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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14
Public Health Exhibit at y. NJ. c. A.

A large card exhibit for High School
boys and young men is on display at
the Y. NJ. c. A. for the boys and
young men Of Sumter.
$ This is health exhibit gotten up
by the United States public health
service, and is being shown to every
high school in every State through the
State Board Of Health and the Y. NJ.
G. A
Mr., r. L. Alexander who is the di-
rector of the health campaign for the
State of South Carolina is here today.
Owing TO the fact that the com
mencement exercises are on Ut the
High SCHOOL, the exhibit Will be
shown at the y. NJ. c. a for the next
few days
This is an interesting exhibit with
pictures direct from life Every young
man is promised Il treat. which ne
receives. when he views this exhibit
1t is known as the Keeping Fit
campaign for High School BOYS
Mr. Alexander says that the exhibit
has gained the highest praise and ap-
provai from educators and teachers
as we'll as pupils wherever shown.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14
Cotton Blooms.

The first cotton blooms Of the sea
son were reported Friday. The
first was brought 10 the Item off1ce
by Victor Baula from his farm on The
RiShopvile road He said he found
il yesterday afternoon. The seconG
came in about noon from the farm
Of Messrs. George l., Kicker and T. K
Mcintosh.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14
Another Cotton Bloom.

Mr. W. j. Stafford who has hela
the record for several years Tor pro-
ducing the first cotton bloom OF the
season brought in his first bloom to-
day, but as there were two blooms
brought IN yesterday, he drops to
thian rllaca this Near.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14
Notice.

Subscriptions to Salvation Army
Home Service Fund are now due allG
payable Please forward checks tc
Mr.. w. !. Whitehead. Treasurer, ;;l
once.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14

pany at the Opera House next week.
The Pickert Sisters Stock Company
Will be here starting Monday, June
16tn.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14
High school Commencement.

The closing exercises of the Sumter
High Schools were held in the audi
torium of Girls High School Wednes-
day and the graduating class OF
! oftrty- light. twenty-four girls and
twenty-four boys. received diplomas.
! The awards OF medals were an
nounced us follows:
DISCLAIMERS MeaaI-Archie Phelps.
/ Spelling-Lil;,. May Newman.
d. a. R.-Azilee Mellette.
L. ID. C.-l[atharyn Reardon.
For rManlinesS-Robert L. Ednunds,
Jr.
! Special vement-Claude Smith
The order Of exercises was as fol-
lows:
Invocation.
Unfold Ye Portals--Gong by Class.
Awarding the I. c. Strauss Prize
for Spelling.
Medals for d. a. r. and U. D. c.
Medal for Maniiness.
Mooonlight Boat Ride-Song
Words OF Welcome-Miss Margar~
ct Beaumont
Piano Solo--Wedding Day-Greig-
Miss Eleanor Wallace.
Women After the War-Miss Adria
DuRant.
Hunoresque-AIi Lille Folsom.
The Thirtieth Division-Miss Doro-
Thy schililng:
God that Madest Earth and Heaven
Miss Blanche Spann.
Doughboys-Aiiss May Blanding.
A Son of the Desert Am Song by
Glass.
The Young Old Man of France
Miss Katie Reardon.
Anchored-Song by Class.
AS It Will Be-Miss Annie Laurie
Booth.
Class Poem-Aliss Eva Chandler.
Words OF Parting-AIiss Azilee Mel
!ette.
Lovely June-Song by Class.
Presentation of Diplomas.
Medals for Defamation
The National Anthem by Whole i
Audience !:
Class of 1919. !
Margaret Cathrine Beaumont, !
annie Laurie Booth, I
May Banding !
Marie a. BroSdon,
Coline Thelma Campbell /
Eva Chandler,
Theodosia Virginia Deal,
Sarah .Adria DuRant.
Irln& Urselle Fielder,
Lille Gertrude Folsom,
Louie Mood Folsom.
Carrie Kathleen Harper,
Marion Rosalind Jackson,
Vernele Jennings,
Ruth D. Lyon.
AZilee Mellette. !
EuSenia Miller
Lila Mae Newman,
Katbaryn Reardon,
Ethel Revill.
Fannie Ida Rembert,
Dorothy Schilling,
Blanche Richbourg Spann,
Eleanor Craven Wallace.
Edward s. Booth. Jr.,
Douglas c. Cheyne,
George Lloya Cothran,
Clifford r. Crawford.
Calhoun Dove Cunningham.
Charles Leslie Denniston,
Alexander Colclough Dick,
James Dolby Dinkins
Samuel Henry Edmunds, Jr.,
Robert Leland Edmlnds, Jr.,
Donald Fraser Kirven,
Furman Jenkins Knight,
Henry Eugene Lewis.
James Wesley Lewis,
Eugene II. Moses Jr.,
Archibald Phelps.
James Ratileld.
Wade Riley REYNOLDS.
Leslie Kenneth Schwartz.
John Whitworth Shaw, =,
Henry Wiley Sholar. Jr.,
Walter Claude Smith.
Robert Jennings Till.
Alexander Dick Tisdale.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14

