Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Watchman and Soithron ^Sottarcd at the Postoffice at Sum - *5T, S. C,r as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL. Mrs. Ebb Wells and Mrs. See ? Derg, who have been visiting thfir parents, Capt. and Mrs. E. S. Car bon, have, returned to Oakland, Cal. Mrs. O. W, Rethorst, of Fort 5am Houston, Texas, is visiting her parents, Capt. and Mrs. E. S. Car ?? 5?3, ..... "Miss Janie Mikell is visiting Triends in Chester. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar White are ?pending several weeks in Asheville, \\ :C. . Mr. H. R. Kistler, of Atlanta, Ga., s rspending several weeks in the ?ity- as manager of the Rex and Lyric theatres in the absence of Mr. White. Messr. J. Newt Watkins and rhbmas H. Pope,, of Greenville: R. -D. Smith, Jr., of Newberry and Joe P Xoblitt, of Anderson were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Scar borough during the T. P, A. con' vention in this city. Mrs. L. A- Prince spent the day in .Columbia. Mrs". J. F. Kirkla$d has return ed to the city from Charleston where she has been. a visitor for se-ieral days. IMessrs. H. C. M?bley and Charlie Chewning, of Manning and Sam ? Hunter, of Greeleyvilie, arc in the zily engaged in engineering work. I .Mrs. J. W. Powers was a visitor in ..Columbia, today. Messrs. John'Harrell, of Darling ton and Thomas Woodward of Florence, were visitors in Sumter ^Thursday. : Mr. Ben Slovis was a business ?wsitor in Columbia today. *'..; Mr. Geo. Rosenberg, a great .fisherman from Abbeville, S. C, is " spending a few weeks w ith Mr. Francis Lyon. . Mrs. T. W. Pridgeon of Delco, ^.C. spent Thursday night in the city with her sister, Mrs. Louis Darr, leaving Friday morning for Maxten, X. C to attend the Senior Piano recital of her daughter, Miss Grace Pridgeon at the Caro lina College of Xorth Carolina. . ?drs. L W. Sweeney, of Boston. SJass., who has been visiting her mother. Mrs. W. H. Bradford, for the past two months, left last night to join her husband in Philadelphia. Pa They williSpend several weeks there and in Xew York before re turning to their home in Boston. Miss Juanita Hough has returned tc. her home, in Columbia after a visit.to Mrs. Marion jW"arts. Mrs. W. A. St. George, has re turned to her home in Charlotte. N. C.. after visiting Mrs. W. A. Walling. ? Mrs. F. W. Brawley and chil dren, of Gastonia. X. CL, arrived in Sumter Friday . evening and will sp?nd a week with her .sister. Mrs. R. S. Churchill on West Hampton \ Miss Pearl Harvey, of Summer-! vidle.'who. has been teaching school j in. Wood row, S. C, returned to her; home Saturday morning following ( the close of her school. Mr Julian Griffin, of Pinewood, j spen_C?he day in the city on busi ~?ef?. Mr. George Bultmanf^left Satur day morning for Savannah, Ga., where he will be a visitor for sev eral days. % Miss Mildred Miller has returned , to her home in Sumter from Page- j land, S. C. where she has been j teaching school. - Mr. W. E. Geiger, of Manning, spent the day in Sumter on busi ness. Mr.-and Mrs. Harold Platt are ; In city as the week-end guests of ; Mp. and Mrs. H. G. Osteen. before < going to Aiken. S. C. where they ; are to make their future home. Mr. j and Mrs. Platt have just returned : from a very pleasant wedding trip j tf? Asheville, ' Hendersonville and 1 Charlotte, X. C, .'aid Cberaw. S. C.j Mrs. Bruce Lynr-.m left Saturday j for Charleston, S. C. where she! will be a visitor in that city of her j sister. Mrs. Floyd. 'Sir. Henry Rembert, of Rembert. j spent today in Sumter on business. ; Mr. Bertrand Colcolugh, of the j Woodrow section, was a visitor in j Sumter today. i The many friends in the city of j Mrs. C. M. Hurst are pleased to ? Jearn of her continued improve- j merit in health. It is stated that j Mrs. Hurst is getting along just as \ nicely as possible and is now on ' the high road to a complete recov- ; ery.. ; Mrs. Chas. Fishburne of Colum- . bia .is visiting her si'ster, Mrs. D. M. j Bl?nding. % Mrs. Martha C. Smith, after ! spending the winter in Florida, has returned to Sumter. Mrs. M. P. Codes left Saturday for Xewry. S. C, on a visit of sev- ; eral months. 