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Proudest Thing to Report is Thi
ed Throughout the World.
Purpose of the
THE WORLD WAR WAS WON B\
Critics Invited to Test the Senti
"We Set Out to Make Men F
Them Free, and Sustain 1
Mechanics Hall. Boston, Feb. 24.?
The text of President Wilson's address
here is as follows:
Governor Coolidge, Mr. Mayor.
Fellow Citizens: I wonder if you are
half as glad to see me as I am to see
you. It warms my heart to see a
great body of my fellow citlsens
again, because in some respects during
the recent months I have been
very lonely indeed without your comradeship
and counsel, and I tried at
every step of the work which fell to
me to recall what I was sure would
be your counsel with regard to the
great matters which were under consideration.
I do not want you to think that I
have not been appreciative of the extraordinary
reception which was given
to me on the other side, in saying
that it makes me very happy to get
home again. I do not mean to say
that I was not very deeply touched
by the cries that came from the great
crowds on the other side. But I want
to say to you in all honesty that I
felt them to be a call of greeting to
you rather than to me.
I did not feel that the greeting was
personal. I had in my heart the
over-crowning pride of being your
representative and of receiving the
plaudits of men everywhere who felt
that your hearts beat with theirs in
those great crowds. It was not a tone
of mere greeting; it was not a tone of
mere generous welcome; it was the
calling of comrade to comrade, the
cries that come from men who say,
"We have waited for this day when
the friends of liberty should come
across the sea and shake hands with
us, to see that a new world was constructed
upon a new basis and a
foundation of Justice and right."
Inspired by Crowd's Voices.
I can't tell you the inspiration that
came from the sentiments that come
out of those simple voices of the
crowd. And the proudest thing i have
to report to you is that this great
country of ours is trusted throughout
the world. ^
I have not come to report the pro
ceedings or the results of the proceedings
of the peace conference;
that would be premature. I can say
that I hare received very happy Impressions
from this conference ;the
impression that while there are many
differences of judgment, while there
are some divergences of object, there
is nevertheless a common spirit ind
a common realisation of the necessity
of setting up new standards of right
in the world.
Because the men who are in conference
in Paris realise as keenly as
any American can realise that they
are not the masters of their people;
that they are the servants of their
people, and that the spirit of their
people has awakened to a new purpose
and a new conception of their
power to realise that purpose, and
that no man dare go home from that
conference and report anything lasi
noble than wan expected of it.
Why Conference "Goes Glowiy."
The conference seems to you to go
slowly; from day to day in Paris it
seems to go slowly; but I wonder if
you realise the complexity of the task
which it haR undertaken It seernn
as if the settlements of this war affect,
and affect directly, every great,
and I sometimes think every small,
nation In tha wnrM nn nno Hi>.
clsion can prudently be made which
la not properly linked with the grent
series of other decisions which must
accompany it And it must be reckoned
in with the final result if the
real quality and character of that result
is to be properly Judged.
What we are doing is to hear the
whole case; hear it from the mouths
of the men most interested; hear it
from those who are officially commissioned
to state it; hear the rival
claims: hear the claims that affect
new nationalities, that affect new
areas of the world, that affect new
commercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
have gone. And I have been struck
by the moderateness of those who
have represented national claims. I
can testify that I have nowhere seen
the gleam of passion. ! have seen
earnestness, I have seen tears come
to the eyes of men who pleaded for
down-trodden people whom they were
privileged to speak for; but they were
not the tears of anguish; they were
the tears of ardent hope.
And I don't see how any man can
fall to have been subdued by these
pleas, subdued to the feeling that
lie was not there to assert an individual
Judgment of his own, hut to
try to assist the cause of humanity.
All Look to America.
And in the midst of It all. every
interest seeks out. first of all, wh<W
< Jt reaches Paris, the representative^
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DEFIES THOSE 10'
ME DF NATIONS
it This Great Country is Trust?No
Nation Distrusts the
United States.
f THE INSPIRATION OF IDEALS
ments of the American Nation:
tee, and Now We Will Make
Ihem in Their Freedom."
of the United States. Why? Because
?and I think I am stating the most
wonderful fact in history?because
there is no nation in Europe that
suspects the motives of the United I
States.
