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W VOL. 35." * KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14. 1919 " NO 23
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' CAMPAIGN MEETING
HERE YESTERDAY
ALL CANDIDATES PRESENT f
AND GREETED BY GOOD
CROWD?WELL RECEIVED
The opening campaign meeting
of candidates for congress from the h
Sixth district was held here yester- q
day at 11 o'clock. A fairly representative
crowd greeted the candidates 0
and a most respectful hearing ac- c
corded each of them applause be- b
ing also liberal. b
All of the men in the race were C;
present and spoke in the following I'
order: J J. Evans, Bennettsville;
J. W. LeGrande, Bennettsville; Ju- "
lins s Mdnness. Da^ffhgton; E. J. b
Sherwooc, Horry; YV. F. Stack- y
house, Marion. u
Each of the gentlemen paid fit- v
ting tribute to Mr. Ragsdale, whose e
sudden death caused the vacancy
in congress from this district which w
thev now seek. n
M. J. J. Evans P
In opening his address Mr. Evans
wanted it understood that he is not *
the Evans who opposed Mr. Rags- *(
dale in the congressional campaign s
three years ago. This impression s
had gone out in the district he said. s
Mr. Evans gave a brief sketch of
his life; he had served his country 2
| as a representative in the legisia- s
ture and as a member of the State > ?
Senate; he is in favor of government
aid for drainage of our low, ?
swamp lands, he is opposed to foreign
immigration and would close the
gates of Castle Garden on all bum
throwers anarchists and agitators: *'
he b rieves that Bolshevikism it the 0
offsp ;ng of ignorance and thinks
government should aid in the *'
educational work of the country by
the appropriation of money for the Jl
purpose. The speaker was listened n
to with undivided interest and was ?
applauded when he concluded his j
remarks. It was his first appearance
in Kings-tree. "
Mr. J. W. LeGrande
This gentleman was not a Strang- *!
er in Kingstree, having spoke here ^
* * r\f nryc ^
iast summer m me wki?? ,
%. of the war drives and made a very a
favorable impression which he plain- ?!
ly upheld yesterday. In giving a
brief review of his life he said that .
he was born in Richmond county.
N. C. March 24, 1875, attended
f""" country schools and worked way
through Wake Forest College, mar- ^
iried a South Carolina lady and set- p
tied in state; was elected to legis- .
iature n 1914, could have been re- *
elected but war broke out and he
felt it a duty to engage in service
of his country; had never before .
asked the peoples votes outside of
his own county. He realized that ,
there were big problems to be met fj
and considered by the congress and *
cited tlxat of "Die high cost of living
that is now before the national ?
bodies. Such problems need the ser- 2
vices of capable men. Referring to
profiteering in food, he did not be- ,
lieve in merely fining the guilty *
parties, but would send them to
the penitentiary. He is in favor of
restricted immigration, and stands
for Americanism pure and unadul- terated,
and will always work for
the uplift of American manhood.
This speaker, as did each of the
others touch upon the cotton situation
and expressed himself as in ^
favor of legislation that will be of "
benefit to cotton raisers.
Julius S. Mclnnes .
This candidate was not a "strang-.
er in a strange land." He spoke here;
from the congressional stump in j
\ 1916 when he was opposing Messrs.
t Ragsdale and Evans. He appreciates ,
the flattering vote received in the
county at that time and is grateful
for the same. Mr. Mclnnes talked ?
about immigration, and favors its restriction
for a .period 6f four or five '
years, until America gets her bearings
straight; would study the cot- ^
ton market and growing conditions j
and would urge the financing by p
the federal government of bankrupt ^
nations so that they would be in C]
position to buy our cotton. He said
he had never made a promise from!