8 j ; - Mr.. and Mrs. John McKnight j motored to Columbia on Wednes- I dayj returning Friday. They bad ! in company Misses Bessie Ingram I and Moneta Osteen. Mrs. Orval Waring of Wayeross, j Ga., is the week-end guest of Mrs. ; Geo.' Bruner on Harvin St. Mrs. R. A. Stephen'son and Miss i K?tie Reardon are visiting rela- ! lives in Charleston. . Mr. Julius L. Brogdon returned j Monday morning from Richmond, I Va.. where he bad been to see hi? j fafher. Mr. John I. Brogdon. who \ is in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for j treatment. Mr. Brogdon found his father doing as well as possible. j '^Ir. Philip Jennings, who is the Western Union operator at Estell. S. C is spending his vacation nl ' the city with his father. Mr. L. R. ' Jennings. Z&rs, J. J- Brogdon. of Columbia, is visiting her daughter. Mi's. Daisy | King on Hampton Ave. Mr. R. E. Blanchard spent Mon- i day.in McCall on business. Mr. W. O. Staley is attending the ' meeting of the Wholesa.? j Grocery Association in St. Louis, Mo.' Mr. F. A. Wood has been called to'Wilmington, X. C, on account of j the death of his brother who has j been for a numher of years an ac tive member of the police force of that city, Mr. J.' J. Roche, of Abbeville. S. C. returned to his home Monday morning after a short visit in this city. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lightner. of Columbia, motored from Columbia Sunday and will be guests for a week of Miss Lillie Folsom at her home in the city: Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wiles. James j and Xadine McDougal of Columbia motored to Sumter Sunday, spend-1 ing the day here. Miss Lillie Folsom has returned j to her home in the city after a visit j in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Platt left j Saturday for Aiken, S. C. where j they will make their future home, "j BUD BALLEW, j FALLS VICTIM OF QUICK SHOT Former Texas Ranger Beats j Him to the Draw?Two Big j Pistols Found on Dead Man - ' \ Witohita Falls, Texas. May o.? Former Deputy Sheriff Bud Bal lew, participant in numerous gun gghts during his career as a law of | ficre and wounded on one or two occasions, was shot and killed to day when police visited a domino j parlor, where a disturbance was re- | ported to be in progress. J. W. j McCormick, former Texas ranger, and now chief of police, who sur rendered after the shooting, said |J he fired as Ballew was reaching for his gun. One of the live shots j fired entered Bal lew's head. Two pistols were found on Ballew's j body, one of 45 caliber, silver mounted and engraved, with what j appeared to be six notches cut j under the barrel. The other was j an unadorned 44 caliber. Attorney for McCormick waived i an examining trial and his bond was set at $1?.>,000. Fifteen names of citizens were affixed to j the bond and McCormick was re- ! leased. j Too Slow on the Draw. Ardmore, Okla., May 5.? (By the j Associated Press).?Bud Ballew, known for years as one of the j fastest and one of the most fear- j less one-gunman of the Southwest, j was borne home tonight in an air- ! plane, the victim of a man who i beat him to the draw. Ballew was formerly deputy j sheriff here, the notches on whose f gun bore testimony that he had! killed at least eight men and had been the victor of countless other gun fights. He was reputed j for. his quickness on the draw in j the early days of outlawry in the j Southwest. Today J. W. McCormick, former! Texas ranger, and now chief of po- J Ike at Wichita Falls, drew and fired first. "Bud took in too much territory* I today and for once was too slo%v \ I on the draw,'* *vas the opinion ex- f pressed by many here tonight. I Ballew's prowess with a six- j shooter was reputed in this scc-i I tion as second only to that of his chief, former Sheriff Buck Garrett. under whom Ballew served as ?a! deputy ten years, until Garrett was I ousted from office several months] ago. He was feared among the j ! outlaws of the oil fields and cat- i tic country in the early days when ; this section of the state was head- \ quarters for notorious outlaws. Ballew was afraid of only one J : man and that was his chief. Buck ! Garrett. When Bud went on a j rampage here and in surrounding j towns it was usually Buck Gar rett that took away his guns. About two weeks ago while Bal few was still limping about, he shot up two towns here in day- j light. During the trial of Clara Smith Hamon here for the killing of Jake L. Hamon, Republican national commit! eeman from Oklahoma, Bud was appointed by Garrett as the personal bodyguard of the de fendant. The night Clara Smith Hamon was acquitted a dinner was given by the defense and to celebrate the victory Bud shot holes in the ceil ing of the restaurant, according to some of those present. ' Ballew had a permit from the governor to carry a gun. POINTS ABOUT PEANUTS. A Good Stand Needed for a Good ' Yield. Clemson College, May 2.?A j great many farmers are planting peanuts this year either for feed or as a. substitute cash crop. It is very important in making a good crop of peanuts to have a ^ood stand. The rows should !