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The Watchman and Southren 1 Published Wednesday and Satnr " day'by Osteea PublLshing Company, Snmter. S. C. Terms: $-.00 per annum?in advance. Advertisements: Ozse Square, firet insertion __$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Ail communications which : sub serve private interests -'will oe charged for- as advertisements. Obituaries and -ttfbartes of re spect will recharged for. The Sumter ' Watchman was rotmded in 1350 and the True Southroni&?6. "The Watchman and Southron now has the com bined circulation and' influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly ?hft best advertising medium in -Sumter.. ? CABtSCST SEATS IX COXGIUESS. The biggest' Obstacle 5n - the handling' of recent legislation at Washington has been the lack of close and full communication, be tween the executive and legislative branches of government. This has appearedf chiefly in connection with the arms conference treaties and the bonus bill. It is not a tran sient defect ,"but one of long stand ing, which is destined to arise and plague one administration after an other, until.Sjomething is done about In any foreign government, when s;teh treaties were up for ratifica lion, the secretary of state would Lave beea.'^resftnt in the iehate chamber?or whatever correspond ed to it?as-matter or course.' He woii;d be there to explain the treaties and defend them, and an swer any inquiries raised about them. According" to bur estab lished inethod; all that Secretary Hughes can do in such cases is" to appear ; before a Committee when invited, or write a letter and trust to some senatorial friend to get It b?!or4,the senate. Similarly in any foreign govern ment the secretary of the Treasury would .be present in the - house, when sneh a measure as the bonus blH was being considered, to give that body'advice on the matter and explain in detail Its probable ef fect on the federal treasury. The' handicap suffered in these two cases has been merely a lit tle more obvious than usual. The evil always exists, and always will as long as there Is no provision for. closer and more automatic co louration, it would be a simple m^ttef^to'^glve" "cabinet members seats in the senate and house, with the privilege of advice and dis eussion but."with?ut votes, accord ing to the 'British precedent. The Xew l^?rkr-Wbrld suggests a con stitutional amendment for this pur pose. If it is required, the public would jureljr be glad to support it, as a necessary contribution to gov ernmental .gflfcieney^ i' -is*. "*'" ? * ? Hesbands always had a hunch that wjonien would Iraise hob when t?ey got on juries, and now a jury Of women pt Chicago Jias decided that a woman's gown is out of style When it's four weefcs old. TJnele t?am^ tired of playing the watcb^dog- on the Rhine, is tak ing hi^ doughboys and going home. vQni2er~<Touch - says, *No booze, no peetry;y~ Kbw We know where all that flowing verse has come from. " ? ? m Ss>eakiag of sex equality, a girl has been elected assistant manager of a boys' high school baseball team in New York. Query: Will the manager or assistant manager do 'the n^naglbg? ? ? A physician describes seasick ness as a disturbance-.p* the ear and not of the stomafch. The sea sick man^w$R agree tSajt something has bis stomach by the ears, any way. - ; COUJRCTING A BEBT. . It wouid be very agreeable to the United States if the Allies would' satisfy American claims for military duty*on the Rhine out of the money the allies have been col ie?fing ft??-Germany on repara tions zsaSiJiiiX But the AUies are not at;all eager to do that. And while fhetr^attitude is necessarily annoying t? this country, it is un derstandable. There is no doubt of the justice of tne^eTalmT in itself, but the Ab lies dofnot seem to think that it is a proper claim on them. They have had a Iheap of trouble getting any money*.oiH-^e4 Germany for them serves,?and the bilf*" in question would '-absorb nearly all they have been ableilUo. collect in a year. They argued moreover, that they have done ail their collecting with out any help from Uncle Sam, and are mu*ch worse off than Uncle Sam, and bint that^ if the situation were reversed. Uncle Sam would prob ably feel as they do\ about it. Yet the money is due. and ought I to be paid. How. then, is ir to be I collected ? There are two possible ways'. I First, the United States, having