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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12
Editor Daily Item:

Some weeks ago, through our
Southern papers, | made suggestion
that each negro family raise one or
more additional pigs this year in order
to help bring about more prosperity
in the South. have been surprised to
note how well the suggestion has been
received, and how many are fol,oWing
it; one minister in Uniontown, Ala.
went so far as To organize Pig club
in his church.
Now, l want to make ono other
suggestion, that, in my opinion is OF
still greater and more practical i'm
portance. For months the great cry
has been all through The South to
stop growing cotton or reduce the
acreage.
ChamberS Of Commerce, Business
Leagues, State Legislatures, ana other
bodies have passed resolutions with
out number urging that we in the
South stop growing so much cotton. To
stop growing cotton is Very easy; in
fact it is always easy to stop work
but. merely to stop growing cotton is
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12
DEAD MAN FOUND.
cd Near Greenwood With His
Throat Cut.

Greenwood, Dec. 1.-THE body Of J..
{. Whitman, white, was found about
noon today on tine other side Of Hard
Labor creek, near town, with his
throat cut from ear to ear. He was
an employee Of Grendel mills and had
been missing since Sunday. His wife
and father had just reported his dis
appearance to the chief of police, j.
+. Riley, when negro who had been
hunting and who had made the ghast-
ly find Of the murdered man reported
his discovery. The body was identified
as that Of Whitman.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12

Il mere negative proposition and will
not, / fear, leave the south much bet
ter off than it is at present. If we de-
Stroy, or cripple a great industry, we
should be very sure to have one. or
a number equally good to put i'm it's
place. In this connection it should
he kcrt in mind as II matter OF grea,
importance, that if the labor once
leaves the farm by reason of changing
crops it Will be very difficult TO get
the labor TO return TO the farm in af-
ter years.
The great cry is to grow field crops
That is well, but one must keep in
mind that the great masses of negroes
who have actually grown the most of
the cotton in tho South for years. and
who live upon the most valuable land
in the South do not heac of the reso-
lutions that are passed by these va
rious bodies. These people have been
trained to grow nothing but cotton
81
thing else. In fact, in many cases.
they have not been. permitted and are
not now permitted to grow anything
else!
We must also bear in mind that the
largest land owners seldom visit their
planta-iOns-sOmc not more than once
or twice q year, and hence can be of
little service in teaching these negro
tenants how to change all at once
food producing crop.
If permanent results are to be Sc
cured, the negro who actually culti-
Yates the land must be reached and
trained into growing a food d-produCing
crop. How can this be done? NV an
swcr would be. by putting a negro
farm demonstration agent into every
county of the South where there is
any considerable number of negro
agent should be man of good COM
mon sense. He should be a man who
knows the characteristics Of the color
cd people, who knows how to reach
them in and through their societies.
their churches and their various or
ganizatiOns Of one kind and another
He should be q man required to travel
from one farm to another throughout
the country training the negro farm
er how to produce q food crop.
Wherever these demonstration agents
have already been at work in the
South, they have done work which
has been most helpful and commend
able.
If this important work is to be done,
no time should be lost in selecting
these demonstration agents. The cost
should not be very large. Either
through county appropriations or from
some part of the state funds appro-
priated for agricultural purposes, u
portion of the money for the salary
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12

