The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 17, 1918, Image 1
^^P^Dollar and a Half a Year. " BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY, 17,1918. Established 1891.
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Huilllllll HLI'ij LETTERS
mW IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, January 16.?The
cold y weather has the most of
our people frozen in at present.
Only a few were at Sunday-school
Sunday afternoon, but we soon hope
for the weather to moderate, and a
good attendance once again.
Misses Elvie Kearse, Ethel McMillan,
and Mr. Albert McMillan, of
Bamberg, were Sunday visitors at
lio hnmo ftf "Yin onH \Tra .T f! Mc
Millan.
Messrs. J. D. Kirkland, Jones and
Will McMillan spent last week-end
/ in Augusta.
Mr. W. G. Kirklkand, chief of police
of Bamberg, was at home last
week-end on account of illness. He
will remove his family to Bamberg
as soon as possible.
Miss Lessie Wooley spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Miss
Mary Clayton.
Mr. G. A. McMillan happened to
. an accident that came very near
proving serious Saturday afternoon.
While going at a fast rate around a
corner on the Colston and Bamberg
road his car got cross ways the road,
and in some way overturned. The
car was damaged, but not very badly,
while Mr. McMillan was not injured
at all.
'Mr. George Fender, formerly of
this x section, but who has been in
Bamberg for several years, was call"
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joined it last summer. He was
only waiting for the summons to go
and serve his country.
, ELECTIONS IN ASSEMBLY.
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Spain Defeated.?Hydrick, Rice and
Wilson Had no Opposition.
Columbia, Jan. 15.?Election of
judges occupied the greater part of
the legislative programme, at the
morning session today. Edward McIver,
of Cheraw, defeated Judge Thos.
H. Spain in the fourth circuit. Associate
Justice Hydrick was reelected
to the supreme bench without opposition.
Judges -Hayne F. Rice, of
the second circuit, and John S. Wilson,
of the third circuit, were reelected
without opposition, and Judge I.
W. Bowman, of the first circuit, ttas
reelected over E. J. Dennis, of Berker
ley county, the vote being 81 to 43.
Successors to Judge Ernest Moore,
x- of the sixth circuit, Frank B. Gary,
of the eighth circuit, and T. J. Mauldin,
of the thirteenth circuit, are to
be chosen when the balloting will be
resumed at noon tomorrow. The election
of an insurance commissioner,
State warehouse commissioner, code
. commissioner, State librarian, trustees
of the State penitentiary will
follow.
Two ballots were necessary for a
choice in the fourth circuit. On the
first Mclver received 56; Jennings K.
Owens, of Bennettsville, 30; Spain
49; number necessary for a choice,
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received 69, Owens 20, Spain 46; necessary
for a choice 68.
Mr. Mclver is the son of the late
- Chief Justice Henry Mclver. He
studied law at the University of Maryland
ai^d has practiced in Cheraw 30
years. He is 57 years old and has
presided as special judge in a number
of courts.
r American Tractors in Prance.
To increase France's crops and to
lighten the burden of toil on her old
men, women and children, 1,500 farm
tractors will go to that country from
the United States. The first hundred
are already on the way, and the whole
number will be in France by March,
in time for the spring plowing. Deck
space was provided for the first shipment
on a naval transport. Schools
of instruction will be organized.
The acreage sown to crops in the
uninvaded portion of France in 1917
fin nnn nnn nrrpc Iprs than I
nao uuv/ut x v,w v,v v v ??
in 1913, or 24.4 per cent. The increased
production through the use
of tractors this year is expected to
? . greatly improve the food situation.
Government barges have been placed
in service on the upper Mississippi,
and through government assistance
a new fleet is to be built for:
this service. Sugar is being moved
by barge from Louisiana plantations
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WINTER HOLDS ARMIES DOWN.
Only Minor Developments Recorded
by Secretary's Review.
Washington, Jan 14.?Only minor
developments at the battle fronts are
recorded in the weekly review of military
operations made public tonight
by the war department. Wintry
weather is interfering with operations
in Italy, France and Flanders,
and in Russia the military situation
is overshadowed by peace negotiations,
from which, the review
says, no conslusions can
safely be drawn. The report
also says Austrian howitzers
from the Italian front have appeared
on the front in France.
