Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KKW PRICE FIXING PLAN. NEW PI Fire* of Opiiotutloii Started Among touthern Re pre Washington. Feb. 2?.?the smoul? dering fires of opposition to passing * low which would fix a price on cot tbn Were started afreah today when ?Congressman Ayera of Kansas Intro? duced a bill authorising the preatdent la hie discretion to fix and control the price of cotton, wool and other producta which may be neceaaary to continue the war. The bill la general in Its terma and comprises practically everything produced on a farm In Its raw state. While It was not known until today who would offer thia bill, It will be stubbornly oppoaed by many or the best known members or bath the bouse and aenate. Several meoibera of the Georgia delegation alone have already said that the) would fight arty auch measure to the limit and other Southerners are In the same frame of mind. South Carolina. Alabama and other States are ready to aee that no discrimination is plac? ed against raw cotton. Whan this fight will be further pre? cipitated could not be ascertained to? day but it will not be many days removed. A ItF.M ARK Aflf.F TOY AUF.. Submarine Chaser Comes Hrnvcly Tflhrough Many Perils. Washington. Feb./ 26.?Safe arrival at a European port of a 110 foot sub marlne chaser with a French crew aboard which had not been heard from afnce January IS was announc? er! today by tTie navy department. The little craft was separated from her escort during a errlfic gale while hound for Europe. No* navigation Instruments were aboard but after being blown far off their course, the Frenchmen estimat? ed their position and headed for port. To their remarkable aeamanshlp is attributed the success of the voyage With the engines disabled by the storm, the crew rigged up sails from bed coverings and sailed for .19 daya. Secretary Daniels announced the news in tttls statement: "I am deHglited to receive a mes? sage today telling of the arrival In port of an American built submarine chaser which became aepaiated /from her secort In the terrific gale Januars II, had not bee*n reported since that time and which we feared was lost. Thle waa One of the 110 foot boats which we were turning Over to the French government and waa manned gy * French crew which saved the, eraft by a remarkable feat of naviga? tion "In the storm, which waa one ot ths worst on record, the engines were disabled and the boat left adrift far out at sea. The crev managed to rig up a sail mads from bed covering and -wer? able to make two or three knots an hour before the wind. There were no navlgntton Instruments ex? cept a coirfpass aboard, and the crew had to estimate their posdlons. They sailed for 39 daya going on short ra? tions, end finally reached port." AK$tY OF CKNSVS TAKERS. Many Person? Ulli be Employed In the Work. Waahington. Feb. 26.?A bill pro Mdlng for the 1120 census will be re? ported In a few day* by the houw census committee. It became known today that the organisation for the collection of the studstics will be larger than ever. Supervisors and enumerators of population and agri ulturs probably will number between 85,000 and 90.000, and for manufac? turers, mines, quarries, under sep arate supervision, there will be 1,601* employes In the field, with from 1.00? to 5,000 clerks and other employes in the censua office. The bill Is expected to follow recommendations of a spe? cial cooynlttee appointed by the direc? tor of the census, which suggested that the Philippinen, not Included in ths thirteenth census, should not be included in the fourteenth, and that a census of the virgin Island is now In progress and another one is unnec? essary in 192?? In Ou.im, Samoa an' (he Panama canal zone, special cen? suses, can readly be taken at email coat If congress orders It. the commit? tee reported. The committee Also recommended thnt the n*?w erneu* also be extend? ed to show the nationality or moth? er tongue of all persons in this coun trv !>orn In foreign countries und na? tionality of foreign tongue of foreign parents It suggested that the pgp ubition enumeration be based on Jan? uary 1, 1120, Instead Of April |l, as In the past ib.it there be a bienma census of the products of manufac? turing Industries and that the census of snlmala slaughtered be dispensed with as approximately accurate con IlllSSlSO regarding loeit ind hide too durtlon can be reached from OtwOt Sources The Russians ought to change th? name of Petrograd buck to Hi Petersburg.- Kewberry, ohseiver. MANNING ON LAHOR SITUATION. south Carolina Governor Thinks Next Draft Ulli Consist of Small Incre? ments. Washington. Feb. 26.?Oov. ft. 1 Manning was in Washington today on his return to Columbia from a visit to Chicago. He was an early visitor at the war department and discussed a number of important matters with of? ficials there. In addition to this, the governor was in conference with mem? bers of the South Carolina delegation in congress with reference to certain pending legislation affecting the labor situation which Is now, he said, most acute. Directly bearing on this matter, he investigated tho status of the bills of furloughlng men who might be soon called to tho colors for the bene? fit of having them remain on the farms. Satisfying himself that this would soon be done he sent the fol? lowing telegram to Capt. R. E. Car wile: "Find department alive to sit? uation you described. Bills now be ofre congress favorably regarded by both