The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 19, 1922, Page PAGE 5, Image 5
FINANCIAL AND 1
L14B0R SUPPLY i.
. t " If the labor shortage"which is}
said to impend in the United States
becomes an actuality, there is lit
- tie doubt that our present imnii-1
Y graticn laws will be considered an
important contributing cause, de
clares the "current issue of The
Guaranty Survey, published by the
Guaranty Trust Comoanv of New
York..
Aside from, voluntary idleness
resulting from strikes, reported in
voluntary idleness due to unem
ployment continues to decrease, ]
the Survey points out.. At the same }
time press dispatches herald the ap
proach of a possible shortage, of la
bor in-some lines and localities.
It is said that steel mills are com
peting for common labor, that lum
'. her camps and sawmills are finding
the present supply snsuffieiejit, and j
that the automobile, industry re- j
quires more workers. The reported j
- ' scarcity seems to be among com- '
mon as well as skilled and semi- j
skilled workers, nor will the com- i
ing of the. harvest season. with its ;
requirements for extra help alle- ?
viate matters, assuming -that the I
reports represent a reasonably ac-!
curate view of the situation. ; j
The law limiting immigration j
into this .country became Operative*!
June 3, 1921, and does not expire)
until June . 30, 1924. Admissions
? in any fiscal year ending June 30,
are restricted to 3 per cent, of the
persons in the. United States of any
nationality (the Asiatic barred zone
and certain , other countries ex
. cepted), computed on the basis of
the 1919 census.. The revised quota
for the fiscal year 1922 amounted
to ?5^,995... while -the.c 1923 quota
has been fixed at 357,903. Against j
this' -quota the actual number ofj
immigrants in the fiscal year ,of j
1922 was only 243,953, as compared i
with ?05,228 in the. preceding}
year. ? j
As far as controlling immigra-j
tion is concerned, it is generally
agreed that unsound aliens* wheth
er "morally, mentally, or physically
deficient, should be -debarred. How
much further restriction should go
gives rise to widely divergent!
views, with the proponents,of to-?j
tal exclusion at one extreme and j
the advocates Pf the open door atj
> the other. In consistently oppos
ing the policy of unrestricted im
migration, organized" labor has held
that it intensifies unemployment
? and that manufacturers use foreign
workers to defeat the unions.
On the other side are the enter
preneurs who, in striving to main
tain low production costs, look to
cheap labor, as a. principal means j
to that end. Thus it is quite prob-1
able that most of the criticism di
. rected against any % existing immi
gration law will reflect the eco
nomic status Of .the critic rather
Kb
' ^ty Council Meeting 1
' Thev regular* meeting of council.
was held In the council chamber!
Tuesday, there being present Mayor j
Jennings, Couneilmen McCallum.'
and Raffield, and Mr. JR. L?.? Mc-]
Leod who was nominated on July;
25th in the primary election held'
?U that date to" succeed Mr. D. R. i
McGallurn. The votes en that date :
were counted by the municipal!
democratic party, and Mr. J. "W.j
- McKiever, president, declared the I
result as follows:
B~ L. McLeod ._ i>89;
D/R. McCallum . 2S5 I
And Mr. McLeod nominated.
i The minutes of July 25th were!
read and approved as corrected, i
Mr. Jennings stated that he had !
. received a telephone message from !
Mrs. Horace Harby, president ofj
the Civic' League of the city, advis- j
ing that the automobile used by,
the Civic League nurse should be \
replaced with one in better condi- j
ll tion. After discussing the matter, I
. ??U&c3 authorised the purchase of
the automobile formerly used byj
Miss Gibson, iL:*. Red Cross repr?
sentative, sa -rice cd $600, and
ihe old ca: ;:sod by the Civic
? .League nurse to be f.bki arid the
proceeds rppi-td 0:1 the price of
the . Red Cross ear.
Mr. Jennitigs next presented the
matter of paving the sidewalks on
. West Liberty street from Purdy
street to the city limits, stating
that the Sumt^r County Fair asso
ciation had purchased the old Dick
place containing 38 aerrs on which
they proposed to hold the county
fairs in future; that there are no .
sidewalks from Purdy street to the
' city limits and due to the j
fflct-that a number of visitors to
the iair would very likely walk
rather than ride, these sidewalks
should be paved. Mr. Jennings
stated that he had seen .Mr. Pewell
' of the Powell Paving company,
who are now building the. road
leading across Second Mill, and
that Mr. Powell advised he could
- build these sidewalks at a cost of
about $1.50 per square yard, and
would .also put on an asphalt top j
at a'cost of about $1.00 per square
yard and could do the work im
mediately after finishing the road I
work. Council authorized the worx |
to be done.
The clerk read reports from the
police department. Civic League j
nurse and city physician for the j
joaonth of July, which were receiv- j
ed as information.
