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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

To the Editor Of The Daily Item:
l note with regret the letter of
Joe Sparks from Columbia on the
probability of the repeal of the State
warehouse law on the showing made
by the commissioner in his report that
on September 23rd there was only
$4,000 bales on storage in the sys-
tenn, that 90 Of the 15S warehouses;
were empty. This is no valid reason
for its repeal. 1t only goes to show
that cotton was selling so much high
er than our people were accustomed
to have it that they sold out. There
mas been another factor operating
against it: the fight of the insurance
people against McLaurn for his
cheapening the rates and telling about
1T, and his entry into politics, which
made people uneasy. But high prices
was the main cause.
Now to abolish the system means
That when the next crisis comes (aud
we all know that it will come sooner
or Aater) more money will be lost ten
times over in few weeks than it will
cost to keep the system intact for
ten years. But some one says why
tax the whole people to prevent a
probable loss to the farmers? The
answer is simple, bee ause the business
interests of the State will suffer when
the farmers suffer If this is not so
why the business activity to prepare
the farmers to meet the boil wcevil
invasion?
can not believe that q legislature
that spends thousands of dollars on
tick eradication, $4,000 in the past
three years. will balk at spending five,
ten or fifteen thousand dollars to
make 1t Impossible to stampede the
cotton growers to the absolute pa
ralysis of business as has happened
in the past.
McLaurin is out Of it. Put some
other capable man in his place, Re
can be found, though I wish to say
publicly that 7 do not believe there
is a man in the State who could have
accomplished what McLaurin did with
the limited means at his disposed.
Keep the system and perfect it, for
so surely as the seasons come and go
1t will not be two years before it will
be needed. Keep the system to be
able to enter the federal warehouse
system when the time is ripe.
1t cost 100000 to enact the ware
house system, for that was all the
special session Of the legislature did.
But 1t was worth the cost ten times
over to business in South Carolina.
VIII the legislature throw all that
money away and force an equal or
greater cost when needed again 10
save few thousand dollars a year?
Might as well let ticks be reintro-
duced in tick free territory because
the people have not gone into cattle
raising on the scale We hoped they
would. E. w. Dabbs.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

Selected planting cotton seed. Big
Boil and Early Varieties. 80 day cot
ton. This early variety natures
before the boil weevil gets in his de-
structive work. Orders taken for
these seed by s. f. Stoudenmire at
w. B. Boyle Co.. and w. Green ut
Southern Cotton Oil Co.-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20
VILLA FORCES ADVANCE.

FL Paso. Jan. 1s.-Small bands of
the Villa advance guard penetrated
chihuahua City yesterday. Desultory
street hghting continued all day.
Foreigners are fleeing. The fighting
continues. The main body Of Vii
listas Is battling Caranzlstas near
Polomas.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

Selected planting cotton seed. Big
Boil and Early Varieties. 80 day cot
ton. This early variety natures
before the boil weevil gets I'm his de-
structve work. Orders taken for
these seed by - T.. Stoudenmire at
w. B. Eoyle Co, and w. Green at
Southern Cotton Oil Co.--Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

Miss Eugcnia Cummings died yes
terday. at the home of her brother
m-law. Mr.. j. w. Moore, after an i'll
ness OF about three weeks aged CT
years. The funeral services and in
terment were held this afternoon at
o'clock at Bethel Church, Oswego.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

