G COMPANY SUSEEER, S, C ' % Terms: ^5.00 per anntmi~--m advance. Advertisements. ' pni:Square, first insertoin _$1.00 sry subsequent insertion _ .50 Contracts for tbree months or long will be made at reduced rates. . AH; communications which subserve private interests will be charged for :&s advertisements., - . 'Obituaries andT tributes of respect Wail be charged for. - The-Sumter Watchman was found ed in 1850 and the. True Southron in 1*56. 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. ^'.i. - H. C. L. DISEASE AND CURE. Every economic evil, like every1 physical disease, tends to cure itself ;'? by natural reaction. But in economics^1 , as in hygiene, it is foolish to leave! everything to unaided nature. The - cost of living situation *will be reme died a good deal sooner and more surely if the causes, are . clearly recog nised and-society adds its "own delib ; erate, intelligent effort to the uncon-1 scions corrective processes of eco nomic la^. Herbert Hoover, testifying before a joint-legislative committee in New, York, g?ves this* analysis causes for the high cost of living. ''First, shortage of commodities due to under-production in Europe and *sar participation therein through the drain upon us by exports. "Seeondy inflation, especially fn its| expansion of our credit facilities for j .purposes or uses of speculation and * non-essential industry. "Third, profiteering and speculation] . xrising from the combined opportuni afforded in the previous item. "Fourth, maladjustment of taxa-j tion, particularly the excess profits] "tail > "Fifth, decrease in our own pro ductivity due to the relaxation of ef-j ?; fisrt since the war, to strikes and oth er causes, y . '?Sixth, increase in our. own con sumption,, waste of' commodities and j the increase of extravagance 4*Seventh, deterioration of our trans portation system during the war. "Eighth, an expensive and waste ful distribution system, and other causes of less importance.,T .. v AThere has probably been no more ? acenrate diagnosis of the disease. Now how about the treatment?, Consider the case in detail. The first cause mentioned is being taken care of to a large extent with out our effort, by the gradual in crease of European production and the growing disinclination of Europe to buy American goods at the pres ent unfavorable rate "of exchange. The second and third are being ? handled by our Federal Reserve Boards, through - the curtailing of credits to.speculators and non-essen tial-producers. The seventh is' in process of im provement, through temporary fed 1 eral control of'railroad traffic and / plans for higher railroad rates, ade quate financing and better methods of cooperation. - The other items are not so reassur ing. The-fourth cause is squarely :.' ^ up to Congress, which shows no in-. -;? dication of repealing the mischevioex excess profits tax and straightening Out. the federal taxation system dur ing the present session. The fifth is-an unpleasant remind-} er that there is still a general "re taxation of effort" extending to near ly all classes and an epidemic of strikes and strike threats. The: rebuke contained in the sixth j is still applicable to a majority of, Americans, despite' the wholesome! signs of returning thrift The eighth is possibly the most deep-seated evil of all. The expense of getting goods from producer to consumer, especially^ food, is amaz ingly high and but of proportion to the service rendered. So great a busi ness nation ? should be able to make much improvement in this fiefd. PASS THE POSTAL WAGE BILL Write to your congressman and to your State senators urging the pronjpt passage of the bill providing increas ed^ salaries for postal employees. The knowledge that the entire public is back' of this measure will help to in sure its .being passed. This is the plea made by the Literary Digest in a cur rent issue, after a thorough investiga tion has convinced its editors of the justice of the plea. . A very general response from the public would only be fair. There is mr class of workers today so grossly overworked and underpaid as postal employees, from the highest to the lowest. They carry on year after year a work calling .for intelligence, hon esty and faithfulness of a high degree and also for tremendous labor, and in return they receive smaller salaries Tpl?yee of any class;:$s56uld consider (the"wages which, rule in the postal service. Furthermore, the time of any employee who is ill is deducted from the fifteen days* vacation with pay which is his allowance, and if his illness lasts more than fifteen days his salary stops until he is back at work again, though the salary entire is far too small for daily necessities without any margin for emergencies. A public which permits so grave an injustice-has little right to complain of inefficient postal'service. The won der is that it is not worse, instead of presenting, as it does,'am unusually high percentage of faithfulness and responsibility. Let the public now speak, and make known to Congress its will that the j bill should be passed. '? Efficiency will j improve with living salaries and fair treatment. EUROPE BACK ON THE JOB A big Belgian .business man an nounces that Belgian industry is al xr\ost back to normal, anct from pres ent indications will actually reach its normal volume by next . December. Belgium is producing more coal now than it did before the war. Factories have been rebuilt The tide of for eign trade has turned, and Belgium's exports to. several * European coun tries now exceed her imports. Except for the need of food, there would be a clear balance in her favor. No other" country involved in the war is making so astonishing a re covery as this, but England, France and ltaly%Lre all doing .remarkably well, according to the latest reports. They have really settled down to work and the result speaks for itself. ? Says Emile FrancquL ; the Belgian referred to, explaining