The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 18, 1917, Image 7
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WING TO START WEEK. AF?
TER NEXT.
Red Ink Namber Will be Ah
Piece In Line of Liability to
?miHe and Every Man Bearing It
Ca* Ml When He 1? Likely to Be
Washington. July It.?Drawing of
for the aeleetlve draft not only
win determine what men are to be
?ailed to the colors In the first war
army but will show In what order the
others registered will be liable for
service when later armies are organ
It Was revealed tonight that a plan
ef drawing will be followed under
which a definite place in the waiting
lists will be given every one of the
millions who registered. Those stand?
ing at the head of the list In each
county or city district will be called
?rot before the examination boards
end theo the obligation will pass on
down the line as long as men are
Toss does not mean that a separate
or number will be drawn for
of the country's 1.800.000
In fact, every number
i. ender the theory of the plan,
Wilt represent more than i.000 men.
for eaeh of the registration dls
Detaila of the system have net
made public, but an outline of
lie principal feature follows:
?very regtet ration board has num?
bered the cards In Its poses?? Ion in
red mm. sintoning et No. 1 end con?
tending to e number corresponding
with the total in the district. ?
At the drawing numbers will be
need ranging from one np to a num?
ber corresponding to the total In the
largest district of the country. The
?ret number drawn will determine
what man In eeeh district is to be
taken first If it be No. 10 for ex?
ample, R will moan that the men In
eeeh district holding card No. 10 will
he celled for examination before any
sir the other men In that district. The
second number drawn wlP determine
men In each district Is to be
second and so on as long as
are needed. Those not needed
for the first war army will retain their
positions on the lists and these po
sslldaa will determine the order of
liability when they fire needed,
drawing will be public
there will be high num
drewn for which there are ne
corresponding registrants In small
districts. The smallest district In the
country Is understood to have but
lit registrants and the largest 7,
000. Whenever a number beyond
the total in any given district comes
out. It will operate as a blank for
that district. Thus. If the theory
works out evenly, the lerger districts
will be constantly assessed in excess
of the smaller, on a pro rata basis cor?
responding to their else.
The drawing will not take place this
week and probably will be held some
time during the week of July SI. ac?
cording to present indications. Only
t4 States have completed the organisa?
tion of their exemption boards and
the posting of red ink numbers.
The drawing probably will be held
le the big reception room of the war
deeertsaent. adjoining Secretary Ba?
ker*? esnese? The secretary Is will
Is* to do the drawing himself, but
that'point has net been decided. The
president will not take part personal?
ly la the drawing.
Officials are unwilling to disclose
ths details of the drawing Itself, but
the Suggestion which seems to have
the asost support Is thst the numbers,
stamped on thin sllpti of paper, be In?
closed In nontransparent gelatine cap?
sules and placed In a large glass ves?
sel to be removed one at a time by
the official designated to do that work.
Information so fsr available Indi?
cates that the drawing will work out
in this way:
There are 4.550 exemption districts.
When the flr.it number Is drawn, say
No. 10, It will be recorded as No. 1.
with the serial number (10) follow?
ing. The record will show that the
men eshoee cards bear the serial No.
10 Us each of 4,(00 exemption districts
would be first to appear before the
exemption boards. Presumably the
announcement made at the drawing
would be No. 1?serial No. to." it Is
sseumed tist when the drawing is
complete the government will com?
pute how many men are represented
by No. 1, In the drawing and by the
numbers Immediately succeeding and
will issus orders for enough to report
to make th* total desired for the first
army. For Instance, the first call
might be for No. 1. to 100 In all dis?
tricts. When the first exemption came
In each district. No. 101 would be
called snd so n.
To prevent embsrrassment among
those who are exempt the war de?
partment has decided to give with
each exemption certificate a bronze
TROUBLES 111 THE IEST.
