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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29
S S..znEer III, seer Frttilizer Works
Goiayany Organized to Manu-
1acture Fertilizer in This City

The Secretary Of State has issued a
co:nmiss on for charter to the Sum
Ter Fertilizer Works. The petitioners
are J. P. Booth, Neill O'Donnell, and
y. e. Tisda,e. The capital stock is
20 be S50.0GU.
il is stated that practically all the
:aoc,l has been subscribed and that
.:le organization Of the company will
% completed at once. The location
e the plant has not been definitely
determ:ned-at least no announce
nlcnt CT that fact has been made.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29
Attack on Rounania
Bessarabia Proclaimed a Re
public and Military Operations
Against Roumanian Army
Started

London, March PA republic has
been proclaimed in Ressarabia and~its
directorate has ordered military op-
crations against the Rumanian army,
a part Of which was forced to fall
back, according to Warsaw IS
patches.
1t is stated the movement is evi-
dently engineered by the BolsheviHi
supported by the Ukrainians Who
seek to break through Rumania to
establish contact between MOSCOW and
Budapest.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29
Army SCHOOL GROWS.

The army now has taken over con-
troll Of the educational program
which the Y. NJ. c.. a. has been car
rying on for our soldiers in France
Recently Gen. Pershins arranged to
purchase s1,000.o00 worth of text
BOOKS from the 7. u. C. y. The
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29
Galicia i'm Revolution
DISPATCH From Moscow Declares
That Poland Has Civil War
to Face.

Vienna. March 21.-A wireless
message received from the soviet
government at Moscow declares that
Galicia is in. a, state of revolution,
Troops have been dispatched by the
Polish government the message states.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29

\ Buick Six touring car was stolen
from M. w 7. Lescsne Of Manning
TUESDAY night. and up to noon to-
day no trace OF tho car had beer
found Nj. LeseSnc offers a reward
Of 500 fer the recovery Of the csr.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29

Paris. March 26.-The Prussian
national assembly has voted unani-
inousIy against the REIMBURSEMENT by
Germany Of any Rhine territory, ac-
corGinc to German dispatches receiV-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29
NOTICE

Of Application for Final Discharge,
Estate Of Edna Seymour, Minor.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29

On April 14th, 1919, will apply
10 the Judge OF Probate for Sumter
County for q Final Discharge as
Guardian Of said estate.
LAWRENCE T. SEYMOUR,
Guardian.
c,,r,1or G r, March IA 1919
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29
t:w YORK COTTON MARKET.

FOR SALE-F. O. 3. cars, Camp
jackson stable manure; very little
straw Car load lots only. Che'ni>
ga; and Fertilizer value rated very
high by Clemson college. A e.
Strauss. Sumter S. e.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29
Cotton Market
LOCAL.

LOCAL.
+. IL BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer.
Corrected Daily at 12 o'clock Noon).
Good N{iddling, 26 IL.
Strict Middling, 26.
Middling 25 1-2.
Strict Low Middling %.
s:t.w YORK COTTON MARKET.
Yes'td'ys
Open High Low Close Close
(Old Style)
Max 1855 24.3O 1855 24.30 $3.50
July 21.9O 2215 21.75 22.13 21.4o
(New Style)
May $3.50 24.66 21.50 24.66 1857
Ju,y 21.S5 22.52 21.75 22s52 21.50
Oct. 1000 20.8O 1000 1880 1858
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29

Advertisements.
One Square first insertion ..s1.oe
every subsequent insertion. :. IS"
Contracts for three months, OF
longer viii be made at reduced rates
All communications which sun-
serve private interests will be charged
for as. advertisements.
Obituaries and tributes OF respeci
Will be charged for.
The Sumter Watchman was found
-. a 1850 and the True Southron i:
1866. The Watchman s.ad Souta-o.
now has the combined circulation anc
influence OF both OF the old paper,
and is manifestly the best advertis.-.
medium in Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29

i,EEsWAX WANTED-Any quantity
large or small Am paying best
cash price. See me if you have
onv " G. Osteen.
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Sumter, S. c., March Il, 1919.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-03-29

