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Pak?she? Wednesday and Saturday ?-BY? GSTEEN F?BJDSSBING COMPANY S?MTER, S. O. Teems: i 5U50 pep amirm--iis advance. Advertisements. Sguare first insertion ..$1.00 ery subsequent insertion.. .? .50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. Jjgl communications which "ub serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect Will be charged for. ; The Sumter Watchman was found er In 1850 and the True Southron in The Watchman aad Southron now has the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, aad is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. -LAP-DOG PXTMOTISM. ?~' I The colors! of a regiment which recently returned from France pleads with the American" public to stop pet ;. ting soldiers. His remarks are worth quoting because of their virile common sense, and "because they have a pret ty direct application to every com munity in this hero-worshipping land. "Unless an immediate halt is call ed on the lap-dog patriotism of a certain type of perhaps well-inten tioned but woefully impractical and short-sighted Americans," he says, "one of the greatest blessings of the war will be -destroyed. wThe patronizing, babying tactics which are,ibeing employed by many tosvard the. returned soldiers are al ready developing in some of them a tendency to. forget the great lessons they have learned." The men are overwhelmed, he says, with "silly remarks about their sacrifices and . how much the world owes them." Sometimes they are of fered money or other things in senti mental attempt at recompense for What they have gone through. , This sort of treatment, the colonel fears, may wreck the high ideals, the in spirations, the ambition, the sturdy endurance and impersonal devotion to duty which their war experience de veloped. -When, he hade his men good by, - -hey felt, that they had only done their duty as soldiers. They hoped they had done their full duty abroad, and. they came home to continue do ing their full duty as private citizens. And they "flpd, on every: hand, men and women, particularly women, try ing to turn them into pampered lap dogs.' If friends and relatives will not stop it, he advises the soldiers to en hst in the army again in order to get away from the pernicious influence and remain "real men." And it isn't -a bad idea. THE HOME-MAKER'S GOLD. ' - New light is shed on the servant problem by the Home-maker's Guild of-New York. The patroness joins the guild for so much a year, which is simply her membership fee. When she is in need of any kind of house service, from a window-washer to a lady's maid, a'cook to an expert nurse for hei* children, she telephones the head of the guild, explains her needs, and a capable person is sent her. The organization differs from the ordinary employment agency in that the maid is also a member of the gra?d, her fee being one dollar a year, and to the guild she goes for her pay. The employer has no money dealings with the servant, but sends a check to the manager ? f the guild. This of course, helps to stabilize wages, and is a good thing. The whole concern is run on a bus iness-like basis, and the woman who has asked for a maid for a certain ser vice cannot keep her after the time stipulated and get an extra hour's work out of her. When the maid's time is up she leaves, unless the em ployer telephones and explains the ne cessity for detaining her. If the maid is not scheduled for another job she may stay, but of course this m$?ans an addition on the bill. The scheme is working satisfac torily, and complaints are few from either side. A NATIONAL ADVENTURE. The seaplane race from America to j Europe has been distinctly a nation al enterprise. The large measure of success attending it has been due toj the fact that the plans were worked out by experts and elaborate facili ties were provided by the navy de-j partraent, and that, in short, the epo chal undertaking was backed by the matchless resources of the United States. * It is conceivable "that a seaplane, or some other sort of aircraft, might have made the voyage successfully without all the detailed instructions, the careful training, the warships strung across the ocean and a whole, big ^system of co-operation of which the' navy fliers had the benefit. Rut the chances against it woul" have been much greater. In the triumph of those brave, highly skilled American aviators, therefore, all America shares. And ?xe success won is richly suggestive of possible achievements in other fields. ; - We are strong for private enterprise and individual accomplishment in this country. That is a fine tendency, but it may be carried" too far.- There are many big things in the world that need doing and that couid be done bet ter and quicker through organized public effort. Cities, states and federal govern ment, ? e might almost say, have as yet hardly begun to function. They are not awake to their opportunities. They do not realize what tremendous i things they might do with the pooled j resources?the wealth and brains?of| their citizens. Neither do they real ize the uplift of spirit that, might come, as it has in this case, from [triumph won through common effort and interest. Wars are full of that spirit. Bat-, ties won bring the spiritual uplift. The crossing of the Atlantic is a great, pioneer adventure of peace. There should be many such hereaf ter. - A MO?ERX FAIRY TALE. ? Folklore is full of tales like that of Vinson Walsh McLean, heir to a great fortune, with tutors, servants and detetcives always watching to see that he came to no harm. The lad ran out of bounds in play and was killed by a passing automobile, when a child accustomed to crossing city streets could probably have saved