The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 07, 1917, Image 5
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M. Dy lttt alflt night for New
York where ehe will purchase goods
lor the au niter Millinery Co.
, Uftes, Annie Norlns West of Ben
netthv(T1s is the tuest of her aunt,
AN**. #;ifeMlum. on Washington
Iii *
esst atrs. J. K. Bradford re
from I a Kniend and
in Florida, where they
??een for several weeks enjoying
s^esa weather in that section,
ejhjpb dhseWtat Bradford recovered
d*ap* e, tooent laesepoaltron. sheriff
^ft#N /resorts that much of the
bJIssMtSh whtrh wow killed by the
*W+A? esetndpns cut again and save
dfcMlftm djnad fruit under the citrus
fjppw fmA.dbhd trees and vegetables
there are lew signs of the
leg? ay the cold.
M WeweM, of Rocky Mount,
*. ?? ObhOSbi superintendent of
n of the first division of
Coast Line railroad, was
bp the city today, coming in
of the road. Mr. Newell
to fep> et ehe veteran Oeest Line men
bom hjpg *aa*r friends here, who were
gmd to sec him during bis brief stay,
tjo p)f| S)no afternoon to continue his
. Me .and Mrs C. IL. 1. Brown end
sen, of Charleston, are the
et Mr. end Mrs. <*eo. F. Bppei -
Wilson end Alva
e?e speeding a few days at
Friday af?
ter Wnehmstwhore he
WtB Ojtgsad the inauguration and visa
Ijpp nwter. As will be pens a week
' The condition of Mr. J. F. Glenn
who ?PS so he some belter this rooro -
engt when he was able to swallow
eppse panrmbimnl. the first he has
Sftjpjaj nmop he received the second
Wtppfce Of parsiysis Friday sight. Ho
#> ntUt an n crtwont eoadMion, however,
bpd there fto pencOJcssly no hope ef
Mr. J. N. shewn has returned to the
ore/ frone SW a*>w*a> where ho went to
psjstuna a oar lewd of moles for the
W. B. Boyle Company.
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Mr C. Brno Stwbbs, Strmter, 8. C.
? Wr Beer Sir: I thank you for
fwev favor of Itth. I note what you
Shy albebt fhe city of Somter as a
ejmtrnl point for storing and market
dJag eofton. There can be no doubt
#at womftoi Is very favorably sltuat
bft for surh a ptrrpoee. Indeed with
?f. Rowland*! new warehouse I think
SPA In the beet eqntpped interior town
# the 'Rate, to become a great cot
ifo haarest four banking facilities
4M base pOeWtlarly good. I feel very
webttp reword* Somter end her peo
{?m\ nwt after all It Is the people.
dJnai make a town. You have some
WJ Somter. they would
b Boot .town anywhere.
Sincerely.
John L. MeLaurln.
lie. March ?.
hies ??
War Recover.
March f.?f. N. Norrls.
Chester c it Iren, created
a sensation today when he took
In the form of strychnine tab
a time it seemed as though
to revive him would prove
fettle. Tonight he Is in a serious con
fjfeotv It |? supposed he took the
tfcbPJb With sbftcidal intent. He was in
transacting legal bus!
w wiwpbr^ owice
wesb ab fhe time
B. M. POWELL DEAD.
End Came to Confederate Veteran ae
He We* Seated * Chair Beadhig
Benjamin M. Powell, a well known
citizen of Sumter, died' this morning
at his home on North Washington
Street, where he hue been ill for about
tea days. Heart disease is given as
the cause of his death. Mr. Powell
was seated in a chair in front of the
fire reading a paper, when he gave
one gaep and life left his body.
Mr. Powell hi a native of Cheater
county, but has lived In Lancaster
and elsewhere before coming to Sun. -
ter about twenty years ago. He en?
gaged in various occupations and for
the past, few years has been operating
a shooting gallery, where he saw
many peple, all of whom liked him
for his friendly greeting and un?
failing courtesy. He was 77 years of
age and a Confederate veteran, hav?
ing served throughout the war as a
sharpshooter, being generally report?
ed to be the man who killed Oen.