Rev. j. III. Wilson. pastor Of the
Lutheran church, was called to At
lanta yesterday on account OF the
death Of his son at that place. The
funeral services will be held at Ehr-
hardt. 8. G.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20


never get a peck of peaches per tree,
If he ever gets a peach. due to the
fact that the trees were neglected. His
trees were just as good and no better
than those that may be purchased
from numbers of nurseries at from
four to ten cents apiece. I can SHOW
any one here ia Sumter county two as
fine orchards Of peach trees two years
old that will bear from a peck to a
bushel of peaches per tree, if the cold
weather does not kill them, and the
trees cost only two and a half cents
apiece. Now l should not grieve if n
farmer paid a dollar apiece for tnees
If it would make him take better care
of his orchard, bat when he spends
his money and gets nothing in return
he is discouraged and is inclined To
JON those who say, "O, we'll there Is;
iu't no use to try"
Between tIris time and the time
when the trees begin to bud all peach
and apple trees should be sprayed
with lime sulphur solution. This So
luton may he purchased from the
! drug stores i'm Sumter at 25 cents7bc
gallon and one gallon Of the concen-
trated solution mixed with eight gal
Ions of water makes the spray solu-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

Amsterdam. Jan. 1s.--Dispatches es
from Berlin states that 1t IL announc-
ed there that one submarine sank sin
teen merchant ships on n single vo,
age.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

FREE SAMPLF-Large papcr-shcll II
pecans. Landowners, write for
sample nuts and prices Of trees to-
day. Southern Nut Tree Nurseries,
Thomasville, Ga.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20

London. Jan. 1S.--British steam
ship Archancrag. the schooner Kin
purney and the Danish steamsh. p
Omak have been sunk. Lloyd's reports
today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20
Corrected Daily by

Corrected Daily by
ERNEST FIELD. Cotton Buyer.
Good Middling II 1-2.
Strict Middling II 3-8.
Middling II IA.
Strict Low Middling II.
Low Middling 16 1-2.
Staple cotton 20 to CSC.
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20
SUMTER COTTON MARKET.
Corrected Daily by

HAKBY &c CO.. Cotton BuyerN.
Good Middling II 1-2 to SIS.
Strict Middling II 3-S to 1-2.
Middling II IA to 3-8.
Strict Low Middling II.
Low Middling 16 1-2.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-20
DON'T RAISE AID COTTON

j. T.. Williams Warns Farmers cs
Uncertainty of Price Of Cotton and
High Cost Of Fertilizers-Says rs Get
More Cows and Raise Feed for
Them-Creamery Routes Should be
Organized.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
Woman's Work in the War

England" said the late Lord Kitchener,
twill not put forth her full strength until
women are doing nearly everything now
done by men," Since these words were
spoken the women have continued to do
more and more, and vast numbers are now
engaged in a variety of occupations which
before the war were commonly supposed to
be essentially masculine and quite lncom-
patible with the talents and powers OF the
Trailer part of mankind. A million women
have passed through the employment eX-
changes since the war began, most OF them
to war work, and now large numbers are
to be taken over by the War Office and sent
over to France TO serve in sundry capaci-
ties with the armies. Some particulars OF
this great undertaking are quoted from
"The Manchester Guardian" in another
column.
All these things tend TO encourage those
who we're obliged as soon as the war broke
out to give up all hope of furthering an eX-
tension of the franchise to women. 1hey
are encouraging because they help to dlspel
some of the most deeply rooted prejudices
against giving women the vote-all those
preiudces attributable to the vague behef
that women are less concerned than men IN
the maintenance Of the state. The shallow
notion that inasmuch as the stability OF
the state must depend ultimately upon
force. and that therefore all women are
comparatively superfuous when the final
test comes. has been completely disposed OF
in the last two years, to the manifest con-
Germ of some Of the most valiant foes OF the
suffrage movement.
A member Of the late ministry remarked
the other day at a meeting of the National
Union of Women's Suffrage Societies that
"whereas before the war it would have
been difficult for them to get large ma
iority in the House of Commons, 1t was
now difficult to find opponents there
Even those who did maintain their opposi-
ton. he added, "were not so proud OF their
views as they used to be-" A promising
assurance, but one which must not be ac-
cepted with too much confidence. The real
difficulty will be to maintain the new faith
Ct the converts when the war is over. All
men are more or less forgetful and there
are opportunists even among Members
of Parliament.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
To MIR. Justice Hendrick

