The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 04, 1917, Image 2
Bvf M sfc*fng Advmtnr
ol Gun Crew,
I laner.
I mi i
from a New
?>?? July i*th will be
CUlar later eat by Hum
ootfa* people by reason
)UU McCoy, a son
f. MeCejr of St. Chartas, is
the naval gun crew on
Uoor that was attacked
Whoyrtaa- In a letter
; WTtttOO by Gunner Me?
ts? tjajr of hie arrival at an
" ho states that he saw
m the trip to England
be) Ore return trip to
end. tfiet ho fired 18 shots,
oayo that be would make an
trip ? cries, \ ? ship sailing
a fate days from the time he
writ**. His ship sailed on
do titto aod It lo probable that
now '<? tho other etde of tho
tte or en rooto back to America,
artleto referred to follows:
osi aa Atlantic liner
a*re* eirtved at ao AUantlo port to
seOOOtod a series of escapes
sestets rises during the two
period that elapsed from their
from o British? port, it was
from tho vessel's experience
the Genna a submarine fleet had
tho steamship for Its prey
tvored so every way to send
^^sr^fcr^^^ f ^e^g^s^ ^e^^e^r^i^gsVLae
tjla* Uaer woo barely missed by a
The watchful gunners, al
fPaaUo fee a shot at their un
soartbid tho sea in vain
Use sags * of a periscope.
res sal woo halted by admiralty
the day after leaving the Brit
Submarines had been re
by Isotrsysts. While the
lay feove to, the destroyers
the waters for miles ahead
seed theo (sported that it was ss .*e for
tho psasinger ohlp to proceed.
??Bardly hod she gotten under wsy
then . wireless orders held her up a
soesad Urns. More submarines had
Sighted. For two dsys tho
wallowed about awaiting
to proceed. The undersea boats
bean seen directly In the path or
deleed by the admiralty for the vessel
to cross the Atlantic,
f "At top* speed the liner began hor
deep for her American port. The fol?
lowing morning at 11.30 o'clock the
watch crlod a warning against an ap?
proaching torpedo. Passengers rushed
to tho side of the ship and plainly
discerned the wake of the engine of
doothejps It tore its way toward the
liner.
"The captain ordered the wheel
thrown over so hard that the ship
noted at an alarming angle, and tho
Boot mos lent the torpedo passed
astern, within twenty yards of tho
vessel's rudder. The submarine was
not sighted.
Two days lster the ship's company
asas startled by the cry of "submarine
ahead!" The gunners Jumped to their
beg rides and. as the ship swung
from her course, they drew beads on
what appeal d to be tho conning
toner of a submarine about 2,000
garde distant. The next Instant the
guts began to berk and sent shriek
rag shells at their target.
'?txty-two shots were fired, all of
UNra hitting tho object or striking
within a few feet of it.
"The 'submarine' was sifnk, but It
turned oat to bo a buoy, which had
broken from Its moorings."
WARRANTS TO BE APPROVED.
Comptroller One re I Herogulsee Chief
Game Warden.
Columbia. July 31.?Carl ton W.
Sawyer, comptroller genorul. tele?
graphed his 'Office yesterday that he
would Isere warrants to Wade Hamp?
ton Gtbb.'s. recently commissioned
Chief game warden, as to any other
regularly commissioned officer, the
comptroller goneral taking the posi?
tion that be has no right to go back
of a co?nmlsiilon Issued by the govern?
or unless restrained by lesal author?
ity
Mr. Sawyer's telegram reads as fob
lews
"With re.erence to tho matter of
paying warrants of the newly appoint?
ed and commissioned game warden.
W. 11. Olhbes. I do not consider that
this Is a matter for me to decide hut
for th^ courts. However, Inasmuch
as Mr. Olhbes ha? been commisslon
ed anil his bond hau been approved
t<y Attorney Oenorul Peoples I have
this duy served notice on A. A. Itlch
srdson. former game warden that war?
rants will be Issued to Mr. Olhbes aa
to any other regulurly commission-d
officer unh-HS proper proceedings are
taken to enjoin me. I do no' sooMor
that I have the right to go back of ?
rommlMlnn Issued bv the governor
unless some legal authority should fO?
strain me."
Washington. July 30.? In u state?
ment Issued by the war department
here today It was shown that South
Carolina's quota for the next training
ramps will be 2".G out of 850 appli?
cation. Those < amps will open Au
I 17 and cloeg November 20, ft
COTTON CHOP CONDITION.
Report? Show the Crop Made Gains
During; Past Thirty Days.
