The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 22, 1917, Image 4
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1?99. The Watchman and Southron
sow has the combined circulation and
inituence of both or the old paper*,
and la manifestly the best advertisinr
medium In Sumter
HOGS! HOGS* HOGS!
Three BaetJ ? alle l to the public at?
tention by the Department of Agri?
culture deserve the widest publicity
end the gravest attention.
First, the 1 tment says that for
the fiscal year ending lune 30 its rec
ords show a decrease of approximate- j
ly half a million In the number of, ^
boss slaughter* .) |? ihe I'nlted States. L
Second, the I >? partinent points out ; j
th*t the decrease In pork production |
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1
1917. was even.greater than the de-|(
in the SUSSbef of hofrst nlaught
I
ered would imlt.ate; the hogs killed
Jn the fl?cal year ending June I0|
1917. being lighter In weight than
those killed Jo the lineal year ending
June 30. 1916.
Third, the department announces
that according to the report of Its bu?
reau of crop estimates the total num?
ber of stock hogs on the farms of
the I'nlted States for September 1.
1917. was 90.218.000. as compared
with 96.i4ri.eoo the year before, a de?
crease of 6.427.090.
It thus appears that at a time when . ^
the most vital national Interests re?
quire a maximum production of pork
the number of hogs is actually on the
decline.
It Is a serious situation, and what
makes it especially ugly is that there
la no excuse for It. Hogs offer the
quickest and surest means of increas?
ing the nation's meat supply. They
ean be raised everywhere and In mos:
places at a fine profit. It la Just as
important to rnise them as It is if
build ships with which to transport
our soldiers to France and keep them
supplied.
Of course the country must look IS
the farmers If the hog population It
to grow as It should; but there are
thousands of others who can help. In
every town In South Carolina it should
be the aim of the householder in
1919 to raise at least one hog and if
possible two. If that is done gener?
ally the results will be amacing.?
News snd Courier.
If the Sumter City Council and
Board of Health realized the neces?
sity of Increasing the meat supply of
the residents of this town they ?fould
tmmedttaely repeal the ordinance pro?
hibiting the keeping of hogs In the
city. A thousand or more hogs could
he raised in Sumter during the next
year at a minimum expense and with?
out endangering the health of the
community. Many cities larger than
Sumter have recently repealed anti
hog ordinances and prescribed ref?
lations under which hogs may he
kept Why cannot Sumter follow this
wise example'*
HKB < BOSS ft M>.
sumter County Council of lVfensc
Bed ( row Fund Collections.
Perry Moses Phelps.Sl.O'j
s B. Richardson. 1.0o|
L. B. Windham. I.*H ,
Coleeted by Miss LMisabcth
China and Mis. W. II. Bow?
man :
W. J. Kenney. 100
F.dward Dlek. IM
Sam Folk. LOO
R. V. Joye. 1.00
H. C McCaskell . loo
Marlon LuKant. 1 (?'?
Tom Hoyle. 1.H
A. W. Moaeley. 1.00
Previously reported.1 : ""
Total to date.M4.M
Married.
Mr William Jackson Yleldii | an
nounces the m tn iage of his daughter
Lillian Olivia to \i r O ilther Pierson
Piek on Tuesday. Bee. 1Mb. I tit,
Itlrmlngham, Ala
At home after .Ian 1st. no High?
land avenue. Birmingham.
Mr. and Mrs. DM9) are SjrpSCJtOi to
arrive In Sumter Sunday to spend the
holidays with Mr Lick's parents.
Mr g?d Mi I D M Lick.
Miss Viola Lenbow and Mit T. M
owens of this city were quietly mar
ried at the home of the bride's par?
ents. No HI church street. The
secstaeay itai perfermef i>v Ree? ?
S Trtiesdale. pastor of the bride
The young couple left immedltaely
f.?r Columbia, where they will make
their home for awhile.
SANTEE RIVER BRIDGES.
si \ti: HIGHWAY commission
KF.COMMKXl>S S1TFS i Oil
STRKTVRFS.
Oncluiir or ( list From Federal AM?
ICeskleiitM of Counties Ikmcllted to
Provide Other Hair?Wido Amu
Connected by Proposed State
lloads.
