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s 3#&t?ry College Asks for Equip ment Commensurate With > ^york to Be Done. NEED MUST BE MET IF SCHOOL CONTINUES Board of Visitors Explains The Necessity of .Larger Equip ment to Meet Changed Condi tions?Charleston Makes Gift j Chajrleston^ Dec. 10.?The following statement was issued here tonight by a joint committee of the board of Visitors and- the Association of Grad ? Hates of the Citadel, the Military Col lege of South Carolina, John P. Thomas of -Charleston, committee chair man: - "In order for the -Citadel to main tain its .distinguished record it is 1m ^r$&Y*r-that larger quarters and bet tet equipment: be provided immediate 0^- ^his>cOminittee has thoroughly! eajiyassed th* situation and is fully ip??epare4 to submit the facts that Bfroye the -case. ? Knowing that the Citadel-'has* earned:, its high place W?ttg the military colleges of the na .pfte-aad knowing that all South Car olinians cherislr a lofty appreciation | the1 CHaders. worth, this commit- | >ee-has; gone about the task in hand] ^fcmB4e?ely confident that the people ?Sf Semh CaroJina will find pleasure) is* -giying' the military college the sup Sfcrt it- needs. J iThe matter of enlarged quarters fth^> better-equipment has been placed by this committee before the city government of Charleston with the i&tolt that the Citadel is assured o? a? snagnifleent tract of land, valued conservatively at $500,000. This tract is quite near the small parcel of real t&tate now occupied by the institution and- is- unanimously declared by per sonsr "who have inspected it to be Really suited for development of a . great military college like the Cita del.' r "This magnificent gift of the- city of Charleston, which has long been de voted to the upbuilding of the Cita ? del,- vis conditioned on the action of the State legislature in providing the necessary funds' for the- buildings. ; Members of the general ' assembly [ ^rhor -have been approached have as- j serted^ that-the-proposal- is not only j ?eserriftg, but that it should be grant 4Sr for" the good.-that -will come to 8ech:h- Carolina through- improvement of the CHadel's facilities for the giv ing of a military training. Only- ten military colleges in the United States - are classed as' distin - j . gu*ahed - by the -war department apd.j year -after year, without a- break, the Citadel has earned its place among! these ten. Again, in the world con *$a?r?tionNthe Citadel record has been t magnificent. rMore. than -35 per cent, of^^ living graduates have been com tt^Bsi.osied as officers in the army, -na^y and marine corps. Many , of ? . tihese-. officers-:, h?ve distinguished] themselves on the;freid--of battle. Many' tt^te paid the supreme price. . *Tl 'is not that "the Citadel is striv ing, to, produce army officers so much a^;^'ts- that the, Ciadel is striving to prodace men who will be available as ?SBnjv officers in the event that their $j?te and , nation need them. The Citadel authorities feel that the recr ord- is known to the people of the a*nd that the people of the ^t?tB" will, "with great heartiness, re spond to the Citadel's call for assist ' ahce:" It has been- careful through tiae-years to ask for only what has . been absolutely necessary for its op "e?ibn. In asking for money with ;.i|Sicil to erect additional buildings, it ; &;;equatty_ carefuL,;It is asking for '^Cdy.'what is imperatively needed. ? yf'Members of the board of visitors i?&&J2* the association of graduates ^Jt^a^'that the" Citadel's case is.as de Q?jt^mg as it can be and that on its record, it is sure to receive generous ^?p?Sineht at the hartds of the people wkose mstitntion it i3. It has become necessary to enlarge in order to keep ? abreast of institutions which have not - earned nearly so much distinction and -the .board of visitors will present its . ejtae to the legislature in Columbia next month. ?v ?"-Unless the Citadel is permitted to hfeas?re to the' changed conditions it is frankly stated that it can not hope .to ^compete with colleges upon which l^eat sums of money have been and kre being spent in order to have the iKscr department class them among the distinguished ten. The Citadel is ' aaking. for its very life." CHARLESTON GIVES LAND FOR) OTTADEL. Tract of Two Hundred Acres Avail a&Te if State Provides for Xeces- j ? j??ry Buildings. . Charleston, Dec. ^10.?City council tonight, passed a resolution to donate to the State of South Carolina a tract Of 200 acres of iand on the Ashley RH>er. in the city limits, a part of Hampton Park area and valued at over $250.000. for use of The Citadel, provided the State will erect thereon suitable buildings and other equip ment. This is a necessary basis for a place now on foot to secure a large appropriation from the legislature divided over a series of years to de velop The Citadel adequately, as this noted military oolleg*- has greatly out grown its present facilities. It is be lieved here that at least $1,000,000 would be required for the purpose for a 500 student plant. New York. Dec. 11.?Timothy Wil liams, president of th<? Brooklyn Rap id Tran ist Co.. and tour other officials of the company and the motorraen ?were held on the charg of man slaughter today by Mayor Hyland, who, sitting as a police magistrate, conducted the inquiry into wreck of -_a mqjBth? ago, in which a hundred persona were killed* [Manning Discusses j Opportunity j Governor of South Carolina Says Time is Ripe for Realization of Responsibilities. Baltimore, Dec. 10?Development of trade with the Latin American countries and the improvement and further construction of inland water ways were leading features in the dis [cussions of after the war problems ;and reconstruction by governors of I Western and Southern States and i mayors of seaboard cities before the .various sections of the Southern Com j mercial Congress today, j At the session of the house of gov enors tonight, Governor Emmet Boyle [ of Nevada, declared that "If the West ern spirit prevailed in the South the land between Baltimore and.New Or (leans could not be duplicated in any other teritory in the country." Gov (ernor Boyle told how the barren, arid and unused lands in the West had in recent years been converted into fertile and productive territory and pointed out to the Southerners the op portunities presented for similar work throughout the Souh and Southwest. Govl Richard T. Planning of South Carolina said: "The time is now ripe in the South to realize our responsi bilities and solve the great questions that confront us. We have made rap id strides during the progress of the war and we must continue to advance. But the stamp of illiteracy stands against us. It is a sin and a shame. It has blocked our progress material ly. We must remedy trie outlying; principles. In our program of ad vancement we must seek a better sys-! tern of education, roadbuilding and! other things that tend to uplift the South. I fthe State can not carry on an, ? educational program successfully, let the government intercede. Even at a loss, federal control of education would do wonders to assist the South in its wide program of development." A meeting of delegates interested in the Czecho-SlOvak movement was addressed by S. Guyt McLendon. newly elected secretary of the State of Georgia, who represented Gov. j Hugh M. Dorsey. told of a plan to! establish a colony of Slavs in Georgia, j Congressman Stuart P. Reed of West; Virginia, in an address to the con gress. took exception to the proposal \ of a league of nations which was ad- j vocated by former President Taft yes- \ terday before the congress. ? "We must beware of the league off .nations," said Mr. Reed, Tor it is a] serious problem when we are invited : into an alliance that makes our Amer- j ica the victim of racial prejudice.! America should take no subordinate! place.. We have shown ourselves thef, leaders of the world. Representatives of the allied nations appealed", to us to save them. We are not ready to sur render this supremacy of the world, < that is ours. ' ? "It is a dangerous. matter for a few men around a. table to prepar? a ? peace for all times. We do not want to. lose the supremacy that came tOj, us through the war." . "Americans can congratulate them-!< selves that they can look forward and face the' financial future with cour age, faith and optimism," said W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board, in an address before] the Southern Commercial Congress. I "Just as so.on as the war financing' is cared for," Mr. Harding added,' "our thoughts will be turned to com-j mercial and industrial development, j we can look forward to what is to. :orae with a spirit of optimism." Mayors of many of the cities along the Atlantic seaboard and, gulf coast met today in conjunction with the commercial congress and decided to form a permanent organization, the chief purpose of which is to urge the construction of ari intercoastal canal connecting New England and the -outh. A Controversy Ended. General Pershing's simple and straightforward summary of the American army's operations affords authoritativie,. information regarding a question which has been the subject of much discussion. This question concerns the.condition of the German army at the time the armistice was concluded^ Sharply divergent views were held at the. time and have since been expressed. One view- was that the German army's position had be come desperate and that a continu ation of hostilities would have brought about a German debacle. The other view, held by many critics who prid ed themselves on their freedom from what they called "undue optimism," j was that the Germans had conducted ri highly skilful and succesful re treat, that their army was in good shape and their strategic position fa vorable, that there was no prospect of a German debacle, and that the German army could maintain an ef fective resistance for at least a year and perhaps for two years more. General Pershing's summary settles this controversy conclusively. Bring ing his narrative down to the final stage of the American advance on tin* Meuse in the region of Sedan, he! says: ??The strategical goal which t was our highest hope was gained. Wei j had cut the enemy's main line of ! communications, and nothing but sur ! render or an armistice could save his ! army from complete destruction." ; There is the. whole thing in a nut ! shell. Germany asked for an armis ' tice because the position of the Ger i man army in France had become des j perate and nothing but an armistice i eould save it. .Marshal Koch's op i erat ions had placed it in a trap from j which it could not escape: and among i vhe most important of the opera : tior.s which had placed it in this trap i were those . .rried out by the Amori ' can army wi ich fought its way north ; ward on the Meuse-Argonne front : and finally smashed the keystone of j the German defensive ,-irch in the <?