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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24
COUNCIL HEARS ATTORNEYS.
Action Postponed until next Meeting
j. II. LigOn Resigns from Board
of Health.

City Council met Wednesday night
to hear what some of the attorneys of
the city had to say concerning the
present license ordinance in so far
as it concerned themselves, but af-
ter hearing what the few lawyers
who were present had to say on the
subject council decided to postpone
action until their next meeting, as
there were so few of the members of
council present at the meeting.
Only one other matter Of import
ance came up at the meeting. This
was the reading Of letter from ].
r. Ligon, the chairman Of the board
of health, resigning from the board
Of health. Mr.. Ligon gave as his reason
for resigning, his feeble state. of
health which prevented his attend
ing to the duties Of the office as they
should be attended to. Mr.. Jennings
stated that he had had a talk with
Mr.. Ligon about the matter and, as
it was impossible for Mr.. Lyon to
longer perform the duties Of the Of
flee on account of his health he
would accept his resignation. He
further stated that he had not had
time to think of a successor to Mr..
Ligon and, as very energetic and
live man was. needed as chairman, he
would postpone his recommendation
of successor until the next meeting
of council.
The notes for the $4,000 which
was wanted by the city had been re-
turned, the mayor stated, as there
was formerly a section in the char
ter Of the city allowing it to borrow
money for only nine months at
time and a request was made that
the time of the loan be changed from
ten to nine months with the privilege
OF renewing the notes for another
month If this was necessary. This
action was taken by council as it did
not in the least alter the conditions
on which the loan was made.
There were only four lawyers of
the eight who had signed the pc
tition for a hearing on the license
ordinance present when the matter
came up for hearing. There were
also only four aldermen and the may
or present for the hearing. Mr. r. ].
Bland was the first speaker. He
stated that he was not prepared to
speak as to the law in the case, but
he had been asked to sign the pc
tition on the ground that it was not
just and was not graduated as, under
the constitution, it should be. 1t
was not fair for the $1,000 man to
pay as much as the $4,000 man and
a comparison would show that the Ii
cense was unjust.
Mr.. NJ. W. Seabrook next took the
floor and stated his opinion as to the
ordinance. He did not think the Ii
cense fair. 1t was unconstitutional
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24
Cotton Seed for Sale.

A limited quantity Of Long Life
Five Lock Blight resisting seed at
81 per bushel, F. O. b. Rembert, S.
{. These seed have been carefully
selected and well bred for years.
They yield from 1-2 to 2 bales
per acre. This cotton hangs in the
boil late in the season, better than
other varieties. Address,
]. l.. GILLIS,
Rembert, S. c.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24

that the basis might be too high. He
q d not think that if the basis was
made lower that the attorneys secur-
ing larger amounts from their prac-
llSe should pay at the same rate
apeVe the amount sci ;.5 4 basis, as
1t costs these practitioners more 10
make their money. Mr.. Wright
tHought that the basis should be low
er and then the license graduated. al
the same rate on up TO the limit.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24

