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' V-V T t ^ ~ HOLD YOUR COTTON . (\ REDUCE YOUR ACREAGE ' tW^M fiUttttetfl tenUU , USE LESS FERTILIZER paper will be discontinued. V J ?????-? , ffi.00 Per Year in Advance. ~ BAMBEBO, S. 0., THURSDAY, MABCH 27,1919. , Established In 1891. ? I " 4 REVIEW OF WORK OF WAR CONGRESS I t MONTHLY COMPENDIUM EDITED BY MR. LOOMIS ISSUED. Turns on Searchlight. Sixty-fifth Congress Shown to Have Appropriated Approximately $57,000,000,000. Washington, D. C., March 23.? Accomplishments of the Sixty-fifth war congress are officially reviewed in the final number of the Monthly " -* r\f ronrp uompenaium 01 me 1iuuoc ui * vr* w sentatives, appearing today.' Unwhich necessarily must be considered in the legislative program of the new congress, soon to convene, also is'contained in the publication, which finished business of the congress " was edited by W. Ray Loomis, an official of the house. "Constituting as it does a statistical retrospection of the accomplishments of the 65th congress," says Mr. Loomis in a foreword of the % compendium "the-final issue of the ? Monthly Compendium throws the searchlights on the transactions of three sessions of unparalelled events. When the Congress met in April, 1917, the country was at peace. In $ the., interim a war had been declared, ' a war had beep, won and a tfar'had been ended. So this issue carries legislative history of a character that perhaps never again will be duplicated, both as to the amount of money authorized to be expended and as to the extent of the revolutionizing of the social and business lives of the people of the nation." Appropriated $57,000,000,000. m'? fl'm-v, nnnotccc fa shown IH6 OlA IJ ~I11 LU WW ? to have appropriated approximately " : $57,000,000,000; passed 349 public laws; 48 public resolutions; 48 pri? vate laws and conducted 32 congressional investigations. A total of 22.* 594 bills and resolutions were intro^ "Sliced of which 16,684 originated in the house and the remainder in the x ; senate. President Wilson vetoed >; : five measures. President Wilson's part in congressional matters is set out by list of notable dates, including his approv. al of history-making laws and his , numerous addresses. It is shown that for the first time laws were signed in a foreign country; thatW > the first time a measure, a revenue -? bill, was signed on a railroad train; that for the first time a president had addressed the'senate in favor of woman suffrage, had signed a bill to move the sun forward and then backward and had gone on the floor k of the house to shake hands with members of foreign war missions. Another Feature. ' - Another unprecedented feature of the congress pointed out by the Compendium was that practically one/fourth of all laws of the three sesv sions were approved during the las. '< nine days of the congress. The president signed 116 bills and resolutions from February 24 to March 4. Fifteen representatives, ten sena. tors and twenty ex-member^ died during the c&ngress. Two former presiding officers of the senate, Tbeo' dore Roosevelt and Chas. W. Fair'^banks are also included in the death roll. A list of authors of bills receiving fy - action beyond mere reduction shows ' a predomination of names of chairman of committees. Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, chairman of the military committee, with 58 measures led the list with Senator Myers of Montana, chairman of the public lands committee second with 3 c bills. Representative Padgett, ol VflTinpRRpp headinsr the naval com mittee led in the house with 3f measures and Representative Dent of Alabama, chairman of the military committee was second with 3 c - bils. ^ m * m First Impressions. There is in the employ of a Wash ington family a colored woman fron Virginia, who until the family weni to a seaside resort for their ,vaca tion, had never seen the ocean.. Her mistress nodded toward th< great wind-swept expanse of watei with its gulls and flying clouds anc distant sails, and said: "There Mandy, is the sea. Wha' do you think of it?" "Well, Missy," replied the se" vant, "it smells just like oysters ? don't it?" i I ELECTRIC LIGHTS DECEIVE CHICKENS LONGER DAY INCREASES EGG PRODUCTION. Hens Pay Own Way. Columbian Resorts to Deception to j Mak? Poultry Yard More Profitable Yenture. By the liberal use of electric lights in his laying houses, S. H. Zimmerman* proprietor of the North Columbia Poultry Yards, has so lengthened the short winter days that he has appreciably increased his egg yield. The two laying houses, one 16 by 100 feet and the other 16 by 75 feet, are strung with wires, with the switch in the residence nearby. During the