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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09
WILHELM EXPLAINS.

The former Kaiser, in his latest de-
fence, published recently, says moth
ing unexpected He b1ames Russia,
torn and bleeding plaything Of Ger
man intrigue, for the war. Russia
cannot defend itself. He blanes the
late Edward VII OF England. Dead
men tell no tales" He says his own
military party gave no heed to him,
that he was taken by the shoulder
and pushed from the room" when
they were making a decision involv-
Ing war. The haughtiest Hotenzol-
lern of them all pushed from the
room by a subordinate?
He says the sinking of the Lusi-
.tania was a .:b!under," which he has
regretted ever since. a blunder? :?
That IS not the sort of thing about
which ''blunders" are made. It is the
sort of thing which one either does or
does not do. according rs he has a
decent regard for humanity and the
rights of the individual. Nobody
"blunders" unto giving detailed. de-
liberate orders for the drowning Of
little babies, innocent children and
helpless women.
II Germany had emerged victor
ious from the war. who would have
had the credit? Russia? England? :?
The military party? Whose victor
ious armies were those? Whose
glorious navy" If America were
trembling under German rule right
now, who would regret the Lusitanla
;'blundcr?" Wilhelm?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09
SELLING THE GOVERNMENT
SHIPS.

There is a widespread chorus Of
Of the plan worked ont by
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
Board for transferring the govern
ment merchant fleet to private own
ership. The reasons given by Mr.
Hurley are recognized as sound.
It was necessary, he says, for the
government to undertake the build
ing and operation of 9 great CONNER
cial fleet as a wa- measure, because
private enterprise could not have ac-
complished so vast and complex a
task. But with the war ended. the
situation is changed.
For one thing, it would result il
unpleasant complications with other
nations if the United States govern
mcnt were running our ships wher
foreign ships are in private hands.
More important, however. is the
CODSlU CldIlOIl VI ciIlSsr1it. NHaAt
man Hurley we'll says:
THE chief argument in favor c,
private ownership and operation il
that successful merchant marine
depends not so much on ships o.
money or government aid as it doe
on the existence of a large class o
alert. resourcefuI and energetic mel
engaged in the shipping business. Th
! man who enters the shipping busi
ness enters q battle against the wit
! Of the world. The formalities neces
sariiy surrounding government opera
tions are not suited to the success
ful conduct of a shipping venture re
curing quick decision. sudden re
versals Of policy and the assun7in
Of great hazards. The successful
shipping man in an emergency con
salts no book Of rules. He consult
only his wits. So, it is contelaed
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09
THE aOTHFVL BEE.

sOae after another our traditions
are toppled over and our ideals
dimmed.s
There is the bee, for example: From
time immortal, and possibly longer,
the bee has been a synonym Of pro-
ductive industry and a model for
mankind
-How doth the little busy bee, etc??'''
How. doth she, indeed! According to
recent observations of irreverent,
hard headed, practical observers, this
is the way she doth:
She goes around gathering honey
Tor two shining hours, and then she
sneaks home to the hive and lays off'
ssufsirg herself from her store OF
sweets. and lazily working her wings
lust enough to keep herself cool
sweet food being heating, as every
body knows. She acts precisely like
the idle women we sometimes reac
about who spends the afternoon dip
ping into handy bon-bon box and
furnishing motive power to palm
leaf fan.
After a while this gormandizins
lethargy pals on 9rs. Bee. The coz
censrated food she consumes produce
80 much energy that She just has II
get outdoors ard work It off some
how. SO she proceeds to take th'
only exercise she knows anythins
about, and. makes her flower-round
asssn. Two hours on duty and tw'
oEs3eenis to be her usual schedule
The experts say they have yet t.
and the bee that puts in an eight
hour day.
There is only one hope left-th
ant. And after this saddening reve
iation, we're almost prepared to lear
that Mrs. Ant is a hypocritical loaf
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09
HELP FOR EXPORT BUSINESS

