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(Elir Hamburg ijrntlb * J , $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920. Established in 1891 i ? BERGER AGA, I PLACE, ; Claim of Milwaukee Socialisl Vote of House Member and Twenty-eigl ? Support Fr Washington, Jan. 10.?Victor Berber, Milwaukee socialist, reelected from the Fifth Wisconsin congressional district, after he had been refused membership in the house, "be/ cause he gave aid and comfort to the enemy," was denied his seat again bv 9 Uftto nf 998 tft R The house acted in a little more than an hour after Berger had presented himself to be s^orn in. Chairman Dallinger of the elections committee, which held Berger ineligible the first time, presented a resolution barring Berger and reviewed the reasons why Berger was excluded at the special session. Representative i Mann, Republican, of Illinois, Voigt, f Republican, of Wisconsin, and Sher' wood, Democrat, of Ohio, spoke in . support of Berger's right to a seat. ("This is a representative form of government," Mr. Mann said, "and this we must maintain inviolate if the people desire it.. Berger was elected by the people of Wisconsin. They Ir ve a right to be represented." , Request for a hearing on Henry H. Bodenstad s right to the seat denied Berger has been made before Chairman Dallinger. Bondenstad, a Republican, was defeated by Berger by - -S ?i.? _ A A OA/> . a majority 01 *,ovo votes m uic spe| cial election. The committee pref viously held Joseph P. Carey, Berger's opponent in the first election, to be ineligible. Chairman Dallinger I said today that at the time of his E first election Berger was only under F indictment under the espionage act, but that he had been convicted before | the second election. This, he added, f would strengthen Bodenstad's case. Those voting to seat Berger were: Mann., Harreld, Republican, of Okla - ^ homa, Griffin, Democrat, of New w Tork, Sherwood, Democrat, of Ohio, f and Sisson, Democrat, of Mississippi. Representative Sabath, Republican, of Illinois, voted present. r Berger declared in a statement after the vote that the house action wa^"one of the worst attacks on the representative form of government ever witnessed in this country." "It is really a denial of the right of people to elect the citizen of their choice," he said. \ 'i v Speaking to his resolution, Chairman Dallanger said Berger was ex^ eluded the first time "not because of \ his so-called radical views, not because he is ineligible to membership k under provisions of the constitution." t "This will disqualify him permanently," he declared. "The people of Wisconsin may reelect him, and there are some who contend that if the people want him in congress he is entitled to a seat, but a man excluded as Berger has been can never be elig^ ible membership," | Representative Voigt, who was the only member to vote to seat Berger the first time, spoke in favor of seating him today. "I am more firmly convinced than i * ever," he said, "that Berger is entitled to a seat. If he is a traitor, then there are 25,000 traitors in the Fifth Wisconsin district. : "There are," a score of members 6houted. "Then there are traitors in your district," Voigt retorted. E"Not at all," came from various m?nbers. ' Milwaukee, Jan. 10.?The Socialist committee of the first Wisconsin congressional district within a half fhour after receiving the news that Victor Berger had been excluded from congress a second time renominated him. The statement was made that he would' be the candidate of the party at a special election to be demanded from the governor. "We will keep on nominating Berger until Hades freezes over if that un-American aggregation called congress continues to exclude him," declared a statement issued by the committee. k * "We want every person in this B country to understand that the voters I of the Fifth Wisons'n district know 9 exactly whom they want as their repf resentative in congress, and we do not propose to let Gillett and his bunch of Wall street fawners dictate to us on the subject. "Berger is our congressman and 1 IN DENIED IN CONGRESS \ ; Rejected for Second Time, s Being Two Hundred it to Six?Gets om Mann. the action of congress in unseating him a second time only starts the real fieht that will not end until every one of the reactionaries who voted in today's disgraceful proceeddings hav? been retired by the ballot to the oblivion they so richly deserve." ^ m Carlisle School Notes. Clipped Fro-m The Bugle. Carlisle Reopens With New Students. Carlisle reopened on Tuesday, January 6th, after having been closed down for a little over two weeks for Christmas holiday. Bv Tuesday morning Carlisle, which looked rather lonesome a few days before, was alive with cadets and the hum of school life had