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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Establish r- \ ? _____ Consolidated Aug. 3,1 pension law tangle Many Protests Concerning Dis tribution of State Pen sions Columbia, May 4?Great inequali-j ties, producing protests in many parts | of the State, are liable toi follow the; distribution of the pension- money ! 4his year, according to a statement j made today by D. W. McLaurin, pen- | shm commissioner, who states that j the pension' warrants will likely be; sent out to the various counties be-: tween the 12th and the l?tb of May. | The inequalities are likely stated Mr. ; ^McLaurin, because of the fact that; the 1920 act does not- specify what | amount shall go' to the, pensioners in; each class. The pension appropria tion is larger this year than ever, $600,000, but there mafc be some dis appointments on account of the meth od of distribution. The pensionjaw provides that there Shall be three classes of pensioners, A, B, and C. One fourth of the pen sion money, ?150,000, is to be divided among those in each class, but as yet it is not known how many will be in each class. The remaining one-fourth is to be divided equally among all pen sioners. , . The idea in the pension system is that those in Class A shall receive more than those 5u Class B, and Class B more than Class C. However, the amount each class is to receive will be ?determined by the number in each class, and this is not yet known, as all of the county officers have not sent in their' lists. The reports received to date by Pen sion "Commissioner McLaurin show that in some of the counties more pen sioners have been put in Class A than in B or C, while in other counties there are more pensioners in Class C ?lhan in A and B, or in' Classes B and C each, than in A. .In some of the counties the male pensioners are in excess in one class, with the women leading in others. These irregulari ?es- will affect the total number of pensioners >in each class. The irregularities in classification, .according to Mr. McLaurin, are^-due fco the fact that the new law puts the xjjasgiflcation in the hands of thej cojunty boards without any supervision j the part of a central, state commis-1 ?|jj|^as in past years. He states that j the -result may prove disappointing to f-ome pensioners. It may be that a Class A pensioner, in great need, will JrejR?iKa less than a Class C pensioner ifgf_5?i_'needy, if 'ClaSs A turns out to *a?ve more members than Class C. Mr. 3$tL?iirin will have all the county :^>lls in within a few days,Nhe. expects. attack on ma zatlan planned Gen. Flores of Sinaola Will Co operate With Revolution ary Force . Nogalcz, May 6?Genera" Flores, j Sinealoa revolutionary, commander, j will attack the port of Mazatlan in a j few days, according to Americans ar riving here. - ... League of na tions meeting First Council Will Be Held In Washington Friday Washington, May' C?A full program j awaits the attention of the Council of j the League of Nations, due to assem-.j ble on Friday. The outline received; shows that the first steps will be taken i towards carrying out the provisions j of the League Covenant as to inter-] national disarmament, the publication j of all treaties entered into by tho; League members, plans for the first I meeting leading to the assembly and! the admission of new members. wreathes for american dead Paris. May 6?Ambassador Wallace j has been made honorary president of j the American Memorial Day Associa- \ tion. An appeal has been issued fori funds^to carry out the plans to place j a?WTeath on the grave of every Am- j erican soldier. . caucasia go ing bolshevik ???? _> Batum, Causcasia, May C?AU Am-! erican relief workers in the Near East I have been ordered into Tiflis for safe- ; ty. There is danger of all Caucasia j turning" Bolshevik. nutmeg yank ees want beer New Haven, May a?The revision | of the Volstead law so as to permit j the sale of light wines and beers was ! ifavored by the Connecticut dernocra- j tic convention. generous male milliners New York, May 6?A promise that no attempt would be made to raise the price of summer hats was made toy 1,100 male milliners, who are as sembled -here in annual convention. ' led April, 1850. "Be Just 881. Interstate Com merce Commissioner President Potter of Clinchfield Nominated for Member ship of Board Washington, May 6.?President Wil son has nominated President Potter of the Carolina Clinchfield Railroad to be a member of the interstate com merce commission. 