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' - '* a \ i ' ' , ; V3 % * \ % v; . ' - % >\. * __ ? | Abbeville Press and Banner 1 / Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, Aug. 5, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. GRIER ELECTED ' . . HEAD OF. ERSKINE COLUMBIA MINISTER ELECTED ON FIRST BALLOT HAS LONG BEEN IDENTIFIED ,WITH COL LEGE THROUGH FATHER AND OTHER RELATIVES. , t Gastonia, N. C., Aug. 4.?At s * meeting of the'board of trustees oi Erskine college, held here yesterday, the Rev. R. C. Grier, pastor of the * Associate Reformed Presbyterian church in Columbia, S. C.,. was elected president of Erskine college at Due West, S. C. Mr. Grier was elected on the first ballot Previous to the casting of any ballot the agreemenl * had been reached that there should be no election without a two-thirds .majority vote. Mr. Grier received more than the majority on the flrsl , ballot. , ... f Mr. Grier is a son of Prof. Pau t Livingston Grier of Due West, lon| the head of the mathematics depart ment of Erskine college. He is i gradutae of Erskine college in tht class of 1910 and of the Erskine Theological seminary. He has alsc just completed a post-graduate yeai of work in theology at Princetor ^ Theological seminary, together witl his brother, th'e Rev. W. L. Grier pastor of the Clover and: {JrowderCreek churches. Mr. Grier was a stai | ^ . athlete in his college days as .was- i brother. They were famous for theii prowess on the baseball diamond anc the tennis court. The two playirif ' ~ tennis together " won the colleg< ^championship of South Carolina. Th< i- baseball team on which they playec was also a pennant winner. Before coming to Columbia the , ^ Hey. Mr. Grier was pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church in Louisyille, Ky., for several years. He is generally recognized a: being one of the most brilliant youn^ men in the synod of the Associatt Reformed Presbyterian church. Mucl success has come to him in the pas torates he has served. It is worthj . of""note that a grandfather and ar uncle were presidents : of Erskiju college. V; ? S' ; v.V-' -v,; The Rev. Robert Calvin Grier, wh< / ...... yas Wednesday elected to the presi f dency of Erskine college, is a .nativ< South Carolinian, having been bort and reared at Due West and come of a line of educators who have per 'I ' formed val!ant service at Erskim college. Mr. Grier's father, P. LjPGrier, wa for 30 years professor of mathe matics fit the Presbyterian institu tion, while the fate Dr. R. C. Gtier for whom h* is named, was the firs president of the institution. An un cle of Mr. Grier, Dr. William Moffat Grier, was alsq president as wel as one of the leading educators o: the Associate Reformed Presbyteriai church, and served during the Con federate war. Mr. Grier is 31 years of age, onl; two^ years older than was his uncle Dr. W. M. Grier, upon attaining th< presidency. He was graduated fron * "Erskine in 1910 and from the Theo logical seminary at Due West in 191his first cafi being* to Louisville, Ky. He came to Columbia in June, 1918 and has since been pastor of the As - sociate Reformed Presbyteriai church of this city. Mr. Grier is not at present in th ' city &ut Mrs. Grier said yesterda; she was sure he wou^d/seriously con sider accepting the chair of presi v dent at Erskine college. Four Men Killed in Explosion. rS ' Uniontown, Pa., Aug. 4.?Th press mill of the thipont Powde company's plant at Oriental nea ^ here was wrecked by an explosioi early this afternoon! Four men aa known to have been killed. The ex plosion was so violent that window: in houses for miles around wer< 'broken. \ DISCUSS PELLAGRA! . IN CLOSED SESSION. ? H , HEALTH OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC \ < HEALTH SERVICE HOLD CONFERENCE RELATIVE TO CON- ^ , DITION IN SOUTH?DR. HAYNE W( ATTENDING CINFERENCE ? G. vi i Washington, Aug. 4.?The pella. gra situation was discussed in closed session here today at a conference be' tween health officials from southern ! states and Surgeon General Cumming U1 i of the public health service. Sonje 811 f of the state officials said as they en- *r , tered the conference