at The Top of tin* Thrift
Stamp Column and Then keep Her
There.
Sumter, April I 1918.
Mr. and Mrs. Everybody. The Little
Everybodiep, Sumt*r County. S. C.
Dear Frtende: Do not all of you
wish to become members of the Tip
Top Club? The Tip Top Club is an
Organisation whose object . is to put
Sumter at the top of the Thrift Stamp
sales column, and then of course to
keep it there. Just at present the lit?
tle county of Beaufort Is at the toi>,
and at last report Sumter county was
way down at eighteenth place.
That's no place for Sumtet county
to be. is it?
Let's move her wsy up.
Tou become a member of the Tip
Top Club Just aa soon as you buy a
stamp. If everybody in Sumter will
become a member, and everybody
gtvea a good above upward Sumter is
bound to go to the top. ? Would not
you like to see it there?
dome in while the coming is good.
Bring your neighbor in; bring your
friends in. The Match stamp sales
were good; let's make the April sales
so large that March will look like a
little child
Are you in? Cordially.
The War Savings Committee for
Sumter County.
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sVocnc More War Saving Societiee.
Mayeeville 8chool No. 1: Louise
cooper. President; Emma L. Chan?
dler, secretary; Alma Huggins, Grace
Parnell. Alma Touchberry. Harriett
Stuckey, Emily Curry, Lucille Sum
nier. Sarah Thomas Anna Morrison,
Marian Kehn. Mary Ingram. Marion
Taylor. Thelma Huggins, Mabel Good
men. Mildred Anderson. Vivien Good?
man, Janle Louise Mayen.Sadie Par?
nell. Mary Scott
Mayeeville School No. 2: - Holman
Foxworth. President; Klizabeth
Cooper, Secretary; Annie I>ee Simpson,
Martha Burgess, Leslie Boykin, Jewel
Ingram. Roy Anderson. Jack Wtlkes.
Paul Wilson, Julia Wilkes. Theodore
Morrison. Jsmes Thomas, Joel Black
well. Wltherspoon Cooper. Aubrey
Richardson. Thomas Fort. Helen
Turner. Mary Weldon. Claudia Wlth?
erspoon, Elisabeth Mayes, Buford
Touchberry, J. Harvey Wilson, Janio
$laokwe)l. Cecile Kahn, Madeline
Scott. Floride Ingram. Thomas With
Eoon. Ruby McElveen. Elizabeth
id. Elizabeth Wilson, Mary Belle
.Fiord.
Mayeeville School No. 3: Annie L.
Mayes. President; Mary W. Cooper.
Secretary; Nell Brown. Roy Anderson.
Marvel Weinberg, Margaret Bland.
JMnle Cooper. Henry Thorn a 4, Annie
Bradley. Andrew Touchberry, Eva
Dunn. Elinor (rawrord, Virginia
Brown. Annie Lou Ingram. Clare
King Mortimer Kahn. Catherine Bass.
Janle Ford, Lorena Dorn. Mai garet
f So per. Mary Clawson Grler.
Mayeeville School No. 4: R. C
toper, President; Milner Wilson.
agV.retary; Lester Weldon. H. H. lirun
Sop. William McElveen, Mary Louise
fritherapoon. Elsie Wilkes, Carrit Dell
Wilson. Janie Gambol. Italy Taylor.
Ava Mclntosh. C. D. Cooper, Jr.,
Fleetwood Bass. Frances Keels. Lil?
lian F. Bradley. Sue Cooper.
Trinity School No. 1: Pearle Heals.
Preeldent; Thelma Dennis, Secretary;
Eugene Keels, Albert Dennii, Effle
Keels. Ray Mima, Earlean Keels,
freest Player, Ethel Mints, Isabel Mc
Ktveen. Hughson Dennis. S. L. Thomp
"rinlty School No. 2: Matte Max
Prldgaon. President; Bans McElveen.
Secretary; Cecil McElveen, Albertus
SEIveen. Oscar Player. Bralnerd
>l?. Inez \l( Rlveen. Corrle M
B)veen. Ixdtle. I>ennls, Forest Keels.
. . .
Here la what the poatofflcex of tin
county report having sold through
March 2lrd:
in Of don. 117.71
Hagood. u.tl
Horatio. 30.50
Mayeeville. I.llt.l
0>wego. 33 o
Itembert . 3.75
Shlloh .. I.
