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CARRY OUT PLEDGE PRESIDENT WILSON URGES NEW JtRSEY DEMOCRATS TO CARRY OUT JURY REFORM Incidentally He Promises to Give Ills Opinion I'pon Local Questions if Asked?Democrats Must Carry Out Their Campaign Promisees or lose Out llcforo the I'wutlo. President Wilson Thursday nigiht In two speches at Newark and at Elizabeth, Now Jersey, made good his promise to return to New Jersey to tight for tho reforms which were pledged to tho peoplo while he was governor, but which failed of accomplishment since his departure for Washington. The president was greeted with cheers and enthusiasm as he faced the big crowds. "It made my pulse beat," said the president in his speech at Newark, "to think that 1 was to come to this great county of Essex that wants to govern itself but does not. I have come therefore to speak not to you but for you. I have exercised a great self denial about New Jersey. My great temptation in choosing a summer home was to pitch my tent where 1 used to. Hut there is going to bo a contest for governor in- NewJersey next summer and 1 did not want anybody to think I wanted to boss the job. I have no candidate for ir<~>vr?rmir hilt I nni minrmnrl tn whr? ever ia desired by certain gentlemen. I don't want to see any governor privately owned. 1 am going to New Hampshire next summer but New llempsbiro ia in telegraph comunication with New Jersey. Any 0110 who wants to know what 1 think can learn by asking. "But 1 want to say a few words about the Democratic party. I want even body to realize that' I have not been taken in by the results of the last national election. The country did not go Democratic in November. It was impossible for it to go Republican be>cauae it could not tell which kind of Republican to go. The only hopeful and united instrument through which it could accomplish its purpose was the Democratic party. There were certain things which we want, the country said, not certain persons elevated. There wore certain things wo want demonstrated, such as that the government of the United States can not be controlled by private interest. Now tho Democratic party is going to have a try at making these things sucessful and if not we're not going to have another try." The president applied his reference to the national election to State situation deducing that if the Democratic party in the stato did not redeem its pledges, including jury reform, the people might try another political party in the next election. Mr. Wilson declared that when the Democratic party in New Jersey threo years ago came into power, everybody wondered "if the old gang would run it, but it did not." ThV) speaker said that when he was preparing to go to Washington from the governorship he was told that "the old gang would come back." "I did not believe it," ho continued, "until I saw it.Once more that bulky form of the gentleman who used to personally lead the New Jerseey legislature into disgrace reappeared on the very floor of the legislature; that great system with a big snake-liko 'S,' that great, sneaking, whispering system had established itself in Trenton." The president used a quantity of adjectives to describe the "gang" and charged that the system had been so corrupt as to permit grand juries to indict at strategic moments and "they can withhold grand juries from indict ing when all is quiet and you know that the mastery of certain gentlemen in this state would bo impossible if the things they did were subject to the dispasslnate judgmen of grand juries. The president was unsparing in his attack upon tiie eleven assemblymen from Essex county who were opposing jury reform. "It is a disgrace," he said amid applause, "to the judicial system of the State and the Union and I come here to -protest as a representative American citizen that these things should not be allowed to exist." Moved Where .fail Was Handy. A new reason for living in a big city was given by Violet Piotrowski, of Detroit, Mich., who appeared against her father, who was charged with drunkenness. Until recently tho family lived in a small town in Ohio but moved to Detroit in order that v. ^ n ? .1 r t. i.. uwr lttiniT 1111 j4,iu uu jain'u ior ins sprees, the police facilities of minor municipalities not being sufficient to accomplish his correction. The court issued a warrant for non-support. * Murdered Two Two Negroes. Two negroes were murdered in their house at night some days ago on W. S. Middleton's farm in the lower part of Edgefield county and as a result of