The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 29, 1920, Image 2
t Made/:by Federal
^erre of Rich
jnond
fe&m?nd;\-'Va4 May 24?Ahnounce
*aa3 been made" by the Federal
5$&8&^^ that of
^e;^05o banks in the Fifth Federal
ff-:'>^?S^^/".?^trict, only 739. have not
jeinedr the ; par collection system?
. ;-;,||t^ cnly 7^ of. the banks do not
?|i p^y "checks on thejtnselves without a
v deletion of the so-called exchange
'?':"? cliargeV
-;.x'j8e&ik& -compiled here show that
while the nonpar banks represent 36
per cent of the; number of banks in the
^strict., their total resources, $326r
;^35^00, are ?hly^ahout 13 per cent of
"revba-nking resources of the district,
lieh^ai^reg?te $2,'4-23,65l>000. i
^?H the non-par banks in this dis-.
'let-; are located in North and.^outh;
/^'rbSra. ATI banks fn Virginia, Mary-,
'Sana, West Virginia and the District of;
Oe^tRjabia are on par list
ig 2s"aiso interesting: to note that the
depoSfts'^of the oanfcs which do n'otj
^ayr checks oti themselves at par and '
which ^amoua r. ?. to' $262,375.000 are
?'ie^ly''afeolfttrli per cent of the total de
'positsofthe district, -$1,843,4.49,000.
The total volume of checks collected
through the Federal Reserve System
in the-eaiendar year 1919, was approx
imately$l?ff,3?:o,GO.O',0OO. Had all of
these checks been subject to an es
;>-.chan^ on the^
; >nndfed dollars <orie -tenth of one per
> eent), the exchange bill of the coun
^?^WOuid have amounted to $136,]
?v ?i?,?$?, an amount in excess of the
u^^ .^o?:earnings-.?>?; all of the Federal
r.i Reserve... Banks combined. A sub
? sfcantial part of this enoromus sav
?v ijjg to commerce' and industry was.
^naadejc. the .Fifth. Federal Reserve
% -In addition to the "enorm <i .is saving
Exchange charges, collection}
jh^'tae ^Federal Reserve System
feed banks to make collec
; -in' approximately^ onerhalf the
Jfdrme^rly irequired under the old
The . logical . basis for the exchange
^.Which^at>; one. time was weli
was the cost of .trans
"?:? ai^^^'^ney from"ohe place to an
,r 3t?ei?. to ' meet - checks drawn against
ps;;^^^^re^ent transfers of money were
^l^e^ated by .the fact -that these
a^"i^e..znsnjr. independent channels of
fv^^?Qns; "By concentrating collec
\ il^ttsnito ope channel and by effecting!
kjp&jjy. ^ttleiient- between all Federal
;;15^gerve Banks ard-branches, the nec
, '^^^ty'Cf^r transportation of actual j
inoney to settle balance's has been'
.... rednced*to a minimum.. By the par
; X tieipaticn . of all Federal Reserve
'I^ttiil0-;atia"\br^c5ies;.in a daily set
- ttement_ made by the transfer of cred
> ri!?:^rotigh the gold settlememnt fund
;.;^^^o?-iin-Washington, the necessity for
^^J^transportation of actual money to
?-'^??e^;;seftlement has been practically
t^llmhiated.
of these economies have been
O r bperauon of the
^Federal Resrve par collection system.
/? It. has been'estimated that between
^j^^Se^Aent wording of this system
- rinduniversal practice of charging
f^js???Lii'^e at one-tenth of one per cent
'%\ 5?w>?.; difjterence to the business inter
? ?yv$i?a.\^^.of 'the country would be an
.Jta^unJ exiceedin^ a yearj
ItecticliHy all of ihenon-par banks'
that is the^banks whose checks are
not colectlble at par through the Fed
era:l>Reserve system because of their
refiisa? to remit to Federal Reserve
?ahW without deducting exchange,
a*e cblfecting the items* deposited with
t'lem by their customers and drawn
: ovi the par banks of the country
itirough? one or more member bank
obrrespondents. In doing this the
n>n^par banks are accepting par col
ketfcjn with respect to checks upon
mote than' 92 per cent of the banks
in the United States and declining tc|
give in return a similar service with'
respect to ATxe checks drawn upon
themselves and- deposited in par banks
of the country.
