The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 19, 1921, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
NO MORE
NAVAL
WARFARE
i Five Great Powers are
, Agreed in Principle
and Spirit to Reduc
tion of Naval Arma
ment
Washington, Nov. 15. ? The
spokesmen of Great Britian,
| France. Italy and Japan, accepted
f the American proposals for the
i Minitation of naval armament in
"spirit and principle," making only
preservations for suggesting some
itxfgbdification of details.
I- Arthur Half our for Britain, Bar
ton Admiral Kato for Japan, Senator
I Schanzer. for Italy, Premier Briand
f:. for-Erance, in order, praised the
! plan and program suggested by the
American- government and gave the
adherence of their governments to
I the general terms.
?, Secretary Hughes, thanking them
t'- tot .their cordial expressions, de
clared the conference could pro
ceed ?with consideration of the de
tails of * the proposed agreement
with the assurance of "appropriate
agreement to the end that there
shall he no more offensive naval
war-are."
. Conference adjourned at 12:44
o'clock, subject to the call of Sec
retary Hughes.
Peace With Germany
President Harding Issues
. Proclamation of Formal
^ Peace
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Washington, Nov. 14.?Peace be
tween the United States and Ger
xoany'was formally proclaimed to
day by President Harding.
The president in a proclamation
signed at 3:52 p. m. today declared
the state of war between the United
States and Germany, existing from
April 6, 1917,* to have terminated
July 2, 1921, when the* joint peace
resolution of congress was appro v
e^LTby the executive.
Issuance of the proclamation,
which followed an exchange of
ratifications of the treaty at Ber
lin effected Armistice day in the
'"finnan capital, was considered the
first-.of a series of three steps
which, when completed, will return
the United States to a complete
peace status.
The second step probably will be
the promulgation of a proclamation
declaring the war with Austria to
be at an end, and the issuance
q~ similar proclamation with re
spect to Hungary. Until the third
? and" final step is taken, the purpose
of the .formal proclamation will not
be achieved, in the opinion of offi
cials. These purposes are stated
to be to put an end without doubt
to': certain war laws unaffected by
the congressional resolution of re
. peal approved last March 3. No
table among these wartime laws
are sections of the espionage acr,
the Liberty bond act and trading
with the enemy act. Portions of
the last named statute are preserv
ed, however, through the treaty.
Disposition of the cases of Eu-.
gene Y. Debs and others, convicted
i>Z violation of war laws, likewise
WiS await the third and final step.
Attorney General Daugherty has!
prepared an opinion for the presi
dent, suggesting a method of dis
posing of the Debs case and. it is
understood, proposing definite
treatment of the case of others,
convicted of similar offenses. This
opinion, however, has not yet been
presented to the president, and Mr.
Daugherty has indicated there may
be 3ast minute changes before its
submission:
The proclamation issued today
has no bearing on the resumption
of diplomatic relations between the
United States and Germany, state
department officials asserting that
the exchange of ratifications in it
self restored such diplomatic rela
tions. Just when Germany will
resume her old diplomatic status in
Washington is not known to offi
cials here, but it is expected that
Baron Thermann, former counsell
or of the German legation at Bu
dapest, will arrive in Washington
shortly to arrange for a technical
installation of a German embassy.
Press dispatches from Germany
-have indicated that the Ebert gov
jemment was having difficulty in
"finding a suitable appointee to the
?Washington ambassadorship in
view of the expense through dif
ference in exchange rates. It has
been- suggested that Germany
might for a time be content with a
charge d'affaires, but such sugges
tion has not been officially com
municated to th*^ American sta.e
department.
President Harding for some time
has had under consideration the
names of several possibilities as
ambassadors to Germany and it is
"understood that Representative
Alanson H. Houghton of New York
is first:in the president's mind in
that connection.
INVESTIGATION OF
WATSON'S CHARGES
DELAYED
Washingt onN.ov. if>.?The mem
bers of the special senate commit
tee appointed to investigate tin
charges by Senator Watson, of
-Georgia, of hanging soldiers in
Trance without trial, state that
the ino.uiry will probably not be
gin until after the regular session
of congress begins next month.
Topeka. Nov. 17.?Charles S.
Barrett, of Union City, Ga.. was
unanimously re-elected president of
the National Farmers' Union at the
annual convention.
MORE SECRET
DIPLOMACY
AT CONFERENCE
Disarmament Confer
ence Adopts Plan of
Committees Meet
ing in Secret Session
Washington, Nov. 14.?The real
work of the armament negotiations
was transferred *oday from the
open conference to the more se
cluded precincts of the committee
room.
