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LONG DRY FIGHT
BROUGHT TO END
UNITED STATES MAKES WHISKEY
SELLING ILLEGAL.
Drive of Many Years.
Historical Data Covers Prohibition
Movement Extending Over
278 Years.
New York, Jan. 17.?Uncle Sam
has been legally "dry*' now for 24
hours. Prohibition in its nation-wide
aspect has fallen upon the country
gently, it is reported by federal internal
revenue officials, largely be
cause of well stocked cellars and
the knowledge of the acce3ibility of
Cuba where a man may quench any'
kind of a thirst and still be within
the law. Meanwhile drug stores and
candy emporiums are reported Cong
, an increased business where a "wink"
at the soda fountains nowadays carries
no more suggestion of a "kick"
than a dash of ginger.
Meanwhile, the churches and other
organizations are celebrating tbe
final triumph of prohibition after a
''campaign" which, they say, lasted
278 years. Next Monday the army of
clergymen in Greater New York who
meet annually for a union meeting
and who represent nearly every sect
' ahd creed?Jewish, Catholic and Protestant?will
gather here and listen
/ to addresses by Federal Prohibition
Commissioner Kramer, Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel for the
Anti-Saloon League, and other nothles
in the "dry" fight. Similar jubilee
meetings, it is said, will be held in
, other parts of the country. Tomorrow
will be "Law and Order Sunday."
At these meetings various speakers
are expected to touch upon some of
the historical dates of the anti-liquor
movement in America, which had its
inception in Maryland in 1642 when
the colony passed a law "punishing
drunkenness by a fine of 100 pounds
of tobacco." Other curious events in
the struggle to give John Barleycorn
the count may be recalled as follows:
Pennsylvania colony in 1644 made
' it legal to sell liquor to Indians as
well as to whites but a few years
later Conneticut and Rhode Island
penalized rum selling to the redskins
by* imposing heavy fines. In 1650
Connecticut passed a law forbidding
"tippling for more than half an hour
at a time." Four years later Massachusetts
fined tavern keepers 20
shillings for catering to a drunken
h man. Maryland in 1658 voted to
F put any person found drunk "in the
stocks for six hours." Virginia decided
"a common drunkard" was any
person who had been intoxicated
three "times.
Bad in Virginia.
Even the clergy in Virginia some'
times looked too long on the wine
when it was red. It became so bad
that the assembly passed a law "prohibiting
ministers from giving themselves
to excessive drinking or riot or
in playing at unlawful games." New
Jersey decided in 1668 that no person
should be permitted {o drink "after 9
\ n. m." Massachusettsrtwo years later
posted drunkards' names in public
houses. The Quakers of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey in 1685 declared
against intemperance. New Hampshire
in 1700 forbade inn keepers
from permitting^ "townspeople from
. remaining in their houses drinking
on Saturday night or Sunday."
Trade in liquor with the Indians,
meanwhile, grew rapidly. It caused
Maryland colony in 1715 to prohibit
selling of "more than one gallon of
liquor a day to any Indian under penalty
of 3,000 pounds of tobacco." In
1757 the Georgia colony forbade the
granting of a license to sell liquor to
any person "capable of gaining a livei
lihood by honest labor." Pennsylvania
Quakers in 1760 endeavored to abol|
ish the use liquor at funerals.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, perhaps the
greatest American medical authority
of a century and a quarter ago, in
1785 issued his celebrated essay dealing
with the effects of alcohol on the
body and mind. Four years later the
first "temperance society" in the
country was organized by 200 farm
ers in Litchfield county, Conn. In
1794 the "Whiskey Rebellion" in opposition
to the tax on distilled liquors
broke out in western Pennsylvania
and was suppressed by the military.
In 1802 congress passed a law
enabling the president to "take steps
to prevent the traffic in liquor with
the Indians."
The Soberty society, founded in Allentown,
N. J., in 1805, was the next
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MR. W. H. DUNCAN DIES.
