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' Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSS9EEN PPBI3SHIXG 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 imade at reduced rates AU communications which sub serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respecs Will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found *J in 1850 and the True Southron m a8C6i The Watchman aud Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of. both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertisb.. medium in Sumter. After all this to-do about the Mon roe Doctrine, somebody brings up the, curious and entertaining fact that it! iras established by President Monroe! p?rely on his personal initiative, with out the sanction of congress, and has been sustained and developed by oth erv presidents without the senate ever having any official connection with it. * * * '^The superstitious belief that only on the misfortunes of one nation can the happiness of another nation be built ought to have ^vanished with th< Good/' says Maximilian Harden. Very true! And the German's don't believe it yet. * * * The lodgerooms of the "American ?liegion" of war Veterans are going to be-called "dugouts," and everybody is rushing to get in on the underground floor. ;CX>XSTKUCTIVE STATE FORESTRY.! _ ! A good deal has been said and writ- j ten lately about the need for re- j newing our public and private for-1 : est lands. There is little chance of j i ' urging this matter too much. A few; -. y6ars back the nation was much sti"- j red up over the rapid depletion of its; forests, but that extreme interest has j lapsed recently. It is time now for a serious, steady campaign of educa tion followed by constructive action. In a recent address before the Newj England Forestry Conference ft was! stated that the original supplies of, ipine in the South will he exhausted J in 10 years, and that in six years 3,-! 000 mills will- go out of existence. The ?1 - states along the Great Lakes used to ? be large, timber producers. Now they < are paying $6,000,000 a year in freight, i charges to haul lumber and other I needed"; wood products-in from other j sections. Prices have risen so high that-lumber, is hauled from the West coast-to New England at a profit to { the Pacific dealers. Every year New : England cuts twice its annual ( .growth, and even at that destructive!1 rate it- is compelled to import from! other regions more than 30 per cent of j the lumber it uses, as well as consid- j3 erable amounts of wood pulp. !; Since less than two per cent of the! mills of the country are working on public forests, it is evident that the problem is one of a constructive pol icy in-regard to privately controlled! forest lands. Every State ought to | be looking after the timber land with- j in its own borders. It is not a small' matter of planting a few new trees here and there. It calls for a serious readjustment of such questions as tax ation, fire protection, technical meth ods, labor, etc. It is something in which every citizen ought to feel him-j self deeply interested whether he j owns tree-bearing land or not. GERMANY ANI> THE FOURTEEN POINTS. ? The Germans still keep up their bluif. German spokesmen still harp on the ''Fourteen Points." threaten-1 ing to refuse the peace treaty submit- j ted by the Allies if it varies in any particular from that fundamental body of principles?giving their own interpretation to the principles, of course. Aanybody would think the fourteen points had been written ex pressly for Germany's benefit, and that the Paris Peace Conference was sub ject to orders from Berlin. : " From 'all accounts the treaty asj prepared does harmonize with the I Fourteen Points which were put for ward by President Wilson, accepted as the war aims'of the allied nations and agreed to by both sides last No vembei as the basis of the armistice and the subsequent peace arrange ment. The Allies pledged themselves to those principles, and the Allies' pledges are not "scraps of paper." The peace arranged seems an hon est and just peace, doing no wrong to Germany and her confederates and j offering justice and hope to many a j nation hitherto held in bondage. I Where It deviates at all from strict justice, it is tempered with undeserv ed mercy for Germany. However harsh the terms may appear to sen sitive Teutonic souls, the brutal pow er that launched this war and made it the most horrible of all wars had no right to expect so easy a settle ment. Germany .-r-ai.