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UIURERS. Alf EDUCATIONAL LEG ?? DECLARES THE ?FATE 8UFKRINTEND. DENT. Benefit WIU be the off the Rector-Rkldic Act Alt for Moody Schools. March 4.?This Is an ed leaislsture, said J. K. State Superintendent of la commenting on the re of the general assembly, appro pels t ions were made for 4t* iaerttteUone Of higher learning, wars* the appropriations to the pub Ma snhxeli are the hiebest In the hls tOSTOf the State. Our annual Invest? ed*** la education is growing from fMar to year, but it is still far below tts* average for the nation. Too policy of the general assembly gi providing aid for the public schools ft ****d oa the princip e of local dis htion, and this principle wan lUy adhered to In 1917. State Ruperintendent's report ?an expenditure of $17.02 per child, and $1.90 per negro child. Vat h\07saater? sought especially to t**SS those averages In communities the people sre willing to co aad to take care of the weak total of public school appro is $444.100. The ten items hi the public school section the school unabls .$40.000 *w rare! graded schools $B) dtsailijts voting a local ? $sj| Of four mlUa or more 187.500 VST high achols . 76.00U C Far rgoblic school bulld 'iasa. 50.000 For an equalising fund to bo need In needy schools, anal asp si I ally in making as> ?ho deficit in districts a local tax of mills and unable to seven months_ 50,000 Fir the teaching of ag * rienKure. 10.000 t. For public school libraries 5,000 A-For jrsfht schools .. .. 2,500 I. *>r school Improvement V ?4r* ?. . J. . 2,100 ?i^r>r the Bute Board of ' ^ BducaXion .... .. .. 2.00? OAoy community desiring a better |aol, but not now having a local may secure term extension aid '(Jan, Spring by voting a two-mill levy 9a March," April or May Trustees SjM teachers In such needy district consult their county superin at oaee. Rector-Riddle bill extends to _ _ employing four teachers or Sre teachers the benefits of the Ru? ral Graded School Act of 1912. This eneasnre will prove stimulating to Metilule with a large enrolment as as to districts In which consoli eff schools has brought togetb eraaers than 100 children in a central ?SJ|sey9ag. la the populous Piedmont oaantles scores of progressive com jSaaltlss will be benefited by this new law. Mr. Rector's experience st the 4*4toch Industrial School, in Dar county, and Mr. Riddle's ex at the Four Holes School, in county, enabled them to ire and present the necessity for abas legdsletlon. The item of $187.500 Set these schools shows the willing Seng of the legislature to provide aiSSJOite faelfltlss for any rural di?? tstes whose taxpayers vote upon flUsailives a four-mill levy to help ssjpport their school. ' The high school appropriation has opened city end town schools to coun? try pupils Under the act of 19131 more than 1,400 country boys and a?r now enrolled In the eighth, and tenth grades of the city receiving State aid. The development of rural graded schools makes s Urge increase In number certain. This appropria will cover the payment of high aid in May. 1917. but will not ewver fully the applications in th' roll. tty opening the high schoo grades >( city and town schools to| country boys and girls the lawmak? er* havs relieved scores of country Sean man I ties of the burdensome ex Sense o* trying to pay high priced Osnchers to instruct upper grades en r*4htig one. two or three pupils. Ev ery contract approved by the 8tnte Board of Education for the scholastic year 1914-17 will be paid in full. Th? bidding appropriation covei. all unpaid applications on file with the Statt Superintendent. There ai? In the files of the office 132 aggregating $34.4SI. Dis? tricts using new buildings or erecting bssHdlags this spring shotild com mandate at once with their county superintendent and the State Super? intendent. Trustees planning to erect school houses sftsr July 1 can not rely on extra State aid unless sopsclally authorised to do so in writ Sag by the State Superintendent's of fire. Forty building claims ronid n u be paid from th* appropriate *f MOT-FOUR SHIPS LOST. BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSFS AN? NOUNCED BY OFFICLU;. More Than Eighteen Thousand Ar? rivals and Departures Daring the Month Chronicled. New York, March 5.?Official figures from the British admiralty made public here today at the office of the consul general of Great Brit? ain show that during February 94 British merchant ships were destroy? ed by mines or submarines. Sixty one were of 1.600 tons or over and 33 were under 1,600 tons. In addition to the merchant ships 29 British fish? ing veeele were sunk. It also Was reported that during the month 67 Britten merchant vessels were unsuc? cessfully attacked by submarines. The figures show that the number of merchant vessels of all nationalities over 100 tons each and exclusive of local or fishing craft which arrived and departed from British ports, were as follows: Vessels arrived 9, 463; vessels sailed. 