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Published Wednesday and Saturday . ?BY? Q&EEER PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. O. L Terms: ? f 1.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 j Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will be charged j for as advertisements. Obituaiies and tributes of respect j Will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found- j <? in 1850 and the True Southron m 1866. The Watchman and Southron ; now has the combined circulation and j influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising Oriental dancers are to be exhibit ed to students at Columbia to enable them to get an idea of the customs and ideals of the races represented. J And will they have shimmy dancers I and jazz artists to interpret American customs ajnd ideals? * * The thirsty souls in Eoston who re joiced to see the headline, "Swig Bill Passed by the Senate," realized how ' desert travelers feel when they see a mirage, when they learned that thej bill was only a financial one, introV duced by Senator Swig. * * * The late Nat Goodwin is said to have left $30,000 worth of liquor. Cu rious thing?that a man like Nat should have left all that. * * * The more favorable the crop re ports, the higher goes the price of food. Will some economist explain THE TAIL AND THE DOG. There seems to be going on an odd reversal of opinion with regard to the peace treaty proper and the League of Nations covenant incorporated in it. There is little more talk heard about j separating the covenant from the treaty and considering each on its own merits without regard to the j other. Even the enemies of the cove-1 nant are admitting new that this can not be done. The two stand or fall together. And standing together, they seem to assume a new relation to each oth er. Instead of the covenant being ? I .an appendage to the main treaty it al most begins to appear that the treaty is an appendage to the covenant. The situation is ?put with striking .Clearness by one of the New York newspapers. Pointing out the obvious imperfections of the settlement, it says: ,"What saves it, what guarantees a safe and reasonable interpretation in accordance with the needs of justk'e, is the League of Nations, which is the instrument through which the peace is to be executed and the tribunal through which it is to be construed and applied." President Wilson himself seemed to take this position in his address to congress. His faith in the German treaty as it stands is obviously based not on any confidence in the explicit .provisions made by the Paris confer ence ;so much as in the handling of them by a permanent international executive body succeeding the peace conference. It would be absurd, of course, to expect a treaty of such complexity and of such severity with regard to the Central Powers to administer itself. But the emphasis now placed on the League as the administrative power provided to execute the treaty, and also as the judicial tribunal to de termine its application in any ques tionable case, is something new. ?Formerly the League of Nations was thought of by many as merely the tail of the peace dog. Now it looks as if the tail may wag the dog. SPORT AND THE BOY. The boy was not very well when he was a little chap, and as he grew old er he suffered from indigestion and sick headaches which laid him up for days at a time. Because his stomach was disorderly it was difficult to get .him to eat proper food, and when he got hungry between meals he munch ed sweets. Result?at sixteen he was thin, sal low, his face decorated with unsight ly pimples, and he had neither strength nor ambition. But he loved the water, and finally learned to swim. He liked swimming, and did fairly well at it, but only fairly. Then he decided to enter a swimming race. As most of his learning had been swimming-hole splashing, with no ex pert instruction, he got a book about swimming a*nd began to read it. The first instructions said nothing about swimmir" at all, they dealt with diet. No sweets, no coffee, no tea. nor any of a lot of rich, greasy, un healthful foods. The boy was in earnest about the swimming, so he gave up all the cher ished indigestibles. and even the cigar ettes which he had been smoking sur reptitiously. He walked, as the book directed, and he took breathing ex ' ercises, all because he wanted to be a champion swimmer. As a last, finishing touch, he did his swimming. He won his race, and now holds the gold medal championship lor his age and class. But what is far more im portant, he is as ruddy as an apple, as strong as a young ox, and he likes plain food and he never is sick. What a working interest in an ath letic sport did for this lad it will do for any lad, or for any girl, or adult either. It is not only a card of ad mission to a world of happiness and pleasure, but to the world of health as well. PUBLIC WARNED AGAIN. Once more the government is send ing out warnings to the public to be ware of commercial exploitation of the soldier's or sailor's uniform. The New Bedford, Mass., Chamber of Com merce is conducting a campaign to discourage