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The Watchman and Southron m i li' i.. i A: i ' Published Wednesday and Satur ,. *ay by Osteen. Publishing Company, Sumtes S. C. Terms: 82.00 per annum?in advance. Adycrti^ments: Gas Square, first insertion._$1.00 Svery subsequent insertion! .50 j Contracts for three months or longer mil be made at reduced rates. ,;.. ' ? ? ? All communications which sub serve private interests will oe charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect will be-charged for. The Sumter Watchman was foafe&ed;in 1350 and the. True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron - now has the com bined circulation and influence? of botho?the!oldT>apers. and is x?an ifestly the. best advertising medium ;'The statement of a leading edu cator that the teacher, and not the pupil, is largely to blame for fail tre in school may T>e news to. teachers and parents, but the kids have known it ever since the dark cloud of education first blackened the heavens of yoath. They say the Crown Prince wants, to return'to .Germany and run for president-Why not let him go to France'and- run for . his life? The director of the American la^itute for Scientific Research ha? gone .to Hatifax to look up a ghost which -is said to be haunting those'parts. The fellow who has a. chance to go where the ghost wa^s these days is lucky : Somebody asked the bald-head ed man it- the high luster of his pa^ was .dito to a. laundry polish, and he'said it.was-.a domestic ?nish. Tfce.Iri-^h and English may cokic to like reach other wh*?n they have no:more to do with .each other. .; ,? ? ? ? ? Pretty soon, the farmer will- .be too.-busy to talk about his troubles, ami then everything will brighten up. - ? -; - ... ...... Andrew Carnegie said it-.was a disgrace.to die rich, and life in.. America seems to be getting more disgraceful all the time. BAB LAW OR .-BAD UQtjoR? .?iore- inebriates, and these in worse condition than-at any time since -1913. are reported as under" trea?m*n? aV a Boston sanitarium, . r~?tbe_:.doctor in charge finds, two distinct conclusions . inevitable? drunkenness is increasing and li-. quor-is.deteriorating. He believes. that this is a? temporary condition, and that^pfohibition will triumph :?? i godd' many people who read s?eh statisScs see. in them hb tHtfmphj for pro^bitioa,, but "strong arguments against 4L. They charge to ?e i?w ffie things vhlch should be i charged to the hqiror. That is their little mistake. Prohibition does net poison and destroy, human beings, but it em phasizes sharply the fact that booze does, and that bad booze does it faster than good. For this rea son, if for no other, prohibition is valuable. . THE kSJT SrBSEDY. It looks as if the proposed ship ping subsidy may go through. There is'far less, opposition to it than ever before. The seaboard states are. naturally for it. The interior which . formerly constituted the backbones of the opposition, seems now in a tolerant mood. Partly this is due to a trading spirit The Middle West is dispos ed^? let the coast states have their ahip subsidy if the latter will stand for big^interior development pro jects. '.Foremost among these, perhaps,''is the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep wateyway. The Mid dle West-would concede much for that .States farther west are think ing oC.support for their reclama tion work. ?Uli ; DIFFICULTIES. The debt-refunding commission, consisting- of Secretaries Hughes, J?eKOft"and Hoover and Senator Smoot and Representative Burton, commands general confidence. There Is no .que^tioni in any quar ter *of the ability of- these men. Nobody seems to be afraid that they, will try to fritter away any important American rights or in terests in negotiating with our for eign debtors. For this very reason, it seems a pity that Congress has so limked the freedom of the commissioners in their negotiation. They may conceivably find, when they b?ve canvassed the whole situation. that they are unduly hampered by the requirement that interest on the ref&nded debtshall not be less than 4\"1-4 per cent; or that the - i period .of payment be not more thanyears. T^ey may find it embarrassing nor to be able to modify-either rule for some debtor in a special situation. They may even find that it is absurd to expect pay from one or two of the various debtor nations ;^et they arevorder ed to exact payment from all alike. They cannot dp any bargaining,, in the."way of obtaining business ad vantages -or disarmament pledges or for concessions on the part of the United.