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_ ___ ?. Preparedness h Sent Tc < Army Bill, First of Defens With but Scattering Fire c pute as to Exact S Washington, May 20.?Congress today completed its part in the enact- ! ment of the first administration pre- j paredness measures by sending the j army reorganization bill to President \ 1 Wilson for his signature. i The house approved, with only 25 dissenting votes, the conference re-! port on the army measure which already had been accepted by the senate. It provides for a regular army ? with a peace strength of more than r 200,000 men, backed by a federalized | National Guard of more than 400,000, j and carries many reorganizing feanut. hv the department, j VUA VO M v. ? ? ? . To complete the main elements of I the programme of preparedness, on j which the administration plans to i spend more than $1,000,000,000 within j the next five years, congress still has-; to perfect and pass the naval bill, em- J bodying the navy increases, and the j fortification bills, which includes pro- j vision for most of the equipment fo** the increased army. Some Confusion Still. Estimates vary as to the actual number of men the army bill will pro- j . ??nlisted un-i Viae, ice Ilict a nil urn iu ~ ? . der it depending on the interpretation placed on some sections by war department officials charged with its enforcement. As construed by .'Chairman Chamberlain of the senate military committee it provides for a regular establishment of 211,000 at peace strength and 236,000 at war strength, I with a National Guard of 457,000. The peace strength of the regulars under an interpretation given the house today by Chairman Hay of the house military committee would b& 206,000. j Besides the personnel increases, the J measure provides for a government j nitrate manufacturing plant to cost not more than $20,000,000; for establishment of a system of military training camps for civilians; for a J board to investigate the advisability; of establishirg a government muni-] tions plant; and for vocational educa-' I GOYEKSOK GRANTS CLEMENCY TO SIX Liberates Prisoners in Richland, NV.7. berry, Greenville, York and Aiken Counties. The State. Before leatk g Columbia yesterday on lys way to Charlotte Gov. Manning issued pardons and paroles in six cases. Clemency wae extended in the following cases: Thomas W. Bl^hcp, convicted in i Richland county in tall of 1915 on I * the charge of adultery a-?d given ll months or a fine of $200, pardon & i granted. L. E. Kempson, convicted on the charge of forgery in Newberry io November, 1915, and given months, full pardon granted. A parole was granted in this case on March 13. George Gary, convicieu m \J1 WU- I X'ille county in spring of 1915 on the charge of abduction and given two years; parole granted. "Walter L. Jackson, convicted in York in July, 1914, given two years, pardon granted. Jim Hancock, convicted in Aiken in 1913 on the charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years, parole granted. Ed Hill, convicted in Greenville in 1906 on the charge of murder and sentenced to a life term, parole i granted. fThe governor acted upon the rec-i ommendation of the pardon board. Death of Mr. Caldwell E. Fant. News reached Newberry on Thursday of the death of Mr. Caldwell Fant in Harrisburg, Pa., oa Wednesday. Information was meagre but it* was stated that the cause of death was blood poisoning. Mr. Fant was about 38 years old and the only son of the ? - ? ?A x- xrrt I late Dr. s. t\ iJ'ani 01 i>cv>ucny. 15 curvived by two sisters, Mrs. Silas J. McCaughrin of Birmingham, Ala., and Miss Lois Fant of Greenwood. (The above was in some way omitted from the issue of /The Herald a*d News of Friday.) Whenever You Need a Geoeral Tool? Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless L chill Tonic is equally valuable as a | General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives rtit Malaria, Enriches the Blood anci Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. 4easure > The President ?* * ^ * * W T e flans, fassed by House, >f Opposition? - Some Dis>ize of New Army. tion in the army. Federalization of the National Guard would be accomplished through federal pay and a requirement making the guardsmen subject to the orders of the president I Eighteen Republicans, five Demo-1 crats, one Progressive and one So J orlrv-ntr*f thf> I CiailSl vulcu agaiuiii uuw^nuu -? | conference report. Republican Lead-1 er Mann, who belie.es the measure' inadequate, was one of those voting j in the negative. Others .Against It. Republicans who voted agair.et the bill were Britten, Walsh, Guernsey, Gardner, Rogers, tTinkham, Wheeler, Mann, Hansley Humphrey, Johnson (Washington), Husted, Piatt, San ford, Moores, Morgan, .