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Bukttehed Wednesday and Saturday _ ?BY? QSTEEX PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTES S. O. Terms: f 1.50 ppr annum?in advance. . 'Advertisements. On*: Square first insertion . .. . .?1.00 livery ? subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. ' AMI communications which sub serve private interests will be charged hy-Xpt as advertisements. .Obituaries and tributes of respect ?fill be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ul in 1850 and the True Southron m IS66. The Watchman aud Southron now has uie combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, .and is marifestiy the best advertising medium in Sumter. CODDLING THE ' REDS." Deportation is not the final solution of the "Red" problem, but deportation | is by common consem the obvious, im mediate step to take. There is grow- j ing impatience over the apparent tim- j idity and dolay of federal authorities j in this respect. Months ago there was announce- i ment made of a general round-up of dangerous aliens. Particular at tention was-called to a trainload of trouble-makers from Seattle, destin ed for New York and thence for their j native lands. It appears now that j ?only seven men out of that murder- j ous cargo have actually been deport-J .ed. According to the New York | World three of them are still held n custody in Xew York, and/ 22 have been turned loose.' ' There lias been another big round up since. . .What is to^. come of that? How many of these violent, ene mie?;.of Americanism have 'been de-. ? ported so far,- altogether? How inany are held? How many have been freed, by. legal procedure or of-j* ficial laxitv,. to continue their 'fnenac ihg">propaganda? When are the ex portations going to begin in earnest?!' fThe^public wcmld like .to know. It is explained that'"^present laws} are not drastic enough to confer the.) necessary authority. ' For ?that,-. Con-) gress is responsible. It is also charg- ! ed that prosecutors afid "federal offi- j cials in general have not taken full j advantage of powers already existing.j The- people would like to see a tight-j ^ning up of la.ws and administration ; - . 9hI -'*?fefh/ The menace is too grave no! lay with. ! -i'i "Reds" imprisoned in Xew York re quoted as saying- "You have got! :us in jail, hut our turn.is coming, and ; "then -God help you! We wiil biow Ithe heads off a few people like you ! ? j referring to members of Congress) i .when the time comes." - How much' longer is the govern- j .^ment going to stand for that sort of j >ing? THE SUGAR HABIT. _" - I Most of the other nations would be j puzzled by what Americans have call- j s ed a "sugar famine.' Most of them j . would not f;nd anything very critical j .. in the recent shortage in this coun- j try. Italy, which uses habitually only j "j. one-tenth as much-sugar per capita] us the United States, would regard \ our supply as luxurious excess. So would France. ~ Our suagr consumption is not only j| lavish compared with the rest of the fe present-day world, but also compared 5 with our own past record. Even in wjj years of war scarcity we have used over $0 pounds of sugar per capita. 6 In 1S80 we used less than 40 pounds. E In pioneer.days there was very little St sugar. For thousands of vears civil ?>.. ized man got along very well with-, fcj <?ut it. consuming no sugar except | what he obtained naturally from j sweet fruits and vegetables and other! g foodstuffs. Most people nowadays seem to imagine that sugar is an imperative- i ly necessary food. It is se only be-! cause they have formed the sugari habit: Sugar is an excellent fooLl when not abused, and there is no prood < ..reason. generally speaking, why peo'-J .pie should not. have all they want.; Put they could -get along without it.] :'if they ha.d to. jusr as their ancestors' did for countless generations. =-??t^ THE INCOMPENT TEACHER. - >. "More than 3 00.000 teachms; po- i ?K". " ? * j sitions in the public schools of ihej .United States are either vacant orj ? filled by teachers bolo\\- standard, and I ,-the attendance at normal schools andj . teacher-training schools has decreas-i ' ed 20 percent in th<- l:ist three years." 