Was there ever so wonderful a '
thing seen before? Was there ever
so moving a thing? Was there ever
any fact that so bound the nation
that had won that esteem forever to
deserve it?
I would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference are
disesteemed by those who know them.
Quit the contrary. But you understand
that the nations of Europe have
again and again clashed with one another
in competitive interest. It is
impossible for men to forget those
sharp issues that were drawn between
them in times past. It is impossible
for men to believe that all ambitions
have all of a sudden been foregone. (
They remember territory that was
coveted; they romomber rights that
it was attempted to extort; they remember
political ambitions which it j
was attempted to realise?and while
they believe that men have come Into
a different temper, they cannot for- >
get these things, and so they do not
resort to one another for a dispassionate
view of the matters in controversy.
They resort to that nation
which has won the enviable dtstinc- |
tion of being regarded as the friend j
of mankind. i
Whenever it is desired to send a
small force of soldiers to occupy a
piece of territory where it fs thought
nobody else will be welcome, they
ask for American soldiers. And
where other soldiers would be looked
upon with suspicion, and perhaps
meet wtih resistance, the American j
soldier is welcomed with acclaim.
Imaiiij Mrvunus i ur r riuo.
I have had so many grounds for
pride on the other side of the water
that I am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride.1
I'd be the most stuck-up man In the
world. And it has been an infinite
pleasure to me to see those gallant
soldiers of ours, of whom the constitution
of the United States made
me the proud commander. You may
be proud of the Twenty-sixth division,
but I commanded tho Twenty-sixth
division, and see what they did
under my direction, and everybody
praises the American soldier with the
feeling that In praising him he is subtracting
from the credit of no one
else.
! have been searching for the fundamental
fact that converted Europe
to believe In us. Before this war Europe
did not believe in us as she does
now. She did not believe In us
throughout the first three years of
the war. She seems really to have
believed that we were holding ofT be- <
cause'we thought we could make more
by staying out than by going in. And
all of a sudden, in a short 18 months,
the whole verdict is reversed. There
can be but one explanation for It.
They saw what we did?that wtihout
making a single claim we put all our
men and pli our means at the disposal
of those who were fighting for j
their homeR. in the first instance, but
for a cause, the cause of human
rights and justice, and that wa went
In. not to support their national
claims, but to support the great cause
which they held in common.
And when they saw that America
not only held ideals, but acted ideals,
they were converted to America and
became firm partisans of those ideals. :
Met Greek Scholars.
I met a group of scholars when I
was in Paris?some gentlemen from
ono of the Greek universities who had
come to see, and in whosp presence, or
| rather in the presence of those traditions
of learning. I felt very young
Indeed. I
I told them that I had one of the
delightful revenges that sometimes
comes to a man. All my life I had
heard men sneak with a sort of con-'
descension of ideals and of idealists,
and particularly those separated, encloiatered
horizons whom they choose
to term academic, who were in the
habit of uttering ideals in the free
atmosphere when they clash with no-:
body In partciular. j
And I said I have had this sweet
revenge. Speaking with perfect
frankness. In the name of the people
of the United States. I have uttered
aa the objects of this great war ideals,
and nothing but ideals, and the war
has been won by that inspiration.
Men were fighting with tense muscle
and lowered head until they came to
realise those things, feeling they
were fighting for their livos and their
country, and when these acconta of
what H was ail about reached them
from America they lifted their heads,1
l^ey raised their eyes to heaven.!
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whoa tbaiy hv mem fa kbahi coming
across the oca la die spirit of crusaders,
and they louaa that these were
strange man, reckless of danger not
only, but reckless because they seem-1
ed to see something, that made that
danger worth while. Men hay# tea- J
tided to me in Europe that our men ,
were possessed by something that
they could only cell e religious fervor.
They were not like any of the
other soldiers. They had a vision,
they had a dream, and. fighting in the
dream .they turned the whole tide of !
battle and it never came back.
Tribute of a Humorist. ?
One of our American bhmorista
meeting the criticism that 'American
soldiers were not trained Ions enoneh.
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said:
"R take* only half as long to train
an American soldier as any other, because
you only hare to train him one
way. and he did only go one way.
and he never came back until he could
do ft when he pleased."
