The Pickens sentinel., May 10, 1917, Image 2

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a RUSSIAN TROUBLE
ISAFELY PASSE[
CONTROVERSY BETWEEN WORM
MEN'S COUNCIL AND GOVERN.
MENT SETTLED.
PREPARE NEW DECLARAT1ON
Government's Foreign Policy Explain
ed In Definite Terms and Is Accept
ted by Soldiers' and Workingmen's
Delegates.
Petrograd, via London.-The contro
versy between the Council of Work
men's and Soldiers' Delegates and the
Provisional Government that for a
short time had threatened such serious
consequences In which, in fact, the
fate of the nation and possibly of the
war were Involved has been settled.
Prince Tseretelli, speaking before a
tremendous assemblage of soldiers and
workmen, declared that the govern
ment had prepared a new declaration
concerning its foreign policy, which
was In deffinite lagua g' and corre.
sponded to the pwocialation of April
9 and enmbod ied tle views of tle pro
letarilat.
hentihe speakier declared that the
temporary governmelit had acquitted
itself of the icharge brought against it
by explaining in conelse terms what
it meant by th(- vague form of yester
day's declaratlion, a great cheer arose
from the assembly and lasted for sev.
eml minutes. It apparently voiced
the relief which all present felt at the
solution of the utmost serious diffi
culty which had confronted the country
since the revolution.
Prince Tsertelli then read the new
declaration sent the council by the
government. and explained that the
trouble was over and that the provi
cional government would remain In
power. Democracy, he announced
amid continued cheering, had won 4
great victory.
GOLDEN FLOOD POURS IN
FOR "LIBERTY LOAN OF 1917."
Small investor Not Yet Been Heard
From.-Payments on Easy Terms.
Washington.-The golden flood of
subscriptions to the "liberty loan" con
tines to sweep in upon the Treasury
without abatement. Officials estimat
ed that since the books were opened
for subscription money had poured in
at the rate of $7,208,260 per hour and
the first three days business showed e
total of about $500,000,000 or one-tentl
of the total.
Thus far only the banks and weal
thy individuals have been heard from
The small investors voice has no
been heard, except indirectly. Offl
cdals believe that a great army of met
of moderate means are willing an<
anxious to invest in the bonds, and t
this end a program Is under considern
tion which will enable virtually ever
one in the country with only a smnaI
amount to spare to buy at least one
bond.
- "It Is Intended to make the bondi
- of such denominations," Secretar
*McAdoo announiced,. "and the pay
. ments on such easy terms asn will giv
every inhabitant of the land the op
portunity to help. Announcement a
to the (denonminations andI payment
will be made In a few (lays."
Consideration of this and other de
tails Indicates that small Investor
will be permitted, In some manne
yet to be formulated, to pay for bond
by installments lasting over a consih
orable period of time. In this, Trea:
utry officials have the support of man
banks, some of which have offeredt
accept payments as. small as $5
months. Department' stores and othe
agencies also have offered to co-ope:
ate on this plan.
MORE ENROLL THAN
CAN BE'ACCOMMODATEI
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.-Tabulation
the enrollment for the reserve oft
eers' training camp here Indicated tha
thirty-eight nmore Tennesseans ar
Carolinians have qualified for admi
misions than the camp can accommn
date.
GREAT BRITAIN SECONDS
FRANCE'S REQUEST.TO SEND MEl
Washington.--Great Brnitain formna
ly joined France In expressing thi
hope that an American expeditionar
force would soon take its place o:
the western front in IEurope. Foreig:
Secretary Blalfour told the Council
National Defense that the Britis:
would be overjoyed to welcome al
American force In France, and tha
its early dispatch would have aln onom
incus psychological effect, both on thi
Allies and their enemies.
FOR CO-OPERATION WITH
FEDERAL GOVERNMEN1i
Washington. - A dminist rative off
eis of 180 leadIng institutions c
Jearning in the United States cor
ferred with a committee of the Advil
ory Defense Commission and arrange
machinery 'for co-operation with th
Government during the war. Seer<
tary Baker addressed the conferenci
pointing out that important dlefens
work can be done by the schools c
the country, and the educators adopi
ad resolutions for active serive,
PLANS FOR NEW
I ARMY COMPLETED
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA
AND TENNESSEE IN SIXTH
DIVISION.
FORM EIGHTEEN DIVISIONS
Each Will Be Complete In Every Arm
of Service.-All Details For Raising
New Army Completed By the War
Department.