recommenced. The cadets began to arrive on Sunday night, and continued to come in through Tuesday. They seem to have enjoyed their vacation, and we hope they will he the more ready to do their best work from now on until the close of the year. . A number of new students w^re enrolled after the holiday vacation. Battalion Again at Work. The holidays over, the battalion is back in .fine shape and the boys seem anxious to get back at the drill. Rifles and equipment have been reissued and regular drill was begun Thursday. Bayonet work will be continued for a few weeks, with occasional battalion drill. There are a few vacancies in the companies at present. On account of mumps several of the cadets have* been unable to return to School %on time. Additions Made to Band. During the holidays Captain Lanham purchased several new instruments for cadets, who have become aroused over the idea of being members of the Carlisle school band. This will be a great addition, for every piece added to a band helps both in quality and volume of music. These cadets, Jones Angus Williams, Faber Folk, Dan Lee Smith, and J. D. O'Hern, haVe begun instruction in the use of the several pieces and it is believed it is only a matter of a short time until they can take their places in the daily practice. . Personals. Captains Boland and Eliot Watson were visitors in Columbia during the holidays. Everybody went home for the holidays and presumably had a most enjoyable time. M'ss Ethel Reeves attended the McCants-Bookhart wedding in Camden during the holidays. Major Duncan enjoyed a good part of his holiday recess visit'ng friends in Columbia, Sumter and Florence. Captain Lupo spent several days in Johnston visit'ng Captains Herlong and William Watson during the holidays. Mr. J. C. Guilds, of Cordesville, and Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Guilds, of Monk's Corner, spent a few days with Col. and Mrs. Guilds. Mr. J. R. Cannon, of Goose Creek, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hill, of Walterboro, and Mr. V. W. Brabham, of Pamplico, brought their sons to Carlisle Mondav. Captain Shieder spent most of his vacation at home on acocunt of the illness of his father. However, he spent a day or two in Spr'ngfieid with Captain Boland and others. Mr. Guy Home, of Johnston, visaed Captains Herlong and W. R. Watson on the campus Tuesday night. Mr. Home is from their home town, and is a classmate of Captain Lupo. '?' ** \ Dangerous. The type of youth who indulges in loud clothes and a hat forced back over his ears dropped into the dental chair. "I'm afra'd to give him gas," said the dentist to the assistant. "Why?*' "How can I tell when he is unconscious?" | BIG FRAUD WORKED. Crook Posing as Citizen of Bamberg, Gets Money in Many Cities. For the past several weeks some smooth criminal work has been operated in a number of Southern cities with the aid of the name of one of Bamberg's leading business men, who is now endeavoring 10 apprehend the crook and have him dealt with. A number of drafts have been cashed in various places drawn on the Bamberg Banking company against the account of Mr. G. Frank Bamberg, some of them signed in the name of F. M. Bamberg, but nearly all of them signed G. Frank Bamberg, Jr. Most of them ranged in amount from $25 to $50, and the total amount of these forgeries thus far received in the local bank drawn on Mr. Bamberg is approximately $350 with more coming in each day. Of course they are not being paid at this end and either the endorsers or the parties cashing them are the losers. Nevertheless, it is annoying to Mr. Bamberg to know that some one about the country is posing as hts son and in this way defrauding people with the use of his name, and he has accordingly wired the police departments of several cities to be on the t lookout for this accomplished criminal. So far no arrests have been made, although a certain young man from this section of South Carolina is suspicioned on his past reputation and some other circumstances involved. Whoever it is began his work against Mr. Bamberg by drawing a draft in Augusta; he then jumped to Statesboro, Ga., for his next one, and has also sent them in from Macon, Savannah, Birmingham ami other points. It is known that he is stop ' ^ 1- * .i. T- V ^ pmg at me oest noteia wiierevei iic goes, and it seems that he is traveling and living in elegant style. One of his latest ruses heard from .was carried out in New Orleans by which he fleeced a former Bamberg citizen, Mr. S. G. Mayfield, out of $100. In this instance he represente9 himself as Mr. G. Frank Bamberg himself. He wired Mr. Mayfield in IJolbrook, Ariz., that he was at the St. Charles hotel, New Orleans, and was in need of some money, further requesting that he wire him $7-\ there. Mr. Mayfield, not