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X m m * j ?. gg ?lje gumnta jtetortl g' !> L ??? ?i^', ^ V0L 36 KINGSTREET SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1920. NO #|i ' SPENDS MILLIONS ON ARMY OUTFIT ^ J 4A0OO,<H> PIECES OF UNDERWEAR | AND HUNDREDS OF THOUS- J k ANDS OF SHOES RESERVED Washington, April 26.?Every now j B and again there comes to the notice W of the outsider, watching the records of expenditures of hundreds of mil| lions of dollars for the cost of government floating by instances that i stand out as if illuminated of business ! methods used by government officials which, to say the least, arc peculiar, i It would seem much of the govern1 racr.t business associated with the pur-1 ^ chase of suplies of all kinds is done ' by officials who are in the mental state of one waking up on Monday j morning in blissful ignorance i f what oe had dore on Saturday night. There seems to be no casting back in the sense that inventories of supplies on hand should be measured up, with supplies needed. The appropriations for horses and I mules are used in every session of L Congress as if the life of die army horse or mule is limited to one fiscal1 B year. BP1 Take, for instance, the matter of' underwear for soldiers. The war department has on hand millions of undershirts and drawers. Of 3ummer, undershirts of a certain grade there are in warehouses controlled by the war department more than 15,000,000. j Stacked away with the undershirts1 are between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 ; pairs of drawers, suitable for wear, in summer. On March 30, the Quartermaster j General of the army asked for bids for 267,283 men's undershirts under Circular No. 226. Bids for drawers about an equal number were asked for at the same time. (Buying Right Sizes on High Priced j Market. This demand upon a high price market for underwear against an apparently unlimited supply on hand prompted The Evening World correspondent to do alittle investigating. All the records were thrown open to him. He was given an opportu-, nity to look over the lists of supplies on Hhnd, and he found that the army owns in fact close to 40,000,000 gar- j *-?. nn^onroar in SUm rinents suiuiuic iui uuuv*twv?>* ? | But there were not two months ago, in all this vast stock, more than a few thousand^undershirts size 34 or drawers about 28 inches waistband j^easure. The bids for 267,283 men's Undershirts call for size 34 garments. Most of the undershirts on hand are offeize 38 and larger, and the drawers?millions of pairs of them? were manufactured, it would appear, for men of Aldermanic girth and ab- j normal length of leg. It was explained to the corresponI dent that during the war, summer underwear was ordered in assorted sizes. Since the war it has developed that Hr the average chest measurement of a Wr recruit is 34 inchs, and his waist measurement is about 28 inches. The charts indicate that the recruits are not so well developed as the volunteers and drafted soldiers who were taken in during the war, and that the men who have been in the regular oioso of the war have unity buivc vitv ? shrunk around the chest and abdomen. We have, according to the figures in the Quartermaster's department, "a perfect 34" army. For a year past the drain upon the 34 size underwear has been terrific. There were no perfect 36 sizes on hand, so men requiring shirts measuring 36 inches around the chest were given 34's, with j the result that the wear and tear was * something terrific. Why the perfect 36's were not given 38 size undershirts is not explained. "It can't be done according to reg- j ulations", explained the patient Quartermaster officer. If a recruit's j measurement call for a 34 shirt he has to have a 34 shirt. And our con- j tracts specify that the shirts must not: shrink." i "What's to be done with these mil- j lions of undershirts anu drawers, which are too large for our sylph-like recruits?" asked the correspondent, k "They are being held in reserve," A was the reply, "or upon being found useless they will be condemned and sold as surplus." "But why", persisted the corres|Bf pondent, "were all these extra size ^B shirts and drawers bought during the war when it was quite plain from the records that the underwear size of the | TYPESETTING SCHOOL GROWS I ?? i Institution Conducted by Southern Publishers Successful. | , Macon. Ga., April 27.?New equipment for the S. N. P. A. typesetting school, being conducted here by the Georgia-Alabama Business College, has arrived and new classes are now being formed. Some of the students who enrolled early in January are going out to positions. The school is undertaking to fit the students into the nlaces for which they are best suited. Some of the young men are well educated and are well prepared for business. Some of them are former bank clerks, some are college men some are ex-army officers, and