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WHHdfcta Wednesday and Saturday OSTEES iP?BEISHEVG COMPANY SXJMTKR, S. C. Terms: 91.50 par annum?m advance. ' Advertisements. Otte Square first Insertion ..(1.00 Svery subsequent insertion.60 Contracts for three months, or longer will he made at reduced rates. AH communications which sub pcrve private interests will be charged Tf>r as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect Will "be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found bo in IS50 and the True Southron m 1*6.6. The Watchman and Southron now has C^e combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, and is mar Neatly the best advertising medium in Sumter. THE NEW RAILROAD POLICY. The new national railroad policy is not yet determined. Certain big facts, however, have become clear, and arc recognized by nearly everybody in public or private life who has given much thought to the subject. For one thing, the railroads must be allowed to combine in larger units I than formerly. For another, there must be no more private railroad au tocracy. Congress is trying to har? monize these apparently contradictory ideas into a workable system. It is taken for granted that the best features of government operation j wfll: be retained. . The most obvious gains .from government management have, been in the standardization and simplification of work and equipment. These have been possible because of centralized control. They have at leasttpaved the way for big savings! and service-improvements. It'has been proposed by the rail- j road director that the railroad ? of the j country be formed into several large groups for unit-operation. Someone] else has. proposed a dozen railroad j gror^a, something like the twelve | financial groups in our regional? banking system. Such railroad combines involve aj big change from the old policy repre-i sen ted in 'the Sherman law. They will be possible only because | the railroads are no longer to be con-j trolled by the irresponsible will of I private capitalists. They . are to be subject to the three-fold control of capital, labor and governme? the latter representing the public a. u see ing- that the other two parties play i fair with'it and with each other. ^SklOCRATlZIXG GERMANY. Most of the news coming from Germany nowadays, of whatever na ture, seems to arouse little interest. The American public is rather "fed up" on Germany Here, however, is j a bit of news worth noticing. Tlje Berlin board of education is said to have started a thorough cleaning hp "of the school libraries, re moving whatever ' books are found j "contradictory to the new spirit of; the times." ? What books, then, are being remov ed? "All hooks of a chauvinist imperialistic, militaristic, nationalis tic, monarchistic and anti-Semitic nature." Surely here is proof that Germany is getting somewhere. The f oundation of the old German militarism was laid in the public schools. Every school boy had it dinned into his ears that Germany was "the fatherland, sur rounded by foes." Intens?, narrow nationalism, hatred of other races, love of military display, worship of armed, strength, the diving origin of German autocracy all these were taught as educational gospel. Now, if this news is true, they are all ban ned. The springs of national thought and feeling are no longer to be poisoned. There is to be room and opportunity for the development of real democ racy, a truer outlook on life and a! more sane and generous appreciation of, other races. And strangely enough, while Prus sia is thus opening her heart to the larger, freer, friendlier modern spir it, there are, among her conquerors, nations that seem inclined to rear their own children in a spirit of more narrow, selfish, exclusive, antagonistic nationalism than ever. WHILE THE SAVING'S GOOD. "The clock is likely to strike 12 in the fall of this year or the spring of the next The next period of depres sion won't be from over-production or banking conditions, as in the past, but the thief will come in another way. "The present period of prosperity will be brought to a close through psychological or spiritual reasons. More and more people are slacking on the oars of production. Some morning we shall find everybody slacking at once." This is the prediction of Roger Bab son, financial expert, founder and president of the Babson Statistical Or ganization, which plots curves of busi ness conditions as they occur, and from these curves of the past is able to predict the futuie. The whole contry, being forewarn ed, could of course avert the period of depression if it would?by capacity production beginning right now and running along until the danger is past. But if the country as a whole will not do this, if it prefers to idle and waste and buy with extravagant luxury in stead of working and saving and buy ing with comfortable good sense, the individual citizen may still be fore warned and have his umbrella ready for the raindy days to come. Just now, dollars are plentiful and goods scant. The wise move would seem to be to salt down as many dol lars as possible. The savings bank isn't far from the grocery and cloth ing stores. And fcr people in rural districts, plenty of reliable banks do business by mail. Here also is a tip?do the bank ing first, and make what's left cover the necessary purchases. If the total income were that much less, life could be managed