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PohiLized Wednesday and Saturday OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 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. Obituaries and tributes of respect Will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found in 1850 and the True Southron m IS6 6. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, und is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter._ PARCEL POST GROWTH. In many cities it is being found -necessary to establish new parcel post divisions in connection with the post office. In some cases special building's are being fitted up for this purpose. The enlarged facilities are intended to accommodate an increase of parcel jipost mail which amounts in some cities to as much as 100 per cent in the last three years. This is a pleasing development. Government and public alike rejoice in every extension of the useful parcel post system, and do not grudge the money required to provide adequate quarters and clerical forces, since the business amply pays for itself. The only complaint anyone has to offer is that the patronage does not grow even more rapidly. In comparison with the advantages offered by this service, most citizens are surprisingly slow to avail them selves of it. This is particularly true with regard to the shipping of food stuffs from producers to consumers. FOOLS AND THEIR FOLLY. The May Day plans of the Bolshe viki in this country, as revealed by some of the men in their councils, were extrordinarily ambitious. A trusting Cleveland "Red" is credited with the statement that the parad-1 ers in his city had everything arrang ed as follows: They were going to meet on the big public square, converging from four different directions, and seize the ad jacent federal building, then take the banks and the city hall, providing! themselves with funds and proclaim ing their leader mayor. At the same time a similar progam was to be fol lowed in several o' er big cities. The West Virginia Bolshevists were to at- j tack the penitentiary whore Eugene I V. Debs is confined, liberating Debs, j taking him to Washington and install ing him as president. The Bolshevists were convinced, said this man, that more than 90 per cent of the people were with them in spir it, and that ail that was necessary was a bold move?the country would succumb to Bolshevism "without a blow." On May 2, as everybody knows, the government at Washington still stood, and every State and municipal govern ment in the country s*ood likewise. All that the bold "Reds" gained were heads broken and clothes torn by the indignant public, with some slight help from the police. All of which goes to show what ut ter fools these Bolshevists are, and how. precisely because they are such fools, they are merely a nuisance in stead of a menace. JAPANESE HONOR. The Japanese problem .at Paris seems to have been settle! on a ba sis of "honor." Japan, while profess ing her wiilingess to give the Shan tung peninsula back co China, as in ded she had promised at the time she took it from the Germans, was strong only opposed to ass'^mng any definite time for its return. She insisted that any attempt to set a definite date was a reflection on h'-r honor. And in support of that seeming!;/ disingen uous position the delegates argued that Japan had never yet broken her word in her relations with other pow ers. It was a bold claim, which any of the oth^r parties concerned, even honest old Uncle Sam, might have been embarrassed to repeat. And the other parties could not dispute it. and so agreed to leave the territory in Japan's hands on that basis. It seems a risky thing, as nations go, to leave the fulfillment of an ob ligation merely to a national sense of honor, without exacting a precise, de tailed program of fulfillment. Neith er nations nor individuals are accus tomed/to making their contracts that way. it will seem especially risky in this case to some Americans, who ha bitually express doubts as to .Japan's honesty and sincerity, it must be ad mitted, too, that certain recent e~" >nts, particularly statements made by the Chinese and the Koreans, have seem ed to raise a question of Japan's in tegrity. But the internalional statesmen at 3?aris, including the most experienced I and therefore the most suspicious j diplomats in the world, seem to have j been satisfied. And certainly no Amer ican can say that Japan has ever broken iier word in her relations with this country. The most serious dis I pute we have ever had with Japan is jar. excellent instance of that. Japan