Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Pn?febed TJPSdiieatey and Saturday GSTKEN PUBLISHING COMPANY sumter, a Terms: ^ $1.50 per ?mmm?in adv mce. AdrefUsemeatB? One Square flnrt insertion ..$1.00 JByery subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. JaH communications which sub terve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. -Obituaries and tributes of respect Will be charged for. ^Fhe Sumter Watchman was found ed In 1350 and the True Southron in 1*66, The Watchman and Southron now has the ccmbined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and. is manifestly the best advertising a^edium in Sumter, TO STCBY MEAT PROBLEMS. A-conference is to be held at the Hotel McAlpin in New York to obtain definite j information regarding meat market problems and efficient methods for-meat distribution. Similar conferences have already been held in Chicago and. San Fran cisco. While they are in no sense probes, the attempt is being made to get at all the angles of meat buying and selling in the hope of improving some, features and eliminating others which undoubtedly contribute to the high cost of meat. At each conference the men in charge try to get as many retail mer chants together as possible, from all varieties of stores, the cash-and-car ry, ^the delivery and the chain store, and a free discussion is urged of all retailing problems. . One of the results of these confer ences is that the Bureau of Markets is going to prepare scientific meat charts and a manuarof colored illus trations which can be used as a guide by the customer in determining the kihd^nd quality of cuts. It is believ ed^sat such charts will be of use both to-buyer and seller, Thus far no investigation has been of . any avail in lowering prices suf ficiently to benefit a hungry populace, a?6:if some better method of con ducting distribution or delivery or any .?'>-.. . . other branch of the meat business can be found which may make the weekly meat bill less :of. a burden,. everybody wirf? be thankful.- * ** ' > ._? ' SOLDIERS AS FOREIGN SALES ' " i % . MEN. The suggestion is made that the bus iness of commercial -salesmen for American concerns in foreign co?ntries should appeal to the soldiers who do hot wsih to resume their pre-war jobs at home. Certainly this field offers opportun ity^for travel and experience of va ried kinds. The soldier, too, has learn ed something of braving the foreign er in his own home town, and should have acquired at least to some small degree a knowledge of the art of be coming acquainted, of mingling with strange people and gaining, quickly a familiarity with their speech and cus toms. He is no longer the inexper ienced and often shy lad who went into service. He has learned what sympathy and comradeship mean as well, and this, would be of great benefit in winning his way with strange business men. A short course in a good commer cial school which really understands the needs of the foreign salesman go ing to other countries would add greatly to the soldier's advantage, and if he could also have a bit of train ing in some one of the schools oper ated by big concerns handling foreign trade it would help immensely. uThere is no doubt an increasingly large field for this kind of work 5n the near future, and any ambitious lad would do well to take advantage of it. ARE YOU FOR SUMTER? ?Every business man in Sumter has a direct personal interest in the con tinued growth and prosperity of the town. The more selfish a man is, the more thoroughgoing and relentless he may have been in profiteering at the expense'of the buying public, the greater is it to his interest that neither the number nor the buying ability of the population of Sumter de crease. Population and pay rolls make for the mercantile and financial welfare of a town. The more people a town has and the more money they earn the greater the prosperity of the merchants, banks and professional men. These are facts that all admit without argument. ?Here are a few more facts that cannot be successfully disputed. Sum ter has reached the limit of its growth in population under existing conditions?for there are not houses to accommodate comfortably the peo ple now here to say nothing of the large additional numbers who would come here to live and work if they could obtain houses for themselves and families. Sumter will go backward in both population and business unless the housing conditions are immediately bettered by the ejection of ? numbed jot cottages and several apartment houses. There are several industries now domesticated, so to speak, in Sumter, that are in nowise bound to remain here. They are growing industries with a business outlook that is limit ed only by their ability to produce the goods their customers demand. The first and most important item in pro ducing these goods is skilled labor. It is possible just now to obtain all the labor of this class that is' needed, but it is impossible to keep it when there are no houses to accommodate the workmen and their families. It may not be generally realized? some may even deny that it is a fact ? ?but rSumter is today lace to face with the greatest crisis in the history of the town. We are at the turning point, we can go forward to bigger and better things or we will go back ward. We must build more houses to care for more wealth-producing people who are needed to carry on our in dustries or before long there will be many vacant houses for the indus tries will jfb to a place where they can obtain labor and living accommo dations that skilled workmen must have. Some of our citizens will .de clare that this Is the cry of an alarm ist, but those who do not see the handwriting on the wall are either ignorant and cannot read the signs or are willfully blind. Sumter m?st have more houses and must have them now. Those who are dependent for a living and for the comforts of life upon the business of the city and are consequently those who gain most from the growth of business, or who stand to lose most by a period of depression, have their fate in their own hands. If they sit tight and do nothing they may keep some of the profits they have saved from past years but cannot hope to grow and prosper in a larger measure than ever before.