An editorial article entitled "Thaws
Insanity" appeared in these columns yes
terday that ought never TO have been
printed in The Tribune. So far as 1t re-
Elected in any way upon Mr.. Justice
Hendrick. the learned Judge who presided
ut the last Thaw trial in this state, II
was without justification. 1t was pub
lished through one Of the most regrettaoie
errors that ever occurred in this ofhce'
II was written at a late hour on Tuesday
night and went to the composing room
without the editor having had an oppor-
tunity to pass upon it. If it had come TO
him in the usual and proper course Tor
editing, it would have been instantly re-
jected for publication.
The Tribune tenders to Mr.. Justice
Hendrick. for whom it entertains great
respect and high esteem, its sincere apol-
ogies and this expression of its deep
regret for the occurrence. He is not only
a learned and able Judge but signally con-
scientious in the discharge of his judicial
duties. We wish unreservedly to disavow
every imputation against him which the
article referred to contains.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15

the citizens not even Senator Cullen has
made clear.
New York needs Capitalization OF gov
ernmental powers, not dsntegratlon' ana
a consolidation of administrative offices,
not a multiplication of them, whether IN
city or county service. Local pride is
fine thing, but when it degenerates into Jeal-
ousy, which has seemed to be the moving
force behind all the attacks on "centraliza-
tion"-that and a desire on the part OF
local politicians to keep their strangle-hold
on the jobs which the local offices and bu-
reaus, city and county, necessitate-itis not
so fine. There is point where local pride
should give place to pride in the City Of
New York, of which each Of the boroughs
is a part. The City of New York can never
have a government of the highest efficiency
and economy while there exists desire to
make a part greater than the whole.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
Our Fools Paradise
or Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: For an administration determined to
do nothing. or as little as possible, to pre-
pare this country for war, an immense APP
preparation for navy is perfectly safe
Batteships are not built in day, and Mr.
Daniels can be depended upon to drag the
work over proper number Of years.
With respect TO an army. the intention Of
the Administration cannot be so easily con-
cealed Everybody knows that we have no
army-more especially our enemies and that
absolutely nothing is being done TO get one,
or 10 equip it after we get tiff we ever do
II is said that recruits on Governors Island
have actually been drilling with broomsticks
II ever nation was living in FOOLS par
adise that nation is the so-called United
States Of America.
What bloody awakening awaits US ir
perhaps the not very distant future for the
folly of permitting two and one-half years 10
rass By with the dark cloud OF war lowering
near and all this time sitting with folded
hands and doing nothingl VI. 7. X.
New York. March -, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
DR.. Glayson's Chance
lErom ~ Hartford conrann

CFrom The Hartford CoprGar
If Dr. Cary T. Grayson could see his way
clear TO withdraw himself from an unpleas-
ant position. the way is now open to him.
His nomination for medical director in the
United States navy, with the rank Of rear
admiral, was stranded by the end OF the
Sixty-fourth Congress, and thus a new chap
ter is opened in this unfortunate episode.
President Wilson cannot very we'll hack
down in regard to this preposterous nomi-
nation, not TO speak Of mis- own foolish pride
in never backing down. But DR.. Grayson
can now say that he will not accept the post
offered to him, but wishes it given to some
older man who has had more experience in
the naval service than he has had Such a
frank and manly declaration would extri-
cate President Wilson from the blind alley
into which his personal friendship has lured
him. and would save DR.. Grayson for future
usefulness in that branch of our national
service where fair play among the members
Of il is still a noble and honored tradition.
II is an opportune chance for Dir. Gray
son TO show his quality as a man, as n
brother officer and as Virginian. 1t would
be fine thing for him and for the country
II he could see his way clear TO take this
cfpD
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
More Work, Not More Pay