I. W. W. MOVKMKNT REGARDED
AS MENACING.
headers Say Plantation Workers in
Hilf) Section are Beins* Brought Into
Their Ranks.
San Francisco, July 12.?Deporta?
tion undertaken today at Bisbee. Ariz.,
of more than 1.000 Industrial Work?
ers of the World, centered the eyes of
the nation on an agitation which has
risen in the West to considerable pro
Isr manifesting Itself
pom coast to coast for
ths Canadian border to
State and military au
? alert tonight to sup
dsr.
s fomented admittedly
W. organisation and
o various branches of
r with them in virtually
e a demand for higher
als In some States pro?
movement one to reduce
of supplies necessary to
f the war but while Ger
e and financial support
l by some of them no
ntJatlon of this accusa
had. Organisers of the
socially In Arizona, were
be well financed from
iown even to those well
> workings of the body,
nsorshlp, which repress
>f Immediate occurrences
itlll permitted a fairly
w of ths general sltua
i wsre on tonight in ths
s of Arizona and Mon
wsre threatened In the
orsdo, Nevada and Utah,
lumber strikes in Idaho
?ton with agitation in the
lets of Oregon. Threats
sdo to destroy the wheat
Northwest and the Slate
defense of Washington
committee especially to
s Industrial Workers lest
I crops be done. Existing
reach to Mexico,
ilstanee to constituted or
d authority has not man
r to any great extent In
Vestern operations of the
Sixty Industrial Work
World members were de
| Jerome, Ariz., and rode
i Needles, Cel.. without
lence. Throats attributed
o generally against prop
say they lag* t^olr d*r
action* upon the theories
>rel, a Frenchman, and got
from him the plan of property de?
struction so a lever to gain thslr
ends, which they define as "industrial
democracy." This property destruc?
tion as advocated and practiced In
the West of late has taken many
forms. Lumber mills have had their
costly saws splintered by spikes driv?
en Into logo. In ths orchard districts
fruit trees have died after copper nails
had been hammered Into them.'
The organisers proclaim the move?
ment to be world wide. The red flag
Is the. proposed universal banner and
each member of the organisation car?
ried a red card. Mernebershlp Is sought
In all branches of Industry. Organ?
isers say 50,000 farm laborers belong
and that the plantation labor of the
South Is being organised. It Is the
theory of the Industrial workers that
each branch of the Industry should
help the other In gaining Its ends and
Roger Culven. an I. W. W. speaker,
recently said at Miami. Ohio, "if nec?
essary to enforce the miners' de?
mands there will be no wheat crop
In the North American continent"
Threats of wholesale destruction of
wheat have not materialized.
DANIELS ASKS FOR-MONEY.
Wants $100,000,000 for More Destroy?
ers and Submarines.
Washington. July 12.?Secretary
Daniels today asked congress for a
deficiency appropriation of $100,000,
000 mainly for additional destroyers
and submarine chasers and to speed
up work on the federal building pro?
gram.
GERMAN SUBJECTS ARRESTED.
Suspicious characters Captured in
Arizona.
Miami, Ariz.. July 13.?At least ten
German subjects, two of whom offi?
cials believe to be army officers, have
been located here and In nearby min?
ing camps. Heavy guards of United
States soldiers have been placed
around the mining camp and powder
plants.
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badge bearing the Inscription "ex?
empted U. S."
The law specifies that exemptions
are not permanent unless the cause
for which they are granted Is perma?
nent. For Instance, If a man should
be exempted on the first call because
of a dependent relative and that rel?
ative should die or become self-sup?
porting before the second call, the
registrant would be liable for service.
SHIPS FOB AMERICA.
GOETHALS WILL. HASTEN CON?
STRUCTION OF FLEET.
Announces to Deumen That he Will
Start Programme Monday?Calls
for Building of Ships by Contract
and In Government Yard* and Com?
mandeering of Those Under/ Way.
Washington, July 13.?Maj. Gen.
