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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13
MANY BOYS TO GATHER.
Management OF National Corn Ex-
position Expects to Have 1000 Boys
at Corn Growers ScnOOI.

Columbia, April 11.--One thousand
boys i'm school together is not rare
! sight, but a gathering Of one thou
sand boys around a banquet board is
| unique. And when it is said that
those one thousand boys are Corn
Club boys. from all the corn growing
states, what sight it will be.
This is the plan of the National
Corn Exposition management. to
have great exposition school for
prize winners in the county contests
Of the Boys Corn Clubs. as conduct
| ed throughout the Southern States by
| the Federal Farm Demonstration bu-
reau. and the city council of Column
bia, where the Corn Exposition is to
be held next January, has announced
| that the city will give a banquet to
| the one thousand or more boys at
tending the exposition school.
The school will consist Of the two
boys in each county winning first and
second place in the Boys Corn Club
contests. The school will open on
Monday. January eth. 1918, the
opening day of the exposition, and
will continue one week. The faculty
will consist Of agricultural experts
from all parts of the country who will
be in attendance on the exposition,
which is much more than a mere corn
show. 1t Is great national agricul-
| tural exposition, not being confined to
| corn alone, and the opportunity which
it affords for agricultural education
is unexcelled.
The boys attending the exposition
school will be quartered in a large
building, near the main exposition
buildings. and they will be in charge
OF representatives Of the Farm Dem
| onstration Work. The boys will be
organized into a semi military organ
ization, and while the men Of the
demonstration department will have
close supervision over them, it is
planned that the boys themselves will
be given certain responsibilities. They
will visit the exhibits in the mornings
| and In the afternoons will have pa,
rades and will be given special in
struction in corn Judging stock judg-
Ing and the like. The boys will be
asked to prepare repOl is of what they
see and the best Of these reports will
be sent to the home papers for pub
lication.
Then on Saturday night. the last
night. comes the banquet, given by
the City Of Columbia in honor Of the
Corn Club boys. There will be
speeches by some Of the most notable
men in the country. and in fact w.
will be a genuine banquet, just like.
srown-up folks have.
Prof. o. B. Martin, Assistant in
Charge Of the Boys Department. Of
the Farm Demonstration Work, will
be in charge Of all preliminary ar
| rangements for the exposition school,
and he has entered upon the work
with characteristic enthusiasm and
energy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13
EXCURSION RATES VIA SOUTH.
ERN RAILWAY.
PrcmCdcr Carriers of the SOutI,


Account Of unveiling monument to
Women Of the Confederacy, South
ern Railway announces greatly re-
duced excursion fares to Columbia, S.
c., from all points within the state.
on basis Of three cents per mile plus
twenty-five cents for individuals. and
for parties of twenty-five or more
travelling together on one ticket. "a
rate OF one cent per mile will be
granted, tickets To be sold April 10Th.
and 11th. good To reach orig II start
ing point returning not later than
midnight of April 18th, 1912.
Extra coaches will he provided on
all trains arriving Columbia to com
fortably accommodate visitors for
this occasion.
For fu"ther information apply to
Ticket Agents or address:
w. r.. MCGEE, -. u. \.
Charleston. s. G.
j. l.. MEEK, \. G. Il. a.
Atlanta, Ga.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13

Col. Roosevelt says he will run
again II defeated this time. so It
seems there Ia to he no relief from
mopntebank politics. We were In
hope that his defeat by Taft would
end his political career and remove
from public life the most dangerous
personality Of the past half century.
hut nothing can curb his ambition or
make dent I'm his egotism.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13

Coker College was quite in evidence
Thursday at the station. There was
one car filled with the Coker College
students and the young ladies kept
things very lively for a while with the
college cheers and songs. They SEEM
ed to be making good use of their
outing to advertise their college and
at the same time to enjoy themselves
to the full. They attracted a great
deal of attention to themselves from
all who were at the station.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13
EXCURSION RATES VIA. SOUTH.
ERN RAILWAY.
Premier Carrier of the South

