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Wednesday and Saturday ?BY ? PLBL1MIINC COMPANY StMTKU S. 0. Tenttji ssr annum?In advance. A4 vertier menu*. ^Square, first Insertotn. _11.00 ^?fjliii tuent insertion .50 Comrac.t for threo months or long? er WiQ M made at reduoed rates. All eoa*manicatIons which subserve Jtrtfahs Interests will be charged for advertisements. Obituarist and tributes of respect| be aharged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed \n IH..0 and the True Southron fcs 114?. The Watchmen and douthraa now has the combined circulation atsdl Influence of both of the old paper*, and is manifestly the seat advertising medium In Burnt er. _ m *?ti i j mi jib i uLi_i_? HOLLAH DEMOCRACY FVSD. Treasurer II. ? Oxteeg of the Sum tar County Democratic campaign fund today turned over to County Chairman J. H. Clifton for transmission to the Ittgt* Chairman a cashier's check for Set*. 00 as the first Installment oC Hunter county's contribution to the Con-Roosevelt campaign fund. lTp to data th# loyal democrat* of ftumter eoeirty have contributed $515.96 to ibis fund a majority of the contri? butions being for the minimum sum of one doiasr There nas been one con? tribution Of 150 a few of dvp dollars and a taw of two dollars earn There are mare than twenty-five hundrea registered democratic vot-rs In, Sum* tea cduaty. although only about 1,900 enrolled! for the primary this summer, aad Iff the original plan Is carried oat to Ja*** * campaign fund averag? ing one dollar from each democrat. Aomter^county will have to raise not leal thjflh $2.500, from the men voters, ft the nromen voters ihonld conti lb *** gesarall.N (he fund vould be much iarger.i' ';. Ne ajtempt hss bean made to can? tata thji city for contributions end the money that has be?n raised thus rar has eofsje from voluntary contributors who have sent by matt or delivered tp p*r*D>> to the ohalrman or treasur? er. The national campaign coinmtt tte Is in urgent need of money to pay Che saeesssry espouses af he cam Dtlgn aad every democist should ' tnake S contribution at oner. The flr?t Ave hundred dollars have been asm la. ? let us see how quickly the sec ead Aft hundred tan be raised and sent to the State Treasurer. 9f. TU* A Sfr^tU AN A NSW KIL America's answer to the radical plot which destroyed Wall Street was given In no uncertain terns on the tollowing day, when exerciues in cele? bration Of tbe 133d anniversary of the adoption of the Const it U t on of the . I'nitefc fstates were held or the scene of the disaster. A vast thront of cttliens had as sembled. and Just S4 ho'jrs after the blast, had wrecked the district, the ?tr tu* uf the "Htar-ftpangiod Banner" and af "America" burst forth from thousand* of throats. Cheer after ?heat ran', the air when a fray-hatred army colon**, scarred with service aver beas. aUiOd in th< shadow of JDeorge Washington's ststue. which had been unhsrmed by the explosion that Made chaos all around it, and ?aid: "If any man was dastardly enough ta do what seemingly was done here yeaterday. that man Is too base to live in tbts count! >? or any other country. He has no country which he can cuTl his <iwn or in which he .s tit to live. I am old snd gray, and my years are *agly spent, but I would be proud to < In the work of hunting down and l a ?ntshlng such men and driving them tfasa the land which We have dedi? cated to freedom under the C w* tu Overhead stood the statue, unshak en, symbol of America's unshakable determination to uphold her Constl tutlua and her laws. Below stood I , the erowd, voicing with cheer and song th*lr sympathy with the speaker I and their willlngnosM to live and die I for this cants. And that is America's I answer to anarchy. 1 l VI I \ n AUTHORITY. Ths moat remarkable thing aboutl the Italian labor situation has been/I not the seisure of the metal Industry by the workers, but the failure of the| authorities to do anything About it. The Italtsn government has not func st Mil. in the face of thin chal any more than .' has 'urn tlouodl with reapect to Plume since D'An nunsio's seisure of that city. Ta take and hold thorn- factoriesl sgsltiSt their owners Is, of course, contnfry to Italian law, Just aa it would t>e contrary to American law. In this country the local authorities could ordinarily be counted on to u< t If they failed, the stale authorities would step In. if t?'*>y were Incu pable of enforcing tl.e law. tin- feder? al governm-ent would Int? rv? ri*?. The Italian Communists iiavt had no mil iUry organization to speak of, faw arms and little ammunition, yd neith? er local nor national authority has ventured to nay boo to tttem. Woi>, ?till, when the railroad workers, throrgh sympathy, refused to trans? port what few ttoopH the government at Home was disposed to send to the Infected regions for precautionary purposes, Premier Giolitvi etta nottt:ng about that. So far the deilant. Com munlsts have placidly gone their way, without a semblanoj of opposition. That may possibly have been the best way to handle them. It may be better tp let a Red moxement die of Its own economic incompetence, or la Starved out by an economic hloekade inspired by the employers, and their business associates than to try stamp? ing It out by force. Rut there does not seem to have been any such de? liberate policy adopted. The Italian government has merely drifted, and I dodged a troublesome task. It Is a strange spectacle for a country which, since t ie war, lays claim to being one of the four great powers of the world, and a new incarnation of^ ancient Rome. ^flmimmmmmmmmmmimmmammmm OVTHAGKS IN 1KKLANB. Report?