the efforts of Sheriff Swearingen five negroes wero committed to jail to answer the charge of murder< at the August term of court m}k . , t WILL DO MUCH GOOD ; + ( THE IiEVKIt AGRICULTURAL EX- j\ TENSION RILL. 1 I ? i Congressman I/ever Explains His Hill mid Toll the Public What He Hopes It Will Accomplish. In an article in "Husiness Amor- ^ ica," a magazine, Congressman Lever ! Hots forth what "The Lover Bill" is J intended to accomplish and why ho believes it will. After reviewing conditions as they actually exist, Mr. J Lever proceeds in his artielo as follows: Outline of Lever Bill. Machinery, adequate for this purpose, in the opinion of all masters of tho subject, is provided in the bill . (II. K. 22874 ) to establish agrieul-I tural colleges in tho several states, ' and known as the "Lever Extension Hill", which without a dissenting I vote passed tho House of Representatives on the 23rd day of August of this year and is now pending in the Senate. This bill, simple, direct in itH terms, makes it possible to reach the farmer in the most positive way with tho lessons which science and practical experience have taught, it takes into consideration tho farmers well known version to tho acceptance of new theories and practices with respect to tho methods of conducting his own business. The fact that "my 1 father did it this way and it is good enough for me" is not overlooked, and the bill makes special provision to meet his innate predisposition to ceaso to cavil only when he is made to know, to stop doubting only when he sees. The central thought of the I bill is to dispel skepticisms by ocu- ! lar demonstration. Tho farmer's farm, with its special natural and economic environment, is to be tho field for this work. The Lover bill, In brief, appropriated to each state the sum of $10,000 annually, and beginning in 1914 proposes a lump sum appropriation of $300,000, this sum increasing at tne rate or $3uu,uuu a year over tne preceding year until 1 923, when the total amount appropriated will be $3,000,000 plus $10,000, the initial appropriation additional. The initial appropriation to any state is conditioned upon the fact that such state provides in its agricultural college ' for the establishment of an extension department to ho devoted to giving demonstrations in agriculture and home economics, through the medium of field demonstrations, publications and otherwise. The additional lump sum appropriations are condi-1 tioned upon the fact that the states! receiving them shall provide for the support of their extension departments a sum equivalent to the amount received from the federal government annually. Assuming, and there can be little doubt of it, that the states will meet the conditions of iho federal appropriations fully, the total amount available for this work by 1923 and annually thereafter will be the sum of $ >,480,000. Under this plan, it will be possible to put into every agricultural county of the country at least one agent or adviser who must combine scientific knowledge with practical experience relating to agriculture and homo economics in the broadest rn niitiiw, .-V f 4 . iiicnuuig ui 11H-OC7 IC1 Ilia, 1 HIM (Infill or adviser will become the agricultural physician resident in tho county to whom the farmers may go with confidence with their sick soils, their anaemic crops, their post outbreaks, and other ills to which the profession is heir. Such a man must not only have expert knowledge and practical experience, but in addition must possess tact, common senso, and be enthused with optimism for his work and for the future of agriculture. He is to be tho middle man, tli rough whom the demonstrated theories and best approved practices of the profession, emanating from the colleges and stations, are to bo carried directly to the farmer and put to the living test under his own eye. To break down any prejudice which the conservation of the farmer may set out against this method of adult teaching, it will bo necessary for him to not only como into personal contact with the farmer receiving the instruction and to make tho farmer himself a participant in the actual demonstrations of the practicability of the lesson sought to be taught, but it will bo necessary also that the method advocated shall be successful. Tho farmer is at this time, in a reooivtivo mnoil for follo?/lr?cr I- ^ ..