The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 25, 1916, Image 3
PLAITS COW 1 LT K. FGR LAND
BANK HEARING.
?ssrfemn Phases If Tl be Comp ly Pre
lo Vre eml rarsn Board.
Columbia, Oct. 33-~The hearing be?
fore the federal loan board Wednes?
day promise* to te largely attended by
Interested farmers and bankers from
all parte of the Utile. The Columbia
committee ha.? ie?etved numbers of
letters statin? tlu t delegations will be
present to show Interest In the new
system ami to indorse Columbian
claim for one of he land banks.
Many of the trade organizations of
the different cltlit in the Stute have
forms My adopted resolutions indors?
ing Columbia, i r d several of them
have appointed ktrge delegations to
attend. Charlestcn Is showing a very
keen Interest in he mutter and will
send ? stroeig deck ration to back Co?
lombia s right. V?ry many bankers
In Afferent sections are also greatly
interested sod ntvnbers of them will
be here for the hearing with indorse?
ments or Colwm bit .
Ae the hearts*; comes In the midst
ef Sehr week, the i will naturally be
a geeat unmay farmers In the city, and
the large number ? f farm loan asso
rtatVows which ha\e been organised
will he welt rep-oeented by their
member*. The board Is particularly
a seal mis te have ft* men at the hear?
ing.
The committee in charge of the
hearing hos prent led a Programms
gf the purpnee of presenting the
ef the Rtnts In a systems tic end
rprehenslve way, sent In as brief a
time a* possible. Different topics |
hssre been ksasgned to. different Speak?
er?, and among the speakers win be
Oesr. Manning. wOov. Hey ward. Com?
ae? Watson. President Morri
df the Farmers' union. President
Txmlep et the Stats Bankers' asso
emttoo. President Bigg* of Clemson |
fo<*sgo. Director Long of the farm
esmsastiflJtlon work, and othsrs who
are tsmtltwr with t h- ?> farm needs ef
the State.
Tib farm loan Ismrd will arrive
herd Twesdhy night or early Wednes?
day morning from fcelekfh, and will
travel'm a private cor. Surtablo
it will bo given the mem
board daring che time
hi Coteribta, They wlltl
hei
foi
? njw* im
gggsnt f?oe evieek f'edw
iaoVVud Will be hellt In the federal I
room. eatenVe building.
0g| NOCTHIOIN TOCR.
imgtem. Oct. ?.?Members of
the farm kNtn board, who will visit
several Southern cities, seeking locu?
tions for the establishment of f tu
loan hanks, left Washington today
and their first stop is* Richmond. To?
morrow the advnnfa ;e* of that city
will be considered, then those of Rnl
elgh. Cohrfbbio, Ja< ksonville, Birm?
ingham and others. The cHy of Birm?
ingham sent along two special repre?
sentative* who will iccompni.y the
board and who will keep the people
of ehr mtnghnm full) advised ss to
the shooing of the cities visited bo
fore Birmingham is reached. Hugh
W. Roberta goes along as the special
man for the Birmingham Age-Herald.
Mr. Roberts being Ita Washington oor
reopondebit ot the preient time.
He was Od vised by its paper before
leaving to keep In e ose touch with
the -board and to let the people of
Birmingham know, each day the im
prsnsUili that the cities visited bofore
Itlrmlnghum made on the minds of
the board, what to eapeet when the
board rsaches that city.
"The HlrMliu.hmi people." Mr.
Roberts said Just befoi e leaving Wash?
ington, "are Oetermlnod thut noth?
ing shall prevent them from socurlnv
ono of the banks, i nd while they
know that some of the other cities
will offer many advai tage* they feel
confident that thsy will win when the
board has canvassed t II the facts of
fsfed by the various p aces."
"It Is khown here tit at illriningham
has been bring ng tho strongest kind
of pohttcsl InfUence to bear to have
that city get on* of the banks, and
has set up the fact that In eery other
wsy H is entitled to lu ve the bank.
