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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30
The Passing Year,;

f3ET1 YEARS whose cup of life
NEEyg$VlN DER brimmed
DEs%HEHN With joys that could not
HNXl&klN be contained;
VlSNa 0 years whose light of joy
was drained;
Though on our lives are craven deep
The records of your heeting stay,
When we with you did laugh or weep,
You took no thought of us away.
o years to come, in silent 6le,
Out of the future nearing fast,
You soon will pass us by and, while
We greet you, mingle with the
Though on your front the sunbeams
play;
With garlands gay your brows be
twined;
We know, when you have passed
our way,
What deep regrets you'll leave be-
hind.
And yet we welcome in its turn
Each new year whate'er gifts it
brings
For ever in our hearts doth burn
A spark of hope for better things;
Ever unquenched to live and glow
Till fade the stars from out the
sky;
In that great day when we shall know
That all our years have passed us
by.
Walter Lewis Patteson in the Illinois
State Register.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30
opportunities are brought by some

opportunities are brought by some
tomorrow or other.
If you have to spend all, or a part
Of it, paying with your labor and time
for dead horses, the new tasks will
not be done and the new opportuni-
ties will knock at your door in vain.
You will be too busy paying off the
old debt to heed either of them.
But if you are square-if you owe
nothing-tomorrow may be the turn
ing point in your life.
Very important things, with criti-
cal bearing on our lives, can happen
in few hours, Or in few minutes,
for that matter.
If one of them is going to happen
tomorrow if will pay to have the time
account opened so there will be the
minutes or the hours that you need
for it.
Most of the night and the Sunday
toll that all men expend could be cut
to minimum if we never borrowed
from tomorrow.
Yet we do-and right along.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30
THE HEROES OF YESTERDAY,
THE HOBOES OF TODAY

Countless thousands of returned
soldiers are facing the winter devoid
of all hope, stripped of every oppor-
tunity OF making an honest living
homeless, penniless, unemployed, tit
subjects for the human scrap pile.
This be the heritage of those who
faced the battles fire, who rescued
civilization, who Made the World
Safe for Democracy. For whom did
they save civilization? Who enjoys
the democracy they bled and died for ?
Aside from the thousands of Heroes
of Yesterday who are Hoboes Today,
over eighteen thousand American
soldiers are insane as a result of the
war, and a hundred thousand mothers
boys rest peacefully in their foreign
graves where they gave their lives
answering their country's call.
Do you remember, before America
went into the war, the reports that
used to drift across the border from
Canada about the blind and wounded
soldiers who were being declared a
nuisance by the merchants of To-
ronto? They cluttered up the side
walks and interfered with business.
Many Americans said: "Things like
that will happen in America if our
boys 60" Came the response: "No.
Never Not in America. America
could not be cruel, Indifferent and
forgetful of her boys who had gone
to war"
Today we see them sleeping in the
parks, hunting jobs, pawning their
war medals, now and then one of them
turning on the gas or jumping off the
dock, or using the old war gun to end
the torture Of his own awakened, des-
paired brain.
When these same despairing souls,
blossoms of American manhood, were
called to depart from home and loved
ones, they were the recipients of the
preachers blessing, the glorious praise
of the press, beautiful orations and
eulogies of the politician, and flourish
ing promises of the industrial lords.
Today the politicians are tired be-
ing bothered by returned soldiers, the
industrial master kicks him out onto
the human scrap pile, while the same
press calls upon the charitable heart
ed people to shower their old and
worn-out garments upon the hungry,
freezing, homeless, unemployed ex-
soldier.
While the representatives of the ma
tions of the world are assembled in
"Arms Conference" while the states
men and diplomats of the world hypo-
critically talk about preventing fut-
ure wars" let congress strike blow
which will do more toward ending
and preventing future wars than all
mouthings of statesmen and "Arms
Conferences" could do from now until
the end of time.
Twenty-three thousand new mil
lionaires were made in the United
States during and as a result of the
last war, the basic industries of Amer
ica were paid for in excess profits.
Let congress pass bill taxing the in
dustrial lords on profits made during
the war and the full amount made as
result of the war. If the govern
ment can confscate human life, it can
also confscate Unearned Profits. If
this was done, millions would be avail
able to pay bonus to every ex-serv-
ice man and we would not have to de-
grade and humiliate our returned
soldiers by making of, them tramps
and objects of charity.-Akron Herald
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30