Of the American forces in France
the department announces that their
preparation for the ordeal of battle
is being steadily pursued and that
Gen. Pershing reports their health
and fighting spirit extremely good.
Camps at Home.
General improvement in health
and equipment conditions in training
camps at home is reported, and the
department says in spite of the abnormal
cold the camps have been adequately
heated and s:oldiers have had
a sufficient supply of blankets.
"On the active fronts in the west
and in Italy the equilibrium of battle
has been maintained," says the
review. "The usual engagements so
repatedly recorded during the past
week, which are merely every day
occurrences in the normal course of
modern warfare, raids, reconnoitering
thrusts, patrol encounters, artillery
duels and disturbing fire can
have#but little influence on the general
situation.
Of Doubtful Value.
"Any discussion of the military
position in the west must be confin
ed td the analysis of minor engagements,
which amount to a speculative
discussion as to their significance.
This in the present stage of the war
is of doubtful value.
"During the period under review
the enemy has concentrated his attacks
against the British in the region
north of the Cambrai area and
in the Ypres salient, and by continuous
harrassing fire and minor offensive
thrusts endeavored to make
tactical readjustments and,, new dispositions
of units.
Operations Impeded.
"Owing to the intensely cold weather
all along the entire western
front operations have been impeded,
though the terrain in Flanders and
Artois, normally so muddy and waterlogged,
has been frozen, which will
facilitate operations us soon as clear
weather returns.
"The identification of Austrian units
along the western front is of interest.
For some time past we have
been receiving information to the effect
that Austrian howitzers, which
had been participating in the offensive
in July, we're being detached
from the Italian theatre and transported
to the west.
Aviators Keeo Busy.
"In spite of unfavorable atmospheric
conditions French and British
aviators were very busy along the
whole front and brought down a
number of hostile planes. Air raids
into the interior of Germany were
crowned with success.
"In Italy the enemy has been immobilized
by the deep snow7 in the
mountain zone. Fresh snow has fallen
throughout the Alpine region,
blocking the passes and rendering
active operations impossible. Nevertheless
the Austro-Germans are endeavoring
to continue their bombardments
of the Italian positions along
the Asiago plateau and the Monte
Tomba.
Deceiving German People.
"While information reaches us
that the Austro-Germans proposed to
undertake simultaneous offensives in
Italy and in the west, it is to be
noted that within the central empires
great efforts a:re being made
to spread broadcast the news that
the Germans have fuiiilled their widest
objectives in the Italian theatre
and that no further forward move
ment could be of any advantage to
their interests.
"In Russia the military situation
is for the time being overshadowed
by the peace negotiations, which have
been instituted.
"No conclusions can safely be
drawn from the latest incidents."
The home of Max C. Brittain, in
Lancaster was badly damaged last
Friday night by the falling of a chimney
before the storm. There was
considerable other damage in the
town and vicinity.
Watermans Ideal Fountain Pens at
Herald Book Store.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Major David L. Sinkler, who has
been city assessor in Charleston for
the past twenty-five years, was defeated
last week by W. Aiken Rhett.
There is a bill before the house
to designate chickens as amraais. ine
object of the bill is to make the owners
of trespassing chickens subject to
damage.
A bill to require that the salaries
of special judges be paid out of the
salaries of the judges for whom they
serve has been killed in the house by
a narrow vote.
Ex-President William H. Taft is
expected to visit Camp Jackson on
the 28th of this month, when he will
be asked to deliver an address to
some of the soldiers.
Nine cases of meningitis were discovered
last week at the naval training
station at Charleston and an epidemic
of the disease is feared by the
men in charge of the situation.
In the court of general sessions for
Richland county last week Judge
Memrainger, who presided, sentenced
twenty men to the chain gang
and penitentiary, probably a record
for a week.
John R. Tolbert, for many years
leader of the Republican party in
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South uarouna ana once coneciur ui
customs at Charleston, died at his
home at Ninety-Six, in Greenwood
county last Thursday, aged 84 years.
Mrs. Charles Ligon and little
daughter, of Cherokee Falls, in Cherokee
county, were both burned to
death at their home last week. There
was a fire in the yard and the child's
clothing cought from that. The mother
rushed to the rescue and both
were so terribly burned that death
ensued.