^ the typical mis take of assuming that she is the judge of the application of those basic principles of settlement. If she were, she would so pervert their meaning and application that she< might find in peace the victory she lost in war. There is going to be no j such juggling- as that. The Allies arei not only the proponents of the prin I ciples, but the interpreters and en forcers of them. . I When the Germans conie to Ver Isailles, then, there will be no argu ;ment about the matter. The terms ! of the treaty will not be debated. They will simply be explained. Then Germany, after a great show of right eous indignation and a great outburst of futile threats, will accept them. She will ho more dare to reject them, with the consequences that re jection would bring than she dared to fight out the war to the bitter end when she saw, last fall, that she was destined to final defeat. The Germans are great bluffers, but they are shrewd enough to jyield when their bluff is called, as it will be in this case. There will be a diplomatic col lapse like last November's military collapse. WORLD LABOR PLATFORM. Zdr. Gompers, as head of the Com mittee on International Labor Legis lation at Paris, recommends these five points for inclusion in the peace treaty: 1. The (declaration, as contained in the Clayton Act, that the labor oi a human being should not be consid ered as a commodity or an article of commerce. 2. An international maximum eight-hour working cL.y. 3. A standard and adequate living wage for all labor performed. 4. Equal pay for equal work per formed by man or vman in equal quantity and of equal uality. 5. Prohibition of child labor. It is an American program, in in spiration and substance. Americans will admit sorrowfully that our own country is not yet perfect in these i particulars; nevertheless we seem to be farther along in the establishment of fair and humane labor conditions than any other country in the world. It wiil be an honor to America if the peace treaty does incorporate this platform. The essential thing, then, will be for the League of Na tions to take up the matter as one of its prime interests, and work toward establishing such standards through- j out the world. A JOB FOR CONGRESS. The proof " of the pudding is in '.he Kating, and 33,000 soldiers have al ready signified their eagerness to eat alive the farms provided fcr them in Secretary Lane's plan. The bill proposing the appropria tion for these farms, as is well re membered, was one of those shelved in the hurried days of the last con gressional session. It was felt by many people at the time that this was one of the measures most neces sary to pass; but take it all in all, it was not a bad thing. Secretary Lane has had time to re-write his proposal, elaborating and completing it. and the new bill will be better than the old. There will be, too, a better understanding of the plan by people in general, and the incontro vertible testimony of thousands of soiuiers in its favor cannot be disre garded. Should the bill become a law in stead of merely a prospect, the num 2 hers desiring to avail themselves ot it would increase greatly. When the new congress convenes, here is a bit of constructive legisla tion all ready to begin on. A GOOD TIME FOR SAYING. What is this indefinite twilight time between th'* dark days of war; :?!!?; the full dawn of peace good for. i ai yhow? It is good for saving a little mon ey. everybody is anxious for the final consummation of peace. But even aUer the last papers are signed and j the last kidnapped boundary is re-j stored to its indignant parents, there, will be months. probably, before much visible progress toward better j tim.es can be observed. While waiting, save money! I War time economies were weari sjome. but they can be continued a little longer with dignity and probt. The simpler forms of entertaining which delighted the world with their flavor of old. neighborly, friendly days, can better be preserved than lost Though incomes may be small er than during the war, they can still be carefully apportioned with I j due allowance for savings. And just as the person who uses real twilight for rest and quiet, or spends the last hour before dawn in healthy sleep, piles up energy and strength for his daily labors, so will the one who observes this world twilight for the quieter mode of life which means a minimum of unncces k'jii .- er-iocns? be repaid bv ?ndiii'- th.it ho has accumulated financial strength That strength will enable him to takt advantage of the splendid opening, bound to appear when prosperity doe; finally signal "Full speed ahead!" TRAVELING WITH THE LOAN. On April 21. with the opening of the Victory Loan, three warships left Sat Francisco for New York. It is a journey of more than C?,000 miles. Th. ships can make it easily in the -2 days of the loan, if they are no handicapped at the start or slowe :iown in the middle of their journey Their speed is to be determined b: Victory Loan subscriptions. If th loan should lag, those three ship: would receive orders by wireless re ducing their speed. If the loan move, along with the anticipated enthus iasm the vessels will have to travel a their best speed. And there is th. exciting chance that the loan ?may^ even beat them by reaching its tota before they make New York, "th harbor of Victory." 