The bosrd will raiefulty const kef
the merits of Columbia. Jacksonville
and Other places to be visited ami
those eitles should mal e the str?mt?
est possible Oght if they expect to
win. Mot only should the resources
nhtch they posses be properly set l?o
lor* tbs hoard but as good and rep?
resentative a delegation of citizens as
possible should be present to con?
vince the bonM of the Importance of
the showing made.
SKVF.M AKROPI.ANKN SHOT
DOWN.
Paris, Oct. 21.?Seven German aero?
planes were shot down In air battles
over the Somme front last night, the
war office announced li supplement.!
romnTunt?M?e today Rlsewhere bn
tbs front four other Oermnn ma
i hin** were dsmagsd. Kren( h air
msn Seen bard ed Neyen and Chauncey.
MIT? UM'IF ML
Wilson says ms iu:i.h:vms that
hexan KKKV this COP nth y
rRow tothtiors of
war.
Teils Urowtl of Partners, Kiiglnccrs
afml Architects 11c t* Convinced That
Pirocatcr? Will Not be Able to Un?
seat Him In November.
Long Hranch, N. J., Oct. 21.?Tn a
speech devoted primarily to a discus?
sion el tho need for economic pre?
paredness in the United States, Presi?
dent Wilson told a delegation of farm?
er*, architects and engineers here to?
day that he did not expect the United
States to get into war.
"I know that the way in which we
have preserved peace is objected to,"
said the president, "and that certain
gentlemen say they would have taken
some other way that would inevitably
have resulted In war, but I am rfcvt ex?
pecting this country to get into war,
partly because 1 am not expect in;
these gentlemen to have a chance to
make a mess of It." 1
Taking the work done by the ad?
ministration for the farmers as his
text Mr. Wilson declared: "We want
the privilege of representing the
whole farce of the .nation."
He demanded that men bo put
through a "third degree" in respect to
where they stand with regard to love
of the United Htntca and said he was
v.l.ul the campaign Wan nearly over
"becanso 1 am in a hurry to get down
to bunt n ess again.''
"There is a great deal of Irrespon?
sible tell; being Indulged in," declar?
ed the president In discussing th?
campaign. "Men are saying things
they know perfectly well they can *iot
make good on and It disturbs the na?
tion's counsels. On the 7th of No?
vember we will call time."
Mr. Wihon said tire Democratic
party had been trying to take the
government out of the control of
small groups and "square It with the
counsel oil the whole nation M
In detail he tokl of work being done
to mobilise the industrial resources of
the nation, saying "one of the great
lessons of the European war has been
that the economic coordination and
cooperation of the country Is Just ns
Important as the military cooperation
of it."
The occasion of the^president'* ad
jflrsgaima the eejefJI ^/"Farmers'
^BWavKXfPiw^QsflRL^Ip^uVsTw w wessfewa^^?*.
I fn architects end engineers from
r^mv Tdrk, led by a band, came to'
the West Knd railroad station by
train and marched to the president's
summer home to hear the address.
Farmers from New Jersey and other
nearby States came to the celebration,
several hundred of them tn automo?
biles. v
In his speech here today President
Wilson said in part:
"We owe this much to our Republi?
can predecessors, that they exercised
sUch long Und systematic neglect that
it was hecessary for us to undertake
systematic performance. Things will
not wait forever re bo performed
Mot only that, but circumstances will,
not wait upon everything that ought
to be done; some of the things must
be done and done promptly.
"This udmtnistratlon has had the
singular advantage of having a great
body of national sentiment behind It
which had long Hood ready to support
such measures us It adopted. I do
not know whether the systematic
neglect to which I referred was de?
liberate or not. I only know that it
was thoroughgoing and that an abso?
lutely free field was left for the pres?
ent administration."
The president then reviewed the
benefits of the federal reserve act und
the rural credits act.
