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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19
GERMAN SUSPECT ARRESTED.
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN AC-
COMPLICE OF BOY-ED.
Arrest Said to Have Been Made
While Prisoner Was Attempting to
Cause Explosion.

Norfolk, Jan. 14.-Under a heavy
guard man who gave his name as
Walter Spoerman, suspected Of having
been an active figure in plots launch
cd here by Captain Boy-Ed, the form
err German naval attache, left here to-
night for Baltimore, where, it was
understood, he would be turned over
to agents Of the department of jus
tice.
According to the story unoff1clally
told here, the suspect who is about 35
and Is thought to have been formerly
a lieutenant in the German army, was
arrested Saturday near Newport News
while attempting to blow up a maga-
zine at an unfinished army aviation
camp. So far the only charge formally
lodged against him is understood to
be that of being a dangerous enemy
alien. Documents and letters found
on the mans person and In his rooms
in Baltimore are said to have revealed
his connection with Boy-Ed and with
Former German Ambassador Bern
storff and incriminated in q spy plot
persons in Washington. Baltimore
and other cities. Details OF dOcu-
ments are withheld. but it is under
stood that they will lead to number
Of arrests within few days.
Spoerman's activities are said to
have first attracted attention. or naval
intelligence officers many weeks ago
but his arrest wns deferred until ad.
ditional evidence could be gathered
Officers followed him, night and day
however. the quest leading through
several cities and even to at least two
army camps. Frequently. according
to the story. the prisoner posed as ar
officer Of the United States army.
Finally he visited the great army
and navy base at Hampton Roads bu,
before that a young naval agent pos.
ing as friend Of Germany, had made
himself acquainted with Spoerman
The officer followed his man closel,
In Newport News and finally to the
/ aviation field, -four miles north OF
the city, where the arrest was made
| Documents found on the prisoner
and I'm his rooms at Baltimore are
alleged to show that Spoerman begar
his work in this country some time
before the United States entered the
war. In one letter from Boy-ed there
is said to have been reference to 500
600 advanced Spoerman by the chief
Of the German spy system In, the
United States. e
There are reports that it has been
established that Spoerman came to
the United Sttaes on the German sub.
marine U-53, which visited Newport
X. I. more than a year ago and later
sank number of merchant ships of
the coast. Officials, however, would
not confirm this.
spoerman was closely questioned by
officers while confined in the Jail
here. An effort is said to have been
made to connect him with the New
Years day fire here. which laid waste
TO nearly two city blocks, but appar-
emily without success
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19
MAJOR GARDNER DEAD.
FORMER CONGRESSMAN DIES At
CAMP WHEELER.
Condition OF Massachusetts Omo..,
Not Considered Critical Until jus,
Bcforc Death.

