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? BY-? .PUBLISHING COMPANY ^eirmif: s3*sr aimurrt?in advance. Advertisements. first insertion _$1.00 iuerit insertion .... .50 r tor three months or long made at reduced rates, im tinicat ions which subserve ^Infcrests will .be charged: for irtiseniehts. t^riesiand tributes of respect . charged f o. Sumter Watchman was found ?3&5$ and" the True Southron in The Watchman and Southron has rife'^mhined circulation and luence of both of the old papers, t is manifestly the best advertising uK^Bter, _ . $ NEWS IS NEWS. Beginning in Tampa, spreading to Blim^ng^am and other cities whose climate is milder than New York's, idea of the "Overall Club" to hit cost of living attracted wide no tice. For one lawyer to wear over in court might be contempt. But i, in S city Of modest size, 4.000 rers,' merchants and other solid ir^pear in overalls together by mfthfc, that is news. So it"was news, legitimate news,; *hnman-interest stuff," When j ih?hts in Southern towns, to get m with the "Overall Clubs," began - charging $$ each for $2 garments of that cahracter. That widely hearald ed'fact' Was of interest to cynics, ec :>^b?mists, housekeepers, wage-earners, capitalists?iir short, everybody; in cluding we hope, the ''flying squad rons" that ferret out criminal profit eering for the Government Now, again, it is news that the crothieTS "ef Birmingham have ap pealed to the newspapers to sup press1 ' news of the formation of ''OvfeiV ^ubs" because it "hurts trade;" and that the publishers refuse to^snppress facts of public concern. If the merchants %of Chattanooga had not trebled their prices on over alls in: stock, if Birmingham advertis ^ers ?ad not attempt to dictate to the newspapers, there Would have been' but one good news story in ..the ffampa idea, Instead of three. So true j J^^'Tbrtunately or not, that mankind is more concerned in the unusual, eVerf'nntaftral greed or folly, than in the dead hrrei of happy existence in iapVfo and towns that have no history. -^NeV York World. Now that the French have stopped the German military forces from en tering the neutral zone, they propose to insist that she comply with the other' terms* of the treaty. More "French vindictiveness," as the Ger mans call it! * * * ?ays the cook of an American Le gion'club: "There are two things members of this club never order? beans and corned beef." Veterans' vives ai^d mothers take notice! * * * If all these home-building plans succeed,-pretty soon all the people will have homes to go to. But will they go to them? * * * The Sultan of Turkey is scandalized because his people are indulging in "Western dancing." Can you blame him? * * * It Was resolution that won the war ?but a different kind of resolution from the one now pending in Con * * * Don't scorn the once lowly spud. P?f&toes are now worth more per bushel than wheat. * * * One reason for the increased de mand for homes is that there are no more saloons. STRIKES AND PRICES. Says a New York financial writer, in a recent review of national busi ness conditions. "Prior to the refusal of Chicago switchmen to work, the industries had been feeling considerable relief from the winter difficulties of rail road shipments. The delivery and payment for goods long held was act ing td relieve a congested situation of credit tied up in commodities. There were sig?s^of price recessions in mar kets than had begun to receive in creased quantities of manufactured products*." And now. what? I'nder the best imaginable conditions of resumption, he says it will be several weeks be fore the railroads regain the traffic improvement which had begun with the passing of the bad weather and was lost through the strike. "The. high cost of living problem is put fur ther than ever from a practical solu tion, and the high cost of doing busi ness is rtiad? even higher than before." That is always the way. ?vry big striked though it may win gains for the. strikers,' imposes on the industry and tJfent* oh the* treneral public a C?*t odt of all proportion to the ad .?.**???? ? ? ? V '???????rtto.i v?nta^e~ scnght A public^ utilities strike-is especially 'ruinous. The officers of the railroad brother hobds seem to have an understanding of this as well as of facts that di rectly concern their followers. The strikers show themselves blithely ig norant or regardless of it. Workmen in general seldom appreciate the loSfc they cause, and seldom realize, too: that in the end it reacts on themsel ves. Every workman's family in America is going to rind life harder because of this ill-considered strike. SINCE THE SALOON After conducting an investigation into the effects of prohibition, "with severe neutrality." the New York Tribune reports that ? it has found "enough arguments in favor of pro hibition to wreck the white paper market were they printed in detail I and with all their far-reaching rami i ficatrons." This investigation con cerned itself with New York City on I ly, hut the results would have been about the same in almost any com munity hi any section of the