Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cfct JfiHatf {jmait ani jeout| ron. PubUshed Wednesday and Saturday _ ?BY? OSTKEN PVBLISHP.G COMPANY SL'MTKlt, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum?in ad vane. Advert isciuc nts. One Square first insertion .. . $1.00 Every subsequent insertion.. .. .60 Contracts for thre> monthor longer will be made at reduced rates. Ail communlcatlore which sub? serve private Interests will be charged for aa advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Bumter Watchrian was found v* In 1160 and the True Southron in The Watchmar. and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old pipers, snd Is manifestly ths best advertisin. medium in Sumter. Why t.ermany Can B> Starred Out. Ths Germans, a-ith their ocdossal military preparedness. failed miser? ably at one point. They had soldiers and guns galore, but they were short of tat. No provision ha.d been made in their domestic agricultural economy to produce home gtown vegetable fats. When Importations were shut off and the quantities of live stock were reduced as a rratter of econo? mising grain food, the Germans both industrially and dlctetica!!/ suf? fered acutely from fat privation. Their laboratory food scientists had told the military authorities tha car? bohydrates were dietetic equivalents of fst. Through the Means of most Painful experience the Germans found out the scientists had bee i mls tsksn, and smugglinr fat into Oer msny today Is as profitable as ship? ping whiskey to Alabama the week before Christmas. In America we have no such prob? lem of the shortage of fats. As a by-product of our cotton Industrie* ws have an annual production of one hundred and fifty million gallons oil and we have the sob and climate suitable for the production of other vegetable fats. Arne ng the most promising of such fst producing crops) 1? the soy bean. The soy bean iff v sort of vegetable live stock. All the arguments In favor of live stock ap? ply to this distinctive plant. Ns growth enriches the soil by the ex? traction of nitrogen from the air. hence it Is a source of an actual gaining in soli fertility. The soy bean In our Southern State? yields thirty bushels to the acre?-one-third of the product being oil ant another third protein. Both elements are excellent human foods and it is only a ques? tion of learning boa' to work them up into g palatable form.?From "The Kxtravagance of Meat." by Mi In ?. i Tunings in December Physical Cul tore. Bed Cross Con rlbut ions. Sumter County Council of Defense Had Cross receipts reported by Sec? retary Reardon: R. B. Spann. $1.00 W. J. Jones. 1.00 J From entertainment by State burg School District N'o. 10. Miss Aurelia M i> a . teach ?r. 29.05 Miss Aurelia Mayer. 1.00 Collected by Mrs. H A. Mood's Committee: August Schilling. 1.00 K B. Muldrow. 1 00 Mrs Sarah M. Brot/n. 1.00 Previously published . 24.00 Total to date.$59.05 The ten township* of the i-ountry mu m lets, of the Sumter County Coun? cil of Defense have yet to he bean, from Chain mo A C, PMgl an I Secretary Benrdon are ur?lng the members of tbe County Council of rush their collections. Many of the members are giving their money ti? the ladles committees, and Secretary lloarnuu has turned over seats <-oi lections to the yourg ladles who are at the postofnee for which no credit le being given the County Council of Defense by the secretary. Tr is state ment is made to nhow that tie COUII ell of Defense Is active in lontribu lions and collections. Forty A ?tos and a Mule. Most anybody in Russia can issue a proclamation just SS he asiures the people that h* Is perfecting olans for dividing all the land and wealth of ftusida between the people and will see that everybody shall huve a mule with which to start life over.?Wil? mington ?tar, Weather Next Wcelc. Washington. Deo. 22.?Cloudy ami cooler weather the first of week, moderating later, with normal tem? perature by end of week. Is the fore? cast for the South Atlantic States for the coming week Lull In Battle. London. Dec. 22 ?The lull In light? ing on the ltrltlsh front continues. At empts of Germans to raid several points last night were th" OUty aetlv Itlss reported. TO SHIP COHN TO FINLAND. Forty Thousand Tons to Feed star? ving People. Washington, Dec. 21.? Permission for the shipment of about 4 0.00 tons of corn ami oats to Finland, by way of Sweden, has been granted by the food administration and the war trade board upon evidence that thousands 0| the Finnish people are starving. An agent of the war trade board will be sent into Finland from Sweden to investigate conditions and make o rtatn that Germany will not benefit by the American shipment. Dr. Kuarle Ignatius, special com? missioner of Finland, told the Amer? ican officials that a July frost killed their crops last summer, and the situation in Russia has made it impos? sible for them to import food from that country. Twelve million dollar.