ID. c. Account
American Cotton Manufacturers AS
sociation. Tickets on sale March
3lst and April lst. final limit April
7th. 1912.
NASHVILLE. TENN.-Account South
ern Commercial Congress. Tickets
on sale April 9Th. 9th and 7th, with
final limit April 20th. 1912.
NEW ORLEANS. LA-Account Ma
tional Drainage Congress. Tickets
on sale April 7th. Sth and 9th, final
limit April 25th. 1912, unless tick
cts are extended until May 9Th,
which extension may be had by de-
posting tickets ana upon payment
OF 800 per ticket.
ATLANTA. GA.--Account Atlanta
Music Fostlyal. Tickets on sale
April 2lst TO 2Gth. inclusive, with
final limit April 30th. 1912.
For rates. tickets. etc. apply to
Ticket Agent or address:
w. Il. MCGEE,
Division Passenger Agent.
Charleston, s. G.
J. l.. MEEK.
Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent,
Atlanta. Ga.
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etc. 1t was his or their privilege to
iorpid any use whatever Of the ma
chlne during life of the patent. OF
necessity, the greater right included
the lesser one Of forbidding use of
the machine except in certain way.
or for certain purpose, or with
certain materials. The public could
accept these terms, or decline them.
In what way is any monopoly
created by the license restriction.
winch was the sole matter before tue
court? AS expressly stated by Mr..
Justice Lurton in the majority opin-
ion:
The sencil, the paper and ink
made by the patentee will continue
to be unpatented Any one will ne
as free to make, sell and use like
articles as they would be without
this restriction, save in one particu-
lar, namely they may not be sold to
user of one of the patentee's ma
chimes with intent that they shall be
use in violation of the license"
And again:
The market for the sale of such
articles to the users of his machine
which, by such a condition. he takes
to himself, was market which he
alone created by the making and SELL
ing of new invention. Had he kept
his invention to himself, no ink couId
have been sold by others for use upon
machines cmbodyng that invention.
BY selling it subject to the restriction
he took nothing from others and i'm
no wise restricted their legitimate
market"
The truth is he broadened their
market presently and prospectively.
Presently, by melting other Ingenious
| persons to devise other analogous ma
chimes requiring ink of similar char
acter. Prospectively, by reason Of the
fact that when the patent on the ma
chine expires. all ink makers may sell
ink for use with the machine Of the
expired patent, i'm addition to all the
uses previously existing and open. to
| them. The restriction does not for
bid the owner of the machine from
buying and using the ink, paper, etc.,
| as freely as he might otherwise do,
for any and all purposes apart from
the patented machine: 1t merely for
bids use Of the machine with or
through the aid of those materials.
Whatever may be argued concern
| ing Jurisdiction, as to bringing with
in the contract persons not parties
thereto, or as to conjectural future
abuse, etc, one fact stands out clear
ly: The license restriction does not
create, and the majority opinion does
not sanction. any monopoly outside Of
or beyond that expressed in and by
the claims Of the patent on the ma
chine. Anyone may make, use and
sell all the unpatented supplies, ink
paper. etc., to the same extent as be-
fore the patent issued, and when the
patent expires, 50 that use OF the mt
chine can no longer be controlled
thereby. there will be open to all this
added field for the sale and use Of
such supplies for said machines. The
supposed great evils to result from
the decision are, 1 respectfully sub
NIT, greatly exaggerated. if not
wholly imaginary.
A Patent Lawyer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13
I4IPORTANT PATENT DECISION
Henry vs.. Dick.-The ROterary Mime.
graph Case.

