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I &.-J* in mind that all suhscriptions to The Her\ vjfrM am mnst now b? paid ^ __ _ \lT_jzpWin advance. This is the flags! ?lr? latnhwg iJarralii =MP^ $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1919. Established in 1891. * AMERICA IS VOTED BONE DRY % THE AMENDMENT RATIFIED BY THIRTY-EIGHT STATES. jj? - Effective January 14th, 1920 rProhibition Will Be a Fact in Every State.?Nebraska the 36th State. Washington, Jan. 16.?Ratification today of the federal constitutional prohibition amendment made the United States the first great power to take legislative action to permanently stop the liquor traffic. Nebraska's vote gave the necessary affirmative three-fourths majority of the States to make effective the amendment submitted by Congress in I>ecember, 1917. It was followed by similar action in the Legislatures of Missouri and Wyoming, making thirty-eight States in all which have approved a "dry" America. Affirmative action by some of the ten State Legislatures yet to act is predicted by prohibition advocates. % > Prohibition July 1. Under .the terms of the amend ment, the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating liquors must v cease one year after ratification but prohibition will be a fact in every State much earlier because of the war measure forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages after June 30 until the demobilization of the military forces is completed. Under the war time measure exportation of liquor is permitted, but xthe great stocks now held in bonded warehouses will have to be disposed of before the federal amendment becomes effective. Effective at Once. Discussion as to whether the new amendment becomes a part of the Constitution now that thirty-six States have ratified it or whether it becomesa part of the basic law only r j when each State has certified its action to* the Secretary of State, led jk; today to a search for precedent which showed that the only two amendments, ratified in the last half century ?providing for income taxes and direct election of Senators?were considered effective immediately after the thirty-sixth State/ had taken affirmative action. fionat/ir ShonnaH anthnr tVio [ prohibition amendment, held that national prohibition becomes a permanent fact Jan. 16, 1920. Fourteen Certified. Only fourteen of the States have certified their action to the State Department. The vote of the Mississip? pi -Legislature, the first to act, has not been received at the State Department. The Mississippi Secretary t* of State said today at Jackson that v the certificate had been mailed to Washington immediately after the 4 Legislature acted, and that a duplicate would be sent if the original had been lost. Proclamation of the ratification of a new amendment is made, but this is said to be a formaliality and not a requisite part of changing the Constitution. New Problems. New problems of government are raised by prospective stoppage of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor as hundreds of millions of dollars derived frem internal revenue will have to be obtained from other * sources. Laws for enforcement of the amendment, will also have to be pass ed by Congress. Only a minimum of unemployment is expected to result as the cumulative severity of successive restrictive measures adopted since the war began already has caused many distillers and brewers to seek other uses for their plants. Hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in distilleries and breweries. ^ Already Half Dry. More than half the country of the United States already is dry through State action or local option elections. Until recently, the movement of limited quantities of liquor for personal ^ _ use was permitted, but the Supreme Court ruled several days ago that the Reed "bone dry" amendment made such traffic illegal. Western and Southern States took the lead in prohibition. In the West onlv Cal'fornia, Nevada and Wyoming st;ll license the sale of intoxicant^ and in the South only Louisiana. The retraining wet States form a belt ^ through the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys to New England, the States including Missouri, Illinois, Wiscon8S5---V OFFICIALS GET MORE SALARY. Amended Senate Bill Passes in House. Columbia, Jan. 9.?The house yesterday by a majority of two to one vote refused to strike out the enacting words of the bill proposing to increase salaries of elective State offii cers. The Christensen bill'from the senate is now on third reading in the ' house and will receive final passage in this end of the capitol Monday afternoon. Immediately after the approval of the Christensen bill yesterday, as amended by the ways and means uomminee, uie nouse aujuuxiied until 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The amended bill provides for a salary of $5,000 for the