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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22

At the very time that this proletariat
stuff is being made most Of in this
country, its falsity is most apparent.
If there is any proletarianism dis
coverable in the United States. it is.
alien. Any real American is not
merely workman but, to drop into
the Socialist jargon again, :, ''hour-
eoois Thai - he owns something.
He is acquiring capital ana seil-r'.-
spect He il; ambitious. He IS getting
ahead He or his son one Of these
days VIII be an employer of other
men, or professional man, or s. re-
tired capitalist This is true Of ADOPT
ed Americans as Of native ones. 1t is
a matter Of spirit. But the capacity
of the human mind for self-delusion
is unlimited, and so there are men
who talk about an American prole-
tariat and really fancy that the term
means something.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
HoafE-BUMDING FINANCE.

The American Builder declares
that it is, the first down payment that
balks thousands who would like to
build homes. eff that were in hand
the rest would be easy, since the reg
ular financing machinery Of mort
gage loans and easy payments over
a period of years would then come
into play
This magazine suggests that it is
just as easy to start Home Buying
Club asa Christmas Savings Club.
The latter flourish ever where, and
so did tie Liberty Bond buying on the
instanrent plan. Most Americans
earn money enough so that they could
save something regularly if they
would. a1t is only the happy-go-lucky
temperament of the breed that keeps
them poor and prices high.
II asfamily wants home, why
does It. mot budget the project along
with the milk bill, and save a definite
sum every payday towards it: Ev-
erybods survived the strain of buying
Liberty. Ponds. There We're no pa
thetic tales OF starvation due to that
cause People proudly did with few
er luapries. People proudly lived in
smaller. quarters. Why not proudly
do the same for the sake of owning a
home? II IS a perfectly good excuse
for those who feel obliged to keep ur
with the Joncses. Il din't buy the fur
coat--er tho new rrs-because we
arc saying for a home
It @esn't take long TO lay up the
first payment, and then. as the Build
: er suggests, the rest is easy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
THE "PROLETARIAT."

Radicals are always pratnE about
;hc "proletariat.' Red propaganda is
ful, of il. And the ordinary Ancri-
can fer the life of him. can't figure
out what they mean, even when he
has read literature written in the So
cia.list or Bolshevist or I. w. w. jar
gon.
Why? Because there is no pro-
letariat in America.
The word. as applied TO economies
by Karl Marx and as used by his fol-
lowers. is collective term meaning
the "oroleta rians'' who in turn are
,at the Century Dictionary defines
IS people without capital or regula.
employment" or persons possessed
Of labor force ard nothing else" They
are those always on the edge Of want,
who own no homes or no property OF
any kind save the most elementary
personal belongings, and who. though
they may have JOBS today. would
starve in week or two or ike on
charity if those jobs We're gone.
Now look around you III tliis city.
in any American city. and where arc
those proletarians." Making IS to
SO day. Or. if they are tnemploy-
ed. able to get jobs at that rate when
ever they want them. ard in spite
of the cost of living, able TO subslst
according to their usual standard on
about half of what they can earn and
so are not prolctarians at all.
1t is European term, for Euro
pea-s. i dces rot apply % America,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
Nitrate Gives Prosperity to Chile.

Santiago, Chile, Oct. 15.-ProsperatY
is coming back to Chile already as a.
result Of the first shipments Of part
of the 100000 tons of nitrate sold fo
English buyers by the committee
formed in London by the Nitrate
Producers Association. 1t Will all
be delivered within the months OF
October and March and virtually
places the control Of the nitrate trade !
for the time being in the hands OIL
Great Britain. British ships are car
rying the fertilizer.
Expert duties on nitrate form AIne
main source of the = States revenues
and the present fiscal year NAG
shown a heavy deficit on account or
the curtailment of nitrate sales. fne
present undertaking, however mas
had tonic effect on exchange which,
at this writing. has gone up alEosas
.wo points, Likewise, all stocks re
lated to nitrate also have risen. =.
Unrest in Chile, due to, the high
cost OF living and the desire OF LABOR
for better working conditions, took
the form. early in SEPTEMBER OF
small strike among the brewery hands
which later called out various othes
trades in sympathy. The general
strike lasted five days and troops
were called out in some instances to
handle trains, street cars, run baker
les and protect non-union men Wlnoe
continued to work..
Two days after the general walk
out, however, the executive commit
tee of the Labor Federation placed
their dispute in the hands OF the
government. declaring that patriot
ism impellcd them not to hinder the
production of the country when, ey-
cry effort was needed to improve the
economical situation The govern
n1ent thereupcn appointed a perma-
nent Court of Cancellation which, in
future. will consider and arbltrate
all labor disputes
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22