Given
Adolo de ja Huerta Chosen
? President Ad Interim
Mexico City, May 24.?Adolfo de la!
Huerta. governor- x>t Sonera, was;
. rutmed president ad interim of Mex
ico by extraordinaiy session of con
gress this evening. He received 224
votes against 28 tor Pablo Gonza
lez. ' '
Gen. Antonio Villareaf was the only i
other candidate. The extraordinary
session had been fixed for 3 oTclock
this afternoon but did not begin work
?nt? 6 o'elock br ?use of the lack
of a quorum. After one hour and a
isalf of balloting. Governor de .la
Huerta received the necessary two
thirds majority.
The new incumbent holds office
jinder the "Agua Prieta plan" and
has already postponed the presiden
tial elections from July 4 to Septem
Jber 5 under authority of the "Aguaj
Piieta plan." which makes him su
preme chief of the liberal constitu
tional army. He exercised the same
authority in calling the Extraordi
nary session.
COTTON MILLS IN
CREASS CAPITAL
Columbia, May 2,5?Authority has
been granted by the Secretary of State
to a number of. cotton mills recently
increase of capital stock. The
!ueapau Mills hav.c increased their
ital stock from ^Od^OOO to $1,076,
The Monarch Mills, "Union, re
increased their capital from
^600 to. $4;030,000. The Pelzer
ginnfa^turfng Company increased its
?Pltal from $440,000 to $3.000,000
|d the;Riverside Manufacturing Co.,
" AndersO%?'?'"'-'.hits . increa^jd from
)rooo to rL'tQto?w*
r
j:v?|rf/W?;Sf*mii3ijly Tired After Long
/Trip, sod Was Easily Cap.
t?red; Given Name.
I The American eagle recently-spread
ijtfs wings majestically over Canadian
-soil, i The eagle?a real one by the
way?soared from somewhere and
landed in Sandwich, Ont. Whence he
came, nobody knows. But it was-from
*_1oqS :-way off, as he was manifestly
exhaiiated when he alighted on the
roof of a new house at the corner of
Lot and Peter streets. It was just
jibeut noon, .and children coming from
school espied him, says the Detroit
News.
The bird Stayed on bis perch for
some, time, when .Use mob gathered be
l?w.^ The eagle surveyed the,crowd in
a bored manner during the afcftiutes
when- he was not engaged in searching
;/TOh his beak for something or things
under his feathers. The crowd be
<?me larger and more threatening.
Finally one braver than the rest* evi
dently a Triton? without guile, east the
-first stone.
The American eagle spread his wing*
to their full extent and, waiting not
for the year of parley between disput
ant nations, fluttered to the^ground.
I Down the streets of Sandwich the
proud bird trotted with unhurried
but dangerous steps. Through a gaunt*
let Of citizen* he ran, Indian like, turn- j
Ihg bft beak from right to left with j
each new step to peck at some Venture- j
,&>ine bystander or over-ardent pur
suer. It looked for a time as if the
:hird would not be captured. But he
finally came to a man whose attitude
was not hostile. With scarcely a
.ftriiggle the eagle gave in.
His captor was Clyde Thornton, 31
Peters Street, an American citizen.
During the remainder of the day the
Sandwich residents made tentative
peace offerings in the form of pieces
of meat The bird accepted them un
graciously.
? His name is Soosevelt," Thornton in
sists.
GODDESS HAS MANY STATUES
?SeJchtnett, or Mut, Egyptian War QU
vinlty, Seems to Have Been a
; Favorite With Sculptors.