coun try. There is Chicago, for instance, where two of the criminal branches of the municipal court have been closed and the judges assigned to civil cases. The court of domestic relations also has had its work light ened because therevare fewer domes tic troubles than under the saloon re gime. The House of Correction, tfith 2,600 inmates a year ago, reports on ly 200 now. The alcoholic ward in ! Bellevue Hospital, New York, ha a I been closed because there are so few ;alcoholic patients. In the sections where prohibition was expected to bring about industrial disaster, the reports are only cheer ful. In St. Louis 15.000 workers who should have been out of jobs when the brewerj which employed them was closed are employed in a new General Motors plant. Distilleries and breweries have been quickly adapted to alJ^ sorts of new enterprises including the production of feed for cattle, horses and chickens, the manu facture of syrup; malt sugar, vinegar and yeast, the preparation of mara schino 'cherries, jams and preserves. Another brewery has been turned in to a combined packing plant, sausage factory and soft drink factory. An other transformed brewery makes oleomargarine. "Still another serve's as a. cold storage plant, an^ another has become an assembling plant for motor c?fi All this* is- a mere beginning in the long list of benefits which have fol lowed the abolishment of the liquor traffic. Even if the present prohibi tion laws should be changed or modi fied, it seems sufficiently evident that no nation in its right mind would consider for a moment turning back to the days of the evil saloon and the liqubr "regulations" which failed or the r purpose. - -. - ? j ,_ ^ ' - - - r;." ? CHARTERS MAY BE REVOKED. Brotherhood Olficers Meet Today in <?hicago*. . Chicago, April 18.?While the Gen eral Managers' Association announced tonight that indications are that the insurgent strike of railroad employees in the Chicago terminal district vir tually had lost its effectiveness. A. F. Whitney, vice president of the Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen, said brotherhood officers would meet to morrow to consider revoking charters of locals whose members refused t>o return to work last midnight. Mr. Whitney said he had received reports that groups of strikers on sev eral railroads returned to work to day. "The strike absolutely is broken." he said. "There is no question about that/ Our plans are now directed to ward protecting our contracts with the railroads.' Strike leaders maintained tonight that their ranks were unbroken. A meeting of heads of the outlaw union from all parts of the country has been called for tomorrow in Chicago by John Gr?nau. Plans for continuing the strike would be considered, Gr? nau said. Warrants for the rearrest of JO?& Gr?nau. P. V. Miller and Fred Radke were issued today by the United States Commissioner. Lewis E. Mason. Federal agents declared the men had broken faith with the government in attending meetings of striking switch men after they had been released on promise to take no further part in the strike movement. There has been some talk of the or ganization of an Overall Club in Sum ter. but thus far the business men have not adopted the fad. In some smaller towns in this section of the State the overall craze has tak??n root, and the people are spending money for overalls. An Instance of bow ft works was illustrated yesterday by ;? gentlemen from a neighboring village who ?-ame here to buy his overall uni form?he purchased a suit for him self and suit for each of his sons, big and little, his total outlay being nearly thirty dollars. This sort of economy does not get anywhere, for neither the man himself nor his chil dren are going to church in overalls, and they will need just as many clothes as usual, therefore, they arc out just the cost of the overalls. Now is the time to get your Chau tauqua season tickets and avoid the rush the last day. IfcriHfes For Veterans. j The time has about arrived when Sumter must decide, whether hundreds of veterans will sleep in inhospitable lents on cots, or be the honored guests in the homes of Sumter citizens. Sec retary K&rdon puts it up to many households. Are you with Sumter or "agin it?" It's up to you.' I Only a few days grace remains m which the committee on homes.must 'decide whether hundreds of veterans [will have to be accommodated in jt'etits or halls, sleeping on cots in a city 1 which invited these guests to meet in I Sumter. Does hot that probability of I i ?.??ttmcient hospitality awaken loca. i'p'-'?e and community interests in ihe ^breast of every public spirited citw.ei?. lit is about three weeks to May 5th I a,mi Gth when Sumter will have, it i> jeitimated. between five and six hun 'd'ed invited guests to entertain in tht j homes of the citizens of Sumter. j The reputation of'Sumter for hos pitality, and for courteous entertain - j n ent of invited guests is at stake. iTnis means or should mean to every j household wherein it is possible to entertain a Confederate veteran, that j the occupants of these residences have j-a certain amount of community spir j it and city pride, and that every such j oit:?