And now do you realise that this;
confidence we bare established j
throughout the world imposes*a bur-,
den upon us?if you choose to call j
it a burden. It is one of those bur-'
dens which any nation onght to be |
proud to carry. Any man who resists
the present tides that run in the
world will find himself thrown upon |
a shore so high and barren that it
will seem as if he had been separated
from his human kind forever.
The Europe that I left the other!
day was full of something that it had
never felt fill its heart so full before.
It was full of hope. The Europe of
th eseoond year of the war, the Europe
of the third year of the war, was
sinking to a sort of stubborn desperation.
They did not see any great
thing to be achieved even when the
war should be won. They hoped
there would be some salvage; they
hoped that they could clear their territories
of invading armies; they
hoped they could set up their homes
and start their industries afresh. But
they thought it would simp!" be the
resumption of the old life that Europe
had?led in fear, led in anxiety,
led in constant suspicious watchfulness.
T". ey never dreamed that it
would be a Europe of settled peace"
and of justified hone
All Peoples Buoyed Up.
And now these ideals have wrought
this new magic, that all the peoples
of Europe are buoyed up and confident
in the spirit of hope, because
they believe that we are at the eve
of a new age in the world when nations
win undratand one another,
when nations will support one another
in every Just cause, when nations
will unite every moral and every physical
strength to see that the right
'-hall prevail.
If America were at this juncture to
fail the world, what would come of
it? I do not mean any disrespect to
any other great people when I say
that America is the hope of the world,
and if she does not justify that hope
the results are unthinkable. Men will
be thrown back upon the bitterness
of disappointment not only, but the
bitterness of despair. All nations
will be set up as hostile camps again;
the men at the peace conference will
go home with their heads upon their
breasts, knowing that they have failed?for
they were bidden not to come
home from there until they did something
more than sign a treaty of
peace.
Suppose we sign the treaty of peace
and that it is the moat satisfactory
treaty of peace that the confusing elements
of the modern world will afford
and go home and think about our
labors; we will know that we have
left written upon the historic table at
Versailles, upon which Vergeness and
Benjamin Franklin wrote their names,
nothing but a modern scrap of paper.
No nations united to defend, no great
forces combined to make it good, no
assurance given to the downtrodden
and fearful people of the world that
they shall be safe. Anv man who
thinks that America will take part
in (tiring the world any such rebuff
and disappointment as that does not
know America.
Challenge to Critics.
I invite him to test the sentiments
of the nation. We set this up to make
men free, and we did not confine our
conception and purpose to America,
and now we will make men free. If
we did not do that, the fame of America
would he gone and all her powers
would be dissipated. She then would
have to keep her power for those narrow.
selfish, provincial purposes which
seem so dear to some tninds that have
no sweep beyond the nearest horiion.
I should welcome no sweeter challenge
than that. I have fighting blood
In me and it is sometimes a delight
to let it have scope, but If it is a
challenge on this occasion it will be
nn indulgence. Think of the picture,
think of the utter blackness that
would fall on the world?America has
failed. America made a little essay
at generosity and then withdrew.
America said: "We are your friends."
hut it was only for today, not for tomorrow.
America said: "Here is our
power to vindicate right" and then
the next day said: "Let right take
care of itself and we will take cam
of ourselves." America said: "We set
up a light to lead men along the paths
of liberty bnt we have lowered it, it is
intended only to light our own path."
We set up a great deal of liberty,
and then we said: "Liberty is a thing
that you must win for yourself, do not
call upon us." And think of the
world that we would leave. Do you
realize how many new nations are going
to be set up in the presence of old
and powerful nations In Europe and
left there, if left by us, without a disinterested
friend?
What of the Helpless?
Do vou believe In the Polish cause.
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mm ft ma I ftJT 70a going 10 Ml up.roland,
immature, inexperienced, as jet
unorganised, and lea to her with a
clfcle of armies around her? Do you
believe in the aspiration at (he
Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs as
I do? Do you know how many powers
would be quick to pounce upon
them if there were not the guarantees
of the world behind their liberty?
Hare you thought of the suffering
of Armenia? You poured out yoofr
money to help succor the Armenians
after they suffered; now set your
strength so that they shall never suffer
again.
