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\:/ Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? _ OSTEEX PUBMSHEfG COMPANY SFMTEK, S. P. Temas: $1.50 per annum?ha 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 tor as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect Tffill be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ed in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. THE FIUME SOLUTCM. The solution of the Fiume con troversy, as roughly indicated in re cent dispatches, is disappointing to those who stood for the unyielding application of the principles of self determination and free access to the sea, Italy so obviously had gained all she required for her safety and interest, and the, Jugo-Slavs so ob viously needed and deserved an out let to the Adriatic, that there was little sympathy in America for the Italian claims. The news that Fiume is to go to Italy, after all, comes with a sort of disillusionmejit. It is the old story. Abstract prin ciple does not triumph. There is compromise, for the sake of getting Italy back to Paris to wind up the war in due form and leave ho Split in the allied ranks. It may not be so bad, though, as it looks at first glance. Fiume is to be administered by Italy as a mandatory under the League of Nations'for four years, after which it is to come defi nitely under Italian sovereignty. Thus Italy gets, technically what she made her hig fight for. And thus, it is to be feared, the Jugoslavs will be bit terly disappointed. But the Italian victory is a rather empty one. The Jugoslavs are to have their "window on the sea" just the same, a window without sentimental attachment, I but with full practical value. During these preparatory years until 1923, a new port is to be built for them a few miles low ,er down on the Adriatic coast. It wfn take care of their commerce. And Italy will not get anywhere near so much of the Dalmatian coast as she expected?rit will remain in the hands of. the Slavs. ! Thus, if the arrangement is car- 1 ried out in good faith, the principles ? at stake will be saved from such : gross violation as would have made a dangerous precedent, and the two countries directly concerned may be enabled to get along together with out fighting, if not in neighborly friendship. It is probably as good a . settlement, all things considered, as could be expected. PEACE?THEN WHAT? The event so long awaited by the world has actually taken place. The nation that made itself the enemy of civilzation has been handed the treaty of peace. Within a month the Ger man signatures undoubtedly will be affixed. And then . what Why? Peace is here! Within the bounds of the civilized world there can bo neither nation so great nor household so small that it is no- ft*, some way affected. With the signing of this great docu ment, the whole normal business of the world can go forward at last. In dustry need no longer be arranged with reference to the depletion of its ranks by all its able-bodied men or the subversion of its products to war purposes. Commerce once more will sweep the sea. Women no longer need go about with hearts full of anguish. For years nations have worked, fought, prayed! And now that peace is here, the intense excitement of con flict over, are we ready, individually, industrially and nationally to go for ward? To go forward with a new] energy, a new economy and a new enthusiasm ? The test of our worth j and our patriotism lies in the answer} to these questions. I7XCLE SAM, THRIFT PROMOTER, j - No nation can be prosperous if its j people spend no money. Xo nation J can be prosperous if its people save j no money. In the attempt to make] this, from the highest to the lowest, a j prosperous nation. Uncle Sam is en-! tering upon a regular thrift campaign to help his people understand thoj business of wise spending and careful saving. A savings division has been or-; ! ganized in the United States Treas - ??> - ) ury, to assume the leadership in this, campaign. Economists, bankers, business men, educators and economy specialists in household and other1 fields, all will co-operate in service | in this division. A series of pamphlets dealing with Fpendipg and saving is to be publish ed, and can be had for the asking. It is desired that the American peo ple spend freely, but think before they spend in order that they may get full values; that present needs and desires be weighed carefully against future needs and desires so that each may take its proper place and have its proper provision. Everybody wants to be prosperous. Everybody would rather have mon ey in the bank than not. With Uncle Sam blazing the trail, the greenest pioneer in home finance need not doubt.that if he follows faithfully he will become one of the prosperous ones. Speaking of mandatory govern ment, wouldn't it be an appropriate, thing if the Russian Bolsheviki were given a mandate to rule Turkey? Or vice versa? 5> *? % Paris is irresistible. Even an an gry Italian Peace delegation can't stay away from it. THE AIR FIRE CONTROL. Army airplanes will inaugurate the forest fire patrol service June 19 with the opening of two routes starting from Marshfield, California. Of all the services to be performed by airplanes this would seem to be one of the most valuable. It is catch ing the fire early which alone can prevent the terrible loss of property and often life which accompanies a great forest conflagration. Nowhere else does fire do such ir reparable harm, "For only God can make a tree" and it takes Him cen turies to make a forest of fine old timber. It is-especially suitable for the fire patrol to start in California, for that is the home of the Redwoods, and what could . compensate for the de struction of those forests which have not their match in all the earth? JAZZ AND BOOZE. The relation of alcohol to music may not have been fully appreciated. There may be a subtle connection be tween , booze and jazz. At any rate, that is the sober opinion of Jerome Kern, the popular American com poser. Mr. Kern attributes the present craze for jazz shows and jazz mu- , sic in genera! to abnormal hilarity . superinduced by