1t is far cry from the ante-bel'
luna Hostility to business rightly
or wrongly charged against the gov
ernment and public, to the liberia
aid now being given American bust
ness IN promoting foreign trade.
Under The webb act, passed by the
last congress, the War Finance Cor
poration has a billion dollar fund
with which to help along the export
business. This fund is now avail
able, and from present indications it
is not going to go begging. Some so
export organizations, consisting OF
groups Of manufacturers combined
something after the manner Of farm
loan associations, have notified the
Federal Trade Commission that they
intend operating under the provisions
of the Webb law. They viii be eli
gible to loans up to the limit Of S5a.-
zoe, eco for any enterprise approved
by the War Finance Corporation.
There will be no charity about
these loans. They will be backed by
good collateral, and will draw a rate
of interest approximating 6 per cent.
Their value lies in the fact that they
will be available for class of busi-
ness for which most banks cannot le-
gally make loans. Without them
great and growing set of export in
terests, on which much Of the future
prosperity of the country depends,
would be unable to take advantage Of
beckening opportunities in many
lands.
This is one Of the signs Of theI
times, proof Of the new spirit Of CO.
operation. between government and
business. It is recognition that ''big
business is not the concern Of a few
men, but is literally everybody,s bus
mess, to be helped along by every !
bodysas long as it. is honest and fair.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

Washington, April 5.-The war de-.
partment has definitely decided that
it Will be impracticable to parade the
Rainbow Division in Washing on as
complete organization. The dsyas-.
ion will be in Camp Meade by the
last of April and units will be ssnt
to home camps for demobilizatton.
Regiments and smaller units wiiIsbs
.paraded in the principal cities Of their
home States. r,ss.ssa ~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09
MORE NEWS FROM PARIS:

The other day the Peace Confer
eace undertook to rebuke the news
papers. It issued an official not
saying: 'The press has publishet
certain information on the peace ne
gotiations, especially the financia
negotiations, which does not agree
with the facts, but is entirely erron
eous.'
The note was acknowledged by tht
Paris Temps with this pointed re.
mark: "The above contradiction con.
stitutes the sole official information
supplied to the French press with rs.
gard to the important deliberations
Of the heads of the allied govern
ments." >:
1t was dignihed and deserved re-
buke for the Peace Conference. Un-
questionably the press, and particular
~ the French press, has gone too far
at times in the publication of un-
authorized and unverified reports re-
gardine the proceedings of. the Con-
ference. But nearly all these inaccu-
racies whether in France Or England
Or America, have been committed in
an honest effort to give the public
the truth so far as the newspaper
men could obtain it or infer it. The
attitude Of the press has been that
the public everywhere had a right
to know what was going on-not all
the details OF delicate and difficult
negotiations, but the main drift of
them and the big facts at issue. This
has .hlso been the attitude OF the
general. public, especially in Ameri-
ca, where It is the custom to air all
public questions frankly and thor
onshly.
It is really the people at home.
not those representatives at Paris,
that are responsible for this settle
ment. Yet from the first there has
been a plague OF censorship at Par
is, and that plague has grown with
the progress Of the treaty. Recently.
with conditions grown critical and the
world more eager than ever to know
what is being done about dozen
menacing developments in Europe,
not in order to hinder the Confer
ence but to help it. the censorship
has closed down tighter than ever.
When there ought to be the fullest
news and freest comment from Paris,
there is the least,
American newspapers with few ex-
ceptions. have patiently endured this
situation, making excuses for the
Peace Conference rather than CRITICS.
ing 1t. But the time for silent sub
mission is past.
The American press and public are
getting weary and suspicious OF
secret diplomacy" The American
people want more news from Paris.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

Paris April 5.-Marshal Foch has
telegraphed the allied governments
that the right Of the allies to use Dan
zig as a port OF return of Polish
troops in France had been formally
upheld in conference with German
representatives.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

st. Johns n. F., April 5.-Waather
conditions continue 80 unfavorable
that persons interested in the propos-
ed transatlantic fight with airplane
say it is doubtful whether it can be
attempted within the next fortnight.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

Vienna, April THE Hungarian
Communist government in Budapest
has been oyerthrown, according to
rumors current in official circles, the
newspapers say. Bella Kun, the for
eign minister is reported to have
been assassinated. The reports do
not say whether the attempted rev.
olution in Budapest was organized by
the Socialists or Bourgeois parties.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