-WWW .W?IV/ff lllh methods which promise a betterment of his condition, and this bill recognizes all of these peculiar conditions and in its very simple terms, in section two, it is clearly set out that the duty of these extension departments shall be "to give instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economies, . . . on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications and otherwise." To more significantly emphasize the field demonstration ideas as contrasted with the old method of teaching by bulletin and lecture, it is made obligatory that "there shall be extended each year for field instruction and demonstration not less than seventy-five per centum of all r*oneys available under the provisions of this act." The demonstration method, out in the field in direct contact with the farmer, is again em/ ( plinsized and made plain In the explanation of the provisions of the bill jn the floor of the House of Repre- I jentatlves by It sauthor. Repeatedly In answer to Interrogations, he assured the membership of the House that the purpose of the bill was to reach tho farmer on the farm and refused to be led away from his central thought. Now tho practical question: Experience Is tho best guide. It has worked in European countries successfully and in a more or less limited way in this country. Without going into details, it is sufllcient for the purposes of this article to call attention to the fact that extension teaching is carried on and approved by the British Empire, Australia, Denmark, France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Russia, Belgium and other lesser nations. The success of the system in Belgium is notably striking. Twentyfive years ajio her agriculture was in a most deplorable and discouraging ] condition, so much so that the government was forced to take notice of ( It. The remedy was found in this system of extension work by field demonstration, and ocular instruction. Under it tho average yield of wheat in twenty-live years was increased 57 per cent.; rye 5 3.4 per cent.; barley, 5 0.5 per cent., and ( oats, 63.8 per cent., and her farmers in the last twelve years have trebled their savings bank accounts. The same methods in Germany ( made for wheat a gain of 31.6 per 1 cent.; oats, 36 per cent.; barley, 3 0 per cent.; rye, 4 1 per cent, in a quarter of a century. It would be criminal to shut our ' eyes to the meaning, the immense ' significance of theso data. Assume ' that twenty-five years hence the av- ' erage yield per acre for wheat, oats, 1 rye, barley, potatoes and cotton, under the system outlined in this bill, ' shall have increased fifty per cent. < The result will startle the mathema- 1 tician and confound the dreamer. ' Are our conditions such as will ' warrant the belief that tho system i will wo-k as well with us as it has ' under t1 conditions of these foroitrn count .! Emphatically yes. Al- i rend More than thirty of the land ' gr-nr colleges are using this method fo- i*lnit teaching in limited ways. i Si\.y years ago practically nothing i was being done by any of them along l these lines. The enthusiasm with 1 which it has been received, and its ; eillcacy in reaching the difficulties, < are the forces which have created i the unanimous sentiment of the < country for the passage of the meas- i ure embodying the details worked i out in this bill. The results have 1 been so encouraging that the princi- ] pal railroads of the country, the larg- < est farm implement companies, such 1 as the International Harvester Co., the National Association of Rankers, j with whom the first question is: , "Will it pay?" have joined with tho farmers and the agricultural colleges , in support of it. It is possible, to multiply illustrations from reports of j this work showing it to bo beyond question tho practical solution of the , problems with which our agriculture ] must deal. (] One illustration, however, where the demonstration system has cov- ( ered a number of states and has been , in operation for a sufficient time to ( make sure that it is no flash in the . pan is sufficient. This work has ( been carried on in tho Southern , States since 1901 when it was organ- , ized by the late Dr. Seaman A. , Knapp. Its success was immediate and remarkable, nor has it lost any of its force by lapse of time. On the contrary it continues to grow in influence and good. From a small beginning, with only a few trained men in the field, it has developed in less than adecado into a great movement. with a thousand agents or ad- 1 visers, one hundred thousand farm prs, seventy-live thousand hoys In Uio corn clubs, and twenty-five thousand girls in the canning clubs who are receiving instruc- ' tlon and becoming