The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 02, 1918, Image 2
FBRST BAY'S REPORTS SHOW!
THAT PEOPLE ARE SUP
PORTING- WAR.
Xo-wa Claims Honor of Being First
. State to Raise Fall Quota?Good ;
Rei>orts From all Sections.
V Washington, "Sept,
treasury., department
made no attempt to total the
2??Although
officials today
sales
? on the opening; d,ay of the Fourth
?liberty Loan campaign yesterday, all;
iiidieations were. that . the loan had
. got. away. to a good start,
v Only one district committee, New J
;-Yot-k, liad ?attempted to estimates its
?yy sales^ Saturday, placing them at $200,
c:'900,000. ory one-eighth of the. $1,800,
400f0G& allotted^ the New York feder
al, reserve- district,
v v.vfpia Atlanta, Ga., where, sales to
the third . .loan lagged somewhat, j
; came word .today that. the - campaign j
. had started"in great shape".with a
\ better selling organization to . push
?;he work than was bad for the last
3oap.
In the San Francisco district many
already were claiming honor
liags for having oversubscribed their
o^btas.
" "'ghe; spirit of the loan," said a
treasury department statement, "is
exemplified, in a telegram from Wor
cester; Mass.^ a city which achieved
its quota .yesterday. An elaborate
yoting plan for putting over the city's
quota had been worked out there, but
it had to be abandoned at ? the last
minute because of an epidemic of
Spanish inS.uenza. v Without a mo
ment's hesitation the sales committee
adopted a new plan of selling and j
^15,000,000 was raised.
-"Other telegrams from New Eng-i
land indicated that the. spirit of Wor- f
icester is that of the entire Northeast, f
Up there they are calling this the;
'Fighting Fourth' loan and- they are j
going to fight it through regardless of j
Spanish *fiu.r" j
Three communities reporting over- j
subscriptions included Rockdale
county, Georgia.
cities
IOWA CLAIMS LEAD.
Unofficial Reports Indicate Loan A!-1
lotxnent Secured.
Chicago, Sept. 29.?The honor of
"being the first State to complete its
quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan
was claimed for Iowa tonight, when i
unofficial' reports from each of her ;
99 counties indicated that the allot-j
ment of $147,000,000 had been sub^-j
scribed. I
The Handicraft Club Meets.
The Handicraft Club reorganized
k. for another year with Mrs. Ralph
Loyns a> her home on Chestnut
street Friday* afternoon.
The time was busily, spent in con
versation and fancy work. After
which business was discussed. The
" same.officers were unanimously elect
ed to serve by all present. It was
also voted to invite all new neighbors
to _ join, and to give the moiey on
hand to charity. The hostess served
a delicious ice course. The meeting
adjourned to meet with Mrs. CW.
Smith next time.
. Those present were Mesdames J.
M. Causley, Claude Gainey, J. D.
iLemmon, E. C- Kinard, E. P. DuRant,
S. F. Weeks, D. J. Auld, J. A. Brown,
C. W. Smith, Joel E. Brunson, E. R.
Taylor^red Nicholson,. D. E. Wil
Huggins.
3JMLE. LEITZEL. NOTED PERFOR
BR
"What will gentle women not dare
to do next?"
This is the question constantly ask
ed by spectators at the Ringiin?,
Bros/ circus as they watch daint.v
Lily Leitzel turn and twist and per
form her astonishing, continuous rev
olutions while danjrbng from a single
rope suspended in mid-air. One slip
of the wrist or turn of the toe would
be fatal, but the daring little ludy is
no_ afraid.
Lily, who shamefacedly confesses
to 19 years, a dimpled little creature
weighing scarcely 90 pounds and pos
sessing saucy brown curls, which fall
in confusion around a pair of dan
cing eyes. She was born in Prague.
Bohemia.
Miss .Leitzel is an accomplished
musician, having studied under some
fiLinriE?;
ASKS SENATE TO PASS SUFFRAGE
amendment;
Woman Suffrage Measure Classed as a
"War 2deasure and Preident Urges
Senate t? A<? Before the Recess.