-States. It seems hardly possible that the whole complicated business can be settled .so definitely and ? uniform ly with all our foreign; debtors as Congress imagines. -. The coromis* sion has had- its -task- made need-! lessry hard. After - negotiating; with the debtor nations, it will! have to negotiate with Congress, j the BOXTJS, COMPROMISE. i > ... - .m ??;?., ' ? ? ?? I It there is to be a cash bonus for service men, the compromise sug gestion which now is being worked out is perhaps the most feasible scheme suggested thus, far, since it eliminates- the necessity for an un duly large governmental disburse ment in the -near, future* and will entail no increased taxation at pres ent. It is still only vaguely ex plained where the cash will , come from to settle, the immediate cash j claims and . provide for adminis tration of this .part, of. the. bonus plan and the. - machinery for the vocational training, home and farm provisions where they shall be de manded. However, the thing is. worked out finally, it means that the people of this country sooner- or .later must pay a huge sum. . But with nations as with private individuals, there are some times when bills can be met more easily than at others. If the government can make a tem porary arrangement with the banks and the banks can find the funds to lend to the soldiers, without se riously impairing credit facilities and hampering industry, it may be that two or three years from now will find the country in better con ditio* to pay up.- - ~ - . j j'j? ?? +jv u j A MILITARY HOLIDAY. ! ? " . . ? ? ? W. ? ,. . . ? . * - ? ? ' 1 The. success of the naval holiday j undertaking has. led . .various Eu ropean statesmen to urge a, similar military holiday, Nobody will question the desirability of such a move, if it is possible. Serious ef forts in that direction are. being made by therieague of Nations,; j and the premiers of France amL -Great Britain haye agreed to leave tile patter .to that body, instead of carrying out the . original; British purpose of broaching it at the! ?Genoa conference. It should be remembered, how- j ever, that this limitation of armies is a. vastly more difficult .enterprise I than the Hmitation of navies. It j was^asy to limit sea armament be i caiise three or ib&t nations con- j jttolild Se sea, a3? too others! jhaHly- counted. ifflftary power.! potential at least, is far more wide- j (?r o^stHoirted ar/d far hi ore. easi- j ly made effective on short notice, j There are . a dozen br: more n?-! tions:in Europe any one of.,which j might conceivably start a war. | Curbing the military menace.! therefore, becomes: a matter of j curbing all the nations?little pow- j ers as well as big powers. Nothing j can be accomplished without the free acqriescence of Russia and j Germany, and the Balkan states?j for centuries sources, of /war?must be brought into the peace coali tion. Moreover it is hardly conceiv able that peace can actually, be | kept in Europe, even by ?unani jmous agreement, unless the ?on j bers of the peace combine consent j to an international police force, to : compel acquiescence m caS? any re ' fractory nation tries to. make trou Ibie. And the world seems hardly ready for any such control as yet. I Armies may be cut down, and peace on land made more likely, but at present it cannot be guaran teed. . - It's AU m the State or Mind. ilf you think you are beaten, you are If you-'tnink that you dare not, you don7t. Ilf you'd like to win. but you think i you can't. * j It s almost a "cinch" that you j wont. i j If yon think you'll Tose, ybu-'ve lost,) For out in the world you find i i Success begins with a fellow's will: j It's *n in the state of mind. Full many ? race is lost Ere even a step is-run. And many a coward falls Ere even bis work's begun. I Think big. and your deeds will | grow; . Think small, and you'll fall be-j hind; Think that'you can'and you will: It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed you i arc: You've got to think hish to rise; ' You've got to be sure of yourself! before You can ever win a priz?. Life's battles don't always go To the strong or faster man: But soon or late the man who wins is the fellow Tvtfo thinks he can.! Bet the New York policeman who bit a robber was'inad. 1 ?'?'+ - Don't talk your head off and then wonder why you haven't any. "Buy at Home" Campaign j A group- -from t^:o -Business League -ha^s k-cn working-on the problem of putting Sumter county hams into Sumter homes. *hrpugh several days -spent on investigation and in obtaining light on this sub ject from different informed sour ces it reports its findings as fol lows: L There is approximately Sl'OO, 000.00 worth of cured hog meat sold annually by the retail stores of Sumtcr. 2. There is a necessity of in ducing the housekeepers when buy ing to ask for Sumter county goods instead of buying what is handed them, that is cured meats from Richmond, Baltimore, Chicago and ! other points. 3. There is a- necessity of induc ing the farmers to produce enough cured hog meats lo supnly the de mand; also they must care it. pre pare it, shape it and pack it in a way that will make their goods at tractive and will allow them to meet the competition from outside. 4. All grocers who could be seen were interviewed, and without ex ception declared themselves anxi ous to cooperate: they are willing to carry home meats if thsir cus tomers will buy them, and if the producers will Kay/? them in mar ketable form: ai=.o if , they will have enough volume to the supply that the demand, once created; can be filled. 