HI "1nO LOOh UdCh past
IlEkSIH year, and see how little we
E848e have striven, and to what
ESNENSH small purpose, and how
IAANlH often we have been cow
ardly and hung back, or
temerarious and rushed unwisely in !;
and how every day and all day long
we have transgressed the law of kind
ness; 1t may seem a paradox, but in
the bitterness of these discoveries a
certain consolation resides.
Life Is not designed, to minister to
mans vanity. He goes upon his
long business most of the time with
a hanging head, and all the time like
a child. Full of rewards and pleas
break or the moon rise, or to meet
a friend, or to hear dinner call when
he Is hungry, fill him with surprising
joys-this world is yet for him no
abiding city. Friendships fall through,
health fails WEAKNESS assails him !;
year after year he must thumb the
hardly varying record Of his own
weakness and folly.
1t is a friendly process of detach-
ment. When the time comes that he
should go, there need be few illusions
left about himself. Here lies one who
meant well, tried little, failed much ;;
surely that may be his epitaph, of
which he need not be ashamed. Nor
will he complain at the summons,
which calls defeated soldier from the
field; defeated, ay, If he were Paul or
Marcus Aurelius but If there is still
one inch of fight in his old spirit, un-
dishonored. Give him a march with
his old bones there, out of the glorious
sun-colored earth, out Of the day and
the dust, and the ecstacy-there goes
another Faithful Failure.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30
It is bad and an improvident

It is a bad and an improvident
habit.
We can cure it if we try, but we
must try very hard, for ali of the
habits that fix themselves on our
backs, like the Old Man of the Sea,
the habit of procrastination is the most
persistent and deadly.
Keep the balance sheet under your
eye all the time.
And if you find tomorrow figures as
a debtor. pay it off, and do It TO-DAY.
Then you won't get out of bed with
a load on your mind in the morning
but with an easy conscience and a
feeling that you at last are in a posi-
tion to accomplish something.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30

ing food and gifts. From Scotland
also comes the curious superstition
that 1t Is unlucky to take anything
out of the house on New Years day
before one has brought something In ;
hence members Of the family may be
seen carrying a piece Of coal or any
small object into the house, to prevent
misfortune during the new year.
A quaint New Year custom in Her.
fordshire, England, is to weave black
thorn into a crown, SINCE it slightly
over fire and stand around it repeat
ing the words, "Old Cider" The
crown is then hung up for luck during
the year.
The wassail bowl or loving cup,
filed with spiced ale, was/fn use in
New Year celebrations in Old World
countries, and children would go
about the streets carOling.
In England December 25 was the
New Years day until the time of Will
liam the Conqueror. His coronation
occurred January l, hence the year
was ordered to begin on that day.
England, however, gradually fell into
unison with the rest of Christendom,
and began the year the 25th of March.
The Gregorian calendar restored Jan
uary / as the gateway of the year but
1t was not until 1852 that England
adopted this date.
The custom of exchanging New Year
presents still holds In France and the
Latin countries.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30

When inclined to spend union-earned
money for non-union products, think
what your own union label, card or
button means to you.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30

The most profitable thing for a
farmer to raise is prices.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-30
Quaint
New Year Customs

N SCOTLAND New Years
day has even more impor-
tance than Christmas. High
land laddies form process
sions and 60 from house to
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
Shooting of Sher-
iff Gamble
Williamsburg Officer seri-
ously Wounded by Negro

Kingstree. Sept. 5.-Sherjff H. S.
Z mble was last night shot in the
tacc and painfully wounded by a
negro, Nose Salters, it is alleged.
Salters was employed on the farm
Of G.. w. Coward, three miles east
Of this place The negro became
abusive yesterday afternoon and
threatened the lives of Mr.. Cow
ard and his family. Sheriff Gam
BILE was summoned by telephone.
When he went to the negro's s
home on the Coward plantation.
he was told by Salrers' wife that
the man was not at home. Sheriff
Gamble started to search the house
and as he opened the door Of the
cook room, shot fired from the
darkness Of the room struck him
in the face, the ball entering his
cheek and shattering several teeth.
Sheriff Gamble was hurried back to
town, and just as he was leaving
the scene in his car the negro was
seen to jump out Of a window Of
the cook room and plunge into a
dense cornfield Bloodhounds We're
wired for at Newberry and arrived
here at o'clock this morning. n
the meantime a posse of citizens
were on the lookout during the
night for the man, who is still be-
ing sought for in the swampS.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
D0DCED
THE MOB
AGAIN
Fox and Gappins Slip
ped From Charles
ton Jail to Peni-
tertiary With
Utmost Sc
crecy
Special to The Daily Item.