Washington, " ept. 30.?Preside...,*
Wilson" wili address the. senate at- 1
o'clock this afternoon on the pending
federal amendment for women suf
frage. Suffrage leaders have been j
counting on the president's influence
to end" delay in the senate, which
apparently is again about to start
a vacation recess, without acting up
on the suffrage resolution which has
already passed the house. The pres
ident will ask the senate to adopt the
resolution as a war measure.
President Wilson stepped into the |
breach of senate fight over the wo- j
man suffrage resolution today, .and
in a personal address asked for its
passage as a war measure. He said
he regarded the extension of the suf
frage as "vitally essential to the suc
cessful prosecution- of the great
war." "It is my duty to win the war,"'
he declaimed, "and Task you to remove|
every obstacle- that stands in the way
of winning it." He said that no dis
putable principle or party issue wasj
involved in the amendment.
Hagood's Observations.
She is home again. The little
woman I fooled thirty-one years ago
Shortly after she came she withdrew
to a room apart and for a time was
very silent and quiet. Do you won
der what she was doing? You do
not know her then. At the present I
hear her . singing in the kitchen the
last words of that old marshal hymn
"Am I a soldier of' the cross."
You say you did not fool your wife?
How in the world sdid she come to
marry you ?
A lot of God's ministering angels
are down here in this old world in
real flesh and blood. One such said to
the writer, speaking- of her wayward
boy' who had gone away, she knew
not where, "I lie down praying and
get up praying." Today, in her de
crepitude, that boy is back providing
for father and mother.
O ye mothers, and there are many
with absent, if not wayward, boys,
pray on, for as sure ' as God is in
heaven he hears.
Now just a word about the boys
that go from Christian homes. I be
lieve they are coming back. The
writer was.quite young when the war
between the. States closed, but recalls
how the five sons" of a widowed moth
er^ whose altar fires, family prayer,
burned night and morn, returned
when the dread conflict was over.
<_n.old local Methodist preacher had
:wo sons in that war, and they came
5Ut without a scratch. Dr. A. J. Be
:hea, one of .those boys, standing be
lind a tree, looked af ound to see his
nates at dinner, and. moved away
iust in time to scve himself, for a
;hell struck the tree immediately af
er, pasing through.
"A thousand shall fall at thy side
md ten thousand at^ thy ? right
land but it shall not come nigh
hee." Psalm 91.
Who is praying for your boy at the
ront? "Hagood."
Rembert, Sept 25.
About- 240,000,000 tungsten filla
nent electric lamps were sold in the
United States last year, of which
some 75,000,000 were miniature lamps
MNAST;
T ARTIST
MER, COMING with SINGLING
OS.
of the master instructors of Europe.
She prefers, however, to imperil her
life on lofty swinging rings rather
than enjoy a career of ease and lux
ury as a musician or dancer. IJut
away from tlm great elastic nets and
smell of tanbark, she sings merrily
am! plays the different compositions
of the great composers.
Since the en. us opened Miss Leit
zeTs daring and her back-arm twill
ing and rope climbing have focused
'attention on her work more than that
of any other individual in the rings
I The "one hand giant swing," as cir
j cus men term her body and arm rev
J olutions. is Urn most difficult feal
! known to performers. Miss Leitze
Will be one of the thousand feature.'
?? E??igling Brothers! circus wher
it exhibits here Thursday, Oct 3.
jpg ON COTTON FEIGES.
THINKS PRICE-FIXING BY GOV
ERNMENT NOT NECESSARILY
[ HARMFUL.
Doubts Wisdom of Outcry?Best
Thing, He Says, is to Show Gov
ernment Committees What is Fair.