5. At least two brokers in Sum | ter asserted their willingness to I handle the meat on a commission basis for the producers, so that the merchants could get a supply as it was needed, without having to j send out in the country' for it. Details of this Could be perfected later. From this report it is evident that much Sumter county hog meat especially country cured hams, can be sold here, provided that it is ac cessible. If the customers will call for it the merchants will stock up on the home rather than the out of-state product, provided of course that he can procure the steck from the Sumter county farmer. The first step seems to be then for each ! customer who is interested in j building up Sumter county, who j wishes to sec home money circu lating at home instead of going jaway. for each such when he or she is buying to ask for Sumter county hams, sides, bacon, etc. If they demand it of the grocer the grocer is going to try to buy it from the. ?rmer, and the farmer is go lfig to f!nd that marketing his meat crop can be done over the counter, and that he does not have Ito solicit orders from door to door. Let the movement get started, and the details can be. worked out as they come up. There is many and many a buyer in Sumter who buys & sugar cured ham only because .-country cured ham cannot be obtained; put the two side by I side and the home product will out j sell -the other two to one. ! Xlr. F. E. Gibson is the captain ?of the Group from the League who ? has worked so well on this matter. [The members of his group are Messrs.- W. R. Parker, W. E. By i num. R. ? W. Plowden, Frank 'CTi^ndler, R. F. Robertson. A. G. [FTshb?rne. Jno. D. Lee. C. L. j Strauss. Any of these will gladly i discuss this matter with any one in jtereted in furthering the propo sition. . DISGRACED. I've got a letter, parson, from my son awajr out -West, .An' my ol* heart is heavy as an . anvil in my breast. To think the boy whose futur' I had once so proudly planned, [Should wander from the path o' right an' come to ?ich an end. I told him when he left us, only three short years ago. j He'd find himself a-plowin' in a mighty crooked row? ! He'd miss his father's counsels an' his mother's prayers, too. But he said the farm was hateful, an' he guessed he'd have to go. His letters came so seldom that 1 somehow sort o' kuowed. That Billy was a-trampin' on a mighty rocky read. But never once imagined he would bow my head in shame. An' in the dust 'd walle his ol' daddy's honored name. He writes from out in Denver, an" the story's mighty short; I just can't tell his mother; it'd crush her poor of heart; An' so I reckoned, parson, you might break the news to her? Bill's in the Legislatur", but he doesn't say what fur." ?-Pythian bulletin. ? ? ? Only time some of us stand up for I the Star Spangled Banner is when it is played. I Easter bonnets are trimmed. Now I for the customers! The first thing to turn gn cn in I the spring is envy of other's new ; hats. Business motto: Pull together or pull to pieces. I Everything seems to )>?? pending j around th<* pt?*:ent office : Confidence men are overrunning Florida. This is the truth and is j hot a slam at Bryan. - I The best thins to base foreign ' policy on is tiK' lev* !. A s<?lf club and n husband make excellent rug beaters. Nights an- getting so short boot leggers must go to work before da rk. When you come out ;<t the little end of the horn turn around and blow. To-day's Best Jokes and Stories So this is revision of taxes. Chickens come home to roost j between movies. ; The larger a n a i's hat, thv less ; he talks through it. Even democracy can't ' urj mal 1 contents of the habic cf laying cH j the blame on "they." Perfume is like a oilege dipio ! ma: a mighty good tiling for those j who feel the need of :t. ! Hollywood is much :ikc other va I rieties. It can be handled much ! more easily after it is dried. -??? Red-blooded man: Any beefy j guy who knaws a cigar and cracks j your knuckles ywhen. he shakes ! hands. - ! The midnight oil of yesteryear ! was the kind that educates: now its sole office is to lubricate. Woman's Rule A historian says that women ! ruled the world 2500 years before j the birth of Christ, They also have j ruled it 1921 years since.?Charles j ton Gazette. Bite Hun, Someone Night Owl?"Set the alarm for two, will you?? Roommate?You and who else? ?Business Envelopes. No Others North?Has Alice any of the old ?J fashioned virtues? \ West?I suppose so?most of j them are.?Kansas City Star. It Feels That Way j The finding of a headless body I has caused the arrest of ar. Ameri j can dentist. Our experience with ! dentists is that the head doesn't ! really come off; it just feels that j way.?Manilla Bulletin. Speaking of Furniture. Bride?I want to buy an easy ? chair for my husband. ! Salesman?Morris? Bride?No. Clarence. ? Boston ! Transcript. Degress Said a friend to the proud father j of a college graduate who had just j j been awarded an A. M. degree: "I suppose Robert will be look jing for a Ph. D. next? "No. He will be looking for a I J. O. B."