After a debate which developed
widely separated views on the ad
visability of giving publicity to the
negotiations, the big five, compris
ing the chief delegates of the Unit
ed States, Great Britain, France,
Italy and Japan, settled on the
committee rlan as the only ac
ceptable solution.
To one committee, -whose mem
bership will be identical with that
of the full conference itself, was
; assigned the task of working out a
solution for the Far Eastern ques
S tions. Another, composed of all
the delegates of the five great pow
ers, was created to take over the
negotiations on the main topic of
armament limitation. Since only
the delegates of the five powers
are qualified to act on armament
limitation in the conference, the
result in each case will be to re
solve the delegates into a "commit
tee of the whole."
j Although no,official would make
j a prediction prior to the assembl
ing of the new "committees," the
presumption everywhere tonight
was that the meetings would be
held behind closed doors and that
j the public would get a glimpse of
I the proceedings only when, in
I their capacity as committeemen.
1 the delegates have an important
decision to report to the conference
i as a whole.
The committee plan was said to
have been agreed to as the- most
direct method of attack on the
j problems before the conference,
since it would permit greater lib
erty of confidential expression be
tween the representatives of the
various governments and would
be necessary should the sessions
continue entirely in the open.
Strike Talk '
Renewed by Unions
General Chairmen of Railroad
Brotherhoods Meet in
Chicago?
I Chicago, Nov. 14.?Six hundred
fifty general chairmen and officers
! of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
j Engineers and Brotherhood of Lo
! comotive Firemen and Enginemen
opened a three-day meeting here
today to consider their officials' ac
j tion in calling off the threatened
railroad strike and to plan their
future course of action.
[ Warren S. Stone, grand chief
j of the engineers, and William S.
Carter, president of the firemen
and enginemen. announced at the
! end of the first session that they
I would have nothing to say before
j tomorrow night, when a statement
probably will be made.
Although T. C. Cassen, president
of the Switchmen's Union of North
I America, was reported to be in the
j city with several of his executive
j officers, he did not attend the meet
ing, and Mr. Stone said he was not
expected. Neither W. G. Lee.
president of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, nor I. E. Shep
pard, president of the Order of
Railway Conductors, was present or
represented.
Union officials explained that the
general chairmen in attendance
I were those who did not respond to
I the United States Railway Labor
! Board's order to attend the hearing
j here two weeks ago, which culmi
nated in the calling off of the
threatened strike.
Following an explanation by Mr.
Stone and Mr. Carter of the rea
' sons which actuated the unions in
'. canceling the strike order, several
j committees were appointed to con
sider problems of future action,
j and directed to report at 9 o'clock
i tomorrow morning. Mr. Stone said
I the officials expected to complete
I their work by Wednesday night,
j The grand chief of the engineers
denied that today's session had any
connection with the announcement
made at Cleveland last week that
j the unions would revive the strike
j vote if the Labor Board failed to
make ?,'ood on the unofficial prom
i ise that no further wage cuts would
be considered until all pending
[rules and working conditions on
; the lines involved are settled,
j All the union officials were re
ticent when asked to discuss the
subjects considered at the meeting,
but united in saying that only
, routine problems of future opera
tions were discussed.
Mills Are Using
More Cotton
Washington. Xov. 15.?Tin- Oc
tober cotton consumption amount
ed to almost 41*5,000 bales of lint
and G1-.000 linters, compared with
401.000 bales of lint, and 48.O0U
, bales of linters in October, preced
ing tie- census bureau anouneed
! today. <?
j Churches Are Only
Hope of Civilization
Detroit, Xov. 15. ? if tin- churches
fail, there is small hope for civiliza
tion. President Harding told the
national conference of the Method
ist Episcopal church in a message
read at the opening session bv
Bishop William F. McDowell, of
Washington.
Formal Acceptance of
Hughes' Limitation
Proposals Laid Be
fore Conference by
Balfour
Washington. Xov. 15. ? The
second plenary session of the
armament conference began at 11
o'clock under an agreement pro
viding for opportunity for any na
tion to express its views on the
American plan for the limitation
of naval armaments. In view of
the decision of the two conference
committees on procedure yesterday
to establish two committees to
take over the armament negotia
tions and Far Eastern questions, it
is considered possible that no more
open sessions will be held before
the period of actual decisions.