a rat. The food-good food, fit for
human consunption-eaten by those
rats in year is worth s1S0,000,0o9.
The food they spoil in one way or an
other may be worth more t..lan that.
And this is no tine to be lavish il the
expenditure of food.
Add to that the damage the ro-
dents do in gnawing holes where no
holes ought to be, in starting fires and
i, general devastation and dchlemeat.
Add the deadly diseases they car
1y and spread among other animals
and among human beings, whose u!ti-
mate cost is impossible to estimate.
The inevitable, unanimous conclu-
sion is kill the rats" If everybody
kills one. they will be externinated.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
SMALLER NEWSPAPERS.

The tendency Of newspapers every
where in recent years has been to
grow continually larger It is a nat
rrai course Of development, answering
to the steaas increasing scope u
news-gathering facilities, the increas-
ing interest esstRe public in national
end international affairs, the popu-
la- demand For features and depart
mental matter and the advertising de-
nands of modern business,
s, It may become necessary, howeverf,
to check this natural course of c7olu-
ton. A slzezlimiit must be reached
some time. on aeeount, OF the mater
ials required, and hedifHculties OF
distribution. -
At present the problem of mater
ial IS serious. The paper. supply is
very short. The newspapers are now
uzng 10 per cent. more paper than
the mills are. producing.
The special convention Of the Pub
fishers, Association called in New
York to consider this shortage Of
news-print has voted unanimously to
limit the size of the papers
It is evident that If the size of ia
newspaper page, or the number of
pages, is to be reduced, there must
be reduction in the average size OF
the advertisements, and advertising
rates based ON quantity of space must
therefore be higher. The advertiser
need pay no more, but for the same
money would be obliged to accom-
modate his ads to smaller space. Such
an arrangement could hardly impose
any hardship on anyone if the plan
were applied Uniformly The thing
that counts in advertising is not alb
solute size but proportionate size.
The same principIe~would be ap-
Piled naturally, TO he:rgading mat
ter. And it must be admitted by an
honest editor that reading matter as
well as advertising matter would
rrobaDlysain in quality and effective
ness frorm such boiling down. There
is too rssich mere bulk through the
average present day newspaper.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22

London, Oct. 2O.-England needs
to produce a great deal more wealth
than she did, before the war and she
can best learn from America how to
do it said C. A. McCurdy, Parliamen-
tary Secretary to the Food Controller,
in a recent speech dealing with Eng
lands industrial and labor troubles.
Machinery and motive power are
the tools you give the worker Tor
his business he continued. Be1ore
the war the American worker was
far better equipped in this respect
Than the British workingman. He
had fifty percent more motive power.
steam power or electrical power to
help him in his task.
we might double the efficiency
and the output OF British workmen
by giving British industry cheap ana
abundant motive power.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
ROW BREWING
WITH MEXICO
washington Government VIII
Demand Satisfaction For
Arrest of Jenkins

