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'V, X VOL. XXXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDNY, FEBRUARY 7, 1917 . N0 6 COUNTRY IS NOW BING PUT ON A FIGHTING BASIS. Congress Speeding Up Work on Measures to Strengthen National Defense TO BUILD 100 SUBMARINES Millions to Buy Ammunition for Merchant Auxiliaries and Add Shipping to Navy. Washington, Feb. 6.-Big increases were added to national defense ap propriation measures in Congress to day and plans were made to put through quickly other provisions re quested by the 'administration to pre pare the country for whatever may follow the break with Germany. The House, hurrying the annual na val bill toward completion, wrote in to it additional appropriations total ing $15,000,000, of which more than $5,000,000 is for ammunition for mer chant auxiliaries and nearly $2,000, 000 for anti-aircraft guns to defend naval stations. Three separate addi tional bills designed to expedite naval construction and aid in developing aeronautics were introduced for con sideration before the end of the week. In the Senate an executive session to consider nominations occupied vir tually the entire day but a bill was put through increasing the penalties for making threats against the Presi dent of the United States and the Re publicans agreed at an informal con ' ference to support a plan for authori zation of 100 submarines in addition to those provided for in the regular building program. While the House was debating the naval bill the military committee brought in the annual army appro priation measure, acrrying $247,000, 000, and including a provision re quested by Secretary Baker yesterday under which the full membership of the army general staff may be brought to Washington in emergency to work on war problems. Among the largest items for new equipment are authorizations of $8,000,000 for aviation, $11,000,000 for equipment and stores of the reserve' corps and $5,500,000 for automatic machine guns for the army and National Guard. Debate on the bill will begin late this week. Fortifications Bill. The annual fortifications bill near ed completion today when the Senate approved the conference report em bodying a provision against purchase of any supplies at a price 25 per cent in excess of the cost of manufacture by the government. The House is expected to approve the report in a few days. Progress was made in committees of both Houses on the new series of laws dealing with conspiracies against the United States and in the interest of foreign governments. Of the trio of administration bills presented in the House today to strengthen the naval army of defense n the present emergency, the Navy epartment attaches particular im ortance to one which wvouldl emp~ower he President to take into public ser ice when necessary any manufactur ing plant which refuses to give pre cedance to government orders for ves sels or other wVar material. To P'urchase Patents. ftAnother of the bills would author ize a $150,000,000 bond issue to p~ro vide funds for i'i-uring quick dleliv cry of . m' Vessels now unsier een Sstfaction and a third wvould appro priate $1,000,000 for government pur chase of basic aeroplane and seaplane pa tents. , Besides raising the anti-aircraft gun appropriation from $1,000,000 to $3,800,000 in order to sup~ply three for each naval station andl the ap propriation for merchant 'auxiliary ammunition from $1,500,000 to $7, 68l,000, the House inserted in the bill aa new item of $1,250,000 for machine guns for ships of the navy and made many other increases, including the following: * Ordnance andl ordnance stores from $7,602,000 to $8,488,000; batteries for ~jmerchant-auxiliaries $4,367,000 to $5, 781,000, and ammunition for naval hips $1,500,000 to $3,500,000. A provision for federal use of the: ew comimonweialth dry'dock at Bos n recommended by the Navy De-1 'OBA CCO S GERMANS DAMAGE ' 17 SHIPS IN MANILA BAY Manila, Feb. 5.--An examination by navy men of the 17 German ships interned shows that all have been badly damaged, apparently by this crews. The ships interned in Manila bay are the Andalusia, Bochum, Camilla Rickmers, Carl Diederichsen, Clara Jebson, Coblenz, Elmshorn, Essingen, Jihanne, Lyeemore, Mark, Pontong, Rajah, Sachsen, Sambia, Euevia and Tubingen. Over 80,000 tonnage is represented in the 17 vessels. Liner Chicago Sails. New York, Feb. 5.