Tlndel. t0.5?>
vledgefleld. 3?.7;
Fine for Msyesvllle; lest sehthH
fgr two or three others; mighty poor
f0 rail th?? rest. ^ J up patinas
te>e. wake up DeeVt reel knee there
Is a war going on !
see
Add to big buyera
min c. l. gtubbs.tloo.oo
.Come on big buyers; there I? plenty
o| room In this column for Hating vour
purchases; your example will be I
ojted one. others win follow. Unele
Srm needs the money.
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V.re Cbslrman Harby recenth n?nr
xferrv blanks to all the rountrv mer
? hunts One jimt nent in his blank
(Hied in todav He ;t poloi; iz?'d ..r !???
ing late and said ' I will mnke up
for lost time by enlisting the SSrvkfOS
o* sll my employees, both on |hf farm
end In the More and will take pleasure
kj i o oper.-itlns in any w.i\ pox tide |o
lias eud thai we make ?umtor sccuud
? ?? Ii i r-TT=38?BJCT
to none in the purchase of Thrift
Stamps."
Isn't he the boy?
He's about president of the Tip Top
Club already.
I If there ure a thousand more like
I him in Sumter County the rest of the
I counties will just trail in under the
wire while we are resting; in the shade
of the old apple tree.
I t I
Several country merchants have
never responded to Vice Chairman
Harby's letter asking them to be pa
tiiotic enough to take out agencies.
W. S. S. mean war saving societies; I
W. 8. S. mean work, save, sacrifice; |
W. s. S. mean war saving stamps. The
members of the war saving societies
work, save, and sacrifice so that they
buy war saving stamps. Uncle Sam
takes the money with which they buy
stamps and buys food and clothing
and guns for the boys who are fighting
In France. The boys would be in l
bad fix if their food, and their supplies
and their amr.iunllion did not arrive
on time.
Here are some more societies and
their members:
The Wilson Spann W. 8. 8. 8.?Mrs.
L. I. Parrott, Pres.; Mrs. J. R. Sumter,
secretary; Mrs. J. J. Epperson, Mrs
Ceo. Foxworth, Miss Madge Burdell,
I Mrs. Henry Spann. Mrs. C. 8. Kings
more. Mrs. O. H. Brightwell, Mm. L.
J. Markey, Mrs. T. H. Slddall, Mrs. R.
D. Graham. Mrs. C. ft* Stubbs, Mrs.
W. H. Sholar, Miss Kate Durunt, Mrs.
1 B. C. Wallace.
The Last Thursday W. 8. 8.?Mrs.
R. L. McLeod, Pres; Mrs. B. C. Wal?
lace, Jr., Secretary; Mrs. O. L. Long,
Mrs. Geo. C. Warren, Miss i lassie Par?
rott, Mrs. J. G. DeLorme, Mrs. Edwin
Boyle, Mrs. D. R. McCtllum, Mrs. F.
M. Moise, Miss Mabel Booth.
Wedgefleld School, primary: Earle
Troublefleld. President; Miss Ruth
Cain, secretary; Esther Ramsey, Ethel
Mellett, William Watts. Francis Brice,
] Brooks Truesdale, Mary Ramsey.
Ethel Burress, Mary Burgess, Margar?
et Nettles, Louise Nettles, Thelmu
Hair, Arthur Watts, Onena Ramsey.
Wedgefleld School, grammar: Lucy I
Coulter, President; Miss Harriet
Owens, Secretary; Lamar Parier, Rob?
ert Brice, Willie Strange, Marian Ram?
sey. Marie Burress, I^ex Geddin, Whil
den Nettles. Clifton Alsbrook, Floride
Coulter, Ruf us Burress, Evelyn Ram?
sey, t ?
Wedgefleld School: R. C. Dwight, j
President; M.TJ. Ryan, Secretary; Ed?
ison Dwight, Oldin I* Geddings, Ma?
rten Watts, Earllne Watts, Mary C
Parker, Cornelia Brice. TUlie Brice;
George Ramsey. UJJaan Burress, Ida
Brice, Archie Geddings, Thelma Trou
blefleld.
