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Tie Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Pa Wishing Company, Suroter, S. C. Terms: $2.00 per mmnm?in advance. '*? ^ A?TerrteeniCBts: ?se Square, first insertion __$1.60 Every subsequent insertion - - ,50 Contracts for throe months or longer will be made at reduced rates. >'AH communications which sub serve private interests will oe charged for as advertisements. Qbkuariea and tributes of re* SpeCJt:will be charged for. 2 T?e*- ^Sirmter Watchman . was founded* in* 1850 and the True SouIur.onTXP 1866. The Watchman Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ife#tly the best advertising medium ? in Sumter. TO FEED OR NOT TO FEED? ' The question of discontinuing famine relief in Russia because of thebigi .iarvests is und er discus sion at Washington and other capi tals. The answer will be deter mined by "the dictates of humanity, "but there is room-for a careful can vass" ?ef the situation before'a de ciskm |s made. "When.the possible discontinuance of. outside"'relief was mentioned to ?asrM^iiitvinoff, one of. the Soviet delegates to; The Hague conference, fc'fe .burst forth with an open letter m' wMch he expressed the hope thaVthe work would go oh, and in cidentally added this precious gem <*f explanation: "The terrible con s^qiMipcse of the war and foreign intervention in Russia cannot be r^awved'nV a single satisfactory crop." It is not surprising that the ^encies mainly responsible if or the fem^nfe prefer that the Russian Beetle should not know the truth. If somite of those starving heroes did ?Jcwjjw ;it, they might "eat .fee gov fcj^ifnent alive" in unpleasantly re alistic fashion. But there is no rea son! why outsiders should swallow Boifcbevist misrepresentations. T '.i^ tie. present harvest is .truly in fedpeient to prevent further fam ine, hi Russia if honestly admin istered, outside help may go on. Suiif 'this aid is sought merely .to oolj^ervap the crazy schemes of.the fiwSfet .government, that is quite a x&ferent matter. \ OF "POSTTJ'FFICES feleT^Sam is now inclined to the advice he has given to so j&?y*p?rate citizens, and own his o$ii home. That home, in its mu nicipal manifestation, is usually a postoffice. and it is surprising how many properties used for postal pn^BOffes are owned by private capfcaL ~ " it*4ias "lieen found that in large atftnber of cases, the sums paid out in rentals for city postoffice quar ter^over^^eriods of 10 or 20 years, we^lci h^ve paid for the building ini?^j^tthd. Accordingly Postmas ter General Work, supported by Secretary of the Treasury* Mellon and nien&bers of Congress interest ed - in; *pb*$tal development, is advo-j eating a progressive plan of gov ernment ownership of postoffice buildings as an economy measure i ? c2? ?oubt the cry' of "pork0 will : be raised, as usual, against any j tucji plan?by. . communities not; j obtaining the postoffice^. There I nee<?7be no occasion for that cry if j .planjjs worked out on a busi- ! fieis basis?that is to say, if Con- j ^r<?? and *the Postoffice Depart- J mejnt are'^content to provide al Suitable Building for taking care j of eftc3?city's postal business, with- ! ou? feeling obliged to erect a Greek ! . ? i temple tand spend three times as i muefe -for architecture as for util- I ACTJOX IX COAL STRIKE It is unfortunate that efforts to Settle the coal strike were not Started when the strike itself was *' Started?or indeed, before that. ??rati>rs and miners have vbeen stubborn, and until lately the pub lic ,has- been apathetic, and the j government, rightly or wronglv, nfti felt itself justified in interven- j ing only* as a last resort. Now it is i evident to; everybody that there ; must be action. ? f. ? - - - In the three idle months that! have elapsed there might have been ; woxked out not only a settlement Of the issues immediately involved j but a rational plan for putting the ' loose-*nd coal industrv on a perm . * \. t-* j anent.Iy***v.md basis, if the parties j concerned had gone about the mat- 1 terf^Wttlr open mind and construe- 1 tivfe purpose. Now it is hardly pos- : sib^Ie ^hat anything but a tempo- j raiy arrangement can be patched ! up for the present year. The im- j perative thing is to get the mines | open again and the men back at j work and coal hauled and stored j for next winter. . Tt will be an achievement worth j while to accomplish that. But i having: done much, surely the oc casion cannot be allowed to pas3 without undertaking: the funda mental task of putting the coal in dustry on a. basis that will avoid such deadlocks in the future, mak ing disputes more readily adjust table and ^eliminating r the. hap hazard methods that make coal mining a disgrace to an efficient industrial country. ' \ PROSPERITY. In spite of rail strikes and coal strikes the, industrial outlook con tinues to improve and unemploy ment dwindles. In fact, labor short ages already are appearing in va rious regions and lines. This pleas ing news is the result of the latest government survey. In comment ing on the situation, Francis Jones, director general of the U. S. Em ployment Service remarks: "The nation is striding vigorously toward prosperity, employment is increasing: throughout the country. This increase is the more remark- . able for the reason that it is made despite the unsettled conditions caused by the coal,, textile and rail road controversies." The survey embraces 355 indus trial centers, includes over 1,42$ industries each normally employing 500 men or more, and covers all sorts of industries, so that it is both comprehensive and conclusive. Tha Karvard Economic Service adds ;.ts word of cheer with the j prediction that "the business recov- j ery now in progress will develop ; into general business prosperity.'.' This is news for which the coun try has been, waiting long. It is a pity that the outlook is clouded by the great strikes in question. The sooner employers and workers in those quarrel areas can settle their differences, the sooner they can advance with the rest of the nation to a greater era of prosperity than any yet experi enced. - '-? .: . ? ? ? WAR-LOANS AND TAXES . There is talk of an easement in the. American tax burden when Great Britain starts paying off her indebtedness to this country. The talk has been stirred up by the fact that Britain is mobilizing gold in New York to begin interest pay ments in the fall. It is pleasant to record the pros pect of such payments, but it is just as well not to expect too much from that source for a while yet. especially in tax reduction. It is not likely that Great Srit ain will do more than meet the interest, present and accrued, for the next two or three years, at least. Payment of her principal, which amounts to about $4,000, 000.-900. is still far in the future and will be subject to a vast amount of discussion and negofia- j , ... . . t tion before it is finally paid. As for the other allied war debts to this country, they may never t?e paid at, all. Whatever interest may be received will be swallowed up without difficulty in the capacious maw of congressional appropria tions. And if the principal were paid, Congress would use it for the! army bonus. Everybody will have to keep on j paying pretty heavy taxes for some j years to come,, and might as well I be reconciled to that fact. THE SOTXET DILEMMA A philosopher could almost find ! it in his . heart to pity the Soviet j diplomats at The Hague. They j have been negotiating between the ; devil of Capitalism and the deep j sea of Bolshevism. j ? -? ? ? ? ? ? . ? , They have wanted money?how i they have wanted money! Though I scorning capital, they go so far as j to admit they need it to put Rus- ; sian industry ?n its feet. They al so want to preserve their Bolshe- j vism. or the semblance of it. If! i they ate to obtain loans from other ' nations, they have got to give se- J curity and recognize the existence I of private property rights in Rus- j sia: and they cannot do that with- I out surrendering the basic princi- j pie of Bolshevism, which is the ab- j rogation of property rights. The situation was inevitable, as '? far as the "capitalistic" nations i are concerned. Nobodv will lend money?which represents proper- j ty?without the recognition of property rights. If Russia get.* loans, therefore ; Russia is no longer Bolshevik. And conversely, when Russia ceases to j be Bolshevik, she will get loans. FEMININE RULE _ "The women will rule the na- ? tion." says George Horace Lorimer, I editor of the Saturday Evening Post. He does not agree at all with those who say that woman suffrage j has merely doubled the national ! voting power without any appreci able effect on the political situa tion. Women nre changing the situation, he maintains, right along. j And they are doing it by the infu sion of a moral element that was lacking when they entered politics. "The woman is voting her con victions," he explains. "Any ques tion with a moral issue is getting the general support of the women." If woman is really voting her own convictions instead of voting ac cording to party traditions, or at behest of party leaders, after the usual manner of male voters, there certainly will be a change. . And there are evidences of that very thing in recent elections and pri