*en is interested in feeling a per | schal as well as a community inter ; est in the way that Sumter entertains I her invited guests. I Of course there are to be found ir Sumter, as everywhere else, num bers of men and women who live or! rather try to live unto themselves, be-1 cause living to yourself is a rather | complicated problem if you are living j in a wideawake, progressive, unselfish i community, taken as a whole city. I sta ll as Sumter justly claims to be. I who are absolutely indifferent about (community matters in general. j j But it is to be hoped, and it. is gen-j j orally believed that Sumter has at j \ ienst comparatively few of the selfish j and unpublic spirited class of citizens herein reluctantly referred to. That there are many households in which veterans could be entertained, but in which veterans will not be entertained' j is well known to the committee on j homes for veterans. This is to be deplored, of course. But this can be I remedied by these households agree j ing to do their duty to their city. ! Sumter has set out to pull off the ; biggest and most successful, brilliant {and hospitable Confederate veterans' j re union ever staged in South Caro I lino. That is the Sumter spirit. ,A-e you a "part of that community spirit j for aie you indifferent? Thousands ofj dplfaxs will be freely and gladly ex penoed, city and county-loving men and women who are anxious to show the gallant old Confederate veterans how much Sumter thinks of them, and how Sumter desires to honor them. If Sumter didn't want to honor these 'hundreds of gallant veterans Sumter would never have invited them to bo! I its guests of honor. Colonel Richard I D. Lee shows the typical Sumter splr i it in his liberal contribution of $1,000 > to entertain Sumter's guests. There fore a plain duty of local pride and community and individual hospital ity rests upon every man and woman in Sumter who can entertain a veter an to do so. ? SUmter's homes arc crowded for the most part owing to the, scarcity of houses, a condition hot peculiar to Sumter but existing throughout the United States. Hun jdreds of progressive citizens, not that j they needed the money, but simply j to help Sumter to develop have open | ed their*'horn^s to men and . women j and rented them sleeping rooms. That j shows we have community builders and hospitable citizens in Sumter also. . But for a couple of days Sumter will need rooms to appropriately en tertain hundreds of invited guests, j The time is short, to repeat, in which .o find Out whether Sumter has suffi cient 'accommodations in hospitable homes for our veteran visitors, or to take the necessary steps to put these: visitors in tents or halls, on cots in a City which invited them to meet in ?Sumter. Are there so many indifferent citi zens that this inhospitalrle condition shall prevail? The answer tests with every household that can entertain, and above all the answer remains -more.with those households that can But will not entertain. Which class will you be rated in when the time a l rives to show What Sumter can and will do. Presbyterian Campaign. OrganiznTion of Southern Presby terians for the every-member canvas.-, of that denomination's progressive program is fast being completed in this city, and on Sunday. April 25, the big effoit. will be made. In three synods the canvass will be conducted by all churches on these dates. These synods are Kentucky. Texas and Oklahoma. In Arkansas. Missouri.. Florida and West Virginia ?also a considerable number of strong churches will observe these dates. In many of the Southern States the financial phase of the campaign was held March 21-27, as originally an nounced. In others it was changed to April 25-Miry 2, though, corres ponding with the Interchurch world movement. The quotas for the three States who will use the latter dates exclusively are as follows: Texas, .<11 4.S'4?>; Ken tucky. $223.699: Oklahoma, $:;3.478. The other four States using these dates partially have goals as are here given: Arkansas, $124.1540; Missouri. $19*8.199.; Fhnida. $121,615; West Virginia. $121.115. In those States where the every, member canvass has already been conducted' the results have been ex tremely encouraging. Final results are nm in hand yet, but it is confi dently expected that the church will reach its goal of $4.000.000. Several cases of scarlet fever were reported f<> the Health officer Satur day. A meeting of the Board of Health was held i<> consider the situa tion. It was decided to request a]} parents to keep a close watch on their children and to call in a physi cian immediately in case of even slight illness, if it is accompanied by fever, sore throat and rash, Good Roads (By J. Qgdeu Armour) I The country is entering a period of I road building. Projec ts which were I planned during th?