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Abbeville Press and Banner ] ? Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, December 1, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Ye* r. ? ? ; r r i WESTERN FARMERS |\ THINKOF STRIKE REFUSAL TO PAY ANY TAXES T IN CONTEMPLATION?WASHINGTON HEARS OF MOVE CONSIDERED BY HARD HIT GRAIN GROWERS. Washington, Nov. 30.?Information possessed by ni embers of con gress makes it appear certain that rr the farmer of the West and the far- g mer of the South are creatures of n vastly different temperaments. F ** * *-'L - 4.^ 4-Vka ? Jfc pons I rum tut; r? cat ai c w mv a effect that farmers, because of un- s fortunate circumstances, are prepar- L ing a general strike against the gov- e ernment to take one of two forms: S 1. A. non-cooperative revolution ir such as Ghandi led in India to be followed by a refusal to pay county, h .state and federal taxes with a for- t( feiture of property and the throwing ri of countless helpless farmers on the c] mercy of the public. d 2. Bankruptcy by which technical 1, evasion of taxes and debts may be possible. This scheme is said to have ai jrained favor particularly in North ft Dakota, where in one week 143 far- h mera were declared to be bankrupt. Y No such reports come to Wash- ci ington from the South. A discussion bof this situation with best posted b: senators from states below the Mason-Dixon indicates that the Southern ti farmer has been as hard hit as the p ^ TX7 Uio rt oKfc orp ? farmer ui uc ncau "10 w>^v?w> ? > g said to be as large on the average, n and his disappointment equally as tl irreat. E At the same time, from no state is fo it intimated that farmers of the v .South will strike against the govern- s< ment or voluntarily seek release from 5 debts by means of bankruptcy courts. & If reports are .true, Southern farm- g ers are preparing to "grin and bear it,' to fight out this battle just as ihey have fought out others. s Regarding the reported revolt in tke West, it is said in Washington ifcat their condition within itself does c ?ot drive the farmers to desperate ^ extents, but their desire by some a dramatic stand to focus the attention of the world on their comparative e penury. . n Politicians are taking cognizance h of the reports from the West. They h contend that this mood which would h drive the farmers to an open refusal to pay taxes was the same mood \ which wiDed "standnat" Republicans ?at of office November 7. It is no longer discussed by Wash- p iigton strategists that farmers have k?em benefitted by Republican legislation the socalled emergency tariff i< ?r the permanent tariff act. This con- ]< tention was uttered during the cam- p paign, but since has not been heard, o The president has displayed an aaxiety to cooperate to the end that ^ farmers might be benefitted. It is ^ said that he is moved through three ? reasons?sympathy, the lesson taught S( his party November 7 and by a vis- s) km of the election results in 1924. ^ The president, at any rate, has had c recent discussion with leading He- ^ pablicans from agricultural states, ^ and the belief is general that he will j, cooperate in the enactment of legislation extending farmers additional Jong term credit at comparatively low interest rates. ti THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATON ii * The Abbeville County Medical as- a Hociation had a very pleasant meeting at Lowndesville last Friday. Dr. t< 1. 0. Kirkpatrick i3 president of the d association and the doctors met aa ti hie guests. A fine supper was served ir after which a discussion of medical tl affairs was indulged in. Many inter-j e sting talks were made. Dr. McWhorter, Dr. Harris and Dr. James Latimer of Anderson, Lr. Barton of Iva, Dr. J. C. Harper of w Greenwood, were special guests of h( tbe association. All the doctors of'b' tie town and the county, were in at- y x?*danc? on this pietst&i affair. 'hi MIME PREMIER . ON THAU AGAIN O LAY WREATH ON TOMB OF a LINCOLN?DID NOT GET UP AT HIS CUSTOMARY HOUR OF 4 O'CLOCK THANKSGIVING DAY.?WENT TO THEATER Chicago ^Nov(. ]30.?Georges lemencesu, (Frances wartime pre- 3 lier , prepared to atke the road a- i ain today on his self-imposed i lisison of winning American for 1 ranee. The next stop on the itiner- ] ry was Springfield, Ills., where he 1 cheduled to lay a wreath ota ,incoln's tomb and deliver a ibrief ] uloiy this afternoon. He is due in < t. Louis' for his next big speech to- I lorrow. 1 The Tiger arose parciy to board ' ia private car, which was attached > a 10 o'clock train. He did not 1 se as early as customarily. 