Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"^WbfOB WAR COMMISSION 1 mWtffM T0O8 ON FLOOR OF flKNATK. d France, States Unite to Crash How and to FotsbHsh May 1.?Francs ? war plea - bonded by Rons Vlviani, s/IttV" Jeffre and Admiral Coche d^ spent store than n half hour on }<Js)or of Mio senate today and that body and galleries crowd LStty first to vigorous ap .than to roars of cheers. AJtssvtbc osnators and members of grasped the hands of visitor* and M vies premier and leader of it, had delivered an addr erers, the greatest of enthusiasm bams. It was ^ ,f**0jieete an the hero of the Marns. to ronslng cries of ?1 ioffro? JonYtV responded sight words of French and Eng l^sVhtsti all understood: t. d* not speak English. Viva la \ jfsajsjijsjsjnl'' r \x kiwlvlnn* said: 1 have boon granted the of ?passing before the of the American poo E nsn, sner I as* thorn Arst to allow i m*> to thank thai magnificent capital ? ?H* Qhvwoiooms It haa accorded us, ^ahmtt nsvsr cease to see the who saluted your woman, whoso grace beauty to your city, their ?i, ? ontstrotchod full of flowers, and - yomr children harrying to meet no as ?ff oar coming wore looked upon as a ?sanest for thorn, all with one accord aoslalmtng In our perishable persona ssnainilil Franco. As yet I predict thoto wtR bo a yet grander manifesta? tion the any when your illustrious relieved front? the burden of will tome among us bearing Ilm anlwto of the republic of the United so n tree Duress, whoso foun snd to end shall bo based It In with unspeakable % emotion the threshold of this ^esmtaUve palace, where prudence aa* boldness moot, and that I for the im tamo In the annals of America, thwngh a foreigner, speak in this hall Which only a fsw days since resoupd? id srtth the words of virile force. j MTou have sot all the democracies at the world the most magnificent nie. Ac soon as the common i made manifest to you. with Simplicity and within a few short 4ays ? you voted a formidable war sesdlt and proclaimed that a forraid - abio ss*my was to bo raised. President % commentary on his act. yen luade yours, remains In ths of tree peoples the weightleat "Oenbtlete yon were resolved' to ssssmm the Insult offered your flag hot It whl 1*0 your honor In history that yen ak<o hoard the cry of hu nsanity, end invoked against autoc? racy the rights of democracies. And t nan only wonder ss I speak, what. If they still have any power to think, ate the; thoughts of the autocrats thr?o years ago against us, three the ago against you, unchained "An! Doubtless they ssld among that a democracy is an imsnt; that It showers re long mankind, and yet now French republic, which i* in defense of Its territory and the Mbertg of nations, opposing the avalanche set loose by Prussian mill tarhnn, the union of sll Its children Who are still capable of striking many a weighty blow. "And now we see England, far re? moved like you from conscription, who has also, by virtue of a discipline all accept, raised from her soil millions of fighting men. And wr see other nations accomplishing the name act, and that liberty not only snfiamss ths hearts but coordinates and. brings Into being all needed ef? forts. And now we see all America and sharpen her weapons In the ? of peace for the common struggle, "Together we will carry on that struggU, and when by force we have at last Impressed military victory, our labon will not be concluded. Our task will be. I quote tho noble words of President Wllnon, to or? ganise the society of nations. 1 well know that the Jibes of our encme.* who have never seen before anything but boiisons of csrnage will never cease to jeer st so noble a dream, fluch has always been the fate of Ideas at their birth; and If thinker* and men of action had allowed them? selves to be discouraged by skeptics mankind would still be in Its in? fancy, and we should still be slaves. ' Late this sfternoon ths *nHi men ware ths centre of a dsmonstrn tion of patriotic enthusiasm at charitable exhibition of moving pi? ? terse of tho battle of the flomn ?? Military member* of tbo mission sa TIUKE LOAN TO BELGIUM. ANOTHER BELLIGERENT GETS HELP FROM UNCLE SAM. Suggestion of Etond Issue Made for Gradual Flotation In Order to Ab? sorb Loan Easily. Washington, April JO.?In addition to loans to France and Italy total it between $200,0<),000 and $300,000 000, the United States will soon make a loan to Belgium, the amount of whiqn Is yet to be determined. UnoC flclal estimates of the slse of the Belgian loan pltce it at approximately ?110,000,000. Application fcr a Belgian loan was made today wh an the Belgisn min? toter, Baron de Carller, called upon Secretary McAdoo and placed before him tentative enttmates aa to the re? lief desired. Discussion of French and Italien heeds continued today In conferences among; Secretary McAdoo, Assistent Secretary Crosby, the Italian ambas? sador and members of the French commission. Indications are that the French and Italian loans will be made wltbui the present wee'c Secretary McAdo haa under consideration a suggestion made by the f?deral reserve board looking to the g a dual floating of the forthcoming bond issue. The suggetion provides for a bi? weekly offering of treasury certificates In blocks of $110,000,000 to $25". 