The jirrival at the Metropolitan Mu
seum or Art, in New York, of seven
statues of Sekhmett, or Mut, the an
cient Egyptian goddess M war, pur
chased in England in 1914, reminds
ohe .of the beginnings of modern inter
est archeology, for the seven stat
ues, although their history over the
last century seems difficult to trace In
all its details, were probably among
the earliest results of Egyptian exca
vation that came to England. Some
thing over thirty centuries ago Egyp
tian sculptors were carving such stat
utes out of .solid blocks of black gran
ite for the,decoration of temples; and
then In 1760, as the record goes, an
Arab sheik, working at the instigation
of a Venetian priest, found a statue
of fiat in the sand- that had accumu
lated over the rums. of Karnac. Since
then a good many statues of Mtrt have,
been recovered, and the strange god
dess of-strife; part animal and part
human, as the sculptors imagined her,
4welis in many a museum.
Don't Blame Mosquito.
We have lately been taught that the
mosquito was the oniy disseminator of
malaria? and that we should be safe if
we should get rid ?f mosquitoes. But
Doctor Roux, farmerly, chief "physician
of^the St Louis hospital at Jerusalem,
. agsertr as the/result of his own experi
ence of 20 years and that of many
colonial physicians, that malaria often
exists where there are no mosquitoes.
He points eut that everywhere in
malarial countries the disease breaks
but just at the time when the soil is
broken for planting. He does not deny
that the anopheles: mosquito spreads
malaria, but he says this is evidently
not the only means of infection.
The old theory that malaria was
caused by the lid air of swampy dis
tricts or by certain emanations from
the soil may be-correct after all.
-:--A
Beliefs About World's End.
The Mohammed ms believe the time
of the end of the world to be a per
fect secret to all save God alone; the
angel Gabriel himself acknowledged
his ignorance on this point when Mo
hammed asked him about it.
Christianity of all is the least cer
tain about the precise tune of the
event. Jesus, telling his disciples of
the precursory signs of the great ca
tastrophe, said: "Verily, this genera
tion will not pas* before my words
shall be accomplished." The first
Christians, accordingly, looked to im
mediate fulfillment of the prediction
aad believed the end of the world
near at hand. Although the advent
failed to come to pass, they claimed
to believe in its near realization. Still,
centuries followed centuries and the
world continued to live.
Royal Grapes at Low Prices.
The vine which belonged to the
kings of France still exists at Fou
tainebleau aud bears fruit. One day
in September the administration of
the demesnes, according to established
custom, sold the grapes by award.
There were 600 kilos of grapes, and
the astonishing thing is that they sold
for 525 frapes! Yet the litrie. com
mon grapes to be bonght on the Paris
street barrows f*Htagroa?20 to 25
sous the pound. ^ajfffejErw*8 grow
chea? these days
DATE THERE, THOUGH HIDDEN
' ???
j Information en Peace Tower Erected
in Canada Would Puzzle Aver
age Man to Find.
Back to the earliest times when man
erected public or memorial buildings
is said to run the practice of recording
the-'-date so that it remains hidden
from casual view, in an Ornament of
inscription, and can only be read by
Careful study. Why the practice
started it is now impossible to say; it
ieoks almost like a playfulness on the
part of the first builders, but it has
continued down the ages, and its latest
example occurs in the great- peace
tower of the government buildings in
Ottawa. Here one reads the iu&erip
tion:
This Stone was laid by
Edward, Prince of Walesv v
;i September 1.
In this Year of Victory. .
Finis Ccronat Qpvs.
The hypothetical. stranger from Mars
j might- reasonably ask when was the
Year of Victory; and if he eqtamiued
the inscription closely he might dis
cover that certain letters, beginning
with the first *%V are distinguished
from the rest by having an indenta
tion imder them, andthat adding these
letters together answered his question
in Roman numerals. Most of us, per
haps, would have to take the dic
tifmary to help ns translate them, but
none the less J&^DDIGLnmCIIGV
means 1919.?Christian Science Moni
tor.