Columbia Street
Railway Loses Money
During Ten Months of This
Year Expenses Exceeded
Income $91,055
Columbia. Xov. 15.?The Colum
bia Street railway is up against a
crisis, and if Columbia is to con
tinue to have street era- service,
something must be done, according
to a statement issued today by offi
cers of the Columbia Railway, Gas
6c Electric Co.
For the first ten months of the
year the street railway took in
$373.701 and its expenses totaled
$467,710, showing a loss for the ten
months of $91,055. "This can't go
any longer," state the officials to
day.
The company is calling on the
people of the city to help remedy
the situation. A' conference has
been held with Mayor Blalock, and
it is intimated that municipal own
ership may result.
The company states that it docs
not want to have to reduce wages,
but this may come, to an extent. It
does not, says the statement, want
to increase fares: that would do no
good. Reduction of expenses is
the remedy, but where to reduce is
the problem. The suggestion has
been made that one-man cars
would reduce expenses. But what
are wc to do with the big two-men
cars we now own. asks the com
pany; we can't afford to hold them
and by new cars, and they are too
big for one man each to operate.
Officers of the company state
frankly that they do not know what
! to do. but the next few weeks will
probably bring some announce
ment.
The street railway here is suffer
ing from automobile competition,
as are ail street railways of the
country.
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Burley Tobacco
Growers Organizing
! Farmers Getting Together to
Market Their Crops Co
J
operatively
Lexington, Ky? Xov. 16.?The or
ganization committee of the pro
jected Burley Tobacco Growers'
Cooperative Marketing Association
met here today to receive reports
from the county chairmen in Ken
tucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Vir
ginia on the amounts of tobacco
pledged to the association.
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The moonshine industry must be
picking up by the number of still
that are being captured. There is
no wonder that lawless men are
jtempted to go into the manufact
| ure of liquor when they arc so ten
derly treated by courts and judges.
A fine of S1UU if convicted is no
I deterrent to a moonshiner, in fact
$100 is not a reasonable license
tax. Until the penalty for making
j or peddling liquor is fixed at not
j less than one year on the chain
j gang at hard labor, with no al
ternative of a fine, the moonshine
land bootlegging industry will con
j tinue to flourish.
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A well informed merchant is au
thority for the statement that up
wards of $300,000 worth of flour
is sold in Sumter annually, more
than half being purchased by
farmers. The wheat to produce all
this flour could be grown in Sum
ter county as a surplus crop on the
land that cannot bo planted in cot
ton next year, and the money that
j goes out of the county would be
I kept at home. Wheat should be
planted before December 1st or
>at latest before Christmas, to in
sure a good crop. One way to
i beat the boll weevil is to plant at
least one acre of wheat for every
plow on every farm.
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Money is scarce. Times nie hard.
Collections are poor and the out
look is discouraging, but there
feu surface indications of this con
dition. There are just ;is many
pleasure cars running and just, as
many joy riders cavorting around
the country, few ]>.?<,deny them
selves any of the luxuries and
pleasures thai cost money. About
eighty per cent <>f the economy and
curtailment that is being practised
is in the payment of debts. There
can be no return : < normal until a
policy ?>!' debt paying 1.ohxes :!:??
rule instead of the exception.
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Mary Garden wants a man. She
will make him a good husband.
Yon can't tell whether money
makes fools or fools make mon >v.
i JAPAN WILL
i BUILD MANY
WARSHIPS
Under Ten Year Nav
al Holiday Plan
Building of Auxili
ary War Craft
Would Continue
i Washington, Nov. 15.?Japan
j would face a rather e -tensive na
i val building program even during
j the ten year holiday, should the
; American plan be accepted. Japan
i has built the full proportion of aux
I iliary craft, such as destroyers and
light cruisers, which will be allow
ed under the replacement pro
; visions, it said. The proposal in
; eludes permission to continue build
' ing up to those schedules, amount
? lng to fifty thousand tons for Japan.
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I Religious Census
of College Students
-
Most of Clemson Men Are
Church Members, Half Are
From Farms
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Clemson College, Nov. 14.?A
? census now being compiled of
! stud' ts of Clemson College shows
Ith?; approximately So per cent are
j church members, with the Baptists,
M ethodist s. and Presbyterians
1 leading, in the order named.
The census, which is taken dur
I ing the first two months of each
i college year, shows that more than
I half the students come from farm
j homes as the census gives the oc
: eupation of the parent, of the;
I 990 students enrolled. 493 are from j
I farm homes.
