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PubiSsked Wednesday and Saturday . ?BY? / PUBUSHIXG COMPANY S?MTER, S. C. I Terms: * 91.50 per ??twiwv?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 tor as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect JFill be charged for. K- The Sumter Watchman was found m? in 1850 and the True Southron m HFl?66. The Watchman and So1 .thron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, Bfc?nd is manifestly the best advertising Bfemedium in Sumter. THE AIR IS OURS! SI- 'What hath God wrought:" was the first message transmitted over the, telegraph wires to an incredulous! world. -Man's speech had conquered I distance. There were then no means j of telling the world in an instant that the feat had been accomplished. But when, on the seventeenth of May, America won her greatest vic tory, "Flyers Safe at the Azores' went fiashing^throughout the world. Armistice Day, full of rejoicing, looked backward over the waste of war. To those who felt it most, it was a day of emotion too deep for hilarity, closer to tears. But won derful as it was, it was a backward- j looking day?a day of gladness be-} cause the b?ter past was done. The seventeenth of May, quieter, touching with profound feeling only those of keen, forward vision, will be j remembered in the histories as the day when first we squarely faced ahead. ' With the landing of the fivers at the Azores, the long leg of the perilous journey behind them, America and the world must face the fact that the - new age is at hand. The sea is ours. The treasures of the earth are ours. Fire is our ser- j vant. And now we hold the air. _k What shall we do with them? BOLSHEVISM COLLAPSING. ! A big change has come over the face of the world so rapidly and yet .u so naturally that many people have hardly noticed it at all. - After Germany had been defeated there arose a new menace, which I seemed no less threatening than Prus i'.sianism had been. Bolshevism was; r "'winhing in Russia. It seemed that j this plague might overrun all Europe j and in the end invade America. j $?? I Through the winter the movement! . appeared to gain strength almost ev erywhere. Lenine had a big army, and that army was victorious on! many fronts. His emissaries were) busy in other lands. American So- j eialists in considerable numbers en dorsed his system of proletarian tyran- j ny. Where would it end? Would prop erty everywhere he confiscated ? Would industry and commerce everywhere J be prostrated Would unskilled labor: everywhere seize , the reins of govern ment, and everything be razed to a dead-level of poverty and slavery? j No more individualism? No more possibility of every man developing freely and happily according to his own talent and energy? No ihore life along the old lines? Nothing sacred any more, in law or tradition or re ligion? Nothing but drabness and repression for ail people ? That nightmare has faded. Bolshe vism no longer looms as a monster about to devour civilization. It still survives, but it is on the defensive ev erywhere. Lenine's armies have been losing steadily of late. The industrial sys tem he inaugurated is falling to pieces from its own defects. May Day was to be the high-water mark of "Red" activity. It marked only futile efforts, and the move ment has been waning rapidly since. Wise precautions are being taken ev erywhere against its insidious propa ganda, but there is no more panic. Civilization has learned that it has the upper hand, after all, and that life may go forward along the lines of high idealism and noble aspiration in stead of coming to an end in a miasmic bog. ONE GOOD ROAD. They are doing some real road building in Arizona. The new Doug las-Bisbee Highway, which is to be completed by fall, promises to he worth every cent of the big sum which it costs the taxpayers. Curves have been eliminated wher ever possible, seven being taken out of one short stretch which the road formerly followed. A system of wa ter passageways and culverts has been installed which the chief engineer de clares will prevent the road from be ing flooded even at the rainiest sea son. A heavier proportion of concrete is used in the construction of the road bed than even that used for the fa mous California roads. It is said, ap parent!? with good reason, that a hun dred years from now the road will still be in use and good condition, and mo torists speeding over it will refer to it with pride as the ??fine road which was built early in the last century." If the road is all that it seems to be. here is one sample of road building properly done. Well based, well drained, well constructed, perma nent. Ready for hard usage and de manding few repairs. Of course it is worth all it cost. _ "Work Germany's Only Safety/' says a German daily. Sure: Thirty j years at hard labor. The German chancellor says that the Allies' peace terms will "make an enormous jail of Germany, in which 60.000,000 people will have to labor i for-the victors in the war." He seems to have the situation sized up about right, except that he fails to admit how thoroughly those millions deserve [their jail sentence. . * * * The New "Jork W- id, after an ex haustive investigation, reports that the nation condemns the saloon but resents the dry amendment. Ho?hum! Seeing that nobody can stop it anyway, why not just let the country go dry without any more fuss? *< * * The Germans would rather take their Kaiser back than have the Al lies get him. And the only reason they don't is because they know if they did the Allies would be sure to get him. COMMUNITY FARMING. One of the most appealing things about Secretary Lane's plan to provide j farms for soldiers and sailors is the j "new farm idea," which he explains as follows: "There will be built-what are known as community settlements, each con taining a number of farm homes, so that the men will have near neigh i i bors, good roads over which