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THE S?MTER WATCHMAN', Sfctab1 Consolidated Aug. 2,J WILSON URGES COMMON ACTION Will CaU Early Conference of A Labor and Industry to Seek a Hew Footing . % __ - . ARjE CONFIDENT OVER OUTLOOK Appeals in Labor Day State ment for Patience, Vigilance, Economy and Production Washington, Aug.. 31.-?President Wilson in a Labor Day message to. American workers tonight: announced p;<hat he would call in the near future a conference -o* representatives of la ? - hor and industry^ **to-. discuss funda mental means of bettering the whole relationship^of capital and labor and putting, t her whole question-of wages upon another footing." * Th'e president said , he was eheour-; aged and pleased with the result thus far of the government's efforts to bring down the. cost of living ahd ex-? pressed confidence that substantial re-! suits would be achieved m the solving of this problem: Patience and vigilance, however, he said, must be exercised and the gov . ernment's efforts must have the co- j operation of every citizen. Presumably referring to the exist- j *ng labor > unrest and . threats of] strikes, the president appealed to ) every citizen to refrain from doing j anything that would tend to increase j the cosf of living, but instead' to do | all possible to promote production, j The president expressed particular gratification at the attitude taken by the representatives .of organized la bor: in supporting the government's programr to meet requests .for addi tional, wages through, a losroring^ of Uving costs. and said be hoped t that tie .workers-themselves would "move with;.v|he government . instead : of ?ajjainjBt Jt in .thelsolution of > this .great diplomatic problem." . "The /Labor: Day message as made T jB^hlic^tonight",at the White House vfoUows: ? ; ?? "Ivam- encouraged and-gratified, by. -;J$#e-'jnxrgress;, which is being made in - ^nfr?lllng the cost of. living/ The y support of the movement is wide-' spread and Fconndently lobk'for sub stantial results, * although J must Counsel patience as well as vigilance , because such will not come instantly Or without team -work. "Let me again emphasize my appeal .to-every citizen of the country to con tinue to give his personal support in this matter and to make it as active as possible. Let him not only refrain ... from not doing anything which at the moment win tend to increase the cost of Hying, but let him do ail in his power to increase the production, and ^further than that, let him at the same time himself carefully " economize in the matter of consumption. By com mon action in this1 direction we shall overcome a danger greater than the danger of war. We will hold steady a situation which is fraught with pos sibilities of hardship and suffering to a large part of our population; we will enable the processes of produc tion to overtake the process of con sumption and we will speed the resto ration of an adequate purchasing power for wages. "I am particularly gratified at the support which the government's pol icy has received from the representa tives of organized labor and I ear nestly hope that the workers gener ally will emphatically endorse the po sition of their leaders and thereby move with the government instead of against it in the solution of this greatest diplomatic problem. "I am calling for as early a date as practicable a conference -in which authoritative representatives of labor and those who direct labor will dis-j cuss fundamental means of bettering] the \yhole relationship of capital and labor by putting the whole question of j wages upon another footing. . ? "Woodfow Wilson." The proposed conference, it was stated authoritatively tonight would, be called to meet soon after President Wilson returns at the end of Septem ber from his speech-making tour of the west. It was thought likely that the meeting would be held at the White House, as was the reconstruc tion conference of governors and mayors last.spring. Proposals that a conference be tween labor and employers be held has been urged from a number of quarters. Secretary Lane expressed the belief in a .statement a few days ago that the president should call such a meeting. Resolutions are pending in both houses of congress urging that workers and employers be brought together. In the president's promise to call a labor capital conference, officials saw alleviation of the tension existing among organized labor. Coming on the eve of Labor Day it is believed it vould have a most beneficial effect. Nashville, Sept. 1.?The police promise an early arrest in the case of Robin J. Cooper, the prominent attorney who was implicated in the shooting of Former Senator Car mick in 1909, whose body was t<mnd in a creek near here. Senreh is being made for the"* mysterious man who was with Cooper. afcfced April, 18*0. "Be Juri i L881. SU RIOT SUBSIDES KNOWN DEAD 2 {Eleven Hundred Guardsmen With Many Special Police, Enforce Order _? ?