The success Of the State warehouse
system provided for by the recent
enactment Of the legislature depends
entirely upon the integrity. fore
sightedness. aggressiveness and busi-
ness ability Of three commissioners
elected by the legislature. The plan
IL In many respects. experimental
and radical departure from meth
ods that now obtain In the market
Ing of staple agricultural products.
therefore tho men placed In charge
VIII be loaded with heavy RESPONSE
bility and will have to blaze their own
way II is an undertaking that calls
Tor strong men who will give to the
discharge Of their duties singleness
OF purpose and will not be dlscourag-
cd by the obstacles that are sure to
DO encountered. Among the men
who have been suggested for a place
on ths warehouse commission Is Mr..
u. w. Dabbs OF this county. His SER
vies In the ranks and as an ofYicer of
the Farmers Union have made him
= leader among the progressive farm
ers Of the State and It is believed by
many who know him that ne n
srninsntly qualified to serve accept
aoiy on the warehouse commission
Tho suggestion Of his rame did not
originate In Sumter county, but IL
has the hearty endorsement OF the
business mon Of Sumter. For a
number Of years he has been agitat-
Ing and working for a better system
OF marketing farm products and
there Is probably not man In the
State who has given the problem
more thought and study or who is
moro deeply and sincerely interested
Ia The success OF the warehouse plan.
The reasons that Gov. Blease gives
for vetoing the medical inspection
bill are really not reasons at all. but
prejudicies. and are worthy of no
more serious consideration than his
so-called reasons for opposing a COM
puisory education law. His .dea of
personal liberty would permit a man
TO arm himself with a magazine pis-
toi and Kill his enemy on sight and
90 urpuninhed. would permit the un-
educated and unainbitious man to al
low his children to grow up in ig-
norance and would doom little chill
dren to suffer through life from dis
ease. that IL diagnosed and treated in
time. can be cured 1t Is the duty of
an enlightened government to use all
It's powers to make its citizenship
law abiding. intelligent and healthy.
and the Official who sets his face
against progress along these lines Is
not the friend OF the people.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24
College Boys at Home.

A number of the Davidson College
students from Sumter are at home
for the remainder of the week, hav-
ing been given holiday on account
of the Junior Speaking which was
held at Davidson the early part of the
week. Those at home are: John B.
Duffie, Alfred Scarborough, Pierson
Dick, Eugene Jones, Wilfred Shaw.
Erwin Shaw, Earle Rowland.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24

The sumter wstchman was found
- In isSs and the True southron In
isss The watchman and southren
COW has the combined circulation and
snauence CT both OF the old papers.
and Is manifsstly the best advertising
medium In Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24

La Follette's breakdown was due
to the fact that he had not had a rest
In twelve years. Let's make him
vice president, poor fellow. That
will give him four years rest. any
way.-Columbia Record.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24

STOLEN-One' top buggy, nearly
new, black body, rest red, whip
socket mended with wire Buggy
little higher, box wider than most
buggies. End springs. Colin Nc
Laurin, Wedgefield, S. c..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-24

Complaint has been made about
the children skating on the concrete
sidewalk on Church streets.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
THE BOOK OF BOOKS.

No fragrant of battle ever sur
vived so many battles as the Bible;
no citadel ever withstood so many
hurricanes and was swept by so many
storms. And yet it stands. 1t has
seen the rise and fall of Daniels four
empires. Assyria bequeaths a few
mutilated figures to the riches of our
national museum. Media and Persia,
like Babylon which they conquered,
have been weighed in the balance
and long ago found wanting. Greece
family survives in it's historical fame.
'Tis living Greece no more," and
iron Rome of the Caesars has long
since ceased to boast. And yet the
book that foretells all still survives.
While the nations, kings, philoso-
piers, systems, institutions, have
died away. The Bible engages mems
deepest thought, is examined by the
keenest intellect, stands revered be-
fore the highest tribunals, is more
read, sifted and debated, more de-
voutly loved and vehemently assailed
more defended and denied, more in.
dustriously translated and freely Civ
en- to the world, more honored anC
abused than any other book the
world ever saw. 1t survives al
changes, itself unchanged; it moves
all minds, yet is moved by none; il
sees all things decay, yet itself is in
corruptible; it sees myriads of othel
books engulfed in the stream of time
yet it is borne along till the mysti,
angel plants it's foot in the sea anC
swears by him that liveth foreve
and ever that time shall be no more
With Isaiah we say: "All flesh il
grass and all the goodness thereo
is as the flower of the field. Th
grass withereth, the flower fadeth
but the word of God shall stand for
ever"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
HOW ANCIENTS FOUGHT MASH.
ING" EVIL.

