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r Y0LU1TE LIT., XUMBE366. 5EWBERBI, S. C? Tl END AY, AUil ST i>S, lf)l7. TW1CH A WEEjK, SIM A YIAJ* - - - wrnm-m - i ,mmm . i i i n } ' K" I?????????? ???????? CROWDER CHANGES OKDEfi TO MOBILIZE Unitinished Camps, Congested Railroad Traffic and Lack of Equ>?" ment More Delay in Assembling of Draft Army Washington, Aug. 25.?Lack o? equipment for the draft army and th9 ** -1- -j ?^-n nf the mobil? unnmsueu tuuuinw^ ? zation camps has been complicated with congested traffic conditions, as a result Provost Marshal General Crowder today ordered a further delay in the mobilization. The order forecast this morning by the International News Service malves it appear certain that it will be well toward f \ the end of November before the mobilization is complete and that none L of the draft forces will be available ior service in France until next July jSJUL or August, at the earliest. . - General Corwder ordered that on^y 6 per cent of the first draft instead of 30 per cent as originally, ordered should be called to the colors on September 5. Oil September 19 40 per ceni 01 ea^n state quota "will be summoned instead of the 30 per cent originally called for September 15 and later delayed until September 18. On October 3 another 40 per cent will be called. The remaining 15 per cent will be called "as soon thereafter as practicable.". In issuing his orders Generol Crowder explained the revision of the schedule as necessitated by the congestion of railroad traffic In early September- through the moving to camp of national guard units, "making it inadvisable to move any. large Tvoi?/uvnta<re r?f the national armv " J>V* VWMVMQV W*. w . "The object in calling 5 <per cent/' hfc&flp\ffas, "is to place in the camps enough men to form a skeleton orgaaIsktiou to. assist in receiving and assimilating the large con^jngents. Whit? Men Only "For,-this reason it is required that local boards send only white men and so far as practicable that they send men with some military experience or cooks. In making this selection, order ? numbers are not controlling but care must be taken not to send men whose order of call is so late that they will not be within the quota of the boards." General Crowder then Instructs the boards not to send the entire 5 ?per cent on one day but to distribute their transportation over a period of 5 days. Thanks to Boards Attached to the orders changing the mobilization arrangements Genera! Crowder appends an appreciation of the efforts of the civilian boards to secure the first draft in time. '"'Reports received from practically every state in the union . show that every state would have had ready much more than 30 per cent of its quotas September 5, and the vast majority of them would have been ready with their entire quota or. that date." General Crowder said. "This service has required a month of the most exacting work on the part of boards. This "work was consrmv mated under adverse conditions and is in a large part uncompensated. It stands as one of the most significant expressions of substantial patriotism and devotion on the part of 15,000 men selected from among the best citizeni i of the country." . Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Swittenberg and Mrs. B. T. Buhardt and little daughter Miss Bennetta, motored to Abbeville Monday. They will visit in 'Anderson today. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith wllf j join them in Greenville Thursday, when the party will go to HendersonTille. Chairman James M Moss is expecting a large crowd to hear this gifted speaker.?That is what was eald in an announcement that Dr. Geo. B. Cromer would address the people of I Orangeburg county under the auspic es of the State Council of Defense. - ? J- ~ M? 4.1 k. P" "I'llis is "wnax was saia aiher me syeera. "The campaign of education on th^ -war situation began here last night ^with Dr. George B. Cromer of New"berr^ as the weaker. A crowded liou?^ TTcet"d Dr. Cromer and lie held! "his aud:enoe in rast attention for a/i J hour. Many expressed the wi?h that; he could have sDoken Ion "or. The ' frequent arplause which interrupted1 the speaker attested the sympathy otj the audience." This and more. j -v'v. ABSOI.I TK DEPENDENCY BiASIS FOR EXEMPTION Wilson Doesn't Like Idea of Forcfni? Married 'Women to Make Own Living Washington, Aug. 25?At the direct suggestion of President Wilson, Provost Marshal General Crowder telegraphed to all governors tonight a supplemental explanation of regma| tions governing the status of married j men under the selective service la*.v. Xo change is made, ana tne purpuoe of the new statement is to clear mkj understandings which have arisen in ; what General Crowder describes a< "a i fw instances.