The arrangements of the present
peace cannot stand a generation tm- ?J
less they are guaranteed by the united
forces of the civilised world. And
if we do not guarantee them, cannot
you see the picture? Your hearts
have instructed you where the burden
of this war fell. It did not fall
upon the national treasuries, it did
not fall upon the instruments of administration,
it did not fall upon the
resources of the nations. It fell upon
the victims' homes everywhere,
where women were toiling in hope
that their men would come back. %
No Doubt of Verdict?
When I think of the homes upon
which dull despair would settle where
this great hope is disappointed, I
should wish for my part never to have
had America play any part whatever
in this attempt to emancipate the
| world. But I talk as If there were
any questions. I hare no moro doubt
I of the verdict of America in this mat;
ter than I have of the blood that is in
I me.
j And so. my follow citizens. I have
j come hack to report progress and I
i do not believe the progress is going
to stop short of the goal. The nations
' of the world have set their heads now
j to do a great thing, and they are not
going to slacken their purpose. And
I when I speak of the nations of the
! world. I do not speak of the governments
of the world. I speak of the
peoples who constitute the nations of
the world. They are In the saddle and
they are going to see to it that if their
present governments do not do their
will, some other governments shall.
| And the secret is out and the present
governments know it.
I There is a great deal of harmony
! to be got out of common knowledge.
There is a great deal of sympathy to
be got out of living in the same atmosphere.
and except for the differences
of languages, which puzzled my
American ear very sadly. I could have
believed I was at home in France or
in Italy or in Bngland when I was on
the streets, when I was In the presence
of the crowds, when I was in
great halls where men were gathered
together, irrespective of class. I did
not feel quKe as much at home as I
do here, but I felt that now, at any
rate, after this storm of war had
cleared the air. men were seeinr eve
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I to eye everywhere and these were the
I kind of folks who would understand
what the kind of folks at home would
understand and that they were thinking
the same things.
Manners Very Delightful.
I feel about you as I am reminded
of a story of that excellent witness
and good artist, Oliver Herford. who
one day. sitting at luncheon at his
club, was slapped vigorously on the
back by a man whom he did not know
very well. He said: "Oliver, old boy,
how are you?" Ho looked at him
rather coldly. He said: "I don't
know your name. I don't know your
face, but your manners are very familiar."
and I must say that your
manners are very familiar, and let
me add very delightful.
It is a great comfort for one thing,
to realize that you all understand the
language I am speaking. A friend of
mine said that to talk through an interpreter
was like witnessing the compound
fracture of an idea. But the
beauty of it is that, whatever the impediments
of the channel of communication.
the idea is the same; that
it gets registered, and it gets regis
tered in responsive hearts and receptive
purposes.
i nave come Darn ror a strenuous
' attempt to transact business for a lit|
tie while in America, but I have reall
ly come back to say to you. in all
| soberness and honesty, that I have
been trying my beat to speak your
thoughts.
When I sample myself, I think I
find that I am a typical American,
and if I sample deep enough. and get
down to what Is probably the true
stuff of a man. then I have hope that
It Is part of the stuff that is like the
other fellow's at home.
And, therefore, probing deep in my
heart and trying to see the things
that are right without regard to the
things that may be debated as expedient.
I feel that I am Interpreting tho
purpose and the thought of America;
and in loving 'America I find I have
joined the great majority of my feL
lowmen throughout the world.
DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE
ARE "LORDS OF THE WORLO"
Iyondon.?Under the heading "The
Lords of the Wrorld" The Frankfurter
Zettung publishes a rather lively
sketch of the peace delegates in Paris.
It wonders whether any of them will
turn out to be a Metternlch. a Talleyrand.
a Hardenberg, a Nesselrode. or
a Castlereagh, but thinks that none
of them at present can be compared
with Bismarck. Disraeli or Gortschakoff.
It Is added :
Wilson. Clemenceau and Lloyd
George are already characters with
sharply and firmly outlined features.
What they have done for their countries
the war raises them high above
middle stature. But their greatness
as statesmen has still to undergo the
tests of fire at the green table.
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JIT 27, 1919
FIGHT ON EMBARGO
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AMENDMENT INSERTED IN THE
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL' REMOVES
RESTRICTIONS ON EXPORTS.
INCLUDES JILL OUR EXPORTS
Reapproprtation Item Approved Altai*
Adoption of Bland Amendment
Relating to Embargoee.