- ::. a j MACHINE GUNS j ARE MOUNTED } - Mi&of Disorders Still Break ing Out and Promiscuous Shotting is Heard Over Gity KnoxviHe, Tenn., Aug. 31.?Minor disorders occurred' in Knoxvillc' to night following xhe race riots Satur day right and! early Sunday, which were the ?-. sequel to the. storming of the county jail by a mob intent flpou rinching Maurice Mayes, a negro accusedof the murder of Mrs. Bertie Lohdsey, a white womam A casualty list increased Sunday by four, negroes who resisted attempts to search them for arms. All -were wounded by National Guardsmen, two being "snot and the other two stabbed with j bayonets. Eleven hundred guardsmen of the Fourtti Tennessee infantry,, under eoiam&nd of. Adjutant Gen. D. B. Sweeney, of Nashville and Col. Ewing CarrU.thers, of Memphis, supplemented by. 2Q0. special policemen and seventy ?vo special deputie sheriffs are pa troling the city, .dispersing crowds and sea rciiing all negroes..^ Hundreds :>f weapons were taken from both whites and blacks* - - The . guardsmen, who were in camp near the city for annual target prac tice, Searched all f negroes arriving on trains, arid established a, barred zone in the. . center of the negro district when the .worst rioting .early Sunday occurred. 4 Four machine; guns were mounted at a commanding ppint in thisl. dis trict and other machine guns were mounted ?; on motor trucks ready for L eventualities. ? \ LOG TRAIN WRECKED One Killed and" Several Injured at Martins Allendale, Aug. SO.?A. Goldman, a negro ex-sJldier, was instantly'killed, two white men were painfully injured and a second negro Was, it is saia,' fatally injured, when a long train, composed of two trucks and ai) en gine, loaded with logs, was complete ly wrecked at a lumber mill at Mar tins.' Witnesses say the weight of the two trucks pulled the engine down a grade which it had just climbed and this caused the wreck. A concerted drive for members to the Allendale County Cotton Associa tion is being made by school district committees in {his county. The drive is made at the request cf the State or- i ganiz?tion. and i~ similir to mem- ] bership drives made this week all over" the State. It is? said by the commit-1 teemcn here that every man approach ed ha> joined except one man. Sheriff L. C. Bennett. Deputy Sher iff Williams and Chief of Police Smith. Allendale, have raided several alleged moonshine stills this week. Allison ' Owens, a white man, was among those arrested and charged with vio lation of the prohibition law. It is said that a still was found in the smoke house at the Owens' home. Two. 60 gallon barrels of mash were confis cated and also a small quantity of whiskey. Mamie Doe, a woman, was also arrested. Some wine was found at her house. ~* SAI*EM NEWS NOTES. Salem, Black River, Sept. 1.?Miss Gertrude McLaurin. of Mullins, Miss Livingston of Newberry and Miss Kathrine Warren of Sumter, are vis iting relatives in the community. . Brick Church has been closed for the five Sundays of August, but will be opened next Sunday. The writer went to Mouzon's bridge on Black River just below the mouth of Pudding Swamp, 20 miles below here and eight miles from Kingstree, on Saturday. Was in three counties j and three congressional districts. ; Crops are very short all along the J road. About half of the cotton is all i open and the rest of it is half open. Peas, sugar cane and sorghum look good. A good rain fell here Saturday evening, and as far down as Sar I dinia. Ifc Ij^EjJ I-? j Rome, Sept. 1.?Forty thousand I Italian soldiers who had been sen ' tenced to long prison terms by court martial have been granted amnesty by King Victor Emmanuel. Washington, Sept. 1.?The National ! Federation of Postal Employes; began ! their annual convention today. It is I planned to assist the government in reducing the cost of living and run ! ning down profiteers. They advocated better wages and