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WILSON'S SPEECH THAT THE PRESIDENT SAID TO THE CONRESS OiiES ACTION AT ONCE He Ask "What Will it Profit Us to I Free if We Are Not to Have the Best and Most Accessible Instru mentalities of Commerec and En terprise?" The following is the full text o, President Wilson's speech to Con gress: Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Gentle men of the Congress: It is under the compulsion of whal seems to me a clear and imperative duty that I have a second time thi1 session sought the privilege of ad dressing you in person. I know o: course, that the heated season of the years is. upon us, that work in thes chambers and in the committee rooms is likely to become a burde, as the season lengthens, and tha every consideration of personal con venience and personal comfort, per haps, in the cases of some of us, con siderations of personal health even dictate an early conclusion of the de liberations of the session; but thern are occasions of public duty whet these things which touch us private ly seem very small; when the wor to be done is so pressing and s< fraught with high consequence tha we know that we are not at liberty t< weigh again. it any point of person al sacrifice. We are now in the pres ence of such an occasion. It is abso lutely imperative that we should give the business men of this country banking and currency system b: means of which they can make use of the freedom of' enterprise and o Individual initiative which we ar about to bestow upon them. We are about to set them free; wi must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free \ We are abont to set them free by re moving the trammels of the protec tive tariff. Ever since the Civil Wa they have waited for this emancipa tion and for the free opportunities i will bring with It. It has been re served for us to give it to them Some tell in love, indeed, with the slothful security of their dependenc upon the government; some took ad vantage of the shelter of the nurser: to set up a mimic mastery of thei own within its walls. Now both the tonic and the discipline of libert: and maturity are to ensue. Ther will be some readjustments of pur pose and point of view. There wil follow a period of expansion and ne enterprise, freshly conceived. It I for us to determine now whether i shall be rapid and facile and of eas accomplishment.. This it can not b unless the resourceful business mei who are to deal with the new circum stances are to 'have at hand .ani ready for use the instrumentalitie and- conveniences of free enterpris, which independent men need whe1 acting on their own initiative. It is not enough to strike th - shackles from business. The duty o statesmanship Is not negative mere -ly. It Is constructive also. We must show that' we understand wha * business needs and that we knoi how to supply it. No man, howeve: *-casual and supercial his observatioi .of the conditions now prevailing is the country, can fail to see that on< of the chief things business need now, and will need increasingly as i gains in scope and igor in the year; Immediately ahead of us, is the prop er means by which readily to vitalizi Its credit, corporate and individual and its originative brains. What wil ft profit us to be free if we are no to have the' best and most accessible *Instrumentalities of commerce ans enterprise? What will It profit ut to be quit of one kind of monopol'. -If we are to remain in the grip of an other and more effective kind? Hov are we to gain and keep the confi dence of the business community un less we show how both to aid and t< protect It? What shall we say If we make fresh enterprise necessary ani also make It very difficult by leaving all else except the tariff just as wi found it? The tyrannies of business big and little, lie within the field o: credit. We know that. Shall we noi act upon the knowledge? Do we no1 know how to act upon it? If amar can not make his assets available al pleasure, his assets of capacity anc character and resource, what satis faction Is it to him to see opportuni ty beckoning to him on every hand when others have the keys of credil in their pockets and treat them as ell but their own private possessions? It is perfectly clear that it is our duty to supply the new banking and cur rency system the country needs, and that it will Immediately need it more than ever. The only question is, When shal) we supply It-now, or later, after the demands shall have become re proaches that we were so dull and sc slow? Shall we hasten to change the tariff laws and then be laggards about making it possible and easy for the country to take advantage of the change? There can be only onle answer to that question. We musi act now, at whatever sacrifice to our selves. It Is a duty which the cir cumstances forbid us to postpone. ] should be recreant to my deepesi convictions of public obligation did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence. The principles upon which we should act are also clear. The coun try has sought and seen Its path in this matter within the last few years -sees It more clearly now than it ever saw it before-much more clear. ly than when the last legislative pro posals on the subject were made. We must have a currency, not rigid as now, 'but readily, elastically respon sive to sound credit, the expanding and contracting credits of every-day transactions, the normal ebb and flow of personal and corporate deal ings. Our banking laws must mobil ize reserves; must not permit the concentration anywhere In a few hands of the monetary resources