Columbia. Dee. 20. -The State Tilth*
way commission will recommend to
the United States department of an
r.culiure that two steel bridges be
constructed over the Santeo River on
proposed State highways to be con?
structed fron? Charleston into the In?
terior portions of the State. One of
the proposed bridge sites is at Lan?|'
neau's Crossing, which is about :M> :
miles east of Lanes, and the other '
Pinckney s Crossing, which ll in the:'
neighborhood of 2a miles east of
Orange'mrg and St. Matthews. The es?
timated cost of the former is $ 173,30a
and that of the latter $154,370. The
federal government will provide one
I all of this necessary amount, contin?
gent upon the other half being provid?
ed by residents of the counties dircet
I,
1 benefited. M
i
Speeiticatlons call for Hteel structure \l
SSfOSS the river portions three- feet'j
rbove the WatOS, ereosoted pile tree- ? '
Iis across the necessary waterway.- 1
n swamps and earth embankments '
ibout four feet hijrh. which is above 1
he average high water level. *
The highway over Lanneau's Ferry . 1
nill open much needed highway fron? 11
Charleston up through Oeorgetown v
?ounty. providing an excellent outlet 1'
rom Marion, llorry and adjacent ter
ilory into Charleston.
The route into Or tngeburg opens up
nother territory, through which a
nrge volume of traffic will pass to- j I
Sard the coast from Orangeburg. 1H
'larendon, Calhoun and adjacent ter- ! *
_ i
itory. Tlie road will also provide an 11
m mediate connecting link with the '1
outh western portions of the State,
'he resolution of approval reads: *
Whereas, the county officials of the v
ounttea adjacent to the Sant.ee River fc
SQSJOStOd this department to have 1
urvt-ys made of several proposed t
TGssingB of the said Santee River, fi
urveys have been made at Pinckney's <
binding, Murray's Ferry and Lan* |<
.call's, and the following information t
-laained from said surveys, to wit: J
Pliukney's Lauding. i
iwamp on north side . . . 9,000
Klver. 580 ; <
KranUn on south side . . 000
Total distance.10.1 SO feet. I
Murray's Ferry.
Swamp on north side. . 5,300 |<
.iver. 400
rwatnn on south side . . 19,550
Total distance. 25,250 feet
Lannau's Ferry,
twamp on north side . . 5,000
Uver. 680
Iwamp on south side . . 800
Total distance. 6,380 feet.
11st iron to No. 1.
Itased on steel bridge over river, and
??-eosoted pile trestles over swamp
Vom high ground to high ground.
Rroe fSc4 above highest known wa?
ll r.
PlnckneCs will cost .. $339,270
Murray's will cost.. . . 705.800
Ijanneau's will cowt . . . 310,560
L st I mate No. 2.
IJased on steel bridge across rive:
and heart pine pile trestle, untreated,
from high ground to high ground,
three feet above highest known water.
Pint kney's will cost . ? . .$221,480
Murray's will cost . . . . 54 4,240
I?anneau's will cost . . . . 264.S:'.'?
INtlmatc No. |,
Bsssd on steel bridge over river
three ft et above behest known wa?
it r. OfOOSJOtCd pile trestles across
i.Mary waterways In swamps and
earth snihankmsnl averaging aboui
foui foot hiKh. which win be above
average higir water.
Plnckney'f win cool ?..?$114,470
Murray's will cost .. .. 141,110
Lannsaii'i win cost .. .. 173,500
And. whereas, the commission has
gone Into said estimates carefully, i*
has decided that while estimate No. 1
V/OUM be the most desirable, at tin
lantS time the expense connected with
I he crossing based on this estimate is
prohibitive;
Therefore be it resolved. That tIn?
state highway commission approves
SI federal aid projeets the two cross?
ings of the said Santee ?liver. one at
I Incknoy*! I?inding. and the Other at
1 snnoau'l Fen v. based on estimate
No 3. for each of these propose'
erosongs, and will recommend their
approval to the lulled States depart?
ment of agriculture, provided, the
eeunties Interested can finance then
p-.wportlsnate part of the cost.
A qttSrl Of oysters b estimated to
eojual in nourlshmenl ihroo-Qtiortom
of a pound of beef and no waste tci
be calculated In the buying. Front the
time of the spawning season, two
fi in are rOVtrod lO produce a l ull
grown oyster,
WHAT IS IT WORTH ?
HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK
to m: biscon;t|m'ED IN*
sl'MTKR COVNTV.
Hoard of County C ommissioiiers
Adopt Resolution Opposing Appro?
priation for This Department of
educational Work on the (.round
That it is Not Worth Fifteen Hun?
dred Dollars a Year io County.
