Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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as* a* O COMPACT a. o. t advance. insertoiu -11.00 itswqaeat Insertion .60 foe three month* or long mad* at reduced rates. c*ghiui?nteations which aubaerve will ho charged for a an<k tributes of raopeot ehex**d for. imtor Watchman waa found ttt* and Um True Southron in flit) Watchman and Southron I the combined circulation and 0 el both of the old papers, I Seanlftstly the boat advertising tn Sumtsr. AQi: IN MEXICO. Mkatfco" Villa, having surrender ? the do faotr ->vernment In pea. or rather "a emitted", as he tr* to call it. announeea tiat he Stag to tattle down tin Durango termer If is * sign of the times, at**' not be natu med thai Villa eaaarlenced arty real charge of ?. V ery likely he would at 111 just ftsf shoot a ?an aa look a*, him. If tie man happened to be an irtean would rather do it. But lit business Is not what it k*A Even Mexico, after all ra af turmoil, shows signs toward the white man's Sk Obrsgon and De La Hu. to hava sot* 8 Jed pretty r tat or In g ortttr throughout with the exutgrtmn of Lower which is af littles import swsy and bawd to roach. If. the bucolic role is an ap CSaracter The swash ft uckler lived heretofore by stealing .'a food will go to work pro 'oo^d for himself The w?v? vested his neighbor's! ?h wH I not only obey the law but start producing wealth. What rifl raise Is not revealed, but prob he wftt fallow the historic ea> |t af Kansas, and raise corn In I af the Infernal commo l>ty he ta ralsa. When such things hap 4a net the Golden Age returning? ess Its das car of today.** saya a dan. r, ''doesn't want to exert raanUlly or physknMy." Men. -^af course; but if he doesn't t to axart himself physically. why| h dees be dance at all espec ith his meals? MAL LKAOC? lUtuttonid Leagus of Anter? ior a charter In New The object of the lea alaew a copy of the Con taa United gutes tn t? ery IO.oao.000 homes of| aad to gsssemlnate a wider of the Constitution, the under which it was found: the Meals which Inspired It " thsjtlon Is non partisan, and director* are Franklin K. CChtHee F.. Hughes, timely action lo the right Never. slBfe the great doc was drafted, has there been a I When h waa w> much under dis? ks, and vheii the people who ?Ader U needed to understand and application assist lap new duties and ob? en aair country as a result Otir relations with other1 have assumed new Import YlM saeanUig and scope of tho in are subject le dispute if union. II the people are to etuarly audvotc wisely on uwat*X-ssBsf^? Ibty be te fundamental law The attaining of J??<rh should not be a wearl fsr the story of the f?f our government and its it through the years hi Mating snd Interesting when iarty sffttentcd. jus above suggestion from the Co bfe fctste meets with tip- hearty If? of the Item. The woman given the vote now by a ler power than South Carolina the should be allowed to take part he primary We await with In st the action wf the candidates In >rd to the above stsssassssss n HOW PONZI DOKS IT. barles Ponsl. aa a tuest of the an la Club of Boston, made an ex? ist ton of hia method of money ling He said. ( buy today a dollar's worth of ban exchange. At the present rate g II lire. 1 would get five under Isal exchange With the Is m ?j if international reply coupona sa coupons can be sold for three are la American money. Foreign it realise a profit on the tr ? postal certificates and to disclose to other ,*s..t? .aw many oouponS they Mtltd I decided that If I re ?teeceed the sumps In the United ?taten the federal government might decide that it Came within its Jurls diction. though there waa no federal or state law against it. But the ex? change rate waa the name in Switzer? land and Norway and some other countries. I redeem the*** there." P?nal was asked by someone in the audience who would have to stand the loss, and betrayed his ignorance of the first prlnelples of economics by saying he "hadn't foo ,d anybody who wouFd have to make it good." Of course, the people who pey the taxes In the countries defrauded will have to make it good eventually. There is no such thing as gcuing something for nothing. Work and work only 1? the creator of wealth. The two dollars made on every dol? lar transaction were earned by the sweat of some one's brow. Had Ponsl given any service along with the dol? lar which he exchanged for three, he might be said to have, in some way. earned his two dollars. But he merely took out of countries whose ex? chequers were depleted by war his eas) millions. ? Consider Italy, for example. The normal rate was five lire for a dollar. Italy la so heavily burdened by war debts that its money has come down in exchange