The Baptists and Methodists lead i
; in church membership, the Bap- 1
! tist students numbering 2:?<j. while ;
j the Methodists are a (dose second ;
' with 285. The Presbyterians come i
third with 143. tvhile Episcopalians, |
, Lutherans, Catholics. Associate Re- j
formed Presbyterians, Jews and
: Christian church fellow in the or- ,
1 e'er named.
Sixty-live students not church .
; members give the Baptist chureu
? as their preference, while 32 give
! the Methodist church as the
church of their preference. A to- |
j tal of 2.> give the Presbyterian as j
, the church of their preference,
j The total number of church j
members, giving the branch of the
j church with which they are affiliat- :
ed follows: Baptist. 290: Meth
odist, 2S5; Presbyterian, 143: Epis-|
J copal. 43: Lutheran. 35: Catholic, I
j 17: Associate Reformed Presby- J
! terian, 15: Jewish. 4; Christian;
: church. 3: total 835.
I By occupation the students gave ;
j the following information concern- j
* ing their parents: Farming, 493:
I merchants, dealers and salesmen, i
i 1S1; physicians, druggists and den-;
I tists. 24; lawyers, 16; bankers, 11; j
ministers, 14; teachers. 10; city)
j county or state officials, 3S; manu-j
I facturing of all kinds, 58; trades- i
j men. carpenters, printers, etc., 28;
: railroad, telephone and telegraph j
j workers. 3S: clerical workers, 13: j
? civil engineers. architects, and ?
chemists, 1": miscellaneous or oc
cupation not given, 56.
Tin- present enrollment is 990; !
being the largest in the history of |
the college and exactly 226 larger
: than on the same date last year, J
according to the registrar. .1. C. 1
Littlejohn. it is expected that the
I enrollment will pass the 1,U00 mark '
] before Christmas.
Mrs. George Gould
Dies Suddenly
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Succumbs to Heart Attack on
Golf Links
Lakewood. X. J., Nov. 13.?Mrs. !
George -lay Gould, wife of the cap
: italist. dropped dead today while j
playing golf with her husband on '
the private links at Georgian Court,
j their country home.
She had just finished a drive at
tlx- fifth tee and with her husband
; was watching the flight of the ball j
when she collapsed without a word. !
: Mr. Gould turned to speak to her
I and wiis astonished to see her lying
across the tee. Thinking his wife
merely had stumbled. Mr. Gould
, hastened to assist her to her feet,
but when sin- failed t<? speak to
him. he sent the caddie on hurry
call for physicians.
Drs. George W. Lawrence- and
Irwin P. Hanee reached tin- links :
quickly. A brief examination con
vinced them that Mrs. Could was j
dead and that heart disease had
been the cause.
Common Plea Court.
In tin- case of .1. A. Warren "t
al. executors, vs. .1. II. Warren and
.1. \\. Warren the court directed
verdicts in favor of plaintiffs for
the amounts sued for.
The case of Rufus James vs.
John Richardson, a suit for com
missions on the sale of real cstat?\
has been disposed of. The jury if
tins case rendered verdict in fav
or of the plaint iff for tie* sum of
?3 no. The property upon which
tie* sales commission was awarded
is in Manchester Township.
Case n<>v\ being tried:: Waller .1.
Jennings vs. Walker I >. nines. Di
rector' General. L. I >. Jennings:
Reynolds and Ry\ mdds. P. Me ?
Lay. j
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'."ravel teaches shrewdness no
doubt: but a man who can rrmke
money enough t<> travel is shrewd
enough.
Still, we wouldn't have believed
ir ii" the author had said D'Artag
nan jumjed around tin- way Doug
JOHN BULL
APPROVES
NAVALHOLIDAY
Second Plenary Ses
sion Began This
Morning?No More
Open Sessions Soon
Washington, Nov. "l?. ? Great
Britain's acceptance in principal of
the American armaments proposals
for the limitation of naval arma
ments was formally laid before the
conference today by Arthur Bal
four, who is heading the British
delegation, shortly after the second
session was called to order by Sec
retary Hughes.
Baron Admiral Kato's accept
ance in the asme sense for Japan
is to follow.
Before hearing in? statement the
delegates adopted unanimously the
committee of the whole plan work
ed ou; by the big five for consider
ing the armaments and Far East
ern problems.
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Remember the
Orphans on Thanks
giving Day
Work-Day Thanksgiving Ap
peal is Made For the Or
phan Boys and Girls in
the Four Church Or
phanages
As your thoughts turn towards
Thanksgiving, think of the orphan
boys and girls of the state, and
through your contribution help tr
make their lives happy on this oc
casion, remembering the words of
the Master. "It is more blessed to
give than to receive."
