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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08
A START AT DISARMAMENT.

The way to disarm, as "a practical
New York paper remarks, is to dis
arm. The way to cut down the cost
OF armament is to cut down the cos,
OF armament not in the indefinite fu-
ture, but in the living present.
Great Britain has adopted this
simple. practical policy, making an
immediate cut of so per cent in its
army and navy budgets for next year
This move is precisely in line with
Senator -Borah's plan for a so per
cent reduction in new naval construc-
tion for the next five years by triple
| agreement on the part of America
| Great Britain and Japan.
There is every indication that Brit
ain would gladly extend this economi-
cal policy TO cover the proposed five
year period. Utterances in Japan
suggest that that country would wei
| come n similar move, if japanese
| statesmen were persuaded that they
could take it safely. They are sim
ply afraid Of American armament
Everything hinges on the United
States. Our government can deter
mine the armament policy OF these
three powers, and then by Inevitable
consequence the policy OF the other
big powers and all the little ones.
Such woEk as this was expected o!
the League OF Nations. The League
has felt it useless TO take up the dis
arma ment question without the CO.
operation OF the United States
Whether or not this country is going
TO join the League, there is no need
to wait.
The main thing is to make a star;
at disarmament, and the United
States can make that start now, with
out any danger to itself, thereby cas-
ing the burden of the whole world
and saving itself heap Of money.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08
MORALS AND THE MOVIES.

Theda Bara. we'll known to movie
fans for her portrayal OF "vamps"
and other ladies of spelndid leisure,
was asked her opinion Of the moral
Of moving picture people by an anx-
ious mother whose daughter had
screen aspirations and who had
heard terrible things" about moving
picture folk. i
II have often been asked IL studio
life is less moral than other lines of
human endeavor." said Miss Bara. II
always return u positive no How
'an there be greater lack OF morals
In making pictures than in making
ihirts or locomotives? =
II am a firm believer that the world
as whole strikes moral average
Wherever groups Of people gather in
large numbers Motion pictures, I am
told, have become the third industry
IN the United States This means
that persons from all walks OF life.
With all kinds OF emotions, are con-
tributing something to the develop
ment OF a vast business. ANY busi-
ness. the stage. screen or shoe fac
tory. Is as moral or immoral as the
individual makes II. Unpuestionably
there have been persons of doubtful
morality I'm the pictures. but SO have
there been in lawyers Offices and in =
suranccs cOmpa MES. When all is said
and done, there is one great outstand-
Ing fact which cannot be denied
morality is matter OF individual de-
termination
Most OF the fiction built up around
actors comes from the fact that the
| onlookers confuse the individuals
with the scenes they portray, just as
readers think that all stories and
books must be records OF the individ
ual experiences of the author. In
stead, these people are rd-workiny
folks, earning their living. Some are
good, some are bad. and the mother
who would hive her daughter safe in
the movies or anywhere else must put
that safety into the dauthger's heart.
AS man thinkcth in his heart. so
is he"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08
TAN TROUBLES.

TaNotion Ia probably the most dit.
hcuit OF governmental problems. Il
~ hard To make taxes Just. and to
make them work out the way they
are intended.
The heavy surtlxes on individual
and corporate incomes are a good ok
ample. II Is we'll known that after
the first payment Of those taxes. peo-
pio subject to them have managed to
evade them TO surprising degree
Secretary Houston reports that the
taxable income of taxpayers having
net incomes OF over 100000 a year
fsll from 100000. 900 In 1916 to
$4,000. .0Oe in 1918.
+, Tho incomes. OF course, did not
diminish during that period. IL any.
thing. they increased. The owners
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08