the stump and never would, but1
would ask Woodrow Wilson, the | H
greatest living American to take ! k:
him by the hand and lead him ac- \ n
cording to his own ideals if he were le
sent to congress. i r<
Mr. E. J. Sherwood li
Was a lawyer like all the rest of tl
the hunch; he had always received tl
a retainer, but in this, the biggest si
case he had ever gotten into, he had o]
had to pay a retainers fee of 250 ri
bucks. He spoke in a happy vain,. f<
told where and when he was born t<
etc., and complimented Williams- U
burg's candidate, Major P. H. Stoll, g
said his old county had done all it s<
could for him by permitting him to w
be born in the Little Rock communi- jr
ty. He told the fish story of the
tJew and Gentile whereby, according
to the Jew, the Gentile got what he
wanted?the litle fish. He told his h
hearers to give Stoll some fish, but P
to give him the little fish. He was li
educated at Wake Forest and had P
been in college with LeGrande; was it
38 yjars old and big and tall enough b
to reach any federal plum 'that a
might hang over the Sixth district, h
He was applauded. , ii
Mr. W. F. Stackhouse a
After paying a high tribute to tl
his former friend apd boyhood com- j ii
pani >n J. W. Ragsdale, Mr. Stack- o
house stated that he was in the a
race to win not as congressman of
Marion, but of the Sixth district, c
iVOOLD EXTEND t
FOOD CONTROL I
I
RESIDENT SAYS HIGH PRICES |
NOT JUSTIFIED BY SHORT- 0
AGE OF FOOD PRODUCTS |
President Wilson on last Friday j
lid several specific proposals before >s
Congress for checking the high cost =
f living, but at the same time de- P
lared }>enrianent results could not p
e expected until peace times could m
' *--11" affpr thi' riitifi- =
r 1U11V cjvauitcu\.'i vm ....
at ion of the peace treaty. High B
rets, the President told <3ongress, g
ere not justified by shortage of s
upply. either present or prospective, P
ut were cre.'ited in many cases "ar-.g
ificiallv and deliberately" by "vie- ^
>us practices." Retailers, he said, B
:ere responsible in large part for g
xtortionate prices. &
"Illegal and criminal" were the P
rords used in characterizing the ?f
lethods by which some present day |j
rices have been brought about.
Present laws, he said, would been- p
rgetically employed to the limit to jj
orce out food hoards and meet the g
ituation so far as possible, but to p
upplement the existing statutes he g
pecifically urged the following:
Licensing of all corporations en-1 s
aged in interstate commerce, with P
pecific regulations designed to se- g
ure competitive selling and prevent ;g
unconscionable profits in the meth- B
d of marketing. p
Extension of the food control act' B
a peace times and the application of g
is" provision against hoarding of
uel, clothing and other necessities ?
f life as well as food.
A penalty in the food control set V
or profiteering. IjJ
A law regulating cold storage,
miting the time during which goods
lay be held; prescribing a method
f disposing r" them if held beyond
tie permitted /nod and requiring
tiat when released, goods bear the
ate of storage. Hf
T ^ O Wlloo CoH f
Lsws requiring mat gwuo iwivm^vu
rom storage for interstate commerce
ear the selling prices at which they
ent into storage and requiring that
11 goods destined for interstate
ommerce carry the prices at which
ley left the hands of the producer, ph:
Enactment of the pending bill for sj0
le control of security issues.
Additional appropriations for gov- tif
rnment agencies which can supply Ms
le public with full information as to cju
rices at which retailers buy. j.
Early ratification of the peace toc
reaty so that the "free processes of j
apply and demand" can operate. hei
Immediate steps by executive
gencies of the government promised .
y the President included:
Limiting and controlling wheat iy
hipments and credits, to facilitite agi
ie purchase of wheat shipments to ne,
redits, to facilitate the purchase
f wheat in such way as not to raise. wo
ut rather to lower the. price of sle
lour at home. ]
Sale of surplus stocks of food and
othing in the hands of the governlent.
. on<
The forced withdrawal from stor- Ap
ge and sale of surplus stocks in R0
rivafe hands. ' <
General recommendations, includd:
J
Increase of production. ma
Careful buying by housewives. to
Fair dealing with the people on \
ie part of producers, middlemen
nd merchants. i bei
T>,of there he no threats and un- yoi
ue insistence upon the interest ofairei
ngle class. j
Correction of "many things" in. ^
dation between capital and labor in : 066
aspect to wagers and conditions of tle<
ibor. j the
In concluding the President made a i.
lea for deliberate intelligent action,j.
aminding Congress that an unbal- i m
need world was looking to the Unit- bin
d States. j sal
"We, and we alone" he said, "now :
old the world steady. Upon our ;
teadfastness and self possession de-!
end the affairs of nations ^very-1 the
here. It is the supreme crisis?this f?c
risis for all mankind?that Ameri- j
a must prove her mettle."