For many years the desire dearest to
the legislative heart has been to increase
to some figure properly commensurate with
a legislators worth that paltry $1,000 a
wear which the State of New York pays to
struggling Senators and Assemblymen.
few years ago the lawmakers passed con-
stitutional amendment increasing the COM
pensation, but a calous electorate set its
heel on the salary raise. Now a particu-
larly neat way out of the dilemma has
been found by Senator Lawson, of Brook
lyn. Instead of applying for an increase
TO the employers, the people of the state,
he would have the legislators themselves
fix their pay. He proposes to cut out of
the constitution all reference to legislators
salaries, thus leaving to the Legislature
the power and duty of determining the
rate of compensation.
In these days Of the high cost Of living
there is a certain plausibility in move
ment to increase legislators pay. 1t is
quite another thing to propose to grant
them free access to the treasury. The
present salary may be, as frequently has
been set forth, too little for the time they
are required to give to the states business.
But the remedy for that is not necessarily
to increase their pay, but to decrease the
length of the session. theoretically
three-month affair, the session in recent
years has stretched to four, five, even six
months. OF these the first two are devoted
to preliminaries when they might be de
voted to work with much better results for
lawmakers and the public. If the time
wasted were cut out, the $1,000 would
make a far better showing divided into
weekly pay instruments.
Unfortunately the legislators are not
likely to change their habit of procrastina-
ton. At least a premium need not be set
on idling by increasing the pay for the
time thus spent. Since the constitution
will have to be changed to get a pay in
crease for the "boys at Albany" the public
which foots the bills will always have
the veto power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
BACHELORS MAY COOK
But Families May Not, According to Our
Ingenious Tenement House Law
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Newspaper comment on my statement
relating to the illegal occupancy of buildings
not tenement houses as the residences of
three or more families. shows that the mean
ing of the notice was misunderstood. 1t did
rot state or imply that individual living
in furnished room or rooms in a building
not legal tenement may not prepare a
meal for his own use. The legal prohibition
relates 20 families.
The announcement did not foreshadow any
new policy. Since its organization the
Tenement House Department has been en-
forcing the law to the best of it's ability
along the lines indicated The warning was
issued to inform citizens.
JOHN J. MURPHY.
Comm ssioner.
Tenement House Department, New York,
March 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
The Village Unperturbed

Many, many tears have been shed by
outlanders over the cruel restrictions
placed upon Greenwich Villagers by the
late and much misunderstood pronuncia-
mento Of our Tenement House Depart
ment. Cooking in rooms forbiddenl Chat
ing dish and electric stove under ban!
Long and short haired villagers alike
starving
There are two complete reasons why all
this excitement is unjustifed. The first is
that cooking in a room or on the roof or
anywhere else is simply not done in the
village. Starving on grapefruit and
bacon and eggs, home brewed is not at all
the thing in Greenwich garrets, even in
the most poverty stricken ones that rent
for as little as $50 month open freplaces
included. No matter what the meal, the
inescapable mode is 10 don your tam-o'-
shanter and flowing red tie and hike out 10
Gallup's, Polly's, the Dutch Oven or one
Of the ,lG3 Italian 75-cent meal spots. Or,
If IL is Saturday night, 10 the Brevoort.
The other reason flows from the expla-
nation by Commissioner Murphy printed IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
"A Foolish Little Fellow"
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In the very interesting letter in to-
days issue entitled The Tale of Dog
there occurs this statement, to which take
exception: "In the French there is a word
Fou, and translated into English can
not be other than mad" etc.
The definitions in the Dictonnaire de Aca-
demie Francaise and illustrations of the
same are very various: al est fou. II faut
quill soft fou. Sc dit de celui qu fat on dit
des extrayagances, quot quill matt point
Pesprit aliene" Again, in ordinary con-
versation one frequently uses or hears the
word "fou" used as the opposite of sage; or
sense. or reasonable, as adjective. In case
of the noun "Fou," or Toilette" in the tale,
the translation man mentally unbalanced
or "a man very angry" or "a foolish (sepse-
Less man." would alone or together fit the
yelled allusion, | think. F. ". T..
Jersey City. March 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
The Algonquin

