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i0 ?iaitj^ w& ?ktyin PubUsSica Wednesday and Saturday _ ?BY_ OSTEEX PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. Terms: 91.?H> per annum?in advance. , Advertisements j One Square first insertion .. . .$1.0< Every subsequent insertion.t,i Contracts for three months, 01 longer will be made at reduced rates All communications which sub aerve private interests will be charge,, for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respee; will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ^ m 1850 and the True Southron in 1S66. The Watchman and Soutiro. now has the combined circulation an? influence of both of the oid papers and is manifestly the best advertise medium in Sumter. THE WOLF PACK. The Republicans and anti-Wilson Democrats have taken the lid off their hate of the president and are prepar ing for a saturnalia of partisan frightfulness. The more bitter, the mere unrestrained, the more Hunis:: these fellows are in their attacks oA President Wilson the quicker will the majority of decent, patriotic and fair minded ^ people of the country ap praise their methods and motives a: their true value. Some of these fellows who are la boring to destroy public confidence in Woodrow Wilson are fairly decent and fairly honest men?they would not sand-bag a man in the dark or pick his pocket?but they are misguided, blind and unregenerate Republicans who hate everything bearing the name of Democrat and despise rea1 democracy in all its truest manifes tations. They arerfor and by and of the special privileged class, owned and controlled by the high tariff barons, railroad Kings and Kaisers of high finance, and but for being accessorier before and after the fact to the con spiring to blind the great majority o' American people for the profit of the j favored few, they are reputable citi-j zens and average Sunday Christians who consider six days out of sever sufficientt o allot to the devil and a3 his works. ^ These Republicans hate Wilson be cause'he is a Democrat and becaus< he is and has been a valiant and vic torious fighter against aut&cracy and Special privilege both at home anV abroad. Wilson has fought- the /po litical boss and financialjMSttferat i) America from the dav^fhe enteret" public life as emp^ncally as he ho waged the jgfifagainst the Beast o Berlin andjgg^s Huns. Arid he ha: gffl^wrfp^ few of their Hindenbur* BiieHH^he moved along and more o" iSeHentrenchments of special privi lege in' America would have been wiped out ere now if this recrudes cence of medieval horrors had not been brewed in Europe by the hea<i devil of industrial and political autoc racy, Kaiser N William Kohenzotlc rn. They hate him because he has achiev ed^a triumphant success in th:* al most superhuman task of wisely awi.safely leading this nation through the. four most* perilous years of his tojry.' They hate him becaus* he sue ceeded when they hoped and predict ?E? he would fail. And they hate him With a jealous hatred because he has become by force of intellect and char acter the great and dominating li^: ure in the galaxy of the world's great statesmen. This hatred is all tht more bitter because he is a democrat ^nd has not sought their advice nor truckled to them for favor. As for the so-called democrats who are snarling at the heeis of the president there is little to be said? they are either spiteful anl envlou> fools, who sought but could never haye filled the place Woodrow Wilson now,holds; mercenary knaves, who are making common ca-:se with 'he Republican Huns in hope of sharing in-, the spoils that are to be divided when the Republicans control con gress after March 4th; -or are com mon Pro-German traitors who have missed no opportunity throughout the war to embarrass President Wilson and who have sought to hamstring the American government for the benefit of their German masters. ' It is a mean, mangy, villainous crew from captain to cabin boy anc the meaner and bolder they are ii their political skulduggery at thb crisis of the world's history wher civilization itself is at stake and th< foundations of society must be re built, the better it will be for rea democracy and decency, for they wil be found out and will be unable V deceive the public any longer. AIR MAIL COMING. '.'?Twelve battle planes of the Hand ley-Paige and De Maviland types ar to inaugurate the New Vork-Chie ur air mail service beginning about J>e member 15th. These arc to make^Bs run, which now averages over twen ty hours, in eight hours flat. Tit planes will be able to carry a fu t?n of mail apiece. Thousands of army aviators, rn that the war is over, are available t enter the air mail service. Hundred I 'of army airplanes have already bee ' j turned over to the postoiSce depart : j merit. More will soon be ready fo (j the carrying of mail, i The establishment of 50 new mai i lines is planned by the postofiiee. an; j speed in getting the lines under wa; ; is being urjjed by the Aero Club o . j America. Several hundred army avi ,! ators have been notified that the: ? I must resign within a few days o\ . j identify themselves with the regula: army. Most of thes' would natural ly prefer civil service of some kind but are reluctant to leave the army i: no other work is ready for them. The public has been inconvenienc ed so much during the last yeaV bj