*' I In a letter to Secretary Baker, Pres*-"* ?1 ' i Viic rvnininn tha* I meni w iisuh siatcs mo ?KsU.v.. ?? j the regulation requiring local boards [to establish "the fact of dependent; | in addition to the fact of marriage I ought not to be abrogated." This j leaves the regulations as they are j and the supplementing statement Is designed merely to make the application of the rules uniform among dir ? , boards. j While the statement regarding married men was in preparation, orders* i w*ere issued changing entirely the ; mobilization arrangements previously i made. Congestion of rail traffic and I I the necessity of making better provision for the reception of the men at the cantonments dictated tne changes. Followin is the text of the messag-2 sent to tre governors, dealing witr the status of Tj^rrietJ men. prepared at a conference late today between Secretary Baker and -Gen. Crowder. j Message cw wjfwww "A feeling has been expressed that; in issuing claims for discharge on the ground of dependents, local boards ought, in no case, to refuse a discharge to a married man or to the head of a family. The law under which local boards act requires that, before such a discharge can be granted, dependency as well as relationship must be established. The matter 1 * 1 i _ J , 4-U ~ xiaving ween yreseuteu uu, tuc jji evident, the following ire this orders thereon: '"We ought as far as practicable to raise this new national army without creating the hardships necesarily entailed when tl^e head of a family is taken, and I hope that for fhp rnnst Twrt fhnsp nnr.ented on tha first call will be found to be men who had not yet assumed such relations. " The selective service law makes the fact of dependents, rather than the fact of marriage, the basis for exemption and there are undoubtedly ma!iv cases within the age limits fixed t>y law of men who are married and yet whose accumulation or other economic surroundings are such that no dependence of the wire exists in raet. Plainly the law does not contemplate exemption for this clacs of men. "Not to Be Abrogated V " 'The regulation promulgated on June 4. 1917. should be regarded as controlling in these cases, and. the orders issued under that regulation directing exemption boards to establish the fact of dependents in addition to the fact of marri&ee. ousht not! to be abrogated. "The attention of this office has been | invited to the fact that in a few iu-j stances local boards have certified to i district boards as held for military sarvice men "whose families are actually dependent npon them for support on the theory that the wife is able to work and should be put to ; the necessity of going to woric to support herself and children. This situation is stressed in the finding - * * ^ %r v. or tne aismct Doara 01 i\ew iom City in which opinion this office concurs, with the understanding that the phres 'support available from relative' is support partial or total previously extended to the applicant himself. "We don't concur in the view suggested in some quarters that, in case of wife and children actually dependent on applicant's labor for support, and where there are no otther means of support,.the wife should he put to the necessity of going to work to support herself and children. Bona fide dependency of wife and children onlabor of applicant, where in his absence, they would be ' left without reasonably adequate srixport, after duly taking irto consideration so.-i a | dier's wage ^nd support available1 i from relatives, as stated in the ru:- \ i ings of the provost marshal general,) i is ground of discharge. Clearly Expresses Law "This opinion clearly and adequate- | ly expresses the intent of the lav- in! this regard. | "Paragraph B.? compiled rulingrj ; this office Xo. 6, addressed a statij or,1 i I [ affairs where the parents or otlier re-: | Iatives of the wife or husband are! i able. ready and willing adequately i i to support the dit'e and children, if | I any, during the absence of the nus-j I band. This rulin? was responsive *o I w [ j a class of cases that had been brought > ; to the attention of this office, where! i claims of discharge had been made; ! on the ground of dependency on a i i husban as a matter of fact wsa not! i ? ; dependent upon himself. The rulingj directed the attention of local ho.irds j | to the fact that scruti6y of cases ci, } this kind might, disclose that no dis-1 : 1 | charge was advisable. i "It was not intended that Paragraph j | B of the compiled niling should ap-j I ply to the case of the head of a fairily j whose family at the time of his s um-! i mons and prior thereto were and had , ! . . I ' been mainly dependent upon his is-j, bor for support. J "Instances in which local boards; i have been in error in respect to these1 ! two classes of cas?s are rare. It was; ' to be expected that with some 4,500 ! local boards there would be some un| uniformity