maries, if one looks for them in the light of Mr. Lorimer's sugges tion. Woman ought to infuse a super ior morality into politics, anyway. It is what she has always stood for in private life. . It need not be inferred that wo men are going to swarm into Con gress and usurp all the guberna torial and judicial jobs, with a drive for the presidency itself. That is not woman's way. Woman will probably rule hereafter as she has ruled heretofore, only more effec tively, as the "power behind the throne," demanding, for high office, men who represent her own ideals. NO LOAN FOR RUSSIA The Soviet representatives at The Hague are said now to realize that their hopes for a foreign loan are vain. But they need not act so surprised and disappointed about it. How could intelligent men expect anything else, in view of their government's position? Money or credit represent prop erty, or the use and enjoyment of property. Therefore anyone who obtains money or credit is expect ed as a matter of course to satis fy the lender that he will pay for the use of the money in question and return it in due season. If the borrower will not satisfy the lend er, in the usual way, the lender naturally will keep his money. The Soviet government so far has refused to acknowledge the property rights that foreigners held in Russia before the revolution and refused to acknowledge responsi bility for previous loans obtained from foreign sources. The Soviet government also has not given as surance that foreign property rights will be respected in Russia hereafter. Thus there is no sound security offered for loans and no adequate cause for faith in Rus sian promises. Credit depends on both moral and material consid erations, and both are lacking in this case. Russia needs money, and it would help along international prosperity if other nations could lend Russia the money she needs for economic revival. But the Russians themselves make the loans impossible. "SPOILED** BY CHEAP GAS According to John D. Reynolds, secretary and counsel for the Wes tern Petroleum Refiners* Associa tion, the public has been "spoiled" by paying too low a price for gas oline last year. The question now, he says, is whether the public is "to pay prices which will enable the independent refining industry to survive." Whether gasoline has been real ly cheap the past year is a question on which the public may not agree with Mr. Reynolds, if it has, however, the refiners have certain ly been making up for that lately, with a series of price increases* which, whatever they mean, do not bear any perceptible.relation to the available supply. There is more gasoline in stock than ever before at this season. : .. As for the survival of the "in ?ependent refining industry.' the public would be a great deal more enthusiastic if it felt more assured Lhat the "independents" were real ly what they profess to be. The ordinary consumer regards it as a curious phenomenon, to say the least, that kerosene and gaso line prices always rise and fall in unison, without any apparent dif ferential caused by competition between the "independents" and the more or less dissolved "trust." THE DEBT DEBATE An odd situation developed when a college debating team from New York University arrived in Eng land to debate . the international debt question with students of Oxford University. The question for debate was: ?Resolved, that European debts to America are the greatest obstacle to a peaceful world settlement." It may surprise many Americans to learn that the American represen tatives went to England prepared in argue the affirmative side, as a matter of conv'etion; They found that the Ox? ?rd m?-n likewise de sired to support the affirmative. ?When ihey vVore informed that no one at Oxford corld speak against lhe cancellation of the American and inter-allied war debts with conviction, the American team agreed to change sides, and argue, against its own belief that the war debts ought to be paid. There is good sportsmanship. And it must be admitted, too, that there is ample ground for debate. It is easy enough to argue that a debt is a debt, and 0112ht to be paid regardless. Nevertheless, every well informed person in any of the countries concerned knows that the debt-colJecting in this case is attended with huge difficulties and many uncertainties, and no body knows whether America and Great; TeJritain?the chief creditors ?will gain or lose, in the end, by insisting on strict -settlement of international obligations. A WORLD* ' AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE Suggested to President Hard ing by Skottowe Wanna maker Columbia, July 19.?J. Skottowe