<? ! gion of Sedan.?News and Courier. j Berlin. Monday. Dec. 9.?The Ger i man cabinet has sent a wireless mes sage to the Russian government ask ! ing that it not send a delegation to j Berlin for the conference planned for J December 16th. The reason given ' was the present situation in Germany. |The Railroad Question ! Annual Report of Interstate J Commerce Commission Discusses What is to Be Done With Rail roads. Washington, Dec. 10.?Regardless of whether railroads finally go back I to private management or remain in [the handsr of the government, radical j changes should be made in their I methods and theories of operation to {provide a partial merger under some sort of government regulation, the {interstate Commerce Commission jsays in its annual report made public ! today. j The Commission believes the time iis not ripe to recommend concrete [proposals for legislation relating to jthe future policy toward railroads, but says whatever be the nation's de cision, there should be provision for complete unification of the railways in war time, partial merger in ordi inary time, limitation of railway con jstruction to public necessity, and systematic encouragement of the de velopment of inland waterways, and !their coordination with rail carriers. In other words, the Commission is opposed to restoration of the old con jditions of individual competition, in which pooling of traffic was forbid den by law, and to the building of, new lines without proof to the gov-; ernment that they are economically | necessary. j If it is finally decided to restore railroads to private management, says! the Commission, there should be j 'legislation to permit their coopera tion, emancipation of railway opera tion from financial dictation, govern jment regulation of security issues; I [clearing away of the existing twilight jzone between the authority of state j land federal authorities in railroad; jsupervision; efficient use of equip-! Iment and common use of terminals. I On the other hand, if the policy of | j government ownership should be [adopted, the principal questions to [be considered are: r The price to be paid for the roa.ds; means of prevent ing the railroads from being sources; of revenue to the government, and! also to maintain them as self-sup-j porting; measures to define carefully! the responsibility of the railway ad- j ministration to Congress and other federal and state authorities; guaran-: tees against intrusion of partisan policies into railway management, and ! creation of a tribunal to settlement i of controversies over railroad mat-: ters. Some sort of government regula-1 tion is suggested by the * Commission J in connection with each of the five j alternatives of future policy which ; may be set forth by different interests i in the near future. These alterna- I tives are: Continuation of the pros-, ent system of government control I with private ownership, public owner- ? ship with private operation, private \ operation with government regulation j and guarantees, complete private j control and ownership and complete public ownership and operation. The report deals at h-ngth with the upheaval of . railroad relations caused by the war and ' the govern ment's assumption of operation, and the relation of the Interstate Com merce Commission to Director Gen eral McAdoo and the railroad admin istration. The Commission has co operated fully with the government J management, says the report, but, the j Commission still retains its authority { to review rates initiated by the ' Di- j rector General. ? J Railroad valuation work of the j Commission, which will become of great importance in case of govern- J ment purchase, is proceeding with little interference on account of, the war. Safety work has been assumed partly by the railroad administration, but educational work is being con tinued throughout the country. The Commission in the last year has made great strides in seeking to promise uniform rate classifications, and ha:* undertaken a number of other inves tigations of rates and practices. The report, including the statement concerning futiire policies toward railroads, is signed by all the com-; missioners. except George W. An derson, who recently resigned to ac cept another federal appointment. Others are: Winthrop M. Daniels, chairman; Edgar E. Clark, James S. Harlan, Charles C. McChord. Baltha sar H. Meyer. Henry C. Hall, Clyde B. Aitchison and Robert W. Wooley. j County Health Survey. To the Colored Citizens of Sumter and j Sumter County: An effort is being made to secure a twelve months' health survey for our county. This is one of the most