The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 12, 1919, Image 4
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and is marltestly the best advertising
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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
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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
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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
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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- {
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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