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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-21
TO ASSIST CUPID
Movement for MIXED Clubs" in
City Of London.
Method Has Been Suggested to Check
Decline In Marriage Rate, Which
10 Viewed With ConsId.
cradle Alarm.

Social refOrmers, bishops, clergymen
and physicians are continually remind
Ing us that in England we need "more
marriage and earlier marriage" The
poTponement OF the age of marriage
among men until thirty or the begin
ming Of middle age Ia not healthy
social sign.
In the middle class this deferment
of wedlock Is attributed chiefly to the
Increased difficulty In earning suffi-
cient income to support the family
The same factor comes into play among
the skilled craftsmen who wish to at
tain fair financial position before
they undertake the responsibilities Of
parentage. We find, therefore, that
early marriage is the custom chiefly Of
the unskilled workers, casual laborers
and the very poor.
The economic question is not the
only barrier to early marriage and more
marriage In the great middle class.
Strange as 1t may appear, a vast num-
Der OF men and women who wish to
marry cannot find mates. Even In
these days there are q multitude Of
men who have very few women ac-
quaintances, and a still larger host of
women who rarely enjoy the society
OF men. We are apt to forget that a
large proportion of the inhabitants Of
the big cities are practically strangers
In the gates" Their "hOmes" are a
bedroom In the suburbs, a boarding
house or little lookup fat. They are
country immigrants TO the large towns,
and In many instances they have not a
single acquaintance in the place.
If we are reallyin earnest about the
decline of the marriage rate and the
deferment OF matrimony, we should sat
about facilitating social intercourse be-
tween the sexes. The first practical
step is the provision of "mixed clubs"
under municipal control. Clubs, as they
exist now, are simply internment camps
for men or women, and there is no
doubt that they tend to further seq
regation Of the sexes.
u Is true that there are clubs IN Lon.
don where men and women can meet.
But we require very much larger
number in the metropolis and in all
parts Of The provinces.
My own experience Of mixed clubs
is that they undoubtedly promote mat
rimony. They are a pleasant meeting
place for young men and women after
the days work. 1t is appalling that
thousands of youths and maidens
should have nowhere to foregather in
the evenings and no choice between the
lonely lodging and the streets.
l would suggest also that every mu-
n'clpality should establish a marriage
bureau and provide candidates for we'd
lock with troductions-From Conti-
mental Edition OF London Mall.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-21
New SmokcIess Fuel

Coallte, q new British snnOkcless
fuel, is claimed to he natural briquet
generating ms much heat per unit as
coal. By q process Of low tempern-
ture carbOnization, ton of bitumin-
Ous coal Is made to yield Ii hundred
weight Of smokeless fuel. 1000 cubic
feet Of gas, l8 gallons Of oil similar TO
crude petroleum, 3 gallons Of refined
motor spirit and 20 pounds Of sulphate
OF ammonia for fertilizer. Besides
makilc fuel smokeless. this process
supplies by"prOducts Of enormous im
pOrtance.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-21

The underlying caus. o. poor school
houses tho hack OF proper equipment
ana Inadequate salaries for teachers
haH been and continues TO be the fail
ure OF state. counties districts to levy
sufficient school ta;scs to provide the
faciiities that are needed. Until very
reeently the people have been unable
TO ray the heavy taxes that would have
oeen necessary TO raise sufficient funds
~ build model school houses. furnish
them properly and i,ay high salaries to
Rachers. Any criticism OF existing
conditions, 60 be, fair. must take these
circumstances Into consideration. In
the recent past there has been an
nwakening In respect To- educational
requirements and many schoo, dis
tricts have built new school houses,
while stiii more nave ievid extra
lcvies for school purposes. To obtain
a correct perspective OF the school
conditions In sumter county one must
have knowledge OF conditions as they
wore few years ago and make q
comparison with conditions as tfrey are
today. There has been progress.
and Improvement year by year. and
the outlook for still greater advance
suent within the neir future was never
mere encouraging IL must be re-
membcred that development of the
public school system under. condi
lions that exist I'm the South. must
necessarily be a process of evolution
and growth. not by n radical revolu
tfon. nor by the creation OF com
plete and perfected system by the
stroke OF a pen or command of
one who sees vision OF things al
they should be.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-21

