Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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M -PJM ESI KEPI IIP PABTAKBURa LAWYERS TALK or ooiaxo suBnasKs. TO FIGHT HOG CHOLERA LKYKR REPORTS BILL TO COBB, Oat the Heed of loimedtoU AM far the CompoIgB. Showing that the nnnnnl loee to South Carolina alone aggregate# the enormoua total of $438,114 from rav ages of the hog cholera, Representa tive Lever, chaliiman of the Rouse committee on agriculture, reported favorably from the committee Wed nesday the bill appropriating $500,- 000 for the prevention of hog cholera and $100,000 for a fight on dourine. This is an emergency appropriation withdrawn from the general agricul tural appropriation bill to enable the department to perfect Its organization to meet the ravages of the&e diseases - :-v,y FEDERAL GOYBRjWHMT TO TO TOY BABY’S SLAIEBS I ■elldtar Declares He Has More EvJ- denoe Which Will Astound the Pub. Be—Clement's Attorney Claims He Win Free Him—Girl Excites Much Sympathy. That Clyde C. Clement, the former Wofford Fitting school student, will claim that he accompanied Mias Fleta Pendleton to the outskirts of Spar tanburg a week ago Thursday In the belief that she was going to lay their two-months-old baby daughter, Vir ginia, before the door of a dwelling home, and that she, without his knowledge or consent, threw the in fant into the mill pond, from which the body was recovered the next day —this was surmised by persons who are nnable in any other way to ac count for Clement’s unequivocal de nial of the girl’s katement that he drowned the baby. Witnesses have come forward to corroborate In every detail, except the actual slaying of the child. Miss Pendleton’s story of their sinister Journey from Mrs. W. M. Hodges’ hoarding house in Greenville to the creek, and their return to Mrs. J. T. Bell’s boarding house, In Spartan burg, where they spent the remainder •f the night. Mrs. Hodges saw them leave her home with the child. Jeff Williams, the negro^hackman, •ays he drove the couple and the baby to within a short distance of the . . .. . ....... .♦rrat, creek. H. G. JoHer. the tract-ear of th6 * T<ni « e cm&sh ' WILL PIOVJDE FOB TBEM Germany, France, Austria and Italy Have-Method# of l<endlng Money to Farmer# on Short Time—At Last America Seem* Ready to Help the Farmers. There are 12,000,000 farmers In the United States, and their labors yield over $8,400,000,000 to the na tional wealth each year. They are doing this on borrowed capital of $8,- 040,000,000 on which $510,000,000 which being Ip the oarly-cammer. [interest t» paid annually. That la a rate of a little better than eight and one-half per cent. The United States exported $885,000,000 worth of food stuffs last year, yet the sum barely equaled 75 per cent, of the interest charged on the farmers’ debt. Take these same farmers and these same figures on production and set them down in Germany, where they can borrow money for three and one- half or four per cent., and they will save almost $250,000,000 In interest charges each year. The United State?, 20 years behind the tittles, Is now facing the problem that European farmers solved before the close of the last century. President Wilson rec ognizes Its importance. New measures for trust regulation Is the task before Congress at pres ent, but when this Is completed the question of rural credits will be tak- The report shows in substance that the country is losing annually through the vavages of these diseases at a conservative estimate, some thing like $70,000,000, and this loss is distributed throughout the whole country. It also shows that last year an appropriation of $75,000 was made by congress to meet this situa tion and although it was absolutely inadequate -remarkable results were secured by the department In the four States in which the experimental work was done, and it is believed that with an adequate appropriation and with a strong co-operative organiza tion among federal, State and local authorities the disease may be re duced, controlled and substantially eradicated. The report forcefully sets forth the fact that pork, hog meat and hog products compose the basis of the conductor, says be saw them hoard bls ear on the edge of the city, near the creek, without the baby, and brought them back to near Mrs. BelTs home. They were Indifferent to the rain, says Bolter, and held their heads close together as they conversed In low tones. Mrs. Bell aays they