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i ' ' " ' ~ *''' " ' | t&\)t =Cfjronttle - ? =-= Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNtfr, S. C.. JANUARY 28. 1915 Number lj STARTLING STATEMENT AS TO ALCOHOL'! HARVEST OF DEATH Worthy of the Careful Attention of th Great American People W. D. Boycc Is publisher of Th< Saturday Blade o.f Chicago, with a cir culatlon of 1,250,000 copies a week The issue of January 2nd has reache< this office with the leading editoria marked. The following statements,there in, are so startling and yet seeminglj so well founded, that' we believe? service due from every newspaper along the lines of useful, hones maker?they should be brought especially, to the attention of th American People: We shudder when we read of tbous ands of men killed in battle. Ye alcoholic poison has been taking mor lives every day, under the America] flag, than have been lost on Europe's battlefields. An average of over nini million in one year! It is a staggering statement and one which we ourselvei refuse to believe at first. But its trutl The ballot which the Blade recently has been forced upon us. ^ conducted on the alcoholic questioi was the first effort ever made by anj newspaper to secure Information 01 that subject; there is no other news paper which could have done it on s< large a scale. We set out to get tfr< unprejudiced opinion of the people ol the country, and succeeded- Th< responses, which poured in shawed clearly the interest which thinking people are taking in the biggest prob lem that is before the world todaywaste and loss of life. - Tabulation of answers based on the judgement of the highest authorities on life and health, gives this conclusion ?Alcoholic poison shortens the avertage"life of the American people three Any schoolboy can work out tlbe rest of it. Taking the 100,000,000 population of the United States and its colonies, multiply that by three, the number of years cut from the average life of the American people by alcoholic ?t T-V.-4- -jrum rw?n lift. J'UI>UII, 1 UUl tiwvjwvjvw *MV years annually. The average length of humanlife in the United States is thirty-three years. Divide the 300,000,000 by 33 and you have the average loss of possible life in one year, or over nine million lives. In the United States the average value of a human life is given as $5,000. Multiply the 9.000.000 by $5,000 and you have $45,000,000,000, or more than the great European war will cost if it runs three years. In the midst of its war, Europe is better off than ever before, for the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks ha\Je been curtailed to the lowest point. No wonder Russia was willing to enter the war, with its alcoholic traffic abolished. By cutting out the drinking of alcoholic bever age, Russia saved a loss of 13.000.00C lives a year, while in the war the groat empire cannot lose more than 2,000,000 lives a year. When a war ends, the killing of men is over. The warfare of alcholic poison against humanity will not end until the manufacture of all alcholic drinks is suppressed Nationwide prohibition for the United States has grown much nearer within the pasl year. That such a proposal should receive a majority vote in the nation i House of Representatives in in 1914 was a fact unthought of as recently as five years ago. The vote taken las week is the greatest prohibition victor) ever scored in this country. At the next session of Cougress the questioi will be up again. It will be an issue in the next Presidential campaign Within a few years the traffic in al caholic poison ir. ihe United State: will be totally ended. When we closed the balloting oi the alcohol question, we stated that ai important announcement womu u< made at the first of the year. Tin announcement is that The Iloyc< Weeklies will not print any advertise ments of whiskey, wines, beer or othe alcbolic beverages. Our readers hav decided that for us, by their replies t our inquiry, which showed tlui the great majority of them recogniz the fact that alcohol is poison. The publisher and employes of th FJoyce Weeklies are fully convince that the i se oj alcholic beverages i injurious to everyV t'y We shall no therefore. inco !.