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II one can Just lie close enough to the
breast Of the wilderness. he can't neip
but be imbued with SON Of the life tnat
pulses therein.-FrOm Frontiersman
Diary.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-08-21

nation In rates, and is at last legally
recognized as SO. Accordingly, any
wronged shipper now has recourse.
"A railroad can no longer favor certain
shippers at the expense Of others. by
giving or withholding cars at its
pleasure.
railroads may welcome this ex-
tension of federal authority, for when
they have Disseminated thev have
probably done it as much through
rear OF powerful business interests
as through favor. AT any rate. the
public is protected: In this. as in
many other matters of regulation
the much-abused government" seems
to be the only power big and broad
enough to bring order and justice in
10 the transportation business.
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FREIGHT CAR CONTROL.

The priority rule" which gives
coal cars the right OF way is begin
ming to show results. There is still 60
ing to be fuel shortage in some
parts Of the country next winter. be-
cause it will be Impossible under the
best imaginable conditions to move
an adequate supply beofre the bad
weather sets in, but it will be far
less serious that 1T would have been
without this bencficent rule made by
the Big Boss.
The prevalent impression is that
this is only IA temporary revival of a
wartime power, which will pass with
as "a representative of large shipping.
interests points out, this Is not So
BY the new railroad law the Inter
state Commerce Commission is given
control Of railroad service, along will
it's other powers. Thus, it is explain
ed, government control OF cars will
private operation.
This power, IL wisely handled, will
do more than merely give relief in
such emergencies as the present one,
to expedite some particular commod
ity. 1t should also remove one Of tin
oldest causes OF complaint against
the carriers. their alleged discrimi-
nation i'm car service. Discrimination
I'm service is just IA bad as discrimi-
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TRUCKERS WILL
GO TO FLORENCE
Will Form Market Association
For the State
MANY PROMINENT SPEAK.
ERS TO BE THERE
standard Grades and Packs and
Adequate to be Discussed

Florence, S. c., Aug. 10. (SpeciaD
ALI trucking interests of fhe entire
Pee Dee section of South Carolina
are being invited to Florence on Tues
day September z, to form a market
ing association. The invitation is
being extended through the Cham
bers of Commerce of the section. the
newspapers, and individuals who arc
known here as leading truckers in
their respective localities
The Florence Chamber of Com
merce is sponsoring the meeting
through it's agricultural department
of which T. b. Young, one of the
leading and most progressive farmers
Of South Carolina, is vicepresident
The meeting will be under its aus
pices and the association will be fos-
tered accordingly.
Lloyd S. Tenney, representing the
North American Fruit Exchange, will
be the chief speaker Of the day. He
will represent plans for the Exchange
to establish in South Carolina a
state exchange, which will have sub
exchanges. with inspectors, in each
OF the larger localities OF this section
For many years, Mr.. Tenney has been
engaged in the Southern fruit and
produce business on n large scale,
and he is considered one of tho best
selling authorities in the United
States on the subject. For n long
while he was employed in the Florida
fields, which are among the first
organized in the South. Consequently
his address is expected to be of par
ticMar value and worth here. Mr..
Tenney will not speak here as an Elk
change man, however but as a mar
keting authority.
Certain contingencies must be met
in undertaking such an organization
and this meeting will dispose of thcm
Chief among these are standard
grades and packs, with adequate
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MEN AND PRICES.