room that they m I would dispute any claim that the disease had reached serious proportions m ! in their territory. Information of ar ; the federal government as to the con- ^ - - \ __ tfh [ ditions, they contended, was mcom- ~ i plete and did not accurately picture [ conditions. ' *? k Dr. Cumming said he hoped to get ? first-hand information from the state nc [ officials and map out a concerted ; course of action. The conference ^ - was called after President Harding in be i had requested public health and Red ? Cross officials to take measures to ; meet threatened ravages of pellagra s0 > in southern states. r State health offiers attending the us i conference were W. S. Leathers, Mis- ta i s'ssippi; Olin West, Tennessee; W. S = , Rankin, North Carolina; C. W. Gar-| s risonyArkansas; A. T. McGormick, { r Kentucky; James A. Hayne, South Fi > Carolina: ,S. W. Welch. Alabama;! r Oscar Dowling, Louisiana and E. G 1 Williams, Virginia. J. P. Folan, as> sistant health commissioner of Okla' so ; homa; W. K. Keating, representing > Florida; M. F. Haygood, representing 1 Georgia and W. F. Cogswell, health officer of Montana, also attended. > Representatives of the Red Cross, . including George H. Jones, director P t of the SQuthwestern division,' and ^ [ Harry L. Hopkins, manager of the ^ 3 southern division, three experts from ., r the Department of Agriculture arid a ; dozen public health service officials, ^ i among them Dr. Joseph Goldberger,, j - pellagra expert, participated in the ' j discussions. p 1 In Opening the conference Sur; geon General Gumming discussed the ^ t "pellagra situation, the possibility of ^ ; anlnicrjease. in the disease next yeari, . . * - * ***. ni ) ?nd a prospective program to deal ^ - with existing conditions and those ^ 2 threatened for 1922. Dr. Goldberger ^ i presented data which he said inji- ^ s cated a marked increase in the dis-. Si - ease. State officials summarized in e writings reports as to conditions in ^ their states.' . i is 8 - st - GREENVILLE FARMER SLAIN c( '? Called Out of House and Shot Through Head. t 0 j Greenville, Aug. 4.?Ned Metcalf, f a fanmer living near River Falls, 22 1 miles north of here, was mysterious- st ly salin last night about 9:45 o'clock, tc 4ia Kiv\n oVif qc a^vvxuuig iv iiixv&ui?vivu ?Y here to the sheriff's office today by fi Magistrate J. 'Harvey Cleveland. ai B He was called out of his home and tl 1 shot through the head and side, dying ai almost instantly, the informant told tc j the sheriff. His wife and five cliil- ai dren were in the house, but they said pi they do not know who killed him. No e: (_ clues are reported left. oi PRESIDENT GETS HOME 0 . y Macon, Ga., Aug. 4.?Wesleyan ^ College has purchased the home of . Cecil Morgan opposite the college for $22,500 and it is to be converted S into a home for Dr. W. F. ' Quillian, li president of the college. He will not c< move in until next year as the build- A e ing is being used as a home* for the d< r teachers this year. .ci r Crowded conditions at the college tl i mfSe it necessary for the teachers pi j to occupy the separate building and 6! - as a home is needed for the college aj 3 president, the trustees last May au- yi i thorized the purchase of the prop- cc erty. / ai F YOU CAN'l TRADE lT-t LOGAN FOR COOPERATIVE MA TENTION AND BRINGS FAV NUMBER 0 Although the day set for the Cooperative Marketing effort is yet a sek away, the move, begun Mr. , T. Barnes, secretary of the Abbelle County Chamber of Commerce, is attracted considerable attention a favorable character. Comments tard on all sides are to the effect at there is no reason why such an idertaking should not succeed, ice the plan is entirely feasible om every point of view. The prootors have in view a sort of fair iy, a time when all the folks for iles and miles will come to town id br>ng along whatever they may ive that is serving no purpose out thfe farm or home. About every home there is always be found tools, machinery or proicts that have been discarded or it needed due to change of methIs or to oversuppily. It is felt that ese things are serving no purpose their present places but that some ?dy else could use