'Ha," exclaimed the client. "You
predicted the world was coming to an
end week ago"
did "" replied the soothsayer,
dreamIIy.
"You certainly did. But we are still
Mere. Nothing has happened. What
have you got to say for yourself?"
"Just this," said she soothsayer.
TIN as glad II didn't happen as You
are. Mustapha." he continued, mo-
tioning languidly to his dark skinned
assistant, "show the gentleman out
end ADMIT the next seeker after truth" {"
Birmingham Age Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-21
Rural Carrier Examination

The United States Civil Service
commission has announced an exam
nation for the county of Sumter. S. c.,
tobe held at Sumter on August IA,
l920, to fill the position of rural car
rier at Dalzell and Tindal and vacan-
cles that may later occur on rural
routes from other post offices in the
above mentioned county
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-21

Birmingham. July 13--seaator
Underwood. addressing the rainbow
veterans. declared that the govern
nfent has become the football OF the
partisan and the desire OF the plum
s've lesdcrs as well as agriculture, ex-
become leaders In the fight against
tine dangers which he said threat
encd the life OF the republic.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-21

Columbia, July 16.--will Bethune
negro. who was serving life sentence
Tor murder. and who escaped from the
state farm on July 13. had not been
captured mp until Hast night. accord
ms To ponitentiary official. Bethune
was convicted of murder In Lee county
and had only served IA comparatively
short time Of his sentence
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-11

among Republicans with the course of
the Republican national committee in
handling the senatorial investigation
of campaign funds. 1t is a matter of
common gossip that Governor Cox s
figures of a 100000 quota here were
correct and that the Republican lead
ers made a big mistake when they
failed to explain it. Hereabouts, they
don't think it is sinful to contribute
100000 to run campaign and they
would have preferred an admission of
the quotas coupled with a demand that
Cox prove that any of the money was
used or would be used for corrupt pur-
poses. They think, too, that it was I'M
wise to fall into Cox IS trap by per-
hitting the diversion of the public in
terest from the league issue to dis
cussion of imaginary quotas, the size
of which is not as important as the
size of the funds actually raised and
the method of their expenditure.
Minnesota liked Harding and viii
give him its II electoral votes next No
yember.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-11
HoLSTEIN REAL CHAMPION.
lilly Alcartra Bigger Producer Than the
Jersey Sophie 10Th.

The New York daily press has had an
item, copied into many journals in vari-
Gus parts of the country, which states
that the Jersey COW, Sophie 10Th, of
Hood Farm, has ''come back at the age of
Is years and G months with a record
that makes her the champion butter COW
of the world" The item goes on to say
that sin nine years she has produced
ll0,9lS.l lbs. of milk and 6,356.06 lbs of
butterfat, an average of l2,3243 lbs
of milk and 706.23 lbs of butterfat a
year" The further claim is that Sophie
18th has "a clear lead of 693 lbs of but
terfat over her nearest competitor, lilly
Alcartra"
The following tables, sent out by The
Holstein- Friesian Association of America,
show the records of the two cows for the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-11
Sophie 10Th Of Hood Farm.
Honesty Prevalent IN China.

Honesty is prevailing virtue among
most Cinnamon. Some of them in
their native towns and cities leave
their places OF business unguarded
while they go off for an hour or more.
Should customers arrive In the mean
time they find the prices of goods
plainly marked. select what they want
and leave the money for them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-11

same number of years-seven-in both
milk and fat lilly Alcartra, the Hol-
stein COW, has practically twice the
amount of milk and $50 lbs. more fat in
that period, as well as an average of
SAL lbs. more fat for the year. This,
be it noted,is for an equal number of
wears for both cows
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-11

Finds Gc1mans and Scandinavians Fa-
vor Republican Candidates = Will
AlaEzc Conditions In the East
Through October.
Evening star., 1920-01-10
TO CONDUCT SCHOOL FOR
CHRISTIAN SERVICE

