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i'abiiiiieti Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? ?STEEN PUBLISHING COAIPA.W SUMTKR, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum?-in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion ..$1.0?' Every subsequent insertion.?<? Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will be charge, for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re3pe-j: will he charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found w in 1850 and the True Southron T.SS6. The Watchman and Soui'...c-* now has the combined circuJution an. influence of both of the old papers and is manifestly the best a d vert is. n medium in Sdmter. THE GREAT PERIL. With German militarism subdued, j there is ? plague overshadowing Eu-) rope that is no less menacing than j militarism was in 1914, and a plague that will take longer to put down if it is not dealt with wisely and promptly. It is Bolshevism, which, bavins' destroyed Russia, is now try ing to get control of Germany and Austria-Hungary, and is making more headway than one likes to admit in Allied and neutral countries. It is a natural enough result oi>the war. As the New York World ex plains, German militarism was not de stroyed until Europe was exhausted economically, and "Bolshevism is the ?direct product of economic exhaus tion.*' It takes root and flourishes in an environment of disordered or ruin ed, industry and commerce. Once es tablished, It may make industry and commerce impossible. If the movement were to sweep over the "whole of Europe and carry its program into effect, it would result in the downfall of European civilization. And it must be borne-clearly in mind that from any such menacing move ?nient in Europe, America, despite its distance and prosperity, is not secure. How shall this great peril be avert ed? As yet there has been little in-j: teUigent and concerted effort to com- J1 bat it. Literature will do little?the j1 Bolshevic leaders and followers scoff at "capitalistic propaganda." 1 Food will do more, but food is not enough. TO: prevent the spread of this disease ecor^raje conditions must be greatly improved in every country where it j1 appearsv This means order, a restoration of normal living conditions, a chance for the ordinary man to earn a decent livelihood for himself and-family, in an environment of freedom, with a chance to get ahead, and with some assurance that what he is able to ac cumulate will not be taken away fronV him. The pre-requisite of such restora tion and assurance is a general and durable peace. This is the principal reason why the question of a league or federation of nations is of such . i v^rwheirrring importance at th:s time. .Only by some plan which will guar antee a univ rsal reign of peace, law and order can this plague of Bolshev ism be overcome. And what guaran tee- can there be without the concert ed action cf the world-powers? 'SORRY* FOR THE WAR. The mental attitude of the German people since the signing of the armis tice has been very disappointing to Americans The United States went to war primarily to knock the war mania out of Germany?to make Ger many scrry for starting the war and repentant for her military arrogance*] and ambition. And what is the re sult? "The Germans are not sorry for the war," writes a correspondent* from Coblenz. "I have been told dozens of times by German citizens here that they are sorry the war stopped, for they thought they might have won. "Defeat has not sorrowed the Ger man people here or in Treves. They regret the sinking of the Lusitania. j not because it was inhuman, but be cause it was a mistaken policy whir brought America into the war. "Germany would make France suf- j fer again tomorrow, would again j threaten civilization tomorrow, if shcj could get away with it. "Something must happen to this: German people more than has hap- J pened. They are too haughty about \ everything." Something more will happen to; them. It will happen in the form of j monetary indemnities and other puni tive measures far heavier than tne Al- j lies would have ever thought of :re posing had it not been for this per- j sistent German egotism. Only thus can the object of the war be attain-! ed, and the German people be brought, to the humble and repentant frame of j mind which is necessary for the fu-j ture welfare of the world and the i salvation of their own souls. THE NEW TEAR. _ I - The amalgamated hats of the en-j tire world will have to he taken off toj the Old Year. He did more things! to this old earth, and did them fast er, than any of his late lamented pre decessors. ,He has also given us a champagne thirst for excitement and then taken our war away and left us, with a beer pocketbook. Never did the world stand on tip toe to meet a coming year as it does for this one. The world seethes with possibilities. There may be a nice family peace in store, with a Majori League to back it up. or there may be the biggest war yet. There is possible an international adjustment which will advance the brotherhood of man by generations, nnd there are equal possibilities for the most colossal display of greed the world has ever seen. ?At the beginning of last year who Dould have dreamed that this year would find America expecting, her boys home? Yet here they are, com ing by the thousands, and the Old Tear, blessed because it saw the end bf the war, will have to share hon-i Drs with the New with its promise 3f happy hearts united. The past four years have been de leted to breaking history. This year ;s to see the making of it. There is need for restraint, for patience, :or the staying of unconstructive crit cism. The world must be about its Fath er's business of healing, teaching, building up, and has no time for the violent or the merely faultfinding. Rich with possibilities for the in dividual as for the Nation, the New S'ear beckons us and we must follow. 