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PufcBshed Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. O. Terms: 51.50 pflr annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 ; ^tvery subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rate*?. All communications which sub /%erve private interests will be charged tor aa advertisements. Obituaiies and tributes of respect Will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found in 1850 and the True Southron m X866. The Watchman a.id Southron now has Cie combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising - medium in Sumter. _ DID THE STRIKE PAY? The coal miners have gained a H per cent increase in pay, and lost six weeks of steady employment. Many of them have had a hard time of it, because their strike benefit fund was tied up by court order. It would not have sufficed anyway, large as it was, to keep them in the barest necessaries of life for half that length of time. JNow most of them have used up their savings. Large numbers are in debt. The 14 per cent will help somewhat, but it will take 10 months of steady work at the new rate to make up the lost wages for those idle, six weeks. Was it worth it? That depends, of j eourse, very largely on the viewpoint If, as most people are convinced, the, miners might have got the same re- J stilts without striking at all, without j losing a, day's wages, simply by mak- j ing moderate demands in the first j place, then it certainly wasn't worth the sacrifice. When the loss of public sympathy is added to the money loss, the miners have much cause for serious thought. I And not only the miners, but any oth- i er group cf workmen that may have been thinking of going on strike be fore the possibilities of fair negotia tions are exhausted. AND BEAT THE GAME. ."No Christmas at our house this year?everything is too high." This is t?e general trend of Christmas con versation at present. It is true that prices for every thing seem to be inflated, and un doubtedly it is wiser for most fam ilies to curtail their giving, but un fortunate indeed is that household where the prevailing spirit of anx iety is allowed, to .interfere entirely with the Christmas spirit. There are small things generally considered at this time as of insufficient value for gifts which yet are generally accept able to grown-ups. There are things j which': make fun for everybody yet; cost little. As for the children beauty ever I lies in.'the eye of the beholder, and; to the 'children thank the. Lord, toysM are toys, dear to the heart and stir ring' to the imagination, though to the/purchaser they'may seem trifling. Nobody can be blamed who feels j that ae- can give nothing. Times are hard and life is full of", care. But the person who matches his wits against i the problem, and gives something to the people he loves, though it be but little,^ will be as truly beating the great game of life as the man who in the face of toil and discouragement builds ^up a business. The whole j world will be more cheerful, better off, happier and richer, because he | has refused to let the game "get"! him. COMMODITIES AT COST. The. woolen manufacturers have seldom been thought of in the past as1 particularly zealous for the welfare their employees. There is keen in terest; therefore, in the announced in tention of William M. Wood, head of the American Woolen Company and the most prominent man in his indus try, that he will build ahd operate in Lawrence, Mass., a ten-story depart ment store and provide his employees all kinds of commodities at cost. tJI b?ve no desire," he says, "to go into the grocery and provision or the wool and- coal business or deal in any ofithe other necessaries of life. But I have noticed the great discontent prevailing in Lawrence over the hign cost of necessary commodities. It is ha^sSly worth while to raise wages and then have the cost of living sim tiltaneously increased out of propor tion.", *He does not want to be unjust to the. local merchants, he says. He has given them what he considers a fair chance to lower their prices to a level that he considers reasonable. If they fail to do so, he declares he will go ahead with his plan. And if he does, it wilt be "on a big scale." . Here, indeed, is one way to lower living expenses. Exactly what Mr. Tjftood means by selling goods "at cost" i^.not clear. It is hardly possible that intends retailing everything at the jjriees he will have to pay the whole salers^ manufacturers. Presumably