committees authorizing fur? loughs for agricultural purposes. "Announcement of the policy of the department will be made as soon as pending legislation for apportioning quotas is enacted no date yet set for next draft but coming draft will be in small increment and not in bulk as before I am eure South Carolina will only be called on to furnish small number each month till September." GOOD ROADS NEEDED. Nation's Loaders Indorse Highway Improvement* as War Necessity. F. A. Cannon, Executive Secretary. Good Roads Association of Wiscon? sin. Madison, Wis. Speeding up construction on good roads is an integral part of govern? ment war work. Efficient transporta? tion Is necessary to reduce margin be-! tu Mil producer and consumer. Herbert Hoover. Washington, D. C, Feb. 2, 1918. This concise but emphatic state? ment from the head of the Food Ad? ministration shows the very import? ant part which good roads must play in plans for greater food production, and the imperative need for ade? quate transportation from the pro? ducer to the consumer to make this supply available, and therefore, makes the necessity for road improvement in the agricultural sections truly an es senttal part of war work. Major-General Goethals, In tho Jan? uary 31 isaue of Tho Manufacturer. Record, said: "War conditions materially effect railroad congestion, with an increas ing demand for motor truck trans portatlon, and the necessity of prop erly constructed roads becomes a matter of prime importance." President R. G. Rhett of the Cham? ber of Commerce of the United States. In this same issue, said: "While it is inevitable that the cre? ation of a system of Improved high I ways all over the country Is going to be effected, the need for its imme? diate establishment is pressing." The American Association of State Highway Officials, the American Road Hullders' Association and the Cham? ber of Commerce of the United Statei in their annual meetings all adopted resolutions plainly showing that es? sential highway Improvement is. in deed, a war necessity, and furthei that It Is of the highest Importance that Immediate steps be taken to pro? vide for the maintenance of existing roads and for the construction of those that are needed for some phase of our war work. Here, then, we have the endorse ments of the head of the quartermas? ter's department of the army; of the head of the Food Administration; of the president of America's greatest business association and official en? dorsements from those important or? ganizations that know the absolute need and demand for highway im I provement during the war period. , In the face of these statements, and with such strong endorsement, cm there be any question but that high? way improvement should be elSSStflsti as vitally essential to our war plan: usd the consequent Justification o the government adopting a policy thai will permit the continued mainten? ance of existing highways, so as tc ?aTS the hundreds of millions of dol? lars already Invested in them, and tu iflOw the construction of those roads Which after enreful analysis are found accessary to our war plans'.'?Mann I m turers Record. WSshlngton, Feb. II, ? President Wilson and state deportment oflldali studied Chancellor reo Hertllng'a ad 1 Arses today Without Riving anv gffl Iteial Indication of neU it was regarded ?or d.seuestn! poaee in the open hefor, ? congress Offietafc see not tiw slight ?est hope of i 'round lahle discus sinn" In advance of the romplete ac eofrlgirjee by the central powers ot the broad principles upon which ih< entente powers ft ft WllMn| t<. COOSld er pence terms. PROPAGANDA IN MEXICO. > German Controlled Newspapers Filled With sensational Ides About Unit? ed States. Mexico City, Fob. 20 (Correspond? ence <>f The Associated Press)?False and alarming reports being printed by anti-American, pro-German papers here, are beginning to prove some? thing pf a boomerang, despite the clever loopholes left for papers to crawl through when subsequent events prove their uccusations ground? less. So often have the German propagandists cried "wolf" without that animal appearing, that even those Mexicans most distrustful of tho Cnlted States are beginning to doubt not only the accuracy of stories aim? ed at fomenting trouble with Uncle Sam, but the entire contents of their cable pages. Recently one newspaper announced under big headlines that American troops were on the. point of being landed at Tampico. They were not landed, however, and the paper was forced to drop this lead, seemingly having neglected to frame an expla? nation in advance should its news prove false. Later, however this de? fect was remedied, This time it was Canada and Cuba, instigated by Mhe United States, who were to seize va? rious Gulf of Mexico ports to prevent a threatened German submarine cam? paign in the gulf against entente oil tankers from Tampico. The fact that the ports were not seized was explained by the newspa? pers as due to the fact that secrecy was necessary to the plot, and thai these papers, having exposed the con? spiracy, made its successful comple? tion Impossible. ?fn addition to playing up In extras these wild yarns, these papers print, with distortions and misleading head? lines, every piece of news that can be twisted into intimating that the United States is constantly scheming to secure a pretext to occupy either all of Mexico or the Tampico oil re? gions. The dominant tone of the journals Is anti-American, rather than