I made a separate treaty of peace at Berlin, instead of the treaty of j Versailles" under which the Allies 1 are collectir.g their claims, might go ahead and collect from Ger many direct. Second, the United j States might appoint a representa-j tive to the Reparations Commis-j sion, the instrument through which j the Allies are doing their collect-) ing and distributing. - The la: er' process looks more j promising. Once on that commis sion,' there would be no doubt of [getting our money from Germany, land a better chance of getting some of what the'allies themselves owe us. The allies woul<J like to j i have 'America represented on the ; commission, and President Hard ing, according to a recent state ment, made to the Washington! correspondents, would like to ap point a representative. . The only reason this logical ac-1 tion is not taken, apparently, is the} f ar of Offending bitter-enders in the senate who think it is danger ous for America to co-operate wkh Europe even for the purpose s of collecting a debt. ! ? -- R ADIO CHURCH COLLECTIONS, j The stingy ' giver who hoped to escapt a church contribution by listening in on a radio church ser vice was disappointed in at least one instance. The man at whose home this particular service was being received passed the conrribu | tion plate himself ' and ' informed i his friends that the money collect jed would go "to the preacher Send ling out the sermon or to some! j chariry. The episode opens a new j iline of thought with regard to this; j sort of church service. The broadcasting of sermonR by [able men is a good thing in itself, j because it always is "a good thing ! to send out through the world, in \ ? _ ? ? ? ? ? ? - * ? * j any manner, inspiring and uplift- j ling thoughts. But if the earnest j ! pastor of the home church' is to j preach to empty benches and the home contribution box go bare as a result, how about that? j Probably if these circumstances; jdo arise in any parish, they will j be temporary. When radio con j certs and sermons and lectures are ?a little less novel, they will not ! loom so large. But even now, of j fering as they do a hitherto uh j known chance for the listener to j broaden his horizon and feel in j touch with the big world outside, j they should not tm allowed to inter Jfere with his loyal support of the j local institutions ' and individuals } working faithfully, day in and day \ out, to make life' in the home; {community livable and worth ' while. ? ?"m j JOUTARY CONGRESSMEN Representative Rogers of Mas-; ? sachusetts remarked the other j day, when the army appropriation; j bill was up for discussion in the ) house, that ? was both "unconsti j turional and unwise" for congress j to attempt to order troops about. I There can be little doubt in thei t public mind as to the unwisdom of I such an innovation, and most of i the authorities say there is no doubt as to its unconstitutionally. It seems curious that this difference should have arisen between the j executive and legislative branches I of government, at this time. I It is agreed that congress has a J perfect right to regulate the size j of the army; but it is pointed out i that the president, as commander ; in-chief of the army, has sole au : thority to direct the operations of jthe troops provided. It rests with j him to say where they shall go and j what they shall do. Yet congress, . in its zeal to bring home all troops j bow serving in any capacity abroad, : is assuming to take the matter into j its own hands. It is hardly conceivable that con j grese, in a constitutional test, no ; matter how worthy its motive, j would be allowed to order military ! forces about either directly or by ; the indirect process of appropria | tions military funds only for cer ; tain specific purposes. Critics sug j gest that if such division of re sponsibility for the command of I the army or navy were once start : ed. we should have a fine military mix-up in this country sooner or ! later with any ambitious senator or representative posing as a general or admiral or chief of staff. ^ m BANK OR SFOOTIXG GALLERY? j -: Some of the New Tork banking institutions are installing target ranges on their premises, where employees can be trained to shoot. It is one of many efforts being made by the banking fraternity the country over to cope wirb the ba rtdit. An long as hold-up men roam the streets armed