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PubLtehed Wednesday and Saturday '' ?BY? OSTEEL PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. O. i Terms: 31.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 Bvery subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will he charged V>r as advertisements. Obituaiies and tributes- of respect frill be charged for. The Sumter Watchman -was found in 1350 and- the True Southron m 1?68. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation aud Influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best adverus .- t medium in Sumrer. Isn't it about time the college pro fessors organized a union, joined the American Federation of Labor and struck for better pay? * * * Prices have oegun to go down. They will keep on going down, pro vided people don't start right in squandering foolishly all the money they figure on saving for the i next year or so. * * * After all this controversy over the peace treaty, reconstruction and oth er matters of cosmic "import, along comes a practical philosopher and maintains that rhe remedy for all po litical ills is?to go fishing. , * * ?? Traveling salesmen are now begin ning to carry photographs of their - goods, instead of samples. The next step may be for the salesman to stay in the hon*o office and mail his cus tomers phonographic records of his customary line of talk. DEMOCRATIC ROYALTY. The democracy idea really seems to be spreading. Suggestions cf it are found nowadays even among royalty. We have heard often of "democratic kings" in these latter years, and there has been some notable progress made along this line by th?? rojal fam ilies of Belgium, England and Italy, but on the whore, the term has Leen a misnomer. Royal democracy has consisted chiefly- in condescending to mingle with "commoners" occasional -" ly?a mere yielding of substantial power and privilege. Now, however, King Victor Eman uel of Italy gives a more convincing sign of failing in with the spirit of the times. He is said to have handed over "six of his finest palaces, villas 1 and parks" for the permanent use of disabled soldiers, sailors and orphans!1 cf those killed in battle, and has an nounced that he will relinquish "all hid vast domains" for the benefit of "the peasantry and those who fought for Italian unity." More convincing still, he will "sub feet his private patrimony to taxa tion equally with the tax of every commoner," and at the same time, j continue his "usual public gifts of $4i>0,0G0 a year. With all this liberality, Emanuel! will hardly suffer for the necessaries of life. He still has a few palaces left, and from all indications, a pret ty respectably-sized fortune. How he xir his ancestors obtained them it would probably be impolite to inquire. Seme questions about royalty are sim ply not asked. ,' Why anybody should ever need even as many as half a dozen palaces will pass the comprehension of an Ameri can, just as it passes comprehension why a ruler's wealth should ever have been exempt from taxation when the property of his humblest subject is taxed. However that may be, Emanuel is to be congratulated for having seen the light and done the decent thing beyond th* wont of kings. They may all come to it. in time. If they don't, pretty soon there won't be any kings. OLD CLOTHES. A controversy has arisen over the suggestion made by Mark Sullivan, former editor of Collier's Weekly, that the way to beat the cost of clothes is to turn a suit inside out when it gets shabby. Many tailors have risen up as one man?which is as it should be, if it takes nine tailors to make a man? asserting that an old suit cannot be ? turned. They give all sorts of tech-J nical reasons to prove the Impossi bility of it. Against^ their arguments, j however, rests the testimony of Mr. j Sullivan that he has actually had it I done by a New York tailor, and that two United States senators have like wise had it done, and been well satis fied with the results. It seems to be a case of finding the right tailor. And surely if the scheme works as well as Mr. Sulli van says it does, there ought to be' more than one tailor in America able and willing to turn the trick?and the suit. In lieu of this miracle, however, thorn i? thQ st*hrip* griven bv former tecret?ry of the Treasury McAd??, t? wear patched trousers?or skirls, a* j the case may he?when clothing grows \ over-expensive. He himself is said to j have set the example of wearing patches on the seat of his pants?or on the knees, or wherever it is that Mr. McAdoo wears them out, though whether those patches were sewed on by Mrs. McAdoo is not revealed. Now comes his successor, Secretary Glass, with a similar message. Handl ing more money than anybody else in the United States, he boasts of his old clothes, and says that he expects to wear his customary office suit five years longer, if the suit will stand it. Far be it from the writer to discourage the buying of a new suit when it is really needed. Even a knightly suit of boiler-plate would wear out in time. But there is vast flexibility in the life of clothing. It is amazing how long an old suit may be kept serviceab z and good-looking, provided it is kept cleaned and press ed. There is a suggestion that is possibly worth more than Mr. Sulli van's. LABOR AND CAPITAL. PARTNERS. The United States Steel Corporation may possibly have a '"right" to refuse any dealing with its employees on a labor organization basis, though that is a very debatable question. But even if this refusal is admitted to be a capitalistic right, it can hardly, in this day, be considered sound policy. It may well be granted that Steel Corporation has acted progressively along many lines, and in many re spects has treated its employees with more than ordinary consideration. It hardly deserves to have applied to it tnis criticism, made by a national la bor leader: *^So long as capital takes no interest in the human side of the labor problem, if all the worker ..is to the manufacturer is a number on a payroll, you are not going to solve the problem.'" But a further remark made by the same critic does apply: : "So long as the employer will neith er meet with nor recognize a com mittee of workers, just so long there will be trouble. If the industrial problem is solved, tit can only be solved by the worker having a voice in establishing conditions." The world has moved along too far. mankind has suffered too much, and workmen today are too intelligent and Powerful to make it safe or pos sible for capital to maintain the old fiction that it is necessarily the mas ter of labor, and that whatever con cessions it makes to labor are gra cious benefactions. Labor wants nc crumbs from the rich man's table Labor wants to eat, self-respectingly, at a table of its own, not as the so cial equal but as the economic equai of capital. And it will gain its end ?peacefully and amicably, if capital is wise, and forcibly if capital is auto cratic. NOT EASY TO CURE. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has been called the "aris tocracy of labor." Its membership ic intelligent and powerful, and accord ing to the generally accepted notion, is highly paid. Eut possibly it has not so enviable a superiority over oth er labor organization as has been supposed. In view of recent criti cisms of the ^railroad brotherhoods, it seems only fair to quote this state ment from Warren S. Stone, president of the Locomotive Engineers, in re ply to an inquiry as to whether his men were not already "getting enough money." "The average monthly income of an. engineer," he said, 'is $200, and he .spends $40 to $60 of that away from home. Our insurance records show that the average life of the engineer from the time h? becomes an engi neer until we pay his insurance is eleven years and seven days." These are facts that will bear thinking about, quite aside from any practical bearing they may have on any particular wage controversy. The more deeply any of these industrial problems are gone into, the less sim ple they become, and the more diffi cult it appears to settle them in the easy, off-hand way of superficial thinkers who have a nostrum ready for every economic ill. LOWER TAX FOR BUILDINGS. One remedy proposed for high rents which is receiving serious at tention is the lowering of the tax rate on buildings. it is pointed out that most of the other remedies suggested have this defect?they would tend to discour age building. With the country as a whole about three years behind in its building program, and with the addi tional difficulty to be faced of making up the building deficit in a time of high prices for materials and labor, it is evident that building must be en couraged in some positive way. It is argued that the lower-tax so lution would at the