The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 03, 1911, Image 1
fMtC si MTU Ii WVT4JHMAN. Est* HI I
Conso iciated Aufc. 2, 1
SPEAKS 10 \M AUDIENCE.
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Meeting Called f<>r Svxt Sundaj t<?
Take up Work-?Dr. Ilrown to lf>
point Mrmh. r, of Committee to 111
fivt Organization.
Dr J. N. McCormaok made an In?
teresting address Sunday afternoon
before \ hin. ' mull."lice und for tin
whoh time that he talked, which was
one hour and forty minutes, he gav
out facts and figures showing how
the poop!' g| the country allow wi
their relatives and friends to die
dar aff>r day of preventable dis?
eases, and how easy II was to pre?
vent those diseases If everybody uni?
ted with the medical men In their
efforts to eradtcste disease.
Dr. McCormack did not go into de?
tails, but he gave sufficient facts t<>
est every one In his audt. n -- to think?
ing and to thinking hard. He told
of the contraction of typho ?1 and
how easily the fltes, which are the
?r^at stransml'ters of the disease,
could be destroyed. Hi congratulat?
ed Sumter upon Its pure w ater supply
but spoke In th* most condemn i
tory terms of how there was no milk,
food and meat laspeetof who should
be employed to see that the people of
the city wire furnished with pur
food end milk and meat. He Staled
that there ought to be OBS abhabdr
where all animals which ware to be
eat?n In the city ought to be killed.
Hs stated that the people w r. d<
stroylng thslr bahies every year by
giving them Impure milk. He st.it- I
that South Carolina was one of tie
few States that kept no record of
Its births snd deaths and i^cause of
|g fact, ho had been unahle to se
?OV ex'ut figures than those i.f
as to the deat h rate and
tuberculosis patients in
told his audience
Straight for* ml
ibem hoar
dSpPaiSi oou?Q be bettered
a groat majority At the prevent?
able disneens could be avoided. At
Uaass h*? made 'sarcastic r-f^rence to
various things that were not as IKS]
should be. especially war this tru<- of
his reference to patent psasHolBSi OOf)
tainin? alcohol, several of which he
stated were used instead of whiskey
hy women, when in fact the wlus
key was the leas of the two eviU. He
BSjelM In the strongest terms con?
densing several widely adv- rtlsea pat?
ent medicines, saying that they wst1
simply drugs that did great harm
to everyone that used them. He
ridicule,! thI drug stor** cl rk
who d-?< (or I boys and young
men who suffered front diseases con?
tracted by immorality. hut stated
that the best elass of druggists were
n<?t in sympathy with this class of
practise.
At the i oncluslon of his lecture.
Dr. C. C. Hrown. who presided ov??r
th?? meeting, agfeec! M. It. L Man?
ning to say what he thouKht of the
doctrine taught by Dr. McCormack.
II? stated that he thought it rank
heresy himself. Mr. Manning)
*! 'it,, m, | made .i f. w remark.-,.
He mated that he had no plan of
campaign to offer to remedy present
conditions but that ho thought that
the heat method of dealing with the
?eyll was to communicate with Con?
gressman l.e\er and one of our sena?
tors and ask them to see that the
bill appointing a department of health |
was passed and that with the move?
ment started at th?? national s-at of
government, it would 1 I brought on
down to the Siate and from there to
th? county and then '.n to th ? town?
ship and household. Hp sdd that
th* good that ? nuld he done by
a department had been e\,mplitb <|
by what had b .^n don., hy the de?
partment of agriculture and the same
thing could be done, he thought, fat
the health of the eountr\.
Itev. f? M. Mcl.eo.l was then
ralbd noon to say Mhat hi thought
and h Mated thai hi had to plead
guilt'. In h.?ving committed a great
mnnv of |hs sins that Dr. McCOT
mn< k had lotd about. He thought
that tiini" orira id/itbui ou.;hl to hi
effe, t d to ,ii,.u !!>?> eommuiilly to
th?- evils that Df< MaOaaarach had
told about and that steps OUghl to
b . taken to pr \* ot the dlseasi Its
thought that the nc.? ? on nt OUghl lo
he hegjuai at hoeae,
ihof. Bdmnade, who was nexi
raib-d on. stated lhai it weald tahe
hhn so |onn to '?II of ;,|| tin- good
things provided fat lh< ehlKtren ?t the
city schools that he would twd ill'- nipt
to do so. Ife said that th" children
had been Inspected by the city phy
881.
