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The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
THE SPRING DRIVE

Our boys are going "Over the top"
and into mo mans land" this spring.
No one has any doubt Of their ability
to get there. There will also be
spring drive on this side of the ocean,
because March is the years "blue Mon
day" It is the most fatal month of the
year. March and April Is time when
resistance usually Is ut lowest ebb. 1t
IL q trying season for the rundown"
man. But medical science steps in, and
says, ut need not be-! We should cul-
Giyate q love of health, sense Of re-
for the care Of our bodies.
DO not allow the machinery of the body
to clog. Put the stomach and liver In
proper condition. Take DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. to be had at
most drug stores in tablet or liquid
form, tablets sixty-cents a vial, COM
posed Of native herbs. This puts the
stomach and liver in proper condition.
You may be plodding along, no spring,
no elasticity, no vim, but as soon as you
have put the body into its normal physi-
cal cont1itiOn-oiled the machinery, as
&c were-you will find, new vim. vigor
and vitality within you. A little pep"
and we laugh md live. Try 1t now.
Send DR.. Pierce, Buffalo, N. T., 1Oc. TOR
trial package. A little energy will save
the day. The prime necessity OF lie Is
health. With spirit and energy you
have the power to force yourself Into
nct1on. The Golden Medical Discovery
y the spring tonic which you need.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
VIII SON THANKS NONPARTISAN
That Promise Of Support 10
"Very Gratifying."

! Local politicians in certain sections
of Minnesota may pretend that the
Nonpartisan league is disloyal, but
President Woodrow Wilson has no IL
lusions on this subject.
The President has just written to
Congressman J. NJ. Baer of North
Dakota declaring that a letter from
the congressman brought him very
gratifying message" The letter was
an offer to the President of the SER
vices of the National Nonpartisan
league. ...l%s #%<...-
At the re4uest of A.. c. Townley,
league head, Congressman Baer told
President Wilson that the farmers
composing the league have an en-.
thusiastic desire to use our influence
in any way that you may suggest" :"
In the Northwest" Congressman
Baer continued, 1T seems to us tha:
the powers-that-be are striving to un-
derlnine the administration under the
guise Of Constructive argument
We really believe that our experience
in meeting such attacks, as they have
been directed by partisan politicians
in an effort to destroy our organiza-
tion, makes us particularly able to
help you.' -s. '-.. -E
President Wilson's reply follows:
My Dear Mr.. Baer: ---..
Your letter brings me a very
gratifying message. I am glad, you
may be sure, to learn of such work as
you speak Of. Support of the govern
ment just now and the correct inter-
probation of its policies and purposes
are of the utmost consequence, not
only to the United States but to the
world and the work of the sort you
outline contributes to the universal
cause.
Sincerely yours,
Woodrow Wilson.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
FARMERS STICK TO LEAGUE
Enthusiasm Great at Points Where
Farmers First Began Work Of
Organizing.

In reporting an enthusiastic meet
ing at Bowman, North Dakota, In
which more than six hundred farm
ers listened to Walter Thomas Mills,
the claim is made by the local cor
respondent that the Nonpartisan lea
que was born at this place. The
splendid meeting is pointed to as
evidence that the farmers are stand.
ing together In the country from
which the farmers organization came
A number of places in North Dako-
ia claim to be the birthplace of the
league. Mr.. Mills said that Bowman
offered as evidence Of this honor the
fact that Mr.. A. c. Townley travelled
from farm to farm on foot in that
country trying to interest farmers be-
fore the League had taken form.
The enthusiastic manner in which
the farmers indorsed the league, It's
governor, and its national officials, is
conclusive answer to the charge that
those who first Joined the league are
deserting It. 5sS., .s--..
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
FORD FAvoRs OWNERSHIP
Automobile Man Would Introduce
Sense and System Into Rail-
road Business.