winter, before daybreak, the lights are switched on, the roosters crow in rousing fashion, the hens begin to scratch in the straw and bv the time other chickens are beginning to leave the roost, Zimmerman's hens are considering the advisability of increasing the egg supply. "A cold hen won't lay," said Mr. Zimmerman yesterday. "By hous ing them properly during the* cold weather, by having them get to scratching about two hours before daybreak and by proper feeding, J they warm up and will lay in the j coldest weather, and it is the egg that ] is produced out of season that brings the high dollar." To go into the poultry business as a money making venture has long been considered among many men as a quick and more or less painless method of committing financial suicide. As a side line to general farming, poultry is all right, for the women, say many farmers, but the man that depends on poultry as his only source of revenue is bound for *the auctioneer's block. So common has this view become that it is genuinely refreshing to find a man who admits openly that he has made money raising poultry, that the business in his opinion has a great future, and thatj he enjoys the outdoor life that the business makes possible. And S. H- Zimmerman admits all of these things, together with the fact that Mrs. Zimmerman is treasurer of the concern. Four years ago Zimmerman was a bank clerk in ohe of the large banking institutions of Columbia. The more or less prisonlike existence affected his health, and with 15 hens and one rooster he made a modest start. He had one house 10 by 10 feet. Today, after four years in the business, he nas J ,500 birds, has six houses -and estimates the value of his plant and equipment at $5,000. The youthful proprietor makes a specialty of shipping day old chicks to purchasers. He sa^d yesterday that he had shipped the chick inter Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina and had met with much success in the shipment. /He also . realizes a considerable profit from the,sale of day old eggs. Mr. Zimmerman says that the man who goes into the poultry business with the intent of getting rich over. night is doomed to disappointment. . He holds that the poultryman should : learn to crawl before he tries to walk, and that the wise plan is to ; start with a small flock and increase ; his stock, equipment and plant as he hppnmA? familiar with the various . features of the business. A constant 5 vigilance against disease, and abso. lute cleanliness are two requisites in the business. ? ; Mr. Zimmerman does all of his hatching in an incubator with a caP pacity of 2,428 eggs. Yesterday he - had 2,200 eggs in the machine. Dur5 ing the present week he has removed , 409 chicks from the incuba tor. The incubator is heated by I steam piping and two %mall electric fans fotce the heat throughout the machine and also provide constant ventilation. A temperature of 100 degrees instead of 103 is maintained . in all the egg chambers. The incui bator is housed in a cellar about six t feet below the surface of the grouna. A most careful system of egg testinc ic msnntninpri hv "Mr. Zimmer i man, and infertile eggs are removed r from the chambers of the incubator 1 regularly. The houses are floored with cement, have ample exposures t to the south and are well constructed, having been put up by the pro prietor. Yesterday Mr. Zimmerman said that his flock was yielding him about 25 l FINANCIAL CONDITION OF BAMBERG COUNTY A great deal has been said since was published in the Barnwell pathe matter of annexation of the pcrs, showing the financial condition 01 ,.,!* * * r> ?f the county, in which the treasurer Blackville territory to Bamberg ? figures out that the county is only county has been agitated concerning $1603 3S jn debt For the infornla. the finances of Barnwell county ana ^ion 0f all parties' concerned. The Bamberg county. Som,e of the Black- Herald requested Mr. G. A. .Jennings, vilte people stated that Barnwell was Bamberg county treasurer, to preheavily in debt. Last week Mr. J. B. pare a statement of Bamberg counArmstrong, treasurer of Barnwell I ty's finances. Below is given this county, prepared a statement, which statement: Assessed Valuation Bamberg County Property. 229,850 acres of land, valued at $1,226,890.00 Value of buildings 181,710.00 Value of real estate, etc., in towns 461,700.00 Value of personal property 1,076,969.00 Value of^railroads \ 885,210,00 Total assessed'valuation $3,732,479.00 1918 Taxes. (Collected From Oct. 15 to March 15.) State receives, at 8 3-4 mills $ 30,792.96 County receives, at 6 3-4 mills 25,194.23 Roads receive 5,042.00 Schools, constitutional 3 mills 11,197.43 Schools, special tax 24,466.37 Schools, poll tax 3,340.00 Schools, dog tax 855.00 Total tax : >. $ 100,887.99 Actual Cash on Hand in Banks March 22, 1919. Monthly report to comptroller general Feb. 28, 1919, showed balance on hand for all county purposes....