working conditions. Copenhagen. Sept. 1.?Lettish and Lithuanian troops have driven Bolshe viks from Revo Alexandrovsk, south j west of Dvinsk, according to a State ! n^nt issued bv The Lettish press bu !re;<u. They claim the capture of a j large number of prisoner:?, and report ? a steady advance. md Fear not?Tuet an the ends Theo AI MTEB, S. C WEDJSES: BRYAN FAVORS PUBLIC CONTROL Former Democratic Leader Is sues Statement Denouncing Private Ownership DEC ARLES RAILROADS I ! ARE RUN BY MONOPOLY Says Railroad Owners Are Cor ruptionists and Oppress the Public Washington, Aug. 29.?William Jen nings Bryan today laid before the house interstate commerce committee his dual plan of State and federal ownership of railroad lines as a solu tion of the railroad reorganization problem. In doing so the former secr retary of State denounced " private ownership of the railways as inder fensible and intolerable and' charac terised railway magnates as political corruptionists. "We have never tried government ownership," declared Mr. Bryan, re ferring to the railroad administra tion. "A subsidized newspaper never thinks to tell that the government took over the railroads when the pri vate owners1 could not run them. The government has been only in tempor ary control and the roads i in the hands of those who wanted to. see government ownership f?il ^so they could get the roads back." Mr. Bryan advocated that the fed eral government own a skeleton trunk line system, reaching into every State, which in turn would own the other carriers within the State boun-. daries. His,plan ,he estimated, would, cost the government four or five bil lion dollars, while Stifte ' ownership would be decided by the people," who might decide for temporary private, ownership." The committee also heard S. Dayies Warfield, who said his railroad plan for a minimum interest return of C per cent'on rail" securities "through a mandatory adjustment of rates by the interstate commerce committeerwas in principle indorsed by !*59,QO0,000 per sons, owners or directly interested in railroad, securities/* ?Representatives of the coastwise shipping -companies urged that" port rates should not be put under the control of the interstate commerce commission in reorganization legisla tion. Mr. Bryan said the railroad must be considered as a manopoly and "that no no one can defend a private monopoly unless he has so much stock in it that it silences his conscience." Mr. Bryan agreed with the funda-' mental proposition of thjfc Plumb plan that the government should own the roads and such nationalization he as serted was better than private monop oly. ? As for political power under a na tionalization scheme, Mr. Bryan de clared the government could do no worse than private ownership, for the "railroads have been in politics every day for the last 25 years." Senators and representatives. State officials and others have been elected! because of j railroad influence he chai*ged WHEAT LICENSE TO BE REQUIRED Director Barnes Announces In tention to Prosecute Washington, Aug. 31.?Another move in the government's campaign to combat the high cost of living was made today by Wheat Director Julius H. Barnes in warning all dealers in wheat, wheat flour and other pro ducts delinquent in taking out feder al licenses to obtain them at once, un der threat of prosecution by the De act of congress of last March and a partment of Justice. The license requirements under an presidential proclamation of last June I will be rigidly enforced, Director Barnes notified the dealers. The only exceptions to the regula tions of the wheat directorate are bakers consuming less than fifty bar rels of wheat flour'monthly, retailers, farmers and farmers' cooperative as License. control under the wheat di rector is made necessary, Director Barnes said, in a statement today, as j sociations. j one of the steps in carrying out the 'price guarantee for the 1919 wheat i crop, and to protect the, government ? against undue enhancement of its lia bilities thereunder. Another effect, he said, of the li censing cf wheat and its products ?frould be to prevent hoarding and j profiteering in these commodities, and permit regulation of profits. "Not only is it a criminal offence to engage in business requiring a li cense without such license." Director j Barnes* statement said, "but also one j of the important conditions upon ; which licensees hold their licenses