them. If these ir*rro /ion Ka frvOTA+lVlDT fit 4"5'a WW W* v ime central place, they would ange hands and have new days of lefulness. In this way useless capL 1 can be put to work again, and BASEBALL BREAKS BONE Inley Youth Keeps Accident to Arm Secret for Two Weeks. Clifton Finley, the twelve year old n of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Finleyj id an arm broken about two weeks jo in a most peculiar manner. He id some other of the boys of his ;ighborhood were engaged in a ime of baseball. Young Finley was the field and in trying to return a irdly hit ball he misjudged it and ie ball struck him on the left arm ist above the elbow. He told no one at the house about ie accident, but went about the ace and his work complaining ocisionally of a pain in hffe arm. Mr inley said he thought it was s mple pain that would go away >on. The arm soon became inflamed id Mr. Finley ibegan to question m and learned of the accident. He ok the boy to Dr. J. E. Pressley's ftce where it was found that one oi ie? small bones were broken anc lat an operation would be neces^ iry to start the neglected fracturt > mending. Dr. Rakestraw will per irm the operation. The Spartan lac still playing around his father'* ore, though he does not find i1 >nvenient to use the "injured arm. RATES UNREASONABLE harges on Cotton Seed Reviewed By Commission Washington, Aug. 4.?The Interate Commerce Commission helc day that freight rates on cottor jed meal and meals of like kind om Knoxville to points in Virginia id Carolina territories and north ol ie Potomac river were unreasonable . J - _ 1J T?_x 4-1. id prejudicial, xwtues uu tucoc uicaic > KnoxviUe, the commission said re not unreasonable but they are rejudicial to the extent that the} tceed on a distance basis the rates i like traffic to Nashville. COTTON IN ABBEVILLE rop ia 66 Per Cent of Normal Sayi " B. B. Hare. According to B. B. Hare oi aluda, statistician for South Carona, the conditon of the growing >tton crop is 66 per cent oi normal, ccoTding to him there has been nc *terioration or improvement in th? op since July 25, the figures being le same for both months. The resrt for this county compares with 2 per cent for the state. This averse, Mr. Hare says, indicates a total eld in the state of 850-,000 bales, >mptered with 1,640,000 last year id 1,422,000 bales in 1919. r use it, jEt rid of n RKETING DAY ATTRACTS ATORABLE COMMENT FROM >F, PEOPLE. j many pepole could get the oppor tunity to use things they had neve owned before. Every toWn in a hundred miles, i seems, has tried the dollar day an every one seems to have foutid i successful, so successful, indeed tha they are repeating the occasion. By somebody had to work Out even th dollar day idea, and if Abbeville di ngt begin it, she certainly added few new thrills to the idea. No<w Ab beviHe is about to try an experimer that is entirely novel in this sectio and so far as known it Is new to th entire state. Mr. Barnes believes i is a good thing, the merchants be lieve it will pnove a success. Now i remains to hear the opinion of th farmers. The Press and Banner wi be glad to receive letters next wee containing expressions aibout th day. These letters will be printed j there is no objection from the \vxit er. It is expected that the slogan, "1 you can't use it, trade it," will pro\ ! popular and that everybody in Abbe ville County will get the meanin ' and spirit of its message. That's th way to make it go, boost it. ADULT SCHOOL OPENS i Mies Lide Teaches at Campbel Thirteen Present Monday night. [j At its opening session Monday tl ' J Adult ( School at Campbell scho< ' house, conducted by Miss Julia Lid | of Darlington, had thirteen student t Superintendent of Education Mar 11 and Senator J. Howard Moore wei i present and made addresses encou ^ aging the ^beginners to their best e 1 forts. Miss Lide is not at all supe . stitious about the number thirtec . and says that she expects to have great many more (before long. Mo of the adult students are men, mar 1 of whom are qiute old. One old ms ^ whose hair is gray said on the ope: t ing day: "I can't wri/te my name bi ? I am coming to school tomorrow." ' Miss ?Lide