Washington, Sept. 27?Senator
Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida, who
spent his boyhood on a cotton farm
in Georgia and knows from personal
experience, all the processes which the
grower of the staple has to put it
through to . raise it and . sell it, at
tended the meeting of the'- Cotton
States' Advisory Marketing^ Board
here recently and intended to speak,
:i?it failing to catch the eye of Presi
dent J. J. Brown, who was .in the
chair, the senator contented himseli
with sending, a letter to President
Brown With the following statement
of views:
"First. My idea is your organiza
tion,' and most of the people attending
this meeting, feel a primary interest
in the grower, rather than in the
speculator, spinner or manipulator 01
cotton. So far as I am concerned, I
f feel no anxiety at all about the spec
\ ulator. He can take care of himself,
or it> he is eliminated there will not
be much distress. The same as to
the manipulator, who is after serving
his own selfish purposes., I am not
greatly agitated about the interest of
the spinners, foreign and domestic.
Their main idea is to get the staple
as cheap as possible.'
"I do, however, sympathize with
and wish exceedingly to help the
man who makes the raw. cotton; tak
ing, all the chances of seasons, bou
weevil, high prices of material, fer
tilizer and labor, and by his toil and
efforts actually produces the raw cot
ton. The man who is toiling twelve
hours a day and Knows nothing of
any union rules, and whose children
and women-folks are actually in the
fields picking the cotton from the
open bolls?he is the chap my heart
goes out to, and I want 'to do what
is best for v him.
"We need uot spend much time in
seeking interviews with the president
of the War Industries Board as to
whether it is advisable or not to in
stitute a movement which will lead
ultimately to the fixing of prices.
That step has already been taken. It
is unfortunate that it produces, as
was inevitable, a depression of pres
ent market prices of cotton. I have
not been an advocate of price-fixing
generally. I can well see the differ
ence between the need of fixing the
price of wool, steel, copper and' the
like. I realize that people do not
consume raw. cotton and the need 01
our government for cotton does not
exceed one-third of the croppbut we
need not take time to trhesh that out
in the present circumstances.
"It is important, I think, for youi
body to create a strong committee
which will lay the facts before the
two'committees, which have been ap
pointed by the president and present
reasons in forceful terms, showing
what prices should be, fixed to the
grower of cotton, both short staple
and sea island or long staple cotton.
"I am not so certain but what 1
disagree with those who denounce
the action heretofore taken by the
department as ruinous or greatly
harmful to the producers in the long
run. At any rate, I think we are per
fectly justified in viewing the situa
tion from a philosophical standpoint,
accepting it without whining or
threatening or denouncing, drawing
this comfort from it:
j "(1) The farmer never has receiv
ed for cotton its real value. When
ever the price went to a point ap
proaching what was fair and reason
able, the cotton has passed from the
jfiands of the producer. Whenever he
mad it ready for market, manipula
tion,, buyers, foreign interests and
every devilish agency was at work to
bear the market and lower prices,
and he always had to sell under these
conditions. After he parted with the
crop, the price went up to somewhere
hear a fair and reasonable figure. I
This means that the producer never
was able to fix the price of cot
ton, that the price was fixed by,some-I
body else, and by agencies and in
fluences antagonistic to the grower.
Is not this true? If it is true then we
come to?
"(2) We have no reason to be
lieve that the government of the
United States will be disposed to
crush, oppress or discourage the pro
ducer of cotton. In nil the price
fixing which the government has thus
far done it has been not only fair,
but even generous. Why should the
government be harsh, unreasonable,
unjust or even ungenerous to the cot
ton grower? I do not believe it will
be, and therefore we come to?
"(3). That the price which the
government will eventually fix for
cotton will be more favorable than
the price which the various antagon
istic interests would fix as they have
done in the past, and when the grow
er knows exactly what that price is.
he will be prepared to govern him
self accordingly, and be able to re
sist the methods, importunities and
demands of those who wish to force
him to sell his cotton and he will he
able to hold it, because he will be
abk? to finance it on a definite basis
until he can sell at the price so deter
mined.
"If I am correct in this view, then
it is obvious that the sooner the
price is fixed by the government the
better for the grower. Accordingly
I would urge as your work of first
importance acquiescence in the orders
which have been made, appoaranc?
before the committee, with a viev
to furnishing accurate information
which will enable the committee t<
fix this price on a fair and just basis
and getting them to do it as quickl:
as possible."