* had been paid for food in Russia which has never been delivered, Dr. Ignatius said, because starving Rus? sians looted the trains. The commissioner's story won the permit for the shipment of supplies, which are reeded hy the United State* ' Itself and its allies. ATTACKED BILLY SUNDAY. (.erman Fined $100 and Put Under Heavy Hall. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. It,?Charged wtth assaulting Dilly Sunday at the evangelist's meeting here last night, W. Hi Lutterbaugh. said to he a Oer m;in. was lined $100 and sentenced t,? Jail tor thirty days here today. Later he was Indicted on three counts by the Fulton county grand Jury in con? nection with the assult. Rail of $1, 000 was fixed in each of the counts which charged assault on Sunday; assault on one of the evangelist's workers and disturbing public wor? ship. According to witnesses of the af? fair Hutterbaugh attacked Sunday af? ter the evangelist ha/1 delivered a bitter arraignment of the Turkish atrocities in Palestine in which ho was quoted as saying "We will get all of them over there, because God is with us." BRAZIL INCREASES RESTRIC? TIONS. Germans Acting as Consuls for Neu? trals Xo Ixmgcr Recognized. Uio Janeiro. Dec. 22.?A decree has been promuglated cancelling the exequators of Germans acting as consuls for neutral countries In Bra? zil. The decree is directed against |( consuls of Austria and Holland. The Strong Man of Franco. Georges Clemenceau is again at the helm in France?a political event which may properly be described as :he most important which has occur? red in the republic since the begin? ning of the war. The change of min atry this time does not imply mere? ly that a group of men selected fron? among the membership of the French parliament, having lost the mpport of a legislative majority, rtake way for a new group of parlia? mentarians having Buch a majority behind them and who take their places as political heads of the de? partments of the government; for of? ten such changes are meaningless, of? ten they are brought about merely by unimportant differences between the government and the majority. Under the French system, the con? tinuity of ihe work of each depart? ment is assured by the fact that it is in the hands of permanent officials who remain despite ministerial rhangew which merely supply new political heads for all the depart meats when the change is complete or for some of them when it Is not as is the ease in the present instance; the ministries of commerce, muni? tions, and transportation remain In the able hands of Messrs. Clemen SjSJMi, I/nieheur, and ClaveUle, their incumbents since the days of the Brland cabinet of 1915-1917. What gives the change this time a SttparlatlVS Interest Is that France has called to the post of governmental leadership not merely a new premier, bot that one amonj? her statesmen Whg ll generally and deservedly rec? ognized to be, gbOVS all others, her strong man. That he Is possessed in a marked degree of each of the qualities which have distinguished his prede censors among the war premiers, he proved during hi* earlier premler? ?hip, IMd?lt0l??From "Clemenceau Takes Mold." by Maurice Leon, in the American Review of Reviews for I>e c, mber. To surmount the difficulty encoun tered in signaling by wigwagging with flags and lamps when the at monphero Is foRgy, I system has been proposed which would enable a bugle to be used effectively. Messages would hi transmitted In code b\ "dots" and dashes." and the call: projoetotl for considerable distances by UttttSlni ? portable soundboard * gnsd le be strapped t<? the bacli of the bugler. II. k. RICHARDSON DEAD. Feneral win bo In Clnreiul in Coun? ty Sunday. Columbia, Dao. MaJ, Hem) Burchill Richardson died it his re klenoe, 1707 Pendleton street, last nlfht at 8 o'clock. The funeral ser? vices will be at St. Marks, Clarendon county, Sunday noon at 