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PubUfibecI Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. ?Terms: $ 1.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. . .$1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates All communications which sub '. serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. ObStuaiies and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found in 1850 and the True Southron m 156$. The Watchman and Soutliro stow has the combined circulation an? Influence of both of the old paper*, and is manifestly the best advert is: a. . .medium in Sumter. I J??M?MM?. CONGRESS SHOULD GET ON TKFJ JOB. ; The nation has been getting out of patience lately with the persistent deJay of congress in important war and reconstruction work. I'lh'-Tlie %.ost exasperating case ha? . been that of the revenue bill, which ought to have been passed months ago. Just now there are two re con ,.struction matters in which the pub |3ic is vitally concerned: Adequate provision for taking care of returning - soldiers by seme such plan as Secre tary Lane's land reclamation program supplemented by measures for indus trial employment; and provision for payment of the vast body of war bills involved in "informal contracts." The latter is of immediate and -transcendent importance. There is $1,500,000,000 due American manu facturers and held up partly by gov ernmental red tape and partly by congressional failure to sanction prompt validation of the claims. This matter was supposedly near settle when a senate committee the ether day threw a monkey wrench into the machinery by proposing an -entirely new plan, involving great ad l ??tional dela}\ Congress by its procrastination in - .this and other matters is making hard times. It is subjecting the nation to a period of industrial depression and i misfortune which could be almost; wholly avoided by prompt and en- j lightened legislation. It is time for i congress to realize its responsibility) and . get on the job. LLOYD GEORGE'S PROGRAM. "The platform on which Lloyd George was overwhelmingly endorsee, in the recent British elections contain ed these seven pledges: 1. Trial of> the Kaiser. 2. Fullest indemnities from Ger many. 3. 'Abolition of conscription in all lands. 4. Britain for the British, socially and industrially. 5. Adequate provision for return-' ed soldiers, particularly for the crip- j pled and physically broken. j 6. A square deal for Great Erita.tr: j at the peace conference. 7. A happier country for all. With one or two possible exceptions.! this looks like a pretty good American j platform, too. Americans seem wil- j ling to waive indemnities. They are j X>retty well agreed on wanting the Kaiser tried for his crimes, wanting, Germany to pay in fu'l for the dam age she has done to neighboring coun tries, wanting militarism abolished everywhere, wanting "America for Americans," adequate provision for returned soldiers, a square deai .or American ideals and a country that "will be happier than it used to be for all classes of people?not merely the piiviieged das: "s. ? * As a result of the definite stand for justice, 'international and domestic, taken by the British premier and his fellow-leaders, there is said to be no Bolshevism in England?nothing cor responding to our I. W. W. mov< ment. nothing but legitimate trades union ism in industry. It will probably be the same in the United States if there is a similar policy of fair play toward labor. THE CASE AGAINST WILHELM. The German Crown Prince has maintained that the Horn nzoller.:: were not at all responsible for the inhuman outrages perpetrated b> heir army in France and Belgium. ecause. after all, my father and ! re gentlemen." -Testimony of a different and stern er sort has been presented in a report from eminent French jurists who were asked to pass on the question ' the former Kaiser's criminal respon sibility. The most impressive iu-m a letter "written by WUh'-liv early I?: the war, to the emperor of Auslria. in which he said: "My soul is torn asunder, but <? - erything must be put to fir* anf sword- The throats of men an women, children and the ;ig<?d musi be cut, and not a tree nor u h.misi left standing. "With such methods of b-rror which alone can strike so dcg.-rn-.-a.? a people as the French, the war v.-. end within two mom!