* of British outrages in Ire? land, when coming from Irish sources,, are naturally taken with reservations, because of the self-interest back of them and becauue more or less allow? ance Is made for .Gaelic over-empha slm When Englishmen protest against the way their own government treats Ireland, their words command attention. A remarkable letter was published In the London Times re? cently, signed by many eminent Eng? lish publicists, Including Hi Q. Wells, ths novelist. Sir Philip utbbs, the war correspondent so well known on this side of the Atlantic, and C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, a paper which id regarded by tnany as the most dependable publication in Great Britain. The letter tells of the I injustice wrought by the court-mar? tial system lately established, am? charges that there Is now in force a "military lynch law" applied "not to culprits, but to village:! ana towns or Ireland." The complainants say: p "It is a commonplace experience for whole streets to be burned, cream? eries destrojfed and life taken in 'b? ,discriminate reprisals by which sol? diers and polic men avenge the len ? der of constables. Not for a Century has there been such an outbreak of military violence In these Islands. The go vert, men t has failed to restrain or punish this violence, and has now tak? en steps to prevent any civilian court from calling attention to lt. ^ ' "If these proceedings," the protest adds, "were of a kind to put an end to outrages, and not to cause further mischief, they would not have called down the condemnation, of such men us Lord Monteagle. Lord Shafers bury, Sir Horace Plunkett and other leading Irishmen." Herein lies a faull of this proce? dure which Is no less objections h " t'.ivH its cy*?ntial Injustice?its lu tlilty. The "military violence" per? petrated b" the British army, unwil? lingly for the most part, under orders front the Lloyd George government, fails of its aim, and only makes the altuation worse. It Is strangely at variance, loo. with the humane pol? icy preached and practised by Great Britain during the war with Germany. It is bad enough for the Irish to murder constables, no matter what may he the piovocation. That ia probably as had, in many cases, as anything the Germans did. Rut shall the British therefore muidcr Irish? men and burn their property indis? criminately? They refrained from such reprisals against the Germans, and won much praise and self-rcspei t thereby. What can they win by he lying their own principles In Ire? land? JOBS. "If you've got a Job, keep It!" ad? vises the head of u hig^Chieago em? ployment agency, dobs today are more valuable than they have been for years. (Hue -more there is competi? tion for them. "Only the ntoat ef? ficient can now get guod Jobs" says another employment expert. This might seem an alarming fact.. It is nothing of the sort. Everything considered, It is a most hopeful de? velopment. It means, tl'rsl of all. none steadiness, eVpendability and productiveness on the part oi labor. I When thert* are no more jobs than men, or not quite so many jobs as men, the men naturally take more pains to hold the Jobs. That Is going to be especially true now, when most J"b;| pay high wages and the cost of living going down, and every good Job Is destined to be none profitable to Its holder than ever before. The situation means, too, that it Is going to be easier to get dnn-c the work that needs doing. The dlspar ity between Jobs JUld workers has disappeared pot because ol industrial depression, but because mors im ml grabt labor hau b*?m coining into the ? ? It is now time to equip the little folks with school shoes for the winter. RED RIDING HOOD SHOES Meet the requirements of tender growing feet. Neat in appearance combining com? fort and durability. All the essentials in children's foot-wear. ~.. .) :-,-jyrrt.rr E. P. Reed & Co., makers of ladies' shoes have stood the test of the discriminating ladies of Sumter for more than a quarter of a cen? tury. This season's showing in ladies' boots both black and brown kids with military and french heels with 9 inch tops makes a very dainty dress for young ladies. < Walking shoes in both black and brown and comfort shoes with turn soles makes up a line that pleases nearly every one. JUST A WORD ABOUT JUST i RIGHT Gentlemen, you can get more expensive shoes but you can not get one that will give greater service. Made up in black and brown kid, black gun metal