all of them seem to have been carefully suited for the positions into which they have gone. The non-printer students are given to understand that this is a plan used to introduce them into the printing business. They are going in to learn the business. Quite a number of them have gone to work and have made good. The same office in which the first one secured a position wired back to the school two days later for another just like him.! The students have had their daily i lectures on the whys and wherefores of the style printers use in the different printing offices of the United States. They have had some drill in type combinations and measurements, 1 so they can make some headway in setting other type than straight mat- j ter. And now a complete printing office outfit is being installed so as to give the non-printer students a chance to Jeam about the problems of the hand : compositor. What they are taught is j being taught thoroughly, so that their ; start will be an encouraging one. A great many commendatory editorials have been written by the papers in this section where these students have been doing relief woik in connection with their studies at the type- i setting school. o 53 CENTS COLLECTED $100. ; 1 Ratio of Expenditure Made Public by Internal Revenue Bureau ( For every 53 cents expended in the administration of the internal revenue laws for the fiscal year 1919 the . bureau of internal revenue collected $100 in revenue. Total collections for i the year amounted to $2,850,078,771.56 t and total expenditures to $20,573,771.52. ji These figures were made public by the bureau of internal revenue in an- i swer to statements appering in va- < rious parts of the country concerning i the cost of collection of the income tax. 1 I !: average recruit is 34 around the chest and 28 around the waist?" "Search me," replied the Quarter,master officer. "You see the records.! We are shy of 34 sizes in undershirts and we must have over 250,000 of them, and we must have about an equal number of drawers. Another thing we have to figure is supplying j the Officers' Reserve Training Corps personnel with summer underwear, j and those birds run aooui o* or uu- ] der around the chest. It's all figured out on charts and everything." So there you are, the army has on i hand millions and millions of summer; undershirts and drawers, but none that! will fit the men of the army. Instead of stocking up on normal sizes the army stocked up on abnormal sizes, j The army is buying shoes for soldiers at a cost in excess of $7 a pair.. The army has in warehouses throughout the country hundreds of thousands of pairs of army shoes that cost on an average $2.70 a pair. The Evening World correspondent asked why such a surplus supply of shoes could not be utilized? "Most of them," explained the pa- f tient Quartermaster officer, "are hob- | "* 1 M?? Vinhnnilpfj nauea snves. nu wvav ? , shoes were all right on the roads and ' battlefields of France, but they are no good for duty on the border, for j instance. Hobnailed shoes down here would blister the soles of a soldier's feet. We have to outfit those men with new shoes." It also develops that a considerable j percentage of the surplus hobnailed shoes are of large sizes and unfitted jfor the feet of the 34-inch chested recruits. Utilization of the surplus j supply of militap^ underwear and shoes apparent)^!pon the enrollment of any army of big men. i DECLARES CHARGES ' * BY SIMS AN INSULT , Says Sims is Sometimes Impulsive?!l Declares Secretary Daniels Is Not Target I Washington, April 27.?Sharp criticism of Rear Admiral Sims, voiced to- r day before the Senate naval investi- * gating committee by Rear Admiral J. I S. McKean, former assistant chief of j? naval operations, resulted in a tilt 8 between Chairman Hale and Senator ^ Trammel, Democrat, of Florida, when 8 Admiral McKean was reprimanded by & Senator Hale for indulging in "per- *( sonalities." 1; The officer declared that he was only d following a precedent set by Admiral e Sims in his testimony, while Senator v Trammel remarked that the chair man's objection to personalities had iu not run against Admiral Sims' "snap-js py comments." - ? Admiral McKean, whose appearance C followed completion of the cross-ex- r amination of Capt. W. V. Pratt, who< b had been on the stand several days, jb insisted that he was not asking to j a defend Secretary Daniels or to "damn! Sims" in what he said. c Insult, Says McKean.' [ h Admiral Sims' charge that delays on the part of the Navy Departmentj early in the war prolonged hoctilities four mouths and cost 500,000 addi tional lives were ."monstrous." Admir-1 f al McKean adding that if it had been 1 s' made by a patient in the "govern-' o mcnt insane aslyum" it could be un-1 f< derstood, but that, coming from a1ft rear admiral of the active list, the v> head of the naval war college, it was n an insult to every