to bring their produce to town, and a market for the sale of the product within a short distance of the farm home. Ef- j j forts will be made to overcome the i ; handicaps of farm life that are driv | ing the people to the cities?lack of I society in the country, the distance be tween farm homes, the remoteness from the postoffice and the newspaper, the desire for better school facilities for the children. Under the new plan there will be the farm village, the set tlement of farmers around a center which is their home, in which can be '< j gathered most of the advantages of j j tho city." i i This is apparently an adaptation of I the European idea. In many foreign j countries the farmhouses are cluster I ed in groups instead of being scatter ed, like American farmhouses. Thus I they make small villages, with the cultivated land surrounding them. The farmer then goes out to work on his ! farm by day just as the industrial I worker goes to his factory, and when his work is done has the advantage of the community life. Needless to say, if this idea is transplanted to America, it will be amplified and mod ernized in ways unknown abroad, giv ing an unrivaled combination of city and country advantages. THAT -TRIPLE ALLIANCE." The alarm with which..inany Amer icans are regarding the prospect of a "defensive alliance with France" is probably premature. The matter has not gone very far. The nation is not committed to it. As described in a recent news dispatch from France, I "There has been nothing in this mat j ter but an exchange of notes between i Wilson. Clemenceau and Llovd George j preliminary to submitting a certain j proposal to the American conga-ess jand the British parliament for their i approval. J The explanations of the president j corroborate this. France wants to ! take no more chances on Germany, j In order to clinch the guarantees of ! the League of Nations, she has aske.l Britain and America to endorse them personally, so to speak. She wants ! these two nations to give a definite, i written promise that they will come i to her aid in case Germany ever again j attacks her unjustly. The League of i Nations is said to provide for that, j but such a pledge would make France j feel easier about it. I It is questionable whether the ! American people will care to do this. 'They are doubtless willing enough to j help France in ease of need, and if the League of Nations is approved by the Senate they will conscientiously fulfil any duty incurred by member jship in the League, nut they are nat : urally dubious about a pact which, thought it may not be correct to call it I i an "alliance" or a "special treaty," ; looks a good deal like one, and hence j calls up warnings and prejudices as i old as the republic. At any rate, the matter will be j thoroughly discussed, and there is ;j plenty of time for discussion. The j president seems to have gone no fur jther than'to agree to lay the matter 'before congress because France asked I him to. The United States senate will decide the matter, and the sen ate can probably be trusted to ex press the sentiment Of the .nation. whatever it proves to be. SCHOOL- ALL SUMMER. j There is a movement on foot in I some localities to continue the school j term on through the summer. One j j explanation for such a course of ae j tion is that the child who must leave j school at an early age to go to work i will thus bo enabled to secure a more J complete education than is possibi? I with the present arrangement. j Such a scheme is all right, if in con ; nection with it are stringent school I I laws, compelling the child's attend jance until he is fitted physically and j mentally to undertake the burdens of !the wage earner. If not backed by such laws the summer term school will put a premium on the business of hurry [ ing children out of school and into 'shop and factory. c \ In most communities the school age j limit is not high enough now. and J boys and girls are taken away from1 i their books and play by ignorant or greedy elders and their slender shoul- \ ders bent to the task of earning a j living long before it is fair or eco-1 nomically wise that they should be. I '"The days of our years are three score years and ten"?Seventy years j of life! If the child is given twenty j of them in which to grow strong, to j acquire an education, to indulge in play, and the freedom of out of doors, he will still have fifty years in which to pay his debt to the society which; allows him his youth. There is of co 'rse. another aspect to the summer erni. In crowded j cities, where the closing of the schools j turns children loose upon crowded; I blistering pavements, the big, airy schoolrooms, the supervised work and j play, have been a priceless boon to the little folks. In remote rural districts where weather and bad roads make winter attendance impossible f'jr many children, the summer term gives them their needed chance to keep up with their normal progress. The movement on general principles seems useful and progressive, but it must have careful watching in order i that it may not be nbused. AXTI-AMERICANISM IX JAPAN -An anti-American campaign of un usual vigor is said to be raging in Ja pan. Americans may find it hard to understand just why the Japanese should be so angry at us at this time, when we are not conscious of any special offense against them. The following explanations are given: The basis for the agitation is satd to be "a fear of the growing influence j of the United States in international | affairs." There is the old grievance of dis crimination against the Japs in our Pacific Coast States, and the fear of more drastic ami-Japanese legislation | there. ! Resentment has been aggravated by j the feeling that the United States i? largely to blame for the failure of thri Peace Conference to adopt the ' ra cial equality" principle advocated by! Japan. ~r''1:- ?