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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
AS SCIENTIST SEES FUTURE
Advances Of 500 Years VIII Make the
Year 1920 Seem Like q Pre-.
historic Age.

Those unimasinative people who be-
heve the high pitch Of inventive genius
was reached with the advent Of cleo
tricity, talktng machines. airplanes and
the X-ray viii be interested to know
mat civilization on this planet has
really just begun. DR.. A. Nj. Low, a
London engineer with many inventions
to his credit, says Ave hundred years
hence our descendants will look back
upon conditions in 1920 with just such
Feelings of amused pity as we show
for the state Of the savages OF pre-
historic times.
The scientist predicts among other
things that in 242O A. ID. all public
thorOughfares and parks will be I'M
foreground. vehicles will be run by
wireless. telephones will carry an at
tachment enabling the speakers to see
each other, and all roads will be as
smooth as billiard balls.
Or. Low, who invented a motor
scooter and has produced an apparat-
us for seeing Simple objects by wire
in recent interview in London said
In part:
when man sets out for business
he will not proceed, as he does now,
by tramway car or train he will pass
along delightful avenues underneath
the surface of the earth. Parks and
all other places Of public resort and
, beauty Will be rooted In.
Motor cars and all motor vehicles
Will proceed by wireless power and not
by the crude method of using petrol.
They will be fitted up like luxuriously
appointed drawing rooms and will he
driven at a rate Of one hundred miles
an hour. Wireless telephones will be
Installed In the cars, as well as every
kind Of appointment making for luxury
and comfort. Many people Will own
these cars.
People will live in condition Of
splendid physical isolation. Televis-
ion that is, the ability to see your
absent friend over distance of many
miles--and wireless telephony will lead
to this condition.
"This vision is not extravagant or a
wild set Of theories. It IS the direction
j In which scientific discoveries and ex-
periments tend. Many scientific men
have come face to face with discover
les and inventions which are only sep
arpted from actual realization by a
| simple little difficulty, which will GER
tainly be overcome in, time"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Queer War Money.

Some very odd kinds Of money were
brought into circulation during the
war, owing to the scarcity of copper
and nickel. Germany issued hundreds
OF millions. Of five-pfennig and ten
pfennig iron coins, the latter output
Of these pieces being coated with zinc
to prevent rust. Iron coins were like.
wise minted by the governments of
Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The
Germans issued One-pfennig pieces Of
aluminium, and In Algeria also alum
mum coins of Ave centimes and ten
centimes made their appearance In cir
culation. Germany issued muslin notes.
and the local governments In that cOun.
try and I'm Austria printed paper money
Of the smallest value ever known, rep
resenting one-fifth OF cent. Even
more curious was. the pasteboard
money issued In some OF the enemy
occupied cities In France. 1t was in
denominations up to Ave francs, and
was Of different colors and shapes
square, round, octagOnal. oval and dia-
mond shaped. This "card money" was
guaranteed by the local municipality,
and was good only for use In transac-
ton with merchants Of the town where
II was issued. ,.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Unique Style 81 Greeting.

Sir Auckland Geddes. who is evi-
IDENTIFY expected to do great deal of
entertaining when ne goes to the
United States, is notable athlete, hut
1t may he doubtful whether his physi-
cal endurance will he equal to the
handshaking which will be involved
unless he reforms his methods, re-.
marks the Manchester Guardian. 1t
is most interesting If rather exhaust
Ing, to watch him receive a number Of
guests AS he did recently at Olympia,
for he. has an athletic style all his own.
As each guest comes in sight Sir Auck-
land advances one foot, plants 1t firmly
and balances himself as If for trial
OF strength. Then his long arm shoots
out to full length, he smiles the
guest straight in the eye like a boxer,
seiZes his hand and draws him de-
termlnedly around In a semicircle to
greet the hostess.
He will need to develop less ex.
pensive muscular action for the So
cial tasks before him in America.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

IT Is possible for baby born this
year never again TO have birthday.
For this is leap year. and baby born
on the right spot at the right time will
almost certainly have no birthdays to
keep. This has actually happened to
baby who was born during the voy-
age from Yokohama to San Francisco
on the last day Of February. 1904.
1t is well known that In order to
make the actual number Of sunrIses
and sunsets experienced during a voy-
age round the world correspond with
the calendar an extra day must be in
tercalated or Thrown overheard" ac-
cording to the direction Travelled. This
adjustment Is made at the moment Of
crossing the one hundred and elghtieth
meridian, which runs to the. west Of
the midway point between Japan and
California.
And a baby born on February 30
must be content to do without birth.
days, unless he or she should happen
to be on a similar spot at the same
time In some future leap year, which
would be rather wild imprObability.
Manchester Guardian.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
GiVinQ Up Fairy Stories.

