The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 19, 1922, Page PAGE 5, Image 5

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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