missioner Britton suggested that the
price for cotton weighing Dc rem
duced to l6c. After consideration the
board decided to take up this matter,
with the Legislative dcle@ation at the
coming meeting.
Mr.. DunniDg of the Columbia firm
appeared and made statement before
the board relative to his facilities for
repairing trucks, especially Nash
Quads, and asked for a part Of The
county business. He was advised to
leave his address with the clerk and
If any work was needed in this line
he would be advised.
Board adjourned for dinner until
2:30. ON rcconvcning County Engi-
neer JeffordS asked authority 10 pay
Joe Cain $3.50 per day for repairing
trucks and driving same This was
approved. Bonds Of J. T.. Jeffords.
II. l.. Scarborough and w. j. Scale
were approved.
Request of home service depart
ment OF Red Cross for use of Office
in court house formerly occupied by
the county nurse was considered and
granted with the understanding that
the same was to be rclinuuishod
should the county have other need
for same.
the clerk presented an inquiry Of
Mrs. Carrie Outlaw as to whether her
monthly appropriation would be con-
tnued in case she moved TO Manning
where she could get cheaper and
more convenient room. Board dccid-
ed that it had no authority TO con-
tinuc these appropria tions where the
recipient was out of the county.
Engineer JeffOrdS reDoriinsy furfh
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08

10 hs paid For an the scale of whs t
ii is worth. y lot of writer's will be
working for less than nothing before
long.
Louisiana man braSs of IA pig
that he has trained to point" and
uses as bird dog That's about all
a hawS is good for ut present prices.
Information that the steel industry
is operating at half capacity does
not agree with recent crime reports
D'Annunzio apparently decided that
going up in an airplane was easier
than going up in smolc.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08
New CMcOra Plans ADDroycd

Columbia. Jan. 5.-Plans for scy-
cn OF the buildings for the Greater
Chicora College plant. to be erected
on the outskirts Of Columbia, were
approved by the trustees of the Pres
bytcrlan school, meeting here Tuesday
afternoon. These sevon buildings. on
which work will start this spring. are
the administration building. the fine
arts building. the gymnasium and
four dormitories, each to hold on,
hundred students.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08

'r "h the hudson bridge matter ad-
NiS"d 'hat he thought both the cost
ana malnt"pance could both be re-
duccd by putin" in fills with a steam
AhON"i, Action on this was deferred
county Engineer Jcffords also ad-
N!Sed relative 10 the Hudson Bridge
Also advocated the abolishing Of the
swinging spann in the middle of this
bridge. He advised that the SUPER
visor of Florence county agreed with
him in this. The board thought we'll
of the idea.
claim from AIr. Jno. s. Kennedy
for annual upkeep of county road
from city limits to cemetery was au-
thOrized paid. but the clerk was ad
Viscd to write him that this arrange
ment would hereafter be discontin-
ued and the county would take care
of this piece Of road.
Mr.. George II. Hurst appeared be-
fore the Board relative to the burial
of a negro named Owens who had
died at the hospital and whose rela-
tiveS could not he located He stated
that the expense would be $1,000
The Board authorized this and d.
r"cted the clerk 10 instruct the rural
policeman TO cndcaVor to locate the
relatives of the party and have them
reimburse the county for this ex-
pcnSc.
After approving Of the claims be-
fore it the board adjourned to meet
again at the annual meeting with
the legislative delegation on Jan. G.
The Sumtpr Comfy School
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08

Probably the women who wear
their clothes short at both ends be-
long To the Friends Of the Native
Landscape"
n New York judge handed down a
verdict that "a wife does not have to
work" What does he mean. work +?
Real work In a school room or office
for six 10 eight hours day, or Just
loafing on the job at home tho way
mother does. for about eighteen?
The worst thing about this dull sea.
son is that 1t turns peoples minds to-
ward govornment jobs.
President Wilson is said to have
refused sl5O.OOO for writing an ar
ucle on any subject he might choose
on the ground that no article was
worth such an amount. If writing is
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08

The Sumter County School Trustees
Association held a quarterly meeting
Wednesday with a large attendance.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08

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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-08
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
I'VE "'0' No.
The First National Bank Of Sumter
al the State
I
RESOURCES.

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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
FOUND IN OUR
EXCHANGES
A Barbed Arrow.