Henry Ford attacks the whole sys.
tenn of private, railroads., declaring
that it would be quite easy, with good
management, to diminish freight and
passenger rates one-half, while doub.
ling the wages of the employees and
the returns of capital.
He points out that the control of
our railroads has passed a good deal
to the bankers living in New York and
other large cities who know nothing
of railroad work or administration.
Standardized manufacture is the
key by which Mr.. Ford would solve
the problem. He would have cars
and engines reduced in weight about
one-fourth by using steel of greater
tensile strength than is now used. AT
present he declares that too much of
the power is needed, to haul dead
weight around.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
LEAGUE FORMS RED CROSS
Township Caucus Organized Itself In
to War Aid Society After
EIectinu DeIeuate.

After the caucus Of the Nonpartisan
league in Kratka township, Penning-
ton county, Minn., had transacted it's
business and elected its delegate to
the legislative convention, those pres.
ent organized themselves into a town.
ship Red Cross society branch with 30
members. ,
Collections for the Red Cross at
Nonpartisan league meetings are in.
creasing In size. Thousands of dol.
lars are being turned in to this
branch of war service through Non.
partisan activities. The league has
been able during the past few weeks
to enlist thousands of new persons
in this department of service.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
That Old Guy.

Mrs. Carico, a middle-aged and talk
ative ruralist, was appearing In a suit
brought by her husband. She insisted
on loudly commenting ON each answer
given by the first witness. Repeatedly
the Judge requested her to keep quiet.
but she persisted in audibly disputing
the words of the witness. Finally the
judge said:
'Mrs. Carico, the court demands that
you remain quiet. Unless you do 50
you will be held in contempt"
Giving the judge savage look. the
woman turned to her attorney and in
quired:
"WhO is that old guy that's butttn' In
all the eY-Harper's Magazine.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
some.h,na I. wrono.

In spite Of the fact that the aver.
age farmer in North Dakota raises
wheat enough in one year to feed
his family 80 years the farmers Of
that state are $4,000. 900 in debt.-A.
C. Townley.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
Earmer. Good LealsIators.

Gov. Frazier of North Dakota says
that the farmers elected to the iegis-
lature made good. They depended
on themselves without looking to
broken down politicians and corpor-
alton lawyers for leaders. The re-
suit was that they were able to car.
ry out their pledges. rsa
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
Profiteers Want More.

The Southern Pacific railway will
have accumulated profits by the end
of the year that win almost equal
the company's capital stock. Yet this
company is asking permission to In.
crease freight rates Is per cent.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
PRoFITEERs TOLL ON WOOL

One Hundred Percent on Yarns Used
For Knitting For Soldiers.
A circular issued by the Wool
Growers association states that wool
yarn, such as used by our people is
selling for $500 per pound. They
figure that the retailer and wholesal.
er are exacting over 100 per cent on
knitting yarns.
The profiteer overlooks nothing.
His patriotism is figured in dollars
and cents. lie likes to set the women
busy knitting, for every sale means
100 per cent profit to him.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
Highest Patriotism,

The patriotism that does its bit and
moro without questioning the motive
OF . neighbor who is doing his In \
different way IL the pure variety that
asoayS 100 Per coAt
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
Montana Tax System.

Montana Tax System.
u Now that their attention has been
called to 1t the people Of Montana
do not see how they stood their tax
system so long, but the system was
there all of the time, giving aid and
comfort to the railroads and the mine
owners, even before the NonpartisaD
league pointed It out.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
Can't support Both.

A stockyards profiteer says that
twice . year Is often enough for q
working person to go to the movies
How about the movie profiteer? He
can't live Il the stocxyards takes Ill
the workers slrDlus.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
A Teller of Tales.

There had never been the best OF
feeling between them, and when they
collided somwhat forcibly, as they
rounded q corner, headed in opposite
directions, in a snowstorm, Smith took
the opportunity to vent his spleen.
"Look here, you loafer! You cow
ardly Stacker! Why don't you look
where you are going?"
Brown gulped, reddened perceptibly
and demanded:
"Who showed you my question
naire?"-Pittsburgh Sun.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
Hampered by Senate.