his country's recovery- "Our laborers are not Bol shevists^ they are not anarchists, they are not radicals; they are workers. The credit or discredit of any in dustrial situation, in Belgium or any where ease; rests-only in part with manual labor. Likewise, the other European nations, whom we were lately accusing of shirking and de pending on Uncle Sam, are becoming workers again. It is time now for the Untied States, the original preacher of salvation through work, to fall into line.' The record of Belgium, which suffered most of all from the* ravages of war, is a stahding rebuke to this country, which suffered least There is no economic recovery pos sible, and no political and moral re covery, for , that matter, except through hard work and increased pro duction. Let America follow Belgium's example The present tendency is in that direction, but we still have far to go before we are as near our own normal standard as Belgium is near hers. ' ? i , THE STANDARD OF PROFITS. Profiteering comes back, after all, to the ' changed standard of ? business profits. It is the fault not of a few men or groups of men, but of the ma jority. The trouble is that nearly all business men have come to expect a far higher percentage1 of profit on their investment or their turn-over than they used to be satisfied with -before the war. Reports of scores of corporations for the last three years, show that, instead of the 10* per cent or so of net profit thejj formerly made,-they have recently been averaging 30 or 35 per cent. It seems fair to say that, in general, profits have been multi plied vby three during the war and since. _ And let it be repeated that the gain has not been due usually to increased volume of business, which would be legitimate, but to arbitrary fixing of higher selling prices in order to cre ate- and maintain this increased per centage of profit. It is not only big business that has been doing this. Little business has been following the pernicious example so far as it dared. And labor likewise has been following it so far as it could, j demanding pay that would allow, over! and above living expenses, two or three times the net profit, or savings, 'that were possible before the war. j This new standard of profits will have to be revised sharply down ward before we can get back to anywhere near old-time prices. NOTICE i_ Arty person having accounts due by the estate of Mary R. Lawrence, will pay the same to the undersigned! and any person to whom the estate is in debted will file verified statements of such accounts with the undersigned. JAKE I. BROGDON, Executor of the Last Will and Testa ment of Mary R. Lawrence. Burled by State. In some cantons of Switzerland all the dead, rich as weil as poor, are buried at the public eipei&e. FOR GOOD OF STATE South Carolina Development Board Is Great Organiza tion for Progress Columbia, Ma*y 31?Actual opera tion of the State-wide program which has been outlined as "a movement for. the good of South . Carolina," and j which has adopted the slogan of "Do it for South, Carolina," iS being given { hard study at the headquarters in Columbia. Pitfalls which have been uncovered by .other' organizations are being avoided, the successes which have been made elsewhere have been analy zed and in particular care is being taken to.develop a method of opera tion which shall be the extreme in simplicity, certainly and practicability. Out of this determination to guar antee success- from the outset, to do no experimenting, has grown what is already being referred to in other States as the South Carolina Plan, j In brief, it is the named commission .charged with a specific undertaking. This is an adaptation of the special committee methods' of getting things done which has been developed by the modern civic-commercial organization. This plan has been worked on and worked at until it has reached' a.stage of perfection which apparently leaves little more to be done to it. .Definite Promises of Aktien. For this reason the South Carolina Development Board'in announcing its intention of creating a* number of commissions, which in effect will be special committees, feels that it can make defmhite promises of action, speedy and satisfactory, on the pro jects which it may undertake. .- . In order that the phins may embody/ the best thought of South : Caroiin ians, there have been a number of conferences in the past week between Governor Robert A Cooper, Senator Neils Christensen and others, ;whb have visited several places and have spent many hours in consultation "with men who have been thinking about the economic future. of their home State., An incidental result of these conferences has been the enlist ment of a considerable new group of men as active supporters of the move ment, it was said at the' headquarters on Saturday. As outlined at present, the tentative program of the board suggests the, haming- pf IS commissions, as follows: Markets, -live stock, and live stock credits, live stock sanitation, grains, grasses and forage, rates and trans portation, farm labor* land settlement j community life, publicity, legislation/ assessment and taxation, education, health and sanitation, drainage and drainage projects, - civic-commercial organizations, inter-racial relations, good roads apd natural resources and industrial research. It will be noted that these deal mainly with the agriculture of South Carolina* The thought behind this has ' been expressed by Governor Cooper, who is.chairman of the State commit tee which has undertaken an expan sion of the development board, in these words: "The time is at hand when South Carolina must diversify agricultural , activities, and must" make use of the j varied natural resources. Our. eco- ^ nomic life has been somewhat haphaz- ! ard. A continuance of this policy will surely bring-grief to the State." Best Brain in the State ? In the selection of a commission a ! definite plan .will he followed. The ; chairman, for instance, will be the best informed man on the subject in ! the State. He will call to his assist ance other men whose interest and knowledge make them particularly suited to the prosecution of a specific undertaking. Thus each commission will be composed of men who- both want a thing a done and know how to get it .done. It is planned that each commission shall be composed of 12 members. Thought has been give to this, as to all other phases of the subject. Twelve members on each commission will make it possible to give every section of the State representation, it will make places for the most expert men j and it will so divide a task among j them that/ none will be burdened be- i yond his willingness to serve. j In all cases the members of a com- j mission will give their services with out personal compensation. In a j word, South Carolina will have the | benefit of the best brains in the State j thinking and working "for the good i of South Carolina," This plan of organizing the com mission has been submitted to a con- ! siderable number of the practical men of the State and has been warmly ap proved by them. In every instance whe;~e a man has been asked to ac cept a chairmanship or become a member, he has said he will gladly do so. Therefore, no difficulty, what ever, is anticipated in forming the ! several commissions, when the devel opment board" has been provided with the membership and resources it must have to become the powerful influence for advancement which it seeks to be. This is the purpose of the campaign which-will be made in the week of June 21. S statement of Cliautauqua Receipts J The secretary of the Y. M. C. A. de sires at this time to submit the followvj ing statement of our ticket sales for! the chautauqua. This is decidedly thej best ticket sale ever recorded in Sum ter, and our sincere appreciation isj extended to the good people of Sumter who so generously cooperated with us in making the 1920 chautauqua the best ever held in Sumter. Total advance ticket sale $3,348.50 Guarantee to'Redpath 1,925.00 -( Excess sale divided equally .$1.459.50 % excess sale due Y. M. CA. $729.75 Single admission sales ? $771.88 y> amt. over $3.000 due Y. M. C.A. $213.32 Due Y.M.CA, on advance sale 729.75 Total for Y. M. C, A. $943.07 Respectfully submitted. J. Y. Todd. SCOUT NEWS. Scoots Enjoy Biff Overnight H'?;<\ Boy Scouts, Troop; No. .1, of Sumter. under the direction Of Scut Master Wendell M. Leyi went o* an pveinight. hike to Second Mill Friday afteinioon,^ The Troop left the city at 4 p. m.. and arrived at their cainp site and in ado eamp by 4:30: Swimming tests and contests were then indulged in. ' in-the four-man real 75-yard race, the Flying Eagle Patrol, headed by Patrol Leader Ed Ward Buck, came out first, the Wild cue Patrol, headed by Patrol Leader Harry Ryttenberjj-,' came out second. A large number of the Scouts passed the swimming tests for a- First-class Scout. The Scouts who mot these re quired tests were Meise', Cuttino. She lo.r," Green, Buck. Karby, Guthrie. Bryan. Cl; .*k, Ryttenberg, Upshur, Lyon and Carlton Whilden. After the swimming event the vari ous patrols served*'a delicious supper. Some of the mothers of. the ? Scouts would be agreeably surprised" if 'they should eat the dishes that'their Scout sons served. During the evening the following boys were initiated into the Troop as Tenderfeet, having passed the required tests: Buckie Wilder, Loraine Dwy er, William Bryan,' J. C. Cooper, Jr., 'J. E: Wilder and Blanding Upshur. It is believed that they willjnake a val uable addition to the Troop., A good..many guests visited the camp and the Troop was delighted to have them. It was lamented that a few of the guests-, came during'' the ceremonial which was secret and could not receive-the hospitality which the Troop would like to have extend ed. ? The Troop spent a pleasant, night in their 'pup" tents, although one or two of the Scouts complained ' that they couldn't sleep, but it was hard to find out whether this was caused by mosquitoes or Upshur.. The writer would like to know. "After setting up* exercises and a delicious breakfast a number of the Scouts passed' their tests in fire building, namely: LaCroix, Upshur, Moses, Harby, BucKie Wilder, Dwyer and Wray. The Troop Strucks tents at 9 a. m. and arrived at Sumter at 9:40. all vot ing that they had a delightful ?s well as an instructive time. It is understood that another Scout Troop will soon be organized among the larger boys. Of the city, with Mr. Shephard Nash as Scout Master and Mr. Lister M. Rice as assistant Scout Master. If this proposed Troop . i? launched it will be a daisy. Here's wishing it much success. #OR SALE?At a bargain, one Colt's generator complete with all fixtures. It's, al! >new and never been uncrat ed. See J. P.: Commander. ? HAVE A-PEW Ford Starters that we can install at once. If you have a Ford without a starter,v see us, Shaw Motor Company. HAVE CAR LOAD Ford, one ton trucks in transit Still have one or ? two unsold. See us at oncev. Shaw ? Baker School Closing Exercises j *s Song by entire school. ?-r?i?s-_ . . . ; ? j 2,. Solo-by-two giris. . .- --^ Baker school *.>vidress by ? Professor C. . & closed its successful- year of school f?Whihson. -assistant.county superin* work last Saturday with appropriate I-ten dent of -education. [exercises and a delightful olden-timej 4.' Talk by Mr. W. J. Reardon, Sec* I pieinc.dinner, which was attended by Iretary Sumter Chamber of Commerce, [many of the patrons of-the school, all' ">. Song by school. [Of the pupils and many guests front L Jn one of the ante-rooms was a the City of Sumicr and other pairtsjsplendid Sunday School .art exhibit by I of the county: * [the chiloren of .the Baker Sunday ! Miss LitaWilliams; the teacher. who!**<'01 rI:!SS- and "a nv$*>& of inter lias ui.,,.; such general sateactron j scrap-books made by the. Chd ; and n-nA, v