NEW STYLE OF ARCHlTECTIHtE
Long Sought and Made Possible Only
Through the Employment of Mod
ern Reinforced Concrete.
Planning a memorial church to be
built entirely of concrete.,an American
architect introduces a novel mode of
consrrjiction\and claims to have found
"what architects for centuries have
failed to prodnee?an entirely new and
irore style of architecture. Pure, be
cause it conforms to all the essential
IQeas of architecture; new, because
only modern reinforced concrete has
mate It possible." The structure taj&es
advantage of the plasticity of rein
forced concrete, and the buildidir,
which would (be practically monoiitStifc
when finished, would have its external
and internal forms identical to a
degree new to architecture; its vaults
would' spring direct from the. floor
. level and there would be no separat
ing distinction between walls and roof.
In fact; one might say that the build
ing would be "all roof, and have no
structural walls whatever." Archi
tectural opinion may fan. of unani
mous approval; yet it must be ad
mitted that the plan seems to adf.pt
itself logically to the medium in which
it is to -be worked out, which is an
Important point in its favor.?Kx
change.
1,- " ? ? v
Recalls Roman Conquest
The sale Is announced of the an
cient Caerwent Monmouthshire, Eng
land, which is mentioned in Doinesd :ay
Book. This town (Benta S?urluiiJ
was the headquarters of a powerful'
and warlike tribe called Silures,, who
occupied "approximately. the counties
Of Monmouth? Brecon and Giamorgai.."
In spite of the fierce resistance offer/>d
by# them, about 48 a. T>^ to the Bo
man conquest; their town in time be
came a Roman city, not unlike Sil
chester, but smaller.
The old walls and gateways still
survive, and the many excavations car
ried out have discovered Roman relics
of much interest?a town hall and
market square, a temple, baths, .fres
coed panels, and also water pipes' said
to have carried drinking water from
the hills.
?-? \
Shop Talle
A school teacher was discussing the,
way she had been changed from dae
building to another. "TJje manual train-'
ing supervisor was with the superin
tendent when I went in to see where
he was going to send me," she said,
"and I Just asked them if I was to
sweep shavings up in that depart
ment,*
Her listeners smiled; they smiled
again when she continued: "Then
the superintendent told me to go to
the high school and sweep shavings
no in the history department there."
"Why," mildly put in one of them,
"are they blockheads down there?"
Plant's Name Significant
The spelling of Mangel-Wurzel is a
question which appears capable of be>
Ing settled In different ways. What
is really interesting about the word
is the fact that its name was altered
from Runkelr?ben by the German
people. At a time of famine ?unkel
ruben saved the people from starva
tion, and was for that reason given
the new name of Mangel-Wurzel, lit
erally "famine root." The plant stood
the Germans in good stead during the
latter days of the recent war, thus
once more earning its sobriquet, by j
which it is known everywhere in Eng
land.?Christian Science Monitor. j
Counting the Cost
"How much do you pay for beef
steafcr
"Not much. After the salesman
gets through charging for the suet and
the bone the cost of the edible por
tion is scarcely worth mentioning."
Valuable. J
"Guess m have to go without any!
sugar at dinner." \
'?Couldn't you get any?" - j
^ "It is** that I have quite a litt?,
btfr-rr* lost the key to my sate de
posit box,"
_? ...
this right now!
BaaMdHM mil mi iuti arrp .
Ko man ever smoked a
Lcllir clj^rctte thin Camel]
Ycuru il^d Camels unequalled, by
py ci^irctto in fite world at any
prico because Camels combine
every feature thai ccn make a
cigt&tife. cuprzme!
CosTioh errport blend of choice
T?rkei: and choice Domestic
fcbaccos puts Camels in ? class by
themselves. Their smoothness
will appeal to you; and permit
you to smoke liberally without tir
ing your taste I
Carilels leave no unpleasant ciga
retty aftertaste nor unpleasant
cigaretty odor!
You'll prefer Cam?ls blend to either
of tobacco smoked straight!
