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TBR S?MTEB WATCHMAN, Estab Cfcmsolidated Aug. 2,1 Aautomobile Association Form-1 ulates Ambitious Program for Highways. AU, COUNTY SEATS TO BE LINKED UP THEY SAY Bond Issue of ?25,000,000 Pro-; posed to Be ?ased Upon Auto j License Tax Which Will Be! i Increased. Columbia, Dec. 1.?To construct I 1,000 miles of hard surface highways, ||:thrc-ugh South Carolina; ? Si" To' connect every county seat not: on the main arteries of the high-; ways with these roads; To make efforts to secure the issu- j ance of 20 year bonds to the amount j of. $25,000,000 for the construction of! these highways. j And to increase the tax on motor' driVen cars practicaly fourfold, is in ! ; ? brief the plan for better roads which j will be submitted to the good roads j i meeting to be held. in Columbia De ,~ eember 10-11. This plan was adopted at the meet-1 ing yesterday of delegates of the . State ^Automobile Association who! had been appointed to draw up a defi- j ttite proposition to bring before the I good roads meeting in December. -The plan was finally adopted after' much consideration and discussion. It i * was outlined by P.. G. Rhett of Char - leston, and its various features were! thoroughly discussed by the delegates; present. One fetaure of the plan which mot with instant favor was that which j has to do with increasing the tax cn j automobiles. At the present time j there are 55,000 automobiles licensed in this State. The average license j paid per car is about $5.20. Under [ the plan suggested the average tax j per car will be $20.80, which is about j the cost of one Ford car tire. - By' increasing the car license, it is i figured that the expense of construct- j 'ing the highways will be borne en-; tirely by car owners, who- will be f greatly benetfied by the highways. >i ! was pointed out that when taxpayers] realize that "he money will come ulti- j mately from the car owners who wi? tzrfe the roads more than any other j group of citizens, the taxpayers will; not object to voting the bond issue. j Mr. Rhett, in figuring out the prop- j osition said that at the present time ' there are about 55,000 automobiles in; the State, and that they would likely; increase in number steadily, so th*.t; oy the end of three years there would be approximately SC.000 cars and trucks in the State. At $23 tax per'. car, a.revenue of $3,840,000 would be derived from the taxes. The bond is-1 sue of $25,000,000 to be retired in 21 j year*; would require about $1:750.009 ; . r*er year. If the issue runs for 21 j ?years, about $1,600.000 would be re-j Quired per year. From these figures j it was set forth that practically the, whole expense of the undertaking would be borne by car owners, a fea ture of the plan to which few drivers of carts and buggies would object. Tf the plan as adopted yesterday meets with the approval of the dele gates to the meeting December 10. the legislature is to be petitioned to submit the proposed bond issue to a vote of the people. According to the plan, every car equipped with inflated tires is to pay a tax of $1 for each horse power. Cars equipped with hard tires are to be taxed $1.50 for each horse power No definite routes for the main ar teries of the proposed highway have yet been decided upon. According to the plans discussed yesterday there would be three main highways run ning north and south through the State and virtually three running east and west across the State. Every county seat not on the main high ways would be connected with these roads, and thus the entire State would be bound together by a network of roads negotiable in all sorts of weath er by vehicles laden with light and heavy loads. Since every county would be bene fited, the promoters yesterday were of the opinion that the plan would meet with favor. The whole project will be under the direction and supervision of the State highway commission. ' Every effort to secure the attend ance of men from every county in the State at the meeting December 10-13 is to be made, and it is thought that measures will be adopted which will mean a tremendous step- forward for th'- development of South Carol inn. The meeting December 1<> is to be held at the State House, and the pro gram committee is arranging to have addresses delivered by acknowledged experts in road making. The meeting yesterday was presided over by C. W Cofield, secretary of the association. Pollock Is Senator Certificate of Election Present ed to Senate by Vice-Presi dent Marshall. "Washington, Dec. 2.?Certificates of election of Senators-elect Pollock of South Carolina and Ball of Delaware ?were received today by Vice President Marshall and presented to the senate. fc?ed April, 18S0. "Be Suet M 381. BDI . ' - i . "' j | Asks All Americans to Save . Food for Starving Europe. UNLESS WE