Wlnn School: Vera Fox, President;
Truesdale Mosely, Secretary; Norton
Marshall, Roy Baker, Marie Atkinson,
Clement Marshall, Annie M. Baker, A.
W. Mosely, Jr., Cecil Fox, Carl Baker,
Miss Evle A. Wilson, Mrs. W. F. Ba
ker.
as*
see
The U. D. C. jumped into the game.
Dick Anderson Chapter resolved to
form a War Saving Society within It?
self. The Chapter has nearly 100
members. The purpose will be to raise
as near to $100 a month as possible
from among tho Chapter members.
The W. S. S. is now'a'forming.
If each member buys $1.00 worth
of stumps per month from now until
1923, how much in stamps will the
members of the Chapter have Jan?
uary 1. 1933, und what will the stamps
they then have, have cost them?
Try that on your little slate.
See what Bethel School has "went
and gone and done."
Four societies; count 'em: four.
Do you notice that many of the
grown-ups of the community have
Joined the school societies along with
the children 1 That's a good idea
There Is no reason why grown men
and grown women should not be in
the societies, and they lend strength
and stability. They will hold the so?
cieties together after school has clos?
ed Cor the summer.
The V, H>. C.'s and the Bethelite
are good members of the Tip Top
Club. May their snadow never mow
lens.
Here aie the Bethel members!
Bethel School. Bilinat>: Matlie R
Gibson, President: Trudie Pritehard.
Olivia Tlndal, Mary Bnrkley, Arthur
Tlmmono, James Qrlflln, Fay Hodge,
Thalls Berkley, Louis Hlnson, Legare I
Broadway( Douglas Jones, Bmilyl
Rai Kley
Bethel School Intermediate: Alice j
D. Pugh. President; Lorena Geddings.
Averil Geddings. S. A. Harvin, Jr..
Rollin Simmons., Hursley Barkley,
Paullns Broadway, Beulen Jone
Mary H Tlndel, Mang Geddings
Dwight Cain, Thomas Pritehard, Per?
ry Simmons, Tressle Barkley, J, M ]
Qrlflln. Simmy Hinson. Robert Cain,
Msry L Grlflln, Lois Kolh, James
Brunsen, Ladsov fleddlnga Carl Net*
iit'M, Bruce Bars ey, Russell Mcljeod, I
Houle Jonen Louis McLeod.
Bethel BctlOOl, Criminal: MclbO
Kolh, President; Brllns Alshrook, Ids
ruttlno, R?gens Geddings, Willie Hin
won, Heyward K dh, R, <: Kolh, Mrs
Bruce Baiuio, Marguerite. McDanlel,
ECONOMY FOSTERS TRADE
LONDON'S AMERICAN MERCHANT
TELLS STORY OF CHANGED
BUSINESS BASIS.
Individual Spending Curtailed to Give
Government Control of National Re?
source**.
(By H. Gordon Selfrldge.)
Mr. Selfridge, formerly a Chicago
merchant, is now the proprietor of
the largest retail store in London. Of
his 3,500 employees, a thousand have
been called to the colors. The others
have bought $100,000 of war-savings
certificates.
English business has been entirely
readjusted to a war basis. England
tried to muddle through in the first
year of war on a "business as usual"
program but we soon found that such
a blind policy would not win the war.
The government's demands on our in?
dustrial resources were so enormous
that we could not meet them and at
the same time continue to produce all
the things we were accustomed to
have before the war.
The business of the English people
is now the business of war. All the
productive energies of the nation are
directed, first, to supplying the war
needs of the government; second, the
necessities of the people; third, the
necessities of the export trade.
Everyone in England is at work?
including many men and women who
never worked before. To be idle in
England today is not "good form."
Everyone is working; wages are the
highest ever recorded; the whole scale
of living has been raised; domestic]
trade is good, despite nation-wide
economy and saving. England is do?
ing her big job cheerfully, despite Jht
terrific cost of the war in blood and
treasure; and the reason for this, 1
believe Is that everybody, rich and
poor, is working for the nation with
a determination to see it through.
Money Will Not Win War.
War is not a money-making busi?
ness, and money will not win thit
great struggle between democracy am
autocracy. English merchants and
manufacturers now see that it isn't
merely money that a nation at war
needs, but the product of human la?
bor. While we pay war taxes in mon?
ey and pay for government bonds in
money, what is really happening |i
that the government Is taking a large
share of our Industrial production?
our labor and material?and consum
ing It In warfare.
