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' i tjLUME Lin, NUMBER 33. , NEWBERRY, 9. 0. TUESDAY, May 25, 1915. TWICE A WEEK, il,>0 A YEAR. M _? Ftalv announces war with austria-hungary TROOPS IS GREAT SOIBER AT FROSTIER. Interest in Campaign Dwarfed by Stirring Scenes in Latest Entrunt. T An *'rv i/ipiviua(9 iitftic Italy, the eleventh nation to enter tiie world war, has thrown down 0:.e gage of battle to Austria. Austrian and Italian troops in vast L numbers face each other along the I mountainous frontier. Most of AnsL tria s waships are ax Pola. The Ital ian fleet put to sea from Spezia weeks ftago, and its whereabouts is not tnown. The official proclamation signed by B| king fixed May 24 as the com^cement of the war, but almost imHroiately the Italian ambassador a. Hrienna presentea the Austrian for^eign office with tne formal declaration, , and shortly afterward Germany in structed her ambassador at Rome to W leave tfre Italian capital with the AusI tro-Hungarian ambassador. In an official statement issued at Berlin the German government says ' that by this attack against the dual monarchy Italy also inas broken her i alliance with Germany and adds that! , the loyal relationship existing between j Austria-Hungary and the German em-1 pire remains unimpaired. Expectancy in the action of Italy nas ' dwarfed interest in other luaUers con-! nected with tie war, and, strangely B enough, there has been little of para-. 1 mount importance to attract attention.! Battles both in the east and west are 1 being fought much after the manner of the past six months, with losses or gains here and there. Checks to the Germans north of Arras, progress each of Festubert and east of Notre Dame de Lorette and the fcapture of trenches near Neuville at asst are chronicled by Paris. Rprlin assorts that to the south of ILuville the Germans made gains and i hit an attack on the Lorette^ih eights fcre repulsed. In the East the Austrians claim' to Ive repulsed the Russians. In the brthwest of Russia Berlin claims a efeat of the Muscovites with the cap Iure or some buu prisoners ana a number of machine guns. iThe Triple Entente powers-have no ed Turkey that all the members of R Turkish government and such gents of the government as they found cnplicated will be held personally reponsible for the massacres of Armen I, 7 Tie condition of the king of Greece, who has been ill for several days, is reported to have taken a serious turn. Because of the king's illness, the question as to whether Greece shall main-, tain her neutrality or enter the general conflict lhas been temporarily laid aside. i 'jrn MR. W. C. BYM'M HURT. I Snperintendent of Georgetown Schools Injured by Fall From Ladder. News and Courier. V Georgetown, May 21.?SuperintendI .ent W. C: Bynum, of the city schools, I was painfully injured yesterday by a i fail from a ladder. Mr. Bynum was L climbing to the roof of the High school building to overlook some work that | was being done. The ladder on w!:ich lie was climbing from the floor of a I cloak room to a manhole in a ceiling fifteen feet high. When almost to the ceiling (Mr. Bynum found that his ladder was slipping, but he could not save J himself, and fell to the floor with great force. He was severely cut about the , Ihead and an arm was painfully > wrenched ami bruised. He will be con-v I fined to his room for several days. Newberry College. V The following Juniors ihave been K elected by the faculty for the junior 1 oratorical meaa,i on ruesaay mgnt next: G. D. Oxner, K. R. Kreps, J. H. Bedenbaugn and J. C. Kinard, of the Excelsior society. P. Monroe, C. Ridenihour, iC. D. Hipp and G. B. Derrick, of the Bhrenakosmian society. The following sophomores have been I elected by the faculty to contest ror Bie soplhomore declaimers' medal Saturday night of commencement: E. L. Derrick, R. M. Pool, Abe Vigodsky and ?J. W. Wulburn, of the Excelsior society. S. M. Derrick N. Langford, R. W. Sease and IVoigt Wessinger, of the Phrenakosmian society. <$> <$>' <s? < THE IDLER. <S> <s> <$> j And we are to have a park. So the! editor said in the last issue. I really wonder if it is true? I wonder if any one will ever remember that The Idler has been dreaming of a park for so many years. And that I have about j worn out my typewriter?the machine. of course?in an effort to wake up the. people of the community. Well, I don't ] care?really I don't- -whet.er any onej l 4- ^ ^ rememoers mai ui nut, ju?l sy ?c, have the park, and the editor has not I made the statement prematurely. The park's the thing. Let her come and ! come right now, even it be in a small' way, just so we start and start some: thing that will keep on going and being. - i i I happened to walk down town late Saturday afternoon and w::ile standing in front of the Gilder & Weeks drug store I read the following on the bulletin board which this enterprising firm always keeps?I