suspecting anything crooked, at once ^ired G. Frank Bamberg, St. Charles hotel,\ New Orleans, $100, feeling that possibly he might need a little more than he asked for, wrhich idea was doubtless appreciated by the would-be Mr. Bamberg, jj^r. Mayfield in some manner soon learned that it was a fraud and telegraphed Mr. Bamberg a long message about it, so that since then efforts to catch this human eel have been made from both directions. *He is working fast and it is difficult to keep a line on him, but the dates and places from which the drafts, etc., come indicate that he ha sbeen constantly proceeding West. He is^ evidently experienced at the game and h's work is skillful and of a high order, but suQh operations cannot continue forever, regardless of.how smooth, and it is Relieved this expert will soon be captured. ^ < > ? COLSTON CLIPPINGS. Local and Personal Items of the Community. Colston, Jan. 12.?Everybody is glad to see the new year come in. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Clayton, of Walterboro, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bishop. The week-end guests of Mrs. Leila Bessinger were Misses Belle Nickles, Pearle Hutson, Duma Hutson and Cora McMillan. Miss Mamie McMillan, of this section, has gone to teach school near Bamberg. Being a very popular young lady she is missed by all. Mr. Frank Kirkland, Jr., of Bam berg, spent Saturday night and Sunday at 'Irs home here. Rev. and Mrs. Walter Black spent Sunday night with Mrs. George Beard. Mr. Jim Padgett, of North Carolina, spent last week with his sister, Mrs. Ann Chisolm. Mrs. J. F. Clayton spent Thursday with Mrs. Allen Gillam at Olar. Mrs. Preston McMillan and Miss Evie Kirkland were the guests of the'r grandmother, Mrs. Folk, Friday. Feeding the Fishes. "There, what are you doing? Don't you know you're not allowed to take fish out of this water?" i "I'm not taking them out," replied the angler, -who had angled three hours without a catch. I'm feeding them." \ MR. CARTER RESIGNS. Telephone Manager is Succeeded by Mr. H. B. Weaver. Mr. H. B. Weaver, of Blackville, manager of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company for Bamberg, Denmark, Blackville, Barnwell and Allendale, was in the city Saturday to talk over the telephone situation with the citizens of the city. Mr. Weaver has just assumed the duties of manager of this district, succeeding Mr. G. W. Carter, who has been manager for several years, but who resigned his position with the telephone company effective on January 1. " ATr Wpavpt has hppn rnnnprtpri With the telephone company for a number of years. He came here from Columbia, where he was considered a faithful and competent employee Of the telephone company. He will make his headquarters at Blackville, which is centrally located for the district he will manage. ' Mr. Weaver stated that it is his purpose to first get acquainted with the patrons of his company here. He had been apprised of the very unfortunate condition of the telephone service in Bamberg, *hnd he states that he will do all in his power to bring the service up to the proper standard. There has been a marked 'improvement in the service recently. It was suggested to Mr. Weaver that Bamberg is now a fairly gobd town, instead of a village?such as it has evidently been considered by the Southern Bell for some time ?and that it appeared to The Herald that it may not be without the limits of possibility for a modern tele phone service to be installed in Bamberg. The city is growing fast, it .was pointed out to him, and that it would very likely be an excellent business investment for the company to give the city a more modern service?a service similar to that being given in the larger towns. The new manager did not, of course, give his views on the matter, but thatvhe is not out of sympathy with the idea is very likely. The Herald is of the opinion that if the patrons of the company in Bamberg will present this matter forcibly to the Southedn Bell there is a likelihood of securing results. \ In the meantume if he will give the city a reasonably good service with the material at hand, he will have the thanks of the people of the town, and there is no doubt of the fact that Bamberg people will cooperate with him and the operators in every possible way to attain this very much desired end. U. D. C. Notes. The Francis Marion Bamberg chapter of the U. D. C., met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. N. P. Smoak. Only a few members were present and those who did come were late. Nevertheless, a very interesting meeting was held and much business disposed of. The chapter regrets sorely to lose two of its members, Mrs. J. T. Carter and Mrs. C. J. Field. Mrs. Carter has endeared herself to us, and j we will miss