The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-10-25

charge of sending obscene matter
through the mail, and the District
| Attorney will have to amend the in
dictment before it can be made to
stick.
Gen. Felix DiaZ is either brave
and fool-hardy man or an accomplice
of Dictator Huerta and not a bona fide
candidate for the presidency of Mexi-
co. otherwise he would not venture to
put foot on Mexican soil and place
himself in the power of Huerta at this
time. If he should undertake to pro-
secute his candidacy with vigor in
opposition to the powers that be his
end would probably the same as be-
sell Madero.
The most noticeable exhibit that
VIII be on display in Columbia during
Fair Week will be, as usual, the office
seekers and polticions. great and
small. They will spend the week
In plotting and planning to pare out
the offices among the faithful and
many states will be made up that
the voters will not hear about until
next summer.
For several years a certain school
OF medical scientists have been urg-
ing everybody to adopt a fruit and
raw vegetable diet as the only GER
tain cure for various ills, but now
comes Danish scientist with the as
sertion that cancer is caused by eat
ing uncooked fruit and vegetables.
He claims to have produced cancer
experimentally i'm mice and rats and
Is positive that he has demonstrated
that cancer is a true germ disease,
which Is introduced into the body
from external sources of infection.
He warns all who fear cancer and
would guard against contracting 1t to
abstain from all raw foods, especially
fruits and vegetables. He seems to
have an especial grpdge against straw
berries and bananas, but since his
claims are still unproven theories we
may venture to indulge in Strawberries
and cream and an occasional banana
when in season.
Chief OF Police Holcombe Of
Greenville is rare character. He
has asked the city council to reduce
his salary from $125 to 500 per
month. the grounds for this unprece-
dented request being that the salaries
paid the other men on the force are
not in proportion to his. His salary
was recently increased but no ad-
vance was made in the pay OF the
other policemen.
railroad accident, accompanied
Dy the killing Of passengers and en-
ployees, is almost a daily feature of
the press reports. There is something
wrong with the management of the
railroads, with the equipment or with
the trainmen who are i'm charge Of
the trains and to whose care the safe
ty of the passengers is entrusted.
County fairs are being held in all
parts OF the State and the reports in
dicate the attendance has been large
at all OF them and that, without ex-
ception. the fairs are proving popu-
lar and successful. County fairs oc-
cupy field and fill a need that moth
ing else can-they are close to the
people and interest thousands who
never go to the State Fair. The pros
porous agricultural county that is
without an annual county fair is
tagging behind i'm the march of prog
ress and neglecting an opportunity to
develop community spirit and to dis
seminate information.
\
The organization of the tobacco
warehouse company and the assur-
ancc that a large warehouse will be
erected i'm tinre for the opening OF
the next tobacco season should sim
plify the problem of a county fair
for Sumter county. 1t seems to us
that it would be feasible for the coun-
~ fair associatiOn--when organized
To make an arrangement with the to-
bacco warehouse company for the use
of the warehouse and grounds for the
county fair at reasonable annual
rental, and that such an arrange
ment would prove advantageous to
both parties. The county fair will be
held at the time of year that the ware
house is not in use and it would be as