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, w . Tim ?jg} alje SottntfiWo^. grj ___ ? ??-? >? VOL. :J.6. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920. ' ~ NoflB THE PRESIDENT AND FACULTY UPHELD NEW REGIME TAKES CONTROL WITH LITTLE TROUBLE, BUT LACK SUPPORT. < On last Saturday the government' of Frederich Ebert, the socialist presL ident of the German republic, was \ overthrown by a military coup d'etat. V Dr. Wolfeane Kapp, one of the Jiders of the fatherland party, and ;ral director of the agricultural eties, ousted Gustav Bauer, the icellor, and, in taking that office self, has temporaarily assumed erne direction .of affairs Dr. p was born in New York and, acjng to a report from that city, refused to learn the German language. At th^ age of 12, his father took him to Germany, where he has remained ever ?ince. Two Governments in Germany Tjiere are now two contendiug governments in Germany, the new one yAder Chancellor Kapp at Berlin, the . V>ld one under President Ebert at Dresden. Officials of the new govern-' ment declare that it is not reactionary or monarchist. The president of the oia government anu ni? minister?. nave issued a proclamation calling upon the people to rise in a general strike as the only means of preventing the return of William II. Artillery Dominates Berlin. Berlin is occupied by the troops of the counter revolution?to what number is not known?and the movement is sp:-eading rapidly throughout the provinces. Masses of troops and naval brigades with artiller? have been brought into the capital and dominate the situation. Thus far, there has been no outbreak and no bloodshed, v Ebert's Precautions Inadequate The Ebert government had knowledge beforehand of the pending counter revolution, but the precautions taken proved tu be entirely madeHHb quate. Outside of the security police ^^V^nd the Noske trops on patrol, noth- i f ing indicated at 3 o'clock this morning that Berlin would wake up to find the Ebert government turned out. i The president himself left Berlin with some of his followers two hours after ] tL.i. utav Luiic. Admiral von Trotha had been dispatched to Doeberitz Friday night for the purpose of conferring with . the troops and admonishing them to desist from any violent procedure. j ' He returned and informed the cabinet that the agitation had subsided, but thjit the danger was not wholly raiMved. j] j Noske's Troops Unreliable , i Tne realization was finally brought , hom^ to the cabinet that the army., ^ whic i Hen- Noske was supposed to ;; Ieontipl was far from being the loyal . orga: ization he counted upon and that the Berlin garrisons had also been noculated by the officers of the old sihool and were ready for the 1 risin$ when the call came. The secrecy with which the revolution was plann d and carried out has stunned 1 every one. 1 Hi idenburg Favored as Chief Fie] 1 Marshall von Hindenburg is 1 report ti to be favored by the new 1 regim as imperial president, but 1 thus f i he has remained in the backgrount The former minister of for- 1 eign a iairs, Gottlieb von Tagow, and ( Baron on Falkenhausen, former governor [ ?neral of Belgium, are among ' the lea ers of the counter revolution. : Whil i the movement has been car- 1 rie*i oi(i rapidly and with apparent ' order, 4iere is an undercurrent of ' anxiety among the people of Berlin ' as to possible future occurrences. Fighting Occurs. Altho'.gh this counter revolution 1 has thusjfar been the most orderly of any in t1^ history of a great country, it has passed without the clash- i ing of a|ns and bloodshed. In va- ; rious citi^ fighting has occurred, par- < ticipatea |n both by mobs and by i troops, Ad several persons were i killed Mlday and others wounded;: in disord.A in the suburbs of Berlin < when rifll and machine guns were ; turned upA the crowds. i fyter Dispatches London,warch 16.?Four hundred i persons al reported to have been killed andAany persons wounded in a bomb^rAent of Kiel by a Ger- i man cruisE says a Central News dispatch An Copenhagen, quoting a Kiel ccmpondent. The di? Eh adds that some quarters of 'Bjlown were distroyed by the boml Aient. The cruiser is j said to h Mirected its fire against the quarr&y the German workmen Death of W. R. Cooper Nesmith, March 17,?Mr. W. R. Cooper died at his home near Nesmith j Sunday afternoon, March 14, 1920. Mr. Cooper had been failing in j health for some time, but was confined to his room for only a short; while before his death. He was taken ; to Dr. Kelley's infirmary in Kingstree but his case soon proved hopeless; human hands could not save him, so ' having a desire to spend his last clays in his old home and with his 1 loved ones, he was brought home ' Monday week. He suffered untold agony in his!1 last hours, but he bore his illness ' patiently, never complaining, never murmuring. The day before his death, after his 1 pastor had read to him and prayed < for him, he assured those around him