Oscar Cook, a Richland negro, was
sentenced by Judge Memminger last
week to serve ten years for stealing
chickens. The evidence showed that
the negro had stolen the chickens
from a small house that was within
statutory distance of a residence. The
law provides a sentence of life imprisonment;
but the jury recommended
mercy.
The following members of the
house of representatives were absent
from the first roll call, being in the
service of their country: L. B. Harrison.
Spartanburg; A. W. Horton,
Spartanburg; M. C. Lumpkin, Columbia;
E. P. Passaillaigue, Charleston;
W. R. Richey, Jr., Laurens;
H. L. Smith, Jr., Georgetown, and
E. M. Whaley, Charleston.
Chris Blanding, a negro from Anderson
county, was recently arrested
there and carried back to Detroit,
from which place he had escaped, and
was tried on the charge of having
murdered a Belgian woman there. He
confessed to cutting her throat from
ear to ear and was sentenced to life
imprisonment, Michigan having abolished
capital punishment. /
The first selective draft in South
Carolina cost the government $61,968.76,
according to announcement
of the provost marshal general. Of
this amounj; $28,221 was paid to
members of exemption boards, $26,762.$0
was paid employees of the
boards, $980.30 was expended for
physical examinations, $1,083.37 for
travel, and $4,069.91 for supplies.
The State revenue for 1918 from
taxes is estimated by Carlton W.
Sawyer, comptroller general, in his
annual report at $2,716,922.76, bas
ed on the present rate of 8 1-2 mills
on the present assessment of $319,637,972.
With estimated income
from other sources than taxes of
$351,050, the total estimated revenue
is $3,067,972.76. Of taxes
amounting to $2,716,922.76 levied in
1917, only $566,615.63 was paid by
the last of the year, the comptroller
general says.
A bill containing the following provision
was introduced in the senate
last Friday: "It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, corporation, or
company to transport or convey, to
sell or offer for sale or manufacture
essence or tincture commonly known
as Jamaica ginger within this State.
Any violation of the provisions of
this act shall be punished by imprisonment
of not more than one year nor
less than thirty days or a fine of not
more than $1,000 or both, at the discretion
of the judge."
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REGISTRATION FOR YOUTH.
Young Men Will l>e Classified as They
Become Twenty-One.
Washington, Jan. 15.?The government
has decided on draft registration
of all young men as fast as they
become 21 years of age, as the means
of keeping filled the ranks of
the war army. It was decided
against raising the draft age limit
above 31 years.
An administration bill was introduced
at the request of the war department
by Chairman Chamberlain
of the senate military committee to
register for draft all men who have
reached 21 since June 5, 1917, when
tne arart law Decame enective. <>
The administration's support seems
to assure its prompt passage. The
bill agrees with the recent recommendations
of Provost Marshal General
Crowder.
Other administration bills introduced
today by Chairman Chamberlain
at the request of the war department
will supplement the draft law
to make it workable under conditions
that have developed. One would permit
furloughing national army troops
for harvest work or other civilian
duty; another would eliminate enemy
alien population from basis of calculations
for draft quotas by making
the basis for each State, the number
of men available in class 1.
Recommended by Crowder.
Registration of men who have become
of age since tl\e draft law was
I enacted, was the recommendation of
Provost Marshal General Crowder as
one of the means by which a supply
of men for the national army could
be obtained without taking those who
have other dependents on them. It
could be done also, General Crowder
pointed out, by extending the age
limits above the present line of 31.
The war department has adopted the
first sugestion. It is estimated that
it will add about 700,000 men to the
draft available each ye^ir.
Congressmen have been advised
that further legislation would be necessary
to perfect and carry on the
draft and the passage of Senator
Chamberlain's bill with administra
tlon support is expected promptly in
both houses.
Another bill introduced by Senator
Chamberlain would provide a distinctive
badge or button for exempted
men.
The bill changing the basis of State
quotas is believed to provide a more
equitable system, as it will exclude
entirely enemy aliens from the basis.
Enemy aliens were included in the
basis for the $rst draft and there was
much complaint. Heavy enemy alien
populations in some congested districts
forced Americans to army duty
regardless of exemption claims to
make up district quotas.