1 f This quotation is from an official bul-i .* ? j ?." letin. of the National Education As 'M sociation. ? Its estimate, based on careful in vestigation. is that out of about : $00.000 teaching positions in the > prbli*- schools of ihe country, there f ?re 3f>.<;00 vacancies and ?'.;'?,00? :-. a :. -~?.j*rs beloTiw standard. ' That one-tenth of all tie- public .: School teachers of* the United States fat \. are below standard is a pretty se rious matter. In one way it seems' even more serious than the .?,9,0fl0j school rooms with no teachers at all. If a child, particularly in a ru ral district, has no school to go to, at least that child can be learning use ful things about agriculture and in dustry by his association with th-. indoor and outdoor work of the farm. Later, he may go to a good school ?nd make up his lost schooling. But if that child is in a school which pro tends to be a school and is not, he is not only wasting his time, but worse; than wasting it, for he is acquiring! bad habits of study and probably! learning mnay things which later must be unlearned. The recommendations of the presi dents of the teacher-training schools. 3Ti?'3e during the X. E. A.'s investiga- j r$?z\, are as follows: ?1. Higher salaries for trained j teachers. 2. Higher professional standards.; R-SastE-wWj tp hm LSHUUR bx excluding the incompetent and u-.i-l prepared. 3. A more general recognition by j *he pubhc of the importance of ther teaching profession. 4. More liberal appropriations to j State normal schools and teacher- j training schools in order to pay bet- i ter salaries in these institutions and furnish better equipment. 5. Extending the courses and raising the standards in the teacher .training schools. COMMON SENSE OR HARD TIMES, j _ I Every evil bears within itself the' seeds of its own cure. It is so. un- J doubtecHy, with the economic evils now afflicting this country. The United States is suffering from speculation, extravagant spending, i wasteful consumption and subnormal production. These might be summed up ir. two prevalent vices, growing Out ? of the war?-recklessness and laziness. Along with them, and iargely as a re-! suit of .them, are ?high prices. The natural remedy is hard times. The nation is headed today straight for that goal. The evils mentioned lead naturaly to hard times; and hard times in turn will cure them. ] But do the Americaja people want j to fall back on so drastic a remedy? There is nothing inevitable about it. Common sense, hard work and a j spirit of conciliation in industry and; politics could check the ruinous pro gress toward disaster, and set the j country soon on the road to solid, lasting prosperity. \ When neople themselves have pow-: er to changv lh<* current .O'f even:.s. j why leave the restoration to" ihe/"-siov.\ j mericless operation of punitive' uat-j ural .laws? THE QUITTING HABIT. ________ i } A Chicago newspaper prints an en-; i tertaining account of the convention ! held in that city by the new Labor; Party. It seems to have been one : long series of withdrawals. When the resolutions committee; proposed to denounce prohibition, a ; set of dry delegates withdrew and went home. When the majority showed itself in favor of the nation i alization of land, the farmer repre-j sentatiyes withdrew. When the sov-; i*-t form of government was urged. ? another set of delegates withdrew, and when the League of Nations camej up. still another set started for home. ? ? x i It may sound funny, but it is trag-j ic. because it represents a vicious! tendency that seems epidemic in the! f'nited States jtist now. There was the big industrial confer-: ^nce called by President Wilson. It seemed to be making real progress to ward the solution of some of the big.! labOr problems, when the labor group! withdrew, am! so broke up the con-j fcrer.ee. It has been the same with attempt-j ed settlements <.f the coal strike. Ev-i cry time the parties coneerned get together, one group or the other] leaves in high dudgeon, with nothing j accomplished. It was practically the same with