9,124. Total 18, 687. The foregoing figures do not in? clude losses of ships of Great Britain's allies or those of neutral nations which the admiralty stated are not available. The number of German submarine.1 captured or sunk, the admiralty say will not be made public. Indicative of the activity of Great Britian in replacing the losses to her merchant marine occasioned by the submarines and mines it was oilieial ly stated that at the present HUM more than 2,000,000 teSjfi of shipping is on the stocks. "The general situation," the ad? miralty announces, "is considered quite satisfactory." 1916, hence the necessity for Ihl* caution In 1917. The Rector-Ford bill pro/ides ch? usual State contingent fund for need schools up to June 30, 1917. ThJ measure makes ample provision fo the needy schools heretofore particl patfng in the State contingent fund But since this policy was not define, heretofore, the legislature adopted t most constructive definition limit I n : State aid to needy schools to those districts that levy an eight-mill tux. I employ a teacher for not fewer tl twenty-five or more than fifty pupils and seek to run seven month.;, ludet the Rector-Ford act the State guai - antees a minimum term of seven months to any district voting an eight-mill tax for current expense.* and using its funds economically. This law Is one of the most ser? viceable statutes ever put on the books. Rural districts with a large white population and small tax vnl n<n will certainly secure effici* a: schools by availing themselves of this advantages. The act is especially de? signed to cover deficits not already covered by the term extension act, tie rural graded school act, und tho Mgh school act. Ths appropriation of ?l3,000 f* agricultural teaching is made und the Rector-Smoak bill. This meas? ure amends and strengthens the Tool act of 1916 by providing aiJ for at rlcultural Instruction in any rural graded school employing :wo teach? ers, enrolling fifty pupils, \oting . I four-mill tax, and running not 1 than six months. Since congress has just pass< d 11 Important Smith-Hughs bill to tn courage vocational training, Senat >? Laney has done much to stimulate vocational training in our scholia- hv securing the passage of a law con? stituting the State Board of Bducatlen as the South Carolina State Board U< Vocational Training. This measur* provides for cooperation among dis? trict, county. State and nation. ! agencies. One of its most important features relates to agriculture and do? mestic science. It is most timely to South Carolina to prepare for the fhi - reaching improvements in industrial teaching. Discussion of the subject has so far resulted in little more than experimentation. The live general acts of most im? mediate significance are the sppro plratlon bill with Its |4 14,100 for pit t? lic schools; the Rector-Riddle bill fo rural graded schools; the Rr ??? tor-Ford bill providing an squnllsltti fund for weak districts; the Rector Smoak bill relating t0 agriculture, and the Laney bill concerning voent lonal training. As usual there was a mass of lo cal legislation. Bond issues, tax elec Hons, school buildings, the selection of trustees, and seores of other mn: ters are covered by those local lav The growing habit of enacting much local legislation is still further complicating the school code, i n ?I the State can secure a revision of I general school laws. It is not unhKe v that the mass of local legislation will continue. 4 As far as practical conference-* o trustees and teachers will be he' In a number of counties during Match. April and May in order that 1"( i school officers may boeome tborouc' ry familiar with the new school laws. MANY MEASURES NOT PASSED ONLY TWO BIG BILLS ON AD. MINISTRATION PROGRAM ENACTED. Revenue Bill ami Citizenship and Clv? Government Bill to Puerto Rico Become Law, While Other Bills Fail-Immigration Law Passed, Despite Wilson's Objec? tions. Washington, March 4.?Of all tho legislation on the administration pro? gramme proper, only two measure-; the revenue bill and the measure giv? ing civil government to Puerto Rice and American citizenship to its inhab? itants, got through the legislative tangle at the close of the session. One of the most important enactments of the three months of the session, the immigration bill, passed both houses despite the president's announced ob jectlon, and then was passed again b^ both over his veto. Among the administration bills which failed were: Measures to supplement the Adam 1 son law. I The bill to enlarge the interstate I commerce commission. ? I The Webb bill to legalize joint for I eign selling agencies. Conservation legislation, Including I tho general dam bills and water power bills. Bills which did not form part of th original programme, but were presse?! I unsuccessfully by cabinet officers ami J administration leaders late in the ses I sion included: Amendments to the shipping act to I give the president power to comman I deer ships. A drastic espionage bill which pas-' ed tho senate but never was taken ui J in the house. Amendments to the federal rsser\ j act to Increaso reserve bank gob' holdings and decrease member ban I J reserves. Congress provided for the paymen of $25,000,000 for tho Danish W*si I Indies. The senate failed to ratify despite an urgent request by the pre < I ident the treaty to pay Colombia $15. 