1 LABOR OFFICIAL MAKES CHARGES| President of Oilers Union Says Government Official Guilty of Propaganda Washington. May 6?President Heaiy of the Firmen and Oilers' union, charged before the Railroad La bor Board today that a high govern ment official had been used in a des picable propaganda against labor. WILL IGNORE CONGRESSMEN Premier Llyod George Will Not Receive Message on Irish Question London, May C?Premier Lloyd George will not take cognizance of the message from American congressmen relatjng to* Ireland. JOHNSON DOWNS HOOVER California Gives Great Majority to Opponent to Peace Treaty San Francisco, May 6?Belated re turns from the presidential primary increased Senator Johnson's lead to 256,000 votes over Herbert Hoover. RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION Senate Committee Considers Im mediate Amendment of Law to Bar Undsirables Washington, May G?The senate im-; migration committee has considered i immediate amendment of immigration j laws following the ruling of Sccre-j tary of Labor Wilson that member- j ship in communist labor party alone! is sufficient cause for deportation of j aliens. AGAINST UNIT RULE! - New York Delegates to Sanj Francisco Convention Plan- | ning Tactics . _L' v. / . I Albany, May 6?Democratic dele- ] gates to the San Francisco convention \ from New York arc gathering here j for a conference. Indications point to j a fight being made against the unit, rule and the inclusion of a wet plank in the platform. / LEVER LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL _ i Judge Holmes Upholds Legality; of Lever Food Law _ I Jackson. Miss.. May G?Federal .ludge Holmes has upheld the consti-1 tutionality of the Lever food law. - j JOE TURNER IS SENTENCED Lynchburg. Va.. May 6?Joe Turn er, negro, who yesterday plead guilty to shooting Paliceman Mann, was sen tenced to be electrocuted July 7th. CHROME DEPOSIT IS DISCOVERED Belgrade. May 6?Chrome deposits sufficient to meet the world's demands have been discovered in Serbia, the American advisory committee to the Jugo-Slavia.ii government announced today. TANNERS DISCUSS LEATHER PRICES Atlantic City. May G?The high cost Of shoes and other leather products ^'ill be discussed at the annual meetr ing of the Tanners' Council of Am erica. STRIKERS PLAN PARADE New York. May fi?The striking ma rine workers and railroad employees in New York plan to parade tonight, according to Chairman Meli ugh, of the strikers' executive committee. md Fear Xot?Let all the ends Thou Ainis't at he thy Country's, Thy God's a SUMTER. S. C SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920 H?f REUMON OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS l - 1 - ??f Heroes of the War for t he Independence of thei ?V' j South Meet In Theii Annual Convention In | the Game Cock City. Yesterday and today Sumter has had the honor and privilege of en* tertaining more than 600 veterans of the war for Southern independence; who assembled here in annual re-un-. ion of the South Carolina Division the United, Confederate Veterans' As sociation. According to the declarar tions of officers and members of the Association, who have attended many previous reunions this has been one 0$ the most successful, enjoyable and?, best attended meetings the South Carb| lina Division has ever held. The peo-| pie of Sumter have enjoyed having! the veterans as their guest's and if they have found their stay here pleas ant the satisfaction is mutual. A majority of the veterans arrived; on the evening trains Tuesday, bnU many more came in Wednesday morn-* ing, and by private conveyance fromi all adjoining counties- in the. eastern* part of the State. Wednesday morn ing when the formal opening of the, reunion was held there were morei than 600 present. The exercises were held in the court house,, which was packed to Capacity when the meting was called to orddr with Dr. H. J. McLaurin, Command> er" of Camp Dick Anderson, TJ: C. V., presiding. The opening . session be* gan promptly at 10 o'clock, following a selection by the. band. Cpening Session. The Doxology was beautifully sung by a selected choir, under the direction of Misses Louise and Ellen SiddalL The invocation' was asked by the Rev. J. P. Marion of the Presbyterian^ church, after which L. D. Jennings, mayor of the city, extended a gracious and heartfelt welcome to the men who wore the'gray. To this Gen. D. II. Teague, honorary commander of the South, Carolina division, made a re sponse. An address of welcome on be half of the business men of the city was voiced by Dr. E. S. Booth, presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce, who has been working without' ceasing to make this reunion a success. Response to this was delivered by Dr. J. O. Willson, presi dent of Lander College, in the absence of John H. Wharton. Mr. Willson re minded the business men present that the veterans had been businessmen too, in their day, and told something of the difficulties of rebuilding the South after the war. Senator John K. Clifton, represent-i ed the people of Sumter in another address of welcome, and this was re sponded to by Gen. J. Fuller Lyon, commanding the First Brigade of South Carolina Veterans. On behalf of Dick Anderson Chapter. U. D. C, of Sumter, Miss Armida Moses spoke a welcome to the veterans and to the visiting members of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy. This was responded to by the president of the South Carolina Division, U. ,D. C, Mrs. St. John Allison Lawtoiu of Charles ton, who told of the love of the Daugh ters for the veterans of the Confeder acy and the work done in their behalf. Capt. W. L. McCutcheon. a veteran of the World War. commander of James D. .Blanding post of Sumter, extended the welcome of the Sons of