I j the peace treaty in the senate. All this withdrawing in times of crisis is childish, and ir is mischiev j ous. 1; ? is simply ! "quitting"'?andj this is no time to tolerate quitters, i What country ^heeds today more than j anything else is for people t<> stand up and face the music?for quarrellir.g factions to get together and stay to ? gcther and light out their differences! man to man. until by attrition ind ! concession they arrive at acceptable compromises. "RED*' TALK IX SCHOOLS. _ I Chicago is undertaking a vigorous! campaign to eliminate "red" propa ganda from hs schools^ Getting rid of teachers and pupils who spread false radicalism and un-American doctrines is. of coarse, one way oi keeping the public schools sane and wholesome in ideals and attitude. l*u; it is too negative a method to achieve the P'-st. most lasting results. A teacher in another big city, who comes in contact will: pupils from everj kind of home, and of both j foreign and native-bovn_^?amilies. says, that she hears every day the most astonishing remarks from sonic ofj them. There are bitter complaints! against the government, threats arid i "red* talk of the most violent typo. I She makes ii her business to talk t. the pupil giving utterance to such ideas*, not to scold, but to learn whet? he heard them in the first place, and then to show him their folly and to tell him simply and directly what is wrong about ihem. Wherever-she finds a falsehood circulating through the school room she labels it at on< e and tries to replace it with truth. Class feeling, bitterness and anti social talk *can best be checked not by repression but by replacing it with a knowledge of real facts and an honest view of conditions. Every teacher Who can convince one pupil who has heard ? red"' talk in hi home or on the street.f that the uest good of any individual is dependent upon the good of all. that the w?y to bring about changes in government is Vy regular process and hot by bomb throwing, has done much to eliminate' "red" propaganda not only from the j school, but from the homes back of the school, and finally from the win.lei community. i WILHELM S ANNOTATIONS. The former Kaiser is undone; After all h;s frenzied disclaime/s-of respou-j sibility for the war. he Proves his own i guilt. He becomes a witness against ! himself, because, along with his lr>!i:i Of reckless speech, he had the fatal vice of ^scribbling. The inquiry into the causes of the war conducted by the new German i government has dragged to the lighi ! hundreds of secret documents. Th* re ! are bales of dispatches ami rep or t's j that were submitted to Wilhelm, bo- ( fore and during the war. and an-1 notated by him according to his cus tom with marginal remarks. Typical of them all is ihe comment he penciled on the margin of a report concerning the assassination of the Austrian archduke at Sarajevo, two days after that event occurred. Ambassador Tschirschky. at Vien- j na. had written: "I have repeatedly j heard here*, even.among serious" peo-, pie. that there must some day be aj thorough reckoning with the Serb's." | To this Wilhelm added the words, > - - '* 1 - ? ? j "Now or never! When the ambassador wrote that he had ''"seized every occasion in or- i der nutf-iiy. but very firmly and v- J riously, to warn against any liasty J sl'-ps." the, indignant aild heiliget ? ?;,! j Kaiser added', "wlio authorized lihh-j to dp this? This,is' very stupid, ii is; no . busim-ss of his. if ai'iorwaccls' things go wrong we will be told .Ger-. many was unwilling. Tsch risky..w-iilj please stop this nonsense. Accounts] must be settled with Serbia, and that j soon!" And for five years 'Wiihelm has; persevered in the Lie that neither h-. j nor his government had anything to j do with Austria's treatment of Ser-j i b:a. which brought oji the lug war. It] is the same with dozens of other mat-.! ters involving the question of war! *?'*.?' ? . ? ?? ? J conspiracy. * ? X .1 Those marginal notes will be heard ; from when Wilhelm is put on CriaJji before an allied tribunal. It shovd T*j be a warning to foolish scribblers- 1 SAFEGUARDING THE FUTURE. | The international labor conference j which has been meeting at Washing- j ton lias adopted these recommend.!