000.000 according to the apparent ability of the bonke readily to ab? sorb them. The certificateti may be exchanged for the bonde wtten the latter are is sued. The suggestion also conten plates the offerirg of certificates to highest bidders, no bid below par to be accepted. NAVAL FLYER KILLED. Ensign Vankirk, U. & N., Drowned in Pensaoola Bay?Heroic Rescue At? tempt. Pensaoola, Fla., May 1.?Ensign D. R. Vankirk, U. 8. N.. fell a thousand feet from an airplane into Pensacola bay here late today and was drownod before he could >e extricated from the floating wreck;ige of the machine. Ensign Vankirk*s fall which occur? red off the naval aviation training station here was seen by Lieut. Stone of the coast guard, who also was In an airplane. Lieut. Stone brought his machine above the* point where Van kirk'e wrecked dyer floated au.d. dropping into the water, swam to the aid of hie comrade. It was 40 minutes before Vankirk'a body couM be released from the wreckage. A I' efforts to resuscitate him proved futile. rOOD LEAVES 12ASTERN POST. Will Go to Capo Cod for Few Day* and Then Proceed to Charleston. New York, May 1.?Maj. Oen. Leon? ard Wood, recently appointed coi >? mandsr of the newly created Son eastern department of the United 8tates army at Charleston, took lei< < 0 of Governor's Island today. His hi. censor In command of the department of the East is Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, who comes from the departm< nt of the West at San Francisco. Get . Wood will go first to Capo Cod to vi .t for a few days, returning on Thu day or Friday and proceeding |h< n to Charleston. Gen. Wood was in charge of the department of the East in 1908 a I 1909 and on his recent assign no had served at Governor's Island sin< April, 1914. GERMAN SHIPS IN USE. Two Turned Over no Allies as Mo nition Carriers. Washington, May |<?The Germ liners Portonia and Telara Menu at New York have boen turned Crvei to the allies. Nebraska Dry Now. Lincoln, Neb., May 1.?At 8 o'clo. last night 829 saloons, 15 hrewen o<* und ten rectifying plants In Nebrasi: i closed, under a prohibitory law in? itiated by the electorate and rein? forced* by a supplemental statute en? acted by the legislature. themselves in the films and Secreta: t lMim-, who presided, delivered an ??' dress in which, after paying trlbn to M. Vivlanl and Marshal Joffre. I said. "An aide of Marshal Joffre has told m* the true story of the Mam Day after day the marshal sat at U map in hiH hnadriuurterx moving V nag of France hack toward Pai and the Ha* of Germany forward, OS the armies of Prusnlantsm swept on, The Marno was reached, and Joffl >. tired of moving tho Bags town Paris, suddenly wrote on a slip paper. 'We shall Htand at the Mar and die there If necessary. This h gone far enough!' "That was the spirit of France th . and today." NITRATE BILL PASSES.. SENATE FAVORS SMITH MEAS? URE FOR CHEAP SODA FOR FARMERS. Government to Operate Line of Ships Seised from Germans to Bring Min? erals from Southern Ports to In? crease Crop Production. Washington, May 1.?The senate today passed, 62 to 8, the Joint res? olution of Senator E. D. Smith ot South Carolina, authorizing and di? recting the president to procure such stocks of nitrate of soda as he may determine to be necessary for in? creasing production in the year 1917 and to dispose of same in the way which may seem best. There is made immediately avail? able for this purpose $10,000,000, and it is understood that the gov? ernment will at once, with the pas? sage of the bill last night providing for thp use of German ships, take steps to operate lines from Southern ports to markets in South America for the purpose of bringing to this country dried blood and tankage nec? essary in fertilizer ingredients. Increase in production of food crops, mostly in South Atlantic States, Is the object sought. The bill intro? duced by Senator am 1th of South Car? olina, provides for transportation of nitrates from Chile in government vessels and their sale by federal au - thoritles to farmers. Many Southern farmers and agri? cultural organizations Indorsed tho measure, Senators Smith of South Carolina and Smith of Georgia told the senate that the government could buy nitrates now stored in this coun? try, sell them to the farmers and later replace them by bringing in more from Chile. Several senators who ex? pressed fear that nitrate supplier might be depelted were told that pres? ent supplies are sufficient for two years. The South Carolina senator sail that by making nitrates available at reduced prices, the corn and cotton crops of the South Atlantic seaboavd could be increased from 60 to 100 per cent. The proposed appropria? tion, he said, had ths approval of