of decision in this regard, i To nrnvirie against this, imnniformitv ( " m i Section 27 of the regulations providefor the automatic appeal of all dependency caseS to the district boards. District boards should scan the decisions of local boards on questions of dependency and wherever it appears that such decisions are illegal (afi in the two cases just mentioned or oth erwisej br where these decisions {teem to be so far ununiform as to result m an unequal operation of the law. the district board should reverse or nod-' ify the decisions of the local boird.,: Mobilization Order in ins message 10 governors respecting new mobilization orders General Crowder said in part: "The congestion of traffic that "Will oe entailed in the early part of September by the movement oL the National Guard into trainng camps m akes it inadvisable to attempt to move any large percentage of the National Army on September 5. ?rr*"U - ~ e 11 r ~ iiie oujtjci 01 cxixiiiig o i>er jem.. is to. place in the camp enough men to form a skeleton organization to assist in receiving and assimilating the large contingents. For this reason it !o ronnira/l t V> 1 f hr\o?v1c! ftn 1*1 X ^>4UXi OX1UL IV/UUrl UUU/A UO OV/ilV L \'U ly white men and so far as practioabl3 that men with some military <;xpej rience or cooks. In making thin selection order numbers are not controlling but great care must be taken not to send men whose order.of call, is so late that tlfey will not be within the quota of the board. 'In order that it' may not be n I sary to make * any special railway arrangements and to prevent congestion of normal railway traffic local boards should be instructed to send quotas on each of five successive days beginning September 5." TWO NEGROES HELD j rUJK IUJSA LlilUUlflV Former Treasurer of Dead Presenter's Church Accused of Complicity In Crime The State. York, Aug. 25?Charged with eompublicity in the lynching of W. T. Slma the negro preacher, who was put to death, by a mob near York Thursday morning, Bill Sanders and Tom San aers, negroes, w^re xoaay ^augta m ; 'jail. Bill Sanders wag forrierly treasurer of St. John's Baptist ctnrch j of which Sims was pastor, and "while 2 _ - ?! J V.J _ ...i.#. serving m tuai uayacxij iiau a wa j'r ] versy with the preacher over the j handling of the church funds, restating in the treasurer's dismissal. The wife of Tom Sand era is said to have had a quarrel with Sims some time | ago. The inquest -win be resumed :ifc 10 j, o'clock Monday morning in the uourt house here. Solicitor J. BL K.emry , cf Chester will be present. M I ' Mian I.ueile Baxter is home from a visit to Iriends in Columbia. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT js ' c The new sewerage law goes ln*? j effect September 5. 11 I ! c To see "A Successful Failure," dif- j ferent from what you see in _Xewber- r rp, go to the opera house Wednesday. | ^ There will be preaching at the j ? Church of the Redeemer next Sun- j < day morning by Dr. Bowers. The friends of Mrs. Mary B. Evana '< i will be glad to learn that she is bet- j i n I f LC1 \ I i s The architect's plans for the new | ] jail building have arrived and tn?s;< preliminary work for the $5-0,000 jail j i j 1 nn tV>o !/ *+ will ha niichorl w"v"^ "* ~ t' ? I1 Cheaper Coal for the Public is Firs? j ! Aim.?Headline in Saturday's Green-1 ville News. Good news. News. Now j tell us about bacon and flour. : ] In a slow and uninteresting game'J ol' ball Saturday afternoon West End. 1 defeated Ninety Six by the score ot| 13 to 2. _ |1 | i For assault and battery Isaiah Booz-; ; er, colored, paid a fine of $10 Satur-' ( day. after pleading guilty before Magistrate C. W. Douglas. Sweet potatoes are coming in. ! ; Somebody ought to have started a! 'possum farm in this county to help' ; in the food question. There will be au ail-liy sinking at the Boeransyille Mef.ncdist churcli next Sunday.?Spartanburg Tferal*r. They are having iheso all-dar ing3 all around Nswberry. The ladies of the Trinity School Improvement asociation will servo ice cream and cake at the school! house next Friday evening, beginning at 6 o'clock "NV says i'Come, one and; ^ s-V< aii.v / v- f " ; | ; Someone from Newberry who saw the! great force of hands at the Jan'meut. , in Columbia said that every Saturday-( night down there is. Christmas eve, i < so much money is turned loose, it t ] is tremendous. I ( I I * The Fairfax Citizen has a cor re-1 ' spondent from Mill Grove. The last i batch of news from that locality contained eighteen paragraphs, fifteen m < which mentioned the name of Bowers. ' Grove should be changed to Bowers, j Judging from what the hens are 1 doing just now, most of them are ( pro-Oerman.?News and Courier. We ] .don't wish to egg on the discussion, | ! but Mr. Monroe Swindler's double- j egg hen must be pro-Ally. I 1 Next Saturday will be the