The damage by hail in the Mechan
icsville section of Lee county was no
as serious as reported.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
CENTENARY is
WORLD CONSTRUCTION

The raising of the Centenary fund
of thrity-five million dollars is for
ward movement to help the great
work of the Methodist Church in
keeping with the spirit of the people
every where to help mankind. The
Centenary Movement is in reality a
scheme of world reconstruction. 1t
is an attempt to make society Christ
ian the world over. In foreign fields
where brave consecrated missionaries
are working, in the hard places of the
homeland among negroes, mountain
GERS and immigrants, in the devasta-
ted lands of France, in Keeling Russia
are places where this great world
movement and blessing will be pro-
jected with usual power and effect.
The influence of America through the
Methodist Church in these lands as
we'll as in the waste places of the
homeland will perpetuate and en-
hance the good work now being done
to help the helpless everywhere.
America has given them democra-
cy and liberty. How appropriate now
Tor Methodism through the Cente-
nary movement measuring up to her
predestined mission to give orphan
ages, schools, hospitals, literature.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
GET OUT OF THE MUD.

A resourceful motorist whose car
has been stuck in the mud does not
always have to fall back on a pair of
mules to get free. For such an emer-
gency the United States Tire Com
pany offers some suggestions that
have proved valuable.
The first calls for having stored
away somewhere in the car a stack
of old newspapers. When the car
gets stuck and the wheels refuse to
take hold, feed in some of the old pa
pers between the tires and the mud
Usually only few will have to be
worked in before the wheels begin to
grip and the car start forward. This
method of handling a difficult stu
alton is so simple and so uniformly
successful, that every motorist should
know of it and carry pile of old
newspapers, unless he is equipped
with some other apparatus for such
contingency.
Here is the other method suggested
by the United States Tire Company
Put the car in low, and if you can
not feed the gas with your foot even
ly, SO that the wheels will revolve
slowly, put your emergency brake
on. Do not put it on so that the
wheels will not revolve at all, but
tightly enough to keep them from re-
volving rapidly. With the wheels
turning slowly, the maximum pull
is delivered to them by having the
car in low gear, and so long as they
turn slowly they can get the benefit
of the tremendous power.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24

The offer of the United States and
the Allies to feed the Bolsheviki, IL
Mr.. Lenine will stop his fighting.
indicates an interesting heart change
somewhere.
1t is as though a man, gone out
to hunt lion, having reached the
middle of the jungle, were heard to
say, mice lion, here's loaf OF
bread. Nice lion, eat it up and be
good"
There is something energetic 10
Bolshevism, not easy to deal with.
The power is explained by the fact
that people kept down numerically
were suddenly released, like the fur
Their fact that they were so miserable
and dissatisfied under the Gar that
they had ntohing to lose, and nothing
could seem worse.
On the worse the process of feed
ing,and proving that there are ways
to be happy outside of Bolshevism,
may be the wisest kind Of anti-Bol-
shevik fight. One hundred and
eighty MILLION Russians in territory
bigger than the United States present
big fighting problem.
-Aurther Brisbane
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
HIS BROKEN NECK
CURED BY COLLAR
Surgeons Mend Lieutenant
After Fall of $500 Feet and
He Now Flies Again and is
Happy.