>?? :) feel apart for the Spanish variety and i the plants should be o inches j apart in the row. They will make j a larger yield if thicker than that rather than thinner. A good many j farmers plant their peanuts 6, s or i 10 inches apart and. of course, get j a very low yield as a result. It is important to have a good stand to j get a good yield. It is important also not to plant nuts which have been shelled I for a long time. They deteriorate very rapidly after being shelled and ; for that reason it is best to plant then] in the shell or be sure that I they arc freshly shelled nuts. The' safest plan is to ?plant them in the I shell. The peanut is a good crop if properly grown;, but to be a suc cessful cr?>p economically, it should be grown at a low cost p.-r acre. If the nut* are planted thick then cultivated early with a harrow, it will reduce the cost of production and enable ?m?- man to grow a' large acreage thus making it a much more profitable crop per I man. For further details may he had Extension Bulletin 15, "Pea-1 nuts." Unfortunately, it's not the I'oi- ;; lyanna, but the chronic kicker, 1 who seems to get the best service at a restaurant. I WORLD NEU Los Angeles, May 5. ? Mary Pickford has been chosen presi dent of the Picture Actresses' club for the protection of the good names of its members. Paris. May 5.?Jack Dempsey told the Associated Press corre spondent that it was almost certain that he would meet Carpentier in London or Paris, late this year, if Georges defeats Ted Lewis at Lon don on May 11th. and if the purse is satisfactory. Shanghai. May i f>.?A Peking dispatch to the Chinese newspapers Shun Pao says the American. Brit ish and Japanese ministers have in- J structed the naval commanders oi their countries to prevent attacks by war craft supporting Gen. Wu Pei-FuT upon the Peking-Mukden railroad. j Washington. May 5.?Negotia tions arc under way between the United States and Germany looking to the organization of a mixed commission to pass upon claims ^rowing out of the seizure of prop erty in both countries and upon claims filed by American citizens as the result of the sinking of the Lusitania. High Point, N. C May 5.?The j Home r.anking Company, where an ' alleged shortage of sixty-seven j thousand dollars was discovered j in the accounts of Cashier Basil Hcdgccock. has been closed by or der of State Corporation Commis sion. Columbia. May 5.?T. J. Cotting- j ham, of Lake City, has been elect ed acting vice president of the: Palmetto National Bank of Colum bia. He moved to Columbia this! week. Austin. May 5.?The death list ! in the tornado which late yesterday : struck west Austin and Oak Hill j was brought up to ten today. The; property loss is estimated at $400,-j 000. About forty persons arc; known to be injured. / Washington, May 5.?Character- j izing the flexible tariff provisions' of the pending bill as unconstitu- j tional and dangerous. Senator Sim- ; mons declared the minority would i make a determined fight aganist j their approval. I ? _ Peking. May 5.?Gen. Wu Pet- j Fu was in control of Peking and i Gen. Chang Tsao-Lin who was! routed yesterday in a fierce battle; south of the capital was reported! to be fleeing in disorder to Mukden. Observers believe that Gen. Chang's' sudden collapse ended the hostili- I ties. ! Fayetteville. X. C May 5.?John : Underwood, a former mayor of ! Fayetteville was killed today and j three others injured in an auto ae- ; cident near West Faid, Moore: county. Chakston, W. Va.. May 5.?Pres ident Frank Keeney, of the mine workers, district seventeen, after: advising marching miners in a speech to turn back, told some of j the leaders to go on. Fred Holley j testified in the treason trial of: William Blizzard. The witness tes-1 titled that Keeney said he had to I make a speech, in the presence of Brig. Gen. Bandholtz to save the j district. _ Natchez. May 5.?A sea about one hundred miles long and thirty; to sixty miles wide is being formed from the break in the levee ' at Wcechania and the water in five ; Louisana parishes already inun dated is rising about two inches a day. Residents of Jonesville. the; highest point in the district, fear] the flooding of that town. Waukegan. 