very first? of September, If it were not for the t yar we could be thinking of Christmas i with, so much pleasure and anticipa- ' tion. But after canning all you can I can (without the dance) you can look ( forward to enjoying, if you can, tne j z glorious tail tnat win soon De nere. | i Govenor Manning has c;i!led upon 1 the ministers of th^. States to raaice next Sunday a day for prayer for the i | men of South Carolina who have been ( selected for service under tne draft j urt ThA first o-nntineent of tlie men will be called to the colors on September 5. P. R. HuntSr, agent, has sold the D. P. Boyd place, 175 acres, near Utopia, to the Silverstreet Real Estate Co. Price not stated- A great many good deals are transacted at the hands of Mr. Hunter, who is an expert at the business and knows land like Nat Gist, Bob Holmes and their aides know cotton. * a David R. Coker of Hartsville, chair- r man of the State Defense council, ^ has been named by Herbert Hoover, national food administrator, as food administrator for South Carolina, e Mr. Coker has accepted the <place and I has taken the oath, of office. Some a yrtU hail and some will howl. The 1 jailers and the howlers ought to get b together for the good of the country. P o It is not the great success and prosperous conditioD of the Oakland m'll y s ^bat is causing its worthy secretary, ^ Mr. J. N McCaughrin, to look so 3 imilingly bright these last few day^. Fhe promising future prospects c* ^ the mill is enough in itself to make ffnrn? \*rft U {g ? lJtttp arrfV I 1*111.1 IUC1 gV/UU) ? " * ?1 at rfc** rbmns c tbftt< to *#?? ^ Ihe good cheer of his countenance. ? Aa in all countries and all ages, a t . : . , J.r4 ... -o in Newberry there are always tuples on the verge of and threatenng matrimony. One by one couples hat are not slackers drop off into th> ;aa and are tossed by the waves, some >f prospt ty. some of adversity. I ['hose that rise and ride are in the swim, those that struggle and buffet ?re in the soup. We see the two lasses every day. 1 The law relating to autos stopping at certain corners is going to be :iore rigidly enforced. Chief Rodei perger has instructed 'his men to ;ee that the cars stop before they :each. the crossng and not after, as ;o many have bsen doing. flvery:?ody Iciows, or should know, that the ::me to stop and avoid possible colli : ions is before a crossing is reacnea. Judge of Probate Ewart was cartied in an automobile Sunday afcernoon from his home to his office by ;i runaway couple from Saluda wlio vanted to get married. They couldn't id a preacher and had a hard tlmo inding Judge Ewart. The judge perormed the ceremony which made vfr. Edgar Henderson and Miss 0!a }riffn man and wife, and tne Hurry ivas over. Now that Mr. H. L. Parr is having >o mu<5h building done in Newberry :his reporter is listening to hear of Summer Bros. Co., making ready ;o to one belter and have a six-story auilding on the corner of Main and Caldwell streets. That would be fins told another tall and handsome builds tng for a bank on still another corner would help that much more. One ? ? *- *1 1-* Jl L? ? ? corner dsjik ouucung won c unug N'ewberry up to Laurens. Oakland mill village has joined lianas witn rsewDerry in me onwara march of improvement and progress? twin boys have just arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roland WilHamsv We mention these as being among thej'atest arrivals for the cc velopment of the country. This !3 a time of wf' and twin boys and N'ewberry is doing her bit. In tim-Ss )f war keep preparing for war. Twins are getting to be numerous in thfs Jity. / Fannie Ward, the brilliant Las^y star, will be seen at the opera house rhursaay in the production of "Her Strange Wedding." This is one of :he most unusual and startling proluctions in which Miss Ward has appeared. The incidents connected wicii :he house party scenes leading up to ;he wedding were participated In * v i number of well known society peoDle spending the spring months in tne j West. Everybody in Newberry is in- j :erested in weddings, romantic or un -omantic, and will be glad to see j 'Her Strange Wedding," in which | Hiss Ward is given an opportunity to lisplay many of her wonderful gowns, Lmong them being the latest mode in i wedding dress. Another thing nany in Newberry are interested in. j Magistrate Douglas tried John Su>er, colored, Monday morning on two charges, drunk and disorderly in public highways and assault with rnife, and sentenced the unruly culprit to pay $10 or serve 25 days for he first offense and $15 or 30 days 'or the second. TTr> to date John is in j ail. with messages out trying to' aise the money. After getting in a lisorderly condition Suber pulled Ills cnife and threatened to cut Lather Cousins, the young son of Mr. and tfre. K H. Cousins, swearing that le was going to kill somebody. A turry call was sent in and quick response resulted in the arrest of thef nan before any further damage was j lone. t In a gripping, tense drama of broth- j rly love House Peters, the splendid; 'alias?Paramount star, win be sea a : t the opera house Tuesday in "The j leir of the ' Ages," the unusual story | y William lAddison Lathrop. House ; 'eters has long been a great favorite j f the photo-dramatio patrons. With ears of training on the speaXir.