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Pttbllsfeed Wednesday and Saturday ?-BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. Terms: . $2.00 per-annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square, first insertoin .$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 "Contracts for three months or long er will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ed in 1850 and the True Southron in The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. ARE YOU? Are you scolding about the high ?cost of food and still too lazy to cul tivate a garden in the back yard cr around the corner? Are you worrying over your inabil ity to make both ends meet, ? when you are paying for and running an automobile which you do not really heed at all because the street cars < "Tculd serve all your needs if you it them? . you> rowing about the price of new clothes "when the ones you have would look all right and last for months with a little brushing, mend ing and pressing? Are you raising the daily howl over the cost of domestic service when one . Quarter of the time and energy you spend at dancing, bridge and driving! your car would obviate the need for any assistance except for the heaviest labor?. ^ * Are the meat bills a daily affront to youf 'while their sole items are port *r-Tiouse steaks, lamb chops and stt^efbreads? ; To^sum it all up, are you really [ "the Innocent victim of the conscience less profiteer, or the deliberate slave j of i your' own weakness ? -..When it's all over, there ought to be^^bonus or a medal or something >fi?? t?e- faithful and long-suffering ?|my:of ultimate consumers and con tdtboiors, who have dutifully bought ??q?b.e bonds and paid all the bills. * * * -Those who are advocating a modi fication of the prohibition regulations iri^favor of "light wines*' might get a'ong. better if they changed it to "drjt wines." * ? * 2Jay Day this year isji't going to be a Very good time for American Keds f.o dance around May poles. * * * Wall Street brokers keep up an 'in f^ijal din. but the rest of the nation dtfjten't pay much attention to it * ? * .Cyclones and tornadoes every Vijere! This is the year of big wind", in -meteorology as in politics. 9 * * * - Many a digestive system that re sisted successfully all .the ravages of x-iiji is put out of commission by so-U fountain concoctions. * * ? Economy parades may be all right, but true economy, like true, piety, can b<j. practiced-, just, as well in private. 3IAXIMUM PRICE FOR BUYERS. A -group of stenographers and typ ists *n Detroit seem to have improved upon; the overall club idea. They have pledged themselves to keep within a definite price limit, set by the group, wheh purchasing hats, shoes, suits and coats. If the maximum they have established in each case is a reasonable one, allowing the purchase of good materials and well-made ar ticles of apparel, these young women should b*e able to keep themselves dressed both well and economically. The best feature about their plan is that it does not involve additional, unforseen expenditure, but simply pledges every girl to keep on hunting until she finds a satisfactory garment either at the maximum price fixed or as much below it as possible. During the months of the nation's wildest extravagance there was too little effort made 'to find goods of whieh price and quality were in just proportion. Style was too frequent ly mistaken for quality or accepted as a substitute for the better value. Just setting oneself a price schedule and-7 then using brains and care in living within its limits will be an im portant factor in personal economy. When whole groups of citizens do that same, thing, the result will be a fine stabilizing and reducing of inflated prices. There seem to be ways of losing a strike and yet winning it. The coal miners, you remember, had their de mand for a five-day week turned down. Now quite generally, they are said :o have their five-day week, get ting it by the simple process of not going to work on Saturday. * * * The railroad strike is said to have I.' ? ? ? been costing the railroads $3,000,000 a day. This expense is passed along directly to the public, because rail road ' earnings for the present are guaranteed. And indirectly it has cost the public tens of millions a day. Yet the strikers wonder why the pub lic is against them. * * * If another war has to be fought to win what everybody supposed had been won by the last one, it will be j because the United States has noti ratified the peace treaty and joined the Allies in prompt enforcement. * * * The Germans used to say we went to war to save the money we had lent to the Allies. A ridiculous lie, of! course?but we might very properly and profitably make peace for that sole reason. * * * If guests can be lodged comfort ably in jail for $1 a day, as the jailer at Louisville, Ky., says they can, why not build jails instead of hotels and houses? BUSINESS 3IETHODS FOR LABOR. The refusal of the Railroad Labor Board to deal with the "outlaw" strikers, establishes a business-like policy in the government's attitude to ward labor, and helps to make labor itself more business-like. To deal with the strikers