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TUT, 81 MTI.lt WATCHMAN, ?stabilst CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2, 18 FIVE BILUON DOL NECESSARY - Huge Sum Required to Pay Run? ning Expenses of the Gov? ernment Next Year CANNOT GET BACK TO PRE-WAR BASIS Every Department is Calling For More and More Money Every Year?Houston Submits Esti? mate Washington. l>ec. 6.? (By the Asso , elated Preen.)?Another peaco-tlme emimute of nearly five billions of dol? lar* for the government's expenses during ths fiscal year 1022 fncej con? gress wh-n it reassembled today. The exact figures as transmitted by Sec? retary' Honst, n were 14.653,956,759. an increase of nearly one billion dol? lars over th>- appropriations for the current year, birr $211.000.000 less than estimates submitted a year ago. Continuing war costs weio directly reflected llUTOngliOPl the ????>; i ma t es, in? dicating that the government might be on a four billion dollar basis for soi ? years to come as compared with tho . one billion dollar maximum preceding the aar. The single item of Inter? est on the publlo debt was almost the prs-war maximum cf all appropri? ations this total being $922,650,000. In addition there was an estimate of 1265,754,964 for the war-debt sinking fund. Of the individual departments, the army und navy, as usual, asked for the greatest amounts, the estimate for the military establishment being $G99.276.602 and for the naval estab? lishment $669.622.231. The total estimates as given by Mr. Houston follows: Legislative (congress).. 9.324.040 Executive (White House and government de? partments) . 125.449.379 Judicial (Supreme Court) 1,690,215 Department of AgTl. 41.999.379 Foreign Intercourse .... 11,992.943 j Udisn affairs . 11.999,703 1 !'?rfalons .* 265.190.000 J Pangma Canal . . ..(.. 16.IH7.255, Public works . 250.929.194 Postal service. 595,406,902 : Mtoeeltaneoua. 675.164,741 j Permanent annual ap probrlat ons .1,300,776,361 Those estimates, prepared by the Democratic administration, are for the Operation of the government during the first agoai year of the new re? publican administration. Republican leaders In the senate and house al? ready have forecast a sharp cut in tin total and w.thln the week tli" house committees will begin the work of shaping th*? bills which will cary the sums for the vat ions departments. The estimate for the postal service Will not actually figure In govern? mental expenditures since the postal revenues practical!] cover tho cost or operation l m inded in the estimates for the srmy and navy is a total of $95,000. ?00 for development and mainten? ance of the air service in the two de I naive branches of the government, the navy asks fat $35.000.000 and the army seeks $6<M00.000. nef among the estimates for tho navy is one of SSLg.ioeo.nnn to con tlnus the 1318 fnr?" \?ar building program. Tay for the navy personnel exceeds it. by $923.910. The army's greatest single item is $215.669.880 for the pay and mileage of officers and men. Subsistence c >sta for the force Is estimated at $6 4,490. 696. An appropriation of $7 1.809.000 Is proposed for the national guard. Kxpenditurea on public works sug? gested under the war department to? tal $185.134.92N of Whtdh $16.01?, 166 goes to river and harbor develop? ment. I - improvement atld main? tenance of military posts, fortifications and oth? r work* of defense tho army list* $117.153.614. Included in the miscellaneous lien.* is aS ISg mate of $147t6ft,l36 for the shipping board snd one of 6lSO.ooo.ooo fa tne bureau of war risk insurance In Its program to Iaht care of dis? abled soldiers, sailors und marines under the war risk act, the treasury department seek* appi opr tutlons of $35.000.000 for Sddltl n il hospital and dispensary facilities and $66,000,066 for medical and hospital service. The federal board PSf vocational educa? tion asks $7v?oo.ooo to entry an its work. The treasury also seeks $57.03K.Ooo for th? internal revenue departm nt | whh h compares with $41,016,000 spent m the ciirren- flsr ?i year For prohibition enforcement $7.5nO.O00 Is asked. Included in the mi-irellane ois ?