came to her house at 9:30 o’clock, with clothes dripping, and applied for lodging for th<? night. “I am Innocent,’’ says Clement.' "When all the facta are known, not only the Jury, but the general public will he convinced that he guilty of the crime charged,” e^ys Samuel J. Nlcholls, hie attorney. ^ When Robert C. Clement, the Polk county, N. C., merchant, came to see bis son after the latter’s arrest, he addressed the youth. It Is reported, as follows: “Son, you have never been afraid to tell ine the truth. Did you 4o this thing?” “I didn’t do It,” answered the son. “I believe yon,” said the father, "and 1 wfn stand by you. If I be lieved you had done it I would have washed my hands of you.” An In- 41gnant denial was Miss Pendleton’s answer when asked If she had been Intimate with other men'' 1 besides Clement—the men "higher up”, who Mr. Nichols says will probably be In volved In the caae. Lawyer* have raised the point that •nder the common law Mias Pendle ton 4> Clement’s wife, since he lived with her in conjugal relationship 4urlax a considerable period of time Greenville. Spartanburg and Char- Llotte, Introduced her as hla wife In r.boardlng houses In all three cities ' and professed to be her huaband. Aa hla "common law wife”, the attor neya say, she la entitled to the tame privileges as If a ceremony had been performed, and can not be compelled, against her will, to testify against Clement, her "common law husband”. This contention is disputed by other attorneys. It is pointed out, on the other hand, that Clement, under the state ment of boarding housekeepers in Greenville and Charlotte, where the couple lived as man and wife. Is liable to Indictment in the Federal eourta fof violating the Mann white slave act. which forbids the carrying of a woman from one State to anoth er for Immoral purposes. Shonld Clement carry ont before’ aa hogs and hog products are to a large extent the subject of Interstate traffic it is incumbent upon the federal government to take urgent steps toward the control of the di sease until the department can build up a permanent co-operative organi zation with the several States look ing toward the final eradication of the disease. The report also shows the presence of dourine among horses in the North- wnstern States and that about 10 per c ttttM£*f ange bor8ea are afflicted with tn&EjBease tad points out the (f&hger of*# general spread of It throughout the country unless vigor ous jlfforts are made to stamp It out. report recommends an appropria- tlffh of $100,000 for this purpose. PASS HIGHWAY MEASURE. Shackelford Bill Appropriates $25,- 000,000 for Good Roads. The Shackelford bill, under which the federal government would distri bute $25,000,000 for good roads among the various States conditioned upon a dollar-for-dollar appropria tion by each States, was passed by the national House Tuesday by a vote of 282 to 42 and awaits action by the Senate. Its passage followed several days of debate, during which most of the hundred and more speakers advo cated the project In the Interest of the farmers, while a minority attack ed the project as a dangerous open iflg wedge for heavy future inroads on the treasury. Democratic Leader Underwoo iff Re publican Leader Mann and Repre sentative Hlnebaugh trf Illinois, the rank Progressive In the House, all voted for the measure. Representa tive Mann declared that the cities could well afford out of their wealth to contribute taxes to aid the coun try In their construction of roads and other Improvements. Most of those who voted against the bill explained their opposIMon was not to federal construction of highways but to the method proposed In the pending measure^ Raby Roy Fatally Burned. Luther Massey, the two-yefcr-old ■on of J. S. Massey, of Woodruff, re ceived burns - Wednesday morning he Is brought to trial his alleged while standing before the fire, from promise to Miss Pendleton to marry which he will die. His mother was her when their baby was disposed of. J dressing him when the accident oc- CT should she protest as his "com-, curred. toon law wife” (and he sustained) , against her confession being used against him. Solicitor fpbert E. Hill would have still another card to play. I Her accusation of Clement having heea made la the latter’s presence the object of much pity. The fact that the Clement family, with whom 'she was on terms of warm friend ■hip, and whom she visited at their home in North Carolina