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f \ Abbeville Press and Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Friday, Dec. 3, 1920 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. CHANGES IN CI IS DISC C AMENDMENTS FOR REVISION' OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS BROUGHT TO FRONT AT AS SEMBLY AT GENEVA WITH AC TION TO TAKEN LATER, HOWEVER. DRUMMOND SENDS MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT WILSON Geneva, Dec. 3.? Amendments for revision held the floor of the assembly the league of nations today the debate bringing out clearly that amendment of the covenant was in ' the minds of nearly .all the dele gates, some of whom ^were more iwessing in their desire fyr a perfect instrument than others, but all thinking of a revision that would re move obstacles to the entry of the United States. Article 10 was not mentioned in the debate, but hastbeen frequently discussed in small circles, and N. W. Rowell, of Canada, when he insisted that adoption of a resolution by a committee should be understood as closing the door to presentation be fore the assembly of other amend ments than those proposed by the Scandinavians, is said to have been subjected to much contention. The delegations of the British dominions have been studying how to: approach the . assembly on this ?Tlia ouonhml nronosal to Mirowwi.. w r--, eliminate Article 10 is somewhat compromised by the general under standing that consideration of all proposed changes should <be post poned until studiedby ? special com- ' mittee. This understanding, how ever, came largely from the anxiety of the delegates not to precipitate revision until the attitude of the United States under the new gov-1 erament is known. Leon Bourgeois of the French delegation is perturbed lest the in-i vestigation of the committee should lead is to consider alteration in volving revision of the treaty of Versailles and he demanded today that it be understood that the com-j mittee should declare itself imcom-i petent to consider any movement to the covenant that involved modifies-J tion of the treaty. The close of the debate brought a moment of great suspense when Senor Purrydon, Argentina, who failed to take part in the debate, voted alone against the resolution re jecting consideration of amendments to the covenant at this session. The presiding officer, M. Hymans, hesita ted as if unable to believe that a single delegate would prevent un animity. \ M. Viviani, France, relieved the tension when he remarked that post ponement of consideration of amendments involved only a "ques tion of procedure, in which unani mity was not necessary. Thereupon, the chairman declared adoption of the resolution which provided that . the Scandinavian amendment be studied by a committee?to report to the council?and giving the com mittee authority to consider any other amendments that may be pro posed. Geneva, Dec. 3.?Sir Eric Drum mond, secretary general of the league of nations, has sent the fol lowing message to President Wilson expressing the gratitude of the as sembly at his acceptance of Armeni an arbitration: "The president Tead to the full "assembly this morning your tele gram and the reply sent by the council to it. The assembly wel-j comes your acceptance of the offer > with enthusiasm and asks me to con-' vey to you its unanimous assurances' of the complete' moral support of | '? ?? ? i??~ every raecioer ox vuc icaguc ah wit great mission you have undertaken1 and I B5g confidently to declare that j the opinion, not only of the people of the United States, but of the whole civilized world, is with you in' your endeavor to secure that the i tragedy of Armenia shall finally j cease." * I JVENANT USSED FREELY I PUBLIC DEBT OF THE U. S. SHOWS AN INCREASE Washington, Dec. 2.?An increase of $112,646,571 in the public debt during the month of November, was announced today by the Treasury. The total gross debt on November 30, was $24,175,156,244.14 as com* pared with $24,062,509,672.96 on October 31. The issuance of $232, 000,000 in treasury certificates on November 15, was responsible for the increase in . the debt, according to treasury officials, who explained that the certificates maturing during the month amounted ;to only $94,000,000 Officials declared, however, the con tinuance of the quarterly decrease in the public debt was in no way halted because decreases were only possible when the quarterly tax receipts made available further reductions. THE BPSf HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS Mr. G. T. Barnes, secretary of the chamber of commerce, with a few others attended the meeting of the baptist education commissioti in Col umbia Tuesday, and made a bid in behalf of Abbeville for the new