Wasbington.-The full strength of
the first war army organized under
the selective draft bill will be 18,538
officers and 528,669 enlisted men, mak
ing up eighteen war strength divis
ons complete in every arm and sup
plemented by sixteen regiments of
heavy field artillery equipped with
large caliber howitzers.
Virtually every detail of plans for
raising, training, equipping and or
ganizing this force has been acrefully
worked out by the WVar nDepartnlolit,
and the selec.lon of the men will be
gin as soon as the draft measure be.
conies !aw. Conferees of the Senate
and Ilouse hope to a1gree upon disput
ed features at once so as to send the
bill to the President for his signature
early this week.
A revised list of officers' training
camp districts issued by the Depart
ment indicat' that the divisions of
the first half million new fighting
men will be formed as follows:
First division-Troops from all New
England States.
Second-New York Congressional
districts one to twenty-sixth, (includ
Ing Long Island and New York City.)
Third-Remainder of New York
State and Pennsylvania Congression
al districts 10, 11, 14, 16, 16, 21, 25
and 28.
Fourth-Remainder of Pennylva
nia State, including Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh.
Fifth-New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia and the District of
Columbia.
The Carolinas.
Sixth-North and South Carolina
and Tennessee.
Seventh-Georgia, Alabama and
Florida.
Eighth-Ohio and West Virginia.
Ninth-Indiana and Kentucky.
Tenth-llinois.
Eleventh-Michigan and Wiscon
sin.
Twelfth-Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
Thirteenth-Minnesota, Oklahoma
. North and South Dakota and Nebras
ka.
t Fourteenth-Missouri, Kansas anm
. Colorado.
Fifteenth-Oklahoma and Texas.
Sixteenth- Montana, Idaho, Wash
ington, Oregon, California, Nevada
. Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and Nev
, Mexico.
In addition, there will be two sep
arate cavalry dlivisions which prob
ably will be situated in the Southwest
near the Mexican border.
Strength of DIvIsIon.
Each infantry (division will consis
Sof nine full regiments of infantry
-three regiments of field artillery, one
Sregiment of cavalry, one regiment o
Sengineers, one division hospital ani
four camp infirmaries. The tota
strength of the sixteen will be 15,02
officers and 439,792 men,
r The two cavalry divisions combine<
will have 1,214 officers andl 32,06
fighting men, including mounted or
gineers ulnd horse artillery units an
each will have also its divisional hon
p)ital and camp infirmaries.
The proportion of coast artiller
Stroop~s to be providled out of the 500
000 will be 666 officers and 20,00
men, with requisite medical troops.
Supplementing these tatical unit
will be the sixteenth regiments c
Sheavy field artillery, strength 768 o
fleerr andl 21,140 men; eight aer
~fsquadirons, or one new squadron t
~*each new infantry division; eight ba
tloon c-omplanies, tenl field hospitali
d teln ambulance conmpanies; twenty-on
.field bakeries; six telephone batta
ions11, sixteen pack comlpanlies, six an
muntition trainis andi six sup~ply traini
In preparationl for the enormou
task of training this great army, th
existing regular establishments an
the National Guard is being brougli
.to full war str-ength. The regulari
when all five additional increment
p lrovidled for in the National dlefens
aact have been added, will total 11,22
a fficers and 293,000 men of all arms.
S Upon the President's approval<
Sthe army bill, the first increment wi
be added to the regulars. As soon a
tpossible thereafter, the remaining il
-crements will be created, existing rej
iments bei-ng divided and expande
to form the new units.
FOUR DROWNED IN
FRENCH OtROAD RIVE
Ashevlle.-J. WV. Sel'ars, of Coi
Spens, S. C., in charge of the boy:
home and farm, connected with Do:
Sland Institute, at Hot Springs, N. C
(IMiss Laura Day-is, maatron, of Stu:
Igis. Ky.; Miss Feren Wilcox, of L~an
inig, Mich., teacher, and Edgar Nichioli
of Schoolfld, Va., a student wer
edrowned in the French Broad Rive
twto miles west of Hot Springs abou
midnight when their boat filled wit)
waten and sank.
UNITED STATES DESI
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SAYS DISASTER FACES US![
U-BOATS HAVE MADE ENORMOUS IP
INROADS ON ALLIED
SHIPPING.
Secretary Lane Tells Governors' Con
ference That the Very Existence of
Great Britain and France Are
Threatened.