that he was not afraid to die. for it t was God's will, so was it his. 1 Mr. L/ooper servea as a supeiattendant of the Sunday-school, as clerk ; i and treasurer of the church and was j < one of its deacons until recently relieved on account of his illness. He was an earnest worker and a devout i j christian. It can well be said of him, j his work is finished, he hath done j < what he could. ; He will be missed, his place in the ( home is vacant, his pew is empty, but he has left foot-prints for us to 1 follow. His pood works remain and \ as a reward he is now at rest. , He leaves a widow, two sons, two j i sisters and one brother to mourn his 11 loss. His sons are: 'S. H. Cooper of ;< Georgetown, W. J. Cooper of Morris-1 ] ville; his brother, B. Cooper of Mou- j \ zon; his sisters are: Mrs. Ida Woo ten , of Andrews and Mrs. G. R. Walton \ < of Morrisville. 1 He was laid to rest in the cemetary! at Belin's Monday afternoon, March < 15. May God bless and ctmfort his ] bereaved family, is our earnest prayer. < ?B. D. Thames, j j M An indictment charging conspiracy : ^ in violation of the Lever fuel control ^ act and athe Federal criminal code, I. naming 125 coal operators and miners ^ as defendants, was returned in Fed- j eral court at Iridianapolis, Ind., last j sveek by a special grand jury which has been investigating the coal indus- . try since December 17, 1919. More 1 than half of the defendants are ope-,1 mtors. I* j ] who are opposed to the Kapp move- } ment. 1 j Kapp Quits Post ( London, March 17.?Chancellor Kapp, head of the government at Ber- } lin, has resigned in favor of Presi- j ( dent Ebert, spys the Berlin corre- j j spondent to the London Times, under' ^ date of Tuesday evening. Efforts to ( form a Kapp ministry have been abondoned. j, Kapp Lacks Support s Berlin, March 16.?(By the Asso-' < :iated Press)?The new Kapp govern-11 ment at Berlin has not found the sup-11 port it looked for, and while its hold t an the administrative activities are j < growing weaker, the strength of Pres- j i dent Ebert and his supporters, includ- 11 ing the members of the national assembly at Stuttgart, has increased t materially, if all reports are to be believed. Consequently Ebert's re-; turn to Berlin at an early date is j confidently predicted in some quarters. J That Dr. Wolfgang Kapp has virtu-1 illy reached the end of his resources, so far as concerns himself as head of I the revolutionary movement, is evi-; fenced by the fact that he is said to have been ready to retire since Saturday, but was persuaded by Colonelj Bauer, the leader of the Royalist party. and Major Gen. Ludendorf, to re.main. "Impossible" Government General Groener, the Prussian \fer: minister, the Frankfurter Zeitung as- j serts, has telegraphed to Field Mar-1 shal Von Hindenburg that in his opin- j ion the Kapp-Von-Luettwitz govern- j ' - * i?4.1 ! menc is an lmpossioie one, wnemer j trom the viewpoint of home affairs Dr foreign affairs. Groener is quoted ; as saying that Von Hindenburg is the idol of the German people and a ] word from him would bring the reg- j ular troops to a constitutional basis, i General Groener is also credited 1 with having sent a message to Presi- s dent Ebert offering to act as media- ' tor between him and Von Hindenburg \ with a view to restoring constitu- ] tionalism. i Von Hindenburg has written to Dr. i Kapp advising him to withdraw from i his position, Cologj^^^atches say, i and has advised President Ebert to 1 call for new elections., REVOLT IN GERMANY --EBERT OUSTED MEMBERS REFUS TO CONSIDER ULTIMATUM IS >UED BY JUNIORS AND SENIORS The report of the board of trustees of Clemson College, which has been investigating the walkout last week of 450 freshmen and sophomores to enforce a demand for reinstatement without punishment of all underclassmen and certain reforms in methods of cadet government, was issued Monday. Threats of the senior and junior classmen to walk out in sympathy with the under-classmen and general conditions at the institution also are dealt with in the report. The report is featured by the following findings and recommendations: Support of the president, the commandant and the discipline committee of the faculty. Refusal to consider the ultimatum from senior and junior classmen, laying down of certain conditions upon which junior and senior classmen who signed an ultimatum and sophomore and freshmen classmen who walked out may reenter the college. Acknowledgement that conditions of the mess had not been what the authorities would have them, but that economic and other conditions the world over are such that the situation could not have been better under existing limitations, authorizing the president to make improvements in the mess and providing him with additional funds to cover cost of them without raising the monthly rate of toard for cadets. Conditions upon which junior and senior classmen may reenter the college provided that each individual