3ur curosity may be ail awake, but ;vhile we watch developments we nust do cur .share in bringing them to completion. WAR SPIRIT TO MAKE PEACE. In one of his speeches in England, President Wilson told of the remark )f a friend of his, "When peace is con iucted in the sp?rt of war, there will be no war." And isn't it the truth? If nations yave to the promotion of peace one luudredth as much devotion, effort uad money as they give to the prose cution of wars once started, sure'y here would be mighty few wars. And f a tithe of the thought and fore sight that statesmen have hitherto ,'iven to preparing for wars and fight ng wars were given to the construc ion of guarntees against war between imes, would there be any wars at ill? The whole world knows how the itatesmen of the Allied nations found i practical way to '* pool their own hinking machinery and their coun rie.s' resources when it came to a uestion of international unity or de traction. They formed a league of .rmed nations, in complete co-oper tion, and so defeated Germany and aved the world. Is there any rea- ' on why a similar spirit and effort annot now devise a plan that will top all such catastrophes hereafter .efore they start? A MINISTRY OF THRIFT. The British government is consid iring the establishment of a new ad ninistrative department called a 'ministry of thrift." It is intended to mcourage national saving and make >ermanent the thrifty practices adopt ed by the British people during the .var. The idea is not merely paternalistic or philanthropic. It is meant for the welfare of the people themselves, to be sure. But it is also meant to ac complish two very impox*tant things: First, to enable Great Britain to take care of her huge war debt; and second, to undermine the tendency :oward radical Socialism and Bolshe vism. If this is a good thing for Britain, it is surely a good thing for America. .\n English government official is :uoted as saying: "Great Britain needed to learn the lessons of thrift ?.nd economy. but our American friends needed it much more. I won der whether they have been in the war long enough-to have gained the benefits from it which France. Italy and England have gained." A definite, persistent campaign for cotninued economy, carried on under the direction of a governmental de partment, would surely help our peo ple to make up any such deficit in the lessons of war. j RESTITUTION IX KlSD. It is stated by high French authori-j ties that France will not only de-1 man?; restitution from Germany, but she wlil demand restitution in kind. The destruction wrought by ;h<. Germans in northern France was not simply the rude vengeance of war, but formed part of a carefully plan ned system for leaving France eco nomically helpless for years after the 'W? r. In some cases factories and ma chinery were entirely destroyed: in ethers parts of machines or whole machines were confiscated and car ried off into Germany along with the other le;;t. It is Germany's plan to utilize these stolen French machines in manu facturing goods with which to com i pete with France in the markets of j the world, or even to sell to Franca herself, since it was the German's crafty scheme to reduce France to the rank of consumer where she had been essentially a producer. The same plan was followed to a large ex tent in Eeigium. There is absolute justice in the French * demand for restitution in kind, that Germany be made to re turn stolen machines and parts, and replace from her own stock these de stroyed. Such a policy will go far ther toward showing Germany the folly of her plans than any mere money tax could do. It would be Manifestly unfair thai Germany should be free and unhamp ered even in her business of debt-pay ing while innocent Fran :e struggled toward reconstruction for years be fore she could compete in the markets of the world. Of all the wicked German policies there is none more deserving of a punishment which .fits the crime than her destruction of the materials o? the industries of France and Belgium. LLOYD GEORGE OX TOP. ! The expected has happened in Brit ish politics. Only, as one might say it has exceeded expectations. Lloyd George's coalition government ha been returned to power by tremend- ; ous majorities. Parlies arc virtually wiped out. There is little partisan ship visible in what remains. Tlv.: fusion group that fought and won th? war has its numbers and prestige vastly increased. It is a great victory for broad pa triotism over narrow partisanship. It is a great vindication of the com promise policies that made it possible to throw the full force of the British Empire into the scale of war. It is also a great personal triumph for the premier. The long and short of it is that Da vid Lloyd George is today stronger than ever before. Ke is the Brif'.sk government, and can go to the peace conference with a clear mandate from the British people to write the peacs terms according to his known princi ples and policies. This means that the British Junk ers are -beaten. Lloyd George is a Democrat cf Democrats. Unless he is Trcatly