STATE PYTHIAN
' MEETING HELD
Grand Lodge Holds Busy Ses
sion at Greenville
Greenville, May 26?The grand
lodge of Knights of Pythias held a
busy session today. Officers were
elected and committee reports rwere
discussed and disposed of. Liberal
appropriations were made for grand
lodge operations, orphanages and wid- j
owt The Pythians voted $500 to the
South Carolina Memorial Association.
Greenwood will entertain the grand
lodge next year. ?
The "following officers, were'elected:
P. Finley Henderson, \Aiken, grand
[chancellor; Henry C. THlman, Green
wood, grand vice chancellor; J. C.
Guilds, Bamberg, grand prelate; C. D.
Brown, Abbeville, grand keep of rec
ords and seal; Wilson G. Harvey,
Charleston, grand master of exche
quer; E. R. C?x, Darlington, grand
master at arms; W. ?). Morrow, Troy,
grand inner guard; E. D. Lemm?cks,
Walterboro, grand outer guard; W. F.
McNab, Barnwell, grand tribune.
Name District Deputies.
Grand Chancellor Henderson, ap
pointed the following district depu
ties:
George Wachsmuth. Charleston,
first district; the Rev. E. V. Baldwin.
Hartsville, second district; Ernest L.
Allen, Aiken, third district; J. F. Wil
lianf's, Columbia, fourth district; S. L.
Krasnoff, Sumter, fifth district; W. P.
Jacobs, Clinton, seventh district; E.
M. Moffett, eighth district,
j The following gra*d lodge commit
teemen were named by the grand
/msincellor: _
Judiciary: R. M. Jeffries. Walter
boro; W. F. Robertson, Greenville,
and, A. B. Hollman, Anderson.
Ways and'means: ' J. L. McCarter,
(Aiken; J. M. HeniphilL Chester, and
j E. T. Whiting, Clinton.
Remember Heroes
I The Pythians appropriated $500 to
I the South Carolina Memorial associa
[ tion. The motion to donate was
adopted enthusiastically.
The grand lodge, made liberal ap
propriations /or orphanages in the
State and will send $105 to a widow of
!a deceased/knight in Columbia. The
j Pythians Jvere asked to give- $37.50
to a fund to purchase Bibles for dis
tribution and the amount was cheer
fully givcuv^ H
7
?;
Obregon Demands Ap
pointment of Committee
An Investigation of Carranza's
Death to Be Started at
Once
*Iwx:co City. Mny 27?General Ob
regor today asked the Mexican Sen-1
ate to name the members of the com-1
mission to investigate the death of i
President Carranza. {
DIAZ RALLYING
CARRANZA PARTYj
New Government of Mexico Hasj
I Both Diaz and Villa to
Contend With
Vera Cruz.. May 21?The rebel for
ces commanded by Gen. Felix Diaz are
reported to be combining with the
? ^dps still loyal to the Carranza ad
herents. ^< ??. _ ._
MS. CHRISTEN
SEN REPLIES
Accuses Mr. Benet of Deliber
ately Misstating Facts
? ?i
Columbia^ May 25?Niels Christen
sen, Senator from Beaufort county,
again takes issue with former United
States Senator Christie Benet, of Co-j
lumbia, on the suffrage question, in
the following statement issued this af- j
ternoon:
"Democratic women of this State
asked /the State Democratic conven
tion to! let them vote in the primaries
when they shall be given the i>allot
for general elections. That jsvas all
th^re Was to the resolution I offered.
Xo results, or motion, or^move of mine
or of the other suffrage leaders in the
conventi?rf had any other purpose.
We were not trying to assist suffrage
woAers in Delaware or Mississippi,
Mr. Benet said so, but that does n?t
make it so. Keep to the issue. Noth
ing he or I can do is going to affect
the ratification of the Anthony
amendment. But upon him and upon
me and upon the other male Demo
crats of South Carolina rest the de
cision of whether Democratic women
voters shall vote in Democratic /pri
maries. That is the issue.