Washington.-The enoromous in
roads on the world's shipping made
by German submarines within the last
few weeks has brought to American
Government officials a full realiza
tion of the disaster that faces the
United States and the Allies if the
undersea warfare is not checked.
Governor and state representatives
here for a national defense conference
will take home to their people a mes
sage from the Government emphasiz
Ing the menace to America and urg
ing that there must be the fullest co
ordination by the states in war perp
aration if Germany is to be defeated.
Secretary Lane told the conference
- that the great destruction of ships
was threatening the existence of
Great Britain and France and menac
Ing the United States. No one, he
.said, knew the exact number of ships
- lost recently, but estimates put last
week's submarine toll at four hun
dlredl thousand tons. Later, he ex
plained that this estimate probably
t was too high.
,Secretary Lansing, in a statement
3 (luring the (lay, dleclared the serious
f ness of the submarine situation could
I not be exaggerated. Reports to the
I State Department give a total of 80
2 vessels lost in one week.
The Br-itish mission announced that
I the rate of dlestruction in recent
2 weeks had continued unchanged, and
-that it showved no alarming increases.
:1 All its members agree the situation is
- itical.
Announcing the Government's pro
y gram for exercising a more dlirect
-control over the country's shipping
0 and shipbuilding facilities, Chairman
D~enman, of the Shipping Board, said
s estiamntes had reached the board of
f :100,000 tons of shipping sunk in one
!- week.
o A Bureau of Navigation report pre
o pared recently estimated the world's
I- ship construction in 1916 at slighthly
m, less than 2,000,000 tons. If the Ger
e mans keep up their present rate of
I- dlestruction, officials admit without
i- hesitation that their campaign threat
i. ens to swveep clean the seas.
s
SMARSHAL JOFFRE IS
CALLER AT WHITE HOUSE.
t
Washington.-On the eve of their
a dleparture on a tour of Middle WVest
emer and Eastern States, members of
3France's war mission held further im
portant conferences with representa
tives of the United States Govern
Imont. Marshal Jeoitre went to the
|White House anid spent an hour talk
ing with President Wilson discussing,
Samong other questions, the (despatcli
of an exp~editionary force to France.
Thho marshal was accompanied by
Col. Spnecer Cosby.
R GREAT BRITAIN'S NEW
WAR BUDGET INTRODUCED,
~'London-Great Britain's war bud.
~. got for the fiscal year which Andrew
'Bonar Law, Chancellor of thme Ex.
~. chequer, introduced in the House of
. Commons. contained no surprises andi
,fewer changes from the existing tax
* ation than did the previous war bud.
r get, No new forms of taxation were
t proposed. The only Lhanges wear in
a creases in the excess profits tax,
which was raised to 80 per cent from
60 per ent
'ROYER JACOB JONES
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MERGENCY WAR BILL PASSES
IEW RECORD IS SET FOR QUICK
ACTION ON THREE BILLION
DOLLAR APPROPRIATION.
4o Opposition Is Voiced Throughout
the Discussion.-Most of Money Is
For Army.-Enlisted Men Will Re
ceive $30 Per Month.
Washington.-The House set a re
cord for quick action on major appro
priations, completing debate at a
single brief session on an omnibus
emergency war bill carrying nearly
$3,000,000,000. It was passed with
only a few votes against it. No oppo
sition was voiced during the discus
sion and the only important change
made was in the adoption of an amend
ment doubling the pay of enlisted men
in the Army.
Out of a total of $2,827,653,653
carried by the bill, $2.320,591,907 is
for the military establishment. For
the Navy $503,399,673 is provided and
the remainder goes to other depart
ments for miscellaneous purposes, in
cluding extraordinary expenses due
to the war.
The military appropriation which is
in addition to the regular annual
Army and fortification bills and the
$3,000,000,000 proposed as an initial
appropriation for the new war army,
includes items of $231,000,000 for
clothing and camp and garrison equip
page $130,000,000 for ordnance stores;
$39,000,000 for automatic machine
guns; $3,750,000 for civilian training
camps; $609.000,000 for coast and in
sular fortifications, and $4,320,000 for
fortifying the Panama Canal.
More than $125,000,000 was added
ilby the amendment increasing the pay
of enlisted men from $16 to $30 a
month, a proposal already accepted
by both Senate and House as part of
the army draft bill1, but transferred
to the appropriation measure to facil
itate final enactment.