Paris, April 5.-The commission
on the constitution Of the German
national assembly has adopted a
clause stipul2tirg that there shall DE
no state church, according to a Wei
mar dispatch. Sunday is maintained
as legal holiday
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

Washington, April 5.-The latest
figures on the status of the military
forces in Europe, Gen. March an
nounced. show that the armies Of
the central powers constitute about
Is per cent. Of their strength when
the arElistice was signed while the
allied forces still organized comprise
rs per cent. Of their strength on No
vmbr 11th.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
London. April 5-rhe situation

London, April 5.-The situation in
southern Russia has recently become
distinctly worse from the allied
viewpoint, mainly owing to the short
age Of food, according to the Press
Association. There is a possibility
that Odessa will become so short OF
food that the allies may be compelled
to eyacuate the city.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09
Cotton Mark ct
LOCAL.

z. G.. BOWMAN. Cotton Buyer.
Corrected Daily at II o'clock Noon)
Good Middling 26.
Strict Middling 25 1-2.
Middling 25.
Strict Low Middling % IL.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

Ad1s9saseuezts.
CrA Square frsts insertion =. LES
Every subsequent insertion. so
Contracts for three smeuths, or
lenser viii be made at reduced rates.
All communication which sub
serrs private interests win be charged
Cor al advertisements.
Obituaries and tributes Of respect
win be charged ter.
Tho Sumter Watchman waS found
a. In 1850 and the True Southron II
SxeS. The Watchnan 4ad SoutGron
now has the combined circulation and
influence OF both OF the old papers,
aHd b manifestiy the best advertisims
medium IN SuI0tsr.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-09

Sumter, S. c., April 2e, 1913.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
BRIEF FACTS

In a new comb for drying the hair
a rubber bulb forces air heated by cleo
tricity in the handle through perforated
teeth.
SociOlogists estimate that among
every thousand bachelors there are
thirty-eight criminals, whereas mar
ried men produce eighteen a thou
sand.
The northernmost cannery in the
world, fish-packing plant, is in opera
tion in Kotzebue, Alaska well within
the Arctic circle.
Though the lift doors of an Illinois
factory weigh more than ton, they
are so well balanced they are oper-
ated by a hand chain at one side.
Billiard cues are chalked automat-
icaIly by q machine which revOlves a
block of chalk as their tips are pressed
against it.
The production of petroleum in
Japan has been decreased each year
since 1914 although the domestic de-
mand has increased.
A long wooden handle, widened at
the end, has been patented to which a
wash cloth can be fastened to serve
as bath brush.
Soap bubbles ascend because they
are filed with the warm air from the
lungs from the person who blows them.
They are therefore lighter in cOmpari-
son with the colder air that surrounds
them.
The British glass industries, which
registered to take over glass works at
Canning Town and at Leeds, has now
entered into an arrangement to pur-
chase the whole of the shares of the
Queensborough glass bottle works.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24

Arrests for drunkenness in Minneap-
oils in June (wet) numbered 5U7. In
July dry the number was !32.
The United States district attorney
at Seattle has ordered criminal action
against restaurants that charge 10
cents cup of coffee.
For drawing horse lawn-mowers a
small gasoline tractor mas been in
vented that is steered from the mower
seat with handles like a plow.
w. c. Hambree, eighty-one years old.
went up for 15-minute ride in a COM
mercial airplane. AS he alighted. he
said: Il came to YamhiH county by
ox-team in 1S47."
In calm weather a carrier nioaon
can fly at a rate of 1,200 yards a min
ute. With the help of moderate wind
1t Will attain a speed of 1,54O yards
and before high wind 1000 yards.
The first notable strike in the Amer
lean iron and steel industry occurred
in Pittsburgh in 1850, when the work
ers employed in the mills in that citv
and its vicinity went on strike because
of reduction in wages.
A cablegram from the American
consul general in Calcutta, under date
of August 27, 1919, states that an en-
barge has been placed upon the ex-
port on hides and skins from British
India to destinations outside the Brit
ish empire, except under license.
Latest revised estimates of tbe
losses caused by the storm which
swept Valparaiso harbor on Jnly IL,
II and 13 last place the total at about
$6,OOO,OOO United States gold. About
so men were drowned the majority of
whom could have been saved if the
port had been equipped with ADEQUATE
life-saving apparatus
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24

