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The Sumter Watchman was found
>ejvin 1S5? and the True Southron in
3$^. The Watchman and Southron
4<># has the com bin ed circulation and
of both of the old papers,
is manifestly the best advertising
tttni&umter. ? ? ?.
Cheaper cats of meat may be all
..r^i but what these blue jeans cori
veirisT'wait in cheaper cuts oi clothes.
PROHIBITION AND THEATRES.
? ifeie theatrical people used to fear
v t&at iro^ibition would mean the
^?ea^*|th4li of" their3 business. They
. have had a > pleasant surprise. One
^^e>1e*dmg producers said the oth
. ^'Prohibition and the legitimate
4^t|tg^ Jtre good -friends; and why not?
.Tile djcjr era has meant millions in the
theaters' coffers, and just staved off a
.disastrous 'period." He estimates; that
prohibition has increased theatrical
"j&!6l|0B 50 per cent
f. it se^ms Quite possible. The legiti
:Hias certainly had a won^
-season.- ^--dBtefavej
jg?^eSimTry "w^t dry, it seemed im
103&&^ movies. Now there is
ly room for both, and plenty
for both,
ttrbt, people are spending on
good deal of the money that
to spend on liquor. Prohi
we-'them the "wherewithal, and
same time .an idea; of how to
Men must have amusement,
there are no more saloons;
jtfho used to find diversion
la'ifem naturally turn to the
instead. And despite the
'low [standards'' of
^ stage, it' does seem as if
dards are a 'little, . higher
been subjected to the
'fc?t'entirely, sober audiences;
' ^^v&wble ajVrer.1>e^ms to look
is?^lrierat present prices.
: * i^^^LUS would be . all rights lit
_ ^TOft't going to bond us all for
;?ytaUske&". sold nowadays is
. ll than whiskey used to be,
ot^ftCtii oesn' t. harm so many people.
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/SAviaa hour of daylight, and nave
^fcj^alo world to yourself a little
getting up earlier these fine
.O^reasbn for the high cost of food
'. ri tha^men eat more since - it isn't
jfO?fij^to line up at a friendly bar
for.-a couple of cocktails and a free
lunch on the way home to dinner.
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^o..- there isn't going to be cny "old
fashioned panic" in the United States;
out 'there's going; to be' a considerable
financial landslide, with quiaie a lot of
resulting fatalities, if the extravagance
and speculation are not stopped soon.
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- ? - everybody ieeps on making more
aa?pji&f*. money-out of everybody ?lse,
?ft?r^ -awhile money may he worth
*bcut-as much in this country as it is
in. Russia, with a square meal costing
several hundred dollars.
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Fir* sets of bills were passed twice,
in identical form, by both houses of
the New York legislature without any
body noticing it. . Rather careless of
them/but there's something to be said
for their speed.- Congress finds con
siderable trouble in getting even the
most necessary bills through once.
r ; PAPER AND CREDIT
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in1191Z there was about 70 per cent
as much gold as there was paper
m ?nev in the world. Despite the na
tural -.in creaks of the gold supply, at
the"dose of the war the per centage
of gold was reduced to IS. Now it is
d^wafto 12.
The .situation is still more impres
sive when you look at the paper side,
of it. In 1$13, according to the statis
tician of the National City Bank of
New .York', there was 57,000,000,000
of paper money in circulation through
out the world. When the armistice
was signed, the volume of paper had
grown to $4^,000,000,000, and now it
is $56,000,00 000. Thus the paper mon
ey outstanding has been multiplied by
eight, while the volume of gold has
grown so littie that the ratio of the
gold to the paper is only about one to
stari less than ever before. It used to
he a^gold world; now it is a paper
world.
Here is inflation with a vengeance.
It iSiaggravsted by .the- enormous ex
^?^rutf?jt of credit. Business loans a nd
private loans are greater than^ ever
'?befr?e^^dPar^.niore people are making:
their personal purchases on a credit
basis than ever before. And this ten
dency has grown faster since the arm
istice than during the war.
Both credit and paper money are
based largely on confidence. The sit
uation is incomparably^ better in the
United States than in Europe. We
have half the .world's gold. But even
here the inflation has proceeded to a
degree that all financiers recognize as
dangerous. Let public? confidence
once be shaken, and there would be
widespread business disturbance and
loss.
The financiers, therefore, have late
ly been sending out warnings and urg
ing a contraction of credit. As a re
sult it is harder to borrow money for
speculation and non-essential indus
tries, and nearly everybody is tighten
ing up a little on the quantity of cre
dit allowed and period it covers. This
is the way of safety.