macon, Ga, Jan. 1i.--Maj. Aucus-
tus =. Gardner of The Ono 11,,,,
dred and Twenty-first (Second Geor-
gla) infantry, died in the base hos
pital at Camp Wheeler at $40 o'clock
Oh pneumonia. lie had been i'll onlv
q rev days, and his condition was not
considered critical until early todav
MRS. Gardner arrived from her home
ut Hamilton, Mass, during Sunday
and spent most of the time since her
arrival at the bedside of her husband
Mrs. Gardner suffered q breakdown at
the base hospital when her husband
tailed longer to recognize her. Off
GERS assisted her to her hotel. There
tho news OF her husbands death was
broken 10 her shortly after he cxpir-
ed Mrs. Gardner is under the care
Of a physician.
A few weeks ago Major Gardner
then coloneD applied to the war de-
partment TO be denoted so that he
could see more actual service among
the men. He asked for majority in
the One Hundred and Twenty-first In
fantry and the request was granted.
Two weeks ago Major Gardner ac-
com panied his battalion to the rifle
range. He contracted severe cold
which developed into pneumonia and
which caused his death. Senator Hen
ry Cabot Lodge OF Massachusetts, is
expected to arrive here during the
night. The body OF Major Gardner
will be sent home but probably not
until the senator arrives Senator
Lodge is Mrs. Gardners father.
While in congress Major Gardner
was the first TO raise his voice for pre-
paredness. He was the first to declare
that war was inevitable. He gave up
MS seat in congress to do what his
friends say he believed to be q great
Ell work for his government, Offering
his services in the army.
Though So years Of age, but appar-
entity in robust health Major Gardner
was accepted and assigned to Camp
wheeler and commissioned as adiu-
tant of the Thirty-hrs Division. Ev.
er since he arrived here as colonel
and later as major the New England.
er was extremely popular with the
ofl1cers and men of Georgia, Florida
and Alabama. He figured in few
social functions, but attended several
club and business luncheons at which
he spoke Of the war problem, urgine
the fullest support of the president ir
every detail
Major Gardner is the second office,
TO die at the base hospital, the othe,
being Major We'll of New York. who
vas head Of the medical department
OF the hospital
Mayor Glen Toole issued a proc.
lamation tonight on the death o,
Major Gardner, ordering oil flags O,
the city at half mast and requesting
ali business houses to lower their flags
to half mast out of respect 10 him.
The body of Major Gardner will
leave Macon Tuesday morning n;
lilo o'clock for Washington, ID. c.
where it Will lie in state for severa
days the interment to take place in
Arlington Cemetery. Besides Mrs
Gardner the body will be accompan-
led by Major keenan,. Of the One
Hundred and Sixth Sanitary Train
who will represent the Division as
the military escort. Major Keenan, Is
a close personal friends Of the Gard
nor and Lodge families.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19
Board of Education.

columbia. Jan. 15.---Gov. Manning
tonight appointed j. n. Nathans OF
charleston as "a member of the State
"o'rd or education. to succeed Nj.
hutiedge Rivers of Charleston. re-
s'sheo' Mr.. Rivers has recently been
erected corporation counsel of the
city OF Charleston.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19
ENGLISH TOWN BOMBARDED

London, Jan. 15.-Yarmouth vas
bombardcd from the sea by German
raiders last night. 1t is announc ed
officially that twenty shells fell f. ,hr
city. and three persons were Nilled
and ten injured. The material N -
age was slight. Tx
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19
CHARGED WITH SANDER
Congressman Carey Wants to Invos.
tiyatc Anti-Saloon Ieaouo

Washington, Jan. IA conpres.
sional investigation of "slanderovs
charges against the Character oe
American t~oops abroad alleeed ~
have been circulated by Anti-sa,oor
League was proposed i'm resolution
introduced today by Representative
Carey.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19
KENTUCKY FOR PROHIBITION
Home of Good Liquor and Heavy
Drinkers Against Booze.

Frankfort. KY. Jan. 1i.-Both
houses OF the Kentucky general as
sembiy today ratified the proposed
prohibition amendment To the federal
constitution.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19

Spartanburg, Jan. l5.-Thrcc local
cotton mills have been closed and
others in upper South Carolina will
discontinue operations, unless relief
from the fuel shortage is promptly
afforded. ii was said here today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-01-19
ROVMANIiN MINISTER ARREST.
ED.
BoIshcyiIli seize Diplomat i'm Pctro.
grad.

London. Jan. 1.-THE Roumaniar
minister at Pctrograd and his staf1
have been arrested by the Bolsheviki
the Roumanian legation here an
nounccd today.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12