-The French liner Chicago has left Bordeaux for New York, according to a cablegram received here tonight. The message was dated Sunday, 3 a. m. Pick Up Survivors. Galveston, Texas, Feb. 5.-The Norwegian steamer Ageroen arrived here today from Gibraltar and report ed she had picked up from boats the :aptain and 40 mqn of the Japanese steamer Chinto Maru, sunk by sub marine shell fire on January 4. City Threatened by Fire. Brunswick, Me., Feb. 5.-One whole block of the business section has been :lestroyed by fire, which threatened fully half of the residential section. Scores were driven from homes in scanty clothing. ----o Woman Volunteers. New York, Feb. 5.-Miss Katherine Stimson, the 24-year-old aviator sent a cablegram to the Aero club of America today from Japan offering her services to the government in the 3vent of war. She is at present at 3saka, "looping-the-loop" and giving )ther aerial demonstrations of flying. 0 Loans U. S. Brass Plant. Buffalo, Feb. 5.-Expressing the )elief that the safety of the country lepends upon the mobilization of American industry, W. A. Morgan, president of the Buffalo Copper and Brass Rolling mill, today wired Pres dent Wilson, tendering the plant, the argest brass plant in the world, to he war and navy departments. -o Guarding Panama Canal. Panama, Feb. 5.-Extra precau tions are being taken by the United States military authorities to guard he Panama canal. Colonel Morrow, icting governor of the canal zone, tated today that the canal ports are )eing blocked at night. All suspicious >ersons are being kept under surveil mnce. 0 Holland is Aroused. Amsterdam, Feb. 5.-A U-boat cri ;is between Holland and Germany eems imminent over the sinking last Friday of the Dutch steamship Gan na, boundl from New York to Am ~terdlam. The Dutch government -harges the vessel was first shelled mid then sunk by a German subma 'me. Ford Offers liis Plant. Washington, F'eb. 5.-Henry Ford, >residlent of the F'ord Motor wvork, of Detroit, has offered the use of his 'ilant for the dluration of any govern nental need, wvith the understanding ,hait for the periodl no profit would be nadle out of his great industry. This vould men the sacrifice of practi ally $1,000,000 a month in profits. Cancel Engagements. Washington, Feb. 5.-All pending mocial engagements have been can yelled by President and Mrs. Wilson. artment, was stricken out on a point >f ordler. The bill will come up again 'or passage Truesdlay. Under the terms of the annual mrmy bill as reported today, $3,000, )00 for machine guns which ordinari y wvould not be available until July t, could be used imimediately. This neasure carries $600,000 for armoredl ars; $450,000 for anti-aircraft guns or the army andl $2,500,000 for arms, >rdnance and other expenses of civi ian military taining camps. E3ED FREE4 Matters Legislat About Columbia, S. C., Feb. 5, 1917. Editor Times: Bpth the Senate and the House ad journed Friday until tomorrow, Tues day. This gives the members a chance to spend three days at home. . The most important things done in the legislature the past week were that the Senate killed the proposition to amend the constitution so as to al low women to vote, and the House passed the Richey prohibition bill, When the Senate killed the woman suffrage proposition that saved the House members from the trouble of voting on it at all. There were about a half dozen women who hung around the State house for weeks, trying to argue to the members that the wo men of the State were just raging to have the right of the ballot, while the modest, proper thinking ladies of South Carolina were attending to their affairs at home, not thinking about it at all. After the Senate killed the proposition this committee of women who have been hanging around the state house sent a very sarcastic letter to the Senate, which certainly did not help their cause any. But that only represents the fanatic ism of the idea of women suffrage, which had its origin in the fanatical State of Kansas. I voted against the Richey alleged "airtight" or "bone-dry" prohibition bill. There was no record vote on the direct passage of the bill, but the nearest to a record vote was on a motion to strike out, which virtu ally amounted to a vote on the propo sition, and the vote on this question was about 28 to seventy odd. This seventy was made up of the simon pure prohibitionists, I suspect about 30 to 35 in