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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
VHE GAS SITUATION.

Without going into a discussion
81, the merits Of the controversy
BEfween City Council and the Sum-
Ter Gas s& Power company, The
ssRaiiy Item feels free to. express the
.nnSnion that it was a mistake that
s HE mass meeting yesterday after
;Hocn did not adopt the resolution
se1actlyz as presented by the COM
yfnstsee of the League 70 Women
sgsters. With committee Of six
representative ard disinterested
citizens to referee the differences
That have grown up and have be-
caaae aggravated between the ma
jsraty 70 City Counci, and the Of
s&esais of the Gas company, We be-
stese it would have been quite pos
sSthle that . fair and reasonable ad-
t,setnent could have been made. All
Re see in the present situation is a
and costly lawsuit, un-
ssess the gas consumers take it up
ea themselves to file with City
Council a petition requesting the
increase. in rates for such a time
as higher rates are necessary to
uspdi1ce a reasonable income. In
-tae event of a law suit, the taxpay-
sssser at least one taxpayer
wenld like to know who is soing to
ray the fees, costs and other eX-.
psnses2 We have recollection Of
lcue friendly lawsuit in which the
! city INDUCED a,few years ago cost
ssi5fg AN even thousand dollars in
lawyers fees-flye hundred to the
attorney on one side and five hun
stgsd to the attorney on the other
representing the city. If
frfeadly suit cost that much, ho',
~Iauch NiH a knock down and drag
Sight. sach as is proposed, cost
tie city?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
SHANTUNG.

The administration wants to see
the Shantung controversy disposed
Of before the disarmament confer
ence meets, so as to leave clear
field for bigger and more funda-
mental matters. 1t is q reasonable
attitude for our government. and
for any other government that sin
cerely desires the success of the
conference.
China herself, is the obstacle. ia
pan seems willing enough to return
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
Pay Up Week
Young Mems Business League
Endorses Proposal to Have
Pay Up Week

ut the regular meeting Of the
Young Mems Business League on
a proposal was submitted
for the consideration Of the organ
ization that a Pay Up Week be
held in Sumter. The matter was
discussed generally by the members
and all aspects of the proposition
were carefully considered. The re-
suit of the discussion was that the
Young Mems Business League de-
cided unanimously to endorse the
proposition and to actively Coop
crate in putting over the plan to
have a pay-up campaign.
1t was decided to put on the
Pay-up Week. beginning with Oc-
tober 1st and continuing until Oc-
tober 10th, ir reality making the
period in which debt paying Will
be the order of the day cover ten
days instead Of one week. Com
nlittees were named to take charge
Of the campaign and the co-opera-
ton Of all merchants and business
and professional men will be en-
listed. 1t is not planned to have
the pay-up week for the benefit of
the merchants only. but for every
line OF business. Everybody is ex-
pected to pay what they owe to
everybody else, so that at the end
of the period the slate will be wiped
clean and money will be made to
do its full duty.
1t is a, fine proposition and only
the dead beats will be able to find
any objection to it. Only those
who owe everybody and have
nothing due them will fail to be
henefited
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
The National
The Enormous InfluenY
the Country's Business
the Advance in Cott1
Manufacturers Z