\ei?ou. Five Democrats, Buchanan (Jlli- { nois), Lavenner, Johnson (Kentucky). | Thomas and Randall voted against it / as did London, Socialist, and Schall, j Progressive. Guernsey voted for the j bill on the second roll call and later had his vote changed. Republican Leader Mann attacked the bill as inadequate and predicated that if ever war came "history would ne-er tire of telling of the faithlessness of those j who voted for the conference report."' iRepiresentative .M'cKenzie of Illinois (Republican) supported the conference report, but Representative Gardner (Republican) insisted that the bill was so shorn a9 to be acceptable even to pacifists. ^ "If you want soldiers in time of peace, go out and pay for them,'' he said. "Abandon the notion that Uncle -Sam can get something for nothing. Men are not going to enlist for m ** ??? -a I the pleasure or ngnung wctus u UOOiV/O | and taking orders from boy officers unless they get at least the pay of a 14-yeaf-old girl in a sweated industry. "For a nation as great as ours to support an army not bigger than we have today is .as sensible as for Ty Cobb to attempt to hit Walter Johnson with a match instead of a bat." .NOTICE OF ELEfCTHOX IX MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT >0. 17 Whereas, one-tfoird of the resident electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders of the age of twenty-one years, in Monticello school District No. 17, of the County i of Newberry, iState of South Carolina, j have filed a petition with the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be 1?1 1 " - - * '3 /In tVlO a em 111 s<tiu ctuuui jl/wujvi, vu v-v question of levying a special tax of two (2) mills to be collected on all the taxable property within the said School District. iXow, therefore, we the undersigned, composing the County Board of Education for Newberry County, State o? South Carolina, do hereby order t >oard of Trustees of the Mor ct -> ?>chool District No. 17, to hold . tion on the said question of lev}*.- 0 a special tax of two (2) - mills to be collected on the property j located in the said School District,! which said election shall be held at | the Monticello School House in said \ School District No. 17, on Friday, the j 9th day of June, 1916, at which said ! election the polls shall be opened at j _ 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the Board of Urus- j tees of said School District shall act I i as managers of said election. Only i i such electors as reside in said School i District and return real of personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax receipts a^d registration certificates as required in gen eral elections, sjiall ,be allowed to ivote. Electors favoring the levy of suoh tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes'' written or printed thereon, and each, elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seal this the 16th day of May, 191 . Chas. P. OBarre, J. S. Wheeler, O. B. Cannon, Membt-s cf Countt Board of Educa tron. Malaria or Chills & Fever Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS d. FEVER. t * J f ive or six aotes win oreas any ease, hul if t&ken then as a tonic the Fever will no; return. It acta on the liver better thar Calomel And does nol gripe or sicken. 25 ! V V V * 5- ^ ^ V ^ ^ & -5 ! * * U AT LESLIE'S ARCADE * | # * 4- $> <s> < > <t> < / $' <? < > <* <$ <$> vj> %? ^ > i (i lie Mvsteries of Myra (Episode au. i?o parts?Tiie cast: Dr. Taj'bou Aideu (Howard Estabrookj; j Myra f...aynard *,Joan Sother..;; Mrs. wViaynaid (neitsie K Wharton); Arinur Varney (Allen .Murnamej; urand Master (M. W. Rale). Scenario by Charles W. Goddard. Produced by Wharton, li.c. .inhii Mavnard. during his life, be | longed to aii organization known as l "*'i lie biack Order. i Alay-aiu. s last message to the order co-tained a clause that in case i hie three daughters died before their ! eighteenth birthdays, his fortune ; should go to the Black Order. j The two elder daughters have both ! committed suicide at the appointed time by usual methods of self-de struction and Mrs. Maynard, who is cognizant of the strange associations formed by her deceased husband, sus-! pects occult influences. Consequently j she is deeply troubled as her young- j est and favorite daughter approaches uer fateful birthday. 