the expense of constructing and op erating that big department store will go into his estimate of the "cost." and possibly, too, a fair percentage of in terest on the investment. That would be a businesslike way of handling the matter, and would keep out of the en terprise the element of unfair compe tition. If, after making such allowances, Mr. Wood is still able to sell food, clothing, fuel, etc*, far lower than its I prevailing retail price, he will have performed two big services for the I public in Lawrence and elsewhere. He [will have proved the existence of what j many observers have declared to be j the biggest factor in the high cost of j living?the charging of unfair profits 1 in all lines of business; and he will I have shown how to evade what some j one calls the "universal, tacit conspir acy of profiteering." If, by setting up a big store and icutting out excess j ]>rofit he can solve the cost-of-Iiving j problem for his employees, other man j ufacturers can do it -for their em ployees, and perhaps employees can do it for themselves?as can any group of inteligent, thrifty citizens, when they set their minds to it. RED CROSS SERVICE A Wandering Boy Restored to His Mother By Sumter Home Service He was a lad of 19, with clear blue eyes, and his name was Joe, and there was something appealing in the way he approached a member of the police force late one afternoon, about three weeks ago, and asked if he might be allowed to sleep in the guard house that night. He had spent all his mon ey and had no place to go. The kind hearted poice officer gave him a bed [in the guard house for the night and j next morning reported his case to \ Mr. Horace Karby, Judge of the Re [ corder's Court. Mr. Harby imme diately went down to see Joe and by j his symoathetic manner soon won the, boy's confidence and had his story, j [. Joe's father and mother and a j younger* brother and sister lived in j Worcester, Mass. Joe Tiad run away j from home a -year ago with a circus j and had traveeld with the circus for] almost a year as "lion tamer," his work being to care for a lion and ex hibit him in a side show. Joe and the lion grew very fond of each other] and the lion would willingly obey Joe's] every command. After some mont'.is, i however the manager - of the show ] gave the position of ''lion tamer" to] another man, but it was still Joe's [ duty to care for the lion. One night. I when the circus was moving from one ] town to another, Joe forgo- to put; fresh straw in the lion's cage. When j the manager of the show found this I out he became very angry and fired Joe and put him off the train at Sum ter. Joe secured a job at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C, nut when that work was finished, he did not' have enough money to get home, so he came back to Sumter. Now his money had all given out and he i-oo'd no longer pay for his food and lodg ing. He was tired of traveling around and wanted to go home, but had no money to buy his ticket. Mr. Harby took Joe to the Red Cross Home Service office, where a tele gram was sent to his mother, advising her of the whereabouts of her boy.! By four o'clock in the afternoon the, secretary of the local Home Service Section had received a telegram from the Red Cross Home Service in Wor-; cester, Mass., stating that Joe's par ents requested the Sumter Home Ser-; vice to buy a ticket and send Joe, home and they would reimburse the[ amount expended on him. The secre-! iary phoned the Atlantic^ Coast Line station for schedules and at six o'clock she went to the station with Joe. bought his ticket, gave him some money to provide for his needs on the journey, and saw him safely on the train started for home and loved ones. When she shook hands with Joe and wished him a safe trip, he told her how much he appreciated what the Red Cross had done for him and promised to write when he reached home. A few days later a letter came from the Red Cross Home Service in Wor cester, telling how happy Joe's family was to have him home with them again, expressing their appreciation of the great service which had been ren dered them, and enclosing a check for the loan made to their boy and his railroad fare to Worcester. Men's Mass Meeting. A large and attentive audience greeted Dr. E. W. Sikes on Sunday at 3:15 p. m.. at the Rex Theatre. The meeting was presided over by Dr. S. H. Edmunds, chairman of the Re ligious Work Committee of the Sum ter Y. M. C. A. The meeting was opened by prayer by