The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 14, 1914, Image 8
SUM PUHTIHB CAMPAIGN.
?XK>DSTVFFS NOW HEAL MONEY
CROP.
Watson and Long Point Out Special
Opportunity of South Carolina tirow
Columbia. Nov. l.?An address Is
auod yesterday to the people of South
Carolina by E. J. Watson, State com?
missioner of agriculture, and W. W.
Long. State agent of the federal farm
demonstration service and director of
the extension work of Clemson col
logo, says that the "real money crop
of ltfll not only should but must con?
sist of grain" and solicits cooperation
In the campaign which Is to be made
to promote the seeding at once of
foodstuffs crops in this State. The
address follows:
To the People of South Carolina:
Now that It has been definitely de?
termined that only one-third of the
acreage of cultivated land in South
Carolina car be planted under the law
on any farmer's place, the agricul?
tural producers of the State of South
Carolina ar? compelled to turn their
attention to crops other than cotton.
The situation as to the world's supply
and demand of toodstuffs and feed
crops Is such that the real money
crops for 1916 not only should but
must consist of grain. It is mani?
fest that the Southern States have a
goldea opportunity in the matter of
raising wheit and oats alone followed
by corn, ami that the money for these
crops can be obtalne readily. If
for no other reason than that of our
geographical location we can grow,
harvest and sell the crops some
months earlier than any other section
of the world.
If the State of South Carolina Is to
reap the harvest and take full advan?
tage of the rare opportunity now of?
fered by world conditions, her people
must get their grain In the soil by or
before December 1. After that date
It will be practically too late for any?
thing to be accomplished. Already
every farm demonstration agent In
the State la urging the people to
plant grain and plant It promptly. In
many sections the people have already
put la their grain. The demand for
ieed wheat and oats Is great.
For many weeks the United States
farm demonstration service and ex?
tension divisions of Clemson college
and the State bureau of marketing
have been getting Information as to
sources of supply and prices. Many
farmers have not attempted to buy or
to arrange to buy until final action by
the general assembly upon the meas?
ure looking to the furnishing of seed.
The measure hsa failed to pass, and
It may be necessary for many of the
banks and merchants to help men
who can not he'* themselves secure
need.
One of the great difficulties In the
way of getting our people to plant
grain Is their lack of unders'andlng
of the new economic condition that
makes it possible for grain in the
South to be as good a money crop as
any other crop and many because of
this lack of knowledge of the new
conditions brought about by the war
are aot attempting to plant the grain
that they ought to plant for their
own financial betterment.
In view of the general situation,
and of the very short time in which
a grain crop can be put into the soil,
and la view of the fact that so many
do not know anything of the methods
of planting wheat, particularly, the
various forces that have been work?
ing for the upbuilding of the agricul?
ture of South Carolina, after con?
ferring carefully upon the matter,
have determined that it is vitally
essential, in order that our people
may get the full benefits of their op?
erations for the year 1916, to conduct
a whirlwind campaign throughout the
State, the Idea being to furnish direct
to the people in mass meetings full
Information :n regard to sped und In
regard to the preparation of the soil,
la regard to cultivation of the crop,
la regard t> the marketing and
financing of the crop.
The State farm demonstration
ageat and the commissioner of agri?
culture will personallv engage in the
work and the effort will be made to
obtain the assistance of several of the
best known experts in the country
In each county v hated some leading
hanker will be asked to participate
la the meetings and assure the people
as to the attitude of the banks to?
ward grain as against cotton.
Ws are endeavoring to perfect ar?
rangements no as to cover from live to
six large meetings every day until the
State has been gone over. We ex?
pect to hav.? a grain elevator expert
accompany the party also to answer
any questions in regard to the locality
of elevators for the care of the crop.
We are now at woik upon the Kin
erarv. which will generally follow the
main public highways of the state
Into the various sections of the Staff
and we would prefer that the me. t
rears be held at points where the larg?
est number of people can none r?-a<l
IIv assemble.
In order to assist us in making Up
the Itinerary M Is hoped Iba? ?II \*ic.
COLDER WEATHER HELPS.
AIDS IX CRUSADE AGAINST CAT?
TLE PLAGUE.
More States Added and Now Under
Quarantine for Foot und Mouth Dis?
ease.
Washington, Nov. 9.?Colder weath?
er with rain was hailed by depart?
ment of agriculture officials today as
a powerful ally in their campaign to
repress the rapidly spreading live
stock foot and mouth disease epi?
demic.