Secretary Houston. Senator Simmons of North Caro? lina declared middlemen's profits and lack of transportation facilities from Chile were responsible for exorbitant nitrate prices at present. Senators Sraoot, Townsend, Fre linghuysen, MeCumber and other Re? publicans opposed the bill as unneces? sary, Senator Smoot declaring Chile a total annual exports could be bought for the $10,000,000 appropriated un? der the measure. SHIPS FOR ALLIES. United State* Places Ships at Dispos? al of Entente. Washington, May 1.?The United States has already placed a consider? able amount of ship tonnage at the disposal of tho entente, Lord Ens; e Percy, the ship expert with the Brit? ish mision, said. He refused to siy whether they were the seized German ships. He said the present rate of British construction and the estimat? ed American rate would be unable to keep pace with the present rate of destruction by the submarines. He said the balancing figure in the world struggle is the ship tonnage that the TTnited States can supply. ELKU9 IS CONVALESCENT. American Ambasodor to Turkey Re? covering from Typhus. Stockholm, May 1.?American Am? bassador Elkus at Constantinople who has been suffering with typhus fever, has pased the crisis, and will be able to travel In a month, according io a message received here through the Swedish foreign office. 3IEETTNG AT OLANTA. Many Farmers Will Plant Buns, Olanta, May 1.?The county agent, J. Ward Me Lend on, was in town yes? terday for the farmers preparedness meeting. A representative group of farmers gathered at the old soldier.* ground, and the meeting was addres.s ed by the Rev. B. K. Truluck, Sum Young, chairman of the preparedness committee, and the county ugen-.. The meeting was very informal a 1 almost every one present Joined u the heart to heart talks In the Inter oat of food production. Plans for personal campaigns were arrang 1 md every farmer present pledge l himself to do all In his power ? increase the supply of potatoes, pens and oat patch corn. They resolved to meet every Saturday so long as thei ? was any good that they could ac? complish. A big acreage will go to velvet beans this year which will be a great ludp in beef and pork product^ Much interest was shown in t? \ bei :ih and at tho meeting and af , > the county a#ont answered man) questions in rugard to this crop. WORK STOCK FRON WEST. FIRST INFANTRY RECEIVES MULES AND HORSES. Telegraph Office and Long Distance Telephone Service Installed at Headquarters. Columbia, May 1.?One hundred mules and 48 horses for the First South Carolina infantry arrived at headquarters yesterday from El Paso, Texas. This, and the settling down to routine work after moving to Co? lumbia Saturday, were the feature of yesterday at the State fair grounds. During the day Col. McCully received word that the various companies on guard duty throughout the State had started their work. Col. McCully has set up offices in a small building at the fair grounds near the entrance to the race track The Western Union has established a telegraph oflice and there is a lorn, distance telephone, thus putting head? quarters in close touch with the com panies over the State. GOOD STAND FOR CROPS. Cotton and Corn Come up Well and Cultivation la Progressing Nicely? Truck Needs Rain. Early cotton and corn have come to good stands generally, but in clay! land cotton germination has not been satisfactory. Cotton chopping and corn cultivation have progressed fa? vorably on the coastal plain. Gardens and truck, though still backward, are in good condition. Wheat and oats are heading in Clarendon county; oats appear to be deteriorating under continued dry weather. Tobacco transplating is nearly completed; the young crop is vigorous, and plan's are plentiful. Fruit prospects con? tinue favorable, but there is some, complaint of peaches droping in scat? tered sections. The strawberry crop would be greatly benefited by rain. ,In fact', generous rains are now needed to improve crops above ground, to promote germination of seed and to soften the soil for additional plowing. Richard H. Sullvan, j Meteorologist COTTON ACREAGE OF 1917. Reduction in Fertilizer Used?Season About Ten Days Late?Estimates by States. New York, May 1.?Preliminary es? timates from 2,100 special correspond? ents of the Journal of Commerce indi? cate a decrease in cotton acreage of 2.6 per cent., as compared with a year ago. These reports bear an av? erage date of April 24, and in prac? tically all cases represent expected acreage rather than actual. Final estimates will be presented in our next monthly report. The propaganda for more grau? and food crops is chiefly responsible for the decrease, but as against this the high prices for cotton have in? duced a number of States to increase acreage. Owing to the war and mi? gration to better wage-earning centc 9 scarcity of labor is generally com plained of and is greatly feared, es? pecially as the season advances. The season has been too cold and and wet in the Eastern sections, caus? ing cloddy soil and generally poor preparation. The Western and South? western sections started with unusal ly dry weather, enabling farmers to attain excellent cultivation. Th< whole belt averages about ten dau late. Only a small percentage of the crop is planted, but replanting will be necessary in some sections. On ac? count of high cost, fertilizers will be reduced nearly 10 per cent, compar? ed with a year ago. Preliminary estimates of acreage compared with last year, fertilize a used and late loss of the season are given in the accompanying table: Acreage For- Days State 1917 1916 tilizers Le re N. Carolina .101.0 104.2 101.0 7 S. Carolina . 