and unsuppressed, It Is necessary that, the citizens es pecially liable to their attack shall I j go armed and trained to defend * himself and the properly for which I he is responsible. But it is a poor commentary on American methods I of crime control when the reposi j tories for the savings of decem cit izens must be turned into arsenals [and shooting galleries. The intensive arming of the honest will not cure the trouble. What is needed is disarmament for the gunman. This will not be easy of accomplishment, bur it can be worked bur through federal laws or unified state laws controlling the manufacture, distribution and sale of small arms. Pending such legislation, more effective policing with life imprisonment or the death penalty promptly imposed upon the armed robber when ap prehended will tend to remedy matters. -? ? m THE. BATTLE PLANE, Capt. Frederick Guest. "P.ritish air minister," says there will not be any new battleships built at tr.e end of the ten year naval lioiiday Arranged at Wrashingtor\ Why? Because by that time bombing planes will have superseded bat tleships, and "a combat between forces of the air and forces of the sea will be a pathetically one sided affair." The British bombing school, es tablished" a few months ago, has j proved, he says, that "one bomb can | sink the most powerful battleship j In a few minutes," whkh is ex -'--it, ? .' ?< -.- ? ?? i jactly what American experiments have proved. The warship. Capt [ Guest explains, cannot be protected j from the explosion of a bomb he I low the water line, and that is pure j ly a matter of practice and experi ment. The bombing plane has 10 times the range of a battleship. It <an get so much cldser as to be in comparably more sure of a hit. It ! costs a mere trifle to build, in com parison with the dreadnought. These are facts which surely ought to be given more serious consideration by the United States, in-any plans for future sea de fense." The logical thing is to save all the money possible on warships and spend a little more of it on airplanes. ? ? ? ' ? TBXE SPORT. Putting games on a basis where winning is only one of several im portant issues is recommended by a recreation supervisor of Chicago. His suggestion is made especially j in regard to playground contests i' between younger children. It could be carried into higher athletics to i good advantage. j Under the Chicago system, wiri } ning counts 30 points out of 3 00. j Conduct and sportsmanship count j 50 points. Reliability and pr?mpt ! ness score 20. 0 Wherever there is a contest the i contestants must battle to win, be } they small or grown. But winning ! at the expense of clean play, j sportsmanship and good temper de serves no laurels. Promptness and reliability are no less important. A game delayed may mean a program : ruined or a whole team forced to default for the tardiness of the j one. As for the player who cannot ; be relied upon to be in his place when needed?he is a quitter. These simple rules for children's play really look like pvettv good 1 rules for the adult game of life. j Russia Changes i Drastic Laws IT ' -r? : ; Moscow, March ??The pendn i lum of the Russian Soviet clock is swinging, this winter, as far to the right as it once swung to the left, bur the Communist parry keeps the j key to the works and accelerates j its movements or retards them as it j sees fit. From a country, where, one year ago, private wealth was considered a crime; prohibition of liquor was a state policy and gambling was sometimes punishable by death, Russia has changed to a land of 1 open speculation, where people ! drink wine legally and openly and I bet on horse racing by means of ] betting machines from which the ! government takes a profit. ! These are just a. few of the j changes since the lyronstadt revolt j last March prompted Premier Le ? nine to inaugurate a new policy. In ; moving toward a state of capitalism J the govrnment, since the Xinth-AU ! Russian Soviet congress closed a few ! months ago with aoproval of Le ; nine's plans, lias taken surgical ' *bort cuts in an effort to change within a few months the condi tions prevalent for years. Moscow awakes each morning to a new surprise. It seems only yesterday that private banks were; prohibited. Today, a few strokes | of the pen of the Commissar of Fi- i nance, and private banks may op- I erat?