(ManufactGrefS tsKu 10
The tremendous sdvance in eotiS
ton which has been adding about
s75. 100000 a day to the value o#
the present crop and the std
brought over. and which beforefSe
rise stops will probably add at least
sI.OOO,OoO,000 to the income of.
southern farmers over the price
ruling two months ago, will quick77a
lylrevive and stimulate every Ing
dustry in the south. The War Fin
ance Corporation and the more
liberal credit forced on the Reserve
Board by the administration have:
tremendously aided the situations
i..,aThe short crop, added to the.
amount brought over fron1r pre-
yious years, Will hardly be enough
to, save the world from real CO..
ton famine. such as it has notsfaced
since the civil war of 1861-65. All
of the old stock fit to spin and the:
new crop can be consumed ,z,eYeYa
at high figures, and leave the world
almost bare of American stock
twelve months hence, thus insur
| ing. if the south is wise in holding
down its acreage, a long period OF
|. profitable prices.
The country already sees that:
the south's cotton crop advances
marks the turning point and that
! from now on things will wonderfuh
| ly improve.
Even Wall Street now admits
that the advance in cotton will
|. probably be the turning point to:
start the wheels Of industry ard,
bring back general prosperity. -
| Last week we said the souS
would be the first section to. shSS
marked business revival, and NJ
the mighty financial wise-acres
Wall Street are putting forth the,
wi What this country has needed
more than. anything else h mak
I teria1 way has been a little NSis
! ton of imitation in credit and
prices. The credit infation has
F;come through the reversal sy the
administration OF the former credit
dctlation of the Reserve Board, and
tie increase in cotton prices VII
s1act u revival for higher prices
farm products and Of many mS
I ufactured products, and the resuit,
ySi1F lie tetter times, better co.
.pIoymerft, and more prosperity ~
everybody b
ki:GMonths ago when reporting thS
change Of credit policy which th$
administration was inauguratina
we:said: Glory be! the wheels ar
/ beginning to turn" They will aoY
begin to speed up.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
District Home Dem
Onstration Meeting
Fifteen County Agents and
Officials of Winthrop Col
lege Here on the 26th
and 9th

On September 26th and 2!th,
Sumter will be honored by the
Iapresence of twenty-five or thirty
ladies representing fifteen coun-
ties, Winthrop College and United
States Department Of Agriculture
officials and specialists OF the Home
department, States
Relations Service and other depart
nents of our state and national
government. Several male experts
are also expected to demonstrate
and lecture with the lady special
lists to the home demonstration
agents, and thirteen prize. club
girls OF various counties, who won
the prizes in making biscuits, some
of them even making better biscuits
than mother can make.
Mrs S. o. Plowden. of State
burg, Sumter county, the district
+ home demonstration agent in
charge Of fifteen counties, selected
Sumter as the meeting place for
the 1921 district meeting, and has
succeeded in getting an unusual
number of the lady officials and eN-
perts of the State Home Demon
stration department to attend the
Sumter meeting.
DR.. Samuel H. Edmunds, city su-
'perintendent Of education kindly
agreed to allow the district meet
ing in the Girls High school audi
torium, and also to permit the use
Of the: commodiouS and we'll equip
ped domestic science rooms and ia
cilities, all Of which will add great.
ly to the success and pleasure Of
the meeting.
DR.. J. A. Lund, Of the States Re-
lation Service, Of Washington will
be here to demonstrate on the gov
ernment's specialties in cutting.
curing, and canning Of all kinds of
meat and fish. This will prove i'm
portant information for the home
demonstration agents to distribute
!; and demonstrate in club work. The
ladies Of Winthrop College who
have SO far accepted invitations to
attend and instruct are;
Miss Christine South, State Home
Demonstration agent.
And the following assistant state
home demonstration agents and
specialists: Miss Laura Bailey,
Mrs. Anne Campbell, Miss Lola NJ
Snider, Miss Eula Atkinson
Several others are expected if
other engagements do not prevent.
The object Of district meetings
are to bring together the local or
county home demonstration agents
for consultation, exchange of ideas
about their work, plan Of organ
ization, and to receive from spec
ialists instructions about new or ad-
.vanced discoveries of home eco
nomics.
Miss Caro- TruIuck, the local
county home demonstration agent
is naturally delighted that the dis
trict meeting will be held in her
county, and she is heartily cooper
ating with Mrs. Plowden to make
the meeting successful and
pleasant occasion. The Sumter
Chamber of Commerce and the
Young Mems Business League have
been invited by Mrs. Plowden and
Miss Truluck to assist in making
the 1921 annual district meeting OF
the home demonstration agents Of
fifteen counties. and the other visit
ing ladies and gentlemen one to
be long remembered.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
THE HOME 1,lPRovE,1ENT
TOUR.