$\ I There is ? belief, too. that Ameri cans incited the Chinese to make pub lic the secret Chino-Japanese treaties which put Japan in the light of ag-| gressor and persecutor, and that \ Americans are primarily responsible j for the anti-Japanese outbreaks in ' Korea. Altogether the Japanese public seems to have convinced itself that it! has thoroughly satisfactory reasons j for hating America and Americans.} It is a pity. too. because nine-tenths of all this stuff is plain delusion. Japanese statesmen and editors' would do well if, instead of adding to the flames of race prejudice, they i would help the Japanese masses to understand the basic democratic prin ciples of right and justice on which American international policy is founded. They should realize that America, asks nothing of Japan or any] t j other country which America herself | is not willing to grant. They should J realize that Americans do not hate j nor fear nor scorn nor dislike the | Japanese, but that they simply want j the Japanese in their relations with! America to treat "racial equality" as! FORD TRUCKS?We are now getting! in Ford Trucks. If you want one! for hauling cotton pickers, farm or; ether uses see us now. Shaw Mo _ tor Co._ FOR SALE?Or will trade for dry cattle several Jersey heifers or! young cows with young calves. E.j W Pabhs, Mayesville. S. C. P.. 1. ; FOR SALE?About 1,500 bushels of! corn in the ear. S. M. Pierson.! Phone 2S8^_ j - - i BEEHIVES AM) SUPPLIES?r have! lately received a. few Ooor-via made) hives and frames?s and 10 frame! size. Also on hand sections ar.dj foundation lor comb honey. X. G. Osteen. 320 W. Hampton Ave. -I UF.ESWAX WANTED? Any quantity ! large or small. Am paying best' cash price. Seo me if you have any. N. G. Osteen. i&F^B^T ^? CCX^ nie? GQTTOH m FEBTIIIIEB MERCH?HTS If you have cotton to sell, see us, it will pa}* you. If you have fertilizer or fertilizer materials to buy it will pay von to see us before you buy, Cash or approved collateral. I_ 9 West Liberty Street a reality, and act like Americans, ac cepting our standards when they com? [here, and acknowledging our right :c I maintain these standards? [MOTIVES FOR YOUNG GARDEN ERS. I Unless children are given some good motive for their gardening this j year, there is danger that they will either lose interest in this healthiest i of occupations or else do the werk from purely mcreernary motives? which is not good for thorn at all. During the war the children were ! encouraged to plant and tend, and -.o sell whatever surplus produce they had. The food raised for family use helped to solve the national food pr> hlem and til** money went for all sorts of war charities or patriotic objects. The experience was valuable to the children, and there was little danger of their becoming unpleasantly com mercialized, because the object of their labors was an unselfish one. This summer the Victory garden does not present the same incentive-, and,if the child is to continue inter ested and yet remain untainted by .. precocious zeal for mere money male ink, he must have some unselfish rea son for the disposal of at'least a part of his produce. This may be the supply of a needy family with stuff from his garden, or the devoting of a part of his money profits to some local charity. In one community the children have adopted two French orphans, agreeing to send to France for one year tho> funds necessary for their support. What the object is makes little dif i ference so long as the child learns I something of nature's generosity i ' while he learns her secrets. The hanks of Sumter, of Mavesville and Hagood having all reached their quota of ihe Victory Loan these towns and the county of Sumter are entitled to Community Honor Flags and the j flags ax*e oti the way. according to in i formation received by County Chair-, ! man Henry P. Moses. > in the South. In addition to the lec tures and recitals, over twenty high class motion pictures have been se cured. A conference of all the County Su perintendents of education in the State will be held June 23-2S. The Short Course for the Club Wo-" men of the State, now a regula- "ea thre of the Winthrop Summer School, will be given July 7-18. Winthrop Summer School. Thr Winthrop Summer School bul letins are now ready, and any teacher who wishes one should write to the college at once. Preparations have been completed for the opening of the Summer School on June 17. The . excellent faculty, the number and j character of the various attractions, 'the location and equipment of Win-J ithrop all combine to make this one) I of the most attractive summer schools' ????EM ???? This is not news?but there is still too much fast driving of automobiles in Sumter. Xo one has been killed lately, but only a few days ago a litfle child was knocked down and run over by a car on East Liberty street. The child was bruised, but escaped serK ous injury only by grace of the spe cial providence that takes care of children. Washington. May 22.?High winds today again prevented seaplane NC-4 leaving Ponta Del Gada for Lisbon on the trans-Atlantic flight. UATION GIFTS On occasions of this kind nothing takes the? place of a nice piece of jewelry or a real good, de pendable watch. We have a large assortment of both and will take great pleasure in showing you these goods and guarantee that the recipient will be pleased, otherwise he or she may exchange for something more desirable. COOPER'S JEWELRY STORE Successor to W. A. Thompson Monday, May 26th, 3:00 P. M. _ To be pulled off on one^of tke\bestj:mile tracks^inj the State."" The following cars and drivers^will feature\tkt\Races togetker^wiih others[}to be announced later. L, Marino.Packard Harry Davis .White J. D. Bethea.Oakland X G. Reynolds.Special R. H. Wiles.Hudson C. E. Sandifer.Marmon E. S. Grooms. Abbott These drivers will make things lively. Don't fail to attendJ^the Races. Remember the date: Monday, May 26th. NEW GRANDSTAND GOOD ACCOMMODATIONS Sumter Race Track Association