of *the country or their use for specula tive purposes In such volume as to hinder or impede or stand In the way of other mere legitimate, more fruit ful uses. And the control of the sys tem of bankin~g and of issue which out haw laws are to set up must be SHUTS OFF THE FUNDS. SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA WILL GET NO AID. Governor's Attitude Towards the En forcements of the Militia Law Causes Action of War Department. Federal support of the National Guard of South Carolina, amounting to about $70,000 a year, was with' drawn Tuesday by the war depart ment because of "the attitude of the governor toward enforcement of fed eral militia law". The following tel egram was received Tuesday by W. W. _Moore, adjutant general, from Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs, war de partment: "W. W. Moore, Adjutant General, South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. "In accordance with action of war department of this date, taken in consequence of attitude of governor of your State toward enforcement of federal militia law, as expressed in his letters of May 5 and 27 to you and of June 11 to secretary of war, no further federal assistance, either in personnel or equipment. will be afforded the organized militia of your State; nor will further expenditure of federal funds in hands of disburs ing officers be authorized by secre tary of war, except to cover such ob ligations as may have already been Incurred and approved by secretary of war. Requisition for property now on hand in militia division is disapproved and no further requisi tion will be honored. This informa tion is telegraphed to you in connec tion with plans for encampment of South Carolina organized ulilitia this summer, in order that you may be guided by such telegram and act ac cordingly. Disbursing officer has been informed of action by war de partment. "Mills. "Chief, Division of Militia Affairs "Washington, June 23." Adjt. Gen. Moore said that the Na tional Guard of South Carolina last year received about $60,000 for sup port from the war department bu1 the average amount was about $70, 000. He said that in 1911, when the joint manoeuvres were held, the companies received about $80,000. Under the order of the war de partment thirty-five companies of the infantry will be affected and one company of coast artillery. These companies are made up of 2,000 men and officers. The annual appropria tion by the general assembly of South Carolina for the organized militia is $12,000. Adjt. Gen. Moore said that unless the order was rescinded the encamp ments of the three regiments, a1 "Camp Wile Jones", Aiken and An derson, would have to be called off He said that the war departmen1 might also order all equipment now held by the' companies to be return ed. The arms and ammunition, ac coutrements and uniforms, camp equippage-in fact, practically al the equipment used by the citizer -soldiers-are the property not of the State but of the fedral government State Controls its Militia. 1Governor Blease in speaking of the withdrawal by the War Departmeni of -the funds to the militia of thit -State ,because he refused to let the la'w be enforced, says he rejoices tha1 "South Carolina is once again free from the domination of Yankee uni forms, and once more in control o: her own State militia." There nevel has been a minute when the State dic not control its militia. This is proven by Governor Blease himself when he refused to allo's certain companies to be musterec -out for not complying with the mili tia law of the National government If the State did not have control o1 its militia, instead of withdrawing entirely from the State, the War De partment would have made these de Jinquent companies comply with the law. The fact of the business is, Gover nor Blease by refusing to let those companies which refuse to comply with the law be disciplined by the War Department, not only proves himself that the State has complete control .of its own militia, 'but he punishes all the other companies in the State, whose members have taken an interest in the militia and passed the inspection imposed by the War Department in order for them to re ceive certain funds for their en campments and other purposes. We are sorry Governor Blease took the action he did when he refused to let certain companies be disciplined. If the members of those companies refused to obey the law there was nothing left for the Government to do but to discipline them until they complied with the law. In refusing to allow these companies to be dis ciplined, Governor Blease did an in justice to every company in the State that had complied with the law. No militiary organization can suc ceed without discipline. I I~ Bloys Kifled by a Snake. When Mrs. Dave Grant, residing fourteen miles southwest of Beach, went to call on her two sons, aged five and seven, Sunday mornin, she found them dead in bed with a rat tesnake lying between them. Dur ing the previous evening, just after the youths had retired, each had complained that the other was pinch ing him. public, not private, must be vested in the government itself, so that the banks may be the Instruments, not the masters. of business and of indi vidual enterprise and initiative. The committees of the congress to which legislation of this character is referred have devoted careful and dispassionate study to the means of accomplishing these objects. They have honored me by consulting me. They are ready to suggest action. I have come to you, as the head of the government and the responsible lead er of the party in power, to