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Published Wednesday and Saturda. ?BY? OSTEEX PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. Terms: _~ $1.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$l.u Every subsequent insertion.5 Contr?cts for three months, o: longer w?l be made at reduced rate* AIJ communications which sub serve private interests will be charge for 'as advertisemenrs. Obituaries and tributes of respev will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found In 1S50 and the True Southron v. lt66. The Watchman and Soudro now has the combined circulation an influence of both of the old paper: and is manifestly the best advertis;:. medium in Sumter. UNDESIRABLES. ' The. department of justice will' shortly recommend to congress the deportation of 3.000 or 4.000 alien now interned in the United States. Special legislation will be necessary tc accomplish this, as there is, of course, no law at present covering the sit uation. The further suggestion is made that the subsequent return of any of these undesirables to this country, whose hospitality they have abused, shall be made impossible. There should be a great wave of public approval when congress take? up this matter, for the investigations of the department of justice have been thorough, and to them is added the proof presented by the alien property custodian as to the extent to which our business life has been im perilled. . Among the number of aliens now [ interned are some who are consider ?ed as not dangerous. The deportation of these will not be urged, pending 'good behavior. There are others, and j this number includes some well known { German women, whose speedy depar- j ture is considered desirable. That the list of those whose re moval is demanded includes many prominent and wealthy people should in no way hinder the proposed plans These people have used their money, 'their social acquaintance, their busi ness holdings, their unsuspecting American friends, for just one end? the furthering of German scheme? and German propaganda in this coun. try. There is rrb room for them here ] They are manifestly not good Ameri- j cans. How good Germans they are ?will be tested by the enthusiasm they display for th^ir return to their de feated fatherland, and the zeal ^-iTh v. ; \ h - hey lend their efforts to its sal vation. FEDERAL BLUE SKY LAW. The "Capital Issues Committee," which has had supervision cf stock flotations during the war., and is com posed of a group of absolutely trust- ! worthy experts, has prepared a feder- j a! "blue sky law" designed to protect j unwary investors against fraudulent stock issues. The country is being flooded this winter with securities that are of lit tle-value or even entirely bogus. Crim inal promoters have been reaping a harvest by persuading people ignor ant cf stock values to iahe their handsomely engraved but worthless puper in exchange for perfectly good! Liberty Bonds. Honest bankers and brokers want to help the government stop this sort of thing, in order to pro tect the public and safeguard their i own legitimate business. Unfortunately the proposed meas ures can affect only stocks involved in Interstate transactions. It will still be possible in many states for swindling concerns to re1! their crooked stock w:*hin their State limits. Every State ought to have a law coveriiig the sub ject and capable of enforcement. No such measure can guarantee] absolute safety of .investment, because the business involved may fail to pavj profits on account of mismanagement j rafter the stock has been soid. But 1 Through proper legislation the authori-' ties can at least insure that the stock is not issued and sold in the first place' without a real property value back of I A CENTURY <>F GROWTH. The world is anxious to get back to business. Every country is struggling with its domestic trade problems, while it awaits impatiently the as sembling of the ]>< ;u-(' c\-n*"??>???:::??? a?:d the results of its findings, which v. il! :ro so far toward establishing a ba da for international trade relations. In view of the present situation it is interesting to review a little the past history of world commerce, t rr-oai! that just 200 years aye. the greatest factor in the development <>'' world trade was launched?the steam driven vessel for ocean traffic. It was in ISIS that the Savannah, planned by Daniel Hod o; Virginia and built in New Vor!; by Francis Fickel. siiled from New Yuri. t'> Sa vannah and thence to Liverpool, the first ocean ' liner."' A: that time world trade was ? mated at about $2,000,000,000. In 19 Is it stood at a value of $50,000, 000,000. The rapidity of its growth In the last 100 years is due first to he steamship, then the railroad and elegraph and telephone lines, and ast but far from least, the establish ment of sound financial and banking systems. Ii is hard to realize that the past LOO years have seen more develop nent in world trade than all the pre ious time in the history of man. and hat much of this development is lue to inventions which