asked Tiny View. "Isn't that the least
bit deceitful?"
"of course not" said Big View an
grily.
"Oh, 1 didn't mean to annoy you,"
said Tiny View. ST was only asking
question"
1T is no more deceitful than for
you to make them see things far
away"
81 suppose that is so,'' said Tiny
View. 81 hadn't thought about it
that way before"
"You hadn't looked into the matter
closely enough" laughed Big View.
"Well," said Tiny View, "we're each
rather clever in our own way. You
can make things near which aren't
and l can make things look far away
which aren't so far off at ALL
"We're not clever" said Big View.
''Who is clever then, if we aren't?"
asked Tiny View.
"The one who made u.s." said Big
View.
"Well, the one who made us must
have seen that we were going to do
our work properly and were the sort
of things he could employ"
''To be sure" agreed Big View.
"That is what we do, and what we
must always do-our rwork-properly."
eve do have such a good tine,"
said Tiny View.
"That's why. we should do our work
WELL" said Big View. 'iWe should
show that we are grateful
well always be friends, won't we?"
asked Tiny View.
"Of course we WILL" said Big View.
81 remember seeing a beautiful
dance once" said Tiny View; "and all
the little tiny creatures dancing were
so lovely"
81 remember that lovely Dance"
said Big View, "but all the creatures
1 saw were quite, quite large"
"Ha, ha," said Tiny View, 1--WE were
looking at it from different ends, for
we are different, aren't we?'
''To be sure" said Big View, "but
we're both lucky, for we're taken to
theaters and operas and we see the
great singers and dancers and actors
and actresses and give folks great
treats-so they can look at things in
two most interesting ways with the
aid of their own perfectly good eyes
And also by moving US to focus US just
| right"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
DADDY,] ]NEr]NNG
ufAIRY TALE q
1YrARY GRAt1AM BONNER
THE OPERA GLASSES.
oN he AuThoF

"Hello, other end," said one end of
the opera glasses.
"HellO, other end" answered the
end that had been spoken to.
81 can make things look so far, far
away" said the end which had spoken
first, which we will call Tiny View.
81 can make things look so very
near" said the other end, which we
will call Big View.
81 can make things look so funny
and SMALL" said Tiny View.
"But can make things look so near
and so large" said Big View.
81 like my part better" said Tiny
View. "It is more interesting not to
be able to see things so near. They
look more mysterious at distance"
81 don't know that / agree with
you," said Big View.
"Why not?" asked Tiny View.
"You would hardly expect me to,
would your" asked Big View.
81 don't see why said Tiny View.
"You wouldn't want to be in my
place, would you?" asked Big View.
"Oh, no, certainly not" said Tiny
View.
"Well, there you have it." said Big
| View.
"Have what?" asked Tiny View.
"You like your way because it is
your way and because you are used
to it," said Big View, "and I like
my way because am used to it. That's
the way we are.''
81 see," said Tiny View.
'What fun l do have at the theater
or at the OPERA" said Big View.
81 have a good time, too," said Tiny
View, "for children like to look through
me and they like to say, oh, how fun
ny the stage looks, and the people
look so small, and everything looks SC
far, far away 1t gives them a quite
different idea of the stage and the
people acting"
"Of course it does" said Big View
"Well, like the work have to do.
like to make things seem near al
hand, to make them stand out cleal
and plain"
But when things are far away, ism
it wrong to make them look near?'
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
HONE MADE TEA
FOR CONSTIPATION
Is used by entire families because
it is purely vegetable, does the
work and costs very little.