<*:?: anyone to ns them by advertising same. Hen tofore the advertising of whiskey ha paid us an average of $r?0.noo a yeai The last contract expired Decembe 31st, and we have refused to rene) any such business. f DISBANDMENT " > ORDER ILLEGAL Pe IK) W< Declares Governor Manning pr & e rte Proclamation Automatically Restored m ve Companies to Former Condition or di s General order No. 2, issued by a th former governor of South Carolina Ai purporting to disband the organized tin * milita of this Statu, was declared <;a 1 "void and of no effect" by a proc- Fe - lamation signed yesterday "by Gov. tin . Richard I. Manning. The proclama <tit tion was issued after the governor had bit considered the question for several co> days. The National Guard associa- nn t tion had filed a petition with tl'ae gov:,|ernor asking that the disbanding or tic I Vx^x TV,A sx*. /xf Oait g UCi UC ICDUUIMCU. 1 lie U1UU UL VJU*. |JH Manning will automatically restore all fu of the 31 companies to their former tiu condition. sh t The proclamation by Gov. Manning tin e follows: or; y I "Whereas. general order No.2 effl 3 heretofore issued on the 11th day of Mi January, 1915, by the governor and tin s commander-in-chief of the organized of 5 forces of the state of South Carolina ha 3 purported to dissolve, muster out and <|r j disband all of the milita of the Sfate vis of South Carolina, and all of the vol-, "ii unteer militia of the said State, and we "Whereas, under the constitutions dei 1 of the United States and of the State !nl ' of South Carolina, and under the gen- il.? 1 eral statutes of south Carolina, the f<u governor and commander-in-chief has \?o > no authority to dissolve, disband and sai * muster out the entire milita; but tin Whereas, the said purported order In; ! has created an element of uncertainty 1 ' in the minds of officers and men of tra ' the National Guards and of the public vtr " ihighly prejudicial to the /discipline 1 and efficiency of the National Guard; plo and du< 1 "Whereas, it is the duty of the gov- <tra 1 V' ; 1 ... Loans Insurance | We ma of All Kinds and ' Bonds Phon I ernor and conmiander-iu-chief of ti'ae tra j organized forces of the State of South Fo< , Carolina to promote the discipline and Fe? , efficiency of the National Guard; les; "Now, therefore, I, Richard I. Man- ' , ning, governor and commander inchief of the organized forces of the Pr{1 , State of South Carolina, do hereby zat , declare the said purported order void w , and of no effect; and further declare tov , that the right, duties, privileges and r|!0 ,4 obligations, whether civil or military, hiv of the said National Guard and the tr^ . volunteer militia, in whole or in part, 1 and the officers and men thereof, were l'0T i not affected by sai\l illegal order but have continued and do hereby con ,,UI i tinue as thought said order had never fac been issued." The following was also issued by . the governor." The following was also issued by fo . the governor: General Order No. 3: . "The undersigned, having duly * B [ qualified as governor of the State of i South Carolina, hereby assumes com- J I niand of the organized milita of the sei I State of South Carolina and an- (-u,j I pounces the following staff: t "The adjutant general: Urig. Gen. , William W. Moore. ' 1,11 "Millitary secretary, Col. Charles H. to , Cabaniss. n<>] > "Richard I. Manning. sei "Governor and Commander-in-Chief." <tf "I think it is all right; it meets with pr< i my hearty approval." said W. W Moore, adjutant general, last night in re, discussing the order of Gov. Man tin i ning restoring the National Guard *e? Gen. Moore said that he considered lies . the action of the former governor il tlii e legal. n>| " - - r INSPECTION ORDER D n Gov. .Manning and Adjutant General t Moore Arrange for Cheeking I'p e Militia. !K1? * i.4 ( (ienernlorder for the annual in- "" J of the National <!uard <>f ;,n s South Carolina have been seat out to I all company comm.uatcrs from the oilice of AV. W. Moore, adjutant yen> oral. The order for the iiisjiectinn ''' s has liceti signed by fetv. Manning. The i!" r. i'lspectlon will lie-in at IM^efieM, |l<" r Felmary s. '''* x < oinpany I. Thinl Infantry, Chora w, v ill he insiK'cted Fritlay, Febuary JCtli. 