$ 24,981.26 Collected since Feb. 28, 1919 '. 1,988.76Total $ 26,970.02 Paid out since Feb. 28, 1919 i 1,634.42 Leaving balance on hand $ 25,335.60 Schools had on hand Feb. 28, 1919 $ 24,374.40 This statement does not take into I of $16,478.70. ' , 4-v,/, oiitamnhilo I Tt, nrHar that a nrnnpr mmnariann I'Uiibiumaiiuu me unto, ouwi?uuuv <u u,?v? vr?. taxes, insurance fees, etc., figures for may be drawn between the finances which are not available at this time, of Bamberg and Barnwell counties,! The annual settlement, which was we herewith reprint the statement made on July 1, 1918, showed a bal- of. treasurer Armstrong, of Barnance on hand for all county purposes | well county: Total Expenditures. / Total expenditures as shown by the rec ord in the supervisor's office $74,669.85 Resources. Valuation of all taxable property in Barnwell county $72,995.70 at 8 1-4 mill $ 60,221.45 J Sale of old county truck ; ..$ 1,225.00 Additional insurance, license fees from State-r. v- 1,315.18 State Highway fund 7,437.48 '* Fines and miscellaneous items 2,326.44 Interest on savings deposits 540.92 $73,066.47 Estimated deficit - 1,603.38 Note:?It is evident that the total in the banks to the credit of the counvaluation of property is $7,299,570. ty to run the government a year, or instead of $72,995.70, as given in the until the 1919 taxes are paid, published statement. . The following comment accompaIt will be noted that when all. the - nies the publication of the statement ta\es, fines, license fees, etc., are re- of the Barnwell treasurer: ceived, the total currGnt receipts of, will be seen from thG above Barnwell county will lack $1,603.38 statement that when all of the taxes of ^reaching the amount already j h^e been collected, the indebtedness ... i "will be $1,603.58, and there will be spent. Thus the county is at least one some balance by reason of executions year?behind, and there will be no and rebates allowed by the county funds on hand with which to pay the, auditor which will have to be deexpenses of the county government i darted, but it is assumed that these will be partly, if not whollv, suppleuntil taxes are again collected. i seated by additional taxes and per Bamberg county has paid all its alties that have accrued since Januabills. and has on hand at this time ry 1st. It is well to say just here ; $25,335.60, for county purposes. In! Jliat in the item of expenditures is i ' , , . . .. iv! included corrugated piping which'has addition, the schools of the cou tyjbgen use(j jn various places in Barn had to their credit on Feb. 28, $24,-j well county, and the old time wooden 374.40.' The Barnwell statement j bridges, which heretofore have been does not indicate the amount the j ?ucb a heavy tax upon the county, . . . ., . , . ,rrt . +y,?;T.:"ave been done' away with, which ^schools of that count} have to thei , wj]j mean a saving of thousands of credit. ! dollars to the county every year. Bamberg countv's fund will be ma-t There is now pending a suit .... . , .. against the Southern Railway comj tenally .ncreased when the money for, pany for damaaes to the county tn]ck the insurance license fees, automo- j in the sum of about $1,800.00. tobile tax. fines, etc., is received. j setber with cost, etc., which, if col. Te n ii f? rxy.ooQr,f lected, will more than liquidate the If Barnwell county at present indebtedness. shows a deficit of $1,603.38, what From the above it will 1)e seen that >vill the deficit be on July 1, when there is no just cause of complaint the settlement will be made with the ?r criticisms of the county officials x 11 . ,, ah f?Voo for the increased expenses which comptroller general. All the taxes ^ave ^gen jncurre(j f0r tbe past few will then have been collected, and years. If the critics will only stop to there will be no receipts until the think what the increased cost of 1919 taxes begin to come in, but theitheir business has been for tbe past expenses of the county government ?r f?atrs;?they can" adily . , see " ls that the county expen-will go on as usual. ses have increased. While the farBamberg county had on hand last mer ^as had to pay higher prices for July 1, $16,478.70, and Treasurer ? 