Encouraging reports come from
some sections, but news of more af?
fected districts caused the depart?
ment to extend the federal quarantine
to include Delaware, New Jersey and
Khocle Island, and to bar cattle ship?
ments from Canada. Thirteen States
are order quarantine.
While no cases of the disease have
heen found in Canada the quarantine
Is to prevent the return of ijj/ected
cattle cars to the United States. It
will stop shipments of cattle into the
Unltod States valued at approximate?
ly $8.000,000 a year.
The effect of the Canadian quaran?
tine on the meat situation can not be
estimated immediately, according to
department officials. It will depend on
whether Canadian imports have been
for immediate slaughter or fattening
purposes.
Upon the receipts of reports today
from Held agents In Indiana and
Michigan officials expressed the hope
that the disease in these States had
been brought under control. Reports
from Pennsylvania indicated that the
disease had spread.
HOG YIHUS DANGEROUS.
Found to Bo Infected with Germs of
Plague.
Chicago. Nov. 9.?Hog cholera virus
manufactured at the Union Stock
Yards has been found infected with
germs of foot and mouth disease and
two plants making the remedy were
closed today. All the virus on hand,
worth about $20,000, was condemned.
Scventy-flve in?pec* ~>rs were detailed
to visit all farms to which the virus
has been shipped since October 1.
Fifty-four head of the 800 pedi?
greed dairy cattle exhibited at the
National dairy show are suffering from
the disease. These prize cattle have
an average value of about $3,000.
Secretary Houston has advised "in the
interest of the country at large" the
slaughter of these animals, but so far
has not issued an order to that effect.
Owners of the prize herd have form?
ed an organization, retained counsel
and are prepared to resist su^h an
order by injunction.
STOCK YARDS OPEN MONDAY.
Slaughter of Cattle Will Begin at
Midnight Sunday.
Chicago. Nov. 10.?After a thor?
ough disinfection, the Chicago sto"k
yards will reopen next Sunday t.t
midnight. Shipments of livestock
from non-infected districts then wi'i
be reecived and slaughtering re?
sumed.
In determining infected districts the
county will be i sed as the unit. Btr?
cry county where a case of foot and
mouth disease has appeared will bo
prohibited from shipping in livosto.-k.
?*
NAVY'S BIDS LOWEST.
Not Yet Certain to Be Accepted.
Washington. Nov. 10.?Although
bids for construction of the navy's six
new torpedo boat destroyers were
opened today, no contracts will bi
awarded until a detailed comparison
is made with estimates submitted by
the Mare Island navy yard. These
estimates, ranging from $111,171 to
[$674,917 per vessel are more than
$100.000 below the lowest private bid.
but they make no allowance for In*
ferest on the plant, deterioration,
overhead charges or superintending
Department officials pointed out that
for that reason It will be difficult to
reich a proper basis of comparison
The vessels will be. the largest de?
stroyers ever designed for the Ameri?
can navy, their tonnage running up
to 1,110.
Looks to the South.
New York. Nov. 1?.?The grat branch
of an American National bank tu be
estuldishcd in a foreign country will
be formaly canned fo. business in
Ituenos Aires tomorrow. Authority for
the opening of such a branch lias
laen granted to a New York bank, it
ssas announced her?- today.
are interested will communicate lm?
mediately with the commissioner of
agriculture at Columbia. When the
Itinerary Is announced giving tin
dates and hours it Is hoped thai every
fanner ft <? ni the adjio ent Country
will make it his business t ? !?<? pres?
ent and ask for and obtain at first
hand the information thai he desires.
R, .r. Watson,
Commissioner of Agriculture;
W. W. Long,
state Kann Demonstration Agent,
i Columbia.
SOUTHERN WOMEN'S DUTY.
SIlOt'LI) SMOOTH AWAY GERMAN
WAR'S WRINKLES.
Mrs. Joscphus Daniels Tells C. D. C.
Tliat Their Dost Work Is to Uproot
Animosity.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 10.?Southern
women should recognize and more j
fully accept the part they may play in I
eradicating any lingering animosities j
between the North and South, de?
clared Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife
of the secretary of the navy, in an
address at the opening session here
tonight of the annual convention of
the United Daughters of the Confed?
eracy. Mrs. Daniels, here as a dele?
gate from North Carolina, spoke in re?
sponse to an address of welcome.