Barnwell Clerk of Court Succumbs
Three Days After Wife's Death.
A telephone message received in
Barnwell early Wednesday evening
contained the shocking news of the
death of Mr. William Hansford Duncan,
Clerk of Court for Barnwell
county, which occurred at 6 o'clock at
an Augusta hospital, following an operation
for appendicitis. Mr. Duncan
was stricken late Sunday night, while
at the railroad station awaiting the
arrival of his wife's remains, and
was taken to Augusta Monday night
the operation being performed Tuesday
morning. His condition was said
to be favorable and his friends here
were entirely unprepared for the news
that he had passed away. Mr. Duncan's
death was doubly sad, in that
his wile had answered the last summons
only three days previously, her
hnrtv hpine laid to rest Tuesdav after
noon.?Barnwell People.
step towards prohibition, the forerunner
of numerous organizations founded
later for dethroning King Alcohol.
Not many years afterward the American
Society for the Promotion of
Temperance was organized in Boston.
First Temperance Convention.
Following the organization of the
Congressional Temperance society in
Washington, the first national temperance
convention met in Philadelphia
in 1833. Next year congress enacted
a law forbidding the sale of
liq?uor to Indians under $500 penalty.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
in Philadelphia at that time also declared
against the liquor traffic. Neal
Dow, the "father of prohibition in
Maine," organized the Maine Temperance
Union in 1837 and in 1839
Connecticut invented "local option,"
by leaving the licensing of saloons
to the towns themselves.
Inauguration of the Washingtonian
Mnvomont was n Tin mi n end in 1840
and within a year it reported 100,00o
signers of the pledge. In 1842 Abraham
Lincoln addressing the Washirigtonian
society of Springfield, 111.,
urged "a temperance revolution." The
next year Oregon passed a prohibitory
law but repealed it in 1848. In
1843 John B. Gough, "arch foe of
intemperance," began to lecture in
Massachusetts for 75 cents a night.
Two years later, "ensnared by a trick
of his enemies," he became intoxicated
but continued his campaign
against drink both at home and
abroad.
The Democratic legislature oi
Maine in 1846 enacted a prohibitory
law. In 1848 the Methodist Episcopal
church forbade members "buying,
selling or drinking intoxicants."
Father Matthew, the renowned Catholic
temperance advocate, arrived from
Ireland in 1849 and began his pledge
signing crusade throughout the United
States. A riot over the license
question in Chicago called out the
militia in 1855. Prohibitory laws
which had been passed in several
states were repealed and in other
cases license amendments made them
ineffective.
President-elect Lincoln in 1860 refused
to furnish drinks to the notification
committee sent on June 19 to
notify him of his election and returned
unopen the hampers of wine
and liquors sent to the White House.
In 1861 he sighed an act of congress
"forbidding the selling or giving of
intoxicants to soldiers." In 1862
congress repealed the laV allowing
a gill of whiskey ration to men in
the navy. Kansas in 1866 passed a
local option and prohibitory law. Ohio
in 1870 passed the Adair law making
the liquor seller and the property
owner jointly responsible for "injury
caused by liquor."
Sermon on Subject.
Francis Murphy delivered Lis first
temperance sermon in 1871 and helped
to organize the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union of America. Three
years later women actively entered
the -crusade for temperance, the Women's
Christian Temperance Union
being organized on November 19,
1874. Vermont, in 1876, passed a
law declaring saloons to be "nuisances."
In 1883 came the era oi
high license laws, several states undertaking
to control the traffic by
taxation.
In 1884 the third plenary council
of the Roman Catholic prelates at
Baltimore, Md., declared aga'nst the
liquor business. The Protestant Episcopal
church organized the Knights
of Temperance society in 1885 and
similar organizations were formed
by other religious denominations
In 1S86 congress enacted that "instruction
concerning the effects of alcoholic
liquors shall be given in the
schools of the District of Columbia
in the United States Military and
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LAWMAKERS SETTLE
DOWN TO BUSINESS
GOVERNOR COOPER BffeLIVERS
ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Suffrage Amendment Up.