3RKIXS ANI) GUGGENHEIM GIVE THEIR VIEWS New York. Jan. 21.?George W. rklns, director of ninny large corrations; Daniel Guggenheim of irld-wide mining Interest and esident of the American Smelting Refining Co., and E. J. Berwind, d today before the Federal Com[sion on Industrial Relations instigation into great philanthrope ganizations and the cause of in istrial unrest. Mr. Perkins -testified lie believed e Sherman law had retarded nerican Industrial development; ut legislation bringing labor or nlzations under control of the Moral Government was neeeled; at co-opration and not comp Ion was the life of trade; and thai business could do more for the uutry's workers than could small its. Mr. Perkins did not lielieve the vernnielit would Improve on prest methods of administration of the nds of the philanthropic founda>ns, but that nt regular intervals it ould require statements concerning Mr administration. He favored oinized labor, providing honest, leient men were at the head of it Guggenheim advocated taxan of large fortunes on the death their owners as a means of aid: the poor; establishment of Govnment employment agencies; proilon for care of aged workers, and idustrial democracy" wherein the rkers receive part of the profits rived from the production of their or. It should be the business of State and not of philanthrope nidation to aid the poor, as it is ' I. and njt i serUy people vi:r, d itr Gnggeih ?im. He billeted Increased cot of living tauscd lusli'al unrest in large measv.r*. Mr. Berwind Vld of labor condition. He said many laws, both da coal regions. Industrial depression and unemyed, Mr. Perkins thought were 3 to the defects and maladministion of Federal laws and admlnls\ ?% i ke a specialty of writing! *84 Maynard-Ral tion. So said many laws, both lornl and State laws, leral and State were old and uset law passed at the time of the letment of the Sherman law to vent watering and over-capital iion in railroad and industrial crlizations, would have done much rard protecting investors, consurs and labor generally and such a : would prevent sueh maladministion, he l>elieve<l. Witnesses called to testify tomorv are Samuel Gomi>ers, president the American Federation of La ; Henry Ford, automobile manuturer of Detroit, and 0. P. Neill, mer United States Commissioner Labor. MINTED WORK NECESSARY. put From New York Office Says liclgian Kelief Must lie Kept I'p. lohn It. Reynolds, traveling repreitatlve of the eommission for rer in Belgium, with headquarters 71 Broadway, New York, passed ougli Columbia yesterday en route Charleston. While here Mr. ReyIds held, eonfereiiees with repreilatives of the Coluiuhia ('handier Cotninereo relative to the continued sedition of plans in this State. Mr. Reynolds reports a sympathetic qioiise to the commission's efforts roughout the country. ThirtyMi vessels have been chartered to ir the provisions, clothing, hedig and other contrihntions to Eute. Right of the ships from this dilla of mercy" are now on the :h seas, hearing cargoes to the ieken kingdom of Belgium. The commission is 'the clearing use for all relief agencies and is > nnthori/.ed agent of Itelgiuni, <!ormy. Austria. England. France and raited States. All donations are lvdited through the offices of the ininissioii. Two points: were emphasized by Mr. 'ynnlds yesterday. These were that atiniied support would he needed, d that money eontrihutions were sirable as well as food and clothe?State Jan, L'G Subscribe for the Chronicle. ALL OEfECTwES (RE DISCHARGE ' 11 ISSUES PHOEUSATIOX Y*' jK " ft X Revokes Commissions of .AH C stables, Special Constables, Law Agents an# ;i>epntles. m 1 Gov. Richard I. Manning Wednesd signed a proclamation revoking t ' commissions of atf^cbnstables, si cial constables, lavf!;agents, deputi ' and detectives," - wgned fcy form governors. The pititemation was sued on the grou^; that "it is p | niarily the duty .otlfflcers of tJhe va j ous counties in thA^State to enfor the law." The proclamation {Allows: "To all and slngAlft*, Judges, sherif constables, mayors^Jntendants ai other officers of Jio^re in the sa State, and to whontfJJJt may concer ! greeting: . "Whereas, coytaSt persons ha heretofore been t&pnfcd by the go ernor of South C&roft& AS const&bl or special constablejfitbr the enfprc ment of the dlspen^py.law; and couBiauies ur speuiaf ?obbi?uiwu iu i vestigate the enforcti^ent of Idw, ai as law agents, and .aft,deputies and d tectives, and, > /^'k >' "Whereas, it is ^fftbarily the du of officers of the ,v4&o.Qa counties this State to enff^tbjt^e law, and, "Whereas, it fs. mlWsetief that th< "Now, therefore,, ft?Rlcbsrd 1 Ma; ning, governor as ttfotesaitf, herel revokes ami cancel ej'jfcljpfaanlsslonfl < appointments bereft^flftk Issued such persons as svr^^lBtahles/sp cial constables, la^ Agents, depOti< fire Insurance and represer Losses Paid Promptly ley Realty & Tni I I I I Deposit yc x t The Bank Chera STRONGER THAN ALL OTHEI yf C/ compo Q in savii (HK? were, with a single exception, tli largest ever recorded for the montl points out the New York Wo.Id. "In ports at .?iih -io_', auu were me smane; for the month in six years. The expoi excess at $131,803,000 is far the large: ever had for the season. "This excess of exports means mot net gain to the country than the con j parative figures indicate. A snialh amount is needed to pay interest an ! dividends on foreign investments her j because those investments have bee I greatly reduced on account of the \vn . A smaller amountis needed to pay ocea i freights in foreign ships, because Ame lean ownership of ships in the overset trade lias largely increased. A rauc smaller amount is needed to meet Ame iacan travelling expenses abroad, h cause such expenditures have been r duced to next to nothing by the \va i "For years heretofore our merchai disc export excess has averaged lift or no more than the sum of this inv ' sibie indebteness 'to Euro|>e. \\ have been paying off eld debts again: _i. .. i.. 1.1H'.v *.(111., I1S III ?! IMMillMt' lUlt*. ilir I ?il 1 All up debt against Europe at an even moi notable rate. These are the found; tioiis of a new era of industrial pro pority which are laid on solid rock." ) Subscribe to The Chronicle, only ? important bills :d before assembly ? ? has 850 BILLS IN BOTH HOUSES whi< the yeru Primary Reform, Compulsory Edu- Mah on- tutj( r cation, Medical Inspection and rjgh Tax Revision Leaders. claii and Thei ay Columbia, January 24.?After two eJth( jje weeks of preliminary work the Gene- an(| )e_ ral Assembly of South Carolina has au^j leg gotten down to work. There are al- jy jj er ready as many as three hundred and tj. is- fifty bills under consideration by sentj rj. both House and Senate, and the in- wan rj. flux of new propositions will from cart ce no on, be quite small, as the most of stoti the undertakings have been covered. reoj. There have been thus far very few dum, f8i freak bills, the only measure of this on 1(1 kind that is not confined to South Car- g0pt( Id olina is a proposition to prevent by mab, n> statue the giving of tips. er n Primary reform, compulsory educa- apjX, ve tion, medical inspection and tax revi- j_,e iV. sion are the most important matters or 5 es that will be considered; they have all with e. been provided for in pending bills and the M the chances are that they will be en- nlng, n_ acted in the laws. There seems to be a id general spirit of compromise and the wlde le- outlook now is that the session will be and quite harmonious and come within the prohl ty forty-day limit. Of course, all of the opj>oi in measures that are proposed cannot be that disposed of within this time, but as this stirr ay is a continuous session it is agreed, time unless some complication arises, tfiat n- the session can be adjourned by the Th jy time that the small boys deliver their in th< jr Washington Birthday speeches. is wl to Acreage Reduction. is to 6, , Perhaps the most unexpected devel- counl as opment Is In connection with the con- has 1 certed effort to repeal the cotton aore- local age redaction law enacted at the recent pulse 5- extraordinary session of the . General the < JiflSemWy. There are quite a nnmberl Ideas fcgpbllla along these lines, but the indt- Evan just now are that the fight will Harp it only the best old line companies ft Co., Agents Ta' tly dl lor. >ur money in raeas comp loll o C /^il ers : or Lheraw The the s w, S. C. sr.: ?? Tin from 1 BANKS IN COUNTY COMBINED ___ bill along it at unded qnarterly ig's department. sc lands reallj farm; Th( ie be made on the House side on the large u,' Moore bill, which proposes a direct and of th i-'absolute repeal of the bill passed sev- Serial it oral months ago. On the Senate side <U i a 2-c< rt there are two bills, one by Seiator it j Williams that is similar (n thai of Mr. ' Moore, and another by Senator Stuckey i uieasi e that is iu the nature of a compromise. I , ' to lBi 3-1 and proposes to amend the present law ^ >r and permit 50 per cent cotton acreage id instead of a one-third cotton acreage .. ' i that e, as provided in the outstanding statue. 