important measures ever undertaken for the good of all. We know that -our white friends of the city and county have always, with a very fewj exceptions, considered us in their ev ery undertaking for good. We have been loyal and interested in prompt ly answering their call, for us to do j our part. I am sure we will not fail in this. The reater part of the $600 j pledged by us has been subscribed. I Please be prompt in paying in our [ subscription, and those who have not pledged anything come forward at once and make a contribution for this purpose. Take :t to Mr. E. I. Rear- j don at the Chamber of Commerce anyi time. He has always shown his in terest in us. He and others are} working very hard to succeed; let usj show our appreciation by doing our j part. In the recent influenza epidemic! those who most readily contracted the! disease in most instances were those j who had some form of obstruction,! due to adenoids, glandulor or bron-! chial trouble. Besides making the | children dull and less responsive to i intellectual development, these con-j ditions weaken the constitution and i make them more easily succumb to in-' fectious diseases. All of them deserve] a fair chance in life, and this cannot; be if the body is not free from dis ease germs and sanitary conditions; do not obtain. This health survey is; farreaching. It is to locate the trou ble, sugest the remedy and as far as j possible, correct conditions. It is. proposed to carry this work into ev ery home and school in the county and to reach every individual as well as point out unsanitary environment.! Now let us join in most heartily for Hie good of others and ourselves and for the good of generations unborn, and secure this money to meet this urgent need and keep our county still in the lead, remembering "that an ounce of prevention, is better than a pound of cure." Yours for the uplift of humanity. j L. Bragg Anthony, M. D. j Great Naval Force i - War Activities Caused an In crease from 56,000 to j NearJy 500,000 in : Personnel. j Washington, Dec. 9.?War time in ! crease of the naval pers nnel from I 56,000 to nearly 500,000 to man 1, [800 vessels instead of 176, is describ t ed' in the annual report of Rear Ad miral Leigh C. Palmer, chief of the ? bureau of navigation, made public to I day. Every one of the shins in com i mission, from battleships to cargo I carriers. Admiral Palmer says has ' "complete complements of officers and { men with excess personnel to provide j for training new drafts. The navy ! also provided armed guard and radio j crews for merchant vessels in trans j Atlantic service. The gre..t task now, in the opinion j of Admiral Palmer who recently was I relieved from the bureau to take com : mand of a battleship, will be in fur i nishing 220,000 officers and men for J the Shipping Board's merchant fleet j estimated to comprise 1.924 vessels by j December 1919. To accomplish this I the permanent training facilities have : been expanded so as to accommodate j 110,000 men at once. These include the Great Dakes station with a ca- \ I pacity of 45,000, Newport and Hamp i ton Roads 25,000 each, and Pelham j Bay, X. Y., 15,000. Hundreds of I ships are used as floating schools, each ! being assigned a certain number of! men to be taught the rudiments of j seamanship, and 14 institutions are j conducting regular courses in the training of officers. "Xot'vvithstanding the enormous ex- j pansion of the personnel," the report j says, "the various units of the navy have reached a higher state of battle efficiency than ever before." Enlistment statistics show that ev ery State in the union contributed to { the growth of the navy, such States j as Montana and Nevada each send- j ing more than 1,500 men. There were 2,203 desertions during the year, but: the percentage of desertions dropped j from 1.43 to .93. Admiral Palmer reports that rough- j ly, 412,000 of the 435,000 men in the; navy are native born, and 15,000 are naturalized'citizens. New York alone' furnished 22 per cent of tho native born. Red Cross Election. At the annual meeting of Sumter chapter Red Cross, held last night, the reports of the officers were read and the election of officers was held. The officers and directors were re elected, 'with the exception of j Messrs. I. C. Strauss, Neill O'Donrtell, Dr. E. R. Wilson and R. S. Truesdale and Mrs. H. C. Haynsworth, who de clined to serve again. The new mem bers elected were: Messrs. Horace Harby, W. Percy Smith, Rev. J. P. jMarion, Dr. C.. J. Lemmon, P. G. Bowman and Mrs. Alston Stubba. A synopsis of the reports showing the activities and accomplishments of the chapter during the year will be prepared for publication._ i [ JAIL FOR STIEDE. j FORMER RESIDENT OF SUM-1 TER CONVICTED AS ALIEN ENEMY. I I One of The Proprietors of New! York Bakery Sentenced to I Six Months in Jail by Federal Judge Smith. ?