The city manager turned in thej
three petitions which have been!
circulated among the freeholders ;
of the city of Sumter. which pe
titions have been duly signed by a !
majority of such freeholders, call- I
ing for an election as early as|
practicable for the purpose of is- j
suing bonds not to exceed $250.
00.0.00-for the sole purpose of pay
ing the expenses of liabilities in
curred in the improvement of cer
tain streets and sidewalks, abutting ;
property owners to pay two-thirds
of the cost thereof. Council direct- I
ed that this election be held on the 1
second Tuesday in September next,j
being the 12th of the month, to de- 1
ci?e such bond issue, and the clerk i
BUSINESS" SURVEY
LND IMMIGRATION
than an impartial judgment of the
-situation. . ... .
This conflict of interests serves
to complicate attempts to find the
most satisfactory answer to the
problem.of admitting, distributing,
assimilating and naturalizing the
aliens who -come to our shores.
Clearly tljfct.- is a problem that, can
not properly .be solved by the ap
plication of class motives.
The economic? benefit of immi
gration to the United States must
not be overlokoed. in the five years
immediately preceding the war
more than .1,500,000 common and
in excess of 500,000 skilled, work
ers arrived in this, country. Ac
cording ito the 1S10 census, three
fifths of our bituminous, coal. 05
per cent of our copper* more than
half of our iron ore, three-quar
ters of . oat construction . work,
three-fifths of our slaughtering j
and meat packing,. 85 per cent of,
our sugar refining, between .60 and
70 per cent, of our woolen and cot
ton goods, nearly three-quarters of i
our clothing, more than half of ourj
iron and steel, and 67 per cent. of .
our leather were produced, with the ,
labor of foreign-born wage earners, j
Moreover, our railroad and high-j
way building, as well as other con- ]
struction requiring unskilled labor,,]
has been done for the most parti
by this type of worker.
Since in the ordinary course of j
events the common laborers may be I
expected to make a certain, amount j
of progress, many of them advanc-1
ing to the skilled classes, an. appre- j
ciable curtailment of the supply
will seriously interfere - with .the
further expansion of the produc
tive capacity. of the United States
T?nee the post-war. readjustments
=have been completed, which look
to the complete utilization of ex
isting facilities rather than to the
creation of. new, the way will .be
clear for the continued industrial
growth of which this country is
capable. .
tj- Inasmuch as the; practice of re
stricting immigration has been es
tablished, the. subject must be ap
proached from that .angle. Selec
tive control would appear, to, be at
least as desirable as numerical,lim
itation, especially if the selection
should take place abroad in ac
cordance with both the nationality
M the worker and the nature and
location of the employment here.
, Closely linked .to the program of
distribution is that of American
ization. A thoughtful handling of
these; complex questions will do
much on the one hand, .to pro
vide and adequate labor supply and
to make America a real land of op- i
portunity: for^the right kind of im
migrant, and on the other, hand to /
relieve the. apprehensions of or- j
gaaized labor and to remove the j
fears of the exclusionists. j
j
directed to give due publicity to i
same. Council* further ' directed
that the three canvassers be paid
$1.00 each for their services in. con
nection with the circulation of such
petitions.
The City Manager stated that he
was in need of about a "half car
of sewer pipe, and as this pipe
could be purchased with other par
ties at carload prices he was au
thorized to make same.
. The manager of the ice plant
asked for authority to sink a well
there so that colder water could !
be obtained which would increase j
the capacity of the plant a ton of
ice per day. Council authorized
same.
The clerk opened the ballot boxes
received from the managers of
election held. for. a councilman
and tabulated returns which show
ed Mr. R.. L. McLecd received all
of the 75 votes cast. He was there
upon declared duly elected, the oath
of office read by the clerk and
signed by. Mr. McLeod. Upon .re
tiring, Mr. McCallum was present
ed with a beautiful Masonic watch
charm by Mayor Jennings as a gift j
from the employees of. the city in j
appreciation of his untiring efforts ;
for the welfare of the city during]
his administration, and the esteem
?in which, he was held by them per
sonally.
Upon- the retirement of Mr. Mc- j
Callum as councilman, a vacancy;
was created in the board of trus- ;
tees of Camp Alice, and Council-!
man Rafiieid nominated Council-1
man McLeod as a member of thatj
board, which was seconded by:
Mayor Jennings and carried.
A delegation from Mayesville was j
present for the purpose of further i
discussing, with council the contract j
for supplying that town with elec- I
trie current, and Mr. R. J. Bland,
attorney for Mayesville, was re-1
quested to draw the contract in ac- j
cordance with verbal agreements:
and submit same to council at)
some subsequent meeting. Mr. {
Doughty, manager' of the light
plant, stated that it would cost S
about $1,200 to arrange, for this]
service from the plant to the cityj
limits at which point the line from !
Mayesville would be cut in, and |
recommended that the town of
Mayesville pay to the cits* of Sum- |
ter $600.00,. being one-half of the j
cost of such extension, all poles, j
lines, etc.. to be owned by the city j
of Sumter, and all up-keep costs!
to be borne by the city of Sumter.
