The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 24, 1919, Image 2
National Guard
Association
Meeting Held in Columbia in In
terest of Organization
Columbia. May 2'?. ? Initial steps for
the reorganization of rhe South Onra
\ lina National Guard were undertaken
here today with the formation of the
.South Carolina National Guard Asso
ciation, which immediately went on
vieeord as favoring a strong ofuzoa
soldiery for the State.
Governor Cooper and other speak
ers familiar with conditions in South
Carolina were urgent in their belie"
that, during this transition period.
.South Carolina as perhaps never be
fore in her history is in need of a
strong National Guard. Whit - not
pessimistic nor alarming in their talk.
?Weach of the speakers stated that a
^sfspirit of unrest is abroad throughout
"the land and a well organized lor- e
should be ready to uphold the Sta-'e
government in any crisis whieh might
arise.
- Major John D. Frost, of Columbia,
assistant adjutant general, was ???< e(
ed permanent president of the associa
tion. .Col. Holmes R. Springs, of
? Georgetown, commander of the 105*n
ammunition train, later Commander of
.trains and acting quartermaster for
the Thirtieth Division, was elected
first vice president, and Col. Peter K.
McCully. of Anderson, commander of
the 219th infantry. Thirtieth Division.
' second vice p esident. Major J. D.
Meyers, of Charleston, was ejected
secretary, and Major A. C. Doyle, of !
Columbia, treasurer.
Today's meeting, which was attend
ed by veterans of the great war.
members of former National Guard
units and officers and enlisted men of
the State reserve militia, was called
by W .W. Moore, the Adjutant Gen
eral; at the instance of Governor
Cooper, as commander-in-chief Of the
South Carolina militia.
The delegates were welcomed to
Columbia by William . .. A. Coleman. ;
mayor pro tern, which'was responded ?
to by Major P. J. Drew of Barnwell.
Governor Cooper, in stating the rea- I
sons why he called the convention.1
sai^ that South Carolina's most urg- !
enf heed at this time was a well or- [
ganized National Guard. He said that
there'was a tension in the atmos
phere which might become active in
. the future and the executive depart
ment felt that it should have some
force ready to. meet any emergency or
any crisis which might arise.
Among the other military men
speaking, each advocating the imme
diate reorganization of the National
Guard", were Capt. Simeon Hyde, of;
Charleston: Capt. Morris C. Lumpkin.
;of Columbia; Col. Holmes D. Springs.
Georgetown: Col Peter K. McCully.
of Anderson, and Col. J. Monroe
. Johnson of Marion., Major Frost read
; a number of letters from various.
prominent men of the State who were i
keot away because of business and
other reasons, among them being Col. j
Julius E. Cogswell, of Charleston. I
commander of the State reserve
militia, who announced that he would j
retire- from the service when the peace
treaty is signed and there is no fur
ther need for his services. Gen. Moore
read the resolutions adopted bv flu
National Guard convention at St. \
Louis, which later in the proceed
ings were adopted by the South Car
-olina convention.
Game Warden Frank Rrunson has ?
issued a general warning to ?shermon i
that tishing in bream and trout beds,
or in any other manner interfering:
with game fish by nets or traps is
forbidden by law and offenders will be
prosecuted. Professed ignorance of j
the law is no excuse ;md will not ;
serve as a defense in court.
The talk of organizing a semi-pro-:
fessional baseball league in this sec- ?
tion of the Suite seems to have died j
out. i
Cotton Market Soars
.July Contracts Advance More
Than Three Dollars Per Hale
I Now York. May 19.?The cotton
j market shewed great strength and
activity early today with all deliveries
[ making new high records. July con
tracts touched 29. making an advance
of more than $3 per bale, from trie
closing pric< of Saturday, Reactions
followed der hea,v> r< .? 112mg with
July soiiins t>M" to 28.50. but there was
continued trade buying and the tnar
? ket ciosed steady at 28.79 for that de
livery' and with the general iisr show
ing a net advance of 27 to ?! I points.
The market opened i .*; to 17 points
higher on the strong Liverpool cables,
reports of showers ?nd unsettled
Weather it: the South and very bullish
\adviecs from the goods market, which
were described as phenomenally
strong and active. Trade interests
wer?- good buyers including houses
with Liverpool connections and there
was covering on the advance, widen
carried May up to 30.40 ami October
to 27.f.6 before the end of the morn
ing, or about ."7 to t>5'points net high
er. After tiie" close oi' Liv< rppol tie- de
mand was less active and there were
rather sharp reactions under profit
taking while there may also have been
selling for a reaction and scattered
selling lor Southern account. Oe
to>? r eased off to 26.94 and active,
months lost aH but 10 or 15 points
of thejr earlier gain, but demand im
proved on a scale down and the mar
ket was steady later.