'Tact 'ii The up-country seenis to be more op- j,ave r.' posed to the acreage bill than the balon no n ance of the State, and at the moment. r-j if n ballot were taken, the chief work j is of the extraordinary session would be h smashed to smithereens. It is quite , r- common talk that no attention Is to be e- paid to the law whether it stands or | e-j does not stand, and (here is no noon- ( j r. sion for the South Carolina farmers to I ii- be penalized to the advantage of every le other cotton growing State, none of i- them having enacted ligislation along T.nr 'e this line. ?*t Woman Suffrage have ig The woman suffrage movement has n'flno :e (evidently gained considerable headway ('()II1UJ a-1 in this State. There are a number of l'ass? s-| propositions pending, represented by .'three schools of thought; Senator Car- ,'ravvi [lisle has a roposition that is in the 1. nature of an entering wedge, and pro- S is that women might be elected or olnted to positions 011 school hoards serve as notaries public. His bill 1 Hot carry with it the right of suf;e. Mr. McCullough, of Greenville, a straight woman suffrage bill, :h 'would submit to voters of State a constitutional amendment aitting women to vote. Mr. Mean, of Columbia, proposes a consti)nal amendment, but limits the t of suffrage to white women, and ns that this is an additional right that it would be constitutional, re has been no discussion yet in >r branch upon any of these bills whether the opposition to woman age is going to assert itself openas not yet developed, le prohibition orglnazation is preng a series of bills looking tola State-wide prohibition in South >lina, one of them provides for e-wide prohibition right off the another provides fcr a referenb.v which the people are to vote the S tart e-j wide prohibition next ?raber. Then there is a bill to 2 effective the Webb law, and othlea.sures relative to penalties. It nrs that there was not going to uch of a fight on the referendum <tate-widef prohibition bills, but in the last few days, and after inauguration of Governor Manthere has been more talk of opion and the opponents of Stateprohibition have taken courage believe that they can prevent the bition fight next summer. The lents of the referendum pi; n think the State is inclined to balk at Ing up the liquor question at this and letting well enough alone. Compulsory Education e compulsory education forces are e majority and the only issue now lether the Evans State-wide plan adopt or the MannlngSwearingen ty option is to prevail. The Senate eported favorably on the Sinkler option plan of introducing com<ry education, and unfavorably on Carlisle bill, which embodies the prepared by Superintendent a There to another till l>y Mr ier and Senator Lee, which la sligh- ' MI to * serve you &nd appreciate your business _J i [fferent from ithat of Senator Sink* i Under the Manning-Swearangen i ure the State will have State-wide ulsory education, but upon a petit- ' f the majority of the qualified vot- ' the statute would be inoperative ; . definite period, thereby bringing j t what is kuown as local option, ages In the bills are practically same, requiring school attendance . certain period between the ages 1 md 14 vears. 1 Farm on Easy Terms ? ere have been various prepositions time to time looking to the own[) of small farms by the people of tate. Mr. Graydon, has prepared a which he thinks means much : this line and is going to press this session. The prinaipal idea s suggestion is that a land comou should be selected and that commission should acquire desirfarm lands and dispose of the on easy terms to people who r wish to become owners of their i. * cainpalngn this summer was ly shapped, prior to the outbreak e war, which brought about ma?] ly changed conditions for many ;sts. at the outset of the session jut peaaenger rate bill was introI, the .Senate committee yesterday ed that it would not consider the lire at this session, which is taken can that there will be no effort ess legislation along this line at time, because of the realization