^ whihi If 1 us humanitarian methods it may drag on for years. Despite all my repug nance I have had to choose the first system." Th:? is a frank admission on Wil aolm's part that the decision rested j with him. personally, and that he de liberately chose a policy oi terror and destruction which modern law gards as no less criminal in war ti >n it would be in peace. There is ap parently no question of Wilhelmn's i j free will in the matter, and therefore j no question of his moral and 'egal ; responsibility. Such, at least, is the I judgment of the{Freuch jurists given j to Premier Clemenceau. j It may be expected, then, that this i arch-criminal will be brought to trial i for his misdeeds like any other male j factor, as soon as the peace confcr j ence can get around to his case. ANOTHER WAR. The peace conference must hurry, j War may be averted between Italy j and the Jugo-olavs, but civil war has j lifted its head right here at home, j Boston is going to mobilize the poets. ? She has summoned them from far and near, the good ones and the bad ones, the new war poets, and the old domestic bards. Each may speak his piece and it will be decided what is j good and what is bad poetry, and the pcetic world v.-ill be made safe for ; democracy too. O noble Boston, willing to revive the memories of tier revolutionary days! The shot that was fired by the embattled farmers will be but the puff of a pop-gun compared with the opening shot in the battle between rhymed and free verse. But let the fight go on by all means! ! For in battling for the merits of their ! various forms doubtless many poets brave and true will die cf apop'exy, and then who shall say that ail is not dene for the best? As, well, peace hath her heroes. As a beloved poet almost said: "Xct braver he who storms the wall. By level musket-Mashes litten. Than he who steps before them all j And dares to read what he has; written!' A "BILLSHEVIX" BLUFF. That Swiss professor who came oack from Russia with the horrific! varn about Trotzky's plans of con quest must be either a Bolshevik con-; .ort er vodka victim, ? | 1 i According to this Prof. Philipp-. Jeanerct, the Russian >-Reds" now have 1,000,000 troops marching on Poland. Cermar.y and Austria, and ?ire raising an army of 5,00.0.000 men; to sweep over western Europe- and crush "bourgeois" France and Eng land. He presents Korr Trotsky, alias Braunstein, in a new role, as an Alexander aspiring to conquer the world for Bolshevism. j The Bolshevist menace is serious! enough, goodness knows. But its) ways are not the ways of Alexander j and Ca.esar," much as its hypocritical j or lunatic leadej-s would fain copy those great captains. It moves by ?tealth. I: fights not with srur.s, but with propaganda?lies instigated by c-ass envy a ad racial hatred. As for a grea* army, that is ab surd on the fa- ? of it. Nothing less than an army of 5,000,000 could hope j to have any effect against the Allies! in western Europe, for France and; England alone are keeping at least] :!? it many men in the field. A mod ern fighting army, as everyone knows, requires an industrial army at its! back. If it were possible to rally millions of Russians to light again, where -s the industry to provide then) with guns, shells And supplies? Where is the tiansportation system to ? c-nvcy and provision that army? Where is the financial system to sup port it? Russia is reduced to eco nomic chaos. Russians in millions I I now would be formless mobs, inca pable of aggression* against trained troops anywhere. The invasion will rather be the oth er way. The Allies may invade Rus sia, when they can g<^ around to it? not io shoot down the misled natives, but to feed and police them and get their industries in order. Industrial AlcohoJ. The distillers have been talking of spending $1,0*?0,000 to ..ght th' federal prohibition law. If they have any such fund at their disposal they might very much better use it to pro mote the manufacture and sale of commercial alcohol. The country needs alcor j] Cor industrial purposes a great deal more than for drinking purposes, and has never yei been able \o iLc.-r it in sufficient quantity and at tow enough price. Commercial alcohol now sells, in most piaces, at about $1.2-5 a gallon. The distillers were able to make vvhiskey for less than that, using good grain. Surely, with th" cheaper ma terials available for turning into com mercial alcohol they could, make it to sei! at a good deal less than that. And their plants, presumably, can be more easily adapted to this purpose than to any other-. Gasoline is likely !?> give oul *(>.>n< : or later, in the meantime there is plenty o? use for alcohol a- fuel, be 'cause of its cleanliness and safety. And [its uses in the manufactures and arts iare almost infinite. It is time now to! I begin realising all the fine prophe ? cies the experts were making for alec- i : hoi a few years ago. A HOMESICK WOMAN. j : - , ! ; A correspondent td the New York i !Times is authority for the statement that the Kaiserin is homesick. Prob ably she Is. Because we are not German, we do not war upon women. ? and therefore will omit a lot we might; say on the subject of that particular j wornan's hornesickness. But is it presumably any morej bitter than the homesickness of ! many a Belgian and French wife .and mother, who is not only separat ed from her home by weary