Reports fron; Xew liedford that
mills there had closed owing to a
strike appeared to attract little or no
attention, nor was there much cont
inent on reports of a threatened strike
in the British mills. Reports that the
shipping board had allocated twenty
nine steamers for lumber and cotton
may have helped the tone of the later
market.
One Tune That Failed) to Chrcr
Doughboys.
As a fighter the American doughboy
forced the admiration of the whole;
world and with the lighting done he j
proved himself nothing but the whole
some, clean-hearted young American j
lie is. And ii is this very fact that j
renders him particularly subject to
gnawing homesickness as he waits
the time he will be returned to his.
loved ones. How great is this yearn- j
ing is described by Reginald Wright
Kauffman in "We Want to Go Home:*'
In the June Xew Red Cross Maga
zine, and in this he tells of the grim \
humor displayed by a battered music!
box. leaving its effect to be imagined.!
"At one of those gloomy barracks]
in a French port." relates the writer.;
"there were recently 6.000 American]
soldiers. They had come of a sudden ]
and therefore no recreation promot- i
ers had preceded them. Throughout j
the long, wet days and the still long
er and wetter twilights. there was
nothing for those men to do beyond j
the now purely formal occupations!
enforced by military routine. At last,
when the gloom seemed about to be- i
come unbearable, one man returned)
from a nearby town with a trium
phant Mud: he had managed to se-j
eure a gramophone and a single rec
ord for it. Trie gramophone was well j
worn :?nd the name oi* the piece of
music 'had been scratched off the
record, but that mattered liule. The;
machine was set up, the disk put in
place, and the crank turned in the
presence of .a great crowd of soldiers
sick with nostalgi-e.
"Then that gramophone started to j
play its only tune,
?*it was ?Home, Sweet Home:'"
The Methodis! churches of/Sumter;
have largely exceeded their appor-j
tienmcht of the Centenary Fund, and!
the campaign has not been complet- 1
e<1. Trinity Church has subscribed
$35,000 and ii is predicted that when;
the drive closes that the amount;
pledged will be approximately $50,-1
000.
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Then you "get sore" and say things, not found in reli
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Ireland Presents
Claims
Provisional Government of
Irish Republic Asks Seat In
Peace Conference
Paris. April, 20 (Correspondence of
The Associated Press) ? Hero are the
eiahn:* '?? "The Provisional Cioverh
mom of the Irish Republic" to the
rigln to participate in tin- Peace Coh
;fcrencc and to join tin- League of
Nations, as free and independent, laid
[before the Conference in the form of
ja memorial presented to Premier
I Cleraenceau by Sean T. O'CealJaigh,
the Sinn Fein delegate' of the "Re
public" in Paris.
. ,"Ireland is a nation which has ox
< rcised the right of self-determiua
jtion'in harmony with the principles
[formulated by President Wilson and
[accepted by the belligerents as the
?only sure foundation for a world
j peace." read the memorial. "It is
; not only in the past that Ireland.!
j generation after generation, has striv- j
! en by force of arms as well as by all j
? pacific means to regain her national j
freedom. At the general election last j
December, the issue, and the only is-!
sue. placed before the'Irish people'
was the independence of their coun- ?
try, and by a majority of more than j
j three to one the representatives elect
ed by the constitutional machinery of!
the ballot box are pledged to the abo-'
iition of 'English rule in Ireland.
"in none of the small nationalities i
with which the Peace Conference has ?
hitherto occupied itself is the unani- j
mity of the people so great; in none!
has the national desire for freedom |
been asserted so unmistakably and J
with so much emphasis.
"Following upon the general olec-j
lion, an Irish National Assembly hasi
met; an Irish Republic has been con- i
stituted and proclaimed to the world:!
a president has been appointed and ;
with him ministers to direct differ- i
out doparments of stat<-: a prpgram ;
of domestic policy has been issued
and an appeal has been addressed to
the nations of the world to recognize j
the Tree Irish state that ha^ thus been j
recalled to life. ; j
But whiie the national will has been j
declared and the mechanism "f free
government is ready, th<- former is;
being stifled ami the latter paralyzed j
by England's ruthless exercise of mili- ?
tary power. The president is a fugi- i
tive; the Irish Parliament is forced i
to conduct its business in secret: the;
most elementary civil rights are abro
gated; courts martini a?r silting .u !
every center: and the gaols are filled ;
whh prisoners, victims of every bru- i
tality and indignity whose only of- :
fense is that they have sough; the.
freedom of their native land. It is
in these circumstances that the Irish j
nation, through me, address?* the I
Peace Conference.