changed, he will certainly net make an imperialistic, autacraric peace, for the benefit cf only .he wealthy and powerful. He will not :o!erate old-fashioned, secret, crook ed diplomacy. He will do his. level best to make the world, and every part of it. safe for democracy, ami clinch the victory by giving the Allied nations what they have been fighting [or. THE LANGUAGE LESSON. Less than a year ago an Associated Prss dispatch from Berlin reported that the German Language Associa tion of Berlin had adopted a resolu tion that all peace negotiations should be conducted in German. There is no reason to doubt the truth of the report, as it is entire1:-' in keeping with the poIic3* of arro gance which until lately has marked every German deed and utterance. Tr is especially interesting right now as a point of sharp contrast. If Germany could get any kind of peace term ; such as she desires, she would adopt t them gratefully whether issued in Choctaw or Chinese. However, whether in victory or de feat, one thing stands out prominent ly. Germany has never yet consider ed herself in her true relation to thej other nations of the world. Her vie | tory was to be won by annihilation, j Her defeat concerns her only as it' presages the destruction of Germany) or renders Germany uncomfortable or] handicaps the German future. Learning that the peace negotia- j tions will never be conducted in Ger- ] man is Germany's first language los-1 son. She has learned that the other nations of the earth will not be forced to speak the language of a nation which has voiced sentiments justly abhorred. Now Cermany herself must learn to speak the language of Hu manity, which is not of ' necessity { English cr French or Italian or any! other one tongue, but is the speeeh of I any nation which voices the will of it ? j people to act only in accordance with j the good of all mankind. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The announcement of the death of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the United States and for the past twenty year.-; this country's most persistent" .via notorious politi cal agitator is the most surprising and unexpected item of news that the As sociated Press dispatches carried to day. Col, J looseveit. filled a large place in the public eye. as the result of his incessant activity and the great volume of publicity that he created for himself, and. conseq'tently he bulked bigger in political circles than his real worth as a trustworthy lead er ever warranted. Nevertheless he had a tremendous vogue in certain circles and his death will be produ - live of a great mass of obituary trib utes and estimates of his life, char SAY, you'll have a streak of smokeluck thatH put pep-m-yotzr-smokemotor, all right, if youTI ring-in with a jimmy pipe or cigarette papers and nail some Prince Albert for packing! Just between ourselves, you never will wise-up to high-spot smoke-joy until ycu can call a pipe by its first name, then, to hit the peak-of-pieasure you land square on that two-fisted-man-tolscco, Prince Albert! Well, sir, ycuH be so all-fired happy you'll want to get a photo graph of yourself breezing up the pike with your smokethrottle wide open! Talk about smoke-sport! 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Much cf it will be laudatory, without due con sideration <.* the facts, and may be accepted as true that a correct esti mate of Theodore Roosevelt, as a man or as an official, cannot be made until the history of the time comes to be written without bias, by cairn and painstaking students. He was a man of supreme self-confidence, agfc-es sive and ruthless in seeking to gain his ends and not at all choice in the paeans he used. ? The following brief criticism by the Springfield republican gives a fairly good idea of the sort of man Col. Roosevelt was. It was written only a ,few days ago. when Col. Roosevelt was supposed to be as strong and ag gressive as ever: ?Roosevelt's Own Record." (From the Springfield Republican.) ""William L. Ettinger, superintendent of schools in New York, has not made the explanation requested of him as to why he ordered a paragraph displeas ing to Theodore Roosevelt deleted from textbooks in the schools. The paragraph in question represented Col. Roosevelt's first opinion that the Unit, ed States should remain neutral in the world war. Why school books should be altered to please Col. Roose velt and misrepresent history is not easy to see. As to Col Roos< - velt's original attitude the new book on President Wilson by A. Maurice Low, Washington correspondent of the London Morning Post. makes that sufficiently plain. v.Tr. Roosevelt-* says Mr. Low, 'was greatly impressed with Germany's military efficiency and gave his approval to the very thing all the world is now pledged to destroy, German militarism . . .Ger many's justification for the violation of Belgian neutrality Mr. Roosevelt condoned.' This interpretation is borne out by quotations from an ar ticle published Ln the Outlook in Sep tember. 