4 o'- i lock, however. For last night he : is^ipated, staying up until after ,1 I Making ihis last public appearance 1 t the opera, he disclosed for the 1 rst time in America "mon tube"? ' is top hat. He declared in New ork. that he would not wear it be- 1 ause his soft one felt and looked etter. But as he deciaea u> ao up rown. Clemenceau was given a long ova on when he entered the Potter aimer box alj the end of the proloue to "The Snow Maiden" A few linutes later the curtain, rising on ne act for the first act disclosed Iduardo Contreuil, French ' basso, olding a big tri-color and Cyrena an Gordon draped in the stars and tripes, with the entire company ehind them Contrell gang the Mareillaise and Van Gordon, the Star pangled Banner; When they had finished, another >ng wave of applaus for the Tiger wept the house, and he arose and owed again. Then he settled down and beame so interested in the opera that e stayed until the end of the third ct?nearly half past ten. Before he went to bed he dictatA a ThontconvirK* to A fierica declaring the reception he ad received and the interest which is message had .been given, paid im amply. rALERA ATTEMPTS TO LEAVE IRELAND lepablican Leader Said to Be In Hiding. London, Nov. 30.?Eamonn de Va;ra is reported to be attempting to! ;ave Ireland for America, says a dis-' atch from the Belfast correspondent f the Evening News. The republican leader i* said to e hiding in the Carlingford mounains, overlooking Greenore, county .outh. from which there is daily boat ervice to Holy Head. It is undertood, says the correspondent, that a irge force of rebete has been conentrated in north county Lomth and rill shortly attack, thus diverting lie Free State authorities and allowig de Valera to slip out of Greenore. A COSBY TOWN ROW. Abb Ramey, who is a large part of Ke population of Cosbytown got lto trouble Thanksgiving day and ras fined $50 by Mayor Mars this lorning. It seems that Abb's wife wanted ) go horse-back riding, astride, of ourse, and Abb objected enough > beat her up with a pistol. Carryig a pistol seemed the big end of le crime and a heavy fine was giyen. ENJOYING THE HOLIDAY. Miss Grace Davrson paid the Press i tid Banner a visit today, renewing er subscription and she says the < ?st news she knows is that the jung people are enjoying a double 3liday. ( 1 AMERICAN LEGION HEARS MESSAGE DWSLEY DELIVERS THANGSGIVING GOOD WISHES?WORDS OF WOOD ROW WILSON AND PRESIDENT AND MRS. HARD. ING QUOTED. Washington, Nov. 30.?Messages from President Harding, Mrs. Harding and former President Wilson to members of the American Legion tvere delivered here tonight by Alvin M. Owsley, national commander of ;hat organization. Speaking first into a radio telephone for broadcasting over the :ountry and later before a local legion post, Mr. Owsley described his visits during the day to the White House and the S street home of Mr. Wilson. The national commander said President Harding in reply to inquiries had asked him to tell the j former service men that the execu-j tive was behind the national program for hospitals for the disabled veterans and was determined that it should be pushed to an early conclusion. The president also declared, be said, for a practical administration of the law giving World war veterans preference in employment under the civil service. As he was preparing to leave the executive offices, Mr. Owsley said he was informed that Mrs. Harding would be glad to receive him. "She got up out of a bed of sickness, dressed herself and was wheeled out in arm chair," the national commander said. "She told me: 'I want you to say to the ex-service men that their friend has been sick, but is much better now and soon will be on the job again." Mr. Owsley said that on his visit to the Wilson home he had told war time president he had come to pay his respects to him as the former commander-in-chief of the veterans and to ask for a message to them. He declared that Mr. Wilson's eyes flashed, that he sat more erect and his jaw set. 'Say to them," the former chief executive was quoted, 'that I am their comrade; say to them that they were the crusaders for liberty." THE CUTTING AND CURING OF MEAT Mr. D. T. Harmon, Swine Specialist of Clemson College will be here Monday and will conduct several demonstrations of the cutting and curing of meats. There will be a demonstration at Mrs. Lena Dickson's home at Brownlee on Monday, Dec. 4th at about 3 o'clock. Also one at Dr. P. B. Carwile's Tusday Dec. 6th at 3 o'clock. The one for Wednesday will be announced later. The public is invited to attend and members of the Home Demonfrf-rntinris btp pstmvmaIIv reauested to be present. DISASTROUS FIRE Mr. R. R. Tolbert bad the misfortune to lose his barn Tuesday night by fire. The barn was a handsome two story structure and consumed with it were 200 bushels of corn, 57 loads of hay and eleven heads of mules and horses. The fire was discovered about 3 o'clock in the morning and it was impossible to save anything from the burning building. There was practically no insurance. An EvangetUt In Town. Evangelist W. F. LaRowe of Los Antvalao P.olif -Jo in flio Vlfllf-, * ul6V,VO> *0 wv V?v^ *aw*? ing at the home of Mrs. LaRowe's father, Mr. J. J. Nash. Mr. LaRowe will deliver a