FIGHT ON PARCELS POST.
MOTHER VEXED QUESTION
i OXFRONTS DEMOCRATS,
AmuIowi '?i Itll Presidential Cam?
paign Loom Ahme Hnttleihid In
Lower House.
Washington. April 30.?Now that
the democrats in the house have dis?
cussed at length the free list bill,
passed the reciprocity bill and the re
pport'onment bill, settled the vexed
patronage quvstion and started booms
for several sons, they are to tackle
at an early date another tough prop
ttlOU?one thut is generally con
b I to b* of the hardest kind?
that I*, whether they will pass a par
( Is post law. either general or lim
letd.
on the other hand, the sentiment
for the establishment of a parcels
post is obviously growing; on the
other hand, with the opposiaion to it
bitter, and a presidential campaign
just ahead, tlnro Si some hesitancy
on th. part ol the Democrats concern?
ed ?v? r the party fate in 1912 about
taking it up.
!t U plain, however, that the qu? 1
km is up to this congress, and that
It will have to pass on It.
Cha.mp Clark) ttaf speaker, admit?
ted this himself recently. Mr.
Clark has not committed himself on
the proposition, though he Is con?
vinced the expf?? SS companies, to use
his own terms, are "gouging" the
public. He is in favor of the post
otllce department living up to that re?
quirement of the law as to sxercls
ir-r i monopoly of the business of
carrying packets. That th" houil
will pass a parcels post mSSSUrS If
>ne i-t reported out of committee is
generally believed. The recent par?
cels post c ?aventlon hl Washington
was the strongest gathering of the
kind ever held here.
It took steps to urge congress to
act in favor of the system .and even
went further and put Itself on rec?
ord a.s desiring that the government
take o\er ?hc business of the express
?omp3kUiev.
Congressman Moon of Tennessee
has already appointed the subcommit?
tees of his committee. Among th?.m is
one on parcels post. It consists of
l Representative Lloyd of Missouri,
chairman, and Representatives Mays,
Dell, Gregg, Weeks, Gardner of New
Jersey and Lafcan. Representative
Lloyd le chraiman of the Democratic
congressional committee. Messrs.
Gardner. Weeks and Lafean are the
Repuhii an moinbem
The sentiment of the subcommittee
and of the main committee is about
evenly divicbd for and against the
system.
Mr. Lloyd, as chairman of the sub?
committee In charge of the question,
has a large responsibility In the mat?
ter.
If no bill Is brought out he will be
blamed for it. and It will he said that
he was afiaicd to let the. legislation
get through for fear Of political con?
sequences.
Hut the disposition of a good many
of the Democrats is to take the vi rw
that parcels poef legislation Is want?
ed by th" farmers and that it should
be provided. Some of the astute pol?
Itletani perceive that the i nactment
of Canadian reciprocity has hurt
them with the farmers, who can sag
nothing to th- ir benefit in It.
Parueli post legislation would bo
very popular with the latter and
might counteract any deleterious *?f
fs< Is on the farmer vote from the re?
ciprocity agreement.
This situation makes the parcels
poet proposition ? very important one
at this time ;md ore that will he well
worth watching.
No agreement has been signed by
the merchants to close at r? o'clock
I?. m., Saturday's excepted, from May
1st to s. ptember 1st. but II goes with?
out "laying that the custom that has
obtained for more than twenty years
will n<>t be disregarded by nny of
the !>usln< ss men of Sumter. ah the
stores should clone,
sielan who had this ln*|>< 1 tlon as a
part Ol bis duties.