-\ pendltures are estimates by the rlous IgsOUtS f >r the conduct of atrleily depart Blent 11 affairs some of I which follow Ihtorstati oommores Commission t"..57 4.iu)0, federal trade commission. $1.055.000; l nded Ktutea employes compensation commission and c^mpt-n?. if ion fund. $2.92??.MO and railroad labor hoard, $550.000. Steubenvilbv <>hi<>. I?e> . | -iMHiel ? 'side, a pottei y worker. n ,4S attacked by robber, who. gUdtUg Cable's pock? et empty offered him ton dollars Jeise\ f't\. l?e< I ? StlStlSji J5? ?> nort, s heavyweight boser, died from I blow tec \e.l tn i ??enit with AI Hats * i last night. *>d April, 1830. "De Jost I 81. LAR BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR CONSUMERS' STRIKE HITS BUSINESS No Early Hope for Relief Held Out by Reserve Board - Washington, Doc. 6.?No hope of early relief from business depression Is held out in the monthly statement of the federal reserve board, made | public tonight. Depression, exists in most communities, the statement said, and one of the basic caases so far as the board could detormire was a "con? sumers' strike"?an evident public de? termination "to wait for prices to come down." Manufacturing activities continued to fail off during November, the board said. A wave of "reduction" by retailers has not, it adted. resulted in increased buying, which would cause a resumption of production In many lines. A "corresponding de? cline in the buying power" reflected in the decreased volume of trade of ? 1 kinds also was noted. "It Is Impossible," the board con? tinued, "to estimate the extent to which the comp.etlon of the readjust? ment process may involve further slackening of employment and the In? crease of commercial embarrassment. The favorable elements In the im? mediate situtalon are the Improve? ment of transportation and easing of credit conditions." The board said there was a ten? dency by some retail merchants to at? tempt to realize on stocks at the par? ticular day's prices, but that reports from the various reserve districts In? dicated that there was also a counter sentiment among merchants to make thedr profit regard l*>*s of the current wholesale prices. "Cold weather in most sections has stimulated the buying of clothing," the board said. "In general the usual seasonal demand Is still lacking. There is generally reported a decided determination on the part of the buy? ing public to wait until prices come down snd this is characterized by some as a consumer's strike. "Stores generally ate reducing stocks and making no attempts to re? plenish them. Outstanding orders are declining and retailers are ordering only what Is needed to meet day-to? day requirements." "While prices are slowly declining It is still felt that present declines have not parallelled declines in whole? sale prices. 'Shoppers' are confining buying to necessities and staples with the result that the volume of trade has fallen off." CANADIAN VOICES STRONG PROTFS? Opposed to Technical Organiza? tion of League to Control Finance Geneva. Dec. 8?Plans for the pro? posed formation of a technical or? ganization of the league of nations, for dealing with finance, health and, transportation were attacked at the league sssebly by Newton Kowell, Ca? nadian deelgate. who contended that It take such organizations from control of the assembly and Ihen place them under the Intluenee of Kurope. 110 rxcialmed: ' rifty thousand Canadian soldiers under the sod of Europe is the price Canada paid for European statesmanship, which drenched the continent in blood." WOMAN CHECK FLASHER Columbia, Dec. 8.?-MfS. J. C. Tlf ton, as she given h?r name, a pretty young matron of Greenwood, seven? teen years of age. plays the piano in the Richland county jail, waiting for her trial before a Jur. on the charge of "Hashing" false checks before the faces of Columbia merchants, on which she secured valuable articles of wear.ng apparel. She refuses to give her real name, for she says she doesn't want her parents in Greenwood to knew of her crime. The young lady says she had an accomplice and that she las been in Spartanburg, Green? ville and other Piedmont cities. She is good-looking and full of "pep" but there is a considerable amount of cvl den< ? against her. in the pending : ry case. She will be tried within a few days, a* soon as Columbia's ehlef of police returns to the ctty from fed oral court In Charleston. i:i Paso, Dec s.?Local offlcors elaim that Miss Clara Smith, wanted In oonnectlon