valu>* to less than one fourth its normal rating. Taxes must for a long time be pretty heavy n Italy in order to get those obligations paid'. No thinking person would want to see the burdens increased. But here comes the unthinking Ponzi, "not able to find" the babies without their nUlk, the women poorly clad, the houses without their needeed re. i palra. It cannot be a comfortable thought for those who shared the ready riches. But probably they do i.ot think. People who think would have known there were some screw loose in the first place. _ NOT AN HOCK OF LOSS. Columbia State. The Democratic primary determ? ines finally the choice of officers for South Carolina and women debarred (com it are thereby debarred from other than a nominal voice in affairs this year. The intent of the new amendment to the federal constitu? tion la to give to women the political rights that men have and to impose upon them similar duties. No woman applying to vote for of? ficers In the primary should be ne nled the privilege. The emergency would Justify the suspension of the statute regulating the primary. This can be done with. out violation of the law if consent to It be general. t Let the state executive committee and the county couynlttees open the books of enrolment until two or three d*vys before the primary. Let all candidates signify in writ? ing their waiver of objection to the women voting, though it be held in conflict with the statute. If necessary provide, for this ye*r. a separate box for the women?call this election another name than the "primary" and then count the votes cast by women, adding them to thoso cast in the men's boxes. This would be evasion, yea but evasion of a state law to comply with the spirit of the constitution of the Republic would I be in the highest decree lawful. Ex tra boxes at the voting precincts in the primaries are not unprecedented ?It would be practicable to hold a special primary for women August II. and allow the ballots to be added to those cast In Jhe regular primary. We think that no candidate would wish or dare to obstruct the voting ol' Democratic women In South Caro? lina. Wlhat Is done should be done at once. There Is not an hour to lose. RlKKiA FOR Rt'SSIANS. The recent American note to Italy has made It quite plain that the A'nerlcan government, backed by the A ti< i i. an people, will Insist on Bus sli working out her own salvation. Tie remarkable French response to I it note shows that France will in. sh?t on the seme thing. The French recognition of .Peter Wrangel as .lead o| a responsible Russian government In South Russia is in harmony with that policy. Theie are to be no d^alirtgs with the Bolshevist gov^ einment. because it does not repre? ss nt anything but a small minority of the Russian people, because It has proved, by word and deed, utterly lacking In good faith, and because it actively seeks to foment trouble abroad and establish its system in 01 her lands. There Is to be no in? vasion of Russia by allied troops, but all legitimate moral support and assistance Is to be rendered to the Poles in their fight against the Kovtet Government In th? north and to Wra 1; d and, his fish' sgains: I it govcrrm.iu in the South. If Great Britain d isag 1 ???>*. she may be Ignored. Thus l.enin- and Trotsky are treated Ss sllens In (heir own land ?rtd ?o they are. The' vast mass Russians, mostly conservative peas? ants, are against them. Those mass? es have a right to a government Ol their own liking. Secretary of State Colby's note, endorsed by France, al? lows of only three separations fron imperial Russia?ethnic Poland. Fin land and such part of the old Ar? menia as can be given to the rev Armenian Republic by agreement. The remainder is to be built up into a strong new, modern nation when? ever the Russians find themselves, and establish a capable government. Russia is not to be carved up in her helplessness for the benefit of disgruntled domestic minorities or greedy foreign powers. Germany and Japan are to be stood off. Eventual? ly the old Russian Empire, deprived only t f what never properly belong? ed to It, is to arise as a new, strong, capable world-power. BABY BUGGIES. The United States Chamber oi Commerce is perturbed to learn that the demand for baby carriages has fallen off 60 per <a?nt throughout the United States in the last six months. The manufacturers explain this 1am enabie situation as due to a decrease in the birth rate for the past year, which they estimate at ;15 per cent. There has been some decrease in the number of births, as the federa' Bureau of Vital Statistics admits High prices, poor housing conditions and lack of domestic helo all tend to discourage the stork But certainly there has been no such