Why pay high prices for Liver and
Bowel remedies when none are better
than DR.. Carter's K. and B. tea, which
is purely vegetable, can be brewed at
home, and small package viii last
long time.
Thousands of old people will tell you
they have been drinking it for years. and
after the liver and bowels have been put
In fine condition in few days by a be-
fore bedtime cup, that only an occasional
cup is afterwards necessary to keep one
feeling fit and fine.
People who drink a cup of DR.. Car
ter's K and B. Tea once in while, sell
drom, if ever, have any bilious attacks,
sick headache or sallow skim It's good
for boys and girls, especially those who
are peevish and fretful. Druggists have
been selling it for many years.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
Men of Hioh Ideals Needed.

There is nothing we more greatly
need than the elevated souls who
bear the name of the city of God, and
whose citizenship is in heaven. We
need them in our social intercourse
We need them in our public contro-
versies.
The lifting ministry ought to be the
great characteristic of a follower of
the Lord. If by touching a thing we
degrade it, it is clear and indisput-
able proof that we are not of the city
that is from above.-By J. II. Jowett,
D. D.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
Air Liner With All Comforts.

Trade commissioner II. G. Brock,
London. reports that upholstered arm
chairs on aluminium frames and port
hole beside each seat are features of
the newest type of airplane liner turn
ed out The manufacturers Claim that
II is the first of its kind The newer
liner can carry ten passengers in ad-
ditlon to two pilots. The fuselage is
wnter tight and will float in case Of
descent into wnter. The machine is
a tractor biplane. with two Rolls Royce
Eagle IS" engines Of $50 horsepower
each; II has a cruising speed of 90
miles an hour and a gasoline capacity
Of 200 gallons, and can rise readily to
a height Of 14,OOO feet.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
The Difference.

A teacher in a country town was
conducting a recitation in history and
asked if anyone in the class could tell
and a politician.
A twelye-year-old girl answered
promptly: "a statesman is man who
has an office; the politician is the man
who is trying to get it."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
Almost Universal symbol.

The swastika symbol has been found
depicted on tombs at Hissarlik, near
ancient Troy; on Buddhistic inscrip-
tions in India, in Etruscan necropo-
Uses, on coins of GAIA and Corinth (;
on rock carvings in Sweden, and on
Celtic stones in Britain. In America
in pre-Columbian times, It was in COM
mon use by the aborigines.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
AoeountInu for Anelen, Euus.

Mrs. Newlywed-Our cook says
those eggs you sent yesterday were
quite old.
Grocer-very sorry, ma'am; you see,
all the young chickens were carried off
for the holiday trade, so the old hens
are the only ones left to do the lay
ing.
Mrs. Newlywed-Oh, TO be surei l
hadn't thought of that l-London An
sWers.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
Confidence RIGHTLY Placed.

PauPs self-sufficingness was based
on his assurance that he had better
self than his natural self. Therefore
he lays bare the foundation of it when
he says, through Christ" His IT"
might be very weak, and by no means
self-sufficing, but he could say, mo
longer do live, but Christ liveth in
me-" and that indwelling Christ makes
reasonable the most triumphant con-
fidence.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
Llv,nostone Memorial Tree.

one of the most curious memorials
Of Livingstone is the "name tree" near
Victoria Falls, on the Zambesi. On
he trunk Livingstone cut his initial
md the date 1855 iOn the day of his
frst visit TO the falls. In his book CIV
ing an account of this Livingstone
says: "Thls was the only instance in
which / INDUCED In this piece OF van
uy."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
State of Ohio. city of Toledo, Luca1

State of Ohio. City of Toledo, LucaH
County-ss
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner OF the firm of F. ]. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City of To-
ledo, County and State aforesaid. and that
said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUM
DRIED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9Th day of December,
A. D. 1886.
(seaD A. W. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALLS 5CATARRH MEDICINE is tax
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
+. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
T. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24

kind. A few lee
lures on first aid
to the injured
have often en-
abled one to re-
vive a drowning
person or to bind
up a severed ar
terry and thus
save the human
life. A few les
sons in drawing
1TOH Il COIHpcLcAL
teacher have Of
ten proved inval-
liable to the stu
dent in his af-
ter life. / know
q littlo nrirI Whn
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-24
Anxio1IS

Waterfall right, sir, all right.
You'll get served in time.
Diner-Well, rush it. I want to get
through this meal before the prices
rise again.