I ?r. Bros n Go n asked 1 Mr, Me
I Cormack what plans of organization
I he bad to oflfc r and he said ?hat h
prop ? i ihn I the present chairman
I appoint Heven representatives from
? In tin d':< al ft! IOC I itlon, and civic
league and other representative
'?och. % in ih i ny Rh,| them msp
out the pi ' * for a systematic cam?
paign to pr< ? m the diseases he hod
spoken of. This ld< h we i ? m bod led
in a resolution and passe d.
Dr. Drown than announced thai th*)
meeting was ad journ. ,|.
nd Fear not-^-Let itll the ?mi?Jh Thou A In
SUMTE'R, S. C , WEi>
INCOME TAX NEEDS SIX VOTES
TAVEXTY-NINE LEGISLATURES
HAVE RATIFIED AGREE?
MENT.
Baven Law-making Rodlea Have Ad
Journed After Refusing u> Take
Action on It.
New Vork, April 30.?Twenty-nine
States, according to reports received
here, have ratilied the proposed in
1 come tax amendment to the federal
I constitution. Before the amendment
. can become a lav it must be approved
by six more States, making the num?
ber in favor 35, or three-fourths of
the whole 46.
Arkansas and Tennessee are the
only States which ratified in April.
Thus far the proposal has been ap?
proved by both legislative houses in
th.- following States:
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Col?
orado, Qcorgla, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa,
Maine. Michigan, Mississippi, Mis?
souri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Carolina, North Dokota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Washington,
The amendment is pending before
the legislature of nine States still in
Session. These are:
(lonnectlcut?Committee reported
adversely; no action by either house.
! ?. law ar?-No action.
Florida ? Pass .I tlit house, pending
in the sonata.
New York?Passed the senat-j,
p< ndlng In the houa ?
Pennsylvania?(Committee reported
f trorubly, no action yet by -ith^r
house,
Rhode Island?Defeated in 1910;
no action this year.
Virginia?-Passed the senate, de?
feated in house
Wisconsin?Passed the house,
pending in the senate.
Seven State legislatures have ad?
journed so far this year, refusing to
ratify the amendment in one or both
rouses. Thes.- were: Louisiana, Min?
nesota, New Hampshire, New J vs? y.
?Ctah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
The Vermont tagisluture delVated
the amendment in 1010 and does not
rn et again until 1912.
YOUTH KILLED HY TRAIN.
Tom O'Connor of Charleston Hun
Over ami Horribly Mangled on
Coast Line Tracks.
Florence, April 30.?Tom Q'Con
in?r of Charleston, aged 22, was
found dead on the Atlantic Coast
Line track near Howes station this
morning. Ills body was badly mang?
led, the wheels of the cars having
out it in two pieces.
On the body was found a postal
card, which furnished the mvans of
Identification. His step-father, who
came fr.un Charleston lat'-r in the
day, confirmed the identification and
to?d< charge of the body.
It is supposed that O'Connor was
t iding on a freight train and fell from
one of the coal cars.
OOV, wilson to TAKE TRIP.
Win Leave Princeton Wednesday Af
ternlon In Pour Week-* Tour of
Western state*.
Trenton. N. J? April ::<>.?Qov,
Woodrow Wilson w in leave Princeton
next Wednesday afternoon for a four
weeks' speaking tour of the Western
and Pacific Coast States. His Itiner?
ary includes Kansas City, Denver,
Los Angeles. Ban Francisco, Berk
Icy, Portland. Seatfb, Minneapolis
and St. Paid. Lincoln and Chicago.
It is stated in the governor's behalf
thai the swing around the circle is
not a campaign in any sense. All
through the winter and spring he has
been receiving Invitations from or?
ganizations and groups Of admirers
in the West to visit them, and he has.
it Is said, declined Invitations from
political or partisan bodies, It is
said he will dlsccss political Issues oti
the trlfi onl) In a broad, non-par?
tisan Sense.
.1 n \i \ki i: or com i m ?: \< ^
?I. p Murru) hies In Columbus, <.a.
\gcd so.