?"Ireland manifestly comes within :
the scope of the*principles that have!
been endorsed, by civilized nations, j
and it is for the application of these
principles that the Peace Conference!
is now sitting. Ireland is weak: Eng*j
land is strong. . Ireland in every pos-1
sible way has asserted her right to
freedom, which England, by sheer!
militarism, is intent now as always
in the past t<? destroy. It is only by .
the exercise of tyrannical power than
Ireland's right to freedom can be de
nied. It is to the great principle of
national freedom, represented in the
Peace Conference, that Ireland, ex- j
hausted by the cruelties of English i
rule, her population annihilated byi
one-half within living memory, her in-'
dustries destroyed, her natural re
sources wasted, her civil liberties end-,
cd. her chosen leaders proscribed and '
treated ar; felons. now makes her ap-!
peal.
"Article Ten of Ilm draft covenant;
of the League of Nations is framed to I
secure national independence against
aggression of an externa! power. Its;
terms arc as follows:
The high contracting powers tin-j
?lertake to respect and preserve asi
against external aggression the ter
ritorial integrity .nod existing politi- j
cal independence of all states mem
bers of the League. In case of any ;
such aggression the Executive Conn- j
eil shall advise upon the means l>y j
which this obligation shall be fulfil-;
led."
Ireland as a nation that has de? :
olarfcd IIs independence and is pled- j
;-e.l to the principles of freedom.]
justice and peace, desires to subscribe!
to th<- Covenant of the League and to
claim as against England the protec
tion of Article Ten. I submit to the.
conference with profound respect that
Ireland's claim is clear and cannot j
with any shadow of justice be refus- j
ed. Should it be rejected the cohse- j
quences would be as follows:
"I. Ireland henceforth must rely j
for her deliverance wholly upon her
own efforts. No such rule has been laid
down with regard to any other of the j
smaller nationalities whose emanci-j
pation has been made the eure of the j
conference.
'L'. Nations which never have de
nied the righi of Ireland to freedom
will deprive themselves for tin- future j
of the power of countenancing her
claim and will in consequence bei
bound for the first time in history. !
to leave her unaided to her own re
sources as indicated in the preceding!
paragraph.
??'!. Article Ten will impose upon
all nations, as a condition of member
ship of the League, the obligation to
guarantee to Great Britain a title to ;
the possession of Ireland and domi
nion over the Irish people. j
"Against the imposition of such
slavery upon Ireland, and especially
against tin- giving of stub a guaran
tee of title to Croat Britain. I enter
"ii behalf of the people of Ireland,
in whose name 1 have the honor to
speak, the most emphatic protest.
Great Britain's :it!?- to Ireland rests
solely upon the military power of ;<
nation to determine the fortunes of
a people over whom they have no
right "f force. The combined guar
antee id" such a title against the de-;
dared protest o( Ireland would con
stitute a definite denial of the princi
ple of justice to pooplos ?and na
tionalities and tln-ir right to live on
e'pial terms of liberty and safety with j
one another, whether strong or weak.1
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and without the acceptance of that
principle no part of the structure of
internationa" jusice can stand.
"The guarantee of such a title would
be subversive of the reign of law
Itased upon the consent "f the gov
erned and sustained by the organi
zed opinion of mankind. The guaran
tee of such a title would constitute
recognition <>f tin- right of the strong
to serve its own material interest and
advantage through the exercise of its'
influence and mastery. The guarantee
of such a title would give Great Bri
tain a warrant i<> make ,-i nation
weaker than herself subject to he;
purposes ami interests: it would eon
firm tin- claim of Great Britain i<
rule and dominate the people of Iro
UUi i even in their own internal af
fairs by arbitrary and irresponsible
force. Any guarantee, under Article
Ten of territorial integrity and -politi
cal independence as affecting Ire
land, can rightly endure only to the
benefit of the people of Ireland them
selves.