governor and $750 for the lieutenant governor. ! Other elective State officers, which ; are attorney ' general, comptroller general, adjutant general, State treasurer, secretary of state, superintendent of education, railroad commissioners and commissioners of agriculture, would receive $2,500 each. The ways and means committee cut the elective State officers from $3,000 each to $2,500 and. also eliminated the insurance commissioner, the chief game warden, the superintendent of the State penitentiary, the secretary of the State board of charities and t AJ T_ J _ T_ -11 A- - - corrections, wmcn were an to receive $3,000 by the Christensen bill. The committee further amended by cut- . ting out provisions for an increase of the salary of the chief justice of the supreme court to $4,500, associ- ' ate justices to $4,000 each, judges of the circuit courts $4,000 each, circuit solicitors, $2,000 each, court stenographers $2,000. The total increase , will be less.than $8,000. The measure has also been passed 1 by the senate, and is now law. RECEIVES THREE MEDALS. 1 . \ Awarded Victoria Cross, Military j Medal and Croix de Guerre. V The Military Cross, the Croix de * Guerre and the Victoria Cross are ' among the decorations that Capt. E. ' L. Patterson, son of the late Con- 1 gressman J. O. Patterson, of Bam- * well, will bring back to his South J Carolina home, according to statements made last night by his wife, who is now in North Augusta. 1 Three helmets blown from his 1 head, his horse wounded seven times ^ and then shot from under him, the rescue of a wounded officer under ^ fire, are a few of the adventures ( which he will bring back with him from the battlefront when he re- 1 turns. i In reality Captain Patterson has 1 had a greater adventure than any 1 other man of the army medical corps. ( His experiences have been varied, and tried in the crucible he has not 'hciQn fniinr) Trantinu' Tint rniifflwnilfl 1 r,?U,..UQ, " 0~ at all times, as evidenced by his decorations. Captain Patterson is an officer of the American army, but is assigned to the British fighting forces, and j saw service with the 15th -Welsh: Regiment. He has been in France 18 months and got in at the first and last offensives which marked the downfall of the Hun. The first decoration given Captain Patterson was by the British?the Military Cross. This decoration was , bestowed upon him for rescuing a brother officer who was wounded and was lying in territory swept by the enemy guns. At the risk of his life Captain Patterson carried him to safety. The French government next decorated Captain Patterson, bestowing upon him the Croix de Guerre, for re lief work among the civilian popula- J tion of France. On DecembersL5th Captain Patter- j son was given the Victoria Cross, the honor being conferred by King George. The South Carolinian was , called from Paris to London for the ^ purpose of receiving the decoration ^ and the personal congratulation of ^ the king.' I Mrs. Patterson says her husband , expects to be relieved shortly from ^ duty with the British and is then to ( be sent home.?Augusta Chronicle, j J December 29. m *m* m ^ Craocolor, the best colored crayon made, at Herald Book Store. ?= 1 sin, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 5 Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, ) New York, Rhode Island, Conneticut, \ Massachusetts, Vermont and New < Hampshire. 1 1 Later?Two more States have rati- 3 fled the amendment, bringing the to- 5 tal to 50. 1 PEACE CONFERENCE BEGINS SESSION WILSON PROPOSES CLEMEXCEAU FOR PERMANENT CHAIRMAN Chairman Outlines Work To Be Done Three of Larger Subjects Responsibility for War, for Crimes During War and Labor Legislation. Paris, Jan. 18.?The peace conference, destined to be historic, and on which the eyes of the world are now centered, was opened this afternoon in the great Salle De La Pairix. Premier Clemenceau announced that the league of nations would be the first subject taken up at the next full meeting of the conference. Todav's proceedings which were confined to the election of Georges Clemenceau, the French premier, as permanent chairman of the conference, an address of welcome by the president of the French republic, Raymond Poincare, and speeches by President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and Baron Sonnino, were characterized by expressions of lasting friendship and the apparent determination of the representatives of the various nations to come to an amicable understanding with respect to the problems to be decided by the conference. When President Poincare spoke, * * ? ' - -i ^ t_ tne enure assemDiy siooa, ana me fact that, according to custom, no ipplause greeted his utterance gave greater solemnity to the scene. M. Clemenceau's acceptance of the presidency of the congress was both i feeling expression of personal gratitude and a definite outline