99.7 105.3 98.0 8 Georgia. . . 93.9 104.4 95.0 8 Florida . . . 97.0 105.0 84.7 10 Alabama . . 79.3 100.0 81.6 10 Mississippi . 84.5 113.4 80.0 11 Louisiana .105.0 114.5 102.0 10 Texas . . ..102.0 105.6 90.7 9 Arkansas. .104.1 110.6 92.7 9 Tennessee . 98.1 108.0 94.0 8 Missouri. . .117.0 115.0 100.0 7 Oklahoma. .108.5 115.8 94.3 8 Average.. . 97.5 106.9 91.0 10 Journal of Commerce. LIVES LOST IN FIRE. Negro Man und Woman llumetl to Death. Bishopville, May 2.?Fire last nlgbt about midnight destroyed a tana 11 barn on the premises of the Pioneer hotel and along v 1th it two frown negroes, a man and woman. The man was porter at toe hotel and slept in this barn. After the Urs was put out a mattress which w m burning was pulled aside and r- ? vealed the bodies of the man and woman. TO REGISTER YOUNG MEN. GOVERNOR. ORGANIZING MA. CtaNERY TO SECURE NAMES AND AGES OF MALE CITIZENS. Call for Volunteers for Officers' Train? ing* Camp Expires May 4?32,000 Men Wanted from This State in Next Two Years, Besides National Guard. Columbia, May 2.?Within a very short time after President Wilson signs the proclamation calling for men for the new army, the machin? ery for the enrolling of all eligibles in South Carolina and other States will be set in motion. The work of enrolling the eligibles for the new army has been delegated to the gov? ernors of the several States and with? in 10 days it is believed that the strength of the nation under the plan of congress for raising an army will be known. S Gov. Manning is thoroughly alive to the situation and he will give his best energy to the execution of the plans as described by the war depart? ment. Full plans and particulars as to how the work is to be accomplish? ed will be announced from Washing? ton at a later date. The plans of congress call for 500, 000 men as the first unit of the great army of 2,000,000 men. South Caro? lina will be expected to furnish about 8,000 e. 'isted men. Within two years it is expected that about 32,000 men from this State will be under arms, not including the members of the National Guard. There is every indication in this emergency that the National Guard will be used almost exclusively for guard duty. The First regiment is now guarding railway bridges and public property arjd the Second regi? ment will probably be called out be? fore the end of the week. The call for volunteers for the training camp at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga., Is urgent because the time for filing applications will expire May 4. Unless more South Carolinians enter the camp, then the regiments from this State will be placed under com? mand of men from other States. Sev? eral hundred men have already signed up for the training camp period of three months and this number will bo largely Increased tomorrow and next day. Everything possible is being done to place South Carolina on a war footing. A personal representative of Gov. Manning was In Washington to? day for conference with the National Defense committee on the question of establishing a State defense council. Thero is much work to be done. The State defense council will be named U a later date by Gov. Manning. ASKS FOR ANOTHER NAME. Governor Again Refuses to Name Kb'hard son Warden. Columbia, May 2.?Gov. Manning 'oday, for the second time, returned wO the Audubon Society of South Carolina the name fo A. A. Richard? son, recommended by the society for re appointment as chief game war? den of the State. The letter return? ing the name was address to Dr. E. C. L. Adams, of Columbia, president of the society. Dr. Adams announced 'his afternoon that he would Imme? diately call a meeting of the organ? isation for the purpose of proposing a name suitable to the governor. The supreme court has recently held the office vacant, taking the po? sition that neither Mr. Richardson nor Wade Hampton Gibbes, Govern , Jr Manning's appointee, had a title to thep osition. Gov. Manning's letter to Dr .Adams follows: 'in view of the recent decision of the supreme court, in the case of ?Gibbes vs. Richardson, where in it held that the society may now nomi? nate and the governor appoint a chief game warden, I am returning to you ior the second time the name of Mr. A. A. Richardson, which your so ctety has heretofore forwarded to me twice. "I am