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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-04-06

Mrs Phillips was a former resident
of Kingstree, where her father was
prominent member of the bar and
with his family occupied what is
now the Hirsch homestead, in the
northwestern cection of town. A
few years ag1 sne visited her old
home, being the guest of Mrs Louise
Gilland. She was hostess to Mr. and
Mrs Hugh McCutchen while they
were in California last summer at
tending the expositions. Mrs Phil
lips was an excellent lady, and her
sudden death was a great shock to
her friends here and elsewhere.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-04-06
The ouinine That Does Not Affect The Head

Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA-
TIVE BROMO DUMMIES betterthaE ordinary
Ouinire and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
look for TIE signature Of E. ". GROVE. 2Sc.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
And Why We Distrust It
Courtesy of "THE NEW REPUBLIC"

tranquility, provide for the common defence"
and promote the geeral welfare But we
built on distrust; We built on ideals of weak
ness. We have reared on this foundation a
colossal structure of wastefuness. With all
this we have a sense of insecurity that ex-
presses itself in a demand for preparedness.
But to what end may we prepare so long as
we worship our old political idols?
This distrust of government expressed itself
in our political philosophy in what is known
as laissez fare; and in constitutions the fun
damental purpose of which was to insure
weakness-so that those in authority may do
no harm. While the people thoroughly dis
trusted the government, those who framed our
constitutions distrusted the people It has
been this distrust of the people which found
expression in our original governmental plan
"a fact that has been lost sight of-that now
brings US face to face with condition that is
causing the people to think-to appreciate the
fact that we have developed under our consti-
tutions an irresponsible autocracy instead of
responsible representative democracy.
Other great nations have developed the rep
resentative principle without reducing the ex-
ecutive to position of weakness and ire
ponsibiity-without doing violence to the
ideal Of democracy, that the government
shall be responsive to the people They have
done this by trusting the people-by providing
means whereby the executive may appeal to
the people whenever in his opinion the repre-
resentative body no longer EXPRESS the will
OF majority on proposals bfore them, which
must await their approval before the execu-
tive has power to 90 ahead. They have done
this by needing that prophetic statement of
Montesquieu: Were the executive power not
to have right Of putting a stop to encroach-
ment of the legislative body, the latter would
become despotic, for it might arrogate to itself
what authority it pleased; it would destroy
all other powers"
The one thing necessary to protect the peo-
pie against the encroachments of the legis
lature has been left out of our constitutions.
and we have not incorporated it in our pro-
cedure because the trainers of our constitutions
distrusted the people. They not only did not
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

~HE problem which now lays first claim
on American craftsmanship is the
IL maintenance Of. our national ideals in
a world Of conhictin cations. American ma
tiona ideals insist on government for the
benefit of the governed as interpreted by a
numerical majority of citizen voters The
maintenance of these ideals requires that the
government shall be efiicient-not only thai
the government shall be controlled by the
expressed wishes of majority, but that the
nation possessing these ideals shall be able to
command and use it's wealth OF human forces
and material resources for the welfare of the
people and, in case Of need, TO resist any
attack from without. To command its human
forces the government must have the conf
dence of the people To use its human forces
and material resources effectively the govern
ment must be capable and honest; it must be
organized and managed in such manner as to
make efficient action practicable.
None of these results has been attained.
Our government is not trusted; our govern
ment has not developed expertness in organ
ization and management. There is an awak-
ening among the people due to a national con-
SclOuSneSS OF unprepdreuNtSS. DcAoie anna
ments and war materials may be effectively
used 1t is necessary TO develop spiritual and
social background that will cause citizens TO
enlist in a national cause-enlist with enthu-
siaSm and with full confidence that their en-
thusiasm will be directed and used with such
ability that our engines of war may speak de-
fance TO any organized force that may seek
TO violate our territorial rights.
Is this not fit time for us to inquire why
our government is distrusted--why we have
not developed expertnesS in the conduct Of
pumlic affairs?
Some of the concrete facts which stare us
in the face are these:
Although have been spending hundreds Of millions
Of dollars each year equipment 81
IN equipped for defence tina, put 10 II find
the means protecting Mexican border against in
vAson by struggling bands Of organized outlaws al
though using practically all Of available mill
tsry force for this purpose
Our army posts have been scattered about in con-
yressonaI distrets-nct because Of their value for de-
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

