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' * 5" ' \ i Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C. Tuesday, August 19, 1919 Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. ACTION DEMANDED FROM 0. S. SENATE Many Weeks Wasted On "Treaty? Hitchcock Calls For Report From Committee?Crucial Week Here Interest Centers On Conference at White House. Washington, Aug. 17?What promises to re one of the crucial weeks of the peace treaty fight in the senate began today with the issuance of a formal statement by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the administration senate leader, declaring conditions throughout the country demanded that the treaty be brought out of the foreign relations committee promptly and ratified. For five weeks, Senator Hitchcock said, the treaty has been "in cold storage" in a committee controlled by its enemies. Action on it should be the first step, he asserted, in dealing with the high cost of living. During the week, the outstanding feature of which is to be the confer " 1 ?- TTT-1 ence Tuesday between iresiaent wnson ?nd the committee, Senator Hitchcock is expected to make a senate speech urging that the treaty be brought to a vote and voicing opposition to any amendments. Tomorrow the committee will resume its hearings, questioning Thos. F. Millard, a writer on Far Eastern subjects, regarding the treaty provision which gives Japan control in Shantung province, China. Against this provision Republican senators declare opposition is increasing and tbey argue that interest fully warrants withholding committee action * regarding it until all the possible facts have been uncovered. Later in the week four other witnesses are to be heard. So that committee consideration may not be interrupted, leaders said the senate might have only a brief session tomorrow and then adjourn until Wednesday, when Senator Owen (Democrat) of Oklahoma has given notice he will' speak on the league of nations. Several other addresses also are expected during the week. r WORK. BEGAN MONDAY ON STREET PAVING HERE IN ABBEVIELE Actual work on the street paving here began Monday morning when laborers began to remove the curbing around the park in the Square. A cement curbing will replace the o?/1 flia cfnno falrpn (JUrumg icuiuvcu auu ?wmv ?.%???., from the square will be used on the residential streets. W. E. Moragne, in chargaof the work here, left Saturday for Chattanooga to rush material. Some material has already been shipped. Trinity street will be the first street ;.aved, although it was first planned :c pave the square first. REV. LOUIS J. BRISTOW WILL EDIT BAPTIST PAfER IN GREENWOOD The Rev. Louid|J. Bristow, pastor f the Abbeville Baptist Church, will it the Baptist Courier, published in Greenwood, during the absence of 4>r. Z. T. Cody, Greenwood, who has named as a member of a commission of the Baptist church to visit "urope in the interest of reconstruction work in the war-worn countries. Dr. Bristow is an old newspaper editor, an able writer, and is one of the leading Baptist ministers in South Carolina. Mr. David Gilliam Dies. Mr. David Gilliam, an old and well known citizen of this county, passed away Monday afternoon at 1:80 o'clock at his home near Haskell's Station. He is survived by his wife and a number of children. He -Urvived by one brother. ,T. A. of this county. : ABBEVILL l i I I | i ~.r$ M '' ' wM Bids for repairing, remodeling, heating and lighting the Abbeville County Memorial Hospital will be opened Friday, August 29, at the City Hall. Ten thousand dollars has already been subscribed in stock for this work. But the scope of the undertaking has so broadened and the cost of material has advanced to , such an extent that the managers of ; the institution have found it neces' sary to make another appeal to the - .1 J j... TO people 01 tnis city ana county. i> will be necessary to raise seven to ten thousand dollars more in order complete the work as it should be j done. The board of.nine managers believe that the people of this section want a hospital second to none in the state from the viewpoint of equipment and ability to meet all re' ;;;ivements. To this end it is planned 1 to fit the hospital with apparatus of I ! FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT SATURDAY Tom Osborne Killed and Two Other* Seriously Wounded When Cadillac Car Turn* Over Ner Town?Machine Demolished?Car Belonged to Policeman ' Bonds. Thomas Osborne was killed and ? on/I