The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 03, 1918, Image 4
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Washington. March 30.?With the
exception of cloudiness on Monday
generslly fair weather, with nearly
normal temperatures is forecast for
South Atlantic States for the coming
week.
NITRATE CP SODA ALLOTMENTS.
Only Those Ulm Asked for Soda For
(.ruin Get Ally Now.
I sm getting a number of inquiries
sbout the distribution of the present
allotment of 224 tons of government
soda to Sumter county. This allot?
ment was mads for small grain and
those who did not have in their ap
pllcaions number acres of gruln, did
not get uny portion of allotment. In
future allotments all will be given
equal consideration unless the Wash?
ington office advises us to give pref?
erence, to grain or food crops over
o'her crops.
This present allotment did not give
us mors than forty-nine per cent, of
the amount applied for, for small
grain. Instructions have been receiv?
ed sttaing that shipping conditions in?
dicate sbillty to fill all future require?
ments.
J. Prank Williams.
County Agent.
(.union Week. s
South Carolina is prepared to dem?
onstrate during War (larden Week,
April 1, that it is out to beat the
Kaiser with the hoe, according to re?
ports to the National War Garden
Commission. Plans aro being made
to make that week one in which the
home soldiers of the soil will show
that they "mean business."
"Speed up and Spade up" says the
call which has been isaued by Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the Com?
mission. "Kt.tser Kllliam must be
tooted; and War warden Week will
be one of the biggest demonstrations
ever given to show him that the
American people are back of their
army heart and soul. The Kaiser is
not worried a?> mjch over the number
of men tMs country is sending to
France as to whether It will be able
to feed them after it gets them there.
' War Gardeners will welcome the
pussage of the Daylight Savings bill,
beeuuse it will mean that 10.000.000
home food producers will be able to
add 64 2.000 years of extra time to
their food production campaign this
year; and tin t will mean millions of
dollars worth of extra food on the
pantry shelf thie fall. Kv* i vom
should aek his congressman to vote
for the bill '
August Kuhn, chairman of the
conservation committee, Columbia,
South Cardin i, has received a lot of
the garden primers from the Commis?
sion, which will send a copy to any?
one who writes for It, enclosing a
two-cent stamp for postage. Tin
Charleston Chamber of Commerce,
which Is cooperating In the work, and
many of the banks and industrial con?
cerns also have been sent consign?
ments Primers have bOOJI sent to the
Sumter Chamber of Commerce and to
the Farmern' Rank of Slmpsonville,
1? C. Dramlett, cashier.
Captain Richmond Pierson Hobson.
formerly congressman from Alabama,
mul champion of nation-wide prepar?
edness and prohibition will deliver a
lecture In Trinity Methodist church on
Wednesday evening, April loth. Cap*
tain llolmon In an orator of extraor
dtanufj ul.ilic, and he has frequently
addressed congress upon the urgent
importan< e. of national prohibition
end naval preparodacoa He has also
spoken from almost every noted
( haut.iuqua platform in Amern a. and
Judging froan the press notices he ban
a ringing message for tin- people of
this country.
There is a growing sentiment my
erywhere that able bodied nor ol ill
?.gei must either tight or work, and
those who are not fighting will not
bf termltf'd to loaf much longer.
'cm-re li i lough road ahead fat ihs
vagrants and loafers of all ages and
all colors.
If ?bis were a light for point
I ,?m sj i satsjht now be declared win?
ner. This is whv Cemiany Is anxious
to quit and avoid the inevitable
knockout that a finish fight Will bung
( hu lOJO D uly News
DUTCH SHOW ANGER.
BBUVRl Of SHIPPING DENOUNO
BD AS INDEFENSIBLE.
OIIk-UiI statement Says Holland Will
Resist Action or United Sttaes With
All the Idicrgy of Its Convictions
ami Wounded 1 Oelings.
The Hague, Saturday, March 10.?
The seizure of the Dutch merchant?
men in American ports is character?
ized by the Dutch government, in a
statement in The Official Gazette, as
an act of violence which it will op?
pose with all the energy of its convic?
tion and its wounded national feedings
The government hikes issue with tho
proclamation of President Wilson re?
garding the decision of the United
States, saying it contains assertions
which are contrary to the facts.
The statement says:
"With painful surprise the govern?
ment ami whole Dutch nation has tak?
en notice of the presidential procla?
mation and the statement of March 10
relative to the seizure of part of the
Dutch merchant fleet.
"The seizure en bloc of a neutral
merchant fleet, if only for the dura?
tion of the war, is an act indefensible
from the viewpoint of international
law and unjustifiable towards a friend?
ly nation, apart from considerations
of legality.