Not for many a day has a speech
got under the Democratic skin as have
the remarks of Ambassador Harvey
at the recent Pilgrim dinner in Lon
don. They set forth so vigorously and
clearly the motives that drew the
United States into the war, and con-
tanned assertions so utterly at vari-
C with everything preached by the
former leader of the Democratic party,
that the minority are fairly beside
themselves with rage. Senator Nc
kellar of Tennessee politely calls the
ambassador a liar by declaring that
his statement that eve were afraid
not to fight" is "as Ease as satan him.
self"
Why should Mr.. Mcclellan or any
body else take issue with such a state
ment. Is it not a fact that the United
States was afraid Germany would con-
tinue her ruthless destruction of
American commerce if steps were not
taken to prevent her? And is not
that precisely why the United States
sent her soldiers overseas? America
fought in self-defense, as the ambass-
ador pointed out at another part of
his address. And one who fights in
self-defense is afraid that if he does
not fight he will be overwhelmed. 1t
requires no mental circumlocution to
arrive at the conclusion.-Record-He Her
aid.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
DEMOCRATIC PUERILITIES

The ridiculous extent to which Dem
ocrats can sometimes go in the matter
of legislation is illustrated in a reso-
luton presented by Congressman Gal
livan of Massachusetts. The resolu-
ton provides "that there shall be no
prize fight in the United States for
the world championship until after
the passage of the soldiers bonus
BILL" Just what relation the Dempsey
Carpenter match has to soldiers bo-
nus is not apparent. Perhaps the
author of the resolution thinks that
if the fight was made to wait on SOL
diers' bonus legislation the proponents
of the latter would be stimulated to
superhuman efforts to get it through
so that the affair at Jersey City
would not be long delayed. Happily
the gentlemen and his party are not
now in position to enact the unique
legislation they formerly revealed in.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
One Victory for the Weed.

Boldly preceding one the theory
That 1T was wholly on her side in her
world war on tobacco, it will shock and
grieve Lucy Page CASTOR to discover
that science is deserving her-assum-
ing a neutral attitude in some respects
and going clean over in the enemy in
others. DR.. w. H. Golston of Camden,
N. j., in an address at the convention
of the New Jersey Medical society
last week, pointed out the hygenic
value of tobacco. If it were abolished,
he says, diseases that result from
affections OF the gums and teeth would
increase. The old-fashioned chew is
one OF the best ~disinfectants known to
dental science" A cigar is almost as
prophylactic, while a cigarette, be-
cause of the paper wrapper, has no
value in this respect. A pipe, presum-
ably, would for a like reason be less
purifying than a cigar.
The aesthetic objections to the chew
being so strong as to force it into the
background, the cigar assumes pre-
eminence. And in championing the
cause of the cigar, science backs up
literature and art. 1t was just about
a century ago that Lord Byron, after
impartially considering the relative
merits of the respective claims put
forth by pipes and cigarettes upon the
esteem and affection of mankind, con-
cluded his eloquent a%postrophe to to-
bacco with the words:
: "Yet thy true lovers more admire
by far
Thy naked beauties give me a
cigar."-Anaconda Standard.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
THERE GOES THE BRIDE!