trust the people to vote for the chief execu-
tive or for Senators, what has been a more
serious defect, they denied the executive the
right to appeal directly TO the people when the
legislature refused to support him on proposals
that might think to be in the interest of gen.
eral welfare, as distinguished from the inter-
ests OF local constituencies represented by
members Of the legislature.
Since the initial establishment Of our politi.
cal institutions on a foundation of ,distrust Of
the government by the people and distrust Of
the people by our constitution makers, we have
gone from bad TO worse. Without constitu-
tlonal powers of control over the administra-
ton, without powers to initiate measures
which he might deem to be essential to the
public good and essential to wise administra-
tion, the President or the Governor as the
nominal chief executive is held by the people
to be responsible for everything that goes
wrong.
When the government does things that the
people do not like they demand sacrifice, and
the executive serves this purely negative, ex-
pative purpose. The executive has no means
vi AieS1iiS opposition openly ana puOlcly. io
has no means of making an open appeal d.
rectly to the people, and in this situation the
legislature has steadily encroached on the ad'
minStraton-thc result being that the gov
ernment has been still further weakened by
added inhibitons and limitations of power until
to-day our constitutions are largely made up
Of negative provisions. Our institutions are
logical product of the worship of weakness
a eorollary of increasing distrust of the gov
ernment by the people and of distrust Of the
people by our constitution makers. lrrespon'
sibility ineficiency wastefulness, log rolling
and pork barrel" methods of satisfying local
constituencies, and invisible government
these are the products of an underlying funda'
mental error in not goving 10 the executive re-
sponsibility which goes hand in hand with
representative system of enforcing aceounta'
bility through open public inquiry and crlti'
cism, and through the right of representatives
to withhold support from the executive un"i
he has satisfied majority that he is emitted
to the continued confidence of the people.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

laugh at him behind his back. When he
gives an order they either postpone its
execution on some preteXt or other until
it is too late to do anything or else fol-
low some other plan and then explain
blandly that there was misunderstand-
ing. The Emperor never realizes that
he is being "kidded;" though. His colos
sal egotism prevents that.
He believes himself a great command
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
This Democracy of Ours
Bv FREDERICK A. CLEVELAND

fence the training Of men, but TO help congressman
get votes.
Our navy yards have been located strateric points
for vote getting in many instances being i'll adapted
for the purposes Of their establishment that naval oscers
themselves have urged their abandonment
OF the hundreds Of millions Of dollars appropriated
from the public for the development of river
and harbor improvements and other transportation "a
cities not one-ha has been than wasted
many Of these expenditures being authorized purely
for purposes Of getting through putting moneys IN
circulation in the localities of members Of the appro-
priatng body
Hundreds Of millions Of dollars have been appropriated
for public buildings not because Of economies 10 be
effected or convenience to be added for the public good
but simply part Of process Of partisan and per
sonal bargaining.
Public health services have been developed in five diff
ferent administrative departments of the national gov
ernment in than dozen different unco-ordinated
Jurisdictions not because this is the best TO
tcct the health Of the people but because 1t best serves
tho Of those who must giye an account Of them
selves to local constituencies.
Institutions and other for the and educa-
ton Of the defective. dependent and delinquent are put
under six different federal departments, not pursuant
T., any well considered welfare plan but for personal.
partisan and accidental reasons.
Provisions are made for the regulation OF commerce
and banking in hit-or-miss fashion and are uneo-
ordnaed with provisions for the promotion Of trading,
manufacturing mining and agriculture
This weakness and wastefulness in our gov
ernmental agencies, national. state and mu-
nicipal. constitute condition that cries out
for remedy-that causes the people not alone
TO lose confidence in those who have been
chosen to conduct their common business but
to doubt our republican institutions. Instead
of our common business being conducted as
great public trust, our whole political fabric
is honeycombed by distrust Congress dis
trusts the President; the President distrusts
Congress; state legislators distrust governors
and governors distrust legislators; local coun-
ellis distrust local executives. and vice versa;
and the people distrust everybody and every
thing political or governmental.
Our first consciousness of nationality was
the outgrowth Of a well earned distrust of ex-
ecutive power that ripened into a successful
revolution against an existing irresponsible
foreign autocrat. We emerged from a dis
ing war of eight years with national inde-
pendence-and with people united in distrust
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

