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t^months or long iuced rates, is which subserv BpBP be charged |tributes of respect jfcfor. pSfFatchman was found the True Southron in Fatchman and Southron "combined circulation and rboth of the old papers, festly the best advertising iter. ABOUT THE BONUS. ^seems. accepted at Washington ess will grant the war bon that it will amount to about) ,000,000. re are plenty of arguments for Against this proposal. The favor ones are well known, and arej sentimental. The unfavorable! have not influenced Congress congressmen fear the "sol e,'* and have not greatly im ifcd the public because they have >een fully presented. bonus will mean a direct con ution by the average American of $100. Indirectly it may in-1 more than that. There is the ein of raising the money, and present -financial situation any bd seems destined to be wasteful risky. -j er. President Taft points out even with our heavy taxes, the] is already facing a deficit for cuwrent fiscal year of $3,000,000,000 ?-nd the expected bonus will increase! this deficit to $5,000,000,000. I; Some have suggested raising the fends by increasing the income tax. . A . treasury" expert says that if the normal income 'tax rate were raised from 8 per cent to IS per cent, it would fail to;provide the $2,000,000,-j 000 wanted. The proposal of a new bond issue is regarded with alarm by bankers. They Say that in the present state of the securities market such an issue could not-be 'floated; except at a high rate of filterest That would force all our war bonds still lower, with consequent loss to owners :and disturbance of,, fi nance in general The cost of living would be forced up higher. ; There is the alternative of imposing a dtrect consumers' tax on all pur chases. This wculd probably be the fairest kind of tax for the purpose, but-it wotild be infinitely troublesome jpg\iwell as expensive. If the majority of citizens consider it desirable to grant the bonus in the face of these facts, no one can proper ly object But at least let the public realize- the situation cleariy before hand.r FARM BOOKKEEPING The Department of Agriculture hasj been offering farmers a brief course in -accounting. In fifteen States where | the courses have actually been given it is reported that many farmers have availed themselves of it. This is a distinct advance in farm ing methods. In the past, farmers have known too little about their ac tual profits?or losses. They have not known exactly how much it cost to raise specific crops, and have had no means of knowing whether the cash return received from the sale of those crops was at all commensurate with the price of materials and the labor put into them. * Perhaps the difficulties of figuring out income tax returns have driven farmers to this progressive step. Per haps it is due, to a growing business sense, and the fact that with increas ing cost of labor and machinery the farmer realizes that he must know where he is coming out financially ev ery year. Whatever the cause, it is a sensi ble step; It should lead the farmer to see the wisdom in improving his own marketing facilities, in co-operat ing with fellow-farmers, in running his place on a more business-like basis, in solving the problems of keep ing the young people on the farm and improving the conditions of his hired help. THE FRENCH INVASION r_ The British government. like the American government, refused to give official sanction to the French mili tary expedition into the German neu tral zone and the seizure of certain German cities to insure German good b'havior. But the British publ;o "liKe the American public, has regis tered approval. The London Daily Mail says: . "The Germans have no excuse Hac their conduct been tolerated they would have proceeded to fresh viola tions of the treaty and more tricks As it is. they now discover that th< Allies cannot safely be defied. Brit ish public feeling' warmly supports; the French action." The London Morning Post express es a similar view, explaining: "There cannot be a shadow of doubt that the advance of Gen. von Water's force into the neutral zone was a deliberate essay to test the practical value of the treaty. Had the provocation been