FURNISH THE j] FOOD MANY WILL PERISH Hundred Million or More Are On Verge of Starvation Now! ': and Food Supply is Practical-! ly Exhausted. Washington, Dec. 1.?Again, in j full confidence, I cali upon the Amer-' ican people to set aside Sunday, De-, center 1st, and the week fodo^ing, for the consideration of America's opportunity for renewed service and sacrifice. ) Last summer, when the military j situation was acute, we assured the! inter-Allied Food Conference in Lon- j don, that whatever the war-food pro- j s^am of the allie? required we were p/epared to meet; that the conference j need not consider whether or not we { had the supplies?we were prepared to find them; we pledged ourselves,; by the voluntary ecor.omy of our peo- j pie, to have the reserves in food ' to j supply all necessities. The ending of! the war does not release us from the! pledge.. The same populations must '?? be fed, and until another season ha passed they cannot feed themselves. \ The change in the foreign situation j necessarily alters the details of ourj food program, because the freeing of j the seas from the submarine menace, j renders accessible the wheat supplies I of India, Australia and the Argen- j tine. The total food demand upon j the United States is not diminished. '. however. On the contrary, it is in-' creased. In addition to the supplying \ of those to whom we are already; pledged, we now have the splendid j opportunity and obligation of meet- j ing the needs of those millions of ! people in the hitherto occupied ter- j ritories who are facing actual starva- i tion. The people of Belgium, North- j ern France. Serbia, Roumania. ??Ion- j tenegro. Poland, Russia and Armenia i rely upon America for immediate aid. j We must also participate in the pres- ; ervation of the r.ewiy liberated na- i lions in Austria: nor can we ignore \ the effect cn the, future world de-! velopments of a famine con-.itioni among these other people whom we j have recently released from our ene-! mies. All these considerations mean i that upwards of 200 million people, j in addition to those we are already pledged to serve, are now looking to ; us in their misery and famine. Our j appeal today is therefore larger than j the former appeal to the "war con- ] science" of cur people. The new ap peal is to the "world conscience." which must be the guiding inspira-1 lion of our future/ program. The* president of the United State-1 has asked me to take charge for this | government of this'work; to perfect I and enlarge the arrangements for j foodstuffs to the populations of Bel-! gium and France now being released,! and to organize and determine the j need of provision to the liberated peo ples of Southern Europe to prevent such debacle as has taken place in j Russia. < j The determining factor for the sue- j j cess of such an enlarged appeal will j be the vivid consciousness in every j ! individual in each community of oh- ] \ iigation and opportunity. It is that j j common recognition o? obligation that j j we now wish to create. Such an intel- j j lifjent "world conscience-" in ih<- , \ American people must be the main j j dependence of the stricken countries j of the world until normal conditions i i are. ence more restored, i America, by her participation in \ j the war; has accomplished her objee-1 j lives of self-defense and of vindicat- j j ing the efficiency of a government in j i which the people, and the people i j only, are sovereign. She has estab-! j lished the foundations of government ! I by the people through the enemy j ? countries, and this is the real bu!-! i wark of world peace. Wc have yet i j to build on these' foundations. No I government nor nation can stand ifi ! Its people are starving. We must j j do our part if the world be not con-! i sumed in a flame of anarchy, j The American people, in this most; J critical period of their history, have! ! tho opportunity to demonstrate not I I only their ability to assist in esiablish j in peace on earth, but also their consecration, by self-denial, to the ' cause of suffering humanity. Herbert Hoover. : Problems of Peace Congress Will Be Occupied With Reconstruction Legislation. Washington. Dec. 2.?Problems of; peace reconstruction promise to oc cupy the third and last session of the Sixty-first congress which opened at noon today to continue to March *r<\. The framing of tho legislative pro gram has been held in abeyance awaiting the address of the president.] Reichstag to Meet Paris, Dec. 2.?German reiehstag will be convened shortly, according to South German newspapers, says a Zurich dispatch. id Fe*r oot?Bet all tbe ends Thou Ai ttTEB, S. C., WBDNESj Republicans Exhibit Partisan Spleen in Joint Session of Congress. v PEACE CONFERENCE AD DRESS HEARD EM SENATE However the Republicans Did Not Interrupt Address to Aslz Questions as Had Been