There ar<> in the four church or
phanages of the state. 988 father
less children, who must be cared
for. They are divided as follows:
inn in the Church Home. Episcopal,
York, S. C, 23 in Epworth Or
phanage, Methodist. Columbia:
300 in Connie Maxwell, Baptist.
Greenwood. S. C. and 315 in Thorn
well Orphanage, Presbyterian.
Clinton. S. C. These bright, sweet
children must be fed. clothed,
trained and educated. The support
for their maintenance must be pro
vided entirely by the church and in
dividual gifts. All of the institu
tions, due to the financial depres
sion of the past few months, have
suffered from a lack of funds and
their needs at present are urgent.
A state-wide appeal is therefore
being made for a Work-Day
Thanksgiving offering in their be
half. You are asked to contribute
at least one day's wages, or the
proceeds therefrom, to the or
phanage of your preference. This is
a small request we are making for
these orphan children, and one day
donated to the "homes of the fath
erless" will work a hardship upon
no one. Each of the institutions
hopes to share richly from this
Work-Day Thanksgiving Appeal.
The Methodists in South Carolina
are asked to turn their help to Hp
worth Orphanage, the Baptists to
Connie Maxwell, the Episcopal
ians to the Church Home, while the
Presbyterans will give their aid to
the Thornwell Orphanage.
The appeal is urgent. The or
phans must be remembered. Send
in your contribution, thereby to
provide for the care of these boys
.and girls and bringing happiness
and joy into their lives.
"Pure religion and undefiled bo
fore God and the Father is this. To
visit the fatherless and widows in
their afflictions, and to keep him
self unspotted from the world."
All contributions should be sent
to: Thos. P. Noe. Church Home.
York. S. C: W. D. Roberts. Ep
worth Orphanage, Columbia. S. C;
A. T. Jamison. Connie .Maxwell Or
phanage, Greenwood. S. C: L. Ross
Lynn. Thornwell Orphanage, Clin
ton, s. c.
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Cabinet Crisis
in Buda-Pest
Washington. Nov. lfi.?A cabinet
crisis in Budapest is delaying the
exchange of treaty ratifications, be
tween the United States and Hun
gary, the state department is advis
ed by Vance Smith, the American
commissioner ;;t Budapest.
Strike Tremble""
in Iowa
Ottumwa. Iowa. Nov. HI.?Nat
ional Guardsmen today took charge
of the situation resulting from the
.lohn Morrell Packing Company
workers' strike which began on
October 13th. after an attack on
twenty-live work -rs yesterday by
several hundred picketers. No one
w as seriously in. ured.
Gardner?Brad ha m
Miss Salic- Gardner and Mr.
H?>rry Bradham were nuited in
marriage Wednesday afternoon at
4:30 o'clock; at the Salem, Baptist
parsonage Rev. K. W. Reynolds;
pastor dt" ib.- groom, officating.
Immediately after tin- cerembnv
Mr :< iul Mrs; Bradham were tend
ered a reception at .'he home of Mr.
Willi.- Gardner, brother of the
bride.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradham .ire both
of Sumter county, and will make
their home with the father of the
groom, Mr. .1. I>. Bradham.
May tie- sunshine of abundant
peace and prosperity light the
pathway of this splendid young
pair as they journey on their way.
California's raisin crop sold for
$2.f?00.000. which might be called
raisin' jack.
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Armament Confer
ence in Execu
tive Session
_
I The Real Work of the Meeting
Started in the Committee
of the Whole
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Washington, Nov. 16.?With the
j arms reduction proposal referred
! to a committee of the naval advis
! ers of the five great powers, the
! delegates to the armament limita
tion and Far Kastern conference
held an executive session as a
committee of the whole to consid
ed the Far Eastern questions,
which none was apparently ready
to present a comprehensive plan
for settlement.
The naval advisers committee
began conferences, taking up the
modifications in the American pro
posals desired by Great Britain and
Japan. The advisers also will con
sider the naval status of France
and Italy.
The representatives of the pow
ers went into the Far Eastern ses
sion apparcnlty waiting for one an
other to speak first about the in
tricate questions. The general pre
diction was that the task of draft
ing a method of procedure would
he entrusted to a committee com
prised of the representatives of all
nine nations taking part in the con
ference.