overlooked, it would have been taken throughout Germany as a signal that there wad nothing in the treaty that could not be disregarded safely and in due time set aside." In this country there is little dis position to criticize France. It is held, with goo'l reason, that France in setting about of her own initiative to teach the Germans a lesson in keeping treaty pledges has done her allies a valuable service. The unfortunate thing about it is not that France has done what she did, but that France was driven to take this action alone as a result of the persistent failure of the United States to ratify the peace treaty and participate in its enforcement It is generally agreed that if the machin ery of the League of Nations were in full operation, with this country an active member, Germany would not have given the provocation. AN HONEST DAY'S WORK. "An honest day's work for an hon est day's pay," is Charles M. Schwab's prescription to cure many of the ills from which we suffer as a people He said, in an address to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical j Engineers: "When we teach, through our engineering ability and our meth Ods, thatf the prosperity of the whole country, whether for capitalist or la borer, depends on doing an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. all these theoretical questions of the high cost of living will naturally dis appear." Isn't he the old-fashioned man! {Those ideas are archaic. Nobody even thinks them out loud in the so ciety of workers today. But he goes further. Mr. Schwab finds that Ger many's position in the steel indus try was due to thai, same homely old virtue. He points out that Germany was second only to the United States in steel production when the war in terrupted things. And yet. "with all of its production and ability and de velopment there has not been a single great invention or process in the de velopment of iron and steel that has come out of Germany. What is the reason for this so-called, efficiency? I think the basis of it is the giving of. an honest day's work for an honest j day's pay." There you have it. Efficiency then, j isn't the machince-like equipment of industry to the last belt and newest contraption. It isn't only the perfect co-ordination of parts to the whole, nor the unceasing driving of people from the cradle to the grave. No. there's the everlasting human equa tion, never better exemplified than in this phrase: "An honest day's work for an honest day's pay." A lever with which any nation j might move the earth. SHAME OR HONOR? "Peace by resolution" may become necessary as a last resort. Such a so lution, however, is tolerable only on condition that !! ssible efforts made in accordar.ee with established cus tom and tradition have failed. Has i it come yet to the alternative ofj peace by resolution, or nothing? \ The procedure proposed at present j by Congress, whether necessary or not, is inevitably attended by shame and humiliation. It means making peace by subterfuge; it means beg ging Germany to agree to terms which the United States, as victor in the war, should impose on Germany without question, and gives Germany a chance to throw those terms in our face. There is additional shame in the fact that the resolution asks Ger many in making this separate peace with us, to acknowledge* the force of the terms imposed by the treaty of Versailles?which the United States Congress has refused to ratify. We approach Germany as if Ger many were an equal in this negotia tion, we seek to utilize the benefits of the Versailles treaty while evading its responsibilities, and thus we invite the contempt of our enemies, our al lies and the whelo world. Added to th?