openly pro-German, although to peruse tfceir news columns would lead the reader to believe that the entente allies every day were on the point of giving up the struggle. j _ . STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 'War Time Transformation of Shake? speare's Home Town. _ Stratford-on-Avon, Eng., Feb. 15 (Correspondence of the Associated Press)?Americans, who In pre-war days, delighted in visiting "Shakes pear's country," would find many changes here now. Quietly und unostentatiously through the unwearying efforts of Marie Corelll, the novelist, and a few who support her artistic tastes, these past^three and a half years have dis? closed the Ancient mysterious houses of Stratford. Old houses, with plas? tered walls, which were eye-sorew to the visitors and residents alike, have been stripped of their outward ugli? ness, to reveal the quaint picturesque Tudor architecture of Shakespeare's time. Whenever it has been possible the early appearance of the build? ings has been restored, and the effect has been almost transformation and the restoration of the place as Shakes? peare knew It. The ancient "Sword of State" which hangs In Shakespeare's birthplace was removed from its scabbard in August 1914, as an official notice that England was at war and the people say tradition forbids them to sheathe the old sword, carried by Shake? speare's father when he was High Bailiff In 1568-9, until England is again at peace. Once, at least, since war was de? clared, Shakespeare's old home has given expression to Its feeling of grat? itude to Americans for the tributes they have been privileged to pay to It from time to time. That was when the United States entered the war. President Wilson's memorable mes? sage to congress was proclaimed aloud. Many of the townfolk had al? most despaired of the momentous event, and it appears there were only two American flags in Stratford at the time. One was a great banner owned by Miss Marie Corelli and the other waving from the house of John Harvard's mother. Both were promptly hurled out into the breeze of the "garden spot of England." and thus America had again come into the hearts of Shakespeare's peo? ple. Amsterdam, Feb. |?.?The central powers Intend to give self government in the provinces of C?tirland and U tbuanla, chancellor von Bertling ?b <lared in an address to the re I ch Stag yesterday. The operations in the east aro for the sole aim of securing the truits or pegee With Ukraine, he said We do not intend to establish our : Reives In Rsthonla and Idvonia." in added He declined the central pow? ers had freed pol id with the inten lion of railing an Independent ainti [into existence, '^JUNIOR RED CROSS AUXILIARY. .Junior Auxiliary Work. Covern Wide Field and Accomplishes Great : Re? sults. j Much has been written about the ' Junior Red Cross Auxiliaries. A strik | inj? example of the great good they are doing throughout the country is the work that is being accomplished by the Sumter schools. There is a little room in the Girls' High school building which is set aside for the work of the Junior Red Cross. In it may be found the results of some of their activities. There is one of each kind of garment which the children send to the French and Belgium war orphans. Knitted squares which are made into quilts give evidence that the primary grades are also a work, as do the lit? tle bags which they make and which contain needed toilet articles for the babies left orphans by the war. In this room are also the trinket box; a box for tinfoil; a denial box, where many a penny is put that might oth? erwise be spent for pleasure; and all literature pertaining to the Junior Red Cross. As a special privilege, the student may occupy thi3 room for a spare moment's reading. Another example pf the wide scope of their work is shown in the huge box of flowers that was sent today by the children to the sick soldiers at Camp Jackson. METHODIST UNION" NEAR. Two Great Branches, of Church Com? ing Together. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 25.?Unifica? tion of the two great branches of the Methodist church, Uie Northern and the Southern, with a comhined mem? bership of about 7,000,000 persons, :s practically certain to take place within six yearn, according to a state? ment by the Rev. Frank M. Thomas, pastor of the Fourth Avenue Church, who has just returned from Savannah. Ga., where he spent two weeks as sec? retary of the joint commission ap? pointed to consider plans for unifica? tion. Another session of the joint com? mission will be held in St. Louis be? ginning April 10 for the' . purpose of adopting proposals already tentative I ly passed upon. ' "Only a thin line now divides the two great branches of Methodism," mid Dr. Thomas. "Practically every problem of re-union has been solved. Another thing?the foundation of n new church has to be laid from the best elements of the old. We have really got to build a world church, for Methodism is at home in evjery land. "The union of the Methodist Epis? copal church and the Methodist Epis? copal Church, South, will make a membership of about 7,000,000 and we are expecting other Methodist or? ganizations to come in later. On* is the Methodist Protestant church. An? other is . the Japanese Methodist church, which has been independent.! In forming a world church the idea .is to have one general conference and in time, associate general conferences, one for northern Asia* one for India, one for Europe, one for South Ameri? ca and perhaps others later. "The meeting at Savannah was most important and successful. The commission left feeling that solution pf all problems Involved In unification was near. "If everything is agreed to at the St. Louis meeting the plan of unifica? tion can be brought before the Methodlst church, South, for ratifi? cation at the general conference in Atlanta next May. While the gen? eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will not be held regularly until 1920, the bishops r jthat denomination have the author? ity to call a special session if they J deem it best. "Should the St. Louis session de? velop agreement on every point it would be four or six y(ears before we could get everythitfff'-'forking. "It has been discovered that $760. 