Wannamaker, of St. Matthews,, president of the American Cotton Association, has written a letter to President Harding, suggesting that he call together, at Washing ton, an International Agricultural Conference, invitations being sent to leaders in agriculture, commerce and finance of all nations of the world. Mr. Wannamaker suggests to the president that the conference be called^ to discuss the following f subjects: agricultural finance, in cluding long term, short term and intermediate rural credits; inter national finance, nation-controlled rather than bank-controlled; mar keting of farm products, with speT I cial emphasis on co-operative methods; transportation and reci ! procity, with a view to expanding trade relations between this coun try and other nations; agricultural production, covering a study of best farm methods; world require- < ments and statistics, suggesting the I creation, of a statistical commis J sion in every country, for the dis semination of information on which to base trade relationships; insect pests and plant diseases, suggesting , a study of methods for saving i crops, from infestation; and in gen i eral a close co-operation between nations. ; Simultaneous Evangelistic Cam paign. ] ? Some time ago the Ministerial j [association of the city reques^Bd^ the governing bodies of each of the I j nine Protestant churches to consid- J 1 er the adyisibliity. of these churches undertaking a simultaneous Evan gelistic Campaign this fall. The representatives of the churches, approved the plan and have, prom- i ised tne co-operation of all the congregations. The plan calls for], evangelistic services conducted .in each church beginning, if-possible on October 15th. the third Sunday, and continuing for ten days or two weeks. Each church will procure its own evangelist and conduct its own campaign in the way that 'seems best to it. It is hoped that these services will turn the atten j tion of the entire community to j spiritual things and, under the I blessing of God. be the means of ! strengthening His people and ^bringing many souls to Jesus I Christ. It is hoped by the Minis Iterial Association that the color Jed churches of the city may find j it possible to put on such a cam jpiagn at the same time. The Chrisitan people of the city are requested to make these meet-! ings an object of earnest prayer. The - Master's promise to His i church is, "If two of you shall ! agree on earth as touching any ! thing that they shall ask. it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." Here is the challenge to our faith. J. P. MARION, Chairman Ministerial Association. Paxville Items. Paxville, July 19.?Misses Jes sie Curtis and Daisy Rhame left last week for Lake Junaluska, N. 1 C, where they will attend the! j Sunday school and Mission courses i of the Soutnern Methodist church. Mrs. J. L. Pritchard has return ! ed to Spartanburg ' after a twe weeks* stay at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Cor bett. Miss Alfreeda Cunningham, of | Rock Hill has gone home after a visit with her friend, Miss Iva Geddings. ? Mrs. Sid Wise, of Hyman is | visiting relatives in and near Pax-j ville. Mesdames J. N. Brown, and C. H. Broadway are spending the \ week-end in Charleston, j. Mrs. A. F. Rogers, and chil- j dren have returned home at! Kingstree after a visit with her j ! mother, Mrs. A. F. Rodger*. I . Mrs. Eliza Tisda'e of Mayesville j has been visiting at the home of j Mrs. S. E. Curtis. Little Miss Elizabeth Keels has j returned home after a visit to her aunt Mrs. Edgar Scott, near Bish-i j opville. Miss Donna Minis of Sumter, is j j visiting at her brother's home, Mr. j Ijoe Mims, Jr. .Mrs. Marion Cox and children of j' Florence have been visiting rela- | . tives here. i Miss Susie May Ridgill of Sum- i ? I merton, is visiting Miss Vivian Ged- ! j dintrs. I' j Mr. Eugene Brown of Columbia j is visiting his parents, Mr. and, ' Mrs. J. N. Brown. Dr. Thos. W. ('unter went to, Swansea Monday for a short stay' with his father. Mr. .J. M. ('.unter.; -Mr. .J. C. Pate and family oft; Sumter spent Sunday at the homer of Mr. .Trick Hodges. Mr. Nash Broadway recently . wem to Honen Path to accept a ( position. ' ? To-day's Best Jokes and Stories ,. 1 Impossible happenings No. 2: "Look, John. That woman ha3 on a.