"The agricultural products of this
i-onntry," he continued, "Judged b>
our opportit i ?les and our social and
our native capacity ought to be twlci
whut they are at present nnd Instead
of the possibility of shortage there
ought always to be tho certainty of
exportation of large bodies of grain
from the United States. . . .
"I do not wonder that the gentle?
men out of whose hands it has been
taken are uneasy because they are
genuinely of the opinion that they
only know how to run the country. . .
The United States Ih beginning to un?
derstand Itself and it Is beginning to
understand these gentlemen, line ot
the great lessons of the Kuropcan WUT
has been that the economic mobilise*
tlon of the country, the economic co?
ordination und cooperation of it is
Just ss important as the corporation
of it.
"I am not expecting this country to
get Into war. I know that the way
In Which we have preserved peace Is
obJeetOd to and that certain gentle?
men say they would have taken some
other way that would, have Inevitably
resulted in war but I am not expecting
this country to get Into war, part:
?< cmtse i am not expecting these gen?
tleme to have a chance to make D
mess of it. BUl I am very glad to take
adVLtituve of tin- present concentra?
tion of the attention of the world nit?
on the problems of war to make it
evident to the country thut these
6/^ Cigarette
More men are now
smoking SENSIBLY?
MEN ARE willing to think a little more
carefully today even about the cigar?
ette they choose.
That is good sense. For if an otherwise
good cigarette is unfortunate in its blend
?if it dihurbs after continued smoking?
it is not wor<h while.
The one i reason why Fatimas appeal
strongly to so many thinking men is that
they do not disturb. Fatimas are truly
comfortable?comfortable to throat as well
as tongue. And they always leave a man
feeling fine and "fit" even aiteT a lotrg
smoking day.
mrTTn
?iiiiAPfrtrWr?iJ, are the -p^\?ns of
peace so far o.s they are economic.
Problem?."
The president then told of the woru
being done by engineering, medical
and other scientific organizations in
organizing the resources-of the nation.
"I am glad," he went on, "that the
campaign is nearly over. I am in a%
bury to get down to business again.
There is a great deal of irresponsible
talk being indulged in. Men are say?
ing lots of things that they know per?
fectly well they can not make good
on and it disturbs the national coun?
sel. On the 7tli of November we will
call time and say to each other:
"Now '.hat the talk is over and
all the things have been said that will
be regretted, lot US sober up. J-.et'a
stop this indulgence in talk and really
get down to the solemn business, for
it is a vory solemn business of trying
to comprehend our general attitude
with regard to tho nation at large."
"And not on y with regard to the
nation at large, but with regard to
the part we shall play among the
other nations of the world, 1 must
not lot any opportunity pass without
mentioning our relationships with the
rest of the word because they are
going to ho Incomparably mure inti?
mate In the years to come than they
ever have been In the years before.
That is the reason we are insisting,
my fellow ettlttenOj that when men
hink they shall think in terms of
America and not in terms of other
countries.
"That h) the rea son we arc putting
men through the third degree in re?
spect to where tlfoy Stand with regard
to love of the United States. That1
Is the reason We are submitting them
to examination, to see it they qualify
as genuine Americans or hot ami il*
they tuOHfy as genuine Americans not
only in profession, but in performance,
then we are ready t<? i>" partners with
them and go ahead, but if they do nol
they will have to go through a period
of probation, when we will allow them
to sit by ua but #111 not allow them
to take nati With us, when we will
insist that they be Instructed by our
precept and by our example; and
when WO shall show thom that the
only dignity that they ean got, the
only glory they ean goti Iho only sol
satisfaction they ean get, Is by sharing
with all the true heat ted men that
fundamental allegiance which makes
a man prouder of things that he has
dbnd for others than he is for things
that he has done for himself."
RAIDS FOLLOW EACH OT1IRR,
London, OCt, 38, The second Oer?
man aeroplane raid ovor London In
forty-right bouts occurred today.
Three bombs weie dropped at Mar?
gate, where two were injured.