J is keeping her laborers out of this j country not because of any formal prohibition but purely in pursuance of a "gentleman's agreement." j And maybe, after all, that is not jsuch a crazy way to handle interna i tional affairs. Thousands of explicit agreements have been made "scraps of paper." A gentlemanly nation's word of honor may be better than an other nation's signed contract. THE MOST CARELESS SPENDER. The outlook for the adoption of ! rational business methods by Con Igress is somewhat better than usual. ! The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has strongly urged a budget system for appropriations, and j many, of the more progressive con gressmen express themselves as fa vorable to the plan. Certainly it is high time for such a reform. The need has always been great. At a time when Congress was spending about $1,000,000,000 a year, Senator Aidrich estimated that by businesslike methods in the legisla tive and administrative departments ?300,000,000 a year could be saved. Last year enough billions were voted j to make even a Wall Street banker' dizzy. There is no expectation of the annual expenditure falling be low $-1.000,000,000 for several years, j It can easily be imagined what a \ j i waste there must be in having these I j vast sums apportioned according to j J the grab-bag policy of administra- j tive departments and the pork-barrel i methods of more than 50 congression- ! al committees, without any serious j attempt, from start to finish, to har monize and adjust the various claims j i on the treasury and avoid duplica- i tion and waste. Uncle Sam is the biggest spender j in the world. Maybe he doesn't spend ; any too much money at that; but he certainly ought to get more for1 what he does spend. And he never j will until the House and Senate take \ their cue from private corporations) and put their spending on a business i basis. ! May Day was to be Bolshevist Day. j It turned out to be America Day. *j* -s * Now they are going to divide those j German warships among the Allies and let each country decide what toj do with its share. There certainly j has been, a lot of talk about those j ships. Stilly about all the German navy has proved itself good for is to provide a subject for conversation, i * * * How to get rid of all the liquor be- j fore July is certainly a problem, 'see ing that there isn't any pipe line to Europe, and we have only about ICf, 000,000 tons of shipping. * * * The bravest business patriot in! America lives in Baltimore. He has started erecting 2,400 dwelling houses LET NATIONS HELP THEMSELVES Herbert Hoover is urging the gov ernments of Rumania, Poland, Serbia! \nd Czceho-Slovakia to establish ma chinery to ta.L:e up the work of feed.-: ing themselves, as America:: help is; [only guaranteed until the next bar- j j vest. j The app xntn&ent ,cf cornriisnons j j from among their prominent business ' men and merchants is suggested. These commissions are to direct the I chartering of tonnage for their food imports and the purchase of food in i the different available markets of the . The United States government is: to provide advances for the starting j of these undertakings, and the food imported is to be sold to the populace, i Farmers and all men dealing in or raising food supplies a.re urged to re- ; sume their work as soon as possible, j j Goods practical for expert ars to I be sold by the commission abroad, ! land little by little it is hoped that; i normal business can be built up with-] j in six months time. Meanwhile it is j I M.r. Hoover's belief that the American' ^Relief Administration should continue ; j its aid as at present. ! The American public will doubtless: ' approve this policy. The best help I ! that can be given the needy European; j nations from now on is encourage-1 I meat to help themselves. RED FLAGS. There is no national law against' .carrying the red !Iag in this country.j j Few Slates or cities have regulations j acrainst it. And yet aimost every I time the red banner appears it: an American city t1 re is trouble for its! devotees. The public, lav.