trementdous falling off in the babies as the man? ufacturers suggest. The real cause is probably some? thing quite different. Ask any moth? er or father who has gone into a store at any time during these six months and Inquired the price of baby buggies. When the present slump in the buggy market forces a reduction of prices, the manufactur? ers and dealers will probably be as* tonished to find how many babies there are. It is said that Ponzi; will plead Fi? nancial Dementia. Wrecked by a braiii storm.on the sea of finance, eh? Don't listen so hard to what the candidates say about their oppon? ents that you fail to get a line on what they Intend to do themselves. THE TRANSCONTINENTAL CRUISE - e A motor camping trip of 6.000 miles without a night spent in a ho? tel is the record made by a Los Am geles physician. The doctor packed his wife and children into his. touring car. loaded a rubber tire trailer with cots, cook? ing utensils, tents, .and other camp Jpg paraphernalia, and away they went on their land cruise which took them from the West to the East, ov? er the Rockies and through the Berk? shire?; and Adriondacks, and up into Maine, then back home. It was a vacation which the most luxurious traveler might envy them. They aaw sights lost to the view of the swifter traveler* or the one who follows only railways or main trav? eled roads. They had plenty of good, wholesome food, cooked, ser? ved und eaten out of doors, with all that that implies of fun and inform? ality and good appetite. And they traveled over an area and did an union it of sight-seeing which would cost bo much done in the usual way of tri ins. steamers and hotels as to be entirely prohibited to the family of ordinary means. The world is full of sensible people doing wholesome, interesting things that are not costly and are good fun. The pity Is that more people do not avail themselves of their opportuni? ties for this sort of recreation. All kinds Ol ills und family quarrels and financial crashes could be saved if they would. ? * * From a good many of these cam? paign arguments, any one might sup? pose the issue was whether the Pres? ident should abolish the Senate or the Senate should abolish the presi? dency. . SPENDING. . The Country Gentleman says it is "going to keep on using argument and ridicule, even abuse if necessity, until signs of an abatement in this national Insanity begin to show them? selves and until the tide sets some? what strongly In the direction of in? dustry and thrift, which are the only virtues which can pull us out Of the hole we are in." One of its points is particularly well made -that "granted ire have earned a good Uflst, we have earned a good many things that we cannot afford to have, and this Is no time to cash In on our personal privileges." This Is shrewd wisdom. There arc times when people are building up a new business hr recognlsiag a" old one when, no mat (er how hard they work or haw much they earn, the? oretically or In cash, everything must go "into the business." Only the most closely reckoned living -xpen se8 can be taken out for current use. Everything else must go toward the basic need.: of getting the business on its feet, or disaster will follow. The nation is in such a period of its growth. The war disorganized ov^" whole business, national and in? dividual. As a nation and as indiv? iduals, we are running 'way behind where we ought to be at this time. If we spend everything we make aa we go along we shall never catch up. But if we work as hard as we can, earn as much as we can and spend as little as we can, the saving differ? ence between our earning and spend? ing will soon fill up the hole and put us where, we ought to be. Then, and not now, we can afford to cash in. . THE SCRAP BOOK. The convalescent child was allow? ed to cut out magazine pictures. Soon she had a box ful'. and bed and floor were usually in a litter. Father wanted to buy her a present. Mother suggested a scrap book. When they got home they found that along with the paste and pictures and a new primer, there, had been included an extra scrap book. They l iid it aside for a day had thought of a use for it. The child's eager joy and use of hers had made the suggestion. They were planning to build a house, and were collecting "ideas". Envelope files they were familiar with. Card indices were as their daily bread. The recipe for the he? bdomadal cake, as well as the bud? get, accounts and house plans lived m such files. But anything so color? ful and picturesque as a scrap book had never occurred to them. Into it went doorway with (glorious fan tight, halls, fireplaces, corner cup? boards, stairways, of a dozen types, bits of tapestry and cretonne which suggested, color