\se moral considerations is the legal objection, made by many constitutional authorities, that peace negotiations are proprely originated not by the legislative but the execu tive department, and also the prac tical difficulty that for whatever reasons, the President ia sure to op pose any such resolution. The vast majority of Americans want to make i eace by the regular and self-respecting procedure of rati fying, with a few reservations, the treaty made at Versailles by the pow ers that defeated Germany, and rati fied already without reservation by every* one but 'he United States. That treaty is in th>. hands of the Presi dent He ean return it to the Senate for action at any time. Even now it is probable that ratification could be obtained if the President would meet the Seriate half way on the reserva tion question. For present expediency and the honor of the country this should be done. If the President or his party then felt that the reservations adopted were too drastic, they might proper ly inject into the national campaign the question of modifying them here after so as to strengthen American participation in the League of Na tions. CHILDREN'S YEAR PAYS. The Children's Bureau of the Dc-j partment of Labor designated last j year as "Children's Year." Over 11,-j 000,000 women in some IS,000 00m- j munities all over the country co-op erated with the department in advan- j cing the cause of children. It is grat ifying to know that permanent meas ures for the welfare of children have come from the campaign., j Some of the results have been the legislation, accomplished or proposed. for the protection of maternity and 1 1 infancy; pre-school and school care! of the child; a fairer status for the child born out of wedlock, the es tablishment of clinics and health nursing bureaus; an incuse in the number of play grounds and recrea tion centers; children brought back and kept in school as the result of the school campaigns, and a general ad vance all along all lines of activity which provide children with a better strat in the world and help them along when once they are started. In 38 states the Children's Year Welfare committees have been made permanent bodies, and it is intended that the work which has proved so effective shall not be allowed to lag. There is little doubt that all the states will carry on, and that every year from now on will be Children'^ Year in every community. No work could be richer in promise nor in sure re wards. List of Jurors. Special term of Court of Common Pleas opens April 19th. Jurors have been drawn to serve at the sepcial term of the court of Com mon Pleas, which will convene Mon day. April 19th. as follows: For first week: A. A. Team. J. O. Barwick. J. A. Kolb M. L. Moore W. H. Strickland ' H. A. Prescott Caiude Dinkins & W. Raffield W. W. Bradford S. D. Cain J. W. Jackson Richardson Sanders L. C. Du ran J. P. Booth W. B. Blauding W. B. Shirer W. S. Ream es R. B. Dinkins R, J. Kennedy B. R. Durant J. M. Hawkins Robert D. Bradford Willie A. James Fred R. Brad well Frank L. Jones B. F. Wilder 1 J. R. Clack I?. M. Pitts D. M. Campbell T. E. Hodge R. K. Wilder K. P>. Boyle .J. R. Nettles .1. C. Parnell J. II. Myers C. W. Brunson For week of April 2Cth, 1920: S. M. Shirer J. W. Shaw 3. M. James J. K. Crosswell A. A, Wei don C. E. Dunlap Drane Pritchard j H. T. Proctor ? j O. C. Stuckey G. R. Calder . j H. T. Colvin O. H. Folley T. J. DuBose E. A. Tomlinson Seaman Richardson If. M. Crowson W. M. Broadway S. A. Harvin R. S. Cherry J. E. White A. B. Richardson A. G. Fishburne L. B. Bradford Henry Ray A. H. Wei don E. T. Cummings K. A. Calder ! s. J. Player j E W. Dabbs I A. P. Vinson j .r. B. Raffield Silas Meli et te \\. J. Troublefield S. B. Geddings W. R. Parker I C. D. Schwartz Tears Benefit the Eyes. The Italian child is never permit ted to rub its eyes. If It hursts into ' tears it is not repressed, but permitted 1 to have the cry out. This, it is claimed, beautifies the eyes and makes them 1 clear, while rubbing the eyes injures j them in many ways. Beginning Another Chapter. A woman was so fond of pets that when death overtook her 10-year-old eat she was not long In getting a young kitten to fill the plaee of puss. Where upon her sma!! neighbor gravely car ried the news to his mother that tho woiuau "was starting another tat.*' Rafting Crcefc Towijship. The Rembert Co.. to J. L. Gillis, LOS $5-100 acres; $21.053:30. j The Rembert Co., to T. J. Brown,! 56 7-10 acres; $5,541.70. M. S. Kirk to A. H. and C. E. Sand-; ;rs, 105 acres; $10.500. L. S. Vinson to J. L. Gillis, 11? leres; $11.500. The Rembert Co.. to D. V. Keels,1 ! lot; $180. j Abraham Dennis to IC Brown. ? IS 2-3 acres; $540. J. F. Player to Ellen Williams. 