The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, May 25, 1916, Image 6

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I DEN WITH NTHUSI1 THRONG. F America Has Set Example of Bringing World Together Upon Terms of Liberty, Co-opera tion and Peace, Says Presi dent - Europe Would Profit By Calm Counsel. MILITIA MAKES SHOWING IN PREPAREDNESS PARADE President Says Europe Is Undergoing Stress Through Which America Has Passed and is Warring Over Prob lems Which America Has Peace. fully Solved.-Many Notable Guests In Charlotte. Charlotte. - President Wilson ad dressed approximately 100,000 people here attending the 141st anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The President lighted a beacon of hope to the war-ravaged nations of Europe and pointed them to the peaceful conquest achieved by the United States of America over the identical problems that have plunged Europe into the greatest strife the world has ever known. Address Was Brief. Though profoundly significant, the address was characteristic in its brev ity. For exactly 18 minutes Mr. Wil son spoke, and during that time tense silence save for his spoken words pre vailed throughout the cosmopolitan audience which massed about his stand. The President talked intimately, seemingly not raising his voice above a conversational pitch, to the throng which crowded closely about his stand and which rose tier on tier on the large grandstand across the street. President Views Parade. The President's address was enthu sistically applauded by a crowd gath ered from several states to celebrate the one hundred and forty-first anni versary of the signing of the Mecklen. burg Declaration of Independence. Before speaking he reviewed a long military and industrial "preparedness" parade, and afterwards he was the guest of honor at a large lunch and went by automobile to Davidson Col lege, 20 miles away, where he once was a student. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson. Secretary Daniels Secretary Tumulty, Dr. Cary T. Gray. son, his naval aide, Senator Overman and Representative Webb. The re ception committee included Governors Craig of North Carolina and Manning of South Carolina. and Mayor Kirk patrick of Charlotte. A Great Day. It was a cordial crowd that had stood in line for hours waiting to hear the voice and look upon the face of the Nation's Chief Magistrate and Mrs. Wilson. It was an eager multitude that populated the line of the parade for dozens of blocks and cheeted the President with hearty unanimity. And it was a happy crowd that helped Charlotte celebrate May Twentieth, 1916, in a fashion that sends the day down into the annals of the city as one of thc most nota ble in the history of the state. With Precision. With marvelous precision the pro gram of the (lay was observed. Not an incidlent marred the general en joyment. A parade whir-h in variety and quality has rarely been equaled here was reviewed by the presidential party, and President Wilson-the master attr-action of the entire event ---was seen by countless thousands, and heard by many. Veterans Give Souvenir. The first incident of interest at the stand wvas the appearance of Meck lenburg Camp United Confederate Veterans, who came marching up, each lifting his hat as he passed by the stand. A huzza from the grand stand announced their coming, a -glance revealed the cause and in a moment the President and Mrs. Wil son were on their feet, the former with uncovered head and an expan sive smile. The audience arose that portion which was seated-amid cheers which grew in volume as Com mander W. B. Taylor stopped in front of the stand and handed to Pres ident Wilson a huge hornets' nest. The President smiled broadly as he accepted the tendered token. During this time the Marine Band played "The Star Spangled Banner." "The Watch on the Rhino" and "Dixie," amid great cheering. ulear and strong :'ang the martial note of the parade. There were the GOVENOR R. I. MANNING IS HONOR GUEST AT CHARLOTTE Charlotte. - Governor Richard L. Manning of South Carolina was ac corded an ovation wherever ho ap peared. A deputation from Gover or Craig's staff, headed by Lieutengit Hudson C, Millar, who was deeighi%6e2 as Governor' Manning's' persongA .14e while he ,waf in the city; ad a 0 Twentieth pta. edb, b~~a1 Aont, sm BYAT OM SEVERAL -STATE1 khak!iclad boys and men, on whom th Nation will first call 'n case of nee( In Mexico or elsewhere, many hun dred strong. There were the Rich mond Greys in uniform. There wer4 the veterans-Carolinians and Virgin fans-who were like ambassador bearing messages of the past. Afte the veterans had been cheered camq a delegation of 100 students fron Davidson College. Then followed i great procession of industrial floats. Exercises Begin. When the parade had ended Mr Heriot Clarkson motioned the, crowd to stillness and asked Rev. Dr. A. A McGeachy of make the invocation At the conclusion of the eloqueni prayer