Washington, Nov l77onvinced
Of tho innocence Of William o. Jen-
kins American consular agent at
Pueblo, Mexico, Of the charge that
he connived with FREDERICK Cordova,
the rebel who kidnapped him, the
State department has made strong
representations to the Mexican gov
crnment against Jenkins arrest. 1t
was said officially that information al
ready at hand justified the presump-
ton that Jenkins was innocent.
State department officials regard
the charges that Jenkins connived
with his abductors as highly improb-
aole in view Of the rumor current
in Mexico City that the eighteen poems
upon whose testimony the arrest was
predicated by the State authorities
Of Pueblo had been threatened with
death unless they testified against
Jenkins The poems were said to
have been held in communicate by
the police authorities after their Or
rest at jenkins .ch.
According to MeSican newspapers,
udge Franco, Of Pueblo examined
jenkins before declaring that in his
opinion it was genuine case Of Kid
mapping. The secretary Of State, OF
the State Of Peubla, however, subse.-
auently ordered the police activities
which resulted in the arrest of the
poems.
Judge Franco was urged by Luis
Cabrera. according to reports II
Mexico City, to order the arrest OF
jenkins from the bench, following rs
investigation, but he declared there
was no evidence upon which to base
:uch action. The governor Of the
:tate Of Pucb1a is brother of Luis
Cabrera.
Although representations on the
case are understood - have been
made clear 20 Mexican g. overnElent
a. complcte investigation would be
made by the Washington government.
AS a consular agent, he is not i'm
nune from arrest, but it was said
steps would be taken to see that h.:
rights are III no way abridged in pro-
ceedings brought against him.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
pEACE-TINiE WASTE.

There have been many charges,
since the war ended, that military
supplies and equipment left On the
governments hands were being allow
cd to rust, rot or otherwise deterior-
ata, entailing enormous loss to the
nation that paid for those goods.
Now similar story comes from
France, supposedly the most thrifty
of nations.
: Large stocks CT supplies were turn
ed over to France by the American
army when it departed. France ac-
quired the stuff on very liberal
terms, with the understanding that it
was soreiy needed by the French pop
ulation, and would be. distributed in
such a way as to a1lay suffering and
help meet the bitter war losses. Tc
a great extent. some Of the French
newspapers declare, these stocks have
been neglected and wasted, stolen or
allowed to decay. Says one paper.
regarding an important accumulation
of goods ct Montoire, near St. La
zaire: 4iss.
ION 12o docks covering 5000 square
metres there IS a mass Of merchandise
left by the American army which had
been unloadet' from 900 freight cars.
Lying there in danger Of rottins are
5000 sacks of grain and $50 tons
of chocolate Three employees ad-
minister liquidation and there are
sentinels, but there. is no proper man
agement no record Of the goods. Pill
laying goes on steadily. To stop the
looting. people told an investigator i
would be necessaryEE to arrest the
whole town. There is no system of
liquidation no responsibility, though
! the merchandise is worth millions.
Everything is sold by weight, which
is ridiculous when selling canned
stuff. LIQUIDS and the like. Neverthc-
less all is sold by weight, and as the
depot lacks proper equipment FOR
weighing, the administrators guess at
weight"
|. All of the belligcrent nations dur
ing.1ae war practised an efficiency and
economy in the handling of useful
commodities that aroused the worlds
admiration. Why can that efficiency
and economy not continue now that
the war is over? The need is almost
as great.
Is there no such thing as practis-
ing war virtues-or mere common
sense. for that matter-in time Of
peace?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
KILL \ RAT.

From a disasreable but compelling
little book on The Rat" published by
the Public Health Service, the reader
learns that the rat population Of the
United States just about equals th"
human population. y big male rat
for every man, a big female lat for
every woman. nest Of little rats for
every houseful Of children. All ugly,
rasty, destructive and disease
breeding
It costs ncayly s. year to feed
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
ARE NEGOTIATING
WITH BOLSHEVIKS
Conference Opens at Dorphat in
Baltic States

!, Dorphat. Nov 18.-Ai. Litvinotf.
the head of the Bolshevik delegation
comforting with the representatives OF
tho Baltic States here. states that he
had an initial meeting with the 9TH
er delegates yesterday afternoon,
credentials being exchanged. al
though the present discussions cover
merely the exchange Of prisoners they
are regarded as important as the at
titudc OF NJ Litvinoff on that question
will probably indicate the position OF
Folsleviii on the question Of an ar
r.::S+ice and peace.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
To superintendent of Schools, Sumter