Stimter Boys Much Pleased ot Result
of Contest in Boek II ill?Used
dieislitg Gum to Make Forwrvrfl
Pas?. I
The Sumter high school boys re?
turned to Sumtcr Saturday night much
elated over their victory over the
Kock Hill high school team on Friday
afternoon at the York Couny fahr.
The game was 12 to 0 in Sumter'S
favor.
The Sumtcr boys reported that the
Hock Hill team was much heavier
I than theirs and that the game was
I played for the most part in a drizzling
j rain with the ground soggy, so that
neither team could get up much
speed. The ball was slick with mud
so that the forward passes on which J
the Sumter hoys relied against their]
heavier opponents could not be work?
ed, as the hall could not he passed.
Some of the boys devised a scheme
new In the annals of football to elim?
inate this trouble, a scheme which
worked beautifully'on one occasion for
a long pass and a touchdown on the
next two plays. Rome of the boys had
been chewing gum in the game and
Hurt Haynsworth, who on a dry day
can easily make a thirty yard pass, I
smeared his good right hand liberal?
ly with tili? sticky composition. It
worked like a charm. He caught the
hull as it was passed to him. The
gum gaVe him an effective hold on it
ohd tile pass to Purfly v<ras made for a
twenty-five yard gain. Which goes to
show that the brains of high school
hoys arc active in play, when they can
rise to an occasion's needs.
This is the second game the hoy.;
have played and jdaccd on the credit
side'of the ledger. The Kock Hill
Herald of Saturday says of the game:
The football ggme yesterday after
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MARLBORO
COUNTY FAIR
BENNETTSVILLE, S. C.
V ????' mm -. mxi II ?
Round Trip Fare From Sumter $2,25
The Coast Line will sell tickets to
Bhnnettsvllle as above, and at cor?
responding excursion fares from In?
termediate stations, for all passenger
trains from October 81 to November
3, inclusive, limited returning until
nildnight of November 4.
For farther Information .tickets, etc.
call on O. V. PLAYER,
Ticket Agent, SnnUer, S. C.
; ATLANTIG COAST LIKE
Ths Standard Railroad of The South
jjfljftri WM wltnossrwi by many -aud 4. a.
[good clean, herd-played game it was.
Sumter defeated Rock Hill 12 to 0,
! but the game was nothing like as un?
even as the score would indicate. The
Sumter lads simply outplayed the lo?
cal eleven, but had to fVght hard for
their every gain.
In the first and third quarters Rock
Hill held the visitors nicely. In the
second, and in the fourth, by a series
of forward passes and line bucks they
carried the ball over for a touchdown,
but failed to kick goal. The locals
showed up much better than in the
initial game with York, the improve?
ment being noted all along the line.
iie Sumter boys came up yesterday
morning and returned this morning.
While here they were the guests of
1 _ _ ??
the local eleven. Prof. Lorig accom?
panied the visitors.
The officials in yesterday's game
were Whitner, referee; Long, N. C,
umpire; Joe Roddy, head linesman.
? ??? rr-.
YOUTH is wocryoEf?.
William Rtrrts of T^a^ttretis Loses Arm.
Laurens, Oct. 21.?William Barts,
the 17 year old son of Thomas H.
Burts of the Woodrow Wilson section
of the countyAvas badly wounded yes?
terday, his left arm to the elbow be?
ing practically shot off as the result
of an accident while out rabbit 'hunt?
ing. The young man was immediate?
ly brought to the local hospital where
his arm was amputated Just above the
elbow.
I ml in 1 ?? in
A MIGHTY FORCE
It is estimated that practically one
half of the investments made in
the business world are made on
borrowed money. I
This demonstrates what a mighty
factor credit is today.
The surest way to establish a sat?
isfactory credit, to be drawn upon
when occasion demands, is to main
tain a Satisfactory bank account
with this institution.
Commercial accounts are invited.
The National Bank of
Sumter,
ON SUMTER'S BUSIEST CORNER
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