wide and far-rcaChinS harm. The
simple fact is that. thanks to Prcsi-
dent Wilson's action-and ut times
his inoctiOn has been the most effect
tive and vicious form of action-ths
country has become partially (and
guiltily) responsible for some of the
worst acts ever committed. even in
the civil wars Of Mexico.
when President Wilson refused to
recognize Huerta, he committed a
definite act of interference of tho
time. he and Mr.. Bryan looked on
with folded arms and without q pro-
test OF any kind while American Citi-
zens were murdered or robbed OF
shamefully maltreatcd i'm all parts of
Mexico BY different sets of bandit
ii who hasQueraded aS soldiers Of
the different factions. He maintains
ed for a long time a friendly inter-
course with one set of political advcn-
turers through irrcgu,nrly appointed
diplomatic agents. and he adopted an
openly offensive attitude toward the
chief of another set, although he was
then the de facto head of Whatever
government Mexico had.
His defenders allege that he could
not properly have forbidden the trans
mission Of arms 10 the revolutionaries
across the border The answer is that
he did forbid IL at intervals. lie there
by showed that he was taking an ac-
tive interest i'm the armnS of the rev.
olutionaries; that he permitted it
when he chose To do SO and stopped il
intermittently whenever he thought
II best to stop it. and was. therefore,
entirely responsible for II.
The nominal rights which the con-
tending factions championed, and the
actual ahd hiGeous wrongs done by all
of them. We're i'm no sense our affair,
save i'm so far us Americans and other
foreigners were mal;reated. We may
individually sympathize, as, for in
stance. L personally do. with the gem
eral purpose of the program for di-
vision of the lands among the Mcxi-
can cultivatofs, announced by Car
rama. Villa and other revolutionary
leaders. but this no more justified in
reference on our part than belief in
the wisdom of the single tax for the
United States by some foreign ruler
would warrant his interference In
the internal affairs of the United
States. Moreover, nothing in the ca
reer OF Carranza and Villa or in the
conduct OF the Mexican people at
present jus.ifics US ia any certainty
that this program will in any real
sense be put into effect.
When the administration did in
terfere, 1T was bound to accept the
responsibility for its acts. 1t could
not give any aid TO the revolution
aries without accepting a correspond
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12

The curb market is an experiment
and will be given a trial If it is
found to be mutually profitable to the
farmers and housekeepers it will be-
come a permanent institution. 1t
unless the farmers bring their pro-
duce to the market and the house
keepers patronize it regularly and lib
erallV.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12

ing share of responsibility for their
deeds and misdccds. 1t could not aid
them because of their attitude on the
land question without also assuming
a corresponding share of responsible
ity for their attitude toward religion
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12

Orangeburg, Dec. Mrs. Emma J.
Riggs, widow of the late Harpin Riggs,
died at her residence on West Rus
sell street yesterday afternoon. AL
though she was rather advanced i'm
age, Mrs. Riggs death came as a
shock. She had been ill for a very
short time.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12

Scranton. Pa, Dec. S.--Ninc miners
were killed in the Diamond coal mine
THIS morning when miner dropped q
stick of dynamite which exploded in
the cage lowering the men to their
work. The cage dropped two hundred
feet.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12

West Orange, y. j.. Dec. ,9.-Fire
destroyed virtually the entire main
plant Of the Edison company here to-
ni&ht, causing damages estimated at
nearly $7,000,OOO with insurance that
it is expected will reduce the loss TO
approximately 100000.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-12
MhilC House SilNnf

Washington. Dec. THE White
House this evening was absolutely si-
lent regarding the attack by Colonel
Roosevclt. 1t is thought probable
that the president will ignore il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28

American salmon in the fresh waters of
Tasmania are prospecting wonderfully.
Some of them increased in weight from
two ounces to four pounds In twenty-one
months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
Says Cars Are Crowded.

Press Asher. an aged farmer. living
near Albany. Mo. has never had any
confidence in a gun. and kills all III
small game he desires with bow ant
arrow which he has made himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28

Willard Hotel today. Mrs. Elizabeth j
Somers. principal of the institution. pre-
sented the diplomas. Rev. Dr. Charles
Wood conducted the devotional exercises
Musical numbers were under the direction
of Josef kaspar.
Those who received diplomas are Misses
Emma NJ. Y. Austin. Detroit. Mich.
Rachel Duncan Bush, Chicago. Ill; Mary
A. Butler. St. Paul. Mimi; Dorothy NJ.
Campbell, Saltwater, Mimi; Doris
Leonora Carnahan, Denver. Col; Elcey
H. Cole, Duluth, Mimi; Myrtle Mary
Gilbert, Saginaw, Mich; Harriet Selby
Gillette. Sheridan, Wyoming: Hazel Cath
crime Husband, New Harmony. Ind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28