The sinking of the Algonquin is merely
a specific evidence Of the fact that Ger
many is making war upon the United
States. The proclamation of the sub
marine zone was declaration Of pur-
pose of war. The sinking of the Algon-
ouin is merely a translation of that pur-
pose into fact.
When the first of the American pas
senger ships carrying arms reaches Eu-
ropean waters and is attacked by Ger
man submarine, it will defend itself, and
then we shall have a condition of war and
a naval encounter without a declaration
Of war. This is what armed neutrality
means.
It Is perfectly idle to suppose that such
an anomalous condition can long persist.
To be at war and not TO be at war is i'm
possible alike in law and reason.
we nave usually BOHe INV wal UNIV"
ing a declaration of the existence of a
state of war, and we shall probably fol-
lew the same course in the matter of Ger
many. It is inconceivable that the Ameri-
can people will permanently leave to Amer
lean vessels the task Of defending them
selves against armed aggression while the
nation refuses to recognize that it is at war.
The Algonquin incident is snly signif-
cant as it reveals the actual situation
subssting between the United States and
Germany. Germany is making war upon
US. She is making war after having pro-
claimed policy which could only lead to
war. When Congress assemblies it cannot
honorably or wisely refrain from dec
laration of war which, by that time, will
obviously mean only describing what is
actually going on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-15
FOR A BALANCED ORGANIZATION
General McCoskry Butt Wants Regiments
to Have 5000 Privatcs

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The country is unwillingly awakening
to our military inefficiency an unprepared-
ness far greater than that of Great Britains
contemplate little army" of August, 1914.
The remedies proposed are fundamentally
wasteful of the taxpayers money and scant
of military efficiency.
We hear clamor for officers. What we re-
quire most is men, men and more men. Inc
January number of "The Military Historian
and Economist" says: THE crying need of
cur army to-day. beside which all other needs
pale into insignifcance, is for soldiers. All
the expensive part, the officers and non-com-
missoned officers, we have or VIII soon nave
TO overlooking
The national defence act establishes
war strength of so men a company. In all
fighting Europe the war strength OF a com
pany is $50 men.
Just here is where the taxpayers interest
in military organization becomes necessary
if he wishes to save his pocket from army
wasteful mslorgsnzation.
With twelve companies Of $50 men, the
regiment will have $500 men. If each com
rany has $50 men, the regiment Will nave
5000 men. The National Guard regiments at
the border last summer were said TO average
about nine hundred men. Now. each regl-
ment has not less than hfty-one officers,
called board of officers. The pay of each
board of officers is at least $4,000 a year.
OF course, the smaller the number of regi-
ments consistent with real military efficiency
the less times the taxpayer pays $4,000
year.
If we had war infantry amounting to 9OO,-
600 men would be a minimum requirement
By dividing them into regiments OF 5000
men. we should have 300 regimental boards
of officers, costing s33,O0O,OO0. BY dividing
the 10000 men into regiments of 1900, as
now provided by the national defence act. We
will have 500 regimental boards Of officers
costing $50. 900, 900 Divided into regiments Of
900 men National Guard Style, we would
have 1000 boards Of officers, costing Sll0,-
600 900
Taxpayer. think of a vicious system wasting
$4,000 900, or s55OoO,OOO. of your money
for an improperly organized infantry. when
the best modern results are obtained for $685.
600 ,OOOl Think Of saving ST. 900 or S22,
600 000l And this tremendous economy and in
creased military efficiency is simply obtained
BIZ describing the Anticipated extravaganza OF
small companies and bringing our infantry
organizations up to European standards of to-
day,
II is universal military training now, with
properly balanced. up-to-date organization. or
licking later with loss Of blood and treas
ure and ransom Of our land such the
world has never seen before
MCOSKRY BUTT,
Brigadier General N. Y.
New York. March -, 1917.