Columbia, Sept. SC. O. Fox
and Jesse Gappins, the two men,
who for several weeks, have been
held in the Charleston jail, charg-
ed with the killing Of young Will
liam Brazell, young Columbia taxi
driver, who was slain on the Co
lumbia- Augusta highway on the
morning Of August 9, and whose
chase from a mob, through Geor-
gia and back into South Carolina
caused such a sensation a few
weeks ago, were lodged in the state
penitentiary in Columbia Thurs
day morning. They were brought
to the capital from Charleston, in
the custody of two Richland Of
ficers. The transfer was on the
order of Governor Cooper. and was
accomplished so quietly that not
even the newspapers knew OF the
movement until the men were
lodged safely in the states bastile.
Fox and Gappins, together with
c. j. Kirby, the other member OF
the trio held responsible for youns
Brazells death, and alrea4y in the
state prison, are due to be placed
on trial in Lexington next week.
1t is not known when they will *
moved to Lexington. The officials
have issued no orders regarding
this as yet.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
Major Manning
To Be Buried
Newspaper Men to Attend
Funeral at Arlington
Cemetery

Washington Sept 7.-The re-
mains of Major William Sinkler
Manning. D. S. c., formerly a
member of the Washington burea'
of the New York Times and son Of
Ex-Governor Richard l. Manning
OF South Carolina. will be buried
at Arlington National Cemetery
with full military honors at 2.30
o'clock Friday afternoon, Septem-
Der 6. Relatives and friends of the
latn Major Manning. including
practically the entire corps OF
Washington newspaper correspond
ents viii assemble at the east en-
trance Of the new memorial am
pitheatre at $50 o'clock on the
day of the funeral from which point
the casket draped with an Ameri-
can flag and placed on an army
caisson will be escorted to th'
grave, where funeral services will
be held at 2.45 o'clock. The army
band and military escort has been
ordered detailed from Fort Myer
for the procession from the am
pitheatre TO the grave. The Rev.
Green Barkley d. D.. OF Richmond.
Va. brother-in-law Of the lac
Major Manning. Will officiate At
the grave. The pallbearers will be
six surviving brothers OF Major
Manning. five of whom We're his
comrades in arms in the great war.
Governor and Mrs. Manning will
arrive from their home in Colum-
bia. 8. c., Friday morning. Mrs.
Barbara Brodie Manning. Major
Manning's widow, granddaughter
of the late Governor Alexander R.
Shepherd, of the District of CO.
lnbia. arrived in Washington this
afternoon from Amasansett. L. l.
Two of her little children accom-
panied her. the Youngest. Sinkler
Manning Jr.. who is i'll, being un-
able 20 come.
The newspaper correspondents of
Washington Will be represented at
the funeral by committee of 81.
all Of them the former friends OF
Major Manning.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10

lation during a period Of depres-
sion and to hasten the day when
we may effect the true American
ization of all newcomers to our
shores
THE series of measures looking
to the ameloration Of conditions in
the great agricultural industries
would in other times have conSti-
tuted u striking legislative product
of years session. These include
the law for control Of the packing
industry. the act for the regulation
OF grain exchanges and the law
for the extension of credits to
farmers through the war finance
corporation to enable them to car
ry their crops until the markets
Will absorb them. The establish
ment of a veterans bureau inSureS
Il conSunmation of those reforms
in caring for ouS disabled men
which were inaugurated by legis-
. lative order We have established
peace and are seeking to establish
the generous production and prof.
table exchange Of foodstuffs and
commodities under the conditions
of peace and corallary assurance
Of good wages and general employ
ment."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
Jennings Mayor
of Orangeburg
Robert H. Jennings, Former
Sumter Man Elected Over
Two Opponents