- ; tions, which, will be submitted to the^ governments of the countries repro- j sen ted: The abolition of private employ ment agencies, tin- establsihment Of government agencies, the maintenance of an effective system of unempioy ment insurance and requirement that only by mutual agreement shall labor-! eis be recruited in one country for work in another. The abolition of night work for wo men in any public or private indus trial undertaking other thaia one in which only the members of the fam ily are employed. An eight-hour day and a forty eight hour week. Abopion of labor by any child tin der I.-l years of age in any industrial work except in Japan, where the age was reduced to VI years, and in cer tain of 11:? > countries less developed industrially, where the subject was made one of special consideration. No night work U>v young persons, male or female, in any industrial con cern'. There is also a recommendation for maternity vacations for women?six weeks before and s;-: weeks after childbirth, with indemnities to be paid by th?- Stat*\ Some of these recommendations seem ordinary, some seem radical. Rut there "in be no question that all of them look not only to the present but to the futiir?-, and that if the bat* Me againsi crime. poverty and, dis ease, is i<> be waged v.*ith any chances of success in the wor ld a; ktrge, these rccommendations represent minimum requirements. Constantinople, Dec. 2. iiiteres! in the l.'nited States' at ions on the Versailles tre?* ing shown !>v ihe.-Turks; V expresse?) iha: if the it- a:-, f.r ?ic'Jtion. Turk. \ v ill l?se b< ! 1.1VI-: MAN?With vord to dencr, stratc und sell the .1. C. .M. Accel' ? rator. Liberal proposition. J. C MewshaAV. 17 Stk. Exch: K'dg., Ra1 timore, Md. rn tense dcITber v is h<r chanve Sumter, S. C. We are now prepared to book orders for spring shipment on Ammoniated Goods, any analysis you desire. It will pay you to see us at once, as our tonnage this season will-be limited. 9 West' Liberty Street OUTLINE OF PRES IDENT'S MESSAGE Tells Congress That Conserva tive Legislation Program Is the Need of the Hour Washington, I><<-. 1'.?A diversified legislative program restore a peace time status, revise the tax system, euro, unrest, reduce the cost tff living1 ahd\rectify labor and farming condi-: tions was recommended by Presidc-rii Wilson today in his message t<> the new session of congress. The president asked for new tariff laws based on the nation's changed relations t<< the\rest of the world, sug gested that the income and excess profits' t;i>: schedules be simplified, ?'dvpcated steps to improve ruraj con ditions and promote production, and declared for a "genuine democratiza tion of industry" to protect both labor and capital. Th.o railroad problem he reserved for a future message and hi- made '?':.?> statement of hi*; intentions regarding the peace treaty or Mexico. Many of his recommendations were the same as those submitted to the special, ses sion last spring and several of them are embraced in legislation already being formulated in the two hojtses. To meet the cost <J living tho pres ident asked extension of the war time food control bill, federal regulation of cold storage, readjustment <>t" food transportation and establishment of a system |of federal licensing for all corporations' engaged in interstate, commerce. " He declared the cause og unrest t.? ?be supd'ricial aavd i.] ? i. a and fe'ade bis only reference to the ale's failure !<> ratify the pe:fa- trc*aty In saying- that restlessness was du? j?rgely to the nation's hesitation ii* determining its peace policy. The fed >ral governm en ti he deel a re*l. Vhotiid he armed with full authority i'- deal in ?he crlT?ma^ courts w.rtn j those who promote violence. 