Dr. John A. Brunson, pastor of Grace Baptist Church. After th< singing of a hymn, the audience greatly enjoyed songs by a local quar tette composed of Messrs. David W. Cuttino. T. V. Walsh, Battles, and Sebenhousen. Dr. Sike's message was indeed a masterful one and was greatly en joyed by all who attended. The subject of *he address w;*s "The Character of Jesus." The speaker explained several phases in the life and character of Jesus. Th^ meeting on next Sunday will be heid in the V. Ar. C. A. building. The speaker for the occasion is Ma jor Harry E. Raines of Charleston. Major Rains has quite a reputation as a speaker and will undoubtedly ben efit any one who attends. The meet ing will start at 3:15 p. m. sharp. Cliristmas Poor Fund. Previously acknowledged ....$762.44 Shaw & McCollum. 10.00 Miss Elmer Epps. .50 Miss Rebecca Jennings. 1.00 Schwartz Bros. Mdse. $773.94 .$25.00 MORE PAY URGED FOR MEN IN NAVY Washington. Dec. 21.?Tar sage by ! congress of a joint resolution provid J ing for pay increases to navy person ? nel, as recommended by him in No vember, was urged by Secretary Dan iels in a letter today to Speaker Gil lette of the house in which the sec retary declared that due to the loss j of its skilled men the navy now was j unable to man the number of ships j that "should be kept in commission." j Emphasizing the necessity of im J mediate action by congress Secretary ! Daniels asserted that while total en llistments now were about 102.0G0, the {great majority of these were boys un I der 10 years* of ago, entering as ap j prentice seamen. Ke added that, based ! on the diminishing number of war- ( [ rants and petty officers in the service, j the navy has in fact an effective en ; listed personnel of only 45.000. Due to the. rapid loss of men in the j skilled grades because of higher j wages obtainable in civil life Mr. Dan I iels said it would be necessary, unless; j congress takes prompt action to en- J i able the navy to secure e.n adequate ! number of these men. to send the; j eight dreadnaughts of the Atlantic j ; fleet to Guantanamo, Cuba, for-win-j j ter maneuvers with reduced crews and I also to reduce the number of destroy-! ers and auxiliary craft which it was j I planned to send with the battleships, j Moreover, the shortage of skilled] men, Mr. Daniels said, makes it im- j ! possible to prevent deterioration ofj all ship installations and results in I great loss of government property. The secretary explained in connec tion with his message to Speaker Gil lette that his recent assurance that the navy was ready for any emergency i and that the winter maneuvers would be fully participated in by ships of the Atlantic were predicated on belief that congress by the present time would have granted the pay increases j recommended. The pay mcreases advocated by Sec- j retary Daniels before the house na val affairs commmitee in November called for a fiat increase to officers ranging from $1,000 for admirals, vice admirals and rear admirals, to i $480 for ensigns and warrant officers, a 50 per cent, increase for all petty; officers and a 30 per cent, advance { for apprentice seamen. It is proposed j that the scale be made effective until j June 30, 1921. *K4V TOHK COTTON l*Aik?ET. Yee'td'y* | Or>*o THeh i^O"? ?^o?e Cl0S6 Jan . .36.70 37.00 36.53 36.83 36.SS 'Mch . .114.60 34.75 34.51 34.57 34.70 May . . 32.65 32.73 32.50 32.50 32.70 \ July ..30.90 31.00 30.15 30.SO 30.9S 1 New Orleans. Jan . . 3S.20 3S.26 38.00 3S.13 3S.25 Mch . .35.30 35.47 35.17 35.38 35.40 May . .33.18 33.41 33.14 33.23 33.30 July . .31.25 31.58 31.23 31.32 31.:J5 j CRIME AT MULLINS! Mullins. Dec. 21.?Two negroes are j in custody and search is being made j for other parties wanted in connection} with store breaking and an assault on I the town night watchman, N. W. Mc- j Elveen, here last night. A number of j bold roberies have occurred in Mul-; lins in the past several weeks. Last night, for the second time in two weeks, robbery of wholesale gro cery stores took place. The night j watchman passing on his beat at 3 ! o'clock, heard a noise in the rear of ! a store. He saw one man forcing a rear door. He opened fire and he is most positive that he hit one. He was J then overpowered by three others of ' the gang who knocked him down, clubbed him over the head and then, with a knife, gashed him over the neck and attempted to cut him in the stomach. One shot penetrated the oilieer's leg as he lay unconscious. The robbers escaped. FOR SALE?Having