can:
With sincere and profound respect
for the great learning and ability of
the Chlef Justice of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, | beg.
nevertheless to ask the following
questions, after careful study of the
controlling and dissenting opinions
announced in the Henry-Dick case:
Why is it that the public press gen
orally assumed. as it clearly did, that
the three dissenting justices must be
right, and the four justices whose
opinion control must be wrong?
Why is it that the Attorney Cen
eral. an official who would seem pc
culiarly in a position demanding that
he accept the announced opinion of
the court, assumes that the majority
opinion is wrong, and seeks to have
the case reheard and the decision re-
versed?
Is there any reason 10 assume that
the three justices who join in the dis
sent are better versed in the law than
the four who join in the controlling
opinion Certainly no one. LAWYER or
layman, can read the opinions with
out realizing that in the analysis and
application of cited cases the logic
and advantage are with the majority.
Apart from the strong leaning to-
ward the side Of States right. an ever
fruitful point Of controversy. and
aside from the manifest fear that
certain trust prosecutions will fail.
which many believe never should
have been begun, the dissenting opin-
ions ceem to rest upon a fear that at
some future time some one may do
if not impossible.
The machine in question, a mimeo-
graph or device for reproducing type
written papers, was sold with this no.
tice upon it Gtalics mine):
''T'his machine is sold by the A. B.
Dick Co., with the license restriction
that 1t may be used only with the
stencil paper, ink and other supplies
made by A. b. Dick Company, Chi
cago, L. S. A
This seems clearly to show that it
is the machine that is sold, and that
1t, the machine, may be used on the
terms and conditions stated, that is.
only with the specific ink, paper, etc.
The restriction does not. and could
not, control or limit the manufacture.
sale, or use Of ink for or to or by the
general public. The public is free to
make. and to buy, and to use. ink of
any kind for any and every purpose
for which it was free to make, to
buy, or use ink prior to invention or
existence Of the mimeograph. The
invention created a new field for ink.
The inventor or his assigns had the
exclusive right. by reason of his pat
ent, to make, to use, and to vend to
others to use, the patented machine
or invention. with or without ink, pa
per, etc. He or they had the right to
manufacture and to sell the machine,
and to license or authorize the pur-
chaser to use that machine on any
terms he or they saw fit, just as any,
one may make sale of any property
with condition that it shall be used
only in certain way or for a certain
purpose, title to revert on breach Of
condition. The condition stated was
that the machine might be used but
only with certain ink, stencil paper.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13

morse races, it is said that there is a
little Joker" attached to il which will
give the association the privilege of
continuing the degradirg and demor-
ai:Zing business. IL Charleston can
do that every little coun:y fair in the
state may have racing with all the
Ittendant evils.
1t is impossible to have races with
out betting There is no use for snv
association to publish that all book
making and betting will be eliminated.
They know it cannot be done. Wher-
ever there are races, there the gam
blers will assemble.
Worse than the betting is the wide
open drinking places in violation of
law. Worse still, where the season
lasts several months as it does in
Charleston, houses of i'll fame are
wide open and the number of inmates
are greatly increased. An established
race track draws only sporting men
and disreputable women. The whole
tendency is to lower the morals of 2
community and weaken genuine man.
hood.
I. AS a general thing, so far as public
expression is given in the press of the
city, Charleston is in favor of the race
, track and all the consequent evils.
| They are willing to let bad enough
/ alone until they can get something
worse.
We are sure, however, that a large
portion of the people are opposed to
the races and they deprecate the fact
that the city is under the control Of
the racing association.
DR.. Howard Lee Jones, of the Cita-
del Square Baptist church, Sunday
night preached a sermon dealing with
the situation which no true Charles
tonian can ignore. In Mondays News
and Courier there is a short notice of
the sermon, from which the following
paragraphs are taken:
THE speaker gave as the funda-
mental causes for the wide-open rot
tenness that exists here today the lack
of leaders, the iniquitous administra-
ton of law and the cowardice of the
Christian people.
IF any there were in his audience
last night who expected DR.. Jones to
lay the blame of present conditions
on the race track promoters and de-
votees, they were disappointed, not
withstanding the fact that he was
particularly severe in his denuncia-
ton Of the Racing Association and
those connected with it. But this DR..
Jones described as but one of the
many outward manifestations of the
spirit that now exists in the commu-
nifty. Nor did the speapor rlace the
entire responsibility on ne mayor OF
the city, although he referred to him
in no complimentary terms. The
whole trouble. as DR.. Jones diagnosed
the case, lay in the pollution of the
fountains"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13

Who stole Woodrow Wilson's let
tors? Was II an agent OF one OF his
unscrupuious Democratic rivals. or a
preventative OF the non-partisan big
interests that are hghting Wilson
personally and do not care who wins
the nomination so long as II is not
wilson? The trend Of events leads
one To believe that II is Wilson agalns,
ne. entire heid-Republican as vel
ts Democrat.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13

The sumter watchman was found
Cd In 1850 and the True southron In
lass. The watchman and southron
aew has the combined circulation and
influence cf both of the old papers.
and Is manifestly the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13
The Charleston Races.
Spartanburg Journal.