urge ac tion now, while there Is time to serve the country deliberately and as we should, in a clear air of common counsel. I appeal to you with a deep conviction of duty. I believe that you share this conviction. I there fore appeal to you with confidence. I am at your service without reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon me to play It In this great enterprise of. exigent reform which it will dignify and distinguish us to FIGHT WITH DEATH THE GRIM REAPER BAFFLED BY SENATOR TILIAN. He Tells for the Benefit of Others What He Did to Regain in Part His Health. Some few week.. ago The Times and Democrat "said Editor E. H. Aull of the Newberry and News says he met Senator Tillman on the train recently and he was much pleased to find him "as strong and vigorous as he was, both physically and men tally. His mind is strong and vig orous and there is much of the old time fire and snap about the eye. All the talk about his mind being weak is unkind and besides unfound ed. He can't eat the big meals that he once could but otherwise eeems entirely well." In commenting on the above the Columbia Record says: Death, the universal conquerer, has had some notable contests and many notable victims, but seldom has he been baffled and held at bay in a contest fought out before the pubilc eye and on a world arena so conspicious as in'the case of Sgnator Tillman. No doubt the senior South Carolinian's fight against the grim monster after he had called and giv en the word to go on the last dread journey will go down in the medical records as one of the most notable in the professional records. Three years ago Senator Tillman was stricken, -and for weeks lay helpless in the shadow of death, as a writer in the New York Sunday Sun recites: "His friends and fam ily lost hope. His colleagues expect ed to be summoned to his funeral. The newspapers prepared their obit uary sketches, making ready for what seemed the inevitable. This was back iL 1910. "But the senator refused to yield. The same grim determination that marked his political career led him to make another fight. And he won again, as he had won so many times when the odds against him were not so great." "The methods by which the veter an senator waged and won his fight were original and heroic, in keep ing with his always resourceful and strenuous career. He won by a sys tem of physical exercise In aid of nature, that is simple but has proven marvelously effective in his case. And in the process he has not only got rid of the dangerous fatty matter that accumulates with age, .but he has gained thirty pounds of good hard muscle. "The Senator is back in Washing ton, the chairman of a powerful sen ate conimittee, able to walk ten miles a day and not only do hard work, abut his mind in some respects is clearer and truer In its processes than ever before. 'I didn't mean to let paraly sis kill me,' the senator is quoted as saying. 'I proposed to 'get well and stay here afew years longer.' He did both by a simple plan of physical culture, the rules for which he gives as follows: "1. Before getting up in the morn ing, take the head off '.he pillow and stretch out straight. -Begin by kiCk ing backward witn one foot and then the other, fifteen timeis each. Dur jug this a in other movementsi. where counting Is required, I draw in the breath to the limit and holi, It while the movement Is on, from ten to fiften times. "2. Put the heels upon the bed with the knees drawn up, then throw the knees apart as far as they can be carried, repeating twenty times. "3. Throw first one foot and then the other toward the headboard, keeping the knee joints as straight as you can. "4. While still lying on the .back, kick out with both feef, as /wide apart as you can and do the kick ing with emphasis, so as to strain the muscles on the calf and soles of the feet. Elevate both feet at once toward the headboard and then the spine as much as possible by using the abdominal muscles to pull uls the lower extremities three times. If the hands are placed under the small part of the back and the arms are used as a lever to help elevate the legs and feet it Is much more effec tive. If In an Iron bed this can be facillated by grasping the railing above the head with the hands and pulling up the legs and feet by the use of the muscles of the .back and belly. This is very fine for reducing the paunch as it substitutes muscle for fat and hardens the obdormen. . "6. Fasten the feet under some thing .and pull the trunk up to a sitting posture, drop back and repeat for four or five times. This is very straining at first and one ought to go about it cautiously until he mus cles have become accustomed to the strain. "7. Throw the head back with the feet on the bed and lift the body clear so that the shoulders do not touch. This will form an arch. Re peat four or five times. .This is enough in bed in the morning. "8. Take a cold bath and rub down briskly, -unless you do not like cold water or have not the facilities to do it. Put on underwear and take a light pair of dumbbells (3 1-2 pounds), to give momentum to the movements. Begin to exercise the othir muscles which have not yet been used. "9. Throw the arms down by the thighs backward while standingfiat footed. Straighten up and repeat ten times. Continue in the same motion, bend the trunk forward as nearly horizontal as you can main tain It and let the arms swing as near the floor as they can go. This limbers up the muscles of the back. "10. Now keeping the knees stiff. try to punch the big toe of each foot with both fists. Repeat five or six times. "11. Using