No businessman in England toda>
advocates liberal Individual spending
because It Is now realized that such
spending for personal needs mean,
one of two things?either an exhaus
tion of the necessities of life at o
time of threatened famine, or else
the selfish employment of labor in
luxury production when it ought to b
devoted to necessity production.
Spending for one's self in such
time of national need is now recog
nized as a distinctly unsocial act, an
treasonable if carried to excess. Wha
difference is there between having car
goes of needed materials sunk b>
enemy submarines or having then
consumed at home for mere persoiu
gratifictaion? It took us some time t
see the truth of this, but every man
ufacturer and merchant in Englan
today knows the gospel of "goods an
services." and the curtailment of do
mestic spending is everywhere advo
cated.
Saving for National Needs.
Every thinking Englishman, before
spending for himself or his family,
stops to consider, not whether he can
afford It, but whether the nation can
afford to have him spend. Economy |i
l Sing constantly urged by the news?
papers, even though for the tune it
means less advertising revenue. Bui
they realize, as do the merchants, that
the war can not be provisioned, mu?
nitioned, or financed from persona
profits in business not essential t(
the war.
Luxury business has ceased in Kwa
land. The women no longer buy elab
orate gowns. There hasn't been a big
social function in London since the
Germans invaded Belgium. Motoi
riding for pleasure was long ago aban?
doned because the gasoline is needed
in Flanders and the Ohabffeurs an
wanted at the front or in the factor
ics. For nearly two years not a elnglt
m w automobile has been made ii
England excepting for war work. w?
do not consume our labor and m: ter
ials in new private building?no om
Annie Kolb. Secretary; Inez Brum?n
Heuluh CttttlnO, Neal Geddings. K th
erine Furman, Hugh Kolb, Luclle Met
tics. Mrs. T. VY. Geddings. Miss l.'at?
Pitts. McMellan Cain. Richard Tain
Clarence Geddings. Luia Haivln
Charlie KollT, Mary W. Nettles. Mr. 1
W. Ueddings.
Bethel Bchol, llluh: Shatter .1 i h
-<President; Marie Hodge, Secre
tury; [?ynwood Jackson, ituth Oed
dings. Ruth Kolb. Kllie Kolb. IV.nl
Prltchard, Dors L Jones, Julius Koll
Mabel Kolb. Hagel Kolb, Mrs. R, l
Formen, Brielow Jackson, Nttcy Koll
Christin? Kolb, Talulah Mellette,
SPRING HABERDASHERY
Copyright Hart Schaffacr & Man
Spring Time
-IS
Dress-Up Time
And we have the goods if
you wish to be correctly
attired.
A Beautiful line of
New H&is,
Shirts arid
Underwear
Now on display. Cive us
an opportunity to show
you.
THE D. J. CHANDLER CLOTHING CO
Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes.
can expend as much as $2,500 on a
building without government sanction.
We make our clothes last longer be?
cause we know the boys in the trench?
es need the wool for their backs. Wool
is scarce; it would be criminal to
waste it for personal gratification. For
the same reason we are not making
any new carpets. There is more m
rious work for the spinners and weav?
ers.
Industry Shifted to Necessities.
This drastic curtailment of certaii
lines of production to make way for
war business has not hurt business
It has merely resulted in a shifting o.
labor and business activity from tin
less essential to the vitally essential
industries. To give a few illustra?
tions: Phonograph factories are now
turning out delicate shell parts, jew?
elry makers are producing periscopes
watchmakers are adjusting fuses
music-roll makers have turned to gag?.
making, a baking-machinery plant >
manufacturing high-explosive shells, :
cream-separator factory is making
shell primers, glazers are making
cartridge clips, a baby-food factory
is producing plugs for sheds, the out?
put of a textile-machinery plant It
now field kitchens, and an advertis?
ing agency is making shell adapters.
Everybody is at work, producing more
and earning more than ever before,
but the output is war necessities.
No great nation can go through
this war without paying its share.
Profits ami patriotism do not mix
When England entered the war, th?