mean the bulle-. tin board?for tille r-eady information of the public: "Blue law Sunday. Get your cigars, tobacco, etc. None to ~ A ? ? Anf rnl f> T n'Alllrl IIIOHUW. AUSU1ULC1> ucunai. l like to suggest a law that 1 nave read was in force in the Colony of Virginia j away back yonder in about 1610, which read something like this: "Every man and woman shall repair in the morn- i ing to the divine service and sermons preached on the Sabbath day, and in i the afternoon to divine service, and ' - ? xU _ catecmzing. upon pain ior uue mat fault- to lose their provision and al- j lowance for the whole week following; for the second to lose the same allowance, and also be whipped; and for the third, to suffer d^ath." Now, listen, I am not in favor of working on the Sabbath day, and neither am I oppos-j ing the strict enforcement of the laws j providing for Sabbath observance. Not j by any means, oecause i tuu m icivui of law and order and t/ae observance j of law, but. listen again, I do not bej lieve in making fools of olirselves by taking some one law and trying to iSde'it like a liobby. Let us enforce all laws evenly and ia mercy. No great harmVver came from buying a cigar on the Sabbata day if the store was. already open, or of buying a cold drink on the Sabbath day, but?but, I have heard, it seems to me, that a little i i c?ild was once bitten by a mad dogj and?and, it seems to me, the child J life was sacrificed to a sorry old dog, I and?and, then there was passed a dog muzzling" ordinance, so that lo more on/J cr-rrtTVn ncnnlp tOO. ; unit; uuuuicu U.UU. 6w.,u i---*?, ?r[ should be at the mercy of these old |< dogs that roam at large on the streets. J It seems to me, that I heard or read about a little child having its youngj life snuffed out by an automobile. It! may not have been due to reckless and ! careless driving?I do not know?and j Chen'there was an ordinance against^ speeding and certain rules as to cross- j ings and stops, and about standing! ? j -n?? ?./-*i oi do 4r? a in ; cars anu oiuci > <u uv. ? , streets, and so many others that I just; can't recall all of them. So, I reckon, j it is with the authorities, there are i * just so many of the?e laws they can't} recall all of them, and they are just taking them as they come to mind. But' then C:.at can't be, because I called j the chief's attention to the ordinance { about dogs. I reckon no one thought to send him a copy of the paper, and . maybe he is not taking it, and there- j fore he did not have his attention' called to it, because when I was on the street the otJier <lay I saw two or ( three bull dogs and, oh, so many of the others that I couldn't count them, but then you know I am awfully afraid of dogs and maybe the officers are, too, and therefore have concluded it best *- ' -1 A to let the tilings aosoiuiei> aiunc, auu i maybe it is a good plan, I will try to! vdodge them. Oh, tiat we could lust j get every one to observe just one law j and then there would be r?o need for any others. Listen: "Whatsoever ye would that men do unto you, do ye even also unto tftem." The observance of this would encompass the whole ' Ti +V10* "nr? man is as law. n, is nuc uu ?" ? good as he ought to be?and few as "bad as they seem." We just don't go at tfce thing right. There are too many "thou shalt nots" in all our system of government, and we are now trying to put it into our conduct by statute and ordinance. The religion of Chri'st, as I read it and understand it, is one of persuasion aLnd love, and not one of don'ts and threats and pun isr.ments and all the bad. I read the other day a little dialougue from Ltfe which, while overdrawn, expresses and emphasizes how some of those who drive cars impress me: "How are t':.e springs on this car?" "Simply wonderful. You don't notice a child, and even when you run over a grown man it's no discomfort at all." Now, 1 don't mean that any one who drives a car in this neck of the, woods is really as iheartless as that, but the way taey go sometimes it almost has that appearance, and then as to giving you any of the road, why they only say, "get out of the way; I'm coming." And you better get. ' ?o? I hear that the same day that I paid that beautiful tribute to the ladies' rest room and compared it to the beatiful country and quoted one stanza from that little poem, "In tfce Country," that the lawn mowers were at work early the next day, and that the lawn is now a thing of beauty, and the "girls are singing" and l~e "oriole's nest is swinging" and the "honey-bee hums," and the "flowers bloom." Now, that is altogether proper and there will be a beautiful lawn and we will not use that sacred spot around tine monument for any such sordid purpose as growing burr clover for sale. And neither will Supervisor Sample so debase the grounds around the court house, but he will take my advice and put those fellows to mowing tae grass and we