is j that they will not engage in business j with any one required to obtain a U : cense who has not obtained such a 11 \ cense." The friends of Mr. Walter Jennings , will be pleased to learn that he is i doing as well as could be expected, i Mr. Jennings was in a wreck about a week ago, in which he had his leg" ? broken and heel cut very severely. ms't at b& thj Country'*, Thy God's I DAY, SEPTEMBER 3, ] ULL VISIT IN THIRTY CITIES President Will Start on His Speech Making Tour On Next Wednesday EXPECTS TO BE AWAY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH After Visiting Cities in West Will Review Pacific Fleet At San Francisco Washington-, Aug. 29.?President Wilson will visit thirty cities in his speech-making tour to start next Wednesday and will be absent from the > capital until September 30th. The itinerary given out at the White (House today shows "his first speech will be made at Columbus, Ohio. Other cities to be visited include St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, where the president plans to review the Pacific fleet. The chief object of trip is to explain the peace treaty, but the president has also an nounced he will discuss the high cost of living and other domestic problems. WILL BUILD COT TON WAREHOUSES \ Spartanburg. Aug. 28.?Members of the Spartanburg Cotton Association, now in process of organization in this county, today subscribed $124,000 for .stock in a corporation to erect in this county a system of warehouses owned by. the members of the associa tion. The subscribers pledged them selves to raise additional stock amounting to .$300,000. The plan is to build in ihe county seven ware houses, one in the ? city of Spartan burg and the other distributed over the county. THE COTTON CAMPAIGN The - membership campaign -of the South Carolina Cotton*^Association in Sumter county is progressing nicely, and it now looks as though Sumter County is going to make" a splendid showing. ' At Chamber of Commerce ?the headquarters of** the Sumter county -unit of the association?many committeemen have turned in their membership applications ' and many hundreds of dollars to B. I. Reardon who is acting'secretary ahd treasurer: 'Mr. T. J. Kirvin, of the Sumter Town ship Committee is very proud Of the record made by his township. - A number-of township committees have not yet turned in their reports, and the city of Sumter committee's by wards have not turned in a report, and the city committees have been urged to continue working throughout this entire week. The city of Sumter is go ing to make a splendid showing, judging by responses already made to the soliciting committees. Reports from the rural districts show splendid work with results to be proud" of as far as the canvas has progressed. Sumter township, outside of the city ofx Sumter. Oswego section, par tial returns from Privateer.; .Concord. Stateburg, Mayesville, townships show up splendidly. The town of Mayes ville has not yet organized, and Provi dence. Rafting Creek, and Middleton {townships are organized and working j hard, but not yet i ready to report. } Manchester township has gotten its committee to work. There is going to be many names or* the honor roll of committeemen who have done patriot ic and telling work. Some striking "100 per cent clean ups" have been made of every man solicited by Mr. L. E. Reames in the eastern section of Sumter township and Mr. E. C. Brown in Oswego sec tion of Sumter township. There arc doubtless other record breaking stunts like these not yet reported to head quarters. They will all be published. None of the townships have com pleted their campaigns. Every town ship committee was written to by the j secretary last Saturday urging them i to continue the drives until every ! farmer, doctor, merchant, banker, j lawyer, and employee, and men and women of every profession, trade, and occupation, enlist in this great move j ment which means so much for th^ j South. Chairman L. D. Jennings who jhas been away :br the greater part of j the time during the membership 7 campaign making speeches in other |-counties for the movement, and re Icuperating also in the mountains, has I returned. He is expected to talk to j'the Mayesville mass meeting tomor row evening, while Secretary Reardon ??will probably address an organization ! meeting tomorrow night at Dalzcl! ischool house. Every member of the. Sumter coun ! ty unit of the South Carolina