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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
EYES
ON PANAMA
Intimated That League of Ma
tions Should Take Over
Uncle Sans Big Ditch.
IT IS PUT UP TO THE
UNITED STATES TO ACT
Lord Robert Cecil Throws Out
a Feeler to Sound American
Opinion.

Paris, Thursday, Jan. 23.-Ihe
question whether the Panama canal
should Be internationalized under the
league of nations depends entirely
upon the attitude of the United states
according to the belief expressed To-
night by Lord Robert Cecil, wl:o 1as
submitted to the peace congress a
draft of the British view OF the con-
stitution Of the league.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
Money For Roads
Postoffice Department Asks for
Two Hundred Million for
Road Construction.

Washington, Jan. 25.-bsldes rec
omn,ending a salary Increase for viz
tuallv all postal service employees,
the annual postot1ce appropriation
bill. as revised, was reported cut to-
dav by the senate postof1ice commit
too. proposes the appropriation OF
two hundred millions during the
neyf three years for the construction
and maintenance Of roads.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29

Wilmington, N. c., jan 24.-News
was received today that Pembroke
Jones, one Of the wealthiest and best
known men of the South. died at
Thompkinsville, n. T., this morning
after an operation.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29

Paris. Jan. 24-President Wilson.
who, as all Americans know. is fond
Of going to the theatre, will make his
first real visit to theatre tonight since
leaving Washington, when he attends
a gala night at the opera specially
arranged for him.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29

Washington. Jan. 24.-The mild
winter has resulted in the saving in
this country OF two hundred and
twenty thousand tons Of fodder stuffs
which can be sent to European neu-
trails in the form Of oil fake, OIL cake
meal, the war trade II estimated
today. after consul vith Ne
food administration
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
Defeated at Reval
Rolshevik Attack on Baltic Port
Costly Failure.

Lcndon, Friday, Jan. 24.-Britsh
Wireless Service-Bolshevik attempts
ITO lombard Reval, the capital Of Es-
thonia, failed completely, according
to reports here. Every vessel in the
BolsheviS fleet is said to have been
sunk.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29

Luther S. Cooper, brother of Gov.
r. A. Cooper died Tuesday OF infuen-
"a at his home in Laurens county.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29

An unfaVorable report was also
made of the Horton bill relative to
pistol toting. This report was first
adopted. The author of the measure
finally got reconsideration of the vote
whereby the unfavorable report was
and the bill, unfavorabIy re-
ported, was placed on the calendar for
further consideration next week.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15
READY TO ACE.

When Attorney General Palmer let's it be known that aliens rounded up by the department of justice agents in many cities of the country in raids upon the union of Russian workers have been held by the department of labor gives indication that some re- suits in this direction can be antici- pated unless these hearings are pro- longed indefinitely as has been the case in so many instances.
 There are only few of those who were brought east from the Pacific coast under deportation orders who have been sent out of the country There arc many prominent radicals who have .continued-to- show defiance to the deportation attempts of this government and it can be realized tha. unless different tactics are practiced ir dealing with such dangerous people more and. worse trouble from them can be, expected,
 Heretofore it has .been maintained that there was difficulty in handling the Russian cases inasmuch as they were subjects of bolshevik Russia sand l should they be deported to the anti bolshevik sections they would becha- 1 ble to ae shot. On the other hand be- cause of the fact that there is. no con- munication between this country and bolsheviki Russia it would be impos- sible to send them there.
 What has developed to change thu situation has not been disclosed Where in Russia those who may b. deported will be sent is not announced but the statement to the effect tha they will be returned to Russia indi crted that some progress has beer made in solving the puzzling situa ton and not n.irut too soon can tn radicals, anarchists, communists an others who are in favor of and work ing for the overthrow of this govern ment be started on their way. W have stood lhe pl essence of such peopl here too long already but there vii be some good come out of 1t if we ar really alive to our predicament.
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REALIZE OUR DANGERS.