Governor's Message Looked Upon as
Able and Forceful Document.
Columbia, Jan. 14.?The legislative
machinery has been working fast.
Today the major portion of the session
was ripvntpri to ttip hpnrTn? in
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joint assembly, of Governor Cooper's
annual address. His message struck
the membership as a forceful and
able business document. Governor
Cooper eliminated all attempt at eloquence
and reduced his message to a
strictly business representation,
which was very much to the liking
of the lawmakers. There will naturally
be some difference of opinion,
but whatever it may be on the various
phases of his message, he had the
courage to state his views plainly and
unmistakably, and that is to be commended
in this day and time. A message
such as Governor Cooper's is one
that ought to be read not only by the
lawmakers but by the people of the
State generally, so that they can have
a better understanding of the actual
business affairs of the State.
One of the big problems of the Legislature
this year is the final decision
on the woman suffrage amendment.
The ball was started rolling this
morning by the introduction of a ratifying
resolution by Senator Christensen,
of Beaufort, who is now, and has
always has been an ardent advocate
of woman suffrage.
Senator Christensen withdrew his
bill with reference to the street railway
situation in Charleston, a similar
bill having been passed at the last
session of the Legislature, and this
measure was ratified yesterday.
The senate today adopted a joint
resolution by which the people are
going to vote at the next general
election on the question of towns and
cities faking over ice plants as a
part of municipal activities. Of
course, such action would only be in
the event of the vote of the people
directly interested.
Senator Dennis's bill, which undertakes
to 'provide that whenever solicitors
go out for contributions for charitable
or benevolent institutions they
should first have authority, was passed
to a third reading.
Naval academies and in other schools
under government control."
Ohio in 1888 passed a Sunday antllinnot
law. In 1S90 the secretary of
war ruled that "no ardent spirits or
wine shall be sold in army canteens,''
a ruling, however, which some years
later was rescinded. Men and women
reformers in a temperance crusade in
Bloomville, Ohio, in 1891 wrecked a
saloon and destroyed its contents.
Mrs. Carrie Nation took up the same
tactics elsewhere and made the hatchet
more famous than it had been since
the days of George Washington.
The first world's convention of the
Women's Christian Temperance Un
ion was also held in Boston that
i year. The Anti-Saloon League was
' founded in Oberlin, Ohio, by Howard
H. Russell that year and spread all
: over the United States. In 1894 en.
forcement of the State dispensary
. law in South Carolina resulted in the
? killing of a number of men in liquor
; raids.
; Action by States.
By 1900 many counties throughout
the nation had become "dry" througn
local option. Omaha, Neb., in 1902
; barred women and music from sa
loons. In 1904 Virginia "outlawed"
95A nlooos fr?r thp cnlft nf lia.UOr.
> Iowa enacted a rigid "anti-bootleg1
gers" law.
Oklahoma's statehood bill, passed
l by congress in 1906, provided for
, "prohibition on Indian reservations
. for 21 years.'' Montana passed an
"anti-wine room" law in 1907. In:
diana citizens that year closed more
than 720 saloons by means of "rer
monstrances."
In 1911 the Illinois legislature en1
acted a law forbidding drinking on
; trains. The United States supreme
i court in 1912 handed down a decision
upholding the constitutionality of
> prohibition for the Indian section of
I Oklahoma. West Virg'nia about the
1 same time voted itself "dry" by state
. constitutional amendment. The Webb
Kenyon act, prohibiting the shipment
in interstate commerce of intoxicati
ing liquors when such liquors were
, to be used in violation of law, was
I passed by congress in IS 13 over
CENTRALIZATION OF
AUTHORITY URGED
FOR EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE
AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS.