^ j tage in all parts of the world, a j raveler and soldier of fortune him elf, he has brought to the screen J tie experience and study of an ar- j ist In the days when the world was*j oung two cave men, brothers, lived ?setber fat !t^r naouniain -retreat; 'ne was big and strong, the other reak. See, in "The H Mr of the Azes,:T! ow the 3trong brother, Hoii3e Peters, i protected the weak one, in the l?ve affair with which both were concerned. It looks lively and like business up in Main street where the new buildings are going up. When the new garage is opened up and the nevr store across the street and the fivei \fory bank building with i:> eievatcwa, i j etc., for the bank, the Southern Bell Telephone company and for otlier business offices, this city will piu on , a handsomer and finer look, if .i .uj to the appearance of a city to ha?e a ; bank on a street corner, and the cor; n( r of Main and College streets is in.9 | ve: y place for s ich a bank as m? I Kxcange. When the building, which J will be nearly square, with a front or I 58 feet in Main and running back I 65 1-2 in College ^reet. is ready tor j business Newberry will have some| thing to be proud of. Ford Mangura, a well known colored citizen of the county, brought the rc? ~ porter a large and tine watermelon Saturday. We found the melon on our desk after returning to the office from dinner, so did not get a chanca to interview the giver. Ford has our thanks for his kind and thoughtful remembrance, which is very much appreciated. and we take this method of acknowledging the" gift with the same degree of pleasure as would be ours had the melon jcome f-om the patch of a millionaire, for we treat every body alike. Ford is different from some other people. Some give their fine melons to wealthy mentis who can buy all they want, and not to the poor friends who would appreciate them. We don't know, but suspect that Ford's gift' was "Inspired" by the talk he gave the reporter s6m<i ? ? ? " - 1% A lime ago in teiuug us uc uau noticed how fair the paper is to tlio colored people. (Well, Ford, we can tell you that "the nice and pleasant things" the reporter has always tri?* ' 1 fco^ay of white people have not as % rule been appreciated as has beek the efforts which" brought forth your treat. v j WHY GAR3HNY DISTRICT Wllfc I VOTE OFF SPECIAl^AT j Garmany school house was blown I J - x I ^ i uu?n oy a, io:ua.uu Jiay i*?u jcaia ago. The majority of the patrons ol 1 the district petitioned- to the local ! board of trustees' to build the school house back on the ground where it [ formerly stood. The petition was reI jected by the local board of trustees, j They then appealed to the: counrt ! Loard. The county board returnea rt <? i and said they would have to st^nd by ; tli'e action of the local board. The school is now 'taught in a ^ j school house within 200,yards of tha | district line. In other wore.-, !t was j moved from this same- school -houso I * /V n?^A.rA 1 f Wow Hntvn in order that | LU w nci g vivn .. it might be in tlie centre of the district, by a former board of trustees. | The patrons offered to vote a^ ex! tra two mills tax to replace the school j house in the centre of the district, j Garmany patrons do not want to no credited with going backward, Dut want to keep up with this progressiV3 age, and for that reason wanted ttt have the school house rebuilt within the reach of all the children of tne district, and they do not feel L&e it is right or just for them to be payingtaxes for the school when the children* are not in reach of same. There are more children going to school in adjoining districts or not gting to school at all than children who went to school at Garmany last session. To t more exact there were 29 children enrolled last session and 30 who either went to school in another district or did not have any school at all in reach and therefore wete not in school. And the 29 would be lit easy reach of the school at the former location. We -wrent to our present county sup erintendent of education and asxetf him if there was any way to get tnis> " school house rebuilt at the former \ place and he said there was none and ^ that he had done all that he could do in the matter. So we then present- vs ed XtQ .-.petition 'ier*the Section. ''The tax will be voted off. Who is to blame? _ T leave it for you to decide. B. B. Leitzsey, Chai^fl