l For a considerable period of time there have been efforts made to awak- en the country to a full realization of the dangers 1t faces from those with ih it's midst who came here for no good, those who cannot speak the En- glish language and those who know nothing of our institutions or ideals but many of whom are like sheep fol- lowing a leader We also have been told of the necessity of keeping away from our shores the undesirables of otirers nations and of preventing them from coming in across our border During all this time there have been those who. have felt that the warn ings were overdrawn. that an extreme view was being taken of the situation and that all would come out right 1T fhe end if we only exercised reasona- ble care and allowed the safety valves to do their part. -rae
 It has even been claimed that most of the dangerous talk that has been lndulged in would have no effect upon reasonable audience and the errors m it could be readily pointed out, but
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fishness, to make us in unselfishness and simplicity and fellowship like un- to Christ.
 Do you know that a little tame robin was Martin Luther's best loved preach err and he preached to him every day near the window sill where he spread crumbs for him. After feed ing he hopped to a little tree closs by, sang his matin, put his head be- heath his wing and went to sleep, leaving tomorrow to take care of it. self. This little bird preached a ser mon upon gratitude, trust and loyal ty to the great reformer every day, best preacher I have on earth" God created little things to edify the great; and the great do not miss their lessons. Those who fail to rec ognize the work of divine mind in nature are missing some of the fin est lessons on the blackboard. Do not be blind, with eyes which were made to see.
 "Gladness is God" says winifred Kirkland, the most wonderful woman essayist in America; tand that is why am always climbing hills," There is nothing demure about Heaven or any Fof it's approaches. Christians who can't see a bright light ahead of them are on. the wrong road! How can a Christian nope or grope when the Savior has said: T Am always with you!" The true Christian is given the light which lighteth the world God does not turn His children out to wander in darkness and stumble around. If you do this you haven't the light. Joy has been defined as the wing of the soul. GIadness takes Us to the high places; and il awakens the yearning to know anc lreap the pleasures of goodness.
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s4 the fact seems to Ebe overlooked that most of these audiences are not req sonable. They areA subject to leader ship for bad as, readily as good and whatever explanations might be made of certain speakers charges they would never reach the audiences that heard them,
 But developments have taken place during andssince the war. culminating in the revelations by the department of justice and the massacre of veter- ans in the state of Washington. which cannot fail to make the law making powers of this country .realize that it is time to provide the laws that will make it possible for the authorities to deal with the situation as it should be and give the country. it's government it's institutions, it's freedom and it's democracy the protection that it is entitled to. It is time to realize our dangers.
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PROHIBITION IN OHIO.

Although the, federal amendment providing for prohibition has been ratified there was nevertheless much interest taken in the vote in Ohio last week on the prohibition question, be-. cause even though there is a warm fight on over the enforcement of war time prohibition and it is realized that nationwide prohibition will become ef- fective in January. the vote in Ohio served as an expression of the people rather than that of a legislature.
 According to the official returns Ohio voted against the ratification of the prohibition amendment by a, majority of 542 in, 8 vote of over million. it shows a slight majority against the federal legislation that even on that sentiment is pretty evenly divided.
 As to the matter of statewide pro- hibition it does not appear that Ohio has undergone much of a change for though in the vote of two years ago there was dry majority of 46;000 there was at this time dry majority of over 4t.00Ot and : the proposal to sanction the sale of 2.75 per cent. beer was even defeated by-a majority just under 30,O00. -e>
 It seems to be conclusively shown by the expression of the people that Ohio not only wants prohibition for itself but is convinced after trial that it is desirable It is, unwilling to lift the ban and it will not permit the sale of the lower percentage beer. On the matter of making the rest of the coun- try do as it does Ohio takes differ ent stand by very small majority but which shows that many thousand who demand prohibition for them selves were not willing to force it up- on others by their vote.
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CIRCULATION 'sv 1~ WEEK ENDING NOV. sth, 1919.
 1O,519
EARN EsS.