sold my farm on the White's Z\iil 1 Road, I want to sell 3 fine mules which can be seen on ! the plantation. I could not deliver I these mules until January 1st. Neill j O'Donnell._i ^ i DOES VOVR FACE?Always look fresh and clean or does it show the I unmistakable signs of work, worry j i or age. Mme. Post's Skin Food is j a tissue builder, a line eliminator.' and will clarify any complexion. J Price per jar $2.00; by mail, $2.03. Mme. Post, 130 N. Main St., Sum-1 ter, S. C._ FOR SALE?Some of the best regis tered Guernsey bulls of various ages. From a prize winning family. C. M. Eoykin, Mayesviile, S. C, R. F. D. | No. 3. -I LET ME?Cat your tire Cost 50 per! cent or more. You will escape tire trouble on the road. Alone worth more than the cost. I give written | ugarantee they will not blow out and) seldom puncture. No money tied up in spare tires, rotting. 1 can re-! inferce old tires that seem worth less, to serve 1,000 to 5,000 miles more, and new ones to serve dou- j ble the guarantee or more, forj prices so low you cannot guess. Sat-i isfaction to you or money back. A ! G. Warren, at the garage, 21 and j 23 Telephone St._j NORTH AMERICAN ACCIDENT IN-I SURANCE CO. The oldest of itsj kind, 33 years in business. Writes; $7,300.00 on loss of life. $2.500.00 j en 4 other injuries, and various less! amounts on other accidents; pays i weekly $2 5 to $50 for lost time from ! accidents; weekly sick benefits, $25 J on 69 diseases named, and other emergency relief, as much as $100.-! 00! No medical examination: no i assessments; no dues. For male j and female; white, and colored alike, i from 16 to 70 years. All for an nual payment, of $10 in onei amount; Not all, but nuff said. See j me at the garage, 21 and 23 Tele phone St, A. G. Warren, Agt. j FARM EXTEN SION SERVICE Sumter County Chamber of Commerce Made Co-oper ative Boards A supply of improved varieties of Warne and Gooch tobacco seed have been received by the Sumter County ('hamber of Commerce. 7th floor City National Ban!; building, which will be distributed absolutely free to those to bacco producers who sell their tobac co on the Sumter market. When get ting your tobacco seed be. sure to ask for bulletins on the preparation of to bacco beds. transplanting, culture, and curing of youi tobacco; also get other farm bulletins on the following subjects: 1. Peanut Culture and harvesting of peanuts. 2. The Boll Weevil Problem and Spedial Reference to Reducing Dam age. :>. Cotton Improvement Under Boll Weevil Conditions. 4. Steam Sterilization of Seed Beds for Tobacco and other crops. 5. Corn Cultivation. G. How insects affect the cotton crop and means of combatting them.; The fort> page illustrated bulletin i on "The Boll Weevil Problem." from ; the Bureau of Entomology, deals with i the work done under the direction of I Dr. L. O. Howard. Chief of the Bu-| reau of Entomology, is intended to; cover in a general way the whole field i of control of the boll weevil, and as; this control is inseparal^v connected ; with the life history and habits of; the insect, and in fact must be based thferoon. attention is given to the prin cipal features of the insects economy,. ! In addition, information is given re lating to the amount of damage done, the infested territory extent, and such other matters as are of special inter- j est at this time. Bulletin No. 501 on "Cotton Im-; provement Under Boll Weevil Condi- j tions." is another specially important! source of information at this time in ! this section. Bulletin No. 390, "How; insects Affect the Cotton Plant and Means of Combatting Same." deals not I only with the boll weevil largely, 'mi . with other insects ruinous or detri- ' mental to cotton, and is a twenty-! eiiiht page illustrated pamphlet of j value to every cotton planter. Bulletin No. 421 on "The Peanut," j is an illustrated ?,s page booklet ev-i cry farmer should have who is going! to try peanuts. i The two or three tobacco bulletins! are also illustrated and to those not ] familiar with growing and curing to-j bacco is of great value if carefully.; read. The Sumter. County Chamber j of Commerce has gone to a great deals of trouble and will be put to consid-; erable expense "in conducting this bul- j letini? service for the benefit of. the; farmers. Besides boll weevil prepar- i ation. organization of different inter ests in co-operation with farmers. ? merchants, bankers, land owners and, others, is going to be a bhjfefeature of j Chamber of Commerce activities dur-. ing