Do you remember when you had to
give up reading fairy stories? OF
course you didn't have to give 'em
up II you didn't wanttto, but teacher
and father and mother and all the
rest of the grown folks said you must
read grown-up books and so the fair
les were cast aside and
Oh. well, the same tragedy of youth
is going on every day even now at the
public library, say the attendants in
the children's room.
One Of the many duties Of these at
tendants is to lead the children grad
ually away from fairy stories to real
life stories. 1t is no easy job because
the children struggle, against giving UP
their fairies.
Never, 1t is said, has there been
snch q run on the fairy tale shelf In
the children's room as there has been
recently.
In time, however, the fairies make
way for~"Treasure Island" the Bears
OF Blue River" '"Tom Sawyer" or Tit
tie Women" and then the spell of
fairyland is more or less broken.
1T would be SO much easier to help
the little folks" lamented one OF the
attendants, "if we only had more Of
the books that children so quickly
learn to love after they leave their
fairies. s."-Exchange
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Repair An Roads
Throughout State,

Every county in South Carolina ia
to be invited to join in a Repair the
Roads movement, the plans for, the
Inauguration of the movement having
been tentatively Outlined at a maet-
ing Of the Columbia Automotive Trade,
association held yesterday, The re-.
pairment period is To extend from
August Il to September J. and efforts
Will be put forth to form some sorf,
OF organization in each county, so that
the highways may be kept passable
throughout the winter months en.sf<.
IF the coming winter is bad.r said
Holmes SimOns at the meeting yesterz
day, many OF our roads will be. i'm
passable and the entire state will feel
the effects of impcded traffic. OF
vote bonds and to build roads after
bonds are voted. and if we are TO
keep our highways i'm any sort of con-
dition for winter travel we will have
To look to ourselves this year for re-
suits. l believe that the citizens of
every county in the state will be will
ing to devote few days in the latter
part of August. to putting the roads
in their immediate section in repair.
They will be willing to lend a truck
or q tractor or a mule, and many
will be willing to put i'm some work
themselves on the roads. If this
movement to repair our highways
can be extended over the state,
county by county, traffic will be able
to move.'' SO.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Weaving Mills Of BieIefeId.

In a review Of the Bielefeld fax and
linen market the RhenIsch- -Westfal-
isch Zeitung says that the weaving
mills cannot undertake operation on a
large scale for lack of cotton and lin
en- yarns. Cotton In particular is al
most wholly lacking. as 1t has to he
imported. and revival OF the Biele-
field industry is impossible without cot
ton. 1t Is impossible TO compete I'm the
world markets with cloth of paper
yarn, which was manufa ctured during
Its quality has been improved consid-
erably.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
State Aids in Teach
-~ ing Agriculture
No School in Sumter County
Receives Any Help
Wyatt A Taylor.l }

Columbia, July 22--Over forty thou
sand dollars has recently been paid
out BY the state department OF cduca-
uon In Columbia for the teaching of
agriculture in fifty eight pubic.
schools OF this state. according To n
statement Issued by the department of
education here today. OF this amount
$32.O26 was FOR the 'senior project"
agricultural work and $S.199 was for
Junior project work, the junior work
being done by % schools which. for
lack of equipment. building space and
lack Of time for the courses, failed ~
qualify for the senior project work
In agriculture. The report of the dis
tribution OF money is for the wear
ending June 80
Thirty central schools OF the state
and also thirty-four associate schools.
with slightly less time devoted go ugri
cultural instruction. gave Lessons in
twenty-five forms OF agriculture, inv
cluding the raising of cotton. corn and
other money crops. swine breeding
rnnd methods Of lighting the boil wee
VII. Seven hundred and twenty five
pupils enrolled i'm tire agricultural
classes I'm the ''senior project" work;
| thoSc cnroled i'm the junior work bring
the total enrolment to over Il thou
sand.
The largest elias enrolment was
That In swine-raising instruction. Cot
ton was the second most popular sub
tect truck raising third, corn fourth
and poultry fifth.
HRcGI1S were Ennt nf
the pupils made on their crops. The
total net profits ofall projects handled
10y the pupils was $37.662. TO this was
added the labor which the pupils per
formed themselves. making total in
come received by the pupils Of SAL
7i2.
tNo school in Sumter county re.
CeiVcd any of this state aid. Editor
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
DARLINGTON DAIRY PROGRESS

