Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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STATE HOSPTAL NEARS_CAPACITY NUMBERS OF INMATES HAS gTEADILY INCREASED.-MAY HAVE SOLDIERS. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of South Carolina People, Gathered Around the State Capital, Columbia. At the quarterly meetiiig of the board of regents of the Staate los pital for the Insane, a report way made by the superintendent, Dr. C, Fred Williams, stating that there were now 2,156 inmates in the insti tutlon, that it was rapidly approach ing its capacity and that temporary provision would soon have to be made for the overflow. The history of thc institution for the past ten years has been one of steady increase in the number of inmates cared for and the facilities have not always grown ir proportion. Dr. Williams also reported that he - had been notified by Surgeon Genera Gorgas of Washington that the insti tution would probably be called on t< provw- quarters for a large numbe1 of the mentally sick of the army ani navy stationed in South Carolina The United States government wil provide funds for those who are thui cared for, and if the numbers are suf ficiently large temporary building may be erected for them. The can tonment in Columbia is expected t< be the source of most of the afflictec If any such tier tare ,which will be sent to the hospital. The board passed on the purchase of supplies for the next quarter. I found that prices for necessaries art abnormally high and expect to' ex perience difficulty in maintaining ai efficient plant on the present pros pective income. This was especially true of foodstuffs, and it is a difficul task to get an adequate supply at and cost. The members present were: R. 1B Scarborough, Conway, chairman; S E. Baker of Sumter, B. W. Seegers o Lexington and Christie Benet of Ca lumbia. J. E. Sirrie of Greenville telegraphed that he would be unabl to attend. He is at present engage as ehigineer at Camp Sevier, Greer vile, making it ready for the Natioi al Ouardsmen of North and Sout1 Carolina and Tennessee. Boards Fix Exemption Plane. The Eastsrn and Western Distric * exemption boards met in the office o the governor. The rules and regulr tions governing the selective drat " were read and interpreted and ger eral provisions that should goveri their actions in reference to exemi tions were agreed upon. Offices of the Eastern Distric board are located in the Union NE tional Bank, with the secretary, V A. Stuckey, in charge. The officer will be kept open daily and all corres pondence will receive prompt atter tion. A. M. Deal of Qolumbia is ai dristant to Mr;. Stuckey and the offic - will be in his charge should M1 Stuckoy be absent. The offices of these two distric boards have proper filing cases an all appeals will be docketed in th order in which they are reecived. The local boards will certify ast what disposition was made of ever man thlat was called to service all tl-e record of every man thlus calle will be filed in the district offic< * ~ These offees may be inspected by thi government and this will give con * plete records and information desire< Miii Schools Progress. - George D. Brown, Jr., state supe intendent of mill schools, returnled I Columbia from the Piedmont. Wil in thle ulpper sectionl of the state M Brown visited Enorce., where a nIo building to cost $18,000 is in procet y of construction. Two other building are being erected for the mill cor munities at Easley andl Liberty. special tax is also being adlvocated f< the Piedmont Manufacturing Cot pany's school. At Peizer an educ tional rally was held to enact compt sory school attendance. Anothi -meeting was held there, with the san & objective. Mr. Brown is confident ti mrovement will succeed. Four adi tional teachers have been employ4 for thlis school, making a faculty -14 members. Capt. Ellison A. Smyth president of the mill and has alwa; been an ardent advocate of compt sory school attendance and betti school facilities. New Enterprises Authorized. A charter was issued for the Bar well Saw Mill Company of Ellento * Aiken county. A charter was granted to the A drews Gin Company of Andrew -Georgetown county. A commission was issued to Spre Brothers & Company of FIorenIc The pron~osed capital stock of th new wholesale grocery concern is t be $50,000. A commission was isued to t1 Goodyear Shoe Company of Sparta bunn Fair P 'emium Lists Malted. Five thousand premium lists are be ing mailed out for the State Fat' which will be held October 22-2t Eigteen thousand, eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars will be offered at this fair in premiums and purses. Work has been in progress some time getting the buildings repaired and in condition for the fair. While no arrangements have been made for an amusement company a fair officer says the public can rest as sured that the best i ie obtainable will be secured. The big midway shows generally start out the latter part of the summer from New York city and work southward, reaching Columbia) in ample time for the fair. The fair managers are planning to make the 49th annual fair the great. est ever