Grace secor Kelsey, Toledo. Ohio; H1r-
riet Louise Lewis. De kalb, Ill; Mar
garet Elizabeth Lips. Baltimore, Md. ;
Eleanor Mackay. Omaha, Neb ;
Helen Magee, Fort Wayne, Ind :
Dorothy Warinner Menefee. Kansas
City. Mo; Harriet Nina Metz. Omaha,
Edna Hazel Miles, Los Angeles, Cal :;
Elizabeth Candace Parsons, Los Angeles,
Cal: Marion Louise PIERCE. Lafayette,
Ind: Carita Mildred Reiss, Sheboygan
Wis; Alma Catherine Schmidt, Chicago,
Ill; June Seeley, Mount Pleasant. Iowa:
Mabel Edna Seeley, Los Angeles, Cal. !;
Josephine Vincent Sweeney, ST. Paul,
Mimi. Susan Dorothy West, Glens
Falls. n. Y; Emily Nutting Wfggin,
Lowell, Mass, and Mary Wood, Flint,
Mich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28

marked the concluding exercises of the
night school sessions at the Thorn
son School last evening.
In his remarks Mr.. Sandberg stated
that the progress of a nation varies
in direct ratio with it's educational
standards and advancement. and re-
ferred to the educational opportunities
in this country, especially for the for
eigner and poor, as being unequaled
in any other part of the world.
Patriotism, good citizenship and uplift
Of moral and social standards must come
through the schools he said, land the
apt pupils have proven to be foreigners
and children of foreign-born parents"
The Alliance Of Jewish Women,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
URGE THAT DISTRICT
TAKE OVER CAR LINES
E. w. Oyster and Thomas E. Will
Appear Before House
Committee.

r. ". Oyster. member of the board of
assistant assessors. was one of the wit
nesscs testifying before the District COM
nlittee of the House today that citizens
of Washington are dissatisfied with the
way street car lines are operated under
private ownership. He favored the Cros-
ser bill to authorize the District to ac-
quire own and operate the street rail-
ways here. Thomas E. Will was an
other complainant against street rail
WAYS as now run.
Municipal ownership" contended Mr..
Will. brings better efficiency. better
wages happier employees and shorter
hours
What experience have you had in
operating street railways asked Repre-
sentative Thompson.
None. except of riding and paying
Will Seek Information.
You say that public ownership brings
better results said Representative
Winslow. Would you mind telling
where such results have been obtained"
Mr.. Will said he could not but would
try to get such information.
Mr.. oysters opening complaint was to
the effect that suburban settlements are
not getting the service they need. He
also declared that municipal ownership
would bring better service. better wages
and better conditions generally.
How do you know asked Represen-
taiiye WinsloW
Il am confident of it
DO you know of any city where the
cars are cleaner and better than here7"
Says Cars Are Crowded.
We are not getting the service We
ought to get out my way" was Mr..
oysters reply. The crowds that are
damned into cars out there are awful.
II is very bad on the Briehtwood line"
Mr.. Oyster also said the aisles were too
narrow. Representative Winslow volun-
reered the suggestion that the United
States could not order municipal owner
ship of street cars just because of narrow
4iSles.
We'll. II you were to sit on one OF
Those seats there'd scarcely be room
AHough for any else. commented
Mr. Oyster. referring to Representative
Winslow's Compound figure.
Where has municipal ownership given
better results than private ownership?
asked Representative Winsiow.
Il have no statistics with me-
You are stating only an opinion. then
Yes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
FREED ON FRAUD CHARGES.
Head of Uncle Sam Oil Company and
Nine Others Acquitted.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. Nav Is
II. II. Tucker of Kansas City. president
of the Uncle Sam Oil Company. and
nine other defendants. who were charged
with having attempted to defraud the
government in connection with Usage
oil land leases. were found not guilty
late yesterday. The trial of Tucker
and his assistants in the United States
district court here occupied more than
a month. The jury was out twenty
three minutes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28

through whose efforts the extension OF
the night school for several months was
made possible, was represented by Mrs
Adolph Kahn and Mrs. A. Lehman. the
latter complimenting the earnest and
faithful work of the night school teach
ers
The musical program consisted of vocal
solos by Mr.. Eisenberg, one Of the
former students: mandolin and piano Sc
lections by Messrs. Bortman and Jackson
and singing by the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
New Dry Dock at Norfolk.