Columbus. Ca.. April 29.-?J, I
Murray, known a^ tin- "gunmaker j?f
i he < ?onfed< rat j." died n1 his hum<
here today, at the i ??? of v,? > ? ats.
\t the opening of the war. Murray
v as pi; . . .| in charge of the < fon?
f derate gun factory here and he con?
tinued to manufacture arms for the
armies of the South until the factor)
was destroyed by Wilson's raiders in
I S(J.(,
list at l>e tli> Country'*, Thy God's an
JE3D ! Y. AY 3, 1911.
ONE PERSON KILLED?HUN?
DREDS RENDERED HOME?
LESS.
Conflagration Penetrates Residential
Districts, Causing People (o Flee
for Safety ? Mayor Inaugurates
Martial Law?Aid Furnished by
Sister Cities.
Bangor, Me., April 30.?Property
valued at upwards of six million dol?
lars was J -stroyed hundreds if peo?
ple made nomeless and almost the?>n
tire business section of city devastated
during a conflagration which, at mid?
night tonight. was believed to be
practically under control, although
the lire was still burning in many
places. A light rain fell, which help?
ed to check the fire.
One life is known to have been lost,
an unknown man who was killed by
a falling wall.
, Mayor Mullen called out the local
company of the National Guard and
I scad the city under martial rule.
Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, oid
town. Brewer and every other plac4
within reach were asked for help
I and sent it. Already a score of
buildings have been blown-up in an
(Tort to check the flames, and dyna?
mite is still being liberally used.
The fire started in the hay shed of
J. P. Green, on Broad street, and in a
short time was sweeping through the
city in a northwesterly direction.
?MAY DAY" STRIKE PLANNED.
10,000 to Go Out in New York I n
loss Demands Granted.
New York. April 30.?Ten'thous?
and or more men and women In three i
trades will go on strike tomorrow.
"May Pay." hi re. I'.y tomorrow night
not a wheel will be turning in a
single union machine shop here, they
assert, unless employers grant the
demand far an eight-hour day. To
those figures the leaders add 4,000
machinists, who walked out Saturday.
The machinists' strike overshadows
Ih extent the two "others. whi< h
have been railed by the waist niak
ers and bakers, these affecting only
I
Isolated shops In Brooklyn and In the
Bast Side.
The machinists are demanding an
eight-hour day in New York, Brook?
lyn, Yonkers and Hudson County, N.
J? and. the waist makers in certain
shop? threaten to walk out in a body
against the restoration of conditions
which existed before their recent
strike. These, they say. include a re
return to unsanitary surroundings and
a cut in wages. The bakers will
strike in scattered shops for better
sanitary conditions. Labor leaders
expect 2,000 workers in these two
trades to walk out.
One of th"? largest employers of
machinists, E. AY. Bliss & Co., of
Brooklyn, has addressed a ,f-tter to
each of its 2.250 employees, notifying
them there can be no compliance
with their demnads, and their places
will be filled hy others. Of the 2">.000
<>r more union machinists employed
? in the strike district, appromlxately
half, labor leaders assert, are al?
ready working tinder an eight-hour
contract. These will not strike.
in other trades, according to the
committee of the Central Fed* iation
of Unions, no disturbance is antici?
pated.
NEED MTLK FOR SICK.
Monti.1> Report of City Nurse for the
Month of April.
Nurse, A. S. Jones.
Patients, 32.
Tuberculosis Patients. ?',.
Total number ol visits. 193.
Visits to Tuberculosis Patients. 20.
Sent to Hospitals, 2.
Died, 1.
Dismissed, 13
Remaining und* r treatment, 19.
Remarks: We nre very much In
i eed of milk, and children's clothing.
Any help in thU way we will feel
v ry grateful for, Phon< 139 or 168.
< aid of Tlinnks.
We wish to extend to our many
friends our most heart-felt thanks for
the kldness and consideration shown
to ua In out- recenl bereavem n . the
death of our beloved husband and
rath< r, M r. VV, W. Ramsej.
M i s. W. VV. Rams< y and children.