alone would not only have condoned their offense but would have invited chaos in labor relations, where order and system are needed more urgently than in any other department of American life. The strikers were rebels against their own labor organizations, dis obeying the officers they themselves had chosen and ignoring contracts made by those officers in their name. They struck in disregard of public ? rights and national law. They ignor ed the orderly procedure by which it had been arranged that cases like theirs should be adjusted.. Their strike was not a final, desperate ef fort, resorted to after all other means had failed. They had not even pre sented, definite claims to their em ployers or the government. They struck first, in a spirit of blind discon tent, and formulated their demands afterward. Xo institution can get anywhere by that sort of procedure. Organized la bor today must, above all t.iings, be come business-like. It has suffered j much and failed much because of its failure, for- various reasons, to live up to itsj contracts. In so doing it has undermined its own cardinal princi ple of collective bargaining. Xeiither private employers nor government can make bargains with labor unions unless there is a reasonable assurance of the unions keeping their bargains. To that end it is necessary that la bor should have not only thorough or ganization but thorough discipline. The Railroad Labor Board, therefore, in refusing to deal with a group of rebellions and contract-breaking em ployees, has performed a service for union labor. Tidings From Hagood "Politics makes strange bedfellows" but Georgians do not believe Tom Watson will ever lie down with Smith even if the latter is his child. They say. that Watson stands no chance for election to anything neith er does any man whom he really op poses. The recent election is claimed sound ed Smith's death-knell. Today he is with very many of them "Hoax Myth," for they feel that he, having repudi ated Democracy, must be repudiated. They have a high regard for Tom j Watson; say he ia courageous honest! and all that, but is quite radical in j some of his views. Opinion is that af- j ter all it is the Catholic element ?that] worked his defeat. You have heard folks praise the j highways of Georgia. Down here one j hears them deprecate them. One of! tho men on the staff of the Savannah j Morning News told the writer. in! speaking of the bad roads, that at one point in the interior he was four hours on one mile of ro?d, when he mired ; down several times. Another man, a salesman from Atlanta, complained loudly of the bad roads, and said he had to detour constantly to make any progress. It certainly is refreshing to be con stantly meeting Carolinians of whom there are quite a number living in Savannah. The blue denim and gingham crazoj has impressed Savannah, and rightly, j +oo, as a fad of no worth. One can but wish to know how the! folks at home fare and long for the .familiar sheet, with its smiling face. "The Daily Item." So will you be so i kind as to meet me. till further no tice, at Atlanta. Ga.. general delivery. I wanted to write a line or two more. You know that a whole lot of the liquor that debauched our country came from Savannah and you wonder how; prohibition fares here now. You can get it or something in its name without much trouble. A man run ning a public car told me he could1 get me all the liquor 1 wanted, and he did. Will any say, "Hagood is drink-j ling liquor?" Nothing of the kind and he never said so. either. Yes, now and then they bring in a poor, miserable scape-goat but the real thing goes unshackled, I fear. Hagood Bethea. Special Sale of Eoys* Knee Suits $7.45 and $$:93. j Be quick. Joseph M. Chandler.?Adv. HAPPY NATIVES OF SARAWAK ! Under Wise Government, People Live [ Easy Lives in Their Gloriously Fertile Country. The tribe of Kayans, inhabiting the ; head waters of the Baram and Rejang j rivers of Sarawak, have lived for un ! known generations almost isolated in I the interior of the island of Borneo. I There are many reasons for believing them to be originally of Caucasian origin. Many of them have very light skin, and they probably reached Bor neo by way of the Malay peninsula I from lower Burma. Rigid discipline is characteristic of the domestic me nage, resulting in good manners and recognition of authority. For a good many years Sarawak was under the independent govern ment of a white rajah. Sir Charles Brooke, who controlled his mingled subjects with unusual wisdom and sympathy. Among other far-sighted edicts he instituted stringent game laws, so that the island is one of the best protected parts of the world in this respect. Birds, beasts and butter- ] flies are protected, not more than two I specimens of any one species being' allowed to the collector. In this way the very beautiful and rare trees and insects of the country are being main tained for the enjoyment of future generations. Another . wise move of the rajah was to continue the native costum^r what there is of it?in place of intro ducing the unsuitable, ugly and arti-! ficial modern clothing of Europeans, j This, as Stevenson points out, has usually exactly the