The following letter from Senator
It. D. BpPfl to Miss Mary Lemrnon,
Home Demonstration Agent for Sum
lor county, Is self-explanatory, ami 11
there Is anything else to be said Oil
he subject the patrons of the rural
lehoola of the county are the ones to
my it. If the opinion of the mem
jers of the County Board of Commit
lionets?that the Home Demonstra
ion work is not worth what it costs
he county - is correct, the patrons of
he rural schools are In a position to
;r.ow it, since this work has been car
it (1 on in and for the benefit of the
'Ural schools exclusively, if the pa
rons of the rural schools have found
ho work beneficial, and if they be
ieve that its discontinuance would be
i hardship and detract from the ef
lelency of the rural schools, they
ihOUld make their views known to
hi County Commissioners before the
egislaturs meets. It is of course, a
natter about which there may be an j
tonest difference of opinion. The
tailed states Bureau of Education
nd the directors of the extension
.'ork of the Department of Agricul
ure believe it to be a valuable and
ecessary work and each year con
ress has appropriated larger and
irgtr amounts to extend the work?it
eilig assumed that all well informed
t rsons know that the Home Demon
nation work is supported in part by
Yderal appropriations to supplement
he state and County appropriations,
'he County Board of Commissioners
re of the opinion that the work done
y Misses Mary Lemrnon and Annie
Tells during the past year Is- not
rorth $1.500. The County Board may
e correct and those who think other?
wise may be wrong. The patrons of
he rural schools, the members of the
ills' canning clubs and the members
>f the women's domestic science
lube throughout Sumter county are
he persons best qualified to , as
Udgmsnt upon the correctness or
r correctness of the attitude of the
hunter County Hoard of Commission
TS.
Senator Epps' letter is as follows:
-tisM Mary Lemmoni sumter, s. c.
Dear Miss LtUlmOn: Your letter j
ame duly to hand, and the content:;
hereof noted. Today, the County
loard asked Mr. Moise and me to
ome before them for the annual dis
ussion of ways and means for 19 IS,
nd much to my surprise, the first
hing they did was to read to us a res?
olution thoy had passed, asking th it
he tomato and home demopstration
kork be discontinued in the county,
t soeni8 that the county has had to
pend five thousand dollars this year
hovo the income, and next year this
mount will have to he made up, and.
lso a like amount to prevent a short
ge for next year. This will mak ?
iccessary an extra tax levy of ten
housand dollars. Then the Hoard
nd the City Council have gone into
his county home for Indigent suffer
iTg of tuberculosis, and will have to
?ave at least three thousand dollars
?xtra for that.
On account of their recotnmenda
Ion, 1 do not think It will be possible
:o get the delgaion in the house to
igree to an appropriation for this
nor; for 191S. J am very sorry o
this, but i have tailed the mattet
Dver with Mr. D. D. Moise. and I am
writing this letter with his consent. 1
urn enclosing a copy of this letter, and
asb lhat you mail it to Miss Parrott.
The new county board take tb
same view of the lack of necessity
for the continuation of this work thai
the old board did. and they should
very properly have weight given t<
their judgment about such matters
At the beginning of the year. 1
told the board that I wished .them i>
carefully observe this work during
'he year, and to let us know if w
should continue it. Tins was don
when they asked that it be discon
tinned at the beginning Of the year
They say that they cannot see whj
the people should have to be taught
and urged to do this work for sucb
an obviously necessary purpose. Ii
other words, they think the peoph
without any Instructors will put u
nearly as much stuffs as they woul1
do with instructors, and the differ
enee is not worth fifteen hundred
dollars to the county.
When you and Miss I'arrott had nv
meet with you the other day, I prom
Ised to sec Mr. Moise, und having
done so. and having received this un
expected recommendation from tin
County Board. I have to ask tlv.it yo'
do not use the paper which I prOVlt
lonally tlgned. i suppose thai th<
only way to convince Iht people as t>
whether or not this work is wortl
the money, is to let them do without
i for awhile.
Very respectfully,
R. D. Bpps.
December IS, 1917.
MOIIK IKMiS NEEDED.
County l>efnonstrs>tor J, Frank Wil?
liams .Makes Important ami Timely
Suggestions.
This is one year thai every farmer
should kill enough meat to supply
lus own farm and to make arrange?
ments to increase the number that he
wiii ralSS another year. Prices on the
farm of everything that a farmer pro?
duces look good, but sugar looks bet?
ter to some farmers at presont than
twenty-nine cents for cotton, and
there are a number of products that
dire likely to be unobtainable for
money another year.