Good Roads Legislation.
Governor Recommends Constitutional
Convention?Increase f6r
Teachers.
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Columbia, Jan. 14.?Permeated
. with the principle of concentrating
authority and definitely fixing responsibility,
the initial annual message of
Governor Cooper was read by the executive
to the General Assembly in
joint session today.
The message was characterized by
brevity and progressive recommendations,
the latter being somewhat revolutionary
in that they would abolish
certain departments or agencies of
government and repose their authority
in already existing boards.
The principal recommendations for
consolidation is for the creation of a
central board for educational control,
which would govern the fundamental
policies by which the educational sys^
tern if the State is operated, all other
boards, of institutions or otherwise,
being subordinate to it.
He would likewise have a central
board in charge of all charitable ana
penal institutions, with an executive
officer at the head, and abolish all
other boards or agencies for these activities.
Law Enforcement Fund.
In his recommendation for a fund
of $75,000 for law enforcement, the
executive suggests the consolidation
of the office of chief game warden
and the board of fisheries, and that
the enforcement of the fish and game
laws be devolved on the force of State
constables working from the Governor's
office.
The governor recommends as a
theory of more efficiency and economy
in buying a central purchasing agency
which would purchase for all State
institutions.
Other recommendations are:
The extension of the present State
budget system into the counties.
A change in the fiscal year, so that
it will begin on July 1 of each year.
The adoption of a resolution for a
constitutional convention now on the
house calendar. It has passed the
senate.
The creation of a scholarship fund.
Increasing the salary of teachers.
Proper and adequate support of the
health department. ;
The enactment of proper good roads
legislation.
The abolition of the county chain
gang system and the creation of a
State convict road system. ,
The apportionment of State taxation
among the counties of the State
according to their taxable wealth,
which is a reiteration of his position
taken in his inaugural address on
January 14, 1919.
The necessity of finding additional
sources of revenue for the support of
the State, which he promises to discuss
in a special message.
Sources of Revenue.
A survey of the State to get non
taxable property on the tax books, to
be conducted under the supervision of
the State sinking fund commission.
The erection of a State administration
building. Liberal
support of the National
Guard.
Strengthening the South Carolina
pubilc service so that it will have authority
over all public utilities in the
State, fix their rate for service and
product, supervise their service and
regulate the issuance of their seouriti.es.
The authorization of boards of censors
for motion pictures and not allowing
a film to be screened until it is
passed upon by these boards.
Coming Feb. 4th, "Eyes of the
World." LaVictoire Theatre.?adv.
President Taft's veto.
Many states in 1914 adopted statevide
prohibition by constitutional
amendment. The Colorado legislature
in 1915 made it unlawful to "advertise
wine, beer or liquor anywhere in
the state." Florida that same year
enacted a law forbidding "treating.''
On August 1, 1917, the United
States senate adopted the resolution
providing for submission to the states
of the national prohibition amendment
to the constitution and on the
following December 18 similar approval
was given by the house of representatives.
All the states except
New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode
Island, later voted to ratify.
HONOR ROLL. i
Olar High School for Month of December.
The following is the honor roll of
the Olar high school for the month
of December. Names are arranged
in order of merit:
First grade?Irene Chitty, 1st honors,
class of 53; Willis Creech, Grace
Kearse, Mamie Nell Still, Alpha Lee
Lewhern, Aza Lee Still, Florence
Sanders, H. C. Johns, Theodore Gunnels.
Advanced first grade?Florence
Sanders, 1st, class of 8; Daisy Ayer,
Cornelius Laird.
Second grade?Lois Sanders, 1st
honors, class of 28; Gertrude Morris, ]
Merdrue Creech, Alymer G^ay, Marion
Brabham, Lois Creech, Walker
Collins, Roy Collins, Jrt. in. mgntower.