1 lot! L house; $5 etc. Louis Einsteen et. al. to S. W. Allen,! i lots; ?400. The Rembert Co., to T. P. Sanders^] 39 2-10 acres: $10,726. Alida H. Me' ?'??-l \<^ Mattie Jen-1 ?eins. !>7 acres: $3.350. G. H. Lenoir to R. E. Atkinson.! 356 1-2 acres; $65,000. Pollette Sanders, et. a!., to Arthur f. Sanders; 4 8-10 acres: $3 P.. WP Westberry to J. S. Taylor; j 11 20-100 acres: $616. T. J. Brown to Ned Davis. IG -30-10" xcres; $1.500. A. and G. and E. Sanders etc.! to Hattie Rembert. I S-10 acres.: $5 etc. G. H. Lenoir to R. E. Atkinson. 4 1 acres; $4.000. Mattle Jenkins to J. T. Dennis. 2 acres; $100. Athur SacJers and others to Hayes j Sanders. 4 S-10 acres: .$;"> etc. J. P. McClellan to V. S. McCJeiiaa,: 65 acres, half interest; $5 etc. Miss F. B. and E. Ellerbe to Began : Lee, 21 1-10 acres: $1.303. I. W. Allen to J. L. MeLeod, et. al., j trustee, 2 lots; $400. F. B. and E. Ellerbe to Stafford; Lee, 25 71-100 acres; $1,285.50. F. b! and E. Ellerbe to Edmund Os- ? borne, 1 29-100 acres; $110. The Rembert Co., .to Isaac A. Sim- ? mons, 1 lot; $200. j Emma Spencer and Janie Davis, i 27 4-10 acres: partition deed. Leo Schenk and G. H. Baum to j James Halley, Jr., 50 acres, 1 build-j ing; $5. etc. The Rembert Co., to W. C. Harllee, I Jr., 1 lot; $100. j ??-! FOR SALE?Ninety-day velvet beans, j Sumter County raised. Guaranteed j sound. $3.50 per bushel, f. o. b. j Sumter. John L. Frierson. Sumter. S. C. Route 3. HAVE A FEW Ford Starters that we j can install at once. If you have al Ford without a starter, see us. Shaw Motor Company. j -i i STORE?Your car at the Clarmontj Filling Station when in town for the j day. where it will be safe. Ard*&< Bradford_\ ? I HAVE CAR LOAD Ford one ton ' trucks in transit. Still have one or two unsold. See us at once. Shaw , Motor Company._j HAVING?Pure a the Claremont Filling Station, we will appreciate the patronage of our friends and the public generally, when in need of gasoline and oils. Polite, prompt service, free water and air. A. J. Ard; J. D. Bradford. Pretty Faster Party. prize, a set of hand-embroidered - I doiiies. and Mrs. Brunsen drew the One of the prettiest of the Easter j consolation, a vase. After the games week parties wns the one on Monday-block cream and cake were served, when Mrs. A. .1. Bynum and Mrs.) Among those present were Miss" Warren Burgess entertained :it u,ej; Culhrie. of Columbia; Mrs. Hal Harby, home of the latter on < * 111 j "n street. {^rs- l**>'aneig Bultman, Mrs. Brunsen, Then- was a breath of spring in th?-j^'rr& B. Yeadon. Mrs. C. Stubbs, air, th?> attractive rooms being dcc-|^Irs- ?>"n Scott, Mrs. If. K. Bull; prated in roses and snow dogwood.| ^rs" WItherspoon. Mrs. Warren ..... A:< iv... Mrs. Wilfred Moses, Mrs. Joe The scores were kept on dainty --.^ , :,;!h!,,. ^ Craham Mrs hand panted in HirfCy ??biddies" anoL, Wilson Creen. Mrs. Edward Martin. Easter bunnies, giving a seasonable*!Mrs. W. LI. Phillips.Mrs. M. H. FIaumt sugi st i'>n. j Mrs. Thomas SiJU.tH und Sirs, .lohn. Mi^s Minna Richardson won tho* Riiey. ? 4. * * 1 t 4? + DAI I irflMT fAM37IW QIIffFQQ 4 "NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" v " f \ " \ . NEW YORK CAST | 4? * * A plot so full of amusing complications | 4* and surprises that it is one constant gale ? 4? 4> of merriment from first to last. , /? % 4? 4? t The Story of 24 Hours Veracity on a Wager I 4? 4? f, Sixith Night . . i?t 4? REDPATH CHAUTA??UA Just One of 15 Biff Attractions 4? 4? I Season Tickets $2.75 Plus 10 Per Cent Tax J) | 4* 4> 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? i Chautauqua Week April 27th" to May '4th. I 4? 4? 4? 4? 4* 4> 4? 4? * ? ? 9 v J.t > ? ? f - A A - *^ A A A A AA A A A a AA a /% i#? bT?j*i 3%aT? A r?^<- -t- - r - LADIES' The Latest Models in Footwear For Spring:? ,7 *; f Pumps, Eyelet Ties and Oxfords. In Tans, Patent Leather and Satins, From .?5.00 to $15.00 Also a good selection in Canvas, In PUMPS AND OXFORDS, From.,.$2.00 to $8.50 White Kids, In Pumps and Eyelet Ties. . H?fKffli ? Men's and Children's Oxfords, a complete stock from which you may select. Shaw 6 McCoIIum Mercantile Co. Telephone No. 68 11 South Main St. iimiiiiiimiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmi !ii!iiiiiimiiilililllll!illlli!ll!l!l!!!tlU