In the aggregate of mere than a
half billion carried for the Navy, are
included items of $11,000,000 for avia
tion; $7,778,000 for outfits for newly
enlisted men; $200,000,000 for the ord
niance bureau, including $60,000,000 for
Iship ammunition; $3,000,000 for medi
cal stores and supplies, and more than
$25,000,000 for the marine corps, in.
eluding $7,343,000 for the military
stores of that branch of the service.
UNITED STATES IS READY TO
SEND SOLDIERS TO FRANCE,
Washington.-The United States
stands ready to send an army tc
E~urope wvhenever the Allies deem it
wise to divert the necessary shipping
from transporting food to transporting
men.
It became known definitely that the
Government has offered the Allies
troops, but has suggestedl that the
alarming shortage of world shipping
may make it impracticable to send
them at once,
BERLIN CAYS PLAN FOR
HOLIDAY STRIKE FAILED,
Belin, via London-Efforts of the
radieal Socialists to celebrate May day
by a holiday in the munition factories
failedl. No cessation of work is re
pborted. In announcing the failure of
the plans to create holiday strikes
the Berlin authorities have offered a
reward of 3,000 marks for the prose
cution of "agitators in enemy service
who are trying to start dissension,
especially in the labor ranks, in Ger
many,"
NATIONAL SERVICE
RESERVE APPROVED
B TO BE COMPOSED OF MEN NOT
SUBJECT TO DRAFT AND OF,
WO0M EN.
IVAILABLE FOR ANY SERVICE
Vould Perform Military or Civic Ser
vice Not Performed By the Enlisted
Men.-Will Maintain Headquarters
at Washington.
Washington.-Plans for a great Na
onal service, made up of men not
abject to draft into the army, and
f women, already approved by the
Var Department, were submitted to
:e Council of National Defense at a
onference of the council with State
overnors and representatives of state
efense councils.
Members of the renervo would be
vallable for any service they could
erformn for the Government.
The plans were presented by George
Vharton Pepper, a representative of
he Pennsylvania State Defense Coun
il and chairnman of a National Con
aittee of Patriotic and Defense So
ieties.
The reserve would be headed by a
ioard of nine Na:ionally known men,
vhich would operate through a Na
io:al committee of members from all
he states. Under the National com
nittee there would be state and dis
rict committees, and in Washington
t permanent lieadqua-ters committee
vould sit to carry on administrative
6vork.
Membership on the board of nine
las been tentatively : ccepted, it was
stated, by former President Taft, Ma
jor General George W. Goethals and
Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary
of War.
The purposes of the organization as
outlined to the Defense Council would
ba to furnish any military or civic
service which could not be perform
ed by enlisted men, to aid in recruit.
Ing, to work under any private em
ployer engaged on Government cont
tracts, or on farms, and to supply the
Army and Navy. When not in ac
tive service, reesrve members could
aid in home defense. They would be
given compensation for the time spent
in Government service.
ADMINISTRATION SEEKS
CONTROL OF FOOD SUPPLY.
Lever Introduces Sweeping Measure
in House.
Washington.-Absolute authority to
regulate, in its discretion, the pro.
duction, distribution and prices of
food and other necessities during the
war was asked of Congress by the
Administration.
In a sweeping bill Introduced with
Administration approval by Chairman
Lever, of the House Agriculture Com
mittee, it is proposed to empower tihe
President under the war clause of
the Constitution, to take these meas
ures wherever in his opinion the Na
tional emergency shall require:
The maximum and minimum prices
for food, clothing, fuel and other ne
cessities and the articles required for
their production;
To prescribe regulations to govern
the production of these commodities,
and, if necessary, to requisition the
producing factories, mines or other
establishments;
To compel holders of necessities to
release them in amounts insuring
equitable distribution ;
To regulate exchanges in such a
way as to eliminate market manipu
lation;
To compel railroads to give prefer
once to the movement of necessities;
To levey such importation duties as
he finds necessary to prevent exces
sive "dumping" of foreign products;
and
To impose limitations or prohibi
tion upon the use of grain in the
manufacture of liquor.
In addition, the Secretary of Agri
culture would be empowered to es
tablish standard food grades, to li
cense and control the manufacture,
storage and dlistribution of foods.
In a statement just -issued Mr. Lever
declared there was nothing in the
measure to disturb legitimate busi
ness activities because "it is hoped
that the mere conferring of the more
extreme new powers will be suf
ficient without its becoming necessary
to exercise them," It is known that
officials of the executive branches of
the Government hold the same view,
believing that with such effective
weapons in their possession they will
encounter no difficulty in lining up
on the side of the public inter-est
without legal action all recalcitrant
private agenciei.