* on every corner. Yesterday, hoarding of gold was 1 a punishable offense. Today, an other decree and trading in if. mak ing jewels of it. or anything one could want to do with it are le | galized. "Radical cures for radical dis- ? eases'' seems to be the government rule. A dozen sessions of the Con- ] gress of the United States couldn't accomplish the alterations made daily in the life of a Muscovite by j the busy scribbling of the 17 ]>#-as ' of Russia's 17 commissars. To-day's Best Jokes arid Stories! The wife's 'paraphrase: "Out of sight, out of hand." Oood talker: One whose line of bull you hear for the first time. Chicago's decision not to save daylight may remind critics of John 3:19. Too many people think a golf ball is "lost" if nobody is watching 'em. I . Why tax the bachelor? The ef fort to remain a bachelor suffi ciently taxes his ingenuity. The farmers are warned, how ever, that not all of those who go into politics are politicians. When the book* agent calls, the line of least resistance is the dot ted line. At that, government doesn't im pose taxes more frequently than I taxpayers impose on government. In this practical rage. nobody can hold a job without delivering the goods except the weather man. And the young doctor found] three patients who thought they had "nerves" and lived prosperous ly ever afterward. I You see, rates remain high be j cause the railroads need the mon j ey. What a perfect alibi for the hold-up man." ' When you count the cost ofj j hootch and the fine for speeding, I ; small wonder it is called a high old I j time. And yet, no woman will be sat isfied with a mansion in the skies unless it is generously supplied With closets. j Only a people hardened by kill I ing Armenians could produce a 1 cigarette with that kind of smell. j ' j The funny part of it is that a mere sucker can locate a swindler jwhen the most skilled detectives {are baffled. . And yet, you'll seldom find a ?man who is too busy to stop and j tickle his vanity by giving you a j little free advice. The reason a raving beauty is j universally popular is because she 1 does all her raving in the privacy j of her home. i . - Having devoted several years to digging itself in. the world can now devote a few centuries to digging j itself out. j Future tax receipts issued to the j boys who get the bonus should bear I the portrait of a chicken coming j home to roost. \ In a little while now we can for ? get our lesser problems and wor ] ry about the neighbor's chickens I in the garden. ! Why should one become a bandit and get it in small amounts when j there are so few restrictions on the {swindling game? j Eventually Europe may grow 1 weary of signing contracts with the \ field men only to have the home of I fice turn them down. j People are never satisfied. Any ! traffic cop can tell you that young j men with money to burn persist in \ burning the wind. j As we understand the irrecon ! cilables, they care not who makes | 1 the country's treaties if they can; t write the reservations. j "The West is the boss." says a : writer in the effete East. And thej [East mutters: "So, boss, till the j milking's finished." j Even if Uncle Sam should re ! pent of his harshness and take j Europe to spouse he would probab l ly refer to her as his debtor half. The paragrapher has bis little troubles, but his last days are not ?troubled by the frantic effort to I give away his ill-gotten gains. i Some people have so much ar- j tistic temperament that they pose; while winding the phonograph. ? Some of the stock arguments j 'about prohibition have the sound j j of private stock arguments. - ! When a nation talks of saving 'civilization it is thinking of sav ! ing its private grafts. Temptation never bothers the! man who has hi thoughts on* heaven and his nose on the grind-j stone. After all. it's fair enough. The j farmer provides the raw material; and gets a raw deal in return. When a man thinks he is sighing i for the good old days he is mere- i ly sighing for his vanished youth.; Lois of men think they are! standing up for their rights when i they are merely lyin& down on the I job. "The movement of the spheres I occasions our happiness." Well, [ the sphere that moves rapidly in a horizontal line after .colliding with1 a hat brings us keen delight. Rome, March 30.?A renewed outbreak of fascist! and socialists is' reported from various sections, j Two were killed and seven wound ed as the result of bomb throwing- i HOUSE PASSES ARMY MEASURE Provides That the x ErilLstWd 1 Strength Must Be 115,000 i Men ______ . Washington. March 20.?With- j out a roll call the House today passed the army appropriation bill \ carrying approximately $238,000-,-! 