the dumbbells, pass them to the right and left, one arm going by the belly while the other is extended as high above the head aq possible, and as one goes down ele-.ate the other. This will lubri cate and loosen the .ioints of the shoulders. "12. Throw both arms behind the back so as to bring both hands as near as possible with the dumbbells clinched hard. Try this ten times. "13. Still holding the dumbbells, throw one to the rear and the other to the front and twist the spine by first looking over one shoulder and then over the other. This Is to: looen the spinal column andl make MAKES 1I SPEECH PRESIDENT WILSON SPEAKS TO THE CONGRESS. URGES PASSAGE OF LAW To Revise the Banking and Currency Laws at This Session So That Bus iness be Aided to Meet the Changes Made Necessary by the Passage of Tariff Act. Bearing a personal plea for imme diate action by congress to revise the banking and currency laws, that bus iness may be aided in meeting tariff revision, President Wilson for the second time went to the House of Representatives Monday and person ally read his address on the subject to both houses on congress assem bled in joint session. Although shorn of some of the novelty that attended his first ap pearance, when he upset presidential traditions of more than a century Monday's visit of the president to congress took on a deeper signifi cance. On his first visit he deliver ed a message, long-anticipated, urg ing the carrying out of the party's pledges for immediate revision of the tariff. His address Monday was an appeal to every member of the House and Senate to lay aside personal consid erations and sacrifice comfort and even health, if necessary, to secure at once a revision and reform of the national banking system. Only in that way, he declared, could the country secure the benefits of the tariff revision soon to be completed. "It is perfectly clear that it is our duty to supply the n. h;uking and currency system the country needs, aid that it will immediately need it more than ever," said Presi dent Wilson. "Shall we hasten to change our taiff. laws, and, then be laggards about making it possible and easy for tha country to take ad vantage of the change? There can be only one answer to that question. We must act now, at whatever sacri fice to ourselves." The vigor and strength of his short message, held rigid attention of his large audience throughout its delivery. As on his first appearance before congress, the chamber was filled with senators and representa tives, galleries were crowded with men and women of the official set, and corridors about the gallery doors were jammed with those unable to gain entrance. The president gave no direct en dorsement to the Glass currency bill, which 'is to form the basis for the Democratic revision of the banking laws, but in direct language made it known that it had been prepared with his counsel and approval. "The committees of congress to which legislation of this character is referred have devoted careful and dispassionate study to the means of accompli 'these objects," he said in coy' - "They have honored me 1 s ult ng me. They are ready to s - - - . Jus, one o'clock the House doorkeen.. .ashed Into the chamber "Th Prsidntof the United States." The galleries and the floor, arose as the President walked in from the Speaker's lobby, and with a no'd to the Speaker and the 7lce-President, mounted the steps to the clerk's desk. "I present. to the Sixty-third Congress the President of thle Unit ed States," anxnounced Speaker Clark. Addressing first the two presiding officers, the President turned to the desk In a low, even voice that was never raised, but which penetrated clearly to every ear in the chamber, began the reading his address. Not a stir from the audience Interrupted. At 1:10 o'clock the President had finished reading his address and left the House chamber. It had taken the President a little more than nine minutes to read his address, and its conclusion was greet ed by a round of applause. As the President left the chamber he shook hands with Speaker Cla~rk and Vice President Marshall. The Speaker dismissed the joint session and the Senators filed out to return to their own chamber. Bitten by Strange Bug. Bitten by a strange bug in WiI liamston park, Jim Bailey, of Ander son, lay at point of death Tuesday and the day before. He is now ex pected to recover. An Insect bit him on the ankle and the poison took immediate effect. Physicians say if ..hey ilad been summoned three min utes later Bailey could not have sur vived. Severe pain and swelling fol lowed and constant attention from physicians and nurses was required. The poison went through the young man's system. The kind of bug is not known. We'll teHl you something but we are afraid you won't believe it:-the sun is something over ninety-three millions of miles away from this earth of ours. (Oh, well, we knew you wouldn't.) the vertebrae twist on each other. "14. Swing the dumbbells back ward, forward and downward until a circle is performed by returning them| to the starting point. I do this five times backward and then five times forward with each arm alternately. This lubricates the muscles of the shoulders and arms, producing cir culation of the blood. "I practise hese motions morning and night, before dressing and after undressing," the senator says. "It takes about ten minutes, not includ ing the bath. I feel a very marked difference in my strength as well as otheruse." South Carolina and the country, as well as Senator Tillman, are subjects of congratulation eecause of the Senator's restoration