The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 22, 1919, Image 4
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PROPAGANDA IN "THE SCHOOLS.
Public schools and higher institu
tions of learning gladly gave time
and effort to spreading essential
American propaganda during the,
war. All lines of patriotic endeavor j
'from Liberty Bond campaigns and!
the raising of war relief funds to the |
dissemination of conservation educa
n and the arousing of patriotic en
thusiasm were given a place in the
school program.
It was all necessary and good for
the time being. Much effective -work
?as accomplished, and many families
ere reached that otherwise might
_bt have been brought into the main
' stream of co-operation for victory.
But educators believe that much or"
this work took- time from needed in
struction and let down 'the bars to
appeals from too many kinds of
proi?sandists. They urge the public;
to realize now that the time for such
work is ended and the time for put
ting the schools back on a purely
educational basis, barring everything
of propaganda nature, is at hand.
This need not mean that education
will crawl into a shell and proceed
s without any practical relation to life, j
That would be -to lose much of the
good that has come to us out of the
war. The schools cannot stop teach
ing the high American ideals of free
dom and justice. The old lessons
must be adapted to teach the ever- j *
important lessons of civic responsi'oil-,,
t
ity^and progress, of honesty and ef
ficiency and good will.
What it does mean is that all the
work shall be educational, that inter
ests which can be handled by outside
agencies shall not intrude on the
school curriculum. Teachers must
not longer be asked to take time from
constructive educational work to read ?
a
long printed or mimeographed ,ap- ,
peals for organizations working out
Ide the schools, no matter ho v
?worthy those organizations are.
The step is a wise one. Worthy! t
propaganda will not be denied a |,
hearing in any community, and its re j ^
ception will be the more favorable in L
one 'Where the educational process is j,
not interrupted constantly by outside i
appeals. j.
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: IRELAND MUST WAIT A BIT.
Former President Taft well stat
ed- the - American attitude toward
Ireland when he said, in a New York
speech,, .in answer to a question j
whether the Peace Conference should
not grant Ireland self-determination |
alons with Po'and:
"No! Ireland is not in the sphere
of war.
'.'We have sympathy a-plenty for
Ireland's past sufferings, but the
(jvestion of what government she
shall have is a question for^ future
settlement. I don't think it is helpful
to the president or to the Peace Con
ference to try to introduce at Paris
matters of internal and domestic
concern.
"We must do one thing at a time.
The job now is to bring peace to the
nations which were at war with Ger
many and Austria in the sphere In
which the war took place."
When the basic war settlements
havr been made and the foundations
for r lasting peace have been laid.
Americans will gladly lend their
support to Irish aspirations for se!f
govc-mment, and do it with genuine
hope of success.
JUSTICE FOR GERMANY.
"The Peace Conference seems to
be making rapid progress lately in
determining the Allies' policy toward
Germany, and that policy as announc
ed is one in which the United States
will take profound satisfaction. There
has been, all along, a fear that Ger
many would be let off too easily. There
<s certainly no mildness in such
ferms as these:
The German army to be perma
nently reduced to 100.000 men, raiset
by volunteer enlistment and servim
for a long period of years.*in ordei
to prevent the training of many mei
in short-term periods of service.
All German war ships and wa
planes to be surrendered or destroy
ed. and no more to be built.
No poison gas to be accumulate)
in any dangeroras amount.
All heavy artillery to be surrender
ed or destroyed, and no more built.
i
German munition plants to be su
pervised by the Allies.
German forts along: the Rhine and
in other stategic positions to be de
stroyed. ,
Germany to lose the iron ore de
posits of Lorraine and the coal of the
Saar vaJIey.
Germ?ji territory* to be bounded by
the Rhine on the west and the Vis
tula on the east, reducing- Germany
from 212,000 square miles and 70,
| 000,000 people to *72,000 square
! miles and 67.000,000 people, even if
; she absorbs German Austria.
All this in addition to the indemn
ity,-which will probably approximate
j $40,000,000,000, the precise amount
j being determined by the formula,
"all that Germany can possibly pay."
If this program is carried out. it
will assuredly leave the world safe
from German aggression for many
decades. And if in the meantime a
strong, smoothly working League of
Nations has been built up, the safety
may last forever?or as near it as
finite man dares to estimates.
It will indeed be a monumental;
punishment. But however drastic, it
will not be so much as Germany de
serves, because it will not come any- |
where* near making amends to the
nations she has wronged.
THE NEW PRICE LEVEL.