To superintendent Of Schools, Sumter,
s. c.
It is requestcr ti1at you furnish me
with the names and addresses OF all
tho Young men vino have recently.
within the last three years, gradual
cd from the High School of your city
who desire 10 enter the State Cnl-
versity of South Carolina.
want to get in touch with these
men. especially if they cannot finan-
cialy afford to attend the University
to show them how they can increase
their education at q very Slight eA-
pensc and how they may earn the
money TO meet this expense.
in other words 1 want to get these
men to enlist in this company
which will probably be stationed here
for some time. Arrangements have
heen made will! the authorities OF the
University whereby a number or men
now in this camp are in attendance.
These men must be single and phE-
sically able to pass the examination
for enlistment.
*. L. PEPPER.
CAPTAIN. 10th Infantry. Command
ing Company.
Camp Jackson. s. {.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
LABOR AGITATOR
KIDNAPPED
John r. Lawson Driven Out Of
Nashville

Nashville. Nov. Kidnapped by
a squad of unidentified men as he
vas leaving the Office Of his attorney,
John b. Lawson, alleged labor organ
izer, who led the recent Knoxville
street car strike, was hurried out OF
Nashville late Wednesday with orders
rot to return. Last reports said he
wa, on a train travelling in the direc-
tor Of Evansville, Ind.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
BIG BREAK IN
COTTON MARKET

New Orleans. Nov. 2o.-The fail
ure of the senate to ratify the peace
treatp was responsible for the heavy
selling of cotton at the opening OF
the market today. In the first halt
hour of trading here prices dropped
seventy-two to ninety points
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22
Glance for College Education.

Editor Daily Item:
1 am publishing the letter below IN
order that any who may be interested
may communicate with me.
S. II. Ednunds.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-22

IOST-Onc Jersey colored butt head
heifer and three he;fcr calves.
Strayed from my place At Chambers
X Roads. aSout the l4th. )" j.
shaw.
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New Britain herald., 1919-06-23
NINETY CENTS A DAY FEEDS
 ONE PERSON LUXURIOUSLY

During the war, the l.. $. food ad- ministration suggested the following division of the food allowance in a family of five persons spending S10 a week for food, Or. in other words, cv- cry $10 spent for food should he di- Nided as follows
 S250 for breads and cereals.
 S2 for milk.
 S2 for meat, eggs and fish.
 S2 for fruits and vegetables.
 S1.50 for fats, sugar and flavor food. The Massachusetts food admnistra- ton bulletin fov May, 1918. suggest the following amounts Of food to be purcho sed daily for a man doing mod = crate work:
 Of vegetables and fruits, from , 2 to l 1-2 pounds.
 Of milk. S ounces.
 Of meat, eggs or cheese, from l ounces down 10 ounces.
 Of cereals or breads--rrom s to i ( ounces.
 Of sweets. from ? to 2 ounces.
 Of fats, from to 3 ounces.
 Tour-tifths of these amounts is es- timated as the proper daily food allow a,lCe for an active woman. and 31 - times that amount Is sufficient for a man. woman and three children undor
New Britain herald., 1919-06-23
INON'S THE ATEls

