The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10

bsred eircnIation and Influence OF
botis Of the old papers, and is man
SfssrN the best advertising medium
n Sumter.
The programme for diversified
tarsning in Sumter county, to meet
boli weevn conditions, formulated
and dsrecommended by the commit
lee named at the countrywide mass
sneeting. held on July 25th is
printed today Chairman R. 3.
Bssser and his fellow committee
men have gIvenythe mater careful
ne pai1stak king consideration, and
the programme outlined should re-
seise the serious consideration by
every farmer and land owner. 1t
practical in every respect, and
noscrop has been recommended
thaf is neE and unknown to the
farmers OF this section. The crops
Are adapted to the soil and ch-
1naa1e Of Sumter county and all
have been grown heretofore on a
snail scale for home use by many
rsaers. sAn that is proposed by
ia committee is that subsidiary
ercps with which our farmers are
D be adopted as money
crops and by Organization and CO.
operation IN production and mar
xeling be turned to profit.
me leaders of the rn;on miners
the coal regions OF West vir-
ssnia pat all the blame for the
IroEbles on the mine owners, while
the mine operators declare that the
union miners have aus d
the strife by interfering with the
non-union miners. The truth prob
NaDay lies midway between the two
statements.
The people of South Carolina
3 should not permit themselves to be
smlsses and Influenced by the dem
who are raising a clamor
aboEt high taxes FOR the purpose
oy slipping into office during the
exeitement The majority Of the
ssaxpaye.s have demanded better
roads, better school houses, longer
terms for schools, higher salaries
for the teachers, rural policemen
and innunerable other things that
cost money. The money for thess.
improvements and conveniences
can be provided in no other way
than by increased taxation. You
cannot eat your cake and have it
too. Taxes can be Kept at mir
mum, but roads cannot be built
and maintained, nor can we have
good schools on the sanoe rate CT
taxation that obtained twenty years
ago. 70 vote for a demasogue rs
TO make sure that the money
voted in taxes will be wasted, for
to put an Office seeking demagogue
son the public pay roll is the worst
sort OF business.
Judge Hammond, of Augusta.
Ga, is getting all the notoriety
possible out of the visit of the
South Carolina mob to his city a
few weeks ago. That is all that
his reiteration of his demand that
Gov. Hardwick of Georgia cxac.. an
apology from Gov. Cooper OF South
Carolina amounts to.
The managers os the Republican
machine. do not seem TO know ex-
actIy what use to make Of P-esi-
dent Harding. AS statesman ne
is false alarm, and his official
performances are Of SO mediocre
Enature that he cannot even fur
nish the ground work for second
rate publicity. The only way he
can be kept in the public view is
to. have him chase around on va
cation trips with tedious fre-
euency.
A diversified farming programme
viii not insure prosperity TO Sum
ter county-but the Belser pro-
gramme, plus systematic hard
work the year around viii make
Sumter county more prosperous
than it ever was under the old
plan of depending upon cotton for
everything.
A. reduction Of the cotton acre
age next year throughout the cot
ton belt is the only thing that will
insure high prices for cotton in
1922. The short crop this year is