number, and also a lot of men who voted for it for political reasons, out of pure prejudice, say ing that if they are calling for pro hibition we will ram something down their throats that will react and which they will be sick of, and bring liquor back into the State, and then another element who are opposed to the idea of attempting out and out prohibition at this time, but thought it was a popular wave for the time being and that they had better get on the band-wagon. So far as I am concerned I know too much about the morals of the State and the low kind of politics which South Carolina is afflicted with, for me to be caught in a position of hypocricy by voting for such a measure as the Richey bill is. Of course if I honestly belived it was the best thing to do, I would have voted for it. But I had men to tell me that the bill was unwise and a bad move for the State, and then they turned around and voted for it. Of course I know some people will put me down as an advocate of the sale and abuse of liquor, but that does not disconcert me in the least. It is my honest judgment that the gallon a month law should be cut down, and some restrictions put in the present law against blind tigers, and then let the thing alone. I know very little about the beer and wvine proposition, and~ in fact 1 am no ex MEXICANS ELATED) OVER U. S. BREAK WITH GERMANY El Paso, TVex., Feb. 5.-Elation over the break betwveen the United States and Germany is expressedl by both Villa and Carranzista olleers and sympathizers here and in northern Mexico. The Villastas declare the Unsited States now will be compelled to close in their force in Mexican affairs and permit Villa to proceedl with his cam-. paign against Carranza unhindered. T1hey intimate that Villa is not averse to receiving overtures from Germany to embarras andl harass the United States if war dlevelops. Carranza omicials, while openly ad nitting their pleasure over the break, say they wvill obey Carranza's injunc tion ,for strict neutrality. Kaiser at Headquarters. London, Feb. 5.-The kaiser has just returned to German general headquarters after a conference with King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, at Poes tyn, says a Router (dispatch from A msterdam todlay. at The .Time lye As Written Sy Mr. Lesesne pert, on alcoholic liquors anyhow, but I' think. I do know something about the morals of the people of South Carolina, and I do not think, the time has 'come when the legislature can intrqduce a millenial period of mo rality into the State. Under the Richey bill the lady who makes a quart of black-berry wine is liable to indictment, or the man who has a half pint of whiskey in his valise, or in his possession as for that mat ter, is a vidlator of the law. My belief is that this kind of drastic legislation will not be upheld by the people, that juries will refuse to con vict, that it will mean an influx of all kinds of patent medicines con taining alcohol, and that finally the State will go back to some form of liquor selling, and that the final out come will be that the morals of the State and the respect for the law will be set back so that it will take years to overcome it. I only hope that the theorits and alleged moralists may be right, and that I may be wrong. But there is one thing cer tain, if the Senate doWt modify that Richey bill which the house has pass ed then some of the prohibition ad vocates in the House who drink every night are going to be in, as Dr. Woods used to say, "in a very anomalous predicament." It is a strange thing to me how a man can be an ex preacher and a cigarette fiend, and then a perfect fanatic on prohibition. And there are all kinds like that in the legislature. In fact there is much human nature in the legislature, as well as out in the dark corners. Mr. Mellett's bill to exempt certain portions of Dauglass township from the stock law, to require a fence around the exempted portion, and to require all persons residing within the exempted area to fence crops has passed second reading in the house, and this means that it will become a law. All this war talk about getting into war with Germany will most likely have a wholesome effect upon the- idea of making extravagant appropria tions this year. If we get into war with a foreign power we will have enough troubles with high prices of all kinds of commodities, and certain ly it is not a