There is nothing new about this
criticism of women's dress. From
the beginning of civilization men
seem to have rallied against it, and
in vain. Read what the Prophet
Isaiah had to say about the fashions
of his day:
Because the daughters of Zion are
naughty, and walk with stretched
forth necks and wanton eyes, walk
ing and mincing as they go, and
making a tinkling with their feet,
therefore the Lord will take away
the bravery of their tinkling orna-
ments and their cauls and their
round tires like the moon, the chains
and the bracelets and the mufflers,
the bonnets and the ornaments of the
legs, and the headbands and the tab
lets and the earrings, the rings and
nose jewels, the changeable suits of
apparel, and the mantels and the
iwmples and the crisping pins, the
glasses, and the fine linen, and the
hoods and the veils.''
Ancient Greece and Rome preached
and legislated against feminine ap-
parel. Caesar Augustus passed laws
regulating women's clothes, to make
them less suggestive and less ex-
pensive, but it didn't do much good.
The Spartan lawgiver, Lycurgus,
believed that the way to make wom-
en- modest and lessen their influence
over men was to have the women
wear fewer clothes, rather than
more. He therefore enforced the
wearing of very simple, abbreviated
garments, and had girls take part in
athletic contests on the same terms
as men, without any clothing at all.
Spartan women and men alike
were noted for their modesty. There
was neither flirting nor "mashing'
in Sparta.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11

Every town, however, has GER
tain progressive element which hopes
for a turn of the tide when it will go
forward by leaps and bounds and oc-
cupy a position of Importance along
with other numerous advantages
which go to make good town in
every sense the word implies. But
this stage cannot be accomplished
by mere wishes or suggestions. 1t
can only come from harmony in pur-
pose and action and the eternal vigi-
lance of its citizens. The town with
these things will continue to grow
and improve, but the town without
them can be expected to remain in
state of lethargy Indefinitely with
out affording it's residents anything
but a mere existence.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
A Towns Growth.

In every county and in every state
can be found towns that are continu-
ally forging ahead, while others in
the same vicinity remain practically
ing in the way of improvements or
advancement. In every case the fault
can be found to rest, not with the
town, but with the people themselves.
The reason why some towns grow
is because they have men in them
with push and energy who are not
afraid to spend their time, energy
and money in anything that will ben
eft the town. They have confidence
enough in their town to erect sub
stantial and modern buildings and
residences and work for public inn
porvement in the same order. They
organize stock companies and estab-
lish factories, induce industrial en-
terprises to locate and use every
means to further the best interests
of the town. Their work is never
considered finished and the accom-
plishment of one thing is only an in
centive to another.
On the other hand the town that
does not get ahead will be found to
be dominated by either set of mer
who are perfectly satisfied with theil
surroundings or who are afraid some.
body else will be benefited in the
event something is started, conse
quently no effort of any kind is made
by this class for these two reasons
If some men, or set of men, endeavoI
to start something, they are met by
opposition and encouragement and il
is uphill work all the way and very
often failure.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
THE COUNTY JUDGESHIP.

Mr.. Tou Velle has been elected
county judge of Jackson coutny. He
was elected on his pledge to give this
county an administration along lines
of economy, efficiency and progress,
and that he would not favor one sec
tion of the county over another"
The people have taken him at his
word and given him a substantial
majority.
The campaign for county Judge
was more or less of a community
fight. No doubt, as is frequently the
case, the campaign was more bitter
than it should have been. The It'd
ings fought as hard as it knew how
for what it believed to be the inter
est of Ashland. But it did so with
out feeling or personal animosity.
Now that the election is over the It'd
ings has no sore spots. 1t will back
Mr.. Tou Velle in every worthy cause
as heartily and as freely as it would
have backed Mr.. Dunn had he been
elected.
The big common interest is the de-
velopment and advancement of the
valley, and those elected to office in
Jackson county Tuesday have large
responsibility. 1t is the duty of every
citizen to lay aside party spirit and
local differences and assist the new
officers to give Jackson county the
best administration she has ever had
This the Tidings will help to do.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
Taxing FIuit Trees.