000 has been expended annually by the two great branches In competitive territory, places where one Methodist church could have done the work. This would be $7,500,000 in ten years, or enough money with what they al ready have, to provide for all the su? perannuated ministers. The name for the proposed new church has not been determined Several titles are under consideration. Berlin. Feb. 27.?German troops advancing north of Dorpat yesterday Captured tWO Russian regiments, as they were retreating. the German general staff announced today. Berlin. Fob. 27.?After a great many violent duels In the air on the western front Tuesday. sa\s today's war office statement, the Germans brought down fifteen entente air? planes, and Ihre?' captive balloons. Bottles are reported to be scare. But what use is there for bottles? Florida Times Union, South's Foot! Supplies. In, an appeal which he has aent to j .the people of the South, Secretary Mo Adoo urges that they make ev ;ry ef? fort to raise their own foodstu Ts and thus make it unnecessary to tri nsport loads from other parts of the country. ?'One of the great tasks confionting ihe American people," he says, "is that of improving and making thor? oughly efficient their railroad trans? portation system. The people of the South, and especially the fanners, are in the habit of using the transporta? tion system of the country to a de? gree that is highly uneconomic and unnecessary for the purpose of trans-1 porting food and feed from other parts of the United States because they do not produce enough foodstuffs and feedstuffs for themselves." For years attempts have been made to induce the South to increase its production of foodstuffs, but until two years ago little success followed these efforts. In 1916 and 1917, under pressure of the war, the South made a notable increase in its output of foods. It is still very far, however, from doing what It should. There is no reason why the South should not raise nearly all the foods it needs. Shtftlessness and laziness are the principal explanations of its failure to do so. Cotton is the great crop of the South, helped along with sugar, tobacco and rice. Southern though' has revolved around these products They are of vast importance, to be sure, but that is not sufficient when, with little trouble, the South can do so much more. The land is there, the soil is adaptable and the planters now have money from their rich cotton crops of the last two years. The South should be self-sustain ! ing. If it were, a great burden would j be lifted from the remainder of the country, which would have the foods thus released. Mr. McAdco'a icea in urging the raising of foodstuffs is to save transportation facilities for use elsewhere. That would be a great gain for the country, but it world be of but temporary value. The import? ant thing is to have the South develop itself in this way so as to be ?. per? manent help to the rest of the coun? try.?Buffalo Express. The foregoing editorial from the Buffalo Express condescendingly sug? gesting that "a great burden would be lifted from the remainder of the country" if the South would be self-' sustaining in food, is so diametrical? ly opposed to the fact that, merely In order to reiterate statements pub? lished last week, we are printing a let? ter addressed to Secretary McAdoo which, while repeating many of the figures given in last week's issue, adds some few points which may be interesting to our readers. By this constant reiteration, line upon line and precept upon precept, we may even? tually be able to change the views of the North and West as to the South as a food producer. The great ignorance of the Buffalo Express in discussing food production in the South is indicated in the /act that it seems to think that nothing in that line had been done of any Im? portance prior to 1916 and 1917, when, as a matter of fact, the production of grain in the South in 1915 was more than 50,000,000 bushels larger than production of 1917, and it was 340,?.! 