111.. May 5.? Two af fidavits charging Charles Melville, j who had been sworn as Juror for the trial of Oov. Small, had dis-j cussed the case in the jury room ' have been filed before Judge Ed- j wards by defense attorneys, accom- ; panied by a motion to reopen the! panels to permit challenging Mel ville peremptorily. Ralamazoo, Mich.. May 6.?John ' Duval Dodge, the young automobile millionaire, and Rex Earl were placed on prohabt ion for one year when they appeared for sentence.) following their conviction of ille-! gal possession and transportation, of liquor. Paiis. May C.?A purse of fouri hundred and ninety thousand dol lars has been offered for the Dempsey-Carpentier bout in the j Pershing stadium. _ i Genoa May 0.?Russia's reply to the allied memorandum will be distinctly conciliatory and is not in-| tended to break off negotiations,! but will firmly state Russia's in- . ability to comply with the terms j offered, Foreign Minister Tchith cerin said. Genoa. May <!.?The most criti cal stage of the conference arising through differences between tin allies over the memorandum t<? Russia and the attitude of Rus sians thems lves is declared by the Italian spokesman to have been reached. Dublin.May The I>ail Bire ann pea'*e committee announced today that one of its members had been requested to arrange with the respective rival army head quarters for a prolongation of the temporary truce. New York. May 6.? Henry p. Davidson of the 1 P. Morgan and Company, died today on the oper ating table, lb u;i?< placed on the table in a special room fitted up in his country home at Peacock! Point. Lonv Island. for ;< second op eration to remove a tumor resting on the auditory nerve. He died shortly after part of the tumor had been removed. Washington. May 6.?Employ ment conditions demonstrate a. widespread industrial awakening from coast to coast. Secretary Davis declared: The farm situation is also decidedly encouraging. Kirvin. Texas, May 6.?Three ne groes were burned to death at the same stake by a mob of five hun dred men, following their alleged implication in the criminal assault and murder of a seventeen-year old white girl, whose mutilated body was found Thursday. One confessed, implicating the two oth ers. Washington. May 8.?.An Eliza beth, North Carolina, delegation; befofre the house rivers and har bors committee urged action on the a my engineers' report recom mending the government purchase of the Dismal Swamp Canal, pro vided the purchase price is not more than half a million dollars. New Orlenas. May S.?Approxi mately seventy thousand men, wo men, children are homeless in Mis issippi and Louisiana as the result ' of the flood. Forty thousands are now being fed and clothed by the Red Cross and other organiza tions, it is officially announced. A national appeal for assistance is be ing considered. Calais, France. May S.?King George and Queen Mary, of Great Britain have arrived here, enouto to Brussels for a state visit to King Albert and Queen Elizabeth, i Washington. May 8.?The ap-J pointment of an international com mission to eonsider the issn.es in-j volved in American recognition ofs : Mexico has been suggested in otfi- I jcial quarters as a solution of the | recognition question. Atlantic City, May 8.?Arrange ments have been made to take the body of John H. Patterson, the founder of the National Cash Reg ister company; who died on a train last night, to his home in Dayton for intcnient. RIOT STARTS IN RAILROAD YARD One Slan Loses Life and Three Others Probably Fatally Hurt in Atlanta Atlanta. May 7.?Dan Wi lton. IS. is dead, three men. two white and one negro, arc believed to be wounded fatally and two others in,-;; Jured seriously as the result of .a riot in the yard Office of the At lanta. Birmingham & Atlantic rail way here today. The shooting resulted from a rock battle between several negro employees of the railroad and a number of white men, officials stat ed. Charlie Hunt, a negro por ter in the yard office, was ap proached by the whit" men and re* proached for working for the road during tin- strike, police asserted, and wlien he answered impudently, the rock battle resulted. Running into one of the office buildings he secured a shotgun and recruiting three other negroes charged the white men. it. was stated. The white men were un armed, but withstood the attack with rocks. Th?* battle had ended when a large force of police answering a riot call arrived. A large crowd had gathered and threats of fur ther violence were being made, of ficials stated. Walton was found with n. gun shot wound in the head. He died tonight in a hospital. U. X. Puckett. yard master of the A. B. A.. <'. W. Wiley, clerk in the office, and the three negroes were arrested. The two white railroad employees were charged by arresting officers with having tride to shield Hunt. They were released later. An optimist?definition number 7?".>.'.*S 7 i* a man who. when left holding tie- sack, cuts it up and makes himself a suit of clothes. About the only successful bath ing suit censor is a mosquito. The modern ideal library is a stack of bank books. Some nu n mail signed checks, with the amounts blank, when they're not sure of the sums owe?. And some men are intelligent. L'hcasj lies the head that wears i permanent wave. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS BEST OF HISTORIE Major Caldwell of Newberry V crate War by Different No Board of Education to To the Editor of The State: Some of us arc concerned about j the meeting of the .state board of; education, set for the 16th day of! the present month, because of the selection of histories of the United ' States to be then made for use in | the free schools of the state for the j rn-xt five years. AH of us know the j importance of the historical teach ing given to persons in youth? ; "that tender period," as Counsellor j Phillips expresses it. "when im pressions at once the most perma- ! nent ?nd the most powerful and the j most powerful are likely to be ex- j cited.'' Unfortunately, the literature of! the United States, for more than a j century, has been mostly in the j hands of Northern writers, and, j naturally, most of those writers j have been prejudiced in favor of; their section of the union and not i anxious about the reputation of our j section, and. when they deal with I the antagonisms between the two! sections, aie prone to dwell upon j what they consider our faults and! give us little credit for our merits. ; But it being better to study some- ; what faulty histories than none at1 all. we must choose among those that we have. I am glad to see Northern histo rians "f the present century less zenlpus to magnify the merits of the Xew England colonies than were j their predeoessots. and more frank in disclosing their misdoings. Cut they dwell, generally, too much upon the institution of slavery, in- j timating that it was the paramount , ground of dissensions between the j two sections prior to secession and } the one catsc of that movement.! Xow tliat institution was more than i "an incident." as Pollard, first and! Jefferson Davis, afterwards, declar ed, in the conflict between the North and the South. It was aj cause of secession, but by no means) the only one as the controlling! cause. Long before it became a matter of cither political or moral controversy, there was well defined disagreement and rivalry between the two sections. They were dis similar in temperament, taste, sen timent, themy of government and manner of life, and each was eager to control the union formed by the states?in tough English, domi neering. The.Northeastern states,] commercial, manufacturing and sea j navigating, first threatened seces sion under the embargo of 1 SO7 j and again in the Warm' 1S12. The! tariff laws later exasperated the Southern agriculturists. The ac quisition of Louisiana territory an gered hte north because adding to Southern territory. The subsequent j annexation of Texas added still j more to the domain of the South. ; And it was openly declared by men of the, North that these accessions gave t.uo much "weight" to our section. These things and the dis sension caused by them made many men in the South desirous of a separation, long before any con troversy about slavery, politically or morally. Vet it must be admit ted that the matter of slavery be came a serious ?dement as early as 1SI l?-2o. in connection with the ad ! mission of Missouri to statehood. I Stephenson, by the way. in expla nation' of tiic combination <>f the ' non-slaveholders ??f the South? who were confessedly in the ma jority?with the slaveholders, tells us that the "landed proprietors" dominated the rest of the popula tion, and by their skillful disci pline carried that majority with them. I confess that I never be fore heard of such an aristocracy j in South Carolina or elsewhere in j the South. All of the six histories which T ? have examined give a proper ac- i count of the vile conduct of affairs by Northern carpetbeggars, nc- j groes and scalawags during the) period of so-called reconstruction. But not one of the six?Stephen son, Andrews. Latane, McLaughlin.) Maee-Petrie and Thompson?has! furnished a just narrative of the] War of Secession. They handle too briefly and lightly the oppression and plundering of Butler's men in Xew Orleans, the devastation, rob bery and cruelty of Sherman's army in Georgia and the Carolinas, the like brutality of Hunter's and Sheri dan's force-; in the valley of Vir ginia and the tyrannous exercise of fore- against respectable citizens by the Lincoln government. And they omit the conduct of Confed erate soldiers in Pennsylvania, who destroyed nothing, took no property of the citizens and were carefully! courteous to those citizens?a course of conduct unprecedented and un-j paralleled in the history or wars, j Xor does any one of those works: mention that General Gordon's sol diers tciicd. for hours, to extinguish ! tie- fires at Wrightsville, Pa.. I caused by the burning of the bridge ' IS NOT ACCURATE Frites of Treatment of Confed