- war arc being put [into effect. The Federal Government! has made large appropriations, to be spent conjointly with appropriation's by the various States. Good roads have become a watch-word <>f post wa r progress. I There is occasion for reflection irr the fact that ih* greatest of ancient j empires was conspicuous for its road ibuilding. The Roman roads were the (railways and telegraph of an age that (lid not know steam and electricity. They were the pathways of the imper ial couriers and the imperial legions. These reads were the girders that held the empire together. Jt is Cus tomary, today, to admire the Romans for their practical sagacity, nowhere better exempliiied than in their road building. j In a manner, "history repeats itself j in our newly bestirred zeal for con [ structing good highways. What to j the Romans was a national necessity, j has become for us an urgent need: land ihi< by virtue of a modern in vention?the motor car. 1 look for j much advancement to grow out of the j"'motor age." and T am certain that ! this advancement will be contingent upon, the attention w-e give to the im provement of our roads. Those of us who have made obser vations for two decades have seen wondrous changes resulting directly ? from the use of the pleasure aut'omo ! bile. Once the city was the city, and I the country was country. Today they j merge into one another. The city man. knows the country as never be fore??is glad to have access to it and to live in it when possible. The coun try man knows the city and frequents l it often. Small villages of yesterday j have become the rural metropolises j that one rihds here and there, every ! where. This is all good, for it is well that a nation be knit together in. the ispirit of mutual understanding and in J a reciprocity of advantages. But there are better arguments for I good roads than those which apply inerely to the pleasure car. We are. told, on the aufhbrity of the Govern ment, that farmers lose $:>00.000,000 yearly in marketing their crops, be j cause of bad roads. That Is too much I waste. We should contemplate this figure in connection with the high cost of living. There is no more serious prdhlem before us today than the matter of I reducing the cost of getting the pro | ducts of the farm to the table of the consumer. One step, at least, in the solution is plain?better roads. As an instrument of economy the motor truck has not yet come into its own. Efficient servant as it is in cer tain restricted realms, it now awaits j the further development of interurhan ?'and country highways to reach the ! measure of its full attainment. It has j power and speed that put it outside I the class of The horse-drawn vehicle, j and a nimblenesx and flexibility ; which gives it a certain advantage over1 the railways. It is my expecta | tion to see it assume more and more j the function of the "short haul" as {its own' peculiar province: in part, re I lieYing the railways of those duties jwhich they are least able to perform: land in part, expanding the field ..of our national transportation system. I say. therefore, all speed to the good road improvement! It will (cheapen our methods of distribution and help to bring the peoplt of our jeeuntry closer to each other. I com | mend its common sense and practical wisdom. It may be less spectacular than some of our other national is sues, but it strikes deep into the roots of fundamental progress. The financial condition of the City of Sumter is such that in the selec j tion of a successor to Councilman I Booth, care should he taken to elect j a strong man who is a conservative financier. The obligations that the City Council has assumed are greater than the city has ever before known, and. while the situation is not des perate, it calls for careful and judi j cious management. Sugar is scarce and reports indi cate that it .will be almost unobtain able later in the season. It is a poor "outlook for preserves, jams and jel lies this year. ?I Just a Lucky Deal! / And we hand the dresses out to our [ friends. Over one hundred dresses I of finest silks, georgeu^s. satins crepe j de chine, etc.. go in the Sale tomor ! row at $26.95 Read the big ad. i Schwartz Bros.?Adv. Washington. April 19?Senator Dial praised the overall and calico clubs in' speaking in the senate today. WANTED?One to twenty pigs for barbecuing for Confederate Veter ans' dinner. May 6 th. Pigs should weigh -10 to SO pounds. Phone A. D. Harby. care Booth & MeLood. l-'OR SALE?Osceola velvet bean se<*d S'.im per bushel. F. W. Andrews. ? Oswego, S. C._ j FOR sXiLK?Ninety-day velvet beans. I Sumter County raised. Guaranteed j sound. $3.50 per bushel, f. o. b. Sumter. John L. Frierson, Sumter. S. C. Route _ HAVE A FEW Ford Starters that we can install at once. If you have a Ford without a starter, see us. Shaw Motor Company._ STORE?Your car at the Clarmont Filling Station when in town for the day. where it will be safe. Ard & Bradford_ HAVE CAR LOAD Ford one ton trucks in transit. Still have one or two unsold. See us, at once. Shaw Motor Company. HAVING?. jrchaed the Claremont Filling Station., we will appreciate the patronage of our friends and the publie generally, when in need of gasoline and