Sedgwick.
The deceased is survived by the
following children: Mrs. W. W.
McKagen, Mrs. J. W. Bradford, Miss
Nettle Powell, Mrs. J. K. Drakeford,
Sumter; Mrs. H. H. Oillespie, Ports?
mouth, Ohio; Mrs. Marie Player,
Scott'? Perry, Fla.; Med, Newton,
Miss; Ben, McKeysport, Pa.; John,
Jacksonville, Fla.; Edwin, Salisbury,
N C; Cuttlno, with the Second South
Carolina infantry at El Paso.
MBS. HEMLBERT ON TUBERCULO?
SIS.
Mrs. Annie I. Rembert of Columbia,
special agent of the State Health
Board in the fight against the
spread or tuberculosis, was in the city
yesterday and made an effective talk
on ways and means of carrying on
an educational campaign concerning
the disease and measures for Its pre?
vention. Mrs. Rembert is discussing
tho matter all over the State and is
working1 hard to aid in the fight
against the great white plague.
Mrs. Rembert urged the establish?
ing of a camp for tuberculosis pa?
tients In Sumter county, as she has
boon urging in other counties, and
for a campaign to teach the school
children how they may aid in the
fight on this dread disease'. The
State camp at Columbia is sm all at
present and only patients w,.th the
disease in its Inclplency are taken,
there now. Recently the leg slatu re
appropriated $40,000 for establishing
a large addition to the camp for tak?
ing more patients. Mrs. Rembert is
ahm trying to got tho counties to es?
tablish camps for treatment of pa?
tients ,ln order that persons afflicted
may be seggregated from others, es?
pecially children, thus preventing the
spread of tho disease.
Mrs. Rembert came here under the
auspices of the Civic League arid there
were a number of members of tin
league, some doctors, the health of?
ficer and members of the board of
health present to hear her talk. She
will visit Sumter again next week to
speak before the County Medical As?
sociation. .
Marriage.
Mr. M. J. Davis of Manning and
Miss Lily Douglas of Wlnnsboro were
quietly married Saturday evening at
the parsonage of* tho First Baptist
church, the Rev/ W. E. Thayer olTl
clatmg.
Miss Douglas has been teaching to
the Singleton school for the past
two and a-haif years, but decided to
give op this work to become Ura.
Davla. She had made a number of
friends in Sumter and vicinity, who
wish the young couple much haupl
ness. ^
Rub-My-Tlsm?Antiseptic, relieves
rheumatism, sprains, neuralgia, etc.
PRESIDENT SAYS IT IS NO USE
TP CALL. EXTRA SESSION
UNLESS SENATE RULES
ARE CHANGED,
Adjournment of Congress Loaves
Wilson Without Power to Act as
Ho Deems Best in Meeting Subma?
rine Menace?Country in Perilous
Situation by Reason of Minority
Act/?Cannot Limit Rebate in Up*
per House.
Washington, March 4.?President
Wilson tonight informed the country
I in a statement that he may be without
i power to arm merchant ships and
I take other steps to meet the German
submarine menace, in the absence of
authority from c?n?ref
An extra session of confc 5ss, th?
president says, is required to clothe
him with authority but it is useless
to call one while the senate works
under the present rules, which per?
mit a small minority to keep an over?
whelming majority from acting.
Tho president proposes therefore,
that the special session of the senate
which he has called to meet tomor?
row revise the rules "to supply the
means of action and save the country
from disaster."
"A little group of wilful men" says
the president in his statement, rep?
resenting no opinion but their own,
have rendered the great government
of the United States helpless and con
temptible.
