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' '{ i , 13he Cheraw Chronicle Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S. C., OCTOBER 21, 1915 Number 51 * PLANS LARGE INCREASE IN BOTH ARMY AND NAVY Administration -Scheme -for -Defense Virtallv Completed, Contemplates Available Military Force of 685,000 Men and Addition of Sixteen Capital Ships Washington, Oct. 15.?The administration programme for national defense to e recommended to the forthcoming session of congress proposing t total expenditure on the army and uevy next year of a out $400,000,000 virtually was completed tonight Secretary Garrison's plan, approved by the president, calls for an increase of $75,000,000000 in the war depart x J incut's annual appropriation, io inused for augmeuing the regular army to 140,000 men an the creation of a new continental army of 400,000 men, which, together with the militia of 125,000. would give the United States a military force in time of need of 665,000. Approval was also given today to the proiKisal of Secretary Daniels and the general, board of the navy for a Ave* year naval construction tprograiume to cost $500,000,000, giving the navy ten new dreadnoughts and six battle cruisers as welll as more than 70 submarines. 50 destroyers, tei scout cruisers and a host of auxiliary ships. Secretary Daniels and members ol the general board were in conference until late tonight discussing the exact number of ships to be recommended for the first year and a plan for equalizing the expenditures over the five year period. After the conference of Secretary DaJnels, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt and the general bobard adjourned at I , midnight, it l?ecame known that the i-*val construction p?nsr "Minnie K r ho iirst of five years had ; l?een decid.-d upon I Two dreadnoughts, two battle cruisers, 25 coast submarines, five seagoing submarines, 12 destroyers, and | increase of 8,000 in personnel and the j augmentation by 250 of the naval Iaccademy student body. Secretry Garrison has guarded f carefully his plsn for strengthening the military establishment and organizing a great continental army for defense, and virtually noting was known of it until tonight, iThe programme proposes: 000 strong, enlisted for six years for Second: A continental army, 400.? nmcant establishment. P III IUC |>ftV7vMV First: Regular army, 140,000 men, (an Increase of more than 50,000 men service within the continental United States. These men would serve two months a year for the first three years with the colors," undergoing a period of intensive training. The remaining * three years they would he on furlough subject to call in time of need. It is estimated that 40,000 of th? 540,000 men thus provided for would b be non-eonihantants of the medical r corps, or other auxiliary forces not in i eluded in the fighting line. 1 Besides this army would ,be tlv> National Guard, now some 125,000 strong, whose number might l>e substantially augmentated by the organir zation of the continental army. The plans contemplate the transfer of such National Guard offilcers and men as desires, it into the continatial army. J and more liberal treatment of the I guardsmen will be urged and the ft increase of these State forces enW couraged in every possible way. | More Regular sAIso. F Increases in the regular establish [ ment contemplated are: | Infantry, ten regiments; field artilI lery, four regiments; coast artillery. I 52 companlnes; engineer CCOrps. 15 I companies; avatlon corps. two L detachmenments. | All the new commands would be ? *? -1 cfrnnfrth A fin 1 OrKJIIlWU it? in-n< r . quate supplies of small arms and field cans and howitzers and of reservo ammunition for the Enlarged establishment would lie sought. The plan is ereeted on the theory that the nation must depend on a citizen armv. largely of a volunteer character, in tide r.f war. With six months' actual field trainIns armv officers are confident that the continental army would he as thoroughly orsanizezd as is possible with any system sliort of compulsory service and a regular establishment of half a million men. Officers for the new armv would LIST OF JURORS Who Will Serve At Fall Terra Court Common Pleas. FIRST WEEK JURORS Cheraw Township Old Store Township T. W. Belk J- T C5 " T. P. Harrall J0', n .? j P Robt. Teal J- ? ?n??d*e ' S. W. White l'- ? Frice L. A. Meiklejohn R D- Dee8e Jefferson Township Court House ... n c?. Township ^ m xi ,p J. T. Horton J. M. Rivers J,. F; Mr^oum M. M Allen W L- Cat0 p T.' Hurst" ' Alligator Township L. Q. Lisenby J. P. Morrison C. F. Stafford A. H. Holins G. C Blackweil J. W. Horton Mt. Croghan Township steer Pen Township T. C. Griggs ]'u*? ?j[d H. F. Gulledge J- R- tfriggs D. H.BTucker | Cole HU1 Township H. C. Gibson H. P. Rasco H. Jackson Sellers D. L. Campbell J. H. Rivers I W. T. ilks SECOND WEEK JURORS ' Cheraw Township jemrson i?