000 10 meet military and non-mili- I tary expenses of the War Depart mem during the coming fiscal year. ! As sent to the Senate the meas are provides that by July 1 the; enlisted strength of ihe regular j army must be reduced to 1.-15,000 men.-exclusive of 7,000 Philippine \ scouts and the number of officers! decreased to 1 1,000. The principal changes made in i the bill by the House were the ? elimination of a provision that all! troops 'Stationed in China and a j part of those on duty in Hawaii, j the Panama Canal Zone and on the : Rhine should be returned to the i United Slates by July 1. and the: adoption of an enactment increase' ing by $15,000,000 the amount car- j ried, as a lump sum toward con- ! tinuation of work during the com ing fiscal year on various river and .harbor projects. - -Just prior to passage of the bill Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas, demanded another vote on; the-.amendment, increasing the riv ers and harbors item which was adopted Monday without a roll call by a 158 to 54 vote. The House acting on the demand decided by a vote of 172 to 75 to retain in the bill the amendment which in creased from $27,035,260 to $42. XI5.,61, the amount provided for various improvements. A second vote also was demand ed on three amendments which in-| creased National Guard appropria- ? tions. but the three items remained I in the bill by safe margins. One: amendment increased from $0,000.- \ 000 to $11,000,000 the army drill pay allowance for National Guards men. Another increased by $200. 000 the $800,000 provision for the; care of National Guard animals while the third removed a restric tion, carried in the bill that none of the money was to be used in caring for more than 4.000 horses and n: tiles. Sarnoe Will Remain Under Control of New "Zealand. Apia. British Samoa, March 25. ?;'(By Mail)?The Samoans will accept as final the decision of Great Britain that the mandate over -Samoa cannot be removed from the control of New Zealand without a decision of the League of Nations, it was announced today by Chief Toelupe, leader of the house of native rulers, at a meet ing. Great Britain's decision stated that,..the mandate had been granted Australia by the league as a re ward for New Zealand's sacrifices in the war* It came in reply to a letter from former King Malieto of Samoa, to the New Zealand. Min ister Of Foreign Affairs, in which he stated that he was opposed to the petition from Samoan repre sentatives in the local govern ment that the mandate be removed because of the alleged widespread dissatisfaction among the Samoans with the administration by New Zealand. ''Strong Man" is Weakling Com pared Witli'Insect. If our legs had the. same relative power as those of a flea, we could jump with ease over a church spire 300 feet high. An ant moving a heavy pebble up a little slope of earth is per forming a feat equivalent to that of a man pulling a railroad train along the track single-handed. Ants have frequently drawn little wagons 1.400 limes as heavy as themselves. These instances are cited in the March issue of Popular Science Monthly, showing that, weight for weight, the most powerful profes sional "strongman" is a weakling compared with many common in sects. Even the weakest beetle can lift five times its own weight. The rove beetle has drawn a.cart 45 times its weight, and has lifted 1.S00 times its weight in escaping from beneath the. cover of a tin can. COTTON BtAJ^KET NEW YORK COTT08. Yeatdya Open Hieb Low Clone Com Jan.I&54 16.86 16.54 16.83 16.47 May .17.75 f>.99 17.71 17.97 17.68 Jiity .17.15 17.38 17. 13 17.35 17.08 Ott.16.74 17.03 16.74 J7.03 I6.6? Dec. . 16.63 16.94 16.63 16.94 16.58 ? Spots 30 up. 18; 151 New Orleans Cotton. Y'st 'rty's Ooen Hl?h Low Cloa? ('loa? 15.71 16.07 15.7t 16.06 15.62 . 16.45 16.71 16.45 16.70 16.42 1632 16.58 16.3t! 16.56 16.28 15.87 16.23 15.90 i6.2l 15.87 15.74 16.07 15.76 ?6.12 15.74 18 up, 10.63. LIVERPOOL COTTON. January . 9.70 I March. 10.43 May. . 10.23 i July. 10.16 October. 9.87 , December. 9.97 j Snlrs 10.000: Receipts, none: Mdidling. j 1?.r,?,: cood Middling n.