We would urge this as essential to
the best prosperity of the South, even
if we knew cotton would command
double it's present price.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

and for funds to supplement the amount
which has been turned over by the Legisla-
ture to the commission. The residue of the
money appropriated for use of the Stat
Council of Defense, by act of the General
Assembly, is now available for the use
of the commission, but it is only the nu-
cleus of a much larger fund which the com
mittee expects to raise through community
donations, through individual subscriptions
through various boards of education, coun-
ty commissioners and church organizations
who are interested in removing illiteracy.
In view of the Importance of the move
ment, and with the evidences of interest and
cooperation already shown, the commission
believes that it will be able to secure not
only the amount needed for the intensive
drive of the next six months but also for the
necessary extension of the work after the
federal censns is taken.
At any rate the commission has taken the
first active step forward and it is counting
on ultimate success through it's own unre-
uniting efforts backed by the intelligent CO.
operation Of Georgians who are willing to
prove their loyalty and pride by rallying to
the standard of education in one of the most
important undertakings sponsored by the
state in recent years.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
The HIiteracy Commits ion.

with the expectation of receiving the
W. full sympathy and cooperation Of ev-
cry person in the state who is inter-
ested in Georgia's welfare and progress, the
Georgia Illiteracy Commission, authorized
by the last session OF the General Assembly,
and recently appointed by the governor, mas
mapped out plans for an intensive drive
against illiteracy in Georgia during the next
six months in order that in the federal CEN
sus of 1920 Georgia may take proper rank
with other states as far as its iteracy Stats
tics are concerned.
The matter is one of vital Importance, and
the commission will undoubtedly receive the
support to which it Is entitled In this con-
nection, Hon. M. L. Britain, superintend-
emit of schools for Georgia, pointed out
his address to the commission Wednesday
at It's first meeting that Georgia is by no
means not the most illiterate state in the
union or in the South, and that in recent
years 1t has cut down the number of it's il
1iterates more than any of the other states.
But there is no evading the truth that the
1910 census shows that there were at that
time in the state SO8,639 negro illiterates and
81,078 white illiterates. OF these, there
were Ill, 037 negroes of voting age and 30
504 white illiterate adults. Comparison of
statistics shows that according to the 1910
census, only three other states, Alabama,
Louisiana and South Carolina, had more ne
gro illiterates, though seven southern states
uHQ more WnlL6 llIlLoraLeS IMAM georgia. ThlS
condition was brought about because there
were no school facilities during the time of
financial distress and reconstruction between
1850 and 1855 and by the further fact that
until 1865 nearly all the negroes were litter
ate.
Since 1870, the public schools Of Georgia
have cut down the percentage of illiteracy as
rapidly as any other state, but swift and sys-
tematic action is needed now to reduce IL
literacy among men and women who have
not had the opportunity to secure even the
rudiments of education.
The State Department of Education in
Georgia, and in other states, has conclusive
~ proved that the training of grown up men
and women late in life is practicable though
somewhat difficult; and the newly created
commission on illiteracy proposes during
the next six months to utilize every available
agency in reaching the illiterate population
of the state In order both to protect the good
name of Georgia in the next census and to
help thousands Of deserving men and women
who were unable to secure educational
training earlier in life.
1t has been shown by experience that les
sons for two hours day will enable the
adult pupil to read, write and perform sim
pie business operations in from four to SIX
weeks, even with men and women as old as
sixty and seventy years; and, encouraged by
its success in several counties in which the
work is now being carried on, the commits
sion hopes to make material progress with
In the short time intervening before the
census is taken.
The immediate need is for trained workers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Les, Labor, More Profit
For Georgia Farming
HERE is nothing Utopian in the Moul-
trie Observers prediction that the