alcohol. , ( "Take the average out-of-town j visitor," he says. "He has had a! 20Cktail or two, and pehaps wine witn . his dinner. He is 'feeling good.' and , ihe most feeble attempts at humor , and the most discordant jazz causo , him to applaud for all he is worth. Do you suppose theatre-goers who are absolutely sober will applaud jazz bands after July 1? Of course 1 may be mistaken, but I predict that the jazz craze will vanish with booze." Thus prohibition, he argues, will improve the music and the musical shows. Ho says he has demonstrated the truth of his philosophy in a show} now running on Broadway. He cut j out all the jazz, scored the songs for: chamber music,.omitted the drums] and tried to make his production quieter and more artistic all the way through. The critics told him he j would fail without the usual noise, j but the piece is dra-wing capacity audiences right along. And Mr. j Kern says those audiences are sober. . The theory seems to imply that all the jazz music in dry communities is j more foolish imitation of Xwe York j And that is quite possible. Anyway, if prohibition will realty eliminate jazz, several millions of peo-J pie who have no settled convictions on ! f the liquor problem, but whose ears' and nerves are sensitive, will now re-! joice at the approach of July 1. ' i CONCERNING BROKEN POINTS.! The Germans insist that the peace; treaty, as worked out at Paris, fails! to follow President Wilson's "four-1 teen points." and so breaks faith with j Germany, because those points form ed the basis of the understanding by which Germany agreed to lay down j her arms. j It is not necessary, nor wise, to ignore the accusation, or answer it j with a word of contempt. The is sue raised is one of fact and should be handled by arguments based on fact j The New York World, after a care-j ful analysis of the treaty with rela- j tion to the fourteen points, declares' j that the German protest "is without, substantial basis except in one speci-j lie instance." Th<- points have all been adhered to throughout the I l treaty, so far as they apply to Ger many, says The World, except the last one. This is the point which pro-' vides for a general Association orj League of Nations, "for the purpose! of affording mutual guarantees of po jiitical independence and territorial in tegrity to great and small nations alike." The League of Nations has been ? formed, as intended, but the Peace Conference has failed to make the! specific connection between the I League and Germany. Though Ger many is obliged to recognize the League, she is not given membership in it. nor is there any invitation fcr her to join, nor express provision for admitting her. Whether this omission is intrisical ly serious is a debatable question. It j may be argued that there is no oc casion for a specific arrangement for! admitting Cermanv to the League, because she can come in according to the general method provided, by making application and receiving an j approving vote of two-thirds of the members. But Germany clearly ex- j pected something more than this. The fact that Germany wants or expects a thing is, in itself, of little Importance. But the Allies cannot afford to do anything that can be in terpreted as dishonorable. Neither can they afford to be short-sighted. It is likely, as the World suggests, that the Allies would be safer with Germany in the League than with Germany outside of it. Germany should not be admitted, of course, until she has satisfied her obligations to the world. But Ger many may at least have a right to know that she is not to be perma nently barred from the League an I on what conditions she can make herself eligible to membership. FEEDING THE WORLD. "Feeding the world" is usually spoken of as if it were a tremen dous philathropy in which the nation has been engaged as an unpleasant but necessary part of its war bur den. Many people really seem to imagine that tens of thousands of tons of food sent to hungry Euro peans are being given away. Many others, who know that ever; pound of it is being paid for at full value, nevertheless resent it because i of the indirect effect on their own pocketbooks. They point out thai is these enormous shipments of food to Europe that make the cost of liv- i ing so high here at home. As a matter of fact, there is noth ing really artificial or abnormal about : this movement of food to Europe ex- : cept the unusual quantity of it. Food stuffs, like other commodities, nat urally move toward the place where there is a demand for them. The stronger the demand, the greater the ? volume. This is always true .in a free, open market. And as long as Ameri ca has more food than Europe, -and Europe is willing to pay whatever i? ; accessary to get it. there could be no way of preventing that food fron-, ?oing abroad except an arbitrary in terference with the supply-and-dc- j mand law. that is, ; national embar go on the exportation of food. And such an embargo now would be fool ish as well as cruel, because we have far more than we could possibly eat ourselves. It is true that the United State: government made special arrange ments for distributing the exported r' foodstuffs. But thai does not mean j that the government is deliberately. ;n behalf of the nation, taking and distributing food that would other wise be left here at home to Hood the American market and lower prices j ? j It means merely that the government j; fs putting a little extra orde r and sys- I j tern into a business that wouPl in all!' probability go on in just as great a | volume if left in private hands and ? regulated solely by the economic laws, j j Indeed, it is quite possible that if the j i demand were allowed full swav with- ! i out government control, it would \ make prices still higher, the world! i over. Not only is there no real philan- ] thropy in this export trade, but there is more actual benefit in it than most people realize. Those high prices paid abroad mean prosperity for j American producers, who are the most numerous class in this country, and also prosperity for millions of l other Americans engaged directly or indirectly in the food