Goethals, manager of the shipping
board's Emergency Fleet corporation,
took full charge of the government's'
ship building programme today and
announced sweeping plans for con?
structing the great merchant fleet
with which the United States hopes
to defeat the German submarine cam?
paign. ?? l' '
The most important steps prepared
by Gen. Goethals are these: .
Immediate construction of two gov?
ernment owned ship building plants
for building 400 fabricated-steel ships
of 2,600,000 tonnage.
Commandeering of 1,500,000 tons of
shiplng now building for private ac?
count In American yards.
A request for another great appro?
priation for building ships^
Gen. Goethals* announcement was
made in a letter to Chairman Denman
of the shipping board, which uald the
fleet corporation, under powers just
granted by President Wilsen, would
[start on its building Programms Mon?
day by offering contracts for. construc?
tion of the two governments plants.
Chairman Denman of the*; ehipplr v
board, who is also president and di?
rector of the corporation, after receiv?
ing Gen. Goethals* letter said:
'The board of directors of the fleet
corporation will be called together
probably Monday to discuss the gen?
eral's programme. I have no doubt
the directors and the general will
have no disagreement over policy on
the programme he has outlined for
us when the matter has had full dis?
cussion."
Gen. Goethals' announcement and
Mr. Denman's comment were regarded
by the general's friends as Indicating
j a final settlement in his favor as to
the policy to be pursued invftuWdlng
ships. ??
The fleet corporation. It la made
clear In Gen. Goethals' announcement,
will build all the wooden ships pos?
sible but only after a design approved
?f ?
by the corporation's naval architect.
This is taken to mean that tlu*/eorpor
atlon will construct no ships) ?Of the
Koujfe djsslgn, ,tOJfWhich^the4fc|l^ping
board is said to be committed';
Gen. Goethals' letter to Mr. Dsn
man discloses that the fleet corpora?
tion has let contracts for 428 ships.
345 of them wood and 77 steel, with
I a total tonnage of 1,680,800. The cost
of the woden ships will be 9148 a ton
|and the steel ships $168. I
Contracts for building the govern?
ment yards will be let Monday ? en a
basis of cost plus 6 per cent. Options
will be given to constructors to pur?
chase the plants on completion of the
work.
Proffers that have come to the fleet
corporation for building completed
ships, It was said today, show that
steel ships can be built faster than
wood. Steel ships complete, it to said,
can be turned out within flve months
while wooden construction will require
eight months.
Gen. Goethals' letter to Chairman
Denman follows:
"Now that the president has au?
thorized the Emergency Fleet corpor?
ation to exercise the powers granted
by congress to build and commandeer
ships, I intend, on Monday, to start
ship construction which will complete
my shipbuilding programme. My full
programme is as follows:
"Ships now building:
"Contracts for 348 wood ships have
been let, or aggregated upon, with a
tonnage capacity of 1,218,000 tons, at
a cost, completed, of approximately
$174.000,000.
"In addition, I have under negotia?
tion contracts for about 100 wooden
ships.
"Contracts for 7/ steel ships have
been let or aggregated upon, with a
tonnage of 642.800 tons, at a cost >f
approximately $101,060,356.
"There are thus provided 425 ships
of all sorts, with an aggregated ton?
nage of 1,860,800, at a cost of ap?
proximately $275,000,000 besides 100
more wood ships under negotiation. I
shall continue to let all contracts for
wood ships (of design approved by the
naval architect of the corporation)
which I can secure from responsible
bidders.
"2. Construction of standardize!
ships:
"My main reliance for getting the
greatest amount of the most service?
able tonnage in the shortest time will
be on the construction of fabricated
steel ships of standard patterns.
"On Monday I shall offer contracts
for the building of two plants (to be
owned by the government) for the
construction of fabricated steel ships,
to produce 400 ships of an aggregated
tonnage capacity of 2.T.00.000 itons
Within the next IS to 24 months.^'or
the building of these two yards and
TROUBLE IN GERMANY.