centers frpm which radiate the better methods of 1 agriculture and homo ecomnoics to their neighbors. The results of this work in the South have made a pro- ' found impression not only upon her own people,,but upon the people of the entire country and tho world. Representatives of Russia, Brazil, England, South Africa and Argentina have studied it. Sir Horace Plukent, a member of the committee some years ngo to visit contiental countries to investigate their sys- ! terns of extension teaching, after a visit to this country and a study of ' this work- expresses himself as profoundly impressed with tho good sense which underlies it. Of it Dr. i Walter 11. Page, said: "It is the greatest single piece of constructive educational work in this or any age." 1 Since it was put upon a firm basis it has doubled the yield per acre both of corn and cotton as against the average in every state in which it has been practiced. The results in South Carolina aro tynlcal. Tho averatre yield of seed cotton per acre for this state for 1011 was seven hundred and ninety-five pounds, while the average yield reported on seven thousand three hundred and seventy-one acres and by one thousand and seventy-four demonstrators is one thousand five hundred and sixty-nine and two-tenths pounds of seed cotton per acre, or an increase over ordinary methods of ninety-four and fourtenths per cent, or about twenty- < three dollars per acre. The average yield of corn for South Carolina for 1911 was 18.2 bushels, while the average yield reported! on 5,99 8 KILLKD A 8QIKALKK. Vew York (hangmen Shoot Member I Who Wan Telling. Suspected of "squealing" to the iistrict attorney, Jerry Maida, known c is "Jerry, the Lunchman," mot his i ippointed death on Firty-First street 1 near Broadway, New York, early t Tuesday. He was shot down by > gangsters who sent bullets into his t body. | Tho shooting occurred only a cou j |)le of blocks away from the scene of i :he murder of Herman Rosenthal last f July, but the gunmen had loss luck t than tho Rosenthal murder crew, i Five policemen who were in tho ini- t mediate vicinity heard tho shots and bounced upon five men whom they i . ,.,.11 ,.f I# 11111. ? ' iv-v-vio* ? vi i i uu rv i i i i 11 f~y , I Tho police allege mat the men 1 aught are members of lie l aul K\l- i ly band of gangsievs. of which Jerry c a as an adherent. They say that Jer- t ry had recently fallen uinfer suspi- ( don, however, and that he was l thought to be revealing the gang's t jecrets to the district attorney. None of the men caught were armid, but witnesses said they had seen thein throw revolvers away and three ( >f the guns were found in a garbage f can nearby. The police say that j '(Juinea Sam", one of the prisoners, ) was under arrest two years ago in ( connection with the murder of an- ( Dther member of the gang under sim- j lar circumstances. j ( 'Floods of (iodless Men." > In speaking of the recent floods t Louis F. I'ost contributes a most in- t cresting article to The Chicago Pub- \ lie. lie says "precisely this is what he catastrophes of the past week in 1 reality are?"Hoods of godless men", t Not of particular men who are god ess, but of the godless men in each t if us. Trace those floods back to 1 heir physical causes. Scrutinize ' uhoso moral causes, and you find 1 hem to consist of that deadly love i [or unearned dollars from which 1 none of us is entirely free, and a 1 wicked indifference to common f rights, of which all of us are in some f measure guilty. j * "They are the "floods of godless 1 men"?of the unrighteousness that Is in all men. It is well, therefore, 1 hat all contribute somewhat to the ( elief of the misery all have caused , A md are causing. Iairge aggregate ( contributions from many persons in 1 imtill hwHvi/liinl o??Annta h-amI/I Kno* 1 iiiut t ivi uui uuiv/uiitoi n v/ m vi urr>i ?xpress the general consciousness of ^uilt. Hut that is enough to wash xway the stain. The "godless men" within us can not he evicted or suppressed by gifts to relief funds. The only effective penance is a new communal life., j "So long as we get something for nothing?nay, even so long we indifferently allow others to get something for nothing?so long shall there be "floods of godless men" with all their calamitous consequences; for none can get something for nothing unless others get nothing for; something. To relieve calamities we ; must give when calamities come, no j matter why they come. But to pre-1 vent calamity, we must arouse our-1 3elves to the beneficent commands of ! the moral