Orangeburg, Sep=. 6.-The Or
angepurg city. election passed off
quietly here today. The polls were
open from 8 o'clock until 6
O'Clock. There was much e.:hus-
iasm manifested by the friends of
the various candidates. The vot-
ing took place at the court house.
The candidates were: For mayor.
R. II. Jennings, J. w. Josey and
F. F. Limehouse; for councilmen.
S E. A. Bultman, F. J. D. Fielder,
G. E. Ffckling, E. r. Lilies, j. NJ.
Sifly and A. c. Watson. Orange
burg operates under the commits
sion form Of government with a
mayor and two councilmen. w. A.
Livingston. present mayor, did not
offer for reelection. A. c.. Watson
and ]. N. Sifly asked reelection as
councilmen.
The managers of election We're:
w. w. Crum, H. C. Wannamaker,
Jr., and D. n. Smith. The city
commissioners of election are: Jas.
M. Albergotti, Julian S. Wolfe and
P. Frank Haigler. There were 740
registered qualified electors. A large
number Of voters Of Orangeburg
were disqualified from voting be-
cause they had not paid their taxes
in the required time. Lively vot-
ing was done by women today, the
women controlling the election.
Few negroes voted.
The result of the election was as
follows:
For mayor: Jennings, 311; Josey,
201; Limehouse, 1S9, Jennings be-
ing elected.
For council: Bultman. Il; Field
er, 233; Ficklin, 218; Lilies, 204;
Sihy. 3l2; Watson, 36S the two last
named being elected.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
Daily Bath Would
Doom tuberculosis
Sir James Crichton-Brown De-
clares United States is
Proving Thesis

Bath, England. Sept. Eff ev-
cry one took daily bath, hot or
cold, tuberculosis virtually would
disappear from the. world, as is be-
ing abun6antly proved in the Unit
ed States. A daily bath is a great
er factor for the preservation Of
health than all the medicine ovo:
brewed or concocted. The name
Of this town where we are meet
ing should be the paramount slo-
gan of every physician in the
world.
Such was the gist of an address;
delivered here at conference o.
the Sanitary Inspectors Associa-
ton by the president. Sir James
Critchton- Brown. He insisted that
he believed the English to be the
very best washed people in Eu-
rope, but outside of Europe they
were being hard pressed by tt.
United States and exceeded 10y
Japan.
We have stih long Way to
go, however," he said, before We
attain a proper standard Of per-
sonal cleanliness and recover from
the blight of unwashedness be-
aueathed by the Middle Ages. IN
parts OF Scotland even there is a
superstition that washing hte back
tends to weaken it. Hence coal
miners, while scrupulously washing
all the rest Of the body, leave the
back black with coal dust. with the
result that / have seen many cases
of aggravated skin diseases.
Every home, however humble,
should have tub provided, if nee
essary, by the state. a bath has
an uplifting power and ministers
to self-respect, and the practice of
singing in the tub is a paen Of
praise to its salutary virtues
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
The Lee County Fair
Stockholders Meet in Bishop
vile and Decide to Hold
Fair

Bishopville, Sept. 6.-At a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Lee
County Agricultural &, Mechanical
F; ir association held here today it
was definitely decided that the an
nual Lee County fair would be held
this year Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday Of Thanksgiv-
ing week. From the interest and
enthusiasm displayed at this meet
ing the 1921 fair Will undoubtedly
be up to the high standard set by
previous Lee county fairs.
r. L. Hearon, secretary. and the
other officers and executives, are
busy making their plans for the
various departments and each Is
determined that nothing will be
left undone towards making his
better than ever before.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
Negro Ferryman
Dies of Injuries
R. Hugh Belser Strikes Negro
in Self Defense in George
town County