staged in this common wealth. Everything thus far pointe t, a successful fair in every respect. The entire state is producing the most bountiful crops in many years. and the agricultural exhibits should be extensive. The live stock and cattle industries have received such an impetus of late that they, too, should parallel the splendid agricul tural exhibits. The crowds, it is thought, will he the largest in the history of any fair ever held in South Carolina, which is attributed to the wave of prosperity that is now sweeping over the state. which will be surging in these parts at that time, owing to the influx of soldiers at Camp Jackson. Skilled Officer For University. Colonel Henry C. Davis, U. S. A., I retire dof Ridgeway has acceptde an appointment as professor of military science and tactics at the University of South Carolina and is to be in charge of the reserve officers' train ing corps which is to be establish-ed there during the coming year, in ac cord with the act of congress of June 3, 1916, providing for such corps in civil institutions to qualify trained and educated men for the new arm ies. Colonel I)avis is a native of this state, of a family well known in South Carolina, is a \Vest Point graduate. and has had a wide and varied ex perience in the coast artillery and in fantry branches of the service. IIc was retired for physical disability September 9, 1916. The reserve officers' training corp' is established at the university in ne cord with General Orders No. 49, is sued by the war department, Septem her 20, 1916. The puripse of such corps, as there stated, is to qualify by systematic and standard methods of training, students at civil institu tions for reserve officers. The system .of instruction presecrihed i:"esents to these students a standardized measure of that military training which is l necessary in order to prepare them to perform intelligently the duties of commissioned officers in the military i forces of the United States, and en ables them to be trained with the least practicable interference with their civil careers. f Public to Know Exemption Calls. An appeal has been made by Pro t vost Marshal General Crowder to en - list the public interest in co-operating t with local boards to prevent unjusti fiable exemption. "Every person in the community is more or less direct ly interested in seeing that the true .facts are brought to the attention of ,the government," and "the public is i entitled to know the grounds upon .which claims for.exemption or dis .charge are being asked." The local .boards are urged to publish the names Sand the reasons for asking exemption from day to day. The telegram reads: t"The names of all r-egistered men are on a list arranged in the order in~ which they will be called for military service. Wherever any registered per' son imp~oses upon a local board and Simproperly secures a certificate of ex d mption or dlischarge he advances the dtime of call of all other uncalled per sons on the list; for this reason every Sregistered~ person, and to some extent ~every person in the community is more or less indirectly interested in seeing that the true facts are brought to the attention of the government. P'or every local board a person will be - designated who will receive informa 0 tion of such cases ' d take appeals tc a3 the district board o* inform the local . board. For this reason, the public is vJ entitled to know the grounds upon s which cla'ima for exemption or dis s charge are being aske(d by register'ell - ten. Local hoards should, therefore, A oc instructed immediately to make r available to the press from (lay to day i- the names of persons claiming exemp - tion or dlischarges, the ground or .1- which such claims are based. dO Contract For License Tags. LP Contracts have al-'eady been let b3 i- the state highway commission for au '1 timobile license teegs for the ensuini f year. The successful bidder is thi s National Colortype Company of New a5 port, Ky. The contract calls for 40, -i 000 tags, with the provision to ini r crease to 50,000, should demandi justify. Charities Bulletin Issued. 1- The State Board of Charities ani . Corrections has just issued its quar terly bulletin. Of special interest i1 1- this issue is an article on "How Count: A. Jails, Chaingangs and Almshouse: Measure Up to Our Standards." Th< t county jails receiving highest and lois . est scores on second inspection on per is manent plant were Chester, 365, and o Saluda, 172; on management, .Green yille, 384; Dorchester, 180; equipmeni A etc., Greenville, 114; Leg, 54. Thi - total score6: Greenville, 830J; Chestei 765. Santanbun, 72; Richland. '722. LIEUT. GEN. KORNILOFF w... V S I ' I Lieut. Gen. L. G. Korniloff is the' leader of the Russian army that mu tinied and fled in Galicia. COMMISSION MAKES REPORT NEWEST OF DEMOCRACIES IS GAINING IN PURPOSE BUT NEEDS HELP. Root Renorts to Wilson.-Says Russia Can Be Depended On to Do Her Part.-Our Encouragement is Abso lutely Essential. Vashington.