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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
Established in 1891
TOM WATSON PLANS
TORALSE BIG NOISE

stamps and all government obligation
paper issued during and since the
World War as a remedy for what he
claims is an existing domestic
crisis" Mr.. Watson declared such ac-
ton would have an electrifying ef-
feet upon American business life,
On passage of such legislation, Mr..
Watson declared, "all apprehension
of panic would as quickly disap-
pear"
Regarding the nations financial
system, Mr.. Watson said he would in
troduce bills to make it mandatory
under penalty, for the regional banks
to lend direct to farmers on approved
securities at an interest rate not over
5 per cent, to repeal that section Of
the Farm Loan Bank Act requiring
group of ten signatories to a loan and
insertion of mandatory clause COM
pelling such banks to lend to an indi-
vidual applicant upon approved Sc
curity without the requirement of ad-
ditional obligators.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06

Atlanta, Jan. 1.-Thomas E. Wat
son, United States Senator-elect from
Georgia, announces in copyrighted
statement to be published in the At
lanta Constitution Sunday that at the
extra session of the SiXty-seventh
congress he will introduce a bill to
make Liberty and Victory bonds and
other government war paper legal
tender.
Mr.. Watson has announced plans
for introducing bills to force-the fed
eral reserve and farm loan banks to
lend money directly to individuals
and to require the Secretary Of the
Treasury to issue the unissued green
back authorized by bill signed by
President Lincoln. The total of these
authorized but unissued greenbacks,
according to the Senator-elect, is
S102,000,000.
Discussing the plan to make legal
tender of Liberty and Victory bonds,
credit certificates, with savings
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
CLAIM NEGROES
ARE ILL TREATED
REPRESENTATIVE OF ADVANCE
MENT SOCIETY TESTFIES.
Denial of Stories.
Southern Members of Congress De-
clare They Are Tired
of "Hearsay.'
Denial of Stories.

Washington, Dec. 20.-Representa-
tives of the Society for the Advance
ment of Colored People asked con-
gress today to cut down the repre-
sentation from the south in the house
on the alleged ground that south
ern election laws are so administered
as to prevent negroes from voting.
Appearing before the house commit
tee considering congressional reap
pointment, they declared the laws of
the southern states were so worded
as to comply with the federal con-
stitution and the 18th and 18th
amendments but in their administra-
tion negroes were kept from the bal
lot box
Southern members of congress de-
MED these statements and declared
laws were made and administered in
the south without regard to race,
color or previous condition of servi-
tude." In those cases in which there
were complaints they said, the ne
groes should take the alleged dis
ordinations to the courts, and not
to congress. A whole people should
not be punished, they asserted, be-
cause perhaps, in one or two in
stances there were complaints.
Representative Bee, Democrat,
Texas, declared he was "tired' Of
states being ''insulted" on "hearsay'
reports. Representative Aswell,
Democrat, Louisiana, declared no
discrimination was practiced in the
south, and Representative Larsen,
Democrat, Georgia, said 1865 ne
groes were registered in his home
town. There was no Republican
state ticket in November in Georgia,
he said.
One senator during the testimony
of William Pickens, field secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, in
sisted on getting into the discussion
and was finally told by Representa-
tive Siegel, Republican, New York,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
YOUTH TAKES OWN LIFE.
Shortage i'm Accounts Cause of the
Tragedy.

Greenwood, Jan. 3.-Bennle Will
son, 10 years of age and former clerk
at the Oregon hotel, shot himself to
death in room Of H. J. Brinson, pro-
prietor of the hotel, yesterday after
noon about 4 o'clock following an
interview relative to the ex-clerk's S
alleged shortage in his accounts. A
verdict of suicide was returned by
the coroner's jury at the inquest
which was held Immediately after the
tragedy. According to evidence
brought out at the inquest, Mr.. Brln-
son had sent for Wilson to discuss a
settlement of the alleged shortage.
Wilson is said to have declared that
he would not make the shortage good
and wouldn't be arrested. He then
rushed to the door and shot himself
through the heart before he could
be prevented. Mr.. Brinson and his
daughter, Miss Mary Frances Brin-
son, were the only persons in the
room at the time the shooting oc-
Cured.
Until a few weeks ago Wilson had
been clerk at the Oregon hotel for
about three years. Recently he was
discharged following exposures OF
alleged shortages in his accounts. He
was apparently obsessed with the
fear of arrest, witnesses testified.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
MAN DRESSED AS WOMAN.
Miss Fox, Star Golf Player, Proves to
Be William A. Donahue.