12.30 o'clock He had been in bad health for some time and had been ill for several days All the members of his- immediate family were with him at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Julia COUrtenay Richardson, and five children by his lirst wife, who was Miss Mary Manning, a daughter of Oov. John L. Manning. His children are: One daughter, Mrs. Wallace Lat imer Ball of Baltimore, and four sons, H. B. Richardson, Jr., R. C. Richard? son, Jr., Manning Richardson, all of PlnOWOOd, and Lieut. Ransom S. Richardson of Camp Jackson. Major Richardson had been a resi? dent of Columbia for about ten years, having moved here from Clarendon rounty, where his family had lived for many generations. He was the son of R. C, Richard? son and the grandson of Gov. James Burchill Richardson. Major Richardson was in his C9th year, his next birthday being Janu? ary 19, 1918. For the past several years he had not been in vigorous health and for several months his condition had been regarded as se? rious. He took a lively interest In public affairs, hut never sought public office except to represent his native county in the legislature. He was of a re? tiring disposition, a kindly, courteous gentleman of the old school. WAB TUBERCULOSIS FUND TO FIGHT WHITE PLAGUE, r?> Raise $:i,000,01 to by Sale of Bed Cross Christmas Seals. How many Red Cross Christmas teals did you buy last year Will you >uy three times as many this year? I'nless every purchaser of Rel >oss Seals triples his or her purchase his year, the creation of a $3,000,000 ?Var Tuberculosis Campaign Fund rill not be possible. The American Red Cross and The National Association for the Study ind Prevention of Tuberculosis ar-? naking a drive for the creation of his fund because America's entry , nto the war has revealed thousands >f hitherto unsupeeted cases of tuber 'Ulosis that must be cared for, and >eeause every precaution must ne aken to safeguard our troops abroad igalnst the great white plague. Last year $1,050,000 was made for the anti-tuberculosis campaign by the ale of Red Cross Seals. This means hat 105,000,000 holiday tokens wer; old. To raise the war fund of $8.? 100,000 it will be necessary to sell ' 00,000,000 seals this year, and every nan. woman and child will have to lelp to do' this by trebling last year's lurchases. The baying of Red Cross Christmas leals is not merely a humanitarian ict. It is a patriotic act. and on-j rhich shows that the purchaser his he welfare of the country at heart, i Tuberculosis Is as deadly a foe to >ur troops as German bullets and ombs. It is undermining the civilian if*? of this country and unfitting men or service In the army. Few Amer Oani realize that it Is estimated by thyalclans that 2 per cent., or 200,00 > ?f the 10.000,Oao men subject to the telectlve draft, will he found to be ?ictttns of this disease, and will there ore he among the "rejects." These "rejects" must be eared lor. The men who go to war must be pro eCted against infection, and the conn ry must be hept free of the scourge i\ ;i time when every ounce of vitality ind energy are needed in the irvice 5f dmocracy. "Will you do your part by buyi i ; more Red Cross Christmas Seals than rotl ever bought before?" asks th Real Committee. "Remember, every seal provides ammunition In the fight * gainst tuberculosis." GERMAN spy system. Secret Service Discovers Communi? cation With Germany. WashiiiKton. Dec. 22.?Extensive traffle in written communications to Germany, Austria ami Northern Eu? ropean neutrale, involving the use of invisible ink and code systems- has been discovered and stopped by cus? toms Officials during tin- past few weeks, treasury offlt-laIs disclosed to? day. The Red Cross is keeping our hands and minds employe.I. easing our anxious hours, and glvinn us the Satisfaction of doing our Int. There is no touch like the personal touch. The government cannot ^ive it. but each one of the fifteen million men and women and children of the Red Cross can give it ami thus multiply the valUS of the gift fifteen million times. MURDER IN KERSIIAW. Liny Marsh, Recently Acquitted, Pa tally Nhoi Prom Ambush in Ker shitw County. i _ Camden, Dec. 19.