This agreement to be embodied in !
the contract.
Mrs. 11. M. Stuekey, chairman; '
Mrs. Lynam and Mrs. Hearon, rep- i
resenting the Music Club were pres-J
ent for the purpose of laying before,
council their plans for the organ-j
ization of an orchestra and a,
brass band to dispense music at:
Memorial Park for three months;
during the summer, and a donation
of $600 by the city for a perma-1
nent band. The matter was discuss-;
ed with Mrs. Stuekey at some;
length, and after the committee re
tired council went into executive,
session and decided that at this |
time they did not feel justified in!
making the appropriation asked j
for, and directed the clerk to so j
notify Mrs. Stuekey. I
Students or Spanish Find Good
t openings in Porto Rico:
San Juan, P. R, . Aug. 8.?Stu
! dents from ten or more of the
United Stales, have enrolled for
ithe special Spanish course at the
! University Summer School at Rio
; Piedras, and Miss Josephine Holt,
? in charge of the school, is more
:than pleased with the fact that stu
' dents have been attracted from
j such a wide territory. Massachu
setts; Connecticut, Virginia, New
? York, Alabama, Illinois. Florida,
j Pennsylvania, Kentucky, North
i Carolina and the District of Co
j lumbia, are so far represented in
jthe school, which opended on Mon
!day.
j "Spanish cannot longer be con
sidered a commercial or bread
jand-butter language, but is being
j studied purely for its cultural qual
'ities." said Miss Holt. "One of the
(outstanding features of the course
i is that the students attracted by
' it are interested in the broader
I study of the language and its cul
i tural value, and not in acquiring
jit for purely commercial purposes.
None of the lectures are on com
! mercial subjects.",
j Some cf the best equipped Span
jisb students and scholars among the
I public , men . of. Porto Rico are to
giver special, lectures during the
j course, in addition to the intensive
routine study.,.
"When .the Spanish course is fin
ished Miss Holt will return to her
work as supervisor .of foreign
; language instruction in the public
I schools of Richmond. Va.
"Porto Rico offers all the jop
j portunitie.s of Spain for the study
I of Spanish, besides having the ad
I vantage of being American terri
tory,'' said Miss Holt. "Teachers
j and others desiring to acquire a
working knowledge of Spanish can
study much more cheaply here than
in Spain."
? m im ?
. Cheerful Outlook.
. -?:? -
(Charleston Post).
The busines world has shown a
gratifying buoyancy in the midst
of the depression caused by the
coal and the rail strikes. A sur- j
vey of the markets shows that the j
understone is generally healthy,
and that there, is altogether a
cheerful outlook on the situation.:
This condition is doubtless due to J
the feeling that the strikes will ]
be brought to an end in some way I
before they have seriously halt-.;
ed the revival of business, which j
had set in rather definitely before j
they began.
... The. strikes .have, as a matter]
of.fact, undermined the industrial!
situation more deeply than is gen- j
eraliy realized and, unless they are j
soon settled by compromise or;
otherwise the business revival will |
undoubtedly be arrested and it
may take a long time for it to geti
under way again. The coal strike ;
has been under way for about five!
months and the reserve stocks of!
coal have been very heavily, eaten!
into. Winter fsi coming on and the
period of seasonal idleness, or slow
ing down is near at hand. If the.;
strike continues three or four
months more unquestionably a pe- !
riod of hardship for industry and i
of suffering for the general public;
will have to be faced and gone
through with, and there will be a,
general breaking down of morale :
and a^disintegrating effect result-;
ing from the long continued series j
of difficulties to the ordinary I
course of peaceful and constructive i
life, which cannot but produce an ]
unhealthy psychology and make for j
far spreading and deep reaching j
discontent. ' This probable effect is;
perhaps not taken into account as;
fully as it deserves to be, although j
consideration of it is probably not j
lost sight of by those in highest;
authority, whose efforts toward a
genera] composition, disappointing
as they have been .thus far, and in ]
some quarters resented as unhelp- \
ful interference, are yet based on
broad conceptions and an instinct, \
if not a comprehension, of under
lying conditions. It is not unlike-1
ly that a sense of this and a feei- ]
ing that the necessities of the sit- I
uaticn are such a~ 10 compel and j
therefore to assure an adjustment]
short of a desperate crisis account
largely for the reported pptim'sm ?
of the business world. An impres- i
sion doubtless prevails there thatj
the last word has not been spoken ;
in the negotiations for a settle-;
rnent of the strikes and this im- j
pi?essicn is of itself significant and i
encouraging.
It' the coal and the rail strikes!
could be settled on a reasonable]
basis and the industrial situation I
stabilized so that business might j
have :x chance of operating on well i
defined lines for a fairly long con- |
tinned period there would unques- j
tionably result?despite the many
discouraging- conditions, especially j
the unhealed state of Europe?an
distinct revival of activities in this j
country making for a semblance j
of content?actual content is prac- j
tioally unknown in the world of
human affairs today?and certainly
strengthening the foundations on \
which material prosperity and a
larger measure of happiness rest.