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spi
[e said Stoll was a fine chap and ,
new he would get some votes, but er
ot all. He talked of the big prob- j l'el
;ms of the country, and probably am
?minded his hearers of the old- j evt
ne politician by his reference to ,
le much mooted questions of finance J 01
ie nublic debt, the tariff question, jIu J
iates rights and imigration. He is rea
Dposed to surrendering states <
ghts. one after another to tnei,
:deral government; he believes a| *
iriff should be levied on raw ma- "ca
ictured product; if sent to con- sor
ress would straighten out the jeg
aldier's insurance problems, and ,
ould legislate against too free
nmigration. to
Philip H. Stoll ber
At the conclusion of Mr. Stackouse's
remarks Mr. G. M. Beazley ^
resented, with excellent style, Wil- enf
amsburg county's candidate, Col. me
hilip H. Stoll. Mr. Stoll had not ,
itended taking any of the time, .
ut after being presented he made lca
few remarks complementary to he
is opponents and requested that, ~n
derogatory rumors should become
float concerning any one of them, * 0
lat our people refrain from spread- an<
lg it along without first finding im]
at something about it origin and ^
uthenticity.
The meeting adiourned at 1
clock
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I : ? ''B1
To The Democratic I
hurg Co
AS A CANDIDATE FOR CON
LATE MR. RAGSDALE I HAVE
IN THE VERY SHORT CAMPA
OTHER COUNTIES IN THE DIS'
PEOPLE OF MY HOME COU
ENOUGH TO JUDGE MY FITNE
IN CONGRESS WITHOUT ME AI
TO ARGUE THE MATTER.
AS FAR AS 1 KNOW WILLIAI
A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONG]
TIME HAS COME WHEN SHE S
WHILE IT WOUD HAVE BEEN .
ME TO HAVE APPEARED BEFI
PAIGN, 1 DEEM IT WISE TO
WAS NOT SO WELL KNOW?
THEREFORE, AM TAKING THE
ASSURING MY HOME PEOPLE
APPRECIATE THEIR SUPPORT
ARY TO BE HELD ON AUGU
URGE ALL THE VOTERS TO GO
DAY AND ASSIST ME IN MY
WILLIAMSBURG MAN THE NE:
THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL
4
(;<!., a'BB I B :
KETCH OF THE LIFE~
LATE h
)W HE, AFTER YEARS OF PA- 19J
alo
TIENT TOIL, BECAME A CAP- thf
TAIN OF INDUSTRY.
_ " 7 . , die
\norew Carnegie, iron master and ^rc
ilantropist, di^d in his great man- tnj
n overlook ng a lake in the beau- his
ul Berkshire Hills, near Lenox, of
tss., Monday where he sought se- ha(
sion when bodily infirmity over- vef
iV him . nig
Although he had been in feeble j w<>
ilth fo* more than two years, his $5(
al illness was brief?a matter of! bre
ps A severe cold developed quick- j cer
into bronchial pneumonia, the, 1
id patient lapsed into unconscious- j enc
?s and the end came as though itj wc
ru the beginning of a deeper ling
ep. mo
Mr. Carnegie is survived by his I I
re who is 20 years his junior, and j inv
i daughter Margaret, who last J car
ril married a young naval officer, i mo
swell Miller, of New York. j firs
Sketch of His Wonderful Career jwh
\ndrew was 12 when his father, a | Pul
,ster weaver, was brought almost $1C
destitution. The steam looms drove i j
n out of business. The family num- a ,
ed four, including "Andy" and his jn
inger brother, William. The pa- yeJ
its decided to emigrate to Ameri- Qf
whence some relatives had pre- tra
ded them with success. They set- sur
d at Alleghany City, Pa., across
j river from Pittsburg in 1848. j jn
e father and Andrew found work |4C
a cotton factory, the son as bob-j {
i boy. It was his first work. The | tra
ary was $1.20 a week. He was |
we;
>n promoted, at a slight advance, j ^
engineer's assistant He stoked f n<
( boilers and ran the engine in the j
tory cellar. . jt e
n these dingy quarters, where he
rked 12 hours a day, came the in- ^