- Lucy Marsh, s white woman, was shot and Instantly killed seven miles cast of Camdeii this afternoon, and her mother, Re? becca Marsh, was slightly wounded in the head front two loads of buchshot. Andrew Taker, a white man, has been placed In jail charged with the killing. At the last term of court Lucy Marsh was tried for the murder of .Mrs. Estelle Baker, the wife of An? drew Baker, and was acquitted by the jury. Both women were tenants on the farm of "Doctor" <?. J. Baker, and this afternoon had loaded their household goods on two wagons and were moving away. Three eye-witnesses stated that An? drew Baker lay In waiting behind a tree and fired two loads of buckshof into the hack of the two women. Lu? cy Marsh fell forward into the wagon, dying instantly. Andrew Baker went I on towards his home, where he was; arrested a short while after by Dep? uties Bateman and Whit taker, but he Offered no resistance. When told that he was charged with the shooting he remained silent and has made no statement of the affair. No one has been convicted of the murder of Mrs. Estelle Baker and it is tllOUghl more likely that the real murderer will come to light at the trial of Baker. STANDARDISING cotton lin? ters. Department of Agriculture Socialists Studying: Problem. Washington, Dec. 22.?The practi? cability of standardizing cotton Un? ters is being investigated by the de? partment of agriculture specialists. Owing to the great demand for this Ly-product, the oil mills have increas? ed the outurn of Unters from fifty pounds to about one hundred and fifty pounds per ton of cotton seed. Practically the entire production of Unters is now used for war munition purposes. MORE MONEY NEEDED. Congress Asked for Millions More For War. Washington, Dec. 22.?About fifty millions in further appropriations to complete war preparations during the present fiscal year have been aske 1 In the deficiency estimates submitted to congress since the holiday recess began last Tuesday. The navy alone has asked for more than forty-fiv millions. II I Oil FINANCIERS SCARED. Stock Yards Promoters Frightened by Federal Inquiry. Washington. Dec. 22.?The redis? tribution of share-holding In Chicago Stock Yards Company was begun as soon as the managers got wind of th" federal trade commission's investiga? tion. It was brouhgt out in the tes? timony before the commission today '.hat the same day the federal inves? tigator appeared thirty-four thou? sand, four hundred and eighty shares were divided into seventeen portions A Story 10 Years Old?And Still Too True. A friend of ours told the other day about hearing Col. L. L. Polk, the founder of The Progressiva' Fanner, make a speech thirty years ago. "And he told one story 1 have never for? gotten," our friend said. "He told about seeing a farmer with o wagon load of meat, hay, and flour about this! time of year. "Col. Polk said to the farmer: 'Why are you buying all this meat, hay. j und (lour?1 ??'So l can make cotton.' was the reply. " And why do you want to make cotton?' " So I can pay for the meat, hay, I and Hour,' the farmer answered." And the pity of it Is that after thirty years of agitation and education, there are still so many of our farmers guilty of the self-evident .folly which the story Illustrates?binding them? selves to a sort of industrial bondage in order to pay freights, middlemen's charges, commercial profits, etc., or. products grown a thousand miles from home but which should be grown at their own doors. Nor does the evil stop here, because this excess ac? reage In cotton (the part grown on land that should be devoted to food and feed crops) beats down the price of cotton on ail the normal acreage as well. Whatever others may or may not do, Mr. Farmer, you may see that this folly is not perpetual on your farm. Let's look to that.?The Progressive Farmer. Tammany is the cleanest political organisation in New York city, though its opponents always do their dirty work in the name of the Lord. PIoi ids Times-Union. WIKS LOOTED CITY. u(d to Have Carried Priceless Treas ures Prom Jerusalem. Washington, Dec. 19.