oils. Polite, prompt service, free water and air. A. J. .Ard, J. D. Bradford. jmshopWXk'^ws "notes Y STREET IN SOFTER ! Bishopville. April 16.?Court con-! Jvened here last Monday with Judge I Rice presiding. There being such a j large number of cases to be irie.i it 'will take all of next w-ek to try them j [all: Some of our farmers are planting lover their crops of. cotton, some havej i good stands, and nearly all of them ! have finished planting-. Some com-; Has Tts Share of the Proof That Kid ney Sufferers Seek, Backache? Kidneys weak? Distressed with urinary ills? Want reliable kidney remedy? Don't have to look far. Use what j plain of bad stands of corn. Othersjs recommend Everv ! have good stands. The cold spells of j recommend, fcvery ?weather does not seem to have injured street in Sumter has its cases. ; vegetation or the fruit crop either, i Here's one Sumter man's experi j 1 he oat crops are very promising.; * j There is very little wheat planted!ence : around here. j Let W. B. Costin, prop, of grocery, j Mr. Cunningham took his youngest j 113 E. Calhoun street, tell it. He says: ?daughter, and Mrs. James Cousar to; ... - - , Charlotte last week for medical treat- A "??d many yeors aS? I was Iment Dr. N. Y. Alford acompahied |troubled Wllh ?Y kidneys and I had ; them. {all the symptoms of that complaint. Mrs. JT. \V. Stuckey returned homeji certainly was in bad shape All the .from the Florence hospital last Tues- fjftnily had U8ed Doan-s Ri(' pn]s day Very mucn improved in health. . . , j Mr. W. G. Stuckey was thrown j?nd hiUl e?1 taith *? them, so I got I from a wagon yesterday afternoon { Doan's and used some. I never spent and had his leg broken just above the i my money better, for, after I had ta ankle. and the ankle dislocated. *&jkCn three boxes, I was entirely cured i was taken to his home and Dr. Me-- . . , _ , . , ? , . . .of the trouble. I earned in weisrht Cutchen soon had it in shape again, '. x " w*J*xr j but he is suffering much today. : j and feIt in ^ay, SO it is Quite a number of Bishopville folks; a great pleasure to recommend such have gone to Hot Springs. Ark., to j a fine, remedy.*' try the hot water baths and others are; Price ^ at all dealers. Don't going later. . j . . , Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reid, of Sav-i51"1^ ask for a kl(ln(?y remedy?get annah. Ga., have been on a visit) to j Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that I his father, Mr. George H. Reid. Rob j Mr. Costin had. Foster-Milbnrn Co., has been a very successful man and j Mfgrs.^ /Buffalo, N. Y.. 73 is doing a large business in Savannah.; _? Bishopville is building up very rap-j idly, as is evidenced by the number! of new stores and dwellings being j built, and each being occupied as soon! as completed. I Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Scott have gone ! [to visit relatives in Columbia, and en joy the protracted meeting carried on: in the First Presbyterian church. .Revival meetings will soon begin at j May the Baptist church, to be followed by] July S one at the Methodist. If our people 1 Oct. j do not become better it will not for! Dee. i won't of good preaching. - " - Meet Me at the Dress Sale. . I A number of cases of smallpox have! Tomorrow at Schwartz's. Read the been reported in several sections of M? acl" aml come earl>% 0nc hun I Sumter county within the past few! dr?d fine siik dresses, all to be sold at ! weeks. Those <who have not beert! $2G-95> ?rth u? 10 *50-00- Schwartz ! vaccinated recently are taking a risk.' Bros.?Adv. f - v .v a - a-g . -?- _? se ?---^g^^^^_" ? - ?_ - * a ? U '. VC?ttm Market NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Teifid'ys Open High Dow Close Close 42.00 42.25 41.55 41.65 42.25 4O.0? 40.20 39.48 39.48 39.85 36.95 37.25 36.20 36.29 37.00.V 35.93 36.15 35.25 35.26 35.89i We have an assortment of hats that we are closing out at.,.$5.00, $7.50, $10.00 These are snappy hats, made of braids combined with georgette crepe, flowers and feathers. . ??* lM MtWfM "* THE MISSES CHANDLER ' Second Floor McCollum Bros. NETLI/ O'DONNELIi, Preddesit ^ VH? FIRST f-iAT|0?1AL,BAM^, O. L. YATES. Oaabier ARE YOU MAK ING MONEY? If not, there is something wrong With you. Everybody seems to be making it. If you are making money, what are you doing with it? Prob ably spending it as fast as you get it. You should bear in mind that there is only one time to save money, and that, when you are making it Things !ook mighty good now, but the tide may turn when we least expect, and then you will be sorry that you did not save your surplus earnings. It is not too late. If you don't know how to save, it will be our pleasure to ad vise you. Our services are at your disposal. The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C. t * * + t * t * The National Bank of South Carolina of Sumter, S. C. Resources $2,600,000. Strong and Progressive . 4 The Most Painstaking SERVICE I with COURTESY | Give u9 the Pleasure of Serving YOU + The Baitk of the Rank; | and File * - $ C. G. ROWLAND. President + EARLE ROWLAND, Cashier J