|. Men are accustomed to blaming
women as largely responsible for
high prices. Women, they say, as
purchasing agents for family sup
plies, have been easy" acquiesc-
ing too rapidly in extortion along all
lines, and especially paying unduly
high prices for their own clothing and
other personal purchases. Many a
man has prided himself on his com.
parative' economy in his own pur-
chases.
A warning issued by the Ohio Fair
Price Board seems to cast doubt on
this view Manufacturers ana deal
ers in women's wear" says the board,
realize the power Of control held by
the women, and the situation in wo-
mems wear is favorable. But in re-
gard to the situation in mems wear
ing apparel, conditions are not sat
isfactory."
The manufacturers Of mems wear,
it seems, are conducting a propa-
ganda campaign designed to hold up
prices, and count on the lordly male
consumer to fall for it. The Board
urges the federal Department Of
justice representatives and the fair
pi1ce commissions throughout the
state to press vigorously their cam
paigns of sane economy among men,"
They are told that 'rnen should be
advised to buy only an absolutely ne
cessary; to make their old clothes
do; to understand and spread the
idea that the best interests of our
country require economy" The
women. it is implied, have already
been doing this very thing.
Men have standing disdain for
femme shopping methods. Men take
pride in marching into a store, buy
ing the first thing they see without
STOPPING to any sOrdid discussion of
cost, and marching right out again.
AS result of this business system,
the men are now paying a great deal
more for their clothing than women
are.
Perhaps wearing ones old clothes.
as the board advises, is only half the
battle. Men do need new suits and
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-08-21
THE HoBo's HAVEN.

Chicago police say that they seldom
nave case Of "panhandling" any
more. On West Madison Avenue. for
many years a great meeting place for
Americas vagrants. they still gather
ON their way east, west, north and
south. But as rule they do not beg
The reason? Lack Of drink. the po-
lice say and high wages-especially
farm wages. And thereby hangs
tale.
A Chicago newspaper tells of one
veteran OF the road, 70 years old,
known for decades as a man chroni-
cally broke, hungry, thirsty and
ragged On his last appearance he
looked prosperous. In burst Of con-
fidence he unbuckled money belt.
''Look" he said. "I've got $500
there, and I'll have a lot more before
the seasons over. AS long as the
big pay lasts. I'm going to work.
when the pay drops. I'm stepping
out to buy me little ground in the
country"
Would you believe it? That's what
they talk about in that hobo stamping
ground---getting back to the farm"
They see the need Of production and
the opportunity it offers. When
farmers can pay such wages, they
want to be farmer. Dependent all
their aimless lives.they begin to see
"a vision Of independence. While re-
formers talk over their heads, and
eminently respectable citizens cogi-
tate and hesitate, the "dregs of SO
oiety" lead the way. The non-pro-
ducers are becoming producers.
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New settlers will avoid it and the sons
and daughters of the, old residents
VIII leave tit will not be desolate
but stagnation instead of healthy
growth will be it's characteristic.
These palpable facts .haye dawned
IN the minds of the men who have
called meeting for the Goth of Aug
ust to devise means for the bridging
OF the Santee. 1t is not for The State
10 tell them, whatever the cost of the
bridge proposed, it will be low by
comparison with the cost of being in
definitely without it. They have stud
led the problem that confronts them
and they are, we think, determined
that they will bring their hundreds of
thousands of acres of productive
lands into communication with the
towns, cities and seaports of south
Carolina that is Indispensable to pro-
gress.
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the writsrYwyosyHo more than aoo,-
900 or 100000. Lenine and Trotak,
succeed because they have q small
group OF loyal and trained followers
In the army and the principal fac
tories. and because they are able to
enlist in their army men who would
otherwise starve. Only in the army
and on the farms is there food
enough.
1t Is clear, then. that in spite of the
aggressive radicalism shown by Rus.
sia today. and the menace It seems
to hold for the rest of Europe, it
represents a small minority. The main
body of Russians and the soul of
Russia are conservative. Lenine can
net B0lshevize even his own country
unless he can Bolshevize those peas.
ants. That seems impossible. And
what will the peasants do to Lenine
IL he tries to use force against them {?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-08-21
Farm Hands Arrives
At Oklahoma Farm in Great
Style

Oklahoma City, Okla, August 16--
Some rich relative was the comment OF
Jamie Simpson a farmer living near
this city when he saw bright yell
low taxicab drive up TO his gate and
stop. But it wasn't 1t was goth
century farmland, late of New York
city, who had been advised by the:
Federal state employment bureau that
simpson would pay $3.50 a month and
board for a good farm hand. He
worked about long enough to earn the
money the taxi cost him and then
left, said Simpson, in relating the in
cident.
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WILL BRIDGE THE sANTEE.
Columbia State.