There is a man in San Francisco
walking around with a BROKEN neck.
He is Lieutenant Charles NJ Cum
minis, of Virginia
Cummins was an army aviator.
While making a fight at Gerstne,
Field, La, in February. 1918, he fell
$500 feet, fracturing the fourth, fifth,
and sixth cervical vertebrae and dis
locating several other vertebrae par
TALLY
After the fall ne was sent to Let
terman General Hospital at the Presi-
dio in San Francisco for treatment.
Army surgeons who are working al
most miracles there in the reconstruc-
ton of the war wounded finally fitted
a metal collar on the aviator to carry
the weight of his head. 1t worked
and now Lieutenant Cummins is walk
ing about apparently normal.
One of Many.
Lieutenant Cummin's case is only
one of many, but it stands out be-
cause of the popular superstition that
man can't live if his neck is broken.
The reconstruction surgeons at Let
terman are working on hundreds of
cases much more difficult than the
flyers.
They are receiving men there daily
from the battlefields of France, whose
legs and arms hang withered and
men out, after months of treatment
and patient mechanical manipulation,
able to use their arms and legs and
capable of making living. The cost,
of course, is tremendous when one
takes into consideration the fact that
the same work is being carried on in
many military hospitals.
More Money Needed.
Already Congress has appropriated
millions of dollars to carry on the
ork and many millions more will
have TO be made available for the
cause For it is cause, this regen-
Grafton of the men who gave their
bodies to their country.
Part of the money to be realized
from the Victory Liberty Loan will be
us ed for this job of reconstruction or
regeneration. Think of this when you
are making up your mind as to how
much of the loan you, personally, are
going to subscribe.
Lieutenant Cummins made fight
with his collar on just TO convince
himself that he hadn't lost his nerve
We can't afford to lose cur nerve on
dollar and cents proposition in the
face Of the deeds of such men.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
a LESSON FROM RUSSIA

According to statistics, syphilis is
so widespread in Russia that from so
to GO per cent of the cases are due
to causes other than sexual.
The disease which has been so char
acteristic in it's appearance that.
owing to changed conditions, it has
lost it's earmarks of recognition and
its chief distinction, in that it is
known as sexual disease, and has
now become known as a contagious
family disease, e. g., measles.
Not only are families as a unit in
fected, but communities at large-so
much so that in some instances only
5 per cent are free from the infec-
ton. In other words, whole commu-
mites have become syphilized.
Although accurate statistics are
not available in the United States to
prove the contrary, and our dreams
are that we have only small per
cent present in comparison, if the
average man could take time to delve
into the archives of the community,
family, and individuals history, he
would no doubt be surprised at the re-
suits.
Let us look forward century and
think that the proportions might be
if the disease were not checked at the
present time through tn efforts of
the United States Public Health Ser
vice.
Do we want the United States to
be menaced by such conditions as
present themselves in some parts of
Russia? Slight efforts and cooper
alton at this time will accomplish
more than volums of work one hun
bred years from now.
The editor heartily endorses the
program as laid down by the United
States Public Health Service, Divi-
sion of Veneral Diseases and their a.
gencies. ii
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24

He is a Baltimore theatrical man
and has been appointed film chairman
by the War Loan Organization of the
Fifth Federal Reserve District. He
will direct the movie program of the
district, his biggest job being the dis
tribution of 1.-The Price of Peace"
movie of actual battlefield activities,
which will be shown during the Vic
tory Loan campaign.
Mr.. Webb operates six of Balti-
more's leading motion picture thea
tiers. He has had wide business ex-
perience, having held executive posi-
tions with electric light and telephone
plants in Wilmington, Pittsburgh and
Baltimore. He was formerly vice pres
ident of the Wilmington Telephone &
Electric Light Company, and was also
engaged in the development of several
OF Baltimore's suburbs. Recently he
has devoted his time to the motion
picture business.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
The BeIington Progressive
OUR BoUNDEN DUTY

This newspaper must first OF all be
clean, it must be fair, it must ne hon
est and without malice in its opinions
and expressions. and it must, at all
times, devote itself unfiinchingiy and
fearlessly to the public service in the
interests of the masses of the people
II must always combat evh and in
justice.
1t must always fight for progress
and reform.
1t must never tolerate corruptions.
IL must be in sympathy with the
poor and the unfortunate.
For Belington it must always stand
with unselfish devotion, for the
achievement of the finest ideals, of
every high purpose, of every enter
prise, of every step in the march OF
progress.
1t must stand for good government,
freedom, equality, the public welfare,
civic and true patriotism and undyins
love of country.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
AS an indication of the