er, and considers his judgment, both in
military matters and in regard to in
dividuals, infallible. AS a matter of
fact, most of his particular favorites
among the generals who were in COM
mand at the outbreak of the war had to
be superseded. The General Staff al
lowed these men to retain their places so
long as no state of war existed, but when
the actual fighting began the incompe-
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

tents had to go-Kaiser or no Kaiser.
Nevertheless, the Emperor still con-
tinues to criticise freely, and has caused
the retirement of more than one deserv-
ing officer. He was one Of the foremost
to declare Won Hindenburg insane when
that general insisted on his plan for lur-
ing the Russian army into the marshes
of the Mazurian Lake district. Now
that Hindenburg's military genius has
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

Prince will get the credit. Should the
attempt fail, the blame will be shifted
TO the shoulders of the poor devil Of
general because he failed to carry out
his royal highnesss orders In either
case the civilian population will retain
their touching faith in the Crown Prince
who never even goes near the firing
line.
The officers of the Kaisers own staff
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

been triumphantiy vindicated, he refers
TO him as his "old friend" showers him
with honors and has had himself photo
qraphed with the general.
In doing this he is, of course, showing
GREAT discretion, for if he ever ventured
to interfere with general of Hinden-
burg's present standing-well, the gen.
eral would not be the one to be rebuffed
The personal vanity Of both the Kai.
ser and his eldest son knows no limits.
The Grown Prince spends long hours de-
sioning uniforms that will make him
seem more erect and that will tend to
hide his weak chin. BY the way, how
many profile photographs of the Crown
Prince have you seen? Not one, | will
,,ortrre m say. He will not allow
nicture to be made of him unless it
shows him full face. He is not proud
of that chin.
The Kaiser owns several full dress
uniforms of every German regiment and
numerous foreign ones, and delights III
designing new styles Of military regalia.
Many of the hours that he is supposed TO
devote to affairs Of state are spent in
devising changes in the folds or cut OF
"the Kings coat" with a tailor in at
tendance to carry out his orders.
Every time the father or son makes a
change in the existing uniform Of regi.
ment the luckless officers of that regi.
ment have to drain their already depict
ed purses in order to follow the royal
whim. The Crown Prince once designed
some cuff buttons of enormous size.
These he actually patented and sod to
his officers-and the price was not low.
It is notorious, of course, that the kai-
ser considers himself no less competent
as an art critic, musician and author
than as a general. The Sieges Alice, in
Berlin, probably the most famous eXhi-
bition of bad taste in the world, is lined
from end to end with horrible statuary
that was erected by the Kaiser's own
orders. Inferior artists easily gain his
favor by heaping him with the baldest
fattery. His vanity accepts all tributes
as merely his due. He has himself ph)-
tographed several times week, and the
walls of his rooms are lined with his oyn
portraits.
Once, when he was leading dashing
cavalry attack, he stopped the charge
halfway because he had learned that the
moving picture photographers had run
out of films. That was only sham ba.-
tie, however. In this war he leads no
cavalry attacks. His generals would not
let him.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

Of all executive power. In setting up new
government the one controlling thought was TO
secure to ourselves and our poster
itv the blessings Of liberty" All
other things were made subordinate to this
one dominant idea. And in our constitutions
we incorporated all those great principles of
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

human liberty that have been written into the
hearts of Anglo-Saxons through centuries of
resistance to oppression resistance to the ex-
ercise of arbitrary power, resistance TO ire
sponsible government. We built for political
and civil liberty; we built for justice; on these
principles we organized to Ensure domestic
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