who signed the ultimatum shall sign and file with the president for the trustees sy 11:30 p. m. March 21, a written fvrttm Uioir nnnmvnl nf the a?t paragraph of the document. Those failing to comply shall be considered in a state of subordination and shall :>e dropped from the rolls of the colege without the privilege of reinstatement at any time in the future. Memjers of these classes who do not return in accordance with the terms of their present leave, without sufficient exruse in the opinion of the president, ;hall be adjudged deserts and dropped from the rolls as' such. Freshmen md sophomores who fail to return jy 11:30 p. m., March 21, will be iropped from the college rolls. When these conditions have been met those cadets returning will be required to subscribe a new oath to the pledge given upon their former enhance and to make up all work missed. ; Open trials for cadets, not upon demands from any cadet element, but solely to inspire more of a spirit of confidence in the work of the discijline committeee of the faculty; permission to be granted accused cadets o have faculty council of their own! :hoosing at the trial; no student representative upon the discipline committee. ( Appointment of a committee of the j iIlliltTi W OLUU/ vnc vuut.ii gvtvtu | nent conditions and suggest changes is might be deemed advisable, this ^ eport to be submitted at the regular j Ypril meeting of the trustees. i, Consideration of the case of Cadet : Trosland, not upon the demand of the j unior and senior classmen, but upon , he petition of Cadet Crossland, as . jrovided by regulations. The board j icting as an appellate court, found < hat the discipline committee erred i ( ?chnically in the trial of the defen-1 lant. The sentence imposed was re- j icinded and the case remanded to the [ ] liscipline committee for trial under! he proper section of the regulations, j S Crosland returns under the condi- 1 ions laid down by the board, and the J lommittee finds him guilty, the cadet < :an appeal to the board, when the ! \no?vl vvmiM nq<5 linnn t.hp actual < nerits of the case. < ] o The rock-ribbed Republicans of ; Pennsylvania are viewing with complete equanimity the growing bitter- . less of the campaign of Candidate Wood, Lowden, Harding and Johnson for the presidential nomination. ; rhe reason is not far to seek. If the four aspirants now doing most of the ; running, fight one another to a stand- i still, there is a good chance the con- ' mention will go elsewhere for the can- < didate, and Gov. William C. Sprout, of that immense commonwealth, is being groomed as the only real, orig MEXICAN TROUBLE ! LANSING'S UNDOING SECRETARY TRIED IN VAIN TO ALTER PRESIDENTS POLICY SAYS H. L. WILSON (By the Associeted Press) Chicago, March 16.?President Wil- j son's policy in Mexico is responsible j for the anarchy which has existed in | Mexico for years" and was the direct j cause of the resignation of Robert | T * O I j^ansing as .secretary ui oiate, xieniy | Lane Wilson, former Ambassador to Mexico, declared in an address before the Agate Club here. "It is an error to ever suppose that Mexicans have struggled for liberty." he added. "Mexicans interpret liberty as license, and consequently the struggle has always been for loot. Mexico has never had what we call a political election. Every government has been shot into and out of power. Says Mexicans Laugh at U. S. "President Wilson followed consistently his foolish policies by recognizing Caranza, the man who has brought Mexico to the conditions of anarchy which prevailed 50 years ago. "No European government recognized Caranza and for that reason I. they have been able to maintain their dignity in Mexico and command respect from the Mexican government. Mexicans, however, laugh at the States. Thev have insulted President Wilson and they continue to insult him because they can do so with impunity. Since 1910 there have been 660 Americans convicted and murdered on Mexican soil and during that time not a single Mexican or European has* been convicted, nor even tried by law. American capital has been confiscated to the amount of $1,200,000,000. "During the late war Mexico was ' the center for all German plots | against the United States. Under ] President Wilson's very eyes 100 Germans were training Mexican troops for assault on our border. Our rep- , resentatives down there have been hissed in the Mexican congress. Impossible to Live There "The latest instance of this is Ambassador Fletcher's resignation, saying that it was impossible to live down there and that the United States had no definite policies to be carried ( out." 1 Secretary Lansing tried repeatedly to change the President's policy, Mr. , Wilson added, but failed. "A short while ago, while Mr. Fletcher was still Ambassador to J Mexico, there was a conference between Mr. Lansing and Mr. Fletcher", he said. "They introduced, as a result of this conference, a motion in ^ the Senate to break off relations with [ mi _ aa i. /-.