- hat just like mine. I wish all women woulud wear them." - ???Why should we think much about posterity? It probably won't think j much of us. f - Fortunately, however, Uncle Sam J won't b_e importuned to supply the need when Europe runs out of crises. . Another little fault of our civil ization is the popular opinion that the roll of. honor is a bank roll. >Some men have a chance tp suc ceed, and some are content to sit and cuss the people who have suc ceeded. The old-fashioned man whose horses were never more than eight years old in the spring is now of fering a used car that has run only three thousand miles. ? If a man hasn't .entertained an idea in 37 years, he always glows with pride when called a "good party man." A conservative is .one who thinks all the plots to disturb the scheme of things, are hatched by bad eggs. If America does lend Germany the money, it might be well to lay in a stock of ultimatums for use on pay day. Nearly all reformers are sin cere, but you can say that about people who won't let little children play on Sunday. ." Even if the picture i3n't nasty, the movie patrons are not whol ly disappointed.' The air in the place usually is. ? y. , A magazine writer says there is little genuine humor jn America. Did the gentleman ever hear of the Congressional Record? - ~-?. i * Men. are not interested in win- j dow displays of feminine wear. J They are merely admiring them- j selves in the mirrors at the back. And it may be that state rights j are" disappearing because too manyj governors holler for federal troops in time of stress. ;r We might make war less terrible $y -means .of . an international agreement to let the. privates stay back with the generals. ? . ???. * A? a means of reconciling one's self'to the times, .it is pleasant to read history and discover that men al ways have acted this way. Edison may. ask poker questions, j but he hasn't yet required appli cants to make a three-ball combi nation for the side pocket. * .-.... ,,i . .. /V ^., The scars of . war are healing. Al most any former buck private can now say "second lieutenant" with out prefixing explosive adjectives.; Correct this sentence: "How dare you kiss me," cried the flap per; "I am not that kind of a girl." Eternal smashing of fanatics is the price of liberty. There is but one way to ease a grief, and that is to work it up into art. The man who doesn't, treat his wife any too well usually treats other men's.wives too often. It isn't the harmfulness of rouge and other beauty aids that im presses us, but their futility. Paying for the war might be even more . burdensome. Suppose we had to wear spiral putties while j ioing it. ? Another thing that interferes j ivith profits is the number of un- f employed on the pay roll. There's one fine thing about mere ordinary singers. They get by with It without revealing their tonsils. If a man is down in the mouth let him sit where a mosquito can get at him and he'll soon come up to scratch. A lot of men who think they are broad-minded are simply too shal low-minded to afford anchorage for an opinion. . . Fixing the price of coal leaves! :he dealer conscience-free to charge what he will for the common va rieties of slate. The rights of a minority are de fined as follows: (1) it may keep its mouth shut, or (2) it may take lo its heels. Twenty-five years ago the old j folks were worrying about our mor- j ils, and yet think how pure and i suileles's we are now. - t It would be fine, as the com-! munists say. if every man could get ill that i:- coming to him. But it night require enlarging the jails. There wouldn't be a great deal j >f striving after fame, however, if J >ne couldn't cash'it at the paying; eller*s window. Some people would elevate the J stage and the movies, but pedes- j ;rians are content merely to ele- j /ate their hands as required. Nothing so enrages a wicked nan as the discovery that the pure n heart are not so easily buncoed | <s their piety would indicate. The signilicant fact is not that iuries occasionally convict an in no- J rent man. but thai occasionally hey convict a guilty one. [ HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPARTMENT MISS CARO TR?LUCK, Comity Agent. Dear County Agent: Reports have come to us that, what is known as the cold pack method of canning fruits and veg etables without the proper balanc ing, .exhausting and processing, is being used .successfully in certain places in the state, also the use of preserving powders in vege tables such as beans. Please make it clear to the; people of your county that we do not recommend either of these methods of canning, nor do wej approve of them. We recommend j only those methods taught by our! specialists, and described in bulle tins gotten out by the United States department of agriculture, in which blanching, exhausting and processing according to the prescribed time tables are used. We. would not advise the use of any preserving powders in can ning, only salt and sugar as a