himself. There was the prince whose horos cope said he would be killed by hisj be*t friend. His father determined J that he should have no friends. Mis erable, lonely, surrounded by wealth and luxury and lacking all things worth while, at the end, drunk with hashish, he pulled over a lamp and was burned to death. His lower self was his only eomrade. More beautiful and hopeful is the story of Gautama Buddha, also a prirce. He grew up knowing noth ing of life save joy and beauty. When he went through the town every beg gar, every cripple, was made to hide by heralds who preceded him. Once, by accident, he met a poverty-strick en invalid by the roadside. This sud der. vivid glimpse of human sorrow so affected him that he renounced home and wealth and gave his life to the succor of humanity. The Arabs say: "A man's fate hangeth about his neck and he can not escape it." And even occidentals see again and again that in vain man pit-: his wits against that force which some call Fate, and some call Karma, and some call Eternal Justice. But the hope lies in this?that F?te, like all the forces of the uni- ; perse, is either friendly or hostile ac cording as one faces it. Suppose the father of the prince whose friend was to be nis danger had ' reasoned like this: "Friendship and human kindness are more important than the moment of death. Let him have all the friends he will, and serve them well, and if at the end one accidentally kills him, at least he will hive led a happy, useful life up to the I er?." I Suppose the parents of the little I heir to millions had said: "This boyj will have grave responsibilities. Let j him learn to exercise all his powers, j to face and conquer all the dangers common to all children of his age." Perhaps Fate would have taken him anyhow. But at least his parents could have felt that he had an even chance. Germany begins to understand how the Russians felt at Brest-Litovsk. * * * It's queer that just as aviation be comes commercially practicable, ev erybody starts talking about digging more tunnels. * * ? The real reason why Columbus dis- i covered America is revealed by a] Hindu student in a history examina tion: "Columbus see that there is one-half of the world, and being very learned man/ know there must be other half to keep up the balance, then he asked for ship and discovered j it." GIVE TH1SM BUT A DECADE. One hundred years ago, on the twenty-second of May, the Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic, started on her voyage from the city of her name. Her engine was 90 horse power, and she was rigged as a sailing vessel, with three masts and square yards as provision in case her engines gave out. It took her twenty-nine days and eleven hours to make the voyage. On eighteen of these days her paddles1 were folded up on the deck, and only the sails used, for the paddles were of no avail in really rough weather. She got into Liverpool safe, how ever, puffing and wheezing. But it was nineteen years after that that the first regular steamer line was estab lished; with the Great Western, which made the voyage from LiFerpo?t" toJ New York in fifteen days. ' : ; So .the doubters who "take nof-stock" in the flying trip may take heart. No one expects transatlantic air liners to, jump into being over night. But sure as the Savannah would be a pathetic] little laughingstock beside the swift transports which tbday swim the ocean in five days, just so surely the successors of the NC-4 will before many years fill the air with their suc cessful humming. There has to be a first time. It may be a long cry from the bride's first biscuits to the biscuits that moth er used to make, but the same hands have made them. Training and experience fill the gap. And so they will with the air travel ers. EMIGRATION. A big steel plant reports that 61 per cent of its a^ien employees have an nounced their intention of returning to the old country, and nine-tenths of them intend to stay. In a Connec ticut city with a Polish population of 6,000, nearly 2,000 are going back to Poland. A Hungarian leader in Chi cago estimates that 50 per cent of the unnaturalized Austro-Hungarians in that city will return to Europe. Reports from many cities show that, in general, about half the aliens are going back, as rapidly as they can get transportation, and most of them mean to stay. ? , Thus, the immigration problem is solving itself very satisfactorily for the present. The Americanization task becomes easier as our alien pop ulation diminishes instead of increas-1 ing. The hegira helps to tide over j. dull times, too, by lessening the num-! ber of unemployed. It may be a dif ferent story,' however, when business picks up again and there is a renewed demand everywhere for unskilled la- > bor. BUILD AND PROSPER. "Can you house our employees?" This is a question invariably asked by ; the big industrial concern when it is > considering locating in any town or city. The community which can an- ( swer in the affirmative gets the bus- , in ess. Many small communities are re- : porting the failure to secure jus: ( such desirable additions to their in- . dustrial life because they cannot pro- \ vide shelter for the men. What is 1 worse, a good many industries which 1 have the capital and the plans for j immediate resumption or extension of business are waiting because of the housing difficulty. The answer is. obvious?begin the , building, everywhere, for it is the cor- , ner stone of prosperity and recon- ] struction. ' . , Aside from the business delay di- ( rectly traceable to the house shortage. ^ the overcrowding of our cities and ^ towns is largely responsible for much j immoral and criminal activity. , The housing problem looms large everywhere. It should be solved as ( promptly as possible, civic govern- ^ ments, business concerns and private j individuals doing all in their power to help it along. i. THE FIFTY-EIGHTH VARIETY. I ( _ I; Henry John Heinz, long known as i the purveyor of the "57 varieties" of 5 appetizing additions to the food ol the world, has. gone where trade marks have no value and advertising j campaigns are of no avail. The story of Mr. Heinz's rise is one : to conjure with. He began selling horse-radish to a few of his neigh bors. At his death the whole round 1 world had been circled with his ? 