Attention cannot help being attract cd by the attitude that is being taken by certain of those affected by the court order requiring the resembling of the coal strike, certain leaders and the acting president of the mine work CTS.
 From Chicago come: the despatch to Inc effect that John Walker, former president of the Illinois iai or fedora .ion and one of the mina leaoers, while addi cssing a meeting of stsel workers detlfred We defy the government. to stop the coal strike" and advised the men to use violence on the strike breakers and men who have gone back in the steel mills.
 Another report from the same state Is 10 the effect that in compliance with en order by the local miners union those who have been permitted to keep the mines in the twelfth district in working order left their posts Tuesday night.
 From Washington comes the report 10 the effect that there did not ap- pear to be any inclination on the part of the miners to return to work in the central competitive field and that there would probably by no considera be break in the ranks until the our come of the conference is known. That means that though the country needs coal, the strike has been called off and negotiations are underway there is nc disposition to treat the consumer. the government or the country fair. or to do anything to relieve the suffering caused by the coal shortage.
 But in keeping with this attitude of the miners is to be noted that oi Acting President Lewis in declaring that inafsmuch as the miners have ac- quiesced in the mandate of their gov. ernment they shall now expect demonstration of good faith on tn, part of the government"
 With the attorney general -tellint leaders from Birmingham that promp action twill be taken against any op orators who are not taking back min CTS willing to work. and the effort which have been made to bring abou a just settlement from the beginning It is plain that thus far all the evi ience of fairness has come from tn government and it is time for the min CTS to begin to show a little of it. Tn country well knows they did not ac quiesce in the court order because the. wanted to or out of fairness. The are not to become martyrs for obeyin the law.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15
THE DEAD HEROES.

Not with the noisy welcome that has characterized the return of most of the transports bringing home our boys who saw service in Europe was the Lake Daraga brought into New York harbor bearing the bodies of the sol diers who Tad died on the Archangel front. but that transport nevertheless brought the bodies of those who had given their all for their country to find their last resting place in the soil of the native land.
 This is of course only the first of many funeral ships that will be for some time engaged in the task of get ting home the dead heroes who fell in battle or died from disease in the service while in France. There are thousands of bodies that must be transported if the dead are all brought back. Inasmuch as it is the policy of the government to return only those for whom requests are made it. can be appreciated that there will be many who will continue to sleep across the water near where they gave up their lives.
 According to the arrangements which have been made with France Secretary Baker announces that the work of bringing back the American dead will be expedited as far as those who died in hospitals behind the lines are concerned. This does not include those who died in battle or in the fighting zones, because of a regu- lation in France that prohibits it ever In the case of its own.
 How many of the hospital dead ihere are has not been disclosed bu with the return of those bodies the eff forts of this government to obtair from France permission for the early return of the much larger number must not be relaxed. Each famil! must decide what course it wishes tt pursue but in each case where it il possible the request to have the deat brought home should be compiled with
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15