HERE 10 nothing UtOp1an III tne ao"i
tr;e Observers prediction that the
= future of Georgia farming will be
much less laborious and much more proht-
able than the past. Men Will quit tolio"-
ing the hig uIow and the two mules, says
onr contemporary, "just as they already have
emit following the small turn pillow anu the
80 small mule There has been TOO mucn
man-work on the farm in the South ana LOO
little machinery work. This mas peen oue
>in large measure to the fact that farm lapor
hos been cheap and plentiful. A ':nange Is
=; nrocass. there will be less farm labor in
tho future. and what there is will be nlgner'
This nroblem was thrust upon Englano
and France in way so critical tnat IL elthef
had to be solved or suffered TO leao On "
national starvation. me exlgehcies "a INC
battlefront had drained the farms OF, man
mower in spite of selective service laws. IN
their emergency both countries, England par
ticularly turned to mechanlcal substitutes
for field labor. Thousands or tractors were
imnorted from the United States. In some
instances they were equipped with giant heau-
lights. SO that they could operate by DARK
as well as by day. Thus in short while
and with surprising minimum of manual
labor, great areas of land were made ready
for planting. So, too, the needs Oh cultiVa-
tion and harvesting were met to large e2-
tent nv machines in place OF men. Tne re-
su1t was that in the last two summers OF
the war especially in 1918, when, accord
ing to German plans, England should nave
been reduced to famine, she raised one OF
the most bountiful harvests in ner history.
In the light of such experience and also
from the assuring results of tests in the
home field, we may look certainly to the
time when Georgia farms will produce twice
the crops with half the hands now employed.
Recent demonstrations in land-ciearlng Dy
means of dynamite serve to show what econ
omies OF labor and increases OF wealth can
he accomplished when science and invention
turn their nimble wits to task. OF course,
mechanical appliances can never be substl-
tute for intelligence and character; farmer
who thinks and aspires will produce more
with the crudest equipment than all the ma
chimes ever contrived can accomplish in the
hands of slip-shod self-satisfaction.1 I'm
doubleday however, the course Of agrl-
cultural progress is toward the use OF more
and more labor-saving machinery, not only
in the heavier tasks of the field, but in the
household as well, in divers ways that tighten
drudgery and make rural life more widely
appealing. The tendency is cheering one
and of ever-growing strength in Georgia and
the South.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

nRESIDENT WILSON uttered senti-
ment In which thoughtful Americans
all earnestly concur when he declar-
ed, apropos of the unfortunate situation in
Boston:
"a strike of the policemen of great
city is crime against civilization. In
my Judgment the obligation of police
men is as sacred and direct as the obliga-
tlon or soldier. he is public servant
not private employee, and the whole
honor and safety of the community is
IN MS hands. He has no right to prefer
any private advantage to the public safe
ty. | hope that this lesson will be burn
ed in so that it will never again be for
gotten, because the pride of America is
that it can exercise self-cont~t L."
Surely 1t was In a moment of hysterical
self-forgetfulness that the police of New
Englands metropolis deserted duty to press
what they mistakenly conceived to be a per-
sonal interest. One cannot imagine group
OF Americans, charged with so grave re-
sponsibility as the guarding of public prop
erty and life, forsaking their posts and be-
coming in effect allies of lawlessness unless
under the spell of some influence al
together unlike their normal selves and
contrary to their country's common faith
america has been democracy, a true
and stable democracy, because it has
DeueVed in and has practiced organized
self-control. When It forgets that principle
ana loses that faculty, it's vigor as republic
VIII be dead and its liberty swallowed up in
brutal license. Truly, as the President saws,
men who want to cure the wrongs of gov
eminent by destroying government are going
10 De destroyed Observation-Disclosures |
mean by the chaos they create
1t speaks we'll for the country character
and augurs we'll for it's future that the Bos-
ton incident has been unQualifiedIy con-
demned in every State and vigorously dealt
with by the officials Of that city and Common
wealth. There is no sympathy among true
Americans for anything that reeks of Boil
sheVism, and no tolerance for desertion OF
sacred duty. Now of all times do we need
cool heads and loyal spirits to keep our be-
loved nation playing worthy part on the
worlds troubled stage. And all Americans
deserving the name may be counted upon to
keep unsWervingly to this course.
Now that winter is approaching, the ex-
Kaiser will probably forego wood chOpping
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
UNITY AS ESSENTIAL IN PEACE
AS IN WAR
By DR.. Frank Crane