1 Watching the daily progress o those ships, as reported in' newspa per maps and bulletins, is going fc be fun. especially when they gah ?speed the day our town returns it full subscription! EASY PREY TO DRUGS The government, as a result of re cent investigations concerning th use Of narcotic drugs, reports tha native-born Americans possess les -;elf-contrcl in the use of these pois ons than do the foreigners in thi country, and that except among tho. races with whom the use of oplu? and hashish is a national habit, th use of drugs is more widespread her than anywhere else in the world. This warning should strike home t American hearts, whose very lightne. ?makes them the more easily subjec to this destroying habit. In the course of its report the gov ernment makes plain the great dan ger in narcotic medicines for the a4 leviation of pain, and re-iterates th< oft-repeated warning to physician: and patients as to their use. With our national weakness brough home to us in these unfiatterin , terms, it becomes more than ever ou duty to obtain a wider understand ing of the -danger and harm that li in the use of the drugs, and to exen our influence singly and collective^ to aid in checking it. NO BABIE IN SERBIA. Twelve hundred children caun with their mothers to a dinner give? by the Red Cross in the city of Be! . grade, Serbia. Among the whol number were only 20 under thre years of age. Did the mothers leav the tiny babies at home? No. Then were no tiny babies to leave or bring They are all dead?poor, tiny ere atures who could not stand the rigor of war and whose mothers were to starved to feed them. The last four years have meant i Serbia a baby deficit of ?OO.OOO. Ther will be no school graduating cla* when it comes time for those sup posedly bOrn in 1016. 1917. 19IS an. 191y to graduate. There will be foi decades a strange age-gap in the pop ulation of this heroic people. One of the most far-reaching and cruel effects of the war, the infant history of Serbia has its counterpar to some degree in every country which the war affected. Serbia alone presents G00.000 rea sons for pea^e. Parade of Soldiers And Sailors Discharged Sumter County Men Organize For Welcome Cele bration A meeting of the ex-soldiers and sailors of the United States army and navy at the Chamber of Commerce Saturday morning, was called to or der by Chairman Eli Parker and the following resolution was adopted: That Capt. Robert T. Brown, Lieut. Edward B. Wright and Lieut. Ed. Bradford be designated as officers in command of the Army Detachment and Lieut. Hal Deal in command of the Naval Detachment to participate in the parade and other entertain ment to be given by the people ot Sumter county, to their returning sol diers and sailors. It is requested by the officers in charge that all soldiers and sailors assemble in uniform at 9.30 o'clock, April 2Sth on the corner of Wash ington and Dingle Sts. It is very urgently requested that all army and navy men respond to this call as this is to be Sumter coun ty's welcome to her men. Information may be obtained from any of the following committee: Eli Parker, Dalzell. E. 1. Rcardon. Jr.. Sumter. Dan Allen. Sumter. LeRoy Jervey. Sumter. Alfred Thames. Sumter. M. R. McElveen. Mayesville. R. R. Broadway. Paxville. Kirk Heriotte, Woodrow Don't fall down on the job lK-cause victory is accomplished. There's a ' ill to pay! Buy a Victory Liberty Bond if you have to borrow the HARBY & CO., Inc. COTTON AND FEflTiLIZER MERCHANTS 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 Red Cross Attacked 'able Says German Soldiers Fird on Kovno Mission New York. April 21.?German ? -oops have attacked the American ied Cross mission at Kovno, Lith f nia, according- to a cablegram rc | eived here today by the Lithuanian rational Council, from its Paris rep ! esentative. The message gave neither ' he time nor result of the attack. A dthuanian soldier was executed in j tefending the Americans, it was said. I The cablegram read: "The American Red Cross mission I t Kovno, Lithuania, has been at ^ acked by German soldiers. While de ending the Americans one Lithuan 1 'm soldier was killed. This aroused I he greatest indignation in Kovno and I he fate of the hero developed into I great demonstration against the . Germans. I No advices of an attack on the mis ion have been received by Red Cross , tuthorities here, it was said tonight. Officials said the Kovno unit was a ?ranch of the American Red Cross nission to Poland. It's personnel is unknown here, it was said, as th?? work in Poland and Lithuania was organized in Paris. Consider the Salaried Class. American wage earners, as a class, are going to come out of the war no richer than when they went into i1:. except for the money they saved by uvesting in Lil>erty bonds, and War savings Stamps. Pents have increas ed against them while the value of your farms has grown for you. High prices for farm products have made a keener demand for farm lane. Has your local preacher made mon ed by the. war? Has the young woman or the man who has taught your chi1 dren made money from the war? Has the postman who delivers your mail made money out of the war? '?lave the clerks or other salaried peo ple you know been benefited by the .war as much as you have? They are expected to do their share in the Vic tory Lil:?rty Loan. I\>esn't it look as if the farmers of \merica owe a great deal of t'teir 1919 surplus to the government ;ha has said to them: '"We'll stand by you "hrough war and peace. We'll se'"> that you pass through the readjust ment period in safety." Cannot the \meriean farmer say in return: "You're square. Tr.cle Sam. and. to how