1 In an extended discussion of labor! conditions he declared ;li<- workers; had just cause for complaint in many j ^matters and that there should be a j ? full recognition <<r the tight of those.! i who work, in whatever rank, to parti- : l^cipate in s<>me organic way in every decision thai directly affects' 'ith'eir : welfare." FTc asserted^that rhosrightI of individuals to strike must be held ? inviolate- but added :thati rhfcr? mite? b<- a firm Ma:::! agains'- "attempt of any class i<> Ksurp -,i po^er *hat? only ' co.v. nv itself has alight to ex^ ? eiviso'a-s a protc^tionito a*l." Finally ii'he sr.gg sic ,{? the establishment, oC-a indtist rial ^disputes. He rent wed his recommendation for ; tribunal for peaceful discussion of : a budget system of narlopal finances; asked f,*r special prot-ection to pro mote the dyestuffs anil chemical in dustries and declared that fee admin istration bill providing fa mis for sol die.rs should be passed without delay. The nvessago, .? i! >?: j - r !>.(>00 tvords in length, was rahsmitt -d to tie capitol by messenger, the president oxpress i rng r( grei that Iiis health would no; ! permit his delivery of it. in person. ? It was read separately In senate and ! house where it drew niix?-o exprcs ! sions of approbatioii and disappoint^ ; mem. Tin- Memoc-ms generally praised ir as setting forth, decisively, ; a practical program of reform, while j on the Republican side thrre were 'many pomljitaints that i: lacked def i inii-'-ifss and ?omrfctod mention of tni ' portant problems. j ! In all of tin- private discussions '.among members and in some public I expressions regarding it. there was '?much speculation to what extent -<}-.?? pres:?lehVs iIirsess: had handicap^ [ped him in its actual preparation, i i ?u-'M-rats 'd'ee'lariharvM;\ Wilson's fvigorous beliet's on pttollc cfuestions i were shown by the, langnage of the I message to be unimpaired by Iiis ioh'g : i-ontiie tiv-nt .;^.:?t ;,wc;iiij;cs^. while va ; Republican cloakroom, gossip liter ? w.:s -'vidi4r a\4><*;ii?4*tp s^cu'J?te j On how. far h'.s onset's had gon^ in ''fram'ng the ? details.-' kmmbbmiii .?in m gjnan?rwTnnj-t-rnrrriT^m Th;s disposition was manifested it a uhlie statem< n't by Senator Fre Iinghuys? n. Reublican, New Jersey, declaring the document failed to take UM seme important public problems, a public statement by Senator Frc iinghuysen. "reflects the views of. At torney General Palmer, Secretary of Labor Wilson and Samuel Gompers. and undoubtedly they assisted in its preparation^" Senator Edge, Republican, 2Cew .Tersey. said in a statement that it wajs rather academic and "certainly lacks the usual Wilson punch." Tt was characterized as ''genuine adu Iterated Wilson message.*' by Sen ator McKellar. Democrat, Tennessee, and Sena;*.)- {'nderwnod. D-mocrat, Alabama, declared ii "up to the pres ident's fine standard'.' Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the acting administration leader, said that "few messages had pointed the way \ to .more enlightened remedies for ex isting evils." Senator Lodge of Massachusetts! the j Republican Senate- leader, had no ! comment to make, but Repr'<sent?r : tive Mor.d- II of Wyoming; I.lepubli can leader of the , house, issued 'a statement saying that, while "iries^ig-j ! contains much that we can approve : it does not make any marked contri bution toward the settlement' of the perplexing questions of the day:" Grillin-Boatfield. Miss Lurline Griffin, of Oakland . Avenue was married to Mr. William. 1 W. Boatficld,' aiso of Sumter. . The ; ceremony was performed by Rev. J. W. Guy. assisted by Rev. E. W. :Rey ; m Ids. in the parlor of- the home of i the bride's mother. It was a! very", quiet but beautiful wedding. Only a very few oft he friends of 'the cou L'tcaccing parties were present. Mr. aua...irs. VoattieTd left oh the evening ' train for- Jack son v rile and other points 'V' trth. -T-pon AhAhv-reiurn. they, will {-be 'i\i home to -their friends. at the i-honie of the motJ$e'r&of the-bride. ??? jii i ii hctw im um in in ??ai ?? j 'i . ' ? ? ? - ?? ? ? ? 4 r . . , _ \ T^fs season on account of the short hours we are open, it is best to buy your holiday goods at once. Ties in .fancy'boxes*.., . Gloves, Mufflers, Silk Hose, Shirts, Combination Set Suits and Overcoats We handle'the kind of presents that are really worth while, and your men folk will appreciate the fact that they come from . . 106 Bo J* wiaUUlCJ UmuM% W.