When, during the war, U-boats and mines sunk ships galore and 1nol bid minded statistlcians were draw ing charts to show how many billions Of dollars and trillions of tons of .shlp- ping were going to waste. there was begun in England a movement to save these ships from the deep and to attempt to raise them from their watery graves In four years the
 British admiralty department which under Rear Admiral E. M- Philpotts conducted salvage operations in Brlt-
 ish and. foreign waters, sS1ved 100
 vessels and recovered property valued at quarter of a billion dollars. The special department came into existence in the autumn of 1915 and under the supervision of Rear Ad- mirai Greatorex and Commodore F. F. W Young, the hero of Ostend and Zeebrugge, it quickly became efficient. The story of how the sunken wrecks were brought to light as told lby a man who saw the operation is one of the most in1resting ever told. Hidden is the mist of silence that | is a tradition in the navy, little is i known of the labors of the salvage 1 feet
 | There is a touch of romance sur rounding wreck; the work of diver
 stirs the imagination; but, apart fronl Wrecks and divers, this small fleet vital as were it's operations when up lrestricted submarine warfare strewed I the seas with derelicts-had nothing spectacular to recommend t.
 | Yet it has lifted cargo steamers of
 rocky ledges and has dra gged them l badly holed from the depths of the
 sea. It hG.s brought up from submerS l ed holds kegs of butter and bars o1 gold. Ii has applied it's famous patch I to many d craft hit by enemy tor l pe6o and mine, and has made then
 capable, of reaching the repairing yards.
 | In the intervals of work in various waters it has acted as q valuable in- telligence agent to the fighting force! and has compelled enemy submarine: i to yield up their secrets from the ses i,bottom.
 l. Now that this splendid efficient or. ganization has concluded it's work, lht members are in many cases pursuing
 their. calling with private firms-tht last contract under it's supervision. th' lrescue of an American steamer q Penarth, was completed a few day ago. ,
 |. Some of it's divers are still bringing up gold from the strong rooms of th Laurentic; but it's nucleus of saIv2g' steamers -Melita, Racer, la2indeer
 Mariner and Wrangler-may 1e bur chased with all the latest equipment. In the following table the growtl
 of the work that was undertaken ma.
 be seen at glance.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15
Sunday Morning Talk
The unward Look.


 Tt is of no use to tell me to look forward" said one in great trouble, to a friend. "The worst of my trouble know lies ahead. To look back upon the past before this shadow came, sim ply adds to my agony; I can only sit in the darkness. and shut my eyes to everything and bear as best I may. There is always one way Jeff" said the friend gently. When we cannot look forward or backward we can look upward I have been in as hard a place before as you. and sat long while in the darkness before finding the way out. Try the upward look it is meant for just such sorrows as this, which seem to shut in the sou inexorably. If we look up we never look in vain. ~,.
 Time alone can help such sorrows I as yours" said woman who called herself a Christian, to bereaved friend lately. There was no upward look suggested there. A heather could have said as much. Time only car dull the edge of pain; the upward look robs suffering of it's sting surely an6 lastingly. It is always possible te lift our eyes to the sky; and though at first, perhaps, we see only the clouds, we shall find it true before that "Over all our tears Gods rain bow bends"
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Totals .1,8s7,s12 144,s1s 8o,828 1,s2a,55l

*In 1915 the figures are given for
 three months ended Decen t.r; in
 1918 for the eleven months ended No
 Yember.,
 Suggestions appeared now and
 again that weird secret appliances
 were being employed in the work, but
 only the principles already existing,
 altough vastly improved by Commo-
 dore Young, have been used.
 There was an inventor with faith in the gradual imitation of balloon to expel water from a sunker craft but his application of the system to a wreck allotted him was a failure The admiralty relied wholly upon the steamers, with their extraordinary
 pumps. and a series of six lifting, light CTS converted from hopper dredgers, which can support strain of 2,000 tons with nine-inch wires.
 In one instance, indeed, where a collier was sunk in the anchorage at Rosyth. they lifted her, and the weight was then 2,76O tons-a figure which, before the Salvage Department was, created, would have been regard 1 led as impossible. Within three
 months the collier as in commission 1 again notwithstanding that she ha6 l been submerged seven months. | Once the conventional methods were slightly diverged from-this was al
 Folkestone A trooper, the Onward
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15
OTHER VIEW POINTS