The president's statement In full
follows:
"The termination of the last ses?
sion of the Sixty-fourth congress by
constitutional limitation discloses a
situation unparalleled in the history
of the country, perhaps unparalleled
in the history of any modern gov?
ernment. In the immediate presence
of a crisis fraught with more subtle
and far-reaching possibilities of na?
tional danger than any other tho
government has known within the
whole history of its international re?
lations, the congress has been unable
to act either to safeguard the coun- j
try or to vindicate tne elementary |
rights of Its citizens. More than 500 j
of the 531 members of the two houses
were ready and anxious to act; the
house of representatives had acted,
by an overwr elming majority; but the j
senate was unable to act because a
little group of 11 senators had de?
termined that it should not.
"The senate has ro rules by which
debate can be limited or brought to I
an end, no rules by which dilatory
tactics of any kind can be prevented.
A single member can stand in the
way of action if he has but the physi
can endurance. The result in this case
is a complete paralysis alike of the
legislative and executive branches of
the government. This inability of the
senate to act has rendered some of
the most necessary legislation of the
session impossible at a time when the
need for it was most pressing and
most evident. The hill which would
have permitted such combinations of
capital and of organization in the ex?
port and import trade of the coun?
try as the circumstances of interna-l
tional competiton have made imper?
ative?a bill which the business judg?
ment of the whole country approved
and demanded?has failed.
"The opposition of one or two sen
| ators has made It impossible to In
j crease tho membership of the Ittttr
I stato commerce commission or to gi"??
it the altered organization necer^ni v
for its efficiency. The ton^ervntloi
bill which should have released for
immediate nse the mineral POroOroea
which ftre tftH) locked up in the pub?
lic lands, now that their release 1.*
more imperatively nocensary than
ever, and the bill which would have
made the unused warerpower of the
country immediately available for In
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j dustry have both failed though they
have been under consideration
throughout the sessions of two con?
gresses and have been twice passed
by the house of representatives.
"The appropriations for the army
have failed, along with the appropria- j
tions for the civil establishments ofj
the government, the appropriations
for the military academy at \Vesl
Point and the general deficiency bill.
It has proved impossible to extend the
powers of the shipping^ board to meet
the special needs of the new situa?
tion into which our commerce has
been forced or to increase the gold
reserve of our national banking sys?
tem to meet the usual circumstances
of the existing financial situation,
"tl would not cure the difficulties to
call the Sixty-fifth congress in extra?
ordinary session. The paralysis of
the senate would remain. The pur?
pose and the spirit of action are not
lacking now. The congress is more
definitely united in thought and pur?
pose at this moment, I venture to say,
than it has been within the memory
of any man now in its membership.
There is not only the most united pat?
riotic purpose, but the objects mem?
bers have in view are perfectly clear
and definite. But the senate can not
act unless its leaders can obtain un?
animous consent. Its majority is
powerless, helpless. In the midst of j
a crisis of extraordinary peril, when
fell!? definite and decided action can
make the nation safe or shield it1
from war itself by the aggression of
others, action is impossible.
"Although as a matter of fact, the
nation and the representatives of the
nation stand back of the executive
with unprecedented unanimity and
spirit, the impression made abroad
will, of course, be that it is not so
and that other governments may act
as they please without fear that this
government can do anything at all.
We can not explain. The explana?
tion is incredible.
"The senate of the United States
Is the only legislative body In the
world which can not act when its
majority is ready for action. A little
group of wilful men, representing no
opinion but their own, have rendered
the great government of the United
States helpless and contemptible.
"The remedy? T"here is but one
remedy. The only remedy is that the
rules of the senate shall be so alterjd
that It can act. The country can bo
relied upon to draw the moral. I be?
lieve that the senate can be relied
on to supply the means of action S9j<
save the country from disaster. '
At the same time the president
authorized the further statement that
what rendered the situation even mor?
grave than it had been supposed that
it was, was the discovery that while
the president under his general con?
stitutional powers could do much Of
what he had asked the congress to
empower him to do, it had been fouur
that there were certain old statute?
as yet unrepealed which may raise
insuperable practical obstacles and
may nullify his power.
The old law referred to by tin
president was adopted by congress
in 1819 and referred to the resist
ance of American merchant men
against the attacks of private rs and
pirates, but excluded from vessels
which might so attack a "public
armed vessel of a nation in amity
with the United States, and subma?
rines are "public armed vessels" of
Germany.