*uimr I L. A. Rice D. A. Martin , B. R. Spencer J. C. Millar H. A. Burch J. W. Uolllr.B Geo. M. Walters R. !. Lownry V. H. Kendall It. H. Garland Court House Alligator Township 1 Township L. P. Hill J. H. ben-rs j, d. Morrison J. W. Burr B. H. Turaage D. C. Thorrell \V. K. McManus ; C. C. Morgan E. C. Kdgeworth Jim B. Rivers A. O. Griggs Steer Pen Township Mt. Croghan j. E. 0. Pender i Township j w rone# H. "V. Lowry J. B. Chapman ?V. '1. Ratliff ? j/Grave" Cole H1U T?*nshlP j Old Store Township Jf. H. CUrk it. P. Smith M. A. Kelley W. Hicks 1. C. Cassidy | 11. 3. Mane J. E. Williams A Growing Evil. One of the many growing emu of this country today is the city department store. In our town, where *e have the best of stores, the most honorable merchants, and where good* afford a respectable living to our business men, thousands of dollars are annually sent to the department stores of our great cities. Farmers expect I?nnv them a fancy ,|UUI HlCIVUauv.7 vv f-v ? price for butter, eggs and poultry, for their pumpkins, potatoes, apples and tomatoes, and then they take the . money received from our home merchants and senl it to a city department store. There is neither economy or honor in such a manner of doing business. You can write it down in your hat that as a rule the city department store is a swindle. Our citizens who patronize them should be compelled to ship their butter and -isnq b }ou sj eaaqx 'uiaiu oi s32a ness man in our town who will not duplicate their prices for the same quality of goods, anl he who turns down his home merchants to patronize these fakirs is far from being a loyal, patriotic and goodcitizen. i I /'ie obtained from civil life almost entirely as the West Point academy vould lie overtaxed even to supply vflflcers for the increased regular army. Even at present not more than half the officers of the army ire West Point graduates and an 'xtenslon of the work at West Point would be required to care for the new regiments to Ik? created. ..Supply of Officers For the contintal army, the plan on templates drawing from the National Guard and from educational institutions where military training :s complusory at least 1.000 officers i year for each of the first two years. Eventually it is hojied that all military schools in the country can be standardsrdbscd as to their courses In engineering and other military sciences. The new army would he organized Ill lUinrilirill ^ v^uii'iin ?u *t?wnn/nn and on the theory that its members could he citizens of the districts in for Regular places of mobilization and for storage of equipment for each company would be provided and every man of the force would know where to go and what he was exj>ected to da when a eall to arms came. The six year enlistment contract would bind him to answer any call to the colors regardless of personal affairs. While under training the men of the continental army would receive the regular army pay. In the lH?ginning the new army would be organized by companies and later would lie constitutes! into regiments. brigades, divisions and army corps as they devek p in the vnlous sections of country. y n -r?m?g?-?% .-^nrxt ? - - CUTTING RATES OF NATIONAL BANKS John Skelton Williams, (comptroller of the currency, defended last week before the .Kentucky Bankers' Association his efforts to force national banks to reduce their interest charges to borrowers during the days of stress in the financial and business world which followed the outKmaaI? <v# #1?<\ ViiMAliaati ii'O?? i/nj?r\ ui 111C rimujruau na?. Of the 7.615 national hanks in the country, Mr. Williams declared, 1,020 have sent in detailed reixirts showing that they have received an average of 10 i>er cent or more on loans. He cited, without Jgiving names, instances in which the rate ran up to 40,60,100. |kt cent. In one case?that of a woman who I sorrowed $3.50 for six days ?he said the hank charged one dollar, or 2,400 per cent. "These hanks," said Mr. Williams, To an extent at least, they have behind them the sanction, the prestige and the protection of the great American nation?and lending $3.50 for six days to a washerwoman or a laborer's or a fanner's wife, at 2,400 per cent. "As somebody once said of druggists' profits on powdered chalk, it Deposit yoi The Bank CheraT STRONGER THAN ALL OTHER SV) compou X *n sav^ni gets out of the range of jtereentage in to larcency from the person. Three hundred i>or cent will make anarchists silently, faster than all the I. W. W. apostels who can bawl. When national hanks chartere<l by the government disnpiK)int and deprive toil of its just reward, and stimulate resentment, we have prepared and fertilized the soil for a fearful crop of disaster. We can not persuade ourselves or make others believe that it is right or safe for banks to charge 100 i>er cent a year, while the producing peoplet abou them are kept poor. I know of such hnnk* i <].