The mandate to go into all the
world and preach the gospel to ev-
cry creature is commonly supposed
to refer to religious enlightenment.
In the farming regions OF the Mid
die West they interpret the COM
n,and more broadly. and by peri
odie me-improvement tours
spread. the gospel Of better homes
and more convenient and healthful
living conditions to every county,
no matter how sparsely settled.
An Indiana woman writing in
tite Country Gentleman claims for
her state the honor Of originating
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
Adventure in
Antarctic
Sir Ernest Shackelton Sails on
Two Years Voyage

London. Sept. 1.-THE Quest. the
small boat on which Sir Ernest
Shancleton will explore the un-
charted sections of the South At
lantic. Pacific a..d Antarctic seas.
left the Thames today on the start
of a two years voyage.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
Plan to Engineer
Strike in South
Textile Workers Union An
nounce Campaign to Organ
ize Mill Operatives

New York. Sept. 16.-Tcxtile
workers in the south will be cham
pioned in a campaign for a forty
eight hour week, soon to start,
President Mcmahon. of the Textile
Workers Union, announced today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
Champagne
For the Sick

New York, Sept. 16.-Champagne
entering the port totaled six hun
dred quarts daily last month. I'M
ports were nearly twenty thousand
quarts, coming from Spain and
France for medical use.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

An eastern city is giving night
instruction to its policemen in le-
gal procedure. The classes should
be extended to include members
Of the bar.-Peoria Transcript.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

The new heads Of Alaska and
the Philippines are Bone and Wood.
respectively. Haw. Haw.-Nash-
vile TennesScean.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

SThe old fashioned man who watt
ed for his ship to come in now
has a boy who goes out to- rAe
three-mile limit to meet it.-Balti-
more Sun ssSssSsr
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

|. If the disarmament conference
runs up the S. O. s. sign, il Will
stand for Same Old Suspicion
Rochester Times Union.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

William Hohenzollern probably
could tell the kukluX Klan where
they could find an invisible En-
peror. ."-Syracuse Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

DID YOU ever find an explanation
for the fact that when an excited
hunter mistakes 4 man for Il deer
he never misses ?-Rochcste Her
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

Song of some of the oil wells {;
this vicinity: Nobody Know
How Dry I Am Los Angelo
Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

The threa,-R,sof.t.sa,:1s4aEa =
school girl are rouge, rice powder
and rough stuIf.-Wasnington Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21

Nations are less for giving thai
for getting.-Norfolk Virginian Pi
lot. Aj
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-21
The Watchnan and southron
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day by
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S asfre Sumter Watchnaan was
sounded sin 1850 and the True
Soufhron in 1856. The Watehman
and Southron now has the COM
Nmed circulation and influence OF
beth Of the old papers, and is man
siSestlE the Best advertising medium
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Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
Blackmailers Take
Active Parts Thru
Mack sSepnett Film


Blackmailers thrive during three
reels of Mack Sennett's newest five
part super-comedy, Love, Honor and
Behave" TO be seen at the Lyric
theatre. Eddie Gribbon and Kalla
Pasha raise rumor and gossip to the
dignity of high finance and sell pho
tographs to interested parties for fab
ulous sums, their wiles entangling the
virtuous as well the the vicious.
The scene of their operations is the
Gargle Inn, whittier Judge" Murray
goes in the interest of prohibition,
and Phyllis Haver to reclaim an err
rant husband. Ford Sterling. This
part of the picture is one of the fast
est moving episodes that Mr.. sennert
has yet achieved. AS a result of his
experiences at the Garble Inn, Judge
Murray makes up his mind, and for
ever sets it there, that faith is not to
be reposed in circumstantial evidence
and that discriminating appearances
are more likely to be false than rrue.
In connection with the chases that
ensue, when the Gargle Inn is raided
there is riot in an artists studio
that promises to provoke more laugh
ter to tie square inch of film than
anything recently seen on the silver
sheet
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
q WHO AM 7" IS
LYRIC FEATURE