her. Mrs. Field has! served as registrar most faithfully, | has been a faithful attendant and' we regret to lose her. We hope both ; these ladies will like their new homes.! Plans for making money were asked for, but no one had any suggestions. We need money badly just now, as we are anxious to carry on I the adoption of our French orphans. We also have many contributions to make at this time. We want to contribute and will do so to the Confederate college, Charleston, to the Winthrop college scholarship fund, to the health fund and many others. The names of Mrs. Robert C. Jones and Mrs. L. C. Smoak were voted on and elected as nev members. . We are delighted to have these ladies as members. The president, Mrs. J. C. Letfis, ? ' j. - * it. - gave a very interesting report 01 uie State convention held in Columbia recently and told us of how splendidly our chapter showed up. Our report she said was one of the best read j and so nicely gotten up, due to our; efficient treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Mur-j phv. Mrs. Aaron Rice read an ar-j ticle on Washington and Lee uni-j verslty. Mrs. A. W. Kn;ght read a j i poem. After adjournment Mrs. j j Smoak served a sweet course and j coffee. The February meeting will' be held with Mrs. Aaron Rice. Let's all be there. ? <oi ? Forestry experts have found that i a plant growing luxuriantly in the i Phillippines and heretofore thought a. j weed is used in other parts of the \ I Far East for the production of cam- j j phor. | THE BEST FA REGARDL Alfred G. Smith, in The Cor Experiences in South Holds Good in < Land Gr Alfred G. Smith, who came to South Carolina and is making a great financial success here, has the following article in the last issue of The Country Gentleman: It is an old and a wise saying that in some years most any kind of a farmer on most any kind of land can grow a big crop, but to grow a big crop in any kind of a year, even with the best of land, takes a man with gumption. . We have all seen this old saw verified. Some years- the seasons hit just right. The land comes out of the winter in excellent tilth, the leather warms up in the spring to the heart's delight, the rains fall on schedule, even the breezes blow as though the farmer himself were at the weather switchboard. In such years the lazy man, the shiftless man and the man on poor land all harvest bumper crops with the best of them. The Horn of Plenty pours out its benison alike on just and unjust, the provident and the wastrel. Then fields that perhaps have failed to produce paying crops for years yield bountifully'and the farmer who has merely been eking out an existence has a prosperous season. I have seen such years in both the South and the North. Sometimes they follow long periods of discouragement. Unexpectedly everything breaks right and everybody succeeds. But in tnose otner years, in mose lean years when everything goes wrong, it is only the rare man, vflser and stronger than the rest, who, prospers. w/ In the cotton belt 1911 was typical of the year that suits farmers of all kinds. In the eastern portion of the belt many sandy land farms that ordinarily only produced meagre crops made a bale to the.acre. Clay, lands, on which the crops ordinarily had been so short they didn't pay expenses, made more than the farmers could pick. And Texas, always an uncertainty in its cotton production, made a crop practically double any it has made since. It didn't require a high class farmer to make cotton that year, everybody was doing it. Many a man who was classed in his community as a poor stick ranked toward the top in yield an acre. We saw the same kind of a pear in the com belt in 1915. The years of 1912, 1913, and 1914 were of the dry weather variety. Short crops, especially of corn, prevailed everywhere. Land values went down and corn belt farms sold at bargain prices. But in 1915 the tables were turned. The dry seasons and the consequent short crops of the preceeding years had left in the land a store of unused available fertilizer that had gradually been accumulating from the disintegration of the so'l, and when the ideal temperatures and rainfall hit that part of the country one of the greatest crops in its history was produced. I remember riding along the road one day in the early fall of that year with an old neighbor of mine whom I had known since my boyhood days? a man who had grown up with the country and had seen it develop from the wild prarie to a land covered with farms and fields of waving corn. As we noted the enormous crops of corn and the stubble from high yielding fields of oats and wheat, the old fiian favored me with a running commentary on the phenomenon. "Yes," he said, "it is the greatest crop year we have ever had. I have seen most of this land