New York. July 30.?The condition
of cotton, on an average date July 22.
aa compiled from the replies of nearly
3.200 special correspondents of this
paper Is found to be 73.3 per cent., or
an Improvement of 1.6 points over
last month's report, when It was 71.7
per cent. A year ago at this time it
was 74.9 per cent., and in 1915 it
was 77.3 per cent. During the past,
ten years in only one was it below
this, In 1909, being 73.1 per cent. In
that year the acreage planted was
31.292,006. from which a crop of 10,
004,000 was gathered. Conditions of
States, with comparisons follow:
Aug. July Dlf. Aug. Aug.
1917 1917 1916 1915
N. Carolina .70.0 70.6 -0.6 73.2 78.6
a Carolina. .73.5 72.7x.08 9.0 75.6
Georgia.. . .02.4 70.3x2.1 71.0 77.5
Florida. . . .76.6 77.0x0.4 74.8 79.0
Alabama. . .71.5 69.3x2.2 61.8 76.5
Mississippi . .78.1 69.5x3.6 73.1 78.8
Louisiana . .74.1 75.3 -1.2 79.6 79.0
Texas . . . .73.2 71.7x1.6 77.0 77.0
Arkansas . .75.0 72.4x2.6 83.5 81.0
Tennesee . . .72.3 72.3 79.6 84.0
Missouri . . .80.5 80.0x0.5 80.3 80.0
Oklahoma . .76.6 77.0 0.5 81.0 72.0
Average . . .73.3 71.7x1.6 74.4 77.3
States showing Increases were:
South Carolina. 0.8 per cent; Georgia,
3.1 per cent; Alabama, 2.2 per cent;
Mississippi, 3.6 per cent; Texas, 1.5
per cent, and Arkansas, 2.6 per cent.
A decrease of 0.6 per cent, occur?
red In North Carolina in Louisiana,
1.2 per cent, and in Oklahoma, 0.5
per cent.
Journal of Commerce.
RAISING WAR TAXES.
Income Tax Will be Increased ami
Liquor WUI Pay Dollar More a Gal
Washington, July 31.?An Increas?
in the pending war tax bill to two
billion, eight million dollars has been
decided upon by the senate finance
committee by Increases in corporation,
normal income taxes, on the income
of Individuals of more than fifteen
thousand dollars annually, and
further Increase of a dollar a gallon
on distilled spirits and fifty cents
more on beer. There are other mi?
nor Increases.
VOLUNTEERS FOR SECOND
CAMPS.
Total of More Than Seventy-two Tltou
sand Seeking Chance to lie Army
Officers.
Washington, July 30.?For the l*y
000 places In the second officers' train?
ing camps to open August 27, 72,914
men have applied, and the war de?
partment Is considering accepting sev?
eral thousand more than it originally
intended. Preliminary examinations
given the applicants by civilian phy?
sicians indicate that 51,838 are physi?
cally satisfactory.
In most States tho number of ap
pllcants is from three to five times the
State's quota.
VERY HOT IN NEW YORK.
I lout Wave of Unusual Severity in the
Great City.
New York, July 31.?With the offi?
cial temperature reported at 9.30 this
morning at 90 degrees, four degrees
higher than at the same time yester?
day. New York is prepared for anoth?
er period of sweltering heat. Many
prostrations were reported at that
hour. A cool wave in tho West prom?
ises relief soon.
HEAT KILLS FIFTEEN.
Torrid Wave Kills Many in Chlcigo.
Chicago, July 31.?Thero have been
fifteen deaths from heat here wi.hln
the last twenty-four hours.
MUSTERED INTO SERVICE.
I'liysleul Examination of Mcinls rs of
Company L Completed.
This morning Captain Price and
Lieut. Shaw, who have been uusy
since Monday morning mustering in
the Sumter Light Infantry, comp eted
their work. There are now 66 men
and 2 officers in the company, I men
and one officer ha lug been turned
down on account of physical disabil?
ity. When the call was first received
on the 2,1th, there were only 62 men
and .'! olflcers in the company, but
ever since that date, two or three
men have been enlisted dally and It is
hopctl that many more will cnlbt be?
fore the company leaves Sumter, as
Captain l'.rown is very anxious to get
his company up to war strength.
Lieut. Shaw, who has been giving
the men their physical examination,
states that the Sumter men have
made a very good average under
him. Captain Price states ths t the
booh work of Captain l'.rown in ex?
cellent sind the cnuipmeut of the com?
puny is also In very good shape. No?
tice has been received that the fttate
inspection will tsike place on August
11. and, on this account, ihe S. L. I.
will hurdly leave within two weeks.
FOR FREE EUROPE.
Balfour Tells or England's General
Aim In War.