o'ficcr and man n i i? the navy or who served in the navy s< during the war." l v "It has been or will be entirely dis- :li approved," he declared. S The charge that the department had no plans for war also was unfounded, F t^e officer said. He added that one' tl plan in particular had been in exist- j w ence four years before the war, and tl was corrected up to the time the Uni-, fi ted States joined the Allies, and con-' p stantly changed as the situation al- L tered during the war. The plan was o' not perfect, he said, because of new p elements injected into the war by the vi German submarine campaign. la Criticising Operations Cheif. tl Capt. Pratt, in answer to Senator s< Trammel, who sought to show that it Admiral Sims' letter to Secretary it Daniels, entitled "Some naval lessons! of the world war," was in reality a, it sweeping criticism of Secretary Dan- n iels, and of naval officers generally,, b; said he had no reason to doubt Ad-1 c< miral Sims' declaration was not in-j S tended as a personal criticism. He h could not avoid the impression, how- - n ever, he added, that Sims was criticiz- il ing the chief of naval operations, k whether he intended to or not. p "I cannot say what was in Sims' i( mind," Capt. Pratt said. "He is some- h times impulsive, and was exceedingly -i< so when he said the navy was respon- o r*.Kla 4 Via lnccnc nf fKo uror " OIU1C 1VI lite 51VOV IVQOVO vrx vuv n?M. Secretary Daniels was not Admiral a Sims' target, the offi. r declared, add- v ing he knew of no specific instances tl where Mr. Daniels interfered with t< Sims. v o f. Items From Beuiah. I v Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Cox of Florence ^ spent Saturday night and Sunday with a their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. c W. H. Thompson, returning Sunday a night. Mr. D. M. Lesesne of Kingstrec came out and spent Sunday with his brother-in-law, W. H. Thompson. Mrs. McClary, wife of Mr. J. C. g McClary, was taken to the Kingstree c infirmary a ;few days ago. It lis e hoped she will soon recover. f, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Snipes and children spent Sunday with their pa- v rents at Beuiah. r Services were held at Beuiah church e Sunday afternoon by the pastor, Rev. Shealy. a Mrs. Wm. Dukes has returned home after spending two weeks with her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Thompson. ? Farmers are behind in setting out < .1 ?1 1. their tobacco on account 01 uieir piaau> j. being so small and scarce. ^ Miss Addie Duke and Miss Addie McCutchen are spending a few days with Mrs. S. A. Burch at Florence. . r Mrs. J. C. McCutchen's little grand- J f son, Herbert J., has been quite sick, o but is some better at this writing. t April 26, 1920. S. L. T. o We Americans think we invented j ] cussing, but you ought to hear a Paris j taxi cab driver when someone gets in t his way! a SEVERAL PERSONS SEVERELY INJURED I ail and Rain Does Damage to Crops in Sumter and Clarendon Counties. i A hail, wind and rain storm, six niles wide and extending for about orty miles in length, equal in pro ortion to that of June 8, 1919, Monlay visited the Tindal and Brogden ection and extended to Harvin and Ucolu in Clarendon County, doing rreat damage to all crops. The toiacco crop is reported to be a total oss. Yoimg cotton and corn is bady damaged. The full extent of this lamage cannot yet be fairly estimatd, but some state that a plant over idll be necessary. Several prominent men traveling n an automobile near Tindall suffered evere personal injuries. Mr. John A. lcKnight of Sumter and Mr. Dwight 'ain, who were traveling along the oad near Bethel church, were bruised y hail stones, Mr. Cain having been eaten into unconsciousness for sever1 minutes. It is said that some of he hail stones were as large as a up and many the size of the proverbil hen egg. o Good Citizen Passes Away. Greelyville, April 27.?The host of riends of Mr. Thomas J. Hogan are orely saddened at his death, which ccurred here Thursday, April 22nd, jllowing ill health for several months. ' Ir. Hogan was 66 years of age and 'as one of the oldest and most promient citizens of this community. He ! survived by his widow and three ins, Dan J. and Jamie D. of Greelyille, and T. Pressley Hogan of Co- j imbia, and an adopted daughter, Mrs.! . G. Rogers of Dillon. Mr. Hogan came to Greelyville from j airfield county in 1885 and went into te saw mill business-with his brother, hich he remained interested in -to te time of his death, although the j rm underwent a few changes, at resent being known as the Mallard j umber Company. He was also half j wner, with Mr. T. W. Boyle, of this' lace, in the Greelyville Land & De-1 slopment Company, one of the largest tnd owning concerns in this part oft te State. He was also iterested in iveral other enterprises in the comlunity and considered one of its fore- J tost citizens. Mr. Hogan