Washington.?Representatives from
the cotton growing states were successful
in their efforts to writa an
amendment into the sundry civil bill,
designed to remove all embargoes
placed by the war trade board against
cotton export shipments. The amendment,
Including the amendment, now
goes to the senate.
Although designed primarily to affect
cotton shipments, the amendment
applies to all American goods
exported to foreign countries. The
nmpndmpn t nronu rnH of ?
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of southern representatives, was offered
in the house by Representative
Bland, of Georgia, and afterward
amended on motion of Representative
Steagail. of Alabama, so that cottonseed
and peanut oil also would not be
subject to embargo.
The amendment was offered while
the house, in committee of the whole,
was considering an item of the sundry
civil bill reappropriating for the
war trade board the unexpended balance
of appropriations granted last
yeur for continuing its operation.
Continuance of the agency for a part
of the next flscal year may be necessary.
it was said by members of the
appropriations committee, who framed
the sundry civil bill. Funds, it
was added, also would be necessary
for the agency to settle its accounts.
The reappropriation item was approved
after adoption of the Bland
amendment which directs that no
part of the appropriation bill will be
available unless all embargoes are
lifted.
IRISH DELEGATE PRESENTS
CREDENTIALS TO CONFERENCE
Paris.?Sean O'Cealligh presented
himself to the peace conference as
.the "accredited envoy of the provisional
government of the Irish repub11*"
O'Cealligh has sent to Premier
Cletnenceau. to Paul Dutasta, secretary
general of the peace conference,
and to each delegate, a letter, in
which he brings to their notice the
claim of his government, in the name
of the Irish nation, for international
recognition of the independence of
Ireland and for the admission of Ireland
as a constituent member of the
league of nations.
This communication was accompanied
in each case by* copies of the
Irish declaration of independence.
In his letter O'Cealligh states that
Professor de Valera, Arthur Griffith
and Count Plunkeli have been delegated
by the national assembly to present
a statement to the peace conference
and to the league of nations
in the name of the Irish people. Ho
asks a date be fixed for the reception
of these men.
POLITICAL OFFENDERS ARE
FREED BY AMNESTY DECREE
Rome.?Under the amnesty decree
just published, various socialist leaders.
condemned for political offenses,
such as incitement to revolution, were
released from imprisonment in Turin.
Among them are Signor Serrati, editor
of The Avantl.
In the evening the released men
went to Camera del Ijavoro. Turin,.
wher^ a great crowd of workmen
awaited them. A triumphant meeting
followed. The tenor of the speeches
may be gathered from the language
used by Signor Serrati, who said Russia
was the only nation which h-Ml
found the right way of treating enemies
of the proletariat. Virtually all
the speakers urged the people of Italy
to follow in the footsteps of Russia.
FIRST SPEECH IN SENATE IN
riCCCMCC OC rAHOTITI ITiriKJ
Washington:?The first address in
the senate in defense of the proposed
constitution of the league of nations
was delivered by Senator Lewis, of Illinois.
Democratic whip, who took issue
with the recent criticism made
by Senators Borah. Republican, and
Reed, Democrat.
Speaking for nearly two hours.
Senator Lewis denied contentions of
opponents of the league that it would
abrogate the Monroe doctrine.
CLEMENCEAU'8 WOUNDS DO
NOT INTERFERE WITH WORK
Paris. ? Premier Clemenceau's
wounds have not interfered with the
conference work and a general ? ffort
has been made to speed up all work
of committees so an to be able to establish
with all possible rapidity the
preliminary peace terms. It is intended
that in preliminary peace terms,
which it is hoped iflll be ready for
signatures earlier than was generally
expected, the future frontiers of Germany
will be drawn.
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BETHEA FILES PAMA6E SUIT
An Action for Libol Is Brought by
ExLieut. Gov. Bothsa Against tho
Columbia Evening Record.
Damages to the amount of 1100.009
are being asked in a libel suit brought
by Andrew ^ Bethea against The Record
Publishing Company and R. Carlton
Wright, editor and publisher. The
suit is the outcome of the publication
of two articles In The Record in which
it was alleged that Mr. Bethea had no
right to wear the uniform of a major
in the United States army, and in one
that Mr. Bethea was called to Camp
Jackson a few days ago, and compelled
to disrobe. Mr. Bethea's attorneys
are J. Fraser Lyon and D. W. Robinson
of Columbia, and George Bell-Timmerman
of Lexington.
