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SAYS OliR NAVY IS STRONG
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SKCI'IIITY LKAtiCK.
Knterinsj .New Kr;t of I'ld^iess Sucli
as .Navy Has Never Known
\ l?efoi-e.
New York. May 1 "?. ? Officers of the
Atlantic fleet gathered here tonight
at a dinner in their honor heard Secretary
Josephus Daniels defend the
navy as efficient and prepared for
war and promise that the administration.
with the support of the people,
would make it more powerful and
efficient. Mr. Daniels answered the
navy's critics, particularly the National
Security league, which recently
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that investigation disclosed that the
navy was inadequate and unprepared
for war.
"With the praise of a great city
ringing in our ears," said the secretary,
"with our mighty ships in all
their splendid strength lying just outside;
in this hour of natural and
pardonable exultation in our great
navy, as the head of that navy I feel
it right to utter a word of warning
'lest we forget' to those who feel inclined
to rest too sure on this visible
and outward display of our strength
and at the same time to speak a
word of promise and cheer to those
who. perhaps, have looked too despondently
upon the task that still
lies before us in our efforts to reach
as near as possible to perfection.
Try to Make It I letter.
"Our navy is good: it is not good
enough. With your help, as long as
I am secretary of the navy, we will
all try to make it better. The navy
is strong; it is not strong enough.
With the help of the whole American
people, with the help of a congress
and an administration thoroughly
committed to the policy of 'taking
leave to be strong upon the seas' we
will make it stronger. This reviewis
not the end of a century's labors.
We do not here exhibit our completed
work. Rather, we here begin
a new era, supported by the chief
executive and by an enlightened and
progressive congress, which gave evidence
of its faith in a strong navy
by the passage of the best navy bill
in the history of your country.
"We are entering upon an era of
progress such as the navy has never
known before, whose keynote will be
onward and whose watchword will be
forward?an era marked by the lifting
of our navy out of politics and by
/ the subordination of all things afloat
or ashore to the efficiency of the fleet
in order that by our very strength
we may be able to demand the right
to live at peace with all the world.
Wail of the Pessimist.
"You have seen?and lately you
have heard far too much?of the petrified
pessimist who visits one of our
leviathians of power with a sour and
disappointed visage, looking for something
upon which he can hang a tale
of woe and wail a jeremiad.
"The navy and its head have been
a target of much criticism of late,
some from those honest in their be-*
liefs, but sadly ignorant or misinformed,
and much from purely partisan
and political sources which had
no interest in facts whatever. As for
such criticisms as concerned myself
I have kept silent. Time must justify,
or time condemn.
"The splendid condition of the
ships for which you are responsible;
the splendid discipline of the crews
which you have established, make today
a far better answer than anything
I could be able to say. As they
ride tonight at their anchors on the
river let them stand as their own
spokesmen, and I rejoice that it is
my pleasure to greet here tonight the
commander-in-chief of the Atlantic
fleet, Admiral Fletcher.
"A few days ago a new organization
bearing the name of the National
Security league, issued an open
letter 'announcing the result of investigations,'
and published to the
world this statement:
" 'Investigation discloses it is asserted,
that the navy is neither ade
quate nor prepared for war; that it
is inadequately manned, is short of
ammunition and has no organized reserve
of trained men: the submarine
flotilla exists chiefly on paper; that
fast scout cruisers, battle cruisers,
aeroplanes, mine-layers, supply ships
and transports are lacking and that
target practice has been neglected or
altogether omitted."
Had They Known Truth.
"If the gentlemen who signed the
above libel of the navy had known
the real truth their signatures would
never have been appended. If they
had not been misled and misinformed
they would have written instead:
" "Investigation discloses that the
navy is efficient and prepared for
war; that our ships are well manned;
Viot tVio tnnnlv of munitions is vastlv
larger than ever before, and the capacity
of our plants has been practically
doubled: that the last congress
authorized a i naval reserve
which is in process of organization:
that we have seventy-four submarines
authorized, built or building,
j' .NOT SATISFIKI) WITH KKPOliT. j
Decla es It's "Krroneous ami Misleading."?Suggests
Investigation.
Columbia. .May i?Governor
1 Manning tonight made public the fo!!
lowing letter to .Mayor Grace, of
1 , i
t Charleston: I
"Hon. John P. Grace. Mayor, ("liar- j
\ lest on. S. C.?Dear Sir: in regard I
to the report of Chief of Police Cant- ;
well, dated April 1 ! 1 .*>, to you. and]
'j by you transmitted to me. This says:
' I I beg to report the following parties
; and places who have discontinued j
I business.'