So doubl
l>. irtlls in t
hlmsvdf, i: l<
A young woman pretends to know
l.-> s than sli-' Knows' and a yotinR m U
more, x< w v oi It Press,
the i 'olom I w ould
uvor of the r< call
hiuoiid \. w s-1 .eadi r
d Truth's." TUE TRU1
EIGHT TEACHERS MISSING.
FIFTY MORE INJURED IN WRE< K
or EXCURSION TRAIN.
Miraculous Escape of others of 170
New York School Teachers En
Route to Washington for Week's
Outing ? Engine Jumps. Track,
Carrying Coaches ? Entire Train
Consumed by Flames.
Baston, Pa., April 29.?Two . per?
sons lost their lives, eight are missing
and believed to he dead and half
a hundred others wore injured this
afternoon at Martin's Creek, N. J.,
in a wreck of an excursion train, car?
rying one hundred and seventy
teachers and friends from Utica and
Syracuse, N. Y.. and vicinity to Wash
ington for a week's outing. ?
The train was one furnlshe
teachers by the Delaware, Lax
wanna and Western Railroad, and the
accident occurred while it was travel?
ing at a high rate of speed over a
j stretch of track controlled by the
j Pennsylvania Railroad. The en?
gine jump-ed the track, tho- cars, fol?
lowing toppled over and wore sot on
fire by exploding oil, the wrecked
coaches having side-swiped an oil
tank along, the track when they left
the rails.
The entire train was quickly enve?
loped in flames and completely con?
sumed by the fire. The eight missing
persons, seven of whom wore women,
and lived in Utica, are believed to
have been burned to death in the
wreckage, The finding of charred
hom-s led the railroad wrecking crews
to the conclusion that they are dead.
In The Police Court.
Amos Mack was charged with non?
payment of dray license to which he
plead guilty. He was let off with the
payment of the license of $r..00 to the
city clerk and $2.f>0 for not having
paid up on time.
Ed. P.ak?or, for non-payment of
pressing club license, was lined $i.oo.
1>. J. Diggs was charged with non?
payment of merchant's license and
soda water license. He plead not
guilty and was found not guilty of
the first hut was found guilty on the
second charge and lined $7.r.0, $r>.00
of which went to the city clerk for a
license.
James Young, lor non-payment of"
tin- hack ordinance und restaurant
license, was fined $12.."0.
There were only a few cases t> he
tried in the PoPllce court on Monday
and these cases did not take much
of- the Recorder's time.
Hardy Johnson and Horace Seals
were tried for fighting. Johnson plead
guilty to th?? charge and Seals plead
not guilty. The evidence showed that
Johnson was entirely at fault and
he was consequently fined $10, while
his co-partner In the fight was al?
lowed to get off free as he had not
taken any part in it. except trying to
get out of Johnson's way.
Mason Jenkins was brought up on
the charge of non-payment of hack
license. He stated that he had al?
ready paid one-half of the amount
due when he had been arrested and
that he had paid the remainder of
the license on Saturday. He was
sentenced to pay a line of $2.r?0 for
not having paid the license previous?
ly.
Mary Douglas and Ned Miller were
arrested Saturday on the charge of
Ightlng, but were nol present when
their case was called. Their bond
of each was consequently forfeit?
ed.
\ttend Meeting in Columbia.
From the Daily kern, May I.
Mrs. R. S. Ho,ul, Mrs. H. W. Beall
and Miss Armida Moses went over
tr. Columbia this morning to attend
the meeting of tin- Federation of Wo?
men's Clubs which meets at that
pin*- today.
Mrs. Hood goes ;.s the represent?
ative of the CVIvic League at this
place and Miss Moses goes as the pres?
ide nt of tlit Leagues, lira, Beall
represents the Civic League at Mayes
villa.
Spring Festival,
I?' tut forget that the afternoon
n.d evening of May 17th is the date,
and Cooper's lot, at Calhoun and
Church streets is tin- place, win it tl
Spring Festival of the Civic I*<
of the N itioii! 'nd the Ithahj snow
are gome of the other features for
ivhb li a small extra fee will be < hi rg
cd.
i SO?TWROX. Established June. iue*
Vol. XXXII. No. 21.