I^ondon merchants expected to see
their ordinary trade disappear, and
they were ready to shoulder any bur?
den the war Imposed. But trade hat
not been wiped out. The strange
thing is that it has grown. My own ?
business has paid the British treasury
in two years $500,400 in exeess profits
taxes; the government takes 80 per
cent of the increased profits over the
prewar standard.
Living Scale liaised.
The reason for this growth in re
lail trade Is that the workers are get?
ting tvery high wages, and they are
now raising their standard of living.
But the more prosperous middle-dags
people have greatly curtailed then
scale of living. They are giving up
what the munition workers are gain?
ing. Their incomes and profits ha\<
been reduced, their taxes have i.i
increased, and Ihej are feeling tin
cost of the wa r. Thei e lias bei a .
great leveling In England, and this
Hurely is a distinct social gain.
The piano trade is typical. In oni
store we nre selling n great ni m>
pianos to families who have dreamed |
for years of being1 able to buy them.
But these are not new pianos?we
can not spare labor and materials for
making new pianos any more than we
can for building new houses. Those
are second-hand pianos coming from
the middle-class homes, often sold to
provide funds for buying war bonds
and war-savings certificates.
If the merchants did a business of
millions of pounds sterling in moving
those pianos from the homes of the
more prosperous middle class to those
of the highly paid munition workers,
there would be no I03S to the country.
No labor or material would be con?
sumed, excepting in the moving of the
instruments. In fact, the treasury
would gain by the operation, because
what is really happening is that the
workers are transferring some of their
spending rower to the middle class,
and the latter are transferring it to
the government. The moving of the
pianos simply is a way of getting a
part of the munition worker's spend?
ing power turned over to the nation.
Workers Lending to Government.
London merchants are not only aid?
ing the government in spreading the
gospel of war economy, but they are
doing their part In diverting the wages
of munition workers from careless
spending to treasury financing. My
own employees have put $100,000 of
their earnings into war-savings cer
ulicates, and each week we distribute
extra certificates as prizes to the
holders of winning numbers.
When the British treasury floated
the last big war loan we offered a
capital prize of 5,000 lbs. ($25,000) in
war bonds to the customer buying the
bond carrying the winning number.
.Mrs. Lloyd-George presided over the
dlawing of the numbers. Before ad?
vertising this bond sale, I telephoned
the London official corresponding i??
an American police commissioner to
ask him whether i would be put in
jail for conducting a lottery.
"Just consider that you haven't told
me about it," was his reply, "and
while you are doing it I'll he facing
south."
It is to the south of London where
our men are giving their lives in the
trenches. We sold 117,000,000 of war
bonds, and to do it we spent $00,000
for prises, advertising, and clerk hire.
Thai was in the midst of the holiday
hopping season, and after selling this
great amount of bonds for the govern?
ment we did th<? largest Christinas
business we had ever done.
Miss Wattle Huntly of Charlotte,
\ C, has been visiting Miss Marie
Urunsou for several days.
ANTI-JEWISH HI?TS START.
Kassians Begin Killing Jewish Citi?
zens in Turkestan.
Moscow, Tuesday, April 3.?Anti
Jewish riots have occurred in Turkes?
tan. In Kowand tliree hundred per?
sons were killed aod much property
destroyed. In Kiev the anti-Semitic
agitation is assuming an acute form.
Wlieft that city was captured by the
Ukrainians the Biort of the inhabi?
tants they shot wen Jews.
Managua, April 4.?Pro-German
propaganda against the United Statos
has be^en so marke d ^ in Nicarauga
that President Chamborro has issued
a decree prohibiting such activity. All
offenders will be bai ished to an island
in Lake Nicaragua. President Chamb?
orro also ordered th- t all firms on the
American blacklist be denied the use
of the National telegraph and tele?
phone lines.
Washington, April S.->?Henry Ford
of Detroit came here today for con?
ferences with Officials of the war and
navy departments w th the report
that his plant now is turning out some?
thing like 2,000 Liberty motor cylind?
ers a day.
iTtHIIHlltttHllllllHlliriHHIIIfHI
We Grind Lenses, examine the
?yei scientifically and fit eye- ;:
glasses perfectly. Lot us work
I for you.
We have all prescriptions
on file. Broken lenses replac
ed promptly. Graduate Opto
metrlst and Optician in charge.
I W. A. Thomson,
I JBWBUB & OPTOMETRIST. ::
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