_ i (Charleston News and- Courier, Dec. J 11.) I A dramatic scene occurred in the United States District Court just be fore it adjourned for the day,yester day, when Judge Henry A. M. Smith was about to sentence Felix Steide, alias J. E. Stevenson, under the "dan gerous enemy alien" act. Steide, an intelligent young German, stood at the bar for sentence. He told the court that he had been in the United States for eight years and that he was a baker by trade. Upon hearing this and after a close scrutiny of the defendant, Judge Smith asked Assistant District Attor ney Waring and Department of Jus tice agents who had handled the case, to the extent of arresting the de- j fendant for all the facts in the case, j He was told that Steide had posed asj a citizen of the United States. He j had gone under an alias and register- I ed as a selectman for army service un- J dor an alias. ,Xo attempt to: com mit other crimes against the United States, then at war with Germany, it was said. had been discovered against the prisoner. He was arrested by Department of Justice agents on .Sullivan's Island, Mr. Waring said, when it was discov- i ered that he was a German alien. Mr. j Waring said that the prisoner admit-,1 ted he was a German, that he had used an alias; but that he had ex-1 * i plained that he was unable to get i work on account of being a German and changed his name because ofj that. Department of Justice agents said they discovered that the prison-J er had worked a Wesi Point, N. Y.A and that it looked suspicious th:;t hei would go to Sullivan':; Island, an arm ed military post. Pictures of Steide.; or a man closely resembling him, wearing tin- uniform of an officer of i the German navy, were found in his| possession when he was taken into j custody, they said. "This case appears to be one for! internment by the government," the j court said. Mr. Waring explained that j he had suggested that course to the; United States Attorney General, but! that official had advised court action.; "For an enemy alien to go to an arm-! ed camp, under an alias, when this country is at war with his native] country, is a very grave offense, if it: is borne out otherwise," said the; court. "It appears, however, that there are no other acts of crime and ; the court is in sympathy with the j prisoner, if he was stranded and could j not find work on account of his nat-! tonality. "I shall sentence him to six months' in the Riehland county jail, and if I: find that he had no intent to harm j the Tinted .States, as he says, I shall write to the president and ask that he be pardoned." When the prisoner said that he had worked as a baker" tour years at Sumter, the court sug gested he would send him to the Sumter jail, but the prisoner begged that he be not sent to Sumter. Then he was sent to Columbia. "I used to have many friends at Sumter, but I do not wish to see them now." he The trial and conviction of Felix ? Stiede in the Federal Court at Char leston for violation of the espionage jluw will be a surprise to some Sumter j .people for it was not generally j known that he was arrested several months ago and had since been con lined in the Charleston jail awaiting j trial. The case of Stiede has several ' peculiar aspects, and some of state j ments made at the trial do nok squar? ! with the facts as known in Sumter j where Stiede was engaged in busi j n< ss for several years and where h? j still has business interests, so far a? Iis,known. He came to Sumter seven j or eight years ago and in partnership j with Richard Steizner, purchased the ! New York Bakery which had been j operated prior to that time by a Ger J man named Voight. Both Steide ? and Stelzner are Germans and when ! they came to Sumter had not been j long in the United States. Under I their nganagement the New York Bakery grew and prospered and ap pearances indicated that they were making money. Stiede made at least one trip to his old home in Germany prior to the war and when the war broke out in 1914, Stelzner was-in Germany. Both were German reser vists and Stelzner was called to the colors and spent sometime in a train ing camp before he succeeded in ob taining his release on the ground, it was stated, that he had taken out first papers for naturalization as an Amer ican citizen. Stiede who remained in Sumter until the return of Stelzher several months after the war started received notice, as soon as or just be fore the war started, from the Ger man consul at Savannah to hold him self in readiness to return to Ger many for service in the army. Shortly after the return of Stelzner from Ger many, by way of Denmark, Stiede went to New York where he remain ed until about the time relations with Germany were broken off. Returning to Sumter he remained here, working in the bakery until shortly before he wa sarrested in Charleston, and- dur ing that time was one of the few res idents of Sumter registered by Chief of Police Sumter as alien enemy..The statement that he was out of work is questioned for it is stated that he is still one of the owners of the New York Bakery and that he is interest ed financially in a mercantile estab lishment here. "Whether or not he was a spy is an open question but he knew better than to enter a military reservation. The Court of Common Pleas was engaged Tuesday and Wednesday in hearing the case of Kline vs. Con gregation Sinai, a suit for salary al leged to be due. The jury rendered a verdict for the defendant. 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