CONTEST BETWEEN REICHSTAG
AND ARMY OVERSHADOWS
MILITARY OPERATIONS.
All Sorts of Wild Rumors Circulating
in Neutral Countries?Reichstag
Hus (ione on Strike?Reported that
Chancellor Has Resigned and That
Kaiser (lias Abdicated?Russians
Still Driving Headlong Into Galicia.
Germany's serious internal trou?
bles have overshadowed the military
operations in Europe. Dispatches to?
day reported that Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg has resigned. It Is
even rumored, though unconfirmed
and given little credence, that Em?
peror William has abdicated in favor
of Prince Joachim. Berlin reports
state that the reichstag has gone on
a strike against the crown and the
military party, apparently in the In?
terest of parliamentary government.
The peace clamor is growing in both
Germany and Austria-Hungary. A
part of the reichstag trouble is due
to the government's persistent attitude
against announcing peace terms of
annexation. The Crown Prince is ap?
parently waging a fight on the chan?
cellor because he is considered too
liberal by the heir to the throne.
The Russians continue their ad?
vance in Galicia, pushing north of
the Dniester and west of the Lomica
with apparently little to stop them.
There is little activity in the West.
MUCH COTTON CONSUMED.
Mills Took More Than Half Million
Bales During Month of June.
Washington, July 14.?The amount
of cotton consumed during June was
576,000 bales, the census bureau re?
ported in its statement today.
Washington, July 14.?The house
today discussed the $640,000,000 air?
plane bill. Chairman Dent of the
military committee hoped for its pas?
sage by tonight.
the construction of ships in them, 1
shall offer, as compensation to the
agents who undertake the work, a
fee of approximately 6 per cent, oi
the total cost of the work, with re?
wards for savings in cost and for
speed in delivery. Provision will be
made for decreasing the fee to pre?
vent unnecessary cost. The contracts
will give the government the benefit
of government fixed commodity priceo,
and will provide for cessation of work
at any time so that the appropriation
may not be exceeded. Options will
be given to the contractors to pur?
chase the plants at~?Tbltrated values
on this completion of the work.
"The design of the success of the
ships is ready, the plans of the yards
are ready, the distribution of the
work ol furnishing the material and
of fabrication is arranged.
"This part of the programme will
take all the $550,000,000 available,
not absorbed by contracts made or
making as stated at the beginning of
this letter.
"The additional contracts for wood
ships which I expect to place, to?
gether with the full number of fabri?
cated steel ships which it is planne!
to build, will require more money than
congress has authorized.
"3. Commandeering of ships in
yards:
"On Monday I shall deliver to
shipbuilders a general statement of
the programme which I have long
been maturing for commandeering
ships now under construction for pri?
vate account (such ships having an
aggregate tonnage considerably in ex?
cess of 1,500,000 tons.)
"The essence of this programme is
to commandeer all such ships and ex?
pedite their construction by adding
labor and cutting out refinements, as
fast as the berths are cleared each
yard will be devoted to the produc?
tion of a single type of tonnage for
which it is best suited.
"This programme is made com?
prehensive because expedition can not
be obtained in a yard engaged partly
on rush work and partly on pre
wartime schedules. My investigation
has satisfied me that citizens of the
United States and of our allies will
pay the cost of expediting ships now
building for them and take them off
our hands. If this policy is adopted
it will conserve our fund.
"I agree It is essential for the
shipping board to requisition at once
the neutral ships which are con?
structed and are ready to sail. I
have no data to make an estimate as
to how many of the ships there or?
or how much money will be required
for this purchase. I shall therefore
cut my programme to the extent of
$50,000,000.
"Please notify me at once wheth?
er this is enough.
"Each day's delay In summer?In
commandeering or constructing ?
means two days loss of time In throw?
ing the work Into the winter months
It Is for that reason that T am urg?
ent that the Programms start on
Monday."