by LII. Ildllk OIdllG
| Andre Tardieu, high commissioner for
Franco-American war matters, in a speech
recently delivered in Paris. uttered one SEN
timent that ought to be placarded in seven
foot letters
| 1. In the congress and senate chambers of
the United States.
2. Upon the walls of every factory, bust
ness house, shipping Office and newspaper
sanctum, and
8. In conspicuous place wherever a
labor union meets.
This is his utterance; he speaks of France,
Great Britain and America:
eve achieved cur victory by the constant
effort of the whole nation reaching for an
object, and we shall earn our peace by the
same effort The invasion of our territory
brought about the unity of all without dis
cussion, and the unanimous feeling of the
nation is necessary to win peace"
There it is in nutshell
War, with all the hell and waste and
madness it brought, brought also one thing
that was an ;nestimable blessing to wit:
NATIONAL UNITY.
We suffered we feared we sacrificed, but
at least we Got Together, as never before
in our communal life.
And so in spite of wars terrific drain, we
prospered.
Now, peace having come we fall to quar-
reling like Kilkenny cats.
Angry, narrow, selfish senators play pot
house politics while a hundred million peo-
pie await their action.
Every group of workers, from scrub
woman to actors, stop production and go
to alteration.
During the war everybody applauded when
the flag was shown in the movie or Uncle
Sans name was mentioned on the platform.
Now it would seem the old gentlman and
his bunting have hardly friend left
Will Peace do what War could not, achieve
our ruin?
While War united all in brotherly love,
and millionaire and pauper, capitalist and
laborer, high and low. kept step 70 the beat
of the drum, and marched on to miracles
of achievements are we going to break up
into a tangled mob and fall to scratching
out each others eyes when Peace attunes
her pipes?
What fools are! How stupid and still
medieval-minded
For Patriotism is not a thing for War
alone; it is twice needed IN Peace.
Patriotism simply means the abating of
selfshness for the Common Good.
We have before us such an opportunity
as people ever had in the annals of
time. Prosperity, "icnes the leadership of
the world is in grasp.
But do we think we can gain the prize
if we all give way to a debauch Of selfish
ness and contention?
The Unity, the Idealism, the sense of the
Common Good, we had during the war IS
ten times more needed now.
We must Get Together or perish.
Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
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my grandfather could have had all this
land around here for a song"
II don't blame him." replied the indignant
vocalist. HE showed wisdom in going with
out land rather than take chance on the
musical critics.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

Chicago corn continues to tumble but
north Georgia corn, from unofficial quota
lions, seems to stay up.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

Now that winter is approaching, the ex-
Kaiser will probably forego wood chopping
in favor of firing the furnace.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

The ex-Kaiser should be doubly punished
Tor bringing on the war and for the painful
process of reconstruction
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

Four hundred thousand German workers
have volunteered for the work Of restoration
in northern France. according to Vorwaerts,
a Berlin newspaper.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

nRESIDENT WILSON uttered senti-
ment in which thoughtful Americans
all earnestly concur when he declar-
ed, apropos of the unfortunate situation in
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

Colonel e. M. House, having completed
his work in England in connection with the
League of Nations, returned Monday to
Paris, where he will resume his place as q
member of the American peace commission.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Production and Thrift
In the Southeast

~ EORGIA and her sister States of the
= Sixth Federal Reserve District may
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