VIZ ASHINGTON, D. c., March 1.-THE stua-
wv ton with regard to food in this country may
be described abundance in general,
with temporary sights shortage of wheat, and an
equally temporary special abundance of meat Food
movements are irregular due to railroad congestion,
and food prices necessarily rising in response to
steady imitation of the currency, despite the re-
duction to minimum of speculation and unfair
charge. There is absolutely danger of anything
resenting famine either now or in the calcu-
liable future.
This summary is offered in the belief that it will
be Illuminating to many newspaper readers. When
the food administration announced few days ago
that we faced wheat shortage, perceptible shock
of alarm was the result. The timorous citizen had
visions of want if not, famine. Then came the en-
couraging news that meatless days off and meat
was coming to market In great quantities. Forth
with a mercurial public, disregarding explanatory
details, decided that it's food troubles over.
Both of these announcements part of
policy which the food administration has adopted of
telling the people the truth taking them fully as
possible into its confidence. 1t proceeds upon the
assumption that the public has some common sense.
1t sharply the usual practice of government
by Offering the people facts instead of pat1tudes in
formation instead of Oratory The people are trust
ed to take these facts literally and not put alarming
constructions upon them.
The plain fact with regard to wheat is that
had abundance Of it, but sent great deal
to Europe. In the fall of last year had sent to
Europe all the wheat we could spare on a basis OF
normal consumption BY the hrst OF Janafy we
had sent somewhere between twenty-five and fifty
million bushels than could spare on that
basis. In word, the American people saved that
servation, chiefly By observing wheatless days The
allies originally asked us for 8S million bushels OF
wheat We have already sent them, nearly $50
million bushels.
The most obvious conclusion from these figures
would to be that by excessive generosity to-
ward the allies have crippled our own food re-
sources But a matter of fact there has been
excessive generosity about it. Every pound of
that grain sorely needed in Europe Without
it. the allies could not have held out until another
harvest and the American forces in France should
to their rescue. Those shipments of wheat
were essential step in the process upon which
all our hopes of victory are based.
AS to the inconvenience to ourselves it amounts
to this: between now and July wheat will be scarce
and the American people will probably have to eat
of corn, potatoes and other substitutes for
wheat 1t does not anything like famine al
though that word has unfortunately been used in
connection with the impending condition. The size
of crop alone makes the suggestion ridicu-
lous We produced this year about thirty bushels
of for every person in the United States We
normally consume about five and Onehalf bushels
of grain per capita per year in this country Thus
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12
Make the Warrants Work.

Governor Dorsey deserves, and have
doubt he will receive, the support of every
sheriff solicitor and superior court judge in
Georgia, in the movement he has just launched
to force the Migrants to go to work.
The Nation has no for vagrant in time
of peace, much less in time of war Producing
nothing, earning nothing, often supported by the
labor of women or children, he is a barnacle on
the economic structure, worthless in peace and
contemplate in
The Government is calling on Georgia farm
ers to raise food than they ever raised be-
fore. Responding with splendid patriotic spirit
they have made their plans for enormous pro-
duction, but here at the very start of the plant
ing season they are hampered by a shortage of
farm labor. and are offering extraordinary in
ducements to persuade to the farms.
Thousands of able-bodied men, according to
reports to Governor Dorsey, are idling around
the cities and towns of the state They have
no work and apparently want none. They will
enjoy the Migrants life of and idleness
long as the authorities allow them to loaf.
The Governor is right in his contention that
the State has right to ask the War Depart
ment to furlough soldiers from training camps
for the purpose of cultvating crops until it has
forced every able-bodied man within its bounds
to go to work
Fortunately we need no additional laws. Our
vagrancy law is one of the best in the country
Our probation law invests the courts with wide
discretion in assigning offenders to any work
where they can be usefully employed under
proper supervision. The Governors plan is to
put these laws in full operation to relieve the
farm labor shortage
In a special communication addressed to the
County Councils of Defense, he urges them
Cd To join forces with their sheriff. soli-
ctor and judge to arrest and convict all
grants; CD to probate these Migrants to work
on the farm; CD to follow up the crusade sys-
tematicaIly and aggressively throughout the dura-
ton of the war, making it uncomfortable for
idle men that those convicted will go to work
to forestaI conviction,
The Governor believes there are enough idle
men in Georgia to relieve the farm labor short
age. But whether few whether many, the
State owes the Nation the duty of forcing them
to work. The plan he submits to the County
Councils of Defense is perfectly practical and
workable We believe it will enlist their inter
est and enthusiasm. We believe they will keep
the crusade going full blast without a weeks
let-up long the goes on. They will
certainly have the strong support of public senti-
ment Our boys have gone to the firing line in
France to give their lives. The man at home
who will not work is both a Stacker and a
traitor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