BONDS AND- DEALERS.
An inquisitive soul, having heard
tales of varying prices for Liberty
Bonds, thought he would investigate.
He took a ,$100 third issue, '4% per
cent bond, and offered it for sale at a
bank. There he-was offered the list
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price In that day's quotation, which
was $90.17. The bank would also
redeem the attached interest coupons
totalling $7.86, making the entire sum
of $98.03.
Since his quest was purely for in- j
formation, he refused this offer, and j
next presented his bond to a well
taown brokerage arm dealing in such
seci^ies. It m*de~the -same:?&W'^
theJb?nk, with a fee of 5u cents K
hans?fer. fj$S
Sfl?t..Gie investigator visited a cig
ar store which displayed a price quo-1
tation board in its window, but the
proprietor would give only $96.57 fmr
the bond with its interest coupons.
Thence the quest went on down the
lincj?Tamall dealers and pawn-brokers
thejjnaoB .offered gradually diminsh
ing, -Ste lowest one being $83, which
the ^BaRBDrolter claimed was "about
the xmuent quotation," though it was
in reality $7.17 less'than the list price
for the bond without coupons. Hav
ing learned what he wanted to know,
the inquisitive ,soul went home and
put his bond; away,-'safely: '
>. These' figures " an d this. experience
may be duplicated in almost any com
munity, and amply prove the wisdom
of the advice offered-by a federal bank
official: ltSe]l Liberty Bonds only if
^necessary, and then' deal only with
banks or \ legitimate brokerage con
cerns*" i: ?.
THAT EXTRA HALF-HOUR
A good deal is being said about the
fact that if all the workers now in the
country were to put in an extra half
hour every day on some bit ef prod
uctive work the labor, shortage would
be made up for.. Just how a man or
woman with a day of definite length,
containing its definite tasks, can put
in. the extra naif-hour is not clear to
many people -who would like to put
it in and thus reduce the cost of liv
ing.
The first essential to success in this
undertaking is imagination. The
worker must be able to look beyond
his immediate task, all the way along
the chain of workers and back around
to himself again. Fortified with this
power to see effects reaching out at
long distance from hie small causes,
he can find dozens of ways to utilise
his half-hour to aid the country's
shortage and his own well-being.
First and "most obvious, at this time
of year, comes gardening. Farm labor
is notoriously short. If the town man
will put ins his ha if-hour in the back
yard garden, and a dozen or two of
his neighbors will do the same, the
labor of one marKet-gardener is saved
for production of larger farm crops.
It may take a season and a half to get
the effect out of the cause. Here is
where the imagination is needed. But
j the chain is sure, if persisted in.
He may sponge and press his own
clothes and shine his own shoes. This
not only means an immediate econ
omy, but by making the old clothes
wear longer it gives the clothing " a
chance to catch up with its shortage.
He may paint his own porch and
varnish his own floors, setting the
painter free to work on new houses.
With these suggestions as a start
er, if a man will spend the first "extra
half hour" letting his mind play free
ly on his productive abilities, he will
find a dozen Slher things, one or two
of which may serve him better than
these.
There is. for instance, the possi
bility of studying and reading along
the lines of his job, so that he im
proves his own producing ability.
Ot'S GREATEST PIONEERS
T?s yfax is to be marked by the
cclebm?un on a large scale of the
three-hundredth anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrims. No better
effect could be secured from this
celebration than a re\*ival of interest
in the history of those forly adven
turers?-the stoi*y of their lives be
ifocv. tk^?r corning to this country and
in the days that followed: their jour
neyings from England to Holland and
their sojourn among the Dutch, of
which too little is known by most peo
ple; their voyage to this country and
the record of their struggles to es
tablish homes and a free government.
And at the same time it might be well
to refresh the public memory regard
ing the early Virginia settlers, of
which the North knows too little.
Every bit of this history is as thrill
ing as the most exciting movie of
modern days. No hero of the film
ever had to contend with more ob
stacles and perils than confronted
these brave and determined pioneers.
Nobody can refresh his mind with
this story and not be inspired with
patriotism, with pride, and with the
resolve to keep America to the utmost
of his ability as its creators, alike in
the North and the fionth, meant it to
! be.