it hern Historians. State Make Selection Soon. across the Susquebanna river by the retreating Federal soldiers. If the writers were unwilling to expose our opponents to serious censure, they could have afforded to give us credit for our good behavior. And why should they not have met the exaggerated storh s of the sufferings of federal prisoners hi our hands by giving the figures officially as certained by Federal authority, which show that ou1 of 270.000 Federal soldiers in our prison 22, 576 died, whereas out of 220,000 of our men in Federal prison 270 died, less than H per cent, of their men dying in our prisons and more than 12 per cent, of our men dying in their prisons. The history of ;> people should embrace, not only an account of its wars, its political record, its material conditions, its intellectual culture and its forms of religion, but also a portrayal of the charac ter of the population. In this re spect the books 1 have mentioned arc sadly lacking. The character of the people of the South was most prominently and dearly exhibited in the War of Secession?their courage, their energy, their i-n duran? e. their self-denial, their magnanimity, their kindly Chris tian humanity. Hence those works fail to do us justice in omitting adequate narration of the conduct of our armies, in contrast with that of Northern troops. Philip Stan hope Worslcy wrote exactly the truth when he said of the South ern Confederacy: "No nation rose so white and fair, Or fell so pure of crime." War, everywhere else has deyel < ped. almost solely, the sterner, harsher elements of feeling: it was reserved for the South to m nifest conspicuously, in its terrible strug gle, the finer, purer, nobler and kindlier qualities. McLaughlin's work is ill written and onesided. I need only mention, for its condemnation, its designa tion of secession as "rebellion;*' for instance, that General Thomas was a Virginian, but "refused to follow l his st;ite into rebelling." "at the outburst of the rebellion," and "re bellion was starved to death." The Mace-Petrie work is a poor com | position, is lacking in accuracy, i b-ans always against South; and S indulges in foolish comment. I Stephenson's is. in some respects, (indeed generally, more thorough than any other thai I have read, iBut"the author is imperfectly ac quainted with Southern society and Southern character; His statements concerning the/ social system here j are somewhat amusing, but they I are also incorrect and unjust: As. ! "a class of landed proprietors prac tically ruled the country:' "In short, j the social system of tlic South was ' practically the same as the organi zation of an army. Here was an aristocracy acting like a Body of J officers, and a mass of people act ing like soldiers trustful of their generals." In speaking -of the burning of Columbia] he quotes, in his note (page Mil') the absurb statements of two Federal generals, 'and adds that such reports "are confirmed by similar testimony given by citizens of Columbia:" but he does not see fit to quote or refer to the testimony of scorgs who suffered in that horrible atrocity from the violence. incendiarism and plundering by many of Sher man's soldiers. On the whole, the volume is unfavorable lo the South, and looks to me positively un friendly. Thompson's history will do fairly ? ell for beginners. The author appears anxious to tell the truth, and to do justice?rgoing so far as to call Abraham Lincoln a great man. But the work is not full enough to be of much service: and the writer seems to be fearful of claiming too mu h merit for his own people of the South. I think that the histories by La tane and Andrews are preferable to the others?my choice between the two being Latane's. Both eff them are almost always correct in statements of facts: and both indi cate as much: disposition to be fair to the South as wc can expect Of any writer horn and reared and educated in the .Vorth or in the Northwest. I hope that Ijefore long wc shall have from isomc patriotic men of the South, or from some unusually broad-minded and large hearted men of the Vorth, a satis factory history of our people. But for the present, we must choose from the works that we have. J. F. .h CaldwelL Newberry. The Red Cross Home Service acknowledges the receipt of ?35 from tie- Su mter Ku Ktux Klan. .-m m ? . Courtship is "love's young dream." Marriage frequently is the alarm clock. AMERICAN POL ICY IN HAITI I Efforts to Establish Law and I Order, Improve Economic I Situation and to Block Ger- j I man Designs and Aggres j sions. Cited .by Former Sec ! rotary of State in Reply to McCormick Washington. May 7.?American intervention and administration in Haiti were defended ?