Pre dicted. Washington, Dec. 2.?President Wilson spoke for forty-two minutes today to congress and left the cham ber amidst applause that was limited to the Demccratic%side. Interruptions for questions that had been threaten ed by the Republicans did not ma terialize. One of Four Ports Selected for the Returning Troops. MOVEMENT' FROM OVER SEAS REQUIRES 12 MONTHS The Shortest Time, Under M?st Favorable Condition, Estimat ed by War Department is Ten Months?Ports Selected >to Expediate Demobilization. Washington. Xov. 29.?Boston, New York, Newport News, Va., and Char leston, S. C, are the ports the wa? department now planned for use for the return of the army from overseas. Even with this wide distribution o" the strain on port facilities and trans portation, however, and with German ships now idle in German harbors em ployed on the task, careful estimates show that the last of the army could not possibly reach the United Stales in less than eight months. Conserva tive calculations upon which prepara tions by the de partment probatly wii' be based, fixed ten months as th. minimum. These estimates have been made wholly on the basi:; of the physicu difficulties to be overcome and do not take into consideration the question of the retention in Europe for some tim :? of an American force which may be agreed upon at the peace conference. If the return movement already ie I progress is continued at full speed, th ? I last division in all probability could I not reach the United States before Oc | tober, 1919. ' Decision to route the troops to their I homes through the four ports men I tioned is understood to have been based on two main considerations. ! First, they have been equipped to : handle the transports and the men. I and, second, they are the nature.' I gateways to the country, each fed by o~n independent rail system ramifying j back through geographically inc!e j pendent sections of the United States 1 Bv loading the chips as far as pos sible with men from the *arne gsr.er i al section, it will be possible, army of ficers say, to avoid cross carrying and 1 disruption of normal traffic in getting j the soldiers from the ships to their homes. j In estimating transport tonnage j available for the movement, officials have not only looked ahead to the new ships which will be delivered dur ing the demobilization period by the shipping board, but also upon idle German ships, including two new and very large liners reported to have been completed except for some de tails of equipment. Among the Ger man steamers ?s the Imperator al most as large as the Vaterland, now the Leviathon. The two new German liners are of approximately the r.r,ir siz? as these cm ft. Each of these four could carry nearly 10.000 men r trip. Th" German vessels easthound would carry food sup . lies to be al lotted to Germany. Barnard M. Barauch Hands In Resignation Chairman of War Industries Board Will Have Completed Work Before New Year Washington. Nov. ?.0.? Barnard M. Baruch, chairman of the war indus tries board, has forwarded his resig nation to Presideni WPson i-< take eff<-et January 1. Mr Baruch's de to resign is understood t<> have-j no l)< aring on tlu- renorted desire of the president to name him as secre tary to \\v> treasury but is in lin<- with his known belief that the affairs <rf The board can be closed by the first of the year. 1 cart ?t bv tiiy wnniry'n. i'fcy c?od'? o DAY, DBCEMBEE 4, 19 Mistreatment of Prisoners By Germans Cause For Re newal of War. 5 ; 0 _ HUNS HASTEN TO PROMISE ? TO REMEDY CONDITIONS Condition of Prisoners Arriving At Allied Lines Is So Abomi able That Armistice Commis sion Threatens Resumption of Hostilities. r _ [ Amsterdam, Nov. 30.?In response \ to a threat by the British armistice I commission that hostilities would be ; resumed unless the conditions under j which prisoners who are arriving at I the allied linos was remedied, a Ber : lin telegram declared that everything1 . is being done by Germany to assure i the orderly return of prisoners, and [that regular transport now is insured. [American Loss Up to November I . 25 th Totals Two Hundred > Sixty-Two Thousand. i IPERSHING SENDS AMEND ED REPORT TO DATE 'Gen. March Announces Desig I nation cf Units Numbering j More Than Eighty Thousand ! For Immediate Return From i ' France. j _ P- Washington, Nov. 30.?Gen. Persh ! ing has designated Tor early convoy tc the United States a total of 3,400 of ficers ar.d 79,063 men, General March : announced today. The units to be sent home will be announced later. It was also announced that tiv : American casualty reports give the : oificial total up to November 25 a^ ! 