on it, could it not? Ivlake it that much less?by putting a set sum where it can grow. To cease buying is always foolish?but to buy with an eye to values, an eye to the future, is to make the ribs of that um brella sturdy and enduring. Thrift stamps and the savings bank wili make the covering waterproof. SEVEN YEARS FOR ERUOPE. Sir George Paish the economic ex pert representing private British in terests in this conutry, said recently that it will take seven years to put Europe on its feet financially, and will take about $20,000,000,000 to get that continent on its feet so that it can put over its reconstruction pro gram. This is a more moderate estimate than Americans have expected. It took at least 20 years for Europe to recover after the Napoleonic wars, and more than ? one big financier has de clared that nothing less could be ex pected now. Seven years is a shorter period than the United States needed for recovery after the Civil War. The amount of money mentioned is like wise moderate, compared with the big sums expended during the war and since. Twenty billions distributed among the various European bellig erents does not &.v*e much to any one j of them. j A large part of this reconstruction j money will be sought in America; j but there -is no prospect of so big a demand and so serious a drain as! many have anticipated. It is reassur ing, too, to find that there are to be more government loans* to European powers?that whatever loans are granted for this rebuilding effort are to be voluntary loans, made as straight business proposition by pri vate interests. Seven lean years?then, perhaps, many fat ones. That is the prospect held out. Amhericans will surely do what they can, within reason, to make it come true, impelled alike by good will and by a knowledge that re newed prosperity abroad will mean in creased prosperity at home. THE OREGON WAY". Farmers and truit growers who feel that they are not getting just re turns for their labor and product would do well to consider the history of the Oregon Growers' Co-operative Association?and then follow its ex ample. Today Oregon products, chiefly ap ples, cherries, loganberry products and walnuts, are known all over the country, in the east as well as the south and west. This was not always so. As recently as 1912 Oregon apple growers were in a bad fix. They found that 10,000 cars of apples swamped the markets. The wrong kind of com petition not only ruined many or chard owners in t he- northwest, but at the same time put all northwestern products in bad repute in the east ern markets. In 1915 the Oregon growers organ ized for their mutual benefit. They set up a bureau of markets as a sort of clearing house for apples. They got together on their advertising methods and eliminated unfair com petition. The result is that today 20, 000 to 30,000 cars of Oregon apples are successfully marketed at high prices in the very markets that form erly considered 10,000 cars too many. Naturally the Oregon growers in tesd to extend this system to other j fruits. During 1:>20 the association I will handle apples, cherries, pears, ! prunes, walnuts, berries and dried and ?canned fruits. It is estimated that its 1 total volume of business will be be jtween $2,000,000 a\d $5,000,000. The Oregon method is simple. In the first place, the producers have made their products good. Then they {have advertised them well, choosing a jfew good trade names and stk-king to j them. Then they have introduced ef jficiency into handling and distribution jand they have eliminated bitter local i competition. It is a formula any group of enterprising growers could adopt. South Carolina farmers could do the same thing by adopting similar methods in marketing their products. One of the crops that will be substitut ed for cotton is sweet potatoes, and by proper handling this easily pro duced crop can be made a source ofj almost unlimited wealth. AIR MAIL SERVICE GROWS. In spite of frequent mishaps and weather handicaps, the air mail routes first established continue to struggle j toward greater regularity and more efficient service.- Four new aerial routes are now sought which will link together all the important cities of the country. Congress is considering an appropriation of $3,000,000 for tl establishment of these new routes. One of the proposed extensions of present air service is from Chicago to San Francisco. This would complete the air mail line from New York City to the Pacific Coast. Another will I connect Pittsbrugh and Kansas City, j going through Cincinnati, Indianapol is and St. Louis. The third will go' from New York to Atlanta by exten sion from Washington. The fourth will link Minneapolis and St. Paul with St. Louis, through Chicago. A fifth, somewhat different, route is also discussed. That is a hydro plane line down rhe Mississippi river from St. Louis to New Orleans. There would be stations at Cairo, Memphis und Vicksburg. j It is urged that the new routes would save one-half the mail time be j tween cities and would speed up the delivery of 3S2,000,000 letters. The coast-to-coast service would be par-! licularly worth while. J Most people feel a keener-interest inj seeing some improvement in local mail deliveries along the usual, old fashioned routes. There is neverthe less a real satisfaction to be derived j from this evidence that the air mail service has come to stay and is steadi ; ly gaining