During the consideration OF the naval
Appropriation bill yesterday afternoon, the
Senate agreed TO an amendment offered
bv the Senate naval affairs committee
authorizing the expenditure of S,UUooo
to construct a new dry dock at Norfolh'
Va. of which 100000 is to be Immediately
available. The new dry dock, SAID sen
ator Swanson of Virginia, who was in,
strumental in having the item piaceu
in the BILL will be large enough TO. &C
commodate any battleship capable OIL
passing through the Panama canal
Authority for an investigation and re-
port by the Secretary of the Navy on
the government armor plate factory pro-
ject inserted in the bill by the Senate
Committee. was stricken out ON point
of order by Senator Oliver. Previously
Senator Ashurst, denouncing the armor-
plate manufacturers as the most odolus,
crushing, devastating monopoly in the
United States" had sought vainly TO
have the bill authorize the erection of a
S4OOO,OOO government plant in the event
the Navy Department failed to obtain
reasonable bids on armor from the man
ufactureS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
MOUNT VERNON SEMINARY
HOLDS CLOSING EXERCISES
Bishop William Mcdowell Delivers
Address to Graduates at New
Willard Hotel Today.

Bishop William Mcdowell delivered the
principal address to the graduates of
Mount Vernon Seminary at their COM
mencement exercises, held at the New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
j. s. AIMS TO SELL
TWO OLD WARSH|PS
Greece Said to Have Made
Cash Offer for the Idaho
and Mississippi.
AMENDMENT DRAFTED TO
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL
Money to Go for New Vessels-1tem
for $4,000, 600 Norfolk Dry Dock
Agreed to by Senate.

The Senate committee on naval affairs
TODAY drafted an amendment to the naval
appropriation bill authorizing the Presi-
dent to sell the battleships- Idaho and
Mississippi to a foreign nation. 1t is I'M
derstood that this nation is Greece and
that a cash offer has been made Tor
the two war vessels.
The action of the committee was taken
following a long conference with Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels this morning.
Later the amendment was presented to
the Senate.
The committee instructed Senator Lodge
O, Massachusetts, to draw an amend
nent providing for the sale of the pat
tleships. This amendment provides that
the money received for the vessels snail
not be less than their cost, ana tnal
the money received for them should De
used for the construction of a new war
vessel or vessels of the most modern
type for the United States Navy
Cost SIS, 100000 Each.
The Idaho and the Mississippi were au-
thorized in 1903 and commissioned III
1905. They are considered to be ABOUT
ton years old by naval experts. Ihey
zach cost about IS. SOC. 600. Members OF
the Senate committee considered that IL
was good business TO sell some OF tns
older war vessels at a good price anu
build new ones. 1t will be possible, II Is
said. to go ahead with the construction
of three new dreadnoughtS this year m
stead of two as provided i'll the pending
naval appropriation BILL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
PROGRESS OF THE NATION
DEPENDS ON EDUCATION
Harry o. Sandberg So Declares at
Closing Sessions of Thorn
son Night School.

An address on Education, a Ma
tional Asset" delivered by Harry O.
Sandberg of the Pan American Union
followed by musical program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-28
Way for Early Vote Paved.

In few hours the Senate disposed or
most of the committee amendments and
paved the way for an early vote on the
appropriation bill.
An amendment striking out the stpu-
iation that one of the two battleshipS
provided for be built in a government
yard went over.
Upon point Of order by Senator Weeks
the authorization of the Secretary or the
Navy to appoint twenty-five naval cadets
from the enlisted men was stricken out
as new legislation.
Committee amendments to the bill as 1t
passed the House agreed to included pro-
vision for exempting from tolls vessels
using the Panama canal in connection
with the Panama-Pacifc exposition,
six-hundred-t thousand dollar breakwater
at Key West Fla. and for increasing the
cost of the dry dock at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. to si.g0Oo00.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-23
Would Amend WOrkmen'S Act

