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Cfjt $8a?$maB wti Bedpan. Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. O. Terms: 81.50 per annum?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 V>r &d advertisements. ..Obituaiies and .tributes of respect will be charged for. '"'The Sumter Watchman was found In 1850 and the True Southron m 18 66. The Watchman &ud Southron cow has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. . - CURB THE SPENDERS. According to the New York Times,! . .there are "four major lines of busi-j ness activity which report great pros-J ' perity?jewelry, musical instruments, automobiles and tobacco?all hon essentials." . When non-essentials are in great er" demand than essentials, as they seem to be in many communities, it is hard to resist the conviction that i popular extravagance has about as much to do with high prices as has a spirit of profiteering. In fact, ex travagance plainly encourages that 'spirit. When dealers in necessaries of life see people frittering away their money with such abandon on mere luxuries, they are not greatly to be blamed for piling on more profit than usual. { Says the Washington Herald: . "The cheaper cuts of meat do not move any faster when the better cuts double in price. "Shop-girls are shod in the latest style of shoes, whether they cost $5 or $15 a pair. "The traveling^, public demands the best the finest hotels have to offer, whether the price be $3 a day or $30. "The cafes and carabrets and grills and similar resorts are as thronged as ever, and the cheaper restaurants, where the serving of food is the main business, do not gain in popularity. "Nobqdy that is 'anybody' quits | joy-riding when tires are boosted 50 per. cent. "The higher the tax is, the more dense the crowd becomes around the counter." This may be overdrawn, but there is plenty of truth in it. Not everybody has been extravagant, but the nation as a whole has been indulging in an orgy of thriftless indulgence and care less buying for which poor people and people formerly in "comfortable cir cumstances" are now paying. While curbing the profiteers., it is also well to curb the spenders. HOMES BY EMINENT DOMAIN. Part of the State Socialist regime of North! Dakota is a law which is said to operate as follows: Any "ten men desiring homes may gjo anywhere and take land, under the right of eminent domain, just as railroads do, and have it financed with State funds up to a limit'of $10,000. The home-seeker may thus settle down wherever it suits his fancy, pro-1 vided he finds nine other men who ap prove his choice and are willing to co-operate with him. The owner, be he farmer or city dweller, is cbligedj to sell. His own prfvat^ desire is of no avail. i There is a good deal of opposition to this law among North Dakota land owners. It is now being fought in the courts on the ground that it is unconstitutional. It has stirred up a controversy in the Non-Partisan League, which is responsible for its adoption. It certainly does look pretty radi cal. A farmer does not want a choice piece cut right out of his farm merely because some other man wants it and because a paternal State is willing to help him pay for it. Pri vate ownership i? generally interpret ed as safeguarding the owner against private invasion, on any pretext what ever. This plan is, of course, base on the socialistic, anti-private-ownt. >*..p principle of nationalization of land. Ir is a long step toward the Russian soviet plan. North Dakota has a right to adopt it if North Dakota wants it. Other States seem well content, for the present at least, to stick to more conservative policies and let venture- i - some North Dakota do th^e experi menting. PERSHING PHILOSOPHY. "I don't let anything worry mo," says General Pershing. "I do a good day'.