"Hut the manner also in which the
presidential statement defends this
act of violence does not contribute to?
ward lessening the sting thereof, for
this defense has plainly been drawn
up under the influence of a com?
pletely incorrect representation of af?
fairs.
"The manner in which the Dutch
merchant Meet has been treated in
the past month in the United States,
the Incessant dilficulties placed in the
way of our sailings from American
ports, repeated refusals of bunkering j
facilities and forced unloading of
cargoes already bought?all this may
be within the rights of the United
states (save one case that of the
Zeelandtu.) which with her own bunk?
er coal entered nn American port and
has been unlawfully detained there
since.
"It surely was against the tradi?
tional friendship between the two
countries, although on this point the
president's statement is silent.
"According to President Wilson's
proclamation the Netherlands, owing
entirely to German pressure, failed to
observe the preliminary arrangement
which was proposed for the purpbse
of leaving no longer idle the Dutch
tonnage in American ports and fur?
nishing an opportunity for making
voyages within a period of 90 days,
pending a definite agreement on Dutch
tonnage and rationing. This is dis?
tinctly incorrect.
"It is equally .is incorrect as the al?
legation that Germany had threatened
to sink two ships which were to sai.
from Holland with American approv?
al, and that Germany has made in?
creasing threats to prevent both the
observance of such a preliminary ar?
rangement and the conclusion of a
permanent one. The real facts of tin
case are as follows:
"After the (American) war trade
board had insisted that Dutch ships
in American ports muke trips pend?
ing a definite arrangement, the Neth?
erlands government proposed that
.some of tne ships should make voy?
ages for the commission of relief in
Helgtum, which Holland has always
fostered sedulously. When informa?
tion was received that Germany ob?
jected to America's demand that a
Dutch ship sail from Holland each
time in exchange for relief ship sail?
ing from America, the Netherlands
government deemed It a duty imposed
by good faith to inform the Amer
< n authorities so that a ship whi- h
was then on the way towards Argen?
tina could be given a different desti
nation. The direct eensequence was
that those ships were kept moving,
which was exactly in consonance with
the provisional agreement.
"Respecting sailing to Cette,
France, a Swiss interest, with which
Holland svmpathized, the ship own
era ft freed thereto completely ;is soon
AI Franco gave assurances that ih>
?hiPfl would not be detained at Cette
Accordingly, several ships were char?
tered for this service. The charter
Intfs and Oftlllngl of all these siri|?s
were not sensibly delayed by the afore?
mentioned Objection*. Neither did
Germany attempt to Influence the exe?
cution of the provisional ftgrOOment
What did lOrlOUftly interfere with its
execution was the fact that cable
messages to and from ship owners
were extremely slow in t ransinissior
and sometlmei never were delivered.
"The fact is thai a mnjorlty of tin
- hips had been chartered under tin
pr< latonal agreement through thf
war trade board and part were ai
rendy nailing lo Houtb America, but
Wer e stopped en route by the Amen
?an authorities, while the Pact II C ship
plying between the Wrstein coast Ol
the Unite 1 Plates n nd Ihe I >utch Has
indies made regular voyagei without
any Impediment bj the Nethcrlnnd*
government The ships now m Drittel
ports In und outside Europe were pre
vented from sailing.
"As shown by the foregoing;, the al
legation that tho Netherlands, owing
to German pressure, was powerless to
observe the provisional agreement Is
OOntmry to fact. That the president
was incorrectly advised is proved
conclusively on a point of greater im?
portance, namely, where the state?
ment mentions the new demand tha1
Dutch ships would have to enter the
war zone and the seizure which fol
lowed Holland's reply.
"After the incorrect allegation that
Holland was unable to observe the
provisional agreement, Great Britain
on March 7 made Holland a final pro?
posal, whereupon Holland came for?
ward with a counterapproval which
was unacceptable."
The statement says further:
"Even had the arrangement been
concluded, Holland would have been
unable to keep it in actual practice,
for which reason the seizure was de?
termined upon. This reasoning,
strange though it may seem, lacks
ono important link which is indispen?
sable to place the matter in a proper
light. What were the facts? On Feb?
ruary 22 the Netherlands, in view of
the food shortage threatened, asked
America to advance 100,000 tons
on account of 400,00 to be definitely
arranged for.
"It is true that the nssociated gov?
ernment on March G replied affirma?
tively regarding the 100,000 tons;
without giving a definite reply about
the 400,000, but to that apparent ac?
quiescence they attached the onerous
condition that they were to obtain
Immediately tho disposal of all ofthat
part of the Dutch merchant fleet to
which, according to the projected
London plan, they would eventually
become entitled.