will have a beautiful lawn there also. Now, I am going to give you all that little poem about the honey bees and the orioles. IN THE COUNTRY. I I am going where the flowers bloom, And the honey-bee h"ms Where are girls are always singing, Where the oriole's nest is swinging. II Where the fislh are eager to bite, Where the watermelons are soon ripe, Where they fill your glass with buttermilk to rim, And where there's <a place for boys to swim. * t III So why should we stay in town? While the trees in the orchard are loaded down. Waiting for you to pick the red apples from t!be ground, And your cousin writes and says come A A TT* n uvv*u. IV Why should tfe stay in the hot old town? While we hear the rustling noise of the city, They hear the birds singing and churc!a bells ringing, -Hence good-bye to your man-made city that has no pity. 7 1 The verses were written by E. Leonard Dendy. of t.:e fifth grade of some school, I don't remember where. THE IDLER THE PARK COMMISSION. Steps to Be Taken at Once to Open Park-^-Option on Land Secured. Tiie following persons have been apnointed a Dark commission in the mat ter of tie park about which The Herald and News spoke some few issues ago: M. L. SpearmaL, Z. L. Wright, C. D. Weeks, F. W. Chapman, Mrs. L. W. Floyd, iMrs. F. R. Hunter, Mrs. Herman Wright. About $300 has been subscribed and the land in College street from the residence of Mrs. Pittard to tho rp<siriAnoe> of Mr. P. E. Scott and running through to Thompson street, has been leased for a year with an option of purchase. ' Mr. Spearman was elected chairman and Mr. F. 'Wl Chapman secretary and treasurer. A meeting of the commission was held Monday afternoon to take steps to begin the improvement of me gruuuua. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our gratitude of thanks and appreciation to our relatives, friends, neighbors, physicians and pastor for their faithful service in every way rendered in the sad acci dent and death of our darling gin, Agnes Thompson. Wm. M. Suber and Family. ASKtD SUMTER TO BE CHIEF STATE CONSTABLE WHEX TIME CAME FOR APPOINT-' MEM RICH. I. WELCHED. Governor Led Chief of Police of His Home Town to Expect to Head 1 m ?in _4. d?.i tAA luusiituuiarj ai i;-9tuv icai, The State. Sumter, May 19.?Replying to state! ments made by Gov. Manning and his ' i , secretary in reference to the appointj ment of J. R. Sumter, of this city, as j ! chief constable of the State. Mr. Sum-; ; ter this afternoon gave out t!..e fol j lowing statement: "While disliking to enter into a controversy with the governor of South Carolina or his private secretary, I can not suffer myself to lie under the imputation of these gentlemen tha? 1 tried to pitchfork myself bodily into to exalted position of chief constable of South Carolina. Therfore I submit the following reasons for the consid eration or tne puonc: ! "Having never been a close personal or business friend of Gov. Manning, I was, to say the least, quite surprised when, some time after the governor j was nominated or elected, I forget just' which, he approached me in churd.i after service one night and said: 'If I, should need you, are you willing to consider an offer?' I replied, 'Yes, I o ty-? r\ nan f a f rift nrynoiharotlan of qtiv ClUX upcil ILf cvxiciuvx utiva vi. v**aj position which will add to my salary or advancement in any way.' He said, /I will let you know more about the ! matter later.' He alluded to tfois conversation a second time without men| tioning what position !he intend| ed offering me. The third time be reminded me that I had said I would | come with him, saying, 'I suppose you | know wfiiat I want you for?' I replied, 'The only thing that I con think of is the positon of chief constable.' To this he assented and asked ii I would accept. I said in reply that it would depend entirely upon whether' tlie salary was large enough to war-( rant my giving up my present position : and making several other sacrifices j which would be necessary. He said that he was unable to state the salary! QTir? wrmlH hnxro tn finri nut later. He then said, 'I want you to accept this j position for my good and the good of the State of SoutJ'a Carolina.' I re-1 plied that he assigned very flattering reasons for offering me the position. Question of Salary. ' "Gov. iMauning several times after this spoke of his being unable to find out what tfce salary of chief constable I J - - SI T-.1 1 3 V> unuer \jk>v. xiiease iiau uccu, aa ucic were no records to be found anywhere. Subsequently Gov. Manning requested me to meet him at the Bank of Sumter and there stated to me that he had found out that the last chief constable was paid $5 per day and his subordinates $4. I asked him if that was his offer to me. He replied 'Yes.' I then j said, '"Governor, that ends the matter j qc- for o cj t am f>annerriph t wrmlh not.' C4 O 1UX UO A. VVA4VV4 A w ? - . for a moment consider it at that price.' ( He said. 