broken out of the sod before its fertility had been reduced by continual cropping, but I have yet to see another such crop as we have now. Why, this year everybody and anybody on any kind of land has good crops! "You remember that field of Dave Jarvis's, west of Irs house? Sort of a brick yard field, too poor to sprout beans in most years?a patch that wouldn't sell for half as murh as most of the land round here? Well, Dave made 86 bushels of oats to the acre there this time and you know Dave never was considered much account as a farmer. The last thre9 years had just about put him out of business. Couldn't pay the interest on the mortI RMER WINS .ESS OF LAND intry Gentleman, Tells of His l Carolina?Same Bule Corn Belt?Good eat Help. I gage on his land and if it hadn't ! been for the crop this year the farm | would have been sold out from under I him. You know selling farms for the mortgage is. something that has never yet happened round here. "You remember that field west of the Kuykendall farm that belongs to some people in Gibson City? It has been rented out for years and is generally considered too poor for any use. Bill Smith has been renting it for the last three or four years and farming it in addition to h's own land. He gets it for about half the | average rent, but up until this year | he had about wasted his time on it, ! ' although Bill's a first rate kind of a i farmer. But this was the time for ' ! that land and it made 91% bushels of i oats to the acre when in an ordinary ! vear it wouldn't have made 25." The Metal of Real Farmers. i "People have had the same kind of experience with wheal. Old, poor land * I I j that ought to have been turned into ! grass long ago made as high as 50 | bushels to the acre. The corn crop ! ^'ou can see for yourself. Everybody^ j fiqs good corn. Why,' Arthur Mass, j whom we all consider about the best j farmer we have, is only an average I man this year. >^3 I "Yes, sir, this is one season that j us right and we have the biggest j crops of corn, wheat, oats, hay, po: tatoes and tomatoes, the best pastures I and the fattest stock I have ever j seen*, and I've been knowing this i x / _ _ _ _ - __ _ ; country ior a gooa many years now." That's the common experience of every farming community, North or i South. It has its good years when it appears that all farmers are in the same class. But when things go backi ward, it is then that you spot the real J farmer with the real mettle. At the I same time you spot 'a real American ! ? : hero?the man whose family is de' pending upon him -for its life and I living, and who, facing things over ! which he has no control calmly anu , courageously uses his head, fits his plans to the occasion and comes through the season with high yielding crops and a family well supplied. In 1919 the cotton belt farms had a bad year. The spring started late and cold, cotton was slow in coming up and there were abnormal rains everywhere. Grass, that arch enemy of the cotton grower, covered the j fields like a carpet. The labor and | expense of chopping out the cotton / j last season was the highest that has i ever been known. Far more cotton 7 j was abandoned than in normal years, ! simply because the rains and grass ! made it impossible to tend it. Through the whole summer the ! story has been the same. July, that j month in which most of the fruit is ! set, was in some places, one continuous ra.'n. In South Carolina there were fewer than five days in which the farmer could plow. Altogether it was the worst crop year many' farmers have ever experienced. Yet, with such conditions, there j are farmers-who have fields on which . the cotton was good and where the receipts showed a substantial margin over the expenses. It is here that the outstanding farmer is found and the cause of his success can be traced, while the cause of his neighbor's failure is only too apparent. Late in the season I, a transpalnted product of the corn belt, now a cotton planter, made a brief trip through some of the counties in South Caroj lina just to see the crops and find out' j some of the reasons that accounted I for occasional good fields when most i fields were so poor. I wanted to learn j just how the good yields were made, j for it would give me ideas on how II could make my crops better this year. When I saw a good crop I hunted up the farmer and got him to tell his story?let me say here that when you find such a man the pride in his work and the real desire to help his fellow man makes it easy to find the secre*. of hi ssuccess. Not all the farmers attributed their good crops to tho . 4 t c same causes, hut by talking with a ~ . j lot of them some of the fundamental l factors were made clear, j I found that the faetor basically (Continued on page 2, column 1.) 1