That ihere is a feeling in the busi
ness world that something of this
sort is possible and. may even be
near at hand, is encouraging.
Fashions in Hairdressing
District Lawmaker
London, Aug. 1.?A member of
Parliament has proposed legislation
to compel girls under 16 to wear
their hair loose, plaited, or hang
ing down their backs.
English mothers are protesting.
They say the tendency among girls
today is to postpone the time for
"putting up" their hair, and that
th<>y haw trouble in persuading
their daughters to do this at a rea
sonable age.
Being at the bottom isn't so bad
if you use it for a foothold.
-?, .?>? ?
It's a wise man who keeps quiet
about catching a big fish.
A man doesn't have to be head
ed your way to be. going some
where. "
Peg-Topped R<
ft. .A ? 3
J
The garments are of poplin, madias
or collars and -cuffs of .the same aaati
! Curacao:
Spogiess Town of The]
Caribbean.
I A strike in Curacao, in - the
i West Indies, won first page men
I tion for that quaint Dutch colony
i of the Caribbean a few days ago
I even in the midst of our own in
dustrial troubles. . It was news
j because the cool, stable govern- j
? rnent of this little island, set
I down in the midst of .somewhat
; temperamental Latin republics, has i
i made it a. synonym for peaceful ef- j
I ficiency.
: The island and Willemstad, its.
j capital, the "Spotless Town" of the
[Caribbean, are described in a re
i cent bulletin from the Washington,
I D. C, headquarters of the National
I Geographic Society.
I Prat-mem of Holland fin America
"The traditions and customs and
j language of Spain are written large
j over the entire mainland border
of the Caribbean, the-famous and
j infamous Spanish . Main," says the
! bulletin. "But a bare 40 miles off
I the coast of typically Spanish
[ Venezuela lies as true a fragment
I of old Holland as was Manhattan's
New Amsterdam in the days of its
j Dutch burgomasters. When your
ship noses, into the narrow channel.
that leads into. Willemstad's" har
bor you must pinch yourself and
keep your attention centered on .the";
! desert background rather than on j
i the architecture, lest .you think you j
are skirting the coast of the ;
Zuyder.Zee. For more than three
centuries the Hollanders have >
maintained this spot surrounded^
on all sides by strong alien in
! fiuences. and to all outward ap
pearance it is still as Dutch as when'
jits first families were planted by
the old Dutch West India Company.
| "Curacao is some 40 miles long
and 3 to 7 miles wide, and prac
tically a desert. If its value were
determined by k* products it
would never be of much worth:
aloes and cacti are about its only;
growing things; phosphate rock;
and ostrich feathers ^from a few
desert ranches, its only original ex
ports. But location, the? possession
of what has repeatedly been call
ed the best harbor in the Carib-|
bean, and ownership by a nation !
of traders have made Curacao
(and to foreigners that name.usu-j
ally goes for both Willemstad and
the island) the Hong Kong of the
West. Just as the far eastern J
British island port,-free from Chi-.i
nese restrictions, has built up a:
great trade, between China and the]
rest of the world, so Curacao, in a;
more modest way has built UP j
trade between the northern tier of]
South American countries on the;
one hand and North America , and j
Europe on the other..
Haven of Ex-Dictators .
i '"One opera bouffe phase of life!
in Curacao, which is less marked'
[now that government is becoming
; more stable in the Latin Ameri- i
i can republics, has to do with politi- ]
leal fugitives. The town is the. par-j
iticular haven and heaven of ex-|
I dictator?!. It used to be a poor day!
jin Curacao when one could not find!
I his half dozen or so generals and!
[doctors who had just been on thej
j wrong side of a revolution and were;
j leading Micawber-like existences j
i under the Dutch flag, waiting for-j
j 'something to turn up.'
I "The newly ensconced dictators!
j back on the mainland always sentj
a batch of spies to Curacao to ?;
! watch their pedecessors, and in i
leases there were other agents to i
'spy on the spies. So in this serene,'
jcalm, non-political island, alien |
politics always simmered under the.j
surface. The most famous politi-!
leal refugee to seek safety inj
j Curacao was Simon Bolivar, whoj
.'after a poor start at freeing Vene-j
izuela from the.Spanish yoke, mark-!
I ed time on the little Dutch island;
' until conditions were ripe, and then!
j won the liberty of all northwestern i
j South America. j
A Linguistic PotpoHi-ri
"Willemstad, with its 20,000 in
! habitants is situated on the shores
I of Curacao's most valuable posses-!
jsiorir?its land-locked, clover leaf-'
shaped harbor, so deep that ocean i
liners can anchor close to shore. I
Some of the streets are wide but;
many are narrow, tortuous lanes:;
and from all rise a welter of gable j
ends and dormers that proclaim)
I this unmistakably a Dutch town.!