miles, but by the stone-by-stone destruction ! of that home? Is the longing Of the Kaiserin to spend her declining days 1 among her children and grr-dchil ili'cr. any more intense than ..in. c the thousands o:' her husland's victims, and who may long till death takes them, but until then may nevei n-ore see their he'ovetl? : It is especially heart-rending that the Kaiserin longs for her own home at Potsdam, a beautiful estate wood ed and watered, gardened and tend-} ed. when so many acres of what was smiling country lie waste under the imprint of the Kaiser's heel? Is there not a certain .'ustice in this punishment by her natural longings of one German woman? A woman j proud and important, who condoned by her silence and her presence at the Kaiser's side, unspeakable wrongs? Vengeance is mine: I will repay," saith the Lord. The Kaiserin is homesick. . JL ONLY FOUR MONTHS MORE. } The country is new definitely vot ed dry. More than the requisite three-fourths of the States have rati-i fied the redera! prohibition amend-] ment. Others will ratify it during j [ the next few weeks for good measure. [It is not likely that more than half a I cczen will withheld their approval. The amendment does not become immediately operative. It is to ^o into effect one year after ratification. That moans a lir.r*:- more than one year from the present time, because the ratification is officially dated at the time the secretary of State receiv es formal notice from the State gov ernments. This constitutional amend ment, therefore, must wait until Jan-1 uary 16, 1020, for fulfillment. \ Actually) though, t.ie whole couh-! try will be dry long before that, as a result of the congressional act which becomes effective July 1, this year. That act provides only for prohibition until the army is demobilized, but it is hardly possible that the demo-! bilization will be completed before the ameacmJeht is effective. Actually, then, the liquor t'-afli has only a'lit tle more than four- months' lease of iife. Wet State1" .and wet communities will probably make the most of it. The more they make of it. the glad der most people will be when it is all over and the nation can settle down to a period of permanent sobriety. LABOR Yf THE PEACE CONFER ENCE. Why should a peace conference. -meeting to wind up a great war. drop the obvious activities connected witn that task and busy itself with labor j reform? Millions of people must have asked themselves this question of late, on reading the news from Pa-> ??. tt may be all right, they admit, for the conference to deal with la bor problems after its other work is done, but it did not assemble for! > that purpose. Why take the time for it now? A little reflection, however, tends to the assurance that the peace con ference very likely knows what it is about. The plans for international labor legislation, presented by the British delegation, looking to the es tablish!:: .it of a permanent labor commission working under the juris diction of the League of Nations, have certainly not been devised with out foresight nor taken up without a di :i:iit" .and statesmanlike purpose. Those delegates regard the labor! problem as fundamental and imper itlve. They see Russia staggering j under the incubus of Socialism in its! ?most dangerous form. They see Con-: I tral Europe, and indeed all the rest: I of Europe, not to mention the other' I'continents, menaced by an unprece j dented wave of radicalism. This ceo-! ? uomie unrest grows largely cut of' j t;:?\ wrong adjustments of labor and! (capital and the determination of! I those who regard themselves as un-i j.der-dogs to get a fairer share of the world's weaith and power. Before peace can be assured fori the future, and even before peace can' j be restored for the present, the tot I-1 ling masses everywhere must be made' to feel that the war which they have fought and in which they have suf fered so terribly ?s going profit I them as well as others: Thfy mat j be convinced thai now and heneaf Iter they are voinq to have a square! 0^ 3 a.1 ? QfljT?jl INS FFRTIiiJF? rePJR *f you have cotton to sell, see us, it wiil pay you. If you have fertilizer or fertilizer materials to buy it will pay you to see us before yea buy, Cash or approved co-lateral '1 3 ;i>.?^e--s.r ?"i.T-a^^tr deal. Otherwise all the fine settio- from the::-: to sell t :ato tor cash at most ? - vorabi*.- time:' and prices. 