I "I. like you, received this report in
I good faith, and took it to mean that
j these parties had discontinued busi]
ness as a result of the activities of
the police squad. On looking into
this, however, I find that the statement
of Chief Cantwell is erroneous
and misleading, and I will mention
but two instances?L. Williams, who
died some months ago, and M. Hackett,
who was burnt out. Many of
the places said to be closed are selling
liquor.
"This seems so serious to me that
it should demand an investigation,
and 1 suggest that you investigate
this report.
"I have, not received any subsequent
report.
"I am very truly yours,
"RICHARD I. MANNING.
Governor."
which are the equal of those of any
other country, and that one flotilla
of submarines has just completed a
remarkable long distance run; that
we recognize me neea ior inure last
light cruisers; that we have lately
ordered eight aeroplanes and a dirigible
out of a million dollars specially
appropriated by the last congress
for aviation; that within the last two
years the navy's mine equipment has
been more than doubled; that we are
adding yearly to our force of auxiliaries,
while more time has been devoted
this year to target practice and
manoeuvres than in many years past.
We are proud of our navy as it is.
tion in making it better and
greater.' "
I>ewey Praises Fleet.
Admiral George Dewey, president
of the general board of the navy for
the last 15 years, 6ent a letter to the
dinner in which he said;
"The efficiency of the fleet has progressed
steadily and never has been
so high as it is today."
The letter was read by Secretary
Daniels. "The people of New York
have just cause for pride in the fleet
now assembled in their harbor,"
wrote Admiral Dewey. "Not only is
it composed of the finest and most
efficient warships that we ever have
had, but it is not excelled, except in
size, by the fleet of any nation in the
world; our officers are as good as any,
and our enlisted men are superior in
training, education, physical develop
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of any other navy. As president of
the general board for the last 15
years, I can say with absolute confidence
that the efficiency of the fleet
has progressed steadily and never
has been so high as today.
"However, we need more ships,
more officers and more men."
Admiral Fletcher's Opinion.
Admiral Fletcher 6aid that battleships
alone were inadequate and become
a prey to torpedo boats, submarines
and mines, and that it was
necessary to have different types of
vessels to protect battleships. He
also emphasized the need of large
scouting cruisers, destroyers and
submarines.
Major Gen. Wood said it was important
to the government that the
navy snouia grow, anu mat it muow
grow to be adequate.
Gen. Wood said that to be an effective
support and part of the first
line defence the militia has "got to
become very much more federalized,"
otherwise, he said, the nation would
have to wage war in the future as it
has in the past, "as a confederacy."
Hundreds of thousands of spectators
lined Riverside Drive and gothered
in Riverside Park tonight to see
the illuminated ships of the fleet and |
witness a display of fireworks from
floats in the river.
Thousands of enlisted men visited
the theatres in the city tonight for
the last time during the visit of the
fleet. During the afternoon many
were entertained at baseball games at
the Polo Grounds and in Brooklyn.
Meanwhile during the morning Dr.
S. Schulman, rabbi of the Temple
Bethel, delivered an address to Jewish
sailors. He paid tribute to Presi-,
dent Wilson in his stand in the notej
to Germany on submarine warfare.
An aeroplane from which J. Robinson
Hall was dropping American
Beauty roses on tne snips 01 me neei, j
fell from a height of about a thou-1
sand feet into the river tonight. The '
aviator was submerged and rendered
unconscious. Hall and Jack Tweed,
another aviator, who accompanied
him in the flight, were rescued by
i steamers from the battleship Virginia
and taken on board the ship.
The ship's suggeon announced that
, Hall was in a dangerous condition.
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Cl.\KI> KILLS COWIIT.
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Tragedy on State I'ann.?Dead Man
I-e on Clmi leston.
Camden. .May I". John Green, a
convict working on one of tiie South
Carolina State farms, a few miles
below Camden, was shot to death
Tuesday by .1. M. I bulkhead, who was
guarding a squad at work. Green
was a life convict, sent up from Charleston
some time ago. and from scars
found on him after death it would
seem that he had been in many lights.
While the guard had his back turned,
it seems that Green sprang upon
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away and that two other convicts
standing nearby, Henry Fields and
Abraham Jenkins, took the pistol
front Green and returned it to the
guard. Green then started to run
and, it is said, the officer fired three
shots, and seeing that Green was
about to make his escape over a dam,
another shot, which proved fatal, was
fired. The negro fell, his intestines
having been punctured.
The (*onquci-e<l Banner.