AS an indication of the govern
ment's desire to encourage prompt
undertaking or road construction.
Director General Hines Announces. eff
fective May l., and extending to De-
cmber 81, reduction of 10 cts per
net ton on freight rates for road
building material, when such material
is for use in federal, state, county,
parish, township, district or munich
pal work. New rates will apply on
carload shipments of broken, crush
ed, and ground stone, sand, gravel,
Stag and ebert.
1t is estimated that this action by
the Railroad Administration will save
the State of West Virginia quarter
million dollars on road work now
under way, or contemplated for this
year
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
TOPICS TOUCHING ON
OUR OWN AMERICA
Editor Progressive:

Editor Progressive:
After carefully reading your val
liable paper and feeling quite an in
terest in it, as any other citizen OF
Belington should, decided after con
siderable consideration to write let
ter and if it should happen to escape
the waste basket l may write again
perhaps no other subscriber feels
more interest in your paper than my
self, therefore we should all appre-
ciate The Progressive all the more
| thank God there is such true de-
voted Christian as Mr.. J B. Skid
more. Such men as he is, certainly
deserves great credit in speaking so
boldly his sentiments on such an i'm
portant thing as religion | wish
however, Mr.. Editor, YOU would pub
lish his address in your next issue
Thanks be to God for a man who
stands squarely on his convictions
and opinions.
Next want to thank w. A
Street for boldly speaking his senti-
ment on the League of Nations.
That's me Bro. Bill. Any good loyal
American citizen does not want to
sacrifice our liberties and indepen-
dence on a set of "cut- threats" like
we find in the Old World-Hurrah
for America! just read the history of
England Bro. R. L. t and see if
you'd join the band in Europe.
Now, if anyone else sees it differ
ent from me, just let him say so, and
We'll all know what we do want, or
hence forthhold your peace for ever
more. The boys who have been cover
there" all or at least most all say,
they will die before they'd go back
in Europe again to fight" We all
must bear in mind how England i'm
posed on this country in it's infancy.
and how through Gods help and the
good loyal patriotic Americans like
Washington, Jefferson, Hancock, Ad
ans and three million noble loya].
.christianized colonists defended this,
country against Tyranny, and freed
US, so let's US get with little good
sound common sense and stay free
and independent. What say you all.
eh?
OF course Woodrow has "hobby''
but that don't cut any ice in our
business. | have been praying God
would direct US American people to
keep US a free liberty loving people.
"Uncle Bob" once carried the gun
and fought to free the "black man.
SO why should he wish to have our
freedom and liberties taken away
from US.
]. D. w.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
JOBS FOR MEN
A Chautauqua Answer.

The most democratic institution "a
America is the Chautauqua. Its
platform was used in every drive and
now it is to be heard on the problem
of jobs. The Nationel Lincoln Chs
utauquas whose solgan is, "The Anne
rican Idea" says through its educat
ional director, Edward Amherst OFT,
"Jobs for men in uniform must come
in natural, not artificial way, ana
the thing to do is to carry on" in
dustrially; start the wheels, and the
practical way to do this is to maks
a market for the things labor can
produce"
Buy Things A Soldier Can Make
Buy things soldier can make and
the dealer will order more and the
factory will call for help to make
more and the man in uniform will
have a job Life is a going coz
Germ" the situation, always has and
always will
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
PLANT ENOUGH SEED CORN

The advice about "Plant one kerr
mel for the blackbird, one for the
crow, one for the cutworm, and two
to grow" is just as appropriate now
as ever. 1t is never advisable to
plant weak seed, and it is the height
OF folly to attempt to atone for the
weakness of the seed by planting a
superabundance, as, irrespective of
other conditions, weak seed will pro-
duce only low-yielding plants. For
good harvests it is essential to plant
vigorous seed of acclimated and we'll
known varieties. Experts of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture recommend planting the best
quality seed little thicker than the
stand desired in order to provide a.
gaInst unfavdrable conditions. If
these unfavorable conditions do not
arise, it is easier to remove a few
stalks from the growing crop than it
is to replant, which always produces
late maturing, improbable plants.
Plant sufficient seed to secure a good
stand" say the Federal specialists.
as 1t is more practicable and profit
able to thin a thick stand of corn
than to replant patchy, spotted
field" With good seed and good
soil conditions, about four kernels
should be planted for every three
stalks desired
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
HAPPY W0RKMEN
MADE BY THRIFT
Group Saving Has Proved
Highly Profitable to Thous-
ands of Employees of Sanely
Managed Concerns.