'Do you not consider that good pay? Do not for a minute misunderI stand me. I am not trying to cheapen ! you, or your services.' I replied, 'No,; not for ti'.:at position, which is a man's i job and will be a very disagreeable | one.' He then said, 'What are your lowest terms?' I replied, 'Twentyfour hundred dollars a year and all expenses when away from headquar ters.' He then said that he was not I sure whether he had the power to fix! the salary or not, but that he would look further into it, and added, 'Do' not make any other arrangements which will prevent you coming to me.' At some subesquent meeting he men- j tioned fcaving consulted the attorney: ! general, also another legal adviser. once 01 wuom seuu Uicti ut; cuuiu uoc in that way part of the $5,000 appropriated for enforcing the law, but the other party did not think so. He would . inquire still further Into t'iat matter, i To come down to more ecent history, | on or about May 4, I got a telephone! message asking me to meet Gov. Man- [ ning at the Boot Live Stock stable At 7:30 p. m. I did so. Gov. Manning: called me aside and asked me how j short a notice would suffice me if he !. wanted me shortly. I replied that I j. had several personal arrangements to | make, also that I .tad to give the city' council some time. He replied, 'I have ' spoken to Mayor Jennings and asked |, him if he would not release you whes I needed you and he has promised me to do so. I expect to need you very i shortly and want you to come at once when I call upon you. I am returning tonight to Columbia and expect to find there a letter from t)ae Charleston board of control informing me what funds they will be able to furnish for carrying on this work. Mayor Grace will also be in Columbia and I will see him upon my arrival tonight and talk with him. I feel quite sure those fellows are not going to do anything in Charleston and that I will have to handle the situation in another way and that you will hear from me in a s!:.ort time.' 1 did not hear for some days. "On the 11 tii or 12th of May I went: into the Bank of Sumter and asked | Bernard Manning if lais father was not j in Florence attending council and j would be there (in Florence) on the following day. He said that he would. I said thai I would run over and see him. Mr. Manning asked me if it was i a matter of any importance. I replied, 'I am about to order uniforms fo^ the police force and would like to know about wuat time your father expects j me to leave here, as I do not wish to j order a uniform for myself if I am to 1 leave shortly. He replied, 'Mr. Sumter, do not order a uniform. I know that; he will need you shortly. He knows that they are going to do nothing in j Charleston and I am -sure he will want you to go there, and I am sure if he will give you five or six good men you can succeed in controlling the situa-! tion.' I was prevented from going to Florence, so wrote Gov. Manning to fix ! til.e date for my leaving here as soon ' as he could possibly learn of it. This letter I held until I learned that he Jhad returned to Columbia, mafling' same Friday, May 14. Saturday morn-j ing, May 15. Gov. Manning called me up by telephone and said, T got your i letter. When can you come?' I re- j plied that I could arrange by June 1. He replied, 'That won't don. I must j have you by Wednesday, as I Lave something I want you to do then.' I ( mentione4 my desire to give the city, council some notice and that I had some private matters to arrange. He | replied: 'You can straighten your own affairs later. Go over and see Jennings J and tell him I want you. He promised to release you. Ring me up later ?tonight. Call till you get me.' I saw Mayor Jennings on the street and said to him: 'Mr. Jennings, Gov. Manning has just telephoned that he wants me on Wednesday, that he had macte arrangements with you to release me.' Mayor Jennings said that he had told Mr. Manning that he would do so, adding t):at he sympathized with him in his efforts to enforce law and order. I then turned away and Mayor Jennings called to me, 'I do not suppose this need be a secret any longer,' and turned ana spoKe to a iriena aDoui u.1 "Shortly afterward a number of people came up and asked me if I had received the appointment. I said: 'Yes, I expect to get it. Saturday night I called up Gov. Manning according to : the agreement, and said, 'I have seen Mayor Jennings and it is all right. I will be over on -Wednesday.' He replied, 'That will not do. you must take t':e 11 o'clock train on Monday, which will put you here at 1 o'clock. Come directly to my office. I want 'you to go down to Charleston on Tuesday.' I replied, 'Very well, I will arrange to do that,' and added, 'This thing has got out around town.' He said, 'I am sorry for that. Well, we will have to make the best of it. Ask the reporters not to wire their papers ti':e