-Russia. newest of de mocracies, grows stronger of heart and purpose daily and with aid from the United States, can be depended upon to do her part in, the great war and emerge a powerful state. This was the message brought to Pre.al dent Vilsoi and Secretary Laansing i by Ellihu Root and his fellow mem bors of the American mission sent to Russia three months ago. Unqualified encouragement from the United States, moral and finan cial when necessary, is absolutely es sential to keeping life in the new gov ernment, the commissioners agreed. A separate peace with Germany ob viously is their gravest fear. Left to fight along with her present govern ment in control the President was told, Russia will emerge triumphant and strong but if either by great masses of troops or clever propa ganda, Germany should accomplish the overthrow of the Kerensky gov ernment the outlook would be dark indeed. Only one written report, it is under stood, ,was submitted to Secretary Lansing. It was not made public and may not be. From high sources, it is known, ,however, that the commis sion was agreed on virtually all es. sentials. There may have been dif ferences of op~inion as to the best methods for obtaining results but the opinion of present conditions and high hopes for the future was unanimous. None was stronger in his convic tion that there is the greatest hope for Russia than Mr. Root himself. Though conservative by virtue of long diplomatic andl political experience it was with difficulty that he suppressed his enthusiasm. Other members of the party who share his optimism and discussed their views were Charles Edward Russell, a formrer Socialist. James Duncan, a labor leader, and Major Stanley Washburn, a man or long experiee in Russian affair-s. IThe latter two were agreed that one great need of Russin is publicity re garding America's intention in the GREAESTCROP OF CORN EVER GROWN IN U. S. Washington.-A corn crop sur-pas sing any ever grown before; a reduc tion in wheat prospects, due to dom age to the spring wheat crop, and re cord rops of barley, rye, white and sweet potatoes, tobacco and hay wer-e forecast in the August crop report of the department of agriculture. Corn production was placed at 3, 197.000.000 bushels, an increase of 67, 000,000 bushels over tho July fore. -cast and 68,000,000 bushels above- the record crop of 1912. The showing is due to vast improvement in the growv ing corn in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri. Potatoes are expected to yield 467, 000,000 bushels, or 15,000,000 bush els more than forecast from July con ditions and 47,000,000 bushels inore fthan the rec~ord crop of 1912. Sweet potatoes. ji - "'1l be a record witi -86,400,000 bushela. There will be an onormous crop oi tobacco, almost .129,000,000 poundi larger tihan the record production oj last year, The buckwheat crop will be the largest in many years, and oatt will come close to equaling the rec ard made in 1915. EASURE PROVIDES SOlDIER INSURANCE GROGRAM VARIES VERY LITTLE FROM OUTLINES PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED. $15.00 FAMILY ALLOTMENT ioldiers, Sailors and hiarines Will Be Allowed Insurance on Their Lives During War in Sums of $1, 000 to $10,000 at 8 Per Thousand. WVashingtor,.--The admainistration's (rogramj for insuring soldiers, sailors LMnd marines wast plac ed before Cont ress In ident ihal bills introduced by Senator Sim mons and Representa Live Alexander. ('oimmitteg hearings will bo held sooin and the measu. e probably taken UI) 115 soon aS the war tax bill has be.n disposed of. In its general feature the insurance program varies but little from pre viously aln nonneted outlines, the chief innovation being the propol)5UI to com pel men and ofIii'ers to allot a mini mum of $15 a month out of their pay to dependent wives and children. The bill proposes to vest in the war and navy departments authority to com pel such payments. Authority also is proposed to compel the men to be insured to deposit ,at four per cent interest, with the government and at the discretion of the war and navy departments so much of their pay a is represented by the difference be tween the $15 family allotment and half their regular pay Provision is mirade for the paymen of government. allowances to fanilie: of men in the armed fort 's. The pro posed allowances vary between $5 am $50 monthly, according to the circun stances of the depeldents and wouh be in addition to the sum allotte' under the compulsory allotment fee ture of the bill. Indemnities for partial and tota disability would vary from a minimut of $40 a month for privates up t $200 for higher officers. The edt cation of injured men in vocat ton by which they could earn a livel hood also is provided for. Under the bill, soldiers, sailors an marines would be enabled to obtat insurance on their lives during th war in sums from $1.000 to $10,00 the government taking the risk at the men paying the premiums. TI rate would be approximately $8 p $1,000 of insurance and the premiut would be payable by installments o of pay. ENTIRE LEGAL STAFF OF FLEET BOARD QUil In Sympathy for Goetha Is-New Heac to Choose Associates. Washington.