slow and faulty mail service that the news is exceptionally welcome just now. Restoring the mail to such efficiency as it could boast of before the war formed about the highest point of the suffering citizen's hopes. To have it improved to the dearer promised by the air mail enthusiasts sounds too good to be true. Hangars must be- built. repair shops installed, and various items of j preparation attended to. Xeedelesi' (to say, each city chosen as a station will hasten the necessary work. rXUSED FK3HTIXG POWER. We were appallingly unprepared for war when we entered the war, at everybody knows. But few Ameri cans know Ifow thoroughly we were prepared when- the war stopped. When Germany asked for an ar mistice, the American navy had just finished a mine planting program of incomparable magnitude, showinp an area of hundreds of thousands c: square miles, almost continuously from Scandinavia to Spain, with mines placed so thickly that no u boat could get through except by lucky chance. That was one# item, j Hundreds of our "Submari-i? Chas ers" were just going into commission. On the day the armistice was r.ign ed, an America*: pipe line, built tc pipe petroleum across Scotland, war formally opened. That line was lai;" to supply the allied armies in Franc: and Belgium with all the oil the needed, saving tank ships from ^thi long voyage around the British Isle?' and the menace of the submarines. II would have meant, if the need hao, persisted, a victory of allied oil over German coal as a war fuel. At that time the American army had just begun to get its big guns into action. It had just begun to realize its great air program, and would soon have darkened the air over Germany with vast squads of bombing planes. By spring we would have had ma chine guns in action by the hundred thousand. By next summer our 2.0O0.0O-' fighting men would have been 4, 000,000. Our "brigde for the Atlantic" had already become a reality, with a ship sailing for France every few min utes, j Thisjist of big resources, made ready but hardly brought into actual use, might be continued almost indefi nitely. The Germans knew when they were j icked in battle. They knew still bet- j ter when they were licked on> paper? in the menacing statistics of- American j preparation. That is why the Waj stopped when it did. That is usually the way. When a nation or a man, by a big effort, makes ready to overcome a tremen dous obstacle, the obstacle disap pears. WIRELESS. It was Napoleon who wished ho could see what was happening on the other side of a hill, and if the "Little Corporal" was operating in these days he would soar merrily up in an air plane and see his wish come true. When he found that not only could he do this, but also without wire or bell he could let'his generals down on the ground know what he saw, he would be delirious with the possibili ties. The automobile is a thing to marvel at. the airplane even more so. but th* greatest of these is wireless. The airplane soars over the region of operation of the undersea craft and spies it beneath the water. This would be of little avail could no si , nal be given to the destroyer; here wireless plays its part, and many a u boat lies at the bottom of the sea !>?: ? cause Marconi had a big idea, i In the transmission of message! j across space impossible to wire, In the ! direction of plane raids, and in en i abling planes to report without land j ing. in the saving of lives imperiled al j sea, this witchcraft of the air ha: j proved itself invaluable. I Later, brought down to the h im j drum of city life, it may free us of th< j unsightly poles new disfiguring oui . landscape far and wide, and the in terminable stretches of overl.'.v wires with their menace to safety, i And how about using tho wirelcs phone for catching speeding autoist: and the daring devils on motorcycle who have so long defied the eff >:v li the police? Just send an airpiam i t:i pursuit while the sheriff directs? the -j chase by phone from (Town below. r{ And these bank robbers- where ; ire their fancy get-aways now? Not i: a chancel _! J, NO LOXKLV GRAVES IX FRANCE i j j There is a little cemetery just out j side of Paris where, among the sol ' j dier graves, are those of many Amer ' j ican boys who died of their wounds fin French hospitals. ' i It should be no small comfort to 1 j the mourning hearts in American j homes to know that everyone of j these graves has been "adopted" by ! some French family, who tend the '.'spot with the same lo\ing cr:re they i ^ive the resting places Of their owjn '' ..cloved dead. Sorrow becomes doubly hard to bear when the bereaved are deprived I of the privilege of performing all the j tender tasks which' are the dictates f of their hearts. It is very beautiful } that these kindly French people take this method of: showing their grati tude and love. This gentle practice is net con fined to the country near Paris, bui obtains generally throughout France, wherever our boys lie sleeping, and j it is one more bond of the many now j holding French and American hearts; rogethcr. THE PRESTIGE OP BRITAIN. ' _ i In the Ailied victory over the Cen-j tral Powers there in glory enough' for ah. It is no time to draw any j invidious distinctions between the | i relative efforts made by the various' {combatants and the honor they have! won. Our allies who themselves bore] the heat and burden of the day give j ungrudging credit despite cur com-: ing in at the eleventh hour, because! I - we wrought: so worthily, though brief-! ly. We may agree that where all! I nave done so nobly, there are no de-1 grees of credit or praise. But the predige and power which i any particular combatant gains :'ior . the war is another matter. In :hi.