Georgetown, SEPT. 5.-Last Tues
day afternoon, when about to cross
the Sampit river at Georgetown.
en- route by automobile to McClel-
lanville, a party consisting Of p.
Hugh Belser, r. B. Belser, r. D..
Epps and z. r. Richbourg had a
very unfortunate experience with a
negro ferryman, &nen Hugh Bel
ser was forced in self defense to
strike the negro over the head with
a cable stick, fracturing his skull
from the effects of which the ne
gro died Thursday night.
The ferryman, Ed. Smith, as
testified to in the magistrates court
in the trial Of the case held Satur-
day before a jury of II white citi-
zens, was asked civilly to take the
party over the river without delay.
but instead Of obeying or making
any excuse for keeping the party
waiting. turned upon Mr.. Belser
and cursed him, at the same time
picking UP a heavy billet. Before
the negro could strike, Mr.. Belser
picked up a cable stick and admin
istered a blow that disabled his as
sailant The negro would have fall
en- from the ferry flat into the riv-
er, but was caught by Mr.. Belser
and pulled into the fiat where ev-
cry attention was given him until
the arrival Of Dr. H. D. Beckman.
He was then taken to DR.. Sawyer'S
office where an operation was per-
formed by Drs. Eeckman, Sawyer
and Gaillard, and afterwards taken
to the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road company's hospital. After Civ
ing instructions that everything
possible should be done to save the
negro's life, Mr.. Belser and asso-
ciates reported the matter to the
sheriff's Office, gave bond for ap-
pearance in case of need, and pro-
ceeded on their way to Mcclellan
Vile.
The unanimous verdict Of the
jury was to the effect that Mr..
Belser acted entirely in self de-
fense. He was found not guilty
and exonerated Of all blame in the
matter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
B0LSHEVlKS
At CORK
IRELAND
Transport Workers
Sieze Office of Har-
Dor Board and
Raise the Red
Flag

Cork, Sept 6.-The red flag was
floated over the office OF the harbor
board at noon today when repre-
sentatives of the transport work
ers seized possession, due to the
refusal of the board TO grant the
employees increased wages. The
transport men propose to run the
business themselves and pay the
wages demanded.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10

Elizabeth. N. j., Sept. 27.-Behey-
ing that his brother, Tomas AZ.
xeelan, Sc years old, OF 1922 Grove
street, this city, came by his death
as a result Of being hogged with
rawhide whip while a member of
a convict gang at Glenn Springs.
lear Spartanburg, S. c., Patrick
keelan, deputy city clerk of Eliza
oeth and a veteran of the world
war, has asked for a federal in
vestigation. Mr.. Keelan has sent
letters to United States Senator's
Frelinghuysen and Edge and to
Governor Edwards, requesting their
aid. 1t is likely that, in order to
lear up all circumstances in con-
nection with the case, he viii Ia
sist that the body which was
brought from the south Ind in
TERED in a cemetery: here be ex-
humed. The victim was formerly
employed at the Bayway refinery
of the Standard Oil company in
Bayway and went south in the
early part Of August III search Of
work. He was arrested in Spar
tanburg Tuesday, August 3.
charged with vagrancy and SEN
fenced to serve 80 days. He was
made member of the cha;cganS
Of prisoners at work on the reads
at Glenn Springs. where there Is
convict camp.
1t is said half dozen witnesses
at the coroner's inquest testified
that Keelan complained of feeling
i'll on the day Of his arrest. The
next day. Wednesday. August eS.
he said he felt so weak he lid not
believe he could work but the cap
tain OF the changing forced ban TO
dis with a pickaSe. When Keeian
vas unable to stand up, it is said.
they testified the captain seized
him and lashed him with raw
hide whip. Ile died between 3 and
O'Clock "Wednesday afternoon
following the whipping.
The death certificate which was
sent north with the body gave the
cause of death as heat stroke, While
the verdict OF the coroner jury
was that he died from heat srroke
| aggravated by abuse. The physi-
clan who issued the burial permit
said that there We're many bruises
and decorations on keelan'S body
| but that none was sufficient to have
caused death. The two accused
men have been held for the action
Of the Spartanburg grand jury.
The guard denied that he held
Keelan while the captain ffogged
him
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
Sumter and Flor
ence Battle to Tie
Hard Fought Game Ends
With Score 7 to 7

Florence, Sept, 7.-sunter and
Florence lled here today, to Z,
in a game which was nip and tuck
all the way Jimmie Parker for
Sumter hit safely four out OF five
times up. Crawford and a. Shealy
hit for the circuit. Swami, Johnny
Langston. Murray and 'Sub'
Langston, homer making six
home runs for the game. Flor
ence and Sumter play the last game
Of the season at Hicks field tomor-
row. Punk" Luther will pitch for
Sumter making his first appear
ance in Florence.
Sumter " 10 ,
Florence ,
Sheriff. and Gross; Ham, Gotten
and Swami.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-10
Traitors in Congress
Alien Property Custodian De
clares That German Plot
ters Control Members of
Congress

New York. Sept 7.-Francis P.
Garvan, former alien property Gus
todian, told the international con-
ference Of chemists in session here
that German agents are once more
plotting in our midst and that the
German dye monopoly still con-
trolled certain members Of con-
greSS