von that we appreciate it and are thankful for peace, we'll take the oad in lending our surplus and our credit. We honor our occupation and we will uphold it now when you need cash to settle for the Victory you gav2 us." The farmer should not lose sight of | the fact that it was money raised in the early Liberty Loan that made possible the building of ships, ih: making of equipment and the feeding and training of the armies that brought about peace even before w< expected it. For it wasn't the fight ing alone that ended the war. You know that Germany was not-physical ly whipped, but only morally defeat ed and forced, through realization of what was coming to save herself by asking for peace. And that is the greatest reason why America must mow Germany that it is a united na tion and that it meant business in the war. The way to show this is to show a united nation in paying the bills. Money from the early loans, in which the farmer did not share heavily, found its way to the farmer for cotton and food stuffs, grain and i live stock at high prices. Isn't that! the more evident reason why the; farmer should jump at the last op portunity to return the favor to his! government. Peace must be paid for. Ger-! many must know America was in | earnest. The government must have! cash to pay the bills, to re-educate] the wounded, rehabilitate the soldier j and put America once more on its feet in a prosperous peace. Americai needs your moral and financial sup port. Uncle Sam has assumed a debt with your consent. This debt will be paid. Lending is the easiest way to pay it. Increased taxation is another way. Don't force Uncle Sam to raise the taxes. Make this a Thanksgiving Loan. Ekaterinburg. Russia, Feb. 20?Two successful American . Young Men o Christian Association clubs, accomo dating S.000 Russians and Czecho slovak troops, are in operation at Ekaterinburg, and are proving ex ceedingly popular. They are in charge of Harold Alpin, formerly of Posten ami A. S. Alexander of Chicago. The! <dubs are provided with library ana reading rooms, moving picture shows and canteens, and are making the j United States and the American peo ple very popular among the soldiers and civilians. Victory is worth to civilization many times the cost. Buy Victory! Liberty Bonds and help the govcrn - . - ? . 'I-. ? ill? General Alvarez Executed Mexican Revolutionist Killed at Vera Cruz Vera Cruz, April 22 (Ey the Asso ciated Press).?Gen, Francisco Al varez of the anti-government forces was executed shortly-before midnight last night. He met his death at the hands of a firing squad with the ut most bravery. General Alvarez was sentenced to death by a courtmartial here Monday. Alvarez was captured here last Thurs day in the battle in which Aureliane Blanquet, minister of war in the Huerta cabinet, was killed. Siberian Army Defeats Bolshevists Advance on Wide Front Endan gers Bolshevik Position London, April 22 (British Wireless) The Siberian army of Admiral Kol chak's government, in making an ad vance of 190 miles in five weeks on the Ural front, has achieved a success which endangers the entire Bolshevik position in eastern Prussia. According to advices from Omsk the Siberians are now within 100 miles of the Vol ga, the most important river of Rus sia, and the successes on the River Kama in the center of the 400 mile front, make untenable the Bolshevik positions east of Volga. The Bolshe vik troops opposed to the allies in north Russia and those facing General Denekine in south Russia are affect I ed seriously by th*? advance. The Bolsheviki had clung obstinate ly to Sarapul southwest of Perm, and its capture together 'with much war material a number of Bolshevik lead ers is looked upon at Omsk as a suc cess. Both banks of the Kama river which joins the Volga near Kazan have been cleared of Bolsheviki for a distance of more than 200 miles. No Hun Spies Allowed German Ex-Army Officers For bidden to Act as Military Instructors Paris. April 21 ^By the Associated Press.)?The council of foreign minis ters today approved the proposed pro vision of the peace treaty intended to forestall any effort the Germans might make to reestablish a military machine. by utilizing outside forces. The article prohibits the sending of German military instructors to for eign conutries. It was referred to the drafting committee. It was realized that,' however com plete might be the restrictions upon Germany by the limitation of her forces and armament, she still had in her power considerable forces that might be indirectly employed, as al ready indicated by the despatch of German officers to Russia. It was pointed out that unless this practice was checked it would be possible fori Germany to create a practicable force j in Russia. This menace has become particular ly significant in view of reports of an alliance between Germany and Rus-! sia. The ministers also approved two recommendations of the supreme eco nomic council. The first recommended that the Germans be required to send as soon as possible to France techni cal experts on food, shipping, raw materials, trade and communications with full powers to negotiate and ex pedite economic relations