all commercial projects which make their appeal through pa triotism. Australia is making a sim ilar stand against the use of military terms and patriotic appeals in strict ly commercial advertising. The war department has announc ed that no man is discharged from the service until he is physicaly fit to work, to earn his living in some self respecting way. Appeals for aid be cause a man has been incapacitated in his country's service are not justified or honest. The public itself ought to be so tired of this sort of thing, done by a few unscrupulous and dishonest peo ple, that -it would do all it could to discourage such grafting on ignorant sympathy without these renewed warnings. It is well to remember, too, when begging is done in the name of patriotism, that true patriotism calls! for something quite different. Justice j to the man who has actually been in j service, and who has played his part honorably and courageously, demands thaf all this faking and sloppy senti ment and alms-giving should be thrown overboard. DROUTH WILL CONTINUE. Prohibition will continue to pro hibit. This fact has been made plain I since the president's arrival in Wash- j ington. It was thought that he J might suspend the operation of the dry law that went into effect July 1, on the ground that the war was now over and demobilization virtually ac complished. The president, however,! is reported to hold that the peace j treaty must be actually ratified before J there can be any possibility of declar ing demobilization at an end and thusj paving the way for a resumption of the liquor traffic. It is not expected that the treaty can be disposed of in less than two months. Thus prohibition seems as sured at least until the end of Sep-1 j tember. And by that time it is not likely that anybody at Washington will consider it worth while to let down the bars, because the period will be so short until the federal pro-; hibition amendment take seffect' in \ January. WORK HARD. Lord Weir, arriving in London af ter a visit to America, tells his fel low Britons: "Every man, woman and child in this country has got to work, and work damned hard. It is the only way out of our difficulties. { That is what they are doing in the | United States, and a rich harvest is coming to them." It is gospel truth, though the j phraseology is a bit profane. Nothing j but hard work can cure the world of' its present economic ills. Nothing else! can replace the wealth destroyed by war, pay the war debts and create a reasonable expectation of the future ease and happiness that the human race longs for. Americans are, very likely, working! harder right now than Europeans. They do it from force of habit. It j will do no harm to work a littlu j harder, however, provided the toil is performed intelligently, and accom panied by the proper amount o'j wholesome recreation and wiser liv ing conditions generally. Most people could accomplish 50 i per cent more if they only ate, slept, rested and exercised more sensiblv. An increase of 50 per cent in American! production would wipe out th?- war' debt in almost no time, and place) American prosperity as far ahead of; our own pre-war standards as it isj I now ahead of foreign standards. FOOD MONOPOLY. ! - I I One cf the big Chicago packing: [ houses announced recently, in a pub lic statement, with a great show of i (humility arid modesty. that it only! [controlled about '12 per cent of basic! foodstuffs consumed in the United States*. Only one-eighth of all beef, pork.] lard and various other necessaries of life required by 105,100.000 people! And this was only one of the five big j corporations which dominate not onlyi the meat, industry of the country hut] many industries with which packers have no natural connection. A recent report of the Federal Trade Commission shows that these master-packers, along with their "monopolistic control over the buying and selling meat markets of the United States," have extended their control over eggs, poultry, chees*-*. ?egetable oil products and other sub stitutes for meat and meat products and also rice, fish and many other necessary food materials. "The actual and potential powers of these corporate groups and individ uals," adds the report, "are far great er and much more menacing to the welfare and true prosperity of the nation than the enumeration of indus trial possessions would indicate. "This greater menance lies in the fact that the 'Big Five' have en trenched themselves in what may be called the strategic positions of con trol or food distribution. These strategic positions serve not only to protect the controls which the big packers have already acquired, but to insure their easy conquest of new fields." The report th<*n enumerates stock yards, terminal roads, cattle-loan banks, market papers, private refrig erator car lines for the transporta tion of all kinds of perishable food, i cold storage plants, branch distribut ing houses, banks and many other important factors, all of which j amount to "bulwarks of monopoly." It is time that serious attention be given to this situation. The monopo listic evils of the railroad industry and