P^tror/I TT orria | IVllltUIi 1AVU5UO ?uu * ? | were seriously injured about one ] mile from tcwn on the Cedar Springs j road at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afterj noon when the Cadillac car, which J Osborne was driving turned over. Bryant Bonds another occupant of the car, was uninjured. According to Bonds, Osborne was speeding toward Abbeville, when he ran too close to a deep ditch and to avoid ditching his car, he veered suddenly to the center of the road, one front wheel giving way and the car spinning over and over. Osborne's neck was broken and he was badly mutilated. Hodges suffered a fracture^ collar bone and had leveral ribs broken; Harris' arm was broken and he received a severe cut : n his forehead. I The car, which belonged to Bonds, policeman at the Cotton Mill, was torn to pieces. Osborne was a son of T. G. Ost borne, of this county. The funeral ! was held Monday morning at eleven I o'clock, interment following in Long i Cane cemetery. Missionary Society. mi -xr n 1 _ _ nr: e?~ I rne loung jreo-pies iTii?siuuar^ j ciety of the Methodist Church will i serve ice cream and cake Tuesday ! evening at six o'clock on the lawn I of the home of Mrs. John Harris, j I South Main street. V V V COTTON MARKET. V V August 14. V :v ' v j V New* York Cotton Market. V j\ October 30.30 30.06 V] | V December 30.35 30.18 V. K January 30.15 30.14 V !V March 30.05 30.18 V | V May 30.25 30.10 V Abbeville Spots. No Market. V V \ vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv E COUNTY ^<r: te^s ; "he latest kind and the building will j j have a model operating room and electric elevator. Various plans have been suggested to raise money. There will be a j cnatauqua here in October for the ! benefit of the hospital and a play, : under the management of Miss Gladys Wham, is already being re! hearsed for staging sometime in Septembex*. But these means will not, raise the money necessary and an appeal will have to be made to the! ; people of the city and county again. I One thing that should be borne in p mind by everyone is the fact that | there is never to accrue to any one t Interested in the hospital any gain. ; Rather, it is to be expected that for j some time to come there will be a financial loss in the operation of the institution, which loss will have to be | made up by those who are charitably j inclined. A public hospital is never RULE OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND IS HIGH COST CAUSE I Washington, Aug. 16.?High cost' of living is the result of fundamental and immutable laws and lower living costs will come, to a large degree, only from operation of these natural laws, Senator Reed, Democrat, of Mississippi, declared in an address in the senate today. Many of the, remedies being proI posed to reduce living costs, Sena-I tor Reed asserted, are futile because' they are artificial and designed to disturb operation of natural economic tendencies. Increase in production, the Missouri senator declared, would be the greatest factor toward reducing prices. "There are two great principles in economic and finance which cannot! be disregarded and which no amount! j of legislation can effectively con-| j trol," said Mr. Reed. "First, when-| j ever the demand for any great ne-! I nessity materially exceeds the supj ply an increase in price is inevitable, i donverselv. when the supply exceeds I -' - - * I ! the demand, a decrease in price fol| lows. The latter condition may be I temporarily effected by combinations ! artificially withholding the supply i and controlling the market. But, no j combination of men and no decrees j of government have ever been able to transmute a deficiency into plenty, or to remove the natural longings for a necessary article which cannot be oonaineu. "Second, a radical increase in the number of dollars in circulation reI suits in a decrease in the purchasI ing power of the dollar. "Any device, plan or scheme, therefore, which will have a tendency to lessen production, to discourage enterprise or to arrest industry, will instead of bringing lower prices, increase present excessive prices by under production." The war, Senator Reed said, stopped production throughout the world j j to a large extent except for articles j needed in its prosecution. With the | end of the war. the" natural result' I is increased demand before produc-j | tion can be brought up to normal. Ansel Putnam spent the week-end I in Greenville. i MEMORIAL ? lyCK'T Mr.M-orjAL H oS^}' /j^^y^^^^raTnga^T^Ten^TlTr Archt 1. a money-making enterprise, and; I\ those who have subscribed to the' f fund to establish the Abbeville Coun-; 5 ty Memorial Hospital have done so solely from motives of charity and j, philanthropy. , I v Anyone who desires to have part iii the splendid work that is being j b done by a few, may do so, by making v a contribution in any sum to the' lospital. It may be sent either toi a Dr. J. C. Hill, chairman of the board ^ of managers, or to Dr. J. R. Power, treasurer. fc; The standing committees of the b hospital follow: ^ Finance: Dr. J. R. Power, Sol H. Rosenberg and Joel S. Morse. 