Every business is either thrifty or
unthrifty. If thrift governs, then
there will be accurate knowledge of
costs, sound finance, far-seeing policy,
the best use of labor and materials,
with intelligent creation of a money
surplus to meet emergencies. If un-
thrifty, the concern is bound for
bankruptcy, which will arrive sooner
or later.
Thrift goes far beyond the execu-
tive office and so does lack of it, A
thriftily managed business will have
steady, skillful employees. working in
pleasant surroundings, with every adj
vantage in the wy Of equipment, and
every advantage in earning power
The unthrifty usiness is too familiar
1t attracts chiefly the driftwood among
workers. Unpleasant surroundings
and poor equipment make work drudg-
cry. Wages are below good stand
ards, and the year is usually marked
by periods Of idleness, il not labor
troubles.
recent years that thrift facilities ex-
tended to their employees are part Of
general thrift in management. The
employee must set aside his surplus,
too He is more than willing to save
if he is the kind Of man who values a
job with thrifty concern. But 1t
has not always been easy for him to
put his weekly savings in a secure
place Savings institutions may be
far from the pay window. Employers
have overcome this handicap in many
cases by accepting deposits to be
transferred to bank, by selling Sc
curities in their own business to en-
ployees on the installment plan, and
in other ways They have also taken
pains to see that employees are not
victimized by loan sharks or blue-sky
promoters.
Since the Thrift Stamp and War
Savings Stamps came into existence
there has been a wide development of
this thrift movement for employees,
as part of the management OF thrifty
business. Employers know that thrift
decreases labor turnover and also in
creases output. The worker who
saves is not worried by debts. He
thinks we'll enough of his job to set
tie in the community, buy home,
raise a family.
War Savings Stamps offer the best
medium for group savings in business
organizations. Thousands Of savings
clubs or societies formed during the
war to help finance the government
have been found so valuable that
thousands more will be organized. The
best proof of the health, stability and
usefulness of any industry is its
hearty teamwork with the Treasury
Department in organizing sa~>ngs So
cieties for the regular purchase OF
Thrift and War Savings Stamps.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
THE AMERICAN IDEA

Lincoln Chautauquas are not for
getting the high ideals and moral
purpose out of which the organiza-
ton developed, nor are they to be
unmindful of the needs of our ma
tional life.
Democracy has not been clearly
defined. We need to re-state many
features of it and clarity its ideals
and purposes to ourselves and our
children. The ideals of the Lincoln
Chautauqua, as expressed in various
communities, have always been of
highest, but those ideals need now to
be formulated into clear precepts
and aligned with the most practical
Americanism. Now it is felt, that
a series of messages, dealing with
great American problems, as exper-
fenced in each community is a real
need o fthe American platform. 1t
is planned to make the offerings more
intimate and personal to each commu-
nifty. America First!
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-04-24
PICTURE SHOWS
MEN IN ACTION
Desperate Fighting Revealed
by Official Film Taken by
Signal Corps-To Be Shown
All Over America.

Here are some of the thrills and
punches" that the spectator will find
in "The Price of Peace" the new film
history of the great war just issued by
the treasury department in connec-
ton with the Victory Loan campaign
The picture is to be shown all over the
United States.
A Embarkation of thousands upon
thousands of the two million soldiers
sent to France, including the first pic
lures ever released showing the great
"Leviathan," formerly the ~Vaterland, y
sailing from the Port of Hoboken for
Brest, in all her war .camouf1age.
Thrilling scenes of how the ma
rines fought at Balleau Wood, with
machine guns in action close up.
Just like box seat at the war
The Lost Battalion" on the scene
of the famous stand against the Ger
mans, Major Whittlesey, his men and
thu graves of their comrades.
4 battle in the air and the falling
Of an enemy plane-an American air
scradron in action, photogra phed
r. I a plane
captursd German balloons used for
front observation in the American
sector and tremendous artillery
barrage put UP to protect the big gas
bags from an attack by enemy planes.
How an American battery went into
action on one of the wars very bus
lest mornings pouring mustard gas
shell into the enemy at the rate Of
eight a minute per gun.
American Army of Occupation
marching across the Rhine into Ger
many-a wonderful parade financed
on Liberty bonds.
President Wilson in Paris for the
peace conference, acclaimed by vast
throu.,;.
A husky Americas soldier keecips
~Die Yacht am Rhine"