many other bing industries have bc-ei j corrected, cr are in process of cor rection. The alleged food monopojy i touches the public more vitally than ! any of the other monopolies ever did.) and must be handled accordingly. Ohio's a queer State. It permits the Wiilard-Dempsey prize fight to take place, but won't permit any moving picture exhibitions of it. Which is very much as if it allowed j the saloons to sell whiskey but refus- ! ed to allow anybody to show photo graphs of saloons selling whiskey. Why don't the coal operators, who are prophesying a tragic scarcity of fuel next winter, accumulate some thing of a surplus stock themselves, j instead of expecting the consumer to j do it all? Their coal won't spoil. * * * Von Hindenburg offers to place: limself "fully and absolutely at the! lisposal of the allies." That's fine? j much better, for example, than simp ly giving them a wooden statue to irive nails into. There have been bitter fights over! peace treaties in the United States! senate, but no peace treaty ever fail ed of ratification. YELLOW PERIL PERSPECTIVE, j It sounded very alarming whenj Senator Phelan of California an nounced* that one-third of all the} t>irths in Los Angeles county outside of the cities and towns were Japa- j nese, and that according to State re ports "the Japanese births in the last ten years have increased 3,000 per cent and the white births have decreased about 9 per cent." He gave the impression that Japanese women,' coming into the State as the wives of men already there, were populat ing all rural California with yellow children. A little calm inquiry tends some what to allay the fears thus inspired, j It is pointed out that the last fed- j eral census gives California 41.0001 Japanese, and the whole country 72,-! 000. It is not likely that the num ber of Japanese males has greatly in creased, because they are kept out by international agreement. While re cent figures are not given, it seems quite unlikely that as many Japanese women have come into California as there are Japanese men already there) ?the government would hardly ad-j mit more than one wife apiece. : Suppose, however, that there are as many as 40.000 Japanese women in the State. There are estimated" to be more than 2.750,000 people in Cali-1 fornia, altogether, of whom nearly half are whit*1 women. Obviously, i the whites are still holding their own. As for Los Angeles county, it con- j tains altogether no less than 800,000 people. Even though iL is the strong hold of the Japanese invasion, it does not seem to be in imminent danger: of Japanization. That '^.noo per cent" is*alarming enough; but its real explanation is| found not so much in the numbers of| Japanese babies being born now in! Los Angeles county as in the fact I that until the last few years there j were hardly any being born. The Japs are undeniably gainingi tin* ascendency in some rural sections] of California and other Pacific States,, and that fact is reason enough for concern to tin* white population. But ! there is nothing to be gained by dis tortion of figures, whether intention-j al or unintentional. In dealing with the "yellow peril." as with any other peril, it is well to keep one's perspec tive. J Y & CO., Inc. COTTON 10 FERTILIZER lEICHftllTS - if you have cotton to sell, see us, it wiD 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 Rate Hearing Revision of Rates Expected to Boom South Atlantic Ports - Washington, July 1',.?What, is con sidered by many to be the most im portant rate hearing in the history of the New South, if not of the en tire country is scheduled to take place in this city July 15th. On that date, a concerted effort' will be made by influential Southern ana Middle W7estcrn commercial forces to persuade the railroad administration to so revise freight rates from the Middle West that the South Atlantic and Gulf ports can secure their share of business in competition with fa vored New York, df the railroad; administration grants that request,; and it is said that the administration | is by no means prejudiced against it ? ihn South Atlantic and Gulf ports will ; experience, it is predicted, an vnpre-; cedented boom. Shipping will crowd ; their wharves, and the hinterland im- I mediately behind them, like the hin- j terland about New York and other big j shipping centers, will share in that j prosperity. This hearing has been arranged by | the South Atlan ic Maritime Corpor aticn?the quasi-public organization,! formed by the live ports of Wilming ton, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick \ and Jacksonville and backed by the I States of North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia and Florida?in cooper- j ation with representatives of the Gulf ? ports headed by William Allen of New Orleans who represents in Wash ington the city of New Orleans in ni ne w policy of aggressive commercial expansion. The hearing will be at tended by representatives of practical ly all the influential Southern and Western Chambers of Commerce. The latter are especially interested in se curing additional gateways for im ports and exports so that they