[The houses are pink, yellow, green'
and red with red tile roofs, andj
from a distance look like toyj
J houses set down in the careless!
j disarray of the nursery.
"O&e thing th? traveler la
Ampers Newest
i o^i lifts newest children's rompers.
i>r chambray, trimmed with pipings
sria! m a contrasting color.
search of 'atmosphere' resents:
there are many Hollanders but
few of them have retained the
baggy trousers and the wooden
shoes of the homeland. About
half the inhabitants are negroes
or mulattoes. Linguistically. . the
place Is something of a BabeL
Dutch is the official language, Eng
lish is generally spoken, and the
negroes speak a lingo which is a
mixture of those two tongues and
French, Spanish, Portuguese, In
dian, and Hebrew as well This lin
guistic potpourri is called Papia
mento.
They Import Their Water
. "Obtaining fresh water is a se
rious problem in Curacao. Water
from the few rains is caught in
cisterns, but those who are able im
port their drinking water along
with their meat from the South
American mainland: and ice' is
brought from the United States.
The dryness of its climate is. a
biessing to the island, though', lit
tle less valuable than its match
less harbor. Damp Puerto Cabello
a few miles away on the mainland
is one of the unhealthiest places
washed by the Caribbean: while
desert Curacao is one of the health
iest. Neither malaria; nor the
dreaded 'Yellow Jack,' the twin
seourges of the tropics, has ever
been able to get a foothold there.
"In spite of an annual loss in
administering Curacao, Holland
holds on to it; largely because site
cannot let go. The United States
has never shown any desire to pur
chase the island, and the Monroe
Doctrine, probably would not sanc
tion its transfer to any other pow
er. Germany dreamed of making
Willemstad's harbor a base for con
trol of the West Indies, and Ger
man men-of-war actually used the
harbor during the blockade of
Venezuela in 19G3.
'.'Curacao is governed by an of
ficial sent over by the Queen of
Holland, assisted by appointed
councilors. Holland frankly Is not
interested in ultra democracy, and
though the negroes of the island
were freed in 1861 they do not
vote."
Jazz Banned by Asiievilie, X. C,
Musicians.
Peoria,. III./ Aug. 7.?"Jazz" mu
sic has been banned by the Ashe
ville. N. C, local of the American
Federation of Musicians, as a re
sult of a movement toward better
music in that city sponsored by
the Saturday Morning Music Club,
according to an announcement
from the publicity headquarters of
the National Federation of Music
Clubs.
The announcement stated.- that
this was the first movement in this
direction by any club affiliated with
the national body. A resolution
adopted by musicians. Local No.
128 of Asheville, was quoted as fol
lows:
"Resolved, that orchestra mu
sicians playing any engagement
must conduct themselves as if they
were.on a professional engagement,
and refrain from making any un
necessary or unsual noises not in
dicated in the music', or making
movements conspicuously notice
able that wTould tend to detract
from the dignity of their per
formance."
The movement of the Asheville
Music club, it was stated, was head
ed by Mrs. O. C. Hamilton, presi
dent, and chairman of the local
board now making arrangements
for the entertainment of the bien
nial festival to be held at Ashe
ville by the National Federation of
Music clubs next June.
"This action," the announcement
said, "is based upon a plan of
co-operation with various civic or
ganizations to bring the standard
of music to a higher level. These
musicians are on record as being
opposed to cat-calls, squawks of
the clarinet, and wheezes from the
saxophone, especially in connection
with dance music."
Sometimes we think a pessimist
is a man who is a consumer.
Price of rul?b<-r is up. It costs
one man $2."> to rubber.
One can't help but remember the
mine strike began .April Fool's
Day.
"Harems Crave Lipstick"?
headline. Sorry, but we are using
them, _?
I Cost of Propaganda
. ?rr
I Many*- Peopie Wouid Use
j Newspaper Witk Veiled Ad
j vertising
jfQearborn Independent).
I Courtesy and an even temper to
any one are admirable; to a suc
j eessful pity editor rhey are indis
! pensahle. But there are ooca
! slons when he lose? his temper, and
j one of these is when an alleged
j friend w*I come in during his
busiest time and insist on unload
ing a lot of gossip for an hour or
more.
Six months ago a man entered
the office of a city editor of a small
town newspaper and handed him a
box of good cigars.
"What's the idea?' 'asked the
man of many tasks.
"Oh, just a little appreciation of
the help you gave us on our mu
sicale," replied the man, .
It is not recorded that the city
editor ever revived..; He seldom
gets any thanks for his free, pub
licity. He doesn't expect them.
That is about all the city editor
of a daily in a small" town has to
do except?and. this exception, if
( he is new to the task, .proves his
greatest burden.
The editor kno\vs, without going
through it, that in all that mail
there may be one or two. letters
! worth reading, others represent ef
forts to work him and the paper
he represents for free advertising
j or pleading for a cause in which
the sender is interested but very
?few others.