191 V COMMUNITY SALVAGE PLANT. j The salvage.work dene by Allied armies in the war zone has served to open man-' eyes to the value of saving small things on a large scale. In the army camps at home and abroad, nothing was considered too Tittle or too wort: to be examined in ihe sal vage plants. Akro. O.. has now started what is i believed to be the first big co-opera tive city salvage plant in the coun try. Ths large manufacturing con cerns in that city have ahw.ys main jtained salvage departments o: their own where the bic quantities of waste ! material wore handled. But even !'these large plants were obliged t? let a, [great deal of smalt waste go because it. was too slight in amount to pay them to handle it individually. And the! [small stores and shops could do noth-j I ing with their waste material for the ' same 1 eason. i j Under the co-operative arrangement .about 100 stores and factories, big and little, are turning their waste! material over to a mutual salvage es-: I tabllslunoni. fn till is way scraps of [metal and waste paper, all the : things thtii are simply small rubbish ? and usually mimed or dumped into an Ush heap are collected. They soon amount to large quantities well worth conserving. Government officials re watching i j trie Akron experiment with interest. If it works as well as it is expected to. it will probably serve as the model for a national salvage system. A community salvage that included j in its operatiens the waste material from private bo nes, such as suit boxes, paper, rags, bottles, cans, etc., seems to have possibilities not offered by the old method of turning a few things over to the twice-a-year rag peddler and burning the rest. PAYING UP. Congress, it seems, authorized ex penditures for lighting Germany to I the tune of $55,000,000,000. The signing of the armistice made pos sible various reductions bringing the total down to something like $33, 500,000,000. This is more than $300 for every man. woman and child in the United States. If the paying of this vast bill were divided according to population; instead cf according to tax-paying ability, how many families would have to work and pinch for years to foot the bill! But ever. so. would any true Amer ican begrudge his slaving and pinching and paying? This is a nation of good sports, and gladly will its citi zens pay the piper for making the Germans dance! "h. thermometer was down to 1^ ?. L*e.os yesterday morning and it was jnot an: warmer this morning,; I i BURDENS LIFTED. [From Sumter Backs?Relief Proved, bj Lapse of Time. Eacickache is a heavy burden; Nervousn s.-., dizziness, headache: Rheumatic pair.; urinary ills; All wear one out. Often c-fie; ts of kidney weakness. No use to cure the symptoms. Relief is bul temporary if the j cause remains. Ii it's the kidneys, cure the cause. Doan's Kidney Pills are for kidney J ills; % Read about your neighbor's case, j Here's Sumter testimony. The kind that can be investigated., j Sirs. K. D. Briggs, 312 W. Liberty, St., Sumter, says: "I had a slight j touch of fciflhev trouble about two' * .1 years ago. Keaaoches and dizzy Pc-Ils bothered me a great deal. Ij feit languid and tired and wanted to j sleep all the time. My kidneys acte-I ; irregularly und I felt had all over. iDoan's K: iney Pids were recommend ed to me by :i friend who had used then with good results, so I tried , some. A few doses brought me fine lief rind it wasn't long before I was cured." Price COe. at all dealers. Don't j , simply ask for a kidney remedy?get i jpoan'i5 Kidney Pills- the same thai ; Mi ??. Briggs had. Fo, tei-MHhurn Co.. I.Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. V.;?Advt. (55.) ! Cottoa Market LOCAL. P. G. BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer. (Corrected Daily at 12 o'clock Noon). Good Middling 28 1-4. Strict Middling 28. : - Middling 27 3-4. ; J Strict Low Middling 26 1-4.,..; XKW YORK COTTON MARKET. \ Yes'dys Open High Low Close Close Jan . . 28.00 2S.15 27.75 28.06 28.50 Mch . . 26.70 26.91 26.22 26.55 27.09 May . . 2570 2585 25.20 2553 26.00 July . . 24.80 25.04 24.30 24.75 25.15 TAX RETURN NOTICE. I wiil appear in person or by deputy at the following named places, and on the dates given below, for the pur pose of receiving tax returns for year 1919. Return should be made on-per sonal property, poll, road and dogs: Privateer Station?Wednesday, Jan.' S. Lev! Siding?Thursday, Jan. 9. Wedgefield?Friday, Jan. 10. Claremont?Wednesday, Jan. 15. Iiagood?Thursday, Jan. 16. Rembert?Friday. Jan. 17. Dalzell?Wednesday, Jan. 22. Brogdon?Thursday, Jan. 23. Mayesville?Friday, Jan. 24. Pleasant Grove?Tuesday, Jan. 28. Shiloh?Wednesday, Jan. 29. Norwood Cross Roads?Thursday, Jan. 30. R. E. WILDER, Auditor, : Ovation For Wilson Milan. Sunday, Jan. 6.?President ? Wilson journeyed from Rome to Mi- ; la n today, stopping at Genoa en route where he was greeted in an extrava- j gant manner by hundreds of thou sands of the common people. The demonstration here was of the same character but proportionately great- ? er. ^ ^ ^ . ^^^^^^^^|^^,' j WANTED?Colored man to work oa*: farm. Prefer married man with'" small family. Will furnish house and pay good wages. C. W. Mcr Grew._j MONEY TO LOAN?T have funds ag-.. gregating $10.000 to lend on im proved Sumter county real estate in: amounts from $000 to $6,000. Terms; reasonable. A. P. Merrimon, Law Range. _. ; FOR SALE?Registered Duroc Jer sey. Male, weight 600 pounds. Also S-foot iron trough, four 4-foot iron troughs, 6.) gallon vcuum hog wat- ? .n or. Dr. A. J. i^ennock, R. F. D. 3. _ _ : FARM LAND FOR SALE?In Sumter Lee and Clarendon counties. C. P. Osteen, Sumter, S. C. BEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small Am paying best cash price. Ste me if you have any._N. G. Osteen._ FOR SALE?p. o. B. cars, Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little straw. Car load lots only. Chemi eaj and fc"cj*txTizer va-ue ra*ed very ??b-*is !>y Clemson allege. A. Ai Strauss, Sumter, S. C.