London, July 30.?John Annan
Hrycc (Lihoral), rcf vring in tho
house of commons today to the recent
statement of Lord Robert Cecil, min?
ister of blockade, that the dismem
bernmont of Austria was not one of
Great Britain's war aims, said the
statement would create dllflculties be?
cause Groat Britain's engagements
with her allies could not be continued
if the Austrian empire was to be main?
tained.
Italy, on tho strength of these en?
gagements, Mr. Bryce said, would not
be content merely with a rearrange?
ment of tho Trentlno region.
The references to Great Britain's
war aims by Mr. Bryco and others,
including Noel Buxton, who said that
an unfortunate impression had got
abroad in Europe us a result of the
speeches in tho house of commons
that Great Britain favored a policy of
annexation, but would not define her
aims, brought an interesting reply
from A. J. Balfour, the foreign sec?
retary.
Mr. Balfour said the government
had been asked to declare its policy,
but he was not sure if that would be
a wise course. When every min?
isterial statement was treated as a
pledge, it was dangerous to accede to
requests for definite announcements.
With respect to the Jugo-Slav and
Austrian question, said the secretary,
It was impossible to foretell the po?
sition in which the world would find
itself when the problems came to bo
decided and ho would be doing a very
ill service were he to attempt to define
tho position now.
"As everybody knows," continued
Mr. Balfour, "we first entered the war
to defend Belgium and prevent France
from being crushed boforo our eyes.
Our purposes were completely unself?
ish; therefore we stood in a different
position from any of our allies. We
hoped to see Europe freer and more
stable."
Mr. Balfour expressed an opinion
which was simply his own when he
said that if France asked for Alsace
Lorraine Great Britain should sup?
port hor, but he declared that France
was not fighting for Alsace-Lorraine
alone; she was lighting for her very
existence.
As to the democratization of Ger?
many, said the secretary, it las been
hoped that autocracy would give
place to parliamentary institutions,
but nobody was foolish enough to
suppose that It would be possible to
impose on Germany a constitution
made outside of Germany Until Ger?
many was either made powerless or
free ho did not think tho peace of
Europe could be secured. The fight
must go on, for if this war ended with
a German peace, that would only be
a prelude to a new European war. If
the peace was to be one that England
and America, which had no interest
on the continent, could approve, then
it would lead to a permanent settle?
ment, which would In turn condr.ee to
that great understanding of the na?
tions, which would give Europe a se?
curity It had never known before.
"Germany must work out her salva?
tion," continued Mr. Balfour. "You
do not mend matters by imposing a
constitution even if you have the pow?
er. Nations must mukc their scheme
of liberty for themselves, according
to their own ideas and based on their
history, character and hopes.
"But if It Is true that tho great pow?
er of German imperialism is still de?
pending upon the belief that only ttu
der tho Imperial system can Ger?
many be great, powerful and rich,
then if cxporienco shows that the im?
perialistic system can produce not
merely a triumph of one time, but in?
evitably lead to corresponding- dis?
asters at another, it may well he that
those views, which found such pow?
erful expression in Germany m I860
and which animated all German
teachers for more than a genie rat lor
before the Blsmarckslan domination,
will revive with new lustre and new
strength, and that Germany, With all
her powers of organization and all her
[Inherited cultivation, will be added to
those nations which before the war
could hurdly conceive how a universal
war of this sort could be deliberately
provoked in order to further the
commercial or political interest of
any single community.
"When Germany has come to the
level of the United States and Great
Jbltain in that respect wo may hope
that one of the great disturbers of
the peace may forever bo eliminated.
I do not know who will venture to
suy for a moment that, looking at the
internal condition of Germany, as far
as we are allowed to sec it at the
present time, the ideas for which 1
have been speaking will really grow
in such fashion as to raise legitimate
hopes thai In our life time we shall
i see that established. But 1 am sure
thai if it is not established the sov?
ereignty of Europe win not be estab?
lished either."
Mr. and Mrs. T. It. Jenkins leave
tonight for Richmond, Indiana, to
spend several weeks.
OUR NCRSES in FRANCE.
Brief News or One of Ilse First Unit*
?Whnt of Next Winter?
(By Ruth Wright Kauffman of the
Vigilantes.)
(Mrs. Kauffman is tho Special Cor?
respondent of the Vigilantes in France
and England. She is making a study
there of the work that women are do?
ing, in order to show American wo?
men what they can do to help win the
war.)
Paris, July 7.?To come upon a
unit of American nurses, quite by ac?
cident, in a quaint Norman village on
tho seacoast of Franco?well, how
would you feel? I wanted to rush up
to them and throw my arms about
them, but?. To tell the truth, the
llrst one I met was a major, who wore
our simple, but impressive, U. S. R.
uniform.
They have been In France only two
weeks, and they are one of the six
units lent by our government to the
British government. They aro already
hard at work.