* LG AISZED -COMBINES. The president of the Western Un ion Telegraph Company, testifying be fore the senate committee on -inter state commerce, urges the amendment of the Sherman anti-trust law so that, when the telegraph and telephone lines are. returned to private owner ship, they can be operated as a "joint service." This recommendation will receive a much more respectful hearing, from congress and*from the.public, than it would have received a few years ago. The Sherman law is recognized as having served a useful purpose, but its limitations are now seen pretty clearly. In seeking to prevent harm ful monopoly it has too often hinder ed helpful cooperation. It is gener ally admitted that some change of law or policy must be accomplished that will make possible the full benefits of cooperation without endangering pub lic rights. A good d? 1 as been done along this line during the war. The nation has approved temporary monopoly in many public utilities when that mo nopoly was exercised by the govern ment. It is a question now of some compromise .policy whereby there may be similar concentration and co-ordi nation of effort under private owner ship. This seems especially desirable in the great transportation and intelli gence industries, the railroads, tele graphs, telephones, etc. Under prop er conditions, nearly everybody is con vinced, private enterprise can handle these utilities better than the govern ment. But they cannot be left to their own devices as in the old days. There must be a large measure of govern ment control, so arranged that it will be of constructive help. Congress has a rare opportunity for wise statesmanship in this, ?eld. No use casting or trolling for -the Germans. The only way to get that kind of a fish is to spear him. * ? ? It is becoming more apparent day by day that the Peace Treaty is a doc ument of great wait. * ? * A country that oversubscribed a $4,500,000,000 loan to the extent of three-quarters of a billion can't be so awfully unprosperous! A French aviator has gone up 31, 000 feet. No use mountain-climbing any more, when the highest peaks can easily be reached in an airplane. * * * When doctors disagree as to the amount of alcohol necessary to make a beverage intoxicating, what's a poor ignorant consumer going to do about it? * * * The federal wheat director reports that there is so much flour in stock that there is no sound basis for an in crease in price. The price of flour will accordingly go up as usual. * * * A Java volcano killed 15,000 men last week, and the news caused hard ly a ripple in the consciousness of ^3u rope and America. A trivial thing, to j be sure! A Hindenburg would kill j twice thai many, and never bat an eye. * * * "The simplest way to prevent an accumulation of dirt is to make it easier to be clean than dirty." Yes, and any real boy wishes somebody would tell him how, so "he needn't spend all that time washing behind his ears. * * * * "If that League of Nations doesn't recognize the independence of Ireland, we are going to spit on it," an nounced a speaker at an Irish meet ing in New York city. A good many other critics seem to have started do ing that already. * * * "Nations must unite as men unite in order to preserve peace and order. The great nations must be so united as to be able to say t. any single' country, 'You must not go to war'; and they can only say that effectively1 when the country desiring war knows that the force which the united na tions place behind peace is irre sistible."?Henry Cabot Lodge in ad dress delivered at Union College in June, 1915. NEW ENGLAND FARMS IN WAR T/ME. New England made a magnificent showing in answer to the war appeal for agricultural production. This comes as a surprise to most .people for this section is generally considered as agriculturally dead, es pecially when compared to the mar velous crop production of the Middle West Although handicapped by natural conditions and situated where man power was automatically drained from their fields, in response to the war call the farmers of old New England rais ed their corn percentage more than 19 per cent, .and their wheat percentage over 325 per cent, rye and oats and barley showed remarkable advances also. ? Even with the reduction of pastur age for increased grain production the farmers increased their raising of food producing animals, bringing into the markets of the country cattle, sheep and hogs of a quality, and quan tity which put them among the big producers. In this as in everything New Eng land proved true to the high stand ards of patriotism which are a part of her heritage, and having found what she can do it is doubtful if ever again the history of that part of our country will be the history of farms abandoned and fields given over to their native rocks and burrs. A GAS-STEAM ENGINE. Hawker failed in his flight because, owning to a defect in the circulation system, the water in his engine radia tor turned to steam and blew away. If he had had the benefit of an inven tion just announced by W. J. Steel, an English engineer, he woud have used that steam to add driving-power to his engine, condensing the steam to water in the process and using it then as usual to keep his engine cool, and so on; over and over