same time in crease building operations and lower rents. It is an old idea, already ap plied to some extent in this country, gaining force now to meet a new > problem. Its adoption anywhere ; quires state legislation changing trie ' old taxation system,- and so it is a ; rather slow process. This represents a sort of half-way step toward the Henry George plan oP a "single tux." imposed on lane! alone. Even a slight lowering oA building taxes is sure to be opposoi: by those whose wealth is invested in land rather than buildings, because they fear that it will raise land taxes. It is possible, however, that the tem porary deficit created by lowering the building rate would soon be made up by the increase in the number of buildings. The proposal is worth thinking about. It might be found desirable '.o apply it to houses, at least, in ord"-r to promote home-building. BIG SAVINGS STAMPS. The War Savings plan has been re garded rather superciliously by many people. It seemed a petty thing to in vest mere quarter-dollars in Thrift -"tamps and then turn a collection of :hem into a mere $5 Saving Stamp. Even a collection of these sufficient to fill a book looked undignified along side of a bank book. This was the exceptional view, for-j runately. Enough people have taken the plan seriously to pour more than $1,000,000,000 into the United States treasury. But now an appeal is being ! made to the disdainful folk who, if they must save money, want to save it in more than 'juarter-dollar or five dollar units. The Treasury Department has is sued, and is now placing on sale in the postoffices, new Savings Certifi cates of $100 denomination. They will bear interest at the usual rate, md are subject to the sa*\e conditions of redemption as the smaller stamps. Along with them there is a new $1,000 certificate which Will be sold only at the banks. With these inducements, therr ought to be a rapid rise in Uncle Sam's thrift fund. THE SAiFE VACATION. Anyone who has returned sound and whole from a vacation in the woods will tremble to think what he .'acred, when he buys the new pamphlet issued by the U. S. Public Health Service, gruesomely entitled "The Safe Vacation." "Sanitary conditions are more im portant than golf links or ball rooms," warns the little counsellor, tl also jives a list of bandage-s, drugs ana ether contents of the bath-room medicine cabinet which should be taken along. It even insists that a clinical thermometer and a hot water bottle are the only safe and sane companions to life in the woods. If you camp out, you must trench iround your tent, build a wooden floor, screen your cook tent, and then, being exhausted, lie down to pleasant dreams of what a good time you might have had if you were not upon the safe vacation. Upon the safe vacation you carry remedies for bullet Wounds, for drowning, for poison ivy and for chig ger bites, and on any and all occasion you send for the doctor. This last is the refrain, the golden thread of harmony, which holds the composi tion together. Perhaps it is just as well that the book did not come out until most people had had their vacations. It they got it now and read it promptly it will be possible to forget most of it by the time vacation time comes round once more, and the vacationists can start off unsafe as always, but happy. Several young men of Sumter en joyed a fox hunt on Wednesday night. MYOPIA is the Optometrie name for near-sightedness. A near-sighted child can rend but cannot s<>e well at a distance. In any game of play he is al ways the one t<> be tagged. Oth er children are far-sighted ami also nc<-d glasses to enable Vhem t<> study. L<-t our optom etrist add a pair of glasses to their school supplies. ARBY & CO., Inc. mm HE FERTILIZER HUTS If you have cotton to sell, see us, it will pay you. If you nave fertilizer or fertilizer materials to buy it will pay you to see us before you buy, Cash or approved collateral. --i r niiMiniw mm S West Liberty Street i Y. M. C. A. NOTES The Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium Opens Monday, Sept. 15 The local Y. M. C- A. is looking- for ward to this year to be the biggest year of its history with the boys back from the army and those who were here last year, we expect to do some good work and have State champion ship teams when it comes to volley ball or basket ball. Look at the shcedule below and see which class you can arrange to he in: Freshmen ? Monday, S. 30-4.30; Thursday, 3.30-4.30; Saturday, 10-12 a. m. Junior?Tuesday, 3.30-1.30; Friday, 3.30-4:30; Saturday. 