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Farming Under Boll
Weevil Conditions
Important New Publication by
the Extension Service
Clemson College. Nov. 12. ?
"Farming Under Boll Weevil Con
ditions" is the title of Extension
Bulletin 4 8. prepared by the Ex
tension Service of Clemson College
and now ready for distribution.
The publication is being issued to
help meet the present conditions
and is full of information, instruc
tion, and suggestion for farmers in
regard to best farm practices in
the presence of the boll weevil.
Calling attention to the fact that
South Carolina is now having to
face the same conditions which
other southern states have faced
one after another in the onward
march of the boll weevil, the pub
lication stresses, first of all, the im
portance of learning thoroughly the
j new methods and practices for suc
1 cessful farming under new condi
tions; and urges that since there
j is no single new crop which prom
i ises to take the place of cotton as
our main money crop and no com
bination of crops which can be
recommended to all alike, our
farmers must expect to continue to
grow cotton and should undertake
the growing of new money crops
I on a conservative scale, as plunging
; in new untried crops will bring on
! proh'lems as hard to solve as are
i the problems of growing cotton un
1 der boll weevil conditions.
I The first section of the bulletin
: is given to a discussion of recom
mendations for cotton production.
! with attention to such important
I matters as stalk destruction and
: other clean-up work, thorough
! preparation >i the land, planting of
I improved varieties, judicious fer
tilizing, rapid cultivation, collection
of weevils and punctured squares,
; and the use of winter cover crops.
! These various subjects are discuss
; ed in the light of the experience of
; cotton farmers in other weevil-in
! fested states.
The second section discusses the
i question of making the farm self
| supporting in order that the cotton
I grown may be in the nature of a
; surplus money crop. Stress is laid
I upon the production of staple food
j and feed crops for landlord, tenant.
: and livestock; provision for a good
I all-year home garden and a good
I ho me orchard; provision for
I enough dairy cows and poultry to
I supply all the families on the
I farm: and the conservative de
velopment of the hog. dairying, and
; beef cattle industries to fit into a
I well balanced diversified farming.,
j The third section, devoted to
j systematic soil-building, discusses
1 crop rotations with specific rec
| ommendations for the several sec
I tions of the state, summer legumes,
j winter cover crops, drainage and
I terracing, and the judicious use of
; lime, livestock manures and com
I mercial fertilizers.
Brief suggestions are made in
1 the latter part of tue bulletin con
cerning the adjustment of contracts
between landlords and tenants to
meet new conditions; co-operative
effort in production. sta.ndradiza
I tion, and marketing of farm crops
! and the need of specific county pro
[ grams of safe farming by each
j county in the state.
! Florida Fruit and Vegetables at
Less Than Wholesale.
Th<> Sumter Produce Co.. of
which .Mi. Louis c. Bryan is the
active promoter, announces that it
! will supply tin- people of Sumter
with Florida fruit and vegetables
'at the lowest possible prices, the
I middlemen's and retailer's profits
I being eliminated by purchasing in
I car load lots direct from the "ran.;.'"
and grape fruit orchards and truck
farms. The sales will be made on
the cash and carry plan from ware
i house located on the railroad
tracks, near Manning Avenue, and
, overhead expenses will 1m- thus re
duced to ;? minimum. Mr. Pryan
expects to deal in local produce,
i also, and by handling in large lots
I will be able to save the house
? keepers of Sumter much money.
'Tin- first car load of oranges, grap ?
! fruit and seasonable vegetables is
expected to arrive tomorrow. At
tention is directed to the adver
! tisement of this new enterprise.
Washington, .\'ov. 15.?-The ten
j tative valuation of the Charleston
i and Western Carolina Railroad has
I been tixed by the interstate com
merce commission nt over ten and
; a half million dollars.
Japan Wants
Larger Navy
Feels Jhat Her Ratio of War
ship Tonnage is Not High
Enough?Will Suggest
That She Be Allowed
an Increase
Washington. Nov. 15.? (By the
Associated Press.)?-Japan feels
that her ratio of warship tonnage
is not high enough under the
American proposals, it was said to
night by members of the Japanese
delegation.
"During Baron Kato's speech at
the plenary session of the arma
I ment conference today, hta state
' ment that Japanese would sug
gest some modification in the ton
nage basis for replacement caused
some speculation as to whether it
referred to regulating the capacity
of shipyards so that new warships
could be built regularly or whether
it means that. Japan favored a
; higher ratio of tonnage compared
j with the United States and Great
. Britain.
j Tonight's statement clears u;;
; the point and shows that Japan
j will later put forth the factors
I which lead her to believe that
: some increase of tonnage should
I be afforded her. How much in
j crease it desired was not explained
! tonight, but emphasis was laid up
: on the special conditions surround
i ipg Japan as an insular power in
! need of an adequate defensive fleet.