A school for Christian service will
be conducted by Rev. Hugh Steven
son. pastor of Bethany Baptist Church.
with the cooperation of the Sunday
school board of the Southern Baptist
Convention. during the coming week.
The work will be presented tomor-
row to the Bible school and Young
Peoples Society of Bethany by Rev.
kingman A. Handy of Baltimore, Md,
director of education for this Dis
trict, and will be supplemented by
him at the regular church services,
when Rev. DR.. =. T.. Burroughs edu-
oational secretary of the Sunday
school board. will preach at both
services.
DIR. Handy will conduct conferences
in the afternoon at 2:30 pm. upon
religious life in the home. Commenc-
ing Tuesday afternoon, Rev. i. r.
Wagner will give a number of his in
structive illustrated addresses to the
children at $3.50 pm. DIR. Handy will
conduct a service for young peoples
work and at s pm. Rev. Burroughs
will give series of lectures on Win
ming to Christ"
With the exception of Mr.. Handys
afternoon conferences all the courses
will commence Monday. While the
members of Bethany will be enrolled
tomorrow all who desire to register
in the school of Christian service are
urged to be present Monday evening
at the church, Rhode Island avenue
and I'd street northwest at the first
session of the school.
Evening star., 1920-01-10
EPWORTH LEAGUE NOTES.
NJ. +. Church.

The monthly board of control meet
ing was held at Wesley Chapel We'd
nesday evening. and was attended by
ten presidents of local chapters and
chairman of the ways and means and
budget committee, reported q budget
of $3.50 for the remainder of the year
and the ways and means of meeting
the budget: Clark Main announced
that the Epworth League Institute
deans conference would be held in
Washington, February 10 to 49, and
would be entertained by the District
Epworth League.
The members of the District cabinet
will visit the following leagues to-
morrow: Mr.. Main and Mr. Linger
Sunday morning, Seat Pleasant. Md.
to organize a new local chapter; Mr.
Linger. Sunday night. Union: Miss
Nash. Wilson Memorial; Mr. Dunagan
Congress Heights: Miss Mcbride.
North Capitol; Mr. Eliot. Trinity: Miss
StuntZ, Trinity; Miss Webb. Lincoln
Road; Miss LOuden, Waugh.
Congress Heights will hold leap
year social Wednesday evening at the
home of Mrs. j. E. Joy, 1904 Nichols
avenue. Congress Heights.
Percival kreigh Of Waugh had
charge of the meeting at Central
Union Mission last night. Waugh
Chapter takes charge of the meeting
at the mission one night each month
the church Tuesday evening, to which
all friends of the league are invited
Foundry Chapter on Tuesday even
ing gave an entertainment at the
Home for 1ncurables. under Miss Lois
StuntZ. District third vice president
William Reuss will have charge of
the devotional meeting at Rosedale
Sunday evening.
The morning watch at Wesley Chap
ter Sunday morning was very well at
tended. These morning watches will
be held at Wesley Chapel the first
Sunday of each month at $50 o'clock.
The Epworth League devotional
topic for tomorrow evening is "a
Strong Character and How It Is At
tained.' The reference is found in
Prov, Alb
NJ. f. CHURCH SOUTH.
Miss Lillian Earnest superintendent
of the junior department, is booked
for two engagements tomorrow. In
the morning she will address the
juniors at Mount Vernon Place
Church and in the afternoon she is
scheduled to address the juniors of
Calvary Church in Georgetown.
Wilbur f. Nash. jr., will be the
guest tomorrow evening of the Saw
age, Md, Epworth League.
Marvin Chapter will be visited to-
morrow evening by Miss Ruth Ander-
son, superintendent of the second de-
partment.
Evening star., 1920-01-10
MISS BLODGETT MADE
lIFE-SAVER EXAMINER
First Woman Here to Pass Red
Cross Test Requiring Great
Stamina.

