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? YOLUME LIU, NUMBER 14. NEWBERRY, 8. 0., FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1915. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR. a???? i | Gov. Manning m On Lav . GOING AFTER THE r ' MEN HIGHER IT ___ ! DECLAEED LAWIS MOULD BE KEPT I IX CHARLESTON, TOO r Chief Executive Stated That He Was Not Through With the Situation at Charleston. Greenville Piedmont, June 30th. The last day of t?e forty-first annual meeting of the South Carolina Press association at Chick Springs was characterized this morning by * an able address by Governor Manning which dealt emphatically with) the subject of law enforcement in Charleston and elsewfcere in the Sjate. Commissioner John L. Mc- j /Laufln also addressed the assembly, explaining in detail his warehouse ^ system. This afternoon the association, will have thg pleasure of hearing ? " Kt? fun "VT T. Rrvnliom nf rau auums u.v ucu. iu. u. uuuu?iu v? Anderson, after whicfc the new officers | for the ensuing year will be elected i and the next meeting place selected. The delegates and their friends will then come to Greenville for an auto-| mobile ride over the city, returning i to the springs on the 6:30 o'clock interurban train. The program will culminate tonight with an elaborate ^ banquet at tfte Chick Springs hotel. Addressing the newspaper men, master printers and their friends, J /ifkxrArnnr Mannine"- deftl&red that he! wanted the people to understand that the laws are going to be enforced, j though he tnakes no tfcreats. "I pro-| pose to go after the big men, the men higher up," stated the governor, who w- insisted that he did not propose to lave it said that the small fellows vere being hounded and the big dealers left alone. He asked the press to jg be patient as to the situation in CharK.leston, promising that he would not Bflet up" but do all in Riis^ power to iff -enforce the laws there. He said lie __ >was not discouraged by the action- of the Charleston county grand jury in throwing out the cases against "Wind t tigers." Tie governor said lie was anxious ~io enlist the cordial support of the press. He told Itow in making ap-i pointments he did not consider former factional lines and made his selections simply on the matter of merit, recalling tnat in naming me board of asylum regents and State board of charities he found not a | one of them had ibeen applicants. I The governor said f:e did not know what the political effects would be? he did not consider that?but lie was Working for the good of the State and not concerned with the political end. N Tjhe governor talked on law enforcement, reminding his fcearers that he h* did not make the laws but was responsible only for their enforcement. He said tJ':at he pai^d particu lar attention to the violations of the liquor laws ."because if there had been one law which had been brazenly ana flagrantly 'violated it was tfce ftiquor laws. The governor told of P^^how he had "started at-the top" in enforcing this law and had not known "high or low, rich or poor, friend or foe," in the enforcement of law. The social or locker clubs, Ite said, had told him they would be ruined finan ^ cially if the law was enforced, but lie told them he had no choice?the Jaw must be enforced and they should set the example. Hi:e governor sent out circulars to the sheriffs and results ) began to come in. Many of the clubs voluntarily took out their lockers and wrote the governor that they were go^ in? tn unhold his hands. He fold of rbne of the big clubs in Charleston, one of the exclusive social clubs removed the bar and put in lockers voluntarily at a cost of $200, ibut the governor said he wrote them they could not have lockers under the gallon-amonth act and the club promptly removed the lockers, a statement wihich ft drew applause. The governor said I tne campaign had brought results. Gov. Manning urged the press to ^extend the hand of friendliness to; H? Charleston and observe them with ! kindliness and not criticism. He said Speaks v Enforcement y there was a growing sentiment for law enforcement in G:arleston. The governor told of his efforts to en-; force law in Charleston, while asking the press to consider the situation in its true light and to treat the city fair. I I "No power conferred on the govI ernor by the laws of this .State that I do not propose to use to secure the enforcement of ti':ese laws," said Gov. Manning. "I am not in the least at the end of my row," he said, express ing Ms determination to exhaust every resource in his power to enforce the laws. The governor said he was not