1 b Building: Rev. Louis J. Bristow, fi Dr., G. A. Neuffer, D. H. Hill, Miss Maggie Brooks. 1 " Grounds and Streets Joel S. e WITHDRAWAL OF SUPPORT FOR |" CA&RANZA SEEN | ~ ! Washington, Aug. 16.?Unofficial utterances of high governments officials here today indicated clearly that withdrawal of support from the Carranza government is considered the first step probable in case it becomes necessary to carry out any . 'radical change in policy with regard to Mexico." ^ It is believed among officials here o that Carranza's fall would soon fol- . 11 low such a step. _ It was also made very plain today ^ that the administration is still set . . a against intervention except as a last ^ resort. -- p The view taken generally in Wash-i ington is that the United States does I not want, as one official expressed it,J I e "to use up twice as many American!. 1] lives as were lost in the war to make I Mexico safe for investors or to savfe' Mexico herself." c Officials do not believe the United 3 States will withdraw recognition of 1 nnlaeti Via io flraf aKrtm ftf vaixanziia uiiibiJO nv ?g IMOV WHV*M { his powers. "Withdrawal of support!^ would be the first step. J ^ The state department's latest notei11 to Mexico, warning President Carran-,' 5' za that if murder and indignities j of American citizens continue the t; United States may be forced to tl adopt a radical change in attitude *1 toward that country, was the chief a topic of interest and discussion to- tl day in official and diplomatic cir- a cles here. The note made public late! ^ yesterday, along with a reply from J n the Mexican government, lacked only tl diplomatic technicalities to maice n;p an ultimatum and was couched in probr-.bly the strongest language us-: ti ed in any communications between jai the two republics since the exchanges j rr just prior to the occupation of Vera tl Cruz by American armed forces. | b While no official statement was made concerning the announcementj H at this time in the change of pol-: icy and outwardly there was no ap- Ic parent reason other than the con-; tinued mistreatment, robbery and Ji murder of American citizens in Mex- H ico, it generally was the opinion to-, lav that pressure from foreign gov-j C ornments and demand in congress-' le ional circle:- for some protective ac-1 lion hastened the announcement. E HOSPITAL - 1 ^ ! I i K,-,. i I j if r i agsig-? J i _m?cxm lorse, Miss Robecca Cater, Mrs. W. I \ Greene, Mrs. J. Foster McLane, i Irs. G. A. Neuffer. i By-Laws and Rules: Dr. G. A. 1 Jeuffer, D. H ,Hill, J. Foster Barn- ^ /ell, Mrs. M. T. Coleman. 1 Memorial Rooms: Sol H. Rosen- f erg, J. S. Starty, Mrs. Ellen Nor- ' rood, Mrs. D. A. Rogers. The cut of the hospital shown J ^ bove will give a definite idea of the andsome building which is to emrge after the plans and specificaions of Architect Hemphill havei een carried out. It will be a build- 1 i | / ig of which the citizens of this ounty may well be proud and as an'^ istitution it will prove of inestima-l 1 le value to the community. It will I 11 a need ttiat has long been felt. * That it will receive the hearty suport of the people can not be doubtd. "I, :OTTON ASS'N TO 1 ADr.AMI7P UfDP aiMKM; v I. letting Friday?Gen. M. L. Bonham < of Anderson, and W. B. Utiejr, St. 1 George, Will Make Addresses? S W. A. Stevenson Names Committeemen From Various 1 Townships in County. j For the purpose of organizing lo- , al branches of the South Carolina ^ Jotton Association in the townships ( f Abbeville County, a public meet- ( ag will be held here Friday, August 1 2, at 11:30 o'clock, at which time ( Jen. M. L. Bonham, of Anderson, , nH W. R. TTtsev. St. Georsre. will lake addresses, discussing the poroses of theL organization. The fariera, business men, professional len and all others who are interestd, are invited to attend the meetlg' "" The