Pinehurst, Jan. "a sensational
and laughable denouement attended
playing of a mixed scotch six-some
match in which three we'll known
golfers were respectively paired with
women partners at Pinehurst today
James C. Ward, of Kansas City,
Mo-, state champion, was paired with
Miss Martha Theme, of Fortwayne.
O. G.. Frost, of Auburndale, had Miss
CIaissa Metcalf, of Providence, as a
partner. A Lucien Walker Jr., win
ner of last weeks midwinter tourna-
ment played with Miss Eleanor Fox,
a tall and dashing brunette whom no
body had seen here before and who
started the excitement by driving
about 200 yards from the first tee.
When the unknown Miss Fox lifted
an iron shot for another 200 yards
on the second fairway the effort shook
off her Tam O'Shanter, her luxurious
tresses fell with it and Miss FOX
stood revealed as William E. Dona-
hue, winner of the midwinter qualify
ing medal.
Walker and his fair partner were
promptly disqualified for conspiracy,
Misrepresentation, failure to proper
ly register at the Country Club and
on several other counts and the match
broke up in disorder.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
CONGRESS AGAIN PASSES
BILL FOR WAR FINANCE

On the senate roll call 29 Demo-
Gratis were joined by "a Republicans
in overriding the veto.
Supporting the presidents opposi-
tion were two Democrats, Senator
Gerry, Rhode Island, and Thomas,
Colorado, and three Republicans, Ell
kins and Sutherland, West Virginia,
and Keyes, of New Hampshire. Sena-
tors Glass, Democrat, Virginia, and
Edge, Republican, New Jersey, voted
against overriding the veto, but with
drew their votes on account of having
pairs. Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl-
vania, Republican, was paired, but
announced that he would have voted
to sustain the veto.
The presidents message also was
read in the house. Representatives
Mondell, Wyoming, Republican lead
er, announced later that it would be
taken up tomorrow at the opening OF
the house, but without any definite
arrangement for veto. Advocates
Of the bill, however, expressed conf
dence that the house also would vote
to enact the bill despite the veto.
The house passed the bill by vote
of 212 to 81, or much more than the
necessary tWo-thirds majority. Many
of the negative votes were cast by
Republicans.
Before the presidents message
reached the senate today, Senator
Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, a
leading advocate of the legislation,
criticised Secretary Houston, declar-
ing that the treasury head, according
to newspaper reports, had advised
presidential disapproval of the bill
without indicating such opposition
when Mr.. Houston Was before con-
gressional committees.
Senator Edge issued a statement t
tonight, declaring that the presi-
dents arguments against the bill were
"absolutely unanswerable." By issu-
ing bonds the finance corporation,
Senator Edge said, would "adVersely
affect the present financial and eco
CONTINUED On page 6, column 5.)
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06

Washington, Jan. 3.-Veto by
President Wilson today of the farm
ers' relief bill to revive the war fl
nance corporation was followed al
most Immediately by a vote of So to 5
in the senate to make the bill law
despite executive disapproval. The
house will take up tie measure to-
morrow, and predictions were gen.
eral that it would duplicate the SEN
ate's action and thus place the bill on
the statute books.
President Wilson in a lengthy veto
message declared he withheld his ap-
proval of the bill because the war
finance corporation was a war credit
agency, not desirable or needed &. in
peace times. He said that it would
exert no beneficial influence on the
situation e. would raise false hopes
among the very people who would
expect most, and would be hurtful to
the natural and orderly processes OF
business and finance"
The legislation, the president also
said, would result in additional credit
burdens, and the government, he con-
tinued, should not "be called upon
further to finance private business at
public expense."' Referring to wide
spread demand for adjustment of
war agencies and removal of gov
ernmental influence from business,
the president said he had sympathy
with the view," and added that "the
nation should resume it's usual meth
ods.'
Upon reading the veto message
in the senate, Senator Underwood,
Alabama, Democratic leader, urged
its immediate consideration, for
which unanimous consent was secured
by Chairman Gronna of the agricul-
ture committee, which reported the
bill. Senator Underwood followed
with the only address made, declaring
that financial distress now was great
er than during the war and that he
felt confident of wise administration
of the proposed law that would cause
mo undue strain on the treasury"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
NEARLY 100 KILLINGS IN
THREE MONTHS IN s. {.