The first woman in the District of
Columbia to win an appointment as
examiner in life saving from the Red
Cross is Miss Louise c. Blodgett.
swimming instructor at the f. street
branch of the Y. w. c. A The Red
Cross is organizing life-saving
corps and is planning a water-safety
campaign in the spring. AS soon as
enough members for the CORDS are
secured a charter will be issued and.
the new organization will function as
an activity of the District of Colum-
la chapter. The "Y" pool is one of
the few places where possible life
savers of the feminine sex may re-
ceive winter indoor training
Miss Blodgett'S test was held Thurs
Gay evening Dressed in heavy clothing,
including shoes. she swan twenty
yards without resting other than by
floating, removed the clothing and
swan eighty yards further. She re-
leased st-ans!e-hclds and other death
grips and demonstrated rescue meth
DDS, including finding a person at the
bottom of ten feet of water Com
modore w. +. LongfelIow of the Red
Cross was examiner and also played
the part of drowning victim He
weighs more thas 250 pounds and
Miss Blodgett onl: 40. The latter
viii receive a life-sa Tng certificate,
a Red Cross medallion for her street
clothes and another emblem for her
bathing suit.
Evening star., 1920-01-10
STRICT RULES TO GOVERN
EXPORT OF ALCOHOL
internal Revenue Bureau Limits
Use of Consignments to Nom
Beverage Purposes.

Ironclad regulations. which will
govern the export OF alcohol after
constitutional prohibition becomes eff
fective this month have been an
nounced by Commissioner Roper of the
bureau of internal revenue, the law
being that no such exports may be
made except for non-beverage pur-
poses.
Triplicate applications, one of which
must be sworn to. must be filed with
the federal prohibition director for a
permit to export non-peverage alco-
hol. and this permit, when issued, will
De good for the calendar year, unless
revoked, and no bond will be re-
Guired
The applicant will be required to
certify that he has not within one
year from the date of his application
violated the national prohibition act
or any law of the United States or any
state law regulating traffic in liquor.
Permits to export will be granted
only to persons who own the alcohol
and alcohol intended for export must
be consigned to the collector of Gus
toms at the port of export Owners of
liquors who have obtained permits to
export must file with the proprietor
OF the industrial alconoI plant or
bonded warehouse a certificate under
oath that the liquor is intended for
non-beverage purposes before it may
be withdrawn.
Evening star., 1920-01-10
MEETING OF AREA
LEADERS IN BAL T|MORE

BALTIMORE, Md. January 10
church leaders in the four annual
conferences and eighteen district con-
1erences of the Washington area of
the Methodist Episcopal Church held
a tWo-day session here Thursday and
yesterday for the discussion of eX-
tension and stimulation of lay ACTIVE
tiles in connection with the centen-
ary movement. The Baltimore, Will
minGton. central Pennsylvania and
Washington annual conferences were
represented
Bishop William r. Mcdowell pre-
sided John l.. Alsock is chairman of
the Washington area council, and Rev.
Dr. John r. Edwards is area secretary.
Bishop Mcdowell made a speech on
the value of church publications., es-
pecialle at this time. as agencies to
help conserve the spirit and morale
of the nation and to keep the soul
of the nation alive"
A resolution was proposed by Rev.
DR.. f.. II. Dashiell OF Wilmington that
the three annual conferences be urged
to instruct their delegates to the
general conference next May to use
every effort to have the Methodist
established as the official organ of
the Washington area. if not estab-
lished as IA national organ, in Wash
ington city.
Evening star., 1920-01-10
SERVICES AT THE MONASTERY
To Observe the Feast of the Epip-
any Tomorrow.

Special services to be held at
the Franciscan Monastery in Brook
land tomorrow will mark the observ-
ance of the feast of the epiphany.
which occurred in the ecclesiastical
calendar on the sixty Epiphany. which
is popularity celebrated event in
many countries, commentaries the
alteration of the magi, or wise men.
who came to Bethlehem in response
to divine call manifested by the
miraculous star. Owing to the fact
that these three kings We're GentiIes
their visit to the scene of Christ'S
birth is also regarded as the mani
festation of the newborn Redeemer
to the Gentle world as represented
by them.
Following solemn benediction at $3.50
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. a pro-
ceSSion of the F'ranciscans will go to
the Grotto of the Nativity in the
crypt of the monastery, which is a fac
simile of the one in Bethlehem. After
short services in the grotto. the pro-
cession will return to the upper
church bearing the figure of the Di-
vine Infant. which was placed in the
on Christmas Eve. Blessing
and veneration of the figure, which
has been touched to the actual place
of Christ's birth. will conclude the
services, which are open to the pub
lie.
Evening star., 1920-01-10
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR NOTES.