-: particular, Great Britain seems to | come out ahead. / She has demonstrated her sea j power more effectively than ever, j emerging with that power greatly; augmented, and without a n?val r't- j yai except the United States?friend ly, and still far behind. She has proved herself again, after! a long interval, a great military power. ? She took France's place two years ag:> j as the foremost defender against Ger ? j many, and did the heaviest fighting j of ? these last victorious months, teat-, [ ing the Prussians at their own game j I She conquered Turkev unaided. AJ-j most alone, she drove the German? | I out of Africa. I British prestige is tremendously in- i j creased?a fact recognized more! j clearly elsewhere than in America. ; ['and a fact that will have its eTect at i [the peace table. j .-. j CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTH. - i Sumter County Should Make Onr j County Healthful Place. Kditor Daily Item. ! We have given thousands of dollars! i to the Red Cross to look after th< j heaith of our soldier boys, and to car- j ry relief to the stricken peoplea of many lands. Sumter county has con-j tributed more than one hundred thousand in cash to this worthy; cause. Some of the thoughtful citizens o: the county now purpose to spend some j money to make our county more h&flihf?l?to make it a better place to live in. when our soldier boys comcj back. Are we going to fall down on thi? job? Will we respond to every call for help for peonies we will never see. and not provide for those of ouri own household? The Bible says "HeI that provideth not for those of his own household hath denied the faith j and is worse than an infidel." Shall it be said of us that we are of that class? I am writing especially to the lan 1 owners and business men of Sumter] county. To small farmers as weli as; to the owners of big plantations. What makes your lands valuable?! Kot natural fertility, not heavy appd-i cation of fertilizers, not scientific j farming, not good roads nor churches, nor schools, nor even markets. All of these have their bearing or, the value of your land, but the fun-| damental, basic source of all we-.tirh] is healthy men and women?men and women of sound minds and j i sound bodies to till the soil, to ay-ply j i the fertilizers, to properly cultivate i and harvest the crop. They will; build your roads and churches and schools. They, healthy men and wo men, will make your land blossom like the rose, they will find markets dantransport the products of their I toil to the markets. Without them ? without healthy men, women and ?'children, the richest soil on earth . j is not worth having. This uoghl , j to be so pkffrn to every one thai 'a warfaring man, though he be 1 a fool, will not err therein. Therefore, this campaign for . County Health Survey, and Cor rur . nurses and rural sanitation earefti'^ j planned, and continuous, not jn-t ' 'spurt and then forgotten, should ?;> - peal to the selfish interests of over? * J land owner in the county. Wb ij. ? he Ijvos on his farm 6r !ivci ;n 'l?s city?or over in other cities ? = rI States it v* . uld appea1 t>? ever? ? [ ' leano1-;: ,tn in Sn niter whether 1; r i jo 'jr-<;- . ;y ongaged in business ?r ;? ^.-[?"-living on hs.s -. band?. ' e-r* *?? or other securities dependent o?>??n c"' the prosperity ol the county for sue ? cess?and every business but thai oi the "loan shark*' is dependent upon the general prosperity of .he count.". Therefore, it is charity that we ask you to give to when the Council of J Wense calls upon you for three thousand and three hundred dollars to start this work. It is the best business venture that Sumter county has ever starte.!. ? the responses should be so general j and so in proportion to the means of : each one that this ought to be uv-r subscribed like all the war work of the past two years. Health is the greatest asset of any i people, sicknevs the greatest liability. Can more be said? Need more be said? ; E. W. Dabbs. Bread for Famishing If America Does Not Use Food Economically Millions Will Starve in Europe. Columbia, Dec. 5.?With the can cellation, effective December 1, of the ; sugar rationing plan, thus permitting i the return to normal conditions} so ! far as sugar is concerned, and the use ; of war bread entirely eliminated as ! weil as many other food restrictions ? withdrawn in recent weeks, the food j administration has turned attention i to a new program?"food conserva j ticn for world relief." It will not be definitely known un ? til Herbert Hoover returns from Ea : rope exactly what amount of food will have to be sent overseas to provide I for the millions of people in liberated ; lands where famine threatens, but it I is known that amount will be enor- j j mous. great;;.- exceeding the estimate ! previously made; and that the larsrer i amount must be spared from Amer ica's present stocks since the bar-j verts have been made, and other j harvests can be made in Europe prob-! ably as quickly as thej- can be made in this country. It is the immediate i future which must be provided for?