reaction from war and standard OF
luxury that has recently been estab-
lished and that many find themselves
unable to reach. But the main sources
Of homicide are the feeling among
our people that to avenge with death
is the only way to satisfy ones honor,
and the prevalent habit of carrying
pistols.
GA still more remote yet powerful
cause of homicide is the ightness
with which human life is regarded
among us. If our people firmly deter
mined to put down homicide, homi-
eide would be banished from South
Carolina. Several Of our counties this
year will doubtless show a larger
number Of Staying of human beings
than the city of London has in nor
NAL year. London's population is
about four times larger than that OF
South Carolina.
''In the whole of England and
Wales for 1918, IS murders were
committed and SO people arrested in
connection Herewith were committed
for trial. Fifty-three trials resulted
during the year. Twelve of the ac-
cused were found insane on arralgn-
ment and were confined; l6 were
found guilty, but were adjudged in
sane and confined; ten were acquitt-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
WHEN POLITENESS COSTS.
Man Drops Bottle Getting Out OF
Woman's Way.

York, Jan. IA York county man
stepped out of local garage with a
half gallon bottle wrapped in paper
under his arm.
A woman passed as he started out.
In an effort to avoid running into her
he dropped hi package and fluid
of grayish color trickled on the &C.
ment paving.
"Whiskey," shrieked the woman as
she started for the police station not
great distance awa..
"Gasoline," explained the farmer
when the cops asked about it.
The day was rainy; the air was
cold and the cops couldn't determine.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
Slight Changes.

Things are not what they used
to be- said the returned soldier as
he got up from his first meal in a
New York restaurant.
That's one way Of putting it, said
the waiter as he picked up the nickel
tip. personally, l don't find much
change. e.''-Pulitzer' Pertinent Para
graphs.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
$500 Per Year in Advance

Sixty cases of homicide in 29 coun-
ties during the months Of September,
October and November of this year
is the record of this state, accord
ing to a report of G. Croft Williams,
secretary of the state board of public
welfare. Calculating from the record
of these 20 counties, Mr.. Williams es-
Inmates that there must have been
about 95 cases of homicide in the
state during these three months. At
this rate there would be about $50
homicides for the year.
Mr.. Williams compiled this report
from the reports Of the coroners OF
the different counties of the state.
He wrote letters to all of them, ask
ing for this information, but has not
heard from II of them.
According to the reports of the bu-
reau of vital statistics, there were
1873 homicides in this state in 1919,
and this report covered all Of the
counties. Mr.. Williams says that it
may be easily seen that unless some
of the citizens of the state use a
little more self control this record
will outdistance all former ones.
There are many causes to which
this high rate of homicide may be
attributed" according to Mr.. Will
1iams. esuch as economic instability,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06
Some Things Women Are Doing.

South Amboy, n. j., has woman
jailer.
Miss Annie NJ. Brown is Norfolk's
first woman lawyer.
Minnesota has more than 1000 wo'
men trade unionists.
Connecticut leads the nation with
five women legislators.
The intuition of women is claimed
to be greater than that of men.
Miss Sarah P. Clark has been or
ganist for &c years in a Essex, Eng
land, church.
Women voters in the new republic
of Czecho-Slovakia outnumbered the
men by liberal margin.
More than 10000 women are en-
ployed in industry on the Island o1
MADEIRA.
The membership of the Young Wo'
mems Christian Association is now
we'll past the 100000 mark.
Lady Auckland Geddes, wife of the
British ambassador in Washington, is
passionately fond of children.
In Turkestan wives can be pur-
chased for a box of matches and
each man can have as many wives az
he chooses.
A bill before the German Reichstas
provides that women be made eligible
to serve as judges and State attor'
neys.
Application for domestic work in
New York city has increased 900
per cent. over those of two months
ago.
Mrs. A. B. Stevenson, the woman
chess champion of Great Britain, be,
gun to play chess when she was Z
years of age.
Infimities of age and increasing
deafness has caused Dowager Queer
Alexandria, of Great Britain, to for.
sake society.
The leading divorce center of the
United States is now in Seattle, Wash.
where during the last year more thar
$500 divorces were granted.
At a recent convention of the Dem
ocrats in Germany a resolution was
passed which favors woman's sec
ton of the Foreign office.
More than II per cent. of the 56z
firms questioned by the National In
dustrial Board report satisfactory re-
suits from the experiment in the en-
ployment of female labor.
A special ship will be chartered
during the first week in June to carry
American war mothers to view the
battlefelds and cemeteries Of France
and Belgium.
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CONTINUED on page 6, column Sd
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06