to health. At he age of 63 he has reached the acme of senatorial influence and use fullness and neither South Carolina r the country could spare him at his eventful juncture when he is o well prepared to give them the benefit of the best and most exper SHOOT UP THE COURT JUDGE HIDES UNDER DESK AN: OTHERS ESCAPE. Wild Scramble for Places of Safet When Prisoner Whisks Out Pist< and Fires Three Shoots. Judge, lawyers, policemen an spectators were sent scurrying t cover in the Criminal Court at Wasl ington late Monlay, when Ray b Stewart, aged eighteen, fired thre wild shots in an attempt to "shot up" the Court. At the first crac Justice Wendall P. Stafford disal peared beneath his desk and out i the Court room there was a wal scramble for places of safety. Som frenzied by fear, leaped into wit dows and dropped to the ground fi teen or twenty feet below. Justice Stafford had just refuse to release Stewart on probation a ter conviction for attempted highw robbery. The boy whipped out a pi tol and fired three shots, two whicir narrowly missed Assista United States Attorneys Samu Hawken and Harvey Given and P liceman Moffett. He was in the ati trde of turning toward the Judge if to shoot when a witness sprar upon him and choked him into inse sibility. In the confusion that fc lowed many thought Justice Staffo had been struck by a bullet, but ti Judge emerged from his haven wit out a scratch. Stewart had been convicted recer ly of holding up a negro in a Was ington suburb last December. I had applied for probation as a fir offender. The Judge had barely r tered the last word in passing se tence when the prisoner began shoot and just missed Hawken, wl ducked under the table. The ne shot went toward the jury box ai passed dangerously near Detecti Sergt. Grant's head. It struck a w and rebounded, falling near Justi Stafford's bench. The third sh struck the ceiling. As the you wheeled and faced the bench, Edw Blane, a clerk in the department agriculture, who had been a witne for the State, seized the boy by tV throat and carried him to .the floor By this time the Court room h, been nearly cleared of officials ai spectators. Stewart lay unconscio for several minutes after being di armed. Lated he was removed the cell room beneath the Con room. Counsel for Stewart said t' youth was unbalanced as the rest of reading cheap literature. T hold-up for which the boy was abo to be sentenced, had many featur of the dime-novel variety. Mond; night. the boy was in jail awaitii trial on the charge of shooting wi intent to kill. Show the Cloven Foot. We have always thought that i officers of an executive charact such as district attorneys, and othe of that kind, should be filled by w< known and trusted members of t political party that may be in pow at the time. These officials are t representatives of the Administr tion In the several States, and th have power to help or hinder .pub) business and can reflect credit or d credit on the party in power as th may choose. For that reason th should be members of the party power. As an illustration of what1 mean, take the case of John L. 12 Nab, United States District Attorni for California. He is a Republic: holding over under the Democral Administration. He has no syi pathy with the Democratic party, al when he thought he had a chance make capital against it he me promptly did so by falsely accusl Attorney-General McReynolds of fa oring rich criminals, which w promptly disproved by the public tion of the facts in the case. Thei cident, however, shows that hold-o er Republicans can not be trusted. In his desire to Injure the Admi istration under which he was holdli an important position, McNa,b resig: with a great flourish of trumpel giving out his reasons at San Fra cisco before they were sent to eith President Wilson or Attorney-Ge eral McReynolds. In his resignatio which he sent by wire, he indirect accused Attorney-General McRe nolds of postponing certain cases b cause the defendants were rich ar influential. There was not a word.< truth In this charge, but It serv4 McNab's purpose. The case was postponed solelyC the request of eecretary Wilso head of the Department of Labo who made the request purely in ti interest of the public service. TI action of McNab in this case shov that the Republicans, holding ove from the last administration, wi hit the Wilson administration evel time they can get a chance to do s, McNab's idea was to discredit tI Democratic Administra-tion by a tacking the Attorney-General, wi he accused of serving the rich defe: dants instead of the government The way he resigned shows h animus, not only against the Atto: ney-General, but against the Dem< cratic party as well. Instead< sending his resignation quietly I President Wilson as he should has done, he wrote a most sensation: effusion- and gave it out to the new: papers on the same day he sent it t President Wilson. His object,< course, was to iniore the Administra tion under which he held ofiice, an to which be should have been loy: or resign. The McNab incidera should onen President Wilson's eye: and make him resolve to put tru and tried Democrats on guard once in oflices that can be used t discredit him or any of his officia family. TKilled Bride ' 'edding. At Philadelphia e.r -iected suito Monday night s' - id killed: young bride and a 'w~ who attempl ed to save her, v bie three others one woman and t' - r- . were nrot ably fatally insured at the weddin, celebration in the northern part o the city. where the double traged; occurred. If the Democrats in Congress pusi their currency bill through in th< same style that