time for the State to launch into big appropriations and high taxes. I wish I could give the people a more general idea of the many meas ures which came up in the legislature, but it is out of the question in a short weekly letter like this. The session will last about two weeks longer from today, and for a man who is trying to watch and vote against unwise legislatidn, he should be at his post all the time. The pay which a mem ber gets is practically consumed by his expenses, and you may take it from me, that the man who will con sent to leave his business at home and go to the legislature for the little he gets, is a patriotic citizen and has the public welfare at heart; unless, of course, he is a mere politician and is working the job for something else. J. II. Lesesne. Marconi Offers Stations. New York, F'eb. 5.-The Marconi Wireless Telegraph company of America has offeredi the government its entire personnel and equipment. This includes the high-powered sta tions at Cape Cod, Mass.; Belmar, N. J1.; Bolinas, Cal; Kakuku, Hawaii, and sixty other coastal stations. D). A. R. Mobilizes. New York, F'eb. 5.--Steps for geni eral mobilization of 9)5,000 A mericani women for the service of their coun try in the eventualities of a national calamity were taken today by Mrs. William Cumming Storey, president general of the D~aughters of the American Revolution. Malone Makes Denial. New York, Feb. 5.-Collector of the Port Dudley Field Malone this after noon denied that he found a bomb on the steps of his residence here. Col lector Malone said that~ ho had no steps to his house, the entrance being directly from the street. s Office ani HOLD GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS New York, Feb. 5.-More than 2,500 men and officers of the interned German and Austrian vessels in port here are being transported to Ellis Island this afternoon. At the island the interned seamen will face a spe cial board of inquiry which will es tablish their status in the eyes of the government. There are u0o special federal offi cers now on duty at Ellis Island -pre pared for ditty and it is not believed the interned men will be allowed to leave the immigrant station until after the relations between the United States and Germany are more settled. 0 FINDS MOST POWERFUL EXPLOSIVE YET USED South Bend, Ind., Feb. 5.-A new explosive said to be more powerful than any now in use on the European battlefields- has been discovered by Rev. Julius A. Nieuland, of the Notre Dame faculty. He calls it "silver picric acetylide." In making the tests with the sub stance, Dr. Niewland accidentally touched off a small portion of the powder. The apparatus was wrecked and the experimentor was made tem porarily (leaf and nearly suffocated from the gas fumes. Silver has been used as the basic element, but as this is too high priced, Dr. Niewland has been using mercury as a substitute and states that it is as. powerful. The discoverer claims that only one atom of the new explosive would be required to wreck *a large building. 0 Ex-Governor Glenn to Speak. Ex-Governor Glenn, of North Car olina, will be in Manning on next Tuesday night aid will lecture in the Methodist Church in the interest' of National Prohibition. Governor Glenn is one of the great speakers of the country. and is a National figure. Standing room should be at a pre miunm at the Methodist Church when he speaks on Tuesday at 8 P. M. 0 Protest From Brazil. Rio Janeiro, Feb. 5.-Brazil has drawn up a note of protest against Gernany's submarine declarations and a special meeting of the cabinet has been summoned to ratify it. -o Home and Farm Demonstration Meetings. We are planning to hold a series of meetings at the various schools of the County, visiting three or four a (lay. At these meetings Mr. C. A. Mc Faddin, District. Agent, will talk on gardens, peanuts, soy beans, relative to the boll weevil. Mr. P. II. Senn,. our new Farm Demonstration Agent, will tell of what he intends to do in the County, the Corn and the Pig Clubs, etc. Supt. E. J. Browne will take up Agriculture in the schools and co operation of schools with Home and Fanrm Demonstration Forces. I wish to talk on the Canning, Bread, Poultry, and Home Demon stration Clubs. Every one is cordlially invited andl we hope that all who can wvill attend. We want to make this year the best in the history of our wvork but we cannot dto it without