with the death of Jake I la mo n at ArdmoKe, Oklahoma, was le ited in Joaren, but they got im preoston Crom the Ardmore sheriff that the woman was not wanted and l ? l leaped UltO the interior of Mex? ico. run:, p.. y .'i'!,,. rjroek govern" ? hi- iddrt HiSd a note to former King Constantlne asking him to nh> diente immediately in favor of the > "V n prince, says an Athens nis pateh, Louisville, Dee, K?After being in rorporated for one hundred and twen? ty si* years, the elty of Jsjferaontpwn \ ?s |tet!t!oned the circuit, court to re mki' the charier therchy reverting ths i itv to OOUnty control because of ,1 high taxes. md Fear Not?Let all the coda Thou A SUMTER, S. C., SATURDAY, D GERMAN SPY ARE YORK, Deserter, Formerly Sti Greenville, Makes Sei Following Ai New York, Dec. 7.?Sensational closures of his mission to this count} (is a spy for the German governmei were given in an alleged confession John Willers, formerly captain Company I, Forty-eighth Unit States Infantry, alleged thief and < sorter, after his arrest here toni?l charged With absconding with 000 of his company's funds on "Dei;< ber 10, 1919. His regiment was tl stationed at Camp Sevier, Greenvi! S. C. His capture was accidental. He crossing Fifth avenue at Fqrty-se< street, near the Public library, wl Hugh J. Hanningan, formerly a lieutenant In Willers* compare^, ognized him. Hannlgan called; a ikotAan and Willers was arrested, a police station the prisoner \?hk t\ iher identified by two other farm] lieutenants in Company I? 61dm howe) 1 and Francis Hatch, was then taken to Governor's Islai headquarters of the Second* array c?i and placed in confinement at Fc Jay. j Willers, the police said, recited a brazen fashion how he was sent the United States as one of 300 c*< trained in the acts of espionage to list in the American army. On his arrival in the United etat? Willers wont to Albany. wBjird h* e| listed, he said, an a private. Hie itary a ttitude won him rapid tnrpn tlon and his knowledge of Bngl and his ability to "spet.k like i American" enabled him to\ otypAn commission. t Wflters said be had never noon sej across the ocean and while m country his Instructions were yto the part of a loyal, American" dney WlH< iBAimSTSADVOCA' LARGER SCHOO] ? State Convention Endorses Prop? osition to Urge Legislature to Make Greater Appropriation^ -< For Schools Columbia. Dec. 8.?In thS report - ho general board of the Baptist de? nomination In South Carolina, under coheideration by the Baptist state convention today, it is suggested In a proposed resolution, that the legis? lature which convenes In- January be urged to make large appropriations icr public education; that the needs of the public school system be laid before the general assemblymen. Tho board also recommends group Insurance for the aged ministers, the policies to be taken in the Southeast? ern Life Insurance Co., of Greenville The report goes Into the work of the denomination during the past/ year, covering its educational, ita evangelistic and its mission work. It shows that during the year there were 3.967 additions to the church. It recommends that $200,000 of the 75 milllon campaign be used for the Greenville Woman's college building; that Limestone college, Gaffney, be taken over by the denomination; that the Baptist Courier be bought by the denomination* and that all schools uydor Baptist direction in the state be convention?owned. It recommends, t 15-standard-unit entrance require? ment for all educational institutions. Approximately 000 Baptl*** are at? tending the convention. SAYS AMERICANS ARE IGNORANT Sister of Mayor MaeSwiney Tells Commission That Friends of Irish Can Help Most by Learning the Truth Washington, Dec. 8?Miss Mary MacSwinney, a sister of the'late Lord Mayor of Cork, testifying before the commission of the committee of one hundred that is Investigating the Irish question, said "that American aid for Irish Independence could best be executed through "efforts to gain the truth about actual conditions," She said that most of the Americans are uninformed. POLAND WANTS COTTON AT ONCE Representatives Confer With Manning and Walker Washington, Dec. 7.?Former Gov? ernor Manning, president of the Ex? ports and Imports Products corpora? tion, and Joseph Walker, of Columbia, vice president Of the same organisa? tion, were in conference for some time here today in the office of Senu tnr N. II. Dial with representatives of Poland who are anxious to obtain cot? ton. Th.? details (he MnbjejOsmWere discussed at length, but noni Parties would make any stay publication. Messrs, Man, walker left for New York hour or two aftor the co ?ruVt at be thy Country's, Thy God's a -. r . ECEMBER 11,1920 lESTED in new S army captain itionedat Camp Sevier, national Disclosures in New York ce no action until he reached the zone. 