law. Its punitive sanctions can not he averted by relief funds. To stay the "floods of godless men" our "godless men" must he reduced Lo order. To make physical laws 3erve us well wo must hitch them to the moral law." PKNSION FOR MOTHKR8. ? Fourteen State legislatures Are Considering Beneficial Haw. Fourteen legislatures are now consideraing Mothers' Pensions hills, while nine states have already enacted laws bearing either directly or indirectly upon the endowment of motherhood. Wherever pension leg- ? Islation has been enacted it has been 1 based on the theory that children ( should not be separated from their > mother for reasons of poverty alone, i The Tuesday club, of St. Louis, an < organization composed entirely of 1 women, has found that broken homes t and institutional children produce the Juvenile court offenders, and that they in turn till the penitentiaries. * 4^4 * Gave Ilimscl ffor $."><>. i Declaring he was unable to refund t $f?0 he had stolen from Mrs. Raehael < Sparks, aged 50 years, of Corbin, Ky., 1 Prank G. Girard ottered himself and 1 was accepted. They were niarriel t within a few hours. acres by 1,672 demonstrators in 29.2 bushels, an increase under demonstration methods of 115.4 per cent, or about $20 per acre. These are cold facts, and if every farmer in the South had followed the demonstration methods on h'.s farm for 1911 millions of dollars would have been added to the wealth of that section. What is true of the South is equally true of the entire country. Will the system work? rri./, Unnl ' ? II * * * 1 iiu uool tiiinwcr 1H, 1L IUIH worKea RO successfully in the South that the people who are feoling its benefits are to-day making voluntary contributions for the great memorial to the author of the plan. The Lever bill proposes to nationalize the work already in existence in the South and a majority of the land grant colleges of the country, and to co-ordinate it. with the other agencies at work solving the problems of agriculture and rural life, by making agriculture profitable and rural life happy. 1 Via i WILL AII> ADMINISTRATION. >omocrats In California Support WilNon anil Ilryan. An indication of the form Democratic opposition will take to the proK>sed Webb draft of the anti-alien and bill was given in the California state senate at Sacramento Thursday vhen the measure came up for final iction. It was the original plan of the progressive Republican majority In its insurance of a successful issue to oree the bill to a vote at once but at he request of the Democrats a postponement of one day was granted at he last minuate. In return for the delay the adminstration leaders received a pletlgo rom the minority that it would abide )v the results as shown in the final oil oil 11 and not demand a reconsidjratlon. Thus the Progressives felt hat although apparently they lost a lay, in reality they saved several 1 >v cheeking further efforts to impede heir plans. What ltooze Did for llim. The other day Thomas Seahrooke lied in Chicago in the most miserable nirroundings. The Cedar Ilapids Republican says a dozen years or so ago le was easily the foremost comedian m the stage. He was a born cornelian. There was no horseplay effect n his acting. At that time ho was ible to make $7.r>,000 a year, for ho ou Id draw audiences that would varrant a manager in paying him ?uch a salary. The announcement hat Seahrooke was in the cast alvays filled a theater in those days. Put, says The Republican, Seairooke made one mistake. He bought he could get away with John tarleycorn and put him under the able. He knew that other men had ailed, and failed miserably, in the inequal contest, but the thought that io was to be the one exception, the nan who could win the victory. Rut le didn't win. They never do win Alio start out on such a trial of itrength. The end is always the same, dishonor, humiliation, shame ind suffering of every kind. Seaprooke died in delirium tremens. He had one supreme agony of nind, when all the devils and snakes >f hell tormented him, and then he ,vmk dr?;id d??nd n.t n tim?