Your honor" informed the policeman as he
pointed to the prisoner, "he refused to rise while
the band played The Star-Spangled Banner" SCI
did not recognize the tune" explained the cuprit
hastily Nov, my dear man." said the judge SYM
pathetically, ''let whistle it for you, so that
hereafter you may distinguish it," The judge whis-
tied the melody and the prisoner listened ntently.
claimed generously: Your honor, if the band had
played the tune you whistled it would not be
here today" Discharged" interrupted the we'll
pleased judge. But the band would" concluded
the man in undertone as he hastily retired from
the courtroom.
When Slapdash Jones went home for the ho-
days the first thing his mother took out of the
trunk an overcoat, and on it was pinned a
pawnbroker's ticket he had inadvertently omitted
to remove.
"HalIoa Ha ha!' cried slapdash 'They
must have forgotten to take this off the Smith
dance when 1 left it in the cloak room. Eli
what?"
A moment later his mother took out his evening
trousers. Unluckily, they, too, bore ticket
why, SIapdash, DEAR she exclaimed, you
surely didn't leave these in the cloakroom, too?"
Mrs. Newlyrich by virtue of her husbands
wealth, had obtained an invitation to a big dinner
party, and as she being piloted from drawing
room to dining room she noticed a marble bust
one of the pillars in the hall.
do you know who that is?" she inquired of
her escort.
That is Marcus Aurelius," was the answer
ooh, is it, now?" calculated the lady from the
states. But you tell me-" she added, prompt
ly whether it is the present marques or the late
marques? l do get mixed up with your dukes
and things!"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12

LA Toilette Defense said Poultry Masters,
the brilliant Pttsburg jurist, Seems to con-
fused as the song of the burgess who was de-
posed from office for chicken stealing. I'm up a
tree the burgess declared, but my back is to the
WALL and I'll die in the last ditch, going down with
flags flying, and from the mountain top of democ-
racy hurting defiance at the foe the wings of
triumph regardless of the party lash that barks
at my heels
Recently a man bought secondhand automo-
bile, which turned out to be cripple on four
wheels rather than a pleasure vehicle He was de-
scribing of the patients symptoms to friend
81 take it, then, that she rattles good deal
when you run her?". --..
"RattIesi" said the owner of the car. "She
sounds like skeleton having shaking fit on a
tin roof!'' 80.
There is no limit to impudence OF those great
foreigners who supply the workingman, whether he
wants it or not, with popular music done in barrel
organs. Of these public torturers entered the
courtyard country house the other day. unstrapped
instrument and started playing under the study
window, where the lady OF the house sat writing She
sprang up instantly him off, sight of
the little cottage the yard, in which farm
laborer resided. arrested the word of command.
After ALL" argued, what is torture to may
be bliss to him. his I'll endure it well
1 can"
she down and waited. picturng to herself the
laborers look of rapture air succeeded air the
her end, for the laborers boy, red-faced and
breahIess scrambled up window and pressed his
nose against the panes shouting through;
eff yer please, maam will mind much if father
sends away? He don't want do
unneighborly, but it's terrible trial to him."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12
DRAFT THEM ALL
BY DR.. Frank Crane