overthrown, Cardenas was taken
from the penitentiary and brought
into this city under a guard of
troops. Colonel Belteton pointed him
out to the Associated Press cor
respondent as the man who had killed
Madero.
Cardenas was man of medium
height, robust in appearance with a
round, bulletlike head, thin black
mustache and thin black hair parted
in riglets over his forehead. Ques-
toned as to the killing of Madero, he
dismissed the subject with the simple
statement that he was in command
Of the guard that did the killing. He
offered no explanation why he had
commanded the guard to shoot the
prisoners, but was more intent on re-
lating his own misadventures, stating
that he had been in prison nearly
eight years, more than two years of
which had been in solitary confne-
ment. If this part of his statement
is correct, he must have fled from
Mexico shortly after the murders
were committed and when Huerta
was still in power.
Given Official Position.
When the change of government in
Guatemala last April, Cardenas was
set free and given an important Of
fetal position in the penitentiary
with chance to make good, but it
is said that he accepted money for
granting certain prohibited privi-
leges to prisoners. He lost his posi-
tion in the penitentiary and was &C
cused of paying too much attention
to the wife Of political prisoner.
When the husband Of the woman
was also released from the peniten-
| tiary, he was stabbed by a man who
said Cardenas had paid him to do the
stabbing, Cardenas was arrested and
imprisoned, but was released on
bail.
Recently request came from the
proper authorities in Mexico request
ing that he be held by the authori-
ties here until papers could be for
warded for his extradition on the
Madero murder charge, it being ex-
planned that direct testimony had
been obtained showing him to have
been the man directly responsible
for the deed Through some blum
dering of the police department, Car
denas was permitted to make his es-
cape from the city but was even
tually located in some woods few
miles beyond in the district of Las
| Vacas. On the night of November 26
he was captured.
1t is stated by the lieutenant who
commanded the soldiers that Car
denas offered him $4,000 for him
self and $1,000 for each of his sold
iers to be set at liberty. The offer
being refused, Cardenas asked per-
mission to rest whereupon he wrote
in a memorandum book which he
carried, few lines addressed to the
woman with whom he had been llV-
ing, giving her his money and jewels
and requesting her to bury his body
in event of his death.
The soldiers brought Cardenas to
the Central plaza of the city, where
Cardenas suddenly drew small re-
volver wrapped in a handkerchief
and shot at one of the soldiers, only
wounding him slightly. AS the other
soldiers closed in on him, he placed
the muzzle of his pistol in his mouth,
fired twice and fell to the ground
mortally wounded. He was conveyed
to the general hospital where ne
soon died.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-01-06

Mile. Adrienne Baland, known as
the leading "ace'' of the French air
women, will make tour Of South
America, representing her country as
aerial missionary.
The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1921-06-10
FertiIiiz;;z1g Growing Crops
DOES It PAY?
J. n. Harper
Soil Improvement Committee Atlanta, Georgia