I think that it would bo wise for
every farmer to increase the number
oi' hogs on his own farm necessary to
not only supply the needs of his own
family but those of his laborers and
a small SUrplUl beside to help out
our friends in town who are feeling
ihc scarcity and high prices of pro?
visions very keenly. In the past the
producer has been at the mercy of
the middle man and financier, but at
present the tables are turned and It
Is up to the producer to show his
magnanimity in this crisis.
Our city friends are charging the
farmers with being unmerciful in this
fuel crisis. If the farmers could have
foreseen this shortage of coal they
\\ ould have prepared for it and have
cat wood last summer, when the
days were long and when the weather
\?. as favorable for work out of doors.
The demand for wood has arisen since
this bitter cold weather and sleet has
boon on the ground and it is only the
most needy laborers who will cut
wood at any price. I^ibor is very
scarce and getting very high. It is
going to ho a difficult proposition for
Sumter county to produce a maximum
crop this next year and a still more
difficult proposition to produce maxi?
mum crops, ns labor is drawn upon
by draft for the army and by induce?
ment of higher wages to go into mu?
nition plants and other manufacturing
enterprises, year after next if the war
is still in progress.
White men and women and boys
and girls are going to have to per?
form labor on the farms and do a
fcreat many things that they have not
been accustomed to doing if we are
to make Sumtor county self support?
ing and do our bit to furnish our part
of the supplies for our army. Next
year every boy and girl on the farm
should have some special things to do
on his or her own initiative. It would
be a good thing for every boy and
girl to have a pig and see what they
could make out of it.
Whether or not farmers- will in?
crease the number of hogs they will
keep another year depends in a large
measure upon what they receive for
those they have for sale at present.
Farmers have been feeding two dol?
lar and two dollar and a-half corn to
hogs and they are entitled to double
or more than they have been securing
for them or else they have lost by
keeping the hogs and not selling their
corn. Cooperative marketing is al?
ways best and if all who have as
many as four or five head of hogs
for sale will communicate witli me 1
will see if 1 cannot arrange a day for
tollecting them at one point and have
buyers to come and purchase them
?is they were purchased at Darlington
Snd Florence last year. Please state
?ize of hogs in writing me.
J. Frank Williams.
County Agent, R. 8, Sumter, S. C.
COLGATE COMPANY INDICTED.
Big Soap Manufacturers Mauled into
Federal Court Charged With Price
Fi ging.
Norfolk, Va.. Pee. 19, An Indict?
ment charging unlawful monopoly
111 d restraint of trade was returned
t< day in the United States court, East?
ern District of Virginia, against Col?
gate & Company, whose home Offices
are In Jersey City. The indictment. Il
? lswerable at this term of court.
The defendants, manufacturers of
soaps, perfumes and other toilet ar?
il ICS, arc charged with fixing whole?
sale ami retail prices for their pro?
ducts and of enforcing the schedule
?y a refusal to sell to dealers who de
lined to be bound by any agreement
'or a fixed price schedule. The indict*
r.ent charges such action is a viola?
tion of the federal act approved July
.'. 1890, and constitutes unlawful prac?
tices In restraint and monopoly of
trade and suppression of competition.
The case is said to have resulted
rom the defendants refusal to sell
tbelr products to certain Norfolk
dealers who declined to be bound bj
i price fixing agreement and who
had cut prices on certain of the com
?any's products.
Unfits Shannon and his wife Mat
Lie and William Waddell are prison?
ers at the Richtend county jail await?
ing a preliminary hearing on the
charge of counterfeiting.
FARM BOND PURCHASE.
senate Would Buy Farm Loan Se?
curities, but House Falls to Act.
Washington, Dec is.?The admin-.
Istration bill authorising the secretary
o the treasury to purchase $100,
i
000,000 of farm loan bonds during
the next fiscal year was adopted by
the senate today without a record
vote after it had been amended so as
to eliminate a similar purchase next!
year. Immediately after the vot? the
bill was sent over to the house with a i
view to action there before the holi-1
day adjournment. After some discus?
sion the house postponed considera?
tion until January 3.
Chairman Class of the banking
committee, announced that the senat?
had adjourned and that inasmuch Uf
it would be impossible to enact the
bill into law until the holiday recess,
it would he futile to attempt action
tonight. In view of what he called
the lack of comprehension on the part
Of those opposing it.