Veterans. Col. Arthur L. Gaston, of Chester, re sponded to this. General Clark Retires The afternoon meeting was devoted to business. After a song offering by the Alexander McQueen Chapter. Children of the Confederacy, under the leadership of Miss Truiit, General Clark, commander of the South Caro lina veterans, gave a full report, re viewing the year's work and giving an account of the Greenwood and Atlan ta reunions. He explained fully the provisions of the last pension act. He endorsed the Confederate College of Charleston; Miss Mildred Rutherford's work for spreading true history abroad and at home, and the way the Thir tieth Division and other boys of the South had conducted themselves over seas. General Clark has announced that he will not stand for reelection, as he thinks the honor of being South Carolina's division commander should be shared by some of his comrades. Elections, however, do not take place until Thursday afternoon. Dinner was served in the Peoples' Tobacco Warehouse where all the vet erans were served at one time, tables having been laid for more than ?300. Last evening the meeting was held in the Peoples' Tobacco Warehouse with an attendance of nearly 3,000. The distinguished guests of the reun ion, including Gen. Julian S. Carr, of North Caroline. Gen. Williams, of Florida, the sponsors, maids and mat ron:; of honor were presented to the assembly. Then followed the grand march, led by the commander. Gen. Clark, and the sponsor. Miss Henri etta Boykin. The program of the eve ning was concluded with a dance for the veterans. Today's meeting opened at 10 o'clock with a business session. Ad dresses were delivered by Gen. Coop er, Gen. Julian S. Carr, and Miss Mary B. Poppenhoim. Greatly to the re gret of all, Ttev. Thornton Whaling, who was on the program for an ad dress on Gen. Robert E. Lee, w- un able to attend. At noon ceremonial services for the Confederate dead was held. Music was furnished by the Camp Jackson! band. the Sumter Choral Club. A barbecue dinner was served at! 1:30 at the Peoples'. Tobacco Ware-j house, it having, been decided yeste**- j day to serve the dinner there instead j of at Pocalla, as originally planned. } The reunion will be concluded w!*h ja business session this afternoon, the j parade at 6 o'clock sharp and the re- j ception at the Peoples' Tobacco Wsre 1 house at 9 o'clock-tonight. j memorial day proclamation Columbia, May 6?Governor Coop er yesterday issued a proclamation calling for the observance in South \ Carolina of May 10 as a joint memor ial day for the sons of South Caro lina who have died in both the Con j federate war and the World War. The proclamation i3 issued at the request ; of the South Carolina department of ! the American Legion. The Legion will cooperate with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other organizations throughout the State in the observance of the day, the State headquarters of the Legion having mailed out bulletins to ail posts in the State calling attention to the joint memorial day and request ing the posts to co-operate with the local organizations in its observance. Appropriate exercises are being plan ned in many schools and colleges, in addition to the regular municipal ob tservance of the day in honor of the , dead of the two wars. why not now? Sumter County Should Take the Lead In Road Building 'Editor Item: If eventually, why not now? Why not be a leader instead of a follower? The hard surfaced roads movement is spreading all over the country.; the New England States, the Northern States, the- Middle West, are all well advanced. The sparsely settled far western States are ahead of us in the movement.. Florida, which used to be a poor and backward State, has built hard roads where before she . had sand, and now is most prosper ous. It is-truly a national movement, and why should not Sumter county be in the front of the procession in stead of bringing up the rear? Why docs a farmer get rid of his pair of old mules for maybe $150.00 and buy a pair of young mules for $600.00? The old mules could do his work isomehow; they could plow the fields and haul the crop to town. The young, strong mules, however, can do that and more, faster and with less effort and expense on his part. Why does he buy improved farm machinery? He used to do the work by hand before. Why does a factory scrap* a piece of machinery to put in a better piece at a higher cost? Why does anyone in any line of work spend money for improve ments ? Florence county is to hard surface a road from Florence to Timmonsville. Richland is planning to hard surface her Camden road to her county line. Gradually all the counties are start ing in this work. Sumter is a leader, and once more we have an oppor tunity to lead. Sumter city has had an immense ad vertisement from her good streets, and no citizen of Sumter worries over the street taxes paid. Sumter county will get an even larger advertisement should she carry through^ the propos ed hard surfacing of all her through roads. When the people of Darling ton and of Lee, of Williamsburg and of Florence, of Chesterfield and of Chester, when the people of all