Some one recently suggested that
a "drive against drives" woul'd
meet with popular approval but a
society for the suppression of prop
aganda would , meet with the unani
mous support, of ?very.editor in the
country.
in America there seems to. be..a
society for everything and another
society to counteract everything.
An organization for. a high pro
tective tariff will attempt to broad
cast to the world, through the edi
tor, .that unless a . wall is built
j about certain industries, they . are
I doomed for. the scrap heap, thou
sands of men will .be thrown out
of wrork and millions of capital
will be sunk without a trace.
The editor, after being bom
barded with these appeals for two
or three weeks, will about be con
vinced that perhaps these indus
tries should get protection and
that something should be done to
support them. He has almost
made up his mind to write some
thing about it when along comes
letters from another organization
that these industries are overcapi
talized and their dividends huge.
To enumerate the propaganda
which reaches the desk , of the
average editor would be an endless
task. The public little realizes the
j tremendous lot of bunk that is.car
jried in the mails. Very little-of-it
jgets into the columns of the pap
ers. Some will, of course, for even
j the most hardened: propaganda
j wrecker will sometimes let an item
{pass.
j ? Recently, a letter came to the
: desk of a city .editor in a peculiarly
jtinted envelope, plain. The editor
i opened it and started .to read a
very clever story. It carried on for
two oi- three pages and the editor
j was. congratulating himself on
I getting an unusually good feature,
i Then in the last paragraph and in
j geniously phrased. was a boost for
j a nationallyadvertised- product.
j-That editor watches for that tint
j ed envelope and its never ? opened,
j Only recently there were
"weeks" of observance for quite a
few things. For instance, there
was "smile" .week and "be kind
j to animals" week. A few years ago
j these would have been given some
[ publicity. But not this year. Hun
Jdreds of papers, didn't even carry
{an item about them, although
l thousands and thousand of letters
J were; sent out urging their obser
j vance. The editors know their
readers have been "fed up" on that
kind of stuff and won't fall for it.
So, why print it?
Reads Through Envelope.
If an editor attempted to read
carefully all of . the .propaganda
which came to his desk, he would
do nothing else, the day . would
have to be lengthened and he'd
have to forego eating and sleeping.
. Hp can tell, almost by looking
at the envelope, whether the let
ter contains an appeal for the
j famished , of China, the starving of
Poland, or describing the condi
ditions in Armenia. And his press
assiciation carries all that his read
jers want to know about these.con
jditions. His printing of additional
( information would not help to al
leviate the suffering. If it would
he'd print it and be glad of. the op
portunity* ,.
An editor recently kept a record
of letters of purely propaganda
material coming to his desk. A
very careful sifting left 147 ??pioees
of mail in which the senders sought
[free advertising for some cause in
I which they were interested or some
j condition which they thought
j should be given publicity. And
I this was exclusive of that legiti
mate "free advertising" which is a
concrete Help to the newspaper
and of interest to the readers.
The stamps, envelopes and print
ing of this propaganda easily oost
?5.
And there are more than 2.600
daily newspapers in America, and
nearly 16,000 weekly, and bi-week
ly papers. Figure, the cost.
Not one per cent of this propa
ganda reaches the public: prolxably
less than five per cent gets even
oiusory examination by the editors,
especially in the small towns.
We don't know all . the cuss
words, bur are learning these hot
days.
These are striking times and
Babe Ruth is doing his part.
A co-operative marketing asso
ciation for hog raisers might be a
good thing to get started. Sumter
county will be forced to raise more
hogs in future years, if farming is
to continue profitable, and the sell
ing of livestock at a profit is a big
ger job than raising it.
Western Canada Offers Thrilling
Automobileit uns.
trrr.?rr^ :? .
Victoria, B. C,- July 31.?Com
pleting rhe thrilling-.and at .times I
hair-raising path-finding run from j
Edmonton to,Vancouver, the entire
distance through Canadian terri- j
tory, the Edmonton Automobile j
Club automobile pilots C. W. Nie- t
meyer and Frank Silverthorn, who J
ended their journey at Victoria, re- J
eently. gave a graphic account of j
the trip.
They described their journey as i
one of marvellous beauty and re- !
markable hard work, but they said J
they had opened the pathway to
Edmonton and that the expendi- j
ture. of, but a comparatively small j
amount of money would make it a j
permanent and pleasant trail for!
the tourist. They encountered, mus- j
keg, burned, bridges, rock slides,;
grizzly bears, railroad trains,
windstorms and .furious rains; but
they came along with, only thrfee
blowrouts.and,those.caused by rail
spikes. . .
...Leaving Edmonton June 17, the
car .proceeded westward with a
heavy load. It weighed 1,800
pounds, carried, two to four men
and 1.600 pounds of baggage. The !
outfit, .consisted of picks and shov- j
?els, axes, hammers, four. 12-foot, ?