schern.es. Nor were plans for efficient kitchens and the ads of labor-savers lacking. That family is going to know some? thing about architecture before it gets Its house plans completed, and what a good time it has had in the learning! Moreover, the older child was inspired to make, a garden scrap book, which has had its own bene? fits, aesthetic and practical. Poems and little stories have gone into hers, along with botanical descr ptions and pictures. Rainy holidays for a long time are provided for. The* tiles of house plant and de? tails had been mere conveient col? lections of data. But there was some? thing creative about the scrap book. That was what the grown-up one out of the data class, and kept the youthful ones from being mere "busy work", making them sources of ever-increasing artistic pi asure. Lever Playing Safe Game Formen Congressman Declines to Speak for Cox for Fear of Being Accused of Partisan? ship, But Will Address Apple Growers. \ Washington, Aug. 21.?Because of the non-partisan policy of the farm loan board, whose policy :.s for its members to keep out of active parti? cipation in partisan politics, former Congressman A. F. l-eve*: of South, Carolina, who is a member of the board, has had to decline an invita? tion from Senator Put Harrison, head of the speakers' bureau of the na? tional Democratic cumpaign commit? tee, to go to New Jersey next week and address a great gathering of 25. 000 people in behalf pf Cox and Roosevelt. Mr. LA'ver has'aceepted an invita? tion to address the Apple Growers' association of North Carolina at Ashe Ville October 29. and is considering an invitation to speak at the semi-an? nual meeting of the national and state officers of the American Cotton as? sociation at Montgomery September 1 to 3. America Wins Antwerp. Aug. 23.- Tbc Olympic ! events closed with tho American ath j letlc so far in the lead in point of I Scoring that they won by a large mar 'gin. The closing contests were held.' In the ram with only a handful o! Spectators present. The final unofficial scores In the Stadium field* and track events give American 810 points against Finland, her nearest competitor, IOC points. The senate committee investigating [the campaign expenditures directed Chairman Kenyon to ask Cox to ap? pear In re next Monday or send a rep resentative to present evidence to sub? stantiate charges of the Republican 115,000,000 fund Cheap Mioes Once Mutt. Not (heap in quality, bin ( heap for the quality, are the children's and misses' summer shoes which the Sum |ter Dry Goods Co. are (dosing out at loOSf, see them by all means. Advt. SUMTER COUNTY SENDS MEN To Represent Her At Cotton Meeting in Columbia ANY CITIZEN IS ENTITLED TO ATTEND Men From Every Profession . Are Expected to Attend Stale Wide Rally The Suniter County Chamber of Commerce, cooperating with tho Bum* Itcr County Branch of the American Cotton Association, directs att? ntion the more than one hundred delegates appointed from Sumter county to the postponement of the South Carolina Division of the Ann retail Cotton A* sociation ut Columbia, on August 25th, (next Wednesday), at Craven Hall, at 12 o'clock noon, and hopes that Suni? ter county wil be well represented at this meeting. The meeting is open to the entire public and you do not have to be a delegate from any body or or? ganization in order to attend and takt* par.t Any citizen Is entitled to attenC this masting, and to do his part in the plan of organization. Sumter city and Sumter county .men of every profes? sion and occupation, like men from many other counties in South Caro? lina, are very indifferent >as a rule about attending meetings anywhere The farmers particularly should be at next Wednesday's meeting which will be in the nature of a state-wide rally of the agricultural, mercantile, manu? facturing, financiul and general inter? ests of the entire state of South Caro? lina1 to try and do something towards heading off the well devised, already systematically advanced and thorough? ly planed efforts to steal the 1920 cit ton crop like the tobacco speculators are stealing the South Carolina tobac? co crop from the farmers largely be? cause of unbusinesslike, careless, un? organized marketing methods among farmers. The burden of organization to save the 1020 cotton crop is on tho cotton farmers. But as many bankers and merchants, automobile dealers, manufacturers and other business men should be at this meeting to help the cotton farmers in every possible way to get a decent living profit for their cotton and other farm products. Pres? ident R. C. Hamer, of the South Caro? lina Division has \v;riit< n Secretary E. I. Beardon requesting him to try and bring not less than one hundred