Winthrop University Digital Commons @ Winthrop University Chester News 1916 The heC ster News 8-25-1916 The hesC ter News August 25, 1916 W. W. Pegram Stewart L. Cassels Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/chesternews1916 Part of the Journalism Studies Commons, and the Social History Commons Recommended Citation Pegram, W. W. and Cassels, Stewart L., "The heC ster News August 25, 1916" (1916). Chester News 1916. 67. https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/chesternews1916/67 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The heC ster News at Digital Commons @ Winthrop University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chester News 1916 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Winthrop University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHESTER, S. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST, 2S 1B16. SEPTEMBER 5TH CHESTER COUNTY GOOD ROADS DAY LIQUOR SHIPMENTS IN GEORGIA SEEM CROWING ARMENIA NEWS the restrictions pieced on the ship- Tea jwulan Help Republicans Call' ment of whiskey into the state by the Up Mauuri One* Vetoed ,by ff«nrgis prohibition laws which be- .President and Postponed by came effective on Hay 1. the Quantity of liquor being shipped into Atlanta Washington, Aug. 21—Ten Dem-. and other cities appears to be con- ocratic Senators unexpectedly revolt- stantly increasing. ed today, and joining the Republi- Not only arc individuals using the cans, forced consideration of the Im- lawful limit of two quarts a month up migration Bill which the Democratic to the very limit, but recent disclos- Caucus had agreed to lay over until ures by the police have tended to next session. show that's much greater supply than Their action threatens to delay the the lawful limit is being received in adjournment of Congress, which-had the city. beeA .unofficially set for Sept. .1, al- Probably the main reason for the though some Senators think the de- rapid and steady increase in the num- bate on the measure will be short. ber of shipments is the fact that pri- The motio^ to take up the bill Carw-J vate supplies laid in before the law " became effective are now exhausted, olina. Chairman of the "Immfgra'.TorT or-nearing-oxhausticc. -Thft.condition Committee, and the Democrats who evidently obtains not only in Atlanta, supported him were Ashurst, Arizo- but in other cities throughout the na; Beckham, Kentucky; Cham'i r- lain and Lane, Oregon; Hardwick. The express company has been Georgia; Myers, Montana; Overman, forced to double its quarters here and North Carolina; Vardaman, Misns- at numerous otheir large shipping sippi, and Culberson, Texas. -The points, and/till the end is not in sight. With conditions in Northern Mex- vote was 27 to 24. If the present shipping law contin- ico comparatively quiet, Preaident Debate began on the measure im- ues on the statute books and if liquor Wilson and his advisers'have no de- mediately and proceeded until 2 shipments continue to ihciva :e like sire to keep Gen. Pershing in Mex- o'clock, when the Revenue Hill they have been ipcreasing in the past ico any longer than necessary. There automatically came before the Scr.- several weeks, it will not be long be- is a fear that the immediate with- aje. Senator Smith then moved IO fore the records of liquor shipments drawal of the troops might lead to displace the Revenue Bill, provoking in the ordinaries' offices will be the freah bandit outbreaks, but there is an all afternoon discussion which most voluminous of all the records good ground for the statement that will be resumpd^omoriow. kept by these officials. the American commissioners will not Adiqlnistruionleaders said t!:at The requirement that every indi- haggle over the right of the United they had enough votes to defeat tl c vidual receding a shipment shalLgive States to maintain an armed force Smith motion. Even some of the his iiame and his family history and on Mexican soil when they become revolting Democrats have declared rrfakf) affidavit to his temperate hab- convinced that the de facto author- their intention of voting against it. its and have his name recorded in ities are able to maintain order and Should it prevail, the resulting fight the office of the ordinary is becom- furnish proper protection from raids over the literacy test provision might ing less and less a deterrent. and violence aldng the border, upset all adjournment calculations. While progress has .been made by President Wilson has vetoed the bill Market -Cotton Slowly and Prices j the President and Secretary Lansing once because of the literacy test. It Will Remain High. in the selection of the two map who passed the House earlier this session - Secretary Hester of the New Or- 1 are to serve with Secretary of the by a large majority. leans Cotton Exchange in hie annual 1 Interior Lane as