opposite effect from that intended by well-meaning missionaries, and the happy natives of "Sarawak.are very well off as they are. GOOD WORK WITH CAjVOA Explorers in Northwestern Canada Have Photographic Studies of Wilderness Wild Life. After a three years' hunt with the camera in the almost unknown Laird river district in northwestern Canada, EL A. Stewart and John Sonnickson have come back to civilisation by way of Peace river, Alberta, bringing sev eral thousand photographic studies of the manners and customs of the wild life of those remote woods and streams. The explorers, for they well deserve the name, worked into the wilderness by way of Hudson's Hope and the forks of the Findlay and ? Parsnip rivers as far as Fort Gra hame. Their negatives Illustrate the habUs of the ptarmigan, moose, beav er, Canadian wild geese and other an imals and birds that have seldom been observed with anything like thorough ness by means of the camera. The travelers had devices of various sorts whereby their subjects were enticed to spots upon which the hidden lenses were focused; and upon reaching these spots an ambushed camera man "snapped" them by twitching a long cord attached to the lens shutter. A' single negative of some specially shy animal was often the only fruit of many hours of*patient waiting. Some times for days the explorers would watch a single spot through their field glasses awaiting the favorable mo ment to "shoot." Bub it was all worth it. Gleaning-the Stumps. The rapid decrease in the number of tali stumps which have been so fa miliar to the traveler through the coast i hills of Oregon, is regarded as an. in-] dication of their approaching extinc-l tion. Hitherto some 20 feet of each stump has been left standing, silent relics of former monarchs of the forest, too thick for most saws to compass and too full of pitch to suit the saw mills. But now the need for timber is greater and men no longer climb high up on to boards thrust into notches in the trunk to suit the saw and the saw mill. They have learned thrift and they cut low down lest good lumber he uselessly wasted. Only as a record of past wastefulness are the tall stumps with their deep notches still visible. A Filipino Vassar. What the occidental ideals of univer sal opportunities of education are to mean to women of the Orient takes on a large significance with the estab lishment in the Philippines of a uni rersity for girls only. This university Is to be part of an educational group called Centro Escolor de Senoritas, where until now the instruction to girls has\ been only in the primary, secondary and intermediate grades. That this Filipino Vassar will develop traditions characteristic of girls' col leges in the United States cannot be doubted by anyone who has observed how wholeheartedly though shyly, girl students from the Orient have en tered into the undergraduate studies, festivities and pastimes at American colleges. Coquelin's Memory. "How many parts do you know well enough to play tonight if need be?" somebody asked Coquelin. He took a sheet of paper and wrote down the names of 5Ii plays of his repertoire. His friends laughed. "You are boasting surely, mon ami?" said the Viscomte de Lovenjoul. "You have every one of these plays in your library," said Coqueliu quietly. "Ge| them all out and put them on the table." The viscomte did so. "Now," said Coquelin, "let anybody select a cue from, any one of these plays at hap hazard and give it to me." They tried him with 16 plays out of the 5o snd he never missed a single cue or made one mistake.?-Fortnightly Re view? !CAUSED A CHANGE IN MIND ! [j - , Circumstance That Made Mil! Owner j Somewhat Relax His Ideas About otrict Discipline. j "I personally began with the idea jthat people might be hired and good i^ork gained from them," Julian S. )Carr, Jr., in System, writes. Mr. Carr, .'who is president of the Durham Hos iery mills, goes on: "I thought in my I youth that rules made order and that ,a certain military discipline was es sential; that it was foolish, to humor i people and all that, nor was I going j to recognize certain local traditions j about- days on which no work should j be done. For instance, I made up my jmind that quitting work to go to the ! circus was not in accosd with the best j industrial practices. "The first circus came to town about j three-months after we took charge of ; the mill, and I was keen for the test, j We posted positive orders that the reg | ular hours of work were to be observ iedon that day, and that any person who went off to the circus would be discharged. The full force reported &s usual on the mornin^g of circus day, j and I went home to dinner confident I that at last we had brought order. It gave me a bit of a pang, for I should have liked to go myself! "But duty is a stern master, and reflecting on that fact I hurried back to the mill. Noticing a crowd in a side street, I stopped to look. It was our whole mill force wending its mer ry way to the magic tent! I went along myself, and resolved that, al though abstract rules were well enough, a bit of common sense and ! "knowledge of human nature might profitably be blended with them. How j much, of our labor