> not intend to stand for tliem If I CHi) help it. The country will not stand for them." GREAT BRITAIN NEEDS THREE MILLION MEN Useless to Talk of Wearing Germany Out, Says Director of Recruiting. London, Oct. 17.?"Great Britain needs 8,000,000 more men by spring." This declaration was made today by Brig. Gen. Sir Erie Swayne, director of recruiting in the northern command, in a speech at Hull. Gen. Swayne estimated that Germany still has between $.000,000 and 10.000,000 men from the ages of IK to 45 and that, therefore, it is useless to talk about wearing out Germany. In the spring, said Gen. Swayne, Ger* * * iUn.t tLn many woum lose inure men uum hk allies, which would Italance the nmn1kw? of the allies an<l the central I towers, hut if Great Britain should raise 3.000,0(10 men additional, Germany probably would recognize that jqflg oj onnijuo.) 04 ssoujujj oq pjno.u Great Britain, he added, did not want compulsion but unless 3.000,000 men were recruited by spring, the military authorities could not be responsible for the war. About the worst advice you can give a fat man Is to tell him to eat less and exercise more. Probably that's because it's the truth. First born children are inferior mentally. morally and phlslcnlly, says a scientist. A good plan then would bo to skip the first-bborns and go right on to the second bonis. Home-ownership and Wages. Representative Lever, speaking U tbe Clemson students, bits the marl when he tells them that "8out hCar olina's great problem of the future 1 ruie of home-ownership. Nearly hal: of the white voters of the State," ai he observes, "dn^jlat'own their homes.' The number of^fifldte tenant fanners according! to ||st.cencus, was abou 35,000, not 25,000, and the number ? adult male workers in the cotton mill Is around 22,00(1 To these are to Ix added numbers lof steam railroad am trolley line operatives, salesmen, ar tisans and workers In manufacture plants other than cotton mills. Approaching the subject of home nwiiprshin. it would lie as well to recoe nire that It in chiefly n question o wases. So long as the wages of th white tenant fajrmer are fixed by thw of the negro, which are In turn regu Intel In most If?rt by his standard o living. It will 1)^ extremely difilcult fo the white tenaift to earn more than livelihood. ? If the negro firm laborer Is to remal In the South and in his present condl tion of Ignorance, It is practically a* sured that he will hold the white farr lalwrer in a similar condition. Th or money in of Cheraw AT. S.-C. y'i 5 BANKS IN (^JUNTY COMBINE! nded quarterly ?s department 11 white man must com|iete with him. Th negro has every advantage. solf to the intelligence of the South I The question that should address i whether or not a number of white me shall l>e held down in order that th negro shall l>e retanued as a class c cheap lals>rers. Not all the landle^ white men can be segregated in the teJ tile and other industries from whic the negroes are excluded. Moreovc the wages even of the segraded an protected white lalwrers are necessaril affected to a great degree, though in a indirect manner, by the negro waj; which is the basis of our economl f^vstem. The problem ofhome ownership fc the whites can not be solved apai from the problem of the negro lal>ore It would be Just as well to begin to loo facts in the face.?The State. SETTING AN EXAMPLE In making a town pretty, one ran s< an example by doing one's bit. Et eouragement that consists of a goo example is better than mere advio Hence when the suestion involves prei ty lawns, flowers, a garden or othc means of l?eautiflcation about residenc proi>erty, the quickest and best way t create civic good looks is for everyon to fall in line with his own little law mower, garden hose and sundry utensil This includes the owners of vacar ~i" \r\4-L3 nfo/1 nc cmnll fnrmQ lUl^f Ul luiii ?? .... Keeping tlio long grass from mussin up the landscape, using vines an shrubbery to conceal ohjcctionabl sights , making good use of wlndo' boxes, investing in a few flower iK?t; and making garden truck grow whei weeds flourished l>efore?all this is pai of the duty of a resident who think enough of his town to make it loo pretty. Another way to beautify the mun cipality is to pick up stray bits of pai* around one's property. And system i the disposal of trash helps a lot. It will l>e easy to make, and kee Cheraw pretty if everyone help: Successful farmers are those wb know their business and put thei knowledge to practical use, opines farm expert. The same thing applic to businesssmen off the farm. Siil?scrib to the Chronicle. THE COUNTY : SUPPLY BILL i. AN ACT to Provlee for the Levy of Tax? ? for. School and County purposes for the * Fiscal Year Beginning January 1st, 1915. * and for the expenditure thereof? , Por the County of Chesterfield, for all , purposes, 7 1-2 mills, to be expended as 1 follows, if so much be necessary: f Item 1. Roads and Bridges 93,200.00 Item 2. Permanent Road Ira8 provement 4.800.00 Item 3. Convicts and maintenance s of road working ori ganization 4,250.00 Item 4. Public buildings, including water, fuel, lights, insurance and S postage 405.00 Item 5. Jail expenses, including dieting and conveying prisoners 400.00 Item 6. Poor house and poor.... 1,500.00 " Item 7. Court Expenses 2,000.00 f Item 8. Books, stationery and printing 1,200.00 e Item 0. Postmortems, inquests and lunacy 100.00 ?