Mr. Clarkson presented Hon. T L. Kirkpatrick, Mayor of Charlotte who spoke briefly of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and its birthplace and welcomed the disting. uished guests and host of visitors tc the home of the Hornet's nest. Craig Presents President. Governor Craig's presentation of President Woodrow Wilson was brief and clever. He said: "My fellow-citizens of the State, I wish to assure our honored guest to day that he has never come to a state, AiRS. WOODROW WILSON. or spoken to a people more loyal i him and the great work he has dor and the great cause for which b stands than this. I have the hono my fellow countrymen of North Car( lina and South Carolina and the ro gion round about to present you to th President of the United States!" The effect was instantaneous. In moment every man and woman wa on his or her feet. cheering wildla The grandstand was an animate spectacle of waving handkerchief and hats. The suppressed enthus asm of, the audience, touched off b the greatness of the moment, burt its bonds and for nearly .a . minut Charlotte let Mr. Wilson know thr she was glad he was here, but whe the President opened his mouth t speak, a great stillness descended. President Wilson 8peaks. Mr. Wilson said: "Your Excellency, ladles and genti men: "It is with unaffected pleasure the I find myself in the presence of thi interesting company today, f or I has come back for a visit all too brief I a region very familiar to my hear and the greeting of whose peoplej peculiarly welcome to me. "I do not know; my fellow citizen whether I can interpret for you toda the spirit of this occasion, but it. necessary when we get together I celebirations like this to take couns< together with regard to just what is that we wish to celebrate. Ye will say we wish to celebrate the men ornes of that time to which we loo back with such pride, when our fatl era with singular wisdom of couns< and stoutness of heart undertook i set up an independenrt nation on thi side of the water; but It io very muc more importan that we should remin ourselves of the elements with whic our forefathers dealt. There were on1 three million citizens In .that origina republic of the United States of Ame ica. Now: there are one hundred mi lions. It is a long cry back to thee modest beginnings; a great period < time not only, but a great period < profound change, separates us froi that time, and yet I would remind ye that the same elements whidh wei present then that are present now. "What interests my thoughts moj than anything else about the Unite tion to meet Governor Maining an1 his staff and escorted them' to tE Centrai hotel, which was headquartei for thie South Carolina governor an1 his stiaff during their stay i Ch~rlotl ad which wras distisiguished by tE bresence of the South* r arolies stal f1ag 'on the front of the b~uiilng~ whi pennan*1 emblasonedI with the pa me~tto, South (parottaa's embleMn ri pled ,in th9 br'eeze fromn the sedot1 headed tb n whte PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON -States is that It. has always been Ir process of being made ever since that little beginning and that there have always been the same elements In the process. At -the outset there was at the heart of the men who led the movement for Independence a very high and handsome passion for human liberty and free Institutions. And yet there lay before them a great conti nent which it was necessary to sub due -to the uses of civilization if they were going -to build upon It a great state among the family of nations. I heard a preacher once point out the very Interesting circumstance that our Lord's prayer begins with the petition of 'our daily bread,' from which he drew the inference that it Is very diffl cult to worship God on an empty stom ach and that the material foundations of our life are the first foundations. What I want to call your attention to to that this country ever since that time has devoted practically all of Its at. tention to the material foundations of Its life; to subduing this continent to the uses of the nation and to the build. Ing up of a great body of wealth and material power. I find some men whc when they think of America do not think of anything else but that. But, my friends, there have been other na& tions just as rich and just as power, ful In comparison with the other na. Stions of the world as the United StateE is, and it Is a great deal more Impor we are going to do wi'th our powel than that we should possess It. Origin of America. "You must remember, therefore the elements wl~th which we are deal Ing. Sometimes those of us who wer born in this part of the country pei suade ourselves that this Is the chai * acteristic part -of America. Here mor e than anywhere else has been presera e ed a great part of the original stoc .which settled this country, particulati ly that portion of the stock whic 3- came from the British Isles (I at e not