> whnn ho I )Ught to he in the beginnings of a nellow maturity, the kind of maturty in which Joe Jefferson was at his pest and during which he gave his riends and admirers their greatest pleasure out of art. This is a temperance sermon that should bo heard ind heeded by all men, but most especially the young men. Every man, roung or old, who takes one drink 'aces the awful fate that overtook the alented Seabrooke. Why They Are Not Wanted, The reason why California wishes o exclude the Japanese is because of heir effect upon the labor conditions pf the white people of the State. A Sacraento paper suggest "that Mr. Jryan take an auto and ride to Pertins and on to Florin and Elk Grove ind see the Japanese women laboring n the fields. Let him view the huts hey live in and contrast them with he white men's homes next door. If his continues, how long will it be peforo the white women will be compelled to labor in the fields to help heir husbands obtain even the "lecessaries of life? How long will it be intil the white families will be degraded to the same miserable huts? x'ow these three towns mentioned are ill in this county, a few miles oast pf the capital city of the State, under he very nose of the Legislature, and A'ore formerly prosperous American 'ommunitios. And there are others south of the city, towns where the lewspapers scarcely find it worth vhile trying to maintain a circulation hat formerly was large." It will bo seen that the Japanese settlers are a pindrance rather than a benefit to California. Under the circumstances , , ,1 ? ^ 4 I. 1 ? ... 4 1. ? 1 - ?1? At ivw uu inn uiuuit' uio people 01 uie State for not wanting them as residents. Wo would not want them lere. There is no comparison heween negroes and the Japs. Jealous IiOver Slays Fiancee. With their wedding but a day off Nathaniel Burton, formerly employed n the United States quartermaster's lepartment at Honolulu, ended a liiarrel with Miss Elma Snyder, his lancee, by shooting her to death and tilling himself. Jealousy caused the ragedy. * BANK OF Con wa' HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SITR COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMB ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COU CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOO] SECURITY OF DEPOSE DIREC ROBERT II. SCARBOROUGH. t\f. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AOC COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert R. Scarborough, D. President. WE CONTINUE TO PAY 5 PER CEIS THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. thursday, may 7, 1013. fKOKKSHIONAIi <AKI>? H. H. WOODlVAJtI> Attorney and Councilor At CONWAY, S. O. ?. b. etc a it into i ti le CON WAV, Is. t attorney at Um? #4. H. BIJKROIXJH? ^biairUn and Hurgooa CON WAX, 8. <J. W. Li. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. % IIKSK HAVEN EL l^ind Surveying and nrninuge Kpivey Building Conway, 8. O. Ht WURLDS BRtAllSi SEWIN6 MACHIRt k LIGHT RUNNING ^ nfwhhmc Oryoo wnntelthera VibrntlngRhuUla ttouuf nbattleor aHingloThreiid [CViatn dvt/cAl Bowing Machine write to flB ?W HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE CQMPMK Orange, Muss. Mtt>9?ewtTiff machines arc made to set! re?aivftea**A *o*my. but the New Home it made to wea* Ota guaranty neve* rtina out ? |Mt SI Authorized dealer* MNAJ *0* *AL* ? WIDOW A(XT'SKI) or MUUDKll + Mis. I.aura T. lleuter Will bo Tried at Rartlesville, Ok la. Charged with knowing the plans of the slayers of her husband, Charles Renter, one of the most promising young attorneys of Tulsa, Okla., his widow Mrs. Laura T. Reuter, will be placed on trial this month in Ilartlesville, Okla. She declares she is innocent of the charge and will establish her innocnec by the same confession through which the prosecution plans io condemn her. Guy I). (Mackenzie and Joe Baker are now serving life sentences charged with the killing of Renter. Against them the confession of Bud Bellew, a chauffeur, was used. It is assertod in his confession ho did not mention Mrs. Rueter directly. Head Hacked With Hatchet. Cleorge I. Sease, a farmer near Lorcross, (la., Thursday was found fatally injured on the farm of J. K. Knox near Duluth. Sense's head had been badly hacked with a hatchet and he died before medical attention couli bo summoned. A neg;*) employee on the farm, on who id clothing bloc 1 stains are sai 1 to have been found, has been arrested. "It has been suggested that some men are born good; some men ac nunc suuuuess, ana omers leave It to the kindly monument makers to find their virtues," says The Greenwood Journal. HORRY, f- s, c. PLUS OF ANY HANK IN HORRY I NED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF NTY. $r>o,ooo 12,500 KHOLDKILS. . .. 50,000 DORS 112,500 ;tors W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. OMMODATION WHICH THEIR ACSOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. V. Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-President Cashier. IT. 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