The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-15
Some Random Thoughts ard tmiGs
News Notes.


the farming interests Of Sumter Cvun-
ty and this section Of the State
Among them the looking for a bet
ter staple of cotton, and better sys-
tenn OF marketing both short and
extra staple cOttons. The appoint
ment Of a committee to work in
connection with committee Of tn
Sumter Chamber Of Commerce 70.
the location within our borders of the
experimental station that Clemson
college will establish in the eastern
part Of the STATE. The decision of
the Clemson trustees to establish this
station is the result Of Farmers
Union efforts, and now the SUM-
ter county union would land this
station in Sumter county and it will
do SO, if other citizens will do their
share to show the resources, and ad-
aptability of the county.
The live stock meeting at Concord
came in for some discussion. The
committee in charge Of the program
for that meeting reported progress
1t was decided to have an all day
open meeting at Concord On the first
Friday in April, the 7th, ard all who
are interested in live stock are cor
daily invited to come and bring a
basket. 1t may be necessary to have
a very short executive session Of the
Union, but if it is, it will take only a
few minutes. The committee have
the promise from the United States
Department of Agriculture of an ex-
pert on live stock. How our many
good farmers can stay out of the
Farmers Union when they must see
how it is laboring for the general
good is one of the unaccountable
things. We are not turning the
world over, and the conservatives
among us are not trying to do the
impossible, but we are striving in
every legitimate way to benefit our
selves and in doing so the community
at large.
AS many of the Union members
as can do so. will be benefited by at
tending the meeting of the Sumter
Agricultural Society at Stateburg next
Snt1 loN- I,
ant occasion for all who can attend,
and the county union regretted that
it could not hold a meeting there. 1t
would have been too much for one
days program and would have
brought the county union meetings
too close together.
1t is very probable that the matter
Of starting a petition for the dis
arming Of the battle ship South Car
olina, and converting it into a mer-
chant ship will again be brought be-
fore this meeting at the General
Sumter Memorial Academy next Sat
urday. 1t is sincerely to be hoped
that the members of the Farmers
Union will align themselves in bis
practical plan for peace. What could
be more appropriate than that the
cannon and machine guns and the
armor plate. should be stripped off
this great ship and made into bind
ers and mowers, manure spreaders
and disk plOWS and a hundred other
farming implements? What more
fitting fulflmont of the prophecy of
Isaiah They shall beat their swords
into pl0w shares, and their spears
into pruning hooks and nation shall
not lift up sword aginst nation,
neither shall they learn war any more
To begin such glorious reign of
peace as this dsarming would he,
to be the originator of the thought
that this is a practical way to start
the worldwide movement for uni
versal peace, to join in its indorse-
ment, to carry it to a successful is |
sue. is to write the name Of the |
State the county, the community and |
the originator of the idea higher on
the pages of the worlds history than |
Alexander or Socrates, Ccasar 0r
Hannibal, Napoleon or wellington,
Washington or Bolivar, Lee or
Grant. This TO che unthinking may |
sound Visionary chimerical, the vain |
imigna-ion Of fanatic. but such per
sons have forgotten. or they hav" |
never knew that tn" worlds greatest |
movements have been 50 characters .
i2rd 10y the mthinkinG rah1le en- /
cuuragcd 10y the men of high position /
who SAW i'm such movements their .
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