* or no law, will no*\ stand for it. Let it appear at thei vi --d of a procession, und almost in evitably it is snatched from the hands | .?I its bearer and the marchers are! ] subjected to rough treatment. Usua* I iy, to be sure, they themselves stirr. the disturbance, by their- insolence or violence. But even a quiet proces sion of ' Reds" is intolerable to most .American communities. This was shown with striking- force in the May day riots. \\'hy has this traditional symbol of Socialism, once endured without a murmur, become to most citizens as i irritating ac a red rag io a bull? It is because the significance of the flag has changed. The public used to accept, even though dubiously, the Socialist c iplanation that it meant human brotherhood that its color stood only for the warm blood flow Ine alike through all human hearts. It accepts that versicn no longer. The /lag i.? now taken to mean bloodshed, an 1 the overturning by crVvinal vio lence of cherished institutions. It is the Socialists themselves who have given their flag that signification, by their championship of Prussianism during the war and by their more re-, cent support and emulation of Bol shevism with all its brutality and crime. *" ? There is much agitation for legal enactments against the red Hag. The Socialists would take that, naturally, as proof of persecution, and adopt the role of martyrs. But whether their banner is banned by law or by vol untary civic opposition, ? they have only themselves to blame for turning a once admirable symbol into.a by word and a hissing. Our National Weakness Lies in Insecure Industrial Re lations Cleveland, May S.?America's na tional weakness as revealed by the stress of war "is dseovered to lie in our insecure and bad industrial re lations." said Earl Dean Howard, of Evanston. 111.. Professor of Econom ics and Finance in Northwestern Uni versity in an address today before the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. "Industrial autocracy, whether in the form of don;ination in corporations or by unions is our ene my at home even as German autoc racy was cur enemy over there." con tinued Professor Howard. '.'The idea of democracy as a meth od of adjusting human relationships, both, politically and industrially, has taken deep root in the woi?d, and this country may not hope to escape the logical consequences of the develop ment of their masses of people who depend upon industry for this entire ivelihood are losing confidence in the system of free enterprise which is still largely autocratic in its methods. "Unless the governmert and busi ness management unite to restore gen eral confidence in our industrial sys tem, it is inevitable that social forces which are already in existence will find our country as unprepared to meet the supreme test as we wore to face the war with Germany, and with much less hope of a satisfactory out come. --Ml of the constructive forces whether on the side of management or organized labor must join to satis factorily adapt our industrial rela tions to the needs of the post-war conditions so as to deprive the racial and destructive forces of their power: "If employers, by collective action or otherwise, are unwilling to assume responsibility for meeting the human needs of workers within industrial management itself, then assuredly re-1 sponsibility will be assumed by or ganized labor or by tin- government, er at the very worst, by the proletar iat in a Bolshevik form of govem-i rnenfc "'Democracy in industry' is evenj ?10v.* becoming the foremost topic in economic discussion. It may be translated 'righteousness in business relations.' " * \Wt. gjfg | Berlin; May i^.?Spartacans andI independent socialists are again active in central Germany. At Eisenach j Saturday they forced the major of dis- j trict and district director to march at j the head of a radical parade, carrying red flags. Afterward the officials were! beaten by the crowd. BURDENS LIFTED. From Sunitcr Backs?Relief Droved ! by Lapse of Time. Badckache is a heavy burden; Nervousness, dizziness, headache. Rheumatic pain; urinary ills; All wear one out. Often effects of kidney weakness. No use to cure the symptoms. Relief is but temporary if the cause remains. If it's the kidneys, cure the cause. Doan's Kidney Pi'.Is arc for kidnei ids; Bead about your neighbor's case. Here's Sumter testimony. The kind that can be investigated. Mrs. K. D. Briggs. 312 W. Liberty; St., Sumter, says: "1 had a slight touch of kidney trouble about two years ago. Headaches and dizzy spells bothered me a great deal. I j felt languid and* tired and wanted to j sleep ail the time. My kidneys acted irregularly and 1 felt bad all over.; Loan's Kidney Pills were recommend-! ed to me by a friend who had used them with good results, so I tried; sej::e. A few doses brought me line! relief and it wasn't long before I was; cured." Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney lall.-:--the same that Mrs. Briggs had. Foster-Milburn Co.. .\if;j s., Buffalo, v.