boys preparatory school which the Baptists are to establish. The Abbevilje dele gation was well received, and the pre sentation of Abbeville's offer by Mr. Barnes and Mr. J. S. Stark made a deep impression upon members of the commission. It is believed that this city has a splendid chance to win out, though a final decision will not be reached until after the meeting of the Baptist State convention next week. The Baptists propose to establish nve academies in uie eastern mm southern parts of the State and a pre paratory school for boys in the up per part of the State. The academies will be co-educational. Proposals from various sections were received by the commission at its meeting this week, but no definite action was taken upon any of the proposed new schools. Because of present conditions -yi the business world, the commission rec ognized the futility of attempting to secure any large sum in cash at this time. Abbeville is well in the "running" for the Baptist school for boys, and our people may yet have opportunity to manifest their interest in such an institution in a testing way. . MR. AO. CALM PAINFULLY IIRED A. 0. Calvert, of the Buckstand, who has charge of the operation of the Calvert Ginnery in this city, was injured yesterday afternoon in the press room of the Gin plant by the accidental dropping of the press block. Mr. Calvert had raised the block and was fixing the bagging when the block fell owing to a set screw which ordinarily holds the >lock, working loose. Mr. Calvert suffered a severe cut on his head, had one finger broken and two others badly mashed. He was taken to the County Hospital where his injuries were treated. Several Pitches had to be taken in his head, while the broken finger was set and the hand bandaged. He will be out of commission for a while, but is able to be out on the streets. Irwin Cleckley, of Lowndesville, was ab usiness visitor In town today, -A . _ .. \ (. GEORGIAN THINKS ! STAY LAW WOULD WE SITUATION Governor Dorsey Has Under Consid eration Recommendation of Com missioner Brown Advising Special Legislation Atlanta, Dec. 2.?Governor Hugh Dorsey today?had under advisement a request from Commissioner of Agri culture J. J. Brown, for an extra ses sion of the legislature for the pur pose of enacting a stay law, or mora torium to run for a period of 12 months. The Governor has requested Commissioner Brown, to prepare a written memorandum on the sub ject. In a conference with the Governor Mr. Brown called attention to numer ous cases where livestock and imple ments of farmers have been sold un der foreclosure proceedings to pay for farm supplies, and expressed the opinion that general foreclosures, should they be resorted to, would de prive farmers of the means of pro ducing a crop next year, would bene fit creditors very little and bring on complete agricultural demoralization The commissioner expressed the be lief that it would be necessary for similar laws to be enacted by all the cotton states to get the full benefit of such an expedient. CHRISTMAS STAMPS Mrs. C. H. McMurray and Mrs. E. R. Thomson have been canvassing-^e city i or tne past iwu u?ya ncmug (stamps for the Antr-Tuberculosis lea gue. The county has been assessed four hundred dollars which in this day and time is a "heap" of money. A NEW NURSE. Miss Mary C. S pro use, of Abbeville who trained at the Pryor hospital in Chester, has successfully passed the State Board examination and has received her license as a trained nurse. ? PLIGHT OF R TAKEN T Washington, Dec. 2.?The plight of j farmers due to falling prices wasj taken today to congress. Agricultural committees of the senate and house in joint session be: gan hearings on conditions brought about by falling prices preliminary to devising relief measures. They decided to ask Secretary Houston and Governor Harding of the federal reserve board to come before them tomorrow after Eugene Meyer, Jr., former head of the war finance cor poration, had declared thai rehabili tation of that body would go a long step toward furnishing the desired relief by financing exports of sur plus crops. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska told the conference he planned to in troduce measures making available the profits of the federal reserve banks, amounting to about $60,000, 000 for loans to agricultural inter ests. Governor Harding, with whom the Nebraska senator conferred, is sued a statement saying that the matter was one not within the prov ince of the board as it concerns the use of funds which the law required should be paid into the treasury. Several Plans Made. Legislation extending a billion dollar credit to Germany was advo no+orl Viofnro tVm ininf. pnmmit.ticp hv ] ?v. J J. J. Brauer of New York, who claim ed to represent the. German^overn ment, while Senator Smoot of Utah announced he would propose an em bargo on imports of wool for relief of American wool growers in a bill; he will offer Monday. Representative Campbell of Kan-^ sas suggested that profits of the grain corporation about $100,000,000 m ' STATES' RIGHTS WAS SUBJECT OF GOV. y. COOPER South Carolina Executive Addresses Governors' Conference at Har* risburg?States Must Be stir Themselves. ________ i Harrisburg, Penn., Dec. 2.?Cen- 1 tralization of authority in the federal 1 government, and its partial loss by 1 the states of the union, Governor 1 Cooper, of South Carolina, told the annual conference of governors tod day, is chiefly due to the fact that ^ states to a considerable degree have failed in performing the services that the public has demanded. " I 1 "Our states, unless they bestir , themselves, will not prove indestruc tible," Gov. Cooper said. "If we continue in the way we have been go ^ng for fifty years, there is grave danger that we shall lose one of the elements of strength in our national life, namely its political individuali- I "I confess to vou that it is difficult ty. to say, definitely, what should be done in order to decentralize. The prob lem is not one to be discussed in de tail. It is rather a school of political thought, a philosophy of life. The first step, therefore, in effect the ends implied by my theme is to get the de centralization thinkers out in the open and devise a line of thought and action wfc'ch ultimately will check ' the row of all authority to Washing- ] ton and bring back to the several states that part of it which can be best exe/cised by subdivisions. We;! are drifting toward centralization be cause the people will it, or at least j they do not check it. We shall drift back the other way when people are so minded. The problem is one of , education." , Miss Rosalie and Kay Caaori, of ] Hodges and Miss Sallie Sue Ramey, < of Lebanon -will spend Saturday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cason. 1 \RMERS 0 CONGRESS ( be made available for loans to farm 1 ers. ' Mr. Meyer told the joint committee ' that the act creating the war finance corporation was passed four months ' after the armistice and intended by congress to bridge over the situation ' by financing exports until normal : economic conditions were restored.' ' He said conditions now were those which congress had in mind in en- ' acting the measure, and that restora tion of the corporation would have a tremendous stabilizing effect. Corn for Coal? Farmers in some sections of Ne braska have said they will burn their corn because at current prices it would not pay for coal, L. 0. S. Scroyer, secretary of the Farmers' union, asserted. He urged further credits, immediate financing to export ; surplus crops, a protective tariff and I appointment of a "dirt farmer" as i secretary of agriculture. I Opposition to the "revamping" of < war time government agencies for I peace time operation was expressed ; in a statement by Senator Edge, Re- i publican, of New Jersey. He was anxious, he said, to help the farmers i and other classes equally, but added that consumers were tired of high prices. 'The only durable and infallible barometer of business is the law of supply and demand," Senator Edge .< said, "and to set up an artificial, un- 1 economic and false structure for the i maintenance of prices because some certain industries are suffering is only postponing the evil day when all business and industry, including the farmers, inevitably must face the music." I / PROPOSE LOAf MILLION TO c EXPORT COMPANY GRANTED CHARTER The American Products Export and Import corporation of South Carolina was chartered by the secretary of Btate yesterday with a capital stock of $2,000,000. The stock is divided into $10 shares. The corporation will conduct a general export, import and domestic business in cotton and ether products. /tliawf At* WOO A/J Wrt A llv V>iiai TYOJ glOil^U JKC titiori of the board of directors arid" the following officers: Richard I. Manning, president; Joseph Walker, vice president; R. L. Hollowell, sec retary and treasurer. The McCullough service station of Whitmire was chartered with a capi tal stock of $1,000. Officers are M. L. McCullough, president and manager, and A. M. Watson, secretary and treasurer.?The State. YACHT Washington, Dec. 2.?By direction of President Wilson, Secretary Dan iels placed the president's yacht Mayflower at the disposal of Presi dent-elect Harding today to com plete his trip from Panama to Wash ington. The secretary tent a radio gram to Senator Harding on the steamer Pas to res, en route to Nor folk, informing him that the May flower would be at Hampton Roads Saturday when the Pastores