"Tn the name therefore of the peo
ple of Ireland, 1 ask that the Irish
nation may lie invited tjo-give their
adhesion to the Covenant of the Lea
gue of Nations, and that a member
ship of the League--;] 'membership
available under article sieve.) even ip
colonies who have freely find iegibt
tively subscribed to the Supremacy of
the English Imperial l&rliamen.
shall not be denied to thej'government
of a free independent Irish Republic.
Bid Made for Ships
St. Louis Would Charter Steel
Vessels
Washington. May 20.?.The first di
rect bid the shipping board has re-'
ceived for its steel vess&ls came to
day from the St. Louis Chamber of
Commerce and Mississippi Valley
Trading and Navigation . Company,
which asked to purchase or charter 20
ships of at least $.000 tons each to
handle the movement of St. Louis
oroducts to the markets of the- world:
immediate action to supply the
needs of the St. Louis district was
taken by chairman Hurley after con
ference with the board. The operating
ilepartment and construction division
were ordered lo put experts to work
pi.i nning a suitable fleet for the re
quirements of the industries to bei
served. j
Other cities are expected by the]
hoard to follow the example set by
St. Louis. Memphis capitalists are
understood to be organizing a-com
pany with resources of at least $1.
?ft^.'rtOO to purchase and opei*ate ship?
from New < >rlea.ns. i
Raynham Wrecks Plane
Si. .Johns. X. F.. May 1'".?Frederick
f. Kaynham. the British aviator
whose intention to attempt the ocean
flight simultaneously with Harry.
Hawker believed to have been lost at]
sea. came to grief when Iiis MartinsydCj
plane was wrecked while running to j
tin.- "'take off." announced today that
Im was in the race again for the firs;
non-stop ocean air cruise. Recovered;!
sufficiently to leave his bed, Rayn-I
ham said the machine could be rebuilt
with spare parts at baud here, pro-]
vided tin- motor is in working condi-j
t ion.
While tin- Hand ley-Page and Vtmy
maehinists are assembling their huge
machines for the Atlantic "'hop." the!
brie Martinsyde will be taken to
town for repairs.
Despite tin- possibility that tin- Sop-j
with exepedition went to its doom ni
the g:.b- off Ireland, scene of the avia
tion and wireless officials heal to the
theory 'hat Hawker ami his naviga
tor. Lieut. Oomndr. Mackenzie Griev,
had fallen into tin- sea Pet wen New
foundland ami the trans-Atlantic
Steamship lam-. They supported their
contention with tin- knowledge thai
hone of the many vessels steaming
across the Atlantic- had reported
sighting the plane or hearing ifs wire
less.
C:ipt. < 'Paries v\ . I-'. Morgan. Rayn
ham's navigator, will me l.?e Iiis pan
m r in tie new trans-Atlantic flight
he is planning. Morgan's physieians
tonight told him his flying days ar<
over and it mlglu take him two or
three months to recover fr>?m th?* in
juries be suffered Suudhj >
llaynhaiM has no| un?ic.u?:r-*d a :?>ih
sfitute for him.
New York. May J::. David IT
Greer. Protestant Kpiseopal bishop of
New York aici here last night.
Dove Hunters Pay Fines
Ten Clarendon County Defen
dants in Federal Court
Charleston. .\i:ty 20.?The lirst case
of its kind in this State, it is believed,
was handled today by Judge ET. A. M.
Smith in the federal court when ho
imposed fines of >'?'. each, plus costs,
upon ten defenda'nts from Clarendon
county, who pleaded guilty of shoot
ing mourning doves, in violation of
the migratory bird treaty net. They
suited thai they wore not aware they
weer violating a federal law, and the
[circumstances were extenuating
,enough to warrant light fines. Follow
[ing arc the names of the defendants:
I E. B. Brown. S. \v. Barron, H. H.
i Bradham, Charles Thames, Jr.,' G. L.
Dickson, J. I. Dickson, F. P. Burgess.
I J. E. Davis. S. J. Smith and J. E
.Wells. The charges were'brought on
I information furnished by the district
! attorney. The birds shot were at
tacking a crop on a farm.of one cf
the defendants, who invited his neigh
; hors to help in getting rid of the iua
? rauders. In ignorance of the feder
al protection law. they killed a num
ber of th<- doves and later found
charges lodged against them.
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President
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Capital and Surplus
$250,000.00
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YATES.
Cashier
The First National Bank
SUMTER, S. C.
Toe National Bank of South Carolina
of Sumter
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Capital. $200.000.00
Surplus and Profits . 207,000.00
t he amount or surplus set aside for
the protection of Depositors estab
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hank in this section of this State.
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Cashier
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