are the pro iUCt Of the present generation. One thing, however, is certain: In ternational peace is vital, for upon it hangs international trade and the welfare of the world. FACTS FOIX GERMANY. Germans seldom believe what outside people tell them. Maybe they will lend a listening ear to the hard facts jab bed at them by Maximilian Harden, the famous and honest editor of Die Zukunft. In a recent issue he advises his readers to recognize exactly what Grerinany has done to the Allies dur .ng this war. and then to do their best, honestly and sincerely, to con ciliate the** outraged enemies. v The German war, he explains, in eluded "fifty-one months of brutal rule in Belgium during which every >aw of humanity was broken, the de vastation of northern France, air raids contrary to all law, the custom of sinking passenger and hospital ships, secret agreements with the Irish and the Flemish, the smuggling of explo sives, disease bacilli and incendiary instruments into neutral countries, and everywhere bribery, fraud, and theft." All this, he says, is but a part of the account the Allies have to pre sent to Germany. The Germans must . acknowledge its justice, in all par ticulars where it is just, instead of , crying out defiantly against it. They ( must also do their best to convince Lhe world of the honesty of their rev- , olutionary movement, which so many ] foreigners regard as a fraud, and tcj. persuade the Allies that Germany i . really places her hopes on the aban- . lonment of militaristic ambitions and -, :he creation of a world of peace. This, indeed, is the way of salva- , .ion for the German people, and the . >nly way. , HIGH PRICES FOR WHEAT. Maybe everybody has been wrong j ? ibout much-discussed wheat guar-| mtee. The Xew York World is quite unconvinced by predictions of plenti ful crops and low prices in the mar ket this year and next. "What price will prevail throughout the world between now and mid summer, 1920. is wholly a matter of speculation," says the World. "While peace has liberated some wheat not available in war, it is to be remem bered that in the greater part of Eu rope stocks are exhausted and the iemand is urgent. "(rreat Britain has a fixed price. * >nd so has Canada. Russia cannot be nueh of a competitor this year, and Irgentica's crop is not great. There is J >etter reason, therefore, to assume hat the average world price for wheat "or two years :o come will be very ligh than to held that it will fall to inything like the anti-war level." The American farmer, then, may ipt be so legitimate a subject for envy is some of the experts have repre sented. Ke may not ^et any more . for his wheat with Uncle Sam's guar- j mtee of $2.26 a bushel than he would tiave got otherwise, in the open mar- ; i:et. in competition with the world. < Ke may not get so much. The na- < tion may be the beneficiary rathe;- . than the farmer. : Anyway, there is no reason to get excited about the matter. What is Jene is done, and what will be will be. so far as wheat is concerned. We car. j] wait and see. secure in the know!- j, edge that the present arrangement isi, probably fair enough, and neither j ( producer no:- consumer can lose much , by it. ? 'resident Wilson is fortunate that j. taxes do not always accompany citi- . zenship. RATIONING THE WORLD. The League of Nations to Pacify j World may still be in the doubt ful stage, but the idea l ack of it is already in practical operation. There! is now in existence a League of Xa tions to Feed the World. Herbert Hoover is running it. with a mandate! from .:!! the Allied powers and with guarantees of their full support and co -operation. It is a vast undertaking; immense ly mere comprehensive in tx-cpe i!::!': the oia' labors of Mr. Hoover in feed-j Lug Belgium and subsequently aj>por-j tionihg the food resources of the f'm: ed States. The whole world is to be; rationell. The available foodstuffs of j all nations are {<< be regarded as <?,?,< great store, to be divided among the i various populations ;!:? their :i -etls :;*> p?ar. i Thtr work is handled under the an-j thocity th< \Uiod [Vowors and m??b;J possible by their funds.- Relief roa:? naturally* be given first toAJlied peo ples who have suffered so severely from n war in which they wore rh: innocent and aggrieved parties. But .hero will b? no real discrimination As soon as .the system is in good working order, food will fee sent. i. sufficient quantity, to Central Surop< and wherever else it is needed. This is in many ways the mos; ambitions international enterprise ever undertaken. The spirit and meth od bach of it are precisely the spirit and method necessary for the pro posed world league. Mr. Hoover's work is justly relerred to as the ?'Hrsi test" of such a league. If the nations can co-operate in a vital eco nomic matter, surely they can co-op erate no less successfully in th,ct more vital matter of keeping a well-fed world from fighting. THE BALANCE OF POWER. Speaking of Premier Clemenceau's plea for a new grouping of nations on the principle of the old "balance of power," the