The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 21, 1918, Image 4
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influence of both of the old papers,
and is manifestly, the best advertising
medium in Sumter.
College Training Plan in Full Swing.
With President R. C. McLaurin of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology serving as educational head of
the Students* Army Training Corps,
and a staff of well known civilians to
help in the task, the war department's
plan to have every important college
ir. the country a military post for the
training of men for the army and
havy is making rapid headway. On
July 18, three large training camps
at Plattsburg, N. Y.. San Francisco.
Cab, Fort Sheridan, 111., with attend
ance of 7,000 members of college
faculties and selected students began
a sixty-day course designed to prepare
men to assist in the work of military
instruction in the colleges this year.
Details of the plan have just beer,
announced by the war department.
"The plan is an attempt to mobilize
and develop the brain power of the
young men of the country for these
services which demand special train
ing," says the war department. "It's
object is to prevent the premature en
listment for active service of these
men who could by extending the pe
riod of their college training, multi
ply manifold their value to the coun
try." ]
In its announcement the depart
ment points out the needs for high
ly trained men as officers, engineers,
doctors, chemists, and administrators
of every kind.
"The importance of this need can
not be too strongly emphasized,*' says
the war department's circular. "This
is a war in which soldiers are not onlv
marksmen, but also engineers, chem
ists, physicists, geologists, doctors,
and specialists in many other lines. |
Scientific training is indispensable.!
Engineering skill is needed by the of
ficers who direct every important mil
itary operation and who control our
lines of transport and communication.
In the same way chemical and physi
cal knowledge are in constant de
mand at the front as well as behind
the lines, while the task of saving the
lives and restoring the health of hun
dreds of wounded calls for the ser
vices of regiments of military physi
cians. The scientific training which
prepares a man to fulfill one of these
highly specialized duties and the more
liberal training which helps to de
velop the qualities of leadership
needed by the officer or administra
tor are essential elements of military
efficiency.
The boy who enlists in the Stu
dents' Army Training Corps will be
a member of the army of the United
States. He will be provided by the
war department with uniform and
equipment, but will be on furlough
status and will not receive pay. He
will underfro rejrular military training
as a part of his course during the
college year, will attend a six weeks'
camp for rigid and intensive military
instructions with privates pay, and
will be subject to the call of the presi
dent for active service at any time,
should the exigencies of the military
situation demand it. The policy of the
government, however, will he to keep
members of this corps in college
until their draft age is reached, and
the war department will have the
power to order such men to continue
in college even after their- draft a^e
is reached whenever their work is
such that the needs of the service,
e. g.. for doctors, engineers, chem
ists, and the like, are such as to
make that course advisable."
The Students* Army Training
Corps is administered by the Com
mittee on Educational and Special
Training of the War Department
which is a section of the Training
and Instruetion Branch of the War
Plans Division v.f the General Staff.
Competent officers and non-commis
sioned officers will be assigned to the
various institutions to crtrry on the
work of military instruction.
In view of the educational signifi
cance of the new plan. - Dr. P. P.
Claxton. Commissioner of Education,
has sent a copy of the War Depart
ment's statement to school and col
let^, executives throughout th'* coun
try.
BRAZILIAN SHIP SUBMARINED.
Sunk off American Coast?Crew Sav
ed.
New York. Aug 16.?Tim Brazil
ian motor siiip Madrugda, sixt en
hundred tons, has been submarined
off the American coast. Th" crew
has been picked up and will be landed
at an Atlantic port, insurance circles
learned today.
JAPS IX MANCHURIA.
Under Agreement With China Troop
Sent to Protect Border.
Tokio. Tuesday. Aug: 13.- The gov
ernment today issued :i statement an
nouncing that under agreement with
China, in view of th" danger threat
ening tin- border of Manchuria. Ja
pan was despatching troop sthence
from Manchuria.