In reply to the criticism of the
Washington state tax commission in
its action in taxing fruit trees, de-
spite the fact that the legislature of
1908 passed an exemption law COW
ering such trees, the commission JUS
titles itself on various decisions of
the supreme court which hold that
private property, which it defines,
cannot be exempted from taxation,
and holding that the fruit trees come
within that definition, just as COWS or
plows, the commission, in letter to
the various county assessors, written
last February, says: 1--WE advise you
that fruit trees, being private prop
erty, are not exempt from taxation
in this state. You ought to assess
the land upon which fruit trees stand
with regard to its value. Whatever
value is added to the land by it's fruit
trees being thereon must be includ-
ed. This rule has been followed in
some of the fruit-raising countries
and disregarded in others, and we de-
sire now to make this specific in
struction to all assessors to the end
that the property of each county will
be uniformly and equally assessed
and taxed"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
MODERN VOTING.

Whatever faults there may be in
our political methods, the machinery
of voting has been brought to point
closely approaching perfection.
Before the days of the secret bal
lot it took some little moral courage
for many men to act out their own
convictions. Many employers felt
that when they had bought a work.
mans time, they paid for his opin-
thrown in as kind of trading stamp
There are a great many voters who
would never have the courage to vote
publicly on the losing side. They
would more quickly vote against
their own pocketbook and their own
Judgment, than have their friends
know that they failed to pick the
winner.
The new methods of voting came
hard to the bosses. They valued the
privilege of having a checker stand
by the ballot box and make list OF
the political sheep and goats, discern
ible by the form or color of the tick
cts that they bore.
The vote buyer plies his trade un-
der adverse circumstances now. The
man who is low enough to sell out
TO one party might just as well sell
TO both while he is about it, and halt
the time he does.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11

1t is the time of year when the
farmer is kept busy mailing up in
different parts of his farm the signs
that say, mo Hunting Allowed" He
knows very well that when the frosts
begin to trim down the corn blades
it will not be long before the hunter
will be sneaking over his fences ready
to blaze away at anything that pops
up in the woods or in the pastures.
The excited gunner with brand new
gun to try out and glorious repu-
tation to establish can't tell a bounc-
ing rabbit from a young Jersey calf.
What are the consequences? Simply
these: That he blazes away with
reckless abandon that threatens the
life of every one and everything with
in radius of half a mile. For the
protection of the public, why not re-
quire the county clerk to examine
every applicant for hunters license
and see if he can hit the broad side
of barn two times out of three at
range of fifteen yards?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11

The average fakir can take a stand
and a drygoods box on a prominent
street corner and in an hour can talk
an audience of three dozen people
out of $5 to $100. The editor of the
home paper might assume the posi-
tion and plead twice as long to twice
the number for the price of a years
subscription to the paper that con-
graduates. a man on his marriage
that announces the birth of his chill
dren, tells where the neighbors spent
the Sabbath, tells him of whipping
his wife, warns him of tircksters and
fakirs, points him out as a wretch
and scoundrel when he has to go tc
jail, that bears the great burden OF
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
TELEPHONE 80
WHY POLITICAL MACHINES
EXIST.

It is one of the anomalies of poll
tics that the voters who express the
most evaporation with political ma
chimes are frequently the very men
who will not use the weapons in their
own hands to destroy these ma
chimes.
Political machines have grown up
in the United States principally be-
cause the citizen neglects his politi-
cal duties. The machine does the
work which the citizen ought to do
for himself.
Every politician knows that the
most essential feature of his cam
paign is to get out the vote. For
every ballot which he can capture by
converting hostile voters, he can by
hustling four who were simply indif-
ferent and needed some kind of a
personal solicitation to get out. This
solicitation may be corrupt, involving
use of money, or it may be wholly le-
gitimate, involving merely persua-
sion to go to the polls.
Now if every able-bodied citizen
did his duty like a man and patriot
and took the slight time and trouble
required for voting, without having
TO be cajoled, begged, bought or bull
lied to vote, the machine would have
nothing to live by, and it's work
would be gone.
But If large section of the voters
neglect their duty, fail to take ar
interest in politics, some one has go
to perform the task of arousing theil
concern.
The business man will not leav,
his office, nor the mechanic hi
bench, to perform this function
Consequently there grows up tribe
of political workers who perform
these tasks either for money or hope
of favors to come. While many o
these men are honest, yet as clas
they include great many VINO ar,
not industrious workers at the task
of daily life, and who eagerly seiz
the chance offered by politics t
squeeze out the living they fear the
cannot make in the world of busi
ness.
1t is the indifference of the aver
age voter that makes the opening TO
the vast tribe of healers that can ge
out the vote for elections. Afte
they have performed their tasks the
look for payment. Usually what the
wish is not cash, but a soft snaI
The voters pay the bill in the hig
cost of all public work.
The way to smash all this vast sys
TEN of inefficient public work is TO
the average voter to get to the polli
just as he would get to an importan
business appointment. Until he doe'
political machines will flourish, an
their workers must be paid, either
money or in offices, for which the
are not usually qualified
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11
WHO SHALL MARRY?