Spartanburg Journal.
The race track situation in this
State is interesting. Although the
general assembly passed a bill which
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13

vote in the Democratic primary In
August and then vote for Capt. Ca
pers at the general election in No
vember? If they are Republicans in
national politics have they any right
to take part in the Democratic pri-
mary that Is held to select the party
candidates for county and State Off
GERS and for the United State senate
and congress? This is a matter that
requires investigation and consider
alton. We have no idea that Capt.
Capers' claim that there are $4,000
white Republican voters in the 4th
! district Is any where near the
truth; but IL there is even one-fourth
that number Of Republicans who ex-
4, pect to vote in the Democratic pri-
mary In August and then support the
Republican Congressional candidates
In the general election, something
should be done to purge the Demo-
cratic club rolls before the primary.
No Republican has a right to have a
Of the Democratic party, consequently
no Republican should be enrolled in
a Democratic club or allowed to vote
in the primary. II there are any
thing like so many Republicans in the
mill towns of the Piedmont section
they really hold the balance of pow
er i'm the Democratic primary and
dictate the choice Of candidates for
State offices. Capt. Capers has fur
nished a theme for surmise and dis
cussion respecting the personnel Of
the Democratic party in the Pied
mont section where a tremendous
vote Is polled in every primary
Will Gov Blease explain in what
manner and from what source State
chairman derives profit from dispen-
ing political patronage. Is there
salary attached to the position of pa
tronage dispenser or does the dis
penser levy graft on the patronage
seekers?
Gen. Willie Jones has said he will
decline reelection as State chairman
but he will unanimously reconsider
II few more influential politicians
follow Gov. Blease's lead and whis-
pering 1t around that Willie Jones
should be reelected State chairman.
The bank that refuses to recog-
nize Blease's Bank Examiner will run
the risk Of having its charter revoked.
There may be neither law nor pre-
cedent for such action. but Governor
Blease is pledged to stand up for his
friends. law or no law. and he will.
have to do something strenuous to
bolster up his bar'- examiner.
The News and Courier says hat
only "a few bookmakers are now do
ing business AT the Palmetto Race
Track and the association is conse-
quently being operated at a loss. In
ferrentially this is evidence that the
race track is supported by book
making. alias gambling. and that the
race meet is primarily a gambling in
stitution.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13
llfe's Two Glasses,

The world is divided into two great
classes, yourself and other people.
The latter is more numerous and the
.0rmer more important.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-13

Gov. Blesse suggests that Senators
TlIlman and Smith. the Governor and
tho Chairman OF the State Democratic
Executive Committee be sent to the
Baltimore convention as the delegates
at large from this State. Why not
make II Senators Tiilman and Smith,
Gov Blease and former Chief Justice
Jones? This would certainly be a
representative delegation and an
agreement on this ticket would obvi-
ate factional fight In the State Con-
vention.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-06-13
Let Every Wife Have Paw.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
We heartily approve the suggestion OF
an eminent feminine fellow citizen that
every husband should pay his wife a sal
ary-whether she earns it or not. Every
wife ought to ave her own money for
her own needs, not in spasmodic and ir-
regular doles from her husband but In the
form of a fixed and regular allowance that
she could regard as her own right, to do
with as she pleased-quite as the husband
regards the salary he receives from his
employer or the profit he derives from his
business.
Moreover-and this is the milk in the
cocoanut-she should be required to live
within her income as regards personal ex-
penditures. In many households the wife
Is the chancellor of the exchequer, man
aging the whole family income, with a
modest allowance to the husband for
pocket-money. We are decidedly of the
opinion that in those households. as an
almost invariable rule. the Income is bet
ter managed than where the man holds
the pocketbook; but many wives nave no
regular sum of money to handle. Con-
sequently they a M training in the
management of an income.
We have often said that no married man
has n right to go without life insur-
ance unless he has made some other sure
provision for his dependents in the event
of his death. It is equally true that the
wife should nave some practical notions
of what to do with the none that is left
her at her husbands death. The best be-
ginning in that direction is to give her a
regular sum to manage.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-06-13
PARCELS POST A BOTHER.
Isn't 1t a Shame to Disturb> the Elk
press Companies Profits?