10-ir>ch planks and several shorter
pieces; a complete set of tools and
spare parts; two spare: tires and a
spare wheel; 50. gallons of gas and
five .gallons of oil, They made the
.entire run on 41 .gallons of ?as and
six. quarts of oil, and came .every
foot of the way on their own
wheels via deserted railroad grade,
active railways, Jote roads and the
Yale road. . |
.From Edmonton they proceeded j
through the Yellowhead Pass trail,
* taking the abandoned Grand j
Trunk .Pacific .railway, grade near 1
hthe mountains and foHowing.it to
Jasper..
They-picked np Baldy Robb, a
well-known mountain guide, who
was, with ..them throughput the
trip. ; -At Jasper they took to the
steel railway and bumped.the ties,
to . Lucerne, resuming the aband
oned grade one mile west of there.
and following it to Red Pass.
Then they took steel, to. Tete Jaune
Cache and the old tote road thence
to^Alfreda, steel to Blue River and
Avola, thence to,the rokd to Lytton,
steel and tote . road ^ to Hope and
the. Tale road to Vancouver, and
then by Canadian Pacific ferry to
Victoria,
The' pathfinders reached here
j with blistered hands and sore
imuscles. Tht-y. brushed and built,
j miles ; of roads, constructed 31
bridges, some of which were good
enough to be' called permanent;
structures-they, killed, a 14-f;oot
I grizzly bear with a 303 rifle and
[took 200. pictures of the wild life,
of the trail. Rocky Mountain sheep,
deer, bfrds and so on.
From Edmonton to Edson they
struck one .strip where they aver
aged only a. mile an hour owing to
the necessity for building brush
j trails and. . little bridges across
Itfpnskeg counjry.' It was on this
'period of the. run that a ;great i
; rainstorm came down -and made a
[temporary mess* of things.
Entering the mountains .proper
{they, passed through marvellous
I country, presenting a. variety...of j
! views that could not be surpassed^
j in America. Mr. Niemeyer. is fa-<
I miliar. with the great motor high
i ways of the United Statse, its des- !
erts and mountains and mighty j
parks, and he. sa^s they passed,
, desert areas of sage-brush similar
i to the Great American desert;
i mountain scenery, that rivalled j
jCoiorado and Yellowstone Park. -A;
[portion, of the Thompson. River
! canyon could well he called the
Yellowstone of Canada; great,
brilliantly-colored ravines and hills
of rock and verdure,- terrific cliffs
and wonderful forests.
The car was driven on. the rail
roads, around curves and along,
precipices where the-variation of a"
hair , would have thrown the occu
pants hundreds of feet to death.
The car wheels straddled the rails,
the outer wheel being on the outer <
edge of the ties. The ties in many
instances . were projecting over a j
yawning space which fell straight
to the roaring river.
At one point where erosion had
i worn away a tbte-road for some;
hundreds of feet they went down
' to .the .river and "leaded" a trail
I through: the water, around a rocky
[point, and .then back to the road, j
At another they found a rock asl
i large as s.. house, right in front of i
jrhera. They had to cut their way
! around, through, jale rock. One!
' section was, a mess of fallen timber.;
I due to a great windstorm that came
.down on. them. . This was near
[Tete Jaune Cache. They, cut their I
way. through. Everywhere they j
went they left a passable trail be- j
hind them..
' There was one near accident, j
Lthey say.- They were proceeding on
j steel toward a tunnel, and had not
Ibeen notified.of an extra train. J.t;
'came belching out just before.they j
j reached the entrance. Niemeyer |
I took the only chance, swinging off,
! against a pile of -rocks, bending an
axle and. jarring, his friends, but
permitting the train free passage. ?
From Lucerne there were four]
; men in the party. Niemeyer, Sil-!
j verhorn. Robb and a guide named \
j Charlie Nelson. In the Clearwater
! dsitriet they found fallen timber.
I following a windstorm, and it was j
! in :this section that they raised the \
! grizzly bear. Niemeyer shot it with!
I his rifle.
I Speaking of the *rip in general. I
jMr. Niemeyer said the route they]
i took, merely needs improvement to j
I make it a popular and pleasant j
! motor trip. The stjotch of the;
i Cariboo Trail was as good road as i
he had ever driven on.
Never turn up your nose at;
people. Remember the law of,
gravity.
-*~~>-?
.These are stirring times. Some;
of us don't stir hard enough.
Remember when "I pronounce
you man and wife", waa a life sen-j
tenet? I
- Aratfci* > iii^s^r^yi Otiose
father made lead pencils. His
mother mught him,to play piano,
and took him to Paris at ten years
of age, to hf.ve great artiflts listen
to him p lay,1 fend advise her about
his careej". ,, ' . . .
His nroth*T-lived with him while
he was studying in Berlin, and en
couragedifeitn in i every way. '
He be^m?;ajgreat composer and
concert pianist like Paderewski,and
after a concert tour to America re
turned with thousands of dollars,
as America pays more for music
and appreciates it, Jess, than any
country in the world.