7 f1 --h?e-. ke' ** > 'hat has _ . ' IV ' , . been used on his farm he has also Jennings states that there is no rea- realized a greater increase in prices son why there should not be as good for his cotton, corn, potatoes, etc . balance next July; in fact, it is like and th? county has been forced, by Iv that there will be more money on reasop of these high Prices- to Pav j ly that tnere tviii De more money on ?1ore than twi(je the oW price fQp | hand at the next settlement. corn, hay, oats, etc., and three times j Bamberg county is conducted on a as much for bacon, convicts' clothes poch basis Bills are naid as thev or,d shoes, and the same advance in , cash basis. Bills are paid as they priceg fQr &n machinery that has had j become due; in fact, bills are fre- be used by tbe chaingang. The quently discounted, when it is to the! question now is, how can the county interest of the county to do so. The : meet these increased expenditures i ?,v ; without a levy upon the property of county has no indebtedness whatev- .. , i ! the taxpayers, as it nas no corn, cotj er, and when the taxes are all col-; t0I1( nor anything else to sell and evlected, there will be sufficient funds' erything to buy? eggs a day. During January he se- obtaining for poultry feed this year cured about 20 dozen a day. j was offset by the high price being Owing to the shortage of labor offered for eggs. The owner of the during the past year, Mr. Zimmer- plant is thoroughly interested in his man has been forced to purchase a work, and looks after it personally, txov.4- K.if tio iciand tn thpsp twn factors some Of the I Id! gc j'ai i ui uia 1CC.U, uui, nv/ ? ? .? ? w ? planning to raise his own corn and success which he has achieved is no grain this year. The high prices doubt due.?Columbia State. ASK FOR DR. CURRELL'S REMOVAL GIVE THEIR REASONS FOR TAK- | IXG THIS SERIOUS STEP. Reasons Not Personal. ] Petition Alleges That University Has j Gone Down Under the Present Administration. Columbia, March IS.?Students of the University of South Carolina to1 ) day presented to the board of trustees of that institution a petition asking for a new president in place of ' the incumbent, Dr. William Spenser ' Currell; which is tantamount to ask- . ing for Dr. Currell's resignation. The ! pttition was signed by 166 students ' out of an enrolled student body of . 240, of which forty were young wo- ' men who were not approached on the subject. Thirty-four of the men did ^ not sign; the majority of these, it is said, being special and day students, who did not room in the campus dor- . mitories. The petition was voted on . at a mass meeting of students yester- ' day afternoon. Tl\e board of trustees which met today, gave immediate J cinsideration to the petition. Alleges Deterioration. The petition states that the insti| tution has deteriorated under the 1 presidency of Dr. Curreil, wno, tne students allege is an inefficient and* incompetent executive; is lacking in J the qualities which would draw the students to him, and has not the leadership which will make the uni- ^ versity a great institution. < "We have no charge to present as J to Dr. Currell's character, personal ( integrity and zeal in laboring for the < university's interests," said the petition. "We record a high regard for his moral qualities. We believe him ( a gentleman of scholarship and culture." Has Been President Four Years. Dr. Curreil became president of the university about four years ago, ' and came to his duties with a high ( repute for scholarship and as teacher. He was born at Charleston May .. 23, 1858, and is a graduate of Washington and Lee, from which he re- , ceived the degrees of A. B., B. P., A. M. and Ph. D. He was professor of ( history at Hampden-Sidney college and Davidson college and Washington and Lee university. Governor Acts in Matter. j Columbia, March 22.?Stating that the board of trustees of the Uni- { versity of South Carolina "have no . 4 J idea of permitting the students to . dictate who shall be president" of the institution, Governor Cooper, in ' behalf of the board, of which he is ex-officio chairman, gave out a stateI ment tonight saying that a special meeting would be held before June to consider the action of the 166 undergraduates of the university who signed a petition asking for the! , dismissal of Dr. William Spencer j Currell, president of the institution. This petition was presented to the board of trustees last Tuesday and j alleges that the university had deteriorated under the presidency of Dr. Currell. that he was cold, lacking in inspirational power, has not the i [ qualities of leadership which would Ircnnirt mflkp the university an insti-1 tution of power and that he is an inefficient and incompetent executive. The petition, however, attested to the educator's high character and integrity and to the soundness of his ' scholarship. Have Pull Confidence in Dr. Currell. The governor's statement said that