news.' Came to Columbia. "On Monday, according to appointment, I saw Gov. Manning. He asked me if I was ready to go to Charleston. I replied, 'Yes.' He then said, 'I have seen Sheriff Martin and spoken to him about you and of my confidence and trust in your integrity, and I want you to assist him.' (This is the first time T had ovur lpflrnerl that T was to be tfae subordinate of Sheriff Martin or anyone else.) I asked Gov. Manning if he meant me to understand that he .did not have a commission for me as , chief constable of the State, the position he laad offered me. He replied no, that there was evidently some misunderstanding between us as to the position. I said there was no misunderstanding on my part, as to his request to me. I then absolutely refused to go .to Charleston as Sheriff Martin's subordinate, stating my reasons for so re f.ioinor T Tx-ill or?H th Q t frhp ?hflVP mP-Il IUOIUq, X Tf Hi UUU ? ? ? | .tioned meetings and discussions between us of tine position offered and .the plans for carrying out the prohi- ( .brtion laws in the State, and especial!!? in Charleston, were by no means the only ones we had on the subject. Since SUMTER WAS OFFERED CHARLESTON JOB DECLINED PLACE AS ASSISTANT TO SHERIFF. Seems to Be LVisunder stand in? as to What Position Chief of Police Was to Have. The State, 19th. When he returned to Columbia las'c (Tuesday) night from Sumter. Gov. Manning wave out the following statement: "It is a sincere disappointment to me that my friend, John R. Sumter, could not accept the place I offered I'.im. His courage and unimpeacnable character would have made him a strong factor for law enforcement. Mr. Sumter misunderstood about the apnnintmpnt T mpant tn tpnrfpr him T wanted him to become assistant to Sheriff Martin, of Charleston. I had 110 idea of appointing him chief Stat? constable. In fact, I do not intend to liave such an officer. I prefer to follow the course I have pursued so far, of placing the responsibility for the enforcement of the law on \he shoulders of local officers." 'Would Not Be Assistant to Sheriff. Sumter, May 18.?J. R. Sumter, chief of police, interviewed tonight said: "I have understood for some time o I T rxr r> ri f/\ Vva o nr\A?nf a/1 A/\n _ u.jai JL VY aa LLf uu appuiiiicu stable. When I was summoned by p'bone Saturday co report to the governor's office I naturally thought that the position was then to be officially tendered me. When I arrived in Columbia and saw the governor he offered me instead tJ':e position of assistant to Sheriff Martin, of Charleston, which I declined." It was generally understood about town that Mr. Sumter would be chief constable. Mayor Jennings admitted that Sumter had unofficially tendered his resignation. Governor's Secretary Explains Policy. While Gov. Manning vra.s in Sumter Tuesday his secretary gave out tlhe following statement: "The report is an error that was sent out from Sumter that John R. Sumter chief of police there, had been appointed by Gov. Manning 'chief constable of the State.' T:ere is no such position, nor is there any State constabulary. Gov. 'Manning announced in the beginning of his term that he would iook to me local omcers 10 eniorce iue law in their territory. Any constables h# may- find it necessary to appoint will be mere as assistants to the already constituted authorities. Mr. Sumter is n<Jt in the service of the State." \VI>S m W. C. T. IT. PRIZE. dewberry College Student's Essay Declared Best To the Editor of the News and Courier: The twenty-dollar prize offered by the South Carolina Women's Christian Temperance Union for the best essay from a college student on the subject, "The permanency of National Life as Affected by Alcohol," was won by Mr. James C. Kinard, a member of the junior class of Newberry college. His essay will be entered' for the one undred dollar prize offered by th? National W. C. T. U. Wofford. Converse, Columbia and Xewberrv colleges competed. Miss Lula Bess 'Wroton, Columbia college, won second place in the contest. Many of the colleges did not learn of this contest in time to undertake the work. It is hoped that next year every college in the State may be represented. The press has been most helpful in adding to the success of tfhis educafnr this thp members of liuuai "v/i a, *vi v?-? ? the W. C. T. U. most cordially thank the editors. (Mrs.) M. B. Haynes, State Sup. ScL Temp Instruction. Wilkinsville, S. C., May 19, 1915. the inauguration of Gov. Manning he ihas rarely, if ever, been in Sumter without sending or telephoning me to meet him, and has repeatedly stated v,?. euro tho authorities in (/ UC iViU kj u.x v v v ? ? ?? - _ _ Charleston would not put the blind tigers out of business and that 'lie would have to take cfcarge of the situation sooner or later. Whether Gov. Mannirtg really naeairt to appoint fflfe chief constable up to Saturday night, May 14, or not, he alone knows."