and calf skin with vis colize soles for heavy service. Shoes to suit every vocation. Try them once. ? country, and more labor-saving ma- they were getting twice as many dol i hinery is being installed, and '.o^s la- iura for the same accommodations, bot is being used for non-essential provided they stood ready to lower industries, and there is fcess lost effort .rents again as general prices enrm all around. There need be no fear of such un? employment us this country has beep only too familiar with In the past. liuslness experts ugrtx> that it will take years, with industries working at capacity, to accomplish economic re? construction, restoring the lost or used-up wealth and bringing produc? tion up to equality with the demand for manufactured goods. Moreover, it is doubtful whether there can be any general "over-pro ductlon" In a w ?11 regulated industrial -tystem. There may be too much pro? duction at any particular time in some industry or other, but that is mcreU a matter ol adjustment between indus? tries, regulating the relative, quantity of labor and output. As a general proposition, it is probably true that the nation as a whole can US* all the goods It can produce, and increased production does not necessarily mean anything but increased comfort and wealth for all. down. The only landlords fairly open to criticism are thorc who have raised rents out of proportion to the general cost of living in * their cmn m unities. It is the exceptional landlord, the real profiteer, who h;is done th?s, und whose greed hai created, a false irn presston and brought Into disrepute a legitimate and honorable buSinefrtf The honest majority of landlords should join in the establishment id fair-rent standards, for their own salve as well as that ol the renting public, and should sec that then- ex? tortionate brethren ?live '..> to those standa ids. Pinewood Com? munity Fair Sumter County School Officials' and Secretary Reardon to At? tend Conference Sheriff Raids Still Three Fords Afire TIIK liAM)M)l(l) Ill SIMiSS. Every set of figures compiled show? ing thel proportionate Increase in the cost of living since IUI4 demonstrates that so far, rents In general have gum up less than any other big item of family expenditure. This must mean that landlords as a class have been moderate in their demands, compared with manufacturers, merchants, farm si* and other Important classes who arc in position to dictate prices. They seem to have been more moderate h ive than worklngmcn, for wages gone up more than cents. It Is right that the truth should be told about it, in fairness to the decent landlords who constitute, up to date, the big majority. The general outcry against rent profiteers is caused by th*? extortionate demands for a minority of landlords. This Is particularly true i in the cus^ of homes, as compared with business properties. At a time when 4he total cost of living has risen 100 per cent or more, evidently it would not be unfair if t ents were 100 per cent higher than they were U lore the war. It costs the landlord twice as much to live. More? over iti cases where his property would now sell for twice as much, it might reasonably be expected to earn twice as much Income, ThUS( most landlord:, could hardly a be criticised If, at the present time, the fire department was called out twice Saturday night within a short time, to go to the'aid of automobiles on Are. The llrst auto caught lire at the Carden Filling station on the corner of Liberty Street and Salem avenue. That the gasolene possessed full bin-ling Qualities w as proved con? clusively after a match was struck in the region of the gasolene fault find the automobile was in full blaze. The tire blazed all around the pump but it Seemed they were lire proof as no damage was done. The second c:tr caught fire on Haynsworth street at about 8:4.? O'clock. This fire was due to a short circuit of the wiring. The tire receiv? ed attention early enough to save the car much damage. "Shimmib," the Ford car of Miss Irene A. Bryan which has travelerl from Miami. Fla., to Canada, almost executed a death dance on Broad stiert last night. She caught afire front a short circuit in the lighting system, but thanks to skilled assist? ance which was mar at hand, she is still good for a trip to Kalamazoo. Circus Day Drawing Near. "Mother, ploase! please! just enough 1,1 u" -vm." ror the ihow and son., iwanuts for ! ?tuested tc^Ui^' the elephants and ". Por in a week I will come thai time w hen the small h.?y and the small girl will talk fast to their parents. A week and I hero will com? the Bcreaming calliope and the fast playing eir< us hands. One more week and Sparks llig Three King Circus will be m town for two performances on tin Oakland and Parle n Street grounds. This meansj ? day thai llig Zulu and the rest of the two eh?phanl herds will eat In? numerable peanuts and the lions will roar as only full grown healthy lions can roar. Clowns? Well nearly half a score nf them will dispense joy throughout the entire performance. Of course