Mr. G. A. Lemmon; Food Ada inis
trator for Sumter county, tool-: charge
of the ice situation, locally. Friday
Until further notice he will regulate
the distribution of ice by tie- I oca
factory, and domestic consumers wii
have the preference in th" allotmenl
of ice over i<-i- cream and soft drinN
dealers.
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VARIOUS STATE CANDIDATES IN
ARGUMENTS.
I
I Bethea. Cooper and Richards In Ex
i change While Liles Replies to
j "Wightman.
j Moncks Corner, Aug. 16.?-Pithy ex
changes between various candidates
; for State offices characterized the
? 40th State campaign meeting here
j today. The audience though num
bering only about 150 voters was by
far the most responsive and enthus
iastic of the campaign.
There was a colloquy between
: Lieut. Gov. Andrew J. Bethea and
i Robert A. Cooper. candidates for
! governor which at one time bordered
; on becoming heated. Mr. Bethea,
i who was the lirst speaker, took is
i sue with the speech of the Laurehsj
j candidate delivered at Georgetown \
i yesterday.
j "I have observ t of late." said Mr. j
; Bethea, "that when I linish speaking;
: Mr. Cooacr, who usually follows mej
i tries to chill the ardor and enthus-:
I iasm of my support. He does this not!
j by direction, but by indirection, but
! he does it nevertheless. In the face j
j of what impression I have made and
ion the heels of what I have said, he;
j gets up and says in a self righteous;
I sort of way that he has never made:
an appeal to factionalism to get a i
f vote. He would evade and side step
! the real issue of the campaign. It is j
Itrue that he is a bit more outspoken;
of late than heretofore, and why?
i Simply because he sees the hand
j writing on the walk He sees the
; people rallying around the standard I
i have set up and fighting for the cause
; in which I. have taken the offensive;
jand the lead. I am making a fearless!
I but fair fight for what I conceive to'
i bo right, but I do not propose to
j shake down plums or pull chestnuts
j out of the fire for any candidate in
the race. If. therefore, Mr. Cooper
! pursues the course he has ado.-ted. I;
I shall be forced to disclose the reasons j
j that I believe prompt him and j
[ these, I venture to assert, will be a;
'revelation of the people of South;
i Carolina."
Mr. Cooper interrupted Mr. Bethea
; at this juncture and challenged him j
I to make known any "revelations"'
: which he might possess, stating that
his record is a.n open nook and he
i feared not to have it scrutinized. The
j lieutenant governor said that he was
i not making any charges against Mr.
I Cooper. When again pressed for the
meaning of his statement, Mr. Be-.
; thea said that he was referring to
j Mr. Cooper's speech at Georgetown
j yesterday.
Mr. Cooper, who followed Mr. Be
1 thea in the list of speakers, said that
j yesterday, at Georgetown, the lieutc-n-j
ant governor criticized some of' the
gubernatorial candidates for dealing;
with the tax and other questions, j
claiming that they were dodging- the
real issue, that of the war. "I s .id!
that I did nor. suppose he meant to
include me as one who wras dodging j
the issue," continued the Laurens can
j didate, "and I understood him to say
I that he did not mean me, that he was j
i referring fo Major Richards. Is that'
I correct. Mr. Bethea?"
i Replying that he believed he said
j that in substance. Mr. Bethea con- ?
j tinued with further remarks and was.
! interrupted by Mr. Cooper who said
? that he had not called on the lieuten
j ant governor for a speech. Tf he
! could not make a statement of suffi
I cient length to explain his position,
i said Mr. Bethea. he would not answer
j the question at all.
j "Mr. Bethea stated that he will tell
'something on me," continued Mr.'
! Cooper, "and I say . that a man who is ;
j going to fight fair, when asked a
j question and when asked to specify;
will do so. when I have a charge to
make against him I am not going to i
say that I will do it. but I am going j
to do it, and when he makes a state- ;
ment I expect him to back it up with
the facts."
In discussing the tax question. Mr.