Who Am I?' a new National Pic
ture, will be attraction at the Lyric
theatre Thursday.
The production is an elaborate and
highly dramatic productioshrdlETAOI
element of suspense predominating.
The story tells of the efforts of a
young and beautiful girl to discover
the identity of her parents. One day
her search comes to an end, gut this
only tends to complicate matters, for
it is revealed that her father was a
professional gambler, and the girl has
fallen heir to his establishment, and
also to some heavy debts incurred ny
her father
The situation of an innocent girl
suddenly thrust among the class of
people that frequent houses of
chance is a most critical one, especial
~ when keen, INSCRIPTIONS gambler
marks her for his own. How she eX-
tricates herself from the danger that
impends and gets on the road that
leads to future happiness is present
ed in a manner that immeoare;y
creates interest and sympathy and
holds the attention of the spectator
until the end
Henry Kolker directed the produc-
ton, which has in It's cast of players
Claire Anderson, Niles Welch and 9th
ers Of prominence. Katherine Reed
adapted the story to the screen from
an original one by Max Brand.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
InimitabIe Buster
KeatOn To Be Seen
At Central To-day

One of the outstanding features of
the bill at the Central theatre this
afternoon and tonight and also Mon
day will be the first series of COM
edies starring Buster Keaton. 1t is
titled "One Week" and advance re-
ports of it say that a wooden image
couldn't keep from laughing at the
antics OF the inimitable Buster.
Buster Keaton, it will be remem-
bered, was for several years one of
the famous Three Keatons in the
vaudeville act which appeared all over
the country under that name. He was
the little chap with the long ana Sc
rious face whom his daddy used to
throw about the stage much as one
would toss a bean bag or a sack of
potatoes.
Persons seeing the performance of
the Three Keatons narveled that
Buster didn't have every bone in his
precious young body broken in the
pursuit of his theatrical career. He
landed on every part of his anatomy
but always came up smiling, so that
it looked as if he were made of rub
Der instead of flesh and bones.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
New EmersOn-Loos
Picture Produces
UNIQUE Situations

Epieramatic screen PLAYS are few
and far between. But John Finer
son and Anita Loos succeeded in ad
ding a worthy example of this tvDe
to the months screen library when
thew collaborated on "In Search of
Sinner" the new Constance TaP
madge production that will begin a
one day engagement at the Lyric
theatre Sunday
Probably more clever word matter
apnears in ''In Search of a Sinner"
both in conversation and description.
than in any photoplay of the current
season. More laughs are forth coming
from the titles of the play than the
usual light screen comedy gets from
its most active scenes.
Georgiana CharbOurne is the char
acter about whom Emerson-LOos, cen
tered the play. She is widow of 90,
her late husband being of sanity"
nature, and entirely too good to live.
She wears mourning for the exact pc
riod stipulated by social standing and
on the emancipation day-kicks off
the ties and heads for New York.
Once firmly ePtrenched in the
apartment of her brother-in-law JEFF
fry and his wife, she lays plans to
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
Elaine Hammerstein
At Lyric Wednesday

Elaine Hammerstein will essay in
her SelZnick Picture, THE Daughter
Plays which comes to the Lyric
theatre next Wednesday, a role that
offers greater dramatic and emotional
opportunities than any she has yet
appeared in. In the screen version
of the story by Mrs. Bailie Reynolds
the star reveals two striking domes-
tic questions that cannot but retain
the interest of motion picture au-
diences. The first question is wheth-
er a woman dare risk her happiness
on the financial altar, and this is aug
mented by how great a sacrifice
should a mother demand in the name
of filial devotion.
1t is minated that these questions
are not answered in the picture. On
the contrary, the spectator will have
the pleasure of bordering over the Is
sues that are interviewer in the fabric
of the plot.
Miss Hammerst6in is cast in the
role of a serious, refined and sensi-
tive girl who is forced to bear untold
humiliation in her marriage of con-
venience with a wealthy man whose
one object in life is to make the
daughter pay for an injury done him
by her mother.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
"Outlawed" Is Good
Western Production

Having specialized in big preten-
tious Western productions and having
several of the seasons greatest sue
cesses to his credit, Richard Kipling.
whose elaborate special production of
Alvin ]. Neitz's "Outlawed" opens at
the Lyric theatre Tuesday, main
tains that the so-called Westerns are
by far the most popular pictures that
find their way to the screens C. the
world. As theatrical seasons come
and go."ssays Kipling, there are
short intervals during which other
types of stories seem to win the pop
ular fancy to the exclusion of all 9TH
ers; that is. of all others but the
Westerns No matter what the pre-
vailing taste for drama may be, wheth
er it is society drama, underworld
drama, rural drama, or wild melo-
drama. the popularity of stories of
our great West never seems to lessen
Whether it is because of the pictur-
esdueness Of the characters or the
fact that Western stories are thor
oushly red-blooded American. l can
not say; but this has been clearly
demonstrated to me: good, whole
some Western story, well told and
well acted is sure to receive a royal
welcome from American picture au-
diences."
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
desperate Youth"
Booked For Lyric
Theatre Tomorrow