Practical conditions are said to
! be behind the altitude of Japan
, whose representatives reiterated
tonight that she has no ambition
whatsoever to equal the navy of
. England or the United States. The
probable developments of science
: in increasing the mobilization pow
! er of a fleet to distant waters in an
offensive, the presence of naval
j bases near the shores of Japan,
and the augmented mobilization
power of an adversary's fleet when
j reduced in units all enter into the
j Japanese mind as indicating the
I wisdom of a higher ratio than six
\ to ten.
The suggested increase will
prob: bly affect all classes, includ
j ing submarines. The Japanese ex
! pressed confidence that the com
mittee of experts would under
' stand their case and that a ratio
! adjustment would not in any way
materially affect Japan's blanket
j acceptance fo the American pro
? posal.
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\ Shoplifters Visit
Columbia Store
I Columbia. Nov. 16.?Two well
! dressed white women were hailed
! into city court here this morning,
i and were bound over to the circuit
I court on a charge of theft. They
j were arrested as shop lifters. They
1 are Mrs. P. H. Kearlin and Mrs.
j Murphy, both said to be from New
j York. They went into a fashion
i able ladies' store Monday and while
j one was making a purchase the
: other got away with a squirrel skin
: coat valued at $425. They were
arrested by detectives as they came
: out of a cafe Tuesday afternoon.
! They admitted taking the coat and
; led officers to a handsome roadster
I near the curb, where the coat was
' found.
Lest We Forget.
I You and I have settled back into
! the complacent current of every
j day life. We are congratulating
' ourselves that the war is over, that
an ear of "normalcy" has arriv
I ed: that the days and months of
i horror are buried in the irreparable
? past. We have schooled ourselves
I to forget the poppy fields of Flan
I ders and the bloody trenches of the
j Argonne. We can even pass an ex
; service man on the street without
! seeing in him a perpetual remind -
I er, a continual reproach. We are
I liable to forget that today three
1 years after the war is over, there
; are over 26.000 ex-service men in
'the hospitals of the United States.
'? The roll call of the incapacitated
is growing every day. The blind
and the tubercular, the shell-shock
? cd and the crippled, did not cease
: with the tiring- of the cannon.
! There are no more uniforms now.
no drums and regiments and can
1 teens and cakes and flying flags.
Soldiers are not soldiers an*, more
j?only weary, homesick boys, dying
i in the hospitals, too shattered to fit
i into the routine of normal life, too
i sick to work, unable to support
their families, made old before
their time with more than a gen
] oration's share of sorrow. The Red
: Cross, which has been with them
: since the day they went away to
j war. is asking us to help. The Roll
! Call starts on Armistice Day and
j a doliar given to our sick ex-ser
; vice men will serve them better
j than victory arches raised in every
town or parades that stretch across
the continent from the Rockies to
the sea.
Xothing we can do will ever pay
these valiant men for what they
gave for us. To speak of compen
? sation is to travesty the values on
which all life is built. There is no
?compensation for health and hu
? man relationships, for love and
marriage and the illusions that
war kills. For these boys there is
no return to ??normalcy." There
will never be any turning back.
They represent our youth, the na
tion's youth?that we once flunc
so lavishly to glory and are now
so ready to forget.
Red Cross Call?Armistice Day
to Thanksgiving Day.
There is a market for all the
cream that can be produced in
Sumter county. The Sumter
Creamery is equipped to make but
ter of standard quality and its ca
pa i:y greatly exceeds the supply
of . ream. Every milk cow in Sum
ter county should be put to work as
a cash income producer. A good
*ow will produce $8 to $10 worth
of cream a month and some cows
are doing better than that as money
makers.
France to Discuss
Land Armcments
Premier Briand to Go into
Matter at Open Session
Washington, Nov. 15. ? France
j took the first step today toward
j bringing the question of land
! armaments, of armies, before the
j Washington conference.