11-12 a. m. High School ? Monday, 4.30-5.30; Thursday. 4.30-5.30. Working Boys?Tuesday, 7.20-S.30; Thursday, 7.30-8.30. Business Men?Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 6.15 to 7.30. Young Men?Monday;and Wednes day, 7.30-S.30. Basketball Game?Friday 8-9. Swimming Lessons?Saturday, 9.15 9.4 5 a. m. Friday Nighters?Friday, 7.00-*.{:0. Musiness Men: For pleasure and j ?ecreation, how about getting into the j volleyball games at the **Y" every] afternoon at 6.15. Young man: Help { Sumter win the State championship in : basketball this year. . Regular "'Gym" work first part of ! each class followed by basketball on i Monday and Wednesday at 7.30 with! special match games every Friday: night. ' T. C. McKnight. I Physical Director. ' Mr. C. H. Hutchins of Spartanburg ; was in the city for a short time on ! Wednesday with friends. NEW PICTURE SHOW _ I ????? i Rex Theatre Building Purchased By R. G. Hill of Gaffney ? _. i Mr. R. G. Hi!!, of Gaffney, hasj purchased the building- now occupied! by the Rex Theatre .from Mr. \V-\ liam Berg of this city. Mr. Hill' at present owns and operates several picture shows in South Carolina and intends to open up here as soon as possible. He takes possession of >1)^ building on November 1st and will im mediately begin to renovate. Mr. FT512 expects to fit out the building with handsome, new fixtures, a steam heating plant, an excellent cooU?ig system and all modern convenient cs found in the b;'St of theatres. Under the management of "the new owner. Sumter will have another up-to-dato theatre. Mr. Miller of the Rex Theatre will move back to his old quarters wheiv the T4ric was located and expects to give the same good service as heretorc. LOST AT SEA Forty-five Adrift in Small-Boats Off Miami Miami. Sept. 11.?Fcrty-five per sons are reported adrift in small boats between Fowey Rock lighthouse and Cape Florida as 2 result of the storm. Beats have left here to go to their rescue. v Teachers' Examination. . TI. > regular fall teachers' examina tion will be h<dd by the County Board of Education at the Court House on Saturday. October the fourth, at nine o'clock. J. H. HAYNSWORTH, County Superintendent of Education. NO MORE RATS or mice after you use RAT-SICAP. It's a sure rodent killer. Try a pkg. and prove *t Rats killed with RAT SNAP leave no smell. Cats or dogs won't touch it. Guaranteed. 25c size (I cake) enough for Pan try, Khcchen or Cellar. 50c size (2 cakes) ..for.. Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. $1.00 size (5 cakes) enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by Sibert's Druj Store, O'Donnell & Co. and Du rant Hardware Co. Sumter. S. C. Marriage Licenses. ? White: it. W. Andrews of Sumter ! and Lucile Brunson of Sumter. I Colored: Enoch Fulwcod of Mott j Bridge and Roberta Monzie of Mott. j Bridge. ? .foe Davis of Sumter and Lena ! Jackson of Sumter. Miss Lena Wallace of Wilmington is in the city today. j BEEHIVES AND SUPPLIES?I have I lately received a few Georgia made j hives and frames?8 and 10 frame I size. Also on hand sections and j foundation for comb honey. N. G. i Osteen, 320 W. Hampton Ave._ j ItEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small Am paying best cash price. See me if you have any. If. G. Osteen._ MILK COWS FOR SALE?Having sold my farm, I am offering my en tire herd of dairy cows for sale, either as a herd or as individual*. This U an unusual opportunity fcO t-. i Wish grade, big producing coWB, rn.ii h.tve been proven satisfactory in every particular. Also dairy equipment for sale. C. P. OsteMfc Sumter. S. C. TIME, 10:30 A. M. Located on Bishopville-Dazel Road, 4 Miles Southwest of Woodrow, S. C, at Gallard's Cross Roads SUB-DIVIDED TO MEET THE WANTS OF ALL THIS IS KNOWN AS THE T. H. AND H. E. PARKER PLACE, NOW OWNED BY W. R. SCARBOROUGH AND J. S. DIXON. All in a high state of cultivation, Underlaid with red clay and just as fine as can be made. Good home, twelve tenant houses and all necessary outbuildings. Close to good Schools and Churches. Railroad siding 1-4 mile of farm. Each and every tract will be cut to face a hard road. Attend this sale TUESDAY, SEPTEM BER 16TH, 10:30 A. M. BUY FARMS and pay for them with RENT MONEY. CASH PRIZES EASY TERMS BAND CONCERTS FREE LUNCH