Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P?yjr?: - ; ; " ' # fSion (TIip lambrrg Sjmtlb pa?8 $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25,1919. Established in 1891 1, I DEPORTATION SHIP I SAILED ON SUNDAY SOVIET GROUP REMAINS DEFIANT. 249 Sent Away. . Undesirables Hustled Aboard Transport Under Screen of Secrecy. Destination Held Secret. Tie United States army transport Baford?ark of the soviet?sailed before dawn today with a cargo of anachists, communists and radicals banned from America for conspiring against the government. The ship's destination was hidden in seaiea uiders, but the 249 passengers it carried expect to be landed at some far northern port giving access to soviet Russia. Crowd is Defiant. "Long live the revolution in America' was chanted defiantly by the motley crowd on the decks of the steel gray troopship as she churned her way past the statue of liberty. Now and then they cursed in chorus at the United States and men who had ' cut short their propaganda here. Not until the Buford steamed out of the narrows between forts Hamilton and Wadswor v. did the din cease. Over > their heads, whipping in the wind, the stars and stripes floated from the masthead. Destination Not Known. The autocrats of all the Russians on the transport were Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, his boon companion for thirty years. With them were 245 men and two women ?Ethel Bernstein and Dora Lipkin. whorp thev would debark iAUUC au\/f> n wv* ? -? and even Capt. G. A. Hitchcock, commander of the veteran transport, was no better off. At daybreak tomorrow Col. Hilton, commanding the troops on board as guards, will hand the skipper his instructions. Only a few high officials of the war and y-'j* ,f labor departments know the ship's destination. tMay Land in Finland. The voyage will last eighteen days, unless it is prolonged by unfavorable weather. The presumption is that the Buford will land at Hange, Helsingfors, or Abo in Finland, which f, are connected by rail with Blelo-Osporoff on the Russian frontier. It was intimated in official quarters that arrangements have been made with the Finnish government to permit the passage of the Russians through that country. Th^ transfer from Ellis Island to the Buford of agitators who have ^ preached death and destruction was an event unique in tne annals of this " nation. Seized in raids in all parts ".of the country, they were mobilized here for deportation. An elaborate screen of secrecy was thrown about the preparations for sending them way. It was in the darkest hours of night ' that an army tug drew up at the dock at the immigration station to take aboard the undesirables for the seven-mile journey down the bay to the Bt^ford. Two dozen soldiers, armed with rifles, and as many immigration inspectors carrying night sticks, patrolled the shores of Ellis Islaud and until the tug arrived at 5:15 a. m.. The Reds were marched single - - file between the two lines of guards from the immigration barracks to the boat landing,. each carrying his or her baggage. A. score of agents of the department of justice circulated among the Russians waiting tKbegin their long journey. These agents and the soldier guards on the island went on board the tug with the deportees and took them to the transport. A revenue cutter and two other army tugs formed an escort for the Reds and one tug lay alongside while they were being transferred to the Buford to prevent attempts by those reluctant to leave to swim the half mile to the shore of Staten Island. While all the anarchists had professed joy at the thought of return' ing to Russia, a few of them wept > and most of them seemed downcast as they stepped on board the tug for the grim journey through the darkness of the harbor to the troop ship. The air was cold and a biting w*nd was blow'ng as they huddled on deck. "Good-bye, America," sobbed Miss I Bernste'n as the tug plowed past the statue of liberty with her lighted; torch held proudly aloft. The girl was leaving behind Samuel Lipman, ' her fiance, facing a twenty-year prison term in the Atlanta penitentiary for violation of. the espionage law. - * THE XEGRO SOLDIER. What Col. George Hai'vey Says on the Subje.t. Every plan proposed to congress as the bas's for a system of universal military training contains the war department's estimate that approximately 690,000 boys will be available for instruction annually. At least 10 per cent, of this number are negroes. So far as we have been informed. the 'advisability of training the negroes as combat troops has not been questioned at the war department or at the capitol. Secretary Baker has said nothing on the subject. Nor have Gen. March and his advisers at the war department. Consideration of the legislation is proceeding upon the assumption that no reason exists for differentiating between the races. Much has been said and much has been written in praise