In concurring for France in the
i essential principles of the Ameri
I can proposals regarding naval es
; tablishments. Premier Briand
? touched upon the army problem
i as far more vital to France. By
agreement. M. Briand probably at
! a public session of the conference
later this week, will present "most
j fully" as Secretary Hughes stated,
j "the views of France with regard
1 to the subject of land armaments
; which we must discuss,
j There was no intimation in the
i remarks of M. Briand that he had
a definite plan for reduction of
j armaments to suggest. He did
' say, however, that he was satis
i tied that the conferees would be
; convinced "that France, after the
; necessities of safety and life have
been adequately secured, harbors
j no thought whatever of disturbing
'? the peace of the world."
M. Briand's statements were con
! strued generally as showing his
: purpose to explain fully why
j France regards it necessary to re
I tain the iTeat force in her armies.
! As the nation with the largest
j army, the premier pointed out to
? day, it was appropriate for her to
; take that question up, but neither
! at the conference nor in any other
\ quarter is there suggestion that any
! such sweeping proposal for reduc
i tion of armies is to be expected as
i the naval plan put forward by the
I United States. ^*
So far as the United States Is
; concerned, the army question is
\ largely academic. The American
1 army, now far below its used
| strength of 150.000 men, is cut to
I the bone. Further reduction would
{ be opposed by both civil and mili
? tary chiefs of the war department.
! No American plan of army reduc
| tion will be presented and it may
, be that there will be only nominal
discussion of the subject.
As it now stands, the American
army is looked upon by its leaders
; as no more than the national po
; lice force for which there is al
; ways need. Records of the war
j department show that prior to 1903
' through the twenty-five preceding
I years, the army was called into ac
j tion in some quarters for non
| military work, duty that had
j nothing to do with war, more than
1 500 times. In 1908, it was used
j to quell more troubles in the Phil
ippines and to aid citizens during
i San Francisco earthquake and fire;
in 1907 the army went to pacify Cu
ba and dealt with a Ute Indian up
rising; in 1908 it made a second
I movement to Cuba; 1910, forest
I fires in Montana, Idaho, Washing
I ton and California; 19JJ^l??~}an
j border protection and police" wor"
in Mindanao, Philippine Islands.
1912. relief for Mississippi Valley
flood sufferers; 1913 border patrol
! and flood work in the Ohio and
j Mississippi valley; Carmel Valley,
j California; fires on Mount Tamal
j pias, California; Omaha tornado,
I lower peach tree. Alabama, cyclone;
! forest fires in the Adirondack*;
11914, Vera Cruz occupation and
' Colorado mine disturbances; 1915.
! border duty and Colorado disturb
i ances: 1916, Columbus raid and
; Mexican punitive expenit^on.
? In 1917 came the world war, and
j with the absorption of the regulars
\ and national guard in war, it be
| came necessary to organize a mili
; tary police force to take their
I places home. The force was the
I United States guards which watch
i ed over property where local po
, lice protection was inadequate to
j the task.
In 1919 the army was used to
deal with Industrial Workers of the
j World troubles in Arizona; race
! riots in Nebraska and Arkansas;
: flood relief in Texas: steel strike
! situation in Indiana and Tennes
?see: coal strike duty in West Vir
\ ginia. Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyom
i ing. New Mexico. Kansas. Okla
j homa and Washington; strikes
: Louisiana, more race troubles in
Arkansas and in Kentucky, preserv
i ing order at trials of alleged agi
: tators in Washington and strike
I duty in Montana.
There have been many similar
employments for the army since
1 then from stopping a coal strike
; civil war in West Virginia to guard
ing mail from bandits and it is to
; be noted, officials say. that no sec
! tion of the country is wholly im
; mune from possible need and quick
I need, of a federal police force of
I such discipline that it can be de
pended upon to function in any
? kind of an emergency.
With less than 100.000 soldiers
1 of the regular establishment in the
United States, the distribution by
? orps area provides some ele
ments of the troops within quick
reach of any possible scene of in
ternal emergency. Yet they are so
far scattered that it would be a dif
ficult matter to get together in any
one area overnight as much as 5 -
000 men and if 10.000 were needed
: m some grave crisis, it must take
several days at best to mobilize
them.
It is for these reasons as well as
tor the necessity of having a force
j sufficient for quick expansion in
case of war. that any proposal at
the arms conference which would
reduce further American army
strength would be opposed by army
officials. J
Charles Sent into Exile
Former Emperor of Austria
Arrives at Madeira
: Funchal Island of Maderia, Nov.
: ^-?Former Emperor Charles of
;; Austria-Hungary and his wife who
were exiled to Madeira by the al
lies after his recent attempt to re
? *am tn* Hungarian throne have
?jamved on the British cruiser Car