1 sauces and condiments. Industry, perseverance and a firm belief in ad vertising were factors in his success, i He serves as one of the fascinating models to American youth of what a man can become who uses his powers for service to the community, who : sticks fast to his purpose and never lies down on the job. But there is another factor whieh too few people know about. H. J. Heinz was always a stickler for the purity of his products. When Dr. Harvey Wiley, then in the government service, was going after the manufac turers and canners who were using harmful preservatives in their pro ducts, and when those gentlemen were loudly howling that they could not make catsup or keep this or that or the other without the use of ben zoate of soda, and when the contro versy was raging as to just how much ^benzoate of soda the human system could encompass without damage. H. J. Heinz was not among those pres ent. Instead of fightmg for the right to use ingredients bad for people's in sides, and good only for the insides of producers' pocketbooks, Mr. Heinz came out with enormous ads stating that he had never found it necessary to use benzoate of soda in his pro ducts at all! His advertisement re marked calmly that when pure and clean fruits and vegetables,. sugars and vinegars were used, no artificial HARBY of CO., Inc. GOTTON m FERTILIZER UTS 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 preservatives were necessary. Ideaiism, in human service may g into a can of beans as well as into a pulpit, as well in a bottle of catsup at in an army with banners. STOPPING GERMANY'S MOUTH. If there is any possibility of truth from outside of Germany sinking into' the German national consciousness, certainly the straight, sharp reply of the Allies to Brockdorff-Rantzau's treaty protests ought to find lodg ment there. After disposing in detail of the main German objections, based mostly on the hardships that the terms would impose on Germany, the reply sums up the whole situation in these unan swerable words: "Germany should recognize the facts of the present state of the world, which she has been mainly in strumental in creating, and realize that she cannot escape unscathed. The share which she is being called upon to bear of the enormous calam ity that has befallen the world has been apportioned by the victorious powers, not to her deserts, but soiely to her ability to bear it. "All the nations of Europe are suf fering from losses and are bearing and will continue to bear burdens which are almost more than they can carry. These burdens and losses have been forced upon them by the aggres sion of Germany. "It is right that Germany, which isj responsible for the origin of these calamities, should make them good to the utmost of her capacity. Her hardship will arise not from the con ditions of peace, but from the acts of those 'who provoked and prolonged the war. Those who were responsi ble for the war cannot escape its just consequences." This is the sort of thing which Americans supposed the German del egation would be told in the begin ning. It might have saved time and cleared the air if Glemenceau had tnade an introductory speech in this rein when the Germans first appear ed at Versailles. The German na tion would then have been somewhat prepared for the terms based on this fundamental fact of Germany's guilt md obligation to suffer. But it is bet ter now than never. And as the Germans at home digest that reply, ihe angry howling diminishes. At last their mouths are stopped. Oppression of Schleswig by Gentians. London. April IT (Correspondence Df The Associated Press)?While the ittention of the allies is concentrated on the Germans along the Western front, German gos'ernment officials in Schleswig are preventing the Danes, cvho have the consent of the entente, from shipping food to their own needy countrymen in Schleswig. This information has been received here by Edmund Gosse, well-known English literary critic. "I learn," he said in a letter to the Morning Post, "that the burgo master of P"lensburg declares that the hungry inhabitants of that town, the largest in Schleswig have no need of Danish food." The same German official, accord ing to Mr. Gosse's information has re fused passports to any families in the town and district of Flensburg to cross over into Denmark to accept an offer of Jutland and Fuen to receive several thousand Danish-speaking Schleswig . children. "If Danes in Flensburg dislike German rule," he puts it, "they may starve." Mr. Gosse terms as "scandalous" the treatment of Scheswig soldiers re patriated through Denmark. "These unhappy men." he said, ?'are arrested as they cross the fron tier, are prevented from even visiting their relatives, and are immediately conveyed to the Polish frontiers to swell the German army there. North Schleswig is at the present moment more severely per'-ecuted than it was even through the war. There is pro ceeding a commandeering of cattle and horses which is paralyzing to the population, and this is emphasiz ed by the indulgence with which South (or German) Schleswig is be ing treated." Schleswig, he understands, is now closed to all persons coming from