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% Half gmatt ai? Sratjjnm.! Pubik&ed Wednesday and Saturday -_1 ?BY? txsTEsar {publishing company * SUMTER, S. O. Terms: 11.50 per annum?in advance. - Advertisements. ?ne Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 Uvery subseq u ent insertion.6 0 j Contracts for three months, or I tenser will be made at reduced rates. | AH Communications which sub- ( serve private -interests will be charged! *>r as advertisements. I Obituaries and . tributes of respect Will be cnarged for. The Sumter Watchman was found u< m 1850 and the True Southron m 1866. The Watchman aud Soutaron now has'i.^e combined circulation and influence of both of the eld papers, and is marltestly the best advertising medium^ in^ Sumter.: .M,IMIII, I LABOR'S SHARE. A student of labor conditions, him self a workman, recently declared that most of the industrial discontent in the United States today is based not on actual wrongs suffered by labor, but on false ideas put into workmen's heads By radical agitators. It is laigely the result, he reported, of a; deliberate propaganda of distorted V. ..... f. . . i facts undertaken by the American I. W. W.*s and Bolshevists. The most mischievous . notion* spread among American workers, he said, is the no tion, preached everywhere by these radicals, .that "capital" gets 85 to 90 per cent of the "earnings of indus try,'' and. "labor" only the remaining Id or 15 j>er cent. , This as the workman-investigator confessed, is almost exactly a reversal of the fact. A good example is found -in -a re cent statement made by a rubber company which is not only one of the biggest business concerns in the country, hut one of the most prosper ous. Its sales for the current year are estimated at $165,000,000. Of that,sum-its net earnings are estimat ed at ?20,000,000/ The other $145, 000,000 go," of course, mostly to the corporation's' ^3,000 employees. Of the remaining rart paid for material, etc., a correspondingly large part, of course, must be allowed for the labor engaged in producing and handling those materials before they come into the rubber company's hands. Thus this very prosperous corpor ation is found to be getting a trifle over 12 per cent on its ouput. An economic-expert estimates that, taking , all business throughout the United States, th^ percentage is sE^ll^g^than thatf?peuhaps 10 per cent 4s going to *^apita4 end-90 per cent to labor, using "labor" in a broad sense. ? Even this percentage may seem un just in some cases, when there is a small investment' and a big volume of production; but it is evident that the general ideas current among workmen .on this subject need cor-j recting. r - GERMANS AND COOLIES. Mathias Erzberger, German minis ter of finance, declares that the heav iest taxes will be only a drop in the bucket of German debts, even if Ger mans live,like Chinese coolies. The heaviest budget ever' introduc ed was adopted by the assembly, de spite the opposition of extreme radi cals and extreme conservatives. The taxes made necessary by this budget will certainly tighten the belts of the Germans. But it is a long way from the German five meals a day, from heavy- meat and rich sauces, to the Chinese coolie's bowl of rice. It is a lo?ig way from feather coverlets and sanded floors and gardens to the squalid burrows in which the cooiies den. The stolid fatalism of the coolie, ! who dweHs in inter absence of all hat seems to make life comfortable; the poverty which chains him to the necessity of spending all his hours in hard labor for the meager indispen sables to sustain life; his utter lack of leisure, of chance to get ahead, seem to make up th ? most undesirable form of existence. The German extreme of making th^ mind and soul slaves to mere bodily j comfort, to a stupid and antisocial materialism, is equally bad for the world. Somewhere between these two ex tremes lies a region of plain living and.high thinking. If the heavy taxes imposed .by the Allies as part pay ment for the wrongs they have borne can induce the German nation to en ter that state of life, the world will be a better place. THE ONLY WAY. A correspondent writing of the in ternational trade congress at Atlantic City recently gave this summary of expert opinion about economic condi tions in general: "The world has got to take off its coat, roll up its sleeves and go to work before everybody can be happy again and have a reasonably full stomach." It is merely another version of th^ fact which intelligent observers have freen repeating, with infinite variation and endless repetition, ever since the fighting stopped. Work and produce! There is no other way to cure what ails the world. The trade congress aimed this ad vice primarily at Europe. Europe seems to need it most. The very ca tastrophe which created the disease ma?es it more difficult to supply the remedy. The 'war required tremen dous effort Tne victory left the na tions weary. Europe, having borne most of the strain, finished most n ^ar ly exhausted. Bodies and souls w.rat rest. It is thus