000,000 for the separation of Panamc J Important enactments which we? ? I not specifically included in the pro? gramme were tho bill abolishing sa I loons in the District of Columbia, one* I the rider on the postoffice approprU* - I tlon bill making it a crime to tram J port liquor In interstate commerce Into a prohibition State. t\ i Although the senate fllbuster stop? ped the passage of the appropriation 1 bill,carrying in all about $511,000,000 I congress managed to get through In j its .three months' session ten other supply measures, with a total of near? ly $1,200,000,000. I Appropriation measures that fallal I included: The army appropriation bill, $270. I 000,000; the sundry civil appropria? tion bill, $139,000,000; the general deficiency, $62,000,000; the rivers an J I harbors, $39,000.000; the miltary I academy, $1,380,000. The bills passed were: Naval, $535. 000,000; postoffice, $330,000,000; in? valid pensions, $160,000,000; legisla? tive, executlvo and judicial $10,u0n, 000; fortifications, $51,000,000; agri? cultural, $26,000,000; District of Co? lumbia. $13,000,000; Indian. $12.00^. 000, diplomatic and consular, $5,00*'. 000; urgent deficiency $5,000,000. President Wilson was at the capital during tho closing hours of the ses? sion, signing bills as they were deliv? ered to his office. Members of tho cabinet and Secretary Tumulty with a staff from tho White House wore on hand to assist. Among the measures to which tho president attached his signat ure wei * the naval and agricultural Appropria? tion bills, a resolution providing for :i $150,000,000 bond issue to speed up warship construction, a bill postpon? ing until July 1 the effectiveness o? tho prohibition feature of tho postoftVo bill, a resolution appropriating 000,000 to continue work of the Alas? kan railroad and more than a score of minor resolutions and bils. Tho last measure signed provided a pension for the widow of Mnj. Gen. Frederick Funston. SCORES THE SENATE. Columbus, Ohio, March 5. ? -T. o Ohio house and senate today adopt .1 ? resolution criticising the nationr-1 senato for refusing to pass the arm? neutrality bill as requested by Pre' - dent Wilson, and a copy was ordere-1 sent to Washington. Washington, March 8.?British claimants of the prize ship Appam havo won their suit in the Supreme Court for possession of the vosst \ ?^!3!!!!!?,?^^^B*,>|^B?B*5,sss|*'s>ssi^ The general county supply ' ill < rief? a large number of provisions i lating to local tnxes, salaries, cottn V board funds, summer schools, und other details. On the whole, the legislature is to he congratulated on its constructive work for education, and especially (m the public schools. The session Jtat) resulted in some of tbe boot educa? tional acts secured in recent yea/s.^ WILSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS PRESIDENT POINTS OUT THAT AMERICA MUST STAND FOR PERMANENT PEACE. Says That Tin's Can be Scoured Only Through Equality of Nations in Matters of Right and Through ?Ju ? tice of Dealings Between Govern? ment and Governed?Says That Nation Is for Armed Neutrality ai.d May (Have to Exert Still Stronger Forces to Maintain Freedom of Land and Sea. Washington, March B.?Devoting his second inaugural address almost entirely to questions of foreign af? fairs, President Wilson in it sounded anew the call to Americans to stand firm for world conditons which woul \ make for cndun.g peace. This, he said, could be founded only on equal? ity and justice. President Wilson's Inaugural ad? dress was as follows: "My Fellow jCitizens: The four years which have elapsed since latt I stood In th'.s place have been Crowd ed with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our his? tory has been so fruitful of important reforms in our economic anJ indus? trial life or so full ot significant changes in the spirit and purpose Of political action. We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser errors and abuses of our industrial life, liberate, and quicken the processes of our national genius and energy, and lift our pol? itics to a broader view of the people7 essential interests. It Is a record of singular variety and singular dlstlnc tion. But I shall not attempt to re ? view it. It speaks for itself and Will be of increasing infiuence as the years go by. This is not the timo for retro - spect. It is time rather io speak our thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future. "Although we have centred eoun sei and action with such unusual cor centration and success upon the greal problems of domestic legislation t which we addressed ourselves fou. years ago, other matters have more and more forced themselves upon our attention, matters lying outside out own life as a nation and ovc whl< h we had no control, but which, desp'?. our wish to keep free of them, have drawn us more and more Irresistibly into their own current and infiuence "It has been impossible to avoid them. They have affected the life oi the world. They have shake.) m?n everywhere with a passion and an apprehension they never knew before It has been hard to preserve calm ccunsel while the thought of our bw people swayed this way and that un? der their influence. We are a com? posite and cosmopolitan people. W< are of tho blood of all the nation that are at war. The current of on: thoughts as well as the currents o" our trade run quick at all season hack and forth between us and tbem The war inevitably set its mark fron the first alike upon our minds, ov industries, our