?Life. Game to the Last j An editor was dying, but wV.cn ithe doctor bent over, placed, hi*; t ear on his breast, and said. "Poor j man,! Circulation almost gone!" j the dying editor shouted: "You're a liar! We have the largest cic | culation in the county!"?Ex i change. Identified. The bank teller in a snippy way said: "But 1 don't know you, madam!" The woman was red-headed, and she got "rod-headed" in a minute. She said. "Oh, yes, yo_u.d?. T don't need anyone to identify inc. I'm the 'red-headed hen' next door j to you whose 'imps Of boys' are al I ways running across your gar : den. When you started to town [this morning your wife said: 'Now. I Henry, if you want a dinner tit to [eat this evening, you'll have to I leave me a little money. I can't ['keep this house on Christian Sci i ? I ence.' " ! "Here is your money." interrupf I ed the paying teller very faintly.? j Silent Partner. Practice Makes Perfect i Two Irishmen wandered into a preprohibition saloon, where the electric call-bell, with a press but ton had recently been installed. Of ! course, this excited their curiosity. I and when the waiter had supplied i them with "Two Old Crows." they i asked him what it was for. I The waiter explained, and the I rest of the evening he was kept busy by repeated ringings and or j ders for "Two Old Crows." I Next morning, the inebriates be ! ing still abed, their respective wives i met in a shop. "Bedad." said one, "It's in the ; pigsty I found my husband this I mornin'!" "That's nothing.** said the other. j "All night long Mike was pressin' ' on my nose, and calling for Two ' Old Crows." ?Exchange. Private ProiKfty Sandy: "Are many golfballs stol en off your course?" .Jock: "No: we have put a no tice board up?'Members will re frain from picking up lost balls until they stop rolling.' "?Ex. Painless Tlu- star football player stagger ed into the dressing room and groaned in anguish. "Tom." he cried to the :rainer, "do you know what is the quick est way to cure a headache, be cause mine's awful, and 1 can't play well." "Well." said Tom unfeelingly, "go and put your head through a window, and then perhaps the pan" will be gone." The Hero A battalion <>t' soldiers had to make a forced march of thirty miles to the scene of a reported riot. When they Kot there they found it was a false alarm, and the com manding officer told them they must march home n^ain. Hearing the prroans of the weary' ones, he cried: * !. there is any man who does not want to march back. let him step three paces forward." The whole battalion, with the exception of one man. stepped for ward. - ? "My good man," said the ('. <>.. ??you are a credit to the army. You arc the only man willing to march back thirty miles.*' The solitary hero stared blankly at the C. O. '"March back, thirty miles?" ho stuttered. "Why, I'm too tired to; even stepup the three paces.?Ex--1 change. Mrs.-Youngbride: "I'm sure those ; eggs you sold me yesterday were duck eggs!" Grocer Brown: "Oh, bo, ma'am they really couldn't be. We sell only the very best hens' eggs." Mrs. Youngbride: "Well, I'm j quite sure they were ducks' eggs, j because when I put them in, water they floated."?Exchange. The Missing Cl?ldren Simplicity is essential in all j teaching, and especially in the i teaching of children. A little girl came home from Sunday school one Sunday after-1 noon, and said reproachfully to her j mother: j "Where's my children?" j "Your children?" her mother re- j peated in a puzzled voice. "Yes. my children! Where's my! children? I want my children!"] And her little girl stamped herj foot. '.'But you have no children," said I her mother. "Don't be so stupid." j "I'm not stupid," answered the j little girl. "Our Sunday school les- j son today , was about people's chil-! dren and their . children's children."?Exchange. Waitress (who nas just served Freddie with his seventh cup of | of coffee): "You must be very fond of coffee." Freddie: "Yes. Indeed: or I j wouldn't be drinking so much j water to "get a little."?Exchange.; S'Language. Bill: 'S'neagle! Bert: 'S not'neagle, 's'nowl! Jim: 'S'neither, 's'nostrich! Not so Sure. An elderly man was persuaded by one of his sons to go with him to a prize fight. The son paid for two $5 seats. "Now, dad," said the son joy fully, "you'll see more excite- j ment for your five dollars than you've ever seen in your life be fore!" The old man grunted. "I've got my' doubts about that," he said gloomily. "I paid less for my marriage j license." Cause For Worry. "What are you crying about?" the kindly old gentleman asked the sobbing small boy. "'Cause my pa's a philanthro-; pist." "Well, well, that's nothing to cry about, is it?" "I guess you'd think it was. He?he says he'll give me $5 for Christmas, providing I can raise an equal amount. Bee hoo!" ?Here's a suggestion to all Sum ter merchants. Why not get to-1 gcthcr and run a dollar day one day next week in co-operation while the big crowds from out of town are here, each merchant of fering special items and bargains for that day? It will pay all. .The inevitable: A lazy man's alibi. Hollywood appears to be in need of a little judicious