of the great questions immediately ahead, rhree of these larger general subjects he defined as responsibility for the war, responsibility for crimes < luring the war and international labor legislation. The league of nations, he declared was at the head of ;he programme for the next full session. "Our ambition is a great and noble ...e," said M. Clemenceau. "We wish to avoid a repetition of the catastrophe which bathed the world in blood, [f the league of nations is to be prac-* ticable, we must all remain united. Let us carry out our programme juickly and in effective manner." Referring to the authors of the var, he said he had consulted two iniinent jurists on the penal responsibility of the former German emperor, ind each delegate would receive a ?opy of the report. In all seventy-two seats were provided for the opening session of the peace conference. On the outer side pf the great horse shoe were arranged the Japanese, the British and Colonial delegates and the seat of the 3 fth British delegate. A chair for the fifth American delegate also was reserved immediately to the right of the table of honor. The Italian, Belgian, Brazilian, Suban, Haitian, Peruvian, Portugese, Jerbiailal, Czecho-Slovakien and Uruguayan delegates sat in the order tiamed. Across at the left wing of the table sat the Siamese, Roumanian, Polish, Liberian, Hedjas, Guatemalan, Ecuadorean, Chinese and Bolivian delegates. Locomotive Kills Three Wild Deer. J. W. Holand, engineer on the AtT ir? rv f olln on LdUUU Vjuaoi liiuc 1UIX11 v/au, 1^110 au interesting story in connection with the killing of three deer by a locomotive as it came over the rails at the rate of about 30 miles an hour. "Doc" Holland was at the throttle last Saturday morning while his engine was speeding between Florence md Pee Dee. The train was nearing Wynona when three deer jumped from an embankment and attempted to cross the tracks immediately in front of the fast moving train. The locomotive struck the three and all svere killed. The engine was brought to a standstill. The deer had met instant death. The engineer claimed the doe. The buck and the fawn svere given to the operator at Pee Dee. Fneineer Holland said the deer aD proached the rails from the fireman's side of the train and the first he knew of the killing was when he saw the form of a doe dash to the grounu 3n his side. The buck and the fawn were thrown on the opposite side of the tracks. The train ran down the same at 6 o'clock in the morning ind it is thought that a hunting party was out on a drive in the vicinity. / "C. E. KISEK EXONERATED. Supervisor Charged With Misuse of Convicts. St. George, Jan. 18.?Charged with having used the convicts of the chaingang as laborers upon his plantation, C. E. Kizer, supervisor of Dorchester county, was brought before the grand jury Monday, and the finding of that body, made public today, is an exoneration of Supervisor Riser. Considerable testimony was taken in an effort to show that Mr. Riser had from time to time removed the convicts to his farms, where he would keep them for weeks, not for the purpose of performing such work as thpv should do ns ronviofs. hilt to aid in his personal farminer operations. ^ i>I ? WILL OF MISS ANNA KEITT. Scholarship Donated to Bamberg and Other Counties in Old District. St. Matthews, Jan. 11.?On account of the varied tone of her devises and the volume of her estate, the will of the late Miss Anna Keitt, which has just been admitted to probate at this place, is of interest. Several public and charitable institutions and a number of her relatives and personal friends come in for comfortable remembrance. A number of others are remembered in a nominal way. The University of South Carolina, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Charleston and the Charleston Hospital share best with the institutions, while J. S. Wannamaker and T. W. Dantzler, relatives and friends, to whom she confessed valued obligation for counsel and advice in her life time, came in, for $5,000 each. Th? remainder of her estate goes to relatives, the greater bulk to the family of her cousin. Mrs. Anna Keitt Whaley, of | New York. To the University of South Carolina she makes a gift of $5,500. Of this $5,0p0 is an endowment, the proceeds of which are to support the Lawrence M. Keitt scholarships from the old district in congress held by her father, now comprised of Orangeburg,' Bamberg, Barnwell, Lexington and Calhoun counties; $5,500 is to be invested and the proceeds thereof to be spent to pay for an annual medal for oratory, the Lawrence M. Keitt medal. The 16 acres embracing the lawn and house surroundings of the Marlboro farm are to be sold and the proceeds are to go to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Charleston. After deducting these gifts from the sale of the Marlboro farms the balance is to go to the Charleston Hospital to