Large Refinery Projected.
Charleston.?Official announcement
was made by J. C. King, agent at
Charleston of the Standard Oil Company,
of plans to establish on the recently
purchased tracts with Coops!
river frontage, an oil refinery capable
of supplying all the varied petroleum
products now being marketed in Charleston
afid the neighboring territory.
The construction is designed to provide
gasoline, refined oil. nsphalt road
oils, fuel oils and all the other derivatives
of petroleum.
Delegates to Peace League.
kock mii>.?The league to Enforce
Peace. through ex-President William
"H. Taft, has lequested President D. B.
Johnson of Winthrop College to name
Ave delegates to the Southern congress
for a league of nations to be
held in Atlanta on Friday and Saturday,
February 28 and March 1. According
to this request and authority,
President Johnson has appointed the
following delegates to represent the
State: Dr. S. H. Edmunds of Sumter,
W. J. Roduey of Rock Hill. Col. Leroy
Springs of Lancaster. Frank Evans.
superintendent of Spartanburg
schools; Thomas F. McDow of York.
Tragic Death in Swamp.
Columbia.?Belton S. Rawls prominent
farmer of Lykesland met a tragic
death in a swamp near Flat Lake,
about 15 miles south of Columbia. He
was one of a party of seven going out
to search for wild hogs. Mr. Rawls
separated from four men with guns
and fell mortally wounded when they
flred their loads of buckshot at a hog.
One stray shot entered the bpdy under
the left arm and pierced the heart.
He died ten minutes after receiving
the inpury.
Mr. Rawls carried a gun and was
kneeling in a firing position when
struck by a stray shot. J. D. Dunnaway
ran up to the stricken man who
said, "Somebody dropped me, I am
shot, and my side is paralyzed." He
expired shortly afterward. The body
was brought to his home at Lykesland
on an improvised stretcher.
The hunting party was composed of
Mr. Rawls and his brother. R. P.
Rawls, J. D. Dunuaway and four negroes,
Haskell Corley, Marshall
Squlremack. Will Squiremack and Joe
Goodwin. Dunnaway and Corley did
not carry guns.
Explosion Wrecks Garage.
Camden.?The garage work shop of
the Consolidated Auto Company was
the scene of a disastrous explosion
when a carbide generator on a welding
outfit exploded. L. A. Haines and
James Griggs, mechanics in the shop,
were very seriously injured.
Mr. Haines' injuries could not he
determined further than a badly lacerated
arm and burns about the face.
Mr. Griggs had his eyes and face terribly
burned, bat it is thought he will
not lose the sight of either eye. Both
men were hurried to the Camden Hospital,
where they were given surgical
attention, but physicians could not
state at this time the full extent of
their injuries.
Death of Professor Scull.
Sumter.?Word has been received
of the* death of Prof. Samuel Scull,
who made his home here many years
ago. at his residence in Jacksonville,
after a long illness. He was a retired
bandmaster and music dealer. He
leaves his wife and two daughters.
Misses Helen and Erma Scull, all of
whom are pleasantly remembered
here.
Rumors Pales as to Thirtieth.
Charlestc. ?Col. I?awronce Brown,
u. a. a.. aooarsauon officer of the
southeastern department, issued a
statement denying widespread rumors
that the Thirtieth division had sailed
from France for America. The latest
official information received here
is that the Thirtieth division has not
yet arrived at its port of embarkation.
One man traveled several hundred
miles from Tenneseee to Charleston
to icreet his son, who is with the Thirtieth
division, only to meet with disappointment.
Contract Let for Drainage.
Tork.?After some delay caused by
the reluctance of the commissioners
to have the work done until labor hecomes
cheaper, the contract for the
drainage of Turkey Creek has been
awarded to Sigmunds ft Rhinehart.
the price being nine cents a cubic
yard. Work will begin as early as
practicable. The land that will be affected
by the drainage of the creek
approximates 4.400 acres and is sita
ated in York and Chester counties.
The drainage project had its inception
four years ago.
V ff?
$L25 Per Tear.