REICHSTAG FACESiSTRIKE.
MEMBERS SUSPEND BUSINESS
FOR PRESENT.
War Credit Held up?BUI in Abeyance
While German Statesmen Await
Clearing up of Situation.
Copenhagen, July 13.?Serious news
cam? from Berlin late today. The
reichstag has gone on strike and the
members have decided to suspend the
labors both of the full house and the
main committee until the political sit?
uation is cleared up. This leaves the
war credit bill in abeyance.
Emperor William has summoned
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, chief
of the general staff, and Gen. Luden
dorff, the chief quartermaster general,
for a conference.
This news should be Interpreted In
connection with intimations that the
German government has decided to
refuse to parliamentarise the cabinet
and the difficulties reached in connec?
tion with the adoption of a peace reso?
lution.
PROMISE OF REFORMS.
Electoral Betterment Pledged by the
Kaiser.
Berlin, July 11 (via London, July
13.)?Emperor William has directed
the following decree to the president
of the state ministry:
"Upon the report of my state min?
istry, made to me In obedience to my
decree of April 7 of the curent year.
I herewith decide to order a supple?
ment to the same, that the draft of
the bill dealing with the alteration
of the electoral law of the house of
deputies, whlcli is to be submitted to
the diet of the monarchy for decision,
is to be drawn up on the basis of
equal franchise. The bill if. to be sub?
mitted in any case early enough that
the next elections may take place ac?
cording to the new franchise. I charge
you to make all necessary arrange?
ments for this purpose.
(Signed) "William."
? (Countersigned) "Bethmann-Hollweg."
NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER.
Fair Weatlier, Occasional Thumler
Showers and Seasonable Tempera?
tures.
Washington, July 14.?Fair weather
the early part of the week in the
South Atlantic and Gulf States, fol?
lowed by occasional thundershowers is
predicted for the__week beginning July
16th. Seasonable temperatures will
prevail.
FOOD AND SHELTER PROVIDED.
Government Will Take Charge of
Bisbee Exiles.
Hermanas, N. M., July 14.?Col.
Holbrook, of the United States army,
with a hundred and ninety-two offi?
cers and men have arrived on a spe?
cial train to take the twelve hundred
Bisbee exiles to Columbus, New Mex?
ico. The work of loading the men
began immediately. General Bell an?
nounced that the men will not be
hold as prisoners, but will be given
shelter in the stockade built for
Mexican refugees, and will be fed by
the government.
Rome, July 14.?The ministry of
foreign affairs has notified the Amer?
ican embassy that it is impossible to
extradite Alfredo Cocchl, the slayer
of Ruth Cruger without violating the
fundamental laws of Italy.
Washington, July 14.?The occupa?
tion of Peking by republicans after
the surrender of ten thousand mon?
archists indicates the complete res?
toration of the republic, the Chinese
legation declared. Order has been
restored. There were few casualties.
Washington, July 14.?The discov?
ery in the internal revenue division
laboratory of a process for manu?
facturing glycerine from sugar Is an?
nounced by the treasury department.
Paris, July 14.?Women and men
wept and cheered as a hundred and
thirty-four battle torn regimental
flags passed through the streets III
the parade celebrating the fall of the
Bastlle. Each emblem was accom?
panied by thirty picked members of
each regiment, many of them wound?
ed. Insigna and military honors con?
ferred in some cases on the regiment
as a whole dangled from the flags.
I^ondon, July 14.?The British
transport Armadale has been sunk by
a submarine, it is officially announc?
ed. The ship was sixty-one hundred
tons.
London, July 14.?A dispatch to
The Morning Post from Amsterdam
says tlie rumors that Rmperor Wil?
liam has abdicated in favor of Son
Joachim are unconfirmed and must
be taken with reserve.
Berne, July 14.?An official Berlin
telegram says Gen. von Stein, the
Prussian war minister has resigned.