*>3._ I WANTED?To buy pair of mules., not over seven years old and weighing about 1.200 pounds. Parties offering mules must have them in city lot in rear ?>f Opera House Saturday. April Sth .-it Iii o'clock. S. (>Quinn. City Manager. -I WANTED?To buy pure Guernsey] or; Jersey milk cow. fresh in milk. Nothing under ten quarts con sidered. Write P. V. Pat ton. <*are 11<-tii Office, Sumter. S. C. WANTED?To take orders at my home to make hats. I? interest ed, call 879?L. Mrs. C. W. Mo Grew, comer Magnolia and Myr tle streets. Jan. May . July . Oct. Dec. . Sjwtfs ?: COAL MINERS' WAGE CONTEST Operators'ftesist Demands of i Anthracite Miners New York, ..Mawh 2fc?With a preliminary declaration that "res-! idents of the anthracite mine region j are the most prosperous in the i United States." operators today j launched before the subcommittee i on wage contract negotiations their < fight against the 19 demands of J the miners as a basis for settle- { merit of the strike set for April 1. Speaking for the operators. S. J D. Warriner, president of the Le- j high Coal and Navigation company, I produced figures setting forth thatj bank deposits in the anthracite dis- j tri?? had increased $75,000.000 in the last two years. This, he said, j clearly indicates that the miners already are receiving the ''saving j wage" upon which they base their demand for a 20 per cent, increase for-contract work and $1 per shift; for day labor. ? Phillips Murray, vice president j of the United Mine Workers of America, countered with a denial that the operators' figures, com piled by the national industrial con- j ference board, were based on facts. The. industrial board, he said, is "a clear cut, open shop, anti-union organization, whose figures are not authentic, but are colored and thoroughly unreliable." Mr. Warriner admitted that the data of the industrial board had been gathered at the request of the j operators and said, the coal pro-1 ducers had contributed funds to the organization. He denied, how ever,, that the coal operators were members of the board. The conference of the arbitration committee today failed to take any action which would halt suspension of work at the anthracite mines ! Saturday. Secretary Gorman an-j nounced when the session endedt j The saving wage demand of the : miners was still the point at is-1 sue, it was said, with union dele- j , gates maintaining that costs of Uv-j ling in the anthracite regions had! I been on the upgrade while wages j were at a standstill. . ... j Pittsburgh. March 20.?Plans of j I the United Mine Workers to or igan ize non-union miners in thel j western Pennsylvania district for) I the strike scheduled for April Ij : took tangible form today when j ! Frank Hughes, international repre- I jsentative, opened an office in! i Greonsburg, Pa.. and circulars] Icalling on non-unio"n men to joinj the movement were distributed! ; throughout the Westmorelana county field. I The circulars signed by Presi dent John L. Lewis and other in ternational officers of the union, [called "all nonunion miners - em I ployed in the mines of this coun jtry to join with us and cease work, March 31." - Russian Soldiers Frozen j Petrozavodsk, Russian Karelia,; [March 5?More Red army soldiers j were frozen to death . than killed ! in action in the recent campaigns tin the semi-Arctic Karelian wods ; against the Finnish-Karelian insur J gents. A report: of the army staff I says 145 were killed, in action and j 257 frozen. j The warfare was a conflict be I tween furclad troops on skiis and I snowshoes in the woods. PARENTS AS EDUCATORS "The Child's First School is the FamilyFroebeL Issued by .the -National. Kindergarten Association, $ West 40th Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in our columns. Developing Good Judgment in Children By Edit? Loeltrklge Reid. ^fiich of the inefficiency through- j bread in the house. A guest was out the business world today is "due. Something in the nature-of 4, , , - * t ; bread food was necessary. So he directly due to lacs: of proper early . ? , , returned to.the store.and said he training in the home. No business wou!d Take tn* graham- bread, system or course in salesmanship UTwo loavcsr* asked .the grocer, and technique ean ever quite over-jAgain RohPrt used his brains. Our come the habits and mind devel- j familv do<?s not care for graham opment acquired while *he individ-1 j>rea.d-. So we would not want any ual