discouraged by the action of the grand jury in returning "no bills" in the 32 blind tiger cases. IV;e governor said he was not making any J threats but he wanted the people to understand that the laws are going! to be enforced. "I propose to go after the big men, the men higher up,' said the governor, I stating tf" at he did not propose to have ; it said that the small fellows were! being hounded and the big fellows left j alone. He said he was going after the big dealers promptly and firmly. The governor said results were be-s ing accomplished in Charleston, pointing out that 60 revenue licenses had been given up, the hotels and clubs had given up the open bars, and there is a steadily increasing sentiment for i law enforcement. He pointed out the many difficulties and how the improvement must necessarily fte slow and asked the press not to be skeptical, but be patient and realize the situaj tion and he promised not to "let up," but to do all . in &is power to eniorce j the 'laws in Charleston and else-! where. The governor turned next to the matter of the selection of a superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane and how he ?ad gone over the field carefully and determined to get a man who was capable, for the situation there demanded such a man. He explained tf:at he found the man in Dr. C. Fred Williams, but he could not get Lim for $3,000, and it was necessary for the governor to guarantee him $6,000 and the governor him self is Borrowing tne $zou extra a month and if the legislature does not reimburse him he wril pay it himself, whidh was cheered. "The governor told something of the results, of the saving of $564 a month in salaries in the laundry at the asylum by dispensing with some of the negro washerwomen and giving employment to tf:e patients. He told of i under the old conditions how in one of the female wards where 90 women were locked in at night with only two nurses to look after them and in many of the rooms were straps Hanging from the walls witfo evidence of what was often done. The governor told of the many improvements which are being made at the asylum under the new administration, all aimed for the comfort and care of the patients. TV: e chief magistrate advocated prison reform, mentioning -with disapproval the locking in the cells at 5 p. m. every day of the penitentiary prisoners and the conditions of many of the chaingangs and jails. He advocates more humanitarium treatment of prisoners and the importance of seeing: they are given every opportunity to redeem themselves. He approv-ed of the compulsory education law and urged the press to keep on working for the cause of education, mentioning that South Carolina stands 47 in illiteracy ip. the States as proof positive of the need of more educational facilities. The governor said the tax commission deserved the support of every one and was working for tfce equalization of tax assessments. He does not believe the tax commission will do anything radical this year and if there are any defects in the act it can be remedied at the next meeting of the legistfature. "We need more home owners In South Carolina," said >he governor, urgin the need of a land registration ! act, which he saiys is a necessary step [ towards a rural credits law. The gov? U r\ m A A J i f A V* TtA T\1 11 eziiui dSh.t;u ii we itavtr yiuun. ! enough" to enact some law which will | help the 43 per cent, tenant class to become jjom-e owners, saying the Ar EDITORS AND PRINTERS MEET AT CHICK SPRINGS More Than Half Hundred Newspaper Men Answer First RolL Chick Springs, June 28.?More than a half hundred editors and other | newspaper workers were present to- ] night when the 41st annual meeting of the South Carolina Press Association was called to order by Ed. H. DeCamp j of Gaffney. The invocation ^as offer- J ed by the Rev. W. P. Jacobs. The ad- | dresses of welcome and the responses were dispensed with. There is a full programme fo rthe session tomorrow. | Editors Hear Preacher From the Mountains. Green>ville, June 29.?The address of the Rev. J. Dean Crane, Baptist minister from the mountains, was among the features of the forty-first annual meeting of the Press Asociation of the State, now .being It eld at Chick Springs. Some two hundred and fifty people listended for more than an hour to tj'^e earnest oratory, interspersed now and then by side-splitting wit, of this "diamond in the rough," "The Police Power of the Pulpit and Press" was the topic upon whicfr Mr. Crane talked. He urged a cooperation of the press and the puipit for the eternal verities of life, the only things which last and the only foundation upon which man can hope to stand successfully. At the forenoon and evening sessions various papers were read. Tfce association resolutions favoring a Statewide highway system were unanimously adopted. Resolutions expressing faith in President Wilson and approving the course he fras pursued in the international crisis were also unanimously adopted. Governor Manning, John L. McLaurin an-ri fJpn !