has been known to his j tultitude of friends by the intimate j ame of "Uncle Tom," and was pro-1 ably the most beloved man in this j immunity for the past generation, j cores of his friends have often been j tn make the remark that they; ever knew of any person saying an } 1 word of him and no one has ever) nown of his having an enemy. Hisj assing away will not only be a great >ss to the community at large, but' is death will mean a deep personal j >ss in the hearts and lives of scores f his friends. His funeral, conducted on Friday i ftemoon, April 23rd, at the Greely-1 ille Baptist church, was probably ( tie most largely attended in the his- j Jiry of the town. The floral offerings i re re most liberal and beautiful. The i unerai ,services were conducted by; nglesby Masonic Lodge, of which he ! ras a member. He was also a memer of the Woodmen of the World J nd a communicant of the Baptist hurch. His body was laid to rest' t Mount Hope cemetery, Greelyville. j o Hebron Club Meeting. - - . i The Hebron Democratic club mei; iaturday afternoon pursuant to the1 all of the county chairman and electd officers for the ensuing term as ollows: S. W. Baker, president; B. C.. Baker, ice president; R. E. McElveen, secetary. The club gave its unanimous ndorsement of the administration. Messrs. S. W. Baker, Bartow Smith, nd G. H. Williamson were chosen as elegates to the county convention. ??? ?t Committee on Registration: vv. m. luddin, C. A. Buddin, I. C. Coker. Executive committeeman: R. C. Mcllveen. ^ Veterans Called to Meet May 10th. The Record is requested by Comnander H. J. Brown to "call the Conederate Veterans ti meet promptly n May 10, at the courthouse in Kingsree. o The State Senate of Albany, N. Y., ast week passed a beer bill which termite 2.76 percent alcoholic content teer to be sold in hotels, restuarants ind clubs. I *\ HOTEL INSPECTION Score Cards for Rating South Carolina Hostelires Being Prepared. Columbia, April 27.?Score cards for rating hotels, restaurants and public boarding houses in South Carolina are being sent out now by the State board of health, as required by the new hotel inspection act of the recent legislature. J. W. Woodward, State hotel inspector, is assisting in the distribution. The hotel law requires that every transient hotel shall keep posted in a conspicuous place a list of charges, and also the score card^ of the State board of health. This score card shows how nearly the establishment comes up to the requirements of the inspection system. The score card coYfsrs such points nf Vintpl .sanitation, such as cleanliness of floors, screening, cuspidors, ventilation, adequate plumbing, individual soap and towels, improper advertisements, educational placards, cleanliness of attendants, fire escapes, clean linen and safe milk and water supply. It will be possible for a hotel or restaurant to score 1,000, which is perfection; though a score of 850 is excellent; 750 to 850 is good; 600 to 750 is fair; below 600 is bad and prejudicial to health. The State board of health is required under the new law to inspect every hotel and restaurant in the State once a year at least. To each hotel that comes up to the requirements of sanitation and service the board of health issues a certificate, which shall be posted conspicuously. The work of inspecting the hotels of the State is now in progress. The inspection fee is $3 for hotels with ten to twenty rooms; $5 for twenty to thirty rooms; $10 for thirty to forty rooms; $15 for forty to sixty rooms; $20 for sixty to 100 rooms; $25 for more than 100 rooms. Each restaurant pays an in- j ?- ( tin sp^psion iee 01 ?iu. o j APPARENTLY HAVE NO CHOICI? South Carolina Democrats Open on! Presidential Race.*" Columbia, April 27.?National poli- j tics have not yet brought to a head any sentiment in South Carolina with regard to the Democratic choice for the presidential nomination, though at some of the club meetings last Satur-! day night expressions were given. In a few cases McAdop was endorsed as j candidate, according to advices reach-, ing the Capital City from various j parts of the State. In others the sen- j timent was for uninstructed delega tions, though in the large majority of cases there was no discussion of the | nominee at all. There will be definite j expressions at'the county club meet-j ing^ on May 3. j So far very little attention has been; attracted to the State Democratic con- j vention, which meets on May 19. The question which at that gathering will likely receive the largest amount of attention will be that of preparing the way for women's votes in the primaries, following ratification of the suf- J frage amendment. The main question for the State con- j vention, however, will be the election ( of delegates to the national Democratic convention in San Francisco in June. Senators E. D. Smith and N. B. Dial, Governor Cooper and former Govornor Manning will likely be desi tn attend the Frisco gather I ^IIOWU W ? ing, and they will probably be sent without instructions. Presidential sentiment was wavered in South Carolina. There was a goodly Hoover boom, until Hoover declared himself a Republican. There is a good deal of Palmer strength in the State and also a strong McAdoo fol- j lowing, though neither candidate has to make it apparent that he is the South Carolina favorite. The strongest probability, it seems, is McAdoo sentiment. * 0 CARTER GLASS ENDORSED | Virginia Democrats Favor Policies of j Wilson. Bristol, Va.