message in the Opera House Monday night December 4th at 7:S0 o'clock on the subject, "The Great Day of A.11 Days." The public is invited. Mrs. LaRowe will sing during the service. SHIP BILL TO STRIKE f ROCKS IN SENATE END OF FILIBUSTER IS NOT IN R SIGHT?EXTRA SESSION ADJOURNS SATURDAY.?SHIPPING MEASURE IN SENATE ; EARLY NEXT WEEK. Washington, Nov. 30.?Congress with the house having passed the a shipping bill and the senate still in the quandaries of a democratic fili- * buster on the I>yer anti-lynching bill t ' 1 --i???'iV .IL*. T naa suspenaea acuvities wiwi uni? brandies of the federal government 1 here today over Thanksgiving day. * At the white house also, President <3 Harding had planned to do only a a little work during the day and to f spend the remainder quietly after having dinner with Mrs. Harding in ? her sick room, where her condition t ^iow permits her to spend part of 1 each day in an easy chair. c The house took an adjournment 1 after the passage of the administra- f tion shipping bill yesterday, with a ^ vote of 208 to 184, with 69 republi- 1 cans joining the opposition and four democrats voting for the bill, f The senate fight over the bill, which i: faces threats to delay if not pre- c vent its passage there, is expected < (to get under way next week, the sen- t ate committee, getting the treasure j Monday and planning to report it as 1 passed by the house. ' There was no end of the democra- * tic filibuster in sight when the sen- 1 ate adjourned yesterday over Thanks giving and the situation was declared f by some to point to its continuation s until the extra session adjourns sine t jdie Saturday night. Although the i I motion to adjourn over today after c - ^ 1?n o m cx I |S live iiuui be&siiui jcowv,xuojf %??** ?* from Senator Lodge, who, as repub- < lican leader, had presided over the t republican caucus Tuesday at which t it was revolved to hold the senate in < session Thursday if necessary to i break the filibuster it was not taken i to mean any intention of the repub-'( lican to drop the fight in behalf of * the bill. And equally determined last ( night were the democrats to cont'n- , ue the filibuster. i i WOULD-BE BURGLAR SHOT t BUT MADE HIS ESCAPE , 1 Greenwood, Nov. 30.?After an unknown marauder bad been , frightened away with shots from ^ the home of Mrs. J. F. Entzminger, ^ on Wells 6treet, where be had at- ? tempted to break in the back door, , a second attempt was mare to break down the door and enter the . house aibout 1.10 oclu<?k this mora- ( ing. Mr. Entzminger wa3 away, but , T. C. Entzminger, hig nephew, who ( was staying with Mrs. Entzminger, j shot three times through the door , and wounded the would-be burglar t during the second attempt to break K in. Blood spots were found on the t I back porch by the police who were c J J a?aa K11+ <yf SU'IUiiXVllCU <aw VUVCj U/UV ItV W ? the burglar has been found. ( THE FORT MILL SCORE , The Abbeville football team arrived at home this morning over the Seaboard at about 5 o'clock. The game went to the Fort Mill team by ? a score of 39 to 6 and the Abbeville C boys are a crestfallen lot today. J The boys were shown many pleas- 1 ant attentions and they had a line c | time in every way except for the game. A full account of the trip will be given in Monday's issue when the boys wake up enough to tell about it. B f SEES GOOD GAME. tl A Carrol Swetenbarg went to Atlanta Thursday and says he saw the finest football game ever played in which Tech beat Auburn 14 to 6. f Twenty-five thousand people saw the p I n jffame. . p 'LAN Wlktu I 10 HELP FARMEF EPUBLICANS HOLD WH1 HOUSE CONFERENCE?Pf POSED LEGISLATION TO PRESSED WITH FULL FOR OF ADMINISTRATION. Washington, Nov. 30.?The r dministration program for imm ite financial reflief to farmers i /and m-acticaLlv Deri ed today at conference betwi >resident Harding, Secretary V\ ace and 42 Republican senat< leaded by Senator Watson of Hana. It will be iput before congi it once and passed with the orce of the administration. Broadley the plan brings to<gi >r in one administration meas ;he approved portion of various ief neasurea already pending congress and contains also pro ons to make the intended re ivailable to the small farmer yell as to the large cattle ra'1: ind grain growers. The conference was arranged Senator Watson, who has been m ng an active survey of the quest >f agricultural relief. It was ] :eded by a series of conference ween Secretary Wallace and jarfcment of agriculture expe roday President Harding kept 'Thanksgiving dinner waiting w le heard the perfected program ined and gave his general appro The plan proposes to utilize ederal farm loan ooara as t igency through which relief is >e given. The details of the fins ng have been practically wor >ut. The general purpose is lai ind more liberal credits and che ;r interest rates. The opinion ;hose participating in the con: mce was that while the war fina corporation