'Arthur Varney, who is a constant at thp \lnvnarri home, is rack ed by conflicting emotions. Arrayed against the Black Order is Dr. Payson Alden, a prominent young physician, who has given up medicine to become a noted investigator oi' spirit phenomena. He awakes o e night from a troubled sleep and finds mysteriously pinned 011 his breast a note wurni. g him to cease his investigations of the occult under the pen- j alty of death. He aiso aiscu.?ers men. his notes 011 the Maynard case have been stolen. The atmosphere of the 'May-card household is tense with the dread expectation that an unseen something is about to happen. Myra has been mysteriously walking in her sleep, as did her two elder sisters before their deaths. Dr. Alden calls. Myra's curiosity has been aroused by her mother's trepidation upon seeing her unwittingly make the wicked sign and she asks Dr. Allen to explain the meaning. Just as he, in turn, assumes the pcse, Mrs. Maynard comes into the j room and at once suspects Alden of j connections with the Black Order.; With hysterical fear, she orders him from the house. \ j 4.1? hv Mvr4. hOW- i VH CilU^ aui av/>.v.a uj - ?, ever, he resolves to carry on his investigations in spite of Jtfrs. Maynard's objections. The day before the girl's birthday he secretly enters the house and arranges a system by which he may learn whether or .-not Myra walks in her sleep and whither her wanderings lead her. In the afternoon of the fateful day. he gains entrance to the Maynard house through a clever ruse and discovers the path of her sleepwalking the night before and hides, awaiting further developments. At exactly 12 o'clock that night, the ? ^??1i r? > r\r> oy. Black oroer is in iuu tending by their mental power complete sway over the actions of the unfortunate girl. At the same time, still in a troubled sleep, Myra rises from her bed and slowly descends the broad stairway. Hesitatingly she crosses the room, completely under the unseen influence and, touching a secret panel, descends into a crypt known only to her dead father. Silently lAlden follows. By the flickering candle light, she reads the dust covered parchment and unwillingly picks up a nearby dagger. Struggling with her inward emotion, she raises it full above her head and j with a final effort starts its downward plunge. Like a flash, Alden grasps her wrist and saves her from -horrible death. He carries the unconscious form to the living room above, where J he finds Mrs. Maynard, who has been j unable to sleep. Again the girl drifts off into the j hypnotic state and her fingers begin to twitch convulsively. Knowing the sign, Dr. Alden places a pencil at ner fingers and on the back of a book I Myra 'begins to trace a message from ] the other "world. She awakes, however, before it is completed. This picture starts at the Arcade May 25. j ?? | NOTICE TO WATER CUSTOMERS nnp tn tho lone dry 6Dell. our wells! are gradually failing, and we have! been obliged to stop sprinkling the i streets, and request to the users of! the city water to economize as muchi as possible, and for the present discontinue the sprinkling of lawns and i gardens. Your cooperation requested. Very respectfully, M. L. Spearman, ' Vi a 4r>rr>o Pfvmmissinii of Public JUL! Clo Li ~ ? ? | Works. "THE BATTLE CRY OF PEACE" > coining. I oOODKII ll C03II'AM WINS LUdAI. FIGHT | In Reiliving fo S?*!l Leagne it Protects Dealers. "It is because we believe in an absolutely square ileal for the automo bile supply houses," says an official of -The B. F. Goodrich Company in explanation of the victory recently won in the I'nited States district jourt in Cleveland over the Antomo- I )lie Cooperative association of Amer- j ica. "There are TH.OOO of these supply! houses throughout the country. If1 vve sold the various consumers' lea gtre at our jobbing price, a d if ofher tire companies did the same, it would result in puttiag out of business a tremendous number of our prosperous merchants who have invested heavily in the automobile supply i ousiress. This would, in the end, be | i misfortune, not only to the individ- j .;al dealer, but would hurt every man ! who owns and operates a car. "If you own a car yourself or if j I my of your friends own a car and | vou take your wives and children out I for an all-day outing, one of the con- ! tributing factors of our pleasure is I the knowledge that almost ar.ywhere ilong the road, if you ran out of gas, or if you have a blowout, or if you need various little supplies or assistance of any kind, you can drop into j a country garage or a little supply house a d get fixed up so that you j will be able to continue 011 your way , rejoicing. "These dealers throughout the country, who make auto touring a pleasure are not making enough profit out of the sale of any one article to make a living. They must make j tneir proms m semng a nine 01 luio j and a little of that. If you take away from this dealer his earnings on tires and accessories the chances are that 95 per cent of