"My advice to the cotton grow-' i:1
said Senator Fletcher, "is to hold hi
cotton until the market becomes sta
ble, and not to yield to alarms 6
threats." i
By fractional distillation inid^rrol
atively low pressure an l?piTm ha
found a way to re.vi <>\ i i'/^ho' froi
wine without otherwise so/itering it.
BENET A?liST SMfil.
SENATOR DISAPPOINTS ADVO
CATES OF "VOTES FOR
WOMEN."
Intense Iiitercst Displayed as Hei.
ExplainsWhy He Cannot Support}
Measure.
Washington, Sept, 28,?Senator
Christie Benet this afternoon dashed
the hopes of the women suffrage ad
vocates. The situation was hanging
by a hair and it is probaWe that if
the South Carolinian had done as the
suffragettes expected that he would
do, and had sided with them because
-of administration pressure, they could
have mustered enough votes' to car
ry their resolution. As the matter
stands now, it is generally regarded
as certain that the suffrage amend
ment, has beenfeated for the presr
ent, if not for some time. It is well
known here that for the past month,
and particularly for the past week,
Senator Benet has been subjected to
a "barrage fire" from both sides of
the suffrage question. He has been
visited by hundreds of emissaries and
has received 'thousands of letters and
telegrams. The pro-suffragists had
assumed very confidently that the
known attitude of President Wilson,
together with the fact that the jun
ior senator from South Carolina had
been frequently in conference with
the president at the White House and
had been asked by the executive tc
I support the resolution, would settle
the matter as they wished.
There was intense interest in Sen
ator Benet's speech, which was like a
bombshell in its effect. The foliow
| ing extracts give the substantial pur
port of the senator's remarks:
*5_r. President, coming here ?s an
appointee to succeed a senator who
was against suffrage, coming from a
State the senior senator of which is
opposed to the suffrage amendment
and all the representatives of which
voted against the suffrage amend
ment in the house, a situation pre
sented itself to me which was un
usual and, at .he same time, most
far-reaching.
"We have heacd statements made
about the attitude of the president
: the leader of my party. I have heard
statements made by senators to the
effect that the suffrage resolution is
a war measure and I have listened
to their enlightenment on that par
ticular point.
"I say here and now that, were I
? convinced that suffrage was an es
sential war measure, or if suffrage
; under this amendment was to last
only for the period of the war, 1
would unhesitatingly vote for it,
but, Mr. President, feeling as I do
that a measure which in this identi
cal form has been before congress
since 1875, five years before I was
born, cannot be a war measure, and
having reached that conclusion, and
' further knowing that this is a mat
ter which, once written into our con
stitution, never will be taken out oi
?t, and therefore, unlike the wire
control bill, the railroad control bill
the selective service, etc., and the
other war measures which my party,
in conjunction with the Republican
party, has put into effect. in this
country, all of which measures will
terminate at the end of the war, or
r shortly thereafter, I -feel that it h
J my duty, representing the constituen- '
icy that I do, and with the views that
I have, to vote against the resolutions
It is a hard position for a man to take I
who supported the president prior to
the Baltimore convention, who sup
ported him in his campaign prior to
that convention and ever since, who
took the stump in his behalf in South j
Carolina this past summer and who
has done everything in his power to
uphold his hands in this war.
"I have heard senators here pay
great tribute to the way the women
of America and the women of the Al
lied countries have done their work I
in this war. I echo every word that j
they have said, but I wish to say.
senators, that in the Confederate war j
the women of the North did, I am
told, their full quota of work which
was necessary, on that side, and 1
here state that no women of any |
country, at any time, in any way. j i
have ever done more than the wo- j
men of the South did to sustain the
^ause of the Confederacy. Women
have always borne their full share of
war duties. If you are going to put j
it on that ground, then two thoughts!
present themselves?first, either that!
this resolution must pass to give suf
frage to women as a reward for what
they haye done, or. second, in fear ,
of what they may do.-if the resolu
tion does not pass. I for one do not
feel that the women of my State want
any reward for wh't they have done!
in this war, and I for one would not '
vote for this resolution if I thought {
any question of thrert had to do with
its passage. ? I?