Keubehstieh founded the great
St. Petersburg conservatory. He
suffered'much from nervousness
and stage fright in his last dajrs~: T
His "iNfeiody in F" is one of his
most famous composition*.
This wlii be played on Fridayfs
concert-program, and also Schu-;- -
man's Taortneri, a sk.eteh; of
which appeared in last Wednesday's
paper. '
High Building Costs Deter Genuas?
Lovers
Berlin. Aug. ??,- -8.?feathering
one's nest" Is a formidable propo
sition for the yo?ng German- of
today who ? contemplates matri
mony. 'Furniture. and building
?costs have risen to such heights
and wages relatively . have sunk to
such depths that, the strains of
wedding marches faH to have much
of a siren'appeal, for either "fians"
or. "Gretcfcen."
Tradition Sas long dec reed.tbat
the youog; jaan in Germany is ex
pected to ^provide a house for his
briderto-be. before marriage. . The
latter, ftfr\ her" part, should ap
proach the altar with a do*rry suf
ficient to? ? furnish :her .-new home
with everything from broom to
?edstead. Silverware, and* special
comforts- fe^'the-vhouseholdv ordi
narily, aiie contrived hy. relatives
or :by. gitefcts attending the wed
ding eereuionyi.. . .
.. Howe wra there is little prospect
of a German girl in the middle or
lower classes-living: up to this pujs
tom today. - Depending oa.ieam-.
ings of a few- hundred marks a
iweek. slre^?rtds little: to save up for
her. dowry: -On- thCother hand, the
man of^e*.- choice, despairing . in
his search-for a place.to reaat, .is
forced to'consider breach of prom
ise when conf ronted with .present >
building espenees. After deciding
o erect a-brand new horse for his
bride, h*? : finds the pricest ? -of
uilding- materials are. more than
?SI: times ^what they^ were before
the wari }{ ;
It cost 3,584 50 marks on StXtiy
I, 1*14 to. build a one-story cot
e covering - Id sou are meters.
On June I this yearv.building cir
cles claimi erection, of. such a
dwelling entailed an expenditure of
129,23,0 marks The- costs rose
.15.8 per cent;, in May yalone.
The stone v required for a house
of this-sort lathe^aummer^of 1914
cost?. 7 ?? .anarks, while .now it de
mands art outlay, of. 60,7 S4 -marks.
Cement jand .lime for. it now. cost
3,306.25. and:M13.10, respectively,,
as against"60 and 73 marks before.
Its roofing-tile costs have .risen
from 2A2,*fr. to 4.7,919.90 and those
for beams, froast 264. to 24,850, while
its flooring today r would-. come to
4,16t>.I5rdas - compared with 55.501
marks in. 1915.
rgn"^ , ?
The Farmer Feeds Them .Ml.
The politician talks and talks,
The-*actar. plays his part;
The soldier glitters on parade.
The goldsmith plies his'art.
The Scientist .pursues his germ
0"er-4he terrestrial halL
The Sailor* ^navigates his ship;
But-the-farmer feeds them alL
9b-: r v - ' - .\
The preacher pounds the pulpit
deSky : :
The^broker reads the tape:
["he tailor-outs and sews his cloth
To ?Jr the human shape,
le da me.of .fashion dressed in silk
Goe-.forth to dine or -call
? drive, ?r. dance, or promenade;/
But the -farmer, feeds them alL
The workman wields his shining
tools.
The merchant shows his wares;
'he aero*aut above the clouds
A dizzy journey dares. - -
But arti. and science. soon "would
fade,
Andoomm-erce dead would fall
the farmer-ceased to reap and
sow.
For the* farmer feeds them all.
?Selected.
Nations Revert to Barter When Ex
change Rates Restrict Basi?ess
London,'July 24?Barter, or the
exchange* of goods, as against the
transfer of actual casfc has figured
in recent international losus* ac
cording to the Geneva correspond
ent of the Observer. In this way
the difficulties of exchange have
been overcome.
Rumania wanted a loan Of 45,
000.000 gold'francs from Switzer
land. The Swiss said it was impos
sible ? unless they knew how ' the *
money wa? to be spent. Rumania
replied: "We need to replenish rail
road rollings-Stock, particularly en
gines."
'?Fine.'* said the Swiss banker:-,
"we haw these for sale. TaVe
them, and pay for them in cereals
and petroleum, hoth of winch you
produce and we need." Thus were
the arrangements concluded.
Similar borrowing and paying
by barter also has taken plttce wHh
Czechoslovakia. Here, again,
Czechoslovakia isr receiving Swiss
manufactured goods and is to i?ay
for them 'with- truckloads of sugar.
Therefore" the question of exohange
and the5 comparative values of the
Czechoslovakia krone and the Swi.**
franc does hot arise. ?
>Tever! criticize a man's clothes. /
He may be supporting an auto.
Albania" Ts' looking for a king.
There are lets, cf them, out of