flavoring. Please give this information pub licity as early as possible through your county papers. Sincerely yours, Christian N. Smith, State Home Demonstration Agent. ? The annual short course of the Sumter .county girls' home dem onstration clubs, was held in the form of an encampment at Bethel school in. Privateer township, on July 14th and loth,, and I am glad to be able to say-proved to be a very successful and ? pleasant event and the sixty-one girls par-1 ticipa?ng exhibited great interest j and.proficiency, and reflected cred it upon themselves, their com munities and their county by their lady-like deportment at all times, their consideration for each other and their discipline and intensive interest and work throughout the two days and nights they were to gether. I desire to express, in behalf of the girls and myself our thanks to the following for kindness and in terest manifested and assistance rendered in different ways which contributed to the success and pleasure of the short course and the girls. - We thank Bethel school trustees for the use of the building and the grounds. I especially .desire to thank Sec retary- E. I. Reardon, and Mrs. E. J. Kar rick, the committee of ar rangements on securing of supplies and automobile transportation for the girls. , And to express our- sincere ap preciation to the following indi viduals, and business concerns, for the. following: DeLorme's Pharmacy, Sibert's Drug Store and the, - City . Drug Store for two gallons of ice cream each. For supplies, Ducker & jSuItman, City of Sumter ice plant, Mr. E. Schaderessi, Mr. Moses Green, Spann's Cash Gro cery and Mr. E. W. Vogel, for Grafaphone and records. For au tomobile and truck transportation: The Carolina Machinery company. Dr. J. H. Haynsworth, Health Of-1 fleer Browning, Mr. Joe Warren, I Mr. Austin Beck, Miss Helen Wheeler. Mrs. Louis Stubbs, Mrs. Walter C. Boyle, Mr. Davidson M. Dick, Mr. Hazel Kolb, Mr. An3ley Kolb and City Manager Samuel O'Qtrinn. For assisting in the short course, Mrs. William Hayns worth, Mrs. W. E. Leavell, Mrs. James Pagan, Mrs. E. J. Karrick, Miss Antonia Pitts, and Miss An nie Laurie Booth. The following lady specialists of Winthrop Col lege attended and we are grateful to them for their splendid dem onstrations of interest and instruc tiveness: Mrs. Francis Y. Kline, Miss Juanita Neeley, and Mrs. Har riett Johnson. Will you permit me, Mr. Editor, in conclusion to remark that the ( spirit of friendship, .good will and cooperation between the business j men and the women of Sumter, j the county ? seat of the Gamecock county of Sumter, and the men I and women and boys and girls of the rural districts,: working togeth er, is one of Sumter county's greatest and most valuable assets of which the Sumter County Home Demonstration department. is very proud. Every summer when- we have our annual short course, .we can always depend upon Sumter's business men, through its cham ber, of commerce- showing that Sumter is interested in the rural girls, and the Sumter women and the rural women too always glad ly give freely of their time and tal ents, all pulling together, "one for all and all for one." I can not recall that the home demonstration department or any of its clubs have ever been refused . anything that was called for from; Sumter, men or women, and our i rural men and women have ever responded with the city of Sumter t citizens to make our work and j our short course activities pleas ant and successful. To your val- j uable and generous paper we give our most sincere thanks and ap preciation for innumerable favors done for' us. Yours truly. Caro Truluck, Home Demonstration Agent, j Death Mr. Franklin F. Griffin, aged 35. | died about S:30 o'clock Thursday I morning at Camp Alice. Mr.. Grif- : fin* had been ill for some time. . He was well known and will be < greatly missed. He is survived by j his father, Mr. B. D. Griffin and a J host of friends and relatives. The funeral services will be held IJ Friday morning at 10 o'clock atj'j the Pinewood Baptist church, Rev. J. A. Shealey, officiating. 