the day be* the hearsay evidence of witnesses to f or « her arrest, have not only left her confession would be competent h er to shift for herself, hut, accord tostimony. it ie said. ing to report, are endeavoring to put Solicitor Hill asserts, however, j ' en tir«‘blame for the crime upon that ev%n without Mist Pendleton’s g e? . f { S pinch commented upon. The aonfSMlon.he has ample testimony to failure of members of her own fam eonvtct both of tho defendants. He ny to visit her or come to her assist' assarts that he has much evidence in ance i 8 the cause of even greater aur- .fonn Of affidavits %hlch has not price, though It is ron Wt#. (hat they made public and that when the mk y no t have been Informed of. her Flats story of the crime Is told It p llfht shs asked that the news be be too horrible for publication. He refuses to glv* a hint of the na ture of the affidavits. The mysterious Intimations of the ’Solicitor tint rrf-vrsJrocktnflfWT ,#» LOSES HER IDENTITf iwMKami abb, place, bomb .Tilin' 1 * AND Phystetoaa In Kentucky Bay She la j ■ ' v ■ ^ ■ - 1 \ Not Insane, Bat Her Mind Was Made by Drags! Heart-sore people, mothers dally, are visiting or writing to the Kentucky state hospital tor the in sane at Hopkinsville, and seeking to Identify an Inmate committed recent ly from Union county. She was found Just about the time Jessie Mc Cann, the New York ooclal worker, disappeared and It was thought for a few days that she might be Mis# Mc Cann. But, even before the body of Miss McCann had been found and identified at Coney Island, It was cer tain the girl In Kentucky was an other. The patient, who Is only 24 or 25 years old, physicians. Is not Insane, but her mind Is a blank. She can’t recall her name, age, place of birth or the town where ahe resided last. Physicians believe the lapse is due either to a blow on the head or to having been drugged heavily at aome time. Judging from visitors at Hopkins ville and letters of Inqury received at the asylum, thousanda of families must have missed daughters alnce December. Nearly every state is rep resented lu the requests for Informa tion. Tales of sorrow that would wring the hardest hearts are told In these letters, which indicate the ap^ palllngly large number of girls who have forsaken their homes or have been lured away. Yet none of these has offered the slightest clew to the Identity of the Unlontown, Ky„ In December, and has since been unable to give any account of herself. The unidentified girl Is five feet five Inches tall, weighs 125 pounds, Is well proportioned, though of slender build. She has blue eyes and brown hair. Her eyes, head, nose and ears are normal. She talks freely, mostly in response to questions, and her lan guage is free of rough or slangy phrases. She was reared evidently In a house of refinement, And received good school advantages. She says her name Is Alma, that she traveled with a chum named Jones, but wan deserted. Even t|)ese details were obtained by suggestion and are not relied upon. withheld from them If possible. Since she started to ear* her own living; first as Instructor In a Spar- Jelegrophy^wd^ had no eomnsan(cation. ft u said. S«$ mold. h*ve keyed phbtte Interest *lth her parents. She has brothers, IE Spartanburg up to the highest however. wbo K ta boMeved. w»uM( ty M and the me le eome ta ker §14 If they wero Informed all drelaa tom Story, rf her itodjUmm. One V en up and pushed to comBleilon hy T yottng womaH who WfiaTouha^tn IBS admTrilstration. It may be a mat ter of a year or two before a law is passed and-the system is working ef fectively, but It is on the way. Two agricultural credit bills, each the re sult of special study of the situation, have already been introduced, one In the House and one In the Senate. Rural credit la simply the ability of the farmer to borrow at a reason able rate of interest the money he may need for the cultivation of his farm. It can be done; Europe has been showing us this for 20 years. How? Co-operation, t>lus a gentle push by the government to set the wheels in motion, and a little super visihn afterwards. — Germany has the most highly or ganized and perfected agricultural system in the world. This It what It enables the kaiser's domain to do: Support 67,000,000 people and pro duce 95 per cent, of the foodstuffs they consume; and this on land cen turies old and which was never rated any too good. Credit Is the founda tion on which this wonderful struc ture of food production has been built. A German farmer has at his com mand two kinds of credit, short term money on his personal note—money loaned him for a few months to cover the expenses of planting, harvesting, selling, labor, etc.