meaning to exclude Ireland.) An then I find a great many of my friend a who live In Nerw England Imaginin, s that the history of this country I ..mrlytehitr o h xano blo e nlnadta lmu Stts Rcis tat thafoundatyo beenu ir prsitoe. of ban matt eer sinc tfai ylftllow-egtnnenganowevertmtrtifyhng process. t the orutos therica a te h oe t of the menuth, led ithd ,m ovecmet o newEanden. aThr hgand chaactersompao Amercuai librty and freennstitutni And e o thattre eoeouaos thgrat cotb nentewcent wahs necesr ot sung. due tao the disesngufsiilizao if th aUnted amng The mosnt imos.1 eadiageacheoceontout the ai ver wint ereinen cirusta that ouisma tuot ofraer ten wthso the peitonl of dare daiy tha them whic haet drer c theneencen tht men who vey avfi clt to orshiao oinc amet wtm ache aso that thmania founationsi of charactfere the menrwh foundos Wt Republnt to callyu mteto wto ia itaotts ounodry tever vine talt t ha dfevntedenrtseindalhe all isort .oftendtions n theeil foundations o kitsoa life sbng theiscohainhad t th ere ss of thentinan otfol the buive1 ng upfied a coratedyo wleeath. and mtrapowr find ofreopueasome aren youg heind the hireko ofr pAmrinar dou no thinkdof tantheimgxtle bthat. Buts91 tin mayt as preictsdrh and ma spoe tin of th ie wold as teUnited Ater is canim t is gethea orempo t-nt th at weold youetein wha we anrter gingtoe. Amwitahasu pway tibeen thakn weshud osses mad,a Ofwiew wrigin h Amida. -th " pouesst ppremember, thereforn cisg. Somtis toeof whoi wr bon inthar of soadtecatountr pfei - sunte ourselve tt thiheghcm hi graceiti atryt of AEurpa. Her mor e tanms an yohers atioben prn th e eod abgeatcart onvotved oina tme dwhc soettled Mahinsn cond'yh, parta - wer thate port ofro the ote whi s aeo the auBinahrthIses govern e hnor. maiTe entrance Irean.) Aeno e MnnIind adghreatany tof mhe frend a who lie signa Nor Eandpresindn s othatteio. f hsconr !. meryth hing'so rthne edpasial >.e of NewEland, an. Laothat Plr~you Sockliesvatnthe foundatio of o1urbi n- Ctotution. A Dua materof fact mure y fellwtes, hl.e mort(sifying1 I n. Inraeristi pAt of Amia,. ol o nte fin theA Midl St.a:tes ofNet ments in the strugge? T0YQ9449.Q that in this European war'ti fiV9vo4 the very thing that has b'efn -gopg on in America? It is a competitiona of national standar48, of national tradi tions, and ot natidnal politics-politl cal sysotern. - Europe has grappled in war as we -hare grpppled in peace to see what'is going to be done with these things when they. come into hat contact with - One another. For do you not remember that while these processes were gofuig on in America some very interetini things were hap pening? . It was a very big world into which this nation cabe when it was born, but it is a very little world now. It used to take as nMany days to go from Washington to Charlotte in those days as it now takes hours. I heard an Irishman say if the power'of steam continued to increase in the next 50 years as it had in the last, we would get to Charlotte two hours before we left Washington. And as those pro. cesses of inter-communication have been developed and quickened, men of the same nation, not only have grown closer neighbors; but men of different nations 'have grown closer neighbors with each other; and now that we have those invisible tongues that speak by the wireless through the trackless air to tWe ends of the world, every man can make every other man In the world his neighbor and speak to him upon the moment. While those pro cesses of fermentation and travail were going on, men were learning about each other, nations were becom ing more and more acqttainted with each other, nations were more and more becoming inter-related and inter communication was being quickened in every possible way,. so that now the .melting pot is bigger. than Amer. ica. It is as big as the world. And what you see taking place on the oth er side of the water is tremendous I had about said final process by wheih a contest of elements may. in God's process be turned into a co-ordi nation and co-operation of elements. - Processes of War Stand Still. "For it is an interesting circum stance that the processses of the war stand still. These hot things that are in contact with each other do not make very much progress against each other. When you cannot over come, you must take counsel. See then, ladies and gentlemen, what a new age we have come into. I should think that it would quicken the imag ination of every man and quicken the patriotisim of every man who cared for America. Here in America we have tried to set the example of bring. ing all the world together upon terms of liberty and c-operation and peace and in that great experie'nce that we have been going - through Americe has been a sort of prophetic sample of mankind. Now the world outside of America has feilt the forces o: America; felt the forces of freedom the forces of common aspiration, the forces that bring every man and ever) nation