"The Netherlands government, un?
der the stress of circumstances, pre?
pared to accept this condition as soon
as the certainty could be had that the
fullest reliance could be placed not
only on the 100,000 tons, but also on
the full 400.000 as the basis Of definite
regulation. The government was in
a position to accept, because at the
deliberations in London and after?
wards it was understood strictly that
Dutch ships would be employed only
outside the danger zone and that
therefore, they would in no cases un?
dertake services for a belligerent
which would be an infringement of
neutrality.
"Suddenly, the aforesaid London
engagement was broken, on March
7, when the cardinal point, that ships
given in exchange for the advance of
100,000 tons of grain were not to be
used in the danger zone, was revoked.
The enorous character of this change
lay not in the fact that the Dutch
ships were to be sent into the danger
zone?for this has nothing to do with
neutrality?but because it was evident
that to enter that zone, situated as it
is, around the associated countries in
Europe, would amount in a large e: -
tent to the transportation of troops
or war materials from America to the
European co-belligerents.
?Moreover tue Dutch ships, if arm?
ed, would run the risk of armed con?
flict with German warships. Holland,
as a neutral, eould not therefore con?
sent to the use of its ships in the dan?
ger icne unless the associated govern?
ments eould guarantee that the ships
would not be armed and would not
transport troops or war materials.
"In the light of the foregoing, the
reasoning of the presidential state?
ment, In accordance with which ihfc
seizure was held to be necessary be?
cause Holland would be unable to ob?
serve the OOntract, can not be sustain?
ed. It is contrary to the true facts
The only true representation iR this:
"The powers in question, owing to
the loss of ships, felt constrained to
replace the tonnage by obtaining the
disposal of a large number of ships
Which belonged not to them but to the
Netherlands. They became awure that
the Netherlands could not permit the
ships to sail except on the conditions
imposed by the neutrals, but which In
the judgments of the associated gov?
ernments was not sufficiently in ac?
cordance with their interests. There?
fore, they decided to seize the Dutch
merchant fleet In so far as it lay
within their power.
"Tho Netherlands government
deems it its duty to speak with com?
plete candor, tl voices the sentiments
of the entire Dutch nation, which seen
in the seizure an act of violence whicn
it will oppose with all the enrgy of
its conviction and its wounded nation?
al feeling.
"According fo the presidential
statement, this procedure offers Hol?
land ample opportunity to obtain
bread grain. This is so only appar?
ently, for it would not be an Irrespon?
sible act, after the experiences ol
Dutch ships In America and British
ports to permit other ships to sail t<'
these ports without absolute guaran?
tees that these experiences shall not
recur.
'The American government lms al?
ways appealed to right and .justice,
lets always come forward as the cham?
pion Of small nations. That It now co
opt rates In un act diametrically op
posed i" thoss principles is a pro
Home Demonstration Work
ANNIE KEELS, Demonstrator
ALICE MARTIN, Assistant
The General Kumter Demonstration
Club, Stateburg, met on the 11th of
March at the school house, with the
County Demonstrator, Misses Keels
and Martin. There were only live
members present, and the following
officers were elected: Miss Dykes,
president; Mrs. Dargan, vice president,
and Mrs. Bull secretary. After the
business was over, Miss Martin talked
very interestingly on poultry raising,
the type of chickens for the different
purposes, remedies for the diseases
and insects. Miss Keels gave a talk
on fruit and gardens, and distributed
seeds and bulletins. Also gave rem?
edies for plant diseases and insects,
and showed how to preserve eggs in
water glass. It was decided to try
and sell Thrift Stamps in connection
with the club, and Miss Henrietta
Dargan was elected president. The
meeting adjourned alter a very pleas?
ant and profitable, meeting, deciding
to meet again on the second Monday
in April, 8th, at the school house.
Mrs. Des Dull, Booty.
MADAME STORCH DIES.
New York, March 30.?Madame
Despina Davidovitch Storch, the young
Turkish woman, who was charged
with being the leader of a band of
German spies taken into custody in
this city a fortnight ago. died sud
I denly today In her quarters on Ellis
Island, it wan learned tonight.
The death of Madame Storch is be?
lieved to have been due to pneumonia,
although secrecy was maintained as
to the details. She had been taken
to Ellis Island pending action which
probably would have resulted in her
being deported to France where she
might have met the traditional fate of
a spy.
Mme. Storch was born in Constan?
tinople only 23 years ago. Her father
was a German and her mother a
Turk. Government agents believe
that she had been for years in th.*
secret service of Germany.
The constant companion of Mme.