Cotton j Association, by individual, firm, anri ' corporation names will he published, by townships, the number of member:-: i of every township, and the total amounts paid in by every township. land the names of the committeemen j doing the soliciting. "Hie "honor i roll" will be interesting indeed, j_ ] Brest, Sept. 1.?Gen. Pershing sail ed for the United States today. Mar i.shal Fooh l>adv? him farewell aboard Uhe transport Lovithan. ** tatfe't" THK TBUE 919. SPEAKING TOUR1 AGAINST TREATY Republicans Plan to Follow on ; the Trail of President Wilson THE FIGHT TO BE CAR RIED TO THE PEOPLE Crew of Speakers Being Organ ized By the Anti-Wilson Party For the Purpose Washington, Aug.-, 29.?As the final itinerary for President Wilson's speaking tour in support of the peace treaty was announced today, Republi can senators began conferences to de cide on plans for sending opposition speakers along behind him. The president's plans call for speeches in the 30 cities throughout the West between1 the time he leaves here next Wednesday and his return to Washington, September 30. While resolutions were being offered in the house calling upon the president to abandon his tour and engage himself in Washington with domestic affairs of the nation. Republican senators who oppose the treaty met with Sen ator McCormick of Illinois. Nothing was finally decided and another con ference will be held tomorrow when it is expected a definite program will be announced. Leaving Washington on a special ftrain, the president will swing through the Middle West, thence across the Plain States to the Pacific coast at Washington and down the coast as far as San Diego. On the re turn trip he will speak in Nevada, Utah. Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and. Kentucky, his last address being at Louisville on September 29. Whether the president will make speeches from the rear platform of his train has not yet been decided. He has set for himself the task of making 30 addresses in 26 days.and to carry out ihis program ,it will be necessary for him- .to deliver two speeches a day for eight days of. the trip, as his itinerary does not call for any^ addresses. 'op^SttfiGSYs. '-' ~ * The president will leave AVashing ton before General Pershing returns from overseas. BODY OF MAN FOUND IN CREEK Prominent Lawyer Believed to Have Been Murdered at Nashville f _ / Nashville, Aug. 30.?Robin Cooper, a prominent lawyer, who killed Form er Senator Carmach in 19?8, was found dead in a creek near this city. It is reported he was murdered. Bullet wounds and other marks of violence on the body convinced the authorities that Cooper was murdered j and robbed. Cooper and his father were con victed of murder.^following the shoot ing of Carmack in the midst of a bit ter contest over the Tennessee govern orship. Later Gobper was acquitted by higher court. The verdict against J his father was confirmed, but the governor pardoned him. NAVAL DUEL NEAR KRONSTADT j Bombardment Heard at Viborg Believed to Be Between British and Bolsheviki London, 9ug. 29.?A heavy bom bardment lasting two hours was heard in Viborg, Finland, in directions of Kronstadt, the Bolsheviki naval base i near Petrograd, a Hclsingfor message. J said today. It is supposed British i naval forces were engaged. i TROOPS KEEP PEACE IN KNOXVILLE ??_ I City is Protected by Strong Force of Guardsmen Knoxville. Sept. 1.?The mass meei | ings connection with the city primary ! next Saturday was called off today as jtne result of the race riot, which start ed when a crowd charged the city jail I Saturday to get Maurice Mayes, a ne ! gro. held- on the charge of murdering i a white woman. The city was quiet today, with a, j large force of soldiers and deputies j patrolling the streets. The negroes are; ! not permitted in the down-town sec i tion and all appearing on the streets ; are searched for arms. No assem blages are allowed for any purpose, j Work was started today cn repairing jthe jail which was partly wrecked by the mob. The accused nc?m> is m Chattanooga for safekeeping. The Grand Jury is to convene Wednesday and. ttee city au- j thorities will give names of" the mob j loaders. The exodus of negroes, which began faturday. is continued today with many leaving the city on trains, in vehicles and on foot. Vol. XLIX. No. 6. FIRST DIVISION LANDS ATI Y Eight Hundred Men and Officers Arrive Today Fronv; * France ' , - PLANS ARE MADE FOR I A GRAND PARADE Procession headed by Gen. Per K shing Will March Down Fifth Avenue September 10. ?