A bridge built across the Santee in
the neighborhood of Summerton
would be OF immense value to the
people Of wide and fertile section
OF South Carolina-of value so great
that the sum OF money. though II
mount into the hundreds OF thous-
ands OF dollars and decidedly higher
than the estimated cost Of construc-
ton. should not frighten the thous-
ands OF people to be benefited by It,
The lands In this region are among
the richest to be found I'm this state
but they do not fetch the high prices
that others not superior, to them
readily command. 1t would as well
be recognized that we have entered
an era when railroad transportation
Is not sufficient to develop a country
The gasoline propelled vehicle is a
necessary part of commercial equip
ment and the truck as well as the
PooSShBcT Cdi - coihinS INTO aiInOSt
universal use wherever are roads for
II to run upon. Roads without brid-
ges are next to worthless.
The inhabitants OF the left bank of
the Santee can reach Columbia by
motor car only by "a long journey to
the north, by way of the bridge across
the Wateree near Camden. From
Charleston and the country south and
west, including the city Of Orange
burg. they are cut off entirely
The great water courses Of the
lower part of South Carolina divide it
into sections that must surely and
positively stop it's growth, In the alb
sence OF bridges. so long as railroads
were the mode OF travel and of haul
ing. except for neighborhood dis
tauces. 1t was not relatively at great
disadvantage. but that condition has
passed, "A districtly. be It's resources
ever so splendid. and one more desir-
able than this i'm discussion nay
scarcely he found. is doomed To lag
IL II shall be separated from ,ia res,
OF tho world so far as motor trans.
y tpcrtation W a means OF reaching Il.
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Tue ~most important man In Rus
49, Nccording to Cameron Maoken-
~. vi,o has spent more than year
o1yA,g him. is that little known
ahuy. the Russisn peasant. Mr..
)osks nsio's accounk Of him. In the
b(urdaf Evening Psst. is illuminate
~ su 4 rsasnring. IN sss light Of the
b1elen: Russian Polish situation.
NJ Thia important parsonage constitu-
- = big majority OF the Russian peo-
~. Ne 10 not BqShsvist. The fact
- he ls dead So against Bolshevism.
eistrussing Lsnlne and all his crew.
havins little interest In the Industrial
lIrlskei~ OF the cities. and when he
Ahes ilotice oi them at all. being ac-
11veiy hostile 10 them.
| The peasant is a sovietist In his
own way. but IL is not the way OF
1entne sovietn are the peasants own
Invention! He has always had them.
m the form OF town or village coun-
els. iie stiil has them. But they
have sothing to do with the Soviet
oovsrn mene' Of Lenine and Trotsky.
The psssssnts attend strictly to their
own affairs. and deny the jurisdic-
ton "a the national government. In
rpany places they haveA cohered In
nroups Of local s6viets that make
1ie<ie Independent states. but most of
1he vii ages are stu separate and self
governing.
The peasants have their own land.
Vhen the revolution came. they sim
ply tD,,k posss,ssion Of the soil they
had btsn cuitlvating. and they in
tend w, keep d. They have no deeds.
and tvin not accept deeds from the
Bolshsgist governmer All they ask
: - 20 sns let alone. They are not Com
,6nhnh,ts They hold the land indiv.
6euu,ly and refuse to change their
neIdtsfs.
N The actual number of Bolshevists In
Rnsjn, Il should oe remembered. Il
cmvaI ntively small. The truly con
(>>rsd cominanists arc estimated b'
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-08-21
PRICE PEAKS.