They came to Bismarck on the oc.
casion of this special session to do
definite thing, convinced of the
needfulness of doing that thing both
by their own knowledge of farm con-
ditions and by the proclamation Of
their farmer governor, in whom they
have implicit faith. When they had
done this thing nothing else occurred
to them. They looked with marked
disfavor on the conduct of the senate
which kept them longer away from
their barns and stock, the care of
which in severe winter weather had
been temporarily entrusted to wives,
children and hired men.
These farmer legislators and their
farmer constituents feel with great
unanimity that effective relief of the
seed and feed crisis of. the present
winter would have been unobtainahle
under the old political regime. Rightly
or wrongly, they ascribed the present
solution to the beneficient influence of
the Nonpartisan league. The history
of the special session will confirm
their belief in the Leagues doctrine
of Legislation for farmers by farm.
ers." .
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
.FARMERSTATESMEN j;
DID WORK QUICKLY
The New Republic Shows How
Action Was Secured In
North Dakota.

How the farmers in North Dakota
got together in special session, trans
acted their business in a few days
and went home to their winter work
is told by the New Republic, the
leading weekly newspaper of America.
In strong contrast with old party
legislatures that usually take two
weeks to get down to business the
farmer legislature. knowing for what
purpose it had assembled, passed its
bills and was ready to stop expense
to the state in less time than week.
The seed situation in North Dako-
ia was becoming desperate, and threat
ening to interfere with full wartime
production. The New Republic says
on this subject:
"Despairing of adequate relief for
the state from Federal sources, Lynn
J. Frazier, the peoples governor"
elected by the farmers thru the
agency of the Nonpartisan league,
summoned the state legislature to
consider the seed and feed situation
and other wartime emergencies.
Within three days the house of rep
reseutatives in which the Nonpar-
tisan league farmers have a large ma
jorlty, had completed its business and
asked for adjournment. But the SEN
ate, where the forces in opposition to
the League are still in control, pro-
longed the session until the rising
tide OF public opinion throughout the
state led to a sudden change of tac-
tics"
The New Republic finds that farmer
legislatures are different from some
other legislatures and that the Non
partisans do their work with direct
ness and thoroughness too seldom
apparent in the work of American
Legislative bodies.
These North Dakota farmers who
make up the minority in the state.
senate and the majority in the house
are in striking contrast to the COM
mon type of state legislature. Law
making is a serious businehs to them.
They go about it with extreme earn
estncss. Long before the appointed
time for the house to be called to
order, most of them are in their
seats. studying gravely and diligently
the printed bills which the pages lay
Oil their desks.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
Gave Him Away.

0NVS 6s1s5s 5NSy11s
Winie-Say, NAV, pop must tell you
Q lot Of riddles.
His Mother-Why do you ask7
Willie-Well, heard him tell MIR.
Jones last night that he had you guess
ing.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28

OF $4,000 graduate nurses. In this
country 1900 already are In active war
service. H. -
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
H0w's This ?

r., HoW's This -?
r We offer $4,000 for any case Of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE lg tax.
On internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price T5c. Testimonials free.
r. !. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28

The tusks of the COW elephant have
been found best adapted to the making
of billiard balls.
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28
A NERVOUS
- BREAKDOWN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.

Newark. N. J.-"For about three
veara I suffered from nervous break
The Tomahawk., 1918-03-28

hitting M. Magnus, a farm hand, while
operating his automobile at high
rate of speed, killing him. Barnes
pleaded not guilty and was released
under $4,000 bail when arraigned be-
fore James Witherow, court commits
sioner.
Washington.-Civil service examina-
tions are announced for April 16 by
the Postoffice department to fill va
cancies at the postofices at Crooks
ton, st. Cloud and Virginia and Far
go, N. D. This will be the first time .
postmaster receiving q salary of more
than $2,40O . year has been designated
by civil service. Salaries OF the Elf
ferent officers are: Crookston, 81
500; St. Cloud, $3,10O; Virginia, ST.
500; Fargo, $3,700. Only persons who
live In the postal limits Of the cities
named are eligible to take the examf-
nations.
Winona.-Six thousand organized
boys and girls clubs, thriving this
year, especially under the impetus Civ
en- them through patriotic conscious
ness Of members, are prepared In
Minnesota to throw their full strength
with the government in helping to
win the war. That was q statement
in Winona by T. A. Erickson, state
leader of the club among junior farm.
ers and city gardeners and Gamers
Duluth-Waiving examination at the
municipal court John Vokich, New Do
luth laborer, charged with the murs
der OF Jack Bogich, WAS ordered held
for the grand jury.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19
"Rcmembcr the Lusieania." :"