board would jiot consider the opinions of the students, but would investigate existing conditions among the undergraduates at the university. "Dr. Currell has been duly elected, the trustees have full confidence in him," said the statement, "and at this time there is no disposition on the part of the board to dispense with his services." Letter Read at Students' Meeting. In connection with the statement, Governor Cooper gave out a copy of a letter written by him to A. G. Buchanan, Jr., president of the student body, read at a mass meeting of students this morning, which said that the board of trustees "feels that it is capable of managing the affairs of the institution, and if at any time we feel that a suggestion from the' student body will aid us in the performance of our duty we will not J hesitate to ask for it." Read The Herald, only $2.00 year.; t [ELLS OF MURDER OF THE ROMANOFFS FIIECH GENERAL NARRATES REVOLTING CIRCUMSTANCES. ' Bodies Hacked to Pieces Former Czarina and Daughters Subjected to Indignities. ExCzar Nicholas Shot. ; eg r* San Francisco, March 24.?Confir[nation of the execution of the former Emperor of Russia and his wife ind daughters, under particularly revolting conditions by Bolsevik troops was given here today by Gen. Robert C. Paris, one of the first French officers to be assigned tQ the Pzecho-Slovak army in Russia. Gen. Paris is on his way home to make an official report of the occurrence to the French government. He arrived here yesterday from Vladivostok. Women Insulted. V 'A Nicholas and his family were shot in the basement of their house at Ekaterinburg, Siberia. The women * of the once royal family were subjected to indignities and mistreatment in the presence of the former Czar before the execution took place, Gen. Paris said. :A] The house is now the headquarters of Gen. Gaidav, a Czecho-Slovak lommander. Describing the scene s attending the execution of the Romanoff family, Gen. Paris said: Story of Executions. "Early one morning the Czar was * __ X-.? ? .aiven irom an upsiairs room ana stood against the wall in the basement of the house. There he was Jtfj shot, after which the Czarina was shot and then her daughters and otbjr members of the housphold. "A few days following the mur- v ler the bodies were taken under ?over of night by automobiles into near-by villages, where they were :ut into small pieces and burned separately. The charred remains were found by officers of the forces opposed to the Bolsheviki. Pieces of the burned clothing also were found. / : v" Proof that the garments were those Df the Romanoffs were given by the Pact that the diamonds which the Ozarina and her daughters wore in V M their waists were picked up. * "The room in which the murder _ ?/ was committed is now sealed. The plaster on the walls showed where the rifle bullets penetrated. The bullets were removed with bayonet ' f ' .-V| points. Blood stains have' been washed from the floor. Under the flooring, however, little pools of ' blood were found. In several places in the death room blood seeped through the cracks in the floor. "Everyone in Russia is now thoroughly convinced that the entire Ro' > manoff household was wiped out by the Bolshevists. The official reports sent to France were conclusive. "The Czar and his'family are dead. That is positive." ^1 4 ro ? cm OFFICERS FOR ALLENDALE. Second Primary in XeV County Held Tuesday. Allendale, March 25.?Allendale county concluded the selection of its first officers today by a second primary naming L. C. Bennett of Baldock, sheriff; J. M. Riley, of Allendale, clerk of court; C. R. Wilson, of Allendale, auditor; J. W. Main, of Allendale, coroner; B. O. Sanders, magistrate at Allendale; W. W. Brunson, magistrate of Wilson town- c / ship. The following offices were filled in the first primary by candidates who were unopposed: J. Henry Johnson, Allendale, State senate; J. A. Wideman, Fairfax, treasurer; J. R. Cullom, Allendale, superintendent ot education; J. E. Tobin, Allendale, judge of probate; B. W. Dowling, , magistrate at Fairfax. - % The total vote cast in the second ? primary was 700,'exceeding by 14 the total vote, of the first primary. All candidates in the second primary worked exceedingly hard from the first primary until today and even at noon today only conjectures could be made as to the elected candidates. The votes today wer^ distributed as follows: Sheriff, L. JC. Bennett, 394: John Dunbar, 306; clerk of court, J. M. Riley, 387; J. Harry Moody. 302: auditor, C. R. Wilson, - y 422; J. J. Owens, 278; coroner, J. W. Main, 440; Joseph S. Brunson, 256; magistrates, B. Oy Sanders, 157: C. C. Reeves, 104; W. W. Brunson, 25; C. P. Haskell, 17. \ I ,