during normal times 700 lbs. OF an
$40. Apply fertilizer and stable
manure in drill before planting. Ap-
ply one-third of fertilizer as a side
application when plants are abou,
eknee high"
Mr.. n. A. Monroe, Cameron, NJ. C.
Kind of soil: "Grayelly sandy loan
with clay subsOil."
Fertilizer used and method of APP
plying: SEQ to 500 lbs. of fertilizer
per acre used. Part applied at time
OF preparing the land. and 200 to 300
lbs. applied as side dressing before
blooms appear"
Mr.. r. n. Waller, Kingston, NJ. c.
Kind OF soil: Gray sandy soil"
Fertilizer used and method of aB-
plying: $500 lbs. per acre OF a 10-4-S.
Apply fertilizer in drill about ten days
prior To planting. Side dress one or
two times about June % and July 10"
Mr.. w. r. Peterson, Clinton, S. c.
Kind OF soil: DARK gray"
Fertilizer used ard method of ap.
plying: 400 lbs. when rows are
laid off: 250 lbs. as side application
"a second blowing after chopping, and
go lbs. as another side application
y hen plants are knee high"
Side Applications &c Cotton.
Al the time the cotton plant Is in
full bloom ample plant food must be
available or else a large percentage
Of the squares will shed. While there
are other factors that cause shedding,
for example, a lack Of a proper AMOUNT
Of moisture; still. it has been proven
that even with ,he most favorable
moisture conditions, lack OF plant
food is the potent cause OF this
trouble.
Under boil weevil condition, the
fertilizer used in side applications
SHOULD contain high percentage oil
phosphoric acid and rather low per-
centage of nitrogen. This fertilizer
has the effect OF forcing the young
bolls t. quick growth and early ma
turity.
Side Applications to Corn.
While It usually pays to make a
larger side application of fertilizer for
cotton than for corn, sin, many OF
he best farmers in the Southeast
advocate liberal side applications for
corn.
The period of the growth of corn Is
much shorter than that of cotton; con-
ecqucntly. there must be present in
the soil large supplies of available
nlqnt food at the critical period of its
growth. which is from the time II as
waist high TO tasselling time.
The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1921-06-10

Side applications of fertilizers TO
the growing crops as a supplement- TO
q first application made At seeding
time is quite widely practiced in the
South.
The writer recently obtained from
county agents the names OF leading
farmers of North ard South Carolina
who make bale or more of cotton
per acre. These farmers were ad-
dressed "a letter and asked. among
other things, to tell how they fertil-
ized their cotton. In t:eSe answers
q large proportion report that they
make side applications of fertilizer.
A few of these reports that are typi-
cal OF the rest are given herewith:
Mr.. Jno. C. Fletcher McColI, S. c.
Kind OF soil: Light loan with clay
subsoil"
Fertilizer used and method of APP
plying: use about 1900 lbs. per
acre. half applied just before planting,
and the other half about June 18th"
Mr. 3. D. Mann, Enfield, NJ. c.
Kind of soil: SANDY loan and
heavy loan to gray stiff soil"
Fertilizer used and method of APP
plying. From 500 to ], 900 lbs. per acre
of an S-3-3. At time of planting use
from 400 to 600 lbs, about June LIST
when cotton is chopped out make an
other application of 400 lbs"
Mr.. Fred II. Young, Timmonsvillc, S. c.
Kind OF soil: SANDY loan with
clay subsoil."
Fertilizer used and method OF ap-
pIying: 900 to ! 1000 lbs. of fertilizer
used April list apply 500 lbs. of fer
tilizer. ridging on same and planting
about ten DAYS later. Fertilizer ap-
piled in three applications; 500 lbs.
before planting; about May list. M.
other application of 500 lbs, and 6.il
another application of 200 to go lbs
June LIST"
Mr.. q. r. Shelton, Speed, N. c.
Kind of soil: Norfolk loan, or
dark gray soil"
Fertilizer used and method OF ap-
plying: 800 lbs. of a 9-5-2 used per
acre during normal times an $40.
Half of fertilizer applied in drill at
time of planting: the other half when
cotton is s to 6 inches high"
Mr.. a. G. CIarkson, Wateree, s. c.
Kind of soil: "Ruston loan"
Fertilizer used and method OF ap-
plying: 1900 lbs. of fertilizer an
alyzing 1870 phosphoric acid. 80
Nitrogen, and no potash. Apply Two
thirds of fertilizer at time OF prepar-
Ing the land and one-third in May or
June"
Mr.. S. p. Wnburne, Como, N. c.
Kind of soil: Light loan"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
giving: 600 lbs per acre of 10 81