-* work, and when it is finished 1 go to bed. And what is more, i go to sleep." More words from the wise. Gener al Pershing has plenty of things to worry him if he were of a mind to let them. While he was abroad he must have carried heavy mental bur dens. He might have worried him self into his grave. There must have been many a day when he could r.ot yiccomplish the thing that seemed vi ia?' It took courage to send his young men by the thousand into the apparently hopeless'mazes of the Ar g?nne Forest, to know how they fell like grain before the reaper at Chat eau Thierry. It is not easy to deter mine that brave men must die. Waiting for supplies that never came must have tried his patience and his nerve more times than his tory will tell. Every decision he made was freighted with responsibil ity. Besides all this tax upon him as a soldier he has personal sorrows of the kind which tend to pull the eyes wide open in the dark. Yet here is his philosophy: To refrain from worry; to do a good day's work, and at the end of it, go to bed ?nd to sleep. It is a master recipe for insomnia. Some of the nervous people who com plain of wakefulness should study it carefully. It is a creed of deliberate intention, and what is more, anybody who chooses to live by it can do so. ^???????n?? DILLON WANTS THIRTY-SIX CTS. Organization Planned to Take Care of Distress Cotton _ i Dillon, Sept 12.?A meeting* of the Dillon county unit of the American Cotton Association was held this af ternoon. County Chairman Dr. J., H. David presided. A report was heard secretary,.L.Mannin m m mg.tempor from T. L. Manning, temporary sec retary, who was sent as a delegate to the New Orleans convention. A re port was made of the membership of the county association and money collected as follows: Membership, 608; money collected, $3,400. Committees volunteered to go into the districts not yet worked and obtain membership in them. It is be lieved that 1.000 members will be gained in this county. Mr. Manning made a strong address and outlined a method of taking care of the cotton crop and to enable the farmers ot get their ;price of thirty Six cents and above. It is certain that Dillon county will organize a cor poration very soon to take up all the distress cotton put upon the market. The plan as outlined is that the cor poration shall buy all the cotton of fered at a quarter of a cent above any price offered by any other buyer or factor until the price of thirty-six cents is reached. Dillion county will need a $300,000 1 corporation, and it is believed by al most every farmer that the capital ?stock can be secured within forty eight hours. A mass meeting of the farmers, together with all the mem bership, is planned for Friday, Sep tember 19. L. D. Jennings, of Sum ter. the originator of the county cor poration plan, will he present and ad dress the gathering. WORK IN S. C. HIGH SCHOOLS Dr. C. B. Akin in charge of the venereal disease control department of the State Board of Health" has an nounced that plans are about complet ed for the promotion in the high schools and colleges of United States Public Health Board's campaign for physical fitness in the schools. The campaign is especially designed for high school and older boys and it is planned to carry it into the larger high schools of the State this year. The Keep Fit Campaign consists or poster cards and a lecture delivered, by an expert on the question and it is hoped to reach at least ;i,500 older boys of South Carolina this fall. The State Board has appointed Mr. James H. Grauel of the State Y. M. C. A. to direct the promotion of this campaign and it is'hoped that Sumter will be among the first cities in which this acmpaign will be felt Restoring Disabled Soldiers. When it comes to restoring its damaged fighters, the government has means and resources far beyond those of any human being or ordinary agency. Quite recently a young wo man was located in Savannah, Ga., who was an expert at teaching the art of lip-reading to persons who lost their hearing. Now she has a class of six Southern soldiers, whose sense of hearing had been destroyed in the war. "I was a little afraid to try teach ing grown people," she confesses. "My pupils had all been children. But they learned so rapidly and tried so I hard?and succeeded so well?that I lam tremenously proud of all of them." j This is a fine example of the "hu i man touch" in government relier Work?only too often people conjure up a vision of hard, splendid offices and inextricable tangles of red tape, when the government is referred to. But not the crippled soldiers?and not the deaf soldiers?and not the Red Cross, which will tell you any thing you want to know about the government's methods in these mat | ters. J Rome. Sept. 15.?Gen. Badoglio. j deputy chief of staff of the Italian 'armies is on the way to Fiume as the result of Captain Gabriele D'An nunzio's occupation of that oily with armed forces. Premier Nitti has characterized the occupation us con | trary to the government's policy and I "seditious." -i [Rome, Sept. 13.?Several villages in < the province of Vincenzia were shak en