ARMY RULES GERMANY.
IMPERIAL. CHANCELLOR IS UT?
TERLY WITHOUT AUTHORITY
IN WASHINGTON'S
OPINION.
Crisis in Germany Centers Principal?
ly on Questions of Peace and Re?
forms.
Washington, July 13.?The German
political c sis centers principally on
the questions of peace and internal
reforms, according to a review of
State department advices issued to?
night by the committee on public in?
formation and there is not the slight?
est reason to believe that it will re?
sult In anything remotely approach?
ing revolution, or any diminution of
Germany's military power.
I The review says it is apparent that
[Germany's food supply will holdout
I till the present crop is harvested, al?
though the sufferings of t he poor have
been intensified greatly during the
past five months.
Military domination has reached
such a stage in Germany, the review
says, that the imperial chancellor is
utterly without authority over the mil?
itary leaders who do as they please
"and leave the civil authorities to
come along behind and apologize."
"Information reaching the depart?
ment of State," says the committee's
review, "indicates that the German
political crisis now centers primarily
in the questions of Internal reform and
peace, and that the question of
changes in the personnel of the gov?
ernment is subordinate in import?
ance. The dispute is over measures
rather than men, and whether or not
the chancellor and several secretaries
of state lose their position it is unlike?
ly that the political siorm can be
stilled until definite action has been
taken in regard to internal reform
and peace * * *
In spite of the bitterness of the
present contest in Berlin, there Is not
the slightest reason to believe that It
will result In anything remotely ap?
proaching revolution, or In any dimin?
ution of Germany's military power.
"The most that can he expected to
result from the crisis in the near fu?
ture, is first, abolition of the Prussian
three-class voting system and the es?
tablishment of equal manhood suf?
frage; second, a demand by the reich?
stag that the government should de?
clare its adherence to the so-called
'war program of August 4, 1914,' which
stated thrit Germany tab not ^i^w
to war by the desire of conquest, butT~"
that the German people took up arms
only in defense of freedom and to
guard their territorial possessions.
"Should election to the Prussian
diet be based on equal manhood suf?
frage, control of the diet would pass
from the junker parties. ? ? ? But
splendid as this reform would be ?
Germany will not be on the road to
political freedom until the chancellor
has been made responsible to the
reichstag and until the chancellor has
been given control over the military
authorities.
"At present not only has the reich?
stag no authority over the chancellor,
who Is responsible to the emperor
alone, but the chancellor Is utterly
without authority over the military
leaders * * * Unless the present cri?
sis develops far beyond its present
scope, it will not begin to make Ger?
many a democratic nation.
"Passage by the Reichstag of a
resolution demanding hat the gov?
ernment declare its adherence to the
'war program of August 4, 1914,'
would not be so important a step to?
ward peace as it would appear to be
on its face."
NEUTRAL STEAMERS RUN BLOCK?
ADE.
Eleven ATesscls Leere Atlantic Port to
Avoid Operation of United States'
Embargo.
An Atlantic Port, July 13.?Eleven
neutral steamers, loaded with grain
and other cargo which could not be
exported except under license after
President Wilson's embargo proclama?
tion effective Monday, cleared from
this port today for European ports
without British letters of assurance
and will attempt to run the allied
blockade.
Ten of the vessels are Dutch and
the other Is Scandinavian. They have
been lying at their docks here for
some time while vain efforts were
made to secure from British authori?
ties the usual letters of assurance
which would permit their passing
through to their destinations.
Besides grain, the ships carry a
great quantity of meal cake and oth?
er cattle feed included under the
terms of the embargo proclamation.
No statement was available tonight
from those directly interested In the
transaction, but It was presumed the
shipping companies decided to take
their chances with the British block?
ade and admiralty courts if necessary
rather than await the effective date of
the embargo and endeavor to secure
export licenses from the American
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