London Daily News says: # "If this policy is insited on, it means one thing and one thing only, it means that, "-'ranee repudiates the idea of a League of Nations. It means that the world is not to be or Drganized for peace, but reorganized for war. If that policy is pursued, the peaC'' conference is doomed to fail ure. "America will have no choice but :o leave Europe to its own ways and its own fate. She will, of course, luffer the penalty which all will suf fer. Since she has failed to induce the world to disarm, she will have to irm herself, and so the world will be started again on the race of compe titive armaments leading certainly md unalterably to war." This plain truth should be recog nized in France and everywhere else is clearly as it is in London. The American people will have nothing to jo with any old-fashioned "balance )f power" scheme, because they have 10 fatih in it. If it is insisted on. they ,vill have to withdraw and do their >est to remain aloof from European iffairs. going their own way and pre paring to defend themselves against tny conceivable peril that may arise * reafter. It is ouite possible, however, that his talk of Clemenceau's is not so eactionary and discouraging as it ?ounds. Perhaps it should not be aken too literally. The French pre mer seems really to have in mind lot a real balanpe of power' with Two rroups of powers balanced again?: :ach other and peace founded on heir equilibrium, according to the >ld theory. He seems to want rather >he group of powers so Vtrong that, f it is conceived as one weight in the >alance, no conceivable weight of themies can be got together sufficient o t-:j> the scales. The group he suggests. Britain, "rar.ee. America and Italy, would ap >arently serve this purpose. Banded ogether, they need fear nothing from my or ail other nations, at least for t long time to come. They would lohstitute. for the present, an effec ive "league to enforce peace." Such l grouping might well serve as the >asis of a world-league; starting with l plan bro^d enough to admit other lations as they der-.;:-- membership nd prove their f?ness. it is not unlikely that the society of latibns will be worked out .along this ine, in the form of a compromise be ween Clemenceau and Wilson. >OPE IN CHINA AM) AMERICA. While the United States is becom ng seriously concerned at the rrowth of the "dope" evil, and vir ually confessing inability to cope vith the problem, it is instructive and nspiring to rote what China has been ioing a1-out opium. Thanks to the courage of the Chi lese government and the essential iiorality o*" the Chinese people, Chi-? ib., so long the slave of opium; is now 'reo. The crowning act of the gov ernment was the purchase and dc Ltruction, in Shanghai, of 1.200 chests >f opium, worth $14,000,000 in th< ?pen market. The poppy fields are iow given over to the production of "cod. The thorough-going way in ivhich the elimination of the destruc tive opium traffic was accomplished may he inferred from the following measures, enforced in several Chi nese provinces: 1. If the opium dealer be a shop keeper,, ail tin- banks and money shops schall refuse to have anything to do with him in money matters, so that he wdl have to close his shop for tack of funds and banking facilities. (The Chinese have Jong known th ' efncaoy of the boycott, Both the i/nhed States and Japan have Celt its force). -. If an employee of a shop deals in opium the shopkeeper shall dismiss the man, whoso name will be publish ed in th?* newspapers, so that he will not be able to tind employment else where; ::. If a wealthy man be discovcv ed defiling in opium. !:?.: name shall !>e given to the elder of his family, with the request 'hot the gruiiiy per son be e::-a out from the famdy (one ?f the greases* of disgraces), arid he shall be opposed by -11 a- an alien v, zthoul mercy: !. LfuMllords and landladies shall not rent their boll ;? s u> opium d. [[] % ?y kg] [ m ^fllPlils If you h^ve.cclton to sell sen ess, it will pay you. If you ha ve fertilizer or fertilizer materials to buy it will pay ?o\i to see us before yon buy. (Cash or roved collateral. 9 West Liberty Street j IC they do, they will be dealt with as I :f they were the opium dealers them | selves. I 5. If damage is done to opium dealers ana their properties, the Chamber of Commerce shall refuse to grant compensation. If the American people attache:1, the "'dope" in any such spirit as this, there would soon be no more prob lem about it. the obstacle to prosperity. ._ The chief obstacle now standing in the way of American prosperity seems to be the holding up of $1,500,000 of claims based on informal war con tracts. Owing to a lad: of technical authority for. the payment of these claims by the government, the con tractors are unable to pay the sub contractors, and sub-contractors are unable to pay their bills for labor and materials. This drains the springs of business. Those who supplied the raw mater ials cannot pay their labor. Employees are unable to pay their own bills. The public spending power is curtail ed and credit is tightened. Work men lese their jobs. So things tend to slow down, just when they ought I to bo speeding up. It is especially bad that this hap pens just when our army is being de mobilized and the soldiers come home expecting to drop into paying places in a busy industrial system. Xo duty of the government, there fore, is more important than the prompt handling and settlement of these claims. The interests concern ed are justified in demanding that con gress provide the requisite authoriza tion without delay, and that the exe cutive departments check up the claims and approve and pay off these that are obviously legitimate as .promptly as possible. I; is no time for i ed tape. (State W arehouse System Nearly lOO.