Third grade ? Henry Homer
Kearse, 1st honors, Eunice Morris,
Maude Ayer, Durward Codk,
Eugene Creech, Malcolm Drawdy,
Dorothy Mobley, Omega Sanders, Lee
Hightower.
Fourth grade?Pauline Peeler, 1st
honors, class of 27; Mamie Fail, Willie
Cave, Helen Ritter, Ruth Sanders,
Ottie Lee Milhous, Irene Laird, Alva
Morris, Edna Cave, Florrie Sanders.
Fifth grade?Jerard Ritter, 1st
honors, class of 18; Jack Harris, Walter
Brabham, Henry Kearse', Austin
Weigand, Homer Cave, Vernon
Creech, Murry Connelly. ?
Sixth grade?Louise Kearse, 1st
honors, class of 21; Wilma Morris,
Lucille Wiegand, Hazel Ritter, Esther
Sanders, Willie Dell Hightower.
Seventh grade?Blanche Brabham,
1st honors, class of 15; Birdie Sanders,
Edna Proveant, Cleo Creech, Willard
Barker, Clester Morris, Jink
Lynes, Agnes Jamerson Mobley.
Eighth grade?Susie Creech, 1st
honors, class of 13.?Mildred Cooke,
:uyrtie tsarKer, win.am oauueis.
Ninth grade?Juanita Neely, 1st
honors, clas of 13; Mildred Cooke,
Inez Kirkland, Edward Kearse, Marguerite
Cooke, Russell Gray, Robert
Creech.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
Quarterly Meeting Third Division to
be Held at Ulmer Jan. 31.
The first quarterly meeting of the
third division of the W. M. U. of the
Barnwell association will meet with
the ladies of Ulmer Baptist cnurch
on January 31, at 11 o'clock a. m.
Devotional, Mrs. G. O. Mathis; welcome,
Mrs. Eldon Kirkland; response,
Mrs. Paul Cook; roll call with verbal
reports from delegates from each
society; subject of special interest,
"Christian schools," spoken to by:
Africa, Mrs. C. B. Ray; China, Mrs.
D. H. Owings; Japan, Mrs. Lue Kittrell;
Italy, Mrs. J. A. Goodson; Brazil,
Mrs. C. C. Morris; appointment of
committees; dinner.
Devotional, Mrs. Paul Cook; song,
"Millions for the Master;" a new day
for Baptist schools, by Mrs. L. S.
Shealey; training school, Mrs. 0. E.
Kearse; in Europe one year after the
war, Mrs. J. E. McMillan; the students'
patriotic strike in Shanghai
Baptist college, Mrs. Mamie Harrison;
miscellaneous business; report
of committees; adjournment with
prayer for all Christian schools.
MRS. MAMIE B. CAVE, Pres.
MRS. PAUL COOK, Sec. & Tr.
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G. E. Griffith Elected Third Time.
Cope, Jan. 12.?At an election
held here today, the following were
elected as town council for the com
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ing year: Groyner E. Griffith? intedant,
and W. F. Waite, L. E. Spann,
J. D. Bonnett, and Winfield Clark,
wardens.
The ticket was as follows: For
intendant, W. H. Livingston, G. F.
Griffith and A. Perry Garrick, arifa
for wardens, R. C. Carter, L. E.
Spann, W. F. Waite, J. A. Antley, J.
D. Bonnett, W. Clark and W. W.
Kittrell.
There were only 24 votes cast, and
the result was as follows:
Intendant, H. Livingston, 9; G. E.
Griffith, 12; and A. P. Garick, 3.
Wardens, R. C. Carter, 8; L. E.
Spann, 19; W. F. Waite, 20; J. A.
Antley, 10; Jno. D. Bonnett, 15; W.
Clark, 15; and W. W. Kittrell, 9.
This is Intendant Griffith's third
term, he having served six years
previously as clerk and warden. W.
F. Waite has served three years on
council, the past two as clerk, Messrs.
Spann, Bonnett, and Clark are each
entering upon their first terms.