of the exploits of our negro troops in France. Newspaper and magazine writers have found in "Young Black Joe'' a ready vehicle for exploitation. Race propagandists (with a purpose) featured him. Estimable ladies and gentlemen, imbued with a praiseworthy desire to minimize racial antipathies, have found in his patriotism the base for many heroic stories. We wish these reports and stories were accurate. We wish there were no compelling reason for revealing the truth. But there is. Distasteful as the task may be, it is essential that the facts be presented. Legislation based upon the hypocritical unwillingness of assessing the true value of the negro as a fighting man, must inevitably lead to waste of great sums of government money in training men whose record proves them incapable of meeting the demands of modern wanare. > The ninety-second division was organized in November, 1917, and was composed of the best negroes drafted. It was the only negro division sent to France. Originally all company officers wrere negroes. The commanding officer and the field officers were regulars, assigned to the division because they had seen service with regular negro regiments. As the training proceeded, the negro officers in the artillery and engineer regiments were relieved by white officers, because of inefficiency. The average period alloted for training white troops in France was four weeks. The ninety-second was kept in the training area seven weeks. On August 20, or thereabout, the division, minus its artillery, was ordered to a quiet sector in the Vo^ges where it remained one month, and then moved on to the Argonne as part of * the great concentration preparatory to the last major action of the war. With the exception of the 368th regiment, which was ordered to the front line, the division was held in reserve with the first corps. The 368th was assigned to the thirty-eighth French corps, and directly flanked the seventy-seventh American division. When the advance was ordered, "PVpnoh nnri thp> seventv-seventh moved forward on schedule. The 368th broke. The French commander and the commander of the seven| ty-seventh reported that their forces I were being attacked on the flanks because the negroes did not go forward. The negroes refused to obey orders but in several instances the white I field officers forced small groups of them to go forward. As a result of this action, thirty-one negro company officers were immediately removed for cowardice and inefficiency. Five of them were tried for cowardice, and, while the decision of the court is not available, it is understood that they were sentenced to be shot. The regimental commander reported as follows: "In general, the second and third battalions disintegrated without reason, and failed to go forward. The officers (negroes) and men, with exceptions as noted, fled to the rear in a disorganized mass. No negro officer or non-commissioned officer exj ercised any command at the time, and I could not be distinguished from the enlisted men." The commanding officer cf the first battalion reported: "I have worked night and day to ! the very best of my ability since the j time I took over the battalion on tho : 29th of July, and I have conscien' tiously tried to make a real battalion. I am utterly discouraged at the results. Not a single negro officer has shown any desire to get at close quarters with the Germans. It it my sincere opinion that only with white officers in command of every platoon con any sort of an organization be made, and I am equally of the opin\ 23 KILLED IX WRECK. i Head-on Collision Ret ween FVcight i and Passenger Train. | I Onawa,, .Maine. Dec. 20.?Twentythree deaths resulted from a head-on tolLslon between an immigrant train and a freight on the Canad'an Pacific railway two miles west of Onawa today. Seventeen persons were killed outright and six died after being removed from the scene of the wreck. Fifty passengers were injured, many of them seriously. Engineers Fred Wilson and William Bagley and Fireman Henniger and Hutchins of the two trains are among the dead. Six 01 the victims were children. Fourteen bodies had been taken from the wreckage tonight. Those of the engineers and one of the firemen had not been recovered. The passenger train was the third section of the immigration special, j two sections of whi. h had passed the freight while it was on a siding. On board were a few returned Canadian soldiers and nearly 300 immigrants who were landed from the steamer Empress of France at St. Johns yesterday. So far as could be learned tonight the collision resulted from a misunderstanding or orders, the freight engineer apparently having been ignorant of the fact that the immigration special was running in three sections. The engine and the first two cars of the passenger train were telescoped by the freight. The wreckage caught fire and two coaches and the baggage car were burned. Most of