was passing through childhood {left OVf.r for next day# and he and the most impressionable years|came home-with one lc^f. I was of his existence. , so pieased. x could have hugged One Monday morning I discov- jUhn ror jov if t hadn't been in-such ered that I was out of laundry soap [a dreodAl! hurry to get a . hasty because Jennie, our laundress. had|meai prepared. But the next day not reported the fact before she j j had a niCe mik wirn Robert,.and left the previous week. There was j { foun<3 that he had reasoned about just time for Robert to go to the-tho ^read question just as I have store before school. "Get five bars ! inclicaLed above. and he said, of M. B. Laundry Soap." I told him , -pother, I would have come home as he started off. Meanwhile i without ANY bread and the store Jennie sat around waiting, all be-Lvould naVH been closed before you cause she hadn't told me about the could send me back, IF IT HAD empty soap box the week before, j XOT BEEN FOR THE SOAP." However, while this fact is not ex-< Kow \ did feel repaid for taking actly the point I am making in this j tnnt few* minutes on a bcsy Mon article. yet nevertheless it proves day morning to explain How To that Jennie had not been taught! r\se Good Judgment! to use her judgment when she was j Mothers and teachers can recall small. J instance after instance similar, to But to go back to Robert. In the , tho lwo mentioned when a child course of time he appeared in ae | nad IO make an independent deci kitchen with empty hands. I ad|sjon jf ne had been wisely train told him to get M. B. Lawn- -y j e.d he made a wise decision. If Soap but the store had none, r- .dinott he pr0bably came home with although the grocer wanted hi? to | out the soap; lt 1)ays to ftave pati_ bring the next best he decide . not enCe and spend a little time teach to spend his money for sonr -t .ing ing iogje oven U1 the tots, Event'u I hadn't told him to get. Cow J ally inf. time saved by such in Robert is nine years old. a d he j struction will be multiplied a hun knew that the washing cot d not|dred foid> and even though we get begin until we had .the soa Bttt;no immediate results, we owe it there were only twenty > -Utes between then and school tit le so I dispatehed. Jennie herself o the soap and used ten minutes ir ing to impress upon Robert whe. NOT to conform : implicit obed -.nr e. 1 showed him how to reason that. to the future of the boy and girl to expend this energy in stressing the vital importance of tising good judgment. If chey do not learn to weigh and measure and : decide things for themselves at the im pressionable age, they will not have the washipg was soaking. And thatjthis fruity developed when they there wasn't any soap in the house, i are gr0Wn. Habits are not mush Jennie was waiting. The .clothes j rooms that grow overnight. Thejr had to he washed. And to get them ck an we must use'soap. Now it would have been much are oak trees that must be planted many years before they are actu cernallv needed for shade. ? But easier to have said, .*'Oh. Robert. J rhe acorn must drop where the soil run along to school: you do use! -lh fertile. such poor judgment." But some j _ day Robert is going to work for an j ?A state octn be no better than employer. And that employer will th<1 cozens of which it is corn not be on hand to tell him what to j posed. Our labor now is not to do when the right kind of mate- j mould States, but make citizens." rial is not available. That employ- ' John Morley. er will hire him .for that very pur- j The kindergarten provides early pose, namely to do his thinking ??2 training jn industry, in personal him and take some of the responei- j honor, in the duties of the indiv bffity of his department. We can't jidual citizen, and in responsibiUty always get the kind of soap we |to the sociai whole, ask for in this world, and we must j I? there if; n0 kindergarten in make quie? decisions and wise onesjvour ^heo!. to the National in choosing the next best thing. kindergarten Association,* West But 1 was rewarded the very! 4(ilh Street; New Tork City.'for in next week. The soap ordeal made | formation and advice as to howone its, impression on Robert. j may ne secured. One evening "Daddy" telephon- ^ .t ed out that he was bringing home 1 a guest for supper. Mv first thought[ Th^ say John D. Rockefeller.is was. "No bread." So" I sent Robert 1 rich because, he