Denmark. "On the Rhine, under the eye of England and France." Mr. Gosse ob served, "the boche may be meek enough, but he shows little change of heart where he escapes from the eyes of the victorious allies." Schleswig, the northern ha1" of Schleswig-Holstein between the . th and Baltic Seas, has been a province of Prussia since 1864 when it was wrested from Danish control. Under the peace treaty of F^ris the control of certain zones of Schleswig is to be decided by presbiscite. Misery in Moscow People Live in N Terror of the Bolshevik Red Guard Baku, March 17, via London, April 25 (Correspondence of The Associat ed Press)?Glimpses into the fantas tic life in. Moscow under Bolshevik rule, are given by an'Armenian engi neer who has arrived here from the capital of Soviet Russia. He says the people of the city live in terror of the Bolshevik Red Guard and that the former bourgeoisie have very few privileges. To be well dressed is a crime. The hated upper classes must masquerade as poorer folk whenever they go into the .streets. Good clothes or furs bring- down upon them the cry of ''bourgeois." One word of protest or of non-submission to the ruling powers is quite sufficient to evoke the damning word, "counter-revolution ary" Tl.at means prison and some times death. The jails already are full of counter-revolutionaries and the Armenian says almost daily from 30 to eO men nd women are shot. The Str&soni monastery is now a "peoples law court," where the bourgeoisie are tried and condemned for "crimes" of opposition or alleged opposition to Bolshevik rule. The churches, he says, are safe but their valuables have been removed. Many priests have been killed or im prisoned because, after the death of the former emperor and his family, they prayed in secret for the dead. Some of the theatres are still open. The great imperial theatre is used for Bolshevik meetings but in the even ings opera and balet continue. The greatest artists have all escaped from Moscow but many good ones remain. Only soldiers go to the theatres. The bourgeoisie apparently dare not. Most of the banks are closed. Only one bank with several branches exists. It is known as the "peoples Bank of the Russian Federal Soviet Republic." Sums not exceeding 1,000 rubles a month may lie drawn but usually one j has to pay an agent 50 to 60 percent | of his draft as a commission for ob- j taining it. j It is dangerous to employ any ser- i vants?a sure sign of bourgeoisie. Ser I vants are in some eases retained se cretly. But on the paper showing the number of people in the house the j servants are listed as poor relatives. { The streets are filthy and unkept. Every now and then the bourgeoisie are ordered to clean their own streets, j men. women and children are given j spades and ordered under penalty to j imprisonment to shovel filth away. [As a rule the bourgeoise have to load and carry their, own supplies. Nc one else will work for them. There is no gasoline for private au tomobiles and alcohol is used for fuel. This is stolen by the chauffeurs, mixed with water and sold as vodka for. 400 rubles a bottle. Soldiers of the Red Army . com- ' mandeer the peasants' stores of grain and food, give them ridiculously small prices in payment and then sell the food at huge profits. Often they, visit houses on the pretext, of searching for arms, take what valuables they can. find and sell them in the streets. They loot, rob and even murder anyone daring to say a word against them. The slightest offense in the army is now punished by. death but when the Red soldiers are not on duty tthey seem to be able to do as they like with] impunity. Most of the civilians-who have been mobilized into the army are discontented and are awaiting the first opportunity, of turning against the Bolsheviki. There is no protection for foreign ers. A decree was recently published declaring there were no longer - any foreigners and that everyone living in Russia henceforth would be deemed a Russian and bave to submit to Bol shevik rule. Paper money to the face value of 1,250,000 rubles is printed daily. Only two newspapers are per mitted to be published. The Soviet. New s and the Soldier's Truth. Paris, May 28.?King Albert, of Belgium, is expected to visit Wash ington to attend the initial meeting of the league of nations next October. -? - .-I FOR SAL:>?Or will, trade for dry cattle several Jersey heifers or young cows with young calves. E. Yv' Dabbs. Mayesville, S. C. R. 1.} FOR SAUE?About 1,500 bushels of corn in the ear. S. M. Pierson. Phcne 288. _' FORD* TRUCKS?We are now getting in Ford Trucks. If you want one for hauling cotton pickers, farm or other uses see us now. ? Shaw Mo tor Co._ BEEHIVES AND SUPPLIES?I have lately received a few Georgia made hives and frames?8 and 10 frame size. Also on hand sections and foundation for comb honey. N. G. Osteen. .120 W. Hampton Ave. BEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small. Am paying best cash price. See me if you have any. N. G. Osteen rM"i"i"i"!":"i":":'>;"i"i-!":"i"i"i"i"!"!' "PREST-O-LITE SERVICE FOR ME" 4* eas^ I That fellow Fraser says what to do, and I does it. The way he treats a battery there t is no telling howT long- it may last, and I others say, the way he does will soon put ] | him out of business because he'll never get i t a chance to sell a newT battery. 1 Well boys, of course I am inclined to believe that my % * line of batteries is the best on the market and an old saying comes to my mind:? , "When the cats away, the mice will play,*' Be careful little mice,? The Prest-O-Lite Co., Inc.. in New York has a trap in L tin- shape of a storage battery .hat has caught many and will soon catch you. V I FRASER THE OLOEST SFTVTCE TO AUTOMOBILE OWNERS IN AMERICA