ration that later led to his library
lefactions, he said. A colonel An- ,SI>a
Jo *
son, possessed of some 400 books
lounced he would open his library ^
:ry week-end and allow boys to
rrow any book they pleased, Carrie
was .itic of th?: most eager C
iders. I iroi
'Only he who has longed as I did I On
Saturday's to come," he has said,! cov
in understand what Colonel Ander- the
i did for me and other boys of Al- ^ai
hany. Is it any wonder that I re- anti
ved, if ever surplus wealth came awj
me, I would us it imitating my in
lefactor?" 'I
Became Telegraph Messenger sue
\.t 14 Carnegie emerged from the l?ec
fine cellar and became a telegraph v. t)]
ssenger. J. Douglas Reid, a Dum- r.iu
line man, who had come to Amer- bri]
early, was head of the office and the
made Andrew his protege. Tele- mil
iphy was then almost a new thing, bur
body ventured to read the dots gai
1 dashes by sound. They were all vas
pressed on tape. Carnegie is said list
have been the third operator in to
> United States to accomplish the (of
it of reading messages by sound rai
7oters of Williams- |
unfy! |
|
GRESS TO SUCCEED THE |
GIVEN ALL OF MY TIME,
IGN ALLOWED, TO THE
rRICT. I FELT THAT THE |
NTY KNEW ME WELL |
SS TO REPRESENT THEM I
'PEARING BEFORE THEM
||
MSBURG HAS NEVER HAD *
RESS. AND I THINK? THE ?
HOULD BE RECOGNIZED. 3
4 r.REAT PLEASURE FOR ?
3RE YOU IN THIS CAM- S
VISIT PLACES WHERE I "
i AS I AM AT HOME. I "
PRESS AS A MEDIUM OF "
THAT I WILL GREATLY "
IN THE SPECIAL PRIM- "
ST 26TH. I EARNESTLY
TO THE POLLS ON THAT
EFFORT TO MAKE A |
ST CONGRESSMAN FROM
DISTRICT.
' PHILIP H. STOLL. "
a,m i , k . K * .
OF THE
lNDREW CARNEGIE
il he capitalized his educational ,
ne. He practiced mornings before 1
i regular operators came around. <1
Andrew was iu when his father (
d, and he became at once the'1
ad winner for the family and a '
e capitalist. He had been told bytrusted
employer that ten shares 11
Adams Express stock could be '
i for $500, and it was a good in- 1
itment. At a family council that:;
. ->- *1?- j?i
;ni V/arncgie a muiuci uctiucu sue
uld mortgage her little home for
>0. The stock was bought, and it i
>ught monthly dividends of 1 per
it. 'I!
i,
The next step toward independ-! i
* and fortune came when T. T.; j
odruff, the in venter of the sleep- ^,
car, approached him with a <
del of the invention. I1
le consulted Scott, and the three i
ested for the manufacture of the ,
s. Carnegie then earning $50
nthly, had to borrow $200 as his 1
it installment of capital, but later 1
en he sold out his interest to the : 1
llman Company he had realized 1
1,000 for the venture. <
Jnwittingly following the lead of '
nan who was later to eclipse him 1
fortune building, Carnegie, at 30.'
trs of age, invested in oil. As one:'
a syndicate he bought up a vast!
ct of oil land. In a year, to the ^
prise of all the investors, it paid '
astonishing returns of $1,000,000 \
cash dividends upon a capital of ]
i AAA J
F|VW.
lut iron was the magnet then at- (
cting Carnegie. The railroads J
fe experimenting with cast iron ^
dges. Carnegie foresaw the de- t
nd for a factory that would turn j
the iron parts, and he formed
Keystone Bridge Works. They !,
It, as their first great piece, a j
dge ovqr the Ohio River, with a j
;n of 360 feet Demand for simi- ^
structures became general, and j
Keystone works got the big ors
and profits. ! ^
Vision of Steel : ^
'arnegie then began to see that' c
n rails must be given up for steel [ 1
a visit to England in 1868 he dis- j c
ered the success being obtained 1 c
re with the Bessemer process. |
negie quietly brought it home, j
1 before the English makers were |?