This discussion of the real status OF
the German Kaiser and CrO,Cn Prince
as army commanders is by the dnony-
nous author of the other articles upon
the Pr1tSsiQn military system that hare
recently appeared in The Tribune Mogd-
zine. He is German born, the son OF
Prussian major, and himself attended a
German military academy for fue gears.
~ My last Thursday the morning
papers contained an amusing
dispatch from the French
front to the effect that ''the Kaiser is
expected on the Somme front to-mor-
row to brace up the morale Of the Ger
man troops" / say amusing" for
that is exactly what such dispatch is
to one who knows anything of the real
relations between the Hohenzollerns
and the German army.
If the truth were known, the goings
and comings of the Kaiser, and of the
Grown Prince, too, so far as that is con-
cerned. are a matter of complete indif-
ference to the General Staff, which is di-
recting the campaign. When the Kaiser
dashes back and forth between the East
ern and Western fronts he does so for
his own qualification. The men who are
really in command humor him by pre-
tending TO seek his advice and bow to his
authority. 1t does no harm-so long as
they do not take the advice-and pleases
the Kaiser and the German people, who
consider their Emperor great general.
It is an open secret, however, among
both German officers and privates that
the military genius of the Hohenzollerns
died with Frederick the Great. The Kal-
ser and the Crown Prince are both de-
cidedly below par as tacticians This, OF
course, would be no diScredit to them If
it were not for their absurd pretensions.
AS a commanding officer the Kaiser has
blundered repeatedly. ! have seen him
order charges at army nanGuvres that
in actual warfare would have meant in
slant and utter annihilation of the
charging troops. Graf Haeseler once ad-
dressed his staff after certain maneu-
vres as follows "My officers, you have
obeyed his majestys commands splen-
didly-only in real war time do the OPP
posite Then you may win
The Crown Prince is also far from
being the military genius he thinks he
is. Some unfortunate anonymous gen
eral is doing the real work of directing
"the Crown Princes army before Yer
dun. Should the city fall the Crown
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1916-01-13
There Was q Difference,

In the lobby OF n hotel they were
speaking about speed hcnds. and Con.
gresham Wyatt Aiken OF South Car.
olina recalled n story about Jones.
one afternoon Jones was rambling
along the boulevard when he ran
across friend Smith. Handshake and
then some talk. which included the
war, the weather and automobiles.
by tho way said Friend Smith
rocollectively. Il hear that you have
been buying n machine"
Yes" proudly admitted Jones. Il
brought her homo about two weeks
ago"
Some speed. OF course" returned
friend Smith. How fast can the ma.
chine GOT"
WELL" answered Jones with n
smile that was half sad. ut depends
altogether on who Ia timing II. my.
self or n country constable"
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1916-01-13

posed Allison. Il want to show you
something. Look in here" and be
opened the library door.
Dalrymple stepped to the opening
and saw. not merely seven men. mid.
de-aged and past. sitting around a
library table. but practically all the
freightable necessities of the United
States and practically all its money.
power against which his many million
dollar railroad system was OF no more
opposition than toy train.
- the transportation department
to be governed by council composed
OF the representative s Of the various
other departments herein mentioned"
droned on the voice of Babbitt.
The representatives of the various
other departments therein mentioned
were bent in concentrated attention
on every sentence, and phrase. and
word. and syllable OF that important
document. not emitting to pay impor
tant attention to the pauses which an
swered for commas; and none looked
up. Dalrymple closed the door gently.
Now will you sell?" inquired ALI
son.
For q moment the two men looked
into each others eyes. while the old
enmity. begun while they were still in
the womb Of time, lay chill between
them. At one instant. Dalrympie.
whose Jaw muscles were working con.
vulsively. half raised his hands. as II
he were minded to fall on Allison ana
strangle him; and 1t was not the fact
that Allison was probably the strong
er man which restrained him. but a
bigger pride.
NO." he said, again with that in,
finite contempt In his tone. Break
me-"
All right" accepted Allison cheer.
fully. and even with relief; for his way
was now free to pursue its normal
course. He crossed to the door which
opened into the hall. and politely
bowed Dalrymple into the guidance OF
old Ephraim.
"Dalrymple won't SELL" he reported
when he rejoined his fellow members
OF the International Transportation
company.
Joseph G. Clark looked up from a
set OF jotted memoranda which he had
been nonchalantly setting down dur
ing the reading.
We'll pick 1t up in the stock mar
ket." he carelessly suggested.
Cant" replied Allison. with equal
carelessness. He's intrenched with
solid control. and imagine he doesn't
owe a dollar"
Chisholm. with his fingers In his
white mutton chops. was studying
an.shaven old Clark's memoranda.
"A panic will be necessary, any
how" he observed. Well acquire the
road then"
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1916-01-13
SYNOPSIS.