-The entire legal sta of the mergency fleet corporation ha quit in a body because of sympathi I tis said, with Major General Goetl ala, whose resignation as genera manager of the corporation was al copted recently by President Wilso1 On the staff are some of the coul try's best known laivyers. They ar George Rublee. a former member< the federal trade commission; Josep P. Cotton; George HI. Savage arl Charles P. Rowland of New York an Edward B. Blurling of Chicago. A except Mr. Savage were serving wit1 out pay. ago, but their action became knowu only today. Officials of the fleet cc poration admitted that they had let but refused to offer an explanation. was learned the lawyers felt the shoul go out with General Goetha and that. Rear Admiral ('appe shoul be left free to choose his owvn ass edates. The staff has held on sin< General Goethlals left, it is unde stood1, only hecause its members d sired to give the new mnanagemnent n the information they couild concer tng legal onestlins conaidered b~y tI old organizationi. When the places of the attorne' are filled and one more membier named for th~ shIpping heard i reorganization of the board and tl corporat ion wtill have been comle~lte CLEVELAND'S WAR MARKET FAR UNDERSELL~S GROCEFi Cleveland. 0.-Cleveland's first w market opened in East Cleveland. Blu ing began early when the first farm hacked his wagon uip to the curb ai offered produce fro mhis farm at hitt miore than half the price charged city markets. In the first two hou of -the producer-to-thie-conisumer e periment more than 500 worn bought all the produce offered by se eral farmers. FOUGHT THREE GERMAN I PLANES AND FEL Paris.-Among the citations in tl army orders printed in the Offici Journal is that of Sorgeant Rona Iloskier, of New York, a member the l afayet-te escadrille, who was ki ed by a German aviator in an aeri Ieuncouinter over St. Quentin April Sof th'is year. The citation read I"Sergeant lioskier was remarkal for his courage and spirit of sacrifi .He fell after a heroic defense agaitx three enemies " YOUNG RULER OF GREECE wI s '"r '. J New portrait of Alexander ,the new ruler of Greece, who succeeded his father Constantine. SOON TO MOBILIZE BIG ABMY WILL CALL UNDER ARMS ABOUT 75,000 SOLDIERS NOW WAIT ING FOR ORDERS. Third Element of Army Composed of 500,000 Men.-Assigning Drafted Men.-District Quotas May Be Call ed as Needed. Washington.-Provost \larshal Gen oral Crowdor is at work on the finatl set of regulations to be pronulgated within a few days to complete the or ganization of the selective draft war army. They will govern actual moh ilization of the men selected. l'relim inary figures issued by the war depart ment place the total force of national guard taken into the federal service i August 5, at 13,093 officers and 419,834 men. Another statement showed IR0. or 766 war volunteers have been recruit ed for the regular service since Apri 1, leaving about 2,000 vacancies in tht regulars at war strength. These figures mean that approxi mately 725,000 men are now under s arms, exclusive of the navy and ma rine corps, to be supplemented with Is in the next few weeks by 687,000 rais. ed under the draft bill. Of the lat. ter about 500,000 will compose the third element of the war army, the new national army and the remaining Swill go to filll up the regulars and "the guard and their reserves. The mobilization regulations will Sshow how the drafted men are to be assigned. Already the war depart e runt has received countless applica 0tions from men certain to be enlled in h he first increment of the draft forces d for assignment to some particular d arm or branch of the service. It is dplrobable that some effort will be made to meet the wvishes of the drafted men Sn this regard as far as possible when 'hey are mobilized. It can only be d (one to a limited extent as the regu. a lars and guard are practically filled uip now. The wvar deplartment has tak 'en over recruiting for the national tguardl as well ant the regulars, the en fir gurdnow ha'!ng no coninection wihtestat nt. Tcoday's statIement dsays that alho:: t B.' nmen a pplyinig for enlistment m ~ within the draft ages. -PRESIDENT WILSON TURNS 11ATTENTION TO V/AR PRICES. n Washington. - Pres iden t Wils9on rs turned hiis attention to t he subhject of is wvar pri(ces anid paid a piersonialI visit 10 to thle federal triade comiissioni to ie urge expedlition of inivest igaitions to d.I ascertain the cost of produtc ig mator lals require-I by the governmenut. At the President's dlirect ion t he comilis :8 sioni has undi~ertaken inqiies to de termine piroduict ion costs ona most of the basic 51upp)lies nee'ded for war urises, including coal, eoke, steel, iron, y- petroleum, tini, aluminum, wire, zInc, ar copper, lead, cement, lumber and their id deliveries. le Announcement of a deflnite policy at respecting war purchases and prices rs probably will be made soon. Admin X- istration officials generally already in 'have rather clearly defined ideas as tc V- the course the government will pur sue'. OKLAHOMANS WILLING L'TO SERVE AS SOLDIERS to Oklahoma Cit y, Okla.