indefinitely. Heretofore the heat produced by the operation of gas-engines, even when not actively mischievous as in Hawker's case, has been wasted. Mr. Still ingeniously kills two birds with one stone by taking that heat and turning it to practical advantage. It heats and boils the water, and as the steam is formed it is applied at the back of the piston. First there is combustion-pressure from the gaso line explosion and then there is pres sure from the expanding steam. The two great types of motive power, steam and gas, considered incompat ible, at last are reconciled and made to work together. If this invention is all that British scientists hope, it should, by its eco nomizing energy, effect a vast saving in fuel consumption and contribute greatly toward solving transportation problems. It seems almost like the discovery of that dream of imagina tive scientists, a new source of ener THE WHITE MAN RULES. Some arguments against the League of Nations seem sound enough, but it FOR sale?About 1,500 bushels of corn in the ear. S. M. Pierson. Phone 238._ FOR SALE?Or will trade for dry cattle several Jersey heifers or young cows with young calves. E. W Dabbs, Mayesville, S. C. R. 1. 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, 320 W. Hampton Avc. beeswax wanted?Any quantity large or small Am paying best cash price. See me if you have any. n rj. Osrcn. HARBY & CO., Inc. MHOS MD FERTILIZER UHTS __________________ 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 is hard to digest the objection that it puts the white races under -the dom ination of the colored races. If any other race, red, yellow, brown or black, has had more to do with arranging that Paris settlement, or en joys any special prerogatives cf power under its terms, it isn't visible to the naked eye. ;; v? To be sure, there are more "color ed" people of various tints repre sented by the allied and associated nations than there are white folks. But who controls the bulk of those colored populations? And who is go ing to keep on controlling them? Is anybody afraid of the Hindoos ruling the world ? Or" the Chinese ? Or the Malays? Or the Africans? Or the Eskimos? Or the Sothu Sea Is landers? * The matter probably boils down to Japan. And judging from the scant consideration Japan has received at the Peace Conference, and the pitiful smallness of her military resources compared witv those of the other four big po. j and the disinclina tion of China to cooperate with her, the common variety of white man will do precious little worrying about Japan. The fact is that never in the history of the world has the write race been so powerful and dominant. , HOMES. : - A government bulletin on the sub- [ ject of homes asks so^ne questions) worth considering in these days when a great home-building campaign is! under way. In remodeling the old house, or] planning the new one. try it by these standards: .'"Does the house provide comfort, enjoyment, and some pri vacy for each member of the family?! Has it light.'air, sunshine, running wa- j ter? Is it easy to keep clean?" There is nothing suggested here which cannot be provided in the house of inexpensive type as well as in a mansion; and any cottage or man sion which lacks any one of the sug gested features will lack one of the fundamental elements of a real home. Even the running water, which may seem an unwarranted suggestion tor districts remote from city water sup plies, is not so, for in these days the wind mill or gas engine will solve this problem with little money outlay end mean a saving in time and strength which entirely outweigh the cash ex penditure. The house whose owner can answer the above questions in the affirma tive is calculated to meet not only the requiremets of shelter but also those of living; and better such a house though located in an unfashionable suburb than one lacking these quali fications though it be placed in* fash ion's very center. Death. The little son of Dr. and Mrs. T. R. Littlejohn died at the Tuomey Hos pital Saturday afternoon aged about eighteen months after only a few days illness. The funeral services were held this morning from the residence of Dr. C. J. Lemmon. Washington, June 4.?Five separate investigations of war department ex penditures will be made by house committees, each composed of two Republicans and one Democrat, ac cording to the plan disclosed before the house rules committee today, by Republican leaders. The inquiries would center about aviation, ordnance, camps and cantonments, quartermas ter corps and expenditures in foreign countries. Fresh Meats / , I have enlarged my Grocery Business by adding a Market, I will handle nothing but the j?est in Fresh Meats and will be ! Glad to Serve you. % * V.H.PHELPS 20 North Main Street 706 Telephones >j 707 STJMTER, 'S. C. ?' J^;'~ SSI Optometrical . Tif ^cnce.?^?rre^,1i *. faulty vision with the aid of &C1672C6 properly fitted glasses is a profession now fully recog nized and justly appreciated. <JThe examination we give your eyes leaves no doubt in your mind ?or ours?as to the character and extent of your trouble. Our experience and judgment in apply ing the proper glasses assures you o? the utmost satisfaction. . % /.. ...... D. L. WILLIAMS 1 OPTOMETRIST c?B omcc at Cit>' Bras Store Zeiup's Old Stand v\?>.' ;l;.V,? vi ? 947 Miles Oakland ana J^os Angeles?a most severe test, over mountian, roads, 'through a blinding storm, with mud hub deep in ** jf/-^'- - places. The Model 90 never faltered, never failed! ^*?5Sf Let us show you a duplicate of the car that made this^, i a ? .-.... *?- j i'.' ^yy B<? .record. / ?f?$& _ OVERLAND SALES COMPANY C: ?\Wcst Liberty Street Sumter, S. C.5 I*'- - ? 1Z_II ^.^ H ? OrwUad Model 90 Five Ptmnger Touriag C*r $985; f. o. b. Toledo'" #a3|??