Charlie Chaplin. in the lCnp aNvaite d "Sunnyside," and Harry Carey in his newest drama, Bare Fists.' are the attra at Fox's tonight
 ''Sunnyside" is the most human of all Eh arlic Chaplir's S come dies and he gets his laughs with but little of his old slap stick methods. Quick action marks the opening of the picture. Charlie is the full staff of help" at the Evergreen hotel and he is obliged to go to bed with his clothes cn so that he may waste no time getting up in the morning. It is this gcttng up, or getting him up operation which starts off the comedy With a bang and his efforts to do the bidding of his slave driver of a boss is the motive of much of the fun. One Of the most amusing incidents is where he is sent to drive he COWS home and loses the herd at the fork of the road. His in imitable walk has nevor been used mor3 effectively
 Harry Carey can always be counted upon to offer d thrilling western pho toplay, and his latest effort ''Rare Fists" has all unusual twist in the fact that the usual guns of Cheyenne Harry are missing A cowboy of the
 " CSL NltJlOll SulS. rue SJ1oG2n u all develops after Harry's father has been killed in q fight with the marshal of 1hn tcWn. His mother tEcn makes him promise never to carry q gun again and to rsc his bare fists when - ever he Is called upon to defend him self. This is rather & long order fol a man brought up Il a town where the average man uses a gIn upon the slightest provocation. And Harry enemies, knowing his promise to his m mothor, pl 1posely aggravate him. Sus- pense runs rife throughout the film and eliminates in a tremendous eli max when Harry finally filings his promise to the winds and takes ut his shooting irons again to avenGe the trcatmcn his enemies have nleted out to his little brother. "Bare Fists will increase Harry Carey'S following iI1 New Britain, as it contains the ele- ments of pathos and simple devotion so appealing to all.
 The latest Pathe News, a Harold , Lloyd comedy, the Topics of the Day from the Literary Digest and four acts of Fox vaudeville will complete this . exceptional show.
New Britain herald., 1919-06-23
PALACE THIGATER.

ksToday is Charlie Chaplin day at @khe Palace theater and the forem oSt Kpicture star of them all will be seen Nn his newest comedy "Sunnyside."
 This picture will be seen in Now Brit
 ain before boing shown in Boston and
 the larger cities and it takes Charlie
 back to nature, down on the farm
 where he has the time of his young
 life. 'Sunnyside" is in three reels
 and is said to be the best that Chap
 lin has yet produccd "Sunnysde'
 will be seen at all performances to-
 day, Tuesday and "Wednesday. Mary McLaren will also be seen in a new
 production, 'Thc Uupainted Woman"
 produced by the same big company
 that released the Chaplin pictures.
 "The Cnpainted Woman" is highly
 dramatic story of love and adventure
 and has pretty Mary McLaren in a
 role that is well fitted for her great
 talent. Marie Walcamp also appears
 ill a sure-fire thrill in "Thc Red Glove" and the Palace News Weekly will show the latest current events.
 The vaudeville bill will be headed by
 Ziegfeld Juvenile Follies, a mina-
 turc musical comedy with little tots, each one specially talented. They WILL oiltl tt StI1eS ol SOllSS dllu udICcS l in the form of a revue. These clever youngsters are attended by their par cnts and teachers and they hare at tentiOns shown them that would be fitting for royalty, The Juvenile Follics is a sure-firc offering and should make the biggest hit of any act that has been seen at the Palace theater this season. Patsy Doyle is another favorite. He comes back to New Britain after an absence of three years with new material and songs and should also score. Harry and Villa Browne, coming direct from the Hippodromc, New York, will also please with new novelty offering that made all New York sit up and take notice. The summer scale of prices goes into effect today making the balcony 6 cents and the orchestra II cents at the matinee and ! 1 1 and 22 cents at night. The matinee l is at and the evening show promp pt- l ly at :, Chaplin in ''SunnysGe" will 1 he seen at every performance.
New Britain herald., 1919-06-23
(BV BiddV BTe.)


 How shall we estimate the amount of money we can afford to spend for food each month?
 Time was, "before the war; when the average daily allowance for the food cost of a person living at homo in a family was 25 cents a day, but now the average is between 30 and 10 cents a day for each person. even with good management.
 The minimum cost per day for food raw material to keep one person in health and at full working efficiency, is 30 cents day, averaging children and adults together, and multiplying that sum by the number of persons in the family to estimate family costs.
 With 30 cents q day aS the mini mum allowances for food costs per day per person, other estimates arc; A cents per day will supply q "comforta ble" daily menu.
 60 cents per day per capita allows for variety and some deHcacies.
 75 cents per day per capita allows for choice cuts of meat fruits out of season and other luxuries.
 90 cents per day per person Is tho maximum. and should not be over stepped if waste and eStrava gancc is tp bo oyOida6