the tariff legislatio! has gone thus far the axtra sessior of this year will go down as one o the most famous in recent yeare [Upon its labors the success or fail REFUSE MILITIA FUND CAUSE OF ACTION BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT. F Governor Blease's Refusal to Enforce >1 the Militia Law Left No Other Course Possible. d The following are the facts leading 0 up to the withdrawal by the War De partment of the funds that has .been [. received for several years past by the e State militia from the National Gov t ernment, which amounted to abdut k $70,000 a year. On May 27 last Ad jutant General Moore sent the follow n ing letter to Governor Blease: d "I have the honor to transmit, for 3, your information, a communication 1- received by this office from the chief, f- division of militia affairs, war de partment, Washington, D. C., and to d request that you will examine same f- and inform me of your decision and .y directions In this matter, at an early s- date, in order that I may communi Af cate same to the chief, division of it militia affairs, as requested by him. el I would respectfully invite your at-' 3- tention to paragraphs 3, 4, and 5, i- page 5, of the inclosed letter." 1s The following letter was received g by Adjt. Gen Moore from Governor 1- Blease in reply on May 27: 1- "Your letter of May 27 received d with inclosures from Brig. Gen. A. L. 1e Mills. You ask me to inform you of a- my decision at an early date. I take pleasure in doing so immediately. t- "In the first place I have 'iecently t- expressed my opinion of the 'Dick [e law', and repeat that I think that it st was a great mistake on the part of our people to go into it. Tha covers i- section 3 of his letter. to "As to section 4, in which he states 10 'it is not the policy of the war de Kt partment to foster the maintenance 1d of organizations,' etc., you can sim re ply say to Mr. Mills that, In my opin 1.l ion, the sooner he withdraws the con ee trol of the United States government o over the volunteer militia of South th Carolina, the better it will be for L11 South Carolina, and all the people of D the Southern States, and that this ss would meet with my hearty approval ie as governor and commander-in-chief of the South Carolina volunteer mili Ld tia. id "As to section 5, .in which he says 1s 'it would appear that the only way to s- remedy existing conditions would be to to muster the organizations out of rt service,' as governor and commander ie in-chief, I do not propose to do any It such thing. His letter was a waste ie of time and material." uit es Eleven Companies Named. 1y In his letter to Adjt. Gen. Moore, 1g Gen. Mills said that the only way to th remedy the situation in this State in sofar as the militia was concerned was to muster out the following com panies: il First Infantry. r, Company B, Liberty Hill. rs Company F, Chesterfield. '11 Second Infantry. e1e Company B, Columbia. er Company E, Bennettsville. ae Company C, Columbia. a-Company K, Darlington. Third Infantry. s. Company E, Barnwell. ~y Company G, Elloree. ~y Company K, Walterboro. in Company H, Conway. Compan'y I, Bamberg. re Gen. Mills cited the following sec c- tion of the military law In his report my relative to the necessity for military in companies to comply with the law: Ic "That the regularly enlisted, or n. ganized and uniformed militia of the id several States and territories and the to District of Columbia who have here st tofore participated or shall hereafter ig participate in the apportionment of v- the annual appropriation provided .by as section 1661 of the revised statutes a- of the United States, as amended, a- whether known as national guard, y- militia or otherwise, shall constitute the organized militia. The organiza Stion, armament and discipline of the iorganized militia In the several is States and territories and In the Dis Strict of Columbia shall be the same a. as that which is now, or may here eafter be prescribed for the regular . and volunteer armies of the United ,States within five years from date of y the approval of this act: Provided, .That the president of the United e- States, in time of peace, may by or d der fix the minimum number of en Slisted men in each company, troop, d battery, signal corps, engineer corps and hospital corps; and provided, inIfurther, That any corps of artillery, cavalry and infantry existing In any rof the States at the passage of the atoMay 8, 1792, which, by the laws, customs or usuages of the said sStates have been in .continuous ex ristencee since the passage of said act 11 under its provisions and under the .provisions of sections 1625 to 1660, both inclusive, of title 16 of the re vised statutes of the United States t- relating to the militia shall be allow .ed to retain their accustomed privi Sleges, subject, nevertheless, to all other duties required by law in like .manner as the other militia." .Law Cited Further. >- Gen. Mills, making his report to if the adjutant general, cited the fol o lowing section of the military law: e "That whenever it shall appear by e the report of inspections, which It - shall be the duty of the secretary of o war to cause to be made at least once f in each year by officers detailed by -him for that purpose, that the organ r ized militia of a State or territory, 1 or of the District of Columbia, is suf t ped for active duty in the field, the ,secretary of war is authorized, on the e requisition of the governor of such t State or territory, to pay to the quar 0 termaster general thereof, or to such I other officer of the militia of said State as the