We read endless trash, we talk
lightly of revolution, we belittle many
of the things for which the Pilgrim
Fathers and the7 Cavaliers and the
resc lived ha'rdMives and died heroic
deaths. Let us turn to the histories,
and read their story over again. We
shall be the better citizens for doing
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Millwood Guernsey Sale a Success
Clemson College, May 8?The dairy
industry in South Carolina has receiv
ed another boost through the Millwood
Guernsey sale held by Cooper & El
liott/Wisacky. S. C, at the Chester
county fair grounds on Wednesday,
May. 5. Twenty-one Guernsey cowsj
?were sold at an average .of $454.10,'
the highest average ever received at j
*a sale of dairy cows in this-State. *
The top price paid in the-sale was'
for Alvada Mae -of Mara Alva, who
was purchased by Mr. Paul Harden
for $680. In addition to the 21 cows
a special feature ox the occasion was
(the sale of a three-day-old heifers
calf for $135 to Mr. E. L. Stevenson, of
Winnsboro, S. C.
The sale was widely advertised and
attracted buyers from various parts
of this State and several adjoining
?States, but it is gratifying to know
that of the 22 animals sold 16 were
bought by South Carolina purchasers,
many of them from Chester county.
This means that Chester county and
South Carolina farmers know the val
ue of good .dairy cattle and at e will
ing to pay good prices for good breed
ing-stock. Extension sorvice dairy
husbandman J/: P. ; LaMaster, who
gave assistance and advice in connec
tiottTWith the sale, is very much grat
ified at the outcome, and says that it
is.^further proof of rapid development
hi?South* Carolina.
Ritmaaa's-TronMes. '
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(Associated Press ? Correspondence)
Bucharest, April 20.?Rumania is
passing through another of the many
political crises she has experienced
since the armistice. General Alex
ander Averesco, who was made pre
mier by King Ferdinand in the mid
dle of March", did not have a majority
in the old parliament which the king
dissolved at that time and he is be
ing opposed by several political par
ties in the new elections to chose a
parliament ta succeed the one dis
solved by the king.
' Promises'have been made that Gen
eral Averesco will establish order in
the country, regulate the railways, de
mobilize the army, send the soldiers
back to the farms and eliminate dis
honest officials who are said to have
enormously increased in number since
the beginning of the war.
It is charged that political combi
nations have been made against him
to prevent him from carrying out his
projects and ,th?t unless the new par
liament supports his program he will
be unable to put his reforms into ef
fect.
One of the parties opposing General
A\*eresco is the Nationalists whose op
ponents call them Bolshevists and
Communists. Dr. Viada, premier of
the recently deposed ministry, is a
member of this party. Workingmen's
unions of all the large industrial cit
ies are said to be in sympathy with
the Nationalists in opposing General
Averesco. These unions have declar
ed their adhesion to the Third Inter
nationale of Moscow.
The Nationalist party is reported to
be working in Transylvania to form a
Transylvanian republic.
Friends of Rumania say that she
j now presents a fair example of com
plicated Balkan politics which mys
tify those living beyond the frontiers
of ar.y Balkan country. Foreign dip
lama's assert that such political in
trigues are responsible for the Balkan
I wars with which the world now is
sadly familiar.
? Hitchcock Denounces
The Republican Peace
Resolution
Washington May 12?Senator Hitch
cock in opening the Democratic fight
against the Republican peace resolu
tion, declared it futile, inconsistent
and inimical to the treaty of Versailles.
FOR SALE?I have one hundred
bushels of corn in shuck, $2.00 per
bushel. A. L. Ardis, Box 29.
FOR SALE? At a bargain, one Colt's
generator complete with all fixtures.
It's all new and never been uncrat
cd. See J. P. Commander.
HAVE A FEW Ford Starters that we
can install at errce. If you have a
Ford without a starter, see us.
Shaw Motor Company._
HAVE CAR LOAD Ford one ton
? trucks in transit Still have one or
two unsold. See us at once. Shaw
Motor Company.
.< . _ Social Service.
One of the splendid things coming
out of the war is a well organized na
tion-wide body of social se?*vants at
the beck and call of human needs m
every form. Sumter is fortunate in
having one of the finest chapters in the
entire connection.
During the influenza epidemic there
were more than 400 cases in Sumier,
97 of these in; 33 homes came *mder
the care of the Red Cross Home Ser
vice Section and were treated by its
corps of twenty-one nurses, under
the supervision of one of the besl
trained nurses in the city of Sumter.