-J the months intervening before the liberated peoples of several nations! can coax food out of the soil. The present week is, therefore, de- j voted by the food administration to a ? campaign of education* to prepare fori whatever program Mr. Hoover asks, i It v/ili be a program of intensive food j saving, of continued conservation; i for what food is sent to he!:> feed Europe must first be saved. Tn many I sections of th* State public meeting*; are being held this week to bring the j seed of continued food conservation j squarely before the people .and the J churches, schools, women's clubs and secret societies are cooperating. Government control and operation j <. i the railroads has been'a costly and j not altogether satisfactory experiment under war conditions, but it must b^ i borne in mind that the railroads un- j der private ownership and opera- j tion broke down completely under the ! stress of war conditions and it was j then thru the government was forced j to step in and shoulder the b?rde i j so that the business of the country; might be carried on. ! Influenza Deaths :More Than Three Hundred Thousand Civilians Dead in ; Eoidemic Since Se;; temher 15. Washington, Doc. ?Between S00, j 000 and 350,000 deaths from infiu- : I enza and pneumonia have occurred j among the civilian population of ! the United States since September 15, j 1 according to estimates today of the! j pubbc health service. These ca'.cu-1 ! *? tions were based on reports from; \ des and States keeping accurate rec-' ; ords and public health officials be-1 Tievc they are conservative. I The epidemic persists, but deaths; ! are much less numerous, according to j ; reports reaching here. A pecru ' descence of the disease is occurring in j j many communities throughout the j \ country, but this is believed to be j j sporadic and not to indicate a gener- j al renewal of severe epidemic condi-; I tions. I I Insurance companies have been j hard hit by the epidemic, government ! I reports indicate, although there arc; no figures available here to show to- i tal losses sustained by these compa- j nies. The government incurred lia-; bilities of more than $170,000.000 in ; conection with life insurance carried i by sokliers in army camps not iuclud-; ing those, in Europe. About 20,000 deaths occurred in the camps in the: ords show. United Sttaes, war department rec What More Could He Wish? 4'You ask for my ?auzher? Wlial I are your prospects, young man? Do you own the house you live in?" "No. I rent it. but I have iiv<: tons! of coal in the cellar." ?'Take her."?Louisville Courier-. Journal. Didn't -Know the Taste. "Don't those parvenus make you sick?" asked a young man vt his partner at a dinner. ??I don't know," she replied Inno-; centiy. "1 never ate any "?Jersey. Cirv Journal. *' Cotton Market P. G. BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer. (Corrected D;?:ly at 12 o'clock Noon). wood Middling 25 1-4. ;-;:rict Middling 25. ? : Middling 24 3-4. ? gj Strict Low Middling 23 1-4. Ni-;\\ VoiiK COTTON MARKET. Open Illgb Low Close Close: Yes'dyS Jan . 25.99 26.76 25.02 2C.76 25.90 /.ich . . 24.0.- 25.S3 24.90 25.63 24.90 Mav . . 24.15 21.79 24.10 24.79 24.101 July . .23.75 24.31 23.72 24.31 23.721 Russia to Pay Debts. Washington, Dec. 4.?All liabilities contracted by the Russian govern ment.' except these made by the Bolshevik regime, are recognized by the all-Russian government at Omsk and will be executed by it, accord ing to a statement authorized by the ministry of foreign affairs and receiv ed today in Washington. 7 PER CENT NEW MEAL?For prompt shipment; also blood, high grade tankage, potash, acid phos, ground phos. rock and ground lime stone. Call or write us for prices, Souhcrn Brokerage Co., Sumter, KOGS FOR SALE?Eight or ten nice Durcc Jersey gilts to farrow in short time for sale at 20 cents per pound. Can be seen at farm near town. C. P. Ostcen or A. G. Brown, Phone 5503. __ STEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small Am paying best cash j;:ice. See me if you have any. N. G. Osteen._/ g 1*01? SALE?F. O. B. ears, Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little straw, far load lots only. Chemi' cai and Fertilizer value rated very high by Clemson college. A. A*' . Straus*. Sumter. S. C. We Have in Stock km Appier, FulgriiEJ, Texas and Rejleaned Texas Oats. Also a Few RoHs 3 <b. Bagging. Wili Have Car of ?:irt Oats January It. IIP If ? RPi " Phones 905 and 906 FARMER'S HEAVY LOSS. Cotton Fire Costs Dillon Man Forty Thonsand Dollars. Dillon. Nov. 2<*?R. M. Jackson, a successful and wealthy farmer of upper Dillon county. lost by fire Saturday night 100 bales of cotton. j 14.000 bushels of cotton seed, a 1. ginnery, ''engine and boiler hou::> and all machinery connected with the plant. His estimated loss is $40.000. He had no insurance on any of the property. The fire spread so rapidly and burned so intensely that there will be but little salvage. A bah- of cotton was taken from the press dar ing the day that showed evidence of fire. This war- put ?rat to the satisfac tion of the owner. It is thought that ibis smoldered and that the fire orig inated from this bale of cotton. We Will Insure ft For You! nry r. Moses %^o.f 122 S. MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 577