South Carolina Cotton Asso- ^ iation has for its main purpose the tabilizing of the price of cotton af-j er that price has been fixed at aj gure^where the farmer can make aj igitimate profit. The South Caro-j * na Cotton Association will be aj lember of the American Cotton Asociation. !? It is up to the people of the coun-j ~ y, whether they want to get back of| ( \ his organization and make it go. r ts success depends upon the farmer nd if they prefer to fix the price of tie South's chief staple instead of llowing the price to be fixed by /all Street they will attend the 0 leeting Friday and give their en-j lusiastic support to the plans andj rinciples involved. W. A. Stevenson, chairman execu-j ve committee, Abbeville County,'*3 nnounces the following committee- J< ten from the various townships in ^ le county and urges that these men ^ e present at the meeting Friday: 1 Lowndesville Township: E. W. ^ 'arper, W. C. Shaw, W. L. Bowman. " Magnolia Township: Charlie Tay>r, Furman Milford, Frank Sherard. J Cedar Springs Township: L. A.; ickson, Thompkins Ramey, S. F.j 1< j | | ammona. Long Cane Township: Dr. P. B. V arwile, Brown Bowie, Henry Nick- G s. Smithville Township: I. A. Keller, "5 . M. McCord, A. H. Miller, ! w RAILROAD FIREMEN ASK BIG INCREASE ? brotherhood Makes Demand of Direc-? lor General?Other Claims Are v. >. . . Made?Many Costly Mechanical \ Devices Are Sought?Automatic Stokers Are Asked. . f- Jv Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 17.?A 35 to 35 per cent, increase in wages is demanded for 117,000 firemen and lostlers on. railroads in the United States and Canada in a wage scalex aopted before adjournment today, ay 300 general chairmen of the ' .- j Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen 11 ind Enginemen in session here since ruesday. Another demand to be presented ;o the director general of railroads s that all coal burning locomotives n road service weighing 200,000 pounds and over shall be equipped f ,vith mechanical stokers and that two iremen shall be employed on all uch locomotives until they are so equipped. About half of the 80,000 engines in the United States will come under his proposal, only about 5,000 of vhich are equipped with mechanical stokers at present. In accepting the report of the vage committee appointed at the >pening session last Tuesday and ? * 1 I 1 - t J V.J vmcn only completed ana presented > ts report Saturday morning, discusa of which took up yesterday's and oday's conferences, some modifica;ions were made, but the report was idopted in the main part. PrincipaT*t>em*nd? Made. The more important sections of . he report follow: Rates of pay for firemen and help- J jrs in passenger service' $6.50 per | iay of 100 miles or less, except vhen Mallet engines are used, when 57.20^ shall be pai<L Overtime in passenger service will v ie computed on the present basis at i speed of 20 miles an hour. In freight service on engines nreighing less than 200,000 pounds, firemen shall be paid; $6.50 and on engines weighing over over 200,)00 pounds $6.80 per day of 100 vja niles or less, overtime to be comput- v 2d on present basis at a speed of 12 1-2 miles per hour. Firemen and helpers employed in -ocal or way freight service, mixed ;rains, mine runs and other service shall be paid a minimum of 50 cents (fy per 100 miles or less iri addition to he through freight rates. . Firemen employed oo All other rains in unclassified service shall be aid through freight rates according > class of engine used. Firemen employed on Mallet engines in all service, except yard ser'ice. shall be paid $7.20 per 'day for LOO miles or less. Firemen and helpers employed in rard service shall be paid $4.60 per iay of eight hours or less, except yhen Mallett engines are used, when ate of $6.80 shall be paid. A demand for time and a half over* me in all classes of service is made v-hich will apply when men are used ?n Sunday or holidays. Reunion of Orr's Regiment. Many Confederate veterans of Abeville County, will attend the reunan of Orr's regiment to be held at 'endleton and Sandy Springs, on Lugust 28 and 29, the first day at 'endleton and the second at Sandy [prings. " 1 1 rr u; TT r r> n ? uonaias lownsmp: *y. jv. uuuu, '. L. Barmore, M. J. Ashley. Due West Township: G. N. Nick's, 0. Y. Brownlee, J. R. Pruitt. Diamond Hill Township: S. J. Pakefield, Dr. J. A. Anderson, John . f% ray. - ' -n 1 - . r * ii ADDevme lownsoip; o. a?bh mith, W. E. Lesley, W. M. Barnell. M