666 Cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the germs. New Postmaster For Charleston E. H. Jennings Nominated by President Harding For Po sition r, Washington, July 18.?E. H. Jennings was today nominated by \ President Harding to be postmas- j ter at Charleston. Mr. Jennings t wjjl be confirmed without opposi- ! tion, accordnig to the present out look. At the same time the president sent to the senate the nomination of S. M. Parker of Charleston to be collector of customs, for the cus- 1 toms district of South Carolina with | headquarters at Charleston. This domination was rather a surprise, j and the senators from South Caro- j lina will ask that no action _ be j j taken by the commerce committee ; on the nomination until they can 4 make inquiries about the nominee, j It is understood that Mr. Parker j ! was named by the president on the } ! recommendation of Republican va | tional Committeeman Joseph W. i Tolbert, whose owji nomination for j j marshal, of the - Western district of | ! South Carolina has been held up for .weeks in the judiciary - com 'mittee. The senators are not. indicating opposition to the Parker nomi nation. They simply want infor mation as to his fitness for the po sition of collector. Funny* things happen. Some ; body beat up a* lion tamer in Bos ton. . < '- * * ?- ? Artistic temperament seldom de velops while ,the child is young enough to be spanked. Babe Ruth seems to think he has a steady job as home run king. ?. . One day last-week a man under stood what a train caller said. Atter mixing, business and pleas ure business never looks the same. The Shah of Persia spent a mil lion in Paris. Aw, Shah! Success is getting what every one else wants; happiness is get ting what you want. Scientist says jumping out of bed quickly ruins your health. We know a boy training to whip Dempsey. . No girl is an old maid until she gives up the porch swing to let her young sister, have a- chance. - Grove's TasieiessS OhiM Tohrn Is an Excellent Tonic for Women and Children. 60c 5'Why the Veil? - (Greenville News). Various floggings and outrages committed in the-^outh by maskeoV men have been charged to ihe Ku KIux Klan. In every case the K'an official* have der?ed responsi- ... bikty and pledged their.devotion to law and order. If the Klan has not .beenrespon-' sible for the outrages how is that fact to l>e determined when. botfc its members and the brutes corov mitting the -crimes have their faces ? covered? - . - . . When the Klan has as its official - robe a garment that covers-its face it puts itself on a parity .with bur glars, thugs.and highwaymen. -If its purposes are in accord with the 2 law why does.it choose to hide its face? The public has neither re- - spect nor consideration, for masked^, men. If the Klan, is a decent, upright organization as its officers claim;, why does it not discard .secretv dress and secret tastics and.coroe-. t out into the open*7. ?That will gain it a thousand times more respect^ than, all the argument it can pro-? mulgate to clearrits name of . the outrages charged to it. Marcus i-i Aurelius well-said:. "A star, never* wears a veil," -'?* * m . . -. - . A man with, a house- full of kids can go to a show And sleep -. through a shooting act. - Rockeller says he made his first" . dollar selling geese. - Moral: Find something to sell geese. When an office starts out to seelf a, man it usually flnds him coming to meet its ' ? - ? v Very few men who long for the; good old days, eat through si* inches of mustache. . > - ?. ? - e - - . ? . . ? -- - - - - The millennium wiS -be here when a church.belL draws as big a? crowd as a fire bell.. r ? ? "-* * * . -' t One half the world doesrf^t "know why the other half lives. tm, + +m . You never lhave to go to any trouble ta-find-trouble.- ; ' .r ATTENTION ^SERVICE MEN The local post of the American Legion is going to hold a banquet at the Claremont Hotel at 8on the^ evening of Thursday, July 27th.*: Every ex^seri?ice" rri?ii is cordially invited and urged to attend this banguet. We are to discuss matters of vital, im portance to the Legion and in addition are to hold a general get-together meeting of oil bur old comrades. We hope to offer you the following attractions:^ Col. 3. Monroe Johnson, of Marion, who served with' the immortal 42nd; better known as the "Rainbow Division," will probably he the speaker of the even ing/ ?everal !6cal singers of note will render selec tions firom iime to time during the'evening and this will probably include a medley of sweet old Southern ballads'by Mr. "Bill" Owens, local man about town. Zach Darr, has promised some music by a five-piece jazz orchestra which can easily be mistaken for a barrage of machine gun units. Frank Geppi will render the Italian version of "O Sole Mio," which in English means "22%' cents basis middling." We expect every man to be present who feels a degree of pride in being a veteran of the World War. Age makes no difference. The oldest member of the local post is Dr. H. L. Shaw and he is loved and look ed up to by every boy in the order. We have Dr. Shaw's assurance that he will be present and if he can come YOU can also. 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