>y Robert Lan sing, former secretary o.f state, ia a letter to Senator McCormick (Re publican) of Illinois, chairman of the senate committee investigating Haitian affairs, made public to day. Establishment of peace and prosperity in Haiti, blocking of German designs and aggression threatening the Cnited State! and the Monroe doctrine were declared by Mr. Lansing to be the motives behind the Amercian policy. The two dominating ideas of the Amer ican prodecure, Mr. Lansing said, were: "1. To terminate the appalling conditions of anarchy savagery and oppression, which had been prev alent in Haiti for decades, and to undertake the establishment of do mestic peace in the republic in or der that' the great hulk of the population who had been downtrod den by dictators and the innocent victims of repeated revolutions should enjoy a prosperity and an economic and industrial develop ment every people of an American nation are entitled to. "2. A desire to forestall any attempt by a foreign power to ob tain a foothold on the territory of an American nation which, if a seizure ^jf customs control by such a power had occurred or a grant of coaling station or naval base had been obtained, would have most certainly been a menace to the peace of the western heinis phere and in flagrant defiance of the Monroe doctrine." Landing of American naval forces in Haiti in 19.15, Mr. Lans ing stated, was an ''urgent ne cessity." as he said, "anarchy and revolution" was in full sway with Americans imperilled and the French legation violated by a mob which captured and murdered former President Sam. If the Cnited States had not intervened, other foreign nations would have done so. Mr. Lansing said, and to have permitted such foreign inter vention would have meant aban donment of the Monroe doctrine. "The United States had to act and to act with vigor;" said Mr. Lansing. German aggression in Haiti also was a serious factor and not one generally known. Secretary Lan sing continued, stating that Ger many sought a naval base conces sion from the Haitians at Moe St. Nicholas, a base which would have EVERETT TRUE Monk l HonK ', S Honk '. Honk 1 Honk'. honk! bomkT) HO im k ' Amy t<ms reo want SQUAT ovt HCRe an IM'ST GATS OF if T'''1 A NT> /ac VM1" S at hom fff' s threatened the American position in the Caribbean and also would hjave violated thr, Monroe doctrine. "There was good reason . to -h? lieve," said Mi> Lansing, "that in the years 'i'.'l2ri? Germany iwf?s ready to go to great lengths to: se cure the exclusive cdstcms control o!' Haiti and also a coaling station at Moc St. Nicholas . . -. There, has been a strong German in fluence in the: country . _ . and a considerable' number of Oer-~ mans have intermarried with the Haitians and 'are closely connect ed with and more or less active *lrf political and social life of the < ountry.*' ' ; Mr. Lansing^ letter detailed Gier man efforts to obtain the coaling station and Haitian customs super vision. He also recited an iaci-' d<>nt of a German landing party from the German cruiser Karlsruhe at Port au Prince on the eve I of r the declaration' of war between Germany a n d Ru ssia. A bou t dueff,' he said, several boat loads of Ger man sailors landed on the wharf, marched half down the wharf,itigjt were turned back by the minister to Haiti, apparently with orders, to proceed to St. Thomas and the Karlsruhe then proceeded with rer raiding cruise. FIGURES ON AUTOS Greenville County in Lead as to TGtal Number Columbia. May 7.?South lina to date has 71.803 automobiles. ."?.942 trucks. 29 trailers, 411 motor cycles and 421 dealers*, according to figures compiled by the state, high way department through the month of April. Last year the number-of automobiles wjts S3.349 . and . jrae number of trucks was 7.197. '%'. Greenville cuCmty leads, in . ftre number of autontobiles -with -w&r 396. Greenville likewise leads .in, the amount ^??nXO}\dy returned to the county under,the 80 per cejit! clause with-?48,337.30. The'lSfi accrued to the counties so far '. is $513.273.4$. St. Louis. May 8.?Referring ^go United States Senator James^$. Reed as "marplot" Former Presi dent, in-a letter to former'Govern or Stevens, made public today, a^gkr ed the defeatfcA Missouri's senior senator "to redeem the reputation" of the Demecratie party. Hankow. Peking, May S.'-? Hankow railway' has been cut' it is reported that Chao Tin.'' military governor of Province Honan, has starte d hostH? against the forces of Gen. Wu FU. 3 ? ? - ? ' ? ? ?' ' . -? ? ?? . , God created-males and fern? but the neuter-gander lounge liz ard simply developed from ?n$th ?"y. Buy a radiophone and eavesdrop on the whole feprid. ? ? (ajHV, I .tu.AMT TO now. ; BY ALLMAN