A classic of colloquial American lit
erature has been given life, on the
screen in desperate YOUTH" which
will be the principal attraction at the
Lyric theatre Monday with Gladys
Walton in the starring role.
The story was filmed at Universal
City from "a Kentucky Cinderella.
by F. Hopkinson Smith. Harry b.
Harris directed it, using a popular
cast in the stars support.
Two old prospectors are seen as the
story opens. living and having consid-
cradle jov in a mountain shack. With
them is Rosemary Meridew, daughter
of one of them. Her father is killed
In a gun battle and she is sent to her
aunt in Alabama, an ultra-fashionable
old dame with an exaggerated sense
of her own aristocracy and a desire
\ to marry her own daughter off to the
richest young man in town Rose.
mary interferes with this schedule
DIR. Tom bowling. the prospective SON.
ih-law, becomes infatuated with her
thereby complicating the plot.
With delightful humOr, good drama
and fidelity to Smiths popular story
desperate Youth" is said to serve
Miss Walton as one of her best Uni
versal starring vehicles.
Such screen favorites as Harold
Miller. J. Farrell Mcdonald, Louis
Willoughby, Muriel Godfrey Turner,
Hazel Howell. Lucy Harris and James
Blackwell, play the important charac-
ter roles in the production.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
New b.!icks Will
Be received Here
About august LIST

4 carload of the new four sylinder
Bucks is expected b. the Southern
Arizona Auto company. local Buick
distributors, on or about August LIST.
The same high quality of materials
and workmanship which has made the
Buick six" one of the most popular
skies in America has been carried
into the manufacture of the rFOur.
According to orders and inquiries col
lecting at the local Buick agency this
car promises to lead in the light car
class.
AS this car will sell at prices with
in reach of practically all classes, the
local agency boasts that it will have
a genuine Buick for everybody.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24

The picture is one of those rare
epics of the screen which entertains
and at the same time seems to have a
serious purpose, in this case a ten
dency to make the spectator stop and
think of the wonders of the, universe
and the power of divine faith.
The story deals with the regenera-
ton of a clergyman who had prosti-
trted his talents to defying God in
stead of serving him. How his rescue
from the forces of evil influence
others furnishes an original and in
teresting climax.
The Stealers" is as spectacular in
its scenic effects as it is in theme.
The titles are colored-something
new in pictnres-and so are some of
the big scenes in two of which more
than 5000 persons take part.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
"BLACK BEAUTY" WILL BE SEEN
AT EAGLE TODAY, TONIGHT AND
TOMORROW FOR LAST SHOWINGS

1t was pressing business that took
Squire Gordon to town on a stormy
day. Black Beauty knew it, and went
ahead bravely over the slippery road,
gale which almost threw him off his
feet again and again. The return trip
was made under terrible conditions,
and twice, with the way barred in
two directions, the Squire was COM
PEELED to seek other roads.
Millions of men, women and young
children have shuddered over the
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24

dangers to Black Beauty recounted in
the chapter called "A Stormy Day."
The terrific scenes, so graphically de-
scribed by Anna Sewell in her i'm
mortal book, now are to be made
more real and impressive than any
printed page could make them, for
"Black Beauty at last has been put
into motion pictures as a Vitagraph
special production. This drama eter-
nal will be shown for the last time
at the Eagle theatre this afternoon
and tonight and also Monday.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-24
COrinne Griffith
Becomes Expert In
The Art OF Skiing

Skiing gracefully and daringly is
the latest accomplishment acquired
by Corinne Griffith, the Vitagraph
star, who will be seen in What's
Your Reputation Worth" at the Cen
trail theatre this afternoon and to-
night and also Monday