*1 _ J 1 I Mexico, ine attempt laueu uy rea- ; son of interference from President Wilson. Lansing's resignation was , one of despair at trying to follow a i consistent policy in Mexico." o Rural Carrier Examination i The United States Civil Service 1 Commission has announced an exam- 1 ination for the county of Williams- 1 burg to be held at Morrisville and ' Kingstree on April 10th, 1920, to fill ( the position of rural carrier at Kings- 1 tree, Hemingway and Morrisville and 1 vacancies that may later occur on rural routes from other postoffices 1 in the above mentioned county. The ' examination will be open only to citi- 1 tens who are actually domiciled in 1 the territory of a postoffice in the ( :ounty and who meet the other re- ' quirements set forth in Form No. | L977. o j Married at Baptitst Parsonage Here.1 Miss Lila Mae Thompson of Beula, IJ this county, and Mr. Herbert Cox of J{ Florence were married on Tuesday ( jvening, March 9, at the Baptist par- ^ sonage and left on train No. 89 for s Jacksonville, where they spent several ' days. After their return they will 3 make their home in Florence, where 1 Mr. Cox is employed with the A. C. 1 L. railway in their shops there. The ceremony was performed by ( the Rev. E. A. McDowell. * o i Damage estimated at more than $2,000,000 has been caused and more ; than 1,600 persons have been made ; homeless by fire which started Sun-, i day in Grandview, near Fort Worth. ] The business and residential sections : of the town have been virtually wiped ! out, aocording to reports. Three men were reported injured when a build- ' ing collapsed, and were rescued by a living chain of firenfen. 1 RATE JUMPED FROM 15* TO 18* j No Need of Nerve Tonic by Kings-; tree Electric Light and Ice Co. Kingstree, S. C., Mar. 1,1920. , T( TO OUR CUSTOMERS: Notice is hereby given that after today, the rate on current between the minimum charge of . $1.60 and 30 K. W. will be at the . rate of 18* per K. W. instead of .g tne iormer rate 01 iof per k. w. . In view of the high cost of fuel ^ and labor, it is needless for us to W( explain the reason for this in- ^ crease. as Very truly yours, . KINGSTREE ELECTRIC LIGHT & ICE CO. st Seventeen days after being put into tri effect, The County Record office is in receipt of the above notice of a ge raise in the kilo watt rate for electric as current supplied by* the Kingstree ar Electric Light & Ice Co. The County wl Record fails to find any justification th for this raise in price, or for the th granting of an increased rate by the town council for the lighting of the ! tr; town. of As a matter of fact, the old rate trs of 15t the kilov watt was high, con- da siderably higher than the price at ca which a superior service might have fr been obtained. All outside proposi- "s tions to furnish the town with current up were turned down in order to patro- th nize a local organization. This was th all well enough^ But the local organ- fu izat4on has not riyade good, even at m< the high rate charged the town and fic i+c <>ifiT(iTic frtr nirrpilt Tf has failpd m< to give the town and its citizens what tal they deserve and are entitled to?real na dependable service. Yc The company claims to have made in/ no money. This may be true in a sense. The plant was started with of a lot of old, crippled up, worn out, er second-handed machineiy^ which in a ge few months had to be replaced at a ha considerable outlay in dollars and tn cents. So, m this ^ay, the eompany to has been obliged to use its earnings pr and profits to replace inferior equip- Tb ment, and is still doing the same de thing. tei Then, again, for several years our an people have been begging for a day ovi current, and if not an all-day current, for a partial day current, or a ser- po rice that would enable them to light roj their places of business without hav- pr ing to install independent plants or dii resorting to tallow candles and oil th( [amps in the afternoons, and a morn- gu ing service that would not leave do; the patrons in darkness at 6:30 or 7 Th a'clock during the long nights and lot short days. wi The attitude of the company hafc po been amazing to many and the sub- wc ject of much critical comment, mas- m< much as they were supposed to have re; a product (electric current and ice) ale for sale and positively would not let fei its patrons have as much as they de- j ga sired and were willing to pay for. of Patrons are now promised a day | fie and night current after May 1st. The ; th< town has agreed to pay an increased cle rate for street lighting and individ- thj jals who use over the minimum will po De charged 18< the kilo watt instead I >f 15< as heretofore, the latter being J pa a higher rate than is charged in most! mi x>wns and cities. I shi The recent lack of current, day and light, is attributed to coal shortage, [t is to be hoped that the future coal Se jituation appears brighter