FORESTS MAY BE CONSERVED.
SUPREME COURT THI S DECIDES
IN APPEALED ( ASK.
Ippeul of Colorado (ntilesnea, As?
sisted b] State Claims Reservation
is Against Constitution.
Washington, May I,?The legal
battle against the forest reserves of
the West in parPcular and conserva?
tion by the f ' government of
natural resc a genvral was lost
today in ^> /rente court of the
United jfi That tribunal not only
uphf & constitutionality of the
es' .tent Qf the vast reserves
*etl
* t national and public purpose,
6> fettled once tor all that the fed
.tl government and not the States
may say how the reserves shall be
used.
The immediate results of the con?
clusions of the court are that Fred
Light, a prominent Colorado cattle?
man, will remain enjoined from al?
lowing his cattle to graze on the Holy
Cross forest reserve in Colorado, and
that Pierre Grimaud. J. P. Carajous
and Antonio Inda. California sheep
men, must answer to the indictment
? barging them with grazing sheep
upon the Sierra forest reserves with?
out a permit, in violation of regula?
tion 4 5 of the secretary of agricul?
ture and the statute of congress of
1891.
The subject was dealt with in two
opinions delivered by Justice Lamar.
The entire court concurred.
The basic principle upon which he
proceeded was that "the nation is ah
owner and has made congress the
principal agent to dispose of its prop?
erty."
The constitutionality of the vast
fun st reservations of the West and
the validity of the modern conserva
tion policy were questioned early in
this case in the circuit court of the
Cnited States for the district of .Color?
ado.
The Cnit* d States government had
brought suit to -njoin P'red Light,
prominent Colorado , cat.yer>arxC '
causing or permitting his cattle to
trespass upon the Holy Cross forest
r serve in Colorado? A stubborn con
rest arose, and among the other de?
fenses put forth by Light was one
that the formation of the Holy Cross
reserve without the consent of the
State of Colorado, was unconstitution?
al. As the other vast reserves in the
West had been formed by a similar
process of federal action in withdraw?
ing public land from entry, the argu?
ment applied by analogy to them.
The injunction was granted and an
appeal taken to the supreme court of
the Cnited States.
The defense met the government
with several arguments. In the first
place, it was pointed out that the re
serve had not been fenced by the
government, and a Colorado law pro?
vided that no person should recover
damages for trespass unb ss the land
in question was fenced. Therefore
Light pointed to this law as barring
the government from relief. The gov?
ernment retorted that the Yence lav
applied only to individuate, and not
to the state of Colorado or to the
United States. If it was meant to
apply to the Cnited States. it wa3
argued by the government that the
law was unconaltutlonaL One of the
sharp Issues of the case was centr* d
on tlrs point.
So widespread was the nter- st in
the case and so vital the questions in -
volved that the state of Colorado
threw itself into the contest. At?
torney General Burnett was author*
izv-d to assist Light in fighting the
federal government, He did se.
Tin attorney general emphasised
the argument before the supreme
court that no provision of the con?
stitution empowered the federal gor?
ernment to "conserve the national re?
sources." by providing for s con?
tinuing timber supply, regulating the
Mow of streams and preserving power
sites from being monopolised. Ha
urg? d that the withdrawal of stich
large tracts of land, said to be one*
fifth of the entire urea of Colorado,
was the denial of equality with the
< ider Stales which 1 d b< n allowed
? i e\ reise dominion ov*?r all the ter
ritorv within th*?r boundaries.
T \<. I W COLLECT!! ?\v
Fertilizer Revenue Will <.i\o Clem son
< ?liege ibowl gsan,ana.
i' iltimMa, Ma> I, The fertills r
? ' 1 ,N collected since the first (
the year amounts to $231.228. The
t< d urnount collected to tb same
fund goes to Clem son college. It is
expected thai the fund will reach
(I ooo before th. end of the year.