harder for the Eu ropeans to get back to their normal productivity than for Americans. Ttt they must do it soon, or starve. Ftr they lack not only goods, but credit, and the United States cannot continue supplying them at the rate of the last few years. The lesson, however, is almost as applicable just now in America as else where. With boundless stores of raw material and with all the machinery of production at hand, the American people have beer, slowing down pro duction to a lamentable and dangerous extent. Voluntary idleness and in dustrial strikes are playing havoc in a world crisis, and throwing away a great opportunity. If American indus- j tiy continues at this slow place, Amor ica raav evenually find itself as bad- j ly off as Europe Americans r.ave been taking off j their coats, but to fight instead of' work. It is time to stop fighting and start accelerating production. VCUR HEART AND YOUR DOLLAR. "All you need is a heart and a dol- j lar." It can be the same old heart j that it was last year and the year be- j fore that, but it must be another dol- j lar. The Red Cross annual membership drive is on, and in spite of high prices and decreased production, it asks no more of any one than it did before. There is littla need to plead the! cause of this great society. It is] known by its works. It may be that: there is lacking some of the romantic! appeal which stirred our hearts dur- j ir.g the war, but the Red Cross does; no less great a work in peace. Right j now it is. conducting relief operations in seventeen European countries, and preparing for relief and emergency j work on a tremendous scale in this! country. Not to give the dollar would be thej difficult thing, and every subscriber asj he buys his memberships will onlyi wish that at least he were twins. ?JUTICE TO POSTAL EMPLOYEES. 1 ! _________ I Emergency, legislation pending in Congress is expected to add $100 to $200 a year to the salaries of postal i clerks, letter carriers and other sub-1 ordinate employees of the department.! The new scale will be effective from j July 1, last. It is intended to help j the postoffice workers meet the cost 1 of living, and is precisely what itj purports to be, an "emergency" meas ure. The situation in the postoffice de partment is certainly serious. Post- j masters everywhere report that their | best employees have been leaving, j because they can obtain better pay :n j other lines of work, and it is impos-i sible to get capable men to take their j places. This absurdly low rale of re- { i muneration has been one of the big. factors in the deterioration of postal j service. The vast and constantly] growing volume of postoffice business! cannot be carried on without a large, j growing force of competent and con- | tented employes With a crippled j force, all overworked and discontent ed, it :s probably to be wondered at; that the service is no worse than it j is. Congress cannot grant this raise any too soon. It will be a tardy act of justice. Though it will cost the nation money, it will doubtless im prove the service enough to put more than its cost back into the public pocket. Starving postoffice employees starves business. I _._ TILE COILED SPRING. The restlessness of the boys back from overseas .;as given no little con cern to those who have tried to place them in jobs. Jt often proves that a nun cannot txo back to his old work, and tries half a dozen different lines before he seems to settle into anything comfortable and with any reasonable prospect of permanence. A writer in the Woman's Home Companion quotes the principal of a business school us follows: "I'm wil ling to do what I fan. but I don't know w to explain it. They seem uu?-r irresponsible. Talk about army discipline and what it does for a man ?why, there's nothing to it." To whieh another mem 1 ?er of the Soldiers' Welfare Committee replies: "You say that beeause you have never been under the strain of fight ing or army discipline. Those men were 184 days under shell fire. They've been wounded. They were hunge rt n?t thirdly when you folks were play ing at the game you called conserva tion For two years and three months ! they were under a discipline which, for sternness can be compared only to prison life, the discipline, just or un just, by which men win wars. Think of them as tightly coiled springs, hold down oy an iron bar. When such a spring is released it shoots into the air, quivering. These men have been released, and are still quivering in body and soul. It will take time for them ro steady themselves and to stand firm." This is worth thinking about. And it is applicable to the people at large. The soldiers were held down more firmly than the civilians. But every man, woman and child knew the grip of the iron bar of war. and can un derstand that feeling of quivering re lease. This explains much of the seething turmoil of this last year. The discontent and chaos were only nat ural. Eut they are already settling. Steady, normal life is getting is grip. A little time, a little patience, a lit tle tolerance, and