A recent newspaper report stated that
one of the express companies made a
profit of more than $780, 900 in one month
from packages that, through error, had
been paid for at both ends.
Almost everybody has experienced the
chagrin of preparing express charges on
a package, only to learn that these charg-
es were collected at the destination. Prob
ably only about one person in 10 has
taken the trouble to get the money back
is that only $4,000 profit is collected in
one month.
The first expressman who discovered
that he could collect at both ends with
out being thrown into Jail Cor ever ~receiv-
ing a protest from the shipper ought to
be put on the same plane with the man
who first ate an oyster. He is one of
the unrecorded heroes of history.
1t seems a pity that the parcels post
idea, with its blatant economy. should
obtrude itself upon our express com
panles and, possibly, interfere with this
great work. To pay three times as much
for transporting a package as it is worth.
and then to la this same amount col,
lected from the trusting friend at the 9th
er end to whom you have consigned your
gift-all this is the highest kind of art.
Why should it be interfered with?
Mr.. Hitchcock is right. He saws 1t will
take some time to demonstrate a parcels
post, probably feeling that if the matter
is allowed to rest we will soon forget ali
about it, and thus the express companieg
will be enabled to continue upon thei1
highly artistic careers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-06-13
Vacations for Everybody.

In an article on vacation in the
Woman's Home Companion, the au-
thor saws in part:
Horace Greeley said he had been
70 years trying to find time to go a.
fishing, n a few years later he died
from overwork and anxiety. Many a
farmer lives all his life within sight
Of running streams, or within sound Of
babbltng brooks and the suggestion
that he hang up his hoe and go a-fsh-
ing never reaches him. Thoreau says,
The better part of mar is soon plowed
into the soil as compost and I have
known some such lives. I knew a
woman who put her babies in a barrel
and left them while she worked in
the field with her husband. Together
they paid off the farm mortgage, and
then bought more farms and paid off
cations. Neither Of them ever saw a
train Of cars until the iron rails were
laid through their w lands, and when
the first train passed through, the old
lady was heard to say, Well, I have
worked hard all of my life, but now
l h have it easy. 1 can just sit
and milk and see the cars go BY
Another family of my acquaintance,
living on a large farm, with so cows
to milk n care for, and 500 hens
to look after, finds time every year
for an outing; rather, they hire extra
help on the farm and take the
time, and they do not take the time
grudgingly, either. They figure that
what the outing costs is the best in
vestment of the whole year. They have
their own tent and camp for a week
or more on a nearby stream or lake
where fishing and boating are good
A fairly good tent can be bought for
the price of a weeks board at a sum-
mer resort, and the tent will last many
years. Vacation does not necessarily
spell Nantucket. Distance sometimes
lends a great deal of enchantment. We
forget that the birds sing just as sweet
ly in u own fields and groves as they
do in fields and groves hundreds Of
miles away. Why should we remain
h u in during all the hot summer
months just because we cannot travel
far away? If we cannot afford to own
a tent, there are even less expensive
ways of camping out"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-06-13
Not Reliably informed.

The gentleman who wore evening
clothes and the remnants Of q jag at
. o'clock in the morning was clinging
ITO the %footboard of a crowded surface
car In Chicago. AS the car rounded a
sharp curve with a jerk the person IN
incongruous apparel fell quickly and
heavily to the cobblestones. He was
picked up by the strong hands OF the
conductor and about 20 passengers.
"Collision?" he asked in a dignified
ytone Of voice.
NO" said the conductor.
of the track?" further questioned
the victim of the accident.
No" said the conductor.
Well" concluded he of the Jag, "if
] had known that I wouldn't have got
of."-Popular Magazine.