Clemson college. July ls-f7Dar-'
lington County Is fast growing into
one of the leading Guernsey. sections
of the South, according to j. fs La
Master, Extension Service husbands
man. At prcsenr there are 1S0spufe-'
bred Guernseys owned in DARLINGTON
County by 90 different farmers. hnd
81 purebreds have been purchased
since the Guernsey sale held at aDar-
hngtOn on March Goth II IL also
worthy of note that at this sale iS
Of the 32 Guernseys sold were bought
by Darlington County farmers, c%tet
The herds Of Mr. A.. L. James and
Mr.. Is. Nj. james are now headed by
the imported Duke of vineria, who
was purchaser las fall, and shows
promise OF being real dairy sire.
Advanced registry work is being done
| in both OF these herds, and these
capable breeders are sure ito be heard
from in the near future.
Mr.. j. l.. Mcintosh is planning to
take show herd Of Gerneseys out
again this year to the big shows OF
the middle west and north.
The Pedigreed Seed Company at
Hartsville is starting Guernsey herd
under the management of Mr.. Cly-
burne
Mr.. j. NJ. McIver and Mr.. Goodson
are disposing Of their grade herds
and replacing them with purebred
Guernseys
! Mr.. j. NJ, Erwin has secured Mars
of Glencairne as a herd sire Mars
OF Glencairne is a grandson of Little
star of Glencairne, the present leader
In class FF with record of 11549.g
pounds of milk and 63O.5 pounds OF
butter-fat
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

: SEXES seldom meet In any form Of 80.
eiai intercourse In the islands of Fill.
The boys never fiIrt with, nor even
seem to notice the girls. In public
fhere II a never diminishing distance
bstween them. giving the island an ap-
pesrance OF being world without
hve-making, and portraying primitive
ME as unromantic. The girls are shy.
and manifest ytimid reticence.
Sydney Greenbie. writing In Harp
er's Magazine. says the male FijIan Is
extremely timid, but, for all that, none
the less fastidious. The care with
which he trains and curls his hair
would put TO shame any impatient hus-
band of the vaLnest Of white women.
The Fijian is particular about his hair
without being necessarily girlIsh In his
ways Curis are made by a fine sub.
stitute for soap. made Of mixture of
burnt coral with water. This is left
- the hair for day or two. When
washed out and dried the hair is
curied and eombed and anointed. 1t is
excellent from the point of view OF
sanitation. and makes the Fijian proud
o. his hair.--Exchange
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
RUNS ON RAILS OF WOOD
Alaskan Transport System Supplies %
Miles Of Territory and Does HI
cellent Work.

o. P. Gaustad Of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Is owner and operator Of one of the
"farthest north" railways In the world.
His railroad System" consists Of IS
miles OF wooden rails that stretch be-
tween the head Of navigation on the
Tolovana river to the rich placer
mines above, some rs miles overland
from Fairbanks. The motive power Of
his railroad is a motor car, and 1t has
done heroic work for the last two sea.
sons IN initiating genuine steam To-
cOmotiye. Mr.. Gaustad went to Alas
ka in the big rush Of '9S.
" have a sawmill half way between
the TolOvana placers and the head Of
navigation on the river" be said re-
Gently In Los Angeles For two years
I have operated the railroad to haul
logs to my mill, and from there to
haul the sawed lumber to the mines.
The track is 15 miles long and is of
wooden rails. The motor car is, of
course, equipped with flanged wheels,
and hauls a little train Of three cars
behind 1t.
"ln this fashion I have hauled loads
as high as six tons. In addition to the
lumber haul all supplies from the
head Of navigation on the river to the
mines and get $50 a ton for transport
ing them. Sometimes I make eight OF
nine trips a day. and this year the car
covered over 5000 miles In the course
Of the season.
"T'he war brought great hardship to
the gold miners of Alaska. for, ewing
to the deprecated value of the dollar,
their gold is worth but little more than
half what II was five years ago. Con
sequently many Of the mines are shut
down, for the producers figure it is
not worth while to pay excessive Ia
bOr costs to mine gold worth only half
price. ..
Few people realize the immense
distances In Alaska. From my rail-
road, for example. It is 1000 miles to
tidewater, by way Of the Yukon river.
"1'he gasoline burn in my car costs
me So cents a gallon. From the Pa
cific Commercial Advertiser.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Donkey Gave "Ha.Ha."

