The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 14, 1919, Image 3
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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.
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ids;
Bead about your neighbor's case.
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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."
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'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.
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