--Conidencel al that a major-ity of the residents o id central Oklahoma are loyal to thi of United States and willing to do mill ll- tary service despIte organized resia al tance to the draft on the part of I 4 few was expressed by Governor Wi] s: hiams, in commentIng on the fact thia >1e normal conditions virtually have beet -.e. restored in the counties where three eot men have been killed In the efforts 0 posnes to quell draft opposition. RULES FOR CALLING ; BIG ARMY TO COLORS CROWDER ISSUES ORDERS FOR DRAFTED MEN TO ASSEMBLE SEPTEMBER FIRST. ED BE IN CAMP SEPTEMBE 5 Local Boards to Make Out Lists of Men and Orders Will Be Mailed to Them.-Start Training Here and Finish in France. a WYashington. - Jtegulations under wvhich men of the new national army will be called to the colors, begin wing September 1, were issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder. Two hundred thousand of the first G87,000 men will be called September 1 and forwarded to their camps be fore September 5. The whole busi ness of assembling the levies at cn taming points, ,providing them with shelter, food and transportation and giving them their actual induction into military life is entrusted to the civil ian local boards which selected them for service. Until the men reach the camps, they will not be in contact with uniformed officers. The civilian control is carried forward through every stage of the draft to the very gates of the military camps where the making of soldiers will begin, to be completed within sound of the guns in France. The actual call for men will go in each case from the provost marshal general to the state adjutant general, stating the number of men to be sup plied at a specified time by the state. Each local board will be promptly informed of its proportion in the call, ,and the adjutant general will fix the dates when men from his state shall entrain for the camps. Immediately the local board will mnahe out the list of men to till the call. fix the place of entrainment and time of depart ure. Orders to the men will be posted and also be sent them by mail. They will be directed to report to the local board at. its headquarters not less than twelve hours or anore than twcn ty-four hours before the time of de parture. Prior to the arrival of the men at the board headquarters members are instructed to make arrangements for their accommodations, to find clean and sanitary sleeping places at hotels or lodging houses, to arrnage for their meals and to provide lodging and meal tickets to be taken in payment and redeemed for cash later by a government disbursing officer. In its - discretion, the boards may grant per mission for the men to remain at their homes. Arrived at the board headquarters at the hour fixed, the men will he drawn up, the roll called and agents of the board will take them personally to their quarters remaining with them until every arrangement for thleir comfort has been made. Em phlatic instructions are givenl thlat the quality of food furnished shall be good and the board is held liable for seeing that meals are adequate. Retreat roll call at tihe board head quarters, set for 5:30 p. m. on the (lay of reporting to tile board, will be 'tile first nililtary ceremony tile drafted men pass' through. The board mom hers are directed to be present in person and to inform the men of their military status, impressing oni them the fact that disobedience of orders Is the gravest military crime. For cach district, five alternates will b~e summoned to the hoard headquar I ers in addit ion to tihe men actually selelctedl to fill the board quota. They~ wvililibe held at the assembling point until train time to 1111 in vacancies should any of the men fail to report. FExcept for retreat roll call, tile, menC wvill be given town liberty until fortyv-fl ve minutes before train time. Th'le board wvill dlurlig this nt erva& select one 1man1 from the levy who it dIeemls best ualified to command andl lace( himn ini charge of the party for its trip, lie will name a secondl In commndl~ to aid him11 and tile other mien will be told that tihe orders of these two must be obeyed uner pain of military discipline. The man in charge of thle p~art y will call the roll at the board headquar ters just beforb train) time. lie will then line0 up the draft and. accom ianied b~y thme board members. march them to the station to entrain. There, final verification of tile list will 1)e made, and if any man of the selected number is missing, an alta~r nate will be0 sent forwarat in ihis place. Thie tickets, with meal tickets, all pa pers relating to the party, including the copies of regIstration cardls, wvili be turned over to the man in comn manld, and the party will start for its training camp. It will be the duty of the com mander of each party to watch over is men during the trip, to see thlat none are left behind at alny station, state all are fed regularly and that no liquor is furnisned to them en route. When within six hours of tihe camp, - -le will file a telegram to the camp -adjutant general notifying him of the time of arrival. Immediately u~pon -the departure of the train, the local t board will send a similar message. lAfter the departure of the levy for camp, the local boards will turn toq I gathering up the stragglers who will1 be "opnrted to the adjutant geenral.