Storch had been Baron Henri de Bev
j ille, a member of a noble French fam
| ily. Be was arrested with her and is
' a prisoner at Ellis Island.
Rieding in Quebec Continues
Quebec, March 31.?Anti-con
script!an noting continued today. A
mob of 3,000 threatened to storm the
drill hall and liberate men held for
evasion of the Military Service Act.
but was dispersed when charged by
cavalry. Many men were slightly in?
jured.
eeedin? which can llnd no counter?
weight in the manifestations of friend?
ship or assurances of lenient appli?
cation of the wrong committed. '
TONE OF DUTCH NOTE BURPHI&
Washington, March 31.?-In the I
View of the American government,
requisitioning of the Dutch ?hips In
American ports was done in full ac?
cord with recognized principles of in?
ternational law and mo si*, generous
guarantees were given for the protec?
tion of Holland's commerce and the
tights of the ship owners. It would
have been within the rights of the
United States to take the vessel*- per?
manently, paying for them a just
price, but recognizing thaJt Holland
WOUld be handicapped after the Avar,
by such action, it was announced thai
only the use of the ships would b< re?
quired. After the wur they will be
returned in as good condition as when
taken and any that have been f.unk
will be replaced.
Caught between the ruthless nub
marlne warfare of Germany and. the
need of the allies for self-presctrva*
tion against the illegal practice* of
that nation, Holland Is conceded to
have had a most dilllcult time in satijf
j fying the demands of Germany whi.V
! obtaining food for her own people.
The allies promised to allow from
their scant store sufllcient grain ami
other commodities In return for ship?
ping. Holland was willing but Ger?
many refused to allow the igreemen'
to go through, threatening to torpe?
do ships leaving Dutch har'aors. Un?
der the circumstances and after wait?
ing two month! the United states and
the allies took over the Dutch ves?
ted Idle In their ports.
Protest naturally w jis expected
from Holland but officials frankle
, were surprised tonight at the tone of
the ofllclal communication and wore
at a loss to explain it. Until this gov?
ernment has been acquulnted official?
ly with Holland's altitude, however,
there will be formal comment.
it has been rumored that Holl und
WOUld ask for arbitration of the
shipping question under the treat".'
negotiated with Former Secrotavy
Tryan. which provides for Investiga?
tion for one year of all disputes l??
I fore resort to forcible settlement.
ES CAPITAL.
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Teiich Children to
Beware of Flies
Explain to them how fiies are hatched
in filth. How, after crawling around
in outhouses, privies, manure piles
and over dead animals ?nd decayed
matter, they come into the home
and ">;v>e their nasty feet on the
family food, leaving a trail of dis?
ease germs everywhere.
Flies Cause Infantile Paralysis,
Typhoid and Other Fevers
The best doctors in the world will
tell r >u that fiie3 are t .3 cause of
a great deal of sickness, especially
summer complaint, infantile paraly?
sis, y sent cry, typhoid and other
fever:-. Don't let flies bring sick?
ness into your home.
RED DEVIL LYE
KILLS FLIES
Keep a can of RED DEVIL LYE in yosjff out-house and sprinkle It on
the filth freely, once or twice a week. It consumes the filth, destroys
the fly eggs and prevents odors and sickness.
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NOlNCKS GRKATKST Ait HAY
OF TALENT KVKIl. i
10 in "Chocolate Soldier"?Sir John |
Foster Fra**er, One of Headline Lee- I
Hirers; Margery Maxwell or Chicago |
Ofrand Opera Co.; Bunbur's Revue |
Featuring Parade of the' Allies.
Bigger and better than ever?even |
than tho great program of 1917, i
which was acknowledged the best in ]
seven years, this season's Redpath
Chatuuqua, according to the Red- |
path management, is 10 eclipse them <
all. ,
Everyone will he interested in the
announcement that Sir John Foster
Fr?ser, F. R. G. S., chairman of the
National War Lectures Committee
of Great Britain, and England's most
famous newspaper special correspond?
ent, is to appear upon this program
Sir John has been in the British Army
in France and Flanders, with the
British Grand Fleet, has seen Russia,
under war conditions and has trav?
ersed the whole of the mountainous
region of the Balkans. He has been
a groat traveler and has decribed his
wanderings in a dozen books. He has
also long been famous in Great Britain
as a speaker. At the beginning of the
war, he placed his unique knowledge
of foreign lands at the service of his
country. As a recognition of h?c; wer*
the honor of Knighthod wras con?
ferred on him at Buckingham Palace,
in June, 1917. '
The success of "The Mikado" last
season was so pronounced that this
year another popular light opera will
be presented. "The Chocolate Sol?
dier" is the 1918 offering and light
opera night this year will again be a
real sensation. Charmingly tuneful
"The Chocolate Soldier" has a won?
derful record before metropolitan
audiences. A company of thirty, in?
cluding orchestra, will present "The
Chocolate Soldier." The stage set?
ting and lighting effects will be a
revelation in what can be accom?
plished in this direction on the Chau
tauqua platform.