ire of the fact, he had adopted it t
his mills. t
'he romance of his success was
h that the immigrant boy of 1848 I
ame some 40 years later the >
riu s leading producer of steel, a c
*- u ?-i -f r
ltimiuionaire mmseu, <uju riging
a score of other men into (
same category. Many square t
es of his mills surrounded Pitts- 1
gh. He reached into upper Michi- t
1, 700 miles away, and acquired
;t regions of ore land. He estab- (
led railway and steamship lines 1
bring the ore to him. He boasted (
the reduction in price of steel <
Is from $95 a ton down to $26. ?
GREATER CiTIDEL
BUILDINGS TO RISE
GRADUATES AND FORMER CADETS
EXPECTED TO RAISE
FUND OF $100,000
Messrs. Lock wood, Greene & Co.,
the engineers to whom the contract
for building the Greater Citadel has
been awarded, are going forward
with the preliminary arrangements,
though it has not been announced
when the active construction of the
fiiot of the buildings will be begun.
It is probable that barracks will be
the first of the new buildings. The
S.tate Legislature has made an ap
propnation of $300,000 toward the
enterprise.
It will be several years, of course,
before the Citadel will have been removed
in to the site at Hampton
Park. It may be that the members
of the faculty and their families will
continue to occupy their quarters on
Marion Square for some time after
the corps of cadets is living at
Hampton Park. However, it is the
intention of the board of visitors to
transfer the whole institution to the
new site as soon as practicable.
In the meantime, the Association
of Graduates is getting ready to
make a campaign aihong graduates
and former cadets for raising a fund
of at least $100,000 wherewith to
erect and equip one of the new buildings.
The chairman of the campaign
committee is Mr. William;, S. Lee, of
Charlotte, vice president of the
Southern Power Company. The other
members of the committee will be
announced soon.
It is hoped that Charleston graduates
and former cadets will contribute
generously to the alumni fund,
though no exact allotment has been
suggested. Mr. David G. Dwight, i
president of the association and his
advisers have been going carefully
over the whole situation and it is
believd that the campaign will be
under way before the autumn.
The importance of the Greater
Citadel project is appreciated by all
Citadel men and they have convinced
the General Assembly of the imperative
necessity for enlarging the
accommodations and modernizing
the equipment of the military college
which again this year has been designed
as among the distinguished
military colleges by the War Department.
Owing to a ruling by the War Denartmpnt
with resnect to retired of
ficers, it is likely that Lieut Col.
Ralph R. Stogsdall will be withdrawn
as professor of military science and
tactics, though no intimation of the
indentity of his successor has been
received. Major P. J. Horton will
have command of the coast artillery
unit, an elective course for senior
cadets. Major Horton reported at
the Citadel in the commencement
period.?Charleston News and Courier.
His critics claimed that even the
lower figures was maintained only
t>y the fact that he had monopolized
the industry. A former secretary
Dnce divulged what was alleged to
have been official correspondence to
the effect that the Carnegie steel;
combination could sell rails at a:
profit as low as $12 a ton.
It was certain that the grip which :
le had upon the steel situation made!
lis elimination necessary if others in |
most of wealth in steel were to real- 1
ize the millions they saw going to!
lim. He was, accordingly, bought
)ut in 1901. The syndicate headed by
J. P. Morgan, which desired to form
:he billion dollar United States Steel
Corporation, paid $420,000,000 in
Jieir 5 per cent, bonds for the Carlegie
company's holdings.
His was then a fortune of just
ibout a quarter billion dollars, the
argest ever acquired by a foreign>orn
American, second only to the
fohn D. Rockefeller wealth as the
argest individual accumulation in
he United States, and built, as it
vas, of 5 per cent, steel bonds, it
vould, without so much as turning
>ver one's hand, have approached
lalf a billion by the time Carnegie
ould call himself an octogenarian
>n November 25, 1915.
Gives Millions Aawy
To his native Scotland his largest
;ingle gift was a fund of $10,000,000
o aid education in Scottish universiies.