to the com- j vai Dany and that it will have a supply a i >n hand from May 1, 1920, to Jan- mc jary 1, 1921. re* o 601 tee Death of Mr. Frank Ives. Spj it The death of R. Frank Ives of the an [ves Motor Company, which occurred ; it the Florence Infirmary at eleven i Va1 >'clock Monday night from pneumonia "ollowing influenza, came as a great shock to his family and friends. Early tj0 n the day he was much improved ind there was every reason to believe sj0 In the i ,IU1L tilt; tlldid liau pauui u. ?..v , ^|Q ifternoon, however, heart trouble de- f01 /eloped and this was primarily the1 m :ause of death. The body was taken ani io Sumter Tuesday night and inter- (ha nent was made there yesterday. ^ Mr. Ives is survived by a widow jce( and one daughter, Louise, aged 8, J ajs pears, his father and mother and the ; mt following sisters arc also left: Mrs. Frank McCarthy of New Jersey, Mrs. [. A. Calhoun of Kings tree, and Mrs. ^ Morgan Timmons of Florence. Mr. SUl Ives was one of the most popular of tjr the young business men of Florence and his death has caused much sadness there. \ jL O IROWTH OF TRUCK ^ TRANSPORTATION I 3NNAGE CARRIED BY MOTOR H TRUCKS INCREASING AT H RAPID RATE M In national interest?perhaps even uck exceeds all the many modern ansport mediums. In importance it second to none. Ships and shipng can travel only over highly re- H ricted routes; railroads can serve M ell defined and established areas, 3 it motor trucks penetrate every nook V id corner of the country and the 1 im of their engines is heard every- '71 lere. j This spring is going to see the most artling development of the motor J tick transportation movement J Shortage of freight cars, the conisted condition of railroads and an iticipated big jump in freight rates flj e a few of the contributing causes Q lich will cause shippers to turn to e motor truck to help them out of eir difficulties. For the past threee years the couny has been educated to the efficiency the motor truck as a "short haul" ansportation medium and has had ily demonstrations of its ability to rry goods safely and swiftly direct om consignor to consignee. By hort haul," we refer to any distance > t 250 miles, but preferably within e 150 mile radius, for it is there ] at the truck shows its greatest use- * Iness. Within this distance the j tor truck has demonstrated its efiency so deafly that New York irchants and manufacturers are king it up in earnest and the tonge hauled out of and into New >rk every day by trucks is increasl by leaps and bounds. This is no reflection upon the ability the truck to carry goods for greatdistances. Under stress and cmer ncy it nas done wonders in trie long ul. But the successful motor truck Asportation route from New York Chicago, for instance, aa a business oposition, is a thing of the future, is will come only with the higher velopment of our good roads sysn, when trucks will be able to travel ywhere on a long through route er broad, concrete highways, rhe good road is to the truck as imrtant as the locomotive to' the raH- '& id. Over-warm enthusiasts, whose aise of the motor truck as a long stance carrier is halted only by ; limitations of the American lanage, are, we are inclined to think, ing the truck more harm than good, e best modern freight trains on lg hauls with a crew of six men, 11 carry 500,000 tons. To transit the same tonnage by motor truck >uld require 1,000 trucks and 2,000 ;n to operate them. If for no other ason, the element of labor shortage tnp would nhviouslv make this nn isible, and exponents of this propanda only bring' ridicule on a form transport which, within its own Id, is without a serious rival In e short haul the motor truck has so arly shown its superior efficiency it a real era of motor truck tranertation is upon us. Some of the 'motor express comnies listed regularly operate as iny as sixty trucks and can handle. , ipments of any nature. After a four fours' battle in the nate, the Lodge substitute resertion to* Article X was adopted by ?'ote of 56_26, more than two-thirds ijority. The Lodge followers, mild lervationists and irreconcilables, nbined in support of it and four- ^ >n Democrats voted with them, de- _t4 te President Wilson s warning that" fc "cuts the heart out of the league"'^"**d despite a reiterated statement j ?m President Wilson that the reser- ' tion was "not acceptable." \11 phases of the prohibition n will be heard by the SupKme urt before handing down its decin upon the validity of the prohibin amendment and the Volstead encement act. Having heard argu nts in the Rhode Island, Kentucky d Massacheusetts cases the court s granted the State of New Jersey emission to institute original proidings to test the amendment It so fixed March 29 for hearing, argu:nts in the New Jersey proceedings, v John Barton Payne was sworn in Secretary of the Interior Monday, cceeding Franklin K. Lane, who reed on March 1. ^ -o? Fd? satisfactory Shoe Repairing see