—and long term loans on a farm mortgage—money which he puts into permanent devel opment and improvements Co-operative personal credit is the secret of the German agricultural credit system. They call It the Land- schaften, and it is nothing more than thousands of small agricultural socie ties. These, in turn, are bound to gether in regional societies, and these, In their turn, In on big, central socie ty. Give all these societies, big or little, many of the functions of a bank and you have the German system in a nutshell. Germany Is doing a business of $5,000,000,000 a year ii^ these fural societies or banks—aa much as the regular commercial banks are doing —and it is the development of agri culture due to the farmers’ financial system that has enabled the land tillers of that empire to become the most scientific agriculturists in the world. France has in Le Credit Agricole a system similar to that of Germany In the 20 years existence of this socie ty it has lent to the farmers $98,000,- 000 at interest rate of four per cent. During this time the annual value of the crops in France haa Increased $500,000,000. Le Credit Agricole Is composed of 4,000 credit associations combining 200,000 farmers. And France has an area less than that of the state of Texas. Austria also has farm credits down to a science. The 8,000 rural hanks have a membership of 750,000 and do an annual business of $90,000,000. Italy has 8fi0 of these banks, and to date they have loaned $200,000,000. Belgium boasts of 450 establishments with a membership of 28,000 and an annual business of $5,000,000. While forslgn nations have been perfecting methods, of protecting the farmer from high interest rates than his business will, stand, the United States has done nothing. The result of this throttling of the American 1 farmer has been the natural one—a I J! 1— . «§ro jmK. railing off of the country's agfloiJ* MHWid-l i Tho Victor in tho «**V*i*H •hows the value of the Victor for your home The (act that the Victor is today in practical use le the schools of more than 450 cities in the United State* shows what an important factor it is in die education of children. And if the Victor is of such great value in the school^ it is clearly evident that your children would be bene* filed with a Victor in your home—that it would help diem in their school work, and serve to educate diem to a proper appreciation of music. Bring the children in and we’ll gladly play for them somt of the short rote songs that are a delight to children, standard poems and jingles that every child should know, and ringing games that the children love. Watch the children’s faces at the selections are rendered, and the interest and ippreciatioa they show will convince you of the value of the Victor. Victors $10 to $100. yoor convenience, ~ WRIT*. FOR INFORMATION Sims Book store ORANGEBURG, 8 *4 > y ! ually Increasing; the movement from the country to Cities and towns la augmenting, and the production of food, supply is approaching steadily to the point where the country will soon have none to export, and where heavy importation will become a necessity to supply the home demand. The average farmer In the United States earns about $700 a year—less than $2 a day. Is it any wonder that the young men are rushing to the cities? There they can make that much In eight or nine hours digging holes in the ground or handling freight. No 12 or 15 hours a day at the hardest work there is. No seek ing to rise to Independence through s sodden blanket of 12 per cent, inter est chargee. The neglect of the United States farmer by the Federal government has been the cause of a constantly Increasing protest. The Inferiority of American agricultural methods to those of Europe has become a crying shame, and n few years ago protests began to take definite shape. Agri cultural experts soon diagnosed the fundamental ailment—the bloodsuck ing system of credits for the farmer —and this was made the point Of at tack. During the close of the Taft admin istration the farmers’ demand for fair play became so Insistent that the president appointed a commission to visit Europe and study rural credit systems. This commission sailed In 1912 and spent almost a year abroad, examining the methods 14 Old World countries use In aiding their tillers of the soil. The commission return ed to the United States eight months ago, crammed so full of the subject that It has not yet finished its report. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida is the chairman of this com mission. As the result of its work he has already Introduced In Congress a rural credit bill which, If passed, will give the United States n system patterned after those of other aa> tlqns, taking, however, only the best from each. - . Reduces Five Terme. The governor Tuesday redneed the terms of five prisoners serving terms in the State penitentiary from Hamp ton and Abbeville counties on the condition that the men he sent to the connty chain gangs. ■ ' ♦ » ♦ ' i. ■■ ■» Three Deaths from CoRL The cold eaep which Wednesday descended on New York end sent the MAIL ORDERS No need to send to the big mail order houses for what you want. We have jt here at the same price—if not cheap er.’ You owe us a trial anyway, ^end a list of what you require and let us figure on it. We have specially laid our selves out to execute mail orders and you may rely on prompt attention. 10R1CK & LOWRANGE, INC, HARDWARE _ COLUMBIA, $. C .»s DEADLOCK ENDED. Wilson Sends Nome# of Weston and Sim# to the Senate. President Wilson Monday ended the long drawnout contest over the South Caroline federal district attor neyship by sending to the Senate the name of Francis H. Weston of Co lumbia to fill the former position, and the name of James L. 81ms 01 Orangeburg to fill the latter. These nominations will probably be con firmed within the next ten days. Senator Tillman was seen In Au gust* Monday night and made thi statement: "While I wanted th> president to nominate Mr. J. Wllllan Thurmond for the position of district attorney, I do not bitterly oppose the nomination of Mr* Weston and. I will not oppose the ratification of his nomination. Mr. Thurmond is from my own county, Edgefield. Mr. Wee- ton is from Columbia. "As regards Mr. Sims, his nomi nation meets with my approval—1 advocated his nomination, in fact. I think both of the gentlemen nomi nated will be suitable, but I think that if Mr. Thurmond had been nomi nated and elected to the position of district attorney be would hfve made a better man.” 1 ... ■ DANIELS PRAISES LEVER. The Secretary of the Navy Speaks I T. M. a JL Mas at Greenville. CAN LOCATE MINES. Aviator Discovers Then at on Mots tion of 1,500 Fpet. Lieut. Towers, n navy aviator, latg Tuesday afternoon demonstrated tho fact that submarine mines pika ted hi harbors are discoverable from aero planes at en elevation of 1,500 feet. Five mines were planted at the en trance of the harbor at Peaaaeeta, Fla. The aviator, in his dally experl- .meats, reported the ioeattoa of tho mines upon his returning to earth. Later Lieut. Bellinger, without 'mowledge of the report of hie fellow >fllcer or the fact that mines had Men placed, ascended to n height of 2,000 feet, at which elevation he not only discovered the mines the second time, hat traced the'chalna to vnvh individual anchor. Navy officers attach great impor tance to these developments in tho nee of airships and claim that they Indicate the Importance of nvlatioo and aviators In future wen. Tho discovery of these submarine mines, it Is explained by aviators and their brother officers lies In the fact that at great heights the reflection upon the water tends to make it more transparent and <fra highly magnify ing tendency. Compare German’s record wHb that) M the United States, le this country the number of torn owners is end that of farm t$m •WhMet: Thursday night. k np to a late 1 valued at $1 fork flu v When told that the Lever Agricul tural bill had passed the Senate with out a dissenting vote, Secretary of the Navy said at Green vile recently: "That is the greatest, contribution made by % South Carolinian In many, many years. It means to the farmers of the In his speech at the Yw M. 0. banquet Secretary Daniels elaborated Hfc_. to go bach to of CathoBa,” said he, “to her etatanpflL A draw 0; meesuto of mm Invalid Killed by a Train. Wandering from her home at Roa noke ,Va., early Friday Mias Blanche -Goldberg, who has been an invalid fsr many years was killed by e train when she attempted to cross tho track. \ Frank Pennington dt, of Urban. Ky., we ed Friday when n boiler I exploded, completely ’'tattrp plant Lan 1 oatofti! , Aht, Jail