_ ' - -. New, York, Aug. 30.?Eight hUjuV dred officers and men of the First!'Di vision have arrived here from ^Fiance. Plans have been made for a parade on Fifth Avenue for September. 10th with Gen. Pershing heading the. pro - cession. 5 ? ? The First Division .first units of which returned home today from Germany is justly proud of its claims being "the- first division in Franee; first in a fighting sector; first to fire a shot at the Germans; first to attack; first to conduct a raid; first to be raid ed; first to capure prisoners; -first^to inflict casualties; first to suffer casual ties; first to be .cited singly in gen eral orders; first in the/number of di vision, corps and army commanders and general stalf officers' produced from its personnel.'' The official history of the division shows it was organized in France, the last units to arrive reaching that country July 2, 1917. It was compos ed, of troops of the regular army the Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth" Infantry R?^* ments; the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Artillery Regiments: the First Engi neer Regiment and Train; the Second Field Signal Battalion and the Third Fourth and Fifth Ambulance Compa nies and Field Hospital: ? ^ > It occupied successively the Sum merville sector, near" Nancy; "the Anauvillc sector, near Toul; the C$h tigny sector, near Montididier; parti cipated in Soissons operation sQU^h west of Soisson^, ??.occupied the ais ~ sector*- participated in ,the St hiel operation;'the Me^se-Ai^onne^dp-. eration in the-Sheppy sector, wnst of. "VSren nes ;\h$ l^peratlon"a^lnst'^OT2 . zon, and the operation south^ftnd southwest of Sedan, attacking'"itfie heights'on the m?rhing of November, 7, 1918. . gpj$ On November 17 it began the me morable march through Lorraine and Luxemburg reaching the Coblenz bridgehead on the Rhine, December 14, 1918, which position it heldvuntil relieved teecntly by other American troops. . ? - ? Replacements in the diviision up'to the time of the armistice totalled 30,-. 206 and the losses in killed and died of wounds were 4,411, wounded and gassed 17,301 and prisoners lost 152. tl captured 6,467 Germans; 119 pieces of artillery, 62 Trench Mortars and .413 Machine Guns. The total of Distin guished Service Crosses awarded i$ie men of the dviision was 356. Major General William L. Sibert commanded the division June 8, 1917 to December 12, 1917; Major General Robert L. Bullard from December 13, 1917 until he became corps: commaWl er; Major General Charles P.' Sum merall from July 20. 1918, to Octgbr er 11, 1918; Brigadier General Frank E. Bamford from October 12, 19185to October 24? 1918; Brigadier. General Frank Parker took command on Oc tober 23. 1918 and. from May 31. Major General E. F. McGlachlin, jr^, was in command of the division. The divisional, insignia is a crimson "1" on a. khaki background, chosen because the numeral "1" represents; the number of the division and many, of its subsidiary organizations. RESULT OF PRIMA RIES GIVEN OUT 1 Columbia. Aug. 28.?County Demo cratic committees met at noon today in both the Sixth and Seventh congres sional districts to declare the results of the primaries of last Tuesday. The results put George Bell Timmermann, of Lexington, and E. C. Mann of 35L Matthews, in the second primary in the Seventh district, to fill.the seat, made vacant by Congressman A.'.' ;F. Lever's resignation, and P. H. Stbll ) of? Kingstree, and E.. J. Sherwood, of Conway, in the second race in tjhe Sixth district for the nomination of a successor to the late Congressman. Ragsdale. The State Democratic executive * committee will meet in Columbia ne^t Tuesday for the purpose of canvass ing the findings of the county com mittees and to order the second pri mary, which is to be held September 9. . '~.\' . New York, Sept L?Suspension of ail tho strikes in the country and a labor truce for six months to en able President Wilson to force down ! the cost of living was recommended in a report of the committee to the State Federation of Labor. Washington, Aug 30.?Senator Owens advocating a ratification of the peace treaty in the senate, accused Senator Lodge of empartisanshlp and said Senator Lodge had changed ^tis r views since 1915 when he urged the making of such a treaty ?j? the one . now before the senate.