Cooper said that he had asked Rich
ards repeatedly how he is going to re
duce taxes.
"I make a rule never to interrupt
ja speaker," interjected the ''Reform;"
candidate for governor, "but since he
I ha.s asked me the question, I want to
I state that I do not propose to disclose
J my plans as to what 1 am going to
j do if elected."
j When Mr. Cooper replied that, i:
l Mr. Richards objected to giving his
j plan in his presence, he would gc
J outside and let him disclose his po!
I icy to the audience, the "Reform"
j candidate asked the speaker what his
(plans were for raising the taxes. Mr.
i Cooper replied that he had never
J stated that he would raise the taxes.
During the speech of Juuius T.
J Liles. candidate for lieutenant govern
j or. he urged his auditors not to vote
for any man about whose loya..y
I there was a question. He was inter
rupted by George W. Wightman, hi/
"Reform" opponent and asked to
specify as to whom he meant.
"I refer to Cole L. Blease," replied
; Mr. Liles.
j other than these exchanges, there
j was little out of the ordinary in the
?speeches of the various candidates.
FRENCH CRUISER SUNK.
[Thirteen of the Crew Missing?Amcr
: iean Destroyers to the Rescue.
! Paris. Aug. 17.?The old French
[cruiser Dupetit Thours has been sub
; marined. it is officially announced.
'Thirteen of the crew are missine,
[American destroyers rescued the re
mainder.
MEXICAN CRISIS AVERTED.
Carranza Has Cancelled Objectionable
Provisions on No*. Oil Tax Order.
Washington. Aug. 17.- The threat
ened crisis in tie- relations of Mexico
[with the entente allies and the United
States has apparently been averted by
? the modification of tin- new Mexican
j ordej b> Carranza. it was learned to
i day. <"arrai;/.a h is in effect cancelled
tl ? objectionable provisions.
Mrs. < >. L. Vates. ami son. (?. [,.
Jr.. and Miss Elizabeth Brown. ar<
I spending sometime on Sullivan's Is
j MANNING BOY'S IN' FKANCF.
j __
; Gov. Manning Advised of Safe Ai ti
val of Five of His Sons.
: Five of Governor and Mrs. Man
ning's sons are now on the battle field.
, of France. Three of these have beer
i abroad for some time, and Governor
Manning was advised yesterday thai
j two more had arrived safely '"ove:
I there."
? Simultaneously with the good news
j yesterday of the arrival of their
fourth and fifth sons in France, word
was also received from Camp Zach
i ary Taylor in Kentucky that Vivian
j Manning had been commissioned as
a lieutenant and had been designated
as one of the instructors at the offi
cers' training camp.
Vivian Manning was beyond the
draft age and had a wife and two
children. Recently he disposed of his
business interests in Greenville and
volunteered as a private. Later he
went to the officers' training camp
and stood at the very top in the rec
ords made by the picked young men.
Capt. William S. Manning is in
Picardy, where the fighting has been
intense the last few weeks.
The other Manning boys in France
are: Maj. Wyndham M. Manning,
Maj. Bernard Manning, Corp. Bur
well D. Manning and John Adger
Manning, battalion sergeant major.
?The State.
Jackson on The Job.
(By Ii. G. Miller, Shrcveport, La.,
Times.)
(The following article has refer
ence to the successful work of a Sum
ter county boy, Mr. B. M. Jackson, a
son of Mr. J. " Jackson, of Horatio.
He was one 01 che original corn cluh
boys, of this county, and subse
quently attended Clemson College):
One of the top-notch agricultural
parishes of Louisiana is Ouachita.
One of the real, live, hard-working
result-getting demonstration agents
in the State is B. M. Jackson. And
he's in Ouachita. Jackson is on the
iob from 12 hours a day up, helping
the big and little farmers around
Monroe, Caihoun and every other
community in the parish acquire new
ideas about farming. A good part
of Ouachita's agricultural progress
during the past three or four years
can be attributed to Jackson's work.