those seriously injured were taken to Brownsville junction. After receiving first aid, twenty of them were sent to Bangor on a special train. Six of the most seriously injured remained in Onawa tonight. Cincinnati brass foundries still maintain female help in their shops. ion that the colored troops will never he nf anv fiarhtine value. I should dread to have to advance under reallv heavy fire with the expectation of having a colored battalion, even under wh'te officers, follow me. The fighting spirit does not exist among the men; they are rank cowards; there is no other word for it." The commander of the second battalion reported: "The condition of the individual soldiers mentally during this time was awful. On several occasions when I had these men in the trenches their one thought was of their certain death; any idea of getting into the Boche had absolutely departed from them. They were crouching low in the trenches, reading their Bibles and praying. I looked into their faces and saw an agony of fear in almost every case. I believe this mental condition has been brought on to a large degree by the actions of the negro officers." / The commanding officer of the brigade made this statement: "I gave to the training of the officers and men the very best that was in me, and I was bitterly disappointed." Following this disgrace, the division was withdrawn from the Argonne and assigned to a quiet sector on the Moselle, where it remained until after the armistice was signed. This, then, is the record of the on IV negro division sent to nance, it is the most shameful chapter in the history; of America's participation in the war. We would gladly have left it behind the veil drawn over it by the censor, but to do so would merely help make a mockery of our future system of preparedness. Of course, when Secretary Baker, mindful of the large negro vote in his home state, commissioned negroes, we knew it was a crime, and we are quite sure that it will never be repeated, so we are not particularly disturbed on that account. But the quality of the negro enlisted man must be thoroughly understood. He cannot face a grilling fire. He is fitted only for the staff branches, where he will be far removed from the range of the artillery. This much has been proved by the experiences of the war. We trust that before the senate committee disposes of the subject of military training the entire question will be threshed out. Gen. Pershing .has all the reports. Let them be laid before the comm:ttee. We have not space for them. Negroes must, of course, be trained for military service under whatever system if finally evolved. They must be prepared to ? do their part. But it must be a part for which they are fitted; it must be in the auxiliary branches, and ont in the combat forces.?From Harvey's Weekly. BYRNES WANTS MUZZLE. Would Squelch All Radical News- j papers. A hearing was held by the judicicary committee of the house recently j on the bill offered by Representative ( James F. Byrnes, of Aiken, to make j unlawful the advocacy by writing or ( speech of the overthrow of the gov- , ernment or resistance to constituted ( authority. Mr. Byrnes explained to . the committee that there is now no ^ statute other than the Espionage Act ] which would make unlawful the cir- , culation of anarchistic matter. I He said thafr there were 200 , newspapers published in the country ; advocating extreme radicalism and , that of these there are thirty-six ad- ( vocating armed revolution, the over- , throw of the government and the de- f struction of property. Of these lat- . ter, twenty-eight are published by the , I. W. W., Mr. Byrnes added, and he referred to the activity of the I. W. vv. in trying to inauce me negroes to join in their revolutionary pro- , gramme, presenting in proof of this the periodical known as "The Messenger." . \ , Representative Walsh, of Massachusetts, asked Mr. Byrnes if he thought the section of his bill with reference to preventing circulation of papers advocating violence and anarchy would apply to papers advocating lynching. The South Carolinian replied that he thought it would apply to such papers. A New York member of the committee asked , if Mr. Byrnes believed the I. W. W. were making much headway with , their propaganda among the colored people. "I do not think they have made much progress in the South," was the reply, "but I think that they have made a good deal in the North." After the hearing Mr. Byrnes expressed the opinion that the questions asked by committeemen were encouraging and the chances for a favorable report on the bill were good. ?Washington special of Friday to News and Courier. HAS NARROW ESCAPE. J. G. Moody, of Barnwell, Fell Into Creek With His Car. While returning from Augusta on . CiinHev via tho nlft ""River rnflH " ATr J. G. Moody, Jr., of Barnwell, had a very narrow escape from death by drowning, when his automobile fell through a bridge over Horse creek, some eight miles from Augusta in Aiken county. There were three other occupants of the car besides Mr. j Moody, who was driving, but fortunately for them they were not in the machine, having gotten out to push the car out of a bog-hole beyond the bridge, and were helpless witnesses i of the accident. 