"Mr. President, South Carolina, <
along with Virginia North Carolina, |
Georgia Florida, Alabama and, per- ;
haps, one or two other States have a
peculiar burden. It would be a piece
of impertinence and presumption on
my part to say to the people of Utah ?
or to the people of California how
they should manage their affairs. T
reply that it is a piece of imperti
nence on their part to. say to the peo
ple of South Carolina how they shall
manage their internal affairs. We be
lieve in my State, and I subscribe to
that doctrine, that one of the funda
mental rights of the sovereignty of
our State is involved in this resolu
tion, the right to prescribe the qual
ifications of our electors. We be
i lieve that we know better than any
! one else what sort of a civilization we
i have got to worlt out there, and far
i better than anyone else how that civ
ilization shall be worked out."
The advancing price of cotton and
; the good^iews from all the battle
U-nuij^o( the great war should to
gether inspire every farmer and ev
I cry business man in the South to buy
' Liberty Bonds and to buy more lib
| erally than they had intended here
tofore. With cotton selling at more
; than thirty-two cents a pound today
j Sumter county should go over the
top in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive
by a big margin. The Game Cock
j-County should not Call short o? a
I Million Dollars in this drive.
FARMER'S SPECIAL
Because of their '?triple-heated" gas, FULTON Motor Trucks
are averaging 12 to 14 miles a gallon?in ? over three , hundred
different lines of business. FULTONS are being used, by FarjnV
ers, Merchants, Contractors and^ Expressmen. . .
The Standard Oil Company, Texas Company, John Wanamak
sr and other big fleet operators are usmg'FITLTONS. 'Whir?'.
We are the largest exclusive manufacturers of 11-2 ton trucks
in the country.
Although the FULTON has a 1. 1-2 ton- capacity, this truck
made a remarkable two weeks' test rumirom Suniter to.. Oranjge>.,
burg and then uo through, the Piedmont section, loaded wifea.
concrete test block weighing 4,260 pounds, L2<>0 pounds over
weight of the truck's capacity, .driven by Mr. Sr K. Rowland and
Mr. W. W .Fickling, factory representative. ... ,.
MORE THAN 16 1-5 MILES ON ONE GALLON OF GASOLINE
Fulton Truck With "3500 Pounds Travels 114 Miles: oh "7 GaBswp
of Gasoline Aceordlng to Sworn Statement.;
EAST TRANSFER COMPANY,
Herrin, 111.
? ? ? ? - ? ?.? ? - ? , ? ' ? * ?
August 12, 1918.
Martin Motor Truck Company*
3314 Pine Street,
St. Louis, Missouri.
Gentlemen:?
Referring to the trip-1 made with my FULTON-1 1-2 ton Truck
on July 31st, 1918, from St. Louis,; Missouri; to Herrin* Illinois,." !
beg to report the following:
I had my FULTON loaded with about 3500; pounds of house
hold goods and left St. Louis, going over the Free^Bridge to_;E^st
St. Louis,, Illinois. From here had.. four, miles- of very bad cobble,
st^-e pavements, then about "four miles more of poor diri: road
and eight miles of good pavement into Belleville^ niinois.. I left
Belleville for Freehnrg, a distance of eight miles over the main
road which is very bad dirt and sandy, then on 7*0. New Athens,
six miles further, of which three miles, is heavy sand, and. 4 quite
hilly," and from there I drove thru Lenburg, Marissa, T5iden^ and,
Coulterville, a distance of about twenty-four miks over a fair dirt
road. From here to Pinkeville, the next town sixteien<n^k3;.:iiad:'?;
good dirt"road, then to Du Quoin twelve miles' more the was.,
very poor and hilly. From Du Quoin thru Elkville^ Osage, Bush
and Hurst into Herrin, a distance of abp?t :;. tw^ty-nkie V.m^^
more, had very bad dirt roads- to negotiate. The total mileage/ in
cluding five miles driven in the. City of St Louis, was 114. I am
greatly pleased to advise you,. I used only seven gallons of gaso
line for my entire trip,, and the truck performed perfect T shad
be giad to recommend the FULTON to anyone. "
Yours very truly, .