Furl that Banner, for 'tis weary;
Round its staff 'tis dropping dreary;
Furl it, fold it, it is best,
For there's not a man to wave it,
And there's not a sword to save it,
And there's not one left to lave it
In the blood which heroes gave it;
And its foes now scorn and brave it;
Furl it. hide it?let it rest.
Take that Banner down! 'tis tattered;
Broken is its staff and shattered;
And the valiant hosts are scattered
Over whom it floated high.
Oh! 'tis hard for us to fold it;
Hard to think there's none to hold it;
Hard that those who once unrolled it
Now must furl it with a sigh.
Furl that Banner! furl it sadly!
Once ten thousand hailed it gladly,
And ten thousands wildly, madly,
Swore it shall forever wave;
Swore that foeman's sword should
never
Hearts like theirs entwined dissever,
Til that flag should float forever
O'er their freedom or their grave!
P'url it. for the hands that grasped it,
And the hearts that fondly clasped it,
Cold and dead are lying low;
And that Banner?it is trailing!
While around it sounds the wailing
Of its people in their woe.
For. though conquered, they adore it!
Love the cold dead hands that bore it!
Weep for those who fell before it!
Pardon those who trailed and tore it!
But, oh! wildly they deplore it,
Now who furl and fold it so.
Furl that Banner! True 'tis gory,
Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory,
And 'twill live in song and 6tory,
Though its fold are in the dust:
For its fame on brightest pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Shall go sounding down the ages?
Furl its folds though now we must.
Furl that Banner, softly, slowly!
Treat it gently?it is holy?
For it droops above the dead.
Touch it not?unfold it never;
Let is droop there, furled forever,
For its people's hopes are dead!
?FATHER RYAN.
Football is almost as popular in
Burma as it is among the western nations.
The natives play the game
unshod, and kick and shoot goals
with bare feet.
The First Legislature.
The first representative legislative
assembly ever held in America, convened
at Jamestown, Va., in July,
1619, a year before the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth and a decade before
the Massachusetts Bay colony was
begun, say6 the St. Paul Pioneer Express.
It consisted of the governor, Sir
George Yeardley, his council, two
burgesses elected by each of the
eleven incorporated plantations. The
assembly sat in the chancel of the little
church, where, five years before,
Pochahontas had been married to
John Rolfe, John Twaine, the clerk
of the assembly, says in his official
report:
"The most convenient place we
could find to sit in was the quire of
the church, where Sir George Yeardley,
the governor, being set down in
his accustomed place, those of the
counsel of estate sate nexte him on
both handes, excepte onelv the secretary,
then appointed speaker, who
sate right before him, John Twine,
clerke of the general assembly, being
placed nexte the speaker, and Thomas
Pierse, the sergeant standing at the
barre. to be ready for any service the
assembly should require. But forasmuch
as men's affairs doe little
prosper where God's service is neglected.
all the burgesses took their
places in the quire till a prayer was
said by Mr. Bucke, the minister, that
it would please God to guide and
sanctifie all our preceedings to his
own glory and the goode of this plantation."
JOHN F. FOLK
KK.W, ESTATE, STOCK, BONDS
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| 1 CiO-aere farm. 2 miles from Bam
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ft4-a-re farm near Midway.
L'ao-aore farm near Hunters Chappel
, 1 lionse and lot. Bamberg, 4 rooms
i 1 house and lot. Bamberg..6 rooms
S vac-ant lots, different parts o
i Bamberg.
I 2 ft ft-acre farm near Ehrhardt.
I 2 dwellings and lots in Ehrhardt.
| 4 vac-ant lots in Ehrhardt.
1: 2 desirable lots in Denmark.
2.13 acres near Howell's Old Mill.
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M?('KS anu IMMIll.s iur .iojc.
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1 stock.
1 15 shares Peoples Bank stock.
5 shares Enterprise Bank stock.
, Uond and Mortgage Real Estat
> Value.
i $400. S per cent, interest, due ii
3 years.
Communications from parties ha\
ing real estate, stocks or bonds fo
sale solicited.
JOHN F. FOLK
U'inthrAn fAllmTp.
SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE
EXAMINATION.
The examination for the award o
vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col
lege and for the admission of ne\
students will he held at the Count;
Court House on Friday, July 2, at !
a. in. Applicants must not be les
than sixteen years of age. Whei
Scholarships are vacant after July :
they will be awarded to those mak
ing the highest average at this exam
ination. provided they meet the con
ditions governing the award. Appli
cants for Scholarships should writ
to President Johnson before the ex
amination for Scholarship examina
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Scholarships are worth $100 an<
free tuition. The next session wil
open September 15, 1915. For fur
ther information and catalogue, ad
dress Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill
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