The June bride as an institution has
become a thing of the past-gone
with the flowers of yesteryear-she's
nothing now but a pleasant memory.
Time was, when the we'll regulated
young lady about to commit matri-
mony, would consider nothing binding
unless it was done in June. Then too,
a wedding in those days was a cere-
mony, if not a sacrament; it vas at
home or at the church and all the
folks were there, that represented the
families of the high contracting
parties. 1t was solemn and binding,
and meant something. 1t was preced-
ed by engagement announcements and
months of preparation, and in the
spring when the June roses bloomed,
the air perfumed with sweet v%iolets,
and the "young mans fancy lightly
turned to thoughts of love-" the fair
young thing was lead to the altar with
many maids and escorts; under floral
bells with swelling music and much
ritualistic work, the couple were pro-
nounced one until death did them part.
"Those were the happy days"
Marriages are becoming infrequent.
Last June there were 16 in Valley
county, this year about half that many.
Then they too are becoming generally
rather hasty and commonplace affairs.
Young people become engaged, take
the train off some where alone, and
the Justice of the Peace of some Judge
hastily marries them, and collects his
fee, and its all over, for better or for
worse-mostly worse.
While certain writer's are much
worked up on the subject, no n can
give a definite reason, for the reduc-
ton of the marriage from it's once high
plane as the leading social function,
not to mention the religious phaze of
the relation. Not one but many rea-
sons are assigned for their i%nfrequen-
cy; the war is one reason, the hard
times another. Probably the most
sound reason is the critical way in
which the young man considers the
young lady of the day; she attracts
about every way except matri-
monially; she does not appeal to him
something that he wants around
the house for the remainder of his
life. Indeed in most cases he doubts
MS ability to keep her around the
Whatever the cause, the marriage
relation is not so eagerly sought for
and is not considered as necessary as
'ormerly. The ceremony is no longer
generally considered a sacrament;
when it does occur, it is a common
,lace incident in the young lives con-
erned.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
RAIN AND REST

The timely and abundant rains tina
have fallen in this part of Montana
during the last week, have been twice
blessed, they have saved this years
crop and also justified real dry lane
farming in Montana.
To the old timer, the strictly frontie,
farmer, more rain spells more rest,
and plenty of moisture means the sue
cess of the plunge that he has been
won't to take annually when he plant
ed his land practically all to grain.
All too often, his land has been i'm
properly titled and sowed, he has re-
lied on the rains which might come
or might not come, to give him a crop
and the leisure hat would follow it's
marketing, until the next spring rolled
around, with another chance to gam
BILE on the weather. From all indica-
tons this year his bet is good, and
with lower freight rates and a fair
market he will be on easy street dur
ing the winter.
But the last four years have furn-
1shed the farmer an object lesson. We
think it has been salutary and effec-
tive. He has found that the yearly
bet that there will be sufficient mois-
ture for dry farming in Montana. is
not a good ne. A good crop this
year, will make him winner once out
OF five times, and he is too good a
sport for sucker plays of that kind.
1t IS therefore fair to presume that
this years success, will not cause him
to again lose his balance, and that with
the help the crop will give him, he will
lntelllgently embark in combined
farming, with diversified crops, and
stock raising, in which he will play a
safe and winning game.
Prof. Linfield, at the recent bankers
meeting at Glasgow, had tables and
charts showing the rainfall for 40
years and on these he based the as
sertion that dry land farming of grain
alone would not pay in Montana, but
that there was sufficient rainfall to
justify diversification of crops and the
raising of stock.
That farming can be done in this
particular locality in the dryest years
has beeen demonstrated by this years
experience. When the government
loaned money for seed to drought
stricken citizens, they turned around
and bought the seed of their neigh
bors. The conclusion being that some
of the ~dry-landers did not farm exact
ly right, while others did.
We must not lose our judgment by
success this year and take any more
plunges; on the contrary conserve and
use our profits for the improvement of
methods.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
IMPORTANT FOR ROOSEVELT
HIGHWAY

An action of far reaching import
ance to the Theo. Roosevelt Interna.
tional Highway, was that taken by the
Atlantic-P Pacific Highways and Elec.
trical Exposition, Portland, Oregon
to be held in 1925, when it endorsed
the Highway as the direct artery from
the East to the exposition.
Traversing as it does the northern
tier of states from Portland, Maine
to Portland Oregon, it opens up a Won
derful new section of country to the
tourist and at the same time offers a
direct highway from the East to this
National Highway Exposition.
1t will also mean that the interests
and efforts of the exposition will be
brought to bear on the improving of
this highway through the Rockies, and
the short unconstructed section in
Western Montana. The association
has pledged its support to the further
ing of this construction work. With
this powerful organization behind the
Theo. Roosevelt Highway Association
there is every reason to believe that
the Highway will be improved its en-
tire distance before the opening of the
big National Exposition, which will
be held to commemorate the linking
up of the East and the West by trans
continental highways.
At the present time the Highway
is 50 percent improved, about the
only unimproved sections are those in
Idaho, Montana and about mi hundred
miles in North Dakota. These unim-
proved roads in Montana and North
Dakota are good serviceable roads but
not completely %graveled. Crawling
will be completed this year mad next.
The construction work in Western
Montana and through the Rockies is
for the most part rock construction
and is necessarily slow and expensive,
but when completed will offer the
tourists n of the most scenic and
wonderful highways anywhere in
America.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24