The president's statement followed
a conference at the White House be?
tween Mr. Wilson, Secretary McAdoo,
Postmaster General Burleson, Col. R.
M. House, Vance C. MeCormie!:,
, chairman of the Democratic national
; committee, and Secretary Tumulty,
j It will be noted that the president
referred to the opposition group as
containing 11 senators, Whereas the
' 13 who had opportunity to do so fail?
ed to sign the manifesto. Senator
Penrose did not sign, but said he
would have voted for the armed neu?
trality bill had opportunity been af?
forded. It was assumed that the
president had eliminated also Sena?
tor Stone !n his list, because Stone
announced he opposed the bill, but
did not oppose a vote.
In the Police Court.
The following- cases were disposed
of in the police court today:
A. H. Barber, disorderly conduct,
two cases, $25 or 30 days on each
charge.
Horace Seale, exceeding speed lim?
it in auto, acquitted.
M. B. Cox, leaving car unlighted at
night, $3 or 6 days.
Willie Young, gambling, $5 bond
forfeited.
A. L. Shaw, leaving car unlightec
at night, $?, bond forfeited.
Fire Sunday night at about 9 o'clock
caught in an out house on East
Calhoun street back of the residence
of Mr. Bell, but was extinguished by
the fire department before much dam?
age was done.
THE SUBMARINE HARVEST.
England Congratulates Herself That
Germany Sank Only Half KffMoii
Tonnage.
London, March 3.?Germany failed
by slightly more than a fifty per cent,
margin to make good her threat to
sink a million tons of merchant ship?
ping during the first month of un?
restricted submarine warfare. ? Ac?
cording: to reliable figures the total
tonnage of ships sunk during Feb?
ruary was approximately four hun?
dred and ninety thousand.
Geo He Hurst,
Urierttfttf itf EitatitT.
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Preiept Attentlen tsOay er
wifihi.Call?;
AT J. 0. Cralf Old ft***, N. Bali
Phones nTJJRoi
Will agree, that your greatest asset from a business view is the
welfare of your neighbor; as he thrives and prospers so will you; on
the other udc we find that much of your neighbor's business and
prosperity is successfully piloted by your wife counsel; these conditions
call it what we may,'co-operation, gel-together or reciprocity it the
factor in the making of self-sustained communities.
The church, the schools, the social intercourse; belong to you and
your neighbor each in common, the same ambition which arouses you
to interest in civic betterment is shared alike with him. What influence
steals between you to the destruction of one reflect ruin to the other.
THE MAIL-ORDER BUSINESS ANTAGONIZES YOU, as well as
others. Yet, perhaps in your mail you have received a communication
from a self-styled "Credit Rating Agency,'* soliciting your aid to secure
for them, information as to the credit risk of some individual whom
they already have bound body and soul by statements made in con-j
tracts which have been forwarded by them through the mail. To
accept these agencies as your clients is legitimate and your privileged
But is it wise; is the insignificant fee offered of importance> Beware/
for this is the influence stealing in to destroy your neighbor, 'tis the
same influence that tend%to rob your profession of ?ts prestige by
imposing on the public a mail-order product, the unfinished student of
the law correspondence schools of New York, Boston, Chicago.
There is something you owe your neighbors; something he owes
you, CONSIDERATION.
Won't you join the Boosters to whom we send best wishes?
North. S. C._M. O'RILEV.
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Gives a dollar's worth of real service for
every dollar deposited here.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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The Oldest Banking Institution in the County
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This bank makes a specialty of accc .nts
handled by mail. Individuals, firms and cor?
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larger connection will lind our service very
simple, safe sad convenient. Correspondei.ce
is invited. ^
The National Bank Gl conti) Carolina
ASSETS $1,199,61371
C. G. ROWLAND. H L. McCOY,
Ptos. Asst. Cashier.
F. E. HINNANT, EARLE ROWLAND,
Cashier. Asst. Cashier.
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