At the First Baptist Church Monday
evening Dr. Writ. commissioner to the
near east, delivered an illustrated lee
ture on Armenia before the January
meeting of the District of Columbia
Christian Endeavor Union.
The shield awarded for the largest
percentage of membership present at
the monthly business meetings of the
District of Columbia Christian Endeavor
Union was won this month for the third
time by the society from Congress
Heights Baptist Church
The Christian Endeavor Society of the
First Presbyterian Church has resumed
the social hour proceeding the Christian
Endeavor meetings on Sunday evenings.
Plans are under way for a contest be-
tween the Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor and the Westmin-
ster League of Central Presbyterian
Church to be held in the near future, the
object of which will be to aroue greater
interest. obtain new members and pro-
cure greater participation in the meet
lngS,
Evening star., 1920-01-10
URGES THRIFT OBSERVANCES.
Rev. DR.. J. C. Palmer Asks Pastors
to Note Week January II to "a.

Rev. DIR. John c. Palmer. as a
member of the District thrift COM
mittee. has asked all members of the
Pastors Federation to arrange for
special national thrift week observ-
ances in their churches and Sunday
schools from January Is to "a
In a letter addressed to all mem
bers of the federation DR.. Palmer
asks the ministers to deliver special
sermons on Thrift" on Share With
Others day" Sunday. January 1S,
and to assist the movement through
other educational channels of their
churches. In his letter DR.. Palmer
states: There is no need to empha-
size to ministers the Importance to
moral betterment of measures de-
signed to check the present wild
orgy of spending for needless luxu-
ries to the financial neglect of ne
necessities and duties. Will you not
emphasize the proper relation be-
tween money and character and the
sound religious basis for thrift as
opposed to waste?"
The national thrift week executive
committee will address a similar re-
quest to the Roman Catholic clergy
and to Jewish rabbis.
Evening star., 1920-01-10

est into Thy Kingdom; and 10 this appeal the
Lord replied with the blessed Assurance
Verify say unto thee, Today shalt thou be
The spirit of Jesus and that of the repent
ant sinner left their crucided bodies and went
to the same place in the spirit world. But
neither of them at that time went to Heaven
the abode of the Eternal Father; for. the
third day following. Jesus, then a resurrected
Being. positively stated to the weeping Mag
dalene: II not yet asoended to my
Father, and added to event then fss-
them, them ascend S unto my Father, AND and G your F Fs
ther; and to my God, and your God" John
2O.17.l
Christ and the contrite thief went to Para,
disc: but Paradise is not the distinctive abode
of cod. To infer that the crucitied transgress
saved by his dying confession, and
granted special passport to Heaven with sins
unexpiated and without his compliance with
1.-THE laws and ordinance of the Gospel" is 10
Disregard both letter and spirit of Scripture
and to ignore both reason and the sense Of
Justice. We find here warrant for belief
in the efficacy of deathbed confession as
means of grace Only through individual faith
repentance, and works can remission Of sins be
obtained The dying malefactor who won from
in Paradise had manifested both faith and re-
pentance- The blessing promised him WAS to
the effect that he should that day hear the
Gospel preached in Paradise. In the accept
ance rejection of the message of salvation
he would be left an agent unto himself. The
nances of the Gospel was not waived, suss
pended. superseded in his case, nor shall n
be for any soul.
For the dead who have lived and died in
ignorance of the requirements OF salvation
as in another sense. for the disobedient who
later come to repentance, the plan Of God pro-
vides for the vcarious administration of the
essential ordinances to the living posterity in
behalf of their dead progenitors OF this saw
ing labor Malachi prophesied in solemn plain
ness MALACHI. 4.5-6l; and the glorious fulfill
ment has been witnessed in this modern age.
The great Temples reared by the Latter day
saints maintained in large part for the
service Of the living in behalf Of the dead.
For the Book of Mormon, etc., apply to East
ern States Mission, 273 Gates Avenue Brook.
Iyn, N. Y.
For book Of $50 pp., containing complste
series of. Of these art, articlss numbertnS lo4, en-
publishers: The Gorham Press, Boston. Mas.
-Adyertisement.