said governor may desig nate and appoint for the purpose, so much of Its allotment out of the said r annual appropriation under section 1661 of the revised statutes, as - amended, as shall be necessary for .the payment, subsistence, and trans portation of such portion of organiz ed militia as shall engage in actual f field or camp service for instruction, and the officers, and enlisted men of~ such militia while so engaged shall be entitled to the same pay, subsis itence and transportatioil or travel Sallowance as officers and enlisted mens * of corresponding grades of the regu Slam army are or may hereafter be en Etitled by law, and the officer so desig- ~ .nated and appointed shall be regard-t -ed as disbursing officer of the United ~ IStates and shall render his accounts t. HOT BISCU hot cake" ROYAL Ba are deliol fu and e through the war department .to the proper accounting officers of the treasury for settlement, and he shall be required to give good and suffi cient bonds to the United States, in such sums as the secretary of war may direct. faithfully to account for the safe-keeping and payment of pub lic moneys so intrusted to him for disbursement." Results of Inspections. On May 16 of this year, following an inspection of the companies of the National Guard of South Carolina, Gen. A. L. Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs, addressed a report to Adjt. Gen. Moore, in which he re-! viewed the condition of each com pany in, the State. Gen. Mills con cluded: "3. Section 3 of the 'militia law states that the organization, arma ment and discipline of the organized miltia shall be the same as that of the regular army, and the appropria tion of federal funds for the support of an organization of the organized militia is contingent upon compliance with this law. "4. Inasmuch as It Is not tie pol icy of the war department to foster the maintenance of organizations that do not promise at least a proba bility of a return in the nature of ef ficient service when called upon by the federal government, it is request ed that as soon as practicable this division be informed of the steps tak en to remedy or terminate present conditions existing in these organiza tions as revealed by these reports. "5. In the case of Companies B and F, First infantry; B, C, E, and K of the Second Infantry, and E, G, H, I, and K, Third infantry, it would appear that the only way to remedy existing conditions would be to mus ter the organizations out of service. However, on this point communica tion from you will be awaited." Following inspections this year of the South Carolina companies of the National Guard, made by First Lieut. James G. Boswell, inspector-instruc tor, Gen. A. L. Mills, chief of the division of miltia affairs, made report to Adjt. Gen. Moore in accordance with the provisions of section 14 of 'the miltia law. The following are the reports by Gen. Mills on the com panies that he recommended to be mustered out: "First Infantry, Company B-Arm ory: Drill hall reported as inadequate and the building reported as not se cure from elements and theft. No complete system of property records kept. General condition of small arms very dirty and rust-eaten. Property reported as' generally not properly stored or cared for. Drill and instruction, appearance and neatness, steadiness in ranks, school of the soldier and squad, reported as very poor. Effieiency in armory in structions-'With the exception of a little extended order, this company is inefficient in armory instruction'." "Company F-Nc record kept showing attendance at drill or assem bly. Armory-Drill hall reported as Inadequate and building as not secure from elements or theft. No complete system of property records kept. Gen eral condition of small arms t'eported as bad. All property reported as not properly stored or cared for. Drill and instruction reported as generally poor. Efficiency In armory instruc ton-'Poor.' This organization is sadly deficient in armory instruction., Evidently very few drills have ,been held." "Second infantry, Company B-No record kept showing attendance at drill or assembly. Armory--Drill hail reported as inadequate and building as not secure from elements or theft. No system of property re cords kept. General condition of small arms poor. Quartermaster and ordnance property reported as generally not properly stored or car ed for. Dri:I and Instruction, steadi ness in ranks, school of the soldier, squad and company reported as poor. "Company C-No records kept showing attendance at drill or assem bly. No complete system of property records kept, General condition of small arms reported as bad. Prop rty reported generally as not prop rly stored or cared for. Drill and nstuction reported as generally poor. Efficiency in armory instruction This orgarnization is sadly lacking in rmory' instruction.' "Company E-No record kept showing attendance at drill or as sembly. No system of property re ords kept. General conditions of small arms. 