the counties in this section of the State, and the people who have to go from one point to another through the country know that when they strike the borders of Sumter county they travel in ease, the name of Sumter county will be on every tongue when ever the road question comes up. If we go a"head now wc will be a leader. If we refuse -o go now and wait about five years till the good road advocates have the heart to start to work again, we will be laggards and rear men. It will cost so much money! Of course it will. Is there any improve ment that will not? Does any busi ness make money by not spending money, or by spending money for im provements and making those im provements pay dividends? Some day every county will be hard surfaced: if eventually why not now? Why not have Sumter County the leader? HERBERT A. MOSES. IbankIjtate ment called ! Washington. May 7.?The comp 1 troller of currency has called for a ! report of the condition of national 1 banks ax the. close of business May 4. aid Truth's*" THE TRUE SO RAILROADS CALL FOR MONEY Officials Ask Congress for Half ] Billion to Build Freight Cars j Washington, May 6?Railroad exe- j cutives have asked congress for an ad- j ditional half billion dollars for the j construction of freight cars. SHILOH FOR GOOD ROADS Mass Meeting Goes On Record For Bond Issue I At the Shiloh school meeting held j last. night, on motion of Mr. E. W. j I Dabbs, Jr., seconded by Mr. E. W. j Dabbs, Sr., Mr. E. T. Mims, and oth ers, the voters present, by a unani mous rising vote, endorsed the $2, 500,000.00 bond issue and main high way system of hard surfaced roads. Mr. W. W. Green, of Shiloh, pre sided. Mr. J. K. McElveen, the first speaker, emphatically approved the j bond issue and called on his former fellow citizens of Shiloh to vote for I the same. Mr. E. iL Reardon then read the j editorial in the Sumter Herald of last week in opposition to the bond issue and replied to same, showing by of ficial records that the statements about the bonded indebtedness of Sumter county were wrong. He also cleared up the matter about the de moralization of farm labor, to the satisfaction of the audience. He con ceded honesty of purpose to the edi tor of the Herald, and did not think the "editorial was intended to be mis leading, but that some of the state ments therein were certainly wrong. Mr. E. W. Dabbs, Sr., when called upon to speak, said that he had al ready received considerable enlight enment from Mr. Reardon's talk, and had not come there to ask any one to vote against the bond issue. He then outlined a few objections that i he and some Of his neighbors in j Mayesvllle township had, and said :hat if Mr. R. B. Belser in his talk to follow, could satisfactorily answer certain questions that he would with draw his objections to the bond is sue. He, however, thought automo biles should bear a greater portion of the tax for good roads. Mr. R. B. Belser spoke at length in one of the most convincing, con cise, detailed and instructive statisti cal discourses ever listened to about the bond issue. His remarks, facts and figures carried conviction all the way through. Mr. E. W. Dabbs, Jr., in introducing the motion of endorse ment, said that there is no use in every man expecting to" have things just exactly his way regarding the raain highway system, or to expect an absolutely perfect system and com plete for the present over a majority of the highways?it will require time for that. The best thing to do is to j vote for the bond issue and make a! start on a complete county highway system. Not a man spoke against j the proposition. The meeting was j thrown open for free discussion and the chairman call- d on any opposed j to arise and talk out in meeting, but the sentiment and the vote were' unanimously in favor of the bond is* j sue. A number of ladies were pres- j cut. GRAIN DEALERS i HOLD MEETING >- _____________ 1 Arrangements Being Made for-| Reestablishing Open Mar ket ; 1 'Chicago, May 7.?Representatives j of boards of trade, grain associations, j grain buyers, exporters and bankers; are meting here to plan for the rees tablishment of open market in wheat j at the expiration of the wheat guar- j anty act June 1st IS AGAINST I RUSSIAN SOVIET ____________ IAlton B. Parker Files Protest! Against Recognition of Red Government i New York, May 7? The national ' j confederation, through its president,) i Alton B. Parker, has announced that; j it had filed a protest with President j ! Wilson against the recognition of the 1 i Russian Soviet government, and has ! j isked all presidential candidates to I j state their position on the recognition ! ! of the Soviet government. ! PROMOTING BASEBALL GAME j Cincinnati, May 7.?To encourage ! i the playing of baseball by American 1 youths the joint rules committee of; i te National and American leagues has ' j designed a special size boys' diamond ; and special size boys' ball for boys! j under 16 years of age TRY-OUT J FOR FLYERS j Mineola, N. Y.. May 7.?More than j two score army reserve aviators from j ! 12 Eastern colleges are engaged in J preliminary tryouts on Mitchell field, preparatory to taking part in the first; I intercollegiate field day this afternoon,? ???