everything 'will move onward steadily again. with conditions bettor than ever before. SELLING IDEAS. Sometimes One hears pessimistic talk about the inevitable clash be tween ideals and business. A man who is president of a great paint and varnish company, and has been working with paint and varnish j through fifty successful years, believes quite the contrary. In an interview 'given the American Magazine he says that he always instructs his salesmen that they are to sell ideas first, and to j remember that paints and varnishes are merely the instruments of ideas and ideals. "Because paint or varnish' improves the appearance or-a home, or an office, or a building, they must sell their prospective customer the idea that paint means Beauty. Because clean liness is sanitary, they must sell the idea that" paint means Health; be cause it preserves surfaces, they must sell the idea that paints mean econ omy. Cheerfulness, brightness, color ?tnese make a pleasing environment; therefore, paint may actually mean added Happiness. People arc attract ed to r ~tore or a theatre, or even to a church, if it is well painted and ar tistically decorated; and for that rea-. son paint means Prosperity. "If the ideal around which a busi-i ness is being built up is one of more selfish money-grabbing, the ideas used in manufacturing and selling will surely bow to this ideal. You will find that business honeycombed with ideas of cheap labor, cheap produc tion, swollen profits?all of them ideas for furtheringfselfish gain. "On the other hand, if the central j ideals are faith, happiness and ser vice, the' ideas permeating that busi ness must and inevitably will be those of honesty, integrity, confidence, qual ity, a contented and loyal organiza tion and customers who are well serv ed and satisfied." , \ These are not the vagaries of a theorist. The man who utters them is one of the country's successful men, and his business carries out his ideas. It looks as it' people misht begin to j learn, after a .'while, that ideals arcj not incompatible with making a com-j tortatlc living. And when capital and j labor have learned that the one great] principle upon which to base their efforts should be the service of the public weal, when all the warring parts begin to realize that they are. after all. only parts of the same whole, and that the good of one is the good of all, most of the difficulties of the labor world wiil solve themselves. Berlin, Xov. 3 0.?Communist head quarters were raided by the authori ties Sunday, troops seizing literature and maps showing the division of Ber lin into eighteen communist districts. LOST?Strayed or Stolen, one bay mare, five years old, little grey in face. Scar above left knee; nail cut above hoof on right leg. Noti fy W. A. Oak es, Providence, S. C, R. F. D. 1?Box 7._ FOR SALE?One pair good farm mules. Spanish mare mules, ?300. T. W. Lee, Sumtcr, S. C. $3.50 per bushel SEED WHEAT Fulghrum & Texas Two and three Pound Bagging Ducker & Bultroan 905-906 COTTON INO FERTILIZER MERCHANTS 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 ADVERTISING COUNTY FAIR Railroads Distributing Circulars Advertising Rates The Atlantic Coast Line and the North Wust^rn Railroad Company have issued attractfye advertising "fliers" calling attention to the low rates offered by all transportation companies entering Sumter for our fair, and have posted their passenger stations on their eight lines of road entering Sumter. and connecting lines with this valuable advertising mat ter. The Seaboard Air Line Passenger Traffic Department has notified the Sumter Chamber of Commerce that !?his company will also get 0:11 adver tising fliers like the C-jast Line and Northwestern Com pan ies! The passenger traffic department of the Southern Railway has referred the request for advertising nur fair to Mr. W. E. McGee, of Columbia. Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Southern, and it is hoped and believed also that Mr. McGee will co operate with the other railway sys tems in thoroughly advertising the Sumter County Fair?November ISth to 21st, inclusive. The agricultural, land, und industrial agents of the Southern Railway, Atlantic C<>ast Line and Seaboard Air Line eonipa nTes-have been invited and evei\v one have,accepted invitations to attend our "I9i9 fair, and these enterprising and clever gentlemen will thoroughly oooperate with the U. S. Department of Agriculture experts in the peanut, sweet potato and other diversifica ! tion, get ready for the boll weevil ex hibits of our fair. It looks like the 1919 Sumter County Fair is going to *bc a regular South Carolina State Fair so far as the-Department of Ag riculture and C'.emro'n College can r?jako it. and taking into considera Xion the unusual interest manifested in cur fair by thousands from all over the eastern and western, northern and southern portions of this great State, Sumter will have to bo up and doing to entertain, the big crowds here next week. Mrs. Marion Zemp will be chair man of the Fine Arts Department of the big Sumter County Fair, Novem