face to face with this question "What are you going to do with youi power? Are you going to translatt It into force, or are you going to trans late it into peace and the salvation o society'? Does it not interest you Sthat America has run before the res of the world in making trial of thiu great human experiment, and is it no the sign and dawn of a new age tha the- one thing upon which the world ii now about to fall back is the mora judgment of mankind, (Applause) There is no finer sentence in the his tory of great nations 'than that sen tence which occurs in th~e Declaratioi of Independence (I am now referrinj to the minor declaration of Phila~del phia, not to the Mecklenburg Decla 4ration) in which Mr. Jefferson said, ') decent respect for the opinion of man kind makes it necessary'-and I an S tnot now quoting the words exactly 'that we should state the grounds upol a whi we have taken the importan Sstep now asserting our independence. 'A decent respect for the opinion o: Smankind'--it is as if Jefferson knev that this was the way it) which man kind itsel-f was to struggle to realizi its aspirations and that, standing ir the presence of mank-ind, this littl4 Sgroup of three million people, should say, 'Friends and fello'w-cititens o; the great moral world, our reason foi sdoing this .thing we now Intend t< state to you in candid and completi .terms, so that you wil.i never thin1 tthat we were merely throwing off s yoke out of impatience, but know thai we were 'throwing off 'this thing in or der that a great world of liberty should be open to man through our instrumen tality.' Voce of Humanity. "I would like, therefore, to thin11 ri that the spirit of this occasion could be expressed if we imagined ourselvee lifting some sacred emblem of coun jsel and of peace, of accommodatiori -and righteous judgment, before the na tions of the world and reminding theni a of that passage In Scripture, 'After I the wind, after .the earthquake, after the fire, 'the still small !oice of human i Col. R1. M. Cooper, Col, D. McQueen, 3 Col. L. Wright Cheathamn, Col. George r WV. flick, Col. H. T. Strange, Colonel f Iand Mrs. John B. Adger. r Many citizens of Charlotte and via. l iting notables called at~ the Central -hotel to pay their respects 'to the South Carolina .chief executive and -his party. All along -the route of f march he and lhis psrty were again the , recipients of very warm demonstre, r . tions of welcome. About the only thing the poor enjoy as much as Mle richd is, 0ov. FIRST .AbM TNIS ATI6N PREPAR.' EDNE8S MEASURE READY POR PRESIDENT't 'IGNATURE. ONLY 25 DISSENTING VOTES Provides For Rqgular Army of Over 200,000 Bicked by Federaiizod Na. tional Guard of More than 400,000. Washington.-Congress has corn. pleted its part in enactment of the first of the Administration prepar#d. ness measures, the army reorganiza. tion bill, and sent the measure up to President Wilson for his signature. The House approved with only 25 dissenting votes the conference re port on the army measure ,already accepted by the Senate. It provides for a regular army with a peace strength of more than 200,000 men, backed by a Federalized National guard of more than 400,000, and car ries many reorganizing features worked out by War Department of ficials to make the nation's fighting arm more efficient. To complete the main elements of the program of preparedness on which the iAdministration plans to spend more than a billion dollars within the next five years, Congress ;gs still to perfect and pass the naval bill, embodying the navy increases, and the fortificationh bill, which includes pro vision for most of the equipment for the increased army. Estimates vary as to the actual number of men the army will provide the maximum to be enlisted under it depending on the interpretation plac ed on some sections by War Depart ment officials. As construed by' Chair man Chamberlain of the Senate mili tary committee it provides for a reg ular establishment of 211,000 at peace strength and '236,000 at war strength with a national guard of 467,000. The peace strength of the regulars under interpretation given the House by Chairman Hay of the House military committee would. be 206,000. Besides the personnel incr.eases the measure provides for a government nitrate manufacturing plant to cost not nore than $20,000,000 for estab. lishment of a system of military train Ing camps for civilians paid for out of the Federal Treasury; for a board to investigate the. advisability of estab lishing a government munitions plant; and for vocational education in the army. Federalization of the national guard 'would be accompliohed through Federal pay and through a require ment making the guardmen subject to the orders of the President. Eighteen Republicans, five Demo crats, one Progressive and one Social 1st voted against adoption of the con terence reportj Republican Leader Mann, who believed the measure inad equate, was one of those voting in the negative. 