"Let those of us who know of the
travail of the '60s keep alive the glory
'< of sacrillce and the valor* of the van
; quished to the latest day of our
lives," said Mrs. Daniels. "But let us
' 'not look mournfully upon the past,'
but ask oursehes the question: 'How
lean Southern women of the 20th cen
j tury prove worthy of their lineague
I and transmit to their children the
graces and virtues which were incar
\ nated in the Southern women of the
war and Reconstruction periods?*
"First of all, wc must know that
love is greater than all besides. Our
j children must be taught to love the
' ling of their country, and sons and
daughters alike given to see the pa
jtriotism of those who wore the blue
as well as of those who wore the gray.
It was said that Henry Grady 'died
loving the country into peace.'
"The first duty of the Daughters is
to lovo all men, and illustrate the
best traditions of the South by per
i mitting no seed of bitterness to mar
j or narrow our own lives or the lives
of our children.
Secdnd, to preserve the history?
the home life history of the South
during the War Between the Sections.
Southern histories in plenty tell of the
glorious conflicts on land and sea. But
j there is a history of those days not
[yet fully written. There is untouched
j a history of heroines. There was
stimulus to men who went to death
marching to martial music, under in?
spiring banners, cheered by their com
i rades. Women poured out their lives
[in apprehension and labor and sacri
Iflce and unutterable loneliness. Many
stories of their deeds have been writ?
ten but more have been buried in the
hearts of heroines who * never tasted
(honor or fame. But their daughters
owe It to coming generations to illu
i mine the pages of literature by col
I lectlng and printing in permanent
form these deeds.
"Third, fhe duty of the Daughters
of the Confederacy is to keep fresh
j the memory of the brave men who
( wore the gray. Let them be cheered,
now that the snow that never melts
'has fallen on their heads, by the
knowledge that sons and grandsons
hold them in honor and point to their
! service as illustrative of the noblest
Knights of the race.'
Mrs. Daniels paid tribute to Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson as "the best type of
I Southern womanhood."
I "When the whole nation mourned
her untimely death," she said, "there
I was a solemn pride in the South that
tho home of her youth was selected
for her last repose. Her memory will
I live in the hearts of all her country
i women, but here in the South it will
j be our privilege, as wc decorate the
graves of Southern heroes, ever to
Ikeep green her bust resting place, and
I emulate her virtues her graciousness
I and her practical helpfulness.
[ At the opening session of the con
IVentlon tonight Mayor it. J. Davant
[welcomed the visiting delegates on bc
. half of the city and Mrs. W. D. Lamar
of Macon, president of the Georgia di?
vision, on behalf of the State. Capt.
F. D. Bloodsworth, commander of
veterans' camp No. 7<?5, also spoke,
j Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, pres?
ident general, delivered her annual
address.
j At tomorrow's session reports of
committees and general officers will
be made and resolutions will be
adopted in memory of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson.
i The following Officers Will make re?
port tomorrow: Heeordlng secretary
generali Mrs. p, w. Williams; corre?
sponding secretary generali Mrs. Ed
ward Schnabel; treasurer general,
Mrs. c. B. T?te, reglstrat general.
.Mrs. Orlando Mallburtoni historian
general, Miss Mildred Hutherford;
custodian of llags ami pennants, Mrs
W. A. Walke.
WILL BE A DEFICIT.
Election Prlllllng Appropriation |s In?
adequate.
1 *o) urn Ma, Nov. i o, a. W. Jones
comptroller general. has begun tin
payment of claims caused by the gen
era] election. The appropriation \\a^
$30,400, Managers nml commissioner:
will receive $26,000, <>nl\ 10 per cent,
or $6,000, will be u;iiii on the printing
hills. There will be a deficit of about
$0,000 for the printing, In be und h>
i in* nexl general nssemblj.
B16 FIRE IN COLUMBIA. I
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY BUF?
FERS LOSS OF APPROXI?
MATELY $100,000.
Cur Barn ami Dozen Cars Destroyed in
Spectacular Maze?Loss is Covered
by Insurance-?Service Interrupted
Temporarily.
Columbia, Nov. 11.?One of the car
barns of the Columbia Railway, Gas
and Electric company, located on To?
bacco street near the union station,
was completely destroyed by lire just
before midnight last night, causing a
loss of nearly $100,000, covered by in?
surance. The cause of the lire is not
Known. The lire was one of the most
spectacular that has occurred in Co?
lumbia in many years and was ac?
companied by a series of explosions.