therefore again returning the name of Mr. A. A. Richardson for the reason that I do not deem him suit able for appointment as chief game warden of the State. "I request that you call o meeting of the Audubon Society so that thiU society may recommend to me some one suitable for appointment as chief game warden." T.EAF TOBACCO STOCK. Amount 'Hold Shows Iiu-rcasc* Over Lost Year. Washington, Moy 1??Leaf tobneco held by mnauf irers and dealers April 1 amounti to 1 lH,llt,IH pounds, an increase of 361,216,465 pounds since January 1 but 11,957,946 pounds less than on April 1 last year, the census bureau today announced. Chewing, smoking and export types showed an increase but Imported tvpes decreased about 11,000,000 pounds. ALLIED NATIONS PAY TRIBUTE AT WASHINGTON'S TOMB BRIT? AIN, FRANCE ANI> UNITED STVTES PLEDGE UN? ION FOR DEMOC? RACY. Joffre ami Bridges Stand at Attention at. Tributes Front Their Countries are Placo?l on Grave of First Fight? er for Democracy. Mount Vernon, Va., April 29.?The Hags of Great Britain, France and tho United States iloated proudly to? gether today over the tomb of George Washington. Beneath them spokes? men of the three great democracies paid homage to America's soldier and statesman and pledged themselves, each to the other in the name of the dead, to prosecute the present mighty j struggle against autocracy on the I lines he himself had followed in bringing America into being. Nature was in her most bounteous garb. The evergreen, eternal senti? nels before the tomb, stood out boldly in the new life just blossoming. The only sign of human change since Washington was laid to rest so long ago was the flags of the three allies over the arched entrance to the tomb itself. In groups of twos and threes an eminent gathering, including the members of the French and British, war commissions, the president's cab? inet and members of congress, had strolled up through the sloping grounds of the river .bank until per? haps half a ^hundred people stood with bared heads in a semicirele before the tomb. Without formality, Secretary Dan? iels motioned to M. Vivlani, mins? ter of justice and former premier of France who advanced slowly into the centre. Before the tomb of Wash? ington, whose efforts toward liberty his own ancestors so gloriously aid? ed, M. Viviani delivered an address in which the whole force of his emo? tional power, deepened by the sig? nificance and sombreness of the occa? sion, fought for expression. The spectators, though most of them could not understand French, caught the suppressed feeling and Are of the orator, and followed his words spellbound as they quickened under the thrill of his imagination. And as he finished, the silence be? came supreme with the general real? ization that no applause could express the emotions aroused. RAID ON HOLLAND VILLAGE. Aeroplane Drops Bombs on Zierik London, May 1.?An airoplane dropped bombs Sunday night on Zicrikzee, Holland, killing three and doing much material damage, accord? ing to Dutch reports. A Modern Smoke House. Mr. J. B. Osteen has one of the most modern smoke hpuses in Sumter county, and below will be found in? structions for building same: The house is 19 feet long, 13 feet wide and 9 feet high on the outside, ceiled inside and up the rafters and packed between ceiling and weather boarding and sheathing and weather boai'ding with saw dust. The sills are laid on a brick wall twelve inches high and the floor of the building is made of concrete. In the rear, of the smokehouse, a home made refrige? rator is built with a capacity for cur? ing fifteen hogs weighing a hundred pounds to a hundred and fifty pounds each. The refrigerator is 8 feet high and eight feet and eight inches wide on the outside with walls four inches thick stuffed with saw dust At the top of the refrigerator is located an ice box eighteen inches in depth across the refrigerator. The refrige? rator is made of poplar lumber and lined with galvanized tin. It is di? vided into two parts with two big doors. One side is arranged for hang? ing up hogs and the other contains shelves that may be removed. A drain pipe is connected with the bottom of the refrigerator so as to convey the water from the melting ice to outside of smoke house. Large shelves are lo? cated on each side of the inside of the smokehouse at a convenient height for cutting up hogs, and these may also be used for storing fruit Jars and other things about a farm that should be kept at a uniform tempera? ture. Mr. Osteen built this smoke house last winter during a warm spell, when he thought that he prollably would not have enough cold weather for cur? ing his meat. He says that the entire cost did not exceed a hundred dol? lars. With a smoke house like the above on every farm, there would never be any damger of there net being enough coldf weather in the winter time to cure!out the meat on any farm. With a few hundred pounds of ice hogs coMld be cureu In tha . jmmer time. I J. Frank Williams. County Agent.