He carried out his pet idea of a
lero Commission, endowed in lyuo
vith $5,000,000 by which hundreds
>f men, women and children have
>cen rewarded with Carnegie medals
>r pensions for acts of heroism in
;he' rescue of imperiled persons. He
ater extended similar benefactions
o several foreign countries.
He established the Carnegie Founiation
for the Advancement of
Teaching, with a total fund of $15,100,000,
which has taken up efficien:y
surveys of educational work, aid?d
many institutions, and provided
: ' a.
MAY INVESTIGATE
HIGH PRICES
INTIMATED THAT WILSON WILL
INCLUDE HIGH COST OF LIVING
IN SPEECHES.
Washington, August 9.?Tangible
results from the investigation of
hoarding and profiteering initiated
by Attorney General Palmer are expected
to develop in the immediate
future as the result of an oredr directing
the entire secret service of
the bureau of investigation to assist
tne iorces now at work trying to uncover
instances in which the public
has been gouged by the illegal control
of prices. Officials of the department
of justice said reports from
many sections of the country showed
the search for evidence of extortion
in the necessities of life was proceeding
vigorously and it was indicated
that many prosecutions might
come very soon.
Announcement also was made to-* ?
day that congress would proceed
promptly with legislative measures
recommended by President Wilson
in his address Saturday as necessary
to stop the "vicious practices" which
have been largely responsible for the
rising cost of living.
Republican Leader Mondell stated
i in the house that appropriations
' would be made at once to enable the
government department to attack
the problem and Chairman Haughen
announced that the agriculture committee
would begin hearing last Monday
on legislation to control the
foods held in cold storage.
The senate interstate commerce > '
committee discussed suggestions of
! the president that interstate shipments
of necessities be controlled by
a licensing system and Chairman
Cummins announced that he would
appoint a subcommittee to recommend
such legislation as it should
decide was needed.
The indications at the White House
are that President Wilson might let
the high iost of living share with the
league of nations in the speaking
tour which he is soon to make. The
president has been devoting virtually
all of his time recently to the economic
situation add has come to believe
that the importance of the
question demands discussion eqaully
with the big international problem,
to explain which was the prime purpose
of the tour. *
pensions for college professors. In
benevolence, so that his gifts to libraries,
colleges, and other institutions,
should live after him, by establishing
the Carnegie Corporation
with a fund of $25,000,000.
One of his latest and greatest
ideals was the abolition of war, a
hoDe that he cherished in the face of
international conflicts. He gave $10,000,000
toward an international peace
fund and built the Peace Palace at
The Hague, which was dedicated in
1913. He gave $760,000 for the bureau
of American republics at Washington.
His love of music moved him to
equip hundreds of churches and institutions
with pipe organs. He never
gave directly any large sum to rj1{
gious purposes. Of his organ gifts
he said he would hold himself responsible
for what the organ pealed fo?*ch
on the Sabbath, but not for what
might be said in the pulpit On* of
his very earliest gifts, as far back
as 1891, was the Carnegie Music
Hall in New York, at a cost of $2,OOO.OOO,
and as president of the New
York Philharmonic Society he 'spent
his money liberallv in furthering its
i-ieals. He also liberally backed the
Pittsburgh orchestra.
To the Allied engineers oouucs
he gave $2,000,000. His small gifts to
colleges amounted to some $20,000,000.
No man left at his^death such
an unique and such a scattered se
ries of monuments to perpetuate his
memory.
In the background of these 15
years of philanthropy {here is the
familiar story of Scotch thrift, a
little luck and steel, which made
such generosity possible.
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Morrisville Items
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Rhem and children
visited friends in Georgetown
Sunday.
Mrs. F. Rhem is spending sometime
at Pawleys Island.
Dr. L. B. Johnson of Rome was
here last week on profession business.
We are glad to see Mr. Solon F. . % Nesmith
out again after a long ill- __
ness. *
Mr. R. J. Ferdon and family of
Warsaw. sDent Wednesday at his
fathers, Capt. Jno. Ferdon.
This community was visited by an
electrical storm Friday afternoon, no
damage was done to amount to anything.
o
Construction work is now going
forward on the new home of Mr.
Chas. H. Singleton at the corner of
Academy and Prooks streets.