Every case reported was visited daily,
offener if necessary. Nourishment was
prepared and served by a committee
to all who were in need of it. Cloth
ing, bed clothing, food, wood, medi
cine, medical attention, all were pro
vided by the Red Cross in every sin
gle case of need. The Home Service
secretary was at the beck and call of
the entire community day or night.
No human being within the limits of
our city suffered for lack of scientific
treatment if the matter was reported.
The Red Cross has not only given
close and effective attention to the
sick but is in constant touch with
cases of distress whether men or wo
men. Modern social science is pre
ventive as well as remedial and so the
Red Cross has a well wrought sys-i
tern of health promotion. Many disi
cases hitherto considered dispensations
of Providence are now known to be
dispensation of ignorance and indif
ference. The art of living is one of the
finest of all the fine arts, yet one of
the least understood. Fortunate is any
community that has a corps of intelli
gent workers, giving their lives, not
only to the cure of disease and relief
of distress, but to the building up of
homes, the promotion of hygiene, the
bringing of fresh courage to those who
have lost heart, and thus building up
the waste places of our physical, mo
ral and social life.
It costs this nation one thousand
million dollars a year to be sick,, and
from an economic standpoint alone, a
poor man cannot afford to die. The
socializing of public health agencies
is one of the most pressing of our
needs throughout the country?the
socialized doctor, the socialized nurse,
the socialized visitor, the socialized
hfriendand the socialized home, thesa
; consummated will work out for us a
' new heaven and a new earth.
Our busy people cumbered with
the cares of their own tasks and
problems are not aware of the splen
did work being accomplished,,not on
.ly for the returned soldier, several
of whom have been given a new foot
hold in life, but all classes of our peo
ple who need a friend, are rapidly
becoming aware of Room 602, City
National Bank building, where all
(heir story, however tragic, will-, be
heard with intelligent patience, and
the., financial and social resources: ot
the-city mobilized to supply ; then
needs.- All the splendid service i tc
the suffering this winter caused by ih:
fiuenza, has cost.less than $1,000. Let
the community pause long enough tc
reckon the meaning cf this small in
vestment in terms of Human? lifey-artd
welfare. . ?. . ...... . ?
SOCIALISTS WILL
NOMINATE DEBS
1 ??The Socia Iis? 's
set for the uomi
V. Debs for Presi
j New York, May
! party machinery i
j nation of Eugene
I dent.
j New York. May 13?The Socialist
j. convention nominated Debs fur Prcsi
I dent, this afternoon.
p Yvrc/ivin.vb.vn? May- VZ^-^ia Auan?.
j. Porto ..Rtcah harbor, luis .been closed.
; by ibe" grounding of the army trans
;.?>.-;. Xorth?iTi Paciifc; at? Its entrance,"
; according to a ' raidogram received
i here. The Coast Guard ('utter Yama
eraw, has been .sent to its assistance,
j General Pershing and other passen
; gere were taken off yesterday.
Miss Katie McKiever has returned
from France, where she has been, en
gaged in relief work for the past year.
THREE YEARS WITHOUT HOPE
A Story of Sickness and Suffering irith Final Betorn to Health
It Trill do you good to read it
No matter how long nor how much you have
suifered, do not give up hope. Do not decide
there is no help for you. There is. Make up
your mind to get well. You can. There is a
remedy in which you^may place full reliance
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 he 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
healthy. I wish every suffering person would
take PE-RTJ-NA." i
Catarrh effects the mucous membranes iu
any organ or part PE-RU-NA, by regulating
the digestion and aiding elimination, sends a rich", jpre supply of blood
and nourishment to the sick and inflamed membranes and health
returns. / r ?
For coughs, colds,' catarrh and 'catarrhal cojiditions generally,
PE-RU-NA is recommended, i If you are sick, do iot wait and suffer.
The sooner you begin using Dr. Hartman's wel?knqwn PE-RTJ-NA,
the sooner you may expect to he well and strong an|[ in full possession,
of your health. A bottle of PE-RTJ-NA is the finest" emergency, ready
to-take remedy to have in the house. It is fourteen ounces of pre
vention and protection.
Sold everywhere m tablet or liquid form.
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Commencement Gifts of ReaifVak
As a token of lore and esteem?-presented at the j&mhoM of a
broader fife?the diamond becomes a ditrished|ke?psake-"-a
$ fife long reminder of appreciated effort
DIAMOND RINGS
Diamcnd Rings get especial attentionnere. We are eter on the
alert for stones that measure up to ourstandarduf value and have
recently secured a number of beautiful gems. <ror aigift of real
vaiae choose from this fine display.
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