'What was your plan after reach? ing other side?" he was asked. ?? % could lead the company to slaughter," the police say he replied. ^Tou also would be killed," ha was "What of that? Thousands.of bet |rtor men died that way." While being questioned at the po ?Hce station the police say Willers Remarked that they would be sut fprlsed if they know "the number of officials at Washington during t^e hear who' were employed by Germany [as spies." "Are they still there?" ho was [asked. "That. 1 don't-know," be Is said to live answered. "But, there were meny if them during the war.*' The Forty-eighth infantry was still at Camp Revier when th4 vtwlstice was signed^ and Ids usefuTujibs aS a spy at auf ?end. willors told t3*e po? lice, he decided to become a .deserter and to takfe, they alleged, the funds, of his comjpany. ! tho deserter than went $0 Chicago,^ Where, about a year ago, he married 'S. young .American woman named 'Crawford.! * From Chicago, Willem roamed about the country, at various tomes in Jiis travels trying unsuccessfully to get a passport to Germany:. He dis? guised himself and waited an oppor? tunity to quit tho country. A pair of! heavy eye glasses, he said* was an important part of his disguise. When Questioned by military au? thorities at Governor's Island* Willors declined to amplify his alleged con *^saalssa?^ 8TATE HOSPITAJL FOR Il^SANE Regents Meet Next Week to Formulate Building Plans For Neut Year Columbia, Dec. 8.?The board of re? gents af the State Hospital meets In Colo nbia Thursday, to plan the pro t grain of work for 1911. This wilf In? clude tr.c completion of the plant at State Park, where all negro patients aro \:\ fut?re to be. cared for, segrega? tion of the races being the ultimate polier of the board. Yhs program of remodeling the city P'ant of the State Hospital, is about completed, the entire work being com? pleted. It is expected, by the first of the r.ew year. This will be the con? summation of a six-year building pro. I gram at the hospital, which has made {the plant one of the most complete of [Its kind in the south. The State Hospital plans the com. pletion In the near future of the plant at State Park, where all the negro pa? tients will be kept. The city plant will be for white patients exclusively. The I Taylor building is now being complet? ed, at the city plant, this l>eing the last to undergo the remodeling pro? cess. If thp state buildings bond issue, which has been proposed and which will likely bo presented to the 1921 legislature, is carried, the completion |of th3 State Park plant will likely come under this fund. Otherwise the legislature will be asked to appro? priate for the erection of these build? ings ss it has for the rebuilding of the j main plant of the hospital. MANY LIABLE TO PROSECUTION Manufacturers and Others Fail to Make Report to Depart? ment of Agriculture Columbia, Dec. 8.?One-third of the three thousand manufacturing plants in the state of South Carolina are liable to prosecution for failure to flic with the state department of agriculture tho report of their busi? ness for the year, according to a stste mcnt issued at the offices of the de? partment today. The first dateSHK partment today. The final dato for the filing of these reports was Decem? ber Oth, and a thousand manufactur? ing plants have not as yet sent in ihelr reports. Blsnks for those re? ports were sent to all manufacturers some weeks ago, it is stated. Includ? ed in the list of manufactories, gro cotton, fertilizer, cotton seed oil and [ other mills, newspapers, stone cutters. I and various classes of industry turn- j log out a "finished product." SANDEL CASE CONTINUED Columbia, Dee. &.?The ca?? of .1. O'Neal Saudel nga/nst the state of South Carolina, in, which the Calhoun county man Is suing the