the railroads in common with ically all other business interests had a rather rough time of it count of war conditions. ? ways aud means committee of louse has been pushing its hearso that it can rei?ort the general ipration bill at the earliest i>osmomciit and there will be no dei linal adjournment on account of articular bill. r L. RY WILL NOT CURTAIL J SERVICE u 'al Seaboard Air One officnls t been advised that that road's r st to the South Carolina railroad ission for j>ermission to curtail ( nger train service between Co- n a and Savanah has been with- ^ 11. ti ubscribe for the Chronicle. c INVESTIGATION BEGUN BY ALIENIST Secretary of Maryland Ltmocy Commission Conducts Inquiry as Representative of the Governor. Investigation Into the State Hospital for the Insane at Columbia was Orders From Govrenor Manning ~ begun Thursday by Dr. A. P. Herring, secretary of the lunacy commission of Maryland, as the personal representative of Gov. Manning. The ordering of this inquiry last night waa the first official act of state-wide interest by the new chief executive. Attaches at the governor's office eta ed Thursday that Gov. Manning reached this determination and made the announcement about 9 o'clock last night. Just about one year ago, a committee from both branches of the general assembly began an Inquiry Into the asylum that continued over a period of six weeks and resulted in some facts and events of a sensational nature being developed. ' f The investigation of the state hoe- ' *; pltal for the Insane was ordered by Governor Manning In compliance with the request of his nature placed In their annual report by the board of ' regents. The governor held numerous conferences with 'officials of the ' -*^7 asylum and other medical experts, ex- / .. tending over a period of two months, and determined to order the inquiry Into conditions of tha^ Inst!tuton conducted by Dr. A. P. Herrng, seela etmnlir io oiiujsij au ancuioi o iu vCQUgauuu into the asylum," said Governor Manning. 1 This. proposed investigation will :over every department of the asylum, acording to the outline of instructions to Dr. Hering, who conferred with Governor Manning. The ilienlst will act more in the capacity >f a personal representative of the governor and will be expected to subnit later to the chief executive complete information regarding the conlitions at the asylum, and prepare uigestions for the betterment of the institution as a whole. After holding a lengthy conference Wednesday with Governor Manning, this Lnqsuiry was begun immediately >y Dr. Herring, who was quoted as dating his work would be completed is quickly as would be consistent with iccuracy and comprehensiveness. Dr. r. J. Strait, superintendent of the isylum, and Regents James A. Sum nersett and Julius H. Taylor, both rf Columbia, also conferred with Gov?rnor Manning relative to his plans )f investigation, and later stated their ipproval. Announcing his ordering Dr. Herlug to conduct this inquiry, Governor banning issued a statement discussng briefly his action, and the conlitlons which influenced him to this ictlon. In part, the governor said: 'The asylum has suffered, to my nnd, from multiple control, with di- -> ,'ided responsibility and lack of a leflnite plan or policy. My general >lan is to substitute for this the sulerintendency of one man, and that nan a nhtrclpinn nf nhilitv Trt TP "UU U |/U^ U?V*UM va. MV??av^i *v .v ieve him of burdensome and exacting outine there should, of course, b ea tusiness manager, but 'to avoid the iiws, mischievous meddling in the place 'f regulation, truckling to the labor minus, sacrificing broad instructions o the selfish demends of shippements rlio demand rates bearing ates bearing no relation to the value 10 relation to the value of the service lerformed. These things have frightned cappital away. Real estate reuains undeveloped, the Industrie rhish supply the railroads drift from ad to worse, and the last econmic failire is seen in the fact that additions to axes already oppressive yield a lower evenue 10 me respective suties. llfllculties and friction of dual conrol, 'the business manager should be nswerable directly to the scientific lead of the institution." Estimates furnished Governor Manilng by authorities placed at $500 the ost to the state of this investigation.