Even the big business men and bank
ers give Jackson credit.
What's going on in Ouachita this
season? Well, according to Jackson,
there is 15 per cent, more cotton in
the parish than there was a year age.
in spite of the shortage of labor.
The parish harvested 150 acres of
wheat, which was 100- per cent more
than in 1917. This wheat, by the
way, is going to be milled for home
use. Twenty-eight cars of Irish po
tatoes were shipped out of Ouachita
under Jackson's direction this year:
only eight cars were'' shipped last
year. The sv-^-t potato crop is enor
mous, nivich bigger than ever. The
increase in acreage to velvet beans is
probably 500 per cent, Jackson says.
The oat crop was skert, but some
yields ran as high as'40 bushels per
acre. Ouachita ha.s the best fruit
crop in years. Abor^ 150 farmers in
the parish have good orchards, from
which the}- arc realizing neat cash
sums this season. Hundreds of bush
els of peaches, pears, apples and
plums have been sold for good prices
There is only 65 per cent as much
hay in Ouachita this year as usual.
The high price of cotton' forced hay
lands into cotton.
How about the livestock in Ouach
ita'.' Compared with two years ago,
the parish has 50 per cent more ho^rs.
25 per ent more beef cattle, 20 per
cent more sheep. These sheep are
ranging about as much on "free"
land as on fenced-in pastures. Farm
ers shipped 3.000 pounds wool that
averaged 50 cents a pound. Most of
! the big plantations of the parish
keep a few good brood mares cud
raise their own mules. Good jack-;
are used.
Ouachita's best livestock develop
ment is in the club work, of which
Jackson is also boss. It will take al
least a full column to tell about it
hut. anyhow, Jackson is arranging to
ship from eight to twelve cars o;
purebred hogs?raised by the chil
dren- to market this fall. There
tire 160 bays m the Ouachita Pig
Club. The Ouachita National Bank
has Una need every one of these boys
who was not able to finance himself.
This bank has loaned two or three
thousand dollars to these boys?an i
has never lost a penny.
(<ne of the pipe club boys, Robert
Holmes, bought a Poland China sow
in the spring of 1017 for $25. Dur
ing the spring of 1018 he sold eight
pigs at SI 5 each?and he still has
the sow.
Who are some of the farmers in
Ouachita? It would be impossible
to name all the good ones, but some
of the leaders in their respective
lines are:
Dairy Farmers?Miss Genie Mil
ler, Hamp Moore. E. S. Eby. Mrs. J.
B. Filhoil, .1. M. Suelling, W. E. Al
ien. Mis. Manning McGuire, Joe Ben
wick.
Beef cattle Raisers?Charles W.
Phillips, E. Fudidkar, John 1'. Par
ker. It. Ik Allen. 11. M. McGuire, J.
M. Perry. .!.' M. Stanley, A. H. Kelly,
it. L. Moore.
Sheep Baisers?R. R. Aden. c.
W. Phillips, k. L. Moore. A. W. Wil
liams. R. T. Fa ulk. Miss Genie Mil
ler. .]. P. Parker. K. L. Webb, .1. P.
Filhiol. The McGuires and J. P
Parker have the biggest number oi
goats.
Ask any of the above named "best"
farmers about Jackson and they'll
tell you he's always on the job. an.;'
that they ?*ould hardly get along
without him.
Notice.
1 am glad to state that all restric
tions as t<> the using of ice for an?
purpose have been released, and peo
ple are at liberty to buy a* much ic<
Is they may need for any purpose
Mr. Mos?-s states this morning that h?
lavs enough i<-" to supply all demands
This j* v-i v gratifying indeed.
G. A. Lemmon,
Food Administrator for SunP i
('ounty.
I
AXTI-WAK MIS DJEFEATED.
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I
j Hew Ohio Democrats Treated Men
; Who Voted Against War Measures.
: New York Times.