pruning. There doesn't seem to be. any thing-left of "splendid isolation" except a state of mind. One of Edison's men predicts a return to inflated prices. What does he mean, "return?" "The voice of the people demands sound financing." Sure. But it needs a sound amplifier. Suggested subhead for all stories concerning methods of raising the bonus: "Read 'em and weep." A woman never realizes that the worst has happened until the sales man says: "Wc have some charm ing modele in stouts." The public is beginning to sus pect that a star of first magnitude is one who loves the director. In a small town, feminism manifests itself only as an anxiety to pay off the debt on the church. What we can't understand is how the small investor so unerringly picks out the swindlers to handle his funds. _. The tax-payer's idealism now takes the form of a conviction that the doughboy shouldn't, place a price tag on patriotism. All [dans to save the count-y be gin with the assumption that all things are possible to one who has access to the treasury. When one's arteries begin to harden, about the only pleasure left is that Of scolding about the way the young people dress. Once upon a time there was h man who remembered to buy a new tube of toothpaste on the day his supply gave out. Now you tell one. The agricultural bloc can't re move all of the farmer's troubles, however, unless it can get control of the weather bureau. Too many supporting the govern ment expect it to support them. WANTED?To t'ikc orders at my home-to make hats. If interest ed, call S79?L. Mrs. C. W. Mc Grew. corner Magnolia and Myr tle streets. Slugging Xews. London. Feb. 11.?With four home champions expected to up hold their titles during the com ing two months, and the prospect of seeing Carpentier again in a London ring, English enthusiasts are following the boxing game closely. George Cook recently defeated by Carpentier returns to the ring on March 27. meeting Joe Beckett, the English champion, in a match labelled the British Empire heavy weight championship. It is ex pected that this same bill will in clude a bout between Joe Fox. the holder of the feather-weight belt, and the Belgian, Arthur Wyns, which has been postponed from this month because the former fell a victim to the influenza epidemic. Wyns has .already beaten one Eng lish featerweight champion, Mike Honeyman. Boy McCormick, who lost last November to Ted "Kid" Yewis, the middleweight holder well-known in America, will meet Jack Bloom held two weeks later to decide fu ture possession of the light heavy weight belt, now held by McCor mick. Lewis is also recovering from* an attack of the "flu" and is ex pected to be in perfect condition for his match with Carpentier which, according to present ar rangements, will be held here, about the middle of April. .'. 5 Europe's opinion concerning ar mament seems to be in entire har mony with the theory that a hair of the dog will cure the bite. ' When a car can't pull through^ they* say the engine is missing;, when a bank can't pull through, they say the cashier is ..missing. An optimist is a man who thinks the world is with him?and he is right. - ? Out of sight, out of mind. Taxes, out of sight; us out of mind. ?e ? ? ???- ? DR. CLARENCE POE, Editor of The Progressive Farmer, WILL OPEN THE CAMPAIGN FOR Sign Up Week At the Court House, Saturday, March 11th at 11 o'clock. DO NOT FAIL TO HEAR HIM. Mr. R. A. Bradham, a cotton grower and member of the association says: "Every business man wants:to help the farmers, but at the same time they feel that .the farmer should try to help himself?which he will do if he joins the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association." Mr. L. D. Jennings, also a cotton grower and a mem ber of the association says: "The reason I have signed the five year cooperative marketing contract is because I think this is the only solution for the cotton farmer. In my humble opinion I am satisfied this is the only real ben eficial proposition which has ever been offered to the farmers. It is something that binds everyone that signs it and each individual has the same voice in the selection of the directors who will control the marketing of their cotton. When a farmer understands this plan I do not believe he will hesitate to sign the contract. We will not only have an expert to market our cotton, but the farm ers will be in a position to get all of the advances neces sary on the cotton, and will not be forced to sell when the market is less than the cost of production." The South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association, has the endorsement of the State Bankers' Association and also of the banks of this county. ASK THEM. Sumter County's quota is twenty thousand bales. We have about half of that. Our goaf during: "SIGIs UP WEEK" is to go over. See the can vassers in your community. SIGN NOW. Send contracts to E. W. Dabbs, Jr., Chamber of Commerce. S. C. This space contributed by FIRST NATIONAL BANK, NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SUMTER TRUST COMPANY, CITY NATIONAL BANK. p.