DR.. Adolf Meyer is director of the
Phipps psychiaric clinic at Johns
Hopkins and therefore may be quot
ed as high authority in his chosen
field.
DR.. Meyer is less radical than some
medical men and eugenists in his
views concerning the rights of de-
fectives to marry.
The public" said he in a recent
interview, lis apt to lay much stress
upon heredity. 1t is not the dis
ease, physical or mental, which is in
herited, but the susceptibility to that
disease"
People of nervous temperament
may give the world it's most inspired
minds.
Goethe, Germanys Shakespeare,
was beside himself at times.
Emerson was a man of a type
which furnishes many lunatics.
Martin Luther saw things" and
at one time threw his inkstand at the
devil whom he imagined he saw
standing in the room.
Max Nordau has listed as "degen-
crates" a large number of men of
! genius, among them Walt Whitman,
Rossetti the poet, and many painters.
William Blake, author of some of
the most beautiful poems in our Ian
guage, died insane. Dean Swift, like
the tree he once moralized upon,
died first at the top"
These men had thinking machines
which were driven so furiously that
they broke down or "wabbled." But
how much better is the world for the
high-power brain, even if it does
break down!
bility to such mental breakdown may
be his parents best gift to the world.
Conditions are what develop the
disease in the susceptible. A child
born of consumptive parents may
live in perfect health in a society free
of tuberculosis.
With conditions perfected, we may
| breathe more easily so far as hered-
ity is concerned
A woman in New York recently
killed her three children for fear that
they would develop bad qualities
which had wrecked her own life.
Misguided woman! Not one-quar-
ter of their heredity came from her
Not one-half their qualities came
from both father and mother. More
than three-quarters of their natures
mental and physical, probably came
from ancestors with perfectly norma
personalities. She should have
looked to conditions surrounding
them and trusted to the dominance o
type.
On two grounds only, perhaps, ma,
the state properly interfere to pre-
vent marriage or persons not related
to each other. One of these is physi
cal and one mental
Predetermined people have feeble
minded children. Such should not b.
allowed to marry
: Those infected with certain dis
5 eases should not be permitted to per
e petrate the terrible fraud of mar
D riage.
The feeble-minded may easily b
: identified and controlled. The othe
is more difficult. But why shoul
: not person applying for a marriag
+ license be required to take an e2
{ animation for the diseases mer
+ toned, to be made by the public al
y thorities at the states expense?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11

When a man is nearly frozen from
ten-mile drive on cold winter day,
he will hardly stop to read a plank
advertisement. But at home in his
armchair, with his legs crossed be-
fore cheerful fire, he reads his local
paper, and while he is feeling good
and has plenty of time, picks out the
live business men of the town from
the advertisements in the paper and
makes up his mind where he will
trade on his next trip to town.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11

and sympathy of the entire commun-
ity for a whole week when he dies,
and at the same time bidding him a
successful journey to the happy
hunting grounds" yet the home pa
per is scarcely recognized in compari-
son with the shekels that await the
fakir.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-11

1t is rather difficult to keep from
thinking and talking politics these
days. All the same, the average man
and most men are average-likes
some respite now and again. Poll
tics is one of those things one can
have too much of, particularly when
1t is overcharged with partisanship