- An Official lispatch received here today from Prance says that the Turks before surrendering Jerusalem to the British brutally mistreated Christian priests, carried off the famous treasure of the Church or* tho Holy Sepulchre, val-! pod at millions of dollars, and sent to Berlin the church's celebrated osten? sory of brilliants. Mgr. Camassei, the patriarch of Je? rusalem, is said to have been deposed fiom his office, and Father Piccardo, an Italian priest, to have died from the effects of Turkish brutalities. The. Church of the Holy Sepulchre bad remained unmolested heretofore during all the centuries of Moslem oc? cupation of Jerusalem. sot Til CAROLINA FOR PROHIBI? TION. Gov. Manning on the Liquor Out? look. Columbia, Dec. 19.?dov. Manning, in wires to two New York dailies to night, stated he has no doubt that the general assembly of South Carolina will ratify the proposed amendment to the federal constitution providing for nation-wide prohibition. "Have no doubt that South Caroli? na, will adopt prohibition amend? ment," said the telegrams. "The ben? efits of liquor restriction adopted by this State have been great and gener? ally recognized. This makes the step easier." Till: SHIPPING HOARD SQUABBLE Senate Committee Uncovering Facts of the Row. Washington, Dec. 22.?A narra? tion of the difficulties encountered by the shipping board in its building program, starting with the row be? tween William Den man, first chair? man, and Major General Goethals, the tlrst manager, was continue! be? fore the senate commerce committee today by John A. Donald, a member of the board since its creation. HOOVER ON THK STAND. Food Administrator Given Oppor? tunity to Refute Charges. Washington, Dec. 22.?Food Ad? ministrator Hoover, who has been eager to refute charges that the food administration's fixing the import price caused the sugar shortage, was summoned to take the stand today at the resumption of the senate sugar investigation. Committeemen are showing a disposition to speed up so that the inquiry may be turned to coal shoKage. HUNT GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA. ' Republican Governor Unseated by Supreme Court. Phoenix, Ariz.. Dec. 22.?The Su? preme Court today seated G. W. P. Hunt OS governor. Hunt contested the election of OOV. Campbell, who now holds the office. Hunt Is a Dem? ocrat. BRITISH LOSSES DECREASE. Submarines FleJi Fewer Vessels This Week. London. Dec. 19.?Fourteen British merchantmen of more than 1,600 tons and three under that tonnage were sunk by mine or submarine during the past week, according to the admiralty statement tonight. One fishing vessel ab.o was sunk. The Shipping losses by mine or sub? marine in the past week are slightly under those of the previous week, when 14 vessels of more than 1,600 tons and se*:en under that tonnage were destroy d French Lose One. Paris, Dec 19.?The losses to 'French shipping by mine or subma : rine for the week ending December 15 were exceedingly light. Only one vessel under l.?OO tons was sunk and none over 1,600 tons. STILL HOPEFUL OF RUSSIA. Dr. Mott Says Have Faith In Better Elements. Toronto, Dec. 19.?Nations fighting for democracy should not lose faith In Russia in her darkest hour, but rath? er should pin their faith to the ulti? mate ascendency' of the elements which are in sympathy with entente allies, decla/ed Dr. John R? Mott, a member of :he American commission to Russia, n an address here today. Dr. Mott, who is international secre? tary of the Young Men's Christian Association, stated that the Bolshevl ki did not represent the great masses ef Russia. Parts of the Russian army are de? moralized, the speaker said, hut there are whole sections that are sound, "and if the allies had seen certain things eigh: months ago and done them the present position of Russia would have been diffrent." The Red Cross Army. (By Bishop William Lawrence.) "Put the people behind the forces,'8 Gen. Leonard Wood said the other night. By Christmas Eve the Red Cross will put fifteen million people behind the forces, and the men and boys will feel the strong support and do more buoyant work. . 1 "This is a war not of armies and navies, but of whole peoples," ssjd President Wilson. The Red Cross has now in Its membership one-twentieth of the whole people. On Christmas Eve it win have one-seventh of the whole people. Think what th^JS*? "~ mean to our boys in the trencher, when they know it! ??Why d^es not the government take over all the Red Cross work!" someone I sks. Who wants them to? Do you? Do you want to hand over to an official government the privil? ege of giving all the tender care to the wounded? Do you want to be told that nandages, sweaters, and all the delicacies that relieve the suffer? ing and monotony of camp and trench life are to be supplied by the govern? ment, while you fold your hands and do nothinr ? J 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. Bootb'Pres. DJDJiVtoise. Vice Pres. W. J. Crowson. Jr.. Cashier.