Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-18

War orders received this week by
manufacturing firms in the United
States, says a New York dispatch,
bring the total Of contracts placed in
this country by the allied powers since
the beginning Of the war up to the
stupendous figure Of $500, 100000. The
recapitulation Of the immense orders
shows that nearly a billion dollars
worth, the exact figures being $943,-
O00, 900, has gone to twenty Of the big
gest manufacturing concerns in the
United States. The remaining half
billion dollars has been distributed
among the smaller concerns, in one
case scaling down to a $4,000 order.
Figures procured from Wall street men
who are in close touch with the sit
uation show that the Bridgeport
Arms company Of Bridgeport, Conn,
recently organized, has received the
largest order Of any concern in the
United States. This is from England
for $16S,O00,000 worth Of goods con-
sisting in part Of 100000 rifles at
$2S each. The Bethlehem Steel COM
pany and the General Electric COM
orders with $50, 100000 and 100000
600 respectively. The other orders re-
ceived by the twenty leading concerns
range from $10,000,000 each to the
Savage Arms company to $S3,00O,0OO
to the Canadian Car and Foundry
company.
Better military and naval pre-
paredness by the United States, was
urged in New York last Monday
night by speakers Of national proml-
nence at a mass meeting under the
auspices Of the National Security
league, at a two-day peace and prepa-
ration conference, at which 20 states
were represented. Speakers included
Jacob M. Dickinson and Henry l..
Stimson, former secretaries OF war;
Charles ]. Bonaparte, former secretary
of the navy; Judge Alton B. Parker,
honorary vice president Of the league,
and Dr., Lyman Abbott. Judge Park
er declared the European war had
taught this country that what was
preparedness two years ago Is not
preparedness now. DR.. Abbott declar-
ed he was in favor Of adequate pre-
paredness as a means Of securing
lasting peace. He said the people
ought to demand the organization OF
some council which could lay out a
policy that would insure permanent
protection to the nation. Joseph II.
Choate, honorary president Of the
league, in a letter said he favored
preparation against any emergency.
ITO be prepared for war is one OF the
most effectual means OF preserving
peace" he wrote.
Commenting on the record Of Boys
Corn clubs throughout the United
States for the season Of 1914, just
published by the United States de-
partment Of agriculture, President
Harrison Of the Southern Railway
q
year since the Inauguration Of the
BOYS, Corn clubs the championship
has gone to the south, having been
won by Carl Graves, at $3.50, Miss,
with the production Of 202 bushels OF
corn on a single acre at the remarkable
low cost Of 14.5 cents per bushel. The
highest record made by any boy out
side Of the south was by a Pennsyl-
yania boy who made 14S bushels at a
cost of 267 cents per bushel. This
record was exceeded by ten OF the first
and second prize winning boys In the
south. The average yield per acre
made by the winners of the first ana
second prizes in the state OF Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Alabama, Kentucky and Tenn
essee was 1926 bushels, as compared
with an average Of 104.22 by the prize
winners in the northern, central and
western states. Taken into consider
alton with the records of previous
years, these figures show that, with
the adoption of proper cultural meth
ods, the south can be made the great
est corn producing section or the
United States"
A peaceful settlement Of the ques-
tions which have arisen between the
United States and Germany is predict
ed by DR.. Anton Meyer Gerhard, who
is on his way from the German en-
bassy at Washington to Berlin to eX-
plain the situation to the German
government An interview with DR..
Meyer Gerhard in the Frankfurtei
Zeitung, forwarded from Amsterdam
by a Reuter- correspondent, was OBJ
tanned Tuesday at Christiansland,
Norway, when the steamer on which
DR.. Meyer-Gerhard was a passenger
touched there. The conflicting views
existing between Berlin and Wash
ington regarding the Lusitania affair
rest on a misunderstanding and will
be settled peacefully" he is quoted as
saving. The conflict between PreSi-
dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan is
of old origin and arose from quite
different causes than the LuSitanla al
fair The breach was rendered newt
able by the independent procedure OF
the president, who rejected the coun-
sells of his responsible minister and
drafted the latest American note to
Germany according to his own ideas.
AS President Wilson framed his reply
without even consulting Mr.. Bryan,
the latter had no other recourse but
to request that he be released from
office. The tension between them must
therefore be regarded as entirely a
domestic affair. The feeling of the
American people and government to-
wards Germany is not at all bellicose;
on the contrary there prevails an abb
solute desire for peace"
The story Of cotton in 1915, is told
in the April report of the depart
ment of commerce, says Washing
ton dispatch to the New York Sun.
About the same amount has been
shipped abroad this year as was ship
ped last year in the same period of
time, but the value of the crop thus
shipped is s236,3S200O less than it
was last year. In the ten months end
ed April 80, 1914, there were shipped
abroad of the 1913 crop, S,474,I
bales, or 4,405, 5,S40,943 pounds. In the
corresponding months ended April 30,
1915, there were shipped abroad -
S47,S07 bales, or 3,915,S75,9I6 pounds.
The value of the shipments in 1913
1914 was $685. ,O07. The value of
the shipments of last years crop TO
the end of April was $3.50, ,494, 400. The
average price per bale received for the
crop of 1913-1914 was $66.S9. The av-
erage price per bale received for the
crop of 1914-1915 down to the end of
April. was s44.13, difference of
s2276. In other words, the American
cotton planter this year had to take
for his crop one-third less than it's
ordinary value The average price per
pound of the exported crop last year,
according to the figures Of the de-
partment of commerce, was 15.1 cents,
the average price per pound this year
is S.4 cents. There were shipped
abroad during April, 1914, 39S.2l5
bales, or 2O5,637,249 pounds of cotton
valued at $24,606174. During April
this year there were shipped 672.0OS
bales. or 347,295.662 pounds, valued at
s33,022,93S.
The cost of living is higher than
ever before in the United States, as
far as government statistics show,
and is increasing each year. In 1914.
the years cost of filling the market
basket of the average working mans
family was S66S higher than it was
in 1919 and $50 AZ higher than il was