by an earthquake last night. One person was killed and a dozen injur ed. Chicago. Sept. 13.?Evidence was ; presented to the city food bureau that [wholesale grocers bought canned I goods at army sales and sold them at la profit after changing the label. J Chicago. Sept. 13.?A committee j representing fifty Illinois manufac 1 turing concerns met here today to (begin organizing the employers of the j country "to look out for the interests of business." '- i I-?! NEW DECISI?N ON REINSTATEMENT Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass, on July 25, sighed a decision of momentous importance and in terest to discharged soldier?, sailors, and marines. In the decision (T. D. 47, W. R.) the secretary ruled that discharged sol diers, sailors and marines who have (dropped ... cancelled -heir insurance j may reinstate it within eighteen ! months after discharge without pay ; ing back premiums. - All they will be asked . to pay will ho the premium J on the amount of insurance to be re instated for the month of grace in which they were covered and for the current month. Thus for example ii a man drop ped $10,000 of insurance in January, 1919, and applies for reinstatement I the 1st of September for $5,000, all he j will have to pay will he the premium for January (the month of grace) on $5,000 and the premium for Septem ber on $5,000. Or, if he applies for reinstatement of the full $10,000, he will pay a-teta4>^f_ tw^ months' prem iums on $10,000. one for January and one for September. He will not have to pay premiums in either case for the intervening months. The decision stipulates that the former service man applying for re instatement be in as good health as at date of discharge. Former Treasury Decision 4 5, W. R., and other prior regulations in con flict with the new decision are revok ed. Director R. G. Cholmeley-Jones, o.* r* ?? Bureau of War Risk Insurance following the signing of the decisior. made the following statement: ' "The present decision is one of th? most important to former service men that has been made in the his tory of the bureau. "Many service men have been de terred from availing themselves of the former and less liberal reinstatemen: privileges by reason of the relatively large amount of money represented by accumulated overdue premiums, and because it would seem that they were paying for something that thej never actually had, which, in fact was the^casM^. "Under tne^iev^aedsion a man i? relieved of th< b?rde? of overdue premiums. He) has an opportunity t< rehabilitate hijmself financially aftej getting out of the arm/, navy, or ma rine corps, and to reinstate his insur i ance at any time within IS monthi i following discharge w'.thout the bur- ; den ? of paying a large amount o? money. "The reason payment for th< month of grace is required under thn new decision is that the insured wa protected by reason o? his insurance continuing in force during that month and that .had he died during the pe riod of grace his policy would hav. been paid. "Of course, every man who 1 ar dropped his Insurance should rein state Jt^imng-diately, for the reasoi That if~TnHKulcl die before reinstate ment his aepr^BBi^^ftfr "not rjecew' any payment ? N "Therefore, I urge that care b< taken to .-mai e clear 'o every forme, service man U'ho has iropped his in surance that [the new ruling does noi automatically reinstatj him, and t< impress upon him thkt he will be without' insui^ance until he voluntar ily applies fc r and setures reinstate ment. He should immediately apply for reinstatement for his own pro tection and ffhat of his dependents. "Don't forget that men die or toe come disabled in pea<ie time as \!er that if a mar lie in as gooc e time of hh as in war tfme, and waits he m health as discharge acd conselTWntly may noi be abie to secure reinstatement. "Don't put off reinslitement. Do i' now." If the policy-holder; is unable t< keep the fwll amount of War Risi. Insurance he carried while in the ser dee. he may reinstatelpart of it from j $1,000 up to $10,000. tin multiples o' j $500. Reductions be made ii multiples ofj $500 to afrfy amount, bu" not less than $1,000. ,LPreiniums ar< due on the, first of t^K- month, , al though payments mai be made an: time during the calendar month. Premium^ should be paid by check draft, or mjoney order! payable to th* Treasurer of the United States, ant sent to the {Premium Receipt Section Bueau of War Risk Insurance, Wash ington, D. C. Married. Mr. A. J. Ardis arid Mis.? Ruth Nunnery were married on Sunday af ternoon at 4 o'clock by Dr. Branson at his home. Mr. and Mrs. Ardis left for Fay otteville. N. C, where they will spend a few days. Pueblo. Sep:. 