-Tenn., April 26.?Senator Carter Glass, former secretary of treasury, received his first endorsement for Democratic nomination for the Presidency at a mass meeting of the Democrats of Washington county, Virginia, held in Abington today. Resolutions endorsing the policies of President Wilson were drawn up and a vote of sympathy inspired by the death of Senator Martin was extended to his family. ELEGANT ADDRESS .! BY GOV. MANNING AT MEETING HELD HERE LASTFRIDAY IN INTEREST OF * MEMORIAL FUND. Ex-Governor Manning spoke in the | courthouse here last Friday in the interest of the South Carolina Memorial I fund. In spite of the publicity'given > the meeting prior to the date of hpld- . ing, less than fifty men and two or three women were in attendance. Mr. Manning gave six sons to the great world war. One of these never returned to his native soil and to the bosom of his home. Governor Manning made a most elequent address. He pictured coildiT tions in this country at the outset of > the war and sketched briefly the va- ; rious phases of war woric all of which ? was carried to a successful conclusion in a manner which amazed the world. ; Referring to South Carolina the Gov- \ ernor declared that this State furnished more than the quota of men, gave $80,000,000 to the various Liberty Loans, $16,000,000 to the various war work organizations, and that her soldiers won one-eighth of the Congressional medals awarded for distinguish ed service. He expressed the fear | that in this era of reconstruction men and women were so busy adding to their fortunes that they were forget- \ ting the men who fell in France in the : effort to make this country whete the sun shone and the birds sang and the land lay in peace and plenty, a lad of the free and the home of the brave for all time to come. Should any one J stop for a moment's reflection, however, he would realize the debt du^ to the boys who made all of this possi- i ble. Governor Manning told of con- J ditions in the war stricken area as he * saw them during his visit to Europe after the armistice was signed, and declared feelingly that the pen pictures portrayed for us could not bring a realization of the real conditions. He referred to the plots in all parts of France and Belgium dotted with the graves of Americans, South Carolinians, who fell in the great struggle and whose graves are now covered with poppies. . The Governor was introduced by Mr. E. C. Epps, chairman of the Memorial fund. At the conclusion of Mr. Manning's address, Mr. A. C. Hinds called lor subscriptions and a liberal pledge>was made by those present. The quota of Williamsburg county to this fund is about $3,500, entirelr s t too small a sum for our citizens to shrink from donating to this most excellent cause. . ;$ OPPOSES PENSION BILL Senator E. 0. Smith Expresses Disapproval of Measure. In the discussion of the pension bill in the Senate a few days ago, Senator E. D. Smith took occasion to ex- ? press his strong opposition to a cer- < tain provision in it, besides his disapprobation of the general tenor of it as a whole. The section which he particularly attacked provides that any widow of a federal soldier who had served in the Union army during the Civil War for a period of ninety days in any capacity would receive a pension of $30 per month no matter how many times she had been married or di- ? vorced since her husband's death. Tb* only restriction placed against the wife receiving the pension was the fact of a present living husband or a divorce for misconduct of the wife. Senator Smith called attention to the fact that a widow of the Civil War ?- 1 ".nfiv fimos class, no matter jiuw mouj ~ raaritaily removed from her soldier ^ husband, would receivd a pension, while the soldiers of the world war received no pension except their insurance, for which they had to pay He noted well that the pensions for the Civil War were borne by the whole country and benefited only a section, whereas the burden and benefits in pensioning in the case of the world war would fall o all alike. Senator Smith said the whole pensioning system was wrong because of politics. Nearly sixty years after the Civil War the pension appropriation 4 is by far greater, he said, than it was twenty years after and the fewer the numbers to receive pensions the greater the amount. 1 a t