their will be a parade. it. is two miles in length and is schod Mbts Cam Truiuek, home demon? stration agent. Dr. J. II. llav nsworth, county superintondcnl of education, Professor C s. Hutchinson? ?attend? ance ollicor/.T. Frank Williams, county agent, and K. I. Keardon. mana-<r secretary of the Sumter County Cham? ber of Commerce will attend a meet? ing of the reach ere, pupils, and pa trims of Pinewood graded and high school at Pinewood, at 2 o'clock to? morrow afternoon to confer regarding the big Pinewood Conunounty Fair, and the ceh hdation of Pinewood and ninety square, miles of Fulton and Calvary townships voting into Sumter county. This community fair and celebration will be held on Ncvcmbei 12th. Superintendent W. 1?. Yatum, ir., president of the Pinewood community fair and superintendent of Pinewood graded and high school was in Sum? ter last Saturday conferring with Chamber of Commerce oflicvrs, and arranging for the printing of the premium list. Qne thousand prem? ium lists will be distributed and Sutn ter's business and professional estab? lishments will be afforded an oppor? tunity to advertise In this premium list, also to make exhibits of agricul? tural machinery, automobiles! trucks, and any other commercial commodi? ties they see lit to exhibit such as are display* d at county fairs. By request of the executive com? mittee of Pinewood, the Sumter County chamber ol Commerce has asked Governor & A. Cooper to use his Influence In securing one of Camp .lackson's splendid bands for the Fine wood community fair. The ladies oi' Pinewood will se rve a barbecue, and a regular olden time picnic, dinner and '-trimmings." The Sumter cham? ber of Commerce will run a fall boost? er trip to Pinewood, leaving here at IB o'clock, noon if Mayor L. 1). Jennings issues his proclamation proclaiming November 11Mb a half holiday In Sum? ter on .^\< .f 1 L'th as he will be re Largest Still Yet Captured iti Sumter County Taken Satur? day Afternoon Sheriff C. If. Hurst and Deputy Sheriff H. G. McKagen, assisted try the, rural policeman. Sam Newman. H. B. Boykin and K. S. Newman ami ft. S. Grittin, last Satin day afternoon captured, after hard work, the largest still yet taken in Sumter coun? ty. The still was situated al>out 1 &? miles from Sumtei* in Sumter county, on the Pinewood road and about three miles from Pinewood. The ttill .v'us of lie gallons capacity, made of copper and was found to be in lirst class running condition when taken. In addition to taking the still the officers destroyed about 300 stat? ions of mush read\ for use. Nona of the men operating the still have been arrested. ? Mr. Alex Nortis, rural policeman, capiured a man last Saturday night at Wedge in Id, who was transporting whiskey. The man furnished a fiiou cash bond. The content* In girls* .canning and tomato club products, poultry, sewing and fancy wank have been thrown open to the girls' club of the entire county of Sautter and the executive committee hoots that the Sumter coufhty girls' clubs will come In large numbers to help the Pinewood yoiipg ladies make a splendid shewing of what "The Greater Gamecock Coun? ty" girls can do with Pinewood and Pulton and Calvary townships tacked on to Sumter county. As usual the talk ot holding cot? ton |r largely talk. Many farmers are selling as fast as the "cotton is pieked ittid r,inne?|. regardless of the price, itid the mills are getting the cotton riled for 1" 30 o'clock on the morning jihey med to !-.??< p.die aplndles bu?y 'at bargain prices. of the sxhibitior in this city. Deadly Unloaded Gun Sunday at about 1 o'clock a negro woman, Caroline Javers, accidentally shot her husband Isaac Javers. The accident happened about two miles out of town on the Dingle mill road on Mr. Lawrenc. s farm. The woman and her husband both stu'e ?hat the shooting was purely accidental and that it was directly caused by neither of them knowing that the shot gun. was lo.advd. Javers, the womat. states, picked up the gun and pointed it at her. She says that she just'brushed the gun aside and finally1 taking it from him, Bhe cocked the gun and pulled the trigger. The shot took ef? fect in thv man's abdomen and it is said that he is In a critical condition. The last reports from the hospital were that h~ was 'getting along as wa ll as could be expected. The wo? man is in jail awiting a hearing. WANTED Good agents to canvass for health and accident insurance. Attractive policies for both white and colored. Liberal commissions. Write K. E. Hligh. HIS 1 -li Taylor Street. Columbia. S. C. TEACHEKS? Fifty to one hundred ro uuests daily from all classes south? ern Schoo la If you want rural work, graded, high school or prin cipalship, salary $75 to 1250, write us today for special enrollment, oiii? es Columbia, s. c, Richmond, Va. and Chattanooga, Tonn. Southern Teachers' Agency, Colum? bia. S. C. 11 FMS'ITTCJ 11 Nfi and pleating at? tachment, \xoik"s on all sewing ma? chines. Price 12 00. Personal check* It) cents extra. Flight's Mail Order Hoc.: , , pox U7, Birmingham. Ala. \