- Item 10. Bord of Equilizs^ tion._ $250.00 Board of Edncaf tlon 40.00 r 200.00 a Item 11. Interest on bonds 6,175.00 Item 12. Salaries: U Clerk of Court....$ 500.00 , Sheriff 1.500.00 l* Dep't 8heriff.... 900.00 . Treasurer 433.33 Auditor 433.33 u Supt. Education.. 1,200.00 Attoney 100.00 ? Physician 100.00 Coroner 200.00 ^ " Constable 25.00 Janitor, of CourtHouse 100.00 3 Rural Policemen at $900.. 2,700.00 Supervisor 1,200.00 2 County Coinrmissioners, at $100 each 200.00 Clerk to Board of County Commissioners 150.00 Judge of Probate 250.00 Magit .rates and Constablei 1,900.00 Superintendant of Poor House 250.00 $12,141.66 ' Item 13. Contingent Expenses: Telephone and Telj| egraph. 70.00 Total Appropriatioss....$36,531.66 The Sheriff of Chesterfield County shall ap*p%t a deputy who shall be paid $900 ner ansnm. fne atHTTW be paid monthly. ?his deputy shall have all the powers 01 a Rural Policeman in Court House asd Cole Hill Townships, and shall serve the Magistrates in said towsships, together, asd shall have criminal asd civil jurisdiction of all processes is the said towsships, together with his right as deputy sheriff asywhere is the County. Pour hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of the ordisary ?. funds of the County of Chesterfield to aid ip carrying on farm demonstration work in said County, same to be paid by the County Board of Commissioners upon the claim of eh the County Agent for United States demonstration work and as supplement to [> the salary of such agent pro rated per . month. This appropriation is conditioned t" upon the sum of six hundred dollars being jj furnished by the Federal government as a part of said salary, le A special road tax of two mills shall be . collected in Cheraw township for the use on roads in sa'd township only. w. The County Board of Education is authorized to employ a Superintendent of C- Public Schools, if, in their judgment, it is . wise to do so and provide for the salary of n" such officer to be paid out of the public ,f school funds of Chesterfield County, said salary not to exceed six hundred dollars d per annum. In Chesterfield School District No. 18. J there shall be levied two and one-half mills; jj in Mt. Croghan No. 28, there shall be a levy of five mills, and in Ruby No. 29, there ;e shall be a levy of five mills, these levies to . be collected as other taxes and placed to lc' the credit of the respective school districts, to be used by them in paying off back indebtedness and extending school term. ?r The Rural Policemen of Chesterfield coun. ty shall be distributed as follows: One to serve Mt. Croghan and Old Store TownP ships; one to serve Jefferson and Alligator ' Townships; one to serve Cheraw and Steer k Pen Townships, and the Deputy Sheriff herein provided for shall serve the Court House and Cole Hill Townshiips. One-half mill is levied on all the property of Chesterfield County, the proceeds of which shall be returned to each township paying same as a special road fund for said township. THE MAOISTR \TKS. The salaries of Magistrates in Cluster?t House Township, three hundred ($300.00) dollars; Provided He attend all Courts of General Sessions. In Cheraw and Mt. Cro yi ghan Townships, me .uagisirturn BIIU1I a r- i ceive two hundred and fifty ($250.0) i dole. lurs each. The Magistrates in Cole Hill . and Steer !* ?; "ownships ht l ruciive each one hundre I end fifty ($1*. ??