need no longer suffer from the periodic traffic-congestion which obtains in the famous "neck of the bottle," the ap proach to New York. The specific request filed with the railroad administration is that freight rates should be so adjusted that points west of Pittsburgh, like Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, can ship for ex port as cheaply through the Gulf and South Atlantic ports as they can through New York. The plea will be heard on behalf of the administration by Edward Chambers, Director of the Division of Traffic, and Max Thelan, Director of the Division of Public Service. It is expected that the prin ! cipal arguments will ho made by; ?Judge Harry Covington of Washing-] ton, D. C, general counsel for the South Atlantic Maritime Corporation,; and Luther AI. Walter, of the firm of Borders, Walter and Burchmore of Chicago, hi addition Senators Huns dell of Louisiana. Fletcher of Florida, Simmons of North Carolina, Hoke .'Smith of. Georgia, and others will also participate. The hearing is scheduled for ten o'clock on the. morning of July ."th I but there will be an important con ference of the delegates at the Hotel Wiilard on the previous afternoon at !which the entire situation will be can | vassed. ! So far Jts the equities of tie* ease : ::n^ concerned, the advocates of the j proposed rale adjustment profess to i feel entirely at ease. On the whole ! the distances from the Middle Wes tern points to Ouif and South Atlantic ports are about the same as the dis tant >-s to New York: some are nearer than New York, some a little further ! away, but the differences are negli gible when it comes to matters of ex port and import. Furthermore, the South Atlantic and Gulf ports have a great advantage over New York in, economy of port operation: a thou--' sand miles through Charleston or Sa vannah or Jacksonville, for example, is far less expensive than a thousand miles through New York. But the largest otiestion of all is one of pub-! *:e policy: Shall the enormous im port and export traffic of Kasten United States continue to pour through ] one hug" pert or be distributed, wit]1.! an eye solely to the general welfare ;and sound, national economy, through a number of ports? ; Thus the argument runs. ' "In asking for this hearing and in outlining our contention." said Presi-' dent Matthew Hale of the South At lantic Maritime. Corporation. ' have. I been impressed with the fair attitude : of the railroad administration. While , I cannot assume, of course, what their decision will be. I believe that they are just as keenly aware as we lare that the present system is one of great maladjustment and that some ; arrangement must be made by winch [the enormous export and import trade of 1919 1!?20 may be handled more ;expeditiously and economically than it is at present. "Net many months ago. for example the railroad administration made such rate adjustments between the Middle West and the Pacific coast?for ex-j !port purposes?as to make it possible for a Middle Western manufacturer to ship to Shanghai^as cheaply by way of the Pacific ports as by way of New York. This may be considered an ex treme example but it is justified by the necessity of relieving- New York from the congestion which constantly threatens it. The claim of the Gulf and South Atlantic ports for equal rates with New ifork is. we .believe, even sounder." Building Tie-Up Threatened Chicago Construction Employees Take Action To-day _ % Chicago. July 17.?Final action by the building construction employers, association on the proposed cessation of ail building industries in Chicago, Illinois.. was expected at the meeting fodav of representatives of all con tractmg organizations. Approxi mately one hundred thousand'work ers are involved. To Make New Treaty Representatives of Belgium and Holland Meet July 29th Paris, July 1C?July 29th h^s been - ixed as the date on which represent atives of Holland and Belgium will meet the delegates of the five great >owers in Paris an<l begin work on he revision of the treaty of 1S39. London. July 17.?Gen. Pershing, ? ,vho is here to lead the American* rocps in tho victory parade Saturday, was the guest of the King and ?ueen at a luncheon today. FOR SALE?Or will trade for dry cattle several Jersey heifers..J or^ . young cows with young calves. Ev * W Dabbs, Mayesville, S. C. R. 1. WANTED?To haul your tobacco to Sumter. Any quantity. > For rates Phone U72?J. Parrish Dray Line.' BEEHIVES AND SUPPLIES?I have lately received a few Georgia made hives and fnames?8 and 10 frame . size. Also on hand sections and foundation for comb honey. N. G. Osteen, 320 W. Hampton Ave._ C EES WAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small Am paying best cash price. See me if you nave , any. N. G. Osteen. We venture this timely wor d oif warning to all who are inter ested in the College Outfit of yo ur Boy or GirL Today?Sheets, Pillowr Cases, Towels, Spreads and similar necessities are cheaper than they will be at the usual time of buy ing such articles, and so we say, don't wait until August or Sep tember, but get your list filled NOW?AT TO-DAYS PRICES. _ ?THAT'S ALL?