practicability and useful ness. THE POWHATAN IS ALL RIGHT Storm Subsiding and Ships Standing By New York, Jan. 22.?A wireless message this morning said the trans port Powhatan, disabled two hundred miles south of Halifax, was o. k. at 8 o'clock last night with the sea mod erating and the wind shifting. Sev eral vessels are standing by. HOLLAND PRO TECTS WILHELM Government Says it is Impossi ble to Surrender Him London, Jan. 22.?Standard re ports Holland's reply regarding tns surender of William Hohenzollern says it is impossible to grant extra i dition at the call of the third country j if his own country does not demand i extradition. *j&3m&: -. From Bullets to Butter Churns. Londpn, Jan. 2.?Even the great 1 Woolwich arsenal has turned from the manufacture of war material to the I peaceful pursuits of trade. Ten thou sand butter churns have been manu : factured in the great building which during the war sent out vast quan tities of munitions for use against the Germans. The nickel purchased to manufac ture bullets is being used in the arse nal to make five-cent pieces for Brit ish Honduras currency. There is a world shortage of locomotives and railway cars. To meet this it has been decided to manufacture these articles in the arsenal and work al ready is underway there on orders for 2,500 cars, 100 locomotives and for re pair work on 700 cars. This serves a double purpose. Thir ty thousand persons now are employ ed in the arsenal where 110,000 were at work in wartime. Thousands of these men are skilled munition work ers. By keeping these busy making locomotives and other peaceful pro ducts, the government not only gives them work but retains their services. In event of another war they could' return immediately tot he munition! works in which they are skilled. One of the side-line products of the 1 arsenal since the armistice has been the striking of 6,000,000 war medals. Question of Equal Suffrage. Columbia, Jan. 22.?Mrs. Julian B. j Salley, president of the South Carolina' j Equal Suffrage League, who is in Co- j jlumbia leading the suffragists in their } effort to bring about the ratification i i of the federal suffrage amendment j by the present legislature, was rejoic-' ing today at the news that Oregon j had ratified. This makes the 25th State with three others having called I special sessions to ratify. These three are Indiana, Wyoming and Ida ho. Besides these, Arizona and New' Mexico have called special sessions; for the first week in February. The contemplated visit of Mrs. Car- 1 rie Chapman Catt, the national presi dent, has been called off owing to the j fact that the invitation by the legis I lature was delayed and Mrs. Catt in i the meantime accepted an invitation : to address the Virginia legislature. Mrs. Salley and her co-workers won several converts tot heir cause yes terday and counted as a decided point in their favor the fact that no action was taken at the morning session up on the resolution to reject which was introduced by Mr. Bradford of York. Representative Richard B. Belscr of Sumter declared that the amend ment should be considered on its mer its and that he did not consider a resolution to reject a fair method. "And I believe that t his attitude of openmindedness on the part of our legislators will win enough supporters for our cause to give us victory." de clared Mrs. Salley as she left the cap itol. Mantels, Tile, and Grates We have moved to larger quarters and have the largest stock of mantels in the State. Our stock consists of plain and quar tered oak, mahogany, missions and white. Also a nice stock of tile and grates. Don't buy until you see our line. J. P. Commander, Prop. Store room 328 S. Main Office 107 Manning Ave. REPLY OF DUTCH BEING PREPARED Holland Not to Surrender For mer Kaiser i The Hague, Jan. 2".?The reply of the Dut< government to the demand c* the al.ied powers that the former German emperor should be given up to them for trial is being drafted and will be forwarded some time this week to the Dutch minister at Paris for communication to the allies. Although Holland is determined to stick closely to the diplomatic prece dent and not publish or intimate the text of the reply until "t is delivered, there is apparently no cause at the present time to make any change in the prediction of the Dutch newspa pers that the Dutch Government will decline to accede to the demand. The Associated Press was informed today by a high official that the for mer German emperor had been in no way consulted about the reply, nor had he even*been officially informed of the demand for his extradition. Mackensen Wants to Shoot. Berlin. Jan. 4.?Field Marshal von Mackensen is advertising for a home. He formerly lived in Dantzig but re fuses to reside there now that the city has been internationalized and made a port for Poland. The former Ger man commander seeks a residence in the neighborhood of woods where he can do a little shooting. Shanghai. Dec. 27.?Miss Liu Ching yang, of Tientsin, is leader in the formation in China of a great nation al or.qraniza.tion of student patriots* which has been formed here. This is' called the National Associated Bodies of China. Its purpose is announced to be to crystalize the patriotic as pirations of the Chinese as voiced in the student movement last June when the Peking cabinet was over turned. Motors Take Place of Mules. Nogales, Ariz., Jan. IS.?Mule skinners of the