cooperation. Hlowever, wve feel confident that every one interested in the welfare of the county will be glad to cooperate. The following is the scherdule for next week{: Tuesday, February 13th. Trinity School at 9 a. m. D~uRant School at 11:30 a. mn. Sardinia School at 2 p. mn. Wednesday, February 14th. Newv Zion School at 10 a. mn. Hicks School at 12 mn. Trurbeville School a4 2 p. mn. Thursday, February 15th, Jordan School at 9 a. mn. Davis Station School at 11 a. mn. Oak Grove School at 1 p. in. Summnerton School at 2 p. mn. Friday, February 16th. Big Branch School at 9 a. mn. Paxville School at 11 a. m. Pine wood School att 1:30 p. in. Katherine M. Richardson, County Home Demonstration Agent. I'Manninig.F L[GISLATURE KI[$ THE RICHEY BONE-DRY PROHIBIION MEASURE House -Votes to Recommit Air-Tight Bone-Dry Prohibition Measure 46 to 44 CAUSE GREAT SURPRISE "Drys" Stunned by Reversal of Three-to-One Majority for. Ill on Friday. Columbia, Feb. 6.-A great sur prise was sprung in the House of Representatives this afternoon when the Richey "air-tight, iron-clad, bone dry" prohibition bill was recommitted to the committee by a vote of 46 to 44. The prohibitionists, stunned by the complete reversal of the nearly three-to-one majority on Friday for the bill into a majority of two against the bill, rallied their forces and de manded a roll call on the motion to put the parliamentary "clincher" on the motion to recommit. Again the op ponents of the bill won by a majority of one vote, the clincher being applied by a vote of 47 to 46. This action practically kills the Richey bill and the House will tomor row take up the Daniel bill, which is even more drastic than the Richey measure, under a special order at noon. "We will either amend the Daniel bill or kill it," said one of the leading opponents of the bill as they filed out of the house for dinner. Opponents Elated. The opponents of the Richey bill were elated over their coup which was one of the quietest and greatest legis lative surprises of the session. Every body thought the motion made by Mr. Searson to recommit the bill would fail but opponents of the bill, among them Messrs.' N. G. Evans, H. H. Evans and T. P. Cothran, lined-up their side quietly. Messrs. Daniel and Richey,.the leaders of the prohibition ists, spoke again for the bill and it was Mr. Toole, another prohibitionist, who made the motion for the previous question on the whole matter. On the roll call when the Speaker an nounced that by a vote of 46 to 44 the motion to recommit had carried, the Prohibitionists could hardly be lieve their ears and they made a fran tic effort to postpone further action by adjourning until tonight but again they failed. The opponents of the bill completed its chloroforming by putting on the "clincher" despite the frantic efforts of the Prohibitionists to save the measure from the dis card. Great speculation was expressed by the ' opponents of the "bone-dry" movement over the "putting to sleep" of the Richey bill and they are con lident they can handle the Daniel bill in the same way tomorrow. "The recess from 1'riday until to :ny was the death of the bill for the mem bers found the people didn't want it," saidI Mr. N. G. E'vans, who helped frame the cou p wvhich disposed of the bill. P'rohibitionists are tonight rallying for a new effort to get the Daniel "bone-dry" bill through tomorrow and a battle royal is pr1omnised. .How They .Voted. The following was the v'ote on the bill, ayes to kill the bill, nays for the bill: Yeas-Bailey Berry, Carter-, Coth ran, Crews, Crum, E. J. Dennis, D~om inick, Duncan, Ellis, HI. HI. Ivans, N. G. Evans, Fromnberg, Graham, H1am blin, Hammond, Hughes, Keenan, HI. KelIly, J1. 0. Kelly, Lanford, Lesesne, Lon;g, L unmpkin, Martin, Mason, Me Cants, D. E. McCutcheni, WV. L. Mc Norton, P'ickens, Redmnon, Riddle, Rtivers, Sanders, Senbrook, Searson,. Sense~ney, IH. L,. Smith, .Jr.,'Thomas., Walker- XWhaley, Young--Total 40s. Nays-Speaker IHoyt, An-'!erson, A tkinson, Booth, Boozer, Boyk in, Bradlham, Byrd, Clinkscales, Coney, Daniel, D~obson, D~uckworth, Ford, Fuller, Fulmner, Goodwin, Gresham, Hlamer, Harrison, HI. T. Johnson, W. WV. Johnson, King, Mactarlan, Maul din, McLaurin, Miellet, Middleton, Mitchell, Neuffer, Nunn, Pognes, Rawlinson, Rector, Richey, Scott, Shull, .S.' E. Smith, Stafford, Strom, Toole, Wasson, Williams, Wi nga rd Total 44. urniture Co.