Dunbar's lievue in music and spe?
cial costume will feature a grand
spectacular Parade of the Allies.
The music and costumes are extraor?
dinary. This revue will be given on
the last night of the- Chautauqua, as
the culmination of a great week's pro?
gram, in addition to the principals
in the cast, loc;? young people will ap?
pear in the Una] pageant spectacle.
An evening with a grand opera
artist has twice before proven a great
attraction on the Redpath Chautuu
qua circuit, and now alter a season
without n prlma-donna, this year's
program is to have a grand opera
star in Miss Margery Maxwell, the
gifted young soprano, who appeared
this season O? principal with Qalll
Curci, in the Chicago Grand Opera
Company in Chicago, ami who ac?
companied thfld organization on its
tour to New Votrk and Boston.
Prank MulhoUand, past president
of the Internatiouial Rotary clubs of
tin1 World, ami a magnetic, rapid-tire,
eloquent speaker1 before business
men's organiaatione everywhere, is to
lecture on "Business and the War," a
topic on which he is eminently quali?
fied to speak, having added to his ex?
tensive knowledge of American bust
neaa conditions by a recent visit to
Knghvnd and Prance.
"Economy in the Home." will be
tlie sublet t of a lecture by Mrs. Chris?
tine Frederick, well known as a speak?
er ?>11 home economics, and as a con?
tributor on this topic to metropolitan
newspapers, ami the Ladles' Home
Journal Mrs. Frederick points the
way to patriotic servlco through el
iciericy in the home, and incidentally
iho\\> how to SUt the cost of living.
Th. Tamhurica, native musical in?
strument of Croatia, will he a feature
if the grand concert given by the
Croatian Orchestra on the opening
ifter'.oon. On the Tamburica the six "_\
nembers of the orchestra in their ?
aright and novel native costumes will
?lay Balkan melodies, selections from
he operas and American songs.
The Chicago Orchestral Band, an
)ther,attratcion of the week, is com?
prised of a company of seven, organ
zed by the famous bandmaster Bohu
nir Kryl.
T> "Man Who Stayed at Heine,"
he wonderful play based on the in
iidlo< ? intrigues of the German spy
system, will be presented by the beau?
tiful and talented Miss Clarrisa Har
rold.
Lou Beauchamp, the "Humorous
Philo.:opher," who won his title by
ais success in mingling mirth with ths
vital messages of his lectures; Chan?
cellor Geo. H. Bradford, of Okla
aom.!, great inspirational orator; and
Oney Fred Sweet, Chicago newspaper
prriter on his unique and thrilling ex?
pert* aces in connection with a hun?
dred different jobs in less than throe
year,'., each has a lecture of compell?
ing i i tcrost.
Tc the children and adults who en
JCOUd the "Mother Goose Festival"
last year, there is a still greater treat
in store this year, a real "Circus Time
in Fairy Land."
On the sixth day there will be an
exhibition Of 100 of the famous war
cartoons of Louis Raemaekers. This
exhi' ition is similar to the one in the
Congressional Library at Washington.
A remarkable collection of 100 war
postt rs of the nations in arms against
Germany, will also be displayed on
one lay of the program.
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News has been received by the
family of Mrs. Charles Moise that her
gra idSOUi David Levy of Philadelphia,
ami injured by s fall from an air
plare at Miami, Fla. Mrs. Sol Levy,
the you nig man's mother, had just ar?
rive l in the city on a visit and left
for Florida immediately on receipt of
the news. Lieut. Levy was com mission?
ed \ the marine corps last summer,
but 0 few weks ago was transferred
to the aviation branch of the service.
He had started Hying but recently.
The extent of his injuries or how the
are dent occurred nas not been learn?
ed.
The Court of Common Pleas is still
In SSlon and will probably continue
through this week and next, as there
Is a heavy roster to be cleared.
The Count) Council of Defense will
endeavor to obtain ? complete roll of
tvery man from Bumtor county who
is in the military service of the na?
tion whether In the regular army,
National Guard, National army, navy,
marine corps, signal corps or any
other arm of the service.
Speaking of academic freedom, the
K. ser insists that he yields to no
on- in his respect for freedom in nn
academic sense. New York Kvcning
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