them would be forced out of business, and yet the man who joins a consumers' league doesn'^ stop to consider that in so doing he really knockirg the man Who makes a long automobile trip a pleasI ufe and a possibility for him. t "The significance of our victory is the fact that we are saving the deal-1 ers for the ultimate benefit of the! consumer even despite the desire of j a ve~v large body of tliece same con-1 sumers." In connection wtih this victory, the following letter sent out by The B. F. Goodrich Company to their ! dealers is interesting: Snit of Importance to Dealers. On March 31, 1916. there ended in the United State district court, in j Cleveland, Ohio, a trial which has | lasted for three weeks, and is of; vital interest to the dealers through-j out the country. I The suit was one brought by a consumer's league known as the Automobile Cooperative association of America, which was organized in New York in 1908 and went out of business in 1911. The suit was against The B. F. Goodrich Company, (The Diamond Rubber Company, The Fire! stone'Tire and Rubber Company. The ! "Renublic Rubber Company and The U. S. Tire Company. The consumers' league?the plaintiff?complained that these companies had refused to sell tires to it at dealers' prices; that such. refusal was the result of a combined action or conspiracy on the part of these companies, and that the result of such conspiracy had been to cause tMs con-! suniers' league to fail in business. jTbe suit was brought for $450,000.00 damages under the Sherman AntiTrust law. At the conclusion of the plaintiff's j opening proofs. The Firestone kud- | | ber Compary and The U. S. Tire Com- : I pany were, by the direction of the j j court, dropped out o-f the case. j j The fight was continued by the j Goodrich, Diamond and Republic j companies. It appeared from the evidence J thereafter taken?consisting of testimony of a number of prominent dealers and of officers and branch man agers of the tire companies?that i the Goodrich company had always and consistently refused to sell to clubs, consumers' leagues and kindred organizations at dealers' prices, recognizing that to do sowuld he unfair to, and would undermine tlfe business of, the legitimate dealers. fThough the court, at the conclusion of the evidence, decided?and subsequently so charged the jury? that r.o damages were proven or could be recovered even if the defendants were guilty under the Sher man law, the defndants "were unwlll-| ing to stop, but desired to have the propriety of their acts passed upon. The matter was one of principle t> us. So the case was argued before the jury which has now brought in aj ( f THE VAD1 1 ULi TV unt A few second hand Moto your old Motorcycle and ge Harley-Davidson on install: ride. H. O. STOI Newberi /-.nmnlotfilv in favor r\f thfi defendants. The court, in its charge to the jury, ! pointed out that the reason stated by i the defendants for not selling to the plaintiff at dealers' prices was that! "they were forced to decide between ; two alternatives?to deal with the co-j operative leagues, such as the plain- i tiff was assumed to be, and lose the ; business of the regular dealers, or j to say 'we will not deal with the co-, operative leagues and we will keep; the favor and the support of the regular dealers.'" Further, the court said: <?Tf +V.A >-! 1 o i n 11 f? Traa n nf OTlfitlprf? tft JL J. IHO JJiaiuuu > uo iivv v?w>vvv. ? , the consideration accorded to, and received by, regular retail dealers in the ordinary course of trade, then to refuse to deal with them as regular retail dealers was no restraint of trade." Again, the court said that the jury j would have to ask itself this ques- \ tion, namely: "Was thei? any necessity for Mr. Raymond, representing the Goodrich company, with its standing in the trade, to appeal to other tire makers to join with it in such an agreement against this corporation? Was there any benefit to accru? to the Goodrich company to do this sort of thing?" 