262.723, exclusive of, prisoners. I It is expected to bring back horn: in December between 150,000 and ,'175,000 men, Gen. March caid. Gen. March corrected the erroneou ! impression thru the 30th division o [Tennessee and Carolins troops report ? ed withdrawn from the British linc ? had been designated for early return : to the United States. This is one of ! the divisions returned to Gen. Per I shing's command and has not yet been ; assigned for transportation. Former Empress of Germany In Exile - Frau Augusta Victoria Arrives j in Holland to Be With Wil liiam Hohenzollern. j Maarsbergen, Koiland, Thursday, j Nov. 2S (By the Associated Press).? j By the raw, misty weather of a No j vember morning Frau Augusta Vic j loria, wife of the or.ee German emper I or, arrived here today from Potsdam j to join her husband in exile in Amer ongen castle. ? Maarsbergen is the station before ; Maaru where William Kohcnzollern j arrived 16 days ago. It is about ; equal distance between Maaru and j the castle. ! Arriving here the former empress was handed over to Count von Ben ; tinck, the host of the former emperor . by the captain of the rural gendarmie ; who. acting under orders, had escort - ; cd her from Zeevenar, the first : Dutch frontier station; to her destina tion. Augusta Victoria's looks belied the I rumors of severe mental and physica: prostration. She put on a brave at tempt at a smile, when she arrived here but the drawn corners of he: mouth betrayed the effects of her re cent trials. i Also she shuddered a little in en ; countering the raw air outside her: car. The baggage of the former empress enough to warrant the assumption of :: prolonged stay, consisted of a num ber o!" wicker baskets and boxes marked "imperial cellars." probably contained wine. The former empress wore r, plain dark tailor made velvet dress and a hat and veil which offset her abund ance of silver, hair. Harbor Restrictions Are to Be Removed Treasury Department Announ ces Relaxation of Espion age Regulations. Washington, Nov. 30.?The removal of harbor restrictions, imposed under the espionage act. was announced to day by the treasury department. I THE TRVk as. ^The Government Has Advanced More Than Half Billion Dollars. I i j UNDER WAR CONDITIONS RAILROADS DON'T PAY ! ! I Within Eight Months Director ! General McAdoo Has Had to ! Call on Government for $515, ! 206,536 to Keep the Railroads j Going. j Washington, Doc. 1.?More than j $500,000,000 has been advanced by the ; government to the railroads and trans ; portation lines under its control dur I ing the eight months since the rail j road administration has been in oper ! at;on. ! Director General McAdoo announced I today that $515,206.536, including I loans and payments made to railroad ) corporations to meet their needs, had i been advanced, for operating deficits i and payments on account of the new j standardized equipment, from April 1 j to December 1. From the $500,000, I 000 revolving fund set aside by con I gress, $316,206,546 was drawn and the I remainder came from $199,383,524 j surplus earnings of certain railroads j and the American Railway Express ! Company. j November advances amounted to I $94,139,401 and the surplus earnings j turned in were 547.646,069, including i $10,422,96S from the American RaiL i way Express Company. More than 55 per cent, of the- ad i vances in the eight months went to : nine big systems. ; Advances to Southern railroads ?during the eight months: included: Seaboard Air Line, $5.610.000; Louis i ville and Nashville. $1.500.000; Cen I tral cf Georgia, $1,450,000; Florida ; East Coast. $1.650,000; Atlantic Coast ! Line, $900,000; Atlanta, Birmingham ! & Atlantic, $339,000; Georgia Rail road, $309,000. j Would Fly Hun Flag j Over Fleet Surrendered to the Allies. _ I London, Thursday, Nov. 28.?Ad j miral von Reuter, admiral of the ; German fleet, which surrendered to j the allies on November 21, has pro j tested .against the order of Admiral i Sir David Beatty. of the British fleet, j directing that the German flag be hauled down. Ke points out. accord | ing to an admiralty statement, that : internment in a British harbor is un ; der the terms of the armistice equiva ; lent to internment in a neutral port j where, in accordance with precedent. > Hags are allowed to remain hoisted I lie adds: "I esteem it unjustifiable and con i trary to international custom to ordei j the striking of the flag on the Ger ! man ships. Moreover, in ray opinion i the order to strike the flag was not in j keeping with the idea of chivalry be j tween two honorable opponents." Admiral Beatty, calling attention to {the fact that the armistice merely sus j pended hostilities and that a state of war stiil existed between Germany j and the allies, has replied: j "Under the circumstances no enemy ; vessel can be permitted to fly its na ; tional ensign in British ports while ? under custody." I The Chief Criminal London Times Would Have Wil-! liam Hohenzollern Tried Along With Other I Culprits. London, Saturday, Nov. 3 0 (British ] Wireless Service).?Discussing plans i for bringing to justice Former Em- i peror William of Germany, The Times j asserts that "if we had to single one culprit for punishment,^ he would be i ' the person." The paper adds that the argument! I that he can not be punished because j ; there are others who also are guilty I can not be admitted. : "By that argument," The Times! I continues, "a felon caught in the act! ; would escape- punishment because there are other felons who have not j yet been brought to judgment, and; neither law nor common sense would j listen to such a plea. "'Besides, it is not proposed to pun- j ish the kaiser alone. There are i others too who will be placed on \ trial, but he is the chief because! most highly placed criminal. j '"The argument against doing what WO can to br ing this arch criminal to j justice i> that at present he is a j mean and contemptible figure, hiding! his head from the ruin he brought ' on his country and that if we prose-. cute him we may somewhat impart i dignity to him. "On the other hand . . .how can respect for international law in the: future be base.-; on the# immunity oft the principal offender against its pr visions in the past?" Trying to Butt In Washington. Dec. 2.?Senator Cum mins. Republican, introduced a reso lution that a senate committee of four Democrats and four Republicans go to France for the peace conference, li s sue IIIRON, Established Jon?, MM* Vol.XLVII. No. 33. T BERLIN I Kaiser's Tools Plan to. Restore I Imperialism and to Return Kaiser to Throne. CONSPIRACY OVERHEARD ON TELEPHONE BY AGENT Discovery of Plot Was Fol lowed By Many Arrests in Berlin and Other Cities in Germany. ; London, Dec. 2.?A plot to restore i imperialism and secure the return of 1 Emperor William has been dfseoyer ! ed in Berlin, according to an Amster I dam dispatch to The Express. I The plot collapsed because a secret \ service agent overhead a telephone I conversation. I Many arrests have been made in ?Berlin and other cities.* ; According to the dispatch the chief ! men behind the plot were Field Mar | shal von Mackensen and General von ; Arnim. Direct evidence of WUliam I Hohenzollern's connection with the i oiot has been found. 2,234 On Casualty List Names of 13 Men From South Carolina Appear. 2,234 on Casualty List S3TAOI A total of 2,234 names appear on the three casualty lists released for publication this morning. Included in [the lists are the following men from ? South Carolina: j Private Andrew Beaty, of Anderson, 'died of wounds. .Private Harley Sanders, of Harts ville, died of wounds. Sergt, Jule H. Browning, of Dun can, died of disease. Cook Shellie Byrd, of Branchville, I died of disease. I Private Ezeliiel Koderick, ctf Lone j Star, died of disease. Private Liston L. Brown, of Curley, died of disease. .Private Robert Capers, of Charles ton, died of disease. - Private David L. Brown, of Warren ! ville, died of disease. - Private Henry Thomas, of Harts ville, died of disease. Private Thomas McHugh, of Dun can, died of disease. Private Nathan Burrows, died of disease. j The following casualties are re | ported by the commanding general of ! the American expeditionary forces: Killed in action.131 Died of wounds.117 I Died of disease_.302 j Wounded severely. 20 i Wounded (degree undetermined) 21 j Wounded slightly. 57 ? Missing in action. 221 Total ...869 Marine Corps Casualties. I The following casualties are re | ported by the commanding general of j the American expeditionary forces: ? Killed in action ....- 71" j Died of wounds received in ac tion. 5S j Died of disease. 11 I Wounded in actica (severely)... 13 j Wounded in action (slightly).. 2 Wounded in action (degree un determined) . 5 ! Missing in action. 118 In hands of enemy.-. . 8 Total. 28? The following casualties are re ported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces: Killed in action. .. .. 241 Died of wounds. 95 Died of accident and other causes. ..- 3 Died of airplane accident .... 2 Died of disease. 221 Wounded severely . .. 42 Wounded (degree undetermined) 127 Wounded slightly. 79 Missing in action..215 Total. 1,079 Brutality Not Proved Americans Returning From the German Prison Camps Com plain of Scarcity of Food and Bad Housing.. Washington. Doc. 2.?Americans re turning from German prison camps complain of scanty food and bad housing conditions, but there is no ev idence of discrimination against Amer icans, nor authenticated report of brutality toward them, Gen. Pershing reports. Ship Yard Strike Three Thousand Workers Quit Work on French Ships. ? ? - ? ? Washington. Dec. 2.?Alleging un fair dealing by foundation company in April. 3,000. employees, including yard and office forces, refused to go to work this morning and brought to a standstill work on 3S mine sweepers that arc being built for the French government _ ?"...JL<ik^