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Texas adv.?"I have a baby girl I
do not want to chloroform, give away
or exchange for a dog. If there is
anyone in Houston who will rent us
two or more furnished rooms, please
address 130 D, care Post."?Boston
Transcript.
THE TIGER RETIRES
TO PRIVATE LIFE
CLEMENCEAU SERVED FRANCE
FOR FIFTY YEARS.
Great Work in War.
Probably Did as Much as Any One
Person to Defeat
Germany.
Paris, Jan. 17.?Georges Eugene
Clemenceau, "the Grand Old Man of
France," after having served his country
in high office for almost 50 years,
retires to private life with the appointment
of the new cabinet of President
Deschanel.
He is credited with contributing as
much, perhaps more than any other
statesman, to bringing about the
downfall of Germany by filling
France?discouraged and war torn?
with the invincible spirit of the con
querur.
After a lifetime of vicissitudes, he
recently declared: "I am yoijnger now
than I was ten years ago." He said
this even while carrying in his body
the bullet of an assassin and while
suffering from a broken rib recently
sustained while crossing the English
channel.
Explaining his remark, he said:
"Idleness and old age are twin sisters.
I avoid them. The way to keep young
and vigorous is never to let . your
mind grow inactive and to work?
work?work. Preserve strength of
mind and you vanquish age; that is
the secret of perpetual youth.
"I believe it is weak minded to
grow old," he told certain members
of his suite after his famous antiBolsheviki
speech in Strasbourg last
November. The premier's day had
been a hard one, with many receptions,
journeys and discussions of
serious diplomatic question's, but he
appeared at dinner that night fresher
than many of his younger colleagues. ?
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It was some time before this, while
he was on one of his customary jaunts
into the couptry, when he walked ten
or 12 miles without showing very
great fatigue, that he discovered his
now famous retreat, a two roomed
fisherman's hut close to the seashore,
near Lucon, in Vendee. Here is
where he is expected to pass a fortnight
or more. Bare of comforts and
conveniences, it is just the kind of a V
shelter the once known "Tiger" of
France would seek for a well earned
rest. It is only a short distance from
the famous premier's birthplace and
stands almost alone on the barren
sands. Often he walks to the village, \
where he converses with the old tow
folk, a few of whom knew him as a
hoy.
Clemenceau's rigorous life was continued
even after he accepted Presi- t
dent Poincare's invitation to form a
war ministry in 1917, when for the
second time he became premier of
France. In civil life he arose with
the birds and retired often at sunset. ?
-A glass of milk and a few crackers
was his usual repast at 3 a. m. in
summer and 4.30 o'clock in winter.
An hour or two later he sat down to
a hearty breakfast, the main portion
of which wag generally a dish of
macaroni and cheese with melted
butter. About 12:30 p. m. he indulged
in luncheon, a simple meal of
a couple of eggs, perhaps, and a few
vegetables. Dinner at 7 p. m. was
practically meatless, consisting largely
of vegetables and fruits. He eats
very slowly.
Sleeps in Office.
During the war the pressure of affairs
of state often forced him to
alter his sleeping habit, and there .
were occasions when, for two and 1
three days at a time, the aged pre- R
mier and minister of war never re- w
moved his clothing, but caught mere If
snatches of rest of a few minutes'
duration on a lounge in his office. Vv
In peace time, however, Clemenceau
has a less strenuous programme. In / |
summer, as soon as he arises, he
takes to his garden in the rear of his
town apartment, inspecting the flower
beds and the shrubbery and trees,
pruning off dead branches and pulling
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turmoil of politics and the cares of
office.
Clemenceau, it is not generally
known, was formerly a physician. He came
to New York in 1865, but abandoned
the practice of medicine to
teach school at Stamford, Conn. He
married an American girl in 1869,
Miss Mary Plummer, of New York,
and returned to France a few years
He entered the French national as(Continued
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