farm? ers, merchants, bankers and other in? terested Sumter county citizens to Co? lumbia on August 25th, at ('raven4 Hall, at 12 o'clock noon. Every cit? izen is interested in the prices farmers get for their cotton. Gotting C< Id itcl < very time the col? on and tobacco speculators steal a tobaco or cotton crop, and "cussing ,1, out" the robbers and saying that meet? ings to do no good, never get farmers anywhere. There must be continued, effort and pl< nty of meetings and a loti of publicity and a great deal of deter* minatton in order to organize the farmers as they t-hould be to get what, they should for their crops. Those who take the crops for less than they are worth stay organized all the yet around. The farmers do* not. Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 21.?Three trainmen were killed when a Lake Shore freight train ran into an open^ switch here this morning. The train was derailed and the men were buried under tin overturned coal <ars. Common Delusion. "One reason for high prices," re? marked .lud Tunklns, "is that so many people think nothing can be nrf good unless it costs a lot of money." Inseparable Musical Instruments; In modern S{ anish dances one finds the woman gracefully waving a tam? bourine, while h?r male partner agi? tates the bones, or "castanets." The two ?eem to go together. Indeed, it has been so for thousands of years. They were played together as an ac? companiment of nmorojs, and par? ticularly of bacchanalian,' dances in anciort Carthage, in Athens long be? fore the Christian era, and in Ho ne, Attention, Owners of Machinery Boiler Fronts, Grate Bars, Smoke Stacks, and all kinds of Boiler Material in stock. We make any kind of castings and have A Firstclass Boiler Maker You had better hurry up with your Gin Repairs. Come to see us. Sumt er Machinery Co. \ Sumter, S. C. J A Statement From Senator E. D. Smith Giving the Facts on Roll Calls in Reply to a Circular issued by H. L. Seaife There is being given circula? tion throughout the s1 ate to. a pamphlet purporting to come from one Ii. I\ Sealfo. of Wash? ington. 1). C., making an at? tack upon my record in the United states Senate. The bur? den Of the publication is that I have neglected my duties as Senator by not attending to some of the roll-calls. I have challenged compari? son of my record In this re Apect during the campaign and since the issuance of this circu? lar with the average of tin M Senators who stand high in the Senate and in their re? spective parties. The challenge was not accepted and for the information of my friends throughout tin Sta|e I wrote to the Hon. Charles M. Gallo, tray, former Civil Service Com? missioner and now practicing attorney in Waahtogton re? questing that he compile from the Congressional Record the record in respect to roll-calls of the following Senators: Senator Hitchcock. Democrat Chairman of the Foreign Re? lations Committee when the Democrats were in control of the Senate and Democratic leader in the Senate during the tieaty fight Senator Owen. Democrat Chairman of the Ranking and Currency Committee under Democratic control of the Sen? ate and one of the leading authorities on banking and cur? rency in the country, a candi? date for President, endorsed by his state and voted for at San Francisco by his state del? egation to the last. Two year.* ago he was ronominated and re.< lected by his party with a plurality of 36.066. Sen.it. r Penrose. Republican, Chairman of the Committee on Finance and acknowledged leader of the Republican for? ces, both of the Senate and the country. Senator Tillman. Democrat. Chairman of the Naval Affalrn Com.Its'|ftfee under the Demo? crats, whose record in th? Senats needs no comment a$i to his diligence and faithful attention to his duties as Sena? tor, as well as to his states? manship. Senathor Joi n Sharps Wil? liams, Democrat, whose long service, both as Congressman and Senator, and whose use? fulness to his party and nation is unquestioned and who is rec? ognized as the ripest scholar and most forceful debater in the House Or B< ante. The records from the Sixty tiist Congress through the first session of the present Congress, as sent by Mr. Galloway;" are as ^follows: Smith. Hitchcock. Owen. J'cnrosc. Tillma 1. William* Total votes and quorunl calls... 464? 3703 tag! 4648 4015 4322 Totaj absences, not voting an de ^?r'#v'rv paired. 20t;o mi 2s;;i> 2S66 2218 1390 I respectfully submit this comparison in answer to the Scaifc circular to the voters of the state. E. D. SMITH. ^_-j r n FARMERS Light your Gin with Delco-Light. We have small outfits for Gin Lighting. Place your order early. Thousands being sold. - < *? ?* * *j Call at 10 E. Liberty St., or Phone 649-U T. M. BRADLEY, Dealer. V_=-1