trouble generally is I due to 'enforcing countless rales with ! military exactness?" MANIFOLD USES OF THE OX Animal May With Truth Be Said to Be Most Useful of All the Domestic Animals. ! . Of all our domestic animals the ox ; Is certainly the most useful, writes Henri Fabre.in Our Humble Helpers. During its lifetime it draws the cart i In mountainous regions and works at the plow in the tillage of the fields; furthermore, the cow .furnishes milk in abundance. Given over to the butcher, the animal becomes a source of manifold products, each part of its body, having a value of Its own. The fiesh is highly nutritious; the skin is made Into leather for harness and j shoes; the hair furnishes stuffing for ! saddles; the tallow serves for making candles and soap; the bones, half cal I cined, give a kind of charcoal or bone black used especially for refining sugar and making it perfectly white; this charcoal, after thus being used; is a very rich agricultural fertilizer; I heated in water to a high temperature, ' the same bone yields the blue used by i carpenters; the largest and thickest 1 bones go to the turner's shop, where I they are manufactured into buttons I and other small objects, the horns are ! fashioned by the maker of small wares Into snuff boxes and powder boxes,; the blood is used' concurrently with the bone of black in refining sugar: the intestines cured, twisted, and dried, are made into strings for musical in struments; finally, the gall is fre quently turned to account by dyers and cleaners in cleaning fabrics and par tially restoring their original luster. j Curioua Clubs, j The recent - announcement that an English "Bald-Headed Men's club" had just met?the first time since 1936, owing to the war?serves to recall one or two odd clubs. I "The Fat Man's club," for instance, i was known to exist in Paris in 1S07. J Its heaviest member turned the scale ! at 336* pounds and the chief qualifiea j tion for membership was to weigh at ; least 220 pounds. j About this time there also met in New York the "Society of the Pointed Beards"?a most exclusive club. No one was eligible unless he had a care fully cultivated beard of natural growth and terminating in one sym | metrical point half an inch from the j apex of the chin. j At two club dinners in 1S9S even the j celery was teerved with its leaves j trimmed to a point. Thomas a Kempis. "Here in the service of the Lord Thomas a Kempis lived and wrote 'The Imitation of Christ,'" are the words that appear on the foot of the monument to the-'author recently j erected at Zwolle. In a gentle spot, { surrounded by ancient oaks and firs, i and with shrubbery around, this mon ? ument stands on a hill which was I presented for the purpose by the van ! Poyen family. The monument is in the shape of a cross with the mono gram of Christ and the symbols of the four evangelists. The inscription on the main part is "In Oruce Calus." Many subscriptions were received for the monument as soon as the plan was suggested in 11)10. Queen Wilhelmina was among those who gave. Costing Iron With Lead. Lead as a substitute for tin as a coating for sheet iron. Iron wire and wire gauze was strongly advocated at the Buffalo meeting of the American Chemical society by Charles Basker ville, who exhibited some specimens of a process worked out by him. Iron shingles, so treated, have been exposed to the weather In a loof lest for two years and eleven months and show no sijms of ru<t. They may be bent without cracking the coating and exposing the iron. Chicken wire so treated is quite as good as the galvaii ized and cheaper to pruduce. [vast work to ? restore lens Herculean Labor to Put Mines of France In Order i _ Will Twin in the Saturday Even ing- Post. The French official statement thai -it might take leu years to put the mines of the Lens district in Northern ] France into full production .seemed to I me, when I wont to.Lens, a probable : exaggeration, x came away convinced I that it was plausible?if n?t^ab.soiute i ly true. These narrow veined and deep but rich mines lie under a very v.et-'top soil. For the first few hundred feet of their depth the shafts must ibe not ?timbered, but heavily cemented. The! Germans blew up this cement with; high explosives. The- natural Leakage and sepage of a marshy soil did.the1 rest. Gradually it filled the lower! drifts and levels, rising steadily in the ! shaft until in some cases it overflowed) the shaft mouths. There it lay for; years, reducing workings which meant the painful labor of a century to pulp ami slush. The Courriere district has probably advanced farthest toward reconstruc tion. Lens itself lay on the steadily j maintained battle line of, 1914-1918. The town was leveled and the Ger mans did their work early. Courriere. j some four or five miles from the line, was -only half destroy, -d by shell fire, and the Germans did not get round to blowing up cement bulwarks, the shaft houses and the surface machin ery until 1 MTO. . .'