At vcstry meeting OF the Market
square church Call Sargent listens to
dincussion about the sale OF the church
tenements TO Edward f. Allison. local
traction King, and when asked her opin-
ION OF the church by Rev. Smith Boyd.
says II In apparently lucrative business
enterprise. Allison takes Gall riding In
ms motor car. When ne suggests he Is
enntieG :" rest on the laurels OF his
achicvemend, she asks the disturbing
question: wi -" Gall, returning to her
uncle inns horse from her drive with AL
ison. finds cold dIsapproval In the eyes
or hev smith Boyd. who Is calling there
AZ bobsled party Gail finds the world
uncomiortably full OF men. and Allison
tei!s Jim Sargent that his new ambition
- TO conquer the world. Allison starts II
campaign for consolidation an control OF
tne entire transportation system. OF the
world. Gall becomes popular. allison
gains control OF transcontnental ti.fi =
ana nrranScs to absorb the Vedder cotrt
tenement property OF Market Square
church. Ghli visits Vedder court and meet
Ing Boyd there. tells him that the ca,he-
ora! Market Square church proposes to
puild VIII be out OF profits wrung from
squhlor. She becomes the center OF mag
hetic attraction for the men OF her aunts
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1916-01-13
GARDENERS LOVE OF SOIL
Every Agricultural Worthy the Name
Considers Its Welfare as ldentI.
cal With His Own.

Every real gardener and true coun-
tryman loves the soil: the smell Of 1t
when turned over in the sun. the feel
OF 1t under foot. Its welfare Is his own;
he loves to patch up the thin places.
blast out rocks, deepen and enrich it.
The soil is our priceless heritage from
geologic time: 1t is the insoluble resi-.
due from the crumbling OF the rock;
on its maintenance depends the pros
perity OF the race OF man.
And how we have misused and neg
lected our soil! The earth has been
plowed down the hill against the
fences where 1t Is allowed to grow
brush. leaving the hillside and ridges
bare; 1t has been washed away and let
choke up the rivers and harbors with
the finest and latest OF Its substance:
1t has been burned over and its fer.
tility wasted In many other ways.
My father John Burroughs). like
the true countryman that he is. al.
ways loved. indeed almost worshiped.
the soil. He has had more real fun
and satisfaction In late years In i'm.
proving pieces Of land than In any.
thing else. Last summer he found
huge delight In clearing up a stony.
broken pasture. blowing out the rocks
and building fence with them. level.
Ing of the ground and getting It
ready for the plow. saying:
Fifty years and more ago my IA.
Their wanted to clear this field and
make meadow OF It: now am able
to do it-what fine. deep soil 1t
has!"
He would pick up handful and
rub It between his fingers or thrust
the crowbar down into It to show the
depth. Not to clear away any more
forest. but to build up and improve
some OF the land already cleared. that
is truly IN occupation worthy OF any
man!-John Burroughs In the Crafts.
man.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1916-01-13

AFFECT either share OF my stock or
the earning capacity OF my railroad
When you drove me out OF the trac.
ton field. took advantage OF my ox.
pcr!onco and in,rcnchcd myself 20
on and gamble"
II wish you wouldn't take that att
tudc." returned Allison. troubled. 1T
looks to you Ms II were pursuing you
because OF that old quarrel: but
want you to know that I'm not vim
dctiyc."
u don't think you are" replied BAL
rymplc. with Infinite contempt
You're Just damned hog"
A hot flush swept over Allison's
face. but II was gone In an instant
1T happens that need the new Gull
4 Great Lakes system" hc went on. In
. perfectly level voice: and I presss
70 buy It from you at q fair price,"
Dalrymple put on his hat.
TT isn't for sale" he stated.
Just n minute, Dalrymplc." inter