'TERRIFIC TEXAS TORNADO - SWEEPS INTO OKLAHOMA . Three People at Kemp City, Okia.. Killed and Scores injured. Denison, Tex.-Nine persons were . killed and 38 injured at Kemp City, . Okla., eight miles east of Denison, and the town was badly damaged by a tor nado which swept a path three quart era of a mile wide and five miles long in the vicinity of Kemp. Only three small dwellings remain intact at Kemp. Twelve business houses, a two story hotel and 60 residences were demolished in Kemp City. This is the -second time in recent years that the little town of 300 inhabitants has been visited by a tornado. Merchants said that the town probably would Inot be rebuilt. Eight were killed in the town while the other victim, a child was killed in the, collapse of its father's home just across the Red River in Texas. Of the 38 persons Injured, 36 are real dents of Keipp City. Most of those injured were caught in the collapse of buildings while trying to reaoh storm cellars. The bodies of the dead in several instances were found hundreds of yards, from where their houses h~d stood. The two-yeab-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Blrinson, who were killed, was hurled 500 feet with flying debris when the Brinson real. dence was destroyed but the child suffered only minor injuries. Immediately after the storm passed emergency treatment was, given the injured( in darkness, with~ rain falling in torrents. A special train carrying 12 physicians from Denison did not reach Kemp until several hours after the tornado passed. STRATEGIC POSTS ON YERDUN FRONT SOUGHT BY ARMfes Paris.-The battle for psession of important strategic posl tfns on the Verdun front west of the Meuse River continued, with unabated severity during the past few days, The French War Office has just announced, that the Gjrmans, although repulsed in mnost of' their attempts, succeeded' in captui'ing S first line trench on Dea4 .Man Hill and gaining ground on the. slanan W6nt of he hil '0, hael GrmanL! Russtt. 00rweea tmer sunk by de man submarine. Geman aviators dropped b on Paris. General mbilizatioh of i army ordered 'and Maartial law pro claimed in northeast itely. May 23, 1915. . British advanch east of Festu.. bert and French near Notre Dame do Lorette and Neuville-St. Vaast. Russians recrossed the San in effort to outflank the Germans. Germans defeated Russian right wing. Italy declared war on Austria Hungary, Austrian patrol crossed, italian frontier and was driven back. Turks repulsed allies at Sed Bahr. Groat Britain, France and sla In joint statement, r Turkish government of r Ity for massacres of Ar May, Germans att Ypres behind a son gas. , Russian mo% compelled Mac, his wings. Furious Germ. Przemysi. Austrian artillery outposts in front of R1 Austrian vessels bombi., Ian coast towns. Turkish gunboat sunk by allied submarine. Austrian aviators bombarded many Italian towns. Germans at Monso, Kamerun, surrendered to French. May 25, 1915. Von Mackensen took six fortified villages north of Przemysl. Russians won in Opatow region. Italians crossed Austrian frontier on 67-mile front. American, steamer Nebraskan struck by torpedo or mine. Italy deelared blockade of Aus trian and Albanian coasts. Austrians sank Italian destroyer. Allies bombarded many Asia Minor coast towns. British battleship Triumph sunk in Dardanelles by German subma rine. British coalition cabinet (an nounced. May 26, 1915. British made further gains near La Basses. Germans forced passage of the San River. Italians seized various towns in the Trentino. British submarine sank Turkish gunboat close to Constantinople. Zeppelin bombarded Southend. England, and iater feli into sea. May 27, 1915. Belgians repuised two German attacks near Qixmude. Teutons forced another crossing of the San, broke through Russian ;3 lines near Stry and forced Russians back. Russians won fights on Upper Vistula and near Dniester marshes. Italian invasion of Austria con tinued; battles west of Praedil pass and at Piocken. Allies in Gallipoil carried five lines of Turkish trenches with bay onet. British auxiliary ship Princess irene blown up; 321 killed. British battleship sunk by Ger man submarine' at Dardanelles, Allied aviators bombarded Lud wigahafen and Ostend. May 28, 1915. Fierce fighting north of Arras. Russians drove Germans back across the San, but Ausfrians ad vanced fa.'her. Italians occupied 'Monte Baldo and crossed Venetian Alps. Austrians sank italian destroyer and -italians sank Austrian subma rine. Five ailied steamers sunk by Ger man submal-nes. *~ SOME INTERESTING FACTS Malaria Is spread by a specli mos8 quito. Filngers, flies and fo yedt phold fever.fo pra ~ Frortyelght diffiert materials are~ used ip Thq'eonatruLon of a pigno, ~, whioh cone fror nao fewei- than 1$ 9, ( ijveh day the River Tardnes scoop~ 1,609,tons of ftrth ,from its banika *A .full-grown elephant yiel'ds 1ROQ ootipds of iorw .