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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
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. 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. \
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Speaking to his resolution, Chairman
Dallanger said Berger was ex^
eluded the first time "not because of
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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.
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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
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; 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."
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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.
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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?"
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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
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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.
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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."
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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