"Mr. Benet again misstates the' fact
when he says I introduced the resolu
tion instructing the San Francisco 'del
egation to support President Wilson's i
leadership for the ulterior purpose of!
getting indirect endorsement' of the
Anthony amendment. That resolu
tion was written five minutes before
it was offered and the only person
consulted was Mr. Robert Lathan, ed
itor of the News and Courier, an anti-j
suffragist, by the way. The conven-1
tion did not immediately defeat this
amendment by an overwhelming maj
ority, as Mr. j Benet's statement asserts.
I refer him to Mr. J. Wilson- Sibbes,
secretary of the convention, who has
the records. .The convention did not
vote on that motion, i modified it so
as ?o serve its purpose' without hurt
ing the feelings of some members and
the convention adopted it without a
dissenting voice. The motion was de
signed - to commit our delegation to
Wilson's leadership in the convention
when the attack on him comes. That
was all. Mr. Benet was seeing things
at night. His charges that the active
suffragists in this State were paid still .
rests on his unsupported assertions."
"Mr. Benet and others of a coterie,
of political leaders may be counted on
to keep the- women out of the primar
ies as long as possible. They ran that
convention from Start to finish like an
oiled machine and did not hesitate-to
make false 'imputations of motives,
and to do. all that skillful lawyers
could to becloud-the issue." Tfe does -
not hesitate after the convention- to
carelessly make a* false statement ^as
to the record in his effort to show how.
badly beaten fais^opponen^-w^ev^^
the mass of the Democrats are going
to the bottom of^hiS thing and they
W?1 see there is fair, play for the
I Democratic women of South Caro
lina." j - . i
INCREASED
FREIGHT RATES
Representatives of Southern
Railroads to Appear Be
for Inter-State Com- ? <-%
meree
Washington, May 27?After the
Eastern group of railroads conclude ."
their statements the representatives Of
Southern railroads will begin their
testimony before the Interstate' Com
merce Commission on their applica-1
tion for an Increase in freight rates..
BRYAN'S MORAIiS AMENDMENT. 5
Law Againpt Innnorality to be Incor
porated in Constitution.
Philadelphia, May 26 ? Another \
amendment to the federal constitu
tion, providing a single standard ?f \
morals for men and women and 'in- i
fiictihg severe penalties for immorality
was- predicted / by William Jennings
Bryan'in an address before .the gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States here to
day. ; M
He then commended the assembly 1
for having gone oh record for a single jj
code of morals.
- ;/ . ? ??-? *
At a meeting of the board of trus-.,
tees, the Branchviile teachers were
given a bonus of $50 each in apprecia- ;
tion of their service^during the past :
year.
This Medicine Recommended by a Doctor
DR. J.H. WAGNER
isfy beyond a doubt thai
FE-B?-&A. may bo
When a doctor uses a medicine him
self besides prescribing it to hfe patients,
he must know that it has merit. w ".
This is what Dr. J. H. Wagner, a prom? '
inent physician of Skate, Kentucky, ha? 3
to say about Dr. Hartman's Well-known
remedy, PE=RU-NA: "I have used FE- 1
R??-NA myself for catarrh and have
given it to others for catarrh; bloating l.;
after eating and other aliments. It has
pVoved a success in all cases with old
and young men and women. All speak
well of PE-RC-NA. It is the best of all
tonics."
Dr. Wagner, out e$ the fullness of his
own personal experience, for the good ot
all sick and suffering, recommends a I
medicine which he knows to be good. 3
You may be sure a doctor would not en- .1
danger his* professional reputation by }
endorsing FE-R?-NA unless satisfied :be
yond a doubt of its value.
Whether your trouble be ? cough or ?'
cold; or a more subtle catarrhal effection ?
of the stomach, bowels or other organs,
give PE-R?-NA a triial. The immediate ?
improvement which you will see Wiii sat* -
P&-RXJ-N? is what you need. ~ ,
anywhero & ?*et or lfrt?d foSa^