5And the jury decided in favor of' j the defendants. The Goodrich company will con- j J ti ue with its uniform and long-esj tablished policy, which has "been and ! is and will be to' protect its dealers, I and refu6e to sell at dealers' prices j to consumers under whatever form | of association they may be banded together. WABEHOUSE JOB NOT IX PRIMARY ! Convention Kills Do mi nick Resolution | By Overwhelming Yote?Dei bate on Proposition. ! The State. John L. iMcLaurin, State warehouse commissioner, will not be allowed to j enter the primary this year nor to | speak at the campaign meetings ae warehouse commissioner, according to the action of the State Democratic I convention in turning down the following resolution introduced by Frei ; H. Dominick: "Resolved, iThat the State Demor>rotiV PYPoiitiive committee be re quested to put in the primary for nomination the office of warehouse commissioner, and that the pledge of the ! Democratic party be so amended that candidates for the house and senate I pledge themselves to support for warehouse commissioner the man receiving the Democratic nomination ij the primary." j A majority of the committee on rules were against the adoption of this resolution. A minority report was submitted by John K. Aull of New- j berry. Mr. Aull argued that the law required the office to be placed in the primary. He pointed out the importance of the office and said that an opportunity should be given the commissioner to answer the attacks of opponents of the warehouse system. W. W. Dixon spoke in behalf of -the minority report, claiming that "It is our duty to place him before the peo- j pie." 5ot in Banger. Mr. Dominick fought for his resolution. He said that he did not think that the warehouse system is in any danger. He did not want the matter - - - TT . _ to be made a political issue, iie related the effect of the warehouse system, as he saw it, on the crisis of 1914. j W. X. Graydon of Abbeville took ,D'S BEST rcycles cheap. Trade in it a new one. Buy a new ments and pay while you VEj Dealer. ry, S. C. Mr. Dcminick to task for his support of the terms of the resolution. "If you want to kill the system, put it in politics." he declared, "and eve a Senator McLaurin with his plausibility can not resurrect it." He belittled the effect of the warehouse systemHe argued that it should be entirely a business office. Insurance Kates. The bond between the warehouse system and the insurance companies was outlined briefly by Senator J, A. Banks of Calhoun, president of the State Warehouse association. He told of his visit with Mr. McLaurin to W. P. G. Harding of the federal reserve board.. He told also of the system's part in getting low insurance rates on warehoused cotton. He said that prominent bankers of Xew York had agreed to lend money on warehcus-e receipts at 3.88 per cent. He extolled it as a "great industrial system." Mast lAyoid Politics. D. S. Henderson of Aiken pleaded for a calm consideration of the matter at hand. He said that the question is not the efficacy of the warehouse system but the matter a? changing the system from a busines? organization to a political machine. "Don't let us drag it into politics,*" i? +V1.0+ {f ics o crrwvfl? 'IIC UrgUtU., ILIg LU A l? xt AO U {3VWU business scheme. "We have not forgotten that this man who wants this system put ia politics wanted to introduce comme^? cial Democracy iiv 'South Carolina," declared Mr. Henderson dramatically amid much applause. Vote By Counties. The vote by counties was taken on. the majority report of the rules committee, as follows: Abbeville, 4 yeas, 2 nays; Aiken, 7 to 1; Anderson 1 to 13; Bamberg, 6 to 0; Barn~ well, 5 to 0; Beaufort. to 0; Berkeley, 6 to 0; Calhoun, 3 to 1; Charleston, 18 to 0; Cherokee, 6 to 0; Chester, 6 to 0; Chesterfield, 6 to 0; Clarendon, 3 to o; Colleton, 4 to 2; Darlington, 5 to 1; Dillon, 5 to 1; Dorchester, 3 to 1; Egdefield, 6 to 0; Fairfield, 1 to 5; Florence, 8 to 0; Georgetown, 2 to 1; Greenville, 13 to 1; Greenwood, 8 to 0; Hampton. 4 to 0; Horry, 6 to 0; Jae per, 3 to 0; Kershaw, 6 to 0; Lancaster, 6 to 0; Laurens, 7 to 1; Lea, 0 to ; Lexington 5 to 2; McCormick, 2 to 2; Marion, 6 to 0; Marlboro, 8 to 0; Newberry, 0 to 8; Oconee, 5 to 1; Orangeburg, 12 to 0; Pickens, CI to 0; Richland, 9 to 2; Saluda, 6 to 0; Spartanburg, 16 to 0;; Sumter, S to 0; Union, 0 to 6; Williamsburg, S. to 0; York, 1 to 9. ^ Senator Christensen made an attempt to introduce a resolution to allow any State officer to address the campaign meetings at the conclusion nf thp resular sDeeches. The point was made that the resolution should have been presented to the committee. A motion to reconsider the previous order of the convention was tabled with little opposition and Mr. Christensen's resolution was killed. NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING Notice is hereby given that we the undersigned jury commissioners for Newberry county, S. C., will at the of flee of the clerk of court for Newberry county at nine o'clock a. m., May 26tk, 1916, openly and publicly draw the names of thirty-six (36) men, wlio shall serve as petit jurors at the court of general sessions, which will convene at Newberry court house June 12th, 1916, and will continue for one week. Jno. L, Epps, Jas. B. Halfacre, Jino. C. Goggans, Jury Commissioners for Newberry County, S. C. Ofay 15th, 1916. THE HERALD AND NEWS ONE