There Is always grim satisfaction
In finding out how high the cost of
living has gone. just as there is In the
thermometers reading on hot day,
The higher the figures. the more the
satisfaction-such as It is. Statistics
submitted the other day by the De-
partment Of Labor afford one of these
doleful treats.
From December. 1914, to June 80
OF this year. the local average in
crease In cost Of the necessaries of life
for several Representative american
cities Is given as 10 to 136 per cent.
The greatest increase was in the au
tomobile boom town Of Detroit. New
York shows an increase of l1s per
cent which seems near the average
for American municipalities. Further
interest. therefore, may be fourd in
some Of The items Of the New 70, <
report.
There are genuine surprises. After
all the ado made about rent profi-
,teering In the metropolis. 1t appears
that In these five and a half years
housing he's gone up less than any
thing else-only 32.4 per cent. Fuel
and light come next. with SO per cent
increase. Food has risen los per cent
furniture and furnishing eos per cent,
male clothing 220 per cent and fe-
male clothing most of all. 25s per
cent.
Detroit Offers one significant con-
trast. In that city female clothing has
risen only 186 per cent while male
clothing has risen 235 per cent In
New York, one might readily infer,
1t Is the women who are the classy
dressers'. willing to pay the cost of
adQrnment without question. while In
Detroit the city of young fellows
earning better pay than ever before.
T. Is the men.
1t may be ominous to suggest that
these percentages represent the much
discussed peak OF prices. So often
that peak has been sighted. only to
prove an illusion. 1t seems to be the
real thing. though, In this case. Food
and clothing. at least have gone
down appreciably since June 80. and
the average cost Of food Is shown by
the Bradstreet Index numbers" to be
definitely trending downward.
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The gasoline burned in American
automobiles would heat every Amer
lean home during the winter. But,
then, the smell would drive every
body out of the hosue, so maybe it's
just as we'll to keep on heating all
outdoors with it.
They must have queer temperance
drinks in New Jersey. A Newark men.
after q night with the moys, climbed
a telegraph pole on the way home,
and was found next morning lying
ecross the wires, sound asleep. Yes,
he had a high old time.
Now that the expressman have been
given s30.000.O0O more pay, they
won't have to collect at both ends
any more.
Laws queer thing. In order to
protect Ponzi's creditors. the author
tiles tie up his money and refuse to
let him pay his creditors.
There isn't city in the United
States that has enough houses to
shelter its people. and there isn't one
of them that doen't want more pop
ulc ton.
g Liberty Boncs are still a>good bar
gain FOR optimlsts.
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% smmediate cost Of the railroad
Tr'ss 10 nearly $500. 600. 900 a
~ This 10 big sum In itself,
4 vnsont to a tar on the nation of
ne 90 . year apiece. or $40 for
'Ivegage family. II can be paid.
vili be paid as cheerfully as pos
pr1vidsd II is not unduly null
0se IN the process of being passed
~g 70 the ultimate consumer of
144Dorted goods.
yURker ID. Hines. former director
Hol Of the railroads. declared a
oz} time aso that whatever increase
~ pntsrstsse con,merce Commission
~ The railroads would be multi
~ five when II reached the
~ Much a. the public wants
transportation. and much as
1Ie1lnsd 10 acquiesce In the pres
9ward. the public Is not prepared
IL fdd aything like $500. .00o. 900 a
1k' 70 ~ present railroad bill. Mr..
~ inssts. iliAt some previous rate
Hofs ~ have been multiplied to the
~ 7 soegesied. and says repeti-
~ ~ b ezpected unless the De-
- { Justice does its utmost to
~ ~ producers and dealers do
- ~ advantaee OF the consumer
~ ~ rsiss for . pretext.
Eux S(rll sgvernmental action. he
~ - the Increase may be made as
)i >hsss-nAd instead Of five fold
~ y eh0uIt Be that much Il be-
@4 ~ andirstanding Of the ordi-
<eIuen. Even 2, three fold In
nsaas nearly -, 300 100000 a
~ - profit< ering. It will be taken
n A 1ng TO tae price OF goods dol
~ h4re and . dino there and a pen
N 4IcP<here. when the actual an
&5 ~ cost in freight charges is
~ 70 fraction Of the amount. !,
o. n>out Kinds Of merchandisc. par
~ " cgotains. food and other
pnn2 pntiss az comparatively small
~ NJ OF bulls. the increase nhouid
n - sdS appreciable. On a suit of
11o&4nG. for instance. II u said that
- Nv rates should not add more
[on " eents.
~ au<horities should use their ut
np sGorss to Keep. the public from
oln9 goused. and tokecp the profi-
ters frdia making more out OF this
o1se thssn the railroads and their
nAe't'rsss do y
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marketing connections. all of which:
will be explained and discussed Yerg
definite plans for the organization
and operation of such an association;
will be presented in the convention.
These will involve the central agency
with the sub-agencies.
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things once in while. 1t might help
matters if they would take tiieir
wives along when they go to buy Il
new outfit.
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Editorial Comment
The SANDER Monser
Sunday School TimeS)


"Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness.'
1t is simply amazing to know how
many people who are considered re-
spectacle. away down deep in their
hearts actually rejoice in iniquity.
Take some unhappy scandal. for ex-
ample. The deeper the iniquity the
better. Just note how many rejoice in
the recital and the passing of it on.
When something of this sort comes
smelling around where you live what
do you do about it? Do you shut your
you do not really know? Or do you
grab your hat or throw a shawl over
your head and run over to the neigh
bors? Well, love believes nothing of the
sort and will say SO to Mrs. Grundy
with no uncertain sound (Psa. GA IS, 4;
Prov. 1921: Tim. 5:13). There was a
man in this town who had led blame
less life for 40 years. Then old green
eyed envy let him have it. Some folks
said, II told you So" And how they
all rejoiced in a good mans undoing.
But love stood up in blazing indigna-
ton and shouted: 1T is an Internal
lie And so in truth it soon proved
to be. The human race with all its
veneer of good clothes, fine appoint
ments and high culture is a bad lot
on the insnde. God knows what he
was about when he arranged that we
could be made over and run into the
mould of his own Divine Love. that
like himself our rejoicing can be in
the high, the pure. and the good.
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Government to meet the situation.
were all plain falsehocds,"
He describes what happened when
some Of the strikers, while he was
there took over certain plants and
operated them. .
q. TN the case of one group Of cotton
mills. they ran for couple Of weeks
or more, finished and packed the
product for shipment, but the rail-
roads refused to take 1t away. More
over. tho authorities would not per-
NIT them to move it after they had
finished it. Soon their coal ran out,
and they were unable to get any
more. They managed to secure some
wood and operated for a short time
longer; then the cotton was exhaust .
cd, and the result was they had to
stop. tThereupon. they promptly
went back to work on the same con-
ditions that existed before. During
these experiences the extreme so
cialistic leaders in the Unions called
a general strike. 1t did not succeed"
-. II think it will be wise
for the people of the United States
to wait until all the facts are at hand
before they draw any conclusion as
to present industrial disputes in
Italy"
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~t-f . .
Should Be Looked Into

The work Of the congressman who
attends to his duties will assuredly
not be a sinecure with the work al
ready pilinS up. and, one Of the i'm
portant matters which should receive
early consideration is our merchant
marine.
The, shipping board provided for
under the Jones act is to have seven
members but the President has not
completed it, and last month with
but two members and in opposition
to its legal counsel these two mem
bers of the board took the advice of
Hartman People would like to
know why; Congress evidently is the
only source of information through
investigation.
The. old Hamburg concern was a
bitter enemy of this country during
the war. 1t deserved to lose it's line.
Instead Of this it is on a way to re-
covery through the assistance of
American ships and money and by
the approval of but two on a board
which should have seven members.