is due there and that President 'Wilson would be happy to have Senator Harding use the vessel for the pas sage to Wellington. The message said: "The Mayflower will be in Hamp ton Roads upon your arrival and the president *vill be happy to place it at your disposal as he understands you are coming to Washington from It wa9 assumed that the May flower would be ordered to lie at an chor in Hampton Roads after con veying Secretary Colby to that port Saturday preparatory to his trip tg South America. The president previously offered Senator Harding the use of the May flower and also of a battleship for his journey when he learned that the senator intended to go to Panama on his vacation trip^ Senator Hard- j ing declined the offer, saying his arrangements had already been made. The market about held its own yesterday, but weakness developed ;oday. The market this morning open ed about 40 points down, and at one time was about 80 down. Towards the :lose the market was stronger and the close was about 50 down from S'esterday's close, with spots.follow ing futures. There was not much difference in the local market today. Good cotton ;old for 16 cents. MRS. McBEE A VISITOR Mrs. Luther McBee and her hand some young son, who came down from Greenville Thursday for the re ception at the home of Mrs. T. G. White, is remaining in Abbeville for i day or two as the guest of Mrs. D. rl. Hill.' Mr. L. B. Ramey, was. in town yes-' terday on business. 1 mim I OF 60 I THE FARMER j ) HITCHCOCK DRAWS BILL AF TER SEEING GOV. HARDING. AVAILABLE AT ONCE?NE BRASKA SENATOR WILL PRE SENT MEASURE WHEN CON GRESS MEETS .NEXT WEEK? LOAN WOULP COME FROM GOVERNMENT Washington, Dec. 2.?Immediate loans of $60,000,000 from govern ment funds to aid farmers in the face of falling prices of their pro ducts is proposed by Senator Hitch cock, democrat, Nebraska, in a bill drawn today after a conference with Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve board. Senator Hitchcock plans to present the measure when congress meets next week.' The money which Senator Hitch cock would have advanced to the farmers is the government's share in profits of the Federal Reserve konlrc rvo iro kl n n av+ nnJ ya^rai/i^ UCAU iuvuvU) auu which under the law would be used to increase gold reserves or amor tise Liberty ^bonds. * Loans would be made through the federal land banks on chattel mort gages or warehouse receipts with ag ricultural products or livestock as security. Loans on grain would be limited to six months and those on live stock to one year. "This would be only a drop in the bucket toward meeting the enor mous needs of agriculturists," said Senator Hitchcock, "but it would have a good effect beyond the ac tual amount of money made avail able." ' Senator Hitchcock indicated that Governor Harding was favorably in clined toward the plan, in view of the fact that the profits from the re serve banks would not be large enough to take up any substantial amount of Liberty bonds as compar ed with the amount outstanding. Oppositon to the revival of the war finance corporation or any oth er of the governmental war emer gency measures looking to the un derwriting of prices and private business,. was expressed today by Senator Edge of New Jersey, Mnem ber of the senate committee on re construction. The New Jersey sena tor declared he would support no measure for relief of the farmers wunjii u&u iiuu aiiuiu icnoi iui uic other 90 per cent of the population." ALL COUNTY AGENTS \ MEET AT WINTHROP Dr. D. B. Johnson Makes Address at , Opening Session Of Two Day Conference Rock Hill, Dec. 2.?The county and district home demonstration agents of South Carolina were here at Winthrop College yesterday and today in conference wit.i the state agent and specialists concerning plans of work for 1921. President Johnson gave a short address full of encouragement and inspiration lur uie wurivera au trie opening session, impressing upon the agents the many encouraging features of home demonstration work and ui^ed that they should maintain a cheerful outlook during the coming yeaT. He assured them that the present stringency would be relieved within the next few months' and piat he work of home demon stration would broaden naH Hevelon in its scope more than at any pre vious period in its history. The business session of the morn ing was occupied in the discussion of the girls' club work. This phase is be ing standardized and in the future the results man be more accurately determined. In the afternoon the women's work was outlined and each specialist fur nished a tentative program for the ensuing year. Mrs. Thomas Lyles Davis, of New York, is in the city for a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stark. Dr. Davis will join her later.