*">? dollars ,r The Magistrates ?n the p<n.!i it.w*?Vi|s in eluding Brock's Mill, shall receive each e two hundred ($200.00) dollars. The same shall be in lieu of all services in criminal O matters, including 'nq.i'vts held by them e The Magistrates in Che3teeiit.id County shall have jurisdiction over the entire county in n all criminal matters arising therein; hut m civil matters they shall ha/? jurisdiction 1H in their respective townships and in adjoining township or townships of causes of action arising therein. g Morbid Appetites. d le Could He who promised our bur(V denB shoud be light if we trusted in s, Him, anl in the matchless sermon on e the mount, wanted his desciples to "t take no thought of what the should ;s eat, nd rebuked Martha because she k was fretful and cross and all out of sorts in trying to get up a feast for i- him have any approval of the "much r serving," the relays of china silver ^ n and the ceremonious attendance of the present day, or a worl of commendap tion for the cheerless, worrying Marr. thas. who bake and brew, and fry and stew, and wear themselves out with imnnaed catering for morbid fippq 0 tites. Ir a They say that college bred women ;s do not raise large families. Perhaps it's because they need most of their time In remembering what they learned. A PEN PICTURE OF OUR TOWN A Few Facts and a Little Free Advice, Which,, if. Followed,- will. Make This- Year- a- Record- Breaker, In all probability tbls is the next state to l>ecome densely populated. Many of its spirited little cities will become centers of trade, and of those which do, it will be because of the uuited efforts of the citizens in encouraging trade and other interests necessary to the growth of a town. We believe we are i>ecullarly well situated to be caught up In the tide and ride proudly forward on the top-most wave of prosperity. We should clear the shore of the breakwater of Jealousy, discontent and discouragement. We should have strong faith In its possibilities and pull together with even and steady stroke. Our splendid school privileges, if advanced and maintained as they should be, will prove an incentive to draw. Another important feature is to advertise your city, speak good concerning It and show forth its excellencies. Save your money and when you, spend it sjieud it at home. Some of it will be sure to come bback to you. When able . * to build, build at home and encourage our friends to do the same. Encourage > everyone to come and live with us. During the past few years many strangers have settled with us through the encouragement of friends here. Thty are good citizens; they buiid or 11 \ substantial 1 omes, and take an active interest in the town. Keep your business to the front, and every interest of the town on the observatory, to be seen by the world. Wf. presume that every citizen of our town is, or ought to be, desirous to see it advance, to see it improve, to see it advance in all the interests that pertain to a town of thrift and enterprise. Again we presume that if you, who live in jour town, make no effort in this direction, who, if there* are any benefits accruing therefrom would bbe the recipients thereof, we do not believe our neighbors, who have no particular interest in our welfare, would bbe so very mindful of us as to give us a boost by investing a few thousand dollars for our especial good, or stratlng any enterprise that would be for the upbuilding of our town. If a town is ever built up and placed in a growing condition it will be directly or indirectly due to those who live In it and if you wish to know the steps to be taken we will cite a few. Talk it up, its interests, its facilities and various adaptilities to different branches of industry. Write about it, beautify its streets, invest your money in it, patronize its merchants and every enterprise started as far as it is at all consistent, elect good men to office, advertise in its newspapers, be courteous to those who come among you and never let an opportunity to speak a good word about it pass. Remember that every dollar you invest in a permanent improvement; is that mcub money at interest and is that much toward I building up your town. There is no quicker way to take 'the life, growth, and energy out of a town i than for its citizens to be constantly holding up the dark side of the picture to the gaze of the inquirer. The word "if" keeps everyone in doubt, and doubt keeps every man from improvements he would otherwise make. There is noth ing like confidence to make a success of anything and if you haven't got any of it. don't communicate the fact to vour neighbor, much less to a stranger and if the bent of your mind is to continually go against every interest of the town in whieeh you live for the sake of the town get out and go to some place that is already lifeless and has no interests at stake, where you, like the old lady's root beer, if you don't do any good you won't do any hurt As a wheat producer Kansas sets the pace. |n 1914 it sacked more wheat than Great Britian, Belgiifip, Japan. Switzerland^ the Netherlands, Denmark and Bulgaria combined, and then had 16 million bushels to spare. Neither Canada, Argentina nor Australia raised as much wheat as this one state, which last year was 180 000OoO bushels. The money for this wheat can support an automobile salesman for every inch In the state, according to an estimate made more or less off-hand. Europe demostrated that preparedness for war dosen't prevent it. But neither does unpreparedness.