Representatives* Lenroot, Snell ant1
others opposed immediate considera?
tion on the ground that the measure
was too important to pass without
proper discussion. Mr. Snell contend?
ed that he land banks were tending
towards insolvency and that it was a
bad precedent for the Vnited State*?
to take bonds from a corporation
that OOUld not sell them.
The .senate amendment to limit th?
purchase of farm loan t>onds by the
secretary of treasury to the present
lineal year was introduced by Senator
Weeks who declared that the farm
loan board should stand warned that
congress will not continue to pro?
vide money in emergencies like the
present. Another amendment intro?
duced by the Massachusetts senator
and adopted, provides that until all
bonds bought by the secretary have
been redeemed, no loans from treas?
ury funds In addition to those al?
ready approved shall be made by the
farm loan hanks except for the pur?
pose of increasing food products.
Council of Defense.
For the supj>ort of the Sumter
County Council of Defense Secretary
Reardon reports the following from
citizens of Privateer township, collect?
ed by Mr. H. D. Titidal, $25.00. Pre?
viously reported by publication.
$97.60. Total to date, $122.60. '
The Sumter County Council of De?
fense is particularly anxious for
Sumter County to make a bi? showing
in the Christmas drive to secure ten
million new members at $1.00 each
for the Red Cross organisation. The
members of the county council are
urged to push the collections* in their
respective communities, and send
names and money to E. I. Reardon,
Secretary, Chamber of Commerce,
Sumter. All citizens of this county
are urged to assist the local council
of defense in swelling the Sumter
County Christmas membership of the
American Red Cross organization.
Women, as a rule, don't marry
men for their money, but they are
always wishing they had.?Oaffney
Ledger.
IRISH AHE LOYAL AMERICANS.
Strongest Chicago organization Dc
c la res KfTort to Embarrass Allies
Must Not bo Tolerated.
Chicago. Dec. 18 ?a declaration,
upholding the Irish parliamentary
P?rty and charging that any Irish-,
man or organization who seeks to em
barrass any of the allied powers in
the conduct of the war is committing
an act of open host ity to the United
States. was adopted tonight by the
Dish Fellowship Club here, the larg?
est Irish organization in the city. It
was directed to Joh- R. Redmond and
?nnounced the forwarding of $10.000
B the first instalhvent of a fund to
>e collected in America in support of
he party.
The declaration of principles will
'>e submitted to all I rish organizations
)f the United Stat?s and is expected
Jltlmatsly to be fo warded to Ireland
is the concrete expression of support
>f the people of It sh blood in Amer?
ica of the war.
"There is not a single honest and
genuine Irish-Ame, ican who does not
-tand behind the president and the
American government in its policy.
"The Irish people have now t?
choose between the enmity and the
friendship of the Cnited States and
loyal as we have always been, to the
cause of Irish liberty, we must tell
the Irish people that we will not, we
Can not retain sympathy for an Ire?
land that makes .var on our beloved
country and our sons."
SEARCH TRAINS FOR LIQUOR.
Passengers From Florida to West
Virginia Arrested.
Columbia, Dec. 19.?W. E. Marple
left his home in West Virgina to
visit his father hi Florida, and Just
before he made r< ady to return home
it is alleged he purchased five quarts
of whiskey to take back to a dry
country. He arrived in Columbia
yesterday, and constables saw his va?
lise with much concern. He was
charged with violating the federal
laws but claimed he did not know it.
He was very muc.i disturbed over his
predicament and asked for a speedy
hearing.
He was taken I efore the federal
commissioner ano given a hearing.
His bond was fixei at $200.
Marple said that officers covered
the train he was on from end to end.
SHOULD HOLD HOGS.
Food Administrai on Soys Market Is
Glu ted.
Washington. Dev. 18.?The food ad?
ministration tocav counselled farmers
to hold back the Ir hogs, because the
Chicago market is glutted with more
pork than the yackers can handle.
Largely because ?f congested trans?
portation facilities.
Washington, Pec. 19.?Southern
\ commercial travelers entered a strong
1 protest against t; e proposed increase
i oi interchangeable mileage rates from
two to two and a-quarter cents on
: Southeastern r. ilroads, when the
road's application was heard today by
the Interstate Commission.
WERE YOU LUCKY ?
We mailed on Thursday,
several hundred checks
to our Chrismas Savings
Fund depositors.
If you were not fortu?
nate enough to receive
one, come in at once, join
our 1918 Club and be
prepared for Christmas
in 1918.
The National Bank
of Sumter.
J. P. ?ooth. Pres. DJDJMoise. Vice Pres.
W. J. Crowson. Jr.. Cashier.