The lire was discovered at 11.10 o'clock
and at 11.40 o'clock the building was I
i
completely destroyed, the brick walls
having collapsed.
"1 have no idea what caused the
lire," said Alfred Wallace, general
manager of the street railway com-1
pany, last night.
The building destroyed last night
was over 200 feet long and 50 feetj
wide and contained 12 cars, 11 being
summer cars, stored away for the
winter. One pay-as-you-enter car was!
run into the building early last even- 1
ing. The companion building, used
for storing the winter cars in the I
service, which stands only a few feet
away, was only slightly damaged.
Officials of the street railway com
pany said that the 11 or 12 ears de?
stroyed were worth from $4.000 to
'$3,000 each. The building contained
live tracks.
The building destroyed was con?
structed of brick and steel, with a ce?
ment gravel roof and was not con
eldered absolutely lire proof. The floor
I was concrete. The bulldlfig was erect?
ed two years agtf at a cost of over
$30,000. It was constructed to re?
place the old car barn on lower Main
street.
Columbia fire companies made a
quirk run to the lire, but it had gained
much headway. Hundreds of specta?
tors were' attracted by the lire. To
prevent an accident the current in
that secion of the city was cut off for
some time and many cars were tied
up on various lines.
Officials of the street railway com?
pany said last night that the service
would not be hampered as a result of
the fire.
"The fire was discovered at the
right entrance of the barn on Tobac?
co street. No one knows the cause,"
said General Manager Wallace last
night.
It. R. COMMUNICATIONS CUT.
Connecting Link Between United
States and Mexico Severed.
Lamdo, Nov. 11.?Railroad commu?
nication between Mexico City and the
American border were cut off today.
An announcement was made that only
trains between Neuvo Laredo and
Monterey will be operated on the Na?
tional railway.
How the House Stands.
Washington, Nov. 10.?An unoffi?
cial list of representatives-elect to
tke next congress was completed to
uay by South Trimble, Clerk of the
house. The compilation, which is not
Anally verified, gives:
Democrats 133, Republicans 193,'
Progressives 7, Independent 1, Social?
ist L Total 435.
MILLIONS SAVED FOR NATION.
VALUE OF CIVIL SERVICE EM?
PHASIZED.
_
Dann Tolls Road Congress of Value
of Competitive Tests in Government
Work.
Atlanta, Nov. 10.?Tho claim that
$20,000,000 annually is saved the
United states government through the
operation of the competitive merit
system in making appointments was
made here today by Richard Henry
Dana of Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Dana,
who is chairman of the council of th?
National Civil Service Deform league,
was one of the chief speakers at the
American Road congress, now meet?
ing here.
"Government work is far better
done by fewer people under the merit
system," said the speaker. 4\lt is now*
one of the objects of the National
<'i\ic Service Deform league to arouse
public opinion so as to compel con?
gress to allow the high postmasters,
the collectors and the like to be put
in the clasifled civil service. We wish
to take contracts out of politics."
Application of the Competitive merit
system in road building, Mr. Dana
said, would save waste from poor
plans, poor methods, the use of wrong
materials, tho employment of incom?
petent laborers and other abuses at?
tributed to the Interference of politics
in the highway construction and main?
tenance
? 'tiler speakers included W. S. Kel?
ler, State highway engineer of Ala?
bama; J. E. Pennybacker, chief of
road economics in United states pub
llc roads office; George It. Wales,
chief examiner of the United States
civil service commission, and A. N.
Johnson of the bureau of municipal
research of New York.
DIG YEAR FOR CROPS.
Figures for 1914 Above the Average.
Washington, Nov. 10.?Yields of all
crops In the United States in 1 i? 14 was
102.3 per cent, or 2.3 per cent, above
the average, according to statistics
announced today by the department
of agriculture. The average yields by
States, included: North Carolina,
? 108.1; South Carolina, 103.7; Georgia,
111.2; Florida. 112.0; Alabama, 110.1;
Mississippi, 103.1; Louisiana, 103.7;
Texas, 103.7.
WILL CANVAS VOTE.
State Hoard Meets Tomorrow to De?
clare Results.
-
Columbia, Nov. 9.?State board of
canvassers will meet tomorrow in the
office of lt. If. IfcCown, secretary of
State, to canvass the returns and de?
clare the result of the general election
held last Tuesday in South Carolina.
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