never loses his to the store for two loaves of temper. John is rich because he bread. But it was late in the day,! never loses anything. and the store had nothing left but ? ? ? " graham bread. Robert walked out An optimist is one who expect3 and started home, then he reflect- to do something tomorrow; a pes ed?actually reflected?as I had .simist is one who was done , yes suggested to him. There was no'terday. UNITED WE STICK: DIVIDED WE ARE ST?CK WE HAVE DECIDED TO STICK. W. A. Alston. R. E. Atkinson, F. W. Andrew,, A. L ArUis, S. W. Allan, J. R. Atkinson, R. 8. B?ls?r, N. t. Broughton. R. L. Bur kette. H. D. Branson, R. K. Erown. M. M. Brewn, J. H. B?rke, A. C. Burrows, E. S. Booth, J. D. Btaekwf.lt. Stsnyarr.a Burrows, E. S. Brown, R. A. Sradbam, Jas. C. Bryan, J. P. Boora. Henry -Sener.haley, W. F. Baker. T. B. Brunsen, Jr. J. R. Ball, W. T. BrogtJon. A. M. Brogdon, J. C. Brogdon, H. B. Barkley, p. K. Bowman, P. E. Branson, J. J. Britten. F. P. Bradford, H. H. Brunsen. B. W. Broflden. Sr. S. S. Brunsen. C. W. Brunson. J. A. Blackwell, John I. Brogdon, J. 8. Brttton. Cain Farnt. A. B. Cubbage, 4. i. Coleman, T. H. Clarke. T. M. Croswcll. Thos. Collier. J. h. Chandler, 5. Cherry. E. 8. Colclough, E. W. Dabbs. J. C. Otinbar. F. M. Bwight. t W. Dabbs. Jr., J. T. Dennis. W. E. Dick. R. A. Dennis. J. R. Doltard, L. C. Durant. J, H. -Durant, W. R. OuBose, M. S. Davis. S. W. DesChamps, G. E. DuBose, Joel Davis, R. S. DesCha.T.ps, T. E. Edens, H. T. Edens. H. C. Edensv John t. Frierson, J. A. Frierson, j. M. Fogte. S. D. Ffaser. 8. W. Cardner. S. W. Giltespie, S. P. Gaiflard. p. P. Gailiard. W. W. Green. H. T. Goodman. M. Goldberg. J. J. Geddings. C. V. Green, M. D. Gallachat, B. H. Goodman, W. G. Geddings, J. B. Gordon. T. W. Geddings, B. L. Holland, H. W. Harby, E. B. Hodge, Hugh C. Haynsworth, J. H. Hopkins, A. T. Haynsworth. A. P. Hinsen. Av W. HearoM, J. F. Horton, C. B. Hay. S. A. Harvin. Seymour Howard. J. H. Hammond, Ezra Hedge. R. W. Ingram, . C. J. Jackson. L. D. Jennings, M. 8. Jackson. L. K. Jackson, T. C. Josey. Geo. 0. Jennings, J. M. Jackson. C. P. Josey. jno. E. Joy, P. L. Jones, Rott. M. Jones, R. G. Jones, Miss Annie Keels. T. J. Keels. J. A. Ke<b, > - . > H. c: Keels. W. E. Kelb. T. J. Kirven. Jr. j. M. Keib. J. T. Keels. E. R. Keels. M. S. Kirk. T. B. Kennedy, G. A. Lemmon. G. H. Lenoir, W. J. Lawrence. Sr. W. J. Lawrence, Jr., R. M. Moore. G. W. Mahoney, Thos. R. Moody, J. A. Mints. T. E. Minis, W. H. Miller. S. L. Mims. W. W. Meere. A. P. Minis. j. w. Marshall, F. M. Meise. E. B. Muldrow, H. M. WcLaurin, i. R. McLeod, J. D. McLeod, T. D. MeLeed. B. R. McEiveen, J. C. McEiveen. W. 0. McLeed. S. M. McCoy, M. McClan, B. McLaughlin, R. McEiveen. M. McLeod. E. Newman, A. Nettles. A. Newman. 0. Newman. J. Newman, Sam Newman, B. M. Oliver. B. Osteen, A. Osteen, L. Parier. 0. Plewden. 0. Purdy. C. Phelps. W. Pringle. C. L. Player. Robert Perry. A. J. Pringle, T. H. Parker. J. R. Present:, M. V. Plewden, E. E. Rentiert. J. A. Ream, W. 8. Reams. J. H. Robinson, J. H. Ryan.? W. H. Ramsey. Marten Rivers, A. R. Rollins, S. E. Sanders, A. F. Smith, U. L. Smith, Leon Stuckey, H. L. Scarborough, A. H. Sanders. J, W. St?ckey. Willie Shaw. - W. L. Saunders, W. J. Sanders. 2. Singleton. W. S. Thompson, W. D. Ttsdale. S. W. Trufuek, W. 0. Truluck, J. R. Terry, E. A. Terry, S. Y. Tupper, K. S. Tupper, M. E. Truluck. f. M. Truluck. Geo. Tindaf, H. Truftaas, H. D. Ttndat. A. C. Thompson, S. f. Thames, w. S. Trsdale, D. L. Tindal. J. Frank Williams. 7. C. Watsen. S. I. Wilsen. I J. WbUden. R. C. wrttiams. L. L. White. R. W. Weatbcrry. J. T. Witherspoon. Hugh WItherspeon. S. J. WMte. S. F. Weekt, S. Weinbers. B. F. Wilder. B. R. WMte. J. W. Washington, F. M. Weatkerly. Ratter White. E. A. Woatheriy. S. W. Young, C. W. Young. J. F. Yarberoegh, ?. M. 2eigler. L. 0. Welsh. S. N. Welsh. Brother Farmer: Will you stick with us, or will you continue to be stuck? Ahe above contracts are actually in the office. If you have signed, and your name is not in the above list take the matter up with the County Director, Cham ber of Commerce. ALL CANVASSERS ARE REQUESTED TO SEND IN ALI CONTRACTS IN THEIR POSSESSION IMMEDIATELY. Over Seventeen Thousand Bales in the Office. We want not less than TWENTY THOUSAND. Who will put us over? THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, THE SUMTER TRUST CO. NATIONAL BANK OF S. C. CITY NATIONAL BANK,