is experienced in* co ducting adult schools and has be? I very successful in organizing ar working them up. It is very difficu ' in many communities, she finds, ' overcome the feeling of timidity th, 1 at first prevails when the subject < > education is mentioned to peop ' who think they have grown too o to attend school. She comes with tl authorization of the-state superii tendent of education and her se vices ar$ paid for by the state. '! Mr. Mann has been trying to o ganize adult schools in several oth< sections of the county but so far hi I met with more or less indifferent si i cess. He realizes the advantag< I that would accrue to any commun i ty through the elimination of illitei ' acy, and wishes to do all he can 1 i accomplish this end. i ??| BILL PROPOSES GOVERNMENT 'r MONOPOLY IF ADVERTISIN I Sofia, Aug. 4.?The governmei has just presented to parliament bill establishing a monopoly for a newspaper advertisements. Henc 1 forth every advertisement, announce ment or puff will have to be pul ?? ?+ in +V?si nfflniol 3 . iiSllCU 111 Ob 111 blic V1IIV1W4 . a very high price. ! Then only its reproduction in oth< . papers will be allowed after payir i another tax for the reproduction.' ! The big political papers and tho? : for information supported chiefly I advertisements'1 are in the hands ( i the intellectuals or of the middli classes who are not on good tern I with the peasant government. By th , method the government would h ' able to injure the organs of its p< litical adversaries. , AUTHORITY GIVEN TOJILD CANAL COLUMBIANS AT HELM TO DEVELOP WATER ROUTE TO ~ JOIN SANTEE AND COOPER RIVERS ELECTRIC, LINE it TO GREENWOOD LIKELY, d Washington, Aug. 3.?The feder^ al power commission this afternoon authorized its secretary to issue a e for he construction of a canal making navigable the Santee a river to the Cooper river. . ^ Tbe permit nas not oeen isauea, but it is presumed that there will be g no hitch in pending negotiations, j. Nothing regarding terms is made public. , ^ While the permit covers only navie gation, the development as a result jj of a drop of 30 feet in the river will k result in the generation of conaidere able waterpower. It is understood U that the promoters have in mind also the construction of an electric line connecting Columbia and Greenwood. I G. A. Guignard and associates of g Columbia are the men behind the ie Santee canal project which they believe will be of untold value in the _ upbuilding of South Carolina. In ad~ dition to the freight facilities afforded by the canal, the large amount of power generated and the probable hnking of Columbia and the upper part of the state by electric line, the canal will drain thousands of acres le of land not'now usable. ol j The canal will run from Ferguson P i on the Santee to Monck's Cornor on i ! the Gooper, these points being the ! approximate ends. Plans submitted 1 i to the government call for a canal re | ten feet deep and 200 feet wide. It r- j is to be 20 miles long. f-j Mr. Guignard, president (>f the r-1 Columbia, Railway & Navigation !n j Co., which will build the canal, said last night that tffe had received offi^ I _i _ j ^ ! uiai nuLiue 111/111 yy aaiiiiigiA/ii ui tuc st i 'board's action and is expecting the >y permit in a few days, the latter bein ing purely routine. n_ Work on the propect will be start^ ed as soon as practicable, he.asid. It will take considerable time to complete the job. n" Much electrical power will be dejn! veloped as a result of the building lc* I of the canal. Mr. Guignard, however, llt had no announcement to make concerning the distribution of this power or the use to whioh it mght be put. The project for an electrc raille ",way to Grenewood, he said, was en_ ^ tirely a different matter and he had ie no announcement to make relative n" to it. r* The canal, Mr. Guignard pointed out, will place Columbia approxi_ r- mately 70 miles nearer tide water 21 than at present and will open up to as the city the advantages of such a 1C port as Charleston with its regular es sailings and its larger volume of i- buisness. ^The Columbia Railway. & Navigation Co., will operate a boat to line, Mr. Guignard