the Ameijcan mem- Senator Stone of Missouri accused report recently issued shows the bers of the joint commission, ao an- the ten Democrats with bqing untrue world consumption of American cot- nouncement was made tonight . The •to their party principles and with ton during the year just ended to; expectation is that the personnel* of having violated the pledges of. the have been J0>2,000 bales, includ- the commission will be completed party caucus. ing linters, which breaks all previous; during the present week. "With the aid of a solid Republi- records. In other words, despite' the' Officials tonight laughed at the El can vote,"" he said, pointing io the great world war, the world has this Paso report that the Mexican mem- South Carolina Senator, "you have year taken more American cotton. bers of the joint commission, among been able to sidetrack a measure than ever before in its history. While' other things, will propose an offensive which the Democratic Party has we produced last year, influd>ng lint-' and defensive alliance between ,the promised shall become a law this ers, only a little more .than ,12,000,- United Stsitesapd Mexico. session. Your action today will live 000 bales consumption ' amounted to to haunt you in the future. nearly 16,000,000. ' GIRLS- LEARN LATIN "I regard myself as just as good a On top of this, the latest estimate IN SEVEN DAYS STUDY Democrat as tl^g Senator from Mis- of the United States Department of souri," Senator Smith retorted. "I Agriculture indicates a crop this year Tw* Secured a PrUe for Translating, was not bound by any party caucus between 13,000,000 and 14,000,000 and Their Work is Now U*d and served notiee as Chairman of the bales, and unquestionably crop con- la Pedagogical Teaching. committee that I would move that ditions have become worse rather this bill.be considered at the first op- than better since' the Government re- Portland, Ore, Aug., 19—At the .portunity . In my judgment this Is University of .Oregon, at Eugene port was issued. The situation in a the most important piece of legisla- nutshell, then, is that next year the Ore, Betty Schafer, thirteen, and tion that has.come before Congress Jane Campbell, fourteen,, translated world is going to demand more A- this session. It was .passed by the merican cotton than will be produced. a few days ago »f200-word composi- House by an overwhelming-vote.' tion into Latin after only seven days|. It takes no financier or. economist to When the debate in the morning on sen what this means: prices are bound instruction, * the provision of the bill relating to to bo fiigh. ' Dr. Berle, an educator of > Cam- the exclusionof Asiatics Was begun bridge, Mass, is employing the ser- ' At the same time the cotton growers the Senate went into executive ses- of the South must not forget the "au- vices of the two girls to show the sion and consideration of sessions pedagogical classes at the university tumnal dip in the cotton market" de- which relate particularly to Japan scribed in The Progressive Farmer the .time that can be saved in teach- proceeded in secret. ing last year,—must not forget that the heavy volume of "distress cotton" Seven days before neither girl had •BIG; GUNS STOP FOES ever studied any Latin. In the com- thrown on the market,in September, October afld November has almost position submitted there was-.not a British Artillery'Checks Enemy Skis mistake in vocabulary or position without fail forced the market down and the other errors were very few. every year, the average time of thia , London, Aug. 22—British artillery The translation called for .the use of depression.coming during the first" has checked the advance of skir- the first and second declensions. half of November. Now we would mishers of the central powers in a "The secret Hes in teaching the pu- hardly advise holding cotton when the sector of the .Struma front, 36 miles pifs to associate," Dir. Berle said '"I price is 14 or 15 cents/ or seed at $45 northeast of Saloniki, says * -war started Jane and Betty "by- having or $60 a ton; but the,moment prices WAR GAME TAXES •office statement tonight on operations them learn the vocabularies through begin to break evg»y farmed ought to NAVY RESOURCES . in the Balkans. Working parties en-' hold his cottjw'off the market until looking UR.eVery English'derivative. TO* GET SUPPLIES Elsewhere inthis issue appears a trenching opposite Kttmarjan "and prices risftfgain, as they will surely When we capie to the word 'Mfgnus' statement of the Fanners Mutaal la' - Cavdarmah on the. Same front also do. If necessary, we would even bor- they went to.the dictidnary and found First Hypothetical Gap in Country's surance Association, of Chester, of were disjJeried by British artillery, row money to • hold our cotton for 'magnanimous magnificent 'magni- Defense Dev»lope<P-Tbeore«lc»!lr which Mr.