BY DR.. Frank Crane
Why not draft the workers in shipyards?
And also the owners, bosses, and managers of
shipyards?
The only reason the laborer objects to being
drafted and working under military discipline is
because, while he would thus be compelled to work
for certain wage, the capitalist would still be
free to make all he can
Hence while you're drafting why not draft the
capitalist and entrepreneur?
Is there any why brains and bank ac-
counts should not be drafted we'll labor?
And is there any reason why one kind of labor
should be drafted and not another? The soldier is
laborer well as the rivet driver on ships
And We making million boys go to camp
and to the breaches whether they want to or not
while bunch of workers on shipmaking get angry
and go home if they can't get pay, if their
union is not recognized
Is there any reason why a soldier should not
throw down his gun and quit if the laborer is al
lowed to throw down his hammer and quit?
For the building of ships is absolutely essen
tial toward winning the the shooting of
guns.
Shipping is 1.-The neck of the bottle" 1t makes
no difference how many and munitions are in
Americas bottle if the neck is small they cannot
be poured into France.
1t is time to stop hesitating and arguing The
nations life is in peril. We at war. War
means that every private and local interest must
give way to the common good.
1t is plainly the duty of government therefore,
to produce shipping, and to go right at it without
any nonsense.
Draft them all. If brains and know how are
worth $40, 100000 to the possessor they worth
that to the U. S. A. Draft Mr.. Expert and Mr.
Capitalist. Make them majors generals or
something. And then draft the laborers. Give
them their orders. Make them go to work in the
shipyards you make them hike and drill at
Camp Upton.
Anybody that help Uncle Sam and won't
ought to be made to.
Soldiers have to toe the mark and obey Is
their any reason why you and l and every other
manjack in the United States should not submit to
the same discipline?
The people of this country don't tinker's
dam about the rights of labor the rights of
property when the rights of the nation at stake
1t is not probable that the laborers only are at
fault in the shipyard strikes. Probably bonehead-
ed managers also to blame. But what's the
difference? The point is that to suffer conditions
to exist where work must stop because can't
make Sc day instead of 81 while other are
expected to go out and get shot by the Boches at
81 day is absurd.
Get busy, Mr. Wilson This whole country is
yours to do with as you please, if only you'll get
things done. Go far you like. We're all
with YOU
Stop this Bolshevik business in the shipyards
Take the whole affair. Draft the laborers their
employers and the capital. And get things done!
Draft us ALL,
Copyright 1918, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12
"Back TO the Farm.

Will the great garden movement now
arousing such tremendous interest ths cities have
the effect Of sending people back to the farm when
the is over?
Some thoughtful observers, noting the remark
able uprising of that instinct for the soil which
is planted in most all people, believe that it will
Behold the zest of the business man in cutivat-
ing his vegetable patch. The hardware stores can
hardly supply the demand for garden tools. Seeds
men are begging their customers to buy only what
they actually need Fertilizer is almost as hard to
buy coal last winter. Citizens are getting
up at daylight to spend a couple of hours in the
garden before breakfast.
All this activity in the soil is bound to make
permanent converts of some of the men and women
who went into it for patriotic rather than agricul
tura reasons, and If these go back to live on the
farm, or at least to spend enough time there to
cultivate crops, then the garden movement
will have produced great result beyond the imme-
date necessity for increased food production.
Products of the farm going to command
higher prices after the than before. The
world will be short of cotton for several years Food
supplies have low that the specter of famine
stalks across Europe and looms in sight upon our
own horizon. Wool was never so scarce In the his
tory of the loom
To feed and clothe a hungry and half-naked
farmer after the it is today, and on the farm
will be found splendid business opportunity for
the man woman of intelligence and energy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12

This they cannot succeed in doing Compul-
sion by the Bosheviki is futile as compulsion
directed against the Bolshevki.
But through education, through religion wise
ly directed to develop collective conscience men
certainly may be persuaded to apply the Golden
Rule in all the affairs of life.
They may be persuaded to appreciate that the
acquisition of wealth is not the summum bonum
They may be persuaded to recognize thzt the
exploitation of other men-aye, and of women and
little children-is among the most shameful of all
injustices.
They may be persuaded to acknowledge that no
social system be sound which permits the few
to become millionaires and the many to struggle
and shiver the border line of poverty.
And they may be persuaded to perceive that ac-
wealth give a right 10 regard himsen -
superior in the sight of Cod to other men less
fortunately born.
When men are persuaded thus to think-and tx
behave accordingly-there Will be no need to fear
here anywhere, a BolsheviH menace
But until and unless that day arrives the Boil
sheviki will continue to rage and destroy. More and
more they will overspread the world more and
more bear out Tennysons terrible lines of prophecy:
Slowly comes hungry people, as a lion creeping
higher.
Glares at that mods and winks behind a slowly
dying fire."
Civilization is the dying fire. Mankind is the
drowsy watcher. And the only fuel that will re-
plensh the fire and drive off the Bolshevik lion is
true social justice.
Let US bestir ourselves to get that fuel before
1t is too late
Copyright 1918, by Associated NeIwspapers)