trade. Prosper ity never belongs solely to one class. Those who make money spend it. and so help others to make money. Clarence Mackay of New York justj sold his Guernsey cow Nviolette II J for $6.500. The cow is six years old. and during the last four years has given 16.046 pounds of milk and 74S pounds of butter, which at present! prices means a pretty good rate of in terest on the investment. * ^ ? None of the nations concerned are, satisfied with the peace treaty. And; with so many conflicting interests to j reconcile, it would be a miracle if I they were. i * * # When cr>nv:v, s^ assembles will it start ayain just where it left off, orj will it get down to work 7 * * * Really, the most surprising thing) about the German reception of the peace terms was that the Germans were surprised. * * * Germany and Mexico are put in the same class by the peace treaty. Neither of them is regarded as suf- j H?RBY ?fe C0*| Ine? OOTTON II FERTILIZER ?HITS 2f 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. ? ii i i in nil-1 ?? ? 9 West liberty Street ficiently civilized at present to be in- ,! vited into the League of Nations. i By the ?way, X. C. when referring to I i a seaplane means Navy-Curt iss. no?; North Carolina. * * * The Germans complain that iu the peace treaty Wilson's 14 points are invisible. Well, those are mighty fine J points. _ ! .EATING COCKTAILS. i ? New Yorkers of alcoholic propen- j si ties are rejoicing over the an nouncement of a solace for the ap- \ proaching dry regime. It is called al cocktail, - but it is not drunk?1: is eaten. Bibulous authorities arc hopeful'' that it will be permitted when the! federal prohibition law goes into ef-i feet, and likewise when the federal! dry amendment becomes operative! next year. The amendment prohibits j only '?intoxicating liquors." It is! i considered very doubtful that any; :-ourt would stretch the term '?liquor * I to include an "appetizer" which isj served in the form of a "small. ? muddy-green patty." and eaten with! 2. fork. It never seems to have occurred toj congress, or to anybody else for that] matter, that it was possible to be-] come intoxicated on food. The sub-! stance in question is admitted to have i alcohol in it. Its discoverer is aj chemist. The presumption is that it i is a> compound somewhat similar inj composition to the "solidified alcohol"j now sold so generally as a fuel for a!-j hol st ovcs, though somewhat hotter flavored and less disastrous to the in ternal economy. So far it sounds like a joke. But it may prove to be much more than a joke. There may be need of a whole new set of laws relating to edible intoxicants, before this prohibition business is finished. THE GEK?.L\X AWAIvEXING. The present furor of grief, bitter ness and recrimination in Germany has one result, at least, which the j allied nations can view .with relief! and satisfaction. It really seems to he dawning on the German people at last that they lost the war. Heretofore there has been hardly a sign that the general mass of Ger mans realized their defeat. Their army never admitted that it was beaten. The soldiers were welcom ed home as conquerors, and willingly fitted into that role. The leaders, of course, knew the real situation. But the nation as a whole has either be lieved or pretended that Germany stoped lighting of her own free will. So far as German mentality could be fathomed, the war was regarded as a draw, in which Germany had. if anything, a shade the bettor of the argument The armistice was "'ne gotiated"?a business arrangement by which Germany generously agreed io undergo certain temporary hard ships, without any real loss of honor or prestige or any permanent disad vantage. The treaty that is being crammed iown Germany*.-, throat naturally brings a rude awakening. After the first outbursts of rage, even the stupidest German cannot help con cluding that the allies would not dare propose terms of such severity if they did not have Germany abso lutely in their power. There is an evident disposition to argue that this power has been gained by a trick?that Germany was betrayed into disarmament by her trusting reliance on the "Fourteen Points," which the allies are now ac cused of disregarding. But this line of reasoning will not long satisfy in quiring minds. Sooner or later the conclusion, must dawn on those Germans that they had to quit fighting and now have to accept whatever fate the allies im pose, simply because they were ever lastingly licked. That dawn is break ing now. ? It will do Germany good, too. For It may bring humility and ' repent ance, and only thus can there be any hope for the German national soul. Melbourne, April 2.-?The dozen warships lately given to Australia by the British government as a mark of appreciation of Australia's naval ef forts during the war will reach .the commonwealth probably in June. The gift consists of six destroyers and six submarines. The flotilla leader is named the Anzac. The acting minis ter for the navy, Mr. Poynton, says cue of the problems facing the gov ernment is how to man the Australian navy with Australians. Berlin, Sunday. May IS.?Presi dent Ebert, in addressing - ^r^gi stration here todaj*, said $h~a? Ge?4. many would "never sign tne pca.ee terms." 1 1 i las iVl IWS HKS1 A 1 c2l .. .We say "satisfaction guaranteed" a good deal. We would like to have you know what me mean by that phrase. Satisfaction in clothes means to us exactly what it means to you; you decide it. All merchandise made by human hands and sold at any store may have defects; none of us are infallible; we can't possibly guarantee merchandise except that [art Clothes are ALL-WOOL and Stylish But what we guarantee is that the clothes will satisfy, and if for any reason they don't?we'll make good. Naturally we have to be pretty careful about the goods we sell or we couldn't keep on guar anteeing satisfaction on our goods- If anything doesn't satisfy you, we give your money back as much for your sake as for ours; we don't care to keep any money we don't give value for: /'Satisfaction guaranteed'5 is simply value giving and we believe you'll like the spirit at this store.