1 As soon as Mr. Moody felt the , bridge giving away under the weight < of his car, he quickly took off his ( overcoat and threw his leg over the door and when the machine fell into i the stream was able to extricate him- j self and swim ashore. He was picked up by another automobilist and , carried to Augusta, but his compan- : ions were forced to walk back to the , city. Garagemen went to the scene i of the accident Monday, but as the -t car was under water about 20 feet ] they were unable to get it back to ] tera firma. As the bridge was some ( 12 feet above the stream it was lit- ] tie short of a miracle that Mr. Moody \ escaped with his life. ? ??? ( LEGION DEMANDS ACTION. ( < On All Matters Affecting Former Ser- , vice Men. .Washington, Dec. 17.?Speedy action was demanded of congress on j all matters affecting the government's j dealings with former service men, in ? resolutions adopted tonight by na- . tional and state officers of the Ameri- j can Legion at the conclusion of a j three-day conference with officials of j the War Risk Insurance Bureau. The { resolutions also warned congress of \ the imperative necessity of providing j relief for men who have met with injustice through the inadequacy of < laws under which the present insurance and compensation regulations are administered. Throughout the afternoon session ( of the conferenre, concern was ex- ] pressed that the nation may have to < undergo aga'n the burden of pension payments. The pension system was characterized by delegate after 1 delegate as unnecessary and unjust, ) and as adding a burden on the coming generations which the taxpayers of these years should shoulder. ' Italy has 600,000 women textile < workers. i PREACHER UNDER CHARGES, j I Former Baptist Pastor at Clover Said to be Under Arrest. York, Dec. 20.?Baptists and people generally throughout this section . of the state are very much interested in the case of the Rev. Leslie L. Saniers, Baptist minister who is under arrest in Indianapolis, Ind., on a charge of using the mails to defraud and that he solicited funds through the mails for the "Fire and Hammer Evangelistic association." Sanders was elected pastor of the First Baptist church of Clover In May, 1918 by the congregation, -which was muca impressed with his ability as a preacher. He was to be paid a salary of $100 a month and given a parson age in which to live. At the end of ;he month he drew his salary and was advanced an additional $100 by the church treasurer with which to pay the expenses of moving his family from a western state to Clover. That was the last heard of him until a short time ago when he was arrested in Indianapolis. "These are days when the truth of the gospel is sorely needed, and whether you help us financially or not I shall be grateful for your prayers in our behalf," he wrote persons whom he fleeced out of hundreds of dollars according to a warrant drawn against him by United States District Attorney L. E. Slack, of Ind;anapolis. Sanders waived a hearing and is now said to be in jail at Indianapolis under $10,000 bond. The federal government, it is understood, will attempt to show that Sanders has been swindling several persons out of large sums of money for several months. He was arrested upon the charge in Texas about three years ago, but es^ped punishment through a narrangement w-'th the : prosecuting attorney. The government charges that the scheme under which the man has been operating was about as follows: He would advertise in church papers that the "Fire and Hammer Evangelistic association," of which he was "president," stood ready to issue notes, almost as good as liberty bonds, as security for loans up to $2,000 which religious persons would make. The money was to be used to carry on the work of the association. He alleged that the evangelistic association was incorporated in Indiana, and that he had mortgaged his own home. FOOD PRICES GO UPWARD. Twenty-two Articles Show Increase of Two Per Cent. Washington, Dec. 20.?Despite efforts of the government to reduce the cost of living twenty-two staple food articles showed an average increase of two per cent, in November is compared with October, the bureau of labor statistics announced tonight. The average family expenditures for these articles increased five cents from a year ago, the report said: Eggs went up thirteen per cent., onions and sugar 10 per cent., raisins nine per cent., Putter, six per ?ent., storage eggs and prunes, four per cent., canned salmon, fresh miiR, md potatoes, three per cent., rice and bananas two per cent., evaporated