state for the death of his two doughti rs, following tho use of typhoid serum furnished by the stufe board ^rVhcnlth, has been continue,! and vynd be tried nexft spring. It was to hsy* been tried in Columbia this week, seeing sent back from the supremo court for new trial. od Troth's." THE TBA7K 5< PRESIDENT. WiLSf) PROGRAM OF BARELY TEN MILLION BALES Census Report on Cot? ton Ginning Shows 10,144,921 Bales in Sight to Decem? ber First Washington, Dec. 8.?Cotton ginned prior to December ist t .mounts to 10,144,821 half?, the census bureau announced today. Memphis. Dec. 8?The leaders at the I OliNpr nin of planters, bankers, and mertharrts endorse the plan to withdraw financial aid to all farmers who fall to agree to cotton acreage reduction in the fight against lower prices. WAREHOUSE SYS? TEM NEEDED EftriHng Says No Banking Sys? tem Can Finance All Staple i [ Crops j Indianapolis, Dec. 7?Establlsh |ment of warehouses throughout the I country of sufficient capacity to per? mit, even distribution of farm prod? ucts during the entire yea- w**e ad? vocate a here tonight before the an? nual convention of the American Farm Bureau federation t>y Asbury Lever, a member of the federal farm loan. board, as a permanent safe* guard for the farmer against big de? clines in prices. His plan' included sale by the government of certifi? cates Issued against the warehouse receipts which he said would give ready money to farm producers. "Given such a system of market? ing,' declared Mr. Lever, "ih? nest census will show a drift of popula? tion countryward instead of city? ward." Governor Harding of the federal reserve board, who also addressed the convention, aaid the "present pre? dicament" Of the farmers caused by depreciation in prices was receiving every consideration by the govern? ment officials. Be added that no banking system could provide funds to withhold all staple crops from the market without causing financial dis? aster and advocated cooperation be? tween farmer, merchant and banker as the solution of the present sltt tlon. . In addition to advocating the wi house plan, Mr. Lover suggested formation of foreign trade corp< tipns under the Edge act as a relief for the farmers in their present fin? ancial situation. The warehouse plan, he said, promised the better nent benefits for the farmers. "The present lack of a sysffafe for financing marketing," said Mr. ?jever, "forces 75 pee^jpj^t of stapbjfcj cultural products upon,, the msjrket In four months, with the' r?u3u?bjmt au? tumnal dip in farm prices.^ "What we must have is aYpiece of credit machinery adopted to Ahe han? dling of paper with a matyaty which synchronizes with the ijferiod of growth and distribution, .'phe plan involves first, the standardization Of staple agricultural products * of a warehouseable character Into grades and classes; second, the Amlldlng up under federal, state, or/both, regu? lation and Inspection -of/a system of bonded warehouses fojr/ sich prod? ucts; third, the IsSuaneJe of uniform elevator or wa^ehoujbe receipts; fourth, the pooling, iegion- ily, of these warehouse recefwtS in the hands of a government appointee; and fifth, the Issuance against these pooled warehouse receipts nf a certificate, debenture or bond s/id the selling of the same to the Investing public at suc*h rates of interests as such col? lateral will command." Washington, Bee. 8.?President Wilson informed the senate that the total expenses of/the American peace commission waaf one million, six hundred ahd flfjl -one thousand, one hundred and ^ninety-one dollars. Marlon. Deef S.---Senator Harding is back from hns vacation, and begins the actual oOastructive work on the policies of tile coming administra? tion. He wnj pleased with the result of his Washington conferences. Washington, Dec, 8.?The state de? partment Announced that Acting Sec? retary Davrts has begun a series of conference* with treasury officials to? ward removing the embargo on Rus? sian exo&Jlnge transactiens. ?? New jfork, Dec. 8.?The Amalga? mated fjlothink Workers fo America announced that New York manufac? turers pad locked out sixteen? thou? sand workers in the war on ttw? union. Washington, 'Dec. 8?PrestG>m Wilsofi has forwarded to the league of nations at Genov.v his recommenda? tions/ regarding the Armenia boun da r