; On Tuesday, in the Democratic pri
| mar: es, William Cordon and Robert
I Crosser, Democrats and Representa
' lives in congress of the Twentieth and
j Twenty-first Ohio districts, were
j beaten for renomination, arid Charles
I A. Mooney and .John J. Babka.
i straight Americans, were nominated,
j It was a good day's work. Gordon and
? Crosser are pacifists, anti-prepared
j ness men. war-obstructionists. In the
! Sixty-fourth and the Sixty-fifth con
| gresses both of them voted against
j the main measures of preparedness,
j Jn a speech against conscription made
j in the house April 24. 1917, Mr. Gor
j don said, that "cowards and suikers
j and slackers do not make good sol
j diers." In a letter printed in the
I Cleveland Piain Dealer the day be
, fore. Mi-. Cordon had written that
j "we can not afford to send conscripts
? against the trained legions of the
j kaiser." Mr. Gordon and Mr. Crosser
j were of the 24 members who finally
! voted against conscription. Almost
I three months after the law was passed
I Mr. Gordon was still breathing fire
: and slaughter against conscription. In
a debate on aviation-on July 14, 1917
j he said.
j "I do not want any conscripted men
j to tight for me in Europe, and I do
j not think that this country is so hard
j up that it has to depend on the con
; scripted men in any branch of the
j foreign service."
I Mr. Gordon voted to strike out the
i seditious publication section of the
(espionage bill, in May, 1917. That bill.
] become a law. was to be amended in
May. 19IS. Mr. Gordon was absent
! when the house voted to accept the
j conference report. He . explained the
i next day that, had he been present,
i he would have voted "nay." Thus it
j is only an accident that Meyer Don
j den had the solitary distinction of
' voting against that report,
i Mr. Crosser offered to Mr. Wilson's
j espionage bill an amendment for the
j behoof and protection of "philosophi
! cal tmarchists." Mr. Wilsen and all
j good Americans in congress and out
: of it were united in seeking laws to
I curb and punish German and pro
i German plottings, mischief, treason.
! The great heart of Mr. Crosser p?lpi
j trittd with concern for the "very es
i timable men of high character, iritel
i lect. and education." Iiis anarchist
j friends whose patriotic thought would
j be shut out of the mail bags. Mr.
j Crcs^?r was a sweet and dove-like
i pacifist. Preparedness and national
' defense were nothing to him even af
;ier he was re-elected on a platform
I that called for them. To war finance
j he made the brilliant contribution of
? proposing to raise revenue by a nat
I tonal single tax. Finally, to show
j that his intelligence was almost equal
? to his T>atriotism. Mr. Crosier intro
! dticed in the house the resolution for
j the appointment of a scientific board
J tm report on the virtues of that off
j spring of Boston romantic genius,
j Garabed. ' In behalf of Garabed, Mr.
j Crosser coined his energy freely and
un?mitedly. He'v&is the most indus
trious Garabedian.
Those two anti-war, anti-conscrip
tion t>emocrats are to i>>- succeeded!
by two straight war Democrats. The;
Democrats of the Cleveland districts i
turned cut these opponents of the;
war without advice or directions from
Washington. They don't punish the j
atrocious crime of opposing the ad
ministration. They punished opposi- I
tion to the war and the measures for
carrying it on.
CAREFUL USE OF SUGAR.
Food Administration Urges Economy!
and Makes Suggestions.
The food administration has pre
scribed no uniform method of serving
; sugar in public eating places, but in
' the interest of sugar conservation
suggestions are made which will en
able proprietors of public eating
I places to insure a small supply of su
far to every patron and at the same
I time keep within his allowance of
: two pounds per ninety meals. No
; public eating place or club will be
: entitled to more than the specified
, allotment.
I After a comparison of the various
1 methods of sugar service which have \
1 been adopted in different States, the j
i following uniform method of sugar
! service is suggested:
! 1. Sugar bowls should not be
j placed upon tables in dining rooms.