OVER SEVEN HUNDRED
GOING TO OGLETHROPE.
Fort Oglethrope, Ga.-Seven hun
dred and eighty-one men had been
accepted for admission to the reserve
officers training camp, and will be
notified next week when to repor'.
The camp will open May 14 and o.
trance examinations in Tennessee
and the Carolinas close next Monday.
More than two hundred Chattanooga
men have been entrolled. Greens
boro, N. C., is next' with 128 to date.
HOARDING FOODS
IS DISCOURAGED 4I
PRACTICE 18 DEPLORED BY LEAD
ERS OF THE PREPAREDNESS
BOARD.
MEANS FOOD STRINGENCY'
No Occasion to Become Panicky.
Thousands of Families Get Food
From Gardens.
Columbia.-David R. Coker, chair
man of the state preparedness com.
mision, in a statement, discourages
the idea of hoarding food in South
Carolina. He says that this practice
should be discouraged In every way
possible. He issued the following
statement to the people of the state:
"The attention of our commission
has been called to the fact that a.
few of our people are hoarding food
stuffs. We know of a few instances
where citizens have bought sufficient
staples, such as flour, corn meal. etc.,
to last them for six months or more.
This punrctice should be discouraged in
oyery way possible. By such means
the food stringency is made more
acute, prices are artificially advanced,
and of course. the poor are made It
suffer.
"The great interest and enthusias.
tic co-operation manifested all over
the state leads the civic preparedness
commission to believe that the cam
paign for increased production will
result in very largely relieving the
foodstuffs shortage in South Carolina
by the early fall. Even now thou
sands of families are getting a large
part of their living from their gar
dens, and waste of foodstuffs is the
exception instead of the rule.
"We do not think there is occasion
for any one to become panicky. Each
citizen should buy and use as little
food as possible. Food hoarding and
food speculation under present con
ditions are against the public in
terest."
Sunday School Convention Ends.
Spartanburg.-The 40th session of
the South Carolina Interdenomina
tional Sunday School association
closed very successfully here. About
900 delegates from all parts of the
state attended the convention and
meetings were characterized by the
hearers as great sucecsses.
The following officers were elected:
Ex-Gov. Martin F. Ansel, Greenville,
president; J. D. Cappelmann, Char
leston, first vice president; Dr. B. H.
DeMent, Greenwood, second vice
president; J. T. Fain, Rock Hill, re
cording secretary; S. T. Reid, Spartan
burg, treasurer.
R. D. Webb of Spartanburg was
reelected general secretary and the
Re-v. W. H. K. Pendleton of Spar
tan burg was again chosen as chair
man of the executive committee.
A resolution wvas adopted in favor
of national prohibition as a war
measure for the protection of the sol
diers and the conservation of grain.
Every county in the state with the
execption of Georgetown was repre
sented at the convention.
Prof. E. 0. Sellers of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago, was in
charge of the music.
Can't Employ More Help.
Columbia.-A ruling by the attor
ney general may dirive many South
Carolina automobiles into their gar
ages for a period of rest. The attor
ney general ruled that the state high
way commission can not employ more
clerical help than is provided under
the law. The act provides for a sec
retary and one clerk. Several extra
men have been employed by Capt. J.
Roy Pennell, State highway engineer,
in an effort to have all of the 30,000
motor cars in the state registered be
fore July 1. No cars will be operat
ed without a license after that date
and it will require the office force
sever-al months to register all ma
chines. Only about 2,500 cars have
been registered to date.
Staff Officers Get Busy.
Charleston.-While Maj. Gen. Leon
ard. Wood did not arrive the day ex
pected to assume command in person
of the new Southeastern department,
its official machinery started into mo
tion with a number of his staff officers
on hand. It was believed here that
Gen. Wood would not arrive until
early next week, and local prepara
tions for him are being gauged accord
ingly. Fifty-I wo typewriting machines
have been added to the equipment of
of headquarters' offices in the People'.
building.
New Church at Easley,
Easley.-At a congregational meet
ing of the First Baptist church, held
recently, it was decided that the
church should be rebuilt on the same
lot on east Main street. It will be
remembered that this $10,000 struc
ture was destroyed by fire some two
months ago. Options have been secur
ed on about three lots which would
locate the church more centrally, but
when the vote was taken at the meet
ing it favored rebuilding on the same
lot. Work will be begun within a week
of so on Lbse new structure.