Remember also our boy heroes are
suffering. sacrificing. bleeding and
many are lying foI Sumter county
men. women. boys and girls. So ev-
erybody should get the swat the
Kaiser Ssrit."
To the Women OF Sumter County:
The women OF Sumter county can
do "a big work for the brave heroes
who are making the supreme sacri-
flee" In order that we may remain free
people. and women and girls continu,
each I'm her own sovereign rlght-an
uncrowned American queen" You
will never be German slaves because
these boys are preventing that. on
June 21st. National Merchants War
Savings investment Day. with few
exceptions. every place of business i'm
this county. selling anything at all.
has signed an agreement to invest
their entire days cash sales I'm War
Savings Stamps. Every nickel pur-
chase stands for "a bullet to shoot into
baby killing German brute's heart.
n is now up TO Sumter county's
women. and sumter county's girls too.
each one. to volunteer to advertise
Merchants War Savings Investment
Day. and to see that your neighbors
buy every necessary commodity on
food. guns. ammunition. medical at
tention. clothes. recreation. and ev-
ervthing our defenders need to de-
fend you with. Back up the boys
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19
M. Grace Randle,
Librarian

who are standing. with their lives
between YOU and German slavery
Spread the news. The business men
are doing a big thing and you can help
them put ii "over the top"
We don't want you to buy a cent.
worth unnecessarily. But we do wan
every woman 10 enlist In this big army
TO see that Sumter county's allot-
ment OF sS50.OO0 i'm w. s. s. zoe.
"over the top" like our bows are doinr
IL in France for your honor, liberty
and safety. Won't you all serve a
committee Of one to get the bigges'
cash sales ever known in this county
on June 2lst for the preservation O
/ human liberty. and unsullied world.
wide democracy. | know that YOU
will
Yours truly,
-. w. Cuttino. Chairman,
t.. II. McCollum,
:. l.. Krasnon,
&. j. Dwyer,
William Bultman,
Sumter Chamber of Commerce "Pu
ii over the Top Committee"
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.
DEBS MAKES DISLOYAL SPEECH
Socialist Makes Speech in Ohio DENY.
ing lie Had Rcpudiatcd Opposition.
to War Measures.

Canton, Ohio, June 16.--Eugene V
Debs, three times socialist candidate
for the presidency of the United States
addressed the closing session of n
three days convention of the Social
lists of Ohio here today. Emphatical-
~ denying that he had rcpudiated the
party's st. Louis platform, which
pledges opposition to conscription and
Liberty bonds, Debs is quoted as de-
claring the Socialists must stand more
firmly than ever for their principles.
Debs, after paying tribute to the
Socialists who have gone to Jail for
the sake of their principles, praises
/. w. w. members, referred to the
Bolshevilli as comrades and is said TO
have charged that the purposes of the
allies in the war are the same as
those of the central powers-plunder.
A crisis in America, similar to that
which placed the Bolsheviki in power,
was predicted by Debs.
During Debs speech federal opera
tives seized and held for investigation
55 young Socialists who could not
show draft classification cards.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19
tation in Office" impudently puts it

tation in Office" impudently puts it
into actual practice,
Honestly now, isn't it downright
mean OF governor to break the
time-honored rules of the political
game in that rude, laundering way?
Why not blindfold him and back him
u) TO the wire, then enter him wheth-
er or no in the race for the senate or
for THIRD TERM, SO that he might
be shown-what would come TO him
in the primaries? Can not something
be done? What is to become Of the
professional politicians if the game is
ID be marred, frustrated, demoraliz-
ed, busted by such men as Manning,
who do not and will not stand like
the daughters of the horse leach in
cessantly crying "Moreu
Beyond all doubt, Manning is the
poorest politician we have with us.
Hence these tears.-Columbia State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19
Hinc IIiac Lacrymac.