endow beds, of which one each is to be memorial to her^mother, one to a predeceased sister and one I to herself. The portrait of her father, Col. Lawrence M. Keitt, is presented to the State of South Carolina, to be placed in the capitol building at Co lumbia. The pen with which her father signed the constitution of the Confederate States together with his Confederate uniform are presented to the Confederate Museum at Richmond. L friend in France is given a remembrance in jewelry, as are numerous friends and relatives on this side of the water. The estate consists of about 700 acres in Marlboro and about 1,500 acres of Calhoun's finest soil. Of the latter, Mrs. Whaley, Mrs. Margaret P. Walker, George P. Walker, Anna. Keitt Walker, Miss Mary Wright Walker, relatives in New York, will become practically absolute in their inheritance. A moderate estimate would place the estate at a value of $250,000, and is one of the very few of the antebellum estates remaining intact at this day. ?i ? 30th TO LAND IN CHARLESTON. Senator Pollock Expects Definite Des- > ignation at Any Time. In spite of numerous reports to the effect that the men of the Thirtieth division which embraces troops from Tennessee, North and South Carolina, would, upon their return to he United States from service abroad, land at some other port than Charleston, Senator Pollock, who has been following, this matter closely for sometime, announced that be expects to receive information within the next few hours from the Secretary of War designating Charleston as the point of debarkation. From Charleston the troops would go to Camp Sevier for demobilization. Read The* Herald, $2.00 per year. i 9 mr. cooper sworn In asgovernor GOV. MANNING DELIVERS KEYS TO LAURENS MAN. R. C. Watts Administers the Oath. Inaugural Address Conducive to Spirit of Political Harmony and Cooperation. Columbia, Jan. 21.?At four minutes after one this afternoon, Robert A. Cooper, of Laurens, succeeded Richard I. Manning, of Sumter, as Governor of South Carolina. In conformity with Governor Cooper's desires the inaugural exercises today were characterized by a Democratic simplicity. The oath of office was administered by his life-long friend and former fellow-townsman, Associate Justice R. C. Watts, of the Supreme Court, of South Carolina, and the prayer was offered by his pastor, the Rev. A. H. Templeman, D. D., of Laurens. For General Cooperation. Following the administering of the oath of office, Governor Cooper delivered his inaugural address, which was generally commended as being constructive in its recommendations, and conducive to a spirit of political harmony and general cooperation of endeavor among all the people of the State. The key-note of the address was educational advancement and the administration of all the laws of the State in the spirit of their eractment, and in accord with the intent of the Constitution and the statutes. Spirit of Candor. He said that he would deal with the legislative department with perfect candor, and it would find him as ready to receive as to offer suggestions. He said that the programme which he outlined would entail additional appropriations, and that his educational programme would probably call for the largest amount ever expended in one year for the public , schools, but that when the taxpayers received adequate returns upon their investment, and the future citizenship of the State was at stake, that it was a matter of largest public duty as well as: of economy. Ho stressed preparedness in peace, now that hostilities had ceased, comparing the present situation, on a peace basis, with that which had existed when preparedness for war was seen to have been so vitally necessary. "Could we have realized ten years ago," he said, "that a world war of immense magnitude was a real danger, we would have been so well prepared to meet tne issue tnat no war would have come. If we can now be made to realize the dangers that threaten us in time of peace we will no longer delay the adoption and execution of a programme of preparedness which shhould have been carried out years ago." Governor Cooper spoke for nearly an hour, and was liberally applauded by an assemblage which represented ; , every walk of life in South Carolina and every section of the State. ^ ft ? REWARDED BY KING. I Jesse Evans, of Dillon,, South Caro7 Una, Decorated for Bravery. Dillon, Jan. 18.?News has been received here that Jesse Evans, of the ( nospitai corps, son 01 or. ana Mrs. A. J. Evans, has been decorated for j distinguished bravery on the field of. battle in the last days of the war. He was bearing a stretcher with Carlisle \ Bracey, another Dillon boy, and fell j badly wounded in the arm, thigh and shoulder. With them were two other stretcher bearers, who ran out of the 3torm of shot and shell, leaving young \ Evans alone to care for his wounded j comrade. With the