7. Fertilizers should be bought w.soly and applied Judiciously but suf ficiently for a mole returns. Fertiliz ers, although high, are not relatively precedence given to labor is meant too costly for free use. Home mixing for justice to labor and for safety for ^ fertilizers will probably save 20 to the world. ments of the peace conferenc may be mad in vain, and the governments making them may he swept away by a wave of proletarian fury. The The Legislature To-Day Gibbes Confirmed as Game War den?Senate Votes for Con stitutional Convention. -o per sent. Safe Farrmr.g in 1910. Clemscn College. Jan. 29.?Mr. Bradford PInapp, Chief of the OP.ice of Extension Work in the South, sug gested at the recent annual mooting of the Extension Service' forces, the following as some of the principles WS Get High Place Unnamed South Carolinian to Receive Federal Appoint ment. Jan. 29.?Rumors Columbia, Jan. 30.?By a vote of 22 to 16 the State senate today con firmed the appointment of W. BT. Gibbes as chief game warden. The confirmation was in executive session. A bill providing for the adoption in this State of a budget system sim i-ar to the Virginia budget system was introduced in the house today by Representative Hart. Vv'jth only three dissenting votes the Washington governing safe farming in the South which have been current both in senate passed the joint resolution pro in 1913. Washington and South Carolina for viding for election on a constitutional 1. Speculative farming on any some time that one of the leading convention, one-crop system unbalances farming men of '.hat State would socn be ap as a safe business. The cotton farm- pointed by the president to a posi er who puts cotton prices on the to- tion of the federal trade commission j beggan by over-production is gamhl- or something equally as good, were ihg to lose. partially confirmed here today when Pre-War Quality of Oils to Be 2. The f*outh must produce food the matter was brought to the at Bette? Gasoline Soon ?irif] feed for home consumption. The tention of Washington newspaper men high pric-'-- prevaibng, the difficulties as being practica *ly a certainty, of transportation, the probable low- The name of the person who is said er "exchange value" of the cotton to be in line for this position, which Again Required. Columbia. Dec. 30.?Now here's a ttle item of news that will be of in vest to a lot of folks. B. Harris, which would have to pay for bousrht would pay him a salary of $10.000 a commissioner of agriculture, com foods and feeds, all say. "Make the-year, is for obvious reasons not made firm self-supporting." i public. He is. however, already in 3. Emnhasis should be placed tin- ! pnblic life arid holds a high p-ace on th-- non-perishable staple crops. J both in the esteem of the people Of Perishable crops should be increased j Fouth Carolina and administration of on'y in r.r.-:portion to improvement in ?Relais generally. From what was transportation en-1 marketincr. ? j learned of tin's matter today, the ap Corn should be made the ha- j pointment, if made, wi'd be announc ris of Scutbem food production. s:nce the. wheat-beit fa^m^rs who have | ?and left for food crops wilt plant j spring whe*3t rhstead of corn *s they ! might othi'r%v*"se do; hecaure of ;h.o; government's guararteed wheat price. . . 5, The South's meat, mi'k.'and egcr | supply must be -further increased. : jj't^c* *he world is short on fttts and : "vi'l J;-' for s-^vne years. ?b Excess products! sside from tht* main staples, should be marketed for: cash throughout the ye"?.r. Provision | c'udinfir Camp Sevier, S: t?fft wi'l insure ample foods and i ed today by Sepre^urv Ba reeds for heme consumption will balsistarl Secretary Crowell sure to resuU in having soreetbir- ' 1: mse military c|">n-lrrv?t'Ne ed some Lime during the early spring, possibly in March or April. ARAXX>OX ARMY CAMPS. Secretary svakcr Kecommrnds Aban donment of Fourteen Camps. Washington. Jan. - ? Zn.?The abah -"'onTneri; of fourteen of the sixteen >'aticnal Guard camps and the pur "dinse by the government of "lie sites f ai: national army caiitcnmencs in erce and industries, has issued an order to the oil companies giving them a reasonable length of time in which to regulate their shipments into this State so that they will get back to pre war standards. During the war the people have had to suffer the run of the !.:ino eoa' and run of the spring gasoline. But now .Mr. Harris proposes ia have the standards raised to where they were before the war. He will allow the shippers ample time to get :;r." :nd after that their stuff must i e in g< od order or it can not b? ?cid in South Carolina. This State hns had better laws and better in *r>rcement than neighboring States . .r this same high standard is to be ? ? ^.<--\ r-c"! again. All N'ew. Cew middy sn?ts, now " spring top coats at Dry Coeds Co.?Advt. . was ure> :r and. As be(Y -o the coat suits, the Sumter ? m M ?? A" 1 i?re -V."' i i v?3 h TRADE MARK REGISTERED. My life's work has been devoted to the improvement of Southern Crops and Soils. F. S. ROYSTER F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. N" -folk Va Baltimore- Md. Toledo- 0. Tarboro. N. C. Charlotte, K C Columbia, S C. SpartuU-?urg, b. v Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Atia?.iir!, Ga. Ma con, Ga.