For Agricultural Work.
The bill to permit troops to go to
agricultural work, merely would authorize
the secretary of war to furlough
men for civilian duty. It is
known, however, that the war department
intends to use the authority
principally to provide men for harvest
time and other agricultural work vital
to the food supply.
To facilitate collection of private
insurance policies held by troops, another
bill woul(} require private insurance
companies to accept the official
army record as proof of death
of men among the army insured. It
is designed to meet the cases of men
reported missing to which there is
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payment by insurance companies upon
policies held by men reported
missing and who later should appear,
the bill provides for reimbursement
to the insurance companies by the
government.
Exemption of the government from
payment of the new war tax on automobiles
is the purpose of another
bill introduced by Senatr Chamberlain
to deal principally with the
large government purchase of motor
trucks.
Arrangements have been made by
the war department to fill from the
second draft sometime this spring
the'extensive vacancies in the coast
artillery, caused by the organization
of provisional regiments of mobile!
heavy artillery for service in France, j
A limited number of men who have
particular aptitude for the special,
work of the corps were obtained from
the first draft but there is still a de- j
| ficiency of several thousand. Unless :
j some unforeseen emergency devel-'
! ops organization of regiments for forj
eign service in the corps will not be
i carried any further chan to complete
the units now in process of develj
opment.
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SOLONS DOWN TO WORK
MUCH BUSINESS TRANSACTED IN
. FIRST WEEK.
Senate Votes to Take Pardon Power
Away from Governor.?OtliMatters
of Interest.
Columbia, Jan 12.?It is very
doubtful if there has ever been a session
of the general assembly at which
more business has been transacted
the first week than has been transacted
in the first week of the present
one. Both houses have shown a dis
position to get right down to work,
to pass what legislation is necessary
and to go home. Night sessions have
been held in both branches the first
week, something very unusual.
The ways and means committee of
the house is hard at work on the appropriation
bill and hopes to report
it in record time. It is the appropriation
bill that always delays the
adjournment of the assembly. Chairman
yLiles and his committee members
hope to get the big measure in
shape early enough not to interfere
with early adjournment plans. The
members of the various county delegations
have been requested to furnish
their county supply measures
at once.
Probably the most important measure
passed by either house the first
week was the bill offered in the senate
by Mr. Bonham of Greenville and
passed by that body to submit a constitutional
amendment taking from
the governor the pardoning power
and investing it with the board of
pardons provided by the general as
sembly. This measure has been sent
to the house. The senate was practically
unanimous in favor of the bill.
Just what reception it will meet in
the house cannot be predicted.
The senate also passed a bill repealing
the State income tax law, the
enforcement of which has always
been a farce, according to Senator
Sinkler, the author of the measure,
repealing it. This bill, too, has been
sent to the house.
The house of representatives went
squarely on record against the proposed
assessment of personal property
and lands at 50 per cent, of its
value. It seems that the tax commissino
has issued instructions to county
auditors to increase the assessments
this year to that extent. The house
is "agin it." The concurrent resolutions
asking that the assessment
be made at the same rate as in the
past has been sent to the senate, but
has not yet been brought up in that
body. There is little reason to doubt,
however, that it will pass the senate
with the same vote that it passed the
house.
Senator Williams, of Aiken, has
introduced a bill to abolish the tax
commission.
nrii^k PivJiihifmn OiiAst.inn.
The opposition has arisen to the
proposed ratification to the national
prohibition amendment, but the concensus
of opinion seems to be that it
will be ratified. The question of
"State rights" has arisen and is being
used vigorously by those who oppose
the amendment. The strongest
opposition seems to be in the house.
No sentiment against it has developed
in the senate' to date.
Senator DuRant has introduced a
bill in the senate to tighten the
quart-a-month law. This bill seems
to have the backing of the prohibition
leaders and may be said to constitute
the prohibition programme for
this session so far as local or State
legislation is concerned. The bill,
briefly stated, would require the head
of a family, before sucuring a permit
from the probate judge, to securer
doctor's prescription stating
the name of the sick person for whom
the whiskey was wanted and giving
the nature of the disease.
It is very probable that a deter
mined fight will be made upon this
measure.