commerce, our poll tics and our social action. To be in different to it or Independent of I was out of the question. "And yet all the while we hav< been conscious that we were not pai of it. In that consciousness, despr many divisions, we have drawn elos ?: together. Wo have been deei V wronged upon the seas, but we havi not wished to wrong or injure in i turn; have retained throughout tit* consciousness of standing in som sort apart, intent upon an toteres that transcended the immediate i sues of the war itself. As some e iho injuries done us have become ! tolerable we have still been clear t'. i we wished nothing for ourselves ilia wo were not ready to demand for mankind?fa r dealing, justice, Hi freedom to live and be at ease again 1 organized wrong. "It is In this spir t and with th thought that we have grown moi and more aware, more and nvwr ce tain, that the part we wished to ph was the part of those who mean I vindicate and fortify peace. We ha been obliged to arm ourselves make good our claim to a ecrta minimum of right and of frcedoc of action. We stand firm in arin.M1 neutrality since it seems thai In " other way we can demonstrate wli I it is we insist upon and can not foi go. Wo may even be drawn on, I ' circumstances, not by our own pi pose or desire, to a more active r, Berti on of our rights us we soo th< . and a more immediate nssocintk with the great struggle itself. B nothing will alter our thought or m purpose. They are too clear to obscured, They are too deeply roce ed in the principles of our nation life to he altered. We desire n< th< conquest nor advantage. Wo \> i nothing that e?in be had only at lb cost of another people. We ha always professed unselfish pun?.> < and we covet the opportunity provo that our professions aresin? ev "There are many things still to ?1 at home?to clarify our own pol Ith and give new vitality to the Indu* TO CHANGE SENATE RULE. DECISION REACHED AT CONFER? ENCE BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND SENATORS Tins MORNING. Rinn is to Introduce Resolution to Limit Debate to One Hour lor Eftcil Senator?To be Taken up Tomor? row. Washington, March 7.?Prompt ac? tion In the senate to provide a mod? ified cloture rule fw debate is ex? pected by the Democrats. Senators conferred with the pres? ident on the subject for an hour and a-half this morning and later laid a plan, which, they hope, to Introduce tomorrow before Republican leaders. The president's conference was with Senators Owen, Reed, Walsh, Swan son, James and Hoke Smith, and the rules which prevent unlimited de? bate, such as killed the armed neu? trality bill, were gone over at length Senator Owen later said he pre? ferred a rule under which the senate rules might be changed by a majority vote, but all agreed that they will not haggle over details. A rulo. has been proposed which -.vill limit time of debate by a two thirds vote. The rule would permit of an hour debate by each senator, in? stead of an unlimited time. The. Democratic and Republican clo ture committees agreed at tlie con? ference to recommend to their party caucuses later a change in the rules so that senate Ndebate could he shut off by a two-thirds vote. When the senate met Senator Walsh introduced a resolution to pro? vide a special committee to revise the rule regarding the precedence of mo? tions, and read option of all other old senate rules. trial processes of our life, and w\ shall do them as time and oppor tunity serve; but we realize that th< greatest things that remain to b? done must be done with the who! world for a stage and in cooperatior with the wide and universal force: of mankind, and we are making on; spirits ready for those things. They will follow in the immediate wake o* the war itself and will set civiliza? tion Up again. We are provincial: no longer. The tragical events of th? 30 months of vital turmoil througV which we have just passed hav made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved, whether we would have it so or not. 'And yet we are not the le3S Amer? ican on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred. They are not the prin? ciples of a province or of a single con? tinent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the prin? ciples of a liberate mankind. These therefore, aro the things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace: That all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and In the political stability of free peoples, and equally responsible for their main? tenance; "That the essential principle of peace is the actual equality of na? tions in all matters of right or priv? ilege; "That peace can not securely or justly rest upon an armed balance of power; "That governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by the common thought, purpose or power of the family of nations: "That the seas should he equal !;> !'ree and safe for the use of all peo? nies, under rules set up by rommoi agreement and consent, and that, sc far as practicable, they should be ac? cessible to all upon equr.l terms; "That national armaments Should be limited to the necessity of na? tional order and domestic safety; be limited to the necssltlcs of na "That the community of interest and of power upon which pence must henceforth depend Imposes up? on each nation the duty of seeing '?