EAST TRANSFER COMPANY,
Per W. E. East, Pres.
In witness whereof I have hereunto .
set my hand and affixed my official _
seal, the day and year herein aibove
first written.
(Seal) HAZEL E. KURTZ,
Notary Public . ? ?
We will gladly bring a FULTON to your farm and give' you;
a practical demonstration without obligation on your part. ;
FULTONS equipped with any style body.
Send for booklet "Triple-Heated** Gas.
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STATE DISTRIBU TORS
57 W. Liberty Street Sumter, S. C
come m mucus.
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL DEM
ONSTRATES ART OF SELF-DE
FENSE AGAINST GROUP OF
ARMED MEN.
CHAMPIONS HATL
FROM MANY LANDS
Powerful athletes from Iceland,
Japan, the South ' Sea Islands and
elsewhere promise to be one of the
sensational features of the great
strength tournament which is to be
?iven here Thursday, October 3, as.
part of Ringling Brothers' circus pro
gram.
The Mikado has sent his own com
panies of 30 jiu-jitsu experts to dem
for two successive years. At the last
contest there were ,2.4. aspirants for,
the honor, each had to wrestle aU
the others and the title went . to the?
competitor having the highest num
ber of points. Johannes had never,
once been thrown. He wrestled for
six hours and declared, at the finish
that he did not feel a bit exhausted.
"GlimaV makes more demand in- the
way of training and requires more
spectacular ability and science than
any other, form of combat. The Ice
lander has brought three, famous ex>
perts with him for his exhibitions un
do canvas. He concludes his per
formance by frustrating the combin
I ed attack made upon him by a. trio
armed with knives, clubs and. r.eyoly
ers. . vt :. ...- ?
The athletic numbers form but one
of scores of features that make this.,
season's the most remarkable show
the Ringlings have ever, placed on
tour. The colossal spectacle of cl\iv
onstrate the wonders of their art. !airy and knighthood, "In Days', of
These companies are composed of thejQid," is said to be the most magnifl
Otawaga and the Tamaki champions
They will demonstrate, during the
course of exciting contests and ex
hibition bouts, the Japanese art of
yell-defense, broad-sword and lance
combats and giving amazing ex
hibitions in wrestling and strangling.
The part played by Miss Ai Kishi, a
15-year-old girl with the Tamaki
troupe, has keenly interested Ameri
can women. She repulses masculine!
attacks with knife, fist and club, j
demonstrating that a knowledge of |
jiu-jitsu secures feminine immunity
from harm by masher or marauder, j
The early Norseman's method of J
self-defense will be illustrated by a
company of powerful Icelanders:
headed by the giant champion,
Johannes. He and his followers have j
come out of the North to display his,
championship prowess at "glima,"
the national sport of the Icelanders.
"Glima" is a form of wrestling and
j self-defense practically unknown in
: this and many other
I has been a sport in Iceland since the
eleventh century. While similar to
tin Japanese method of self-defense,
known as jiu-jitsu, it is considered
vastly superior to the latt.er. Johannes,
cent ever devised. A cast of more
than 1,200 characters tell the story
of days "when knights were bold."
There is a ballet of hundreds, of beau
tiful girls. The circus act3. promise
a thousand arenic sensations. Ming
ling wtih these will be the antics of
80 clowns..?Advt.
DEMAND HIGHER WAGES.
Longshoremen Insist on Wage of Dol
lar an Hour. .
New York, Sept. 30.?The demand
for an eight hour day and a wage of.
a dollar an hour, with two dollars an
hour for overtime, waa presented to.
the national labor adjustment "com
mittee today in behalf of seventy-five
! thousand longshoremen working at
ports from Boston to Norfolk.
BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA SAFE
countries, yet j Damaged by Mine Off Atlantic Coast
But Reaches Port.
Washington, Sept. 30.?The battle
ship Minnesota, which struck a mine
off the Atlantic coast yesterday, has
arrived safely at a naval station and
lug won the championship of Iceland * is now in drydock.