Many people who keep hoping that I
prices will drop to somewhere near
their pre-war level base this hope on
the fact that our currency system at
present is highly inflated. This infla- j i
tion is bound to stop soon, they argue.
Then, with less money and credit
available, the price of nearly every
thing will go down accordingly.
Now, our currency is certainly in- j i
Bated, admits Prof. Irving Fisher of|s
Yale. But he does not agree that
there is going to be any let-up. The
government tried to force a deflation
sifter the Civil War, he recalls, by re- j e
?ucing the quantity of greenbacks in j '
I c
circulation; depression ensued imme-j j,
Jiately, and congress had to forbid j i
iny further reduction.
"Against any considerable reduc
:ion in bank credit," he says, "we
mall find the whole business com
nunit_ in arms." And without such
l reduction there can be no general
all in prices.
There is a world-wide cause.- too.
operating to maintain and even to
ontinue swelling the general volume
>f credit. Deposit banking, he points
>ut, has increased greatly during the
rar. in response to government de
nands in ail the warring countries,
tnd it will increase vastly hereafter,
tfoney goes out 'of circulation and
>ut of unprofitable hiding places into
>ank vaults, and there becomes a ba- i U
lis for new circulating credits. Even
!he Chinese and the people of India
ire learning. This new habit will]
ead to a great currency expansion.' y
"It is as if a new source of gold
jupply had been discovered."
Nobody then need talk hopefully of
the prices of 1913 and 1914. It is fu
tile to try to bring them back. Buy
ers have been trying it. with insignifi
cant results.
There is a new high price level,
maintains this expert, and it will
prove to be a stubborn reality. The
ciever business man, he says, is hot j \
the one who waits to buy raw mater- j n
ials or manufactured articles he. j t
needs, but the one who accepts the j i
new price facts and acts accordingly. {
Ulis testimony gives strong support 1
to the "buy now" movement already :f
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under way.
SANE CANNING.
Last year women were urged to j.
can their surplus vegetables and j
fruits from the war gardens. A good j<
many extra cans of vegetables and j J
jars of tfruit and jams were saved *up
for the coming winter in that "way.
The chief purpose of the war gardens,
however, was not to supply material
for canning, but to increase the sup
ply of perishable foodstuffs for im
mediate home consumption, releasing
groat quantities of canned and staple
goods for the war needsv of our
army and our allies.
The story is told of one woman who
made a canning record but failed ut
terly to get the point of the whole
movement. Her husband cultivated t
an unusually fine back yard vegetable j
garden. All through the summer;
there were crops of fresh vegetables.;
1 i
from the tender, early peas to the la
ter maturing tomatoes and a few
?hills of lima beans that were picked i
just before the first frost. It was a j
tempting procession of good things,
but not one mouthful of it did the!
family get to eat that summer. Every
thing was canned or dried or pre
j served in some way. adn set aside'
'for future use. While the rows of at
! tractive jars of beans and peas and
'corn and carrots grew to prize pro
i portions, the ardent canner served
I her family with food from the corner
j grocery, dried fruits from cartons,
'vegetables out of cans, and occasion
lally the so-called fresh vegetables of
jfered by the grocer at rather high
j prices.
? "When winter came, of course, that
i
I family was smply supplied with yet
'more canned goods, this time from
I mother's shelves instead of the gro
cer's. Of course, too. everything was
I good, although not so good as it
j
would have been freshly gathered
j from the garden, promptly cooked
?and served in the summer months
I when the family craved just sueh
: food.
j This woman s thrift was misguid
ed. Much better eat some of those
fresh vegetables and put up for the
winter only a sane proportion!
Cotton Banks
Necessary
Business Men Giving Thought
to System of Finance for
Cotton Crop.
Columbia, March 19.?Governor W. j
P. G. Harding of the Federal Re
serve Beard'. Hon. Robert F.* Mad
dox. of Atlanta, president of the
American Bankers* Association and i
other speakers of national reputa- j
tion will probably deliver addresses at j
the big State-wide cotton rally to be i
held in Craven Hall, this city, on j
April 3 beginning at noon. It had/
been planned to hold this meeting inj
the hall of the house of representa- j
fatives but the indications point to!
such a large attendance that it has!
been decided to hold it in a larger
hall.
Governor Harding is expected to
<peak on the exporting and marketing
?>{ cotton. Mr. Maddox's address wiil '
l3e on banking, financing and stabil-j
izing the price of cotton.