milk, oleomargarine, cheese, lard, srisco, bread, flour and macaroni one per cent., and coffee and tea less than five-tenths of one per cent. Decreases reported included pork :hops, five per pent.; ham, four per :ent., bacon, three per cent., round 3teak plate beef, hens, navy beans, and oranges, two per cent. The Fishing Worm. William Blake is a littfe fellow living in Eastern avenue. Birds, fishing worms, crickets and spiders are strange creations to him this year : and he has not been fully able to de;ermine just what kind of noises they naKe wnen nappy ana wnen angry. < ^ few days ago William wat watching i neighbor woman prepare ground ' 'or flowers. An unusually large fish- ] ing worm came to the surface. "What is that?" William excitedly : isked. "That is a fishing worm." "Weir I thought I heard her going 1 tweet, tweet,' a while ago when you j commenced digging," he said, and ' ran to tell his mama of the strange ' mimal.?Indianapolis News. I *18 < 'Qi 1* Seed Peanuts, White Spanish, 14c' ib., Little N. C. Runners, 12c lb. 100Ib. bags. The Cotton Oil Co. < ? 1 Seed Peanuts for sale.?We have ] m hand White Spanish at 14c lb., ] Little N. C. Runners at 12c lb. Hunired pound bags. Place your order aow. The Cotton Oil Co. - f SURPRISED END DID NOT COME PROF. PORTA HAD SCHEDULED CRASH FOR DECEMBER 17. j Scientists Scoff Idea. Various Religious Cults Specify the Exact Hour of the Earth's Finish. New York, Dec. 17.?Astonishment was expressed by the superstitious when the earth did not come to an end today. nminniic nnqitinn of the TllanfitS had been well press agented and some astrologists and astronomers had maintained that at the precise moment when the major leaguers of the s6lar system formed themselves in a straight line with Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury on one side of the sun, and Euranlus on the other, the earth, which had moved four paces to the front of the line, would behave like the one horse shay. Scientists had scoffed the idea but the superstitious ones recalled having lighted three cigarettes with one match or having walked under a ladder or having done in recent historic times one of the thousand and one ' ' other things known far and wide as omens of evil days. Ask for Holiday. Students in Porta Rico are reported to have been so unfavorably impressed with their chances for continuing life yesterday that they asked - for a holiday tq prepare for tne worst. Harold Jacoby, professor of astronomy at Columbia university, intimated that their actions might have been due to the desire of youth everywhere to have a holiday. He and many other scientists maintained that the effect upon the earth of the planetary alignment would be nil. Astrologers have predicted the end ^ of the world on somewhat similar occasions for centuries. As early as 1186 the world escaped one of their threatened cataclysms. Disappointment at the escape did not prevent Stoffler from predicting a universal' deluge for the year 1524?a year, as it turned out, which was distinguished for drought. People Desert Home. Mother Shipton, "witch'' of tudor , ,, times, was credited with being equally sure that 400 years after her time ?in 1881?to be exact?the world would come to an end. The prediction caused much agitation in England when the date arrived. Thousands of persons deserted their homes and went out into the fields to await annihilation. Various religious cults have made a specialty in more recent years of specifying an hour as the earth's last, setting forth scriptural or pseudoscientific arguments in support of their contentions. Prof. Albert F. Porta, a meteorologist, is given credit for first thinking up today's catastrophe. Marriage Problems. "Good morning, parson," said Jenks, the village wag, meeting the parish rector one morning. "I want your advice on a certain point concerning the marriage laws." "I shall be very pleased to assist you if I can, Mr. Jenks. What is it you require solving?" "Well, I want to know whether , it's legal for a man to marry his wid- } ow's niece?" The vicar hesitated before vouchsafing a reply, then very slowly expressed it as his opinion that such a marriage would be perfectly legal. "That's satisfactory, sir, but would it be possible for such a marriage to actually take place?" Continued Jenks, with a merry twinkle in hia eye. "Certainly. If the thing is legalized by law it is, course, possible," re plied the clergyman. "You're positive on that point, I presume?" "Of course I am." "Well, I can't say that I share your opinion. As a rule, in this country widows are widows, and if a man wished to marry the niece of such a person I am afraid he'd have to rise from the grave first. Good morning, parson!"?London Mail. We have an inquiry for fifty bushes Brabham peas, also twenty-five oushels Red Hulled Shinnies. What have you to offer? The Mayfield Co., Denmark, S. C. l-8n hi wm Waterman Fountain Pens always Herald Book Store.