^COO Bales Pat in Storage?D epa vi m en t Tis rns Back Appropriation. Columbia, Jan. L3.?During the past 12 months the State warehouse system has placed 0r;.9s0 bales of cotton in storage. W. G. Smith. Stab warehouse commisioner, estimates the value of the cotton to be approxi mately $13.000,000. All this cotton has been fully covered by insuranc ?, procured by the system at a much lower rate than that available for the individual farmer. There arc 1?;; warehouses in the system. These are located in 30 counties, IT, counties not having any warehouses in the system. The counties not represented are: Aik en, Beaufort, Berkeley. Charleston. Cherokee. Chester, Colleton. Dorches ter, Fairfield. Georgetown. Greenville, Horry. Lancaster. Pickens and Spar taiiburg. Mr. Smith ftives a financial state ment in his report showing that the system has met all obligations and Is not only able to turn back to the State the full amount of the appro priation made April 1, 1918. but also to turn back into the State treasury a considerable sum as surplus. The following is the cotton stored and the number of warehouses by counties: Counties Warehouses. Bales. Abbeville. 2 r. ? Anderson .... ... s 2.785 Eamberg. \ 3.809 Barnwell. 1.820 Calhoun. 14 S.317 Chesterfield . 6 2,*.)20 Clarendon. 3 I.."5:*? Da rlington. 2. &"' ? Dillon. i:: 14,201 Edgefield. ... 2 ?,.'2$? Florence. 1 ! !.?y>22 Greenwood.. 1 Hampton ........ 1 f?i?2 Jasper. ] 2.4*1 Kershaw. 2 ISA Laurens. 1*1 Lee. i Lexington . ."< 1.D IS Marion. 2 2.370 iMust Have Good Roads i - Prosperity of South Carolina Retarded by Poor Highways. ? Columbia, Jan. 11.? C? South Caro lina dees not act quickly its sister States are going to leave it far behind in the matter of road building. The : neighboring State of Georgia is plan ning d< clsivc action this year towards getting cf the mud.*4 and a simi lar movement is under way in North < 'arolina. i A conference of representative men of Georgia was held in Atlanta this ? week and plans mapped out for a . great highway system under which ; 0,000 mile-; of hard-surfaced, graded top-soiled roads would be constructed. i Gcv. Dorsey, realizing what the j movement means for the State, is lending it his support and has called [a meeting or the Georgia Highway ' Commission to consider the matter. The Georgia legislature meets ill June, and reports from that State in | dieate that goods roads legislation is going to he one of the mos? important i matters to come before that body. That provision will be made for a permanent system of highways seems j assured. In North Carolina there is also a j movement on foot for better roads. ; although that State now has much better roads than South Carolina. , Editor Dave Grist of the Yorkville Ehoirer has recently returned from an auto trip which took him over con siderable portions of North and South Carolina, and the first observation j which he made in his pap?r wm, "They've got better reads in Nor!;1 j Carolina than they have in South I Carolina. They are making more j progress in North Carolina than they are in South Carolina.." j The movement for a permanent ; highway system in South Carolina is \ meeting with strong support all over ! the State and it is believed that the i South Carolina general assembly is going to adopt tJici-recommendations , nta.de by the central good roads cam paign committee and lay the founda tion at this sessiaa for the establish ment of such a System. If the legislation asked for at this ; session js adopted the way will be ipaved for the passage at the next ses sion of the enabling act on the bond ! issue and the election .can bo held in November 1520: This would permit ?work to he starte"1, in 1S21 and if the ; building program is rushed the Sr.u j may be able to keep sten with her . neighboring States of North Carolina i and Georgia. I Dr. Clin Sawyer, of Georgetown. : who was here this week was talking along this line, if.- declared that if North Carolina and Georgia built sys tems of permanent highways, as it ap pears certain <>\\ they will, and ;hi? State does not keen track with them there is going /to be a. tremendous ?-hrinkage in land values In this State. .V period cf great depression would follow. In ether words. Dr. Sawyer think;? that South Carolina is goinc- to have to build a permanent highway system in scjf-defense if for no other reason. Columbia. Jan. 11.?Sam Johnson. 