shells coming < down as thick as hailstones he ban- | ' daged Carlisle Bracey's wound and i nrdArprt four Carman nrisoners to I help carry him to the emergency 1 hospital back of the lines. For this act of signal bravery he has been ' 1 decorated by King George and will < receive an American medal. He af- 1 terwards received a shrapnel wound < in his forehead, but soon recovered < from it. ] Carlisle Bracey is now in the hos- 1 pital at Fort McPherson, convalesc- ing from his serious wounds, and he gives Jesse all the credit for saving his life. j* mm < > m I ] Read The Herald, $2.00 iper year, j < f HOW LAWRENCE M. KEITT DIED. Heroism of a Famous South Carolinian Recalled by a Veteran. The notice of the death of Miss Anna Keitt recalls the tragedy of Cold Harbor and the glorious bearing and fall of Colonel Keitt. The writer had reached home at the time, having been furloughed on account of severe wounds received at Spottsylvania Court House on the 8th of May. I spent the summer at home, but recall very distinctly the principal events of the campaign from the Rapidan to the James. Grant crossed the Rapidan the night of the 4th of May, 1864, with 147,000 men. Lee, not waiting for his antagonist to get into the open country with his vastly superior forces, threw his columns into the Wilderness and in two days of awful conflict, beat the army of the Potomac. Then followed the ten days' struggle at Spottsylvania Court House, beginning the morning of the 8th of May. Bafiled and beaten by the superior leadership and fighting of the Confederates, again Grant and Meade withdrew from Lee's front and sought to pass by his right toward Richmond. Again Lee showed to great advantage over his adversary by drawing him into position at the North Anna River, where lie could not give battle and escape the certain- * ty of defeat. Once more, resorting to his flanking tactics, Grant marched his forces to Cold Harbor, there to find Lee again across^ his track. It was here that, two years before. the right of McClellan's great amy was beaten and broken up. This field now became the scene of one or the bloodiest tragedies of the great war between the two great sections of the American Union. The fighting was heavy on the 1st and 2d, but it was in the early morning of the 3d day of June that Grant assaulted with an immense force, in which he lost 12,-v. 500 in 30 minutes, from a force of about 100,000. It is doubtful if the annals of war shoW a greater propor' tionate loss in such a brief length of time. So crushing had been the repulse and so ghastly the tragedy that when orders were given by the Union commander to renew the attack, the troops flatly refused to move and merely opened fire where they lay. Hancock? Smith and others of division and corps commanders refused to repeat that order to their troops. A sectioh of the line was known as the "Kershaw Salient." Kershaw was then commanding a division. The old brigade originally composed of the Second, Third, Seventh and Eighth Regiments, until the autumn of 1862, following the battles of Sharpsburg and South Mountain, when the Fifteenth Regiment and Third Battalion were attached to the brigade and during the campaign, was I think, commanded by Gen. John Kennedy and others. It was on this field that the Twentieth South Carolina Regiment, led by Gen. Lawrence M. Keitt, joined the old brigade. The regiment was fresh from the coast of South Carolina, had seen ^ little of active service and with full ranks had perhaps had something like a thousand men. The-boys call ed it Keitt's Corps. I think it was on the third that Colonel Keitt, on horseback, I think, led the brigade in a desperate charge and was killed under circumstances of great gallantry. He had been greatly distinguished in civil life, having served as a member of the lower house of congress prior to the war and also the lower house of the nrmforifvrvato flnnarpss wn<* an ardent disciple of State rights and when the crucial period came, in the relation between the two great sections. stood for separate State action. On this field he, along with thousands no less brave and loyal, sealed, with his blood his devotion to duty and to country. The three days' fighting at Cold Harbor closed the campaign from the Rapidan to the James. On the night of the 12th of June Grant pulled away from Lee's front and taking a route farther eastward and crossing the Pamunkey and the James, set before Richmond and went to ditching. A month's awful slaughter in which he had lost 60,000 out of 147,* 000 men, a number very nearly equal to Lee's army at the beginning of the campaign, had convinced the Union commander that he must adopt other methods than direct assault against the incomparable infantry of the Army of Northern Virginia. ^ < > m we are prepared 10 recnarge juur uitomobile battery. Give us a trial. FAULKNER ELECTRIC SERVICE :0.?adr.