Don't think that things are easy
for newcomers no matter how wel?
come they are. Conditions here are
war conditions. Our unit came equip?
ped to take care of five hundred
beds; they havo 950. When appli?
ances are strange, when the quarters
are undergoing the moving difficul?
ties of one outgoing set of nurses and
doctors and one incoming set, when
the climate and the food and the peo?
ple and the surgical apparatus and
the manners and customs are new?|
"That is the way they do their
washing," said the matron, as we
strolled along the elevation that cor?
responds to our board walks, and
looked down at the half mile of hard
sands enclosed between jagged white
cliffs. Sheets and sheets and sheets,
along the whole half mile, flat upon
the sands, their corners and edges
held down by bits of stone.
"Who washes them?" I asked.
"Oh, the women of the village.
Come into tho Casino. These are the
men that arrived yesterday. Four
hundred and fifty of them, all at once
of course. Straight from the front.
Pretty bad cases, a lot of them,
too."
It was tho stillest room in the
world. Together, the matron and 1
stood there for some minutes survey?
ing the rows of beds, with those me?
chanical contrivances that mean war.
Occasionally a hand would move. One
man had guarded his cap and kept it
over his face. But there was no
sound?no sound at all.
"If we were /back in New York,
and thirty cases had come into the
accident ward, th_rc would have been
more fuss," said the matron. "I can
hardly understand such courage. They
never whimper, not one of them."
Nor do1 the nurses. Though they
aro doing double work, those whom
X met took their duties with the good?
nature and enthusiasm that one would
only expect from an American con?
tingent. The matron assured mc that
no one had grumbled of the almost
overpowering mas3 of work?and the
orderlies, who at home are not scrub
the-floor orderlies by any manner of
means?were buckling down to their
tasks quite as if they had been used
to them all their lives.
"Have you any message to send to
America?" I asked.
"Only this," said the matron.
"Train. We need trained nurses?
and we shall need more. But they
must be thoroughly trained."
I asked about the untrained nurses,
whether, when they have been work?
ing for several years in hospitals?as
some English Red Cross nurses are
oven now doing in conjunction with
this American unit?she disapproved
of having their work count toward
trained nursing.
"It is my opinion," she emphatical?
ly said, "that when the untrained
nurse has a thorough course of war
nursing, her work should most, assur?
edly count In the matter of a cer?
tificate. I should suggest that she be
allowed to obtain her certificate after,
say, a supplementary technical course
of two or three months. We In Amer?
ica have not the nursing competition
that exists in England, so there is no
reason for the opposition that obtains
there. But at the present moment,
our great need in France is the train?
ed nurse."
I asked what she was going to do
In the winter. She was very much
troubled about the winter. Now, with
the delightful weather of a Norman
summer, in houses and hotels built for
the comfort and pleasure of the sea?
son's tourists, it was easy to live, and
look out at the sea and the cliffs and
the blue skies. It was pleasant, too.
for the convalescent soldiers to walk
about the streets or lie outside in cots
and chairs. Hut the houses are not
built for warmth, summer will not
last?-though I have no doubt It's 100
In the shade at this very hour in New
York?and it must not be forgotten
that coal and wood are luxuries that
cannot be carelessly provided: the>
are very scarce.
What, then, is to become of our
nurses In France nc\i winter? Are
they tu have to do their work suffering
from the intense coM of barely heat?
ed hospitals with paper-like walls, in
? climate nearly as severe in winter as
ours? Can't some ingenious Ameri?
can devise ways and means of keeping
them from freezing?
RAILROAD DISPUTE SETTLED.
Secretary of Labor Wilson Renders
Decision Acceptable to Doth Sides.
Washington, July 31.?The main
questions in dispute between the
forty thousand employees of South?
eastern railroads and the roads have
been settled by Secretary of Labor
Wilson who gave a decision that has
been accepted by both sides. The set?
tlement affects the hours of labor and
the wages of inspectors, train air
brake repairers, safety appliance
maintainers and other employees in
tho car department.
imrnsfif dsath list.
London. July II.?A report of Brit?
ish casualties in all theatres issued
for publication In newspapers, in July
totaled seventy-one thousand etaVeera
and men. Ofllcers Killed, wounded ov
missing numbered twenty live hun
died.
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UPHELD
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The God who gave us life gave
us liberty at the same time."
Thus Thomas Jefferson, author of our
beloved Declaration of Independence,
linked liberty with life as the natu?
ral heritage of mankind.
One Hundred and Forty-one Years
have not dimmed the significance of
these words for the heart of America.
Today we are at war against autocra?
cy and militarism, upholding liberty
as the fundamental right of man. not
fo. urselves alone but for the peo?
ple <)f all nations.
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