\I. IV Bonham are the speakers for Wednesday. On tomorrow evening a dinner will be given in honor of the 'visitors, the newspaper men and printers of Greenville being the Costs. Editors Close Annual Meeting. The State. Chick Springs, June 30.?^Selecting i Chick Springs as the place for the | next annual meeting, electing offi-. | cers and enjoying a banquet, tf:e final I sessions of the South Carolina Press I association were held here today. Ghick Springs for toe third time was named as the meeting place. ^William Banks of the Columbia Record was elected president with other offices filled as follows: First vice president, George W. Brunson, Jr., Greenville News; second vice president, J. 'L. Mims, Edgefield advertiser; secretary, Joe iSparks, The State. V e executive committee is composed of August Kohn, (News and Courier, Miss Jaunita Wylie, Lancaster News, L. 'H. Wannamaker, News and Courier. Tonight the editors were guests at a banquet tendered by newspaper workers of Greenville. C. C. Muller of Columbia was reelected president of the Master Printers' association at the meeting this, afternoon. (Many of the editors leave tomorrow for Montreat to meet with the North 'Carolina editors. Our (Clinton) Monthly. Wanted, a good teacher of sightsinging and instrumental music, with a knowledge of the pipe organ suf-1 ficient to take charge of our worship in the Tftornwell Memorial church. Write to Rev. W. P. Jacobs, sending testimonials. \ gentine republic was helping 10,000 tenants to buy farms. ^Mentioning the borrowing of money for the State at 2.44 the governor said he was looking for an opportunity to refund the State debt at a lower rate of interest than it now bears. The governor said he thought (Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin had accomplished much, but he thought the act needed changing in many respects and that he proposed to recommend f yv f V* r\ 1 CLOri OATH A Q'TVlDTI^TTIDTlf'C f H CVT Liic i^oiOiULUi ^ V13 IrV J safeguard the warehouse system and put it on a permanent basis, among them being a "board of directors to advise with the commissioner. The governor in closing said there must be a continuance of that steady j work for the peop^ and for the ad-j vancement an-d uplifi of the State pay- j ing a compliment to the press. SEWS OF PROSPERITY i [ Young People's Society Gire Entertainment?Personal and Other* "wise. Special to The Herald and News. ; Prosperity, July 1.?The Young Peo| pie's society entertained all the young people of the town at the parsonage I ! on Thursday evening. The feature of the evening was "An Old Time Spely I ling Bee." Throughout the evening delightful punch was served. IMrs. Kate Monts of Little Mountain is spending a while with Miss Gertrude Bobb. Mr. Tom Hair of Chicago law school is spending his vacation with his par[ nets, Judge and Mrs. B. B .Hair. Mrs. R. E. Shealy has-gone to Pomaria to visit her parents. Mrs. J. A. Simpson 'left Wednesday for Sumter and Orangeburg where site will spend several weeks visiting relatives. The Misses Estelle and La Trell Morgan of Springfield are visiting Mrs. G. M. Atble. Misses Annie Moseley and IMarie Schumpert will spend the week-end in Columbia. Mrs. George Bearden and daughter, Miss Elizabeth of North Carolina are visiting Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Luther. Mesdames Blease and Ward of Newberry are the guests of Mrs. B. B. Schumpert. Miss Isoline Wyche has returned from a visit to Miss Kate Thompson of Columbia. Mr. S. S. Birge teas returned from a business trip to Columbia. Rev. J. B. Harmon and family have arrived from Georgia to take charge of the pastorate of Mount Pilgrim, Mount Olive, and Mount Tabor. Mrs. J. I. Oxford of <CarrolIton, Ga., is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Harmon. L Mrs. J. A. Baker is visiting in Columbia. Miss Edna Fellers and little Mary Littlejohn have gone to Pacolet and Spartanburg. Misses Tena Wise and Annie Fellore ovn. oittonjUn or Q hrmco rwrtv jnVPTl IV* O Ctrl w AAVMMV WJ o* * w** by Miss Charlotte Brown of Abbeville. Mrs. J. A. Hunt and little daughter of Millen, Ga., are visiting fMr. and Mrs. B. B. Schumpert. Miss Ellen Werts is spending the week in iPamaria witfa her sister, Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugh. Miss Nannie Wheeler is 'visiting Miss Doris Kinard of Little Mountain. Mrs. Nance and daughter, Miss Katie Mae are spending the summer in Spartanburg. Mr. F. N. Calmes spent the week-end in Columbia. (Mrs. iSallie Fellers has returned to her home in Columbia after a visit to her sister, Mrs. L. S. Bowers. Mrs. Francis Bogguss of Lakeland, Fla., accompanied by little Rosalyn Miller who has been spending the winter witft Mrs. W. E. Pugh will reach here Sunday. Mrs. 