the next two years. The Sumter County Chamber of ] Commerce has been honored by the j United States Department of Agricul-j ture by being made a co-operative; body with Clemson College Farm Ex- ! tension Division and the various bu reaus of the Department of Agricul ture, and is- now permitted to print upon its letterheads and envelopes the words, "Co-operating with Clemson Agricultural College and the U. S. De partment of Agriculture," and this carries ? with it co-operative activities with Winthrop College. The frank privilege of mailing bulletins has been furnished the Sumter County Cham ber of Commerce also. Through the courtesy of United States Senators E. I). Smith and X. B. Dial and Congressman E. C. Mann, tin many thousands of bulletins have been sen; to this local city and county organization. Mail in whole sacks, sometimes as many as twenty-live bags, is received by the Sumter County Chamber of Comerce. It is hoped that the farm ers, merchants, bankers, land owners and professional citizens will now co operate wilh and back up the Cham ber qf Commerce a^ the central bu reau of organization und information in getting ready to fight the boll wee vil and make this county independent of the pest. Tiie farm demonstration agent and the home demonstration agent will be at the Chamber of Com merce rooms and working with the organization every day in the year to make Sumter County a live-at-home and diversified-farming section. it is only by continuous, systematic. ! business like and co-operative meas ures that every business interest can I be brought into co-ordinative' activi ! ties to combat conditions in the *im I mediate future and the Chamber of Comerce is the main starting place for all of the activities. The V. S. Department of Agricul ture recognizes the value of a wide awake Chamber of Commerce at all . times. Sumter, Lee and Clarendon i county farmers and business men > -rhould line up to thelp the Chamber of Commerce do its best to equip the va . rious interests to overcome threatened adversity and. to advance reconstruc tional methods so necessary now that |we know we must face the boll weevil ' in fact and not in theory. SUPREME COURT TAKES RECESS Washington, Dec. 22.?The supreme court today recessed until January 5 th without handing down an opinion on the constitutionality of the sec i 'ions of the prohibition enforcement 1 act affecting the alcoholic content of ' beer. : For several years it has been the i custom of the banks of this city to ! close for two days , at Christmas? ! Christmas day and the day following j ?and it is understood that the cus ! torn will be observed this year. FERTILIZERS For over a quarter of a century the firm of Harby and company (and their Successors) HARBY AND COM PANY, INCORPORATED, have been distributing Ferti lizers to the Planters of South Carolina. The brands of goods we distribute are not only standard, but most of the formulas are OUR OWN, and manufactured ES PECIALLY FOR OUR TRADE. All lands do not require the same materials. They dif fe- as well as individuals. We can supply you with ANY ANALYSIS, or ANY FORMULA wanted, and we stand squarely behind the Manufacturer's guarantee. In other words, you have the Manufacturer's guarantee, as well as the guarantee of HARBY AND CO., INC., on every t< of goods you buy from us. Yr get SERVICE, QUALITY and FAIR PRICES whet, you buy from us. All we ask is that you SEE US before you place your order. Our specialty is carload shipments. HARBY & CO., INCORPORATED *fo. 9 West Liberty Street, SUMTER, S. C. IMPORTERS, DEALERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, OF ALL FERTILIZER MATERIALS A' COMPLETE FERTILIZERS, ANY ANALYSES. IT. J. Harby* President A. C. Phelps, V. Pres. & Mgr. E. Mi Hall, Socty. & Treas. .7. J. Brcnnan, Asst. Mgr. W. P. Rivers, Asst, Mgr. Fertilizer Dept. Cotton Dept. NOT INTO THE NAME, IN 4& 9 ?. s FERTiLI Farmers who want fish in their fertilizer can be sure of it by insisting on Roysters, the original Fish Fer We have been successful in securing ample sup* fish and will be able to fully meet the demands cf ide for this popular ammoniate. Ask for Roystsr's The Fertilizer thai Made risn Scrap Famous F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. Norfolk, Va, Richmond, Va. Lynchburg, Va. Tarboro,N.C? Charlotte, N. C. Washington, N. C. Columbia, S. C. ?partanburg, S. C. Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga. Columbus, Ga.. Montgomery, Ala.. Baltimore, Md. Toledo, Ohio