hauls, as it has been shown that the
steam roads carry the mail more
cheaply and more efficiently. Trans
continental flights will be substituted,
and by the use of approved planes ii
Is trusted that aerial experimentation
VIII be warranted through the school
ing of aviators. An aerial mail SER
vice at the present time, however. is
declared to be impacticable. The sole
excuse for its continuance is the hone
of developing and improving the
science Of aviation. Mr.. Hays has done
well. The Burleson policy was one
not only of unwarranted and tremend-
u expense but n of horror and
frightfulness.-Fort Wayne News.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
Scientific Betting.

At Lloyd's in London you can ge
insurance on anything you want tn,
sex of an unborn child to the ninth lif,
OF a cat; in short on everything will
a future to it, from Greneland's icy
mountains to midas coral strands
Lloyd's is really an elaborate betting
system, reduced to a scientific basis
that is to say, conducted according
to ascertained laws of chance.
The committee on banking anc
commerce of the house of represen.
tatives is considering a proposal that
the government, in the interests OF
the farmers, what might be called
an American edition Of Lloyd's. The
Importance of weather insurance to
the farmers may be judged from the
fact that the amount of hail insur-
ance taken out in 1919 was $780,
$4,000. The Kenyon-McFadden bill
purposes to furnish the farmers with
all sorts of insurance at scientifically
determined rates. Colonel John H.
Finley, n of the governments
weather bureau experts, is trying to
convince the committee that storm
insurance is destined to prove an
all-lmportant economic factor in the
agricultural development of this
country, and that it could be placed
upon an absolutely scientific basis
by exhaustive study of weather rec
ords in the past as applying to var
ious localities. He has taken the
country by states, each with it's
storm frequency map deliberately
marked in colors. And then he has
mapped the separate counties. Areas
of greatest storm frequency are col
ored green. Regions of lesser storm
frequency are yellow, blue, pink and
so on, according to the percentages
of storms attached to those localities
by the accumulated weather records.
Storm insurance as at present con-
Quoted strikes Colonel Finley as a
sheer gamble. He argues the injus-
tive of making a farmer on a white
patch of his map, enjoying less than
10 per cent of storms, pay the same
as one on a green patch with
80 per cent. Rain policies would
much of the gloom out of a long
series of drizzly days, but, judging
by past experience, what Montanans
need is not rain but drouth policies.
Also they would like to keep on hand
A fairly good supply of frost, hail,
gopher cutworm and ~non-partisan
league insurance. Strip farming of
it's uncertainties and make it an as
sured business proposition-Anacon-
la Standard.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24

1t was a good thing for the world
that we have had the recent expert
ment of nearly four years in Russia,
Utopia has been claimed for commun-
ism for three-quarters of a century
n there was no experience to COM
pletely refute the claims. Nobody of
average intelligence need ever be in
doubt again that communism in prac-
tice is a total, gruesome failure.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24
Why That Headache?

When you know the cause of a dis
ease a cure may often be effected.
This is particularly true of headache.
Headache often results from consti-
patton or a disordered condition of
the stomach which may be corrected
by taking a dose or two of Chamber
lain's Tablets. Try it. These tables
are easy to take and mild and gentle
in effect.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-24

Jamin Grey of New York, a wounded
soldier, trained in photography by the
FEDERAL vocational educational sys-
tenn: The appointment was made by
Chairman Kahn of the house military
committee.