'Dirty and rust-eaten.' rill and Instruction reported as gen rally very poor. "Company K-No record kept for Lhe year 1912 showing attendance at rills or assembly. Armory reported s not secure from elements or theft. o system of property records kept. Jondition of small arms reported to e very dirty. Quartermaster and~ rdnance prbperty reported as not roperly stored or cared fo. Effi lency in armory instructions-'This ompany is very poor at drill and in rmory instruction.' " "Third Infantry, Company E pecial attention invited to remarks n page 23 of the report. "Companies 0, H, I, and K-Spe jal attention invited to remarks on ages 23 and 24 of the report." These sections say tha. the com 4anies are generally inefficient inso .r as instruction and discipline are oncerned, also that few records are ept and that the .property is in a eplorable condition'.) Gn. Mills. in other' words, made vere specific criticism of eleven .spanies af the National Guard of outh Carolina--two in the First giment, four in the Second. five in e Third--and recommended that hese companies be mustered out of' IT, , made with lung Powder bous, health isily made. EDITORS MEET TOGETHER. Are Having a Good Time at the Isle of Palms. Into Charleston's welcoming arms trooped the editors of South Caro lina Thursday for the annual meeting of the South Carolina Press Associa tion, which commenced on the Isle of Palms Thursday and will continue until Saturday with a large number of the editors remaining over to en joy themselves. Daily, weekly and other sorts of editors, publishers, business managers, in fact, all sorts of newspaper men are here for-tn Convention and their sessions Thurs day were enthusiastic. Between ses sions they amused themselves by talking, walking, bathing, eating, sending post cards to the country and sundry other things which edi tors and others are prone to.dowhen visiting the Isle of Palms. Three very, ver'y busy sessions were held the 'first day and a lot- of work was done. Yet the members were not fatigued, because of the re freshing and Invigorating atmosphere which surrounded them. Many of them expressed themselves as charm ed with the Isle of Palms as a sum mer meeting place, and some who bad not been at the watering place for a few years, remarked on the re cent marked Improvements that have been made. The present officers of the Press A esoclation are: President. H. L. Wa+son, Greenwood T'4ex: firat vice Tresident, E. H. DeCm'mn. -Gaffney Ledger: second vice-nresidont, Wil liam- Banks, Ander-on nah1v Mail; treasurer. .Tames L. Sims. OWar'eburg 'imes enT1 Demoirat: se-retary, W. F. Caldwell. The News and Courier's Cnlumbia- Burean. Fxecu+ com mitteemen and ofcers e-ofro are: Robert Tathan. The News and Cour ier: Neils Christensen. Reeufort Gazette: A. B Jordan. Dille" Terald. All of these are present at th- meet inr, except Senator Christ-en, of Beaufort, whe sent his regrets. A Free Public Library Needed. The most valuable possession of any community is the possession of a number of intelligent boys and girls, with the innumerable possibili ties of their lives locked In their be ing. The duty of every town is to provide for that body of its inhabi tants some means through which they will be enabled to develop their la tent talent for without an opportuni ty being presented to them they can do very little towards self-develop men. Their Interest should be stim ulated -by ibeing -brought into contact with the forces of literature, and with the ever-stimulating buffeting of opinion that from-the reading of con temporaneous thought. One of the .best agencies in such a work is a free public library. Orange bu: g is without any means for a young .person to become accustomed to spending his or her time in read ing the writings of the best men of the world, or In learning things that would be of inestimable service in la ter life. There Is great pleasure to be derived from the reading and mas tering of any good piece of literature, and we should see to it that our young people have a chance to enjoy this privilege.- A public library would be the means of giving young people some entertainment and study at the age when they are adapting themselves to their rapidly changing life. ReaI Secret of a Happy Life.~ Recently Senator W. E. Chilton, of West Virginia, answering a list of cuestions from a New York religious publication gave some other observa tions of his own: "The tendency to get away from the old-fashioned faith and church service Is due to our modern 'get rich-quick' methods; but this tenden cy will be short lived," wrote the Senator. "Without the church and Sunday school we should be lost. This 'correspondence fixed with heaven' is now and always must be our surest anchor. It is hard to Im prove upon the Sermon on the Mount and difficult to conceive of a religion less burdensome to carry than that of Jesus Christ. "Money can do much, but it can not obviate death. It cannot buy respect and love. It may take an other generation to teach the world that the road to happiness has some 'faith' at every milestone: and as Christ's Is the best, it will be upper most in the hearts of our people. It cannot be changed or modified. It must be loved and followed, or hated and abandoned. There- is no middle ground. There is no Improvement that man can make. It is right or wrong. Each heart must answer." Don't Try it Girls. Mfost people will commend the judge who refused a divorce to the woman who married a drunkard to reform him and failed in the attempt. P'his marrying men to reform them s the most foolish and disappointing thing posisble, for not once in a :housand does it succeed. If a man w'ill not reform before marriage there s mighty little prospect of his doing ;o after mariage. And, anyway, the nan who pleads with a woman to narry him to effect a reformation In uis morals is such a contemptible pecimen that he is not worth marry ng under any circumstances. The oung woman who marries a young can who drinks to excess with the xpectation of reforming him, makes sad mistake. All of us know some yeet, young woman who has trnI~ he experiment and failed. So we rould say, girls, don't. It begins to look like McReynolds las nabbed Mc)Tab.