? If all goes well .Courriere wil get out a little coal, a very Little, in 19*21. The most optimistic .of the engineers^ (thought that if surface machinery! [came through fast enough the district' might almost reach full production by the end of 1922. Courriere before the < war yielded about three and one-half million tens ? year against ? total pro duction of 14 million for the Lens dis trict. , ? ? . Jt all goes more slowly at Lens pro per. Lens is just now geling to pump ing. That and ail other processes must ! go more slowly than at Courriere and I'the finial work of getting the galleries I into shape will be both more difficult [arid more dangerous. About the time Inececsary for complete restoration of ; the wiiole district expert opinion dif j fered?all admitted that they were guessing. One optimist said: ''Leaving out two j or three mines in especially bad shape, iive years." j The man whose opinion is perhaps j most worthy of respect said: "My (guess is seven to nine years." Bishopyillc Xev.s Items. A successful liquor raid was made 1 by Sheriff Scarborough, assisted by [Deputy E. "W. Folsom. and Rural Po 1 licemah W. T. EaCoste last Sunday |.morning in the lower edge of the county. A well equipped copper still was found in a swamp, which was captured, and a quantity.of mash and some whiskey. Three parties, one white man and two negroes were ar rested and brought to jail. Mr. B: C.-Ra-dcIiffe had a Ford ear stolen from the shelter in his yard Friday night. The license tag on it was 19643. and any information lead ing to reeovery of the car will be .ap preciated by Mr. Ratcliffe.?Bishopj i vflle Vindicator. ?Eea's Ail-Wool j Blue serges :it $33.95. Special, Xob ? by U-silk lined suits for young m-^n j at ?35 to $37.50. Sizes to 39. Jos | eph M. Chandler.?Adv. ? r~~ [FOR SAIiE?At a bargain, one Colt's generator complete with fixtures. It's all new and never been uiicrat ed. See J. 1*. Commander. HAVE A FEW Ford Starters thnt we - can install at once. If you have a Ford withcui a starter; see us. Shaw Motor Comp;:ay. HAVE CAR LOAD Ford one- ton trucks in transit. Still hav'e.o.ne or two unsold. See us at once. Shaw Motor Company. TAKE IT IX TIMT 'u Just as Scores of Sumter People Have? Tv'aiting doesnt' pay. . If you neglect kidney- backache,- : ? Urinary troubles often follow. Dean's Kidney Pills are for kidney backache, and for ether kidney ills. Sumter citizens endorse them. Mrs. A. Hancock, 100 Blandhxg St., Sumter, says: "Last year I had a slight attack- of kidney trouble and there was a bad jrsxri through the small of ray back. My head ached, my nerves were all unstrung and dizzy spells bothered me.* Black specks floated before my eyes most of the time and blurred my sight. My kidneys acred irregularly and f knew I would have to do some thing. Finally I bought a box of Dean's Kidney Pills and used them. Dean's acted like magic and after I had finished the box, the trouble dis appeared. I haven't been bothered since and it gives me great pleasure to recommend Doan's." Price GOc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for at kidney remedy?get. Doan's Kidney Pfcis?the same that Mrs. Hancock had. ' Foster-Milburn Co.. MfgrsU Buffalo.. N. T.?Advt 75 3*fr. a nut ?r5r.^. IJnycr. If yon are looking for values in, boys* school suits, .call on us today. Price $7.-15 to $?.95. Sizes 8 to 18. Joseph M. Chandler.?Adv. VACATION OF SAILORS' Auntie Fleet Returns to New York From Winter Cruise -' i New York, May 1.?The Great A.V/. lantic fleet has arrived to give 25.0-00-.-. sailors relaxation from winter prac tice in "West Indian waters. The .fleet , will remain, a fortnight. -.^cAC Pop-jisr Names for Towns. There are 31 Franklins given in the ! latest United States postal guide. I Chester and Clinton aie close seconds, I there being 30 towns and cities bj j each of these' names in the United i j States, Washington' and Newport,^ 1 come nest in popularity, each haying, j 28. I PEPSiNOL Makes a Streng Stomach;.";' Good Digestion and Sound Heaitkl It is stomach trouble that -is wearing, yon 'dqv;n. causing those sharp gas pains, tho?e frequent headaches, that tired, listless feeling, that loss of up-. petite. You can overcome all of these safely and surely by taking Pepsinol."C This medicine will invigorate your. . stomach and stimulate the thorough , digestion "thai makes rich Mood to re pair wasted body and nerve tissues. Now is the time to get'on the road' to rosy, robust health. Do not wait " j until you arc completely worn out - and sicir iri bed ???'to combat stomach trouble.'' . CITY DRU? COMPANY NE3ELXi 07T>ONNI2IiL, ? A. ? * ? ?-? ?- ft Sj - ? ?SS*??* 5 v MARK HANNA \Vas a very successful man. lie start ed life in an humble way, as most of us did, and he-attributed his success to the "Thirft Habit/' which he ac quired early in life. Ke gave it as bis opinion that any man or woman to be useful or helpful to the com munity in which they live, should save. . Take Mark's advice. It is not too late. Got the\saving habit and e n account with us today, and'"Watc;. X Grow." ^ ?;r The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C. The National Bank of South Carolina of Sum tor, S. C. Resources $2,f>00.000. * ??.:?< ?-? t ?& ? 'All:.: *->*ixL;.. .. Strong and Progressive . llie Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU The Bank of the Rank* and File C. G. ROWLAND, President BARLE ROWLAND, Cashier