2. Before sugar is served, the
j waiter should always ask the patron
: whether he wishes sugar.
Ik For coffee, or tea, hot or iced, j
; two half lumps only or their equiva-!
j lent in some other form of pressed
j or other sugar to each person.
4. For a demi tasse or small cup!
j of coffee, one-half lump only or its'
j equivalent to each person,
j 5. For cereal or fruit, one tea
I spoonful only of granulated or pow
I tiered sugar or its equivalent per per
i son. If a patron desires cereal and
J fruit, no more than one teaspoonful
j should be served.
SUMTER COTTON MARKES,
j Corrected dahy at 12 o'clock Noon.>
P. G. BOWMAN. Cotton Buyer.
I Good Middling 30 3-4.
I Strict Middling 30 1-2.
j Middling 30 1-*.
j NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Open High Low Close Close
Yes'dys
Oct ? ? -32.60 33.04 31.80 32.45 32.4S
J Dec . . 32.02 32.G5 31.20 '31.85 32.02
jjan . . 31.05 32.50 31.15 31.80 31.95
FRENCH DRIVE ON.
I Made Advance Today Northwest of i
Ribecourx.
I London, Aug. 19. 4.45?The French I
j penetrated Intervillers anl Lehammel
on the hills west of the Oise and!
northwest of Itibecourt today, ac
cording to latest advices from the
front. During the fighting today the
French who are. on the aggressive.
j made some slight headway against
determined German resistence be
I tween Lassigny and the Oise._
vii^ law
:?n
CALCMEL PURXEIED OF ALL OB
JECTIONS.
-\
i -3
j Chemists Rid Doctors' Favorite Med
j icinc of Nauseating and Dangerous
Qualities?New Variety Called
*?< :il<?ial)s.*'
A triumph of modern pharmacy
that is destined to bless the whole
world?that is the opinion of phy
sicians and druggists who are famil
iar with the new calomel that is
wholly free from the objectionable
effects of the old-style calomel.
An occasional purifying of the
system and thorough cleansing of the
live! are absolutely essential to health
and. as all doctors know, calomel is
tiie only drug that accomplishes this
result. .\'ow that the unpleasant and
dangerous effects are entirely remov
ed, the popularity of the new calo
mci, Calotabs, will be vastly increas
ed Its effect is delightful. One tab
let at bedtime, a swallow of
that's all. You wake up next'
ing feeing line, your liver cleansed,
your system purified and with a
heary appetite for breaks ... Eat
what you please?no danger. Xb re
si lictions of habit or diet.
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-five
cents. Your druggist recommends and
guarantees them.?Advt.
Army Weather Observers.
College Station, Texas, Aug. 17.?
The first class of weather observers
ever trained for the United States
army is preparing to leave shortly for
France, where the members will re
port on general weather and atmos
pheric conditions as an aid in plan
ning gas, artillery, airplane and va
rious other attacks.
Experts who have pushed the three
hundred or more students through
the intensive course of instruction at
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col-,
lege of Texas, deeds red that tjp men
now are capable of determining the /
state of weather for a distance of -
twelve miles above the earth.
It is the plan of the war depart
ment to train 1,000 men at the col
lege, which is the only school of gen
eral meteorology in the country, and
this will necessitate two more courses
in shifts of 335 students because of
limited facilities.
Only college men are fitted to take
up the work; and the first class in
cludes professors, mineralogists, en
gineers and other technical experts.
Dr. Oliver L. Eassig of the / United
States Weather Bureau and Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, is
chief instructor.
I
Geo. H. Hurst
Undertake and Emfaaimer
Prompt Atnntinto Day asd
Night Calls
At J. 0 CRA1G Old-Stand, N. Hain
Phones: Sffin
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(f We have sold the larger
part of our stock, but we still
have some unusual values.
CJ It would be a good invest- $
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even if you put it up until
next year, as the prices for
next season are at least 33 1-2
per cent higher than now. It
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