First Cavalry here after will have to swear at refrac tory carburetors and punctured tires, for the army mule is being banished. Farewell to the mule, insofar as the First Cavalry is concerned, was said recently by a board of general of ficers appointed by the war depart ment to investigate the subject of mo torizing cavalry. After a test march in which both mules and motors were used, the board, headed by Brigadier General Marshall of Brownsville, reported in favor of the motor and one brigade was ordered to do away with the mules. GERMAN REPORTS CONTRADICTED Berlin Starts New Slander of French Armv Senator Pol lock Working for Suff rag Paris, Jan. 22.?Emphatic denial of reports emanating from Berlin and published in America that "riots and mutinies have broken out among the French naval forces and troops at Toulon" has been made by French war office. Marriage Licenses. and Su Colored?Marion Garman san Bracey of Pinowood. James Johnson. Sumter, Reimes, Paxville. Alex Ballard and Louise worth, Sumter. Wesley Bennett. Oswego and Bos ana Haynsworth, Providence. and Ada Hayns Columiba: Jan. 22.?One of the liveliest lobyists for the Susan B. An thony suffrage amendment at the pres ent session of the general assembly is Former United States Senator "Pol lock, of Cheraw. Mr. Pollock is work ing with the suffrage leaders for votes on the ratification resolution. His ar gument is that the amendment will simply put the white women of the land on an equal footing with the white men and that there will be no more problem with negro women than there now is with regard to ne gro men. Speaker Cothran brought a hearty laugh to the house Wednesday after noon when he called attention to the fact that a typographical error in the% suffrage rejection resolution had used the spelling "sufferage." He said that no doubt the present outlook for the ratification resolution was causing them ladies to suffer. > Teaching Wounded Soldiers to Dance. London. Jan. 5.?Dancing is being tatight British army officers who have lost an arm or a leg in the war, this instruction being part of a plan in tended to give the men poise and con fidence in using their artificial limbs. Preliminary work along this line be gins at the hospital, and later the? offi cers may continue their lessons with out cost of they desire. Employes to Share in Profits. Berlin, Jan. 5.?A movement is in progress in Germany to provide for the participation of employes ir the profits of the large industrial con cerns by purchase of stock. Krupps works have under exami nation a scheme of this nature and a large number of other industrial con cerns have entered into negotiations with their employes in regard to pro fit-sharing. THREE YEARS WITHOUT HOPE A Story of Sickness and Suffering with Final Beturn to Health It will do you good to read it ^ No matter how long nor how much you have p(jjjjr suffered, do not give up hope. Do not decide 2 j there is no help for you. There is. Make up 5 your mind to get well. You can. There is a S remedy in which you^may place full reliance 5 as did* Mrs. Rozalia Kania of 39 Silver Street, |' New Britain, Conn. This is what she says: "I had cramps for three years and thought I would never be any better. I could not eat without distress. Slept with my mouth open and could hardly breathe. No medicine helped me. I had catarrh of the stomach. Now I have no cramps and am feeling well and healthv. I wish every suffering person would take PE-RU-NA." Catarrh effects the mucous membranes in. any organ or part. PE-RU-NA, by regulating the digestion and aiding elimination, sends a rich, pure supply of blood and nourishment to the sick and inflamed membranes and health returns. For coughs, colds, catarrh and catarrha! conditions generally, PE-RU-NA is recommended. If you are sick, do not wait and suffer. The sooner yen begin using Dr. Ilartman's well-known PE-RU-NA, the sooner you may expect to be well and strong and in full possession of your health. A bottle of PE-RU-NA ?"? the finest emergency, ready to-tafce remedy to lia:.-e in the house. It is four Leen ounces of pre vention and protection. Sold everywhere in tablet or liquid form. THE UNIVERSAL CA? Sixteen Years Experience For sixteen years, a corps of metallurgists have been studying and constantly perfecting the steel that goes into every part of the Ford car and the Ford One Ton Truck. Each separate part has been studied to learn the type of steel best fitted for it. Parts receiving constant surface-wear are made of hard, flint-like metal; parts subjected to great vibration or resilience are made of softer, springy steel. Every part is made according to its use?that is, every genuine Ford part is. But there are also counterfeit "Ford" parts. These imitations are made by concerns in no way connected with the Ford Motor Company and retailed as side lines by mail-order houses, down-town stores, and many garages. The unsuspecting cus tomer accepts them because they are called "Ford" parts. To make sure of getting the genuine,.Ford-made parts, buy them only from Authorized Ford Dealers. Like wise bring or take your Ford car to our garage for repairs, replacements, and general "tuning up." We are authorized Ford Dealers. We can supply you with all Ford parts for either passenger car or truck. And our shop is equipped to give real Ford service in all repair work. Shaw Motor Company INSIST ON GENUINE FORD PARTS .m.,,,,,,,,,"mi^