Enactment of the Cummins railroad bin
will spell the birth of revolution in Ameri-
ca" Warren S. Stone, chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers said Satur-
day in formal statement issued in Wash
ngton.
President w. c. Lee, of the Brotherhood
OF Railway Trainmen and presidents of -
other railway unions j0ined with Mr.. Stone
Gin signing the statemeh> WHICH was issued
through the Plumb plan 1eague.
A reign of terror has been started in the
city and government of Ufa, Russia, accord
ing to the intelligence Office of the general
staff of the Siberian army at Omsk Manv
priests have been executed, some of then,
being slain in the churches during services
The Bolsheviki are also prosecuting the Mus
sulman priests.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-08
BERLIN RIOTS
: ARE FATAL TO
LARGE NUMBER
Hundreds Are Reported as Slain
y in Fight with Spar
tacus Group
MOVIES RECORD FIGHTING
First Clash Reported to Have
Occurred Sunday Before
the kaiserhOff
MOVIES RECORD FIGHTING

London. Jan. S.-Several hundred
persons were killed In the street
fighting In Berlin which has been In
progress for several days. The pro-
visional government seems to be mas.
ter of the situation. The Spartacans
have plenty of arms and ammunition
which they took when an arsenal was
seized. E,,A -. -
During the, fighting moving pictures
we're taken by specially commisison.
ed agents. Operators were busy re-
cording scenes enacted in the streets
The first clash occurred Sunday in
front of the Kaiserhoff Some OF the
troops turned against the government
and others refused to. A marine d.
vision is said to be- supporting the
government. --.
1t is reported that the Spartacans
were holding the royal stables and po.
lice headquarters. They have gath
cred large quantities of arms and am
munitiOn.
The hosts of DR.. Carl Liebnecht
we're DcSluuluS 10 IHONC dL tNIS AOu'
to a portion of the city where no.
tices and the red flag had called upon
them to assemble.
The leading article called upon the
Spartacans to occupy strategical po-
sitions in the city. Some of their
men were permitted to enter one OF
the buildings ....t.. .gi
Berlin was without newspapers this
morning with the execution OF one
newspaper gotten out by the Sparta
cans. At noon the usurperers were in
possession of the newspaper offices.
The government tonight felt that
it had the situation we'll in hand. The
Spartacans approached the, govern
lnent troops guarding the palace, car,
rying a white flag. They demanded
its surrender, saying that it. was sur,
rounded. Government troops refused
to do so and several were killed. g ~
Spartacan troops, are being detailed
through the city and the government
troops are Waiting forsa an attack. Ma.
chine guns have been mounted upon
the buildings and the government
troops have been equipped with flame
| thrOWcrs. g
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-08
ORTIZ DAKOTA
GRAINMEN MEET
HERE NEXT WEEK
Mortgages and Liens and Buy
ers' Licenses to Be = a'
VII {. i Discussed ,s., .l1 =.

North Dakota will have three great
farmers meetings during the present
month"; The North Dakota Farmers
union is, in annual convention at the
Commercial club today; January u
and IA the Grainmen's union of
North Dakota will meet here, and la.
ter in the month the North Dakota So
ciety of Equity holds it's annual gath
ering here. The Commercial club al.
50 is bidding for the North Dakota
State Dairymen's association, whose
officers believe it's annual convention
could advantageously be held here
while the legislature is in session.
More milk and cream is produced
iwthin a hundred-mile radius of Bis
marck than in any similar territory
in the state, but the association US
ually has met in the eastern or north.
ern section of North Dakota.
W. W. Miracle of Jud, secretary Of
the North Dakota Grainmen's union.
advises that matters relating to the
mortgage and lein laws and buyers H.
censes will be among the principle
topics discussed by the grainmen. The
officers of the society are George H.
Bruins of Oriska. PRESIDENT L.. I'll.
Palmer of Oberon, vice president; W.
w. Miracle of Jud, secretary; Charles
w. Burgess of Jud, treasurer. These
men with F. C. Rector of Lisbon, A.
A. Lee Of Fargo and Will Thompson
of Hurdsfield compose the director
ate. A large attendance is looked for
at the approaching convention, and
elaborate preparations are being made
for the entertainment of the grain