was strOlling along shady lane
with the girl OF my choice. On the
other side of the fence was donkey
In a pasture. I hardly noticed him.
for ] was trying to frame proper pro
pOsal. Just then an automobile load
OF our acquointances sped along the
highway short distance from us, and
knowing they must have noticed my
endearing manner toward my cOmpen-
ion, / became embarrassed. However,
I managed TO biurt ont proposal OF
marriage; whereupOn the donkey,
standing there so dejectedly, suddenly
woke up enough TO lift his head and
bray, to the amusement Of our friends,
who were still near enough to hear It.
To cap the climax, the girl also gave
me the ha-ha.-Exchange.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
FIorlda's Old sugar Mil.

The old sugar mill at New Smyrna,
Fia.. about IL miles down the coast
from Daytona, stands amid moss hung
trees. as q picturesque and legend
haunted relic Of the ill-;ated colonizing
enterprise that In 1850 Brought 1900
Minorcans, Greeks and Italians to that
region. and for few brief years
thereafter transformed seven miles OF
vine tangled swamp land. along the
coast Into orderly little plantations
where grew Indian corn cotton, rice,
indigo plants and sugar cane. And 1t
was probably for the crushing of this
cane. a plant no longer grown In the
vicinity. that the colonIsts built the
old min. The walls and machinery
beds they made OF coqulna, a soft.
whitish stone formed OF broken shells
and corals. cemented together by ma
ture. The iron crashing machinery It.
seif probably erected at n later period
to replace the colonlsts' cruder appa-
ratus. fs nevertheless remarkable for
Its century long resistance to the fierce
corrosion OF the troplc damp. which
quickly consumes unpainted ironwork.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Riots in Belfast

Belfast, July 2l.--The city is quiet
this morning after night OF sangui-
nary lighting between the Sim Fein
and tnionists mobs, but the situation
rs tense and the military forces are
patroling the affected areas The cas-
ualties thus far are two men and one
woman killed. Twenty persons were
80 seriously injured that they are
being treated at the hospitals. Nu-
mcrous others were slightly hurt.
The riotina was resumed during the
noon hour in the west Belfast mill
district. The postoiiicc was wrecked
and the police fired on the rioters.
Several persons were wounded
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Commissioner Harris
Makes Suggestions
Now is the Time to Plant Turn.
ips and Second Crop of PO-
tatOes

1T is now time TO prepare and SOW
turnips and to plant the second crop
.Of Irish potatoes" saidCommissioner
Harris today. IF the second crop of
OF Irish potatoes is planted at once in
good land, well prepared, it will pro-
duce good Results. |, suggest planting
the Lookout Mountain variety. 1t is
suitable and especially adapted for fall
planting. This variety will not make
tubers If planted i'm the spring.
''rhe Lookout Mountain potato can
be planted in the eastern part of the
state as late us August 10th, if plant
ed in good land. They should be
planted and manured the same as
Spring potatoes are PLANTED aiI cult
rated9 In the Eastern part OF he
State the Lookout Mountain potatoes.
can be left i'm the ground all winter
and dug and used as needed. In fact,
this is the best way to keep then,
through the winter.
NOW Irish potatoes are selling high
ana we expect them TO continue to be
high, do not look for any reduction
I'm the price OF good crops for man or
beast.
In the Piedmont belt the second
crop of Irish potatoes should be plant
ed by July 20.
Now. as TO the turnip crop This
Is a very important crop, i'm fact. a
factor I'm agricultural economy IL our
people would but stop to think. We
musrNdo what We can. find what we
can to save our grain crops for human
consumption. Turnips are good fer
man, cattle. hogs, sheep, and also
poultry, through the winter. There will
be- great demand for turnips this
winter I'm the towns and cities and mill
villages.
Last year l urged the farmers to
plant "a good crop of turnips. am
sorry TO say that while some told me
that they had followed my advice the
turnip crop was disappointing. AL
though the price for eating variety of
turnips here I'm Columbia was $3.50 o.
bushci, One good acre of turnips
weh> manured ana worked, will make
from $50 To 800 bushels. Yet, | am
ashamed to say most of the turnips
eaten in South Carolina last sprinS
We're shipped from Canada! Can vou
bcat IT" Paying all of that freight
and several middlcmcn's charges.
making handsome living for pther
people instead OF Keeping our money
ul home and building up our own
state. Go to IT,"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