between Germany and the allied and associated powers. The second recommendation that an interallied commission be appoint-j ed to coordinate the administration of economic industrial and food ques tions in the occupied regions in order to bring these civilian functions un der a single head and at the same time afford a channel of communica-j lion for the military authorities. j Ship Building Activities No Decrase in this Industry. To ! Be Kept Up Indefinitely Beaumont. Texas. April 21.?Texas; shipbuilders believe there will be a market for all the vessels they can ? turn ou; and will continue operations, regardless of the Emergency Fleet. Corporation order cancelling contracts for boats on which work had not! started. At the shipyards here andj in Orange no men have been dis-; charged since January t and the; ways show as great activity as in war; time. officials of many yards say: that with the revival of the Ameri- j can merchant marine they expect to keep up capacity operation indefinite ly. The demand for houses for ship-! yard workers has shown virtually no decrease since the war uidtd. Sir Oliver Lodge Resigns Will Devote His Time to Psychi , cal Research London, March 18.?Sir Oliver Lodge, the British scientist who ten years ago startled the world with his assertion that communication could be established with the dead, has an nounced his resignation as principal of : Birmingham University. "I intend," he says, "to devote the remainder of my life to the problem of the ether of space- in both its phy sical and psychical relations. In' the region of conjoint physics and psy chology there is much work to be done." In a book recently published by Sir Oliver he wrote of the existence of his dead son in the spirit world and of long conversations between them. Huns Look to America Any Hope for Mercy is Based Upon American Leniency Berlin, March 18 (Correspondence I cf the Associated Press)?Belated announcement of America's actio** 'ast December in abolishing restricuohs j upon movements of enemy aliens in the United States is published promi nently in the morning papers. The I delay is understood to be due to the ifact that the German government has I only just been informed of the action. While the news, according to semi I official announcement, now is publish ed to reassure relatives and friends j of Germans in America, it undouhtr j edly is intended to contribute' to the j very general feeling among the -Ger i man people that the United States' is treating the conquered enemy as-fair* ly and considerately as possible.' It also is likely to increase the realiza tion even among classes of wh^eh Count Reventlow is an exponent that Germany must rely upon the services of America as an advocate to obtain what she considers just and vreasotf-f j able terms of peace and . eventual j restoration to a place in the l?mily I of nations. ^!*;*!MB j Germans of all classes constantly i comment upon the courteous and j considerate behavior of officers and [ soldiers of the American Afmy of Oc j cupation. Writing personal letters and communications from the Amer ican zone of occupation, they never fail to emphasize this. Though dis appointed at the delay in sending food and the amount of it eventually granted the American soldier or civ ilian in Germany everywhere -is re ceived as an honored guest The , hatred and abuse which was vented upon Americans before America's entry into the war has been replaced by an almost officious, super-fri^iad liness. The correspondent of the Tage blatt who has just visited Coblenz and the American zone comments on the "rigorous discipline" imposed up on American officers and soldiers to obviate the possibility of annoyance to women and to the civil population and upon absence of chauvinism, the atrical displays of triumph or un necessary interference with the Ger man civil authorities. The correspondent's chief criticism of the Americans is based 'Upon the strictness with which orders are en forced against the exchange of gifts, food or cigarettes between Ameri cans and Germans. He says that 23 if the 66 sentences imposed upon Germans by the American court in Coblenz in January were for "unau thorized possession of American prop erty" arising from the enforcement of this order. He tells of the case of one American officer who was cash iered "merely for putting his arm around a waitress in a cafe." Riot in Hamburg Berlin. April 23.?There has bee* serious disturbances at Hamburg during the week end. A mob plund ered the harbor quarters and clash ed with the police. Several persons were killed and a number wounded. FOB SALE?About 1,500 bushels of corn in the car. S. M. Pierson. Phone 288._ FOB SAL*:?One Holstein and one Jersey cow. Calves ten day.3 old, each giving four gallons. Both kind and gentle. E. M. McElveen, Alco _lu._S._C._ BEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small Am paying best cash price. See me if you havs any. N. G. Osteen. REMOVAL NOTICE. I have moved my office from No". ? v Main St.. and am now located at No. 1 West Liberty Street, over Spann's Grocery Store. *r"H^fJ| W. B. UPSHUR. General Agent, Jefferson Standard Life insurance Co.