? It was stated at the office of the
South Carolina Cotton Association in
his city today that definite steps are
tow being taken in every section of
,he cotton belt looking to the forma
tion of plans that will result in a
ranking system for properly financ
ng and stabilizing the price of cotton.
i corporation for the exporting and
Marketing of cotton along the lines
;uggested by Governor Harding.
Definite plans are also being form
al, it was said, for the organization
if a Southern Cotton Association, the
nembership to be composed of farm
ers, bankers, merchants and -business
nen. "The idea is to have this asso
ciation represent practically all of the
?usiness interests of the south, abso
utely controlled by the cotton inter- .
sts. This would, in no wise, conflict
Tith the bankers' associations, the
'armors' Union and other organiza- '
ions, but will have their eo-opera
ion. Special charters will be secur
d for the association.
\ The following statement was given .
ut today by the South Carolina Cot- '
vn Association:
"As an illustration of the prop:-.- j
anda now being sent out by the cot- .
>h bears, the following is cited:
"The movement for reduction in '
creage in this section of the country
lay have some effect but there is no
ich movement on hand in the West
rher'e they have had good seasons
nd expect to phant a full crop." >
his propaganda in the Southern t
tates reads that there will be n-T re- c
uction in the West and in the Yvres- r
irn States it reads that there will be -t
o reduction in the South. (
"Another big cotton firm sends out .
10 following: "We are glad to yote j.
hat you have been successful in ?
our campaign to bring about a gen
ral reduction in . acreage, Jptot as
?Tinea before, we are sorry to see it i
ecause we do not think it will be
ecessary, and if we are right in our
iews of the market, we believe that
he prices prevailing around planting
ime. will induce farmers to put a !
nuch larger acreage in cotton than !
riginaily contemplated." :
"As. an illustration of information
;ent by the New York firms the
ollowing was sent a leading business
ruin arscT plaritor in South Carolina: j
"An opinion has been given by the
ittorncy for the Bureau of Markets of
he United States government that all i
ransactions in 'old style' contracts)
those trades made prior to March
i) must he liquidated before May 1,
!910. All trades on hand after that
late must be in 'new style' contracts.
IVo are ordered to report to the cot
:on future attorney all 'old style'
??ontrncts liquidated by our customers.
PFe must therefore request that you
dose out your 'old style' contracts in -
iccordance with the above ruling.'
?"This is absolutely and positively
sontrary to the vuliiijrs of Mr. Brand
jf the department of markets. As a
result of such incorrect information
being sent out a vast amount of cot
ton was closed out. If such had not
been the case, the market would
have shown a remarkable high level
before it would have been possible
for the bears to have stopped the ad
vance.
It appears that some people in
the State are making a fight on the
cotton association. The following let
ter has been received from one man:
"I have asked several men to pledge
themselves to cut the acreage and
showed the letter, they say they won't
pay anything for some bjg man to live
without work and smoke his cigars
on."
The South Carolina Cotton Asso-1
ciation has 1.500 men who are giving!
untiringly and unselfishly of their j
work and services without remunera
tion. Their only compensation is
their earnest desire to gain commer
cial freedom for the South and bene
fit our State and its citizenship. The
?^ntrnl committee members have
been overtaxed and overworked. They
are paying their own expenses and!
gladly rendering every effort possible!
to push the work to a successful
termination. In addition they have'
j contributed of their own means to
assist in the financial support, which
is. of course, absolutely necessary.
Copenhagen. March IS.?The Es
thonian forces .ire ?unin masters of
the situation on the Pskov front, ac
cording to an official statement is
sued by th<- Esthonian army head
quarters.
Copenhagen. March 20.?Bolshe
viki troops under pressure of Polish
forces will be compelled to retire and
evacuate Pinsk. according to a War
saw dispatch.
OOTTON10 FERTILIZER SIEBGHfiNTS
If you have cotton to sell, see us, it will pay you.
If you have fertilizer or fertilizer materials to buy it will pay
you to see us before you buy, Cash or approved collateral.
9 West Liberty Street
County Health Survey.
Previously published from
white citizens. $1
J. H. Myers, Sumter township,
Carol Burkett, Sumter,
County Board of Education,
Previously published from
colored citizens.
High Hills' Methodist Ch.,
Stateburg; T. S. Rev. R.
B. Curry, pastor. Collected
by R. W. West berry:
G. Lewis.
W. J. .lames.
Paul Robinson.
W. M. Prioleau.
M. W. Richardson.
Charles Epperson.
Harold Sumter.