> it that all Influences proceeding from its own citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution in other Stat-s should be sternly and effectually sup pressed and prevented. "1 need not argue these princinles to you, my fellow countrymen; they aro your own, part and parcel of - our thinking and your own motive in af? fairs. They spring up native niuotlgsl us. Upon this as a platform of pur pose and of action we can, stand to gether. "And it |s impel alive that WC should stand together. We are being fore od into n new unity a mitist the fir Of that now blaze throughout the world. In their ardent heat \vc shall, in flod'f providence, let us hope, be purged of faction and division, purified Of the errant humors of party and of private interest, and shall stand forth in tin days to come with a now dignity o national pride and spirit. Let each man see to it that the dedication is In his own heart, the lurch purpose of the nation in his own mind, ruler oi LIEHENSFELS C'^TCERS FACE TRIAL IN FLORENCE COURT. Iniiii li n|i Returned Against I iulit Defendants in Federal Court?Capt. is Absent on Account of Illness. Florence, March 6.?Nine officers and men of the German steam freigh? ter Liebenfels which began sinking in Charleston harbor on the night of January 31, were indicted this after? noon by the grand jury in the United States district court, sitting here, with Judge Henry A. M. Smith of Char? leston, presiding. The indicted men are Johann R. Klattenhof^ master; Johann Lubken, chief officer; George Sunkel, third Officer; Jonas Edward Jansen, chief engineer; Heinrich Wattenberg, as? sistant engineer; Johann Wilhelm Bust, second assistant engineer; Mor j Its von Th?len, third assistant en? gineer; August Neuss, fourth assistant engineer, and Wilhelm Schwarting, machinist. All are Germans with the exception of Jansen, who is a Dane. Capt. Klattenhof! is ill In a Charles? ton hospital and is declared by his physician to be unable to face trial at this time. Th ? cast s are scheduled to come up tomorrow morning. The nine men are accused of deliberately sinking the Liebenfels, a war bound Hansa liner, and of endangering navigation of the chief channel of the Cooper river, Charleston. They have been out on bond of $3,000 each since a preliminary hearing before Arthur Rt. Huger, United States commis? sioner. The machinery of the Liebenfels was seriously disabled, her wireless apparatus, which had been sealed by an agent of the United States govern? ment, wrecked and her seacocks alt open. While she was sinking. Chief Officer Lubken refused the assistance of the tugs Waban and Cecelia, qri the plea that the captain was not on board. At that time the men on the liner were indifferent about tho steamship's plight. Decently the United States army engineer for this district, Maj. Gil , bert A. Youngberg, began operations looking to the floating of the Llben fels. It is reported that she will be given necessary repairs at the Char? leston navy yard and then anchored in the harbor with a government guard in charge. Washington, March 6.?The first compulsory workmen's compensation law to come before the Supreme Court was held constitutional in a decision on the Washington State law. Xew York's compulsory law and Iowa's voluntary law were also up? held. Washington, March 6.?The Su? preme Court has denied the habeas corpus suit of Werner Horn, a Ger? man, accused of the dynamiting of the international bridge at Vancc boro, Maine, in an attempt to escape trial in Boston. Washington. March C.?Senator Martin, of Virginia, has been select? ed by the Democratic caucus as the senate leader. his own will am! Aeetro. "T stand here and have taken tho high and solemn oath to which you have been audience because the peo? ple of the United States have chosen me for this august delegation of pow? er and have by their gracious judg? ment named me their leader in af? fairs. 1 know now what the task means. 1 realize to the full the re? sponsibility which It involves. 1 pray God I may be given tho wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in tho true spirit of this great peoplo. I am their servant and can succeed only .';s they sustain and guard me by their confidence and their counsel. The thing I shall count upon, the thing without, which neither counsel nor action will avail, is the unity of America?an America united in feel? ing, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity and of service). We are to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and necssi?es of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power; beware that no fac? tion or disloyal intrigue break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of our people; beware that our govern? ment be kept pure ami incorrupt in all its parts. United alike in the conceptions of our duty and in the high resolve to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task to whieh we must now set our hand. For myself I beg your tolerance, your countenance, and your united aid. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be but tue to ourselves?to ourselves as we havo wished to be known in the coun? sels of the world and in the thought of all those who love liberty and Jus? tice and the light exalted."