-? UTHKON, Established June 1, 186?. j VoLL. No. 25. MAYESVILLE FOR BOND ISSUE Representative Meeting of Tax payers Votes For Good Roads V The meeting at Mayesviile School Wednesday evening,' May 5th, in the interest of the $2.500,000 bond issue showed that Mayesviile is for bonds. A very representative number of vot ers .attended. When a vote was called for all but two voted in favor of the bond issue. Rev. R. L. Grier, of Mayesviile, called the meeting to order and re- ' quested Mr. E. I. Reardon to preside, and he did so and explained the" ob- ' ject of the meeting. The first speaker, Captain C. G. Rowland, president of the National Bank of South Carolina, of Sumter, came out fiatfooted for the bond issue; without reservation. He furnished his hearers with a number of practical, convincing and detailed reasons .why the bond issue for the hard surfaced' road system will pay every taxpayer in many ways. He dwelt also upon*. the social, educational and pleasure advantages of hard surfaced high ways. ? Mr. Jennings then requested Captain Rowland to repeat his speech at the Sumter meetings, on the 7th and ^th? . Captain Rowland is the largfest individual owner of property in too '. city of Sumter, and one of the latest taxpayers. Dr. S. H. Edmunds, supennter.deni ;. of the city schools of Sumter, inter-v estingly pointed out wherein haj*ji ; surfaced roads will increase intflfA communication between the different sections of the county?how it would contribute to th?. rapid advancement of the edcuati?nal system of the coui ty. He concludes his admirable tal[_ with proof that 'he best kind of KghrpS way transportation and the edviea??TV al facilities of a county is a magnify cent combination any w'-.y yO?\-*?pv. look at the proposition. . .)';.,. Rev. J. W. Elkins, of Oswi>gof poij^lfe |ed tages of a pcrma: tern, not only^ from the stanrU><dnv of economy in conservation of _ man iy&L mule power, automobiles et^.. but ai&l that society will be benefited by men reducing the amount of profaYn'tty when they have less loss of time, m?g-.' ey, tires and other troubles. He st?o?'V for the bond issue and '"he proposal plan of constructing the main lijghT I way system.--? * - ? V , Mr. L. D. Jennings followed hil ual line of arguments previously Iished in these columns. He app^atS to wann up rather than become ifre^d las the campaign draws zo a closed He showed from several angle:-* chatyw'o' can spend ?2,500,000 for Jiard sur faced roads, and that in a few ^eafrs j we wili save in many ways by eliro llnation' of lost time, reduct-on in" re pairs to automobiles, increasing* the tonnage to be hauled of .farm prod^r ucts, etc.; cutting of gasoline bills one-third to fifty per cent . more than the $2,500,000 spent for the-.im proved highways. J?* He again took issue with the edit or of the Sumter Herald who wrote { an editorial in last week's issue of that paper which contained ssu*enients j about the bonded indebtedness " of I Sumter county which Mr. Jennl:ig3 (claimed and proved were erroneous jno matter how well intentioned the j editor might have been and doubt | less was. j Mr. Jennings anticipated this edifr ; r>r's reply to Mr. Jennings' speeches I by reminding his hearers that the sub i division of this county?the City of I Sumter's bonded indebtedness while I aproximately $800,000?that the Sum ;ter electric light bonds authorized I of $300,000, the waterworks bonds of j $116.000. and the sewerage system j bonds of $50,000. totalling $456,000, I could not be counted in the city's con stitutional allowance of not exceeding 115 per cent, or in the combined cjty and county bonded indebtedness, be j cause the Constitution of the St$?.e I says electric light, water and sewer. j bonds in1 cities and towns must not i be included in the usual eight per cent of the total taxable property re \ turned on the tax books. Taking Sum ter's city street bonds of about $3*0,' 000. school bonds and other bonds "of the city, the bonded indebtedness is less than $420,000, and adding the county's bonded indebtedness of $62. 000, the total combined county bond ed indebtedness is less than $500,000, while the county alone can issue $880,000 of bonds and not yet go be yond the constitutional . allowance^? becaus* $11,000,000 of property for. tax purpovscs are on the county; t*?X books, and eight .per cent of the* can be bonded. But the editor of "the Sumter Herald sav^ "The County :?f t-umter is now in debt more than four times its constitutional allowance.'* - Not one Mayesviile voter expressed opposition to the bond issue, but sev eral asked for information, which af ter being given, said' plainly that the information fully satisfied them. E. I. Reardon. BAPTISTS RAISE FIFTY MILLION New York, May 7?The Southern Baptise fund, or the New World Move ment, has passed the $?0.000,000 mark according to a statement issued from headquarters. BIG LUMBER FffiE Johnson City, Tenn., May 7?An es timated loss of $200,000 resulted from a fire of undetermined origin which destroyed valuable machinery and flooring at the Whiting Lumber Co;