B. J. Thompson.
J. E. Epperson .
f. W. Moore .
5. M. Singleton.
A. M. Clio.
Robert Gardener .. .. "..
Lewis Murphy.
Ma lone.
Paul Prioleau.
?I-ethel A. M. E. Church.
Middleton. T. S., Rev.
Edward Wells, pastor. Col
lected by R. W. Westber
ry:
Rev. Edward Wells.
Alexander Robinson.
S. M. Green.
R. Gasden.
Thomas Weathers . . .'.
Alice Allen .
M. Harvin.
Gardenia Robinson.
I. S. Harvin.
r. M. Pringle.
>. J. Harvin.
\". Anderson.
J. B. Krierson.\ .
F?tal to date from all
sources .. .. ,.$1,812.."if. :
Salem. Oregon. March 19.?The
irst step toward the application ot
he referendum to the joint resolution
>f the recent legislature, ratifying the
national prohibition amendment, was
?aken today when a Portland attorn
ey filed a petition for the invocation
it the referendum for approval and
>ren;-tration of ballot title. '
Cotton Market
LOCAL.
P. C. BOWMAN. Cotton Buyer.
: (Corrected foaily at 12 o'clock Noon)
Good Middling, 2<5 1-2.
Strict Middling, 26.
; Middling 25 1-2.
Strict Low Middling 23.
VKW YORK COTTON MAI.UFT.
"Ycs'td'y.
Open High Low Close Close
(Old Style)
May . . .21.10 24.20 23.SO 23.90 23.79
July . . 22.SO 22.80 22.20 22.35 22.4S
(New Style)
May . .2 1.40 24.K? 24.27 24.44 24.42
July . . .22.!).". 23.06 22.50 22.87 22.73
Oet . . . 21.43 21.50 20.95 21.06 21.28
Great Cost of War De
scribed by Baker
One Hundred and Ninety-seven
Billion Dollars Reckoned on
Money Basis Alone
San Francisco. March 18.?"The
cost of the war in money alone was
?197.000.000.000. or ?11,000,000,000
more than the total property value
of all North America." Secretary of
War Baker told a gathering at the
Commercial Club here today. He
came with Gen. Peyton C. March,
chief of staff, to inspect army posts.
"The deaths from wounds in battle
numbered 7.300.000 and the total
deaths in all armies reached 9,000,
000," he said.
* Referring to the proposed league of
nations. Secretary Baker said:
''Unless such an organization was
formed under some name and under
i-o.ne constitution, anarchy bred by
disease, hunger and despair would
overwhelm the earth.
"No child born in a civilized world
in the next hundred years will es-J
cape paying a considerable portion of]
the debt this war ha? brought about." j
Secretary Baker and Gen. March!
'eft today for San Diego. I
NOTICE
Of Application for Final Discharge,
Estate of Edna Seymour, Minor.
I On April 14th. 1919, I will apply
; 10 the .judge of Probate for Sumter
I County for a Final Discharge as
[ Guardian of said estate.
LAWRENCE T. SETMO.UR,
Guardian.
I Sumter, S. C, March 14, 1919.
London, March 20.?The Luxem
j burg chamber of deputies has passed
fa bill calling for a plehescite to de
j cide whether the present dynasty
i shall be maintained, a new dynasty'
j created or a republic established, ac
cording to dispatches received here.
j
I Paris. March 20.?The inter-allied
lair commission has a sub-commission
[ working to elaborate the proposed
; international air code. It is hoped it
; will be completed within a week and
! the results presnted to the peace
j conference.
j Geneva. March 20.?French troops
I have occupied Manheim and Kaiis
j ruhe, on the east bank of the Rhine,
j on account of Spartacan outbreaks
there, the Berlin Vossische Zeitung
' says.
j FOR SALE?A small tract of land
j at the corner of the Moses Road
j and the road to the brick yard. Ap
j ply Davis D. Moise.
I FOR SALE?Milk cows, fresh and
! forward springers. E. M. McElveen,
Alcolu. S. C._.
FOR SALE?200 bushels fine Dixie
j Plight Proof Cotton Seed made
; from specially selected, carefully
l ginned seed. Will send samples,
j S. F. :vloore & Sons. Dalzell, S. C.'
j FOR SALE?F. O. B. cars, Camp
Jackson, stable manure; very little
I straw. Car load lots only. Chemi'
cal and Fertilizer value ra*ed very
high by Clemson college. A. A,
Strauss. Sumter. S. C.
At the roots of
crop success
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