had been ofl great vi n alleviating the distressed con on of agriculture, its loans foeca >f certain limitations, did not re lown to the average small farr vho raises a few cattle or has si quantities of grain to market, asing the federal fanm loan be is the agency to carry out the ] if financing, the new admin's ;ion plan proposes to make the j jrament relief available directlj ihe small farmers who need it. The whole subject of farm rt work was discussed exhaustiv but the marketing problem touched upon only in a general \ The general opinion at the con ence that to the extent the ?ram now is to include as com] md much controverted a subjecl :ooperative marketing would < ?erve to delay the immediate ob if relief. The president was that the pressing need was to ; ride at once financial aid to tin ands of farmers who faced m cage foreclosures because they mable to dispose of their , cattle irops without tremendous losses. AD the senators present g ;heir approval to the program pledged their support for its nediate consideration in congre VISITORS TO AUGUSTA Mrs. Agnes Pennal, Misses J" ind Janie Pennal and Miss Syd Jraves and Ernest Pennal went Augusta Thursday and enjoyed Thanksgiving season as the gui >f Mr. and Mrs. Joe L. Maxwell. DUE WEST VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Walker Edwards i fiss Virginia Edwards came dc rom Due West Thursday and sp he day with Mr. and Mrs. H. R. ] Lllister on lireenvaue street. Has Position In Gastonia. Mr. Wyatt Knox leaves Satur< or Gastonia, N. C., where he ha. oeition with the Southern Cot ill Mill. FLORIDA SHE S SHOULD BE TRIED ] M TE GOVERNMENT URGES WAR ON lO- BOLL WEEVIL.?DEPARTMENT BE OF AGRICULTURE GREATLY CE INTERESTED IN PLAN WORKED OUT FOR CONTROL. 'M tew Washington, Nov. 30.?Planters ed- throughout the South, especially tfas trose growing cotton on low yield1 J J X. ? J t Al. - uig whu, were urgca waay dj wk? een department of agriculture to give tel- during the coming season a wide- * >rs? spread and thorough trial of the In- new method of boll weevil control ess developed by G. D. Smith at the full Florida state experiment station at Gainesville, (Fla., and recently anith nounced by Dr. Wilmen Newell of aire the Florida state plant board. re- In the first official announcement in on the subject the department of vis- agriculture said it took great interlief est in the new method as announced as in the Florida bulletin dealing with . ,3 jers the experiments of Mr. Smith. In these experiments which were by conducted in northern Florida, said / the , departments announcement ion "the treated field average 439 3re- pounds of seed) Cotton per acre; the ,be_ untreated checks averaged only 164 de- pounds of seed cotton per acre or r^g an average incresase of pounds of jjjg seed sotton per acre in all tests The hile av ra?e cost of trea'ument for the ou^ entire season was $1.57 per acre. vaj The new method consistg of the removal and destruction of all squares ^ on the plants at a time when about two squares per plant are present? inc This operation destroys a large perke(j centage of the weevils and a immediately followed by a thorough J?? A- ? J.-L_ j. : i UUSWllg lu ipwisi/n tun; teiiiiumi i/uuo where the remaining weevils are ^ forced to feed. "This announcement is partince cularly important because it appar- . ... only offers a means of controlling ditthe boll weevil on low yielding land tuse . ,. , . , , ? ach 0n v <: ^ ?? *ar '>een unprofitable to use tshe dusting method. ner, nail Very ^aT^e Proportion of the g cotton crop is produced on low ard yielding land and the bureau of en, tomology is greatly pleased that this new method had been develop+ra? ed, well knowing Professor Newell's ?ov? standing as a careful and reliable investigator,. and urged a widespread and thorough trial of this method during the coming season e^y' wherever the conditions appear suit was able for itg use." vay. fer" SERVICES ON THURSDAY. pro [>!ex Thanksgiving services held in ' as the Presbyterian church Thursday >n'y morning were very well attended ject and an interesting sermon by Rev. H. L. Weeks was heard. pro- The collection taken up waa lib)US" eial and was divided equally aOT^m mong the orphanages of the differare ent churches. and THANKSGIVING. ;ave axxi Thanksgiblng was a very quiet day im- in Abbeville, the grown folks enjoyss. ing dinners at home, the aien taking hunting trips and the little boys and girls making up many merry parties of skating on the square. a]ia So far no hunting accidents have e]] been reported from the county. to ? the A WELCOME VISITOR ssts , Mrs. Wasson Harmon of Pell Oity, Ala., is in the city for a visit of several days with her sister, Mrs. Foster Bariwell. Austin Harmon, a man of two years accompanies his mother. iwn ntj COTTON MARKET. Wc-I Cotton on t&e local marxec loaaybrought 25.75. Futures closed Dec 25.09 jay Jan. 25.06 8 a March ? 25.18 ton 207 JuJy 24.W