'Bogguss will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Joe B. Hartman. Miss Susan Quattlebaum is in Coii*mbia visiting her aunt, Mrs^J. Fuller Lyon. Little Pauline and George Counts of Greenwood returned home with Miss Annie Mae Gibson. . ? Attention, School Trustees. HThp following was Drenared and should have been in Tuesday's edition of the county papers: All trustees are requested to send in their compulsory school attendance petitions on or before June 30. All trustees with such petitions. will please mail same to tte office of the county superintendent at once. Geo. D. Brown, Mrs. Gail lard, for secretary. Central 5L IS* Church, South. (.Jttev. it. Hi. uiDDie, jrasiorj Sunday, July 4. Morning service 11 a. m. A short sermon, followed by celebration of Lord's Supper. Sunday school 5 p. m. Epwortl'.i League 6 p. m. Topic, "Jonah's 'WTiale and Jonah's Message." The public is cordially invited to all these services. Monday, July 5. 5 p. m. Woman's Missionary society in church parlor. , I FAVORABLE REPLY EXPECTED SOON Germany's Answer Will Be Satisfactory?Impression in Berlin. Washington, June 28.?Favorable reply from Germany to the last American note concerning suomaiiue warfare and the sinking of the Lusitania was predicted in an official dispatch from Ambassador Gerard today The State department transmitted the communication to President Wilson at Cornish. I The ambassador did not attempt to I outline ttfe forthcoming German | note, but described the atmosphere 1 ?i ? vt _ : m ?>t:riiii uuiuiai queuicis as id.vuia.me ; to a satisfactory reply. He referred ' to the visit of Dr. Anton Meyer-Geri hard, the emissary of Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, | pointing out that the mabassador's in| formation apparently had impressed the German government that the United States did not want war with i ~ . i (iermany, out desired a satisiaciory i reply to her original demands. T':e fact that Ambassador Gerard (took occasion to predict informally the nature of the reply was regarded as significant in official quarters here, where it was pointed out that the ambassador's forecasts in tee pat had been conservative and consistent. The text of the last German note bore out his predictions. Ambassador Gerard understands thp Carman nffinial rmrnnsp tn ho t.r? make no concessions which will affect t' e use of submarines as a means of warring on the commerce of Great Britain, but to propose some way by which American lives and legitimate' interests will be safeguarded. Officials here have no faint as to the methods by, which this object is to be attained, but from previous dispatches it is assumed an arrangement will be suggested whereby German submarines would cease attacks on ships of any nationality primarily used for passenger travel, wfcile continuing to wage vigorous warfare on enemy ships devoted ^ chiefly to the transportation of contraband. It is not known whether it is proposed to give passenger ships complete immunity or whether assurances will be asked that if signaled by a submarine for visit and search they will offer no resistance. No intimation nas come 10 uce state department as to when the German note will reach here, but it is believed the communication will be completed within ten days. Dr. Gerhard was understood by Ambassador Gerard to have reported that public opinion in <tlhe United States had been growing more and more favorable to Germany when the sinking of the Lusitania undid what had been accomplished. Gerhard made it rlAflr also that, the United States did not want war, but wanted a satisfactory reply to its representations. German officials are eager, according to Ambassador Gerard's report, to give such an answer, but at the same time they have made it clean that Germany can not make any concessions wfcich would destroy the effectiveness of the submarine as an onensive weapon. It is understood Germany is trying to find some method by which Americans traveling on ships primarily used for passenger traffic shall be safe while the submarine continues to be used in attacking