000,000 bushels larger than the yield of 1916.' Even in 1912 the production of grain in the South was 130,000,000 bushels larger than the yield of 1916. The large yields of 1912 and 1915 were due to exceptionally fine woath er conditions, while the small crop of 1916 was due to unfavorable weather, and the decrease In the South that year, as compared with the preceding year, was proportionately less than' the rest of the country. The charge made by the Buffalo Express that the failure of the south to raise foodstuffs is due to shift less ness and laziness is in keeping with many of the absolutely false state? ments made by outside publications when undertaking to discuss the South. Cotton is not merely a great crop for the South, but a great crop fo* the world, and without it the world would sink back into barbarism. The value of the South's cot? ton crop this year is less than 3? per cent, of the total value of Its farm products. The value of cotton and cottonseed last year amounted lo about $2,000,000,000, while the total value of the South's farm products was over $7,000,000,000. If the Buffalo Express will turn its attention to the waste land in New York State and New England, an I I will bring about an adequate develop? ment of nil their agricultural poten i tialities it will Und itself fully em? ployed without superciliously g ving advice, based on lack of knowledge, to the South. j Mr. t* Donaldson of Tiptonville. jTenn.. In calling attention to the ed? itorial from the Buffalo Express ] writes: 'Herewith enclosed is just another proof that the truth has never quite caught Up with Mr. Vroomnn's in dictment of the South early last year. This particular editorial, quite after the Chicago Tribune manner, ' cart hardly injure the South, and, on the other hand, shows to what extent ig? norance, provincialism and section? alism are rampant in the North. "The role of benign benefactor has been played so long by the politicians of the North that it comes as second nature to editors and the rest in that section to regard the South as the poor relation of the republic, and really it seems to afford these unlearn? ed molders of opinion a world of sat? isfaction to wave the bloody shirt oc? casionally. ? 'It would be interesting to know just how long the rest of the country could 'carry on* if the South were to be suddenly obliterated from the face of the earth, and what a howl would go up if an impassable wall should suddenly be reared, dividing North and South! In such an event. I wonder if Northern paternalism would not turn to fraternalism or even filial admiration." The papers of the North, like the Buffalo Express, for Instance, are not wholly to blame, because they take their cue in part from the mis? takes made by government officials, and in part because it has for gen? erations been the custom to overlook the real truth that the South is the nation's greatest asset and that with? out the resources of the South upon which to depend the rest of the coun? try would be absolutely unable to make any fight whatsoever against Germany. It is time that the coun? try understood these facts and ceas? ed to regard the South, as the Buf? falo Express does, as a "burden" to ?he country in the matter of food. The Buffalo Express, however, was hardly to blame, in view of Mr.-'Mc Adoo's letter.?Manufacurers Rec? ord. Lima Bean, a Profitable Food. Clem8on College. Feb. 47.?Sduth Carolina's yearly Importation of the common Lima or Butter Bean amounts to thousands of dollars, yet this bean will grow and produce to perfection in all sections of the State. It is an excellent human food and may be used as feed for domestic animals and it adds fertility to the soil as the other legumes do. The farmers and gardeners of the State could resort to no secondary food crop that offers a more promising outlook. Lima beans should have a larger place In every garden and on every farm. They re? quire no special preparation or cul? tivation, yielding well on any good garden or field soil. As with other beans there are two types: the bush, or dwarf, and the rvnning or ool^ For extensive planting the bush type is the more desirable. Plant in rows . three feet apart and eight to ten inches in the drill, cover to a depth of two or three incites. Plant the running beans along all Of your gar? den fences for their yield Is usually heavier than the dwarf type. For further information consult the Extension Division, Clem son Col? lege. Spring Oats. Clemson College, Feb. 27.?Spring oats offer the best opportunity for an early crop of hay or an early crop of {face where fulp plantings were not made or where the fall sown gratis were winter killed. As oats prefer cool moist weather they should be sown early, in order that they may reach maturity before the weather gets too hot for their satisfactory growth and development. In order to get the eeed planted as early as possible the ground should be prepared by disking and the seed and fertilizer put in with a drill?either one-horse drills or larger ones may be used satisfac? torily. I Spring sown oats do not tiller as ; much as those sown in the fall ad that more seed should be used?two and a half bushels per acre is a good rate of seeding for spring oats. Burt, 'Fulghum Appier, Culber son. Red rust proof, Hundred-bush? el, are varieties that may be used for spring seeding. Where seed may be had Burt, Fulghum, Appier and Culberson are varieties to be pre? ferred. ?4 Four hundred pounds of a mixed fertilizer per acre, such as is used for cotton and corn, and one hundred pounds of nitrate of soda will con stitue good fertilization. The mix? ed fertilizers should be applied at the time of sowing the seed and the nitrate of soda as top dressing in March. Getting the oats plante l early is of prime Importance. Of the varie? ties named Burt oats develop a little faster than any of the others. Ful? ghum is early. Culberson makes a leafy growth and is well suited for an early crop of hay. Those who wish to make grain may sow Appier. Wheat less days are all rifht. There is no camouflage about good, old-time crackling bread.?Edgenchl Adver* tiser.