To cross the street without being struck by an automobile requires a certain degree of athletic ability and alertness of mental facilities. but to cross without getting bespattered with mud and oil is to possess expertness quite above the ordinary. Indeed, one half Of the narrower sidewalks in Providence are being submerged these days in the wake of the cars that are driven full tilt through water filled gu5.ters. To expect a pedestrian to love a motorist in such circumstances is asking too much of human nature. Providence Bulletin.
 Although most of the returned soldiers are back on their old jobs or in other n1aces equally good, em- ployers of labor say that many are still looking Tor work, with their
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eyes shut" One contractor who wis., ited several army employment agen- cies recently with an offG of 60 cents an hour for unskilled labor tells us that he received not single response although his offer was made known to several hundred ex-seryice men who were out of employment. It seems that the army uniform did not change the Character of those who in private life were constitutionally lazy. Manchester Herald.
 There is always hope for man un- til he loses his self-respect
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The people are all listening to the promises of relief from the sugar fam inc but it doesn't look good to see it coming in the shape of a bigger sup ply but per cent. increase in cost.
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These are the. times when tine re- pairing tailors like the repairing shoe makers are overtaxed with business.
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Even if it is holding evening ses- sions congress has enough to do to keep it fully occupied until the end of the session.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15

The American Legion members in convention did only what was expect ed of them when they condemned all red groups. f-- --
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15

Holland will not give up the. ex- kaiser, is asserted.~ But it was only a short time ago that word came from that country that he had over stayed his welcome.
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You are not too late yet to show you have a heart by. putting down your dollar for Red Cross membership.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15

With the price of diamonds on the move upward ;t means increased hard ships for the working classes.
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The man on the corner says: De- pend upon Amerioanism to staad the test under all conditions.
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Knowing so much that wasn't so caused the death of several Pennsylva- mia people who ate toadstools for mushrooms.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-15

When Samuel Gompers talks about the freedom of our judgment does he include in the "our" the reds boring from within?"
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Much of the governments war work was done on the cost-plus basis. but it doesn't seem to- be able to dispose of it under those conditions.
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Mexico doesn't seem to be having a much worse time with it's bandits than this country with it's reds. anarchists. communists and I. W. w.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Prince Edward is doubtless finding the country just as ginterestiRg as the country is finding him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05

Playing against six other contest
Green street. won the prize of q
grand pianoforte valued at $1.40O in
the tenth annual Mason & Hamlin
Piano Company at the competition
instituted by the New England Con-
servatory of Music last Thursday
afternoon. Word was received here
yesterday of the Harrisburg pian-
iste's success. Miss Bevard is a SEN
ior. The contest was said to have
been one of the closest in several
years The judges were Henri Ra-
baud, Philip Hale and Arthur W.
Foote.
Each contestant was required to
play the following numbers: Bachs
"Chromatic Fantasie in r Minor"
(without fugue); Beethoven's s
Sonata in A Flat Major" Op. 10
(tirst movement as far as Allegro
Molto); Chopin's "Scherzo in B
Minor" Op. 20 (without repetitions).
The seven contestants were as fol-
lows: Dorothea Ross Blake,
Brookline; Viola Myrtle Silver,
Brockton; Reta Angelina Pray
Slack, Somerville; Helen Natalie
Moses. Brookline; Naomi Howard
Bevard, Harrisburg, Pa; Mary Eliz-
abeth Schenck, Metuchen, n. j.;
Frank Wilson Asper, Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Previous winners of the Mason &
Hamlin prize have been: 1910,
julius Chaloff; 1911, Grace Nichol-
son; 1912, Charles l.. Shepherd;
1913, Sara Helen Littlejohn; 1914,
Herbert Ringwall; 1915, Howard NJ.
Goding; 1916, Fannie NJ. Lewis; 1917,
Martha Baird; 1918, Sue Kyle
Southwick.
When in Harrisburg Miss Bevard
studied with Madame Pfuhl Froelich,
graduating from her school in 1912.
Miss Bevard is a member of the We'd
ncsday Club in which she took an
active part before she left for Bos
ton, where she has been studying for
two years. She has had her train
ing there under George Proctor, one
of the best known teachers of that
city and a fine exponent of the great
master Leschetizsky. with whom he
studied in Vienna for many years.
Miss Bevard will receive solist's
diploma from the New England Con-
servatory in June, at which time she
will play a concerto with the Con-
serVatory orchestra.