It is said that several "bone dry"
bills will be introduced during the
coming week.
This Bill Was Killed.
A bill by Senator DuRant providing
for the removal of unfaithful
sheriffs or other peace officers was
killed by the senate after a lengthy
d'scussion. Senator DuRant and
Senator Bonham argued long and eloquently
on the necessity of such a
measure, while Senator J. F. Williams,
of Aiken, argued just as long
and just as eloquently against it. The
sentiments of the senator from Aiken
prevailed.
Great interest will center the coming
week in the investigation into
the charges contained in the message
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HOUSE FOR NEW PRIMARY LAW.
Sends Cotliran Bill to its Third Reading
by decisive Vote.
Columbia, Jan. 15.?After going
emphatically on record as being in
favor of the Cothran bill for regulating
primary elections, which gives,
in effect, the Australian system of
balloting, the house tonight ordered
the measure to third reading after
amending it in unimportant particulars.
The vote was viva voce after
the house, by a vote of 29 to 68,
had refused the motion of J. Howard
Moore, of Abbeville, to strike
out the enacting words. The roll
call on the motion showed that the
vote of approval was in no manner
partisan, but drew from all factions.
The vote indicates that the bill will
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ue easily passeu uy uie xiuuse i>u
third reading.
The measure provides that a voting
booth shall be provided for every
one hundred electors at each precinct.
The dimensions are given and
the method of keeping the voter concealed.
The voter, if he cannot read
or writes, shall have two members of
opposing factions to assist him and
if these be not present any two qualified
"voters. After the opening of
the polls no person shall be admitted
behind the guard rails of the
booth, which shall be five feet from
the booth and around it, except the
managers, the duly authorized watchers
and challengers, the chairman of
the executive committee or member
of the committee appointed in his
stead to supervise the polling place,
and police officers admitted by the
managers. The candidates for public
offices may be present to watch the
canvass of the vote. The following
sections of the bill provide for the
manner of voting:
"The tickets shall be printed on
clear white paper in the usual manner,
but shall have a coupon at the
top, perforated so as to be easilly
detached. On the coupon shall be
printed 'Official Ballot.' 'Club .
Ward . No. .' The
numbers shall* run seriatim for each
clnh There shall be fifty per cent.
more ballots than there are voters
enrolled at each polling place.
"The managers shall be responsible
for all ballots furnished. When
a voter presents himself he shall be
given a ballot provided he is a native
citizen of the United States, or
if he is a naturalized citizen he must
show his naturalization papers before
the managers shall give him a
ballot. The manager in charge of
the poll list shall enter the number
of the ballot next the name of the
voter. The voter shall forthwith
retire to one of the booths and without
undue delay prepare his ballot
by scratching out the names of the
candidates for whom he does not
care to vote. No voter shall remain
in the booth longer than five minutes.
"After preparing his ballot the voter
shall present himself to the manager.
His ballot must be folded in
such a way that the number can be
seen and the coupon can be readily
detached by the manager without in
any way revealing the printed portion
of the ballot. If the voter is
not challenged and takes the prescribed
oath the managers shall tear
off the coupon, put it on file, stamp
the ballot, and the voter shall deposit
it in the box arid shall immediately
leave the polling place. If a voter
shall mar or deface his ballot
he may obtain one additional ballot
upon returning to the manager in
charge of the ballot the ballot so
marred or defaced with the coupon
attached. The manager in charge of
the poll list shall change the number
of the ballot on his poll list and
plaee the defaced ballot on a file. No
voter shall be given a second ballot
until he has returned the first one
with the coupon attached."
of Governor , Manning, vetoing the
game warden act, against the former
game warden, Mr. Richardson. The
demand for an investigation was
made by Mr. Richardson in a letter
to Senator Williams, of Aiken.
President Bethea, of the senate,
has appointed the following committee
to investigate the charges: Senators
D. R. Williams, Alan Johnstone
and J. W. McCown. Mr. Beahea has
been very widely commended for his
appointment of this committee which
seems to have completely satisfied
both sides of the very unpleasant
fight.
The committee will begin its in
vestigation probably Tuesday afternoon
and will probably make its report
before the senate votes on the
veto message of the governor Friday.
There is some little interest in
this investigation.
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