said. No effort, however, 'wrill be made to maintain a monopoly of the river traffic by this company, and it is expected, Mr. Guignard said, that the completion G of the canal will see the beginning of several boat lines from Columbia it to Charleston with the consequent a reduction of transportation costs on ill freight into the city. e- If the present conditions prevail e- when the canal is completed, Mr. 1)- Guignard said, the boats would make it their stops at Granby landing as did he boats operated between Colum;r bia and Georgetown. The comple_ ig tion of the Columbia canal as origi_ nnllv nlnnned would, however, make, >e it possible for the ships to be load. y ed and unloaded at every street in >f Columbia, he said. 2- The operation of boats to and is from Charleston will be undertaken is under considerably better conditions ?e than those under which the Colum. )- )ia-Georgetown boat line was operated, Mr. Guignard said. The larger I M LASTj TRIBUTE \ TO ENRICO CARUSO i NAPLES MOURNS AS GREAT TENOR LIES DEAD?SCENES OF PATHOS ENACTED ALL DAY?LEFT FORTUNE OF SIX MILLION DOLLARS. Naples Aug. 3.?Sorrowing Naplee and Italy today paid tribute to the memory of Enrico Caruso, the great tenor who died here early yesterday morning. Thousands gathered in solemn requiem mass celebrated at the church of Madonna Delia Gracia, or stood uncovered along the streets leading to that edifice while the final cortege passed. In the choir which assisted in the impressive ceremonies we? many men and women who have played stellar roles on the operatic stage. 1 Scenes of extreme pathos were enacted all day yesterday at the hotel Vesuvius following the death of the man popularly acknowledged to be the premier tenor of his generation. Neapolitans of every class stood in line for many hours to file past the bier of Caruso which was . f'$l placed in the room' wheire he had died. From time to time the silent nr/v?occiiATl watiM . nonco tjtVirl^a orvmn WVVUk7*VA? TT V/U1U |/M fT UUV kjvmv man or woman would kneel for a moment beside the Iboty and offer prayer. V * ?'|| The body was clad in evening clothes and over it was shed the mellow' light of four candles two at the head and two at the feet. At the dead tenor's side were garlands anranged personally by Mrs. Caruso. Just before Caruso sank into the coma which was the prelude to the end he said to his son RodOlfo: "I feel very ill. This time it will be difficult to escape." Newspapers of this city in teJling of the death of Caruso quote one of the attending physicians as saying: , "I and my colleagues believe Caruso never fully recovered from his illness in New York last winter. His long sickness from pleurisy, weakened his resistance." aruso, according to 'estimates in the newspapers, left a fortune of - ^ about 30,000,000 lire. (At the normal value of the lire this would represent about the sum of $6,000,<*>? ) :?SS ;vj U. S. Government Sends Condolence. Rome, Aug. 3.?Richard Washburn Child, American ambassador to Italy, has sent to Mrs. Caruso and other relative of the dead tenor, the condolence of the United States gov eminent. vs CHECKING CITY BOOKS . Mr. W. Anderson Clarkson, accountancy -expert of Columbia, has been in the city this week checking the accounts of the city clerk, pre^ paring <to turn the books over to a successor of the late Mr. Perrin. He has not yet finished the survey, buit far has found everything in good condition. Council will elect a city clerk tonight. FINED $65 FOR SMOKING PIPE Zion, Ills., Aug 4.?Smoking a pipe in Zion cost Frederick Stockstill $65 today. The city which has ordi- . ^ nances regulating women's dress and how its residents.shall spend Sunday also has a ban against smoking. "This thing must stop," a judge remarked when he fined Stockstill. "Stop," Stockstill replied, "I'm aas stopped as my name would indicate." volume of business handled through I Charleston, he pointed out, will per. mit the operation of a larger number of boats while the shorter distance will reduce the running time ? by from six to eight hours. Mr. Guignard is president of the Columbia Railway and Navigation Co., while T. C. Williams is vice president.?The State. / j