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REVIEW OF WORK
OF WAR CONGRESS
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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
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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; 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
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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
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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 .
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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.;
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[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.
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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.
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Nicholas and his family were shot
in the basement of their house at
Ekaterinburg, Siberia. The women
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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
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.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.
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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
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their waists were picked up.
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"The room in which the murder
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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'
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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."
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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
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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.
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