Ordinary cltlzso. sut Hs Drew Some.
thing Of . gaiooy From calIfsuIa
Newspaper Writer

Maybe you didn't know OLD Man
Jones. He was printer. and he died
last week. and there was piece about
him In the paper. The piece was four
/, lines long and II was on the thirty
sixth page OF the paper In the lower
right-hand corner under an advertise
ment' about soap or something.
Maybe you didn't see the piece In
the paper. No? Well, II is no wonder.
There Ii so much In the papers, and
old Jones didn't amount to anything
anyway. At least. he was of no I'M
portance. You could not expect the
paper to give him any more room when
be died. That same day there was a
big scandal In high society, there was
. revolution In Germany, seven people
were caught drioking liquor. a movie
@vsmp" said her diamonds were stolen,
and q lot Of other very important
things happened. Old Jones was lucky
70 get even those four lines in the last
hidden corner of the last page.
And. besides all that, we are very
surs that old Jones didn't and wouldn't
give q whoop II the paper never even
mentioned that he was dead. He had
left the country and was in another
country fnr more to his liking. He
was with Socrates and Homer and the
old gods and fighting men that he
Knew and loved In greasy books that
he found IN cheap secondhand stores
and garbage cans where they had been
discarded.
Many a sunny hour have we spent
with old Jones. learning from him
things we never knew before. For 30
years he had read books that opened
ND Paradise to him. His life was
spent happily. Death meant to him
merely another journey which. at the
hast. he was eager to take. He was
very wise and always very kind. and
usually poor.
Now. he Is with 10000 yesterdays
and as quickly forgotten as though he
had been king or a millionaire.
Gcci-by. old Jones. Give our kind.
est regards to Socrates and all the
other fellows out yonder In the Shad-
ow Land.-Los Angeles Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

Five-year-old Harry was almost sure
that his mother would not give him
q spanking for II now. for the ice had
long ago disappeared. so he said to
his mother: did you know that my
brother Jim is a heror
; "How's thatr' asked his mother.
Jim. who IL seven. spoke up: "Oh,
u was nothing much. mother" and his
chest swelled with pride. "wo ran
on and wpt skating one day LAST
winter. Harry he gets out on some
thin Ice and Is afraid to move, for he
'was sure that the Ice was going to
break. 1 just skated out to him picks
MIN up In my arms and skates to the
bank with him"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
eeqHn to Battle In April. 1913.

American combat divisions were In
battle IN Europe for 200 days, from the
twenty.fifth of April, 1918, when the
first regular division. after long train
Ing In quiet sectors. entered an active
sector on the Picardy front, until the
signing Of the armlstice. During these
300 days they were engaged In 13 MA.
jor operations, of which II were joint
enterprises with the French, British
and Italians. and two were distinctly
American. q
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24

charleston, July 20-The Rev. Mel
Ton Clark, ID. d., pastor of the Second
presbyterian church. for the past four
years has presented his resignation
10 the session of this church, effective
on september 10, which means that ha
VIII accept appointment TO a prefes-,
Sorship in the Columbia Theological
seminary, to which he, was elected re-
Gen9y TO succeed the Rev. J. o. Reavis,
ID. d reSippad =
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
Chinese Mint as SHANGHAI.

IL 10 understood by the China Press
that the government has decided 10 es
tabiish the head mint OF China Mt
Shanghai, under the control OF the cur
rency commission. which has appoint
cd committee 20 purchase the ground
and make the necessary arrangements
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-07-24
ROOsevelt's Successor
Is Picked

Washington, July 22-Th0mas j.
SpcllaCy. OF Hartford. Conn, is un-
I"rStood to have been selected as as
Sstant secretary OF the navy To sue
'red Roosevelt. when Roosevelt re
tires To make the race as DcmoCrHtic
vice presidential candidate.