GOVERNOR COOPER
A- IIAV A * Afim
IS NUIJAIISHtU
CERTAIN PROVWIONB IN THE
APPROPRIATION BILL WILL
NOT MEET CONDITIONS.
ADEQUATE MILITARY POWER
Mor? Monty Needed For Pension* For
Confederate Veterans and Wldowa
to Assist Advancing Age.
Columbia.?Governor Cooper sent a
message to the general assembly emphasizing
that certain provisions of
the appropriation bill, as passed by
the house, were inadequate to meet existing
conditions. The three item *
cited are for Confederate veterans,
the national guard and the vocation.il
training fund.
Governor Cooper calls the attention
of the legislators to the extreme necessity
of adequate military power
during this period of readjustingt.
"In the light of conditions wh'eh
forecast certain possibilities I feel justified
in saying that ut no time within
the past 25 >ears. except during the
time war was actually being fought,
has there been such need for an efficient
national guard," ho says.
The third item for which Governor
Cooper appeals is for an increased appropriation
fot Confederate soldiers.
The governor points out that many of
the veterans are infirm and unable to
make a living, but unless these veterans
were wounded, or have since been
paralyzed, they do not qualify in class
A, and in consequence their pensions
are practically negligible.
Chile Teacher at Winthrop.
Rock Hill.?P. P. Claxton. United
States commissioner of education, has
accepted the invitation of President
Johnson to deliver the commencement
address to the graduating class ou
June 3.
Miss Mercedes Manosalva of Chile,
who has been a student teacher in
Winthrop this year, has accep'o 1 c
position in Cornell University for the
summer, where she will preside over
a department of conversational Spanish.
Postofflce Appropriations.
Wasfcingto \ (Special).?The following
are the South Carolina items in
the public building bill reported in
the house: Clinton. $5,000; I?ancanter,
19,000; Aiken, $85,000; Hartsville.
$50,000; Summerville, $45,000; Bamberg.
$5,000; Bishopville, $5,000; Che
raw, $5,000; Conway, $5,000; Easley,
$5,000; Greer, $5,000; Manning, $5,000;
St. Matthews, $5,000; York, $F000;
United States postofflce and
court house end other government of
flees at Greenwood, $125,000. The
secretary of the treasury is author
ized and directed bv the bill to sell
the present federal building and site
at Greenwood at public or private
sale, hut at not Iosh than the value
uh determined ny an appraisal thereof
by the secretary of the treasury
and upon terms as he may deem for
the best interests of the United
States.
GafTney to Extsnd Welcome.
Gaffney.?The people of Gaffney are
arranging to welcome the soldiers of
the county when they return from
overseas. It was reported here that
the Sixty-first regiment had landed in
New York, and this organization has
quite a number of Cherokee county
boys, who were former members of
the coast artillery.
New Whisky Stunt.
Newberry.?A new way to violate
the prohibition law of the State was
detected here by Policeman L. M.
Player. He learned there was a stranger
in town distributing liquor advertisements
and coupon books for ordering
liquor, and swore out a warrant
for him. The literature and orders.
coupons and addressed envelopes
all bore the name of H. W. MetcrK
of Baltimore. He Is the same
Metcalf who operated from Jacksonville.
Fla.. until the prohibition law'
went into effect.
Child Killed by Auto.
Sumter.?Sidney Smith, the small
son of C. E. Smith art -1 -m
_ ?> oiuiiiu/ ne ui
the Avery Lumber Company, was run
over and killed by an automobile
transfer driven by a negrro. The little
boy wan riding; on the back of a
truck and it is said dropped off too
close to the front of the transfer for
the driver, who was only going; at a
moderate rate of speed to turn aside.
The child's head was crushed. He
was carried to the Toumen Hospital,
but died about four hours after the
accident.
Death of a Mother In Israel.
Clemson College.?Mrs. Lela Maxwell
Sloan, widow of P. H. E. Sloan.
Sr., died after continued ill health extending
from the death of her husband
a few years ago. She was nearly 76
years of age. Burial services were
held at the Baptist Church at Pendleton.
The news cf Mrs. Sloan's death will
bring sadness to the hearts of hundreds
of old Clemson men. Many of
them were "her boys" and affectionately
called her "Mother Sloan." lhe
waa a great lover of flowers.