1S year old negro, was put to death at tlie state prison yesterday morning shortly after ] i o'cla-k. The negro was place,! in the electric chair and strapped. One application of high voltage was sulTIcieiTt ?<? cause Instant death. Life was pronounced extinct Twenty-one Killed Disastrous Collision on New York Central Railway. Batavia. X. Y.. Jan. 12.?Twenty one persons were killed and three were seriously injured in a rear-end collision on the New York Central Railroad at South Byron, six miles " : ? Batavia, at 3.36 o'clock this morning. Both trains were west bound. running behind their sched ules. Train No. 11. known as the Southwestern Limited, ran into the rear of train Xo. 17. the Wolverine. ?,'hile the latter was at a standstill preparatory to taking on a second en gine for the run tip the steep grade between South Byron and Batavia. Up to a late hour tonight only a few of the 21 dead had been identi fied. the mangled condition of the bodies and the absence of clothing making the work of identification slow and difficult. All of the fatalities occurred in the last car of the Wol verine. HOW DOCTORS TREAT COLDS AND GRIPPE Ask any physician or druggist and he wili tell you that the best and only effective remedy for a bad cold, sore throat or la grippe is what he calls "a brisk calomel purge."-which means ?. bis dose of calomel at bed time. But as the old style calomel has some very unpleasant and dangerous qualities physicians and druggists are now rec ommending the improved nausealess calomel, called ?Valctabs" which is purified and refined from the sicken ing and dangerous effects and whose m >dicinal virtues are vastly improv ed. . ? . One Calotab on the tongue at bed rim<- with a swallow of water?that's all. No salts, no nausea nor the slightest interference with your diet, pleasures or work! 2CeKfc5 morning your cold has vanished and your en tire system is purified and refreshed. Calotabs are sohl only in original sealed na- kages price thirty-five cents. Your druggist guarantees Calotabs by refunding the price if you are not de limited.?Advt./ TAX RETURN NOTICE. A ? 1 will apnenr in person or by deputy at the following named places, and on the dates given below, for the pur nose of receiving tax returns for year 1919. Return should be made on per sonal property, poll, road and dogs: Privateer Station?Wednesday, Jan. S. ? Levi Siding?Thursday, Jan. 9. W^.dgefleld?Friday. Jan. 10. Claremont?Wednesday. Jan. 13. Elagood?Thursday. Jan. 16. Kembert?Friday. Jan. 17. OalzeU ?Wednesday, Jan. 22. Brogdon?Thursday. Jan. 23. Mayesv'ilh?Friday. Jan. 24. Pleasant Grove?Tuesday. Jan. 25. Shilch?Wednesday, Jan. 29. Norwood Cross Roads?Thursday, Jan. 30. R. E. WILDER, Auditor. The postmaster requests that all vho hold due Mils for 19IS war sav . ; ;? stamps wili call at postofiice at once and set their stamps. TWO BOTTLES OF DRECO DID MORE FOE ME THAN S500 WORTH OF OTHER MEDICINES Says Prominent Proximity Mechanic. Severe Case of Kidney Trouble Reported Reached By New Herbal Medicine. No ted Fraternal Member Tells Wonderful Story. section and the d<h-iow said I would not Almost everyoco} - fnl. = live six months longer if I wasn't [knows r Teat, the ?romme ? Thev made an x-ray pic L rna-j ,v????? ? ?? and ma.ehins; in the s.,:.-i , jiad a -kidney stone/ p-oximuv Mills and whose home ad- ? ?; nave spent between $500 and / ' ." v, [ nroxhxiitv. 1:':"'1 trying to get eared and two bot ll >>s 1 . " . . member of ties of Dreco Have done me more good . . M'? .V 'J!.,^ the distinction than everything rise put together. I \'iU\ / - j. . ; n a: the chairs suffered such pains in my back that ! "-\ 5V,% ' ? of the vYorid. His l could not bend nor stoop over. When 1?' :'!. "'* '' ? .. .. srm;ii measure i had taken three ouarters of the first i-: affairs of bottle of Dreco ever\ pain had left me. ' V'. !"\ ?? ? ?, ?! his advice on so- "The reason 1 ever bought the first ; '\!:\ ''|, ,i;.;', .,i matters* is much bottle was because it had helped my ' ' -friend. Mr. Basinger so much, jsoug ? ,.<tnffiioted for a "1 expect to take' a half dozen bot 1, \!.. ? . vitb a particular!} mal ig- ties before 1 stop and feel that I will nairt form of stomach trouble which be permanently cured." r tr.at neni until a Dreco is the purely herbal medicine I p. "n \;~ Hnsinger. told him that is causing such a furor through i ,c0 nev herb medicine out this sec tion. Hundreds of men i,,. . /..< iped b'ai wonderful- and women are taking it regularly and reporting remarkable results in cases Here :- Mr. Teal's stcry of his ex- oi stomach and kidney disorders, liv Lc?.ienc,. v. th Dreco. li will eve,,- in- er eomplaints. eonstiparftrn, rhcuma , .......rending for the hundreds lism. catarrh and similar troubles. 0V hion an-d women in this section who Dreco is dispensed by most good !.;,:,,]_ ihi'iv case are b- yond relief ? shops :trt(l is particularly recom ? .? t\.mended in Sumter by Sibert's Drug I "T hav?i been suffering for years St?re.- Ailvt.