- -Advt, i 'd. i If you have cotton to sell, see us, it will pay you. If yon have fertilizer or fertilizer materials to buy it will pay you to sec us before yov. buy, Cash or approved collateral. 9 West Libert? Street 'Germans MpV^ Pwfp^f 1 *'rp rep]y Jh?" vdsh t0 r?mi:ld the [matter of the admission of additional ! UCimaiia XUd&e *lUM3>t Germai] d, Ration that they have j member states has not been overlook ? ?'/ Allies?Replies Made to Beth formulated Tim terms of the treaty i ed but is explicitly provided for in the i. WO Communications Sent tb {with constant thought of the princi-! second paragraph of Article 1." pies or: which the armistice and the!-? IS?^?Sl^a German Notes Paris. Mav 10 (By the Associated : right to insist on the terms of the I Press)?The German peace delegation jT-eace substantially as drafte. They Council of Four Has Matter cf |deciares in utters sent to the allied|^^^.^^^^^j Prisoners and Labor Scfore Tt Jana associated powers mat on essen- [gestions as jae Liernian pienipotenti- , aries may nave to suoimt. - The second letter from the German i Paris. May 12.?The council of four representatives n ads: . this morning took up the consideration ! tial points the basis of the peace of right agreed upon between the bellig erents lias been abandoned. Two letters have been sent to the ! "The German peace delegation has { of the replies to be made to the la allies, to which replies have been j the honor to pronounce its attitude on {test German notes, those regarding la made. * [the question of the league of nations ; bor matters and prisoners of war.. The first letter reads as follows- 1by 1:o,vv-ilh transmitting a German | - 'Tim German peace delegation haslprosr&nj which- in the opinion of thoj Brussels. May 11, via Montreal.? I finished the first perusal of the peace [delegation, contains important sug- jThe removal cf the body of Edith i conditions which'have* been handed lotions on the league of nations prob-j caveli for interment in England will lover to them. They have had to real-jIem* \ take place on May 13. Edith Cavell ize that on essential the basis of the I 'The German ponce delegation re- | was the English nurse who was exe ; peace of right agreed upon between i serves for itself the liberty of stating cuted summarily by the Germans in j the belligerents has been abandoned.! its opiniors on the draft of the allied! 1915'for aiding prisoners to cross the ! ??They were not prepared to find land associated governments ir detail.; frontier into Holland. j that the promise, explicitly given to; in the meantime it begs to call attciv'" the German people and the whole ofj tion o the discrepancy lying in thej _t have j mankind j illusory. j "The { demands which no nation could en j dure. Moreover our experts hold that ! many of them could not possibly^be carried out. "The German peace delegation will handed to us.-and, on the other hand, j is not mentioned among the states which arc invited to join the league of made frame size. ^Also on hand sections and' foundation for comb honey. N. G. Qsteen. "20 W. Hampton Ave. nations. 'BEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity '?The German peace delegation begs; large or smalL Am paying best 'substantiate these statements in do- j to inquire \vhether\ and if so. under j cash price. See me if you have. [ tails and transmit to the allied and I what circumstances such invitation is j any. N. G. Qsteen 'associated governments their obser-j intended. !-?-f ration and their material .contin-j (Signed) "Brockdorff-Rantzau." Hour Kodak Finishing uously." ? ; The reply of the allies to this is as ? \ / (Signed) "Brockdorff-Rantzau." follows: | All 'rolls developed'? 10c; packs To this letter the folio'.via.-: reply j "The receipt of the German pro--j 20c up; prints 2 l-2c-4c-5c; enlarging was made today by the allied and as- gram cf the league of- nations is ac- i 3-,c up. Specialists?we do nothing sociated powers. j knowledged. The program will be but kodak finishing.. All work guar "The representatives of the allied referred to the appropriate committee> anteed to please. Eastman Kodaks; and associated powers have received of the allied and associated powers, i Films, Supplies, the statement of objections of the; "The German plenipotentiaries will' ri.?.,?^;? T>*t+M* Vinwhtno' fin German plenipotentiaries ana thejfind on a reexamination of the cove-jC?i?mbia FnOtO *miS0IIlg GO? draft conditions of peace. i mart of the league of nations that thelllll Taylor Street, Columbia; S. C. -.-^rrm^-^tt-jtt-i^T^n^z'-^y,* i.* ??j^.t-.tt? '11111.1 t^^^j.^ssssii^^^ai^M-. ??? r i on- nii??a?p*cs^Jgaag^