RIchard |. Manning holds the office
OF governor and apparently some OF
our friends and contemporaries are
panied because on that account he has
not abdicated as a citizen. It seems
that recently he expressed an opinion
about the senatorial contest. which we
almost suspect was the exercise of an
individual and private right. That il
has caused anguish and suffering and
oltter ratings brings to The state,
too, some sense OF pain, howbeit it is
Of no concern to us whom Mr.. Man.
rlhg supports for senator. Doubtless
there are those who will be influenced
by the governor, some men will vote
for Senator Tillman because Mr.. Man
ming is disposed favorably to MIR.
Lever and some will vote for Mr.
Lever on that account. there are men
so destitute of independence that they
vote against any candidate that The
state suppOrts-they are the only
men in South Carolina whose politi-
cal action The State controls
The important consideration this
year is 10 elect to the senate a citizen
whose faith in the righteousness of
the war is above suspicion and
against whose loyalty to the president
and the congress 40 QUESTION
MARK IS SET. Whatever, the bick-
erings and wranglings, the people of
South Carolina in overwhelming
numbers WILL SEE THAT THAT Is
DONE. THEY WILL STAND RY
THEIR BOYS.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19

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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19
Early Cotton Blooms.

IN additin to the first cotton bloom
OF the season sent TO this office last
week by Mr.. w j. Stafford and men,
toned heretofore. early blooms have
been received from the following:
Mr.. j. Ashby Hodge of Tindal sends
bloom under date of 10Th. The bloom
was taken from Il field of Cleveland
Zig Boil planted on April 9TH.
Mr.. y. c.. Brown, of Pinewood, sends
bloom found in the field of Booth &
Ross on 18th
Mr. y. j. Jackson brought in a
bloom on the 18th which was taken
from sixty acre field of Toole cot
ton planted the last week of March.
Ben Hammond, colored, of Tindal,
sent in bloom on the 18th.
Reports from al sections are that
cotton is smaller than normal at this
date but is in Il healthy condition,
wcll cultivated and growing nicely.
Early cotton generally will show
blooms this week.
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Parcn:hctically Speaking.

Oh, Carranza sent cable Con the
kaisers birthday gram
To the kaiser there at Pots CHATS a
German place. dam,
And it said, Look out for Uncle
CHATS my northern neighbor)
Sam,
For he's coming after you.'
Then the kaiser waved his iron Gas the
papers have iD hand,
And he danced a little sara CHATS q
Turkish tango) band,
And he said: I'm safe i'm He'll lin tho
German sea- goland,
But l thank my friend Carranza.
Chicago Tribune.
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ALL TIRED OUT.
Hundreds More I'm Sumter in tho
Same Plight.

Tired all the time;
Weary and worn out night and day;
Back aches: head aches,
Your kidneys are probably weaken
ed.
You should help them at their work.
Let one who knows tell you how.
Mrs. \. y. Skinner. POS w. Oakland
we. Sumter, says: 81 certainly can
recommend Doan's Kidney Pills. |
had kidney trouble and | was subjec;
to headaches and dizzy spells. Some
.imes | had to hold on to something
for fear | would fall over. Tired
spells often came over me and !
would feel languid and sleepy. Ny
kidneys acted irregularly and worried 4
me Il great deal ] knew | would have
Doan's Kidney Pills, | got some. Two
boxes Of Doan's cured Ihc of all tho
trouble and | think they are splendid"
Price GOc. at all dealers. Don,
simply ask for a kidney remedy-Ge.
Doan's Kidney PillS--thc same tina
Mrs. Skinner had Foster Milburn
Co, Mfgrs., Buffalo, n. Y,-rAdvt. G3
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19
May Face Federal Court.

Cleveland, June 16.-United States
District Attorney Wetz said tonight
that if Eugene V. Debs is correctly re
ported as declaring at today's Social
ist convention in Canton that the aim
of the allies in this war is plunder. he
will bring the matter before the fed
eral grand jury here tomorrow for
violation of the espionage act.