Amendment Of the state workmen S
compensation act to provide first aid
for the injured and a measure to abol-
ish employment agencies were advo-
Gated as the chief features of the state
federation of labor's legislative pro-
gram at the opening session in Ray
mond last Monday. The recommend
atoms were contained in the annual
report Of President E. P. Marsh Of
Everett, who also declared against
alien land ownership, demanded stricter
immigration laws and deplored what he
termed injunction rule" by the
courts, citing decisions of Judge John
E. Humphries Of Seattle as showing
the need of the recall Of judges.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-23
WOMEN WILL SOON COOK
WITH POWDERED EGGS
The U. S. Government Says They Con-
tain all the Nutriments of Strictly
fresh Eggs

Housewives in the future will do
ther cooking with powdered eggs, and
thus get the laugh on the usual high
prices of winter cackleberies, accord
ing TO experiments now being con-
Quoted by the home economics de-
partment OF the University of Wash
ington.
There is no reason at all why dry
and powdered eggs cannot be used in
cooking as well as fresh eggs" said
Miss Elizabeth Rothermel, who is in
charge Of the experiments.
The United States government
recommends them highly, saying that
they contain all the nutriments oil
strictly fresh eggs. The present price
Of powdered eggs is 81 pound, which
is equivalent to fresh ranch eggs at "a
cents a dozen. Eggs are IS per cent
water and can be dried into composite
form without any loss OF nutriment. "
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-23

The last number Of the Oregon His
torical Quarterly was memorial num-
Der devoted to that heroic frontier
character who for forty years made the
Oregonian a power for good in the
northwest, Col. Harvey w. Scott. The
passing of Mr.. Scott marks the last one
Of half dozen newspaper editors who
left mark on the civilization OF this
county during the past century.
Henry Watterson Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal is the sole survivor.
Mr.. Scott's was a strong, rugged indi-
yiduality. OF him it may be truly
said he was self-made and self-edu-
Gated, and his education was not with
out the polish Of deep study Of the
classics. His was a towering figure
in the political and social lille oil the
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-23
Profit in a COOPERATIVE Creamery

We have frequently, in the past,
called attention 10 the fact that the
Upper Wenatchee Valley should have
creamery. Because lands here are
cheaper, and because there is much
good outside range in the national for
est for summer grazing, the opening
for a profitable dairy business is very
good. The following item clipped
from daily paper this week shows
how profitable the farmers OF Lewis
county made it last year.
The Lewis County cooperative
creamery in this city had very profit
able year during 1918, its second year
of active work. During the year the
company sold s75, 900 worth OF butter,
and somewhat remarkable incident is
that the company did not lose a single
account nor was single account col
Iected by process Of law. During the
year buttermilk to the amount Of
s161.73 was sold. They purchased
sol, 051.12 worth Of butterfat; milk
purchases amounted to s2,353.54,
and labor and salaries amounted to
S2,67l.25.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-23
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Superior Court OF the State OF
Washington, in and for Chelan County.
In the matter OF the estate OF Rose l..
Beasley, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administr ator of the estate of Rose
l.. Beasley. deceased, to the creditors OF.
and all persons having claims against, the
said deceased. to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers, within one "a year AT
ter the first publication OF this notice TO
the said administrator at his office in the
City OF Leavenworth. Chelan County.
Washington, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business OF said es-
tate.
Dated this 18th day OF January, 1914.
LEWIS j. NELSON. Administ rator
Date OF first publications: January 49, last
feb 6 1914.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-23

M. ]. Dalton, formerly Of this place,
living in Hillyard for the past six years,
and pulling the throttle on passenger
train between here and Spokane,
dropped into the Office one day this
week to pay his tenth years subscrip-
ton to the Echo, and talk over old
times, He is one OF over a hundred
that commenced taking the Echo jan
uary IS, 1904. that are still taking it.
At the time they commenced taking
the paper they were all citizens Of
Leavenworth, now they are scattered
all over the world, and still take the
Echo to hear from home. Mr.. Dalton
said the town will have to go some to
keep up with the paper, Leavenworth
was growing, but the Echo was growing
faster than the town.