belligerent freight ships carrying chiefly contraband. Just what proposal Germany will make to accomplish that object, officials here can not conjecture; but from the fact that Germany seems to be willing to safeguard the rights or Americans who travel on ships of any nationality primarily engaged in passenger traffic, an adherence to the principles expressed in the American note?that non-combatants should be immune from attack?would seem, in the opinion of officials here, to be recognized. No information has been received on what the attitude of Germany will be toward assuming liability for less of American lives on tfce Lusitania, but the feeling prevails that if a satisfactory arrangement can be made as to the future Germany will suggest a basis for a favorable adjustment of the Lusitania case as well. r TROUBLED STATE IX MEXICO CIT7 Dispatches Say Situation is Critical? | Shortage of Food. Washington, June 28.?Official dispatches sent by the British chars j d'affairs at Mexico City by courier to Vera Cruz and from, there cabled t-) the state department today picture' conditions in the Mexican capital as extremely critical. The Zapatistas holding the city with about 25,000 men were reported b ? the courier to have repulsed last Wee nesday an attacking Carranza arm / under Gen. Gonzales while Gen. Car ranza was dispatching all availabl ? men to reinforce Gonzales and con tinue the assault. An announcemen' tonight by the state department said ^"Conditions in Mexico City are no': reassuring, according to reports. Com C /? /?. 4- i 1 1 w ? iiiuui^auuii is dciii iuiciiuytcu an i Gen. Carranza is rushing all available men to reinforce ibis troops in th? vicinity of Mexico City. It is said to be the intention of Gen. Carranza to send in provisions with his army although there is nothing definite in regard to this report. <vTibe food shortage is causing concern. The department is in receipt of advices dated June 26 from Vera Cru;: stating that transportation for the Red Cross representative, Mr. O'Conner, and Consul Gen. .Shanklin fcas been arranged with the headquarters of Gen. Gonzales. Consul Gen. Shanklin ami Mr. O'Conner expect to leave on the morning of Jnne 29 and will take with them the hospital supplies furnished Dy tne Keel <jross/' * Thousands of persons in (Mexico City are depending on th scpplies of tho international* relief committee which itself faces a food shortage. Fear^ ! are entertained in the city that aside I from the famine the reinforcements ! sent to Gen. Gonzales will cause him \ I to carrying the fighting into the capiI tal, endangering the lives of foreigners ) and their property. State department officials ?ave transmitted details to President Wilson at Cornish, N, H. Officials are depending on the diplomatic corps to remoive foreigners from the danger zrmes nr arranzp a truce for their exo dus if the fighting is carried into the city. The situation on the west coast of Mexico is improving. Another denial from Gen. Carranza that people are dying from hunger in (Mexico was made public tonight by fcte Carranza agency. The message said that while food shortage at some points was admitted, there was no serious distress in any part of 21 States declared to be under | Carranza control. ? mA*r ??' vnmr trABTT 5LAIU3 U 3tH XVtttt | ______ i Former Governor of Georgia Issues , Statement. New York, June 29.?Former G07. John M. Slaton of Georgia declared in a statement here tonig'tt "that tiie good people of Georgia" approved Ma action in commuting the death sentence of Leo -Frank to life term in the penitentiary. Only the1 mob caused him any trouble. He addea that time would show the rtgat an<i wrong in the Frank case. Mr. Slaton, who was accompanied by It is wife, arrived^ here tonight. He will spend a few days in the Adirondacks and will leave next week for San Francisco. He excepts to return to Atlanta on September 1. "It is untrue that I was caused any serious inconvenience by the demonstrations in Atlanta," Mr. Slato.n asserted. "I attended to my duties there as usual. I practiced law in Atlanta for 28 years before I became governor and will practice there ~ 11 ff dgxllU I1CAL IU.il. LODGED IX LEXIXGTOH JAIL Lexington, June 28.?Jim Perry and Ferrell Howell,two poung wihite men, were lodged in the Lexington county jail last night "by Sheriff Sim J. Miller, upon a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, it being alleged that they fired upon "Maggie Pratt, a white woman, while sfce was sitting in the hallway of her home on Saturday nig':t. The parties connected with tibe alleged crime live in the lower section of the county.