Louis, Dec. 7.?Mrs. Lillian \V?Jodlock .aged 36, who is Indicted for thf murder of two husbands, Is on kri_ N CALLS P STRICT ECO! Last Annual Message Congress Against Ext agance in Approprii and Expenditures WANTS WORKABLE BUDGET SY! Recommends. Loan and Independence Philippine Islands Washington, Dee. 7. of congress were in day to hear the pr message. It was' r Mr. Wrisen having h of his physician not t( son to present his ro < Galleries in both, wer? crowded. -Beth spt's hy the e?l tKe appear In men dal ate ana. dJhoNO dl the chance that appear in persou that his message the league of own approach!! IvatA life were; Mr. Wilson wholly to dornt inference did nearing close and that graph. The proi president series of feesion "o bred and pose to day." Aside message gress on it faces house effort president by the Dossil ilgiit touchy -1 >ns question 01 retirement tflb Usappointed. dined himself ah lit; questions. Onil message.refer to his admli the concluding pt^PL^ mil badi he presented,/ trere not so much w _en da lion 9 as a pan* rfaitb in which >% W rh it is my sotenta pur- < by unUl my bist ttgbtmg m hearing the president's greee made definite least one of the prnbl uring the ortef session, hred a rule under Which 1 be made Thursday to up the f im migration bill for action, f it wouid limit general to four/hours. The two days in* was avowed to permit Represuatitfbu Siegel/ of New York, a membor of the imroigpration committee,' to frame a ty report. t ' other matter tat either hotter eased today beyond Che cot staged At both ends Of howevue m? rubere to c oal with business jn, unemployment arid Discusi'.ons in the senate plight of farmers delayed tHa ding of the president's message Jsl ,t body. The industrial situation 4)90 found, a ace in the president's message; Jte eovery from war effects gave prom<*0 of early complcUon "only ip out own fortunate country." said Mr. #iisiji. and seen hers "halts and is impeded at times" A program of "immediate? ly serviceable, acts of legislation" to aid that rooove "and prove the in? destructible rscu erative force 0* a great government of the pec-pic/' should be undertaken, Mr. Wilson said, adding: "One of these is to prove that a great democracy can keep house as successfully and in ' as busmees-ttke fashion, as any other government." First among the recommended Stags Mr. Wilson placed enaXmont ' g "wor-kable bug$et system." He aid he'had vetoed >he budget b? jsed at the last session "reluctantly and bedause of "a constitutidhal . objec? tion* but as if was later revjeed in the house he believed it would, wiuu other measures, furnish "foundatiOn? for a national budget syetem" . Mr. Wilson clbsd figures as to the national debt and urged- "rigid econ? omy" in which all branches of the government should cooperate. "I canr.ot over-emphasize," he said, "the necessity of economy in govern? ment appropriations and expenditures and the avoidance by congresj of prac? tices which take money from the treasury by indeflbKe or revoWiag* fund appropriations." This year's estimates "strikingly" illustrated the importance of specific appropriations, the president added, the transportation act having "dis? turbed" the relationship between cur? rent receipts and expenditures to As extent of over a billion dollars. "It is obvious," the message con? tinued, "that these large payments have already seriously limited the government's progress in retiring the floating debt." "The president renewed some of the recommendations h<? made at the opening of the lust session and add? ed: "I do not fbol .it my privilege at present to suggest the detailed and particular method* by which these ob? jects may be attained, -but I nave faith that the inquiries of your sev? eral committees will discover the wby and tho method." The only recommendations for oth? er than domestic matters was that for a loan to Armenia, to be administer? ed through American commissioners to avoid "further tempting opportuni? ties" to revolutionary tendencies lh that country, and for granting inde? pendence to the Philippines^ "to keep our promise to the people of those islanda" * WHAT WORD WAR [COST UNITED STATES Washington. Doc. 8,?The net cost Of tho war to the A merican govern jment is tlxed by Secretary Houston pt twenty-four billion, ten million dolhv i