ber 18th to 2lst, inclusive:';. Mrs. Ferd Levi will assist Mrs. Zemp as superintendent of this im portant department. Any one desir ing information about this depart ment is invited to call phone No. 265 J jand Mrs. Levi will be glad to furnish [any information within her power. ! All articles for exhibition should jbe sent to the Main Fair Building on jnext Monday. November 17th. between . LO and five o'clock when- there will be i representatives of this department to . receive some. I' is tin- hope of Mc.sdamos Zemp and Levi lhatjthey will be able with j the enthusiasm and cooperation of local devotees of {'me arts to develop a very creditable exhibition and to j arouse interest in this county in this branch of art. BIS 11 OP V ILL E NEWS. I Bishopville, S. C, Nov. 8.?The j Court of Common Pleas has been in session here all week with .Judge Melver presiding. Most Of the eases ; wore decided or carried over to an ! other court. ! Mr. J. Ed Sin key is serving on tne jury in the tJnited States Court in : ser-sion in Columbia this week. ! Mr. James Croswell, a former resi dent of this place, was buried at the Methodist cemetery yesterday. i Mrs. Charley Stuckey, who hns been very ill with pneumonia, is much oet ;? and we trust will soon be well again. Messrs. Brooks Stuckey. J. II. Clif ton and John D. Lee, oJ Sumte?-, were in attendance on eour. this week. The ladies <>f <>ur town are very ac i five in soliciting new member's and ; renewing the membership of former , members for the Ren! Cro5?s. ; The sales of cotton have fallen off [very much for the past week. j Had the farmers heeded the advice of the Cotton Association and held their cotton off the market, they would have reaped a far richer har : vest than they have. Some of ou^ farmers are thro. :i gathering all of : their crops and are planting their oats. Cotton is selling hero for 3." to 40 cents for .short and S5 to 92 cents for long staple. Cotioh seed $93 per ton. There are three large brick build-, ings about completed, one on Church j street and two or. Main street. Also ! a number of new residences are being! built. On Saturdays our town is so crowd-; ed with visitors (mostly colored) that j it. is din"!cult to walk- the pavemerts. or to drive the streets on account of the automobiles parked on either side from the court house to the depot. The craze for buying land has some what subsided as the boll weevil has ? made h.s appearance so near us. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sc^'t are ??nend- ] ; ing a few days in Columbia visiting his I brothers. Mr. W. W. DesChaxnps has been a 'great sufferer from a slight bru:.>e on , his hand, made in handling a block . of ice. / V -? Tili: FREE PUBLICITY NUISANCE ; (Greenville Piedmont) ' Every newspaper in South Carolina now receives daily a huge wad of pub : licity matter in behalf of nearly a dozen causes. The newspapers are ,'requested to publish all of this stuff. !If they did, there would be nothing i eise in an issue but this matter. i The'men who prepare these articles I most of which contain no news, are well paid for their services. For hold : ing down a job of publicity director of one of these organizations for a couple of months a little shrimp, who is not even a trained writer, received t-'uHOO. The newspapers which pub ; lished the articles h<" sent out didn't get a penny. ! Thus it comes about that every ;? newspaper in the State is being asked ? to devote the greater part of its space to publicity campaigns. This means I the outright gift of a large amount of money repreesnting paper, ink and labor on the part of the newspapers, making an immense total expense to each of them. Then, too, the publicity is, a? a rule, poorly written, padded, often just plain bunk. The publicity man, press agent, or public director, :call him. what you will, is frequently a man who has failed to make good in the newspaper game. This sort of tiling cannot go on much longer. No matter h<rw worth}' ? a cause is, if its organization has enough money to hire press - agents, it ought tc> pay for.its publicity.' The South Carolina ' Press Association ought, to establish some mutual agree ment that will check the ever-sweliing flood of material of this sort by re quiring payment for. it on a parity with other advertising matter. There are too many campaigns on now and too much publicity materiaT^* is being shoved at the newspapers. The press has been very generous, but the more it has given, the more is requested of it. The time has come to put up the bars. New York. Nov. 10.?The govern ment, again assisted by city and state authorities, today continued to spread nets: .about the city in the hope rt trapping seventy-five hundred mem bers of the communist party who will face charges cf criminal anarchy and edition. Arests are expected to con tinue for weeks. rnmmm ii igarettes made to meet your taste! Camels are offered you as a cigarette entirely out of the ordinary?a flavor and smoothness jjjjj never before attained. 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