15.?The Mexican-' residents of this city have abandoned the annuai jelebration of the inde pendence of Mexico from Spanish rule, following the lynching of twe Mexicans accused of killing a police man. MILK COJ?fcSsj^ojw sold rvy farm, I am tire herd of dairy either is a herd o This i.; in unusual get higl grade, big that hav,; been prolv in eve-y particulfl equipment for salel Sumter .S. C. DELCO-?GHT SALE?Havim offering my en cows for s^1 as individual opportunity \ producing com en satisfactor r. Also dair C. P. Ostae? The replete Eh f'ower ric Light and it Self-starting. StopsI automatically. So simple a child ein operate it. T. M. BRADLEY, Phone $49-L i Snniter^S. COTTON II FEBTIUZEB IlillS ff you have cotton to sell, see us, it will p;; ou. If you have fertilizer c? fertilizer materia lo buy it will p iy you to see us before you buy, Cash or approved collateral. 9 West Liberty Street I Cotton Market LOCAL. P. G. BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer. (Corrected Daily at 12 o'clock Noon). Good Middling 28. Strict Middling 27.50. Middling 27. Strict Low Midling 25. NEW YORK COTTON MAKKFT. Yea'td'y? Open High Low f'o? Close. Oct . . 28.75 29.06 2S.50 29.06 28.52 Dec . . 29.05 29.29 28.75 29.29 28.80 Mch . . 29.07 29.29 28.S0 29.40 28.87 NEW ORLEANS. Mch . . 29.10 28.67 29.05 2S.60 Oct . . 2S.70 29.00 28.46 29.00 28.59 n?<* . . 28.75 29.98 28.46 29.98 28.52 SERIOUS ERROR IN SUMTER. Sumter Citizens Will Do Well to Profit by the Following. Many fatal cases of kidney disease have reached an incurable stage be cause the patient'^ did not understand the symptoms. Even today in Sum ter there are many residents mak ing the same serious error. They at tribute their mysterious aches and pains to overwork, or worry, perhaps, when all the time their rheumatic pains, backache and bladder irregular ities are most probably due to weak and ailing kidneys. If you are ill, if your kidneys are out of order, profit by this Sumter resident's experience. Mrs. G. H. *J dale, IS Saratoga Street, says: "A good many year.-, ago I had trouble with my hack and I surely wa*. in misery. My head ached and I was all unstrung. I had dizzy spells and T f^lt tired and lan guid. My kidneys didn't work right and it worried me until I read about Doan's Kidney Pills and began using them. One box of Doan's cured me of all the complaint and I haven't had to use a kidney medicine since." - Price GOc at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Tisdale had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.?Advt. (7S) Coulter-Brown. i _ i On Sunday e 'ening. Septemh occurred the marriage of teile Coulter r.nd Mr. El. The ceremony was oerform 14 th The m sale E. YV. Reynolds at th< parsonage. We extend :o these you; our heartiest wishes for a h prosperous journey along- tl m on ial roa d \v ay. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will future home in Clarendon y<. . Es-1 McLaurir. . ! ;rown. \ death 01; liev. i o'clock. 1 apt ist' dent of ? ! reared i people j ('onfedei ? !>y and i tive part matri- ; riod. j The fu e their j day at 1 : Presbytei Death. friends of j;.r. Cornelius 1 be sorry < lea.rn of Iiis tirsday afteenoon about 3 McLaurin was a resi ? elield 'and ?.vas horn and .nter cour y. Be was a veteran and took an ac ;ng the reconstruction pe 1 services were held Fri ?dock at :he Wedgefield Church. Our Business is Growing to such an e:: ut thai, we have been obliged to add another Teller. There were times when ,our friends were forced to w&i and tiv y did it most patiently, foi which we are very grate-, ful, but the will not have to do that any long \ Wo hop' you will force us to ad- still anotl r, and we will do it if i -.^d be. Just keep coming. The First National Bank sumter, s c. * * I r* t if f k lie National Bank of South Carolina t ?V? f <>f Swrter With resources $2,000,000.00 and better, is pn pared to accom modate, anxious to serve, and sure to please yo\i. Come With Us. i 1 4 ?? <? V. SOWLAKB, F,' E. HINNANT. Casr?er, "Polarine for me, every time! You see, I've tried them all and I kno The indestructible coating of lubrication that Polarine Motor Oils place on all moving parts keeps the motor free running and powerful. 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